Yo, it’s Memorial Day Weekend and also the weekend when Scottish Fest USA happens at the OC Fairground. I haven’t had time to post process most of the pics, so I’ll throw up a few choice ones today and dig through the rest later.
Manly Monday
Yo, it’s Memorial Day Weekend and also the weekend when Scottish Fest USA happens at the OC Fairground. I haven’t had time to post process most of the pics, so I’ll throw up a few choice ones today and dig through the rest later.
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246 responses to “Manly Monday”
OT For some reason this weekend I was seriously constipated, not anymore!
It was huge, hurt and was so abusive I need to tell an adult.
I imagine it was like watching a ballistics gel test where you see the wound cavity blow up and then shrink down.
STEVE SMITH OFTEN TOLD IS HUGE, HURTS AND IS ABUSIVE!
Maybe the bucket ‘o deep fried cheese jalapenos cleaned you out.
Enema for the win
I can’t imagine what it must be like to be a serious opiate abuser. Gawd.
Doesn’t affect most people that bad. Other than an occasion here and there. Even for the people taking 90mg of methadone a day.
This guy’s name is Sasquatch. The very Scottish announcer could not get enough of saying that.
So is this STEVE SMITH pulling a Robin Hood?
I was wondering why there was no comment about Sasquatch’s caber, then I realized, “alt-text!”. You didn’t disappoint.
“One of the women next to us kept describing the filthy things she’d do to the guy in the blue kilt.”
Do you counter with something even filthier?
He told her she was engaging in sexual harassment.
Also, I did think you would have to fight Kristen for at least one of these dudes – so, good to see your alt-text!
If you enable betting, it could be Glibertarians.com fundraising drive!
Hmmmm, Pan – you might be on to something.
CNN commentator will probably need to look for a new job soon
Warning: CNN and auto-play video.
Fareed Zakaria said Saturday that though many liberals think they are tolerant, often they aren’t.
Zakaria noted that “at the height of commencement season,” many new graduates across the country had made their political views apparent, from the Notre Dame students who walked out as Vice President Mike Pence gave his commencement address to the crowd members who booed Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos during a speech at Bethune-Cookman University.
“American universities seem committed to every kind of diversity except intellectual diversity. Conservative voices and views are being silenced entirely,” Zakaria said.
I always thought he was one of the more sensible ones.
PS. This new thing where videos jump around the screen makes me want to punch my fist through it. And none of my many browser extensions do shit to stop it.
I don’t know, but I’m guessing that they’re using JS to check scrollheight and then using fixed position to stick it in the corner, similar to how collapsing navigation works. Problem being that calculating that and running video at the same time makes things janky. Plus, it’s obnoxious as shit.
I hate scrollheight (I’d assume that’s what it is) being used to force popovers onto the screen.
Similarly I hate menus that stay permanently at the top of the page – my browser does not handle that properly when I page through a story.
Basically, web design lately is garbage.
+infinity. I hate the tabletification of desktop/full site versions. Excessively large print and blobby design that only works if the page is maximized to full screen. Or worse, sections that don’t load until you scroll down to them.
Yes it is. Its like trying to read a menu that someone else is holding and moving around, playing space invaders, and having a moving train between you and the sign you are trying to read.
A thousand times every day I yell outloud “Oh fuck off!” before clicking a window shut. It just isnt worth the nuisance to read what they have to say.
My favorite shitty web design element lately is the use of the parallax effect to force you to scroll past an ad in the middle of the content.
It sucks, because I’m a web developer and my wheelhouse is JavaScript, particularly for UI/front-end stuff, and it seems like half of what I do is convincing someone why they shouldn’t use JS to implement some overly-complicated, terrible, annoying design element. It’s usually trying to be too cute with navigation, but there’s a lot of gratuitous AJAX, animations triggered by scrollHeight, crap like that.
I’m a database developer, plus some simple web pages, but also am interested in desktop development. One of my favorite sites in a previous generation was the “User Interface Hall of Shame” (last update: 2000). I like to think I have a good grasp on user interface design. But what I see on the web today would make these guys spin in their graves. I cannot think of a worse development for usability than the lack of any kind of “standards” on the web which is in complete opposition to what is considered good usability on the desktop.
Those little X’s to close ads? They’re like microscopic on the phone
I only browse the web on my phone in desperation. I am normally at a proper computer for that.
The last time Sports Illustrated’s website gave me a survey pop-up – “tell us what you think!” – I *told* the bastards. I doubt it did any good, but it made me feel better, because holy fuck, every time they redesign SI.com it gets worse. It has gotten so bad that I actually prefer using the phone.
