STEVE SMITH HELP SELF TO RV…BY HELP SELF, MEAN RAPE OCCUPANTS AND TAKE BEER COOLER. IT WAS HARD WEEK, AND STEVE SMITH NEED TO RELAX. SO HIM DRINK WHAT WAS IN COOLER. IT WAS THIS:
STEVE SMITH MAYBE DRINK ONE TOO MANY…
NEXT THING STEVE SMITH KNOW, HIM HAVE TWO WOMEN CAMPERS ON HIM. STEVE SMITH HAVE NO CHANCE SAY “YES”, OR TAKE CHARGE AND RAPE CAMPERS…THEY …ACT FIRST. STEVE SMITH NOW HAVE METOO# STORY.
…
OF COURSE, STEVE SMITH GET OVER IT, AND RAPE EVERYONE IN RV LOT AND SLAM REST OF CANADA BREAKFAST BEER… DO CANADAIANS DRINK STRONG STOUT FOR BREAKFAST? STEVE SMITH WANT PARTY WITH CANADAERS! IF CAN FIND MORE BOTTLES… IN MEANTIME, HAVE SOME LINKS!
- STEVE SMITH WONDER IF THIS MEAN AMERICA NO GET MORE ….HUMMUS AND REFUGEES? DEARBORN, MI HARDEST HIT?
- STEVE SMITH LAUGH AT FAT LITTLE IRAQI “FIRST SOLDIER“. THINK HIM NOT WADDLE INTO FIGHT. REMEMBER HIM RUN YEARS AGO AND HIDE IN IRAN.
- STEVE SMITH THINK PERVERSE INCENTIVE AT WORK HERE. YOU KNOW WHAT IT TAKE FOR STEVE SMITH TO THINK SOMETHING PERVERSE?!?!?!
- STEVE SMITH NOW THINK OHIO TOO WEIRD FOR HIM VISIT.
STEVE SMITH HEAD SPINNING…REALLY LIKE CANADAINIAN BEER!
How soon before someone will try to bring a support goat on a plane?
My wife and I were at WalMart the other day, and a support miniature pony walked by.
You sure it wasn’t a customer?
*narrows gaze….yet applauds*
It was this.
WTF?!
To be fair, it must’ve been for emotional support only, because there’s no way it could’ve physically supported the person it was attached to.
that’s Why I’m moving to Montana!
Yipee ya yo Ky AAA!!
To ride miniature ponies that obviously can’t bear your weight??
Like this?
Remember to pack your tweezers.
You should have liked to have seen Montana?
*orders more ammo and bourbon*
Always a wise course of action.
As though a man ever has an excuse to buy ’em.
Was it L’il Sweet? I love L’il Sweet.
By the way, he was the final runner up on the first American Idol?
The more you know…
What about support snakes?
Support Samuel L. Jacksons.
I’m not sure which would be worse, a support goat on a plane or a screaming baby on a plane.
I think I’ll take the goat.
I always knew STEVE SMITH was really from B.C.
*Swells with Pride for The Home Country*
STEVE SMITH CITIZEN OF WORLD. BY WORLD, MEAN RAPE. SILLY BORDER MEAN NOTHING EXCEPT CHANCE TO RAPE CUSTOMS PEOPLE. ON BOTH SIDES. ALSO, STEVE SMITH LIKE VICTORIA…RAPESQUATCH HAVE TO RELAX SOMETIME.
SILLY BORDER MEAN NOTHING EXCEPT CHANCE TO RAPE CUSTOMS PEOPLE. ON BOTH SIDES.
Do get us some video of this, would you, please?
Would be nice to see some TSA agents get some of their own medicine, but Customs and Border Patrol will certainly do.
WHEN STEVE SMITH GET DONE, ICE WILL NEED ICE!
Zing!
STEVE SMITH “OPEN BORDERS LIBERTARIAN”, GET INVITED TO ALL COCKTAIL PARTIES AND BY COCKTAIL PARTIES MEAN….
GET SANDWICHES MADE BY ENB?
I was going to bring up STEVE SMITH with regard to Riven’s post about personal grooming.
Border? I barely even *know* her!
*narrowed reptilian gaze*
The fuq you at Swiss?
You covered it, scaly friend.
I must say something about my belief system that I first read this post as:
“I always knew STEVE SMITH was really from D.C.”
EVERYTHING STEVE SMITH NEED TO KNOW ABOUT RAPE COME FROM THAT TIME AS AN INTERN FOR TED KENNEDY.
STEVE SMITH STAND IN SENATE FLOOR AND TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR STEVE SMITH FUN. INSTEAD POINT HIRSUTE FINGER AT ORANGE APE AND SAY “WHATTABOUT?”
Fuck your nimble, lightning fast typing skills. I wanted a first gif! Grumbles, kicks beer can over, wipes at puddle with woolen sock, bursts into tears of rage and envy, composes himself and cracks another beer.
*FIRST FAIRY FEEL PITY, GIVE EARLY CHRISTMAS PRESENT*
I don’t do it for the accolades, Festus.
I do it because it’s the right thing to do.
I am suitably abased and humbled. Now I go the box and feel shame.
5 minute major.
See you in 2 minutes!
Ooooh! It’s my favorite too! *blinks eyelashes* You shouldn’t have…
ORANGE APE? How dare you insinuate any relation!
DO CANADAIANS DRINK STRONG STOUT FOR BREAKFAST?
That’s the only way we can tame our Mighty Morning Lumber.
+1 Sitka Spruce
You mean the Larch, right?
I’m a lumberjack and I’m ok
I sleep all night and I work all day
Connie Booth was everything that 12 year old Festus wanted in a woman. That is all.
And a 51 year old Swiss Servator…
You can’t make this shit up.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-who-suffered-100-orgasms-10700365
Not entirely sure his medical condition has very much to do with the fact he wanted to become a tranny.
Airdrop some yohimbine for these classy ladies.
http://archive.is/UZHPh
the two end 4’s, 11, 12, 18R, 23R, 49 left three
Number 4. *Pillow Fight!*
25.
That’s a winner, right there.
#7 is at the top of that list for me
Boots are a little trashy, dontcha think?
It throws the classiness of the contents into sharp contrast.
That’s what I like. And very little makeup.
?
She’s got a Euro hooker vibe going. Not my thing.
How on Earth did you get past #1?
…
OK, 12, and 25.
#1 is the first one out for me.
*squints suspiciously*
THAT is more like it!
*nods*
Those are some fine looking lasses
This seems like appropriate office wear.
I like 7 and 13.
The Realdolls in #5 should be in the wikipedia entry for “Uncanny Valley”.
#13 took 2nd place due to that lipstick (on my list)
Orgy.
Well…yeah!
Orgy for my birthday. Thanks Q!
Happy birthday! I am happy that more people are joining the Cult of the Orgy.
SP –
Thanks for the prize offer for the baby photo contest, but I will pass. What more could a monocle and top hat wearing factory owner staffed with orphans need?
I. B. McGinty
The footy pajamas.
OK, noted, IB! Thanks for playing anyway. 🙂
In order to explore the universe, you must first eliminate capitalism…
by NATHAN J. ROBINSON
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/12/this-little-rock-and-all-who-sail-on-it
***
Of course, then it’s difficult to know where to stop: once you start treating every dollar not spent on alleviating suffering as a dollar being squandered, everything above bare subsistence begins to seem like unjustifiable indulgence. Maybe it is unjustified, though. To me, that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop frittering away bits of my meager income on pastries and floral-patterned cravats. But it does mean that until we fix systemic social problems, I’m going to feel bad about that, and so I’d like to fix systemic social problems as quickly as possible.
…
The Star Trek future is the one I like: exploring strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilizations, going boldly and all that. Of course, until we learn to control our worst impulses, we probably shouldn’t venture forth, as we’d be a danger to those around us.
…
As I say, every night sky feels like looking into an ocean teeming with life, without being able to touch or see any of it. And I don’t understand why more people aren’t curious as to what it contains. Yes, obviously, if we contact the aliens they may enslave or devour us. They may even have (God forbid) Trumps of their own.
***
Has some cool sci-fi pics down the page.
I wonder if NJR has pondered that capitalism is the reason advanced technology exists in the first place.
Because nothing will stimulate investment in a risky, expensive project better than gulags and starvation.
No siree
I rather imagine that NJR’s sad little life so far has been excessively sheltered. Let us hope it continues that way as I tend to doubt he could deal with adversity.
He’s a parody of a cliche of a stereotype.
You also could have pointed out his opening line, that essentially says that Reagan only said stupid things except one time that he talked about outer space aliens. Mm-hmm.
Then, as he says, NJR is a meagerly-paid writer. Why are we ever surprised that little-known, low-income writers are so often anti-capitalism? They have to be frustrated that they are so much smarter and more insightful than everyone else, but all these other people make so much more money than they do, capitalism is so unjust! In a communist world, they know everyone would make the same low wage as the writers, but the writers would hold a high position of regard in the pecking order, as sort of latter-day philosopher kings, or at least get to take cuts at the politician’s buffet lines. That’s why we need to eliminate capitalism now!
What a fucking saint.
