Its Monday again. I have been indifferently productive, which is like a major victory for me. I guess there was some sort of kerfluffle this weekend? Turns out the only 2 channels I don’t get are CBS and Fox. Sounds like I should be grateful. Especially since I called the Texans loss at the beginning of the 4th quarter. I hate Bill O’Brian and think he might be the least talented coach in the NFL. Please to fire his ass. But at least he didn’t bench a QB this game. Ass.
Internet culture is… getting stupider.
Carlos Danger gets 21 months in prison. “I was a very sick man for a very long time”, he said, pleading guilty. Listen, jerkoff, self-indulgence isn’t a disease. I hope you get that in prison, and may all of your sexual encounters be voluntary.
Just another day in LA, right? At least the baby was unharmed and too young to be really traumatized by what she saw.
Like two fourteen year olds, “I’m gonna kick your ass, take your shot!” “I don’t hit no man first!”
Not sure if this makes vegetative states more or less horrifying. But hey, if I end up like that, put me in a boat, strap my hands to the wheel, wipe all your prints, and make sure the plug blows a
s soon as I’m out of sight of land.
Speaking of not eating…
Riven: And on an entirely different note, exactly a year ago I married the perfect man. We’ll be leaving for our honeymoon in Las Vegas on Wednesday, and I can’t wait to watch him compete at USPSA later this week. Happy anniversary, Mr. Riven. <3
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Poison control hotline. 800-222-1222 or online at poison dot org.
This is a follow-up to Yusef’s weekend post about his pooch. Hope Bella is still doing well. I wanted to get this information out for the rest of you:
Not all poisons are treated the same. Some situations are best treated with emetics – vomit inducers like hydrogen peroxide or ipecac. Other toxins are best treated with activated charcoal – the stuff they sell for aquarium filters is a good substitute if you can’t find medical grade ac, or literally burned toast (black).
Poison control can advise you on the best course of treatment for various toxins.
Do they answer questions about dogs?
Good point, Playa. Looks like that one is humans only.
Veterinary poison hotlines:
ASPCA: 888-426-4435 ($65 possible fee)
Pet Poison Helpline: 855-764-7661 ($59 per incident)
Thanks.
I also have a copy of this at home.
I’m sure there are other good ones, but it’s a good reference.
Could it kill a pet? Quite a large pet? A sort of almost person-sized pet?
That is hilarious. It finally got me to quit lurking.
Thanks Tonio and everyone else who added, good info here,
Yes she’s fine, sleeping right now on the blue chair
Looking at those pictures, I was cracking up. Briz has her own chair, too. Does anyone else sit in the blue chair besides Bella?
Productive? Like taking a nap?
Please enjoy some worthless clickbait!
http://archive.is/DGDLf
I’ve been a fan of tasteful cameltoe since the beginning.
If other people want to jump on the bandwagon, fine.
On…or in?
eh… between.
Nom nom
So Weiner will be out in time for the 2020 election?
And they are looking for a candidate that can relate to the peasants.
Clinton/Weiner 2020!
The first Weiner Clinton has had behind her in years!
WHY WOULD YOU SAY THIS
WHY
WHY
WHY
*grabs funnel and bottle of bleach, places funnel in ear, begins to pour*
Unfortunately, he won’t be allowed on the property to speak at schools, churches, day cares, or college campuses.
They can expand on their Wisconsin strategy.
I’m actually waiting for one of the 2016 Dem presidential aides to break ranks and say, “Let’s be honest, we all knew that her only hope was to stay away and hope they forgot how much they hated her.”
Weiner will be out in 6 months or less.
It is hard to keep a good Wiener down
“cops say was tortured and killed by her graphic-novelist boyfriend”
…
“Her boyfriend, Blake Leibel, 36, the son of wealthy Canadian real estate tycoon and Olympic sailor Lorne Leibel,”
I KNEW IT.
Also, it’s cute that they think that the death penalty is still a thing in Los Angeles County. It’s as real as the tooth fairy.
Yeah, they should just drop the pretense of a death penalty. I suppose it’s another way for the state to piss away more money.
I hate Bill O’Brian and think he might be the least talented coach in the NFL.
Least talented head coach. Don’t count out Dom Capers.
Capers was like a super defensive genius his entire career, and then he gets to Green Bay and immediately becomes the worst coordinator in the sport. It’s weird.
Todd Haley still works in the NFL…
And some people think he should be considered for a HC position.
As a Chiefs fan, I think he’d be perfect… for the Rai_ers or the Donkos,
NYT is worthless fishwrap. In other news, water is wet.
http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2017/09/its-official-nyt-couldnt-cover-dumpster.html?spref=tw
Gee, I love how I’m reading things like this on a nonstop basis about various legacy media idiots.
I’m wondering how long it’ll take for those “we have to nationalize the media to save it and free it” trial balloons will come back.
According to the NYT, Carlos will have to register as a sex offender.
So, he’s got that going for him.
Sadly (well, actually not, but for schadenfreude purposes) NY cannot limit where sex offenders live.
If the plot lines of Law & Order SVU are accurately portrayed, being on that list won’t do anybody any good.
SVU will do his story….as a conservative pol.
True. Det. Stabler would never beat up a fellow statist.
He already couldn’t drop his kid of at kindergarten. I felt bad for him. Sort of.
You think that wannabe kidfucker ever cut a sex offender any slack as a politician? Let him reap what he has sown.
You didn’t marry me.
Clearly I didn’t think this one through
So, as she was saying…
DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK?!
Damn you, puppet
QUITTIN’ TIME!
^THIS
*OSHA inspector dies of heart attack*
Not yet in my new town. In fact that’s why I’m rarely on here anymore. I NEED a job so I can fuck around on here all day. When I’m unemployed I’m too damn busy to hangout online.
Speaking of hanging out, my wife just told me I have the weekend off. Tampa area meetup on Friday or Saturday?
Sounds good to me. Either day works for me. The Horns play on Thursday so I don’t need a football carve out on Saturday
Either works. Paging Florida Men. Tampa Bay area Glibs who want to meet up, which works better Friday or Saturday? I assume we’ll meet in Tampa, at least this time.
Go to Publix. I hear the chicken is fab.
I’m in Panama City Beach for a seminar Thurs-Sunday. If it was Thursday I would definitely fly down to Tampa… I’ll check back in for Fri or Sat, but there are evening events at the seminar.
It actually is. I just had a mojo roast chicken from Publix and it was pretty great for a grocery store special that cost 5 bucks.
You guys have Mojo chicken?
And here I am eating regular chicken like a chump.
Pussy Pass.
Extraordinarily able’ Oxford student gets suspended sentence for stabbing ex-boyfriend
I’m sure they would have let me off the hook if I stabbed a women when I was in grad school.
An aspiring Oxford University heart surgeon student — whose career a judge said he didn’t want to ruin
Well, you could probably count on one hand the hospitals in America who would let her on their medical staff with that on her record, regardless of her sentence. So she ain’t cashing the cardiac surgeon lottery ticket, that’s for sure.
So its a good thing she’s in the UK, where the NHS apparently has no qualms about having murderous physicians
looking afterexperimenting on their subjects.Since I’m sure the NHS insurance suits are capped, and they self-insure from the General Revenue till, what’s the problem?
+1 Harold Shipman.
The Butcher Of Birmingham
They’re pitiless enough to procure the lungs of chainsmokers as organs used for transplants. I don’t put much past them.
“this lung was still working when we harvested it, and the recipient is nearly 50, so, yeah, fuck it. put it in”
In the case I’m thinking of the recipient was a 25 year old soldier who had destroyed his lungs in some accident on active duty. Guy died of lung cancer a few years after receiving the transplant.
I wrote about it nearly nine years ago, and I still see red when I think about it.
I smoke and would’t do that, fucking gross, I mean you don’t know where they have been
In someone else’s body.
Ewwww!
