Hey guys, I am back from a work trip. I loved getting a real Tex-Mex fix in the Metroplex, but I was working in Irving, so it was all blue and silver stars and Rangers gear. Blech. Someone else can have all of that. Also, DFW Airport looks like it got left behind in the Great Airport Upgrade. Also, I left my car keys with the TSA at Tampa International, so I’ll be going back by there in a little while to pick them up (and my car).
You know who else from Germany wanted to create a United Europe?
Paging Mr. Lizard. There has been a break in containment in Washington.
This is one of the most dangerous things in modern America. These people need to be summarily fired and fined.
It turns out that being forced to achieve an erection and masturbate in front of police is not a legal 4A search. In fact, sexual abuse of a minor under color of law appears to also be one of the very few holes in Qualified Immunity.
This looks like bullshit to me.
You guys have ruined my Youtube recommendations.
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Boobs are proof that G-d exists and wants us to be horny.
https://archive.is/zJRSx
1, 13, 17, 20, 43.
I didn’t know you were Jewish, Q.
21, 24, 38
You would have known about (((Q))) if you attended your secret (((cabal))) meetings like you were supposed to. No wonder Mr. Lizard is running rings around (((your))) global conspiracy.
I missed a couple when I had surgery. I could’ve used the gold they passed out at each meeting to pay for it.
Don’t worry I grabbed a little extra for you and hid it underneath my tallit.
I always thought that was some kind of (((euphemism)))
Possible source to the slang word ‘tallit-whacker’
Yup, I dun wrote a whole article about it.
https://glibertarians.com/2017/09/tuesday-jewsday-ruminations-on-the-existence-of-g-d/
And that is still one of my favorite articles that have been published here. Seriously.
Well, SOMEBODY’s jewdar needs a tune-up, I see.
Would 1-44.
17’s outfit. I could use that for some shoots coming up in January. 17 herself is nice, but that’s about it.
39 — because of her face and smile.
17 & 39 are certainly afternoon delights.
Yeah, I have to say, they’re the only two that make me hover my old, withered hands over the mouse on the “Buy Now” page at http://www.yohimbine.com
Usually, there are more candidates in one of Q’s postings.
Not 13? It’s animated!
… still triggered by that #1 GIF.
Think of it as Warty at a lifting competition. Does that help?
Warty + lifting competition + breast implants = profit?
… Triggered
Pec dance + 1st place medals = Warty.
Way to tease us with man boobs.
Get some weed, and #4, you could go “full libertarian”.
I stopped at #1. Kind of a busy night here.
News from Big Brother.
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/google-street-views-ai-can-now-predict-race-political-party/
Must be that yellow foam porcupine hat I wear all the time.
The
NazisGermans show how to Big Brother,Mr. Stürzenberger was convicted and sentenced to six months in prison for posting a photo of a Nazi official and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem on his Facebook page. A totally real and authentic picture of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem meeting with Nazis to discuss Jew killing.
Gotta love those hate speech laws!
This is what Dems actually want.
Laws always work as intended.
/sarc
Is the world better with an weak, emasculated Germany or a strong, proud Germany where people are free to think and say what they’d like?
I really don’t know the answer.
Emasculated, divided Germany whose various parts are under suzerainty of Bohemia, Poland, Austria and Switzerland!
Bring Back HRE!
Probably right actually.
The same could be said about all of Europe and probably North America as well, although we’ve done a lot better at bringing multiple cultures together and creating a new one.
Es lebe Bistum Würzburg!
A strong an and united Germany, to drain the Mediterranean.
Somewhat related: the article mentions the ACS. I was selected for the first time this year to complete the ACS and I managed to weasel out of it without paying the fines. Suck it bureaucracy! The questions were very intrusive and go way beyond the mandate of getting a headcount.
You weaseled out of the American Chemical Society? What were you doing in there in the first pla… oh, you mean the Census. I practically told them to go fuck themselves and closed the door in their face.
Would either of you be willing to comment on record about this? Both your anecdotes would greatly help with something Im working on. I could keep your input anonymous if need be.
Nice try, Mr. Census Bureaucrat. You’ll never catch me!!!!
It’s a pretty long story, but I held them to their own stupid rules and eventually they seem to have given up.
The fines are downright scary though – up to $5k.
Well, it’s not that hard. I could have written that algorithm.
Pickup truck, baseball cap = Republican
Anything with Gadsen flag or Ron Paul bumper sticker = libertarian
Anything with big shiny wheels or a Prius = Democrat
That was too easy.
I drive a pickup truck with big, shiny wheels!
Is that you, Kid Rock?
I drive a Prius.
Hello, Tulpa :/
Man that’s harsh. I drive about 30,000 miles a year so the car makes sense for me.
It turns out that being forced to achieve an erection and masturbate in front of police is not a legal 4A search. In fact, sexual abuse of a minor under color of law appears to also be one of the very few holes in Qualified Immunity.
They could at least have brought in a
hookertrained sexologist to fluff him for the interrogation.They tried, but she had committed suicide from twitter bullying.
Yow…brutal way to tie that story together.
Holy shit, Q
Are the breasts your way to hide the pain, Q? Do you need a hug?
*stares into the void hoping something, anything will happen*
Don’t blink.
ANIME TIDDIES.
Am I the only one who read that as, “stares into the void humping something?”
We’ll need to do an attitudinal census of the entire Glibs commentariat. Please wait.
Is there really a difference?
Q, as someone who is getting up in years (and lacks a yohimbine supply) I’m really hoping that’s not a euphemism.
“All that my eyes desired I did not refuse them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, for my heart was pleased because of all my labor and this was my reward for all my labor. Thus I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold all was vanity and striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun.”
*golf clap*
Man, it got dark here all of a sudden!
I laughed.
Well, that’s because you’re an as-NO NO NO WAIT, I STOPPED MYSELF! DON’T CATBUTT MEEEEEEEEE!
🙂
*holsters tabbybutt .38*
The worst thing about the CFBP idiots refusing to do their jobs? They’re juvenile idiots.
These people need to read another Goddamned book already.
Yeah, I really don’t want ’em reading instruction books like Mein Kampf.
I assume that’s beyond their reading level. I was thinking something like “Dick and Jane”.
The popup book of Nazis!
It’s got such pretty pictures!
LOL
That is sublime.
So they should call themselves the Rebel Alliance?
A fitting name for domestic terrorists.
Cant Trump just fire them all in one fell swoop due to them effectively going on strike? Or declare them all “non-essential” personnel and defund their positions so they stop getting paid/coming in? Or just dissolve the entire bureau by folding it into another department without carrying over any of its regulations or mandates?
Wait, it’s been years since I read it, but wasn’t “Dumbledore’s Army” a reaction to takeover by a career bureaucrat who came in to make sure things are done strictly by government code?
Legit most lifelike character in that series, because Rowling used her frustration with the type from the time she worked as a teacher…
That does sound accurate to me. A bureaucrat shows up and imposes a ton of new rules benefitting one house over the others and preventing actual learning, so the protagonists band together to continue learning in the shadows/hidden rooms where the bureaucrat can’t find or stop them.
The CFPB folks have this bass ackwards. The government wasn’t the good guy in the Harry Potter series.
She was a bureaucrat, but her purpose was to do the bidding of Voldemort and to get control of Hogwarts do he could control it.
So basically, she worked for a flat-faced version of a modern day Hillary Clinton.
Was she? Book 7 is a blur (actually, everything past 4 is) but I always thought he best part was that she was doing What Was Right (as per government policy) and didn’t hold truck with this “Voldemort” nonsense everyone was blathering about…
No. Dolores Umbridge (sp?) was a death eater. She was an inner circle follower of Voldemort at the level of Malfoy’s parents.
Dammit, book 7 sucks even more than I remember it. Way to ruin your best character!
Wasnt she a book 5 character? 7 didnt even take place at Hogwarts
Yes, but the revelation would have been in 7, in 5 she was straight-up bureaucrat.
(And wiki says she had cameo in 6, pretending to be sad at a funeral while obviously being gleeful, because she’s THAT person).
Or even “a goddamned book,” since it’s perfectly possible the reference is to the movies they’ve watched. Dumbasses.
It’s not just that. Harry Potter is a perfectly fine book for the young’uns. Trying to draw a deeper meaning from a book for kids is so stupid, but then they even get the wrong meaning from that. The Government were the bad guys. The bureaucrats were the bad guys.
Reminds me of when Rowling tweeted something about how there was no prejudice in the magical world and we need to let in all immigrants. Someone correctly pointed out that in her own books, the Magical people build a damn wall to keep out Muggles because they are uncivilized and kill the witches and wizards.
Or maybe they should re-read Harry Potter? Voldemort slowly took over the government via a secret cabal of bureaucrats, who covertly worked to undermine the legitimate government, and illegally take it over. That’s exactly what these people are trying to do.
An American trying to make sense of the government in the Harry Potter books is pointless. Britain had an inherently more intrusive government than we have and it’s structured differently since the elected officials and bureaucracies tend to be one and the same, whereas ours are separate.
There’s also a ton of classism and accepted discrimination in the world of Rowling in that they routinely mock muggles and hold people accountable for the sins of their parents, which is mostly foreign to us.
Also, they act as if the global magical population is probably 1/10 that of muggles, which means about 700m witches or wizards. Are they only educating a small fraction of the witches and wizards out there? Because they make note that there are 11 schools in the world. Based on what you can glean from seeing a sorting ceremony at Hogwarts, that school has about a thousand students through 7 grades. With wizards living approximately 140 years, that means there are about 140 kids per year at that school. Multiply that out and that meant in 140 years they put 19600 kids through Hogwarts. Multiply that by 11 and you get 215,600 educated witches and wizards out of a global population of 700,000,000. They educate one of every ~3250 people. And it’s an awfully nepotism-heavy system too, seeing as many of Harry’s friends have two parents that went there.
The entire world of Rowling is based on family connections, a heavy-handed central government that either runs everybody’s life for better or worse depending on who is in charge and by social contracts people are forced into accepting because governments signed them years or centuries before (like the International Statute Of Wizarding Secrecy that’s 325 years old!).
It’s certainly not a world for libertarians, whether they carry a gay-ass little wand around or not.
Sorry about the Shultz-length screed. I just hate that the retards claim Harry Potter when libertarians could use it to teach kids how fucked up that nepotistic world is and that a strong central govt really is bad if in the wrong hands, and they always end up in the wrong hands eventually.
Yes, I think that’s a central theme of the books. The government is corrupt and cares little for actual justice, and that corruption makes it easy for an even more corrupt (and actually evil) entity to take it over. Whatever her beliefs now, it’s clear that Rowling hated government bureaucracy with a passion when she wrote the book.
