OK, you get me again for morning links. Someone will have to do the music link thing in the comments, that is outside my abilities. I will throw in some sportsball scores for ya:
Cleveland STEVE SMITH’s the Yankees, twice. Cubs win (so what) Minnesoda beats the White Sox (#$%^&*!) Filthadelphia drops a pair. Team Canada gets rogered by the Beantowners. Balmer wins, so OMWC is happy, while the Astros don’t so sloopy is not. Oh, and Cincy loses, but consoles selves with Chili 3-ways. So, enough of that.
On to the linkage:
So adding insult to injury is their policy?
I hate those Oyster Crackers. They’re essentially Hardtack
I’ve never seen them used in an oyster dish, and they contain no oyster products, why are they called oyster crackers?
Cuz they look like oysters?
I wandered over to wikipedia after asking the question, and that was one of the proposed answers, relating to the pre-hexagonal form.
Also apparently they were served with oyster stew – which I confess I’ve never seen.
Maybe both? They were served with oyster stew and shaped (sort of) like an oyster because of their intended purpose?
according to wikipedia it’s because they were served with oyster stew. mmmmm stewed boogers and hardtack crackers. What’s not to love?
well, if you soak the crackers long enough they too become snotty.
*Note, this is not an improvement, just an observation.
The oyster crackers I get are basically mini-saltines. Try shopping somewhere besides the 19th century.
Cincinnati chili is amazing, it just isn’t chili. It’s a condiment for hot dogs or french fries.
Some of you people willing eat Chicago pizza casserole. Cincy chili might as well be caviar compared to that
Have you ever actually had caviar?
The meat sauce was a passable meat sauce, but it wasn’t chili by any stretch of the imagination. It also wasn’t a contender for anything but mediocre regional food. The only thing that let me down more was Cleveland.
I did finally get my misplaced car key back from the valets at the Wyndham – two months after I’d left.
smdreads
I’m afraid I can’t figure out what you were trying to say.
something something spices something something
Here. A pictoral record of what I chose to consume over the course of wandering the country.
Sorry your Indi’s experience was sub par. I’ve never been to the one in Louisville, but the one in Lexington looks like THIS and has awesome hot wings and sides.
Now, you may have to contend with various types of crackheads, but definitely worth it for tailgating or drunk eating purposes
Ironically, the location I went to was bigger than that.
I was the only customer in the place. While I was eating another group did wander in and leave, but it was pretty dead.
I see the mistake in the picture. Cincy chili is only good on hot dogs.
So, UCS, I see you go in for health food.
After a year on a very bland diet (which, admittedly helped me lose 90 pounds), I decided to take a vacation from that too. It was easier since I was going to be unable to cook while on the road. Yes, it did set back progress. But I don’t regret it.
Yes, I never worry about what I’m eating while traveling — you might miss something good!
Skyline is amazing. But I’m biased, since I’m from Cincy, and my mom craved Skyline when she was pregnant with me. Ironically enough, I know she had Skyline on the night Pete Rose hit 4192 (my dad worked for the Reds, and my grandma and Aunt were in town, and had tickets with my mom for her birthday for that series), and I was technically there, as a fetus.
I’m a Gold Star man, myself. But that’s probably because Skyline doesn’t really have locations further south than NKY, while Gold Star does.
I’ve heard Dixie or Camp Washington are the real MVPs tho
Skyline is in Louisville, which is further south.
Ehh, DGAF about Louisville. They’re not in the Inner Bluegrass region, so they’re out of my usual grazing range
I only get the Coneys — forget the spaghetti junk.
Exactly…this is the key.
“Abbot responds, “But, you’re not black. Remember, we only shoot black people. We only kill black people, right? All the videos you’ve seen, have you seen the black people get killed?””
If you can’t trust the KKK, who can you trust?
Dude sounds like a smart ass Glibertarian to me. I could see that comment here. Hell, I may have seen that comment here.
*narrows gaze*
He should probably have shut his fucking yap and engaged in process. He gets paid either way…He was just impatient to get back to sitting down in the cruiser.
Ya, probably.
This case underscores everything that is wrong with people.
It should be obvious, but just in case somebody missed it… we shouldn’t be having disciplinary hearings, investigations and firings because of sarcastic comments …. particularly ones aimed at de-escalating a potentially violent confrontation that was coming down the track.
And we should be having criminal prosecutions for violent acts, stupid policing tactics that get people killed, false arrests, testilying, etc. Instead we get whitewashing investigations and “paid leave” disciplinary actions.
Damn, people are stupid. Like painfully, criminally stupid.
I tend to agree. My take is that the cop was using sarcasm to defuse the situation. Well, it worked. Does it matter that what he said, if taken at face value, was in poor taste? I don’t think so. If I was freaking out because I got pulled over by a cop for driving drunk, it would calm me down a lot if the guy did something humanizing like being a smartass or joking around rather than if he acted like a by-the-book terminator. Follow the policy, yes, but act like we’re both human beings and more importantly like we’re peers.
Of course what he said isn’t even true, as we all remember from Minneapolis.
Here’s some classic ZZ Top for everyone
…and some newer stuff by the Kongos
I’m nationwide, dude.
Cleveland STEVE SMITH’s the Yankees, twice
They Rape us because they wanna Be us
All five were white men between ages 54 and 67. All five were fatally shot, most from behind, in surprise attacks as they walked dogs, visited parks and, in one case, walked down a city street.
He hates the dogs. Stay away from the dogs.
HA!
Yeah, it’s a real mystery, it is.
The motive would have only been less clear if he’d exploded in a crowded area while screaming ‘allahu akbar’.
*Not that I suspect this was his motive, I think he was just a racist
I agree. It’s actual not unreasonable to say, “We DON’T KNOW if this is racially motivated.”
That is never equally applied. We know what would happen if the races were reversed.
I bet this will count as more “right wing killings” according to the ADL since there is “no clear ideological motivation”.
Another instance where Hate Crime laws provide no extra benefit.
threatened in 2014 to shoot up a school and “kill all white people,” according to court records.
Police said they did not know if the shootings were racially motivated.
Though the devil’s advocate in me tells like if the race was changed, this would be classified as a hate crime.
That is almost a certainty. because “white privilege”.
Yeah, leonasdasiv. You fail at social justice. There is no such thing as reverse racism. It is unpossible because of the system of white racism. Hate crimes require an imbalance of power. The killer is a victim of racism, not a source.
^Now THAT’S how you social justice!
I have been a lurker for a couple of years but I felt like speaking today. My stepfather was this assholes first victim. It was such a random killing and the police couldn’t tell us anything about the crime scene. I didn’t think we would ever get any justice or closure. I hope that the cops find the evidence needed for the 3 other victims so he can pay for those as well.
Holy shit.
Condolences.
Ditto that.
fuck. I am sorry.
Sorry, man. Thanks for sharing.
We have lurkers?
There are over five hundred registered users – and nowhere near that many regular commenters.
Tulpa is busy!
Hiss!!
My condolences.
Welcome aboardFuck you Tulpa.Is it really?
Man, sorry about make light of it. Terribly sorry to that and I hope that you find some solace in knowing they caught him.
Wow, that is horrible. Very sorry for your loss. At least they figured out the monster responsible and you didn’t have to spend your life wondering. Terrible.
I’ve heard nothing about this story until now.
But it does take one to not realize it as a bad idea.
Zing!
Literally without exception every single Ivy League grad I’ve ever met has been absolutely fucking retarded. I was shocked in grad school how the Ivy League kids were the least prepared students, lacked basic skills, got shredded in class, and yet still somehow managed to feel superior to everyone else.
So what you’re saying is if you see a resume with an ivy league school on it, you should immediately circular file the thing?
I’m sure there are smart capable ivy leaguers who just went there for the prestige, but yes. I wouldn’t hire one of them for anything. I might be missing out on one of the good ones, but hey with an Ivy League sheepskin, I’m sure that hypothetical person will not be lacking opportunities.
I helped this 15 year old Chinese girl prepare for the TOEFL exam. She needed a perfect score to get into Harvard. Her father was impressed with my Japanese and so he thought, “This is the white dude I want prepping my daughter.” Crazy because I’m not an English teacher, but he was willing to pay a shitton of money for private lessons. She finally did get the perfect score she needed and I found out she did get into Harvard. The most socially inept creature I’ve ever met and that’s saying a lot considering I hang out here.
So what is your day job?
Hustling. Someone needs something done, I do it. Probably worked for over 30 companies doing editing, translating, copy writing, interpreting, voice acting and a myriad other things over the years. More stable than you’d think.
straffin, that reminds me of the one honest man I met as an Assistant State’s Attorney. Morning bond call, and the judge is going through the usual questions and gets to “how do you support yourself?” The guy pauses and says “Judge, I support myself by bein’ a hustler.” I wanted to have him set free on the spot.
You’re either hustling or being hustled. Trick is to have both people feel like they’re the hustler.
“Hustling. Someone needs something done, I do it. Probably worked for over 30 companies doing editing, translating, copy writing, interpreting,”
That’s kinda what I’ve considered going down to Brazil and doing, so I can at least be closer to my girlfriend (sex unconfirmed). But then…Brazil.
Yeah, Brazil – a country whose waterways are too sewery to swim in and whose police actions actually do resemble small wars.
The good ones scores a sweet gig with their roommate’s dad’s investment bank. Contacts and nepotism are the only reasons to go there.
Uffda. Those are the crass new rich grubbers that do that. Old Money grads go into government where the can really fuck shit up.
But they looked great in penny loafers!
+1 Todd and Muffy
Does my post-doc at an Ivy count?
Nope. It counts as oppression. Since post-docs are the slaves of the academic world, I think you’re entitled to reparations.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Grad students are the real slaves of the academic world.
Depends on the person. One of the best engineers i know has a Harvard bachelor degree in physics and mechanical engineering Master’s degree from Tufts. Someof the worst engineers I’ve encountered were educated anywhere between a bachelor from Bumfuck U and a PhD at MIT.
I can’t speak to Engineers, since I work in IT.
I probably have a smaller (and skewed) sample size, but the best IT people I’ve known have had backgrounds ranging from Car Mechanic (Troubleshooting a system requires similar problem-solving skills be it a broken car or a broken application) with no University to a fellow RIT grad. The worst were the foreign consultants. (Not just Indian, one was German.)
All of my best people were converts from other industries. A chemist. An air force missile tech. A waitress who almost finished her associates degree. A sales guy (that one was a very, very reluctant hire. He turned out to be brilliant). Only one IT degree among the best of the best, but she only had an “information systems” degree, not software engineering. And she’s an outlier in any group. Work ethic and determination like no other.
But what they all have in common is that they all are top 1% smart and they all take pride in what they do. If you are hiring people, look for talent and motivation. The rest will follow.
The one we missed most when he retired was the former bus driver.
Not exceptional at problem solving, not the guy you asked to do implementation.
But if you have the process written down he did the boring, routine work without any complaint. That left the problem solvers free to fix problems, and everyone was happy*
*as happy as could be achieved at any rate.
Another excellent point. Round peg, round hole.
We had an accounts payable employee like that. She was so utterly change averse, so committed to following procedure that you could absolutely rely on her to do it by the book every time. She was a marvel.
That knowledge got me through the times when I had to train her on new features that we were implementing. Holy crap, did she put up a fight. She was like Don Knotts from “No Time for Sergeants”, marking down the score on the IQ test.
