Fun links, oh yeah! We have shaken up the batting order here today, so I am pitching in on links this glorious Fall afternoon. Here are some linkseses for you to ponder on the Tree of Woe Joy… consider it a little competition of fun, between media sources:
- Our first entry is from the always reliable NY Post. See idiot punch sharks! Next time try that crap with some Great Whites or Hammerheads.
- Next up the always amusing Daily
MailFail! What did he say? OK, that wasn’t up to their usual standards. Does this one help? OK, not every paper can have a good day, every day. - So, maybe it is cheating to have Infowars provide an entry. The unintentionally amusing “Leave Alex Alone!” entry!
- Reuters chimes in, for our last entry. Clearly this guy is a libertarian!
A very special note: Tune in tonight, at 6PM Central for something NOT fun.
Comments
433 responses to “Thursday Afternoon Links of Fun”
There was no 11am article. I was stuck arguing with Titor in the morning links about how the Hapsburg monarchy is superior to that Hanover white trash royal that he bows before.
Best decided over a drinking contest – English ESB and Zwickl until one of you passes out. Then the other can pose them kneeling before the other’s throne.
Yes, but you’d do the same thing if there was a noon article, just in a different thread, with perhaps some added nonsense about time zones.
Yes, the Mountain Time Zone is nonsense. I agree
Mountain time is the Hanover of time zones.
Ahem. Mountain Time is the white people of time zones.
Tundra’s got it
I think there was a Salon article last week with that very premise.
Newfoundland Time is the white people of time zones.
Mountain Time is how we maintain our uniqueness from the rest of the prog havens. Don’t go dissing it.
That thar is a cripple fight iffin I evar heard o one.
(spits in spittoon, adjusts tricolor badge.)
I think I speak for the rest of the group when I say that watching the romance between you two bloom is nothing short of amazing. Honestly, I haven’t seen sexual tension like this since the brilliant and underrated Moonlighting.
All the best to both of you!
+1 union of royal houses. It’s getting Charlemagne up in here.
lmao.
Which one is Maddie and which one is David?
I think he’s talking about Booger and the ugly/uglier? Shelley Duvall
Alice Beasley
Clearly Burger King is superior to either of your inbred royalty lines!
Dairy Queen FTW.
/Slap!
You call yourselves libertarians arguing over the monarchical families?
/DOUBLE SLAP!
You tell ’em Rufus. You guys don’t sing “God save the Queen” still do you, eh?
Dude. I’m in Quebec.
There’s no different between a Queen Ant or Queen Bee or Queen Elizabeth here.
That’s why she goes to Ottawa where they line the streets waving Canadian flags screaming as if she’s the Fifth Beatle. /said in Apu’s accent.
Oh honh honh hunh *with french accent
“Reuters chimes in, for our last entry. Clearly this guy is a libertarian!”
If this is what is required to be a liberterian, I think I am going to turn in mmy card…
OK, so there wasn’t any weed…or Messicans.
Exactly.
Sri Lankans are brown though, so that practically counts, and ganja comes from India, and Sri lanka is right nearby, so I bet the guy partakes. 😉
Get with the program Alex. Buttgold is the best gold.
You know who else wanted a harem of female astronauts?
Rick Sanchez?
Obviously.
Ming the Merciless?
Best Rocknroll movie ever
With an amazing cast. Max Sydow, Topol, Timothy Dalton, Ornella Muti, BRIAN! BLESSED! Even Robbie Coltraine, though I think if you blinked, you missed him.
I had to look the Coltraine part up. Yeah that was very brief.
But Ornella Muti is permanently seared into the portion of my brain responsible for all sorts of naughty things.
Me?
But not the “drive 24 hours in a diaper, Florida Woman” kinda female astronut.
Quark?
The bad guy (name??) from Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone?
Overdog?
Michael F-ing Ironside!
Me?
No, me.
Y’all are killing it today, gold stars all around.
Where did the gold to make the stars come from?
Other stars.
Uranus.
James T. Kirk?
William Oefelein?
L. Ron Hubbard?
Hugo Drax?
Much better than mine, and pretty much defines the answer.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd?
SpaceSheik?
Tony Nelson?
Jabba the Hutt?
Splend, the many lovered thing?
Carlos Danger?
I think we’re watching velocity. that’s tonight, right?
Sweet, is that on Dish? I wanna watch or tevo if possible.
It’s owned by discovery, as far as I know. I don’t have it, looking for a stream.
Availability
Satellite
DirecTV – Channel 281
Dish Network – Channel 246
Cable
Cox Channel 740
Verizon FiOS Channel 631
Comcast Varies
AT&T Uverse Channel 1104
Thanks.
Too bad I’ve never heard about this channel and certainly don’t have it.
It’s actually really good, if you like cars. My favorite show is Wheeler Dealers
*Edit Fairy Sez “Dat Gud enuf?”*
Oh, lovely edit faerie!
Lovely?!
Oh yeah!
Is it…….is it you?
Sticking a reminder here that tonight at 9 PM on the Velocity Channel is Almanian’s episode of High Performance Throw Down. RIP, my good man.
As DOOMco pointed out right above.
Yours was far more informative.
I don’t think I have that. I assume they’ll put it on the series of tubes at some point.
“Tune in tonight, at 6PM Central for something NOT fun”
What’s this all about?
You will see. It made me… unhappy.
A blatant violation of neutrality?
The swiss guards lost the vatican contract?
holey cheese has been banned in Il?
Those are pretty bad, Rick.
This is too.
Packers and Bears trying to outkneel one another?
The report claims that all-female crews would be the best option, as women work better as a team, and are less likely than men to fight over who is the leader.
