Wednesday Afternoon Links

Good afternoon, dear friends.  Over the hump we go…

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu had a pretty cordial joint press conference, even disagreeing on a couple of things and keeping it civil.  That’s two heads-of-state that have publicly disagreed with him in the last two days without a nuclear weapon being launched, to the surprise and dismay of CNN and other outlets.

Andrew Pozder, who was brought up in a recent links has succumbed to moral outrage and withdrew himself from consideration to be the Secretary of Labor.

The first state Attorney General filed an amicus brief supporting the travel ban…err, I mean the temporary suspension of travelers from seven specific countries for a limited period of time while a vetting system is established.

NASA needs your help in solving the problem of how to get rid of human waste when astronauts are strapped into their seats in zero gravity and unable to get to the crapper.  I know it seems like a shitty job, but it pays $30,000 to the person that figures it out.

President Trump will, according to the Washington Post, end the annual presidential “tradition” of filling out a bracket on ESPN.  The tradition that had lasted for all of one president.

BOOOOOIIIIIIIINNNNNGGGGG!!!!!!!
The fetching Miss Upton is technically not wearing a swimsuit on these covers, but who am I to complain?

And last but certainly not least, Kate Upton is set to be on the cover of her third Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition.

 

Have a great evening!

Comments

270 responses to “Wednesday Afternoon Links”

  1. Mad Scientist

    I can solve NASA’s problem with a closed loop human caterpillar.

    1. Mad Scientist

      Or is it centipede? I forget.

      1. Wouldn’t a human ouroboros be more efficient?

        1. F. Stupidity Jr.

          I’ve tried it many times, Sloop. Turns out I’m not that flexible.

    2. sssbobbyr

      Finally I think I have been allowed to join the new site. Have been enjoying reading for a few days. Not Tulpa.

  2. Hyperion

    So, ya’ll just think you can sneak off like that and no one will notice?

    1. Mad Scientist

      I don’t think there was any sneaking. Most of us were pretty noisy about it.

      1. Hyperion

        I remember Tonio talking about a new site a week or so ago, but I haven’t had too much time to post lately, so probably missed it.

        1. Tonio

          I decide that it would be tacky to overly publicize Glibertarians on that other site. Those people have been good about letting the Reasonoids folks post notices about their new site. Enough people knew what was going on. I had roughly forty people write to me and when Glibertarians went live sent them over. Emails are still trickling in.

          1. DOOMco

            I hadn’t said anything over there out of respect. I don’t want to start some stupid war over nonsense.
            There is some salt…

          2. Scruffy Nerfherder

            Tonio, are you still trying to put together a Richmond meetup?

          3. Tonio

            Hi, Scruffy!

            Yeah, Richmond Liberty Meetup needs to happen. It just occurred to me there was a new urgency to this. I’m happy for you or anyone else to put that together if you wish. Otherwise I’ll try to do something in a couple of weeks. After VD weekend, before St. Paddy’s Day.

          4. I thought every weekend in the Bay Area was VD weekend.

          5. DOOMco

            burn

          6. Playa Manhattan

            NOT ME. I’m tacky and proud. I pimped it today.

          7. Mad Scientist

            Say it loud! I’m tacky and I’m proud!

          8. Zero Sum Game

            Heya, Playa. I see that you’re off your period here (or does it not let you put one at the end of your name?).

          9. Playa Manhattan

            It rejected my original. But I assure you it’s me.

          10. Ted S.

            Wait until Pauldot tries to show up.

          11. waffles

            It’s your fault I’m here Playa. Anyway this silly bunch of commenters is the primary reason I ever spent so much time over there anyway. Coming on 10 (ten!) years this summer. Sheesh.

          12. 11H1P, Professional Beach Bum

            ^this.

          13. Hyperion

            I was lurking around in 2007, but my first comment over there was in 2010.

          14. one true athena

            thank you for doing that! Otherwise us noobs/lurkers wouldn’t have known.

          15. DEG

            Those people have been good about letting the Reasonoids folks post notices about their new site.

            Yep, they have been. We’ve also been sending folks over here.

        2. Suthenboy

          Glad to see you here Hyperion.

          1. Hyperion

            Thanks, Suthen. I’ve been really busy lately, missed quite a bit of what was going on I suspect.

