The first CFP Poll is out. I don’t think anybody should have a real big problem with it, although Alabama shouldn’t have as much room as they do between them and Wisconsin and Miami. The schedules and records are comparable. But there are five weeks to sort it all out.
Barca draw, Munich squeak by, ManUre win with ease, Roma thump Chelski, Juve draw as do (Catalan) Barca and (Spanish) Athletico. More european-style CL football today.
The Dodgers win a tight, yet seemingly comfortable, game. Lots of predictions of a blowout in the final game of the World Series tonight. I won’t be making a prediction at all, though I will note that the entire series has gone exactly as I said it would through 6. So maybe I ain’t so dum after all.
No more sports. Here come…the links!
Media are the last people still searching for a motive from the latest vehicular attack. Could he have been an overworked Uber driver? Could he have had a seizure? Could he have been anything other than what he claimed to be? Doubtful, but give them an A for effort. By the way, for those that care, the NYC marathon will go on as planned this weekend. I can only imagine how tight security will be.
Iran. Iran so far away.
Crazy asshole decides to one-up Kim Jong Un. But that pallet load of cash in the middle of the night was a great fucking idea.
You want to know why cops don’t really give a fuck when they rough someone up and/or illegally arrest them? Probably because people always settle with them, so there’s no official record of the abuse taking place. So the taxpayers pay, the victims get their money, and the police go on as if nothing ever happened. Because in the eyes of the court and overseers, nothing ever did.
Well this is useless advice. Nobody eats that shit anyway unless they’re being punished.
(Bonus Daily Fail link in which an egomaniac exposes true colors. And no, its not Herself dressed as the President for Halloween. Its fucking better.)
The head of NPR placed on leave after sexual harassment claims made public. I’m sure this and my first story will be all over their coverage today. Nah, I’m sure it’ll be some retarded ass homage to FDR followed by an expose on the Poppyhead-in-chief.
Self-serving assholes serve selves. Big fucking surprise there. They get bonus points for being officials from Chicago. Double bonus points for being cops. And triple score for being legislators. That’s a trifecta of sleaziness right there, apologies to Chicago-land Glibs.
Cholito and Chinito Cheer On Houston. Blancito looks on.
If you don’t know who Mattress Mack is, you’re missing out. Well, he’s in the news again. And no, its not for groping. This dude is everything about what’s good in the world.
Dodgers and Astros are both doing this.
Have a great day. Enjoy the game (whether its a soccer match this afternoon or the World Series finale).
I went to bed bring told it was just a road rage incident.
It’s like when somebody cuts you off in traffic, and you say, “Jesus Christ!”
It’s like that, except this guy had a really bad accident and said “Allahu Ackbar!”, just like you might.
“Bonus Daily Fail link in which an egomaniac exposes true colors.”
Superman? Give me a break, here’s the hero he should have dressed up as:
http://www.armagideon-time.com/?p=5703
The important thing is that this will give us a meaningful chance to have a real dialog on truck control. Find some common sense approaches to curbing dangerous truck use, by banning things like extended cabs and mufflers to silence noise.
We clearly need to make places that rent trucks do a thorough background check and impose a three-day waiting period for all truck rentals.
What difference at this point etc …
Home Depot is the real criminal here.
Expect new regs on renting trucks
As someone that has to move a lot, I really hope that this doesn’t happen.
No one NEEDS a truck.
Look, I’ve been a vehicular car owner since I got my first hunting car when I was 19, but when are we going to wake up to the fact that we need COMMON SENSE REGULATION on military style assault jeeps like the truck used here.
No one needs a high-capacity gas tank that can hold over 12 gallons of gas that can accelerate over and over with just one tap on the foot-button.
We also need posted no-vehicular-car zones like bike paths and sidewalks so that people can walk and bike in safety.
And why did we let him have a muffler. Without a muffler, the victims could have heard him coming and tried the run, hide, fight back with a stapler trick my company paid $1,200 for me to get.
Did you know that in most states, its easier to rent a military style van with an automatic transmission than to get an abortion or lie about your citizenship to collect public benefits?
What about those silent all-electric death machines?
They don’t even have any metal in them so you can’t detect them with metal detectors!!!
Was it..a Ford F-150?
Clearly, this oppressed minority was driven to this horrible act by the hateful atmosphere in Trump’s America™.
Or he was running as a Republican in Virginia.
ZING!
83) Local SJW bravely confronts racist neighborhood Halloween display.
“She knew it was a Halloween decoration, but she also saw in it something more sinister: a lynching.”
So, if you were offended by a neighbor’s Halloween display, what’s the first thing you would do? Maybe knock on their door and have a quiet conversation about it? Nah, this sounds more reasonable:
“She took a picture and began making calls and sending emails to her homeowners association and the Southern Poverty Law Center in an effort to get it taken down.”
So the neighbor apologized and took the display down right away. Problem solved, right?
“After he sent the email and removed the figure…she posted a flier online that labeled his family as racist and included their address…It asks people to boycott the family’s home on Oct. 31.”
I sure am glad to live in an enlightened era when we’re so much more sensitive to possible racism than those dark ages of, oh, a decade ago.
The appropriate response is to not appologise, but very calmly say “Go fuck yourself”.
Or double down
Add Klansmen in full regalia around the tree?
I was thinking more like burning a lower case t so kids know its time to leave your yard.
Even the comments at WaPo are tearing her a new one. Which means she stepped over about ten lines of reasonableness.
What a fucking asshole.
I couldn’t see any comments. Not sure why.
See below
Fuck off, slaver!
Racist!
He should hang the neighbor from that tree, next Halloween.
Excellent
Never give in, never apologize to these fuckers. They just see that as weakness and an admission of wrongdoing, and become even more aggressive, like a shark with blood in the water. “Go fuck yourself, asshole” is the only appropriate response.
Is that supposed to be a punishment? I’d love that.
Seriously, I hat Halloween, with the constant disruptions and the dogs going apeshit every few minutes.
“hate”
My lights were off and people still knocked on my door. What about the house with no decorations and no lights says “come trick or treat here”?
Maybe you’re just known around your neighborhood as such a friendly fellow the kids thought of course they should stop by your place?
You have to try or its improper to trick. Duh.
They knocked, if they see movement in the house, then they know it is fair game to egg.
They wanted to see if it was true that you really gave out saltines.
*knocks for hug*
What about the house with no decorations and no lights says “come trick or treat here”?
Why do you hate kids?
That’s why I sit out on my front steps to hand out candy, because the dogs would have me in a straightjacket by 7 pm if I had to listen to them barking nonstop.
Doesn’t matter, I have a vigilant GSD who hears and smells anyone coming onto our property. I guess at least I would have a door between me and the barking.
A perfect place for Remy’s latest and greatest.
Heh. Was gonna post this. He’s hitting his hilarity stride.
I’m not sure there can be a better Remy than this one (maybe his post-election parody of SNL’s Hallelujah parody comes close). It’s perfect in every single way.
This reminds me of that kid yesterday. I found him trick or treating wearing an orange shirt, a blue bike helmet and a diaper over his shorts. I just had to ask:
Me: Did you go as a retard for Halloween? That might be a little offensive.
Kid: No, I’m Jeffie.
Me: Is Jeffie retarded?
Kid: No, its a character on a YouTube channel.
Once the kids went to bed and once it appeared the Astros were not going to pull off the 9th inning theatrics I looked it up. Jeffie Yes. The kid went as a retard for Halloween.
9 million views? What the fuck am I doing with my life?
WaPo has suddenly closed comments on the article and deleted all prior comments.
Democracy dies in darkness.
*thunderous applause*
Epic Win.
The scourge continues…
(Click to see the picture she took. I’m gonna go out on a limb and call bullshit on this one)
Minnesota woman finds pins in Snickers bar
What the ever loving fuck? Gilmored again, but I have no clue why…I was at the bottom of the comments in the new comment box
“Nobody eats that shit anyway unless they’re being punished.”
I like black licorice. It’s maybe not my favorite candy, but I don’t think it tastes bad or anything.
It wouldn’t be on the market in such wide availability if there wasn’t someone buying it.
Yeah, wicked step-parents and people over 90 who have lost their taste buds and grew up during the Depression.
And Finns.
Their best candy is a crappy version of black licorice.
I assumed black licorice was the candy of choice for you.
Dutch people hit hardest.
If any of the vast majority of my family still in the Netherlands tried to make me eat that afval, I would hit them hard!
West Michigan has a large Dutch population. Most grocery stores have a Dutch section with Stroopies and loads of different salted black licorice. My mom loves the stuff, along with black jellybeans. I don’t mind black licorice either, or Anise flavored candy.
Ahhh! Anijs is slecht!
*shakes fist at the entire Netherlands*
Smaakt geleik an rouwe kut.
It’s better when it’s salty.
go on…
You need to fertilize the soil with pineapple compost.
The compost is for the anise seed. The best jokes need explained.
I have no idea what black licorice taste like but does not sound appealing (or is it appalling)
It’s nowhere near as bad as some people pretend. It’s just not all that great either.
It’s similar to anise if you have that spice over there.
Dammit!
So like ouzo? or pastis? I don’t like ouzo that much
Look down…
Well that was not there when I wrote the above message
“7:11 am”
You goofy Euros are on some sort of early Daylight Savings Time, right?
Well yes two hole minutes. The page was not refreshed
*whole
Actually, I kind like “two hole minutes”!
If you have had ouzo, then you have had a similar flavor (that is distilled anise)…black licorice is slightly worse.
Distilled anus would be a better description. Ouzo’s terrible.
I saw some strange bottle at the liquor store with Middle Eastern writing on it. Feeling adventurous, I bought the damn thing. Turns out it was some kind of anise seed liquor. It was pretty grody. For a long while, it sat in The Orphanage – a kitchen cabinet where I stuck all the booze that I wouldn’t drink but refused to dump out. I ended up giving it away to some wino from my work (who would probably drink Hillary Clinton’s cunt syrup if you told him there was alcohol in it).
I can’t drink Ouzo/Raki/Arak because of an…experience in Istanbul 20 years ago.
I did Ouzo shots one night when I was 20 -ish. My first blackout drunk experience. Sniff.
Go on…
She mentioned the salty thing above.
Worst Candy Ever.
Someone at work had those a few weeks ago. Literally, she could not give them away
Send them my way. I love Good & Plenty.
Not as long as Durian Candy exists.
I would say Necco wafers. If you like slightly-flavored chalk, I’ve got the “candy” for you.
Candy corn, those terrible Valentine’s hearts, Tootsie rolls…
and Circus Peanuts
*barf*
I like circus peanuts…well, I did when I was six.
I actually like Necco wafers, because I am INSANE.
The salmiakki candy from Finland is worse. Nasty, nasty stuff.
All candy from Finland is bad. ALL.
…meaning they’re worthless to you as a lure?
I love those!
All y’all are welcome to send me your GnPs.
Sambuca black tastes like black liquorice.
I used to use it to bait muskrat traps. Other than that, it’s useless.
I’m going to have to go against the tide on this one. Black licorice isn’t my favorite but it isn’t bad.
You probably also like crunchy peanut butter.
A tribute to the hero we didn’t need, but deserved.
I disagreed with him on taxes and social policy, but I dug his stance on crack and hookers. Thankfully, now that we’re geting rid of our Washington and Jefferson statues, we’ll have more space to celebrate our true models.
Is it going to have a “Bitch set me up!” plaque?
came here for this, wasn’t disappointed
Obligatory
She beat, shaved kids’ heads over ice cream
I guess they really did all scream for ice cream.
*opera applause*
*Smiles*
You sonofabitch – that legit made me laugh out loud and earned me a rebuke from my boss
Priscilla Zapata, 26, is charged with four counts of felony injury to a child for the alleged July 18 incident. She is behind bars in Canyon County Jail.
“When we have serious allegations like these, we don’t ever want to rush the investigation. These things take time to complete,” Joe Decker, Canyon County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson, told People.
Um, don’t these two statements kinda contradict each other? Or is being put in jail prior to the investigation taking place not considered punishing someone anymore?
*narrows gaze at the Toronto Sun*
She looks exactly like someone who would beat some kids for eating her ice cream.
You know who else was a tubby terror?
Worst part is, Trudy’s too scrawny to pull of the outfit.
Here’s who he should have dressed up as:
http://www.armagideon-time.com/?p=5703
Here’s who he should have dressed up as.
This is who he should have dressed up as.
It would’ve been more appropriate if he’d gone as this guy.
She-Hulk?
*ducks*
The other worst part is one of his kids has the same name as mine (mine is older so he copied me).
Surprise!!
Feminist Sharia? Poll Reveals Surprising Beliefs of Norwegian Muslims
So either they’re liars, or bad muslims.
Under Islam it is okay to lie to infidels in order to advance the cause of Islam.
The point being that they can be both liars and good Muslims.
That is pretty much what I just said.
*starts to raise hand….stops, gets up from desk and wanders off*
*scribbles on UCS file notes furiously*
Liars. It is a pillar of their culture and religion. For a thousand years off and on they have been invaded and subjugated. Lying their asses off is the only weapon they had to fight back with.
I’m calling bullshit. You almost never get such lopsided pull results no matter what you ask. Not to mention how ridiculously easy it is to find data that would contradict their claims.
…while three out of ten argued it was important to follow Sharia, the religious law forming
part of radicalIslamic tradition.Fixed it for them.
Admittedly I don’t scour the news, but every story I’ve seen since last night has referred to this attack as an act of terror, heck the linked story’s headline states he claimed to have done it for ISIS. I’m not seeing the “we don’t know why he did it” narrative, I’m seeing news trying to find out as much as they can about the guy, which seems ,to me, like their job, but I guess everyone has their favorite lenses to look through.
The news was on in my dentists’ office while I was waiting for the usual six month checkup. They mentioned “eight people dead in new york city”, but gave it less airtime than their Truuuuump comments. What happened to “If it bleeds, it leads”?
What time was that, other than very early reports I don’t think they had a whole lot of info to dole out until later in the evening. At least round here, Out west I guess, you could have had some more in depth stuff during regular office hours.
I got out of the dentists between four and four thirty, so shortly before then.
But it was quite literally a one line blurb followed by “and here’s the weather”, as if they didn’t want people to notice.
Wolf Blitzer was on last night and he said “the driver was heard shouting Allah U Akbar as he exited the truck. What does it mean to the case?”
That sure is a puzzler…..
Great song and some sweet Frank Frazetta artwork! Perfect for All Saints Day!
This cover is my favorite, though.
I’ve got a death dealer and barbarian silver coin as part of my collection. 2 of my favorites. I read the books a long time ago…wasn’t impressed but I did read the whole series I think.
Is ‘Weinsteining’ getting out of hand?
Yes, it is out of hand. Commented on the same thing below. It’s spreading to politics next, and after that you can bet your ass we’re going to end up with those who survive pushing their bullshit down our throats with rhetoric and action.
The even got Andy Dick
It’s all fun and games until a journo looses their job.
That dude at NPR already got the “you are gonna burn” thing done to him..
I thought weinsteining was jacking off into a plant
If you were doing that, then it would likely be in hand.
This is exactly what I’ve been saying about where this #metoo business is leading – it quickly moved from actual sexual assault to fairly minor boorish behavior.
“Halloween horror! Kathie Lee Gifford dons nude bodysuit to parody Miley Cyrus Wrecking Ball video on NBC’s Today”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5037273/Kathie-Lee-Gifford-parodies-Miley-Cyrus-Wrecking-Ball-vid.html
Why?
same reason as the original “Look at MEEEEEEEEEE!”
Ewwww.
Why? Because nobody realized she was still alive until she did it, that’s why.
Averting our gaze…
She’s gonna break a hip cavorting around like that.
Regis would’ve rocked it better.
Timely.
Mattress Maaaaaaaac! Jeez, what a class act. When I lived in Houston my roommate and I stocked our apartment with stuff from Gallery Furniture. We’d also go out there on weekends to just walk around and marvel at the ridiculousness of it all.
Love it. My wife and I have talked about making the trip to Houston just to buy a couch from him because he’s such a kindhearted, generous man.
Any relation to Nathan “Unpainted” Arizona?
“Would you buy furniture from a store called ‘Unpainted Hufheinz'”??
He basically ignored Federer when he won the ATP year-end championship in Houston in 2003 and went on and on about Agassi. Totally unclassy.
Gilmore.
NPR’s head editor put on leave over accusations that he tried to kiss two journalists…two decades ago. As much entertainment as watching these people destroy themselves has been, at a certain point my principles are going to come out. We have people who are often allowed to stay entirely anonymous simply leveling accusations against individuals, often after lengthy periods of time, and their words being taken as gospel. Accusations across a spectrum are being lumped together under the same few vague phrases so there’s little distinction being made between an awkward sexual advance and rape. It’s “listen and believe” in action. And after the assholes in media, entertainment, and, yes, politics, get done purging their own ranks, who the hell doesn’t think they’re self-righteousness isn’t going to return double fold and be used to teach their inferiors out in deplorable-land? I mean, because if this stuff is happening in THEIR world…imagine how bad the poor women must have it in Kansas!