One time I made up a temporary workaround in a spreadsheet while we built a new report for her. The report was done in two days, but I wanted her to be able to solve her immediate problem.
Fast forward to two years later. As I was documenting a process to be automated, I discovered that she was still doing the little spreadsheet I built for her. Every day. Even though I automated it on a report 2 years ago. And we quit needing either of them about 6 months after that. Someone forgot to hit the off button and she just kept going and going and going.
Round peg. Round hole.
I’m just glad I wasn’t her supervisor. I couldn’t handle that.
“But if you have the process written down he did the boring, routine work without any complaint.”
iow bus driving
Talent and motivation count for a lot. But in the environment I work in, people without a traditional 4 year cause a lot of problems for the team. Maybe I’ve only been dealing with the top 10% instead of the top 1% but those passionate self-taught programmers I’ve worked with, lack in two big areas that affect our work. One is that they’re just not familiar enough with a given language and its tool kit so instead of using a specialized efficient options, they’ll hand roll non-performant, potentially buggy implementations. Like not-invented-here except they don’t even know to look for these kinds of tools. The other big problem is similar but the next meta level higher. They don’t understand how to write good code from an architectural standpoint. Code reuse, separation of concerns, avoiding anti-patterns, modularity and maintainability can be taught but as much as anything it’s an attitude about correctness and process over just getting something working that runs counter to what got these people into programming in the first place. We work on large code bases over several years that have frame sensitive performance requirements. Someone two years later needs to be able to go into a feature you worked on to make changes without you there to help them and everything needs to run smoothly, quickly with no soft locks or freezes. For us, a can-do hacker is like a mechanic who only has an adjustable wrench instead of sockets and was taught everything can be solved with duct tape and wd40 including that whining from the transmission. It’s extremely hard to break those kinds of habits.
Best programmers I’ve met are high school dropouts and self taught.
One of my fraternity brothers somehow managed to get a chemical engineering degree (I took Pchem with him, so I know how stupid he was). He immediately got a job building missiles for Raytheon. We are all doomed.
He left his final paper for his japanese literature class on the computer unattended, so we did a find/replace for “Tale of Genji” to “Tail of Benji” and rewrote the opening paragraph to be about the canine movie series. He turned it in.
Someone dumb enough to just barely pass PChem is probably going to do just fine as a rocket scientist.
What grad school? Ivy undergrad and then a step down at grad school means that the kid was probably either a fuck up or just on the left side of the distribution. Ivy undergrad and Ivy grad, or even more so Ivy undergrad and Ivy law school, and the kid is probably pretty damn smart and with things. At least that’s my experience.
Brother goes Korean shop owner ala Rodney King riots.
The only thing I can ask is why this guy is an ex-cop. More cops like that doesn’t seem a bad thing.
That girl’s accent is cute. She’s kinda cute, too. I can’t with those nails , tho
Yeah, would for sure
But the back scratching you could get…
The A-rab sto.
“right hee-yuh”
Oh, yeah. That gave me Memphis flashbacks.
Someone should tell the guy with the shotgun that Deadspin hates him. He’ll melt into a puddle of tears, no doubt.
SIV is torn.
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The world needs more people like that guy.
‘Kill all white people’: Suspect in killings of five white men made threat in 2014
It’ll be charged as a hate crime, right? Right?
I’m thinking, NO. After all, it’s not like he has institutional power, Bruh.
What does privilegometer say?
Weirdest white privilege ever.
Adam Carolla had a great rant about that in his appearance before congress recently. He was responding to a black lady who lamented how hard it was for her at her elite prep school to be a woman of color.
The whole thing is on the net, and is worth a listen. They are discussing free speech on campus. It was really good – plenty of lefty derp from the other side too. Of course, it changes nothing…. because the politicos just want an issue that they can use to rile people up.
My best guess is that he’ll be let off easy with a verdict of ‘mental illness’.
I live about a quarter-mile from one of those murder sites and perhaps a half-mile from another. People around here are very nervous, for good reason. I hope that the police find enough evidence to convict him of all five crimes and put him away for the rest of his life.
I lived in Bowie, MD when the “DC sniper” thing was going on. In fact, Tasker Middle School is about a mile from where I lived, and a mile from my grandparent’s. I found out about the shooting from one of my neighbors whose son went to that school. Shit was intense for a little bit. Not a good time to drive a white van in that area, believe me.
OMWC hit hardest.
I remember the DC sniper too and I live right in the area, I was still in K-12 school at the time. It was kind of unnerving to be at a gas station or outside around schools at the time.
Reading list a window into how much money you’re wasting on college…
a-Nehisi Coates’ letter to his teenage son about the challenge of being black in America
Yeah, so fucking challenging. Try the challenge of being black in Africa, you fucking moron.
“These books are not preparing us for a class,” said Collins, 18. “They are more preparing us how to be human, as individuals who are rooted in goodness and virtue.”
Define virtue. Because we may not have the same definition.
Ya know, that thing you have to keep signalling. That you’re full of rightthink and stuff.
He sounds confused about the difference between consuming virtue and actually practicing it. My guess is that there are lots of virtuous people in practice who have not read all the necessary books.
How many reading lists contain Human Action, I wonder …
Sure, retention and graduation are the most important challenges, not actually, you know, preparing people to have/get/create jobs in the real world.
Making college about jobs is the worst thing you can do. This is exactly the problem in the modern world. College should be about self-development and personal curiosity. Medicine and engineering can be learned in a couple of weeks after the important stuff.
Lol. The thing is, if people felt confident in college’s ability to (1) get them a solid job that will (2) cover the cost of borrowing for college, I bet retention/graduation wouldn’t be nearly as much of a challenge as it is today.
I think the unwillingness of universities to prepare people for actual work, combined with the massive inflation of college tuition will end up popping the bubble soon.
I generally think this whole I should spend life until 25 finding myself before doing something that helps for a job is ridiculous. Read some books in your spare time, have some interesting debates, and get a job that allows you to spend your days browsing the internet.
Like apparently everyone here?
Except for Rufus. I think he works, or something.
I didn’t find myself until I was given the boot and had to actually pay attention to the world.
College only helps you lose yourself.
I totally agree. I started working when I was 12. I worked through middle school, high school, and college. I think it was because of my real-world work experience that when I took out student loans, I made damn sure I got a degree in something that was marketable and could get me a job that would pay me enough to repay the student loans.
The thing is, I don’t use a anything I learned in college for my job (other than business writing). I would have much rather foregone college and just gotten on-the-job training right out of high school. I had to get the on-the-job training anyway… I would’ve liked to save myself $60,000.
“Finding yourself” in college is for rich people anyway, I was working 2 jobs while I was in college and renting a room off-campus. No time to “find myself.” A lot of my friends that were finding themselves in college still are now…. in retail jobs barely making above minimum wage.
I get your point. And, having gone to a small liberal arts college, I’m not sure I disagree. I’m at least sympathetic,. The problem is that so much of the humanities that served as the basis for self-development has been pretty much rendered worse than useless. It’s brainless garbage that is going to leave the kids less capable of rational thought than they were when they went in, fit only as indoctrination materials. The more “vocational” areas like the maths and sciences are the only areas left with much added intellectual value.
If college was actually about self development and personal curiosity…unfortunately so many graduate in “liberal arts” that is supposed to make them well rounded general thinkers, but they have no math, science, or even classic literature and history. They are not well rounded generalists. Instead, liberal arts is often just an excuse to sit around and talk about current events for four years as a way of proving that you are of sufficient social standing to be a member of the middle class.
asking students to read a common book and then come together to talk about it creates a sense of belonging — a critical component for colleges to create for students…
Funny, there used to be this thing called the canon that did just that. It had the advantage of raising the big questions in universal terms in a context that could easily be extrapolated to a huge variety of situations. It was the backbone of a liberal education for centuries.
Then somebody decided it wasn’t “woke” enough. Libertarians, probably rightly, went along with it on the premise that a specific set of books shouldn’t be demanded universally without considering the context of the individual. I doubt the current crop of libertarian “leaders” will object too much to the new canon.
Honestly, colleges aren’t there to get you a job. They sell education. It’s up to the buyer to find what they want with their money. It just happens that most people go with the hope of getting a good job because of their experience in college (and degree).
Although some of us might be rich enough to go purely for the pursuit of knowledge and higher learning, most of us go to college because employers require the piece of paper you get after 4 years. So, I have to disagree, the primary reason colleges exist is to get you a job.
I agree with you. The son is busy applying to engineering schools and a major part of the pitch is their access and relationships to industry.
Which is valuable.
One pro-tip, from my niece. She’s at some high-falutin’ east coast school studying physics. She sent letters out to several researchers looking for a summer internship… just cold calling. She got a taker and got to work in a very cool robotics lab over the summer.
The same thing would work with engineering jobs. In addition to whatever programs the school has, just cold-call some companies you are interested in. And not just the obvious ones at SpaceX, Apple and Google. Find some cool little company that nobody ever heard of and you’ll probably get some great experience and a leg up on a career.
Thanks! The schools he is looking at have a very robust internship push (paid!). One young lady we talked to had three before her senior year. They were all with the same company, but in different areas and different locations. You won’t believe this, but they offered her a sweet gig when she finished!
I think a lot of the more technically-oriented schools are starting to understand that we parents have no interest in helping fund retardation.
I am reminded of the conversation I had with the undergraduate Dean about the costs of going on co-op (internship) and he couldn’t get past ‘but they’re paid’ when I was concerned about the required up-front outlay of funds I didn’t have.
Once again, thats your thought it decision. A shorter version is that you as a consumer need to be looking out for yourself. If you go for education, then it behooves you to do your best, and pick something you want to make a living doing.
Would’ve loved to just get a trainee or apprenticeship somewhere rather than pay thousands for useless knowledge I’ll never need. But hey, at least now I have a copy of Barack Obama’s Dreams from my Father on my shelf (required by one of the 3 English courses my college requires for all majors).
Tag fail haha
HTML course not required.
+1 merit badge(s).
“Between the World and Me,”
It’s this generation’s Beloved; I can’t imagine how many students are going to be assigned this mediocre thinker’s harangue.
Don’t settle!
I wonder if Shriek will use this study to explain to his mom why he isn’t going to take that night dishwashing job and continue to live in her basement.
Is this for people getting hand-out checks from big daddy government, or people who have to work if they want to eat?
Well, Britain, so not surprising people would be happier on the dole than working a lower-end job.
My guess is that this study is garbage. Some amount of stress, even for an extended period, is not the only bad thing in life. In fact, sometimes it’s the kick in the ass you need to grow and start moving forward. I’ve never seen not working, not having something to devote one’s energies to, leads to a strong, sound and healthy mental state, except maybe for retirement (but even there, it’s questionable).
My general view is that retirement is basically just a fancy way of saying “okay, I’m ready to die in 3 or 4 years.”
Yep, my parents “retired” rather than relocate to Michigan (at a large expense, the extra working years were not worth it). They are able to spend a lot of time on vacation and doing fun things, but my mom still works 20-30 weeks of the year as a contractor in her field, and my dad does handyman stuff for folks in the community, as well as runs the roads committee for their neighborhood.
I don’t think that necessarily the case. But, it can be in a lot of instances. To me, retirement really represents the test of my theory and I think it generally passes. There are people who keep an active, structured, life in retirement. Retirement, for these people, really just represents a job change (albeit to a much more fun job). They seem to enjoy long, happy retirements. It’s the folks who retire and essentially do nothing who seem to drop pretty quickly.
