I’d like to take a moment to thank Playa Manhattan for stepping up to the plate yesterday. Sunday and yesterday I was sicker than I’ve been in a long time. Today its just cough syrup and whiskey toddies. I was so sick last night I had a dream where I went to a Glibs meetup and STEVE SMITH showed up. Woke up feverish, shivering, and clenching my anus against the oncoming rapelopithicus “caress”. If my hats start talking to me, I may have to go cold turkey.
I believe this is what they call “taking the piss”: “Israel ought to offer her services to Spain and the EU as an ‘honest broker,’ and negotiate an end to the Catalonian crisis on the basis of ‘land for peace.’”
An interesting analysis of Universal Basic Income and the relationship between government and the governed.
How in the fuck can a country that doesn’t have a functioning electrical grid hack our war plans? This is just more of a type of baseless story that is modeled on the old Red Scare. Russians/Norks are starving, half-literate, and have no real army, but are magically super spies that makes them a threat. I’m just going to say it, if you can’t secure your information from the North Koreans, you are doing it wrong.
I see all this pearl grabbing about some young man shooting a cop on a college campus, with much discussion of “campus carry”. *Reads story* Wait, they arrested him for possession of drugs? I didn’t realize Texas had campus carry for drugs. If only they would pass a law against having drugs on campus, a cop would be alive today!
Local (to me) afternoon bonus link: This guy needs to learn how to use Porn Mode on his browser. Maybe he could google it.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug — Tuesday 80s Dance Edition
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You were late by a minute, by my count. Also, First
JS is a blast at parties.
You bet
He shuffles drink coasters like an 1840’s riverboat gambler and makes everyone take their shoes off at the door! It’s a sight to behold!
I pictured this.
Heh.
O’Keefe going after the NYT.
https://breaking.projectveritas.com/NYTimes1.html
He also claims that James Comey, former Director of the FBI, asked him to join Anti-Fa: “I joined that stuff for them [the FBI]. I was an asset… So it was intelligence gathering, seeing if they were [sic], what their agenda was, whether they’re a threat or not.”
O’Keefe found a typical dumbass bullshit artist with an inflated self-worth.
The whole thing sounds like a teenager bragging and bullshitting because he’s trying to get in reporter’s panties
SPOILER: She had sex with him.
I love how he seems to think that running the Times video selections in a blatantly politically biased way serves to resist Trump. He is one of the people that got Trump elected.
This. They don’t know, and they don’t know that they don’t know. Their tone-deafness is epic.
Shocked and appalled, I say. SHOCKED AND APPALLED!
So tempting. I want to click, but I must resist. No good ever comes from a Sugar Free or Heroic Mulato link
Shocked.
Appalled.
Shocked AND appalled.
Shoppalled.
I’m sorry, Sugar Free, but you tend to link to stuff that gets me flagged by our IT department
COWARD
Long ago I gave up. Now I just click on everything. Except Derpotologist links. I have to draw a line somewhere.
Not HM links?
I don’t understand the question.
True story. Sugarfree is the person who introduced me tingle concept of kissing the rose petal.
/shivers
To the…. Instead of tingle
Tingle works, leave it.
Is that like kissing a brown starfish?
It’s not bad. Just an eye roller.
I assume she’s appalled by her husband as well.
And appalled that there are only a few hundred copies of her book at every CostCo.
She’s jealous that Harvey never took a run at her.
Harvey has better taste than Billy.
Your winnings, Mrs. Clinton.
Oh, wait. You lost.
That’s Secretar….. oh, you’re right.
I asked this morning and I ask again. Is Weinstein on Clinton’s enemies list?
No, more like the “no longer of use” list. She not attacking him, just no longer protecting.
No worries, I found him a substitute…
Mexican Sharpshooter’s moustache is way better than that. I retract my previous implication.
“Universal basic income”
OK, but first get rid of Welfare, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare and the Income Tax. Then we can talk about UBI.
And some kind of cap otherwise you’ll have a UBI of $75,000. also no way for anyone to get the UBI raised or lower for individuals or special interest groups. IOW impossible in a democracy.
I keep reading that as UTI
Yes.
An upper bowel infection can be pretty shitty.
Just drink some cranberry juice, with lots of vodka, and you’ll be fine.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/10/10/californias-new-wrong-pronoun-law-doozy/
File this under news that TOS would never talk about.
ENB: “Why do people laugh when I say I’m a steadfast defender of free speech?”
Robbie: “To be sure, they’re all alt-right. Speech is problematic”
I was just about to post this story. Enforced or not, the penalty imposed upon health care workers simply for using the wrong PRONOUN! is punishable up to $1000 and a year in prison. Un-fucking-believable.
Run for the hills, Cali Glibs. This is only going to get worse.
Best to stay on the safe side and never give health care inside California.
Maybe the 9th District Court of Appeals will rule it unconstitut-….Bwahahaha!!!
I make a funny.
Urologists and gynecologists hardest hit.
It’s probably already hard enough for the doctors.
Doctor: “Yes, Mr Kleinfelder, I think I’ve found the problem, you have an ovarian cyst.”
Xer: “You despicable hater!”
If (and I wouldn’t be, but if) – I’d refer to the patient as “the patient” in every damn interaction with nursing staff. It’d be weird, but I might just be able to get to retirement age unscathed.
As if it wasn’t hard enough being a gynecologist
I think being in that field would get pretty tiresome, pretty quickly.
I don’t think it’s ever supposed to be hard if you’re a gynecologist.
(hey-o!)
Dudes. This joke deserves way more love.
We need Swiss to weigh in on this..
…
Eh.
=(
I’d refer to the patient as “the patient”
Or, use the term we use in the hospital:
Meat-Based Billing Unit (MBBU, for short).
Or leave California before we’re forced to nuke it from orbit.
So you wrote and passed the law for fun?
Yeah, and police aren’t going to be looking for seat belt scofflaws.
That was true here until they made it a primary violation. Now the SCHP have magic eyeballs installed at the academy and can spot seat belt violations miles away.
They did that same shit here. And if you happened to be against it because it would eventually be a primary offense you were just acrazy conspiracy theorist.
virtue signal laws. coming soon to an area near you.
Until a “right thinking” prosecutor gets an itch to make an example of someone.
+1 Lori Drew.
that nobody was going to be prosecuted
So then take the fines and jail time out of the law…
What fun is that?
This is a progressive article of faith. We’ll pass this law giving the government sweeping powers, but don’t be paranoid, they’re not going to use it in a bad way, or against the wrong people…
It’s the anti-smokers and MAAD rolled up into a tight little ball o fun. Hell, I’ve barely visited a bar or pub in the last twenty years. Can’t smoke a butt while having a beer and the cops cruise around like sharks in the parking lots. Fuck it, I’d rather drink at home and jaw with you degenerates. Fun Fact – the cops have taken to busting people leaving golf courses and lakeside retreats around here because their pickings became meager after half the bars closed down for some unfathomable reason.
It’s a relief to hear that that is no criminal activity in your area and the cops can spend their precious time on this.
Is there anyone out there who still thinks ‘Moonbeam’ is an inappropriate nickname?
I’m going with Governor Fuckstick instead.
How bout Lil’ Mao?
File this under news that TOS would never talk about.
I think NYC passed a law kind of like this a couple years ago and they did talk about it.
A couple year ago, they had not corralled a shark and got Fonzie to put on his leather jacket and skis.
Is “cunt” technically a wrong pronoun?
An assumption about the nature of one’s plumbing? Not Okay!
I have zero desire to link the exact tweets, but this parody is basically real. Bawling about being victimized because they’re not “anti-left lunatics” or whatever. No, it’s because you useful idiots run active interference for actual violent communists itching to bash your fash asses, and you don’t even seem to realize it, because of the stupor from all the cocktails.
I’m confused. Doesn’t this pretty strongly go against the first amendment?
I would think it is inviting exactly that challenge.
Freak-A-Zoid is the bomb. How many 12 year olds used that for a jazz routine track?
I saw these gals live back in the 90’s
I’m beginning to doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
How dare you! I fully support our
troopsjailbait!I took a lot of flack for my choice of words yesterday. And my choice of links. Pretty much everything.
Welcome to the party, pal!
Bunch of fucking ingrates! It took forever! I type with 2 fingers!
Welcome to the club!
How do you do the “shocker” and type with the same hand?
How does he do the shocker with only one hole to work with?
tickle the taint?
Playa yours were better than Brett’s. There…I said it.
Is Playa coercing people again? Buying them off?
Just asking questions here.
Anyone can have one good game. It takes a real pro to do just enough to stay in the bigs for a whole career.
Brett your comment was the more accurate out of your’s and Jesse’s.
You can’t play us off against each other, bacon, and I’m hurt that you’d even try!
*constructs hugbox, hides inside hugbox*
bacon is an evil genius.
Hugs Jesse.
*winks at Brett while hugging*
http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/10/rohrabacher-rand-paul-met-to-discuss-assange-giving-up-wikileaks-source-to-us-government/
Apparently, Rand Paul has become close with Trump (weird) and Dana Rohrabacher wants to use Rand as an intermediary to have him pitch Julian Assange’s evidence that there was no Russian interference in the election.
If Assange were to blow the whole Russian thing apart and cast more suspicion about the Seth Rich controversy at the same time, it would be a beautiful thing.
I’ll need a much bigger popcorn making machine.
Nope. A warehouse’s worth of Jiffy-Pop so that we can re-purpose the tin foil!
I would very much like to see Paul start getting info out of Assange.
Also, it would be nice if Assange had some career ending dirt on Ryan, McConnel, Mcain, etc.
I think the tumor will be ending McCain’s career far faster than any Wikileaks dirt.
Not soon enough.
this actually makes a lot of sense
they’re both effectively outside their own party. trump has no real caucus within the GOP that is 100% on board with all his various policy demands. And rand is a senate spoiler vote who wants similar stuff. This means rand has lots of potential negotiating power w/ Trump: he can say, “i’ll help you push some of your stuff through if you champion some of my pet-ideas”
basically, from a strategic pov, both have interests in pushing against the establishment/swap side; they don’t actually align on many things, but that just means they can horse trade more directly.
i also think there is at least some small overlap between Trump’s populist ‘shake shit up’ desires, and Rand’s own interests…. TOS be-damned
I’m pretty much of the same opinion. I’ll add that there’s a range of issues where their common interest lies in undermining the power of the uniparty.
