What a crazy weekend for football. Alabama steamrolled an overhyped Vanderbilt. Clemson struggled until late and then rolled. Same for TTUN. USC took care of Cal in a really fun game to watch. Oklahoma topped Baylor in a game that was not fun to watch. Washington looks like the real deal. So does Va Tech. I’m not sold on UGA just yet even though they wore out Mississippi State. Florida stuck a dagger in the heart of UK fans (for the thirtysomething-th year in a row. The Buckeyes drilled UNLV. Florida State dropped to 0-2. TCU beat Okie State in a great game. And finally, Penn State won on a last second TD at Iowa (dammit!).
And yes, there was also football played on Sunday. East Carolina beat UConn in a conference game I don’t know why they hadn’t played a day earlier.
The Twins sure did pick the right time to reel off four straight wins, eh? They’ve got a vise grip on the final wind card spot, up 4.5 games with 7 left to play. The Red Sox took down the BIG RED MACHINE. The Nats won. The Orioles did as well. The Cards faltered at the wrong time. As did the Brewers. The Rockies won and got a little bit of breathing room over those last two losers. The Astros lost, but they’re more concerned with getting guys healthy for games next week. And the D-backs clinched their playoff spot. The Indians won, of course. And so did the Dodgers. And if I missed anybody else, sorry.
The EPL games went according to plan this weekend, although there were some tighter games than there should have been (yes, I’m looking at you again Liverpool!). The two teams from that shithole Manchester seem to be the cream of the crop. But there’s a lot of games left to play so I’m not gonna get ahead of myself.
That’s it for sports. Now its time to get down on a knee and pray for…the links!
Some crazy dude goes on a rampage shooting up a church. An usher takes him down and saves a bunch of lives. No motive given, but its WaPo so you can be sure they’re gonna mention that scumbag Dylan Roof.
Merkel wins in German elections but her party has worst result since WWII. A “far-right” party took 13% of the vote and will now be the third-largest party in the German lower House of Representin.
Milo Yiannopoulos goes to Berkeley for 15 minutes. School claims it had to spend $800,000 because of the visit. Listen, if you’re spending $800 large a month for security on that campus, you need to renegotiate the police budget.
Cook County, IL shit the bed on the soda tax and people are looking for reasons. Maybe “don’t tax your poorest people to death and expect them to take it” would be a good policy, eh Chicago Democrat Political Machine?
Trump administration announces a new limited travel restriction list. Its more racism against Muslims as such fundamentalist countries like North Korea and Venezuela are added.
Here’s some news that Glibs can use.
YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!! I already want to start kicking ass and its just Monday morning!
Go give it your best today!
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Watching the NFL with the sound off only helps so much. When the referees insist on making the game
unwatchablesuck, it’s time to switch over to the Traktur Pullz Channel.*Unsportsmanlike conduct? Are you shitting me?
It was a weak calledbut it made up for a couple awful PI calls earlier in the game
The Lions losing in the most Lions way possible didn’t help.
I assumed this was directed at Bills v Broncos. Didnt realize there was another unsportsmanlike people were upset about
The Lions had a TD called back by review with 8 seconds left in the game. By rule, there is a ten second run off, so the game was declared over.
The Redskins looked great.
We still don’t have any wide receivers that matter, ‘our deep threats come out of the backfield.
Except for Ryan Grant, who seems to only line up as a WR or in the slot. Seriously, he’s an RB that lines up as a WR. That isn’t some new, ingenious innovation. That isn’t aboutto catch on all over the league like Tampa-2 or the Wildcat. He lines up there because we don’t have legitimate threats at WR.
And westill kicked the Raiders’ asses.
Next week, we’re in Arrowhead, and we’re gonna suck. It’s gonna be on like donkey [dong].
I was absolutely surprised to see them win that game last night, and look so good. I am certain that if I actually get excited about them and start paying more attention, they will go back to playing as crappy as the Giants area, and do me a solid “Browns” performance where they let me down once more.
I’m sticking to my guns. I now think of the Redskins as an ex-girlfriend who did me wrong way back when. Like I’m happy to hear they’re doing well, but I don’t want to get burnt again.
Apt comparison there Bill. I expect these fucks to stick it to me as long as Snyder owns that team.
That gun is pretty cool. But $400?! No thanks
It is at least faster to load than a Liberator?
A cousin of mine carries a double barrel 410 pocket gun not much larger.
That’s personal protection.
Had one, try shooting it. My hand still hurts.
I’ve got one for snakes. A whole lotta not fun to shoot. But, there’s really no point in practicing with it (other than a couple of shots to get the feel of it). Its basically a small directional grenade. It would make an interesting carry gun – mine is actually surprisingly heavy, but I imagine looking down two no-kidding shotgun barrels would have a certain deterrent effect.
It looks bigger than a .22 derringer.
I don’t know about that. Cool, in the sense that they made a little foldup thingie.
But cool as a weapon? How about pretty much useless. the ergonomics are shit, you only get a single .22 shot, and it doesn’t look like a quick reload.
Other than a vanity item, what possible use could there be for this weapon? It doesn’t seem terribly useful in self-defense. maybe only as an assassin’s tool.
Me: “I have a weapon”
Goblin: “That? Fuck. If you shoot me with that, and I find out, I’m gonna be pissed!”
Joking apart, I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of a 22, but it’s not going to do much other than deal with that card-sharp on the riverboat down by the bayou.
Yeah, that’s how I meant it. Not much more than a toy or conversation piece. The price would have to come down a lot or I would I would need a pile of disposable income before I’d buy one.
My guess is that it’s almost an advertising piece. Very useless, but looks neat, and will get reported on, for free advertising for the company’s other products.
I managed to typecast a character as “the guy driving the dangerous cargo when the truck gets attacked”. He’s only shown up twice, but both times he was A: driving a truck B: Containing dangerous cargo C: that gets released when someone breaks the truck.
It was entirely unintentional, but it’s the sort of thing that might make a reader say there’s no way it was accidental.
I feel almost obligated to write him a story where he gets to be the main character now.
While writing the scene (and the one leading up to it) I had some youtube rants on as background noise. Most were about socjus, and I started thinking about how many ways an SJW might flip out over the sequence.
Before reuniting with our poor truck driver (who happens to be a black guy), the narrator (an aspiring supervillain) scuffles with a licensed heroine. Grrl power loses out to seventy pounds of additional healthy body mass before the truck driver intervenes and beats the tar out of the narrator.
I couldn’t get perpetually offended enough to pick up in all the nuances of how I’m a bigot.
Or put him in every story as a running gag.
I was thinking about it…
He’s a strange, down-low superhero in his own right, with some kind of utterly dumbass superpower that puts him in fortuitous locations.
CoincidenceMan
“He’s only shown up twice, but both times…”
Once is an accident, twice a coincidence…
Give him a great line like “That’s a big Twinkie” or “A damn shame when folks be throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that”
Dammit, I know I should remember where the second line is from…
Better Off Dead.
No motive given, but its WaPo so you can be sure they’re gonna mention that scumbag Dylan Roof.
And not mention anything about Sudan
Shhhhhhh! We’re not supposed to talk about that!
Hey, at least they got a quote of someone who recognized the lives the usher saved when he held the guy with his own gun until the cops arrived. I’m sure that didn’t make them happy.
How is that possible? I’ve read many articles assuring me that even if somebody did have a gun during an attack, it almost certainly wouldn’t matter.
I wonder if he shouted anything that might have sounded like “all at the dock bar!”
OT but not really. There is an old shitty bar with a leaky roof next to the Port of Tampa. It is supposedly the oldest bar in the city
Forgot to add, it is called Stoney’s.
Aloha snackbar!
Hey, isn’t that what Kamekono from Hawaii 5-0 always says?
Concerning the German election results, the prevailing media opinion seems to be that the misguided Germans are voting against their own interests.
And once again, the definition of “right” is correlated to racist. That is absolutely intentional.
Its weird how everyone loves democracy until the plurality starts disagreeing with them.
You know who else voted against their own interests?…
White married women?
The Fed?
Kansas (according to Thomas Frank)?
Everyone who voted for McCain in 2016?
This! (cries into beer)
Every black Democrat?
“Every Democrat?”
FTFY.
A “far-right” party took 13% of the vote and will now be the third-largest party in the German lower House of Representin.
Swastika banners on the Parliament building, coming right up.
“Far right” in Germany is about the equivalent of a “moderate Democrat” in the US.
Um, they said far-right, not far-LEFT.
It’s really entertaining when you point that out to a lefty and they go into contortions trying to show that National Socialists were actually right-wingers.
Because you just know Stalin would sign a non-aggression pact with someone whose politics were completely opposed to his and based on right-wing free market.
I actually read some nitwit comment recently trying to argue that Marxism-Leninism are the far right wing of socialism.
Leninists are the white people of communists.
They may be the far right wing of socialism.
That still puts them on the left hand side of the authoritarian squares.
It’s really entertaining when you point that out to a lefty and they go into contortions trying to show that National Socialists were actually right-wingers.
For even greater effect, you can quote some of the more left-wing Nazis (especially Goebbels) at them:
And of course to tie it all together, since he was a Nazi
Oh yeah, I have also pointed out that if you strip out the Jew-hate Nazi political statements from the 1930s look a lot like Bernie Sanders speeches.
You don’t have to strip them out, just swap them with the 1%. There, virtually indistinguishable, and with some degree of accuracy to boot.
Swap “The Jews” with “The Russians” and you get CNN and MSNBC.
Yes, it’s quite a hoot to throw lefty Hitler quotes in their faces.
I’ve rarely gotten a response to this other than outright denial or the “deer in headlights” look, but the only thing close to a rebuttal is the claim that Nazis are right-wing because they’re racist. It’s at this point that I get to point out that the USSR engaged in racial discrimination (ranging from harassment to extermination) against Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Greeks, Ukrainians, Koreans, and pretty much everyone else who was not an ethnic Russian.
The Wikipedia article entitled “racism in the Soviet Union” was very informative. It’s funny how all this information is right out there in the open, but most people believe that the USSR was non racist in any way.
Eh at least FDP got in which is closest they got to a classic liberal party I guess
So i don’t know much about you football but looking at the results and for fun comparing them to predictions in the last football post on this fair blog, they were not that accurate. More study is required. What if innocent readers of this blog take predictions to mean one should bet ones house on that outcome? What then?
First principle of gambling (also investment) – never bet anything you’re not prepared to lose.
First principle of gambling (also investment) – there’s no such thing as a “sure thing.”
Dammit; SECOND
Glibs who run their own businesses:
I’m about three months into running my own show, and I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing. I have the technical skill required — writing, editing and content marketing — and all (well, most) of my clients have been happy, but the business side of things has been really frustrating. I’m having trouble collecting on invoices, I’m screwing up my estimates, I’m overbidding AND underbidding … I’m starting to wonder if going it alone was the right idea.
In my search for wisdom, I sought out STEVE SMITH, who, uh, didn’t have the answers I was looking for, and Zardoz, who just told me to kill everyone. I even thrashed my orphans to within an inch of their miserable lives but they weren’t any help.
So, as a last resort, I thought I would turn to you wealthy, successful fat cats: What resources would you recommend / advice would you give to someone who really enjoys the freedom of self-employment but has almost no actual business experience?
Buy or hire what you aren’t good at. There are a ton of invoice and contract management programs available for small businesses. If bidding is a problem, hire it out to a manager.
Its a struggle at times for me as well. I had a kick-ass week last week but it had been a struggle for a couple months up till then. Just keep plugging away and as you refine processes, standardize them and establish your own policy and procedures guidelines. That alone has helped me stay on top of billing, bidding, collecting and other follow-up. I had been relying on memory but I eventually got too many irons in the fire and things started slipping past me until I developed a workflow state where every deal I have going is somewhere in a database and flowchart to show where they stand. It also helps me identify customers whose business I didn’t get on a deal-by-deal basis and a reason so I can restrategize as future opportunities with them arise.
Other than that, I’m still in my infancy when it comes to owning and operating my own business too. And I’m pretty sure I’ll be working on better organizational systems for quite some time.
1. You make no reference to this, and I don’t want to increase the anxiety, but don’t forget to stay up to date on taxes. The tax man will fuck. you. up. and he doesn’t care about your cash flow.
2. You’re not a charity, so if someone won’t pay you, step 1 is stop working for them. It’s surprising how often small businesses will extend credit because they think they might get paid as a result and just end up being stiffed.
3. Estimates can be very hard, and nobody gets them right all the time. You can cushion the impact of a bad estimate by delivering in pieces, if your product permits.
4. If you really are good, try and get down-payment on at least a fraction of the work based on a deliverable. 50% on delivery of first draft, for example. This puts money on your pocket and it makes the client really commit to the project.
I had a business with a retail component in the 90’s. Holy crap, taxes were a burden. Because I collected sales tax in the metro Atlanta area, I had multiple tax authorities to worry about. I’d say I spent 1/3 of my time on bookkeeping for taxes. And between sales tax, state tax and federal tax (including self-employment tax), the government made more than I did off of my enterprise.
That part was not a lot of fun.
