Wednesday. Hump Day. Three and a half hours of meetings down. Three to go. And then I can do my real work. I’m starting to sound like management. Hopefully, they’ll soon figure out I have no people skills! And now… The Links
Washington Post now frantically spinning that Trump didn’t see the real, desperate Puerto Rico! They just took him to the rich parts where food was being delivered! May every Glib be lucky enough to be opposed solely by incompetent morons.
Its National Taco Day, and at least locally, one chain was offering free Uber Eats delivery. Which, still a ripoff, but less of one. I just ate leftover pork tacos with onions, cheese and salsa — because I already ate all the pico de gallo.
In sporting news, I found the crew I want to party with at Disney. Alternate headline, “People who won’t be featured in ‘I’m Going to Disneyworld!’ commercials”
When the Prince of Heaven removes his Mandate, things go badly for leaders.
Sloopy wants a white boys funk fight? Bring it.
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Nobody bit on this in the Morning Lynx.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1u75hh/i_am_the_guy_with_two_penises_ama/
Double Dick Guy’s AMA was probably the best thing ever to happen on Reddit.
“So when you masturbate, how do you control the mouse?”
Made me snort pop out my nose.
I remember that. It was the day I realized that God didn’t love me enough to give me two penises.
Everyone wants to be two-penis guy till hydrapenis guy steals the scene.
He can satisfy a whole female soccer team simultaneously.
Sadly, it gives Hope Solo more to aim for.
The half who aren’t lesbians.
Isn’t Hydrapenis the arch enemy of Nikita Fury? I don’t keep up much with comic nerds, so I might be wrong.
He hated me enough to give me 3 of them.
This reminds of a film a saw several years ago. “Amazing Penetrations 2” I believe it was called.
Would you say it was easy to follow for anyone that hasn’t seen the original?
I’m glad you’re doing your part to support the cinema.
Fail for not beginning his story with “And now, for something completely different – a man with two penises.”
This reminds me a lot of a Philip Jose Farmer story called “J. C. On the Dude Ranch.” Not as gay as it sounds, despite involving a guy with two penises, anal sex, and a “Dude Ranch.” I must have been 11 or 12 when I read it, and I was scarred by the image of Satan, as a black-clad cowboy, using his electrically charged pair of penises to single-handed lay DP a woman (best autocorrect recently so leaving it.) But scarred in a good way.
I had no idea it was a real thing though. The doublemint jingle from the 70s is stuck in my head now.
That sounds very PJF. I really need to read more from him.
It’s collected in “Riverworld And Other Stories,” IIRC.
Sounds more like SugarFree.
Well I imagine even Sugarfree could learn a lesson or two in perversity from late PJF. Kind of amazing he was published, but his late period was in the 70s, and it was a weird decade.
I only discovered him in the 80s “Daybreak” series – not as outre but still fun. And prolly the first time I encounted gay characters in sci-fi.
Piers Anthony’s early period was very interesting too. Look up “In the Barn” some time.
“National Taco Day”
Does that include the pink kind?
“That smells like you left that salmon out in the sun”
Tuna taco round the bend I think I’ll take the bus instEd.
I’d be happy to party with Alex Morgan under any circumstances.
Wish I could think of some clever soccer-related double entendre, but yeah agree completely.
“I’d give her a perfect service in the box”
“I’d like to give her a hat trick”
“Route 1 play up the middle to the goal”
“Deliberate ball-handling resulting in ejection”
“I’d like to show her a dangerous play”
“She plays box to box”
“Penetrating straight to the spot resulting in a goal”
“Kisses the post before scoring”
Whatever, girl can’t play defense cause I was dribbling all over until I was in range and shot my ball right into her goal
She can put her head on my balls anytime.
That’s not even a euphemism.
“I’d mow that pitch”
I’ll wait until after she serves her red card.
I would like to put my penis in her vagina, if you know what I mean.
Alex is a precious angel. You don’t touch her! Also, Ashlyn Harris used to be the hot one, then she chopped her hair.
Julie Johnston. That is all.
The Red Stars are playing The Courage Sunday for their ticket to the championship. I hope they win so I can get a closer look.
DO all of the teams have ridiculous names like that?
Yes. Go Pride!
Well, Boston Breakers is pretty cool, I guess.
I also like Brook Elby. She is cute, but vicious.
I met her husband about two weeks ago. I was going to deck out of jealously then realized he’s freakin’ HUGE. And actually really cool.
“Her’ = Julie Johnston.
Professional tight ends tend to be that way.
Her husband’s the starting tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Yeah, Ertz was hanging out with Chris Long, who saw my daughter’s U.Va T-shirt which got him to come over and talk to her (she’s 8). Really great evening and my daughter loves the Eagles now.
Your daughter’s an Eagles fan? My condolences. Paternity tests, hot pants, and batteries to throw at the Cowboys aren’t cheap.
They throw their hot pants at the Cowboys?
Yeah, she’s in for a lifetime of disappointment, profanity and violence. It’s really Chris Long’s fault
When I was her age, I remember rooting for Randal Cunningham, Reggie White, and Jerome Brown 🙁
I’m sure that was a misunderstanding. The officer thought she had a speech impediment and was trying to say “swat”. No. She said “Orlando Twat Team” and she meant it.
I’d plow her field.
(Am I doing this right?)
You’d use that one on a farm girl, but C for effort.
Our hero, bacon-magic, walked up to the beautiful lass and offered to plow her fields. “Oh gracious, thank you, sir!” she said, her bosom heaved in a way that threatened remove what little blood still flowed from bacon’s brain. “It’s been sooooo looong since my fields have been plowed and I need a big, strong man to take care of my fields,” she practically moaned and bacon nearly fainted. “Ever since my father and brother were killed, my fields have lain mostly fallow, in need of the attentions of one as brawny as you.” Bacon realized something was not right, but he followed her anyway she strode toward the barn. Too late, he realized his mistake; from the barn he could see a vast acreage, which had been untended for at least three years and a team of withered oxen already yoked to a plow. “Good luck then,” she said in a clipped tone as she tossed him the whip.
Bacon then preceded to whip the deceitful hoe. *not the farm implement*
preceded
Is it morally correct to beat a ho before she has deceived you even if you have foreknowledge that she will deceive you?
She wants it.
*closes 50 shades of grey book*
*rips cover off 50 Shades and finds THE FOUNTAINHEAD*
And Rand could’ve gotten away with it too if it weren’t for that pesky bacon.
Was this beautiful lass muslim or something? No one else could resist the magical wonder that is bacon.
So what are Jews- chopped liver to you now?
The TMZ Disney link is just a black page. Probably my phone not playing well with the website.
Black Pages Matter.
*slow clap*
its probably for the best
obligatory
William & Mary students shut down speech by oppressive, violent white supremacist organization, the …. **squints to read** ACLU?
http://flathatnews.com/2017/10/02/black-lives-matter-protests-american-civil-liberties-union/
Is that real? If so, such sweet, sweet schadenfreude.
Yep. Soave talked about it on Reason.
Aren’t you supposed to take power BEFORE you start eating your own?
Seems like a fine exercise of power to me! Now ACLU learned who runs
BarterUniversitytown.They think they already have the power. On campus, they probably aren’t wrong.
Also, from Twitter, a progressive agrees with the Reason article. One of his followers isn’t having it.
https://twitter.com/GeekyPoliWonk/status/915653057823653888
Reason.
“Extreme conservative right wing”
wtf
Everyone’s an ErMahGerdNazi these days!
ENB probably agrees with this description
Anyone to the right of Stalin.
I learned just last month that Stalin IS right wing.
CEO of State Capitalism Inc.
State capitalism etc. etc.
Man. All of that work for nothing. They’re still out of the cocktail circuit.
Obama was “center-right,” don’cha know?
Two things:
1)Zack Beauchamp is a drooling imbecile, so it’s not surprising that Soave is buddy-buddy with him who Beauchamp, you may remember, is the Vox writer who thought there was a bridge connecting Gaza to the West Bank.
2)The ACLU deserves whatever it gets given the way it has fashioned itself into nothing more than yet another leftist agitprop outfit.
Completely forgot about that re: Beauchamp.
posting misleading news on a variety of subjects
I mean, yeah, but they’re just parroting what the rest of the media is saying.
Does anybody else think this is the funniest thing they’ve read in a long time?
It’s hilarious and frightening at the same time.
chants* “We’re against rights! We’re against rights! We’re against rights”
Lurv it. Can’t be parodied at this point.
It tells me everything I need to know about William and Mary and the protesters.
How did I not hear about this before? I live down the damn street.
I’m not surprised. After Charlottesville, only President Trump and the ACLU publicly defended the right of white supremacists to demonstrate.
If you actually asked them to take the microphone and explain what exactly either of those phrases actually means it would become apparent in about 5 seconds that they have no idea what the fuck “liberalism” really is, or be able to actually identify how it is reflected in the constitution.
BLM and its style of rhetoric is a natural byproduct of our educational system, which has pretty much destroyed kids ability to make rational arguments, and rewards pathetic appeals.
Yes, agree. Wasn’t there some video a few years ago where a debate team consisting entirely of African-American females won some big competition, but hadn’t followed any of the debate rules? The just shouted down their opponents at each round. Anyone else remember something like this?
Great minds….
Glad someone else knows what I’m talking about. My reaction was the same as yours after I saw that video, i.e. ‘we’re doomed, its only a matter of time’.
Eh, I don’t know about that. Yes, it’s an encumbrance and certainly doesn’t reflect well on the wider society, but considering where most of this is coming from–people already doomed to mediocrity by their horrendous public schools–it’s not like it nets us a huge loss. Mostly a wash, I’d say. And the more they agitate, the more unacceptable it becomes for anyone who isn’t functionally braindead
There’s a lot of ruin in a nation, to quote a famous Scotsman.
Popping the higher end bubble would be the best thing for the long term health of the nation.
Fuckin’ amen. Get these low-IQ ninnies off the bankrupt higher-ed path and into trades.
Keep those Dummies out of my trade thank you,
/HVACR God
I knew it was over when I saw that debate video where they just rapidfire “facts” at each other.
your duty is to be silent and express emotional support, you class-criminal
We know from personal experience that rights granted to wealthy, white, cis, male, straight bodies do not trickle down to marginalized groups.
There we go with the bodies again. Though I think that’s the first time I’ve seen it used this way.
White Bodies = Elric!
Me too. WTF? I thought the purpose of it was to imply that “POC” are seen as somehow subhuman?
I can’t make even fucked-up sense of these people anymore.
Welp, there’s your problem, BMers–Stop thinking that rights are granted, and quit trying to vote in benevolent dictators.
I’m getting to this a little late (as often happens), but that’s sad.
So when does the ACLU end up on the SPLC list of hate groups? Or have they already?
My objections to minors getting tranny surgery.
https://pjmedia.com/parenting/2017/10/03/woman-who-thought-she-was-a-man-on-transgender-treatment-its-not-a-cure-at-all/
Eh, I used to see these narratives a lot when I was in gay conversion therapy. Whether it’s straight, gay, trans- or cis- you’re still bringing yourself with you when you go on this process. I don’t think people who feel like they need some radical change and latch on to being trans because of a social contagion effect should be conflated with people who have a legitimate gender dysmorphia, although I do think mental health professionals are gonna need to get more comfortable sorting between the two.
Hold up, you got sent to conversion therapy?? Damn. That sucks.
For me it was just a waste of time, but the trajectory of it was pretty disgusting for anyone who might be suggestible. My therapist’s main thing was that only those who had been molested could end up gay and our sessions stalled out hard when it turned out I hadn’t been molested. My parents bought into his line of reasoning and made a big deal of trying to convince me that I had been.
One of the best compliments I’ve ever received was when he told me I was his most difficult patient.
HOW MANY LIGHTS DO YOU SEE?
Sorry you had to go through that.
I tossed Dr. Nicolosi’s book of case studies out years ago (it’s the only book that I’ve ever put in the trash rather than donate), but the gist of them were all “kids has fucked up childhood/early adulthood, his negative experiences have a classically ’80s gay flavor [sexual abuse, expulsion from family, prostitution, drugs, AIDS], and instead of considering that this wouldn’t have happened because his family were cunts who beat him or kicked him out of the house at 15 for being gay, they decided to focus their discontent with their lot on themselves and Dr. Nicolosi encouraged that.
It’s really a predatory movement, and I’m glad I wasn’t desperate when I went, just trying to run the clock down with my family before I left for college.
Does any part of you support shutting those places down? Thats one of the few things ive ever toyed with the idea of supporting a ban on.
I dunno. I think these folks should get sued out of existence on a consumer fraud basis. My guy was apparently the absolute pinnacle of the profession, and I was lucky not to end up with a therapist who made me beat a pillow with a tennis racket while screaming “mommy why did you do this to me,” but even at that his theories on the genesis of homosexuality were more satanic-ritual-abuse than grounded in reason or empiricism.
I’m wary of banning partly because I know for some of the quakier drug rehabs that have been banned parents just do some extraordinary rendition and send their kids off to other states or countries where the rules are more lax and I’d prefer nascent queens and dykes weren’t getting shipped off to Jamaica to get raped straight or something.
Jesus, that’s fucked up
Couldn’t he just hypnotize you and extract repressed memories? I hear that’s very effective at getting the answers you want.
A truth serum would work faster
So sorry that happened to you.
Can you really expect a high degree of accuracy in determining who is legitimate and who is just troubled, though?
There were more stringent therapy patterns for weeding out people who were troubled and should’ve rearranged their furniture or gotten a drastic haircut instead of changing their expressed gender, which were often implemented by overly unsympathetic practitioners. I think we can strike a better balance. It might not be perfect, but I don’t think that the current model or past aggressively prohibitive ones were either.
Seems like a fair statement to me.
What is ‘gay conversion therapy’?
It’s where they take a perfectly sane gay guy and try to convince him he’s insane because he’s gay.
Uh oh. Does Suthen have dementia? 🙁
I’ve heard of that. It’s horrible and yes, immoral.
