Sloopy had some real work things to take care of. Something about PC Load Letter. I’m subbing in but the Sportzball is going to be brief. The Bucs and Packers both prevailed in contests involving other terrible teams, “America’s Team” got their asses handed to them, and the Bellicheks must have stolen the right playbook in Denver. In Ice Dancing, the Blackhawks give up a hat trick and the game to the Debils, and the Lightning find a way to beat the Disneys. Grand-Moff Serious Man sends the following link about a rising two-sport athlete. And now… the links!
This sounds like the plot of a movie. Green Beret killed, allegedly by SEAL roommates to cover up smuggling. I’m thinking his buddy/brother teams up with a reformed “freedom fighter” to counterstrike elite teams. May need a hot female who is magically able to fight off at least two SEALs hand-to-hand.
In other crappy news, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit the Iran-Iraq border and left 325+ dead and thousands in need of shelter.
Good news! The Octopus Eats Man’s Nuts story is Fake News!
Dems 2020 savior: A serial groper who even the WaPo noticed (of course, since he was the Light-bringer’s pick, they made light of it rather than call for his resignation). Here’s a little collection of “Joe being Joe”.
This must have come out about the time I started driving, its on the first mixtape I made for riding around.
“Man, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines.”
To bad he can’t reply to accept his award.
*prolonged applause*
Sloopy’s out in a field beating a printer to death.
*que gangster rap*
Printer Fixed
Dammit. Should have hit refresh
Don’t let the Minnesoda Nice front fool ya…Tundra is a sneaky one!
We did this with a printer/fax machine back in the day. Used a sledge hummer instead of a bat.
sledge hummer
*winces*
I want you to give me a sledgehummer
Why don’t you call my name
What is the best song ever written about the singer’s penis, Alex?
The Lemon Song?
While My Guitar Gently Weeps?
Pink Thing by XTC
Here.
Winner
Caitlyn’s big brown beaver?
My Dingaling
Here.
Lol
Aerosmith, “Big Ten Inch.”
Don’t forget the back-up singers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W-fIn2QZgg
Late, but…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-l2h6U9jg
“What about the subpoena?”
“Hillary’s orders, man.”
I love that movie. This is me expressing myself!.
Some good cops in Taxachussets made a stand and got their hack bosses and a hack judge exposed for being corrupt hacks.
I foresee them being forced out, and a not guilty verdict.
MA hacks tend to lie low when the Feds start sniffing around. There may be revenge eventually, but some top state cops will be gone (with 6-figure pensions) and the Judge is in hot water.
I was going to say much the same thing. These guys might as well quit and leave Massachusetts right now. Even if public scrutiny does result in the hacks being fired, the career for these guys is essentially over.
“The troopers risked their careers to make a stand, refusing their superiors’ outrageous demands to cover up the details of the arrest.”
It’s a sad state of affairs when doing something as simple as following the law is deemed to be a heroic act for a law enforcement officer.
MA is a sad state.
Zing!
You’re being generous.
This is the N.E. in general…
Up is down and left is right. I’d ask how the cop suckers and the “only a few bad cops” theorists side step stuff like this, but they just ignore it.
Heard that on Howie Carr last week. Every other week it seems we here stories like this out of Mass. It’s incredible.
Democrat bastion of course.
Speaking of sad states and corrupt hacks:
With new member on Menendez jury, deliberations start fresh
Heard that too.
It’s nuts.
I would like to know why she thought that.
It weird – like the jury is looking for an entry in his diary that says “today I did favors for a big donor because he gave me stuff.”
As if all the ridiculous gifts showered on Menendez had nothing to do with all the favors he pulled for his wealthy patrons.
Not sure about that. I found the jury I was on to be quite malleable.
With …. FISTS!
Every other week it seems we here stories like this out of Mass.
Sounds like they need a repeat of Coolidge’s response to the Boston police strike. A little backbone in the face of corruption can go a long way.
She likes to party
https://turtleboysports.com/ballsy-state-trooper-suing-his-bosses-boston-globe-uses-our-expose-on-state-police-coverup-of-judge-bibauds-daughters-infamous-blowjobs-for-heroin-quote/
87) It’s finally happened. I apologize for anything I’ve ever said about Mallory at Dear Prudence. She’s a model of common sense compared to this. The Washington Post advice column on raising your kids has now given the worst advice ever:
“Q: My wife and I are meticulous about showering. We have always encouraged our daughters to take a shower every other day at least. However, our 10 ½-year-old seems to forget. We always have to push her and remind her to take showers. We have experimented with not reminding her, and this has led to three days without a shower (followed by us expressing our frustrated bewilderment to her). On the one hand, we thing she should be able to do this on her own, yet we don’t want our daughter going to school unwashed and with greasy hair. What do you think?
A: I think you are controlling a young woman’s body that is not yours to control. We all want our kids to not stink, but you have got to lay off here. You will cause more problems by controlling her than you will be letting her hair be greasy.”
Got that? You’re not in charge of your kids, and you’re now allowed to tell them to bathe themselves if they don’t feel like it, even if it’s been days and they stink. Wtf?
Kids shouldn’t be going around smelling like goats. Yep, pretty bad advice.
Right advice for the wrong reason. Let her be mocked and shunned at school, then her stinkin’ ass will take a bath.
As a parent, I take the position of “I don’t want to be around your smelly butt. This is my house, if you wish to continue to receive my support, take a bath.”
Yup. The parents put in the work supporting the kids, so they have every right to tell the kids what to do. The problem comes when people expect this setup between citizens and the government.
Funny how the people who don’t think parents should be able to control the their own children think they should be able to control every aspect of everyone else’s life.
“Sally, Bobby that nice boy from Social Studies class is here…no he doesn’t want to see you he say’s you stank ho.”/mom
I don’t see the problem.
Newsflash: RBS is a fan of patchouli.
“It’s time for your bath,” usually works for me.
My kid is used to doing what I tell him though.
Straffin run never has to ask his daughter to wash up twice.
Sometimes dish soap is just dish soap (????).
I’ve seen people in jail ostracize one another over poor hygiene. That dude smelled like cheese, and he got his ass kicked. This is terrible advice.
Better than getting your ass fu… never mind.
CLEANSE THEM ALL!
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN CLEANSING ONE. AT LAST, SOMEONE WHO GETS IT. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
I am willing to be your Brutal Enforcer, ZARDOZ!
My oldest (20) is in a therapy program for depression and PTSD. One of her issues is that she won’t shower on her own. The therapists call this “lack of self care”, and consider it a big issue. Part of being mentally healthy is taking care of basic hygiene on your own. People with mental illness do not do this. So yes, this really is the worst advice ever.
I think Florida Man is actually kind of right here.
There is no point in going to war with your kid over their bathing schedule however you should constantly be reminding them of and reinforcing the natural consequence of such behavior.
There comes a point in the parenting process where you need to stop “telling” your kids what to do and start “Showing” them why it is important to do whatever it is you want them to do because eventually they are going to move out and the minute they do your ability to tell them to do anything will end and any of those things you were forcing them into going along with are just going to end and become a source of rebellion.
This is a fifth-grader. I think she is still in the “telling” zone. It might be concerning, depending on what the rest of her attitude and affect is.
Actually 5th to 7th grade is where the showing not telling phase begins.
