OT – If I wanted to load a gyrojet round into a shotgun shell and fit the shot cup with a firing pin, what would be a good way to prevent the pin from striking the primer before the round was fired but allow it to trigger as the shotgun itself is discharged?
Vhyrus
Before I answer, how are you going to keep the round from bouncing around inside the massively oversize shotgun barrel like a ping pong ball?
Also, where in the blue fuck are you getting gyrojet rounds?
The gyrojet engine would be embedded in a bore-fitting collar behind the main payload. I write fiction which includes insane engineers. They can make gyrojets, they’re not mechancially complicated.
Vhyrus
So, even in fiction where it’s completely bullshit made up you have to explain your physics? Oh well in that case just put a couple pieces of dilithium in the shot cup and it should work great.
There are two categories of components – things where I ask the reader to suspend disbelief, and those where it’s realistic enough that they don’t have to, making the moments of suspension easier.
This sounds like a question for Dr Seuss. But I don’t think even he could make this contraption.
Timeloose
You could mount 1 or more gyrojet rouns on the shot cup. Put a fuse in the backside of the gyro jet round(s) that protrude through the small holes in the cup to the powder charge. So the powder charge lights the fuse of the gyro as it starts to push out the rounds and shot. The round would light off some time after the shotshell primer is ignited.
Timeloose
Fireworks style
Holger-da-Dane
If your engineers have the resources to make gyrojet rounds, why do you need regular shot gun ammo to ignite it?
Holger-da-Dane
I guess to cycle the action if your shotgun is semi auto.
If not, just make a round with a normal primer and the jet nozzles facing the bolt in a thin sleeve with a rim. Fire, pump to get the sleeve out, cycle a new round in.
The initial charge is to overcome the low muzzle velocity problem with gyrojets. The first part of the flight is classic ballistics with the rocket providing increased range.
Holger-da-Dane
You definitely need a rim to feed and eject in a conventional shotgun, so the round has to have two parts. How about a two stage burn built into the round? Conventional primer that ignites smokeless powder in the jet nozzles, which then ignites the solid fuel?
Holger-da-Dane
instead of s shotgun shell hull, have the entire thing eject out of the brass cup, and only eject that part?
Holger-da-Dane
Make it a kind of sloppy fit in the barrel, maybe with a soft’ish polymer coating that also acts as a lubricant. I bet it could get it up to velocity and let the jet take over. It could also be rifled as a slug to start the rotation.
Holger-da-Dane
If you’re concerned the powder and pressure isn’t enough to start the second burn, add something in between. I dunno, a thin layer of magnesium?
Bobarian LMD
A 40mm grenade round is armed after leaving the barrel by the spin of the round. Which would require you to use a rifled barrel.
Another method would be a delay using chemical process. A very fast delay fuse.
LT_Fish
Yes….like launching a missile from a sub or a torpedo from a ship-mounted launcher. High-pressure compressed air gets the round moving to a safe distance before ignition, etc.
As far as design, I’d take the pistol round and just scale up – 12ga diameter/fitted round – not a shot shell.
Vhyrus
Off the top of my head if you stuck some match sticks into the cup and put a very thin piece of plastic on top of them it should be strong enough to withstand normal handling but snap once the primer goes off. At least in my head it would work.
My thought was plastic crush fins that would deform when the shot was fired, but I wasn’t sure if they could hit that sweet spot of strong enough for safety but not so strong that it would impede the actual operation.
Vhyrus
If it’s fiction they can do whatever the fuck you want them to.
There’s a magnetic field that keeps them separated. It is strong enough to hold the round off the pin but the impulse of the primer overcomes it and allows the round to fire.
I was thinking of a brass combustion chamber because one of the earlier iterations was repurposing a spent shell casing (say a .50AE casing) embedded into a lead slug which would fit it to the bore. But there have been so many mental iterations that I don’t know if it even needs to be brass.
Vhyrus
50 bmg actually fits mostly unmodified into a 12 gauge.
Make the Gyrojet round electrically initiated. The shotgun firing pin strikes a piezo crystal in the primer cup, which ignites the rocket.
Bobarian LMD
The piezo-electric solution is great for instantaneous ignition, but I don’t think that is what he wants?
Suthenboy
Oh, geez. ok, I see. Fiction.
I was about to give some gentle advice along the lines of UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES TRY THAT SHIT.
Fiction…fine. If they are making their own gyro jets then they can simply construct them with the priming on the front end so that the round is activated on contact with the target.
When I was a young dumbass I fitted some .45ACP hollow points with shotgun primers inserted into the nose of the bullet. It actually worked pretty well.
How is it that everyone including little children can be around animals without pissing their pants but a cop sees an animal and has to open fire. What a bunch of pussies.
antisthenes
No, the facade of pussydom is just a pretense to excuse willful capricidal aggression. Kind of like the intersectionalists — Episiarch had their number early on when he observed that equating speech with violence was never about being overdramatic to get sympathy, but instead about preemptively justifying the use of brutal violence against nonviolent dissent.
AlmightyJB
I think the latter groups like antifa are biting off more than they can chew. It’s only a matter of time before that goes very bad for them.
Chafed
What Almighty JB said. The cop could have waited for the farmer to show up. No one was in mortal danger.
Playa Manhattan
$1200 goat? The Bunny Ranch is far cheaper.
Stinky Wizzleteats
You keep this up and that family friendly certification is gonna be out the fuckin window.
Are you butt chugging that porter to keep with this posts topic?
DEG
Sadly, no. I’m not that interesting.
Gilmore
I.N. Love, MD? really?
Vhyrus
I noticed that as well.
Vhyrus
He’s probably Irish. He had to change his name from McLovin in order to get his license.
juris imprudent
That is Doctor Love to you.
Gilmore
OT
So i was reading about the soul group, The Dramatics (best known for this very-excellent groover)
i was struck by this little detail:
Their members at this time were Ron Banks (who died of a heart attack on March 4, 2010, at the age of 58),[2] William “Wee Gee” Howard (who died of a heart attack on February 22, 2000, at the age of 49), Elbert Wilkins (who died of a heart attack on December 13, 1992, at the age of 45)….and keyboardist James Mack Brown (who died on November 28, 2008, at the age of 58).
too much Drama?
and by Drama, i mean, “crack cocaine”
Vhyrus
I hear that massive amounts of vagina can be fatal.
Gilmore
crack/vagina interactions are definitely likely sources of elevated risk.
Was Soul Train on Saturday nights? I remember watching it, but damned if I can remember when it was on. I do remember realizing I could never dance like that at a very young age.
Gilmore
couldn’t tell you. I know i saw it on TV myself as a kid in the 70s and i think up until the mid1980s. i think it was broadcast at different times of day in different markets. i was not a frequent tv watcher but Saturday afternoons i would watch kung fun movies, godzilla movies, then soul train on either channel 9 or 11. I think one of those channels (whichever became the WB network) stayed “the black channel” in NY for many years.
Timeloose
I remember it being after American bandstand on Sat early afternoon.
Gilmore
that sounds right. i think kasey kasem also did some top-40 countdown on saturdays… so it was like a nonstop music-absorption day for me, no matter where i was.
Playa Manhattan
Dude in the blue suit needs some dancing lessons.
Gilmore
damn, tough crowd
they were originally from detroit and were on motown briefly and other local labels… they came from that era of Temptations/Spinners/Miracles/Four Tops etc. male singing+dancing groups… you’d think they’d have had their whole routine together? I think the lipsyncing fucked them up terribly.
Playa Manhattan
When I do things professionally, I do them well.
Everything else, half-assed.
I guess that guy had a side job that took up too much time, and he never quite had a chance to learn how to twirl his arms.
Everyone can hear music, but not everyone can feel it.
Gilmore
you are basically describing the core obstacle of the working DJ
its a fun problem to try and solve
Chipwooder
I recognize them because they were in the video for Doggy Dogg World, which was by far Snoop’s best video. Had a bunch of random ’70s blaxploitation stars in it – Rerun from What’s Happening, Fred “the Hammer” Williamson, Ron O’Neal from SuperFly, Huggy Bear, Dolomite, Pam Grier.
