Well, first we must say “sorry” about that little interruption yesterday. The Tabernacle is still working on this Zardoz problem. So, I am going to turn this over to our expert…
DziÄkujÄ bardzo. Now I am tanks in streets and martial law declaring to be. Instructing Zardoz return to joyous tasks grain delivering and guns giving. Commenters applaud decision and links they are get as bounty from Eternals’ Central Committee. Long live Tabernacle!
Go bac to wurk at Link Faktory!
PrzestaĆ siÄ opieraÄ!
- Inspirational leader has said in near past, will declare martial law to “solve all problems”
- Say bad thing about Thai Army, off air you go!
- Whycome u want foil hat for smart man?
- Can put internet under martial law? Hmmm….
Links you are enjoying! That is not suggestion.
If money can’t buy happiness then why is it so fabulous?
I don’t know about that, but I know I’m Poppy.
No, I’m Poppy.
It can rent fun at least
Those links are all Brickbat-level old.
And money doesn’t grow on trees
You can’t just plant a seed
You gotta work it out
We walked in the garden, we planted a tree
Give me all of that, all of that til the ATM runs out
Teach women not to commit rape.
I gots the riches, to fulfill my needs
Got land in the sand of the West Indies,
Even got a little island of my very own,
I gotta frog, a dog
with a solid gold bone,
An accountant to account the amount I spent
Gotta treaty with Tahiti ’cause I own 10 percent
Got new gear to wear out everyday
Boutiques from France to the U.S.A.
And I make all the money from the rhymes I invent,
So it really doesn’t matter, how much I spent, because, yo
I make fresh rhymes, daily
You burn me, really?
Think, just blink and I made, a million rhymes
Just imagine if you blinked, a million times
Damn I’d be paid
Those aren’t Poppy lyrics.
its the remix
But have you got electric light? Have you got second sight?
Have you got amazing powers of observation?
Else, how else will you know, when you try to get through, on the telephone to her, there’ll be nobody home?
They were stand alone posts two weeks ago?
*applause*
Communist martial law links…I am surprised they had any from this decade.
Comrade Maduro will provide soon.
I went downtown to the capital of the Tarheel State today. I was very inconvenienced by the fake-science marchers. Fortunately, the municipal parking garges are free until 5:OO PM on Saturdays. Although I was there for other purposes I couldn’t help but notice it was the opening day of an exhibit on “race” at the Natural Science Museum. Now I can’t think of too many things more controversial than a public exhibit on the “science” of race. Of course they didn’t have one of those. It was all political stuff.
Cool link, bro.
Here you go
Fake science and fake news are all too real, and frustratingly their proselytizers are smugger than anyone, because they have easy associative claims of objectivity and truth.
Ăa va.
Tu veux dire, <>
Je veux dire, tu veux dire, “C’est la vie”.
Tags – ils ne sont pas vraiements Français!
Hey now, I slept through Grade 12 French and have perfect understanding of the exchange above. It says “Thanks Mr. Gibson!” when he hands you back the bag of red-thread that fell out of your pocket on the field trip.
The only phrase I use regularly is “Je m’en fous.” Everything else is superfluous!
As best I could tell the whole Raleigh “science march” was THE RESISTANCE AGAINST TRUMP. i don’t think they even bothered to pretend it had anything to do with science. Gotta stay on message I guess. I did largely avoid it but the closed streets and traffic control made it hard to miss entirely.
I’m almost afraid to ask but what is this “science march” nonsense? It’s everywhere today and I never heard of it before this morning.
They’re ostensibly protesting a 20% cut in taxpayerscience funding and the “right” of scientists to dictate public policy. It’s really all about Trump and pussyhats.
OH NO NOW WE’LL HAVE 20% LESS MEDICINES AND MAGICAL TECHNOLOGIES AND THE CHILDREN WILL BE FORCED TO USE 1990 ARCHAIC EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
Too bad Richard Feynman is no longer with us to talk about educational materials.
No, because of the leftists successful campaign to shove luddite government interference up everyone’s ass, we now have the medical technology we should have had 20 years ago at a price much less affordable to everyone. For everyone responsible for this who has now died because of it, fuck you assholes, send me an email from hell where I can go to piss on your grave.