The exact point on any given issue is different on each kid but it is around the age she is now where they simply stop listening, and yeah as the parent you can try to force the issue with increasingly harsh punishments and if you are willing to turn your home into a prison camp you might actually succeed in getting them to somewhat obey you but you will be causing long term harm to your kid as they dig in and fight against you, there are very good odds that they end up with a permanent issue with proper hygene if that fight goes on lone enough.
On the flip side, tell them to take a bath, warn them that they are going to stink and be mocked at school for stinking, point out (without malice) that they stink at every opportunity and even isolate them a bit because of the body odor and finally when they inevitably are mocked/isolated at school for their odor show them no mercy, just point out you told them so and that this was a natural consequence for not bathing. Watch how fast they get the message.
These are terrible parents. Why? Because they write the WaPo instead of having conviction in their own beliefs about being a clean person.
Next time they’re going to call 911. The cops are going to show up and shoot her and her dog.
Reminds me of a pic that was going around Facebook a couple years ago. Dad was wearing a shirt that said, “Rules for dating my daughter: 1) I don’t make the rules 2)You don’t make the rules 3) She makes the rules, her body her rules”
My sister-in-law posted that and I was like, “Nope. Until she’s 18, and her mother and I are no longer responsible for her mistakes, we make the rules. Now if she’s over 18, obviously her rules.” Very unwoke.
Jerry Brown is the left’s honest moron:
Jerry Brown Climate Rant: “We need a total, I might say, brainwashing”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/11/11/jerry-brown-climate-rant-we-need-a-total-i-might-say-brainwashing/
With that kind of alarmism it seems that some people have already undergone the brainwashing.
So, I’m sure the folks who were shitting their pants over Donald Trump’s comments about protesters during the election are going to be demanding Jerry Brown step down.
Soon we will have politicians that use “let the bodies hit the floor” as their campaign music.
Robert Stanton Pierre for Presidente for life!
Dis a POIN ted
“We understand the importance of this decision to our shareowners and we have not made it lightly,” Flannery said in the statement. “We are focused on driving total shareholder return and believe this is the right decision to align our dividend payout to cash flow generation.”
GE in October slashed its expectations for 2017 profit and cash flow as Flannery called the company’s performance “completely unacceptable.”
Investors have been bracing for a dividend cut as GE’s slide deepened in recent weeks. The stock has lost about $100 billion in market value this year even as broader indexes have advanced.
And Jeffrey Immelt rides off into the sunset on his pony, saddle bags bulging with gold.
I met him at a conference in DC many years ago. I’m still proud of asking “So what do you do?”.
“So…what is it you do here?”
/2 Bobs
I’m a people person.
/jumps to conclusion
I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS! I AM GOOD AT DEALING WITH PEOPLE!.
Better than your linking skillz, anyway.
Let’s try this again.
Honestly, I don’t know what’s creepier, Biden whispering into the little girl’s ear or the parents not intervening.
I would’ve slugged the SOB. How about that for breaking news!
“Dems 2020 savior: A serial groper who even the WaPo noticed (of course, since he was the Light-bringer’s pick, they made light of it rather than call for his resignation).”
See, when Joe Biden does, it’s because he’s a character. He’s just handsy, you know, that’s how he is, nobody needs to feel threatened or anything. When a 92-year old Republican in a wheelchair does it, it’s patriarchy and evil and must be stopped.
How old is Biden will he even be alive and lucid in 2020?
Well, alive at least – he wasn’t lucid in the 80’s when he was carrying water for the commies.
*Small Edit Fairy make small correction*
The Democrats are the party of youth and diversity!
Why does she have a bra and no panties? She is a fairy, not a mermaid.
Don’t ask silly questions. Surprised you didn’t ask where here feet were…
I know where they are and I’m assuming if she took her panties off, her shoes are off and yes, I want to see them.
The better question is why she has a bra on.
Your phone number, edit fairy?
Belichek looks like a goddam Oompa Loompa in that hoodie. He needs some horizontally striped socks and shoes with pointy turned up toes.
League rules say the coach has to wear the gear instead of dressing like an adult man.
This is how it’s done.
That hat is now is in the possession of Homer Simpson, which he payed for with money he earned by increasing productivity for Hank Scorpio in his global corporation designed to hold nations hostage.
And the best thing about the Hammock District is that MaryAnne gets in the hammock with ya!
I’m kiddin’!
Coaches could wear a suit but only if they can find one made by an NFL sponsor.
I’m just glad they don’t dress up like the baseball coaching staff. Buddy, there’s no reason to wear full uniform – they aren’t putting your fat, old, overweight ass in the game.
I read a theory once that baseball managers wear a uniform because they actually are allowed out on the field of play.
Once upon a time, managers also played. I assume this is a hold over from that era.
League rules fined Mike Nolan for wearing a suit as the coach of the 49ers years ago.
I guess allowing them to express themselves only goes so far in the NFL.
I don’t see what would be wrong with something like this.
It’s basically a branded sportcoat.
The Onion would be thrilled if he ran.
Bill Gates Buys 25,000 Acres of Land in Arizona to Build ‘Smart City’
Is this kind a city for smart people?
You know who else wanted to build a place in the country for smart people?
Saloth Sar?
Jeff Goldblum?
Lex Luthor?
/Waiting for Gates to blow up San Andreas fault
Pol Pot?
*ahem*
Germany Clumsily Admits To Supporting Regime Change In Poland
Some things never change. German lefties still want to rule a united Europe and the Poles still want nothing to do with that bad idea.
Fucking refresh – how does it work?
You know who else supported regime change in Poland?
Kara Mustafa Pasha
Trum….uh no, I mean Hitler?
Czar Alexander I?
Lech Wałęsa?
^THIS^
Everybody?
Mr. Pitt?
Józef Piłsudski?
Karol Józef Wojtyła?
+JP II
Kosciuzko?
Something something JOOOOS, oh wait wrong lefties. Collectivization mentality is still strong, OTOH.
The same damn lefties. The only real difference is that their foreign policy switch was reset from Nationalism to Internationalism.
When I see stories like this, I can’t help but wonder, do the EU elites actually even want a united Europe? I mean, this is the sort of thing that is going to make Poles less likely to support the EU and just the sort of thing that will make Germany’s political allies in Poland look like foreign stooges.
When leftists call for unity, it’s actually a talking point to create more division. At least that’s the case in the US, not sure if the same theory applies in Europe.
To believe in a United Europe at all you have to ignore several hundred years of history, a lot of economic theory, and everything that anyone over the age of 25 knows about human nature. A lot of them are perfectly aware that it’s never really going to work.
The ones that do think it’ll work are the same sorts that would have prattled about the New Soviet Man in the 1920s and 30s.
The ones that do think it’ll work are the same sorts that would have prattled about the New Soviet Man in the 1920s and 30s.
And their behavior is almost guaranteed to ensure failure. That’s the thing here. The EU types keep telling everybody who’ll listen how they’re the future, how they youth already accept the broader European ideal. If so, and I were in charge of the EU, my thinking with regard to the Eastern European nations would be time and trends are on my side. All I need to do is make nice, keep them engaged, let them feel like they have a say and wait out the current governments. They’re doing almost the exact opposite, even to the point of risking the position of their own allies in these countries and completely alienating their publics.
Youth Unemployment was getting on for 50% in Greece and Spain in 2016. Some future.
Either they are stupid, by acting too fast and throwing away their advantage, or they have noticed that once the youth escape the comfortable, propagandizing educational establishments and are thrown into the real world they revise their views, in which case time being on their side is only an illusion and they are hurrying to act before the illusion fades.
