I was going to try to Rickroll all of you with some Poppy clip. But I figured a picture was enough Poppy for now. What do you mean “not that Poppy”? Well…anyhoo, on with the soon to be ignored Afternoon Links of fluff and oddity.
- This is some of the bad Trump stuff we were expecting. Sigh.
- Why I left Buzzfeed. Number 3 will shock you!
- Jeff Goldblum you say?
- This idiot carried through with the same level of prowess shown by the Bundeswehr in the past decade.
- Where is disbarment when you need it?
There you go. I am setting the over/under on commenter links at 7 of the first 13 numbered comments.
UPDATE: I missed that Jesse had already linked this Jeff Goldblum story yesterday (BOOO! BAD SWISS!) and it looks like the under wins.
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“This is some of the bad Trump stuff we were expecting. Sigh.”
Are you suggesting that it is bad that we are staying in NAFTA?
Also, first
Probably the ‘renegotiation’ Trump’s talking about.
You’re gonna love my pivot. It’s gonna be YUUUUUGE!
Yeah – I wasn’t aware that we had to slap tariffs on Canadian lumber and threaten to leave NAFTA. It seemed like a pretty damned good thing, from what I understand. I hope he is just belching and squeaking for his base.
Gotcha.
But, also, nobody likes Canada. That is a fact.
I seem to recall someone telling us that they took a shit in Canada once.
NAFTA’s been a pretty good deal between Canada and the U.S., obviously I’d prefer some of the more cronyist nonsense get removed, but man did NAFTA/the Mexican government fuck the Mexican economy over. Corn farming falls apart, the government uses the deal as a justification to steal land for cronies, the Zapatistas rise up the day the agreements signed to try and start a Marxist revolution…
from my personal nusiness experience NAFTA fucked me over and of course everyone in the same line of business.
I understand that’s anecdotal evidence but it is also personal
According to Taiwanese Animated News, Canada started it by plugging a “loophole” that allowed unfiltered milk from US into Canada, fucking over US dairy producers. Because why would we have cheap dairy up here?
So Trump then decided to remind Canada about Jupiters and Oxen.
And to show off their unparalleled excellence, Zoolander’s crowd apparently rejected deal Obama offered because they though they could get a better one from Trump.
Masterful!
God bless Taiwanese Animated News. If they had a 24 hour news channel, I’d quit my job and live off of basic income.
Oh Gawd yes…I am tearing up I am laughing so hard.
I watched the follow up episode on Macron meeting his wife. Yes, it was even better than “softwood” jokes.
“The Canadians are known for their extremely soft wood”
lulz
I have to say, more and more I am leaning toward the idea that NAFTA is as “free trade” as the tax funded importation of refugees is “free immigration”.
Free trade would be Farmer Peltier in Quebec calling up B and B owner Smith in Vermont and selling him 10 gallons of raw milk. A government accord with lawyers and taxes and regulations isn’t free trade.
True “free trade” wouldn’t have any loopholes to exploit.
I WANT THE FUCKEN RIGHT TO BRING IN MORE THAN ONE GOD DAMN BOTTLE OF LIQUOR ACROSS THIS MISERABLE BORDER!
/takes swig from flask*.
*Filled with Cherry Kool-Aid.
Then ask them nicely to do so, Rufus. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin…any of them would probably do it, I’m sure.
Put the liquor in bags, like you do with your milk.
I’ve always brought more than one bottle of booze back from Canada without a problem.
On the other hand, I would like to be able to go into Canada without being harassed or searched.
I think the Canadian border guard thought I was making fun of him when he asked why I was going across the border and I sad “Poutine, sir, and the falls of course”
On the way back the American guard just scolded me for only bringing back ketchup chips and no all dressed chips.
The only times I have not had trouble getting into Canada were my two trips to Quebec.
For one, I didn’t know the US Labor Day holiday was also a holiday in Canada. I went to Quebec on Labor Day thinking I’d have no traffic. There was a couple mile backup leading to the border crossing made up of Quebecoise going home from the long weekend. I got waved through the border crossing.
The other time the border guard was a good looking French Canadian woman whom I swore was flirting with me. I kept things strictly business because border guards can fuck your vacation up. That was a actually a polite and pleasant interaction.
All the other times? Interrogations, searches, “please wait in this little room”. Some of those interactions were polite yet unpleasant. The others were downright rude and harassing.
What are you doing here, eh? What’s your purpose, eh? Don’t you have vacation there where you’re from, eh? What do you have to declare, eh? Where were you born, eh? Why do you look like that, eh?
I tild the Canadian guard I was going to Canada to get some poutine and she acted like she never heard of it.
Also she was a real jerk to the two families in front of us in line.
Thankfully, you can get all dressed chips in the USA now.
I haven’t seen them in stores and periodically look for anything overtly ketchup or all dressed looking. But I’m also in SoCal, so I can’t find Labatt Blue either (once had to do some serious research not to lose a bet over the blue).
In Hawaii (Honolulu) about six weeks ago, the spousal unit and I espied “Southern Biscuits and Gravy”-flavoured Lay’s potato chips in the Waikiki Wal-Mart. I was . . . stunned. Had to send an image back to a buddy of mine in Calgary, whose mind was suitably blown.
The quickie mart on the corner has both all dressed and biscuits&gravy Lays next to each on the rack.
Next time you are in Hawaii go to the grocery store and check out the multitudes of variety of Spam. They are YUGE Spam eaters in Hawaii. I have seen a Samoan microwave and eat an entire can of Jalepeno Spam to last him till we could get to a breakfast place.