If I ever actually make enough money to retire, I plan on becoming a Distinguished Gentleman of Leisure. I’m thinking something like a Renaissance-era baron, or possibly an 18th century gentleman-farmer: dabble in a little of this, a little of that, but mostly just enjoy myself and look as handsome and dignified as I can.
I don’t plan on doing exactly what I’m doing until the point when I die, but I’m definitely going to have a daily way to make extra money when I finish my career. I totally agree that structure is key. I’d even go so far as to say having obligations is necessary. I don’t want to have time to die… because I’ll have shit that needs to be done.
I’ve seen too many of my customers retire in their mid-60s and then 3 years later I find out that they’re dead and buried.
You need a mission. I know a dude in his 90s who still works because he hates being around old people!
Stony Brook University Has A ‘Men’s Studies’ Program — And It’s As Crazy As You Might Expect
http://www.dailywire.com/news/20441/stony-brook-university-announces-mens-studies-emily-zanotti
Is it of the genre of “here is why men are evil”?
Admittedly, I barely skimmed the article, but one paragraph mentions studying men’s issues under the lens of feminism.
Yes, it’s a stealth indoctrination attempt.
I’m going to guess that most of the professors will be white women.
“Men’s Studies”? Isn’t that just STEM, history, philosophy, literature, etc.?
That is what a toxic patriarch would say. I’m on to you.
Duct Tape and Its Infinite Uses 101
“Boobies – how big is ‘too big’?”
It’s proportional to the frame they’re attached to.
Sounds totes legit
Gender scholars. I see.
*spits*
TOXIC
And unhygienic. They would probably fine you 5000 bucks in Singapore for that
+1 caning
What’s an “obscure individual”?
Unknown in the august world of Academia. Not invited to the good parties
No, they get invited to the good parties. They know enough to mouth the right platitudes.
How long till Robby winds up on staff?
Also, strangely, some guy named Jude
Is it like a “Particular Individual”?
Men’s Studies: Why Do They Suck So Much?
The crass joke expected here I assume is Women’s Studies: Why Do They Suck Insufficiently?
I’ll be over here fixing shit and getting things done, thanks.
Sounds gay
“I have a B.S in men’s/women’s studies”. A common phrase uttered before the response “thank you for your interest but we’ve decided to go with another candidate.”
That’s at Starbuck’s, too.
Crew to attempt removal of mysterious object from beach
Cthulhu’s nipple ring.
“wardrobe malfunction”
Collect all fifty!
Tommyknockers is sort of a type of breast, right?
I have to admit that as an IT guy, there are times I look at Minnesoda and think I should go work for the state IT departments. The pay isn’t all that bad and no one really expects results.
The MNSure (ACA Exchange) system was an utter fiasco. Now a new DMV system that was started 9 years ago has been rolled out to a resounding thud.
Then I remember talking with a developer who used to work for me and he had left the MN DNR because he couldn’t stand working for them anymore. He said it would take 9 months from the first request to add a new server to their systems to the time it was purchased, racked and provisioned in their data center.
That is when I realize that I would stroke out if I worked somewhere like that.
It’s not that people don’t expect results, it’s that the system actively prevents results.
We had a problem that was actively causing problems on a weekly, if not daily basis. We presented a plan with a three year ROI based on savings in maintenence bills alone, not to mention freed up worker time.
It took three more years of ongoing breakdowns before they finally decided to implement it. By then, all the quotes had long expired and we had to start from scratch.
Also, I only make $80k/yr
Also, I only make $80k/yr
That sounds about right, since it appears that’s the average IT salary in the US and I can’t imagine the government paying much more than average for a skilled position. The government only overpays unskilled/low-skill people.
When I was a young developer, my second contract gig was with the FL Dept of Corrections. I started, worked on a prison training project for two weeks, and then sat in my office doing nothing for 2 months because everyone I needed to interface with in my project was busy building an interim HR system because the new statewide PeopleSoft implementation failed UAT and went back to the drawing board for another 6 months and DOC had already negotiated an end of life contract on their old system. What I saw there — and at other State IT departments — is a couple of hyper-competent people keeping everything from falling apart and a bunch of people who are just serving time and going along. Mostly, it is incompetent leadership. If the Secretary doesn’t give a shit about IT and his or her CIO doesn’t know shit about IT, its hard to have any vision or leadership. In the corporate world, these people get fired or the company goes under.
Here in New York, we have two layers of CIO. the agency head, who is the governer’s toady and appointed for that purpose, and the cluster heads. Our cluster CIO has an average tenure of under two years before they get frustrated and flee back to private industry. I don’t know how they keep conning them into taking the job. Our deputy cluster CIO refuses to take it – probably because he’s seen three people chased out of the role already.
I once worked on a proposal for the Sec of State in Minnesoda. I got very nervous about what we were proposing and one of the other consultants working on the project said, “don’t worry about it. She’s notorious for commissioning these studies and proof of concepts. She never follows through on any of it. We won’t have to deliver on any of this.”
On one hand as a taxpayer I was outraged at the waste of my money. On the other hand as a greedy consultant I was excited at the prospect of easy money.
Actual quote from state worker turned consultant: “If they’re going to shovel money out the window at [office location redacted], I’m going to be out there with a basket to catch it.”
Yeah…. big rollouts fail at an inordinately high rate, even without government employees.
The most successful way to implement anything is to start small and do one thing at a time… picking off the biggest bottleneck each time. Of course, that’s really hard when you are doing a total replace of an existing system.
What I’ve done in that case is to replicate the old system in its entirety using new technology, then replacing and enhancing each piece along a roadmap to a new utopia. Once we even replicated the entire heavy client, graphics and all, screen for screen into a web client. But the back end was entirely new, completely restructured data. We rolled it out overnight and didn’t even have to do a formal training. Just a quick meeting and a couple of examples on a sheet of paper. Everyone got to work and we started rolling out upgrades every two weeks. Within a year the entire system was overhauled and nobody was the wiser. It took 60 days to do the “clone” and get it deployed. We had the new system in place, better than what the managers had asked for, with more features and none of the stuff that was going to fail, in half the expected timeline for a “build the whole ship, then deploy” plan. And we had almost no complaints, and there were zero panicked calls about features that don’t work, or “that’s not how we do it” from someone who’s manager didn’t think about how his team actually works.
It really is a joy to do it that way, if you can.
Once we even replicated the entire heavy client, graphics and all, screen for screen into a web client. But the back end was entirely new, completely restructured data. We rolled it out overnight and didn’t even have to do a formal training. Just a quick meeting and a couple of examples on a sheet of paper. Everyone got to work and we started rolling out upgrades every two weeks. Within a year the entire system was overhauled and nobody was the wiser.
That is a million times smarter than trying to roll out a massive client overhaul at once, which is almost always a nightmare. Nicely done.
Another nice thing we did with that system was to leave everything as it is….. while slowly changing the way everyone does their job.
So we left all the legacy screens in place, but we started building “your job” pages for each job function. So instead of navigating here to enter contact info, then going there to check in a document, etc., all of the information Joan from Accounting needs is on a single page, custom built just for her job. Then that page is accessed from a work queue – so the system just feeds everyone “do this next”, with everything they need to get the task done on a single page.
It really was brilliant. Productivity jumped immensely. Errors dropped precipitously. Win, win, win.
The only complaints came from sales. I had to dial things back a bunch for them. I integrated the phone system with their contact management and inbound and outbound call center dialing to give them a fire hose to drink from. The guys who got with the program and let the computer push them through their day saw their income jump by tens of thousands per month. But it was a lot harder than everyone was used to, and there started to be rumors that the guys who were suddenly making more were “stealing leads”, so that whole thing was dialed back. Freakin’ sales. The blended inbound ACD with outbound predictive dialer was a game changer. Too bad they couldn’t work that hard.
You sound like a sissy who probably checks the water before cliff jumping.
I bet if you are troubleshooting something that isn’t working, you only change one thing at a time and then check to see the results. Real Men get right to the root of the problem by changing as many variables as they can at one time. That is efficient!
Holy cow, you just gave me flashbacks. I had a sequel developer who would literally spend two days working on a giant query. He would sit there and stare at it for hours running it over in his head … pages of code.
He would edit and edit his code never once running any of it. Then finally after 48 Hours of study, he would execute his code. And then he was always very frustrated and confused when he didn’t get the right answer.
I tried to teach him how to add and run each line one at a time. But he just couldn’t do it. He could only see it as a whole I have never met anyone smart enough to do that. And he certainly wasn’t. So I had to let him go.
SQL. Obviously. Posting from voice recognition on phone
That’s actually what they used to teach programmers to do. The idea was that if you didn’t know exactly what the code would do, you shouldn’t be writing it, so everything should work correctly the first time.
I knew a guy who worked in our state’s IT department, making decent money. He quit, promptly got fired from his new job, and bounced from job to job for years. He was an awful employee who couldn’t even hold down a simple $10 an hour job, he would inevitably be fired. He finally got hired by the state doing IT again, and will be there until he retires, because they will never fire him regardless of how incompetent he is.
Are those vehicle tabs anything like the electronic pull-tabs that paid for the Vikings’ stadium?
No. Vehicle tabs exist.
We’ve long since abandoned the fig leaf that e-pull tabs will pay for the stadium and have gone directly to the general fund.
Get your surprised face ready. No one held the local pols who promised that the general fund would never pay for the stadium responsible in any elections.
Glibs in Houston?
OMG that was awesome.
“Yeah, I’m not sure that was water.”
Then the guy takes a giant pull off a giant water bottle. It’s all about timing, isn’t it?
“Look at them sharing water out of the cap of that bottle.”
Ha!
“Antifa Leaders Upset Media Focused On Their Violence
“I don’t have too much confidence that you’re not going to lead with the bleeding stuff,” another antifa activist at the press conference said.
“I’m not justifying it, I’m human naturing it,” Inn said. “In the sense that if somebody is in your face and going ‘nin nin nin’ and because they think they can because they’re privileged… we cannot take this lightly in San Francisco.””
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=57257
going ‘nin nin nin’
Is that like a Monty Python NEE?
It’s not a reference to Anaïs Nin?
They’re moving in slow motion, doing the ‘Steve Austin’.
Ah yes the ‘nin nin nin’ doctrine, essential part of Constitutional Law in the US
‘nin nin nin’
So no antifa is justifying violence against autistic people?
They hate Nine Inch Nails?
So they have at least one redeeming quality?
Never bite the hand that feeds.
Bow down before the one you serve.
You’re gonna get what you deserve.
That’s a pretty hate machine.
Your ability to pun is Something I Can Never Have
I will make you hurt.
Or fans of female erotica.
The best defense against nin nin nin is cowbells and air horns followed by a good macing and then sucker punches. Nin won’t be tolerated!
“I’m not justifying it,”
O good…
“I’m human naturing it,”
Thank you for confirming that you are all idiots.
You break a few heads and that is all the media wants to talk about.
I’m not justifying it, I’m human naturing it,
Except for the last six months, you’ve not only been justifying it. You’ve been fucking exalting in it. Now that the public has decided they’re not too keen on commies beating people in the streets, it’s now “human nature”? Fuck you in the ass. With Negan’s Lucille.
