Happy Monday, Glibs. My oldest son must be getting the jerk gene coming in. How else to explain that he got sent home from school for ‘having a fever’, when he doesn’t have one? Oh, and because of stupid daycare rules, that means he gets to stay home again tomorrow, too. Because I got nothing better to do. Fuck it. Send his whole class over here. I’ll invite OMWC as a chaperone and we’ll have a grand old day. Fuck!
On the other hand, at least I didn’t kill someone attempting suicide. Suicider was 12. Happy Monday.
Saudi Arabia, going nuclear because the Iranians are for energy independence.
Why hot pool guys are only a fantasy trope, by science!
Huh. I would have sworn this was a NCIS plotline. Given that they’ve made a billion episodes, I’m probably not wrong.
I don’t know why this tickles me so much. Its weird that this guy is the ur-sound of both flavors of pop that followed him.
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It’s like half of those episodes.
Boys will be boys
Nope, it was JAG.
In related news, Mark Harmon is running for trustee in my neck of the woods. I wish it were that Mark Harmon, or at least Summer School Mark Harmon.
Love the system brah..
Playa’s favorite song.
Huh? I don’t get it.
Suuuuurrrre you didn’t.
Great song. Be nice if you could hear the guitar over the drums.
Sorry about a post I made towards the end of last night’s Sunday Evening Links. Could the staff please remove it. It would be much appreciated. Thanks.
I see a Striesand Effect in your future!
*every Glib who didn’t see Agile Potato’s Sunday post rush to read it*
Agile Potato
I literally LOLed.
Sorry to hear about you pain and struggles to manage it, Count.
Yeah, my comment may have been a little extra glib. Sorry about the cheap shot, Count. I’m hoping everything gets better.
Thanks.
At least you didn’t post about wanting to bang dead chicks.
I’m guessing *that* post is never getting deleted – hell, if they ever get tired of the family-friendly rating, it might end up on the masthead.
*Heads to last night’s links, searches for “Potato”*
Huh. Not that bad, I mean, by our standards. Kind of an AC vibe to it, in places.
You are the last one to see that…I zorched it.
Sometimes we do take requests.
Done! No worries.
Thank you.
I didn’t read it but you are among friends. Can’t be any worse than a SugarFree story.
Count, for what it’s worth, I sympathized with your post. Migraines suck and not getting pain meds for them sucks even more. Don’t worry about it man.
My wife has suffered from massive cluster migraines ever since she got pregnant with our first. It is completely debilitating, not just physically, but mentally and emotionally as well. Weeks at a time with pain, auras, extreme sensitivity to sensory stimuli…. it is really hard to remain functional.
I’ll be praying for you. That can be some seriously rough stuff – and few people really understand, tending to file it under the heading of “had a headache”.
The irony of that 12 year old suicider was that the girl he killed was passionate about working with kids with severe psychological issues.
her own mom said it was ironic.
still not sure how the kid jumped through the Ford Escape and killed her. sunroof maybe?
And yet the kid lived. It’s got to be one of the most freak deaths ever. Maybe she just got very unlucky and something severed an artery or something?
The kid suffered life-threatening injuries.
I’m guessing he went through the windshield, but not head first.
So, in the end, she was able to help the kid.
Windshield?
An overpass seems a bad place to do that. Good chance you could limp away from it. Not to mention putting others at risk. If that kid owned a gun that girl might still be alive
Not a good day today. I have not fully eradicated the mice (walked in on one to find one running around the living room like he lived here), the stuff I ordered fell out of the envelope in mail (but the mailman pushed the empty envelope in the box anyway… luckily I chased him down and found what I paid for), and I’m pretty sure the consultant at work is trying to bluff about having more knowledge and experience than he has. Normally that’s less of a problem, but the gap is that part we actually hired him for…
Your copy of 50 shades of grey?
why would I read chick porn? There’s real porn readily available on the internet.
Fun fact: 50 Shades of Gray started off as bad Twilight fanfic, and somehow got optioned into a major series of books and 3 movies.
Meanwhile, SugarFree can’t get his Hat and Hair stories optioned for anything. Shame.
It is a fun fact, but isnt it well known too?
tbh I’d forgotten about it, and now I can chuckle over it once again.
CGI is still not good enough to make Hat and Hair a reality.
I would think a proper Hat/Hair film would use practical effects, not CGI. I’m picturing hand-puppets in the vein of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. I think that would be most in keeping with the style of the stories.
What could UCS have gotten that he doesn’t want to share with the Glibberati?
Since you’re going to joke about it anyway – I was stocking up on hand cream for winter – I don’t like cracking and bleeding, but the environment in my office is set up to cause it.
Make your crass remarks at my expense now.
I’ll make the non-crass remark:
I assume that hand cream is unscented.
It’s not milk Ted, you can’t drink it.
*golf clap*
To be fair, hand cremes only come in unscented, Old Lady and Old Man.
Crass?
I’m hurt. I would ask you for some hand cream to soothe the burn but we all know you didn’t just use it on your hands.
#churning butter is good old fashioned alone time
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Crisco or GTFO.
Are we talking about churning butter?
Lol boy butter
Found UCS’s girlfriend
Oh Ben! /hand j-lo
Probably just inadvertently guessed the name of the hand creme.
…you did ask for it.
literally.
You’re an office worker right? Why the hell do you need hand creme to keep your hands from cracking. Only hands I know of that crack are ones that people work with and ones that get washed and disinfected way too often. Are you one of those germophobes who used hand sanitizer 15 times a day?
The insanely wrong humidity levels – and the cheapest bidder soap in the bathrooms.
Yeah, the soap at our office makes your knuckles bleed. It’s ridiculous.
Ah, I see you are familiar with John Wayne brand bathroom products.
Rough, tough, and don’t take no shit from nobody.
Don’t be crass. Office workers get dry hands too. Besides he was probably digging a pit this weekend for his guest.
“It rubs the lotion on it’s skin or get the hose again” – ucs
“Uh…pretty sure that’s from Silence of the Lambs.” – “guest”
“Daddy’s home!” – ucs
“That’s from the shining…” – guest
“Just put the lotion on dammit.” – ucs
“I said $100 for non-freaky stuff, but this will be way extra weirdo.” – guest/hooker
*slowly realizes with a look of abject horror that the “lotion” is actually rendered human fat* -guest/hooker
“I shoulda known he was freaky Jason when he asked for unsalted fries!” – guest/hooker
I go jogging in the winter, which causes my hands to crack and bleed if I don’t lube them up constantly throughout the day (yes, I wear gloves when jogging – sometimes two pairs – but that’s still not enough).
Steelworkers, lumberjacks, heavy-duty mechanics and janitors have an excuse for this. You don’t add up so you will fall from the nightmare ladder, Mr. Soft-hands.
I’m pretty sure the consultant at work is trying to bluff about having more knowledge and experience than he has
I’m pretty sure you are right, because consultant.
Yes. Good consultants are able to come through on the bluff with something good enough 80% of the time. The other 20% of the time we just flail around, burning money and hating life.
Goddamned mice.
I had them eradicated here and then it got cold. Last night late I was sitting in the garage smoking and…zip!…one ran right in front of me. Here we go again.
Someone bought the building next door and they’re refurbing it – probably caused some of the vermin to relocate.
The secondhand smoke will kill them.
I don’t know if the mice are in the ceiling or in the vents.
In the vents is worse, because if I poison them there, the furnace will spead the smell through the whole house.
Feel your pain. Going through this again myself. I recently went on a spree and bought a couple dozen of these.
This stuff is the balls and more effective than peanut butter.
Set up a lot around the perimeter of the exterior and interior of your home.
Interlopers must die.
Ha! Where i work they always ask where all of the goddamn dead flies are coming from. I don’t have the heart to tell them that it’s because they poison the mice and dying rodents are hard to find. Fucked if I’m moving lockers and breaking through walls. I’ll just continue to sweep up the flies on a day-to-day basis.
You ended that whole paragraph exactly right. Education will be given.
Oh man, without the hot pool guy, the plot of Extract totally falls apart!
Such a bad movie that not even Mila Kunis could save it. Burn in hell Jason Bateman
Considering his C-list career trajectory and the ongoing deterioration of his once-grand contribution to humanity, I think Jason Batemen is living in hell already.
I dunno. The first season of Ozark was solid. Derivative, but solid.
And The Gift was much better than I was expecting.
Damn, he is getting around. The last time I saw him outside rewatching AD was as a bit character in a godawful movie with Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson. DRECK. I shut it off early, I was so disgusted with it and myself.
Before that was in one of the Bosses movies, and that, too, was awful.
I thought the first Horrible Bosses was funny. The second one was horrible, though, clearly nothing more than a lazy cash grab.
He was in Dodgeball so he’s got that going for him.
*sigh*
Damn youz.
I thought The Gift was a solid suspense thriller/mind fuck. Give it a whirl one day.
to the suicide manslaughter article. That is the strangest event I think I’ve ever read. before clicking, I thought it was going to be a cop story. I’m not happier at what it really was.
Same here – I read “kill someone attempting suicide” as the cops killing someone who was attempting suicide.
This is even worse. That poor girl.
whats strange is how she was hurt or killed on impact, but the boyfriend was fine.
I can’t think of how the A pillar would fail like that? I’m just confused.
So, I’ve been thinking about this. Maybe my idea is full of holes. And this all depends on if she was traveling at highway speed. I thought I read she was.
So let’s say jumper was nearly horizontal, with feet facing towards the car at impact. He comes flying thru the windshield (I know, he isn’t “flying” the car is hurtling towards him, but same effect). His feet/legs hit her square in the head and break her neck.
that seems more plausible. If they were perpendicular to the road, i doubt they would have gone through the windshield with that force. I know moose can go through the windshield and into the cab pretty easy, but this just seems like one in a billion.
That’s for damn sure
Depending on the timing, I could see this happening with the jumper falling perpendicular to the road. If the feet hit the hood of the car, the body starts to crumple and could be folded up by the time the windshield hits it, sending a large, concentrated mass straight into the driver, at head level if the driver was short. That, to me, would explain the driver being the fatality while the jumper survives and the passenger is unscathed.
FTA, “Police identified the driver as 22-year-old Marisa Harris of Olney, Md. Harris was a graduate student at Marymount University who wanted to help kids combating depression.”
At least she died doing what she loved.
Via that other site, Oberlin really is going to start paying students to protest
But they pay is only $8.15/hour. Not even a living wage! Wonder if they’ll pay students to protest against that part. They probably will.
FIGHT FOR $15!!!!!
People pay somewhere in the mid-five figures for this opportunity ;D ;D ;D Christ, what a scam.
$70k a year, including room and board.
#hertwo
https://archive.is/bzeUE
(HT to Brooks for the hashtag)
A few of them look more like plastic than the average sexbot.
More for me!
I wasn’t saying I was turning them all down, just pointing out that the number of plastic looking people was abnormally high in this batch.
There is definitely some funny business with #12’s nipples…
38 is cute.
I dig.
15, 21, 37 and 38
^ #15
With the fury of an angry god.
Would like a foursome with 16 and 28. I would totally do all of those chicks.
How many of you are there?
16 had 2 girls:)
Maybe you’d need two dicks to satisfy all of them at once?
I’m sure I would figure out something:)
The man has two hands, doesn’t he? That leaves three appendages to satisfy three ladies. The math checks out.
Don’t forget the tongue. JB, you can pick one more but that’s your limit!
I can let one girl at a time take breaks.
I like what 5 had in her pants.
Seriously look below. Ignore the tattoo and see what she has in her shorts. You will be pleased.
Nope nope nope nope nope
Attractive woman wearing very little with a gun and no one notices.
