STEVE SMITH LOVE FOOTBALL SUNDAYS. PEOPLE IN RVS AND CAMPSITES TOO BUSY WATCHING GAMES TO NOTICE STEVE SMITH APPROACHING. ALSO, AFTER RAPE STEVE SMITH HELP SELF TO GOOD SNACKS THEY HAVE. THIS MAKE STEVE SMITH LIKE GOLDILOCKS OF RAPE.
SO NOW STEVE SMITH GIVE YOU LINKS, SINCE HE HAS ALL CAUGHT UP ON WORK. AND BY CAUGHT UP ON WORK, MEAN RAPE.
- STEVE SMITH SEE NATIONALISTS WIN IN AUSTRIA. HE WONDER WHO ELSE RULED AUSTRIA AS NATIONALIST.
- STEVE SMITH LIKE NEW TREND. HE READY TO HELP WITH PHOTOS. BY HELP WITH PHOTOS, MEAN RAPE.
- STEVE SMITH SHAKE HEAD AT AMATEURS THAT KEEP GETTING REVEALED.
- STEVE SMITH THINK HE CAN HELP WITH HELICOPTER PARENTS…OFFER SERVICES TO COLLEGE ADMINISTRATORS. BY OFFER SERVICES, MEAN RAPE ANNOYING PARENTS.
STEVE SMITH GO LOOK FOR MORE FANS WATCHING NIGHT FOOTBALL GAME. NEED MORE SNACKS…AND RAPE.
HE WONDER WHO ELSE RULED AUSTRIA AS NATIONALIST.
Franz Josef?
Kurt Schuschnigg?
That’s a good one.
Franz Klammer?
It’s always Franz Klammer with you, isn’t it?
Absolutely unrelated; here’s a band from Chicago I’m really grooving on right now.
NE-HI https://youtu.be/7f4Sug9KRlM
Catchy!
Not bad, Better than that RCBF or whatever initials from the other day, still not my bag but closer.
Leopold I?
Paul Hogan?
Englebert Dollfuss?
STEVE SMITH THINK HE CAN HELP WITH HELICOPTER PARENTS
Those parents are handicapping their kids for life.
Or maybe they are in fact paying you. Which is another way to ensure your “kid” doesn’t grow up.
STEVE SMITH LIKE NEW TREND
Ahh, the UK Sun.
Not to be confused with the far more tasteful and sophisticated Glibs.
Whatever HM linked to: the link is now broken.
Definitively broken, eben.
Icelandic pop singer Bjork said Sunday she was sexually harassed by a film director, saying she was inspired to speak out by the flood of separate allegations against US producer Harvey Weinstein.
Bjork should go back to trying to set trends instead of following them.
STEVE SMITH GO LOOK FOR MORE FANS WATCHING NIGHT FOOTBALL GAME.
I went out for lunch at a local bar. I didn’t know they had a Patriots viewing party. Otherwise I would have gone elsewhere.
You know who else got raped today?
Someone in Saudi Arabia?
American taxpayers?
Good one.
I’m a Pats fan and was shocked by that call.
Ditto. The way I heard it explained was thus: Jets player had lost possession before crossing the goal line, therefore there can be no touchdown unless he regains possession. The next time that he can be confirmed to have regained possession was after he’d gone out of bounds. That’s a touchback by the rules.
Crazy call, and I would have thought replay + 400 cameras would have solved it.
Someone in Sweden?
5 out of every 3 female college students?
Every woman who has had sex with a man? /feminists
THIS MAKE STEVE SMITH LIKE GOLDILOCKS OF RAPE.
Not too big not too small?
I think the property theft part.
THIS RAPE TOO SOFT
THIS RAPE TOO HARD
WAIT, NO RAPE TOO HARD!
OT, but I’m going to start working out every morning with someone who’s in decent, but not great shape. I’m trying to find a good program that we could do for roughly an hour and a half every day, but I’ve got no clue where to start. Do any of you have suggestions?
Thanks.
“Starting Strength” is a good book. I first heard about it in my twenties, and like a dumb shit, I never picked it up thinking I knew better. At about 39, after my pissing my 30s away by doing barely anything in the gym, I picked it up after Warty talked about it over at TOS. I should not have been a dumb shit in my 20s. It is an excellent book.
It is poorly written, and I still haven’t been able to figure out what he’s saying you’re supposed to do becasue of all the tangents.
For those who can’t read, understand biomechanics, or follow diagrams, there is also website and a DVD to enable you to overcome your inner and outer weakness!
Lets see if I can explain this to you.
The work was sold as “read this, it’s all you’ll need to get started.” Even by the source of the book. The first section gets bogged down in a side discussion about a difference of opinion between the author and unidentified coaches about whether or not undefined term A or undefined term B should be used. Now that discussion might at some point have been worthwhile, but it should have gone somewhere after defining those terms and telling the reader what the fucking difference was.
Lastly “Go to these other sources” is not a defense against “the book was poorly written.”
There is most certainly sufficient information in The Book to get you started. I was a non-squatting and non-deadlifting gym bro once upon a time (I have repented of my errors) and I learned how to squat and deadlift exclusively through the book. I also learned the press 2.0 from The Book, (though I admit to being a strict press heretic for the most part in practice) I only delved deeper into auxiliary materials when trying to diagnose errors in my friends’ lifts.
The Book is written by a strength coach, not some rarefied genius with a masters in journalism from Columbia. The writing can be…flawed. But there is absolutely sufficient description, depiction, and analysis to teach yourself the major lifts in there.
So you had prior knowledge of the jargon then?
Then just watch the YouTube / Art of manliness videos. Do sets of 5 and keep moving up when you can do 5 with proper form.
UNBELIEVER!
Hi. Welcome to the Starting Strength outreach program. Here at the church of the one true power profit Mark Rippetoe we strongly suggest that you you Squat, Bench, Deadlift, Overhead Press, and Power clean. Please feel free to do whatever program floats your boat, but when you tire of your weak frame and insignificant gains, please revisit The Blue Book and learn the error of your ways.
Power cleans are the best.
Or maybe overhead press.
*Misses gym membership*
Won’t this lead to toxic masculinity?
Thank you for asking! Yes. Yes it will. It will also lead to you being stronger, tougher, and generally more useful. This may upset those around you who wish to make excuses for their own weaknesses and would rather not be confronted with their own inadequacy.
Those people will, however, still call you when they need help moving.
If you don’t want to use any equipment the guys at Gmb.io have a pretty good body weight circuit that is free for registering.
Pump a cinder block over your head 20 times each morning.
Stomp/run 3 miles daily. Stomp/run means put on jackboots and stomp like you’re crushing roaches for three miles.
Find a bear. Wrassle that bear.
Drink a cold beer, followed by a piping hot coffee.
Do 200 jumping jacks.
Make up with that bear.