Yeah, “anti-Trump protest” was my guess.
Funding for “science” must only ever increase. If it ever decreases, we are being deprived of something.
I have a little insight. Have you been around research academia in the last decade? Without going into a lengthy history and explanation, I can sum it up like this:
WHY CUM YOU REDNECKS NO WANT FUNDING MUH SCIENCE, YOU DENIERS NO BELIEVE IN SCIENCE, YOU TAX DOLLARS IS MINE!, BECAUSE SCIENCE, 97% AGREE !!
That’s it. There really is nothing else to see here.
Before I forget about it again…everything about this march for science and “I fucking Love Science” matches up perfectly with the eponymous Dr. Dinosaur.
Seriously…Atomic Robo is a great book and that guy has me laughing every single page.
“I had Crystals!”
It helps that he has his own twitter.
What was really disappointing is the promos promised “artifacts” but it was all posters and signs. The kind of shit bad museums with no actual collections use to fill exhibits. Instead of cranio-facial anthropometry calipers they had a 2 dimensional picture of a set. There was a big poster on how great affirmative action is and another on how standardized test are bad. Charles Murray’sThe Bell Curvewas dismissed as lies with a single quote from Stephen Jay Gould, the whole book,
Gould’s critique of that book was total shit.
Gould was exactly what can go wrong with a public intellectual. They abandon rigor for pseudo-rigor to keep in the spotlight.
They even made Gould into a phony self-aggrandizing ‘scientist’ when he did a guest shot on The Simpsons.
I snagged a copy of The Bell Curve for $12 at a local bookstore. I can’t wait to read it (once I do some self-education on statistical mathematics). I love the feeling of having read a controversial text that most critics have not read.
The interesting thing about those protesting Charles Murray as a “white supremacist”, if I recall the book correctly (and it’s been 20 years since I read it, so sorry if I’m forgetting some things), is that he showed that a line of Jews and also Asians generally outperformed whites on IQ tests, while whites outperformed blacks. Wouldn’t a white supremacist have said that whites beat out all other groups?
The group IQ patterns were consistent no matter what version of IQ test was given, and also when all other variables were considered. They also described how certain questions considered to be racist in and of themselves (classic example: ‘yacht is to regatta as ….. is to ……’) blacks actually scored better on than questions that could not be considered racist in any way. There was a huge amount of data reported in the book.
I also remember that he repeatedly insisted that there was a much bigger range of intellectual diversity within each group than there was in comparing group-to-group. In other words, there’s geniuses and very low intelligence in all the groups studied. That in itself was counter to what a lot of the critics (who, like you said, likely read the book) were arguing, pointing out successful black chess champions as proof the Bell Curve was a lie. In fact, such examples completely supported what the book said.
Everything you report here is correct.
Race was not the point of the book at all. If I had to summarize the point of the book, it might be that 50 years ago, there was a 1 in 10 chance that the person working the reg at the grocery store was above-average-IQ; now the high-IQ people have stratified into the professional classes and the chance that someone working a low-rung job has above-average IQ is more like 1 in 1000.
As is appropriate for its title, which described a probability distribution, the point was the shift of the distribution of IQ across society has changed, causing our society to become more terraced and stratified.
In fact I didn’t like the statistical approach of the book, which was a not particularly great use of linear regression. I saw the book’s implications differently: if you believed all these trendy theories of what was heritable at the time: alcoholism was say 50% heritable, violent behavior was 50% heritable, etc. — you had no choice but to also believe that IQ was quite heritable and therefore race predicted IQ to a considerable degree.
Of course, it was also reasonable IMO to be skeptical of the statistical treatment of all these matters, and so I am. But if you believed the proggie doggerel about the poor not being responsible for their behavior due to heritability of behaviors and traits, you basically had to accept the Bell Curve’s findings too. And that was what I think made the proggies so mad.
How far is it from Raleigh to Mount Pilot and Mayberry?
It always seemed like a pretty major trip when Andy and Barney talked about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Airy,_North_CarolinaAbout 2.5 hours
I’m sure it was a longer trip before I-40 and US-64 improvements and bypasses
About 2.5 hours
Iâm sure it was a longer trip before I-40 and US-64 improvements and bypasses
(please delete the comment-in-moderation)
TOO LATE!