::looks at top of page::
::scratches head::
::kicks pebble::
C’mon, sloop, like you ever expect anyone to actually read the shit you post?
I do. I like sloopy’s posts.
::kicks another pebble::
Sloopy’s posts are great… minus the sports junk… and the links I was about to post. 😉
Yeah Sloop rocks.
Don’t forget the musical selections. Gold! (usually)
I sometimes read the articles, but I always do so after the comments. Like any good libertarian.
But the top of the page is the sports stuff. You expect us to read all of it?
We are living under a bizarro-Sharia where any man’s life can be ruined merely on the word of any woman without proof or evidence.
When employment of women drops to an all time low, I wonder if anyone will put two and two together?
No. it will just be evidence of misogyny and discrimination, which must be remedied through quotas. But we won’t actually call them quotas.
Patriarchy, obviously.
Could go the other way and employment of men could continue to fall. Not because companies aren’t hiring them but because men continue to say fuck it all in ever greater numbers and employers are left with little choice but t hire more women.
a) he didn’t even work for NPR until 2015
b) why didn’t they file a police report at the time? Sounds like straight up assault.
c) good luck with not damaging your employment practices. Others seem to know who it was according to the article. Just not actually requiring these accusers to make their accusations in public.
They don’t want to have to look to their EPLI policy.
Meanwhile in Canada…
‘There’s a lot of weird
people out there’: Why these taxidermied squirrels are selling out
Would.
The political economy of witchcraft
How early modern witch-hunters resemble contemporary politicians
https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/10/daily-chart-21
The authors attribute this hysteria to the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation. Witch trials were most common, they found, in areas where Catholic and Protestant churches enjoyed comparable levels of support and were locked in a struggle for converts. Conversely, such trials were much rarer where one creed or the other predominated. Mr Leeson and Mr Russ noted a striking similarity to modern American presidential elections, in which the two major parties swarm closely contested “swing states” with ads and rallies while ignoring those where one has an insurmountable advantage.
Related
So… Go Dodgers?
No.
I figured since I dunno anything bout baseball but am a Lakers fan and the Dodgers are also in LA… I do have a Romanian friend who is a fan of whatever team is in St. Louis because he has relatives there and watched a game when he visited them.
The Dodgers vanished without a trace in 1958. I don’t know what you are talking about.
Not after what they did to get their stadium.
Which ones, the Astros or the Dodgers?
Dodgers. The city of LA had forced people out of their homes for a public housing project, and then turned around and gave the land to the Dodgers to build their stadium. Look up the Battle of Chavez Ravine.
in 1962. third oldest stadium in the mlb. and not the only one with corrupt shenanigans in the
in the construction, that should’ve been. someday I’ll get good at typing on the phone.
Don’t bother. I think those things are just a fad
To add to everyone else here who’s switching careers and looking for new jobs, I’ve got an interview for a new position tomorrow afternoon. I’ll be interviewing to be a Craft Beer Sales rep for one of the distributors working in this area. It’ll be my first time interviewing for a sales job, so if anyone out there has any tips or suggestions, I’d appreciate them.
All I can say is “Good luck”.
The thought of having to do sales work skeeves me out, as it pushes all of my weaknesses.
Just be your normal, enthusiastic self. Your knowledge and fondness for the product will be a slam dunk.
Sales is about developing relationships with your customers, not being a fucking pitchman. Ask lots and lots of questions (both in the interview and after you get the gig). Too many sales people don’t take the time to learn anything before they start ‘selling’. It can be a really fun job if you have the right temperament.
Good luck!
Thanks. I’ve been looking over their brand list for the past couple of days and shoring up my knowledge on the few breweries that I haven’t had much from. My weakest point I think is going to be the area that I would be repping, it’s a bit further west then I usually go, so I’ll need to learn the lay of the land there for their beer culture.
On the plus side I’ll get to be one of the people running tasting and beer dinners. And while I may not be a fan of public speaking, I can talk about beer all day and all night. It also helps that they distribute some of my favorite breweries, both US and imports.
And maintaining that relationship after the sale. The really successful ones are the dependable types who can keep the customer happy by being reliable.
This.
Congrats!
I’ve worked in craft beer shops, ordering for bars, making beer, and making spirits. I’ve dealt with so many sales reps over the years that they’ve started blending into each other. I can tell you the traits I always appreciated. I need reps who really know the products their selling. Not just memorizing the tasting notes they read on their sales cards, but really knowing the product. Try them all (I know, it sounds terrible having to drink that beer!). You can even take some tasting courses, if you think it would help. Next, pay attention the small accounts. Some of them turn into big accounts. Finally, don’t be fake. My favorite sales rep was a tough, older broad. I trusted her because she never fed me a line. If you want to be friendly, then be friendly. Don’t try to fake it.
Thanks.
Well, I’ve already started working towards my Cicerone, I’m a home brewer, and I’ve probably had about ~70% of the US brands the distributor sells, and ~50% of the imports. I’m pretty confident on that side of things. It’s been over a decade since I’ve done any sales work, and that was extended warranties at the retail level. While I was good at it, it always felt scummy selling things that are a bad idea (like extended warranties). Beer on the other hand, is almost always a good idea.
Almost always?!
Always!!!!
If you get tired of trying beers I know a few people that could volunteer to try your beers 😉
As long as it’s not STEVE SMITH. I know what he means when he says “try your beers”.
Be engaged during the interview. I mean really engaged. Maintain general eye contact through the interviewer talking. Don’t stare, but be attentive and enthusiastic.
As for not knowing the territory too well, avoid that if possible. Tell the interviewer how much you enjoy meeting new people and exploring new relationships and how you’re sure that even if you’d lived in the territory your entire life, you’d be sure to kick over some new rocks and develop it because that’s in your nature.
It’s a phone interview, so no need for the eye contact. I’ve already started doing what little research I can about the area using the web to get an idea of where the beer bars are, and what’s popular in the area.
I really do appreciate all the advice. This is a job that I’m really hoping for, even if it means a salary cut.
If it’s a phone interview then you should just be in a bathrobe.
while surfing porn
Since it’s a phone interview, use random word emphasis and unexpected pauses Captain Kirk style, it will help them remember you.
I’m… beginning to think… that all of this… … advice… is not… in my best interest.
You’re hired!
Sales are something I just couldn’t do – not with my (lack of) personality.
But the sales people I’ve enjoyed dealing with – cars & houses – are the low-key types who stand by to answer questions, not keep up a constant flow of patter as if trying to distract me from the purchase in question.
When I worked in sales, that’s the kind of salesman I was…..because that’s the kind of salesman I liked, too. Unfortunately, it’s tough to be successful in sales without being a pushing asshole, and I was indeed unsuccessful in sales and no longer work as one.
The real estate agent I’ve used on several occasions : the first time he showed us a house, he just stood in the kitchen and waited for us to ask questions. For another house he pointed out everything wrong with the place and said, “I know I wouldn’t buy this house.”
He also strong-armed the buyer of a house we sold, telling her he was going to buy the property if she didn’t. He never told us about this situation until closing day since he didn’t want us to worry.
I guess it’s a balancing act for those types of salesmen – your clients will probably me more loyal than the aggressive “sales at any cost” types.
While you will be pushing lots of IPAs, realize it is only 1/4 of the craft market. There are, for some weird reason, lots of craft beer drinkers who don’t drink IPAs, and they want options too.
If I could make one easy change to the craft beer landscape, it would be for the low turnover places (gas stations, convenient stores, etc.) to stop trying to stock all the IPA’s and instead stock stouts, porters, and barleywines. Beers that can sit on the shelf and hold up over a longer period of time. Where I live, if your IPA doesn’t have a Best By or Made On stamp on it, I’m not buying it. We have way too many places that have beer that’s several years past it’s prime still being sold at full price. There was a store a couple years back that still had a sixer of Founder’s Red’s Rye on the shelf, which Founder’s moved to a 4-pack back in 2012.
On a related note, I always check the dates on Spaten Octoberfest, because I have seen too many being sold from the previous years, and it doesn’t hold up. I had to learn to read Spaten date codes, which are cryptic in order to pull this off.
Also on a related note, I love Stone’s Enjoy By series for this reason. When the beer’s name has a date in it, its hard to sell it when it is old.
Oh yeah, its November 1st! That means their Drink by 10/31/17 IPA will be half price today!
Right there with you. Stone also has a section on their website where you can report old beer. Every once in a while you get to score a deal with old beer though. Some of the grocery stores near me have done sales on beer either nearing it’s best buy or far past it. I don’t mind buying last years Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout for $5 a four pack, nor do I mind paying $3 for an old bomber of Victory Old Horizontal, and I can even accept $5 six packs of IPA’s that expire in the next two weeks.
re: Drink By date, heartily agree. Also, while I’m a hop head, I do love good stouts, porters, barleywines, strong ales.
I work in sales and I can’t stress the “ask a lot of questions” angle enough. Not only should you be asking questions during the sales process, but also during the interview to get the job. People love talking about themselves and what they do way more than they enjoy listening to anyone else, so just getting them talking about what they want to talk about is 80% of the job.
Since you are asking questions, you’ll be able to identify a “problem” or “need” — at that point you will be able to show that your product satisfies that need. However, its best to only suggest it if your product actually does satisfy that need. If you know you’re product isn’t what they are looking for or need, than its best to not make the sale – so you maintain (and even build) your reputation as someone that really cares about their customers. I’ve even gotten referrals from people I’ve haven’t sold to, simply because I was honest that we were not going to be able to fix their problem but showed them to a different business that could.
If you know you’re product isn’t what they are looking for or need, than its best to not make the sale – so you maintain (and even build) your reputation as someone that really cares about their customers.
So important. I can’t count how many times telling someone I didn’t have what they need (even referring them to someone who did) resulted in more business down the line.
I get annoyed with the perception that salespeople are like that greasy little fuck in The Outlaw Josey Wales. Good salespeople make great money because they are valuable, not because they trick or coerce.
Yes, I hate the general portrayal of salespeople too. Plus, I’m in finance, which makes the stereotype doubly not-fun to work through.
Oh god, I had a door to door* yesterday that I actually ordered from. The experienced guy was great at this, and I didn’t mind talking to him about football (he spotted my wife’s jacket). The newbie kept interrupting working on her patter. But here questions were just off-the-wall stupid. Are there vampires in Ohio? Do I believe in aliens? Don’t I hate living under chem-trails (I don’t live under any flight path, the sky was clear and blue). Hope the experienced guy can help her because she was a hot mess.
*New company busted the local data monopoly, and I knew what the best deal available was. The door to door team was there on the first day the new company was taking orders offering the deal I wanted anyway.
Yeah, its important to ask relevant questions, not just a bunch of nonsense. And if you are going to ask a nonsense question, it ought to be for comedic effect and with the right type of customer.
I have some customers that are all business, all the time. Which is fine by me. It all depends on the personality type you’re working with.
You’ll do great. I have a couple friends that are alcohol sales reps/product demo guys. They are nice people, but they are kind of dumb, frankly. Yet they are pretty successful. Because they are enthusiastic and know the product and rep it well.
You know the product. You are enthusiastic. You got some brains. You can do this!
My neighbor is a craft beer sales rep. It sounds like most of his job consists of driving around to various bars, grocery stores, and restaurants that stock the company’s beers, makes sure they have enough in stock, and tells them about new products. I think he scouts out new customers as well, but I’m not sure.
It sounds like a pretty cool job, especially if you’re a major beer enthusiast and home brewer like him.
I was never cut out for sales, so I have no advice beyond good luck!
Smile like you mean it.
I don’t have interview advice, but here’s some advice for after you get this job; be friendly and create relationships with the employees you run into who are just stocking shelves, running the tills, etc. While they aren’t making any decisions today, you never know which one of them will be your main contact sometime in the future.
Good luck!
Always be closing.
Mom tied boy to roof of minivan so he could hold down plastic pool, charge says
Florida man meet Wisconsin Wo Man.
Echoes of Mitt Romney?
This guy is on the fast track to be the GOP nominee in 2020.
Gal, guy; who can say, anymore?
I think we’re actually not supposed to say anymore…?
That gene pool is even more shallow.
Bike path rampage: What we know about the suspect
A Muslim guy over here on a Diversity Visa and living in Paterson NJ decides to kill a bunch of random people in NYC.
My only surprise is that this hasn’t happened long ago.
Diversity Is Our Strength?
I heard a dumb canuk use a stupid “we’re a mosaic, not a melting pot” slogan.
The only thing that came to mind is “Alloys are stronger than tilework.”
A stew makes more sense than a melting pot, no?
Mmmmm. Stew.
Stew does not have a whole lot of structural strength.
“We’re plywood not particleboard!”
I believe you mean Particle *Man.*
Me and that bacteria that makes lactose near my colon.
“we’re a mosaic, not a melting pot”
“And as the gifted artist placed the last piece into the mosaic, he stepped back to admire the work. As he moved slowly back, his face began to register horror, for the image he had designed–of himself surrounded by his neighbors, all holding hands and smiling–had become a hideous picture of himself being ripped apart by those same neighbors, who yet bore the benign smiles he had given them. He heard the noise of a boisterous crowd from somewhere outside. There was a knock at the door. ‘Hey, you! We want to have a word…’.”
Seems like “Stuck in Jersey Homicidal Blues” should already be a song.
Maybe there’s a reason there are few immigrants from those countries?
Can we change the lottery to hot models only? What an asinine program.
“The terrorist came into our country through what is called the “Diversity Visa Lottery Program,” a Chuck Schumer beauty. I want merit based.”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/925684982307348480
“The suspect for the deadliest terror attack in New York City since 9/11 reportedly entered the United States under a visa program that President Donald Trump has tried to end”
http://www.newsweek.com/new-york-terror-suspect-visa-trump-698146
TW: Autoplay & pop-up crap
Wow, the President and Newsweek agree on two facts on the same day.
*head explodes*
So in the interest of being even handed, (and not saying you were engaged in this CP) how is this different to the way liberals act after a shooting? Trump needs to shut up. If the policy is bad change it but don’t use people’s deaths for cheap rhetorical points.
Except part of the reason the Dems typically eat the Repub’s lunch is because the Republicans are unwilling to use the Dem’s tactics against them. They would rather “take the high road” than actually win. So as long as the Dems fight dirty, the Repubs should return the favor, or else they are just choosing to fight at a handicap.
No Constitutional right to enter the country, there is an enumerated right to own a gun and this right “shall not be infringed”. Immigration is not a rights question, it is a policy question
It would be one thing if you gave a visa to an Uzbeki engineer or doctor or bricklayer or plumber or businessman and he went all Aloha Snackbar out of nowhere. That would be cheap political stunting IMO. As a general rule, people who have a career aren’t going all jihadi, it’s mostly losers with no prospects.
This guy, from the article, was given a visa strictly for stupid “DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH” social engineering purposes. If we’re literally just handing out visas based on because the State has decided America doesn’t have enough citizens who were born as Uzbeks or Tongans or Zimbabweans, let’s hand them out to the finalists of every nations beauty pageants and strong men contests.
If we’re subsidizing “refugees” I want good looking ones if I’m not getting productive ones.
Tits McGhee is going full retard on the hypocrisy today.
This deserves more than 49,000 views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynO-bqU6tUk
It now has 49,001 views. Pretty good stuff
I never really liked the song when it first came out (nor any Michael Jackson song, really, except for “Human Nature”). These days, however, there is a nostalgia factor, a remembering of being at the mall on a Friday night, not a care in the world except which P.C. game I should like to purchase.
A maintenance man at a south Kansas City church spray-painted racist graffiti on the front entrance and set a fire inside — all to cover up his theft of money to buy crack cocaine, according to documents filed in federal court on Monday.
Nathaniel D. Nelson was charged in U.S. District Court with committing an arson inside the adjoining cultural center at the predominantly black Concord Fortress of Hope Church, where he was also a member.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article181683621.html
I mean it is better than sucking dick for crack
NO, SETTING A CHURCH ON FIRE IS NOT BETTER!
And with what happens to crack heads in prison, he’s still not avoiding it.
20 tithe dollars is 20 dollars.
Makes confession a little tricky.
This guy is a bad dog owner.
I think this is supposed to be a feel good story about a dog that got lost in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area was found and returned. If you read the story, the dog ran away from the owner and at least one group of rescuers. In my book, if you have a dog that won’t stick around, you probably shouldn’t be bringing them up into the wilderness and letting them off leash. (Also bonus demerits for being a dork and actually wearing your life vest in a canoe.)