On the other hand, I would like to be able to go into Canada without being harassed or searched.
True that. Of all my travels, Canadian border protectors are the biggest pain in the ass. A close second is Australia where they seize your beef jerky. Funny talking english speaking Nazis them fuckers are.
Entering Canada they hassled me because they always assumed I was going up there to work. Like I want to work somewhere that cold. I have to prove family ties and destinations to satisfy the jackboot in the booth.
And on the whole tariff thing, when do we actually get free trade? These agreements are fake as fuck. I am under no illusions that Trump is a freetrader, but I give him props for pointing out none of these treaties are free trade either.
You’re not doing it right…
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ecN_tEke9f4/VnvuEZE9HXI/AAAAAAAAFRE/5OZBAK87tUA/s1600/Biggest%2BFood%2Band%2BDrink%2BRecords11.jpg
Ontario/Montreal border?
I got caught bootlegging once (from Canadia to US). I plead ignorance and the border guy let me go.
If that’s as bad as it gets, I’m ok with it. However, it won’t be, the garden gnome is just getting warmed up with his drug war revival derp.
Ethics rules, and most laws, don’t apply to the Orleans Parish DA. I know that can be said of most DAs, but it’s especially true for Orleans Parish.
This is the same DA office where a few years back the Supreme Court decided they had immunity for years and years of massive Brady violations [non-lawyer speak: They were hiding exculpatory evidence from defendants, because FYTW]
Same state that gave us criminals Bobby Delauder and Harry Connick Sr. (was it Delauder that was involved in the Brady violations? I think it might have been)
And that corrupt asshole Delauder gets a fucking movie made about him.
Connick Sr. was the DA for the Brady Violations and was the named Defendant in Connick v. Thompson, where SCOTUS said “meh, whatever, y’all keep doing what you do New Orleans”
Gotchya. And Delaughter was in Mississippi, not Lousiana.
Fun Fact: The bar in the French Quarter where I spent a little more than a decade slinging drinks was, until the owner died, an illicit casino where even the trivia machines paid off if you were a regular. We had a doorbell under the bar that would alert those playing poker upstairs of a raid. The button was never needed on Wednesday nights because that poker game always had Harry Connick Sr. as a player. We were also one of the two bars that stayed open for Katrina; we were trading canned goods and cleaning supplies for drinks.
How long after the storm? I was with my National Guard unit a few days after….saw very little life in the whole city.
We never really shut down. Johnny Whites has been open 24/7 since the old man opened it after he mustered out of the USMC in 1955. We closed only thrice – once for Camille in 1969, Johnny’s wake in 1993, and 2004 when the city panicked about Lily. We learned in 2004 that the doors had been repainted so many times they no longer actually closed so the perosn who lived closest (this guy) got spend the night inside with the doors lashed with 550 cord and my Mossberg 500. Katrina herself wasn’t that bad; it rained a lot in Da 1/4 but we didn’t lose power or cable tv. We were all out having fun when the levees gave way, the substation flooded and we lost power. It was all downhill from there. We took shifts as needed with some folk sleeping in the apartments upstairs (I lived a couple blocks away on Dumaine St.). We may have seen one another, about a dozen of us Quarter Rats formed a patrol and rode bikes around the neighborhood (I was the guy with blue hair on the Giant DS-2 carrying the Mossberg 500 and my beloved Para 12-45) looking to shoot looters. the Blackwater guys setup across the street from my sister’s house in the Lower Garden District and were a HUGE help in her neighborhood. But that was quite enough for the missus so packed up moved to Brooklyn that October.
Interesting….thanks for sharing that. I did see Blackwater types guarding the Marriott – they just smiled when we rode by. After dinner, I will scratch that pic up and update this comment.
UPDATE. Found it.
And thank you for sharing the photo. It seems a lifetime ago. Moving to NYC reduced my booze consumption to almost nothing. Behind the bar, i would put away pint after pint of Guinness and shot after shot of blackberry brandy and Bourbon. Now, 45 years old with 2 kids, I have a bottle of Maker’s Mark in the kitchen that i have been slowly nursing for 3 years. I smoke a great deal more of the electric lettuce though.
I was there the night/morning before the wake in 1993. Just randomly. Was quite a night.
That warms my bitter heart. His daughters and their husbands run the place now and they are all such a nice a bunch. I miss it so.
Tunnel Snakes rule!
(No idea why “Quarter Rats” parsed as a gang name and reminded me of the Tunnel Snakes..)
You know, it’s pretty sad that you had to worry about raids on the other nights. You would think if the effin’ D.A. played at your establishment, that would be a get out of jail free card. Boy, buying a D.A. doesn’t get you much anymore, does it?
I don’t think there ever was an actual raid but the alarm was there. The cops who worked Bourbon Promenade during Carnival would always leave their hats at White’s so they could pop in and have their triple Ketel 1 on the rocks. Damn… I miss that place.
Overall, ethics rules and prosecutors have a great relationship. No prosecutor will get sanctioned by the Bar if there’s not a court opinion reversing a conviction for prosecutorial misconduct. No court will reverse a conviction for prosecutorial misconduct when they can instead say they’ll leave it to the Bar to deal with. It’s the Catch-22 of FYTW for screwing defendants.