I’ll take a #6, a #7 and can’t decide between a #9 or a #28
Guess I’ll take both, that way I have lunch for tomorrow
Innuendo is fun
The first thing to acknowledge is that the indictment of Paul Manafort doesn’t prove collusion by President Trump with Russia to undermine American democracy. But the second thing to say is: It may get us closer.
Kristof is almost as unhinged as Blow, but I couldn’t resist having a peek.
All that stuff about Hillary is just baseless speculation, but that Russian Collusion is a slam dunk.
Got a call back to finalize everything. I took a university job in VT. I’m moving back home while trying to sublet this place, then figure it out from there.
Congrats! What you gonna be doing there?
back to locksmithing. I’m hoping to continue to teach myself more programming stuff, but we will see.
You gonna try to come back to the Centennial State? We need more libertarians not fewer!
I hope to. I lock the tech stuff down, back to Boulder for me.
well, not boulder.
When you get to that point, have the admins give you my email and I’ll try to hook you up.
noted! and since I’ll be paying rent here for a while, I’m looking to fly back this winter for a long weekend or two. I already bought the fricken pass to eldo.
Say hi to grandpa Bernie for us.
if his house gets TP’d you guys don’t know me.
Steal his car and leave a sign that says “Wealth Redistribution! #SocialismFTW”.
No Vhyrus, you don’t understand the difference between personal property and private property.
/faculty lounge denizen
Just move into his house. Nobody needs 3.
Great! Right?
mixed bag. mostly good, and my current situation here is not great. Got cut to part time work, so lost insurance. Teaching myself programming is good, but money is gone at this point. So in that way, this is much better. I prefer CO to VT, and was hoping to not be a locksmith. but uni work is where the money is unless you’re your own boss with a good business.
Plus the women, right?
He holds the key to their virgin gates.
ok, that one was good.
Going to Middlebury to get beat up by progs?
Congrats, Doom!
Thanks! Dad’s flying out next week to help me tow the 40 home.
should be a decent adventure. I have to tell my roommates tonight. Not sure how I’m gonna do that.
“Guys… I’m moving… To South Carolina”
Try this:
“Bye!”
Congratulations.
Thanks! I hope you’re feeling better today, man. really, I can’t imagine.
I’ve had a headache for the last few days. That many days in a row is odd for me. So my head still hurts now, but it’s nothing like last night!
Migraines suck. So sorry
Congrats, glad you got that locked up.
I’d say he unlocked a door to a great opportunity.
Hey…both of ya!
*narrows gaze*
don’t be a knob
Quit picking on Swiss.
Let’s just say he bolted to a new future.
he’s really latched onto that gaze.
*keys Raston Bots car*
It’s pathetic how you guys’ humor is completely hinged on corny puns.
Glad to see you’re so keyed up for the news.
He tumbled out of bed and turned the key to a new era.
I’m glad he found a job to latch onto
As long as it’s not a revolving door opportunity
maybe you’ll tumble into something better.
*sigh*
you guuyyss
Where in VT?
Are you gonna walk up and down Church st.? Admit it. You’re among internet friends.
I’ll be living near Middlebury. I usually end up running up and down church st fairly drunk. That was a few years ago though, maybe I’ve slowed down.
I probably stumbled and bumped into you near Leunig’s.
Congrats!
This Russia thing is hilarious. They managed to find links with a few people but either Trump is a master genius at hiding his own tracks or they really have nothing on him cause it appears to stop at his campaign managers. It looks like a setup all the way down but they’re treating it like Trump and Putin are Sith Lord & apprentice.
Does that make Hillary Jar-Jar?
Jabba the Hut
More like the rat thing that sucks Jabba’s cock.
Salacious Crumb? [checks wookiepedia] Salacious Crumb. [hates self silently for knowing these things]
*opera applause*
One of my Prog friends on FB is all happy. I just unfollowed him. I might follow him again once the circle gets wider and Hillary gets caught up in it.
Yeah a former coworker on Facebook was eating that up as if it meant anything other than tax evasion. On a unrelated note, it appears she has been literally eating everything else up while she was at it.
They’re slobbering all over each other on WaPo and DU over this. Never seen them so worked up into a tizzy. They truly believe this is the end for Trump.
The best revenge is someone else getting fat.
Ten years ago she was attractive within an extremely narrow set of parameters.
Also, she’s living proof that Evangelicals fit better on the left than on the right and thus would fit in the “will never put out” category.
So anyone know much about Podesta? Why did he resign? Is there something there?
Re: The suicide link.
Alainis Morrisette to the courtesy phone for a true example of irony.
Obligatory:
https://s1.postimg.org/4hr1bjtpgv/suicidegirl.jpg
I didn’t need to see that.
Me neither. Back to the FLBP girls for some eye bleach.
Here you go:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5032795/PICTURE-EXCLUSIVE-Casey-Batchelor-strips-new-calendar.html
Gracias.
Ironically, this appeared in Life magazine.
I am familiar with that one.
Perhaps I’m the weird one for not understanding why someone’s first instinct upon discovering a suicide would be to take a picture of it?
Journalism (old school)
Photography student.
The cameraman who filmed Budd Dwyer as well as the newspaper cameramen I think all said something similar that they just kept going on instinct, snapping photos.
Journalism has never really been that great about representing the truth. But the guys (and gals) that run the cameras seem to have a certain integrity and usually maintain a high degree of professionalism when the worst possible shit is happening around them.
You mean rain on your wedding day isn’t Irony? —scratches head–
Wonder if they’ll pay students to protest against that part. They probably will.
Fuck that. They’ll subcontract it to homeless bums for ten bucks and a pack of smokes a day.
so, twenty bucks a day?
Out in MT it’s a total anarchy of lung cancer with children dying in the streets from second hand smoke. Cigs are only 5 bucks a pack.
*pulls a drag from a Camel Turkish Royal*
$4.68 after tax.
Now if only some well intentioned citizen would come along and jack the price up to safeguard my health…because I totally wouldn’t use over 20 years of black market connections to get whatever I want anyway.
Off the top of my head, isn’t around 40% of all cigarettes sold in NYC now being done so under the table?
People who are doing something perfectly legal are now criminals? The system works!
Jimmy Conway lives again! And he’s renting U-Hauls, hiring drivers, and sending them to large cigarette/smoke outlets in flyover country to fill those trucks with $30 cartons that will be sold at $50 on the East Coast. You can fill a large U-Haul with A LOT of tobacco.
So I’ve long since stopped watching modern “police procedurals”, but still love the old time-y radio ones, like Dragnet and a few others.
In several episodes of Dragnet and other police radio shows from the 50s, they’re either working in IA or Fraud, and a complaint comes up against a police officer. Every time, either the police officer is actually innocent, or it’s someone pretending to be an officer.
In another episode, Joe Friday and his partner were arresting someone who’d killed a police officer. Based on the radio description, it was just the two of them and the guy they were arresting in the room. They’d patted him down and taken his weapon, but as they were handcuffing him, “he’s got another gun!” and shot the guy dead.
Leads me to thinking: I know police have always been assholes. But how much of this kind of stuff went on in the days before video recording? Could it have been even worse back in the day?
It was worse. My great uncle was a Detroit cop in the 30’s and 40’s. Some of the stories my dad tells about him are well telling. Also see Serpico, Frank from the 70’s. We just seeing it more because of technology but because of the recordings these incidents are decreasing even though it doesn’t seem like it.
“Maybe that shit flies in the Bronx, Serpico, but down here eight grand a month is chicken feed!”
I remember a later (relatively speaking – it was one of the color episodes from the late ’60s) Dragnet where the entire episode is an interrogation of a cop suspected of knocking over a liquor store. Spoiler: he didn’t do it, and turned out to be a hero (aren’t they all?).
Never forget the Blue Boy
Funniest non-comedy television episode of all time.
I’m on the Train
It was worse back in the day
Talk to someone who retired before 1995 or so.
You won’t believe the stories.
Prison officers are the same way.
They’re the most reminiscing-prone group of people I’ve ever met. I swear they’d almost get teary-eyed talking about “the good old days” and “back in the day”, both of which seem to refer to a period before there was any oversight on their use of force. I heard a female officer say one time, “I wish I could do old school corrections like on Cool Hand Luke, when you could just beat a motherfucker down and nobody would say shit!”
I’d be lying if I said there weren’t a lot of good people there as well, but law enforcement of any kind is going to attract a huge amount of sociopaths who are at least smart enough to find a legally sanctioned outlet for their urges.
Or just watch any film or cartoon from the 50’s or earlier. Cops with nightsticks meting out a little “instant justice” are a common theme.
One of my in-laws has been tracking the family tree. One of the relatives embarked on a life of petty crime after college, ended up with a long record, so not a good guy but never carried a weapon. One day he was trying to break into a car, and a cop busted him. He fled the scene, was shot in the back and killed. No enquiry and the newspaper reports had a subtle air of “well, he deserved it.”
I took a university job in VT.
Special Assistant to the Associate Dean in charge of Halloween Costumes? I expect nothing less.
Eliminating racist Halloween Costumes is everyone’s responsibility.
In the latest installment of “Shit that only happens to me”:
I ordered a gun on Gunbroker and was to have it shipped to my local gun merchant. Of course the gun shop burned down last week. (Didn’t burn to the ground, but closed indefinitely and all their stuff being stored by state police)
Now I have to find a different FFL.
At least your gun hadn’t already been delivered, then you’d never get it back from the PoPo.
“That was sold…er, lost before it made it to the evidence locker.”
plenty of at-home FFLs if you don’t mind driving over to Earl’s house in the evening.
frankly, the whole FFL requirement ticks me the hell off. just run a NICS at the dealer level and ship me my fucking firearm already. goddammit.
And have it fall out of the box as the mailman is carrying it to your door?
UPS then. Insure it for a few bucks.
Your neighbor’s all think you are the next serial killer, it’ll be alright.
feature
Or not
The NICS is a stupid, expensive, and wasteful ineffective infringement of my constitutional rights.
Obama said that criminals can just order guns off the Internet with no background check at all, so why don’t you just do that? I mean, surely, the former president wouldn’t just make shit up, right?
…wow…. that was…. wow.
Related question. Can you still get an FFL for curios and relics only and be able to have guns shipped to your house?
Only C&R guns.
Meh, its not worth it.
Good news
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNU7iSlVQAAiy8o.jpg:large
Good for you, kid!
So we’re just done with phrasing right?
That story has a happy ending.
Is that article about Kevin Spacey?
#metoo
back to Boulder for me.
well, not boulder.
Phew. You had me worried, for a second.
it’s a fairly pretty town. The flatirons look nice.
My next back yard.
Nice. Never been to VT, but I want to check it out someday.
Got an off-putting Miskatonic vibe from the area last time I was there.
Via Soave at Reason:
Read the conversation. Eve Browning is awesome.
http://reason.com/blog/2017/10/30/philosophy-bisexual-islam-ut-san-antonio
Hey, somebody picked up my old name at the old place.
I read this and looked for the “to be sure”. Last paragraph, though not in those words.
Of course Soave had to throw in a little ‘to be sure’ equivocation bullshit at the end, cause god forbid he makes a purely salient libertarian free speech argument.
Even when he wins he loses. What the fuck.
Reading the excerpts, it really isn’t clear to me how Browning got to be a professor. Seriously, some of that stuff read like it was out of bad sketch comedy:
MACDONALD: Nothing. I wasn’t talking about the engagement to the Muslim. I was talking about Islam in that particular moment.
You know who had a girlfriend whose name resembled ‘Eve Browning’?
I think I’d rather like New England if it weren’t full of a)hippies b)Sawx fans c)snow
Vermont is full of hippies. MA, Maine, RI, and NH … not so much.
To shamelessly repost what I asked in the morning links, any WI deer hunters among the Glibs willing to mentor a couple noobs? My fiancèe and I are looking to go out for that next month and could use some help (many thanks to R C Dean for providing useful tips despite being 10 years removed from living in WI).
