Photographer don win fight for ‘monkey selfie’
Trouble start for 2011 after one monkey wey dem dey call Naruto di macaque snap imself inside one jungle for Indonesia with David Slater camera.
Slater bin tell BBC say im bin make £2,000 from di photo before Wikipedia come publish am for dia site for anybody wey want am, free of charge.
Di website say no be him get di picture because na di monkey snap imsef. Slater come dey insist say na im set di camera on top tripod after im don already pally with di monkeys for three days inside di jungle.
Slater tell Wikipedia say make dem pay am for di picture or comot am from dia website but di website no give am face.
One animal rights campaign group wey dem dey call People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) na dem carry di case go court for 2015, say na di monkey suppose get di ownership of di picture.
That PETA was found to have any standing in the case in the first place makes the whole thing a farce. And “monkey selfie” should be the name of an unspeakable sex act.
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Pizza Hut threatens evacuating Florida employees with disciplinary action
Hurricane Irma caused massive destruction to Florida. But before the storm made landfall, more than 5 million residents – about one-third of the state’s population – were told to evacuate for their own safety. Governor Rick Scott even issued a plea for residents to “leave now, don’t wait.”
As people heeded Governor Scott’s orders and fled the state, a Pizza Hut restaurant in the storm’s path issued a much different warning to its crew.
In a now-viral post on Twitter, a Pizza Hut team member shared a photo of a printout pinned to a cork board that advised Pizza Hut employees on hurricane “guidelines.”
The paper, addressed “To all Team members,” starts with expectations “as hurricane Irma approaches Florida,” stating “our #1 priority is the safety and security of our team. But, we also have a responsibility and commitment to our community to be there when they need us. With that said, I/we need some guidelines in place to ensure both of those expectations are met.”
The sheet continued with general rules – the store will close 6-12 hours before a storm – and that if a team member plans to evacuate, they must alert a manager and let them know when they plan to return, citing that a member is only allowed a “24-hour period before storm ‘grace period’” and must be back from an evacuation within 72 hours.
I spent one of the worst couple of weeks of my entire life working at a Pizza Hut. The job didn’t have all that much to do with it but certainly didn’t help. I can never forget the little weaselly-looking guy who ordered a small, thin crust, double extra cheese, double extra anchovy. The rest of the crew said he had been coming in every Monday and ordered the same thing for as long as anyone could remember.
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Leftist denies anything bad happens because of leftists; circle jerk really a rhombus: Measuring the Mizzou Effect
Washington’s Evergreen State College, where raucous student protests and disturbing threats of violence made national headlines this spring, has fallen several million dollars in the hole, according to a recent memo from its public administrators. The memo blames the shortfall on both changes in state funding and a 5 percent decline in the school’s enrollment since fall 2016. Right-wing media outlets have another, simpler explanation: They’ve linked the woes at Evergreen to those at the University of Missouri, where a similar bout of campus turmoil in 2015 preceded an enrollment drop. Like Missouri, these sources argue, Evergreen is being punished for giving in to leftist thugs. “SHOCKER: Evergreen State Faces $2.1 MILLION Budget Crisis After Radical Students Go Berserk,” announced the Daily Caller. “Evergreen State College Wakes Up to the Cost of Wokeness,” wrote the website Ricochet. The alleged backlash to modern-day student protests even has a name: They’re calling it the “Mizzou Effect.”
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KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE! HOLY FUCK! GAH!
Quick Note From Swiss Servator: The Hurricane Clearinghouse II has been “unstuck” it is still around, but back at its original date. It is NOT Warty Hugeman, bending space and time.
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558 responses to “Tuesday Afternoon Links – Damn, Tuesday… you lookin’ fine as hell, girl.”
Looking for Glib volunteers to do research.
http://metro.co.uk/2017/09/11/does-eating-pineapple-change-the-way-your-vagina-smells-6917963/
This is why there are no female libertarians….
Mother Jones explains why.
I was told that it was because of sandwich jokes
Those weren’t jokes.
Mother Jones used to be the most toxic thing on the internet but it’s downright sensible lately. That’s frightening.
Projection, example:
“Most of them are wrong, of course. In a truly
libertarian culture leftist utopia, nearly all of them would be squashed like ants—mostly by the same people who are squashing them now. But the fantasy lives on regardless.”Well…
“Most of them are wrong, of course. In a truly
libertarian cultureleftist utopia, nearly all of them would be squashed like ants—mostly by the same people who are squashing them now. But the fantasy lives on regardless.”I’ll take “Things people think based on what they heard about an Ayn Rand novel” for $500, Alex.
Are we supposed to be eating the pineapple or the…
wait nevermind, since there are no female libertarians it must not be the pineapple
My wife and daughter both tell me it improves the taste of my semen. News You Can Use.
Party at OMWCs house.
Err If anyone else said this I’d have to ask how their daughter knew what their semen tasted like
I am glad you pointed that out….I was nae about to.
You’ve met her so you know what a twisted lot this family is.
Well…yeah.
Hey, the family that plays together stays together right 😉
PAGING BARFMAN! BARFMAN to the cream-colored, sticky courtesy phone.
Blocks computer screen from kitten.
Why do you have a kitten on your lap while reading SugarFree hmmmmmmmmm?
From the Onion’s “American Voices” feature:
Miss North Dakota Crowned Miss America For First Time
Brown University graduate and aspiring law student Cara Mund is the first Miss North Dakota ever to win the Miss America pageant. What do you think?
“It is truly inspiring to see a graduate of Brown accomplish something.”
Nicole Zigmund – Poultry Killer
“Now she can have her pick of any man in Grand Forks.”
Brad Cutler – Golf Ball Divoter
“I can’t believe our society still sanctions something as wrongheaded and archaic as North Dakota.”
Leon Coppock – Bleach Tester
Major threading fail
Aspiring law student Bo Cara Mund
/double take. /shrug. /walk away whistling…
*rolling eyes*
I can only speak from experience, but my gf can definitely taste when I have been eating different fruits. She is quite partial to cherry. Carbonated drinks makes it taste like pool water according to her.
She’s a keeper.
This.
when I have been eating different fruits.
Fruits is a bit pejorative, bruh.
Not you, dammit. The real fruits.
I am setting myself up for a terrible joke, I’m sure.
gayz is the preferred nomenclature.
*ahem*
“people of citrus”
Way to other berries and stonefruits, cis-lime-shitlord!
The aggregated berry is the least likely to be poisonous.
Lol it’s funny, almost like they have never actually met or held a conversation with a libertarian.
I have yet to meet one who really cared about becoming a top man, I’ve met vanishingly few who really cared about common societal trappings of wealth and power. The overwhelming majority are misanthropes who just want to be left alone to pursue their intellectual interests in peace regardless of whether anyone else on the planet even notices or cares about their work.
Ok, I accept the position of supreme overlord since no other libertarians will take it. Sigh…
As long as you don’t bother me while you do it…
I was going to appoint you as some type of Czar, but if you don’t want it… I mean I was thinking Czar of boobies?
That… would not bother me.
Who are these people who let this kind of stuff dictate going down? I know everyone has their own reasons, but how pleasantly the fine surprise at the end does or does not taste is completely negligible to me.
It’s not like I’m drinking an expensive scotch over here.
Wait, you told me that mine tasted like fine aged Manischewitz.
You know I would never lie to you!
That’s why I spit it out, remember? Wasn’t no Bugey…
Have Mr. Riven try a nice Glemorangie Quinta Ruban….then get back to us.
*ducks*
… Can I try it instead? I’ve never tried a port finished scotch. We might get better results that way, too 😉
Isn’t all Scotch aged in Port barrels? Or is all Port aged in Scotch barrels? I can never remember.
Either way, both Porto and Jura are worth a visit.
Scotch is aged in bourbon barrels.
And Cognac, I think port too.
You only need to worry when it tastes like Cetaphil.
Can I get some taster’s notes on what Cetaphil is supposed to taste like? 😛
It’s just soap, but it’s been used for years as the base for fake semen in pop shots.
Hah! I had no idea! I always learn the most interesting things around here…
Why do you know this?
A guy has contacts, y’know?
If there are no female libertarians, a pineapple will work. Careful of the skin when entering
I always think Diana Spencer’s last words were “Faster, faster!”
The lights are turning red.
There are four lights.
I thought it was ‘Harder, HARDER!’
A memorial for the lead singer of Kajagoogoo? That’s weird.
+2 shy
Hush, hush.
I 2 I
*blinks rapidly several times….begins applause*
It’s a never-ending story.
I deliver for Pizza Hut in the evenings. Our owners were very understanding about our hurricane issues.
I have a problem with that article making like this order came down from Corporate.
See below. It’s not even a non issue it’s the opposite spin of the real truth.
I worked for pizza Hut in high school. Best job I ever had. It didn’t pay worth a fuck, but the free pizza and pussy from my coworkers made it worth my time.
Dear Penthouse, I wasn’t impressed with the pizza delivery job’s pay, but let me tell about some of the “benefits”…
Was this back when going to Pizza Hut was like going to a real restaurant?