They weren’t stab wounds, they were just incisions. Shame on her boyfriend for not letting her practice.
Her boyfriend did go to Cambridge, in mitigation.
Hey, I posted a comment abou poison control which isn’t showing, probably because I included their phone number.
Swiss? Anyone?
Just approved it out of moderation.
“I was a very sick man for a very long time”
“Was”???
That’s odd. I always confused Cobain with Kato Kaelin.
So, over/under on NK kicking off WW3? I’m still thinking almost no chance but if the media keeps egging them on you never know.
Most interesting question: would the war be just? If any possible war could be just in 2017 a war that unifies Korea and wipes out DPRK seems like a strong candidate.
You must really hate South Korea if you’re pulling for them to reunify with that shithole up north
I can’t figure out why the South wants any kind of reunification with the North. Let China have it, I say, under the “you broke it, you bought it” theory.
As far as I know they don’t.
I mean I don’t sit around waiting for every speech from a SK politician but I’ve never heard so much as a peep about reunification from the South
The sunshine policy, etc was largely about treating the N. right in hopes of making a smoother reunification. Not sure about mainstream politicians as much, but the younger (non-Korean war vets) generations have been a lot more vocal about crap like that.
Personally, I figure it would definitely be worth it in the long run. The “easy” way to do it would be to kettle the civilians – leave the mines in place on the DMZ and let china do their thing on the Northern border (albeit pay them to use rubber bullets) and pour humanitarian assistance into the north. Make the Berlin airlift look like Spokane airport next to SEATAC from coast to coast. There are plenty of wealthy humanitarians in the South, and TONS of organizations who are chomping at the bit to go up there and start helping folks out. It would be slower than Germany by far, but it’s doable – but looking at the deprogramming that’s already necessary for individual defectors and what it would take on a national scale – it’ll take some time.
They sure did break it. Before WWII, the North was the industrial center of the country and the south was farmland.
So true. Be like West Germany having to absorb East Germany times a thousand.
I have a few friends in Japan, I’d rather not play those odds.
I hope you’re including straffinrun in that.
I’ll include Godzilla if you want.
If it’s phrased as “kicking off WW3” then bet heavily against, as even if they start an actual war I don’t see any way they’d drag anyone else in on their side, so the war would be regional at most. I don’t think a war is likely, but it is not impossible. Surely NK knows they would lose, so they’d have to be really desperate to venture the attempt. And I don’t see anyone else attacking them without first receiving a severe provocation.
You don’t think Iran would get in on that? China? Russia? Japan? You get at least 2 of those plus US and you’re off to the races.
Not for little ol’ NK, as the risk/reward calculus doesn’t favor it. Now, if China and the US went to war over Taiwan, that I could see prompting Russia and Iran to jump in on. But if the US and NK tangle, I don’t think China jumps in unless their direct interests are threatened (say, a mobilized Japan decides to take a detour to occupy one of those island bases – not a likely scenario, though). And it’s almost certain no one else would jump in without China making a move. I’d predict that if there was a war with NK (which I think unlikely) then it would be US+Japan+SK vs NK, and that’s it.
I didn’t necessarily mean that China would side with NK. I’m actually pretty sure they would side with us.
Nah lil’ kim is going to go so bonkers that China will annex him. The end.
WW3 aka the 30 second war.
I always assumed they would sell a couple of nukes to crazy mullah. After New York and DC go up, we’d figure out where it came from and administer a thorough nuking.
But whenever the U.S. gets truly pissed, the Chinese and Russians get real quiet. So I doubt they’d do anything except bitch about fallout.
One of the reasons that Korea is such a problem spot is because of how they divided it.
The south has all the farmland and (at the time) population. The north had all the heavy industry (hydro-electric, mining, etc.). If you had split it East/West you would have two functioning countries. The way it is now, you have two countries that look at each other and say “If I had their shit, I’d kick ass”.
I don’t think that there will be a WW3. NK just isn’t worth it and I don’t think that Kim is that stupid.
LA Times: Anthony Weiner is sentenced to 21 months in prison…
Iowahawk: He argued for under 18.
*opera applause*
The ‘fought for 15’ joke may be played out but it’s still hilarious.
I f*cking love socially approved ‘science’!
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bath-spa-university-bars-research-into-transgender-surgery-regrets-ddxxlbfzh
Research into regrets about transgender surgery is denied, because that wouldn’t be ‘woke’
We already have a term for that: Buyer’s remorse.
Or it could be an ‘opportunity cost’ in some way I suppose.
Happy Anniversary, Riven!
Many thanks! There’s a day and a half of work between us and vacation. Shoon. Very Shoon.
“Just another day in LA, right? At least the baby was unharmed and too young to be really traumatized by what she saw.”
If Dexter is to be believed, she’ll grow up to be badass vigilante with Asperger’s.
“Grandpa, I need to go viral. Get down on your goddamn knee or I’m going to throw away your pudding!”
So brave. So woke.
The real story is if a 97 year old dude can get back up without help
This
Tap to install yahoo…pass.
How do you install a webpage?
I don’t know, but when I clicked it all I got was a page that says “tap to install yahoo.”
I’m so happy all these people have adopted the proper form of respect to the crucifix.
Remember when people got all wrapped around the axle for this?
This too shall pass.
But only about 4 times per game.
“Here are the five character traits a man must possess in order to satisfy two women at once:
1) He must be strong
2) He needs to have good communication skills
3) He should be vigilant
4) He must be upbeat
5) He needs to show leadership”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/4540653/here-are-the-u-s-states-with-the-most-couples-who-are-looking-for-kinky-threesomes/
That list sounds like something ripped from a military recruiting pamphlet.
6) A blue pill couldn’t hurt
How many people here are going to read that article to see where they should go to get a kinky threesome?
*nonchalantly closes tab*
kinky threesome?
Germs and Jesus are everywhere?
Reminds me of another Kinky threesome.
Kinky 3somes are easy to find, as long as you don’t mind MFM or MMF 3somes, it is finding the hot bi babe for the MFM 3some that is hard
finding the hot bi babe for the MFM 3some that is hard
Wait? What? So one of the M is actually F? I’m very confused now.
lol no, although I suppose that isn’t too hard to find either it is just that it isn’t too hard to find another guy or two to join in giving your wife/girlfriend a very good night. Finding another woman interested in joining a couple is much harder
We aim to beat the odds.
Where’s my bunk?!!
Go on…
Well it does help if the woman is more highly interested in finding a girlfriend than the guy is 🙂
You used the same letters, but in different orders.
Does that mean what I think it does?
There’s a reason that the 2nd woman in a FMF or FFM threesome is referred to as a unicorn.
6) He needs to have a million bucks?
Kinky threesomes?
What about the regular kind?
Or the always popular athletic threesome?
Endurance threesomes?
Related:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/02/26/man-28-dies-after-guzzling-viagra-during-12-hour-romp.html
Devil’s?
Probably actually easier to find the kinky kind. You start in the BDSM community playing with others, then move up to 3somes with them. Finding a unicorn out in the wild is like winning the lottery, so rare you might as well not bother thinking about it and while you might find one in Swingers or Poly communities odds are heavily against it.
“California turned out to be the state which is the most interested in group sex, followed by Texas. New York has the third highest number of 3somer members.”
How strange. It’s almost like there’s a correlation with population size or something.
Damn your fast fingers.
Also, it says “couples looking”, which is a nice way of saying “failing so far”.
so they did exactly what every hack journo does: take the top population centers and just shove those in the list in order. WOW CALI, TEXAS, NEW YORK, SO KINKY!! Oh wait, that’s like 2/3rds the population of the United states in those three states.
Surprised not to see:
“Oddly enough, there are very few people interested in group sex in conservative Wyoming.”
Well, when there are only 2 people in the county its best to assume they aren’t interested in doing anything in groups.
part of that is selection bias.