We both know the theory (been through the hunter safety course in CO, gone after pheasants and woodcock a couple times), but having someone willing to give us a hand with the practical portion would go a long way towards getting meat in the freezer.
Watch escanaba in da moonlight?
Don’t know about WI specifically, but I know some of those Midwestern states require you to use shotgun slugs since the terrain is so flat and it’s difficult to get far enough away from populated areas.
No where near there but I’d give you some helpful tips. In an area you haven’t scouted your best bet is to walk quietly and very slowly, stopping for 10-30 min every 50 yards or do. The first couple hours in the morning and last hour of daylight is prime. But just wandering deer trails will get you deer. Harder to do with two people but be gotten lots of deer that way
All of my WI relatives use the “spend a whole year cultivating a site with deer stands, multiple firing lanes cut through the woods, plantings of clover and baiting with apples and corn” to prepare for the season. Then they fill out their tags pretty quickly when season comes. There’s also a healthy dose of “my wife gets a doe tag too”, to make sure the freezer is filled.
But up their way you count as “poor” if you only have 10 acres with a single wide trailer on it. Land must be pretty cheap.
Not terribly useful advice at this point. But next year! Next year, you’ll be ready…
so now I’ll be DOOMvt? or has co changed into corporation?
Always thought it was a corp not CO, which is also carbon monoxide, Killer!
I set it up as colorado, but I think corp works pretty well.
it started on steam. my handle on other things is DueToThe802. That changed into doom one day as a joke. I moved to Colorado, and kept the doom thing. Steam knows me as coloraDOOM. DOOMco was the next iteration of that.
Looks up Doom’s Steam account to see how many of the My Little Pony titles he owns…
as long as no one knows how much time battlefield has sucked away from me…
A teammate’s 4-year-old daughter recently explained to us that the race car would go faster if it had My Little Pony stickers on it. So we put two stickers on and BOOM! third place in the championship. Thanks, Rarity Pony!
Awwwwwww.
That is a really obtuse way of admitting you are a Brony…
I may be a monster, but I can’t look a 4-year-old girl, who’s earnestly offering up a collection of pony toys, in the eye and tell her she’s full of shit. I may need to take a remedial glibertarianing course to correct this problem.
Was she at the race?
No. The race was in Vegas and we had much debauchery planned for afterwards. She stayed home with her mother.
Haha!
My uncle was a stock car guy back in the day. I have very fond memories of small town dirt track racing. It seemed like one of the dudes rolled his car every time. My uncle had a Camaro that sounded like the gates of hell opening when he fired it up in the barn.
I am sad that today’s youngsters are being denied that pleasure.
Youngsters are denying themselves by being idiots. We recently had a kid tell us he wouldn’t mind driving for us, and he KNEW he’d be good at it because he’s played a lot of Gran Turismo. Seriously. He also had no clue what that third pedal was for or the sticking up thingy next to the seat.
Very well, Mad, you get a pass… this time.
Now, Having done her a solid, she will have to summer intern overseeing your mechanic orphans.
I misread it the first time I saw it, and assumed his avatar was DOOMCOCK.
Company
/pedant
*hangs head in shame*
It’s OK DOOMco(mpany)…here, have some pineapple pizza. Seriously, take it. I can’t eat this shit.
nom nom nom
… you mean it was another state designation?
Keep your corporate identity, Doom
Remember when Sloopy was Sloopy Inca instead of Sloopy in CA?
Although I shouldn’t joke too much since people think playa is a player in NYC and that I’m in Manitoba.
DAMMIT. I was all ready for a Winnipeg Glib meetup!
I meant to post when I was in Winnipeg this summer just for that reason.
What kind of an idiot would think that?!
*looks around…laughs nervously*
I fell for it. I thought he had a Peruvian fetish.
Go back to your hoes Brooklyn boy.
I figured your handle out at TOS, seemed logical
I always thought that Playa lived in NY until one day I said something and he corrected me. But I have no idea why Sloop thought he was an Inca. I saw his picture here and Incas don’t have that much facial hair, if at all. I thought that you are in Manitoba for real. You’re not?
I thought it was because you worked at that Montreal Bank that goes by mb down here…
I thought it was some meta thing about being in megabytes.
I thought it was Mercedes Benz.
MB Financial? It sponsors a lot of races around Chicago – I have quite a bit of stuff with their name on it.
I just assumed you were a chip on a motherboard….
Milton Bradley?
Muslim Brotherhood?
Man Butt?
Man Bun
QED
I always thought it was an abbreviation for Doomcock.
Damnit! Me too.
Chronoswiss Is Now Accepting Payment In Bitcoin
Cool. Too bad regulators are weird and all of these ugly.
Why yes, I have spent the majority of my workday fucking off. They asked me to create a continuity binder of sorts, as if replacing me will take less than a year and they can train the poor MSA to answer my phone and give him access to the facility’s databases in that time.
This will apply both online and in its Lucerne boutique.
Lozärn!!! …dammit.
You know who else insisted on ze gdamnsk german spelling of a city?
A whole passel of Austrian Habsburgs?
That’s not the German spelling; that’s the Schwyzerdutsch spelling.
The Swiss don’t speak German.
I just KNEW you and only you would click my link.
One guaranteed reader!
*starts moving all Safeway house brand dairy products away from Swiss*
This week marks 500 years of apostasy.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/reformation-ecumenism-of-indifference/
(I’m half-joking)
I’d say it marks 2016 years 10 months of heresy from the (((truth))).
(full joking)
(((You People)))
*Pedant alert*
Actually, it would be less than 2,000 years, as according to Christian scripture, Jesus wasn’t publicly proclaimed the messiah until he was 30(ish), so you have to subtract that from the date of birth.
(I read your joke, thought about it, got it, laughed, then thought some more. I’ve been told I overanalyze things. I probably shouldn’t pursue a career in comedy.)
Splitters!
One of Pope Jimbo’s drinking buddy makes a critical paperwork error:
Man accused of owning Minnesota pipe bomb cache left receipt among explosives
Deputies say Reinbold had been contacting family members during the investigation telling them “something to the effect of get the cops off your property because there is nothing there that can hurt anyone,” according to the complaint.
Well, my suspicions are all assuaged.
Doh!
When I was an ASA, I had a defendant who wrapped up his weed in his bail receipt…for the last drug offense he had.
That just shows being dumb is in fact illegal
I always tell a cop buddy of mine that he’s sooooooo lucky that criminals are so fucking stupid.
On the flip, criminals are lucky cops are generally not to bright. Of course that only helps if you are s smart criminal.
A friend of mine, who is a retired cop, told me multiple times that cops aren’t smart and they only catch the dumbest criminals. He also said it would only take a small shove to make criminals of cops, and in many cases the cops he worked with had already been shoved.
Felony stupid is what we called it.
LOL.
No, literally, I laughed out loud.
“TRANS BATHROOM RAPlST (I’M MAD)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siJ-tlWZQ4A
No one saw this coming.
When I first heard about it, I didn’t know it was a bathroom in a private home.
TFW a man puts in more work to look good than all of your previous girlfriends….
Crappy Monday.
Last Monday I got a call out of the blue asking if I would be interested in taking a job as a head distiller in another city. The distillery I currently work has had some capital issues, I had been laid off for months and was interested in a new opportunity anyways. I agreed to an interview and they brought me down the next day. Even paid me to interview with them. Offered me a job on the spot. By the time I got home on Wednesday they had sent me an offer letter.
The numbers were too low, so we negotiated for a bit, and they said my counter was fine, and they would crunch the numbers, type it up and send me a second offer. I quit my current job, had a farewell party and started packing boxes.
The revised offer still hasn’t arrived. What the hell? They said I would have it by Friday. Do I still have the job? Did I just screw up my life for nothing?
Going to send them an e-mail asking them what the hell is going on, or perhaps I just do it while sober, tomorrow morning.
Sometimes I hate the booze industry.
Ooooh boy. Yeah, you may have been a bit premature. I hope not.
And this is definitely one of those times when you communicate stone-sober.
First rule of thumb is not to freak out. I have had SNAFUs where they simply don’t get the paperwork done on time. This may be the same.
I agree. The sense of urgency is almost always one-way.
Yikes, that’s scary. You should definitely call them, like now.
You would think operating buzzed would be part of the job description at a brewery.
*blearies gaze*
Well, at a distillery we tend to work sober. Too many things could go “boom” if we’re wasted. Breweries can be a bit more lax.
Mind you, I still drink about 3 shots worth just from tasting throughout the workday.
God knows how much after.
Only a little. I always worked sober. And in larger breweries there are too many ways to die to not be sober. Ladders, forklifts, pile o’kegs, etc, etc.
Right? Everything is trying to kill us. Always.
We’re An a amazing group. High functioning alcoholics who can stay sober as church mice when we’re on the clock…and that’s most of the time.
Yeah, I mean, don’t you always need to be tasting the current batch? Quality control.
As I said. It’s about 3oz during an eight hour period. Taste from four barrels to make quality notes. Taste while making cuts. Tasting while inspecting the work from the previous night.
Hmm. If somebody walks in, I’ll do a tasting sample with them.
And, of course, whenever we bottle.
Alllllright. I’ll admit. Much more than 3 shots worth a day while at work.
Still, never drunk or buzzed. You need a strong liver for this gig.
Do you guys need a software engineer? I can code buzzed, I swear!
Like selling ice to eskimos or slaves to libertarians. Entire industry is run by former software engineers who decided they hate getting paid great money, hate coming home clean and not covered in sweat, and having to work a job where you would rather blow your brains out than go to.
It’s a dumb career change, but some damn great.
Well, the money is good, but after 20 years I’m pretty bored most of the time. There really isn’t anything to do that I haven’t done a thousand times. The only thing that does change is sometimes you pick up a new pain the ass client that’s a little different sort of pain in the ass than your other pain in the ass clients.
I was the same way. Went to teaching for a few years, but hated having even more assholes giving me whit than I did working in software.
Now I wake up early, lift heavy shit, spend most of my time mopping and cleaning, and loving every single second of what I do.
I also make less than half of what I did in software.
On the other hand, I lost that middle age pudge and I look like dried leather, and smell like booze. Going from Seth Rogan to Tom Waites.
“Now I wake up early, lift heavy shit, spend most of my time mopping and cleaning, and loving every single second of what I do.”
Yeah, I could actually enjoy that right now. Maybe the career move that I regret most is that I was offered a professorship in charge of a private college’s Computer Science program. I turned it down because I don’t like teaching and am more than a little worried I’d throttle some smartass millennial. That being said, I would have tenure now and pretty much have it made even though I probably wouldn’t be making more than half what I do now.
3 shots of 40% alcohol wouldn’t give me more than the slightest of a buzz.
And OSHA is okay with this?
If you don’t have the job, pull a Constanza and just show-up to your old job at the regular time like you never quit
This.
When I told my boss, I brought out a bottle of the first batch we ever made together. We drank the whole bottle, and I’m not sure how the conversation ended.
Hmm. That might work to my advantage!
Quit? What.. me quit? I was just joking!
Where’s my goddamn Swingline stapler?!
“I didn’t quit. What have you been drinking?”
If you’re close enough to your former employer to sit down and polish off a bottle of vintage, then worst case scenario, he’s probably be glad to hire you back.
Never quit a job till you have an offer in writing.
Shit happens, things get slowed down. Breathe.
Always be the grown up in the room. Your career depends on it.
The last full time gig I had, it took them almost 2 months to hire me after I accepted the offer. If HR peeps are involved, nothing is happening quickly.
Hell I’ve had an offer letter rescinded once. That was fun.
Sounds like there’s trouble brewing.
*waggles eyebrows*
Definitely don’t panic. A phone call to the new distillery should be all you need.