She’s right. The Trump “Era” is worse than the Holocaust, the Spanish Inquisition, the Black Plague etc.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/joy-reid-trump-era-worst-time-be-human/
Hyperbole is worse than it has ever been in the history of space and time.
To discount Reid’s feelings is literally violence
“Trump Era Is the ‘Worst Time to Be a Human”
Oh for fuck’s sake. Does this person have even an elementary school education?
“the Holocaust, the Spanish Inquisition, the Black Plague”
If you want to go backwards in time from that, it was much worse. The Pleistocene ice age? She ever had a saber tooth eat some of her friends, and she’s next on the menu?
There were probably more than a few guys who were born at the turn of the 20th century, survived the trenches of WWI, survived the Spanish flu, scraped by during the Great Depression, survived WWII, then ended up getting shipped off to Siberia and dying in a gulag.
But on the bright side, they didn’t have to see Hillary lose to Trump, so they had that going for them.
My grandfather was an army vet who was in the invasion of Normandy. He was also in the attempt to take the pacific Islands from the Japanese, which he described as worse than Normandy. Then he was in the Korean war, which also sounded horrific. He had 2 purple hearts, which I still have, along with his many other medals. He got blown up in a tank and had only one lung after the war, yet managed to work hard the entire rest of his life until he retired at around age 70 and lived until 90. People today are a bunch of fucking pussies.
To the people screeching about ‘ERMAGERD MERKING PEOR PEOPLE WERK DERING DUH HERRICURNE!’ I have a simple question for you: What do you think all those evacuating people were eating? You think they had time to cook a nice roast while they were running for their lives? They were eating fast food, every one of them. When I was down in Florida trying to save my parent’s shit I personally thanked the people that worked at pollo tropical in Homestead for being open. They made some joke about ‘They just want to make money off of us’. True or not, you are performing a service as vital as the guy across the street selling gas to people so that they can escape. You’re feeding people who cannot cook for themselves. This cannot be understated, and the fact that no one in any of these articles took the time to even make that point shows how vapid and shallow they really are.
What do you think all those evacuating people were eating?
Well, they weren’t eating Publix roast chicken, that’s for sure.
*thunderous ovation*
Not true. We had publix spicy wings as part of our food hoard.
“What do you think all those evacuating people were eating?”
Pineapple?
It’s Florida, so … bath salts and each other’s faces?
Hitler?
I’ve been assured by numerous lefty commentators that the popularity of guns in the US is lower than it ever has been.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/poll-americans-gun-home-ever/
They actually did try to claim recently that the massive uptick in gun sales is entirely due to repeat buyers and that something like 12% of the American population owns 90% of all the guns. The fever dreams are unending with these people.
https://www.thetrace.org/2016/09/gun-super-owners-harvard-survey/
Our household will be joining that list sometime this winter.
Trap shooting is the fastest growing high school sport here. These people are delusional.
That’s remarkbly nasty.
I know I’m not awfully tolerant of such people, but even I don’t advocate shooting ’em.
IT’S A TRAP…SHOOT.
*stares at bad use of Admiral Squidhead Akbar*
Are we allowed to Narrow Gaze Swiss? Is that in the bylaws?
Can squid head narrow both eyes at you if you are right in front of him?
Are you smoking bacon laced pot?
I freaking wish…haven’t tried da dabs yet either.
*masturbatory applause*
That came out wrong.
That’s what she said
I don’t understand how they can reliably quantify this. Every time somebody asks if there is a gun in the house my answer is something about a boat accident.
mine too. such a shame.
That’s why actual ownership is down.
For every boating tragedy that disposes of 10 firearms, the former owners can only afford to replace 8 of them, so net ownership of firearms falls.
Purchases are down because Obama was the world’s greatest gun salesman. With him gone…well…
Which kind of sucks because the manufactures all stocked up on product in anticipation of herself outlawing everything. Bargains everywhere!
Well, they should try to take them away then. It should work out well for them since people hate guns so much.
My libertarian outrage-o-meter has been pinged at work today. My company has a big presence in disaster relief. So today some fucking Senator (well, two, from the same state) waved their scepters and demanded to talk to our CEO about what free shit, and how much of it, we’re providing in the wake of Irma. If they think our products are so valuable to recovery efforts, perhaps these extremely wealthy politicians can buy some out of their own pockets? I am 100% certain they wanted to use us as some example, good or bad. Grandstanding motherfuckers.
You should applaud their efforts to be budget-conscious!
J/K, I’m sure this ends up lining their personal pockets somehow.
Re-election publicity.
True, but I’m looking for a more direct angle.
Like, in return for a small cash donation to my election campaign, I won’t pillory you in public. Is this not how they work?
Name them. 😉
(I’d guess Schumer and Gillibrand. They’re both horrendous grandstanders.)
You can put it together, I have faith! Disaster relief, same state…
Rubio and Nelson
My BIL works at Costco. He was asking his boss about evacuation and he said “You work in retail, you have an obligation to be here” I’ve never heard of that being a thing. Retail stores close all the time. The guy probably just likes being a dick.
‘That guy probably just likes being a dick’
Who doesn’t?
I worked for a restaurant deliver service while I was in law school. I remember during a major ice storm the only people on the roads were us, Domino’s and Pizza Hut.
My response would be…
I work in retail, this is an eminently replacable McJob and I ain’t risking my life for it.
The manager is trying to convince people they have an obligation to stay so he can keep the store open as long as possible. Of course no employee has an obligation to stay nor does the employer have an obligation to continue the employment relationship after the lackeys jump ship and the first sight of rain.
I assume it’s a thing because “working in retail” is a euphemism for being part of the underclass, meaning of course you have a duty to sacrifice yourselves so that the overclass can get their snacks on the way out of dodge.
Once more unto the breach, plebs.
Maybe. I mean if he said “we sell food and water and people are really going to need that” I would get it. I just thought it was an odd way to put it.
I agree.
“Hey, let’s pull together to help out our community as long as we can” = I might be interested.
“You have an obligation to be here because you work in retail” = bullshit.
Probably just a poor attempt to recycle the same pitch xe uses to explain why they have to work holidays.
My dad was a retail pharmacist and never, ever, closed his store for weather. Now granted, we don’t get hurricanes but a couple feet of snow will fuck everything up. I remember him walking to the store to make sure it was open on time.
He felt that he owed it to his customers.
Good on him.
I would think that for a whole lot of people getting their script filled would be a helluva lot more important than getting a pizza.
Policy here for snowstorms used to be if a majority of the people in the shift couldn’t make it on time, then nobody would get dinged for being late. The new manager changed that this past winter just in time for the March blizzard. Now it’s arbitrary whether people get dinged if they’re late after a snowstorm. Thankfully there’s another policy that if the governor declares a state of emergency, then the place doesn’t open.
The inclement weather policy at the mill I work at is basically, If you don’t show up due to weather you better hope a lot of other people don’t show up too. If 80% show up and you didnt, that’s going against your attendance. If 50% can’t make and you don’t show up, all is forgiven.
But what happens if 65% don’t show up?
Then they fall back to the secondary system which is based on cup size. D or higher means you’re in, lower means you’re out. AND YES THAT INCLUDES THE GUYS.
So Chuck Schumer should keep the Senate in session even in the face of Armageddon?
The area was under mandatory evacuation. I really don’t know what the guy expected. My BIL drove down last night as soon as curfew broke so he could go in this morning. Any further north and he would have been trapped by the St John’s river.
I remember when Chicago had the polar vortex a couple of years ago and my sandwich shop owner opened (well the manager did) up the store despite the roads being terrible and unplowed along with the temps being below zero. The buses weren’t running well but yet the owner expected all of us to come to work, which was his right. I called the manager and told her point blank that I wasn’t coming that day because for me to take public transportation would be insane. The funny part about all of this was with the exception of the 7-11, all the stores closed because the other owners didn’t want to deal with the wintery bullshit. After being opened for 4 hours and no sales happening, he called the manager and decided to close the store.
It depends on the situation. If you sell sewing machines or scuba gear and there’s a hurricane coming, you can probably pack it in. If you sell food, gas, medicine, auto parts, etc. You should probably stay open. I know that gas station employees were actually getting police escorts to and from work in the keys so they could get gas to evacuees.
I know that gas station employees were actually getting police escorts to and from work in the keys so they could get gas to evacuees
That was pretty cool of them.
Rick Scott may look like something out of a Tim Burton movie but the man is salt in my book.
This storm showed the good side of humanity. The day after the storm everyone was out cleaning up and offering help to anyone who needs it. My SIL said 95 during the evacuation everyone was calm, no honking or cutting people off.
Agreed.
I’m assuming not more than 10% of them were accidentally shot by their escorts. Acceptable losses if so.
I feel kind of bad that I laughed at this comment.
the #1 place to shop is CostCo during an emergency. bulk food, toilet paper, water, beer, generators, gas. everything you could need for cheap en masse.
You work in retail, you have an obligation to be here
My response to that would be simple. Put it in writing. Send my home e-mail a message specifically telling me what you’ve just told me.
Of course, this story can’t be at all true. Everyone on the left just swears to me on a stack of bibles that Costco is the saintly protector of the proletariat, unlike the evil bastards at Wal-Mart who exploit poor women and children for fun and profit.