Buy this https://www.walmart.com/ip/Men-Corset-Body-Slimming-Tummy-Shaper-Vest-Belly-Waist-Girdle-Shirt-Shapewear-Underwear-Waist-Girdle-Shirt/438479224?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=11383&adid=22222222228092700406&wmlspartner=wmtlabs&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=215318497178&wl4=pla-346671848086&wl5=9031088&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=117015210&wl11=online&wl12=438479224&wl13=&veh=sem
Thank me later!
This sounds like the advice of a man who been drinking.
I approve.
Tequila https://youtu.be/Uyl7GP_VMJY
*scribbles notes*
Thanks! I will use this to supplement Uncle Warty’s Deadlift, You Fool! program.
“Find a bear. Wrassle that bear.”
I’m highly skeptical about this advice.
Gay.
Hmmm…sounds like a euphemism to me
Yeah, I have one suggestion that I think is excellent: unless you’re going to do a split schedule (and even if you are, you shouldn’t jump in right away), don’t do 90 minutes every day.
You need recovery. Day on / day off / day on / day off / etc. Your Mileage Will Vary.
Alright, is there a specific order of body parts we should start with?
Start with your face. If the face is pretty, nobody gives a shit about the rest.
Q Continuum’s links disagree.
your advice is for Hammercorps to get a juicy set of knockers, then?
Usually larger muscle groups first, particularly if you can target a bunch with a single exercise (hence the popularity of squats/deadlifts for the lower body). More efficient, allows you to bring more energy to bear on the exercise whilst you’re still fresh. Doesn’t really matter if it’s upper or lower body first. You’re gonna be experimenting with yourself for quite awhile, and learning as you go. It’s all good. In the beginning, avoid pushing yourself due to high risk of injury. Once your muscle groups “train up” (usually after a couple of weeks), you can start pushing yourself more.
And always listen to your body. This may require more self-awareness than you’re used to. It certainly did for me.
So would something like Strength training one day, and cardio on the off days be a good balance, or is that pushing it too much?
Not too bad, but start slow. Nothing like injuring yourself right away and getting discouraged. When I was younger, I did the split cardio/strength schedule.
Oh yeah, and get enough sleep. Biggest single mistake I made was cheating myself out of adequate rest. Your body must have it. There are no substitutes.
Copy that. Is 6-7 hours enough? I usually don’t get 8.
Everyone’s different. When I’m doing it seriously, I can easily sleep 10 hours or more. Try doing your first couple of sessions just before a weekend and then allow yourself to sleep in until you wake up naturally. You might be surprised at how long you need.
This this this.
Anything with a lot of tendons and ligaments can get jacked up in ways that do not heal for several months or even years, so pay close attention to any pain you experience in your knees, hips, shoulders, elbows, and most importantly, your back.
Push/pull is one method.
It depends upon how advanced and how serious you are.
You spend most of your day outside the gym. Most of your health gains will come from what you eat and how well you are resting. Spend some time planning out your meals each week and how to time them appropriately for your activity level and you’ll see better results at the gym.
A few years ago I was tired of a being a 150 scrawny/fat little shit. I fixed my diet and exercise and am up to 170 and only 12% body fat with a bench max of 295 and a 405 pound deadlift. My goal is to hit 315 on the bench before this assignment is over but not gain any more weight. I like Arnold’s advice of “shocking the muscle”. I use a push/pull idea. Chest and back on the same day twice a week, legs twice a week, arms one day a week, and shoulders and abs another. Allow two days in between same types and you have one day of rest. One day I do as heavy as I can and another day I do light supersets. I also do some yoga to stay limber. It’s been working for me for years, but you have to tailor things to how you like them.
And like others said, start out easy. Don’t worry about what the other fucksticks in the gym are doing. Focus on you. Definitely take progress pictures because you won’t notice how much better you are looking until you put them side by side. It’s a great way to keep encouraging yourself when you don’t think you’re getting results.
As DEG said, Starting Strength is a good program. If you don’t want to read the entire book, just watch a ton of YouTube videos on proper form, then do the exercises according to the schedule. Stronglifts 5×5 is also a good one; it’s similar to Starting Strength. I started with SL5x5 way back in 2009, and I’ve rarely missed a workout since then (although I’ve modified the program to suit my personal goals so much that it scarcely resembles the original).
Get protein every 3 hours. Get enough sleep. Learn the difference between soreness and injuries. Buy a barbell set; it’s a good investment. Keep alcohol intake at the minimum amount required for your sanity. Find some music that motivates you to pump that iron like a fucking madman. Everyone’s tastes vary, but here’s one of my favorites.
AthleanX. There is a ton of free videos on YouTube. I paid for the basic course. It’s kicking my ass, in a good way. Also, my workoutscare about 45 minutes. No way you need an hour andca half especially as a beginner.
I got six posts, then an error page on my seventh. Oh well.
I’m drinking a Maß of Hacker-Pschorr Original Oktoberfestbier.
Had some on tap last night at the local German restaurant. Good stuff.
Is the German restaurant any good?
Jealous. It has to be delicious on tap.
This means ‘you are posting too fast, you drunken asshole’. I’m not sure why they haven’t put in a custom error message for this yet.
you drunken asshole
I wonder how the website guessed it was me.
I think it is a good thing I finished my Maß if I wrote something as stupid as that.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/harvey-weinstein-islam-sexual-assault-rape-womens-rights-a8001521.html
So he would have to marry them or buy them and toss them into his harem?
And… we’re done here.
Awesome. Let’s do it!
What about Muslim Vikings?
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/world/europe/vikings-allah-sweden.html
I saw that movie.
Yeah, it was pretty good I thought
Leave Ahmad Rashad out of this.
*narrows gaze*
So the first muslims in Sweden have been laying around for hundreds of years in a museum doing nothing? Sounds about right
“Every level of society – social norms, media, and Government – is complicit in promoting the rape culture that perpetuates sexual abuse.”
STEVE SMITH PROMOTE CULTURE LIKE MUSEUMS AND YOGURT.
AND BY YOGURT, MEAN RAPE. AND BY MUSEUMS, MEAN MUSEUMS.
WHAT? STEVE SMITH LIKE MUSEUMS. HAVE GOOD ART TO ADMIRE WHILE RAPING OBLIVIOUS PATRONS.
A lecture from a Muslim on rape culture.
Sounds legit.
Well I suppose if personal knowledge on the subject matters…
Kaepernick is going to challenge the ref.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/21035352/colin-kaepernick-filing-grievance-nfl-owners-collusion
He so special
He isnt going to be able to get a job as a dishwasher in a greasy spoon before long.
Good.
Yeah, I hope he gets ass cancer.
Wait, no. I don’t hope he gets ass cancer.
Good god man, he’s an idiot, but hoping he can’t even get a shitty job? that’s a lot of hate to carry around.
Some talking heads this afternoon suggested the Packers might try to sign him.