Go join the marchers with a sign that says “lol fuck you Francis Bacon!”
Loved when Francis Bacon and Wm. Shakespeare teamed up for that cool duo “Shake and Bake”.
“Shake and Bake Two, Electric Boogaloo” is the superior flick.
Where’s Francis Bacon-Magic when we need him?
But it’s award-winning!
My kids asked me to take them to the science center in downtown Phoenix. I dont know if they were going to have one of these downtown today but I thought better of it and took them to one of those indoor jungle gym/trampoline places. My daughter stubbed her toe pretty bad, but I stand by my decision.
A wise decision. I had an intersection blocked by some sort of uniformed team with a leftist-protest apparatus. Fortunately a heavy police presence and fears for their own safety cleared it. No paper-mache heads though. It was enough to scare me into a (free!) parking garage and give up o finding on-street parking.
Headline in news last week: KID JUMPER CATASTROPHE
Sub: A Trial Lawyer’s Dream Come True
Apparently some kid had fallen off of a highwire into a pit of spikes and mom was suing the dogshit out of the place. The last one I went to I walked in, took one look around and mumbled “Whoever owns this place is insane”. I guess I take the fun out of everything.
Zardoz needs to look for other employment if he wants to get a head in life.
If you want to get head in life, see a hooker.
I thought you were supposed to see a Saudi executioner?
That all depends on what type of head you want.
Like the high pitched lament of the guy who went to see the witch doctor – “all I wanted was to get a little head”
I don’t often snort my beer out when I’m reading but…
+ooo eee ooo ah ah ting tang walla walla bang bang
So, rape then a hanging. Got it.
Not that kind of “try”!!!
Oh god, not another rugby discussion.
That is some grade A, depleted Uranium level martial law derp right there. There are 50 stars and 13 stripes on the flag. The military uses a .50 caliber machine gun called the M-2HB. If you count the designation elements letters portions elements and add the 2 you get 13. Coincidence? I think not.
I have never heard of that guy. Looks like an Alex Jones wannabe.
My Filipino history/economics teacher (may he RIP) used to say ‘pippty pibe’ for ‘fifty-five’.
David: ‘Sir, what’s a pippty pibe?’
Good times.
As an undergrad I attempted a calculus course where the Chinese TA was completely impossible to understand. Even when you asked for him to repeat a point. Then he would get angry and start speaking in “his outside voice” thinking volume would pound the point in our heads. I left the section after a week. Apparently the section zeroed out in a month. The Math Dept sent us a letter asking us for a meeting. When we assembled we were asked why we had all left. A southern AZ girl with a Skoal ring on her cut off jeans pocket replied “Because the little commie’s English was worse than a new wetback’s.” The prof answered “That’s what we thought.” No way that conversation would happen that way today.
The woman who runs the tennis program at the club where my daughter took a session was similar. He written English was so good it gave no indication she couldn’t convey a lick of anything in English and French. I asked her a question and got a whole lotta ‘??????’ Buckwheat as a response.
So I just nodded and never spoke again.
The girl, Nancy, and I ended up in the same alternate section. She was an aerospace engineering major who knew calculus cold. Luckily she took a liking to a geology student and got me through the class. A great shot, a funny person and smart as a whip. Mahalo Rufus for stirring my embers of memory.
My high school calculus teacher’s second job was running a liquor store.
/raises finger…
did you fu…
/lowers finger.
Never mind.
Ooh wee, she sounds awesome. Not sure if I’d date a chick who dips though.
Watching the look on my father’s face as she spit into the campfire during the javelina hunt was great though.
Then again, I wouldn’t have to hide a dip habit if I also dated someone who dipped. Hmm.
dbleagle, you make a strong case here.
I’d like to see his face when she jumped down on a wounded boar and stabbed the fuck out of it. If she’s anything like the dipping girls I knew.
It’s the “John Wayne” school of foreign languages: if they don’t understand you, repeat yourself in English, louder and slower.
+1 tougher if you’re stupid
We had a calculus teacher named Mr. Cha in the bad old days. Nobody learned nuffin.
Did you ever say to him “hot-cha-cha” while doing jazz hands?