My honest guess?
Rowling hated govt and was probably pretty libertarianish until she realized social signaling would turn her $500m empire into a $2B empire. And keep growing the older she gets and the more she signals.
Like take those fucking Weasley’s. Two parents and five kids and they all get into one of the 11 schools? The odds of that happening in any equitable system of education based on knowledge and ability rather than nepotism is infinitesimally low.
But everybody treats it as if it’s acceptable.
Now, shall we talk about how they still have fucking slaves? And the only one raising a real stink about it was the person who grew up in the muggle world.
The whole wizarding world is an embarrassment. Their acceptance of outdated and discriminatory practices should be mocked regularly. If, you know, it was real.
I chalk some of that up to Rowling not being good at math, or not really caring if the numbers make sense.
Or at least a better version of the source material http://www.hpmor.com/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/muellers-credibility-problem-1512432318
“The Wall Street Journal is pushing an alternative narrative! Burn the witch!”
The deep state is having a bad week.
I am not quite sure why Sessions doesn’t just order these people to follow the subpoena? If they don’t, you get fired for insubordination.
Because Sessions is a drooling, doddering witling?
“Because Sessions is a drooling, doddering witling?”
Yeah and maybe Brer Rabbit really is scared of that briar patch.
I’m leaning more and more towards this being a game within a game. While Mueller and his pack of Hillary Max Donors sniff for fake Russians, Nunes is combing through DOJ looking for the smoking guns to clean house. As it stands now, it seems to be very very clear that the DOJ and FBI are stacked with progs who have no compunction about using their positions to play defense in the case of Clintons lawbreaking, and play offense in using FBI surveillance tools and authority to spy on a political campaign. This is the IRS scandal all over again, except arguably worse.
If 2 years of spying on the Trump campaign with the full power of the federal surveillance apparatus hasn’t turned up Boris and Natasha, that means Boris and Natasha ain’t fucking there. The progs and the media are, IMO, desperately hoping Trump actually fires Mueller, because then they can shriek about how its a coverup and muddy the waters to kill the Nunes probe.
If Mueller is hunting Russian agents who hacked the election, and Nunes is hunting prog bureaucrats who used the FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign, I bet you Nunes is gonna come back with more ducks in his bag.
If 2 years of spying on the Trump campaign with the full power of the federal surveillance apparatus hasn’t turned up Boris and Natasha, that means Boris and Natasha ain’t fucking there.
Excellent, that’s uat you are supposed to tink!
/B&N’s Control
You rang?
Well, we already knew Sessions was terrible. Not only is he a drug warrior asshole who couldn’t give a shit less about liberty, he’s also incompetent at getting his subordinates into line.
When you look like a garden gnome, no one takes you seriously.
I am not quite sure why Sessions doesn’t just order these people to follow the subpoena?
Or Trump. Either of them should be able to tell the DOJ and FBI to turn over everything requested by Congress, and to stop stonewalling all kinds of other FOIA requests, like the ones from Judicial Watch, etc. If it doesn’t happen by the deadline you set, start transferring people to North Dakota, the Yukon, etc. Firing them is too hard. Being exiled to the provinces is probably worst than death for these swamp creatures.
Surely, the longer Sessions lets this go on, the more compromised the individuals in Mueller’s team become. At some point, you have to wonder if it couldn’t be classified as a criminal conspiracy.
“Boise here you come!”
We joke about that until suddenly Idaho votes blue.
I don’t think being exposed to swamp creatures is going to make a bunch of Idaho voters suddenly say “Garsh, we need more of that!” and start for Dems to refill the swamp.
No, but put enough swamp creatures in and around Boise and suddenly the demographic shifts to support more swamp creatures. Kind of like Virginia.
We are talking onsies, twosies…we wouldn’t hurt Idaho that much, They didn’t do anything wrong!
This is turning into a awkward version of NIMBYism.
Too late. Boise is already blue. Thankfully for now the rest of the state is mostly red, but the daily California express is dropping injits off to change that, just like they’ve fucked other states.
Mueller’s investigation is dead as a door nail. I wonder if it’s too late for Flynn to change his plea?
If they ever went to trial, Flynn’s (or where is charged) lawyer gets all their evidence in discovery. Then he puts Strzok’ and all his text bestie’s on the stand and destroys their credibility.
I have to say the town I live in warmed my cold libertarian heart today with a piece of news I read.
So, a few miles from my house, there’s a major post office distribution center. It’s slated to be closed in 2018.
The county planned to buy the land and build a bus depot. That made no sense for a number of reasons, mostly because there aren’t really any jobs out in the far far burbs (outside of retail), there aren’t many buses that run out here anyways, and to put a bus depot in the middle of a major residential, as opposed to commercial or industrial, area is silly. But that’s not important.
So why am I proud? The community group who opposed the bus depot didn’t whine about zoning. They didn’t try to go to anyone else in government to pass a law to get it stopped. They got together, raised money, and outbid the county. (They then flipped the land to a developer, so it’s going to be more retail.)
Damn, you live near good people
Until the county nullifies the sale and gives the land to itself.
It was being sold by the feds and bought in a federal land auction, so I’m not sure how they could. It’s owned fee simple by the development group now.
Hmmm… let’s take a look at the by laws and regulations here… Ah, yes, here it is; the FYTW clause.
Dunno, Feds might get itchy if low-level scum tries to take away their money…
Can I borrow your neighbors?
Seconded!
Can I get an “AMEN!”?
Where do you live, JB?
Western suburbs of Fort Lauderdale. Almost as west as you can go before you hit the Everglades.
So, basically, Somalia.
But we have ROADZ!
Sure, roadz with fucking PYTHONS!
Feature, not bug.
Pythons on meth.
(Dibs on the band name)
Don’t Box the Everglades!
If it’s inevitable, let’s just preemptively nuke Pyongyang and be done with it.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/12/07/established-fact-north-korea-says-nuclear-war-korean-peninsula-inevitable/929796001/
NB: I do not actually think nuclear war would be a good thing.
Hasn’t whichever Kim’s in power been saying nuclear war is “inevitable” for the past couple of decades?
No. They’ve been saying that change was inevitable.
https://youtu.be/8v0rKdlbDyU
Its one thing to say nuclear war is inevitable when you don’t have nukes and/or a way to deliver them.
Its quite another to say it when you actually can inflict a first strike.
That actually would be the best thing that could happen to the North Koreans outside the blast area.
I like the cut of this guy’s jib.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/law-professor-requires-students-cluck-like-chicken-say-feel/
I’d still punch him for using ‘changeful’ as an adjective.
It’s looking more and more like
1. Fusion GPS invents the Russian Hooker Urination Dossier.
2 Clintonista/prog diehards at FBI and DOJ take the bullshit dossier in front of a FISA court to get a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign.
3. Despite listening to all of both the Hat and the Hair’s communications, the Most Qualified Campaign Ever got their asses kicked.
The whole thing is this cabal of leftist ideologues at DOJ and FBI trying to continue the lie: that they were spying on the Trump campaign not to gain political advantage, but because the Trump campaign is in fact a legit target of counterintelligence operations, because Russians.
At some point, either they scrub all the records, or someone comes forward with a fat stack of intercepted emails, phone calls, and perhaps even recordings of in person meetings of Trump and/or Trump staffers that have nothing to do with Russia, thus revealing the truth.
This is just the same shit the progs did with the IRS: use the federal government as a weapon against their political enemies.
If only some crazy fringe political movement could have warned of the dangers of government surveillance.
Pay a shady group to invent a dossier based on bullshit, obtain warrant based on said bullshit, try to use the fruit of the poison tree to screw your political opponents.
Must be good work if you can get it but the lot should be in prison for what they did/are doing.
They need to treat this like organized crime; nab a small fish and threaten him with 100 bazillion years in prison or cooperation to expose one rung up. Go nab guy one rung up and repeat. I’m reasonably certain they won’t do this because it would eventually lead to Herself and Captain Zero.
This is what the lefties think is currently happening, only that Drumpf is the Don that the sainted and pure Mueller will take down
Also somewhere in there, Susan Rice unmasked Trump campaign aide names so they could see who was saying what.
The community group who opposed the bus depot didn’t whine about zoning. They didn’t try to go to anyone else in government to pass a law to get it stopped. They got together, raised money, and outbid the county.
It’s like a dadgum fairy tale come true.
“…and they all lived happily ever after.”
Unpossible. I’ve been repeatedly told that people cannot work together toward a common goal outside of a system of government.
https://twitter.com/atensnut/status/938615759214972930
Women who accuse Democrats are all liars. This is known
$100, trailer park, etc. etc.
It’s so true, not we have the benefit of hindsight, who the first ‘metooers’ were as they came forward when it wasn’t safe or popular to do so. Often to the detriment of their careers and reputations.
Join the movement and go impregnate someone.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/pro-natalism/547493/?utm_source=twb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOD0XCm57d8
Our president approves
Did you make this?
It showed up in the recommendations of the video you linked.
You know who else encouraged women to have more babies?
The PLO?
The Cylons?
Ah, possibly the funniest scene in BSG
President: “We are going to have to start having babies”
Adama: *looks like’s he’s thinking “What…here? now? aren’t you a bit too…you know…passed?”*
The government of the Holy Russian Empire at the end of World War Z? (spoilers!)
Grandparents?
Did the December Teen Vogue cover get posted? My availability to check the site has been low so I wasn’t sure if I missed it.
Sounds like a mag OMWC would, erm, frequent.
It’s where to get your hot takes on how to get woke and 20 ways to make your first experience of anal sex truly great.
“20 ways to make your first experience of anal sex truly great”
There’s only one way: starts with a w and ends with a hisky.
That’s be wrong. The target age for Teen Vogue is only 14.
First time I had whiskey was when I found my grandfather’s bottle of Lord Calvert in the sofa. I was 8.
I’m British. I totally understand how someone can discover alcohol at such an advanced age …
Oh yes. Three rules I learned when attempting to party with the RAF unit:
1 – You will get in trouble.
2 – There is never enough alcohol.
3 – They will drink you under the table.
And the RAF are, comparatively, lightweights.
“Fuck you I’m Millwall!”
That guy was more likely to have been with the Metropolitan Police.
Hah – I had a friend in the Marines whose wife was friends with my wife. Mrs. Chip reported to me once that his wife confided in her that she would never get drunk around her husband because she was pretty sure he’d try to go up the ass when her defenses were weakened.
Clearly he married the wrong woman.
Aren’t teens too old for OMWC?
Once the grass is on the field, he takes his balls and goes home.
