Hump Day! For those of you who have significant others or FWB or toys. I’m just othering the rest of you.
Here is person who is crazier than a runover dog. I sincerely hope that no government agency or court decision ever forces this person to sell books they find morally objectionable. I also will continue to order books from giant capitalist machines like Amazon because I personally think this person is wrong to avoid selling books that they find morally objectionable. Information wants to be free. Rather than making it interesting, just tell people they are free to buy it, but put a card in there with a website that refutes the information.
These shitbirds can do moral grandstanding all day, but can’t pass a budget to save their lives. This is why a guy who looks like well-fed bum is calling you limp dicks and getting traction with it.
…And the same jerkoffs kill the AUMF Repeal as well.
But this is great news. I love these medical miracles where we are able to reverse the negative effects of accidents on children.
And its been sort of crappy at the L residence. I went with some weird 80s blahs.
HUMP DAAAAYYYYEEEEEEE!!!!
MikeMikeMike! Guess what day it is!
They snuck the afternoon links in early just so Vhyrus could be first! Inside job!
I have no idea what you’re talking about! Excuse me, I have an important call from Russia to take…
[counts bribe money]
Vhyrus = new Fist?
*knocks over trash can*
I’m at my limit. I’m going to start my own website. With blackjack, and hookers. In fact, forget the website.
Let’s just start a new religion and include those things, and more.
Found this guy on Youtube, and I think he’s a pretty good example of the kind of people the ‘new right’ are in comparison to the ‘old right’. I.E. he’s, for lack of a better word, ‘hip to the youth culture’, using metal in his intros, arguing against social justice in comic books and video games, etc. At what point in one of his videos he sneers about old guard Republicans like Evan McMuffin (which is what he actually calls him) and says “why would I replace my metal shirts with a tacky suit?” His material isn’t exactly riveting but he’s fairly principled while still willing to back Trump, but these are the kinds of guys who are pulling in the youths to the ‘new right’.
I was almost positive you were talking about razorfist for a minute.
Razorfist self-identifies as libertarian, which already has its share of ‘fuck the suits man’-type guys, because it’s always been at least partially a core part of the identity. This guy openly calls himself a conservative and throws off the traditional image of what ‘conservatism’ is, much in the same way Milo does.
That dude does a lot of coke or something. Not sure how it’s possible to high level rant for that long otherwise.
He’s got a degree in political science, idealizes Dennis Miller, and used to work in political talk radio, that’s why.
The guy can seemingly rant for an hour without taking a breath. I like him, just sayin.
He’s got a degree in political science, idealizes Dennis Miller, and used to work in political talk radio, that’s why.
These also sound like symptoms of doing a lot of coke.
First saw razorfist a few days ago from a link here. Interesting to learn that he idealizes Dennis Miller because that was who he reminded me of … before Miller became an O’Reilly sidekick and a GOP shill.
Same. I clicked just to see another razorfist rant.
I kinda was expecting The Rageaholic.
me too
God-fuckin’ speed
The nu-right, both figures that are in DC and in the internet culture, is very, very good for conservatism and libertarianism long-term, because they actually care to read the Constitution from time to time and will occasionally oppose things on principle. I just wish the old right could die off a little more quickly.
They cannot resist the power of our sarcasm. We’re going to win one intertoobz.
“Evan McMuffin (which is what he actually calls him)”
Once glibertarians have gave you a name, I’m afraid you’re stuck with it!
That is golden. And to think that just earlier today claims were being made that intentionally mangling names is a low form of humor. Pfft.
Little Marco, Lyin Ted, Crooked Hillary. I’m thinking it’s about winning!
Don’t forget Creepy Tim
Whatever, Adolf Shitler
I think that Democrats are in a lot more trouble than they think. They’ve turned the intertoobz against them. And they’re actually going to run Kamala Harris for president. The lulz are going to get ever more epic. I’m currently recruiting more orphans for stacking tear barrels.
I wonder if Trump will allow for catapulting orphans over the wall?
Is incompetence better than leftists? To an increasingly large number of people, including me, hell yes. I wouldn’t be surprised if the right holds both houses if the economy is good.
If your government is oppressive and/or intrusive, your best hope is that it is also incompetent.
The process of getting more libertarians into Congress is going a lot slower than I want it to. But something I’ve been saying for a long time, the younger generation of voterse should be the main target of libertarians. You are not going to convert boomers or even most of my generation into libertarians. They for the most part are hardcore statists, no matter which team they want to carry it out for them.
It’s looking promising for us right now and we should be getting the word out for these kiddies to get off their ass and vote for libertarian leaning candidates, which obviously will not be found running as a Democrat. They need to know to look for libertarian leaning candidates running as Republicans and how to pick out the fake ones, and vote L if one cannot be found.
If I ever think about running in my district’s primary, state or national, I would consider running as a Democrat in my particular district (Sole Reason: It’s D+17!), and then focus my campaign solely on civil liberties, foreign policy, legalizing weed, and lowering the drinking age back to 18. That could be an interesting tact, and if I ever get a long-shot victory, I can start to identify as a Freedom Caucus Democrat and be the token bi-partisan guy on everything.
I’m afraid the Democrats would run you out of town on a rail. They don’t tolerate any dissent. Well, I mean you can be as much crazy left as you want, but that’s it, there’ no going the other way.
I’ll simply tell my hypothetical constituents that I’m a non-traditional Democrat like Kucinich: I work with the nu-Right to purge the neocons and get a balanced budget, then fight the Rs on abortion (I’m flexible on this position), NSA, asset forfeiture, marijuana, the Wall (I think it’s poor resource management), and healthcare (I won’t give them my real reason). IOW, effective opposition.
That’s probably a big enough lie that they’ll believe it. How did I forget you’re a glibertarian?
Just keep quiet at first and only vote on things both you and the party agree on, find excuses for not voting at all if your vote would go against the party line.
Over time as more glibertarians get into office doing the same thing, running as whatever party is the majority in their district, we can start softening the stances of both parties until they’re essentially libertarian.
You think this would work?
There’s a lot of cocktail parties.
With some the rare exception of some students who actually think, libertarianism is only attractive to taxpayers.
You’re never going to be able to convert anybody who’s within ten years of getting Social Security and Medicare.
Geezers might pay lip service to small government, but unless they’re already thinking like a libertarian, they can’t imagine the state reneging on the imagined social contract to which they are beneficiaries.
But he’s a FUCKING WHITE MALE!
I haven’t watched the video, but I’d imagine the “principled” take largely stems from his background along with being on Youtube. The goal these guys aspire to is consistency. That’s not the same really as principles, but it’s the Sargon/anti-SJW effect.
What we’re seeing is a group of anti-Bush left wingers coming of age as they realize that their previous movement passed them by. I’m not sure what impact that will have on any larger libertarian movement. There’s some good, some bad. The old culture wars will shift. But the bottom line is it just means that the whole demographic doom of conservatism won’t end. At best, maybe a slight shift in trajectory towards libetarianism socially and about the same economic progressivism we’re used to.
Meh, this guy got fired at a previous job for a flimsy pretext for being a conservative, and despite his support for Trump he’s unwilling to kowtow to the Trumpite ‘let’s play by the left’s rules’ whining. I’d say he’s pretty principled.
That’s stubbornness I can admire. It doesn’t equal intellectual consistency/principled.
I think the left lost a battle in feminism (the term is toxic now). That battle has moved a younger generation to swing to the right on a narrow set of issues. These people seem fairly left wing in their worldview outside of those issues. That may change but I’m not sure. They still think capitalism is greedy, religious people are stupid and republicans want to lock the gays up. The stupidity of those people may allow some inroads to libertarianism because they don’t want to be left wing, but they don’t want to be a stuffy right winger either. In the end it probably just means more left wing politics and economics are coming with a slight roll back in feminist politics.
Steven Crowder is the same. He already told Ted Cruz to start wearing concert tees a couple of times. Now, Crowder is not a libertarian, but I suppose he leans that way on some things. He is funny though and 70% of the time he makes ne agree or at least laugh. About 30% of the time he ellicits a “Fuck off slaver!”
On the other end there are people like Dave Rubin, who still has a ways to go, but he has swung from TyT to soft libertarian in the span of a few years.
Anyway, it seems popular social media figures on both sides have a libertarian streak in common, and seems to get a lot of followers because of it.
Odds of a British child getting the same treatment?
Not enough info provided. Depends on who they know, and how good they are at bureaucrat ass kissing.
Probably not many. The system won’t be able to afford it give the care, and if they keep getting more high profile cases like this, people are going to start thinking that the NHS is a bunch of jackbooted garbage. Which it is. I think they are probably very busy right now figuring out to hush up any more cases like this that might appear.
