The Links have been seized…by me. OK, not really, Brett is buying a new fanboat, running over manatees or some Florida thing.
So, we will have Links…that make you shake your head – sadly, or in disbelief, or laughing. Your choice. So let me run them by all of ye, and you can comment away! [h/t sloopy on the first two!]
- Procedures were NOT followed. Seems this off-duty cop decided he would take care of business, on his own. NOTE: he is now an ex-cop (he “resigned”) and the Chief of his old department said “That’s just something we don’t do”. He has, however chanted the magic fear words. So we will see what happens.
- Rent Party lawsuit! Take a look at the settling defendant and tell me you aren’t shaking your head… in revulsion! Also, please read the whole thing to see the bonus fun of “a separate criminal case accusing him of unlawful disposal of a dead body”. I want your “Landlord From Hell” stories in the comments – can they compare to this guy!
- How about a little NYC reaction to the sort of ‘splody guy? “I said, damn, I’m gonna move back to North Carolina. New York City is too much for me.”
- Time to lighten it up a bit. See what the world asks Google about the UK. I start smh laughing, when I got to what the Brits google about everyone else, it got funnier (see the “Colombia” result).
It’s an embarrassment of riches here in tittytown. Breaking tradition, I offer three luscious collections, you choose your favorite! Or not, I mean, not like I care or anything…
https://archive.is/cgDlT
https://archive.is/1xiaB
https://archive.is/grhoF
As ridiculously sexy as the Japanese model is, I still have to go with the girls with guns.
That japanese model is actually freakish and disturbing, I’ll take any of the girls with guns (even the inked ones) over her)
Would- girl in pink top
Numbers 3 and 13 in the guns link are sooper de dooper.
Orgy.
I’m certain there were plenty of idiots commenting on the girls with guns post about “Stupid Americans and their guns”.
Some of those are very clearly not Americans.
It’s The Chive. When I hung out there, anytime there were posts involving guns the commentators would go on and on about stupid Americans and their guns. Americans tended to fire right back at them.
Is anybody still doing narrowed gazes around here?
If I am gone for a while, feel free to step in give one.
… *narrows gaze*
Linky #2 reminds me – the hell happened to my collection of Dillon Aero calendars?
Japanese model is gross af, blegh!
Anime tits don’t translate to our worlds physics.
I found Q’s house:
https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/939989052975124480
I never knew Q was a fan of snow
/oblivious
‘Tis the season.
Those people totally knew what they were doing.
Well, I got the damage tire replaced. I’m sill alive and lacking in things to talk about
See link #2.
The worst any landlord I had to deal with was their failure to get around to fixing a wall that had been damaged by their own guys improperly installing the AC. Pretty ‘meh’ as landlord tales go.
From Linky Dos:
Pelfrey still faces a separate criminal case accusing him of unlawful disposal of a dead body. He is accused in the felony charge of having the remains of a tenant’s teenage daughter taken from his storage business to a Spencer landfill last year.
“No prob. I’ve got some storage lockers we can keep her body in.”
[1 week later]
“Dude, she is starting to really smell. I think we should get her to the dump, don’t you?”
On what planet . . . . Oh, hell, never mind.
Glad you made it…you really spice up the place UCS.
the absolute dumbest thing you will read today..
https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/the-video-of-the-man-saving-the-rabbit-from-the-fire-ca-1821184637
Why you’re absolutely right. That was the dumbest thing I’ve read today. Or in the past week, at least.
That’s some high quality stuff right there.
Pop tarts are a consistant material containing fewer air pockets. Eggos have a spongy texture filled with pockets of air. Air is a poor conductor of heat, and it takes longer for the heat from the toaster to work through all the insulating air pockets to reach the interior of the eggo.
Also, aren’t eggos sold frozen? meaning you have to thaw them out before you get to the room temperature stage the pop tarts start at?
Goddammit, man, you are questioning a Very Smart Brotha! Who the hell do you think you are??
As I always feel compelled to point out, anyone who has to specifically point out how Very Smart they are invariably is dumb as a rock.
I did compose a rule to that effect a while back…
I am so smart
I am so smart
I am so smart
S M R T
I mean S M A R T
and the Eggos are frozen.
I thought they were, but I don’t own a toaster.
Too fancy?
Actually I had no room for one in my apartment, so I worked around the absense, and after eight years, my cooking habits meant I didn’t need one.
I picture UCS’ sole implement of cooking being a hot-plate.
It may as well have been. The electric range in that apartment was shitty. I love the gas range that came with the house.
I would have guessed he could cook for one with a toaster-oven.
UCS? *hot* plate. Sounds far to care-free and luxurious.
In the UCS household, they eat food as God created it. Raw. Unsullied. And most of all, incapable of inculcating joy in the consumers.
Hot plate? FAR too hoity-toity for UCS!!
I recall that Barney Fife, too, only had a hot plate in his residence. Which he plugged into the light socket. And his landlady got really pissed about when she suspected he was using it.
Which is better material for assault weapon production?
Spare me your heat transfer mumbo jumbo, whitey.
I do know that
colonialism and aggressive industrialismthe development of more advanced economies worldwide have had an adverse effect on our environment.And I also know that this is a byproduct of —an existential edict ingrained in white people where they believe everything belongs to them.
Oopsie. That’s not “manifest destiny”, which was the belief in 19th century America that Americans should settle, either to the the Pacific Ocean or the whole continent, depending who you asked.
Dumbest and possibly the most racist.
But it’s only Monday.
I was wondering if that was parody because it was too idiotic, but then I see the writer also writes for GQ, so I’m now 100% sure it’s sincere.
What a dark, terrible, and Trumpian culture it is, where the vilest discrimination is apparently refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding and some fool endangering only himself rescuing a rabbit from a wildfire is “everything wrong with whiteness”… because Damon Young imagines that he wouldn’t rescue a black toddler, or something. No possible projection here, no sirree.
The bonus Gaian genuflection about the Climate Rapture is just the cherry on top.
Here’s a very tough competition – bigger idiot, Michael Herriot or Damon Young? And….GO!
“everything wrong with whiteness”…
I now feel a lot better about my toxic whiteness.
And craving fried rabbit.
Even when we do a good thing those naggers at the Root nag us. Give it a rest fellas.
That. Is. Fucking. Retarded. As. Fuck.
That guy is such an idiot.
The way this guy writes reminds me of a story about an employee at an upscale hotel who used a $300 bottle of Dom to make Mimosas.
The employee just didn’t have my (our?) larcenous instincts. One of the reasons why I’d ALWAYS have a few Tattinger, Cristal and Bollinger empties on hand.
Brett’s buying a fanboi? I thought that’s what OMWC or Jesse would do.
FanBOAT!
FANBOAT!
I thought you only rented fanbois?
Aren’t they usually free?
re: The landlord story
The Mr. Filch look isn’t working for that guy. Although, I did like his response: “No, I did not do it.”
OT: is anyone else seeing a massive uptick in stupid “shame on you Big Tobacco” ads within the last couple of weeks? I just got slapped with “BIG TOBACCO MISLED PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESSES” when I was on Mashable, loud blaring default-on audio. Far as I am concerned, any “real” transgressions that Big Tobacco firms were guilty of have already transpired several generations. Tired of this finger-wagging bullshit and I don’t even smoke. Cunts.
They have commercials running on places like the Disney Channel where they go off on that tangent as well (marketed to tweens and teens).
I believe this is brilliant advertising that Big Tobacco is forced to pay for.
By making it so over the top, it makes me cuss the anti-smoking crowd and crave a nicotine product.
I thought I saw a story on the news about another “settlement” (basically Big Government extorting money out of Small Tobacco) for a new round of ads.
If you find a link I’d be interested to see it. I’ve not noticed AGs going after Small Tobacco with the same tenacity that they did with the big boys. I found this, though they don’t mention the proceeds going towards internet media buys.
I attempted to read it but I still don’t understand the author’s point. Was it “Before a person instinctively tries to help a living creature in need, they should stop and navel gaze to determine how their actions reflect on modern society and fit into the larger social construct?” Or was it “I have nothing constructive to do so I just spend all my time figuring how how literally everything I see is racist?”
Sorry for the threading fail.
All of those ads need a big “Paid for by tobacco companies and people buying tobacco products” at the end.
I never understood it. People knew smoking wasnt healthy by the 60’s. Smokers didn’t care then or now. I don’t know what’s such a big deal. They didn’t write “Danger!” on every package? Even when the government made them it amounted to saying something everyone knew anyway.
The way they treat vaping exactly like smoking tells me that all of this has long since passed the point where it had anything to do with “health”.
It was when they started giving away little baggies with samples of diseased lungs when I went off the whole idea of smoking.
And the vast majority of psych hospitals don’t permit smoking anymore anyway, so this ‘revelation’ saying hospitalized psych patients were given free smokes is about some practice years ago
Why are you on Mashable? It’s as derpy as Wired.
Which is sad. Years ago Wired was a fun magazine.
I will put this here since whenever a new post goes up, the previous post’s threads almost immediately die. Q said, in relation to the sexual revolution/meaningless sex in general:
I’m sorry Q, what the hell does this mean? Can someone translate this for me?
He wants some “Barry White” with his love making.
The devaluation of sexual intercourse has made people behave like assholes. If sexual intercourse were still held in high regard and it was not as easily to acquire, we would see people behave less like assholes.
I think that’s the gist of it. Q is referencing Kierkegaard (and spelled his name right), which means that the man is brilliant beyond cup sizes.
Ah, thanks for deciphering that wall of unintelligible nonsense.
I’m going to write a long form piece on it but in a nutshell, Kierkegaard splits life into three stages (not sequential, nor do all people necessarily experience all three); the aesthetic stage, the ethical stage and the spiritual stage. He is very careful not to assign overt value judgements to each stage/lifestyle, but it’s pretty clear through his writing that he believes the spiritual stage to be the apotheosis of existence. He defines the “self” as a being becoming itself through conflict between its finite (physical, carnal, material) and its infinite (the touch of divinity he believed existed within each person). The catch is that these are hopelessly irreconcilable, and only through the “leap of faith” (he coined the term) can someone become a “Knight of Faith” and attain any kind of resolution to his existential despair. A seducer lives either unconscious in despair of having a self or not wanting in despair to be oneself. Either way it’s a tether to the finite and an outright rejection of the infinite, thus precluding any resolution to the despair.
All will be covered in more detail in the long form piece.
Your brain is a D cup (trying to use your terminology)
Monkey’s banging on a type writer etc. etc.
This guy delivers a steady stream of girly pics and references Kierkegaard like it’s no big thing. You must be the most interesting person to have a beer with
For you.
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/3d/6c/87/3d6c8704011d7bf5c31bd8143b128d3c.jpg
Yes, but unfortunately it’s a 28D
Okay, this makes more sense to me. At first I thought there was some faux-intellectual shit going on here like some of the stupid stuff I used to see posted on facebook by my hippie friends in California.