Napoleon Dynamite and this lady approve of the work.
Heh I remember that. When this first come out they made it sound like some precious ancient art, but now I read it’s only 100 years old. Big deal.
Unspeakable….here? Unspeakable…by YOU?!
*head explodes*
We are “Family Friendly”
Dammit. Who has the mop?
At least it’s only blood and brain matter…
This continuum just sprung a leak.
“unspeakable” and “lollygagging” are the two words in my dating profile most likely to get commented on.
l-o-l-l-y-g-a-g-g-i-n-g
perv
Like to toss in the euphemisms, eh?
It’s all word salad when tossed.
Ok, I haven’t really been following this case, but how the Lujan did PETA even have standing to bring this case to court?
“And “monkey selfie” should be the name of an unspeakable sex act.”
I am not sure it falls into the category of unspeakable but if you want to know what a monkey selfie is just take your girlfriend/wife to the zoo while she is on her period.
The only possible response.
How the hell…. Okay lets try that again.
*waits with baited breath*
You are kidding, right?
Monkeys smell pussy and all of the males will line up on the bars and jerk off.
Is to SF a link?
I FIXED IT YOU FUCKERS!!! RAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!
Once again, the opening round of the Champions League group stage proves that exactly half of the teams don’t have any business being there.
Including Chelsea, who by this point probably deserve to be expelled from the FA.
I’d be OK with that.
At this point they might as well skip to the semi-finals. I’m watching the 8-game “multi match” and maybe 6 of them are tedious blowouts. But instead they keep adding teams. Maybe to give the rich teams a little running-around practice.
7-round Swiss system (with the seventh game at a neutral site) followed by 16-team knockout, although that would make scheduling matches a pain.
That’s not a good article. What is the chant in question? Are they perhaps referring to Spurs, in a manner that would upset David Baddiel? I can’t tell, if USA Today are too prissy to report the whole story.
And, of course, between FS1/FS2/local Fox Sports cable, we get two EPL teams and Barça. Because they only care about the EPL, Barça, and Real Madrid.
Somehow I have a feeling Bayern/PSG will be shunted to a higher-tier channel, too.
I have a feeling that PSG are going to demonstrate that the going rate for a trophy is in the neighborhood of half a billion dollars.
You’re talking about the French Cup, right? 😀
Sure! But you’re right, the camera definitely follows Neymar wherever he goes. I can hear the squeals through my TV. Well, I would if I watched PSG.
There are a lot of ‘effects’ in that Slate article.
Holy fuck.
If I’m a parent and see retards at a school, I ain’t sending my kid there. Simple.
Call it the Rufus Realism effect.
Gotta love how they say that “enrollment is dropping around the country,” while giving absolutely no backup what-so-ever. No statistical comparison, nothing. Someone in the comments wiped the floor with Slate on this.
Can you post it here?
This guy pointed out that there was a drop in 2015 and 2016 nationally, but it seems to me that the difference between 4-7% and 23% is statistically significant. But maybe that’s just me…
I also submitted another quoted comment, but its awaiting moderation approval due to too many links.
I realize that apple-cult-bashing is tiresome at this point, but I watched an apple product announcement livestream today for the first time ever, and holy fuck was it annoying that those pitchmen couldn’t go 30 seconds without assuring me exactly how AWESOME, AMAZING, FUTURISTIC, CUTTING EDGE all their little barely-noticeable product upgrades were. And I mean very directly: “This is just amazing.” Over and over and over.
I would like to submit this as a corollary to UCS’s law: if you have to tell me every 5 seconds how amazing the thing you’re showing me is… it isn’t.
If you make your product simple enough to appeal to morons, you might wind up with a lot of morons as customers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQEEJ57Gsow
*whistles nonchalantly*
My motto is “If you bought our software based on what our moron sales staff presented, you are even lower than a moron.”
If you make your product simple enough to appeal to morons, you might wind up with a lot of morons as customers
You should not go into the mass-marketed technology business.
The new iterations of iPhone and the Galaxy series are never mind-blowing. I am considering switching my personal phone to an iPhone, however. As much as I don’t like the idea of the walled garden that is Apple, with all the overpricing and whatnot, I find that iPhones tend to be a bit quicker than my droid.
I have a Galaxy S7 and an iPhone 6S right now… both for about 1.5 years now. My iPhone still works beautifully most of the time while my Galaxy is slow as fuck and can’t hold a charge.
I bought a OnePlus2 a couple years ago and it’s been really good. I will probably buy another.
Never heard of the OnePlus2 before. Went to their website and everything says sold out. Where do you buy these? Are the usually stocked in wireless carrier stores or is this one of those enthusiast phones I hear about?
Direct from them. Startup a few years old now. The current version is the OnePlus5, which appear to be in stock.
I like that there are totally independent from the providers, have two SIM slots and are pretty reasonable priced.
Two SIM slots sounds pretty interesting. What’s your use case for that? Maintaining two separate numbers on the same device (business/personal) or something else?
That and travel. It is nice to pick up a local SIM , yet still have access to all my stuff.
Just bought an Honor 8 during the Amazon day sales. Love it. Android, fast as hell. Not locked into ecosystem. Half cost of Galaxy or iPhone.
Stock Android or their special blend?
I’ve had my 5s since they were released in 2013 and just had the battery replaced last week. Nothing I saw today made me want to upgrade, I’m guessing I’ll go another 2-3 years with this one, maybe more.
It might be overpriced compared to other phones, but probably not by much if you amortize the difference over 5+ years. If you’re a frequent upgrader, then the calculus may be different.
Honestly, I’ve had Apple for about five or six years at this point. I don’t see the point in the upgrade. For a long time Apple compensated for the Walled Garden with features and elements that were really innovative (Sorry, I actually like Siri – or at least the idea). For the last few years, though, all they seem to be interested in bringing to market is bigger screens, more screen reliance, and better phones). There’s nothing really groundbreaking in what they’re doing. A lot of it just feels like playing catch-up with Android. If Apple can perfect remote recharging, then maybe I’ll get excited. Hell, if they can just go back and focus on making Siri actually fully a functional digital assistant, I’d say they were ahead of the game.
Precisely why I chose to watch today. The media buzz was that Apple really needed to show that they can do something ACTUALLY innovative, and that their special-10th-anniv phone was the big chance to do it.
They didn’t.
Also agree with you that I’d take significant Siri improvements over “edge to edge screen” that I’m not going to see anyway because my phone protector is going to cover it.
Making the phone waterproof with the 7 was a useful upgrade. Making an unbreakable screen would be a useful upgrade. But both are utilitarian, not innovative.
The camera in the iPhone 7plus is light years ahead of the old models. The software running it is shit, but I use 3rd party apps for that.
Forget tech, why does every manufacturer think I want an iPad as my main phone?
Seriously, I’m not sure what I’ll do when SE I got this Christmas needs updgrading. I mean, I’m sure there’s some freak Chinese Android thing that’s phone-sized, but I like my Apple…
+1 Jitterbug
…my Galaxy is slow as fuck and can’t hold a charge.
Bizarre. My Galaxy S5 Sport (bought three years ago when it first came out) is still going strong. Mind you, I did acquire two new batteries last Fall to guard against the inevitable “battery no longer holding charge” scenario…
Punch ready, deliver to testicles.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170911/08593738186/cop-cleans-out-wallet-unlicensed-hot-dog-vendor-just-because-he-can.shtml
How the fu… oh, Berkeley. I found the problem.
“WUZ DIS CAPITALIZM DOIN IN MUH TOWN?!”
It was in Berkely. The cops there can’t seem to be bothered with stopping Antifa goons from attacking people, but they do love to rob black people trying to make an honest living. They are all tolerant and progressive like that.
They were hassling him before this.
“”In the interview, Reid also recalled her prediction that Hillary Clinton would easily win the 2016 presidential election by securing more than 300 electoral votes.
“I discounted the anecdotal evidence of how much the millennial voter generation hates Hillary Clinton, and has come to hate her, in part because of the long campaign to discredit her, because of the primary,” Reid said.
“It never occurred to me, since it hadn’t happened since ’88, that a Democrat in a presidential year could lose Wisconsin, Michigan, or Pennsylvania,” she added.
Reid also attributed Clinton’s election loss to the “successful Russian effort” to interfere in the campaign.”
So much derp. So much.
So. You’re terrible at your job.
Here’s my contribution to the links, its a day old and its sportsball. TW: ESPN TW: Metric Football.
Alexi Lalas Calls out the USMNT
I didn’t think anybody on the USMNT was a millionaire. Also I didn’t think Lalas had much of a leg to stand on in terms of performance on the international stage–other than the epic red beard and dread locks.
Lalas may be somewhat of a joke, but he has a point. The team looks weak as hell and even if they manage to squeak into the WC, they’ll get their asses handed to them.
he totally has a point. Everyone blamed the German, but the team is pathetic. No one can make people who don’t care, care.
I’m not disagreeing with him.
Fo shizzle. They need to get it together.
If Pulisic isn’t a millionaire now, he’ll be one after his next contract.
If this page is correct, a few of them may be:
http://www.paywizard.org/main/salary/vip-check/us-national-soccer-team
The one that got me: Michael Bradley on a base salary of $6m. (?)