There’s a lot there, but it seems to be all overhead management. Some pointers:
Although it may be tempting, do not factor your receivables (sell them to a third party for typically a 15% cut or more). You’re better off hiring someone to do it. Let the AR person make the reminder phone calls and then you step in when there’s a serious problem. Do not be afraid to use your legal rights, small claims, etc… I keep my bad debts to under 2% even though my average days to pay is high. Never let any one specific customer think you’re financially dependent on their business, they will use that against you.
As far as bidding goes, that’s going to be more specific to your line of work. Good estimating is part and parcel of any contract-style business and it takes time and experience to get it right. Ask any contractor how difficult it can be. Start building your own estimating spreadsheets and spend some time studying what affects the time spent. You’re not going to win every bid, if you are, you’re doing something wrong. You only want to win profitable jobs. Spend time developing key customers and build a reputation so that you can get negotiated work as well.
Amen on the bidding process. You learn the hard way.
I had a supplier renege on the quote they gave me for the biggest job I had ever done. It was over $90k worth of equipment, and I bid the margins pretty tight because I was eager to earn the business and step up to another level.
Well, the new price I was forced to pay meant that I went from making about $10k or $15k to losing $8k. And I worked all night for 3 days for the privilege of losing that money.
I didn’t change my deal with my customer though. When he heard me talking about it with one of my guys, he offered to change the deal. I told him my word was worth way more than $8k. That earned me a whole lot more money with that business than I ever lost.
^^^^^ dealing with suppliers, this is like gold here- doing what you say you’ll do.
First off, it’s flexibility, not freedom 😉
With new clients, I would absolutely get money down. Progress billing is not unusual in the creative world and those who balk are probably the same fuckos that will try to stiff you. Also, you aren’t their employee. Back when I did what you do, I would often have dudes calling me in for bullshit meetings and the like. Keep it professional and clear where everyone stands.
You will get better at estimates. You will also become more efficient and smarter about which types of clients to approach. Like any small business, find a niche. You can’t be the right fit for everyone.
Most of all, keep your head up. If anyone asks, business is fucking great! Good luck!
Orbital bombardment on your competition always seemed to work out one way or another.
That is your answer for everything!
Good advice all around. Without knowing the specifics f your business we can but offer generalizations.
-Invoices. It’s the cost of doing business. I’ve heard stories of construction companies stiffing architects out of their money. I’ve been stiffed too. A little trick someone did to us was delay payment during their last month and when the last day came and went she never came back with the final payment. Four years taking care of both her daughters and she pulls that bush league act for one kid. It’s really hard to enforce these things especially for a small business because their really is no recourse for us. Small claims is an option but is it worth it? Sometimes you may just have to eat the loss as my accountant told me. And one thing you’ll notice, the law is often stacked against the owner. Ask for money down or some kind of guarantee if you can as been suggested.
-Speaking of accountants, get one. I have a book keeper and accountant. I don’t do it. My philosophy is hand it over to the experts. They know every little new rule and law and if they’re good, they can find ways to find you money and grow your business. Try to get one that knows SMEs and if by word of mouth all the better. I lucked out with mine as he (and now she) don’t charge me for my questions. It can be pricey but they can save you mistakes. KEEEP ALL INVOICES and as been mentioned pay your taxes. Don’t give them reason to snoop around.
-Again, as suggested, don’t let a supplier bully you. I would expand that to an employee should that come around. Watch what you say and carefully choose your words. They WILL use it against you. I tended to be too honest in the beginning and they’d just spew shit back at me. Be fair but firm. I know. A cliche but you’ll find that equilibrium. These things take time and trial and error. It cost me A LOT of money my mistakes.
-Always do a prayer keeping parasitical left-wing politicians not enacting legislation to plunder under the guises of ‘fairness’ and ‘closing loppholes’. It’s not about that at all. It’s all about the scam. NEVER vote anything left. Ever. They’re not on your side. But I think you know this.
A tip on estimating….
BEFORE you estimate spend some time thinking about the work and breaking it down into as many small chunks as are logical, then estimate those and sum them up to come up with the final estimate. Then keep a record of how you broke the job down into parts and what the estimates for those parts were and at the end of a job compare the estimates to the actuals
This does 2 things for you. First, it helps you to identify and work to eliminate any systematic bias in your estimates (high or low) . If you find that you frequently over or under estimate a part of a job you can recalibrate your estimates to compensate for that internal bias. Second it helps minimize random variability in your estimates. All other things being equal and absent any bias in your estimates you are equally likely to over or under estimate, by making many small estimates those random deviations will tend to cancel each other out leaving you with a more accurate estimate than if you had just made 1 big estimate.
For example, lets imagine you are estimating the job of changing a tire. instead of estimating that it was 20 minutes worth of work you could break it down like this
lifting the car up – 1 minute
removing the rim – 1 minutes
taking the old tire off the rim – 1 minute
putting the new tire on the rim – 1 minute
Adding the valve Stem – 2 minutes
inflating the tire – 4 minutes
balancing the tire – 5 minutes
Putting the rim back on the car – 2 minutes
Lowering the car – 1 minute
Paperwork – 6 minutes
________________________
Total 24 minutes
Then after a few jobs you find it is consistently taking you 30 +/- 2 minutes to change a tire. Now you go back and reveiw, you find that you were forgetting getting the car from the lot into the bay, returning the car to the lot, getting the new tire from inventory and disposing of the old tire. Adding these tasks into the estimates at 1, 2, 2, and 1 minutes respectively brings you to a total estimate of 30 minutes, right where your average is. You also learn that the variability exists primarily in getting the rim off the car (sometimes lugnuts get stuck), getting the car back on the lot (depends on how busy the shop is and how crowded that makes the lot), and doing the paperwork.
Donald Trump Is A Threat to Survival of Life on Earth: If Nuclear War Doesn’t Get Us, Falling Oxygen Levels Will
Falling oxygen levels? What?
Carbon Dioxide release encourages plant growth which leads to increased oxygen release.
Lack of warming over the last couple of decades and increasing Arctic ice still unexplained.
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves on the ice thing, the growth the last few years was modest compared to the p[previous fall. Unfortunately we have an insignificant time period of data on ice.
On ice is more straight forward, on temperature we lack anything remotely like accurate data, sadly
Hey, all of the arctic ice was supposed to be gone completely by now.
That is one big steaming pile not supported by a single data point.
Also, what the hell is this? “Under the Paris Agreement on climate change, countries agreed to keep the global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees of warming and strive for 1.5 degrees.”
How are they planning on doing that? There hasn’t been any temperature rise and no sign that it will rise. If it does, what is it these countries plan to do? Will it away?
Biggest fuckin’ scam in history.
I suggest an orbital mirror would be useful to usher in the new ice age. I would also make a fine weapon if properly angled and focused.
Archimedes would be proud.
don’t attract Mr. Lizard!
And doesn’t the world have more forestation now than in the early 20th century? I mean, the actual climate change/ pollution concern with the oceans is that the algae systems will suffer if the climate changes and the ocean acidifies, but the real question is whether that can be offset or not.
The US certainly has higher forestation, I seem to remember that counterinuitively, South America too, but I’d be prepared to bet that’s offset by China and India.
Ocean acidification would be a threat to algae and coral formation, but it’s my understanding that the science isn’t settled (what a surprise), because the deep oceans don’t act as homogenous systems – their compositional profles vary just as much as their thermal profiles do. The nub of this being that the mechanism whereby CO2 gets sequestered in deep bodies isn’t well understood at all, so it’s not clear if, and if, how long it takes for CO2 to migrate into them.
Once again, a claimed but disputed problem could have been addressed but for mendacity and political posturing.
North America generally I believe. The big reforestation is Europe if I remember correctly, most of the increased numbers come from there. It was amazing how little forest was left compared to how much is there now. It’s offset by decreasing forestation in S. America & Asia.
I can’t get the latest FAO report to open http://www.fao.org/3/a-i5588e.pdf. I think that where I found the forestation percentages over the last century when I needed it for a school paper a couple years ago.
Milo Yiannopoulos goes to Berkeley for 15 minutes. School claims it had to spend $800,000 because of the visit. Listen, if you’re spending $800 large a month for security on that campus, you need to renegotiate the police budget.
800 big ones for security? Damn that is one dangerous faggot (TM)
Those pictures are the first I’ve seen a big city police force carrying nightsticks in very long time. Thanks antifa for bringing them back.
Ain’t no sunshine when you gotta spend $800K on Milo, right Sloop?
“Despite calling the event a defense of free speech, Yiannopoulos didn’t give a speech. He was shouted down as he tried to talk. He wasn’t allowed to use an amplification system, a rule university officials said would apply to “any private citizen who would seek to make use of the Sproul steps for a similar purpose.””
Because Berkeley doesn’t have an auditorium?
They do but it’s reserved for echoes.
Basically, the school administrators made the student organization that sponsored Milo’s invitation and the Free Speech week jump through so many hoops, they gave up. Additionally, the school would not guarantee the return of any of the $100K that Milo spent to have the event if the school canceled it. And without a student organization sponsoring the thing, they couldn’t use any auditoriums on campus.
Well then I am glad they stuck the school with a $800K bill. Fuck them.
I’m suspicious of that $800K amount. It sounds like the kind of estimate governments sometimes make for FOI requests — it will take thousands of hours and tens of thousands of $ to compile something that ends up taking an afternoon or less.
I *think* that was for the whole Free Speech week, which included last week’s Shapiro talk, and the installation (and presumably removal) of a fuck-ton of jersey barriers.
Of course, a campus that protected free speech from the get-go and made sure that antifa loons didn’t think they had semi-official nod-and-a-wink sanction from the university administration wouldn’t have had to provide all these costly measures, but that particular horse has bolted, to be sure.
Concerning the German election results, the prevailing media opinion seems to be that the misguided Germans are voting against their own interests.
So they’re doing a find/replace on all those Brexit tearjerkers?
What’s The Matter With Rheinland-Pfalz?
Sunday morning – my son had a seizure, like full on Julius Caesar, that lasted 3-4 minutes. I ended up calling 911 – local police, who are also medically trained, came along with an ambulance. I was amazed since they were here within three minutes (small town!) and actually really friendly, with one of the officers knowing my son by sight. (again, a small town)
Son was taken to Devos Children’s Emergency with my wife riding along. I drove to meet them there.
Short version: They don’t know the whys or hows so they released him after a few hours. More testing this week. He’s never had anything like this before. I’m guessing Nintendo 3DS, dehydration (it’s been super hot here), and a mix of who knows that else.
That’s terrifying. I hope everything turns out okay.
Hope it turns out not to be anything serious.
I think having cops double as medical first responders is a bad idea, even if it worked out this time.
Best of luck, maybe it was a one time thing
That happened to my younger brother once when he was about 11 or 12. Just once, never again. Scary as hell.
Sure was. I think of myself as pretty unflappable, but it was my wife who took control – putting him in recovery position and giving me orders. I was in the “What do we do? What do we do?” panic mode.
That was my dad, too. Have someone threaten him physically, he’s fine. Have one of his kids fall out and he’s a wreck.
Same happened to one of my sister’s kids. She had a few and then they disappeared forever without so much as an explanation.
Your son’s name isn’t Kurt Eichenwald, is it?
Good luck. Health issues with children are always frightening.
You know what would suck worse than not having a bad seizure? Not having a dad who cares. Take care of you kid and good luck.
This. Good luck, LH.
Humungous, I went through a similar experience with my adopted son. He experienced 2 seizure episodes within a 24 hr period. We believe it was caused by a combination of fatigue, a fever caused by the cold he was battling, stress, and a negative reaction to tylenol we gave him to deal with pain/fever. Both times we rode the ambulance to the hospital only to have him be released because they couldn’t pin point the issue after a 8 hr wait. Months of tests later we were told they clearly saw irregular brain activity but had no idea why. He was put on anti-seizure medicine until he was 16 and never had another episode. I do want to stress that while we the parents wanted answers, the doctor pointed out something that stuck with me forever: when they can tell you why, it means it is something that will be there forever.
Last year, my neighbors 4 year old boy had a bad seizure. They actually landed a helicopter in my pasture to take him to Little Rock. It was a scary deal. He has been wearing a monitor ever since. He hasn’t had another and they have no idea what caused the one he had. Hopefully your kid will not have another one. Best of luck.
That’s scary, but it sounds like he’ll be okay. Stay positive.
Could be a unique occurrence. Could also be epilepsy, of course. If so the testing should find out.
Also, my brother in law had a seizure like that due to Carbon monoxide poisoning when he was young, and I’ve heard of kids that had repeated hospital visits until they determine CO exposure as the cause. So if there’s any possible source of CO that’s something you should check as well.
Good call on the CO poisoning, and it is progressive, as in accumulates in the vascular system over time,
I also have/had Epilepsy since about 8 years old, and the ultimate cure ended up being CBD, candy for me so I’m not stoned at work.
Thanks, everyone. Appointment with his normal doctor today, setting us up for a neuro visit later on.
And yes we have a CO2 alarm in our house, recently installed for foster kid certification.
Make sure you go there prepared Humungus. Read up on the subject and ask questions. Find out what tests they schedule and why. Don’t be afraid to push to get answers to the things you can. Being informed makes a world of difference when the medical community just wants to play it safe or do research on the subject.
hoping for the best. that’s some chilling shit to witness in your own kid.