I have actually tried to put ‘m.’ before some websites on my computer because sometimes you get a page designed for a phone which is easier to read. I see it doesn’t work for SI….
The Onion’s AV club, IIRC, has an AUTO SCROLL EFFECT on their pages. So the words creep up the page far slower than I read, but slow enough to disturb the shit out of me as I try to read.
Looks like somebody is giving Florida Man a run for his money this holliday weekend.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/2-Charged-After-Forcing-Baby-Alligator-to-Drink-Beer-424780454.html%3Famp%3Dy
And this paragraph is just too good not to note: “Alligators are protected under state law and even federal law where they are still listed as threatened solely due to their similarity of appearance to other endangered crocodilians worldwide,” SCDNR Alligator Program Coordinator Jay Butfiloski added.
Crocodilians?
Seems a legit plural. I didn’t know it but it delights me.
What does federal law say about Lizard People? Err… Lacertilians? Lizard-Americans?
So, essentially everyone in that story is an imbecile. Nice.
Got teeth? Green? Bite stuff? Can swim? Good news, Aliie! You’re an official Protected Crocodile!
So how old do gators need to be before they’re allowed to drink?
*paragraph
quote, whatever, fuck you.
*tips beer, tends steak on grill*
I don’t know if that tops the kid who stole his mom’s car to pick up his dad from jail.
…to go right out and commit a robbery.
That’s the detail I couldn’t remember! Shut it down, we have ultimate Florida.
Tempt not the Fates of America’s swampy, syphilitic penis, good sir.
Has anyone linked this story yet?
The guy is probably mentally ill but instead this will be deemed a sign of “Trump’s America”.
Probably, but not so ill to prevent him from being convicted of several felonies, if I read these articles correctly.
Just like Trump!
By the way, if he’s convicted of several felonies, does that mean he should have stayed in prison longer?
I mean, if we’re going to have a top-of-the-gut reaction to a crime or tragedy, why not go for “soft-hearted liberal sentencing policies which release dangerous criminals onto the streets!!!”
I figured it was an indictment of light rail.
I heard one article say previously convicted of kidnapping. I thought that would put you away a little longer…who knows these days. (I didn’t read it).
They clear out the kidnappers, pedophiles, and rapists to make room for the meth Prada and pill poppers.
“Meth Prada”? Women stealing shoes to feed their drug habit?
Yep. How many movements today are keeping themselves afloat by opposing straw men movements? Punch a Nazi! They have to find random crazies as evidence that those bogeymen movements exist.
Oh yeah it already has, by Jill Stein, and then people found out that he supported her and Bernie. Lol. That’s what people get for trying to ascribe the actions of a crazy person to their political enemies.
Here ya go
https://www.google.com/amp/twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2017/05/27/jill-stein-weighs-in-on-portland-stabbing-in-trumps-america-doesnt-mention-attacker-was-a-supporter/
According to one of the linked articles:
“He also posted about free speech, gun rights, conspiracy theories, marijuana and — one of his most discussed topics — opposing circumcision.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/portland-suspect?utm_term=.qgQKDGv4z#.pqpAWmDr5
His mom said he’s a nice person.
Bi-polar?
But what were his thoughts on deep dish?
are we sure he isnt one of us? Who is missing?
Dude sounds Schizo so he might be several of us.
Maybe he’s Tulpa and John?
You don’t speak for us!
Quiet!
Everything is ruined!
Shut up you guys!
You may be confusing schizophrenia with what is popularly known as split personality disorder.
Yeah, the voices in my head were telling me that they were the same thing.
What are you replying to me for? I didn’t say anything to you.
Where did you come from? Bring back the giant snake head. He was giving me instructions.
Crazy guy gets stabby, political factions try and ascribe him to opponents.
I thought I saw something where he’d been violent and crazy before, but I don’t know where or if it was credible.
Conviction of kidnapping (and robbery?) in 2002 – got several years for that.
Conviction of felon with firearm circa 2011 – got time served as part of a plea bargain.
@Fusionist
That’s the stuff! I don’t know where I saw it, and the broser history (such is at is) doesn’t help.
Just look for the non porn site in your history.
Ummmm… not coming up with anything.
And as usual, Shriek’s visceral reactions are impeccable:
Been outta cell service and civilization for 48 hrs on the lake. Any wars break out, troll takeover, celebrity death, etc that I need to know about?
Troll takeover of what? The world, or just certain sites on the Internet?
Tiny robots are said to be invading our urethras!