      2. DOOMco

        Well, yeah, your avatar is a wankel.

        1. Mad Scientist

          Brap! Brap! Brap!

          1. Cliche Bandit

            APEX SEAL APEX SEAL!!!!!

          2. jesse.in.mb

            Brap! Brap!? What are you, Sextina Aquafina?

          3. DOOMco

            I should really start watching that show again.

          4. jesse.in.mb

            I just got caught up on the current season and it was the TV equivalent of putting weight on a sprained ankle: painful, but compelling and deeply satisfying.

    2. DOOMco

      We all learned the D.E.N.N.I.S. system.

      1. F. Stupidity Jr.

        You know who else didn’t let others’ resistance stop him from getting what he wanted?

        1. DOOMco

          Gary Johnson?

          1. trshmnstr

            +1 Leppo

          1. Mad Scientist

            I need a “like” button.

          2. Hyperion

            You have to boycott the comments section until all your demands are met.

          3. Mad Scientist

            I ALSO DEMAND THAT MY DEMANDS ALL BE MET WITHOUT ME HAVING TO DO ANYTHING BUT MAKE DEMANDS!

          4. I demand that you join the winning team and get a fucking avatar before you are assigned one from random pictures that you will find most unflattering.

          5. Hyperion

            Oh, Crikey, sloop. I been here for 2 minutes and already you want me to conform with this avatar thing. Glibertarians me arse! Assigned one? Oh the totalitarianism!

          6. grrizzly

            I’m against the “like” button. What if I post a smart and witty comment but nobody “likes” it? That would be sad.

          7. Mad Scientist

            Then you’d know all that stuff your mom said about you “being special” and having “other qualities” was true all along.

          8. Playa Manhattan

            Dislike.

          9. Ted S.

            What if I post a smart and witty comment

            There’s a first time for everything, I suppose.

          10. DOOMco

            win.

          11. THIS IS THE GREATEST REPLY I HAVE EVER READ!!!!!!!

          12. Old Man With Candy

            A clever person would have said Thevenin.

          13. WHO ASKED YOU?! Get back in the lab kitchen and synthesise some mRNA!

          14. Old Man With Candy

            I’m busy making the blue crystal.

          15. I’m busy making the blue crystal.

            Yes, I’ve seen your work. Overpriced, tacky, and outright maudlin. SP is indeed a patient woman.

          16. You gotta play the room you booked, man.

        2. The Fusionist

          Tony Robbins?

  3. John Titor

    You had me at tits and poop.

  4. F. Stupidity Jr.

    President Trump will, according to the Washington Post, end the annual presidential “tradition” of filling out a bracket on ESPN.

    I wish the tradition had lasted until the first libertarian President:

    1. FUCK YOU

    16. CUT SPENDING

    2. FUCK YOU

    15. CUT SPENDING

    etc.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Problem is, none of them go to jail. Falsifying an affidavit out to merit some quality time drinking toilet Merlot with your new best friends.

  5. square circle

    Here’s my first comment. Moderate me.

    *rolls over on belly*

    1. Cliche Bandit

      ewwwwww

      1. square circle

        If you can’t handle what you see, you really shouldn’t look.

    2. square circle

      First comment right on at 4:20. Duuu-uude.

  6. John Titor

    So for the space poop idea, here’s my plan:

    There’s already some wacky designs for skintight suits that have various benefits, the problem is that they also have problems. Like causing your intestines to rupture if you hold a fart in for too long. So I say keep the skintight suit idea, but design a pressure-based ‘poop chute’ on the butt (you can even have a little airlock that you poop into, that then seals itself so the pressure can suck the waste away). For piss I’d just go with a catheter.

    1. Mad Scientist

      Diapers seem like a low cost technology, so they’ll never go for it.

      1. John Titor

        That’s discussed in the article, they’re looking for an alternative to diapers for missions that require multiple days of sitting down.

        Think about being in here for a week. With diapers.

        1. Mad Scientist

          OK, I have a plan. Stick with the diapers, but only parents of newborns can become astronauts. They won’t even notice the smell.

      2. SirNiko

        I’m sure if we put our heads together we can devise a $5,000 diaper that is superficially different from Depends. Let’s never disregard government’s ability to spend money on a bad idea.