But this makes more sense to me now, thanks for the explanation. And yes, after taking a couple days worth of meeting people through tinder, I’d have to agree that people are shallow sad fucks, even if they are attractive. And meaningless sex tends to lead to long-term despair, at least for me.
I hope the long piece will make more sense.
Looking forward to it.
I wonder how much influence Hindu thought had on Kierkegaard.
It’s possible, though Kierkegaard’s stages are focused much more on internal struggle and less on external obligations/timetables.
It could be argued that for a Hindu, the purpose of following one’s dharma is to resolve the struggle within one’s self that leads to illusion (maya) and thus reach moksha (spiritual emancipation of the soul).
Indeed. I don’t know if Kierkegaard was exposed to any Eastern thought, though I can look into it. It seems kinda like a situation of two physicists discovering something independently since K. was a mega-devout Christian, he *may* have considered Hindu thought heretical; though I have no idea. I will look into it more.
For me it’s usually both.
I want to fucking SCREAM. Nobody at this new job seems to know anything about anything. The Big (Blue) Company hasn’t even sent a purchase order to the sub that will be paying me. I don’t know about this “new employee orientation” class that everyone keeps mentioning to me. I’m totally unclear about where to enter my hours (I was sent logins for two different systems without explanation).
I emailed the sub and said I will be starting on Dec 12 regardless, and I would contact the customer to let me in the building in the morning.
Now they’re saying “well, the customer doesn’t want you to start until you can get your badge”, which is not til the 19th.
What. The. Fuck. I was supposed to start on Dec 4.
Well, that sucks. Sorry to hear it.
You did file for unemployment, right?
I did – still no confirmation that it was approved, but at least it’s in process.
The afternoon links of SMH is appropriate then.
Always disheartening to start at place when they don’t even know how to get someone new on board.
It’s another government contractor, isn’t it?
When I started at the prison, it took about a month to get all the various computer logins that I needed (Windows logon, offender database, medical records database, and email). Later, a psychiatrist came on board and he was having a lot of trouble getting his email account set up. I worked there about 12 more months after he started, and he still didn’t have it when I left. It’s possible that he hasn’t gotten it yet.
At my next job, I got all my logins within a week except for one.
At the current job, all the accounts were set up during my orientation day. It’s very refreshing to finally work at a place that has all their shit in order.
The gubmint customer had my computer and workspace all set up for me otwo weeks ago! It’s the contractors that are somehow stupider than fucking bureaucrats.
Sometimes you get the friend of a friend, sometimes you get the lowest bidder.
Neither of those scream “quality”
You wouldn’t believe how long it took my workplace to get new batteries for the doorbell. For months it was sounding like a dying bird, and it was a constant source of humor. And then one day it suddenly sounded normal.
The rest of the building (a former IBM building, by the way) is falling apart, however.
In the uber fancy-pants building I worked in at my last job, it took them almost a year to fix the badge scanner on the back door. It broke shortly after I started, and wasn’t fixed until shortly before I left. They also took about 8 months to fif one of the heat lamps in the smoking area, and when they finally did fix it, the other one broke!
I’m totally unclear about where to enter my hours (I was sent logins for two different systems without explanation).
That probably means you will need to fill out identical timesheets in both systems (the prime’s and your sub’s). I wish I was joking.
Things nobody has ever said about the government: boy, they do things the smart, efficient way!
As far as the 2 logins for time entry, that’s pretty typical in the subcontractor space. One will be for the subcontractor’s system to get you paid, and the other for the prime contractor to bill the customer for your time. Depending on the customer, they may have you do a third one once you get on site for management purposes.
You need to hound your company to make sure they aren’t letting anything fall through the cracks. There is going to be a lot of administrative stuff to deal with before you even get in the front door of the customer and it looks they they are doing a lot of ball-dropping.
By way of entertainment, I have been tracking the Global SuperTanker sorties on FR24. Nice video of it from one of the firefighters.
Now that is chem trails!
Fixin to go out again
https://www.flightradar24.com/T944/
Wow, that was cool. But I can’t help but notice that video is everything that’s wrong with whiteness in 42 seconds.
Pretty cool! That’s gotta be pretty close to stall speed for that monster, no?
I think so…the speed and maneuvers are pretty incredible for a bird of that size.
Will be sitting in the nose of a 747 this spring! Looking forward to it!
How???
Miles redemption on KLM. Just one way. Wife will be in the window of course.
Awesome! Those babies won’t be around for much longer, except with Lufthansa.
Korean Air, Cathay Pacific, and Air China all operate 747-8s, but yeah -400s are going away.
The first row in First on BA in 747 has almost a forward view.
They had them dumping right on the coast.
I gotta say fellas
Fuck bike Lanes
Preach, brother!
They are all over our fair city. In winter. Covered with snow and ice.
And empty.
That is loser talk Tundra.
If we take a winter off, there is no way we will be able to compete with Portlandia for the most bike friendly city on earth. If we have to melt the ice off those lanes using flamethrowers that powered by burning $20 bills it will be worth it to keep those coastal elites from beating us.
+1000 this
I loathe bicyclists.
So do I – and I am one!
But then I loathe everyone.
Also, bicycles are the Nick Gillespie of transportation
They put them all over my neighborhood recently. Ain’t seen a single bike using ’em yet.
I wrote this last year. I’m a cyclist, but
I don’t think bike lanes are a great idea….mostly. Don’t get me wrong: a smart, separate, and affordable way to share an interstate bridge in a town with commuting problems is one thing, but messing up the whole town with crazy little specialty lanes is a bad idea. Cruising around Memphis today after work I spent about ten miles on bike lanes and so many things came to mind:
1) The biggest problem is that when there are bike lanes around town, folks decide that’s where bikes belong. You’re not a reasonable vehicle any more the second you peddle outside the lines: you’re off the reservation. Most car drivers have this idea that they own the road, so this is already a problem if you are a peddler or pedestrian or any of the other annoying variants getting in the way of the great automobile. I’m not looking to be, but I now am a problem if I need to leave the bike lane.
2) Bike lanes themselves make enemies: every guy who was parking on the curb but now can’t, the commuter who has been funneled down to four lanes from six to make room for the bikes, the shopkeeper (see photo below) whose clients must now mind a gap while parking and then dodge cyclists before they can even gain the sidewalk. Drivers hated bikes already; now they hate the lanes per se….and, by extension, they hate cyclists even more; that won’t help out in traffic land.
3) Bike lanes subvert basic traffic law and dumb down everyone. They’re mindless, like an interstate: we peddle onto one and turn off the brain; bike lanes appear around town, and drivers don’t need to worry about cyclists anymore so they get to think less because (see 1 above and repeat after me) that’s where bikes belong. I already compete as a cyclist or as a driver with other drivers’ texting, their spilling their coffee in their laps, their screaming spawn in the back seat, their hood ornament, and all the other things they focus on instead of looking down the road a furlong or so and figuring out what they might need to prepare to do in the next five or ten seconds with the two tons of steel they’re slinging around town. Right-of-way….what is this thing you speak of, mad man? My buddy reports this typical move today: car overtakes him and then suddenly turns right off the road immediately in front of him….while he’s peddling over 20mph….because he’s a cyclist and is just in the way….because that guy has lost touch with all the simple right and wrongs he learned when he was 15 from the nice pamphlet that the governor printed for us all, which we all had to memorize before we could get the pretty wallet cards with our pictures on them. I guess if he drives over an old lady in a cross-walk, she had it coming for being so hopelessly out of date; get with the times, grandma; walking is lame!
4) Ye gods these damned bike lanes are dangerous….and ugly! They need not necessarily be, but they generally are. There’s all this extra paint that’s super slick in the rain. Bike lanes often come with tons of extra furniture: little stanchions that corral us off at intersections and such. But the biggest problem is maintenance: if there’s a bike lane, I belong in it; I shouldn’t opt out of the leaf piles, fallen limbs, broken glass, sand, gravel, wreckage (literally: headlamp lenses, grill shards, random sharp bits of injection-molded carnage), and any other flotsam that heavier traffic knocks out of the “real” lanes and into the little lane where the guys with the thin tires roll. At one point on Broad, I noticed, both east- and west-bound bike lanes are contiguous on the north side of the street: west-bound I’m peddling against traffic; who’s going to look for me over there on the wrong side of the street when they cross my lane at an intersection?
5) No one knows what the lanes mean; the signage is random, inconsistent, and at least somewhat ambiguous. How do we merge so you can turn right and I can carry on straight? Does the bike lane trump other rules? Is that cyclist a criminal or a mere jerk for wheeling out of his bike lane to avoid a stretch of broken pavement that failed exactly along the middle of the bike lane because some sewer pipe laid by Spanish-American War vets is crumbling exactly under that same zone 36 inches off the curb lined off for the peddling masses?
We’re teaching ourselves not to think, exacerbating the tension between cars and bikes, and pitting ourselves against our neighbors with these lanes. There’s got to be a better way to design traffic to be bike-smart than what I’ve seen around Memphis.
If you can’t reach the speed limit, you don’t belong in the traffic lane. Bicycles don’t belong on the roads.
The NY driving manual says otherwise.
I don’t give a fuck, they are Wrong. If you cannot reach the speed limit, you do not belong on that road.
So, who had Mario Batali as next in line for the #metoo campaign?
Should of expected it. Only a creep wears orange Crocs.
I heard “famous chef” and immediately thought Tom Colicchio. Second choice was the fat fuck Zimmern.
If I were to really think about it, I would assume Bobby Flay. That guy is an unlikable dickhead.
His most recentex-wife is/was hot and apparently put with him for close to a decade.
that’s who I figured as well, but gonna have to disagree entirely on the likability scale which is why I figured it was him
YOU SHUT YOUR GODDAMN WHORE MOUTH ABOUT ANDREW ZIMMERN! HE IS A GODDAMN AMERICAN HERO!
You’re just saying that because he has eaten penis in 97 countries.
It’s balls- not penis. And why does he always eat balls in every. single. damn. episode.
“Does anyone have any gum? My breath smells like balls”
If only they would a) cut his mic when he’s eating, because gross, and b) decide where he’s “from” – is it NY? ME? MN? He’s claimed to be “from” all of those places.
Heh I think he has.
Oh FFS:
How the fuck do you work a line if the culture isn’t “toxic”?
Fuck, you’re knee deep in the weeds with multiple table tops coming in, you either stab someone with your knife or make a joke. If you make a joke it’s going to be scatological or sexual. How do you do otherwise?
And so what if you get handsy with the wait staff? I mean, sheesh.
I’m pretty sure Zimmern is gay. Why else would he openly admit to going to Bankok multiple times per year? The street food isn’t that good.
He raves about the local sausage all the time!
YOU SHUT YOUR GODDAMN WHORE MOUTH ABOUT BANGKOK STREET FOOD! BOAT NOODLES IS A GODDAMN CULINARY MASTERPIECE!