One of those things that you wish you’d done. He was unintelligible. Wecipwaaaawcow. Try that in a dirt-smeared pot-smoking bunch of undermench in 1978. That poor man…
My doctor is a Chinese chick named Dr. Hai.
The nurses always laugh when I ask if I accidentally called the marijuana clinic by mistake
A beer with a buxom woman on the label. The beer was sadly flat.
I had a couple of Durty Bastard by Founders – no buxom broad, but damned fine ale.
I have not had a bad beer from Founders, and Dirty Bastard is a good one. Have you had the barrel aged version of Dirty Bastard? Backwoods Bastard. It’s quite good.
Founders – good. (although the breakfast stout is a little heavy for me). Old Dominion though is hit or miss (packaging notwithstanding).
Well,you’ll always have the empties to cuddle with once the night be done! Win-win!
Alright I’ve been out most of the week but I’m gaining steam on the weekend when it comes to Glib catch-up. Bunch of OT shit follows:
Gimlets. Fukken fantastic. Equal parts Rose’s and gin (Plymouth Gin, this time, thank you some random Glib for the suggestion).
The whole Poppy thing: chick is super cute but I really wanted to hear Pink Floyd’s “Money” and not the other version.
Almighty JB posted an alternate music video to “Simply Irresistible”; I tried watching it but I blacked out. Somebody tell me what happens.
I love epic guitar solos, whether it’s good old-fashioned Southern Rock like “Green Grass and High Tides” or good new-fashioned death metal sweeps like “White Walls.” But my favorite guitar solo of all time clocks in at a whopping 17 seconds: “Roll the Bones”. The song itself is decent, maybe even pretty good, but that solo just fukken speaks to me. Hits me right in the soul. I dunno what Alex Lifeson does to make his guitar sing like that, but it slays me every time.
“Plymouth Gin”
Might have been me if it was last night. One of my favs.
Yep yep. Saw it at he liquor store today and thought, “Man, that sounds familiar but I can’t remember where I got the recommendation.”
You have excellent taste, sirrah.
JB’s Simply Irresistible link was worth a watch. There is some talent in that lineup.
*blacks out again*
Slavic takeover of ZARDOZ’s links? I am intrigued….
Brutals want to know.
Needs more Slavic women.
I saw very few babushskas, no Baba-Yagas and no pertaters.
Larger forehead:
Peyton Manning, or
General Jaruzelski?
I’ll say Manning, but it’s close
Completely OT and unimportant:
What’s the name of that goofy 90s haircut for boys where the head would be buzzed short except for the bangs in front, which were combed down over the forehead? My friend seemed to recall it being known as “the pineapple cut”, but a Google Image search didn’t turn up any pictures that matched.
I’m pretty sure that was called the “EMOFAG”
This was seen around 1998; well before emo. It was more like “kid on rollerblades listening to The Offspring on his walkman”.
I would argue that Emofags were the people too weepy and annoying to be allowed into Goth or Punk cliques, and have existed at least since the 1980s….
….but i see your point. i think it was more of a california thing, because i never saw much of it in NY or the south.
I remember a ton of kids getting it in the southwest Ohio town where I grew up and still live. It must have been very popular; I can’t believe that I can’t even find one image of it on Google.
So long as the white trash “rat-tail” never makes a comeback, I may yet die a happy man.
“Comeback”?
It’s already making one. Mullets too.
I’m OK with it.
*Scratches belly and twirls rat-tail*
Don’t be a hater bro.
Oh god, rat-tails… I used to work at a small machine shop, and one of the truck drivers who would pick up our product had a rat tail that went past his waist. We would all be loading boxes onto pallets and his damn rat-tail would be swinging around like a bullwhip, and we’d desperately try to avoid getting smacked in the face with it. It looked greasy as hell.
Seriously… I’m OK with anything that deviates from the “push short hair up and apply half a tub of gel” style that has been the default for like the last quarter century.
I was speaking more to the “spoiled-kid” style that was the rage when I could summon up a modicum of rage. I’ll just sip my broth and be quiet for a bit.
+one bazillion likes, Sir. Might I also addednd the “Laundrymat-Cut” to your purview? Much abliged.
The DIY lesbian
The “les-be-over” this thing.
