OK, Evertonians talking shit about the Reds. What do you have to say for yourselves now? Bitch-ass bitches got rolled. Arsenhole won. And in football played with hands, as God intended, the Texans dumped the Bungles 13-9 in what IO can only imagine was a snooze-fest. JJ Watt will probably have a hand like Ronnie Lott’s at some point in his career, as he mangled it pretty good but managed to stay in the game. And the ginger QB experiment has proven, once again, that the soulless have no business on the field. In the college ranks, Boise State won on that awful looking smurf turf. May God have mercy on their souls.
Unless you’ve been under a rock, you are aware that the Cleveland Indians are on one hell of a roll. A record-breaking one, to be exact. And last night they faced a serious challenge from the Royals, needing a 2 out run in the bottom of the ninth to tie it up and then walking it off in the tenth. to run their streak to 22 games. They burned through a lot of staff though, so I see them struggling to win tonight. We’ll see what happens. Elsewhere, the White Sox pounded the Tigers. The Red Sox beat up on the Athletics. The Yanks kept pace with the beaneaters by topping the Orioles. The Cards beat the BIG RED MACHINE. The D-backs blanked the Rockies and continued playing the best ball in the NL. The Nationals won a meaningless game. So did the Phillies. The Cubbies and Mariners both won. As did the beloved Twinks. And last, but never least, the Astros helped those aforementioned Minnesodans by knocking off the California Angels (yeah, whatever, they’re not from LA).
Unless there are WNBA fans out there, which there aren’t, that’s all for sports. And now we can move on to…the links!
You know, I was just thinking? What we need now is for that crazy fat bastard in North Korea to stir shit up again. Thanks for obliging, Kim. You nutty fucker.
You know what else I was thinking? That it had been some time since the last asshole set off a bomb or decided to drive into a sidewalk full of people in Europe. Thanks for obliging, whatever asshole did this. The Amish are yet to make a statement, so we’ll have to wait and see who did it.
The police aren’t nearly as good at ending standoffs as this guy. He’s gonna be my hero for a day. Hey, maybe I should have a “hero for the day” segment.
Sooooooooo, I guess Harvard is transphobic now? LOL, the fun never ends. On the bright side, looks like this will leave more time for those students to learn from the brilliant minds of Sean Spicer and Robby Mook.
Good news for Ghanians with ED. Dem no need travel for treatment no more.
This link is for the space nerds. Cassini’s final photos before crashing into Saturn. Better than crashing into Uranus, amirite?
Get your funk on. (I hope I finished the week as strong as it started.)
Have a great end to the week…and a better start to the weekend.
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I have not been under a rock, and I know nothing of these Ohioan tribesfolk.
65) Love this article on the Bernie Sanders bill to create a single-payer health system (with 15 Democratic co-sponsors!). So many great lines.
He doesn’t explain how it will be paid for, because “’Rather than give a detailed proposal about how we’re going to raise $3 trillion a year, we’d rather give the American people options,’ Sanders said.”
Got that? The man who’s pushing for single-payer health wants to give the American people more options.
“I think the American people are sick and tired of filling out forms,” Sanders said.
Yeah, the solution for filling out forms—getting the government more involved. Brilliant!
Reducing your choices to one = options. Got it.
I think he means he will let the people help name the new taxes.
I want to call mine the “Fuck you, cut spending” tax, just to be hip and ironic.
I propose the “using the whole fist (for) doc” tax.
+1 Fletch
No elephant books.
WalletCare
Temporary refund adjustment?
Oh Medicare and Medicaid they don’t fill out forms?
The thing is he wants Medicare that is significantly more than current
His an idiot.
He wants to lift the exemption of taxes on employer provided plans and raise revenue by taxing those as income….even though his plan would get rid of employer plans so there wouldn’t be anything to tax
We don’t need 23 different types of health insurance.
They don’t explain it because they know they can just raise taxes, raid pensions, pillage SME’s etc. down the road.
““I now think that designating Chelsea Manning as a Visiting Fellow was a mistake, for which I accept responsibility,” Douglas W. Elmendorf, the school’s dean, wrote in a 700-word statement released shortly after midnight Friday.
Elmendorf decided to withdraw the invitation after realizing that “many people view a Visiting Fellow title as an honorific,” though the school had not intended to “honor [Manning] in any way or to endorse any of her words or deeds.””
Then couldn’t you have invited her to speak without making her a fellow?
He never stopped being a fellow.
*prolonged applause*
This is why Bud Abbot and Dean Martin are underrated.
“though the school had not intended to “honor [Manning] in any way or to endorse any of her words or deeds.””
Okay, taking it back is just going to make things worse, Harvard. Now, not only are you political correctness run amok, you’re also spineless and craven.
I don’t know why, but I get a particular pleasure of seeing the spinelessness.i guess I got frustrated when evergreen admin caved to their students, but now I realize that college admins are just spineless looses living in a hell of their own creation. They just want to be on the right side so bad, and their students make it do hard.
They didn’t want to honor or endorse anything about Manning? Then what the hell is the point of a visiting fellowship?
They’ve managed to piss everyone off now. I thought Ivy Leaguers were supposed to be smart.
I don’t really agree with inviting Manning but, FFS, stick to your guns and stop folding at the slightest hint of controversy.
“She is still welcome to spend a day at the Kennedy School and speak at the school’s John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, the dean said.”
So all this talk about “no platform” , “suppressing marginalized voices”, etc. is nonsense.
I thought Ivy Leaguers were supposed to be smart.
Only in navigating social networks, which they appear to have failed at here. Suggests that the new identity politics is a challenge even for them.
Part of me wouldn’t be surprised if this Dean thought Manning read jailed over being transgender in the army. Most people forget the wholesale data dump that she did.
He. That HE did.
You see, Chelsea Manning came out of prison a liberated, guiltless woman. It was that awful Bradley that did all those things you spoke of. That shitlord is the one you need to blame.
Yes, don’t deadcrime Chelsea.
Nice.
You know who else hooked up with a fellow, who later turned out not to be a good fit?
John Holmes?
Tina Turner?
Rosey Grier and Ray Milland?
Whitney Houston?
The Gabor sisters?
Was looking for Carol Brady or Florence Henderson.
In other words, a crapload of rich and influential alumni contacted him and voiced their displeasure
Maybe he’s being honored for inventing the artificial pussy pass. Or was that Bruce Jenner?
Local Man Says He Found Bigfoot
Yeah and there is a racist hiding under ever bed.
Which racist?
The nameless faceless one. Or Trump. Take your pick.
he has also found hand crafted weapons
STEVE SMITH GOT WEAPON FROM YOUNG FRIEND WARTIMUS
BECAUSE STEVE SMITH IS PREPARED FOR YOU! AND BY PREPARED, MEAN READY TO RAPE.
RAPE NO JOKE UNLESS JOKE MEAN RAPE
Seems appropriate to post this guy again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdw1KSkO1tI
So … would you let this guy anywhere near your dog?
All Teudhope has to do is go out in the woods and conspicuously snack from a big bag of Jack Links beef jerky, and Bigfoot will show up.
Then he and his friends (assuming he has any) can plan some practical joke to play on Bigfoot, a joke that will go predictably and horribly wrong.
STEVE SMITH OPEN UP ETSY SHOP FOR HANDCRAFTED ITEMS…WILL DELIVER PERSONALLY TO RIGHT
VICTIMSCUSTOMERS.I was imagining a taller building, but I suppose even short buildings have rooves. But now I’m wondering what route the old guy took to get up there, as shorter buildings tend not to have convenient rooftop access…
The roof is not that high–a step-ladder? A chair?
Already?
*narrows gaze*
You just want probed.
“The police aren’t nearly as good at ending standoffs as this guy. ”
I thought from the headline this would be on a high-rise building or something, like the guy at the beginning of Vertigo–but they’re just single-story ranch houses. The cops could have done the same any time.
Are you kidding? They’re not going to dare climb up a whole story and risk falling off!
Everyone in this precinct goes home alive and well!
I bet they would have done it if it was a Dunkin Donuts..
Hell, they’d have shot him if the thing went on until a shift change.
Thank the lord the old guy didn’t have a dog.
Hey, maybe I should have a “hero for the day” segment.
100%.
No, Wonder Woman Is Not Based on a Threesome
Marston was the Joss Whedon of his day.
Wonder Woman wasn’t skinny enough
Not all the Whedon women were skinny though.
Dual mono:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RfGe6MvY84
Squiggle Brows Are The Latest Weird Makeup Trend, And It’s As Wild As It Sounds
Sluggo have a sad.
“but it’s quite possibly stranger and more creative than rainbow brows, bleached brows, barbed wire brows, feathered brows, carved brows, blinged-out brows, and glitter brows combined”
All of those sound more creative than drawing a squiggle on your forehead.
“Tell me about it”
Thank you for that.
No, just no.
***Public Service Announcement***
Gentlemen, please remember to NOT stick it in crazy.
All that the photo from that article reveals is that if you are really hot, you can pull off just about anything. Put the same makeup on Roseanne Bar and get back to me.
“Recently retired federal appeals court Judge Richard Posner said he rarely looked to legal rules when deciding cases and often sought to skirt Supreme Court precedent.
“I pay very little attention to legal rules, statutes, constitutional provisions,” Posner told the New York Times in an interview published Monday. “A case is just a dispute. The first thing you do is ask yourself — forget about the law — what is a sensible resolution of this dispute?”
When confronting a case with some form of legal obstacle in the way, the former 7th Circuit Court of Appeals judge said he would look to circumvent whatever prevented him from reaching his desired result.
“When you have a Supreme Court case or something similar, they’re often extremely easy to get around,” Posner said.”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/retired-appeals-court-judge-i-pay-very-little-attention-to-legal-rules-statutes-constitutional-provisions/article/2634019
This sounds like somebody who should be removed for incompetence.
He retired, thank god.
What about all the people that could file for a retrial considering this douchebag didn’t follow the law?
+1 Dartboard
Dear Mr. Posner,
FUCK. YOU. ASSHOLE.
Confirmation that he was an arrogant asshole.
So he’s for rule of man instead of rule of law? He’s the kind of fuckhead that should be strung up by his entrails in the entrance to the Supreme Court.
