Good news, everyone! The fence people showed up today. By this weekend, I’ll be able to skinny dip again without all of those complaints. My lawyer got the charges dropped, but the prosecutor said that if my neighbors with the young kids had been home, it would be the sex offender list for life. Separately, fuck those bums on the US Commie Football Team. If a single one of them had played with an ounce of heart in the qualifying tournament, instead of assuming their inclusion as a foregone conclusion, they’d be in today. Bums. This is how you play football (bonus link). You think D-battery night at an Eagles game is a bad idea…
Live by administrative rule-making, die by administrative rulemaking. As someone pointed out, following this to its logical end would create problems for IUDs and other post conceptive anti-implantation birth control, but some sort of Metal Rule applies.
Congressional pharmacist: “Its worse than you think. ”
OMWC needs to raise his game. Some other asshole is using drone tech to attempt to lure kids*.
*This has all the makings of a completely false moral panic
Lol. “I want you to kick me in the jimmy as hard as you can!”
Cocaine is a hell of a drug — 80s Movie Soundtrack Edition
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FUCKING LINKS!!!!! FIRST!
BZZZT. No reference to links.
FOE is one boring mofo. My simple exclamation with no reference is superior!
We have not abandoned all old traditions….
Next thing I know, you’ll be asking us to emulate Hugh.
Then I will continue the tradition of pointing out that it is a stupid rule.
But “First!” is a stupid tradition as well, so it is only apropos that it should be regulated by a stupid rule.
Fight stupid with stupid!
I put it the end of the AM links. The Brady bunch is suing the slide stock guy. Because justice and extortion are synonymous.
I’ll throw it here:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-11/the-bump-stock-millionaire-and-the-las-vegas-massacre
It’s both stupid and wrong. Dismissed, plus attorney’s fees.
Hopefully, it’ll end up like the Lucky Gunner lawsuit.
This country desperately needs a loser pays law.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/29/brady-center-ordered-pay-ammo-dealers-legal-fees-a/
I would structure it so that the loser pays the winner and the loser’s lawyer pays the winner’s legal fees.
That’s not a bad idea at all.
Bingo. There should be at least some onus on attorneys to not be part of frivolous lawsuits.
Yes, the onus should be on the lawyer, not the plaintiff.
Now if the plaintiff is unable to find a lawyer and is determined to proceed with the case as their own lawyer, well then as their own lawyer they would then be responsible.
I would also not go with simple loser pays because there is plenty of grounds for a case to fail but not be frivilous I would rather see the law amended so that the results from a Tort become Judgment for the Plaintiff, Judgement for the Defendent, and the new one… Judgement against the plaintiff. The first 2 results would work exactly as they do today, the 3rd is for cases like this where the suit is utterly groundless and the plaintiff and their lawyers would be responsible for 100% of the defendants legal expenses
The lawyer who files a really baseless lawsuit is supposed to be exposed to the defendant’s legal fees.
This is a rule of civil procedure which is almost never enforced. On paper, the legal system is actually much more balanced between defendant and plaintiff than it is in real life. Trial judges have figured out that they never get reversed for letting a case go to trial, but do get reversed for dismissing cases before trial. So, everything is deemed by the trial judge to be a good enough case to get to trial (which favors plaintiffs, as it pushes settlements of weak cases). And if its good enough to go to trial, there’s no sanctions on the plaintiff’s lawyer for bringing a shit case.
“The drone made me do it.”
“By this weekend, I’ll be able to skinny dip again without all of those complaints”
Except from your wife.
And the drone operators.
And the water moccasins.
And beings with eyes.
The Brett L theme song.
Marco! Polo!
I WAS IN THE POOL!!!!
Lectures from Zoolander, coming to a re-education camp near you!
http://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a12811748/justin-trudeau-raising-kids-feminist/
That was in the last post’s comments!
*glares*
Then I’ll just repeat myself.
*puke*
Link stealer!
You guys SUCK!
You guys SUCK!
Criticism, or command? You decide!
It could be a compliment.
He’s just so dreamy, he needed to be posted twice.
Do you think he’ll teach his kids about quantum computing?
Do you think he’ll teach his kids about quantum computing?
IMNSHO, his brain is small enough and plagued with enough fuzzy logic to be an adequate representation of a quantum bit, so why not?
In order to teach, one must first know. The only thing he could think of to pass on to his boys is being a giant pussy. What a legacy.
What about the hair?
Sorry. Hair skips a generation. His boys are out of luck.
I dunno. Castro’s hair was pretty decent when he was young.
The only people I know who were “amazed” by his quantum computing description were female humanities majors who are incapable of distinguishing between anything that “sounds sciencey”.
Or cribbed directly from a Wikipedia page they haven’t read.
Trudeau is a joke.
And by joke I mean twit.
Doesn’t the RCMP have a goon squad that persecutes those who malign Trudy II in between helping illegal immigrants carry their luggage across the border?
You ruined my flow, Flo.
And by twit I mean an idiot and a cuck.
“Johnny-Jane, you can be whatever gender you want!”
I was just thinking I hadn’t heard anything about prime minister queef in awhile.
This has all the makings of a completely false moral panic
Point in favor of OMWC – there is nothing “false” about panicking when his van slides into the neighborhood.
STEVE SMITH SLIDE INTO NEIGHBORHOOD. AND BY SLIDE, MEAN RAPE!
Good point – that is ULTRAPANIC time.
+1 properly constructed STEVE SMITH line.
Until the drones are sturdy enough to pick up the little orphan I think OMWC has them beat.
*draws up concept of orphan delivery service using organic drones(storks)*
Here’s the link. The tab was still open.
So, I got this rattling noise under my car. I don’t have a place to work on it here, so going to take it into the shop this weekend. It sounds to me like near the right front wheel. I’m assuming some suspension thing or stabilizer bar? Just how dangerous would that potentially be? Maybe I should take it in the morning. It’s not in the steering, I’m pretty sure of that, noise is only when driving slowly over rough uneven pavement (which can be found… everywhere around here).
Depends on what it is. Broken sway bar end link? Fuggetaboutit. Broken control arm? Big problem.
If it was a broken control arm, wouldn’t I know it? As in an inability to control the steering? There’s no issues with steering, just noisy and clangy when hitting little bumps at low speed. Nothing on smooth highway speed.
Have you peeked under there for anything obviously loose? If there are no problems with the steering or the braking, you can drive it to the shop without worrying about it.
Brakes are less than 2000 miles, front and back. Steers great, no issues. Yeah, I’m sure I can drive it in. I drove it to work and back like that. It’s just annoying so far.
Popped shock/strut or blown out bushing? If it doesn’t change sound or act funny based on steering input, you’re probably good til convenient to fix.
The noise is driving me fucking crazy. I’ll likely take it down Friday or Saturday morning. I don’t have any place to work on it myself or I would give it a try.
Sounds exactly like this:
Sway Bar
Click and Clack got nuthin’ on me!
I drive it in Baltimore City, it’s no fucking wonder the suspension has taken one hell of a beating. When they fix the roads around here, it makes them worse.
If it is a broken link, consider replacing the one on the other side as well. They’re cheap and if the right sode broke, the left is about to. It should be a 1 beer job to do both links.
Better visuals of a broken sway bar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIPABumixwY
I’d like to help fix her end links.
Does it happen under acceleration, deceleration, braking or all the time? It may just be a sway bar bushing that rotted out. For some reason, most auto makers still insist on using natural rubber instead of urethane for these which is ridiculous.
Urethane squeaks and people complain.
That’s what radios are for.
