Happy Father’s Day all you who one our staff said “thought unprotected sex was a good idea”. We will have a Father’s Day piece out later, so prepare your Dad Stories! But for now – frivolity reigns.
- I guess we now know what a cop can do that will get them suspended.
- Speaking of cops and job actions…
- RUSSIANZ!!!!
I am going to go have a mug of coffee and get ready for today. Enjoy the day, Dad-Glibs.
Happy fathers day!
Kids are gone for the most of the day, so it’s some sweet, sweet garage time for me!
Got that cop coming over? That’d make a nice father’s day gift.
Real cop or stripper cop?
Huh?
Dave’s not here, man.
As her latex-clad alter-ego, “Domina Nyx Blake,” Hyman would humiliate and subjugate naked men — not to satisfy a personal fetish, but to pay the bills.
I don’t understand why she had to have a stage name. Kristy Hyman seems pretty good.
Ah, now I get it.
/doesn’t read links
Kids are all here. I’m painting their rooms.
Yay………
I’m prepping for a colonoscopy tomorrow! Good times.
Kids’ gift is to not make fun of me for that.
Happy Explosive Expulsions!
Same here. Did an 8 mile hike this AM, despite the miserable weather with a buddy and will head home now to enjoy some quality time slacking for a change. Happy father’s day to all of us!
Happy Father’s Day, ya bunch of Breeders.
I was going to skip church this morning…but considering how much I hang around here with you lot, I think I had best step lively to early service.
Say a prayer for us sinners!
Why does the dominatrix cop story remind me of the Group W rant from Alice’s Restaurant
And Happy Father’s Day
Yes, where the violence is fake anymore and even less consensual.
Dammit – she must’ve tied up my not. Without consent!
My dad was a bum whom my mom ditched when I was three and I never knew him.
Happy Father’s Day!
SON!
Ask him to lend you some money.
I’ll settle for some candy. No Mary Jane’s please.
Can you spare me a twenty until payday?
Buying a burger?
Payday is Friday, not Tuesday. I’m buying drugs.
Well, you’re a cat dad!
::waves Rhywun pennant ::
Yeah, no – I am not one of “those” cat people.
Similar here. I have the utmost respect for father’s who stick around long enough to become dad’s. The pump and dump d-bags can take a long walk off a short pier.
Hardly. There are three older siblings.
Damn, sorry to hear that. My dad stuck around for about 7 years, but worked a job that kept away a lot. He sired my younger brother and bounced about two months after he was born. One of my best friends though did have a father who basically conceived him and then left.
One of the things that really impresses me the most about my father is that he broke a long chain of deadbeat fatherdom. A lot of “fathers” on his side of the family tree were mostly missing or abusive.
A lot of credit should probably go to his step dad. That is who I am named after. He stabilized my gramma’s house and now both my father and his older brother are very solid citizens and both raised traditional families.
He named you Sue?
I can’t be bothered to rope my kid into the tradition of compulsory tie-gifting and following rituals. If my kid is going to do something nice for me, it means more to me not coming from a calendar schedule.
/curmudgeon
/waves and shouts at cloud for blocking the sun.
When my kids were younger we would go to a car show downtown on FD. There, I could look at cool old cars and drink beer and hang out with the family.
Not a bad day.
I don’t give a shit about gifts, unless they want to get me one of these.
Pretty cool car. Wouldn’t be my choice but definately wouldn’t kick it out of the garage for eating oil.
Would love this car showing up in my driveway.
http://www.cruisenewsonline.com/WinterHavenCruisin6thAnniversary2011/1971ChevelleSS454.jpg
They put the steering wheel on the wrong side. Jesus, what a fuck-up.
If I had the money I’d probably get something other than the new Aston Martin Valkyrie (#2 on list) but that would be fun to drive around and see peoples reactions.
http://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/thedrive/new-cars/9838/the-top-10-fastest-cars-in-the-world-2017%3Fsource%3Ddam
Porsche is an amazing company. As Brooks noted, they won at LeMans again and they show up on these lists year after year.
Incredible cars.
not quite yet
BLM protesters try and block gay pride parade to attention whore.
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/pride-protesters-arrested-after-confrontation-with-police
Yes! Yes, feeeeeeed, my pretties!!!!
This seems to have happened at least once before, yes? So in the intersectional pyramid of grievance, who is the villain?
Intersectional rules demand that the gay parade goers excuse, help justify, and support the rude attempt to steal their celebration.
Fair enough. Although the real answer is always, cishetnormativewhitemen.
Intersectional gridlock!
How do you know they’re BLM? I didn’t see that in the story.
Nevermind. Readin’ not my strongsuit.