Conservative and liberal political and social views has a remarkably small correlation with interest in non monogamous sex but if you do have a strong interest in it you are probably eventually going to end up in a place with a fairly high population density because it is the only way you can meet enough people to have a reasonable shot at finding like minded play partners.
I think the joke was that they are going by pure numbers rather than per capita, so of course the largest states are going to have the most members.
Also, just as an aside, those numbers are miniscule either way. 2300 members in NYC? Let’s say half of NYC’s 8.5 million population is 18-59 and sexually active (possibly a conservative estimate in itself). So 0.05% of the eligible population has this app? I would imagine the number of people in the “lifestyle” in NYC (while still very, very small) is significantly more than that. All this article says to me is that this app is a failure.
OF course the app is a dud.
Out of every 100 active accounts
30 are single dudes looking to hook up with a couple
10 are gay couples looking for a 3rd man to join them
20 are couples only interested in finding a single female to join them
5 are couples who will consider women or men
5 are couples only looking for men but the men have to be gay or bi (in otherwords the 3rd wheel is a dude for him not her)
3 are couples only looking for straight men
26 are spam accounts (only exist to try and get you to sign up for a different “dating” app or get you to install a virus)
1 is everything else
And that doesn’t take into account the fact that 80% of the accounts are dead (someone signed up once to just check it out and then decided it was lame or not for them and deleted the app)
“Can’t get your fill of Big Macs? Then you need to head to New York City! New York has more McDonald’s locations than any other city in the US! Save us some fries!”
There’s strong. And then there’s THREESOME STRONG.
Hey, you need a strong foundation to build a bridge if you know what I mean 😉
A thicc foundation, I believe you meant.
Surely many, if not most us exhibit most of those values. Even the (few) women.
We are Valiant!
Excelsior! Onward!
I think I can safely say that the couples looking for a third in Florida are not the ones you’re looking for.
Well there is a pretty active swinging community on most military bases
Fun fact: Modern swinging was actually invented by air force pilots in WW2.
“That list sounds like something ripped from a military recruiting pamphlet.”
Go on…
Florida man charged with impersonating deputy, stealing patrol car
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Call me crazy, but in these parts, we keep the uniforms and patrol cars at the station.
My neighbor has both a Tahoe and a pickup parked at his house. At least, I think its just one cop who lives there. I know they don’t work much, but it seems like there’s never a time when both are gone. And definitely uniforms at home.
That’s a pretty big no-no here. They do have a rural deputy program out in the boonies, but it’s a little different in the city.
They may as well hang a sign that says “Free select fire M4. please take”
Nah. Here in Pinellas County, they encourage people to go home with them. I’m sure lots of deputies trade parking their car in front of the apartment complex for free or cheap rent.
Sounds like a non-taxable perk.
No car, insurance, or fuel payments.
They can only drive them on duty or to report.
So getting paid to commute too.
One of the deputies here lives about 30 miles from the main station in another county. The stated rationale is because they needed to be able to respond right away. It’s just a way for them to get their commute paid. I doubt that it gets reported to the IRS though.
One of the municipal cops got killed in a traffic stop riding his police motorcycle home and initiating a traffic stop along the way with what turned out to be an armed mentally ill woman. Sucks for him and his family but the rest of community got to celebrate this hero. A) if he had been driving his personal vehicle home, he’d probably still be alive B) bikes give real shitty cover for incoming rounds.
When I was a wee one playing Little League, one of our coaches was a highway patrolman. He usually showed up for practice in his cruiser, in uniform, packing his service pistol.
That’s just really not a thing here (outside of metro/swat).
Too much abuse and personal enrichment.
There are some take home undercover/admin cars, but the lights and sirens are hidden, and they don’t have glaringly obvious government owned “exempt” license plates.
When my dad was a homicide detective he had one of those. Otherwise, the car stayed at the station. His uniforms always have come home, though, because he’s responsible for getting them dry cleaned. But he would either change out of them at work or put like a Hawaiian shirt on over them (I know) and come straight home because he’s always been paranoid about going anywhere with his uniform on because that would be The Wrong Thing to Do. My dad is like the old man cop version of Wally Cleaver.
I can confirm the neighbor of my parents house in the keys is a cop and regularly takes his duty car home. Must be a Florida thing.
I saw that in SC too.
My step-dad is a retired cop in CA. He would park the cruiser in the driveway occasionally. I don’t think it was overnight, so maybe it was on lunch breaks? Are they allowed to do that? I don’t remember, it’s been decades. But we lived in a high crime neighborhood, so I always kinda liked having the cruiser out front.
You can park wherever on duty (although, per my town charter, you cannot park a city-owned vehicle at a liquor store).
Most cops here work a 3/12 which is right on the cusp of being a part time job IMHO. It’s ridiculous to bring the patrol car home because someone else is going to need it the other 4 days of the week.
How are they going to drive for their OT court appearances on their days off then??
I know where all the cops in my neighborhood live because they all drive their patrol cars home at night.
I know especially where the cop with the k9 lives because his dog is a goddamn menace whenever anyone so much as walks by.
Will he get read his Miranda rights?
Pelosi’s mental decline continues.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/pelosi-defends-kneeling-kaepernick-despite-struggling-say-name/
“Pelosi asked after the interview: ‘The corner back is the one that throws the ball, right?’”
I just realized another glaring difference between the private and government sectors. In a private company, executives that insist on “working” well past retirement age are typically given more and more bullshit tasks to fiddle with while everyone else assumes the more important roles the old execs used to occupy. The reason for this is that no self-preservation-minded organization would allow someone bordering on senility to steer the ship. In government, however, they can just merrily run the ship into shore as long as their districts keep electing them. If her unintentional hilarity wasn’t so dearly prized by people like me right now, she’d be the most convincing argument for term limits anybody could come up with.
Side note: The Meet the Press dude has the saddest comb-over I’ve ever seen.
See: McCain, John.
Executives are typically on contracts that don’t run much past 65. So unless they own the place, they are usually long gone before 70.
“Our editing standards and processes are the most robust and rigorous of any news organization,” said Danielle Rhoades Ha”.
Ha!
Eh, I’m not sure she’s wrong.
What originally went through my mind when I read it was ‘probably true so imagine how bad it is elsewhere!’
God, I screwed up like the Times. This was meant in response to Q’s link to the NYT fuck up above.
I hadn’t realized how incestuous NYT is. No wonder its commenters suck big time.
Diamondbacks wild card tickets sold out
Two weeks ago they were practically giving tickets away for $5 and couldn’t fill the bottom deck. Suddenly everyone wants to go to the game. Perhaps I shouldn’t complain since people are finally going to see this team.
Everybody loves a winner. Also, with teams like the Astros and D-Backs, you gotta go when they make it. It could be a while before they get back.
A while? This is the 6th time in 19 years the DBacks got in the playoffs. That’s averages out to a little over once every 3 years… They aren’t the Yankees, but they sure as hell aren’t the Marlins.
Ah, but though the Marlins have only made the playoffs twice since their existence began, they won the World Series both times.
Which means they have as many World Series titles as my Phillies, who began their existence in 1883.
Now is the time on Sprockets when I cry.
That’s true. Maybe I should’ve picked on somebody else.
Or the Rockies. Three times in 24 years?
It’s clickbait Monday!
http://madamenoire.com/837263/the-realities-of-dating-someone-well-endowed/
I’m not a woman, but all of that sounds horrible.
*starts to make “that’s what she said” joke, gives up*
The struggle is real gentleman. You have no idea how tough it is for us well endowed
Look just because you pass out every time you get an erection don’t expect us to feel sorry for you
Speaking of not eating…
Brutal (but funny).
Happy anniversary, Riven. I hope it’s only the first of a bunch!
Thank you! 🙂 I’m thinking you’re right about it being the first of many.