BOOOO!!!!!
*throws empty beer bottles*
Still, it’s good advice.
Well….yeah.
Glib advice is always the right advice.
I mean, as long as you’re looking for advice on roads, woodchippers, booze, and rape…and what advice isn’t solved by one of those things?
And you screw it up, the edit faerie will come by and fix it!
Hmmm. Too subtle?
They’re also openly planning to sell their state oil concern to
some suckersforeigners that will totally not overpay.Back to the Standard Oil Company? They are not answering the phones lately.
Not as good as the Paul Ryan pushing granny off a cliff, but close.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/10/30/come-activist-groups-virginia-ad-shows-republican-trying-run-minority-children/
That’s the ticket! Just keep calling Gillespie a racist. That has worked so well for Democrats over the past nine years
I like how they made the engine sound ridiculous on that truck.
But they forgot the cloud of black smoke following it. The Latino Council for Insulting My Intelligence has utterly failed in their attempt to smear Gillespie by forgetting this trope.
“You would have thought that the rebel flag and Gillespie bumper sticker on the car would be enough to convey the message, but no, sure enough, there’s a Gadsden-flag license plate too ”
They forgot the Ron Paul sticker.
Or Atlas Shrugged
Wow. That’s just wow.
They even lifted a little Terminator “Dun Dun Dun, Dun Dun” for the drama.
Fucking hilarious…
God, I hate this asshole. Unfortunately, he’s most likely going to be our next Governor.
http://nbc4i.com/2017/10/30/ohio-attorney-general-wants-opioid-lawsuit-settled-soon/
I’m sure there’s no cronyism involved in there anywhere. It’s so great that we have these pure and benevolent saints in government to protect us from evil CORPORASHUNZ! BIG OPIATE!
Yeah, DeWine is an even bigger dickhead than Kasich, and that says a lot. DeWine is a ginormo dickhead.
I was expecting a Phil Murphy story.
http://deadline.com/2017/10/house-of-cards-canceled-kevin-spacey-scandal-netflix-season-six-1202197604/
So House of Cards is ending. That was fast. Though it sounds like Rapp is just a pretext.
Spacey’s brother has some interesting allegations about their father.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5032809/amp/Kevin-Spacey-s-father-Nazi-child-rapist-brother-says.html
Wow, that’s some fucked up shit
Well, they did kill off Urquhart.
Gay pedophiles and Gay pedophile nazis. What is this the 50s?
Tonight’s special guest beer
Hmm, looks interesting. I like unfiltered wheats. Has a low ABV though.
I’ve drank that many times. Forgo that lemon bullshit, there’s enough of a citrus undertone to it as is. Pour in a glass until about an inch remains in the bottle, swirl it up, then finish pouring for a nice cloudy appearance.
I never saw an article on MACtion. Wasn’t someone going to start writing that?
It was going to be a part of my weekly article that didnt happen last week.
I needz my MACtion.
Voyager gave us Obama and Discovery is taking down Spacey…
Don’t say I never give you fuckers any good stuff.
Popular Creeps.
Excellent.
Another from the same era.
Popular Creep
Confession is good for the soul.
Kalifornia.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/10/19/female-male-non-binary-california-legally-recognizes-third-gender-identification-documents/779188001/
So anyone who wants to can be non-binary, whatever the fuck that gibberish means. So you go to the MVA and say ‘hey, I need to change my gender to non-binary’. So now you’ve just magically bestowed a special snowflake status on yourself. What happens when everyone does this? Who can be special when everyone is special?
So if I’m neither Male nor Female, does that mean I don’t have to pay taxes?
Here’s what I’m wondering: if people are going to be allowed to just switch the sex on their birth certificate at will, what is going to happen with all these woman-specific benefits that the government hands out? Can I just declare myself a woman and then qualify for these loans from the Small Business Administration that are only for women? Can I get college scholarships for women?
You can leave the gender-based entitlements in place, but that’s going to require some kind of government standard to determine who qualifies as a woman. Somehow, I don’t think that’s what the “gender is meaninless” crowd wants to see.
I can’t wait to self-identify as a 14-year old so I can sue my employer for violating child labor laws. Then after that I’ll self-identify as a 90-year old and sue the government for 25 unpaid years of Social Security.
This is why I’m not upset about the stupidity. One small idiocy can cancel one larger one.
Back in the good old days “the third gender” were homosexuals.
Not that there haven’t been a number of societies throughout history that recognized a third gender (largely who we would consider MTF transsexual today). And there are societies where pre-op MTF have been fairly common for a long time (eg. Brazil, Thailand) that unofficially recognized it that way. The stupid thing here is that identification documents are for identification. How a person identifies is irrelevant. And they read sex not gender. Just like height, weight, and eye-color, it’s a physical description to show that the license matches the person. There are only two sexes. If someone physically transitions, then the sex on their license should match their appearance. That Lauren Southern was able to get a Canadian drivers license that says she’s a man is ridiculous.
I’ve heard rumors about societies with more than two genders but I’d like to see some solid evidence. I’m skeptical for two reasons- 1- the claims almost always come from people who lie for the cause (in fact before the recent controversy of trans I had never heard of this claim. 2- It doesn’t pass my common sense test. There are enormous sex differences with disparities like one sex can have babies and another has a penis. Without that distinction people wouldn’t procreate. I can’t imagine an entire society who doesnt see these as primary gender categories when children and the mentally handicapped make the distinction easily.
I suspect what they are really referring to is something like homosexuals or feminine men and masculine women. These are subsets of sexes and are recognized by every society. Just because Americans have a word for sissy and butch dyke doesn’t mean we have 4 genders.
I’ve heard rumors about societies with more than two genders but I’d like to see some solid evidence. I’m skeptical for two reasons- 1- the claims almost always come from people who lie for the cause (in fact before the recent controversy of trans I had never heard of this claim.
So you weren’t paying attention to an issue outside your sphere of interests and now it has intruded, so you don’t believe it? That’s fine, I guess, but not really a good reason for disbelief. Thailand, The Philippines and India all have long and storied communities of people who are gender non-conforming either by choice, force (eunuchs) or because they were born with some kind of hermaphroditic or intersex condition. Generally these people have been assigned different rolls than their would if they were considered by society distinctly male or female.
I suspect what they are really referring to is something like homosexuals or feminine men and masculine women.
Generally these people have been assigned different rolls than their would if they were considered by society distinctly male or female. If you don’t consider that a third gender, then fine, but it’s a bit of cultural chauvinism on your part. Sex and gender are overlapping but distinct concepts, but even the biology of sex is a bit fuzzier than a stark binary.
I’ve yet to find any evidence and you’ve yet to provide any. I consider your line of thinking akin to believing that there are cultures who don’t know that eating food is necessary to live. It requires a belief in a culture so exotic or inferior they are incapable of the most basic of pattern recognition.
It’s cultural chauvinism to take the current political hysteria of your own culture and try to retrofit it to other cultures. I have looked into Phillippino claims and they turned out to be false, claiming that feminine men are a new gender. More damning is that these new genders, besides being merely feminine or masculine subcategories are defined by English terms. That suggests the recent new gender definitions are not just imaginary but are a matter of modern cultural influence.
This is how all the claims turn out that I’ve looked into. Now maybe you consider gay men or butch women different genders but that is certainly not how gender is described by either the trans activists or their detractors which means those other genders have no relationship to what our modern activists are claiming, and certainly don’t support the expanded definition of the activists.
By “looked into” do you mean read a book about the histories and cultural nuances of terms like bakla and hijra or read the first sentence of the wikipedia article and considered yourself vindicated. Also I’m surprised that bakla and hijra are English words, because you know, they aren’t.
I don’t see effeminate gay men and tomboyish women as a third gender because that’s not how we define them in my home culture. I don’t consider the color green to be a subcategory of blue, but many cultures do. You’re going into this argument defining your arbitrary set of categorizations as self-evidently correct, so all other categorizations are incorrect. There’s literally no point in providing you with evidence because your set of precepts is unassailably internally correct because you defined them that way.
While its obviously intended for transgender rights feelz, I’d select the third option just to remove that data from the government databases. I hope more people do this and make a field on a government-issued identification card useless.
If we keep pushing this we can make it so the birthday only matches the age we feel, height and weight based on what doesn’t body shame us, and the picture can be the anime character we actually identify as. We can do it, people. We can make these things useless.
What will happen on Monday. What you didn’t know. SSA37 ID:fAbSCQGT Sat 28 Oct 2017 16:27:36 No.147017701 View
Quoted By: >>147018895 >>147019364 >>147019610 >>147020412
Look, I feel bad for /pol/. You guys have been thrown off so much by intentionally misleading breadcrumbs that no one has any idea what’s been happening for the past 10 months. So I’m gonna throw you guys a bone. Forget the dossier. The real story is Uranium One.
1. We’ve known that Holder was covering up Russian bribes for Uranium One for a long time now. Hell, even Clinton Cash tells everyone about the bribes that were taking place. The reason Mueller left the FBI was because he was fed up with the corruption of Holder/Clinton/Obama. Holder kept telling Mueller to kill investigations and bury evidence. I don’t know what you think about Mueller, but I can tell you, he’s an honorable man. The corruption of Holder/Obama/Clinton was eating him up alive. He resigned in 2013 when he just couldn’t keep doing this. Then they got Comey who was coerced in to continuing the coverup.
2. Manafort, Comey, Rosenstein, Podesta, Clintons, Holders, and Lynch are all on one team. We affectionately call them “The Clinton Cabal”. To take this cabal down, we needed someone who was close to career FBI agents because they were holding all the evidence. When the DNC and Clinton campaign spun the Trump/Russian collusion conspiracy back in Dec., we couldn’t believe it. They gave us the perfect way to expose them. We would use the Russian investigation to expose the bribery/extortion racket that took place back in 2009 and continued through 2015.
3. We got Mueller to sign on to investigate the connection. We needed him because he had been at the FBI for almost as long as Hoover and knew all the agents that were sitting on the Russian/Clinton connection. More importantly, he hates Holder/Obama/Clinton. The plan was, to get the special investigative council headed by Mueller and have the FBI agents handover all the evidence. Unfortunately, we didn’t count on Comey being such an obstacle. In the short time he was the Director of the FBI, he had made many allies who were proving to be loyal to him. He had to go. We knew it would be messy, but we had Pres Trump fire him. It caused a lot of headache for us, but in the end, it was worth it. Mueller’s been gathering evidence from his former agents for months now. Along with the raid to Manafort and Podesta, we now have enough evidence to connect all the dots. Mueller also convinced the FBI informant to speak up. Getting the gag order removed was trivial.
4. We gave The Hill a heads up. We knew the switch in the narrative from Trump/Russia to Clinton/Russia would take a little time. We had them drop the Uranium One article exactly one week before we would make the first arrests. Couple of days later, we dropped the dossier info. We needed to hammer the train The first arrests will be Manafort and Tony Podesta. These guys are not the real target, they are just soldiers. The real targets are Hillary, Holder, Rosenstein, and John Podesta. We would love to expose Obama as well but Pres Trump is adamant about protecting former Presidents. Even if they are corrupt pieces of shit, he believes in the dignity of the office. He feels that ruining the legacy of a President will do nothing but hurt our country. This is why both Bush’s., Bill Clinton, Obama, and even LBJ will be spared. The rest of the JFK files released will not include the essential information implicating LBJ and Bush Sr.
5. This is it. The final moves will take place over the next 4 weeks. They could have let this go. Honestly, Pres Trump wanted to get on with Making America Great Again. Period. But Hillary and the DNC just couldn’t let it go. They asked for this. They kept making up shit and now they’re going to pay. If they kept their heads low and faded in to obscurity, we would not have gone this route. They have no one to blame but themselves.