    2. Sounds like a way to turn every astronaut into a space goatse.

      My idea involves an inflatable sub-suit and a bunch of hungry dung beetles.

    3. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Fist should have some ideas.

    4. Playa Manhattan

      John Titor wants to show you his camel toe.

      1. John Titor

        I self-identify as an anime girl now, you can’t judge me for it.

        1. Mad Scientist

          Was that you in The Fisherman’s Wife, and The Fisherman’s Wife 2: The Re-tentacling?

  7. Hyperion

    Is there late nite links yet in this here new chat room?

    1. DOOMco

      not yet…

      1. Hyperion

        Well, I’m a patient man, I’ve been battling squirrels for years and have the war wounds to show it.

  8. brien

    President Trump will, according to the Washington Post, end the annual presidential “tradition” of filling out a bracket on ESPN. The tradition that had lasted for all of one president.

    Seems like this is missed opportunity for Trump. I can imagine more than a few of the sportscasters would come down with a bad case of TDS and need to change their pants. ESPN is pretty damn unwatchable once football is over with.

    1. Juvenile Bluster

      ESPN is pretty damn unwatchable when live sports aren’t on. Unless you count Scott Van Pelt’s midnight SportsCenter, which is pretty good.

      1. Ted S.

        And a lot of their live sports (all of their tennis commentators, for one) can be unwatchable, too.

  9. grrizzly

    Are we really stuck in the Central time zone with the time stamp?

    1. Mad Scientist

      You get what you pay for.

    2. jesse.in.mb

      Things that failed to surprise jesse today: grrizz’s avatar

      1. grrizzly

        I went for a classy pic, not one of those where salmon is being devoured, that would be too gross.

    3. Tundra

      Is there another?

      1. There is only one: Mountain Standard Time.

        1. DOOMco

          seconded.

        2. John Titor

          As if you people have moved past sundials and building temples to the equinox yet.

          1. Hey! HEY! I’ll have you know, we got electricity just last week, and everyone is pretty quick on the up-take!

          2. Mad Scientist

            Scuffing your feet across the carpet you got last week and then shocking your cat may be fun with electricity, but it’s a far cry from the amazing electrical wonders we have here, below the Arctic circle. Why we can even beat our baby seals with electro-mechanical devices instead your crude clubbing.

          3. John Titor

            Taking the clubbing out of seal clubbing doesn’t make you more civilized, just less fun.

          4. John Titor

            And you would have learned even more quickly If you hadn’t accused the electrician of witchcraft and sacrificed him to appease the Moon God.

          5. Someone has to appease the Moon God! And since I don’t bleed monthly anymore… it seemed like the only course of action left, really.

          6. DOOMco

            so, ND gets the lines by 2020?

          7. Psh. Like they’re even mentally equipped to use them.

  10. DOOMco

    why don’t we just fly the ship from the bathroom?

  11. Juvenile Bluster

    Why can’t I upload an avatar? It’s anti-Semitism, isn’t it. You racist libertarians.

    1. DOOMco

      Choose file took me a few tries, but it does work.

    2. jesse.in.mb

      Mine pulled straight from gravatar if you link your email to it. I know Reasonable pulled gravatar images into H&R comments so some people will already have one set up.

    3. Why can’t I upload an avatar? It’s anti-Semitism, isn’t it.

      Nope, since (((Dr. Groovus))) had absolutely no trouble uploading my exceptionally appropo avatar and spot-on handle linky. Never attribute to machine FAILure which can be explained by human fallibility.

      1. Playa Manhattan

        No way! An Oklahoma Jew???

        1. I was born in (((Jew York))), Playa, conceived of a Viking and a Shebrew, a la (((Mama Maximus))). We moved to OK when I was but a Sprout. And yes, there are actually quite a few Okie Jews running about, mostly in Tulsa and OKC. Without us, the number of hospitals that have been built and staffed would be much less than they are now, the Catholic Hospitals excepted (and still have currently inactive privileges at them too; I can only readmit patients I have already admitted and TXd in the past).

          1. Playa Manhattan

            You’re preaching to the choir. I’m a viking, married to an Orthodox Jew.

          2. square circle

            I didn’t realize you’re a fellow Scandy. We should get together and go pillaging sometime.

          3. jesse.in.mb

            These euphemisms!