To me, that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop frittering away bits of my meager income on pastries and floral-patterned cravats. But it does mean that until we fix systemic social problems, I’m going to feel bad about that, and so I’d like to fix systemic social problems as quickly as possible.
I’d take you more seriously if you spent your “meager income” on your supposed “fixes” rather than on frivolities. It’s called having the courage of your convictions.
The Star Trek future is the one I like: exploring strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilizations, going boldly and all that. Of course, until we learn to control our worst impulses, we probably shouldn’t venture forth, as we’d be a danger to those around us.
What happens when this dolt realizes that all of his funding at the point of a gun gets him a few trips to planets within the solar system, most of which won’t even get to their destination before he dies?
I say this as somebody who has ST:TNG playing in the background right now: anybody who sees any modicum of reality in a TV show like Star Trek deserves to have their franchise stripped from them.
As I mentioned before, Robinson is given approximately 32,000 a year (at minimum) as a stipend by Harvard just for being a PhD student.
He can go fuck himself.
STEVE SMITH RAPE WHERE NO RAPESQUATCH HAS RAPED BEFORE
Like, in the butt?
CHEWBACCA BEEN THERE BEFORE
… bites back comments about former FLOTUS …
This should take care of that.
I’ll be in my bunk.
But more seriously, I don’t begrudge the Edgelord-in-Chief his fortune in having an attractive wife. That ‘look’ isn’t something that works for me, but if she can avoid her predecessor’s habit of lecturing us on our failings and how we can atone for sharing the same planet with her spouse, I’ll be well-enough satisfied.
I have a feeling that she’s not going to get the hazy worship that JKO did for the rest of her life.
A Chanel suit worked for Marge Simpson.
Only a fifth? The ghost of Pablo Escobar has a belly laugh.
Hey…it is Bitcoin, not cocaine!
Congrats to Army – first Commander in Chief’s trophy in 21 years!
Also congrats to Toronto – first MLS cup. And Altidore, you were lucky not to be yellow-carded for the dive AND not to be called off-side on the winner.
I don’t care. Fuck Seattle.
Same reaction here.
Ooh, minor league soccer.
The Army-Navy was a really good game, the snow made it really cool to watch. Also, I always enjoy watching teams run the option.
I felt bad about the kid missing the field goal at the end, but he had to kick 50 yards in a snowstorm, and he just missed. If they want to point fingers, it should have been at the linemen who gave Navy two false start penalties in the last minute and took them from a 38-yard make-able field goal to a 48-yard prayer.
And fourth win in twenty years.
*imagines away all those years of Navy wins as a bad dream*
Now if Michigan could do that to An Ohio State.
??
But how’s the porn?
http://freebeacon.com/culture/virtual-not-real/
Governor Moonbeam plays Moses.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/09/jerry-brown-claims-trump-does-not-have-a-fear-of-the-lord/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social
Wow. That Jane Fonda just doesn’t scrub off even after thousands of showers. Christ, what an asshole.
Good lord.
I can’t decide which is more derptastic, Moonbeam’s babble or Chelsea Handler’s tweet:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f0/1f/50/f01f500dd0c3f6a758e8f5686373ccb6.jpg
PS: I told you I’ve been drinking Alaskan Winter Ale all afternoon.
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/966222-30.jpg?quality=94&strip=all
https://imgur.com/gallery/bGvPO
https://alpha.wallhaven.cc/wallpaper/436118
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRS7H0YWEAEl33L.jpg
Truly, I say unto you, truly…you do the work of THE LORD.
*hopes he won’t burn for making light of THE LORD*
I’ll take all of them.
100 thumbs up.
wtf? threading broke again? 100 thumbs up was for tessa fowler.
“Aye, she is the One!”
It wasn’t for me?
[runs from room sobbing]
Wow. That’s impressive. Brb.
BUNK. In it. I shall be.
I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Yes please….my wife wont mind
Ugh. Just got done reading a new book in a series I’m going through and it had random things thrown in to appease the diversity crowd that didn’t have anything to do with the story. It went on a several page tangent to introduce a gay character and then never mentioned him again and had a female character everyone called “sir” and when pressed it had something to do with reversing traditional gender roles. I wouldn’t care if they added anything to the storyline but they could have been omitted and the story wouldn’t have changed at all. There was a lot of random little things like that. I was irritated because I did enjoy the characters in the previous books. They had strong female characters and lots of good variety, but this time around it was really preachy.
Affirmative action touches everything shitlord.
When I was younger I would always finish a book but now that time is running out for me I find that more often than not I’ll just put it down. I’m not big on sci-fi anymore and am more of a literary fiction guy. It’s a creeping menace.
I haven’t “put down a book” since middle school – and those were required reading.
50 pages in and you say to yourself “Hey! That load of fitted sheets ain’t gonna fold itself!”
Actually, I totally lied. There were a couple. One was in the middle of the Dark Tower series, the other was in the middle of A Song of Ice and Fire. But it was more of a “I’ll get to this later” thing. I still want to finish them. Some day.
“Someday” is the lament of the young man. “Usedta” is the cry of the old.
FWIW, I’m starting to recognize that “some day” probably means “never”.
I just imagined the author sitting a room with the editor arguing “but I’ve got strong female characters! I’ve got all these great things that make the story work!”
“Not good enough. You need a gay couple, someone who might be a tranny, and at least one disabled hero (in a book where all the characters have enormous character and/or physical flaws), otherwise we aren’t publishing.”
“But they don’t fit in the story!”
This is probably why the release date kept getting pushed back.
i’ve felt the same way about how the show Boardwalk Empire seemed compelled to shoehorn in some artificial ‘social justice’ narratives
i wrote a mini screed about it a while ago. none of it was *horrible*, as the good parts of the show tended to outweigh everything… but the fact is that most of these ideas/themes which they started, are more or less treated as disposable and aren’t actually woven into the wider world in any real way.
basically, there were these very obvious, very artificial narrative arcs about “race, women, gays”… all of which seemed to be treated as one-offs, where “ok we did the gay part, now lets get back to the *real story*”…. or, “ok we turned some klansman over to the blacks to make them stop striking; now lets completely forget that happened and no one remembers, because the entire original objection to killing the klan guys is that the white world would simply not accept that and turn on the crooks…”
the way they integrated ‘women’s stuff’ has been slighty better and more-consistent, but not really. Its unclear *why* the irish wife suddenly turns from being an oppressed and wilting character, to helping pioneer gynocological medicine and outwitting male clergymen . its still very much a man’s world, but her path from ‘victim’ to ‘shrewed manipulator’ doesn’t really seem to have any basis for it.
basically, it all feels like someone was in a board-room and said, “ok that’s a great pitch for a show; now slap on some shit about women and gays and blacks, and you have green-light” Its all ‘prosthetic’
This. It’s very forced. In the previous books the characters are very prudish, but suddenly I’m reading several pages about the guy who is revealed to be gay. The character was never previously in the story but out of nowhere it’s “hey boss, such-and-such is marrying a dude.” The author goes so far as to make the main character very confused as to why that’s even relevant. It kind of ruined the pace of the story for a while.
As a follow up to the lady getting probation for torturing a schizophrenic white man while screaming “fuck Trump” and “fuck white people”:
Here is a more severe sentence.
You have got to be kidding me.
Message received.
You can get arrested for bacon abuse?
I can bring home the bacon,
Fry it up in a pan,
Never once ever let you,
Forget you’re Imam.
She’d be in a hijab, not out earning the bacon.
HALAL IN THE FAMILY
*blinks*
*squints…then applauds, loudly*
*spits whiskey all over computer monitor*
*studio audience applause*
Let’s amuse the children.
*Strokes Amish Beard* “Seems fair to me”. 30 years for being an asshole. Whattaworld.
He’s a habitual offender, whatever that means, and he busted up the place with a machete, but yeah lets say he’s dong 15 years for bacon.
Let’s just note that there is a pretty big disparity in the sentencing for that property crime and this:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-facebook-live-beating-disabled-teen-20171208-story.html
More details about that case are here:
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/crime/chicago-police-4-in-custody-after-young-man-tortured-on-facebook-live
If that dude deserved 15 years, she sure as fuck deserved more than 0.
Forget it man, it’s Chicago.
The article didn’t say how much of that time was for the “hate crime enhancement.” That would be interesting to know.
Granted, 15 years seem harsh for property damage, but we don’t know what his priors were or how many or how often, also not saying Sloop is wrong about the light sentence for the Chicago thing, just that this may not be a great choice for whataboutisming.
I’m just pointing out the sentencing disparity. His priors, IIRC, were for burglary and grand theft in 2004 and 2011.
This was a third degree felony, which carries a max of 5 years. The hate crime component makes it second degree, which increases the max penalty to 15 years.
So he got 10 years ADDED because it was a hate crime. For property damage. To a building…and that chick got 0 years for basically kidnapping and torturing a mentally disabled person while making racist statements.
Does that clear it up?
Also, she was so comfortable during it all that she filmed it -including showing her own face- and posted it to Facebook. That shows a disturbing level of comfort with what those animals did.
http://imgur.com/ittsr0d
How I spent my afternoon
Nice work! You’re gonna feel it tomorrow!