*slow clap*
Not yet! We will email you before it’s featured. 🙂
Thanks, Riven! I wasn’t sure so I wanted to check 😀
https://twitter.com/GamingAnarchist/status/938435129978081280
Is this…is this real life?
As long as ICE wasn’t doing it, it’s totally ok.
This is why murderers get off free in California.
No. It’s Better Than Life!
Oh thank god, it was just mob hitmen! I was afraid they were Drumpf’s minions!
From the Lizard Link
This is how you MAGA! Up next – Trump wrestles Pence until he agrees to put the goddamn sunglasses on.
Make aliens great again!
I’d hate to put myself in a conversation as being similar to John or Eddy, but after being threatened to be banned out of the blue (at least to me), I feel kind of ornery.
I made a comment in response to Chipwooder that some could take offense to, though which I’d consider an example of busting balls. I’m more curious if the individual took it seriously and personally. Perhaps I’m higher on the autistic scale than I thought, but I’m not big on people taking offense for others. Especially when there’s an absence of clear rules and the behavior isn’t much distinguishable from what goes on around here on a daily basis. I’m also not kind when I think biases are coming into play. Simple explanation’s are all I need.
My understanding is that the (unwritten) rule is that you can’t call anyone any names directly. You can say that Glibs in general are assholes or degenerates or whatever (I imagine you have to have been commenting here for at least a few weeks so you aren’t taken as a troll or someone that’s serious about it), but you can’t say “Brochettaward is an asshole” or in response to one of Brochettaward’s comment’s “you’re an asshole”… even as a joke… because its hard to tell what’s a joke and what’s not through text or without a /sarc tag.
You might be able to get away with “please don’t be an asshole” or “you’re being an asshole”, but its a huge gray area.
That’s my understanding anyway. *shrugs* I guess… think about saying it in real life, with a serious tone, to a person bigger than you. Then consider whether or not the person might punch you in the face. Or just put a /sarc tag on everything you write.
Chipwooder is a real asshole for Sugarfreeing his link.
I fail to see how anyone could take that comment seriously. I don’t think it’s about that comment at all, frankly.
Why push it, man? Lick your wounds and avoid the word. Easy-peasy.
Actual comment – “Hey asshole, good job posting the link.”
So, Houses of Parliament Rules ….
“My honorable friend may be mistaken, I can only ascribe his comment to being the result of dementure brought on by the effects of his regrettable case of tertiary syphilis”.
“Nonsense! It’s due to the fact that he is the product of an unholy union between his mother and a goat with an extra chromosome!”
“My RIght Honourable Friend cannot help that he is a direct, lineal descendant of the impenitent thief on the Cross!”
T: I care not a jot that you are the son of a certified sauerkraut-sucking loon!
G: Ah, thank you, sir.
T: It minds not me that you dress like a mad parrot and talk like a plate of beans negotiating their way out of a cow’s digestive system. It is no skin off my rosy nose that there are bits of lemon peel floating down the Thames that would make better Regents than you.
G: Well, bravo!
T: The fact is, you *are* Regent…
G: Yes, I am…
T: …appointed by God, and I shall stick by you forever, though infirmity lay me waste and ill health curse my every waking moment. (falls into the chair dead )
Since no one will likely see my last comment on that – I took no offense and made no complaints about that. Whatever issue there is rests with the admins, not me.
I’ll be very honest here and admit that I am often a major, major asshole.
fx: nods enthusiastically
Do you have a cousin named Phillip?
I saw that take place and I couldn’t figure out who offended who, or who earned the cat butt, until it was explained,
united Europe story
err, wasn’t that what the EU was for? Are they saying they need a new EU? Or are they trying to Make the EU Great Again? Will they have snappy MEUGA hats? Will MEUGA hat guest star in The Hat an The Hair and Tha Hat?
I seriously want to see Euro-trash MEUGA(wtbomoc)* Hat make an appearance in H&H (fuck USA hat, I’m not letting it into the title).
*Make European Union Great Again (within the boundaries of moderation, of course)
I think the SPD is annoyed at the remaining vestiges of national sovereignty.
They really are going to accomplish what the Nazis couldn’t aren’t they?
SHHHHHHHH!
/SPD
Well they traded Norway for Sweden. Haven’t picked up Belarus or Ukraine yet. Bosnia, Kosovo and Moldova are conspicuously absent. Switzerland is still neutral. Folded Spain into the new Reich proper this time. Picked up Portugal, Turkey and Cyprus. Lost Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Oh they also have Ireland so invading Britain should be easier this time.
All in all, I’d say they Fourth Reich is only doing marginally better than the Third.
I might have missed a couple of smaller countries on the borders since it’s hard to find an EU political map that actually names non included countries.
I thought you were talking about a particularly kinetic and dastardly year’s play in Diplomacy there, until you got to “Fourth Reich”.
Or Europa Universalis IV cca 1600….
I’d play that, for a Year
I have a feeling the SPD is misreading the current sentiment. Imagine that!
Anyway I hope the rest of Germany tells them to pound sand.
MEUGA sounds like something you barf up
Did Trump Slur His Speech?
He’s not medically fit for the presidency! Bring in Hillary!
The entire article consists of: people on the internet thought Trump’s speech pattern was slurred and wildly speculated. Here is a medical sounding official term for slurred speech and all the possible diseases that cause it. Oh it also happens when you’re tired. Now our medical expert a neurosurgeon (aren’t surgeons more involved in the doing and less the diagnosing?) says “yeah his speech kind of changed but right after he goes about doing normal stuff so it doesn’t really seem like anything is wrong.” Now we’ve got an assistant professor and director of speech and language saying “dunno what’s going on, didn’t sound normal to me.” We asked the White House and they said everything is fine.
It literally exists to give the impression of some scary medical issue (stroke) or at best Trump is an old man (dentures got mentioned a few times) without actually saying any of that to avoid liability and if ever called on it, it’s just providing possible explanations. Lazy propaganda.
It is really, really amusing to see the same people who snickered whenever anyone questioned Hillary’s health going all-in on this.
Look, she’s literally the most physically fit Presidential candidate in history.
Andrew Jackson? Teddy Roosevelt? Complete cream-puffs compared to her!
I’ve read that Reagan might have been killed by Hinkley if not for the fact that he had pretty terrific abs for an old man, which slowed the bullet in his gut down.
“I’ll say this: The Democrats were damn lucky that he and I never had to settle our disagreements with boxing gloves.”
– Tip O’Neill
There wasn’t just snickering; there was an active attempt to silence any discussion whatsoever about the matter. When that “side of beef” incident occurred there was a shocking and brief weekend of relative peace online because it took them a bit to try and push the counternarrative.
Also, DFW Airport looks like it got left behind in the Great Airport Upgrade.
The international terminal (can’t remember which one) is by far the nicest. If you have enough slack in your layover, that’s the one to go to. Their faux-monorail shuttle works quite well and makes it easy to burn an hour or two in the international terminal even if your flight is in another terminal.
I was coming to post similar. Some terminals are nice and some aren’t. IIRC, the old continental terminal was absolute trash, but the main American terminal was nice.
They have 2 USO’s as well. I have no problem waiting in DFW.
I prefer Love Field. It’s right down there in the seedy part of town.
I half expect to see guys dressed up like Huggy Bear strolling around with an ivory cane, supervisin’ their bitches.
That’s not the seedy part of town. You want seedy, go walk around the cotton bowl for a while.
I did a pretty thorough reconnaisance of all the districts last year.
Fair Park did look like the kind of area I would have needed to carry, but over at Love, reminded me more of 42nd Steer in Manhattan in the early 80’s.
The thing is, I would have a need to go to Love Field as a visitor. Only reason I’d go near Fair Park would be if I had this bizarre urge to lose a kidney and my wallet.
Fair enough. My BIL and SIL lived over by love field for a couple years, and he got his car swiped out of his driveway, so it’s certainly not a nice part of town.
Exposition (the North East side of Fair Park) has some neat bars and food. Also, if you go SE from fair park, Park and South have some beautiful palatial (((mansions))) from back when Dallas’s main synagogue was in the area, and before they decided to plow a freeway straight through the middle of it.
LSD hangs out in Exposition from time to time with her friends, and says it’s OK.
I doubt anyone will see this, but:
Where is this? I grew up in Pleasant Grove (mother still lives there, etc.) and I have no idea where that locations is.
/legit curious
This. Fewer people than DFW. I doubt I’m the only one here that is irritated by crowds.
The area around Maple is rapidly getting nicer. I used to date a girl who lived in the area, and I do business with an aircraft upholstery place there as well.
The other shoe drops.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/retiring-dem-rep-gutierrez-paid-wife-430000-campaign-funds-past-seven-years/
Pretty weak coming from Illinois. I expected a much higher amount stolen.
Nah, it is usually the petty stuff that gets ya. See also, Dan Rostenkowski.
Was buying stamp books really that much of a burden?
Well…that and a few questions about fraudulent office rentals, vans being “used”, and such.
I don’t see any tits. :confused:
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/flbp-huge-boobs-1.jpg?w=500&h=730
I’m calling Photoshop
You did that on purpose, didn’t you!
Called it! Looming scandal-good on me but it doesn’t take a genius to know crooks are gonna be crooks.
When I saw the Wile E. Coyote article image, I immediately thought of Stuart Smalley, Nancy Pelosi, and the Democrats. I can just visualize them blowing themselves up, dropping giant boulders onto their own heads, etc. Who ever thought this #MeToo nonsense was going to blow up in their face? Apparently not them.
Anyone would think that they’d never seen Hunt for Red October.
You arrogant ass – you’ve killed US!
Jesus Christ. You know what Trump has never done? He’s never taken a step to undermine the democratic sovereignty of the Republic. He’s never taken a step toward a coup. You dumb fucking shits. Go on. Keep conducting official government business via private encrypted communication. That’s the truest form of Freedom!
Sorry, did I say Freedom? I meant Treason. This is literally approaching the historical definition of Treason. You are God damn lucky the constitution limits it in this county.
The attempted coup to displace a duly elected president probably puts Hillary, Comey, Mueller, and several others at least in the realm of sedition, if not treason.
It certainly looks that way from where I sit on this really bad, non-ergonomic stool.
You’re not supposed to sit on the posts.
She’s my post to lean on, and I just cut ‘er down…
It’s certainly undemocratic. Honestly, i’m not 100% sure what the difference between that and treason and sedition is in the modern world. The two terms were developed in a time when monarchs and nobility were the government, and they weren’t elected the way they are in a representative republic. An external army in that era can turn into a legitimate government.
Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Respect, man…
http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/03/06/when-is-armed-rebellion-appropriate/
Goram it! The current management deleted my cool graphics!!!!!!!