A friend of mine worked at a Volvo dealer when they were making their cool R models. They had nice huge Brembos which were obviously noisier than the standard brakes. He laughed his ass off at how many people would whine about the noise – never mind that the car was a fucking blast. People are dumb.
Just put a little grease on the rotor and it’ll stop making that horrible sound.
And it’ll go faster, too!
Until it doesn’t.
The R was really a sleeper. Both the S60R and V70R. Fast as hell – excellent adaptive suspension – great brakes. Cool car. They only made it a few years, unfortunately.
I was away for a while there. But no, all of the time if it’s low speed over rough pavement. At high speed on smooth highway, nothing. Parking and turning the wheels, nothing. Just talked to a friend of mine and he immediately said it’s play in a sway bar link. I think it’s highly likely that’s what it is. No creaks or squeaks or anything like that and no change in steering or handling that I can tell of yet. Just that infernal rattling / thunking noise, definitely coming from near the right front wheel.
My bet is on that too. Chances are likely that nothing is broken and that the bushings just disintegrated. It’s a really easy and cheap fix. Let us know how it goes.
I would drive it in. There is very little that can break around your wheel that would be catastrophic enough to be dangerous.
Yeah, I’m going to drive it in, only about a mile and I can walk back.
Doubtless you checked the lug nuts.
Yeah, it’s not that.
Always check your nuts first.
Sounds like a snake
Gremlin.
Shatner hardest hit
If you can get out on the highway, try going as fast as you dare and jerk the wheel back and forth as much as you can with out flipping over, that should fix it.
Could just be a busted strut, maybe?
Could be. Something suspension related almost for sure.
Busted strut
I was expecting this.
t.t..t.t.t.t.t.t.riggered …….
Whoops. Sorry, dude.
Not this?
They do respect her butt.
I love that song. This noise, not so much.
Hopefully HM doesn’t read that as “busted nut.”
Kids???
It’s easier to kidnap millennials.
*wanders toward van*
Bringing the ‘poke’ to pokemon?
Or actresses
Cocaine is a hell of a drug — 80s Movie Soundtrack Edition
Also from an 80s movie
This one is more likely to have been inspired by cocaine, however.
Now we’re talkin’
Cocaine? Yeah, I’d believe that about Robert Greenwald.
Any guesses what inspired this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4O1A-mmBWw
*puke*
Surprise!
The International Monetary Fund delivered a blunt warning to international policy makers ahead of the fund’s annual meeting this week: Governments risk undermining global economic growth by cutting taxes on the wealthy.
The message, while aimed broadly at all developed nations, carries particular resonance in the United States as the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers push a tax plan that critics say will exacerbate income inequality by reducing taxes for the richest Americans.
In a report issued Wednesday, the fund emphasized that flatter tax rates across income scales and lower rates for the highest earners could exacerbate a troubling trend toward growing inequality in the United States and around the world.
Never saw that coming, did you?
I genuinely don’t understand why progs and the UN are trying to bully the Trump administration when they are so completely at their mercy. Does the UN not realize who provides about 1/4 of their budget? And they want to pick a fight with him?
If we confiscate everything from everybody then we’re equal right?
You would think the IMF would at least try to connect it back to debt or other monetary concerns. Nope. Social justice all the way, baby.
The IMF has never been serious organization. At a libertarian get together in the 90s I was chatting with an Argentine economist. He said the IMF instructed the Argentine govt. they just need to implement the appearance of reform to keep the money spigot on. No deep reforms needed to actually be done, just make the IMF look good.
Yeah, as far as I can tell, there’s not even passing reference to the IMF’s actual ostensible mission. At this point, can it justify its existence beyond an employment program for Ivy League economists?
Governments risk undermining global economic growth by cutting taxes on the wealthy.
flatter tax rates across income scales and lower rates for the highest earners could exacerbate a troubling trend toward growing inequality
Sounds like they are assuming less inequality = more growth.
And here I was thinking that at the upper ends of the income spectrum, more income = more savings = more capital formation = more investment = more growth. Redistributive taxes drain capital investment (by the “rich”) to increase consumption (by the “poor”). Is there a school of economics that says less investment and more consumption results in more growth?
Or are they just soulless hacks trying to protect their rice bowl
Nope.
See a couple of economists did some studies which showed that higher levels of income inequality correlated with lower economic growth.
Now of course being “social scientists” they are incapable of understanding even basic statistics and have probably never heart the term correlation does not equal causation and therefore it is now a matter of faith among mainstream, progressive, Keynesian, and other economists that income inequality is an economic problem to be solved.
Here is what they missed.
Yes, a more free market will yield higher levels of income inequality than a social democracy but you know what yields even higher levels of income inequality? Dysfunctional kleptocracy and tin pot dictatorships.
So basically you are taking 3rd world countries (and some 2nd world countries) with economic systems that actively lower growth rates because corruption is so endemic and tossing them in with free market economies which don’t and then averaging their growth rates and then assuming that the higher the level of inequality the lower the growth rather than recognizing that what is important is not the level of inequality but rather the reason why the inequality exists in the first place.
Income inequality does not lower growth, it is however exacerbated by having a corrupt system of government where your position in the economy is determined by how close to those in power you are and that in turn retards growth.
I watched a Lagarde interview last week and she was completely in-favor of reducing taxes – going so far as to state it was necessary. She was concerned about raising the debt, but all-in for reducing taxes (particularly corporate taxes).
I support the IMF, because I’m a cosmopolitan and that is the basis of libertarianism. Smaller government is fine, but not if we mean smaller international government!
– Nick Gillespie
What they are saying is that the US must be hobbled with high taxes so that they can have a better chance of competing with us. Fuck those sorry assholes
UR EJACULATION IS RETARDED.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/you-it/200806/delayed-ejaculation
Derp.
“Nice guys finish last.”
Or never.
AND U TALK LIKE A FAG!
It’s a problem, sure. I just explain to new partners not to take it personally.
Public service announcement:
I cooked a USDA choice beef chuck roast for dinner last night, and it was outstanding. My kids had thirds, and my wife had seconds (which is unusual because she’s more of a salad person).
Here’s the cool part: I got it at Target for $4/lb, fully trimmed. For reference, that’s half of what my local Ralph’s/Kroger charges, and this tasted much better.
This is very encouraging, and I’m going to start scouring Target for things other than MILFs in yoga pants.
I don’t know if we have a grocery section at our Target. The place doesn’t seem much above Walmart, either.
At first glance, you would think so. But the Target demographic has a median income more than double Walmart’s. Last I heard, somewhere around 70k.
In my experience, although I don’t buy groceries at either place for the most part, I’ve found Target to be cleaner, better stocked, and with shorter lines than Walmart. The prices are usually no worse, and sometimes better, too.
We don’t have a grocery in our Target, but the butcher shop in the one we had in KC was fucking amazing.
This is very encouraging, and I’m going to start scouring Target for things other than MILFs in yoga pants.
In other words, now you’re looking for two types of tasty meats.
(Oh, I’m gonna burn for that one . . . )
Yeah…that’s a no from me dawg. /fat guy with taste buds.
Trimmed meat is not as tasty as untrimmed. It’s the opposite of pussy.
You like eating silver skin on your roasts? Huh. That’s a little weird.
But does he like silver skin on his pussy?
Hmmmm to q’s comment.
No, but the fat is flavor.
When I say trimmed, I mean this.
Fat comes from the marbling, which is why I got USDA Choice.
My mistake, carry on fatty.
Thought you were one of those “lean meat is best meat” conspiracy theorists.