Until their cycles sync up and it turns into both a figurative and literal “blood bath”.
different form of “shrinkage”
So it’s just going to be a bunch of scissoring? I think I’ve seen this movie.
Space Scissoring II – Orbital Lovin’
The inevitable weightless underwear-clad pillowfights would sell well back home too.
The number of lesbians in military organizations tend to be a few standard deviations over those of the general public(k).
Not sure if that would be a plus or minus.
Wood watch on NASA channel, though.
I really wish they would settle on one narrative. Are men and women exactly the same except for who gets pregnant and all differences are cultural, or are women just better than those aggressive stupid men. Pick one! They cannot both be true.
You fool, men can get pregnant, and women can have dicks.
So, so sexists.
But not balls, right?
An acquaintance recently told me “there are boys with periods. It isn’t a gendered thing”.
Say wuht?
+ Boys Don’t Cry
?
This matches with approximately 0 of my life experience.
Appoint one guy as the leader of the mission, unless he just fucks up royally 95% guys will just recognize his authority.
Women on the other hand are still gonna form cliques and be sniping at each others position within the pack
Women make better teams, less likely than men to fight over who is the leader.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sure they are. We will be lucky if one makes it back alive.
Ripley did
That is cause the original mission was just a routine shipping job where they were supposed to be in cryosleep for the bulk of the trip and in the second one there was only 2 other women one of which died like 10 seconds into the movie and the other was a trained marine taking orders from her (male) chain of command (who in turn were taking orders from Ripley for about half the movie)
Make Cpl Hicks a woman though and they all would have been Xenomorph chow.
MarketWatch ran a story stating the Trump administration was forcing PR evacuees to pay for their rescues. The Hill, Politico and possibly others picker it up and ran. One small problem.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/28/1702429/-Trump-requiring-Puerto-Rico-evacuees-to-pay-transportation-costs
lol, the hill is such scumbags
the link text still reads: “thehill.com/homenews/administration/352824-trump-administration-forcing-puerto-rico-evacuees-to-pay-for?rnd=1506622907”
but the story headline is now, “state department denies that Puerto Ricans being forced to pay”
basically – not issuing a correction, but re-writing the story as though the denial was to *someone else’s accusation* rather than their own.
Journalism is our country is a disgrace.
At TOS, about the time the first JournoList scandal was breaking, the commenter Citizen Nothing wrote of when he worked as an editor in a medium city newspaper, and how such a think would have been handled in his day. Basically, Weigel, et al, would have had their shit in a box on their desk. If they were lucky, the paper would have waited until the end of the day. (Whatever happened to Citizen Nothing, anyway? He had interesting, well-thought out and defended opinions.)
As we saw, far from killing David Weigel and others who were involved’s careers, it enhanced them. An Iron Law seems apropos.
Now they are the editors responsible for producing journalism.
Ace o’ Spades used to have a recurring bit called The Deciders, name taken from a haughty quote from an editor at the Seattle Times (I think) about how things were only newsworthy if he decided that they were.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEwlW5sHQ4Q" title="
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*EDIT FERRY CANNOT HELP*
*sad walk*
???
That was so fucked up i don’ think my name should be associated with it.
I can own this type.
“UltraSF”
Is that where the vaginas have mini vaginas with teeth?
No primal horrors, bm.
I thought you were horrified by all vaginas.
That’s silly, although I was born c-section, so I’m THAT good at avoiding vaginas. I’m more disinterested by them than horrified by them.
The post is DOOMED!
It could not be saved.
When Gilmore distances himself from your fuckup, that’s serious.
the link works. *shrug*
let’s just try again. for fun.
for fun.
But not profit?
That’s step 3. We have figure out step 2. ???? first.
Wait, I can monetize comments here?
Sure. Just read thew comments while you should be working.
I have to say, I’m loving the edit ferry/edit fairy thing.
Don’t forget about edit Ferry; he made at least one appearance. Hopefully this will lead to the appearance of edit Phair, edit Perry, or edit Piaf.
From the very credible, completely unbiased Google News feed (or at least it’s good for finding out what the trendy narrative is):
NEW STUDY: “UNUSUAL STRUCTURES” ON FAR SIDE OF THE MOON COULD HAVE BEEN MADE BY EXTRATERRESTRIALS
“More Leftist nonsense from Google”
– Sean Hannity
The “could” makes that assertion rock freaking solid.
+1 Monolith (moonolith)
That would be a CNN headline
Moon Nazis
These guys?
No, these guys.
Make it Lesbian Moon Nazis.
I’d watch that movie.
Is it a black rectangle?
When theses guys stare at the same photos for so long they just start seeing things they want to right?
The only thing the Society For Planetary SETI Research (SPSR) and real astronauts have in common is drinking their own urine.
It’s the stage prop from Transformers.
Next time try that crap with some Great Whites or Hammerheads.
I think punching a bull shark would be worse. I think they hold the record for attacking people.
So, I made the call last night and I’ll do it again and probably a few more times:
I want to arrange a Kentucky meetup for us glibs in the Bluegrass. I’m based in and pretty much restricted to Lexington (Sorry Robc, I’ll getcha next time).
I’m thinking Friday October 6th. At one of the breweries, (probably ethereal.)
I’m on the Glib discord, if you want to chat more about it, or comment here and let me know.
Probably a little further than I want to DUI.
You don’t have to drink, ya know
(I couldn’t even get through that without laughing)
Home is where you pass out.
If any of them are Louisville fans, it can function as a sort of wake, as well.