Particularly power-hungry Europeans have been dreaming about it ever since Charlemagne’s empire dissolved. “Germany” didn’t exist as a nation until the second half of the 19th century. During most of the Middle Ages up until Napoleon, it was part of the Holy Roman Empire – which explicitly claimed authority inherited from the Roman Empire over all of Europe.
No coincidence that the French SS Division was named after Charlemagne. Hitler’s vision for united, German dominated, Europe was only slightly different than Frederick Barbarossa’s or Angela Merkel’s.
I doubt anyone will see this now, but the other thing is that they are more interested at this point in keeping the Eurozone up than in supporting the EU per se. A necessary but not sufficient condition for a successful currency union is freedom of movement – allowing EU members outside of the Euro not to be subject to this would make Euro membership even more unattractive.
What this will mean when they finally accept that a monetary union needs a fiscal one is anybody’s guess.
It’s his chance to play sim city for real. Let’s see how his micromanaging works out when the people aren’t controlled by an algorithm.
To hell with the micro-managing. Everyone knows the best part of Sim-city was the disasters.
Don’t worry, there’ll be disasters.
Alien attack?
If we’re lucky. I’m thinking more run of the mill shortages and crippling inefficiency that comes with top down rule.
And their bonds they have to keep rolling over to infinity.
I’m pretty sure Gates can look up the free money cheat.
(I still have the rhythm of that cheat for sc2k in my mind, I just cant fill in the letters anymore)
I’ve been waiting for one of these ‘tech saviors’ to do something like this. They need to know the peasants how to live.
Sp Bill Gates is moving to Buckeye? Like I needed another reason not to move to Buckeye.
I think you are controlling a young woman’s body that is not yours to control. We all want our kids to not stink, but you have got to lay off here. You will cause more problems by controlling her than you will be letting her hair be greasy.”
Invite her into the shower with you. Make it a fun time, a rubbadubdub time, soaping each other up all over. Put her on course for a life of bathtime fun.
Ummmm….
*lights OMWC signal*
If he’s so goddam smart, why is he building a city in Arizona?
He found magic dirt?
So it can be used as a set for a post-apocalyptic film after it sits empty for a decade?
Maybe he just saw Superman 3?
Superman 1. It’s going to be oceanfront property when he’s done with it.
Something about an alien with gold plates told him to?
Right
Building a city in the middle of a desert region seems rather foolish.
I was hoping for a mushroom cloud.
How kooky is New Jersey’s new Governor? Here are his big promises – all assume a bottomless pit of state money, several unconstitutional, and the last one seems rather impossible give all the others.
“all assume a bottomless pit of state money” this is a standard simplifying assumption in political science. Are you saying it’s flawed? ‘Cause that would shake political thought to it’s core.
Yeah, I’m looking forward to the higher taxes and increased regulation that will raise the cost of goods and services and drive more businesses out on New Jersey. I really want to punch every idiot who voted for this.
Just call them Nazis and your good to go.
So basically New Jersey will be a state devoid of any wealth in the next few years. But hey legal weed, at least they got that going for them.
What’s interesting is that no Democratic governor has lasted more than one term in NJ for the past 30 or so years, possibly because of the high taxes and corruption. Now my questions to the citizens of NJ is why do you keep electing them when you know you always get burned by them? RINOs are at least good for gridlock and chaos.
Because NJ is a deep blue state and a Republican only gets elected after a Democrat screws things up so badly that the proggies don’t turn out to vote.
5. Raise the minimum wage
Murphy has gotten behind the $15 per hour movement.
Because fuck poor people. they don’t need jobs anyway.
I’ve found people are pretty easy to talk out of the $15 MW. I start with how it’s a huge advantage to large corporations, then how it kills mom and pop shops and finish with how it hurts the most vulnerable workers. I can’t recall anyone not convinced with that pitch. The problem is that most people don’t think past first order effects.
It’s also easy to make the entire concept seem ridiculous – why $15? Don’t they deserve more? How about $50? No? Why not? Why do you hate the poor?
I fight dirty with it. My cousin has Down’s Syndrome, and there’s no way he can get a job that pays much more than minimum wage. He works at a grocery store in his home town, bagging, and that helps him learn to save (he’s still in high school). My aunt recently had to go on disability due to back issues, but keeps explaining to him that that is not an acceptable way to live if he can earn money and afford independence. If the minimum wage is $15/hr., I really doubt he’d be able to keep his current job, or get another one.
That is how John Stewart skewered Peter Schiff on his show. Cut the interview to suggest that Schiff wanted to exploited handicapped children. One of Stewart’s many low points.
Anyone who went on the Daily Show deserved what they got. It was hardly a secret that they deceptively edited their interviews.
My brother is in the same boat but he’s 39. Has Aspberger’s. Lives at home with mom and dad. Works at Wal-Mart. He’d be priced out of a job and would sit at home and be even more depressed.
Girls at the prison used to freak the fuck out about getting a job when it got close to their release date. After all, many of them – even those who were in their 30s or 40s – had never held a job before, and now they had a prison stretch on their record. It’s going to be hard to even get an interview.
Yet, the “compassionate” “progressives” want to mandate a minimum wage, health insurance, maternity leave, and a host of other things that make it more expensive to hire an employee. This kind of stuff is all well and good for educated and experienced people (e.g. those who are probably already well-off) but it really fucks over these people who have screwed up but are trying to straighten up and do things right.
Sweeping floors for $3 per hour is nobody’s idea of a dream job, but these “progressives” don’t understand that for many people, that’s the best deal they can get. You’re not helping them by outlawing the one option that is actually available to them.
Yeaah. That’s a feature, not a bug.
19. A better N.J. economy
Somehow.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
I didn’t catch that tidbit.
Murphy obviously knows how to corruption. He’ll do well in Jersey.
That thing would be an embezzlement scheme run by connected cronies from day one.
It’s been done
Bank of North Dakota. I got my student loan there.
20. Chase productive people/businesses out of the state (then wonder why 1-19 didn’t happen).
(then
wonderblame ‘rich people’ for why 1-19 didn’t happen).Note that ‘rich people’ includes anyone making over the NJ median income.
So it can be used as a set for a post-apocalyptic film after it sits empty for a decade?
Ooh, I know. Gates can just lease a Ghost City from the Chinese Communist Party.
That would have been cheaper and Chinese are used to being treated as widgets.
Maybe he can build it near Arcosanti. That is another ideal city of the future started in 1970 by Paolo Solari. In only 47 years it has never been completed or produced anything of value- except for windchimes.
It’s almost like cities sprout up because there’s an economic incentive for people to live there (e.g. coastline, along a heavily traveled river, near a huge deposit of natural resources, etc.), not because some TOP MAN built one on some random plot of land.
I could see it possibly becoming a playground for a small handful of rich people who bring in huge amounts of cash with them, but that’s not much of a city.
aka Vegas
a small handful of rich people who bring in huge amounts of cash with them
aka Scottsdale.
For Swiss: the problem when you’re the best in the world…All Blacks beat France in Paris by 20 points but “negatives outweigh positives”:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news/article.cfm?c_id=80&objectid=11943205
Would to God I had problems like that.
“All Blacks”? Has someone told Dan Snyder that there is a team out there with a more triggering name?
Pffft. Allow me to introduce the “All Whites.”