Honestly, I have been doing a shit load of manual labor for the past month. I’m not even hurting that bad right now.
Is that…a still, or a meth cooker?!
It’s firewood, even though it doesn’t get cold in Arkansas.
Well, yeah. But what is the wood for? A still? Meth lab?
Sati.
I hardly ever cook meth.
You say it don’t get cold milkman, but when I got off work thus morning it was 14 degrees. Mabye that don’t hold up to northern standards, but I was cold as fuck.
http://imgur.com/lAffasD
We don’t have stills in arkansas. whistle whistle whistle.
The above featured image came from my neighbor today. He gave me that for christmas. That’s the most dangerous substance know to man. It’s apple pie *moonshine. Probably 140 proof and tastes like apple cinnamon. I have been bitten by it before. One must be extremely careful when drinking it.
*like for real moonshine. The taxes ain’t been paid and it was made in a man’s backyard.
The delivery guy had to jump the gorge in his orange dodge charger.
He wasn’t meanin’ no harm.
I don’t understand apple pie moonshine. After you make moonshine you put apple flavoring in it?
yes. I have never done it my self, but I know many folks who have. You take a liquor made of sugar and criminality and add baked downed apples and cinnamon. I’m not exactly sure how it works, but the stuff in that jar is 150 proof and goes down like apple cider. One has to be very careful when imbibing
Webdominiatrix is making some for a friend for Xmas. I’ll have her post the recipe.
I’ve had for-real Boysenberry moonshine and a lemon iced tea moonshine. Both were amazing.
Blackcurrant home-distilled vodka wasn’t awful.
Getting wood?
Join the club, dude.
I know…read enough of Q’s posts, and ….pow!
Time for a new pair of Hee Haws. Nice work. Crack a beer.
Nice!
Thanks. That would be the only non sarcastic response I have recieved. DEG, is obviously not a real Glib
“Not a real Glib”. Harumph. Get off my lawn!
The other day we were chatting a bit about school and parents. Work distracted me and I didn’t get to reply to your comment about you and your dad.
My dad was a maintenance guy in factories, when he was employed that is. My mom worked various records clerk and secretarial jobs.
My mom had gone to college but dropped out about the time she and my dad got married. When I was a kid, my mom tried going to night school to get her degree but that went nowhere because of the cost of that school, the cost of sending us kids to Catholic school, and the time commitments.
One of my dad’s employers saw that he has brains, and offered to pay full freight for him to go to college for an engineering degree. I don’t remember mechanical, chemical, or something else. My dad went one day, decided it wasn’t for him, and didn’t take the deal. Soon after, the company had a round of layoffs and my dad was on the list.
I think why my parents pushed for college was they looked on their life, and decided that the One True Way to get out of the jobs they worked was college. They were quite stubborn about it, as my older brother’s experience shows. I was the only one that went and finished. My sister went and dropped out, though she is going back now. My two brothers never went. I think my younger brother got out from under the pressure because he decided to go into the military.
Deg. My father is a physician. He pushed education on his 6 kids.
Here’s how it worked out.
Eldest brother – scholarship to the state university. Failed out and got married in the same year. Got divorced a year later and went to work in a factory. Saved up enoigh money over half a decade to go back to school. Paid up front for a biology degree. Went to med school for two years and couldn’t hack it. He now makes a good living as a quality control manager at an industrial facility.
Eldest sister- scholarship to universisty. Failed out in a year due to drug use. Damn near killed herself with it. Later on got pregnant and straightened up. Now married to a supervisor in an industrial facility and is a stay at home mom with 4 kids.
Me- Failed high school and went to work. Learned a bunch of shit and have a successful career that has about 18 months of community college mixed in with it.
Twin brother- full scholarship and got a degree in biochem. Aced the mat to get to pharmacy school, but was kept out by a dwi conviction. He’s now a district manager and runs about 12 furniture stores in western tenessee.
Other twin bother- got a scholarship and decided he didn’t want it. Went to work at turkey processing plants and then decided he hated it. Joined the army, did a couple tours in Iraq, came home and used his G.I. bill to go to college. He’s finishing up his mechanical engineering degree right now
My point of saying all this is-
I don’t believe that a college education has a lot of effect on one’s ability to make a living. I’m the richest and most established of all my siblings, even though I am the least educated.
I don’t believe that a college education has a lot of effect on one’s ability to make a living. I’m the richest and most established of all my siblings, even though I am the least educated.
I agree. Drive, willingness to work, and doing things people actually want done count for a lot, and I think more than a formal education.
Bingo DEG.
I don’t believe that a college education has a lot of effect on one’s ability to make a living.
Just like anything else, it’s all about foresight. If you have the foresight to fill a need that isn’t easily filled, you can make a good living.
Most college educated kids have a generic degree and no additional skills, thus they make a mediocre salary. If you get the right degree or combination of degrees, you can make a shit-ton of money.
That’s not to say that the degree is the end-all be-all. It’s the underlying character traits that are shining through. However, certain college degrees unlock fields that pay very well.
True. I am convinced though, that an ability to fill a niche is worth way more than a degree in most instances today
I may be wrong, but I doubt I.
trashman, I am probably talking from a different set of expectations than you you are. My point is about being able to love a very damn comfortable middle class lifestyle.
You are correct about being able to go above and beyond the with certain degrees, if one applies oneself properly after achieving such a degree.
I don’t disagree with what you’re saying at all. My only point is that certain college degrees are still worth the paper they’re printed on.
As I mentioned, it’s all about foresight.
My linguistics BA did precisely squat for me, besides finally graduating. I had no desire for academia. Years later I taught myself a career (programming).
Trashman, you are correct. Foresight is the ingredient that make it work. Foresight that is correct is hard to come by though.
So Trump is getting criticized for showing up to the MS civil rights museum dedication. Would he have received more or less flack if he didn’t? I’m guessing the same because it’s just an opportunity to slam him, regardless of his actual actions. Where do you go when everything is turned up to 11?
“So Trump is getting criticized for…”
Everything. He gets criticized for everything. The guy could go full Stalin and the Left would still find something to complain about.
Funny. I remember Bill Clinton’s supporters and Barack Obama’s supporters saying both of those presidents got criticized for everything they did no matter what he did. Hmm…
I am shocked, just shocked that democrats are criticizing this republican president, almost as shocked when those republican criticized those democratic presidents.
I don’t know why you’re shocked. Hypocrisy is fairly common amongst voters. You should read the links sometime.
People were bitching that he went to a child molester rally instead of the Army-navy game. So he wasn’t winning today no matter what he did.
The people bitching about that are probably the same people who have the most dislike for the military.
Here?
This one goes to….meh.
*runs off to look at Q’s boob posts and drink more beer*
Well yes. I guess I meant where do the deranged go when they’re turned up to 11? They have no place to go. #ShouldaListenedToRobReiner
There’s no such thing as PEAK OUTRAGE!!!
Amen to that.
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12?
*NARROWS GAZE*
Arabs sanctioning America? Astronauts to the moon?
/Conehead laugh.
Arabs sanctioning America has got to be a pretty high level of derp. Maybe they’ll ban their citizens from traveling to the US.
Whatever will we do? Noooooooo, please don’t. *sarcasm*
People alive during the 70s could tell you that an OPEC boycott is nothing to sneeze at.
I was alive then. Useless. But alive.
This is awesome:
Nice color on the car, and nice hair.
Everyone in the 70s had nice hair. I had a nice, split coif myself in the 80s.
Wow, my hair was just like that in the 70s — that young’n almost looks like it could have been me, same hair color and all, same age during the oil embargo, although I never sneered as well as that kid. And my grandpa did have a gold car with a landau roof like that, but IIRC he had an Olds, not a Buick.
Was it in all states that you could only buy gas on alternate days, depending on the last number on your license plate (odd or even), or just in my home state of Illinois? Damn, we probably burned more gas waiting in line to get into the gas station during those days than we were able to purchase at the pump.
In the second embargo, Dad got a conversion van that he could get commercial plates for (easier to get gas) and turned the interior into something OMWC would be proud of.
When we went camping, Mom and Dad would turn the seats into a bed and sleep on that, and us kids would sleep in tents.
95% of Seventies kids and 97% of Seventies Dads had that haircut. This is known.
That’s a haircut you can set your watch to.
Looks like S&W Model 10. Great gun.
Lou Ferrigno had the exact same haircut in The Incredible Hulk as that kid does.
Oh, I’m sure parts of it would hurt, but I can also see Trump using it to his advantage.
Kind of like the SF verdict for the illegal immigrant.
Just hand him some ammunition to campaign on…energy independence or immigration from the Mideast or some other issue to rally the base more.
Oh, definitely, it wouldn’t have the effect they were looking for. Though, my sinking suspicion is that most of what makes up Trump’s base is pretty fickle. Unlike the evangelical lobby, they’re not going to put up with suffering through 70s-style stagflation just to show solidarity with the Chosen People (TM). Get the prices at the pumps high enough and they’ll be clamoring for Trump to throw Israel to the wolves.
Why you chose wolves and not hyenas is beyond me.
