Working between Christmas and New Year’s is a double edged sword. On one the side, it is not busy and you can swill coffee and surf the net, waiting for something, anything to come in to the ol’ in-box. On the other side…you can only drink so much coffee and take only so many “I am out of the office until January 2nd, you fool…you thought you would get in touch with anyone at this time of year?!” auto-replies to my emails.
So I begged Brett to do the Afternoon Links – so as to be able to say I did something today, other than drink coffee and go stir crazy. He was kind enough to let me do so…
- The Mouse has a new hotel policy that guarantees no libertarian will stay there;
Along with the new term comes a policy that requires Disney cast members to enter each hotel room at least once a day to “ensure guest safety,” according to a report by Walt Disney World News Today.
Before the policy, a “Do Not Disturb” sign would signal for employees to bypass the room. But now, Disney says that “the hotel and its staff reserve the right to enter your room for any purpose including, but not limited to, performing maintenance and repairs or checking on the safety and security of guests and property.”
- Hope you got your look at GIANT NYC PAINTED DONG. It got covered. Be sure to read the whole thing, for some real, authentic frontier derp (i.e. The New Allen told CBS2 the Broome Street mural cost about $10,000 to produce, including grants from the Swedish government.)
- Straffinrun got me looking for Japanese language news…TOO LATE, LOOKS LIKE ITS TIME TO LEARN ENGLISH!!!!
- We at Glibertarians.com wish to offer you some helpful New Year’s Eve advice.
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539 responses to “Afternoon Out of Office Links”
Hellooo
Hitler?
No but this meeting I’m sitting through should be a war crime.
“When is this damned thing over!?”
Needs more Shatner.
MOAR SHATNER
Shit it’s bad enough Disney puts SJW shit on ESPN, now they want to make sure you are guesting acceptably.
I wonder how much of this new policy was triggered by the Las Vegas shooting that nobody cares about anymore.
I was unfortunately exposed to MSNBC for much of the day as my wife is “working from home” and puts it on TV as background. They did some top ten list of awful things that happened in 2017–spoiler alert, it was TRUMP!!! ten times in a row–and one pundit actually said, “I’m a little surprised that the Las Vegas shooting didn’t make the list…” at which point I waited breathlessly to see if someone with some measure of sanity had mistakenly found their way on to the set, until I heard “…which just goes to show how many terrible things Trump has done.”
Why would progs think that’s awful? It gave them another pile of bodies to grandstand for gun control upon.
That’s gonna cause some sexual harassment issues. Guaranteed.
“Sir, you can’t leave your disturbed wife in your room and check out.”
“I didn’t say she was disturbed, I said she was fuckin’ Goofy!”
“Yeah, thanks for coming in babe. We are gonna need a complete new set of towels and at least 10 more bottles of that ‘body cream’. Speaking of which, can you squirt some KY on that red head’s ass over there? I’d do it, but you can see that I’ve got both hands full already.”
Yup. I don’t see this ending well.
I am hoping to read about a scene like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RyGLlJr2v4
I’m at work – and by work, I mean sitting at my desk going over my record want list, surfing glibs, and reading some old audio blog posts I wrote years ago. And I also wrote a page or two for my next book.
Off for the week. I’ve been doing a lot of nothing. And drinking.
Same here. Less on the drinking (I have a sore throat) and more on the working on a puzzle
Gay.
Alcohol is an antiseptic.
Yes, yes it is.
Alas, I slammed my head into a door frame several days ago (stupid accident). Doctor prescribed pills preclude any alcohol for the time being. *sigh*
If you have a sore throat, you aren’t drinking enough. Get some really high alcohol stuff and kill off that sore throat. Yes, it works.
Black tea, honey, lemon, and whiskey.
Or, the Panacea recipe here on Glibs (too drunk to link). Scotch,, lemon, ginger, honey.
Ditto. Coincided with some food poisoning unfortunately, so I’m recovering from the worst hangover I’ve had in years complicated by being maybe a day out from a three-day vomit-fest.
I had a terrible hangover on Tuesday morn, holy bejeebus. even thinking about it makes my head hurt.
I’m off today and tomorrow. I have been dealing with a sick Mini-me. Poor kid. Has all his Christmas booty and no energy to play with it.
All I see of that mural is a big black box.
My Grandmother always had those ‘True Crime’ magazines that were laid out like that. Black boxes over the interesting parts.
“Hope you got your look at GIANT NYC PAINTED DONG. It got covered.”
“Crews splattered gray over the mural Wednesday afternoon.”
*narrows gaze*
I guess everyone sees what they want.
Everyone must be playing in the Japanese thread still. Nice job, straffinrun.
Speaking of Japan, this is the most Japanese story ever.
Talk about Sarc bait.
/throwing stones from glass house
Yikes
Jeebus, HM – that was damned depressing. I was hoping for a whacky vending machine or eel flavored bubble gum or such… 🙁
They claimed she was mentally ill. Well, if she wasn’t before…
Very nice indeed. CPRM brought treats for the whole class too.
re: Top 5 Mind Boggling Stories
The first one, about “stealthing”, uses my least favorite phrase, “on the rise”. This is a tell-tale sign that the story is either bullshit or an extremely small problem. (Example: Number of reported incidents goes from 3 to 7 = ON THE RISE!)
Also, how is a guy killing 50 people in Las Vegas with no motive and very little evidence not “mind boggling”?
Their ranking of stories is a bit mind-boggling.
I hadn’t even heard about a few of them.
Disney is fucking stupid.
That policy is lose-lose-lose.
It’s going to cost them business and settling lawsuits.
1. They’re going to lose business…. a lot.
2. They’re going to lose money to lawsuits. I’d sue the shit out of them if they walked in on me doing something private.
3. They lose when this policy fails to prevent what it’s supposed to. How hard is it to hide a bunch of guns under the bed?
The first 2 things will definitely happen. The 3rd thing might.
Oh, and I didn’t even think of all of the false positives they’re going to end up calling the cops over.
I hadn’t yet considered that scenario. “See something, say something” – yeah that’s got some good potential for fucking with people too.
Don’t they have their own police? I don’t think they want regular police on their property.
By the same token doesn’t nobody die in Celebration?
I know they have a giant security fleet. No idea if they’re deputized.
Brett? Florida Man?
They have metal detectors and sheriffs with dogs now at the entrance of all the parks. They’ve added metal detectors at the Polynesian and I think they are adding them to the grand Floridian and contemporary. I don’t know about internal security because you never see them.
Orange County?
I’m not sure the county. I’ll check next time I go.
They had the metal detectors at the entrance to the monorail at the Polynesian because it lets off in the park. Do they have them at the entrance to the hotel now?
I didn’t check the regular entrance. I was monorail hopping.
Picture of the event:
By the same token doesn’t nobody die in Celebration?
Is that the same as how they do in auto racing, where even when somebody is obviously dead, they still medevac them to the hospital to avoid having a death investigation in turn 3 while a race is still going on?
*2 year old gets eaten by an alligator*
Disney security: “Somebody call an ambulance!”
Yeah, the poor alligator might have indigestion.
But seriously, I don’t think their rent a cops are official, since you still see regular cops occasionally.
Sounds like the Vatican.
I’m never staying on resort again.
I hear several members of their Corporate Law department have committed ritual suicide over this policy being adopted….oh, wait…that would be Japanese Disney.
They are going to need to increase their budget for psychotherapy to handle all the trauma their staff will experience after they open some of those doors.
They are going to need to increase their budget for psychotherapy to handle all the trauma their staff will experience after they open some of those doors.
They can’t say they weren’t warned.
*startled applause*
Good one
That picture reminds me, anyone been watching Happy on SyFy?
Some of the shit they get away with is really pushing it to the edge for standard cable.
No, I haven’t been watching Happy on Syfy.
They’ll also need a contract at the local emergency room for the beatings and occasional shootings that’ll arise.
Yep. It’s a FAMILY RESORT. If “cast members” are opening doors to guest rooms, they’re inevitably going to encounter naked kids. That’s a definite ass kicking, minimum.
Kids, husband, wife, various weird goings on…yep, it’s going to be a disaster.
“Hey Snow White, come in and let me give you a bite of my apple!”
Some of it on purpose. If you barge into my room uninvited, I’m going to make it as uncomfortable as possible for you.
“Of course I had to put my Cheval de frise out – I thought someone was breaking into my room! I FEARED FOR MY LIFE!”
Or you could engage the chain lock, but you do you. The real issue is them going in your room when it’s not occupied.