Guy on Bloomberg:
Chancellor Merkel’s “nightmare victory”.
Oh, noes. Let the deplorables have a voice? The horror.
I must have misread that, because I regarded Merkel still being in office as a nightmare for the German people.
It is striking how the elite have no compunction pointing out that the plebes are getting too uppity and should be thankful their masters have not reverted to treating them like the worst lords did back in the days of the aristocracy and the serfs. It’s almost like the queen bee is getting mad some of the drones have realized their ordeal sucks, are saying the fucking deal where they do all the work while the queen lives high and large in la-la-land sucks and they want a change, and act out on it. How dare they?
Good song today Sloop. I woke up with this song in my head. Not sure why. I’m not depressed or anything… Anyway, I thought some would enjoy it. It’s a great song sung by a legend
Also, another plug for the upcoming Glibs meet up in the Twin Cities.
Sept. 28 (next Thursday) @ 5:30ish pm. Broadway Pizza in Plymouth; near the 55 and 494 exchange.
If anyone wants to attend the meetup, feel free to email me and I can call ahead to make sure we get enough space at Broadway Pizza.
If we all showed up I’d think an average American pizzeria could accommodate us
Not once we started a stereotypical libertarian dustup over deep dish vs thin crust brawls.
Set up a skype and I’m there.
As long as DoomCo doesn’t show up and want fucking pineapple I think we’ll be fine.
Ha! Doom ain’t the only one, laughing boy!
*Makes note to bring gloves so he can drop them
pineapple, tasty!
I thought the problem with Doom was how he carried over the pineapple rings, a beer and an order of breadsticks in one trip.
Is that what you meant by “fucking pineapple”?
That would be better than putting it on pizza.
Is that what you meant by “fucking pineapple”?
No, he wants to fuck the pineapple.
Sorry, I thought our usernames had a link to our email addresses. Email me at pope@jimbo.church.
If they have the Velocity Channel in the Pizza place, see if they’d be willing to put on Almanian’s episode.
That would be awesome.
Oh yeah, that’s Thursday. What was the time again?
830. It’s showing 530 on my program guide too.
Oprah and Frank Lutz. Jesus Christ. I’d rather watch a hanging.
Boy, the comments get dark pretty quick. Is it linked to Drudge or something?
Yep!
Meanwhile, a woman named Jennifer said she thinks he’s a “horrible president.” She argued that “he’s divided our nation more than it has ever been.”
Go on…
Because the nation was not divided on January 20 when Trump took office.
To be fair, I can’t think of any other time in history our nation was more divided either.
Yeah, I did go to public school, how did you know?
Well, there could be another civil war coming, so there is that.
Today show all-in on Facebook Russkie targeted ads. Paragon of virtue Obama warned Zuckerburg about it too!!!
So Facebook inadavertantly violated vague laws restricting foreign “campaign donations” in US elections?
Cuz when you cash the check, that’s what happens.
So are we arresting the Clintons, Obamas, and all the usual democrat pols that have raked in tons of foreign and practically always illegal contributions (in a tit-for-tat type exchange) for that? I mean campaign contributions directly to a politician is a worse thing than just buying advertisement, isn’t it? Or is it only advertising that is a problem?
It depends, does the politician getting paid have an “R” or a “D” after their name?
That seems to be the determinant for whether the law we plebes have to live under applies to these politicians or not these days…
From what I’ve heard, the spending was in the low 6 figures.
In a billion dollar election, I’m glad we’re going after what really matters.
Hey, they found something that fits the narrative. Even if it is a tiny, unimportant something, it fits the narrative and that’s all that counts.
Forget fur – is it time to stop wearing wool?
Animal rights charity Peta is best known for its naked anti-fur stunts, but these days it is more worried about wool. Co-founder Ingrid Newkirk explains why shearing is sheer cruelty
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/sep/24/forget-fur-stop-wearing-wool-peta-ingrid-newkirk-interview
I look forward to all the attractive young women eager to show they rather go naked than wear wool.
Because This is a perfectly healthy amount of hair.
Shearing is no more cruel than a haircut.
For reference This is the size of the sheep inside that fleece
So is a kind Shepherd supposed to make that lamb spend the summer wearing that coat? Or just turn it into lamb chops?
We eat the ones that would starve, the suffering makes the wool softer.
What do you have against naked models?
I’d rather they not be peddling stupid.
There are other sources.
It is known that people watch porn for the philosophical discussions.
When PETA starts throwing paint on bikers I’ll start taking them seriously.
It was to my understanding the farmers were doing the sheep a favor by shearing them in the spring. If this is true how is wool cruel?
Yes, the type of sheep that have been bred to provide wool need to be sheared or else their hair grows too long and it eventually kills them. PETA’s answer to this problem would probably be to genocide that species of sheep.
LOL, that was a Tumblr post from three years ago. “Save the sheep from cruel shearing!!!” At least that time , the dumbass was schooled by People Who Actually KNow Shit. I can’t believe PETA picked it up. Well, I can, because it’s PETA, but my god, is there no limit to the stupid?
Is this video proof of a SKIN-WALKER? Mythical creature spotted claim conspiracists
Way to violently shake the camera right as the transformation takes place.
That is totes what happens in those situations and not at all a common ploy for hoaxers.
STEVE SMITH WONDER WHERE PET KITTY HAD GONE!
STEVE SMITH TRANSFORMERS… RAPISTS IN DISGUISE!
CATTOBOTS, ROLL OUT
“I was taking a poop”/supposed skin walker
Asian Americans: 10 Warning Signs That Show You’re Siding With Whiteness
Only got as far as 1
1. When we appropriate Black culture
Was there one where the warning sign was realizing Afirmative Action hurt Asians the most?
Crazy ass ninja!
I’m hoping one day that the penny will drop for (non-Muslim) Asians in the West that the left is not on their side.
You must remember that it is all a neoliberal racist ploy
This paper examines historical and contemporary racializations of Asian(Americans) within the STEM system. The prevailing perception of Asian(Americans) as model minorities masks how their multiple and contradictory positionings in the STEM system perpetuate the neoliberal racial project and reproduce systems of racism and oppression. Through a multidisciplinary analysis of STEM education and industry, we demonstrate that the shifting racialization of Asian(Americans) secures advantages for White Americans by promoting meritocracy and producerism and justifies White supremacy. By serving these functions, the racialization of Asian(Americans) within the STEM system is central to the neoliberal racial project. This paper also suggests how STEM education researchers can reveal and resist, rather than veil and support, the neoliberal racial project in STEM.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13613324.2017.1377170?journalCode=cree20
If there is evidence against our arguments, then it must be racist evidence.
Meritocracy is bad, because merit is evil. You should reward people be their victim status.
Yeah, we really need more affirmative action structural engineers and brain surgeons.
I hear they are demanding to be allowed to become air traffic controllers…
Back when I was taking flying lessons, the airport I flew out of had a woman who must have been a affirmative action hire. She was awful to the point of being dangerous.
It was one thing when she told us to maintain a heading when we asked to enter the pattern and then forgot about us. It was totally different when she told us to use the wrong runway while someone else was taking off on it.
Every few months, apparently she would be sent off to training in the hope that it would improve her work, and she’d come back after a few weeks and be exactly as terrible as she was before. I’m positive that the only reason she didn’t get fired outright was because she was a black woman.
That line right there seemed more like something a pro-white racist would say than an anti-racist. “Meritocracy” secures advantages for white people? Do the people writing this stuff not even read it or take a moment to think about the implications of what they say?
They probably just regard meritocracy as yet another racist construct.
Can somebody just once show objective evidence of these systems? Not individual assholes who happen to be racists, but an actual system that id maintained to oppress and propagate racism. Just one.
I would posit that system is the proggy ideology..
You’re supposed to accept it without evidence; it’s the Marxist faith that justifies the fight against capitalism.
1. When we appropriate Black culture
Just payback for Wu Tang Clan and that Bruce Lee movie Kareem Abdul Jabbar was in.
Bruce Lee, John Saxon and the Black Guy!
Trump Administration: The Most Corrupt and Unethical in American History?
Remember when using military aircraft for personal leisure was just a privilege of the office?
Pepperidge Farms remembers!
I remember when Newsweek wasn’t completely insane.
You’re old
I remember when Leon Pannetta used military planes as a personal taxi service because he didn’t want to have to move from California.
I remember being called out at 0530 with a bucket truck so I can watch some fat ass MSgt knock ice off a sensor on that plane with a broom.
No, I don’t. I do remember when deranged partisan hacks did so.
The thing to always remember: those partisan hacks have always been completely full of shit, for one reason: if you really believe Trump is as evil as Hitler or Stalin, carrying on publicly about it should seem like a suicidally dumb thing to do. If Trump were actually that evil, he wouldn’t think twice about doing things like censoring the media or purging his political enemies; this is what evil dictators do. If he were that evil, you’d want to keep your “resistance” very quiet.
So, the fact that these people are protesting in public and screeching on TV and social media about how awful Trump is suggests they don’t believe any serious consequences will follow. Which means they either don’t know what they’re talking about, or they’re just full of shit.
Great point!
Straight men need safe spaces, too
Seriously, though, man the fuck up and make your own safe space.
These “manly” values were certainly useful at a time… However, humanity has evolved beyond our primitive roots
New
SovietEffeminate ManThose so-called “Primitive roots” are the traists that get shit done.
Without it, we’d have gone extinct, or would never have gotten out of the trees.
They are exactly the traits we need to keep.
It’s not to say that there aren’t certain aspects of machismo bro culture that are ridiculous, but for fuck’s sake. 20 years ago you could pay thousands of bucks to a shrink to teach you assertiveness, confidence, and decisiveness. I guess it’s easier to just pathologize successful behavior and declare the winner instead of the loser.
Welcome to the passive-aggressive, manipulative age.
You talk like a fag and your shit’s all retarded
“However, humanity has evolved beyond our primitive roots, and now traits like working in a team and communicating verbally are valued highly by none other than Forbes. Guess which gender these are traditionally associated with? Not maleness.”
All schools, religions, businesses, governments, etc. throughout history were organized by women. You never see masculine people working in a team. Athletes and soldiers are traditionally feminine. Men never hunted as groups, either. Unable to speak, they’ve done nothing but run around with spears, waving their penises at each other, for the last ten thousand years. While women got together and built everything.
“working in a team ”
Interesting, because you know what train you need to make a team? “Take charge”. But that’s toxic masculinity.
Yes, what these people don’t realize is that stereotypical masculinity does not see cooperation and competition as mutually exclusive. Rather, it sees these as complementary: you form a cooperative (your team) in order to better compete against others (the opposing team) so that you can more easily grind your enemies into the dust and have a band of brothers with which to celebrate your victory. It’s like they’ve never observed men at all, as these are common traits in sports, armies, and all the other organizations you’ve mentioned.
they are, however, familiar with the very catty intra-team competition displayed by women trying to get themselves into the top position of the information social heirarchy.
Great question for the Left: What do you want?
And how much will it cost?
Great question for the Left: What do you want?
A: The elimination of hoarders, wreckers, Kulaks, and any other wrongthinkers.
And how much will it cost?
A: Freedom
First principle of gambling (also investment) – there’s no such thing as a “sure thing.”
Hick: “Say, is this a game of chance?”
W C Fields: “Not the way I play it, no.”
Oh, yay. I pretty much quit watching Bloomberg over their TRUMPTRUMPTRUMPing, but I turned it on this morning. They’re tearing their hair out over Trump vs The Woke Footsball League. The head moron just suggested ratings will go up because people will tune in to watch the Anthem Antics portion of the broadcast. What a maroon.
They might be right about that, but those people will then immediately turn it off. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if the spectacle boosted ratings for this weekend, but I’m sure they will take a huge hit the rest of the season. And future seasons.
“The Dixie Chicks Effect”
If they keep it up, the anthem protests will be a catastrophe for the NFL’s ratings. It’s probably not obvious to the league brass, but hardcore fans (especially in places like the Upper Midwest, Southeast, TX/OK where football is religion) are quite often very patriotic and conservative. To these fans (especially if they’re involved with the military), protesting the national anthem is a pretty offensive gesture.
More generally, it’s easier to imagine a lot of these fans saying “screw this stupid league” than it is to imagine a bunch of MSNBC fans saying “I know how we can piss off Trump: spending Sunday on the couch watching football!”
Paging Gilmore:
Who the hell makes linen “beach trousers” so long they get stuck under the back of your
flipflopsboat shoes? Those things are long enough to wear appropriately with cowboy boots.wife sez: Pants pegging (sounds dirty to me)
I wouldn’t want them to show my face in this shot, either.
Those shoes are a travesty. Just shoot yourself already.
Um, who buys off the rack anyway?
Haberdashery or GTFO!
Spoken like a true Glib. Thank you.
Pretty sure those are meant to be hemmed accordingly since they don’t offer different inseams.
For $20, you’re complaining? Hem them
Why do want to dress like Larry David?
NIBIRU SIGHTING? Does this video show Planet X UFOs arrive for end of the world?
The end is nigh!
Klingons on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ feel a little too real in the age of Trump
Oh my god. I had no idea! It totally makes sense. Wow.