And he should be impeached so he doesn’t get retirement pay. Or perhaps held in contempt of the Supreme Court and tossed in a cell indefinitely.
Aw fuck it. Just fire up a woodchipper.
Careful now, this was a federal judge your taking about. They are special, you can’t say those kinds of things about them.
So with this announcement died everyone who was tried by him get a retrial because the judge admitted to ignoring the law?
Oh, I can only imagine the lawyers lining up outside the federal jails in this asshole’s circuit. It’ll be like a feeding frenzy.
Yes, everyone tried by this federal appeals court judge will get a retrial. In fact, they already have.
I wonder if it might be possible to find a judge willing to “get around” the law by deciding some case or another requires Posner be dragged before a firing squad.
There is no better or more succinct distillation of the Top Man mentality than this. He’s a disgrace to his profession.
Wait, I thought it was OK to tell a jury to ignore the law, but the judge has supposedly got the job to enforce it, no matter what? Silly me.
Juries and judges are not the same, and do not have the same responsibilities.
Yes. And both try facts and make decisions.
Have you ever been called up to serve on an appeals court jury?
Ahh, the guy who was lauded for quite some time as a leading jurist and thinker. Bullshit.
That was refreshingly honest.
And it matches exactly what I’ve been saying about the court since at least the early 90’s. He’s just the first to admit it.
“The online posts — the death threats, the racial slurs — weren’t a hate crime.
They were hateful, yes, and ugly, but West Goshen Township police said the posts — one of which mentioned three black students and said, “If you guys come to school tomorrow, you will die” — were not motivated by racial prejudice.
A 14-year-old fellow West Chester East student was charged Tuesday with harassment, cyber bullying, and terroristic threats, but not with a hate crime. The boy who made the posts is black.”
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/west-chester-east-student-charged-with-making-death-threats-to-minority-students-20170912.html
So not making this a hate crime is what the papers are complaining about? Besides the standard arguments against hate crime designation, following this authors reasoning, if any crime is committed against a minority, it should be considered a hate crime and be punished extra hard.
Philly, always on the cutting edge of assholeishness.
“Superman Protects Undocumented Workers From Armed White Supremacist in Latest Comic”
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/superman-protects-undocumented-workers-armed-white-supremacist-latest-comic-1038448
Because it worked so well for Marvel?
“Meanwhile, another branch of the Disney entertainment empire, Marvel Comics, is enduring an incongruous problem. Films about Marvel’s superheroes dominate at the box office several times a year, but sales of the comic books have been increasingly disappointing since 2015, a slump that coincides with the publisher’s increasingly obvious effort to make its core characters diverse: Thor became a woman, African-American characters took over the mantles of Spider-Man and Captain America, and an African-American woman started wearing Iron Man’s armor. (It’s worth noting that Marvel always had racially diverse heroes, particularly in its team titles: Storm, Black Panther, War Machine, Falcon, Rictor, Sunfire, Jubilee, Cloak, Thunderbird, Snowbird, Shaman, Cheyanne . . . )
In March, Marvel vice president of sales David Gabriel offered an assessment of his company’s products that infuriated progressives. “What we heard was that people didn’t want any more diversity,” Gabriel said. “They didn’t want female characters out there. That’s what we heard, whether we believe that or not. I don’t know that that’s really true, but that’s what we saw in sales. We saw the sales of any character that was diverse, any character that was new, our female characters, anything that was not a core Marvel character, people were turning their nose up against.””
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450700/university-missouri-espn-marvel-they-all-turned-left-and-hit-rocks
The market signal is simple – stop screwing up established characters and ruining stories with your identity politics bullshit. You’re telling shitty tales and crapping on the characters your fans know and love in the process.
This is why your sales have tanked. It is blindly obvious from outside your bubble.
It seems like they think characters are just a costume with a logo and a set of Powers and everything else is interchangeable and you are obligated to think it’s the same but woke better. You like iron Man right? Riri has a metal suit too, what more do you people want?
Wait… Ptah and Syd both have metal suits too, can I call them “Iron Man” as well? I mean, Ptah’s even made of metal, being a semi-autonomous murderdrone.
characters are just a costume with a logo and a set of Powers and everything else is interchangeable
Isn’t that the whole thing behind Green Lantern?
Yes, but who remembers them?
Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool?
They let him reference a DC character?
UnCivilServant: Yes, Deadpool made a reference to the Green Lantern movie:
More seriously though, the concept of the corps was created early on, and was not part of a trend of sidelining previously stand-alone individuals to replace them with quota cases.
If Marvel wants new people to take over old roles, why not have a passing the baton deal instead of saying “Yeah, Thor was always a woman now,” right?
I thought they did with Thor, having the woman get his hammer because he lost it again.
Well, I don’t read comics so I was just assuming from all the complaints that that’s what happened. NERD!
Look, he gets a bit drunk at times, misplaces things. That doesn’t mean she has the right to steal his property.
What’s the point of having a hammer no one else can pick up if you can’t just leave it anywhere?
It helps you charm the pants off of Natalie Portman?
Marvel has done this before with various characters being allowed to wield Mjolnir. I believe Norse mythology even has tales of Thor losing it and other gods picking it up when needed.
There was a most excellent 1980s story-arc in The Uncanny X-Men centered around just that. Loki tricked Storm into becoming the new Thunder God, so some X-Men and New Mutants ventured to Asgard to rescue her.
Also, Beta Ray Bill.
It’s not just the identity politics bullshit, it’s also the fact that pretty much all of their social justice writers are hacks and most of the ‘new’ characters are almost universally written as terrible people.
I haven’t read any but somehow, this does not surprise me.
Yeah, they didn’t hear correctly at all. He’s saying that he heard “I don’t like minorities” when what was actually said was “stop inserting identity politics into every character”.
Making Iron Man into a strong black woman isn’t diverse. One person cannot be diverse. It is an oxymoron to suggest otherwise.
Introducing different characters with different backgrounds and ethnicities would be diverse. But you can’t expect them all to be home runs. How many characters have taken hold in the last 70 years? One or two per decade? Most of the popular ones have been around for 30, 40 or 50 years.
“anything that was not a core Marvel character”
People are done with diverse CSM characters, it’s this that bothers them. Nerds are going to hate it when you break cannon, to force diversity.
I hate it when cannon break!
/FA Officer
I know right, it’s a pain in the ass
As for Marvel, the problem is not putting all these diverse characters in place of the legacy characters. It’s that they’re doing this as the latest in a long line of gimmicks instead of telling good stories. Just tell good stories! That’s all readers want.
Note that Squirrel Girl, who probably qualifies as woke by proggy standards, is doing quite well, because Ryan North is writing quality stories. That’s all readers want.
I haven’t paid much attention to the actual staff at marvel (not being one of their customers), but have they turned over the writing staff, or do they still have people who have, at one point or another, written quality work?
There are two problems: a lot of shitty writers, and the good ones they do have are hamstrung by editorial fiat, non-stop cross-overs, and constant title cancellation and re-starts with a new #1 and story direction.
Basically, if you’re a good writer at Marvel, your best hope is to get assigned a character no one cares about and hope no one notices you.
Like Tom King’s Vision run.
Marvel got addicted to the sales bump of big cross-over events and can’t survive without them. The attrition rate on their comics is too fast now, even on bit names like X-Men and Cap. It doesn’t matter who the writers are, because even good writers who have proven to be able to produce good stuff when left to their own devices don’t get left to their own devices.
I mean really. Marvel editorial went on a retreat to plan Civil War. They needed to pick a guiding voice for their line defining, complex, murkey, political-cum-hot-war-conflict that will rip apart families and old alliances, present multiple plausible ethical positions, and still require the human element to shine through and resolve the conflict. And they have JMS on staff. Who do they pick? Mark Motherfucking Millar! They took the guy who wrote Kick-Ass! over the guy who made B5 and brought serialized television to America. You stupid mother fuckers.
Not same thing but in the same vein, Cartoons seem to be getting better writing these days. At least the non-network ones. I have small humans and we watch a bunch of shows but our very favorite is Netflix’s Voltron. I went back and watched the old one (which I loved) and it sucked. This new one is amazing. I think the direct content providers will be able to suss out what the modern market is looking for in a lot of cases.
And my only complaint about Luke Cage is DAMN IS THAT SHOW SLOW!!!! Good, but slow. And I like the attacks on the local politicians as being the bad guys…love it.
Yep, Voltron is fantastic. Season 3 was a bit muddled, but still very good. Not a surprise, given that it’s being done by the same creative team that did Kora. I chalk it up to having to compete with anime. Years ago, I used to think I liked anime. Nope, turns out I just like either well-made serial television (ie Planetes) or geek exploitation (ie Gurren Lagann). We now have a wealth of both being produced in English.
I have to agree…. the cartoons of my childhood were shite, despite what my 8 year old self would have told you. At the top of the heap was the much-beloved Super Friends. Watching that on YouTube as an adult was just painful.
Meanwhile, Disney has a bunch of really good kids shows, as does Nickelodeon, Amazon, Netflix…. Even the stuff for really little kids is watchable, as I have learned over the last couple of years. Two daughters means I can quote chapter and verse of Sophia the First and Elena of Avalor. I’m not in their demographic, but they don’t suck. (And don’t try to tell me otherwise. I lived through Sigmond and the Sea Monsters. I know suck.)
The actual market for comic books is children and enthusiasts who got hooked on the books as children. The Hollywood retards who shit the bed because there isn’t a transgender lesbian Afro-latinx paraplegic Muslim superhero aren’t the same people who buy comic books. Know your fucking market. It’s not that hard.
Pre-op? That’s just a straight man.
It isn’t people not wanting female characters in general…it is wanting to not change established characters so you can check off a diversity box
Eh, it’s just returning him to his roots. Superman was always a prog. He fits in with the leftist mindset exactly.
I don’t know if he’s a prog, but isn’t he an illegal alien?
Yes. But we’ve not managed to find the Kyptonian embassy to arrange for his return.
If he were adopted by the Kents legally, I suppose he’d be a naturalized citizen, no?
He wasn’t. Otherwise there’d be a record that Clark was an alien, and he wouldn’t need those fake glasses. His whole citizen identity is fabricated through falsified documents.
He’d never have stolen that Daily Planet gig from an honest hardworking American journalist if e-verify were enforced.