Also, given the fact that we talked about wolves and coyotes preying on dogs and cats yesterday, here is an interesting part of the story.
“Four weeks after Lindsey went missing, she was spotted running across a highway with a wolf in pursuit.”
“he said he called out a last goodbye to the dog that fast became his “best friend” after a divorce three years earlier.”
Damn bitches, Amirite?
“Four weeks after Lindsey went missing, she was spotted running across a highway with a wolf in pursuit.”
This is terrible of me but I wanted to make a joke about the wolf being the STEVE SMITH of the dog world.
DOG IS MAN’S BEST FRIEND. AND BY BEST FRIEND I MEAN RAPE VICTIM!
I thought that was just in Denmark?
Maybe it was the horny cartoon wolf
Yep. I took my GSD camping in Manitou years ago and, even though she stuck by me all the time, I used a long lead when we were hiking.
Dogs do unpredictable shit – that guy is a lucky douche.
Nothing pisses me off more than dog owners who walk their dogs all over town with no leash and expect them to just obey. I was out jogging one time, and some old woman was walking with one of those tiny, yappy dogs (I actually know this woman from a previous workplace; she’s a giant fucking bitch). The dog started running towards me, and she just stood there like an idiot saying, “Monty, come back here! Monty, come! Monty, get back over here!” Meanwhile, the little pocket rat started nipping at my ankles. It wasn’t even big enough to get its jaws around any flesh, so I just kept running. I heard that dumb bitch shout to me, “she won’t chase you if you stop running!” I kept right on running, but I should have told her the fuck off for letting that dog run around with no leash when she clearly hasn’t disciplined it enough to listen to her.
This is a generalization, but it seems like stuff like this only happens to me with small dogs. I’ve encountered bigger dogs being walked around with no leash, and none of them have ever done anything besides look at me with that adorable dog-smile that they do.
I’ve been ankle bitten by a yappy little fuck while riding a bike. Apparently it got out into the street and nobody was watching it.
Small dogs are literally hitler.
My last dog I trained to walk by my side no problem. The current one is a punk and I know it so leash it is. It’s not about the dog, it’s about the owner.
0 Sasquatch and Spirituality: A Native American perspective
AND BY FORMED A RELATIONSHIP AND FOUND A SPIRIT CONNECTION, MEAN RAPED BY STEVE SMITH!
STEVE SMITH ALL UP IN YOUR CHAKRA
Two similar thoughts today. First: yesterday at work I saw a link to a vox article about “what we know about the Trump Russia scandal”. It gave me pause for a moment. It made me think of all the times Obama Care came indeed fire and the left called it a Fake scandal. What if I’m doing the same thing to them? I know that manafort was indicted for tax fraud, and really doesn’t have to do with the election at all. Anyway I concluded that I have to remember the sources and that they have no interest in truth when it comes to Trump, unless it can help smear him.
The other thought was about a reason article taking about how we should have seen this manafort thing coming, and “why didn’t the Obama administration do anything?”. Is there any hope for libertarians like ourselves? Or at we a dying breed?
I don’t think there have ever been enough of us to qualify as a breed, more like just a weird mutation.
File under “No Good Guys In The Story”
Former FBI nutcase gets in scuffle with local sheriff in Reno. The charges have been dropped against the FBI guy.
Our sheriff Stanek is a complete douchenozzle. doG knows I have wanted to punch him a whole bunch of times. On the other hand this FBI guy seems just as bad.
It has a single, one-star review:
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Son. Of. A. Bitch! This is my second Gilmore this week. I think Monocle is f’d up.
USER ERROR!
Gilmore’d
Universe shouldn’t exist, CERN physicists conclude
https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/universe-shouldn-t-exist-cern-physicists-conclude
One of the great mysteries of modern physics is why antimatter did not destroy the universe at the beginning of time.
To explain it, physicists suppose there must be some difference between matter and antimatter – apart from electric charge. Whatever that difference is, it’s not in their magnetism, it seems.
Physicists at CERN in Switzerland have made the most precise measurement ever of the magnetic moment of an anti-proton – a number that measures how a particle reacts to magnetic force – and found it to be exactly the same as that of the proton but with opposite sign. The work is described in Nature.
There’s another explanation when the seemingly impossible happens on a universal scale.
There’s an all-time bestselling Book that touches on it in the beginning.
‘It was magic.’ isn’t an explanation.
A Brief History of Time?
Yeah except that best selling book somehow manages to get it’s science even more wrong than IFLS
It is one thing to invoke “A Diety” as the reason why Matter dominated.
It is a completely different thing to invoke a diety whose holy book seems to think birds evolved before fish.
It might be “God” whatever that means but it sure as hell wasn’t Yahweh and the bible is no more a reliable guide to explaining science than the Nordic Sagas are.
Is a Diety a really thin god or a really fat one?
Jesus. Lighten up everybody. It was only sort of a joke.
Heretic!
Woops. Did I go in the wrong direction?
Of course not.
/Ordo Hereticus
I don’t understand why there are these tropes around saying that things “shouldn’t” happen that obviously do happen, like the universe existing or a bumblebee flying.
A bumblebee DOES fly; you see it happen every summer day. If you’re referring to principles that say that an insect of such proportions shouldn’t be able to fly, those principles are not as absolute as you think they are. This is proven by the fact that bumblebees can in fact fly.
Scientist: Our model, which has been useful for a given set of assumptions, states that XYZ should not have lead to ABC, but ABC exists.
Other Scientist: Interesting, this is clearly an area where our model needs some updating or a new model is called for that operations better under these assumptions
News Media: SCIENTIST SAY UNIVERSE SHOULDN’T EXIST!!!LOL!!!IMTWENTYFOURANDDONTKNOWANYTHING!!!!WHYDIDIGOSIXFIGURESINTODEBTINORDERTOGETFOURTYKAYEARTOWRITEABOUTSHITIDONTUNDERSTAND!!!!LIFEISPAIN!!!!
Eh. Most of science is based on the notion that the same laws of physics apply throughout space and time. That’s a big assumption at any rate, and never moreso than when space and time were still getting off the ground.
Halloween night was a bust – only got 20 or so Trick or Treaters. So I had a pile of full-sized candy bars left which I brought to work.
I blame the cold weather and the bit of snow we got.
20 or so is a bust? Seems like a lot.
Our neighbors came over when the lights were out already. Who knocks on apartment doors (other than Mormons)?
In an ironic twist, were they dressed as SWAT members?
Actually, no shit, their son was dressed up as SWAT.
I’ll say it again: Not karma, not justice, life is dominated by irony.
My co-worker got ~70; says he normally gets over a hundred.
Got almost no traffic at the house last night, I don’t know if it may be because we are close to NYC and everyone was nervous that there might be something else planned as a followup attack given the uproar over the truck attack. Maybe people were keeping their kids home.
We came close to 150, and that was a bust. I guess Japan really is a childless place.
We probably get well over 100 – lots of kids in our neighborhood, and there are a couple of large apartment complexes nearby as well.
We get about 100-120 kids.
Just 20? Were all your traps working properly?
I’m right there with you, just with 2 large bags of candy instead of full-sized bars. Thankfully there’s a charity board gaming marathon happening this Saturday, so we can bring most of the candy there to let others eat it.
Board gaming marathon you say?!
…go on.
A local board game store that the girlfriend and I frequent do this every year. We don’t do the overnight thing, but we show up Saturday morning with food and coffee for people and get some gaming in. It’s a really nice store with a huge library of demo games to play. I don’t do all of my gaming spending there, but I probably get 5-8 games (including gifts) there a year.
I’ve been kicking around the idea of writing up a submission for here about board gaming, especially after FEE did a write up on Chinatown (one of my favorites, and thankfully back in print).
I’d be in favor!
We’re at the end of a cul de sac where a couple of the street lights were out, so we get zero trick or treaters every year. But there are two houses that, every year, put out the bowls of candy for people to take from so they don’t have to answer the doorbell, just in case. But nobody ever comes down the street, so it goes untouched.
And just like every year, by 9 or so when the trick or treating is winding down and all the kids that live on the street make it back, they all feast on it. Man the kid’s candy basket was heavy at the end of that.
Already started to steal from it, natch.
We got maybe 20, but its because we’re an edge street. We went out with three other neighbors who have kids between just turning one and six to some of the interior blocks, and it was swarms of kids. I know we saw at least 30 on the street just between 6:45 and 7:45 and had 8 in our party. So now we know not to buy much candy. And where to send our kids.
We only got two, and one was the grandkid of the people next door. We even put out pumpkins and a skeleton and lit them up. I think most of the kids in our neighborhood have grown up. Fortunately I only bought candy that I like, so my lunch deserts are set for the next month or so.
“DRUDGE: 93% of Mueller’s grand jury pool voted for Hillary”
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/drudge-93-muellers-grand-jury-pool-voted-hillary/
It’s a fair cop.
They needed an open minded jury. Hillary voters are the only ones ‘open minded’ enough to still believe that there could be anything to the Russia angle.
I’m guessing the remaining 7% were Bernie write in voters.
*Politburo applause*
Don’t be the first to stop applauding tovarisch.
“EXCLUSIVE: Gillespie Family Left ‘Disgusted’ By Truck Ad, Campaign Donations ‘Triple’
“Yeah, in fact, actually online, our fundraising has tripled from people who are just disgusted by this and feel that they’re under attack, which they are,” Gillespie told TheDC. “But, again, it’s not just my supporters who are under attack here. It’s all those good, decent Virginians who may not agree with me, but understand that this is not good for the commonwealth of Virginia and that this kind of political attack and these smear campaigns are not good for the country and they’re not good for the commonwealth.”
During the interview, Gillespie also addressed billionaire Mike Bloomberg and his gun control organization, Everytown For Gun Safety.
The former New York City mayor’s group has already dumped at least $1.7 million into the commonwealth on behalf of Democratic candidates, pushing for tougher gun laws in the gun-friendly state.”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/31/exclusive-gillespie-family-left-disgusted-by-truck-ad-campaign-donations-triple-video/
I drive a diesel truck (old Dodge not Ford) and have a Gadsden front license, I think I’m slacking off, I haven’t chased a single brown person yet.
Also none of my guns have threatened anyone, I am not a good shitlord,
You’re basically useless to the White Patriarchy. Expect a dismissal letter in the mail soon.
” this is not good for the commonwealth of Virginia and that this kind of political attack and these smear campaigns are not good for the country and they’re not good for the commonwealth”
Personal pet peeve of mine, is when a politician makes a the same statement twice but not for emphasis. It’s like are going to say something different, but then just say the same thing or something not different.
Leon, you’re just a big complainer. And furthermore, all you do is complain. Finally, complaining is something that you frequently engage in.
I’m getting flashbacks to the English composition section of the civil service exam.
Which of these sentences most clearly encompasses the information above?
GAH@!
I recall some document from the women’s prison mental health department that said something like, “Describe the clinical lens through which every aspect of the patient’s present illness will be examined and treated with the objective of facilitating a state of sound mental health and ability to function as a productive and law-abiding member of the community“.
A lot of fucking words to say “Describe the treatment plan.”
I think a lot of people graduate college with the idea in their heads that the quality of writing is judged by how many words you use and how big the words are.
In my recent interview, my answer to “What is the key to good communication?” was “Brevity and Clarity.”
Huh.
Hey, I can recognize a pattern. I didn’t say I claimed to be good at it.
In my recent interview, my answer to “What is the key to good communication?” was “Brevity and Clarity.”
And volume. Don’t forget volume.
Still, though, that was brilliant.
Oh, I get it, the Inmates redesigned the forms as part of their work program.
Of course I Gilmored it.
Him Too: Who Are the Sexual Harassers?
Traditional gender roles mean rape. I see what she means. Wait a second…
I just can’t believe all the reports based on polls and such any more. What were the questions asked? I begging your wife/girlfriend for sex when she has a headache considered verbal manipulation?
Talking a woman into it is now rape, shitlord!
UND? Wonder if her thesis is based on an encounter with MikeS? That be his stomping grounds.
I stay far away from campus. Well, except for hockey games…and driving by the University Park on warm summer days.
*spring days*
Every time I hear about how men are such rapey rapist superpredators, I’m reminded of all the incredibly pervy things that women do all the time.
Sometimes I think male rape victims actually have it worse for a variety of reasons:
1) Male rape is believed to be something that doesn’t happen because of the belief that men always want sex from every woman. There’s also the misconception that if a man gets a boner, he must be willing to engage in sex (isn’t this similar to the whole “female reproductive system shuts down” remark by Todd Akin that ignited so much controversy?)
2) If a man is being forcibly raped by a woman and he uses physical force to stop her, that’s probably not going to go well for him in court due to #1.
Uffda. Lots and lots of back pedaling in Minnesoda.
Prog groups are trying to spin the news that RUSSIANS were behind some of the Philando Castile protests.
I am so tickled by this recent revelation that the Rooskies were pushing BLM protests. Watching the left try to figure out how to spin this news is great.
* BTW it is pronounced “oooofda”. I say this because last week as I was returning from a trip to Chicago, I had to listen to two annoying women talking to each other about their return to their Minnesoda roots. Both of them said “uff”-da. Fuck them in the neck!
They were native Minnesodans and they pronounced it “uff?” That’s just messed up, dontcha know?
I think they visited shirt tail relatives decades ago and now think that they are “one of us.”
It was quite the deal.
But no way people who actually support Trump would take offense to throwing around all the RUSSIA!!!!!!!111! shit, huh
OT: I will be in Houston and Corpus Christi next week, fly in to Houston Monday, Wednesday drive to Corpus Christi for work, back to Houston that night and fly home Thursday.
Any restaurant recommendations or chance for meetup?
Let me know where you’re staying and I’ll see if we can put something together. My schedule just got busy as shit for the next five weeks, but I’ll try to pull something together.
I’m staying here:
Fairfield Inn & Suites Houston Westchase
2400 West Sam Houston Parkway South Houston
I’ll be free in the evenings, but if you’re busy don’t worry about it.
Just tell me where the good TX BBQ is.
The absolute very best is Killen’s in Pearland.
Pearland borders on the south of Houston. It would be a nice uber but well worth it if you are serious about bbq.
I was going to suggest that, but they used to sell out long before evening. If you can manage to get there by 4pm, yeah. Killens is the best. Get the beef rib. It’s like being Fred Flintstone.
I’ve heard good things about the Stockyard. Goode’s Company is tasty. The Pit Room looks interesting, but I’ve never heard anyone eating there.
This guy understands how to sell a compact mirror on Amazon.
Given our current climate of #MeToo, maybe NSFW?
LOL
Ha. In the ‘people also viewed’ is an Abraham Lincoln scented candle.
How do they know what Lincoln smelled like?
Or does it smell like rotten meat?
Gunpowder and gray matter.
Actually “Gunpowder and Gray Matter” might work as a book title…
It would. I like it.
So… this asshole Uzbekistani…. I’m almost 100% certain he and his buddies ganged up on my friend Paulos and beat the shit out of him last year. They rolled him up pretty bad.
Those Uzbekistani assholes around here are always hanging out at the same places: Mirage and Oasis. Two Mediterranean restaurants in the area that my wife and I frequent (she’s eastern european, and lots of Russians hang there as well). Those assholes have tempers that are about as short as their dicks and they’re always causing trouble, especially with the Israelis.
Also, on local news today, they had reporters outside his old apartment complex in Symmes Township. The same one where my brother-in-law (who introduced me to Paulos) lived.
If I’m right… then it means he’s not the only small dicked short tempered Uzbekistani from around here. There’s a whole crew of them. I’m fully expecting a call from the FBI after I post this. Of course, they probably know everything I know anyway. They almost always have a car parked outside of those two restaurants.
Someone doesn’t celebrate diversity.
He’s a fuggin white male, dude.
From UZBEKISTAN!
Hey, that’s right in my old neck of the woods. I used to work for Thriftway when they were still around (the Hunt Road one). And my retired English teacher hangs out at the Silver Spring House all the time. We have informal class reunions about once a year with him. I just gotta stay as DD because my aunt and uncle live in Reading.
When I was deployed to Uzbekistan, the girls were cute and flirty and the men were sullen and unfriendly. I suspect the former was the cause of the latter. We had an interpreter who was ethnic Russian (and a pretty damned hot one, I must say) and she fucking HATED the Uzbeks.
I’ve had similar experiences. The girls have all been very nice and cordial, and sometimes even flirty. The guys are all assholes.
And these men do tend to share certain traits, including a tendency to bully others and to believe myths like “a short skirt means a woman is asking for it.”
Red shoes, she’s looking for some action.