That’s what the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) is for. It’s the NHS version of the process that makes that crystal embedded in your palm go dark.
“But this is great news. I love these medical miracles where we are able to reverse the negative effects of accidents on children.”
See, this is the kind of shit that deserves an ‘I fucking love science’ tag.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/19/health/hand-transplant-zion-harvey-study/index.html
here’s another awesome story
For all of Philadelphia innumerable shortcomings, CHOP is truly an incredible medical facility. The Doctors and staff and fantastic.
But! Since most kids who manage to drown themselves are male, and probably white, only privileged white males get this sort of procedure researched because reasons.
I thought only black kids drowned because they can’t swim.
They can’t swim because they’re too poor to have even heard of a swimming pool. We need to raise taxes on the white rich folks to provide swimming pools, lessons, and safety gear to disadvantaged minority kids.
(Damn, coming up with SJW bullshit is surprisingly easy.)
That’s why they drown in 5 gallon buckets.
I agree. What a fantastic story!
All the shit we wade through every day, it’s nice to remember that life is getting better despite our best efforts. Thanks, Brett.
I did a lot of research on HBOT when it was prescribed for me and I am really impressed with it. Unfortunately it can only be prescribed “off label” for many conditions (stroke, MS, etc.) but the successes have been outstanding. I was warned upfront that it wasn’t going to be a miracle cure in my case because there was too big of a gap between the onset of symptoms and the start of treatment but it certainly was worth it.
New Sex Robots with Frigid Settings Allow Men To Simulate Rape
But does it have a ‘next day regrets’ setting?
Women and children hardest hit?
Boooo.
Silicone hardest hit, but that doesn’t sell very well.
Why would it be a model instead of a configuration setting? Come on, guys.
(disclaimer: did not read)
It’s part of the ‘SJW’ DLC, which also includes ‘cryptic facebook rape accusation’ and ‘title IX filings’ to relive your glory college days.
Like I said before, I’m really waiting for these people to start going after BDSM and rape fantasy communities for ‘perpetuating rape culture’ or other such garbage. Of course, dominatrix activities will be exempt from their witch hunt.
They already have.
Look up Larry Garfield. Dude lost his job because of it.
Didn’t the UK basically outlaw a bunch of S&M porn for this reason?
Is there a “Wendy Wife” model? Looks great in the showroom, but by the time you get it home, it has gained 30lb and the jaws are frozen shut?
I like to put mine in ‘too drunk to care’ mode.
Re the kooky bookseller link. Has anyone else read “Hillbilly Elegy”? Including this guy’s “review” I’ve now seen at least 3-4 reviews that claim the book is all about “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps”, which I did not get from the book at all. I thought Vance went out of his way to point to all the people that helped him along the way (grandparents, time in the military, professors in both Undergrad and Law school). He is certainly very critical of the culture of poverty and the need for personal accountability, but the bootstrap claim, at least in my reading of the book, is almost entirely absent. I wonder if these reviewers read the book, or opined without having done so, or if I’m off the reservation on this one.
I would agree more with your reading. Him getting into Yale Law is almost beside the point. He would have been only sort-of successful if he had come back from his time in the Marines and gone to work selling cars or working in a factory. In fact, while Yale taught him how to write (I assume) and exposed him to just how unreal his raising was compared to everyone else in his law school class, there was nothing here that couldn’t have been written by a poor boy from a barrio in El Paso or a black neighborhood from Chicago that was settled during the industrialization exodus from the South that materially would change the book. However, because a white male wrote it, it strips out a lot of assumptions about societal oppression and/or affirmative action. So I read it as a fascinating look into a broken culture that doesn’t work anymore by someone who loves the people of the culture, yet has attempted to move past it to a more successful culture. Anyone in his situation could have joined the military and made their escape.
I read Bailey’s review at Reason and I didn’t get the “bootstraps” vibe from that. According to Bailey, Vance does talk about what people need to do (show up to work on time, move to find jobs).
The author of the linked article above is another in a long line of leftists who seem to lack any awareness of the ramifications of what they believe. He closes with: “ndependent bookstores have continued to thrive in the face of the Amazon-ization of everything precisely because of their human component, and what is more human than honest-to-god conversation? But in order for this to be effective, it would require equal parts listening. Listening to what made the person gravitate towards the book in the first place, listening while withholding judgment, listening as if I don’t know all the answers.”
He’s being eviscerated in the comments (including one from JC Randolph)
“This is the best parody of a snobby bookstore worker I have ever read!
Hilariously accurate.”
A particularly biting one.
Why would the bookstore guy need to read the book, when he already knows what’s in it, and why the prospective readers are knuckle-dragging untermenschen who eat at Chick Fil A? When he thinks they should be grateful he doesn’t hide all the copies of the book when they get back in stock.
Because that’s the ‘vibe’ I get from the article, That and the “This guy is about *this* far away from a pink slip when his employer reads this article”
I got the vibe that this guy is a vegan wears scarfs when it’s not cold out.
The left really is quite bad at picking its boogeymen.
This guy eats at Chick Fil A! The president thinks he’s a cowboy!
Who the fuck doesn’t want a delicious chicken sandwich or to be a cowboy?
I didn’t read it, but it apparently triggers snowflakes, so it must be really good. *puts on read list*
yes. i don’t know what all the fuss is about. It was a look at what being poor + white in the midwest is like. It wasn’t exactly a insightful sociological analysis, or interesting from a literary POV.
I think the people who make a big deal about it are “Starbuck’s drinkers” who are ‘shocked’ to discover that most Americans still get their coffee from McDonalds
Proggies who grew up in the city have no idea that things like Appalachia exist.
imo, most “proggies” i know grew up in suburbs around the country, and aren’t necessarily city-dwellers from birth.
The gen x kids i knew who grew up in the city were all pretty oddball, politically. people I knew who grew up in london as kids were also a mixed bag. the most hardcore lefty do-gooders, by contrast, were mostly people who had never really ever lived up-close/next-door to genuine poverty, and tended to hail from suburban locales around the country.
e.g. imo, you’re more likely to find a stereotypical prog having grown up in Long Island or westchester than you would the Bronx or Queens.
i know its a sweeping generalization, but i think it has some validity. part of the thing w/ progressivism is a kind of economic + racial idealism which you tend not to find in city-raised kids, who have far more intimacy with various people of rich / poor backgrounds, and close experience with different racial groups. Its not that city-kids aren’t just as likely to be left-leanning – they are… its just that the characteristics we tend to associate with the “prog” mindset are, in my opinion, strongly influenced by a wealthy surburban naivete
Judy is a Punk.
I read it and I think your analysis is closer to the truth. I think the “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” interpretation is just lazy writing on the part of the reviewers. The author doesn’t find a boogeyman to blame [KAPITALIZM!!!] or tut-tut about the government not doing enough to break the cycle of poverty; ipso facto “bootstraps.”
Working from home tomorrow, taking Friday off to hang around the pool. So I’m ready to hump!
You have pools in the wasteland now? You sure that’s not a mirage?
We bathe in the sand.
Lily Allen says ‘women are better at everything than men’ as BBC pay reveal row continues
Oh good, you can go ahead and replace that oil filter housing for me. And get on the roof and fix those shingles that got ripped off from the wind storm. And while you are at it, bench press that 300 pounds a few times.
Go to Raqqa and fight ISIS too, while she’s at it.
And beat Karsten Braasch at tennis.
Women are literally better at everything than men! That’s why men have done 99.9999999999999999% of the things of significance throughout human history!
Lily Allen is one of the reasons why, when someone says “You’re British?” I say “Nope, Australian, mate”.
Does it work?
Much of the time.
The accent is pretty close. I just have to pepper my language with ‘cunt’ a bit more frequently and it’s totally credible.
cunt’s fucked, mate
Oath.
I would imagine that would work on about 90% of Americans. The last crew I was on had a couple Brits, a couple Canadians, and the rest was split between Aussies, Kiwis, and local PNG dudes. When I first got there, my boss, who was a Brit asked me If I could tell the difference between the kiwis and the Aussies by their accent. I said, “hell, all you fuckers sound the same to me.” It took months before I could discern a difference.
Not to mention things like combat roles. When I see an artillery division made up of all women that perform at the same level as an all-men group I’ll believe them (which, unless they start pumping them full of steroids and hormones, is not going to happen).
Ha, she already clarified in a follow-on tweet that OK, men are better at wars and “selling people stuff they don’t need”, women are just better at humane things.
So, take that cishet warmonger! #micdrop
If “humane things” includes “making me sandwiches” (and it does), she’s not all wrong!
So any Matriarchy will be flattened by a masculine warrior peoples. Well, at least she’s honest that her idea of society is a total bloody failure.