Well, he did overthrow Mrs. Popular Vote President with his so-called “electoral college” coup.
Yeah, it’s like no one had even heard of this electoral college before beloved popular vote president had the election stolen even though it was her turn.
School shooting in New Mexico. Very few details.
That’s a beautiful area.
Never been. I’ve only driven through the area on my way from CO to Phoenix.
two of my best friends are from Aztec, oddly enough
That’s a damn lie, and I demand that you retract it!
You have no friends. Even your childhood imaginary friend secretly hated you.
Rekt.
Totes dank, too.
Fear.
Look at these two blue assholes.
*narrows gaze*
Even your childhood imaginary friend secretly hated you.
Well, my imaginary friend sprang fro my own mind…..and I did hate myself. …..so, yes, I will say that is an accurate statement.
I’m taking my first exam in 10 years this weekend. I have to use this remote proctor program where I scan my room and desk with a webcam before starting and then keep the webcam and an open mic on myself during the entire exam. The program also can view what I’m seeing on my computer screen and alerts if open any files other than what’s allowed.
It’s a little creepy and intrusive (okay, very creepy and intrusive), but I can take a proctored exam from home. This is the dismantling of the traditional higher education model in action. 100% online degrees from good to excellent schools are already increasing in availability, but I think we’re going to see the floodgate open soon. Other than courses with science laboratories, there’s no reason to go on-campus anymore. Sure, some people may still prefer to, but I think they’ll quickly become a minority. There’s no way possible I could ever go back to an on-campus only school.
I thought so too. Then I took some online classes. I do business better in person than over the phone. Why would it surprise me that I learn better in person? Maybe one day we’ll get there, but it hasn’t happened yet for me. (And no, I’m not technophobe)
More and more schools are pretty openly selling college to undergrads as the “college experience”. As in, you get to pay us 30 grand a year, and you live in a brand new dorm, and there’s a ton of people your own age and you can fuck like rabbits, drink, do drugs, attend sporting events, parties, etc.
….and potentially get accused of assault or rape that can get a man expelled regardless if innocent!
Who can pass off on that offer, amirite?!
/high five.
30K? Where do I sign my kids up?
Screw that, where do *I* sign up?
I chose traditional night school over online because I know I’m a lazy bastard and don’t trust myself to really pay attention when everything I do is in my own house.
I meant to add that one of the rules is I have to wear clothes or automatically fail. -1 for having to wear pants, but +1 that they had enough incidences that this had to be said.
*incidents
Ha, I wonder how many colleges thought of having that rule…
So, they have a system which will only catch stupid cheats, and they don’t want you scaring the minumum wage, female proctors who are surveiling you.
Let’s say….”influencing” instead of “scaring”…
My dad likes to tell stupid jokes at the cash register. Things like turning to me as a little kid and asking if I have any money or asking the cashier how much she owes him. I don’t get it, but he gets enjoyment out of it. Anyways, one day he asked the almost elderly lady cashier if he can get a discount for being good looking. She thought fast and threw back, “We don’t give discounts for that, but if we did, I’d have to charge you extra.”
Ehh, kind of a stupid story but I still get a kick out of it years later.
*indecencies
that is a bit bizarre.
in the financial world, you have to take FINRA-compliance tests from time to time, or while seeking new credentials. There are various “test-taking” facilities that support it, which are basically rooms with computers with the test-software (and nothing else). You go in, take the thing, and they give you a printout certifying you’ve passed / your score, whatever.
in nyc, there are places on wall st, midtown, etc. that do this. I’ve also used places out in the middle of nowheresville which provided the same basic service. Its a thing. I’d think they would be expanding their services in the world of “online education”. If they had any brains, they would. Most probably are too-dumb/dull-witted to do anything but ride the backs of FINRA-mandates.
I had to go to similar place when I took the MCAT a different lifetime ago (back when it wasn’t the bullshit SJW version). I wouldn’t be surprised if those places started expanding too. It would be a good move.
yeah, most places probably do GED/ACT/GRE/LSAT as well. its probably the majority of their business. Its probably only the joints on Wall St they serve the local FS industry exclusively. they were pumping hundreds of shmoos per day through there just taking the Series 7 alone.
Did my GRE at a testing center outside Richmond a few years ago. Some of the masters cert programs I did online gave you the option of taking a “proctored” test or doing it at a satellite campus. I chose to go to the one just off base and sit in a glass fishbowl next door to the proctor – not turning on my webcam and installing who knows what software for a single test.
So what you’re saying is you could tape your notes to a board attached to the back of the webcam and occasionally peek at the webcam because it’s a weird intruder in your room?
Lemme guess, if students voted for Republicans in large numbers instead of Democrats this ruling would have been different.
http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-election-news/ci_31502925/free-pizza-upheld
Power generation division? Couldn’t have happened to a better group of crony capitalists.
Bahahahahahaha!
For those who give a shit, Font Awesome 5 was just released.
“”Font Awesome 5″”
will it make my text-communication 100X more kickass ?
(hi-fives self)
Used indiscriminately, it’ll give you severe site bloat.
Also:
i had a suspicion this was like, a new band name or something. it turns out its just a font thing, which disappoints me slightly.
‘It turns out that being forced to achieve an erection and masturbate in front of police is not a legal 4A search. ‘
Yet one of those cocksuckers called judges dissented.
If there are any judges, especially federal district court judges who ever pass across this humble site, “fuck you. Fuck you and your court. “
Just don’t say anything about woodchippers or cancer or Hell.
/Preet
Time for Swiss, OMWC, SP, bacon (and whoever else I may have missed) to join the exodus and come on over. Protip: weed’s legal.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/more-coloradans-are-choosing-to-leave-the-state-heres-where-theyre-going
Massachusetts? HA HA!
Hah. They’re moving to Seattle.
Whitelisting sites sucks Q, I guess Chrome does too?
Is it not coming up for you?
Copy paste into http://archive.is and your problems will be over.
Sigh…I have good friends in CO. South of Aspen (yes, they are DVT). I liked it there. A lot. But no fondue mines there, so here in IL I stay….for now.
DVT? South of Aspen? Wife’s family is from that part of the world so I get to spend Christmas & good chunks of the summer there.
New Castle.
*looks down on Rifle*
I spent many years in the mountain west. I much prefer it to any other place I’ve lived. *sigh*
Same. I live in Boise and cant imagine living east of denver. Swiss, come visit Boise
So it’s still blowing hard out in Socal, the anemometer read 78mph at one point at my house, and I’ve lost power three times already, crashing my PC every time, Yikes!
Hope that the fires are keeping their distance from you.
The big ones are 60-80 miles west of me, but the Mts. are at my back, and they haven’t gone up since 2003, so We are watching
Its strange how my previous states of residence never caught fire.
If i were a godly-person, I almost might suspect that the divine had a grudge or something.
I love this Captain Kirk, Vic is cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQG8X5IHpag
Episode 3 of Star Trek Continues is my fave — it continues the plot line of “Mirror, Mirror” in ST:TOS.
So these came today.
I’ll be right over
You’re always welcome, but I’d rather go to your house!
Freakin. awesome.
Very nice, what is that bourbon? I’m assuming I get a free bottle of that with a set of the peanut gallery cups?
That’s some delicious Willet Bourbon. It didn’t come with the shot glasses today, or there would be (might be) more left.
Well, the bottle sure is purty. I’m currently trying to stock up a bar, that one would look good in the shelf.
It’s so delicious. I used to think I wasn’t a bourbon drinker, but it turned out I just hate the cheap stuff.
We blame SugarFree.
This^^ I thought I hated bourbon until I tried some decent stuff.
I got a STEVE SMITH sticker coming, and definitely a T shirt for christmas
Those are great. It’s wild how far you guys have come with this site. Seriously, thank you.
It’s a community effort! So, thank all of you!
That’s great!
Excellent.
https://twitter.com/azalben/status/938755621712748545
Bluechecks are reading SugarFree?
Worst snub for the Time “person of the year” cover – Corey Feldman, or the potted plant?
Florida Man. Always man of the year.
So, anybody else keeping up with events in the UK?
I’m thinking Brexit is done–or if it happens, it’ll take May committing political suicide.
My understanding of the present situation:
May’s coalition in Parliament is fairly slim. She needs all the support she can get to stay in power.
The question came up over what would happen with Northern Ireland/Ulster when the UK leaves the EU.
The pro-Irish in Northern Ireland/Ulster aren’t about to accept leaving Ireland behind and not even being in the EU anymore, not with Ireland staying as part of the EU. Meanwhile, the pro-UK people of Northern Ireland/Ulster . . .
At one point, May thought she had an agreement to leave Ulster in a sort of special administrative zone, and she announced that agreement. Shortly thereafter, her Ulster contingent in parliament called–suddenly May had to announce that there wasn’t an agreement in place after all. The people of Ulster aren’t about to be left behind to the mercy of Ireland, and they see a special administrative region as a step towards being left behind.
It seems that May can’t leave them behind or take them with her out of the EU–at least not without starting the Troubles all over again.
This is further complicated by the fact that May can’t keep her government in power without the support of the Ulster contingent in her coalition. She needs their support to stay in power.
If she calls an election, there’s no guarantee that she’ll get more than enough seats to overcome her dependence on the Ulster contingent. There’s no guarantee there won’t be another terrorist struggle in Northern Ireland/Ulster again–whether she leaves them behind or takes them . . . and guess whose fault that will be?
Not Labour’s and not the EU’s.
I’m not sure she can move forward with Brexit until the question of Northern Ireland/Ulster is settled, and I’m not sure that issue will be settled until Jesus comes back.
It’s not like Ireland wants to help the UK out of this tough situation. It’s not like the EU wants to help May out either.
From where I’m standing, May is sooooooooooooooooooooooooo fucked.
They may be locked in place for the foreseeable future.
I thought snap elections couldn’t be called by the PM any more? Now it’s some lame super-majority only thing.
This is from a CNN article back in June: “But an early, or snap, election can be held if at least two-thirds of lawmakers agree to it or if there’s a vote of no confidence in the government.”
That’s what I’m saying. 2/3 is super majority. No more Royalty busting in and dissolving parliament like in the good old days.
Technically, it could be a simple majority following a vote of no confidence but, in most cases, you’re right.
It’s ever dumber than that
-Ireland wants same regulations (broadly) and standards to apply on the whole island, as they are now
-If UK leaves, this might change, so Ireland will block the exit
-There was a proposal to not change standards in NI, but in rest of UK (thus placating Ireland)
-To which Unionists went “so, border’s effectively in the Irish Sea? No.”