When Iron Man Bradford went down, the local VIkings sports writers in town were all saying we were idiots for not getting Special K in here. I’m sure the Packer Backers will be told the same.
The ugly truth is that if he was really even decent, he’d already be on a team. FFS Jay Cutler was dragged out of retirement.
And get rid of a black quarterback for a half-black quarterback?
longest wikipedia articles:
1 California Proposition 218 (1996)
2 List of Warriors characters
3 List of Dutch inventions and discoveries
4 South African labour law
5 Secret Wars (2015 comic book)
6 Constitution of Myanmar
7 Characters of Supernatural
8 The Dresden Files characters
9 List of Redwall characters
10 Characters of the Mass Effect universe
Number 24 on the list is History of Oregon State Beavers football, followed by Number 25, History of Western civilization.
I can’t believe that Star Trek isn’t at the top of that list.
Did you know the Dutch invented the zig zag chair?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zig-Zag_Chair
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The Zig Zag-chair is a chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1934.
It is a minimalistic design without legs, made by 4 flat wooden tiles that are merged in a Z-shape using Dovetail joints. It was designed for Rietveld’s Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht and is now produced by the Italian manufacturer Cassina S.p.A..
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Built for comfort
I’m built for comfort
I ain’t built for speed
Did they also invent Zig-Zag rolling paper, or is that just a coinky-dink that it’s used so much in places like Amsterdam?
Zig-Zag’s French, despite the fact that I couldn’t possibly imagine a people like the French needing something like cigarette papers.
*flicks ash from Gauloises, nods curtly*
Yeah, me neither, especially after having just come back from a sixteen-day trip there (HACKCOUGHGASP). I’m fine. No, really.
Better be careful BEAM, cutting a few years off your life at this point is…risky.
I live for risk. And the family line’s long-lived. (My great-grandfather in France died at 104 — not from old age, he actually fell off a roof he was re-shingling. Damndest thing.)
If only they had the proper shingling regulations this would have never happened.
There’s a series I haven’t thought about in years. I read a ton of those dumb books.
*citation needed*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LongPages
If you’re going off of byte size, wouldn’t that bias towards articles with lots of images instead of text length?
I don’t think so. Those are separate files and merely linked in the page. Though I could well be wrong.
I was going by Wikipedia’s own longest wiki articles.
Speak softly and carry a big stick
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H.C. Holt comments on staff fatalities in Robin Hood’s own county:
“In the 103 cases of murder and manslaughter presented to the coroners of Nottinhamshire between 1485 and 1558 the staff figured in 53, usually as the sole fatal weapon. The sword, in contrast, accounted for only 9 victims and 1 accidental death.”
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Wood-based weapons must rank as the oldest weapon form known to man excepting perhaps those made from stone. Inexpensive and simple to produce, their simplicity does not allude to their versatility or lethality. As a child I’d used deadwood found in the forest so I could fight and subdue the mighty animals found therein like the squirrel and woodchuck.
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I larfed.
http://www.swordsmanship.ca/academy-articles/fighting-with-staff-and-spear/
I knew a guy a loooooong time ago who used all kinds of blunt instrument-type weapons in his martial arts endeavours, and he claimed that a properly-trained person with a quarterstaff could hold off an indefinite number of attackers for an indefinite length of time. (All odds were off if the attackers had projectile weapons, natch.)
Sounds plausible, but I kept wondering what would happen if the guy with the quarterstaff was simply rushed by a gang. I don’t think it would end well for him.
That never happens. They always attack one at a time, in a circle.
any use of the word ‘indefinate’ in melee combat immediately makes me go ‘bullshit’. Fatigue is a factor, and quite frankly, if there were an ‘I win’ button, you’d have seen it used a lot more in warfare.
Not necessarily. See: nukes.
Nukes are an “Everyone Loses” button
Only if the country getting nuked has assured second strike capabilities. Otherwise, the guy with nukes wins, at least in that military engagement. Politically and diplomatically it’s a nightmare, which is part of my point: nukes are the “I win” button against anyone who doesn’t have them, and that terrifies everyone so much that no one uses them offensively (yet) even against someone who couldn’t retaliate in kind.
Quarterstaff dude vs. Roman manipular formation would end pretty fast.
Stick a blade out on the end and make a naginata and you are talking.
Post Bessemer people have little understanding of how precious iron was in a pre-industrial world. In the movies medieval battle grounds are covered with men in full armor and bristling with swords. In reality that shit was as rare as hens teeth. Nothing of iron was ever thrown away. Old buildings would be disassembled and the nails painstakingly removed and either recycled or made into something else.
Only the richest people could afford iron swords.
“Only the richest people could afford iron swords.”
Thus, patriarchy. Iron is racist.
I think it was Warty that posted this video on the Viking Ulfberht sword. A blacksmith spends time recreating the sword, which took a lot of work.
You mean steel.
Iron swords are shit.
The Spanish went for a visit to the new world with their steel swords. It turned out badly for the natives.
The reason that there are no actual cabins or other relics along the Lewis and Clark trail is that at the end of each winter, they’d burn the cabins down so they could extract the nails.
It is hard to think of something like nails being that precious in today’s world. I have a bucket in my garage filled with old nails that were left over from my Home Projects Gone Wrong series.
Today I learned
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dutch_inventions_and_discoveries
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Orange-coloured carrot (16th century)[edit]
Orange-coloured carrots. Before the 18th century, carrots from Asia were usually purple, while those in Europe were either white or red. Dutch farmers bred a variety that was orange. The long orange Dutch carrot, first described in 1721, is the ancestor of the orange horn carrot, one of the most common types found in supermarkets today. It takes its name from the town of Hoorn, in the Netherlands.
Carrots can be selectively bred to produce different colours.
Through history, carrots weren’t always orange. They were black, purple, white, brown, red and yellow. Probably orange too, but this was not the dominant colour. Orange-coloured carrots appeared in the Netherlands in the 16th century.[63] Dutch farmers in Hoorn bred the color. They succeeded by cross-breeding pale yellow with red carrots. It is more likely that Dutch horticulturists actually found an orange rooted mutant variety and then worked on its development through selective breeding to make the plant consistent. Through successive hybridisation the orange colour intensified. This was developed to become the dominant species across the world, a sweet orange.
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Listen up, shitlord! Murican carrots are ORANGE! Just like our president. Commie carrots that are different colors should be banned! Make carrots great again!
‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ shelved. Try and tell me we’re not in a dark age tunnel. Ga’head. Incidentally I’m 30 minutes into that debate with Cooke linked by OMWC. I scarce believe my ears with the trash and stupidity coming out of the woman and that SJW German born professor. Says he’s been teaching for 21 years.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/10/15/mockingbird-banned-in-biloxi-schools/766270001/
Says he’s been teaching for 21 years….what a waste.
Gee, I wonder. *strokes chin*
“To Deny Self Care to an Avian of Color”
There. Now can we read it?