Paul seems like one of those people who can tell you your wrong without making you feel stupid, and make his case persistently without being an asshole. Those seem like important abilities if one wants to get anywhere with Trump.
Also clear evidence that Rand is not a REAL libertarian…
“Also clear evidence that Rand is not a REAL libertarian…”
Agreed. Rand is too effectual and doesn’t virtue signal enough to be considered a ‘real libertarian’ by the cool kids
Paul seems like one of those people who can tell you your wrong without making you feel stupid…
It’s kind of the advantage in being somewhat principled. A confrontation or disagreement becomes less about people. If someone is disagreeing with me and consistently citing principle it isn’t as much a threat to me. It’s not that I’m dumb or venal. The person is disagreeing because he believes X.
I don’t know what to say.
Because you’re too busy working?
I am?
I guess you can call this work.
I was first today. Did you see that? That was nice
A pretty late first, barely counts I think.
Nah uh.
“accused of robbing a bank near Largo last week, then using the money on utilities, rent and a drug binge.”
At least he has his priorities straight. I say let him off with a warning.
The correct way goes binge, binge more, then pay your utilities and dodge your landlord till you get rent money
All of you male Glibs that have anxiety about interacting with females at work can rest easy after you read this thoughtful Medium essay by someone you’ve never heard of:
https://medium.com/@annevictoriaclark/the-rock-test-a-hack-for-men-who-dont-want-to-be-accused-of-sexual-harassment-73c45e0b49af
Essentially you should approach women the way you would approach the main character in a shitty z-grade action film. No, wait…you should approach them like you would approach a wrestler turned mediocre actor in mildly entertaining but ultimately forgettable disaster flick. Hang on, that’s not right either. Actually, it’s probably best to err cautiously and just don’t talk to women ever.
Actually, it’s probably best to err cautiously and just don’t talk to women ever.
How to make your Aspberger’s Syndrome a workplace plus!
Actually, it’s probably best to err cautiously and just don’t talk to
womenpeople ever.FTFY, shitlord.
The safest way is to find a way to keep them out of the workplace entirely.
And here’s another retarded take:
https://jezebel.com/missing-the-point-of-sexual-harassment-stories-by-a-mil-1819281750
Let me guess without clicking. The “point” that men miss, is that men are guilty of original sin by being men.
You promised retardation, and you delivered.
This has been my MO. I work with a fairly normal woman who loves to make the sort of crude jokes that would have me castrated if I said the same. My policy is essentially never talk to women I work with. I let men know to do the same no matter how “cool” any woman seems.
I didn’t make this bed, but I have to lie in it.
Gotta love the implication that men automatically have a supervisory position over women. It can’t possibly affect office drones, or, clerks, or any of the myriad other “low” jobs.
Rufus: Hi!
Girl at bar: RAPE!
/Rufus Homer scream.Runs away.
Cool. My crippling social anxiety might be a boon to my career, for once.
No, then you will be accused of being standoffish and aloof to your female co-workers, which will be harassment as well.
All roads lead to sexual harassment.
All roads lead to Vegas, you cishetshitlord. Get woke!
That’s wonderful advice, although I got pulled up for that at work once, because I was “intimidating”, because the cow orker in question insisted on having meetings at her office cube, making the other two members of the team stand. The other coworker who also ended up standing was an “unintimidating” 5ft 2in.
My line boss, being an idiot, suggested that this worker and I met – just the two of us – to talk it out. I told him to send me a memo to that effect so I could tell him to shove it, and why he could shove it and why to do so would expose the company to all kinds of problems. I counter offered with a suggestion that he or someone from HR be in the room too.
I heard no more about it.
So, I’m not sure how useful it would have been to have pretended that evil bitch coworker was Dwayne Johnson. After all, she was already Rebecca Watson.
You worked with a certified juggler?
Sadly, not a real one.
I’m impressed that you tossed off a reference to Watson and everyone at least pretended to know what you meant.
Treating women like men is half the reason we get in trouble. I can’t call any of the women at work a “dumbfuck douchebag” to their face like I do to the guys.
“Pull my finger!”
You ever seen a one eared elephant?
There are only a handful of women working the floor where I work. Maybe 5 out of 600 employees. We talk to them just like we do the guys. I can call them dumbfounded douche bag or what ever and expect to receive an equal insult back. Admittedly, it takes a bit of a different kind of girl to work out here.
I have inadvertently made at least four of my fellow employees cry. Imagine if I actually tried…
Wow, I’ve only made one cry. I feel like I have so much living left to do.
And that was at work. I wonder how many have cried at home.
Piker.
I’ve done it inadvertently.
One day, I’ll stop these fingers going on full auto.
The trick is getting the coworkers with XY chromosomes to cry.
Old Yeller and nut-punches.
Too complicated, and I can’t be bothered with carrying the DVD, so it’ll have to be just the nut-punches.
*searches area listing of insane asylums*
I imagine it would be pretty grim.
I remember the first time I made a client cry. Memories…
Dude, you need to use soap more often.
To be fair, you work with librarians.
Now if you worked at a tattoo parlor…
Except if a word man accused you of harassment for that name you would get fried, and if a man made the accusation they would laugh him out of the office. It’s your life but treating them the same is a mistake. They are not the same.
That is really placing a lot on the assumed sexual orientation of the reader.
It doesn’t matter how you treat women! If you smeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell. what the fedora. is COOKIN’!
Austin 3:16 says something about this
So, treat women like they were all large, muscular gay men?
It’s hilarious she chose The Rock since his entire WWE shtick is basically alpha male, locker room humor and insulting his opponents by questioning their manhood and insinuating they are gay.
He’ll always be The Tooth Fairy to her.
And he’s so woke.
It’s like a Trump longform tweet. Poetry! Yes! The Rock VS Trump 2020!
Questioning an opponent’s manhood was a career ending stunt for Benny “The Kid” Paret. Maybe stuff like that is more easily overlooked today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Paret
I had no idea this was the case because I don’t watch wrestling and have pretty much only seen The Rock in movies. I would assume that the lady writing this probably doesn’t actually watch much wrestling, either.
Her takeaway:
You’ve learned the quick and easy way to interact with women without behaving inappropriately. Simply offer them the same respect, admiration, and healthy dose of fear you’d offer
anyone who could completely destroy you should you deserve ita dumb, panicky, dangerous animal.Ladies and gentlemen: your modern millennial feminist.
^^This
“Deserve’s got nothing to do with it.”
Simply offer them the same respect, admiration, and healthy dose of fear you’d offer anyone who could completely destroy you should you deserve it.
The funny thing is, that advice pretty much says have no interaction with the women in question unless it’s utterly, absolutely, and totally unavoidable. Oh, and put no trust whatsoever in them.
#2 I guess, but honestly this is the worst Chive link ever.
Bad marriage = bad health (at least for Peno-Americans)
Derp. Link:
http://nypost.com/2017/10/09/marriage-troubles-linked-to-health-problems-for-men-study/
Louis Marinelli is moving back to CA and is excited that Julian Assanged name-checked Yes California while encouraging Catalonian independence.
The article is unconstitutional plebiscites all the way down.
People who want a say in who represents them are worse than Hitler
Eh besides the California National Party everyone involved in a Calexit movement seems to be some combination of a complete nutjob and a self-aggrandizing fame-whore.
Oh, I don’t doubt it. I was more so saying that the writer is conflating CalExit with the issue in Catalonia. Which is an apples and oranges comparison
This is why I went for the Independent New Vegas ending.
some combination of a complete nutjob and a self-aggrandizing fame-whore.
So, politicians and politician wannabes?
Let’s not forget the far left true believers.
California out!
Tell me more about this Anastasia.
Check out the joke at 3:25. Amazing.
https://youtu.be/SzNoT3Zcw2A?t=204
I’ll give him credit for laying that one out there.
Also, the audience’s reaction. Everyone in that room knew what was up.
Something something truth said in jest.
when seth mcfarlane smiles he looks like he has down-syndrome
“seth mcfarlane has down-syndrome”
FIFY.
Jerry Jones = Slave Owner
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/10/michael-wilbon-compares-jerry-jones-slave-owner/
I thought Wilbon was supposed to be the smart half of PTI (not that that’s saying much).
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/20980456/roger-goodell-sends-letter-nfl-teams-wants-players-stand-national-anthem
Then what does that make Goodell? Jefferson Davis?
I remember when words used to mean things.
When I was growing up, slavery meant involuntary, uncompensated labor.
Now, it apparently means a black guy doing business with a white guy that you don’t like.
I think it means any white guy, anywhere telling any black guy what to do.
White Grocery Store Customer: “Please don’t squash my bread.”
Black Bag Boy: “SLAVER! NAZI! BIGOT!”
You kidding me? At least Kornheiser had a brain, once. Wilbon never had one.
Wilbon’s indignant outbursts are retardedly childish. He’s a bald Jemele Hill who managed to make himself some decent coin.
He once claimed Crosby isn’t all-time great. I forget his reasons but I do remember them being absurd and without base.
Just because he missed two extra points on Sunday….
Crosby is great, but seriously, fuck Sidney Crosby.
Absolutely. Enormous talent, even more enormous cunt.
Didn’t he also claim that the Chicago Blackhawks streak a couple of years ago as “not impressive” because they have “Ties” in hockey. Which they got rid of years before.
Do people actually read him?
His takes on new media are lame.
The gatekeepers have been breached!
You know what I’m liking? The Athletic. I’m paying for it, but they’ve got good writers on board writing actual good sports content, no video, no other bullshit.
Good to know. My local hockey writer went there and I’ve considered subscribing.
Are they woke?
I think I’ve seen one article on the protests that came down to “Love them or hate them, this is probably the new sports reality”, without casting judgment either way. From following a few of the local (Philly) reporters on Twitter, they may be individually woke, but it doesn’t seem to be coming out in the writing.
Shit, Chris Burke and Don Banks are writing for them? Getting off twitter was good for cutting out a lot of garbage from my life, but it made following football a lot harder. If this site is derp free, its worth the price.