One interesting data point I found about some of the Virginia exit polls: apparently the percentage of African-Americans who supported the R candidate went up from 8% in 2016 to 15% in 2017. It wasn’t enough to hurt them in VA because the bureaucratic swamp lives there, but I do wonder that if it is a long-term trend, if it could hurt the Dems next year in places like PA, WI, OH, and MI.
Huh….and Gillespie STILL got thumped by 9 points? Man, we have way, WAY too many asshole Northeastern carpetbaggers moving to NoVa.
Gillespie actually got more votes than McDonnell did in his landslide 2009 victory. Conservatives showed up in high numbers to vote last week. I think the result was more about people dependent on the federal and state government for employment who voted out of self-interest for the party that wasn’t threatening the swamp. Look at where all of the flipped delegate seats were on the map: it was all in districts where the federal and state governments were the main employers. Even the district that Chris Hurst won in Western VA was in Blacksburg, the home of Virginia Tech.
west end of Henrico flipped too though. My delegate is now Deborah fucking Rodman.
Could have been worse, could have been the Marxist Marine.
Note that I said state government, too. Henrico is right next to Richmond, so it counts in my working thesis. 😛
Looked her up. She’s a wimmen’s studies professor, but I’m guessing that she’ll have to moderate considerably if she wants to keep her seat beyond a term.
Related to Dennis?
Anyway, I was talking to my brother in law last night who has worked in VA politics for 15 years (now as a lobbyist, formerly a campaign manager type). Thinks the Dems get their majority in two years but that it will be very short-lived, and things will kind of see-saw after that.
Are most proggies all that enthused about a State Senate election in 2019, though, with no gubernatorial race? It’ll take much less time for the vast majority of the populace to realize that Trump isn’t the scary monster that the left is trying to illustrate.
all assume a bottomless pit of state money
“How are we gonna pay for this?”
Is that all you can say? Don’t be such a Debbie Downer. We’re talking about a glorious future for all New Jerseyans, and all you have to offer is, “How are we gonna pay for this?”
Did the Germans ask, “How are we gonna pay for this?” before they bombed Pearl Harbor?
Did the Visigoths ask, “How are we gonna pay for this?” before they sacked Rome?
+1 rolling.
YOU MEAN THERE WERE DIFFERENT TYPES OF GOTHS!??!
I’ll never get history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrJnzBFzEEY
Did the Visigoths ask, “How are we gonna pay for this?” before they sacked Rome?
To spoil the joke, sacking a city generally pays for itself. If it doesn’t you may need remedial lessons in how to properly horde.
Deadwood Movie Might Start Shooting Next Year
Yes please.
I feel like I should finally get around to watching Deadwood.
You absolutely should. Fantastic show. Al Swearengen is one of the greatest characters in TV history.
Modern day fucking Shakespeare, set in the 1800’s.
Yes. That cocksucker, Swearengen is awesome!
+1. I’d say in the top 5 shows I’ve ever seen.
Every other word is “fuck” . Other than that it’s a good show. I mean, it’s no Hondo but whatever
The Deadwood movie is like cold fusion.
Always just a little while away.
Right? At some point the actors will be too old and it will have to be a ‘reflective’ piece…
Well, clearly now it will have to be set 10 years or so after the series. I’m assuming that’s what they’re doing.
It’s about time, you goddamn hoopleheads!
Nice song selection Bret. Prong has been put back in to heavy rotation in my car’s MP3 player. I love this album and recently (3 -4 years ago) rediscovered it while on a Corrosion of Conformity pandora station.
Prong is definitely one of the most interesting metal bands I’ve ever heard. Underrated.
Completely agree. Great choice.
19. A better N.J. economy
Assume a can opener.
Black Beach White Beach
Documentary about the bike festivals here. I’ve lived here through dozens of bike weeks and the Black Bike Week crowd has earned every bit of the treatment they get.
Bacon Magic is getting fucked by Love Pork.
Some pasty Brit writes a few bacon sandwich reviews and he gets an award? What about the tireless work BM has been doing here?
It is right there in his name… By just showing up around him, BM has given implied consent.
What is worse than pajama boy? His dog.
No, just no.
Sweet Jesus, England is fucked.
He’s gonna have a hard time licking his balls in those. The dog isn’t gonna like them, either.
Throw it in the fireplace. And the pajamas.
I’m not sure what that is, but it is not a dog.
Denmark’s free education policy has created ‘eternity students’ who never graduate
“My impression”
“My belief”
It kind of sounds like reality is rudely intruding on his fantasies. Poor guy.
Hey now, it’s not like in every other aspect of life, and in multiple studies people haven’t been shown to value what they work for and pay for more than what they don’t.
Anyone want a short story dropped here?
Intersectionality
My friend told me about a new used car dealership that opened up in town over by the railroad tracks. The owner decided he’d revolutionize the used car industry by offering cars at their true market value plus a 5% bump for overhead and salary. He’d make up for the lower margins with volume.
I strolled into his lot and started kicking tires. A 2009 Honda Fit caught my eye. 17K miles and the body looked perfect. “Why don’t you take it for a spin?” the owner asked as he flipped me the keys. It had responsive steering, comfy seats and decent power for such a small engine. “We’ve checked around and this model with this mileage and condition goes for $7,530, so we’re offering it for $7,200. Most places mark up quite a bit for the ladies.”
I stood there thinking about it for a long while. I had only $7,100 to spend. Of course, I needed the car for work and my job was essential to put food on the table, so I knocked $200 off his price in my head. Being a woman, it was obvious that I could be raped walking around at night, so I sliced another $300 of the price. Really, how much would it cost society to deal with another rape? And, isn’t this owner part of the raping gender? Also, I’m nearing fifty years old, so I’ll need money for retirement. If I don’t have enough for my old age, I’ll be a burden on society. I knocked another $500 off his price. Raised by a single mother; $600. Genetically prone to obesity; $450. Lesbian experience in college; $150. Bad teeth, left handed, bad at math, more than five vowels in my last name. The numbers were flashing through my head like John Nash working on differential geometry.
Finally, I had my answer. “I’ll take the car. According to my calculations, you owe me the car and $2,600.” As I listed my deductions, the left side of the dealer’s face started twitching. When I reeled off the last deduction, he reached out his shaking arm and handed me the title.
. . .
She pulled out of the dealership in the purple Honda Fit and turned up the song that came on the radio. She had loved Alanis Morissette ever since she heard it playing in the background while eating out her college roommate. She looked in the rear view mirror and saw the dealer waving good bye, some pinkish liquid running down his forearm. She thrust her arm out the window and flipped him off. “Fuck your white patriarchy!” she yelled and stomped on the gas, a wad of cash in the passenger seat.
. . .
BAAAAAAAM! “Hey, Boss. What was that?” the young mechanic shouted from the Fiat he was under. “No problem, kid. Just means the train was on time.” He started wiping off the brake fluid on his arm, proud of himself for not mansplaining to the lady that the brake lines were bad.
*reaches in wreckage to save the presidents*
*turns off Alanis and turns station to Here my Train a coming by Jimi Hendrix*
And don’t forget to turn in the insurance claim on the car that was out for a test drive.
You didn’t give us time to tell you NO.
Floating Cities, No Longer Science Fiction, Begin to Take Shape
The NYT takes on seasteading. The results speak for themselves:
Oh no! Climate change! Populism! WHERE IS MY UTOPIA??
Fucking private property, eh comrade?
with sea levels rising because of climate change
Humanity cannot deal with a few inches’ higher shorelines over several decades, so we’re going to reinvent Venice. Sounds legit.