I was with this until the JFK conspiracy theory part.
Let’s not put too much trust into some /pol/ greentext, eh?
Citation needed.
Competent too! Just ask Steven Hatfill.
God I hope you’re right.
Mirror universe conspiracy theory version in Blue Land
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/924988111880417280
So, he’s hired by someone connected to the U1 scandal, is himself connected to the U1 scandal, and hires a guy connected to the U1 scandal along with a number of Clinton loyalists.
And we’re supposed to believe his goal is to take down the Clintons? lol
And people said the same “honorable man” horseshit about Comey. Honorable people don’t work for the feebs, and they definitely don’t rise to the top.
Comey wasn’t a career FBI man. He was appointed to the position without previous law enforcement agency experience. Closest he came was DOJ work. Also, he was close associate of that mental midget Preet, who has been showing up on the tv shows now. Fucker should be fed head first into a woodchipper(*).
(*) fictional hyperbole, not an actual threat to that moron
K
Via that other site: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/10/30/toddler-hospitalized-after-his-fathers-arrest-prevented-a-kidney-donation/?utm_term=.32b151cc19d3
If that child dies, and I’m on a jury … there isn’t much the father could do to members of the transplant committee or hospital administration that I wouldn’t acquit him for.
Bureaucracy is just another name for the things we do together.
While you’re over there. Oh noes, not the Behavior Intervention Team. I say bring those BITches on!
http://reason.com/blog/2017/10/30/philosophy-bisexual-islam-ut-san-antonio
Scott Greenfield asked the right question for that one: Since when does “Muslim” beat “Bisexual” in the hierarchy of grievances?
Muslim seems to be the trump card in the victomology game. I think the total illogic of it all is somehow important.
I remember a rather untalented comedian put it this way:
By “it” they meant the most pampered victim in the liberal pantheon of losers.
Pretty fucked up ain’t it?
Every time there is a terrorist attack, there’s more discrimination against Muslims. Won’t somebody please think of the Muslims?
The movers and shakers of the Left looked at the pajama boys and realized they needed some shock troops.
You can’t have socialism without some muscle. You need the Red Guards or the Freikorps to crack heads. The skinny jeans wearing vegan cuck ain’t gonna be smashing capitalism, but a guy who thinks the best thing to watch on YouTube is prisoners getting their heads chopped off? That’s a guy that they think they can use.
Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!
“Kurt Eichenwald knows. He has read MANY “books” on the subject.”
So, wife is now watching one of her novelas and they’re having a burlesque thing going on. Thicc!!!! I can see the TV from here, I’m glad my wife put that big huge Christmas cactus somewhere else. MY GAWD!!! THICC!!! I love soap operas!
I just ordered some beer for delivery. And some blended scotch.
So Trump. Apparently in the last 40 years he did not have fishy business deals that they can now nail him on or did not engage in anything that could be considered lying to investigators or obstruction?
I’m personally hoping that this investigation results in the indictment of everybody in politics, and that DC is transformed into a walled prison.
If only.
The sky is purple in your world.
Well, that would ruin my dream of turning every agency building in DC into liquor stores, bars, and bordellos.
I like where you’re dreaming, Hyperion. Keep it up!
I believe Caligula had a good idea when he had the senators of Rome prostitute their wives to raise funds for the state. I like your idea.
I’d say they should have gun stores too, but I think the ATF already does that, as long as you’re a cartel member.
+1 atf
Then… take off and nuke it from orbit…?
I guess not.
it’s not everyday one is startled by a flying genieboom.
shit forgot linky.
http://imgur.com/xYUxMtS
“just hangin out.”
ran out of parking spaces?
If you’re feeling down about today, just imagine what kevin spacey is up to today.
I’m going to guess what the Brits used to call “buggery”.
i was thinking drinking heavily saying “fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck” as he realizes his next job offer will be a ways off.
Maybe he can star in the next Weinstein produced flick.
I imagine his day it is something like this
Probably still pretty good. Beejes from hot twinks on a huge pile of money in one of his palatial mansions. Betcha his only real mistake in life was The Life of David Gale .
Did you not see K-PAX?
Never saw it. I believe you.
Looking forward to Tartigrade/Kevin Spacey jokes.
https://youtu.be/dKQPHC4JyAU
Funny Soviet cars had quality issues too.
My neighbour bought a Tesla about 6 months ago. Today our neighbourhood lost power for about 12 hours due to a storm in a rural town. It occurred to me that this guy is kinda fucked if we ever lose power for a week, unless he plans to charge with his home gas generator or sponge charge off someone else. No thanks.
Our power was out today from about 5am this morning until after 2pm. No idea, there wasn’t any storm and now we have no water because of a water main break. What a shit day. But at least my beer arrived.
Now THAT would be fucking hilarious.
I think he got it as a novelty buy. Before that he had a jeep wrangler.
http://anas-tronaut.blogspot.ca/2017/10/star-trek-discovery-tardigrades.html?m=1
So the tart grade is space Kevin…spacey?
So this Kevin Spacey being aggressive towards young men thing was another Hollywood open secret?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xYpx8yXLmg
recent conversation with believer in Russian meddling
Me: If Clinton had won, do you think we would be hearing anything about Russian meddling in the news?
Him [long pause] Hmm….
Me: Exactly. The only reason we are hearing it is because most of the media is pro-Clinton and they are pissed that she lost. So now they are trying to discredit the election and Trump.
The Chinese donated a ton of money to Bill Clinton and the DNC in the 1990s, and it barely made the news. It’s not hard to figure out why.
If Clinton had won the Electoral College, there would be no talk of abolishing it.
Democrats can’t bear to face the truth: they lost because Clinton is an awful candidate who ran an awful campaign. By the time she made the “deplorable” and the “why aren’t I 50 points ahead” comments, she was doomed. There is substantial evidence that her campaign colluded with the DNC to sabotage Sanders. How’s that for meddling?
The Russians and others have been trying to influence US politics for decades. It is neither new or shocking. The US tries to influence the politics of other countries. Why would it come as shock that other countries do the same thing?
+1 Al Gore’s conversion to Buddhi$m
To me the single most amazing thing in this country today is that Hillary Clinton is not in prison. Just the server thing would have put any of us here in federal prison. Does any unbiased person really believe that she was not selling favors to foreign governments when she was sec state? And using her ‘charitable foundation’ as a cover for it? No, no serious person can believe that. If this circus turns around on her and she gets indicted, that will be maybe the single best thing to happen since her losing the election.
I’m still wanting to know what’s up with Podesta, but no one is talking much about it. I wonder why?
Preach it brother. This is no longer a Republic of limited, enumerated powers but a criminal enterprise run by and for the elite criminal class. A nation of men not laws.
IMHO, I use Township of Castle Rock vs Gonzolez 545 us 748, as good spot as any
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”
Proof of brain damage from concussions- https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/49ers-join-police-unions-donate-500k-to-gun-control-pledge-for-safer-america/
(ht: CCRKBA- Gottlieb is a fucking hustler with a past history of being squishy on gun rights but he’s not always wrong)
Does he want to ban guns for cops also? I mean are any of these gun grabbers actually afraid that someone is going to shoot them? What are the odds of that? How many people are shot in this country on an avg year and how many of those were shot by cops? I’m seriously more afraid of being shot by a cop than a criminal with a gun. Maybe that’s just from years of reading the cop shoots man, woman, grandma, dog, fucking kittens, what the fuck ever. on TOS.
Linked from the above article
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-to-formally-endorse-criminal-justice-legislation-finance-activism-boot-camp/
How much more brain dead can the NFL get? Wading into politics unrelated to their business? Set up how-to camps for their idiot trouble makers? How hard would it have been to say “none of our fucking business” and tell the prima donnas “whatever they do on their own time, as long as it doesn’t reflect poorly on themselves, their teams, or the league is also none of the NFL’s business either”?
Anyone who lets leftists infiltrate their organization and start fucking around like this, are idiots. To not know these poisonous people ruin everything they touch is like having your head in the sand. Look what they’ve done to the Democrat party in the last 10 years. Look what they’re doing to education.
Look at Reason and the LP.
At least the LP has naked dancing fat dudes. The left doesn’t even have anything that interesting.
German train dubbed ‘Anne Frank’ causes controversy
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Oct. 30 (UPI) — The decision to name a high-speed train after prominent Holocaust victim Anne Frank has generated a bit of controversy in Germany.
German rail operator Deutsche Bahn — the successor to the rail system that transported millions of Jews to concentration and work camps during World War II — has defended its decision to name a train after Frank.
Officials said Frank’s name was chosen out of a pool of 25 famous Germans, and company spokesperson Antje Neubauer said Frank symbolized tolerance and a “peaceful co-existence of different cultures, which is more important than ever in times such as this.”
The Anne Frank Foundation said, though, that seeing Frank’s name on the train is “painful.”
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Wait til they see her name on a list (like a high school English class’s reading list).
““Can you even imagine?” the transgender performance artist, who uses both “he/him” and “they/them” pronouns, asked me when we sat down to chat about his second solo show at the New Your City gallery. The show, entitled Monumental, features a new work that he made by saving his urine for the last 200 days and collecting it in the tank.
The piece, PISSED, was created in response to President Donald Trump’s February decision to rescind President Obama’s directive that transgender students should be able to use the restroom that corresponds with their gender identity.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cassils-monumental-pissed-urine_us_59bbeacee4b0edff971b88f4
Does anyone know how one can fake a suicide when you want out of this world but you want your family to get the life insurance? Asking for a friend.
Motorcycle accident, very hard to prove that it was intentional.
Running into a tree at 100mph without a helmet will work. It’s what my half brother did a few years back.
Damn, Sorry.
Jog in front of a bus.
The Democrats have to use this as their new logo and message. I mean it’s obvious at this point they don’t have anything better.
Wasn’t Obama’s directive meaningless? Like it was more like Obama’s opinion?
And, as predicted (by me, to myself), I am getting inundated with tech writer jobs from my updated resume. I am not a “trained” tech writer, and only did some quasi tech writing for a year, 11 years ago. I suppose I can just ignore these recruiters, but I’m really leaning toward changing the wording on my resume. What could I call that job, other than tech writer?
(sorry to belabor the resume stuff – I’m mildly panicking at the moment)
Technical communications specialist/consultant? Product documentation specialist?
Wiki offers:
I like text engineer. I call wifey a domestic engineer. Things they do with titles these days. Titles are cheap you know, don’t cost a cent.
Document Management Specialist
This was my title for what was easily the best job I’ve had so far. I wasn’t a professional, at all: it was all just scanning and indexing paperwork into the database. But then they dumped document design responsibilities into my lap because IT was sick of doing it. One of the staffers dropped the software guide on my desk and told me if I needed to know anything, use the index. So I spent a couple weeks troubleshooting data strings to see what I could get to populate, then went about optimizing the applications and contracts nobody had touched in years. Then I started getting all the wishlist projects IT had ignored since the last designer left. In retrospect it was all pretty tedious, low-level stuff, but I enjoyed my work.
Then I quit to go work for an attorney and started drinking heavily 😛
I know a tech writer. That’s a pretty cushy job.
Just say “Adult Dancing.”
Bullshit artist?
My favorite clip of all time i owe u a shot of jagermeister, or whatever turns ur crank
Content Director.
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/924693159220862976
LOL
Excellent top level post. 90% shrieking shit-throwing chimps below. DONALD FUCKING TRUMP is the top level post.
Things you probably won’t hear on the news: a pipe bomb was found at a civil war reenactment after the organizers received a letter with Antifa letterhead demanding they cancel the event.