I’m a “lean meat is best served with butter and chimmichurri” conspiracy theorist.
MILFs in yoga pants
Huh, is that a thing in our Target? Are they hiding behind the scruffy bros?
There’s a perfectly good explanation for this.
We all see what we want to see, and you’re clearly not on cameltoe patrol.
It sounds like we need Playa to start his own “People of Target” site.
Looks like someone already did.
Too thicc. You promised us cameltoe!
That is an ass and a half. Damn, thank god for yoga pants. I’ll take the fatties to get one of those now and then.
The only women I ever see at Target are short Mexicans shaped like fireplugs, though also wearing yoga pants.
Mexico is not sending us their hottest women.
Their hottest women come here legally.
That just made me think of something absolutely terrible that I should probably be totally ashamed of. How hilarious would it be if Trump floated a hot chicks exemption to his border control policy directives? SJWs would be triggered for months and any subsequent accusations of racism would carry the weight of squeaky, wet farts.
I enjoy shopping at Target for 3 reasons: 1-MILFs in yoga pants 2-College chicks in yoga pants 3-nobody else seems to shop at the one close to me except 1 and 2.
Those things, plus:
I find myself attracted to girls who like a good bargain. Rodeo Drive chicks are the worst.
Targhetto, yo
Not here. It’s all soccer moms and tennis wives.
You’re turned on by Lindsay Davenport, aren’t you?
I had to google. WTF, she looks like an old baby.
Tar-zhay.
Two words: Corn fed.
The target near me has a grocery section, but it is extremely limited. I get some things there, but I still have to go to the regular grocery.
Disclaimer: I’m not into new age stuff.
WTH is this “mindfulness” hogwash being thrown around? What does it mean? Why does it seem like it’s just a new fad like the yelling and screaming catharsis therapy?
Watered-down Buddhism
OK. No wonder progs seem so taken with it.
So they can appropriate Buddhism without culturally appropriating Buddhism.
What is known as “mindfulness meditation”, which some people like this asshat take for Buddism, is generally in Buddhism considered a preparatory exercise for meditation and not the thing itself.
But, it’s a start and I certainly believe that it brings people benefits.
WTH is this “mindfulness” hogwash being thrown around?
Essentially, it boils down to “pay more attention to stuff than you usually do, numbnuts.” Actually not a bad piece of advice for the average Millenial.
Mindfulness = Get your snout out of your damn smartphone and pay attention to the real world.
That’s my definition, anyway.
Your mindfulness sounds like it conflicts with my drunkenness…
The only form of “mindfulness” I’m familiar with is basically ambient noise and maybe occasional verbal guidance about what to think about, etc.
I use something like that when I’m having trouble going to sleep and it works. I assume the basic principle is that it makes calm down for a few minutes; of course, that’s probably masked by idiots saying it aligns your chakra rays or whatever.
Two of my kids (adopted, came with issues) are in a DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy) program. They teach mindfulness to the kids as a way to cope with things like anger, depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts. The idea is to pay attention to your thought processes, and not let your thoughts turn harmful and get out of control. I can testify this really does work and it does improve the behavior of kids with some really bad behavior problems.
But, like so many things, the concept has been hijacked and thrown around so as to lose most or all if its intended meaning. For example, “triggering” does happen to people who have had severe trauma (PTSD) or have anxiety issues. As in, a person who has been raped can have flashbacks when they see or smell or hear certain things. Or a vet can have a flashback when he hears fireworks. But the left has hijacked that concept to mean “I get upset when someone says something I don’t agree with. TRIGGERED!”
This will explain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gndF7XnTrNs
I probably started that. I use the word a lot instructing newbies with guns. I alternate every instruction with a different version of “fucking pay attention to what you are doing!”
I haven’t heard anyone else use it
In the report published Wednesday morning, the fund detailed how governments around the world have shifted away from policies that redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor, and how that has worsened inequality.
Progressivity — the degree to which the average tax rate rises with a person’s income — has fallen sharply in recent decades. Among the advanced economies of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, for example, the average top income tax rate has plummeted to just 35 percent, in 2015, from 62 percent, in 1981.
The monetary fund argued that many countries, like the United States, have room to raise tax rates on the wealthiest without impeding growth.
Okay, then.
So, the only way to see growth is to take forcibly from one group and give to another? No mention of, perhaps, bettering your own circumstances due to the economic opportunities made possible by capital investments by those evil 1% bastards?
The Monetary fund can take my left ball and roll it around in their mouth, while I give them a poopy mustache.
This
Does not in any way shape or form mean or imply this
Top marginal tax rates are meaningless what matter is the effective tax rate. You want to know how progressive your tax sysyem is look at how much people are actually paying at varying levels of income.
The fact that they are falling back on top marginal rates shows they are either clueless or lying
I can never tell if the left wants high top marginal rates to pay for shit or if they want high top marginal rates to flatten the income spread. The two are at cross purposes but they seem to alternate between them depending on the convenience to the argument.
you forgot
c: Does the Left want high marginal top rates in order to ‘encourage’ taxpayers to engage in Lefty-approved activities (or else be taxed all the way to hell)
oops: They encourage these activities by special tax breaks to reward people doing thinks the Left likes (with the high tax rates to punish people the Left dislikes)
The left wants high marginal rates for a few reasons:
(1) It punishes people they hate.
(2) It lets them believe they are being fair by redistributing money.
(3) It juices their social engineering tax deductions and credits.
They don’t care about any revenue increase, because there’s no such thing as “we didn’t raise enough money for that in taxes, so we can’t do it” in their world.
some sort of Metal Rule applies.
The Saw is the Law
RE: The ISIS video
This isn’t the first training video of terrorists that has featured them getting kicked in the fellas. Apparently we were doing it all wrong at Parris Island!*
*We had our rifle barrels bounced off our heads at shoulder arms instead.
They just wanted to hear the empty ‘bonk’ sound it made.
We had our rifle barrels bounced off our heads at shoulder arms instead
This is a euphemism for what Marines do at sea.
Only those Marines who have to go on floats – oorah 5953s never setting foot on a ship!
Since the only legitimate function for Marines is to act as security guards on ships, you just admitted to being a redundant copy of an army soldier.
Hardly – the army doesn’t have expeditionary radar capable of full airfield operations (ASR as well as PAR).
Said the flaming q-tip head.
recruitment video to show how tough they are.
likely the guys in the video are wearing cups to make them look tougher
So, Seth MacFarlane took to Twitter today to try to explain his 2013 Weinstein joke.
Does he really think this makes him look better?? “Well, see, Harvey Weinstein went after a girl I’m friends with, so I told a mild joke at his expense “from a place of loathing and anger”. I TOTALLY nailed that guy!”
Seth MacFarlane is the product of generations of inbreeding.
You Cleveland Show’d the link.
Don’t you EVER compare me to
Family GuyThe Cleveland Show!!!Anyway, here
I told a mild joke at his expense “from a place of loathing and anger”.
Seth, we can all see the video. You weren’t laughing at him. You and the rest of the crowd were all laughing along together. More of a “Hollywood. Waddayagonnado?” thing, not “Hollywood. What a loathsome place that makes me so angry.”
Precisely. It was a “Harvey, you ol’ dawg!” kind of joke and it relied on the audience knowing what he was talking about.
In his defense (not something I find enjoyable to do) Jessica Barth herself comes to his defense to tweeters berating him for keeping quiet:
I’m having a hard time figuring out what the decision was. And what he exactly respected.
Sounds like her decision was to do nothing. And then told Seth about it as a secret he should keep. And he didn’t keep the secret.