Different article. They claim they wanted a moment of silence for Castile. I’m sure that if they had reached out to the parade organizers beforehand that could have gotten that without using strongarm tactics.
http://www.10tv.com/article/police-4-arrests-2-officers-hurt-columbus-pride-festival
Reach out to the organizers rather than ramming your agenda down their throat? What the hell are you going to pleasure yourself to later on if you do that?
Not to mention they have about as much use for a “moment of silence” as I have for a tracheotomy. Confrontation was the point, they’re feeling dangerously marginalized in this new climate of nobodygivesashitism.
Ha I had to read it twice before I spotted it. They buried it quite cleverly.
Yeah, almost like they wanted the reader to draw a different conclusion. Although it could just be poor journalism.
One local news outlet didn’t even mention it. The second link above mentions the group but not their affiliation to BLM. This pretty much mirrors each stations nightly newscast. Our ABC affiliate is much better about providing info without the political propaganda. In fact their station director has done bits saying that if anyone spots political bias in their stories, he wants to hear about it. Obviously a cis shitlord.
That’s actually a pretty brave stance these day. Kudos to him
Any time they have one of those “there ought to be a law” stories, write in and ask why the default assumption is that government should do something.
I know. I hate those stories. Little idiot Timmy jammed his jammed is finger in the door. The out to be a law that all doors should be this new $5000 door that prevents this.
“Timmy’s Law”
You know who else was triggered by a Central Park performance of Julius Caesar?
Cicero?
I find it interesting that left-wing progressives hate history because of dead white people and Western chauvinism (didn’t a college take down a painting of Shakespeare and put up some SJW poet?) yet they’re all ‘Trump is Caesar!’
I don’t know what they read but I don’t see how those two are the same.
It’s another political Rorschach test and both sides are completely missing the points of the play for completely different reasons.
Like squanch language, it’s all contextual. If the play serves their purpose then it’s what the doctor ordered, if not it can be safely discarded, only to be resurrected again as needed.
Happy Father’s day. Unless you are a female who identifies as a father. In which case, happy Cis-homo-xir-famothers day
I always knew the day they began selling ‘Unisex’ clothing earf was doomed.
That bitch Mary Tyler Moore, showing off her capri pants, ruining society.
Would
The corpse?
Any meat left?
Weren’t we all supposed to be wearing unisexual jumpsuits by now?
U haven’t got your Rompers yet?
And shaved heads.
Are you othering orphans, shit lord?
Bastard and orpan day is next month. But alas, I’m too poor to own my own orphans. Unless a fellow glib can spare a couple.
I’m sure you could rent some from out more affluent members. Perhaps that can be the next column for our little site. An orphan exchange, like the stock market but with more tears.
That would be great, I happen to own an orphan farm in north dakota and sometimes I need to get rid of my surplus
Caged, or free range?
I’m a long way from ND. Can u ship Amazon prime?
“I am going to go have a mug of coffee and get ready for today.”
Yes, I’m about to get my second cup and put on some bacon do I can prepare for my day off doing absolutely nothing. I’m considering going back to Gander Mountain for their going out of business sale and looking at reloading equipment which is 30% off. Spent almost $300 on ammo, targets, and a holster yesterday. Unfortunately they didn’t have any guns or optics that were on my wish list there. Don’t know if I want to get into another time consuming hobby but reloading would save me a lot of money in the long run.
“…reloading equipment which is 30% off”
Buy it all. Don’t think about it, just buy it.
Unfortunately I didn’t write down the models. There were 3. An rcbs, a Hornady, and another model that I think may have also been an rcbs rockchucker. They also had kits. Researched online and thought this Hornady sounded pretty good. Don’t think that is the one they had though. I
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000PD01NS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_e4OrzbWXZ822R
I have one of those. The frame is solid but the moving parts, not so much. Works great for a while.
Buy dies. Buy components (brass primers bullets powder) The single stage presses are the longest lasting, most reliable. The RCBS is good.
I finally stripped my Hornady down to size, flare and seat. I do the priming and charging separately. I have to feed the cases in and out by hand.
The first thing that went was the little wedge that pushes the cases out, it bent. Then the little arm that moves the primers over to the cases crapped out…then the spring broke.
Cool, thanks for the insight. Yeah I figured a $300 press for $200 isn’t going to come around every day. I don’t they’ll drop it any more than that.
Just in case you needed another reason
Michigan Wolverines football coach Jim Harbaugh spent some time with former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama earlier this week. He hopes to be getting more face time with them this fall.
Harbaugh said he will ask the Obamas to serve as honorary captains for a Wolverines home game this season.
———–
“It was incredible,” Jim Harbaugh said. “Saw Mrs. Obama as well. He was great. He was really relaxed, working on a lot of things. … Shared a lot of insights.”
Fuck you, Harbaugh.
Fuck you, Michigan.
Fuck you, ESPN.
I actually need no more reasons to hate Harbaugh but I’ll take it anyways. Thanks.
