Subaru Horror Theatre, Vol. 1: Memory Lane

by | Oct 3, 2018 | Halloween, Subaru Horror Theatre, SugarFree | 251 comments

As many people have pointed out, this Subaru commercial is basically the set-up for a horror film. Blind old man lures dipshit hipster couple out to “the place on the map only he knows the way to,” turns out to not really be blind, murders them and steals their Subaru.

But I realized it’s not just this Subaru commercial…

 

 

“Grandma, I doan wanna hug no more trees,” Keilyreine said.

“But this is the tree, I swear it’s the tree,” Grandma said, hugging the old tree as hard as she could. Her hands were bloody from the rough bark; the front of her dress hung in ribbons.

“Keilyreine!” her mother shouted. “You hug whatever Grandma tells you to hug!”

“It hurts, Mommy,” she said, her tiny voice lost in the fields and hanging mist.

Grandma let go of the tree and twirled around drunkenly. “No!,” she shouted, pointing. “That is the tree! That is the tree where your Grandfather first took me!” She took off in a stiff-legged toddle across the field.

“His seed!” she screamed. “His seed steamed on my thighs in the morning air!”

“Go with Grandmother,” Keilyreine’s mother order.

“But I’m scared,” the small girl replied.

Grandma tackled the tree, ripping open her face. “It did mix with my maidenhead and flow out onto the ground!”

Keilyreine looked at her mother and father, and then to her Grandmother, bloody-faced against the tree.

“The tree, child!” Grandmother called, waving a veined hand. “Come and hug the tree! I can hear your grandfather calling!”

Keilyreine began to cry, great sobs that she struggled to breathe during. She clutched at the thin bones of her chest where they burned with pain.

“This is barbaric,” Keilyreine’s father muttered.

“This is my family,” her mother said coldly. “Our rites, our traditions. You knew this when you married into our clan. It is just one child. I am still fertile. Come, take me into the sacred forest. Plant another child in me if you can.” She stared at him until he finally looked away. She let out a snort of disgust.

Keilyreine’s mother stalked away, picked up the crying child and carried her Grandmother.

“Yes,” the old woman croaked. “This is it, this is the tree. I can feel him in it. Touch the tree. Know.”

Still holding on to the struggling child, now in full-blown tantrum, she reached out and placed her palm flat on the trunk of the ancient oak. She could smell her father’s tobacco. She could hear a faint echo of his voice. She could feel his rough hand sliding up her inner thigh. She shuddered and stepped back and swallowed hard against rising vomit.

“Could you feel him?” the crone asked.

The mother nodded and thrust the maiden forward.

“Just get it over with,” she said. She held onto the small, struggling form as the old woman, hands shaking, pulled out the knife, black with a thousand years of blood. Keilyreine began to scream and scream. Her voice filled the forest.

Grandma opened the girl’s throat and then her own. They both collapsed against the tree and blood gushed over the bark and soaked into the ground.

Keilyreine’s mother picked up the knife and left them both there–old and young, small and pale; left them there for the forest–and got back into her Subaru.

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251 Comments

  1. Tres Cool

    I thought Subarus were a lesbian hallmark. Like the LPGA.

    • Tres Cool

      Now hit that relevant mother-fkin’ Theme Music !

    • Heroic Mulatto

      A Subaru Outback, yes.

      A Subaru WRX STI? Well, I like chicks and I’m not afraid to admit it!

  2. juris imprudent

    I think I’ll drive the truck to work in the morning.

  3. juris imprudent

    The Subaru I’d rather be driving.

    • Tundra

      It doesn’t sell like it should, that’s for sure.

      • Tres Cool

        The car or the story ?

      • Tundra

        Exactly.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        If it were marketed as the Toyota 86, it would.

      • kbolino

        I wouldn’t care what they called it if they made it a hatchback (also acceptable: WRX hatchback).

  4. Sean

    This summer I test drove a Ford, Subaru, and a VW…I bought a VW.

  5. Brochettaward

    When I started watching the video, I thought the old blind man with the stick was going to take the couple out into the woods and murder the beta male she was with and then rape her.

    It would have been less offensive than the article that followed.

    • Chafed

      This. Many, many times this.

  6. LT_Fish

    Saw this one today – tell me after the first couple of seconds, you don’t expect to see a bunch of garbage bags of body parts being dumped into the tub with a few jugs of acid.

    • Playa Manhattan

      The bleach comes after. And you’ll still get caught.

  7. Tres Cool

    “can you really talk to cats?”

    “you mean you can’t?”

  8. MikeS

    That was some sick, twisted shit. Bravo.

  9. Sean

    LOL.

    Watching Tucker on Fox…showing Dems trying to torpedo Kavanaugh, my gf is yelling at the tv. Not in the dems favor…

    • Playa Manhattan

      Pics?

      • Pomp

        Or it didn’t happen.

    • Brochettaward

      Ann Coulter is really going heavy on the make-up these days. She looks like she has an Instagram filter applied.