          4. Playa Manhattan

            Disclosure: If you’re Danish, I consider you to be somewhere in between a pedophile and a pedophile.

  12. Mad Scientist

    OK, I have another plan: astronauts eat nothing by mac and cheese for a week before their flight. They’ll be so stopped up in flight they won’t even need a crapper.

    1. jesse.in.mb

      Or just a steady diet of methadone.

      1. Vasovagaling, thy name is syncope/heart attack.

  13. So, serious idea on the shit thing. What if you connected them to a water system that would jet water against their nether regions in a sealed sub-suit that was sucking it out of another jet at the same rate? Or a push-pull system for a cleaning solution that has a long, disinfecting wipe coiled at one end and another long spool to coil it at the other once its wiped (from front to back, of course) the astronaut’s anus? Think of an old movie projector but with a thin, ass-width wipe on it and a much smaller coil.

    1. Max Coins

      How about a non-serious idea?

      Bonus for star shapes.

      1. I waited for the punchline through the whole thing, you sick bastard.

        1. Max Coins

          You were supposed to watch about 10 seconds, which should be enough to properly taint your memories. Kind of like hearing the word “taint”, after learning the alternative (main?) meaning.

          1. ::Facepalm::

            I thought it was a joke until I realized it wasn’t a joke.

    2. If you’re thinking of Space Docking, I’m pretty sure that’s *not* how it works.

      Also, that may work for more fluid defecate, like diarrhea, but for the more…bulk…defecate, the amount of water (which will become spherical in 0-G. Damn those H-bonds.) and emulsifier needed to break down such large amounts of defecate quickly, not to mention the amount of sxn (which would have to be asymetric with the force of the mixture exceeds the amount of sxn to overcome the 0-g liquid sphere problem) and volume needed sitting on an “arse basin”, would req a prohibitive amount of space and surface area. The other problem is making sure, in a sealed suit (unless the breathing apparatus is separate, or the nethers are discretely sequestered in the suit), that air can still make it to the astronaut.

      This is where reality kinda beats the shit out of Herbert’s idea for the defecate processor in his Fremen Stillsuit.

      T’would be better just to knock these people up with a high dosage of Miralax, Golytely, or Mag Citrate, and insert a rectal catheter pre-launch, really.

      1. another Kevin

        I freaking love you guys.

      2. Ted S.

        I was going to suggest an ostomy bag hooked directly up to the rectum.

        1. I was going to suggest an ostomy bag hooked directly up to the rectum

          Too much perspiration down there. The type of adhesive needed, and the actual bulk of the ring (I am pretty sure you have seen, and possibly cut to size, an ostomy bag – they don’t stay stuck that well, and the lower abdomen is rarely as sweaty as the nethers. Jesse, are eating up all this phrasing yet?), is rather prohibitive as well.

          The thing that would work best, and I am guessing they are trying to avoid because of potential injury, is a discrete catheter.

          1. jesse.in.mb

            A friend of a friend and frequent wedding buddy is a forensic pathologist. She absolutely loves waiting until dinner to discuss, at length, stoma fuckers and how various STIs present in and around a stoma. I’m 90% sure she likes hanging out with me at weddings because I encourage her to go on while the rest of the guests look visibly queasy.

  14. Brett L

    Goddamn! Enough about Trump! 😉

    1. Hyperion

      But Trump is Hitler!

      1. Old Man With Candy

        You know who else was Hitler?

        1. trshmnstr

          Booooooooooooooooosh?

  15. The Fusionist

    There’s going to be a lot of defecation-in-space discussion in this thread, isn’t there?

    Speaking of weird shit, here is more about prof. Jonathan Brown, the Muslim slavery-and-concubinage guy at Georgetown. Umar Lee, the (Muslim) student whose article on the professor has become popular, comments:

    “It seems many in progressive media are too PC to call out a Musim professor even when he’s advocating rape and slavery? Wrong is wrong and this is why I have a limited amount of respect for the white-liberal at times. My piece has went viral and unfortunately it’s mostly conservative media that has picked it up. If there is no opportunity to virtue-signal within popular narratives or get a cute selfie it seems the paperclip heroes are MIA.”

    1. cishet white male

      Paperclip? I thought they were safety pin heroes.

    2. Scruffy Nerfherder

      It takes time to develop an intersectional analysis that blames whitey.