Really gets your noggin joggin
My wife turned that shit on last night. Ugh. Lots of preaching SJW bullshit. They are doing the same thing that they did to the comics. I found it unwatchable so I sat on the couch and played word games on my phone.
Well, shit, I guess I won’t be watching that after all.
I watched the first episode of an Amazon Prime show called Fortitude. Anyone else watch this, and is it worth it to keep watching?
I loved the setting, so tried watching the first season and it seemed pretty awful. Just really poorly edited. I quit after a couple of episodes.
But it got a new season and has a following, so maybe I just didn’t give it enough time. I have it on my list of things to watch eventually.
I watched the first episode, but for some reason I couldn’t get into it even though it was interesting in a weird kind of way, so I haven’t been back to it.
I watched the first season and liked it a lot. But then I ran into the same problem I have when binge watching any show, next season comes around and I’ve forgotten a bunch of what happened and don’t feel like investing the time to catching up. So, you’ll have the advantage of being able to jump right into the second season.
Setting is cool (literally – HA!) and there is lots of squeamish gore. Plus, if you like Stanley Tucci and that-guy-who-is-on-Game-of-Thrones its worth a watch.
I wonder if Discovery would be watchable if you didn’t hear anything in the news about it before it aired. I mean, now, the SJW hackles are up, but its Star Trek on CBS so there was always going to be something like that, but now theres been the brouhaha about it, its front and center.
P Brooks Replay rule: One look, at full speed; if the call made on the field was OBVIOUSLY wrong (ball was trapped, guy stepped out of bounds, tackler did not actually grab the runner’s face mask…) reverse it. Otherwise, play the fucking game. If a referee consistently blows calls, find another one.
My son called the Lion’s last play in real time. Can I get him some of that sweet NFL ref money?
I’d support actual flag-burnings during the National Anthem if I could trade it for getting rid of all replay in football
I actually think that could work. Probably too late to put the toothpaste back in the tube though.
My son had the opposite suggestion – get rid of the refs on the field. They just get in the way, and blow calls. Have all penalties, first downs, etc., called from a (presumably large) team of people watching the cameras in the booth. The guys on the field then just move the flags and signal the calls from the booth through an earpiece. No challenges.
So articles like this were ridiculed a lot recently, but here’s one more for the derp records.
Why Hillary Clinton was right about white women – and their husbands
Conventional wisdom says women will show solidarity at the polls. But new research shows that for white women, having a husband trumped the sisterhood
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/25/white-women-husbands-voting
“the sisterhood” – starts well enough
“Given the opportunity to make history by electing the first female president, women didn’t take it.” – those darn women, on the wrong side of making history
Many had expected Clinton to rally women, the same way Barack Obama rallied black voters in 2008 – yes it is not offensive at all to people to say they should vote for someone of the same sex/skin color just because
“But social science backs up Clinton’s anecdotal hunch. “We think she was right in her analysis about women getting pressure from men in their lives, specifically [straight] white women,” said Kelsy Kretschmer, an assistant professor at Oregon State University and a co-author of a recent study examining women’s voting patterns.” – of social scienc e to the rescue. Never mind social science being nonsense, its just one study that does not really prove anything
“Married straight women siding with the economic interests of their husbands and families over the collective interests of women was something authors observed anecdotally during the campaign, too.” – puting your famly over the collective interests of all women, which are such an amorphous mass with no individual interest
This is fine. Its just like the individual loser. As long as they are looking for explanations why they did everything right and the world went against them, they’ll continue to do wrong. In this case, when it means the worst of the statists losing elections, I’m glad to let them tell each other lies and rationalizations.
I’ll say this, if I had voted Clinton, my wife would have divorced me.
same here.
Yeah, me too. I disliked Hillary as a candidate and a person, but my wife has a white-hot hatred for her.
I always think of this song when I hear Hillary speak of women.
“It seems some women voted based on factors other than the presence of a vagina. Since they can’t all be gender traitors, clearly they were beaten into it by the patriarchy.”
I love how they just assume that electing a corrupt sociopath like Hillary Clinton somehow serves the collective interests of all women, because vagina.
Wait, so women were wrong to not vote for the candidate who’s openly arguing that they’re incapable of thinking for themselves?
“We think she was right in her analysis about women getting pressure from men in their lives”
If only we had a secret ballot in this country. Then people would be able to vote their conscious without getting pressured by employers, friends and their mean spouses.
“We think she was right in her analysis about women getting pressure from men in their lives, specifically [straight] white women,”
I love that these people are robbing the Trump voting women of their agency and don’t even realize it.
Silly boy.
Those aren’t real women.
After this weekend, I feel like I need a new group of friends. Any Cincinnati/Southwest OH/Northern KY/Southeast IN Glibs wanna plan a meet-up sometime?
STEVE SMITH NEEDS NEW FRIENDS. WOULD LIKE TO MEET.
AND BY MEET, MEAN RAPE
Let me know with a few weeks notice and I’ll try to come up.
No love for the Minn-Dak Glibs? I has a sad.
Come on, you’re way out in the ass-end of nowhere.
Aren’t you in Montana?
Upstate New York – a more wretched hive.
Ahhh…sorry. Not sure was thinking of (other than Riven). Is Brooks in Montana?
Hey, it’s give me a chance to go back to where I grew up. That’s the reason I’d join in a Cincy meetup.
Same applies for Richmond and a large chunk of my adulthood.
I know. Just razzin’ yah.
Mike is all hyped up by the fact that he is going to be leaving his sod hut soon and traveling to civilization and actually talking to real people!
Tundra and I have a bet on whether we can convert that rube NoDak into the most polished Glibster ever. PigMale-gian is what we will call it.
It’ll be like the new millenium’s remake of Big man on Campus.
Except here, instead of UCLA.
First thing I’m gonna do is go downtown, stand in the middle of Nicollet Avenue, spin in a circle, and throw my Real Tree camo cap up in the air.
Careful what you wish for. Last time I said that, I ended up with SugarFree camped out in my library.
If you feel like traveling up to the Chicago area, we’re having a few of the Glibs over on 10/6 for music and merriment. omwc at this domain if you’re interested.
Are all of the pages in your books now stuck together after SF’s visit? Did he even attempt to use any of the crayons you gave him to color with? Or did he insist on using his special one?
Bummer about the 6th. I am there the week after. I could have brought bootleg pop.
Fortunately, I’m not in Cook County.
It worked out better than we expected, but our dog will never be the same- she now has that thousand yard stare.
Let me know with a few weeks notice, and I might be able to come down.
I’m in the Dayton area. I’d join a meet-up.
BOOM!
THREADSHOT!
Hey edit fairy, I, uh, may have hit the HIDE OLD THREADS button and thought the post was fubar’d. I’m a little embarrassed so if you feel like it, could you just make that go away? Yeah, uh, that would be great, yeah.
**edit fairy says “every lesson learned is worth sharing”**
Don’t do it! He needs to feel embarrassment and shame for his mistake!
^^^^
Now that’s just mean.
*retreats to safe space*
“Et Tutu, Faerie?” was the correct answer.
All I could see was bitch tits
Strange troglodyte species found in Turkmenistan cave
Researchers have discovered a “marvelous” and “extraordinary” new cave-adapted species in Turkmenistan, the first entirely subterranean terrestrial species found in the country.
The newly discovered species, Turkmenocampa mirabilis, required its own genus and is the first of its order discovered in Central Asia.
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/09/22/Strange-troglodyte-species-found-in-Turkmenistan-cave/4191506024665/
insert “found *reason commenter of choice*” here
Also should it not be troglobite?
I bet they named it Gerp Gorp
Murdered model was scalped, drained of all blood, autopsy shows.
Canadian vampires?
Detectives found Kasian lying next to her 2-month-old baby, who was not hurt.
*Snarky joked defanged*
What the heck? At least the kid is okay…but now no family. Sad.
She doesn’t look like a model. Or do they mean Instagram model?
Do you think Hillary is smart enough to realize that if the govt goes after Kushner for his email fuckups, that puts her back in the hot seat? Or is she just giggling into her cocktails?
It depends on how well the senility medication is working on a given day.
Yeah, didn’t Comey’s exoneration establish that using private emails for official business is okay?
Or the Irish FBI (If we’re going to play identity politics, why not stereotype LEOs too?) is Anti-Semitic, and will only prosecute Jews for using private e-mail?
White privilege!
Why you shouldn’t punch a Nazi
It’s nice that we live in a society where this needs to be said.
Also, I think the author used to write for Reason. I wonder how she’s getting on with ENB and Dalmia.
Yeah, she was a contributor before IIRC. Not a staunch defender of free speech, however. My position is simple: I’m with you until you punch the Nazi. Then I’m against you.
“…approval of Nazi-punching is likely to lead to escalation of political violence across the board.”
That’s the whole point of it. These progs live in bubbles and have convinced themselves that the glorious revolution is at hand. They are trying to spark it.
I’ve got some acquaintances that have been very supportive of the idea of punching neo-Nazis. My question to them is why stop there? Why not advocate for the wholesale killing of neo-Nazis? If this is, in fact, a battle as they claim, then doesn’t killing guarantee a victory? Otherwise, what exactly is the end game here?
No one has been able to offer up an answer yet.
We have been joking for years about them wanting to round up the deplorables and put them in gulags. To them it’s not a joke. That is exactly what they want but are too cowardly to admit.
Hey, let’s be fair here. They don’t actually don’t want to shoot the baddies themselves – that’s what the state’s goon squads are for!
And it’s like they don’t understand how difficult it would be to round up these people with opposing views without sparking an actual civil war. Hell, I’d likely be able to move down to my parent’s area, spark a secession/ joining of South Carolina in their county, and be successful in holding off federal law enforcement, particularly in the immediate area of their community (plus about 30 square miles). It’s not something I would like to do, but if they start putting people in jail for having “deplorable” points of view, I will not be able to stand by and meekly go to jail myself.
To be sure, punching people for holding different political beliefs is rather questionable. However, when you hold such disgusting views as the alt-right neo-nazis do, it’s hard to justify allowing them to peacefully speak their views.
or continue to consume oxygen ….
Yeah, but if they knew how to make their own good life decisions, they wouldn’t be poor! They need the benevolent hand of Rahm to show them the True Path.
“The Benevolent Hand of Rahm” would be a good band name
Sounds more like some outworld faction in WH40K
Tzeentchian cult.
Out of curiousity, I went and looked up what the name ‘Rahm’ meant. There are two – “Mercy”, which fits with a Benevolent hand and “High, Lofty” which fits with the arrogance of the Mayor of Chicago.
Preckwinkle was elected on the promise to roll back a sales tax increase a few years ago. Which she did.
They a year later she re-instated it. Then a couple years later she adds this bloated tax on top of it.
The cunt should get drawn and quartered in the public square. And then urinated on.
Modern Video Games Are Giving Kids Unrealistic Standards For How Many Swords They Can Carry At One Time
http://www.clickhole.com/blogpost/modern-video-games-are-giving-kids-unrealistic-sta-6638
“What do you mean, I can’t carry 40 pints of lamp oil and 10 halberds?”
Heh, I remember being told by someone about an argument that ensued when a female player complained that the game was biased because the male character was able to wear 11 rings and the females lacked that extra “finger” for that 11th magical ring…
I came up with “Eight plus a fuckton of knives” as the proper number.
“Where’s your armor?”
“What do you think the knives are for? Decoration? It’s not like I lose that many in a fight.”
Please. The Sims gives kids the idea that they can carry a car, bike, 40 ancient relics, 200 tomatoes and about 1000 lbs. of swordfish.
WTF are they going to do with half a rotting black marlin?
Chum for that kraken they wanted to catch
I haven’t tried to fish for the kraken in the Sims. I almost never play the world that has the kraken, though.
Ajay: “I trade in these 60 bear skins, 34 honey badger pelts and 4 condoms, and all I get is a couple hundred rounds of 50 cal? Sad.”
That’s what bags of holding are for, duh!
Grand Theft Auto convinced me that I can conceal a minigun under a Hawaiian shirt.
Syndicate convinced me I could be rebuilt as a cyborg and carry TWO miniguns and 100 rounds of ammo and a persuader under my duster.
That article was a great send-up of the over-anguished handwringing that one sees too frequently about video games.
Oh God, please make it stop! All weekend it’s been nothing but this stupid, pointless, NFL social signaling BS! I wake up this morning, and what do I see on my Facebook feed? More fucking NFL kneeling/standing horseshit! Why, why is this stupidity getting so much attention? I can’t wait to start work in an hour. Maybe I can get a break from it for a while today.
The NFL / players are doing their gosh-darn best to drive their blue collar / middle-class viewers away. It’s like ESPN.
They could have nipped this in the bud a few years ago. Just fine the idiots until they cut the crap. Now it’s out of control.
Roger Goodell is the most overpaid jackass on the planet.
Here’s an even easier solution: have all the TV and news coverage be about THE FUCKING GAME. Ignore all the other shit.
The people covering the NFL as news hate the game and it’s fans – so why would they do that? They are much more interested in rubbing it in the face of Joe Lunchbox that his sports hero hates his guts.
That’s something Joe Lunchbox OUGHT to learn. Although JL probably already knows it. It will be fun when the sport heroes learn that JL hates THEIR guts and stops supporting them and their paychecks wither away.