Finally! Someone who knows what people’s needs are! Who knew that someone would turn out to be a goddamn pop singer?
Her whole career consists of selling something no one needs.
So…keeping people safe, and building wealth. Got it.
Who? Never mind, I couldn’t care less.
“Lily Allen says ‘women are better at everything than men’ as BBC pay reveal row continues”
Well, whether it’s an intentional lie or just ignorance, people who say things like that should never be taken seriously again. I mean unless it was a joke. Was it a joke?
No porn jokes? Disappointed
Better at everything? Go out into the snow this Winter, whip out your naughty bits, then piss your first name, in cursive.
Check. Mate.
Actually, Lily’s the type who might just do it too. The woman’s a total chav queen.
Bob is an easy one
/Bob
I clicked the link wondering who the hell Lily Allen is. Holy fuck, she’s a dead ringer for one of my exes. Even their retarded worldviews seem to align.
Did your ex get kicked out of high school for blowing all the boys?
Fitness blogger reveals when plastic surgery is body positive and when it’s not
I don’t know why anyone bothers to listen to her. That girl’s a Ho.
But she’s building up her body for a panel of judges…
She refused to change her body for a panel of judges she didn’t know who were there to judge how well she changed her body to win approval from a panel of judges she didn’t know.
Ima turn dat Ho into a housewife.
Nope. Nope. Nope. Yep.
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.
Coulda, shoulda, wouldn’t?
Fuck “Code Enforcement” and anyone who tells you what you can and cannot do with your property.
Also, Why the hell am I being cited for my NEIGHBOR’S unmowed lawn?
“It takes a Village”
Now get out their and mow their lawn!
*out there
Fortunately, this story has a happy (for me) ending.
I called the city, explained “I don’t have a lawn, the property next door got foreclosed upon and the owner stopped maintaining it.” And after talking to three people (they had the wrong phone number on the citation form, so they transferred me and then the third guy called me back) they went “Oh, okay, we’ll go pester the people who are responsible for maintaining that plot”.
It’s not the optimal ending, but now I fell less bad for having called the power company because their tree’s branches were dangerously interwtined with the power lines (and touching my roof)
It’s interesting that you consider that to be the end of the story, Mr. Buttle.
So long as my part in the story is over, I’m fine.
The house that is overgrown is unoccupied. The person or organization who owns it is unlikely to even realize the city mis-cited before going after them.
I’m being pragmatic. I won’t be able to end the code enforcement in this part of New York at this time, but I can avoid paying more than I already am into their coffers.
What I’m saying is that when Junior Sub-Administrator of Citizen Compliance Kathy went to type “wrong address” into the form, odds are better than 50% that she accidentally pushed the “met with heavy resistance, re-landscape with extreme prejudice” checkbox.
I’m familiar with Bureaucratic “Issues”.
I will reserve judgement, as there was no acrimony in the conversations, which leads me to temper my pessimism.
Screw mowing, get some round up.
I have roundup – I use it on the sidewalk plants because I find them to be irritating
Last year I got a condescending letter basically implying that I was making my neighborhood a haven for criminals because a branch of my cedar tree hung over the alley with less than 14 feet of clearance. This was the sole result of a code enforcement inspection of my property. Honestly, I would rather these people just be paid to sit at home all day.
14 feet? Do they get semi-trucks down that alley on a regular basis?
No, I guess the garbage truck needs a clear shot or something.
Have to be able to drive the MRAP down the alley without scratching the paint.
Paint scratching is a loud noise. And we all know that loud noises in an alley can be triggering…
thom lives in a really bad area – the criminals drive around in cherry pickers and fire trucks.
Most of the criminals I see drive around in black and white crown vics and chargers…
Heyo!
“I was making my neighborhood a haven for criminals”
Less than 14 ft of clearance means they can throw the tennis shoes up there with ease.
I used to live in a house on a very small cul de sac without a curb. Everyone parked half on the asphalt and have on the grass because parking fully in the street would completely block off the road. We all got tickets from a cop at 2am for parking on the grass. Our own damn grass.
For some reason, this inner city shithole plagued with violence didn’t have anything better for it’s police force to do at 2am than go around ticketing the taxpayers for partially parking in their own yards to avoid blocking the street.
Also, I once got another citation for putting the headboard to a bed out on the curb for trash pick-up 2 hours before it was legally allowed by code.
Put a woodchipper in your front yard. Wait for inspector.
I would move from East Germany, USA or wherever it is you live.
or my neighbor’s untrimmed tree!
someone should let Tony @ The Other Site there’s still hope
You can’t fix stupid. I wish Tony’s issues were a product of brain damage, then there’d be hope.
Can this fix Hihn’s brain damage?
I uphold that, based on that Michael Hihn seems to be the same person that is on Facebook and LinkedIn, who is also bloody ancient, that most of Hihn’s rants are a product of mid-level dementia. For awhile there he calmed down slightly, which might have been an indication of being better medicated. Unfortunately death is the only cure at current time.
prolly not.
Here is person who is crazier than a runover dog.
That’s not crazy. That’s way worse. Fuck, that guy….
Goddamn, that whole thing made me furious. I’ve worked retail. YOUR JOB IS TO SERVE THE CUSTOMER’S NEEDS! Not to create a one-man reeducation facility on someone else’s dime!
Maxims and open pits. #trotskywasright
See kids, you can take the Serb out of communist violence, but you can’t take the communist violence out of the Serb. I’ll warm the helicopter up.
To be fair, we haven’t used Maxims for that purpose, it’s a Russian thing.
BTW did you see my “Marxists want to expropriate houses” link in AM Links? At least some lefties are listening to you!
And another feather in my “BC is the worst (alright, 2nd worse)” cap.
My sense is that anyone who uses incisive to describe Thomas Frank may not know what they’re talking about. But, I haven’t read “Listen, Liberal.”
Bringing Bigfoot to life
STEVE SMITH WEAR YOU LIKE A SUIT
STEVE ROLL YOU ON LIKE CONDOM.
Christ, that bookseller guy is full of himself. You sell books, you moron, so sell fucking books. Nobody in your store gives a shit about your oh-so-deep philosophical meanderings.
If you want to try to operate a “books + vapid moralizing” business, I say go for it! But put it right on the fucking sign so I don’t have to waste my time.
Possibly the market for such a business is bigger than we think. Certainly seems to be no shortage of people who hunger for ways to receive and repeat the virtue signals…
This is what happens when you have a doctorate in a social science, can’t get a job, and end up working in a bookstore. Just can’t help but pretend you’re passing on sacred knowledge to the filthy plebs.
To paraphrase Randal from Clerks, you work in a bookstore. You push fuckin’ buttons!
Freedom of association, people! If he doesn’t want to associate with the likes of us, he shouldn’t have to — vice versa, too. Of course, if he goes out of business, we are free to laugh at him.
Apparently the in the movie Dunkirk , there are only a couple of women and no lead actors of color. Seems that the English used to live in Britain.
Will this help normies see how off the rails identity politics is?
“‘Fix’ History to be more Diverse!”
I’ve been told this has been going on for years in UK media, not just black Guinevere in Merlin, putting “PoC” into various historical dramas and documentaries because “London was a big trading city, people all over came there, hence black knights”.
Shit, there was bitching that Witcher 3 a Polish fantasy game with a world based (looks-wise) on 15th century Central Europe, needed to be more diverse and where are all the black people?!
The great irony of the Witcher 3 idiocy is that a foreign cultural group produced a work that was a representation of their history and culture, and then you got a bunch of American social justice warriors screaming “NO, I WANT MUH CULTURAL IMPERIALISM, MORE BLACKS”.
Eeeeh….
I wanted way more Polishness in Witcher 3. Until Heart of Stone it felt mostly like watching the Empire from Warhammer Fantasy in video game form. Which is in line with the books, I think Sapkowski didn’t want people sympathizing with Radenia or Temeria on account of them representing “home team”.
But definitely on the second part, it’s hilarious how American SJWs project their societal frustration on the rest of the world (as per “Black James Bond” discussion from couple days ago, for example).
Culturally the human factions are more Germanic and French than anything else (the fleur-de-lis is real subtle guys) but at least the core mythology is a vague mix of historical Slavic and Germanic pagan concepts. And I don’t really have a problem with the Poles or anyone else taking cues from other cultures and mixing them in, but at its core the themes of Witcher 3 are decidedly Polish. An out-of-touch nobility obsessed with their own benefits while the peasants suffer in a feudal society being encroached on by a larger imperial power doesn’t sound familiar at all.
Boy, the SJWs must get really upset at Lawrence of Arabia
Also, that’s like fourth time Dunkirk article was linked, pls find another one before “Glib or Stormfront” meme gets started.