    • Raphael

      All the lefties I know are all in and hoping for that Kavanaugh blood. I really really hope Repubs get their shit together and end this charade.

    • Rebel Scum

      Only re-posted because I was “awaiting moderation”. Is there a link limit?

  10. trshmnstr

    You missed the part where she sodomized the cooling bodies with an heirloom grizzly baculum while her husband vomited in a bush.

  11. Florida Man

    Kind of on topic b/c cars. Has anyone done a lift kit on a Tacoma? Easy to do yourself or need a shop?

    • Playa Manhattan

      Get crawl control!!!!! (if you don’t already have it).

      Then you can do your lift.

      Just got the parts for my GX 460. Gonna have it installed soon.

      • Florida Man

        I have the TRD off road package already. I just want it to be really red neck.

      • JaimeRoberto

        Couldn’t they have come up with some acronym other than TRD? It sounds terrible. “Hey man, if you ain’t got TRD, you ain’t got shit.”

    • Tundra

      Spawn’s pal did it on a 4Runner. If an 18 yo knucklehead can do it, I’m sure you’ll be fine.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        “18 yo knucklehead” = future Billionaire

      • Florida Man

        Cool. I may make this my January project. Time to start the research.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I had a buddy put a lift kit on his Suburban in high school during the winter. He forgot to measure the garage door, so once the lift kit was on, it wouldn’t fit back out the garage door.

        Much hilarity at his expense. Don’t be like him.

      • Florida Man

        Poor guy. I only want a 3 inch lift max. Maybe 4-5 with taller tires.

      • Playa Manhattan

        I just had a roll up garage door installed. Ask me why.

      • CPRM

        Why?

      • Brett L

        18 yo knucklehead don’t know better. Those of us who have suffered through improper “upgrades” are more afraid of taking shit apart.

      • Florida Man

        How hard can it be?
        *opens transmission, gears go flying everywhere*

      • Playa Manhattan

        I tried to change the coaster brake on my Schwinn beach cruiser. A bunch of metal and grease flew everywhere

  12. Yusef drives a Kia

    I remember it all now, And I am Scarred for life……
    Sup Tres!
    /Tall can (1)!

    • Tres Cool

      Hey YUFUS !

  13. Playa Manhattan

    I missed the Woodstock sign on the first pass.

    “This is where I met your grandpas. All seven of them.”

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Woodstock, where Mommy and Daddy made AIDS……….
      /Fuck Hippies, then and now,

      • Raphael

        +1 Take a Bath

    • MikeS

      Oh grandma Swetnick, you’re so fun!

      • Playa Manhattan

        Nice

  14. Suthenboy

    Touched a nerve Sir Sucralose. I hate the sappy, touchy feely Subaru commercials. Hate. Them. I want all of those people to die.
    I like your version.

    • Florida Man

      But tugging on heartstrings is how you sell in the 2010’s.

    • commodious spittoon

      It really doesn’t help that they cast horror movie one-off nobodies.

    • Count Potato

      “Love, it’s what makes a Subaru.” WTF does that even mean?

      • trshmnstr

        It means “our marketing department discovered that women, especially homosexual women, were overrepresented as Subaru customers, so we decided to pander to rote emotionalism.”

      • SugarFree

        They make sweet and tender love to every Subaru before it ships.

    • Heroic Mulatto

      Remember those Subaru commercials with assholes singing off-key? I really, really hated that autistic kid who berated me about saving national parks before screeching like a dying cat.

      This is why the Lan Evo will always be superior to the WRX.

  15. Raphael

    I wish to petition for more Sugar Free commercials.

    • SugarFree

      Every Wednesday this month.

      • Raphael

        That is most excellent news.

      • MikeS

        Ditto!

  16. commodious spittoon

    Well that quit being funny in a hurry.

    • MikeS

      It did?

      • commodious spittoon

        I had a fleeting sense of Cory Doctorow, which is odd since I’ve only read one book of his and didn’t especially care for it, but Christ if it didn’t stick around… it wasn’t a horror story as such, but the weirdness and inexplicability made it memorable and a little worrisome to read.

      • commodious spittoon

        Also, my PSU has been failing for awhile, and it chose while I was getting to the climax to short and restart my PC. Been a couple months since that’s happened.

      • MikeS

        I think we can safely blame that on SF, as well.

      • trshmnstr

        “Could you feel him?”

      • Count Potato

        I’d put in a new PSU before it does something worse.

      • commodious spittoon

        Aw, Fate’s a fickle mistress, but she’d never be tempted by something like frying all my electrical components when I need them most and can least afford to replace them.

      • Playa Manhattan

        Before its assistant coach does something bad?

  17. Brochettaward

    CNN – this report will have no legitimacy until the FBI interviews everyone in America.

  18. Pomp

    ☝️????

  19. westernsloper

    Some of you may find that disgusting and disturbing which it is, but I see SF contributions as word of the day posts.

    “It did mix with my maidenhead and flow out onto the ground!”