Maybe we’ll get to the point where news outlets get interested in showing that politicians of all stripes hate Joe Lunchbox’s guts.
Joe is answering today.
Sales Of Alejandro Villanueva Jerseys Skyrocket After Being Only Steeler To Stand For National Anthem
I don’t actually have a problem with what Tomlin did. I think not coming out for the anthem is a better choice than making a big deal one way or the other on the sidelines.
How much longer is Tomlin going to keep his job? The team underperforms its talent almost every season.
If the league were consistent about speech, it wouldn’t be a big deal, but when they won’t let players wear 9/11 commemorative cleats or decals to honor dead cops their endorsement of free speech rings awfully hollow.
Funny how charged up either side is about free speech when they agree with what is said, and how much they dislike it when they don’t. It’s almost as if most people both left and right have no actual principles at all!
If Trump doesn’t break out a GIF of him bringing the NFL to it’s knees before the God King, I’ll be disappointed.
Time for a bit of video editing. I’m thinking Xerxes from ‘300’.
“We had budget cuts, we can’t afford the sequel ‘301’, so we’re going to have a prequel.”
“299?”
“30.”
I thought Marathon was the prequel and Plataea the sequel?
Then there’s the spinoff Asculum…
But really, the naming convention there would only work if 300 were renamed Thermopilae
Already been done.
Excelsior!
Someone needs to make a Hitler in the bunker Hillary speech about how everyone else is to blame for her loss.
That would be nice, but it wouldn’t make up for being forced to put up with this BS as much as we’ve been made to.
I don’t follow the NFL, but did I see correctly that one of the anthem singers actually knelt while singing the anthem? If that’s the case, wouldn’t the proper protest move be to, I don’t know, not accept the invite to sing the anthem in the first place? I’m sure all the pundits called him/her out on such a blatant “Look at me!” move, surely?
I for one and happy that our nation is FINALLY focused on this critical issue. I’ve grown tired of all the time spent on frivolous things such as the national debt, health care, perpetual war, and the Korean guy with nukes.
Virtue signaling is more important than everything else. I don’t think there even is anything else.
Remember the good old days when people virtue signalled by going to church?
Media and the rest of the Left = Cat
Trump = Guy with laser pointer
Moronic multimillionaires being able to protest in ways that would get them fired from a normal job is the civil rights issue of our time you unwoke bigot.
Luckily, we don’t play the National Anthem before work every day.
Stay off military bases… Flag goes up, stop everything (AM). Flag goes down, stop everything (PM).
Everything OUTDOORS stops.
I’m pretty sure that picture was taken at MCAS Futenma in Okinawa. Those barracks look very, very familiar.
Unless you decide to see a movie.
This fucking national anthem bullshit ruined Fox NFL Sunday for me.
What I hate is I don’t even watch this sports shit. Yet I’m still getting constant “news” about this from Facebooks friends, Twitter feed, and it seemed to dominate a good chunk of the posts here at Glibs this weekend too. I can only imagine how awful this weekend must’ve been for people who actually do watch/follow sports.
Meh. Sunday football has become an afterthought for me anyhow. I have no interest in the hype, the shithead players, or the boring games. I’ll watch the Patriots if they are on in the NY market, but find myself caring less and less. I haven’t reached NBA level indifference but headed there. College football is also over hyped but I find it much more enjoyable to watch these days.
The NFL must be shitting their pants. Imagine if people realize they don’t need to watch the NFL. How many people that turn off because of the boycott would ever go back to the level of passion they had previously? I love sports and I gave up pro sports easily when I became aware of all the tax payer money was being shuffled to millionaires and billionaires. Dissing the country? That’s magnitudes worse for many people.
As stupid as it sounds (and it sounds very stupid) I was a big NFL fan, watching a game at 1 pm, 4 pm, the Sunday Night, and Monday night game every week. I only watch the Ravens now (only 2.5 quarters yesterday!) and maybe parts of other games. What have I come to realize that is incredibly obvious? Fall weather is great! I should be outside in September and October, not watching a league that is shitting all over itself.
Having kids was the final nail in the coffin for me. A random Sunday in September is so much more fun spent riding bikes around with your family or something than sitting inside watching a television product which gets worse every year.
The great part is that once you stop watching you don’t miss it. At all.
The NFL must be shitting their pants.
Like ESPN, they are too far up their own asses to realize they are going to fuck themselves if they keep on this path.
I only pay mild attention to the games. I really love the Fox pre game show. About 20 minutes of it yesterday was national anthem fuckheadery. All I want is a robust Rob Riggle segment, Jay Glazer insider gossip and the boys on the panel insulting each other.
I was Rob Riggle was funnier than Rob Riggle.
The shithead players in the NFL were shithead players in college.
I remember when the baseball players went on strike in the 90’s.
Even as a kid back then I was like “bunch of fucking overpaid babies. Fuck them if I bother to collect baseball cards or watch games anymore.” Haven’t cared about baseball since.
Conservative theologians accuse pope of spreading heresy
I wonder if I can get Eddie back here with this one.
As someone noted yesterday, SSPX getting involved reduces the likelihood of this being taken seriously, since they’ve got an axe to grind with the Vatican anyway.
I ain’t holding my breath, but it’s a nice change of pace to “Everyone’s a NAZI”.
What happened to Eddie? Did someone finally piss him off so much that he started having sainthood convulsions?
Long story short, Eddie had a spat with Titor, then went into a paranoid fit over legal contracts concerning comments/submissions, etc… He left of his own accord as far as I know.
Many had expected Clinton to rally women, the same way Barack Obama rallied black voters in 2008 – yes it is not offensive at all to people to say they should vote for someone of the same sex/skin color just because
Plantation politics. Mask? What mask?
I have seen every episode of every Star Trek TV show and every movie ever made in the Star Trek Universe and I had no clue what the fuck was going on in that first episode of Star Trek: Discovery last night. It was three color palette mush.
Wait, they actually aired something?
I was sure this was going to be canned before getting to screen.
The first episode was free, like a crack rock in a DARE video.
It’s a trainwreck. “Captain, the light is overwhelming our viewer screens!” and no one thinks to just turn them off. Also, sound and vibrations now travel through vacuum and light travels faster than the speed of light. WARP LIGHT!
Space explorer 1 – “Captain there is a strange, never seen before object over there that doesnt appear natural!”
Space explorer Captain – “maybe we should just leave it alone and not meddle with things we dont understand”
*facepalm*
They are doing exactly the same thing to ST they are doing to the comics. They poison everything they touch. This is the ‘sci fi without science, drama without drama’ crap. There were a lot of preachy lines also: “Just because you dont understand something doesnt mean you should fear it.” That line came after one of the crew members was attacked and nearly killed by said alien thing.
Really, what is the point of sending out explorers to just tootle around the galaxy in a zillion dollar spaceship if they have no curiosity and dont actually look at stuff? Jesus.
The sweet, sweet per diem?
The chance to debate social issues in new places?
Giving them unbelievable benefit of the doubt — the series could be a bit of a self-parody? After all — think of how so many starships the Enterprise (no bloody A, B, C or D) ran across ended up. Captains / Commodores went insane, crews got wiped out repeatedly, etc.
Discovery could be showing that period in the Federation timeline when apparently most starships were captained by total morons or latent psychopaths with delusions of godhood.
More seriously, thanks for commenting on it.
I was shopping yesterday, in a store that had the new Enterprise playing. I was busy, so wasn’t able to watch it, but I could hear it, and the dialogue and voice acting was worse than porn. Seriously. I laughed a few times at the acting and timing in, say, Pirates, and I doubt I’d ever be able to say the same for this pile of trash.
The SJW contingent really do ruin everything they touch.
I watched for a few minutes then lost interest. If I was interested in middle-aged women kvetching, I would pay attention at work.
Jaded view of reality is the best. Cheers.
I choose to believe that Star Trek canon ended with the DS9 finale. It makes me feel better about all the shit that’s come after it.
DS9 finale wasn’t exactly ‘good’ either.
Why am I not surprised. An actual interesting and engaging (insert Picard gif here) story are secondary to advancing the agenda. All female bridge officers, gay servicemen, and social commentary about those evil backwards Trump supporters comes first!
Well, Vox loved it, so… yeah.
Octlantis is a just-discovered underwater city engineered by octopuses
https://qz.com/1077632/octlantis-is-a-just-discovered-underwater-city-engineered-by-octopuses/
Gloomy octopuses—also known as common Sydney octopuses, or octopus tetricus—have long had a reputation for being loners. Marine biologists once thought they inhabited the subtropical waters off eastern Australia and northern New Zealand in solitude, meeting only to mate, once a year. But now there’s proof these cephalopods sometimes hang out in small cities.
In Jervis Bay, off Eastern Australia, researchers recently spotted 15 gloomy octopuses congregating, communicating, dwelling together, and even evicting each other from dens
goddamn rent-seeking landlord octopuses
Cthulhu smiles …
Octopi.
Not really
You lie.
octopodes
Octopussesses.
Why everyone needs to wear a helmet:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/TakeTheKnee?src=hash
Riiiiiight.
I don’t even remember that footnote unless someone explicitly mentions it.
I do remember the mushroom cloud, as its spectre haunted much of my childhood. It is a far more iconic emblem of the 20th century than some athletes no one remembers making a racist gesture.
Civil rights LARPing
hahahahaha
Jason Elias @Zebop 8h8 hours ago
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While a lot of whites are whining about #TakeTheKnee, they never have to endure half of what most blacks live with everyday, rich or poor.
Aaaaaannnnd there you have it. Shut down the internet for today.
Must be sad to be Jason.
Rich or poor? Really? You sure you want to run with that one?
It won’t be whining for long. Once it transitions to indifference, the NFL is well and truly fucked. It will be almost impossible to regain the rabid fanbase that they enjoyed for so long.
And the visual contrast of players taking the knee, and then acting like a dog taking a piss on the goalline creates a particular image of overpaid, spoiled juveniles.
It’s even funnier when you consider that Beckham did the dog pissing after the first touchdown and a black power salute after his second.
Last night I had a cop step off the curb and wave me down as I was riding my bike. “You can’t wear headphones when you’re riding. You can’t hear traffic coming from behind.” I asked him if it was legal to wear just one bud in my ear. “Yeah, that’s fine. Just keep the volume low.” Actually, he was rather polite about the whole thing. This morning, while commuting to work by bike, I stopped at a red light and the old lady crossing guard rushed up to me and told me to take my earphones out. I only had one in because that’s what the cop the previous day had told me was legal. “Sorry, ma’am, but I just talked to an officer yesterday and he told me one was legal.” She insisted I couldn’t even have one in. “Are you a cop? You’ve got a uniform on, but you’re just an old lady with polyester on. Learn the law if you’re going to bother people.” 🙂 She was livid as cycled away with my bud in.
Goddam cyclists!
it’s a good way to tell not real libertarians
Hey, I’m a true
ScotsmanAmericanpot smoking, Mexican ass fucker.Does your Japanese wife approve of the last part?
Yeah, she loves refried beans.
Holy shit. Land of the free, huh.
I ride with ear phones. There is something to be said about hearing your surroundings, just keep them on low and keep attentive.
No need to be paranoid about it.
You were too polite to that woman. I would have told her to fuck off straight.
Straff’s in Nippon, but the gist of your advice holds true.
*old lady crossing guard goes home and looks up next meeting of Make Japan Japanese Again*
So it’s illegal to be deaf?
I ride with two earbuds and music at full volume. I have yet to figure out how it helps me at all to hear traffic coming from behind. There is constantly traffic coming from behind. I’m not going to turn back and look at every car, truck, etc that approaches from behind. It’s actually better to be able to tune it out. And you have to get the volume really, really, really loud before you can’t hear sirens, so that’s not an issue either.
BTW, even after they had taken the lead, I knew the Giants would blow the game because that’s just what they always do against the Eagles. Whoever runs the clock certainly did their part, too – the Eagles should never have had the time to kick that field goal. They had the ball with 13 second to go, Wentz threw a pass out of bounds and the clock stopped about two seconds before the ball ever hit the ground. Then they throw one more pass to call timeout with 1 second remaining to kick the field goal. The Giants deserved to lose, but that was still bullshit.
Yeh well, if the Eagles weren’t Fumble Freddy central, they likely wouldn’t even have been in that situation.
Jesus it’s getting impossible to watch them fumble games away. They coulda beaten the Chiefs. Same last year. I think if they held on to the ball they would have made the playoffs.
The Giants need a running game.
An offensive line would help. Watching John Jerry and Erik Flowers week after week is taking years off my life.
Yes, their offensive line seems to be why they lack a running game. If they had a running game, they could run play action, get linebackers out of pass coverage, etc.
Research conducted at the Victoria University of Wellington showed that breasts are often the first thing men look at, and for a longer time than other body parts. The writers of the study speculated that the reason for this is due to endocrinology with larger breasts indicating higher levels of estrogen and a sign of greater fertility.*
*Dixson, BJ (et. al.) (February 2011). “Eye-tracking of men’s preferences for waist-to-hip ratio and breast size of women”. Archives of Sexual Behavior. International Academy of Sex Research. 40 (1): 43–50
http://archive.is/aF4H0
9 hot and goofy, 16 natural and nice smile.