Jus’ sayin’
Hey, hey, hey! You just wait a minute.
Maybe her shoes are red because her feminine product sprung a leak. Ever think about that shitlord?
Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive.
“My name is Father MILO, the spookiest man in America according to freakish journalists, predatory Hollywood producers, your decaying professors, the ghoulish Hillary Clinton and the braying, unwashed masses outside who are protesting white supremacy and neo-Nazism by trying to silence a gay Catholic Jewish immigrant with a black husband.
And if you’re unsettled by my costume, relax. Who knew the Catholic church had nothing on a couple of generations in Hollywood? If I’d really wanted to creep you out I’d have come as Jabba the Hutt and invited you upstairs for a casting session.
Tonight of course is Halloween, the night when the walls between the living and the dead are at their thinnest — almost as porous as the border between the US and Mexico. Let’s hope by this time next year President Daddy has erected the wall. In the meantime, it’s last rites and life support all round!”
https://milo.yiannopoulos.net/2017/10/halloqueen/
Meh Milo got kinda boring for me
Milo is sooooo 2016.
https://twitter.com/LaloDagach/status/925445871306715136
WTF England?
“‘I just played Playstation’ ISIS jihadi DENIES being a terrorist – begs to come home to UK”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/656386/ISIS-Terrorist-Britain-Islam-Shabazz-Suleman-Playstation-Video-Raqqa-Return-Home-Caliphate
Returning Jihadis should be charged with treason, as they were fighting on behalf of a hostile foreign power.
She just looks dumb.
It ain’t just looks.
I say take back the Jihadis only if you can exchange them for fat feminists. 2 Jihadis for 1 feminist seems like a fair exchange for society to me.
Is anyone else starting to wonder if there comes a breaking point in Europe where everyday citizens just get tired of shit like this? To me it’s amazing that the Germans haven’t lynched Merkel in public. Or maybe there’s never a pushback and France, Germany, England, and Sweden just become caliphates in 10 years or so.
I expected a violent pushback from the people, at least against the rapefugees, years ago.
John Kelly says Robert E. Lee was an honorable man, which he was, idiots on Twitter react like he burned a cross.
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/liberals-lose-minds-john-kelly-calls-gen-robert-e-lee-honorable/
But he owned slaves!!! /Ignorant protesters
I thought the issue was saying the civil war was due to an inability to compromise.
Which is ludicrous. The Civil War was fought because one group of people believed their superiority entitled them to control and economically exploit another group of people, and that violence was justifiable and necessary to protect that social order and prevent people from escaping it. And the Confederates were even worse.
Nice.
Something something Common Sense Knife Laws
“Across England and Wales an incident involving a blade or sharp object takes place, on average, every 14 minutes. Of the 37,000 incidents in the past 12 months, more than 13,000 offences were committed in London.
…
The capital has seen a staggering 34% rise in knife crime over the last year.”
They passed some of those I think, they will start working any minute now
In Reforming Campus Justice, DeVos Faces an Unruly Class
http://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2017/10/26/devos.html
Yale University, for example, said it has “no plans to deviate” from the Obama-era policies, after alumni urged campus administrators to resist changes. California State University-Northridge said it would “not waver in our commitment to Title IX and its protections.” Washington University in St. Louis also said it had “no intention of turning back on our commitment or resolve.”
Lisa Kirkpatrick, Title IX coordinator at St. Edward University in Texas, told the school’s student newspaper: “It’s business as usual, nothing has changed on this campus,” adding that campus standards “are less about the law and more about our mission.” President Thomas LeBlanc of George Washington University said the school has “no intention of removing the support currently in place for survivors of sexual assault.”
I wonder how fast they will change once the settlements and suits from men noy given due process clear though the courts.
Yep, this removes the “We were just implementing the policy” fig leaf.
*triggering intensifies*
“are less about the law and more about our mission.”
A moment of brutal honesty from a progressive. They do not care about the law. They do not care about individual rights. They care about their ends, and only their ends.
A ton of this…
If persecuting males without due process using shaky evidentiary standards is wrong then I don’t wanna be right.
*reads*
*Re-reads*
So you agree with the University?
*re-re-reads*
Never mind I’m a dolt.
Yale University likes paying lawsuit settlements.
That Dear Colleague letter never had the force of law in the first place, and the OCR admitted as much. It was just a signal so that the schools could move forward in unison.
“Legally Blonde 2.0: Lindsey Pelas unloads 32DDDs in braless display ”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/656747/Lindsey-Pelas-naked-boobs-braless-skimpy-bikini-sexy-Legally-Blonde-costume-Instagram
Hammy Nolan DESTROYS old email chain:
That Weird Analogy About Beer and Tax Cuts Was Dumb as Hell
Furthermore, this little beer story is meant to mock the idea that poorer people would be angry that rich people got the lion’s share of proceeds from tax cuts. But why? We have a progressive tax system because we believe the rich should pay more, and we believe that because the rich can pay more, and the idea that tax cuts should automatically accrue to those who, yes, pay more taxes now but are also, still, the richest people is not at all an automatic logical progression. Diminishing marginal utility, motherfucker.
Too much derp to choose from in the comments.
What the fuck did diminishing marginal utility have to do with anything? It’s ok to progressively tax people, but when lowering taxes the rich shouldn’t receive any tax cuts? Despite them funding most of the taxes anyway.
“It’s okay to steal from those who have more than you, because they have more than you.”
That’s the most bizarre thing. At some arbitrary point, you become “rich” and you’re no longer entitled to anything you earn. All of your assets belong to the government, and if they generously allow you to keep any of it, you’d better be damn grateful.
Yes…
Look, these tax cuts cost too much, we can’t afford it! Pay your fair share!
’16, Now It Is ’17
(to the tune of ’16 Going On 17′ from ‘The Sound of Music’)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryg-gEjABbc
[Donald]
You used your wiles
To get rid of your foes,
By your own admission;
You worked and you schemed,
But your best-laid plans
Have failed to reach fruition.
[Hillary]
Fruition…
[Donald]
You lost ’16, now it is ’17,
Time to admit you lost –
Fairly and squarely,
Hand’ly, not barely,
Time to add up the cost.
You lost ’16, now it is ’17,
Tell all your sycophants –
It’s a done deal, so
Let’s please move on now,
Pull up your big-girl pants.
I was just as surprised as you
When the results came in.
To the amazement of all it was clear that
You’d failed to grasp a win.
Let’s just face it,
People don’t like you,
They see through your charades.
You lost ’16, now it is ’17,
We’re all better off, in spades.
[Hillary]
I lost ’16, now it is ’17,
I just can’t admit defeat,
Electoral college, flyover country –
I should have had you beat!
I lost ’16, now it is ’17,
Just where did I go wrong?!
I’ll blame the Russians –
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
(Aren’t we done yet with this song?!)
I should have won, I yearned so long
For that sweet seat of power;
Now I must retreat, my strength fades fast –
I grow weaker by the hour.
You’ve won this round, so
You’re the head honcho.
For now, enjoy it well –
Now it’s ‘17, soon ‘twill be ‘18
I’ll see you in hell.
More proof that Trump is a Nazi!
Talked to coworker today about politics. First time we’ve talked about anything other than work stuff. “Yeah, we should leave people alone if they aren’t bothering other people.” Cool, I thought. Then he starts talking about all the false flags including yesterday’s truck attack in Manhattan. Oh boy.
Who orchestrated it, Big Traffic Barricade?
Forgot to ask. Nah, I just didn’t care and wandered off as he was still speaking.
Yesterday at the gym, some old coot was going on and on to his buddy about how the CA wild fires are all part of an Agenda 21 conspiracy.
He was yammering on and on about how “they” had put forth some Agenda 21 plan to reduce the amount of people living in the country and then weeks later the wild fires burned down EXACTLY the area that the plan had called for to be depopulated.
Since I was just trying to get the fuck out of there, I didn’t engage with him, but I really wanted to ask him why would any decent conspirator file their plans before the burn? How fucking dumb is that?
They like to do it in plain sight so they can laugh about it at their cocaine and sex slaves parties.
“At the time of the attack, on West Street, Annie Thoms, an English teacher at Stuyvesant High School, was leading a class discussion on Amy Tan’s book “The Joy Luck Club” in Room 838. Stuyvesant looms over the scene. Just afterward, an assistant principal came on the loudspeaker telling everyone that classes would be on a “shelter in” status, with no one allowed in or out of the building. Everyone was to stay put and pass the time. Speaking by phone after six o’clock, Thoms said that she had been with her twenty-eight students for three hours.
“We were talking about the different ways we have to make choices in the cultures we are part of. We talked about it in our personal lives and in Amy Tan’s narrative,” she said. “Especially after 9/11, every time I see that something is a terrorist incident, and someone has said ‘Allahu Akhbar,’ I feel a pit in my stomach, because terrorism is the evil opposite of what Islam is. So many of our kids here at Stuyvesant are Muslim, and they fear being tarred with this kind of thing.””
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/terror-in-lower-manhattan
because terrorism is the evil opposite of what Islam is
I’m guessing dhe’s never actually read the Koran, the Sura, and the Hadiths.
No you fool. It’s the Amish behind it all.
Then those kids should speak up to their elders about that sort of thing, and encourage their parents to report radicalization to groups who can counsel the youths going through it out of that mindset.
When I want to know what Islam is, I don’t take the word of Islamic scholars like Omar Abdel Rahman. I go right to the source – an NYC English teacher.
That isn’t Islam, it’s State Christianity.
Terrorism is the white people of Islam
Young lady whose only job has been working here, tried to advise me to “be humble” in job interviews.
I got a good belly laugh out of that.
Did you ask if you should cast your eyes downward at all times, as well?
Twit.
Young people’s advice. Lol.
Confidence is key!
https://youtu.be/9BG23Ze9e4k
Don’t mistake this as advice – I’m not a master at human interaction.
I’ve found I get the least ominous impression if I act the same way at the interview as I do in an ordinary day. This is because I walk out of there knowing I did not misrepresent myself and anyone who decides to hire me knows exactly what I’m like.
Oddly, I’ve had supervisors openly remark that I was the only person who did not exaggerate my resume.
She said “Matt [CEO] likes humble”. WTF do I care what Matt likes? And believe me, even Matt wouldn’t hire someone who didn’t display self-confidence and pride.
Also Matt like some cleavage
Honest question. I wonder how much the #MeToo campaign is affecting hiring decisions right now.
If I was Matt, I’d be thinking twice about hiring any wimmin because it might end up in 15 years from now having KK accuse me of something that fucks me. (I know our KK would never do that, but how can he be sure)
That NPR guy is getting nailed for allegedly trying to kiss interviewees in the ’90s. Try to defend against that.
Try to defend against that.
“It’s a lie. I have no idea why they would say such a thing. Maybe they are exploiting the current atmosphere to try to get some payout from the station.”
Sounds exactly like what Weinstein said. RAPIST!
*instructs attorneys to file defamation lawsuit*
Nice try, but I’m infallible. Scientific fact.
She said “Matt [CEO] likes humble”. WTF do I care what Matt likes?
Is this who just laid you off? If so why the hell would she think you care what he thinks? This lady sounds like twit.
I got hired as a repairman at IBM while I was in college because of one question. The interview had been going badly. They were looking for someone with a bunch of different skills than I had. I was pretty sure I wouldn’t be getting an offer.
They guy asked me “Why shouldn’t I hire you?”
I think the idea is that you are supposed to open a vein and confess to some horrible trait. My answer was “You have a secret drinking problem and it causes you to make bad decisions?”
Lee looked at me for about a minute and then started laughing a lot. He then said, “I don’t have a spot, but follow me, I know someone you should talk to.” He walked me over to Claude’s office and introduced me to him as “a smart ass just like you” and said we should talk. I walked out of Claude’s office as a repairman.
I had that job for over a year and it was fantastic for a college kid. I got to work my own hours pretty much and Claude and I got along fantastically.
So yeah, fuck humble. Swing for the fences.
IBM was also very, very big on hiring “mavericks” and free-thinkers back in the day. that’s how they got Mandelbrot, and you, apparently!
Were you in Rochester? My Pa started his long IBM career in Rochester.
Nope it was in Memphis.
When I graduated with an EE degree, they did make a pretty good offer for me to come on board, but by then the writing was already on the wall that manufacturing computer HW was not something that IBM would be making money at.
“Be humble? I prefer to be honest.”
I try to be honest, but lately I’ve been working through dissonance.
Due to certain lapses in aptitude in bringing the right arguments to a discussion at the right time, and a general disinterest in ‘cerebral’ pursuits, I’ve regarded myself as ‘average’ intelligence. But more and more I am running into people, even successful technical people, who should be smarter than I am and prove to be dumber than a box of rocks and astonishingly slow on the uptake. Yet this is much more disquieting than the previous assumption that I was in the ‘average’ range.
To give a relevant anecdote, my brother is both smarter (IQ sense) and quicker than I am in thinking. He has become more logical in his conclusions over the years, but does not have the same intuitive leap ability that I do. That’s why he’s a QA consultant for the internal design QA at an auto company.
There’s a fair amount of overlap between the two. There is more overlap between “honest” and “asshole.”
Bwahahahaha
Yeah, No
Sure try not to come off as an overbearing pretentious asshole who is going to be miserable to work with but if you don’t go into every interview with the attitude that “I am the best possible candidate for this job and you’d be a fool not to hire me” then you’re gonna have a hard time finding a job.
Here is my interview tip…
Don’t answer questions, ask them.
This does not mean be evasive and hide information, rather what it means is take control of the interview and don’t really let them ask you questions, keep them answering yours and you demonstrate your skills and knowledge by the questions you ask.
This serves a couple of purposes. First it keeps them talking about themselves, people always feel better talking about themselves, whether they are venting about issues they are having or bragging about how good they have it this keeps their mood upbeat. Second, it gives them the feeling that they are pursuing you and not the other way around, everyone looks better as the subject of pursuit than they do as someone asking for a job. Third, it keeps the conversation on your terms preventing them from going down paths that expose your weaknesses. Finally it actually gives you a lot more information about the company and position than you’d get just answering their questions
I always – always – go into interviews with the assumption that they want to hire me, and I need to find out if I want to work for them.
I have around a 90% interview-to-offer ratio in my career.
If they are interviewing you, you are already identified as a possible hire. Second interviews are for deciding which of the 2 – 3 candidates to say no to. Going into interviews, you are already on the short list. Hiring managers don’t like the smell of desperation any more than anyone else, so take confidence from the fact that you are on the short list.
I tend to not be quite as aggressive as Rasilio, but an interview really should go more like a conversation rather than a Q & A from either side, IMO. This can be tough when HR actually manages to enforce people ticking off questions on their pre-fab list; I don’t use that list, but I sat in on one interview where they did, and I suggested that we sit side by side and knock off the “official” questions on the paper form and it worked really well.
Here be monsters
If they nonetheless circle the wagons around Trump — in particular, if they allow him to fire Robert Mueller, which now seems all too likely — there will be one main reason: Trump offers their big opportunity to cut taxes for the very wealthy. Indeed, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that almost 80 percent of the Trump tax cut would go to people with incomes over $1 million; these people would get an average cut of around $230,000 a year.
But here’s what gets me: The wealthy donors for whom the G.O.P. will apparently do anything, up to and including covering up for possible treason, will get no joy from their tax cuts.
I don’t mean that history will judge them harshly, although it will. I don’t even mean that plutocrats as well as plebeians will eventually suffer if America becomes a lawless, authoritarian regime. I mean that a few hundred thousand dollars extra will do little if anything to make the already wealthy more satisfied with their lives.
You might well ask, who cares? Even if tax cuts would make the rich joyful, this shouldn’t count against the sheer misery Republicans are trying to impose on the tens of millions of people they’re trying to deprive of health care, food stamps, disability benefits and more.
Surprise- tax cuts primarily benefit the people who… you know… pay taxes. Also, Republikkkinz are the sort of people who’d shoot a man, just to watch him die.
If they nonetheless circle the wagons around Trump — in particular, if they allow him to fire Robert Mueller, which now seems all too likely —
I’ve literally read nothing that supports this other than conjecture from the media. Every single time the WH is asked about it, theybsay they have no plan whatsoever to get rid of Mueller.
Yeah, why would they get rid of Mueller? So far Mueller’s investigation has shown nothing having to do with Trump colluding with Russians, while it has implicated Clinton operative Podesta.
Even if he didn’t dig anything up on the Clintons, he seems to effective a decoy for the media to focus their attention.
“I’m going to take half of Chloe’s candy tonight & give it to some kid who sat at home. It’s never to early to teach her about socialism.”
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/925495970032443392
The replies are pure derp.
Replies to his tweets always are.