I listened to that debate and concluded the university is not just useless but actively making people dumber.
The woman on the panel couldn’t put together a coherent thought. The administrator was mendacious.
Neither could understand the fundamental point that kept getting brought up that opening up speech restrictions does not mean “you” get to restrict speech, it means the powerful do. They just kept rambling on about how there conception of speech limitation would be great for children.
I don’t think either had the mental capacity to teach 1st grade subjects.
Public education is a complete failure and needs to ended now.
Today I learned
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“The farthest star we can see with our naked eye is V762 Cas in Cassiopeia at 16,308 light-years away. Its brightness is magnitude 5.8 or just above the 6th magnitude limit.”
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The North Star is about 430 light-years away.
The stars in the Big Dipper are about 100 light years away.
I always wondered about that.
The Pleiades cluster stars are only around 70 million years old. Live fast, die young, I guess . . .
I’m still waiting to find out when we get another couple of generations of better space telescopes, is this the only universe? Or are we going to see others outside of our own like we discovered first other solar systems, and then other galaxies? I suppose part of the problem though is that those would be so far away we can’t see the light from them because it wouldn’t have reached us yet, unless they are much older than our own, supposedly 15 billion? year old universe.
Your last line is correct. If there are other Universes out there, we’re gonna need a different way of getting data about them to any of our sensors/senses.
There are theoreticians who believe that the “observable Universe” is far smaller than the “total Universe,” and the only reason we can’t see the rest of it is that the light from other parts of the Universe will never make it to us.
Others believe that the observable and total Universe(s) is/are the same thing.
I’m pretty skeptical about the big bang theory. Because you cannot get an entire universe from nothing. Ok, so it was all in some super dense form and then *bang*. Why was it in that state and why a bang? I know this is the best they can do right now, but it’s sort of lame. I mean if there was a former universe before that collapsed into a super massive blackhole at the center. But where did that universe come from? Which came first, the chicken or the universe?
Have another beer. It’ll sort itself out.
I’m gonna need at least 2 more before I have it all straight.
Oh, and thanks for giving me my latest excuse to drink more. I owe you a couple of drinks.
It’s kind of funny to think of the Big Bang as a placeholder theory.
“Yeah, we know it makes no sense, but it’s the best we can think of right now. We’ll be sure to give an update when we think of something more scientific.”
Isn’t expansionism the leading reason for this theory?
And the problem is that there isn’t nearly enough real/observable stuff in the universe for the equations (books) to balance. So we get interesting accounting entries like dark matter and dark energy (essentially accounting “plugs”), otherwise the debits and credits don’t add up and God doesn’t create a universe with crooked accounting!
I think people like to speculate about such things but the human mind isnt really wired to grasp it. On that scale the universe is operating on rules far enough beyond our experience that it’s just speculation. We torture the rules and understanding we have to try and fit something that it just wont fit.
First thing I spotted: If info can travel from another universe to ours then isnt it just one universe and not two? It’s logic and semantic games.
The whole ‘edge of the universe’ and ‘big bang’ smell like nonsense to me. We like stories. Stories have beginnings and ends and plots. That is how we understand things so we have tried to paste one onto the entire universe.
I usually think of time as being like a chain. Since you can’t have a chain of infinite length, time cannot be infinite either. So time and the universe must have a beginning.
On the other hand, matter cannot be made or destroyed, so it can’t have a beginning.
Maybe time is like a circle. That takes care of the problem of having to wait and endless amount of time to get to the present. Of course, how many cycles went by before this one? Maybe this is the first cycle.
I like this explanation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvkIF0NlIzA
Yeah, this is a case where God actually makes the whole thing make a lot more sense. Otherwise the story is – the universe happens by random, and all the stuff that happens in this universe is fundamentally random, including our evolution/existence. But, now that we exist, we have reason with which to understand all the mechanisms of the universe.
And you want me to believe what?
It’s a simulation. That does away with the problem of having code that wrote itself from out of pure chaos and random chance. So we live in a simulation. The problem then becomes ‘Who wrote the simulation that the creators live in who wrote our simulation?’.
Blessed by the Edit Fairy
Turtles young man, turtles all the way down!
You have to love the History Channel. These megaliths were made of diorite and only diamonds can cut diorite? LOL, so THC failed basic mineralogy, you have to believe them!
My eternal gratitude, oh family friendly edit fairy.
Wikipedia says it’s only 2760 ly away?
Wikipedia seems a lot closer than that.
Long read; good read.
The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority
From the same guy:
The intellectual yet idiot
Otherwise known as the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Important read. This is why you never compromise with evil. And by extension why evil should be named for what it is. Reagan calling the Soviet Union”the evil empire” was an important milestone.
Austrian Nazis
Can someone more familiar with Europolitics explain what this means? Is this new guy and his party right of any American leftists? Or more along the lines of a Bernie Sanders?
They’re successors to the old CS party that was kinda fascist but didn’t want to join with Germany. Traditionally they’ve been various degrees of Catholic localists. Modern day they’re fairly pro-EU and interested in economic liberalization, mostly welfare reform and deregulation stuff, not sure on specific policies though.
Well, thanks. That’s more than I knew a few minutes ago.
And the FPÖ (commonly called Freedom Party, although “Freiheitlich” means closer to liberal in the classical liberal sense) gets tarred as “far-right” because the chattering classes don’t like their anti-immigrant views. In reality they’re probably somewhere between Trump and Pat Buchanan. Some of the more classical liberals broke off in the 90s and founded the now defunct Liberal Forum, which eventually morphed into the NeOS party.
There’s a good chance of a right-right coalition, as there was after 1999. The EU tried to unperson Austria then.
No idea what that word salad means but maybe Österrexit is a form of… that.
I don’t even understand Euro politics at all. It seems to be that all of them are avowed socialists and the slightest deviation from that gets one labeled a far right extremist.
I think of it as a fascinating (and terrifying) study of socialists very successfully shifting the Overton Window.
It wasn’t that stunning. The results were close to the opinion polls, with the exception of the Greens not reaching the 4% threshold.
It’s only “stunning” because the FPÖ oppose the EU superstate.
I think the Austrian people are generally more open to some form of European cooperation/integration than the Brits.
Think of it this way – this time the Austrians can tell the Germans to stuff it.
Is this going to make those groves even deeper in Merkel’s marionette face?
Christian Democrats
So… yes and no.
AFAIK, the only filmmaker she ever did any significant work w/ was Lars Von Trier
Oh, in another post, it describes a “Danish director”.
What a mystery.
I think the dirty secret about the entertainment industry is that the big stars, that big talent isnt really all that rare. You dont make it big because of brilliant talent because there are a thousand like you out there to take your place. You make it big because you suck Harvey’s dick. With a vetting process like that what kinds of people will the industry fill up with? This explains a lot about the behavior of those people.
So how do men become stars?