You think they will keep the chain locks? FOOLISH MORTAL!
I don’t know what that picture is, but Cheval de fries is one of the best names I’ve ever heard someone call their penis.
Cheval de fries
Horse fries?!
cheval et frites
Ah… so it is “Friesian horse”?! I guess some of my ancestors had those, pulling their plows.
Frite de cheval
Seven-Eleven Japan Co., the country’s largest convenience store chain operator, will start selling onigiri rice balls and some other prepared foods with labels carrying product names in both Japanese and English from the new year.
English or Engrish?
I came here to say this, but you beat me like a rented orphan. I bow to your shitlordness
*joins bow to our sensei*
It is Japlish. Both of you are shitlords for not knowing this.
I’m a shitlord for linking to that page. You can blame your achin’ eyes on me for making you look at that. Uffda!
There was a large upswing in this interest post WWII with a particular emphasis on phrases like “Hello GI Joe, you want girl?” and, “I am not a war criminal”.
EXCELLENT!
Walt Disney World News Today? What’s next – links to Subway Sandwich Artist News?
You know who else had house propaganda organs?
Habitat for Humanity?
*opera applause*
Fox’s marketing department from 2004 to 2012?
*awards MD*
Rudolph Wurlitzer?
*narrows gaze, slow claps*
Obama?
Ron Jeremy?
No, that’s “Horse Propagation Organs”
How did this become about Andrew Mendoza?
I could at least support Walt Disney Weekly World News
+1 Bat Boy
In proud parent news, Baby trshmnstr has been saying “dada” when I come into the room. I’m hesitant to call it her first word yet because I’ve caught her calling the dog “dada” too.
As long as it comes before “mama”.
Wait until she calls you “cis-shitlord”.
Not joking: my son’s first words were, “Bad mommy.”
He’s just trying to sing Da Da Da
or she, not trying other your daughter.
Needs more nonsense syllables.
Alternatively, there’s this.
Its obviously “dada” for you and “doda” for the dog.
No no! ’twas saying “daggett” for the dog!
I hated that thing as a kid. Still do.
I also hated the kid (Boxey) who had that thing. Still do.
The baby is just an art history savant.
Obligatory.
Absolute perfection.
I will use this completely unrelated mention of a baby to tell you my favorite story that happened with our brood.
I come home from work and my wife has just finished changing the boy. He has just gotten to the point where he can control his limbs a little bit. “I changed his diaper, and as soon as it was off, he grabbed himself.” she says. “Yeah, that’s normal,” I said. “How long does this phase last?” She asked.
“About 80 years, I think.”
“Don’t hit that. You’re going to need it later.”
My wife would complain when little Lachowsky would grab himself as a baby. I told her, “Wait until his 13 and spends an hour in the shower every evening. You really wont like that.”
including grants from the Swedish government
“Would you lock up Grandma to
pave I-95make a mediocre-quality mural of a giant veiny cock?” –P.J. O’RourkeHeartwarming news of the day: Neocons reawaken their inner Marxist and are reverting back to Democrats again.
Note that the blind squirrel actually found a nut with police brutality, but managed to throw every other piece of logic away to virtue signal how woke he has become.
Summary: Max hasn’t gotten laid in a while and he thinks this will get him some.
Statists gonna state.
“I’m a gun owner but even I think we need common sense….”
Bull fuckin’ shit. Go eat a bag of dicks you mendacious cunt.
I support the 2nd amendment but…
…but I’m a lying piece of shit gun grabbing statist who would as soon see gun owners killed by jack booted thugs as stand up for any kind of principle.
I suck cocks at highway rest stops from time to time but that doesn’t make me a fag because I still like the ladies to make me a sammich. “Aw. Thanks Mom!”
Wanna see something funny? Tell a “progressive” that “I support gay marriage, but…” Or “I support abortion, but…”
I used to take a reflexively pro-police view of arguments over alleged police misconduct, thinking that cops were getting a bum rap for doing a tough, dangerous job. I still have admiration for the vast majority of police officers, but there is no denying that some are guilty of mistreating the people they are supposed to serve.
Literally the only 2 sentences that weren’t bullshit.
And yet this idiot actually wants the police to have more gun rights than anyone else.
The Dems are far amenable to war with Syria and Russia which is just nuts but they really seem to want it for some reason. It’s no wonder the neocons are moving in their direction.
“it does mean that Trump’s victory has revealed that racism and xenophobia are more widespread than I had previously realized.”
No, it means that you’re too dumb to figure out why your candidate lost.
Americans had a choice between 2 white presidential candidates this election. A white person got elected president. The white people who voted for him did it because they’re racist.
Sounds legit.
Anyone want to take the over/under on whether there’s a bunch of #metoo revelations about to come out against Boot?
Depends on the extent of Boot’s un-fuckability. I’ll take the under, but just barely.
Max only gets a boner for war.
“Neocons reawaken their inner Marxist and are reverting back to Democrats again.”
The Democrats are welcome to them.
Take your own doorknob hanger to Disney
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/bc/e1/c0/bce1c07ac6ee6279cab95d25f824f677–wedding-night-the-doors.jpg
Maybe Disney should replace the DND signs with gun-free zone signs.
All guns are banned on this property.
Problem solved. It works everywhere else it has been tried.
The editor’s notes on Milo Yiannopoulos’ self-published book are delightfully savage:
https://www.avclub.com/the-editors-notes-on-milo-yiannopoulos-self-published-b-1821631210
Coincidentally, I just finished this book on Tuesday. First fourth of the book I was laughing out loud, the second fourth I really struggled to get through and thought the book was going to be a dud, but then the last half was worthy of standing ovation. I highly recommend reading it. My main criticism is that it is too topical, referencing too often to current pop culture figure heads that may be no-names within a few years, which jeopardized the relevancy of the book over time.
Much time is spent providing background to the drama between celebrities Milo clashed with and as someone familiar with all of it already, it was tiresome. On the other hand, as a guru of gaming culture, troll culture, etc, I thoroughly enjoyed those areas.
In a saner world, the job of the editor is to shepherd a manuscript into a successful product. This editor ripped the book apart. The book, released four months ago, is the #8 book in Amazon’s political section. Objectively, this editor sucks and was so ideologically motivated that he can’t do his fucking job.
I’m not really a Milo fan, but his perfect streak of victories in the culture continues.
Having edited other’s work, sometimes in order to do the former, you must do the latter.
Meh The book was number one for a while before anyone read it, whether it’s a crap book or not can’t really be judged by sales, when it’s going to sell a certain massive amount well written or not.
If you read them in a whiny, adenoidal voice you realise that they’re exactly the reaction a self-publicist like Milo would want, rather than being ‘savage’. Probably provided good focus testing, if anything.
You guys may be familiar with this, but I hadn’t seen this particular one before:
The Enhanced Precision Political Quiz…in 2D
I wish I’d seen it for the recent “Are you a libertarian” thread. Questions have more depth, but some strange choices are provided for some of them.
My results
Hey hey, I got radical libertarian too. I look forward to meeting you at the reeducation camp.
I ended up slightly to the left of you. I know, I know, fuck off, slaver.
lol. I get 100/100 on the LP party one… not sure where I strayed right on this one.
The LP isn’t libertarian enough, obviously.
I ended up a bit closer to the point from you. Maybe we all can share a blanket at the camp before we have to to the showers.
I got right on the edge between right-leaning libertarian and radical libertarian, but that’s probably because of my hard-line abortion views and the lack of a good immigration solution in the options provided.
Yes, I imagine if we wrote our own answers instead of choosing one of theirs (many are woefully inadequate) our scores would differ, but not by much.
Like I said.. some odd answer choices. Immigration answers were definitely lacking/strange.
Right about where I’m at.
http://www.quiz2d.com/quiz/Right_Libertarian.php?personal=74.6&economic=89.3
That’s what I got, with very close numbers to yours. 72.9 personal and 82.9 economic.
“Gary Johnson could totally win!” Those words make me die inside.
Huh, I got the same, with similar scores.
Mine.
I am to your right two points and down one.
So, right leaning libertarian.
#metoo
#metoo as well
#metoo as well.
Mine
My dot was on the bottom point of the very top diamond.
Try one more time to get dot
Meh
Something like this?
Exactly. I copied the code they labeled as “with the dot” so not sure what happened but yeah, that is exactly where mine was.
RADICAL.
I ended up on the right edge of radical libertarian, which is exactly where I expected to be as a self-identifying conservative libertarian. I do think that my congressional compromise positions would be a tad different from my true beliefs, though.