If you want to know where the strategy of “100% politics, 100% of the time, even in your sports” comes from, look leftward. This is entirely from the Rules for Radicals playbook, specifically Rules 8 and 13: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
Very frustrating as a sports fan. My go to site used to be bill Simmons’ site Grant land, which was a bit SJW but still full of good stuff. Then he created a new site that is basically like salon with some sports thrown in.
If anyone has any good sports sites I’d like to know.
ESPN = SJW
Bleacher Report = SJW
Sporting News = Shitty website
We’re running out of good options here, sportsfans!
I don’t give a shit about gifts, unless they want to get me one of these.
Come on, Tundra, go for it
Oh yeah, that would work just fine.
Only if you gutted the original and replaced everything inside the body shell.
In the case of the hydraulics and all the Lucas instrumentation, replace them twice, just to be sure.
Fuck no. The element of imminent catastrophe adds spice to the experience!
I know guys that drive their TRs all over the country. Great cars, even with the flaws.
A Father’s Day card…FROM your dog? I love how you can read this card both innocently and twistedly.
HA, Ms. Hymam up there has probably gotten at least one of those
Mmm, freaky…
Porsche wins le Mans. Again.
http://m.digitaljournal.com/news/environment/norway-to-ban-use-of-heating-oil-in-buildings/article/495354#hv54750
Gaia demands sacrifices.
“Norway bans heating”
Makes sense.
Someone should check how many of those unheated buildings are insulated with the same material that tower that just burned in London there are around. Just so they can tally the body count after these start going up in flames.
Lignite it is then.
Nah. If you had unwanted guests who just wont leave…
So woke, I think it moved.
That damn Prometheus
Norway decides their citizens must return to cod oil for heating and their entire contribution to saving the earth is offset by the jet flying Al Gore and others to the next save the earth conference. Pathetic Norway. You are an embarrassment to your viking roots.
From Wikipedia:
So as an “alternative” to this evil heating oil, they’re recommending a source of fuel that puts out roughly four times the carbon for the same amount of energy??
But it’s wood, which is like organic and stuff.
The logic, as it is, goes that burning wood releases carbon that was recently sequestered, while burning oil releases carbon that was effectively removed from the carbon cycle for millions of years. So while wood may generate more emissions than oil, if we all burned wood the net carbon available would hold steady, assuming we plant enough trees. Burning oil on the other hand, increases the amount of carbon and is there for worse.
Wht we can’t just plant more trees to off set the oil use never enters discussion.
Norway is a net oil exporter…..so….this makes what sense?
Yeah, a worldwide green energy revolution (as if) would be very bad for Norway’s economy. Perhaps all the smart Norwegians ended up in Ireland.
“Fantasy golf”?
WTFSRSLY?
I asked this on yesterday’s morning thread but I think it was posted after the migration to the next thread was posted. Anyway, does anyone have a link to a good article about the tech aspects of the Russian hacking stuff? Seems like a hacker worth their salt could cover their tracks but I don’t know enough about it and I reckon it’s time to learn
All I heard was it was “phishing”. I.e. they tricked an idiot into letting them in. Nothing technical about it.
There may be something more recent out there, but maybe this will help.
Thanks, that helped a bit but wanting something more recent.
https://www.f-secure.com/documents/996508/1030745/dukes_whitepaper.pdf
this was written before the 2016 “hack”. But the group blamed for the election hacking was one of the same ones profiled here (APT29)
this report is more technically substantial and far more interesting than the FBI report released in Nov on the russian hacking, but if you read that as well on top of this, you’ll have pretty much everything (and more) that the media has touched upon
the fbi/dhs report, btw…
https://www.us-cert.gov/sites/default/files/publications/JAR_16-20296A_GRIZZLY%20STEPPE-2016-1229.pdf
is like 4 pages of superficial stuff on ‘what happened’ (sort of), then 8 pages about ‘how to be more safe’ (‘security recommendations’). Its bullshit. there was another one that was a bit more detailed… which i can’t find at the moment. i think it was the FBI-only report which was released separately and prior to this one.
Who is an embarrassment to whom? Today in Streisand Effect:
“Fuck you, Harbaugh.
Fuck you, Michigan.
Fuck you, ESPN.”
Good premise, well written. Would read again. Thanks!
Definately needs to be a weekly newsletter.
Fan leader Alexander Shprygin, who was twice expelled from France last year following violence between Russian and English supporters in Marseille, says his ID was canceled and he has heard of around 50 similar cases.
“Shprygin, who heads the Russian Fans’ Union, told The Associated Press he had driven part of the way from Moscow to St. Petersburg when he was notified by e-mail that his ID was no longer valid.
“There’s basically no reason for this,” Shprygin. “I’ve never broken the law at a football game, never been arrested. I don’t know why this happened.”