I always giggle around Christmas when I hear her sing, “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire.”
what USPSA events does he compete?
speaking of gernz.. the little kid in me that idolized Quigley Down Under notes with interest that there’s a falling block action 1977 No. 3 in .30-40 Krag over at that national broker site. it’s a bit dinged up from the few pictures posted so the minimum $500 is already the upper limit i’d consider. but still, No. 3s never pop up on my state site. No. 1s make the occasional appearance. two on there now: .22-250 from ’75 with a crappy scope for $725, and a .300 Weatherby Magnum for $1K with very little info and an okay scope. there was a light sporter 7mm-08 for $800 a month or so ago but it didn’t sit around long.
it’s all just day dreaming anyway… cash flow, how does it work?
He shoots inproduction division. He branched out earlier this year and tried the new carry optics at some local matches, and there was some kind of special Glock-specific match a few weekends ago where he shot in three different divisions, as well. But he’s largely a production shooter.
good luck to him and his Glock.
I will pass that along.
On a pedantic note, he actually has moved away from shooting Glocks–except for that one match I mentioned above where you had to. But then if you won your division (and there were enough people), you could win a gun for top prize.
Mr. Riven won 2 Glocks. The third division he shot in didn’t have enough people to qualify, so just a cash prize. (but still)
GSSF? Great bunch of people and really open to newbies and non shooters trying it out. Lots of prizes, including random drawings. Got a free Glock at one. I need to go more often.
Yes, GSSF.
He just got a couple vouchers in the mail today. I know he’s been eye-balling a couple gen 5s… So that’s pretty perfect.
The real question is why isn’t he taking you? The ladies really clean up in the prize department there.
I like to go and watch his matches, but I’m not practiced enough to compete, in my opinion.
I’m not the type to just show up at a match and shoot it. I’d want to practice as much as he does, frankly, and while I might have the time, I just don’t have the drive, I guess. (I also have a pretty nasty competitive streak, and I generally try to avoid stuff that brings my inner bitch out.)
That’s what I like about GSSF is it’s really more of competing against yourself and having a fun time. Or pick one of the smaller divisions like Heavy Metal or Major Sub and can do surprisingly well.
Interesting article from the Atlantic comparing the rise of Amazon to the rise of Sears. Makes me wonder if, having a similar rise, they will also have a similar fall.
Makes me wonder if, having a similar rise, they will also have a similar fall.
Amazon has always run on very thin margins. That’s a real vulnerability. They are protected against it by their cash reserves, but cash can run out very quickly.
Amazon’s computing services are an excellent cash cow ($12 billion in 2016 with a 25% margin, and still growing).
Arguably, Amazon should drop its unprofitable businesses like amazon.com and just sell its data center offerings.
If they did that, they would probably want to buy up a hardware manufacturer to be able to improve their margin.
Maybe after Jeff Bezos dies.
Probably. It did take Sears quite a while to lose its prominence.
Jeff Bezos dies in darkness?
I had no idea Amazon was opening book stores. That sounds like the stupidest fucking idea for the creator of the Kindle.
There won;t be an Economics section.
The only stupider idea would be buying a newspaper.
ha! took me a while to recall the WaPo deal.
+1 Winnah!!!
No, there was something stupider than buying a newspaper. Much, much stupider.
Bezos could have said yes to Ezra Klein.
Not stupid at all, it’s to learn about and experiment with retail.
was it your idea??
No, but my work is in that area, and it’s incredibly clever on their part. Brick & mortar retailers can eventually catch up online, and then what? It’s vital for Amazon to understand brick and mortar retailing and to innovate in that space as well, in order to succeed long term. So they start with books, because it’s a struggling area in retail, and because it’s something they already understand very well with online and digital sales. They’re looking for ways to apply that expertise to retail and see what works.
I wouldn’t worry about Amazon as long as Bezos is around running things, he’s got that paranoia gene that has him constantly looking for the next threat (or opportunity).
I wish they’d expand their B&M grocery presence. Maybe that’s the reason Bezos bought Whole Foods, but it hardly makes a difference until Amazon turns those suckers into distribution points and gets me my groceries without ever having to set foot in one.
That’s what Instacart is for. Now, if only they could deliver booze.
You can get that now with Amazon Now. At least in some areas. I’ve used it here a couple of times, but only for things like bulk water. When it comes to produce or meat, there’s no way anyone except for me is picking it out.
“That’s what Instacart is for. Now, if only they could deliver booze.”
We have Drizly here. It’s nice for when everyone is already buzzed and you discover you’re out of booze.
The problem with bookselling is you either have to segment the market very narrowly to avoid dead inventory, thus leaving out big sections of book buyers; OR you have to raise prices in order to afford to carry enough selection to appeal to a large swath of customers.
I don’t think Amazon getting into B&M is a bad idea – it’s the history of Sears, Wards, Penny’s, etc. but books seem like such a niche area that technology has surpassed in some respects and which can’t apply to so many other types of retail.
Not very interesting. The difference between Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward is much more interesting, because it has a lot to do with following the Fed versus fighting the Fed.
That does sound interesting. Do you know of any articles that compare the two? (Too lazy to read about them separately and then form my own comparison)
I would have to find the book where I read that. Would probably take me days. If I remember to look for it I will try to remember to post it in whatever thread is active when I find it.
Oh, don’t worry about it then. I can sympathize with the book-finding task taking forever (my organizational system is the few “greatest hits” get the bookcase, everything else goes into boxes organized not by topic or author but by size). But if you do happen to stumble upon it I will appreciate the info.
I found it. “Money Of The Mind” by James Grant. You may have to draw the conclusion from two separate parts of the book; the compare and contrast may not be explicit but the content is there.
The book tends to focus on bank and corporate credit. For a narrative of consumer credit over a similar period a useful book is “Financing The American Dream” by Lendol Calder. This book is one of the few that gives a picture of how consumers used credit prior to FDR. It’s amazing to me how so many people think FDR “saved” the economy yet almost nobody alive today knows how the consumer economy worked prior to FDR.
Some day, who knows? But not any time soon.
For one thing, it’s a lot less effective to use the Amazon catalog as toilet paper.
Or “How I ruined my Kindle”.
Depends, after Bezos retires are they gonna get a clueless CEO who took every wrong lesson from Atlas Shrugged he can find and try to completely reinvent the company with them?
Like Apple?
Reasonably certain even admitting to have touched an Ayn Rand book is grounds for termination
That was the original inspiration for inventory drones.
What a bunch of disgusting misogynists, who just hate a strong and intelligent woman.
Have your neighbors for dinner.
https://www.rt.com/news/404476-russian-cannibals-couple-detained/
So in Hollywood, FL (just south of Fort Lauderdale), 11 people died in a nursing home that lost power after Irma. So far, everyone’s been blaming everyone. FPL, the governor, and the nursing home itself.
Right after the storm the governor gave nursing home operators his personal cell phone number, and told them to call where there were problems so he could personally get involved in fixing it (government fixes everything!). Apparently the nursing home left four voicemails with him explaining how dire the situation was. And apparently all four voicemails have been deleted.
Now, this whole thing can probably be blamed on the nursing home itself, because even if they couldn’t figure out anything else to do, the biggest hospital in the county is literally across the street from the nursing home, so they could’ve evacuated the residents there.
Still, maybe this will bring Governor Skeletor down. Something has to.
Self. Reliance.
What specifically caused the deaths?
Medical equipment failure?
No AC. Cooked em like bacon.
The nursing home didn’t have a contingency for FUCKING AIR CONDITIONING????????
I have not looked into this, but they would have needed a generator installed above the flood line.
Would have needed = should have had
MMmmmm bacon?
This sounds… fishy. The idea that you’re handing out your cellphone during a hurricane and you don’t have aides tasked to answering it 24/7 and immediately listening to voicemails seems impossible.
Then again, politicians have done stupider things.
Cheer up guys!
I wonder if they’ll comfort him on his deathbed by telling him that Trump got impeached.
Every time I read about John McCain I feel like the ‘DO YOU DO POISON?!’ guy linked near the top of the thread.