Looking good. I may have to go see this in an actual theater.
Reshoot at least one scene, word-for-word, and replace every single person except one with someone wildly out of historical context.
Post to youtube.
Profit (?).
Oh man, something like the cast of the skit your avatar comes from?
That’s what I’m talkin about. And everyone plays it dead serious.
You mean like bullshit hagiography of that anti-immigration advocate, Hamilton? Fucking chin-stroker eat that shit up.
When do we get to say they’re blackwashing history? Do they even realize how far across the line they’ve stepped into fascism?
You don’t, because that would be racist. It’s racist to point out anything negative about anyone except for white cis people.
Fucking Christ, THESE PEOPLE ARE MAKING ME SOUND LIKE RICHARD FUCKING SPENCER. FUCK RICHARD SPENCER, AND FUCK THESE PEOPLE.
Then again, Linda Sarsour thinks that Jake Tapper is a member of the alt-right, so…
That’s the worst part about it.
I don’t want you to rewrite history to fit your narrative because I think that actually does seem Hitler-esque, yet in saying that I sound like a shitbag.
They’ve blown it all up!
I’m the guy who complains about how Saving Private Ryan is unrealistic because Tom Hanks fires a gun into the sight hole of a Panzer because they specifically designed it so you couldn’t do that. Trust me, I’ll find stuff to bitch about even if you make the cast conform to my melanin count.
I thought Private Ryan was a big unwatchable mess of a movie.
Anime is alt-right, you may as well embrace your
waifupillowdestiny.Modern pussy bitch anime is alt-right, MAMA will return us to the glory days of 80s Reaganomics anime.
Ron Paul will make Mecha real:
Modern anime is not alt-right AND KAYO-CHIN WILL FIGHT YOU IF YOU SAY OTHERWISE.
http://pa1.narvii.com/5997/708080df77fabf90f9f378ec72108243dc3468d3_hq.gif
You’ve chosen your Waifu Champion, and now I shall choose mine.
PURGE THE MOE.
Kids, kids,
We can be cute, polite and feminine AND still wreck shit when appropriate using classics!
I mean, if we’re going to go that route…
And the moe is awesome. Save the moe.
Rei..?
Goddamn it, man, I’m trying to help you!
And the moe is awesome. Save the moe.
Do you see Pan? Do you see the face of The Enemy now? Moe festers in the minds of the modern day otaku. Your plan of re-education will go nowhere! If MAMA is to succeed we must become a terrifying force, willing to wipe clean the slate and lead us down the Golden Path of mechas, openings without J-Pop songs, chicks with guns and characters voiced by Johji Nakata.
Would you rather me have mentioned Asuka?
Dammit, I like moe and cute. It’s what I am.
JFC, it was bad enough when that dimwitted librarian said it, but this is an actual published movie review in a major newspaper.
“I used to love watching Schindler’s List, but where are all the POC????”
Jews, like the Irish and Italians, didn’t used to be “white”. Sometimes we’re still not white. Depends on the narrative (the ‘white people have never been systematically targeted for extermination’ narrative that I’ve seen before)
The Irish are still not considered white.
And yet they’re among the palest people you’ll run across.
Yes, I burn from the light coming through my window.
This could be any woman in my family.
If my sister does so much as walk briskly for a couple of minutes outside on a 80 degree day, she turns lobster red. We’re a couple of mutts (Irish, Italian, German ancestry) but she totally got the Irish genes with the red hair and the complexion of milk.
Paraphrasing Jack Woltz,
Well let me tell you something, my Mick-Guinea-Kraut friend; we are going to need pictures.
Threading fail; was referring to this:
my sister…totally got the Irish genes with the red hair and the complexion of milk.
Of course Irish people are white. PoC can’t be racist, and Boston’s the most racist city in the country (the last part of that sentence is still true)
And they’ve got it all wrong. The Irish should be considered not even human.
They could have put Sammy Davis Jr. in the concentration camps.
Wait until they watch The Dam Busters.
Take care of!
Taken, dammit.
World’s plastic waste could bury Manhattan 2 miles deep
– Much of America wondering why this project was not started sooner
How deep could it bury DC?
It can’t everything would just sink into the swamp.
A ha, see, that’s the trick = DC is *already* 2 miles deep in horseshit, its just that they thrive in that medium.
DC confirmed to be Elbonia?
These sorts of hysterics always seem like cruel teasing of the numerically challenged. Earth is big, really big. We are in no way in danger of being overrun by plastic garbage, and that would be impossible anyway.
Modern Hate Crime
McDonald’s employee refuses to serve police officer. “appropriate actions” taken to resolve matter. Faith in American institutions is restored.\
FFS he was a Game & Fish officer! What, did the Mcdonald’s employee get pinched for poaching at some point? This could be an episode of ‘When keepin it real goes wrong’.
I hate these articles. There is no news here, since McDonald’s didn’t refuse service, a dipshit employee did.
Nobody Weigels like the man himself. Headline:
Yep, that’s the only reason she’s unpopular. It couldn’t possibly be that she’s a shrill, unpleasant loser with an unslakable thirst for power and the scruples of an iguana.
*mails Weigel giant barrel of butthurt lotion*
Um, excuse me…. I have met many iguanas I would trust over Hillary Clinton, thank you very much.
Hillary Clinton is less popular than Donald Trump because
nobody willHillary won’t let the 2016 election endFixed it for ya, Davey!
Bones are racist.
In the replies
Beautiful.
I mean, she’s actually right. Forensic anthropologists can generally tell race (and definitely tell gender) from bones.
However, she completely missed the point.
[insert SJW response about misgendering/there being more than 2 genders here]
That’s exactly what I thought. Both sides missed the point.
I mean, I get the point of the message, “we’re all humanity, SKULLS EVERYWHERE, it’s better to die for the Emperor than live for yourself”, but I can understand the autistic urge to point out the idiocy in touchy-feel good crap memes.
See, this is just step one. Step two is claiming that because all bones are exactly the same the entire field of archaeology is bullshit, so of course the Egyptians were black and the Jews were black and the Greeks were black and…
We aren’t? I’m not? There go my kids’ diversity points on her college application.
Watching a presser from the Baltimoron police about the video of that cop planting evidence.
Why does not a single “journalist” ask why it’s not a conflict of interest for the police to investigate themselves?
Because no local “journalist” ever wants to question the police, lest (a) they incur the wrath of the union, including implied threats and (b) they lose that precious access. It’s why almost every local story you read that involves police action is more or less a press release put out by the department.
It’s also why the only decent police journalism comes from national writers like Balko (he may have gone full TDS, but he’s still good on police work).
While all that’s true, I honestly don’t think it even occurs to 99% of them to question authority. That’s what the good guys said, so it must be true.
Right, and the journalists also consider themselves to one of the good guys, which reinforces that.
Yep, access is one of the driving factors behind the spin of modern journalism. Can’t have you lose access and end up having to do actual journalism. Better to just shut up, comply, and read your fellow sycophants’ Twitter feeds.
Journalists consider themselves a part of the system. It gives them a feeling of authority. So the system, who are the good guys (unless they’re Republicans of course), does what it does and it’s the journalists duty to report on that, in a positive light of course. For the children.
I missed this yesterday. After Mitch McConnell proposed repealing Obamacare now and passing something else later, 3 Republican Senators immediately opposed the plan.
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Shelly Moore Capito of West Virginia
Susan Collins of Maine
I really don’t care about that. Like anything else they say they’ll do down the road (budget cuts, anyone?), I’m sure that in 2019 they’d pass another bill delaying a repeal another 2 years. And so on.
Besides, I heard Rand was the bad guy in all this.
And WaPo immediately published an article that moderate, common-sense, rank-and-file Republicans were uniting in opposition to McConnell’s new plan, right?
Collins I can understand, but Murkowski and Capito? They’re both in blood red states that Trump won by >20%, why the fuck would they oppose this?
They’ll be convinced. They just need some gifts and for their constituents to give them a call.
in 2010 Murkowski got primaried by the TP (Joe Miller, who I went to college with) and then managed to somehow pull out a write-in victory.
I believe she ended up pulling more Dem votes than the actual Dem candidate.
Makes since, since she is a Democrat.
Because they’ll win re-election no matter what they do.
Those are Democrats. Just buy one of them 20 pairs of shoes and some chocolate from Godiva and it’s a done deal.
This is at least the third time I’ve heard Collins come up now and I think her case of TDS needs to become terminal sooner rather than later.
I would love to see her primaried out of existence – even if a Dem wins the seat.
Chicks. Amirite?
So Rand is really peeved at Jeff Sessions, you guys. Man, if only there was something he could’ve done. If only
Cast a vote that wouldn’t have stopped Session’s appointment and might’ve made him less liked by Trump and his administration?