Hollywood narcissists desperately want to be looked at as heroes and they do absolutely nothing heroic.
My favorite among these is Gweneth Paltrow. She tells her story now and expects to be feted for her heroism, but why not say something back then? She wasn’t some small-town naïf, come to big bad Hollywood to follow her dream – she was the daughter of a notable actress. Same thing with Angelina Jolie for that matter.
I have respect for the one who put the wire on and nailed his ass. The ones that are successful and never lifted a finger? Not so much.
That was my initial reaction. On the other hand, if Weinstein had the muscle to shut-down a NY Times story and MSNBC he could certainly destroy a career.
It would be nice to know who at the NYT killed there story
Could easily have been the legal department.
Touche.
Good point 6. It’s good to know the lawyers are keeping them from printing defamatory and unsubstantiated news.
I mean, sure the legal department could have, but it sounds more like they would have been used as an excuse not to run a story the execs at the NYT didn’t want to be run.
Oh, they’ll be on the cover of People or Time with a ‘My struggle’ story.
They’re cowards and all the ones chiming in are too.
Celebrities are cocksucking cowards.
This. Spare me your drama, idiots. You could have outed the fucker any time, but instead you took the chikenshit route.
I read it as; she didn’t want to do anything. She told him about it but swore him to secrecy. He kept her secret. She released him from his promise to keep the secret and we therefore get his tweet.
I would reluctantly say he had no choice but to keep quiet (about her case only). But she sure as hell should have said something.
Oh please. He wouldn’t want to burn that bridge. (And I can’t say that I blame him.)
But he’s only saying shit now because the bridge is already gone for good.
That’s the annoying part. These fuckers like being praised for speaking ‘truth to power’ by criticizing Trump, Bush, or anybody else with an R next to their name. But when it comes to someone with power that actually might actually affect them, they were all mute.
So the next time the Hollywood liberals get up on their soapbox wearing their pussy hats, everyone else can just tell them to spare us their sanctimonious and hypocritical BS.
I’m skeptical of the methodology here.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4882420/Antidepressants-raise-risk-early-death-33.html
The One Brown Sock (a drama in one act)
[ Scene opens on scruffy, middle-aged white guy removing a load of laundry from a dryer ]
SMAWG: “Where the fuck is my other brown sock?”
[ Camera follows white guy as he trudges upstairs to are where laundry had earlier been sorted into loads ]
SMAWG: [ points at brown sock partially concealed under dog bed ] “AH HAH!”
— fin —
*removes opera glasses, wipes single manly tear from eye*
If you were wearing opera glasses, then YOU should have seen the other brown sock. I’m holding you responsible.
And ruin the dramatic irony?
That would be so uncultured.
If you’re using Opera glasses, that tear ain’t all that manly.
Jus say’n.
Nekulturny, da.
Better than Cats.
It sounds to me like near the right front wheel. I’m assuming some suspension thing or stabilizer bar? Just how dangerous would that potentially be?
Do you have a sudden increase in play at the steering wheel? You certainly should check it out, but even a bad tie rod end or ball joint is unlikely to come completely adrift. If it’s a rattle without any change in the steering (has the straight ahead position of the wheel changed perceptibly?) it might be a heat shield or the brake backing plate.
Interesting stuff
https://youtu.be/LH16ympCb7Q
The whole original hour and half is worth the watch
I know one should never read youtube comments, but Jordan Peterson youtube fanbois irritate me.
i saw a guy say re: a milton friedman video, “this guy is an intellectual lightweight, you should post Jordan Peterson vids”
one should never, never read youtube comments.
Theres a chrome extension that turns them all to “herp herp derp”
genius
One should never read the comments of any site. Any. Site.
I just read your comment. Oh no what do I do?
WAIT FOR STEVE SMITH. HE FIX YOU. AND BY FIX, MEAN RAPE!
In a family friendly way, of course.
Well, that’s a relief.
Its important to know how ridiculous large amounts of people can be. Comment sections are great for that.
Does Camille Paglia ever go into detail about her gender dysphoria / transgenderism? It’s something I’d be interested to hear her talk about in detail, since she’d cut through a lot of the bullshit and newspeak.
Wat? That’s the first I’m hearing of this. I just thought she was a lesbian.
From what I’ve read, Paglia is a proud butch lesbian. Her attitude towards trans people mostly matches those around here. Just being a butch woman or a fem gay man doesn’t mean that someone should undergo surgery.
She mentions it in this full video that that clip is taken from, and I’ve heard her mention it before, but it’s always very briefly noted, or as introductory dependent clauses. “My gender dysphoria has caused me to…” and “I consider myself transgender, but…” (The latter statement is far too ambiguous and muddled to mean anything on its own [transcends gender? identifies as male w/o outwardly presenting? simply identifies disproportionately with masculine qualities? just another way of saying “I struggle with gender dysphoria”?], but I take her at her word that she has always struggled with gender dysphoria .. which is more sensible / less ambiguous.)
I just think it’d be interesting for her to talk about it, and interesting to hear from people with gender dysphoria who don’t bother actively transitioning or presenting themselves as the opposite sex, or demanding that people substitute language used to refer to them. We never hear about/from those people, it’s too uncouth and un-PC.
Agreed. Her Salon column was must-read for me about a thousand years ago.
She has said that she is glad that the options that exist today weren’t available when she was very young, because she probably would have chosen to transition if she could have, and it would have been a mistake.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/10/11/michelle-obama-s-condescending-and-disgracefully-out-touch-advice-to-job-seeking-women.html
“In 2014 she told the White House Working Families Summit how she once applied for a job at the University of Chicago Medical Center with her newborn baby in tow, and on the spot demanded flexible hours so that she could care for her growing family. She told her prospective employer, “If you want me to do the job, you’ve got to pay me to do the job and you’ve got to give me flexibility.””
That shit is wild. If anyone took that advice seriously, they are the dumbest person in the world. But to my point, I think what Mrs. Obama is exhibiting is narcissism and this sense of entitlement which is prevalent among middle and upper class blacks. Most people cave into their demands because they are scared of being called racist but once in a blue moon someone tells them to fuck off and that’s when people like her are stunned. Coming from a lower class black family, I was always told that until you have proven your value to the bosses and perform your job with excellence, you aren’t in any position to demand anything. And when you do demand stuff, make sure that it’s reasonable.
On a side note, I think that’s why Black Lives Matter was such a failure not only because they were a Marxist group masquerading as an advocacy group but also because of the narcissistic and entitled nature of the group members. Instead of them researching why police brutality and unjust laws have a detrimental effect on the black community, they instead demanded shit and felt entitled to unearned privileges.
She also demanded that U of C give her a high 6-figure salary, and not expect her to show up for long stretches while she campaigned for her husband. I’m sure most women will also be able to receive those things too.
Ah yes, her famous position at the UofC Medical Center, where she a)received a massive raise (almost tripling!) after her husband was elected to the Senate and b)had a position so important, so crucial, that it was never filled after she left. Rather, it was simply done away with.
Ah, yes. She just walked into HR and filled out a job application with her kid in tow,
Sounds much more dramatic than the full truth which is the law firm she worked at was already doing work with the school and the school asked her to come in for an interview knowing her family situation (including her state senator husband) already.
No surprise these narcissist non-heroes settled in SoCal.
I always expected the deal would have been done by telephone, a nod, and a wink between the senior partners at the law firm and senior administration at the school.
After all, if what’s being given is a sinecure, what’s the point in meeting and assessing the candidate’s suitability for the job?
“Mrs Obama. uhh, you have a bank account and an SSN I hope? Excellent. We’ll see you Monday morning. Or not. Ciao!”