This one qualifies high on the lack of self-awareness scale: “But really gross, you are using children to score political points. You think that’s acceptable all of a sudden?”
There are still people who walk this earth who think Leninism was preferable to Tsarism. You can’t parody the willful ignorance.
And if you call them on it, they will say we’ve never seen what Leninism can do because Stalin fucked it all up.
“Planned Parenthood sent a message to black women Tuesday implying that their best option, due to a lack of resources during pregnancy, is to abort their unborn babies. The Planned Parenthood Black Community, a subset of the PP Action Fund, tweeted out that it is statistically safer for black women to have an abortion than to give birth to their child. “If you’re a Black woman in America, it’s statistically safer to have an abortion than to carry a pregnancy to term or give birth #ScaryStats,” the group tweeted Tuesday.”
dailycaller.com/2017/10/31/planned-parenthood-to-black-women-abort-your-baby-if-you-want-to-live/
Tweet posted yesterday, but worth repeating.
It’s of course bullshit.
England continues to demonstrate advanced thinking. Football Manager is, apparently, a very popular online game. Frustrated by the absence of actual “out” gay players in the Premier League, FM is introducing virtual gay players:
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/41796686
“We’re not talking about real-life players. Instead it’s the fictional, computer-generated youngsters who appear as others retire, refreshing the game’s database at the end of each virtual season.
Those who know their Football Manager call these fictional players ‘newgens’. Without them, the simulation could not progress – as it does – into the next century and beyond.
Jacobson said they were “able to do things with these players that we can’t with real players, because they can’t sue us”.
He explained that, if one of these players at your club comes out, you’ll find out from a news item in your in-game inbox.
Soon after, your commercial director will inform you of a boost in the club’s revenue, in part due to new attention from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.”
Umm, OK.
That last part broke my suspension of disbelief.
It does not mesh whatsoever with the actual observed effect of players “outing”. Or at most it should be a blip from a flurry of virtue signalling non-fans who needed a piece of merch for selfie purposes, but never come back to watch a game.
It’s almost as if the people who actually watch the sports don’t give a damn one way or another.
It would also only happen for the first half a dozen or so players than came out. By the time the 10th player came out players coming out get relegated to footnotes to other actual news stories
Still will buy. Football Manager obsessed. Will ignore virtual signaling. Game too engrossing.
They’ve done “things with regen players that they can’t do with real players” for a long time. Drug suspensions, punching out referees, etc.
your commercial director will inform you of a boost in the club’s revenue, in part due to new attention from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)
Yeah, that 3% of the population is really going to move your revenue needle. Christ on a crutch.
But they already have a gay football league…
“An Egyptian lawyer has prompted outrage for saying harassing and raping girls who wear revealing clothing such as ripped jeans is a “national duty”. Nabih al-Wahsh, a prominent conservative, made the controversial comments during a TV panel show discussion debating a draft law on prostitution. “Are you happy when you see a girl walking down the street with half of her behind showing?” the lawyer said on Al-Assema earlier this month. He added: “I say that when a girl walks about like that, it is a patriotic duty to sexually harass her and a national duty to rape her.””
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/egypt-lawyer-rape-girls-revealing-clothing-ripped-jeans-nabih-al-wahsh-a8030831.html
TW: Autoplay
I mean he could have told me earlier, now winter is here and revealing clothing is getting scarce. I will have to go to nightclubs and I hate nightclubs.
Nabih al-Wahsh, a prominent conservative,
Citation required!!!!
Because this guy is an Islamist, and those fucks are hardcore statists who want the means of production and consumption controlled by a theocracy. That’s the polar opposite of conservatism.
Eh conservative means different things depending on the country
The media always used to refer to the hardline Communists in the USSR as the “conservatives”.
Rape apology = conservative, because only progressives oppose rape. QED.
You’ve got to remember: “progressives” live in a topsy-turvy world. An employer declining to pay for birth control is the same as “taking away access to women’s health services”. Taxpayers who don’t want to unwillingly fund abortions are basically ushering in The Handmaid’s Tale.
It’s a natural corollary that if you don’t want men thrown in prison on a woman’s totally baseless allegation, you want women to get raped.
Islam is the most feminist of religions.
Well they are! Would they do this otherwise?
Saudi Arabia to let women enter sports stadiums in 2018
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-women-stadiums/saudi-arabia-to-let-women-enter-sports-stadiums-in-2018-idUSKBN1CZ0LQ
Jeremy Piven issues statement after Entourage sexual misconduct claims surface
The actor says the allegations made by actress Ariane Bellamar ‘did not happen’
http://ew.com/tv/2017/10/31/jeremy-piven-statement-entourage-sexual-assault-claims/
“Let’s hug it out, bitch.”
Glad to see someone still has the balls to at least deny this shit. Every other prog type is so oblivious that they think that if they apologize and throw themselves at the mercy of their peers, they’ll actually be forgiven.
They should have learned from Donald Trump. When you refuse to automatically apologize and instead fight back, this shit tends to lose traction. Trump’s accusers during the campaign disappeared when Trump got witnesses to contradict them and threatened to sue.
Butters, you’re grounded for a week for raping that girl!
A constitutional convention for the state of New York?
But we feel obliged this time to recommend a “no” vote. It’s not because we fear change. On the contrary, the concern is that the likelihood of a con-con yielding the most desperately needed reforms is disappointingly low, and the possibility of its accomplishing nothing at significant cost, or, worse, setting New York back even further, is worrisomely high.
A lot has happened since 1997. The United States Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in the Citizens United case opened the floodgates to limitless campaign cash from ill-intentioned characters determined to twist public opinion for their own benefit. Britain’s Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s election in 2016 demonstrated the ascendance of demagogy and fearmongering. In this climate, the danger of a hack-filled convention going haywire is palpably greater than it was two decades ago.
Delegates would be chosen according to the contours of the gerrymandered State Senate — three from each of the 63 districts plus 15 at-large representatives, for a total of 204. There’s every reason to believe we would basically end up with the same politicians and factotums who now shape (or misshape) state policy. That outcome would hardly justify spending tens of millions of taxpayer dollars first on selecting the delegates in 2018, then on convening them in April 2019, and finally on holding a referendum on their proposals in November 2019.
We don’t fully share the fears of some con-con opponents who’ve raised boogeymen about how the convention could unravel existing labor rights, pension provisions, environmental protections, reproductive freedoms and more. Their worries, while perhaps understandable, seem overwrought. But we also don’t buy the argument of the pro-convention forces that no alternative path to reform exists.
\What if the wrong side wins? We cannot risk it. Those fucking peasants might take away our beautiful progressive paradise and turn our wonderful state into a redneck dump like Oklahoma.
” limitless campaign cash from ill-intentioned characters determined to twist public opinion for their own benefit” – unlike the best intentioned media who only twists public opinion for the public’s benefits, although the ungrateful assholes don’t know what’s good for them.
I love how a newspaper deliberately mischaracterizes a ruling upholding the first amendment.
But enough about public sector unions and their donations to the Democrat Party…
“But we also don’t buy the argument of the pro-convention forces that no alternative path to reform exists.”
Not that they want any reform.
Speaking as a resident, I don’t want to hand Andy and company the possibility of re-writing the state constitution.
Sure, the one we have is not that great, but whatever they produce will be even worse.
Is actually a rather sane response, and echoes much in the way of my opinion on the matter.
When an issue unites the teacher’s unions (my wife and her co-workers are terrified of losing their pensions) and the libertarians (I don’t want Rat-Faced Andy having the power to alter the State Constitution and impose his beloved tax hikes), we might just be living in the End Times.
That would only happen if we brought in out of staters to write the new constitution. Anything a convention spits out now will prog harder and be worse for the rights of the citizens.
I mean Look at the ballot, what Crummey choices for local offices.
The United States Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in the Citizens United case opened the floodgates to limitless campaign cash from ill-intentioned characters determined to twist public opinion for their own benefit.
SEIU and George Soros hardest hit
As millennials continue to leave traditional Christian religions, interest in Wiccan and pagan practices have seen increased interest in recent years, a trend also spotted among young people and on college campuses.
Pagan or Wiccan student groups are present on a number of college campuses — both secular and religious — across the nation. The growing normalization of such practices, albeit still a minority, corresponds with the decline in Christian believers, some observers note.
A recent report in Market Watch headlined “Why millennials are ditching religion for witchcraft and astrology” argues as much, for example.
“Whether it be spell-casting, tarot, astrology, meditation and trance, or herbalism, these traditions offer tangible ways for people to enact change in their lives,” Melissa Jayne, owner of the Brooklyn-based “metaphysical boutique,” which has seen a big increase in 20-something customers in recent years, told Market Watch.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/38436/
Wicca is a lie. It is not hot women dancing naked around a fire it is mostly weirdos in robes
If I could join a half-decent Norse religious organization… but ya know it’s just going to attract the type of people that I don’t want to associate with.
The Norse religions do, unfortunately, have a tendency to draw the 1488 crowd. I actually don’t understand *why*. Strong aryans as gods?
Germanic paganism, duh. The ‘1488 crowd’ sees it as a European contrast to an ‘invasive’ Middle Eastern faith overly influenced by (((them))).
I know a few Assatru online and they are just as pissed at the white supremacists as you are
I’ve been to several events at this campsite that hosted wiccan holiday celebrations, music festivals, and other hippy crap. I’ve saw plenty of hot women dancing topless around fires, and no weirdos in robes.
Well maybe on a US campus that would be the case. I wouldn’t know
I’ve never gone to any Wiccan campsite, but the ones I encountered were fat entitled feminists.
Easiest way to have a 3some with pair of hot 20somethings
Go to a Pagan festival, got to the information booth, and have them page “Raven” and “Morgan”
Wiccan believes America ready for her ‘white magic’ in ’08.
This is hilariously crazy:
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20171101/hyde-park/halloween-teens-mayor-rahm-emanuel-a10-party
Obama’s legacy is quite literally a dumpster fire.
Why are we paying for Obama to have a motorcade? Because I’m sure we are.
Yea, fuck all that. He made $400,000 a year for eight years, and I’m pretty sure that the costs of his housing, utilities, travel, food, and the world class medical team did not come out of his pocket.
If an ex-president didn’t save up enough money for their retirement complete with armed guards, fuck them. Get a job like everyone else.
There is no reason to provide any funding for an e-xpresident. There are reasons for not doing so:
1: They were paid.
2: No ex-president has ever been assassinated.
3: Even if an ex-president were assassinated, it would have zero impact on the country, as they have no authority once they’ve left office.
4: They’ve already been paid.
That would only happen if we brought in out of staters to write the new constitution. Anything a convention spits out now will prog harder and be worse for the rights of the citizens.
Is that really true, statewide? It was a looong time ago when I lived upstate (Lake George / Glens Falls), but there was a radical difference between the NYC area and the rest of the state.
I would actually be surprised if New York is one state in ~50 years or so. Westchester and points south and east can have their progressive paradise.
I think it would be a big improvement if major metro areas were sort of like their own states. It’s the same story all over the country: the cities lord over the rural areas because they have all the population. What you often end up with is oppressive gun control and idiotic environmental regulations that make it hard for the rural people to make a living.
There may be some voices calling for sanity – but they would be drowned out in convention by downstate as they are in statewide elections. Expect all 15 of the “At large” seats to go to downstaters. Such is the numerical disparity at this point.
You know, someday it will be a little weird for my daughter to pull back the curtain while I’m taking a shower to proudly tell me that she pooped on the potty. But for now, there’s very little that’s nicer.
Here, have YOB.
Haha! That’s wonderful.
With all the little kids trick or treating last night, I got a little wistful for those days. The cliche is to tell you to enjoy this because it goes by too damn fast.
But I will because it does.
Mine barged in yesterday while I was trying to take a dump before my shower to pee in her little potty. She then tells me she is closing the door so the dog will not see my nipples.
I miss being in the bathroom alone.
Even when I lock the door, the kids still stand outside and start talking to me. I swear, they actually wait until I’m in the can to ask me things.
don’t you people have a lock on your bathroom doors?
I have to use ’em since my wife will invariable come upstairs to “see what I’m up to”.
Some of us cannot afford houses with a master bath.
*begins to weep*
Don’t feel bad: my upstairs bathroom is about the size of a prison cell – low ceiling and everything. My downstairs bathroom is cold as hell since it has three outside walls, there’s a weird shower stall with no curtain, and there’s a big hatch in the floor that goes to the basement. There’s also a door that leads outside (if I left that door open, my neighbor would be able to see me taking a shit from his kitchen window, and pedestrians on the sidewalk would also have a view).
Just tell her that unless she plans on lending a hand she does not need to be present
The funniest thing that happened in my house was when the boy was about 3 and he barged in on his mom changing a tampon then exclaimed “Mommy why is your butt broken!?!?!?!?!????” then ran into the next room to tell me all about it.
The closest I can remember is a couple of weeks ago my 9 year old was arguing with my wife about not wanting to go to bed, and like is typical for kids coming up with every possible reason in the book why they cannot go to be yet,
30 minutes later she is still up and the following exchange occurs…
Me: You were told to go to bed more than 30 minutes ago, get into bed NOW!
9Yo: Just a Sec
Me: No, No Secs for you, bed Now!
14YO: Especially not at her age
At the cabin one year, the boys were laughing at how much the mutt was pissing all over the yard. I told them that it was the way that he let everyone know that he “owned” this yard.
The boys then spent the entire weekend peeing everywhere and declaring that they now owned the yard, the swingset, the trampoline, the dock, the lake, etc. It was like having to overly hydrated conquistadors running around.
I thought it was very funny (and may have even claimed a few things myself), but the wife and daughter just rolled their eyes.
My Ma & Pa & I went hiking up Palm Canyon near Borrego Springs, CA (beautiful spot!), and my Ma and I were lagging behind. We come around a bend, and in the sand was my Pa’s name, written in pee.
It’s why we (dudes) love snow.
I hope it was in his handwriting.
Or was it in STEVE SMITH ALL CAPS?
I know that hike well. Not the peeing part. But I’ve done the trail a couple of times.
It had a kind of Lawrence of Arabia vibe. I normally wasn’t into the desert stuff when my folks lived in San Diego, but that hike was cool.
Do You Live in One of the Most Sexually Diseased States?
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/do-you-live-in-one-of-the-most-sexually-diseased-states/
Or are the states most diseased because you lot live there?
SC never fails to disappoint.
You have easy access to Bojangles, so you have that going for you.
Nah, it’s Vhyrus’s travelogue.
New Jersey in the top 10 least diseased? Hm…
Good news for a somewhat germophobe like me.
I was surprised too.
Before I look, I’m gonna guess MS or AL.
You win. I guess population density isn’t a factor.
I was shocked at AK being #1, but I guess it kind makes sense. Much of the state is remote with little access to health care. Even their own state capital doesn’t have a road out to anywhere else!
“The ten least sexually diseased states are: 1. Vermont”
Organic free-range condoms?
Sexless liberals
I found a scorpion this morning, or more appropriately it found me. Now I can’t feel my big toe, which made driving to work rather interesting.
*breathes in the arctic, bug-free air and feels better about having to layer already*
^This (not that I’m in Arctic air, but I would like to be)
Did you deep fry it? What did it taste like? Did you feel a little high?
What type of scorpion?
Probably a Schenker
I actually googled that expecting a type of arachnid
Well…..
Bark Scorpion
Only dangerous if you are elderly, a child, or have a compromised immune system.
As soon as you said your toe had lost feeling, I knew what kind it was. Thems the ones with the neurotoxin.
Keep an eye on that toe. Necrosis can be a thing with their bites, and on an extremity like that, it could get out of hand.
I have a pretty good relationship with a MD here, I can ask him to take a look at it. He does a lot of admin work so he tends to jump at the chance to be a doc.
At least you don’t live in Australia, the admins would be working on an “In Memoriam of mexican sharpshooter” post as we speak.
I had this one coming actually, When I find them I have a slight tendency to remove its tail and pincers, and place the still squirming scorpion in the black widow’s nest I found in my front yard.
Dayum. That’s hardcore. Respect.
That spider’s getting fat, so she might get the boot soon.
That’s ironic considering scorpions usually eat spiders.
But congrats on the bark scorpion. It’s not everyday you get a medically significant envenomation.
I don’t think she’s been eating them, she might be getting fat for…other reasons. I don’t need a bunch of those bastards in my yard.
If anyone cares, I am now randomly tweaking out and it was suggested that I go to the ED. Suggestion noted.
You’re going to spaz a little bit for the next 2 days. As long as you don’t have any heart or nervous system complications you should be fine. If you want to go to the ER (since, you know, there’s one literally right below you) it certainly wouldn’t be the worst idea.
I’m not using this ED, I’ll be there until tomorrow afternoon waiting.