36 on several levels.
1 looks the nicest.
21 nude in the bed with the beautiful freckles, winner
35 is the bunny boiler
I’m going with Slammer. Spot on. I’d add 24 to the bunny boiler category
21, 25, 31 for mw. Some real crazy eyes today.
Also, did anyone see that the lead author on that paper is named BJ Dixson? Heh heh heh.
34 looks like an anime character or something. Weird.
1,18,21,23
36 wins mightily. I’ve come back from my bunk at a record clip.
1 to place by a half-length. She should defrizz her hair, but I say God Damn.
4 on the left trots in comfortably to show. Looks like a nice girl. Would chat up. Would plow.
11 cause she’s already purple from the pounding Ima give her.
Couldn’t get past #1.. Will be in my bunk.
No shit
Watching the NFL self-destruct should serve as a reminder to everyone that no institution/corporation is untouchable. We had some discussions on here in the recent past about the seeming indestructibility of Google, Derpbook, Twitter and other monolithic, SJW-driven companies. Could you imagine seeing half-empty stadiums, ratings dropping by double digit percentages and sponsors bailing 10 years ago? The NFL was an invincible American institution! It had replaced baseball as the national pastime! The NFL (along with past examples like Sears, IBM, K-Mart etc.) should remind people that nothing is too big to fail and with a strong enough effort from incompetent management, anything can collapse. Hell, the Titanic was supposed to be unsinkable.
I just don’t understand why corporations think it’s a good idea to EVER pick sides. Especially frivolous ones with no real over all point. What starts off as some protest for ‘justice’ or something else usually just degenerates into ‘because Trump.’
It’s infantile stupidity.
People arguing that Google, Facebook and Twitter constitute monopolies or at least untouchable cultural icons make me laugh. In 2005 MySpace was the monolithic social network that was going to eat the internet. In 1995 AOL was destined to be the Ma Bell of the internet. Pets.com was going to be bigger than Amazon. There’s so many very recent examples of giants being toppled practically overnight in the tech sector. But yeah, Google and Twitter will be with us eternally.
This time it’s different!
Well, the big guys are pushing for government intervention in the internet, so this time it may be. Just get a net neutrality board packed with big-tech loyalists and they won’t be as vulnerable to competition as the giants they slew.
I can understand the NFL self destructing. I don’t understand where the moronic whines of “free speech” are coming from? Even the WSJ ran an editorial today saying Trump was hyperbolic for calling on the owners to fire these players.
In the real world, us lowly employees work for our employers. If I did anything to purposely alienate my company’s clients, I would be justifiably fired on the spot. Free speech means the government can’t lock me up for my speech. Where does this idea come from that free speech means I can intentionally sabotage my company and I’m protected from being fired for it?
It’s just silly. If they are talking about 2A, they are dead wrong. If they are simply talking about free speech as a standard where society accepts a variety of opinions without reprisal except for the truly odious, they are full o’ shit. Have they made that argument about the treatment college campuses, silicon valley tech firms etc before this weekend?
Even the WSJ ran an editorial today saying Trump was hyperbolic for calling on the owners to fire these players.
Doxxing and firing anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders in a public company is a-okay though.
NoNe are invincible. See Sears, Radioshack, Kmart, and, to a lesser extent, Microsoft.
“Republicans buy shoes, too.”
-Attributed to Michael Jordan
Jordan’s a great case study for this. Back when he was at his popularity peak, the talking heads of the day decided he wasn’t outpoken enough (Nike Asian labor policies, inner city youths allegedly gunned down for his shoes.) They wanted him following in the Muhammad Ali/Jim Brown/Arther Ashe vein. But since the media SJWs were just starting to dip their toes in the sports waters, they used the lie that they didn’t care which side he took, they just wanted him to take a stance. Jordan was way too smart to fall for that trap.
The first Bulls championship team went to George Bush’s White House, and Jordan & John Paxson were the two no-shows. Bush made a point of mentioning that Paxson was at a previously scheduled school anti-drug event, but said nothing about Jordan. When the media hounded Jordan for what he was doing instead, he didn’t say. When the story came out, it was simple, really–training camp started the following week (this was before champions planned their White House visit around a game in DC) and Jordan was just taking advantage of what was left of his time off to play more golf and probably drop big dollars to some gamblers. He’d already met George Bush before and didn’t really see the White House as a big deal. The media was searching for their Michael Jordan political protest talking point and were left holding empty pencils.
I’m hoping you P Brooksed that because I’d worry about you doing that to the Church Shooter link.
Now I did it. Hmmm. Supposed to be a response to creech.
IT’S SPREADING!
It’s thread failing all the way down!
Lakes of mercury and human sacrifices – after 1,800 years, Teotihuacan reveals its treasures
When archaeologists found a tunnel under Mexico’s ‘birthplace of the gods’, they could only dream of the riches they would discover. Now its wonders – from jewel-eyed figures to necklaces of human teeth – are being revealed to the world
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/sep/24/teotihuacan-pyramids-treasures-secret-de-young-museum-san-francisco
More workmanlike objects, such as obsidian tools and incense burners, help to elucidate the historic urban structures – including living areas differentiated according to ethnicity, employment and rank. Immigrant groups from across Mesoamerica occupied distinct neighbourhoods: in this way, the development of Teotihuacan resembled that of such modern cities as London or New York.
How was the traffic, I wonder
Noble pre-white culture, with racial segregation?
Nope. Fake news.
Not that I’m a fan of economic nationalism, but Bannon’s strategy would work with free markets too.
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/08/the-ominous-political-genius-of-steve-bannon/
State capitalism claims more victims!
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article174808061.html
Well wasn’t there a rule that in a crisis the prostitutes get bot hotter and cheaper? It is sad really, but I have difficulty feeling sorry for Venezuela overall, although I realize many of the affected people did not support Chavez or his policies. And I do feel sorry for them. But the world should learn a lesson. That is why I keep saying the US needs to stay the fuck put of Venezuela business lest economic warfare be blamed.
“The world should learn a lesson.”
Don’t hold your breath. We have fire breathing socialist right here that are completely unfazed by what happened down there even though they were cheering it on when it began with “Now you will finally see what real socialism looks like! We are going to show you this time!”
Yep.
Linda Sarsour, darling of the left, source of much hilarity
I’m pretty sure the North Koreans only line up for the firing squad after offending dear leader.
That’s not true. Sometimes they also line up (along with several generations of their family) to be forcibly repatriated to work camps for offending dear leader.
I thought they lined up for food like every other socialist nation.
Wow… that’s beyond stupid.
And the winning reply
*wild applause*
She seems to thrive on being an idiot. I bet she has at least a dozen fidget spinners.
I think fidget spinners are too complicated for her.
*Quietly sets down fidget spinner*
Least it’s not a torqbar. *walks away spinning a torqbar while chucking clouds yo*
Fidget spinners are the white people of adult toys.
Preach, Brother Sloopy.
What does that make the Rabbit?
Barry White
Annnnd it has the blue check mark. Wow.
Wow…..I can’t believe she’s smart enough to know to keep breathing. And the fuck does NoMuslimBanEver have to do with North Korea??
Because she’s saying that expanding the ban to NK and Venezuela is just cover so he can claim it’s not a Muslim ban. And also extending the ban to Venezuela is also proof of Trump’s war on latinos (latin@s? latinxs?)
So, maybe he should put a ban on Luxembourg and Iceland, just to be even-handed.
Ok. That’s makes sense. She’s trolling then.
Technically she’s correct though, the best kind of correct.
I’m also pretty sure her IQ must be below 70, making her technically retarded.
… and she talks like a fag.
What the hell is she talking about?
Don’t worry about it.
You’re only a victim class as long as you’re useful to the Left.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/09/civil-war-on-the-left-part-48-asian-supremacy.php
Why Mount Rushmore is the Weirdest Monument. I hate these guys that make me defend the state.
I’ve said it before, but I hate Mt. Rushmore because it attracts shit tons of idiots who prevent me from enjoying the Black Hills. If Mt. Rushmore wasn’t there, the Black Hills would get about as much traffic as the NoDak badlands around Medora. Not that much.
The road to the Petrified Forest in Medora is semi-shitty scoria (aka gravel) and ends in a dirt parking lot. Keeps all the touristas in their swagger wagons from cluttering up the place.
Even if Mt. Rushmore didn’t exist, there is still Sturgis. Nothing like the sound of a billion Harleys while fishing the Spearfish Canyon…
I love the Black Hills. One of the coolest places on Earth.
Sturgis might exist only because it was near Mt. Rushmore. I don’t know.
Here is a good picture of the roads in the Teddy Roosevelt National Grasslands. Nice and rustic.
Gorgeous.
Until it rains even a bit and then you get super snotty mud that is also super slippery.
Feminist group admits ‘pay gap’ is caused by women’s choices
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9827
In a recent article on the gender pay gap, AAUW Senior Researcher Kevin Miller concedes that the pay disparity between women and men isn’t caused primarily by discrimination, but rather by the personal and professional choices that women make.
So they had to get a man to do the research?
Rich liberals realizing these policies are hurting their sons, continues.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/campus-sexual-assault-policies-are-unfair-to-the-accused-this-case-shows-how/2017/08/16/2ab6781e-7de0-11e7-a669-b400c5c7e1cc_story.html?utm_term=.e5c577402536
KC Johnson’s been on this beat since the Duke Lacrosse case. He was screaming the unfairness of campus rape kangaroo courts before anyone else.
But back then, papers like the NYT were taking the other side.
“If you’re a woman or non-binary person, you’ve likely had the experience of suggesting something that has fallen on deaf ears. But, when the same idea is later expressed by a man, it’s heralded as brilliant. Now, there’s a word for that: Hepeated. What does “hepeated” mean? Hepeated just might be the new mansplaining, and it happens when a man repeats your ignored idea, and everyone thinks he’s a genius. Nicole Gugliucci, a social advocate and professor, took to Twitter to explain the term. “My friends coined a word: hepeated,” Gugliucci tweeted. “For when a woman suggests an idea and it’s ignored, but then a guy says same thing and everyone loves it.”
https://www.bustle.com/p/what-does-hepeated-mean-this-term-might-be-the-new-mansplaining-2437535
Stop. Coining.Goddam. Stupid. Words
And maybe Romania is different but does all this shit happen in the US like feminists say? I find it hard to believe an idea is ignored outright or accepted in a business setting just based on gender.
Seconded.
I’m not a good person to tell you. I work in a female-dominated profession and my ideas are always ignored. They are called “too radical” and “too based on fire as a solution.”
Bet when they come to you for spider disposal they’re all ears about your innovative office napalm solution.
Yes and no. In corporate America, cow orkers steal ideas if they’re good and they can get away with it. I’ve had it done to me a number of times and I don’t demand that I have a special word for it.
The issue is whether they can get away with it, but only rabid ideologues would cast it as a gender issue and give the issue a name.
It happens all the time. A project manager like me or an analyst suggests something and is ignored. A senior VP says the same thing and it’s brilliant. Personal plumbing has little to do with it.
I’ve learned to take great pleasure at seeing my suggestions and ideas implemented even though I ultimately get no credit for them. I consider this a sign of maturity!
It usually takes 3-5 years for my ideas to be implemented after the first versions fail miserably for ignoring them. The innovations are always credited to others, but I don’t care. Like Ronnie Raygun said, “There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.”
Nicoles are the worst.
Nicole’s are the white people of bad people.
Shepeated is when a terrible idea is repeated 50,000 times by the same woman on the assumption that the terrible idea was only rejected on account of her ovaries.
I’m stealing that.
Then she proceeds to femplain about it to her harpy internet friends.
Tangentially, it’s unbelievable to me that people so accustomed to the grim world of office politics, who are used to sussing out motives and malice among their colleagues, are nonetheless willing to take it as read that Kaepernick was being an honest broker in his performative art rather than a shameless cynical manipulator trying to hold on to his high-status gig. The social justice lens is like a reverse prism, the most obvious, blatant inputs go in one side and come out seeming muddled and equivocal.
Kaepernick’s reason for doing what he did is very simple, and likely the oldest reason in the world. He did it for a woman.
If you’re a woman or non-binary person, you’ve likely had the experience of suggesting something that has fallen on deaf ears. But, when the same idea is later expressed by a man, it’s heralded as brilliant.
At a meeting a couple of weeks ago, I said something and it just kind of went into the swirl of the discussion. About 15 – 20 minutes later, one of the women (our CNO) said pretty much the same thing, and it went up onto the list of things to follow up on.
I made a joke out of it, and before the end of the meeting everyone was having the CNO repeat their ideas.
Am I doin’ it wrong? Should I have curled up on the floor sobbing?
No, you should have gone out and picked up a box. Then go to the desert and catch a rattlesnake, put the snake into the box, and FEDEX the box to her office.
We’ve got a good bunch here. Everybody had a laugh and played along. And, like Sug, I’m in a chick-dominated industry. I’m sure there was a time, and there are probably a few places, where da wimminz don’t get a fair hearing.
But like most of this “discrimination” and “oppression”, its pure confirmation bias. Bad shit happens to everyone. If you insist on seeing every single bad thing that happens to you as discrimination and oppression, well, that’s how you’ll process it.