So, I clicked the link on the “Commonsenseshow.com” link
yeah. so… uh, apparently the planet is being run by a Pedophile ring of some sort. and buy gold and read your bible.
I’m gone for a couple weeks and I miss all the inside stuff. What is Poppy?
A beautiful flower that goes to your head?
I’m Poppy
I’m Poppy.
No, I AM Poppy.
No, I’m, Poppy.
Je suis poppy
I’m not in a cult.
But do you sell sanctuary?
I remove love.
+1 Love Removal Machine
Rain. I think that’s the first song I heard by them on the radio and I was thinking ‘who the hell is that?’.
+one million “Mother Love Bone” because I’ve never heard their music and so they are Fabulous.
God I hated that song. I liked their earlier period.
A lot of people say that. I disagree – regardless of their earlier work, Love Removal Machine is still a great song.
Fire Woman is too.
I’m Poppy.
Much obliged!
Here we are one week past “Gawd! We are going to die because secret nazi president forced KJU to nuke the entire solar system! Women and minorities hardest hit.” That entire news cycle is down the memory hole. Yesterday we had a Glibertarian symposium on G&T mixology and the Earth continues to orbit the Sun despite a proposed cut in Federal spending on government approved science. Life continues to be good.
Yup. There is a US task force steaming in circles (as is its wont) and the media bleating about the direction. Spicer does his best McCarthy and the crowd goes wild.
I just want to trigger some snowflakes with some mansplainin tunes of the patriarchy.
Aces High
Was never a fan but their drums and bass were fucking solid. I could die tomorrow and be happy that I’ll never have to listen to AC/DC or Iron Maiden ever again.
Iron Maiden is on the soundtrack of the all-time greatest Italian film ever.
I speak, of course, of Phenomena
Cool – but I was expecting her top to fly off or something.
Jen Connelly?
Does she take her clothes off? (you said “greatest ever”, so…. i can only assume)
Love Maiden, prefer Di’Anno
Argh, I still have battle-scars from late 70’s/early 80’s pit parties. Back in Black makes my corroded old knuckles clench and the ghost of my hair stand on end.
Listened to any of Sabaton’s stuff? Quite enjoy them myself considering they’re more modern metal.
Earth Day; March for Science; “Bill Nye Saves the World” season 1 on Netflix.
Great day to Fucking Love Science!
“Bill Nye Saves the Worldâ
So the luddites won in the end, after all?
“YOU BLEW IT UP! AHH, DAMN YOU! GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!”
I got into a big fucking fight with my gf because she insisted we watch it and it turned out to be the most soul crushing experience of my recent memory.
http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=youre_not_a_nerd
That’s a pretty good takedown of the “I fucking love science” set.
Is there anything Maddox isn’t 100% correct about…?
I love Science! It’s Fun! Fun! Fun! said every failed scientist turned educator everywhere, always.
On the first day…
Poppy!
Holy…
Fuck’s sake. I just found out what a “Tulpa” is and now I need to Poppy-figger? That bowl of oatmeal is looking very tempting tonight, so tempting that I might just bury my face in it and have the cats dance on the back of my head, just to make sure that I am stone-dead. Fuck.
*blinks*
Don’t give up?
Buddy?
“Don’t Give up” by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush is one of my secret favorite tunes. Yeah, I’m a maudlin mofo.
One of my best concert memories was watching the lead singer from the TSO sing “Red Rain” with a prog-rock instrumental band called Gravity. Good shit.
I hitched five hundred miles when I was 18 with a knife in my boot and fifty bucks in my pocket just to see Peter Gabriel. My buddy won tickets and I was “OK”!
Peter Gabriel don’t fuckin’ suck, and that’s the truth.
Funnier version. Not as good as OMWC translations rich. That’s pure gold.
http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Genesis_1
Give it back to the monks and we’ll start over.
Or if we’re going to have a Cult of Science, it might as well be a cool one.
Dammit.
In honor of science
In honor of science and the universe. (The science is a bit outdated but still in the ballpark.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkkjzmuEBbo
Too cool for us brutals.
Making cracks about the Army isn’t allowed? At least we still have fun, travel, and adventure.
The haircuts and group showers, though. 1980 me flips a finger at recruiter, grabs a cute chick’s bottom and continues to cruise the mall…
Fuck you, #istillstandiwthzardoz
Wtf happened to Zardoz?