‘Kill all white people’: Suspect in killings of five white men made threat in 2014
Self defense. They wuz oppressin him.
Charlie Hebdo screws the pooch on Houston (hat tip to Ace of Spades HQ). A vile take on a rough situation that’s far from over.
http://nypost.com/2017/08/30/charlie-hebdo-cover-casts-harvey-victims-as-neo-nazis/
Maybe they were satirizing American Leftists who said as much?
I didn’t consider that angle…don’t think that’s it though.
Just angling for a gig with Politico, obviously.
They learned the hard way about punching up. Time to punch waaaay down, bitches.
Meh, they’re a shock rag, ignore them.
What a bunch of fucking cunts.
Personally, I like fucking cunts.
But I’m pretty sure you don’t want to be the cunt.
Hebdo shouldn’t be confused with those type of cunts. If they are going to print that shit, I’m sure we could find something much worse to compare them to.
I can guarantee you no one is going to shoot them over this, tho
Yeah, they learned not to fuck with people who actually are violent.
I can’t really blame them for refusing to insult those who are only too willing to shoot them down like dogs for it but it does show rank hypocrisy when they continue to hammer those who won’t, or can’t, fight back.
Texas? I’m pretty sure there isn’t anyone from Texas who collaborated with the Third Reich.
Now, France on the other hand…..
Charlie hebdo… Charlie Chaplin… Hitler!!!
Yeah, good point. The actual Nazi collaborators are on their side of the Atlantic.
I’ll give them some credit for being all about offending everyone.
Charlie Hebdo screws the pooch on Houston
Ooooh!!! That gets me so mad I want to go out and kill some of those guys! Or at least beat some of them up!
Wait. No. No, it doesn’t do anything of the sort. They made an idiotic statement that I can choose to ignore or refute at my leisure. The most I feel the actual need to do is roll my eyes at them in contempt.
A bit of an overreaction there guy-I just think it’s a bad take on a current story. No one (here) wants to see any harm done to them.
Did you read my second paragraph?
Sorry, I think I read in something that wasn’t there…my bad.
Don’t worry about it. Insanity has become so much the order of the day, that it’s easy to expect.
“Men’s Studies”? Isn’t that just STEM, history, philosophy, literature, etc.?
Do they teach them how to change a tire?
My son learned how to replace a water pump last night. He seemed taller after he finished.
That’s awesome! How old is he?
The son or the water pump?
The son. Asking for OMWC
Son is 17. Water pump is a newborn.
change attire actually, but close
+1
That’s what dads are for.
*Checks statistics for divorce rates and rise of single-parent homes over the past 40 years*
Hmmm….
No. But they do have a lab on making your hair look fabulous.
“Family Faces $34 Million In Costs To Protect An Endangered Frog That Doesn’t Even Live On Their Land
A Louisiana family is facing $34 million worth of regulations if they continue developing a plot of land after federal officials declared it “critical habitat” for the dusky gopher frog.
Federal regulators are attempting to use the Endangered Species Act to stop commercial logging on the 1,650 acre piece of private land to create a sanctuary that might support the frog. The dusky gopher frog, however, has not been reported on the land or even in the wild areas of the state for 50 years, New Orleans’ The Times Picayune reports.”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/29/family-faces-34-million-in-costs-to-protect-an-endangered-frog-that-doesnt-even-live-on-their-land/
The Endangered Species Act – edangering species since 1966.
This is the kind of shit Trump should work on rolling back.
Yes. I am so mad right now I can hardly see straight. Someone needs their nuts cut over this.
This is the kind of thing the EPA does. It does not base its decisions on science, but on control and what its bureaucrats pet projects are. Years ago, in high school, one of the dads of a classmate (who has a Doctorate in Biology, and works for the EPA on the Mill Creek, 30 years after it was cleaned up by the very companies that had polluted it) came into our AP Government class to talk about the EPA. I ruined him on the science side, he basically didn’t know shit he was talking about (the previous year, his daughter and I shared an AP Environmental Science class, and had a huge water pollution unit on the Mill Creek as a locally relevant application of water pollution cleanup, plus my mom was one of those corporate scientists hired in order to clean up the Mill Creek in the 80s). When my mom questioned me on a lot of it, because he complained to her (his youngest son and my brother were good friends until high school), I merely explained the science, and she just said, “You may want to think about not making him look like a fool in front of people.” I guess I accept that as good advice, but the problem I have is that the kind of bullshit regulations that result not from Science, but from the Precautionary principle are often absolutely foolish. My best friend’s dad worked for NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, research/testing arm of OSHA) for his whole career, and the amount of safety precautions he had us take during my friend’s Eagle Scout project were insane. It put a lot of regulatory rules into perspective, and talking to him about many of the regulations, they did seem foolish and shortsighted. Anything like this precautionary principle needs to result in several hundred EPA workers losing their jobs, every single time, until they learn better.
Hey, that gives me an idea. Maybe the feds can save on transportation costs by declaring people’s land to be a car habitat and forcing them to build highways out of their own pocket.
Ooooooh, them’s fightin’ words. I strongly suggest to you, good sir, that beating a divisional rival 17-3 to complete a sweep as we enter September baseball is very noteworthy!!
*Cough* 2016 World Champions *cough.*
End transmission.
At least your team got mentioned. Mine is going for the sweep of the Dodgers tonight, yet nobody notices.
My son learned how to replace a water pump last night.
On a Triumph? That’s routine scheduled maintenance, isn’t it?
On a Tahoe, but same difference. The Triumph is only leaking oil!
Holy crap, I had a TR-7 years ago. And yes, I learned how to replace the water pump. WTF? How was that not already a solved problem? That thing ate water pumps like candy.
It does make me appreciate the rock-solid automobiles we can buy today. 100k miles without anything other than scheduled maintenance is normal these days. That Triumph wouldn’t have made 100k on a trailer.
Sweet, sweet ride though.
Yeah, the Triumph is obviously not a daily driver, but it’s fucking sweet. Besides, working on the car is great therapy.
Part of me wonders if the fix was to make the water pump easier to replace…
/never owned a Triumph.
Parts have improved dramatically. Which is good, because some new cars require you to disassemble most of the front end to replace water pumps (or headlights!). My Tahoe is actually one of the easiest cars I’ve ever worked on. The Triumphs were all old school and dead simple as well.
I hate complexity.
New Fathers Should Get Same Paid Leave as New Mothers, EEOC Claims
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-fathers-should-get-same-paid-leave-as-new-mothers-eeoc-claims-1504122377
So let’s start with the standard disclaimer that people should be free to run their businesses however they choose. I’m still not going to lose any sleep over a bullshit law finally being applied equally instead of being used 100% of the time as a hammer against men. I’d really like to see more of these inane regulations being used this way instead of only being in favor of the chosen groups.
A level playing field should be level. Prepare to take a pay cut and reduce advancement opportunities for a more flexible work environment, including taking any kind of longer leave than everyone else gets. I took an initial 75% pay cut and gave up years of promotions to work from home. It’s paying off now, but there was a trade off.
My company does not offer paid maternity/paternity leave and I have no complaints about that. When I was still in the office, I took one week off for my first child and that was completely unpaid. My wife took 2 weeks pto, 10 weeks unpaid. The sky didn’t fall and life went on.
What? You don’t believe in equality of outcome? What kind of monster are you?
Meh lotsa European countries give paid paternity leave, but it did not bring the magical results people expected.
What magical results were they expecting?
Canada has paid leave. Not sure if results other than be home with you child at the expense of your employer was ever mattered.
Wasn’t it Nordic countries where they found that new fathers were refusing to take it, rather focusing on becoming better earners now that they had children to support?
Other than the fact that you are literally Hitler, I agree with everything you said.
When I worked for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) all the women got 12 weeks paid maternity leave. The idea was that if a mom wanted to come back, AC could recoup that money in about 2 weeks of being placed on a job. So it was in their best interests to make moms think fondly of the company.
The only time I saw a guy ask for the paid 12 weeks off was one of the most worthless network admins that I ever worked with. The HR person was completely puzzled, but signed off on it. She sort of warned him that it was a CLM (career limiting move) but he didn’t care. The best thing about it was that the kid was adopted and like 3 years old already. Lots of derision from the peanut gallery for the dude.
You were working before 2000? Damn you old
*strongly narrows gaze*
I’m a spring chicken!
::runs (ok, hobbles) toward exit sobbing::
p.s. I worked at AC from ’95 to ’99 and it was one of the best/craziest places ever. It was by far the smartest place I ever worked at. The crazy came from the strange way the partnership worked and the huge stress levels to make money.
I worked at KPMG Consulting from ’92 to ’99 and had a similar experience.
I was digging ditches in 1987 when I saw a shop Helper position open up at a Refrigeration Company, I thought, those guys never get dirty.
I took some tests and they decided to pit me on a crew, installing and fabricating Sheet metal. That company sent me to quite a few schools, paid for, and my worth continues to rise every year, with very few ups or downs.
30 years later, I’m self employed and Semi Retired, and have enough time to BS with y’all
*throws rock feebly at Pie*
When I worked for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) all the women got 12 weeks paid maternity leave. The idea was that if a mom wanted to come back, AC could recoup that money in about 2 weeks of being placed on a job.
That’s an interesting perspective. I guess it makes sense with training costs for new employee and the fall-in period. Personally, I’ve always been uncomfortable taking off more than one week at a time. I’ve always thought that if a company can get along fine without someone for 12 weeks, then they probably don’t actually need them. There’s always exceptions to this of course, especially if there’s loyal clients involved.
In certain industries there’s a requirement that people take two contiguous weeks off each year so that someone else can work their accounts and look for signs of shenanigans.
I would say that the 12-week rule does not apply to snowplow drivers in summer…
AC never, ever fired anyone while I was there. There were certain projects that the really horrendous people would be put on (asset management) to let them know they should look elsewhere.
The career path for most people was to work 5 years and make manager and learn something about a specific industry and then go work for a private company in that area. The partners wanted to be sure that those guys who would be working at a potential client wouldn’t be bad mouthing them. So they were pretty generous when parting ways.
I have heard since then that the culture has changed a lot. So YMMV.
My company offers 12 weeks to any new parent (birth or adoption). Its a perk that everyone likes and 2% of the company uses. Its fucking brilliant. Like unlimited PTO. The people who use significantly more PTO than they would have “earned” in the previous system is low, there’s no bullshit carryover record-keeping, and the people who don’t take it don’t get pissed off about “use it or lose it” limits. Its fucking genius. HR has less work, there’s no surface area for disgruntlement, it costs the company no more, and there’s no future liability to book.
You clearly have better people.
Unlimited PTO would be abused like hell here.
I assume the unlimited PTO is paired with specific goals/deadlines that have to be met. You can take all the time off you want, but if you miss your goals/deadlines they’ll show you the door. That’s how it works where I work, and what do you know, the average employee takes about 2 weeks off per year.
We have it for some positions, but it’s abused the other way here.
I’m not sure how you mean. (I meant that we’d rarely have a day where the whole team was in the office)
There’s pushback to granting any time off since there’s no longer written guidelines. Sure, you can take as much time off as you like just as long as you get your work done. And that glass that stays fuller than a temple oil lamp during Hannakkuh.
At one all hands meeting shortly after it was rolled out, one of the unit VPs was trying to convince everyone how great it was by saying he granted someone a month off to tramp around Europe as their lifelong dream or such. In the unseen category
A) why is the unit VP the arbiter of what’s an acceptable vacation? What if I just wanted to lay on the sofa for three weeks?