My football reading list is down to just Football Outsiders.
Anyone using the slave owner analogy needs a whippin’
Whippin’ the school’s heavy cream… that’s a whippin’.
They’re employees, you blithering idiot. Employers tend to require employees to adhere to certain standards of conduct.
It’s the National Football Soviet
No matter how much I pay them, they are not equal to me.
That’s simple. Because in the context of my business, they’re not. I’m paying them. In fact, the more I pay them, the more I expect they’re there to serve me. That’s what an employment relationship is.
I haven’t watched PTI in years. It’s shame, I used to really enjoy that show. Kornheiser’s old Washington Post writing is very entertaining though.
I know posting derp is your hobby, but you can do better than “OMG SOME NO TALENT EMPTY SUIT AT ESPN SAID SOMETHING IN A DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO GET RATINGS” links. Organic derp is much more satisfying.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug — Tuesday 80s Dance Edition
The song is great; the hair, not so much.
Too much disco.
You can’t have too much disco and 80s hair.
Yes you can.
You’re just jealous that bacon can’t have such fabulous hair.
too greasy
I’m just disappointed in hindsight that we mocked bands like that considering the tsunami of shit that was about to inundate us. Look at them, actually playing musical instruments and being all retarded and stuff. I should have crawled into a burrow circa 1995 and promised to never come out until a girl with anal virginity true laid a peck on my star fish.
I’ll never be a university president, so I’ll just go ahead and say this. If you do not have a police report to substantiate your allegations of rape, whether that allegation is against Harvey Weinstein, or Bill Clinton, or Jimmy that really hot guy on the Kappa Sig flag football team, STFU.
You’ll never be woke with that reasonable attitude, you know.
Third time this absurdly expensive sex club has shown up in my click bait link of the day.
http://archive.is/MaTi8
I’m thinking they have a publicist that is coordinating these articles with multiple outlets.
If I win the powerball, that membership is on my short list. I will make sex slavery great again.
Is there some weird persepective in this pic or am I a dumbass (both). What is up with the woman on the right’s abdomen?
I think it’s the way the shadow is falling.
Sounds like a good club, but there is some pretty lame semi-neuroscience in that article.
Not taking is giving: coal industry edition.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/clean-power-plan-repeal-will-save-33-billion-compliance-costs/
I seem to recall some people talking about how the free market was killing coal and so we can just ignore all the onerous regulations that the government was imposing on the industry. That was equal parts stupid and hilarious
Not saying you can ignore the regs or that they weren’t ridiculous, just saying that a repeal of the regs isn’t going to help them much.
“Stopping harming” counts as “helping”?
Wasn’t it basically never implemented anyway because of legal challenges right off the bat?
Euro world cup qualifying coming to an end. Switzerland won all 9 of its qualifiers coming into today and has to qualify through the playoffs now, sucks for them. No Netherlands in the World Cup. Tonight we’ll see if Argentina misses out as well, which would be just. fucking. hilarious (really, the AFA may be more corrupt than FIFA itself) and see if the USA can use Pulisic magic to beat Trinidad & Tobago on that lake they call a field and qualify as well.
My best friend is Dutch and he is gonna be soooooooooo pissed.
George – What is Holland?
Jerry – What do you mean, “what is Holland?” It’s a country next to Belgium.
George – No, that’s the Netherlands.
Jerry – Holland IS the Netherlands.
George – What? Then who are the Dutch??
+1 vacation from yourself.
Who knows if the pitch will be playable?
It’s playable. Or playable enough.
https://twitter.com/JeffreyCarlisle/status/917840602829537280
What high school is that?
Switzerland won all 9 of its qualifiers coming into today and has to qualify through the playoffs now, sucks for them.
*Bellows in rage and shakes fist*
*Yodels in rage and shakes suisse miss*
ftfy
I even signed up for fuboTV to watch the USMNT. Probably because of Pulisic.
Hey, at least he paid her! Most cops just arrest 18 year olds then extort sex in exchange for letting them go.
http://kdvr.com/2017/10/06/denver-police-officer-accused-of-having-sex-with-prostitute-suspended-for-30-days/
Why do you think they’re suspending him? Can’t have prostitutes thinking cops should pay!
That damn scab!
Can we just make prostitution legal already? FFS let’s be more like Europe in the good ways already.
Decriminalized, not legal.
Germany, Switzerland and Austria would like a word with you.
I still don’t quite understand how escorts operate legally.
They’re being paid for a “massage” or for their “company” then they’re just so overwhelmed with desire for their client that they have sex of their own accord. I know it’s pathetic but those are the logical cartwheels Prohibition force people to go through.
That being the case, though, why doesn’t every prostitute operate that way?
Dope sickness gets in the way of logical thinking? Dunno.
Along those lines of skirting the law, open a brothel, but call it a porn production company. Johns sign a waiver at the beginning that they’re being live-casted on the internet, pay the front desk clerk for however much time they want, and the company pays the women. Exactly like porn. No quid-pro-quo. Could probably make a fortune.
Plus, you’ve got an extra revenue stream or two. Either actually tape the sessions and sell the tape to the John (legit, not as a blackmail thing where you keep a copy), and/or tape the sessions and post them on porn sites.
*Tells orphan to get investment banker on the phone*
There was a case in Phoenix recently that some people did exactly that. Didn’t stop the owner from going to prison.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/arizona/articles/2017-06-14/sentencing-set-for-porn-studio-owner-in-prostitution-case
Because many of them are so far down the cycle of drugs/selling her ass from a street-corner that they lack the means and the dedication to set that kind of operation up. That’s why those kinds of sex-workers have
pimpsbusiness agents.The ones Q speaks of are on a different trajectory and enjoy all kinds of benefits the drug-addled street workers can but dream of. Remember, if you’re one of that first group, the only reason you’re on the game is to make sure you have your next fix. If you manage to meet that objective, paying your pimp comes next, if you managed to avid him beating you up after every John you service. Once your pimp is paid, well, maybe you can get some food for you and your kid. There’s no happy ending in that story for anyone.
On the flip side, running something Q refers to requires a certain degree of planning and commercial nous. The workers in that end of the industry are quite different, and in large cities like NYC, they can make a good living, once they manage to develop the right relationship with local LE and other influential people.
Let Maggie McNeill explain it all to you — at her social rate of $150/hr.
https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com
She actually sounds quite interesting and erudite. She should come by here sometime.
You must have read Maggie McNeill before now?? She’s contributed to TSTSNBN several times.
She’s far too busy with her work, and testing cannabis super-orgasm lube.
https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/testimonial/
I remember a while back when cops in Hawaii were fighting legislation that would have forbade them from actually having sex with prostitutes as part of sting operations. Reading their protestations of why they really needed to plow those girls before they arrested them was equal parts hilarious and revolting.
“We need to pass on DNA samples”
Pics or it didn’t happen.
Today in counter-factual news
Could Vegas police have taken down the gunman sooner?
before i delve into this mix of excuse-making and speculation, i’d rather there be some actual ‘reporting-related’ news, as in:
“Why/how was it that the media got the timeline so badly incorrect for so many days? Was there literally not a single reporter asking questions and verifying details?
According to this, Paddock shot *200 rounds* inside the hotel before opening fire on the crowd below.
The first reporting-relevant question isn’t whether or not police could have acted faster (which is mostly speculative), but why is it that the facts were gotten so incorrect the first time around, and never corrected by anyone? this was in a *hotel*. Hotels have guests and employees. Reporters are supposed to actually question people and gather their own evidence. Apparently this is some anachronism which everyone has completely forgotten.
How does someone fire 200 shots in a hotel and no one checks it out? This was six minutes before the main shooting, and his room wasn’t breached for 76 more minutes. 82 total minutes from the first shots? WTF?
Oooh! OOOh! I think I know the answer!
Silencer?
Had to be!
Yeah, that backs up the timeline for starting the police response. 200 fucking rounds in the hotel? I don’t care if this is Vegas, somebody had to have called that in.
That’s also not consistent with the building Narrative that this was an evil genius loner dude who succeeded with methodical preparation and execution. 200 rounds down the hall sounds more like some dude who just totally lost his shit.
I would think especially in one of the big casino hotels, a firearms discharge would garner police response. The “real” Dunphy had a shit-eating article about how the Las Vegas shooting proved that cops were still needed. This was the worst-case scenario. Despite the individual bravery of police officers (and regular people) standing tall to attempt to make targets of themselves, nothing the police did ended this any faster than an ad hoc posse of armed citizens would have. I’m totally on board with cops not charging into a hail of bullets, but they can’t be special heroes when they don’t do anything special or heroic.
The shooter himself reported loud music from the room below. He could hear that, but nobody in the other rooms could hear someone shooting?
And none of those 200 rounds resulted in something noticeable?
To get to the other side!
…wrong joke.
That was a joke right?
Does the 8th Amendment apply in punishing people like this?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-arrested-allegedly-apos-marrying-014700695.html
If we are to hold to our principles, yes.
Now, if some mistake is made and he’s released into general population at whatever prison he ends up at, and some of the inmates are “accidentally” told what he did … well, nothing can be done there.
That would be a violation of principles as well. Sucks but unless we’re willing to bring back flogging and such; jail for the rest of his life is what we’re left with.
I know. I stick to my principles on the death penalty even when it’s difficult, so I’d have to here. Given the gravity of his crimes and that they likely involve many federal offenses, just shove him into a cell at ADX Florence until he croaks.
In a nutshell
ESPN’s decision to suspend Hill, whom it pays to express her opinions, suggests that the network might be scared of boycotts and that the Cowboys’ sponsors, as well as the network’s own, are more important than supporting the idea that black people might be people.
Well, if that’s all there is to it…
Business likes money, wants to make more of it. Film at 11.
Because kneeling during the anthem signifies your belief that black people are people. No words for the stupidity. This was written by someone who works for a newspaper that fancies itself as the be-all-end-all arbiter of Truth. The SMARTEST PEOPLE IN THE ROOM. Hopeless.
So I guess the NFL now has to decide whether black people are actually people, and staying in business.
I wish them luck in making their decision.