Hey now! I’ll have you know John McCain is a fair and honorable man….
Okay I couldn’t type that out with a straight face.
Heh. Glad someone got a kick out of that.
It’s not as solid as their later work in The Mitchell and Webb series, but Bruiser has its moments.
Oh, and the video posting for Mr. Riven. How thoughtful. Video length? 308.
**Shifty eyes** Yes… that was totally, um, intentional!
“Carlos Danger gets 21 months in
prisona posh hotel. ”Don’t worry Weiny Poo, it will be a nice hotel stay, room service, full bar, entertainment system, and I’m sure you can teen sext all you want and probably even have some of those 15 year olds delivered right to your room. After you’re out in 60 days on good behavior, you can be declared cured and run for congress again, and probably win.
Just got home, and my concealed carry permit was in the mail!
Congrats, Doom!
Thanks! I’ve been waiting for what feels like forever, but I guess it was just about a month. I wouldn’t open carry in the People’s Republic of Boulder. way too many chances for arguments and cop calling-not interested.
Way to go man. Get out there and protect yerself!
Yeah. I always conceal. Much nice during the cooler months.
Grats! I didn’t want to be on a list but I guess I should anyway.
Nice! I’m waiting for my renewal to arrive by mail. I haven’t had an issue in the past but it’s been a challenge navigating the bureaucracy this time around.
It was my first one. CO seems like they put just enough FYTW to drive the margins away. Fairly easy, lots of waiting. Boulder’s fee was $152, before the class they require. Anyone in the CO front range who needs the class should check out Guns for everyone, they have a donation based class. The guys who run it seem like anarchists. I threw em 20 bucks, but that’s really all I had.
Oh wow, that’s a lot more challenging than what I went through. I just had a desk person tell me she wasn’t allowed to mail me my renewed permit (against state law) until I had our local 2nd A group get involved. Then they mailed me my receipt in the self-addressed, stamp enveloped I included for my mailing me my permit. *face-palm* At least they were nice about it and will mail it to me on the county’s dime (which of course is still really my own).
When I first got my permit, I had to get fingerprinted, take an in-person course, and pay $50. Since then, the legislature passed some favorable gun laws before the current shit-show and loosened the requirements. My wife didn’t have to get fingerprinted like a criminal, took an online course from home, and the fee has been dropped to $35 (and in some places just $10).
$152 is outrageous. It would be great to see a law that made it mandatory to charge the same fee to vote as the cumulative amount of all the state’s license or permitting fees involving firearms.
The cheapest it can be is 52 bucks. That does fingerprints and the background. I’m sure the sheriff is making a bit off that. The state law says the county can add up to $100. So, boulder adds the full 100. up in the mountains, it gets much closer to the base $52. Fingerprints were quick, and I’ve done them before. I did make sure to tell the lady who took them that i was there for a gun and not a sex offender, the only other people she has to fingerprint. The County has 3 months to mail you your CCW or tell you you’ve been denied. Then you can reapply, or go to some sort of trial.
The guys at the class gave us the 4 rules of firearms, then told us he would sign anyone’s certificate if they asked and paid the standard $150 fee that most classes charge around here. That’s all the law requires for the class, as he showed us next. One guy took him up on it. I stayed, and enjoyed it a lot. It was funny learning the law for the class only says you have to “be in the same location as a certified instructor.” no requirements on what to teach, or how long. just be in the same room.
It’s a fucking racket of a scam, and I’m glad that group knows it and says as much. They started doing the free class because they wanted students and youngn’s to be able to get a CCW without the extra 150. he was pretty loud about the law hurting the poorest in the state. $400 gun, $152 permit, $50-100 holster, and the state sends an extra 100 or so to some buddy of theirs.
The cheapest it can be is 52 bucks. That does fingerprints and the background. I’m sure the sheriff is making a bit off that. The state law says the county can add up to $100. So, boulder adds the full 100.
That’s interesting. In Virginia, the fee is only allowed to be used to cover the costs of the permit. The state police and some republican rhinos pulled some shady moves a couple years ago where they sent bill for constitutional concealed carry to die in the Finance committee. Their argument was that going permitless would harm a revenue source for the police. This is pure bullshit since the fee can only be used for costs to process permits. Our 2nd A group was unprepared for the sleight of hand since such a notion blatantly violates state law. They are prepared now though for it in the next attempt.
All of those fees really add up in CO. Good for the guys who run that class you took. They sound real stand up.
yeah, they say that here too. but somehow I think 52 bucks might include some profit.
Wokeness. Coming to an NBA team near you…
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/09/25/denver-nuggets-protest-social-injustice/
Mr President, we cannot allow a wokeness gap!
Alternative headline: “Third Most Watched Sports League Determined to be Overtaken in Ratings by Soccer”
The Orlando Pride made the playoffs yesterday. That’s is your weekly NWSL news.
Eh…not ladies soccer
Didn’t Megan Rapinoe kneel during the anthem during one of her games and all fifteen people in attendance were outraged?
Probably; I only follow the Pride. Portland Thorns average something like 14000 people per game, Orlando is like 8000, although we hold the record at 23400. One of the teams does average 500 per game can’t remember which.
Soccer chicks are the hottest athletes. It is known.
Correct Q. All that running equals amazing legs and butt.
Volleyball chicks, dudes.
I enjoy the toughness of soccer girls. They take some big hits at full sprints.
F Stupidity Jr has the correct answer.
Kansas City averages 1800 per game.
You don’t want to watch hot lesbian-on-lesbian action?
I’d still like to know where all these people were when Trump wrote The Art of the Deal, appeared on talk shows, opened golf courses and resorts, accepted an award from Jesse Jackson, had his reality show, etc etc etc…how is it they only realized, after some 35 years in the public eye, Donald Trump was a racist when he ran for president against a white woman who once spoke out against (nudge nudge, wink wink) “Superpredators”?
He was on Oprah way back when and Oprah floated the idea of him running for president to him.
More from the Denver Post. Munich native on a temporary journalism assignment in Denver whines that the city hasn’t paved a bike trail from his front door directly to his place of work…
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/09/22/denver-is-inconvenient-annoying-slow-and-unsafe-for-cyclists/
Amazing, all that is available at home for only 65% of his income. What a deal.
Bring back the RMN!
I always found the newspaper the guy works for, Süddeutsche Zeitung, too left-wing, provincial and anti-Israel.
Yeah, every SZ commentary I come across seems well on the left side of the German political spectrum.
The roads in boulder suck. For a bunch of rich people paying gas tax here, you’d think we could pave the roads or keep the manhole covers within an inch of the surface.
My roommate is catching on, he blurted out “Like the only fucking thing they’re even supposed to do, infrastructure, and they cant even keep that shit together!!”
But we have a nice new path going up clear creek now!
Austin tried that back in the early 90s. They were just coming out of it when I got there. They figured if they didn’t build any roads, people wouldn’t move there. Boulder I-got-mines are probably trying the same strategy.
My stiff truck hits those manhole covers and it’s absolutely jarring. I know the new benz probably doesn’t feel it, but in 3 years when they need a new suspension I hope they think about why.
our last project got scrapped after a few days
They never actually told anyone they were taking out a whole fucking lane on folsom. It’s one of 3 roads you can actually use to get north/south in town.
For someone who claims to care about traffic, there is a pretty big lack of critical thinking going on here. Right turn on red actually is far better at reducing congestion than any bike path and actually gets used year round including when there’s cold, white, sludge covering every paved surface. Yeah the bike lanes have been haphazardly added instead of planned as part of some sort of meaningful traffic network. It’s like it’s difficult to completely overhaul a busy city center or something. Yes the scenic park trails don’t always connect to a bike path on the street. They are scenic park trails. If you want German city planning maybe you should have stayed in Germany?
You know who else used German planning to get people to their destination by non-automotive means?
Manchester Township, New Jersey?
NASA?