Gilmore
I recognize them because they were in the video for Doggy Dogg World
I made the mistake of watching that movie (Dig!) before i really ever listened to BJM. Now i’m screwed.
its a good tune. speaking of neo-psychedelia, i’ve been listening to King Gizard and the Lizard Wizard this week. They seem to have doubled down on both the neo and the psych parts.
BakedPenguin
I don’t know if they were that hard rock before (new band for me), but that’s not something I’ll complain about. I liked how they looped the vid so anyone in a… uh, kaleidoscopic state could watch their visuals for a long time.
AlmightyJB
Fun
AlmightyJB
Nice
DenverJ
Vaginas are for eatin’, not feedin’.
Alternate: I’ll feed your vagina.
Alternate alternate: you like Polish sausage?
MikeS
Don’t enact my labia!
MikeS
For clarification, I do not have labia.
I also do not have foreskin (anymore).
*takes another drink
AlmightyJB
Well you know you can get either of those things now.
I don’t think it’s only fear of Self-Responsibility that leads to that desire for government mommy and daddy. I think there are people who believe that is governments role to help the less fortunate like people with severe disabilities. If that’s all government did, of course we would be better off, but if government wasn’t pissing away so much of our wealth their would be plenty of money for charities to perform those functions instead.
Gilmore
I read them (FEE) far more often than Cato or Mises or…. anyone else really. Don’t know why. Just that they seem to write timely articles with an interesting hook… and i think the format of their website actually helps. something about the others is just less easy on the eyes
AlmightyJB
Yeah I like their site format better as well. I pulled a pdf off Cato last night about overseas bases. Didn’t have a chance to read today. I’ll be interested to see what they have to say about it. I’m not opposed to foward bases if someone can show me they are necessary for or greatly enhance national security. However, given how quickly we can deploy troops and equipment I’d be skeptical of such claims.
Lackadaisical
They do good work. Got a bunch of books from them for next to nothing.
BakedPenguin
Thirded. FEE is excellent.
commodious spittoon
My SIL may as well be the poster woman for Google dude’s memo. I have water and turds backing up into my bathroom because our sewer line is a clogged travesty. I’m trying to sop as much of it up with towels while it’s draining into my bedroom and soaking into the carpet. My brother/landlord is trying to find his toilet snake to unclog the line, and SIL insists, to the point of telling off my brother, that she knows where it is.
Five minutes into looking she dumps a couple hinges onto her bare foot and screams bloody murder like she’s been gored. Nah; she just had a couple steel hinges dump onto her foot. And now she’s in the living room crying for God knows whose benefit about her bruised foot and consoling her witless self like it’s her bedroom that’s filling up with reek. Worse than useless. Goddamn, woman. Collect yourself.
Vhyrus
I would give anything for a woman with even a hint of combat prowess. I knocked the valve off the toilet inlet once and water spewed in like a fucking flood. I immediately grab anything I can find to try to slow the water while screaming for help from my gf. She comes in and almost dies laughing watching me try to stop this water while our house literally fills up from the inside. FFS.
BakedPenguin
Wow. If you give Hannukah gifts, give her a $10 toilet valve. “This is what I think of when I think of you.”
Playa Manhattan
How did she “dump a couple hinges onto her bare foot”?
commodious spittoon
She knocked them off the shelf in the utility room while she was rooting around where she insisted the snake was stored. It wasn’t.
DenverJ
My ex SIL threw away my snake because it was “rusty”.
commodious spittoon
-_-
I suppose my remarks tonight might be construed as misogynistic. They weren’t meant to be. Rather, they’re my unhappy reaction to the sort of pussies of either gender who cannot cope with exigencies, and who end up making matters worse. I’m open about my anxieties and existential quandaries, but AT LEAST I KNOW HOW TO BE USEFUL WHEN THE PIPES ARE BACKING UP.
Timeloose
I can’t fault my wife, she is solid in a crisis. While I was in China she visited my parents house and found my Grandmother after having a stroke. She called the ambulance, my parents, and then proceeded to clean up the bodily fluids while my sisters freaked out about the situation. I have no concerns she can take care of me and mine if shit goes sideways.
She essentially saved her life and cleaned up.
Playa Manhattan
Get that woman some flowers and a (steak if she likes it) dinner.
DenverJ
That’s a keeper
Timeloose
She got a new kitchen instead. No chance I’m letting this one go.
R C Dean
Well played. I did the same thing last year.
Playa Manhattan
Yeah, but hinges?
Could your door fall off the frame at any moment???
commodious spittoon
We’re in the construction business. My brother snaps things up from demo sites when the fancy strikes him. In my SIL’s defense, the utility room is not organized. But she insisted.
Some even beyond that. If some chick is in her late 30’s and should not be taking duck face selfies every 5 damn minutes.
Playa Manhattan
“Views my own”
But not really.
Pomp
I like turtles!
AlmightyJB
As pets or as food?
Pomp
Yes.
AlmightyJB
Efficient
Gilmore
I am told turtle soup is one of the delicious things mankind has ever stumbled upon
but damned if i’ve ever seen it on the menu anywhere. and, while i have absolutely no problems throwing lobsters into pots of boiling water, or ripping whole crabs limb from limb and chewing the meat of their joints and scooping their guts out with my fingers…. i find the idea of personally dispatching turtles? sort of unpleasant. too many cartoons where turtles were nice kindly old people i think. I just feel icky about it.
But that doesn’t even really make sense, since i’ve killed and eaten rabbits a dozen times, and they’re cutesy kid animals. (shrug) Can’t explain it.
commodious spittoon
You know what else is kindly and often the dispenser of wisdom or the humble gifts of their own bodies?
I didn’t eat tonight. After all the excitement I’m not really in the mood for food. Which is just as well because there’s no need to ruin a good buzz. So I’ll fill my food hole with scotch instead.
Playa Manhattan
It’s not the excitement.
It’s called alcohol calorie replacement.
commodious spittoon
So… if I keep drinking, I’ll never have to eat again. Is that how it works?
Playa Manhattan
Uh…. sort of.
Ethanol is 7 calories per gram. Your liver goes after it first, all other sources of calories come second.
If you drink enough, you’ll eventually die of malnutrition.
If you’re an “evening drinker” and you find yourself routinely skipping dinner, it’s probably time to cut down.
commodious spittoon
All I’m hearing is guilt-free drinking.
DenverJ
I call it the “Denver Diet” and am releasing a book soon
Wife and I were stopped while driving across some range by a bunch of cows on the road. They apparently mistook our pickup for the pickup that fed them and just stood in front of us, waiting for the usual. My comment to the wife was – this is why we eat cows, because they are so gaddum stupid.
commodious spittoon
Thank you for a hearty chuckle. I love cows. I love the look of them. I love how stupid they are. I love what it signifies that we have cultivated these massive beasts of burden for the express purpose of delivering cheap and delicious protein to our plates. Whenever I read about slaughterhouses and all the disgusting details, I’m not turned off eating beef. I think: what the fuck do you expect of a bunch of carnivores who can, when madness or necessity overcomes them, subsist as herbivores? WE SLAUGHTER ANIMALS FOR MEAT. You think zebras or gazelles caught by lions of the Serengeti are treated to a clean kill and a prayer for their immortal spirits before the feast begins? No, they’re eaten alive, their entrails pulled out of their stomachs by their killers while they gasp their last few mortal breaths. So save me the squeamishness about our slaughterhouses and whether they’re humane. They’re not built for humans. They’re built for our prey.
Playa Manhattan
Cows are magic. They turn grass into beef. Well… corn in America. That’s even more magic.
AlmightyJB
Turtles and Owls are supposed to be wise. Maybe that’s it.
Gilmore
I think that turtles have a strangely anthropomorphic quality… ‘more human’ than other animals. their look and their behavior is just too recognizably similar. fluffynuts the rabbit is just a dumb (if cute) ball of fur. (and tasty! if prepared by the french) But the turtle is sorta too… well he seems less-stupid, to your point… and he seems like he’s very happy being alive (“see the shell, youngun? its there for a reason! shit is rough out here”) and really doesn’t need the agita of your soup recipe.
You mean like French fries? Because fried rabbit is delicious, just be careful of the shot. I almost broke a tooth once.
Gilmore
every time i’ve been in a french restaurant i order things like quail and rabbit just to see WTF they’ll do w/ it. I have been pleasantly surprised on many occasions. the last time it was something like this
I had the prosciutto-wrapped saddle-of-rabbit @ the Union Sq Cafe …a while ago. 8 years? anyway. I had rabbit stew more recently and it was still good.