Some form would have had to be falsified for him to be adopted.
Ok, They’d have to show that bio mom/dad failed to support and/or see him for more than 2 years, and that Kents are the only ones who have provided support/care during that time. Step parent adoption in a nutshell. /nerd out
Not really.
Depending on which timeline we are in and when he arrived at earth it wouldn’t have been too difficult to report to the state welfare agency that you found a baby by the side of the road, agree to foster it, and then after a couple of years with no parent showing up agree to adopt. Everyone would just assume he was a natural born citizen who was abandoned by his parents and he would be issued a SS card.
Of course this only works up through the mid 80’s at the absolute latest, after that the odds that the Kents would just be allowed to keep him shrink to near 0
If DC didn’t reboot the universe so often, older law might apply.
Golden age Clark was adopted from an orphanage where he’d been placed as a foundling, and that iteration might have grounds to claim legal status.
But… they rebooted him away.
I don’t think he is.
He never crossed the border to enter the US and he didn’t originate from another nation. So its all legal.
Krypton was a functioning political entity at the time of his birth.
He was not born within the territory of the US. Ergo to be here he must have crossed into that territory, and did so at a point that was not a designated port of entry, thus he illegally crossed the broder.
He originated from outside the US and crossed the border at the upper atmosphere.
I don’t think the upper atmosphere counts as a border, I think borders are technically land and sea. Eh. Not that big a deal, just spit-balling.
If you go by the treaties we are a party to, there must be an upper bound altitudinally to the US jurisdiction. The country exists as a three-dimensional zone inside of which it holds jurisdiction. The boundaries of this are its borders. Just because treaty states that the immediate neighbor above is deliberately unowned by any national party does not make it less of a border.
That’s a question of jurisdiction. How does immigration law define a border? I’d be somehow surprised if it addresses the issue at all. Either way, it does make deportation more complicated.
Based on that couldn’t he be considered a Refugee? I mean, his whole planet done blowed-up real good. Which seems like a legit reason to request status as a refugee.
Ultimately, he’s kind of a special case and that usually makes for bad law and difficulty applying existing law.
He has never applied for refugee status. If he ever did, I would agree, having your homeland no longer exist is probably cause for refugee status, and the United States was the first safe country he arrived in.
You’re splitting rhetorical hairs with regards to the definition of border. But transitioning from a state of being outside of the jurisdictional boundaries of a country to being within the jurisdictional boundaries will be upheld as having entered the country. Now, dropping out of the sky uninvited without identification or a visa pretty soundly fits the definition of ‘illegal entry’, since none of the legally established entry procedures were followed.
Though the Definition of Border is a moot point.
–CRS Report to congress, April 6, 2006 http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33351.pdf
INA §275(a). being the referenced statute.
To save people the effort of looking it up, INA §275(a). reads:
Found Here
If he confesses his entry and applies under INA §249, he could convert to a legal immigrant – but it is unlikely Rebirth Superman is eligable (entered too late).
So it’s back to “Used to be legal but DC rebooted him until he lost that status”.
Poor Supey.
Truth, Justice, and the American Way? Doesn’t sound like something the progs would be cool with.
Communism: Telling everyone it’s OK we can all be Superman but always ending up with a bunch of Earthlings kneeling before Zod.
So Superman was supposed to let an asshole shoot people or not based on their immigration status?
He is the ultimate Top Man.
Superman Protects Undocumented Workers From Armed White Supremacist in Latest Comic
Sounds like kind of a demotion from saving an entire state from being plunged into the Pacific Ocean.
Health Care Is So Expensive Because You Don’t Pay For It Yourself
Terrific article. Thanks for linking.
I will share it with my proggies, if only to watch it sail clear over their fluffy little heads!
I expect they will see it’s from The Federalist and ignore it or scoff
Wrong. I was told a few weeks ago the reason healthcare is so expensive is because it is a free market. That is why aspirin at the hospital is $200. The market has failed because corporations are greedy.
Tell them to look at the 2 services not covered by insurance – boob jobs and lasic surgery. Over the last 25 years, both have increased in quality while seeing massive drops in price – while general healthcare costs look like Mann’s hockeystick graph.
Nice. I’ll have to share these on Facebook when I get back home from work today. (For all my lefty friends to ignore, like every other thing I’ve ever shared on FB) Of course, they’ll continue to share the latest AMAZING QUOTE by DEEP THINKER BERNIE SANDERS!
Bernie “We’re not going to discuss how we raise 32 trillion dollars over ten years” Sanders, Healthcare Guru.
My life in sex: ‘I’m a catch, so why am I still a virgin?’
The 28-year-old male virgin
I pity this fool.
He isn’t even a Beta.. wtf is this kind of stupid? A Gamma?
Just go hire a hooker and get over it.
Haha like the one from bad santa two
Is that any good? My roomies made the first an annual tradition.
Typical anxiety disorder. Sucks, but you play the hand you’re dealt. Sounds like you’ve got plenty enough money to talk to a competent shrink.
play the fiddle
I think I found the problem…
So he’s Nero?
Just get out of the closet already.
Why does he consider himself a catch?
Look, it doesn’t matter what skills you have. Chicks like dudes who project self-confidence, and that appears to be the area you’re severely lacking in.
When I was a teenager I didn’t have a lot of self confidence but that’s one of those rare times when females are really pushy. I didn’t have any problems meeting women – they would come up to me and ask if I wanted to go on a date, or take a shower, or go for a walk, or ask “do you have a girlfriend? Do you want one?”
After college I was surprised by the change – women expected to be pursued – or else I just got uglier the older I got 😉
It’s funny – all through adolescence and young adulthood, my girlfriends were always aggressive types because I’m pretty reticent and shy, so I was adverse to chasing girls. The one time I was persistent in pursuing a girl who played hard to get…..we got married.
Dog catches car…
Was it after putting on the hockey mask? Maybe they were running away rather than wanting to be pursued?
This is what happens when you frame an Asia poster.
Sounds like he has plenty of interests so whats the obsession with getting his rocks off? If he wants a partner thats one thing but if he just wants to get off, do it yourself or hire a pro. If you’ve never had a partner and you’ve built up this idea in your head about sex with someone else, you’re going to be in for a shock when (a) it wasn’t mind-blowing like you expected and (b) being with another person brings a whole fucking load of other problems that you’re probably not seeing if you’re focused on sex
“”Honestly, I’m afraid. “”
I had already titled the article, “Look at me, I’m a big pussy” in my mind before i got to that confession.
You know I have known a couple of women who got off on being a guys first, pretty sure I can hook him up if he doesn’t mind some cougar action
Academics uncover 30 words ‘lost’ from English language
If they’re still in use, they’re not lost.
German budget airline pilots secretly filmed stewardesses having sex: report
So it’s acceptable to the airline’s employee policy for the stewardesses to be using the aircraft in such a manner? Were they at least on the ground at the time, or was this in-flight?
I know! There is a serious amount of detail missing. Perhaps we could view the videos… in the name of research.
I kind of have the same reaction. First of all, if they’re doing the dirty on company property, they’ve lost any reasonable expectation of privacy. Secondly, the airline seems to be saying that it’s okay to do it, but not to film it. Maybe, I’m old fashioned, but I can’t see how the actual behavior is anything less than completely unprofessional, if you’re throwing a tantrum about it being filmed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKtdJCUeQF8
German porn but no sheisse involved? I am disappoint.
What the hell? I clicked on that link to see the footage and all I get is a photo of an airplane?
hawt
“oh, oh, it’s pulling into the haaaa-an-aNNGAR”
Hey, if the wings are a rocking don’t come knocking
Honestly, why even bother posting that if there aren’t any pics?
*kicks pebble*
I’m very attracted to (most) and (((most))) German girls.
Here’s a German Girl for you.
You sir, are worse than Hitler.
Condor: Fly the Peeping Skies
Or peeing skies? It _is_ German after all.
Condor: Fly The Friendly Sheiße.
…like multiple stewardesses? With…um…each other? Forward my mail to my bunk for the next three days.
They burned through a lot of staff though, so I see them struggling to win tonight.
Joe Smith threw 3 pitches. Nick Goody threw 8. Tyler Olson threw 11, as did Andrew Miller (who isn’t sharp yet.)
Trevor Bauer is 9-0 in his last 10 starts, so if he can give them 6 or 7, I imagine we’ll see Bryan Shaw, Dan Otero and probably Smith and Goody again tonight if needed.
Yeah, but they all warmed up too. To a reliever, that’s where the real work comes in, IMO. It’s not as if they hopped off the bench and didn’t throw 50-75 pitches to get ready to enter the game.
Germans gonna do what Germans gonna do
A Thai resort city? Why would this even make the news there?
I spent a week in Pattaya once, and nothing about that sentence surprises me.
I’d be worried about getting caught in the wheel, if you know what I mean.
Nazi Attacks Berkeley:
http://www.dailywire.com/news/21096/watch-live-7-pm-pt-hurricane-ben-hits-berkeley-daily-wire
I heard he uses his yarmulke to hide a swastika he has shaven into his hair. He’s a crafty one, he is.
I’ve gotten a real kick out of the Berkeley cops erecting walls to keep the antifa
goonspeaceful masked protesters away from theharmless midgetmean, little Jew man.Twitter has had some fun with that.
Retard Posts On Twitter:
https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/908463507246522368
That dude is a fount of retardation.
Indeed.
Are they going to live tweet this disaster?
Love the “suspected white supremacist” followed by saying that he “claims to be Jewish”. Nothing like decrying racism and then following it with a racist remark.
Obviously real Jews are Democrats, duh.
Holy crap!
Good thing it’s a slow day at work, cause reading his inane defenses of his comment may have seriously hurt my brain.
Need to drink to kill off the damaged ones(can’t remember where I heard thiS. TV show?)
-Cliff Clavin
That was it, thanks
I am sometimes jealous of these identitarians who revel in their blackness, feminism, person-of-color-ness, whatever… it seems to give them a lot of meaning
It looks like his friend is trying to pull him out of making an ass of himself and he just isn’t interested.