-Compromise being offered: no regulatory change in all of UK.
So where’s Brexit then? Dead.
Not over territory or anything. Over fucking retarded regulation.
It about sums up the EU, the Wet Tories and the whole stupid farce. I just want Boris Johnson to start musing out loud that Ireland isn’t a NATO member…
What a shame. Good God, May really screwed the pooch on this one, the stupid bint.
I can waive my 4th Amendment rights if the policewoman is hot though, right? /Louis C.K.
/H. W.
Rep. Trent Franks resigning. He won’t say why…
Another one bites the dust.
Affair with female + an abortion
or
Affair with a dude
20 bucks on outed by a transsexual prostitute.
Why not both?
Spending more time with his family? Refocusing on the core values he holds most dear? The possibilities are endless.
Brain tumor. Wait is it too soon to joke about that?
Definitely brain tumor.
Cue Arnold.
Never too soon when it’s a Tumor infecting the GOV
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/12/muslim-cleric-offensive-jihad-means-attacking-infidels-to-conquer-their-countries-and-bring-them-into-fold-of-islam
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“Kuwaiti Cleric Saalim At-Taweel: Jihad for the Sake of Allah Means Fighting the Infidels to Make Them Convert to Islam; Enslaving Infidels Is One of the Virtues of Islam,” MEMRI, November 7, 2017:
On November 7, Kuwaiti cleric Sheikh Saalim Bin Sa’d At-Taweel published a lecture on his official YouTube channel explaining the concept of Jihad. Sheikh At-Taweel said that while “Jihad” has different meanings, “Jihad for the sake of Allah” means fighting infidels in order to spread Islam. He further explained that slavery is part of Islam and said that Muslims should not try to deny this. In fact, he said, slavery is “one of the virtues of Islam” because it provides infidels with an opportunity to become Muslims and avoid the Hellfire. Over the past decade, Sheikh At-Taweel has made several visits to the United States and was guest lecturer in mosques in Worcester, Massachusetts, Modesto, California, and New York, and elsewhere. In 2016, he participated in the 3rd Annual U.K. National Knowledge Conference.
Saalim Bin Sa’d At-Taweel: When we speak about Jihad for the sake of Allah, we mean fighting for the sake of Allah. The word “Jihad” has other meanings apart from “fighting.” “Fighting” is only one of the meanings of the word “Jihad,” but “Jihad for the sake of Allah” refers to “fighting.”
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How will we ever know what motivates them? I better consult my cousin who knows a guy that went to the UAE once a decade ago.
Speaking of shit-stains who should do long stretches in prison…
Menendez: Throw CCW Permit Holders Into Prison For A Long Time If They Enter Jersey
He really is a Class A sack of shit isn’t he? So willing to do to others what he narrowly avoided (and certainly deserved).
Pentagon: U.S. now has 2,000 troops in Syria
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The U.S. military has about 2,000 troops in Syria, which is four times the number Pentagon officials previously acknowledged, officials said Wednesday.
The new number doesn’t necessarily mean more troops have been deployed. Rather, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis recently revised how the Pentagon accounts for deployed soldiers in special operations zone, Voice of America reported. And the new figures likely mean a more accurate count of troops who have already been in Syria for some time.
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https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/12/07/Pentagon-US-now-has-2000-troops-in-Syria/9771512631524/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=15
So depending on how you count there could be 20,000 troops in Syria?
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis recently revised how the Pentagon accounts for deployed soldiers in special operations zone
Odd how they don’t frame that as the Obama administration lying about how many troops we had in Syria.
That’s just lovely.
Don’t think they’ll be there that much longer really. 90% of the job is complete – and this admin really doesn’t seem to want to get in the weeds with Assad. Hopefully we’ll throw our weight around at the discussion table in Geneva (esp. re: our local allies), but not on the ground.
I thought we already discussed my boss’ escaped research project? Anyways ya we are going to have some meetings about that one. But you mammals should really listened to that guy.
“AAn academic librarian at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst recently encouraged her fellow librarians to fight microaggressions by hugging students or telling them “I love you.”
According to Isabel Espinal, the school librarian for students majoring in Afro American Studies, these small acts of kindness are called “microaffections,” and can help create a more “empowering” learning experience for students of color.
“Note someone’s unique fashion sense or new haircut.”
A “Microaffections Rubric” that Espinal created for a presentation at the Dartmouth Library Conference in October recommends that librarians “note someone’s unique fashion sense,” “smile at students,” “hug someone,” say “I love you,” and even “admit when you commit a microaggression and apologize.”
Librarians can also “publically appreciate something a coworker or student did,” “help a coworker get promoted,” or “invite a colleague out for coffee,” Espinal recommends.”
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10237
Assault? And isn’t complimenting someone on their looks sexual harassment?
One person’s microaffection is another’s sexual assault.
A pimp’s love is different than that of a square.
If I tried to help my coworkers by giving them some “microaffections” I’d end up in HR having to sign off some papers declaring that I was on notice for my “macroviolations”.
This is why academia has such a bad reputation.
“German Young Socialists Want the Government to Fund ‘Feminist Porn’ on TV”
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/german-young-socialist-wants-the-government-to-fund-feminist-porn-on-tv/
Isn’t there already an obese BDSM section on most porn sites?
Why do I have to shut off my wifi and Bluetooth when entering the US embassy complex in Tokyo? Also, the “security” consists of a 70 y/o Japanese oyaji with a stick. Lol.
So you can’t spread the tentacle porn on your phone to innocent Americans?
I’m not that type expat. My phone has the odds from the horse track and coupons for discount beer on it. The anime expats give me the creeps.
Hey, been meaning to ask. I’m kind of sort of in the planning stages of maybe taking a trip to Japan in the next year or two.
Only knowing very limited amounts of Japanese, how difficult would it be to get around Tokyo and be able to use the trains to go outside the city?
Not hard. You just ask someone and they’ll help. My favorite place in Japan is Ishikawa prefecture. It’s on the Japan sea coast and has a unique feel to it. Wherever you go, the traveling part is no problem. No one is going to scam you or fuck with you. Why do you want to visit?
And what’s the squiggly symbol for “maid cafe”?
メードカフェ. Waste of money. Just go to Harajuku and walk around if you wanna see that stuff for free.
There’s at least one in Singapore – everything’s in English! (Disclaimer: I haven’t been in that one – pretty sure it’s still there since at least 2007 – but I’ve walked by it and speaking from experience in Singapore in general).
I just got back from Japan and spend a few weeks a year there for work. It’s really easy to get by with no Japanese in the major cities. For the subway and trains I use a website that makes it easy to get where your going called hyperdia. http://www.hyperdia.com/en/
You need to learn how the ticket machines work they usually have an English button, find the station nearest to where you want to go, use the website to tell you what your route should be and give it a go.
Most restaurants have pictures of all the food and I have gotten good at finding good ones wherever I go.
Be prepared to use Yen wherever you go.
Or just get an IC card (suica or pasmo in Tokyo). Depending on what you’re doing, can be more expensive than a day pass but so much easier than buying tickets for local travel. Swipe for entry, swipe for exit.
I’ve found hyperdia to be a bit klunky. Google maps app will work most of the time, though sometimes it won’t give you the most optimum route. Google Translate is also nice.
The most annoying thing is if you look around more than three seconds, someone will stop and ask if they can help you.
I would go as soon as you can. Don’t overthink it or worry too much. The first time I went I was worried about not knowing the language, strange food, how to get around, etc. It really is easy. If I could go on vacation next month, I’d go back in a heartbeat.
this sounds like something *the russians* would say
(gives suspicous, hard-stare)
This is the problem with a website real by Glibertarians: no Jewsday Tuesday because OMWC didn’t feel like it, no this Thursday (yet), and total chaos in the comments.
Also, first!
*ran by
Happy Holidays, DJ.
Thanks Straffin. I bet you see a lot of BBBW in Japan.
there is such a thing as too much, and that’s it
And *thicc Thursday* stupid phone
No more Thicc Thursdays. It’s now Asian Lesbian Military Fetish Bondage Thursdays:
Hope you don’t mind.
I thought there could be nothing worse than that in photo of the Chinese woman about to be executed. Until I learned there are cosplayers who seem to venerate that shit.
Asian chicks and leather riding boots. Hot. Always been my weakness.
Indeed, though if you want hot Asian chicks tied up, the cheap chinese knock-offs don’t hold a candle to some solid Japanese shibari porn.
HMMMMM…… waits for more
I keep telling OMWC that his public is clamoring for more, and he keeps promising more, but, well, you see how far that gets us.
It doesn’t help that he keeps misinterpreting “public” as “pubic”.
For sloopy to comment on on morning links:
Everton with 3 wins in a row with 3 different managers.
That shall end this weekend.
yes, Big Sam will be back.
Ha, I like Big Sam. I wish he wasn’t working for the Enemy.
Fuckin’ fiberglass insulation. All week now.
I went and sat with one of my brother’s colleagues, a construction manager for a big regional firm. He got his start as an architecture graduate, but told me about a recent hire who got the BIM drafting associate’s I’m considering and started there making close to fifty grand. For this town… That’s nice. Real nice. That definitely moves some needles for me.
In other news, I love pecan beer.
Lazy Magnolia?
Local brew, Alien.
I eat fibreglass for Breakfast, try selling a new system and the customers decide to insulate right before you do the install, Thanks!
I hate the stuff. Hate it. I’ll mix and pour concrete, screw off drywall, cut ceiling tile forever. Insulation, gfy.
Oh I hate it, but it’s part of why I make the big bucks (when I do)
Like I needed a reason to not buy busch
Isn’t it neat that we’re all going to be subsidizing their beer deliveries? I fucking love science.
the people who run ABI are unbelievable penny pinchers. Carlos Brito wouldn’t buy 2 ply toilet paper if he didn’t think it increased their bottom line.
they’re not buying those things for marketing. they think they’ll save money.
true story: when AmBev bought Fosters brewing assets, Brito had all the bathroom lightbulbs replaced so they were too-dark to read in the toilet. that’s the kind of managers they are.
my guess is they’re getting them nearly for free. tesla needs some company that manages big fleets (a beer business is basically breweries + lots of truck drivers aka distributors) to make a show of confidence in their product. they’re probably given very sweet financing that allows AB to gift them to distributors and recognize a net benefit in the process.
remember the Investors he was looking for? He found em, cronyism FTW!
Who reads print media in the can?
“read“
It looka like a man
Ah, the good old days. Would buy one of these just for the name, but no way I’d fit inside.
Why are we worried about AB anyway? i thought we were all beer snobs in Glibville
/Glibville is the Kick kick kickiest
I drink cheap beer, too.