I swear you people.
“Your doctor will be a Turk and your medicine will be Islam”
Is there any flexibility to shift those voters towards more oil production at home? I don’t know enough about oil production in the States to know if enough can be produced here to make up for any sanctions.
From what I understand, we have plenty of oil that could make up for sanctions. However, it would take some time to ramp up production. We do have reserves, but I’m not sure they would last long enough to cushion prices until domestic production met demand.
Barrel-for-barrel the US is in a far better position to weather an OPEC embargo than it was in 70’s.
US Crude consumption has been pretty consistently running at just under 17,000 barrels a day for the last 20 years. Production ran at about 9,000 a day in 2015, and we’re producing more, though I don’t have figures, and obviously, as producers, and with mothballed shale operations, an increase in commodity prices would result in some of those supplies being brought online.
An all-out petrochem war would be painful, but to channel the undead spirit of Buck Turgidson, we could probably survive it.
Gotta figure an OPEC boycott today would result in Trump pretty much waiving all domestic production regs. North Daktoa would probably be the richest state in the Union inside of five years.
The other benefit would be that it would destroy OPEC, which could justify any inconvenience we might experience.
We could probably ask Venezuela if they’d like us to make them a territory for a couple truckloads of toilet paper and pallets of rice and beans. And get their oil as well.
Trinidad and Tobago trolled Venezuela by officially offering a toilet paper for oil trade deal.
Trinidad and Tobago trolled Venezuela by officially offering a toilet paper for oil trade deal.
That is beautiful.
Clearly, beating the USMNT has gone to their head.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar: thicc?
Most elderly Indian women are.
Texas and New Mexico would have something to say about that. That new find by Apache, called Alpine High, is 3 billion barrels. And I believe with that added to what’s stil left in thenPermian and Delaware Basins, that ought to outproduce NoDak on its own, before we even get to the eagle ford shale play, which has been way underdeveloped.
Ya, I am thinking an OPEC boycott would be about three months worth of panic price increase and then it would level out. There is also a shit ton of oil outside of OPEC countries that would benefit. I think you are right. Cutoff the the OPEC supply of oil and the US economy will hit record highs due to increased production here as well as a bunch of other countries. Frankly, I would love to see it. OPEC can kiss my ass.
Notice that the oil producing states didn’t jump on that merry go round. SA and the rest of the Gulf states are looking at Persia and that is about all they care about.
Jordan and Lebanon boycotting the US. I’ll just get my hummus from Remy’s mom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLGUFaizAHs
BTW Would.
+1 for Remy’s mom.
And lol@black bean and avocado hummus for white people.
Iran is the new recycled problem child. Thanks Barack. Good thinking there dumbass.
Price controls didn’t help.
Yeah but it was Nixon’s price controls that were the influenza of the supposed oil crisis.
Fuck leftist Nixon.
We should ship buttloads of U.S. flags impregnated with volatile chemicals. Light one on fire and *poof* goes the rally!!
As if any American flags are manufactured in America.
NEW RULE: ALL ‘MURICAN FLAGS MUST BE MADE IN ‘MURICA. AND JUST TO MAKE SURE MADE IN KANSAS STRAIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE COUNTRY SO YOU CAN’T FUCK AROUND.
Didn’t someone try this? I can’t remember if it was on the federal or state level, but I think some pol tried to get a law like this instituted.
Tweet:
Left wingers and Crazy Islamists burning American flags. Fake News Media refuse to cover (SAD!) but bigger news is it employs more Chinese than AMERICANS to replace! Bring Jobs back Home, manufacturers! DJT
Point taken. I go back to the box and feel shame again.
LOL
Don’t laugh – it’s your turn in the barrel next Thurdsay.
TEDDY BEAR TOSS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zf3xoPEcLo
So much bathos
Trump’s daily routine consists of hours of TV and a dozen diet sodas: report
https://www.salon.com/2017/12/09/trumps-daily-routine-consists-of-hours-of-tv-and-a-dozen-diet-sodas-report/
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In interviews with 60 advisers, friends, associates and members of Congress, a new report from the New York Times details the president’s daily routines, which largely consist of hours of television. Trump typically consumes four hours each day, starting as early as 5:30 a.m., but will watch up to as many as eight on some. A habit he has previously denied.
He will also drink a dozen diet sodas per day, with each of them delivered with the push of a button.
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Trump’s impulsive, and often unhinged tweets are largely derived directly from his TV consumption, the Times reported. He is the only one, besides technical staff, who is allowed to touch the remote.
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His favorite shows consist of “Fox and Friends,” and hosts such as Jeanine Pirro, Sean Hannity and he’ll even “hate-watch” CNN’s Don Lemon and MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” on occasion, the Times reported.
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A man who spends watches hours of tv a day and drinks diet soda?! He’s totally out of touch with ordinary Americans!
If he spent all his time doing just that he’d be the greatest president ever.
The Ghost Of Calvin Coolidge smiles*
Oopsy, too many verbs in that penultimate sentence. I have a bad habit of rewording sentences and forgetting to delete words.
I’m not surprised he likes Judge Jeanine. She practically fellates him during her every show opening monologue. Did anyone see her on TV right after Trump finished his Pensacola speech yesterday? She seemed like she had just had the orgasm of her life from watching the President speak.
She didn’t get a tingle up her leg?
On the up side, the fellation is consensual.
GILF
GILF with a lead foot.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/nyregion/fox-news-host-jeanine-pirro-speeding-ticket.html
119 mph, that’s impressive.
Would…drive myself.
And then, wood.
なーなに？! 感性ドリフト！
Cool Pokko reference?
You’ve never had tofu delivered from Fujiwara’s shop?
And grow moobs? No thanks.
Would you rather it was Jack and Cokes?
Because all previous President’s would run down to the kitchen every time they wanted something to drink.
So he insists that only he can change channels on his TV? The nerve.
“And make me a sammich while you’re in there.”
Can you imagine any staffer telling any president to get their own drinks or asking to change the channel while the president is watching it? That’d go over really well.
It will be interesting when it comes out to learn how he treats the help, and then compare that to how we know Herself treats the help.
The military and Secret Service who were around Herself have been fairly uniformly…harsh.
Bill Clinton, back slapper and OK fellah…DRUMPF, probably the same. HERSELF – hated, loathed, etc.
Heard some very interesting stories from the Navy side (2nd/3rd hand technically – but why’d they have any reason to exaggerate?) ;p
Go on…
OK, ‘fess up time. I’ve interacted with Trump a number of times over the years, and I’ve been in offices where he was working.
Whether fake or thru’ immense effort, he remembers names and is pretty good with people. He shakes hands, makes pleasant small-talk and if he’s not faking, he’s a damn good actor. It’s one of the things that made/makes him a good negotiator. He makes jokes at his own expense, and – unfortunately for his reputation – wants to appear like ‘one of the guys’. Maybe he just re-reads Dale Carnegie every week. Maybe he’s a natural.
I saw him deal with a deal fuck-up once though. Trump may not have been in the military; he could go toe to toe with a drill sergeant for his language, but it was highly calibrated. He ripped the guy to shreds on his performance, but not as an individual. It was an impressive performance. It’s why I credit a part of these reports about him having ‘shouting matches’ with people like Bannon that scare the life out of onlookers.
I have no idea whether Trump will end up as a presidential disgrace, or a ‘success’, but his interaction with people like Secret Service and White House personnel is likely to result in a lot of ‘hard but fair’ reactions.
The $64,000 question is – is he a nice guy? – and I have to say – I have no idea, because the guy is a consummate actor. Having said that, he’s doing better than I expected, and I hope he continues to pleasantly surprise me, more often than he appalls me.
I just have trouble believing it. I would think the President has endless meetings and briefs and public relations events daily. When not doing that he may stay in privacy and watch TV but I have trouble believing he enters the office and sits around watching TV. Or I guess I find it easy to believe people just say shit they know nothing about and reporters print shit without any clue of facts.
I find it easy to imagine he has the TV *on* all the time in the background, which is of course very different to potato-ing on the couch snarfin’ bon-bons.
My god he IS just like me.
He’s your brother from another mother. Admit it.
And Obama is a smoker. And W was a cokehead. And Slick Willy was a philanderer. Are we through itemizing presidential bad habits?
Kennedy, drugged up and philanderer that would make Willie Jeff envious.
Robert Mueller has got some explaining to do
“Simply put, Mueller needs to rehabilitate his standing as an impartial, objective investigator. He needs to take an unbiased look back at the Clinton probe and answer obvious questions about Strzok’s role.”
Rehabilitate his standing despite the whole premise of the investigation being BS. That’d be neat trick.
It would be awesome if someone actually recorded that, in a fake Desi Arnaz voice.
Most people think that a soft coup is what porn actresses do when they unleash the snake about two minutes in.
*laugh track*
Excuse me? When did this happen? I seem to have missed that in the news.
I am surprised the WP printed that. We can only hope Mueller actually goes after the real Russian ties to the election and drags Herself in on subpoena to cast away all doubt he is an upstanding sort. Myself, I think they are all corrupt fucks and the FBI should be disbanded as an agency and shuttered. Seriously. Their mission overlaps how many other fed agencies? All the decent officers/agents could meld into the overlapping agencies and all investigations continue. The rest should take a hike.