There may be some voices calling for sanity – but they would be drowned out in convention by downstate as they are in statewide elections. Expect all 15 of the “At large” seats to go to downstaters. Such is the numerical disparity at this point.
That is… depressing.
I found a scorpion this morning, or more appropriately it found me.
A week or so ago, I put my shoe on, and soon began to feel a red-hot-needle sensation in my big toe. I kicked it back off and four or five wasps came stumbling out. The fuckers are all over.
kill them with fire?
Urge to kill rising:
Meh I asked about this a few days ago apparently you need to see the contract/details to know for sure.
It appears in the article that the news agency read the title documents and nothing is mentioned about the covenant in them, but if she didn’t qualify which the city is accusing her of she has to relist the house per their violation notice. Also she was paying property taxes that reflected the market rate the entire time she lived there.
Too bad she probably can’t afford a lawyer to fight this bullshit. Maybe an outfit like the Institute for Justice could take this up.
She’s about to sue somebody for not disclosing that prior to signing. My guess is that the mortgage originator fucked up or she wasn’t paying attention during the process.
Couldn’t she refuse to sell and then let the eminent domain her house for fair compensation (market value)?
Mindfulness Training for Teens Fails Important Test
A large trial in schools showed no evidence of benefits, and hints it could even cause problems
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mindfulness-training-for-teens-fails-important-test/
I get such a kick out of Gloria Allred’s daughter!
She’s as shameless as it gets.
Her Tweet is probably a damn lie, too. What woman in their right mind would hire her for anything related to harassment? They’re more likely to have their personal lives exposed to their abusers than to get good representation.
Who knew it was genetic?
Anyone seen that new LBJ movie? Rob Reiner is a cunt, and I suspect that even the great Woody Harrelson isn’t enough.
The trailer made it look like it was going to be a fluff job on LBJ. I don’t have time to get that pissed off.
With Reiner and Harrelson in it, I’d say that’s a reliable assumption.
HBO already beat him to the punch in the coveted LBJ Hagiography category anyway.
Harrelson really is underrated.
Feminist activist women are masculinized in terms of digit-ratio and social dominance: a possible explanation for the feminist paradox
The feminist movement purports to improve conditions for women, and yet only a minority of women in modern societies self-identify as feminists. This is known as the feminist paradox. It has been suggested that feminists exhibit both physiological and psychological characteristics associated with heightened masculinization, which may predispose women for heightened competitiveness, sex-atypical behaviors, and belief in the interchangeability of sex roles. If feminist activists, i.e., those that manufacture the public image of feminism, are indeed masculinized relative to women in general, this might explain why the views and preferences of these two groups are at variance with each other.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4158978/
From the annals of iffy research
“The feminist movement purports to improve conditions for women”……. *PURPORTS*
Doesn’t succeed, just makes claims it has no intention of living up to.
Maybe women don’t identify as feminists because they’re a lot smarter than the researchers give them credit for and don’t fall for it. Just a thought.
Or, it could be that when people look at feminists, they see odious, unlikeable, entitled screechers seeking to destroy everything good and anything that might contribute to the happiness of people, especially women, if it even slightly hints at anything contrary to their faith.
STEVE SMITH RESEARCH ANY IFFY ANNALS
Feminists seem focused on appropriating the money of other women’s husbands. Perhaps women aren’t stupid enough to fall for the scam.
Especially if they have a husband to mansplain to them what’s really going on, amirite?
Special edition for Upper Midwest and Canadian Glibs!
https://archive.is/atXX3
Throw in some Natty Light/Sleeman and shotguns/ice fishing gear and you’d really have something.
18, 38, 41
Why did #2 have to cover her face?
#18: “It’s cold out, so I better put on a hat.”
#56 is a pornstar.
I want to know why #1 is in so many of these. She’s pretty but starting to come across as a bunny-boiler.
#8 is a camping trip I’d like to go on
I’m either a 13.5 or a 23 cause I want to be sandwiched between 13, 14, and 22, 23
2…just wow.
Also 52 & 57
Like Tundra said, #1 is today’s bunny boiler. Beautiful, but there’s something there…
Crazy eyes
I don’t think that WaPo gets it: Yes, negative ads do work, but only if they limit themselves to attacking the candidate and not their supporters. What the Latino Victory Fund ad did was paint all Gillespie supporters with the same broad brush, calling them all racist, violent bigots. That’s what causes the backlash, not the negativity. But this writer clearly doesn’t get that.
They’re just utilizing the new DNC guidelines for campaign commercials: “Vote for us you bunch of racist, bigoted, homophobic morons!” The handbook is titled “The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves”.
The biggest problem they’re having is that they simply think calling people racist will continue to work. My parents voted for Kasich as a write in in the presidential election, and I voted for Gary Johnson, but if the Left continues to paint people who are patriotic, white, and own blue 2003 era F 250s (That guy in the ad could pass for my dad a ten years ago without the beard and camo), they’ll just keep electing more Trump types. These idiots think that insulting a group of voters will win them votes, rather than having policies that that voting group could support. Now, my dad wouldn’t ever have a confederate flag (Cali born and raised, moved to Ohio with my mom where they raised me), but I could see him putting a Gadsden flag on his truck, since he supported the majority of the TEA party main line tenets. Additionally, I know some rednecks from the area where they live now that do have the Confederate flag on their vehicles, and who either work for, or work with minorities. Apparently it’s not as big a deal as the quality of their work, or how they treat other people as individuals.
All Clinton had to do was say, “I can see why you might vote for Trump, because he is addressing issues that are important to you. I can do a better job at addressing those issues. Here’s how.” Boom. Win. But instead it was “You are voting for Trump because you’re deplorable.” And the Democrats are continuing with that mistake today.
The problem is that they’ve been used to calling spineless Republicans racist for the last couple decades and it worked flawlessly and allowed them to get their way. That changed with Trump. Sure, we still have spineless Republicans who this will still work on, like McCain and Ryan. But the tide is turning.
There’s a difference between an attack ad and an ad that accuses the voters of the opposing candidate of wanting to murder children.
I still think Northam wins, because the professional Democrats in NoVA are not going to make the mistake they made last November of assuming it was in the bag. They will come out in droves and vote, and make sure all the “undocumented Americans” and “deceased citizens” come out and vote as well.
I wonder what the independent/moderate voter margin has to be for Gillespie to overcome the dead people vote. That ad angered a lot of people, even in Northern Virginia (according to many family members who live in Manassas and Alexandria).
It’s all about turnout. I don’t think many NoVa assholes are change their vote to Gillespie because of the ad, but some might decided that they aren’t going to bother showing up to vote for Northam.
It’s pretty standard calculus for a Republican in VA now: sweep the white rural counties, run at least even in NoVA, and make sure you win Henrico and Chesterfield, preferably with margins.
I don’t know if he can do that or not.
Henrico will be interesting – it’s been Dem for a while now mostly because they’ve been turning the hell out of the black voters in the east end and there aren’t enough Republicans in the west end to outweigh them anymore because of all the carpetbaggers from the northeast. We’ll see if they can get that kinf of turnout for Northam.
One thing you can say about that ad is that is sure wasn’t a dog whistle.
The DNC is looking to hire… so long as you’re not a cisgendered white male
Isn’t this, like, actually illegal?
Yes, it is. Would that ever be enforced? Of course not. You can discriminate all you want against evil oppressors.
As opposed to what?
As opposed to “illegal”, y’know like having classified servers in your basement when your name is Clinton.
Actually, affirmative action requires you to discriminate against straight white males.
True enough, but that email actually manages to take them out of affirmative action and into the very rarely seen intentional and overt racial discrimination. If I was a Repub strategist, I’d try to get as many white males as possible to apply, and when they hired a transgender Pakistani, I’d sue them for racial discrimination.
Once you get discovery, God only knows what come falling out of their email system and records.
Ben Shapiro previewed that on his show yesterday. Yup, that’ll win back Congress in 2018, we just need to triple down on prog and beat up on straight, white males. Was Sally Boynton Brown the key advisor on this strategy?
This is how the Dems in Congress ended up with a bunch of Pakistani spies as their IT guys.
Serious question time: My friend has asked me for advice on this (Lord knows why), so I’m going to punt and ask you bunch of reprobates (Lord is further stymied). He and his wife have been married for ~5 years, he is 37 and she is 35. They both really want kids and after undergoing various tests have found that she has issues with fertility and it is unlikely/borderline impossible for her to have a kid, even with IVF. Over beers, he told me that this news brought about an unexpected (if knee-jerk) consideration of leaving the marriage to try and have kids elsewhere. He asked me my opinion/advice. I have no fucking clue. I mean, typically divorce is warranted if someone changes their mind voluntarily about wanting/not wanting kids after going into the marriage with the opposite opinion, but it seems people very rarely talk about the situation in which Mother Nature takes the choice away from you. What should I tell the guy? Has anyone here undergone a similar situation?
And before anyone asks, this is *not* the same friend who’s into hotwifing. Fortunately, no new developments on that front. I was never asked to participate (thank G-d), he really was just opening up.
Adoption would be the obvious answer but that is also fraught with problems (depending if you go Int’l or domestic).
Or maybe he can knock someone up and keep the kid. 😉
But if their marriage is dependent on having kids, then it must not be a strong relationship to begin with.
TRUE DOMINEERING SPECIES ALWAYS TRADE UP FOR A NEWER MODEL*
*although I must admit Your Future Reptilian Overlords can be quite hen-pecked at times.
My wife and I always planned on having kids. We thought we’d adopt some and have some of our own (which one adoption agency found strange – why would you adopt if you could have your own?) Anyway, we ended up adopting 3. Two were from the state and one was private (as an infant). We never did have a biological kid. We assume that one of us has some medical issue, but we never really pursued it because we ended up with 3 kids which was plenty. I’m sure my wife in some way feels she missed out on the pregnancy experience, but when we talk about it we are happy we went the way we did. My point being, everybody’s life is different and you will find your own way if you are committed to your spouse. You shouldn’t make specific plans and then get upset when life fucks up those plans. And who’s to say he’ll find another person he gets along with as well as his wife, or that the next person will be able to have children? Will he require medical records from anyone he dates?
This is a good thing to talk to him about. I asked him about adoption and he said that it is on the table, but he really wants kids with his own genes. He even admitted it’s a kind of irrational evolutionary chauvinism but it is what it is. One other option is donor eggs, in which he gets his wish of being the sperm donor and his wife would get to carry the kid. He also admitted to me that he considered donating sperm so that his Darwinistic desires could be satisfied, but he has a condition (OCD) that would likely get him rejected from all the sperm banks. There are lots of kiddos out there being born into terrible situations that need good parents and adoption is really providing a service to the world.
I think it’s kind of weak. Do you think she’d ditch him if he had weak swimmers?
Lots of kids who need homes.
“various tests have found that she has issues with fertility and it is unlikely/borderline impossible for her to have a kid”
He should open a bottle of vintage liquor right now, get blissfully drunk, thank his lucky stars, and never broach the topic of children, ever again.
They need to adopt. Jesus, there’s tons of poor kids that have been abandoned or whose parents became piece of shit junkies. They need a home.
Amen. It can be a challenge, but so can raising your own bio kids. There’s no guarantee that any kid is going to turn out a certain way. We adopted two out of foster care from the state. We had no expenses, and until they were 18 they got a monthly subsidy and free Medicaid. Adopting from overseas can be good too, but also VERY expensive.
She should leave him. Fuck that guy.
Adoption is a good option. The process is dependent on the state and the bio parents though. My aunt and uncle adopted a girl fairly easily but the biological mother was extremely indigent (*cough* crack *cough*) and the courts favored them heavily. More so when the mother had another girl a couple years later, the state practically asked them to adopt the sister.
Another friend of mine has ovarian cysts and tried adopting. They have a similar situation but they’re LDS so I think that might be a religious twist on why they NEED to have children. The state has been much more lenient with the biological patents, unfortunately. The process is weighing heavily on her.
My friend and her husband did surrogacy in India. His swimmers, Indian woman’s eggs. The woman that carried the kid was NOT the egg donor. If they have some $$, they should look into that. I think they can even bring someone else’s eggs over to India for implantation. My friends chose to go with the Indian woman’s eggs because my friend is black, so the kid would kinda-sorta look like her.
Hell, they might even be able to extract some of your friend’s wife’s eggs for implantation.
There are, like, a jillion ways to have kids nowadays. Sounds like your friend is looking for an out.
How much does an Indian uterus go for nowadays?
Not sure – I can ask.
You have one friend with a barren wife and another who want’s strange dudes plowing his wife. Sounds like a self-solving problem.
So crazy it might work…
this news brought about an unexpected (if knee-jerk) consideration of leaving the marriage to try and have kids elsewhere.
(a) Do not, ever, give anyone advice about their marriage. Don’t do it.
(b) He should look into a surrogate mother deal, where you basically hire someone to be the incubator. If her problem is her eggs, you can get other eggs, so worst case his half of the genetic load is going to be there. If her eggs are fine, then the whole baby is genetically theirs, and they just subbed out the logistics of getting the baby delivered, so to speak.
(c) Or, if her eggs are fine, you could still have the embryo IVFed into his wife, if she’s up for that.
The fact that he jumped straight to “Her womb is a rocky place where my seed can find no purchase” to “Ditch her” makes me wonder if something else isn’t going on.
Um, if he is actually considering leaving as a first step I am forced to ask just how strong the marriage is in the first place? Are they just together because it is comfortable, easy, and expected or are they actually in love with each other?
If he actually loves her no he shouldn’t leave, there are other ways to have kids, even biological ones.
If his attachment to her is weaker and it is more the idea of being married to someone and she is a convenient and comfortable option and he really wants kids of his own then yeah they should probably divorce.
What about surrogacy?
Some unexpectedly pleasant news to greet me this morning.
Pertinent bit:
“This act was intended to help the newly sworn-in president reach his promise of cutting 70 percent of all federal regulations.”
If we could only repeal 70% of current laws on the books, we’d actually be getting somewhere.
So much “to be sure” in that piece though. Like, what is with the “official libertarians” insistence on bending over backwards to signal that they really really don’t like Trump?
I made a similar comment at the bottom of that article. I think it is some form of mystic religious ritual that wards off bad juju while preserving your cocktail party invites.
お酒は命
命はつらい
つらいは二日酔い
向かい酒は解決
My very limited ability to read kanji tells me the first line says something to the effect of “Alcohol (Sake?) is life”. Same kanji for life appears in the next line, but I’m having trouble after that.
乳首は立っている
ちんぽは立っている
計画をたっている
失敗しました
“Konichiwa, bitches”?
These are homemade senryu (punk rock haiku). The Japanese guys seem to be enjoying them.
You chinitos and your goofy poetry.
I’m guessing it has something to do with 15 year olds in schoolgirl uniforms doing various activities with tentacles. This is based on my expert level knowledge of Japanese culture.
No ninjas?
The school girls are usually ninjas by night.
The only bits of Japanese I remember from my time in Okinawa are (and I know I’m spelling these incorrectly, but hey, they’re just romanized anyway) – ohio gozaimas, arigato gozaimas, gomenesai, and migi/hadari to give cabdrivers directions to our barracks.
How to bargain for sex?
Good morning, thank you (very much), sorry, and… don’t know the last.
left and right are the last two, although according to straffin it seems I mixed them up
Ohio gozaimas is only good morning? Huh….seems like I remember them saying it all day. Whenever you went to a store, the employees would all call it out to you in unison. Maybe that’s an Okinawan thing?
Oh, and I of course remember gaijin! hahah…..learned that one early on – go into a bar that wasn’t specifically meant for Americans and they’d make an X with their forearms and yell “No gaijin!” at you.
Did you try to make them cater your event anyway?
I don’t think he had enough victim credits to cash in.
They do that in Okinawa only, I’m guessing. 20 years and I’ve only had that happen to me once.
most likely – they are very touchy about keeping some aspects of Okinawan life untainted by Americans.
Hidari is left, my friend. I’ve been so drunk I’ve told the cabbie to turn Midari (lefright) before. They love it.
Here ya go. First one:
Alcohol is life
Life is hard
Hardness is a hangover
Hair of the dog is the solution.
Number two:
Her nipples are erect
My cock is erect
I’ve erected (makes sense in Japanese) a plan
I failed.
“Media are the last people still searching for a motive from the latest vehicular attack. Could he have been an overworked Uber driver? Could he have had a seizure?”
Yelling terms like ‘Alluha Akbar’ or whatever, is a sure sign someone is having a seizure.
Nah, terrorism can’t be the motive. He’s secretly identifies as white and hates intersectional people, am I right?
Some of the job listings I’m seeing are amusing. Everyone wants that unicorn that knows JS and all its libraries, plus UX/UI, plus graphic design, plus content editing.