#PoppystandswithZardoz
HAIL ZARDOZ
Daily life in communist Hungary wasn’t so bad, says moron.
not mentioned: Soviet invasion in 1956, purges, gulags, secret police, torture, etc
Hungary lost 100,000 kia/mia and 500,000 taken prisoner fighting the Soviets on the Eastern Front in WW2.
Compare that to total casualties taken by the USA in all theaters in WW2.
Just astonishing.
You SF’d the link.
WTF though. Wonder what his grandparents would say about his longing for being ruled by Stalin.
Also not mentioned, by the way, was the “leadership” of MĂĄtyĂĄs RĂĄkosi. Since I had to google his name to get the spelling (and accent) right, figure wiki says what happened under his reign pretty well:
link: http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/how-was-it-growing-up-under-communism/
Mud is very good thing for little ones to play with. They can craft rough bowls and goblets for the surviving orphans to sup from.
*begins to burn with inchoate rage*
This will never happen here. By my rifle, it will never happen here.
Really, time when you were between 13 and 21 was awesome? No shit, Sherlock!
surprise, surprise, surprise
Berkeley Mayor Is Member of Militant Leftist Organizationâs Facebook Group
https://heatst.com/politics/berkeley-mayor-is-member-of-militant-leftist-organizations-facebook-group/
You mean someone who names their pet “Che” might have idiotic ideas of violent revolution? I’m stunned.
Isn’t that a requirement to be Mayor of Berkeley?
Huffpo sticks its dick in the mashed potatoes again:
Huffington Post Deletes Embarrassing Piece Calling For Trump Supportersâ âPodunk Townsâ To Be Destroyed by Nuclear Weapons
https://heatst.com/politics/huffington-post-piece-calls-for-the-nuclear-annihilation-of-trump-supporters/
LOL. Berkeley and Oakland are 2 major reasons I was happy to GTFO of California.
2200 on a Saturday.
I better be the only asshole posting here.
The rest of us posting here aren’t assholes.
Critics of communism tend to focus on the big things: famine, gulags, mass execution, cults of personality, etc
What often gets left out is that even in the best of times, it was a pain in the ass to live under communism.
A typical housewife in the USSR spent 2 hours a day standing in line just to buy food.
It took years of waiting and special permission to get a car or an apartment.
Theft of scarce items was common. People who did have cars often removed the windshield wipers to keep them from being stolen.
Getting permission to travel anywhere involved the equivalent of an IRS audit.
There were frequent shortages of consumer goods and the ones that did exist were low quality. The most common cause of fires in Moscow in the 1980s was exploding TVs.
Bribery and corruption were rampant, as well as pollution, workplace accidents, and alcoholism.
The whole place ran like a giant, dysfunctional college dorm. I guess that explains the popularity of communism among college students.
I knew Russian culture is different from the US, but man, look at this:
https://www.geert-hofstede.com/russia.html
The tetrarch of Communism, according to Amis:
Terror
Slavery
Famine
Failure
Also, hundreds of lies and humiliations of daily life that grind down men’s souls.
I linked this before but fuck it, it’s PC in a nutshell:
A lot of the shops in my neighborhood are now displaying a sign saying, effectively, ” luvs immigrants”.
HTML fail. It should read “[neighborhood name] luvs immigrants”.
Sargon on why he thinks LePen will win.
Only 11 minutes,and there’s some stuff early on that simply wouldn’t work in print. I think he’s wrong and election is going to Macron the Anointed One, and there’ll be no change whatsoever, but he’s worth a listen.
Hey, after Brexit I’m open to being hopeful about the election. Maybe France will wake up.
Only smidgen of hope for France is Fillon, who is a Thatcherite, and even he is horrible on social issues. Even if he gets into power, he won’t be able to make any reforms stick.
But, as luck would have it, once he secured the nomination and started doing well, it turned out he hired his wife to do nothing for tens of thousands a year. Oops.
I think most of the people here are willing to trade the death of the EU for European nations acting like a pack of morons for a few more years/
The CBC has put all of their chips behind Macron. As they did for Brexit and Hillary. I hope LePen wins, not because I necessarily agree with her but I haven’t seen a Frenchman with balls in my lifetime and hopefully the first one will be a woman.