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/04/27/__trashed-9/
New York Times says: “they had it coming” with regards to speakers being silenced by violent Maoists. Yet, we are suppose to worry about ‘press freedom’? They’ve crossed the Rubicon. The New York Times is now a propagandist outlet
“She deserved it, walking into that part of town dressed like that” – The New York Times
“Maybe if you would have just done what the cop asked you to do you wouldn’t have gotten shot” – The New York Times
Of course conservatives are throwing themselves into volatile situations, because it makes their opponents look goddamn insane simply because it’s a volatile situation for stupid reasons! If there was some white supremacist group that was beating the shit out of black people for speaking the NYT would be calling for them to be hanged and praising the black speakers for never backing down.
“The New York Times is now a propagandist outlet”
Now?
I didn’t really read that in the quote provided in the link?
They sorta vaguely hint at the idea that Conservatives are relishing the controversy, but I think your summary overstates it even more than Hot Air does, which is saying something..
(Obligatory statement in support of free speech, regardless of the meta.)
Professional question: I keep getting emails from recruiters looking for tech writers. I did a very short stint as a tech writer more than 10 years ago. It is not my profession. The reason I did it is because that was the job that was available, and the team lead wanted to hire me.
So, question is: on my resume, should I remove that item altogether, give myself a different title, or just leave it?
I’m not currently looking for work, but I feel like these recruiters aren’t pushing interesting jobs to me because the demand for tech writers is apparently very high, and since those words appear on my resume, that’s all I get.
Did you do things in the course of that job that apply to where you want your career to go (however eventually)?
Not really. I don’t have need of it on my resume except that it would be a year gap, and I already have another year gap that I have a hard time explaining (“I was laid off and I was tryna find out if I could make a living doing dog training, so I worked part time at a doggie daycare while my boyfriend helped pay the bills”)
Mmmm… if omitting it would leave a sizable gap, I’d just leave it on there, even if it means getting offers out of the blue.
Are you job hunting right now?
Not looking, but I would love to get rid of the “noise” of those tech writer jobs. I feel like recruiters aren’t pushing web-related jobs to me because my resume comes up in the “tech writer” keyword searches.
Skeptical might have a good idea–change the title just a hair if you can?
If it gets a little out of control, you could always omit it, and if it comes up in the course of an interview, it’s pretty easily explained. “I was getting a lot of attention because I was a tech writer during that time, but since it isn’t the kind of work I was looking for, I took it off my resume entirely. If you’d like to know more about my work during that time, I’d be happy to provide references, etc etc.”
If you haven’t already, remove the months from your resume. Year gaps shrink magically with this one weird trick.
.2 cents as a tech recruiter, I wouldn’t call someone with experience 10 years old for almost anything so I assume that you are getting email blasts on an old resume that people saved from back when you were sending it out. There are a good number of recruiters who are too lazy to actually read your resume, so they do a key word search and send out 100 emails hoping a couple will get back to them that manage to fit.
If you are getting them through LinkedIn changing the title might stop it, but if it is an old resume they have stored in their ATS changing your resume won’t help. You could send out a current resume to them but doing so to people that are pinging you on jobs you probably wouldn’t want (or would really even get even if you were interested) doesn’t seem like the best use of your time.
It’s definitely email blasts, but it’s from my current resume. I’d rather get 3-4 recruiters a year contacting me than being constantly bombarded with tech writer jobs.
If you would rather not get messages on Tech Writer jobs just pull it, for the most part, the people that are sending you messages for that probably aren’t going to be your best bet for landing the next gig.
Although maybe you are just a damn good Tech Writer and you don’t realize it?
I got a call from a recruiter last year that was looking for a tech writer, but the organization she was hiring for (or the location, can’t remember) piqued my interest, so I talked to her. I said “I just want to make sure you realize my tech writing experience was for one year, and that was 10 years ago”. She admitted she hadn’t actually looked at my resume that thoroughly.
I know recruiters are making their living on volume and don’t have time to read the details of every damn resume, but if there’s one thing that chaps my ass it’s getting emails about Java jobs because I’m a web developer who knows JavaScript. I’ve actually called some of them and explained the difference…and I had to explain the difference.
If you were actively looking for work, I would say leave it in. But since you’re not and it’s not something you are interested in, might as well remove it. In fact, you should probably try to focus your entire resume on your dream job, the one you feel you couldn’t turn down if it was offered.
What kind of qualifications are they looking for with those jobs? My wife actually likes writing procedures and documentation, but she doesn’t have tech writer experience, per se. She has a ton of experience documenting and tracking complicated procedures as a LoB business analyst, though.
I would think LOB analyst would be a good jumping-off for tech writing. I’ve found most of the job descriptions are fairly general unless it’s a very, very technical (like engineering specs and stuff). She might want to include the words “technical writing” somewhere in her resume, as part of the description of her duties.
Thanks, I’ll suggest that to her.
Most tech writers who I’ve known double as stand up comedians. Is that on your resume?
*raises hand*
What the fuck is a tech writer?
The person who wrote the manual to your printer.
Yep – part of the job description is knowing how to run user manuals through English > Chinese >Kazakh > Arabic > French > English in Google Translate.
The person who wrote the manual to your printer.
Never read it. But I have read some manuals for other stuff, and they sucked. (ie. The range hood I just helped my Dad install. Conflicting measurements for where the dam thing needed to go if one was measuring to the screw holes or the bottom of the bracket.) How does one get a job as one of these folks? Because my experience is they are not that good.
No offense Kristen, I am sure you were great. But I have to think most people who write manuals have never held a tool. At least the manuals I have dealt with. Printers are easy.
I used “printer” as an example for a reason. I’m not talking about the people who wrote the manual to anything that needs installing with hand tools, I’m talking about the people who write the paragraphs describing how the scanning mode of your printer works.