Future Trump State of the Union
“We didn’t get healthcare or tax cuts, but we did make NFL players stand” (Republicans applaud) “And..” (continued applause) “And they stand so nice now. So beautiful. So classy. And we did it.” (Republicans applaud) “This has been the best first term ever, people have said.”
Still would be far more desirable of an outcome than obamacare…
As far as presidential achievements go.
The French National Past-Time
my favorite ‘source’:
1) because when you’re looking for the voice of the ‘working people’, there’s no one more appropriate than a 20-something philosophy student @ the Sorbonne
2) he’s basically saying that his lifestyle relies on taking huge slices out of the wages of the working classes so that he can live a life of leisure and scholarship. Solidarity!
I thought the French national past-time was having nooners with your lover behind your spouse’s back.
You’ve got that all wrong. It’s just the rich they’re soaking.
You gun obsessive jerks have probably already gone over this but I just saw it so enjoy
The AR-15 shotgun – so rare yet so, so lethal.
the derp that launched a thousand memes…
If it were a Saiga you could figleaf a claim that it’s an AK47.
From the replies:
This super-clever cartoon was attached to this comment.
I don’t know what the left is worse at – memes or cartoons.
Their example of a well-regulated militia is state troopers? Can the left decide if they love or hate cops already?
They love cops if they are shooting white people or busting opioid addicted Trump supporters. They hate them if they are enforcing actual valid laws against minority hooligans.
I get (don’t agree with,but get) the second part of that, but when have ‘the left’ got all ‘USA,USA’ about the first part?
Not so much that they love it, it’s just that they conveniently ignore it.
See: The not-so-shocking lack of protests after Justine Damond was murdered.
There was also the Bundy ranch/Malheur standoff business when they were all rah-rah about the cops busting some heads.
Isn’t the draft premised on 10 USC § 246? Even at the object level it’s a failed argument.
*Goes to Selective Service Website to enter name*
Yep, there it is. I’m a member of the militia.
Does this mean women don’t have 2nd amendment rights?
*mind blown*
I’m shamelessly stealing this for the next time some proglodyte baits me into another argument about gun prohibition. They also tend to be avid draft supporters, so it’ll be a delight to unleash.
I mean, if you can make an AR pistol, could you make an AR shotgun? Would it be pump-action and shoot 5.56? Would it just look like a cartoon version of an M4 and shoot 20 gauge?
Troy industries made a pump action AR15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYRRzus9wto
legal in 50 states. I like it. it just looks like fun. like a manual car, only it shoots bullets.
This actually has a system pretty close to an AR.
No buffer tube.
http://www.atlanticfirearms.com/component/virtuemart/shipping-rifles/utas-xtr-12-fde-detail.html?Itemid=0
They have been making them for years now. I hear they have reliability issues feeding.
The Saiga and these both have issues with the variety of shot loads in a shot-gun shell. If you set them up to handle light loads, heavy loads will destroy the gun, and if you set them up for heavy loads, light loads won’t cycle properly.
Speaking of the Las Vegas timeline-
I have seen a couple of reports saying the actual time he spent shooting out the window was 10 – 12 minutes. Where does that fall in the overall sequence of events? Did he go take a bath after he ran out of ammo?
Emptied out the minibar because why not? He wasn’t going to be around to pay that ridiculous bill anyway.
200 rounds down the hall sounds more like some dude who just totally lost his shit.
That security guard wasn’t in the script.
Rose McGowan is NOT playing when it comes to Harvey Weinstein
Actually, read her whole timeline for the last two days. She pissed. She’s calling out everybody (Affleck, Damon, more) on their “we didn’t know!” responses.
Good for her.
I’m not sure I agree. Hear me out. This happened years ago. Did she stand up and do anything about it? Or did she just keep it on the QT. Yeah, great, she’s calling out Affleck, Damon, et al. For doing what? What she did for years? She knew this guy pulled stunts like this. Did she think he’d stop and not do it to anyone else?
Between the “OMG! There are casting couches in Hollywood? Who knew?” responses and the “Yeah, Harvey asked me to give his casting couch a workout, but I totes turned him down, and then he gave me the part anyway!” responses, it truly shows that Hollywood people are convinced the rest of us are blithering idiots.
More projection, I suppose.
I’m just enjoying Hollywood devour itself. Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of narcissistic, entitled loud mouths.
Politicians?
Bingo. That’s why I’m liking this.
She’s a big part of the problem.
She took a payout.
Yep. We already know what she is, she just quibbled about the price.
this is how she cleanses her conscience = lash out and demonize everyone else
WTF is that response video????
I’m loving her Twitter these days. The more schadenfreude that is kicked Weinstein’s way, the better. Because a little of that schadenfreude is rubbing off on truly garbage humans like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Matt Damon.
MATT DAMON!
I used to have a huge crush on Rose McGowan pre-plastic surgery. I know this has nothing to do with the topic at hand but still, I would have given up anything to have a go at her when I was in high school.
photo example please
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/plastic-surgery-overload-rose-mcgowan-puffy-face-unrecognizable-article-1.417772
Granted, if I was single and she un-plausibly tried to sleep with me, I wouldn’t kick her out of bed.
She was extremely beautiful, until she smashed her face in a car accident.
Same here. She was insane in Jawbreaker.
I’ll repeat myself from this morning.
Let’s put it as simply as possible. Sure, there may be some decent people in the entertainment business, people who do their job competently and go home to a decent life. So, the standard individualist disclaimers apply. But, for the most part, these are horrible excuses for human beings. These are people who live their every waking hour in pursuit of public attention and approval, even if that approval is utterly shallow and the attention is being paid by people who are utterly despicable. These are people who let no moral principle interfere with their desire to be part of the “in crowd”.
I can’t help but wonder if show business has such a negative view of business and free markets because of how many moral lepers they meet in their own industry.
Let’s put it as simply as possible. Sure, there may be some decent people in the entertainment business, people who do their job competently and go home to a decent life. So, the standard individualist disclaimers apply. But, for the most part, these are horrible excuses for human beings. These are people who live their every waking hour in pursuit of public attention and approval, even if that approval is utterly shallow and the attention is being paid by people who are utterly despicable. These are people who let no moral principle interfere with their desire to be part of the “in crowd”.
I can’t help but wonder if show business has such a negative view of business and free markets because of how many moral lepers they meet in their own industry.
Certainly explains the lefty coast hatred or meritocracy.
I am unseemingly tickled by my mega-prog friend using Dogbert for her anti-Trump satire on Facebook.
Question: should I tell her about Scott Adams?
Or Scott Adams about HER.
Was thinking to Tweet @ him, but I always hate Tweeting famous people. Seems…whorish.
1. we know what you are
2. ???
3. something about the price
Too rich for your blood, anyway!!!
Yes, but not until she’s beclowned herself for a few weeks
What’s funny is she set the Dogbert panel as her profile pic!!!! I bet one of her progressive compatriots knows about Adams and will tell her in due time.
You’re also missing a rather nice early fall foliage show down here in the foothills of the Berkshires.
🙁
We have a sunset maple here on the condo property, and in good years, it’s absolutely spectacular. But it is a finicky little bitch, and just a tiny bit off on the weather – not enough rain, too hot, too cold, too cloudy, too sunny – it will produced the saddest rust-colored leaves you’ve ever seen.
This year is a rusty year.
The winds have pulled down more leaves than usual, but other than that, we’re getting a full-spectrum show this year.
I don’t know, but I think this woman is the Queen of All Trolls, Ever.
That’s hilarious.
Christ that’s hilarious! Sports parents are almost too easy to troll, though.
I have a friend who runs a soccer league. The parents drive him nuts.
I coached hockey and soccer. It was fun when the kids were small and the parents still thought it was about having fun. Once tryouts started, it got ugly fast.
Too bad, really, because the kids are almost never the problem.
I stopped coaching soccer. Best choice I’ve ever made.
I can’t believe how cutthroat it’s gotten. It’s soccer, ffs!
When I played in the ’70s/’80’s parents had no fucks to give about soccer. The way it should be.
In this town, all the kid’s sports are really competitive. Parents getting into bare knuckle fights and getting blood on their Ralph Lauren Polo shirts just because little Ethan wasn’t put on in center for the kick-off, and a 7 year old needs these experiences if he’s going to get into Haaaavahhhd.
It’s not just soccer. You want your kid in lacrosse? get ’em on the list at age 4. No joke.
Horrible. Glad my kids weren’t team sports people.
I went to high school in Ridgefield. #6 knows of what he speaks. Even in the 80’s those fuckers were mean.
Hockey can be like that here. Lacrosse is still new enough and small enough that it hasn’t reached peak retardation.
My kids played a variety of sports but were never in danger of being superstars. I still think sports can be a great experience for kids.
Ban parents.
Homie fist-bump.
Well, #6.2 fenced epee, and he’s now doing a bit of cross country plus he’s on the volleyball team.
LSD (#6.1) isn’t sporty at all, but she did fine, doing her own personal imitation of Daria, and was in some team-like academic stuff, so we never worried that much about team-building.
My father coached my little league baseball team in the late 70s. The other players voted him out and voted in the assistant coach.
I was then traded (in little league!) to another team.
I was teased as a traitor the first game I played against my former team.
Hmm, I wonder why I’m not a joiner.
A-Basin is opening on Friday!!
That damned global warming allowing ski areas to open the first week of october! *shakes fist at sky, yells at clouds*
Technically, it’s the second week of October.
Still sweating balls off in NY. I would kill for some snow.
So that weasly little pissant, Dudich? Anyone else can’t stop laughing at his obvious attempt to impress that chick who was filming? He punched many Nazis? This guy punched many Nazis. This. Guy.
Looks like Tucker Carlson’s nerdier little brother.
OMG now he’s saying he was an FBI “asset” embedded with the Antifa! This guy is just sad.
He can’t very well tell the truth and call himself a liability.
Yeah, nothing says, “Stick it to the System!!” like forking for The Man…
He looks like the nerdier friend of the nerdy main character trying to win the love of the popular girl in a 1980’s teen romcom.
I missed the pocket protector, but yeah.
I can’t remember whether the love interest was Molly Ringwald, Sean Young or Hillary Clinton.
Oh jeezus…I’m dying
It’s funny, but unless they can dig up something better, it’s a pretty meh expose.