San Francisco man asks Reddit for help finding stolen car, it’s found within hours
From the other links on that page:
This would make me speed up, not slow down.
The Reddit user outed himself to The Gate. Hope he didn’t have any problematic posts in the past.
apparently, according to Doug DeMuro (internet car guy) the 1990s defenders are the new, popular hipster car, and go for stupid prices ($50K and up, way up). despite the fact they’re absolutely terrible in every way. Hold out for the bit where he systematically analyses its “reliability”.
And here I thought the victim was talking about a junker. 1991? GTFO.
I love the way they look, but yeah, those are not reliable cars.
Probably why the thieves were fixing it outside a restaurant when it was found.
A video reenactment of the founding of Glibertarians.com.
AS IF ANY ONE OF US WOULD “give ourselves up to authorities”!!!!!
By “authorities” they mean “SP”.
OkCupid Users Have Long Had to Put Up With Unwanted Messages. That’s About to Change.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/12/08/okcupid_takes_a_step_to_keep_unwanted_messages_out_of_users_inboxes.html
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Nick Saretzky, OkCupid’s head of product, says the company has been working on the change for nearly two years, inspired in part by feedback from women who were sick of getting harassed by random users or fielding messages from people they’d never want to date. When OkCupid would ask women to compare their Tinder inboxes with their OkCupid ones, Saretzky says, “It kind of felt like, ‘Why is OkCupid letting these people talk to me who I’m not interested in?’ So they get a lot of attention, but they end up having to wade through a lot of it, and they’re not happy with a lot of it.”
Meanwhile, men have told the company that their biggest gripe with OkCupid is that they send a ton of messages to women and get very few replies. Former OkCupid engineer and data scientist Dale Markowitz says one of the main problems with apps with no or low barriers to messaging, like OkCupid, is that a very small proportion of the site’s users get a very high proportion of the site’s messages.
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I suppose there is not much point in me saying that it’s silly to complain about unwanted messages on a dating site. What the hell are the men supposed to do? Wait patiently for women to give them their phone numbers?
Duh. They just line up on the stage and let the women pick best in show to go home with.
OMG some people are more attractive than others? That’s problematic.
Why is OkCupid letting these people talk to me who I’m not interested in?
The next #metoo harassment front.
Congratulations guys. You just figured out what millions of years of evolution has been working inexorably toward. AKA, have you ever actually dated women before?
No. They won’t reply to my messages.
They’re all dudes anyway.
The irony is, some people did a study on dating profiles – they found that (hetero) men judged women’s looks on a normal distribution tail (bell curve), while (hetero) women judged men’s looks on a right-tailed distribution with a median around 80%.
Good news, guys! If you’re better looking than 79% of other guys, you’re a 5!
Music for giving a speech that begins with “alright, men…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg0Tmydj29M
Very high degree of nostalgia there.
What the hell are the men supposed to do?
Be a dream catch 20-something stud hot for overweight, twice-divorced soccer moms with 3 brats in tow?
That is not much of an exaggeration, and neither is this:
“Divorced, overweight, feminist seeks young, handsome, 6 ft tall millionaire. Must love dogs. No Republicans.”
“…and must be open to pegging”
That’s what afternoon chat shows and supermarket tabloids have been telling me ever since I flunked out of that mani/pedi academy course that Dad paid for.
From ealier thread: 320 is the widmer yeasr, originally a koelsch yeast, IIRC.
I’m hoping it turns out. I’m more confident this time around. Probably should’ve started with this one.
wheats are pretty easy. next time try the wlp300 yeast, it is from weihenstephaner. You will notice the difference.
After 4 days in hospital I am OUT, BABY!
The Korean system is actually very good. It has its drawbacks, for sure, but it has a lot to teach the US about how to manage healthcare. It’s not all positive, but it kinda reminds me of what someone here (John?) said about the US in WWII vis a vis AF fighters: Germans and Japanese had better planes with better engineering, but the US planes were just about as good but due to their relative simplicity could be more mass-produced.
Once I decompress and get my shit back in order I plan to make a write-up of how the systems work from a patient’s point of view.
Thanks y’all for your kind words.
I hope you got that nurse’s number.
I really could’ve I think. What can I say. I’m a gentleman. I didn’t think it was appropriate, and I doubt my Korean/her English could’ve worked outside of a “Let’s Fuck” situation.
Sigh. It’s hard to make a move when you’ve got needles and tubes in ya!
*Kicks pebble.*
To be honest, that’s pretty much where my wife and I were at when she moved in with me.
We’re on 13 years and counting now.
The whole point of being abroad is to do some crazy shit.
Speaking of Thai, picked up dinner tonight and the Thai place has a new waitress/front counter girl. Except she’s not a girl, she’s a 40s Thai MILF with hair & makeup like she’s going to a NYE party in a tight t-shirt with a rack that could used to lick nam chim off of. Holy shit.
It’s not ungentlemanly to show gratitude and respect for someone helping you, ya dummy.
I was hardly in position to do my cunnilingual ballet, darling.
*snortlaughs*
There’s a lot to be said for the “good enough” principle.
Dietary changes in order? Glad you’re out.
I’m glad that you are okay! You have to watch that shit because it can snowball.
Excellent news!
Great news, Evan!
With the exception of the Me262, that really isn’t true. Yeah, in 1941 the Brewster Buffalo was getting blown out of the sky by the Zero, and the Wildcat was perhaps at a slight disadvantage but in 1945 the Hellcat was slicing and dicing the Zero. The P-40 Warhawk was slightly inferior to the Bf109 in 1940, but the P-51 in 1943 onward was superior. Even in the Battle of France, the Allied hardware was superior on the whole, and more numerous, but the Germans had better tank doctrine, and better trained and more experienced pilots. Which would also change, as the Allies swung into full gear. The Japanese in particular never got a modern carrier pilot training program off the ground which doomed them just as much as their inability to produce planes and ships.
The whole “Axis quality vs. Allied quantity” thing is pretty much a myth in its entirety. The Allies, and particularly the United States, by 1943 were making weapons systems that were every bit as good as the vaunted Nazis tech, and they made far far far more of them. People often like to cite the whole “The Tiger tank was the best tank of the war, but the Allies had 5 Shermans for every Tiger.” Except it wasn’t 5, it was 50, and a tank isn’t really the “best tank of the war” if it keeps breaking down all the time and can’t traverse the bridges.
Yep, Hitler declaring war on the largest economy and industrial plant in the planet, particularly one he literally did not have the ability to attack, was his stupidest mistake. People love to jerk off the vaunted Red Army that accounted for 90% of the German casualties, but the Red Army rode to Berlin in American trucks, eating American food, and transporting their supplies in trains pulled by American locomotives. One of the great missed chances of history has to be not pulling the rug out from under Stalin after say, Operation Bagration, and redeploying that industrial power to France. The war would still have ended, but with Soviets in Belorussia, not in Germany. A lot of good could have come of that.
RE: the Axis quality vs. Allied quality: I remember reading a quote from a Japanese pilot about his experiences during the Second World War. I think he flew Zeros. He commented that at the beginning of the war, the American planes were inferior. By the end of the war, the Japanese planes were inferior. He didn’t comment on pilot quality.
Well if he was one of the original Sea Eagles that survived the whole war, he probably knew his way around a cockpit. The issue is that he knew his way around, and the rest of his squadron was fresh faced kids with 10 hours in type who were easy meat for the US Navy pilots who had dozens of hours in type. The Americans rotated their pilots home and assigned them to training commands. The Germans and Japanese kept their pilots in combat. By 1944 there were veterans of the Coral Sea and Midway churning out pilots from Pensacola and elsewhere, passing on lessons paid for in the blood of the less quick or less lucky.
My uncle….he was a &*()ing hero, then churned them out.
Sorry Swiss. It looks like he had a long and interesting life.
I know that by the end of the war the US had caught up and superseded Japan, but in the early years of the war the Zero was absolutely kicking our ass. Its light armor ended up being her downfall, but it was by far the fastest plane in the pacific into at least 1943.
I know a lot about WWII but as Dan Carlin would say, as a fan rather than a historian. The Allies knew that they were making a deal with the devil when it came to Stalin, but I don’t think they knew all the details–no one ever can. With the propaganda coming out of the NYT in support of Stalin and the general ’30s lust for Top Men Governments, when roughly did the US Top Brass and the Joe Six-Pack realize that Stalin truly was evil incarnate? I would argue most in both of those groups *still* don’t know about, let alone understand his atrocities.
When or was there a moment when the other Allies had to say “Ok….he’s an evil fuck. But he’s OUR evil fuck” and still hit the gas?
/hindsight 20/20
From my reading, I don’t know if FDR really understood what he was dealing with in Stalin. Churchill understood but didn’t care because beating Hitler was more important.
FDR’s war objectives were orthogonal to Churchill’s.
Churchill’s Britain faced an existential crisis.
FDR’s America wanted a fatally weakened British Empire and a subservient Europe.