That’s not like terrorism or anything, they’re just exercising their rights to protest… with pipe bombs… they’re resisting!
http://www.wusa9.com/mobile/article/news/local/virginia/fbi-investigates-item-that-appears-to-be-pipe-bomb-at-civil-war-reenactment/65-483542566
We’ll just pretend we never fought an unfathomably destructive war over the composition and soul of our nation. Yeah, that’ll learn ’em.
I wonder what pisses off Antifa lefties more, the fact that we sacrificed huge numbers of men to preserve the abominable institution, or the fact that we sacrificed huge numbers of men to end it.
ok, but can we still dress up in 19th century clothes and talk old-timey?
I hope they used a cast iron pipe and not a steel one.
It’s a legitimate device. That’s about all I can say about it.
Nobody likes a tease
Why is your avatar Sarah Jessica Parker?
Whoa.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/federal-judge-in-dc-blocks-part-of-trumps-transgender-military-ban/2017/10/30/41d41526-bd94-11e7-959c-fe2b598d8c00_story.html?utm_term=.42d5bc467ef0
Outstanding, keep pissing away your institutional credibility federal judges.
Who the fuck believes judges have any credibility? Hey judges, here’s your contempt.
/grabs own big hairy cock
Damon Root?
So the rule that had been in effect for a month is inchangeable despite reverting to the tuke that existed for all time prior.
This is an interesting take.
Manafort Indictment
ITS HAPPENING!!!!!!!
U.S. lobbyist Tony Podesta leaves firm amid Manafort probe
*Heavy breathing* OMG Im gonna hafta leave work early!
~~~Edit Faerie cares not for your running image gag expectations~~~
EDIT FAIRY, I CHOOSE YOU!
End tags, bro.
Actually I missed the first < on the hyperlink.
Begin tags, bro. Don’t worry, edit fairy shall appear and save you. Maybe even thicc edit fairy.
Edit fairy ain’t in no hurry.
I’m scared…it’s too quiet.
We’re getting the fat fairy that drank too much soda aren’t we?
Sorry, edit fairy is passed out. This is what happens when you have libertarian edit fairies.
Whats happening?
Tony Podesta is a funny guy. See my link below.
Tony Podesta is hilarious!
“It is impossible to run a public affairs firm while you are under attack by Fox News and the right wing media,” he told his former employees, according to a person familiar with his remarks.
I really had no idea that Tony Podesta is such a funny guy. He kills me!
“He kills me!”
Well, not him… it’s usually the guy he hires.
Or in this case, it’s him getting dead by Clinton. That seems to happen a lot.
Funny how?
Because FOXNews only started broadcasting a few months ago
Didn’t have a chance to catch up yet, but a quick search apparently doesn’t list it. Excellent article by NR on the current communism fad.
Really scary:
No data on Che but W and Tony Blair committed crimes against humanity? Interesting.
Tell me this was accidental. We just forgot to instruct children on some of the twentieth century’s biggest monsters, and they all just happen to be of the same philosophical/ideological bent.
Yes, it was accidentally on purpose.
This is the result of modern public education. Really, if you don’t want you kids to be stupid, don’t send them to public school.
What was stupider for the classical liberals to create? Public Schools or Universal suffrage?
Public school is an unmitigated disaster. Not one dime should be spent on it, it needs to be shut down now. That includes funding for higher education. I mean, it’s causing 4 out of 5 women to be raped. Who thinks that is acceptable?
Other prominent intellectuals in the years since have also viewed the “excesses” of the Marxist dreamers as being either a necessary evil or a necessary evil that did not even happen. Some have managed to hold both thoughts in their heads, as Paul Hollander among others has chronicled.
Ah, the old classic.
1. It didn’t happen.
2. … but they had it coming, anyway.
There’s a lot of the anti-war community that say that George Bush faked evidence to kill a million (or whatever absurd number) innocent people for imperialism. They’ve been banging that drum for 15 years so it’s no surprise people took them at face value.
This is the problem with saying thinks wholly out of proportion with reality. Bush was a tyrant on par or less than just about every world leader ever. We get the same shit with people saying America imprisons more people than any country in the world or whatever bullshit. Convince everyone this is an enormous police state worse than almost any other and they won’t fear police states and may very well find opposing systems attractive.
Because I keep forgetting to link to @nro in my tweets, feel free to r/t my revised version: https://twitter.com/FishLikesFlicks/status/925298404154138624 – let’s get this viral! ;p
Is there a formal/Latin term for a logical fallacy which uses the expertise/education of the arguer as evidence of truth? Like credentialism, but something along the lines of argumentum ad…
argumentum ad verecundiam
Beat me to it by a mile! Damn phone call distractions!
Never mind: argumentum ad verecundiam
i would have just called it some variant of ‘appeal to authority’, and spared myself the latin
which seems to be what it is
i’ve seen this before where someone is like,
‘uhm, like, I have a PhD so, like, don’t be even trying to lecture me on Fracking science”
“but your PhD is in Romantic Poetry!”
“yeah, well, what do you have, dummy?”
I had an argument with someone with a PhD about racism in America. She was adamant that 500 black people are lynched in America every year. (old-school lynched…. like noose hanging in a tree style). When I told her that there were barely 100 people of all races lynched in the worst year for lynching in the 20th century, she doubled-down, claiming that 50,000 blacks were lynched every year in the 1950’s.
Her PhD thesis….. was on the impacts of racism and the civil rights movement in the south. You just can’t make this stuff up.
(for those who don’t have any idea what the real numbers might be…. 50k is probably 10x the total of all lynchings since the Civil War – regardless of race.)
Some unpaid social media marketing drone deserves a raise
I know where Dexter shops….
Where’s the trash bags?
Excellent. Nothing like sitting next to Tae Kwon Do parents talking about Bowe Bergdhal, Islam and Anime.
Thoughts and prayers with you
Oh joy, cause I know I’m not looking for “fun” when I tune into late night comedians, I’m looking for brainless, emotionally driven political commentary utterly divorced from reality.
http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/jimmy-kimmel-on-healthcare-trump-gun-control.html
When I said that leftists destroy every damn thing they touch, did you not actually believe that, Q?
I’m with ya all the way. It’s why I’m an angry loner.
I have my wife, family, and a few close friends. It’s all I need. Most people are shit. That’s not a bad attitude, it’s the truth.
Most people are shit. That’s correct. There are concentrations of not shit people though. Find where those are and you imores sion of people may improve.
Fuck Lenny Bruce and George Carlin.
Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
3 reactions to this:
1. The cop’s costume is just terrible, but not racist, and the kerfuffle is silly.
2. He’s right, the costume he described would cause a whole lot more outcry.
3. I think I may have to use his costume idea.
Well, the link is SF’d. But again, just another example of the left killing everything that is fun or good in any way.
Goddammit.
https://twitter.com/ChristopOConnor/status/925134631724138496
“a pig nose and a sign reading “will kill 4 donuts.”
That’s actually funny.
there’s actually no href=[url] in there for me to fix it.
LOOK UP DAMMIT!!
Now I’m miffed I fixed yours, pal.
Can’t you just copy and paste a URL and it will magically become a link here? I’m so used to fully writing out links in code, but I swear one night I was drunk and accidentally did that here and it worked. Yes, I know this secret would make Edit Fairy jobless if true, but …
yes it does work.
I want to make an inappropriate edit fairy joke right now.
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!! This is almost as good as a John T and Gilmore quarrel! FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!
Not gonna lie, I’m a little annoyed at how much trouble I’m having finding a subversion of the fairy ideal with actual sexy beefcake.
I may need to press-gang an artist friend for bearies or something.
Aren’t there a few artistic types who hang around here?
Not exactly “beefcake” but…
Have you run across these
gaysguys yet?Re: Jesse
this one ? Mega Blast?
Not at all beefcake. I’m actually surprised there isn’t a lot of beefy-guy-styled-as-fairy instead of just goofy queens playing off the obvious gag.
The most beefcakey fairy
Pomp: That’s a sexy cupid
MikeS: I saw one of those, but they still have fem features.
Applauds MikeS.
Swing and a miss on the first one, completely nailed it on the second one.
Bravo sir.
Also Eros isn’t really a faerie.
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I honestly read that, and drew a blank for about 5 mins before i could remember ever having had a tiff about anything.
then i was like, “oh, “”colonialism””.
But that wasn’t really even a quarrel, because we weren’t even talking about the same thing. He wanted to talk about historical precedents….
…i was talking about the idea of colonizing – as a theoretical libertarian matter.
e.g. in a libertarian foreign relations construct, which suggests that ‘international trade’ should be unregulated and unlimited and never interfered with by sovereigns… and that ‘free movement of labor’ is pre-eminent and should also be (theoretically) unlimited…
…in that framework, what would prevent any rich country from (theoretically) ‘colonizing’ any poorer one which followed the same rules? Simply buy up/merge with some of their largest employers, send your people over there to manage those concerns, and economically take the place over.
I was asking this from value-judgement neutral pov. i.e. not whether it was a good or bad thing, just opining that it was entirely *legitimate* from a libertarian POV.
I had to put a couple hetero-drops in my eyes
Obnoxious watermark: https://img0.etsystatic.com/000/1/5213511/il_fullxfull.337182292.jpg
Not really beefcake: https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/28/40960585_a350ec1f3c_z.jpg?zz=1
Yeah, I’ve noticed the faeries I get are a little on the unattractive side. It’s gotta be a difficult niche to fill.
My last try. My search engine is getting very confused
One funny one; I was getting a few Zed hits for some reason
90s retro. I’d hit it.
90s retro. I’d hit it.
*Takes notes, feeds into computer*
It’s the night shift, dude. You’re supposed to just paste in some little nude anime fairy and call it good.
They’re not nude! They’re just clothing impaired, you racist!
Don’t let me down Glibs.
I’m sure that has the HM approval stamp. That’s really pretty good.
Band-Maid is one of the best current J-Rock groups IMO.
Japanese Bands I actively follow/buy (currently):
M-Flo (nothing in a few years – but incredible – esp the live performances/arena concerts on DVD)
Band-Maid – couple good albums so far.
Charan Po Rantan – classy!
FEMM – incredibly re-listenable techno, 95% of songs fully in English, all vids subbed – awesome stuff.
Mistress Yulia – interesting.
Remember the band Loudness from way back? I mean they’re guys but still Japanese. I used to like a lot of their stuff. But different topic, games, I hate JRPGs.
Or as Koji Nakajima used to say, “Roudness”
Wok and Woll cwazy nights!
Doesn’t ring a bell, but I’ve probably heard something by them. I’ll check later.
That was pretty damned great, actually. Thanks for the introduction.
It’s not LadyBaby but I’ll take it.
https://youtu.be/M8-vje-bq9c
Hey, the one is the middle is thi…. hey, WTF! YOU MONSTER!
The dog is perfectly capable of jumping on the sofa himself, but needs me to stand behind him like a gymnastics spotter.
Sitting in class going over application-layer protocols one… at a time… zzzzz
There is no application layer, it’s a myth!
Wash your brushes and rollers? It’s not complicated. Sheesh.
It’s too late, he’s fallen in the application layer conspiracy trap, there’re no way out.
Is this going to be on the final!?
What? The final is part of the conspiracy. Next thing I know they’ll have you believing in data and business layers. Just resist!
Anthony Rapp was in Six Degrees of Separation with J.J. Abrams. Huh…
OOh! One of my favorite games! (my Ma was an expert)
Anthony Rapp was in 6 Degrees with WIll Smith. Will Smith was in Men in Black with Tommy Lee Jones. Tommy Lee Jones was in The Client with Anthony Edwards. Anthony Edwards was in Top Gun with Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise was in a Few Good Men with Kevin Bacon.
Five degrees. Not my best effort. But all from memory.
You could have gotten there even faster. Tommy Lee Jones was in “JFK” with Bacon.