Lufthansa?
Willy Wonker?
Holy shit. He should be deported instantly just for saying that.
What a fucking entitled jackass. Yes, Denver is an American city. Welcome to America, we use cars here and don’t abuse the power of the state as much to club people into getting out of their comfortable, safe cars on to bikes. I’m sorry that having to dismount your bike and walk it up some stairs is such a goddamn burden to you, fuckstick.
Jesus Christ I hate people like that.
Oh no, stairs! the bikes mortal enemy.
Also, at 1000 a month for a rental car, couldn’t he just buy a beater car in the first month? “suffer” through that horrendous bike ride to work for 5 weeks. then buy an old subie. sell it when you move back. The car will be worth pretty much exactly what you paid for it. there’s a floor for subie beaters around here.
Well, since he’s a German, he probably doesn’t have enough saved cash to buy it outright because of all the taxes he loves in the Fatherland.
Other than that, it seems like that would be the logical solution given how much he seems to hate the ride.
Sigh. California refugees really ruined Colorado. Somebody needs to get working on that Arizona Bay project before too much longer.
Happy anniversary! It’s also the birthday of that guy from Final Destination. I only know that because I watched it this weekend while waiting for video games to load ( I need a solid state drive)
Danke!
We watched Bram Stoker’s Dracula on Saturday night because Mr. Riven had not ever seen it. The rest of the weekend was filled with lots of poorly accented “Budapest”s.
Which game(s)?
Bram Stokers vampireporn, more like.
Lately, I’ve fallen back into a shooting hole. BF4 and PUBG (which i really enjoy). PUBG seems a little wonky on some of the loading screens and I don’t think my giant hard drive does it any favors.
NTTAWWT 😉
Sounds pretty rough, man. Sounds like you definitely need to make the switch.
It’s a good movie!
I do. maybe it’ll be my christmas present to myself.
Grats Riven! *rest of us has sads*
Aw, many thanks, bacon-magic. 🙂 I assume all y’all will find your own unicorns one day.
Switch ASAP, I promise that you will not regret it. HDD is good for bulk storage only.
I know, and with the prices where they are, I have no real excuse. even just a small one for windows and one or two games would really help.
Loved replacing my old HD with a SSD. Biggest performance improvement I’ve seen in a long time.
Yep. It’s almost like getting a new computer.
“I need a solid state drive”
That’s what she said!
I’m hearing Nvidia may be pushing their Volta line out in early 2018. Maybe settling on the 970 for the time being wasn’t such a bad idea.
From the stupid mural story:
The fuck?
that’s the joke
The whole thing confuses me. Maybe because I’m trying to work and Glib at the same time.
That’s a joke, too. As the article pointed out, it’s very similar to this.
OK. I was reading the article but not comprehending. I need to go home and drink.
Ah yes. All better now.
Today in “this is a fabulous idea that I’m totally sure will not be misused”
What’s with everyone getting the wrong message from 1984 lately?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-F6Fsra2Gk
Jesus.
Christ.
White liberals are uber-retards who live in an ‘alt-reality’.
And it’s good to hear blacks not buying into the white privilege myth.
“is it wrong to judge?”
I have come to the conclusion that it is actually not important to have an opinion on all the same dumb shit other people are expressing strongly-held opinions about.
I have no opinion on this non-opinion of yours.
something something VR porn
*technically a gilmore, but fuck it, its just as relevant as anything else
If VR porn and sex robots get perfect, that will be the end of humanity. DONT DATE ROBOTS!
The holodeck will be the last thing ever invented by humanity.
Well, there would a thriving industry for holodeck mods.
“Elizabeth Hurley’s face, Kate Upton’s boobs, Beyoncé’s Ass…”
Wasn’t there a story written by a group of japanese feminists about living in a world where people only date robots?
Don’t.
Date.
Robots!
I’ll have you know that my XQJ37 nuclear-powered pan-sexual roto-plooker is a fantastic date.
but does it look just like a Telefunken U-47.
It looks like a cross between an industrial vacuum cleaner and a chrome piggy bank with marital aids stuck all over its body.
I’m strongly for tech advances in porn.
I have come to the conclusion that it is actually not important to have an opinion on all the same dumb shit other people are expressing strongly-held opinions about.
UNMUTUAL!
You know who else used German planning to get people to their destination by non-automotive means?
Was tyhere a name for this programme which implied no further solutions would be necessary?
Apologies if already covered and TW Daily Mirror (not sure if needed)…
Unintended (?) consequences: 16yo who debuts for English football side Rochdale, not allowed to change in same room as teammates because of “child protection regulations”:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/daniel-adshead-makes-rochdales-history-11226403
TW is needed for the S*n. Rest of the rags over there are fine.
(and truthfully, no TW there either, but I hover so I don’t click)
I recently saw the Guardians of the Galaxy “2”-movie
I really liked the first one. I think the second falls prey to a very common flaw of modern movies which is, “too much CGI-per-minute”
even if you’re going to stuff your film full of CGI (there’s no avoiding it in a sci-fi movie), you need to stop with the fucking “100 camera moves per minute”, ‘POV cameras zooming in and out and in circles so fast that you actually never have time to even recognize what’s actually happening on-screen”
aka, the “Transformers-effect”.
like, they spent huge amounts of money on these virtual set designers…. and then completely destroy the effect by failing to let your eye linger on any single thing for more than a split second. Everything just ends up looking like a blurry rainbow snowcone.
It was meh, and a waste of Kurt Russell. The humor was spotty at best.
I would listen to this band.
K-pop speed metal.
Fair enough, but it was still better than 90% of the movies out there.
Baby Groot is the most adorable creature ever.
We loved the first one. I remember hearing about the 2nd and we were anticipating it. Sequels are almost never better than the original. They run out of ideas and just fill it with all sorts of fluffy stuff.
I too recently saw GotG Vol. 2. I wasn’t expecting much, since I thought the first one was just alright. But I gotta say, I highly enjoyed Vol 2. I thought it was way better than the first one.
I hate to copy one of his tweets, but he makes a good point.
Disagree. There would have never been any Clinton impeachment. The GOP would have started the impeachment procedures only if the NYT and WaPo had demanded the impeachment. Would never happen.
Agreed. More like:
no Trump presidency -> no 1A, 2A, 4A, 5A -> 1,000,000 “refugees” -> McConnell blusters about Obamacare while coasting to a record-breaking 22nd term after being downloaded into a robot which is indistinguishable from the original -> World Ends, Women and Minorities hardest hit
Your partner either doesn’t like you or is having an affair.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/married-and-still-doing-it/201611/are-your-partners-rules-ruining-your-sex-life
Why make it complicated.
The lights not being on. That is about you honey, not me. Now shut up and put this bag over your head
I’m looking for a good “productivity app” to draw together the myriad apps that I currently use at work.
Essentially, I use OneNote as my base program for work. I have templates set up so that when I get a new project, all of the basic documents are there (but not filled in, because OneNote doesn’t do VBA like the rest of Office), a checklist is ready, and deadlines are ready to be set up. I can export the deadlines to Outlook in a very rudimentary fashion, but I’ve found that functionality to not be worth it. Of course, I’m using outlook’s calendar functions because that’s where all my meeting invites go. I’m also using Outlook as a “sanity check” on my OneNote projects (Folders in Outlook should correspond to Active Projects in OneNote). Finally, I use a spreadsheet to track my docket (projects, status, deadlines, etc.) and as a final sanity check.
It’s all a royal pain in the ass to keep synced and up to date. In an ideal world, OneNote would be able to synchronize with Outlook much more strongly than it currently can, the spreadsheet would self-update based on the checklist in OneNote, and my Word docs would auto-populate based on the information provided in the appropriate OneNote page.
I’ve tried Evernote, but it has many of the same shortcomings as OneNote. None of these programs seem to be designed to be a full workload management tool. Anybody have any suggestions for a better “productivity app” to use to get full workload management?