It is, however, comedy gold watching this doughy, chinless, pale motherfucker desperately try to get laid. They could easily write an 80’s-style adventure comedy about this guy’s antics.
True, but that little dork is no Lane Meyer.
Buenos Dias….. Roy Stalin *extends hand*
Well you’ll make a fine little helper! What’s your name?
-Charles DeMarr.
Shut up, geek.
I KNEW I RECOGNIZED HIM.
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards.
Maybe he plays a lot of wolfenstein? Context matters.
Who is that?
The star of the Project Veritas video
***
A Drexel professor is threatening to take “all necessary legal action” after a tweetstorm against “white supremacist patriarchy” following the Las Vegas shooting got him kicked out of the classroom.
Drexel professor George Ciccariello-Maher said in an op-ed for the Washington Post that he is on “administrative leave” following a “smear campaign by conservatives aimed at academics.”
The tenured professor blames his suspension – not on the tweets – but rather on “illegal threats of violence” after Fox News and other outlets wrote stories on his tweets, in which he blamed the Las Vegas massacre on “Trumpism” and a “narrative of white victimization.”
***
Normally, I’d head desk. I’ve reached the point where I just sit back and chuckle. Oh those clowns. They’re at it again.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/10/drexel-professor-who-tweeted-about-white-supremacist-patriarchy-threatens-legal-action.html
***
Lena Dunham apologized on Tuesday after she said George Clooney was “more sexually irresistible” for speaking out against Harvey Weinstein amid the sexual assault allegations against Weinstein.
Dunham retweeted Jessica Chastain’s tweet of the Daily Beast’s interview with Clooney on Monday. She posted it with the comment: “Ironically, guys, speaking out against Harvey Weinstein only makes you more sexually irresistible (consensually, of course).” Clooney called Weinstein’s behavior “indefensible” and “disturbing on a whole lot of levels.” The 56-year-old actor said he “heard rumors” about the alleged sexual acts in the 20 years he’s known him.
***
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/10/10/lena-dunham-blasted-for-tweet-about-harvey-weinstein-accusations.html
Oh those clowns. They’re at it again.
I’m so loving all of this.
Chow down, libtards. Chow down hard.
Their misery sustains me
Nom nom nom
What a sad, sad, miserable person. Pitiful even.
I was thinking of speaking out against Weinstein, but it if that makes you sexually irresistible to Lena Dunham (who, AFAIK, has sexually assaulted at least two people already), then out of an abundance of caution, I think I will let Hollywood sort this out internally.
If I were Clooney, I’d tool up. Not just with a gun, but with holy water, and special goggles.
Any of you saw that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGC3y1BPzwA
I’ve been trying to achieve to watch in full for a while now but…. blood boils too much.
At this point, they are begging for civil war. This isn’t going to end up well.
Ah, Jordan, seated there in your hidden mountain hideaway, hatching your plans for world domination.
I can’t watch 40+ minutes to find out wtf they’re talking about. can you summarize.
dude on the bottom has a jawline that looks like it was stolen from Family Guy
They are forcing lawyers in Ontario to make a statement about their values : it now has to be Inclusion, Diversity, Equality, and the fact that they will promote those values.
They might loose their license to practice if they don’t do it properly.
They are not at limiting free speech, they now are at forced speech.
ah. that sounds familiar.
I love this new collective guilt schtick among some libertarians. Nothing says individual liberty liked forced disavowals concerning the actions of others. Remind me again why it was bad to ask Muslims to disavow terrorism?
That’s absolutely totalitarian. I can hope that it will be rebuffed, but my gut says it won’t.
So, if the guard got shot prior to the mass killing, did he actually call the police or radio other guards at that point? Did they know which room the shooter was in from the beginning? A whole lot of other parts of the story fall apart.
Sort of makes you wonder if the guard did it (and he was the actual ISIS operative, so they weren’t lying). Maybe he sets up a large gun buy ahead of time with Paddock, who he knows to have made his money smuggling, with the story that he plans to run them to the cartels. Then he whacks him once the guns are in the room, shoots himself non-fatally to give himself some victim/hero cred, and fires the other 200 rounds to provide a plausible basis to tell everyone else on the floor to evacuate and also to have them corroborate his story. Then he attacks the crowd, and is out of the room before the police arrive. He may have even set up the cameras to make sure he was clear before they got there. In which case, the woman telling the crowd they were going to die might be associated with him. Okay, it’s a crazy conspiracy theory, but it’s not really worse than most of the others.
Implausible. Insufficient reptilian interference.
lol jews did wtc
Got hung up on this the other day:
x + 1 = x
immediately collecting like terms gives 0 = 1.
I had to think for a few minutes before squaring both sides
x^2 + 2x + 1 = x^2
2x + 1 = 0
x = -1/2
That doesn’t solve the original equation though.
Maybe inverse logarithm?
10^(x+1) = 10^x
10*10^x = 10^x
10 = 1
I guess the trick is recognizing that the equation is derived from a nonsense statement.
1 = 0
add x to both sides
1 + x = x
My advice? Stick with languages.
I have an engineering a degree and was a math teacher for 2 years, so there!
Oopsy- an engineering degree
me no english good today
Also, it’s not like computational linguistics is a thing.
That’s crazy talk. Like lambda calculus.
Mmmm, lambada calculus….
The forbidden calculus!
*narrows gaze*
October 10, 2017!
Well if you’re a computer that just tells you to increment x by 1.
X = infinity. You’re welcome.
I dunno how Derp came across this problem, but if it was given as a brain teaser or somesuch, then it should say that it’s using the extended real line. Throwing infinity into the mix literally changes the rules, e.g. you cannot reduce x + 1 = x by subtracting x from both sides since x − x is undefined if x = ∞.
I might be overthinking this.
I’m just funnin’…
*flashes back to calc 2*
*shudders*
I guess the trick is recognizing that the equation is derived from a nonsense statement.
Yep, you reduced the equation to a contradiction, thus showing it has no solutions.
Made shakshuka again since good vine-ripened tomatoes can still be had. Forgot to get a feta cheese again, but it didn’t matter – used Alder-smoked salt to give it a little twist. It works! In addition to the whole tin of harissa, used a whole poblano, and more hot Hungarian paprika this time. Half of the eggs are poached, while the other half of the eggs have perfectly gelatinous yolks. A+ smoked flavour.
shakshuka means goatee in sand people talk
Tuskin raiders.
Once I went to smoked salt, I never went back.
And now I want eggs.
Mmmm cancer agents make all food taste better.
Mmmm gelatinous.
I used to know a guy that bought 10lb bags of Turkish pistachios. Now I want some. And arak. California pistachios are stupid and tasteless like New England boiled dinner.
I made chicha morada for the first time this weekend. Man, that is a tasty beverage.
Wow, I would definitely try that.
It’s pretty easy to make and perfect for fall with the spices. Next step is experimenting with adding booze. I’m going to start with pisco since it is a Peruvian drink.
I’d love to get to Lima, Peru one of these days. I bet the cuisine is insanely delicious and exotic.
Peru has some of the best food on earth. The people were very nice, but Beverly prepared for a high disparity in have and have nots.
Be, not Beverly.
The have/have nots thing won’t be shocking after spending a lot of time in Asia, but I can see how it is unnerving for a lot of people that grew up in the prosperity of the 1st world and haven’t been anywhere else.
I have an acquaintance that grew up uber rich and fancied himself a “libertarian” before visiting Hong Kong. The sorrow of all the toilet cleaners and floor sweepers working in the shadow of Li Ka Shing softened him up quite a bit.
That looks good!
That looks like my friend’s wife sans the snaggle tooth.
Heavens to Murgatroyd!
A classic.
Thufferin’ thuccotath!
Ahem. That was Sylvester.
All these cartoon characters look the same to me, Boo-Boo.
Except Muttley. I know Muttley.
::opera applause::
wasn’t that a picture of some cambodian mass murderer or something?
If by “mass murder” you mean “Japanese gay porn“, then yes.
BURGE!
David Burge @iowahawkblog 17m17 minutes ago
Looks like Jann Wenner sent his Rolling Stone rape investigators to the wrong frat house
When he wanted an expose of (((cover-ups))) he didn’t want them to find out about the wrong kind of (((cover-ups))), the fools!
http://depauliaonline.com/2017/10/09/depaul-alum-prepares-race-10th-district-state-representative-seat/
This is the asshole who interrupted the Milo Yiannopoulos event at my alma mater, DePaul. He’s a self serving piece of shit who did nothing impressive and used the perceived issues on campus to launch his bullshit political career. Some of the stuff he has as sounds good but when you look into his platform a little deeper it’s contradictory as hell such as this statement:
“We are being taxed at alarming rates, the cost of living continues to increase while minimum wage barely increases,” Ward said.
Perhaps he will reform the criminal justice system at the state level and try to lower taxes ( but will advocate raising them on the wealthy) but if his actions during his time at DePaul is an indicator, he’s probably going to try become the next Charlie Rangel.
Oh, boy, just what we need, more “your speech is violence, our violence is speech” folks getting into politics.
for our limeys: this guy sound legit to you? To make things more interesting, he writes using US spellings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mpUrE0uOYc
*not a brit, obviously
**but i worked for/w/among the brits for ~9 years or so.
my eardar accent-detector suggests to me that its 100% affected. I’d heard him speak before, but never at length, just occasional Q+A.
then again, it could just be confirmation bias, because in between then and now i read the blog-comment you pointed to from a kid he went to college w/.
Adrian Peterson, child abuser, washed-up RB and now a deadbeat.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
What a sad fall. And what a sad human.
via Funny Libertarian
Fast Food, 2017
I would try an Arby’s fish sandwich any day. It’ll be hard to knock the Wendy’s fish sandwich off top rank.
Nothing about it here:
https://twitter.com/nihilist_arbys
Brilliance
Wait, you guys kicked out John? But what did he do? I mean other than what you’d already expected. I went and did ski things in Patagonia. I think I heard Trump mentioned twice during my three weeks down there. It was awesome.
That whistling sound in the background is strange.
That’s his ocarina.
It summons a little bird that takes you to the top for another run. It’s not as efficient as the chairlifts we have up here but it sure is a lot of fun!