EvilSheldon
Owls are *amazingly* stupid.
Gilmore
not if you’re a mouse/vole/small ground mammal
SugarFree
I’ve have turtle soup twice. Meh. I mean, not bad, just not delicious. Slightly fishy stew.
Lackadaisical
too many cartoons where turtles were nice kindly old people i think.
Just imagine it is Mitch McConnell instead.
juris imprudent
You only need him to kill it, not obliterate it.
Chipwooder
Go to New Orleans. It’s pretty common on menus there.
It’s OK. Nothing I’d go out of my way to eat, but not bad. Similar to gator tail, another dish I’ve only had on the Gulf Coast.
Gilmore
Maybe next time im@ Chez Pauls or whatever else is the hotshit down there i’ll give it a try.
i still think lobster stew at Jordan Pond house in ME is pretty much the best soup-food thing i’ve ever eaten. Close would be the chowder i had @ the oyster bar in grand central about 10 years ago. It wasn’t as good recently, but either i got a weak batch or they’ve fallen off.
wdalasio
I like snapper soup. A lot.
Evan from Evansville
QI is one of my favorite shows. Stephen Fry posited a question about why it took over 300 years to get the Galapagos turtle a scientific name.
Apparently they were SO delicious that not a single goddamn one of them lived the voyage back to England. The sailors just kept on eating them.
Somebody giving you the old Voight-Kampff test right now?
AlmightyJB
Euphemism?
quincy
Ask him to describe in single words. Only the good things that come to his mind. About his mother.
antisthenes
So American Gods isn’t completely scientifically implausible?
AlmightyJB
I watched the first episode. Weird.
Somalian Road Corporation
I was going to watch it, then I read somebody else complain about some dumb anti-gun theme in an episode, and it kind of sucked the desire to get around to it anytime soon out of me.
Sean
Don’t let that be the reason you won’t watch it. Yeah, it happened, but it was a very brief and forgettable moment.
thrakkorzog
I read the book and watched the first couple of episodes. It seems to be going for that prestige cable drama thing where they just draw out the premise. So minor issues that took up a page or two in the book get drawn out for an entire episode. Sorry, I got burned by The Walking Dead. A halfway decent pilot followed by nothing of interest happening in the next two episodes, and I was out.
It is possible it might manage to build up some Breaking Bad style fanbase preaching it to the heavens, but otherwise it just looks like another version of The Walking Dead. And I don’t feel like wasting my time wondering what’s in that barn.
For what it’s worth, I’ve enjoyed both GoT and Preacher, so I think it is possible to do a decent book to TV adaptation, I just wasn’t particularly impressed by American Gods.
Michael
Speaking of vaginae, a certain journalist at a publication that shall not be named has been re-tweeting stuff like this all week:
Help me out here, please, ladies and germs. I really have no idea what “gender affirming language” is, but apparently it is Very Fucking Important. Is it possible that I am subconsciously using it already? If so, how can I be certain that I am using it correctly and not in a foolish, irreverent manner that might make the feelz of trans-ethno-non-conforming-hard-femme-blumpkin-otherkin go all topsy turvy? I certainly hope that a PHD isn’t required to gain mastery of this language. If I am indeed totally illiterate in it, where can I sign up for courses? Please let me know soon, because this really, truly is something that I give half a flying fuck about and might serve to fill the gaping chasm of nothingness that’s been torturing my soul for my entire life.
AlmightyJB
If they’re pretty they’re a girl, otherwise they’re a boy. That’s how I remember.
DenverJ
Hitler
Raven Nation
Comments (from the same person):
“Agreed, but not understanding why people don’t learn/use them overnight is a sign of lack of cognitive empathy.”
“If someone called me Brian on accident over and over, i wouldn’t be angry unless the intent was malevolent. Intent does matter.”
“With that said, if someone called me Sara, i would probably be pretty sure of their intent to emasculate. Each situation is different.”
Playa Manhattan
I certainly wouldn’t want to emasculate an MTF transgender by calling her Sara. Thanks, Dr Sprankle!
wdalasio
if someone called me Sara, i would probably be pretty sure of their intent to emasculate.
Whatever, Nancy.
Trigger Hippie
Speaking of the female anatomy, Alison Brie had several nude pics of her ‘leaked’ recently. I’m sure the release of her new Netflix series Glow was completely a coincidence. I decided to give the pilot episode a viewing(surprise,surprise) and to be fair, she not only bares her girls there as well(god bless her) but it was actually kind of funny. I could see it becoming a guilty pleasure.
Lackadaisical
My Wife is really into that show. It has it’s moments, but then also has pointless, emotional scenes.
AlmightyJB
I hate those
DenverJ
Emotions can really ruin a good flick.
commodious spittoon
There were like three seconds in Fury Road when I worried Max was going to have some sort of emotional breakthrough, and then he didn’t and I was like Thank Fucking God.
And you know the guy who did have an emotional breakdown, the warboy? Fucking dead. Fuck him.
Mad Max was a’ight, but The Road Warrior was the best of the franchise.
commodious spittoon
See, that’s what’s beautiful about it. Succumbing the the madness of rage and vengeance isn’t an emotional breakthrough. Any therapist worth her license would tell you it’s unhealthy. She’d want you to fingerpaint or whatever. She certainly wouldn’t want you to strap up and chase down the murderers, systematically kill them and leave one chained up to a car with a hacksaw and the possibility of freedom just a severed limb away.
commodious spittoon
(I was pretty drunk when I watched the original films, so I may be confusing them.)
John Titor
Naw you got it right.
Max does have a kind of breakthrough in The Road Warrior, but it’s more “huh, maybe I shouldn’t be a completely heartless piece of shit” than anything else.
Timeloose
I leaned from South Park that eating with your bum leads to shitting out your mouth.
MikeS
Women Wednesday and not a single one of our “female libertarians” made an appearance? Sad!
RAHeinlein
How’s the RIF thing going for you?
Playa Manhattan
This is so meta
RAHeinlein
Technically correct, but I posted previously on this thread.
MikeS
RIF? Seriously, no idea.
Playa Manhattan
Keep interacting plz. Let’s see how long this lasts.
RAHeinlein
Sorry, I’m far too busy – we just picked-up a fresh pork belly and have a cook-off tomorrow.
Seriously, get the Combi (I have an Unox), but skip the centrifuge.
Playa Manhattan
Now you’re just rubbing it in.
I’m in 2200 sq ft (with 3 kids) right now, but I’ll have more room soon… Very soon.
My kitchen will be bigger than my current house…. hopefully. With drains in the floor.
Playa Manhattan
Also, deets on the belly. I can only find it “Asian Style” here. It’s good, but my options are limited.
Some rando spots who she suspects might be Chelsea Manning, but instead of saying hello and introducing herself she surreptitiously snaps a photo which she then sends out to the world. Ignoring for a moment the creepiness of an act that is regrettably becoming accepted social behavior, let’s think about what might have happened if this person had actually asked in person. How hilarious would it be if it turned out to not be Manning after all but instead was a biological woman that subsequently got super offended by the comparison?
straffinrun
“Your metabolism is that of a 13 year old boy.” Huma said, staring at the ruin that was once a run of the mill vagina. She had already regurgitated three tins of Spam into the gaping maw and gotten a little wet herself as she watched the reverse peristalsis make the goop disappear into Madam Secretary’s inner sanctum.
The stirrups were digging into her cankles and her patience was running out. “Just toss that whole can in and don’t forget the key. I have a sentient polyp that can manipulate it.”
Huma grabbed the crank to widen the pelvic angle and paused.
“Do it! Just make it quick”, Madam Secretary hissed and gripped Bill’s hand in anticipation of the pain. A tin wouldn’t fit through the opening without ten more clicks on the crank. Huma grabbed the wheel handle with both hands and leaned forward until the tooth snagged. *Click*. The spider web of sinews immediately went taut clearly indicating that they weren’t going to make this easy.