Also, his wife is much cuter than I would expect. Jus’ sayin’.
BOAT NOODLES IS A GODDAMN CULINARY MASTERPIECE
*Writes it down*
I’ll eventually go there, you know to see a Muy Thai fight.
KUMITE! KUMITE! KUMITE!
I can’t speak to Bangkok but the street food in Pattaya was pretty good. Also, I have no idea what kind of meat I was eating and plan to keep it that way.
Haha he does exude
“grabby”“sexual predator” doesn’t he.He has that vaguely misogynist air about him that indicates he likes to whip out (pun intended) the Weinstein playbook.
Who’s the guy who does ‘Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives’? I was working on a hot take if it was him.
“Sexual assault is ‘out of bounds’, brother” or something like that. I’m not that witty
Guy Fieri.
Yes. What a silly man with his blonde hair and backwards sun glasses.
Can’t even pronounce his own last name. Part of my family is Italian, a few of them actually from the boot, and I’ve never heard anyone who would pronounce Fieri as “Feetie”
I saw an episode where he had his family on. They looked completely normal, like suburb white-picket-fence normal. They seemed to act normal as well (we’re talking UCS level bland here). Guy Fieri stuck out like a sore thumb when he was around them. Either he puts on an act for his show, or he has a very interesting dynamic going on in his personal life.
Its an act – takes him a lot of work just to get the hair that way.
.. quoth the man with a fabulous Mohican under his chain coif.
The food world is loaded with those types. A new restaurant opened in my building and now you see all these people with dopey hair, tatts, and their pants falling off – they all work at the restaurant.
Man, all these bigwig celebrities and politicians oughta start a #MeToo tontine or something. Last man left unscathed by accusations of harassment would win enough money to pay the settlements for a hundred college interns.
For Chef’s I’d have bet José Andrés because my only reference is he was mentioned in this and is a spaniard.
Damn. I suppose this means his family’s salami business (Salumi) will be targeted as well. Too bad. They make good salami.
Anthony Bourdain, who apparently looks like more and more of an asshat every time I hear from him.
Close, Bourdain is the “I knew but never did anything because it’s not my story to tell” guy.
So he’s an enabler? If the allegations are even the slightest bit true that makes him an asshole.
I do remember a story he did have to tell in his book about how one of the chefs at a restaurant he worked at banged a newlywed bride out back by the dumpster and he was awestruck.
His girlfriend is supposedly one of Weinstein’s rape victims. Like, rape-rape.
Having worked several years in the restaurant biz as a front of house manager in my youth: Every chef (and I’m not excluding the women).
For once, the joke is on Al Franken
Proggie chicks aren’t that shallow, are they?
Rhetorical?
Oh yes they are.
It’s why I don’t date them anymore.
The funny thing is the Welch had a column suggesting that people were only voting for Moore, because Doug Jones was so pro-choice. Both takes are quite dumb. Both sides look past a candidate’s character flaws if they support the policy that they care about. I we going to pretend like Bill Clinton didn’t get a pass just because he was pro-choice? A female Newsweek reporter admitted that she thought every woman should perform fellatio on the president, because he kept abortion legal.
Did anyone tell her that’s not how you get pregnant?
Well, you say that…
FTA: After interviews, they gathered that “Just before she was stabbed in the abdomen she had practiced fellatio with her new boyfriend and was caught in the act by her former lover. The fight with knives ensued.”
And that’s how babies are made!
I thought it was getting hit by a bus that got you knocked up.
Nothing says “feminism” like enabling sexual predators and making it easier for them to not suffer any consequences.
Landlord from hell? My recent experience, although not that bad, may qualify:
I am moving over new years this year because my property managers are incompetent/malicious. In Virginia, most apartment complexes require tenants to provide 60 day notice before vacating their unit. So, at exactly 73 days until lease end date, I started to get a bit worried since I had not been provided with any pricing information for renewal of my lease. When I went to the leasing office to ask what my next year’s rent payment would look like, they said “oh, we’re not renewing your lease since we’re renovating the apartment.” I immediately gave my notice that I was going to vacate.
It would have been nice to know when that decision to not renew was made. I’m lucky that I stay on top of these things. I’m also lucky I decided to take action so I could find a new apartment without being in a short-notice situation.
Now, you might be thinking “but TK, you had 73 days left, so for all you know, they would have sent you a message the next day.” NOPE. Approximately 40 days prior to my lease end date, a notice was left on my door telling me that I need to provide 60 days notice prior to the lease end date if I want to avoid penalties for vacating. That’s pretty crazy, because if I gave them notice the day I got their letter, I’d be 20 days late on my notice to vacate and then fined based on prorated rent – approximately $1,600.
So I called them to let them know they cannot do this to their tenants. They need to give info about renewal rates and notices about kicking their tenants out well prior to the 60 day notice provision that they include in their lease agreement. They apologized that the notice was late and confirmed that they had my notice to vacate on file already and that it was submitted 73 days prior to end of lease.
The next week I got a notice on my door informing me that they would not be renewing my lease, along with terms of lease for other units in the complex that I could move to. So basically my property managers are just incompetent.
Anyway — this all results in me moving over new years. My bro is coming over on 12/30 to help me move. Fuck.
Sheesh, two months? I didn’t know two months in advance if I’d be closing on my house in time (I didn’t, I actually ended up running one month past the end of my lease, but the complex let me pay the same montly rate as my last lease for that time.)
My friend said that the VA supreme court actually decided that this rule is unenforceable, but wasn’t able to provide me with the decision, so I have not been able to bring it down on these people. I’ve lived at half a dozen complexes, and they all have it in their contracts.
Well, I had this tenant once . . . .
Oh, LANDLORD from hell. Never mind.
*taps foot impatiently*
Spill it, Mister.
I was a landlord – ONCE -. My tenant did not know Colorado Springs had privatized its garbage collection and he needed to contact one of the three local companies to pick up the trash. ($75/quarter, it was beautiful BTW).
That bastard left a year and a half’s worth of trash accumulate in the garage.
Yeah, pretty sure the courts will always side with you in VA on something like this.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/11/people-are-taking-out-mortgages-to-buy-bitcoin-says-joseph-borg.html
Prepare for the red tape.
Speculation is gambling – never bet anything you’re not willing to lose.
Especially don’t bet the house.
But the house always wins
Sadly, this is the mindset that exists among a lot of politicians: nobody can have any freedom because some people do stupid things.
NASAA is a collection of the state-level securities regulators. It’s a “voluntary organization devoted to investor protection” in name, but that’s really what it is. Sure they’re working on a model state rule right now.
(Two thoughts here: First off, of course government was going to get involved here. Second off, how fucking stupid do you have to be to mortgage your house to buy something at the top of a bubble? You don’t deserve to get saved from your sorry self.)
This.
Libertarianism: the radical belief that people should be free to make their own mistakes (and suffer the consequences)
“facing a murder charge in the death of a teenage burglar he chased down and shot while off duty.”
Ha ha ha ha. Seriously, not sympathetic on this one. Your mammal Enforcers gun down you commoners for far less contempt than this.
Some people take Teachings Of ZARDOZ seriously, instead of just once a week nodding through a sermon from a guy wearing a stone head mask.
Well, ZARDOZ’S guys will kill ya just for being alive!
In the news certain to gladden the hearts of Glibs, PM Zoolander’s government keeps taking steps towards legalized pot. Since this involves the governments’ cut of the proceeds, you know they are serious:
Liberals reach deal with the provinces on sharing pot tax revenue
How long does it take for a comment to be released from moderation? I have a multi-link comment that I just *know* everyone is going to love. You can’t stand the suspense…
It’s going to be tits AND ass, isn’t it?
Large breasted redheads?
DO IT NOW!
It made it!
I approved it.
I clicked on the link about the Japanese women.
I was horrified.
Check out the nips on those ‘Nips, am I right?
*points finger guns at HM, grins like an idiot*
Horrified good?
Horrified horrified.
Seriously. icky.
Any chance of getting the geisha back?
You never disappoint.
I think I need to review “Sakuran” featuring the always smokin’ Anna Tsuchiya soon.
BLAMMO!
Chris Cillizza
@CillizzaCNN
It is beyond offensive for Sarah Sanders to say that journalists are purposely reporting false information to forward some sort of agenda.
Just appalling.
2:29 PM – Dec 11, 2017
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*deep breath*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
What a ridiculous man. The president and the press deserve each other.
Iowahawk’s answer to this tweet:
And by “appalling” and “completely offensive” he means “generally accurate”
Greenwald eviscerates CNN, CBS and MSNBC:
https://theintercept.com/2017/12/09/the-u-s-media-yesterday-suffered-its-most-humiliating-debacle-in-ages-now-refuses-all-transparency-over-what-happened/
Worth reposting.
I disagree with a lot of what the Intercept writes, but they never bought into the “Russia, Russia, Russia” nonsense (unlike some ostensibly libertarian people). They’re good Lefties in my book, because at least they’re not supportive of endless war
I’m for endless peace!
Yes, it’s an excellent piece. We were discussing it in the AM links.
Greenwald’s a lefty, but at least he’s an honest one.
i’m fairly confident that if Cillizza tweeted Glenn to tell him his story was “offensive”, Glenn would have the exact same response as Chipwooder above.
Related:
“18 Questions CNN Needs To Answer After Getting Busted For Fake News”
http://thefederalist.com/2017/12/08/18-questions-cnn-needs-to-answer-after-getting-busted-for-fake-news/
Translation: “The jig is up, but how dare she call us out our dishonesty!”
Never mind politics, look at all the moral panics they perpetuate.
Cillizza leaving WaPo for CNN was fate. their destinies have been entwined since the dawn.
https://twitter.com/FyrchMyrddin/status/940336599308566534
Huh.
When it comes to North America, Brits most want to know why Americans ‘love guns’
Because they’re fun and they had something to do with America not being British.
I note the Mail did not include what Britons are interested in about Argentina.
No. It’s because they’re violently mentally ill and white.
Because they’re tools of liberty, Nigel.
Last night, my wife and I were watching a Midsomer Murders episode where one of the subplots involved the victim’s niece, who had lived most of her life in Philadelphia discovering that her American husband was a conman who had deceived the victim into giving him a bunch of money by claiming the niece had medical bills they couldn’t afford.
So the guy is being interrogated by DCI Barnaby and he claims “OK. We didn’t have adequate insurance. I know it was my responsibility, but we didn’t have it, so I had to do something so she could get treatment!”
I thought it was a brilliant commentary on the basic misconception everyone outside the U.S. has about how healthcare works here – and why the prices paid by insurance companies is so outrageously high.
BTW, the show’s warning about the high price of marrying people who are users of others/confidence men is spot on. They are bad news.
BTW, the woman was in fine health. She told Barnaby how lucky she was to be healthy. Another great window into how Brits view U.S. health-care.