I think putting a “wish list” of skills on a job listing is a bad idea for employers, especially in this market. It will turn off potentially qualified applicants who see they don’t have some of the desired skills.*
*I apply for these jobs anyway, but I used to shy away from them.
When I graduated from college and was job hunting, I remember seeing an ad wanting “8 years of FoxPro programming.” – for a package that had only been out for 9 years. Were they hunting for the developers?
“8 years of FoxPro programming.”
That’s punishment for murder in some countries.
Seeing ads for ten years experience in products less than five years old is still common, so having a request for something that is not strictly impossible doesn’t quite compare.
Hah got you beat.
In 1998 I had a recruiter ask me if I had 10 years of experience with Windows 95 because it was a hard requirement for their client.
It won’t phase experienced people. I’ve never actually seen a job posting that doesn’t include all sorts of things that the employer doesn’t actually need, use, or even know what it is.
Another fun tactic: you want somebody for position X, so you put out a posting with requirements (inflated, of course) for position X, then when you hire somebody, put them into position Y instead.
e.g.
“Senior Java developer with 10 years of experience in Spring MVC and extensive knowledge of XML, SQL, and related technologies”
When hired:
“You know HTML and CSS, right? We’re going to have you doing frontend web development”
As soon as you hear the word ‘Java’, don’t walk, but RUN away.
Also, an HTML and CSS position is not going to pay anywhere close to an actual development position. I had a potential client give me a call about 10 years ago who was looking for a developer and then asked me if I know HTML, the job was primarily a web designer position. I said sure, this is what I charge. That ended rather abruptly.
As soon as you hear the word ‘Java’, don’t walk, but RUN away.
Meh. I’ve seen a lot of shitty Java codebases, and I’ve seen Java codebases that put some Java-hater’s Python/Ruby/whatever codebase to shame. It ain’t the language…
Also, an HTML and CSS position is not going to pay anywhere close to an actual development position.
Hmm, this may actually explain why what I described above happens. You want quality people but the bureaucracy won’t let you pay them more. So, hire somebody good under false pretenses, and then get them to do what you want. But, it doesn’t always lead to good places (people don’t like being lied to, even if they left little other choice).
Agree that a good developer writes good code in any language and shitty developers write bad code regardless of language.
My problem with Java folks is the fact that they believe that their language is the end all be all.
Last week, the Java guys were goofing around with a brain teaser that involved looking for pairs of words in a string. The Java solution was long and involved. I wrote a solution in six lines of perl code. I tried to give them a lecture on picking the right tool for the job and that perl came into existince to process text files using regex’s.
They rolled their eyes and mocked me for being a dinosaur. Fucking punks.
Yea, I am sad whenever I need to parse text and am not working in perl.
JAVA sucks. I’ll never write it. If I’m writing something, it’s going to be .NET. I wouldn’t even offer to fix JAVA code for anyone, at any price. I intentionally do not have much experience at it.
picking the right tool for the job
Agreed. Java is not the right tool for every job (but it is the right tool for some jobs*). I can understand the desire to “do it all in one place” (e.g., one program, one library, one language) but that often creates more problems than it solves.
* = If you really hate Java, there are other JVM languages and they all have interoperability with Java. The scale of open source, never mind commercial, libraries that are high quality and easily available for Java is staggering. I like C# as a language, and maybe the situation has improved, but the .NET ecosystem is less open and the attitude towards change seems to be “if it comes from Microsoft, it’s great, otherwise STFU”.
I would really like to understand what set of bullshit incentives leads to employers putting everything and the kitchen sink, along with absurdly unrealistic expectations of years of experience in every one of those things, onto job postings.
I’ve seen arguments that it’s driven by the courts trying to stamp out “discrimination”, but that doesn’t quite add up. I’m sure it’s a partial driver, as with most things in HR, but lawsuit-aversion as an explanation implies the existence of related cases, which I haven’t seen.
I’ve also seen arguments that it’s driven by the H1-B program; employer posts unrealistic requirements, says they can’t be met by any U.S. citizen, gets to argue for more immigrant workers. But postings for U.S. citizen-only jobs do the same things.
On second thought, there might not be a very deep explanation for it, it may just be cargo-culting/groupthink. Everybody else is doing it, they get the people they want (ha!), there must be some reason they do it (see: chimps experiment), and so we have to do it, too. But one would still expect some employers to try a different strategy, and when it proves successful, to see use of that strategy expand.
Another reason that I’ve seen at my company is that they want to create a new position for someone specific. HR requires all job postings to be public, so the people creating the new position sit down with the person they want for the position and create a very specific listing of requirements that only the person they want for the position is likely to match. Then post it, and when they start getting applications, start disqualifying them for missing one of the requirements, until you’re left with the person you wanted and a couple of people who you don’t think will pass the first round of HR interviews.
Were I work now does that. It doesn’t help with the perception the hospital is run by a cabal.
There may be a trend going on in the USA away from hiring H1-Bs. All of my clients have stopped doing it. They’ll hire a citizen first, but if a qualified citizen is not available, they will hire green card holders. But no H1-Bs.
They all still put all the bullshit in the job postings. I don’t really no who writes those, but I suspect HR peeps are involved.
See my post below. It is mainly because HR/Recruiting has no idea what any of the skills being asked for mean.
The recruiter demands that the person listing the job give them a laundry list of skills so that they can compare it to resumes and try to match them up. Because they have no way to read a resume from a developer and tell if they are competent or a shitbird.
As someone who has had to do a lot of IT hiring, let me tell you how it works.
First the HR/Recruiter tells you that you have to give them a list of skills for the job. You try to tell them that you really just want some junior developer with any skills that you can mold into the developer you want. Ambition, attention to detail and enthusiasm are more important than any particular skill.
HR/Recruiter huffs and puffs. Have to have a list of skills. You cave and give them the top 2 things you want them to know. More huffing and puffing. Not enough to create an actual job listing. Cave again. Give them more skills, but warn them that they are all optional.
HR/Recruiting posts job listing. All skills are mandatory.
Wait. Wait. Wait.
Ask HR/Recruiting how it is going. Get exasperated sigh and they tell you that the resumes that they have gotten do not have all the skills you asked for. You fly off the handle and tell them that you really don’t give a shit, that was their doing. Get very offended huffy sigh from HR/Recruiting because who is the actual expert here Mr. Smartypants?
Seriously, I have never worked for anyplace (other than startups) that know how to recruit IT talent.
I’ve seen this happen first- and second-hand. The real question, apart from the one I asked above, is: why is HR in charge of hiring? When/why did it go from “in charge of payroll and benefits” to “point-(wo)man for all employment decisions”?
Sadly because the IT staff can be just as detrimental to the process as anyone. Too many of them have severe problems with interpersonal skills and if you left it to them you would lose good candidates because the IT people scared them off when trying to assess their skills.
At my last job, the developers would grill the candidates with technical questions. A lot of them were semi-trick questions that took advantage of JavaScripts evaluation quirks of the “truthiness” of an expression. The team sincerely felt that this was a good way to tell if the guy knew what he was talking about.
I issued a fatwa on the practice, because it made us look like a bunch of dicks to the candidates. I told them they could ask questions about their experiences and general questions about their expertise in a given technology, but no more questions.
They never did like the policy, and I bet after I left they went back to their old ways.
When I interviewed at my soon-to-be-ex job, they had their web consultant do a recorded test on shit like “what color is #ffffff?”, and played it back in a group meeting.
Exactly. Who memorizes that shit?
“I have an IDE that can do the trivial shit like that. Next question.”
Any time I need to know which CSS to use, I fucking Google it. I know the syntax, structure, and capabilities. I don’y need to memorize hex codes and when to use inline-block.
I didn’t memorize the codes, just that it was a hex for RGB values and the 0 was none.
… but I’m also the guy who remembers how inodes work, despite all the layers of abstraction between them and my day to day work.
White. Your techs must be racist.
Yikes. I just use IE dev tools to pick the color.
I’ve been on interviews where I was asked to write a function to convert an array with some nested arrays into an object using native JS, in a JSFiddle, on a random computer in a conference room with the projector as the only display while five people watched me type. This was after being quizzed on some very specific ES6 stuff that I can best describe as testing my vocabulary memorization skills.
I was not asked a single question about the framework they were using for the project, which I’d used for a couple of years on multiple projects, nor was I asked a single question about any of the sample code I’d provided or current, working projects I could have shown them.
I didn’t get the job, and despite the money involved I’m actually really, really happy about that.
Well, you can’t let HR pick potential candidates. You tell them to just forward you the resumes and you interview the ones who look like the potential hire. After you’ve decided to hire one of them, then they can go talk to HR about the bullshit stuff so you can get them through the door.
::snort::
Do you even HR? You think they are going to give up their position as gatekeeper?
They will if right people in the organization actually want to get some quality software done.
But, yeah, I’ve seen this huffing and puffing first hand. First IT position I ever had, I went in and gave HR guy my resume. Had to fill out an application. So then the guy looks at my resume like it’s written in some sort of alien hieroglyphics. Then he goes ‘Well….’ *huffing puffing* … ‘I don’t know, I don’t think we really need another computer person, we already have 2 and…’ *huffing puffing*. So I say ‘Well, this person I know who works here say you are looking for one and there’s an ad in the local paper for it’. I eventually got the job, as a Computer Tech. First day there, the IT manager tells me ‘There’s some boxes with computer parts in the back storage room, go find some of those and build yourself a PC and we’ll try to find you a desk’.
Another factor that causes HR to get huffy is jealousy. Since I have been working in IT (mid ’90s) the power has always been in the IT side. Even in the big crash days, you could get a job pretty easy if you knew how to program.
As an HR dweeb it pisses you off that you can’t crack the whip on the developers. Put out a dumb policy and they just ignore it. If you punish them, they leave and get more $$ somewhere else and now you have to replace them and it will cost you more $$ than the previous guy.
You went to college and got a fucking English degree! Why is this spaztic not respecting your authority?
Yeah, plus the avg coder probably makes more than the top HR person.
This.
But it goes beyond just the recruiters.
A lot of IT, especially in Agile shops has done away with the role of department managers. So the person who “manages” the developers for HR purposes is not themselves a developer and hasn’t got the slightest clue what skills a developer needs to have or who they want to hire but that is the guy who is putting together the job req and likely even creating the job description.
This is one of the negative side effects of self managing agile teams
BBC. Nuff said.
Heinous
Both United States law and global anti-money laundering standards require banks to report suspicious activity to government law enforcement agencies. Millions of dollars paid by dodgy Ukrainians to unknown companies in Cyprus and then to luxury car dealers in the United States for no known legal reason would certainly seem to qualify.
These enforcement mechanisms need to be strengthened, and vastly so. In the cases of Mr. Manafort and Mr. Gates and no doubt many others with millions tucked away in offshore banks, they did not result — in the absence of a special counsel — in an investigation of years of possible crimes, or an indictment.
Relying on self-reporting by those who are committing tax evasion is a fool’s errand.
That bastard Manafort was stealing from the government!
Did Chuckie Moobz write that?
Whoa, Sloopy’s Mattress King link didn’t just crash my browser, it restarted my computer. That’s what I get for actually looking at the links.
You’re crazy. Those Chron.com links are almost a daily occurrence in the morning links. In fact, I think I’ve only not posted a Chronicle link maybe twice in the last 4-5 months. I’ve never heard of them crashing anything, let alone restarting someone’s computer.
Exactly what a Russian agent working to hack innocent Glibs’ computers would say…
innocent? Or not yet convicted?
Dodgers fans begone!
I’ll take raisins over the dental floss one of my neighbors was giving out.
I’ll take the dental floss.
*plays some floss out and tosses over nearest tree in dbag’s yard*
I like this guy.
What is with people who give floss? One roll lasts weeks to months, even with daily use, because you need well under a foot per use and there are dozens of yards in a box. If those kids are in the habit of flossing, the house will have some. Giving it to kids who aren’t, isn’t going to make them start.
Some people just can’t help themselves. A response:
“My child has food allergies so all I see is candy that would kill her and safe raisins that she can eat.”
Why even insert yourself in that feed?
“Your kid is allergic to sucrose? You realize that if they were, they’d already be dead, right?”
Isn’t the treatment for allergies gradual exposure to the allergen until the immune system gets retrained to not flip out?
Worth reading:
https://twitter.com/Ayaan
Did Chuckie Moobz write that?
Some “anti-money-laundering tax professor”.
I suspect he’s on board with the “ban cash” idiots like Summers and Rogoff.
“If there were no cash, we could track everybody! In fact, we could just levy a 60% transaction tax on all financial transfers. Think of the wonderful things we could do with that money.”
He probably gets super triggered if anyone mentions the term ‘crypto currency’. I hate this type of control freak.
“If there were no cash, we could track everybody! In fact, we could just levy a 60% transaction tax on all financial transfers. Think of the wonderful things we could do with that money.”
But of course, this doesn’t apply to him for whatever reason. Something something education something something important people.
“University cancels play accused of criticizing Black Lives Matter”
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/38465/
Jonathon Winters will explain it. Starting at about 30 seconds in.
“Educated liberals overuse the term ‘racist’
No one can fail to be amazed by the courage of the people who protested segregation and bigotry in the 1950s and 1960s. Those who endured physical injury justifiably stick in our minds the most. Today’s educated liberals lack the courage they admire in their forebears, at a time when it is needed more than ever. Namely, too many liberals in power lack the guts to sanction those dedicated to shouting down speakers from the right. Instead, they let pass a state of dialogue as choked as the one that Berkeley’s Free Speech movement resisted.
To hurl the N-word at someone is an attempt to shut down discussion. Today, the word “racist” serves the same function. Or, today’s fashionable new version is the now grievously overused “white supremacist.” Such that, for example, liberal man of letters and Columbia professor Mark Lilla is accused of making white supremacy “respectable” — for suggesting that Democrats emphasize identity politics less with the goal of winning the White House from Donald Trump.”
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/21/opinions/richard-spencer-liberal-protestors-mcwhorter-opinion/index.html
It’s a sensible editorial posted on CNN. Hackers or souls of the dead?
“suggesting that Democrats emphasize identity politics less with the goal of winning the White House from Donald Trump”
NO, don’t even think about it, Dems. You HAVE to DOUBLE down, no TRIPLE down on your identity politics. You should go topple the Washington Monument NOW. What are you waiting for, brave warriors, get out there and RESIST!
Wow, I wasn’t expecting that on CNN.
That guy is a wrong thinker and needs to be purged. Democrats should take advice from me if they ever want to win again.
McWhorter is not a CNN employee, and on many occasions, a sensible person.
Tancredo vs. Polis would be my favorite election race next year if it actually happens. I remember this guy as the very first major campus hysteria subject at my university, UNC-Chapel Hill, when he gave a speech against illegal immigration at the campus almost 10 years ago.
So I have a problem with the Latino Victory Fund ad. It’s fucking ridiculously unrealistic. Chasing people down in pickup trucks to mow them down? What the fuck kind of shit is that?
1. You’re begging to get caught.
2. It’s inefficient.
3. It’s only going to work once.
Therefore it insults the alt-rights intelligence and will keep them from being convinced.
The better plan for an ad about Gillespie supporters would be to have them drive that F250 over to a Home Depot, collect ten Hispanics standing there looking for day labor work, and tell them they need them to finish in a garage. When they get them to the “garage”, they lock them in and chuck a can of Zyklon-B in a cupola. Then show them shoveling the blueish bodies into an oven while laughing and wearing “Gillespie for Gov” shirts.
Now that would get them some votes.
#secretnazigovernor, ready to take your lives!
What about rounding up a bunch of 4 ft tall Guatemalans who’ve been making a bunch of noise landscaping next door and load them one at a time into the giant catapult you built and attempt to hurl them back into Messico?
Nah. It’s Virginia. You’d just be catapulting them into the Greensboro-Winston Salem metro area, where they’ll multiply like gremlins under a faucet and return en masse.
Inefficient?
Everyone knows that there is no way that a cracker can run down a brown person. Shit, they can go through rivers and over fences like a hot knife through butter. What is poor whitey going to do?
An impassioned plea upon opening up Mozilla Firefox this morning:
“Big corporations want to restrict entry. Fake news and filter bubbles are making it harder for us to find our way. Online bullies are silencing inspired voices. And our desire to explore is hampered by threats to our safety and privacy. It’s time to join Mozilla and do our part as digital citizens. Donate today to support programs that keep the internet healthy, free and open for us all.”
Online bullies are silencing inspired voices.
I wonder if they’re talking about WaPo closing and then deleting entire comments sections that don’t fit their narrative.
“free and open”
*cough Brendan Eich cough*
Firefox’s bullshit social signalling has tempted me to change browsers. I still remember them canning their CEO because he once donated to some group opposed to the gay weddings – back in 1998. When the politicians the progressive cunts throughout Mozilla were all saying the same thing.
