These are my links. There are many like them but these links are mine. My links are my best friend. They are my life. I must master them as I must master my life. Without me, my links are useless. Without my links, I am useless. I must author my links true. I must post earlier than my enemy, who is trying to scoop me. I must scoop him before he scoops me. I will. Before God I swear this creed: my links and myself are defenders of my blog, we are the masters of the other site, we are the saviors of my mornings. So be it, until there is no other site, but peace. Amen.
The Astros are getting me a little worried. The Dodgers finally lost a game with a lead (after winning 53 straight after taking it, which is un-fucking-believable). Klitchko hangs em up after a 57 year boxing career. Neymar ain’t going to PSG just yet. And the Cowboys and Cardinals head to lovely Canton, Ohio tonight to kick off the NFL preseason. That’s all there is. Oh yeah, except the Red Sox building their lead over the Yankees by not playing while the pinstripes lost.
And here are…the links!
Pretty cool eclipse path. If you’re a Trumpkin. I blame the Russians.
Remember when HuffPo got the shit trolled out of them by that South African dude? They’re not alone.
Hey Trump and Sessions: WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!!!
Scientists have found a second garbage patch in the Pacific ocean the size of Texas. The story is complete with pictures bullshit. And here I thought we were gonna find out where orphaned garbage pail kids came from.
Speaking of orphans: this is not what you do when you adopt one. Sleazy pieces of shit.
Lastly, this is the kind of awareness that needs to be raised. So I’m spreading it to you guys.
There’s something for everyone here.
Have a great day, friends.
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575 responses to “Thursday Morning Links”
49) After church last week, the kids and I were ready to go, but my wife kept on chatting with people in the hallway for 15 minutes. Not unusual—it’s happened many times before, and I’ve seen my mom, my sister, my stepmother, previous girlfriends do similar things at parties, school ceremonies, etc.
JATNAS In the car: “We’ve been waiting here for a quarter hour. What was so important in there that you were talking about?”
Mrs. JATNAS: “We can’t just rush out the door after the service. I have to acknowledge other people at the church and hear about what’s going on with them.”
It struck me—that’s the crucial emotional labor that feminists are always going on about. That annoying pointless time when the women are chatting about nothing and the menfolk are ready to leave—that’s where the emotional labor takes place! Not sure why feminists think women should get paid for wasting everybody’s time unnecessarily, but at least I’ve located where they get the idea.
Damn, dude. We did that at church all the time. We’d chat with friends we didn’t see all week to catch up. It’s part of fellowship.
Hell, I’ve gotten more than one golf game out of a church service stop-n-chat that paid me out decent skins money. You shouldn’t dismiss it so easily.
I admire the emotional labor you undertake. You’ll be exempt from the Gefuhlgeld payments.
Chat, catch up with people – kids usually scurried over to where the cookies and punch were. Relax man, you weren’t about to burst into flames for hanging around church a few extra minutes….were you?
*squints suspiciously*
I’d agree with you if it weren’t for the fact that the only church that would have an athiest like me (Unitarian Universalists) is thoroughly infested with the worst sorts of SJW progressives.
Really is a shame because while I don’t buy into the magical sky faerie I do miss the community building role of the church
Gosh, why wouldn’t a church want someone who rolls out the term “magical sky faerie” to join?
*narrows gaze*
Well it would seem to me that if your goal was to actually convince people to believe in your god and bring them to his love the answer should be pretty much all of them
You are the one staying away.
*waggles eyebrows*
I was about to revoke your antisocial libertarian creds until you wrote about how you turned a profit on it.
I had to put up with that shit from my mom when I was a kid.
And Mom basically used God as an excuse for when she couldn’t blame Dad for something.
Met my shootin’ buddies at church.
I don’t have a problem with chatting after church, or any social event. But there is a common “wife scenario” that drives me nuts.
The wife says “I’m ready to leave, let’s go”. So, being a rational person, I gather up stuff, maybe get the kids to stop whatever fun they are having and gather by the door…. aaaaaaand where’s the wife? 15 minutes later, I send the kids back out to have fun. Usually, I’m standing with another husband by the door, also waiting while his wife “says goodbye”, taking bets on who will take longer.
Sometime between 30 and 90 minutes later, she’ll come find me and say “I thought we said we were leaving? Why don’t you have the kids ready to go?”
That’s when you make eye contact with the other husband and share that knowing look.
Much Adieu About Nothing
*narrows gaze*
“Working out with roughly 11 pounds on my chest (yea I got bored one day) is really trying on my back,” she wrote.
Oops. Threading fail. *Not really.
Carrying that weight is also emotional labor, now pay up.
That is the worst. Service finishes at noon, you’re ready to leave and get some lunch because your stomach is growling like crazy, and wife/mom/sister(s) are wanting to stop and talk with everyone.
Catholics solved this problem a long time ago. The sunrise mass is a streamlined 45-50 minutes, no singing, no bullshit. And you don’t have to talk to anyone.
Except when you share your germs by giving each other some sign of Christ’s peace.
I was surprised when I went to Germany and they didn’t do that at Mass.
The jumping of the pews. Episcopalian, but they do that at most parishes. Mine still uses the old prayer book, so shaking hands and chit chatting is strictly for the drinks and appetizer “coffee hour” after the service. Like God intended imo
They come at me to shake hands, I hit them in the forehead with the spine of the hymnal.
Back off, oldie.
A streamlined 45-50 minutes? I grew up Lutheran and church never lasted longer than 30 minutes. Proving that Martin Luther was right.
He was just indulging you.
Nice
*thunderous ovation*
+95 Theses
Not 95, 51
And our Lutheran church always has a nice spread of snacks in the common area after the service.
Those euphemisms
Don’t you take M&Ms into the service?
Jesus, what’s with you people? Do I have to open a libertarian church and show you how it’s done?
Because I am not above forming my own
cultcongregation.Will it involve weed and ass sex?
All are welcome.
Even Mexicans???
A libertarian church you say? I’d be open to that. Too bad I don’t live in Texas to be able to go.
You in MN? My pastor is a pretty middle-of-the-road progressive, but ends up taking a bunch of doctrinal and organizational positions that are quite libertarian.
1 part is the ‘open to everyone’ policy he has.
1 part is the ‘if something is worth doing, do it your damn self don’t try to get the state to do it’ credo he has.
stop going to church then. I mean many people go there to socialize _and_ to religisize.
Jazzercise?
I’d venture to say that many people go there purely to socialize.
The Pope does.
Golf clap.
You are killin’ it this morning (here)!
*applause*
This is why I don’t go to church – even a Unitarian one. Too many people, too much talking.
Plus, UU congregations are very heavily prog.
I went to one once and I actually loved it (part of the service was various congregation members reading quotes from famous scientists), but I definitely don’t want to spend my Sundays around that many people, especially that many rich white progressives. Nobody ever talks about the Unitarians’ diversity problem, do they?
Actually, UUs are the worst type of self-flagellating white guilters. They are working on, at a national level, essentially calling themselves white supremacists to show how sincere they are.
They are also, oddly, trying to be more Christian, because atheism and “spiritualism” are apparently white and middle class. Black UUs want a more Christian centered service (without any actual Christianity, of course), because, I guess, faking a “traditional” black southern Christian service is more real .
Even at the height of my atheism, no way in the world would I have associated with that group of navel gazers.
There are black UUs?
From what I can gather, all 8 of them are pissed off and the national church is working their hardest to explore their tremendous privilege and repay the generational debts owned to their fellow
manhumanbeingsWife talks on the phone for an hour. I have no idea what they talk about. It takes me an extra half hour to get out of the grocery store because she starts talking to the clerk at the checkout.
Me: “Hello? Oh hey Elton, how are you? Good. Fishing? Sure. I will start some coffee, see you in a bit.”
*click*
Man, I’ll sit in the locker room bar at my club for hours bullshitting with the people I played golf with or who finished just ahead or behind me. It’s always the same dozen or so guys telling mostly the same stories or perving on the hotter LPGA chicks playing on tv. But it’s usually a lot of fun to sit and chat with people.
Maybe I’m maladjusted for a libertarian.
That’s plain enough to see. What guy likes talking a lot?
Um, isn’t that what we do here?
I mean sure we’re using our fingers and not our vocal chords but this place isn’t much more than a glorified chatroom for our twisted little tribe to chat with each other.
We don’t have to maintain eye contact here
Exactly. If you met me in person, you would say: “He sure is quiet.”
He was such a quiet man, always kept to himself. We never would have expected this.
Guys aren’t doing overt emotional bonding and talking about feelings.
If Sloopy’s general conversations were, for example, to ask his fellow golfers how the Golf Pro made them feel when he made their group wait, he’d be sitting there by himself.
I didn’t realize we had so many church-goers here at glibs. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I’m just surprised you all waste a perfectly good Sunday morning every week.
Going to church is currently paying off my student loans (my wife’s a libertarian pastor, but not the pastor of Sloopy’s libertarian church). :p
Neat to discover more Christian glibs than I thought were around.
If you want to socialize on Sunday morning you can always go to the grocery store and do your shopping with all the other heathens, and the occasional 7th Day Adventist.
I spend every Sunday morning out getting brunch and downing several mimosas. Then my friends and I take our women to Alexandria where we get $2 sangrias all afternoon.
That’s my version of church.
Much better than mine.
Sunday in Hawaii. 0700 be in a bar to get breakfast, a beer and watch the first NFL game. 1030 sailing race. 1430 in the harbor bar chatting with fellow sailors, drinking and watching the NFL Sunday night game. 1800 fire up the grill and watch the NFL highlight.
Pretty soon I will begin my ~20 week ritual of getting all chores & errands done before noon on Sundays.
That’s how you tell the yokeltarians from the cosmotarians. Yokels meet up at church. Cosmos at cocktail parties.
I usually meet up with my friends in my marble office above the mines.
Dude, your orphans aren’t your friends, no matter how much they need you to believe they are.
Oh heavens, no. They are shot if they even gaze upon the marble palace. They know their place and I imagine they are grateful to live in the mines beneath such a wonderful structure.
I go for the snacks and the many good-looking MILFs in flattering dresses.
“Women were not allowed to vote in the United States until 1920, so that’s over a millennium of women lacking the right to vote. And what reparations have been paid since then? Nothing.”
Sex is not hereditary.
I choose to be a woman, where are my reparations?
If you could pull this off, you could probably get some money out of it:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4756352/Transgender-model-Andreja-Pejic-flaunts-pins-mini-skirt.html
::barf::
Hmm, she’s maybe a 5 in most of the pics, although that last pic her makeup bumps her up to maybe a 6. I know most models are kind of weird looking, but was she just a diversity hire?
Also, the pic with the gun… keep your damn booger hook off the bang switch. Damn furriners not knowing how to handle guns. I know it’s unloaded, but Jesus Christ that bugs me.