Coming from a lower class black family, I was always told that until you have proven your value to the bosses and perform your job with excellence, you aren’t in any position to demand anything.
Ms. Obama went to work at U. Chicago Medial Center in 2002. At the time her husband was a state senator. Oh, and he was slated to be made the chairman of the Illinois Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee.
I think everyone involved knew her position to make demands.
So the Ed Wuncler tag is more than a reference, it’s ironic?
I am posting this because i know if i don’t that HM will post it soon
The girl has trigger discipline, I’ll give her that.
Wow.
NSFW for those still at work.
Not safe for any-fucking-one, holy shit.
Today in “Ian Millhiser is the dumbest person on the planet”, on risks for the future:
Replying to this:
He said this:
I mean… isn’t that saying that the future of liberalism is authoritarian? Because…
All coming from this “JUSTICE WILLETT IS SCARY BECAUSE HE’S KINDA SORTA LIBERTARIAN!” article. https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-most-radical-nominee-since-neil-gorsuch-02d1bcabc8e0/
Those asshole libertarians keep not sticking their noses into other people’s business! What the hell is wrong with them!?
That is some potent derp. You could spread that on a cracker and serve it at fancy cocktail parties.
Better be a lot of crackers, Weigel’s always stuffing his disgusting face with them.
Which kind of libertarianism is he talking about anyway? The ass-kissing CATO kind or the Fuck You, Cut Spending kind?
Harvey Weinstein is objectively ugly. He has a face like a rotten potato.
Did you listen to the recording of him? He’s objectively pathetic as well.
Someone should tell him to shave, and take a shower.
He might consider not eating the entire cake at his next birthday party as well.
It seems that all the stories involve showers and massages…
then he’d look like a cleaner, recently-peeled rotten potato.
i think the stubble actually helps mask how ugly he is.
^This
How else was the man gonna get laid.
He was the only sleazebag in hollywood, thankfully we won’t see any more of this.
*stares straight ahead*
It looks like they might put Affleck on the next pike.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/10/11/hilarie-burton-ben-affleck-groped-me-on-trl-when-was-kid.html
“Baldrick, get the tumbril out again. Awards season is nearly over and the crowd crave more red meat”
Ha ha they’re eating their own.
hah….who even remembers TRL at this point?
Paul Scheer apparently
That’s heinous.
She was so despondent over the incident and never forgot it that she was okay with her husband working with him years later. Oh, the sacrifices our entertainers make!
I get the fact that it’s just a two-month job and you can’t turn down work if you need it. But it’s not like the rest of the working world can easily avoid working with total assholes. 98% of the people I work with I want nothing to do with when I leave the office. And the few times I had to work with extremely loathsome individuals I DID get the fuck out asap.
Weinstein is a creep, but the Affleck story sounds like it was written by the Junior Anti-Sex League.
Your comment is Sublime, Bob.
Congressional pharmacist: “Its worse than you think. ”
It actually is.
The whole article is full of disgusting shit, but this struck me. Nice to be one of the more equal animals.
I know this is a “local story” right now. But could this be some sort of precedent setting court case, or has the precedent already been set? I don’t know how adoptions work, couldn’t they go through someone else and adopt this girl? How the fuck can they justify the $6.5 million they are seeking in damages?
ND couple sues Catholic Charities for ‘marital discrimination’ after adoption falls through
Aren’t adoption screening by *definition* discriminatory? They don’t hand children out randomly,do they?
One would hope.
I don’t want just anybody getting their grubby hands on my orphans.
It depends on how the states organize adoptions generally. I know in some states groups like Catholic Charities act as a clearinghouse agent for a central reserve of orphans. Other charities may provide an independent bracket of orphans to clear out, but I’m not sure how the rules work in ND.
The Orphan Central Reserve!
Time for the next in the Oceans franchise?
Hmm, so now a hotel maintenance guy at the Mandalay is saying that he called into hotel dispatch to report the shooter six minutes before he broke the window and started firing into the crowd. How fucking inept was hotel security and the LVPD?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/worker-warned-hotel-before-las-vegas-shooter-opened-fire-on-crowd/
The hotel has questioned that timeline. At this point, who the hell knows.
I bet they have. This is now the second person there on the floor to say that.
I’m not believing that they don’t know.
The best timeline will come from the plaintiffs’ attorneys as they sue the Mandalay Bay right into Ch. 11.
Discovery’s always a bitch ….
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
God I hate autoplay video with such a passion. And all news websites suck donkey cock and are nearly impossible to read because they’re shoving 100 different sidebar things to you at once.
I need a plug in (and noscript isn’t really cutting it) to strip some pages down to nothing but story-text. which is basically how i read all my news (via RSS) already, but when i click links i get a fucking headache in like 2seconds because its like.
maybe i need to create an app and become a bazillionaire. (ponders)
Lynx? Apparently, it’s still being maintained.
Lynx has just what you need.
“Lynx 2.8.8 runs on Un*x, MacOS, VMS, Windows 95/98/NT, DOS386+ (but not 3.1, 3.11), ”
that would rule out new operating systems?
I like the idea of it, but i’d prefer a browser plug in, not an entirely separate text-only browser.
Text only mode – extension for Chrome
just installed it. doesn’t seem to work. at least on that above CBS news page.
tried this one too
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text-mode/adelhekhakakocomdfejiipdnaadiiib
amusingly, it didn’t remove the videos from the CBS page either. But! it made them black+white. “it tried”
Huh, I’m guessing the site creators are getting wise to those things.
There’s another called Text Only, Please but I’ve never tried it.
I use the image on/off plugin for Chrome and to browse glibs in the computer lab… ‘cuz some of you all are dirty, dirty birds.
One of the good things about Apple is that you can just click on the URL bar and it converts a web page to text only. That is becoming more and more useful as more sites try and cram as much shite on their page as possible.
yeah, i vaguely remember that from when i had a mac.
It’s on the iPhone as well.
Do you have to have the little book icon showing up for that to work?
It’s just the four little lines on the left side of the URL bar. It’s on macs, iPads and iPhones. Just click to convert to all text. Handy, wish they had it on PC and Android.
I just switched from Chrome to Safari for partly this. It works better than the equivalent Chrome extensions that I’ve tried, plus you can set a site to always open this way (this is available with additional plugins in Chrome but didn’t try it). The other reason I switched is because the combo of built-in features plus uBlock Origin plug-in is stopping pretty much everything including @#$%#@% auto-videos, much better than on Chrome.
Thanks.
I must have one of my Views set up wrong: I don’t have anything on the left side of the URL bar (apart from the back arrow) in either Firefox or Safari.
Of course, when it comes to IT stuff, I’m so clueless I may have no idea what I’m doing.
Thanks for the info though: I’ll play around until i figure it out.
Hotel security wasn’t armed, so you can hardly fault them unless they dilly-dallied in calling in the cops. The Metro police, on the other hand ….
Seen on Twitter
Breaking: ISIS claims responsibility for Eminem’s anti-Trump rap.
Re: Vegas shooting, didn’t they say he planned to escape and may have had help? I’d venture a guess to say that his “help” was his means of escape and chickened out and that’s why the shooter committed suicide. Maybe the security guard WAS his help and they had an argument about him losing his conviction and trying to leave…
*adjusts tinfoil hat*
Also, who does the top hats on avatars? I think I earned it with my comment being first last time. Sarah Jessica Parker could use it.
Scruffy is your man.
I thought scruffy was Jesse’s thing?
Fetish.
Scruffy Nerherder is the resident milliner.