Monopoly: Cthulhu edition
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B017BVQ94Q/ref=s9u_simh_gw_i18?ie=UTF8&fpl=fresh&pd_rd_i=B017BVQ94Q&pd_rd_r=792c00f9-bdd5-11e7-ab1f-05ba2fa7e0e1&pd_rd_w=3zE7w&pd_rd_wg=Y6h2c&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=&pf_rd_r=GN05SEDYVV6JTFKD32EZ&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=1cf9d009-399c-49e1-901a-7b8786e59436&pf_rd_i=desktop
That looks like a lot of fun. Haven’t played board games with folks for a long time (other than Catan type stuff – although I love classic Monopoly or the Solar System variant – don’t remember the name offhand – but it had nice extra bits like getting stranded without fuel between space stations/planets would kick you out of the game).
Mondo Tees has been pimping a new “Thing” board game that sounds like a pretty cool version of Clue – but again…I’d need to find someone to play with. (maybe some folks from work sometime).
Chop Suey- Jazz version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_AUmIwWbtc
That bass player was once a man, yo.
honestly, 80% of the time i’m not really impressed by the “post-modern jukebox” stuff. I mean, they’re very good performers, but often, the stuff they choose to re-do isn’t really all that interesting to begin with, and its not particularly good in the genre they’re trying to port it to.
I thought the Puddles version of “Royals” was genius. And occasionally they hit on some tune that really really translates well to some other genre. But , again, most of the time, they seem to be shooting fish in a barrel. just playing some tunes which ‘oh, millenial kids will know this – but they don’t know [insert genre] for shit, so they’ll never judge it based on those merits anyway’. So if its shitty “jazz” or shitty “dixieland” or shitty “ragtime” or shitty “bossa nova”… well, who cares? WELL I CARE. no, just kidding. Its just that to me, its ‘some tune i never heard/liked to begin with, played in some cutesy, mediocre way”. which is sometimes fun, but most of the time, yawn.
“That bass player was once a man, yo.”
Glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed.
That singer was one of the background singers in Puddles’ “Royals” wasn’t she?
Puddles Pity Party is coming to the Mini Apple in March. Thinking about buying tickets…
Yes, she’s like the #2 “star” in the PMJ thing. scott bradlee started it, and she (robyn adele anderson) was sort of his ‘hot, torch-singing’ protege.
they’ve had a cast of other characters sub in and out for different stuff, but the 2 of them are sort of the most-recurring personalities.
Japanese girl says school forced her to dye hair black; sues Osaka gov’t
“The nail that sticks up gets pounded down.”
Japanese proverb
In Japanese, the word for “different” also means “wrong”.
If you look closely, they even blink in unison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p0DsVPkyZg
“Kill the chicken to scare the monkey.”
Chinese idiom
She should show up with a bull ring and neck tatts.
She’s suing for 2.2 million yen.
If google knows what it is talking about, that is about $17k.
The Japanese are pikers when it comes to litigiousness.
The state is the biggest bully of them all.
for no reason at all
Making socialism democratic will not make it work any better than the authoritarian version.
The basic problem of socialism is the same, no matter if it is being run by a dictator, a small group of elites, or a large group of elected representatives.
That problem is central planning. No individual or group, however competent and well-meaning could possibly plan well enough to meet the wants and needs of millions of people.
If there was a way to get it through their heads. I doubt it though. Most people attracted to socialism think they will be Top. Men. instead of toiling away in a gulag or living a life of quiet desperation.
“Most people attracted to socialism think they will be Top”
I would say it’s not most, it’s all.
I don’t think most of them want to be Top Men, most just want to be free from worry. They want mommy to take care of them and make the bad outcomes go away.
^^^Yup. They have the minds of children.
Pure democracy is as tyrannical as anything. Just because a majority voted away my rights doesn’t make me feel any better than if a dictator took them away.
I would like to hashtag this post as
#realworldconsequencesofgovernmentregulation
So, I spent a lot of time this week at work trying to ameliorate a problem that the EPA says is a problem. Specifically, the release of carbon dioxide from my plant.
Here’s the deal. We have a giant bag house that pulls off our furnaces. The gasses exhausted after the filter system does what it does are monitor for 5 different “pollutants”
One of those is CO2.
We use graphite electrodes to electrically arc on vats of scrap steel in our furnaces. Recently, the availability of graphite electrodes has dropped. This is mostly due to a lot of Chinese steel mills coming online that use graphite electrodes to melt instead of the more traditional oxygen furnaces that they used to use.
The cost per ton of steel produced at my mill in electrode consumption has jumped from 6 dollars a ton 36 dollars a ton in the last few months.
My problem comes in here. The way to conserve electrodes is to spray more water on them while they are arcing. The more water, the longer the life. However, the more water allowed into the furnace the more CO2 ends up escaping our baghouse. I have been playing with the amount of water all week trying to determine just how much water I can spray on the electrodes without generating enough CO2 violations that the cost of EPA fines outstrips the savings in electrode cost.
Fuck the government.
TL;DR: Fuck the government. You got my vote.
come on Q. read it. You probably understand more about the chemical process that turns super heated water into CO2 than I do. last chemistry class I took was in 10th grade.
Nothing you can know or do is going to change it, Lach, the government… I mean the rogue agencies created government, are looking to shake your business down for some loot. There really is nothing different here from the mob sending down Guido and Luigi to break your knees if you don’t pay the protection money.
I know Hyp. This has just been a particularly prickly problem for me. I spent a lot of my time at work doing things that make the process better. Aside frommy regular duty of keeping the machines operating, I do a lot of improvement work. I make the machine run more efficiently, make the operators jobs easier, come up with ideas that save the company money, etc. This is the first time in my professional career that I have had to do something that is going to cost my plant more money. What burns me up is that I’m doing it on order to satisfy an EPA demand. Especially one that I think is bogus bullshit. I could rant for awhile about this.
Yeah, I know. Excuse me for not being very rational there. Stuff like this really pisses me off. That’s not the advice you need right now.
meh, you aren’t being irrational. The policies in place are irrational. You were merely being unhelpful 🙂
OK, I read it. Standard disclaimer, I’m not a chemist:
I assume you’re creating Carbon Monoxide as well? If so you might have some kind of inverse water gas shift reaction:
CO + H2O → CO2 + H2
in which the CO plus H2O are being catalyzed by the water to create more CO2. Then I’d assume the H2 gets combusted? I don’t know how your process works exactly but maybe if there’s a way to increase oxygen in the furnace which should reduce CO? Best I can come up with.
I stand by my original statement which was your original statement: fuck the government.
Catalyzed by the electricity* not water. Shit. I’m srunk, whaddya want?
The edit faerie is off delighting some lucky soul so I know I can’t rely on her.
SHIT. Drunk, not srunk. Fuck.
~~~Edit Faerie thinks this is all delightful, and will leave it as a testament to your srunkeness, tee hee~~~
I copy. I’m drinking too. First day in 10 that I don’t have to work in the morning. Thank Zardoz.
And yes, the H2 gets combusted. At the same time that we arc on the steel we also inject oxygen into the furnace to speed the melting process. You’re thinking that an increase in oxygen can decrease the CO2? If so, I can do that.
I think that more oxygen in the furnace may decrease CO which would then decrease CO2 created by the electrolytic process downstream. Maybe? I guess it’s worth a shot.
I wish I didn’t have to drive to see a client in the morning. I’d really drink a lot more. This has been a shit day that I want to forget.
I’ll try it wednesday. thanks Q
Also, keep them titties coming. They are appreciated. .
Titties, mmm, titties.
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/whats-better-than-starting-your-monday-with-amber-18-photos-29.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/the-dar-10.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=500
http://android.trendolizer.com/assets_c/2017/05/6244277-thumb-300xauto-5466479.jpg
I give them titties 2 thumbs up, you pervert
https://cdn1.lockerdomecdn.com/uploads/6014376bbf8cb38a286285468d55737b3346bca35f50e2a300ba62071d559469_large
I am also not a chemist and have no idea how an arc furnace works, but really hot water and electricity will start splitting the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The extra oxygen may be leading to more CO2 and less CO. You could try reducing the oxygen.
Sounds like you have a nice science project on your hands.
It’s just wiki, but if you’re interested.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_arc_furnace
The current focus of what I do to provide for my family is to make two of those things work.
Elay Smith.
http://uberhumor.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hot-busty-girls-19.jpg
For you Glibs who swing that way, she has some very NSFW stuff out there, I trust you can find it.
(Hey I’ve had a couple beers and it’s Glibs After Dark, sue me)
And for those wondering, I do aim to be the Russ Meyer of Glibertarians.
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I think I switched by Google language to Catalan. I have no idea what’s going on.
Time to go fight Madrid?
No. Aprofiteu ràpidament les Illes Balears pels seus ingressos turístics.
No worries, the Britons will do enough of that for everyone.
Crida a britànics borratxos fent-nos servir a la nostra bella illa
*onades tazer a quincy*
maleïda calma, germà
16/5000
Bé, em comportaré.
Someone was taxed enough already?
La festa del te serà un fenomen internacional!
We’re all libertarians now.
I’ve seen more Catalan in the last week than in all of the 30 years since a couple months I spent in Tarragona piqued my interest in trying to learn some.
Wales, you’re up next.
Don’t be giving us shit about goats, we don’t know what you’re talking about.
think of this as the derp equivalent of a midnight snack:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/can-we-have-humane-immigration-policy
One of the dimmer bulbs at Current Affairs ponders immigration reform. Hilarity ensues.
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we need to think strategically about the problems in our current system, how to humanely fix those problems, and how to rally voters and legislators to care about the issue. This means getting left-leaning voters to understand why the “enforcement plus amnesty” model of reform, which sounds superficially reasonable to the uninformed, is actually a very bad idea.
…
There are, of course, a number of people who object to immigration for purely racist reasons, or because of totally irrational and baseless fears. There are also people who object to immigration for motives that are reasonable, or at any rate sound reasonable.
…
Immigration is an especially difficult issue to develop an organizing strategy around, because most immigrants—and certainly the most vulnerable classes of immigrants, for whom deportation is a constant threat—cannot vote
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My own observation is that many people who are strongly in favor of restrictive immigration policies are unreflective individuals with a strong reverence for rule-following in the abstract. Asked to explain their views, they frequently fall back on stock phrases like “well, we can’t help everyone” or “we’re a nation of laws.” To some extent, this mindset can be disrupted by correcting people’s erroneous assumption that our immigration laws make any damn sense.
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It’s crucial to explode, decisively, the right-wing narrative that immigration per se hurts native-born workers. This is important not just because the working class was part of the swing vote in the last election: after all, most Trump voters were middle- and upper-class people. But many of those upper- and middle-class people no doubt convinced themselves that they were white-knighting for the working class by opposing immigration, and we must do our best to deprive them utterly of that veneer for indulging their prejudices.
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And of course, the term “bad hombres” is absurd and racist, inasmuch as it suggests a connection between speaking Spanish and committing crimes.
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A lot of the liberals I talk to seem to know almost nothing about this situation: after all, the New York Times isn’t running very many front-page stories about it. But you know who does have an on-site journalist down at the border, churning out blood-spattered reportage on a daily basis? Fucking Breitbart News. Conservatives know all about the situation on the border—framed within a very specific anti-immigration narrative, of course—because they see stories about it constantly. If Breitbart is reporting regularly on border happenings, trying to reinforce the “Mexicans = murderers” narrative, then the NYT should be reporting on it just as frequently, talking about the refugees this latest wave of cartel infighting is creating.
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One line I used to hear a lot was, “Don’t be scared of refugees! After all, the people who perpetrated 9/11 entered the U.S. legally, on tourist and business visas!” Nice work, guys, you just made a great argument for the Muslim Ban.