  16. Hyperion

    I thought the Trumpocalypse was truly the end. But then I came here. This is really, truly the end of the world as we know it.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      The actual end will be when dajjal is the only commenter left at HNR.

      1. DOOMco

        “two day before the day after tomorrow”

      2. Hyperion

        It will just be dajjal and AddictionMyth arguing all the way down.

        1. square circle

          + SIV, MikeM & Tony

  17. hayeksplosives

    Nokia is relaunching the 3310.

    It will be interesting to see how well these sell, if at all.

    1. DOOMco

      I had one. there is something nice about not freaking out when it falls off your bed or counter. or when you go camping/hiking and know theres still 3 weeks of battery left.

      1. Cat S60. I’ve dropped it on concrete, gone swimming with it, no problem. Even has a built-in FLIR camera.

  18. Broswater

    I’m glad to have finally found the place. It seems like H&R is being overrun by retards unafraid to be called retards. Fruit Sushi had another shitty piece this morning where he justified a state college student being suspended for a whole semester for filming a teacher criticizing Trump. How can Reason still call themselves libertarians, I don’t know.

    I hope you guys don’t mind me lurking around. I’ll do as I did for the last 8 or 10 years over at H&R ; stay around the keg, read your funny thoughts and click on an unsafe link or 2 every now and then. I might get into a few fistfights when I have too much to drink but don’t worry, I’m not a mean drunk, nothing you can’t handle.

    1. The Fusionist

      Not so fast, there are a few initiation rituals. You need to spend the night in an abandoned house, and read Sugarfree’s collected works.

      1. Tonio

        Nothing that innocent, Eddie. Stay tuned.

        1. The Fusionist

          I’m not playing spin-the-bottle with you, Tonio.

          1. The Fusionist

            🙁

      2. Broswater

        It was always business. I always liked you all. Can’t you guys get me off the hook? For old time’s sake? Common don’t send me to Steve Smith, I won’t tell! I swear!!

    2. “nothing you can’t handle.”

      That’s right. Be sure you remember it!

      😛 I largely lurk, as well. So, welcome to the swampy morass aka mossy bank.

      1. DOOMco

        wait, we get 🙂 here?
        hmm

        1. Scruffy Nerfherder

          ???? Well lookey here, I’m sold.

        2. Tonio

          Yeah, I posted one the other day by accident. I thought I was just going to get an ASCII smiley but the site reformatted it into one of those new-fangled emoticons.

          1. DOOMco

            I was expecting : )

        3. Zeb

          I’m kind of proud of the fact that I have never in my life used an emoticon or punctuation smiley face.

          I’ve also never eaten a Twinkie.

          1. Where did you grow up, Auschwitz?

    3. Tonio

      *&^%$. You found us.

      1. Bros. befere Hoes.-)

  19. Scruffy Nerfherder

    This board is just missing one thing. Taboola ads.

    1. DOOMco

      I want to know more about these women in my area. Apparently, I’m the talk of the town.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        I miss not believing how incredible Honey Boo Boo’s mom looks now.

        1. Slammer

          She still looks she’s carrying a tire around her neck, she just owns fancy duds now

      2. The Fusionist

        Are these the same as the hot chicks showing off their credit cards?

        1. hot chicks showing off their credit cards

          “This one LITTLE KNOWN TRICK to increase your Credit Scoring with these Hot Chicks is JAW DROPPING!”

          1. DOOMco

            the guy at the bank just keeps upping their limit. not sure why.

  20. Zero Sum Game

    Well, this place looks like dogshit and is filled up with all the worst people.

    I like it.

    1. Tonio

      Winner.

  21. Slammer

    Hooray! Love the Avatards!

    1. Zero Sum Game

      At least there aren’t any squirrels just yet.

      It does need an SSL cert, though.

      https://letsencrypt.org/

      Are there any rules (other than “don’t be Tony or Amsoc”, I presume)?

      1. Tonio

        Oh, there are squirrels, alright. And how, he said, shamelessly promoting his puerile scribblings.

        http://www.glibertarians.com/2017/02/the-glibening-part-one-the-annunciation/

        1. Slammer

          “unionized prog commenters”????

      2. DOOMco

        try not to badmouth a certain website. no NSFW gifs.