“5 Things I Learned At Berkeley Last Night”
http://www.dailywire.com/news/21115/5-things-i-learned-berkeley-last-night-ben-shapiro
Please use protection when molesting the oysters
“But you won’t contract this virus from eating an oyster, whether you enjoy them on the half-shell or cooked. OsHV-1 can infect other bivalve species, like some animal herpes viruses that can cross species barriers, but it is genetically distinct from other animal herpes viruses and does not infect humans.”
Oh, that’s good.
Hey, baby. You wanna see my bivalve species?
+ 1 geoduck.
tri-valve FTW!
Would you share a sex doll with strangers? This Beijing-based startup thinks you would
*ponders bleaching service startup in China*
I’ve heard tell of places where you can actually rent real women for sex after other people have done so.
divorcedpeoplemeet.com?
I do like the use of ‘silicone slammers’
I saw them in ’88 – opening up for the Lumberjackers
*concert applause*
Depends a lot on the stranger.
This shit is getting out of hand:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4886666/Angelina-Jolie-flaunts-famous-ink-backless-gown.html
Feed the poor woman
The camera added ten pounds to her head apparently.
She has a whole new flat canvas on the other side to scribble all over now.
She has implants.
Tattooed on nipples, so I’m sort of right, the best sort of right.
Got a tattooed tit say number 13
Gross.
God, looking at those pictures. What do people find attractive about this woman? As Scruffy notes, eat something, damnit!
She WAS attractive once upon a time. That time was the late ’90s.
Even young AJ was a “what is so attractive about her.” She’s just gotten older and even less appealing.
Weird. I used to think she was attractive, but she looks gross and underfed in those pictures. And that tattoo is an abomination.
She was totally hot in Hackers. I don’t know why she got a nose job.
In Gia, she played a supermodel who had lots of sex with other women. 4 stars. It’s up there with Rebecca Romjin in Femme Fatale for the best lesbian scenes in a mainstream movie.
The funny thing is, Gia is the movie that ruined her for me. I was watching it and my girlfriend at the time came in the room and was like: “It’s funny to me that you think she’s hot. You’re an ass man, and she really has no ass at all.”
I gotta live by my standards.
Your plates sir
I agree. Also, Butter, Mulholland Drive….
The real life Gia Carangi was also rather curvy for a fashion model:
http://sorockyhorror.blogspot.com/2011/01/26-between-life-death-gia-marie-carangi.html
In March, Marvel vice president of sales David Gabriel offered an assessment of his company’s products that infuriated progressives. “What we heard was that people didn’t want any more diversity,” Gabriel said. “They didn’t want female characters out there. That’s what we heard, whether we believe that or not. I don’t know that that’s really true, but that’s what we saw in sales. We saw the sales of any character that was diverse, any character that was new, our female characters, anything that was not a core Marvel character, people were turning their nose up against.””
Something something revealed preferences
Hillary Clinton: ‘Nobody Said A Word’ When It Was My Fake Severed Head
Pics or it didn’t happen.
Considering she’d lie when the truth’d serve her better, my money’s on “it didn’t happen”.
Well, shit.
“Nobody Said A Word’ When It Was My Fake Severed Head”
Yeah, so what does that tell you?
Even with all the hillary sycophants in the media not a word was said
Don’t you know, the media hated Hillary. If they had only stopped taking about her (FAKE) email scandal she would be president.
I’m sure they hate her now. They lobbed a big, fat-headed schmuck right across the plate for her, and she swung out with all her might.
That’s the phrase you use rather that “we know this chain is complete and utter bullshit told by a known liar, who needs the spotlight, but we’re in the tank for her, so there were definitely offensive stuff sold. But branding someone as racist because that disagree with me is totally not offensive.
This would make a good t-shirt.
like a play on Perseus holding the head of Medusa,
So would that make Clinton the Kracken?
And this is the first time I’ve heard someone equate what Griffin did to that little nugget of Greek mythology. Every other analysis equated it with Islamists lopping heads off. So this reeks of the Clinton polling bullshit where her sycophants find something, test itnwuth their prog friends to see how it sells and then push it as a true narrative on the rest of America. Same as the alternative nostril breathing bullshit.
Jesus. GO BACK TO THE FOREST, YOU PIECE OF SHIT!!!!
EVEN STEVE SMITH HAS STANDARDS
Legitimately laughing out loud on that one
*opera applause*
The poor deluded old lady had it backwards. The t-shirts were of Trump as Perseus and Hillary as the Gorgon.
https://www.redbubble.com/people/eyemagined/works/22918216-perseus-slays-medusa-trump-hillary?p=t-shirt
It was an internet meme that people started printing and selling. No blood, no hint of assassination and Islamist beheading like Griffin. No one cared but Hillary has to grasp for any slight, any false equivalency.
If you get shot at by Bosnian snipers and have to dodge bullets while accepting flowers from a little girl, it’s not surprising if for the rest of your life you’re a bit jumpy.
Ha! That’s awesome.
It’s way better than Chimpy McHalliburton or any of the other presidents or candidates that have been caricatured before Hillary Clinton ran in 2016.
Excuse me, my good man… that is Chimpy McHitlerburton!
DM on the Amish attack.
This irritated me:
Yes, by all means, let’s regulate this problem out of existence. Idiots.
I know, lets make it illegal to blow people up! That’ll stop them.
Maybe they could start by regulating who gets into their country?
That’s the only bad regulation.
Because as the Internet does, one day, a new look will undoubtedly emerge to take the title of “strangest brow trend.”
I’m rooting for the Groucho look.
I’ve always liked The Brezhnev look.
Growing up, we had a miniature Schnauzer that looked like that…a friend of mine nicknamed him Brezhnev. We ended up referring to him as “Brezhie”.
Some more semi-obscure soul music: Baby Huey and the Babysitters – the only album is on Curtis Mayfield’s label, who also did production. A funky hippy mix of soul, a bit of jazz, and great Otis Redding like singing from the 400 pound James Ramsey. Worth checking out.
^seconded
i’d hestitate to call it even semi-obscure tho. its been re-released a dozen times since the 80s. it was sampled heavily in the early days of hiphop and has always been popular, referenced on compilations, etc..
a very-similar “one record, then vanished” singer was Labi Siffre, whose record was basically forgotten until Dre flipped “My Name Is” for Eminem. That whole album is one great song after another
Example you can never prog hard enough, #456,783,320
http://melanoidnation.org/espn-is-getting-on-code-with-white-supremacy/
Jemele Hill is, and always has been, a blithering idiot. I remember when all she did was write inane columns for ESPN Page 2, and she sucked just as much then as she does on TV now.
FU ESPN
So it looks like UCF used the hurricane as an excuse to avoid a home loss.
While the original cancellation made some sense (players were scattered, national guard was using stadium as staging area, etc), the team has been back and practicing this week, and the stadium is clear. And the AD has implied that they did it to avoid getting smacked around.
Didn’t they also cancel the Florida-Georgia cocktail party? I think there’s more to these cancellations that teams avoiding beat downs.
That isn’t for another month or so, it hasnt been cancelled.
USF is playing a home game on Friday.
https://twitter.com/mkhammer/status/908325627350147073
LOL
I don’t get it.
HRC practices alternate nostril breathing to cope with get loss.
Yeah, I don’t get that. Why would anyone think that would help?
Really?
It’s a form of meditation. Same as yoga or praying the rosary or self-hypnosis. It’s designed to immerse you in a mundane and repetitive task to clear your mind of whatever is causing you anxiety/stress.
I’ve never tried the nostril thing. But the concept is sound.
I did the nostril thing a few times, but mine involved a straw, a mirror, and a razor blade.
Like, say, painting tiny figurines?
A mundane or repeditive task frees my mind to fixate on the sources of anxiety.
Then you’re doing it wrong.
Seriously, read something on meditation techniques. It might do you some good if you ever suffer from anxiety or severe stress.
drinking heavily works too
It’s designed to immerse you in a mundane and repetitive task to clear your mind of whatever is causing you anxiety/stress.
*uncaps bourbon. pours into glass. adds three cubes of ice. drinks deeply. uncaps bourbon. pours into…*
Just like Nuke Lalooshe.
+1 his eyelids are jammed
It’s a reverse Farmer Brown.
Unless you’ve been under a rock, you are aware that the Cleveland Indians are on one hell of a roll. A record-breaking one, to be exact. And last night they faced a serious challenge from the Royals, needing a 2 out run in the bottom of the ninth to tie it up and then walking it off in the tenth. to run their streak to 22 games.
Ive had $100 bucks against the Indians every single game after their 16th straight win.
Last night hurt, im not gonna lie.
The team’s name is ATALANTA. Say it! It was their first return to UEFA competition in 26 years. Fun fact: Atalanta has the best youth academy in Italy and draws comparisons to Barca’s La Masia. They needed it after that mess in Champions League.
I know their name. It’s after one of our cities but slightly misspelled.
I was just happy to see Everton shit the bed. Although Arsenhole losing would have made it doubly-sweet.
I know you did. I was being a duck because you hate Canadians. /drops head. Kicks pebble.
dick.
Fricken auto spell. It’s a love-hate thing.
Why would you ever think I hate Canucks? I always post the Team Canada baseball results, don’t I?
Besides, you’re the hat that keeps America warm.
Everton did shit the bed. But they can wake up knowing they still aren’t Liverpool.
So, I’m standing in line at the grocery store yesterday, and it’s this one grocery I usually pass by–because the service is so slow. For whatever reason, this chain grocery has the slowest cashiers I’ve ever seen anywhere. Even the guy that works the express lane is incredibly slow. There are at least 15 people in the express lane, and nothing has moved in seven minutes. I didn’t get in the express lane–because I know how slow it is. I got in the regular lane with my three items–sure enough it was faster than the “express” lane, but “faster” than slow as molasses is a relative term.
So, after the line hasn’t moved an inch in some ten minutes, and the checker is standing there talking to the person she’s checking out like they’re the only two people in the grocery store, I turn to the lady behind me in line say, “I always forget why I never come to this store–until I get in line. They have the slowest service anywhere”.
She says, “You should be grateful. You could be in Florida”.
I look at her, and I say, “I should be grateful for slow service?”
She says, “You should be grateful you’re not in Florida”.
I said, “The alternative to me standing in line because of their slow service is not suffering in the aftermath of a hurricane. The alternative is me leaving and shopping somewhere else”.