There’s a significant difference between the two. Hormonal treatments result in permanent damage and physical changes for life. Those decisions being made by children who cannot understand the consequences or are susceptible to praise for their bravery are troublesome.
Furthermore there’s no compelling evidence gender dysporia isn’t a mental condition that is best treated as one. Certainly none of the claims about female brains in males etc., have any factual basis.
I made a comparison of the narrative structure, that PJ Media was presenting, not trans issues in general. I’m disinclined to believe they were presenting that narrative for a well-reasoned discussion on trans issues. While I’m highly skeptical of transitioning-as-panacea I don’t think highly selective anecdotal dismissals are helpful.
I’m not sure I think we should think about G and T the same way though. Being gay seems to me pretty much just a preference. Well- that’s perhaps too simple, and more dismissive than I mean it to sound, but I hope you understand what I mean.
Being trans strikes me as very different. Trans seems to me to be fundamentally a disorder. That’s a tricky word, and I’d like to make it clear that I don’t use it with any moral sense in mind. But I’m inclined to think that being trans poses inherent difficulties that being gay does not.
Now, in some cases the best option for people with this disorder might be to begin hormone therapy before puberty really sets in, and undergo surgery while still quite young. But that’s a consequential path to start down at age 10 or 12. You’re right to treat PJ with suspicion on this topic, but I’m not sure you’re right to dismiss these concerns out of hand. I base some of this on having known someone who identified as M-F for a long time, but now sports a beard- call it anecdote if you want, but in this case anecdote is important data, I think.
I think being gay is more than just a preference, even though people call it that. It seems rather inherent to who someone is. More so for men than women.
There are arguments for people transitioning early. The problem is that is extremely difficult to diagnose in children. And the risks of treating a misdiagnosis hormonally or surgically can be severe and irreversible. There is also the problem of parental pressure. I’ve seen a number of examples of supposedly trans children in the media who had transgendered or genderqueer parents, even though the odds of that occurring are astronomical. There is plenty of evidence supporting there are significant differences between male and female brains, substantial evidence there are differences between cisgendered and transgendered brains (comorbidity, perceptual processing, etc.), and that transgender brains are more like brains opposite their biological sex. But this is for the brains of adults.
Yeah, well as to your first point that’s kind of what I meant with my disclaimers. But.. I work in what might be the gayest town in the US, and… well I’m also old enough to have grown up in the era in which “The Boys In The Band” was made. In other words, I am old enough to remember time when gay men, and not just any gay men, but gay men who were prominent artists, seriously wondered not just if being gay was a disorder, but whether or not it was pathologically so.
This might be difficult to imagine, if you were born after 1980 or so.
What has become clear, I think, is that the gay angst of the 60s and 70s was about the surrounding culture not liking the gays very much. This might be obvious to you, in the year 2017, but it was less universally acknowledged 30 years ago.
The question here is, is being trans just like being gay? I would argue that it is not, at all.
I think I can shed some light here.
It’s not. The two groups are herded together by virtue of being “different” – that’s all.
I mean, it’s a little more than that, isn’t it? A lot of people with gender dysmorphia first go through a phase where they think they’re gay. And gay people on average are more prone to ‘gender-bending’ as it is. So it was a spontaneous, sensible convergence, especially when both groups were similarly pariahs.
The underlying causes of homosexuality vs transsexuality? Not sure how close they are—not sure what the causes are.
But since being gay doesn’t require anything external to ‘cope’ with it, whereas trans people usually desire hormones and often surgery? Yeah, that’s just a little bit different.
I guess. A lot of us are not at all “gender-bending”. That may be the distinguishing feaure. I see where you’re coming from, though.
It’s only taboo to say gayness is a preference or an abnormal kink because it’s become politically incorrect to say true things. Being gay is like any other kink or fetish. The biggest part of that bullshit is acting as though it makes someone a special category of human instead of just someone with a weird kink that most people may find disgusting. Any other kink I’m not into I can say I find it weird and want no part but it’s required to love that one.
I think children should be allowed to express their gender. But medical treatments are too big a decision for someone under 18. Although intersex conditions complicate that.
“Pay for your own damn surgery” pretty much stops most of the bullshit.
There will always be idiot parents though who buy junior anything xe wants. Which is probably why junior is fucked up.
“Pay for your own damn surgery” doesn’t seem like much of an answer because it often isn’t covered by insurance, and whether or not it’s a good decision does not depend on who pays for it.
Pretty funny – Mob of Ronald McDonalds invades ‘s–t’ Burger King
Every age gets the Oliver Cromwell they deserve. Down with the bloated, overindulgent monarchy of Burger King!
*RISES TO APPLAUD*
SCARY CLOWNS!
I experienced this and it was absolutely amazing.
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2017/10/04/national-weather-service-radar-birds/
You showed up on radar?
Well, I did have that extra slice of pizza last night…
When I was a kid the migrating blackbirds would literally block out the entire sky. Sadly there aren’t that many anymore.
When the hubs and I were in Illinois just a few years ago, the sky was black with crows, even around the Main street of a small town. Very Hitchcock-esque and unnerving. Usually the massive amoeba-like flying flocks are made up of starlings, but when it’s critters as intelligent as crows are, I am a bit more creeped out.
Regarding crows and Mallard ducks, I believe their numbers were dramatically reduced by the West Nile virus. I’ll see if I can find a definitive source.
Apparently, WNV wiped out 2/3rds of American Crows. That’s—a bunch. Wow.
Also adversely affected various songbirds and thrushes, although some populations bounced back after a few years post WNV arrival. I couldn’t find hard numbers on mallard ducks, but I can see the difference anecdotally in the past 17 years.
There are stories from the early colonial period of flocks of birds migrating past and blocking out the sun for days. The rapid decline in human population right before Europeans landed played havoc with the predator/pray loop and resulted in huge population explosions and extinctions.
I’d love to see that kind of migration. Probably change-your-pants, start-paging-through-Revelations level frightening, but it would be cool to see.
I happened to be in Havre de Grace, Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay with time to kill and went into the Duck Decoy Museum. I expected to see some quaint folk art but was not prepared for a massive lesson in American Colonial history as well as some damned interesting firearms.
The American population was growing so fast that ducks became a major food staple, and duck hunting flourished, especially of the canvasback duck. Innovations in duck hunting included a style of boat wherein the duck was almost flush with the water so that the hunter seated in the middle was sitting below the waterline and difficult to spot. Another sweet boat they have there has an array of shotgun barrels–something like 10-12 of them—mounted to the bow and actuated by a single trigger mechanism to spread out and shoot many sitting ducks at once. There were a couple of 9 foot long shotguns meant to be operated by two men. Awesome to behold.
The duck hunting was so successful that early settlers realized they were going to need to implement conservation laws to keep the population healthy. So the sweet boat guns and similar items were banned or limited until the numbers were under control. See, no bleeding hearts necessary for nature conservation; just common sense.
Nice little museum.
Suthen, the blackbirds may have moved elsewhere. Here in Minneapolis thousands have been showing up in my neighborhood the last few autumns. I read an article that said the pick a place– stay there for a few years and go somewhere else. What you AREN’T missing out on his GUANO FUCKING EVERYWHERE!
(And yes, it is “Hitchcock-level creepy.)
I was in a Tokyo graveyard in 2007 or 2008 and it was just mobbed by corvids. It was decidedly unnerving.
Lefty, are you talking about red wing blackbirds, or those trashy starlings?
Its National Taco Day,
Entertaining dozens of Germans since the 1980s.
CBC has a fluff piece on growing American cultural influence in UK. Including this gem
Lady, let me tell you about STEVE SMITH.
STEVE SMITH MUCH MORE THAN “A BIT”
I need to see some pics of Amber before I make a joke.
STEVE SMITH NO KNEEL FOR ANTHEM. YOU KNEEL FOR STEVE SMITH.
Florida has 69 (nice) counties.
At least a part of 66 out of those 69 counties got hurricane force wind gusts from Hurricane Irma.
And now it looks like Tropical Depression 16 -> Tropical Storm Nate -> Hurricane Nate is going to hit right at those other 3 counties in about 5 days.
Something something global warming.
Or something something Florida sucks (I happen to agree with that)
Florida has 69 (nice) counties.
How many nasty counties does it have?
69 is nice and nasty simultaneously.
Depends on your perspective.
Nasty as they want to be?
Damn. Pennsylvania only had 67. I’m going to start a petition to partition Berks and Chester.
As a former resident of Chester County, that’s fine, so long as you don’t mess with the Chester County/Delaware County border. Don’t want to be associated with that.
KY has 120 for no good reason.
And GA (approximately) 3,487,986,540. I may be off by one or two. And yet, Fulton is a stupid dumbbell stretching up and down a huge swath of the state.
Virginia has 95…..PLUS 38 independent cities! I don’t think any other state has independent cities.
Looking it up and, holy shit, you weren’t kidding, Georgia has 159 counties, second only to Texas’ 254. At least Texas is gigantic.
I don’t think any other state has independent cities.
Baltimore (MD)
Carson City (NV)
St. Louis (MO)
VA is the only state with more than 1 independent city, though.
Hawaii has five counties. One of which (Kalawao) is only 5.7 km2 and is the former leper colony. The population is 88 and is approachable only by boat, small a/c or mule path down a 3000 foot high cliff.
I say this is the future glibertarian Galt Gulch. sarc
Fulton County is the result of a merger of three counties during the Depression hence the weird shape.
“Petition to partition”
Shit. I’ll be in FL this weekend.
Where in FL?
It’s probably headed for the western panhandle, but that could wobble…. but anywhere south of I-10 should probably be fine.
Er, anywhere south of I-10 on the mainland. Not counting south of I-10 on the panhandle.
Miami. My wife always wanted to go on a cruise. So I get to tour a few islands that got trashed in the last 30 days.
Miami’s nowhere near the projected path. No worries there.
You have kids, right?
If you dock in Nassau, do the day trip to the waterpark at Atlantis. My kids probably went down the slides over a hundred times. So did I. Strong cocktails at the pool bars too.
Jamaica, Haiti and a part of Mexico I’ve never been.
Haiti?
Jamaica? Jesse said some very nice things about it above.
I hear it’s great… as long as you aren’t gay.
I told her if she wants to travel the world, then travel the world. While it might be a nice getaway, a floating hotel is not the way to do it.
I just might go get tacos for dinner.
Real ones. I had Taco Bell for brunch.
“brunch”
Look at this guy over here.
It’s not brunch if it doesn’t include booze.
I grew up thinking it was just breakfast after church. Now I know its just a pretext to get drunk in the morning.
In more civilized circles we call that an “alarm clock.”
Or an omelet station.
By that token I had “brunch” today when I dumped Jameson in my third cup of coffee and had some yogurt and granola at 11.
Our transcription vendor went down hard and everyone assumed I’d magically be able to fix it.
Booze is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for it to be brunch.
If only I had a blender, egg yolks, hot butter, cayenne and two lemons.
Euphemism?
I chose that word because it was the first thing I ate today at 1030, but I didn’t want it to count as lunch.
I had Taco Bell for brunch.
But you won’t eat Chipotle?
You going through gay conversion therapy too?
I always get Chalupas at Taco Bell, did today, because they are the closest fastfood thing to an Indian Taco; which when made fresh is amazing.
Donald Trump solves climate change single handedly!
OK, maybe technically the tears of the progs solved climate change, but Donny caused those tears.
When pressurized? That’s… unsurprising.
Perhaps he should rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement and state that we will meet our goals by never restoring power in Puerto Rico.
Brett: What kind of cheese? What kind of salsa?
And yes, we are all going to judge your answer.
Cheap ass “cheddar” and NYC salsa. Both from Aldi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUXHB5U-Vl4
NEW YORK CITY!?
Get the rope.
Its Aldi, so I have to go look. But yes, I was implying inauthentic salsa.
That really chaps my hide.
More euphemisms…
Don’t make him hide the chaps.
Batavia, IL. Well known hot bed of Mexican culture
The original version of that commercial mentioned New Jersey, not New York City.
I don’t know why I know that.
And then New Jersey sued them (or some consumer group in New Jersey), so they changed it to New York City.
I definitely did not know that; I only remember the New York City version.
Kids these days.
If you can find the New Jersey version, I’ll buy you a (watermelon) beer.
You can keep the watermelon beer.
I’m surprised I can’t find the “that really chaps my hide” one. It had to be before 1992 because my birth mom always made jokes about it.
The irony is this – Campbell’s purchased PACE, so the product was actually “made” (developed) in New Jersey.
Which exit?
Ha! I found that one too!
https://youtu.be/mSxnieYctVM?t=20
Look at this guy here and his 1990s commercial product references!
Cops not amused when Wisconsin couple fail to OBEY!
Good news is that they weren’t shot. Bad news, I don’t think he finished.
Giving a new meaning to the phrase “he was coming right for me!”
PUTTKEMERY CLEARLY NOT KNOW STEVE SMITH
Poor girl, she never did get her order of cheese curds
EW
To be fair, once I get to a certain point, I think the cop would have to shoot me to get me to stop.
I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t be holding your underwear in your hand saying “it’s just a dick” at that point. (NTTAWWT)
Yeah, been there, done that, and all I got was some bullet-riddled underwear.
Let the fuckbirds finish ffs.
Well at least it was a gold Pontiac Grand-Am so that classes it up a bit.
In the “didn’t get shot” category, I had a similar experience on a date in high school. We picked up some junk food at the drive-through and went into a neighborhood that was under construction to park. It was a cold winter night, so the windows were fully fogged up. We were just talking at the moment and still dressed up for a night out – but my wallet had fallen in the floorboard from the trip through the drive through.
So this cop finds us and knocks on the window. As he demands my driver’s license he steps back, unsnaps his holster and puts his hand on his gun.
Holy crap, dude…. is it really that important to identify a couple of kids making out in a parked car?
He interviewed us for a short while and left, having successfully altered the mood. So at least I didn’t get shot. Or arrested. But that cop still owes me for the cost of the date….
My nephew recently joined the army and is current at Ft Benning going through basic. Apparently he’s having a tough time. His letters back home indicate that he’s worried he’s going to come home a failure. My sister asked me to write to him with some words of encouragement – not exactly my strong suit.