They are not themselves software engineers, but they have to be technical enough to understand the software well enough to describe it. They are also infinitely better at writing documentation than the people writing the software, who in your analogy are the people “holding the tools.”
Part of the reason the future sucks so hard sometimes and technology is so hard to use is that people do not employ more technical writers.
Part of the problem with technical writing is the following conundrum:
If you are knowledgeable enough to write the documentation well, then you’re probably knowledgeable enough to take on other, higher-paying technical jobs, so good technical writers are hard to find;
The demand for technical writing is generally not high enough to justify paying technical writers more, which means the technical writing positions tend to be filled by the less apt, which only further devalues the position.
They write stuff for tech readers.
“New Orleans prosecutor”.
Nuff said.
Your daily nut-punch (I’m thinking of doing a weekly nut-punch links post, please let me know what you think)
Miami cop arrested for false imprisonment, simple battery for forcing a woman into his car and fondling her breasts. The incident occurred in February 2016, and he’s been on paid vacation since. He might still be getting paid; the article doesn’t say, but it does say the internal affairs investigation is still ongoing.
Surprisingly, the union is defending him and saying he’s done nothing wrong.
We’ll ignore that the breast fondling would move this from simple assault to sexual assault for most of us mortals.
No penetration? She got off easy.
Are you part of the Union’s defense team?
Extremely sensitive nipples?
I’m thinking of doing a weekly nut-punch links post, please let me know what you think
it should be on Friday afternoon, like Balko used to do to us.
it should be on Friday afternoon, like Balko used to do to us.
The current iteration of Radley Balko is a lot nut-punchier than his offerings then. He’s just another Presshole now.
Absolutely. Balko did the full-Weigel heel turn.
The turn had started a little bit after he went to WaPo, but he was still okay until the election, when he contracted the worst case of TDS I’ve seen anywhere.
There’s also no mug shot, like there would be for anybody else.
“Why I left Buzzfeed.”
cause you have a shred of dignity left?
No, that can’t be it.
“Because the Washington Post offered me more money to write snarky tweet storms online”
that doesn’t even make sense. How could they have any dignity? they worked for buzzfeed.
It grows back in some instances.
Imma have to refute our statements though, because I don’t think it could grow back while working there…
My point exactly, the last shred of dignity left when they go there.
Maybe it can grow back?
I’m Pomp. Poppy. Whatever.
You’re Pompey?
I’m Pompeii
Wow. You blow.
Crater face.
I’m Pompey
HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME!
Rome is such an underrated show
It was a fantastic show. The plot device pulling it all together got stretched sometimes, but HBO did a good job. If people ask me how to learn more about the SPQR I usually point them at that series to whet their appetites before bogging them down with an avalanche of books.
I did love it, too, but I remember being amused when they’d be at some famous battle and there were, like, three people fighting or the show skipped it altogether. I know, budget restrictions, but I kept thinking there had to be a better way to handle it.
I prefer the Spartacus version.
Whoever decided that Pompey was Herman Goering of the ancient world is a genius!
He was also Julie Ceasar’s father in law, and Caesar’s enemy during the civil war that ended the republic.
They are in League 2. Weren’t they in the Premier a while back?
2010 was last year in the Premier League. They won the FA Cup in ’06 and lost the finals in 2010 while being relegated.
That is a long quick fall. I know Man City went down two levels, but that was different somehow.
They were. Not too long ago even. They’ve won promotion to League One (Third tier) for next season.
So the two leagues above it should be called League Zero and League Negative One.
I’m also Pompey
I’m poppy?
I’m Poppin’ (Party)
(hey, the lead singer’s cute, what can I say)
I’m Popper.
I’m Poppet
(I have no clue what that thing is, it just came up when I misspelled something in a google search)
It’s not quite a pop, and it’s not quite a muppet, but man…
I am not Poppy.
That’s just what Poppy would say
I’m Poppie.
I’m Poppy.
Crap. Wrong pic
All these Poppies will make me sleep.
Just one rose and knows your name
The fruit is rusting on the vine
The fruit is calling from the trees
+1 Junkie Cosmonaut
I’ve watched about 30 seconds of Poppy repeating her name over and over and I was really tired of it then. Serious question: why do you guys keep bringing her up?
Bring what up?
What Swiss looks like doesn’t make sense!
Oh btw, Afternoon music link is in the previous thread if anyone gives a shit. Yes, I know you don’t.
“Why I left Buzzfeed.”
To start ‘Buzzkill’?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/us/politics/affordable-care-act-health-republicans.html
So apparently the House Freedom Caucus is supporting the new healthcare bill. Not entirely sure what to make of it.
Buy lube.
Lots of lube.
I, for one, always disrobe when I see Justin Amash on TV.
Oh, I get it. You were implying something else with that lube comment. I’m going to slowly tip toe away then
No worries. He’s quite striking.
Ray Rice was striking, too.
*narrows gaze*
I really need to set up an Amazon affiliate link for that 55 gallon drum.
Jeff Goldblum you say?
Hurtful, Swiss.
Maybe… but who’s going to complain about that gorgeous man being featured twice?
… Not me!
Psht, you’re the definition of biased on this issue.
Well.. you’re not wrong. Lol. Mm. … Mmmm!
Riven: By the way, thanks for the endorsement of The Kingsman: Secret Service. I remember when it came out I thought– despite the cast — it looked a little ridiculous. But you mentioned your enthusiasm for it on one of yesterdays posts. I rented it on Amazon tonight and you were right: It was fun as shit!