I’ve never met Jesse… I don’t think.
Rohypnol is a helluva drug.
*quickly hides hands behind back, looks guilty*
I have to open at work tomorrow so I’ll be there by 6 am. Should have something ready for morning links.
What do you need from me? I don’t have any orphans to offer yet.
If you have a larger version of the photo, post it to imgur and leave a link here.
Also, I take runaways in lieu of true orphans.
Here you go.
They might be a tad past their sell by date, though…
Biggest one I have. Thanks for the help.
I’d run away but I got a pretty good gig going here.
https://imgur.com/a/RBaBu
Also seen on twitter
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DL4lv89X4AY5m_z.jpg:large
That made me spit coffee, thanks.
That was good
Skip to 1 minute in.
I liked “Haid Salaami”,
its notable that the only funny sketches SNL does lately rely on the absolutely lowest, most juvenile humor. when they aim any higher, they flop terribly.
Oh man. Funny stuff. Coworkers appreciated it, too.
Is there a school of economics that says less investment and more consumption results in more growth?
That’s a rhetorical question, right?
I don’t have a top hat to wear to this Bruins game.
I want to buy a Caterham for autocross just so I can put a top hat on my helmet.
do it!
Someday. With a big mustache flapping majestically around me in the wind.
YES!
Here you go.
Chitty Chitty bang bang
You have good taste.
I suppose you could wear a derby if you must.
I need more hats…
I have baseball, trucker, and beanie. and one of those trapper hats.
I need fewer hats. I’ll have to see how many of them spark joy.
Boy Scouts Will Admit Girls, Allow Them to Earn Eagle Scout Rank
Will the Girl Scouts allow boys or did Harvey Weinstein ruin it?
No but they probably will admit boys with vaginas and girls with penises
The only chance in hell the Girl Scouts will accept boys will be under the transgender angle.
It varies by local group, but I think some have already accepted boys.
Some have, both under the transgender angle and the “just accepting boys” angle.
Can finally get that Wobbly H badge…
Honest headlines:
Boy Scouts unable to compete with video games, Netflix, and decades of image problems desperately seek to increase enrollment
I would definitely have shown up to all the campouts.
decades of image problems
I think it’s more than that. The image problems are one thing, but BSA also has had quite a bit of mission drift, IMO. Looking back on my brief time in boy scouts (not counting cub scouts), I spent more time parading around like some wannabe color guard and hocking popcorn than I spent shooting guns, camping in the woods, and starting fires. Most of the fun stuff I did in boy scouts was just me and my dad, or was during one of the 2 or 3 fun trips we took per year. Some of that was probably the specific troop I was in (I hated all the kids in my troop and eventually became friends with a bunch of kids in the other troop in town), but even as a 5th and 6th grader, I grew tired of the pledges and chants and marches and inspections and other pseudo-military crap that got in the way of me having fun doing boy stuff.
As soon as they started the leadership thing I was ready to go. Let’s make fire and form an ad hoc team for setting up tents/cooking dinner/having rock fights.
Exactly. I think there’s a place for civics, process, and community involvement, but the main purpose of boy scouts is to impart the skills required to be able to do fun manly things like start a fire with sticks, catch fish with a harpoon fashioned from a branch, and shoot 2L soda bottles with .22 rifles.
These days, there are merit badges in
Labor Union PropagandaAmerican Labor,Checking Ableist PrivilegeDisability Awareness, andMulticulturalismAmerican Cultures.We should start a Glib
child worker and orphan recruitmentboy skills club.Glib or not that is the correct response. Every time I hear some jerk whinging that their Cherished Institution™ is being compromised by the dirty PC/leftist/progtards/whatevers, all I can offer up in sympathy is a hearty Tuff Shit, start your own Institution and run it any damn way you please.
I think there’s room for bemoaning the progfection of cherished institutions, but I completely agree. If people spent less time whining about the cultural rot and more time creating institutions that fit their worldviews, the world would be a better place.
TAE-KWON TAE-KWON! TAE-KWON TAE-KWON!
I hope Antifa are taking notes.
That article seems familiar
They get issued a new set right before the 72 virgins make an entrance.
I have baseball, trucker, and beanie. and one of those trapper hats.
The next one you buy should be anElmer Fudd hat.
That could work. I think it’s this one. great for playing in the snow.
Trumps pitching his tax plan.
Love the truck behind him
what truck?!
There’s a giant semi parked behind him that says ‘WIN AGAIN’ and I ❤ trucks
Thomas Wictor came up in the morning links. Here’s an ongoing thread that just popped up in my feed. He’s discussing the recomposition of our armed forces patterned on the what he claims is Gulf states’ use of special forces micro-teams: “We’re adopting the Saudi model. Strategic special forces. C6ISR forces. Command, Control, Communications, Computing, Cyber, Commando, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance. … One tank, one bulldozer, one gunship, one infantry squad, one sniper squad, and one antitank squad.” The departure from convention, he claims, is the brainchild of Mattis, and Trump’s willingness to delegate to Mattis the responsibility of winning the war is a glimpse of Trump’s real genius.
Is this guy a nut, or is his narrative plausible?
Well knock me over with a fever. Current Affairs got something right.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/people-literally-do-not-understand-what-laws-are-or-how-they-work
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A large percentage of people support criminalizing more speech. That’s a horrible idea for dozens of reasons…
…
A recent survey on attitudes toward free speech shows that an awful lot of people wouldn’t mind criminalizing an awful lot more speech. Well over ⅓ of both Democrats and Republicans would support “a law making it illegal to say offensive or disrespectful things in public about the police.” And over half of Democrats would like a law “requiring people to refer to a transgender person by their preferred gender pronouns and not according to their biological sex.”
…
The question was whether these forms of speech should literally be punished by the government. And a frighteningly high number of people don’t just believe that certain acts deserve social sanction, but want the state to step in and do something about it.
There is a widespread lack of appreciation for just what “passing a law against something” actually means. We can see this if we think about the more trivial things we detest.
…
That’s because law is a blunt and brutal instrument, one that doesn’t simply abolish things by magic, but through a real-world process of enforcement. No matter how serious (e.g. murder) or silly (e.g. squeegeeing) the offense is, the police are the police. While you can tailor the punishment to fit the crime, and there’s a difference between 30 days in jail and 30 years, to some degree the process is the punishment: everyone who commits a crime will be arrested and have their life disrupted, everyone will have their life disrupted through a costly and tedious court process, everyone will get the mark of a criminal record following them for the rest of their lives
Let’s remember what it means for something to be a crime. It means that there is a statute indicating the elements and penalties. It means that local, state and federal police will start seeking out people doing that crime for arrest. They will sweep broadly and ensnare many people doing nothing at all. It means that people will be jailed and fined for the crime, that some will be sitting in jail for quite a while because they cannot afford bail and that they might die awaiting trial.
…
The point, however, can never be made enough: criminalizing speech is not just a bad idea because of some abstraction about “the marketplace of ideas,” it’s a bad idea because cops bust down people’s doors, shoot their dogs, and sometimes shoot the people themselves. It’s a bad idea because court fines bankrupt people and because criminal records make ordinary life nearly impossible. Many people who advocate greater restrictions on speech simply do not seem to understand what laws are or how they work.
***
Never thought I read something like this from a guy who wants to govt to harvest kidneys and has a bust of Marx as a prop in his youtube videos.
oopsy- feather, not fever
I’ve been sick for a few days.
Too late!
*sneezes directly into Derp’s open mouth*
HAWT!
You guys really are a bunch of sickos.
Or you will be when I’m done.