I know there are some military people here, did any of you guys have periods of doubt? He’s been gone fore about a month. What would have helped you get through it around that time?
“Suck it up, Buttercup.” maybe not the note you are trying to hit?
Normally that’s what he’d get from me. I even tried talking him out of joining for several reasons. But this is the first time I’ve seen him actually work hard for something – he trained for months and bulked up quite a bit before going in. So I actually do want to encourage him.
“We cleaned your room and rented it out on AirBnB. There’s nothing to come home to.”
He should learn the fine art of giving up. If something is hard, it’s not worth doing.
Also, weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals….. except the weasels.
I’m actually going to use that along with the WC Fields quote Brooks posted below.
I can’t take credit.
It’s from someone far smarter than I am.
This
“You are a a disgusting FAT BODY!”
I have never been in the military. That written…
“…the only hope you have is to accept the fact that you’re already dead. And the sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function. Without mercy. Without compassion. Without remorse. All war depends upon it.”
Or alternately, write him that everyone who goes through Boot camp feels that way. They get over it—through sharing it with a buddy or otherwise—do exactly what the drills tell him to do, and don’t quit. Then six weeks later, laugh that they thought Boot was tough, compared to the garden spot they’re now sitting in.
Cultivating Stoicism seems to be essential.
Cultivating Stoicism seems to be essential.
I hope that’s the attitude he adopts as well as developing a little bit of humility. He was the definition of a punk-ass kid going in.
I imagine it is- I’ve been shot at twice, once on purpose, and once accidentally. I’d like to think that I’m a bit of a stoic, but I have to admit I found both experiences pretty damned scary. I can’t imagine what sitting out an artillery barrage would be like, even if I came through it unscathed. Especially if the people around me didn’t.
Basic was fun and easy compared to OCS. (SC in the spring was “fun and easy” compared to RI in the winter). The Marine DIs were also more of a pain…and I was 6 years older too….but we also needed a bit more of an overall system shock re: responsibility for everyone else’s life vs just making it through as PVT Snuffy.
If you don’t want to come home a failure, don’t. I’m mule-headed and stubborn. When things got tough, I simply refused to give or even yield.
Tell him to be stubborn.
Me? Sure but I considered that mentally breaking down is part of the process. One time I had a dream that I escaped from Lackland AFB, only to be arrested by my uncle who drove me back. I told him tis years later and he said he would have arrested me for going AWOL.
One guy in my flight called his dad and told him his doubts. Here was his dads advice: Fuck off, and do not call again until you find a pair. Pussy.
“Called”? Christ, the other services are soft.
He also called him collect. We were given two phone calls in basic, one scripted to inform next of kin that we arrived safely. The other near the end. This guy snuck out and found a payphone six times without being caught.
Aha, I thought you meant you were allowed phone calls. Yeah, same for us – the 15 second call when you got there, and then you could make calls during recruit liberty the Sunday before graduation. You’re technically a Marine by that point – they award you your EGA after the Crucible (which is such a silly waste of time, but that’s a different post) – and you get 6 hours of liberty. 99% of recruits spend that six hours on the phones or pigging out at the fast food places on base.
I remember my DS standing over me when I hyperventilated while getting smoked and asking me if I had a dime.
“Call your fuckin mommy! Nobody cares.”
Send him a copy of this.
Just a few tips from a Parris Island alum:
-NEVER EVER VOLUNTEER FOR SHIT!
that was weird….con’t….
-Never ever volunteer for shit. It doesn’t impress anyone and it sticks you with extra bullshit no one else wants to do.
-It’s all a game. You are never going to win. They’re gonna fuck with you and scream with you anyway. If you do things perfectly, they’ll still invent reasons to smoke your ass. Realize that, shrug off the screaming and just do your best.
-It seems like forever when you’re in the midst of it, but boot camp is pretty short. It’s going to end before too long.
-Recruit training is the worst part of service by far. Not that it’s all peaches and cream in the fleet, but you do get to do some really cool shit.
God lord. When I was 17 I almost chose to go into the military instead of going to college. I don’t remember the jargon, but I had offers from the Army, Navy, AF, and USMC to into officer training (and no, it was long ago and I don’t know how firm or not those offers were, but I got some advice from friendly vets that told me the offers were as good as they get, nevertheless, I’m sure the offers get better in my memory as the haze of time descends on them). But once I took the asvab and earned Eagle, I had all four recruiters showing up at my boy scout meetings, at my graduation party, etc.
Would have been the biggest mistake I could have made. I didn’t understand it then, but I needed less structure in my life, not more. This kind of thing would have chewed me up and spit me out.
Gentlemen, you all have my respect.
NAVY = Never Again Volunteer Yourself
USMC = U Signed the Mother Fucking Contract.
That said, I agree with Chip (although I graduated from the ‘real’ boot camp San Diego). You just have to learn to take it one day at a time. It will all pass.
One of the best moments of boot camp for me was getting thrashed during phase 2 training up at Pendleton (phase 2 was the field training). I had done so much mountain climbing that when the DI told us to flip over and do leg lifts, I flopped into a hole that was so deep that I could rest my legs on the lip of the hole and appear to be doing leg lifts.
So yes, a bright spot was laying on my back in a bunch of cool sand while pretending to grunt with exertion.
Also, tell the kid that while he would never want to do it again, you will look back at the silliness of boot camp and laugh and tell all sorts of cool stories.
US ARMY = Uncle Sam Ain’t Released Me Yet.
In reverse — Yes, My Retarded Ass Signed Up
This is the funniest thing I read all day
Yup, after you’re done with it, boot camp is hilarious.
USMC – Unlawful Slavery Made Constitutional. That one was my favorite.
What doesnt kill you only makes you stronger.
Its all relative, you could have been born in Uganda and become a guerilla
Dont sweat the small stuff. Its all small stuff
Dont be a pussy needledick. Make us proud or dont come home at all.
Just got back from some work stuff in Benning. Never seen the Basic stuff there – I went to Relaxin’ Jackson. Was he able to pass the PT test before he showed up?
Just don’t stop pushing unless they tell you to stop. Don’t rat on anyone else, but don’t volunteer for stupid stuff. You can’t fail out of Basic by doing your job really.
It’s only 9 weeks.
Then again, in 2006 when we got back from deployment, Basic was sending us 13Bs who had finished Basic AND ARTY school without passing a PT test….so there’s that.
I believe he did, but he was pretty soft going in. I heard something about maybe not making it past the phase he’s in.
Not sure how the army works, but in Marine boot camp, failing a phase means you have to drop back and repeat it. You didn’t get kicked out. So the fastest way out of boot camp was to suck it up and pass each phase.
Basic, we didn’t have phases per se that I recall. Or at OCS – but there were a few key events that were needed here or there. AIT would recycle you twice if you failed tests on material more than once.
Send him a copy of Starship Troopers to read
He won’t have time to read. He *should* be pulling out his army guide, memorizing as much stuff from that as he can and demonstrating some leadership with the hip pocket training, etc – whatever level 10 lesson he wants to focus on. I think I had claymore and AT-4 lessons memorized well before the last week of training – not that I ever needed it after that. If they’re doing basic with the each recruit carrying their rifles at all times (new to me), he should practice dime training for stability, etc – discipline, etc.
Just assure him that every single person who has gone through Basic had had the same doubts. Every. Single. One.
Some chose to keep going, others quit.
I’ve been there. I went to basic and I wasn’t up to snuff in PT. I don’t know how you can instill the drive to overcome in someone else, it’s something he needs to find himself. No matter what he’s failing at, any number of soldiers have been there too. Don’t give up, listen to your DS’s instruction and corrections, and keep working at it.
One of the drill sergeants said something to the slow group of runners during agility group runs about pushing yourself and if you don’t, you won’t ever improve. I started running with the intermediate group. I fell out a lot and puked on several occasions but it really did help me do better. I still failed the push-up portion but there again, it was poor strategy. (resting too soon instead of switching between wide arm and normal push-ups and keep going). We did extra PT for a week or two and retook it with no problems.
As a junior snuffie, both in basic and later, my biggest lesson was don’t be a quitter. You start feeling sorry for yourself and mentally quitting, you will be a quitter. That just spirals. Get your game face on even if you’re puking your guts inside.
Another one from a recruiter was his story about Ranger school- he said he found one guy that seemed like was sucking it even more and said to himself I’m cold and miserable but at least I’m not that guy.
Real talk, “it gets better.”
Basic (or whatever you call it in Amerika) is all about dealing with the shit you’ve been given and try to strive beyond it. They’ll constantly fuck with you and the only good choice is just accept it and try to push yourself into the standard they desire. I had drill sergeants yell at me constantly, but I didn’t take it personally because it’s just their job, you know? Other recruits, not so much. The point is to keep up, deal with all their bullshit, and try to pull yourself out of the process in one piece. They’re deliberately trying to break you down, and the point is for you to say ‘go fuck yourself’ (don’t actually say that to them) and push yourself just to tell them you can fucking do it. The best advice I can give him is to keep up and try as hard as he can, and once he’s done suddenly the shit that mattered in basic is nothing but a minor problem in the general field.
The big deal for Basic…really – just remind him that every 4’6″ female he sees walking around in uniform with SGT bars, etc – finished it already. So he better suck it up and drive on. That was actually a motivating thought in Basic and OCS. Sure I’ve got to do more push-ups than the gals, but for everything else – there’s no reason I can accept not making it through on my own.
Metal
New Cannibal Corpse
Dedicated to Tobe Hooper
Metal
Old Warlord.
Dedicated to all my homies with a wizard airbrushed on the side of their van.
Nice.
Another great album cover.
Omen
Metal
Satan’s Hallow.
I can really appreciate a lead singer with her.. you know.. pipes.
Good band. Cool dudes.
I’m starting to sound like management.
Not really. You’ll know you are management when you start looking at meetings as your real work.
“We need to talk about your TPS reports.”
Colleague of mine has a different direct manager who is off-site, and this guy requires – I shit you not, “VPS” reports. Weekly status reports and 100% pud pulling.
This is why I try not to work for companies with more than 20 or so employees, and move on if a company stRts to get too big. I could likely make more money doing otherwise, I think, but small companies can’t afford inessential employees, and it’s the inessential ones who sit around all day thinking up hoops for me to jump through that I can’t stand working with.
I watched my company go from 69 to 1500+. Then we got absorbed and now it’s I dunno 5000+.
Big or small – each has its advantages but I do miss small.
My company is talking about hiring a head of HR. One of the execs takes care of HR in her spare time, when that exists. I’ve worked at big companies throughout my whole career. This is my first start-up. I discovered I liked being at a company without HR. On the other hand, big companies do have some advantages (better compensation for example). I’m not sure what I’ll do next since I doubt I’ll be able to retire when this job is done.
One of the things I don’t love about my current ~20 employee company is that our head of HR was non-founding employee 1 or 2. Otoh, when she sort of HR’d me for inappropriateness on company chat the other day I mock hit on her and got silence back. So, issue resolved.
Honestly, I think the main thing is to make sure they need you more than you need them.
If I recall correctly, VPS stands for “Victory – Problem – Success” write a paper to describe how you experienced all 3 of these over the last week… this is teenager time-wasting bullshit and I’m so glad I’ve never been put in a position to do such a horrible timesink. The manager that
lovesneeds theTPSVPS reports comes from the absorption of a working group from one of our several major competitors. The two company cultures from pre-acquisition aren’t exactly compatible.I am soooooo glad my company isn’t into that crap. If anything, there was more “structure” for lack of a better word pre-absorption by Fortune 500 monster. To the point where me and my boss who’ve been at the original company for 10+ years just look at each other and crack up at some of the stuff that goes on. “Oh, just email this dude and he’ll deploy your script to production sometime.” Uh, OK.
That was yesterday. Love it when the fucking PMO supervisor jumps in on a “hey send me your dailies” by the PM. Oh, now that this other person who I’ve never met in another department said it was SUPER important, I’ll do it.
**makes jerking off motion **
smdh
Luke 23:34
AS IF THERE WAS A DAY THAT WAS NOT AN IDEAL DAY TO EAT TACOS!!!!! YOU FOOLS!@!!!!
There should be at least one day a year where I get a steep discount.
Warning to all NYC Glibs.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Women-Drug-Men-Manhattan-Bar-Luxury-Hotel-NYPD-Police-Investigation-449390053.html
I’m picturing one of the Glibs as Constanza handcuffed to a bed with no cash on them.
Handcuffed face down.
the man reported feeling dizzy and blacking out. When he awoke, his watch was gone, cops said.
HIM LIAR! STEVE NEVER TOUCH WATCH.
Not my suit!!! That’s my only suit! I got it at Moe Ginsburg!
Getting rolled is new?
Do a brother a solid and explain the significance of a “P45”? Or is the only significant point that some schlep sullied the personal space of his better?
It’s the British equivalent of a pink slip. Numbered, because Brits like their bureaucracy.
I assumed it was some version of the 1911 and then saw it was a story from the prison island of England.
I was thinking the Kahr P45
This.
I figured it was a Walther model.
He should learn the fine art of giving up. If something is hard, it’s not worth doing.
That’s not how it goes (according to W C Fields, more or less).
“If at first you don’t succeed, try again. It that doesn’t work, give up. There’s no sense in making a damn fool of yourself.”
I stupidly got into a gun control arguement on Facebook. I’m like a stupid fly that goes towards the zapper.
Anyway, an acquaintance puts up this post that used the NRA’s view that “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” and went on to say that gun control advocates want mandatory safety courses, more thorough background checks, want stricter negligence penalties. It ended with, if you think that activists are pissed at guns , you;re too stupid to own one.
I pointed put the flaw in this and how he should actually talk to people that are pro gun advocates to understand their positions instead of calling them stupid. His response was that the NRA creates propaganda to scare people into supporting their shit and that they have many members of congress in their pocket due to their ability to lobby. And that the time for talking is over and we need to take action. He also pointed out that he have some relatives in places like the Dakotas, so he knows all about the other side’s views….even though his previous postings indicate that he knows nothing about the gun laws or the mechanics of guns.