Too many Welsh people in Argentina, the Brits aren’t interested in them anymore.
I want to know why the Brits decided to import so many Pakis. Were their SJW’s sad because they didn’t have enough victims to champion? Was the crime rate too low? Life too boring without occasional explosions now that the IRA retired?
It started out as an accident of guilt over the breakup of the Empire. The first ones were people who’d served in the Colonial armies. Then their families, and so on.
Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean that really got out of hand fast.
Not to worry, the Brits kept the Gurkhas out until recently to balance the scales I guess.
The Brits thought that the guys with turbans were Sikhs, who are murderously competent fighters, and with a few historical exceptions, could be trusted to behave like white men.
It wasn’t until later they discovered their mistake.
The Brit stock was diminished in WW1 and now the inferior stock are trying to figure out how to retain greatness. They get fooled by hokum like diversity and egalitarianism more easily then their forefathers.
Because they wanted to virtue signal with “Commonwealth is totally a real thing,” initially. Plus, post-war boom needed menial workers.
Remember, this was late 40s/early 50s. Travel was expensive then. First wave was mostly from West Indies. Pakistanis came later. Had the assorted MPs been convinced immigration would follow the pattern it did, they probably would have said “Nope, we may not be racist by today’s standards, but we’re racist as fuck by 2017 ones!”
Johnson told investigators that he feared for his life before shooting into the teen’s car
Huh? That didn’t work for him? There has to be something else to this story.
He wasn’t wearing the magic costume at the time. Duh.
The worst landlord I ever had was actually a roommate. He asked me to vacate when I got really drunk one night, got discombobulated in the hallway and then crawled into bed with his girlfriend while he was out of town one night.
Not sure if it was that or pissing in his hamper before I crawled in that did it.
Don’t ever accept an offer to be a roommate of a British twat who only drinks occasionally and can’t throw darts. They’re bad omens.
That guy sounds like a real jerk. It’s just a bit of spooning and piss. Get over it.
LOL.
Can’t really fault the twat after a performance like that.
Unanswered question– what did she do?
Snuggled for a second or two before realizing who was in bed with her. Then woke me and evicted me from the room.
At least that’s the story I was told. I have no idea, being absolutely blitzed. I do remember being walked back to my room, naked. And I was asked to wash the clothes I had pissed all over.
I don’t see a problem here.
/Undergrad RBS
Purported video of the incident…
I’m gonna risk a sexy cat butt here, but I think you might have deserved it Sloop. Story gave me a chuckle though.
I never realized how many puritans we have here.
Jesus, I’ll never be able to run for office.
Naw, run. When you get elected, remember to appoint me to the supreme court – I’m a textual literalist.
then crawled into bed with his girlfriend
Was she worth it?
Is “pissing in his hamper” a euphemism? It looks like it could be one of those Anglo expressions I just don’t understand.
You’d have to ask one of the posh kids who went to Eton or Gordonstoun for that, mate.
Spot on ol’ chap!
Apparently if you “piss in someones hamper” it’s considered sexual misconduct if you do it with a subordinate. Odd, but I’ll never get used to the rules of the 21st century. Thank god I work in the booze industry where the only people under me I can harass are tubby guys with beards.
So your roommate wasn’t this guy?
We have a genetic predisposition to bein’ good wiv ‘arrers.
But to maintain it, you need to drink warm bitter.
Or maybe a 2 pints of lager and a packet of crisps.
I think Hallmark may be stuck in a bit of a Christmas movie rut
The one year with the swapped colors somehow seems better than all the others. Nothing wrong with formulaic classics, give the people what they want.
I did chuckle at the White Christmas joke.
If you are older than 15, you should not have a fucking musical ringtone.
*grinds teeth*
You’ll pry the Passchendaele ringtone from my cold dead hands, you flappy-mouthed beady-eyed hoser!
SOMEONE HOLD ME BACK BEFORE I KILL HIM!!!!!!!!!!
No need to hold you back, you’ll get stuck on the mud before you can reach Tundra. Should have gone with The Trooper instead.
tarran should have waited until the tundra well chilled.
tundra became well chilled.
Good memory!
They really know how to use mosquito infested rough terrain to their advantage, don’t they?
I have one neighbour, he’s a jarhead that retired from the marines. He has the Sgt. Hartman “WHO THE FUCK SAID THAT??” line from Full Metal Jacket on his phone. I laugh every time he gets an SMS. That guy rules.
Who’s the slimly little Communist twinkletoes cocksucker who just signed his own death warrant? Nobody, huh? The fairy fucking godmother said that? Outfuckinstanding, I will PT you all until you fucking DIE! I’ll PT you until your assholes are sucking buttermilk!
-note: my wife has asked me before what the buttermilk line means. Alas, though I have been to Parris Island myself and heard almost all of Hartmann’s lines from actual DIs, that one is unique to him and I have no idea.
They actually had Ermey yell into a tape recorder for a very long time so the writers can pick out the best insults to put into the script.
When i had Kashmir as my ringtone, people would urge me not to pick up so that they could hear more.
Now it is a quiet bell.
Yes. This is proper. I will buy you a nice G&T for that.
The Magnum PI theme song is a gift from God. I am never changing it.
I used to use bagpipes playing Scotland the Brave back when I really, really wanted to annoy people.
Is this a good place to get it?
https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Magnum_P_I_Theme_Ringtone_Magnum_P_I?id=Bifm3zmcyqmpca5luxotyxextgq&hl=en
Damn you, Now I’m going to have to buy the Rockford Files theme ringtone for my phone. didn’t even know how badly I needed it til your comment.
Where do you guys download this stuff safely?
What is this word “safely”?
Bend over….I’ll show you….safely….
I use Zedge (see the link for the “Shaguar” ringtone, below).
I’m still trying to figure out how to make this my ringtone (downloaded as audio file), but my samsung/android settings/OS are completely kicking my butt when it comes to custom mods.
No one will be surprised when I say my ringtone sounds like a phone.
I thought everyone had the Halloween Theme Song for their wife?
I only have on ring tone no matter who is calling – otherwise I don’t realize my phone is ringing.
I used to have a klaxon saying “WARNING….WARNING….IT’S YOUR WIFE”
My wife used to use the Exorcist music for her mother.
Coworker has that klaxon tone and about another dozen gimmicky ones.
Annoying as hell.
I like assigning different song snippets for different people. Makes it easy to know who’s calling without needing to look at the phone. Always a little concerned that people will one day hear their own ringtone so haven’t put Clapton’s Pretending on my boss so far.
I use the ringtone from The Shaguar’s car-phone (Austin Powers). Fun fact: that ringtone made its first public appearance in the British series “UFO” back in the late 60s, as the ringtone for Cmdr. Straker’s car-phone. It’s pure analogue electronica, baby! And annoying as all get-out. My wife hates it, but as I keep telling her, “Yeah, but you *know* it’s my phone that’s ringing, doncha?”
So you get calls from Basil Exposition too?
No, but the forces of SHADO call me with regular updates about the UFOs they destroy out beyond the Moon’s orbit. It’s a nice touch, makes me feel like I’m part of the team.
Not to mention the chicks in string shirts and purple hair.
INDEED! 8^p
*waves back to Lt Ayshea*
Got a link?
I used this ringtone on Zedge. WARNING!: there are alternates on Zedge that are wrong, wrong, WRONG, dammit! Some snotty-faced basement-dweller appears to have uploaded a bunch of butchered variants. Accept no substitutes for Cmdr. Straker’s bitchin’ late-60s electronic ring-tone!
Awesome.
Wasn’t that also the phone ring in “Our Man Flint”?
You’re crazy.
::waits on call from brother so I can hear the Buckeye Battle Cry again::
Mine is Vivaldi’s Allegro from the Mandolin Concerto in C. It’s very classy.
You damn philistine.
You damn philistine.
Truth.
I used to love them. Then when my wife found out I had “Psycho Botch” as my ringtone for her, I had to stop.
In fairness, I always believed she made the right choice when she became my ex-wife.
I do not know if I have ring tones. I hate talking on the phone, so never have my ringer on.
My ringtone is this.
But I always have my phone on silent.
The fuck?! My Why Part 2 ringtone kicks ass. What, we should all have the Old Fashioned Telephone Ring instead?
How about I just stay off your lawn?
“This is cnn” … quietly backtracking another hot take.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/12/11/cnn-quietly-backtracks-another-report-tying-trump-campaign-to-russia.html
Anyone who doesn’t believe that this “Russia, Russia, Russia” conspiracy is all a bunch of nonsense at this point is clinically retarded
If by nonsense you mean a deliberate campaign of lies and propaganda designed to give the aristos the public support to be able to remove the duly elected president from office. “Sedition” seems closer to accurate.
Where’s that animated gif of they live with fake news on the billboard?
I love you guys.
Also, i may or may not be three sheets to the wind.
Ok, I’m totes three sheets to the wind.
The Hotel charges extra for throwing Bed sheets out the window, Be advised
IT’S A TRAP!
Ok, I’m totes three sheets to the wind.
Excellent.
Does that mean drunk? If so, I’m about to join you. I got a cabernet during the white elephant gift exchange at work today and wine does not last long in my home.
You should have told me sooner. Wine sits around my house so long you’d think I made vinegar for a living.
I accept any and all donations, UCS ?
Love to join you, but it’s barely 2 P.M. here. . . .
Oh, who am I kidding?
RIGHT?!? Show some damn initiative, peasant!
Whatever you do, don’t walk into the wrong room and crawl into bed with someone else’s significant other and/or piss on their clothes. It’s frowned upon.
Unless the “significant other” is a Russian hooker and the “wrong room” is a hotel, and you’re “Donald Trump”, Then, it’s reported upon.
I believe i can manage to refrain. Imma get to hotel, nap, and watch the patriots destroy the fish who think.
Hell, I’m always drunk! Especially at work! Which I never do… Rufus…
Can we get a group hug going without booze being involved?
I think that’d be kinda gay. NTTAWWT, of course.
No. Turn in your monocle for suggesting such a thing.
Dibs on his orphans.
Don’t touch me.
Last month I stayed in a hotel while interviewing for my job. They gave me some bottles as samples for my job. I drank half a bottle of bourbon, some gin and some vodka. I’m not quite sure how it happened, but I wound up outside my hotel room in just my underwear, an empty ice bucket and half a bottle of whiskey. It was very, very, very embarrassing to go down and ask for a new key in that state.
I think I was afraid of pissing my suit slacks, so that may explain why I wasn’t wearing them.
You have a much more colorful life than do I, and I am married to OMWC!
It’s possible I’m married to STEVE SMITH. Or I just get very drunk and get raped a lot.
Also, I’m really fucking good at what I do. The new distillery? Reduced cost per bottle by 37%, motivated my staff to increase efficiency, and put new policies in place to assure quality control. The flip side is that I tell my boss to fuck himself, spend the nights half naked, drunk, and doing freestyle raps to myself, and I’m a jerk to people around me.