This. Well put.
Having Stalin as master of half of Europe was a brutal price to pay, but then FDR wasn’t the one going to pay it.
Asshole. (FDR, not #6)
The quality vs quantity thing isn’t completely a myth; but an element of this is down to design considerations. There really wasn’t much difference between the Hawker Hurricane and the Supermarine Spitfire (after the first couple hundred of each) except for the power plant. I remember seeing the man/hours for production of them, compared with the Me109, and they were comparable – you could argue that the only disadvantage that the British had was that they were re-arming their Air Force from almost zero in those early years of the war. It was quite clear that from a technical point of view, most of the hardware was comparable.
As far as Europe was concerned, the Battle of Britain was largely like Sid Meier’s Civilization – a competition of simple attrition, leapfrogging each other in technology, and resource usage. As it turned out, the British won, by about 2 squadrons and a shitload of luck. If the US hadn’t become involved, both directly and indirectly, the German quality issue would have won out, because there were a few key, superior technologies which would have made the difference *if* Germany had gained access to greater raw resources.
1. The V2. While the V2 missile was not particularly effective at hitting what it was fired at, it had a huge psychological effect *precisely* because of the obvious technological superiority.
2. The FW-190. Fortunately, the Germans brought this to production later rather than earlier, when they were under pressure from the Russians, and after the US had brought the Mustang into the theater.
3. The StG-44. We’re lucky that this was put on a back-burner, because a Wehrmacht armed with these in volume would have been a real problem.
Note, none of these were substantially superior to their Allied counterparts, but construction and deployment in volume would have been pivotal.
Incidentally, the Me 262 had its allied counterpart in the Gloster Meteor, which was primarily designed as a fighter, rather than the 262 as an interceptor. It’s hard to compare the two, but the 262 was faster, but needed a lot more hanger time (I think the engines had an operational life of 25 hours between overhauls) – and hence, I’m not sure that the 262 actually demonstrates the ‘technological superiority’ particularly well.
For the Pacific, I think that culture played a significant part – aside from the obvious implications of bushido etc, but you did have technological differences play their part.
F’rinstance, a US pilot could engage with anything the Japanese put in the air, (including Ohka), in a head-on intercept, when flying a P51 or other air-cooled single engine fighter – doing so was an approved tactic, because the huge engine with no fluid to leak could take a terrible pounding and still drive the prop.
The Germans could have easily won the BoB. One ‘fortunate’ circumstance was Britain mis-bombing a German city, which resulted in firestorms. Hitler went insane, and demanded that all German air resources be devoted to ‘paying back’ the UK. As a result, the BoB was sidelined for long enough for the US to enter the war.
From what I remember that is not quite right. At the start of BoB, the Germans were going after the Royal Air Force bases and the radar sights and were gaining the upper hand. Then a German bomber messed up and accidentally bombed a British city. That gave the British cover to start their area bombing strategy and when Berlin was bombed, Hitler demanded the Germans switch to area bombing cities as well. This gave the Royal Air Force time to recover and since the Germans weren’t attacking the radar sites anymore, allowed them to pinpoint their defenses.
If the Germans had maintained their original strategy they probably would have worn down the British and won the BoB.
NaE, you’re right.
From what I remember, there was a bit of both.
Regarding British action, 1939 was solely devoted to German warships and submarines. There was a gentleman’s agreement that no land targets would be hit, with a number of large bombing missions. At the Battle of Heligoland Bight, the RAF were to refrain from bombing berthed ships, as were the Luftwaffe in the attack on the Firth of Forth. Merchant shipping on the high seas however, was fair game. In late December 1939, RAF bomber command were repulsed at great loss over Wilhelmshaven due to Germany’s own primitive radar system, but again, no land-based targets.
That all changed in March 1940, when a German attack on Scapa Flow in the Orkneys killed one civilian. So the RAF flew a mission on the 19th against a seaplane base in Holland. Not long after, the whole withdrawal from Europe and the defeat at Dunkirk effectively ended any air missions over continental Europe until 1942 – the Luftwaffe had almost complete air superiority and RAF Bomber Command would have been flying into Germany unescorted.
The Germans started trying to destroy RDF stations starting in August 1940, but they were open structures and the small iron bombs the Stukas used to drop were largely ineffective, Any damage was easily repaired in a few hours by riggers. Secondary targets were RAF fighter command air bases, but the RAF were pretty good at dealing with the German bombers, plus the air fields were quite large and tended to have large grass areas large enough to use if the grass or concrete runways were cratered. Frustration with the stiff CAP the RAF could put in the air, the Luftwaffe changed targets regularly and would sometimes go after coastal shipping in the Thames estuary, which were easy targets.
On August 13th 1940 (Eagle Day) , the Luftwaffe bombed the towns of Portland and Andover, which weren’t really military targets. Up to that point, the only bombs dropped on civilian targets were pilots dumping their bombs after being intercepted. There’s reasonable evidence that they didn’t want them to go to waste, and while you’d normally do an approach run, just ditching them before you fly over a town meant you wouldn’t really have ‘wasted’ them. They bombed Southampton too, but plausibly, that was a military target. Three days later, Fighter Command started to reassign Bomber Command pilots and navigators as fighter pilots.
On August 19th, Luftwaffe objective changed – with fighter pilots attempting to lure RAF pilots into duels. After about a week, the Luftwaffe goes back to bombing airfields, suffering 3 losses for every 2 RAF fighter lost. Operation Sea Lion was postponed since air superiority had not been achieved.
September 7th – Luftwaffe commences bombing of London, and IIRC the pilots were expressly told to avoid bombing Buckingham Palace (oh, how civilized!) I think it was on the 9th, a He 111 bombadier unloads about 1/4 mile from the palace, which was the nearest they ever got.
All those movies that have been made, based on one month of history.
One interesting anecdote, which I trust was – during the war, considerable effort was made to black London out – with moderate success, and a ‘fake London’ was set up in Essex, to the East of London. No matter how carefully the ‘fake’ was set up, and no matter how effective the blackout of London was, the Luftwaffe never bombed the decoy. After the war, an interviewer from the UK met with some German pilots and one pilot was asked why the Luftwaffe always managed to hit London and never bombed the decoy – had it been that the Germans had been Lufthansa pilots before the war?
“Yes, well, some of us were, but not many, and you had killed many aircrew that had that experience, so it wasn’t that your decoy was bad, it’s just it didn’t have the River Thames flowing thru’ it. We never needed our maps once we had passed your perimeter defenses.”
There was this …. one hell of an April Fool’s joke … that the Swiss didn’t appreciate.
You have the colitis? Take it from someone with its small intestine brother it can be a bitch. Sounds crazy, but did you quit smoking recently? Colitis symptoms can be minimized by a smoking habit.
Start keeping a notebook or iPhone notes on symptoms, reactions, foods, and any treatments received. The treatments are either a godsend or don’t work at all and generate lots of side effects. Keeping notes helps you and the clinician determine what helps and what doesn’t
Noted. It’s pretty focused in my case–I’ve just been drinking too much for far too long.
And in Korea, my biggest complaint—you don’t *really* get to talk to the doctors. If you get 2 minutes of their time you are lucky.
But I appreciate your comments and support. I’m glad this interesting journey isn’t one that hasn’t already been trod.
I’ve been smoking for a long time, but never a really heavy user. I’m actually about to go out for a smoke right now. Weekdays I smoke 3-5 after work til bed. Weekends….well social smoking is indeed a thing.
I have to faze out and quit one vice as it is. A rule of mine: Never quit more than one vice at a time.
Docs said that it was a minor case but it was definitely a wake-up call. I’m going to enjoy myself today, but this has been a long-time coming. It’s good to have a bit of a wool-shirt scratching my skin to get me off my ass. I’m actually excited by it, which is odd but good.
Quitting one vice at a time is fine, as long as the vice you don’t quit doesn’t go hand in hand with the one you try to quit. For example, if you always have a drink in your hand when you have a cig in your hand, it’s going to be hard to quit either one without giving up the other.
Glad to hear it.
Yea! Good news!
Latest screenplay: Wolf Blitzer dies of a hear attack while fiddling himself. His ghost, worried about the body being discovered in such a compromising condition, decides it will scare people away until rigor mortis sets in and pops the thumb from the bung hole.
Intriguing. Why don’t you come up to my hotel room and we’ll hash out the details (hides ficus behind back).
So, no protagonist?
…TWIST the thumb is actually Jake Tapper’s penis.
decides it will scare people away until rigor mortis sets in and pops the thumb from the bung hole
I laughed.
DO CANADAIANS DRINK STRONG STOUT FOR BREAKFAST?
The only decent Canadian brew is Pilsner.
of course not.
irony: if authorities who confiscated that stuff ended up liquidating it and enriching themselves… wouldn’t that be instantly identifiable on the blockchain itself? one of the perks of crypto is total transparency. Which makes govt thievery… well, more obvious, if it could be.
It would be interesting to see what such a massive sell would do to the price.