::golf clap::
Then no trip to Latin America is ever complete without first having purchased one.
It’s the vents in my helmet. I can’t hear the whistle but unfortunately the camera can.
No it’s not, it’s a beautiful handmade ocarina from the Andes.
*shakes fist with envy*
What level would you say the easiest line is on that mountain? Blue? If blue, I could probably handle it. It’s my dream to escape summer and ski south of the equator. I’ve been eyeing Portillo, more for the atmosphere and English-speaking staff than the terrain.
A strong intermediate skier can ski every groomed piste at Corralco. My high school level Spanish was surprisingly serviceable. The ski operation at Corralco is run by a gringo who bought Vail’s retired lifts.
This freeride venue at Chapelco was genuinely intimidating. The Corralco venue was overly mild, barely single diamond.
Holy shitballs!
The type of skiing you were doing in the first video is much more my speed. When I can make really wide, sweeping turns I get into zen mode and completely blank out. It’s amazingly therapeutic. It’s one of the reasons I switched to the Rockies instead of Vermont.
Yeah, that crash was nerves. I can still feel it. The footage is golden as a coaching tool. I got scared, and as we all know, fear is the mind killer.
This is the hardest trail I have ever attempted. My friend Kara and I tried it when we were about 9 years old. Went down most of it on our butts, deliberately.
(not my video – I was skiing Bolton in the early 80’s!)
Closely spaced trees should give most recreational skiers reasonable anxiety. The volcano skiing in Chile is all above treeline, Portillo too I think. There isn’t anything to Sonny Bono into so you are completely free to just ski. Depth perception can be tricky. I recommend getting the best goggles you can afford, something polarized with a switchable lens for bright and cloudy days. The modern lenses are spherical instead of cylindrical and it makes a difference. It’s one of those things that seems outrageously expensive but then you’re 9000 feet above sea level on an active volcano and without them you would just be utterly blind,
Ooh and big fat skis are awesome too. Once you get used to them it feels like cheating compared to the skinny sticks I used to ride.
I generally rent (gasp!) because I hate flying with skis, but I always ask for wide, short skis. I really love skiing on 135s. Everyone remarks how stumpy they are, but they’re really comfy for me.
It’s a tough comparison. Patagonia is more like the Sierra and Cascades than the Rockies. But if you can survive Vermont downhill ice skating you can ski the piste at any resort, KK.
Tuckerman’s Ravine, 1992
Don’t know how you feel about GaJo, but this made me like him despite his hippedy-dippedyness.
Gary Johnson skis at Taos. He’s a decent skier, easily the best of any recent presidential candidates.
I’d be more impressed if it was a go-pro
i only skied it like 3 times, and 1 of them was like that, like white-out conditions. it was scary enough because even on a clear day it was so steep it just dropped off into nothingness and you couldn’t see where you were going. but on cloudy/white-out days, you’d be shooting down and not see anything in front of you until you were right on top of it. your balls would be up in your throat and you’d be shaking and unable to talk to people afterward.
I used to climb Mt. Washington at least twice a summer, usually via Tuckerman. One time I found 1/2 a ski pole, ripped like taffy.
i far preferred skiing out west, fwiw. but i grew up @ Killington/Okemo and a shitty little mountain called Ascutney all of which were like 20mins equidistant from this tiny town Windsor VT where a family friend had a house. I skiied every year from like 8-25yrs old, at which point i ripped both my hamstrings in a bad accident, then didn’t ski again for like 5 years afterward, at which point i was like, “imma take it easy and not try bombing the bumps”. Since then i’ve gone like once every few years, mostly out to Tahoe where i meet friends from SF
Did you get out to Tahoe last season? Seems like conditions were epic. There was a live shot Jim Cantore did at Heavenly, at the top of Gunbarrel. It was first run, very snowy and foggy, and these skiers and boarders were whooping as they disappeared over the edge. It was almost like they were jumping into paradise or something.
no i haven’t been out there since 2012
the last few years i’ve just done day trips up to Hunter or weekends in Burlington (Bromley/stratton)
Jump turning down Mount Washington rime doesn’t look too appealing but I’m kind of a masochist and the tuck is a a bucketlist item for sure.
how you addressed the steeps was different depending on the conditions. if the snow was soft, you could carve the top and regulate your speed. when it was hard-ice + crust… well, it varied on the person and their level of suicidal-ness. i agree with you, there’s no sense of accomplishment crawling down a cliff-face on skis. but there is a more-subtle, ‘bounce from edge to edge’, way of doing it which is controlled descent which is both fun and challenging.
Looked up Corralco’s piste map. They even have a decent amount of green lines. I’m putting it on my list!
do you newsletter that list?
LOL. So far, it includes Portillo, Corralco, and Coronet Peak (NZ).
Coronet is faaaar in 3rd place, because from what Kiwis tell me, the conditions are very Vermont-like most years. Advantage is the English-speaking (being an introvert, it makes me nervous enough talking to people in ENglish, much less Espanol).
I took Valle Nevado off the list because it seems to be very party-oriented. That’s not my scene. I like a few drinks after skiing, but I generally like to consume them on a sofa in front of a fire, not in a dance club.
I have a friend who grooms in NZ and CO. From what I heard from him, that sounds about right. So a home away from home if I went.
My list has cat skiing in BC.
If you’re talking Northern Hemisphere, BC is on my list, fo sho. Whistler, definitely. I think Revelstoke is too hard for me. This place that was selling shares really aggressively last year has a nice terrain map.
that looks pretty good. I’ve been eyeing out here
The intermediate runs with that look dreamy. I have zero pow experience, but seems like they’re saying it’s for people who can ski regular blue runs well. I’m so-so.
You can do it!
That’s cool and all, but sandboarding is superior.
69 km/h? Pfffttt…weak. I’m regularly hitting 50 mph these days. Nothing compared to racers, still ludicrous.
But do you smoke weed?
I haven’t met a skier that doesn’t.
Raises hand.
I don’t know you! That’s my purse!
Ditto.
THe last two years at Copper, I was absolutely shocked I never once smelled weed. Maybe they’re all vaping or doing edibles like me.
Vaping is windproof.
Very cool.
“Today its just cough syrup ”
Cough Syrup
“http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/susan-collins-governor-maine-senate/2017/10/10/id/818721/”>Please don’t go away mad, just go away
How about she gives up Congress, loses a governor race, and fades quietly away into the Hillary Zone. Go away beeotch. Man, fugly women sure are into politics.
Well, if you’re going to fuck a link, fuck it good.
FUCK!
Fuck a Link:
I love me some Zelda if Zelda was a girl.
You’re doing gawds work, HM.
I’m pretty sure that girl is underage.
And also a boy.
Your point?
Felicia Day as Navi.
Yum
Feel better soon Brett.
“Campus police brought Daniels to the campus police station after finding evidence of drugs and drug paraphernalia in his dorm room. At the station, the freshman pulled out a gun and allegedly shot an officer in the head before fleeing on foot.
A spokesperson for Texas Tech told Fox News that information regarding how Daniels obtained the handgun or if he was searched before being taken into custody is not available. It is also unclear if Daniels had the gun on him when he was taken to the police station or if he took the weapon from an officer.”
Either way, that sounds like lousy police work.
For soccer fans: One minute in….Ecuador 1 Argentina 0.
That didn’t last long.
2-1 Argentina now.
Heart attack machine. The best part of this sick trolling is that you can’t sue anyone over it. LOL!
That’s a thing of beauty I tell yah.
I have no fear of heights, but i have a deep fear of cheap chinese workmanship
*thumps drywall*
Yep.
Oh hell no
Quick story: was out to dinner with the in-laws last night. FIL started talking politics.
You know why North Korea is going full steam ahead with their nuke program? Turns out it’s because that idiot Trump is trying to scrap Obama’s agreement with Iran regarding their nukes, which is showing the world that the US can’t be trusted. (I’m assuming he got this from Maddow, but haven’t checked).
Anyways, I focused all my attention on drinking my beer and not blurting out anything about Libya, Ghadaffi, Obama, or Clinton, so family drama was avoided.
At times like that, I have to remind myself that family is exempt from my normal creed of:
This may get me cat-assed, if not banned completely, but… I kinda prefer the answer the other guy gave – you know, open steppe, wind in hair, falcon at wrist. [hands in decoder ring]
Well, yeah – ride across the steppe with the wind in your hair, falcon on wrist – but then you find your enemies – and THEN you crush them, see them driven … etc etc etc.
Potatoh/Pohtato.
It doesn’t have to be an either-or.
I’m pretty sure that deal meant two things to Iran. One, cold hard cash. Two, get people to look the other way so they could do whatever they wanted to anyway.
Didn’t Iran already get everything they wanted in that deal, no matter what Trump does at this point?
So I’d say to the guy – explain to me the parts of the Iran deal that Trump is overturning?
Then after he moves the goal posts over Iran, ask him what he would do about N. Korea.
I like to hound people into giving specific solutions or ideas. Ie what tax rate is fair. What min. Wage is fair and why. What exactly should whitey do to help the oppressed that would cause you to be satisfied.
My MiL would try to pick fights over shit like this, mostly during the Clinton admin.
She was old school racist democrat. And liked to fight over that kinda stuff.
I’d just laugh at her, and refuse to take the bait, which would defuse any potential blow-up.
Sounds like you got stories.
If my hats start talking to me, I may have to go cold turkey.
From cough syrup and whiskey, or from Glibs?
Fucking own goal.
Facederp update: super-progressive still has Dogbert has her profile pic.
Ding dong, Jeff Payne is gone! Ding dong the wicked Payne is gooooone!
How long until he get his job back with back pay?
He’ll just go to a new, smaller, quieter jurisdiction.
Might I suggest Rigby, ID?
Good. What an asshole. Unfortunately, there is an endless supply of them.
Thank goodness. Finally a win for the good guys. Unfortunately, the supervisor only got a suspension. In my opinion, he showed the most egregious behavior. Not only is he the one who told Payne to arrest her, he then came down to the hospital and proceeded to lecture anyone who would listen about how the hospital’s procedures had “a very bad habit of getting in the way of my law.” This from a guy who is (was?) close to getting a law degree from Columbia.