Radical Libertarian too. I like how some of the answers were a bit loaded.
All you right leaning libertarians scroll down a bit, it looks like Evan McMullin was your recommended preferred candidate. I’m afraid this test is null and void.
Evan McMuffin was nobody’s preferred candidate.
Radical libertarian. Now get off my lawn before I call in mortar fire, motherfuckers.
Radical Libertarian leaning towards the property rights side. I am not surprised.
Mine: https://tinyurl.com/yblb6a75
I find it amusing that the web site recommends me joining the LP and running for office. I’m not sure the LP would end up where I did.
Mine
http://www.quiz2d.com/quiz/Radical_Libertarian.php?personal=83.4&economic=100
Me. Never thought of myself as a radical “anything” (Except a radical fucking skateboarder in the late1980’s!)
http://www.quiz2d.com/quiz/Radical_Libertarian.php?personal=84.5&economic=86.7
I was basically at the peak of the radical libertarian.
I’m radical libertarian. Agree that some of the choices were oddly worded, particularly immigration.
Class action suits filed against Apple for the iPhone slowdowns.
http://news.trust.org/item/20171227014841-hm4ng
Is it really that surprising that batteries degrade and processing needs to be slowed down to account for that degradation?
No, but people are dumb and Apple were idiots for not announcing that they have built code into a product – that seemingly can’t be disabled – that looks awfully like an inbuilt obsolesence module. If I were the kind of person to invest in an Apple product expecting N years of life out of it, I’d be disappointed if I had this stunt pulled on me.
Car analogy. That Tesla you bought last year with 0-60 in 4.63 seconds. In 3 years’ time, how do you feel when you get 0-60 in 8.3 seconds, despite having the car maintained in complete accordance with the operating manual?
Agreed, they should have been up front about it.
Except that Apple has been pulling that stunt for so long that no person can reasonably expect Apple to do otherwise. And the EULA probably covers this activity anyway.
Agreed on the EULA although I doubt they’re explicit, it’ll be something like:
And of course, nobody reads the EULA except lawyers.
One way that Apple could have avoided what is very detrimental publicity would have been for them to adopt a design that wasn’t so obviously locked-in and un-maintainable, but this is clearly the keystone of their profitability while their products are the sine non qua of connected life. They’re probably the best example of programmed obsolescence I can think of, and yet people consistently and willingly buy their products. SMDH.
I have all the Macs I’ve purchased since 1991 and they all boot and run fine.
My current main machine is a 2012 12 core Power Mac running current software.
However, I agree about their other products (phones, tablets, iMacs) and I don’t use those for that reason.
The problem only really started to get out of hand under the current management. Apple has always had a preference for the “walled garden” business model. That works great, as long as inside the wall is a better place to be than outside. I think Jobs, for all his faults, got that. As a result, it wasn’t necessary to worry about users holding their i-Phones beyond the optimal period because most users would willingly upgrade before it was necessary to worry about battery degradation. The problem is Tim Cook seems to care more about maintaining Apple’s cache by, well, bullshit than by substantive improvements. Really, the last couple of generations of the i-Phone haven’t given me any reason whatsoever to want to upgrade. In a lot of ways they’re less useful than the earlier models. I’m worse off not being able to plug earplugs into my phone (or only being able to do so by taking up the power source). I’m worse off having to rely completely on the screen. And I’m trading this for what? Being able to generate cartoons from pictures and new emojis? What do they think I am? A girl in high school? And I don’t think I’m alone in my perceptions. I don’t have any hard figures but I see a lot of people still with the i-Phone 6S. Probably more than some of the newer models. But, I don’t see many people at all with models older than that. It really is like the technology peaked with that model. And for $1,000, I don’t think I’ll be trading up to a new Apple any time soon.
The lack of a headphone jack kills Apple’s new iPhone models for me but a lot of manufacturers are going that direction unfortunately. I’ll just use my 6s until it’s unusable I guess.
They have an option for those of us who don’t want to upgrade hardware. The SE. which is where they took the perfect phone and updated the specs a little to their current chip line.
From what I can tell, the SE sounds like it was just the 6S crammed into the body of a 5. Certainly a perfectly fine smartphone. But, I think it falls in the same category as the 6S for what I’m talking about. The newer generations aren’t really improvements.
Agree with all of this. I like my airpods for the most part but I’d miss the ability to plug in my Bose noise cancelling while still charging for trips if I upgraded. My plantronics headset has better call control features so I use that for calls as well. My wife bought a previous generation of Macbook because the current one was slower and shorter battery life with a crappier keyboard.
Cook is an idiot and he keeps people like Jony Ive around that should be kicked to the curb for their incompetence.
I like my airpods for the most part
I’m sure they’re great. The thing is I tend to lose stuff. Or leave stuff in my pocket. If I do that with earpods, I’m out $30. That sucks, but I can live with it. If I were to do that with airpods, I’d be out $160.
Yep, once they’re gone, they’re gone. Haven’t lost them so far.
My brother sends me voice texts with the talking poop emoji.
Totally worth $1000.
It’s not the “crime”. It’s the coverup.
An outside research firm discovered something that they should have announced, and it makes them look really bad.
I’d never heard of wave clouds before.
Cool. My boss and his wife are supposed to be in Iceland right now. Unfortunately he had heart problems right before they left and is going to need open heart surgery so they had to cancel.
Was there last May and saw the same thing. Iceland is an amazing place to view the young and ancient Earth dancing together. Great scenery, friendly people, and surprisingly excellent food and booze. Go if you can.
H. Pop the remaining bubble. Eliminate all bailout programs. Yes, some people will learn a hard lesson, but others will gain by being able to afford homes on the cheap.
I. Pop the bubble even harder. Eliminate the remaining bailout programs, Fannie and Freddie, and the mortgage interest deduction.
J. Crush the bubble. Pop as above and go to a gold standard to eliminate inflation.
Squee!
K. remove the government from the housing and currency market entirely. Let the cards fall where they may and allow the market to thrive in the aftermath.
2017 Was the Year I Learned About My White Privilege – By Max Boot
I saw that the other day, and it was so fucking stupid IO couldn’t bestir myself to link it.
It was like watching a toddler paw through his own shit.
He’s discovered his inner cuck.
I quit reading at “I used to scoff at the idea of white privilege but…”
I used to scoff at the idea of white privilege. I still do, but I used to, too.
Evening in Uncle Frum’s Cabin: WaPo’s
conservative#dotardresister Jennifer Rubin lists the Distinguished Pols of 2017:All hail Flake, Kasich, McMullin, and the war criminal George W fucking Bush, our moral superiors.
I find Jennifer Rubin’s pronouncements on who is and isn’t an acceptable Republican of about as much interest as the mating habits of the South African sandworm. Rubin has long revealed herself to be a statist toad committed to no other principle than expansive federal power. Moreover, she’s demonstrated a willingness to alter her view of reality to fit whatever her preferred narrative happens to be at the moment. That the GOP is moving away from her good graces speaks well of the Republican party.
“the GOP will be forever tainted by Trumpism”
Past political decisions can taint a political party ‘forever’, eh….
Funny thing, Trump has done more damage to the Dems than to the Repubs.
Well, we largely agree that the GOP will be forever tainted by Trumpism. We also concur that a fleet of “opinion makers” at previously respected publications and think tanks disgraced by their cheerleading for a xenophobic, racist, misogynistic president whose contempt for truth and the rule of law is unprecedented will not regain the stature and credibility they once enjoyed.
[insert “Charlie Brown’s teacher” sound effects]
Every time the economy ticks upwards a little pee comes out of them. That is all that is, a pee stain.
LOL. It depends.
RE: Out-of-Office reply
Return from vacation to find your mailbox filled with mail delivery bounces to spammers.
Autoresponders are fucking stupid and should never be used.
Traditional filling such as…pickled Japanese apricot? Ume is usually called plum in English, not apricot, whatever the correct horticultural classification is. If that’s how the English will be, good luck. Just leave it as is and go for the present onigiri lottery.
Making instant snow from boiling water.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42506726
I am confused. I thought northern ice was melting at a record rate?
I once made a trip to the top of Mt. Washington very late in the season, and we made the descent on the cog railroad thru’ a whiteout.
If there were any tourists behind us, I expect they were up there as unwilling guests for a day or two. I think the outside temp was something like -10, but with winds coming from the NW at about 40 knots, it obviously felt a lot colder. I’ve been in colder places, and I’ve been in less hospitable places, but coming down thru’ Marshfield Station was the eutectic of miserable.
There’s your $5 word for the day. Eutectic.