She says, “Well, the people in Florida can’t shop anywhere”.
I said, “You know what, you’re right. Why should I stand here and suffer bad service like I’m stuck in the aftermath of a hurricane?”. I set my stuff on top of the candy bar display, and I left. As I was leaving, I heard her say, “That’s the problem with America–people are ungrateful”.
I’m not grateful for needlessly bad service; my default comparison to any bad situation isn’t, “Well, at least I’m not suffering in the aftermath of a hurricane”, and that’s why I’m what’s wrong with America?
It’s not that I don’t have compassion for suffering people everywhere, but I’m not exactly grateful I don’t live in Venezuela, where the country has needlessly suffered like in the aftermath of a hurricane–just because the government is so stupidly authoritarian and socialist. I think I should be grateful for the things other people do for me. I think I should be grateful for the sacrifices other people have willingly made on my behalf.
You know what’s wrong with America? Maybe we shouldn’t be grateful for freedom or prosperity. Maybe we should get mad as hell when we don’t get freedom and prosperity because somebody with power over us is too damn lazy, overpaid, and unaccountable to do their job properly. We sure as hell shouldn’t be grateful to have to stand in line for food like we’re in the Soviet Union circa 1989 or Venezuela today.
That damn unionized cashier is so damn slow, it’s only favorably comparable to suffering the aftermath of a hurricane–and for that, I should be grateful?!
Patriotic Americans should be grateful for people who showed their gratitude by throwing tea into the harbor.
^^Just A Sermon Not A Thought^^
I KEED! I KEED!
There is a thought!
Yeah, that’s the exact reason I stopped shopping at Walmart and switched to Target. I can get in and out of Target in about ten minutes. If I go to Walmart, I’m likely to be standing in line for at least twenty, plus however long it takes to get what I’m looking for from the complete mess the shelves are.
The Walmarts near us all have self-checkout as an option. Usually pretty good unless you get all of them jammed with olds and tards who don’t know how to use a touchpad and credit card.
Self checkout is the way to go. I didn’t like it at first because they didn’t make it clear that there is a scale measuring the weight of everything you ring up, so I would stand there getting pissed holding the item I just scanned and trying to scan a second one.
Or that when you use your own bags you have to tell it every time you put down a new bag. That one almost gave me an aneurysm
Self checkout is an abomination. I was right PISSED when I needed painkillers and found that the only checkouts open at Krogers were the self-checkout lines. It immediately dropped my opinion of the chain.
I use self-checkout 99% of the time. No interaction with a cashier is a bonus, and it’s usually quicker.
I also have pretty good luck at Walmart, but the closest one is actually a well-run store: clean and I know where just about everything (I need) is located. So in ‘n’ out in a few minutes.
Aldi has some of the fastest cashiers I’ve seen – because the store products are barcoded on every side of the package. The cashier just whips everything through in the cart, and you have to bag it on your own time.
The bagging yourself really saves them time on getting through customers quickly. The local Kroger doesn’t really have baggers anymore, it seems, so you have to sit there and wait for the cashier to bag after getting done with ringing everything up.
It’s a great idea in theory, but I’m imagining the clueless mouthbreathers we have around here trying to figure out how the whole “bagging” concept works.
Except if you have a tard customer who can’t bag fast enough it could create a glut.
The “bagging” area at Aldi is a counter disconnected from the checkout lanes. A slowpoke there is not going to hamper the payment processing. And they don’t provide bags, so it’s often a boxing area because the shipping boxes the products come in are tossed there for customer reuse.
At Aldi they put everything you bought into a cart. It’s up to you to wheel it away and bag it at a nearby countertop. There are also empty boxes there for customer use.
One time we forgot to bring our own bags and to buy some in the checkout. So we just put everything in the hatch and handled it when we got home.
Doesn’t work that way – as they ring stuff up, they toss it right back into the cart. As soon as they’re done, you pay and take the cart over to the back wall behind the registers, where they have a long shelf where you can bag at your leisure while the cashier is already on to the next customer.
I withhold judgment of slow self-baggers because I’ve been in that situation where the store-provided bags rip when you look at them wrong, and you have to pluck your bread, eggs and fruit out of a sea of canned goods so it doesn’t get crushed.
Okay. You don’t have to scream. I don’t go to Aldi.
Aldi checkers know how to run a cash register. I wonder if they get timed on how long it takes them to get a customer through from first scan until completed payment.
I wish all the world had the staff of Chik-fil-A with the speed of Aldi.
Publix has outstanding service, but you’re paying for it. They are not cheap.
I hear they have roast chicken as well.
Do they, OMWC, do they?
Or is it still not available?!
My mom is happy.
I was a cashier at large supermarkets in college in the early 90s and yes, they time you – but it’s items/minute over your shift. But they’re all unionized so there’s no incentive to actually be good other than pride and maybe your name on a plaque.
My wife worked at a grocery store in college. They actually held competitions for this. She still has the trophy she for winning. Its a miniature shopping cart.
I’m looking forward to the day when checkers are extinct and grocers are run like an Amazon distribution center.
I want to see my produce before I agree to buy it.
Here The future HAS ARRIVED!
Walmart and our local grocery stores all have self-check-out. I can’t use it if I have a full cart or a whole lot of produce but I always use it for a quick trip.
I definitely roll with self check. The only reason I use a hominid cashier is if I need a bunch of $1s.
When I need a bunch of $1s, I don’t go to the grocery store, I go to the strip club.
How’s that working out for you? The new job I mean.
Oh it’s going as well as one could hope. But i keep getting friction burns from the brass pole.
Well, the Walmart nearest me has no self-checkouts. The Target does however.
Except for groceries (which I need now) and a handful of other products, I’ve stopped shopping retail unless I absolutely can’t avoid it.
Brick and Mortar just has too many downsides for most products.
Same. I go to Target to pick up my food, and that’s it. Anything else gets ordered through Amazon.
Walmart does it deliberately, I swear to god. I shop there regularly because it’s one of 3 major chain grocery stores in my area. None of them are unionized. They all pay their cashiers pretty close to the same (minimum) wage. It’s not like Albertsons is buying up all the local talent with splashy benefits and huge salaries. Yet the people who work at Walmart are all goddamn near mentally handicapped, and you wait at least 50% longer in line. I’ve lived in 4 cities in 2 states over the last 10 years and it’s been that way at every Walmart I’ve ever patronized.
Hey. You get what you pay for. I have so sympathy for people getting stuck with minimum service from employers who pay minimum wage.
It’s like the whole #FirstWorldProblems thing. Just because I’m not getting genocided in Rwanda doesn’t mean I can’t be upset when something goes wrong.
Also, for those who don’t know: Never get in the express lane if there is anyone in front of you. Stores put their slowest people in the express lane and their fastest on regular checkout. That combined with the payment process usually makes express a lot slower than getting behind the lady who’s buying chicken in bulk like the rapture is coming and she knows she’s getting left behind.
/rolls eyes.
First World problems. You guys should try living on the street for a couple of weeks. Did you sleep under a roof last night? Did you have to look for a place to shit? Be fucking thankful for what you have.
This reminds me of a few articles I read about Russia, and how it has so much suicide and alcoholism, and a shrinking population. It’s because people’s spirits are broken. They’ve been taught to just accept shitty circumstances, to just lie there and take it because there’s nothing they can do about it. So why bother.
There’s a term for that.
*waves American flag*
If there are two or three lanes open I ALWAYS manage to pick the worst, slowest one.
Always.
It never fails.
Only I pick the one where the person challenges a price or fiddles around looking for the exact change, or their card doesn’t work, the next shift of cashiers come in and set up, or an other event that slows the lane to a halt.
Always.
And I always get the carriage with the crippled wheel.
I always pick the one with the cutest check-out girl.
‘Sir. That cashier is free. Sir?’
/waves person off.
I larfed.
You can’t control how quickly the line moves, but you can control how hot the girl moving it is.
Exactly! So you may as well enjoy the wait.
Mrs. Animal and I spent ten minutes standing in line in a Lucky’s supermarket here in Silicon Valley while some old harridan argued bitterly with the clerk over a 25 cent difference in the price of a 2-liter of pop. A couple things:
1) If a quarter means that much to you, you shouldn’t be buying pop.
2) It should be obvious to anyone with the intelligence to pound sand that name-brand pop doesn’t cost the same as store-brand pop.
Finally, I put a quarter on the counter. “There,” I said. “Can we just resolve this now and all get on with our business?” I was growing visibly annoyed.
The old harridan turned to me and started complaining about the clerk. I cut her off: “He’s not the one that’s pissing me off. You are.”
She flustered and left.
People suck. Silicon Valley people suck the most.
After the People’s Revolution, pop will be free.
Have as much as you like.
I hope you like non-carbonated, non-flavored, no sugar pop.
Don’t be silly – it will be available in rust, leaded, and cholera flavors.
ahh the “cholera cleanse” part of the people’s health regimen.
What…no amoebic dysentery flavor?
/outraged Leningrad resident
…and unavailable.
this cashier job of mine has those people. only once was the computer wrong about the price. the sale had started that morning and the computers weren’t updated. it was maybe a half hour into the day.
every other time, its fucking awful people.
I bet you that lady is the first to complain at a restaurant when the service is slow and she’s waiting for her food.
Then Ken would pop up out of nowhere (in his slippers) and say, ‘you should be grateful you’re not in Africa!’
She was likely the woman in front of me at Caputo’s the other day, with about 35 items, in the express line, then when she was finally rung up, started (STARTED!) the search for… her checkbook. Which when found, had to be written in slowly and reconciled before handing to the cashier. Then when asked for ID, argued about it, then finally started to search for that. I finally gave up, left my basket there, walked out and went down the street to Valli’s, where I got through the line in 5 minutes.
At least she hadn’t brought along a big bundle of ads from other stores to price match every damn thing. Also, she probably could’ve handed her check to the cashier without writing anything on it. The machine that reads it can input the information itself.
Some cashiers work ethic is for shit.
I supervise a crew of cashiers and ring people up myself.
I do it quickly and efficiently and correctly. People specifically wait for me to ring them.
If you’re a regular customer you know who the good cashiers are
You are a nice guy Ken. Really, you are.
I woulda given everyone there a ton of shit.