Yikes. I stand corrected.
Now if only Tony Meola good impart some sage advice
Well, the American MLS DP’s (“designated player” – there are up to 3 on each team) are all millionaires, and the European players are probably all millionaires too.
Lalas is right though. This crowd has the talent to get it done and they’re not doing it.
Finally, someplace a conscientious Glib can sent their kid.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4446637/nazi-summer-camps-america-hitler-children-photos
May as well since we’re all considered Nazis now.
Yes well back before the holocaust fascism was treated very much the same way the media treats socialism today: that somewhat fringe political platform that actually makes a few good points here and there.*
Made the trains run on time, etc., etc.
“Shocking footage”?
One of those was very close to where I grew up:
http://www.williammaloney.com/Misc/FederalHillNJ/
I wonder if Eddie lurks.
Eddie, if you’re out there, we miss you!
*narrows gaze*
*raises eyebrows*
You really added to the intellectual content of the site!
Seriously. Those articles…and bibliographies!
Agreed, you should come back, Eddie. /no sarcsam
Come back EDDIE! /african bush bitch voice
+1 Half
Ok, bacon now needs to explain how he knows what an african bush bitch sounds like.
What happens in Africa stays there unless you contract something from it.
He’s somewhere praying for us poor, poor sinners.
I’m sure.
Those hair shirts aren’t going to wear themselves.
I woulda thunk you’d wonder what Frank thinks about Eddie lurking or not.
https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2017/09/11/known-wolf-terror-scandal-cia-knew-9-11-hijackers-didnt-provide-intel-fbi/
Girls can … Fuck up and get 3,000 Americans killed.
And yet it doesn’t sound like any of these people were fired. I wonder how far they’ve been promoted since. Or if any of them were part of (or at least supporters of) the Deep State efforts against the administration. Honestly, it doesn’t particularly seem to me that, for all the power and liberty they’ve sucked up since 9/11, they’ve still gotten very good at protecting the country.
It strikes me that US intelligence services are particularly bad at protecting the country. Their failures — 9/11, Boston Marathon, underwear bomber, Orlando, Fort Hood, etc. — demonstrate inexplicable incompetence. Their “successes” typically involve either dimwitted and desperate Muslims who were approached by government agents and encouraged to jihad, and seem more like entrapment rather catching real terrorists. The only success since 2001 that I can think of is how they provided information to local law enforcement that stopped a couple of jihadis from shooting up a Draw Mohammad contest in Garland, Texas. Meanwhile, US foreign policy, which is largely driven by the US intelligence services, is breeding new enemies like crazy.
The information wall’s existence is based upon two factors:
– a natural rivalry between organizations who are both keys in the same national defense puzzle which is a result of human nature, and
– regulations which were in place until 2001 (and are still somewhat in place) which prevent them from officially sharing the information.
The compartmentalization is, and was, to *some* degree, deliberate. And, sadly, from a holistic point of view, I find this preferable to unrestricted information sharing. A fully unified intelligence network would be very, very nasty to live under.
My view of the CIA is that it is staffed entirely by Egg McMuffins. All Top Men from top to bottom.
I need to rewatch the Sandbaggers and do a review of that classic series (British CIA-type show). They have their moments…but can the overall costs be justified in the long term?
I know it’s bad form to reply to one’s own comment … but maybe it’s premature to credit the US intelligence services for the success in Garland. According to this recent article, that success may go entirely to the Garland Police Department, who may have successfully thwarted the ISIS jihadis despite the inexplicable incompetence of the US intelligence services.
That’s sort of my point. They’ve proven great at spying on us, but not all that good at spying on people who want to kill us. I mean, Boston is a prime example. They were warned by the Russians and the Saudis, “Hey, these kids are probably terrorists”. And yet they did nothing.
Regarding the hurricane employment retail stuff:
It seems to me that the market price for an employee working during dangerous events ought to go up. If I owned a shop in one of these areas I’d offer 1.5x pay or more to entice my employees to stick around. I should be making more money on volume if I’m selling essential goods during this time, anyway. I suppose this would be easier to do if the ridiculous price gouging laws weren’t a thing. Just a thought…
My employer tried to entice people by saying if you come in you will be trapped here and you must supply your own food and water and family and pets aren’t allowed. I did not feel inclined to volunteer.
Ha. Well, that IS a very tempting offer but….
I hope this was your response.
I wish. I just shook my head and deleted the email.
I have no idea who she is, but she’s got my vote.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4876056/Lottie-Moss-makes-playful-dig-former-flames.html
Houston, we have would.
Here, go for this one:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4877518/Lena-Dunham-flashes-curvy-frame-derriere-tattoo.html
Why OMWC, why?
The correct response is…
Why did I click? Why?
Images like that belong in the previous posting, I think
She always looks like she needs a shower.
That’s pretty insensitive since she’s a ((())).
Sorry. (((She))) always looks like she needs a shower.
Her tattoos look like she had her bunkmate do them with ball point pen ink and a straight pen in the home for wayward girls when she was a teenager. By candlelight when the matron was sleeping.
Trashy.
Meh. I like BFF Emily better.
¿Por que no los dos?
Good point.
More like Hottie Moss. Amiright?
She looks like my daughter when she was 12. Pervs!
Yesterday, David Frum tweets out what was at the time thought to be the most offensively stupid thing said about 911 anniversary. Charles Johnson then said “hold my beer”
https://twitchy.com/sd-3133/2017/09/11/this-is-sick-sht-charles-johnsons-911-take-may-be-the-worst-yet/
Wow. Have psychiatrist started documenting TDS yet because there is no doubt that it is a full blown mental disease.
I would consider that somewhat offensive (really, more dumb than offensive) — IF I hadn’t just seen a picture of Lena Dunham in a bikini.
That is why I said offensively stupid, not offensive. It is not so much offensive as so stupid, the stupidity offends you.
I skimmed right over what you
actuallywrote and just read it as “most offensive thing”, my bad.Oh FFS. I give up on this subthread.
Does anyone still pay attention to Charles Johnson? I mean, to me, when he did a complete political 180 after losing the infighting at PJMedia, he revealed that he was a dishonest sack of shit before, after, or (I think) both.
You sure about that? (granted…not that big a name – just the dickwad who currently writes GI Joe):
https://twitter.com/aubreysitterson/status/907263899992416256
And in a big time counterpoint to my previous post… have some eye-bleach ready.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4877518/Lena-Dunham-flashes-curvy-frame-derriere-tattoo.html
TW: INSTANT ERECTION DEATH!
That Hillary Clinton Lena Dunham sex tape is out there. And it is not going to go away. It wants to be seen.
Catt butt this thread now dammit!!!
You know Dunham is a Hillary groupie. And you know they have likely gotten it on at some point. Like I said, that tape wants to be seen.
Stop it John or I’m telling all the fat chicks at your work you’ve been putting Cosby’s Roofie cocktail into the donuts.
+1 Puddin Pop
that tape wants to be seen.
True, but nobody this side of the Dunwich Horror wants to see it.
She is like a weaponized version of ugly.
I honestly don’t think that many people find her so unattractive they would not under certain circumstances. The fact that she’s retarded, which is the nicest pejorative I can come up with to describe her, is what pushes her firmly into would not territory.
She is like every unattractive part of every bull dyke combined into one human being.
I actually have to defend the poor retardess on that. Have you seen Janet Napolitano?
Janet is old. What is Lena’s excuse?
She’s a leftist.
Also, I think that the idea that women just get ugly as they get older, is misguided. To a certain extent. I’ve seen many women look better as they aged. Of course I’m old and my eyes don’t work as well now.
Agree to disagree. I have effectively no exposure to her retardedness, but I still find everything about her unattractive. And my standards aren’t that high!!
The problem is not that she’s the ugliest person on the planet, yet, it’s her inner ugliness leaking out. Happens with all the leftist women. Look at Merkel, she used to be sort of cute and now she looks like an evil marionette from a horror film.
Yes.
I said “under certain circumstances.” You know, ugly dude, prison camp, desert island, etc.
Of course there’s nothing wrong with killing her and sell her as bushmeat in such a situation….
Sorry, I’ve met better looking transsexuals than Lena Dunham.
Ok, we don’t need details.
Some of us do.
Go on…
Goddamn your quicker fingers!
I have a nose for tragedy.
Next time some pol wants to ban burkas Muslims should send them this link.
You have to make sure that the words Lena and Dunham do not appear in a URL in order to trick people into clicking.
Krugabe feels shamed by recent efforts by Chait and doesn’t want to be left out of the hyperbole party.
http://www.salon.com/2017/09/12/paul-krugman-the-republican-party-may-end-up-destroying-human-civilization_partner/
Hahahaha, this shit is golden. He pissed away his reputation to be a partisan hack.
It’s all he has left. I’d love to get him full out hammered and listen to him whine about his mistakes. You know there’s no way he’s a happy drunk.
You have more patience than I.
C’mon, he’d get plastered and then belch up some vomit onto his beloved cat he was petting while attempting to justify his life decisions.
If that ain’t comedy, I don’t know what is.