Yeah, there was nothing that Rand could have done at the time and there were more important things going on. Trump is still Sessions boss and if he wants to, he can stop him from doing really nutty stuff. He’s totally disposable. I can’t wait until Trump fires him and the left goes completely crazy defending Sessions. Because they haven’t stepped in enough of their own shit yet.
If Rand has Trump’s ear, one of the things he should be non-stop about is getting rid of the fucking garden gnome.
I’ll take a guy who’s right 9 out of 10 times than most of the other dipshits that are wrong 9 out of 10 times.
You should take me, because I’m right 11 times out of 10.
And yet you persist with that avatar.
I’m just othering the rest of you.
Get in line.
Lately, I’ve been feeling kind of like this. (more bug than windshield)
Tits ahoy!
http://archive.is/FRCC7
Yaaassss
#1 and #43 got me like :eyeball emoji: :throbbing erection emoji:
Not Hijab emoji?
I’m digging #17’s north and south eyes.
I like 15 and 30.
15? You perv!
On #10, if Overwatch characters are escaping to RL, can I get Mercy, pls? <3
D.va confuses my boner. Half of it says “she has to be 14.” The other half says “FUCK HER! FUCK HER NOW!”
Found Vhyrus.
I was gonna point out how Blizzard got your back and stuff, but yeah, I can see where she’d be disturbing to someone younger. I’m luckily at a point where she just comes across as a bratty kid who needs a pat on the head and maybe a cookie if she’s good.
Blizzard themselvs are not really helping.
SHOTGUN TRACER SHOTGUN TRACER SHOTGUN TRACER.
Well, keep up hope, maybe she swings both ways…
Wait what? *Googles*
Oh, Blizzard’s upholding their diversity quotas I see.
Meh, in my headcanon the game only counts. Just like how there’s only one Matrix movie and no Dune prequels.
How many Indiana Jones movies do you see?
There. Are. FOUR. Movies!
Sorry, man, Picard gotta truth.
Come on, man, if you discount The Last Bastion, you have no soul.
That comic was tat, though. Forget Tracer being a lesbian, sure, but Widowmaker bringing flowers to her husband’s grave on Christmas Eve, all pensive and sad? NO. FUCKING. WAY!
MAYBE THAT’S HOW SHE GOT THAT WAY!
(I don’t play Overwatch, so I have no clue about the backgrounds of the characters outside of the mini movies, animated character intros and that Christmas comic.)
(the only Blizzard game I play is Hearthstone, so no waifus there)
No love for Jaina? 🙁
Widowmaker’s backstory is that she was a wife of an Overwatch officer, got kidnapped, rescued, but oops, she was brainwashed, so she murdered her husband and returned to her kidnappers to become a sniper assassin for hire. Her short film is pretty clear on her not being a conflicted character, or a good person put in bad situation, or sentimental in any way. And she’s a better character for it!
Jaina’s ex is the damn Lich King. I ain’t going anywhere near that!
OK, that’s a good reason. I never finished Warcracft 3 because every playthrough attempt foundered on having to play as Arthas mission after mission after mission…
Meh, in my headcanon I keep depleted uranium rounds.
#2 promised me beer. WHERE’S THE BEER?
#34 – the ginger. Ohhhhhhh baby. I’ve been trying to get the spousal unit to go this haircolour for my birthday since we got married.
#39 is actually Riki “R1ddle” LeCotey, a well-known Canadian cosplayer who now lives in Atlanta and works in SFX in the film industry. And her cans are totally fake, as she herself admitted (she did them to get more into her cosplay characters, which you gotta admit, is some serious commitment). Nevertheless, she got ’em done right and they’re seriously spectacular. Google her — you won’t regret it.
Hillary Clinton is less popular than Donald Trump because nobody will let the 2016 election end
“How can I miss you if you won’t go away?”
This bodybuilder’s before and after photo is the definition of body love
More like: I got lazy and decided to eat more bread.
Could I get something in between? Although if I were to pick one it would definitely be the ‘after’.
Those are some big ol’ thighs, John.
Where is John anyway? Someone thought he was off on a whale-watch.
He made one appearance here, AFAIK, but I haven’t seen him since that one day.
Looks like after and before of photoshop.
More cushion for the pushin’?
The thicker the waistband the deeper the quicksand, or so I have read.
I like after better. She looks like a woman in that one.
There had to be some point in between the two stages when she looked pretty damn good.
I don’t think she looks bad in the after photo, and the after is an improvement on the before, but she was certainly better during.
http://gallery.rxmuscle.com/index.php?contest=116&year=800&bodybuilder=44806
This is just the right amount of muscle for my tastes. Fun Fact!: I’ve partied with that woman a few times many years ago. And no, I didn’t get to tap that. She was dating an Army Ranger or Navy Seal or something at the time who was 6ft4 and built like a brick shithouse. Despite my background and being in fairly good shape that dude looked like he could of gutted me like a carp in three seconds flat; so I stayed polite, courteous, and settled for the mousey looking friend.
My favorite muscle women are Cassandra Martin and Charity Witt.
I’m digging Cassandra. Charity has just a touch too much meat on her for me.*
*insert accusations of misogyny and/or sexual innuendos*
Eh, if she’s happy good for her. Sounded like the before to her was really grueling and not worth it.
“These shitbirds can do moral grandstanding all day, but can’t pass a budget to save their lives.”
The Charlie Gard case is not only a key prolife and pro-liberty cause, it’s a case directly impacting American national honor.
A foreign state won’t let the parents of a baby bring that baby here to pay for experimental treatment.
This is a slap in the face to an American medical system which, for all its flaws, can hold its head up high next to the fucking NHS.
“You want to insult our country in order to hasten the death of a baby? OK, but we’re going to call you out on it, you dentally-challenged retards.”
Pretty much this. If one of the key players in Obamacare were to say something REALLY fucked up regarding it or healthcare in general and it were to get traction, you can bet Ocare would get repealed within that week.
Well, they think they’re going to pass single payer? Because that’s exactly what we will get here. That IS single payer. And I have yet to find a single leftists who does not agree with what the NHS did in the case.
My suggestion? Start denying visa applications for English big-shots who want to come to the U. S. for medical treatment. I mean political bigshots, not the nongovernmental types.
I’ve seen headlines like this a million times, and i’m always amazed that no one else thinks they’re ridiculous =
War-torn South Sudan at grave risk on climate change
Its like no one else recognizes the incongruence of ideas. Its like a @()#*$(@ Onion headline.
I imagine it would read like this:
“Aisha Mustapha cradled her youngest child, stunted by malnutrition. Her husband and all her other family members have died in the civil war which has ravaged the country for nearly 3 decades. She herself was raped many times by UN peacekeeping forces frequently accused of misconduct in the international attempt to protect minority groups from the roaming bands of janjaweed fighters. When asked what concerned her the most about her immediate future, she wailed, “Why did Trump abandon the Climate Teaty? Does he not know our suffering?” She then launched into a diatribe on the importance of Recycling.”
Yeah, climate change is the real problem there…
How can these idiots take themselves seriously?
They really have nothing, so they just make shit up. And I think the more ridiculous it is, the more their brain dead readers like it.
Complete Shithole Might Get A Teensy Bit Warmer
exactly.
“Dia-tribe”
Racist!
Wow, so Gilmored.
“Why did Trump abandon the Climate Treaty? Does he not know our suffering?” She then launched into a diatribe on the importance of Recycling.”
I call bullshit.
YES! I’ve been arguing with my wife for years that drug expiration dates are bullshit, and now I have SCIENCE! on my side.
I guarantee that she still won’t accept the truth.
Hasn’t she ever seen Wolfe of Wall Street?
Things like that remind me of how I grew up believing that if you thawed out some meat, cooked some and then put it back in the freezer and thawed it out again and ate it, you would die. I was 50 before I found out this is a myth.
Oh yea, the taboo against thawing and re-freezing meat is bogus. There actually is a reason not to do that, but it has more to do with liquid and flavor loss than with safety.
I’ve learned through experience that a lot of food safety advice is nonsense or at least exaggerated:
– You can cook pork medium-well or even medium-rare and not be eaten from the inside out by parasites. This is, of course, contingent on buying high-quality pork.
– Your odds of getting salmonella from a raw egg is extremely low.
– They say leftovers don’t last more than three days, but you can let them go for much longer than that, especially if it’s something highly acidic like tomato sauce or chili. I ate 7-day old seafood chili one time and I was fine (although the flavor was degraded).