Now this is a Ken Shultz-length comment I approve of!
Ken this is a hilarious reminder of why I don’t talk to people when I go out.
Here is my grocery line algorithm for getting out asap:
1) If 5 items or less, go to self-checkout.
2) If purchasing alcohol, pick the line with the cashier that looks oldest
3) Look for line with only male customers
4) Look for line with best looking female customers
5) Realize that the only necessary food items are available at the liquor store
I don’t mind going to my neighborhood Publix. Usually fast except when you get someone arguing with the cashier and demanding to speak to a manager over their $0.25 coupon.
The one thing that drives me nuts about the place is the number of bags they use. I have walked out of there more than once carrying more bags than items purchased (double bagging poultry). I’ve been saving them up and I plan to take them over to the store all at once and dump them on the customer service desk once the 55 gallon drum liner can’t hold any more…
This. Look, I’m a healthy male. Load those motherfuckers up. I tell them that, too. When they aren’t Downs Syndrome or old, because those baggers are already working at maximum bandwidth.
I strangely often get stuck behind somebody trying to buy restricted items with their EBT card. The funny thing is that I don’t get pissed that they use EBT so much as I do because they’re too fucking stupid to figure out what they can buy with it before getting in line.
Somebody else needs to read this excrescence and explain it to me. Because what I get out of it is that the victors should engage in a ruthless and vindictive pogrom against the losers.
In the United States, the Civil War remains “the most divisive and unresolved experience Americans have ever had,” according to David Blight, a historian at Yale. “The Civil War is like a sleeping dragon. If you poke it hard enough, it will raise its head and breathe fire.”
That is, in part, because the loser was allowed its own interpretation. The South, facing catastrophic loss of life and mass destruction on a European scale, wrote its own history of the war. It cast itself as an underdog overwhelmed by the North’s superior numbers, but whose cause — a noble fight for states’ rights — was just. The North looked the other way. Northern elites were more interested in re-establishing economic ties than in keeping their commitments to blacks’ constitutional rights. The political will to complete Reconstruction died.
“The whole notion of honoring the Confederacy and the sacrifice that your family made became part of what we taught in the schools,” said Charles Dew, a Williams College historian whose book “Apostles of Disunion” describes the white supremacist arguments that underpinned the South’s case for leaving the Union.
And, please note that only leftists are capable of dealing appropriately with historical apostates.
The game’s not over ’til you hear the lamentations of the women.
Glad to see that you are finally onboard with threading… 8)
$%#!!!!!
The biter bit.
Ooh, I can’t wait for his hot take on labor unions, those bastions of leftist thought and pride, organizing with the express purpose of keeping minorities out of the job market.
Yes, I agree. Communism was soundly defeated in the West and we should stop looking the other way when lost-cause losers try to bring it back.
“the loser was allowed its own interpretation”
Outrageous. Where were the North Vietnamese style re-education camps?
The North did them such a favor by not just exterminating them all. Clearly that was a mistake.
/NYT
I’m pretty sure the losing side to every conflict has its own interpretation of history, the author chooses not to accept the South’s interpretation as legitimate.
Speaking of spineless and craven.. As if there weren’t hundreds of qualified people just waiting for a break like this.
The comments from that story….Jesus.
Probably a not insignificant portion are OFA/Brock paid trolls.
Don’t want to step on Q’s toes, but…
CLASS ACTS: Sexy students strip off for College Babes Instagram account to ring in the new academic year
The social media page featuring snaps of girls from across the US has gathered more than 800,000 followers
College Babes, All the Time!
There are plenty of cheesecake pics to go around. The more the merrier!
Cheesecake
*hides*
HAWT
What’s wrong with that first link? There are all kinds of words interrupting the flow of the pictures.
I just read it for the articles.
The girl in the orange shirt in the article :eyeball emoji x Infinity:
I will be going off the grid for a few weeks starting Tuesday, so here are some things I found amusing:
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Kumalak (qumalaq, or құмалақ in Kazakh) is a form of geomancy, or divination, which originates in Central Asia. This fortune telling method involves forty-one beans, stones, or sheep dung (“kumalak” means sheep dung in the Turkic languages)[1] sorted into piles, and has been used for hundreds of years in the region of present-day Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, and Siberia by Turkic peoples such as the Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Tatars.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumalak
Predicting the future with sheep dung. Sounds legit.
That’s how CNN contrived their 98% edge for Clinton.
So it’s a bunch of shit…literally.
FiveThirtyEight Headline: Actually, Kumalak Works
Since yesterday was no soul day, today is the day for the ladies that have more fun.
http://archive.is/mfleU
18, 31 and 38; one at a time or all together.
20 is T H I C C.
Not bad. But yesterday’s redheads were more bonerific
Take another look at 6.
3, 3, 3, and 3
32 by a mile (high club).
She’ll take you for a ride.
11,12, 20
11 Yes 11.
or orgy, as a wise man once commented.
11 looks like the girl at the liquor store trying to sell me Bacardi.
“I’ll take the rum… and your phone number SHAWING!”
Where is the titties link? Why isn’t this the first link everyday? Fuck sloppy’s sports. Where are my titties?
Thank fuck god.
As a stripper once said to me: “Guys are just interested in the Three Bs: Beer, Boobs, and footBall”
Big-ass
Where are my titties?
On your chest, but they’re likely not very interesting.
Don’t be too sure. Troy drinks a lot of IPAs.
So they’re too big for OMWC?
And too hairy.
“I Stand with Bikini-Wearing Baristas”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451335/bikini-wearing-baristas-sue-washington-city-after-bare-skin-ban
If there’s one issue that could unify a divided country, it’s this.
Man, I’ve been hearing that people are cussing the power company for getting power back on 4 and 5 days after the winds passed. It just baffles me. Guys are working 16 hour shifts and you’re pissed because they haven’t made it to your little neighborhood yet? That’s some entitled bullshit.
Second observation, had a fence guy out to give me a quote — again, I was shocked they could make it out in less than a week. He gave me a price that was less than I could go to Lowe’s and buy the materials for — that’s with teardown and hauloff of what’s left of the old one as well as installation. He seemed ashamed to tell me that it might be 2 weeks before they could get a crew out. I told him if he had people who wanted to pay more to jump the line, he should take a month as long as I was next up at that price point. He said they just have one price, so don’t worry about it. They did my neighbor’s fence earlier this summer, and it was still standing. Can’t ask for a better reference than that.
Anyhow, fuck whiners and I’ve been going out of my way to say thank you to anyone I saw working this week. The Monocle knows I wasn’t very productive.
I can understand being annoyed to be without power. It sucks. What I don’t understand is blaming the people busting their ass to restore it rather than the storm that caused it.
The storm won’t appologise, and can’t be browbeaten.
i don’t think some lineman in a bucket truck is going to be “browbeaten” by some whiner.
You blame the oil companies for conjuring up Mother Nature’s Wrath (that knocked out the power companies that get their product from the oil companies).
Fence guy is gonna get rich. It’s like the roofing guys here after a bad hailstorm.
If there weren’t a monopoly you could always pay more to get your power turned on faster, or hook up to a power company that offered quicker service.
My company works with electric distribution companies… those linemen are working their asses off. Plus, extra linemen from Georgia, the Carolinas and Alabama have also come down to help out. Those guys are awesome.
Agreed.
A lot of the power crews are from out of state – if they didn’t import these crews the power restoration would be taking 3 weeks in some places.
I’ve actually been impressed with the contractors in Tampa I’ve had to work on my house. Good prices, great service, and hard workers. Fence guys quoted a good price, showed up on the day promised, and had a huge crew so they got the whole thing done in a couple hours.
fuck those people.
Linesman do hard, difficult, and dangerous work. Made doubly dangerous by all the twats who backfeed the lines with the generators they bought at Family Dollar.
After Irene I went to check on my house to find the neighbors out with chainsaws working on fallen trees in the road. There had to be 20 people standing around while two guys were sawing on a wet tree hanging on a line in their fucking shorts and flip-flops. I loudly told them they were going to get themselves killed and left the vicinity. I wanted nothing to do with that shitshow.
No kidding. It’s like I told this guy who was complaining about slow service at the grocery store the other day, be glad you’re not in Florida.
I know a guy who went to Texas to help his brother. He got back the other day. My takeaway from what he told me: people just put their heads down, and started getting things done. America, fuck yeah.
This is by far one of the most appalling things CNN has put out in a while:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/14/politics/hillary-clinton-anderson-cooper-interview/index.html
The 36 most telling lines in Hillary Clinton’s interview with Anderson Cooper
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4. “I am afflicted with the responsibility gene.”
In a way, this is the story of the campaign — and Clinton’s life. She has always been the star pupil, the person who learned the rules better than anyone. But then she faced Trump, the least orthodox or traditional candidate possible. And one not terribly burdened with the “responsibility gene.”
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12. “So no absolution.”
Clinton won’t forgive people who were for her and didn’t vote. That she is willing to acknowledge that fact — not exactly the most magnanimous reaction but a totally understandable one — speaks to how deep the loss cut her.
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29. “I won the debate according to the analysts and all the rest of that.”
Yes, she did.
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32. “It says that an anachronism that was designed for another time no longer works.”
That’s some serious shade on the Electoral College. The problem for Clinton is that no matter the merit of what she says, lots and lots of people will write it off to sour grapes and ignore it.
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As for #29, the only thing that comes to mind is “that may be true, but it is also irrelevant.”
It’s unfortunate that she will not run again. It would be great to see her lose one more time.
I almost feel bad for her supporters, weeping and wailing like a killer asteroid is about to hit. Then I remember that if they got their way, the US would quickly turn into Venezuela.
Let us hope the wolves continue to devour each other.
On #29, didn’t some college do an exercise where a male actor portrayed Hillary and a female actor portrayed Trump? Each said the same lines the actual candidates said in the debate, and the consensus was that the audience much preferred the female Trump?
Yep
Won the debate as judged by the people who agreed with her.
She could have shown up to the debate and said “I should be president because my name is Hillary.” and won the debate.