“Women were not allowed to vote in the United States until 1920”
I think a lot of 19th-century women in Wyoming, Utah, Washington, Montana, etc., would disagree with this.
Not to mention that’s untrue. Female landowners voted much earlier than that in parts of the country.
That said “muchbearlier”. Maybe I’m just Jones for a Jesse article and imagined it.
Otters hardest hit?
Again with the narrow gays?
Don’t forget to mention that men who didn’t own land didn’t get the vote either. We really need to go back to those days. Get rid of this cancerous universal suffrage BS.
I especially like the author’s name. Somebody ought to put it through an anagram generator.
Yeah, net tax payers get to vote, net tax recipients, do not. You need to have skin in the game so that people who are net recipients can’t just vote themselves more free shit at the expense of others.
And the military are net tax recipients.
If you are in military service literally putting your life on the line for your country, I think that would be a reasonable exemption to the rule. But the remainder of “public” employees can decide whether they prefer suckling at the government teat or voting. Same for entitlement recipients.
I’ve gotta admit that I agree with Ted, even as a military member. We are net takers no matter how you cut it. I would however ask for better criteria for conscientious objection in exchange for my voting rights. We should have an “out out” option that still gives us an honorable discharge if we disagree with the administration and it’s foreign policy
*opt out
Bo Bergdahl clause?
I believe the mechanism for discharge due to mental health issues already exists
Fine, military members serving in a forward area. I’m not letting in all these guys sitting in staff offices in Virginia or Colorado Springs who’ve never seen action, let alone National Guard members keeping the Gary Cong out of Chicago.
3 deployments – one as USAR, two as NG. Does that count?
Skin was most definitely in the game. But definitely was a tax recipient.
US military tradition used to hold that officers and professional soldiers refrained from voting and other political activities.
It has only been since the 1960s that military personnel have been encouraged to vote.
Serving in the military would be quite literally having skin in the game it seems to me.
What all do we get to count in our net taxes paid?
Do I get to count my share of corporate income taxes based on products I purchase?
I have a better idea.
Keep Universal Sufferage but allow vote buying. As in literally allowing people to purchase the right to cast additional votes.
Everyone gets 1 ballot for free.
You can then purchase additional ballots as follows
1st extra ballot – $1
2nd extra ballot – $10
3rd extra ballot – $100
4th extra ballot – $1000
5th extra ballot – $10,000
and so on with no limit, as long as you got the dough you can buy another ballot. The money gets divided up between the governmental layers represented on that ballot
in lieu of taxes, right?
Lol I’d love that, unfortunately we don’t vote often enough for that to realistically be the only funding mechanism for government.
And lobbyists would be giving people money to buy ballots and vote the “right” way. I don’t see the improvement.
Actually I see a TON of improvement specifically because of that.
First off, lobbyists could not just give the money away because they would have no way of being sure that the money was being spent to buy ballots or that if it was the ballots would have been cast the way the lobbyists wanted it to.
Second if a group is able to get a large enough combination of people and money voting one way isn’t that actually telling us something important about not just how the people feel about the issue but how strongly they feel it.
Is it a perfect system? No but it is probably a better system that what we have today where the vote of a homeless drug addict with paranoid delusions counts the same as a business owner that created hundreds of jobs and billions in value for society.
You’ll have to work on your formula, as in that system rich people (and organizations – such as political parties) will literally buy other people’s votes. I haven’t done the math, but my gut tells me that in your system the most efficient way of winning would be to pay people to vote 4 times each. You get 4 votes for $111 + fees to the voter. Much cheaper than voting a fifth time yourself.
Indeed, here is the problem.
You have $1.5 million to dedicate to buying votes. Obviously buying the 8th vote for yourself doesn’t help much so instead you are going to go out and find ~1000 people to cast votes with you and give them $1100 each to vote with.
How do you know that all or even most of those 1000 people won’t just pocket the $1100? How do you know some of them aren’t actively supporting the opposite position/candidate and lying to get your money and vote for their guy?
The answer is you can’t, So you have to spend your time finding a group of 1000 people who you can reasonably trust are going to vote the way you want and give them the money. Even then a good chunk will pocket at the very least the $1000 and only buy 4 votes, if they feel guilty they might pass on $100 to a buddy who they think votes the same way so he can buy an extra vote to make up for the one they didn’t cast.
The end result is you are getting far more information out of your election, not just who the people voted for but how strongly they felt about that vote
And THIS is why Hillary didn’t win. But would have.
I’d be down with something like that.
Don’t give the Marxists ideas for more vroups who deserve reparations!
“vroups” = victim groups?
BRILLIANT!
we also would have accepted “viccups”.
(because hiccups are annoying and often hard to get rid of)
Eat a heaping spoonful of sugar.
…yes. That’s what I was going for. Completely intentional. And now trademarked.
Wait, I forgot, libertarians. Scratch the trademarked part then.
From the comments, “This article is written by Malia Rolt whish is an anagram for I am a troll. Also, the picture for Malina Rolt is that of Normani Kordei from the group Fifth Harmony.”
And her other article is “We Must Stand Up Against Kekistan”.
For me once shame on you, fill me twice…
The giveaway is how she says the previous hoax was taken down because it was too controversial.
Of course the blaze thinks it must be real, because obvious hoax must be treated as a threat. link
What’s worse: being fooled into publishing a troll or being fooled into shitting your pants over obvious troll that got published?
At least with The Onion you don’t have to worry about its editors taking the stuff seriously. Your mom, maybe, but the editors are in on the gag.
When the shit gets posted by true believers for consumption by other true believers, the fact that it started as a hoax isn’t altogether comforting.
I will cut her some slack since she is 16 and is a moron by default like most 16 year olds. HuffPo, not so much.
We repaid them with good, non-Progressive government up till 1912.
I like the addition of a bullshit time frame like a “millennium”. If she’s a troll it’s a masterful parody of a 16 year old prog.
As far as I’m concerned, letting women vote in 1920 only doubled the number of morons, idiots, and low informed voters.
“After all, women and people of color went through times of not being allowed to vote, and the fact that white men never had to experience that is an injustice.”
This is what not knowing history looks like. There was a time when only the male landowners in this country could vote. Lots of white guys didn’t own land.
– a whole shitload of indentured servants
Just burn those SOBs at the stake and be done with it.
⬆️This⬆️
But the damn state gave them a plea bargain. And they don’t use the death penalty in California anymore. So they’ll sit in prison on our dime. Hell, the dude could get a taxpayer-funded sex change if he wanted one. Just think of that.
He may get one he didn’t ask for if he goes general population.
Yep. Good for them for taking a plea and avoiding trial. For some strange reason I find it difficult that they did that to spare their adopted son’s feelings after abusing him for ten years.
Like Pat says, stick ’em in gen pop and give somebody a carton of smokes and a shiv. It’ll work itself out.
“Scientists have found a second garbage patch in the Pacific ocean the size of Texas.”
I wouldn’t worry too much about it: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110328/full/news.2011.191.html
Is it called “California”?
Just gonna leave this here
Great album.
Waiter! I’ll have what he is having – he’s on fire!
Here’s some context on what it means to be a “garbage patch”
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4132
His episode on global warming.
Layman’s question: While none of the individual pieces of this discussion seem far-fetched, if CO2 is narrowing the “window” of escape of radiant energy from the earth, wouldn’t it also be increasing the amount of radiant energy reflected back into space from the sun by the same principle?
Yes it would, except…
The sun being hotter than the Earth, it radiates much of its energy at a higher frequency than the Earth’s surface does. The higher frequency light coming in is not scattered by CO2 and H20 the way the infrared light radiating out is.
The higher frequency light coming in is not ABSORBED by CO2 and H20 the way the infrared light radiating out is.
FIFY
Yes, that happens.
When the energy that gets through the atmosphere does land, it doesn’t bounce off a rock or parking lot unchanged like light off a mirror. It warms up the parking lot, which then emits energy in a broad band of wavelengths. While it’s not light, it might be easier to think of it as the ROYGBIV spectrum for just a second. Lets say ROYGBIV gets radiated from the sun and only RO makes it through the atmosphere to heat up a rock. As that rock cools, it emets the energy it picked up, but it emits it in the ROYGBIV spectrum, not just the RO spectrum. The rock’s ROYGBIV shoots out into the atmosphere, and RO escapes, while YGBIV stays in the atmosphere.
Take it a step farther, and look at the soil in a greenhouse – like the plastic box to grow plants in a warm temp. The plastic walls block out the O, letting only R in. That R heats up solid matter in the green house, and emits ROYGBIV. The greenhouse keeps in OYGBIV, releasing R, and heating up.
This is all pretty non controversial. Like the article says, you can test this yourself directly. I call these first order effects.
The controversial parts come from a claim that, setting aside the CO2 concentration, increasing the earth’s temp also increases the insulation from non-CO2 stuff. As a stupid example, say there was a big balloon full dust. As the earth warms due to increases CO2 concentration, the balloon will heat up and eventually explode, casting all the dust in the air. We know from volcanoes that more dust in the air = more insulation, so if an when that balloon pops, you can expect more warming than just the CO2 concentration would lead you to expect. I call these second order effects.
Now, where’s why this is controversial. All the second order effect that get ‘found’ all totally coincidentally happen to point in the direction of more insulation, not less. And they can’t be directly measured, so you’ll have to trust our computer models, which roll our assumptions in as fact without ever testing the assumptions. And those computer models? We will not give you access too. And the second order effects can’t be disproven by way of direct observation, because any time any respectable scientific community would disprove a hypothesis by direct observation, we’ll just all agree to never talk about that one and move on with a new wild ass guess. Until it too is proven wrong and we all agree we all knew that all along.
So anyway, that’s my take it, and I’m really not looking forward to arguing about it.
Your thesis correct, but this is wrong:
” the balloon will heat up and eventually explode, casting all the dust in the air. We know from volcanoes that more dust in the air = more insulation, so if an when that balloon pops, you can expect more warming than just the CO2 concentration would lead you to expect. I call these second order effects.”
Particulates reflect more, so cool the earth. See ‘nuclear winter’
Oh really? I guess that makes sense. In my defense, i’m not a balloon engineer (or an earth scientist).
I didn’t mean to be snarky. I’m a scientist with a strong interest in the global warming debate. I want to be sure we all get it right.
No snark taken. I appreciate the correction, it means I got to learn something.
Thank Goddess for Hollywood’s Summer Feminist Utopia
The only level it can ever be at. The imaginary one in works of fiction like movies/tv/books.
Fantasy indeed. Boxing and wrestling weight classes are only, what, seven pounds apart? And they exist because a professional fighter wouldn’t have much of a chance against someone bigger and strong than him. So how do they think it would go in a fight between a woman and a man who outweighs her by 40-50 pounds?