Doesn’t he also say that we need disasters to help our economy? Which is it?
It’s whatever his wife tells him to say.
He pissed away his reputation to be a partisan hack.
So much this. Twenty years ago, Paul Krugman was a guy who, even if I didn’t agree with him, I could acknowledge was writing as a talented and competent economist. He was someone much more on the left than I’d like. But, he was talking real economics. He essentially sold it out for a brief (and passed) flirt with popularity at the Times.
How would you like to have Cindy Crawford as your mom and be this ugly? Poor girl.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4875734/Model-Kaia-Gerber-16-looks-exhausted-NYFW-debut.html
Don’t try to fool me, it’s a stork.
Feed that poor girl
Cindy Crawford is no prize either.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4874984/Cindy-Crawford-Rande-Gerber-host-DuJour-party-NYFW.html
She looks pretty good to me.
Oh, yeah. Cindy’s still got it going on. Not an aging genetic freak like Elle MacPherson or Christie Brinkley, but still . . . .
Butterface.
She is beautiful. Did you take a marijuana?
That’s a MAN, baby,
So yes, you did take a marijuana.
For her age? You better hope your wife is half that hot at 50.
Kaitlyn looks nice there.
I was right, googled it and it finished my sentence for me.
That about sums it up.
You people need to do something about your narcotics problem. This morning you are dissing on Diane Lane, now Cindy Crawford.
I can’t help it you like dudes in dresses. You sure you ain’t riding the white horse while cruising for Trannies in your trannie?
Sorry Bacon-magic, I can’t take advice on women from a guy who thinks Cindy Crawford is ugly and spent the entire day furiously googling “Lena Dunham Hillary Clinton Sex Tape”.
You linked it and you probably sinked your pink in it.
Diana Lane at least appears to be female.
Oh OMWC and Q linked it…whatevs. You are the only one on here with a weird boner for a tranny and the biggun Lena right now. NTTAWWT
Sharp knees, am I right?
Me too
Still hot.
Tundra has spoken.
Now stop saying stupid shit about Cindy!
*drops gloves and points to link upthread*
*clicks link, laughs and drops gloves*
Let’s go, bacon!!
*falls flat on ice*
Tundra, you’re going to lose unless you have some magical antidote to the power of bacon.
Watch.
*hands bacon a cold beer*
*burps*
We good.
Well played, sir!
She would look a lot better if she ate.
Did she get a bag of blow for her sweet sixteen as well? That’s some great parenting there.
Those shorts are terrible.
Good fucking lord it’s a Gelfling.
I’m still awaiting a remake.
Yeah, but NO WINGS. What does that mean?
It’s like looking into the future
Meh, she’s only 16, she still has time to grow into her looks.
Agree with others that a couple Big Macs wouldn’t hurt.
I’ll give her a big mac when she turns 18.
Or a ‘hot dog and a shake’.
^
The skeletorial one? Who’s her friend, she’s not bad?
Wow – somebody is making a honest Chappaquiddick movie. Wow.
That review is brutal
Fucking Kennedy’s
“I don’t say any of this as a right-wing troll. But those are the facts, and they are facts that liberals, too often, have been willing to shove under the carpet. And they have paid the price. Ted Kennedy became known as “the Lion of the Senate,” and did a lot of good, but when you try to build a governing philosophy on top of lies, one way or another those lies will come back to haunt you. (Hello, Donald Trump! He’s an incompetent bully, but his middle name might be “Liberal Karma.”) As a movie, “Chappaquiddick” doesn’t embellish the incidents it shows us, because it doesn’t have to. It simply delivers the truth of what happened: the logistical truth of the accident, and also the squirmy truth of what went on in Ted Kennedy’s soul. The result may play like avid prose rather than investigative cinema poetry, but it still adds up to a movie that achieves what too few American political dramas do: a reckoning.”
Damn. That movie critic at Variety is most definitely not getting invited to the good parties this fall.
It raises the question of whether or not the Kennedy’s are politically finished. They’ve got nobody of any significance left on the national scene. No up and comers either.
Christopher G. Kennedy is running for Governor of IL
Ha! That’s like running for mayor of Detroit at this point.
The Kennedys are living proof of that old ‘from trash to trash in three generations’, yet they won’t listen.
They were done when that project to breed a bulletproof politician failed, when Ahnold and Maria split.
What finished them was JFK getting whacked and RFK and then his lunatic wife becoming the Patriarch of the family. Jackie Kennedy was old money and had a little bit of class. So, she got her kids the hell away from them. And they turned out reasonably normal. Caroline isn’t too bright but she isn’t an embarrassment. JFK Jr, was actually a decent guy. Probably too decent to ever go into politics. The rest of them are just trailer trash.
JFK Jr, was actually a decent guy.
Pretty dumb, by all accounts. His application for law school was so weak that Harvard Law turned him down. Think about that – not even the Kennedy name could convince Harvard to admit him, probably because Harvard has anonymous grading and they were afraid he’d flunk out. Plus, he managed to flunk the NY bar twice, and rumor has it that his exam was pulled and passed on the third try, because if you flunk three times, you don’t get another chance.
Although he did manage to carry on the family legacy of drowning women, but managed to botch it by drowning himself.
Just because you are dumb doesn’t mean you are not a decent person. But yeah, he was dumb as a post. His sister isn’t any brighter. JFK wasn’t stupid I don’t think or at least not that stupid. Was Jackie just that dumb?
The entire male line were a bunch of himbos, largely deriving their sexual market value from their father’s efforts in business and crime. Female hypergamy and a fawning media did the rest.
The Kardashians of the 60s.
They are finished. Once the baby boomers die off and JFK passes from living memory, they won’t even be famous anymore.
They seem to get exponentially dumber every generation. Patrick and Joseph Kennedy were sleazy assholes but very sharp. John and Robert had the same lack of morals with a tad less brains and despite some fuck-ups (like getting his PT Boat rammed) they managed to ride the family name and money until they were ventilated. Ted was the family retard who kept getting caught doing stupid shit. The current generation is basically rich white trash with vast wealth hidden offshore and very good baby-sitters to keep them out of jail.
That about sums it up. Caroline and JFK Jr were not bright but were not trash at least. But that is only because Jackie got them as far away from their cousins as humanly possible.
Yes – classier but about as much wisdom and judgement piloting his plane as dad had piloting that PT Boat. I think Joe and his sons went for really stupid women.
They did. But as a married man, I can sympathize with him a bit. His stupid wife nagged him into doing something he knew better than to do. Those without sin..
I notice they only feel comfortable doing this after he’s dead.
Can you imagine if it had been made 20 years ago?
It couldn’t have been made 20 years ago. And that is pretty pathetic.
Ted Kennedy became known as “the Lion of the Senate,” and did a lot of good,
Like what?
Fucking “to be sure” limpdicks. No, Ted Kennedy did not do a lot of good in the Senate. If you disagree, tell me what, exactly, he did as a Senator that benefitted the country.
Come on, RC, Ted ran education policy under George W. Bush. there is that.
He gave us the ADA – the gift that keeps on taking.
As much as I loathed Ted Kennedy as a human being and disagreed with his positions on foreign policy, health care policy, welfare policy, education policy, and pretty much every other policy, he did advocate for a few good libertarian-friendly changes of great significance: trucking deregulation, civil air deregulation, and the breakup of the AT&T monopoly. Without those changes, we probably wouldn’t have the Internet and we certainly wouldn’t have Amazon, to say nothing of how deregulation reduced the costs of shipping, air travel, and telephony.
Ted was a traitor and should have stood in front of a firing squad. He sold our country out to the commies.
Hey him asking the Russians for help against Reagan was completely different from that what Trump did.
Basically, most of what I’ve read about the Kennedy’s, not the sugar coated Camelot bullshit, seems to indicate that they are white trash, like the Clintons. I used to work for a guy who was like that. He inherited a shit load of money from his parents. We would go to his private parties and fuck.the.what, these people were like any back of a hollow Appalachia people that I ever met, only with money.
Using BBC pidgin for the monkey selfie story is just inspired.
I note that “monkey selfie” is not yet defined at the Urban Dictionary. I’m thinking the Glibs should give it a go.
Sucking your dick?
Gee, Doc. I mean, I appreciate the offer, but . . . .
Sucking your own dick. oh never mind after that phrasing I should just stop digging.
auto-bukkake?
Like you’ve never had that happen?
No, I’m talking about days of build-up.
Once it dries on your car, it can be a bitch to get off the paint without leaving marks. Umm, at least, that’s what I read on the internet.
Memories from your last time at Burning Man?
There was definitely a burning sensation, but it was pretty localized . . . oh, you mean the big party in the desert.
I just need to know if the monkey has a name. Makes all the difference.
Naruto. It’s in the article, man.
Well shit, article? Oh… It’s a stupid name, and probably racist.
Naruto
What pics have you two been taking of said monkey?
Me tink u doo monkey in poo poo
I’m thinking chewing an entire bag of Big League Chew (grape flavor), then inserting the gum wad into your partner’s anus, engaging in anal intercourse to completion, finally removing the now soiled wad and resuming chewing.
Nah, that’s the grape ape.
Dude.