Cobra for me, when I’m broke
Yep. My baseline is cheap beer. On weekends I up it a little and save the premium beer for holidays and celebrations. Why drink expensive beer all the time?
Because it’s better beer? i had to back off due to money issues, 15$ a day vs. 5$ dollars a day, sometimes 20+ on the Weekends doing reviews,
Good ain’t cheap
/Ice Cold King Cobra FTW
I like to have a case of some cheap stuff around, you never know when someone will come over and you need 13 each.
^^This guy **smashes Strohs can on fivehead, gets a fresh one** gets it!
Let’s Party!
I drink almost exclusively Busch light. Coors if I’m feeling like spending a little more.
Come to the Dark side, Torpedo!
Yusef porn
i apologize for the image quality. i was testing out an old camera i had in storage, apparently it has a setting for “potato-resolution”. which is odd, because its a high-end 3-CCD jobby. apparently when it was turned off for 5 years, it resets itself to like 72 dpi when its capable of …. lots more.
still a good image.
Ho Lee Fuk the Tele is a beauty, and the Jag is nice enough, are those yours?
What is that? that isn’t a Fender for sure, i have a Kramer/Ferrington Tele that is a good copy, electric acoustic, but not quite a Tele
the right is a 76 tele custom, the left is a Warmoth frankenstein i slapped together from parts. It was started as sort of a vanity-piece (i basically pieced a lot of the rare-wood stuff that Warmoth sells), but genuinely a great player. Its a chambered-body, so it resonates a bit, and can do some cool feedback effects…. and that top is brazilian rosewood from before it was banned. so it has some investment value.
the neck (which you obv can’t see) is canary wood, which is really wonderful and i’m surprised more high-end guitars don’t use it. It wont take a finish (or at least that’s what i remember being told) but its natural state is utterly smooth and satiny.
here’s a couple more pics of the Warmoth… with my phone, which apparently takes better pictures than this bloody $1000 piece of crap. Yes, the switch is missing its cap.
here’s the sort of thing it started from (not the same shape, obv, but similar basic construction + chambering)
If i had to get another guitar to be a pure beater (something to gig with and beat the shit out of) I’d do exactly the same thing, albeit with cheaper, simpler construction. that was *actually* the original plan with the warmoth: i was aiming to build a gigging guitar so i could avoid dragging my pretty vintage guitar everywhere and dinging it up. but then i started drooling over their various exotic-woods and ended up dropping money on a closet-queen, and i ended up playing out with the tele most of the time anyway.
Article! Article! Article!
on what? how to build a guitar from warmoth parts? it would be rather short. “pick parts, buy parts, put parts together”
fender style guitars (bolt on necks) are basically effortless to slap together. i say this as someone who is not mr handyman at all. we’re talking ikea-furniture level assembly. retards do it all the time.
there’s only a few things to be conscious of to avoid mistakes: like, make sure your pickups have similar overall output (the bridge can be slightly hotter), and get pots appropriate to their impedance. but the people @ Warmoth basically will do everything for you to make it retard-proof. you can just tell them what you are aiming for (e.g. a vintagey thing, or some metal-shredder, or something quirky) and they can pretty much assemble a kit of pots /switches/pups to match the body-style + configuration you want.
the value-proposition is sort of like any DIY project. You don’t really save money: after you’ve bought everything then added in the labor, and the time it takes to fuck something up then re-do it properly, it ends up costing about the same as if you just went into a store and said, “gimme dat one”. But the nice part is that in the end, you have exactly what you want and are capable of replacing/modifying anything if you change your mind.
something slightly retarded, with a libertarian theme, which might be worth an article…? is the fact that for a number of years, it would have been illegal for me to leave the country with that guitar. because the wood is regulated as an endangered fucking species.
its the same dumbass law the feds went after gibson with a few years back. Brazilian Rosewood was treated harsher than cuban cigars. more like a kilo of heroin. anyway, apparently that’s not a thing anymore. or ‘not an enforcement priority’. Still on the books tho.
thanks for the response, I like the slinkyness of Teles, without the Squeeee of Strats,
My Kramer/ Ferrington Tele is a master at Shiny voiced sounds, Shimmery? But my ’95 telecaster does NOT go out of tune, ever, that’s Fender
I grew up taking jazz lessons, and gibsons were sort of the preferred thing for proper-tone at the time. my first “good” guitar wasthis. I think mine was an 84, and i got it used a few years later. anyway, it looked ridiculous when you were playing jazz, and this teen kid has some guitar that looks like something Satan himself would use. it was a good deal at the time. it turned out to be a smart choice because i sold it after college for about $2000 more than i paid for it. Thank you Grunge-rock, for making SG’s popular with kiddies.
By that point i’d realized what i actually wanted/needed from a guitar, which was ‘something that stays in tune’ (gibsons often don’t, esp with weather changes), and which ‘didn’t tilt neck-down when you let go’ (SG’s do). I fooled around with a few other things (PRS, ErnieBall/MM) then stumbled on that 70s Tele @ “We Buy And Sell New and Used Guitars” on 48th st. (aka, “we buy”) It was a freaking bargain. And that 70s seth lover ‘wide range’ humbucker basically sounds like nothing else made. truly, magnets are magic and no one knows how they work. but these are like super special magic. it involves something called CuNiFe
anyway, i decided that worked for me. so i made a second one with a similar physical configuration, but with warmer, ‘less honky’, pickups. the CuNiFe are very honky in the midrange. i hardly play much anymore, so the warmoth comes out of the case most often for fiddling/occasional jam w/ buddies.
broken link to satan’s not-really-a-jazz-guitar, fixed, hopefully
This is what i think when I think Glibertarians,
Lidsville,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh7jYEN7Na0
It’s actually more like this.
I do think its funny that they do a poll every year, asking, “How cool is Stalin? : Pretty cool? Super cool? Mostly cool?”
I need answers Man! what is that guitar?
I blame public schools not even fucking mentioning the gulags for this.
The TSA took my car keys away
Fuck the TSA.
I really expected the Ramones would be the song of the links after that, alas no.
I don’t run sound for links, but that was exactly what I thought
NO! I just discovered that ampleboobscleavage DOT tumblr DOT com (obfuscated because it is a porn site) has turned on safe mode.
Try fourquarters, my buddy mentioned it one day…
This wind is killing me, like Trumps tax cuts, My entire Family just Died because Santa Ana Winds…….. and I lost power again
MIL, 79 years old, just lost power, my Son is on the way to help, this is getting fucked up with the Wind
Sorry. I hope everyone gets through OK.
The worst was when a 100 mph gust took 50 feet of my fence down, I never found the gate, that was Awesome
I woke up, went to the back yard and my Fence was Destroyed or just gone, I was amazed at the power of the Santa Anas. The next day My Boss asked me if we should work due to all the ashes and burning debris falling from the sky, in a Woodshop! I went Sailing.
That’s sucks man. Best of luck to you. Hope your home and your Kia stay safe.
I have 2 Kias, where’s the Love?
Once again, Jacobin glosses over the bloody history of communism:
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Western countries could make excuses and issue caveats, but the fact remained: despite their many flaws, Communist countries had greater legal equality for women and stronger support for women as workers.
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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/12/elena-lagadinova-bulgaria-partisan-amazon-gender-equality
wiki sez
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The Red Army entered Bulgaria in September 1944 and immediately, partisans exacted reprisals. Tens of thousands were executed, including active fascists and members of the political police, but also people who were simply of the non-Communist intelligentsia, members of the professional and bourgeois classes. Merely displeasing a Communist cadre could lead to execution. These massacres were actively encouraged by Georgi Dimitrov, who sent a telegram from Moscow a week after the Soviets’ arrival in Sofia calling for the “torching of all signs of Bulgarian jingoism, nationalism, or anti-Communism”. On 20 September, the Central Committee called for “anti-Communist resistance” and “counterrevolutionaries” to be exterminated.[2]
A People’s Tribunal was created in October 1944. This special court pronounced 12,000 death sentences, with over 2,700 eventually being executed. (In contrast, in 1941-1944, the years of active Communist resistance, 357 people were executed for all crimes.) In early 1945, a government decree allowed for the creation of Work Education Centers (TVO in Bulgarian). These were in fact concentration camps. The decision was approved by all parties in the Fatherland Front, including those whose members soon found themselves in the centers. One category of inmate included pimps, blackmailers, beggars and idlers, while the other comprised all those judged as political threats to the state’s stability and security. The power to execute this decree fell to the Office of State Security within the Ministry of the Interior. Over the next decade, a series of laws and decrees strengthened the state police’s powers.[3]
Not all people the regime found undesirable were put in forced labour camps. Deportation – forced resettlement in distant provincial areas – was another method employed. Between 1948 and 1953 some 25,000 were deported.
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Libertarian Moment? When We all exterminate the Slavers, not like it will happen, just wishful thinking,
IMO, there will never be a Libertarian movement, We aren’t a Political party, just an idea
The country has officially gone batshit insane.
I’ll bask in the unwokeness tomorrow at 8.12
Sadly, my commute doesn’t go through Midtown.
North Korean boats full of skeletons washing ashore in Japan
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/12/06/more-north-korean-ghost-ships-washing-up-on-japans-coast-due-to-food-shortage-sanctions-analysts-say.html
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The surge of North Korean “ghost ships” washing up along Japan’s coast in recent weeks — including some crafts filled with skeletal remains — is due to the Hermit Kingdom’s severe food shortages and the result of mounting sanctions against Kim Jong Un, analysts said Tuesday.
Three more bodies, believed to be those of North Koreans, were recovered off the coast of Sakata in Yamagata prefecture Monday, two days after a dilapidated empty boat washed ashore, Japan’s coast guard said. The discovery is just one of 28 boats that have reached the Japanese shoreline facing North Korea this year — about four more compared to last year. About 650 miles sit between North Korea and Japan’s coast.
Usually, only empty vessels are found. But at least 18 bodies have been discovered this year. In late November, a 22-foot wooden boat was found containing eight bodies — described as “skeletonized” because they were so decomposed.
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“is due to the Hermit Kingdom’s severe food shortages and the result of mounting sanctions against Kim Jong Un, analysts said Tuesday.”
It’s not the sanctions that are starving north Koreans smart guy.
http://thedonovan.com/archives/modernwarriorload/ModernWarriorsCombatLoadReport.pdf
page 12
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When the mission demands that Soldiers be employed as porters, loads of up to 120 pounds can be carried for several days over distances of 20 km a day. Although loads of up to 150 pounds are feasible, the Soldier could become fatigued or even injured. If possible, contact with the enemy should be avoided since march speeds will be slow.