Depends on the training. My cousin’s girlfriend is a Krav Maga instructor, who keeps taking other martial arts “to expand her knowledge of different styles”. I definitely am physically stronger than her, and at least 80 lbs. heavier, but she’d kick my ass in a fight.
Bingo. Tried boxing for a couple years until I got hit in the face by a guy that went on to be an Olympic alternate. Guy was about 5 foot 7, 130 pounds. I still went down hard. Among the elite there is a huge difference, but for us mortals, well, a fly weight would kick my ass.
Again, that was a man, not a woman. Men can generate much more speed and power than a woman can.
I agree. Just pointing out to JATNAS why boxing and wrestling have weight classes.
I don’t think so. My sister in law is a black belt martial arts instructor, and I can easily over power her. I am also a martial artist, but the main difference is really in speed and power. Martial arts are not magic. A 120 or 130 pound woman can hit me right on the button with her best shot, and it’s mostly going to piss me off, maybe bloody my mouth. I hit her in the face with a good shot, and her face is broken.
Very true. I’ve trained in martial arts since I was 9 years old. I’ve competed across the country and I taught for years. I’ve known many very skilled female martial artists and they get completely worked over by a halfway competent male of any weight class. In particular I know one female fighter that handily won every women’s division she competed in and started competing in men’s divisions for the challenge. She never won a single fight against a male opponent.
I think the salient point is “until I get my hands on her”.
I used to work with a 5’2″, ~110 lb., martial-arts-studying young lady who had a feud going with a tall, muscular young male coworker. She kept threatening to “kick his ass”.
I warned her that it wouldn’t be too smart to go down that road. When she protested that she was a black belt, I explained why that made it more dangerous for her: A little cheerleader type woman who hits a big dude will be able to count on his chivalry preventing him from retaliating. But she’s trained. So when she hits him, she stands a good chance of actually hurting him. And then the animal instincts kick in. And then her physics problem kicks in… because with about 70-90 extra pounds of mostly muscle on his side, he’s going to really hurt her if he starts actually fighting.
She called bullshit on that idea. But I’ll note that she quit screwing with him after that conversation.
Someone posted this last night in the Jewish girlfriend subthread. Seems appropriate here.
https://youtu.be/9w6UUkkOmgo
This – the Krav Maga instructor might be able to beat up a 200-lb man who’s never had any training and works in a cube. As soon as he is even mildly proficient, she has zero chance. Even if she’s much better trained, he can just wear her down with strength weight and more ability to absorb damage.
Even a cube blob like me would win with no training if the person was a foot shorter. Just absorb any shots long enough to intentionally fall on them, no fighting required.
In fact had an incident like that in school. My fighty but smaller friend thought it was fun to run circles around me, until he made the mistake of getting in between the wall and I.
His main focus was breathing for the next few minutes, not fighting.
Have to go for the knees of the big men.
No shit, we had a guy in our jujitsu (Japanese, not this newfangled Brazilian business) class who was 6’4″ and probably 300 lbs. if he was an ounce. Surprisingly decent shape and more nimble than you’d imagine, but still a big, lumbering chubster. He’d win matches in tournaments because nobody could throw him. As soon as somebody tried, or if they tried getting fancy with a standing arm bar or something, he’d bear-hug them, pick them up, and hold them until the ref counted them out.
Granted, that’s in a regulated tournament setting, not an actual fight, but I think he could’ve Butterbeaned his way through a stand-up slugfest long enough to give a good account of himself.
If my attacker has a deficit in height/reach/strength compared to me, they’d better nail that first shot or be really quick.
I’ll conserve my energy, and the moment they’re close enough to grab, bones and joints will start breaking.
This is very true. My gym has a female boxing instructor but is constantly throwing me off when we hit pads. She’s 5’1″ and weighs 110lbs. I am 5’11” and 205lbs. It throws me off because I have to punch down and she can’t keep up if I’m trying to hit for speed. I also don’t want to miss the pad and hit her on accident.
She can run circles around me though, my footwork is slow and clumsy in comparison.
In the instance of inter-gender boxing, however, both people would be well trained in their craft, so JATNAS’ point stands.
Hell, even between a woman and a man of the same weight. Most people, especially women, grossly underestimate just how big the difference is in speed and strength.
And they exist because a professional fighter wouldn’t have much of a chance against someone bigger and strong than him.
Royce Gracie says “whaaaaaaat?”
Well, until everyone stated training BJJ and he lost his advantage.
Yeah. He’d get destroyed against pretty much any UFC weight class today.
What’s funny is that so many people started training in BJJ thinking it’s some kind of magic fighting system that lets little guys destroy great big muscle-bound titans that they stopped learning how to hit people. Suddenly, if you could throw a punch or kick properly and just not get destroyed on the ground you had a massive advantage over these guys who took the BJJ “all fights end on the ground” thing too seriously. Now it’s almost like the recipe is to learn a striking art of some kind and take a year of some kind of wrestling and you’re good.
Royce Gracie v. Matt Hughes
I remember watching GLOW late in Saturday nights when I was a kid. Babe The Farmers Daughter was the best.
“Wonder Woman, GLOW, and Atomic Blonde all focus on the female form (sans male gaze),”
Are they joking? No, I guess not, because it’s funny, and their jokes aren’t funny.
They seriously don’t think men will gaze on Gal Godot and Charlize Theron?
Didn’t these same morons complains about Wonder Woman’s shaved armpits?
And stop trying to ruin Wonder Woman with your feminism! You’re doing a bad enough job in the comics, I don’t want her big screen depiction ruined too.
It’s hard to escape her legacy
feminist legacy
The “male gaze” thing really pisses me off. What am I supposed to believe? That my looking at a woman and considering whether and it what ways I find her attractive is some kind of magic power? Like every time I see a woman walk past me and think, “Wow, she looks good,” it’s like I’ve taken away her right to vote? Besides which, women do the same damn thing. Humans do it, animals do it, it’s a normal, natural thing.
A few weeks ago I busted my son’s therapist for checking out my body building butt. She said something as I was walking away, I turned around to reply and saw that she wasn’t making eye contact. Instead her female gaze were glued to my buttocks.
I felt ashamed and humiliated. I ran to the car, crying, and wondered how women could treat a man like that.
Wearing leather shorts…you were asking for it!
My wife and I ran into her married aunt at a fall festival type of thing. My wife leaned over and whispered to me, “Whoa, Aunt [REDACTED] is totally staring at your butt…” We walked on, both of us unscathed. Actually, it put a spring in my wife’s step for a few days.
#ShePersisted
Humans do it, animals do it, it’s a normal, natural thing.
Which is precisely why they want to assign guilt for your doing it. They set a standard for defining non-aggression that has no plausible means of being observed. Of course, they’ll find an excuse to justify their own behavior in the same regard.
It isn’t about dealing with other people on mutually agreeable terms. It’s about creating a sense of guilt. Once you’ve established guilt on the part of your target, manipulating them into anything is easy.
I read the opening bit about handmaid’s tale and it was enough.
I fell asleep after the first sentence of that excerpt.
Stop mansplaining… Err… Kristen just has false consciousness
You just aren’t woke.
That’s what she said
*slow clap*
Ah, this is why all the movies suck these days. Also explains why ticket sales are down (not really, Netflix, streaming and high prices are to thank for that).
Plus putting up with hordes of idiots in the theater moving around, fucking with their phones, texting, etc. You get a much better experience with home theater.
This is so true. I will wait months for a movie to come out on Blu-ray or Amazon so I can sit at home and watch on my home theatre setup. Love being able to pause for bathroom breaks and to make popcorn too. I fucking love the creature comforts these days.
+2
I think it’s been at least 8 years since I last set foot in a movie theater. No intention of ever going to one again. I imagine my kids will look at them as the same anachronism my generation considered drive-in movies.
Same for sports. Pay $500 for four cheap seats, food, and parking; time to park and drive, etc. Or sit in the man cave with giant TV, good beer, and flipping around if the game gets boring. No contest.
We never go to multi-plexes any more. We catch maybe one movie a month out of the house, at a place with comfy recliners, reserved seating, and excellent beer and food.
We have a similar place next to me called the Alamo Draft Cinema. They even have waiters that come and serve you your drinks during the movie. This stuff, along with some of the cool 3D stuff (only specialized flics are good for this, like Avatar) are what theatres are banking on to stem the tide of declining revenue.
I like the theater experience (the large screen and superior sound system), but like you don’t like the “crowded theater” experience, so I go to see movies at off times – either matinees if I’m off work or several weeks after opening.
The theaters around here are all putting in those comfy new powered recliners, which pretty much removes that crowded theater thing. Even when somebody’s sitting next to you there’s plenty of room, and you have your own padded arm rests.
Speaking of hordes of idiots.
People are literally making death threats against an actress because they hate her on-screen character (Melisandre – GOT).
Didn’t Jack Gleeson say that one of the reasons he was leaving acting was that he got tired of the Joffrey hate directed at him?
Talk about compliments towards your acting.
That kid was perfect. Probably good for him to do other things – he’ll be Joffrey for the rest of his life.
He would be great in a sitcom as a shitty rich boss, handed the business at a young age by his dad, and just play it as Joffrey the whole way.
Nice size TV plus soundbar will run you about $500, so like, what, 2-3 trips to the theater?
The last time I went to the movies was a Monday matinee. There were three of us in the theater.
so this is what happened to John:
Husband pens body-positive note to ‘curvy’ wife — and everyone’s swooning
Curvy? Did these people look at her legs? Cellulite is not curve.
This is what mix tapes used to be for. Here’s what he would’ve put on his:
1) I Like Big Butts, Six Mix-A-Lot
2) Big Ole Butt, LL Cool J
3) Brown-Eyed Girl, Van Morrison (every romantic mix tape must have this song on it, it used to be the law)
4) Big Bottoms, Spinal Tap
5) Fat Bottomed Girls, Queen
“(every romantic mix tape must have this song on it, it used to be the law)”
What if her eyes are blue, do you play the Horst Wessel song?
“Brown Eye” doesn’t refer to her actual eyes.
From Wikipedia: “Originally titled “Brown-Skinned Girl”, Morrison changed it to “Brown Eyed Girl” when he recorded it. Morrison remarked on the original title: “That was just a mistake. It was a kind of Jamaican song. Calypso. It just slipped my mind. I changed the title.” “After we’d recorded it, I looked at the tape box and didn’t even notice that I’d changed the title. I looked at the box where I’d lain it down with my guitar and it said ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ on the tape box. It’s just one of those things that happen.” It has also been stated that the song was about an inter-racial relationship and Morrison changed the title to “make it more palatable to radio stations.””
So Mick Jagger rushed in where Morrison feared to tread.
I’d love to take over the PA system at a huge SJW conference and play Some Girls on a loop
I looked up the lyrics…I saw nothing objectionalble /sarc
If Mick don’t have that much jam, then no one does.