Members of various fan groups from top Russian clubs including Lokomotiv Moscow and Dynamo Moscow were also refused, he said.
Shprygin’s organization once received support from the Russian government and football authorities, but was unceremoniously cut loose last year after two of its then-board members received prison sentences in France for their part in fan violence at the European Championship.”
The only aspect of soccer I find interesting . . . or compelling, actually, is hooliganism.
It’s a beautiful idea. People getting together to beat the shit out of each other and challenge the police.
It’s not about guns or class or drug trafficking. These are people who can’t be controlled. It’s a swarm of sport motorcycles on the highway doing three-mile wheelies and the police being powerless to stop them.
It’s a wonder this sort of thing hasn’t crossed over into American culture more. Maybe it’s because our sports feature more violence on the field–so our spectators can participate in it vicariously.
Masses of hooligans beating the shit out of each other in the USA would inevitably lead to mass gunplay and even the morons who would otherwise participate are well aware. That’s why you don’t see that more here.
I don’t think the hooligans, especially the hooligans in eastern Europe, have too much trouble getting their hands on guns.
That’s not what they’re about.
They’ve got the same things going on in Egypt and elsewhere, too.
They’re not fighting over drug distribution. There’s no money involved.
They just like to fight.
Many of them aren’t even lower class. They’re middle class guys who like to get drunk and fight.
It’s fight club.
There was never going to be a hooligan culture in the US – we’re too nice to each other.
We’re too tolerant.
Hyman!? That’s her name, and she felt the need to have a porn name? Seriously?
Ask her. “Excuse me, but what happened to your Hyman?”
Maybe there was an original Professor Hyman who discovered the hymen and so they named it after him?
I used to work with a Dr. Tampkin. He wasn’t an OB/GYN, but, naturally, you’d think he could have been the inventor of the Tampkin.
I once worked with Colonel Mustard. He invented ketchup. In the kitchen. With the blender.
My brother is taking a computer science class from a guy named Travis Doom, and he has a Ph.D.
Fuck, forgot the link.
He’s literally Dr. Doom.
Captain Obvious says . . .
The problem with having a former dominatrix who made kinky ass films as a sheriff is that her testimony is easy to discredit in front of any jury once you show them the films.
Abuse by the sheriffs is a common complaint, and the sheriffs office will lose any case in which a jury sees her abusing handcuffed men in her kinky films for kicks.
Anybody suspect or prisoners she’s ever near while wearing handcuffs may only need to make an accusation against her in order to win a tidy sum. That story isn’t about prudishness. It’s about her being a permanent liability.
She’s like a cop that’s been convicted of perjury, whose testimony can never be used effectively by the prosecution ever again–only with her, she’s a liability for a different reason.
But on the upside, juror duty would no longer be a drag. You wouldn’t try to get out of it because there was a good chance that the defense would be showing all these films to discredit her.
LCpl Obvious says…
In how many jury trials do you imagine a fresh out of the academy deputy testifying? Speeding tickets and noise complaints ain’t exactly the OJ trial. Serial domestic violence raps or suspect shootings don’t seem to keep officers off of the stand, why should soft core pr0n? The righteous indignation of the department is laughable. 10 gets you a 20 a guy with a history of domestic abuse, restraining orders, or some other malfeasance could walk in, apply, show his LEO training credentials and get hired.
They want to introduce the abusing handcuffed men argument, she could easily derail it by testifying that she has never abused a handcuffed man without consent, a contract, and payment. She could appeal to the defense asking if they, as a lawyer, have ever been accused of screwing someone for money.
Can’t imagine she’ll be near too many suspects or prisoners while she’s wearing handcuffs.
She hasn’t committed perjury. Wife beaters, perjurers, and violent offenders (both cops and witnesses) get by on the stand every day.
I knew someone who worked as a Sheriff in Watts.
The Sheriffs are usually dealing either a) with prisoners being transferred to and from jails or b) hunting down people who’ve jumped bail, etc.
Being a sheriff means dealing with people in handcuffs.
Excellent, we’ve dispensed with the arguments with regard to testimony being easy to discredit and perjury. It only cost you one anecdote.
Pretty sure she won’t be doing a transfer alone. Within a jail there are cameras. Jumped bail? Now she’s going to be Porn, the Bounty Hunter?
Being a sheriff’s deputy means everything from patrol to traffic to jailer to bailiff.
Show me on the anatomically unspecific doll where the soft core porn hurt you
Meh. Plenty of cops around who really did abuse people, and they manage to keep their jobs.
OT/TH has a serious life choice looming on the horizon:
Good morning, gents and fictitious libertarian ladies, I’m in need of some advice.
As a few of you may already know, my current form of employment is confined within the context of being a Personal Trainer/ Group Power Hour Classes/ Teaching the Actual Art of Boxing to a handful of people a couple times a week.