‘President trump, have you not considered the consequences of this rash act!? why, it will likely unleash a group of hysterical fundamentalists who will terrorize both their own governments and the west, beheading people and…
well, ok i guess they’re already doing that, but THEY WILL GET ANGRIER!! Why would you do this now, when arab negotiations with Israel had been making such…..
well, ok I guess there hasn’t really been any progress at all since the 1990s, but don’t you realize that Arab governments rest on a delicate precipice over populations of very fractious people who could potentially revolt against decades of rule and….
well ok i guess that was called the ‘arab spring’, so we had that…. but, if we don’t have the imaginary promise of a Jew-free jerusalem to permanently keep the arab public hopeful about, and they just become ‘de facto reality’, then…. they might actually look to improving their own lives and not constantly blaming things on ….
Look i think we need to get back to you on this.”
Egypt had a higher GDP than South Korea in 1955. They chose different paths.
An Egyptian diplomat said that Egypt is the only real Arab country. The rest are just tribes with flags.
Saudi Arabia’s situation is a weird alliance between the Saud family and religious fanatics. It began in 1744. In exchange for providing fanatical warriors, the Saudis provided a base of operations to the Wahhabis. Later, they gave them control of the mosques and the schools.
wiki sez
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The ruler of a nearby town, Muhammad ibn Saud, invited ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab to join him, and in 1744 a pact was made between the two. [90] Ibn Saud would protect and propagate the doctrines of the Wahhabi mission, while ibn Abdul Wahhab “would support the ruler, supplying him with ‘glory and power.'” Whoever championed his message, ibn Abdul Wahhab promised, “will, by means of it, rule the lands and men.” [20] Ibn Saud would abandon un-Sharia taxation of local harvests, and in return God might compensate him with booty from conquest and sharia compliant taxes that would exceed what he gave up.[91] The alliance between the Wahhabi mission and Al Saud family has “endured for more than two and half centuries,” surviving defeat and collapse.[90][92] The two families have intermarried multiple times over the years and in today’s Saudi Arabia, the minister of religion is always a member of the Al ash-Sheikh family, i.e., a descendent of Ibn Abdul Wahhab.[93]
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Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman has publicly stated that he intends to move away from the Wahhabi alliance, which is part of what the recent purge was about. I have to think Trump’s announcement concerning Jerusalem is a fly in that ointment as the local yokel in Riyadh are now all drunk on Jew-hate.
This story has been all over the news this week. Katana attack in broad daylight. The witnesses they interviewed on TV told of a crazed chick with Katana chasing the driver for blocks. Bizarre.
That’s awesome!
That’s terrible. Why would anyone attack a sword??
You didn’t reflect properly before hitting post comment. *Distances self from Gilmore*
What Japan needs is common sense sword control. Oh wait- that’s how we got karate.
kara te = empty hands (no weapon)
I posted this video about Yuengling over on the now-dead beer thread. I’m reposting because when I watched the video again, I realized how unwoke those people are. They think they built that business!
/kicks himself for not having Yuengling in the house.
Without ROADZ there would be no beer.
today I learned
The door knob was invented in 1878.
Yet another flagrant anachronism in the LOTR movies.
I’m honestly surprised it was so late. Skeptical, even.
*Googles*
huh. I’ll be.
Even after the doorknob was invented it took years for people to embrace them fully and begin installing them on the doors in their homes.
Racism?
The only point in having a door handle, is to activate an internally-fitted door latch. If the lock was surface mounted, a simple lift lever, or even the key itself would suffice as a handle. Locks were costly, and frankly, pulling or twisting on a key instead of a fancy handle doesn’t sound like much of an improvement.
Poor people would have a ‘snek’ – a lever that went thru’ the door and lifted a bar that would just drop into a notched plate – those are still with us. Or the door would just be barred behind the inhabitant when they got into the home.
The Matt Lauer method.
Another thing I read; many homes wouldn’t even be locked. The valuables (if they had any) would be locked away in a safe, but the home itself would be unsecured. Sounds crazy to modern 1st Worlders, but that’s because we have so. much. stuff.
I guess that explains why Link can enter any damn house he wants.
I really have to fire up my old NES and make friends with that dude again.
In Solvang, CA, the Danish immigrants built houses with an interesting kind of latch. The latch was released by pulling on a leather sting, which could be left hanging outside if you were expecting visitors or pulled inside if you didn’t want anyone coming in.
https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g33103-d283994-i176916913-Elverhoj_Museum-Solvang_California.html
That’s more Scandinavian/ Northern European than Californian. Dutch rural communities houses have locks, but non-modern outbuildings and barns have exactly that kind of mechanism.
There’s an old phrase of hospitality that “the latchstring is always out”. Also, 6 consonants in a row is pretty rare.
+8 catchphrase
This is snek
Sure is
That was a bit of a giveaway. ‘snek’ turns out to be a far more restricted term than I thought – almost entirely restricted to northern Manchester.
This is snek
Yet another flagrant anachronism in the LOTR movies.
Uh, Middle Earth isn’t a real place, so its doorknob development timeline could be completely different from reality.
“Middle Earth isn’t a real place”
Oh sure, like some guy just *made up* all that stuff.
The things people believe…
Lots of Deep State Dem Operatives seem to think it’s real.
As long as the MiddlleEarthers and the HarryPotterites don’t team up, I think we’ll be OK.
If that happened you would get a dork orc. Or a doorc if you will. Or perhaps a Hogwarts Hobbit. A Hogwobbit?
Doorc….SUBLIME!
It’s more the elves that would worry me.
An elf that looked like Dobby, but could put a clothyard shaft thru an uruk’s skull at 200 yards, just because it wouldn’t give him some socks.
Watching the Big Ten championship game last week, Ohio State RB Dobbins was active and on the TV screen a lot. Every time he came on, one of the guys we were watching with would say “Dobbins is a house elf, Harry Potter.” We were about ready to kill him by the end of the game.
Dirty Bastard for tonight because I am a dirty bastard.
Do you like it raw?
in case the joke was entirely missed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2zgB93KANE
Had one with dinner tonight.
I don’t know if anybody already had pointed this out, side I’m not going to read 250 comments to check, but the beer label quite plainly says “product of the U.S.”
In addition to “Grand Rapids, MI”
Well yeah, but it’s Michigan, the 2nd least American state there is. Detroit! uffda may as well be in Quebec.
What’s the first least American State?
damn
Massachusetts?
Soo… Massachusetts is the Nick Gillespie of states?
What’s the 1st least American state?
I prefer your use of “1st” so I will place my guess here:
California?
Hint, they call their counties parishes and speck some odd mixture of french and gibberish.
New Jersey? Or Louisiana?
New Jersey has parishes? didn’t know that, anyway they speak a mixture of guido and gibberish.
Jersey has parishes. It’s in Normandy. New Jersey is a different place. Carolina used to have parishes but I don’t think anymore.
speak not speck, god*mnit, and while mocking people for gibbering too.
Me speakum Glib glib
Hawaii looks the other way.
Hawaii and Alaska don’t count, I’m talking about real states.
Does Puerto Rico count yet?
Better question: what’s the *most* American state?
Hint: it’s Florida
Texas.
I thought Texas was the most Mexican state?
Texas is too Texan to be American. I’d say Oklahoma.
Oklahoma is pretty damn American. I was stuck there for a number of years. I hate Oklahoma, Only due to life experiences in the state and not due to the state itself. Life is but experiences in places. Some places then suck.
You sound like you know a bit about Oklahoma. Tell me, is it true there, that the wind comes sweeping down the plain? And the waving wheat can sure smell sweet, when the wind comes right behind the rain?
I knew an Okie who used to use ‘prashadit’ all the time that annoyed the shit out of me.
Me: “Here’s that spreadsheet you asked for”
Okie: “prashadit”
One phrase I encountered in Oklahoma that drove me crazy was “ah-doo-what?”
It was used in place of “pardon me?” or “what?” or the NoDak version, “huh?”
So… the American version of “alstublieft”.
If it pleases you.
Your all Hicks
I thought Florida was the most Puerto Rican/Cuban state?
NoDak is the most Canadian state.
I was thinking most Norwegian.
Nope. German.
There certainly a lot of German’s (like my family) but I thought there were more Norwegians? Someone posted top first names by state and for Nodak the top three were all ‘son names.
But you know what, I’ll take most German state. Minnesoda can have most Norwegian.
Hundreds of thousands of Swedes are rising up in anger as you speak…
I’m German. You think I care what a few Swedes think?
I noticed that too. But other snark distracted me.
Uh huh, sure. “I saw it first I just didn’t mention it.”
Who’s gonna take one for the team here?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-42183197
*glares menacingly*
WTF. I’ll help a girl out.
Mexican sharpshooter, TY, the Racer 5 is pretty good, your reviews are always good, like the Beer,
Bob
It’s Saturday night where most of you are and you’re having an in depth discussion about doorknobs. Evan won’t hit on nurses because he’s a gentleman. At least Deg is drinking beer.
I’ve had 4 of my homebrews, so I’m buzzing along quite happily.
I’m drinking whiskey and beer. Do I get a pass on the doorknob discussion?
Only if you come unhihnged, get violent then apologize with an “I love you, man.”
This is how I imagine most Glibs meetups.
That managed to crack the hangover and give me a chuckle.