        1. Zero Sum Game

          There’s not much reason to badmouth those who shall not be named unless I can be assured that they will see it. “A rude act that goes unobserved is not worth doing.” My rudeness always has a purpose, and yeah, I am like this IRL too. 😀

      3. SP

        We have a more robust SSL cert than that one that I’ve been too busy to configure. Should be tonight or tomorrow. We just launched Sunday.

  22. Tonio

    People, it’s been a great opening week, so far. Regular comments including the beloved morning and afternoon links. And today we just broke 100 comments on a thread.

    We have arrived.

    But we can’t rest on our laurels. We have to keep this up. And we need more contributors so the regulars don’t burn out.

    1. square circle

      How does one become a contributor? Asking for a friend.

    2. DOOMco

      I started writing a few things. I will need an editor, I’m not that good.

      1. The Fusionist

        Don’t let that stop you; did it stop Stephenie Meyer?

        1. ::claps hands::

          Well done.

          1. Dr. ZG is currently considering what we talked about sloop. She is still leery, and I’m still somewhat in the doghouse with her from the fallout from, “Project Robby-Money Bomb.” My Spendthrift Tykovka battened down the money hatch after that little debacle (yes, I know. So, so much euphemism there, right Jesse?)

            I’ll keep you posted. Shit, it’s late. Споконой ночи всём.

          2. You didn’t really do the money bomb, did you? Aw, fuck. I thought you were gonna listen to my advice. You could have sent me the money instead and owned a nice Cat 320DL excavator (FOB Houston, TX)

          3. No, since I solicited the advice of three other Reasonoids, and they came to the same conclusion as you. So’s I relented, figuring you three were right, and Dr. ZG, while understanding my zeal and anger, put the kibosh on large purchases and investments of that scale for the time being as a, “Time Out,” shall we say. Besides, we bought a minivan not too long ago.

            After some time has passed I might be able to perhaps invest in your venture, and maybe even in this little corner of the GlibberToobz. We shall see.

      2. Zero Sum Game

        I’ll make fun of your grammar and prose. If you call out logical fallacies incorrectly, I’ll punch you in the dick (figuratively speaking). I know you live in one of the worst proghavens there is, so you wouldn’t catch me dead actually finding you for some literal dick-punching.

        1. Zero Sum Game

          Speaking of which, how is little SF? Is the autistic shrieking keeping you up at night, Doom?

      3. Tundra

        Doom, do you have my email? I’m happy to edit whatever you create.

    3. Broswater

      I though about applying to be an intern at some other magazine a few times, but Montreal-D.C. always seemed like quite a morning commute. I basically live in Progtaria; there isn’t going to be a shortage of stories to write about soon. Currently ”between 2 jobs”, so I have some free time. Will definitively need an editor but I am willing to help.

    4. trshmnstr

      Somebody plug me in, I’ll write the article I mentioned in the AM links.

      1. You can email it to me and I’ll post it you you, if you’d like.

        This may be necessary as we wait on our hero SP to get a few bugs out.

        1. Tundra

          It might be smart to have point people anyway. Having 400 contributors will get unwieldy.

          1. No kidding there. We’ll get a plan in place. At a minimum, we can use the site’s email and take turns checking so stories and leads don’t get forgotten or outdated.

          2. trshmnstr

            I like the pipe in your avatar! I used to have one that looked a lot like it. Unfortunately, my wife made clear to me that smoking was on the same level as cheating on her, and so I got rid of it and all my tobacco.

          3. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

          4. Playa Manhattan

            So you cheated on her, right?

        2. trshmnstr

          Sounds good, it may not be until next week.

    5. Ted S.

      There’s no short-term edit facility, though.

    6. grrizzly

      Another milestone, Tonio: this links thread has more comments than the PM links thread on the old website.

      1. jesse.in.mb

        In all fairness they are having posting problems.

        1. Playa Manhattan

          Which is probably a conspiracy. Probably.

        2. Ted S.

          When aren’t they having posting problems?

      2. Zero Sum Game

        As they say, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

  23. Old Man With Candy

    I asked SP/Mrs OMWC for Lobster Girl, just to make things complete. This is what she gave us.

    Lobster Girl

    1. That is *SO* not kosher.

      1. Old Man With Candy

        What do you know? Fucking Okie.