Yeah, it’s a complete myth. But it’s still being semi-pushed by some health orgs. The way I found it out was one day I saw my wife put some thawed out chicken back in the freezer after thawing it and cutting off the portion she wanted. So I told her she can’t do that. She asked me why and I told her. She laughed and told me I should have been dead 5 years ago when we first started living together. LOL.
I’ve been married for 25 years and I will aver that the worse thing you can be during an argument with your wife is right.
Mine will forgive me for many sins, but when I turn out to be absolutely right about something we’ve been arguing about, the next few weeks will not be pretty.
I’d be dead a long time ago, because most of the time, but not always, I’m right. I just don’t push it and she almost always just says ‘you were right’ and we move on. I do the same if she’s right. Not worth it. I save my gloating for work and the internet.
Oh, you don’t gloat and sing this song as you skip through the house. You just get to walk around with a smug sense of satisfaction.
When I hear things like that, it makes me doubtful that I could ever stand being married. I can’t let someone be right when we both know they’re wrong. Then again, sometimes I think I could make it work if I found one who was halfway sane and rational.
I guess it’s just the ever-brewing conflict between trying to find that good woman to settle down with, and getting what you want from women and ditching them.
You have to find the right person for you. My wife and I are pretty good about having a “frank exchange of ideas” when we have an issue with each other and then move on pretty quickly.
Every couple you meet is unique. I have very good friends who I look at their wives and wonder “why the fuck are you still there?” But they are totally happy.
My wife is great at lots of things that completely baffle me. She puts up with my weird contrarian streak and will acknowledge me in public. What more can you want?
I guess it’s just the ever-brewing conflict between trying to find that good woman to settle down with, and getting what you want from women and ditching them.
If i weren’t religious, there’s no way I’d get married. In this day and age, family isn’t balanced, it isn’t important, and it seems to turn into some disgusting power struggle more often than not. Thinking back to my agnostic days, if I had stayed that way, I think the idea of marriage would be interesting, but the level of commitment required to lead a family would be way too much for me. I’d probably have been that guy who dates girls for a year or two, then bails when it gets too serious. I think i would feel like I was missing something, but the enjoyment of being able to dictate my own life would have completely overridden that.
None of this is to say that I regret the path chosen for me. My wife and I were married for nearly 4 years before having our first kid in May, and we had plenty of ups and downs in that time. However, there’s a mental and emotional stability that comes with married life that helped out when the rest of my life was a mess. In essence, I had the ability to screw up at our relationship without screwing everything up. No matter how neglected my wife felt when I was working and going to school and trying to maintain relationships with potential employers, dinner was still on the table and we still slept in the same bed. Then, when things got better, our relationship healed. We don’t fight very much. I’m not a yeller, and she wears her emotions on her sleeve. Usually she just has to vent something, and then we’re fine. I’m the one who won’t let things go, but only when it’s a nagging issue that won’t go away (like the intensity with which we attack my student loans).
In my experience even when you’re right, you’re still wrong.
Give that man a cigar.
I know of an attorney who would love this film:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-film-sheep-idUKKBN1A41V5
Like, sexually?
–“Hump Day! For those of you who have significant others or FWB or toys. I’m just othering the rest of you.”–
What about people with a Tinder account, low standards, and a great rack? Pretty sure they can get all the camelbacking they want in.
I have the first two and am looking for the third, if you have any suggestions.
Is a nice rack close enough?
I was genuinely expecting a deer in that link.
For you.
This guy gets it.
Wonder what she’d do for 5 bucks?
So maybe there’s hope for Tony then.
There’s no hope for Tony. He’s part of the intentionally retarded. You can’t fix that.
Old, but still funny. Gotta have the essentials.
https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/aid-worker-fleshlight-photo/
Probably not going to be able to get a lot of tail in Afghanistan.
Ray was, of course, right all along.
Anyone else post this yet?
“Roughly 700 children as young as 12 who were sexually abused have been refused compensation by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority in Great Britain since 2012; roughly 30 were denied compensation because it was deemed that they “consented.”
http://www.dailywire.com/news/18724/british-government-denies-compensation-children-hank-berrien
So, I have a 6 foot high wall in my backyard that separates my property from a park. I want put a huge cardboard cutout of the colossal titan from ‘attack on titan’ peeking over it. Similar to this.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/ivnr/
but much cheaper and simpler. Anyone know where I could get something like that?
You could paint on a tunnel for just a few bucks.
PETA would be all over him for coyote abuse.
For $200(!) the inflatable is your best bet. It does not get simpler or cheaper than that.
If you can find a pic with enough resolution, you could print it out in pieces and glue it to a backing, then seal it with clear coat?
I’ve done that. I doubt it lasts a month in the Arizona sun.
Or rasterize with a tool like Rasterbator
I’m beyond delighted that this still exists 15 years after I first came across it. The internet was a little less ephemeral that day.
I made one of these (just used InDesign or Quark back in the day) to do a big halftone version of Dick York (Darin in Bewitched) for the office.
Why out yourself as a hopeless geek?
I want put a huge cardboard cutout of the colossal titan from ‘attack on titan’ peeking over it.
Just go with Killroy
Oddball-style! You have good taste, sir!
As far as hump day is concerned, it’s too goddamn hot. If the squeeze texted and said he’d gotten a hotel room with absolutely frigid air conditioning, I’d go for it. But I’m pretty much a raging bitch who hasn’t slept since Saturday and can’t stand the thought of bodily contact.
Uffda. Isn’t it a bit presumptuous of you to assume the squeeze was inviting you to the hotel room? He might have just been letting you know where he was humping so you didn’t worry.
That’s entirely possible…and I’d kill him. Not for the humping, but for being in a cold hotel room.
Whole-house A/C. It’s totally worth it.
I have central AC. It’s ~50 years old. It’s a water-cooled system and completely ineffectual against DC summer. I also have 2 portable units and industrial shop fans. You gotta understand that 50 degrees is not an unreasonable indoor temp for me to feel happy.
That’s one seriously long lasting AC unit. Does it have fins and some chrome on it? I have a 15 year old Trane still going strong.
LOL – they replaced it a few years ago. I’m sure it was hard for the condo to find these kinds of units (I know it’s hard for them to hire engineers that know it). But it’s a POS regardless because it doesn’t use freon or whatever modern ACs have.
I owned a home built in 1865 that was like a museum of American climate control units. It had an ancient coal fired furnace that must have weighed a ton at least. They had to cut it up with torches to get it out of the basement. Then there was the fuel oil furnace with the buried tanks outside. Then there was the ancient gas furnace. It’s wonder it didn’t blow up the first winter I used it. For cooling it has these little windows at the top of all the doors, inside an out, that you could tilt out to let the air flow through.
Er, 50° Fahrenheit?
Good God. I’ve owned fridges that couldn’t maintain that temperature. You don’t need A/C — you need a freakin’ Sub-Zero kitted out as a tiny house.
That would be awesome!
I asked a guy at my company what it would take to get a job at our installation on Svalbard.
I almost never turn on the heat in winter. I usually just use a space heater to toast my toes when I watch TV.
I just call it a hot rock.
Can I trade you for all the ladies that work in my office?
My office is pretty cold, and I generally dress for the outside temp. But I don’t bitch – I just got an electric blanket to drape over my chair. I haven’t used it in weeks, though. I am relishing the vent that blows directly onto my desk.
Mine is not cold, and I got the “privilege” recently to sit next to the floor-to-ceiling windows that let the sun in all morning. I had to fight with a couple neighbors – newer arrivals, incidentally – to settle on 72, which is really more like 78. Meanwhile in my old spot it’s cool as a cucumber. ?
My house was built in 1920, and at some point, someone awkwardly installed central air and heating. There was actually a bigass hole in the downstairs closet floor that was probably the source of the mice I would see from time to time.
Anyway, the AC works fairly well for the downstairs, but upstairs, it’s worthless. I don’t know what the architectural term is for this, but my bedroom ceiling IS the roof; there’s only a tiny little attic space that’s barely big enough for a human to crawl into. And when you open up the bedroom closets (the wall of which is, again, the roof) it’s like opening the oven.
Have you attempted to throttle the downstairs cents to push more air upstairs.
One trick the AC guys showed me was to get a sheet of insulation and make an orifice out of it. Pull your vent box off the wall. Cut a piece of insulation that matches the area of the duct (i.e. Pretend you’re trying to block the hole duct). Then cut a circular hole in the bigger piece (I recommend starting with a 2 inch diameter round hole). Repeat this for all your downstairs ducts, then see how much air is pushed upstairs.
That would probably work, but I just have a window AC unit in my bedroom. I turn it on about half an hour before I go to bed (which is the only time I ever go upstairs anyway).
Is there a turbine vent on the roof? I owned a house built in the ’20’s and it only had gable vents that do pretty much nothing for attic ventilation.