Eh, the turn the U.S. into Venezuela types were for Sanders more than Clinton. That having been said, the whole “electoral college is an anachronism” thing just is not an argument. What about the changing times affects the practicality of the electoral college? The only argument that makes some kind of sense is that the States today are more like federal provinces than sovereign states and so the electoral college gives them power to undermine the national consensus. But given that said “consensus” (=47% of the vote, give or take) is not uniformly distributed across the country by geography, this just raises the question “why should some parts of the country get to tell the other parts what to do?”
Because they agreed with me, dammit!
/Prog
It’s funny how democracy is the “will of the people”, but that those same people whose will is allegedly being enacted have to be coerced into compliance.
It’s funnier that individuals can be trusted to vote properly but cannot be trusted to spend their own money properly.
What about the changing times affects the practicality of the electoral college?
Nothing, but then nothing about the changing times affected the practicality of the state legislatures electing their federal senators either.
Was the 17th Amendment even necessary? Can’t a state legislature defer its choice of Senators to a popular vote?
Well, it’s not fun unless you force everybody to do it.
And, as has been noted here before, the whole “won the popular vote” is not persuasive BECAUSE of the Electoral College. That is, would Hillary have got a lot more votes in CA if there was no EC; ditto for Trump in, say, TX?
What about the changing times affects the practicality of the electoral college?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing, whatsoever. If anything, changing circumstances make the electoral college even more necessary. The framers were abundantly clear about why they wanted an electoral college and they were absolutely right. To maintain a continent-wide commercial republic, you need to have some modicum of legitimacy for all of the country. Not just a majority, but broad support across the country. That’s what “broad consensus” actually means. If you can’t keep legitimacy throughout a massive continent-wide commercial republic, the only way you can hope to hold it together is by brute force (I know, I know, that’s what the proggies would actually prefer). You want direct election by popular vote in America? Fine. You’ll have to do one of two things, dramatically delegate federal powers back to the states or legalize and legitimize secession. Anything else is a surefire ticket to civil war.
What about the changing times affects the practicality of the electoral college?
“The megacities deserve to rule over the filthy rural plebs with an iron fist.”
Barack didn’t have a problem winning electoral college (both easily)
That’s true, and it may be true of other Democrats in the future, but I think the Democrats are going to have this “problem” again. Their enclaves are so concentrated and populous that them “winning” the popular vote but not the election becomes a distinct possibility (not that it could never happen in the past with different parties, just that it was less likely for a while). But the Presidency is just one office. There’s the House and the Senate which actually write the damn laws. The Senate can’t be gerrymandered (or at least the gerrymandering has been fixed since 1959) and even if the House is gerrymandered against them* they can still take state legislatures back and turn it around. But they’d rather win procedural victories than electoral victories, and as long as they have that mentality, the situation is likely to get worse for them.
* = The House is gerrymandered as all fuck but the state-level Democrats are just as guilty as the Republicans. The Democrats have a problem winning state legislatures outside their enclaves, which has nothing to do with gerrymandering.
I don’t personally think that gerrymandering is such a deep problem for the minority party, mainly because politics should be about the individual, not groups. Try to convince minds with a better agenda, and the victories will come all by themselves. Gerrymandering is only a problem if your party is so ideologically stubborn and unable to change to political realities.
Do you really think being a Democrat is what tipped the scales in Obama’s favor?
You think it might have been his stint at Harvard? Or his distinguished Senate career?
/oblivious
I’m convinced it was his rhetorical skills.
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
The electoral college is working exactly as designed. The entire purpose was to prevent a few population centers from having out-sized infence.
If anything isn’t working, it’s the fixed number of Representatives. We have the same number of reps whether we have a population of 100 million or 400 million. Diluted representation was the essential reason for the Boston Tea Party and the subsequent revolt.
My big fear about doing away with the EC is that it will encourage Republicans in some deep blue states (mainly California) to actually bother to vote, then we’ll end up with a situation where a Democrat wins the EC but a Republican gets into office with the popular vote, and then I’ll have a stroke and die because I’m laughing too hard.
Supporters of the Fifth Amendment = Nazis. OK, got Uncle Joe.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/36747/
As Instapundit would say: the 21st century is not turning out as I hoped.
https://www.thelocal.se/20170914/video-animated-action-movie-genitals-spread-chlamydia-awareness-in-sweden
NSFW? Maybe? If your work is cool with claymation genitals, then you’re good.
Current Affairs blesses us once more:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/09/a-quick-reminder-of-why-colonialism-was-bad
The article is actually good, at least as far as the facts go.
The subtitle is a little silly:
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Ignoring or downplaying colonial atrocities is the moral equivalent of Holocaust denial…
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That’s fascinating, Nathan. Can you think of another ghastly system which continues to be defended (far more often) despite producing nothing but misery and suffering? I’ll give you a hint- it involves a red flag.
Oh, what’s the use? This guy thinks the govt should confiscate people’s kidneys by lottery.
This part really takes the cake:
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We should observe here that this is a terrible way of evaluating colonialism. It is favored by colonialism’s apologists because it means that truly unspeakable harms can simply be “outweighed” and thereby trivialized. We can see quickly how ludicrous this is: “Yes, we may have indiscriminately massacred 500 children, but we also opened a clinic that vaccinated enough children to save 501 lives, therefore ‘the case for colonialism is strong.’” We don’t allow murderers to produce defenses like this, for good reason: you can’t get away with saying “Yes, I killed my wife, but I’m also a fireman.” We must also be careful about using hypothetical counterfactuals: examining whether colonialism is “better than what would have happened in its absence.” I’m reading Great Expectations at the moment, and so I’ll call this the “Pip’s sister defense”: Pip’s sister justifies her cruelty and physical abuse by constantly reminding Pip that if it were not for her, he would be in an even worse situation. It’s an argument frequently deployed by abusive and exploitative individuals in order to justify their acts.
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Change the names, and the story is about you.
I mean sure, Mao killed millions of people, and engaged in all sorts of quackery, but he might have had something to do with telling people to boil water which might have saved some lives from disease, so therefore he’s a great guy!
/paraphrase of actual discussion had on H&R
Yeah. I remember that. Usually the commies point to improved literacy. Sure, people were starving, but they had plenty of free propaganda to read.
Mao and his thugs killed more Chinese people than the Mongols and the Japanese put together. They made the British in Hong Kong and Shanghai look like humanitarians. By an extraordinary coincidence, the part of China which is the least shitty is the part that was ruled by the British.
Conquest is wrong, but there is certainly a difference between bad and worse when it comes to rulers.
By an extraordinary coincidence, the part of China which is the least shitty is the part that was ruled by the British.
Don’t worry, the Communist Party of China is hard at work “fixing” that discrepancy.
Oh, and that much-touted Cuban literacy metric*
Awhile back, Sargon did a video in which he addressed an email sent him by a Cuban university student. The student laid to rest a lot of myths about the wonders of Cuban communism, in particular those dealing with healthcare (you’d better hope you have family on the mainland that can send you care packages of basic medical supplies and drugs, ‘cuz you’re not getting any from the state-run hospitals), and university. One of the features of Cuban schooling is getting to spend several months a year laboring in the fields doing agriculture work by hand, mandatory, as the price of going to school.
*and really, you’re going to extol the virtues of Cuban mass-education when one of your principal political blocs here at home, teachers unions, does such a shit job of it for so many students?
It’s an argument frequently deployed by abusive and exploitative individuals in order to justify their acts.
“Without the stimulus, who knows how high unemployment would have gone?”
“If we leave Iraq, who knows what terrorists might fill the power vacuum?”
Poorly constructed android mugged by prostitutes.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/4473164/human-ken-doll-rodrigo-alves-mugged-by-prostitutes-in-marbella-and-left-him-with-a-e600-bar-tab/
Uncanniest uncanny valley ever. The man is in bad need of a shrink.
Stunning and brave.
“I am afflicted with the responsibility gene.”
“I like to boss people around.”
FUCK OFF, SLAVER
Well, to be fair, she was responsible for a lot of things.
CHARGES HAVE NEVER BEEN BROUGHT
She has always been the star pupil, the person who learned the rules better than anyone. But then she faced Trump, the least orthodox or traditional candidate possible.
This reminds me of something I saw the other night. I can’t even remember where, for certain. It might have been in an episode of Lexx.
“The greatest swordsman on earth isn’t afraid of the second greatest. He’s afraid of the worst swordsman on earth, because that man is completely unpredictable.”
The Wikileaks revealed that trump was the pied piper candidate and should be promoted lol
Sorry, I was far too young and focused too much on Xev to notice any of the dialogue.
This kid has it figured out.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/15/11-year-old-frank-does-great-job-mowing-white-house-lawn.html
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Eleven-year-old yard services entrepreneur Frank Giaccio locked down his biggest client ever Friday morning, mowing the White House lawn on the invitation of President Trump.
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Trump accepted the Virginia boy’s offer after he wrote to the president saying it would be his “honor to mow the White House lawn.” Giaccio, who was 10 when he wrote the letter but has since turned 11, also enclosed a menu of his services, which include weed-whacking.
Giaccio told Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” earlier Friday, “So far it’s pretty much the best day of my life.”
The White House later tweeted a photo of Trump walking alongside Giaccio on the lawn.
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Leave it to Fox News to write a story glorifying a Nazi kid.
WaPo hot take: Trump uses unpaid child labor!!!!
Wonder if Trump gave a tip?
“The world needs ditch diggers too”
Wonder if he gave him a 1099.
The media will probably follow up next year to make sure he’s paid his taxes.
Trump’s a grandpa. You know he slipped the kid some cash.
Great story. The kid was hilarious in the interview.
The idea of an 11 year old with a name like Frank Giaccio is funny. That’s a name for an aging Mafia boss, not a 6th grader.
Frank “The Snake” Giaccio, as he’s known amount White House lawn manicurists.
Especially with a weed whacker.
“Frank “The Landscaper” Giaccio, underboss of the Genovese family, was sentenced to 27 years today….”
“Go get ya fuckin lawnmower!”
a menu of his services, which include weed-whacking.
Please tell me he has a woodchipper.