“Three clicks at a time. Three at a time. I’m famished. Three at a time.” Madam Secretary stammered, knowing full well that she would have to suffer extreme pain that way. Huma told Bill to spray some WD40 on the wheel. Focusing on her duty like Greg Louganis preparing for an inward three and a half in pike position, Huma visualized what was going to happen. The sinews would snap and spray puss all over the room. Huma herself would fill her panties with discharge and Bill would fucking puke. He always did, the big pussy.
“OK. On three.” Huma leaned back, draw a shallow breath and leaned into the wheel handle with all her might…
Pan Zagloba
Welp, I guess it was inevitable. And better you than SF.
straffinrun
Just paying homage to SF.
SugarFree
That’s how it begins, you know.
straffinrun
It’s not my genre by any means, but I certainly can use more weapons in my arsenal.
Pan Zagloba
Japan, ladies and gentlemen!
Gustave Lytton
Need moar tentacles!
The Elite Elite
Guess what? War with North Korea wouldn’t be Trump’s first war as President! How have you guys not posted about all these other wars that he declared since entering office?
Rufus the Monocled
On google:
Search ‘white couple’.
Now search ‘black people’.
Troubling, no?
Rufus the Monocled
Now do ‘American inventors’.
Rufus the Monocled
And ‘American athletes’.
John Titor
I get a bunch of black and white people waving American flags. I’m aware of Google’s search idiocy but I don’t get this one.
Rufus the Monocled
On mine I get all black athlete photos at the top. Same with inventors. But now I’m wondering if this is just a coincidence of sorts.
John Titor
I get a lot of black inventors but I also get Edison and Franklin.
Francisco d’Anconia
Search: hockey players
Rufus the Monocled
Or is because this is how ‘searching’ operates? Someone more intelligent than me can explain and expand.
Pan Zagloba
It takes your other searches into account, so all that BBC porn is throwing your algorithm?
John Titor
I’m not seeing enough Asians for this theory to be supported.
Rufus the Monocled
The BBC do porn?
WHO KNEW?!
Rufus the Monocled
Except what’s turning up I never ‘searched’.
It gives the impression of ‘make sure the algorithm are diversity’.
thrakkorzog
Spent too much time reading Page Three, ey guv’nor?
MikeS
Wow. That is…odd
MikeS
Even the picture of A. G. Bell looks like he could be black.
I’d prefer to take Ms. Chirnogeanu out for a night on the town.
straffinrun
“It’s psychologically damaging to stay 12 hours in an office getting paid a minimum wage,” she says.
That’s a good point. And I gotta say, those pics make it look rather classy.
commodious spittoon
This calls for an underground railroad for the Romanian sexcam workers. I for one am willing to offer up my meager hospice to any Romanian webcam girl who is fleeing her exploitative background. I have but one bed, yet I am willing to share it if it saves just one or maybe two or three young women from their misfortune.
DenverJ
You are truly a humanitarian.
commodious spittoon
Pfft, as if. Those gypos would be robbing me blin–I mean, shit, those poor young women would be so lost in our world
Gilmore
Google CEO says, in so many words, that it is important for their company to “create a space that is safe for dissenting voices to be heard”
as gamergate was a silly, stupid topic which galvanized a lot of people on the internet to see ‘2 sides’ and choose them…i think this whole Googleshit (which is what i’m calling it) is going to do the same thing but for a much larger group of “normies”.
Basically, people have given this company enormous influence over their lives because they offer such convenient and transparent services. Mail, video-sharing, maps which tell them what businesses are close by, etc.
but what if it becomes clear that they’re not at all neutral about how try treat mail users, video users… and eventually, the way they filter people they don’t like out of their ecosystem altogether?
it becomes more and more dangerous. when someone like Googs starts to be seen as politically biased entity… fucking hell. its basically saying to users “if you’re what we judge to be “one of the bad ones”, you could be unpersoned at any time”.
You can see how the anti-corporatist rhetoric of the hardcore left could very quickly become a right-wing thing.
Pan Zagloba
Of course the voices need to be heard. How else are they to punish the correct people?
John Titor
Yep. It’s like Google’s policy on Youtube now. They don’t want to ‘censor’ content, far from it! They want you to state your wrongthink so they can cut your advertising money and shuffle your content off to some corner of the site people have a hard time finding.
Gilmore
its the velvet fist
we want you to out yourself, then we shadowban you from your followers.
I always thought the shadow-banning thing was insidious – basically, never let people know they’ve been shunted out of the public eye… just do it at random, so that suddenly no one sees your comments anymore.
Salon was one of the first who experimented w/ this. unsurprisingly. the WaPo does it now.
Pan Zagloba
as gamergate was a silly, stupid topic which galvanized a lot of people on the internet to see ‘2 sides’ and choose them…i think this whole Googleshit (which is what i’m calling it) is going to do the same thing but for a much larger group of “normies”.
I wish so but this time around media is letting Google handle it in house, rather than attracting attention. Story seems to be “hey, guy wrote something sexist, he got let go, let’s go back to North Korea”. They’ve wisely decided to bury the story instead of using it as a “We Need To Have A Conversation” starter.
Standard disclaimer: my main sources of news are CBC, BBC and Reason, two of which gave the story minimal coverage, and one that decided to ignore it (no, half-assed quips in links don’t count).
Rufus the Monocled
So. Any of you New Yorkers going to support Kaepernick?
QB has-been tries to upend the third rail of Americana?
Good luck with that, you dumb motherfucker.
Gilmore
How is this different than the Google employee demanding he be employed by some major technology firm?… or else… uh, he’ll piss and moan?
Pan Zagloba
Because racism, you racist racist!
straffinrun
Nobody support the NFL until someone hires this guy. Who’s with me?
Pan Zagloba
CFL SHALL RISE!!!!!
Rufus the Monocled
It would be interesting to see how he does in the CFL though.
Pan Zagloba
OMG that would be awesome! Ultimate “Fuck you all, I’m moving to Canada!”
Chipwooder
The guy isn’t a particularly good QB to begin with, yet thinks he should still be a starter. Add to that the controversy he courts and no shit there aren’t teams beating down his door to sign him up to be a #2 QB. There isn’t a team in football that wants drama from a backup QB. They want predictability and anonymity.
straffinrun
The Demore BS followed by this and my head is starting to hurt. It’s insane.
I’ve been suggesting for years that we shouldn’t play the national anthem before sporting events. The idea that this is only a virtuous idea if it’s being used in support of race politics sickens me.
God help me if this dumb film is political in a way I don’t like, I’m going to have to be all lefty in my displeasure. Fuck me, right?! I don’t want that! I want to love the films I bother to see.
Pan Zagloba
Kingsman is the only Tory movie we had in decades! They can’t take that away from us!
No, they totally can and will. I dread the sequel as much as I desire it.
Comments
278 responses to “Women Wednesday: The Science of Vaginal Feeding is Settled”
First?
Does this mean “yes”?
Did you get a consent contract beforehand, if not it can still claim it was rape.
I think I was there long enough it was common law consent.
But remember that consent can be removed or anytime provided that person feels like it at any moment, when removed it is removed retroactively.
Nope. SugarFree is getting too SugarFree-ish.
I’m not big on period pieces.
link.
Now this is a bloody good joke!
Must be the funny time of the month.
Well, the humor is spotty, at best.
And, no, I’m not ragging on any of you.
Best to shut down the pun threads, before Swiss gets all hysterical.
Huh, moon must be out.
MANY TIMES THIS.
Anderson’s Vaginal Capsules: you’ve tried the rest, now try the best!
“In sizes to suit the case”…
Just how big a case you got, Ma’am?
And someone tell Jesse about the vagina being much more tolerant of intrusion.
I think I can fap to this.
But I can’t fap to that, no (no) no can do
No, I can’t fap to that, no (no) no can do
I can’t fap to that, no (no) no can do
/Hall & Oates
“… and that’s why I can’t go for that.” Bob Fossil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErkH4K39UrI
Submitted without comment, I see. As if any were needed.
I’m pretty sure commenting is our job, not the poster’s.
I guess it would be bad form to comment on your own posts…
Good point, and bad form is our specialty here.
First you people wanted me to read the articles.
Then you wanted me to read the comments before replying.
Now you want me to read the pictures? This has gone too far!
Ok, good enough evidence for me that it is a valid treatment method.