Come to think of it, I don’t think there are any gable vents at all. There might be some small vents on the roof, but there’s no turbine.
Cheap aid to ventilation. A sawzall, tube of caulk, and a screw gun, and you are good to go. Attics are supposed to breath. Houses built in the 20’s also have fuck all for insulation and the insulation in there is also pretty much useless if it is original. The vent needs to draw outside air from somewhere though. Maybe a gable vent also. Hard to say without seeing it.
When I renovated my 1865 Italianate, there were NO vents at all, besides the old crumbled chimney. I put a turbine vent on top of the flat roof (hip roof) and that worked.
Houses built back then were not make for modern day standards. Imagine a house built in 1865, but I did it. It’s a lot of work, just resign yourself to that now, but you can do it. Can you do most of the work yourself?
A friend posted a vague Facederp status that said something like “He’s a real American hero” (with no name).
I replied that I assume she’s talking about Lenny Skutnik. That guy. I get something in my eye every time I think of his name.
Obviously he’s talking about Trump.
She’s talking about those old Budweiser Ads before they changed them to “Real Men of Genius”
Earworm alert!
“When you say Bud you’ve said it all…lalalalalala….”
Live chase alert! Stu Mundel!
I didn’t know she was in town!
Betsy’s not a real women. She’s a traitor for not being a mindless sheep. I wonder what these women think that says about them to normal sane people?
Me reading those tweets
nice.
Now this is TENNIS!
Damn that matriarchy!
very funny.
That made my day
Hal Jordan has really let himself go.
I like this one.
She’s totes adorbs, as James Earl Jones would say.
How to deal with a player who screams.
I’m still laughing 25 minutes later. Just awesome!
Link expired?
Any hints for those of us who don’t facebook?
that’s new.
fuckin edits.
Are you suggesting HM check his privilege?
I suspect he’s discovered that it’s operating within normal parameters.
You testing out Glibertarian merch?
Cause I might get that on a plaque.
Exactly the plan.
How do you not know microwaving fish is a huge office no-no?!?!?! Like, you don’t even have to have worked in an office before to work that out.
I dry paint samples in the break room microwave.
Some folks don’t mind eating pussy.
Funny story about microwaving fish:
When I worked at the women’s prison, I was discussing fish microwaving with an officer and a social worker (who was a really awkward, kind of nerdy guy). The social worker said, “Oh, I like the smell of fish!” And the officer smirks and says, “Well if you like the smell of fish, you’ll LOVE working here!” The social worker looks a bit confused and says, “Why? Do a lot of people bring in fish for lunch?” The officer and I just looked at each other like, “yea, let’s just go with that explanation…”
this is my new fetish
I’m starting to think that this is not a joke or marketing campaign.
Kid Rock for Senate
So, anyone from MI, how popular is the incumbent? Does he have a shot? This guy seems to be an unapologetic libertarian. Another libertarian in Congress? Yes, please.
Can I get the slogan without having to listen through 4 minutes of video?
This is why I thought it was a joke, marketing for a new album.
Are you scared now?
But if what I’ve been reading on this today is any clue, it might not be a joke. That’s why I’d like to hear from some MI yokels on it.
“Pimp of the Nation”
Oh, boy
Before you dismiss him, I think you should listen to some of the stuff he’s saying, which is very libertarian. I mean, I still don’t know enough, but I’m just making a wild guess that he’s far better than the person holding the current seat in the Senate.
Oh, I’m not dismissing him. I liked most everything in the summary quincy linked below.
Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters, both cookie-cutter fuckbrain liberal democrats (don’t know which one is up next, I think Stabenow?). If I were either of them looking at the presidential election results, and then looking at Kid Rock, I would be shitting a fucking brick.
Stabenow is the incumbent, so I assume it will be her he’d run against.
I’m on a hot streak, I predicted Trump wouldn’t win the primary.
A summary.
From that summary, his platform actually sounds… Not TOO bad.
And that’s what pisses me off. I’ve already heard “progressives” complaining because “another unqualified person wants to be in political office, as if things weren’t bad enough with Trump!! omg!!” These are the same people who voted for a dipshit “community organizer” from corrupt Chicago and a plutocratic warmonger who campaigns as a feminist hero but rode to prominence on her husband’s coattails.
By not qualified enough, they mean not willing enough to rob American taxpayers for their own profit, courtesy of having no morals or principles.
They’re also the same people who failed to carry Michigan for Herself.
Unqualified person? I think Al Franken pretty much blew the doors off the myth that a blithering idiot can’t be a Senator. (Not saying Kid Rock is an idiot, but Franken sure the hell is)
I’ll just assume they’ve both done drugs and that now it’s a Republican who is the drug doer, it’s going to make national prime time news. Then I’ll assume that he just shrugs it off and makes up some good memes about his opponent, and SCORE! /libertarian moment
Didn’t they try that with Bush (the younger, Part II, electric boogaloo, this time it’s personal). I don’t think that works anymore, almost everyone 90 or younger has friend/relatives/etc.. who happen to partake on the odd or not so odd occasion and are none-the-less fine upstanding citizen.
I would love to see Kid Rock run. I used to be afraid of the US becoming Idiocracy, but the more I see the political and elite class get all bent out of shape because they are losing the “respect” they feel entitled to, the more I hope for a day when Duane Allesandro Hector Macho Camacho is commander in chief, but a libertarian version and not the statist version where there is nothing but government employment and cronyism.
I view the whole Trump presidency as a big experiment in what really happens when you elect some random whacko as opposed to an experienced politician. I won’t be surprised if we see more of it. I wouldn’t call it a “tipping point”, but resentment against the entrenched political class really does seem to be boiling over in spots here and there. Kid is in a good starting position to try to ride that wave.
Kid Rock is most definitely not an idiot. I’m not saying he’s a genius or intellectual or anything like that, but he’s not an unaware idiot either.
Yeah, he hasn’t screwed his way to the top, KAMALA. So unqualified!
That VO is the Larry King 3000. And it’s unbearable.
It’s not a joke.
He seems to have a high level of “local celebrity” popular, with generally positive connotations. In modern politics, I think that means he has a shot. I would imagine he would pull in a large percentage of the same “America fuck yeah” votes that Trump did.
I’m thinking that he would also pull most libertarian votes, since almost everything I’ve actually heard him say is more libertarian that 99% of politicians. Michigan voted 3.6% for Johnson in 2016.
I guess we’ll see how good he is at branding himself, but I certainly would not rule that out.
I’ve watched several interviews of him. He’s quite articulate, not an idiot at all. I think it comes down to how well he can translate that into politics. I mean, how much does he already know, what does he still have to learn? Can he learn faster than Trump? I think he can, he’s only in his 40s. I have to vet his competition and see how she looks in a debate.
Interesting.
I’m not sure he has to be pitch-perfect on either policy or debate (also not sure people actual watch debates for sentorial elections) as long as he can keep from tripping over his dick in ways that the opposition can effectively tar him with.
Stabenow has no charisma whatsoever,I don’t know if she’ll want to get within a hundred miles of him in person.
“Stabenow has no charisma whatsoever”
Then she’s fucking toast unless they can prove this guy is running a cock fighting ring.
John McCain has apparently been diagnosed with brain cancer.
Even for him I’m not going to make a joke about this. Fuck cancer. Even assholes like him don’t deserve something like this.
I did. Fuck McCain.
I’m just as upset by this as I was Ted Kennedy’s brain cancer.
That being said, cancer does suck, when it takes someone lovely and talented like my Ma. Fuck cancer straight up the asshole.
My friend was diagnosed with brain cancer the same day that Kennedy was. She died less than 60 days later.
Very sorry to hear that KK
My brother in law (wife’s brother) died of a brain tumor. It fucking sucks.
So, I’ll just wish him health and leave it at that.
I can’t wait for the innumerable “fuck you you deserve it for trying to take away our health care ha ha karma” takes we’re going to see from the tolerant left.
My mother and father died from cancer, at 82 and 86, respectively, so they had long, rich lives.
But my nephew died at 19 from brain cancer. That sucks!
That is truly, truly awful. Sorry to hear it.
Me either. I had a close friend who died from brain cancer. Not that it makes me like McCain, he’s a piece of dung. I hope he gets well and leaves public life forever.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Domestic/John_McCain_Drugs.htm
Q: How do you reconcile the tolerance for alcohol with the intolerance for marijuana?
A: I can’t support the legalization of marijuana. Scientific evidence indicates that the moment that it enters your body, one, it does damage, and second, it can become addictive. It is a gateway drug. There is a problem in American with alcohol abuse, and there’s no doubt about that. We have to do whatever we can to – prevention, education, and that applies to drugs too.