What you may not know is that I also have an extensive background in general contracting and home remodeling related work. Jack of All Trades, Master of None. You get the gist.
Anyway, on occasion I help my step-brother at his shop on the weekends. He specializes in doing custom colors in paint and stain for windows and doors; in particular gel stains for regular wood and wood veneer. Well, it seems I have a knack for applying gep stain to wood veneer without leaving any blotches or brush strokes. Apparently this is a highly specialized skill that has yet to be completely mastered in my current home area.
As a consequence of that fact, my step-brother offered me a fulltime job. While I’m comfortable as of now with my income($50k a year including my side classes. Not lighting the world on fire, but more than enough in flyover country), I have the possibility of earning $10-15k more a year to run his shop.
He has been in business for over a decade and he allowed me to view his invoice records over the last three years. His business is growing and he has secured the contracts with every major window and door installer in the city, but the consistency of work varies according to the season and housing market.
I have the potential to make a lot more money than what is possible in my current job but the risk is far greater to take the leap.
Advice?…
Part-time with your step brother, keep your side gig going?
That’s pretty much what I was thinking. The side gig amounts to about $5-7k a year extra income. Continuing it shouldn’t be an issue as I would be off work about 3:30 pm everyday, damn close to my current hours anyway.
Yep. A no brainer, really. Until you build your rep in the finishing world it will be nice to keep the steady stream of income. DOn’t be shocked, though, if the finishing work takes off. Good craftsmen are vanishingly rare.
*Derp….*
Fulltime with my step-brother.
*Oh, I would be paid by the window/door, not hourly.*
Own that shit! if your good you’ll become a sought after Craftsman and make shit tons of money, good Luck
Thank you, sir.
Seasonal work can be harder, you have some more planning.
If you can turn your current side stuff into a bit more while the shop work slows, it could be very worth it.
True.
What scares me the most is that I would have to file a 1099 as an independent contractor and set aside around 30% of my income to stave off running afoul of the IRS.
It’s not that hard. Pay quarterly estimates and keep good records.
Sounds like a good option, provided the benefits also equal out. If the market continues to grow you know you would job security and a fallback if the market ever contracted. Plus more money is generally a nice thing.
Don’t discount doing what you love.
Money is only worth what you can buy with it, and if you’re chasing more money just to be happier–that doesn’t make sense if you’re already happy with what you’ve got and doing what you do.
Chances are taking a job like that is going to crowd out everything else you do.
Is your wife big on wanting more money? Is she big on you doing this? I suppose that might work into the misery index of turning the job down, too.
That’s the thing, Ken. I don’t necessarily love what I do for a living. Proficiency in boxing comes naturally to me but I take no great joy in it. I’d rather be a writer, but I’m painfully aware that I lack the inherent intelligence needed to produce a volume worth reading.
What I fear most is that I’ve already reached the top realistic wage for my current profession in my area and will soon feel the effects of inflation slowly but surely reduce my standard of living.
P.S. I have no wife or children to sway my decision.
That realization smacked me hard in the face the other day, and ever since then I’ve been reconsidering how I want to earn my income in life. If I cashed out some investments (which I would really rather not do) I could pay off my house and eliminate my house payment. With that expense out of the way, I could live fairly comfortably just doing freelance writing and maybe a part-time job at a bookstore or something.
I just seem to be miserable in any type of “real career” that I try to pursue. Stress and aggravation make my life, well, not worth living. I can’t enjoy life when I’m worrying about the shitstorm that I have to face on Monday morning. People always tell me I could be a doctor, lawyer, or some kind of professional, but I don’t see myself getting any kind of satisfaction from that kind of work. I know that cashing out the investments would be a very bad thing, but just knowing that it’s possible is like having someone wave a ticket in my face – a ticket out of my current difficulties.
I think I would be more-or-less satisfied if I could spend the rest of my life writing, reading, and working out in the garden. I don’t feel the need to be richer than I am now, and I’m not going to sacrifice my emotional well-being to get there.
This is sage advice, and it took me a while to figure out the bit about not chasing money.
Starting up a business is the best thing I’ve ever done. I’m broke, but the wife is paying the mortgage and the grocery bill, and a 2 years from now the business may be a complete flop, but I am loving every second of it. I don’t particularly love cannabis, but I have discovered I love growing it and processing it and trying to turn a small medical grow into a large commercial operation.
The side benefit is that instead of being a grumpy asshole all the time because of working with people I could barely tolerate doing something I was good at but that didn’t challenge I’m happy, even when the business has setbacks. My wife has noticed it and our relationship is better too.
So yeah, the question of, ‘which do you think will make you happier, money aside?’ is an extremely good one to think about when making these sorts of decisions.
‘So yeah, the question of, ‘which do you think will make you happier, money aside?’ is an extremely good one to think about when making these sorts of decisions.’
Fair enough.