HA! Way ahead of you!
*coughs, passes out*
Yeah you don’t see stuff like that outside of libertarian publications (before the great Cosmo-ening of ’16, anyway). It’s good to see more people recognize these facts, even if they are otherwise not very libertarian. Might lead them down a path of awakening.
Poor Kmele.
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The latest Rutgers panel, which featured libertarian media producer Kmele Foster, liberal activist and founder of Ex-Muslims of North America Sarah Haide, Columbia University Humanities Professor Mark Lillia, and student activist Bryan Stascavage, was promptly disrupted during the question and answer portion of the event.
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https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9951
I think the time has to come before long, that these dimwits have no one to heckle because no one will engage them or even go around them, or even acknowledge that they exist. As far as the institutions of higher learning are concerned, everyone interested in education should abandon them and find another venue. Let the snowflakes take them over and let them become Detroit. This is a cure, not a treatment.
They’ll think they’ve won. And for all intents and purposes, they will have.
Not in the end. Eventually reality will catch up with them. I just read that and a couple of other stories. Those kids are functionally illiterate and unable to think rationally. They are classic useful idiots. All they can do is parrot the pinko shit they have been programmed with.
One student complained that the phrase “facts don’t care about feelings” is really code for “fags don’t care about feelings”. That doesn’t make any sense. It’s just twisting anything said into a pretense for attack.
“facts don’t care about feelings” is really code for “fags don’t care about feelings”
Ok. Let me straighten that out for you: “Fuck your feelings.”
Bonus points to JB for using intents and purposes correctly.
One that gets me is ‘the benefit of doubt’ turned into ‘ the benefit of the doubt’
The doubt? Which one?
I thought about typing “for all intensive purposes” just for the lulz, but decided against it.
No, someone should just start belly laughing as soon as they start chanting. Just guffaw at everything they say. Laugh derisively and point at them like you’re watching a lie-action Airplane!
Or even live-action.
Do they like gladiator movies?
Ted, have you ever been in a turkish prison?
Mike, do you ever hang around the gymnasium?
Hyperbole, have you ever seen a grown man naked?
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Hope that gets mentioned on the next Fifth Column.
The Isis guys are probably channeling the Combat Qi guy. Part two here.
I thought they were channelingmaster ken
I thought they were channeling Mike Judge.
No! They were channeling Channel 101!
Hefeweizen for tonight.
How is that for a heffe? Because the quality varies wildly in my experience.
The color is a bit off from what I expect, but otherwise it is good.
Watched a good documentary last night, “The Seven Five”
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about corrupt NYC cops in the 1980s. basically, robbing drug dealers in east new york. the 75th precinct.
i think it was qualitatively different than the corruption of the 1960s- and 1970s, which was basically the mob buying protection. all they did was smuggle booze/cigarettes and run bookies and whores and other low-level stuff which most police didn’t consider ‘major crime’ anyway. and when a guy got whacked, it was ‘unsolved’. as long as no regular people got hurt, and as long as the crime was off the streets, it was ok.
But the 1980s corruption was more thuggish: it was like sticking guns in the mouths of drug dealers and taking their dope. I think Bad Lieutenant (the original, not the Nick Cage thing which i’ve never seen) was a good depiction of how it actually was: it was more bottom up from the street, individual officers/small groups in precincts that would run shakedowns and hits… not so much ‘bribery’ of higher level people.
The war on drugs made things so much better.
That guy was a piece of work. Didn’t he sound like he was bragging the whole time he told his side of the story?
Mike Dowd? Yeah, he sounded like someone who had been picked on by tougher or smarter kids in school, and now was like, “Fuck you, look who has the gun now”. He was basically proud of the fact that he was robbing drug dealers, who were basically scumbags anyway, who cares if he took their money.
his partner seemed more morally conflicted about the whole thing.
Yes.
I’ve seen that documentary several times. It is amazing how they operated and how brazen they were at it.
http://imgur.com/UE4LRlf
The feeling of guilt from laughing at that is going to crush my soul into oblivion.
Isn’t The Onion supposed to be satire?
The Onion is funny. Good humor offends someone, so this piece is right in character. Love it.
It happened to Jerry “The Mouth” Murphy.
Last night I dreamed that STEVE SMITH was trying to break into my house. There’s a hill right on the other side of my fence and in my dream you could see him through the windows skulking along the hill, and I was yelling, “LOCK ALL THE DOORS, CLOSE ALL THE WINDOWS, HE’LL RAPE YOU!” while he peered in menacingly.
I wonder if I spend too much time on this site.
Or not enough?
NIGHTMARE ON STEVE SMITH STREET!
(produced by Miramax)
I had the same dream. Don’t sleep!
Catching up late again…so a few articles I checked out today:
From the local fishwrapper: http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/commonwealth-s-attorney-says-he-will-not-press-charges-against/article_3374b594-adc2-11e7-93c1-f38457661523.html
Looks like we actually have a fairly sane County Prosecutor:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/452520/case-yuri-dmitriev-grave-hunter-russia
Excellent article covering a guy digging up the past in Russia…and being stomped on for helping folks find closure….
I know some folks in Russia want to bring back the good ol’ days but what can you really lose by acknowledging proven facts at this point?
Excellent article, thanks for sharing LT.
It blows my mind that there are still so many pro-Stalin people in Russia today. Moronic West Coast college kids I can understand, since they don’t know jack shit, but the number of Russian/Eastern European people who defend Stalin is bizarre to me.
Those people probably had it good back then.
A former coworker and a friend of hers grew up in the former Soviet Union. I remember getting into an argument during one of my stints on facebook with the friend, spawned by something my former coworker posted, about the Soviet Union. The friend only had good memories of the Soviet Union. My former coworker only had bad memories of the former Soviet Union. My former coworker and I got out of her friend that her friend was the daughter of a party official who was important enough that his family was rather insulated from the realities of Communism.
That is a good article, thanks!
Mr. Robot rules in the dance hall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsoKnbOA55I
Tonight.
Mr. Robot v. FBI v. Chinese cross dresser
My money’s on Mr. Robot.
Ok, I’ve got a few more videos prepped (since I’ve got drill this weekend). Tomorrow though – my normal videos will show up as scheduled 0600, but in the evening links, I’ll share a special glibs-only link with some extra clippage on my vid.me channel (since youtube is so picky).
I think Straffinrun and Gojira will both like this one – they may have even seen it. Solid flick!
You reviewed Bukkake Festival 61?
Unfortunately, the plot is really confusing if you haven’t seen the prequels.
Nooope….I do plan on Meatball Machine in the future though…and probably more J-splattercore.
Clinton, “shocked and appalled” by Weinstein revelations, will give his campaign donations to charity:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/11/politics/hillary-clinton-harvey-weinstein-fareed-zakaria-cnntv/index.html
Curiously, there’s no word as to which charities will receive the tainted largesse.
The Clinton Foundation, of course.
Give this man a cigar!
/Polite applause.
Do any glibs have advice for fighting an obstinate water monopoly on a $400 bill? The beefwits claimed that I used 44k gallons last month, a 5x increase.
We have no pool and no leaks so the math doesn’t check out.
Ask them to check the meter.
That’s how a lot of video plots start
Barely a euphemism. This situation seems more like STEVE SMITH checking my oil.
By the way HM, I thank you for your well-researched posts here. You have fine taste.
You’re welcome!
What sort of “water monopoly” are you dealing with? Are you paying your town, or is it a company that bills you? Depending on the size of the entity you’re working with, an in person visit with proof of your normal water consumption habits may convince them that there’s something broken.