It balances and they give me a paycheck. My bad behavior is enabled.
Don’t even talk about how that same formula applies to personal relationships.
Oh, yes. And I’m drunk now.
Contra Raston Bot above, The Root article he posted is not the dumbest thing you’ll read today.
This one is.
He’s just an asshole.
After being subjected to a rather large number of Root articles via Glib links, I’m not surprised those guys think everyone’s racist – I’m sure the vast majority of the people they know hate them. Not because Root writers are black, but because they’re enormous dicks who seem as if they would be extremely unpleasant to spend any time with at all.
Those kids are going to have such fond childhood memories.
You know what irritates me?
The stupid ignorant motherfucker couldn’t even make the connection from Aliens to Predator.
Doing that would risk his article becoming interesting. And then he’d never get hired again.
Imma take a wild guess and say that he was one of those folks more upset over Michael Brown than Tamir Rice.
If white people across the country were up in arms about Daniel Shaver or Justine Damond’s deaths, this guy might have a point. But the average white person seems to give much of a shit about white people getting executed by cops as black people. It’s almost like there’s something else going on besides racism!
Wait until he finds out about this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet
What a fucking loser.
The only possible hope for salvation for this guy is this:
Is this entire thing just satire? Is it possible the entire site is just one massive parody of SJW urgle-burgle?
It’s possible. There is no way to tell when established news sources such as Newsweek and the NYT are beyond parody.
I’m still convinced that Everyday Feminism is satire, so … maybe?
The New Yorker Fires Star Reporter Ryan Lizza Over ‘Improper Sexual Conduct’.
For his part, he’s denying it. Not like anyone’s asking for evidence in the current climate. Believe the women, of course*.
* Unless they’re accusing Bill Clinton
100% of the affidavits sworn against me were lies.
Women lie in divorce petitions when the truth would do better.
“In God we trust; all others bring data” W. Edwards Deming
Oh, poor Ryan.
Bwaahahahahahaah.
I looked at a woman once. I guess I should start packing up my stuff…
I start smh laughing, when I got to what the Brits google about everyone else, it got funnier (see the “Colombia” result).
My favorite was “Why does Croatia hog coastline?”, both because of the funny formulation and the interesting question it raises (why does most of the Balkan coast along the Adriatic belong to Croatia?).
Because Montenegro had first choice, and picked the mountains.
That and the treaty of Trianon that the Brits imposed on the Hungarians.
Hungarians whine about many things, but even they draw the line at Adriatic coast…
That sounds more like it.
I have an interesting round of drinks with a girl on Thursday who advertised herself as Serbian, but on being questioned, seems more likely to be Montenegran or even Albanian. I of course will be in learning mode, because if I say one thing wrong, a bunch of heavily armed siblings might descend upon me and beat me shitless for being disrespectful.
Before The usual Suspects gets memory-holed, I have to say, if Keyser Soze was real, I always thought he seemed most like an Albanian mobster. So, I must be careful,
If she’s either of those, you are in trouble with brothers if you get within two feet of her without witnesses they know, so be careful!
Looks-wise, hope for Montenegrin, unless you’re a short guy…
She’s 5’11” and not bad looking.
I’ll book some protection and a few witnesses. She wants to take a pistol course and doesn’t want her brothers to know,
I have to say, if Keyser Soze was real,
The best trick the Devil ever played, was convincing the world he didn’t exist.
If Montenegro chose the coast, then they wouldn’t be Montenegro, would they? They’d be Costanegro.
*narrows gaze*
As narrow as the Costanegran coast?
Beats Costaguana, I guess.
Because Latins. Perfidious Latins and goddamn Swabians.
Huh. I thought the answer was game balance.
I was so looking towards using it in my current EU4 playthrough. Then Ottomans took Quantity and now have larger army than three greatest European powers combined 🙁
The modern border between Croatia and Bosnia pretty closely follows the border established between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires at the end of the Great Turkish War – the two big eastern projections of Croatia are the territory that the Habsburgs conquered during the war (along the coast and down the Danube, basically.) The northern projection was part of Hungary at one point, but I don’t believe that it was actually Hungarian, that was just an administrative arrangement.
Protest against embassy move to Jersualem in New York. Can’t find any national coverage of it except from the NBC New York article linked within that one, and it doesn’t seem to mention what the protestors were actually saying.
There were more anti-Semitic protesters there than there were at Charlottesville, they use violent language, but for some reason…
Something about a Moon God?
They’re just responding to the Zionists speakers who were calling for wiping out all Palestinians now that the US is rectifying names and the embassy will be moved (someday).
I always wonder why the Jews in israel don’t classify themselves as Indigenous Peoples. That would really put SJW’s panties in a bunch.
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/flbp-3.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=550
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/busty-babes-flbp-28.jpg?w=500&h=619
https://markhenry500.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/best-of-the-female-body-7.jpg
Very nice, despite the tripple dose of goodness above (well, double good + weird in a new way….)
…to finish the thought, despite the triple goodness above, you still give us great bounty. Praise!
She reminds me of Christina Hendricks.
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This is a good one.
This isn’t so much a “landlord from hell” story, but it’s as good an opportunity to share it as any.
About ten years ago I moved into an apartment on the west side. The complex was managed by a nice lady that lived in the unit directly above mine. I never met the actual landlord, but I’m pretty sure that this woman had some sort of arrangement with them that allowed her to live there either rent free or at a discounted rate. She collected the rent checks and served as a tenant liaison to the owners for when things needed to be fixed. Our interactions were always cordial, and she once casually informed me that she received a government subsidy for being part Native American. Now I know what you’re thinking, so you might be disappointed to learn that her last name wasn’t Warren. I won’t post it here because I’m not a dick like that, but it had a very obviously Russian spelling. Who knows – maybe her ancestors crossed the Bering Strait? I’m not that nosy, so I never asked to confirm. Her roommate was a much younger blond girl that most certainly was Russian as evidenced by her lack of ability to form any cohesive English sentences at all. For a number of months I used the loud hammering of her stilettos against the hardwood floor at 5:30 in the morning as an alarm clock. This didn’t bother me as much as did the rhythmic pounding of her headboard against the wall at two in the morning when her various acquaintances would visit. Now I ain’t making any accusations, but I occasionally still wonder if she maybe was visiting here on a “work visa”. I never complained about it, however, because it would have been awkward and I enjoyed generally being left alone and having broken things fixed in a timely manner. Those couple of years were quite colorful and entertaining.
One can be both of Russian descent and Native American.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/alaska-russian-heritage-smithsonian-journeys-travel-quarterly-180959449/
Where are the pics at tho? Did you tap that?
She was a total “would”, but the situation made it a definite “naah”. I also didn’t bother much with pics back then as they all would have been 240×240 at the lowest resolution imaginable. Such was the state of the art.
Worst landlord was in a place i rented for 6 months in Corpus Christi, Texas.
I’ll start with the building. It was new, so it looked nice. There were no right angles anywhere in the unit. Everything that should have been at a right angle was a few degrees off. Bathroom tile, electrical outlets, the kitchen island, door frames, everything. The dryer’s vent emptied into an interior wall. I pulled it out because the dryer wasn’t working well and the vent hole was centered directly over a stud. The oven door would not close. Not that I wanted to use it because the undersized AC unit could keep the place at about 85F.
My job wrapped up early and I wanted to move out about 5 months into the lease. I went into the office to ask if it was fine with them if i just paid the last two months rent and move out. I got a verbal ok from the staff, dropped off my check the next day and moved out at the end of the month. Three months later at my new place I get a bill for the last month’s rent from them. I call everyday for two weeks but the only response I ever got was that I will have to wait until a manager is available. So they just kept my deposit. Dicks.
Cthulhu was your landlord?
It was a defense against the Hounds of Tindalos.
Or the Cats of Ulthar.
ГКЧП appeared more professional than the US Deep State.
Having created the award winning Zardoz ‘First’ gif, I relaize that STEVE SMITH may get jealous and.. well you know ..so here A STEVE SMITH gif
That’s like getting a Purple Heart or POW medal. I’d rather not get that one. And by get, I mean raped.
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
10/10
Nice work!
I quaked.
Great job!
YASSSSS as the kids say
You ARE THE MAN!
Okay I am officially sauced and also declare that I love you degenerates.
That’s okay, we know it’s the wine talking.
I was getting fond of you bastards, but I know it’s the booze and and being far from homes.
Glibs are the type of assholes who piss in hampers and sleep with other peoples women.
Good. More room for real New Yorkers.
Totally bored when I’m not working my job. Not knowing anyone in Utica, I decided to find some friends on dating sites.
I found all women in this city are steamed hams.
These euphemisms.
You get used to the mullets after a while.
If I wanted to date a stick figure with a leather face and a mullet, I could just drape my leather jacket on a broom and put a mangy mop on top. Looking at the options, I just may do that.
Tell me, how long have you felt this attraction for Nick Gillespie lookalikes?
My sexual fetishes are the Nick Gillespie of sexual fetishes.
You could always expand your field to include Rome.
But whatever you do, stay away from Little Falls.
I am Jan’s utica.
A perfectly cromulent addition to that scene
Got an email from a recruiter for a “fullstack developer”. I keep reading that as “fuckstick developer”.
I’m not sure I know what the job description for the first entails.
It seems like it boils down to ops/IT with a side of front end development. Copy paste from stackoverflow for any SQL needs.
*sigh*
The one thing I’ve learned is that when you try to get one person to do both development and systems support, you either end up with someone good at half the equation, or none of it. There may be the occassional unicorn, but they’re going to be able to demand more than shops who pull that shit want to pay.
Ugh don’t get me started with “DevOps”.
It’s worse than that.
The reality is that with Web 2.0, there’s so much shit that it’s almost impossible to find a developer who is genuinely capable of designing a high-performance database (or a performant set of database controllers) who can also develop solid applications, and do the UI and UX.
Add in the systems analysis role which is inevitable also demanded, as well as being conversant with technologies such as version control, continuous integration and – if part of a team larger than 2, a good understanding of Lean/Scrum/fad-du-jour – and you’re basically looking for a heterosexual unicorn.
And that’s assuming that the application doesn’t need REST/XML interfaces and whatnot.
Meanwhile in the real world I’m stuck on a data integration team and I hate SQL. Next week I might get traded to our LOB app team, who knows? You do what is needed. I’ve always wanted to be an ‘expert’ in something but when everybody is wearing all the hats how do you do that.
Selective assassination is the answer.
I fell into structured data and a few other things on the wire and on disk 20 years ago and haven’t managed to escape the event horizon. It’s dark, lonely, thankless work, but somebody has to do it.
Getting on the LOB app team would almost certainly be an improvement, unless they’re fully staffed and all they lack is a SQL administrator.