I asked him then, what regulation do we need to stop a situation like the Las Vegas shootings and his response was that we don’t have enough information to make that determination…..even though his posting was partially due to the LV shootings and it was unfair that I asked him that question.
I stopped arguing because it’s like arguing with a pigeon , who is going to kick over the chess board and declare himself the winner.
Here’s his whole screed if you’re interested:
Guns don’t kill people. People kill people” is an unofficial slogan of the NRA. I am not talking about arguments done one on one with gun owners, it is the talking points thrown out by the NRA and their paid off politicians to undermine gun regulations. No where in the post does it say we are taking guns away. You are assuming I am not acting in good faith, but after decades of this same cyclical nonsense I am just speaking my mind. If there is the idea that liberals just want to take guns away, that is not acting in good faith when that is not what is being said.
I have taken time to understand both points of view. I have family in rural Minnesota and South Dakota that own firearms and that have uses for them that I in Chicago do not. I can understand why individuals want the right to own a firearm. But I think the process of acquiring a gun should be done with public safety in mind via background checks, training requirements and other solutions. But by trying to tell me how to communicate my position, you just broke your own first and second rule in responding to me, and this is the EXACT problem.
We had this exact conversation after Sandy Hook, and universal background checks (supported by 90% of Americans) were proposed but no action. Instead we debate whether we should debate guns. Forget that. This is my position, and if someone tries to reinterpret that position or claim that “you liberals don’t like guns” or anything like that you are engaging in fallacious reasoning. Is the tone of the post positive? No. But that is because we have been talking about this since COLUMBINE. IT HAS BEEN ALMOST 20 YEARS. I do not need to walk in another pair of shoes again…been there, done that. Now is time for action. Willing engagement is the key in the first place, and in some of our conversations I feel as though the goal is to undermine the argument instead of acknowledging deficiencies on both sides and seeking new understanding. This is why nowadays I only tag you for thoughts without making an argument.
Now is time for action.
So get an Amendment. Start now. What are you waiting for? Do the fucking work. See how it goes.
“If there is the idea that liberals just want to take guns away, that is not acting in good faith when that is not what is being said.”
THE FUCK IT ISN’T
But that is because we have been talking about this since COLUMBINE. IT HAS BEEN ALMOST 20 YEARS.
And during those 20 years, gun laws have been loosened while violent crime and death by gunshot wound have declined to historically low levels. So, I don’t understand why you think stricter gun laws will make people safer, when more accommodating gun laws are associated with people actually being safer.
I think the process of acquiring a gun should be done with public safety in mind via background checks, training requirements and other solutions.
The vast majority of guns owned by law-abiding citizens are already bought after background checks. Training is fine for gun safety, but there are very few fatalities from firearms accidents. Most of the harm done by guns is done intentionally, by criminals, so these proposals will do nothing to address most of the harm done by guns. And they have a downside – they impose a barrier to poor, law-abiding people exercising both a Constitutional right and the fundamental human right to self-defense.
Willing engagement is the key in the first place,
Indeed it is. I look forward to engaging with you on legal reforms that will actually make people safer and reduce the criminal use of guns.
Um, can us Minnesodans denounce this idiot?
Please don’t use us as your bona fides when it comes to knowing about firearms. Not that we don’t like our firearms, but we just don’t want to be associated with you.
Yes, please leave us out of your fever dreams, moron.
Can your friend explain to us how and when the NRA convinced some random guy to rent a suite in Las Vegas, purchase 23 weapons with ammunition, and open fire on 20,000 people at a concert?
Perhaps he was trying to start a national conversation.
“acknowledging deficiencies on both sides and seeking new understanding”
I’m pretty sure my side is airtight. Kthxbai
Faux compromise to position one’s self as the centrist position. It’s pathetically transparent.
That’s his whole schickt. He poses as this moderate when in reality, his shit is pretty Left. After an exhausting exchange about Obama’s drone program, I called him a partisan hack because he is willing to excuse all the Dem’s bullshit and he got really angry. Angry enough to privately message me to tell me how unfair I was to him. He finally called me an ideologue and my response was that I wear that shit like a badge because unlike him, I uphold my principles no matter who is in power.
The New Republic just published a article advocating the banning and confiscation of all civilian-owned firearms.
Unpossible! I’ve been told multiple times that NO ONE advocates taking my guns away.
Of course they did. That rag isn’t good for toilet paper.
Well, I advocate for the pundits advocating confiscation to be the ones to actually do the confiscating. They won’t like how that goes for them.
It fucking irks me to no end that “progressives” are still trotting out this old line.
If nobody would ever dream of taking a single firearm out of our hands, what’s the purpose of assault weapons bans? Isn’t that just passive confiscation? They seem to think this is totally different because it doesn’t actually result in direct confiscation, but rather a process of attrition whereby all of the specified guns are removed from public ownership as the owners die (most bills don’t allow for bequest of the guns to children).
If that’s OK with them, I wonder how they’d feel about a ban on any new gay marriages that would allow existing gay marriages to remain in effect. It’s totally cool, right? They’re not actually nullifying any gay marriages, so nobody should be complaining! Come on guys, nobody wants to take your gay marriage away!
And here’s more: “The NRA pushes paranoid propaganda, muddies policy arguments and buys political influence to maximize the ability of citizens to purchase firearms. Period. Even when a large majority of their own members support for some policy change (like preventing the mentally ill from purchasing firearms) they resist efforts to get legislation passed. You might try to find a bright side, but I am not; I am responding the the obstacle they present to smart policymaking.
There is not enough information to form any conclusions based on this one incident, but I am not limiting my position based on this one act; it is based on the statistics of gun violence in the United States. You know this. Why would you try to limit the discussion to this one incident when very little information has been shared with the public? Does that help this discussion?”
It’s amazing what the NRA can do with a couple million dollars. AMAZING.
Imagine what would happen if the NRA used that money to buy Facebook ads like the Russians!
Was there a citation for this? Because that survey – if it existed at all – almost certainly asked a very broad question like “do you want mentally deranged individuals to own weapons?”
Statistical bullshittery is a classic maneuver of the Left. Remember that post-Newtown “survey” (the Quinnapiac poll) that supposedly showed that 90 percent of gun owners supported mag limits, assault weapons ban, and universal background checks? Well, it turns out that the question was “do you support background checks for all gun buyers?” Most people are going to answer yes for that, but most of them are probably unaware that any federally-licensed firearms dealer (including vendors at a gun show) are already required to do background checks. Furthermore, Obama and company distorted this question by mentioning it in conjunction with mag limits and assault weapon bans, giving the impression that 90 percent of Americans supported all three measures, not just
the broad idea of background checks.
Well, I fucked up that last part…
It was meant to say:
the Democrat’s universal background checks billthe broad idea of background checks.I’ve stayed off Facebook for the past three days. I’m much happier for it. I glanced at it on Monday, saw where the conversation was going, and went, “nope”. This might actually become a habit.
Best solution = drop Derpbook permanently. Neither I nor anyone else I know that’s done it has ever looked back.
I forget who it was that said the the NFL was a habit, and once you dropped it you began to wonder why you ever did it in the first place, but the same argument applies to social media.
But not to this place. I can’t quit you.
Funny, for the first time in possibly my adult life, I spent most of a football Sunday outside. If the NFL loses somebody like me, it’s done for.
Yeah. Me too. Dropped the NFL this Sunday. Didnt miss it.
I spent the day touring the South Bay eating and drinking and enjoying my wife’s company. Screw the nfl and the stupid raiders and derek carr’s shattered spine. And screw colkege football too. I’m done with it all!
I’ll watch the michigunt game and the bowl game, and maybe the Penn State game just to stay topical. But I’m over Ohio State football, and cfb in general. Id rather do something else with my precious time.
I get joy by posting unrelated memes on posts like this. It drives my FB friends mad. Actually coordinated with some friends to reply with Nicholas Cage pictures on one status… I have too much time on my hands.
I like the hybrid Nick Cage memes. Usually of him as a dog.
Funny how those people are so easily manipulated by propaganda, and yet he’s the one regurgitating all the platitudes and talking points.
Par for the course.
As if the gun confiscators don’t put out propaganda designed to frighten people.
How the fuck will gun control be enforced? Tar and feathering?
I live in one of the top 5 most armed counties ( it’s a parish) in the US. Everyone in the parish is armed to the teeth. I can stand in my yard any time in daylight and hear gunfire from somewhere. Our last gun murder was in 1934. A rancher killed the sheriff because there was mandatory dipping of cattle to stop the spread of Mexican ticks. The sherif was going to fine the guy for non-compliance.
19 thirty- fuckin’ four.
C’mon, Suthen. We all know the score. No body, no murder. And with all those ‘gators, well, who’s going to find a body?
That’s the other part of the absence of a complete gun ban, the seen and unseen. How many people would be dead in ones and twos due to armed or even unarmed criminals being able to act with almost complete impunity?
Look at Merry Olde England.
Well in the knicks blog I mentioned the other night, among other things, someone called for the nra (“them”) to be lined up in front of a firing squad. When I called out the poster and the guy who moderates the site, one guy said that well what he probably meant was just the nra spokesman be killed. Oh, ok.
Then the poster himself responded that what he really meant was that the “nra” should be put on trial because “they’re culpable in the Vegas murders”.
What’s scary to me is that this wasn’t Salon, the NYT or Reason, but a sports blog filled with regular people, none of whom had a problem with killing or jailing people because they disagreed with them politically.
I believe it is “arguing with a moron is like playing chess with a pidgeon: no matter what you do, he’s going to shit all over the board and act like he won.”
Edit: “the bird will shit all over the board, then strut around like he won.”
“I’ll have the fish, with a side of slavery, please”
Highly coveted slavery; weak band name.
“This means Americans buying salmon for dinner at Walmart or ALDI may inadvertently have subsidized the North Korean government as it builds its nuclear weapons program, an AP investigation has found. ”
Ummm… They might want to finish up that investigation, because it’s a pretty bold claim.
Fuck this “may inadvertently have” bullshit. Does Walmart sell fish processed by North Korean slaves? The only acceptable answers to me are “Yes” and “No”. Otherwise, don’t mention it in the article at all.
I was just giving the Spaniards who work for me a hard time about Taco Day. Left the Mexican guy out of it. Just like I do every Cinco De Mayo.
One of the Spaniards and the Mexican will giggle. The other Spaniard will sigh and then try to explain to me the difference between Spain and Mexico.
“So, you guys don’t like tacos? Who doesn’t like tacos?”
Keep doing it. Eventually the Spaniard will give up and find it easier to explain to everyone he’s Mexican.
The spaniard from Madrid thinks it is funny. The spaniard from the Canary Islands is the one who gets defensive about the difference.
He knows I’m yanking his chain, but he can’t help himself. Last time he went home on vacation, I asked him to bring me back a genuine sombrero. His eye roll was epic.
Did he bring back a hat?
No. And he also made some clever jokes about my age today!
Posted a bunch of pics of old TI calculators to the slack channel and said it was my first computer.
Bastard isn’t supposed to turn it around on me! That isn’t how this goes.
Get that wetback in line.
No kidding. Someday you need to tell him la migra is at the front desk, and he might want to hightail out the back muy rapido, hombre.
Lots of Mexicans are blue eyed and blonde haired. Even more look very very European, because they are. Most Mexicans that immigrate to America are not the ruling class, surprise surprise. So the Mexicans most Americans meet are the poor, mostly Native American people.
Also, “sombrero” comes from the Latin/Spanish root “sombre”, which means “shadow”, and is also the root of the English word “somber”. The more you know.
Yeah, I used to wonder why the folks that appear on UniMas or in GolTV commercials look nothing like the dudes I see on the corner waiting for a job.
Wait, there’s a difference?
I had a friend tell me that the Mexicans in New York and Miami speak a different kind of Spanish.
Oh, and that the Mexicans from Colombia and Brazil are the most attractive.
Spurbury cop: “I’ll have a chinchilla! HAHAHA!”
Rabbit: “Tacos?”
Thorny: “They think I’m Mexican.”
Rabbit: “You’re not?”
“I’ll have the first president, with a side of slavery, please”
My fellow perverts, things are looking up!
HuniePop 2 officially in development.
First one was way, way better than it had any right to be. Now don’t fuck it up! Learn from…sob…Kingsmen: The Golden Circle and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2.
White guy shoots crowd of white people, and all anyone can talk about is race bullshit
What else can expect when the AP has this kind of team.
His name is ‘whack.’ That’s too good.
Nothing is real.
Errin Whack
Is it the 2010s or the 1910s?
Yes
“Last year, when Micah Xavier Johnson shot at police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five and injuring nine others, Black Lives Matter was blamed — though he had no known link to the movement.”
No known link, other than being at a Black Lives Matter protest.
Merely a coincidence.
Him being black was also just a random luck of the draw.
It’s such a mystery! Why on earth did a Muslim man kill a lot of people at a gay club while screaming about his allegiance to the Islamic State?
Oh, and Wes Bellamy, the vice-mayor of Charlottesville who this person so warmly cites? Yeah, he’s a racist asshole.
GRRRRRRRRRRRR
EU orders Amazon to repay $295 million in Luxembourg back taxes
Repay? REPAY? That’s not how it works.
Now I have a vision of Jeff Bezos dressed as a Vaudeville show pantomime burglar, with a big black bag labeled “SWAG” over his shoulder, tiptoeing away from the Luxembourg Farmers’ and Swineherds’ National Bank.
Luxembourg: “That’s a mighty fine business you got there. Shame if something were to happen to it.”
Roughly $500 per individual in Luxembourg.
A nice round figure.
You know who else has a nice round figure?
The Venus of Willendorf?
The girls of Thicc Thursday?
Mrs. Pac-Man?
It was Ms. Pac Man, shitlord.
They married at the end.
They had to, I hear.
Well I wouldn’t know, I only played Galaga, God’s favorite non-pinball arcade game.
Don’t forget Centipede.
I’m just going to come right out and say it. Centipede, like all trackball games, both sucks and blows.