The North Springs Improvement District, which is effectively a government agency. They checked the meters and they told us they were functioning properly.
Their repeated response has been fuck you, pay me.
Back in April, some other customers were getting bills that alleged 100k gallons in a given month. The district’s response was the same.
Well, according to their own document, the leaking toilet could possibly account for 6k gallons of the 44k gallons. Even assuming you have 4 toilets leaking as bad as any toilet could leak, there’s still 20k gallons unaccounted for.
Frankly, I don’t think you’re going to get anywhere by continuing to bang your head against these morons. I’d maybe send an email to one of the local TV stations’ investigative units to see if they’re interested in the story.
Where do you live? The water department here tags accounts with the code “CR” (continuously running) to indicate that consumption is happening 24/7, likely due to a leak. As anybody would expect, they don’t share this info on your bill and you need to explicitly ask for it in person. My area has a lot of old buildings that were outfitted with galvanized pipes under the foundation which decay and lead to underground leaks that aren’t detected by visual inspections.
Also, is the meter accessible by you? If so, I would shut off the main valve in the house and go out to see if the meter still indicates there is flow. You’ll need to watch it for a few minutes, but that rate of consumption should be noticeable.
Thanks, I’ll give that a shot.
One question and one prediction:
Question: Do you have a neighbor with a pool?
Prediction: They’ll say it’s a toilet leak. They’ll say your toilet is quietly flushing all the time a little at a time, and you just don’t know it.
My next door neighbor has a pool. A neighbor across the street also has one.
Your prediction is accurate, they’ve already cited the toilets.
It might be your next door neighbor with the pool.
It’s a little bit like your next door neighbor stealing your newspaper in the morning–except it’s your water with a long garden hose in the middle of the night.
This has been known to happen.
If your neighbor’s pool was recently empty, he may have decided to fill it back up by running a garden hose to your house in the middle of the night, and the amount of water you’re describing is typical for a backyard sized pool.
I’m not saying that’s definitely what happened, but if they don’t find anything wrong with your meter, that’s what I would suspect–especially if the water usage suddenly goes away as mysteriously as it appeared.
Was the water usage all at one time in the middle of the month–and did it stop? . . . or is the water usage ongoing?
According to their daily readings, the usage was consistently high. I would not think that my constable neighbor who rents the house next door would steal my water.
So I wasn’t present last night for any live reaction to BruceArena-pocalypse, due to time-shifting and spoiler-avoidance, but this is too good to let go.
At some point around half-time, which in real time must have been moments after the game was over, I had wikipedia’ed T&T just for the hell of it and some wit had inserted in the first couple paragraphs some words which seemed nonsense at the time. I wish I had screenshotted it but it went something like this:
I was like, “Bullshit.”
Then I watched the second half.
Today was Putin’s birthday.
He got a puppy.
Pictures of Putin kissing and cuddling a puppy are all over the internet.
It’s raining Putin and puppies.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01762/putin-landscape_1762753c.jpg
A cynical bastard might think this was somehow related to the Russian presidential election coming up in a few months.
I dunno, the way I hear it, the way to really win your way into the voter’s hearts is to have your wife brutally murdered. Brings out the sympathy vote.
The Juice/Prince Charles 2020?
Beast vs Smiler originally.
“I wanted another province but all I got was this stupid puppy.”
Someone everyone’s forgotten reminded everyone on Twitter than Ben Affleck groped her on camera some 16 years ago.
Ben Affleck is very sorry.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/11/entertainment/ben-affleck-apology/index.html
Someone is reported to have said something to the effect of, “If we weren’t supposed to honk them, God wouldn’t have told us to call them “hooters””.
That person is also very sorry.
store bought frozen pizza would be a lot better if they actually put some sauce on it.
/man who didn’t feel like cooking after the day he had and is ok with settling for something that I can eat and it will make me it hungry.
Did you microwave or bake?
Jesus man, I’m not a philistine. I baked it.
I love Stouffer’s French bread pizzas. Every other frozen pizza is pretty much crap.
I’ll have to check that out. The one I cooked was a Sam’s Club garden vegetable. Not bad, but totally lacking in the sauce department.
http://imgur.com/bfGI2zX
You won’t have that problem with Stouffer’s. The crust is obviously a bread not a crust but the toppings are first class.
Have you ever had their lasagna? Wow…it’s very good. Much better than you’d expect from a frozen dinner. It’s better than many homemade lasagnas I’ve had.
Many times. Yummy.
http://imgur.com/shQ2LoQ
In my freezer right now.
You’re correct. I can’t make a lasagna that good.
I’ve not tried the vegetable version. I’ll have to give that a go some time.
Looks delicious in spite of those chunks of green and orange whatever.
Your orphans can’t cook???
Security! Please escort this man to the exit.
My orphans don’t get off shift until midnight. I’m not staying up that late.
In that case, I recommend finding out if any stores near you carry this brand:
http://www.screaminsicilian.com
I have no idea where they are based out of. I just happened upon it once while the orphans were in the hospital for a tune-up. It’s pretty decent for frozen fare.
Walmart carries those in my area. I have eaten one. It’s good, but I prefer a pizza that has vegetables as toppings.
Meat is all well and fine on different mediums, but on a crust with sauce and cheese my preferred toppings are vegetables.
olives
banana peppers
sliced tomatoes
peppers
onions
spinach
mushroom
Looks good – in my city but a hike 🙁
>_< Didn't see this. Yeah, I love their pizza.
1) I’m all about that Papa Murphy’s. It’s delicious, even out of the freezer.
2) I like adding my own ingredients when having frozen pizza. I just add sauce, cheese and toppings on top of the existing pizza.
The trashy guy gets it. ^
One simple thing I like doing to “spruce up” Papa Murphy’s is butter the crust and sprinkle it with garlic powder before cooking it.
And yeah, a little extra pepperoni, cheese, whatever, on top of cheap frozen pizzas goes a long ways.
I like this. Lots of sauce, lots of cheese.
I was just putting my 5 year old to bed. He was complaining about bed time. He told me, “remember when I was in preschool and some days I got to skip school and stay up late.”
I told him, “I’m sorry little man. But the older you get the more stuff you get to do, and the more stuff you have to do.”
He said, “oh right, dad. Like when I can get my first single shot 12 gauge 410.”
Kids are great.
That’s a heartwarming story.
They are great. Good on you, Lachowsky
Deep deep derp
http://racebaitr.com/2017/10/10/not-grieve-las-vegas-run-tears-white-death/#
Christ. My brain hurts and I only skimmed it.
Author bio at the end:
This schtick was a lot more amusing when Hooper X did it 20 years ago.
This is some of the most racist shit I’ve ever read:
Well, here’s the thing, Kej. No one gives a shit whether you mourn or not.
A little something for our Glib neighbors up north. Cuck Trudeau pretends to have a good relationship with Trump. I wonder how hard it is for the little brainless Castro lover to hold back his hatred for how problematic he finds Trump to be?
As soon as Trump was elected Zoolander started squealing about how he’s willing to renegotiate NAFTA on favourable terms for both parties and the Opposition mocked the shit out of him for turning belly up so fast. He’s basically incompetent and doesn’t know how diplomacy actually works and should have just kept his mouth shut.
Zoolander basically doesn’t want to be known as the PM who destroyed the Canadian economy and he’s desperately and pathetically trying to suck up to make sure that isn’t the case.
In the most important news last night, the Philadelphia 76ers are awesome and are going to win multiple titles if they stay healthy. Which won’t happen, because the sports gods hate Philadelphia, but I can dream.