I’ve probably done equal amounts of web and database development over the years. When the company was tiny I did it all. Now it’s huge so I don’t do it all any more. I just find database stuff more unpleasant to work with. I would rather move back into web apps (back end) which fits me better I think. Database development is so hacky 🙂
Database ‘done right’ is a thing of beauty and efficiency. The problem is, of course, that most databases designed like a recycling center and are put together by people whose talents are elsewhere 🙂
You know, I’ve never encountered anyone in my career who could rightly claim to be a “database expert”. This includes most DBAs. Everyone is winging it. I’ve certainly designed some clunkers.
I have – he also decided to set up as a consulting firm to bid himself rather than see so much of his rate go to the firm that wasn’t actually getting his the jobs anyway.
DBAs aren’t designers. It’s a common misconception.
The problem is that until a business has been burned REALLY badly, no real commitment is made to converting business rules and requirements into a functioning design. Even companies that embrace shit like Six Sigma and all the other cool business innovations don’t get it, and with SAAS etc, there’s even less motivation to do so.
We’re in a time like the early 80’s, where Ashton-Tate sold dBase II, which could solve all your database needs. Of course, when you booted it up, your prompt was a period. But the hype – Oh man, the hype.
Yeah, there are some good designers out there, but letting them strut their stuff and do a good job means the employers have to be totally committed to getting the solution right, because if they cut corners, it’s like pouring your house foundations using corn starch and water.
Oh, I didn’t mean to imply they were.
And the reason design sucks is because it needs to be done yesterday. Nobody has time for “design”.
I hope when you’re talking about version control you mean maintaining the main repository and all the ops related elements and not just using it right?
Well, someone on the team should be responsible, and well – you’re responsible for everything else – so why not.
I have to be honest, I have lost count of the times I’ve had my stuff screwed up by a Repo manager who didn’t actually understand version control.
It means both web or front end design and database/back end work. They used to just list an impossibly long list of skills that no one person can meet.
The fullstack developer jobs I’ve looked into were front end development.
Yeah, it usually goes back to ensuring you can write controllers for MVC Apps, because often the database itself is a legacy/halfassed thing the company barely understands.
The controllers are meant to turn the data into something that has some structure, and the model fixes up all the shittyness in the data. Don’t ask me why I say this, today of all days.
There’s stacks and there’s stacks.
And some are pretty bad. Imagine building a config running Perl, on Windows, with XAMP as your web server, with a side-serving of a REST interface, built in Java. Again, remember, on Windows.
Oh, with SQLlite as the database.
“Must be able to maintain a site that is Netscape Navigator 3.77”
… compatible.
“Let me guess, you haven’t started planning for your Y2K remediation yet, have you?”
I’m ahead of the curve. I’ve just signed our systems off for Y3K AND Y4K.
In the user instructions for my new timesheet system (if I ever start this fucking job), they mentioned Netscape as one of the compatible browsers, but didn’t mention Chrome at all. When the fuck did they start using this timekeeping system???
Last year – it’s been in development since 1997.
I guess I should just be thankful it’s online and not some shit I need to print & fax every week.
You had me at Perl. No fucking way am I touching that.
I would so much rather deal with Perl than Java.
Meh. At least you can read Java, even if it sucks as a language. Perl is a hardly legible, impossible to debug, shitshow of a language.
I always made it a p point to comment out my open and close braces in Perl.
College enlists Care Bears to comfort stressed-out students
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10254
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A dorm for honors students at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst recently put up a display featuring Care Bears characters offering advice for “grumpy or stressed” students.
“Make time for FUN!” the display advises, adding that “laughter is the best medicine.”
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According to Bradley Polumbo, a sophomore at UMass-Amherst, the display was posted in Birch Hall, the dorm for students in the Honors College.
“Frankly, I just think it’s ridiculous,” Polumbo told Campus Reform. “The people that live in this dorm are either 20 or 21 years old. We could be overseas fighting in wars right now, or working full time with kids at home to feed.”
“But the school thinks we need Care Bears to remind us that we’re supposed to eat healthy and sleep at night?” Polumbo said, questioning the display. “If you don’t know that by age 20 you have bigger problems, and probably shouldn’t be pursuing a degree until you get those sorted out.”
The Residence Director for Birch Hall did not respond in time for publication of this article.
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I have a terrible sense of humor
I have always been a fan of this particular pose.
I saved one of those arms from the devastator kit so I could make one at some point.
‘broke the law’? No. WE ARE THE LAW.
Respect the badge, he earned it with his blood,
Fear the gun, your sentence might be death because
I am the law
Don’t you fuck around no more
I never even met my first landlord. He was a mail-drop. we spent 4 years trying to get him to turn the heat *down* , but i don’t recall anything but a note in return saying, “we will look into it”.
(old pre-war buildings in NYC often have ‘they overheat them’ issues, because if they *don’t* overheat them, they are so drafty that people sue for being too cold. so landlords set the furnace to “broil” and people leave their windows open all winter. its a thing.)
my second landlord was a russian owner of a hardware store in greenpoint. he seemed mobbed up, but very nice. he was like, “do you do drugs? Do you use whores? No? You are a good boy, you will make good tenant.” Of course i lied a little. But i never saw him either for the next 10 years. Then he died and his 20-something shitty son took over, and he went on a mission to kick out all the older residents in the building because rents in the area were skyrocketing and he was missing out on the party. So he was a nightmare to *other people*. He’d cut their power off, and change the locks on their doors, and hire his goon buddies to harass these poor older polish people. I kept my head down.
i suppose i’ve been lucky. or not. some people in NYC i know had some corporation as their landlord. at least mine were ‘people’.
Corporate landlords do have one advantage in that they tend to “get stuff done”. People landlords always have “their guy” who sort of does stuff but not very well.
ok ok ok
This is really the dumbest thing you’ll read all day
It’s the Oberlin student newspaper response to the lawsuit filed by Gibson’s bakery against the school.
I wouldn’t open a business in that fucking shithole if you paid me.
Honestly, that doesn’t sound that stupid.
The comments are worth scrolling past the ridiculous screed.
Worst thing a landlord did was to decide to sell the condo herself, and sent a couple over to look at the place without any notice and without accompanying them. I did not let them in when they came knocking (why would they even go to some random address given to them by a random “for sale by owner” lady over the phone? Who does that? She could have given them the address of an organ harvesting ring)
“Netherlands: why are the British so polite”
i made this point a while back: Europeans think brits are polite. Brits think *americans* are polite.
But if you ask Americans about themselves, Americans will say, “Ugh, (other) Americans are so rude and classless, not like the Europeans, who have culture and class”.
“Ireland: why are the British so negative?
I’m guessing this was actually, “Why are they such cunts?” and they tried the most polite translation.
It’s the circle of life.
And I stand as Exhibit 1.
It’s not exactly rocket science to figure out why the Brits aren’t happy-jolly company when dealing with the Irish in Ireland.
Something I’ve been pondering
A few weeks ago, ISIS killed about 300 people at a mosque in Egypt.
I do not recall any protests.
A few weeks before that, Al Shabaab killed about 500 people in Somalia.
I do not recall any protests.
A few days ago, Trump announced the embassy move.
The Muslim world erupts in protest.
There’s something fishy about that.
I’ll just leave this here.
Your homage to SF?
It works either way.
Damn you and your unaudited post edits!
re-run
https://warisboring.com/your-periodic-reminder-that-the-v-22-is-a-piece-of-junk/
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The Osprey’s performance figures look impressive on paper. Yes, it can fly farther than a regular helicopter. It can fly higher than a helicopter—although it’s unpressurized. It has a larger load capacity than a CH-46. And it looks cool!
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The CH-46 could haul 15 fully loaded combat troops out to 160 miles. The V-22 should be able to carry 24 troops 233 miles, assuming it’s also carrying extra fuel tanks. En route, the V-22 is too fast to be escorted by conventional AH-1Z attack helicopters and too slow to tag along with F/A-18 fighters, making the tiltrotor all but defenseless.
The problems compound. A notoriously unforgiving aircraft, the Osprey is almost impossible to land in a brown-out situation, in which dust and dirt envelope the cockpit. To have any chance in a brown-out, a V-22 crew has to use advanced avionics and an infrared camera.
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Once on station, the Osprey has still more problems. It can’t hover for very long so it can’t loiter well. The V-22’s prop-boxes—the transmission allowing the propellers to act as rotors—have great difficulty shedding heat. The only way to cool them is to fly around in airplane mode.
This would seemingly defeat the purpose of a convertible aircraft. And there isn’t a single helicopter in the military inventory with such limits.
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At best, operating with the V-22 at sea is a dangerous dance in mishap-avoidance for everyone involved. The Osprey’s downwash is so powerful that it frequently knocks down deck crew. In 2010 during Fleet Week celebrations in New York City, a V-22 injured 10 people with its rotor blast.
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Simply taking off from a ship in an Osprey requires the pilots to keep one nacelle over the deck, while the other hangs over the water. This results in an immediate lift asymmetry. During an at-sea rescue mission, the V-22’s downwash could drown a survivor in the water before the crew can hoist them to safety.
Sailors have a joke. “The Osprey can wave at you while you drown.”
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One of the CH-46’s major missions was to transport Marine Maritime Raiding Forces to conduct what the military calls Helicopter Visit Board Search and Seizure. Usually that means Marines sliding onto a ship’s deck down ropes dangling from a hovering helicopter.
The Navy’s standard MH-60 does this at an altitude of around 15 feet, with two fast rope attachment points and minimal downwash. The Osprey, on the other hand, requires a much higher hover height—and only has a single attachment point.
Raiders call the V-22 the “elevator of death” because of how violently the ropes move in the downdraft. Ospreys have never attempted HVBSS on a vessel smaller than an amphibious assault ship, which is a highly unlikely target for such raids.
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One of the things the Osprey does do well is long-range transportation with a light load. Unfortunately, most Marine Expeditionary Units only allow the V-22 to travel 25 miles over water without a wingman.
The V-22’s maintenance costs are exorbitant. An Osprey costs $11,000 per hour to fly, compared to just $4,600 for a CH-46.
And all that money still translates into very poor reliability. During one 2013 deployment, usually only half of the V-22s were mission-capable, one of which flew onto the ship at the beginning of a four-month cruise, subsequently broke and barely managed to fly off the ship at the deployment’s conclusion.
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Welcome to Operation Head Desk
$11K/hr? Good to see my tax money’s being well spent.
“One of the things the Osprey does do well ”
Also brings in a shit load of money for Boeing in Cong. Meehan (R-Pa)’s district, formerly held by House powerhouse Curt Weldon.
I remember reading the Osprey’s spec sheet vs the MH-53 which the Osprey replaced for the Air Force. The Osprey carries half the payload, used twice as much fuel and couldn’t be armed. Replacing a airframe with decades of reliability and predictable service for something that crashed every week while in development since the early 90s…and its not even the biggest money pit DOD has.