Hmmm…I do have a “get out of cat-butt free” card. We’ll see what the whiskey does.
I am so many beers into it…I am not sure who could forgive who….
Oprah forgives you and you and you and you and you
I’m also listening to a video about the physics of new car tires.
Get a set of these
With my driveway, I’m now seriously thinking about it.
That video says “NASA-Glenn Research Center”.
How’s the fuck does that asshole have a research center named after him but so many more worthy human beings don’t?
Also, it was named after him in 1999 and he didn’t die until 2016? The fucking egomaniac didn’t even tell them to wait until he was dead before they had a space center named after him? For comparison, Armstrong Flight Research Center was named after the greatest human being ever two years after his death. But that fuckface Glenn had his named after him 17 years before his death.
Christ, what an asshole.
-1 mailbox
It only works for curves. Most merican racn don’t have no turns.
ermm , no
I got trashed last night. Tonight it was games and the Grinch with the granddaughter.
Dads get a pass on judgemental scolding. Besides, almost mirrors my last two days.
SO I get a pass on getting piss drunk then, since my kids are college and upperclassmen HS aged? *hic*
7 beers in, sorry I just started. And no, Wolf Blitzer fingering his asshole isn’t a story I’ll help write.
“And then he plunged his dry, chapped nub of a finger through the mass of flesh that constitutes a one-way valve, fantasizing nostalgically about that time when he was 14 and he came during the Star Trek episode where Sulu took his shirt off”
Scene: The Situation Room. Don’t let discretion stop you. Go on…
“Noticing, from the corner of his eye, that he was on air, Wolf began to read from the teleprompter without missing a beat. Despite sitting on his hand and sporting a Viagra-induced erection, he began another spittle drenched diatribe about how Trump’s tailor told CNN that Trumps penis was misshapen, and thus he should be impeached. Wolf felt a twinge of guilt reading the story his retarded ape of an intern typed up; she was probably going to have to be sacrificed once this FAKE NEWS was exposed, and he had grown to enjoy the feel of her purple strap-on. He suddenly became aware of his finger hanging limply in his rectum, and he feigned a cough while his erection returned to its full glory. As the producer cut to commercials, he left yet another spunk stain on the bottom of the Situation Room’s desk, just to the left of the bullseye target drawn by his intern during one of her many “Cleanup on Aisle Wolf” assignments. Wolf sat back in his chair, dazed and satisfied, his mind wrapping up his new favorite fantasy… being taken roughly by Trump’s mangled man meat on the Situation Room desk.”
Where he was all sweaty and swinging a sword around? I don’t remember that one at all.
Number of beer=/= ABV,
HOW ABOUT 7 AT 8% OR MOAR?!
How about getting that liver transplant pre-approved by your medical plan?
SOD THAT, I am already down a kidney…*balls up fists*
Brass, copper, and silver are all poisonous to germs, which is why these materials are traditionally used for door knobs and handles. The more you know…
Strange, when I did my tour of the houses up in Newport, RI, places like The Breakers all had crystal handles.
Rich people don’t need to worry about getting sick
*swigs colloidal silver*
Swiss Servator.
I’m totally broke, but I gave My Son 40$ for a tree for my Granddaughter, probably a Charlie Brown style thing nowadays, but Lights right?
I usually run a 10-12 foot tree, Because I have I giant Window that faces a Large Street, gotta show off, yes? I guess light are enough, Show em Glibs!
I gave My Son 40$ for a tree for my Granddaughter, probably a Charlie Brown style thing nowadays, but Lights right?
For $20, I got a 6 footer with lights. Not the best tree ever, but it’ll get us through the baby and toddler years without ruining a $150 tree.
Forgot the second half of the comment. $40 is a decent tree if you know where to look. (We got ours from At Home)
Drinking gin and ginger. Listening to some tunes with the bride.
Ginger Ale? i just bought some Raspberry ginger Ale?
As in I have’t tried it yet, but hmm…
Whelp, time for me to eat some dins and hit the sack. Wifey is slamming cupboards and snarling at the cats. Wish me a Happy Birthday because I have a double shift tomorrow and there will be little to be pleased about. Good Night.
Happy b-day Festus. Make the most of it, buddy.
Happy Birfday, Feftus.
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Happy bday Festus.
HBD, Festus. Hope you get through the day w/o murder.
Happy Happy and Good night!
Happy night, Festus. Hope you get through the day w/o murder.
Happy night, BOB. Damn alcohol.
Heavy metal- makes great songs even better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG7ea3LBg2c
Japan continues it’s FuckYou 2020 plan:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/02/business/economy-business/japan-plans-¥1000-departure-tax-with-revenue-going-to-tourism-promotion/
I am surprised California hasn’t done that.
They’re waiting for the rest of the US to put up the border wall around CA.
Agreed, it’s horrific, but it’s what? $6.53?
What alcohol would mix with a Raspberry Ginger ale? i love GA and this was an intriguing buy, and I want to use it in a mixed drink. thoughts?
rum or tequila
with champagne, you have a new take on a mimosa
Depends a lot on how pronounced the ginger flavor is.
Tequila or vodka would be OK.
Inexpensive whiskey or a white rum would probably serve.
Some of the flavored UV brand vodkas might make interesting drinks. The have a “cake ” flavor that would probably mix very well with it.
Vodka + some ginger beer and you have a Raspberry Mule.
You don’t need anything to mix with a Crabbies – it’s already plenty sweet. Unless you want something neutral like vodka or soju just to amp the alcohol.
Which reminds me….I think I did try making a soju mixer with Crabbies and it was probably fine.
Oh wait….ginger ale, not ginger beer. *failure to read*
Soda and grenadine with Crabbies (or Stones) isn’t bad when you don’t want the ‘sugar ugghs’.
Everclear.
My first thought would be peppermint schnapps. You might try adding some apple juice to that.
Or you might try . . . cinnamon schnapps instead of peppermint.
Especially if chicks will be there.
Palease…..Peppermint schnapps should not be drank unless you are hip deep in snow. And or ice fishing.
^THIS!!!^
’tis the season.
And it goes well with ginger ale!
You need to stop whatever it is you’re doing, and check out Donald Trump calling on the Washington Post to fire David Weigel.
LO freaking L
Weigel tweeted a photo of an empty arena taken hours before Trump arrived, saying that no one had showed up.
Trump called him out for it.
Weigel apologized.
Trump acknowledged the apology and called for him to be fired anyway.
Seriously, y’all. If Trump calls for Weigel to be fired, he can’t be all bad.
http://thehill.com/media/364124-washington-post-reporter-apologizes-for-tweet-on-crowd-size-at-trump-rally
#sickofwinning
Robby and ENB are sort of like Weigel–only more so.
IF IF IF and when they move on to bigger and better things, they’re gonna get themselves in trouble for the same shit Weigel did for the same reasons–only more so.
Good lord, who looks at Weigel and says ‘this is the career path I want to follow’.
I wanted to reply to this, so I did a google search for ‘famous bums’. I got this.
For the record, I’d take any of those over Weigel.
It’s just that they do the same sloppy shit he does–not consciously. But they think because their intentions are good, they should be able to cut corners–and do so all the time.
All hail our glorious leader- may death come swiftly to his enemies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tGutFcN560
#resist is starting to make it into bands I listen to. This one is actually kind of cool – probably because no lyrics.
It has also inspired some truly horrid songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy-SiZSlmhI
“Huh huh that chick is pissed huh huh.”
“Yeah yeah.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVZQgik-0jg
I am looking forward to a Kathy Griffin-like “THIS MAN HAS DESTROYED MY CAREER!” press conference.
What a fucking idiot. How stupid do you have to be to take a picture hours before the event even starts and claim that’s who showed up? If he did it maliciously, then it shows a desperate level of stupidity. If he did it believing that would actually be the crowd then I wonder how he remembers to breathe.
It’s incredible. There are plenty of things to criticize, and what do these dolts focus on? Diet Coke. Twitter. Golf. A stray remark from 12 years ago.
BYW, thanks SP and the founders. This site is run well enough that I can have constructive conversations with people I respect. Well done.
Fuck off, Tulpa!
What an asshole!
I hope you can see this ’cause I’m doing it as hard as I can.
And I’m here too!
Who’re you?
Who am I?
Seconded.
Thirded.
Shut up, Mary!
Construct this……………)
What a tool.
https://youtu.be/xt0Zqo-vOFM
Bountiful ‘harvest’ for you to pick from. I’d thought I wrote dark songs until I heard them. I can barely listen to some of their later albums.
Also, their bassist is incredible.
Sorry, I can barely listen to some of their later album because of the lyrical tone.
Inshall’ah I am one….
Dysgenics.
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/12/flynn-effect-reverse-rot-start-top.html
My former neighborhood.
http://www.9news.com/news/crime/jeffco-crime-spree-ends-after-bank-robbery-kidnapping-and-home-invasion/498290272
I did too much artwork for SugarFree this week; please alcohol wipe my mind free!
*readies flamethrower*
Oh, alcohol won’t do it…
Agreed.
Energy can be directed, by turning it up, and turning it down. This beat goes on…