OT – If I wanted to load a gyrojet round into a shotgun shell and fit the shot cup with a firing pin, what would be a good way to prevent the pin from striking the primer before the round was fired but allow it to trigger as the shotgun itself is discharged?
Before I answer, how are you going to keep the round from bouncing around inside the massively oversize shotgun barrel like a ping pong ball?
Also, where in the blue fuck are you getting gyrojet rounds?
The gyrojet engine would be embedded in a bore-fitting collar behind the main payload. I write fiction which includes insane engineers. They can make gyrojets, they’re not mechancially complicated.
So, even in fiction where it’s completely bullshit made up you have to explain your physics? Oh well in that case just put a couple pieces of dilithium in the shot cup and it should work great.
There are two categories of components – things where I ask the reader to suspend disbelief, and those where it’s realistic enough that they don’t have to, making the moments of suspension easier.
Besides, design thought experiments are fun.
This sounds like a question for Dr Seuss. But I don’t think even he could make this contraption.
You could mount 1 or more gyrojet rouns on the shot cup. Put a fuse in the backside of the gyro jet round(s) that protrude through the small holes in the cup to the powder charge. So the powder charge lights the fuse of the gyro as it starts to push out the rounds and shot. The round would light off some time after the shotshell primer is ignited.
Fireworks style
If your engineers have the resources to make gyrojet rounds, why do you need regular shot gun ammo to ignite it?
I guess to cycle the action if your shotgun is semi auto.
If not, just make a round with a normal primer and the jet nozzles facing the bolt in a thin sleeve with a rim. Fire, pump to get the sleeve out, cycle a new round in.
The initial charge is to overcome the low muzzle velocity problem with gyrojets. The first part of the flight is classic ballistics with the rocket providing increased range.
You definitely need a rim to feed and eject in a conventional shotgun, so the round has to have two parts. How about a two stage burn built into the round? Conventional primer that ignites smokeless powder in the jet nozzles, which then ignites the solid fuel?
instead of s shotgun shell hull, have the entire thing eject out of the brass cup, and only eject that part?
Make it a kind of sloppy fit in the barrel, maybe with a soft’ish polymer coating that also acts as a lubricant. I bet it could get it up to velocity and let the jet take over. It could also be rifled as a slug to start the rotation.
If you’re concerned the powder and pressure isn’t enough to start the second burn, add something in between. I dunno, a thin layer of magnesium?
A 40mm grenade round is armed after leaving the barrel by the spin of the round. Which would require you to use a rifled barrel.
Another method would be a delay using chemical process. A very fast delay fuse.
Yes….like launching a missile from a sub or a torpedo from a ship-mounted launcher. High-pressure compressed air gets the round moving to a safe distance before ignition, etc.
As far as design, I’d take the pistol round and just scale up – 12ga diameter/fitted round – not a shot shell.
Off the top of my head if you stuck some match sticks into the cup and put a very thin piece of plastic on top of them it should be strong enough to withstand normal handling but snap once the primer goes off. At least in my head it would work.
My thought was plastic crush fins that would deform when the shot was fired, but I wasn’t sure if they could hit that sweet spot of strong enough for safety but not so strong that it would impede the actual operation.
If it’s fiction they can do whatever the fuck you want them to.
What fun is that?
graphite, “it turns to dust in the barrel” or something, ignites maybe. enough strength but brittle enough for the sweet spot?
I wonder how reliably it crushes.
Also, would this round even be legal in the US?
in my version of your book, the engineers work for a bond villain type, so, *shrug*
I keep wondering if the rocket fuel will reliably light from the main powder charge.
I meant that as a reply to Timeloose, above.
It’s some kind of solid rocket propellant and they should beable to be lit by a cordite like fuse.
Legality. The GyroJet rifle and round is/was legal in the US? Just hard to get these days.
This was the source of Vhyrus’ confusion on where you got one from, above.
Can you send me your name and social so I can take out life insurance policy on you?
I write fiction, JB.
Glad you’re not going to die
I’m going to outlive Bailey.
WAIT I GOT IT!
There’s a magnetic field that keeps them separated. It is strong enough to hold the round off the pin but the impulse of the primer overcomes it and allows the round to fire.
/genius
That… is overly complicated a solution to the problem.
But it would be just two magnets with the appropriate polarity alignment. So compared to a crush-substance it’s not that complex, just more expensive.
Also, you don’t need two magnets. You can magnetize the gyrojet.
Since I’m in magnet mode, make the barrel opposing polarity so it stays in the center of the shotgun barrel, like maglev.
I was thinking of a brass combustion chamber because one of the earlier iterations was repurposing a spent shell casing (say a .50AE casing) embedded into a lead slug which would fit it to the bore. But there have been so many mental iterations that I don’t know if it even needs to be brass.
50 bmg actually fits mostly unmodified into a 12 gauge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZaK7D4XVo8
This was going to be a 10-guage, but I didn’t mention that.
Overly…what?
*eye twitch*
IT’S SCIENCE FUCKING FICTION! YOU’RE SHOOTING A GOD DAMN MINIATURE ROCKET OUT OF A SHOTGUN SHELL FOR FUCKS SAKE!
*Flips every table, storms off*
DON’t MIND MEEEE! I ONLY MAKE ROCKETS!
I’m sorry?
I’m just fucking with you, but you really do raise the bar on the meaning of pedant.
Ah, okay.
I’m not sure if I actually pissed you off, or if that was a hyperbolic reaction for effect.
It’s Scifi.
It’s fucking magic.
That’s no fun.
this guys channel has lots of helpful advice on “things you probably shouldn’t do with a shotgun, but which we know you will anyway”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BlbiKUWkyI
Hoping for TAOFLEDERMAUS.
*clicks*
….you have failed me for the last time Gilmore.
Thanks, everybody. This subthread just gave both me and Banjos autism.
You’re welcome.
At worst, it may have irritated a pre-existing condition.
FYI
https://www.wired.com/2013/07/incredible-cross-sections-of-real-ammunition/
Make the Gyrojet round electrically initiated. The shotgun firing pin strikes a piezo crystal in the primer cup, which ignites the rocket.
The piezo-electric solution is great for instantaneous ignition, but I don’t think that is what he wants?
Oh, geez. ok, I see. Fiction.
I was about to give some gentle advice along the lines of UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES TRY THAT SHIT.
Fiction…fine. If they are making their own gyro jets then they can simply construct them with the priming on the front end so that the round is activated on contact with the target.
When I was a young dumbass I fitted some .45ACP hollow points with shotgun primers inserted into the nose of the bullet. It actually worked pretty well.
I will send this again later when I see you on.
It’s the wrong date for an April Fool’s Joke.
OT- “Goat was aggressively charging and the deputy had no choice but to shoot the animal”
MY GOD IT’S COMING RIGHT FOR US!
How is it that everyone including little children can be around animals without pissing their pants but a cop sees an animal and has to open fire. What a bunch of pussies.
No, the facade of pussydom is just a pretense to excuse willful capricidal aggression. Kind of like the intersectionalists — Episiarch had their number early on when he observed that equating speech with violence was never about being overdramatic to get sympathy, but instead about preemptively justifying the use of brutal violence against nonviolent dissent.
I think the latter groups like antifa are biting off more than they can chew. It’s only a matter of time before that goes very bad for them.
What Almighty JB said. The cop could have waited for the farmer to show up. No one was in mortal danger.
$1200 goat? The Bunny Ranch is far cheaper.
You keep this up and that family friendly certification is gonna be out the fuckin window.
A good beer for tonight.
Are you butt chugging that porter to keep with this posts topic?
Sadly, no. I’m not that interesting.
I.N. Love, MD? really?
I noticed that as well.
He’s probably Irish. He had to change his name from McLovin in order to get his license.
That is Doctor Love to you.
OT
So i was reading about the soul group, The Dramatics (best known for this very-excellent groover)
i was struck by this little detail:
too much Drama?
and by Drama, i mean, “crack cocaine”
I hear that massive amounts of vagina can be fatal.
crack/vagina interactions are definitely likely sources of elevated risk.
I can assure you, that is incorrect.
Don’t believe me? Ask Cheech!
doesn’t that reference support Vhyrus?