That sounds horrible.
This isn’t even close to your system, but I use Active Inbox for Gmail. It’s a bastardized version of GTD. I combined that with an oversized whiteboard and post-its.
I tried the One/Ever Note system years ago and found that it was better for a college not taking system than actual work.
“college not taking system”
This describes many of my students.
Just like the theory of everything, the app for everything doesn’t actually exist. The project managers I work with use MS Project. The thing is overly complex, but they use it everyday, so I guess it works for them. I use Outlook, Excel, and my dev tools, that’s it. The only time I actually use Excel is when a client wants a quick report on something they just thought up to take to their meeting and look smart. So I just dump a SQL query into Excel and email it to them.
The thing that absolutely kills me is that all the data is there, but the tools aren’t equipped to handle it. I took some steps toward setting my workflow up to be highly automated using LaTex, Python scripts, and some screen scraping, but I’m working with unsearchable PDFs, an inaccessible database, and very loose naming conventions for files.
What’s the database? PDFs are searchable, but not in a structured way like you would with SQL. You’d just be looking for words or combinations of. Sometimes that can be useful though.
The PDF data itself is searchable, but they’re images without a text layer. The USPTO is getting ready to move to a searchable text format, but the timeline is unclear on that project.
Regarding the DB, I’m not sure what they use internally. They remotely host it for us, and I only have user privileges to the UI. If there’s an API for advanced access, they don’t tell their customers about it. The closest I could come to advanced access would be doing a custom attribute export to Excel, and triggering all of my automation off of receipt of that export.
You know what you guys need, is a solution. A useful database and a front end that allows you to query it.
Something ate my reply, but the gist of it is 1) we receive PDFs without a text layer, so they need OCR’d before automating anything. Obviously, automating based on OCR’d text is less than ideal.
2) The DB is insulated from us, the customer. Our provider hosts the DB. We have user/limited admin access through a UI, and there’s no information about an API or advanced features given to us by the provider.
3) People get really pissy if I don’t do my work in Word (despite it getting exported to PDF before being sent to the USPTO), so automation is an absolute PITA.
Happy Anniversary, Riven! (Sorry I’m late, but unlike you people… I WORK!)
Working is for the weak!
Or is it the week?
😉 Many thanks!
Seconded, Feliz Anniversario, Riven. I got a quick skim of the links and and made a couple quick posts and then had to commute home after, so missed your post earlier.
10 lashes for tardiness!
Kidding. I appreciate the well-wishes. 🙂
“10 lashes for tardiness!”
I’ll have you know I’m not into that sort of stuff, young lady!
Yet.
I’m not apologizing for tardiness. After my boss has coffee at 2pm she will not.stop.talking.
Congratulations Riven! Enjoy Vegas and if you do go to Milos I suggest ordering the Octopus. No, seriously.
I used to work with 2 women whom I got to be friends with at one company. Me and our Network guy and them would go out for drinks after work sometimes. 1 of them was customer service manager and the other was our help desk manager. They would come to my office in the afternoon after drinking coffee all day and having some sort of sweet snack, for a break, and holy mother of gawd, they were all hopped up, made my head hurt but they were both good looking, so I let it go.
Last year before they moved people I had a couple of fucking yentas on either side of me.
Oof. That does sound rough.
And danke! I haven’t had octopus in quite a while…
I learned ttoday there was a tackle for the Philadelphia eagles named STEVE SMITH
Not a wide receiver?
Steve Smith was also a receiver for Carolina and later Baltimore
STEVE SMITH NOT RECEIVE. STEVE SMITH MORE OF A GIVER.
STEVE SMITH NOT CATCH, ONLY PITCH!
AND BY PITCH, MEAN RAPE.
Dammit, teach me to not refresh, I guess.
I was always curious abot STEVE SMITH’S relationship to Stephen A. Smith. Anyone know?
New Fleccas!
We’re all Nazis now.
It’s making me want to go to these protests. could be good to shout some libertarian things.
it’s also making me want to support Trump, which makes me a little confused. They just have no fucking argument, and flec’s videos are very apparent they haven’t even thought of the most simple of followups. It’s embarrassing, or should be. How can some of these old people or professors listen to that and not be embarrassed?
What they’re going to do is basically make the word Nazi have no meaning. They need to find something else. Soon, there won’t be a word in the English language that means anything. These people need to go extinct.
College students
I was watching Strangers with Candy the other day and forgot how hilarious that show was but it got me to thinking about Stephen Colbert. Unlike Samantha Bee, he is really talented and despite being on the Daily Show, I still found his segments hilarious. When he started the Colbert Report, I thought it was brilliant at the time because he did a great job at parodying Bill O’Reilly and the Bush Conservatives and I was a flaming Leftist. But as I started slowly becoming a Libertarian, I saw government corruption as a systemic thing as opposed to a Republican thing which turned me away from his show because he didn’t call out the Democrats or Obama on their bullshit.
That was when I lost respect for him because not only was he partisan hack who burned straw men faster than Tony but because he was willing to debase himself out so he could be on the Left’s good side.
Now he’s a rich guy hosting a late night show, so what the fuck do I know?
There are bacteria more intelligent than Samantha Bee.
There are bacteria funnier than Samantha Bee too,
^this^
She reminds me of the old time comedians who tell a 2 parter with punchline, except on meth. Studio generated laughter and all.
I think the saddest part is when I have people ask me, “Did you watch what Samantha Bee said about Trump on her show last night?” Making fun of Trump is low hanging fruit and probably the most predictable thing to do. Like why would you waste valuable minutes of your life watching someone who makes the same jokes as your lesbian liberal aunt during Thanksgiving?
“Did you watch what Samantha Bee said about Trump on her show last night?”
“No, I had more intellectually stimulating things to watch, like Sesame Street, And funnier things to watch, like CSPAN.”
This video of an 8 year old boy dying of brain cancer is funnier than Samantha Bee.
The first time I saw her, I thought what the fuck is this? Is this supposed to be funny? Nothing she is saying even has any sort of context. She’ll just make a statement and follow with a punch line that makes no sense at all.
“My mum died of cancer!”
Well, I mean, C-SPAN is pretty funny sometimes.
South Park clip from like two fucking decades ago.
If anyone wanted be be rich, they only have to fool these idiots that you too are on the progressive left.
I think both Stewart (to a lesser extent) and Colbert were genuinely funny (on balance, anyway). In the early days, they put humor above politics. Yes, their humor was political, and yes they were both lefties. But they also had some humility and knew that, in making fun of fallible people, they had to have a sense of humor about themselves. And honestly the Bush administration specifically and political/media establishment more generally needed some mocking.
Then Obama happened and everything changed. Now, it was their guy in office. It became about politics first (which was now serious business!) and humor second. The humor also developed a malicious edge (or if you prefer a less naive interpretation, it became more overtly malicious). I saw Colbert’s new show recently, which isn’t even supposed to be political, and it was painfully unfunny with constant social signaling and spitefulness toward the outgroup. They have become the establishment that so desperately needs to be mocked.
Agreed.
And I’m particularly incensed that a lot of people watch those political satire shows and believe that it counts as news. It’s not news, it’s political indoctrination with some jokes mixed in.
+1 ex-girlfriend
Agreed here, too. As soon as they put the filter on, they were no longer funny. Nobody likes coward comedians.
*Nobody besides zealots
Then Obama happened and everything changed.
That is it exactly. The same thing happened to NPR. They stopped being critical of the government under Obama. Now they are only critical of the wrong government. Which I guess was always their shtick but I did not notice until they stopped for awhile when the right guy was in charge. I find it odd more people do not see that.
I used to rather like Colbert but I can’t fucking stand him at all now.
I know everyone’s sick of this shit but here you go: Villanueva apologizes for embarrassing his teammates and “accidentally” coming out for the anthem.
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/09/25/alejandro-villanueva-speaks-about-national-anthem/
Well, if one is going to come out, best do it patriotically.