Old news. That’s why I never go anywhere without the clothespin attached.
Overwatch free-to-play weekend ends at Midnight, Pacific time tonight.
Nothing else comes to mind.
Really, not even Tvorbald play of the games?
Gregg Allman died.
Senator and Hall Of Fame pitcher Jim “Bunnyfucker” Bunning died, too.
Yeah, but he was a politician.
What completely idiotic thing did he do while he was in office?
He was my Senate critter. I can’t remember hating him at least. So I guess maybe he wasn’t super awful
According to Wikipedia, “Bunning was also the only member of the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs to have opposed Ben Bernanke for Chief of the Federal Reserve. He said it was because he had doubts that Bernanke would be any different from Alan Greenspan.”
Lou Reed died
What???
I’m distraught
Is the whole Lou Reed thing some sort of inside joke. That’s the third time I’ve seen Lou Reed referenced when a musician dies. Seeing as he has been dead for several years I’m guessing it’s an inside joke.
I wish Lou Reed was dead so he wouldn’t see you spreading lies about him
Wade Boggs is spinning in his grave right now.
Lou died?
It’s from when the Jacket wrote about 20 articles at the Other Place about Lou Reed and his cultural impact
Tiger Woods got a DUI and Andrew McCutchen helped put $30 in my pocket.
I think Catelyn Jenner attacked some people on the train in Portland.
The other day I saw the word “treason” thrown in with the Jared Kushner thing.
It was a news outlet but since I didn’t click through I don’t remember who it was.
Still though, “treason”? No evidence of any kind has been discovered yet “treason” is in play?
I thought “treason” was the magazine Shikha Dalmia wrote for.
DrinkExecute!+1, Mike M.
“Well, an un-named, non-corporeal source that visited me in a dream said that Kushner was paying off Stalin’s ghost in the Kremlin for using his army of reanimated demon Commie-Nazis to reprogram all the Diebold machines in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Florida to allow evil “President” shitlord to literally rape Hillary (peace be upon her) out of her rightful place as Queen. I think that qualifies as treason, don’t you Deplorable, right-wing, hate criminal?”
-Washington “Democracy Dies In Darkness” Post
Nice
Looks like somebody’s been writing script ideas for Bruce Campbell again. Send as many as you want, he ain’t responding.
I’m drinking Ralphius tonight.
You’ll put your liver out!
The rawr pic:
Girl in sunglasses on right chewing her thumb as she’s mesmerized by whatever she’s looking at.
Girl on the left: Thicc. Any shots of her from the front? That you caught by accident?
How drunk are you?
Not drunk enough, apparently.
Haters
I fully support your terrible taste in women Slammer!
(ok, ok, j/k)
Girl on right is smoking a joint. Redhead is not thicc, she is obese.
She’s not flabby obese. She’s like a R. Crumb girl, with a horse ass. I dig.
I don’t judge. If my google searches ever got out, I would be banished from the Earth if not the Milky Way.
Are there pics that are bigger than a thumbnail?
Sorry. I was in a rush on my way to a BBQ when I was uploading, default is “medium” They have been set to the upload size of 480×720
Oh, cool, thanks. That’s much better.
Good luck with that
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/05/29/students-demand-ucla-allow-conservative-communications-professor-keep-teaching/
Maybe they should occupy administration buildings like the leftist student groups do.
They would probably get expelled.
I dont think the purge is going to be as glorious as they think it will be. How’s enrollment doing there Missou?
Ugh…I went to school there. At least way back then, it was a pretty rockin’ party school. I learned a whole lot there, just not about my course of study.
Enrollment is dropping like a rock.
One of the idiot newsreaders for my local station said Tiger Woods was released on his own reconnaissance.
That’s what Tiger used to do at the strip club
Two penalty strokes to Slammer.
*lights Swiss signal*
Released On His Own Reconnaissance – soon to be a major motion picture!
Chuck Norris title
Is that where you find a bar with a mirror and watch yourself get drunk?
He’s a true reconnaissance man.
Oh, and I hadn’t realized Woods was in trouble again. DUI this time, near his home. Not a good thing, not by a long shot, but at least not weaving in and out of traffic on the San Francisco Bridge while finishing off his vodka bottle.
Man I do that one time and you can’t let it go! I’m not driving you to the airport again!
You can build a thousand bridges, but if you suck one cock, they don’t call you a bridge builder but a cocksucker.
Why the super wealthy athlete doesn’t just keep a flunky living in a guest house around for the sole purpose of driving them around when they want to get smashed is beyond me.