Mea Culpa issued – I went back and saw yesterday’s links.
*goes to penalty box and feels shame*
I think you’re obliged to narrow your gaze into a mirror.
You fool! He’ll get caught in an infinite loop of narrowed gazes and his face will implode!
“This idiot carried through with the same level of prowess shown by the Bundeswehr in the past decade.”
Having a competent army brings back bad memories for Germans.
Ah yes, the horrible days of the 1860s.
Having a competent army brings back bad memories for Germans.
Doesn’t exactly thrill Poland or France, either.
So. True story.
Couple walks in off the street asking if there’s space at our darling daycare. In the office talking to the director she’s quietly observing some of the lovely art gracing the walls.
‘Excuse me. Who owns this daycare?’
Getting a tad nervous it’s replied, ‘My….(deep breath)…..brother…’
‘Oh. I notice some of the stuff on the walls. It’s hilarious. I’m American and love The Office!’
Reason should interview me.
/jumps on couch face first and starts wiggling like a fish.
I don’t know why, but that story was disturbing
Are you also the proud owner of a quality Seiko timepiece?
In fact, I own four and two of them are automatics!
Kinetic?
I’m not……sure.
Canadian Daycare for those who want to know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPFbhUVRA1E
That’s during lunch.
And that’s the tame part, you should see what the Hockey Parents are doing up in the stands.
+1 the Q c. 1983.
That lead me to this.
I’m officially proud to be Canadian for once.
Your mom is a nice lady.
Love the one about the boss asking if his employee is still coming into work.
I a SMLE in there.
Proofrad!
“I saw a SMLE in there.”
So… you fight constantly as children so you can be super polite and docile as adults?
Why do you assume fighting is impolite?
NA..P?
It’s cultural, dude. Like not wearing your shoes inside straffin’s house.
*drops gloves*
Fighting is not against the nap if it is mutually agreed upon.
Go BLUES ♪
Precisely. I saw the third last night – I thought they were gonna shock the Preds. Until Allen Dunyk’d that softie.
But is all fighting in hockey mutually agreed upon? I mean, I know there is fighting but is it like once you’re on the ice you’re fair game?
You might be surprised how often it is. If you search utube you can find a lot of mic’d up players. It’s funny to hear them negotiating the fights. Sometimes it’s to get their team going, sometimes it’s to get things back under control (if the other guys are running your goalie or something). You see it a lot in juniors where the players are trying to get noticed or are concerned about being sent down.
Honestly, it’s not my favorite part of the game, but most of the players are perfectly fine with it. I definitely wouldn’t consider it assault.
Some of the nicest most chill guys I know are MMA fighters or former soldiers. They have nothing to prove and they can kick your ass in a about 1 second. But they also know their limitations. They know they can be beat by being outnumbered or by a weapon coming out of nowhere.
Wayne knows what’s up, you end it with a handshake.
A thousand thank yous to whichever one of you degens first linked to that show. I’m hooked and I love it.
Twas me.
Figure it out.
I think it’s more that the violent Canadian children are encouraged to weed themselves out at a young age.
What, no link to the story of the guy on Delta who went to take a leak and got kicked off the plane?
I love how they got him off the plane.
~~~Don’t make the edit faerie enact labor for you, citizen~~~
THAT WAS CREEPY. WHO DID THAT? /LOOKS OUT WINDOW.
I hate that shit. Get you on the plane and then sit forever. We were delayed 90 fucking minutes on one flight last week.
What was the guy supposed to do? Shit his pants?
Yes.
That is what the bag in the seat pocket is for. Drop trou, sqeeze it out, hand it to a flight attendant while asking for napkins and when drink service will commence.
Fun fact: the bags on Delta are labeled for both vommit and used diaper disposal.
Last night I watched High Plains Drifter – I had forgotten all about the rape scene in the very beginning where Clint drags a woman into a barn and has her way with her. Being from that era, it uses the classic “she fights him but secretly likes it, eventually enjoying and looking content by the end” trope.
Not sure how well such a scene would fly today – thinking of Game of Thrones where Jaime Lannister pushes himself on his sister.
And then the part where she tries to shoot him because he didn’t come back for more…
And he does pretty much the same thing with the innkeeper’s wife. It’s not as graphic, but you do see him forcing her into the bedroom.
And then later forces her to take a quarter (silver dollar?) when she serves him some pie.
Is her secretly enjoying it the difference between having his way with her and having her way with her or did Clint go Caitlin on us?
woah – I’ll blame my Engrish skills which come on even stronger this time of day.
If I remember correctly the woman from the barn scene just happened to be a prostitute. So the idea was that the drifter was getting everything else in town for free….
Wasn’t he a ghost? I forget if she did anything unpleasant in the flashbacks.
My recollection is that the entire town stood by and let the old sheriff get brutally murdered, some more culpable than others, some possibly unindicted co-conspirator. Clint is either the sheriff’s ghost or just an angel/demon taking vengeance upon the town. I could be conflating and confusing movies but I remember one flashback where various townsfolk looked on in ,if not glee than mild amusement, at the killing.
Yeah, I think the implication is supposed to be that Clint is something like a revenant in a sense. Like he’s physical, clearly, but he kind of comes there to goose the town into pulling the same shit it did with the sheriff, and then exacts poetic vengeance.