I did that once at -70 in Alaska. Then went Right back indoors. BTW that’s -56 in pinko degrees.
Drunk Woman Allegedly Destroyed Trump Fundraiser’s Warhol Art on First Date
Buzbee called his date an Uber
Should have stuck to just calling her fat. Or crazy.
He should have called her ‘U-Haul’
“Date”
There was probably a discussion about supply and demand going on …
What’s wrong with her face? Crack or aids? Both?
Another sterling demonstration of the effectiveness of modern cosmetics.
She’s buying the wrong stuff. She looks like a crack whore.
if you do an image search, there are lots of trout-mouth shots out there where she looks quite presentable.
I won’t bother, let her prison mate bitches worry about how she looks.
At least it was just Warhol so no real art was damaged.
“Buzbee, who once fought with his Home Owners’s Association after parking a $600,000 World War II tank outside his house”
sounds like my kind of guy.
Yeah, I like this guy already, not so much his taste in females.
You can’t fool me, that’s the Onion!
Or a Superman comic.
Did a second ideological test, this time with my compromise platform. It turned out as right-leaning libertarian, as I had thought. I mainly compromised on foreign policy, hard drugs, and entitlements to make my platform more “electable” to normies.
GET USED TO IT
Aren’t they getting sick of it? I’m beyond sick of it. I’ve been sick of it for 3 years now, and I can’t believe even the people on the left aren’t sick of repeating this stuff OVER AND OVER every single day. It’s tedious!
Sigh.
As one of the “alphabet components” of “The Movement” being supported by these people, I find it refreshing and uplifting to see that you, too, hate this shit with the fire of a thousand suns.
General Oh’s Beef?
I ugly-laughed at that.
They apparently have no life or aspirations of any kind. I have an answer for them though, it’s called piss the fuck off.
From her Twit feed:
I was just having a conversation with a friend about depression and how it’s an asshole that lies to you.
Am I alone in noting that an unusual proportion of the people in the Social Justice movement have diagnosed mental illnesses?
The others are simply undiagnosed.
I’m with you on that. But which came first? The chicken or the egg?
Hand in hand, I’d say. They have no self-worth, so they look to external validation and unfortunately the Church of Social Justice is where it’s at these days, for many of them. But social media being the narcissistic pit that it is, there’s never ‘enough’ so it causes more depression, requiring more validation, etc. But social justice signaling – the more virulent and out-there the better – gets attention and validation, so the cycle reinforces and radicalizes itself
“Am I alone in noting that an unusual proportion of the people in the Social Justice movement have diagnosed mental illnesses?”
I’m guessing that the undiagnosed ones, haven’t been diagnosed yet.
I have been pointing out for a couple years that if you dig up these peoples personal blogs every one of them admit to being unbalanced
David Thompson has a tag for such stories: psychodrama.
Didn’t ENB twit something very similar earlier today? Why, yes, she did.
Just so we’re up to date, John McCain is in the media’s good graces, again.Quiet jockeying for McCain seat angers Republicans
Hey, screw you Doug. Once again another stunning reminder of tone deafness to your constituents that lead me to writing in Curtis Lemay for governor.
Curtis LeMay* Please don’t bomb my house from beyond the grave, General….
This is nothing more than a tactic to get a veiled shot at Kelli Ward so that some McConnell sycophant can be nominated for Flake’s seat. They’re afraid that she’s going to be some fringe candidate like Roy Moore was, even though she has little controversy besides some citizen sessions on chemtrails, something that she’s said that she doesn’t believe in but organized for some of her constituents.
Of course. Nothing scares them more than knowing that one or both of those seats will not be held by one of their own.
McCain is one of the worst shitbags in the history of politics. That being said, as much as I’d love to see a cure for cancer tomorrow, the guy has a glioblastoma, no one survives that for long. I don’t expect to see the guy back in Congress. At least he did something right and voted for the tax cuts.
He missed the vote while getting treatment I believe.
Chemtrails… yikes, that’s leftist level stupid.
Meh, I worked from home yesterday, but I’m not back to work until the 2nd. Actually yesterday is the first day I’ve worked between Christmas and New Years in about 7 years.
ne way that Apple could have avoided what is very detrimental publicity would have been for them to adopt a design that wasn’t so obviously locked-in and un-maintainable,
How droll.
I know. I kill myself sometimes.
So the real reason Disney is axing their Do Not Disturb policy is so they can walk in on these girls in the shower.
http://archive.is/pCLJw
5, 6, 10, 24, 42.
… or they are looking to walk in on fat people doing it. Either seems legit.
And 28 seems fun. In the sense that she’ll tie you up and rob you.
2? My room. 10 o’clock.
42? 10.30. And bring a friend.
18 & 35
I’ll be in my bunk.
#21 and #28 excluded from the orgy on account of stupid piercings.
re: 21 & 28, agreed. Hygiene, leaking holes, stuff like that.
5 is the top of my list for two reasons (!), 1, they look real, 2, that smiles promises she’ll be a LOT of fun.
Also, 9, 10, 14, 22, 38, 42.
Trump tweets: Hilarious response to left’s outrage at Vanity Fair video
The eating of their own never ceases to amuse.
He’s the wrecking ball we all deserve.
I don’t know if we deserve it, but he’s the wrecking ball we need.
Because they said “knitting”? If they had said “golf”, they would be accused of being homophobic.
Anna Wintour, who was all set to be Amb to Court of St James’s & a big fundraiser for CH, is beside herself in grief & begging for forgiveness
BWAAAHAAAHAHA! Honestly, I’m not a big fan of all of President Trump’s tweets, but he got that one dead on. The guy does know the NYC social scene and he nailed that one.
C’mon. Embrace the tweets. It’s pointless at this stage expecting the president to be presidential.
We’re on this rollercoaster for a few more years at least. Loosen up and enjoy the ride until he does something dangerous.
If he ends his presidency with no new pre-emptive wars, that’s Nobel Peace Prize material in my eyes, relatively speaking.
In this edition of “Leftist Moral Standards”, Al Franken remains popular with MN women and a majority of the state’s voters, by a margin of 50-42, want him to stay rather than resign. This is almost in line with Trump’s approval rating, which currently stands at 44-53, which means that the split is mostly on partisan lines. Poll results are here: https://www.publicpolicypolling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/MinnesotaPoll122817.pdf
Bullshit.
They are just plowing the field for Franken. They must be in danger of losing the seat.
“See? I retract my resignation” / Franken
Yeah, I’m going to call BS on this poll.
Every woman I know thinks he should go. All for different reasons. But even the moderates I know think he should just step down and stop the circus.
Aren’t they getting sick of it?
I could certainly do without the ongoing bastardization of language which makes every goddam petty philosophical disagreement a fucking crime against humanity. I have reached the point where nothing would please me more than finding out the Big Bad Wolf had come in the night and eaten every last one of those shrieking ninnies.
I kill myself sometimes.
Triggering language; a danger to yourself, you are. You had better send me all of your guns for safekeeping. Just in case.
Ah, well, there’s the thing, y’see. They’re in a trust.
Hmm. Threading fails.
Trump cracks me up.
Trudeau on the other hand makes me sad.
But he’s so dreamy though.
I’ve been working every day the last 2-3 weeks (weekends included)
i don’t actually get very much done, which is pretty fucked up. I think in December my brainwaves and blood-pressure drops and all i want to do is drink and sleep and watch football.
I imagine this is how many people live their entire lives
You worked on Christmas?
I knew it!
He’s Fred Garvin!
i remember that sketch from when i was like 8 years old.
sort of. all the people i’m working w/ are teh joos and they actually scheduled a call on Christmas afternoon. they were like, “oh, right” when i mentioned i was at a family dinner.
My joos just left. No more houseguests.
Fuck, I don’t even have any Joos, you one percenters…
Fuck yes, Boxing Day too. Quiet time is nice….
My brother cut me a break on rent for the past three months before he kicks me out, in exchange for labor helping renovate the den. That’s nice, I’ve had time to spare between work and classes. But he is a world class doddler. Like, taking half an hour to get a sheet of drywall up. And we didn’t keep track of hours, so now as our arrangement draws to an end, he feels like he hasn’t got his money’s worth. But what does he expect when he mobilizes all of a Sunday leisurely taking apart the old bar and carting the debris to the dump? Maybe that wasn’t a whole lot of work, bud, but it ate up my entire weekend.
^monopolizes all of Sunday
Don’t work for family. Don’t lend/borrow money to/from family. It is known.
He is not your brother if everything you say is the truth.