Agreed
Terrible, terrible, terrible
Please Ecuador score the equalizer.
“Netherlands manager Advocaat had labelled any notion that Sweden would beat Luxembourg 8-0 as “stupid” when asked about the game last week. ”
Think he’s eating those words now? The Dutch can let their outspokenness get ahead of them at times.
To be fair, Luxembourg had been uncommonly feisty this time around – they even drew against France. They only had one really bad game…
True, I watched a couple of those games. Still, what was the point? Never under estimate a team that wants to qualify.
3-1 Arg. Sorry Ted.
As of right now, the top 5 SA sides are in. Peru put up a fight but it’s not looking good.
Ouch! Chile is the odd team out. Peru in.
Even if we qualify, can we still fire Arena and get a real coach?
God, those scores at the moment are wild!
The Costa Rican defence is all that stands between us and disaster. Christ.
RE: WORLD CUP: Looking for best place to rent an apartment/house to watch World Cup and also engage in local soccer culture (e.g. bars, restaurants, “beer gardens” for occasional viewing. Any suggestions?
Twitter own goals again
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“I fought Planned Parenthood and we stopped the sale of baby body parts,” said Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) in a recent ad announcing her run for Senate.
Under ordinary circumstances, that line might be politically controversial — Blackburn was referring to her work with a House panel on fetal tissue research that one Democratic member of Congress called “an inappropriate and wasteful misuse of federal resources.”
But Blackburn’s statement became part of a different kind of controversy on Monday after it got her campaign ad blocked by Twitter.
Though Blackburn’s claim that she “stopped the sale of baby body parts” is certainly inflammatory, Twitter’s decision to block the ad is surprising since the service has often been slow to ban abusive and threatening users. Twitter has explained that it has different, stricter rules for advertisers than for ordinary users. But critics of the move argue that by banning the ad, Twitter has simply given its message more power.
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https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/10/10/16449920/marsha-blackburn-twitter-ban
baby body parts should be a band name
Banned Baby Body Parts
Hartmann gets misty eyed over long lost belt onions.
https://www.alternet.org/media/what-news-wont-tell-you-about-news
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“Used to be,” I said, “that radio and TV stations had to deliver actual news in order to retain their over-the-air broadcast license. It was called ‘the fairness doctrine,’ and Reagan stopped enforcing it in ’87 and the Obama administration’s FCC removed it altogether. Then the media consolidated like crazy, in part because Reagan had stopped enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and no president since Jimmy Carter broke up AT&T has been willing to put it back into effect, and in part because of the media deregulation that Clinton signed in 1996.”
….
“It used to be that the metric news organizations used to determine if they were ‘doing their job’ was how well the American public was informed. That was actually a serious metric, pre-1987, because your station’s license depended on it. The public could – and did – complain that they weren’t being well-informed, and stations jumped when those FCC complaints came in. But now, the only metric the ‘news’ business uses is how many viewers they have and, thus, how profitable they are for advertisers.”
…
I added: “When the only metric is profit, everything can be explained by profit. And profit doesn’t give a damn about morality or democracy or you or me or even the future of our nation or world. It’s essentially a sociopathic business model, which works out really well for sociopathic politicians and the sociopathic polluters who own them – and the media they lavish billions onto.”
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The derp there is beyond words.
He probably wants to return to yesteryear when Lady Bird Johnson managed to own the only tv station in Austin, TX. Can’t image why it was the only station, can you?
“Now, my story begins in 19-dickety-seven. We had to say dickety cause that Reagan had stolen our word “eighty”. I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles…”
“Cable news is the devil! My black and white TV gets 3 channels at 40 rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it!”
“It used to be that the metric news organizations used to determine if they were ‘doing their job’ was how well the American public was
informedbrainwashed”Yea, that seemed odd to me.
Lefties are always mocking Righties for their nostalgic visions of a yesteryear that never existed, but that author appears to be doing exactly that.
I don’t think an impartial mainstream media has ever existed. See: William Randolph Hearst.
Any Milwaukee recommendations?
Milwaukee’s Best is OK if you’re on a budget. Be prepared to spend some time in the bathroom the next day.
Old Milwaukee is only good if you’re a hipster, old, or feel nostalgic for your favorite uncle. It’s overpriced for what you get.
Oh Jesus H Christ stop it man!
And Spicier takes a run at Burge for top dawg
Women Scientists Report Sexual Harassment On Boston University Expeditions
And they waited 20 years because…?
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As a woman, I know that sometimes talking about gender with a male partner – even if he’s well versed in all things feminist – can feel exhausting. Sometimes I don’t want to chat with someone who only has a theoretical understanding of gender oppression. Sometimes I want to talk to someone who just gets it.
That’s why safe spaces – where affinity groups can be together without the presence of the oppressor – exist: so that tough conversations can be had with fewer guards up, so that you can communicate thousands of ideas in a single collective sigh, so that you can cry together with those who don’t just sympathize, but empathize.
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https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/08/white-person-dating-poc/
“sometimes talking about gender with a male partner”
stay away. stay far away. / makes sign of crucifix with fingers
But God forbid you want a man cave in your basement.
STEVE SMITH PUT CAVEMAN IN PEOPLE’S “BASEMENTS”
SOme sweetness and light for dessert.
awwwww
#7 wins.
2 is good too, though. And 8. And 10…
I love the caption with #7. It reminds me of this really tough-looking guy who lives in my neighborhood who carries around this little Chihuahua and pampers the shit out of it.
Nice. I’ve been downsizing dogs since I was a kid (when I was little we had a St. Bernard). After my current buddy goes, I am planning to get something small and tough, like a terrier.
Dogs are the coolest.
I gotta go with 7. Reminds me a little bit of my Kota.
See? We’re more than titties!
Right?! And not a bunny boiler in the bunch. Now, a bunny chaser…plenty of options.
Titties, beer, and dogs. We’re basically a country song.
Don’t forget momma…or trains…or trucks…or prison…
What It’s Like To Be An Undocumented LGBTQ+ Parent Of Color During The Trump Era
https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/10/undocumented-lgbtq-parents/
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Contreras and Alfaro are fortunate to live in liberal-leaning Washington state, where there are numerous LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination laws and some legal protections for undocumented folks. They’re surrounded by queer families and friendly allies in their neighborhood.
However, they’re still subject to discrimination from people who aren’t used to interacting with families like theirs.
At one of Aaliyah’s recent checkups, the doctor was confused about what Alfaro’s relationship was to the baby since his name isn’t on her birth certificate. The doctor chose to list Alfaro as Aaliyah’s uncle instead of her dad, which deeply angered the couple and could very well have far-reaching consequences in the future.
Oppressive experiences in healthcare settings is a common problem for queer and trans folks, including non-immigrants. A 2010 Lambda Legal survey of LGBTQ+ people found that more than half of respondents reported being discriminated against by healthcare providers.
…
Ultimately, immigration reform is simply not enough. We need transformative immigration policies in this country so that all types of families can prosper, as they deserve to. We must defy and dismantle borders so that all of us can thrive.
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Neesha Powell-Twagirumukiza (she & they pronouns) is an Everyday Feminism Reporting Fellow. Neesha identifies as an intersectional feminist, womanist, writer, community organizer, facilitator, dancer, freedom fighter, wife, and cat mama. She’s constantly conspiring in the name of liberated Black futures, queer and trans people of color power, solidarity economics, and transformative justice/community accountability. Neesha’s based in a suburb south of Seattle, where she lives, loves, and creates with chosen family.
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Yawwwnnnnnnn
Neesha Powell-Twagirumukiza (she & they pronouns) is an Everyday Feminism Reporting Fellow. Neesha identifies as an intersectional feminist, womanist, writer, community organizer, facilitator, dancer, freedom fighter, wife, and cat mama.
*stares off into distance, brain seeping out ears*
somehow the Obama era and its aggressive deportations, and non-“protection” of any LGBT people in federal workforce until… what, the last year in office? …. was Nirvana.
now, its a living nightmare. Because republicans. never mind that absolutely nothing has actually changed.
What It’s Like To Be An Undocumented LGBTQ+ Parent Of Color During The Trump Era
It’s as if they’re playing Mad Libs.
Is anyone else here watching Suburra?
I’m halfway through the series but I am mightily entertained. Enough gratuitous nudity to keep me interested, mildly disturbing violence, extremely disturbing interior decorating (seriously, the Gypsy wedding consummation bed must make SF grit his teeth in frustration in not writing it down before it got put on film). I will say that naked gypsy bride was one of those ashamed-of-myself reactions wherein she looked too young for me to be thinking she was as hot as she was. Similar reaction (if not in cause) to Lorainne Bracco’s exposed thigh in the bedroom confrontation in Goodfellas.
Someone (maybe you) mentioned that the other day. I’ll have to check it out.
I did mention it to someone that wanted Netflix recommendations. I am a bit surprised at which shows get popular. Everyone talks about GoT, but Westworld is a vastly superior show imo, and get much less fannery.
I’ve not seen GoT or Westworld. I did love the original Westworld movie which I saw at the drive-in as a yute.
And we’re dunzo, looks like. Bye bye, Bruce.
Fuck Bruce Arena and fuck the entirety of the US Soccer fiefdom. They all have to go.
But leave Arena on the tarmac, Lane Kiffin style. He can swim home for all I care.
Yep – time for a house cleaning.
Not sealing the deal against T&T is quite the disappointment.
USA out!
Damn.
Sorry USA.
The last time that happened, Canada played in the World Cup.
Canada. Ha, ha.
And we lost to the Soviet Union, Hungary and France.
Not Meryl Streep huh
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/10/10/shoes-drop-gwyneth-paltrow-angelina-jolie-rosanna-arquette-accuse-weinstein-harassment/
“I thought you were my Uncle Harvey,” she recalled thinking, explaining that she had seen him as a mentor.”
Uncle…
Harvey?
Haven’t you ever heard of a fuck uncle?
Yes, I have.
So bold. Wait until it won’t hurt your ‘career’ and then come forward.
Fuck them all.
That’s what he said
That’s what he did, apparently.
Almost nobody admits to actually fucking him, just putting up with perverted passes.