But as I stated, my current employment has a very limited ceiling. I fear that I’ve already reached the apex of my profession. Short of training the rich and famous who’ve never set foot in my area unless guaranteed an abritary, monetary gain for their performance, my options here have been exhausted on the by and large.
If the happiness level is a wash, then I’d say go for the extra money. Or if you just want a change go for the new job. Also, say you try this new field out and discover you hate it? Could you go back to what you are doing now? Would the additional money finance trying another option at that point? Does the new position open up doors that the current one won’t? All things to consider.
If I had my life to live over again, all the heartache, pain, abandonment, rage, leaving home at 14, etc.–I’d do it all over again the same way if that’s what was necessary to get me to that quality control analyst job at the software company and meeting Maha.
If I had my life to live over again, I never would have left the software company and gone back into commercial real estate. I was going to build a castle for Maha on the ocean and fill it with babies. Maha didn’t really care about that–so long as I converted to Islam.
If I had my life to live over again, I’d have kept the quality control analyst job at the software company, converted to Islam, and made babies with Maha. Failing to do that was the biggest mistake of my life. It kinda tears me up inside.
I look at people who mess their lives up with drugs, crime, etc. with envy sometimes. At least they’ve got something bad to blame. What if the biggest mistake in your life was being a success? What do you blame for that–ambition, a good work ethic, and intelligence?
Just make sure you don’t overlook qualitative considerations when you make big decisions. On paper, I made all the right choices. I wish I could go back in time and make the wrong one instead.
I thought the main benefit and compensation for being a personal trainer wasn’t monetary?
Ha!
True, the ‘slightly pudgy, lonely 30 something woman looking to reclaim her youth by way of fucking her trainer’ has been beneficial to me in the past but I’m rapidly approaching 40 so the appeal of that has dimmed significantly over the last several years.
My sex drive isn’t what it used to be. 🙂
Figure out which you like the most and figure out if the $ is worth The difference. Hard to put a dollar figure to happiness though
Road bikers are dumb. I just watched four of them blow the stop signs at the intersection from my porch.
We call them “organ donors” for a reason.
“Share the road!”
“Follow simple road etiquette?”
It’s like that in my city too. Cyclists want to be treated like other vehicles on the road? Ok, no blowing stop signs, no riding on sidewalks, no unsafe lane changes, etc. Drive your bike like it was a motorcycle, and I’ll treat you like another vehicle.
But that is not what they really want. They really want “GET OUT OF MY WAY!!!!!!”
Wait, were we talking road bicyclists? Or road motorcyclists?
Bicycles
It’s like that everywhere. I think the skinny little freaks think that they are protected by a physics-proof force field generated by their ridiculous riding gear.
From time to time, there are so-called cycling protests called Critical Mass. Hundreds of bikers will take the road at the same time for the sole purpose of obstructing traffic.
A few years ago I got stuck at an intersection in Chicago on my way home from work because of one of these events. Hundreds of cyclists passed through an intersection and blocked traffic for about 10 minutes. Thanks guys. I really appreciate being forced to wait in car without air conditioning on a hot day for and extra 10 minutes after 10 hours of work and commuting so you can protest those horrible motorists by ignoring stop signs.
I was behind one with the license plate ICU RN.
Were there any cars around?
I’ll slow down approaching a stop sign, but if there aren’t any vehicles around I’ll roll through stops signs.
Me too. Look, people – roadies can be pretty annoying, I get it, but they’re a tiny fraction of the total number of cyclists out there. And roadies don’t generally do the really stupid shit like running lights, riding on sidewalks, going the wrong way down one-way streets, riding against traffic, riding at night in dark clothes without lights etc – those are just ordinary dipshits on bikes. And second, spend some time on a bike and you’ll quickly be convinced that 95% of licensed motorists should not only lose their licenses but be permanently confined to mental health institutions for their own safety.
And don’t even get me started on pedestrians. *Those* motherfuckers…
If the consistency of work varies according to season and market, can you not keep your hand in with the PT side of things?
middle class guys who like to get drunk and fight.
It’s fight club.
There are (biker) bars for that. As long as those retards confine themselves to *willing combatants* they can beat each other to death, for all I care. They can bring back duelling clubs if hey want.
When they go off the reservation and start targetting “civilians” they need to be dealt with harshly.
I have the potential to make a lot more money than what is possible in my current job but the risk is far greater to take the leap.
It’s not as if you’ll forget everything you knew. You can go back to what you were doing if it doesn’t work out, can’t you?
G’morning glibs. Happy Father’s Day for all.
Kid is lying on the couch watching TV with a 103 degree fever, throwing up, and in pain due to an ear infection. I’m sitting on my laptop watching The Loud House (really not a bad show). Gonna go out and get myself some wings, so at least I have something Fathers day-ish.
Can’t complain I guess.