Was Soul Train on Saturday nights? I remember watching it, but damned if I can remember when it was on. I do remember realizing I could never dance like that at a very young age.
couldn’t tell you. I know i saw it on TV myself as a kid in the 70s and i think up until the mid1980s. i think it was broadcast at different times of day in different markets. i was not a frequent tv watcher but Saturday afternoons i would watch kung fun movies, godzilla movies, then soul train on either channel 9 or 11. I think one of those channels (whichever became the WB network) stayed “the black channel” in NY for many years.
I remember it being after American bandstand on Sat early afternoon.
that sounds right. i think kasey kasem also did some top-40 countdown on saturdays… so it was like a nonstop music-absorption day for me, no matter where i was.
Dude in the blue suit needs some dancing lessons.
damn, tough crowd
they were originally from detroit and were on motown briefly and other local labels… they came from that era of Temptations/Spinners/Miracles/Four Tops etc. male singing+dancing groups… you’d think they’d have had their whole routine together? I think the lipsyncing fucked them up terribly.
When I do things professionally, I do them well.
Everything else, half-assed.
I guess that guy had a side job that took up too much time, and he never quite had a chance to learn how to twirl his arms.
you need to be wearing one of those black leotard and carrying a big stick like the bitchy ballet teachers in Fame
Everyone can hear music, but not everyone can feel it.
you are basically describing the core obstacle of the working DJ
its a fun problem to try and solve
I recognize them because they were in the video for Doggy Dogg World, which was by far Snoop’s best video. Had a bunch of random ’70s blaxploitation stars in it – Rerun from What’s Happening, Fred “the Hammer” Williamson, Ron O’Neal from SuperFly, Huggy Bear, Dolomite, Pam Grier.
fate is cruel
OT: for those who like neo-psychedelia, my favorite Brian Jonestown Massacre song.
I made the mistake of watching that movie (Dig!) before i really ever listened to BJM. Now i’m screwed.
its a good tune. speaking of neo-psychedelia, i’ve been listening to King Gizard and the Lizard Wizard this week. They seem to have doubled down on both the neo and the psych parts.
I don’t know if they were that hard rock before (new band for me), but that’s not something I’ll complain about. I liked how they looped the vid so anyone in a… uh, kaleidoscopic state could watch their visuals for a long time.
Fun
Nice
Vaginas are for eatin’, not feedin’.
Alternate: I’ll feed your vagina.
Alternate alternate: you like Polish sausage?
Don’t enact my labia!
For clarification, I do not have labia.
I also do not have foreskin (anymore).
*takes another drink
Well you know you can get either of those things now.
hmmm…decisions, decisions…
Why not both?
You’ll be the new hero of twitverse.
Pretty good article at FEE
https://fee.org/articles/freedom-and-the-fear-of-self-responsibility/
I don’t think it’s only fear of Self-Responsibility that leads to that desire for government mommy and daddy. I think there are people who believe that is governments role to help the less fortunate like people with severe disabilities. If that’s all government did, of course we would be better off, but if government wasn’t pissing away so much of our wealth their would be plenty of money for charities to perform those functions instead.
I read them (FEE) far more often than Cato or Mises or…. anyone else really. Don’t know why. Just that they seem to write timely articles with an interesting hook… and i think the format of their website actually helps. something about the others is just less easy on the eyes
Yeah I like their site format better as well. I pulled a pdf off Cato last night about overseas bases. Didn’t have a chance to read today. I’ll be interested to see what they have to say about it. I’m not opposed to foward bases if someone can show me they are necessary for or greatly enhance national security. However, given how quickly we can deploy troops and equipment I’d be skeptical of such claims.
They do good work. Got a bunch of books from them for next to nothing.
Thirded. FEE is excellent.
My SIL may as well be the poster woman for Google dude’s memo. I have water and turds backing up into my bathroom because our sewer line is a clogged travesty. I’m trying to sop as much of it up with towels while it’s draining into my bedroom and soaking into the carpet. My brother/landlord is trying to find his toilet snake to unclog the line, and SIL insists, to the point of telling off my brother, that she knows where it is.
Five minutes into looking she dumps a couple hinges onto her bare foot and screams bloody murder like she’s been gored. Nah; she just had a couple steel hinges dump onto her foot. And now she’s in the living room crying for God knows whose benefit about her bruised foot and consoling her witless self like it’s her bedroom that’s filling up with reek. Worse than useless. Goddamn, woman. Collect yourself.
I would give anything for a woman with even a hint of combat prowess. I knocked the valve off the toilet inlet once and water spewed in like a fucking flood. I immediately grab anything I can find to try to slow the water while screaming for help from my gf. She comes in and almost dies laughing watching me try to stop this water while our house literally fills up from the inside. FFS.
Wow. If you give Hannukah gifts, give her a $10 toilet valve. “This is what I think of when I think of you.”
How did she “dump a couple hinges onto her bare foot”?
She knocked them off the shelf in the utility room while she was rooting around where she insisted the snake was stored. It wasn’t.
My ex SIL threw away my snake because it was “rusty”.
-_-
I suppose my remarks tonight might be construed as misogynistic. They weren’t meant to be. Rather, they’re my unhappy reaction to the sort of pussies of either gender who cannot cope with exigencies, and who end up making matters worse. I’m open about my anxieties and existential quandaries, but AT LEAST I KNOW HOW TO BE USEFUL WHEN THE PIPES ARE BACKING UP.
I can’t fault my wife, she is solid in a crisis. While I was in China she visited my parents house and found my Grandmother after having a stroke. She called the ambulance, my parents, and then proceeded to clean up the bodily fluids while my sisters freaked out about the situation. I have no concerns she can take care of me and mine if shit goes sideways.
She essentially saved her life and cleaned up.
Get that woman some flowers and a (steak if she likes it) dinner.
That’s a keeper
She got a new kitchen instead. No chance I’m letting this one go.
Well played. I did the same thing last year.
Yeah, but hinges?
Could your door fall off the frame at any moment???
We’re in the construction business. My brother snaps things up from demo sites when the fancy strikes him. In my SIL’s defense, the utility room is not organized. But she insisted.
Here’s proof the Google manifesto guy was full of shit. Just read these bios! These are normal people, dammit.
https://twitter.com/faith_heritage/status/894962407126315010
Kids today
Yep. Up till 26 years old.
Some even beyond that. If some chick is in her late 30’s and should not be taking duck face selfies every 5 damn minutes.
“Views my own”
But not really.
I like turtles!
As pets or as food?
Yes.
Efficient
I am told turtle soup is one of the delicious things mankind has ever stumbled upon
but damned if i’ve ever seen it on the menu anywhere. and, while i have absolutely no problems throwing lobsters into pots of boiling water, or ripping whole crabs limb from limb and chewing the meat of their joints and scooping their guts out with my fingers…. i find the idea of personally dispatching turtles? sort of unpleasant. too many cartoons where turtles were nice kindly old people i think. I just feel icky about it.
But that doesn’t even really make sense, since i’ve killed and eaten rabbits a dozen times, and they’re cutesy kid animals. (shrug) Can’t explain it.
You know what else is kindly and often the dispenser of wisdom or the humble gifts of their own bodies?
Cows.
You know what else is goddamn delicious?
Cows.
I had a smoked Brisket taco tonight. Twas yummy.
I didn’t eat tonight. After all the excitement I’m not really in the mood for food. Which is just as well because there’s no need to ruin a good buzz. So I’ll fill my food hole with scotch instead.
It’s not the excitement.
It’s called alcohol calorie replacement.
So… if I keep drinking, I’ll never have to eat again. Is that how it works?
Uh…. sort of.
Ethanol is 7 calories per gram. Your liver goes after it first, all other sources of calories come second.
If you drink enough, you’ll eventually die of malnutrition.
If you’re an “evening drinker” and you find yourself routinely skipping dinner, it’s probably time to cut down.
All I’m hearing is guilt-free drinking.
I call it the “Denver Diet” and am releasing a book soon
The WKUK tried it a few years back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tN7HlenTmA
It lasted about 3 days,
Wife and I were stopped while driving across some range by a bunch of cows on the road. They apparently mistook our pickup for the pickup that fed them and just stood in front of us, waiting for the usual. My comment to the wife was – this is why we eat cows, because they are so gaddum stupid.