Fuck him.
My Ma used THC pills to increase her appetite when she was doing chemo. That guy can get bent. He’ll probably end up using THC himself.
McCain is probably the worst person in Congress, outside of Schumer. Both Biden and Lieberman would be worse than either if they were in Congress, but they’re not. McCain is in the top 5 worst in Congress in my lifetime.
Still, I don’t want him to die from brain cancer. I just want him to go away and leave us all alone. Ok, maybe we can drop him and Hillary and Graham into Somalia or Syria and film it for reality TV. I’m ok with that.
That’s pretty terrible.
What scares me about brain cancer (or numerous other brain diseases) is that it can damage the personality. The person could be sitting there right in front of you, but in a way, the person you knew is already gone.
It’s the worst form of cancer and the least treatable. I wouldn’t wish it onto my worst enemies or their friends or family. It’s a fucking nightmare.
Indeed, fuck cancer, and I have no desire to be like the scum who cheered Reagan’s Alzheimer’s. That being said if he does recover I’d like him to TAKE THE BLOODY HINT and retire his eighty-year-old ass.
While the brevity of your comment is outstanding, its clarity leaves much to be desired.
Bracketing Failure, was going for a reference to this
“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”
~Mark Twain
Serving the State does not make one a hero.
I’ll be looking forward to seeing the full Vietnamese honors accorded by his achievements as ace at the funeral. Afterwards, Barry Goldwater will be disinterred and restored to office, still able to do an immeasurably superior job than McCain despite his status.
Has he had the tumor for about 30 years? It might explain much of his behavior in that time.
Steve Scalise just Tweetered good wishes to McCain. That’s pretty awesome.
Well, I hope he retires so he can spend all his time fighting the cancer.
I was hoping for retirement too but this’ll do. The man’s done a lot of damage to a lot of people.
John McCain’s cancer has apparently got a brain.
In honor of John McCain, a preview of tomorrow’s Thicc Thursday:
Shit… I’ll be here.
McCain’s daughter is as dumb as he is, but damn she’s got curves in all the right spots.
Even the Antarctic ice thinks global warming is for dicks.
Epic trolling by John Kerry’s wife’s family’s outfit.
LOL. Sending that to my daughter.
My favorite dog is the slaw dog from Hot Dog World in Hendersonville, NC. No ketchup. But I do put ketchup & mustard on most dogs. I generally dress a dog just like I do a burger.
You know why they didn’t choose New York City for that little “stunt”?
This is what happened the last time someone put ketchup on a fucking hot dog.
Because they don’t like the smell of piss?
No, I have it on good authority that John Kerry is into watersports.
Point conceded.
The Jacket throwing shade at Preet.
Wow, Grace Lidia Suárez can go eat a dick.
There are a lot of creeps in that thread.
Seconded. The “well speech should have consequences especially when it’s against the government” crowd are out in force.
Virginia Postrel @vpostrel
Hard to know who’s more disgusting in this particular exchange.
Well Virginia, an actual libertarian would say the blatant government abuse of power, without a doubt.
Popehat’s got the right of it.
Jesus, I saw that comment and didn’t even register who wrote it.
Wow.
Hi Ginny, you really miss us don’t you? I mean I know those cucks at Reason don’t get your nether parts all excited like we do.
To be fair, Reason isn’t getting anybody’s nether parts excited, going by their most recent web traffic stats.
As long as we’re handing out brain cancer, would it be possible to give some to Jeff Sessions?
(((They))) can do that? Yipe, time to convert.
Don’t hate the playa, hate the game (game in this context is summer in DC)
This is my first DC summer, and it hasn’t seemed too bad. There’s an occasional day of oppressive humidity, but it hasn’t been insanely hot until this week.
I don’t handle even the most salubrious summers in DC well. And I’ve been through 27 of them.
I come from ginger stock (thought not one myself) and thus am not suited to this weather at all. Been through about 20 NYC summers and this one is hotter than average, worst in at least 5 years.
That. Looks. Tasty.
It deeelish, and I didn’t even spring for the good root beer or ice cream!
Skol!
What is that awful thing on top of the straw?
*gags*
‘Game of Thrones’ Showrunners Reveal Next HBO Project: ‘Confederate’
Series takes place in an alternate reality where slavery has continued into the modern era
Get really for some fucking subtlety you guys, from the makers of ‘FanWank: The Series’.
(Also, what’s the over-under on them going full “MURICA, FUCK YEAH” and just completely ignoring the whole ‘the Brits would have never let this shit flown for this long’?)
Gonna have to get HBO so I can cancel it. This is going to be a virtue signaling disaster.
On the other hand(maid), A Handmaid’s Tale, which by every right should be chalk full of feminist derp due to both the author and the current political climate, managed to distance itself from that as much as it could to remain marketable.
On the gripping hand, it’s Benioff and Weiss, so it has a higher percentage chance of being shallow and dumb. There’s be a better chance of it being good if they were working off of Turtledove’s Southern Victory series or something (and even Turtledove’s series notes that Confederate slavery falls apart in the 1880s due to pressure from, you guessed it, Britain and France).
It bugs me that this shit gets greenlighted but a comeback for Carnivale seems impossible.
They’ve been running pretty much the channel’s most successful program for years, they’ve probably got a blank cheque for what their next project should be and they manage to choose the dumbest shit.
i can’t wait to not watch this.
I don’t think slavery would have even continued for much longer. For starters, it’s not “free labor” as many people say. I remember reading that a male field hand could cost around $35,000 while a skilled slave could run upwards of $50,000 (in today’s money). You also have to feed, clothe, and house them. Plus, you either have to pay for medical care or replace them every time they die. And that’s not even considering the risk of runaways or rebellions. It’s probably a hell of a lot easier to just pay free people to show up, work for 10 to 14 hours, then go home.
With that said, I think this could be an interesting show, but as others have mentioned, it’s probably going to be a bunch of virtue-signalling bullshit. Damn shame.
How is that even remotely plausible?
It’s not (unless you’re going full goofy satire that shouldn’t be taken seriously), but Benioff and Weiss are a special kind of hack writers.
The Confederacy makes Islam the state religion?
That did cross my mind.
One could make a plausible case for Britain having recognized the CSA had the CSA come up with a reasonable plan of gradual emancipation. But no way does slavery survive into the 20th century as CSA would have been a pariah nation.
Exactly. The CSA surviving into the modern era, maybe even with some apartheid-esque policies? Entirely possible and justifiable. The CSA continuing into the modern era with the exact same system of chattel slavery? Even just the basic worldwide political situation would have to be one where they somehow manage to beat the Union, conquer it, and then beat all the 19th century superpowers of Europe.
“alternate reality where slavery has continued into the modern era”
An alternate reality that has 0% chance of existing the modern era.
I’m doing a project at work that involves categorizing assets based on features of our product. In trying to figure out what the features of our product are, a spotlight is being shone on an increasing problem in academic and corporate circles: The use of jargon to cover up for the fact that you have nothing intelligent to contribute. Specifically, I’ve been peeling back the layers of the onion on some of our marketing material to find out whether the features they advertise are actually worth tracking. Turns out that most marketing features fall into one of two categories: redundant with one another, or definitional of the class of product. So many times, I research what “dynamically reusable user control interface” means, and it turns out that it means the yoyo has a string.
The intelligentsia has been infected by a mealymouthed vernacular that is heavy on made up jargon and light on substance.
I also fight jargon every day. It’s OK for commercial products (i.e. B2B) as long as it means something real, but don’t fuck up a consumer product with bullshit!
-1 rich Corinthian leather
I sometime wonder if the difference between the right and left isn’t some sort of self esteem issue. The left wingers I know seem desperate to be seen as intelligent and moral. I think that’s why they love jargon.
I was taught that I didn’t really understand something until I could explain it to my mom (who, bless her soul, has the technological equivalent of a brown thumb). When I hear people using complex terms to describe something, the first thought that goes through my head is “they have no clue what the hell they’re talking about.”
It reminds me of my brother-in-law. He’s one of those folks who tries desperately to sound smart, despite being the biggest crossfit hipster cliche ever. He starts out with “did you know…” and then proceeds to talk in the most convoluted way about relatively mundane topics. It impresses my mother-in-law and it impresses his wife, but my wife and I see right through his bullshit.
Random aside: I was on instagram earlier, and some guy commented to the effect of “store-bought tomatoes are filled with GMOs and preservatives.” My brain cells didn’t have time to beg for mercy before being massacred.
“If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
Kids say the darndest things.
That’s a pretty fair description of most of the marxist philosophy i had to read.
Assange hastagged #Nambla in a Tweet reply to Podesta. LOLWTFBBQ?
I read that as “Namibia”.