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First of all, there is nothing innate about “immigrants”—a gigantic and varied class of individuals—that makes them less likely to commit crimes than “native-born Americans.” We could easily see that convenient statistic flip at any time, for any number of random factors. Secondly, supposing somebody breaks down the crime statistics based on race, ethnicity, religion, or type of crime, and finds out that certain immigrant populations are over-represented? Do we really want to be implicitly encouraging demographic screenings for criminality? I think not.
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in the case of immigrants who have recently committed violent crimes, deportation will serve neither to aid their rehabilitation or keep other potential victims safe, since the person may go on to commit similar acts of violence against people in the designated country of deportation. For this reason, I think that violent criminals shouldn’t be deported, but I recognize that it will probably be near-impossible to persuade the general public of this
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I feel kind of ill after reading that. Though it may be the Colorado CoolAid.
http://imgur.com/rWC558k
This Colorado koolaid?
That’s the one.
I appreciate you answering my chemistry question. In honor of that, here is the first selfie I have ever taken. enjoy.
http://imgur.com/cljiAlF
Hawt
Careful, scruff like that will bring all the boys to the yard.
The hipsters call it “no shave November”
round these parts we call it “deer season”
I thought it was, uh, sorry… “Movember”.
You da man. If I had a smartphone I’d take a selfie. Instead I’ll give you this:
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/staring-down-the-barrel-of-another-monday-better-take-some-flbp-39-photos-40-e1422250071638.jpg?w=600&h=429
You’re Seann William Scott!?
Um…
I think that Democrats have a very serious, and by very serious, I mean fatal problem with paying attention to what’s going on around them. Self awareness is maybe the term I was looking for. A few months ago there was an article published at NYT calling for open borders. I’m seriously not exaggerating when I say that the NYT commentariat were more than 90% posting stuff criticizing the idea of open borders. If the Democrats seriously think this is a winning platform, they are doomed as a major party.
OMG that last paragraph
It boggles the mind. It must have been like that for the first explorers visiting Polynesia. The way they think is so different it’s essentially impossible to understand how they arrive at their conclusions.
It would have been like coastal leftist elites visiting flyover. Literally no point of reference.
Don’t deport violent criminals because they might commit crimes in other countries. Keep them here so they can suck up tax dollars in the prison system or kill more Americans.
And they wonder why everyone hates them.
Don’t worry. Right thinking Democrats can nudge these confused fureners in the right direction. It’s not their fault. I mean unless they start voting for Republicans and then they’re irredemable.
You keep asking me why Sarah Jessica Parker is my avatar and I haven’t been able to come up with anything witty to retort with, so I’ll just say I typed in “horse with a human mouth” in Google and had it edited to add the bling cause it matches my moniker.
I don’t think it was me that asked you that before. At least I don’t remember that. Maybe it’s just because it really does resemble her?
Maybe. I don’t know. Anyways, there it is.
It does resemble her but I couldn’t find a picture of a Ford Mustang with a mouth on it. Not that I tried.
https://img.autobytel.com/car-reviews/autobytel/125202-sharknado-shark-cars/Sharknado-Mustang.jpg
Well there you have it.
Maybe “he” really is Sarah Jessica Parker….
*clutches Matthew Broderick, scurries away*
Els atacs violents han de ser deportats
Are they still calling that thing a “Muslim Ban”? That thing that did not affect the numerical majority of the world’s Muslims? That thing that would also ban non-Muslims in those countries?
That’s like appending the title “Catholic Ban” to some executive order that banned immigration from Mexico, Brazil, and France.
They’re literally impervious to logic. Just keep repeating it over and over and *OVER* until it becomes true.
They do not know what else to call it. I don’t mean that they can see it another way, they literally lack the knowledge of it. Opening themselves up to any other name implies that it could be anything other than what they want it to be and they can’t have that. It destroys their world view, so they don’t even acknowledge other viewpoints.
Akira, Did you get your chandelier problem worked out?
The democrats supporting open borders will go over like supporting legal heroine. I get the principal but it’s not popular.
If the Dems somehow manage to take back Congress next year, Trump could have some fun by advocating the opposite of anything he wants to accomplish.
I have my doubts about the Dems being able to win back much of anything. Theor fringe members are very off putting. The R’s fringe members are off putting as well, but there aren’t nearly as many of them
Lachowsky’s 2/100 of a dollar because I can’t find the cent symbol on my phone.
Open borders is a wonderful idea, in a perfect world. In fact, I can’t really think of a single libertarians argument against it in that perfect world. However, in the world we actually live in, I can think of several. La festa del te serà un fenomen internacional!
This is the problem with leftists. Nothing they advocate is based on logic, it’s just raw emotion. This is why they don’t want any debate.
I really have no idea how this got in there?
” La festa del te serà un fenomen internacional!”
It’s a virus. The killer world ending virus is really upon us this time.
Well, someone said it further up thread at post 79 too.
Open borders without a welfare state is optimal. I’m probably beating a dead horse amongst libertarians, but that is the only way it works. Without the destruction of the welfare state, perverse incentives take over and we have what we have now.
If heroines are made illegal only outlaws will be heroines.
OT: Never try to stare down a hungry cat. You will lose every time.
About 10 years ago, my brother and I were hanging out at a friends place. Our friend had a mean ass cat. This cat bit my brother on the hand. A few hours after the bite, we decided to head to my dad’s place. 10 minutes into the drive, my brother started complaining about his hand. I called him a pussy and every other derogatory term I could think of. He then showed me his hand.
He had red streaks under his skin going up and down from the cat bite several inches long. I took him to the hospital. He ended up on IV antibiotics for a week to keep his hand from rotting off.
Cats suck.
Mine are all sweetness – not bitey at all. But man are they demanding.
I once watched my cat (*the very mean, outdoor one that lived from nearly my birth to when i graduated high school) stare at an animal for hours before it suddenly killed it. i could tell that nothing pleased it more than staring at something and going, “DOOD IM SO GOING TO FUCK UR SHIT UP IN LIKE…WHENEVER I DECIDE”. Murder porn. Cats like killing for its own sake, not just for food. Murder is entertaining. Which i guess is normal for any predator. You might as well love your work.
A while back I keep hearing this weird squeak toy sound outside. I think it’s odd, but figure one of the neighbors had their dog out and it was rollicking on my
lawndrought appropriate front yard. Then I hear some children screaming and look out the window to see their cat–the nice one–landing a paw on a squirrel. It would let the squirrel up, the squirrel would hop a foot or two away and then just hang out there…then a paw would come down on it, it would squeak, and the cycle would repeat. The dad of the neighbor kids god involved to get the cat and save the squirrel. The spectacle was pretty delightful, dazed squirrel, playful cat, beet red bald airforce functionary in cammo pants all running around my yard.In the scene you depicted, i’ve added an actual “not socialized cat watching from a distance”, going, “jesus christ, what is the world coming to”.
Meaning, he’d be like, “dood just scratch its eyes out and we can laugh our shit while he runs around in circles and then we can take our time murdering it”
Because that’s what cats really do. They don’t kill the little guys right away, they cripple them, then chase them, because its *fun*. they basically do it as training for “real shit”. Although there is basically no ‘real shit’ left for them to need, because they get fed by humans. So the only reason they kill is for amusement.
My outdoor cat once killed an owl. And he sat around the corpse of it, covered in blood and scars, for hours, hoping someone would see. Like, “Hey! see? all that practice pays off!” Then, a week later he blinded the neighbors dog.
My outdoor cat once killed an owl. And he sat around the corpse of it, covered in blood and scars, for hours, hoping someone would see. Like, “Hey! see? all that practice pays off!” Then, a week later he blinded the neighbors dog.
So the only time I’ve seen an owl out in the wild it had the same wingspan I do. I was walking on the beach, looked up at one of the lifeguard buildings and thought it was just a curiously large pigeon/gull scaring statue…then it whipped its head around, made extended eye contact and dive bombed me before screeching off into the night.
I’m imagining that while reading your story.
Yes.
Now imagine how fucked up that is in Brooklyn. Where you have the corpse of a bird with a 5+ foot wingspan on your front door.
it was a small grey owl. and i have no idea why it would have been in the area (eating rats?) but my fucking cat stalked the bitch and jumped him and killed him. and probably dragged the corpse back home. the bird had claws over an inch long. and the cat had its ear cut in half, and 3-4 slashes across its back and face and legs that never grew any hair back. and he was never happier. he was sitting there like, “WEEEEE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, MAH FRIEEEEEND”. It was his feline apotheosis.
“3-4 slashes across its back and face and legs”
Sounds to me like the cat wasn’t the one doing the stalking. I think the owl bit off more than he could chew.
yeah, its possible the other guy got the jump.
My theory (having spent my first 10 years growing up watching how my cat behaved outdoors as something of a research project) was that they were both on the same prey, and Grey Owl swooped in and sniped my kitty’s evening play-target. And he was like, “well bro, now its you”.
that outdoor cat died of old age at 19, and he did it by scratching on the window. when my mom let him in, he crawled to the center of the room, look around, let out a yell, and died, rolling over and sticking his feet out cartoon-style. My mom called me (i was at college) and was like, “jesus the thing was trying to say something!” Cats aren’t dogs, but they do have relationships.
Cats are predators. they are mini lions. They have no mercy, nor respect for their owners.
yeah, you can’t really breed out the basic essentials of the species. that’s basically what i’m saying.
which is why a ‘domesticated’ outdoor cat is a fucking murder machine. indoor cats that get let out? are basically retarded, from the cat point of view. outdoor cats keep their game at 100% until they die. Indoor cats are like … late-middle-aged men. give them foot and rub them, and they’re basically like, “Yeah, that’s cool (snore)”.
-front page of New York Life
My old cat was in a shelter the first five years of his life and murdered other cats by slitting them open from neck to tail. He was really friendly and adorable to me though because he’s a runt (only six pounds), so I adopted. He’s been content to sit in my lap all day and occasionally go and lick the dog’s head, only to crawl back in my lap.
Every once in a while a bird perches outside and I see the slasher impulse come murder-chirping out.
Mr Hayeksplosives’ cat (who was 4 yrs when we married) was a giant of a tabby named Rocket, and was indoor/outdoor. That mo-fo would grab a bunny, chomp open the base of its skull, strip its brain and spinal cord out and eat them, then present the rest at the door with pride.
I should probably add that he did this after he was declawed in front (I know, I know–we would never do it again, but back then declawing was the norm). I can’t imagine what kind of game he would have brought home if he still had front claws.
I sent a pic of Rocket to my dad, who texted back, “Rocket, as in Peenemünde?” Rocket was a big boy.
Prey is on Steam for $30. Anyone care to recommend it?
Eat Prey Steamed and Love.
I prefer my prey deep fat fried
You can’t really go wrong with eating prey fried. Love it.
Is Julia Roberts paying you for this?
G’night all. Tits for the road.
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*Tucks in sheets for Q*
*kisses Q on his forehead*
Get out of there before the weird noises start. He’ll be all grown up soon.
So, my aunt wanted me to cook some chilli soup (midwest style chilli). Somehow something burned on bottom of the pot, and made the whole thing taste burned. Using her pots on her stove are the only times I ever burn food. I don’t know if it’s her pots or her stove.
I’m going to throw out a diagnosis without any information whatsoever because I’m Dr Phil: Your pans are too thin and conduct heat unevenly.
The only cure is to not make chili soup.
I don’t cook it for myself, only for others. The thing about cookware being too thin, maybe. But my aunt buys expensive pots, pans and such; while mine are all like ones I found or came from Goodwill, so that would be kind of funny, or something.
Not that this is an exact proxy, but the weight of the pan should give you some idea.
My DiffEQ books are boxed up in the garage. Forever. If I turn out to be wrong, ask somebody who has a bookshelf.
The chili I cook for myself cooks for at least 4hrs, with all sorts of peppers and can be eaten with a fork.