It is an idea at once audacious and simplistic
As in, the audacious vision of a simpleton? For sure.
I liked them better when they were about stateless societies, not global warming mitigation.
The Dutch laugh, and go about their business.
Well, we can’t possibly be expected to repeat the Dutch feat of rescuing their country from the sea. Those dikes were built in a more primitive age, without permits or environmental impact studies or affirmative action quotas or anything else that’s essential to completing a project in civilized society. I’d bet their opportunity for graft was even less, given that they were just moving dirt around instead of installing some fancy material that will have to replaced every three decades that only the contractor’s cousin’s firm makes to spec. We can’t approach a project in today’s world like we are a bunch of medieval peasants: if we can’t do this thing right, it can’t be done at all.
Can you imagine the ecological disaster those dykes caused. All those vulnerable coastal ecosystems disrupted!
I must say, I don’t care for all these homophobic slurs.
Can you imagine how much it would cost to build those dikes today? Probably around 20 trillion dollars.
*grows gills and gengineers sea-pigs*
“I’ve got bacon, I will rule.” /Bacon-King
You’re too late, we’ve already seen Lena Dunham in a bathing suit.
I meant edible bacon, not greasy fat that gropes it’s own sister. She would be a hybrid between a manatee and a rapey dolphin.
Lena “Why didn’t this famous basketball player bend me over the table? Must be a misogynist” Dunham
If that tweet had been a post on a MGTOW forum, it would rightly have been ridiculed as reductive, self-flattering, and absurd. But because it’s Dunham, the onus was on the supposed racial implications.
Delusional Democrats, ch 7,921
It is the stuff of liberal fantasies: a vast, defiant territory, sweeping along the country’s Pacific coastline, governed by Democrats and resisting President Trump at every turn.
A single election in a wealthy Seattle suburb on Tuesday could make that scenario a reality, handing the party full control of government in Washington State — and extinguishing Republicans’ last fragile claim on power on the West Coast. The region has been a rare Democratic stronghold on an electoral map now dominated by vast swaths of red, and Republicans’ only toehold on power there has been a one-seat majority in the Washington State Senate.
The prospect of such far-reaching autonomy for Democrats, who already hold all three governors’ offices as well as both houses of the legislatures in Oregon and California, has infused extraordinary energy into what might have been a low-key special election. The race is on track to draw more than $9 million in campaign spending, a record-breaking sum for Washington State. National environmental and abortion rights groups have mobilized, business associations and oil companies have poured in money, and a former vice president, Joseph R. Biden Jr., has intervened on the Democratic side.
The entire west coast will secede and pursue their own destiny. Because Portland, San Francisco and Seattle progressive fever dreams are all that really matter. Who gives a shit what the deplorables east of Snoqualmie Pass want?
I’ll miss them.
Good. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Rotten morning – found out that a wonderful lady I used to work for died over the weekend.
Condolences.
Sorry, Chip.
That stinks. Sorry.
Sorry.
Sorry
So sorry.
That sucks. Sorry, man.
condolences. That always sucks
Sorry to hear that.
Got to the range over the weekend. This week was M&P Shield; XD-S, Ultra Carry II; and the P938. After repeated warnings that the P938 was “snappy”, I was surprisingly easy to shoot. My wife loves it. I found it a bit too small to grip comfortably. So I preferred the Ultra Carry. The M&P Shield and XD-S were fine guns, but I much prefer the SAO triggers on the Ultra Carry II and P938.
I was one number off from winning a “We the People” version P938…
*kicks pebble*
Get the Shield anyway.
George Takei thinks Russian bots spread sexual assault accusation
Russians!
Oh my!
It was Chekov.
It’s funny how Russophobia transitioned so seamlessly between sides. The GOPe at one point used the Putin boogeyman a lot when talking about Obama and his foreign relations.
They did, but now Putin is lurking under every bedsheet and in every closet. It’s absurd.
Mencken from Pie’s quote fest the other day:
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
I looked up The Law from Bastiat after that post. Glad I did.
Thanks Pie!
Putin made me burn my eggs this morning. I’m starving now.
Maybe it’s my own blind spots, but I always took the GOP Putin bogeyman as more grounded in reality. The guy essentially follows an opportunistic strategy, taking advantage of the chances he gets to advance his and his country’s interests where doing so doesn’t pose a significant risk. On a certain level, he’d be remiss if he didn’t play that game. But, going from there to Putin as some sort of devil figure plotting behind the scenes to bring down progressivism is more than a little bit of a stretch. Somehow, the idea of Putin sitting in his layer, shaking his fist, hollering “Curse you, George Takai! You’ve foiled my plans again!” just doesn’t seem plausible to me.
You know who else spread for George Takei?
Was it Spock? I always wondered about that guy.
Corey Haim?
Yeoman Rand tried but he wasn’t interested
George has finally found his fame as a shrill bobblehead for the left. He won’t give it up easily.
Maybe Sulu should stop raping his automated samovar?
I start my new job today. So I’ll be inundated with sexual harassment videos. That and Rufus may finally get his wish and I might actually have to work for a change.
Congrats!
NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Congratulations on the new job. Condolences on the new work.
Congratulations.
What is the work?
Data Loss Prevention.
Disconnect all the servers.
Bang. Data loss prevented.
Congratulations, pinch the HR lady’s butt on the way into the session. They like that.
“What’s happening, hot stuff?”
Good luck!
Work….pffffft.
Congrats!
Thumbs up, wish you the best of luck in your new job!
Congratulations!
At a previous company I had to take annual sexual harassment/diversity training courses and pass an evaluation quiz at the end of each course. I zoned out and ignored everything until the evaluation. I answered questions imagining I was a SJW, and did well enough that I passed the evaluation.
We had one two weeks ago, presented by an attorney. He had a few true or false slides, one of which was “It is never ok to compliment a coworker on their physical appearance.” – False.
Yeah fucking right dude. If Sally in HR has a new haircut, no way in hell am I going to say anything about it.
Can we compliment them on their freshly stuffed beaver?
Only if they show it to you first
A coworker and I have the following coping mechanism.
We frequently and loudly accuse each other of creating a hostile work environment for us.
It has people in surrounding cubicles in stitches since the other guy has a really, really quick wit and comes up with some hilarious accusations.
I do this all the time as well. I’m always “filing” HR complaints about various microagressions from coworkers.
At my job, we have the most inappropriate HR guy ever. It’s pretty hilarious.
He walked in the room while we were training and said, “Hey, um… Is it bad if you go pee and it burns a little bit?”
Then I was walking past the orientation room as some new hires were leaving, and one of the girls had a perplexed look on her face and said to him, “OK, well, enjoy your crossdressing!“
“All I said was that Sally’s hair smelled nice. How is that harrassment?”
“Bob, you are a midget.”
Congrats
Congratulations on the new job! As for the harassment videos, just remember you have two ears – one in and one out.
When I log onto the company intranet at work, a question about harassment pops up and I have to answer it before I can proceed. I always pick the wrong answer because it’s so fucking stupid.
Careful. It’s now misogyny to “abuse” Alexa, a computer program that just happens to have been programmed with a feminine voice. You may be guilty of microaggressing your intranet.
Open enrollment bitch thread:
mine went up another 14%.
Mine ended 10/31, you are just now doing open enrollment?