*afraid of answer*
“Gay for pay” isn’t just a thing in the porn industry.
The same way. Some of them are coming forward now with similar stories.
Unfortunately for them, guys generally have a much lower expiration date until they are too old for the casting couch than women.
I haven’t seen any references other than Corey Feldman, and that came out decades ago.
I heard one on the right wing radio (Hannity?) wednesday night. 40 year veteran who claimed this stuff has always been rampant, and he was naming names.
Supposedly Elijah Wood said something about this.
They all act as some form of suck-up, whether it’s just ego stroking or dick sucking. You know you’ve made it big when you can get other people to do it to you instead.
Harvey looks like a fatter Steve Bannon on a bad day. Just sayin.
I don’t necessarily agree. Most films (no one knows %) lose money. Talent gets cast because of casting agents and directors, not just producers. They don’t throw just anyone in front of the camera because they’ve slurped the fat-man’s knob.
My own observation is that the flood of “me-too” claimants of sexual harassment is just an absurd example of modern Victim Chic. I imagine everyone’s agent is like “PLEASE TELL ME HARVEY TOUCHED YOUR ASS SO WE CAN DO A PRESS RELEASE. THIS IS TOO HOT TO MISS OUT ON.”
I mean, fucking Bjork? she was 100X more famous and rich than lars *#$@* von trier when she did his movie. She was the only reason anyone in america even knows his name. Acting like he used his position as a director to abuse and harass her is absurd. She could have destroyed him in split second.
“My own observation is that the flood of “me-too” claimants of sexual harassment is just an absurd example of modern Victim Chic.”
100% agreement on that.
I’d like to say that I have worked with those people and I saw blah blah blah to back up my case but…I have worked with those people and all the ones I knew were pretty solid and on the up and up. My only complaint was the actors who were just run of the mill narcissists. Of course the company I worked with was pretty far down on the food chain, I dont know what it’s like as you move up.
And that’s yet another reason why I love the internet, and why YouTube’s Orwellian turn saddens me so. It makes it easier than ever for indy talent to get out there and have a chance at getting noticed without getting filtered through by Hollywood and Harvey’s pants.
Suthen, I think you are wrong. I think acting is incredibly hard and it takes special skills/genes to be successful. That is why you see so many stars who are the kids of the previous generation. Ben Stiller, Drew Barrymore, Nick Cage, Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, etc.
If it was as easy as you say, the only way to explain those second gen actors in nepotism. And if it was all built on nepotism, you would have to stop believing that their postions on social issues was a bunch of hooey. I for one will not sit around and let you bad mouth America!
“In fact, our entire civilization is built on nothing but a series of blowjobs“
Now who would have thought von Trier was a creep? I mean, look at his filmography, it’s perfectly prudish.
The oldest book on the stock market was written in 1688. It has 4 basic rules:
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Penso also came up with four basic rules of the share market that are still of the greatest relevance today:
The first rule in speculation is: Never advise anyone to buy or sell shares. Where guessing correctly is a form of witchcraft, counsel cannot be put on airs.
The second rule: Accept both your profits and regrets. It is best to seize what comes to hand when it comes, and not expect that your good fortune and the favorable circumstances will last.
The third rule: Profit in the share market is goblin treasure: at one moment, it is carbuncles, the next it is coal; one moment diamonds, and the next pebbles. Sometimes, they are the tears that Aurora leaves on the sweet morning’s grass, at other times, they are just tears.
The fourth rule: He who wishes to become rich from this game must have both money and patience.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_de_la_Vega
The Fifth Rule: Don’t make budget projections based on assumed tax revenue from a stock market unless you can prop it up with a Dove at the Fed.
My first rule?
Never pay market price for a stock you plan to hold for more than a day.
That isn’t just on the stock market, that’s the way i do commercial real estate, too. You make your money on the way in to an investment–not the way out.
Incidentally, that’s the way Wal*Mart and others make their money, too. They don’t buy at the market price they’re selling to. They look at what the market they’re selling to is paying and look for ways to acquire those items for less than market.
There is a competing theory that people subscribe to, where you buy at the market price and then hope that the market price goes up before you sell. That’s called the “Greater Fool” theory. Some people make money with that. Hell, some people make money playing cards in Vegas. Some people get rich playing the lottery. But that’s not investing–unless you’re going over the really, really long haul and just talking about compounding your “investment”. IMO, that’s more like “saving” than investment.
For those of you who don’t know that you can buy stocks for less than the market price, I strongly suggest you learn about the Covered Call.
It’ll change your whole outlook.
It’s been a funny game since market interest rates have been so low for so long, people bid up high yield stocks for a long time, making the strategy less fantastic than it would have been otherwise. People were substituting high yield stocks for bonds. Still, understand the covered call, and you’ll start looking for different kinds of stocks. What if your investments weren’t so focused on growth? What if they were as much about limiting your own risk?
What if I told you there were people who would pay you ahead of time for the right to buy a stock for more than it’s trading for today?
That’s no typo. Get your head around that, and it can make a material difference in your quality of life.
Razorfist doesn’t like the new Blade Runner
i have not seen it. the impression i’ve gotten from most was, “it outperformed their (low) expectations”. I suspect that’s probably right.
although i feel myself being influenced by RF’s very-accurate observation that Jared Leto is a terrible actor who was probably mis-cast as the villan.
I’m not sure if movie reviews or music reviews are more useless.
Either that or I just like a lot of crap.
You like crap. It’s okay. We all like crap.
Why, 30 years ago people scoffed at this music https://youtu.be/2KE-Ze-VPeE
But put in in a Tarantino film, and all the sudden it’s a Quincy Jones composition. All the sudden this is important music.
I never would have called that crap. Hell, I like the Hart to Hart theme.
OK I think you’re right.
every soundtrack quincy jones ever did was always held in extremely high regard. many were gold-records on their own. even when they were shitty movies/shitty shows. hell, i knew he did the music for Sanford and Son even as a kid. lots and lots of his TV+film samples ended up in hiphop tracks of the 1990s.
since we mentioned Bjork earlier…
etc.
https://www.whosampled.com/Quincy-Jones/Kitty-With-the-Bent-Frame/
https://www.whosampled.com/Quincy-Jones/Body-Heat/
Music reviews are far more useless. Movie reviews take a few minutes for me to consume and help me determine whether I want to spend 1-3 hours on something that may or may not be drivel. Most music is far shorter than most movies (for that matter, most music reviews are longer than the music they’re reviewing) so you aren’t getting the huge time saving you get from movie reviews. The trick is finding a few critics with very similar tastes in movies as you. I don’t care nearly as much about what the big pro critics at LA Times and such say as about the YouTube guy who has similar tastes as me likes.
Does anyone still read reviews from so called ‘experts’? As a gamer, I haven’t read a review from an expert in more than 10 years, I only read player reviews. For films or music, I just read Amazon reviews. So called ‘experts’ are going extinct.