A+
Actual LOL
What’s the monkey component. Shouldn’t you be obligated to throw it at your partner? Or at passers-by?
an unspeakable sex act
That sounds like a challenge.
A “monkey selfie” is one tame proposal.
No good deed goes unpunished.
http://archive.is/sOoBg
Between that, the guy that got bit by a snake trying to rescue people, and the guy from Marathon that went to help in Houston while his house got blown inside out by Irma, I’m thinking fuck volunteering.
That sucks
… and here I am, once again, on a stationary train, stopped at Unpleasantville.
Come on by for a beer.
You’re based in Chappaqua?
Go see Killary’s vacant victory house!
Did Trump buy it yet? Because that’s what I would do.
Troll Level: Supreme Galactic Overlord
Yvette Felarca (head of BAMN) files restraining order against head of Berkley College Republicans (skip to 4 minutes for the story).
https://youtu.be/DJ6deZ9Ju8w
I’m not sure why anyone would want to get within 100 feet of Yvette Felarca.
She would never by able to survive outside the public sector.
That has to be purposeful in advance of the Shapiro talk. I wonder if she plans on getting close enough to say he violated the order and user it as justification for further violence.
No print link?
I have a college friend who has worked on the Hill since we graduated in ’94. She started her career as a legislative assistant for then Congresshole Menendez. Later on, she went back to work for him in a much higher capacity (like, much higher). I bet she knows a lot. But she is a bigtime Dem insider and koolaid drinker, so I don’t think she’ll offer her testimony. I think it would be high-larious if she were subpoenaed.
Harry Reid was in the middle of it. He laundered the bribe through his PAC. I would love to see that bastard have to testify under oath.
If she were, is she a big enough koolaid drinker to perjure herself?
If she is a koolaid drinker, that question answers itself.
You mean take the fifth? It just reminds me of how everyone in Trump’s admin who have been called to testify in this Russia clown show, has done so. When anyone was called to testify in the Obama admin, they took the fifth. I bet they think no one notices this?
I bet most people couldn’t tell you who Lois Lerner is.
Superman’s girlfriend, duh.
Do they have an anonymous tip line?
I’m always interest to find out what motivates individuals to work on the Hill despite the shitty hours and low pay.
Being close to the action, part of the big change.
One of my closest friends worked on the Hill for a while and I love him to death but dude thought he was hot shit. I pointed out one time when he got sort of snotty that he’s working private equity hours and getting a barista salary in DC.
Powah!
Pussy.
Is she the one with big hair in the image you posted a while back?
LOL no – I didn’t even know that chick – was at my Congresshole’s office begging for bladder cancer research money.
Ok, just curious, (: I feel bad for you for having to be around those people… or maybe I admire you for not killing them.
This trial is going to get interesting. If the national media wasn’t hell-bent on ignoring it, there would be a ton of juicy stories. Today the models Bob got Visas for are testifying against their will. When it’s all over, he’ll probably be found guilty – and be running for reelection next year while appealing his conviction.
I don’t know if a conviction would change his reelection chances, his name is already synonymous with “corruption” here.
Even if he is convicted, he can’t be convicted unless a 2/3rds majority of the Senate votes to expel him. If he is convicted before January, the Democrats will face the choice of expelling him and letting Chris Christie appoint himself to the Senate or have a convicted felon in their ranks. It is going to be awsome.
can’t be removed from office I mean.
I went outside earlier today and there was some kid in the neighborhood throwing a full on hysterical toddler tantrum. I found it odd that the imagery that conjured up has changed as compared to most of my adult life. Instead of conjuring the image of being in a restaurant when this happens at the table nearest me, with parents who just sit there like zombies and let it happen, I instead got the image of every Hillary voter the day after the election.
I remember staying up till 1 AM watching the various media talking heads losing their shit and reading my acquaintances posts on FB during the Election Night. I had no dog in this race but still felt satisfied that Clinton lost.
Same. I wasn’t even planning to watch the returns live, but once the Orange Tide started coming in, I couldn’t turn away from CNN and MSNBC.
I was up until 5am, drinking and laughing my ass off.
I was working at the women’s prison when the election took place. I do recall a noticeable increase in inmates coming in for a mental health crisis (since the inmates were uniformly in favor of Hillary).
I was getting pretty damn sick of all the stupid rumors circulating about Trump. Illegal immigrants who were serving time were freaking out about getting sent back despite the fact that they’re getting sent back at the end of their sentence anyway. Also, someone claimed that Trump was going to privatize all American prisons. I’m not exactly sure how the chief executive of the federal government would have such authority over state prisons, but whatever…
The key difference being, I derive no enjoyment from watching an actual child throwing a tantrum.
I’m not sure I’ll ever get tired of Hillary voter tantrums.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/12/seattle-mayor-ed-murray-to-resign-following-multiple-accusations-sexual-abuse.html
Not content with being an ordinary devient, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray molested his cousin.
Dibs on ‘ordinary deviants’ for band name
My wife & I are closing on a house and, during that process, I’ve decided that “Termite Escape Clause” would be a fine name for a band.
“Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has announced plans to resign following multiple accusations of sexual abuse after a fifth accuser — who is the mayor’s younger cousin — came forward and alleged that Murray repeatedly molested him in the 1970s.”
LOL, the King County Hillbillies? It should be a new reality show.
I don’t think you molest just five people, especially when one of them is your cousin. I shudder at the thought of how many kids this animal raped.
He’s a lefty. Why is this an issue?
The only issue is how quickly can it go down the memory hole?
Being a homosexual child rapist never damaged Gary Studd’s career
Are we sure it’s not “Butcher Hollow Mayor Ed Murray”?
Just like the Biblical patriarchs!
So the thread was dead allowing you to get away with this. But since you have returned, you have to be kididng me with this BS yesterday
“If/When you see it happening in US news, I can guarantee that it’ll be a minister for hire that’s forced to do it and not someone who performs weddings for his or her parishioners. And the ministers who really care will either start doing weddings for tithes to the church, or barter or something else, or they’ll fight it in court and if they win fantastic and if they lose they’ll get a ton of Kickstarter money from Christians who are happy to have their worst fears confirmed.”
So basically, if they are doing anything for money, then too bad, they don’t have any rights. And they are going to be happy to have your boot on their face anyway.
How about we bring back the criminal sodomy laws Jessee? Gays will be happy to see their worst fears confirmed, so why not?
Thanks for at least admitting you really don’t care about the rights of anyone but yourself. I always suspected it, but I honestly didn’t think you would ever say it.
Uh oh.
We should have an official name for when two glibs get into a huge back and forth. I’m open to suggestions.
NAP Attack?
Cat(butt) fight?
MonoCall to Arms?
“To the Gliberdome!”
Filter Fodder
JOVA: John’s On Viagra Again
Oh there’s the old John, playing weird mind games with the misspellings of our names and the mind reading. Thanks for cutting out the bit just before that when I said I thought the court cases were very obviously decided incorrectly, but that there was a big jump between “this is how one does commercial business” and “this is how ministers must preach from the pulpit. Glad to see the mendacious John is still there just below the surface.
Prick.
For clarity, since John didn’t think it was *salient* to my position on caring about the rights of others.
Get out of here with your clarification! When John “proves” you wrong, you just stay there!
As long as you agree that gay marriage was all about destroying marriage, will you two kiss and make up?
–John, two weeks from now.
+1/2 wit
“No tongues!”
There is no difference between commercial association and religious association.
Acknowledgement of a post Wickard legal milieu isn’t an endorsement.
But “they will be happy because it will confirm their worst fears” sure as hell is.
“The concentration camps are okay because it makes the Jews happy by confirming their worst fears”
Jess.in.mb circa 1943
You are going to own that little slip of the tongue forever.
Not a slip of the tongue. And I absolutely stand by it. You may be excited to point out every fake hate crime, but how sympathetic were you for Kim Davis? Read what she actually said and what organizations like NOM said about her and tell me they weren’t rubbing their tools in glee. She had plenty of space to be a conscientious objector without creating a shitshow and she had zero interest in doing that.
And here you are ignoring the rest of it.
or they’ll fight it in court and if they win fantastic and if they lose they’ll get a ton of Kickstarter money from Christians who are happy to have their worst fears confirmed.”
Again, it is totally okay because “it will confirm their worst fears” and they will get money on kick starter. Again, lets bring back the sodomy laws because the first queer that gets prosecuted will get a ton of money on kick starter, right?
Fuck you, you lying prick.
One of the problems with activists on both sides is that there are frequently easy ways to route around the kinds of legal encounters that set the precedents that define things for the rest of us, but they are incapable of recognizing that discretion is the better part of valor. I’m glad that your experience as whatever mainline protestant you are didn’t expose you to the giddy anticipation for the end times that I was raised with but there are people out there with serious hardons for being persecuted and they make things worse for everyone in the middle who wants to live their own fucking lives without interference.
What you seem to be failing to recognize is that these groups are pleased to throw themselves at each other and that victory or loss in any given legal battle fires them up more. I apologize if my glib presentation of that on a site called glibertarians broke your brain,
The thing about the Obama presidency I will always remember is all the racial healing, and booming economy
That why he should have been made dictator
If I recall correctly, around 70% of surveyed Democrat voters thought that Obama should be able to serve a 3rd term. Since that would involve amending the Constitution, I wonder how they’d feel about 3 terms of Trump?