He is… my half brother, yes. But we’re thicker than thieves and half as effective. What are you getting at?
‘Along with the new term comes a policy that requires Disney cast members to enter each hotel room at least once a day to “ensure guest safety,” according to a report by Walt Disney World News Today.’
Well, I was planning on having a 24 hour meth fueled fuck fest at the Walt Disney resort. I guess I will take my money elsewhere.
Unless…. you get the right cast member!
I think all of you are missing an opportunity for profit.
“Hey Disney, I had $10,000 dollars in my suitcase and now it is gone”
“Hey Disney, my wife had a $3000 dollar ring in her suitcase and now it is gone”
Rinse and repeat.
“We called the local police and they looked in your room.” #AssetForfeiture.
LOL.
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/946146618499387397
Stop the world, I want to get off.
https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2017/12/28/transkids-site-sells-prosthetic-penises-little-girls-wear/
These people are not insane at all, it’s just that we are such squares.
I hope like hell these kids rebel in the most extreme ways. Yes moms, I traded in the fake penis you bought me for a MAGA hat! Off to Westboro for morning services! Have you seen my new AR?
So, penis envy is a real thing after all. Huh.
“Neuticals” for dogs are an actual thing and have been for some time. It was just a matter of circumstance that a cosmetic veterinary idea would spring forth into our brave, woke world like Athena from the forehead of Zeus. Ya know, I’ve been saving this particular bullet for some reason…
That’s no way to talk about the One True Athena.
No disrespect intended cause we worship Xer!
Thanks for having my back!
I have a sudden urge to yell like ZARDOZ that ATHENA IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH SUCH NONSENSE.
The “small” penis is molded in “flesh-colored” silicone. Coincidence?
It’s Genital Appropriation, that’s what it is.
Is it the old Crayola “flesh-colored”? If it is then that’s just racist!
The masho has one drawback (NSFW) It is one of those plastic peckers that the Transkid site is selling.
The drawback?
And it isn’t the “right” color.
Also, this made me laugh:
These are the same loons who think that BPA in plastics will kill everyone and it should all be banned. Ditto GMO’s. But plastic peckers for kids? Sure, take a chance.
*ultra Prog parent* “I watched Abel play Barbie with his sister! It’s Happening! Squeeeee!”
Good point. If their daughter tried to play Barbie, the proggie parent would flip the fuck out because Barbie is the epitome of the sexist patriarchy. But if their son wanted to play Barbie, it is soooooo gooooood.
I doubt they’d be happy though if their little daughter who wanted to be a boy begged for a gun.
It would be interesting though to see what urge won.
The signal…so virtuous! Must signal… * dying gasp in Spock’s arms*
I hope they just go away
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/photos-antifa-campus-violence/
They’re the heroes of our age fighting the emerging Nazi menace. If they beat up/cripple/kill some Trump supporters, Republicans, and libertarians well, if you want to make an omelet you have to break a few eggs.
Seriously, the lionization of those violent assholes who are no better, and in many cases worse, than the supposed Nazis they’re fighting against is fucking disgusting.
Projection.
Antifa adopts some of the same styles and attitudes of extreme far-right movements.
Just like those extreme right wing thugs, the Communists.
So, I’m watching the NatGeo channel episode about how Port Royal Jamaica was destroyed in the 1690s by an earthquake. Actually the 2nd time I’ve seen it, so nothing new. Apparently, they built the city of about 8000 people on a sand island, which they couldn’t have known with the tech they had then and when the earthquake hit, it sunk the city in about 2 minutes and the ensuing tsunami sank a bunch of ships on top of the sunken city.
Now I know where my pair of Brass cannons are.
At first, I couldn’t figure out what in the hell you were talking about.
Oooh…. The Drain marathon!
Yes.
So, I don’t know, my wife had an interview with TSA today, and I think she’s accepted an offer… I don’t really know how I feel about this. Getting some of my money back from the fedgov is of course a good thing, but…
Where’s that link to the 55 gallon barrel of lube?
You’re not making me feel better…
Hope she doesn’t get a ‘thing’ about blue latex gloves.
I’m scared…
Don’t be. My wife has worked for our version of the TSA for fifteen years. They’re not really trolls, they just act that way.
She will need lots of practice.
So, do they practice their cavity searches on one another, or do they bring work home with them?
Is your wife down with serial molesting? Because that’s whats she is signing up for. Also, the TSA serves no purpose. Make the pilots cabin in an airliner non accessible from the passenger cabin. That, and no one can hijack an airliner after 9/11. The passengers wont let it happen.
Stop it Lachowsky! Wifey makes 25 bucks an hour to stand around! You’ll queer the deal!
Former Top Pig has tremendous gun control
I suspect they mean .380 semiautomatic, unless – nah – Coonan AGAIN?
I think S&W made a target semi-auto in 38 spl, but that hasn’t been made since the 1950’s. These are his personal guns so maybe…or maybe another journalist talking out of their ass about yet another thing they dont know anything about.
I should have looked it up before writing from my feeble memory. they quit in ’92. I would love to have one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson_Model_52
The guy who owns the one I shot paid what I think is a ridiculous amount of money for it.
Until I fired it.
Thanks.
Kidding. My father had one but before I was born he traded it away. I have never fired that one or the model 41, both of which are ridiculously expensive, but everyone says the same thing about them…worth the money.
The 41s are very nice – or were.
They still make them – they were going to stop when S&W brought out the Victory but demand picked up, so 5″ and 7″ versions are available, if not *easily* available. $1300 for a .22 target pistol is a bit rich for me, but about half the bullseye team at my club have them and as I say, they really are very sweet guns, especially the older ones.
The new ones – inevitably – are not quite as ‘fitted’, but they’re more than adequate to get a 300 score in standard NRA Bullseye if the human does his or her part.
The Model 52.
I’ve shot one, but it’s not what I’d be using as a carry pistol – it only fires wadcutters, and I never get attacked by wads.
How about by semi-wads?
Nope. The mag is JUST deep enough to take the brass alone, with the wadcutters fully sunk (as they should be) in the cases. This guy currently only shoots his own loads thru’ the gun.
hrrrrr…hrrrrr
SHUT UP, BEAVIS!
SHUT UP, BEAVIS!
Finally, someone is talking sense.
Try being a non-pig and getting a semiautomatic in New York.
Or even a revolver. You need serious “pull”.
Probably .38 Colt S[t]uper.
So, I was at the Naval Academy for my 4th tour there, last week. Taking my daughter in law and hubby there for their first tour. I had not before realized the extent of the Pearl Harbor attack. No wonder we nuked them. I mean I don’t agree at all with microwaving all those innocent civilians, but the Pearl Harbor attack was a lot more horrific than I has previously known about.
had
My grandpapa was sent to a stateside school a couple of months before the Pearl Harbor attack. For my sake, I’m glad he missed it.
The museums at Pearl Harbor are very good. Yes, it is amazing when you see the wreckage of the Arizona and the pictures of all the other damage.
It is weird though how many Japanese tourists you see at the place.
Ever read “Flyboys”? The Japanese thought their Army should march on its stomach. At times they resorted to cannibalism, prisoners first.
imperial cruise is a good one by the same author. The U.S. put the Japanese in a position where they damn near had to attack us. Flyboys does a good job of illustrating the evil of the imperial Japanese. Imperial Cruise does a good job of explaining why we ended up at war with them.
Thanks! That’ll go on my to-buy list.
What in the ever living fuck is going on with Vegas? Sincere question because people sorta want to know how dozens of people died.
A lefty lunatic cracked and decided to punish Trump voters. They are desperate to cover this up because they know mainstream America can just be pushed so far before all of the pinkos end up in nooses.
*gets more tin foil and begins wrapping torso*
Fuck if I know. I think that’s a misplaced reply, but my answer stands.
Imperial Cruise was a very enlightening read about the Pacific aspect of WW2.
Vegas was the result of the Saudi coup.
yes and tinfoil.
303 comments when I refreshed the page.
Are we back on Enfields?
Just a.. coincidence. Yeah… Yeah…
308 comments after my last refresh.
Obsessed, so y’are!
Everyone’s Grandpa had an .303 Enfield in the closet when I was a boy. War surplus. Great rifle (depending upon condition) and you can take down a moose with it too.
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I am not a number! I am a free man!
https://youtu.be/chprwPfP7xY
I am not a me-me!
Stop othering No. 6
I’ll never not other that limey prick. English charm and wit? Christ, what an asshole.
Regular reminder to not shoot your .308 win from your 7.62 NATO chambered rifle.