Crystal Gayle, Don’t It Turn My Brown Eyes Blue
Big Legged Woman – Jerry Lee Lewis
-1 soul, but +1 grave chauffeur service.
*fart*
White Knighting for your own wife? *Adds another FART*
Or you know different people are attracted to different things. Also I doubt most men find stick thin women attractive. Just that there is a difference between curvy and fat.
I mean the whole waist to hip ratio as sign of attractiveness is fairly common, even in blind men.
Depends what you mean by thin. I prefer athletic women. Bolemic, not so much.
If I don’t agree with it it’s a lie. Fuck you guy, people just have different preferences.
I’ve noticed that these day spokes women in TV commercials all have big butts. Flo, the Progressive insurance girl. The Wendy’s girl, the women in Liberty Mutual Insurance commercials, etc. And by the way, how much is Liberty Mutual paying the United States Treasury to use the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop?
Curvy as defined by men v. women.
Yes – why a perfect sphere is a technically a curve, that’s not what we mean.
+1000.
Good for him. He should love is wife.
But that doesn’t mean she’s not fat.
All of that. Christina Hendricks is curvy (and fat now, TBH. But Joan, and Saff from Firefly? Oy.)
That gal is fat.
Have you ever seen Tom Wood’s wife. Seems like a wonderful lady and he only speaks well of her. But she’s rather large. Gave him six daughters, so there’s that, too. I respect a dude that loves his wife like that.
Not looking bad for someone that’s squeezed out 6 rugrats.
And I’d be shocked if Tom ever went mid life crisis on her. Model couple.
Hell, Christina Hendricks is still a solid “would” for me, even with the bonus, “I’m rich as hell and no longer give two shits” weight. I mean, every day and twice on Sunday.
I mean, I guess a sphere is curvy, right?
What the hell is a “basic bro?” Because apparently I am one.
It means you are generally sexually attracted to what most of the male population is sexually attracted to: hot women of a reasonable weight.
Ah. So I am a terrible person! Now I know.
So another way of saying “shitlord”?
So he’s saying beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but with feminist nonsense. How very woke.
Seriously, there are some people who find Hillary attractive. Like Huma.
some people who find Hillary attractive. Like Huma.
*shudder* I read SF’s last post earlier this morning. Thanks for the flashback.
*Vomits*
I can introduce you to a lady that finds that attractive.
When I was on OKCupid just a few weeks ago I saw a lot of women’s profiles that said something along the lines of “when did the word ‘curvy’ become a euphemism for ‘fat’?” Many of these girls were attractive with nice hips.
When big fat hurtings appropriated that shit. Tell those chicks about the word, “liberal”.
yep, when the hambeasts appropriated it
I limited my preferred search results to conservative women, so that might have been the reason I saw a lot of non-PC stuff on their profiles.
Yeah, because you’re a chubby chaser, that must mean that the men who aren’t must have been deceived somehow.
Gotta love how these people are always able to make up their own minds, but then assume that everyone else’s minds are just being influenced by the media and “society.” This doesn’t work for simple preferences like sexual attraction. Media and society can successfully influence general thoughts about complicated scientific and public policy subjects, but it simply doesn’t work that way when it comes to “what human shape makes me want to fuck.”
Sounds like quite a coincidence, but…
I hate these fucks. They can’t stop talking about Trump! Dude, really, use a solar eclipse event as an excuse to segue into a boring-as-hell Trump election Tuesday morning analysis? FFS!
^This^ I had hoped that since a Democrat wasn’t in office we wouldn’t have to hear about the president in non-political venues. Sadly, hate is a more powerful emotion than love*, so we hear more about the president now than when they had a president they played the lap-dog for.
*(while this is not strictly true when comparing the emotions themselves, hate is easier to access than love, so it becomes more powerful because it can be used more often)
Chum in the water trying to lure in a Trump tweet, to be sure.
The moon does not care about Trump, it does not care about Clinton. It’s the moon!
Or maybe the author is just sad that if they want to see the eclipse they have to go into *shiver* deplorable country.
A brief summation:
Bleep, bloop, eclipse, derpity doopity, Trump.
The moon is a harsh mistress.
Ja da, cobber!
The only way it hits mainly Clinton counties is if traveled down the coasts
It doesn’t rotate around earth at north to south either
Someone called this girl’s Japanese tea party racist and then a Japanese person stepped in.
That we’re actually arguing over cultural appropriation and whether it has occurred is a sign that the war has already been lost.
My people have a rich cultural history of appropriating the material possessions, real estate, and cuisine of other people. Hell we even have a rich cultural history of appropriating other actual people. So why are they saying that we have to turn our backs on the legacy of our fathers? Who are they to judge the customs of my people?
My culture has a rich tradition of dank memes and trolling. Criticizing or trying to stop this , like CNN’s blackmail, is cultural suppression. Praise Kek!
Shadilay.
In fact, some of the most successful societies (and empires) have been built on cultural appropriation. Cultures that don’t appropriate run the risk of stagnation (think Japan and China, when they were closed to the world). Appropriation makes us strong – assuming we have the wisdom not to appropriate vices.
All culture is appropriation.
The takedown by that Japanese person is pretty epic. But I can see that the thick-skulled, miserable thought policewoman continues to #persist.
Shit, nobody appropriates culture more than the Japanese. There’s even a term for it in Japanese. I forget what it is, but it means taking something foreign and Nipponizing it.
The history of imperial China is basically one group of invaders taking over, looking around, realizing they have no idea how to run this massive country, and being assimilated by the Han. “Yes, of course, you’re the Emperor now. Why don’t you go and sit in this room and write some poetry while we continue to run everything?”
+1 the power of the bureaucracy
Hey Trump and Sessions: WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!!!
Related local news that made me chuckle
Sarge, my guess is they’re going to come back for a six, eight and ten.
Ive seen 3 stories today, all with the quote “alcohol and drugs”. Im sorry resident alcoholics but you are by definition drug users. I guess this makes the drinkers feel like they’re so much better than the shifty pill poppers and heroin users. And THIS is what grinds my gears.
The phrase I generally hear is “alcohol and other drugs”
That must be a regional thing because I have never heard that before. My dad even got in an argument with the hack that runs our local newspaper once over a judge that was doing drugs for years on the bench. Editor: “But its alcohol, it isnt drugs”
Meh. I’ve heard enough “marijuana isn’t a drug, it’s a plant!” to more than make up for it.
Poppies re plants.
No, I’m not a poppy.
Coca too.
Also, I’m Poppy.
I always ask them what paote, coca, and poppy is.
I don’t know about the first two, but the third is some girl on YouTube.
Im sorry resident alcoholics but you are by definition drug users.
There’s no need to apologize. I am fully aware of my chemical dependencies: alcohol, caffeine, tacos, etc……
I’m not an alcoholic, I’m an alcohol enthusiast.
plus, you ain’t one until yo start goin’ to the meetings.
Who’s got time for meetings, anyway?
Speaking of GLOW….
“Taking a dive! A flirtatious Alison Brie shows off her moves in plunging dress at LA benefit… after hitting career high as female wrestler”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4755838/Alison-Brie-shows-dress-HFPA-Grants-Banquet.html
She looks like she’s been punched in both eyes.
Just the way I like ’em…
You like ’em when they don’t listen?
What do you tell a woman with two black eyes? Nothing, she’s already been told twice!
Yuck. What did she do to herself. Give me the Santa outfit version from Community back, please.
“Now guest starring on The Walking Dead…”
She looks starved and half-dead. Everyone ages, but wow, quite the difference from when she was on Community.
I’d wrassle with her.
“You should see the other girl!”
“Rap legend Kidd Creole has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a drunk homeless man to death in New York. The 57-year-old, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, was taken into custody in the Bronx before being charged on Wednesday night. The homeless man, identified as John Jolly, was found stabbed on a sidewalk in Midtown just before midnight on Tuesday. Police say Glover got into a fight with the 55-year-old man. Glover reportedly thought Jolly, who is a convicted rapist, was hitting on him, sourced told the NY Daily News.
Glover was one of the members of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five – a hip hop group founded in the Bronx in the 1970s.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4755496/Kidd-Creole-arrested-fatal-stabbing-New-York.html
It’s like a jungle sometimes.
As long as the Coconuts made it out OK.
Hah….you know, my initial reaction to this story was confusion – since when is Kid Creole a rap legend? Took me a minute to realize that this is a different Kid Creole.
In my book, there is only one Kid Creole.
Did he also kill Paul Allen in the same week by bashing his head in with an axe while listening to Huey Lewis?
That’s a very strange reaction…
‘Clumsy’ sexist remark by BAE Systems manager costs £360,000
A manager’s “clumsy” comment to a secretary that “women take things more emotionally than men” will cost Britain’s biggest arms manufacturer more than £360,000.
BAE Systems argued that the law had gone mad and attacked the payout to Marion Konczak for “a single sexist comment” as “an affront to justice”.
Three appeal court judges ruled yesterday, however, that Mrs Konczak, 62, was due every penny after the manager’s comment led to her having a mental breakdown.
BAE was working on a project for the Royal Saudi Air Force when Mrs Konczak complained that she had been bullied and harassed, including sexually. Her line manager later told her that “women take things more emotionally than men, whilst men tend to forget things and move on”.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/clumsy-sexist-remark-by-manager-costs-360-000-t6jx59d95
Marion Konczak is so not bae.
First question, why would you put any woman in the position of having to work with the Saudis? That’s a liability from the beginning.
Second question, since a woman hearing such an innocuous comment can now cost you around half a million bucks, why the fuck would you hire women?
Well, you only have to pay them 70% of what you’d pay a man, so it still might end up cheaper in the long run.
She wanted to prove him right?
That’s sexist!
You’re fucked either way. If you exclude them from that work then you’re sexist, if you include them, you’re liable for the conduct of the Saudis over which you have no control.
So, man says “women take things more emotionally than men” , woman who hears this mild comment has a mental breakdown, allegedly as a result of hearing it. Thereby proving his point in spades. I thought truth was an absolute defense?
Woman who hears this comment sees easy way to cash in by playing off of feminist sentiments and the fact women are typically treated more sympathetically than men by the courts.
FTFY
I was about to say this very thing.
Also, I thought the deal was that women have more emotional intelligence than men? That we’re insensitive clods who can’t read a situation nearly as well as the quasi-telepathic fairer sex? Wouldn’t that sort of imply that women indeed do react more emotionally? And isn’t that what feminists have been saying for decades?
We had a mandatory harassment training seminar the other day and they told us that asking people “where are you from?” is harassment. Fuck. These. People.
25 years ago I had a mandatory sexual harassment training run by someone from the EEOC.
They ran a bunch of scenarios and asked “is this harassment?” The first had a boss saying “if you don’t have sex with me, I will fire you.” We all got that one right.