B) why isn’t a time off approval handled by the person’s immediate manager and needs to escalated up to the unit VP for approval?
I’ll explain how it works if it’s anything like my job. Congratulations, UCS, we’re giving you unlimited PTO! Oh, by the way, we’re going to give you a staff of two and work for seven. And you have to spell out your achieved deliverables, which will receive management commentary on a monthly basis. And, of course, your bonus and review are going to be heavily influenced by them. Oh, and did we forget to mention, I know its 4:30 on Friday and all, but can you get this report to me. I need it by 7:30 on Monday. But, hey, congratulations on the unlimited PTO. You’ve definitely earned it.
Been there, done that, got cheated out of the T-shirt. No unlimited PTO though.
We don’t have unlimited leave, but we do have “comp time” which is very much abused and is nearly impossible for HR to track.
Comp time for salaried people is an excellent way to get them reclassified as hourly, with all that entails (mainly, overtime they work more than 40 hours/week). I’ve had to put a stop to it at two of my employers.
Mothers. Fathers. Bah! There will never be true equality until they establish paid shitlord leave! If mommy and daddy get time off to hang out with their kids, why do I have to use up PTO to tour the brothels of Amsterdam?! It’s an injustice, I tell you!
What you failed to mention was that the Orioles’ victory was the 7th in a row, second series sweep in a row. Until they collapse and break my heart, they’re giving all the appearance of a run at the wild card.
That logo looks like a bird in blackface to me so racist. Were I on twitter I could have started a campaign based on this to see if anyone buys it.
If you want a racist bird mascot in blackface, look to St. Louis, not Baltimore.
Hey! No ragging on Fred Bird allowed.
Actually looking up what an oriole is, European orioles are much better than American ones
False.
Not even. Show me a European who can hit and field like Manny Machado.
The Twins are getting one of the wild cards. So that only leaves one for the birds to grab
Our chances are listed at 45%, which is a lot more than the Orioles at 14%.
The fucking Yankees are 88% likely to make the playoffs (first WC spot).
I hate the fucking Yankees. (The Damn Yankess are good, however)
At least we won’t be playing them first round…’cause that has always gone well.
I’m a born and raised Yankees fan. Hate away, hater.
*flips keyboard
In grade school I lived half-way between St. Louis and Chicago and didn’t feel strongly about either, so I adopted the Yankees as my team (go Mickey Mantle, yes, I’m old). But then we moved to the St. Louis area and I’ve been bleeding Cardinal red ever since.
Wait…Our chances? Did you finally get your ticket for the bandwagon?
::polishes special hypocrite bandwagon pass::
Yes, my son has gotten me to start watching them. I still can’t fucking stand Joe Mauer, but the rest of the team is fun.
Buxton might not be the bust he was looking like the past few years.
* I can’t stand Mauer because he never gets shit in the press and he is the most non-engaged “star player” I have ever seen. For example in a recent game the score was tied and Joe was up with guys on first and second. Instead of trying to smash the ball and score some runs, he ended up with a walk using his legendary “eye”. The announcers let it go. Fucking Kirby or Hrbek would have swung at anything they could reach in order to get the ball in play. Argh!
Oh, and you know that free beer I told you I’d buy you for your stance on hot dish (that tater tot hotdish is the best thing ever)?
Well it is gone now for pointing out my hypocrisy.
DAMMIT!
Remember 1974 (ok, I’m old). The Orioles were 8 games behind Boston at this point, then nearly ran the table to win the division.
This will double my heartbreak when it doesn’t happen.
“Woman Tells Why She Threw Cup of Urine at DC Bus Driver”
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Interview-Woman-Who-Threw-Urine-Tells-Her-Side-of-the-Story-to-News4s-Adam-Tuss-442239973.html
Talk about incontinence rage.
She pissed into a cup on the bus? WTF is wrong with people?
I don’t understand why people are so reluctant to use public transportation.
“OK YALL KNOW IT WAS ME WHO DID THE BAD STUFF TO THE METRO OPERATOR!!!
BUT I WANT TO APOLOGIZE TO HER BUT METRO OWE ME AND SHR WAS BEING VERY RUDE. SO AT 2:40 AM I WALKED UP TO THE POLICE THAT WAS AT BENCO SND CONFESSED TO IT CUZ IT WAS ON MY HEART ALL DAY. BUT ANYWHO TRANSIT CAME. AND THEY WERE REALLY COOL I ALMOST FELT LIKE A CELEBRITY. IT TOOK ALL OF 20 MINUTES JUST GOTTA GO TO COURT FOR THE SIMPLE ASULT.”
All caps made it all the more coherent.
On what deranged ninth circle of hell do people get ideas like “It’s okay for me to piss in a cup on a public bus.” or “I’m mad at that person. I’m okay to throw piss at them.”? The fact that these sort of people seem to be becoming more common should tell us something about our culture. Or maybe we’re just hearing about it more.
I’ve seen teams suck before, but the Phillies are the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked.
Meanwhile, today’s transfer deadline day over in Europe. All I care about right now.
Find a new school?
Get bus tokens?
?
That’s what happens when you win a world series and the fans persuade management to reward long contracts to the stars and the team is then locked in as performance declines.
When the contracts are finally up or the owners decide to cut their losses, you get crap “prospects” for guys like Utley.
Not only did they drop a pair, but it was to Atlanta.
I’m going to mix the musical selections up a little.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLTJ2ykad-k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xssnp7R51A
The Odd Couple was awesome. If they remake it today, just kill me.
I hate to tell you this, but…
Let my ignorance be bliss. Bastards.
*offers straff a tanto*
staffinrun:
Sorry man, but you asked.
/hands over tanto
One of the most underrated guitarists of all time.
Devastation
The cycles of storms and droughts are, as my rice farmer friend will tell you, an inevitable fact of life in Texas. But as he will also tell you — even if you could make the case that climate played no role whatsoever in Hurricane Harvey’s fury or that we weren’t to blame at least in part for the severity of the last drought or the next — those storms and droughts are still more destructive than they ever were before, simply because there is more to destroy.
He will tell you that in the 16 years since Tropical Storm Allison deluged Houston, that city, which famously balks at any kind of zoning regulation, and the surrounding region, which encompasses all or parts of 15 counties, have undergone a period of explosive growth, from 4.8 million people in 2000 to more than 7 million today. Harris County alone, which includes the city of Houston, has grown to 4.6 million, up from 3.4 million.
———–
It will take months before the full weight of Hurricane Harvey’s ruinous rampage along the Gulf is realized, and it will be years before a full recovery. And in the space between those two points, my friend would tell you, there might just be a moment to consider how best to rebuild, to pause and rethink how and where we build, to reflect not just on whether we’re altering the weather, but whether there is a way to make ourselves less vulnerable to it. Perhaps we could build differently, or set aside land that would both help recharge the dwindling water supplies in times of drought and slow the floods when they come.
When will we learn to put our faith in Top Men? Why do we allow people to live and work as they see fit rather than guiding them? When will we halt this willy-nilly madness?
Like no one…EVER…has taken those things into consideration when engineering or building
Sure they have, but only after a benevolent government bureaucrat tells them to.
New Orleans, a city famously protected from flooding by federally created and maintained levees, has never had such problems and we have always been at war with Eastasia
That was different because shut up.
Same goes for New York
That was different because BUSH!!!1!!!!!
Exactly where I was going to go. What about all the other cities in New Jersey that do have zoning and were thrashed by Sandy? Honestly I haven’t even seen anything that ties the zoning to the destruction. It’s just tainting the idea.
Look, zoning stops hurricane damage, this is known. If only there were MOAR GOVERNMENT, nothing bad would happen, ever.
“We fined Harvey for storming in an area not zoned for hurricanes.”
God, that’s awful writing.
Ebbing Toward?
Climate Change
Maybe it’s a neap tide.
The population grows, you have to put them somewhere.
Considering there were hurricanes in Texas in the 1800s that killed thousands of the small population that was, and current ones kill a small number of the much higher population, I think wealth growth is good. And the wealth growth allowed by less regulation outweighs the maybe somewhat increased loses in case of rare disasters.
If anything wealth protects from any and all calamity.
The idea that a complete zoning regimen is needed because it floods from time to time is silly, but there may be a case for the government restricting development in flood plains, depending on the circumstances. Or the government could just abolish it’s flood insurance, but I think it is easier to prevent people building in obviously dangerous places than it is to make people pay for the consequences of their own mistakes when they have the public’s sympathy after one of these storms.
Government-subsidized flood insurance is the problem. Up to about half a century ago, most houses down the shore in NJ were shitty little bungalows, because they were cheap and also cheap to replace when a hurricane eventually wrecked them. Then along came the 1968 national flood insurance program, and guess what, people started building more expensive permanent homes and more of them, which now costs orders of magnitude more to fix when a hurricane hits the shore. Not that government meddling in the market creates perverse incentives or anything.
those storms and droughts are still more destructive than they ever were before, simply because there is more to destroy.
And if assholes like this had their way, there sure wouldn’t be. They’d made damn good and sure it took decades to rebuild.
Jesus fucking christ. Zoning regulations and stormwater regulations are totally different things. And Houston and whatever the county is have them. Stormwater that is.
It’s as stupid as thinking because there are no zoning regs there are no alcohol regs in Houston.
It’s only 9 AM, but this is probably the dumbest thing I’ll see all day.
(oh, who am I kidding, I’ll see something dumber)
https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/903231132543700993
I’ve already seen dumber. You’ve led a sheltered day.
Woke up, showered, brushed my teeth, got dressed, drove to work, sat down and did some work, looked over at Glibs, checked twitter. So it was pretty much one of the first things I’ve seen all day. I’m sure I’ll see dumber. But it’s pretty dumb.
“Woke up…”
Please don’t tell me you’ve gone to the Dark side.
Ugh. Here, some Joe Walsh that won’t make you suicidal.
Nice…..let me repay that with an awesome live version of Walk Away
I’ve posted this before, (and I know some here don’t care for it) but it bears repeating.
Great selections, boys.
Criminally underrated musician.
Hotel California sold over 30M copies. And that’s just one album.
I hate the fucking Eagles, man.
Jeezus. Don’t dirty up this Joe Walsh sub thread with the fucking Eagles.
I seriously doubt he regrets playing with them.
Of course not, because he’s always been pretty clear that he joined only for the money needed to make his own albums.
And support a pretty impressive drug habit!
I saw him in concert once (solo, not with the Eagles).
Amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to7B2hN2WE0
That is sweet.
It is my favorite of his. In college, a friend of mine use to play it on his stereo whenever he saw me go into the study lounge.
“TURN THAT OFF OR TURN THAT UP” was the usual result.
“this is probably the dumbest thing I’ll see all day”
Wrong.
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/08/what-the-media-got-wrong-about-last-weekends-protests-in-berkeley/
that’s some fatal apologia.
Holy cow. How can people be this stupid? How does someone like that manage to tie their shoes and feed themselves?
I don’t get why this warrents such an overblown reaction. Or indeed much of a reaction at all.
“The Lost History of Antifa”
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/antifascist-movements-hitler-nazis-kpd-spd-germany-cold-war
“Antifa – getting our asses handed to us by fascists since 1923”
So the author assumes that East Germany either didn’t exist or that they somehow weren’t socialist enough?