Because driving drunk is fun. Everyone knows it but no one wants to admit it.
This guy remembers.
Someone could make a fortune on a bar with an attached go kart track.
Bumper cars would be amusing… except for the cleanup staff.
There’s a place like that around here… It’s actually a big recreation center with go-karts, laser tag, a video arcade, and a bunch of other stuff. There’s also a BW3-like restaurant that serves alcohol. The official policy is that you’re not supposed to go on the go-karts if you’ve had alcohol, but I’ve heard that it’s not enforced at all.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhh4nkLpub0
Everybody should have their own Kato Kaelin
A guy like Tiger? He has a million vultures circling him and the only women that will sleep with him are mercenaries. He cant trust anyone. Flunkies are weird obsessive types probably with BPD who creep him out.
Any decent, stand-up person wont put up with his shit.
The poor guy is lost. I bet he doesnt have a friend in the world.
Sooo….turn to the darkside, join us, and invest in adolescent orphans drivers? I mean, I assume that’s what the upper-crust on these boards do when knocking back a few and painting the town red with baby seal blood, yes?
+1 Kato
Tiger always was a little thin on the back of his head, but, wow he’s lost a lot of hair.
Think it’s true that wearing ball caps for decades contributes to hair loss?
I wear a cap every single day and have for decades. If you could see my full head of hair, you’d say there is no connection.
If it’s worn tight so it pulls the hair it might be plausible. I’ve heard wearing tight ponytails causes men to go bald and I saw it on, well, I don’t remember where I saw it. Nevermind.
The what now?
The latest is Tiger released a statement saying he wasn’t drunk, but that he had a bad reaction to a drug he was taking. Which could be true.
Eek! The mugshot just appeared on NBC.
“Call you doctor if a ‘bad reaction’ lasts more than 4 hours.”
OK, simple question, what drugs make you appear drunk when you’re not? I’m not saying it didn’t happen, just that that the story seems a bit off.
I got a root canal on November 31’st, and the doc told me not to drink, but no way was I going to miss Slut-O-Ween. I had two sips of beer, then next thing I know I woke up in my bed. There’s a huge redacted part of my of that night that none of my friends could explain.
I think you missed it by a month.
Landed gracefully to what?
SCDNR Alligator Program Coordinator Jay Butfiloski
Yeah, right.
Tories had their leadership race finish up this weekend, and the winner of the Conservative Party leadership is…
Some guy I’ve never bloody heard of.
From what I’m reading he’s apparently the ‘consensus candidate’, bit of a socon (has stated he’s not interested in touching those issues currently though), and spews the typical Tory pieties of a better budget and free markets that they never actually provide. He’s against the carbon tax and wants to withdraw federal funding for universities that have speech codes (but again, Tory, so I’ll believe it when I see it). So unfortunately we’re still at the Mitt Romney level of political stupidity, not quite at Trump yet.
Oh, and he’s also against marijuana legalization and assisted suicide, because the Tories think they own your body as usual.
So Tories are just the northern chapter of Republican party?
Less immigration arguments, less socon and only about 10% of the warboner, but pretty much.
“10% of the warboner”
It’s not the size of the boat…
“and spews the typical Tory pieties of a better budget and free markets that they never actually provide.”
You Canadians sure do like to copy us Americans. Sounds like a typical U.S. rebublican.
Yeah that’s pretty much how I read it. I’m a CPC member and got all the emails from all the candidates over the last few months and still couldn’t recognize the guy if you showed me a picture of him. (I’ll admit I didn’t followed the campaign at all though).
Using a ranked ballot, they had 13 round. Maxime Bernier won the first 12 and Scheer finally won at the 13th. Hard to say consensus more than that.
Question for python-familiar people, part II=
I’ve been trying to run a script some guy cooked up to rip one’s entire Youtube history down to a SQL Db file.
As per his thin-instructions, i got anaconda, installed/added the listed dependent components, and now i want to run his script
I have an anaconda terminal window, and a folder with his script sitting in the root directory of a secondary drive (anticipating that the downloaded file will be a whopper)…
….and i’m at a standstill. I have no freaking idea how to “run” (if that’s even the proper nomenclature) the script, and i can’t even tell from his instructions whether i’m supposed to.
Basically, i’m at the part where he suggests the command line= “scrapy crawl yth_spider” but that does nothing for me. I think the term “crawl” is specific to his script because it tells me that its not a valid command for the Scrapy thing.
Any help? I feel like there’s a simple step he omitted because he didn’t anticipate complete noobs attempting this.