“and its not even the biggest money pit DOD has.”
No shit…
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/f-35a-cost-and-readiness-data-improves-in-2015-as-fl-421499/
A CH-47 can carry around 40 people and go about the same speed.
Back to Netscape Navigator for a moment. I found this page which I think is kinda interesting if you’re a web geek.
None (almost none) of the links work because they call internal URIs of the browser, but a few things caught my eye.
livescript: Never realized this was even thought about so early. Live and learn.
mocha: When Java and javascript had more in common than three common letters
OK, back to my beer.
I think the first time I used a browser was ’97 or ’98. We had AOL for awhile but then I realized you could internet without AOL and it was a revelation.
Now’s the time when I tell you to get off my lawn, right?
Knock yourself out.
That’s why I go walking late at night up near Dyre Ave.
I’ve never actually been to the Bronx in 20 years that I’ve lived in NYC. (Driven through it but of course that doesn’t count.)
We really need to organize an NYC Glib-fest.
All these rubes holding them out in flyover country are making me jealous.
Herding Glibs is like herding cats.
When my brother and I lived at home, we tried SO hard to make our mom realize this, but she wouldn’t budge because she enjoyed the chatrooms and email. We kept trying (to no avail) to tell her that you can access virtually all of the AOL features without having to get your Internet through AOL and use their shitty browser.
I’m old enough to have trolled the BBS’s of yore and to have been thrilled when Compuserve came out.
I had some BBS fun in college but didn’t touch a computer for years after. (Except at work and that was either hotel or retail software.)
Big Black Schlong?
The ASCII art didn’t do it justice.
I met a guy in college in 88 who had actually been prosecuted for hacking, a rarity in those days. He was banned from using a computer for five years iirc. Wish I could remember his name.
Matthew Broderick?
Guess that was before Kevin Mitnick (#freekevin) – ahhh, the random stupid hippie issues of 2600 (with occasional interesting tech notes) I’d read while working at the campus computer store in ’98.
+1 Citadel, STadel, adel!
That last one’s “fnordadel” but with the angle brackets (which won’t render properly here) around the word “fnord.” Sigh.
Tradewars. Best Door Game!
StarWeb, huh?
this lady sounds like a blast
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Dec. 11 (UPI) — A New Jersey ice cream shop is under fire from locals who say its cheeky cartoon cow logo is too sexualized for an outside sign.
Amy Tingle, who co-owns Creativity Caravan in Montclair with her romantic partner, Maya Stein, said she was shocked when newly-opened store Dairy Air Ice Cream Co. put out a sign featuring an anthropomorphic cartoon cow provocatively displaying her backside.
“It is offensive and sickening,” Tingle last week in an open letter to the business. “A hyper-sexualized, obviously female cow with her ass upended and poking through a circle, tail raised up, waiting for what? I’m not sure, but I do know that I am repulsed and offended.”
She said the logo is found on all of the store’s furniture, walls and cups. She said it makes women and girls feel “as if we are things for someone else’s sexual use.”
“This kind of marketing scheme is the reason we currently have a sexual predator in the White House,” she continued. “This is offensive, not just to women, but to husbands and fathers and brothers and uncles and grandfathers who are trying to raise strong young women in a culture that continuously sexualizes them rather than treating them equally, with dignity and respect.”
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Lesbian Puritans prepared to use males as ‘props’ as they spew their bigoted and narrow-minded opinions. Who could have expected this?
Bitches gotta be bitches
And I always enjoy how Trump’s silly boast about groupies letting (i.e. consensual) him grab their crotches means he’s a sexual predator.
How close are we getting to any consensual sexual activity involving a politician is grounds for dismissal?
The biggest news about Trump’s antics recently was a woman who said he took her to lunch, and then tried to kiss her goodbye in the elevator — but instead of on the cheek, he tried to kiss her on the lips!! And when she turned away, he stopped and didn’t persist, and was a perfect gentleman after that. Why did this even become news? (As one famous somebody in the past once said, ‘how do I even know they are unwanted advances until I make them?”)
These idiots are white-knighting for cows now?
“Your wish is my command, Mme. Heifer. Please don’t eat my fedora.”
And I’m guessing they never realized ‘dairy air’ was a homophone for derrière, and thus the cow heinie logo.
Too woke for wordplay?
Christ, what an asshole!
I thought the Vagina Monologues and parading around in monster-sized foam vulvas were empowering acts?
The Vagina Monologues are considered problematic nowadays because Ensler fails to address the indisputable fact that some women have penises.
Isn’t it kind of strange that the work also includes a detailed depiction of an adult woman committing statutory rape against an underage girl, but you hear far more complaints about the non-inclusion of “women with penises”?
It’s only strange if you don’t understand the concept of “rape rape” advanced by esteemed scholar Whoopi Goldberg, also a noted proponent of the “antifa are a false flag created by conservatives to have something to bitch about” theory.
Hawt
I remeber these people from Dogma, but I doubt Matt Damon is going to murder than during a board meeting.
Nevermind. The cows cool. I’m really tired…the gym is going to suck tonight.
Comment for KibbledKristin: You might want to keep your resume in circulation. I walked into a similar situation many years ago – chaos, confusion, etc. I saw the handwriting on the wall that I would not be happy long term with this job. So I kept looking and within three months found a much better situation. Within a year, the old firm closed during an economic downturn and the guy who took my place was still unemployed two years later. The new employer doesn’t own your loyalty yet, so keep your eyes and options open.
And with Mr. Trump in the Big Chair, the job market is on (relative) fire at the moment, although it’s heavily biased toward private sector.
The customer kind of owns my loyalty – they hooked me up with this gig without an interview. I worked for her for about 10 years – she’s an excellent boss (she was the right-hand of the best boss I’ve ever had). I’ll also be working with another former colleague who is a contractor. And they have people who have been there long-term, which is something I look for. I have hopes. But my resume is never out of circulation, rest assured. Maybe someday Virgin Atlantic will call me about a content management job at KDEN (I don’t even think they fly in there – do they fly in there?).
Screw it. Visit every airline’s system, see whether it’s done in-house or contracted out. Some are bound to be in-house (Spirit?).
Write unsolicited introductions to the technology bosses.
If the sites are really shitty, write to the CEOs, regardless of whether the sites are in-house or not.
Atlantic, no, but Virgin America have a KSFO-KDEN route
No they don’t. F9 is headquartered in Colorado, but I imagine their pay & benefits are as threadbare as their product. But then does your work really need to be done in person or it remote possible?
The really sad thing is, they never own your loyalty. The day that check clears every 2 weeks, you’re even.
Any loyalty shown by either side is as evanescent as goodwill on a corporation’s balance sheet. If you’re not an equity holder, you’re a balance sheet item – an asset, or a liability. Or both.
Yep. Remember, you are a human *resource*.
Just watch out when HR updates your department to “Soylent”.
Just because you’re cynical, it doesn’t mean you’re wrong.
I’m not like an Objectivist. I don’t demand microscopically-balanced value for value in every transaction I do. I reserve that for my relationship with the orphans.
I understand that all things being equal, to extend some goodwill and have some loyalty to an employer isn’t a bad thing, but it’s foolish to expect that a relationship can’t and won’t change, negating that loyalty in one fell swoop.
Oh, the Swiss do own…my soul. It was part of the employment indenture. I did get a bit of gold for it, so I got that going for me.
Swiss giving you gold? We all know whose (((gold))) that was ….
I feel that’s a little too cynical. Especially if you’re employed by a smaller corporation. I’m treated very well for being a “loyal” employee.
It always seems cynical until amazingly – you’re surprised by the economy forcing them to make hard decisions.
Look, I get it, loyalty *is* a good thing, but companies are not individual people. The survival of a group of people sometimes requires that a member of that group is sacrificed.
No matter how reluctantly it is done, and how sorry they are to have it happen, or even how much the whole event is managed, you may be that sacrifice one day. That doesn’t mean I’m saying that you as an employee are justified in treating a job as just a paycheck – that would be ungrateful and … unmutual … but just as a business MUST look to maximizing its effectiveness and profitability, so should the individual.
Fair enough. I’m just basing my feelings on an 18+ year employment.
“The day that check clears every 2 weeks, you’re even.”
That just came across as a little too short sighted in my experience.
Or blame the bourbon…I’m out.
17 years, and then I was expendable. Offered a reduced role or severance.
No longer there because what made it good is no longer there, either.
16 years in my case, so it’s not as though I’ve not experienced being ‘a lifer’.
My 20-year anniversary is coming up in August. I’m as cynical as you, but woefully unprepared for it.
/where’s that resume?
I think I’ve mentioned it in the past, but basically the firm has migrated off all the technologies that I know, and I’ve been working diligently to ensure that all the legacy systems I’ve designed and built (or, managed teams to build) have been rebuilt/migrated to the new systems, so now, my job consists largely of reading the internet every day.
They’ve made no suggestions and had no discussions with me about making use of what is – objectively – many years of business experience elsewhere in the business, no efforts to migrate me into another role, and frankly doing just about everything they can to constructively dismiss me. Due to the way our remuneration is structured, a large chunk of my bonus – paid in February – is actually salary. Bu NYC standards, the normal payments out every two weeks are capped pretty low, so the pattern of RIFs is that short of doing something idiotic and actionable by HR, people who will get the boot, will get it in the first 3 weeks of February when the total value of the bonus pool is known (based on client fees), and a proper allocation of the pool can be made. So I anticipate that in about weeks, I’ll be clearing my desk and deciding who gets the red swingline stapler.
It’s pretty clear there’s a target on my back, and I can see the red dot skipping around and annoying the cats. I’m fine with this – I’m an investment that was valued and worth holding in the portfolio in the past, and now, the investment isn’t yielding a return and a decision has been made to divest the firm of what was in the past a valued investment.
What it means, however, is that in almost all measures, I’ve been a “good” employee, and the firm has been “good” to me. But the landscape has changed, and I’m a poor fit for the new landscape, and the company has elected to change to meet that challenge in a way that renders me a non-performing asset at best.
I know it’s not personal. But if I was the kind of guy whose only measure for whether I was a valued employee was my loyalty, I would be very disappointed.
I’ve had a plan for some time, and I’ve been acting on it and I have my parachute – an outsider might say that the very idea of ‘having a parachute’ is disloyal, but the reality is that it’s simply being prudent.
Having your resume up to date is being prudent.
an outsider might say that the very idea of ‘having a parachute’ is disloyal, but the reality is that it’s simply being prudent.
Having your resume up to date is being prudent.
Having a job isn’t like having a wife, you’re not cheating on them by shopping for a different one. IMO, loyalty is about working hard and watching out for the company in your work.
today I learned
The word comrade comes the Spanish word camarada, meaning room mate. That word comes from the Latin word camera, meaning room.
Little known etymology fact, camera comes the root word Gamera.