No True Socialism(tm) was ever tried!
If only we could ever find examples of relatively socialist and relatively free market countries right next to one another to compare outcomes.
I guess we just have to rely on Top Men to do all the fancy figurin’ for us in the meantime
It was the German Democratic Republic – way too bougie
Side not I think the Democrats did some polling in Antifa, because suddenly it’s like they flipped a switch and are being semi-critical of them.
Side note* damn autocorrect
I still say jacobitemag is somewhat better than jacobinmag
I’m the managing editor at Jacobitemag.
It’s basically a single 8.5″x11″ piece of paper with Franciscus rex Britannia on it a few dozen times
https://jacobitemag.com/
I searched for the phrase and could not find it.
Franz King of Britain.
This ol fella is technically the King of Britain according to Jacobite succession.
to the king over the water, and to the little gentleman in black velvet
And, of course, I’m not actually the managing editor there. I thought you just made it up tbh
Kamala Harris cosponsors the Medicare for All bill
Emptier words never spoken
But not a tasty way to do it.
/Wilford Brimley
Healthcare is best served with fava beans and a nice Chianti?
Can you imagine if Wilford Brimley was cast as Hannibal Lecter? Pure gold
“Won’t eat fat people. Bad for the diabeetus.”
“Kamala Harris Supports Massive Increase in Fraud Against The Taxpayer – Co-Sponsers expansion of massively defrauded program!”
Care to explain how it’s “just the right thing to do” Harris?
It is obvious. Do your own research.
So she comes from the Cenk Uyger way of debating. Make assertions and then demand you look it up and confirm what she’s saying?
*Disclaimer* Sorry if this has been posted. I feel like something like this probably was posted before, but I don’t recall seeing it.*
My state of California is thinking of criminalizing health care workers’ free speech.
God, I want the hell out of this shithole state.
I foresee the 9th circuit upholding and SCOTUS overturning the law on appeal.
Even though you’re probably right, just the fact that such obvious totalitarian shit will no doubt pass in this state is incredibly scary. And there will be millions of moron people who will cheer this effort on. On the bright side, this’ll help motivate me to take more overtime to build up my money faster to get out of this state sooner.
I’m not nearly so optimistic. This is the policing of workplace speech in the service of anti-discrimination, which SCOTUS has already said is totes constitutional.
I think even SCOTUS might detect a line in between “create pressure for employer to fire employee due to employee speech” and “directly criminalize employee speech”
Current federal law calls for fines on the employer, and a manager can also be pulled into the case and, presumably, fined. You are right that a line can be drawn between a fine (“civil penalty”) and jail time (“criminal penalty”), but I really think that’s a distinction without a difference. And of course, if you don’t pay the civil penalty, you get thrown in jail.
I dunno man on paper climate and geography wise California seems pretty great. To bad it is inhabited, as the old saying goes.
I’ve had the misfortune of living here my whole life. The climate is overrated. Too hot for way too much of the year.
Depends on where in California you are. I lived near the water in Long Beach and it was rarely hot. Of the few times in my life when I lived without air conditioning, that was the only one where I usually didn’t miss it.
I grew to hate much about California but not the weather.
Maybe if I lived in Northern California or near the ocean like San Diego I wouldn’t mind the climate. But, I’m in the Inland Empire. Not terribly great here, climate-wise.
Where? I’m in Upland, let’s get a Beer sometime
Hey! I live near the water in Long Beach (ine block to the Reno Room). It was pretty hot yesterday. Where’d you live?
My building was at the corner of 8th and Cedar. It did get hot occasionally, but coming from a humid place even the hotter days were usually tolerable with open windows and a fan. Try that shit in the southeast – it doesn’t help.
840 Cedar Ave was the street address, I believe. It’s been 17 years since I left so I might be wrong about that.
I’ll stick with tank tops, board shorts, flip flops, box fans, and a ice-cold beverage.
17 years ago that was a rough little neighborhood. Still is, frankly.
Google Street View confirms – 840
It could be, yep. It was kind of a weird area. My roommate and I used to say we lived in the DMZ – it was like a border zone between actual ghetto and the nice areas closer to the water. You could walk 5-6 blocks south and everything was very nice, or walk 5-6 blocks north and now you’re in gangland. We had cholo neighbors who I was frankly terrified of, though I should add that they were never anything but civil to us. I came home from work one day to find a big ol’ Caprice with gold rims and a rosary hanging from the rearview blocking my garage door. I went over there to ask him to move it so I could park….which he did, but gawd that was something I really didn’t want to do.
It happened another time late at night, and they were having a party over there so I didn’t even bother. I parked in the alley behind the building, so of course my car was broken into and my CDs were all stolen. Another time, we had just gotten a puppy that we were crate training. I had to hurry up and take her out as soon as I got home. So I pull in this one evening….a couple of cop cars out on the street, nothing unusual for that area. I go in my apartment, get the leash on her, and take her out. In that two minute span, about four more cop cars come screaming up, and all the cops have pistols drawn, using their cars for cover. They start screaming at me to get back in my house – I’m like “Christ, can my dog just take her shit and piss? She won’t go on the concrete in the building courtyard!” The helicopter starts buzzing overheard in the meantime. Anyway, apparently one of the guys living in the house across the street had stabbed someone in a bar a few blocks away and was holed up in the house.
I had fun living there though, all things considered.
I find it hard to find a place with climate I like to be honest. Lows of 16 highs of 26 year round. Although I will take anything that is not to extreme (Bucharest climate is shit but autumn can be nice)
Madeira is nice. Azores maybe better , but to far away from stuff
Probably in Continental Europe someplace like Zürich would not be to bad.
Azores. My father was stationed there in the 50’s. He said the soldier’s slur of choice for the locals at that time was Portagook.
He also said the soldiers would warm up by sitting in front of the antennas for the high power navigation beacon.
16 to 26? Sounds awfully cold. We use Fahrenheit round these parts, son.
Well civilized people keep their civilized habits in the face of the barbarians
Yes, we do.
You, on the other hand, capitulated to the French Head-chopper units.
Number of countries using the metric system that have put a man on the moon: 0.
So you want it to be below freezing all the time?
/deliberately obtuse regarding unlabelled units of measure.
Only transgendered people must be called by their preferred pronoun? Equal representation under the law? And why are they limiting it to health care workers?
Its hard to argue with a doctor when they tell say you are not a woman. Its hard until they make it illegal for a doctor to tell you that.
I could see a facility fire someone for not using the preferred pronoun, because it is dissing the patient, and that’s never a good business policy. But don’t make it law.
“The secret world of internet sperm donors. An expose on the life of Glibs commenters.
*Starts writing Craigslist ad
Reminds me of ancient Overlord proverb. “Dear Hustler, I never thought this would happen to me…”
“Houston congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said federal lawmakers should begin working on a Hurricane Harvey aid package worth about $150 billion, more than double the amount Hurricane Sandy needed five years ago.”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/2017/08/29/houston-congresswoman-lawmakers-pass-150b-hurricane-harvey-aid/
Did she touch the tip of her pinky to the corner of her mouth after she gave the dollar amount?
$149 Billion of which should be earmarked for friends of Sheila Jackson Lee, I suppose?
She shares a name with Stonewall Jackson AND Robert E. Lee. Problematic
Has she ever been on ESPN?
Did they really properly asses the damage yet?
Does it matter?
Why do you not want jobs for damage assessors ?
The money is only incidentally to fix damage. C’mon, this is Sheila Jackson Lee. She probably already has a list of approved contractors populated by relatives, friends, and donors.
because it’s just the right thing to do.
I will shut down the EPA. Because it’s just the right thing to do.
I will instruct the IRS to draft a flat tax proposal which will fit on no more than three pages, double spaced. Because it’s just the right thing to do.
PREACHER SPOILER ALERT! PREACHER SPOILER ALERT! PREACHER SPOILER ALERT!
What do you think is more controversial these days–showing Messiah Jesus as an inbred idiot or making Adolf Hitler out to be an apparently sympathetic character?
Yeah, I’d say making Hitler out to be sympathetic, too. I don’t know how things end, but that’s at least the third episode where the viewer is apparently supposed to feel sorry for Hitler.
There’s something here to be said about the nature of censorship these days. In the past, censorship and its attendant chilling effects were about government stifling media and art. Censors wanted the government to stop pornographers, broadcasters, movie makers, publishers, etc. from making things available to the public. judging the level of censorship by that standard, we’ve got one hell of a free press these days. You can broadcast Jesus in sex scenes, make his heirs into inbred retards, show God subject to kinky ass sex slavery as a man-dog, or even portray Hitler as a sympathetic victim of bullying in hell.
Censorship these days isn’t about the media–it’s about personal expression. “Libertarian Moment” censorship isn’t about stopping the media; it’s about censoring individuals. They don’t care what people see anywhere near as much as they care what you (second person singular) say–it better not be racist, homophobic, or misogynist, or they want the government coming after you (second person singular) and they want you to pay a steep personal price. Ask not for whom the censorship bell tolls. It tolls for thee. I suppose that’s to expected given the internet and the rise of social media.
The chilling effect to them is a blessing if it means individuals are afraid to say things that are racist, homophobic, etc.
They government (see NSA) started sifting through our electronic communications because we started communicating electronically. It makes sense that the left would try to control what we say to each other (through intimidation or otherwise) once that sort of thing could be monitored, too.
Ken, I forget if you read the comics, but they toned down the inbreed messiah. I am curious as to where they’re going with Hitler though, that’s not from the comics at all. I’m amused watching the AV Club deal with the fact that they’re feeling sympathy for one of the greatest monsters of history.
Overall, I’d say this season is a bit of a disappointment. It’s spinning its wheels again, sitting in one location. On the plus side, Herr Starr is perfectly cast and portrayed (with different goals then the comic), and it looks like we’ll be dealing with Angelville at some point.
I’ve never read the comic, and I’m sure the sex is more graphic than what we’re seeing on TV.
SPOILER ALERT!
When the Preacher gets on his knees to worship the messiah, the Messiah pisses on The Preacher’s face. Retard Jesus then starts humping Herr Starr’s leg.
I don’t know how much more the censors could reasonably accept. They’ve already broken whatever boundaries there are about offending Christian sensibilities, and what they’re doing with Hitler is much more fundamentally offensive to modern sensibilities. We’ve seen people’s reactions to Robert E. Lee. Hitler makes Robert E. Lee look like a boy scout.
Whether an underground comic is more offensive than what they broadcast of its adaption on mainstream TV is one thing. What they’ve broadcast on TV is deeply offensive by historical standards–and I mean it’s more offensive than what they’d have broadcast just a few years ago. Isn’t it interesting that the series should be deeply offensive both to Christian conservatives (Humperdoo, God going missing, God being a man-dog, sex slave, etc.) and deeply offensive to SJWs (an apparently sympathetic treatment of Hitler?!) That this deeply offensive show exists in the MSM at all with barely a peep of protest is indicative of something.
I say that something may be that America doesn’t care what you broadcast so much anymore. Nowhere near as much as they care about what people like you and I say to each other.
It’s not even the sex that’s more graphic. In the comic, Jesus had two kids, and that’s how the Grail kept the bloodline pure. Each generation had at least a male and a female child. Incest was a theme in the comics almost as much as in Game of Thrones. In the comics, Jesse had a childhood friend who’s family kept their bloodline pure as well. They also cut out (at least for the time being) the head of the Grail, the Allfather. He dresses like a pope, is grossly obese, gorges on food, and then purges.