So I’m not sure how much stock to put into the whole “Best of…” lists that US News and World Report puts out, however their Best High Schools one did catch my attention. The state of Arizona overall is generally in the high-40’s when it comes to nationwide educational rankings of any kind. Of course those consider state-wide entities and calculate an average; so it’s clearly not out of the realm of possibility to have a few individual bright spots within an otherwise lousy state. But even with that being said, the BASIS charter schools slotted into the top 3 rankings (and 5 of the top 7).
I have a basic knowledge of them being charter schools, and that they’ve got a rigorous program, but I really don’t know much more than that. One of the local radio stations had one of the BASIS big wigs on yesterday, and he said all the right things, and then tried (did?) debunk rumors about how they cherry pick students and they have a large percentage of students who dropout/transfer and they don’t have extra-curricular activities etc…
I know we’ve got some other AZ residents in these parts, and am curious if anyone has any intimate or anecdotal info on the BASIS schools. They are outside of AZ too, I’m just not sure where/how many.
Warren Meyer had some thoughts: http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2017/04/arizona-and-the-case-for-school-choice.html
I see you beat me to it.
I will say though that there is some speculation that if you were to eliminate a lot of the school in neighborhoods in Tucson (sorry RC Dean) with a disproportionate number of students from a certain demographic*…AZ schools are in line with the national average.
*You know which one I’m talking about.
I mean, that’s every school. Like the progs had a meme floating a few months back contrasting Vermont and Mississippi. “Oh look liberal Vermont has great schools, low crime, great health, blah blah blah and conservative Mississippi sucks.”
Yep, there’s no massive demographic difference between MS and VT that explains the gap. None at all.
Most pro-government ideologues don’t understand how demographics influence the various measures of well-being. Hence this “progressive” talking point that if we just ctrl+v all of Sweden’s laws onto the US, the US will become exactly like Sweden.
I understand the Browns may be letting people down twice in the first round tonight.
Did they trade their first round picks for three magic beans and a picture of Tebow pooping?
As bad as the Bears are at drafting I guess it could be worse.
*narrows gaze….then cries because it is mostly true*
My first narrowed gaze.
Cries with Swiss in anticipation of another first round bust by da Bears
You guys are depressing me. I am sitting here wearing my Bears “I married into this” T-shirt in anticipation of another screwup.
Swiss, good choice on the poppy picture.
Honestly, when I kept hearing “Poppy” all I could think of was Memorial Day ones here or Remembrance Day one in Canada or England.
I kept thinking of The Bay City Rollers
+1 Willie McBride
The Stupid Party: Being stupid since 1860
This screams “give the leftists universities a weapon they can use to finally kill dissent on campus.”
nobody ever thinks the weapon they create will be used against them politically. Never fails, even when it’s predictable as the sunrise. And yet only libertarians seem capable of seeing it.
I can’t find a link, but back in January (before Milo’s book got canceled) when all of Book Twitter was in full meltdown over S&S giving him a publishing deal, some author wrote a thinkpiece on Tumblr saying, “we don’t boycott when Ann Coulter gets a book deal, even though she’s also repugnant, because she’s not as repugnant as Milo, and we would never do that because we recognize the importance of free speech, but we have to clamp down on hate speech so protesting Milo is a special circumstance and definitely wouldn’t set a precedent at all!”
For the last two weeks I’ve been thinking about that every day.
If Milo promotes ‘hate speech’ because he says fat women are fat and doesn’t like Islam, then Coulter’s a bloody Klan member.
He publicly identified a trans woman, putting her life at risk!1111!!!!!!
You know, using a picture from an interview she did with university paper, with her real name and everything.
Bill Burr: Somehow able to get an anti-1% message from the Crab Guy in One Punch Man.
That requires a certain kind of genius.
The top comment: Never thought I’d see ol’ Billy Freckle Face talking about anime.
5 of the top 10 high schools in the country just happen to be charter schools–in Arizona.
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2017/04/26/top-high-school-country-arizona/306463001/
Naturally, the local paper completely misses the point and insists that Gov. Duggie Douchebag’s new voucher plan will only go to enrich such high performing schools by rewarding them with more funds so they can open more schools that take away funds from schools in underprivileged areas, like South Phoenix, that suck. They’re only doing well because they cherry pick their students by putting their schools in Scottsdale where there are no special needs students or students that don’t speak English.
I went to high school in Scottsdale, its like Beverly Hills and the . I was one of 5 Mexicans in my graduating class. Scottsdale Public Schools also have an award winning special needs program they use as a draw because they also have one of the smaller student populations in the state. People in Scottsdale are old and their kids now live in Tempe. Funny how they fail to mention how any of this may be a function of the area.
The article of course, briefly states this company is opening a school in South Phoenix. For those of you that don’t know, South Phoenix is about as “underprivileged” as one can get before you get to the parts of Arizona that pretty much resemble Mexico.
The paper in another article that I won’t post because its E.J. Montini and I like you guys too much to make you read something from that retard, says we should instead be celebrating Sunnyslope High School. Which made the top 100 list in spite of the fact they have a bunch of students that don’t speak English. Good for them I say, because under Duggie Douchebag’s plan Sunnyslope High School will be rewarded with greater funds. Which they might need because I’m guessing a bunch of families with kids that don’t speak English will be sending their kids there since the local paper belabored the point.
And now you know why I won’t buy the Arizona Republic, even for kindling.
I got in an argument with a guy about school choice. His argument was that if you let school choice happen, then all the good schools will get over crowded and then they won’t be able to stay good because overcrowding makes schools bad (which is a bit of an article of faith among the progs). I said well of course a school busting at the seams will expand their space or open another location, obviously. He scoffs and says that’s not realistic.