Argento and McGowan…
Jolie and Paltrow are hugely famous, hugely successful actresses. If they’d come out with this a decade ago it wouldn’t have hurt their careers at all, and would’ve stopped him. So why the fuck didn’t they?
You know why.
Zionist Jews.
Really? I thought it was because they knelt for the national anthem. Huh.
Go back to your tiki torch parade, alt-righter.
Tiki room, you mean.
He basically just hit on them. Sounds like they told other people that they knew, about their experience Getting hit on is hardly an earth-shattering event. They’re not accusing him of raping them just confirming he’s a creeper.
Jolie and Paltrow both have famous Hollywood parents, though, so maybe he just didn’t push it as much with them?
All the talk of the DNC hacking reminded me of this movie:
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In 1969, students Martin Brice and Cosmo are sneakers who hack into computer networks using university equipment, to redistribute conservative funds to various liberal causes. The police burst in and arrest Cosmo while Martin is out getting pizza, and Martin becomes a fugitive.
…
In a postscript, a news report describes the sudden bankruptcy of the Republican National Committee, and the simultaneous receipt of large anonymous donations by Amnesty International, Greenpeace, and the United Negro College Fund.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_(1992_film)
I barely remember that movie. I think I liked it.
“I think I liked it”
Breakfast at Tiffany’s?
*looks wistfully at Deep Blue Something CD that I never play anymore*
OMG…a rare Double-Spicing!
That was pretty funny
I had no idea Spicer was funny. He should have deployed more of that dry wit as press secretary.
Or maybe he accidentally was funny. Nah, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.
Do you suppose Harvey is staying at Roman Polanski’s house? Or at least getting “How Not to Get Extradited to the US” advice?”
Look closely at the name. “Spicier”. It’s a troll account. A very funny one.
Dang it! Well, at least now I know my initial radar of him was correct.
Thanks.
A good one from a few days ago:
California
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/10/10/californias-new-wrong-pronoun-law-doozy/
Just secede already.
What a pathetic embarrassment. Arena out. Gulati out. Dump half the roster. Unconscionable to lose to T&T; not just that but to lose to CR and Panama as well! Absolute trash. I said this morning that if they can’t beat T&T, they don’t deserve to go and they prove me right.
Arena is certainly gone, and I’d think Gulati’s seat is awfully hot – he made the call on both Klinsmann and Arena, after all. The roster is an interesting question – we have talent, we can play very well, but the lack of consistency is baffling. Hopefully it’s due to coaching, and the new guy can fix it.
I wonder if they tried to get one World Cup too many out of this squad.
We might have hit a soft spot in our talent cycle – quality geezers who don’t quite have it any more, quality kids who aren’t quite ready yet, and not enough in between. Still – how the fuck do you lose to the worst team in the Hex when even a draw will get you through?
Although perhaps the real question is, how do you only take one point in twelve from Mexico and Costa Rica four years after topping the Hex?
“Arena out. Gulati out”
Worner dead! Marmalide dead! Niedermeyer dead!
Who’s with me? Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
What a disgrace. The U.S. can’t even qualify for the World Cup anymore? What are we Canada?
Clearly Trump’s fault.
The only person currently associated with USA Soccer at the senior level that should still be associated when the 2022 World Cup gets here is Pulisic.
There’s something to be said for the “burn it all down and start fresh” approach – something is clearly wrong with the current setup, or we wouldn’t have been playing for our lives on the final day to begin with. And failure gives us a clear incentive to do that, whereas skin-of-the-teeth qualification might have led to kicking the can down the road some more.
Oh I agree. By the end I was kind of hoping Panama scored against Mexico.
Why the fuck did I say “against Mexico”?
Fucking A. I’m distracted. And pissed.
That’s FUCKIN’ A Brah
/bro pedant
Twellman goes nuts on ESPN’s front page.
He made basically my point about the missing generation of guys who *should* be in their primes right now.
Thing!
If you’re watching soccer right now, you obviously have a gambling problem.
My daughter is turning 29 tomorrow, married 10 years, 3 kids, and a Kohls manager as well, Dad is Proud!
Bob
/my son, sigh…..
Have you tried beating him?
He’s too big now, and the cops say I have to go to court to evict a 25 year old man, Cali you know
Just make a complaint that he misgendered you.
A Cis Time Gendered?
/time Traveler
Just make him watch this video over and over until he gets it.
Must. Not. Click.
?️agina.
OK I watched, but what was I watching?
Move out and don’t leave a forwarding address.
BTW, Manhatten beach, or Playa Del Rey?
Manhattan Beach. I live 5 blocks from Jesse.
Thought so from TOS, it’s a Socal thing the flyovers probably never got.
Maybe someday we came do a meet up that’s not so Downtown L.A. for us I.E. people
I tried to arrange something a few years ago. I had some spare capacity at a hotel in Palm Desert, and this was back when Sloopy was living in Moreno Valley. The timing just didn’t work out.
Maybe Pasadena or even OC, hell Galcos is the greatest soda shop in the World, highland spgs.
I think Elite Elite lives out my way as well
I’m in flyover country. Could I trouble you to explain what “Pasadena” and “OC” mean?
Yep, us Rubes in flyover couldn’t interpret Playa Manhattan as “Manhattan Beach” b/c low IQ.
How about Playa Del Rey, it’s right next door Dipshit, it a local thing
And I like you, but it’s like all the towns you guy talk about and we west coasters no nothing of,
Playa is just north of Manhatten, and can be useful knowledge when it comes to which freeway exit you get off at,
Ever been on a 6 lane freeway in rush hour in Socal?
You must be confusing it with Manhattan, Kansas.
Oh, and no need for the name calling. Yet.
I think the best was how frequently people thought he was saying he was a “player” from NYC.
And Jesse is really in Manitoba.
Is he a criminal?
No, he’s smart, innocent Libertarian drug user, but a commie mentaltiy, and I don’t know where he got it from
You live in California? It’s like a zombie virus there. At some point you’ll be infested too, unless you leave.
I built the place, no one will dispose of me, I’m the only guy that can fix this Shithole, So I’m sticking it out
Yeah, at 25 he needs to get off his ass. He just needs some direction and purpose.
He has a 7 year old daughter, and an Ex, I think he’s afraid of the responsibility, and he has a good trade HVAC,
“my son, sigh…..”
Does he drive a Kia?
Will root for heritage (Poland) and “what the hell, it’s fucking awesome to see them in the World Cup” (Iceland) next summer.
I will just cause are mean sons o bitches
And I’ll also root for England to be England and fail completely, because as much as I like watching the Premier League as a fan it’s hilarious to watch their national team fail and fail again at major tournaments.
Harvey is going to Europe. For sex rehab. He’s not pulling a Polanski. I promise.
what a wonderful excuse to say “media blackout”
And to make serving papers more difficult.
ROMAAAAN!!! Call me baby
He can plow Eurowhores far from the prying eyes of the paparazzi then come back a “new man”. It’s good to be king.
Newly minted Las Vegas Kniggets just got their first NHL score in their home opener!
Good for them. That town has had a bad week.
HOLY COW! It’s now 3-0, Knights! That was 3 in about 3 minutes!
How are they doing on your beer-fridge-standings-board? Did they get an avatar?
Yup, I chose a black poker chip since they are going for black and gold as their colors. A little to early to reorder by standings, but I have them on “the board” at least.
Nice!
NI! NI! NI!
/wrong Knights
Bring us a SHRUBBERY! Or maybe 4 goals in the first period. Dammmmmnnn
I recommend Roger the Shrubber.
Well, for the shrubberies, anyway. You’re on you own for the goals.
just don’t get Rodgered
Jesse will explain
Hmmm. Does it have anything to do with bears?
Where did I use the term Rubes? Is it so hard to take a shot from a Cali Boy? i though we all sucked?
Humor much? Jeez
The Late P. Yusef strikes again.
Is this good?
P. Brooks never accepted threading when TOS implemented it. So his posts are always out of context and a top level thread.
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Does anyone believe even one word of this Weinstein hysteria? I mean that the guy actually ‘rape’ raped anyone? I don’t. I think all this is, is just another attempt to redefine the definition of rape to ‘Ok, I willingly had sex with this guy, I didn’t really want to, but I got a role because of it, but I changed my mind 10 years later’. And anyone will go under the bus for this prize.
Isn’t the casting couch a normal Hollywood thing? It’s been a known thing since I was a boy, 45 years ago, why change, Corey Feldman excepted.
I’ve seen one story (can’t remember her name) where she claimed he had forced oral sex with her (him giving). She says she later had voluntary intercourse because she thought she had to. I lean towards believing this one because his ego seems big enough to believe that any woman would beg him to go down on her.
He’s a rapist. A rape rape rapist.
You’re definitely right about something, which is that its effectively character assassination and demonization without a single scrap of verifiable proof or testimony.
I hate guys like him. But the shit like i read in the NY Post the other day? is pure gossip-column scumbaggery.
Yeah, he probably fucked with a lot of people and did shit that any normal human being would have gone to jail for. But none of the accusers are being specific enough to levy charges = its just a media-war to isolate and discredit him.
Basically, its a form of scummy struggle-session-stuff that media does these days. Make someone the bad guy, everyone piles on. Once the narrative is in place, there’s nothing anyone can do to resurrect their credibility. Its “run and hide” (e.g. seek therapy in Europe) time.
I think he probably deserves it. But the way its being done… the method? is something everyone should be terrified by. No one should ever be “alleged” to death.
This is very true. It happens far, far too often
Yes.
But not in this case.
Who has said anything that is actually something a prosecutor could take to trial?
As a writer, here’s the movie I would write; Weinstein voted for Trump, people found out, took him down HARD! Maybe Miramx will option it.
I tend to believe everything bad I read about politicians and Hollywood people, and even if the specific allegations turn out not to be true I assume they did something worse and got away with it.
You know what’s been missing in my life? Fine journalism like this:
What Harvey Weinstein and Trump have in common.
They both fucked HIllary?
Trump had a secretary named Weinstein and Weinstein had a secretary named Trump?
Hrruumph, just read today’s Hat and Hair and only SugarFree’s alt text gave a shout out to my new banner art. Ingrates!
The last time SF showed his gratitude properly he was banned from coming within 1000 feet of schools, churches and imported processed meats.
imported processed meats. God I miss those