Im tied to Bowling Green like Rob. But i get to lexington on occasion. But cant on the 6th.
Are there any open mic comedy clubs in Lexington? I could probably make a point to go up sometime, do a set, and then go to glib meetup.
TW: Long article, but actually pretty interesting.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200601/lust-the-long-haul?collection=97580
Huh, it’s just this close to something
TW: da Root
http://www.theroot.com/russia-s-recent-facebook-ads-prove-the-kremlin-never-lo-1818877990
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/913396748890013696
Iowa Hawk repeats my argument about why state income tax exemptions should be done away with
And just for the record, I am not completely against the idea.
But calling the current setup “subsidies” is simply wrong. It ain’t income if you never got the money.
I can see your opposition to the term ‘subsidy’. That term is thrown about very loosely lately
If your child likes Thomas the Train then he is PROBLEMATIC.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-repressive-authoritarian-soul-of-thomas-the-tank-engine-and-friends
tbf, Thomas the Tank Engine is *really* fucked up.
Sure is
now with spongbob
Sir Topemhat could kick your ass
hah….my son loved Thomas the Tank Engine, but it could be a very odd show. There’s a fine line between a show encouraging a solid work ethic in children and a show promoting a Stakhanovite cult.
“one Tumblr thread holds that Thomas and friends have other motivations. The show “canonically takes place in a train post-apocalypse where the Island of Sodor is the only safe zone in a totalitarian dystopia in which steam trains are routinely killed and their body parts are sold or cannibalized for repair,” a Tumblr user named frog-and-toad-are-friends argues”
*Facepalm*
Ok, admittedly it was a screwed up show, but this guy stumbled upon the equivalent of the Pixar Timeline Theory and didn’t seem to realize it was a joke. I’d ask how dense you can be, but I still remember Tingles wondering at North Korean architecture.
IOW, John Elway (a known conservative Republican) called down from his throne and said “If any of you value your job, you’ll stop this juvenile bullshit.”
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/09/28/broncos-stand-national-anthem-vs-raiders/
Guess the TV ratings and season tickets renewals haven’t been going as well as ESPN claims.
Is it true that for the last game, ESPN or NFLN had the balls to count streaming as part of the audience when reporting ratings?
Go Broncos is a religion and the Pope said Nope.
Everyone knows Trump hates brown people, and brown people hate Trump: Ergo, Bad Weather Means Florida May be Tipped To Dems By Puerto Rican Migrants
Someone else forwarded this to me after a long discussion where i tried to explain to them that latino-birth-rates are not indicative of a future left-wing hegemony
I wanted to suggest that its classic leftist racism to pretend that brown people vote blue because they’re brown… but its just a waste to go there. racism accusations are their thing.
All brown people vote democrat. Any PoC who don’t are not real brown people and have sold out to whiteness /theRoot
Brown people aren’t allowed to leave the plantation.
Ah, a Puerto Rico player after my own taste!
Someone else forwarded this to me after a long discussion where i tried to explain to them that latino-birth-rates are not indicative of a future left-wing hegemony
Even granting the wrong-headed assumption that non-white people inevitably vote left, there’s the fact that ~50% of American Hispanics identify as “white” and 75% of Puerto Ricans do too, so the presumed coming race-based left-wing hegemony theory has a lot of holes in it.
Hispanics are the white people of brown people.
Thats… literally true (in some cases).
Just a reminder: a smattering of LA folks will be meeting up for drinks Friday evening downtown. Looking at The Redwood Bar with people filtering in after 7 because nobody wants to drive in DTLA on a Friday any earlier than that.
316 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
I’ll be the one with the beard, holding a crepe and flipping furiously through Atlas Shrugged looking for the end of Galt’s speech.
It doesn’t end though…
I always thought that was a tortilla.
It’s obviously a potato pancake.
A beer batter potato pancake?
I mean I’ve had some boxty that was nearly crepe-like…I’ll accept this…for now.
So, expect about 150 pizzas ordered in the name Jesse to show up at that address. Fair warning.
I tend not to respond to that name IRL, I’ve been going by Haywood D’Jabohmi since I was 9.
He also answers “yes!” to any man who calls him by that name.
Hurtful!
Not untrue, but still.
Deep dish!
Dish’n it deep and sell’n it cheap!
Jonathan Mardukas:
What’s the name of this establishment?
Red Wood:
Red’s Corner Bar.
Jonathan Mardukas:
Are you Red?
Red Wood:
Yes.
Jonathan Mardukas:
Do you dye your hair?
Red Wood:
No.
Jonathan Mardukas:
Why do they call you Red?
Red Wood:
It’s short for Redwood. My last name’s Wood.
Jonathan Mardukas:
What’s your first name?
Red Wood:
Bill.
Lions player claims kneeling cost his father chance at job.
Is it wrong to laugh?
nope
Depends how you laugh….
Glibly.
Duh.
*opera applause*
If only your father had a family member making millions of dollars who could help him out in tough times.
For crying out loud……I’m ok with violent protests if they would just stop saying “peaceful” every time they say “protest”
Now that I’m reading the article, his father lives in Navarre, FL – so yeah, I do believe this one. Navarre is like 90% military, both active duty and retired – it’s right near Eglin AFB, which is enormous, and there are a bunch of other bases in the area too….NAS Pensacola, NAS Corry Station, NAS Whiting Field, Hurlburt Field, Tyndall AFB. One of the most Republican places on earth not in Oklahoma.
violent protests
Do they shoot people after kneeling?
I think NKVD found it effective.