I read the first line and thought it was going to be something cool about Monty Python. Instead, it was something completely different.
I was thinking snakes. I am disappointed.
The trouser variety?
Speaking of snakes. I have had chicken eggs coming up missing the past few weeks. I finally caught the culprit a couple days ago. I spotted the 3 foot black snake leaving the coup. I grabbed the shot gun and put a round of #8 into him, but missed the head by a few inches. He slithered off and got underneath my trailer, right next to the tire. I tried to get him out, but he wouldn’t leave his spot. I had to get my truck, hook onto the trailer and pull move it. After moving the trailer, I hopped out quickly and spotted hum heading for the fence toward the pasture and the tall grass. I got off another shot that took his head clean off just before he got away.
I keep my chicken eggs in the fridge door. *shrug*
My chicken eggs are locally sourced, organic, Gmo free, sustainable, environmentally friendly, and taste exactly the same as the ones from the store. If you have any prog friends, I’ll sell them some for $10 a dozen.
I mostly keep the chickens to eat the bugs from around my place. That and we eat a lot of eggs at my place, so it’s convenient to have a renewable supply without making the 15 mile drive to town any time I get a hankering for an omelette.
I have no idea how woke my chicken eggs are but I get them from the bodega across the street so I don’t care.
You forgot ‘gluten free’. They are gluten free, aren’t they?
Does this help?
https://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/tutorial.html
even that seems to gloss over the part i’m having trouble with =
I already have the code pre-written – my problem is i don’t know how to ‘point’ anaconda to that location such that it can run the developer’s spider
as it says =
how do i do the “going to” that directory part? the command line just starts with C:\User\Anaconda\….
do i just need to put in the address of the file first ? I’m going to feel dumb if this is what i’m missing. Or rather, i tried typing the full address of the file i wanted to run, but it didn’t know wtf to do with it when i did. I need to open the directory first?
cd to the directory containing the Python code?
yeah, so i did that, and i managed to at least start the scraping function on the specific file…
oh shit i think i just made it work
Ok, if anyone hears reports of Nuclear Missiles being launched in the next few minutes, it totally wasn’t my fault.
Is python on your PATH?
Did you install the dependencies?
Yep. that was easy enough because they were all done with 1 command =
“pip install scrapy lxml sqlalchemy””
and the other was just an exe file i needed to download elsewhere.
Did you mention what your environment is/what shell you’re using?
Anaconda. which is a bundled environment + package, or something like that. it did the trick. thanks for your prior recommendations.
the file i need to point the thing to (from what i can tell) is in here
D:\Youtube-Watch-History-Scraper-master\youtube_history\spiders\
but its not clear to me from anything i see how you ‘run’ a .py script from a specific location. they seem to assume this is already understood
So did you try changing ditectories to here and running? If that didn’t work, maybe try moving back one directory at a time until your timing from the top directory.
D:\Youtube-Watch-History-Scraper-master\youtube_history\spiders\
You can see the yth_spider he’s calling in the youtube_history/spiders/youtube_history_spider.py. so I would think timing the command from one of those directories should work.
name = ‘yth_spider’
Sounds like you got it. Cool.
I just did what you said a second before you suggested that
I ran the line that the guy instructed, but from the top of the directory rather the specific location of the .py code
and it went on its mission. its cooking now.
My next question will likely be how to parse the SQL DB to make it more easily browsed
Thanks to everyone for replying
– as is the case with these sorts of things, its just helpful to talk out loud until the solution becomes apparent. everyone’s suggestions actually did help bounce me into the correct spot eventually
What was it??
the solution was to (as per your instruction) to cd to the directory…
,,,,but not to the specific location of the .py script, but rather just the top level of the directory (as JB suggested), which had some assorted other files relevant to the scraper (scrapy.cfg)… but which apparently did the trick. the command line confused me because it had no corresponding file of that name (yth_spider) in the directory.
the result was that it pulled about 24,000 records off of Youtubes API, which go back about 1 year from now. Which is pretty much almost exactly what i was looking for.
(18 months would have been better, but this is good enough to accomplish what i wanted)
Cool. How many of those 24,000 youtube videos in the last year were Poppy?
heh. actually i’ve not yet delved into those. I watched a few of the videos of her old band, but skipped the Robot Girl thing once SF (?) posted about what it was.
I didn’t know Poppy had a past ?
Its well-produced but unoriginal pop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp1ZluX4aYs
her voice is so narrow + saccharine that it sort of makes sense that they (producers) designed a robot-barbie persona for her.