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Well ain’t that the truth.
The notable fact is that if you look at how a standard US (2003) pack is filled, it’s nowhere near as easy to carry as a modern high-altitude frame pack. 120lb packed high and close is a lot less tiring than a lower-slung pack with a CoG 6″ further from the spine.
It looks like HM RMC has regressed in their kit to US style frames, but back in the 80’s/90’s, they used a variation of this – with the frames wrapped in camo scrim – for everything but desert deployment.
I’m not now and never really have been superbly fit, but that kit was quite adequate for a standard+30 (110 lb) training load over 18 miles a day for tough European theater training.
I always read dry military stuff in the voice of “sarge” from Red vs. Blue
An idea I had just now:
Aside from armor, water is the next heaviest thing a US soldier carries. They have to carry a lot because they sweat a lot from exertion. Suppose they wore pouches filled with dry ice- that would keep them cool for a lot less weight. Dry ice is about 1.5g/cm^3. That’s heavier than water, but it can dissipate way more heat.
These guys did some research on it:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274975671_Design_and_Evaluation_of_a_Personal_Dry-Ice_Cooling_Jacket
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Abstract
A personal dry-ice cooling jacket for workers in industrial heat stress environments was developed following three stages of prototype design and evaluation. Model-B2 was evaluated in two laboratory heat stress environments (dry-bulb temperatures of 35 and 45 °C) on two male subjects pedalling 60 minutes. Garment variables were dry-ice surface area and pocket insulation.
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A quick search revealed dry ice vests for sale.
Probably calls for some quite finicky management.
Once the sun goes down, arid and/or high altitude terrain gets cold quick, and you really don’t want to cool off any more than it takes to evaporate the surface sweat. It’s probably the last thing you need on a a recce in hostile territory. Looks to me like it would violate KISS.
Hmm. Well, carrying more than 60 pounds of stuff also violates KISS, IMO.
Maybe it’s time to bring back the mules.
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By the start of World War II the U.S. Army had become more mechanized, horses had lost their ranking as a mode of transportation, but the mule continued to be of great value – – because of the superior ability to negotiate areas inaccessible to tanks and other vehicles, such as the mountains of Italy and the jungles of Burma. Mobilization actually began in 1930, with an authorization for 3,500 mules. By 1944 and 1945, some 14,000 mules were used by the 10th Mountain Division in northern Italy.
Mules were used with great effectiveness by Merrill’s Marauders in the jungles of Burma. Once, following a 300-mile forced march, Merrill’s troops were confronted by an overwhelming enemy force. The mules made such a commotion that the enemy thought they must be outnumbered and withdrew.
In Asia, the Chinese Army used more than 20,000 mules in their battles against the Japanese.
The terrain encountered in the war in Korea during that war, resembled that of the mountains of Italy during WW II, therefore the Army employed mules for use where trucks and jeeps could not reach. Since the Chinese and North Koreans used mules for transportation, it was only a matter of time before the allied forces began to capture many animals. In the spring of 1951, communist forces used pack mules to carry supplies for attacks on UN forces north of Seoul. When they were forced back, the communists abandoned their mules, and the US 1st Cavalry Division captured many of the animals.
The mules were found to be thin and sick, but were quickly restored to health by candy, sugar, and cereal from the soldier’s rations. One of the captured mules was of particular interest, as it was found to have a US army Brand (a Preston Brand) number 08K0. When that brand was located in the Army records, it was found that he had been originally dispatched to the China-Burma-India theater during WW II. Following that war, the mule was transferred to the Chinese Army. He must have been later captured by the Communist Chinese, and then moved to the fight in Korea. After more than six years, that mule ended up back in the hands of the US Army – – then returned to work on a pack train.
On February 15, 1957 the Army officially deactivated the last two operational mule units at Ft. Carson, Colorado. That did not mean, however, that the military would never again call upon the mule for service.
When the Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan in the 1980’s, the CIA purchased thousands of mules for the Afghans, to help maintain supply lines.
Most recently, at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center northwest of Bridgeport, California, Marines are trained to use mules on combat missions in Afghanistan and other high altitude regions. Mules can be used in the historic Afghan method of packing animals as an alternative to using Humvees or helicopters in steep mountainous terrain.
In an Army Manual, “Special Forces Use of Pack Animals”, it states, “Animal transport systems can greatly increase mission success when hostile elements and conditions require the movement of combat troops and equipment by foot”. The Manual goes on to describe the characteristics of the mule as having intelligence, agility and stamina, which make them excellent and necessary pack animals.
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http://www.mulemuseum.org/history-of-the-mule.html
Fair comment on the 60lb load.
I used to take a couple days to recover from one of those bastards. I had to do it a couple of times in the late 80’s and I don’t remember them with fond memories.
Would have appreciated a goddamn mule train.
That’s what Boston Dynamics is trying to do.
We have air cooled vests where i work that i have had to strap on from time. When we have a problem in the furnace basement or on the melt cranes in the summer the temperature can be well over 160. They bought those vests for us so that we could work for more than a fee minutes at a time.
You have to have a supply of compressed air, so they would be impractical for the military, but they work ok here.
You are insane and I applaud you Sir, you make what build with
“I”
See…what we really need here is a legit stillsuit – even if it’s the shitty movie version from the neck down. Save all that sweat, filter it as it drains down and use the automatic walking and heel movements to pump it back to a camel-bak style body tank available for sipping at any time. Granted you’d still lose a lot of sweat through the head, but it would require a LOT less additional water. Honeycomb the suit with wicking technology, etc and even if it tears, you’ll only lose what was in the local “cell.”
https://chatroomconvocom.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/unnamed-5.jpg?w=496
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/91/0f/68/910f685e43455c16f906085b4c74f9dd.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bu-9bNNIAAAtrrg.jpg:large
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/28/42/e4/2842e4f917a57eb2bb11defe8fd644e0.jpg
All of them.
I’ll have one of those, please.
Ugh. I meant one of these. Not one of the ones below.
OK. I give up. I’ll covet the blonde. *sigh*
“Ultimately having sex with a person who has a micropenis shouldn’t be a bigger deal than sex with any new partner”
https://nypost.com/2017/12/04/sex-with-a-micropenis-can-be-a-mind-bendingly-good-experience/
Read: “Ultimately having sex with a person in a wheelchair shouldn’t be a bigger deal than sex with any new partner” or “Ultimately having sex with a person who is a dwarf shouldn’t be a bigger deal than sex with any new partner”
Perhaps it shouldn’t, but I’m sure it is.
Last night I jumped on the Discord to bitch because I figured everyone would be gone from here. The thing I was bitching about was that I got into it with the commies in my publisher’s group chat about these changes Patreon is making. Like the people writing the article, they were all convinced that the low-tier patrons were going to bail on them, and they were ranting about greedy corporations screwing over the poor with their evil 2.9% transaction fees.
Today I saw this rant that basically repeated the same wailing as the people in the group chat, and it got me thinking about these true believer commies.*
All of them take the fact that they have primarily $1 subscribers and from that construe that $1 is all their subscribers are able to afford. “If they could pay more than $1, they would have pledged more than $1.”
But I found this hard to understand, because I have a Patreon and all my patrons are $3 or above except for one person. So I thought, “how the heck am I managing to get all these people who are willing/able to pay more if my audience is basically the same as these people’s?”
Then I went around and looked at their Patreon pages. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM gives all their content away at the $1 level and the higher tiers have nothing of value attached to them. They’re giving away short stories for $1 apiece, and then the $3 and above tiers will be shit like “able to vote in my monthly polls, able to attend my monthly livestream where I talk about my toaster or whatever nonsense comes into my mind,” are you serious? No one is going to pay for that because that is not an item of value!! If you are giving away the thing people want for $1, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO PAY $1. NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE POOR, BUT BECAUSE WHY SHOULD THEY PAY $2 EXTRA TO TALK ABOUT YOUR TOASTER?
These commies, it’s almost kind of sad? It’s easy to find commies who want people to give them free shit, but a bunch of these people are apparently naive as fuck, because they genuinely seem to believe that the only reason people aren’t donating more is because they’re too poor to (they seriously think poor people are begging for pennies on the street and then turning around and giving all their pennies to some author on Patreon?) and not because, you know, if you sell something for $1 people are going to pay $1. And so they’re saying stuff like “I would rather just pay the fee myself” even though the whole point of this website is for US TO MAKE MONEY TO SUPPORT OURSELVES, because they’re so convinced that all these people giving them $1 currently are street orphans?
Meanwhile, I’m pulling in more money with less patrons than half these people because I flat out said from the beginning that I’m not taking time away from my busy schedule to write extra short stories for $1. It’s not happening. And miraculously, when given the choice between a blog post (my $1 tier) and a short story, the thing people actually want, somehow these destitute orphans manage to scrounge up the $3!
I GUESS I’M JUST AN EVIL CAPITALIST
* Before you guys say anything, yes, I am aware that them being commies and then turning around using Patreon to make money is hypocritical. Their response is, “Sure, I hate capitalism, but it’s the system we’re stuck with (for now) so give me your money.”
I couldn’t do your job. I think I’d strangle my coworkers if I had to listen to shit like that day after day.
Last night was the closest I’ve come to actually doing it. I usually tune it out but I actually got into an argument with them. I think I’m done with this publisher. They asked for a sequel to the book I released with them, and the book does sell well, but I don’t want to put up with them anymore. I’d rather focus on fresh stuff with the less derpy publisher.
Yes! Fire your publisher!
I am getting ready to fire one of my clients in my arts world career because I just can’t take it anymore.
“I GUESS I’M JUST AN EVIL CAPITALIST”
How dare you want to profit from the fruits of your labor? Don’t you care about the general welfare comrade?
So..the checks for the Harvey Wienstein stories and Hat and the Hair art should just start rolling in…anytime now….any time…
Weird. All the artists I follow on patreon have massive variations between their tiers – which is why some of them offer tiers up to $100/month and often get folks willing to donate for it – ie. custom sketches monthly, etc. For a really classy comic strip with amazing art – check out https://www.patreon.com/lackadaisy
They’re called “comfort women”.
https://nypost.com/2017/12/07/military-wives-furious-over-proposal-to-send-sex-workers-for-the-troops/
This was recommended on that article, seems Glib appropriate.
That’s awesome.
I think my cats sometimes sniff each others’ butts to see what they’ve been eating.
They sniff each others’ mouths to see if the other has already had the evening dose of Temptations treats. Pretty sure I could teach my cats to type by rewarding them with Temptations.
if cats could type they would be like, “WANT KILL WANT KILL WANT KILL WANT KILL PET ME KILL KILL KILL PET ME”
Yeah, I really don’t know what “thoughts” pass through their minds. Two of them are scheming plotters, and the youngest one is just retarded (but sweet).