On the offensive TV side, you’re probably right. I’m trying to think back as to what shows would even hold a candle to what’s on TV now, and I’m drawing a blank. The closest you may be able to get would be something like the Wire or the Sopranos.
G-d is dead, everything is permitted.
Houston.
Even volunteering to help people requires wading through a government bureaucracy.
Good for them.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/4350819/paris-jackson-defiantly-shares-picture-of-her-unshaved-legs-before-hitting-the-red-carpet-with-hairy-armpits/
You would never guess she has $100M and grew up in a mansion.
I dont know who that is, but she is pretty trashy looking.
I confess, i lol’ed.
My follow-up thought were her potential excuses for not recalling “it doesn’t sound like him?” or “he said he wanted to kill lots of people, lots of the time, i can’t be expected to remember all of them”.
I’m sorry, I’ve simply lost track of all the places my son wanted to go on a shooting spree at.
I thought that was weird too.
Hate crime laws are bullshit, but I’d say this qualifies. Of course he probably won’t be prosecuted as a “hate criminal”; I mean these were middle aged, upper middle class (based on the area), white, cis-shitlords. We should be happy he even got arrested at all; more than a few progs out there would say he was doing a public service.
If found guilty he’ll be in prison for life or he’ll get the drip. White folks ain’t gonna riot if hate crimes charges aren’t thrown into the mix.
“Money is fungible”
I know the word “treason” is being flung around like poo in the chimp cage lately, but if Obama shipping pallets of cash to Iran isn’t treasonous, I don’t know what is.
There Swiss, I referenced a link. ARE YOU HAPPY?!
Careful, I have been called crazy for saying that.
You are crazy, but it has nothing to do with that.
Spotted on Twitter. Yes, it’s verified.
You change your handle for one joke post and it’s like herpes…
Which, coincidentally, a bunch of pre-teen and teenage girls in Rotherham no doubt now have.
Better lube.
strawberry flavored
I’d guess those suggestions get sent to the same folder as the letters to Father Christmas.
Good morning cleavage connoisseurs!
http://archive.is/fUyUH
Numbers 6 and 17, HFS.
Hurray!
You brought in a ringer today, but I’m gonna go with 30 and 31.
15.
Is 41 Kate Upton?
Maybe it’s just the photos, but, jeez…is there a correlation between airheadedness and tittay size?
Lol. So is 15.
Haha now she’s a fat slob. Like me!
#23 is being sexual assaulted by two shitlords!
5 or 30 FTW
all
30 dear lord.
40 dear lord.
Woooowza.
All-girl remake of Lord of the Flies planned.
Replace all the violence with catty bitching? Should go over well
Rebel Wilson will play Piggy?
Unless there’s bikinis and tittays, it will flop.
How about floppy tittays?
Maggie Gyllenhal is too old to star in it.
Without men, who will their enemy be?
Ever been around more than one woman at a time?
Go on…
HOT
People think its going to be arty farty and explore
man’s inhumanity to manwoman’s bitchiness to woman, but i’m gambling on the producers caving to the marketing department pressure, and just using it as an excuse to have extended scenes of scantily-dressed teens mudwrestlingI’d watch that.
SOLD
What are the odds it has none of the violent sociopathy or social commentary of the original, and they build themselves a raft and escape the island because MUH ‘GINA
Yeah, because that’s how things work in real life.
That was really interesting.
Incidentally, I was trolling through the comments and saw this:
A few years ago when bestsellers by conservative male authors were being sold in the bookstores, many customers noticed that they had to ask the staff for them — it turned out those books were being kept behind the counter and in the back rooms, while the other bestsellers (that were written by ‘acceptable’ authors — i.e., feminist and leftist ‘PC’ types) were prominently displayed and taking up the majority of the shelf space.
Back in the mists of time when I worked at a bookstore, I caught several employees doing the same thing. Maybe it was a coincidence, but it was always women doing that stuff. I always put the books back in a prominent location, not because I wanted people to read them, but because my job was to help sell as many books as possible.
In fairness, those instances aren’t quite representative due to selection bias: it’s probably painting with a broad brush, but I’m going to guess that men who go on a reality show like survivor are more likely to be go-getters than the average man while women who go on the show are less-likely. I assume this because one of the primary reasons for doing a reality show is to receive attention, and men are more likely to presume attention will come from accomplishments while women are more likely to presume attention will come from attractiveness. So I’m not at all surprised that while the men were working, the women were sunbathing. Each group was attempting to show off their best features, in order to get camera time (attention).
“to find examples of successful matriarchal societies you either have to turn to ancient history, remote outskirts of the world or feminist fiction.” (Emphasis mine.)
Nice.
Small sample size, and Dutch Survivor might have chosen their contestants with just that result in mind, but still funny.
I feel dirty (Not only did I actually read the article, but it was on return of kings). But there were three examples cited. Something tells me the CBS crew wasn’t trying to set up a matriarchy fail twice. But I don’t know, and the self selection bias hypothesis is currently untestable. We’d need to be able to grab a random selection of people and strand them.
I smell a government funded research project! But I don’t want to have to write the IRB…
We can only hope.
I want an all-girl remake of Battle Royale
Jezebel has already thrown an absolute shitfit over it: http://jezebel.com/lord-of-the-flies-but-with-women-written-by-men-1798644692
Two Hollywood broskis are gonna tuuuhtally
Nope.
“All I know is that I was once a preteen girl…”
and still write like one.
I clicked on that…..and it was precisely what I expected.
So the people who complain about there not being enough movies that star/feature women are then going to complain that the writers weren’t also women?
How far down would this go? If they replaced the guys with women, would they then complain the director was a guy? The grip? The camera operator? I sure hope they are satisfied before they get down to “best boy”.
aka Pitch Perfect 4
aka Mean Girls: Field Trip Gone Wrong
aka Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Beelzebub’s Revenge
aka Eat, Pray, KILL THE OUTSIDERS
So a MEAN GIRLS remake?
from a link in the sidebar of a NY Post story
Because this is a common workplace problem that needs more attention.
I almost want to watch to see how someone ‘forces’ another to sit and watch while simultaneously flagellating themselves. It must be some ‘
third5th hand’ sort of trick. the part where you hold their eyeballs open seems the really difficult bit.other thought: I think every woman named “Tig” must look like that. I wonder if they just give you a complementary Subaru when you show up at the dealership.
“That’s a man, baby!”
Wow, I had never heard of that show, but it sounds fucking awful.
Maybe they’re afraid it will go off if they try to leave?
Tig is a terribly unfunny person who has basically made her bones by piggybacking other, more famous people, then stabbing them in the back for credit with the SJW crowd.
Norm Macdonald and Artie Lang have pretty well summed up why she’s not funny and the only reason she gets attention is she cut her tits off
“”Tig is a terribly unfunny person””
Her best joke is, “My friends call me Plasma Arc”
+1 the brainwashing scene from A Clockwork Orange
Conveniently enough, I’ve never heard of Tig Notaro or One Mississippi, and it will stay that way.
The only Tig I know is this one.
Who? I was expecting this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIyu-63ruMU
Ugh. I am such a fuckin’ redneck.
In the latest chapter of LOOK AT MEEEE!!!1!!!! An outraged mom claims that Disneyland refused to let her son get a princess makeover.
Reg has some thoughts.
That movie has at least one scene or line that can apply to pretty much anything.
Says the guy in leather pants.
Three?
Why are you wasting thousands of dollars to take a three-year-old to Disneyland? He’s not going to remember it.
More money than sense is a surprisingly common affliction.
Dentist appointment this morning – no cavities. Though the hygienist wouldn’t stop talking, which made the experience last a hundred years.
The guy I go see is an older Chinese man who talks constantly about his various conspiracy theories. Chemtrails, FEMA trains, all of it.
What’s his policy on fluoride?
Superblue?
IT’S GOING TO TURN THE FRIGGIN’ FROGS GAY!!
Also did you figure out your PSU issue? I was busy and when I came back the thread was dead. Also noticed autocorrect changed obstruction to instruction on my comment I figured you understand what I meant.
Blew it out and turned it on, still spun like mad. So I let it run for awhile, maybe twenty minutes, and it finally spun down to a reasonable speed for about thirty seconds. Spun back up for another ten minutes, then spun down again. I went to bed not long after, so we’ll see what happens when I get home. I’m going to pull it and get the serial code to start the RMA process with EVGA whatever it does.
To be clear, I shut it off before going to bed.
Well if there is one positive at least it’s not the CPU or GPU. Always easier and cheaper to replace the power supply.
I love it when they ask you questions while they have 6 different tools in your mouth… Yes I’m aware this comment is set up for inappropriate responses.
The Dental professionals I use only have two hands – how many arms does your hygenist have?
Pictured.
Lack of appendages is never an issue at Cthulhu Dentistry.
Linked before, but what the hell
Paging John Titor…
I had a dentist in San Diego whose hygienists were all hot sadists. Any one of them could have been Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS.
Go on…
I don’t regret not flossing enough.
And that particular dentist offered me Vicodin prescriptions as a sleep aid (because he took one every night). He was a little different.
Wow.
“Polite White People Are Useless”
http://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/polite-white-people-are-useless-1798546057
At this point, I’m convinced there are left-wing blacks are trying to incite racism by seeming as inferior as possible. If a group insists on publishing idiocy in the group’s name, it’s going to lead some people to believe that group are idiots.
This is a typical article:
http://www.theroot.com/the-five-types-of-becky-1798543210
I’ve found it’s best to ignore idiots like this. I don’t need to prove I’m not racist. Besides any attempt to prove you aren’t racist ultimately results in “you’re racist for saying you’re not racist”.
Absolutely. I won’t give the haters at Storm Front the time of day, neither these haters. I can’t change what’s in their hearts and minds, let them stew in their own misery.
There is no way to prove you’re not racist to people like this guy because every single white person, by definition, is racist.
I think it’s a false flag/test.
Deliberately write undeniable racist articles and find the whypipo who won’t go along with it and which ones will give finger snaps and high fives all the way up to the article about how killing whypipo makes sense.
This and the “lol cant wait till jezebel gets this cross posted” comments makes it rather obvious that this is intended solely to get a rise out of people and to delineate the true believers from the fake woke whypipo.
Again, racism is fine as long as it serves a good purpose; like finding out which people think it’s not funny to post racist articles for that purpose
Real woke wypipo commit suicide.
If you want to push people into hating blacks, you write tripe like that. And I would guess that’s a form of job security for this clown – without the specter of the Klan, who the fuck is going to publish his drivel?
Good thing this little girl was born in Brazil instead of England, they would have just offed her there.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/4363459/miracle-little-girl-born-without-a-face-defies-incredible-odds-to-survive-thanks-to-the-love-of-her-devoted-family/
Jesus christ. The strength of some people is astonishing.
Can’t unsee.
Law of the Jungle
Prime Minister Édouard Philippe and the labor minister, Muriel Pénicaud, announced the changes at a news conference in Paris at noon on Thursday, just hours after presenting the finalized measures to workers’ and employers’ unions.
“Of course, we know that labor laws are not the primary cause of unemployment in France,” Mr. Philippe said. “But we also know that if we want to move forward on the question of employment, we have to deal with all aspects, all causes of unemployment together.”