Wrong.
But you just keep being you!
Mrs Ruben?
CBS:
LV shooter fired automatic rounds
They fire themselves?
If we can rely on anyone, we can rely on you, Florida Man
I’m neither the hero you need or want…
The hero we deserve.
Speaking of Disappointing Heroes….
….the “Logan”, x-man movie? meh^10
I get what they were trying to do. and i think it… could have been done better. But god was it a monotonous, dreary, depressing and melodramatic pile of DC-flavored hogwash.
everyone compared it to the “Dark Knight”. No. It was more like “The Road”. Which is mccarthy’s shittiest book.
It was a good end to a mediocre but drawn out story (seriously, how many movies was Hugh Jackman in as Wolverine? 10?).
That booking photo just screams “Son, imma teach you about the Hobo life!”
Clickbait time!
http://archive.is/wT5X3
Don’t click. I dare you.
yeah, no thanks.
Of course her name was DRILLINGER
A former coworker went to Hedonism with his wife. He said it was a good time.
Go on….
Fairly well put together early middle-aged folk. We used to run into that sort every time while on vacay, usually in the spa area (hot tubs, mostly). It’s petered off since we’ve now entered “middle” middle age, Thank Cthulu…
My wife and I got a little bit of that on our last vacation.
Thanks, but no thanks.
I saw pictures of his wife. She was hot. Personal trainer if I remember correctly. Coworkers of mine that met her confirmed those pictures were accurate. As for him, he was in shape, but I’m a clueless straight guy so I don’t know if those that like looking at men would like looking at him.
My wife took the day off from work to take our car for its annual emissions test. She was informed that the test couldn’t be performed because the maintenance light was on. This light comes on at intervals based on the odometer to indicate that an oil change is needed. Since it was due for one anyway, she took it to have it changed. Upon returning to the facility, she was informed that the test couldn’t proceed because the car had just had an oil change. I’ll repeat that in all caps in case it wasn’t clear. THE TEST COULDN’T PROCEED BECAUSE THE CAR JUST HAD ITS OIL CHANGED. It apparently can’t be tested until ten days pass following the service. The worker at the facility couldn’t offer any scientific explanation for the existence of this policy, but he did suggest driving the car on the highway for those ten days for some reason or other. Are you still with me here? THE GOVERNMENT WANTS YOU TO NEEDLESSLY DRIVE YOUR CAR ON THE HIGHWAY FOR A WEEK AND A HALF SO IT CAN BE TESTED TO PROVE THAT IT ISN’T EMITTING TOO MUCH POLLUTION.
That’s retarded.
Can you just go somewhere else and perhaps not mention the recent oil change?
Also, “took the day off from work”. SMDH
I couldn’t get a clear explanation from her over the phone, but it sounds like they may have plugged into the OBD and saw that it was recently reset. Either way, it completely blows my mind. Also, the nearest facility is a good half hour away since they closed the one that used to be by us, hence the furlough.
but it sounds like they may have plugged into the OBD and saw that it was recently reset
This is it. I’ve had that happen before. 10 days is insane. It should be fine within 50-75 miles.
They always plug in to make sure you haven’t just reset it to clear any codes. They engine needs to get a complete heat and cool cycle on it before it’s ready for another try. The OBDII system needs data from both conditions before it sets a “ready” bit telling the testing station everything is peachy. It won’t take 10 days of driving. Run some errands, let the engine completely cool overnight, and test it again tomorrow.
Ah, that actually makes sense. Thanks.
Be thankful she didn’t add any washer fluid. Shit. She didn’t add washer fluid, DID SHE?
She also re-leathered the seats. That’s not a problem, is it?
Only if her muffler bearing is going out.
Only if it’s Corinthian leather.
Do you mean blinker fluid? That gets topped off once a month.
And now that it’s fall, be sure she gets that Summer air out of her tires.
Make sure she doesn’t forget to have her springs rotated.
Emission Test? What is it, 1981?
I went through this same thing. My car had a bunch of check engine codes, and we decided to fix it ourselves. We ended up getting a temporary 30-day permit from the emissions testing place, then drove it another 30 days without a valid registration until everything was fixed and we drove it 50 miles straight at highway speeds. But it did eventually pass.
O/T the car in question is a Chevy Aveo, which is a cheap piece of shit and to boot, if you look inside the door you will find it was made by Daewoo in Korea, and they put GM logos on it. But hey, drive American cars, right?
Ahem. You mean GM Korea.
*gives silent thanks to former governor Ventura*
No shit. Mandatory emissions tests and other car inspections seem like such a Minnesodan thing to require. For the children.
It’s because the oil change reset the maintenance event for an oil change…and (could have reset) emission control equipment failure events. That’s why they want ten days of logging.
Annoying, isn’t it.
Wait, you don’t have private emissions testing places? She couldn’t take it somewhere else and elide the part about the oil change?
Never mind, I should have checked the replies.
That’s what I did
This exact same thing literally happened to me yesterday.
Get yourself an invoice book, fill one out and mail it to your states dept of transportation, or whoever is in charge of such idiocy for compensation for her time and missed wages. When they don’t pay, threaten legal action.
“‘I do not believe the accused man is the one that did this’: Chloe Lattanzi’s bizarre theory that Stephen Paddock is NOT responsible for the Las Vegas shootings”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4949710/Chloe-Lattanzi-s-bizarre-theory.html
Nice implants. Who is this bitch, and why should we care what her opinion is?
Generally, for crazy theories, it’s helpful to provide a crazy amount of evidence. Not none whatsoever.
And LVPD, just screen cap and show shithead’s suicide note already.
“The United Kingdom is responding to its severe terror threat with a proposal of lengthy jail sentences for anyone who views “terrorist content” online.
Specifically, sentences of 15 years in prison for such an offense.
But what might constitute terrorist content? According to British Home Secretary Amber Rudd, that concept includes “far-right propaganda.””
http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/03/uk-wants-to-jail-people-for-years-for-viewing-far-right-propaganda/
1984 wasn’t a howto guys.
But you can still use the Pete Townshend Defense right?
Only if you’re Pete.
U.K.: Proof that if you don’t write down your rights explicitly and unequivocally they will be taken away.
U.S.: Proof that even that isn’t always enough.
True. It’s unfortunate that this is the case, but liberty requires much more than a signed piece of paper. It requires a populace that is always on guard against government overreach. It was a clever move on the statists’ part to take control of K-12 education as well as colleges (that’s no doubt why they hate any efforts at private sector education). Having the media running interference is also helpful if you want a bootlicking populace.
What is a P45?
British equivalent of what we’d call a pink slip.
Odd bit of sanity from a mainstream paper.
http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/robertrobb/2017/10/02/donald-trump-nfl-protest-race-democrats/717896001/
Where did the AZ Republic dig this guy from, and did they hire him to replace EJ Montini?
UN. POSSIBLE.
http://time.com/4968467/las-vegas-shooting-victims-gun-control/
“One thing Fraser doesn’t blame: gun laws. “It’s not like he had a record, this guy was clean,” she said. Besides, Brian “wasn’t about gun control at all. … He was not for that.”
Her daughter-in-law Vanessa Arellano, 24, chimed in: “He was a die-hard American. He loved our country. He didn’t love California, but he loved our country.””
Someone explain to me why the gym thinks it’s a good idea to schedule aquaerobics (aka fat old biddies bobbing in water) during primetime for kids swim practice?
They take up three lanes and only traverse the last 5 yards of it.
Pisses me off.
Bobbing apples.
Water buffalo.
Depth charges.
How old are the kids? Could it be an attempt at birth control? The sight of those old crones makes the kids all impotent?
Fat old hippies, water dancing to Billy Joel.
Couldn’t they at least play the Grateful Dead or something?
Or that tune from Fantasia, that the hippos in tutus dance to.
Re: Puerto Rico, Jesus fucking Christ these people have no concept of scarcity. They think that the government has unlimited resources and power to just rebuild an entire area overnight. While it does have too much power, it still can’t just do everything at once. There’s people to manage, resources to move, supply chains, and the ever-present regulations. These people will bitch no matter what because they do not understand anything beyond their own well-being.
Every single prog argument comes down to this simple fact. They can’t see past themselves and don’t understand scarcity because of it. I’ve made this argument countless times when people ask me why some security thing is different from another, why some organizations respond to threats differently than other organizations in other areas. They do not understand the idea that resources can dictate a response or that different threats require different responses. No, it’s racism. No other possibility. It can’t be that Trump is dealing with what, three(?), Hurricanes in a row? Any president would be hard-pressed to be able to allocate resources, much less direct a bureaucracy that seems hell-bent on opposing him.
Off-topic, but Massachusetts is spending millions of dollars to install cameras in emissions inspection areas to monitor vehicle compliance and fining the owners of those shops if they fail to inspect something properly. I fucking hate these people. So glad I’m never going back there.
They’re arguing in bad faith. They set the objective for spin and report accordingly.
Not to mention how this morning Trump callously lobbed paper towels into a crowd eager to take whatever free shit he had to give them.
Ha, that actually happened! Wow. I’m not even sure what to say about that.
People were bitching about that. Funny how I don’t recall Obama handing out–anything to crowds after Sandy.
I don’t think it’s resources. We’ve dealt with multiple major hurricanes in 2004 (4 major hurricanes hit, all in Florida) and 2005 (major hurricanes hitting New Orleans, the Texas/Louisiana border, the Florida Panhandle and the Miami/Fort Lauderdale/WPB metro area). Except for Katrina, which was an unmanagable situation, they did a pretty good job with those.
The problem is, to modify a quote from the President somewhat… it’s on a fucking island. It’s a hell of a lot easier to roll trucks into, say, Orlando to prepare to go in immediately when a hurricane’s about to hit Miami than it is to (a) actually get the resources to Puerto Rico and USVI, and (b) distribute them when the entire infrastructure’s been destroyed.
Same idea. Moving resources around, especially to an island, takes a lot of manpower and time (also resources) and these idiots think we can just load up a thousand C5s overnight with whatever is needed and airdrop them in.
They don’t actually think that. Their conclusions are predetermined based on their politics.
No matter what Trump did, they were going to rip him apart. The man could cure AIDS and people would complain that he’s hurting the doctors who spent their careers trying to eliminate AIDS.
Fine!
*Sits in the corner and pouts*
Airdropping
No, they can…. and i’m sure they would if president hillary were in charge.
Its just that there is such a well-developed social-economy of *outrage*, and *pretending to care*, that there’s everything to gain and nothing to lose from moaning that “no one is doing ENOUGH*
We have an Iron Law for this,
“The less you know about something, the easier it looks”
but… I think Gilmore is right, this is just partisanship.
God damn your avatar is hilarious. ++
Which of you guys is this?
I wish I was that clever.
I hadn’t seen the one where he’s wiping his forehead with money.
LOL
I’m not saying it’s aliens but…. wait, it actually *is* aliens!
http://www.sciencealert.com/meteorites-and-warm-ponds-may-have-birthed-the-earliest-life-on-earth
You’ve got some panspermia on you.
He just ate an ice cream cone.
An ice cream cone, you say?
WOULD
That just defers the question to “how did life start in space/on another planet”
STEVE SMITH LIKE ANYTHING WARM AND WET
This guy has quite a gig going for him.
http://www.businessinsider.com/most-interesting-man-in-the-world-ditches-beer-for-tequila-2017-9
For relaxing times, make it Suntory time.
LV shooter fired automatic rounds
Were they independently selecting their targets, because I have a friend who might like to have some of those.
What’s Zorg like in real life?
I’m a monster.
Judge formally dismisses Arpaio’s criminal case
…to the surprise of nobody.
Libertarian Momen…ah, fuckit.
Taking bets on whether I can stomach an episode of Finding Your Roots featuring Bernie.
Why on earth would you? Life is short – if you’re gonna waste it, better here or at the bar!
Because it’s one of the best shows on TV, and the other person featured is Larry David, who is pretty funny. Maybe if I just make it past the introductions, I can stomach hearing about his ancestors.
I wonder how he feels about consumer genetic testing. Nobody needs 23andMe kinds of genetic testing!
Nobody needs 23 chromosomes!
I was trying to recall the Soviet policy on reasearching family lineage. I thought it was highly discouraged. A Google search was not helpful but I did find this little piece of batshit crazy.
http://www.usa-anti-communist.com/ard-blog/Why_I_Am_A_Targeted_Individual_Pt1_Ancestry.php
Well, Bernie’s family history shows the benefits of a free market and free society. Too bad the guy is too fucking obtuse to see it.
Ok. Back in town again. Once again…planning to be at Derby Dames bout @ 2 PM Sat. Not familiar with the new location at 54 Commerce Dr. Ruckersville – but easy enough to get to right off 29. I will plan on wearing a Derby Dames t-shirt (but maybe a different team shirt for recognizability). Probably better to get there a little early, but their bouts haven’t been crowded this year – different location though.
Also, if you’re coming N from I-64, there’s a football game that afternoon UVA, so probably faster to take 15 N at Zions Crossroads (about 10 miles E of Charlottesville). No other real plans after that unless folks want to head down towards town for food or something.
Stay classy, Austria
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4943056/Farmer-bombarded-vile-abuse-opposing-gay-marriage.html
Both sides got real nasty real fast. I can’t tell if there was a higher concentration of “they’re coming for your children” scaremongering ads for the plebiscite, or if that’s just what cut through the noise and got heard abroad, but it seemed like there was more vitriol in these campaigns than even in the US ones, which got…heated.
I have no idea what’s up with Europe in general. On the one hand they look down on us “provincials” as being less “cosmopolitan”, etc – and on the other hand, they’re even more “conservative” than we are re: abortion, gay rights, etc. I’m not saying one of those sides is good vs the other – as I am more socially conservative – what blows my mind is the mindless hypocrisy coming from Europe on nearly every single social issue out there.
Austria was a typo in Count Potato’s comment. We’re talking about the Australian plebiscite (although Austria doesn’t recognize SSM, they have a registered/domestic partnership system).
Your point is well received though.
Yeah….I didn’t follow the link. Australia/NZ generally follows the UK as far as Commonwealth policies, etc.