Or you could open your fucking eyes and see that, yep, bad shit happens to everyone for a lot of reasons.
If somebody steals an idea doesn’t it validates the idea has merit? That’s how I view it anyway.
(**disclaimer: technically ‘the same thing’, but usually far more clearly and without involving pointless personal anecdotes; but i mean, still… seriously, fuck them, ugh!)
The Pointman has gone to a very, very dark place.
ABOUT CORRECTLY PLACING A SINGLE BULLET INTO A CERTAIN SPACE AT A CERTAIN TIME IN THE FUTURE.
After a long discourse on the art of sniping in warfare..
Threatening Pointman is probably not the best idea.
I still think the Navy SEAL copypasta is better
u wot m8
Well, he’s got the villainous expository down. Wall of text and all.
And drink better wine already. Serving something like Willi Schaefer Graacher Domprobst Spätlese ice cold is a culinary crime.
Yeah, I read that and thought “And then he’s gonna tell us he washes it down with a couple bottles of natty boh.”
I read part of that—couldn’t make it through the whole thing—and kept thinking of Tuco’s bathtub scene in, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: “When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.”
there’s a message in there for some fool.
Also, did it sound to anyone else like all the Klingons had a lisp?
SJ;DW
*nods and claps*
I have seen every episode of every Star Trek TV show and every movie ever made in the Star Trek Universe and I had no clue what the fuck was going on in that first episode of Star Trek: Discovery last night
Haha. Continuity is for chumps.
Merkel wins in German elections but her party has worst result since WWII. A “far-right” party took 13% of the vote and will now be the third-largest party in the German lower House of Representin.
From the article:
The problem with making this remark to try to tamp down nationalist fervor is that Merkel herself has been indulging in “experiments” of what some would characterize as being of an anti-nationalist nature.
The most interesting thing about the election results is that the SPD, her party’s main rival but also its ally in the last congress’s “grand coalition”, has ruled out joining the government for another coalition. So the CDU will have to seek new allies (probably FDP) to form a government, so it will be interesting to see how their policies adjust given the new reality.
By being “with” CDU in the last government, SPD lost support this time around. At least it’s a logical reaction to a loss of support.
Merkel ain’t no Thatcher.
You know, people like to give Merkel a lot of shit for importing all the muslims but I have to wonder if there is not some logic to it that people are not thinking about…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_age
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/17/fertility-rate-germany-rises-33-year-high-births-children-population
When your country has a median age of almost 47 years old and has had a birth rate of 1.5 per woman or less for 35 straight years you desperately NEED immigrants to have any hope of sustaining your economy
Mormons would have been preferable
The problem is that idiots like Merkel think they can replace the chattel with these immigrants they don’t assimilate, while they stay on top. Reality is that these people, especially when they see they are not wanted there for any other reasons than that the socialist machine needs bodies to keep it alive, sooner than later will also turn on people like Merkel. The masters see the plebes as interchangeable, and a means to make sure they keep their status and their position. As was already pointed out before, the first European muslim state will come about through a democratic vote, and after that, that state is gone.
Even if the demographic issue were a problem (A brief population subsidance will correct itself in a few generations), Importing third world welfare sponges will not do anything to improve any of the problems they usually bring up in association with a low birth rate.
The problem is that for about 30 years, the Germans have been importing cheap Turkish labor, and after a while, the natives got used to the idea that those brown/olive-skinned people are fungible. Secular Turks drove significant parts of the German low-income economy and when the supply softened, there was a natural temptation to pick another source.
The replacement sources were different. “Modern Turks” != ‘those nice Turks you used to be able to get” AND “a brown-olive person from the area” != “Turks”.
I’ll apologize for seeming all racists-y on the topic, but that’s one of the bases of the problem – the expectation that the under-stairs staff will always be as willing, tractable and compliant as they always were, and when they were older and wanted to settle down, that they’d repatriate, despite the social largesse available to residents of Germany.
Germans want to have it all ways though. Fact is that lots of those Turks did assimilate and were still treated like second class citizens for decades.
They still are even today..
Don’t let the talking points fool you into believing otherwise. Those Euros are some of the worst racists you could think of.
When your country has a median age of almost 47 years old and has had a birth rate of 1.5 per woman or less for 35 straight years you desperately NEED immigrants to have any hope of sustaining your economy
Or you could take the Japan route and build robots instead of importing people (but that has its own set of problems, potentially even worse if sci-fi has taught us anything).
You do raise a good point, that they need more working age people and that immigration is one path to get this. The problem, as I see it, is that Germany has decided that the welfare state should also provide for the immigrants, which sort of undercuts the whole purpose of using immigration to bolster the workforce. Germany also seems to have done a poor job in screening their recent immigrants, and if you don’t screen to make sure you are only importing people who will provide positively to your country then it seems that immigration may be counterproductive.
This whole “Sustaining the economy” canard is absurd as calling “Income inequality” a problem – let the economy contract to fit the size of the population. Anything else is futile social engineering doomed to catastrophe.
In truth, “sustaining the economy” is really a euphemism for “sustaining the government”, hence my comment about them being counterproductive when they offer welfare to the immigrants. The only reason an economy needs to be sustained when the population is contracting is if it needs to support something that isn’t contracting, such as welfare or military obligations. Otherwise the only concern would be per capita economic strength, not total economic strength.
This. Something like 1/3rd of all Germans are past retirement age already. By 2050 that will be up to 40%, and that is with current immigration levels. Throw in the rest who are collecting benefits and you are looking at something like 60% of the population today not working and by 2050 it will be somewhere near 75%.
If they don’t bring the immigrants in that economy totally collapses within most of our lifetimes.
Sure they might be picking the wrong immigrants but I suspect there is an element just needing bodies behind it more than any real devotion to Muslim welfare.
“Retirement age” is an artificial construct like the minimum wage.
It is when the person is financially able to retire and chooses to do so.
The fact that the German government makes handouts at a certain age is merely a distortion.
In good news today Perlick is a solid company that’s standing behind their product. I’m one of the ones who got their 525SS faucets, which over time started developing leaking issues. I’ve had my faucets for almost 4.5 years, and two of them have started the leaks. I contacted them to see if they had any tips for repairing them or rebuilding them, and instead they offered to replace them both with the newest model, at their expense. They’re on the good list now, if you’re getting faucets, get Perlicks.
On the other hand, if you’re buying home appliances, fuck Frigidaire/Electrolux, the handle on my fridge broke. Snapped off right near the top 90 degree bend, which appears to have been common for several models of their fridges. I contacted them, and they sell replacement handles… note the pluralization there. The fridge handle is only sold in a set which also contains a freezer handle. Yeah… because it’s common for both handles to break at the same time.
Damn, I was hoping they made a bathroom fixture.
A beer tap in the bathroom is the height of style.
I was just thinking about that.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD
Classy!
Only if you want it in Stainless Steel. And can sell sinks for being put under a bar as a bathroom fixture. Although I have been contemplating different ways to replace the standard handles on a sink with tap handles for the basement bathroom.
The one in my power room is leaking and since AZ has hard water often needs to be scrubbed of lime scale. Its annoying enough to spend $100 on a new fixture. Can’t be too creative in that room.
The blathering about Trump being “divisive” is amusing to me, because it fails to acknowledge that Trump is the symptom of division, not its cause.
Hey, if it weren’t for Trump and his deplorable racist Nazi supporters, we’d be totally united!
Under the most qualified unqualified vagina having demented old hag evah?
When is the narrative about “how Bernie Sanders allowed himself to be the tool of Evil Trump” going to start?
Nice, I will use that.
“Swedish women get hotline to report mansplaining
Mansplaining is when ‘a man explains something to a woman without being asked, particularly something which she might already know more about than him’
Women who have things mansplained to them in the workplace can now report it to a dedicated hotline.
Unionen, Sweden’s largest union, is encouraging members to call up when male colleagues give them unsolicited lectures on things they already understand.
The organisation, which represents 600,000 private sector workers, launched the advice line on Monday and said it will be open from 10am to 4pm everyday for a week as part of a campaign to highlight and stamp out the insidious and damaging practice.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sweden-mansplaining-hotline-woman-get-to-report-patronising-male-colleagues-a7418491.html
That’ll distract them while they’re being gang raped, I guess.
Please tell me that all the hotline operators are men.
Also have a super confusing decision tree when they dial in. Then no matter what the guy they get needs to s-l-o-w-l-y explain to them: “I’m sorry honey, but you want department X for that complaint, this is department Y. You need to hang up and dial back. Then you press 1 for mansplaining, then 2 for inadvertent, the 4 for being mansplained by a superior then 6 for perp was white then 2 for time was in the am and then 3 for sports topics ” etc.
Not only men, but ones of a no-shit, actual patriarchal variety in a call center in Pakistan.
Funny ad on TV lately: Cool funky music heavy on the drums starts playing over scenes of several women in their prime, one jogging , one in an office, one tending small children. Narrator, a woman, starts with how women do all this important stuff and how do they do it?
“We eat. We eat this, we eat that, we eat chocolate. We own it.”
No shit honey. I keep waiting for a Weight Watchers ad to follow that one.
Counter-ad showing men in various labor-intensive and stressful jobs, still playing father at home and getting pestered by their wives. Men do all this important stuff: how do they do it?
“We drink.”
Ok, I laughed my ass off at that.
Bizarre. Not to mention impractical. How are you supposed to know how much a woman (or anybody) knows about something ahead of time?
“Hey, if the reactor starts to melt down, push that red button.”
Female one didn’t know that – you just saved Swedish Springfield.
Female two already knew that – you just got reported.
Sticking things in Lady Gaga’s butt:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4916618/Lady-Gaga-gets-injection-bum-chronic-pain.html
Dear bog, that’s a homely woman.
Still, a testament to the transformative power of modern cosmetics.
I’m not famously known for defending pop stars, but I’ve got a ton of respect for Lady Gaga. She does all her own shit, she doesn’t use AutoTune, and she’s a Jersey girl who marketed herself into global fame and unbelievable wealth. And she seems to be a pretty decent person to boot.
She’s a Jersey shore sorority girl with average looks, but I think her shtick is kind of, “I’m regular people, and through hard work and determination I made it, and that means everybody else can, too,” so that might very well be the point of the whole thing.
Same here. I’m very impressed by what she’s accomplished. She’s a legit songwriter, too.
Agreed, she also has a good voice too.
I saw a live performance recorded for HBO and was thoroughly impressed. She has real talent.
Another +1 to liking GaGa. Can’t think of many other pop doyennes who’d have the stones to tour with Tony Bennett and sing jazz standards.
I’d spring for a ticket the next time she’s in town.
Uber-rich celebrity wants you to understand their pain.
Bears-Packers on Thursday. I’m pumped.
And I figure if I show up after kickoff I’ll be spared whatever theatrics either team gets up to before the game. It’s all tedious melodrama by fad-chasing self-promoters. Fuck literally everyone involved.
My only complaint is Cutler’s no longer with the Bears. This made me smile, though:
Cutler’s greatest picks. Mostly funny for the audio matchup.
Stolen.
Tried a variation on the OMWC shakshuka recipe early last week, except I used a lot more harissa. Thumbs up to eggs poached in garlicky salsa. I’ll probably introduce tart white cheese into the mix next time I make it.
If you want some real fun, add a few dashes of smoked red savina near the end of cooking.
Also, SP assures me that this would be improved with some hot New Mexico chiles. Of course, she wouldn’t eat it anyway because of her insistence that eggs be cooked to something beyond a 7 on the Mohs scale.
Thanks for the tip. I love eggs, super versatile and inexpensive source of nutrition. I love me a nice runny or partially cooked yolk, especially in good Japanese ramen.
And actually, I might as well note what I used in terms of the veg: 4 farm stand tomatoes, super ripe (bonus on the 50% cost discount due to them being cosmetically ugly – who gives a fuck???), 1 succulent red bell pepper, a small shallot, half a poblano w/ lots of membrane, lots more hot Hungarian paprika than indicated by your recipe, and something like 3x the harissa prescribed. Used a whole tin of Tunisian harissa. I’m likely to
…keep playing with this dish and enter it in to the rotation with a similar frequency as my never-recipe Doro Wat. My wife got this dejected look when she asked where the animal flesh component of our dinner was and when it was going to be served. Hehe.
My naa 22lr mini revolver holds 5 shots and is smaller.
With an MSRP of 226
^^^
This cuz i’m cheap.
How do you like shooting that thing?
Thanks for the tip…it made me aware of the cylinder. So no bleeding thumb for me. I liked it a lot. It shot pretty good from 5 yards and ok at 7. My fat hand kinda swallows up the sights and this is a last resort close quarters anyway. Fits in my pocket perfectly so overall I’m happy. The amount of gun powder left on my hand after shooting was impressive too…looked like I was shooting black powder gun.
Ha. Good. Despite the one flaw the machining, fit, finish etc it really is a great little gun. A work of art really. I dont take mine out for weekend plinking, but I aint gonna sell it either.
Wow. That thing looks keychain size.
My mother’s 72 year old best friend carries this in her purse. Probably won’t kill unless you’ve got great shot placement, but will definitely make any scumbag think twice.