This motherfucker just bought the building next door to his restaurant to expand his space because he was packed every night. Of all the cognitive dissonance of progs, there is a special kind of prog stupidity, and that is the stupidity of the prog who is a successful entrepreneur. I have no fucking idea how they keep the part of their brain that successfully navigates the market and the part of their brain that insists that the market doesn’t function.
My stepdad is the same way. He’s a real estate broker who’s very livelihood is dependent upon fickle market forces, but nope. He’s down with solar panel subsidies, against this voucher program and thinks the Tea Party was a front group for racists.
I think specifically that level of cognitive dissonance was insane. Like he went from “if a business gets really really popular, it gets crowded, and the quality suffers, which is why I am expanding the space to get more tables and hiring more staff to serve more customers” to “if a business gets really really popular, its gets crowded, and it’s literally impossible to expand the space or hire more staff or spin off a second location because schools are magic.”
Well, if he’s a real estate broker, his very livelihood is dependent on massive government tax subsidies (home mortgage deduction).
I’d point that out but he’s from NJ. Where the state thinks youre not smart enough to pump your own gas. He doesn’t know any better.
Some hardcore “progressive” relatives of mine are trying to start up a small-scale homemade food brand. They were recently remarking about how complicated it is to legally produce food and put it on the market. I try to slip some hints in there now and then (“yea, all these laws make it pretty hard for small producers”) but I’m not sure if they’ve gotten the point.
*and the predominant (((minorities))) there typically outperform every other demographic.
I shouldn’t be here while I’m at work….
Well, now that you let the cat out of the bag. Mexican in Scottsdale. You are probably right and should get back to trimming the hedges.
See, I read his handle completely wrong. I thought he was sharp shooting Mexicans.
One never knows when dealing with Arizonians. Could be a landscaper or militia. Possibly both. Hard to tell these days.
Ha! You all just thought I was racist.
Maybe a little.
SHOCKING NEWS = People who earn money stand to benefit from Trump Tax Plan. Trump Earns Money, Ergo His Tax Plan is Selfish.
I think I first saw this posted here, but it bears relinking:
Tax System Explained Using Beer
And the world’s newest celebrity free speech defender is…
Rob Schneider.
…Fuck it, I’m joining the communists again.
He’s just worried that antifa might choose ‘not funny comedians’ as their next target.
You can do eeeet
Its kinda sad that’s his signature role.
It would be if he we’re, ya know, entertaining. But since he’s not I think that’s about what he deserves.
I thought his talent was wasted on Men Behaving Badly. Which is a show that would never air today.
Schneider would fit right in at Berkeley, what with his abject idiocy (he took over from Jenny McCarthy as the #1 celebrity anti-vaxxer a while back).
Eeeeh….he’s got the Home Alone indulgence, so he’ll only burn in hell and not worse.
I know for a fact that– despite his faults — Rob Schneider is a HUGE Rocket From The Crypt fan. So he’s got that going for him…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQR8GSKuRQY
Jesus Christ, this guy has the worst case of TDS I’ve ever seen. Just look at his timeline.
FUCKING A PEOPLE, HE’S BEEN PRESIDENT FOR 3 MONTHS AND YOU FUCKERS ARE STILL MAKING ME DEFEND TRUMP ON A CONSTANT BASIS. DO YOU REALIZE HOW MUCH I HATE YOU FOR THAT?
There’s no such thing as worst case of TDS. It’s like the derp that spawned it.
No, really, it’s the worst. He makes Rachel Maddow look like Sean Hannity.
I mean, this is his current rant, all in the last 15 minutes, about the campus free speech wars
All the times he said he would BRING BACK TORTURE! Have we already forgotten how bad it got? Remember this?
The pussy grabbing. The women who came forward. The real nightmare of having a POTUS who is a living embodiment of Rape Culture.
It was a 16 month nonstop orgy of racial violence, awful misogyny, open threats against Muslims & Jews – the worst period of my lifetime.
Then one day a small group of students invites Ann Coulter, one of the leading cheerleaders of America’s first neo-fascist administration.
And when Berkeley students object, all the Older White Liberal can do is hector: What’s the matter with these kids? What about free speech?
What are you cowards? Can’t you tolerate opposing points of view? Do you have to respond to differences with THREATS OF VIOLENCE? (whoa…)
It’s that last part that actually frightens me. After all of this, you are now charging COLLEGE KIDS with VIOLENCE? You’re serious? My god.
The cruelty of being so utterly heedless of the realities of anyone else’s life but your own-I don’t get it. And these are fellow liberals!
Who are mostly now joining forces with a nasty group of conservatives who are deliberately targeting people of color on college campuses.
I got nothing. I’m blown out. I’m amazed at how ugly America has become. I don’t understand America anymore. It’s not a place I recognize.
Who is this person?
Wow I think I have a found my new source for liberal tears.
My personal favorite is his lament at Clinton Derangement Syndrome.
Former Most Obnoxious Person on Twitter
Whoa now my friend, I think that’s up to us to decide.
From what i can tell, the author of that twitter feed doesn’t exist, and that feed is just some partisan DNC hack who churns out anti-trump agitprop
no tweets prior to Jan 2017. nobody by that name anywhere that can be connected to it.
Maybe it’s Hillary’s alternate account.
Allegedly, it’s a university professor and author who tweets under a pseudonym.
who psychotically tweets about trump 100 times a day? something tells me its just some housewife who’s still angry about Hillary
I totally remember that happening too, don’t you, guize?
Jeff Goldblum you say?