Having this on draft right now. Decent. Interesting. Would have again. No more than one a sitting though.
https://www.greatlakesbrewing.com/node/697
That looks delicious.
There are some good places to eat near the Marienplatz, like this place.
Having this right no. This is a song beer. Not a drinking beer. Quite good though.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/22951/243594/
Sipping not song
Having this along side. Have have this quite a few times and really like.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/12516/39118/
I like everything I’ve tried from Clown Shoes.
It was really good but not a session beer:)
Previous Unidragons (and Undead Party Crasher—pretty much all of their IRS-type beers) have hidden the alcohol quite well.
Clown Shoes is a “I’ll try it, no matter what it is,” kind of brewery for me.
I love Undead Party Crasher.
Getting to the time of season where I need to check out b Nektar again. I love everything they do…but just on the pricey end.
Love me some Schnitzel and Spaetzle
Insanity to start off the night.
That looks yummy too
In sporting news, I found the crew I want to party with at Disney.
Good for those girls. One of the proudest bragging rights that I have achieved in my life is that I have been chucked out of both Disney Land, and Disney World. Yes kids, it something to aspire to.
What did you do?
Disney Land was just stupid teenage boy stuff. My buds and I drove to CA every spring break when I was in highs chool and slept on the beach and played in the waves. My friend hung himself out of the gondola to touch the Matterhorn when we went through it. We had a hold of him, he wouldn’t have fallen. Poor dude with the Micky Mouse badge that escorted us out got some teenage boy bs hurled at him but he handled like a pro. Disney in Orlando happened when I was in my early 20’s and it involved a snuck in bottle of Everclear mixed with concession stand cokes. I don’t remember much of that one, but it involved some dancing where we weren’t supposed to be dancing.
it involved some dancing where we weren’t supposed to be dancing.
with or without pants?
I don’t remember anyone removing any clothing.
Of course, it sounds as if you don’t remember much of it at all.
I don’t.
Thanks to whoever recommended Release the Hounds. That is the perfect WTF to watch tonight. It would be funnier with dachshunds, though.
You’re welcome.
Police chase live! (it’s gonna end now that I posted this)
I hate being right!
Yet another from the rumor mill: anyone watch Fox in the last hour or two? Supposedly they had a guy on who supposedly worked for and knows people at relevant 3 letter US agencies that, contra current belief, Las Vegas shithead’s act was politically-motivated, they’ve video and other evidence proving this—supposedly the shithead was trying to stream video overseas during the shootings—and they are trying to keep it quiet so far to (ostensibly) try to roll up the guy’s cell.
To which I add, quashing political stuff would also have the effect on not dropping a match into gasoline, re: right wing attitudes towards antifa and their allies. I can only imagine the right wing reaction to antifa’s little day of anarchy, or whatever else they’re planning for the beginning of November, if it was revealed that shithead was one of them and did it in allegiance with their cause.
FWIW, this is mentioned nowhere at Fox’s site—I checked—still, it is a possible explanation for why so many guns, and why Mr. Wallpaper decided to go try and kill a thousand people.
I can only imagine the right wing reaction to antifa’s little day of anarchy, or whatever else they’re planning for the beginning of November, if it was revealed that shithead was one of them and did it in allegiance with their cause.
Yeah, people would die on that day. It would probably not end well.
Until I see evidence to the contrary, we’re in Infowars territory.
We’ve been living in that territory since at least Trump’s election.
Regardless of the findings, I will have my freezer trucks standing by.
Perhaps once they’ll have a video of people chasing the police.
Another one!
That’s gotta be fresh. CHP hasn’t commendeered the chase yet.
In honor of taco day, I sprinkled some taco seasoning on the chicken breast before pan searing it. I’ve cooked a hundred chicken breasts in my life, but this was the best, bar none. I pounded it flat, seasoned aggressively (salt, pepper, cayenne flakes, taco seasoning), used butter in the pan, and turned the heat down.
I taught myself to half decently cook in college, but it has taken 7 or 8 years for me to be able to consistently put out good improvisational food. I still have a clunker of a meal now and then, but even when I wing it, I’m putting out food that I’d be proud to serve my guests.
but even when I wing it
Or breast it, as it were.
My favorite is butter, lemon, cayenne powder, marsala and tarragon.
Next step, make your own taco seasoning.
My base is paprika, ancho, oregano, cumin, garlic, onion, pepper, salt, and MSG.
To the base, I add a fair amount of masa (Maseca brand) and a touch of corn starch, which mixes with the chicken juices and binds the base to the chicken quite nicely.
Maseca is is on sale at Superior at 2x 2kg for $5 (when you buy 2)
Oh, I don’t need those kinds of quantities. Yet.
Overheard in my elevator coming home: “Uff da.”
My neighborhood used to be Norwegian before Latino, Chinese, and now Little Cairo. But these ladies were under 100 years old so I’m guessing it was just a coincidence.
Somebody from Wisconsin or Minnesohhhta?
FWIW they were speaking Scandinavian. I think I can detect Danish or Swedish and it wasn’t one of those.
Uff da is Norwegian. The Swedish variant is more like “Usch da” or something along those lines.
How do you say “Reconquista” in Norwegian?
“Take On You”
Needs music link.
Ah nuts.
https://sofrep.com/91097/breaking-africom-confirms-green-beret-team-ambushed-niger-3-feared-dead/
Oh shit.
I lived in Niger once upon a time. Miserably hot & poor – even the nice residential neighbourhoods had dirt streets with giant trash piles at the corners – but at least there wasn’t *this* kind of shit going on.
I’m not comfortable saying that country’s name out loud.
It’s “Nee-ZHAY” now. (I only know because of soccer.)
Right – long i, soft g. Though you sound the r, just lightly – there’s a common misconception that all terminal consonants in French are always silent.
In English, Nigh-jer.
C’est vrai, mon fils.
That’s a great one, because the feminine violates the usual “sound consonants before a terminal vowel” rule. And the French bitch about *English*. Ha!
Damn right. And don’t get me started with
Côte d’IvoireIvory Coast.I have a firm policy of always using the names I grew up with. “Myanmar and Yangon? Mumbai? Cote d’Ivoire? Fuck you, pal.” Shit, if I were just a little older I could really have some fun – Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Gold Coast, Upper Volta, the Trucial States…
Shame on a Nee-zher who tries to run game on a Nee-zher
rip odb.
i think dead rappers tend often to be glorified for no good reason, but he shall remain immortal to me because of the time he took a mtv along in a limousine to pick up welfare checks/food-stamps with his entire family.
That was a great moment.
lol, good grief
Chutzpah.
The only good dead rapper is Eminem. RIP, boo.
Brawler for the next beer.
“COPENHAGEN — A Danish inventor’s explanation of how the journalist Kim Wall died on his submarine was further cast into doubt after an autopsy revealed she had been stabbed more than 14 times and the police found video footage of slain women on a hard drive linked to the suspect.
Ms. Wall’s torso — minus her head, arms and legs — was found on a beach on Amager Island near Copenhagen, 11 days after she went to interview the inventor, Peter Madsen, on his self-built submarine in August.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/world/europe/kim-wall-peter-madsen-submarine.html
could any jury find him not guilty?
I’m starting to think there’s something fishy going on
Are they finally getting the message or are they so far gone that they only see this as a hilariously wrong perspective?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/10/03/today_in_conservative_media_i_d_rather_be_free_than_safe.html
“I don’t need to counter their arguments. We just had a mass shooting!”
+1 honest conversation
Safety is imaginary.
” Rebecca Bredow, of the Detroit area, has has been sentenced to seven days in jail for refusing to bring her child’s vaccinations up to date.
Bredow appeared at a hearing on Wednesday morning at the Oakland County Circuit Court where Judge Karen McDonald sentenced her for contempt of court after Bredow refused to comply with court orders for her to allow her son to receive all his missing vaccinations within one week.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/mother-refused-bring-sons-vaccinations-date-sentenced-days/story?id=50276507
“Allow?”
Last beer for the night.
Quitter.
Responding to your post above – I was Exit 8. Our family refers to everyone from Jersey (n=4) here in Iowa via exit.
As an Iowan, you might appreciate Mike Rowe’s latest post. I’m looking forward to seeing the film:
Mike Rowe
8 hrs ·
Got a call last year from a guy called Graham Meriwether who wanted me to narrate his movie. Said he wanted to make a film about farming – a film that in his words, “would make a difference.”
“What kind of difference?” I asked. “What do you want the film to accomplish?”
“Well,” he said, “I want people to understand how less than 2% of this country’s population feed 300 million Americans three times a day. I want people to see the challenges our farmers are dealing with, and the reasons why agriculture is facing a looming skills gap unlike anything we’ve ever seen. I want people to get a sense of just how close we are to becoming completely disconnected from our food, and the people who grow it.”
Ten minutes later, Graham was still talking and I was smiling, since so much of what he was telling me I’d already said in front of various groups large and small. So I cut him off.
“Send me a rough-cut when you’re ready,” I said. “If it accomplishes half of what you want it to, I’d be happy to help.”
I saw the rough-cut a few months later. It’s terrific. I’ve posted the trailer below. Give it a look. Like a lot of young filmmakers, Graham is embracing a non-traditional distribution platform – at least for now. If you share my addiction to chewing and swallowing, check out his website, and see if your community might benefit from watching this film. http://farmersforamericafilm.com/
(Spoiler alert – they will.)
That’s fantastic – thanks for sharing.
OT: I’m on tenterhooks right now waiting for my Otto’s OFB:
https://www.ottowildegrillers.com/en/
“Because real meat lovers know how the wind blows!”
It’s like they’re taunting me. That’s just good marketing.
That is good, thanks!
Mike Rowe is about the only celebrity whose opinion I give a shit about. He’s great.
I have to work tomorrow. Shit happens.
Hmmmmmm it seems like armslist is experiencing a denial of service attack. I recall seeing this after that bit of unpleasantness in Orlando.
Fight back. Here’s your weapon, Dear Overlord.
I have a music player playing through my collection on a random setting. This song just finished.
i just installed monocle on tampermonkey (for opera) and… it works fine, except for the part when every time i refresh the page, it decides there are 287 unread comments.
i keep marking them as read, but they keep coming back, the bastards.
is there some known solution to this quirk? I was about to do the standard error-drill, which is, “turn off browser, reboot computer, drink beer, do something else, reboot browser, see if problem went away”
Is it the exact same 287 comments? Think.
*Nods at Morpheus*
no, now its 298. basically, new comments don’t ever get marked as read.
Try actually reading them, then refresh.
(where gilmore suddenly reveals, like Floyd Mayweather, that he cannot actually read)
The unread comment number is pulled from the webpage itself. It sounds like maybe you’re not retaining cookies. The “mark comments as read” button pretty much just clears the “new comment” tag from the comments, but refreshing the page undoes that. Essentially the “mark comments as read” button was a hack I put in place when I was experimenting with dynamic loading of comments.
hmmm.
Opera’s cookie-settings are “”Allow local data to be set (recommended)””
i wonder if some other aspect of its settings are fucking w/ it.
yeah, its not.
maybe its not a monocle thing at all then. its how opera is dealing w/ wordpress.
I think you’re right. I haven’t looked at the code in a long time, but IIRC, the code for the mark as read button is like 5 lines long.
Since your here, man, there’s a scroll to top arrow on the right side. How do I scroll to bottom quickly?
Install the latest Monocle (click here)
New button “Bottom of Comments” is there.
THanks.
Maybe covered, but Anti-Trump ‘Resistance School’ expands to Berkeley
“The anti-Trump “Resistance School” is expanding from Harvard University to UC-Berkeley for its second semester, describing it as part of a larger effort to “Reclaim, Rebuild, and Reimagine an America built on progressive values.”
Couldn’t possibly backfire and result in a lot more bitter, pathetic losers. Could it?
*Checks school charter*
Did you write this?
That’s the plan.
(goes to their website)
i think if you just sprinkle ‘shared’, ’empowering’, identities’ etc. around enough, eventually you get something that sounds like some deep proggy shit.
meh, there’s nothing there that really provides any good belly-lulz
their prior “semester” is available online
it is also disappointing. they aren’t nearly radical enough. it seems mostly just campus-politics-losers trying to grab the “resistance” label and use it to pump self-help style feelgood proggyness.
i mean, look, they’ve got *hours* and *hours* of stuff labeled:
…none of which adds up to, “how to convince yokels to embrace illegal immigrants and give up their guns“
Missed opportunity for a Lord’s Resistance Army tie-in.
This Tom Petty song just came up. RIP.
I’m digging these blonde girls sitting right behind the plate on the Rockies-D’backs game. The most beautiful women I’ve ever seen were when I lived in AZ.
I love a natural blond almost as much as I love a jet black brunette. Hate dye jobs.
I don’t like dye jobs either. Jet black hair works best with light colored eyes in my opinion.
Pics.
DEG is just shopping for tv’s.
http://brobible.com/college/article/sorority-girls-university-of-arizona/
Danke. I’ll be in my bunk.
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/asu-ranks-first-for-hottest-college-girls-6569933
There’s a reason Gronk chose Arizona.
First line of the article: “Alternate headline: “Statistician obviously never wants a job in media again.””
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/10/03/statistician-researching-gun-violence-no-longer-believe-gun-control/
Somehow I think this is a gross underestimation.
https://today.yougov.com/news/2017/10/02/1-4-men-would-consider-having-sex-robot/
Hey, guys, I am pretty depressed/annoyed/ I don’t know. So there is this woman at work who I liked and was interested in having a relationship with, but she had a boyfriend, so I backed off and became work friends with her. Having lunch/smoke breaks walking her to her car but nothing more than that because I knew she had a boyfriend in the army and he is deployed. Anyways I’ve heard that her boyfriend was a real asshole and treated her poorly it was even passed around at the rumor mill at work that he was abusive. I don’t know, and I truthfully didn’t care to know because she was taken and it’s really none of my business. My male friend both in and out of work who has been in a long-term relationship with his girlfriend, they have been together for years, knew I liked this girl and kept encouraging me to make a move on her but I wouldn’t because she had a boyfriend. Anyways I just found out today that he has been cheating on his girlfriend and fucking this girl I like for weeks while encouraging me to ask her out. I feel betrayed and like he was making a fool out of me. I mean I know I have no claim to this girl, she is not my girlfriend, but he lied. Now I have to see this douchebag and this girl at work.