KILL IT
Kittah was a Rolling Stone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dWDJhLCgdo
Hmm. Teaching them to dance could work too!
Geez, that’s great for morale… Maybe OK for the single short-timer, but that would infuriate me if I were a wife of a career military guy.
Awww man, that means I have to jack off three more times today to keep up.
I know you speak English, what is this gibberish?
thank mr skeltal
I dunno what to think about this.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/07/trent-franks-expected-to-resign-286967
looks like a repaired harelip to me
i also don’t really understand what he did
i presume it was something like, “hey you already work for me, would you consider making a baby for me? It would not involve intercourse. here’s some of my sperm” (shows turkey baster) “take your time and think about it”.
I had to work late tonight to prep for 2 weeks of business travel (year end stuff sux), so my hubby went to hear a concert with one of his bandmates.
I went to the bar fridge when I got home at 9:30, and he had written a note that he had made a pitcher of Long-Island Tea (he has a few decades of bartending experience–Bass players gotta eat somehow) for me to just pour over ice and enjoy.
That, my friends, is love.
Make that man Happy!
/Good Love Lasts
Oh, I do. And I let him “retire” and take care of the housework while I go to work, so he has plenty of time for his band and all that stuff.
Damn! I wish I had a pitched of Long Island Iced Tea waiting for me.
(actually, wife had pizza in the fridge so can’t complain too much)
He’s a keeper!
/stares pointedly at OMWC who does not mix cocktails
LOLZ. Mine has mad skills at bartending.
Since we both have borderline bloodsugar, he has found low-carb sour mix, no carb tonic, and a number of other helpers that allow us to continue to Drink in the Manner to Which we Are Accustomed.
Plus, sometimes he just gets artsy and makes something magic out of what we happen to have in the liquor closet.
Mr Hayek’s grandfather was an Italian immigrant at age 15 in the late 1800s. He became a coal miner in Pennsylvania, then Illinois (bringing back many cousins to America every couple of years, according to the ship records). Lost the use of his left arm in a coal mining accident in about 1900, so then opened a tavern. At prohibition, he became a bootlegger and distiller (this is just a little south of Chicago). His son (my hubby’s dad) got held for “ransom” by Al Capone’s men before Al was very well known–he wanted Gramps to sell his stills and quit the biz, but Gramps said to buzz off—hence the kidnapping. Long story.
Anyway, after prohibition, he went back to legal tavern ownership, passed that onto his son, and then his Grandson, Mr Hayeksplosives, became a bartender/musician. So the alcohol flows freely and with great purpose and life around here.
Stevie Wonder,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc0XEw4m-3w
funk time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXE_n2q08Yw
Roll with me my Glibbas,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVANQheoRUw
if you like that, you will probably like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhXt_J-6Ick
i can’t remember if its a Crusaders tune, or if they covered these guys, but the crusaders do a good version too. (probably in the sidebar if you look)
Oh, this is also something that was in the back of my brain nagging me
that link of yours isn’t a curtis mayfield song at all. I was listening to the lyrics, and going, “wait a fucking second”,… then remembered this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDTXljIqxRE
its actually even in the notes in the video description in your link. which would have saved me the 20 mins of going through a bunch of singles. 🙂
sounds like him. definitely inspired by curtis/impressions.
Imperial Pikachu March
Not sure if amusing or terrifying.
Dogs of War,
Doga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdBtwsSPgW4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPgNcDOe2_E
I despise Roger Waters but this is good, listen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdBtwsSPgW4
might as well share what I’m listening to.
“Slaves On Dope”
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess they probably have a song about 9/11 in their repertoire, somewhere.
Not that I know of…do you have some inside knowledge of a new album?
nope. but I like this album cover
yep, back in the day when you could choose an album based on cover art and 99% of the time actually enjoy the music within.
Hmmm….I seem to be alone…unzips……..ziploc bag and takes out sandwich.
A few of the usual night-owl crew are still up. I’d say we should have a “Fans of Glibertarians” Facebook page but then we’d know each other’s REAL NAMES (gasp)
Then I’d have to sign into facebook and see all the derpy things my sister-in-law posts! What kind of horrors you wan to unleash!
I think the only reason I can stand FB is that my brother told me about “FB Purity”, an independent (Their FB stands for FluffBusting and not Facebook) browser plug-in that allows you to customize what you see on your FB page. You can block posts that feature certain words (election, Hillary, Clinton, politics, democrat, abortion, etc etc), certain themes (photos of food, pets), or any number of other crap. I blocked anything that says “Like and share if”.
It makes FB the land of pet posts, friends and family, old school chums, and funny cartoons that make me happy.
meh, just not going there is a lot less clicks than adding random persons code into software that knows my credit card numbers.
Yes. I have to login to FB once a week to manage a client’s presence. I could not survive it without FB Purity.
There are a few of us around at this hour.
but you all seem to be slow typers…or refreshers…I don’t know
Hey, we have to put down at least one of our drinks in order to type. My cats can’t take dictation yet.
Exactly. If I have the orphans hitting the refresh too often they get callouses on their fingers. Can’t have that while they are in the monocle mines, they’ll be more likely to leave smudges.
if you hadn’t mentioned drinking, I swear, hrumph, cat people…achew!
That and on FB I usually end up drunkily hitting on women I knew 20 years ago or posting something I don’t want family to see.
LOL. Sometimes the next day or two I get a comment or “like” on a post I apparently posted after midnight with no memory of it. I am impressed that my grammar and spelling are still intact when I am so blotto I don’t even remember the post.
usually it’s the opposite for me. I post something that when I sober up I can’t believe I had written something so great when I was drunk, and it has 0 likes.
Sounds like we should be FB pals! Hah!
You aren’t “lucky” enough to be one of the Minneapolis or Chicago Glibs are you?
Central WI. Met SP and OMWC when they came up for the Packers/Ravens game though.
I have tied one on and ranted about the local PD on my Facebook a few times. I usually don’t get any responses. Most people don’t have the courage to talk openly about them in a pup local forum. especially in a very small town.
We had a great time having drinks with CPRM! He’s good people.
I’d love the opportunity to do more Glibs outreach! I have met with the Minnesota locals Tundra and Pope Jimbo together with MikeS who was in the Twin Cities from Dakota on business.
Next week I am in Monterey California (including an overnight in San Jose Dec 13—Takers for dinner, anyone??) and then the next next week in Dahlgren VA where I believe it is illegal to have any political affiliation other than dark Blue or dark Red.
Finally, for Christmas, the hubs and I are going to Chicago Dec 22-Dec 26 with absolutely zero agenda except to let hotels and restaurants take care of us. So a meeting with Chicago glibs is not out of the question.
Always been at a home for Christmas before this, whether mine, a blood relative, or an in-law. Going to Chicago and just seeing what’s up will be fun. (Kids are grown and gone.)
I understand there is some sort of Discord chat room, but I have no idea how to get connected to it.
yeah, I tried to use it to talk to Eddy once, and my drunk ass got confused.
THat’s the second mention of Discord tonight on this page. Might have to check it out…
I couldn’t find the Glibs channel. Good luck!
I think vhyrus administers it. I think I gave him my email and he added me to it. I think. don’t really recall exactly but I think you have to be invited.
That makes sense that is private.
Nope, I’m here unusually late as I’m supporting an upgrade at a customer site.
I worked late tonight, and on regular days I am home after 6, so I miss “rush hour” afternoon posts. I don’t post from work (heavily monitored defense contractor), but I enjoy lurking over lunchtime (and in boring pointless meetings) on my personal cell phone.
The only time I post here during the workweek is when I’m working at home. Sometimes I’ll post at night.
I don’t think my office network is very heavily monitored, but I’ve got lots of work to do and all I need is to have on of the hot edit faeries show up when someone walks past my desk.
I am grateful that people are pretty good about using the NSFW label.
Except for HM. His late night comments and posts are why I can’t share this site with other borderline libertarians.
A few minutes of one of my favorite guitar and man singing tunes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K_DOnKJ232M
RL got soul.
I saw him on tour w. John Spencer way back when. also, Andre Williams, who was a riot.
I’m watching Series 2 of Grand Tour on Amazon. One of my favorite shows. The wife even likes though she isn’t the least bit of a gear head. I’m curious to see what they’ve changed.
I only watched the first two episodes of season 1 and there was too much ‘in studio’ stuff; when all the great Top Gear moments came from the other stuff they did, so I lost interest.
I also tried watching the first season. I watched the first episode and said, “This looks like they’re trying to be Top Gear without being Top Gear. I’m unimpressed.”
My understanding is that there is less time in the studio this season. But I agree, the best bits are always when they are bafooning around various exotic locales in either old beaters or incredibly expensive dream cars.
So maybe I should give it a second chance?
I’m watching the episode now to see. So far they seem a little more relaxed and not as stiff (I rewatched series 1 the last few days to prep for it).
Good to know, thanks!
Less studio time. They had the film about 3 super cars in Switzerland. There was an opening segment, the bit where they discuss the news, and a new celebrity driving segment for the track. Different format. They put two celebs in a Jaguar F-type and have them go head to head for the fastest whatever type of celeb they are. I mean, its still Top Gear with the serial numbers filed off, but I think it is an improvement over last series. They ditched the “Brain Crash” and The American who kinda sucked.
anyway…so I’ve been up for like 20 hrs and had like 14 beers…so maybe I’ll just close my, yawn, eyes for just a seconnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkmmmmmmmmmmmmmdddddddddd
https://youtu.be/tS95VgKI_hU
Not the best video, but I took it an hour ago when I had to go up on the crane to fix a short.
https://youtu.be/kpHUbT4wt5c
There’s them stabbing the electrode in.
That’s neat. Thanks!
That reminded me of something. Hmm. I can’t think what, though.
The carbon freezing scene in Empire Strikes Back?
If that’s what your partner’s looks like, I’m gonna say he needs to consult a doctor. 20 feet long and black is one thing. Having the tip glowing orange is probably a problem
Those are bad ass. Thanks for sharing them.
That is sweet as pie. Sharing with coworkers tomorrow!
I didn’t know you had a thing for our romanian friend. That’s cute. 🙂
So I apologize for neglecting my duties with firearms friday lately. The approaching holidays combined with a new, uh… hobby, I have (read discord if you want to find out) have really drained my available free time. I will try to get one in before christmas for you guys.
So, why are you doing this in the thursday afternoon links instead of the friday morning links?
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Okay from henceforth, to ‘vhyrus’s something is to accidentally post in the previous day’s thread.