I saw this video made just a few days ago by a couple of . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNXteZHAOdI
It’s a live performance recorded in a hotel room in Las Vegas. It’s a song by MYRKUR, but this version of it is performed by MYRKUR and Chelsea Wolfe. It’s not a surprise that they’re working together–they make the same kind of hard to classify music.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with MYRKUR, she should probably be classified as something like atmospheric black metal. For those of you who aren’t familiar with black metal, it’s always had a strain of it that was like ambient. Burzum, for instance, has put out whole albums of ambient black metal. Imagine if Enya were a black metal artist, and you start to get the idea behind MYRKUR. In Scandinavia, where the barriers between things like metal and classical music aren’t what they are here in the States, this is actually a natural hybrid.
Chelsea Wolfe isn’t Scandinavian, she’s American, but her influences are obviously black metal, as well. However, you might classify her as somewhere between like atmospheric black metal and folk music.
What does any of this have to do with anything?
Well, I saw the video and thought, “Gee, I wonder if they’ve put out any collaborative recordings that I haven’t heard about. I think I’ll go over to Chelsea Wolfe’s wiki page and see!”
That’s when I came across this quote:
Wiki her name if you want the link–I don’t want anybody at Glib Intergalactic Headquarters to have to fish this comment out of the Glib spam filter.
Notice she lists Burzum as an influence–with reservations. Apparently, it’s not that Varg Vikernes burned down three historic Christian churches or murdered Euronymous that sets her back, though. It’s his politics that are too extreme.
The part that really sticks out is the quote about Ayn Rand. Burzum’s politics are too extreme, but the rest is forgivable. Ayn Rand on the other hand? Can’t be associated with that in any way!
Oh, and astute readers might notice that she subsequently lists Celine as an influence.
Celine was a Nazi–and not just a little bit. Celine advocated France joining with Hitler before World War II. During the occupation, Celine wrote virulently antisemitic tracts that were so awful, even the Nazis thought he was going overboard–scaring away people who might support the Nazi cause otherwise. My understanding is that Celine criticized Hitler for not going far enough. I guess Celine didn’t like what you might call a “big tent” Nazi?
Celine wasn’t a Nazi of convenience. Celine wasn’t just following orders. Celine was a Nazi of (sick) conscience!
But it’s the influence of Ayn Rand that needs to be revoked?
Yeah, she’s picking influences to enhance her brand with potential fans, and black metal fans are often more put off by capitalism and individualism than anything else. Still, her fans are as much from the same pool that used to listen to Tori Amos and the Lilith brigade back in the 90s. I guess she’s going for authenticity?
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Either way, I was concerned when people started saying that free speech is inherently racist. Maybe we should be even more concerned if those associated with freedom and capitalism are getting a worse rap in some quarters than committed Nazis.
Fuck false metal.
Fuck that pretentious shit. There’s so much kvlt stuff that’s a hundred times better than Myrkur, Liturgy, Agalloch, or Alcest.
Black metal got hijacked by the hipster fags.
South American black metal shits on this.
Black metal got hijacked by the hipster fags.
You can thank Deafheaven and p4k for that
I could never get into any black metal. At all. Call me unimaginative, but I’m good with sticking mainly to the Big 4, Maiden, and Sabbath.
i don’t think some lineman in a bucket truck is going to be “browbeaten” by some whiner.
“Wait. What was the address again? Yup. Got it.”
*adds address to “service restored” list*
I hope so.
Did anybody else experience a temporary service interruption?
Dude, it happens to everybody at some point. Don’t beat yourself up over it.
Keep your metal. I’ll take the Who.
Christ was Moon fun to watch. Check out Substitute in the side bar.
Their entire set from Monterey.
Where’s the final Wartimus story???
Less then an hour away, if we go by yesterday.
But who can tell with time travel?
It’s not 11 yet. Get your orphans to wind your watch properly.
11 Central.
I’m on the edge of my seat. How is he going to wrap up that story in one episode? It’s like Star Wars Episode III, except the writing is better.
Rocks fall, everyone dies.
And it’s more like Star Wars than Episode III is.
How is he going to wrap up that story in one episode?
Warty wakes up when his suburban June Cleaver mom calls him for school.
Something… different
What’s y’alls go-to for cold remedy? Runny nose, sore throat, lung cookies (soooo sexy!). Looking for make & model, like Vick’s Fucked-Up Throat Relief or something.
1. Alcohol
2. Chicken soup
3. Vick’s Vapo Rub
4. Sleep
Musinex is good as well.
A while back, I bought this Vaporub in packaging that looks like deodorant. You know, so you don’t get that shizz all over your hands? Useless. They made the product too soft, so you end up having to spread it around with your hands.
Yep, the original is best (but messy).
That’s what she said! ZING!
DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, use VapoRub as a lubricant for Onanism. Twelve year old l0b0t learned a stern lesson that morning I can tell you.
Ditto for Icy Hot.
Ditto the Mucinex for clearing lungs; RX Mucinex was just guaifenesin at 4x the OTC dosage, buy generic and save $. I’ve found the generic NyQuil/Dayquil liquigel type pills to be the best combo of efficacious/not nauseous for me. I also love Benadryl (get the bulk store brand Diphenhydramine at CostCo) for a sleepytime adjunct or as a useful prophylaxis for many bad things; as long as it’s not a workday. For throat relief, hot whiskey/honey/lemon juice for home and Earl Grey/honey/lemon juice for work. I hope you feel better soon.
Optional: small pat of butter
Pass on the butter.
Great suggestions! I have some Marky Mark for my eggnog – if I have some left over after making the ‘nog, I’ll try the whiskey-honey-lemon combo.
Like Brooksie below, I use Alka-Seltzer Cold and nighttime. And eating a lot of zinc (especially if you catch the onset early enough) actually seems to have an effect.
What’s y’alls go-to for cold remedy?
Alka Seltzer cough and cold (or something like that)
I’m at a loss trying to figure out what exactly about this is “slimy”:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/heres-a-real-life-slimy-example-of-ubers-regulator-evading-software/
They dared exercise their right to not self-incriminate.
Portland, Oregon, was one of the cities we mentioned where Uber employed the so-called “Greyball” tool. The city has now released a scathing report detailing that Uber evaded picking up 16 local officials for a ride before April 2015, when the service finally won approval by Portland regulators.
The Greyball software employs a dozen data points on a new user in a given market, including whether a rider’s Uber app is opened repeatedly in or around municipal offices, which credit card is linked to the account, and any publicly available information about the new user on social media. If the data suggests the new user is a regulator in a market where Uber is not permitted, the company would present that user with false information about where Uber rides are. This includes showing ghost cars or no cars in the area.
The city concluded that, when Uber started operating in the city in December 2014 without Portland’s authorization, the Greyball tool blocked 17 rider accounts. Sixteen of those were government employees. In all, Greyball denied 29 ride requests by city transportation enforcement officers.
“In using Greyball, Uber has sullied its own reputation,” the Portland Bureau of Transportation said.
Oh, noes! DISCRIMMUNASHINZ!!! Against public servants! How much more eviler can you get?
This makes me like Uber even more.
No kidding. Wahh wahhh, Uber wouldn’t pick up the jackbooted thugs that were stealing taxpayer money to screw over taxpayers. Fuck you PBOT. Go jump in a woodchipper. Wastes millions, including trying to play gotcha instead of PAVING THE GODDAM STREETS THAT NEED PAVING. Everything but.
http://www.kmov.com/story/36371896/friday-weekend-closures-and-cancellations-amid-upcoming-stockley-verdict
St Louis shutting down before the riots start after latest verdict.
Very disappointing. The cop said he was going to kill the guy, and put five rounds into him, err, prematurely, and planted a fucking gun on the corpse.
i’ve read elsewhere (pro gun sites) he used his personal AK pistol to shoot him. which really pisses me off because that’s how laws against AR/AK pistols get started.
IIRC, he had the Draco, but used his service Beretta to do the shooting. Looks that way in the dashcam video anyway.
I don’t really give a shit, TBH. Certainly not as offensive as the Liang probation, Yanez not guilty verdict, or what will likely be a not guilty for Noor. Here, there’s a fleeing violent felon, and a frequent flyer through the criminal justice system (well, both the deceased and the cop, really), who may or may not have had a firearm at the time the officer shot him.
Officer’s partner did not have a weapon drawn during the shooting, but he was a newbie. He also cleverly decided at the outset of the encounter to use his drawn firearm to beat out the window of the deceased’s moving vehicle—that was trying to hit the officers and did hit their vehicle—instead of just shooting the piece of shit. So that his partner didn’t think the situation was dangerous enough for him to also have his weapon drawn, isn’t as probative to me as it might have been.
Fire the officer, which was done, and see if you can convict him for some intermediate crime like planting the drop gun or for lying to investigators. See if you can get a Manslaughter conviction out of it. From the dashcam footage, I don’t see where shooting the victim was necessary to either arrest him or prevent an imminent threat of deadly force, and I can see how the officer was reckless in his conduct. But I wasn’t there.
Keep him out of future law enforcement type jobs. But going for a Murder conviction was doomed to fail.
Judge’s Findings and Verdict here: https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/stltoday.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/5/7b/57b2d12c-83d8-53a0-ba1f-18b659a7e569/59bbe0a450230.pdf.pdf
Noor is still employed, right?
I haven’t looked for updates in a bit.
He’s still out of jail. His Union boss penned a letter yesterday to the local newspaper defending him, and saying how horrible it was that the Hennepin County DA made comments to citizens at a local meeting that didn’t totally defend the officer.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-15/justine-damond-shooting-union-boss-defends-officer-noor/8948260
The article does not say. I am inferring that he is on leave. So not canned. (And he’d just be reinstated by an arbitrator later if he was, and later found not guilty.)
Just disgusting. I say that a lot with police shootings. Tossing the victim’s house, no doubt to find evidence to besmirch her reputation in the subsequent civil suit, was the icing on the cake.
thats fucking insane. this was one of the clearest cases.
fucking fuck.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-bike-share-update-20170913-story.html
Bike share suspends service in B’more due to rampant thefts.
That is a broken city.
“We don’t have this issue anywhere else, not at this level,” Ayotte said Wednesday. “Our locking system is recognized [as] very, very up to industry standard, but due to the issues that occurred in Baltimore this summer, we did add additional security.”
The bike-share program launched last fall with 200 bicycles at 20 stations and was supposed to grow to 500 bicycles at 50 stations in the spring. Instead, it has suffered so many thefts and maintenance backups that most of the bicycles are out of service. The program will close Sunday and reopen Oct. 15.