There are a few ‘experts’ at Allmusic I trust. So… I’ll walk back my comment a little and admit that in some cases I find music reviews more useful. But movies…? Feh. Matter of taste. In that case I think aggregates are somewhat more useful.
When it comes to music – if I like the first couple singles on youtube, I listen to the previews on itunes – but if it’s a group I’ve purchased before, probably a blind buy…ie. Muse, Coheed&Cambria, Clutch, Creepshow, Kitty in a Casket, etc – automatic purchase upon announcement.
Yes, they’re just not what people think of when they think of “experts” in the ivory tower writing down to us plebs via their dead tree magazines. Most of them are guys like Shamus Young, Doug Walker, Chris Stuckmann, Red Letter Media, and so on. Love or hate any or all of them, they make their names by approaching it less as an expert than as a fellow consumer who is just far more obsessive than you, and having a lot of engagement with their fanbase. “Experts” aren’t going extinct, just the old guard who can’t adapt. Capitalism in action.
As for me, when looking for a game to play I look to game reviews second. The first place I look is a “Let’s Play,” at least the very beginning of one. I think it gives a better feel for the mechanics, tone, and quality of a work watching an account of it than reading about it (though the latter is nice for when the game has a sudden drop in quality somewhere down the line).
Yeah, Youtube first and then Steam forums. I don’t watch Fat Biscuit at all, in fact, I couldn’t even tell you any single thing him or Angry Joe have ever said.
^^^This
Even most of the videos on Steam itself are useless.
Roger Ebert was an excellent reviewer and generally solid for his period (some opinions I definitely disagree with) – but very approaching and engaging – and informative – for his format. But 21st century – youtube, etc is far more convenient for quick reviews – although I love DVD Savant’s “amateur/professional” written reviews at https://cinesavant.com/ (he does inject a lot of editorializing depending on the flick, but he has a ton of background knowledge and some very interesting personal experiences with editing, trailer cutting, etc.
Razorfist likes Death Wish II, so you’re in good company in the “liking crap” department.
Razorfist likes fucking Escape from L.A.
he’s 100% right about all his movie reviews.
mainly because he is a connoisseur of 1980s schlock action/vigilante/horror movies. he knows his material. most of which is equal blends of “embarassing”+”boss”
His greatest review is Rock+Roll Nightmare
I don’t remember a thing about that movie except Steve Buscemi was in it.
That was the best Death Wish movie, which isn’t saying a lot but there you go.
The reviewer from NR was pathetic. He didn’t even get the plot correct and threw in some vaguely Breitbarty racist crap.
Plus the soundtrack was terrible. But I liked the movie overall.
eh, he hated the idea of them making the movie in the first place, hated every trailer, and — unsurprisingly – hated the movie. But while I like the original, I don’t find it an untouchable classic either, so I don’t get his outrage. I didn’t watch the rant, since I already know from twitter that I don’t agree with two of his problems with it, and it’s annoying to want to argue with someone over something, when I know arguing about it is just a waste of my time.
And I’m just generally tired of the Internet at large demanding that everything be either MOST AWESOME THING EVER or else it’s garbage. I’d rather look for positives, but internet culture tends to be looking for the negatives, and it gets tedious.
Definitely. It’s a solid SF flick, separated from the original by a 30 year timespan including additional massive tech shifts – most of the plot points aren’t unreasonable – although some characterizations are a little weak. I’ll definitely pick up the BR either way. Might even watch it in the theater again with a friend.
Roaming Millennial goes to Lafayette
“As a [oppressed group], I …”
“I feel…”
“Do you actually believe…”
“I’m a fucking idiot 19 year that can’t make a coherent argument.”
Spot the “not the way students talk”.
I think my ‘raise the voting age to 25’ policy platform is eventually going to have a lot of momentum.
I’d be willing to make it 33~49 year olds only.
Get off my lawn, snapper.
To be fair, I think a large portion of it is them being indoctrinated through the public school and university system and not yet having the experience to know how much of it is crap. If I had a choice between raising the voting age to 25 and burning the public education system to the ground and starting over one the ashes, I’d say the latter is more likely to result in fewer useful idiots voting.
Agreed.
Under the current system though, 25 is too young IMHO. I wouldn’t have let me vote when I was 25.
And the driving age should be raised to 40. But that’s a rolling cutoff: it goes up every year on my birthday.
Oh, and now I have a lawn…get off it!
What’s this get off lawn crap? Y’all need to get your orphans to build you some fences. Or antitank ditches with concertina.
This Kurz fellow, the new fuhrerissimo of Austria? His girlfriend wears to much eye makeup. She looks like a goddamn raccoon.
That is all.
At least he isn’t married to the Cryptkeeper like Macron.
Porkin’ the bone.
Mom of the year.
I saw that X-Files episode.
That is some real and useful talent.
What? Scuffing the fuck out of the paintwork?
I was aroused and enraged simultaneously.
Bill Clinton declines to comment on the subject.
DId you ever hear the backstory on Macron?
That was one of those relationships where she was his schoolteacher. He was really young.
His parents sent him somewhere to keep him away from her because . . . it wasn’t right, but as soon as he got old enough, . . .
They were dating when he was 15 and she was a 39 year old, married mother of three.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/emmanuel-macron-parents-how-discovered-affair-drama-teacher-brigitte-trogneux-dating-french-a7724201.html
I guess everybody’s willing to overlook that when the alternative is Le Pen?
Apparently, she’s a rapey monster and the frogs don’t care. That’s my take away on this. Why don’t the frogs care about rape?
Because it’s France.
It’s a package deal with the white flags.
The alternative was Le Pen.
They would have overlooked Elizabeth Bathory’s . . . um . . . flaws if Bathory were the wife of someone running against Le Pen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory#Accusation
Le Pen is anti-immigrant, and what could be worse than that?
It still makes me laugh that Le Pen was portrayed as a far-right extremist when she was more of a lefty than Bernie, except she had just enough integrity to stick to her anti-immigrant views that Bernie ditched when they became politically inconvenient.
Something, something, U-theory.
My wife’s grandpa had surgery today, but he is not expected to make it. Even if he does, there is a good chance he’s not going to love another 48 hours.
I don’t like the guy. I never have. My wife doesn’t like him much either. He has done some incredibly shitty things to his his progeny over the past 10 years. My wife is upset that he is most likely going to die. I’m not, but I’m trying to give support.
This is difficult for me.
That is a tough situation. Maybe just be glad he’s not John McCain? Because that would make it even harder. I mean I’m not saying that if it was McCain it would be tough to not go up there and stab him in the face multiple times and then wrap his feeding tubes around his neck and… Ok, never mind.
If I was married to Mcains’ s granddaughter, I would have pushed that fucker down the stairs years ago.
I like the way you think. Anyways, as you know, that was just a joke. I hope everything works out ok.