Waterfox and Pale Moon are good too and are very similar to Firefox and are decent browsers. Opera’s good too as an alternative to Chrome.
Why have you not set your home page and new tab page to about:blank?
I thought your start page was about:bland
I like this: about:newtab
It has icons of your most visited sites. You can pin and add/remove at will. It’s a nice “most favorite, favorites” kind of thing
I absolutely hate that page. Something about it just needles all my pet peeves.
You are an interesting man, UCS.
You could stick it to Mozilla by installing Brendan Eich’s newest browser.
Is it compatable with an existing plugin format? without the ability to control the browsing behaviour, I can’t make use of it.
You try to tell them that you really just want some junior developer with any skills that you can mold into the developer you want. Ambition, attention to detail and enthusiasm are more important than any particular skill.
“I don’t want somebody with some other guy’s bad habits. I want somebody I can teach my bad habits to.”
You get me Brooks.
“Stop trying to use clever CompSci tricks to make your code more ‘elegant’. At 2 am in the morning no one will be able to figure out what that fucking piece of code does. Break it out into 4 lines of simple code. And don’t forget to add 10 lines of comments. And I’ll twist your head off if you try to tell me again that you don’t need to comment because your variable names are so descriptive that anyone can figure it out without comments.”
The best education I ever got was when I moved from pure developer to a company that did devops (before that was even a word). Being on the shit end of bad code made me pick up a lot of good habits.
I get really irritated when I have to work with a WP plugin or theme with barely any comments.
This is why, if a person is savvy, he grows his own.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/31/news/economy/california-cannabis-tax-fitch/index.html?sr=twCNN103117economy1155PMStory
California’s gonna California. Even progress in the direction of liberty becomes “progress” towards the black hole.
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme,
You knew this was going to happen. The government never keeps their hand out of the cookie jar, and California is desperately broke. They saw what happened in Colorado and got dollar signs in their eyes.
They told me if Trump were elected, people would start trying to bring back miscegenation laws and they were right!
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/38463/
That family ain’t old-timey neither!
Awesome.
But, Pappy; theyz intigrated!
I invented moral fiber!
Well, of course the left are terrified of interracial marriage. It’s bad for identity politics.
Sure are obsessed with race for someone “fighting” racism.
Their existence revolves around fighting racism. If people are not constantly thinking about race, they have no reason to exist.
SMOD to the rescue:
Wow, what a cunt. I’ll be sure to let my niece know she’s an abomination before God and man as soon as she gets out of ballet practice.
How dare your sibling oppress their daughter with DANCE classes!
/prog
And ballet is neither Irish nor African, so it’s doubly offensive. And God forbid they should find out about the lacrosse…
Fucking lazy ass! You are making your sibling enact your labor for you?
You make us libertarians look bad. Is it really so hard to get out there and do your own race traitoring? Look, I’m as lazy as they come, but I was able to oppress my Korean wife and knock out three little half-breed abominations.
Well, my wife’s like 1/4 Italian, and according to my grandfather unless you’re alpine Italian you’re not really white, so there’s that.
Interesting. My family is Alpine Italian and they were definitely NOT considered white when they hit the shores.
Thank God we have an unbiased press corps (Thx Ace of Spades). Reporter asks slavery question at press briefing:
https://twitter.com/jeffmason1/status/925437337206652929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
The question is too vague. She doesn’t even ask what type of slavery she’s referring to.
What year is it?
It’s just a vaguely obscured jab at Trump because he said that the during the incident at Charlottesville, there were good people on both sides. Basically, the person is saying everyone there who wasn’t antifa or BLM were Nazis. Which isn’t true. But it’s the left, so this is what you expect. It’s no different than them calling all Trump voters Nazis or KKK. It’s absurd, but it’s what they do.
“Basically, the person is saying everyone there who wasn’t antifa or BLM were Nazis.”
Relevant: https://scontent-sjc2-1.cdninstagram.com/www.tophashtags.co/t51.2885-15/e35/21373689_1464209403615504_2439463363097395200_n-scene-as-this-is-a-binary-choice-which-are-you-by-bulletspammingpatriot.jpg
The correct answer would be ‘What slavery?’.
Or “I am opposed to slavery, and deeply disappointed that our State Department and the UN haven’t done more to crack down on it where it actually exists, primarily in the Middle East.”
+ 1 Islamaphobia
…like in general? Is there a specific instance of slavery we’re talking about? Just slavery as a concept?
OMWC, why didn’t you tell us you wrote for Slate back in the day?
https://twitter.com/notwokieleaks/status/925756796870037504
Christ, what an asshole:
If you’re looking for proof that progressivism and communism are indeed the exact same thing, you don’t have to look too far.
It was a beacon to the rest of humanity, no matter how short lived.
And it turns out the humanity living under the Soviets was short lived, indeed.
Fucking teed that one right up, didn’t he?
Lindsey Graham is a piece of excrement, part… what are we on now? It seems like it’s a very high number.
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/925705970709336065
That’s an insulting thing to say! Excrement provides a valuable service as fertilizer, which is more than I can say about Graham.
Meh. If there was any doubt to his culpability I’d be inclined to agree, but to paraphrase one of my betters: What difference, at this point, does it make?
Two possibilities spring to mind:
a) The Boy Blunder has a hard on for shitting on the constitution.
b) The deep state had it’s eye on this guy (among others) and doesn’t want to have to fess up to what was (illegally) going on and what was known in advance.
I’ve been trying to work through what exactly is wrong with the idea of “white privilege”. In his thought experiment “Vial of Ignorance”, Rawls wants you to imagine that you are orbiting the earth prior to your birth, and you don’t know what parents you’ll have. What kind of society would you want to be born into in that situation? If you happen to be born into an oppressed class, well, that would kind of suck. Problem for me is that it isn’t “luck” at all that are born to the parents you have. You had a virtually 100% chance that your mother would be your mother. Given children are the genetic expression of you and the other parent, isn’t is logical that you would spend more resources and time on your own children rather than other people’s children? The “luck” explanation doesn’t do anything other than justify re distributionist policy. I love my daughter more than I love myself, but if I take care of her is it “luck” that I do that? Appreciating that you were born into a family that loves you and provides for you isn’t “luck”. It’s the genetic expression of your lineage. But I’m verrry drunk. I’d love to hear some thoughts on this.
I’m not going to try to write a dissertation on the subject, but I do want to point out that I would be considered the definition of white privilege. My father was, for all intents and purposes, a political refugee to this country, and did not even speak english when he got here. He now makes around a quarter million dollars a year. Where was his white privilege that got him there? Did he somehow earn his privilege that he was then able to give to me? Or maybe, just maybe, that it’s manufactured victimhood bullshit designed to deflect blame off of lazy/stupid people who don’t want to look in the mirror?
Should your father have his inheritance taxed at 80%, 90% because you didn’t deserve to have that silver spoon? That’s why I bring up the fact that children are the extension of the parents DNA. They want us to treat children we don’t know with the same amount of love and devotion that we do our own children. That will only harm the actual children of parents and the children we don’t know and haven’t even met.
They want us to treat a theoretical demographic group called “children” better than we treat our own, actual, specific children, hence the whole “you owe it to poor children to send your kids to a shitty public school so they keep their funding” bit. It’s the whole Progressive, socialist thing where you’re supposed to just do your part for the state and trust smart people to allocate those resources efficiently and fairly.
Simply pointing this out leads to twitching. Even better is if they grew up in a area where a Nigerian immigrant family might be floating around and asking if white privilege is what got their kid into Stanford.
I’ll give you a counterpoint. I have a friend. We’ll call him Brad, since that’s his name. Brad is from Detroit. He is constantly broke. I met him about 10 years ago when I first lived in AZ. He moved back to Phoenix about 2 years ago. Basically everything he owns was donated by myself or my family. He is using a computer that is almost old enough to vote. He has no working car. If he saves up any amount of money he fucks off to vegas and spends it all. I found out recently that he was hit by a card when he was a child and was award something around 100,000 in damages in a trust fund that was basically given to him carte blanche when he turned 18. I’ll let you guess Brad’s racial heritage on your own.
I have never had money like that under my control. Was it white privilege that allowed him to piss away 100 grand in free money and have nothing to show for it?
I knew a guy like that in the Air Force. At least he had an S-Class to show for it.
Wait. He was hit by a card, yet he still loves to go to Vegas?
Uffda. Talk about getting back on the horse.
Just noticed that typo. Car. Motor vehicle. 4 wheels, motor, seats, etc.
I think every single person knows at least one person who has every opportunity to make a good living for themselves, but only “progressives” have the ability to simultaneously hold the belief that welfare fraud and perverse incentives don’t exist.
I know a guy who has worked as a chef at various fancy restaurants (fancy by semi-rural Ohio standards, anyway). He makes decent money, but almost all of it gets blown on drugs, alcohol, and generally foolish purchases. He lives in dumpy apartments and neglects to pay his bills. My brother invited him to go to a concert once, and this guy replied, “well I’d have to get the tickets on Wednesday (his payday)… It’s the only day I CAN get them!” It’s as if he knew that all his money would be gone as soon as he cashed his check.
Yet, some people think that this guy would go to college and become an engineer or something if only the government would tax a bunch of people and cut him a check every month.
I worked in the restaurant biz for a good number of years, as did a couple of my relatives, sometimes in the same place. There’s something about the culture that either encourages people to live like frat boys who won the lottery or attracts people who do that anyway, or both. Maybe it’s the hours, maybe the stress, maybe the sense of comraderie, but I found that, mostly, the only difference between how a new server and the general manager behaved was the amount of money they had to blow. That’s not everyone, of course, and even I know counterexamples, but it seems prevalent in a way you don’t see in other industries.
The problem with white privilege is that as far as this country is concerned, it doesn’t exist. In fact, being white in this country is now a disadvantage in many situations. Let me ask you this. If are in this situation: You’re going to apply for a job at some big tech company in Silicon Valley, or for a government job. There’s a question on the form you have to fill out for HR for race. If you have the following options, and no one would know the difference by looking at you. Which one do you check the box for?
1. White
2. Hispanic or Latino.
3. Two or more races.
If you choose the first one, do you think you just gave yourself an advantage?
I’m trying to give them the strongest argument they could possibly muster. They would say that those who are in a position to apply for those jobs are very few because most [insert oppressed class] we derailed long before. It dismisses everyone else’s struggles in order to focus solely on the troubles of the group they are advocating on behalf of.
I routinely check 1 and 2 but I tend to confuse people when I tell them I am not fluent in Spanish.
You’re just a Tio Tomas.
Vial of Ignorance
I tried that, but those super-hoppy “imperial” IPAs just aren’t my thing.
There are two big problems I see with the whole “white privilege” narrative. First, there’s the idea that privilege is by definition unearned. That doesn’t logically follow. A privilege is a right or benefit granted to a limited group of people (sometimes a group of one), but the idea that it’s always unearned is a recent innovation linked to, IMO, Marxism. For instance, I have the privilege of working from home pretty much on request, something not everyone else at my job has. I earn that privilege by only using it when I need it and by having put time and effort into my position.
Privilege is not the fabrication out of thin air of a right or benefit, it’s something transferred from one person to another. In other words, maybe I have a close friend who has the privilege of being welcome in my home whenever he shows up, whether anyone’s here or not. That is a benefit (a modest one, granted) that I gave to him, not something manufactured for him from the ether. In the same way, if I own a restaurant and will happily seat a wealthy, famous person on demand while making the hoi polloi wait out in the rain, this is my prerogative as the owner of the restaurant. Taking it further, as I cannot acquire a benefit that has to be bestowed by someone else absent the use of force, which is to say that I cannot legitimately acquire a benefit that requires the goods or actions of another without their consent, I cannot be faulted for possessing said benefit for the simple fact that I cannot directly control the thoughts and actions of another person. Put simply, if police are less likely to pull me over because I’m a younger middle-aged, middle-class white guy who looks like a husband and father, any problems with that treatment should be addressed to the officers in question.
As for the “white” bit… To say that there’s an innate privilege in being white–and let’s table the fact that “white” means different things to different people and just say we’re talking about Caucasians–implies that there’s something special about white people, but that’s clearly not the case unless you believe that a white person in Tanzania has the same status as a white person in Vermont. If you do, well, welcome to white supremacy. If you don’t, then you’re really talking about white Americans (and maybe to a lesser extent white Europeans).
But wait a sec. Are you really implying that the Uzbek who drove a truck into a bunch of people in NYC has the same privilege as Donald Trump? Are you claiming that a homeless meth addict in West Virginia has special privileges that Tyler Perry (or the Obama daughters) don’t? If you are, you’re either being deliberately obtuse or you’re a lunatic. If not, then you’re really talking about white, wealthy people. Or white people of reasonable means with stable families. And if that’s the case, then all you’re really saying is that people who are fortunate enough to be born to stable, caring families have an advantage in life over people born in broken homes. You’re saying that people with money and resources have advantages over people without those things. Yep. No shit. Now stop being racist and get a job.
You’re not thinking like they do. While I agree, I want to know their best argument. Of course they see society as groups of people which they get to move around like pawns. It’s a disgusting mindset. If a wealthy white person’s child has an advantage, wouldn’t you be able to say that middle class white families have an advantage, too (given the net worth disparity between white and black families). This is why I hate the concept of “luck”. Christians can have a moral code that is supernatural because they also take the restrictions on bad behavior that their religion dictates. The progressive take on “luck” has no restrictions on what they can do to even the playing field. Dangerous shit.
That’s the thing, though. They use the idea of socio-economic disparity, map that to racial differences rooted in history and demographic shifts specific to this country, and then skip a step in order to say that all white people have privileges that black people don’t have. They operate under the assumption that history ended some time in the fifties. They do things like ignore the deeds of past generations in the case of white people, hence a wealthy white person just happens to have been born that way, but privilege (heh heh) the history of black people, such that Michael Jordan’s ancestors having been slaves has more impact on his life than what he or his parents have managed to accomplish. They don’t apply consistent standards because they’re using inductive reasoning to justify the redistribution they want to see rather than making objective observations and deriving rational principles to inform their positions.
Post hoc rationalization. They know what they want and will form a concept to justify what they want. Thanks for your thoughts on this.
Hey man, I have this debate at least once a month. It’s like Groundhog Day. But yeah, there’s a quasi-religious aspect to all this. Check out “The Art of the Argument” by Stefan Molyneux, “Illiberal Reformers” by Thomas Leonard, and for comparison’s sake between this mess and the formation of the early Christian church, “A History of God” by Karen Armstrong, particularly the bit about dogma–doctrines revealed to the peanut gallery–and kerygma–in this case used to refer to revealed truths accessible only to true, dedicated believers.
“White Privilege” like feminism is nothing but a giant shit test. It’s somebody spewing bullshit and begging you to call them on it.
The only proper response is “fuck off”.
Who was the one here talking about kanban a couple weeks ago? I tried searching and couldn’t turn up the posts. Anyhow, thank you very much. It’s been very helpful in tracking and organizing various tasks that in retrospect I was doing a very shitty job about. Very satisfying to move bits of paper around.
Bing found it. Thank you Number.6. Very grateful.
If you want a very good primer on lean, read ‘the machine that changed the world’. Basically required reading for any half decent engineer. Also a rather entertaining read for such a dry subject.
Thanks, I’l have to add it to the pile. Was looking the other day and discovered that Toyota offers factory tours at many of it’s plants. Not so much interested in lean or their specifics, just like walking through that sort of thing.
The scourge continues…
(Click to see the picture she took. I’m gonna go out on a limb and call bullshit on this one)
Minnesota woman finds pins in Snickers bar
Duluth police said on Tuesday that they have no suspect, since many people donated candy for the event. But Ellestad said she doesn’t suspect anyone locally because there was no sign the wrapper had been tampered with.
Instead, she thinks it occurred during the manufacturing process, possibly because of some sort of mechanical failure or because of someone’s deliberate action.
Meal ticket, aisle 5….
Shit, shit, shit! I told them that retrofitting the Snickers production line to also produce metallic pins was a bad idea!
We haven’t fully worked out the sorting process yet.
Did she suck the nougat off the pins before spitting them out. I call BS.
Just like a fart: She who found pins in candy bar, put pins in candy bar.
Those look to me like finishing nails, and specifically the kind that are shot out of a nailgun. No reason for those to be anywhere near a candy manufacturing line. A couple are kind of bent, which is odd. Even more odd is how clean they are, and how sort of not really chewed the bits of candy bar in her hand are.
I mean, its possible somebody at the factory did this, but that would mean these things show up in more than one candy bar (which isn’t mentioned, but its still early). I’m calling this one a tentative false flag.