After a few more, they had a group standing around the water cooler. One guy asked a girl if she would like to come to a party this weekend. She said no thanks. So he tells her that lots of people from work are going to be there so it should be a lot of fun, and ask if she’s sure she doesn’t want to come. She say no thanks again. So he says his goodbyes and wishes her a happy weekend.
The EEOC lady asked who thought this was harassment. No hands went up. So she told us that because he didn’t take no for an answer and asked again, this was harassment and grounds for dismissal.
One of the older ladies at my table loudly objected, saying if every guy who ever asked her out took no for an answer and never asked again, she never would have had a date and never would have married her husband.
This was at what I thought was the peak of the scary “enthusiastic consent” movement with “all sex is rape” being an actual position of the feminist leadership. So I took heart that there were women standing up to the crazies and saying “enough!” I figured it was about to fizzle out on its own stupid.
How wrong I was. It actually feeds on stupid, growing stronger with each derpy new development. The stupid makes it more powerful than you could ever imagine.
Be Attractive, Don’t be Unattractive
It really is insane – you’re absolutely right things keep getting worse. The lady started the seminar by LAMENTING that no appointments had been made to the department of labor “so there’s nothing new to talk to you all about this year.” I was just sitting there thinking “well, we’re kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel for things to be offended about, aren’t we? What else could there possibly be?”
I kept looking around the room as the examples were getting more and more inane.
I was also thinking about the girl sitting next to me – since right before the seminar I she was telling me about how her friend – who happens to be male – had just bought her a car for her birthday (he bought her son an entire year of college education for her previous birthday). I had asked her if this male friend of hers was her boyfriend. She said “no.” Then I asked “are you sure that he doesn’t WANT to be your boyfriend?”
I think that might have technically been harassment. Luckily she isn’t crazy so I think I’m safe.
That’s some generous friend.
That was part of their findings of fact, that the comment constituted all of the sexual harassment Ms. Konczak had suffered? I find that really hard to believe, especially if she was working on that project with the Sauds and personally interacting with them.
I would think that merely being in a country where women are not allowed to drive or go out unaccompanied would constitute de-facto sexual harassment.
But if you don’t let her go (if the project required her to be on-site) or if you don’t let her interact with the client, then you’re discriminating against her based on her gender. Further, I don’t think it’d be hard to show that such discrimination would negatively impact her career at that employer.
You can’t win.
But I think, despite the article, that there was a bit more there than some manager’s innocent comment.
But I think, despite the article, that there was a bit more there than some manager’s innocent comment.
As rational people we would all like to believe that, but it’s probably not the case. We have gone far down the path of crazy.
A manager’s “clumsy” comment to a secretary that “women take things more emotionally than men” …led to her having a mental breakdown.
Way to fight the stereotypes, lady.
*shaken fist*
“women take things more emotionally than men”
“the manager’s comment led to her having a mental breakdown.”
uhh…
damnit…
“women take things more emotionally than men”
…
Mrs Konczak, 62, was due every penny after the manager’s comment led to her having a mental breakdown.
So…?
Intersting Rednecks in the Mist piece
Rednecks don’t spell so gud…
Watch CNN’s Jim Acosta Throw A Temper Tantrum, Quote The Statue Of Liberty’s Poem
Give me one million of your poor, huddled masses or you’re a racist.
Of course at the time of the “huddled masses” phase of immigration, America had a rapidly expanding industrial economy, requiring hordes of unskilled and low-skilled manual labor, and there was no welfare state and no government being conducted in multiple languages. Even so, immigration was completely halted in 1920 to allow assimilation of the masses already here, and was not opened up again until 1965, when the Democrats decided they needed to import a new constituency of future voters.
The Solution
by Bertolt Brecht
After the uprising of the 17th of June
The Secretary of the Writers’ Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
So, the inscription on the Statue of Liberty is in what language?
19th Century Emoji.
“can’t people learn how to speak English when they get here?”
And yet….
I guess they would if there was sufficient incentive, but the government and the left have been working hard to remove such incentives.
That’s a function of “How many?” If we aren’t getting enough who show up speaking English, we can lower that standard.
Anthony Scaramucci planned launching public lottery to play golf with Donald Trump before being fired
I miss him already.
What a tool. Everybody knows if you want access to golf with the president you have to earn it the old fashioned way.
graft and cronyism.
And fandangos!
Following the Bill Clinton playbook got him fired.
Those really aren’t bad ideas.
ACLU To Court: It’s Legal To Tell Bob To Eat Shit
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170802/00533937906/aclu-to-court-legal-to-tell-bob-to-eat-shit.shtml
At least until Bob graduates from the police academy.
Just don’t mention wood chippers or special places in hell.
John Oliver? I hope they both lose.
On the story about back pain caused by chest size. I dated a fairly thin girl that had nearly double-D cups and she constantly had back pain. She was basically counting the days until she could afford breast reduction surgery. It seems like a slap in the face of god or nature or whatever to do that, but I did sympathize — that shit can’t be easy. I feel bad for the womenz that have to enact physical labor in addition to emotional labor all day.
I mean, Continuum is always linking to that Chive feature entitled “Future Lower Back Problems”.
The Romanian tennis player Simona Halep had hers significantly reduce to play better tennis and presumably not have such issues…
“I dated a fairly thin girl that had nearly double-D cups”
/humble brag
Meh nice shape beats size usually
Don’t have any idea of bra sizes. I suppose I’d prefer all my cups to be double.
I’m proud of that one, sure. But she was also clinically bi-polar, therefore an absolute psycho. Fun in bed though.
More boasting…
I assume you dumped her as soon as she raised the money for the surgery.
I dumped her way before that. Not sure where she is these days…
I had a friend who had to have reduction surgery because she is a professional dancer, and the DD’s were holding her back in her career, since she was all of 5’1″ and 120 lbs of muscles. She said she lost 10 lbs. from the reduction, and I would believe it.
In the bushes outside your window with a telephoto lens?
I had DDDs at one point. Post three children and I’m down to just plain single Ds. ?
That’s why I’m working so hard. I know how important those big ol titties are to you. And by gum, I’m gonna see your dream of reinflating those things come true if it kills me.
So, Sloopy hardest hit?
If you want anyone to believe this you need to provide before and after pics.
My sister went from an A cup to “screw that, I am not buying a bra bigger than EEE” when she got pregnant. Now, she was super tiny, so EEE on a 32 inch frame isn’t as huge as you might suspect, but still….. being a pregnant lady can suck. Plus, she went back down to a B cup in the aftermath, only with added stretch marks for that extra bit of glitz! At least they aren’t purple anymore.
I would be happy to offer whatever support I can to women afflicted by that condition.
I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine the exact nature of that support. God knows I have. Pretty much every day.
My house is in the total eclipse path, About 1 minute, 30 seconds.
Nice knowin’ ya
Stay inside a metal shed!
Is that why it’s dark outside. Damn, I’ve been drinking a loong time.
We are planning to fly down to the eclipse, (location depending on the weather that day). Hopkinsville KY, Clarksville TN, or further along in SC. Between a 3-4 hour flight.
Half of Detroit’s 8 mayoral candidates are felons
Only half?
The other half are just better at not getting caught.
Three were charged with gun crimes and two for assault with intent to commit murder – victimless crimes
If one wins, we can call him the Tefelon Don.
Yeah, but not to his face.
Hillary Clinton furiously seeks to hire Greg Bowens.
Analysis?
So googling the public records of someone is now considered analysis?
Detroit is giving Illinois a run for its money:
“a Detroit News analysis shows.”
When did basic reporting become “analysis”?
When idiot journalists wanted to seem smarter than they really are.
“Reporting” = reprinting a government news release.
“Analysis” = looking at more than one news release, asking a few questions of the usual suspects, and printing the lot.
Man Who Murdered Pregnant Jewish Girlfriend Threatened to ‘Kill All the Jews’ in Israel
That’s some serious self-loathing on her part.
Annoying guy – You’re a self-loathing Jew!
Larry David – Yeah, I hate myself but Judaism has nothing to do with it.
The subscription fees charged by academic publishers have risen so high in recent years that even wealthy American universities have said they can’t afford them. When Harvard Library reported its subscription costs had reached $3.5 million per year in a 2012 memo, for example, it said the fees were “fiscally unsustainable,” and the university asked its faculty to stop publishing research in journals that keep articles behind paywalls.
But regardless of where Harvard researchers have published their work since then, it’s likely that all of it is currently available for free on Sci-Hub, a rogue pirating service for academic research. According to a new study, Sci-Hub contains 68.9% of all academic research. More to the point: 85.2% of all papers originally published behind paywalls are available on the website for free.
https://qz.com/1040668/a-pirating-service-for-academic-journal-articles-could-bring-down-the-whole-establishment/
So piracy is cool when white academics do it, but when black Somalians do it, the all get a bullet in the head. If this isn’t institutionalized racism, I don’t know what is
Do Kazakhs count as white? In this day and age I am never sure …
When Harvard Library reported its subscription costs had reached $3.5 million per year in a 2012 memo, for example, it said the fees were “fiscally unsustainable”
Harvard has a 37.6 billion dollar endowment. Just sayin’.
Not to mention they have the prestige they could start their own academic journal if this were really a problem. Competition reduces prices, after all.
SHOCKING: Feminists have no sense of humor.
http://jezebel.com/dave-chappelle-is-still-telling-transphobic-jokes-acco-1797475330
TW: Jezebel
I laughed. I must be horrible.
So Dave Chappelle is still worth seeing.
His first Netflix Special (the one with the “4 times I met OJ” bit) might be my favorite standup show of all time.
Yeah, Chappelle still has it.
Eh, it’s just a riff on Eddie Izzard “transvestite brigade” set.
Reminds me of the classic Patrice O’Neal clip debating a feminist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZXtLsUAEUs
The greatest clip on a national news show ever. Patrice was the best.
Why is that white man writing such a racist blog post about a black man? What gives him such power over black bodies?
Another female teacher nabbed for having sex with a student.
http://www.richmond.com/news/local/crime/henrico-police-charge-freeman-high-school-teacher-with-having-sex/article_24c919d5-9a96-59fc-9fbc-12132e334783.html
I know its very wrong but I usually withhold judgment until I see pictures…
Or what sex the teacher and student are. One combo is just creepy.
Rape culture seems strong in high school teacher society.
We need to teach women not to rape.
Bearded guy in her Facebook profile’s in for a surprise.
Hah!!! Eat Shit Freeman! GODWIN RULES!!!
(no, not THAT Godwin, Mills S. Godwin HS, my old stomping grounds and Freeman’s archrival)
The long-awaited scene garnered lots of chatter on social media, namely that the whole laundry list of Daenerys’s titles is getting to be rather annoying, as is Daenerys herself, and about how refreshing it is that Jon Snow doesn’t concern himself with accolades. He’s the real deal.
Did no one else see what I saw?
Because I was watching the most obvious metaphor for sexism in the workplace, the most stereotypical man-versus-woman job interview in fake history.