Thank you for a hearty chuckle. I love cows. I love the look of them. I love how stupid they are. I love what it signifies that we have cultivated these massive beasts of burden for the express purpose of delivering cheap and delicious protein to our plates. Whenever I read about slaughterhouses and all the disgusting details, I’m not turned off eating beef. I think: what the fuck do you expect of a bunch of carnivores who can, when madness or necessity overcomes them, subsist as herbivores? WE SLAUGHTER ANIMALS FOR MEAT. You think zebras or gazelles caught by lions of the Serengeti are treated to a clean kill and a prayer for their immortal spirits before the feast begins? No, they’re eaten alive, their entrails pulled out of their stomachs by their killers while they gasp their last few mortal breaths. So save me the squeamishness about our slaughterhouses and whether they’re humane. They’re not built for humans. They’re built for our prey.
Cows are magic. They turn grass into beef. Well… corn in America. That’s even more magic.
Turtles and Owls are supposed to be wise. Maybe that’s it.
I think that turtles have a strangely anthropomorphic quality… ‘more human’ than other animals. their look and their behavior is just too recognizably similar. fluffynuts the rabbit is just a dumb (if cute) ball of fur. (and tasty! if prepared by the french) But the turtle is sorta too… well he seems less-stupid, to your point… and he seems like he’s very happy being alive (“see the shell, youngun? its there for a reason! shit is rough out here”) and really doesn’t need the agita of your soup recipe.
We don’t even care whether or not we care.
Goddamn submit button.
and tasty! if prepared by the French
You mean like French fries? Because fried rabbit is delicious, just be careful of the shot. I almost broke a tooth once.
every time i’ve been in a french restaurant i order things like quail and rabbit just to see WTF they’ll do w/ it. I have been pleasantly surprised on many occasions. the last time it was something like this
http://blog.sousvidesupreme.com/2013/08/prosciutto-wrapped-rabbit-saddle/#sthash.qBngqbJb.dpbs
(‘saddle’ means its ass i think)
I had the prosciutto-wrapped saddle-of-rabbit @ the Union Sq Cafe …a while ago. 8 years? anyway. I had rabbit stew more recently and it was still good.
Owls are *amazingly* stupid.
not if you’re a mouse/vole/small ground mammal
I’ve have turtle soup twice. Meh. I mean, not bad, just not delicious. Slightly fishy stew.
Just imagine it is Mitch McConnell instead.
You only need him to kill it, not obliterate it.
Go to New Orleans. It’s pretty common on menus there.
It’s OK. Nothing I’d go out of my way to eat, but not bad. Similar to gator tail, another dish I’ve only had on the Gulf Coast.
Maybe next time im@ Chez Pauls or whatever else is the hotshit down there i’ll give it a try.
i still think lobster stew at Jordan Pond house in ME is pretty much the best soup-food thing i’ve ever eaten. Close would be the chowder i had @ the oyster bar in grand central about 10 years ago. It wasn’t as good recently, but either i got a weak batch or they’ve fallen off.
I like snapper soup. A lot.
QI is one of my favorite shows. Stephen Fry posited a question about why it took over 300 years to get the Galapagos turtle a scientific name.
Apparently they were SO delicious that not a single goddamn one of them lived the voyage back to England. The sailors just kept on eating them.
If you’ve got the time, this is hilarious.
You an O&A listener from way back?
Somebody giving you the old Voight-Kampff test right now?
Euphemism?
Ask him to describe in single words. Only the good things that come to his mind. About his mother.
So American Gods isn’t completely scientifically implausible?
I watched the first episode. Weird.
I was going to watch it, then I read somebody else complain about some dumb anti-gun theme in an episode, and it kind of sucked the desire to get around to it anytime soon out of me.
Don’t let that be the reason you won’t watch it. Yeah, it happened, but it was a very brief and forgettable moment.
I read the book and watched the first couple of episodes. It seems to be going for that prestige cable drama thing where they just draw out the premise. So minor issues that took up a page or two in the book get drawn out for an entire episode. Sorry, I got burned by The Walking Dead. A halfway decent pilot followed by nothing of interest happening in the next two episodes, and I was out.
It is possible it might manage to build up some Breaking Bad style fanbase preaching it to the heavens, but otherwise it just looks like another version of The Walking Dead. And I don’t feel like wasting my time wondering what’s in that barn.
For what it’s worth, I’ve enjoyed both GoT and Preacher, so I think it is possible to do a decent book to TV adaptation, I just wasn’t particularly impressed by American Gods.
Speaking of vaginae, a certain journalist at a publication that shall not be named has been re-tweeting stuff like this all week:
https://twitter.com/DrSprankle/status/894957695777873920
Help me out here, please, ladies and germs. I really have no idea what “gender affirming language” is, but apparently it is Very Fucking Important. Is it possible that I am subconsciously using it already? If so, how can I be certain that I am using it correctly and not in a foolish, irreverent manner that might make the feelz of trans-ethno-non-conforming-hard-femme-blumpkin-otherkin go all topsy turvy? I certainly hope that a PHD isn’t required to gain mastery of this language. If I am indeed totally illiterate in it, where can I sign up for courses? Please let me know soon, because this really, truly is something that I give half a flying fuck about and might serve to fill the gaping chasm of nothingness that’s been torturing my soul for my entire life.
If they’re pretty they’re a girl, otherwise they’re a boy. That’s how I remember.
Hitler
Comments (from the same person):
“Agreed, but not understanding why people don’t learn/use them overnight is a sign of lack of cognitive empathy.”
“If someone called me Brian on accident over and over, i wouldn’t be angry unless the intent was malevolent. Intent does matter.”
“With that said, if someone called me Sara, i would probably be pretty sure of their intent to emasculate. Each situation is different.”
I certainly wouldn’t want to emasculate an MTF transgender by calling her Sara. Thanks, Dr Sprankle!
if someone called me Sara, i would probably be pretty sure of their intent to emasculate.
Whatever, Nancy.
Speaking of the female anatomy, Alison Brie had several nude pics of her ‘leaked’ recently. I’m sure the release of her new Netflix series Glow was completely a coincidence. I decided to give the pilot episode a viewing(surprise,surprise) and to be fair, she not only bares her girls there as well(god bless her) but it was actually kind of funny. I could see it becoming a guilty pleasure.
My Wife is really into that show. It has it’s moments, but then also has pointless, emotional scenes.
I hate those
Emotions can really ruin a good flick.
There were like three seconds in Fury Road when I worried Max was going to have some sort of emotional breakthrough, and then he didn’t and I was like Thank Fucking God.
And you know the guy who did have an emotional breakdown, the warboy? Fucking dead. Fuck him.
So you didn’t like the original Mad Max?
Mad Max was a’ight, but The Road Warrior was the best of the franchise.
See, that’s what’s beautiful about it. Succumbing the the madness of rage and vengeance isn’t an emotional breakthrough. Any therapist worth her license would tell you it’s unhealthy. She’d want you to fingerpaint or whatever. She certainly wouldn’t want you to strap up and chase down the murderers, systematically kill them and leave one chained up to a car with a hacksaw and the possibility of freedom just a severed limb away.
(I was pretty drunk when I watched the original films, so I may be confusing them.)
Naw you got it right.
Max does have a kind of breakthrough in The Road Warrior, but it’s more “huh, maybe I shouldn’t be a completely heartless piece of shit” than anything else.
I leaned from South Park that eating with your bum leads to shitting out your mouth.
Women Wednesday and not a single one of our “female libertarians” made an appearance? Sad!
How’s the RIF thing going for you?
This is so meta
Technically correct, but I posted previously on this thread.
RIF? Seriously, no idea.
Keep interacting plz. Let’s see how long this lasts.
Sorry, I’m far too busy – we just picked-up a fresh pork belly and have a cook-off tomorrow.
Seriously, get the Combi (I have an Unox), but skip the centrifuge.
Now you’re just rubbing it in.
I’m in 2200 sq ft (with 3 kids) right now, but I’ll have more room soon… Very soon.
My kitchen will be bigger than my current house…. hopefully. With drains in the floor.
Also, deets on the belly. I can only find it “Asian Style” here. It’s good, but my options are limited.
OK. I’m not one of the cool kids. What’s RIF?
Retro-Indiana Fishmongery
$20. Same as in town.
$30 if he wants to watch.