So a man disrespects the symbols of his country and then gets upset when people disrespect him? I guess it’s not entirely fair in this instance since it was the guy’s father who lost business, not the guy himself, but I can see people looking askance at the father for not distancing himself from the actions of his son, whom he presumably raised.
Jesus Christ, people, don’t involve family in culture wars! It’s like shooting hostages for what guerillas did!
The contractor is an asshole.
The new rules sure do suck.
So, my kid attends a small, private parochial school. They, of course, changed one of the teacher’s contracts a year or two ago to make her the “social justice coordinator.” About once a month, the social justice coordinator hosts an after-school roundtable to inculcate the parents in the latest in neo-Marxist clap-trap on a particular pressing issue (at least I assume; I’ve never been to one). I have no idea what other tasks fall under the purview of the social justice coordinator. Today I drop my kid off at school and a flier is posted indicating that the topic for the next roundtable will be “Intersection between Capitalism and White Supremacy” (or somesuch), with a picture of that Nazi tiki torch rally in Charlottesville. I’ve let these things slide in the past, because I don’t really care, but this one piqued my interest.
Oh, and this is a K-8 school.
Time for a chat with the principal. Paying customer and all that.
It’ll get a mention. “You know this is idiotic, right?” Unless I attend the roundtable and the presentation goes something like: “The link between capitalism and white supremacy. There isn’t one. Any questions?” (I won’t be placing a lot of hope in that outcome)
My wife and I got into a heated discussion about where we would send our children to school. She’s all about public education, but if I can afford it, I would rather send my children to a Catholic private school (despite being a Protestant) because at least I know they wouldn’t be indoctrinated by some SJW teacher along with being provided with a quality education.
I wouldn’t bet the house on that one. Plenty of Catholic schools are very proggy.
This is a Catholic school?
Episcopal. It’s very light on actual religion.
Thats horrifying, how are the public schools?
Horrifyinger.
My condolences.
I wouldn’t leave my kid in there.
My daughter just started her private school. Watching them.
With binoculars.
I have to protect my kid from SJW yahoo-losers.
Hey, there’s a creepy muppet watching the children from the car!
THIS IS HOW YOU GET PUT ON A LIST, RUFUS.
*polite applause*
What’s one more list, anyway?
You borrowed binoculars from OMWC?
No. I borrowed his underwear.
That escalated quickly
This is a private school? Why are you paying for this?
The school is actually quite fantastic, and the kid is learning a lot, overcoming quite well what were thought to be learning disorders. The kid likes it, too (how I ever had a kid that likes school is beyond me). I figure I can tolerate one fly in the ointment. I think I’ll attend one or more of these roundtable things to get a sense of whether it is leaking into the classroom. Not much evidence of that yet.
“The kid likes it, too”
First sign they’re doing a shitty job.
Ha!
‘What did you do today?’
‘We watched Scooby-Doo!!!’
I would have probably gotten out of my car and went straight for the principal’s office and went apeshit….which would have made the situation worst. I think the best thing to do is go to the round table and listen to what they have to say. Chances are, there are other parents that probably think that this is also bullshit.
And also, why are Episcopalians some of the biggest utilitarians out there?
Because they formed their religion on compromising Catholicism to a king’s wish for a son?
That’s pretty much my plan (attend the round table and perhaps politely object, not go apeshit).
I’d rain down fire and brimstone, but that’s me and maybe not always the best course.
Perhaps bringing a few photos with you to the meet that display some of Stalin and Mao’s worse atrocities would be both appropriate and polite? Demand to know why anyone advocating the evil perpetuated in these photographs are allowed to be affiliated with school? Does the school now condone the actions in these images?
I think that’s a fair counter if they using tiki-torch pictures.
Bringing up the Ukrainian famine tends to make for an awkward response.
They meant well.
For added fun, try mentioning that Stalin’s response to the reports of the famine was to declare that the Ukrainians who were starving to death was to say that they hated socialism so much that they were intentionally letting their families starve.
I’d raise Holy Hell. If they choose not to cooperate with a paying customer, make certain the entire extended community knows their politics.
One of the few half decent players on my pathetic Rapids hangs ’em up.
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/kevin-doyle-retires-from-football-on-medical-advice-1.3237457
The LARPing continues.
https://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/the-lefts-answer-to-emboldened-white-supremacists-a-militia-of-their-own/Content?oid=7441640
Boo to the chick for her shitty trigger discipline.
Linked in the article and mildly amusing.
https://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/a-guide-to-identifying-the-people-at-political-rallies/Slideshow/7460091/7460092
hahaha “This is only her second time shooting, after all.”
how long until one of them ND’s into their own foot and/or another person?
I’m sure the white supremacists are real scared….all 50 of them
good catch
Damn, get em.
Also from comments:
“The left already has their violent militia – the KKK. That worked out well for them, didn’t it?”
Aston Martin Has Unveiled a $4 Million Submarine
“No Mr. Bond, I want you to DROWN!”
Unless it sinks to crush depth first after the controls mysteriously stop working out of nowhere.
Putting British electronics around water seems… brave.
Q: Do you know why British cars are so fast?
A: They have to get home before dark.
Do you know why the Brits don’t make computers?
They can’t figure out how to make them leak oil.
I’ll have you know that leaking oil is an excellent rust preventative.
3.5 mph. I’ll just hire Phelps to tow me around.
The perfect setting for a murder.
For you evil gun people – Sig is having quite the magazine sale on their internet site.
A good story by Buzzfeed News (i know, right?)
its about how a Cornell Scientist (Psychologist?) raked in lots of research grants and helped get federal funding for Cornell’s own “Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs (the BEN Center)”….
…but how his research, once scrutinized by peers, turned out to be loads of flaming incompetent faked horseshit.