Here’s this orphan girl, who spent the better part of her life being subjugated by men, toiling endlessly to rise up and do some good along the way (ahem, she freed a bunch of slaves). She’s now in a position of power, backed by a killer résumé. She’s a working mom with three unruly toddlers, she’s proud of her accomplishments, and she isn’t about to be all modest about it.
https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/1-annoying-thing-jon-daenerys-181703593.html
And here’s Jon Snow, a bastard with no birthright, yes, but a white man who apparently needs no introduction just the same.
And she’s becoming more and more like her father, the Mad King, which is the whole fucking point of all that.
Here is the scene. First 30 seconds of the clip. It’s hilarious if you’re familiar with the books/show. And Davos is my favorite character.
I don’t normally read YouTube comments, but this was gold:
“Oh, yeah, he’s King of The North”, excellent delivery.
Someone alludes to this in the show, and I totally agreed: Dany is kind of pants at making good decisions. All her strengths are accidents of birth or situation, namely the not catching on fire thing, the having dragons that listen to her thing, hell, even and especially her being in a position to get married off to Drogo to begin with. Whenever she makes a leadership decision, such as dealing with the slave issue, she fucks it up somehow, often by failing to consider the obvious repercussions of her choices. She acts like a spoiled brat who has never heard the word ‘no’. She’s a pretty good example of the concept of “privilege”, if we’re talking “social justice”.
In fact, very, very frequently, her bacon is pulled out of the fire by male subordinates with crushes on her. Make of that what you will, feminists.
Jon, on the other hand, is mostly a self-made man. He’s made bad, impetuous decisions, but he’s also showed tremendous leadership in times of stress and danger, and he’s shown a strong propensity for building unlikely alliances on the strength of his leadership qualities, e.g. bringing the Wildlings into the fold. Maybe most importantly, his motivation is the protection of everyone in Westeros from the Deadites (or Night Army, whatever) first, and then a loose feudal system primarily concerned with leaving each other alone, where Dany basically just wants to rule the world in order to enforce her personal sense of right and wrong, following a bit of revenge.
I’m very curious as to the provenance of those eggs and whether their gift to her was incidental or deliberate. I’m certain Varys had more in mind than just a wedding present when he had Illyrio hand them over.
Methane-Eating Bacteria Discovered Deep Beneath Antarctic Ice Sheet Could be Curbing Global Warming
I thought it was all trapped in the oceans.
Denialists!!
Wonder how they do in salt water? Or whether they can scavenge methane from clathrates.
I doubt they use clathrates since it takes more energy to remove the methane than is contained in the methane. But methanotrophs are all around us, largely in soils. Wiki:
Several companies are trying to engineer their genes to make useful products, i.e. drugs, nutraceuticals, feed, etc.
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.
Meh … I never go for this whole this generation that generation. Still I feel something is missing from kids who don’t go outside to do somewhat dangers stuff for no reason without adults.
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
Yes, following in the fine tradition of Mortal Kombat, VHS, Walkman, mini-skirts, rock’n’roll, automobiles, electricity, literacy…
Millennials, for instance, are a highly individualistic generation
By – broad brush alert – looking the same, acting the same, and having the same derpy political beliefs?
Related
“Fresh of the mountain with broken back”
Yeah I was gonna say it is pretty apparent that Individualism peaked with Gen X and has been on the decline ever since (one of the reasons Gen X is rarely mentioned anymore, we are so individualistic of a cohort that it is difficult to impossible to market to us en masse)
“Individualism” began increasing with the Boomers? “Self absorbed entitlement” might be a better way to state that.
I’m a Boomer and you are talking out your ass.
Boomer!
Oh, sure, but Snapchat bans my account when I send my Snapstreaks.
Ain’t no derp like Harderp
I’m a Female Minority at Harvard, and This is Why I Support PC Culture
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/7/28/veira-ramirez-pc-culture/
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The argument that silencing hateful speech would hurt me more because I wouldn’t be able to grow intellectually absolutely baffles me. Do you know what actually has a direct effect on a person’s ability to perform academically? Their mental health. Emotional well-being is the real prerequisite for intellectual growth. Having to listen to hateful slurs because people don’t listen to your calls to end the use of dehumanizing language is what tears it down bit by bit.
Opponents call for educated discussion by asking that all emotional attachment to the issues to be left out. We can’t be objective in issues that deal with our humanity. Anything we could possibly contribute on the topic would be inherently subjective. There is no way to disconnect the two. You can’t leave your identity at the door for what are thought of as purely intellectual discussions.
The disconnect here is that ideas and opinions cannot be held to the same caliber as their negative impact on human lives. I’m not sorry that you feel like you can’t freely express your prejudiced thoughts—not when you want to do so at the expense of another person’s existence.
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The continuing attempts to draw an equivalence between speech and genocide really ticks me off.
“The argument that silencing hateful speech would hurt me more because I wouldn’t be able to grow intellectually absolutely baffles me”
Well honestly, that was an attempt to appeal to you. But the real argument is: I can say what I want, so go f*** yourself
+1
“Emotional well-being is the real prerequisite for intellectual growth” -not necessarily
” expense of another person’s existence.”- bit melodramatic to be honest
Related (hint: she’s not a minority any more)
Wait I though Asian-Americans count as white for affirmative action purposes, or even worse.
These people keep forgetting that the idea that blacks or women should be considered equal to white or men was once considered horribly offensive blasphemy. The same goes for heliocentrism, evolution, etc.
Or maybe they haven’t forgotten, they just believe in burning bridges after they cross them.
Emotional well-being is the real prerequisite for intellectual growth. Having to listen to hateful slurs because people don’t listen to your calls to end the use of dehumanizing language is what tears it down bit by bit.
First sentence rated as True. Second sentence rated as Do You Speak English? People didn’t listen to me, so I went insane. I blame them.
Emotional well-being is the real prerequisite for intellectual growth.
I disagree (depending on what you mean by “emotional well-being”, which I doubt she can define as anything other than “I have good feelz all the time”). “Happy and well-adjusted” is not something you necessarily associate with high intelligence or ongoing growth. In fact, I suspect her definition of emotional well-being is indistinguishable from “complacency”, which is where growth goes to die.
She doesn’t want intellectual growth. She already knows what is right and good and true. She wants everyone to agree with her, which is the opposite of intellectual growth.
Hey lady: go fuck yourself.
I’m a female minority….. blah blah blah. Get over yourself and lighten up. Here have a look at my T-shirt
(I appreciated Straffin’s efforts on his Stay Woke shirt and wanted to get in on the action)
So somewhat related to my latest post …
Buyers of sex across Minnesota tend to be middle-class, married white men, and they live in all parts of the state.
In an effort to shed some light on the least understood part of the underground sex trade, University of Minnesota researchers for the first time have studied the demand for commercial sex in Minnesota and who the typical client is.
…
Researchers, who combed through court records and media reports and interviewed more than 150 experts statewide, found that most sex buyers in Minnesota seek quick and anonymous sex with young-looking girls or women.
http://www.startribune.com/first-ever-u-study-analyzes-the-patterns-of-sex-buyers-in-minnesota/437990303/
Amazing …
“For the U report, researchers studied state court records from 2010 to 2015, media coverage from 1995 to 2014 and online sex ads. They interviewed more than 150 law enforcement officers, prosecutors and social services workers in Minnesota and border cities in Wisconsin, North Dakota and South Dakota.”
So apparently no escorts were interviewed …
“Most buyers don’t distinguish between trafficked women or not, and some specifically seek out juveniles.”
While I am sure some seek juveniles, I wonder how they reached the first conclusion… Asking cops I assume
“Of about 30 arrests in Plymouth in the past two years, buyers included members of the military, truck drivers and prominent attorneys.”
Even truck drivers…
“There is no typical person who buys sex — it’s all across the board,” said Plymouth Sgt. Eric Fadden, who runs a special investigative unit that works stings with other west metro police. “It’s disturbing in my mind when they’re trying to solicit girls the same age as their daughter.”
Depends on their daughters age. If it is 25 meh…
Still smarting from the lack of support I got for stripping. Fine. *Gets out roll of ones and pops on Cherry Pie*
So using court records which is a proxy for buyers that are caught and weren’t able to get released prior to a paper record. Huh, I’m sure that extrapolates onto the entire sex industry just fine.
“Lesbian Couple in California Chemically Altering Their 11-year-old Boy For Sex-change Surgery
The mothers say that one of the first things Thomas told them when he learned sign language aged three – because of a speech impediment – was, ‘I am a girl’. At age seven, after threatening genital mutilation on himself, psychiatrists diagnosed Thomas with gender identity disorder. By the age of eight, he began transitioning. Then came the hormone-blocking drugs, which will stop him from experiencing puberty.”
http://joeforamerica.com/2017/07/lesbian-couple-in-california-chemically-altering-their-11-year-old-boy-for-sex-change-surgery/
Is joeforamerica a reputable source?
It’s a blog run by Joe The Plumber, so it’s not exactly neutral, but mostly just re-posts stuff from general news sites.
Here’s CNN on the same story
This kid is going to have some serious mommy issues.
Those idiots ought to be thrown in prison for the physical and psychological trauma they’re inflicting on this child.
In all seriousness, this is as bad as child rape.
I agree, but I think crafting a law is going to be difficult. Not only because of accusations of transphobia. But because there are also intersex conditions.
Aren’t there tests for those conditions? As in, a person that is a genuinely genetic intersex individual will have different genes than someone who is trans mentally?
Yes, there are. Although it gets complicated:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
There is also evidence that gender dysphoria also has biological basis (just like many other mental illnesses do). The issue here is that children’s brains are not fully developed, and children aren’t capable of deciding for irreversible treatments. And I disagree that getting some — possibly politically motivated — psychiatrist to sign off on it is far from sufficient justification.
Also, in many of these cases is seems as though the parents are pushing it on their kids. Which is just plain wrong.
In addition to genetic defects, there are also congenital and developmental defects that could make someone intersex.
From a biological/medical perspective, genes don’t determine gender, gonads do. The presence of testicular or ovarian tissue is much more important that the presence or absence of a Y chromosome.
One day she’ll (?) go all Menendez bros on the parents.
While Goodbye Horses plays in the background.
University writing center combats ‘racist … unjust language structures’
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/31387/
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Our Beliefs
The writing center works from several important beliefs that are crucial to helping writers write and succeed in a racist society. The racist conditions of our society are not simply a matter of bias or prejudice that some people hold. In fact, most racism, for instance, is not accomplished through intent. Racism is the normal condition of things. Racism is pervasive. It is in the systems, structures, rules, languages, expectations, and guidelines that make up our classes, school, and society. For example, linguistic and writing research has shown clearly for many decades that there is no inherent “standard” of English. Language is constantly changing. These two facts make it very difficult to justify placing people in hierarchies or restricting opportunities and privileges because of the way people communicate in particular versions of English.