I think mine went up a bit less than yours, don’t have the numbers in front of me, but around 10%, maybe slightly less.
Yeah, started today, ends Friday. Really gave us a lot of time to browse the options.
options?
My employment-provided plan is going up by 12.6% this year. Such a strange coincidence that before Obamacare, I rarely had increases and if I did, they were in the single digits. I guess we’ll never know why, but at least now we have Obamacare to protect us from triple digit increases.
Thank goodness they bent the cost curve down. Hospitals would resemble Mad Max if not for Obamacare.
My liberal friend has already blamed Trump. He’s creating instability in the markets, that is one of the reasons why costs went up.
It needs to be stressed over and over that the Democrats promised to fix the problem, and it’s not fixed. They repeatedly assured everyone that they had all the incentives worked out for employees, businesses, and insurance companies, so they can’t deflect the blame to “mean old corporations”. They summarily blew off any criticism of Obama”Care” as being motivated by greed, racism, sexism, or whatever the fuck.
The Democrats need to be put in the hot seat over this mess. There is no way they can blame anyone else (although I know they’re trying, bless their little hearts).
I’ll be inundated with sexual harassment videos.
“You should smile more often. It brightens up the whole room.”
*slap*
So my poor dog has developed a weird health problem. Over the past few weeks she has progressively lost control of her bladder. Two days ago, she started throwing up and lost interest in her food and lost all control of her bladder. She got X-rays over the weekend that showed she had some foreign material (I suspect a bit of fire-hose from a toy she destroyed), but it was moving through her intestine slowly but surely.
The vet recommended a specific bland food. She’s keeping it down and loving it (it’s the nastiest smelling pork byproducts and every dog I’ve ever had whose been exposed to it acts like it’s the greatest stuff on earth). We’re pretty sure she pooped the bad stuff out, but she still has no bladder control. They did some blood work and took a urine sample. They say it isn’t a UTI, and referred her to an internal medicine specialist.
So we got some diapers, and my wife – displaying a skill I had no idea she had – has been modifying them expertly with my knife to make them fit the dog’s tush.
It’s helped. And the dog is less miserable – she clearly hates having accidents. But we have no idea what’s wrong. 🙁
That’s sad. I hope it’s better soon.
Sorry, I hope your dog gets better soon.
I’m sorry for your dog. I hope she feels better soon.
Bah, that sucks. How old is she?
8 months old.
Blood work just came back. No anomalies. I’m wondering if she has a damaged nerve.
That’s young. Any other specialists you can try?
GQ named kap the man of the year.
A cry for attention
Yeah. I just thought it was hilarious.
Kap is gonna fuck up another brand.
Damn, I thought you were joking.
https://www.gq.com/story/colin-kaepernick-cover-men-of-the-year
I knew if I didn’t put a link in people might think that!
*Nods approvingly*
I hate pro football and what he’s started has managed to pretty much wreck it. Award deserved.
Lmao.
*tries to jump off Earth*
Would love to see some publication troll the SJWsphwere and unironically name Bruce Jenner Man of the Yeah
Would be beautiful watching their heads explode trying to figure out whether to celebrate them for honoring a trans woman or protest because they both dead named and screwed up her gender.
What the fuck is up with Conde Nast (the owners of GQ, as well as a number of other magazines that have gone off the deep end in the last year or two)? GQ is a fucking fashion magazine. It’s not like it takes brilliant insight and savvy to run it. Take orders for fashion advertisements and fill in between with articles on travel, gadgetry, music, sportsball, etc. You write the magazine to draw in eyeballs for the advertisements. In no possible way does it make any sense to start off alienating a wide swath of your audience. At this point, Colin Kaepernick is a nobody, a failed NFL QB. You aren’t bringing in eyeballs that are going to buy your advertisers’ products. Hell, most SJWs are conspicuously opposed to your advertisers’ products. These people are just stupid.
GQ is where the moonbats hide if they’re too nutty for MSNBC. Remember that these are the folks that pay Keith Olbermann to hallucinate in his basement.
True. But, this has only been going on for about a year. Why are they doing this? To me, this is saying, “We’re tired of our publication making money. We’d much rather exist as a welfare program for unemployable leftists.”. And it seems to be going on across Conde Nast.
I wonder if other sports busts are out there looking at Kap and thinking “Hey #MeToo”.
If Ryan Leaf says he was harassed by Harvey Weinstein does he get a second try? Or JaMarcus Russel saying the racist cops of Oakland caused him to eat his emotions?
Jeff George is probably kicking himself right now. Why don’t the Kaepernick jockriders ever bring him up? Guy’s career was done at age 33, just two seasons removed from his excellent year with the Vikings, and he was a better passer than Kaepernick could ever hope to be.
Sometimes, it doesn’t matter if you can play or not if you alienate the people who pay you.
A much better cover:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5078045/Gal-Gadot-GQ-s-American-Heroes-cover.html
“If you are upset that Colin Kaepernick was named GQ Citizen of the Year, then most likely, you are probably a white supremacist. And I dance in racist tears like….”
https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/930100176760406016
He’s also an expert on Europe.
https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/929737927466172416
Was the website changed? The sidebar stuff that was only on the front page, is now on the article page as well. So the morning links are much more narrow, and there is this big blank space on the right all the way down the page.
I tried logging off, clearing everything, and restarting my browser, but it didn’t do anything.
Go to the command prompt and type FORMAT C. That should fix it.
rm -rf /
One of the pranks that always got pulled on n00bs back in the day would be to run touch ‘*’ in their home directory.
All too often the new guy would end up running rm -rf * to get rid of it with hilarious results.
damn, in 20 years it never once occurred to me that the star was a valid character for filenames.
Are you getting the same thing?
I am
Yeah, I am. Just messin w/ya. 🙂
*Puts F.Stupidity Jr. on a list*
P Brooks too. So I hope it gets fixed. The way it is now, about a third of the page is wasted.
The Sidebar was not turned off – I fixed it.
If I remember correctly, it’s been mentioned before that the sidebar is an option that can be turned on/off on a per article basis by the person posting the article. If this is the case, that just means it got turned on/not turned off by accident.
Yup. I think Brett dropped the ball.
*flips keyboard in disgust*
I got it…a bit late, but better late than never.
GQ named kap the man of the year.
A level of enlightened wokeness we all should aspire to attain.
Was the website changed? The sidebar stuff that was only on the front page, is now on the article page as well. So the morning links are much more narrow, and there is this big blank space on the right all the way down the page.
It’s not just me, then.
I binged through the first season of Detectorists last night, which, being British, is only six episodes long. And it was a fairly sweet if dispiriting affair throughout. The show follows a pair of hobbyist metal detectorists and their mission to find the lost funeral ship of a seventh-century Saxon king, but it touches on the pathos of both men, their terse relationship, their club of eccentric detectorists, and their antiquarian rivals attempting to horn in on their turf. Would definitely recommend if you’re into pithy, downbeat English dramedy.
I hate even having to point it out, but the show (the first season, at least) hews to its narrative and doesn’t attempt to push an agenda. There’s no shoehorned token gay character, no quips about climate change or wealth inequality, no mocking country yokels, no political taint at all. It takes some digs at new-age yuppies and bureaucracy-wielding busybodies, but it’s never explicitly political. Nothing turns me off a show like explicit hamfisted political point-scoring.
https://youtu.be/hS5-Mq7zJPk
Best I couled do with my phone. It’s really hard to capture scale on something that big in a confined area.