No, the amendment will stipulate that the third term applies only to Obama.
Capitalism ho?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/magazine/elaine-welteroth-teen-vogues-refashionista.html?mcubz=1
On the one hand, life style wokeism probably doesn’t need more enabling; on the other, it’s amusing to see how nakedly profit driven is the embrace of the culture war by companies.
reinventing the glossy magazine for a hyperempathetic generation.
I thought empathy was the ability to see things from another’s point of view.
it’s amusing to see how nakedly profit driven is the embrace of the culture war by companies.
And, of course, we all know sensibilities will never change ever again. It took these magazines generations to build their brand. My guess is that the brand will be dead in ten years.
WAR ON DA WIMMINZ! Canada edition:
https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/tina-brown-returns-fire-on-the-war-on-women-in-the-us/article36224348/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&
I thought this was canucki womyn dang it…*has sad*
Women in the frozen utopia have every one of their whims met instantly by Zoolander’s army of pleasure-bots.
Women in Hell (aka: Amerikkka) are used as breeding stock before they are raped to death and fed to the next generation.
She can’t even get the title right. It’s War on Bitchez.
Like the teen magazines before it, Teen Vogue tells its readers what they should look like and what they should wear. Welteroth’s modest innovation is for the magazine also, in its own way, to help teach its readers how to be people in the world — how to care for others, how to defend their rights, how to see the humanity in us all.
What to wear, how to look, what to think. They’re the house organ for fashionable Young Pioneers.
Repeat after me: We. are. not. a. cult.
That’s the calling card for cults.
BTW that broad from HR called back.
How’d it go?
Well enough that it sounds like they’ll entertain a cadidate that makes slightly above market value.
+1 Hugo Boss
take it in the ass like a champ
And who is forcing them to listen?
So, a couple of people here have asked me about VR Pr0n. I still don’t know anything about it. But I was talking to a friend. He mentioned something that I’m familiar with, in that one of the issues with VR is that the depth (DOF) is just not there. Things that are farther away tend to be blurry no matter how cranked up you have the settings. But anything that is up close looks much better. So much better, that compared to 4K on a flat screen monitor, VR looks far more impressive and detailed. That being said, VR pr0n is typically POV up close stuff. So my friend said. So basically, you might really like it if you like some spectacular boobies right in your face. If you don’t like that, you may be offended. Again, 2nd hand account, so take it for what it’s worth.
I’m really starting to expose my seedy past, but this is a huge challenge for the industry – because let’s face it, those performers are just humans, and it’s awfully difficult to find talent anyway, let alone demanding that their boob job scars and less than perfect skin complexion is hidden from all capture angles.
Things became exponentially more complicated with high-resolution DVD, and while ‘real girl’ porn is popular, there remains a significant consumer demographic who are going to pay – and continue to pay – for primo talent (both male and female) who are – frankly – impossibly good looking. For afficionadoes of the perfect bubble butt, they’ll be able to discriminate between that and a masterfully made up, but demonstrably not-perfect example that is available to film producers at the moment. Loyalty to existing talent will carry the industry for a while. Nikki Benz’ fans KNOW she isn’t 21 and her implants are a bit saggy, but they’d still like to sample the goods, while suspending disbelief, but if she really was only 21, trying to break into the business, she wouldn’t have the complexion and body for the new generation of porn.
Rule 34, of course, does apply. “Girl Next Door”, “Crack Hos gotta live too”, and “Babysitters with acne” will always appeal to audiences with ‘realistic’ complexions, lopsided boobs and badly-shaved hoohoos, but the (increasingly) high standards that customers want, and the production costs of sending your main talent off to have their whole body microdermed and resurfaced butts up even harder against the industry’s cratering revenues.
Maybe the answer will come from CGI, using matting techniques, or they’ll just buy very expensive imported Nexus 7’s, but there are challenges ahead that the industry hasn’t even begin to answer yet.
I think 6 should write a full article on this topic and submit it.
Who’s with me?
Seconded. Along with a list of all the “actresses” he’s “worked” with.
Anecdotes make lousy articles. Especially when I tell ’em.
That anecdote sounds awfully insider-ish. I’d like to meet your friends.
I’m sure he was insider.
AMA format then.
So you’re Seymour Butts?
Mike Honcho. He spread his butt cheeks.
“let alone demanding that their boob job scars and less than perfect skin complexion is hidden from all capture angles.”
People actually care about that? Sexy can contain all sorts of imperfections, and some of those imperfections are actually enhancing. Maybe only my opinion.
Yes and no, but ultimately, the biz is about a nod-and-wing plausible deniability. Just as nobody thinks the girl is ACTUALLY ‘barely legal’ (since the whole Traci Lords case in the mid-80’s, the industry makes sure it goes nowhere near underage/unrepresented talent), nobody believes that rack is real, even if it is.
Most of my experience with the business was in the UK, which always was, and to a fair degree, still is pretty tame. If any of the talent wants to get rich, they get the hell out of there toute de suite and over to Germany or the US. Until the 2000’s, performers with 20-30 scenes on their Z-folios (a kind of combined resume and promotional photo archive) would have been considered prolific. Here in the US, one of the more motivated and popular performers would get that done in maybe 6 weeks. If she’s lucky she can parlay that into a promotional project that culminates with something like ‘first multiracial anal’, pocket the profits and fly home in 1st class (and more often than not, snort the rest of the money away within 48 hours).
Anyway – back to the point – you can’t predict what will sink a performer. It’s very popular at the moment to use body ink to cover this, but it has its own risks – there are a couple of US performers who inked up the ‘Playboy bunny’ and then found they had to have it lasered out, because really, there’s no demand for Playboy-merchandized talent at the moment. But tastes change – sometimes very quickly – look at the meteoric rise of Mia Khalifa, and then *poof*. Nothing. Supply obviously diminished when she retired, but to my knowledge, nobody’s come in to replace her.
Another issue is that sadly, a lot of the talent goes in ‘damaged’ in some way or the other. Even more of them come out ‘damaged’, and a pretty consistent theme is that they lack impulse control and self esteem (I know, hard to believe, right?) and often resist management efforts to help them make good choices. On more than one occasion, a number of years back, some chick would turn up to a shoot with a freshly minted (and pretty shitty) body inking. Why would a performer do that? Some drunk dude who was talking to her at the AVN awards managed to catch her at a vulnerable moment and combined the right balance of awe and mastery to convince her that was what it would take to make her a star.
But again, back to the point, yeah, market research is tough, even in hindsight. To take a current performer – Stoya – take a close look. Now figure out why she has the following she does. Is it the gappy teeth? The unconvincing acting? The stubble (as if the girl can’t afford a proper waxing before a shoot)? Maybe it’s the boyish figure. I know that works for some – but really – it would have been hard to predict her success.
The thing is that yes, even I am *someone’s* fetish, but I couldn’t make a living selling videos of myself screwing anyone (or anything), and that’s the key – you need a critical mass of customers whose kink is you. And that’s horribly hard to predict. Sometimes, the genre is what sells it. Often it’s just luck.
Sometimes it’s a specific kink (facials are very challenging for DVD, and promise to be even worse for VR), and sometimes it’s the ‘vibe’ of the production – for a while, movies that looked unedited were popular, where the talent would stop for a while and have a humorous exchange, and then get back on with the action
Interesting comments, 6.
*cough* submit(at)glibertarians(dot)com *cough*
“I couldn’t write an interesting article”
*proceeds to write interesting article as reply*
I would read a “Family Friendly Website” compliant article on the vagaries of taste, supply, and demand in the adult entertainment industry.
In pidgin?
Seriously, I would read an article you wrote.
I would love to see a full article. Also, how did you come to be in that business and what was your role?
Well, that’s not difficult to explain – I worked as a technical consultant for a prominent porn company in the UK who were installing Apple-based graphics workstations to retouch stills. One of the things the client liked was that I wasn’t (obviously) drooling over the chicks walking around at the studios in varying states of undress.
The firm I worked for at the time really valued the account, so when the firm approached me to do some moonlighting for them in a NON-ACTING ROLE, my boss gave me the wink and I ended up working with them on their
business expansion plans into other areas. I had an ‘in’ with the firm, and was ‘known’ around the offices which included studio facilities. So, for about 16 months, I got to see the (very mundane) underside of how you grow a business that plenty of people disapprove of.
The UK ‘adult’ industry is really small. You could fit all the significant movers and shakers in a 12×14 lounge party. I know, because we did. Like any social group, a mixture of shitheels and surprise saints. But what it lost me was a smokin’ hot (tbh) 9 – who was very ill at ease me hanging out with ‘porn people’ and porn stars.
Turned out all my friends hated her and wouldn’t tell me, and she really was a bunny boiler, [but that’s a story for another time. Or maybe another blog – like Rollo Tomassi’s]
Just ‘cos I know y’all so well, I’ll get it out in the open.
* No.I was never in front of the camera, although sometimes I was at a shoot (they’re long and boring for everyone).