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[head desk]
“For example, linguistic and writing research has shown clearly for many decades that there is no inherent “standard” of English. Language is constantly changing. These two facts make it very difficult to justify placing people in hierarchies or restricting opportunities and privileges because of the way people communicate in particular versions of English.”
“What’re y’all talkin ’bout.”
“Ugh, spoken like a stupid redneck. Stop talking, it’s giving me ear cancer. Why don’t you trust academia.
there is no inherent “standard” of English.
Just by referring to “English” as a distinct language, xe refutes xerself.
Is this English?
Ez dago inongo “estandar” ingelesez
No? Then I guess there is an inherent standard of English.
The mistake these rather dim people are making is saying that if there is no inherent standard that is immutable for all eternity, there is no inherent standard. Unfortunately for these intellectually and morally crippled poseurs, inherent standards can change over time, so the fact that the “standard” English of 200 years ago isn’t the standard English of today doesn’t mean there is no standard.
But that’s what they want: no standards, because they know, deep in their black little hearts, that standards aren’t something they are good at measuring up to.
Exactly.
Changing standards != No standards
It’s white nationalism week in the Trump administration
Blacks get a whole month. Gays get a whole month. Whites only get a week. Sad!
Hmm, that was a real title for a real article. My hyperbole detector has failed me.
Paul Waldman…why am I not surprised
So does that mean I should start tweeting and posting to Facebook with #WhitePride?
How the hell did I manage to miss the white nationalist campaign that Trump ran? Because I don’t remember seeing that happen at all.
Trump completely unhinged!!!!!
Save us Hillary, you’re our only hope!
It took Nixon to get us to China. It will take Trump to get us into a war with Russia.
The worst part is that this all is based on an absolute fantasy that was dreamed up to whitewash Clinton’s unmatched shittiness.
If you believe Seymour Hersch, it was dreamed up by John Brennen.
We need that big red reset button of hers again.
These euphemisms are becoming retch-inducing
How about a Big Red Rocket of Love?
+1 “ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba in overdrive.”
“Now the only little love that’s left is a loaded gun,” comes to mind when I read Pomp’s link.
Horton puts on a great show.
“Media Ditches Substance Of Wasserman Schultz FBI Boondoggle To Focus On Conspiracy Theories
Photo of Holmes Lybrand
There has been a good deal of noise — though perhaps not enough — surrounding a recently fired IT aide to Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Imran Awan, and his family’s potential financial schemes. While certain outlets are working out the facts of the case, The New York Times, BuzzFeed and Snopes seem more concerned with casting doubt by bringing up speculations and misinformation about the story from unknown blog sites and YouTubers.”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/28/media-ditches-substance-of-wasserman-schultz-fbi-boondoggle-to-focus-on-conspiracy-theories/
I trust mafia hitmen more than I trust those three organizations.
That’s exactly what they’re doing. They know nobody on their team is going to actually RTFA, but will see that something was debunked. Nevermind that the main story is based on provable facts that paint a nasty picture of corruption and cover up.
I would expect nothing less from the party’s own propaganda arm.
Donald Trump announces new immigration policy favouring financially stable English speakers
A shame I don’t look at the old site anymore, I suppose Dalmia has all but exploded on this one.
No doubt. It is a policy right out of those racist play books held by the Canadians, Aussies, Kiwis and all other bigoted nations on the planet. I am sure she will have an epic melt down.
She was already desperately attacking the Canadian system in the dumbest ways possible for months, probably hoping to discredit it. I can’t wait for the “OMG THIS IS JUST LIKE SLAVERYYYYYYYYY” rants.
Not really in practice. The skill-point immigrants are under 50% of all the immigrants Canada admits yearly (I had a table for past decade and a bit, there was one year they were over 50% and one where they were exactly 50%), and family-reunification usually beats them. Refugees tend to be a small percentage, probably will be larger when 2016 numbers come in.
The reduction in number does make me question “have no problem with legal immigration” narrative – unless they do the “each deportation adds +1 space for the year”, but they don’t Kek hard enough for that.
Oh no the Dems won’t be able to import hordes of illiterate third worlders to suckle on the sweet, sweet dugs of government any longer?!
Oh noez!1!1!
At a high level, that sounds like a good direction to move immigration policy.
Confident prediction: the Repubs kill it in Congress.
prediction
Yep.
Lindsey Graham is already against it, so we can assume that Flake and McCain will join him as well. This is one of those things that I don’t agree with Trump on, anyways: I think that the greatest deterrent to illegal immigration is legal immigration, and I think that cracking down on illegals while opening up the legals is the best way to go.
But why wouldn’t we favor people who can speak English, as that will make it easier to assimilate, and who are financially stable and have the skills to contribute to the nation rather than add to the welfare entitlement burden?
Shouldn’t the answer then be “cut welfare!” rather than slow immigration? Having high levels of legal immigrants and a small welfare state should be the way to go.
Shouldn’t the answer then be “cut welfare!” rather than slow immigration?
And which is more easily achieved? I reject the idea that we can’t control immigration by unskilled people likely to add to the entitlement burden, because in theory the entitlement burden shouldn’t exist. We have to address the world as it is, not as we would wish it to be.
Shouldn’t the answer then be “cut welfare!” rather than slow immigration?
Why not both?
The real question for immigration policy is “what kind and levels of immigration are best for the US and US citizens?”
Its entirely possible that the answer is “less immigration in total”. Or, it might be “more immigration in total, of higher-functioning people”. Or it might even be “Lots more immigration of everybody who wants to come to the US.” But most of the discussion about immigration doesn’t even address the real question.
There’s two issues here:
(1) How many? and
(2) What kind?
I like the general approach to “what kind” – skilled English speakers. I’m not even opposed to damping down on “how many” for awhile, because we need to reset how we get people to assimilate. I don’t want populations of [other nationality X] living in America. I want populations of [immigrants from nation X] becoming Americans.
I suspect that if Our Betters start feeling serious economic heat from immigration by their peers, they will have a different tune to sing on “How many”.
In many ways, though, I think that these healthcare and immigration bills are a good thing even when they are not passed, because it gets people on the record and outs the shitty Senate establishment.
The fact that this is even mildly controversial illustrates just how insane the left has become.
HUMANS ARENT ILLEGAL!!1
STEVE SMITH ONLY AN UNDOCUMENTED BOYFRIEND!
The fact that this will not pass Congress illustrates why I sometimes doubt whether a pyramid of 535 skulls on the National Mall (I’m thinking, right in front of Congress) would be a bad thing.
I think having our woodchippers planted at some of the bureaucratic offices is perhaps more productive.
They aren’t insane.
They really want a population permanently on welfare. An immigration policy that is designed to only allow people who are capable of supporting themselves and are likely to do it in short order makes that much more difficult.
Moreover, people who are functioning in a broader society are much less likely to make their political choices solely based on identity politics.
I really think it’s disgusting – they want to be feudal nobility – and insist on creating a peasant caste that they rule over to get there.
Leftists are cronyists at heart, so third-world immigration is in many ways a convenient mechanism that they can use to both virtue signal their “inclusivity” and further their demographic “destiny” / intersectionality agenda.
Exactly, it’s not surprising that the party of government dependency wants to increase the numbers of government dependents who will vote for them.
D candidate Northam doesn’t understand what “who has two thumbs” means.
Neither do the replies it seems
Listen, maybe he doesn’t have thumbs. Don’t be an ableist.
ha! what a dumbass.
Don’t know if this was covered but apparently people who are better at pattern matching match patterns
How Intelligence Leads to Stereotyping
A new study complicates the trope of the stupid bigot.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/07/intelligent-people-are-more-likely-to-stereotype/535158/
What a bunch of bullshit. They’re performing that experiment in a vacuum of information when in real life, there are a multitude of factors to consider.
I’ve always thought there was a fine line between paranoia and intelligence.
I think with a combination of high intelligence (to identify risks and threats) and imagination (to heighten the perception of risks and threats), paranoia is almost inevitable.
*triple checks tinfoil on windows, returns to designing whole-house Faraday Cage*
So people who believe themselves immune to a characteristic seemingly innate in human nature for 5,000 years of recorded history and believe anyone who doesn’t think like them is retarded might actually be demonstrating that very characteristic? Really gets my noggin joggin’.
A new study complicates the trope of the stupid bigot.
It strikes me as funny that such a stereotype of racists being unintelligent was able to take hold. It’s like these people just forgot about Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, two very racist, very advanced civilizations. To say nothing of all the other contrary examples history provides.
Wishful thinking with the assistance of Hollywood. Which, ironically, proves that some stereotypes are fabricated.
He went to ICE to tell agents he had gotten into college. Now he and his brother have been deported.
When I immigrate illegally to the US I fully expect you people to hide me in basements if need be. It will be easier via Canada so I will need someone to smuggle me across the Canadian border, I think during winter at night is the best time.
P Brooks is in Montana. Winter at night in Montana should work out well.
It’d be easy in my area. Just walk right across at night. But winter at night is not good. Besides the cold, any little bit of light carries for miles across the snow. On full moonlit nights you can even drive without headlights on.
Fine summer at noon then. I’ll go price flights to Canada
I’ll be sure the grill is fired up and the beer is on ice. For a new American I think hotdogs, potato chips, and Budweiser will be a fine welcome.
Depends. How many Gypsy Orphans are you willing to offer?
Suddenly liberals think that star athletes deserve special treatment.
Special treatment and liberals always go hand in hand
How can an effort to renew a stay be “repeatedly” denied?
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9528
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Two professors are calling for a “redistribution of opportunities” in favor of “faculty who hold minoritized identities.”
Claiming in a recent academic journal article that “white cisgender heterosexual men…construct the dominant culture” in academia, they contend that faculty with “multiple minoritized identities” are subjugated to “third world” status.
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“minoritized identities”?!
English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?!
I can’t believe I have to quote your own post at you but you leave me no choice
” For example, linguistic and writing research has shown clearly for many decades that there is no inherent “standard” of English. Language is constantly changing. These two facts make it very difficult to justify placing people in hierarchies or restricting opportunities and privileges because of the way people communicate in particular versions of English.”
Sweet. When they issue the new rulebook, I’ll just check for the identity at the top of the stack and minoritize myself for maximum privilege.
I’m sure they’ll be more than comfortable deciding who can and cannot identify a certain way.
OMG A VIDEO GAME ABOUT HOW HARD IT IS TO BE A MILLENNIAL
The fawning over this game is hilarious. From what I’ve seen of play throughs, it’s little more than the typical screeds of 20 somethings (or their emotional equivalent) who didn’t find out life isn’t all sunshine and rainbows until they were well into adulthood. Casting middle class white people who willing took on tons of debt, refuse to work jobs that could alleviate their financial burden, and instead spend most of their time exaggerating their plight and inflating the challenges they face as heroes is just so perfect
Typical comments range from: “This is *so* my life. Wow. Heartbreaking.” to “This isn’t an easy game to play, but it’s an IMPORTANT game to play.”