I know this much…you can always find an amusing story by Googling “python” and “Florida man” together
oops,
http://wncn.com/2017/05/24/florida-man-finds-python-in-pantry/
Texas State Senator reports immigration protestors to ICE. Hilarity ensues.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/05/29/texas-state-rep-reports-protesters-to-ice-guess-what-happened-next/
“I made it clear that if he attempted to, in his words, “get me”, I would shoot him in self defense”
So far from Heaven, so close to Texas.
What a cluster. And PJMedia has really gone to shit.
Headline in NYT and Google News is “Texas Lawmaker Threatens to Shoot Colleague After Reporting Protesters to ICE”.
Right, he just out of the blue threatened to shoot colleagues.
Why do we care about Stanley’s cup? Do the winners get the jock as well?
That’s Lord Stanley to you, peasant
Goddamn. My brother just called. A huge dead pine fell in his yard and it is full of bees. I am stuck here and cant go help him re-hive them. Damned roofer supposed to be here tomorrow.
I have no idea what this means.
/city-boy
It means cutting the tree open, putting the queen in a little cage, salvaging as much comb as possible in frames and then putting it all in a hive box. Wait a couple of days for them to settle into the box and then moving them somewhere safe. Giving them a new home.
Have a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8HSJSU33Sk
Yeah… that is not an activity for me. “Respect the bee.”
Urban beekeep, yo.
Wait, you’d want to GO somewhere with all those bees?
*hides in a bee-proof safe room*
Yes. My house.
Can you reschedule the roofer?
Sadly no. The bees will relocate before I can get over there but it will take them a week or so to come back and salvage their honey and wax so I think I will be able to find their new home. I will get over there next week and we will get them. It would just be so much easier now. Oh well.
CBS national news decided to do an entire segment on how to BBQ as a germaphobe. Jesus, way to take the fun out of things by over-emphasizing the minuscule dangers.
Germaphobes tick me off. And it’s not because of what THEY do; I couldn’t care less if they want to wash their hands every two minutes and never take out the garbage without rubber gloves. It’s the way they harangue ME about not partaking in their germaphobic ways.
Pete Rose says ‘DOH’!
http://nbc4i.com/2017/05/29/homer-simpson-inducted-into-national-baseball-hall-of-fame/
Those battleships and fighter jets aren’t going to sell themselves.
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/05/29/mccain-putins-bigger-threat-isis/
White House looks like a good place to start a reality show.
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/05/29/oh-trump-starting-turn-jared-kushner/
His family should have nothing whatsoever to do with the White House. Period.
I spent most of yesterday cleaning some workbench space and getting my loading press mounted and trued up, dies adjusted, primer tubes loaded, etc, etc., in the hopes of cranking out a few cases of 9mm ammo.
This morning, I load 200 rounds, and the goddamned index spring breaks. Press is out of commission, and the replacement spring won’t arrive for a week.
I wish I’d just stayed in bed…
Single stage press. Go with a Forster. Repeat after me: Forster single stage. Say it again. Learn it , live it, love it.
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/265719/forster-co-ax-single-stage-press
Once you go Forster you will never go back. My Hornady multistage contraption collects dust.
Yeah, no, never. Not ever.
Seriously, Forster makes nice stuff (I have some of their dies) but I shoot an average of 1500 rounds of 9mm every month. I’m not gonna try to do that on a single stage press.
I can make 1500 9’s in half a day with mine. The press is exponentially easier to use and far more consistent than any other press. give one a try…you will see. It is a thing of beauty. I have tried them all and Forster is the shit.
You know, I have loaded on a Co-Ax, more than once. I don’t know why you feel the need to blow smoke up my ass on this topic, but knock it off.
No problem Bro.
It was just a good natured jibe based on my own frustration with some progressive loaders. I thought we might have a friendly, informative talk on a shared interest, reloading. Didn’t mean to irritate you. You have a good night, tell everybody I said hello.
US using ‘annihilation tactics’ in final stages of ISIS fight in Mosul, Mattis says
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/05/29/us-using-annihilation-tactics-in-final-stages-isis-fight-in-mosul-mattis-says.html
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“Our intention is that the foreign fighters do not survive the fight to return home to North Africa, to Europe, to America, to Asia, to Africa. We’re not going to allow them to do so. We’re going to stop them there and take apart the caliphate,” Mattis said.
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Iraqi troops will have to do battle on foot because the armored vehicles are too big for Mosul’s narrow streets and back alleys. The part of the city is still filled with around 200,00 civilians.