        1. *looks within Leviticus*

          That shellfish/filth swilling/unclean prohibition thingy. That’s all I was referring to. I never claimed to devout.-) Christ, we live right off the Black Sea; if we didn’t eat bounty from the sea, we’d starve (raised meat is rather expensive here).

          1. Old Man With Candy

            If you REALLY looked, you’d know that it’s Vayiqra. 😉

          2. you’d know that it’s Vayiqra

            I don’t need an RX for that, I maintain an erection just fine! *grins* (Though a Lunesta or Klonipin wouldn’t hurt – fucking insomnia.)

            It’s been a few moons since Hebrew School for me, and you, well, what was Moses *really* like? (Your “commenter voice” in my mind’s ear happens to be Mel Brooks, by the by).

            You are, of course, correct, and I was being purposefully obtuse for humour. TBH, about three years after my Bar Mitzvah, Mama Maximus and I stopped attending temple totally after a gradual decline in attendance.

          3. Juvenile Bluster

            My parents had three kids:, all raised in a Conservative synagogue:

            My sister married an orthodox guy and became super-religious. He’s an asshole, and they’re getting divorced, but still super religious. She don’t roll on Shabbos.

            My brother stayed Conservative, is involved in the Jewish Federation, just went to Israel last month.

            I went reform, married a goy and have stopped going to temple except for the first day of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

            My mother hasn’t gone to temple in years.

            My father and his wife go to this weird Reconstructionist temple. I’m not sure about anything there.

    2. another Kevin

      Why y’all gotta light the Crusty signal?

    3. Francisco d’Anconia

      That’s HAWT!

    4. Ted S.

      Classy panelling.

      1. Playa Manhattan

        I like her pubes too.

  24. Michael

    So…..is it cool if I hang out here with you guys?

    *suppresses fart*

    1. Old Man With Candy

      Do the one cheek sneak, then giggle hysterically when everyone starts looking around to see who it was.

  25. bacon-magic

    Hello

    1. Hyperion

      Get an avatar before you’re attacked by the Avatar Nazi Cult. Hey, I’m working on mine, these things aren’t easy!

      1. DEG

        Cockatars. Always in style.

      2. bacon-magic

        I tried but couldn’t load it for some reason.

        1. bacon-magic

          That’s better.

  26. Hyperion

    190 comments on your first ever Wednesday Afternoon links? Very impressive. Congratulations, Glibertarians. You know how we always used to hijack the articles on H&R. Someone should write an article named ‘And then we hijacked the entire commentariat!’.

    1. Old Man With Candy

      I suspect the staff is relieved. “Let THOSE guys get sued by sheep-fucking aviation lawyers.” We’ve always been an annoyance at best.

      1. Banjos

        Postrel is definitely celebrating.

        1. Hyperion

          Ah, the Ice Queen.

          1. She’ll be a happier and healthier person, in and of herself, without the audience fucking up her vision.

  27. Ted S.

    So how about the Champions League? Unfortunately a snow squall came through and knocked out the satellite for the last five minutes of the Bayern/Arsenhole game.

    1. Nate Silver’s crack team is giving Arsenal a <1% chance of winning that tie. So naturally they will come back and win next week 5-0.

  28. bacon-magic

    Meh coppers, I wanna comment…see?

  29. Ted S.

    Since I know Jesse loves those crazy Icelanders:

    Naked Man in Ice-Cold Ocean Waves.

    1. jesse.in.mb

      Oh man, naked bodysurfing on a gravel beach is hardcore.

      1. cishet white male

        When I went to Cabo as a teenager we did some snorkling and ended up getting sucked into a little inlet that was comprised of 70% razor-sharp rock and 30% sea urchins.

        Not fun.

    2. cishet white male

      “Naked man fighting icy waves” is our generation’s old man yelling at clouds.

  30. MikeS

    Hi. I hear a new commentariat formed here. Are they any good?

    1. Hyperion

      Feel the sarcasm!

      1. MikeS

        I had some of the best sarc-teachers one could hope for.

        OT: Was the above a proper use of a hyphen? I know some of you are pretty anal about such things.

        1. MikeS

          And where the fuck is the EDIT button?

          1. Hyperion

            Oh noes, you’ve said the WORDs.