Sick kids. My sympathies cuz it’s not fun. That mean you can’t have a beer in case you have to drive somewhere?
Can’t have a beer anyways because of other meds I’m on. So, yeah.
Corbyn being Corbyn
But not his dacha.
Even if you are someone who’s far left, how in the ever loving fuck can you support Jeremy Corbyn? Dude pals up to terrorists, including the IRA, he’s astoundingly anti-semitic, pals around with holocaust deniers (though he claimed he didn’t know the person was an holocaust denier, though the dude had been talking about it publicly for a decade) and anti-Israel (wait, those are positives for people on the far left), and he’s an all-around scumbag.
I find that very hard to believe – it’s like 2 blocks from Notting Hill. Any London experts out there without an agenda who can confirm this?
“Poorest Ward” – baloney. Like all the rest of the stuff. Nobody but nobody can claim that after seeing some of the places in this article.
Genuinely depresssed wards.
There *may* be a high wealth disparity in the area, but no. None of the wards in Kensington and Chelsea are ‘poor’ in comparitive standards, if only because local services are provided at the borough level, so facilities like roads, health clinics, education etc will be quite good.
On that page, there’s a lookup for postal codes and how deprived the areas are. Grenfell Tower is “W10 6QY”.
Look at where the worst ratings are. That Ward may be a dump, but it’s not for want of local government resources.
So the poorest people in the UK all have houses that aren’t falling apart and cars out front. The poor dears.
Apparently the complaint is “inequality”, but it doesn’t seem to be the poorest regardless. Found this article from before the fire. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/11/emma-dent-coad-vows-to-confront-kensingtons-extreme-inequality
So, “envy” – as usual.
No, let’s be fair. It can’t be much fun if you’re unemployed, pretty much unemployable, and the Borough of Kensington & Chelsea decide that rather than cluttering up the fancier parts of town, they’ll give you housing in a ‘sink estate’ so that the borough’s poverty is concentrated in one easily-policeable area.
This was the standard approach in just about any Borough I can think of in London – no – hell – the UK. And I can think of places in Manchester that make wards like Golbourne and Colville look pretty nice. I was going over the crime stats for the area though. It was bad 20 years ago, it looks like it’s gone full-bore Mogdishu since then.
What are you going to do? Plunk a vertical slum in the middle of a cluster of those stone mansions depicted in the article above? If you’re trying to get the better habits of the rich to rub off on them, it doesn’t work.
As for “unemployable” – bullshit. Make yourself employable or seek out some sort of charity assistance if you truly are unemployable.
Well, some people are functionally unemployable. Their only societal function is to receive state aid until the next time they have to go and pull the handle in a ballot for the Free Shit Party.
As libertarians, we understand that incentives matter. The largely-unemployed population of Grenfall Tower understand that too, and will act accordingly until someone shuts off the spigot – not until they suddenly become woke to Austrian economics. Why seek charity assistance when the your government makes it unnecessary to make any kind of case to the people with the alms? The incentive model here is “become dependents on the state”, and you can’t blame some people for getting the message.
You certainly don’t want to let the proles out of the sink estates – when election times arise, and you have a Borough with 12 wards, the idea is to have those wards polarized. 10 blue wards and 2 red is better than 12 purple ones, because you end up with leftists on every advisory committee, and those sink estates (in the case of Kensington & Chelsea) make it unnecessary to worry about gerrymandering.
Regarding sprinkler systems, the primary reason is going to be ‘young offenders’ setting fires under them because they’re bored and stupid. A close second would be ripping them down and selling the scrap.
Anecdote:
A ‘sink estate’ near where I grew up here was built in the 50’s and despite the fact it isn’t a high-rise estate, it had some pretty ‘colorful characters’ there.
In the 1980’s, these houses were due for renovation, which coincided with a move by the Tory Party to provide a mechanism for the tenants to become owner occupiers. The plan was to renovate the houses that were going to be bought with new plumbing, heating and boilers so that at least the major components of the houses would be serviceable and safe.
As the plumbers went from house to house, a whole house would take about 120 man-hours, so after a while, they settled down to a 3 houses per 2 weeks schedule, the vacant houses being accumulated so the original tenants could move in the following month after sheetrock had been repaired and repainted etc.
One Sunday, cops turn up. Overnight, 10 houses had been gutted. All the copper pipe. All the wiring. Every boiler. In some cases, they’d shut off the power supply and taken the main fuse boxes too.
Here’s the kicker. The mastermind behind the crime, when caught, was the guy who was to move into the first rebuilt house. I guess he thought he could steal his first few months’ mortgage payments (which were ridiculously low).
It’s hard to articulate how, in a nation that can create the stuff you see in Masterpiece Theater, just how many *native* scumbags there are chavving around. When people talk about the Palestinians vandalizing that functioning market garden the Israelis left, it just makes me laugh. It’s hard to underestimate the venality of people.