Mr. Philippe said that for employers, especially small companies, and for foreign investors, the labor code “is often perceived as an obstacle to hiring, as an obstacle to investment,” and he called the overhaul “ambitious, balanced, and fair.”
But union leaders, speaking to reporters after the meeting with the government, had mixed reactions, expressing satisfaction with some points and dismay at others, like the permission for bosses to negotiate directly with staff members in companies with fewer than 20 workers.
Next stop, SLAVERY.
Not providing a lifetime pension for working 20 hours a week = Indentured servitude
“Of course, we know that labor laws are not the primary cause of unemployment in France,”
Of course they aren’t.
In case there were any doubt the Guardian is a Marxist rag.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/30/nationalise-google-facebook-amazon-data-monopoly-platform-public-interest
*ctrl-f*
“conservatives”
no results
Figured.
I also like how “natural monopolies” are pretty much services which have government grants shielding them from competition and providing lucrative subsidies.
How about this instead? I will say “fuck you” and continue to do what I want with my life as long as I don’t hurt anyone. See that was easy wasn’t it?
https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2017/08/higher-education-studies-men/
Nope, not a cult. Not a cult at all.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9677
We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon.
That’ll make everything better. Holy fuck, these people are stupid.
They are pinkos, so….yeah.
I’m a little surprised that the Left hasn’t at least slowed down their calls for more government power with Trump in office and everything.
Sure, give Donald Trump control over Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
Profs discover 5 new types of ‘invisibility microaggressions’
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9681
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In a recent study, two professors discovered a phenomenon they are calling “invisibility microaggressions,” which occur when there are very few minorities in a given situation, even when nobody has personally offended anyone else.
To combat this new type of microaggression, they suggest deliberately honoring women of color with high-profile awards and requiring “multicultural competency” trainings for university staff.
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Quick, someone alert the Nobel committee!
Which is less surprising, the fact that they are “Social Justice” professors, or that one of them would directly benefit from the proposal?
Outside of hard science and engineering, universities are welfare programs for the credentialed.
There’s a few other programs too. The nursing and business ones lack the sense of entitlement, if nothing else.
It seems to me that it’s a macroagression to assume POC can’t fend for themselves in most situations.
That’s silly, for you see it’s not that they can’t fend for themselves, it’s that they’re being soo oppressed that all their efforts are needed to break even!
/SocJus “logic”
Fixed that for ya
I would word that differently.
“Waste of skin makes shit up out of thin air.”
I like that the headline makes “discovering” a micro-aggression comparable to discovering a new element.
We need a micro-aggression periodic table.
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A Greek Life retreat at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) was promptly cancelled this weekend after a banana peel was found hanging in a tree.
A student said he threw the peel because he could not find a garbage can, but the incident made some students uneasy, so the school “felt it was imperative to provide space immediately to students affected by this incident.”
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https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9679
[head desk]
I know how they feel. I mean, only today, I saw water from a sprinkler on a sidewalk, and I immediately was worried about tsunamis making their way hundreds of miles inland and killing me.
Future leaders of America ladies and gentlemen!
I’m an optimist, but I think that employers are going to change their hiring practices when they realize that these colleges are just cranking out special snowflakes and Pajama Boys. There will be a great demand for graduates who just know the skills without all the indoctrination, and the private sector will step up to satisfy this demand with intensive, focused training programs.
STEVE SMITH HANG FROM TREE BY BANANA. AND BY BANANA I MEAN RAPE.
Shit…I’d better take my white sheets down off of the clothesline.
Which ones are the racists, again?
cultivating hair-trigger fragility is really going to serve all these people well in life.
I was standing in the front yard earlier while talking on the phone and I heard something down by the bayou. It took a few seconds to sink in what I had heard. A damned bear. While still talking on the phone I casually retrieved my Ruger carbine and leaned it up by the door. I wandered back into the yard still jibber jabbering on the phone.
God knows what I would have done if I had seen a banana peel hanging in a tree.
if you told me somebody at Ole Miss cancelled the event and blamed that littering banana guy because they were too damned hungover to drive to the retreat, then this could be forgiven.
Quibdó, Colombia, where the girls are wet and wild!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quibd%C3%B3
Just to let you all know, I did manage to stumble home by 3:30am last night. When I got home the wife just laughed at me for missing the last train. “Hey, I could’ve been out picking up chicks and doing all sorts of nasty things.” *She rolled over, turning her back to me* “Yeah, right.” Not sure if I should be flattered or insulted.
Both
So that means tonight you’re going out to pick up chicks?
That’d teach her. Yeah, I’m a little sleepy, though.
You didn’t make her get up and cook for you? What a gaijin!
I remember going out drinking in the Marines with a civilian Okinawan who had just passed his Air Traffic Controller test and gotten a big promotion. Drank a shit ton of booze (including Habu Sake)
A couple of us had to drag him into his apartment because he was too drunk to make it on his own. When we got there he started yelling at his wife to cook breakfast for us all. We were trying to get out of there so we wouldn’t have to witness her beat him. Instead, though, she got up and cooked.
We were all impressed, but looking back now through the prism of my own 25 year marriage to a Korean gal, I’m sure he is still paying for that episode today.
Bet that Habushu gave you a raging hangover. Gave me one.
Must have been that that caused the hangover. Less scientific folk might suggest that it was the tons of beer, or the rum, or the whiskey, or the regular sake. But with your corroborating observations, us scientists can state positively that habushu causes hangovers.
God that stuff tasted like shit. Even Orion was good in comparison.
a banana peel was found hanging in a tree.
They lynched that banana?!
Today’s spiny creature gang-bang is brought to you by Australia
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Aug. 30 (UPI) — An Australian woman out for a walk said a group of echidnas that formed a “love train” at her feet may have mistaken her for a tree.
Abby French of Reidsdale, New South Wales, captured video Tuesday of four echidnas gathering at her feet in what appears to be an “echidna love train,” a mating ritual where one female is followed by a group of males until she chooses one to be her mate.
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https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/08/30/Australian-woman-surrounded-by-echidna-love-train/5711504114994/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=13
All aboard!
You’ve got to be echidning me.
Well, so now i know those things exist. that’s the one thing i’ve officially learned today.
She represents the International Union of Clowns, Jesters, and Other Professional Merry-Makers and she wants this movie switched off and she wants it switched off now.
Real-life clowns complain ‘It’ movie is bad for business
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Aug. 31 (UPI) — The latest movie adaptation of Stephen King’s scary-clown thriller It has found itself a group of unusual detractors — professional clowns.
World Clown Association president Pam Moody said the film, out Sept. 8, is the latest hit to the clowning industry in recent years, following a rash of creepy clown sightings in the 2016 Halloween season and the appearance of a horror clown on TV series American Horror Story.
“Last year we were really blindsided,” Moody told The Hollywood Reporter of last year’s nationwide clown sightings. “We’ve since created a press kit to prepare clowns for the movie coming out.”
That guide, titled “WCA Stand on Scary Clowns!!,” tells WCA members that the “art of clown is something to be treasured and enjoyed” and that “just because someone wears a rubber Halloween mask, that does not make one a clown!”
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https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/08/31/Real-life-clowns-complain-It-movie-is-bad-for-business/8211504191636/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=2
Clown Panic II: Electric Boogaloo
Hey, if John Wayne Gacy didn’t kill your business model, a remake of a film adaptation of an undertitled novel won’t.
Must go faster?
T. rex was probably pretty slow, scientists claim
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/07/18/T-rex-was-probably-pretty-slow-scientists-claim/4561500404697/?st_rec=1891504101849
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July 18 (UPI) — The relationship between speed and size among animals plots a bell curve on a graph. At a certain point, size becomes a liability, not an asset.
Such was the case for Tyrannosaurus rex. New research suggests the large dino species was a rather slower runner. In fact, he was mostly a walker.
For small and medium sized animals, the larger the species the faster it can move. A rabbit is faster than a beetle; a fox is faster than a rabbit; and a cheetah is faster than fox. But a giraffe isn’t faster than a fox. Nor is an elephant.
Scientists at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena developed a model to formulate the relationship between speed and size and predict the pace of extinct species. The simple model can predict the top speeds of an animal with 90 percent accuracy using two inputs, the animal’s weight and the medium in which the animal travels.
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Ian Malcolm hardest hit.
Bullshit. Ever see an elephant get in a hurry? They are fast when they want to be.
In your face, Pythagoras.
World’s first trigonometry revealed in ancient Babylonian tablet
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/08/25/Worlds-first-trigonometry-revealed-in-ancient-Babylonian-tablet/2181503668755/?utm_source=upi&utm_campaign=mp&utm_medium=2
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The Babylonians discovered their own unique form of trigonometry during the Old Babylonian period (1900-1600 BCE), more than 1,500 years earlier than the Greek form.
Remarkably, their trigonometry contains none of the hallmarks of our modern trigonometry — it does not use angles and it does not use approximation.
The Babylonians had a completely different conceptualization of a right triangle. They saw it as half of a rectangle, and due to their sophisticated sexagesimal (base 60) number system they were able to construct a wide variety of right triangles using only exact ratios.
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In 1945, the tablet was revealed to contain a highly sophisticated sequence of integer numbers that satisfy the Pythagorean equation a2+b2=c2, known as Pythagorean triples.
This is the fundamental relationship of the three sides of a right-angled triangle, and this discovery proved that the Babylonians knew this relationship more than 1,000 years before the Greek mathematician Pythagoras was born.
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Proof that the Greeks stole the higher mathematics from the egyptians.
Those dastardly time-travelling Babylonians! How dare they go stealing knowledge from the future!
No Trig warning?
Dude, you just sent all the English majors into the fetus position. You have to warn them when math might rear its ugly head.
No Trig warning?
*Paging Swiss*
This man needs a narrowed gaze or an opera applause. You decide.
“a2+b2=c2”
Superscript fail.
Aliens taught both cultures trigonometry. Neither could ever figure it out on their own.
/Giorgio Tsoukalos
To save some people a google search
However, the purpose of the tablet is in dispute:
Well, my building manager tells me we’ve got power again, so I’ll be back in Victoria later today. As disaster-related week-long displacements go, this was a good bit of fun. Caught up with family, especially my niece’s two cute-as-hell toddler boys, enjoyed some really nice weather, had some good food.
The next time it gets cloudy I’m gone for three days minimum.
Glad to hear from you
Breaking news: Trump ends Dreamer program.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/31/trump-expected-to-announce-end-to-obama-era-daca-official-says.html
Reaction
the comments under the WaPo “Harvey Price Gouging ZOMG!!!!” story are real head scratchers..
Profiting over someone else’s suffering is not acceptable, and never should be. If you think Venezuela has such a perfect market, go move there and profit over there. Here, we have laws preventing it. Deal.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/08/30/99-for-a-case-of-bottled-water-texas-stores-accused-of-price-gouging-in-wake-of-harvey/?nid&utm_term=.9a1628d85b45
Profiting over someone else’s suffering is not acceptable, and never should be.
That’s gonna make it hard to charge for painkillers, sedatives, and anesthetics.
“I’m sorry, but since we cannot charge for anesthesia, there are no more anesthetics being made. You’re going to be wide awake for your surgery. Oh, and since we can’t charge for painkillers, there are no more being made, so this is gonna hurt, a lot, for a long time. Here, bite on this stick and try not to writhe in agony.”