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Old Blighty almost done circling the drain
UK textbook tells children to “respect” jihad terrorists and write them letters
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A NEW teaching aid that recommends schoolchildren as young as seven “write a letter to a terrorist” to help understand their motives has been condemned as “dangerous and misguided”.
The book, Talking About Terrorism, published weeks before the Manchester Arena atrocity, describes the indiscriminate mass murder of innocent members of the public as a “type of war”.
It tells primary age children that terrorists kill people because they believe they are being treated “unfairly and not shown respect”.
It gives examples of “terrorists” whose ideas then turn out to be right: “The Suffragettes used violence and were called terrorists,,,,” it stated.
“Today many people think of them as brave women and admire their struggle for the right to vote.”
In an activity recommended for pupils aged seven to 11, teachers are urged to “invite children to write a letter to a terrorist. If they could ask a terrorist six questions, what would they be?”
The book, published by Brilliant Publications and containing a foreword by Peter Wanless, the chief executive of the NSPCC, has been slammed by critics who say it is potentially dangerous.
Chris McGovern, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, said the letter task would confuse and potentially upset pupils.
He said: “This a crackpot idea based on the misguided notion that primary school children must engage with, and show “respect” for, religious fanatics who are seeking to kill them.
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That may be stupidest thing I’ve ever read, and I’ve been reading your stuff for a couple years. Sweet Jesus that is dumb.
It’s dumb, but not quite as dumb as the college professor who claimed Stalin never killed anybody:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRPTZF5zSLQ
Dr. Grover Furr is an English professor at Montclair State University.
I see your dumb, and raise you. From the comments:’+Konrad Kurze like the professor said.. that is Bullshit. Every death and every deportation had a good, justifiable reason. You’re just a couch historian, think that you can abstract an incredibly complicated period of Russian history into one or 2 words. Even during the times of Joseph Stalin’s the direction of the communist party changed a number of times. Its Stalins great achievement of being able to wrestle the empire out of the hands of extremist and capitalists, who were salivating at the thought of devouring of Russias lands and resources, and turned it over to the PEOPLE. Free health care, free education, 99% literacy rate, confidence in tomorrow, no alcoholism, all resources belong to the people, free access to sport clubs, pools, libraries. During last years of Stalin’s life, the price of the standard basket of goods was reduced EVERY YEAR. The prognoses was FREE BREAD by 1957. Which means they were 4 years away of ending hunger for ever. Name me a better, more just country in the history of man kind – for majority of its citizens, and I will yield my case.’
ouch.
Oh. My. God.
Da fuck? Link, pls!
oopsy
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/05/uk-textbook-tells-children-to-respect-jihad-terrorists-and-write-them-letters
“Message from the Jo Cox Foundation”
Of course it was. Why am I even surprised?
“Today many people think of [suffragettes who used violent tactics] as brave women and admire their struggle for the right to vote.”
No, they think of them that way because the violence has been completely erased from the official version of history.
recently in bathos:
Iran’s Rouhani calls on Muslim leaders to confront “Islamophobia”
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in separate messages to Muslim world leaders urged them to do their best to fight the scenario of Islamophobia as pursued by the western countries.
“No doubt the responsibility of all leaders, thinkers and scholars of Islamic countries is to explain and promote the lofty goals of Islam in the month of mercy, to use moderation in behavior and action and to provide a clear image of the religion to confront the inaccurate crises enemies create under Islamophobia,” Rouhani’s messages sent to the Muslim leaders on the occasion of advent of the Holy Month of Ramadan.
President Rouhani reiterated that Islam’s moderate face to the world would make it a place free from violence and extremism….
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meanwhile in Afghanistan
Taliban rejects UN call for halt in hostilities during Ramadan as “ignorance of religion”
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ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A Taliban infiltrator has gunned down six government forces in southern Afghanistan, raising the number of army and police personnel killed by insurgents in the past week to nearly 100.
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The Islamist insurgency on Saturday rejected as “ignorance of religion” U.N.-led calls for halting hostilities during Ramadan to respect the religious obligation.
Hours after staging the suicide car bombing in Khost, a Taliban spokesman insisted it is fighting “jihad” (holy war) and is a religious obligation.
“Our fight is Jihad and an obligatory worship. And every obligatory act of worship has 70 times more reward in Ramadan,” a statement quoted spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid …
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a WW2 atrocity I recently learned about
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Japanese hell ships
In May 1942 the Japanese began transferring POWs by sea. Similar to treatment on the Bataan Death March, prisoners were often crammed into cargo holds with little air, food or water for journeys that would last weeks. Many died due to asphyxia, starvation or dysentery. Some POWs became delirious and unresponsive in their environment of heat, humidity and lack of oxygen, food, and water. These unmarked prisoner transports were targeted as enemy ships by Allied submarines and aircraft.