Well, if you can get your teenager to play it and realize that a $250K degree in grievance studies ain’t worth it, then I agree that it’s important.
True. I think it will, of course, do the opposite and make these idiots further blame “the capitalist machine” that they just can’t escape.
I think I’ve mentioned this before, but the idea that bleak/nihilistic = real and characters with tremendous depth and layers are always better has virtually ruined most fiction. Look at this tripe, for instance. The only people who this resonates with are young, white, urban, middle class neurotics yet they are determined to pretend this is the universal plight of all Americans or some shit.
Grow up and get your head out of your ass.
“the capitalist machine” that they just can’t escape.
A glance at Scruffy’s avatar will show them just how to escape the machine.
Reality Bites did it better
For a future donation drive, can we get a “Let’s Play” marathon of this thing with SF, HM and OMWC, please? They play while the money is pouring in and aren’t allowed to stop, but can drink and say whatever.
Transgender and 7 years old, a strong voice against Texas’ bathroom bill
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/03/health/trans-youth-texas-bathroom-bill/index.html
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(CNN)One of the most eloquent opponents of Texas’ proposed gender bathroom law began identifying as a girl four years ago, when she was age 3.
It was at that age Frank and Rachel Gonzales started to realize their child, Libby, wasn’t living the life she was born to live.
It wasn’t always clear to them how best to support their first born. While on a family trip to California, Rachel took Libby — then still called by her birth name — to the toy store. It was there that things “came to a boil.”
“I said, ‘You can pick out anything from the gift store,’” Rachel recalled. Libby pointed at a fairy costume with a pink skirt and wings. “This is what I want.”
Long before that moment, the Gonzales’ say they saw the “early signs” their child was not her “authentic self.” There were times when they thought maybe their child was gay. It wasn’t until around the age of 4 or 5 when their child began to verbalize more to them who she really was, that they accepted it too. Their child was transgender.
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[head desk]
Eloquent = kid everyone is afraid to challenge for fear of being called mean.
“Libby’s parents say her transition has been in appearance, clothing and behavior only. There has been no medical intervention in her life so far.”
Well, that’s good.
And I will consider them bad parents if they allow any medical side things before the kid reaches adulthood. Sorry, but I do not support parents making completely life changing medical decisions that are entirely optional to the child’s well being.
“WORLD’S YOUNGEST TRANS KID (WTF?)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkcveiCnN44
From the implied timeline of the story this was before the kid was 4 or 5…
Can we revoke their parental license with that statement?
Well, they might not be wrong. I’ve ready that preliminary studies of gender-dysphoric kids show that while most kids who question their gender will grow out of the disorder, a large portion (much higher than the general populace) of such kids will be gay as adults.
To say a kid has a true and understood sexual preference (without being taught) is a very big stretch I think. We as adults see the behavior of a kids and apply what we see as sexual to it.
Well, I’ll give them this much: I fully believe that the most eloquent proponent of trans rights is a 7 year old.
Reading through the comments, it has occurred to me that there might be a huge market for a 21st century version of the B F Skinner baby box.
It would, of course, need to be resized to accommodate babies well into their twenties.
So last night right and left came together to make fun of Laura Loomer, who I’d never heard of before but apparently is someone in right-wing media, who complained that her tires were slashed, then posted a picture.
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/892839367550672896
Jesus H, if they were slashed (they weren’t), whoever did it did the woman a favor. Those tires are dry rotted so terribly I’m stunned they didn’t just fall apart at 70 MPH on the highway.
*looks at pic*
I wonder when she last changed the oil in the car, or even checked it.
Reminds me of the guy who sold his Tesla because the back tires were bald (he had summer tires and it was winter in Utah). Yep, sold the car because the tires were bad.
This woman has some nice tits, but she’s lucky she’s not dead
It’s easy to see that there is no tread on those tired at all. Good god, woman, get thee to a Firestone!
The one time I borrowed my then-girlfriends VW Rabbit – in winter time – I thought I was going to die. I had never seen such a bald tire in my life. It was like driving around in drag slicks.
That sounds exciting!
So maybe the problem isn’t that women can’t drive, but that they are incapable of maintaining a safe vehicle?
My mom has aluminum rims on her Camry. My parents live in a community with gravel roads. Said gravel dust reacts with the aluminum in such a way that tire pressure continually falls in her tires. Of course, she freaks the hell out when the TPMS says low pressure, so luckily my dad has the means and bought both an air compressor and a storage cylinder (which only weighs 10 lbs, and holds some 200 psi for over a month).
I lol’d at the picture with that guys reply.
That’s gold!
I think this one’s even better.
Usually I had twitter, but that whole thread made me very happy inside.
Plenty of stupid to be found in that thread.
If I had Racism Simulator installed, I might mistake this for an frogman memelord.
Affirming horseshoe theory day by day.
The only people who can do that, and even then it’s not a total certainty (just 99.9%) that they’ll get away with it, are cops.
The gender neutral pronoun in Swedish is “hen”. In Japanese 変 or “hen” means “strange, crazy or creepy”. I love it when shit like that happens.
That fits pretty well with the British concept of hen too.
And this just attained clear and crystalline form in my puny little brain: PUBLIC TOILET NOT SAME AS SOCIAL CLUB.
Why in the everloving fuck would people devote so much time to worrying about who shits where? Do people really socialize in public toilets? I have never observed this phenomenon. You go in, you dump the contents of your bladder and leave. Who cares if the person stinking up the joint pictures himself as Judy Garland or Ming the Merciless?
who complained that her tires were slashed, then posted a picture.
Guess what, you ignorant bint. That is a photo of a tire which has been run with no air in it. Maybe your mommy should buy you a tire pressure gauge for Christmas.
Laura Loomer, who I’d never heard
Based on her photo, I’d guess her to be the intellectual equal of Senator Sorority Girl (D, NY).
German scientists completely upset the global warming apple cart by finding that temperatures vary periodically! Amazing and unexpected!
IFLS!!!
“most strongly in the ~190 – year period being known as the De Vries/Suess cycle.”
Piter DeVries and Dr. Seuss have been meddling with the climate?!?!?! Wheels within wheels indeed!
You know who else relied on German scientists to set social policy for the nation?
The American Economic Association.
So remember all the bullshit leaked about the Aussie and Mexican phone calls when Trump 7 months ago?
First off this is hilarious, nothing too ridiculous in here its just exactly like what I imagined a phone conversation with Trump. Which is hilarious.
Also does anybody recall any time something like this happening ever while a President was serving in office? I mean I despise the office and Gov. in general but I’m almost certain I wouldn’t publish something like this while the guy/gal was in office. It’s just mundane conversation for the most part nothing really over the top but it basically gurantees no foreign gov. will ever have a conversation with us for the rest of his term.
This is part of the slow-motion coup. They are crippling and destroying Trump’s ability to do the job. I love how the leaks are always called “White House” or “administration” leaks, when we all know these are “civil service” leaks by lifers, not by Trump appointees (with the possible exception of fired establishment mole Priebus).
It was absolutely amazing (sarcasm alert) how many leaks stopped once Obama became president. But leaking has certainly been ramped up to an all new level.
Hell, if I were Trump, it’d be completely random decimation time, each month, until the leaks stopped. Firing 10% of the Federal workforce a month for a few months would also result in some large budget reductions too, especially if they’re the higher paid admins in D.C.
Does the president have the authority to do that, or does he need approval by Congress?
Interesting question. Civil service, so probably can’t. But I recall seeing somewhere that he can put people on leave at $1/year.
The bureaucracy and the Senate are the real swamp strongholds because of the lifers and the seniority. The House has a lot of young Reps that want to push Trump’s agenda, so they’ve been much more open to him and passing decent bills sometimes.
Here you go Vhyrus. I figured you have probably seen this already, but for everyone else the ammosexuals at Kel-Tec extended the KSG to hold 24+1 rounds of 12ga.
In case you need to get into a fight with Decepticons or you take issue with Canadian Geese nesting in your pool every winter.
Blast off 7 shots, shout “reloading” and then blast people when they try to move to different cover?
You’d have to hope to get a KSG that works. Supposedly there is one of those in the wild, but I doubt that it’s for sale.
Clean, I would examine the lovely ruin between my legs for any permanent damage. It is all permanent damage.
I see SF took the critiques about going soft in stride.
I went a little soft when I read it.
Claiming in a recent academic journal article that “white cisgender heterosexual men…construct the dominant culture” in academia, they contend that faculty with “multiple minoritized identities” are subjugated to “third world” status.
“Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn’t have to produce anything! You’ve never been out of college! You don’t know what it’s like out there! I’ve worked in the private sector. They expect results.”
If only Ghostbusters 2016 had lines like that and a dickless EPA stooge as a secondary villain.
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.dailycaller.com/2017/07/31/australia-weather-bureau-caught-tampering-with-climate-numbers/
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
If already covered, apologies. I don’t have time to read ALL youz guyz posts.
ALL youz guyz
troubling on so many levels.
hadn’t seen it yet.
When can people start admitting its all a sham?
Private Bahama cay with Nazi castle up for grabs at a mere $39 million. Strange, you’d think real estate that’s due to be underwater in a century would be discounted.
Maybe they are counting on this: “The highest elevation is approx. 80 ft. which is exceptionally high for the Bahamas.”
I like it. It screams Jaws 3. And David Copperfield is your neighbor. You know that guy’s into some awesomely weird shit.
Put an orphan farm there and charter hunting expeditions.
Dave Chappelle Is Still Telling Transphobic Jokes, According to Report
Amazing. A comedian joking about current events! The gall!!!
Profanity discovered to be funnier than sanctimony; news at eleven.
Browning and Taurus join Walther, DPMS, Marlin/Remington, S&W, Savage in the Summer of Gun Inventory Glut 2017.
Browning now offering $100 on any shotgun or rifle not an x-bolt.
Taurus offering $50 on The Judge and $40 on their model 85 revolver. Making room for futuristic conceal carry lineup. https://www.taurusspectrum.com/ Sleek.
I figure Vhyrus will discuss the implications of Ruger’s Q2 filing tomorrow evening.
Does that tiny gun came with a matching purse?
/Conway Stern
Exactly. They appear to be targeting the growing female market with that one.
$100 of an A5 Stalker wouldn’t be bad…
Oh, and speaking of inventory glut, anyone want a nice AR, ready to go out-of-the-box?
http://www.tombstonetactical.com/catalog/colt/le6920-r-trooper-m4-5-56-30rd-centurion-arms-m-loc-free-float-rail-black-carbine-rifle/
“Second if a group is able to get a large enough combination of people and money voting one way isn’t that actually telling us something important about not just how the people feel about the issue but how strongly they feel it.”
aka Put Your Money Where Your Vote Is