Always a good reminder.
Yeah, I made sure my SR716 would shoot .308 before I bought it.
Most modern civilian firearms will be OK, but yeah, it’s definitely worth making sure
Oh no!
Wah wah. He was elected president of the US [government as Don Boudreaux oftens corrects], not the chief storyteller or charity fundraiser for a local entity. Fuck ’em all.
Then sue their non-serving asses. Isn’t how that how it works, you whirlwind reaping mofos?
Finally, someone with the right approach. We’re paying enough for that palace, the food should be good. And he should be eating there. He’s supposed to be doing a job, not be on a vacation for 4-8 years.
ie. He’s not dragging the secret service out of the white house and inconveniencing the average joe tourists who are spending real money to come tour the area.
e.g.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/22/obamas-hawaii-christmas-vacations-cost-taxpayers-3/
the media did manage to get themselves into a indignant fluff when obama broke with decades of tradition and refused to allow any press to take candid pictures in events.
but even that sort of stuff was mostly played down. they had their little whines in the pages of Columbia Journalism Review, but its not like the editorial page of the NYT was screeching about his violation of norms
the press will literally twist themselves into pretzels trying to make anything Trump does or doesn’t do</strong>…. seem abnormal and extreme
when they run the “Stuff he doesn’t do” stories like that, its just because they’ve completely burned out the short list of shit ‘he did’ and desperately need new reasons to whinge and moan.
I really wonder if anyone bothered to check the record-keeping to see how many “elementary school reading drives” Obama (or bush, or clinton, or reagan, or anyfuckingone) had done in their *first 12 months in office*. I’d be surprised if there was a single example. because no one needs to get re-elected in their first year of their first term. They don’t do the stupid PR shit because they’ve got actually business to take care of. They save all that gladhanding bullshit for year 3.
Well, Bush was reading to that class on 9/11, so that’s one….
true. in fact that popped into my head. but i think it was more in aid of his wife’s ‘literacy campaign’ thing.
In an entire year in office, trump has yet to buy wife beaters from the local Walmart. OUTRRAGE! its unimaginable.
So he isnt making the charity circuit to help line the pockets of the charlatans that didn’t support or vote for him.
Good.
Took my folks to visit USS North Carolina monument on Tuesday. Great tour – if you’re into that kinda thing though…you should probably plan for at least 3 hours – lots of great stuff to see. Course I did a lot of explaining too which might have dragged things out a bit.
https://twitter.com/FishLikesFlicks/status/946544517947289600
Also…driving back yesterday. When I’m driving between Southern coastal N. Carolina (right near Myrtle Beach) and C’ville – and the shittiest part of the drive is I-95 (inconsistent speed, ridiculous traffic, etc – there’s a problem. I-95 either needs to be 4 lanes the entire length or just build parallel truck lanes. Getting on a completely empty I-295N was the happiest moment of the day.
I fly in and out of Wilmington when I fly to visit relatives in North Carolina. At some point, I should set up my flights to have a little time to tour the ship. I drive past the exit for the ship when drive to and from the airport.
24:30 – in glorious HD if you pick up the blu-ray.
I have toured the USS Alabama and the USS Missouri. I spent well over 3 hours on both of them. Its definantly worth it if one can find the time. The magazine of the USS Alabama has a 16 inch half moon indention in the floor. I would have hated to be in that room when that happened.
Did a promotion ceremony on Mighty Mo – never did the free tour even being there for a year and a half. Lazy….but it does give me another reason to go back.
Rose Marie, 1923-2017
🙁
And I screwed up the link:
Rose Marie, 1923-2017.
And you noticed fast than I could comment.
Hmm… SF’d.
Baby Rose Marie (she was a child star in vaudeville).
One of Rose Marie’s many Hollywood Squares appearances
“It was as if millions of millenial voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced“
I love guacamole.
there will be a sudden fad for *roast* guacamole
Doesn’t sound very appetizing but then again I’ve never tried it.
I think that’s called avocado soup.
Travesty
This pathetic knucklehead thought it was pure genius to ruin the fun of kids and their parents by protesting a Donald Trump robot in the Hall of Presidents and videotaping himself doing it. I like Trump more and more everyday, but he still is unbelievably fortunate in who his enemies actually are.
Pathetic loser. Let’s ruin everyone’s experience at Disney World so I can be an attention whore for 5 seconds.
For the bravery that it took to resist the inanimate object, he deserves a Purple Heart…cutout.
More boo hoo: IRS isn’t going to allow prepayment of property taxes to count for this year’s taxes but when they’re actually assessed. The same people whining about tax gimmicks and games by “the rich” are now whining that this one won’t be allowed. Like that shit sandwich you made? Eat it up. There’s plenty of it.
Why would anybody pre pay property taxes. I hold onto that money until the day its due. Im not giving the government an interest free loan.
2017 tax-year you can deduct all property taxes – SALT deduction is limited in 2018. There are risks for those who may push into AMT for 2017, but otherwise a better deduction in 2017 if you will exceed 2018 limits.
So, some people trusted government policy not to change and paid accordingly. Sorry, not sorry.
Because it is in your financial interest to do so?
It’s a psychological issue – some people don’t want to ‘worry’ that the bill might come due and they’d forget to pay it. It’s like people who obsess(ed) over paying off their mortgage knowing that in doing so, they’ll lose the tax savings on the mortgage deduction.
Wonderful demolishment of the latest from that NYT twit who did the completely fraudulent series of nail-salon articles.
Holy shit. After firing the reporter, her editor and the fact checkers should all be given the boot. If there were any editors or fact checkers involved.
Who cares about facts when Trump is killing the Mexicans, Muslims, gays, trannies, pussies, left-handed genderqueer transracial filipinos?
I’m remastering some sons, here’s Acoustic Pipeline with Synsonic Drums,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFZjmDnGT1c
or Songs….
Unlike many families, we relish talking politics of the day, so among many things I enjoyed was seeing the look on my commie brother’s face when I expounded on police brutality and the solutions to it (I’m a LEO, and it’s not about race), my dad suddenly wondering why HAVEN’T we heard about the Vegas shooter, and my SOCON mother reconsidering her stance on the use of backscatter vans and RC130s to monitor people during public gatherings.
I think I also got all of them to understand a variety of things when we went into gun control. The first comment by my brother was about allowing mentally ill people to own weapons. I asked “who defines mentally ill? I’m technically mentally ill and ten years ago mental illness was defined very differently. So tell me, why do you want to limit my rights based on someone else’s ever-changing definitions?” Total shock as his world crumbled at the implications and connecting it back to police brutality and the right to defend yourself from it. I love holiday discussions.
Rock on, Misty of Chincoteague.
Wuzzat?
That’s a female libertarian compliment (albeit literature for middle-aged females) based-on wild mustangs/horses.
Not sure, but I think that’s a reference to your avatar. The Chincoteague islands are just off the coast of VA and sport their very own variety of horses. Every year, they take a big annual swim across the way to some other island or maybe the mainland (don’t remember).
It is near Assoteague, where my paternal ancestors first settled in the 17th century.
…And I stand corrected.
But the thing about the Chincoteague ponies is true.
And home to some pretty tasty oysters, too.
*Somebody’s* showing their age ….
Who’s Old?
/fightin words
Mentally ill people are way more likely to be victims of violence than perptraitors of it. Throw that in the gun controllers face and ask them why they want marginalized individuals to be victims.
Add in the part where the crafty pro gov leftists are already trying to get global warming “deniers” declared as mentally ill, and you can see where this is going.
Good luck with that,I’m not crazy,(says 120 Million Americans)
People keep talking about this, and its one of the easiest-debunked ideas ever. Which makes you wonder why no one in the media ever fucking explains it to people.
HIPAA by itself makes the whole idea a non-starter.
then you get into how it would affect millions of people who are currently taking meds but aren’t “defined” yet? everyone would fucking cancel their prescriptions and simply refuse to see doctors. who wants to end up on a ‘list’ of crazy people you can’t ever get off of?
the entire medical industry would actually end up joining w/ gun owners in fighting what was a fucking stupid idea. But the media won’t say that because they LOOOOVE this stupid idea that there are “common sense solutions” which seem like common sense only if you’re *a complete fucking imbecile and never do a split second’s thought*
I like to point out that one of the most important aspects of mental illness treatment is the de-stigmatization of seeking help. And now, as soon as someone does you want to disqualify them from their 2nd Amdt right?
NEVER CALL THE COPS, same thing….
how about, “put them in a database which will be publicly available to millions of people in different agencies and TOTALLY would end up getting used by people doing employment background checks”?