Your YouTube recommended videos page must be an interesting sight.
Roethlisberger voiced his regret today for having participated in the staying in the locker room. Says he regrets it and won’t do it again.
So I should burn the Villanueva Steelers jersey I just bought?
The entire fucking team should be embarrassed that they prepared for the goddamned anthem more than they prepared for the game. Spending two fucking seconds on anthem preparations is more than enough.
To be honest I don’t pay attention to football, I just found it interesting that he caved.
He must be a Republican.
Funny thing about Villanueva caving, he didn’t really have a risk of being fired. Mainly due to salary cap reasons. If this analysis of the Steelers’s salary cap is right, the Steelers have about 3 million dollars in salary cap room. Villanueva is in the first year of his new four year deal, with a 6.5 million signing bonus, and the rest of his salary non-guaranteed. The NFL lets teams pro-rate signing bonuses over the entire life of the contract for salary cap purposes, so for this year, only 1/4 of Villanueva’s 6.5 million bonus (1.625 million) counts against the cap, with him making another 1.5 million in salary. So, his cap number is 3.125 million.
(Aside, this means that he likely won’t see much of that “24 million dollars” the media is bantering about as to why Villanueva might back down from his initial stance.)
Anyway, cut him, and while you don’t have to pay him game checks, the entire signing bonus counts immediately against the cap. The net effect is about another 3.3 million ish added to the Steelers salary cap figure, and they don’t have the room to do it. They could do it, but they’d have to cut some players, and maybe restructure other deals, and it would kill whatever flexibility they had for the rest of this season. Plus, they’d still need somebody to play right tackle, and Villanueva is above average for the League.
tl;dr, no way the Steelers were going to cut this guy.
I’m not the only person who thinks the tv networks have wildly misread this, am I?
Back when they were trying to overthrow dictators in the former eastern bloc, people used to go out in the streets and bang on pots and pans during the news broadcasts to signal that they knew the news was full of shit.
Watching the news, you’d think everybody was glad athletes are dissing the flag and the national anthem. Our news is written by people who may be clinically delusional. I’d be afraid to let them cross the street by themselves.
No, about 23% of NFL players kneeled or stayed in the locker room. And I think a large percentage of those were just peer pressured into it. Yet the left media are hailing it as a great victory. Victory for what? Being stooges for the left in their attempt to politicize and ruin everything? What a fucking joke.
It makes sense that the media would behave that way, since their masks haven’t just slipped, they’ve been thrown into the Hudson River.
It’s purely Orwellian, ‘four legs good, two legs bad’.
Besides, they DO think everyone is glad athletes are dissing the flag and the anthem. Hell, every single person at the Upper Manhattan artisinal bagel shop was cheering it this morning.
One thing that struck me on the Steelers deal is they seemed to forget their fanbase is stereotyped as gritty, Middle American, blue collar types–like people that voted for Trump.
That’s pretty much every football fan for every team in America. They are spitting on their fan base in order to virtue signal. I can’t wait to see ticket sales at the end of this season.
Its double for the Steelers though. The team practically defines itself on this persona.
I lived in Pittsburgh for about 15 years, and can confirm that Steelers fans are generally very conservative. I’d guess the same is true of other Rust Belt fanbases (Cleveland, Buffalo).
I can’t imagine they appreciated the anthem protest in any way.
How many ways can you say “New Soviet Man” in CNNese?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/25/opinions/transformational-politics-healthcare-tasini-opinion/index.html
“Transformational politics resets our social and political priorities by marrying economics and public policy with a willingness to challenge the conventional ways that society and government exercise power. ”
IOW, make the damn cake.
“marrying economics and public policy”
Well there’s a failed marriage in the making if I’ve ever seen one.
“…marrying economics and public policy with a willingness to challenge the conventional ways that society and government exercise power.”
So….communism.
It’s really not all that unconventional fuckwit. It’s been tried a few times before.
The machinery of capitalism is oiled with the blood and tears of the proletariat!
Those kulaks, wreckers, and hoaders (in Murika they are collectively known as the middle class) have to be eliminated by any means!
From the same author.
I also note that this guy has a podcast called “The Working Life” despite not actually seeming to have much… scratch that, any, experience with working, unless you count being a union “organizer” and boss for his entire life after graduating with a political science degree. I guess he pumped out some books… his first 5 years after he was already President of the National Writers Union.
“The number of ppl Republicans are willing to let die/get sick for mindless ideology makes Pol Pot</strong? look benevolent "
There's no irony there, at all.
Damnit!
“The number of ppl Republicans are willing to let die/get sick for mindless ideology makes Pol Pot look benevolent ”
There’s no irony there, at all.
Serious question: Is “Pot” his last name?
this will not stand
Well, he’s right that it’s impossible. Even a lot of the left media are saying it’s stupid. This is going nowhere.
Congrats Riven and perfect man. I listened to the song before I searched what the USPSA was and I was having a hard time figuring out how that acronym worked into the Catalina Wine Mixer.
So over the last few days, I’ve heard that Alaska is being given a ton of extra money in block grants and Trump is considering maybe opening up some Alaskan wildlife refuges to drilling.
I’m sure this has nothing to do with replacing ObamaCare or Senator Murkowski.
They just happen to be talking about giving her everything she ever wanted for Christmas because . . . well, it’s just a coincidence.
Doesn’t matter. Collins just torpedoed the bill.
Rand Paul was in the ‘no’ votes.
Rand Paul can kiss my ass.
It’s Alaskan Big Mountain Pale Ale for me tonight. Compare your lives to mine and then kill yourselves.
I just had a stella for the first time. Not all that. Prefer a standard Belgian.
It’s Alaskan Big Mountain Pale Ale for me tonight.
Baby, I love your way.
You’ll find out what I’m drinking tonight. I have a lot leftover from the weekend.
I had a glass of shiraz with dinner, and now it’s just coffee and ice cream.
If anybody wants to feel old, I just noticed that the Budweiser frogs debuted nearly 23 years ago.
I bet the water turned them gay.
My first “wow, I’m old” moment happened when I realized that I could legally fuck a girl who is younger than my Super Nintendo.
Go on…
Quick scan of social media and MSM sites and I notice they are desperately trying to push the narrative that taking a knee is not about hating America but about opposing police brutality. That’s like protesting sex because you hate rape.
It’s closer to protesting men because you hate rape, but that would be WAAAAAY to close to current reality.
That’ll work. Or protesting Wall Street for the bail outs instead of the Fed or Congress.
I protest this reality because the Kardashians exist in it.
Also, good luck trying to convince NFL viewers that you’re not protesting America by disrespecting the Anthem. Fucking morons.
Optics. SMDH
Perception. SMDH
(Sorry, but I hate the buzzword “optics”.)
Thank you Ted S. Appearances would also be an acceptable alternative.
it’s just their version of RHEEEEEEEEE, with a heapin’ helpin’ of ‘Look at Me! Look at Me!’
I haven’t even heard that at all. All I hear is stuff like ‘The NFL really beat Trump!’. Seriously. Even if they originally had a cause, the left have long since flushed that shit down the toilet.
Would love to see all the off-duty cops not show up for security detail at all remaining NFL games. You think a few players shivved to death by disgruntled fans will make a difference?
Hmm. Friday, I had a rant about a fake ‘charity’ drive running through Steam.
Now on Sunday, football players decided they want to be woker than thou.
They’ve ruined video games and football in FOUR DAYS!
I freakin’ hate Progs.
I don’t watch football, so maybe I’m laboring under a misconception, but it seems odd to me that a competitive sport that requires tons of individual effort would be so full of “progressives”.
I’m late going through the links.
Congratulations Riven!
Lord Humungus, I’m hope your son is OK.
Don’t go I’m still here, and drunk!
this beer’s looking like another.
Thank G-d someone else is here.
It’s almost story time, I need another beer though.