1 to the dome has killed more living beings than we probably realize.
My stepfather had one. He used it to slaughter hogs and cattle. One shot would pass through the skin, cranial plate, brain, then out through the parietal plate. Sometimes it would pass all the way through, sometimes stick just under the skin. So half inch of skin, over an inch of bone, four inches of brain. Of course that is at point blank range.
It is amazing how much momentum a small piece of lead can have even at such low velocity.
Yeah knew a hog butcher and that’s all he ever used…a cheap 22lr.
Carlos Danger sentenced to 21 months in prison in teen sexting case
As Bo Dietl says in Goodfellas, “Heh heh heh….bye bye, asshole”
Eligible for parole in now long, I wonder.
So did he get permanent sex offender status, or is he somehow exempt from that little requirement?
He would deserve it, so probably not.
Oh, Carlos Danger. Still makes me laugh.
May you do every day of your time.
I see he’s employing the old politician stand-by “I have an addiction” bullshit.
“Yeah, we know. You can’t control yourself. That’s why we’re locking you up.”
Fucking Fredo Corleone of the democratic party got off easy..
So, he’ll be in jail for a month or so, if at all.
Additional sportsball update:
My alma mater (University of Colorado) lead Washington 10-7 at the end of the first quarter and then collapsed like a house of cards and got stomped, something like 37-10.
I was cleaning my apartment, so I didn’t watch the slaughter, but just reading the score was depressing.
Has
Gilmored the correction
I was at the game (my alma mater too). They collapsed at the end of the third on a pick-six. It hasn’t rained appreciably around here for months, and then the weekend of the conference opener Washington brings their shitty weather to town.
Ugh. What a CU way to fuck it up. I hope this can put some spine back in the team, because last season showed some real promise and I don’t want to watch us slide back into mediocrity.
Sitting down to lunch and the restaurant had ESPN on. The ranting is absurd.
MSESPN.
Get yourself a Colt AR for 600 bucks! Stupendous! Amazing!
https://www.cdnnsports.com/colt-expanse-m4-5-56.html#.Wckhuopry8U
That’s cool, but…its a Colt.
12 pints of eggnog, sittin in the fridge!
Maybe if the temperature wasn’t still pushing 90. I should not need to use an air conditioner this late in the year. I’m hoping we get some fall temperatures soon.
Sing it! It was nice and cool for about a week in early Sept, now it’s back to 90 motherfuckin degrees.
Yikes, that recipe gave me diabetuus just looking at it Kristen!
It is worth every calorie and every granule of sugar. Especially when it’s full of Maker’s Mark, Hennesey, and Myers’s.
What on earth are you going to do with 12 pints of that stuff? I have one glass per year and toss the solidified carton out the next year to make room for a new one.
Giveaways…I will probably drink about 1/2 a pint.
This is why we don’t need a word for shepeating. Because we’ve known about it since time immemorial: we call it nagging.
I’m having some neighbor issues. A new owner has come and is building a fancy lincoln log home. Good for him/them. Have at it. Unfortunately, his contractor and the imbecile making deliveries with a truck utterly unsuitable for the road (an enormous semi flatbed!) and conditions have apparently decided my property is a good place to have an off road truck rodeo, and have been doing turnarounds out in the fragile native flora. I am an angry angry man. Multiple irate conversations with the property owner have ensued. Also reports to the sheriffs dept.
I am spending entirely too much time and mental energy frothing incoherently about this state of affairs, but it’s what I do. It just occurred to me a while ago that my 30 second business case study analysis boils down to this: He’s paying these people a lot of money to make him look stupid.
I’ll tell him that. I’m sure he’ll appreciate it.
If the owner doesn’t understand that his contractor can’t use your property as a truck turnaround without permission, then you’re probably going to have issues down the road as well.
You could always put some instant tire deflation devices in the dirt.
^this
Caltrops worked for the Romans.
Remember – hollow tube spikes deflate the tires faster than solid spikes.
Is there any equipment or spare material (razor wire comes to mind) that you could temporarily store in that area to dissuade the idiot driver from using your land as a turnabout?
Go easy on the driver. It’s probably not his fault. Get ahold of the dispatcher and/or the broker (if there is one).
Step (1) Quick and dirty symbolic fence – some T-posts and wire, or even just tape, with a no trespassing sign. If you want to store something bad for tires on your property, put it right behind the fence.
Step (2) Call the sheriff and file an formal trespassing complaint.
Step (3) Get an estimate on restoring your damaged property, and send it to him. If you’ve got a lawyer friend, have him send it to your neighbor.
We’ve had some rain lately. If they’re leaving ruts in the mud I think you can shoot them on sight.
We had a local fruit farmer come through and widen his tractor road – cutting a few feet into the acreage that I own with my dad. We went out with tall metal fencing/stakes, drove them deep into the ground and painted them orange on top. And then went to complain.
The thing about watching sports and being a fan is, its basically just a habit. And like most habits, once you break it, you don’t miss it. I used to follow pro and college basketball and the local MLB team. Then I just sort of stopped, and never missed it, and have zero desire to start up.
Incredibly, Mrs. Dean (a lifelong Packer fan and “shareholder”) was grousing about it, and started asking about those incredibly entertaining rugby games we occasionally catch on TV (we understand zero about rugby). When the NFL is losing Mrs. Dean, its got a very serious problem.
And you gotta love NASCAR standing up and saying they won’t tolerate it. When a bunch of rednecks are making you look like a fool around customer engagement and brand management . . . .
I used to assume it was all just trend-chasing market decisions on the execs’ part. How else to explain why they’re willing to trash their brand to attract a younger demographic? But given the reaction and deteriorating viewership, I have to wonder whether they’re not true believers after all.
The thing is, any honest market research shows that SocJus isn’t even that popular – it’s just loud and intrusive. Burning down your brand for it turns you into the print division of marvel – sales runs a fifth of the post-collapse numbers that were signs of industrial doom two decades ago.
Try this. Ratings are dropping for cable tv across the board, not just sports. Further, a la carte pricing is starting to rear its ugly head. Sports networks have a tremendous amount of airtime to fill, and their best rated, non-big-3-athletics shows are ones where either there’s a screaming match back and forth or there’s some controversy. Add it all up, and it’s not inconceivable that some suit figured that trumping up controversy would be a way to keep ratings inflated for, e.g., ESPN’s programming. And other news orgs under their umbrella.
While you will counter, successfully, that fostering such controversy pisses off the fan base of those sports, and any ratings increase is going to only be a brief blip before the sport’s extinction, I’d say that when has corporate America in the last ten years or so given a shit about long term success of their enterprises? Long term being anything after quarterly earnings reports.
Professional sports has a giant problem. The money is not totally going away, but it is going to shrink one hell of a lot.
Mrs. trshmnstr was in a similarly grousy mood. Not only was her NFL coverage tainted by anthem bullshit, but the Today show was breathlessly covering it this morning.
Football used to be a day-long ordeal for us. Now we just catch bits and pieces when we’re not doing something else.
I don’t think NASCAR had a choice – they’ve been driving away their fans for other reasons for too long. Really don’t need to accelerate that trend.
I used to be an avid Red Wings fan – watched all their games or caught ’em on the radio – until the last lockout. Add in the retirement of Yzerman and my interest plummeted after that. Now I don’t care very much until the playoffs.
There’s plenty of rugby on youtube, boyo.
You could always put some instant tire deflation devices in the dirt.
I have already considered that. “Oh, I tossed that nail-studded lumber over there, because I thought it would be out of the way. It never occurred to me somebody might run over it.”
You dont have to explain yourself. It’s your property. Get some flagging tape and tape off the property line. No point in arguing with the neighbor. Just assure him that if they fuck up your yard you will have a landscaper repair it and the court will send him the bill.
Make sure you have photos of the trucks actually using your property and photos of the damage.
My dad built his own company and currently serves as chairman of the board of a major company (no college degree, btw…. school of hard knocks for my Pops). We were talking yesterday, and he said “Didn’t they teach you in college that you never mix politics with business?”. I was an econ major, not a business major, so I didn’t take any marketing classes, so I’d be interested to hear from biz major glibs on this one.
I just think the leftist bubble is so big now that people can get high paying jobs without ever having to leave the bubble, so their millions they bring in is all some false validation of their leftist beliefs. Like, we have a class of millionaire leftists in this country. I don’t mean democrats that liked throwing welfare breadcrumbs at the unwashed masses in order to make them feel good about themselves. I mean real intersectionality studying, Che loving, Marx quoting leftists. And they pay each others’ companies for each others’ services. Never have to go outside their bubble for business. Virtue-signaling companies take their marketing advice from some consulting firm in Palo Alto, and then buy an ad with CBS, who pays the NFL for the right to broadcasts their games and their customers’ ads during commercial breaks. There are entire companies and lines of decision makers how have gotten wealthy without ever having to leave the leftists bubble, and they somehow believe this validates them. It didn’t used to be this way. It used to be that you had to work your ass off to get along with all different kinds of people from all walks of life and all different political opinions in order to grow sales and thus grow into a large company. And “no politics in business” was part and parcel of that.
I mean, this can’t last, can it? At some point, companies that are making all of their decisions within the leftist bubble are going to start losing sales, right?
I was going to type something upbeat and optimistic and my polygraph blew up.
Sorry. I got nuttin’.
No, it cant last. They are just passing money around between themselves. They aren’t creating any wealth. The majority of them are living off of infusions of capital in the form of government subsidies…exactly what Trump is trying to put a stop to. Why do you think they are kicking and screaming so much about him?
I am confident he will be re-elected but I dont know if 8 years is enough time for him to pop that bubble. We will need another president with a similar mindset to follow. Of course the more he pokes holes in their bubble the more frantic they will get and the more the people paying the bills will see them for what they are, so who knows?
Ultimately it comes down to us. We cant put faith in a savior.
The thing about watching sports and being a fan is, its basically just a habit. And like most habits, once you break it, you don’t miss it. I used to follow pro and college basketball and the local MLB team. Then I just sort of stopped, and never missed it, and have zero desire to start up.
Exactly. I quit watching football for at least ten years. I only resumed because of my (now ex-) girlfriend. After that “unsportsmanlike” call in the Denver game, and the interminable fame-by-frame scrutiny of plays with no real substantive impact on the ultimate result of a game other than to disrupt the flow and momentum, I’ve got one foot out the door.
As for the anthem stuff, I could not be less indifferent. Stand, don’t stand, stay in the locker room and jack off, whatever you want.
The NFL mostly lost me because it just isn’t compelling to me anymore. My home team is owned by the scum of the earth, and the whole NFL package just seems like so much fluff and idiocy around a game that’s not that great. College ball is more interesting.
I don’t care about the anthem stuff either, although I can totally understand why it’s such bad optics. I guess I’m just thinking, “Shut up and play the game” more than anything else. I’m not watching this to hear people sing or watch jets fly over or people wave a big flag on the field. Play football or fuck off.
My local news channel played that Von Miller unsportsmanlike penalty move a hundred times last night. It looked like both Miller and Tyrod Taylor (Bills quarterback and supposed victim of the unsportsmanlike behavior) had a good laugh at Miller’s move.
When people look back on it, I think the subjectively enforced penalties will stand out on the list of reasons the NFL died.
Make sure you have photos of the trucks actually using your property and photos of the damage.
That’s a problem. The first time, I was so astounded I did not have the presence of mind to grab my phone and shoot pics. The second time, I was not there. All I have is pics of tracks.
Game camera will do the trick. They’re relatively inexpensive. Put some tape up so they have to break it to cross onto your property.
Go easy on the driver. It’s probably not his fault.
Fuck that. If he’s too stupid to discern the obvious difference between a road and open unmolested native grassland, he shouldn’t be licensed to ride a goddam bicycle, much less drive an over the road behemoth. He’s too lazy and incompetent to back the fucking truck up and any sensible boss would fire the son of a bitch.
It is the driver’s fault. Have you ever worked with those guys? They come in three types: 1) hard working, conscientious who would never do that. 2) relatively hard working but doesnt give a shit about anything, would do that without giving it a second thought 3) slacker who goes through a few motions and then sneaks off to hide while 1 and 2 do the work.
Number 2 is fucking up your yard.
Scruffy is right. Get a game camera.
This is 100% on the driver and the broker who hired him. The new neighbor is completely out of the loop. Whoever sold him the home kit contracted someone to deliver it. That contractor put the truck driver in the road. And they are required to be insured against property damage their drivers may cause.
You need to find out who is driving and you need to call the police and file a “failure to remain at scene of accident/property damage” complaint against the driver. That will at a minimum generate a police report and you can use that to file an insurance claim against them.
Its a great idea. And, when you get this squared away, you have a game camera. If you have any interesting wildlife around (for me, its deer, bobcats, javelina, mountain lions, coyotes, and chupacabra), they are hella fun.
Gilmored the reply to Suthen on Scruff’s excellent suggestion.
You need to find out who is driving and you need to call the police and file a “failure to remain at scene of accident/property damage” complaint against the driver. That will at a minimum generate a police report and you can use that to file an insurance claim against them.
This is useful. Thanks, Sloop!
Not that the other replies and suggestions weren’t *also* useful.
Thanks, everybody! Feel free to imagine that in Doctor Nick’s voice.