More than 20,000 Allied POWs died at sea when the transport ships carrying them were attacked by Allied submarines and aircraft. Although Allied headquarters often knew of the presence of POWs through radio interception and code breaking, the ships were sunk because interdiction of critical strategic materials was more important than the deaths of prisoners-of-war,[3] and because Allied leaders feared that a pattern of sparing POW ships might lead the Japanese to abuse prisoners as human shields on valuable targets.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_ship
While I’m on the subject of Japan, during the the naval battle with the Russians at Tsushima in 1904, one reason the Russian losses were so high was that the Japanese continued to fire even after the Russians signaled surrender- first with nautical flags, then with a white flags. The Japanese flag code books did not contain an entry for “surrender” and they were not familiar with the meaning of the white flag.
Did you ever read James Bradley’s Flyboys. It does a good job of framing the mentality of the imperial japanese. Very good book.
I did read that. I liked it. The gist was the Japanese didn’t see any much difference between what the US did to the Indians vs what they were doing in China.
Another reason the Japanese were so cruel was they treated their own soldiers like hot garbage.
I read an article the other day about one of the rare times in WW2 where a large number of Japanese surrendered. They were a communications platoon so they knew that Japan was losing the war and about all the atrocities. They told the Americans that thought it would be better if Japan lost the war and became a republic.
“they treated their own soldiers like hot garbage.”
I understand that the derogatory term for a Japanese private translates into somethung along the lines of- Postage Stamp. As in your life is worth the cost of the postage stamp we used to send your draft notice.
wiki sez
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Issen gorin which translated means “penny postcard” is a term associated with a value placed upon Japanese draftees in World War II. This term roughly meant that the individual was only worth the amount on the letter to draft them.
More specifically, “Issen Gorin” translates to “one sen, five rin”, the cost of mailing a draft notice postcard (less than an American penny). The name Issen Gorin was the name Japanese Officers and powerful military personnel used to refer to the average Japanese soldier. Meaning that the individuals responsible for the wellbeing of the Japanese soldiers viewed the soldiers as being worth less than a penny. In their abusive training and continued treatment during World War II, the Japanese soldiers were constantly reminded by their superiors that they are nothing but worthless Issen Gorin.
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That’s it. It’s no surprise how the Japanese treaters prisoners given how they treated their own not much better.
Another book on Japan that I absolutely love is James Clavelle’s Shogun. I have read it a half dozen times. I know it fiction, but I think it paints an accurate picture of the attitudes of Feudal Japanese. It helped me to understand how building the Imperial Japanese society was possible.
some other fun facts:
Tsujigiri (辻斬り or 辻斬, literally crossroads killing) is a Japanese term for a practice when a samurai, after receiving a new katana or developing a new fighting style or weapon, tests its effectiveness by attacking a human opponent, usually a random defenseless passer-by, in many cases during nighttime.[1] The practitioners themselves are also referred to as tsujigiri.[1]
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There is a town in Japan whose name translates as Shit-your-pants-ville. There was a battle where one side was routed and fled in terror through the town, shit rolling down their legs as they ran. Can’t remember the name of the battle off the top of my head.
The Battle of Deuceakawa
I believe the vikings had a similar practice…similar hell, it was nearly identical. test the new sword on random peasant on your way home form the blacksmiths.
A pretty stark illustration of totalitarian power. Top men are gods, their henchmen disposable cattle and below them non-human enemies subject to looting, raping and murder. Thjat is a hell of a steep curve.
Why does Swiss camo look like a Cosby sweater? Discuss.
http://media.midwayusa.com/productimages/880×660/Primary/425/425315.jpg
M70 Swiss field jacket
I like it. Don’t see the resemblance to one of Cosby’s sweaters.
It’s the kind of sweater Cosby wore in ‘Nam.
“I saw a bunch a charlies get napalmed one time. The thing about napalm is it sticks to skin- much like delicious Jell-O puddin’, ah-ha-ha-ha.”
“I hear Fat Albert coming
he’s coming down the street
he’s come to take the wounded
and eat the dead
Hey hey hey airbornnneee”
Isn’t it great that we’re the age that these are the things we think of when we hear the term “Bill Cosby”?
how about this one?
link
The Swiss pattern reminds me of the old Warsaw Pact Romanian pattern.
I like it.