Hot rod.
Lachowsky layin’ the pipe.
Smoking pole.
And the gay jokes. of course.
Getting his rod lengthened?
Very cool.
Cool! How about some more commentary?
So, that’s the bottom level of the caster. At the top level 68 feet above where I shot that video, liquid steel is poured into mold. The mold is rotated and cooled by water being forced through ports that are machined into it. The mold is 255mm wide and two feet deep. By the time the steel reaches the bottom of the mold, it has cooled enough to be solid on the ouside, but still liquid on the inside. At the bottom of the mold is a set of rollers that grab the bar and pull it downward. and rotate it. below that there are series of rotating clamps that hold the bar in place until it reaches the 11 foot level. At the eleven foot level, there is a vertical e carriage that clamp onto the bar at the desired length and rides down with the bar while a saw cuts the bar. The cut bar falls down onto a platform and the saw carriage releases the bar that is still being cast. The video shows the cut bar being tilted and sent out onto the roll line.
The casting process is a continously operation. We start the caster every Thursday evening and continually made stellar at about 90 tons per hour until the next Thursday morning.
Thanks! What’s magic about 11 feet? Who buys these?
there’s. I thing special about 11 foot. That’s just the floor where the saws the bar. Since the bar is continually falling and the is another 35 feet of room below the ground floor level, the saw can cut the bar where ever we tell them to. We cut billlets from 10 feet long up to 32. The length of the billet is determined by what we plan on rolling the product into.
After leaving the caster, it’s next step is the rolling mill, where it will be rolled down in diameter to anywhere between 6 inches and an inch and a half.
Sweet. An article would be pretty cool – I have about a million more questions.
/manufacturing nerd
I will work on putting one together. I’m having trouble being able to get get good pictures of the equipment I work on Most of it guarded and a lot of it very large. A good article would include photos so that I can better explain what’s going on.
Great,
Please post all the specs too.
/guy who sells rigging to local steel mill and sees opportunity
I am also interested in an article.
sell them nylon rigging and you will sell alot. The stuff can’t handle the enviroment and has to be replaced often. We buy a ton of it.
/manufacturing nerd
ok everyone, raise your hand if that DOESN’T apply to you.
Why are my Black Iron pipes in 21 ft. sections?
The 21′ length became the standard because of the old way pipe was produced. Pipe was produced in the past using the bell and tongue method. This method of pipe making started with a heated ( red hot – close to melting temperature) length of steel strip and then the strip was manually pulled with a pair of tongues through a bell. Hence the bell and tongue method. The bell was used as both the forming roll and the welding roll. The 21 foot length was the length that could be produced and still keep enough heat in the strip to produce a good weld. A longer length would not have produced suitable weld quality over the entire length. Shorter pipe would not have as good a yield.
Seems plausible.
You’re such a good working stiff.
Fail: was expecting Darth Vader to step out
I saw your link for aircraft incidents last night:
You should check out Charlie Victor Romeo:
http://charlievictorromeo.com/
No hype or over dramatized events..
ARTICLE! ARTICLE! ARTICLE!
Cool stuff.
It reminds me of my last Mexican dinner.
Chipolte, I assume.
“WEARING A TRUMP HAT IN HOLLYWOOD (Attacked On Camera)
By the way, I’d like to make it clear that the experiment was simply to wear the hat in public. We didn’t do anything remotely inflammatory or investigative. We didn’t even really speak to them.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyHB0COkw3s
“E M O T I O N A L V I O L E N C E”
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/929997606096457728
I am now conflicted.
it takes a special courage to douse a stranger in the eyes and run away.
What the fuck is up with Conde Nast (the owners of GQ, as well as a number of other magazines that have gone off the deep end in the last year or two)?
see, also: Vanity Fair
Or Teen “now webzine only” Vogue? You’d think the first rule of writing for teenagers is you don’t promote anal sex, but here we are and now they aren’t.
I don’t think having an article about anal sex is bad. Although I didn’t read it. It’s the extreme cultural leftism. And it’s not as though people who aren’t SJW’s (the majority of population) don’t buy shoes, clothes, etc.
From a moral POV, maybe not. But unless you expect that your target demographic is going to buy your mag, and presumably your advertisers’ products, with their own cash, it seems like a more pragmatic turn to appease parents and eschew frank discussions about anal sex. Stick to Obama fluffing and identity politics if you have to go all vanguard leftist.
And it’s not as though people who aren’t SJW’s (the majority of population) don’t buy shoes, clothes, etc.
If anything the SJWs are conspicuous in their lack of interest in buying these products.
I would love to know whether that upscale fashion company sold even a single one of those $350 antifa coats.
On that note, Thaddeus Russell had on some comedian last week for his podcast. They discussed their similar backgrounds: Russell growing up in Berkeley with card-carrying, meeting-having Communist parents, his guest the son of a therapy-obsessed mother and (eventual) orthodox Jewish father in Oakland. They were both obsessed with black culture, being surrounded (and routinely bullied) by blacks whom they nonetheless looked up to. And shot throughout the conversation is their bizarre fixation with what I can only term authenticity: the authenticity of poverty, of the underclass, of Marxist purity. Coming from a background of any sort of material success was considered shameful, and so they both eschewed bourgeois trappings or mannerisms. They affected skin-deep habits to get along better with other doctrinaire socialists. I couldn’t shake the feeling that they still genuinely thought themselves transgressive and militant even though merely roleplaying brownshirt Commies as young men. It was interesting to eavesdrop on this discussion in the way entomology is interesting, but you normally don’t pity the insects.
Teen Vogue was in the back of my mind when I commented on GQ. It should be front and center of in the minds of every editor and executive within Conde Nast. But, they’re just doubling down. None of these outlets require anything political. They can simply sidestep the issue and make money (and if they want to donate that money to various leftist causes, that’s on them). Instead they’re dedicated to setting themselves up for failure.
I kind of think that the leftism is more the symptom than the problem itself. The problem is that teenagers and millennial women tend to get their fashion updates online now, which lowers the subscriber counts of the magazine. The editors then try to use leftism to compensate for the loss rather than stick to what they actually do best, which accelerates the decline. It’s funny, but the magazines that are still doing very well are specialty magazines like Cook’s Illustrated, who focus solely on food as their niche.
It may also be that teenagers don’t even know what a print magazine is.
And yet the amount of food and cooking-related content on the internet seems to eclipse the amount of fashion related content. Conde Nast has a huge advantage over the online venues; they have an inside track with their advertisers. Instead, they’re venturing into material that is only going to further eat into their subscriber counts.
If you don’t how are good little evangelical girls going to learn to take it up the butt so they can honor their purity pledge and remain a virgin till marriage?
the first rule of writing for teenagers is you don’t promote anal sex
OMWC hardest hit.
Well, you can’t get those hideous parasite babies via anal sex …
Ah, but abortion is a liberating, identity-affirming personal choice to which every young woman should treat herself at least once in her life, and anal sex deprives her of that experience.
Like I said, it looks like it’s running rampant throughout the whole company.
You’d think the first rule of writing for teenagers is you don’t promote anal sex, but here we are and now they aren’t.
That’s just wrong. Anal sex is not the answer. Everyone knows the correct response is, “Eatin’ ain’t cheatin’.”
So that’s what fitness freaks mean by “cheat day.”