The author does a good job with the basic reporting.
What they failed to connect the dots on is how “Science” (loosely defined to include this sort of bullshit brand-psychology+behaviorism stuff) basically ‘chases funding’, and does studies DESIGNED TO DELIVER THE SORT OF ANSWERS WHICH WILL GET PROGRAMS FUNDED
iow, the real story shouldn’t be about how the prof’s research is bullshit (it is), it should be about how whenever govt decides that money could be thrown in a certain direction (e.g. “The Smarter Lunchrooms Movement”), someone, somewhere will produce a study validating that spending concept, and (surprise!) the same institutions will often end up being recipients of that spending.
Its a fucking scam, and an obvious one at that…. And its hugely prominent in anything to do with Govt “nanny” programs… but the writer sort of blithely skips past it.
Tonight I’m taking a knee to protest my neighbour who washes his black car in the dark.
Weirdo.
That’s quite a euphemism.
Perhaps he can’t do it during the day because he’s AT WORK.
Yeh because his car is soooo fucken dirty and he’s such a keener he has to wash it at night. Who sees in the dark anyway?
Plus, he has a really good, flexible schedule. He’s around.
HEY. DO ANY OF YOU WORK?!
Who sees in the dark anyway?
English anti-aircraft gunners?
*munches on carrot thoughtfully*
YOU PEOPLE HAVE ANSWERS TO EVERYTHING, EH?!
Carrot, huh? You’re Steven Seagal now?
BLACK (CLEAN) CARS MATTER!
Sticking a reminder here that tonight at 9 PM on the Velocity Channel is Almanian’s episode of High Performance Throw Down.
I had no idea. Now I wish I knew somebody who gets velocity.
sad
Trying to get my brothers direcTV info…
Blue ribbon retardation from this guy.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/27/chelsea-manning-inspired-communist-west-point-graduate-to-infiltrate-the-military/
The only way this makes sense is if he’s trying to become a martyr; successful “infiltration” implies not advertising your Communist sympathies.
Sounds like treason
Your responsive formatting scales beautifully today, Mr. Mulatto.
Not gonna click it. Wouldn’t be prudent.
You should click the link HM sent in response to me above. Comment #37.
Saying someone should click a HM link is saying someone should play in traffic. It might be just fine but it might be really, really bad.
I clicked it and lived. Though I hope Ted isn’t at work.
Aint that illegal?
So, I’m sitting in a campus meeting listening to our new chancellor say the following, “the evidence is absolutely iron clad that a college degree is worth at least $1 million over a life time.”
And, he’s horrified, shocked, that people are questioning the value of a college degree. Well, my vague respect for him went down quite a few basis points.
Before or after you figure in the total cost of the degree versus productive earnings?
That’s usually the point I make but most academics are completely incapable of thinking critically about anything other than their fields of expertise.
Doesn’t matter, it was always a lie based on aggregate income of college grads vs non college grads. When you actually start looking into the data what it really says is that a degree in Chemical Engineering or IT or Medicine were worth well more than an extra million in lifetime earnings.
However degrees in adjective studies, not so much. Sure they might barely be worth more than not getting a degree at all but probably not after factoring in the cost of the education and especially not if you actually had to take out loans to pay for it.
Yeah, a lot people would probably be better off learning to become electricians or plumbers and just reading books in their spare time while they roll around in a pile of cash.
I’m still trying to decide if I want to get a degree in IT/Business or just say screw it and use the money to start a business.
He just forgot the “some” before “college degree(s)”.
honest mistake, I’m sure.
Of course, his background is medical research so his experience is skewed.
The Engineering degrees are subsidizing the Lesbian Studies degrees.
Depends on how you look at it. From the viewpoint of the university it’s the other way around. STEM programs are expensive because they require a lot of equipment, special facilities, etc. and the enrollment within the programs are relatively low. Compare this to the humanities, which can be placed in any old room, require books, and there are metric shitloads of History and English majors every year.
STE maybe, but not the M.
My math classes needed nothing more than a room with a chalkboard. One class, we had a piano in the room and the chalkboard had musical staves on it but that was just because we were in the Fine Arts building.
I always heard the “M” as “Medicine.” But, yes, math is pretty low cost.
Really? I’ve never heard that before.
Also, the eng. departments can’t be doing that bad financially. There are always lots of fellowships available. I think the funding side is good because the research is actually valuable to someone. Just my experience.
Which set of alumni contribute more money back to the school? STEM or the humanities folks? Also, which set of students, and grad students, bring in more government money to the U?
(I don’t know the answer; I just want to point out another revenue stream.)
Um, no. My T degree had lots of additional lab fees for that expensive equipment.
My grad school investigator (STEM) frequently complained that the university made her give up half of her awarded grant money to the liberal arts programs to subsidize them.
On the other hand, this woman was an evil bitch and one of the worst human beings I have ever met. I could easily believe she was lying about this.
No, I’ve heard it before from professors. I don’t know that it actually goes to other departments, but half of grant money gets sent to the school’s admin, what they do with it after I don’t know. Probably pay all their inclusion and diversity staff.
Well I mean sure, if you include outliers like Warren Buffet and Donald Trump in the average, and if you ignore the selection bias of people wanting to accomplish more seeing college as the best route, and if you don’t include the costs and debts of getting a degree, and if you lump in all degrees from mechanical engineering to gender studies as if they’re worth the same…
It reminds me of the story I heard in High School where UNC calculated the average salary of their graduates by their major and the highest was something like Exercise Science, or whatever Michael Jordan got his degree in. He alone skewed the statistics enough to put his major on top.