Reading Is Fundamental
More Twitter hi-jinx:
https://twitter.com/andreavacch/status/895440034320576516
Some rando spots who she suspects might be Chelsea Manning, but instead of saying hello and introducing herself she surreptitiously snaps a photo which she then sends out to the world. Ignoring for a moment the creepiness of an act that is regrettably becoming accepted social behavior, let’s think about what might have happened if this person had actually asked in person. How hilarious would it be if it turned out to not be Manning after all but instead was a biological woman that subsequently got super offended by the comparison?
“Your metabolism is that of a 13 year old boy.” Huma said, staring at the ruin that was once a run of the mill vagina. She had already regurgitated three tins of Spam into the gaping maw and gotten a little wet herself as she watched the reverse peristalsis make the goop disappear into Madam Secretary’s inner sanctum.
The stirrups were digging into her cankles and her patience was running out. “Just toss that whole can in and don’t forget the key. I have a sentient polyp that can manipulate it.”
Huma grabbed the crank to widen the pelvic angle and paused.
“Do it! Just make it quick”, Madam Secretary hissed and gripped Bill’s hand in anticipation of the pain. A tin wouldn’t fit through the opening without ten more clicks on the crank. Huma grabbed the wheel handle with both hands and leaned forward until the tooth snagged. *Click*. The spider web of sinews immediately went taut clearly indicating that they weren’t going to make this easy.
“Three clicks at a time. Three at a time. I’m famished. Three at a time.” Madam Secretary stammered, knowing full well that she would have to suffer extreme pain that way. Huma told Bill to spray some WD40 on the wheel. Focusing on her duty like Greg Louganis preparing for an inward three and a half in pike position, Huma visualized what was going to happen. The sinews would snap and spray puss all over the room. Huma herself would fill her panties with discharge and Bill would fucking puke. He always did, the big pussy.
“OK. On three.” Huma leaned back, draw a shallow breath and leaned into the wheel handle with all her might…
Welp, I guess it was inevitable. And better you than SF.
Just paying homage to SF.
That’s how it begins, you know.
It’s not my genre by any means, but I certainly can use more weapons in my arsenal.
Japan, ladies and gentlemen!
Need moar tentacles!
Guess what? War with North Korea wouldn’t be Trump’s first war as President! How have you guys not posted about all these other wars that he declared since entering office?
On google:
Search ‘white couple’.
Now search ‘black people’.
Troubling, no?
Now do ‘American inventors’.
And ‘American athletes’.
I get a bunch of black and white people waving American flags. I’m aware of Google’s search idiocy but I don’t get this one.
On mine I get all black athlete photos at the top. Same with inventors. But now I’m wondering if this is just a coincidence of sorts.
I get a lot of black inventors but I also get Edison and Franklin.
Search: hockey players
Or is because this is how ‘searching’ operates? Someone more intelligent than me can explain and expand.
It takes your other searches into account, so all that BBC porn is throwing your algorithm?
I’m not seeing enough Asians for this theory to be supported.
The BBC do porn?
WHO KNEW?!
Except what’s turning up I never ‘searched’.
It gives the impression of ‘make sure the algorithm are diversity’.
Spent too much time reading Page Three, ey guv’nor?
Wow. That is…odd
Even the picture of A. G. Bell looks like he could be black.
BBC does what Pie In The Sky don’t!
Cam-girls: Inside the Romanian sexcam industry
Yes, there are pics. Even one of a camboy.
I’d prefer to take Ms. Chirnogeanu out for a night on the town.
“It’s psychologically damaging to stay 12 hours in an office getting paid a minimum wage,” she says.
That’s a good point. And I gotta say, those pics make it look rather classy.
This calls for an underground railroad for the Romanian sexcam workers. I for one am willing to offer up my meager hospice to any Romanian webcam girl who is fleeing her exploitative background. I have but one bed, yet I am willing to share it if it saves just one or maybe two or three young women from their misfortune.
You are truly a humanitarian.
Pfft, as if. Those gypos would be robbing me blin–I mean, shit, those poor young women would be so lost in our world
Google CEO says, in so many words, that it is important for their company to “create a space that is safe for dissenting voices to be heard”
meanwhile…. wherever voices are dissenting, they seem to be doing their damnedest to silence them and starve them of an audience
as gamergate was a silly, stupid topic which galvanized a lot of people on the internet to see ‘2 sides’ and choose them…i think this whole Googleshit (which is what i’m calling it) is going to do the same thing but for a much larger group of “normies”.
Basically, people have given this company enormous influence over their lives because they offer such convenient and transparent services. Mail, video-sharing, maps which tell them what businesses are close by, etc.
but what if it becomes clear that they’re not at all neutral about how try treat mail users, video users… and eventually, the way they filter people they don’t like out of their ecosystem altogether?
it becomes more and more dangerous. when someone like Googs starts to be seen as politically biased entity… fucking hell. its basically saying to users “if you’re what we judge to be “one of the bad ones”, you could be unpersoned at any time”.
You can see how the anti-corporatist rhetoric of the hardcore left could very quickly become a right-wing thing.
Of course the voices need to be heard. How else are they to punish the correct people?
Yep. It’s like Google’s policy on Youtube now. They don’t want to ‘censor’ content, far from it! They want you to state your wrongthink so they can cut your advertising money and shuffle your content off to some corner of the site people have a hard time finding.
its the velvet fist
we want you to out yourself, then we shadowban you from your followers.
I always thought the shadow-banning thing was insidious – basically, never let people know they’ve been shunted out of the public eye… just do it at random, so that suddenly no one sees your comments anymore.
Salon was one of the first who experimented w/ this. unsurprisingly. the WaPo does it now.
as gamergate was a silly, stupid topic which galvanized a lot of people on the internet to see ‘2 sides’ and choose them…i think this whole Googleshit (which is what i’m calling it) is going to do the same thing but for a much larger group of “normies”.
I wish so but this time around media is letting Google handle it in house, rather than attracting attention. Story seems to be “hey, guy wrote something sexist, he got let go, let’s go back to North Korea”. They’ve wisely decided to bury the story instead of using it as a “We Need To Have A Conversation” starter.
Standard disclaimer: my main sources of news are CBC, BBC and Reason, two of which gave the story minimal coverage, and one that decided to ignore it (no, half-assed quips in links don’t count).
So. Any of you New Yorkers going to support Kaepernick?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/kaepernick-petition-calling-for-nfl-boycott-is-gaining-steam-has-130k-supporters/
Spike Lee. Always fighting the good fight.
QB has-been tries to upend the third rail of Americana?
Good luck with that, you dumb motherfucker.
How is this different than the Google employee demanding he be employed by some major technology firm?… or else… uh, he’ll piss and moan?
Because racism, you racist racist!
Nobody support the NFL until someone hires this guy. Who’s with me?
CFL SHALL RISE!!!!!
It would be interesting to see how he does in the CFL though.
OMG that would be awesome! Ultimate “Fuck you all, I’m moving to Canada!”
The guy isn’t a particularly good QB to begin with, yet thinks he should still be a starter. Add to that the controversy he courts and no shit there aren’t teams beating down his door to sign him up to be a #2 QB. There isn’t a team in football that wants drama from a backup QB. They want predictability and anonymity.
The Demore BS followed by this and my head is starting to hurt. It’s insane.
I’ve been suggesting for years that we shouldn’t play the national anthem before sporting events. The idea that this is only a virtuous idea if it’s being used in support of race politics sickens me.
So apparently this is a thing. WOOOOOOOOOO!!!
God help me if this dumb film is political in a way I don’t like, I’m going to have to be all lefty in my displeasure. Fuck me, right?! I don’t want that! I want to love the films I bother to see.
Kingsman is the only Tory movie we had in decades! They can’t take that away from us!
No, they totally can and will. I dread the sequel as much as I desire it.
well this explains a lot
http://nypost.com/2017/08/09/turns-out-drinking-beer-could-help-you-think-clearly/
Fd’A’s law of extremes…
If one beer helps you think clearly…extreme quantities of beer helps you think extremely clearly.
im more in favor of the diminishing returns/negative feedback idea.
a little makes you clever, a lot make you an idiot.
which is actually true of a lot of things, and tends to support the “everything in moderation” dictum
I’ve had 6 beers, and you, sir, are the idiot.
Not horrible, but not great.
Well, it’s pretty good for the Atlantic.