So someone fucked up this year’s tax notification envelopes and had them all printed with the PO box of the institution of deposit, where I work, rather than the individual homeowners’ addresses. So we’ve now gotten tens of thousands of tax notices which we’re boxing up and sending back to the assessors. Would be lulzy if I thought someone, other than taxpayers, is going to pay a price for the mistake.
Meanwhile, in idiotic right-wing social signaling
https://twitter.com/hashtag/BreakYourKeurig
People are morons, film at 11.
The coffee is pretty bad, though.
Ugh, “swill” would be charitable. Convenience store coffee at Starbucks prices, too. The one good thing about Keurig is that they solved the problem of office coffee making protocols.
Last office I worked in coffee was my task since I drank 95% of it. Sounds like your experience is just about assholes who like to fight over chores.
People also think Keurig is not an American company. It’s headquartered in Vermont!
Keurig’s greatest offense is making people believe they should pay $70+ for a pound of coffee.
Or their greatest triumph.
Yes — I wish I were that genius.
Anyone watch “Poldark?” My son urged me to start watching it; says there are some Randian overtones, Poldark is some proto-classical liberal, etc.
I wonder if this is a real quote
https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/930043897941757954
None of these outlets require anything political. They can simply sidestep the issue and make money (and if they want to donate that money to various leftist causes, that’s on them). Instead they’re dedicated to setting themselves up for failure.
Oh, come on. “Thought leaders” based in NYC can’t bear the thought of allowing their readers to think for themselves. How are those sorority girls in Ames, Iowa going to know how awful Donald Trump is if Vanity Fair doesn’t print a fourteen page in depth examination of his every misstep and faux pas on a monthly basis?
This really does seem to be the mindset. And they can’t get it through their thick skulls that the sorority girls in Ames, Iowa might just migrate over to the online content Zenome mentions where they can get their fashion advice without the politics and delivered by a woman who doesn’t look like a middle-aged man in drag.
The first rule of Teen Anal Sex Club is that you DON’T TALK ABOUT TEEN ANAL SEX CLUB! /exasperated Brad Pitt
I swear, I didn’t say a word!
/Kevin Spacey
Neither did I!
/Corey Haim
I wasn’t supposed to say anything?
/Corey Feldman
Can you take pics or is that a no no?
Poophole loophole peephole?
Fine, just don’t post them on Instagram. (Fucking millennials, I swear to God…)
Anyone watch “Poldark?”
It’s a good story. The bankers’ roles could easily have been written by our old pal MNG (or Mister “The business model of Wall Street is fraud!” himself, Bernie Sanders); insidious rapacity and underhanded manipulation are standard business practice.
Also- evil land owners sucking the blood of their tenants.
“Boys as young as five should be able to wear tiaras at school without criticism, teachers in Church of England schools are to be told.
Male pupils should also be free to dress up in a tutu or high heels without attracting any comment or observation, according to anti-bullying rules sent out by the Church yesterday.
The instructions for the CofE’s 4,700 schools said they should not require children to wear uniforms that ‘create difficulty for trans pupils’.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5075641/Let-little-boys-wear-tiaras-says-Church-England.html
Kill it,
Gut it,
Wear its carcass like a skin suit
Good Lord, no wonder the churches in England are empty.
They’re stepping up recruitment efforts.
What do you mean “as young as”
Don’t they mean “As old as”?
I mean if a 3 year old wants to wear a tiara and tutu and you make a big deal about it YOU are the one who has a problem, not the kid. Even a 5 year old it should not be a big deal. The way that is worded seems to imply that if anyone from 5 – 18 wants to wear a tiara they should not be criticized or questioned but a 4 year old doing it is right out.
tiaras and tutus are not appropriate school attire for children of any sex. gender, whatever.
http://amp.kansascity.com/news/local/article184248578.html
I guess sometimes you just have to run naked thru town and bark like a rabid dog.
Boobies
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5077699/Irina-Shayk-oozes-sex-appeal-scene-1990-s-Ghost.html
She’s got that “I’ll steal your entire estate from your rightful heirs” kind of look, but who cares?
Unexpectedly not that hawt. (not her, just the entire video-like-object.)
“Why we should believe women who accuse right wingers of rape more than those who accuse liberals”
https://medusamagazine.com/why-we-should-believe-women-who-accuse-right-wingers-of-rape-more-than-those-who-accuse-liberals
Troll? Parody? Honest opinion? I have no idea anymore.
I wish it were a troll or parody. But, I doubt it. They see the individual woman as dispensable, if it advances the cause of the sisterhood.
All within the Narrative, none outside the Narrative, none against the Narrative.
That whole site has been suspiciously considered satire for a while now.
So on the Roy Moore allegations, do they seem in the least bit credible?
I admit I have not bothered to look into them in the slightest because I fucking hate Roy Moore and everything he stands for, on the flip side I have a hard time believing that he seduced a 14 year old 40 years ago and then all of a sudden learned his lesson and never did or said anything to an underage girl since. The dude has been a public figure for at least the last 20 years and I am just having a hard time buying that there could be only a single allegation against him.
It’s been several allegations, and I find it perfectly believable that a 30-something prosecutor would be a lecherous creep. But from what I can tell, nobody is alleging assault.
a woman who doesn’t look like a middle-aged man in drag.
GODFREY DANIEL!
*nearly drops whiskey bottle*
The Sidebar was not turned off – I fixed it.
Thx. I knew those other guys were wrong about you. You’re all right, for a gnome.
“Why we should believe women who accuse right wingers of rape more than those who accuse liberals”
I think it was that imbecile Matthew Dowd, yesterday, who was towing the “BELIEVE HER” lion and prattling on about how it’s inconceivable that the accusations against Roy Moore could be anything other than true. “What does this woman have to gain?”
That’s a damn good question, Bub. A “reporter” might delve into that.
“What does this woman [who works for the Democrat Party] have to gain [accusing a Republican candidate of pedophilia]?”
Its a fucking mystery.
that tax reform stuff doesn’t seem too bad. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanellis/2017/11/09/everything-thats-in-the-senate-tax-reform-bill/#3377c4537072
any update on its chances?
My prediction:
A collection of brain-damaged, mendacious, ignorant, and/or corrupt politicians will fuck it up.
You’re not even trying now.
NYT and other like-minded groups really losing their shit over Trump’s nomination to the Federal bench.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/us/brett-talley-judge-senate.html
he was a Deputy SG for Alabama. just how far afield are his quals?
much of their argument relies on the ABA’s determination that he is unqualified. supposedly the ABA would rate Obama’s noms before they were publicly announced and he would pull any that the group deemed “unqualified”.
Other judicial nominees have faced scrutiny for their lack of trial experience. In 2010, Jeff Sessions, then a senator from Alabama, asked Nancy Freudenthal, who had been nominated to Wyoming District Court by President Barack Obama, about her having never tried a case before a jury. Ms. Freudenthal was eventually approved by the Senate, 96 to 1.
Additionally, the comparative rarity of “not qualified” ratings for judicial nominees under previous administrations may have been due, at least in part, to a difference in procedure. Every president since Dwight D. Eisenhower, with the exception of George W. Bush, screened potential nominees with the American Bar Association before publicly announcing them — a tradition the Trump administration has decided to shun.
i’m guessing they’re really losing their shit b/c of his professed support for the 2A.
apparently i’m fucking a dead thread. moving this to the new one.
look, it’s not corpsefucking when it legitimately takes you all day to read the thread.
DO SOME WORK YOU JERKS, so I can make it through more than 2-3 threads a month.