RIP Erin Moran from Happy Days.
Would have.
đ
Fuck. One of my first crushes. Am I getting that old already?
OT:
My brother is voluntarily moving to Chicago. Is this enough to have him declared mentally incompetent?
I moved to Chicago and lived there for 3 years, because that’s where my first engineering job offer was so I took it. Such was life in 2010.
He has a job. A good one. He’s taking a step backwards by doing this.
He’s moving for a relationship. He’s ruined two awesome relationships in the past few years because he’s a moron. This isn’t going to last 3 months once he moves.
Looking forward to him learning a lesson.
Good luck with that. Sounds like he has a type.
Lots of Poles and lots of Chinese. If he can find a decent job in any of those kolkhozes he’ll be okay. Have a little faith!
plot of countries according to tradition and expression:
https://breachingblue.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/world-value-survey-cultural-map.jpg?w=600
I see 3 basic groups:
-3rd world countries cluster around the bottom middle
-a wider cluster of countries near the top right
-East Asian and eastern European in the top left
Still baffled that people consider Germany a “Protestant” country.
Also, the Czech Republic, center of the Hussites and anti-Catholic stronghold for centuries, is apparently a Catholic nation. Despite the fact that 78% declare either ‘no comment’ or ‘irreligious’ on surveys in regards to religion.
Seems legit.
There is no hope for this world
At least 140 soldiers killed in Taliban attack on Afghan army base
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/04/22/At-least-140-soldiers-killed-in-Taliban-attack-on-Afghan-army-base/9951492860342/?utm_source=fp&utm_campaign=ls&utm_medium=5
I read that between 1/3 and 1/4 of the Afghan Army deserts each year. I wonder how many of them join the Taliban.
That is just horrible. Sorry nothing witty to say.
Not witty but you could kill all of them except for one, cut his right hand off and let him run off to the villages, like the Spaniards did. Worked fur Murica, works for me!
oopsy:
An air marshal aboard a Delta flight from the United Kingdom to New York forgot her gun in the plane’s bathroom, where it was found by a passenger and returned. The Transportation Security Administration is investigating the incident.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/04/22/Air-marshals-gun-found-by-passenger-in-planes-bathroom/5471492891922/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=3
Do I need to read that after seeing the pronoun “her”?
Surprised the passenger isn’t currently sitting in federal prison on some trumped up charge.
Ah, the tiger repelling rock program continues to do good work.
OT – anyone else getting a lot of blather about sign-ins and what-nots? Seems like someone either has one hair across their ass or not enough of them to cover it. Signed, I Know What You’re Up To.
What happens to leeches when the host dies
I read a funny/sad article about a curious Japanese work custom. Some companies try to nudge employees into early retirement by assigning them to sit in empty rooms with nothing to do. Usually they retire after a few days, but one guy had been going to the room and doing crossword puzzles all day for a few years.
That’s true. You’d think getting the corner office with a window would be a good thing. Nope. It means they don’t want you around the group and ostracism is worse than death for most workers.
Um… I’d still have access to the internet, right?
Yes, but you’re supposed feel bad! Self centered, self absorbed white people. SMDH.
Inscrutable weirdos. That sounds like my dream job.
In many countries, the words unity or harmony have the connotations that the word freedom does in the US.
Many of those places are poor and unfree.
Children! Children! Chiiildren are the Future!
BAAAAAAAAARRRRFFF!
How’s that socialism working out in Venezuela, Thom?
http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2017/04/proof-america-socialist-country-now
In other news, 57%+ of Americans have no idea what public choice theory is.
Also in the news, a lot of Americans like the idea of getting free shit and sticking it to ‘the rich’ and assume that would make things hunky-dory.
Also, it’s possible to word polls in such a way to get a majority of people to agree with your desired outcome, by obfuscating details and emphasizing things other than what your poll data will ultimately show.
I understand the desire for free shit, but c’mon people, once it’s over 50%, you too are getting screwed. Oh wait, I forgot we can have the rich pay for everything.