I recall one article where a council member made some weak-ass statement that they didn’t have some piece of safety infrastructure because ‘the residents didn’t want it’. One has to wonder if this was a euphemistic way of saying, “look, we have a bunch of half-civilized near savages living in these tower blocks who hail from 3rd world shit holes. They barely understand indoor plumbing and they’ll rip out the sprinklers because it might stop them from using some backwards ass cooking method anyway, so we decided not to install them and just save the money.”
Saw that. It was the residents not wanting to be inconvenienced by the installation of a sprinkler system. Dunno if that is standard in such buildings (I’ve only seen it in commercial buildings) but if so I think the council could have told them tough shit and installed it anyway.
“It can’t be acceptable that in London we have luxury buildings and luxury flats left empty as land banking for the future while the homeless and the poor look for somewhere to live. We have to address these issues.”
He forgot to say, “From each, according to his abilities, to each, according to his needs.”
Oldy but goody.
In China, the rich and powerful can hire body doubles to do their prison time for them.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2012/08/china_s_wealthy_and_influential_sometimes_hire_body_doubles_to_serve_their_prison_sentences.html
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“Replacement convicts” are not new. For centuries, the use of criminal substitutes was among the first things Westerners would mention when discussing China’s legal system. Missionary and traveler Karl Gützlaff in 1834, French legal scholar Édouard Louis Joseph Bonnier in 1862, and American scholar Owen Lattimore in the 1930s wrote about the practice. In 1895, Taiwan missionary George Mackay described witnessing these replacement convicts: “It was an open secret that these men had nothing to do with the case, but were bribed to wear the cangue for six weeks.” In 1899, Ernest Alabaster, a scholar of Chinese criminal law, wrote that courts “permitted” the real offenders to hire substitutes, and that such things “frequently happen, have for long happened, and—notwithstanding Imperial decrees to the contrary—will, under the system, always happen.” Supposedly, the going rate in 1848 for a replacement convict was 17 pounds, which would come to roughly $2,000 in present-day dollars.
Incredibly, substitutes could be hired even for executions. Nineteenth-century traveler Julius Berncastle, the Qing Dynasty author De Fu, and the legal scholar John Bruce Norton each described substitute executions as regular events. This 1883 report from the Board of Punishments demanded an inquiry into how a youth named Wang Wen-shu “was wrongly convicted” and “was on the point of being executed as a substitute for one Hu T’ian, whose alias he was falsely declared to be.” T. T. Meadows, the British diplomat who convinced Western nations to copy China’s system of civil-service exams, argued that the phenomenon of substitute executions was not as surprising as it might seem. If a family is starving, wouldn’t many parents accept execution in exchange for enough money to save their children?
Some imperial Chinese officials who admitted to the use of substitute criminals justified its effectiveness. After all, the real criminal was punished by paying out the market value of his crime, while the stand-in’s punishment intimidated other criminals, keeping the overall crime rate low. In other words, a “cap-and-trade” policy for crime.
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I read the True Believer last night. Here are a few quotes that stuck out:
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The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to
develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.
…
Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the
most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men
league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and
peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward
those not of a like mind
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Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men
of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.
…
Peter Viereck points out that most of the Nazi bigwigs had artistic
and literary ambitions which they could not realize. Hitler tried
painting and architecture; Goebbels, drama, the novel and poetry;
Rosenberg, architecture and philosophy; von Schirach, poetry; Funk,
music; Streicher, painting. “Almost all were failures, not only by the
usual vulgar criterion of success but by their own artistic criteria.”
Their artistic and literary ambitions “were originally far deeper
than political ambitions: and were integral parts of their
personalities.”
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Hoffer wrote that in the ’50s. Most of what I’ve read by him rings true today. My favorite Hofferism: rudeness is a weak man’s imitation of strength.
does anyone have a link to a good article about the tech aspects of the Russian hacking stuff? Seems like a hacker worth their salt could cover their tracks but I don’t know enough about it and I reckon it’s time to learn
I’d be happy to have someone provide a coherent definition of “hack” as it pertains to the election.
hack, n. — any excuse the DNC can use to obfuscate the fact that are an incompetent and corrupt organization that lost an election to Donald fucking Trump
Okay, this will come off as kind of trivial, but I’ve got kids and one is nine and she watches Henry Danger on Nickelodeon. Anywho, it’s nice to see that there’s a pushback against rampant SJW-ism in Hollywood. This episode completely mocks the concepts of fairness in sports, equal outcomes, and participation trophies. It’s as if it were penned by a Glib.
There was a huge chilling effect under the Obama administration–made it seem like all the old rules were passe.
Trump being elected changed a lot of things, and the idea that SJW was the new normal is one of ’em.
Our long national SJW nightmare may be over.
On the wane, anyway.