* No, I didn’t sample any merchandise – at least not at the time when a girl was actively working in front of the camera.
* I did hang out with one or two before they became performers, and one (notably) afterwards – it’s just like sex with normal women – trust me.
Late in the 2nd year of working with the firm, the firm had grown, and I left them on good terms and went back to working (solely) with the firm I was borrowed from.
Lots of sly nods and winks from guys, lots of huffy behavior from most of the women, and a load of knowing smiles from me to myself. It was an education about women that I wish I had taken to heart, but I was a guy, and within a year, I was back to my old, sad-ass beta self.
But it had been fun.
Crazy. Man, an article needs to happen. My life is so boring.
The problem is that people don’t change that much, and technology/business model does.
Since I was really involved in the biz before the internet took off, I understood the print/video/live business pretty well, but that’s all irrelevant nowadays, except to compare it with all the stuff we all know – ubiquity of a vast array of material, inexpensive, etc. , so my perspective is pretty much that of a Stegosaurus watching a bunch of uppity Cro-Magnons frolicking around on the savannah.
The only thing that seems to be the same is the lousy choices people make, and how they never conform to stereotypes, but we cover that all the time here at Glibertarians.com, except not usually from an adult entertainment world. I ridicule psychology as an academic pursuit (while realizing that TSLD may well start to major in it next year), but I got an absolute eyeful of practical psychology hanging out with all these people, just because there wasn’t a stereotype or trope that one or more of them didn’t explode.
I was never really immersed in the business, but damn, I miss those people, probably the same way that former circus performers miss their old lives.
Methinks the fellow doth disclaim too much.
Shadup!
Did that monkey used to be in a band?
I’m not dancing on a brother’s grave or nothin’, but… excuse my while I Moonwalk the fuck out of this.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-mayor-ed-murray-resigns-after-fifth-child-sex-abuse-allegation/
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has resigned hours after a fifth man — a relative — made public allegations Murray molested him when he was a child.
Dude, hire a lawyer and shut up. Or don’t.
It’s funny how he zings all over the map on this. The new incoming mayor(s) are more progressive than he is (yes, they managed to drain more water out of the pool). He’s bounced from right wing nazi conspiracy to old family beefs. He of course switched to family beefs when it was his own family rolling in with the accusations of healing balms being brought to the sick in the dark of night.
I don’t know anything about Murray but I know Seattle and I’m guessing that is going to be very “progressive” indeed.
Now that voters are done with their late-summer vacations and barbecues, Seattle’s mayoral candidates are competing for attention by rolling out policy proposals.
Some of their plans are more precise than others, and the two agree on many points as they sometimes seek to “out-progressive” each other.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seatte-mayoral-candidates-release-policy-plans-ahead-of-tuesday-debate/
For like the seventh election in a row, the Seattle Times openly admits it can’t find differences between the candidates.
And… we have a winner. Slam-dunk.
Durkan is endorsed by half a dozen other Unions. It’s a wash.
Maybe the second to last time I was in the local DMV, there was some event going on and most of the staff was in SEIU tshirts. It was interesting watching a theoretical dislike turn into a practical one.
Yeah but SEIU is the king-maker. At least in my town.
Oh, Durkan is openly gay (at least I think Durkan is… so openly gay woman) that’s some major fucking resume points in this town. Major.
Nope, come November, it’s Durka Durkastan.
Oh, if you were a ‘troubled teen’ on the streets of Seattle in the 70s and 80s, there’d be a roaring good chance you’d ‘know’ Ed Murray quite well. That is if you get my subtle meaning.
So which one of the Communists will take over now?
God Bless Iowahawk
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/907700660866621441
More like fought with 15, amIrite?
In the replies:
“You know what he likes about dating twenty nine year olds?
There are twenty of them.”
LOL / barf
Wow, that @sorrykb guy earlier in his timeline. Even by modern standards, that’s a pretty high concentration of smug self-righteous ignorance.
Iowahawk’s a Nazi, Ben Shapiro’s a Nazi, all Nazis, all the time.
Ok, nothing special from first Sunday’s NFL season, but I will point out one thing.
Amari Cooper, definitely the best Raider receiver ever, but in my opinion, one of the best ever, already. Check out the first TD drive where he eludes a tackle and carries about 6 defenders into the end zone. 2 already 1000+ yard seasons as a rookie and only 23 years old.
Raiders / Tennessee 2017
Cooper was absolutely on fire for that game, he will be incredible to watch this year. Also, how about Beastmode? I thought he would be back in good form. The Raiders are looking to be one of the top three AFC teams this year.
Lynch is Lynch. I think that the mistake people are making is to think that a 31 year old running back is an old man who can no longer play in the NFL. But. Lynch is a guy who is almost never tackled while not going down hill. Still evident in yesterday’s game. You really cannot compare Lynch with any other running back, ever. The Raiders are one of the, if not the, best offense in the NFL this year.
Jerome Bettis and Earl Campbell would like a word. Especially Campbell whose stats and style are remarkably similar to Lynch’s
Not trying to be biased or anything, but Lynch is the best RB of all time, just watch a few hours of replay of the guy, there is no one in the history of football who runs like that. He’s unique.
Errr, Barry Sanders, Eric Dickerson, Jim Brown, and Emmit Smith would like a word.
Lynch doesn’t even make top 20 all time forget best of all time. Hell he’s not even the greatest of his era as both Ladanian Tomlinson and Adrian Peterson are clearly better.
Hell when it comes right down to it even non Hall of Famers like Eddie George and Ricky Williams would like a word. The *might* not be better than Lynch but they sure as hell are in the same class as him at worst.
I just placed a bet at 15 to 1 odds with my brother that they would win the Super Bowl this year. I may be way too optimistic, but at those odds I can afford to lose 30 bucks. Anything can happen, but I would be surprised if they don’t go deep in the playoffs. I still have at least two years to root for those bastards.
I worry about the defense. No doubt the Raiders offense is elite. I’m hoping that they can get Conley (a hell of a steal) and Melifonwu going.
Jim. Brown.
Vhyrus’s Florida Follies, epilogue 1: I received word from my mother that despite a tornado scare, the vehicles we drove to Sarasota survived intact and unharmed. So a partial victory if nothing else.
GOod news.
That’s awesome to hear!
I know the house is still at stake but at least you know all the effort wasn’t in vain, great to hear.
Glad to hear that! Honestly, I thought it was a crazy adventure, but you and the cars survived. That’s a win.
Congrats on the vehicles and best wishes on the house.
My impression on Irma was while it was bad, it wasn’t as bad as it could have been.
That sounds like a total victory to me. Your mission was to save the vehicles. The vehicles were saved. QE fuckin’ D.
At the very least, you achieved your mission’s primary objective.
Given the ground conditions, and the challenges you overcame in achieving that primary objective, nobody at the debrief is gonna complain EVEN IF none of the secondary objectives were met.
They were a bridge too far. Them’s the breaks.
But you persevered. And won.
Hey, Vhyrus and any other FL Glibs, very relieved to hear that things were not as bad as could have been. Wife has a cousin in Tampa and although it was supposed to be ground zero, no one seems to have any major issues other than power loss.
Excellent!
“What do you mean, ‘it’s just another fake hate crime’?”
Sigh.
I assume they are fake until proven otherwise. This method has been astoundingly accurate.
I was just wondering how many of the normies have also reached that point.
It’s like with that story of that bi-racial kid being hung in New Hampshire. I would like to think that the family has no ulterior motive but the issue is that these days, with victimhood being a currency and all, people will do anything to stretch the truth if it helps their agenda. I hate the fact that the news has made me distrustful of people.
My rule of thumb is to never believe a story until a week or two later after the haze of shitty journalism has lifted.
The kid was hanged; I’m hung.
Good catch. Hahahaha
More untrustworthy reporting.
It’s unusual to find an American who understands grammar to this level.
Bravo.
Outside of a Starbucks anyway.
Do you really think it’s made you distrustful of “people”, or just “distrustful of the news” ?
I’m distrustful of people but it’s because people not news.
OMWC – saw you reference the gado gado in a post this morning – you into the traditional Indonesian cuisine or is there a similarly named dish from somewhere else? With the right mix of items, it works ok, but there are a lot of dishes I prefer.
What’s the harshest penalty for art forgery in Pennsylvania?
Are you getting ready to embark on a new career?
He was “asking for a friend”.
Career planning?
That… was meant to be a reply to quincy
I have a career, thank you. Exporting forgeries to Pennsylvania. Sometimes, I get paranoid, and need legal advice from random strangers on the Internet.
Will pay with artisanal water-based personal lubricant?
I use cashy money, Tortilla Man.
Some day I will have an adequate photo of myself that does not have a carby circle in it, but also isn’t good enough to use on Scruff, and then I won’t have to put up with this abuse anymore.
*runs from room crying*
Does he understand the quantities of lubricant you’re actually talking about?
You can’t even get anchovies at a Pizza Hut anymore. I think there’s some anti-anchovy pressure group out there. They claim to be “allergic” or something. Papa John’s is the only nationwide chain still offering anchovy toppings. Lots of regional and one-off pizza joints don’t offer the greatest of all pizza toppings.