That reminds me of a discussion I had about Obama”care” with a “progressive” leftist:
He was bemoaning the fact that Trump got elected and remarked, “I better soak up that sweet Obamacare while I can” (exact words). I pointed out that Obamacare has really not been a boon for me since it forced me to pay $135 per month for a plan I used only twice for very minor healthcare expenses. His response was ,”well, I’m in favor of spreading the costs of healthcare to everyone anyway.”
Whoa whoa whoa, I thought Obamacare was supposed to be an infinite wellspring of top-notch healthcare for everyone, especially for upper-lower class individuals such as myself?? When they were touting the benefits of this plan, they assured me that only “the rich” would pay more… Didn’t really play out that way, did it?
As long as there are lazy, jealous, mediocre people, there will be calls for socialism. It is never going to go away completely.
Jealousy is bad, but when they go all sour grapes and declare money evil is when the fun really starts.
The only hot chick in the office left, so I’ll see what’s happening here. I don’t wanna work.
You just wanna.. bang on the drum all day?
Pam quit?
Story I heard back in my process engineering days: an machine operator on the assembly line takes a stop watch and decides to measure how much time he spends in a 12 hour shift actually working. Turned out it was about 2 hours. The rest of the time was breaks, meetings, waiting for stuff to happen/people to show up, etc.
Seems like pretty much every job 90% of it is standing around and scratching your balls. You mostly get paid just to be there in case something needs doing.
My experience with process engineering is that it makes watching paint draw look like bungee jumping on an acid trip. I often thought I would be happier breaking rocks with a hammer for a living. At least then I’d get some exercise and see the results of my work.
A typical day was order a part/tool, check to see if the previously ordered stuff had showed up, crunch some numbers in Excel, maybe a meeting and a few walks on the floor. It was rare to do more than an hour of actual work in a day. The vast majority of it was me sitting at my desk wondering what else I could do.
So IOW a lot like baseball?
Yes, except you can’t drink beer and no one in the stands wants to be there.
Like basketball, 90% trash-talk and the rest just ignoring the ref.
Double dribble? Moi?
I felt it was more like acting in a boring play no one is watching.
I guess it beats being a gong farmer.
There’s an interesting book I read about work. The gist was since most jobs are neither fun nor spiritually satisfying, the only way you can be happy in them is make friends with your coworkers.
“The gist was since most jobs are neither fun nor spiritually satisfying…”
That reminds me of something I’ve been saying for years: “do what you love” is terrible advice. Yes, it’s great if you can have a career that you truly enjoy, but for most people, that’s just not realistic. Most people don’t have interests and aptitudes that translate into a high-paying job.
I can’t help but think that this oft-repeated trope is at least partially responsible for so many young people today who get degrees in photography, music, art, and then end up working at Starbucks.
Most people are going to have to settle for doing shit they don’t want to do for money.
That’s what I thought too, but in my case, it seems I must do something I at least have some interest in.
Back when I was a process engineer, I had a boss ask me if I was happy at work. I didn’t know how to respond because it was a stupid question. What difference does it make if happy at work I work because I have bills to pay, not because I thought it would be fun.
For most of history, happiness was not seen as a practical goal, since it mostly depended on luck. The word happy has the same root as the word happen because the root meaning of both words is about the randomness of life.
I think people with boring jobs pretend those jobs are exciting and important because otherwise they get depressed. And they get upset if the people they work with don’t pretend with them.
I never got much satisfaction from making widgets more efficiently.
Fortunately, I like my new job a lot more, even when it requires me to spend many hours listening to Klingon.
Cops Launch Rainbow-Colored Patrol Car to Fight Hate Crime
https://heatst.com/world/cops-launch-rainbow-colored-patrol-car-to-fight-hate-crime/
PC Principal has a new ride!
I fucking knew it’d be the UK, and am unsurprised it’s the fuckin’ Scousers.
Just spent an hour talking to my sister-in- law. Really pleasant but full-on Derptastistic. She want’s to camp with me this summer. Is tee-pee creeping so wrong?
Addend She’s in Washington state and even older than I.
Here we go again:
I want muh pony.
Looks like links were up around 7:30 (8:30 EST) last Sunday.
Anyway, fuck global warming?
“From skinny dippers to people who have actual intercourse with nature, ecosexuality is a growing movement taking a new approach to combatting climate change.”
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ecosexuals-believe-having-sex-with-the-earth-could-save-it