Since it’s in the links again I feel safe in commenting on it since I missed it the other day.
While I like Goldblum’s character in Jurassic Park well enough, I’ve always felt that character should’ve been eaten by a dino. I don’t quite know what it is, but something about the character strikes me as “entertaining weirdo who’s doomed”. Maybe I just felt that the survivor’s list was too convenient and he’d be the obvious choice to strike from it to make the threat more real while still allowing for the Spielberg happy ending.
Ian Malcolm was somewhat Crichton’s self-insert in the book, i.e. “I’m the guy who’s going to explain to you why this park is fucked”. The sequel’s all about him as well.
What I was always annoyed about is they didn’t at least try to work the book’s ending in, which involves BOMBING RAPTOR NESTS WITH NERVE GAS.
I read both Jurassic Park and The Lost World as a teen, and the books go to some wild places compared to the movies. You have no idea how big of a boner I got when I saw in Jurassic world they worked the octopus camoflauge into Indominus that made one of the best scenes in that book.
The tranquilizer bazooka was another one I wish they had put in. Actually I found the Jurassic Park movies in general to be serious bereft of firearms. They fixed it a little bit with the new one.
I figured Malcolm was a way for Crichton work chaos theory into the novel, because it was a subject that had interested him. Working pet subjects into his novels is what he always did (quite successfully, IMO).
Not only are they not giving up, they’re doubling down and expanding. Because racism.
Mayor Ed Murray’s soda-tax legislation led to criticism it was unfair because white and affluent people tend to drink more diet drinks. The mayor’s revised proposal lowers the tax rate slightly and adds diet soda.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-wants-to-add-diet-drinks-to-soda-tax-proposal/
Why I left Buzzfeed. Number 3 will shock you!
My 15 yr old daughter would kill her in a fair fight.
So this was just posted on a gun blog I frequent. Do liberals have to make everything they do an emotional rollecoaster? He made buying a gun sound like he was adopting a fucking child.
What’s so emotional about adopting a child? Go to the orphan market, find a reputable orphan trader and make a deal, easy peasy chicken greasy.
I meant getting one as a pet instead of livestock. Totally different.
Not so fast. First you have to make sure it’s a Fair Trade orphan vendor.
Shade grown orphans.
“He made buying a gun sound like he was adopting a fucking child”
I can’t judge that too harshly. Didn’t read article though.
You got told for being too mean… on a gunsite!
…proud of you.
Pareto’s law strikes again:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/26/us-murders-concentrated-in-5-percent-counties.html
“The Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) said in a new report that there is a “geographical concentration” of murders, with 68 percent of killings occurring in just 5 percent of the nation’s counties. The homicides also tend to be concentrated to relatively small pockets of those counties, the report said.”
and
“One of the most interesting findings in the report is that areas with the highest gun ownership rates have low murder rates.”
I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you.
I’m sure the I Fucking Love Science crowd will be all over this. Just wait. You’ll see.
Things we already knew that everyone else will ignore.
It’s from Fox News and John Lott, ergo no one will listen to it, because reasons.
This is why gun control advocates are always careful to include suicides in their “gun violence” statistics.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/04/saudi-arabia-man-sentenced-to-be-beheaded-for-atheism
But what about the Crusades, hmm?
How dare you slander our closest allies!
I’m done with Poppy. Titanic Sinclair is where it’s at for repetitive YouTube.com videos.
he’s the guy who made all the poppy videos. it was explained in SF’s “poppy truther” post the other day.
I know that. I discovered I prefer his own product to the thing he made with his blonde robot middlewoman. I’m being an an obnoxious hipster.
nice.
I listened to a few of the Mars Argo or whatever its called songs last night (the band her and the dude were in). i agreed they were better music than the Poppy-ish, but her voice sans autotune was even more grossly “sticky screechy teenybobby girl squeal” than the Poppy thing was.
meaning, her voice just has a natural timbre that is… well, sort of ridiculously sappy sounding. Which is actually why her Poppy-singing sounds “better” = because it actually benefits from the Robo-tizing effect that Autotune adds.
This is what i mean
I still don’t know why I should care if Nicki Minaj is alive or not.
She reminds me of early Madonna there. It worked in the 80’s. Not so much today.
Nobody made Poppy. Poppy just is. Poppy is us. We are all Poppy.
#SayNoToPoppyTruthers
I decided to look up the countries with the lowest debt to gdp ratios. Spoiler: they’re all petro-states: Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, UAE, Russia, Norway…
https://howmuch.net/articles/countries-scaled-to-the-unsustainability-of-their-debt
It seems pretty much the only time a country is anywhere close to being debt free is when it has vast amounts of a valuable resource, and even then, countries have an incredible talent for pissing it away. Spain looted huge amounts of gold and silver from its conquests, but 300 years later, it couldn’t field a decent army against Napoleon. They were forced to use small groups and hit and run tactics, which they called “little war” (guerilla).
In short: people, groups, and countries tend to borrow and spend as much as they can without going bankrupt. Saving is an anomaly.
For my next post, I’ll look at the history of countries actually cutting their budgets.
Huh. There aren’t really any famous examples of a country cutting or balancing its budget. It’s pretty much always raise taxes and/or print money, usually the latter.
It’s… It’s like… when it’s other people’s money, and you didn’t actually earn it…. you spend it much more frivolously and carelessly, or something…. hang on, I’m close to an epiphany here…
“hang on, I’m close to an epiphany here…”
Stop those crazy thoughts and go read some Paul Krugman, STAT!!