That’s fuckin sleazy. At any rate, it’s not going to go well for him when her boyfriend returns; and his current relationship is as good as dead—at least in any healthy form. Good riddance to both of them. You’ll get your schadenfreude. Sorry that you have to maintain a work relationship with them..
Yeah. It just shot my self-confidence and makes me feel like a fool. I found about what he did from his now ex-girlfriend. In a funny twist she used to work for the company we work at and is now applying for and wants to become his supervisor at work.
Think of all of the random unsolicited visits from the violent ex-boyfriend army guy you’re potentially losing out on. Damn.
Wear 3X as much Axe body spray as you think is tolerable. Trust me, if your eyes aren’t watering, its not working.
Gilmore has the best advice lately. You should also get a reaper pepper, crush it up, and cause them to inadvertently rub it in their eyes.
their balls, man. balls.
reaper pepper to dip your balls in
my comment makes a lot more sense if you stop reading at the “none of my business” line.
(shrug)
i disagree. It should be standard advice to almost every problem.
You’re right. Its a one-size-fits-all perfect response to anything: use more Axe.
That’s rough.
I would just exile both of those people from my life (as much as possible). It’s not worth it keeping them around, nor is it worth hanging on to any anger over this situation. Other than that, all I can really say is that that kind of dishonest and deceitful behavior in relationship matters almost always comes back to bite these people in the ass.
No woman’s worth / crawling on the Earth
So walk like a man, my son
That guy is no friend of yours and you now know that the girl is a slut with no integrity. I’d say you dodged two bullets here man. I know it sucks right now and you feel shitty, but look at it this way, you just removed two crappy people from your life. That’s the perspective you should take on it; they revealed their true selves as lousy people. Plenty of other friends and fish in the sea.
Ditto this. Fuck ’em both. Classless scuzzbags.
Completely agree with this.
“Thank you for sparing me the waste of time that a non-work relationship with both of you would have been.”
You kept your ethics in place, and they served you well. Not that makes the disappointment any better, but you took the high road, and can make better decisions about them (kick ’em to the curb).
I feel bad deployment guy, too.
Also:
Words of wisdom from Gunny
“you now know that the girl is a slut with no integrity”
Assumes facts not in evidence. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but…
Maybe she was just trying to escape her shitty relationship and took the first opportunity.
With a guy who was in a relationship? “Slut” is probably the wrong word, but she’s certainly lacking in integrity.
My understanding is that she is in a relationship too. Everyone calm down! She’s a scumbag! Better?
Wow, I couldn’t disagree more. He’s a chickenfucker, and she’s a twat.
The way it was told made it sound like she was cheating. It may not be true, as you said; however, I’m strongly of the opinion if a relationship sucks, let go of one branch before your grab another.
They were both cheating on their significant other. But only one of their SOs know about it (the dudes now ex-girlfriend).
Maybe she was just trying to escape her shitty relationship and took the first opportunity.
Generally, I hold people much less to blame when they end the relationship before taking the first opportunity. Shitty relationship or no, screwing somebody outside the relationship (standard open relationship disclaimers apply) before ending it is a shitty thing to do. Double extra shitty to do to a boyfriend while he’s deployed.
Whether or not he was a scumbag, her screwing the coworker says much more about her than about her soon-to-be-ex boyfriend.
I think that we can split the difference here. I’m sure we both agree that this isn’t the right girl for Rothbardsbitch. He was trying to be a stand up guy, and she’s a little lacking in that regard.
Based on what little information we have, it sounds like she might have some self esteem issues, and some of those might be caused by having an abusive boyfriend. It doesn’t make her a bad person; just someone who isn’t girlfriend material in the near term.
There’s nothing that insinuates that, or the contrary.
Oh, but the guy isn’t a slut?!?! Patriarchy! Privilege!
He is a slut too. There.
Q gets it. Goid advice.
Sorry.
Best advice I’ve received about dating/pursuing a love interest at work: Don’t fish off the company pier.
I know some folks that have made things work, but they are in the minority. I will admit to having been tempted to break that advice, but I haven’t.
You need to find better friends and available women outside of work. A guy who does what that guy did is not a friend.
Don’t fish off the company pier unless you have to.
Never say never.
I would say that finding a mate at work could be alright if they’re not someone you have to see or work with on a daily basis. That way, if the relationship goes sour, you won’t create an awkward situation at work.
But yes, I would absolutely not fuck a woman who is in my own department.
I drew a distinction below. If it’s casual, don’t.
You can’t help who you fall in love with, though.
A friend of mine and my boss started dating. She resigned so they could be together. They’ve been happily married for 5 years now.
I met my wife at work. I did take a different job a few months after we got married though. Probably for the best.
I tried looking at work. Why not when you spend so much time there. Didn’t work out.
I wasn’t really looking. My future wife was the cute girl who ran a piece of equipment at the plant that was prone to have a lot of problems. It was my job to keep that machine running. Things went from there.
Pics?
if you insist
http://imgur.com/fSad92f
I can’t stop staring at that elephant. I wonder why that is…
Nice work.
Oh, and you’ve been automatically enrolled in the Glibs breeder program.
and a nice fish!
Looks like a keeper.
And the wife too. She looks like she can throw a punch if you deserved it too.
Because you don’t work at a gay steel mill.
*sigh*
Ya’ll are going to stick with that aren’t you.
forever.
Not a dig at you.
If you were a few years older, you’d have gotten the reference.
He’s not your friend. Cut him loose, forever.
You’re going to have to make up your own mind about the girl, though.
What DEG said. Don’t shit where you eat.
Oh I definitely don’t consider him a friend anymore. He doesn’t know that I know at this point and so I am just going to keep it professional at work and cut him off in my personal life. I also don’t think he will last long at the company, I’ve saved his ass and kept quiet about his mistakes, but I won’t in the future.
In that case, go for it like he advised you to. Sleep with her, then cut them off.
j…k
shit.
Um, the guy is an asshat.
does his girlfriend know yet?
Yes she knows. The girls boyfriend does not he is in Iraq.
well at least she is aware. That’s not something to keep. Don’t really know what to do about the deployed man.
Oh, I am not telling him, I don’t need to be involved in the murder investigation that could result.
I mean imagine if I did tell him and he killed them or did something else horrible and I am the one who spilled the beans. Don’t want that on my conscience. Especially if the rumors are true and this guy is abusive.
“interested in having a relationship with” is not the same as “the one”.
The only rule when you find “the one” is no home wrecking. If she’s married with kids, don’t ruin that.
Boyfriend deployed in Iraq? Sorry, bro.
I met the one 18 years ago. It took me a year to land her. Was she dating someone else? I don’t care. We’re happily married with 3 kids now. Sorry, not sorry college boyfriend.
Yeah, I am not saying I am or was in love with her or anything just that I wanted to date her, but I didn’t try because she was taken.
The only rule when you find “the one” is no home wrecking. If she’s married with kids, don’t ruin that.
Boyfriend deployed in Iraq? Sorry, bro.
Meh. Maybe it’s a difference in taste, but any “the one” that would let some guy swoop in and undermine her existing relationship wouldn’t exactly have high marks for loyalty in my book. Frankly, if I were ever in a position where I had to pull back on the reins to avoid homewrecking, she ain’t even close to being “the one.”
I don’t think it’s a difference in taste; more a difference in perspective. When you find “the one”, the whole point is to convince her of the same, existing relationship or not.
She’s not letting “some guy swoop in and undermine her existing relationship”, she’s letting YOU do it.
I feel like you guys are missing the high likelihood that the friend was hoping to parlay the entire scenario into an MMF with Rothbardsbitch. Morally problematic, but probably not malicious. Also Rothbard should take the compliment and distance himself quickly unless he’s into messy coworker triads operating outside of existing couples, which I’m guessing he’s (wisely) not.
that just sounds like a Shakespeare play where they all end up not alive.
Yeah, no thanks.
Those are the best ones – bodies *everywhere*!
Someone sounds like he’s adventure averse.
Only if the male coworker has two dicks.
Bluetooth enabled.
What is it with you and the Devil’s threesomes?
They’re more common than everyone pretends they are. The dynamic entertains me.
Basically, you’re a messy bitch who lives for drama.
Nah, I just have a soft spot for folks grappling with sexual interests that there’s no real reason to be ashamed of but still has a stigma attached to it. Maybe a mix of pity and fascination. And a lot of it stems from a longer-than-it-should’ve-been relationship with a guy in the closet and the kind of awful behavior that engendered from him.
That’s a long winded way of saying you like the kind with 2 men instead of 1.
Oh, I see. You’re honing in on the bisexuality aspect of it, not the polyamory aspect.
Because polyamorous relationships are frequently clusterfucks.
Because polyamorous relationships are frequently clusterfucks.
*sharpens glare*
n___n
The poly and bi aspects are both really interesting. MMF gets a nice dollop of both though. MMM, FFF and MFF are all so acceptable compared to MMF it’s fascinating.
@Playa I’ve been on record about my opinions on threesomes for *years*
I wonder what ZARDOZ would recommend.
Do you *really*? The answer is always “cleanse the brutals!”
Pretty much what the guy with 2 dicks would recommend, only with less consent.
You should consider a shooting spree. They’re very popular these days.
This is exactly the kind of humor I’d expect from pickle rick
When a friend did that to me in HS I wrote on his car with soap. Do you have any soap? And are you a stupid 16yr old?
Thanks everyone for the advise and comments.
You were wise in your avoidance of a “taken” woman. And wise in recognizing the deceit of alleged friends.
Sucks, but you are wiser now. Your future wife is worth it.
Libertarian Roger meets a nanny-statist.
Geez, I came in here to ask for advice about a super annoying coworker, but Rothbardsbitch totally blows my problem away.
I’ll share it anyway. In July of last year, a guy who worked for a customer of ours boldly approached our project manager to ask for a job. I interviewed him and recommended a hire, even though arrogance was painted on his resume. I thought his tech skills would outweigh the quirks, and aren’t we all a little quirky in some way?
Anyway, we hired him, and he was seated in a cubicle across the way from me. I tried mentoring him, but his second week, when he had to give a presentation, I reached over (room was empty except for us two) and brushed a doughnut crumb off his face before he went to take the floor so he wouldn’t look silly. He scheduled a meeting with me the next week to let me know that I had crossed a line by touching his face and that it wasn’t professional. He added that another young coworker had told him “{Hayeksplosives} is sort of the Mom of the group”, which isn’t even true, but that an analogy like that would not work for him (new guy). Shocked, I apologized for what I knew not and we went on with our lives.
Since then, I have had to edit his grammar a couple of times on documents (it’s part of my job) that I have to sign in the end. The first time he disagreed with my correction, I pulled a couple of books off my shelf (The Handbook of Technical Writing and the Chicago Manual of Style) to helpfully illustrate the proper word usage. He refused to accept the criticism, so I said “I am not signing it until it is correct.” This led to him having a 2 hour meeting complaining to another worker about my correcting of his grammar.
He later complained to a coworker that he felt drained by having to sit across from me daily and that it was stressful to have the pressure of coming up with things to say. ??? WTF. I never asked him a damn thing except to be helpful and make sure he had everything he needed. But I put in a move request and took up a new location 20 feet away.
Yesterday I corrected his grammar on another document that I am required to review and sign (his name isn’t on it). His email answer was thus: “I acknowledge that you are not incorrect, and your preferred usage may be more common. But at the end of the day this is a matter of style, not a hard and fast rule. Furthermore this entire conversation is immaterial to the actual test plan, and a waste of both of our times. Please respect my work, and understand that it will be stylistically different from yours both now and in the future. With respect, this conversation is more about professional boundaries than grammar, and I am prepared to stand my ground.”
Bear in mind this guy is a millennial with less than 2 yrs at the company, and I have 17 years there. I feel like just saying “WHATEVER” and moving on, but I think that would reward the little bastard and encourage him to be more clawing for power than he already is. He has been “locker room poison” since we hired him and I regret having hired him, but it is what it is.
Should I have a meeting with him? Sign the doc? I am considering using a red pen to make the corrections and signing that version to be scanned as the official doc.
He strikes me as litigious, so I am a bit concerned. WTF does he mean by “I am prepared to stand my ground”??
stand your ground.
He sounds like a fucking asshole. But… that’s why I deliberately refuse any position of “power” at work. I can be prickly.
Wear 3X as much Axe body spray as you think is tolerable. Trust me, if your eyes aren’t watering, its not working.
I can’t remember which comedian, but “not everyone who wears AXE body spray is a date rapist, but all date rapists wear AXE body spray” or something to that effect.
Sounds about right!
I am glad my then-12-year old stepson got past the Axe phase. Fortunately he is now out of the house entirely.
I have a brother, 12 years my junior, who used to walk around with a miasma of AXE. I thought it was a style choice, but it was him covering up that he was smoking.
At one point I tried to explain that the point of perfume/cologne was to get the response “ooh what’s that smell?” rather than “eww what’s that smell?” but since the point was offensive defense it fell on deaf ears. My mom got a good laugh out of it at least.
LOLz.
My mom taught me that perfume/cologne should only be detectable by someone very very close, like dancing or kissing. I use that advice to this day.
Some folks walk into a room with an almost visible wake of “scent” around them.
That’s borderline assault.
Most of it makes me sneeze, not bad enough I’d demand people don’t wear it at work, but enough that if it’s detectable it’s annoying.
My last semester in college I shared a room with a Chinese kid who had every possible item in his life scented to the highest level and none of it matched. The first time he walked in I had a metallic taste in my mouth while he was still coming up the stairs and I ended up punching the screen and sleeping hanging out a second story window the whole term.
LOL.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-TGJgRkb2EY
Yeah, but Axe is uniquely vile. Actually, a lot of men’s fragrances are. So much so that I’ve taken to wearing unisex or even certain “ladies’” fragrances because they smell like “clean” and not “douchebag”.