Communications
I was making $40k without my degree and now I’m making $50k with a masters degree 10 years later.
So my single data point is telling him to fuck right off.
Some of those girls who are ‘working their way through college’ but don’t graduatle can make a helluva lotta money, too
+1 MRS Degree.
Or alternately, “I support single moms…one dollar at a time.“
I not a scientist, but it seems that your thoughts and prayers may have worked. Mom is out of the hospital. We both feel much better that she isn’t going to spend another night there. The cardiologist and neurologist each seemed very competent and agreed on what medications she should take going forward. Hopefully, it will prevent another stroke. Thanks again to everyone for your support.
Excellent news. Give her a hug from the gang!
Yea!!!
That is fantastic news! Congratulations and I hope she makes it successfully the rest of the way.
Very good news!
Good to hear.
My mom just went through her own round of hospitalization / therapy, but she looks to be on the mend.
Good news!
Congrats!
Just a Good Old Boy…. Never Meaning No Harm….
“”A police report says Wopat allegedly hit the girl’s buttocks with his script, saying “nice butt.””
Wopat has pleaded not guilty to groping the woman.
Doesn’t groping require actual hand to buttock contact?
Not anymore, apparently.
That’s just a little bit more than the law will allow.
He should have taken Trump’s advice and gone for the other side
Cooter always did have his back
The mountain will be the final judge
So, I’m sitting in a campus meeting listening to our new chancellor say the following, “the evidence is absolutely iron clad that a college degree is worth at least $1 million over a life time.”
And then you all had a good laugh, right?
RIGHT?
I rolled my eyes and swore under my breath.
While everyone in the media is busy with knee-taking, Trump tapped Willett.
I always thought his tastes were more… female… and young… and attractive.
If the cheerleaders take two knees I may watch.
Just so you all know…I’m kneeling at this moment.
Kneeling about all your comments.
And expensive onions.
*unzips*
Since you’re down there…
/raises fist….?
Hey now, we don’t know each other THAT well.
“…awesome blossom. Extra Awesome.”
Don’t feel bad, Rufus, lots of people cry over onions.
Everything is so damn expensive now.
Head of cauliflower $3.99! I was so angry I started throwing them at cars – while kneeling. Ended up costing me $43.89.
You can kneel in front of me whenever you want, Rufus.
How much are you paying for onions? Is this in Canuckistan?
/slap!
PLAY ALONG.
Trsh’s video again.
First minute is gold, then at 2:40 it was hilarious…
What made you post this, btw?
Was going through my old liked videos. I still enjoy it.
3:09 was perfect.
That was the shit. Three thumbs up.
“The Jacket will save us”—I had to pause the video so I could laugh without missing anything.
Ok, she’s exotic and good looking and used to be a porn star. But, why are all of these lame-o clickbait outlets obsessed with her?
http://archive.is/rtFFH
(Says the guy who fell for the clickbait)
Yeh. It’s not like she took part in a Czech gangbang.
Cause she’s a woke mooselim and so brave for taking literal tons of enlightened multicultural dick.
She comes from a Lebanese Catholic upbringing.
KNOW YOUR PORN!
I’ll never be quicker than HM when it comes to porn.
I’m not sure if I should take that as a complement or an insult.
Fuck.. I clicked at work. You win this round.
How is that even allowed on there? Jesus.
Then explain THIS!
Checkmate.
I heard she got a lot of death threats for that stuff from various members of the religion of peace. I believe it.
The funny thing is, shes actually a christian, or at least from a christian family, iirc.
I like her bobs and vagene.
What about her butuk?
I have to say, I’m sad she left the industry. The world needs more hijab porn.
I hope this year’s Clemson D line gets a chance to ruin Baker Mayfield’s postseason.
Given the subject matter, my mind was going in a totally different direction.
Clara Bow would approve.
Supreme Court to hear major challenge to public-sector unions
I know whining about TOS is lame, but i think i’ve seen 6 stories so far on the “Kneeling” bullshit over there, and maybe – maybe – 1 about this. Which i’d probably overlooked for its lack of apparent importance.
priorities
It’s huge news and potentially a game changer in state level politics.
It would break the back of the democrat party and provoke a tidal wave of craziness the likes we’ve not seen since the early 20th century.
which is why i suspect Roberts will do everything possible to leave it alone.
Ugh, you’re probably right about Roberts. I try to forget he exists.
If so, he would likely be reversing himself. The expectation based on the oral arguments of the case in 2016 was that Kagan, Ginsberg, Sotomayor, and Breyer voted in favor of the unions, with Roberts, Thomas, Alito, and Kennedy voted for the plaintiff.
Which is why we should be glad that the media is focused instead on the scurrying red dot that is the kneeling controversy. Per the comments about Roberts, does anyone think our judiciary has the sand to stand up in the face of anonymous threats to their safety or, worse, not being invited anymore to the right sorts of parties?
First defund the PubSec Unions. Then get rid of them. One of the few things I find myself agreeing with FDR about.
Thomas does. That’s a man who doesn’t give a shit what anyone thinks.
Speaking of a major victory in the Culture War, did you hear that the AfAm museum finally gave an exhibit to him? That must’ve been painful to do.
I looked that up. The very first “Top Story” and 5th result was this.
Top comment:
I just don;t see where 1A comes into it. If withholding money is a form of free expression, why was Al Capone not set free?
It’s not tax, it’s a forced contribution to a labor organization which engages in political advocacy. The guy’s not trying to get out of paying taxes, he’s trying to get out of paying for somebody else’s political expression.