        2. cishet white male

          As long as you use an em dash where an em dash belongs, you’re alright by me.

    2. bacon-magic

      Better get an avatar…

      1. MikeS

        Yeah, I noticed that is the one thing that causes a suspension of the NAP

      2. Hyperion

        Good Avatar, bacon. +1 freedom bacon.

        1. bacon-magic

          Your avatar is very freedomy and cool also.

          1. Hyperion

            Meh, it needs work.

  31. Slammer

    Is the HTML the same for links, bold, quotes and stuff?

    1. Hyperion

      Huh, haven’t tried HTML. Would be nice if they allowed more of a full HTML than H&R does. Hey, gotta be better in every way, right? I’m happy right now that they’re are no fucking squirrels. I mean how hard is it? You can rent an entire dedicated server with 24/7 support for $15 a month from a good hosting service.

      1. bacon-magic

        Greasonable for Glibertarians possibly? I love using it on the site that shall not be named unless I want to drink.

      2. cishet white male

        testing

        testing

        testing

        1. cishet white male
          1. cishet white male

            testing

          2. cishet white male

            Maybe this works for bold?

    2. jesse.in.mb

      Basic HTML works, blockquote bold italics a href etc. Blink tags DO NOT.

      1. cishet white male

        strong works for bold, b doesn’t seem to work. Couldn’t do italics.

          1. cishet white male

            Em…

          2. Slammer

            Thanks????

        1. For italics == [em] example [/em]

          You already figured out strong tags.

          You cannot edit your comments, nor embed images unless you are a contributor.

      2. Hyperion

        Need some CSS

  32. cishet white male

    This is commodious, fwiw. I never really liked that name.

    1. DOOMco

      Hey! welcome.

    2. MikeS

      So, not only is there no EDIT button, there isn’t even a PREVIEW button?! Are we in Somolia or something? I can’t even.

      1. MikeS

        I coulda swore this was going to be a new comment. I’ll calm down and get the hang of this eventually

        1. DOOMco

          It’s not so bad. We will figure it out.

          1. MikeS

            Yeah, I’m just in an alcohol induced, sarcasm. It’s all good.

    3. Your first incarnation I met was “commodious spittoon”, which is who you will always be to me (I always refer to a commenter by the name I “met” them). I really like that name, personally.

      It has character, for a character.-)

      1. cishet white male

        My very first incarnation was under Dweebston 😉 I remember when you quit posting and everyone was worried.

        1. Playa Manhattan

          I wasn’t worried. Some people will do anything for attention.

          1. cishet white male

            I would marry an eastern European chick for attention.

            Any attention.

            😐

    4. Hyperion

      I like your new name and yer bad Mr. Kitty.

    5. DEG

      I thought commodious spittoon had a nice ring to it.

    6. Michael

      I’ve always been find of the commodious moniker. It conjures images of a bountiful shitter of wisdom.

      1. cishet white male

        Well, maybe I’ll change it back, then. I wasn’t wedded to this one either.

        And it’s a pallas’ cat. Funny lookin’ feral breed.

  33. DOOMco

    I am now drunk. channeling AC. poetry incoming

    1. Hyperion

      AC has suddenly in the last couple of days come to some heightened mode of clarity. That’s not quite it, but it’s late, the words escape me.

      1. DOOMco

        He has seemed much more sober.

  34. Suthenboy

    “NASA needs your help in solving the problem of how to get rid of human waste when astronauts are strapped into their seats in zero gravity and unable to get to the crapper. I know it seems like a shitty job, but it pays $30,000 to the person that figures it out.”

    Colostomy bags? Then they need is a small airlock with a slingshot in it. Put the full bags in there and pick a target. Personally I would shoot for wherever Obama is golfing at the time.

    1. Hyperion

      They’ll pay 30k for me to tell them to toss it out the window, space is a really big place?

    2. Playa Manhattan

      HEY! You leave Palm Springs alone!

  35. Michael

    THE CTA IS CONDUCTING IMMIGRATION RAIDS AT TRAIN STATIONS ZOMG WTF FREAK OUT.

    Wait…those were just routine bag checks in violation of the Fourth Amendment under the guise of security? Whew! That’s a relief!

    https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170215/lincoln-square/that-rumor-about-ice-raids-cta-checkpoints-not-true