I just wear my deodorant. I smell like old spice until it wears off. Then I smell like a dude who doesn’t really give a shit what he smells like until the end of the day.
As long as it’s Old Spice “Fresh” – still one of my favorites. But yeah, I don’t wear fragrance every day. Maybe once a week when the mood strikes.
It’s hard to find the old spice original scent anymore, especially in antiperspirant. I have to order it online.
Anyway, if you want to smell like a true man, use aftershave. It’s subtle, and it’s usually sandalwood based, which smells 100x better than the synthetic crap they sell as cologne.
I don’t like Old Spice original. It just smells like “old man” to me.
after shave is for after you shave though, real men don’t shave.
I get the big bottle from the liquidator store that says Au De Toilet, that means it’s fancy.
I usually tell co workers that get under my skin to fuck off until they can approach me with a better attitude. It usually works.
Granted my working environment is probably a little different than yours.
Man, I’d love to. But we are a big ol’ defense contractor with HR everywhere who wouldn’t take kindly to me saying Fuck Off to a precious and brave young ‘un. He also happens to be homosexual (is that part of why he hates me?? I’ve known plenty of gay men who are perfectly affable in their dealings with women, so I think this dude is just a loser) and I fear he plans to use the diversity card as part of his “standing his ground.”
When I found out he had months ago confided in my coworker (an equal to me) that he was going to leave if he didn’t get more respect and authority, I just about kicked my coworker in the nuts. This guy leaving of his own volition would have been perfect.
I doubt he’s a misogynist. He’s just a petulant, insecure, self-aggrandizing brat.
No, but it could be a very large part of why he’s willing to play office-politics-chicken w/ you.
“he was going to leave if he didn’t get more respect and authority”
That is an incredibly assholish thing to say and speaks to a toxic kind of personality. I would do all I could (within the rules) to deny him any kind of respect and authority, from yourself or others. Maybe you can run him off.
I am the sole authority who can approve him for being a “responsible engineer” who can do certain very dangerous things we do. I have amassed documentation indicating that he is not ready for it. Plus I have the awesome wiggle room as the lab manager of being able to determine whether the individual has a proper maturity and temperament to take on the responsibility.
Should I have a meeting with him?
No. That’s not gonna fix a single thing.
Sign the doc?
Maybe. How much is he correct that it’s a stylistic issue? This is actually a huge part of reviewing others’ work at my job (and of having my work reviewed). Some people pick every nit and others give a large amount of leeway for stylistic differences and the like. In talking with some of my colleagues, they made the distinction between “good work” and “passable work.” Good work is of the quality I, myself, would put out. Passable work is a lesser quality, but still accomplishes the task at hand. When reviewing, it’s about getting passable work. If his work is passable, sign it. If not, don’t.
I can tell you for certain that I wouldn’t send such an email to somebody with 15 years seniority over me who has to sign off on my work. Sounds like he needs to be knocked down a peg or 3.
I am considering using a red pen to make the corrections and signing that version to be scanned as the official doc.
What happens if you dig your heels in on this? Does he have any recourse? Can he go above your head and get it approved? Is he worth investing the time and effort in to improve his product? It sounds like there’s a training/quality issue at hand. Maybe he needs a mentor (probably not you) to step in and explain the expectations.
I have recourse in the sense that I, my supervisor, and my supervisor’s boss have met (along with the one coworker that diddums goes to with his complaints) to discuss the issue and the highest ranking guy in the room said “Some people just aren’t worth the trouble.”
I think he’d back me up.
(months ago, when he wanted no longer to sit across from me)
That sexist pig!
the highest ranking guy in the room said “Some people just aren’t worth the trouble.”
In that case, don’t do anything to help the problem employee out or to smooth tensions. Focus 100% on the adequacy or inadequacy of the work product, and let him throw a hissy fit when he has to redo it 5 times to get it right. If he’s already on 3 levels of supervisors’ radars as a problem employee, there’s no reason to cater to his whims.
Thank you. Really.
This is tough for me because I like people and like being nice to people, but this guy has worked really hard to make an ally/advocate into a rival or enemy or whatever you want to call it.
How the hell did you end up here?
This is the part I can’t get past.
W
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Yeah. sounds to me like somebody who was looking for something to bitch about.
It’s the scheduling a meeting thing that throws me for a loop. Why didn’t he just walk across the aisle and say “I’m not comfortable with you touching my face. Kthxbai”
He seems to magnify things in his head to be way way more than they are in reality.
I have a theory that humans, if they don’t check themselves intellectually, need enemies. If a human has a really limited view, he finds his chief enemies in his family. A little broader, and he finds enemies in the office or department. Further, it’s competitor companies, further, other countries etc.
This guy’s world revolves around him so his enemies are right in the same friggin room.
*runs through google translate*
Oh, an asshole! I know lots of them.
I have a theory that humans, if they don’t check themselves intellectually, need enemies.
I would amend it to say that humans need adversity, but otherwise spot on.
Exhibit A: The prevalence of eating disorders in 1st world countries relative to 3rd world countries.
Because that doesn’t have any scent of “I am powerful! Fear and respect me!”
He should have been cut loose in his probationary period.
I feel for you. My workgroup acquired a poisonous boat anchor that we’re now stuck with. I’m not the hiring manager but there were several red flags. As time goes on I’m less willing to give hires the benefit of the doubt especially when it so hard to get rid of a mistake.
There’s a “poisonous boat anchor” in another department that is abso-freakin-lutely notorious. She flat said she’d sue if fired (she’s a black woman), despite the fact that she hardly does anything, and anything she does touch turns to shit. However, HR and my group are all about affirmative action diversity hires, so they almost walked into the same exact trap again this fall. An intern that worked with us last summer was cut from the exact same cloth as the boat anchor.
The fact that companies can’t fire people is a fucking travesty. So much of the HR bureaucracy and work policies are built around babysitting bad employees to the detriment of the good employees. Our work from home policy is the perfect example. A few bad apples abused the work from home system, so now everybody has to go to the office so these bad apples can be babysat by their managers.
As I have told my boss, I feel awful because I personally pulled the pin on the grenade and lobbed it into the team myself.
I never want to hire anyone again.
I’ve rarely been more stressed out at work than when I had to interview folks. It’s way out of my wheelhouse. But they want my input which is good, I get to vet their technical abilities, but as far as “interpersonal” crap goes I am the last person to ask.
But eventually I realized it was all about interpersonal crap and stopped asking the technical questions entirely. It was more about, can I stand listening to you talk for more than ten minutes…
I should have known from the number of ear piercings, but I am trying to force myself to accept modern fashion.
My favorite millennial hire has a sweet tattoo of the digits of pi running all around his right arm. So I try not to judge on fashion.
But seriously, before hiring a person and making them move to another state, we should have a friggin 2 week tryout.
I should have known from the number of ear piercings, but I am trying to force myself to accept modern fashion.
Setting aside all political correctness for a moment, hiring people with “modern fashion” is a crapshoot. You may find a diamond in the rough, but there’s a hell of a lot of rough.
A friend of mine is a middle manager at a big tech company everybody has heard of. Before working for the man, he was in a metal band, so he has sleeve tats and gauges in his ears. Great guy, great at his job, and actually cleans up pretty well when he puts on a buttondown shirt and takes out his earrings. He made a concerted effort to obscure his tats and deemphasize the giant holes in his ears so that people would take him more seriously at work.
Heck, my boss has at least one tattoo that is regularly popping out from under his sleeves (which is rather rare for my profession).
I guess I’m saying that people will quite quickly get past the stereotypes that come with the “modern fashion” appearance if the person proves to be a hard worker and a decent person to work with. However, those folks have put themselves at a hiring disadvantage because so many other “modern fashion” acolytes are insufferable pricks.
Screw that. If I wanted to work with circus acts, I would have applied at Barnum & Bailey. Actions have consequences and if a person has excessive piercings, body mutilations, or visible tattoos, they’ve already demonstrated poor personal judgement.
I got bored with all my piercings (just ears) around the same time I decided to pick up a serious profession. Good timing, I guess. But I never made a lifestyle out of it unlike many of my peers.
But it’s not like this kind of thing will disincentivize companies from hiring ‘protected’ demographics.. or anything.
I wonder how much that already happens. There are about 40 people in the maintenance department at the plant I work at. There is only one minority. My bosses aren’t racists as far as i know. There is not a huge minority population in this area, but there are enough that the %s are skewed.
Wait – are you saying that a government policy has actually had the OPPOSITE effect of what the well-meaning politicians thought it would??
*head explodes*
(looks around room for “shocked face”)
you didn’t really even have to say it.
Also: Wear more Axe body spray. Use 1-can per day until people around you have trouble breathing.
Not all people who wear Axe body spray are rapists. But all rapists wear Axe body spray.
I feel like I’ve heard that somewhere recently.
From me, when I told you the joke 3 years ago.
Pretty sure I got it from the roommate, not you.
Pretty sure you’re wrong.
I heard it at a Joel McHale standup session, back when he was funny. It’s not on youtube.
It’s possible, but a few people have made similar jokes over the years.
alternative theory: some women are ashamed to admit how incredibly effective Axe body spray is
My generation catches all the shit. I bet your parents generation thought your generation were a bunch of lazy entitled brats too.
Somebody found some ancient egyptian scratchings in a quarry (a working area basically) that was in the daily writing, not fancy hieroglyphics, that basically said “The kids of today will never amount to anything.” 4000 yrs ago.
oh, we were, and they were totally right.
Its just that a certain proportion of your generation has accelerated the devolutionary process so intensely that even their own, slightly-less-shitty peers think they’re fucking awful.
if you don’t believe me, just watch this Axe body spray commercial.
Its just that a certain proportion of your generation has accelerated the devolutionary process so intensely that even their own, slightly-less-shitty peers think they’re fucking awful.
This millennial approves this message.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Jesus. I want to punch the ever-loving shit out of every person in that.
I actually looked up ‘Axe’ on wikipedia recently. I was surprised it originated in Europe in the 80s.
Never sign anything that you don’t approve of, especially if there’s professional responsibility involved.
My wife hired counsel to sub in while she was on maternity leave. After about 3 weeks of nonsense, she had to fire that sub-literate Stanford law grad. It was simply unacceptable.
OOO, it’s like a glib soap opera!
Thanks, y’all. I have decided to refrain from signing the doc until it’s correct. Let the chips fall where they may.
For those who asked, it was a “that vs which” usage that makes it a little difficult to read the doc’s intent the right way. A molehill for sure, but this guy has decided to make it a power play and I am not in the mood for effing around.
Reminds me of when my 5’9″ father was sitting in the Army officers’ lounge trying to relax and a new young punk officer came up to him looking for a fight. My dad looked wearily at him and calmly asked “Are you ready to die?” The punk retreated.
In that case, I’m 100% on your side.
Yeah, it’s not a style issue.
Words mean things.
Me too. I’m very particular about that.
For a while at least, I would keep a dated journal of your professional interactions with this guy, just in case he becomes a real pain in the ass about this grammar thing later. Establish a chain of facts from your POV outlining this kind of pushback.
If it was me, I would rope a lot of people into a cc: chain, and politely (but thoroughly) dress down his position so that the highers up see that you tried to help. He can hang himself if he wants to.
*waits, dripping with anticipation for HM’s nightly release*
Ew.
HM, now there’s a messy bitch who lives for drama.
In early links there was discussion of the original Pace Picante ad saying “New Jersey?” instead of “New York City“, because New Jersey complained.
Well then I found out Pace was bought by Campbell’s Soup, which is located in New Jersey.
Those hicks know how to use a microwave?! Well, I never.
Oh, also, even through the local Walmart sells a Ghost Chilli salsa, the grocery store across town was advertising Pace Hot Picante sauce as a ‘NEW’ item this week. At least we don’t have ‘Extra Mild” like Minnesota.
The plot thickens.
The Vegas shooter also targeted jet fuel tanks at McCarran Airport.
“The tanks, are operated by Swissport, the company that runs the fueling operations for the airport,” Narrows Gaze?
Isn’t jet fuel basically kerosene?
You would never be able to ignite a tank of it by shooting it. Not without incendiary rounds, and even they I have my doubts
You basically need a blowtorch to get it going.
But, the fact that those tanks are right next to the Janet terminal is really going to get Infowars going.
Kerosene lamps disagree. Matches work just fine, too fine if you were to witness my burned arm after I spilled some. Bullets, not outside of Michael Bay movies.
JET FUEL CAN’T MELT STEEL!!111!!! Oh, wait, that has nothing to do with what you said…
That has to be the stupidest quote to come out of the truther movement.
No, this is. (couldn’t find the video, but my dad and I used to quote it back and forth. Jesse Ventura: I was the Governor of Minnesota, I know things!) (We would also scream “Diplomatic Immunity!!!’ and the reply was, “It’s just been revoked!”, I miss my dad)
HELLO! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDZsNksbw2Q
A Wisconsin band, The Pimps.
I guess they are also known as the Goodyear Pimps.
and reading now formed in IL, but previous sources said WI. Whatever, it’s good music.
http://imgur.com/8imq9Ap
I love a good meme.
aw, it did.
At the time Dale Ehrnhart Sr. died, NASCAR was selling these watches where a little car went around the face. I thought they should have released one for Sr. where on the hour the car crumpled.
but Sterling Marlin killt him with his accent,
/Ding dang ole blowed up
We were a Rusty Wallace house at the time (connections to Miller) so whatevs.
Sick burn!
For Mexican Sharpshooter,
Cisco Kid, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEDB62oKv2M
Down a Pimps rabbit hole. Devil Went Down To Georgia.
Cherokee Kid was better.
I’ll take Mexicans over Indians any day of the week,
WAR, Fuck yes,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFSWW4O6QNM
This week’s review – will be reposted as always – “The Sword Bearer” – graphic, character-driven Russian modern fantasy. Logan 11 years before Logan.
Here glibs, enjoy your red meat. These kind of stories make me more sad than bloodlusty.
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