You have an – interesting – family.
I have to say, if mine were still alive and/or over here, I’d be having the same kind of discussions. My in-laws, however, are a different kettle of fish entirely.
Rolled out of bed and checked on the reactions to the Japanese Lesson article. For those of you bitching about how it was *start whiny voice* “Too complicated”, now you know how I feel when you talk about Bitcoin, guitars and Chipotle.
i missed the whole Post, and it was still too complicated….
Yet, you managed to accomplish to most difficult intellectual feat known to mankind: correctly install Christmas lights.
Barely,Lolz
Missed it. All the fun stuff happens while I’m at work.
I for one enjoyed the post and found it educational although I would have rather had some good Japanese pick-up lines.
Making a circle with my thumb and index finger and poking my other index finger in and out of it while winking and wagging my tongue isn’t appreciated in every Japanese restaurant.
They gave you something with tentacles, didn’t they.
Everytime
That’s because making a circle like that means, “Money”. They probably thought you were robbing them.
Here’s a couple of classic pickup lines similar to our, “What’s your sign?”
夜明けのコーヒーを一緒に飲もう。Yoake no ko-hi wo nomimasen ka?
“Would you like to drink morning coffee together?”
まつ毛アグレッシブですね。この後合コンですか？. Mastuge aguresshibu desu ne. Kono ato, goukon desu ka?
“You have aggressive eyebrows. Are you going to a dating party?
“Damn, girl, your eyebrows so aggressive they got me feelin’ some kinda way!”
$135K. Wow. They could have drove to the women’s house and shot their dog and not been fined 10% of that.
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2017/12/28/oregon-court-upholds-135-000-fine-portion-ruling-against-bakery-owners-gay-wedding-cake-case/985096001/
And if one of them were a cop, she could have got a promotion.
But they were pleasantly surprised.
Seriously, I highly doubt this outcome wasn’t considered a possibility if not a probability. The cynic in me wouldn’t be surprised to find that they’d shopped around until they found a bakery that would put up a stink. $135k will pay for one hell of a honeymoon and a solid down payment on a decent house.
135K will buy a decent house. (around here (YMMV))
a thought that may help someone else
– you should move your browser cache off your C: drive
put it on a diff partition, different drive, somewhere visible and simple. keep it way the fuck away from your apps (Program Files) and (C:/User/****) directories
i’d explain why, but it would be boring. just do it. and when you defragment your C drive, you will discover it takes less time and needs doing MUCH less frequently.
I thought recent versions of Windows didn’t require manual defragging? I could be misremembering since I switched to Mac years ago.
W10 auto frags by Default, there is a switch to turn it off
it really doesnt. there is no good “auto defragging”, despite this being sold as a feature of Win 10
it will partially defrag in many cases, and when you shut down when its midway through this process, you actually now have something worse than when you started. which won’t be “re-defragged” until you hit that point in your pre-schedule again.
its a terrible implementation. people seem to think “why, its defragging all the time in the background!” no. it isn’t.
I’m a W insider, i get updates and frag when they decide, and my machine kicks ass, so….
I haven’t come close to filling a hard drive in many years either. Last time I saw some improvement from a defrag was like Windows 2000.
yeah, its probably not relevant for most people.
i use a 3-4 apps that create a bazillion temp files , and they’re not easily created/flushed at the same time.
other people, the only similar thing is the browser, which *can* accumulate a few gb of cache data at a time. hence, the ‘move ur cache elsewhere – your c drive will be far more streamlined’
At this point I buy 1TB drives whenever they’re on sale. I run out of storage left and right. Right now I’ve got a 250GB SSD as my C: drive with Windows installed on it, two 1TB HDs as D: and E: with games, apps, docs, etc., a third 1TB HD with a Linux install, and a 1TB portable HD. And a 1TB network drive.
With the exception of a couple of games that benefit from the SSD speed and Office 365 stuff that refuses to install elsewhere for some reason, I install everything to D: and E:.
I have the Mac’s so-called “Fusion” drive which is a combo SSD and hard drive that totals 3TB. But I kind of stopped downloading, uh, large files, after I came to the attention of you-know-who during the Woodchipper Affair* – so I have no idea how I’m gonna fill this thing.
*it was a precautionary measure that I took before the nature of the tender mercies became clear to me
Oh, I’ve heard of those. Isn’t the deal with that drive that the os basically just moves stuff that’s accessed more often into the SSD portion or something like that?
Not a bad idea about the downloading of large files, btw. I used to download unofficial demos of games prior to purchase and feed my difficult-to-find old movie habit that way, and I got so many nastygrams from Comcast I stopped opening them. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have gotten into any legal trouble, but at one point Comcast was dealing with suspected hooligans by doing stuff like capping bandwidth without warning, throttling down p2p traffic, and in some cases just dumping customers for good. Besides which, if God forbid I’d have found myself in some kind of legal situation I certainly couldn’t have afforded to fight it in court.
this is the smart way to go about things.
I think that’s accurate. In any event, I have no complaints. Everything is snappy.
I think we had this conversation a few days ago. That sort of thing never happened to me with Time Warner but at the time I was freaking out because after I got the initial email from The Jacket I had no idea what was going on, so I covered as many bases as I could. BTW this included deleting the entire email history from a friend for reasons I won’t go into but touch on a frequent topic of conversation around here – OK, it was drugs.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HAH AHA AHA HAHA HA HA HA(deep breath) HA her har har har…
…no, not really. it automatically *schedules* it, but if you’re not leaving your PC on and idle during the periods its automatically scheduling, it doesn’t happen.
I just watched that from start to finish for the first time the other day. (Some channel had it on Xmas marathon – for some reason.)
I just ordered some Delivery Weed, dial, order,(they have me in the phone DB)
and 45 minutes from now, Weed, Delivered! Cali sucks, but this is way cool
Grrrr. /Ohio sucks
I’m stiil blown away, I grew up looking for Dealers, etc.
Update: 20 minute Weed delivery!
Nice. I can get good weed anytime easily but I rarely ever smoke anymore.
I’m down from 7 grams a week to about 4, it’s getting hard to breathe, but I use CBD candy, which is awesome for Psychos like me,
keeps me mellow on the Road.
I dunno. I kind of enjoyed back in the day when you’d go to the friend of a friend of a friend’s scuzzy, not-really-a-dealer-but dealer guy’s shithole house to pick up a baggy of crusty weed. “He man, I’m a friend of Dylan. Can I get an eighth?”. As long as it didn’t turn into this, it was all good.
No, I like not having 3 choices of beer, I like having 40 choices of weed, 100 choices of beer, fuck that trashy shit, go legit…
This is how it’s done, sealed 1/8ths, etc.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/OS8VPzTKTeKf3eJq1
https://photos.app.goo.gl/St6UC49rBXHjgR1W2
Vader OG, 10/gr.
OK. That is impressive. Kids these days. SMDH.
Kids? i’m 54 and I’m impressed
Yusef goes shopping after indulging.
I don’t indulge, I’m always High, but not the way you think of it, seriously, You insult me, I’m not that, WTF?
Just teasing. Let’s just say I’ve enjoyed and been productive while not breathing regular air. I’ve actually written about an experience with the fucking cops.
🙂
“This baggie contains material known by the state of California to cause bouts of giggling and profound thoughts that look stupid the next morning.”
It’s a sad thing you think Stoners are all Stupid and want the munchies, get a Fucking Clue,
Yikes, ease off. I was making a mild joke. I have partaken many times so I’m not being flippant.
I Apologise, I’m kind of pissy about those kind of statements, here’s why’
No One Ever Knows I’m stoned, I don’t act that way. i am a spun out guy and Weed keeps me from killing people.
You would never guess I smoke Pot, all Good 😉
HM isn’t here, so someone has to do it:
Call me. Don’t be afraid, you piece of shit. Stand up. If you don’t call, you’re just afraid. I already know where you live, I’m on you. You might as well call me. You will see me. I promise. Bro.
I feel bad even doing that as a joke. Just in case, ^joke.
I larf, I don’T get it, but I’ll call if you want………
/weird
Hell, I’ll email you my Number, I would love to talk to you!
Needs a boldface link and/or CENTER tag.
Yep, it’s all good, man.
When I do smoke, which isn’t often anymore, I am the stereotype :/
Ahhh, Now I see, I’m into CBD anymore because I’m interested in Not being pot High,
YMMV
So i suppose if you’re doing it right, no one cares about the other Shit you bring?