“At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.”
-Italian proverb
Advice by way of my long gone, minister grandfather?
Talk about how lucky he was to have a granddaughter like her that would be upset and miss him when he’s gone.
Not everybody is that lucky.
Her being upset is probably contemplating her own mortality–if she doesn’t like him ’cause he treated her and others badly. It’s prolly not about him, so say nice things about her.
He was really lucky to have you!
Be honest, but talk about her accomplishments, all the good things she has, and how important it is to stop and smell the roses. And look at all those roses we have!
But be honest. Don’t make shit up.
good advice Ken. She said something earlier today about how she wishes she would spent more time with him the past few years. I mentioned that our son is 5 years old and he has made no effort what so ever to see him. Although that is true, that was the wrong thing to say.
I feel much differently about this than she does. I think you’re right. Talk about how good she is and do my best not to mention anything about her grandpa.
I am sorry to hear that Lachowsky. I wish I had some golden advice but that sounds like a tough situation. I try not to be too much of a hater. Bad people die, they are gone and I dont think about them anymore. If they weren’t too bad I keep in mind that over the decades I have watched bad people become good people so then I am sorry that particular one didn’t get the chance to grow and learn and become good. This doesnt sound like a situation like that. He sounds like one of the first kind. Support your wife for your wife’s sake. Wait until she is gone sometime next week and then go out in the yard and dance and cheer.
Thanks suthern. Feigning sympathy is difficult for me. I’m a shitty liar. I don’t like the guy for good reason, and he’s dying. No sweat of my back. My wife doesn’t like him either. However, she has a lifetime of good and bad memories to reflect on. I will do my best to be supportive, even if my sympathies expressed are lies. I don’t like it, but there it is.
Sorry. I think Suthen’s advice is good.
Hey! I drew you in the BIF. Just sent you an email.
That’s called “manning up”. Keep your mouth shut, hug people that need hugs, help with the catering/ move chairs/ get more ice from the store. Your reality for the near future.
You are correct. shut your mouth and go through the motions. Funerals are for the living.
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Two Germans share the longest proven family tree in the world.
The men, Manfred Huchthausen, a 58-year-old teacher, and Uwe Lange, a 48-year-old surveyor, had known each other from living in the same village, about half a mile apart from each other.
But they never knew they were related through a 3,000-year-old shared ancestor.
They only recently found out they are both true descendants of Bronze Age cave-dwellers who lived in the area three millenniums ago.
Thanks to a DNA test on well-preserved Bronze Age bones found in the Lichtenstein cave in the foothills of the Harz Mountains in Germany’s Lower Saxony, the men can now claim to have the longest family tree in the world.
“Before the discovery, I could trace my family back by name to 1550,” Lange said. “Now, I can go back 120 generations.”
Lange comes from the small village of Nienstedt, which is near the excavation site.
“We used to play there as kids,” he told ABC News. “If I’d known that there were 3,000-year-old relatives buried there, I would not have set a foot in that cave.”
…
He said he has received many calls from across Germany since the archaeologists published their findings.
“People are interested to find out what it is like to be able to trace back the family roots for 3,000 years, and I can tell them, it’s awesome, it’s sensational, it’s fascinating.”
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http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=5386347&page=1
*gaze, narrowed*
Doesn’t this “longest family tree” have a really, really big gap in there? Not sure that quite qualifies as a family tree.
I’m hugely skeptical of the whole thing but I’m not a scientician so what do I know.
I’m just wondering if this includes sub Saharan Africans, who should have the oldest ancestral heritage of any peoples on earth, if I’m not mistaken. Are they only talking about Europeans?
IIUC, they’re just talking about DNA results. So, yes.
What about my Neanderthal genes?
White privilege. Same with Asians’ Denisovan or Floriensis genes, yellow privilege, coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
I would think Aborigines would have more Denisovan DNA than East Asians.
How do I capitalize on this privilege to drive my enemies before me and hear the lamentations of their women?
That lamenting is pretty Hawt.
Family stump and twig?
Icelandic Pirate Party MP forced to wear eyepatch
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-41608341
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Eva Pandora Baldursdottir wrote on her Facebook wall that her one-year-old daughter “scratched my eye, which means I have to wear an eyepatch over the weekend,” Reykjavik Grapevine reports.
“That wouldn’t be an issue if it wasn’t for the fact that I’m going to a TV debate tonight,” she said.
“Of course be wearing my beautiful eyepatch,” she said of her impending appearance on Iceland’s Stod 2 channel.
The Pirate Party, which bases its policies on civil rights, free sharing of information and direct democracy, holds 10 out of 63 seats in the Althing, Iceland’s parliament.
They are the third largest party in the country, based on size of vote in the 2016 elections.
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Wow, the Icelandians really are weird looking. They’re like the Caucasion Pygmies, no?
They do look a tad Bjorkian don’t they?
I have to go there for a vacation, because it’s so cheap of a flight from here.
Make sure you try the Hacarl.
http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/icelandic-cuisine-hakarl-iceland-fermented-shark.html
That sounds awful, I mean really.
I have an Icelandic buddy and he brought some of that stuff back with him. His wife wouldn’t let him open the container in our house, she made him go outside. I thought she was being dramatic, she was not. That stuff smells like fish death. Ugh, I couldn’t even bear to try some and I will try almost anything once.
It’s not that I haven’t heard of this, but I thought it was a Scandinavia thing, maybe Norway? But to me, eating something that is almost rotted because of survival in a long Scandinavian winter is not something I’m actively seeking out. Blech!
Sounds like lutefisk. I only know of it from Andrew Zimmern. I would not eat it if you paid me a thousand dollars.
No, I don’t think so. Lukefisk is dried and salted cod, called bacalhau in Portugal and Brazil. I’ve ate it, but I much prefer cod cooked fresh in the traditional way.
Yeah. I just meant something in the same general area of “rotten seafood”.
Uffda! You shut your mouth about lutefisk. It is the greatest thing ever.
Seriously, learning to eat lutefisk is like the hazing that gets you membership into the cool Norwegian club. Who doesn’t want that?
It is also one of those things that I associate with Christmas. As a young kid many times you’d go to some friends house over winter vacation and his Norwegian granny would be cooking up a bunch of it. We’d laugh about the smell and hang out not being in school. Good times.
I spent a few days there on the way back from Europe once. It was before the crash there so it was expensive. Interesting place though. I rented a car for a day and drove outside of Reykjavik which was cool.
There are only 335,000 people in Iceland.
There are more libertarians in America than there are Icelanders . . . everywhere in the world all put together.
Dude, there are more libertarians in Brazil than people in Iceland.
It’s just weird, the sense of proportion.
I hear people talk about how this country or that country does things, and when you think of a nation of people with a long storied culture, etc., etc., I think, “Well, yeah, how do they do things?”
Some of the suburban sub markets I deal in have more people than Iceland.