They are forcing him to fund speech. The money withheld from him pays union thugs specifically to bargain with his employer advancing a particular position.
It is wildly unconstitutional but as Gilmore points out Roberts will twist himself into a pretzel to justify keeping it. Roberts is a flaming prog, i.e. a pinko.
If the unions fail here the howling and screaming will be epic. Don’t expect the unions to dick around like antifa, they will take to the streets with full blown violence and the likes of Schumer and Pelosi will openly be egging them on.
Does this one help?
Lesbians in space!!!
Is that anything like Jews in Space?
(((Ferengi)))?
What, no youtube link? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cy9HeM8QQc
The Muppet Show already did Pigs in Space, EAP.
Rugmunching (((Pigs))) on their synchronized periods in space.
Portia hardest hit
Scene opens in the cockpit of the Millenium Falcon:
Radio: :siren: Your vessel has been detained in a tractor beam for speeding. You were clocked on sensors completing the kessel run in under 12 parsecs prepare to be boarded
Han: Stay Here Chewie, I got this.
Switch to Han standing in a corridor as an entry hatch opens and a Blue Stormtrooper walks in.
Stormtrooper: I’m going to need to see your license and registration sir
Han: Er right, see here is the thing officer, I got jumped but a couple of Gungan Rastas at my last port and they stole my wallet and if I don’t hurry make it to Tattooine fast there is gonna be a price on my head. but the rest of my documents are right here in this bag if that will helps speed things along :hands bag to Trooper:
Trooper looks in bag, camera see’s over top of it a large pile of credits.
Trooper: Hmm everything looks in order here I think I can let you off with a warning.
Trooper pulls out a notepad and starts writing something
Chewie is heard off stage
Trooper: Oh god is that a dog :draws weapon and begins wild panic fire: He’s coming right at me stop resisting stop resisting
Shoots trooper
Han: Dammit Chewie I told you to stay in the cockpit you know the Imperial Space Patrol troopers are real jumpy when they see fur.
Got a chuckle out of me.
Ever have a day where you just don’t want to do anything? I’m sitting here at work and I’m just not in a working mood. I feel bad about doing nothing but I’m just not feeling it today.
for you
Isn’t this like asking alcoholics if you should have another drink?
DOES ANYONE EVEN WORK!??!
or this.
That’s about every day for me right before the end of the month. I don’t have shit to do, so I don’t do shit.
I have shit to do, but I have questions and the people that can answer them are busy. There are a few things I can do, but I am just in a depressed mood today and my meter is firmly on fuck it.
I see. Have you considered
accepting Jesus Christ as your lord and saviordrinkingcalling Caswell’s and booking a lane?I have had that same experience. Usually happens Monday through Friday.
I mentioned in the previous thread that I’ve got vacation time today and tomorrow.
I watched two movies off my DVR.
I know Razorfist covered this in a video, but it’s worth looking at the game “journalist” embarrassing himself in epic fashion at how unbelievably shitty he is at this game. This would be like a firearms journalist not knowing the difference between bolt-action and lever-action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=848Y1Uu5Htk
The Polygon DOOM video still makes me laugh.
I looked that up, chuckled and then realized this would be me if you gave me the PS4 version of an FPS I never played and told me “go get them”.
Good point. I hate controllers with a passion for this reason.
That reminds me of the Rick & Morty where Jerry tries to remove 2 strokes off his golf score.
That…I…what did I just watch?
I get not being amazing at all type of video games. A guy who is a god of fps games might not be so good at 4x games. But that …the game literally you how to get over the first obstacle and it took him over 12 tries and 90 seconds to do it. That’s not just sucking at video games, that’s lacking basic reading comprehension and problem solving.
Well, that’s my gym time, is this NOT funner than gym time?
I’m-a link to this Patricia Arquette Tweet again, because it really fucking bugs me, on many levels.
This nonsense about Trump not helping Puerto Rico is about as fake as news can get. Even the Puerto Rican Governor said he’s happy with what Trump has done.
I only know of PR corruption from The Media, but his endorsement would make me think there’s something to all reports.
Is Trump so embarrassingly un-horrible that these people are just making stuff up now?
I mentioned this in another thread but NPR tried to do a hit piece on Trump with the governor, and he didn’t play along. The reporter was very frustrated.
NPR has dropped the mask lately. It must have something to do with all of the 23 year old females with speech impediment that they have hired.
I’m glad I’m not the only one to have noticed. It is like a whole new level of wokeness.
The vocal fry and upspeak aggravates me to the point of rage.
I had to look up vocal fry. WTF is that? Deliberately wanting to sound like a retard?
I had to look it up, too, and dear God that is irritating.
As a side note, every girl I’ve ever known from Bellevue, WA talks like that. I always called it “the Bellevue voice” because I didn’t know it had an actual name.
Only tangentially related, but Katie Couric was interviewing the mother of the first soldier killed in Iraq, Part Deux, and Couric said: “But you do think he died for a worthy cause, right?” (something along those lines), and the mother just said “No”, with some very seriously attitude in the face area. It was pretty awesome watching ol’ Katie squirm.
Katie Couric is such a shit stain.
Is she still hot? i hope she’s still hot. Which is the one from True Romance?
ouch. “When imagination meets reality” (sound of shattering glass)
Also, she seems to think Hillary is actually the president. That’s sort of sad.
Was she ever hot? She always struck me as one of those girls in college that participated in topless protests. I’m not going to not look but somehow knowing what they look like ruins it.
I think Patty A. was superhot in True Romance (and other films of that period), but that’s me.