/sounds like me
No One Ever Knows I’m stoned You keep on telling yourself that. I still get a chuckle thinking of when my father finally felt me and my sister were old enough to learn and accept that he smokes pot, we simultaneously said ‘No Shit!’
If you are stoned when you meet someone, and they like you, and maybe hire you? that’s the way they see you,
Dude! you’re doing it wrong!
Reminds me of this boss I had that made a big announcement at a Christmas party about 10 years ago. All 15 of us sit down at the table and he slowly stands up and demands our attention. “I’ve been wanting to tell you guys for years. I’m gay.” He felt slighted when almost everyone started laughing. Um, no shit, dude.
It sounds like you need to smoke a little more and relax, Frankie
Who is Frankie?
We are all Frankie
I knew it! STEVE SMITH SAYS>RELAX!
Straff, in 1980. I bought Indica for 10$ a gram from the “keyhole”, Eldorado park Long Beach California, from Dirt bags and thieves, I get the same thing now for the same price, 35 years later! from legit sources,what’s not to like?
I get you. Of course it’s better weed and minus the violence associated with a black market. Romanticizing terrible experiences is how we deal with having them in our memory banks.
I’m a Glib in Cali, the only thing I can be thankful for is Weed, and Ass Sex, Immigrants we already have and Gas money to get out!
If you want to see the free market, check out these numbers,
1981
Stress/Regular weed, 30-50 1/4 oZ.
Indica 10Gr. sometimes Hawaiian for 15$
LSD 5$ a tab
Meth 10 gr.
2017
Stress 15/20$ 1/3 oZ
Indica 10- 25$ gr. Typically 10-12$
LSD ?
Meth 10 gr.
Cheap drugs aren’t regulated,,until they are…
If you try running Monty Python’s killer joke from WW2, the German translation, through Google translate, it spits back out “[FATAL ERROR].” Well played, Google.
Yeah. I’ll give Google that one. But only one!
JFC Carol Cleveland in the marriage counselor sketch.
McCain, in the senate Conference room, with a knife,
Nowhere near as THICC
For no reason other than I love deliberate handwriting.
My plumbing supplier has an ancient lady that prints the receipts by hand, they look like works of art all curlicue-ed and serif-ed, I feel guilty every time I toss one.
Keep them. Seriously. Added benefit of making the govt shriek upon seeing beauty.
The Library of Congress used to archive Tweets, bud. That’s like cataloging herpes sores. The Library can keep tabs on herpes sores, but you can’t keep hold of lovingly printed receipts? Shameful.
of lovingly printed receipt
thing is she whips’em out like you or me would sign the screen thingie at a self check out. I swear she uses just a regular old disposable Bic but it looks like she has a top end fountain pen. I attribute it to people paying more attention to penmanship ninety years ago when she learned how to write.
*drool*
I love good handwriting.
And BTW printing doesn’t count.
And #4 is kind of scaring me.
Absolutely. Maps and handwriting. Love them. My attempt at combining both from memory.
Is that prefecture or city names?
Prefectures. I’m in the process of memorizing all the city names. My final goal is to be able to draw the entire map with prefectures, capitols and famous food for each one.
Wow, that’s quite the exercise. I struggled the other day to come up with all 50 states when I was figuring which states I’ve been to and the ones I haven’t.
I remember “learning how to read a map” class from like 4th grade, and scoffing at it because I spent so many hours just staring at maps when I was little. OK, today too.
More so than 5?
5 is clearly notes rewritten over some period. Some charmless student, friendless and alone, who chose to spend God knows how many hours rewriting his or her notes, probably her, into a form better suited to the aesthetic preferences of this particular person.
I dunno… that’s about 15 fewer personalities than exhibited by #4 so yes?
2, 58.
I’ve always like the old school draughtsman’s lettering script.
I wear a pocket Protector with a note pad and pens,sharpies etc. I use a note pad every 3 months, paper is good,
/Spelling
My handwriting is atrocious but I do like pens/pencils and and notebooks. I’m a sucker for picking up an interesting pad. I put all of my appointments and such into electronic calendar but I still like penciling/penning in things in my diary. Something about looking at a physical copy of a month is deeply satisfying.
No pocket protector. I’ve ink stained more than one pants pocket though.
I’m trying a TOR browser on my phone. Slow. Is there any point since it’s all going through my IP anyway?
A better first step would just be a VPN connection. If you don’t mind re-establishing connections every few hours, http://www.cyberghostvpn.com is pretty good.
Went and took the quiz from Comment 16 above.
It will come as no surprise to anyone who knows me that I score as Radical. Personal 100; Economic 98.2.
I think that was around my score, but if there were better options I may have scored different.
Indeed. Most of them did not exactly provide a choice I wanted.
So, you fail the purity test by 1.8.
::sniff::
Yeah, I guess I should not be admin of a glibertarian site. I’ll go nuke it in 10, 9, 8…
So, I’m a libertarian who believes in IP, but also believes sharing ideas for the idea of sharing ideas should not be illegal. Case in point, fan edits. The original content was created by someone who deserves credit for their work; however labor is enacted to share an idea of how that idea can be different, without charging, I don’t see who that invalidates IP. Or maybe I’m just being selfish because I do fan edits, I dunno.
Yeah, as a professional, exhibiting artist and often published photographer, I think about this.
I definitely want credit for my original work (and also, of course, the right to charge for it), but I don’t particularly care if someone uses it as a jumping off point, as long as it’s clear the changes aren’t my work, since I have a definite vision for what I do and a recognizable artistic voice. “Don’t damage my brand” basically. (And the changes need to be substantive enough that an ordinary observer would say it’s not a copy.)
I did once demand a magazine print a correction to credit me for a photo of mine used without permission or compensation. I did not make them pay me.
Yeah. I mean, with a fan edit their is not really any other way you can express your idea of how a work of art should be different. If you write a 34 page dissertation of the changes you would make, it doesn’t have the same effect. Especially since you don’t want to profit off the work of others, just share your own ideas on how that idea could be better expressed.
OT: Why do so many women have a hard time getting along with each other?
My supervisor (female) was discussing some issues in our department, and she mentioned that “when you get a bunch of girls together, this kind of stuff is going to happen” and added “I’d rather have 800 male employees than 10 female employees”. And this is not the first time I’ve observed this dynamic. Every day in our cubicle farm, I overhear women talking maliciously about another woman who is not present. As soon as that woman comes back, they start acting nice to her. It’s just constant shit-talking behind the back while being nice to their face. Of course, it’s worth mentioning that I’ve worked with numerous women who were chill as fuck as just got the job done.
Do you think this has some biological cause, or is it more cultural?
You don’t work with enough lipstick lesbians? Pornography is a lie?
Sorry; I’m not a people person, more of an aspie shut-in.
The Cows are not what they Seem.
Higher in neurotic behavior. Certainly part biological.
All you need to do to understand the dynamic is to ask any female nieces etc that you might have about the ‘cool girls’ cliques in high school. Brutal social grandstanding, always casting someone out of the group as someone ingratiates themselves with the leaders. It’s a constant dog-pile of competing vanities.
Many women outgrow this behavior (indeed, many of them avoid the clique altogether) but there’s often a tendency for it to develop again when you put them in a corporate environment.
OK, I’ll go put my shitlord hat on now.
I see this at a couple of my client’s offices. I just pretty much ignore them, they just talk about shoes and purses and other women.
“OT: Why do so many women have a hard time getting along with each other?”
They’re territorial and catty, like cats. I mean there’s nothing else there. I once worked at a company that had an entire production floor of all women, about 150-200 of them. Cat fights daily.
About 15 years ago, when I was in my late 20s, I worked closely with another branch of the company on a project that required long hours and many weeks of travel.
One day, as the crew (all male,engineers,and technicians, plus me) were all headed on foot for lunch, they were playfully talking shit and being crude. I said, “see, this is what i get fpr working with a bunch of men!”
The most senior of them, a guy working past retirement for love of the job, looked at me sagely and said, “Could be worse. You could be working with a bunch of women.” That shut me up, and I’ve never,forgotten it.
Both biological and cultural. I am fortunate to work mostly with men, and the few women, other than secretaries, i work with are engineers, so they have already self selected for logic and reason.
I am friendly with the secretaries, but they are so shallow in conversation, I just want to blow my brains out to end the chat.
Even the female engineers are intolerable in sufficient number.
Hey, where’s the morning links, you lazy fuckers! It’s 5am, wake up!
*awaits catbutt*
Hyperion – I hope you had a Happy Birthday!
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Thanks