They’ve got their own fascinating language and history and culture . . .
You think direct democracy won’t work–have you looked at Iceland?
You think anarchy won’t work–have you looked at Medieval Iceland?
All put together, there’s like a couple suburbs worth of Icelanders. It’s like the size of a homeowners’ association.
The population of New York City alone is over an order of magnitude greater than the entire population of Iceland.
Though, considering NYC is more populous than over half of all countries, I’m not sure how fair this comparison is.
Glibs BIF e-mails have been sent. I passed along shipping addresses (when I had them) as well as e-mail addresses. Let’s aim for having everything delivered by Halloween. Hopefully, everything goes smoothly and people are happy with what they get.
Coolness.
I get prouder and prouder of everyone here. Nice work.
Wait, was there some sort of merchandising thing going on here that I didn’t know about? I want a STEVE SMITH shirt!
Yeah I missed something.
Beer It Forward. Round robin local beer exchange.
Bizarre tragedy: goalkeeper dies after colliding with team mate:
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/41630244
When your mother catches you reading a Sugarfree post on your phone.
I would have thought that a mom would prevent the kid from jumping out the window after reading SF posts.
I’m going to avoid all that unpleasantness by not clicking on the link.
Is anyone familiar with this Trump groping accuser or is this just another nutty brown pile of steaming media horseshit?
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/summer-zervos-subpoena-donald-trump-sexual-assault_us_59e3a30de4b03a7be5816360
Yes.
The assault accusation evaporated into nothing so she is going after him for defamation because he claimed the assault accusation was a lie?
I think I get it.
Funnily enough, it’d been reported about a day ago that Larry Flynt put up a $10 million bounty for any dirt that could impeach Trump. Would she stoop to making shit up to collect on that moolah?
We’ve all had a wet dream, but has anyone ever had a wet nightmare?
Yes. I once had the Fascistic Night Sweats.
I woke up from a nightmare drenched in sweat a few times.
At least…I’m pretty sure it was sweat…
Yes, I was dreaming of pudding pops and gaudy 80’s sweaters. Weird.
The score at halftime is really unexpected.
Any team can beat any other team on any day, but I still wouldn’t bet against the Broncos coming back.
Not yet, anyway.
The Squaws lost to the Steelers today, the Raiders continue to not look anything like their high flying high scoring offense, and the Chargers continue to hobble along. The AFC West, my how the high have fallen.
Man, the NFL needs to work harder on making their fixed games not look so fix. I just saw the Pats/Jets highlights. Ha! That is some fake ass shit right there.
My brother (funny enough tan inveterate gambler) has been trying to convince me for years that the NFL is fixed. He bets according to to what he thinks the league wants and doesn’t do half bad. I’m starting to believe him.
He fumbled through the end zone. Fixing an NFL game would be difficult, and to do it with enough confidence to ensure the outcome would require many conspirators.
The right conspirator–could be just one.
The QB or a running back.
If you know either one of them will fumble the ball once on purpose, that can be more than enough of a change in probabilities to beat the spread.
The problem is that the players make so much money playing things straight. There are a few outliers–how do you explain Arron Hernandez?–but for the most part, you can’t bribe someone making millions a year to risk that paycheck.
Also, anybody and everybody will know about it–because of who you are as a player. Pete Rose couldn’t even make a bet on his own team to win without the whole damn world finding out about it. There are no secrets.
The NSA can’t even keep the world from finding out their secrets. Why’s a bookie going to have better secrecy than that?
. . . especially if there are women involved. When women keep secrets, it means they only tell their best friends. And everyone else they tell, they make promise they won’t tell anyone else–but all their girlfriends tell each other anyway.
Bill Clinton couldn’t even keep it secret that he was getting blown in the Oval Office–and that was 20 years ago.
I don’t know how much of it is fixed, but I would believe that some part of it could very well be. You would not bribe any player, they make too much money already for it to be worthwhile for them. An official on the other hand is a different story. Some years back there was an NBA ref that was fixing games because of gambling debts that he had. I doubt he is the only one. In the NFL, just about every single play has a possible holding call on it. Kill a couple third down attempts and you could very easily change the outcome.
But there’s several officials in an NFL game, and a head official, and reviews by officials who are not on the field. There’s also replay. You would have to bribe several officials and the head official to have a good bet.
Why do that when boxing only requires bribing one person. Given a chance to fux a game it would just make more sense to do nearly any sport before football.
There’s an aura of losing all over the airwaves in Denver tonight.
It just had all the hallmarks of a trap game, and that’s what it looks like is happening.
That was the worst field goal try I’ve ever seen on television.
It was terrible.
new project binky
ITS BEEN LIKE
34 YEARSthey could have whittled a functioning car from bars of soap by this point.
Local Dairy Queen no longer has chocolate ice cream and thus no more swirl cones, due to mandatory equipment replacement. Fuck you Warren Buffet!
Are you sure it’s Buffet’s fault personally?
I mean, maybe he fired the guy that’s responsible.
ftfy
Yes, that Thatcher.
“raised profits”: the greatest sin of all
Maggie Thatcher, Lifelong Milk Products Snatcher
I’m gonna work that into a lyric. Reminds me of Can “Waiting for the Streetcar”.
Can https://youtu.be/YVMXQuKuISQ
Been watching the Amazon show “Comrade Detective”. It’s pretty funny. Didn’t realize it was going to be a show making fun of communism.
His girlfriend looks a raccoon. And what the fuck is that suit you are wearing?
You or he or xe, or whatever.
This is just a general endorsement of the glibs commentariat.
I have posted a personal problem on this site and have gotten solid advice more than once. I feel like this is a community of like minded folk that I can trust. Thanks glibs.
may ye orphans ever labor.
Hope you make it through okay. Suthen gave excellent advice. I would only add that funerals are for the living, not the dead.
Yes, this place is damn fine.
https://youtu.be/H5FlmwQWu8g?t=7m30s
Sarah Silverman must be retarded. I thought (((they))) were supposed to be intelligent. I’ve never felt that cops are there to protect and serve me, maybe thats just my male privilege?
Justine Damond would like a word, though you might have to use a medium to get it.
Though I admit she does have a luxury: ignorance is bliss.
OT: I have a whole bottle of Sambuca (Sambuca Romana brand) and I’m not really lovin’ it.
What’s a good way to drink this stuff to use it up? I already tried it in coffee and I didn’t really like it.
Use it to clean out your drain line. Life’s too short to clutter up the liquor cabinet with bottles you don’t want to drink.
IIRC, its flavour profile’s similar to French pastis, yes? If so, a smallish amount in a tall glass over ice and then filled up with water usually makes a pretty refreshing drink, but it’s best enjoyed in hot weather. Put the bottle aside for six months and try my suggestion on a hot day.
It’s a flamer.
No, that’s not a shot at LGBT.
It’s a flaming shot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ4x6b73TVQ