(i even liked her prominent canines; i’ve always thought that’s kind of hot in sub-Jewel-sized doses)
I saw it before… what is the point? Is this the fantasy land where Hilldawg is president?
Hilary is like the appointed anti-pope.
That, plus implying that these very same people from the photo she posted aren’t already there, working their asses off. In fact, the Air Mobility Command themselves Tweeted photos of them working.
Catholics pray to Virgin Mary for intercession, middle age woke white women have Hilary Clinton.
The Arquettes are a special kind of dumb. They were brought up in a quasi-cult hippie commune in the Shenandoah Valley.
https://t.co/NpMZgRAkTE
Sure, Illinois is broke, but why not have them fund everyone’s abortion.
“Libertarian moment!”
– ENB
Forget is man, it’s Illinois.
Christ, I thought Rauner was a good guy.
Sounds like a good argument for socialized medicine to me.
Also full on communism.
It’s not fair that I’m forced to not have a pony based purely on my income!
A woman should not be forced to not buy a yacht just because she doesn’t have money!
Just a bunch of PR virtue signalling to Chicagoans. Again, here’s his electoral victory map from 4 years ago. He won by just 4% and won every damn county in Illinois…except one.
I could understand that, but it seems like those people are going to be against you regardless. Better to play to your base I would think.
Val Kilmer hardest hit
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/09/28/athena-laser-weapon-kills-5-outlaws.html
Reminder: Rand Paul had to filibuster to finally get a President on the record that he wouldn’t use drones against Americans on American soil.
That guy? He’s just a closet commie who joins up with Fauxahontas to keep the welfare flowing to his bumpkin state. I mean he didn’t even vote for the socialist lite healthcare bill!
/Ken Schultz
Blocking the swamp’s G-C bill was the best thing to happen to Obamacare repeal, because the playing field stays the way it should be. Dems continue to get the full brunt of the deserved scorn as ACA collapses, and true conservatives primary out some of the loser RINOs and take control of the House and Senate by next year.
^This guy gets it. My simpleton take is he’s the one republicans senator principled enough to follow through on what he campaigned on.
Also, I don’t usually like to engage in the snark up above but Ken’s defense of our intervention in Libya in the AM links triggered me a bit. How a self described libertarian can defend that (sans any evidence) has me a little worked up.
That’s not the true Athena.
Really? That’s the plan?
http://nypost.com/2017/09/27/democrats-best-hope-for-2020-oprah/
If she doesn’t win in 2020, expect a trans otherkin Hispanic in 2024.
Oprah already said that she doesn’t want to be president. IMO, she is the only person on Team Blue that can actually beat Trump, because she’s the only billionaire that every single leftist has to love. She also has enough of a blank slate to get the Bernie wing and the intersectional wing to unite their votes as long as she says the right stuff.
First order of business….the DNC is now the colour purple.
Think how awesome debates would be. Maybe even better than my Trump-Biden dream!
Also, at least it’d be a candidate who accomplished something.
Didn’t you hear? Hilldawg was the most accomplished candidate in history.
Doesn’t Oprah become President in 2020 in that MLK Jr. episode of Boondocks?
If this starts a trend of non-career politician Presidents, I’m all for it.
If non-career politician leads to single-payer, then no thank you. I want good, liberty-friendly candidates no matter where they come from!
And I want to win Powerball.
How many days does someone have to work in a cube farm to learn to put their goddamn cell phone on vibrate? This seems very intuitive.
Or they just want to share their songs with everyone else. Before cell phones, phones ringing in cubes was completely normal. Sucks even more in an open plan office or open pods.
Classic power move. They’re trying to assert their dominance over the other cube dwellers.
Not unless the ring tone was a dark barking or an animal shredding another animal to death.
Sounds like it’s time for you to have a loud, graphic conversation with your doctor about your various venereal disease(s).
Were they at least there to pick their phone up? We get that one all the time.
And don’t get me started on the printer behind me, if some fucker forgets to log out it will beep all goddamn day long.
We have to have our phones off.
I’m sitting in the hospital waiting room, and my dad has FINALLY been taken to the OR. He had an appt time of 1030 this morning. So now the wait of two to four hours starts. If all goes well, he’ll get a new heartvalve intrvenuously, which is a much easier procedure and recovery than the old days, but of course they made him sign all the ways it can go horribly wrong. Bored and anxious is just the worst.
Wishing you and your pops the best. Sounds like a miracle-level procedure.
Wishing the best.
Good luck.
Wow, prayers and hopes that all is routine.
My SIL just got scammed or hacked on FB. Shes in the middle of a divorce. I feel like these people either target those who are down or else such people just gravitate towards these scams. Same thing happened to my dad when he lost his job and couldn’t find work for a few years. Fucking disgusting.
Though I will give props to the product line name.
I know a girl who sells Pure Romance. They have sex toy parties. It’s terrifying. It’s like a Tupperware party with dildos.
The Man With The Gold Crown
I am working on the 007 screen play now. All I needed was inspiration.
POPE JIMBO, TUNDRA and MIKE: Sorry I couldn’t make the Glibs meet-up in Plymouth. Sold my car recently to pay for penis reduction surgery– and Plymouth is a-ways out there. Hope you have fun. Let me know if you get together again closer to South MPLS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgxACD-rL5c
(I kid!)
You were missed. I tried to pour out a pounder of Old Milwaukee in your honor, but the Pope dropped to the floor and got under the pour.
Best of luck with your smaller penis.
Crowder’s live show tonight is gonna be about an antifa infiltration. Apparently a few minutes late right now.
I tuned in and it’s Crowder showing off his pixelated dong sitting next to Ben Shapiro in a bathrobe. OK.