That creature is *so* inaccurate:
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his mouth is filled with teeth, which is unprecedented in turtles – with the exception perhaps of the prehistoric turtles Proganochelys and Odontochelys – plus a pair of large tusks protruding upward from the lower jaw.
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I’m supposed to believe that turtles have teeth!?
Preposterous!
So apparently some tyrant in robes forbade the jury in Daniel Shaver’s murder from seeing the bodycam footage or the “YOU’RE FUCKED” AR-15 dustcover? What a fucking miscarriage of justice. Watching that made me sick and I’m disgusted with the people defending it.
More equal than others
Why do you think Blue lives don’t matter, SRC?
What’s the point of being outraged now. We know the system’s fucked. Police officers have James Bond-level licenses to kill. And most of the country accepts it. When they get outraged, it’s selected cases, and then they forget about it in a few days. Half the country are the Blue Lives Matter crowd, the other half still thinks these officers should be the only ones qualified to handle guns.
I give up.
Look on the bright side. In the bad, old days, things like that received no news coverage.
At least back then you could fool yourself into thinking things would change if people only knew. Now it’s evident that they just don’t care which is way more depressing.
I think they got to see the former but not the latter. It was the most uncalled for shooting I’ve ever seen and the jury should be fucking ashamed.
So the dude at DoJ who got demoted because he supposedly had contact with someone at Fusion GPS during the election…appears to have had a little deeper connections there than anyone let on.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/11/wife-demoted-doj-official-worked-for-firm-behind-anti-trump-dossier.html
But anyone that thinks there’s a deep state conspiracy against Trump is a nut.
Question for the Twin Cities Glib Contingent.
OMWC and I are planning a long weekend in Minneapolis in April or May. (We periodically head up for a visit because we like Minneapolis and LOVE Bar La Grassa.)
Any interest in a Glibertarians meetup? If so, weigh in on any weekends in those two months that are particularly bad for any of you.
If no interest, prepare for a mysterious hacking of the user database that oddly only deletes the accounts of people from the Twin Cities.
Aka “Swinging”
Bring your daughters!
(Offer valid for daughters ages 8 and below.)
Ooh! Ooh! Mr Hayeksplosives and i would definitely be down for a meetup.
My work schedule is unpredictable as hell, but with notice, i can put a peg in any particular date and make sure it is safe.
The Mr sometimes has to play in his band on weekends, so we will have to watch for that too.
I like the new avatar, but what’s with the name change?
She splained this morning. Sheesh, pay attention.
I had to work through morning links.
Also, I’m up much too late.
*heads off to morning links for explanation before passing out*
Or we can go hear his band!
We were thinking maybe GlibFest for the Saturday afternoon or evening to minimize work day distractions for most people.
That took a turn I didn’t expect.
OT, but next time you are in Bawlmer, I would entertain the idea of a glib-meet-and-
get-blitzedgreet.Noted!
Uffda.
We got tricked by MikeS a while back. You think that us decent Minnesodans want to repeat that nightmare?
I can’t plan that far ahead. Pick something and let us know. I can bring the lutefisk.
Your a moron.
Awesome.
/makes note not to tell the Pope when we are coming if he is insisting on bringing lutefisk
Who said I was going to share the lutefisk? Minnesoda Nice has its limits….
Hell, yes.
I’ll even persuade his Holiness to wear pants this time!
Don’t make promises you can’t keep.
Woohoo!
Watch out for Tundra. He speaks with forked tongue.
These are the pants he will wrestle me into. (not because I will resist, but because global warming has inexplicably made it much harder for me to fit into my old clothes.)
Since no one ever comes to North Dakota, I might even try and head that way and ruin your party! Mwwahaaahahahahaha!
OK!
Oh look, another social media shit storm. I can totally understand why this is headline news.
TW: Bieber
It’s bullies all the way down
The State is the biggest bully of them all.
latest dispatched from Operation Head Desk
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In late 2015, Joint Base Elemendorf Richardson in Alaska forked over $1,580 for 1,600 tubes of lip balm with an anti-rape message plastered on the side. The tube of balm asks the users to “consent, ask and communicate.”
The balm was a simple give away as part of the Military’s ongoing sexual assault prevention programs. One problem, someone on base “discovered” some of the tubes contained hemp oil.
U.S. Air Force policy bans distributing or selling anything with hemp oil for fear that it may contain THC — the active ingredient in marijuana — despite scientists disputing this conclusion. Regardless, the brass ordered anyone with the offending anti-rape lip balm to destroy the tubes.
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https://medium.com/war-is-boring/heres-how-the-military-wasted-your-money-in-2016-81bbc217c662
A buck a tube? For purported lanolin?
Heh.
That is all. Heh.
Wow.
U.S. Army fudged its accounts by trillions of dollars, auditor finds
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-audit-army/u-s-army-fudged-its-accounts-by-trillions-of-dollars-auditor-finds-idUSKCN10U1IG
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United States Army’s finances are so jumbled it had to make trillions of dollars of improper accounting adjustments to create an illusion that its books are balanced.
The Defense Department’s Inspector General, in a June report, said the Army made $2.8 trillion in wrongful adjustments to accounting entries in one quarter alone in 2015, and $6.5 trillion for the year. Yet the Army lacked receipts and invoices to support those numbers or simply made them up.
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If you’re gonna cook the books, no reason not to get a yuge pot.
I wonder what the net discrepancy was.
Will make the revised adjustments seem totally reasonable.
Dayum… can we trade Lundqvist for this Stars goalie?
*Don’t be Thomas Massie*
*Don’t be Thomas Massie*
*Don’t be Thomas Massie*
Something something swamp something drained something
Hopefully it’s about everyone in Congress except for Massie, Amash and Paul.
Can we wall off Alabama and just not allow them to seat a Senator tomorrow?
(copied from Weigel’s twitter, but it is an actual quote from tonight’s rally, which was apparently … weird)
Roy Moore’s wife Kayla: “Fake news will tell you that we don’t care for Jews. One of our attorneys is a Jew!”
(Looking at the video, it makes even less sense in context)
(also, his wife… well … um … I’m not sure her family tree has many branches, is all I’m saying)
I’m all in favor of letting the Alabamians say who they want to represent them.
Ok, fine.
*mutters something unintelligible, kicks a pebble*
No more blue?
Time for a change for a while. No more Burk, lots more Pennyfarthing.
Might go back to claymation in a week or so. Burk is my spirit animal.
I like the way you think JB.
Weigel conveniently left out the rest of her comment, speaking about many of their friends being Jewish and them doing fellowship regularly with Jewish people.
Im sure he only quoted the one bit due to the character limit though.
But what if your Algorithm is racist?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/meet-your-new-boss-an-algorithm-1512910800
#meonezerooneonezero
BINARY SOLO!
We had a year-end Finance webcast today. CFO talking about the next big things for Finance and it was all about what he called Digital Finance and proceeded to throw out every tech buzzword out there: Big Data, Robotics, Cloud, SaaS, Blockchain, yada yada. Anyway, they start talking about Robotics which made no sense in our context and ends up they’re using the term robotics to describe simple computer automation of business processes, not actual f’g robotics. Seriously? Idiots. If they want to be more efficient, they could start by getting rid of Sr. Management who make one expensive bad decision after another and evidently don’t know what words mean.
We are plagued by older C-Suite occupants who insist on getting “robotics” into place – exactly as you have described “now this info doesn’t have to be manually entered!” GASP! I HAVE SEEN THE ROBOTIC FUTURE!!!! Bah.
I am not a lawyer nor a public relations expert, but this seems like the absolutely fucking stupidest hill to choose to die on:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/nyc-terror-suspects-family-heartbroken-attack/story?id=51727576
Yeah, it’s not a smart move. Should said he identifies as a woman, than he’d be a hero. That’s how I’d play it
Well, there is a strong possibility that he did actually blow his dick off…
“He was trying to transition, but the heteronormative christo-fascist insurance company wouldn’t pay for it. Sure, he may have choosen the wrong course of action, but he was extremely distraught after being ‘othered’. He’s the real victim here”
So, he’s the Nick Gillespie of suicide bombers?
Did they accuse them of racism?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-oberlin-bakery-racial-dispute-20171210-story.html
seems like the absolutely fucking stupidest hill to choose to die on … by the Council on American-Islamic Relations
The useful idiots at CAIR are, unquestionably, idiots.
R.I.P. Bruce Brown.
https://www.surfer.com/features/rip-bruce-brown/
A while back I shouted out Curtis Harding as one of the better ‘neo soul’ artists out there. I think the thing that distinguished him was that he was sometimes a little more “psych rock” or Beatlesish than most of the other black retro artists. he did weird stuff every now and then.
he has a new album out (as of October)
it is very good
lenny kravits made huge piles of money making shittier music, imo.
“kravitz”
whatever
seriously tho, curtis harding is the shit and he’s one of the few dudes that makes me go, “i need to give him some money and put his records on my shelf” instead of just DL a few tracks via youtube
but did he bang the hot Cosby daughter? No.
all i can say about that is:
she was hot as fuck and i would have glazed her donut anytime
Donut? No, I would have fucked her. You’re weird.
(surrenders sword)
‘the donut reference t’was my mistake, verily; but sad that so many should have died in the conflict’
You’re a good guy. I like you. When SugarFree dominates the world I shall ask that you are spared….snickers knowing what is coming…snickers that I said coming…snickers thinking about knowing who else in TOS lore used snicker…gets hungry for a Snicker
if there’s a counter-argument..
his live performances seem to be barely-average versions of his recordings
he’s not the black jon spenser, but one day there will be. i am a soul-music evangelist. i believe there will always be someone better.
Curtis Harding makes much better music than Lenny Kravitz could ever hope to. Kravitz is banging hotter chicks though, probably not even close.
Sorry I tased you bro.
“The deputy fired his Taser. One prong hit the suspect. The other hit Goldman.”
Zing!
My God, even the cake is passive voice.
Pat Buchanan’s doppelgänger dies.. That guy had a helluva tough life. Think it was the right call to let him off the hook and live out his final days on Sado Island.
I guess they figured having to live in NoKo was punishment enough. I think they were right.
39 years in North Korea, less than some, but far from anything to sneeze at.
First world problems: why does Lyft insist on sending me a text message telling me that I’ve arrived at my destination?
In case you are tied up in the trunk and are curious where you are.
Sometimes when you exit a car when you’re drunk you don’t remember where you were going. Sounds helpful.
^ This has happened to me.
Watching a documentary on the Voyager probes on Netflix. Pretty cool.
Star Trek Voyager isn’t a documentary.
Uranus
Have you seen the new Sci Fi flick “Life”? Watched it yesterday. Amusing, but rife with PC BS.
“Karl,you killed all the peasants.” “False consciousness. It’s what they should have wanted.”
Here’s Glib Christmas Carol, i wrote it tonight,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQpqL3gWZIY