    I had my suspicions about that word, but after looking it up, that is damn gross and worthy of a standing ovation. I am not sure how it can be put together but someone needs to go on Halloween as a puddle of maidenhead.

    • Raphael

      Sugar Free is the William Shakespeare of our time. If anything, I will strive to ensure his legacy and works “reach” future generations.

      • juris imprudent

        Sugar Free is the reason Cthulhu went into hiding.

      • Raphael

        Cthulu is merely sleeping, Sugar Free is doing his work in the meantime to prepare us for his eventual awakening.

      • Jarflax

        That is not dead that can a SF read unretched and in strange tales even ejecta may vomit.

  20. Count Potato

    I just recovered a memory that Brett Kavanaugh called me a “poopy-head” in kindergarten.

    • Drake

      Were you a poopy-head?

      • LT_Fish

        That’s not the point.

  21. Spudalicious

    The story fits with the few people I’ve encountered driving Subaru’s.

    • Florida Man

      Few? There are Subaru’s all over the place here. Tesla’s too. That’s why I want to lift my truck. Send a clear message I’m not one of the smell hippies, but a smelly red neck.

      • Count Potato

        Has anyone noticed that you no longer see the new VW beetles? They used to be everywhere. Now, I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen one. But I occasionally see an original beetle.

      • Florida Man

        I think they were over priced, so I’m not sure how well they sold after the novelty wore off. My dad still has his 73 beetle and wants to restore it now that he is retired.

      • Count Potato

        They are pretty simple.

      • Tundra

        I have one in my driveway, so no.

      • Count Potato

        I think you might be like Charleston Heston in Omega Man.

      • Tundra

        Do I get the hot black chick? Because that would be cool.

      • Tundra

        Rosalind Cash was smoking hot.

        RIP

      • Count Potato

        I see all kinds of Ford F series all the time.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Look at the bodystyles closely. I bet you won’t see many 9th or 10th generation ones, despite selling millions. Even 11th generations are getting scarcer.

      • Playa Manhattan

        Roll coal

      • Drake

        Visited freinds in NH a few months ago. Took their Outback to a restraunt. When we came out, just about every car in the lot was a Subaru.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        Where in NH?

      • Drake

        Just outside Portsmouth. They live in Newfields.

    • commodious spittoon

      I drove an Impreza for years…

      • juris imprudent

        I drive an Outback to get hit on by lesbians.

      • Florida Man

        Shotgun!

    • But Enough About Me

      “Ha ha!”

      /Nelson Muntz

    • Gustave Lytton

      Wait, they start new employees at top pay, no progression pay, and eliminating incentive pay? If I were a current employee, I’d bail as soon as something else was lined up. That has mediocre future written all over it. At best it will coast like that with the dregs of bad attitude workers. At worst, unionize to put the seal of shit on the pile. Unless the robots get them first.

    • Rhywun

      “it’s no longer incentive-based”

      Machines don’t respond to “incentives” either.

      • juris imprudent

        But orphans by gawd do! Food is a helluva incentive.

    • Pope Jimbo

      A couple of summers ago, my kid worked for UPS loading trucks in the morning. Had to be there at 4 every morning. The hourly pay was slightly lower than if he had gotten some other similar jobs. However if he was on time to work every day, he got a weekly bonus of $120. With the bonus, it was a pretty good job.

      He said that he was one of the few people that got the bonus regularly. Everyone else would be late at least a few times. If someone really needed cash, they’d be on time for a week and then go back to missing start times.

      Fucking punk kids.

    • kbolino

      I didn’t think Bezos was that dumb, but then again he did buy the Washington Post.

  22. Gustave Lytton

    I’ll vote for Trump in 2020 right now if the entrance music for Kavanaugh’s swearing in is either Cobra Starship’s “Good Girls Go Bad” or Diana Ross’ “Upside Down”.

    • But Enough About Me

      Definitely Diana Ross. Way more classy than Cobra Starship.

      • dbleagle

        He has my vote if the song is “Afternoon Delight” by Starland Vocal Band

      • westernsloper

        ^ Winner!!!

      • The Last American Hero

        Young girl by Gary Puckett.

      • The Last American Hero

        Or theme song to The Cosby Show.

      • CPRM

        Great song, I link now!

      • dbleagle

        Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side”

        I can see Donald’s Hair start to sing along.

    • LJW

      Moving in Stereo by The Cars and I’ll vote Republican for life.

  23. But Enough About Me

    Someone needs to fortify cheap wine with vitamins and minerals so we can drink it for breakfast with a clear conscience. (I vote White Zinfandel as the test wine.)

    That is all.

    • Rebel Scum

      Chardonnay.

      • But Enough About Me

        CHARDONNAY?!?

        I’d rather die of alcohol poisoning. Unless the Chardonnay wasn’t laid down in oak. I’ve come to despise oak.

      • Count Potato

        Simi chardonnay was so overrated.

      • Florida Man

        Despise oak? How do you feel about bourbon?

      • But Enough About Me

        I try not to drink it. Unless I’m desperate.

        . . .

        OK, fine, I’m desperate more often than I’m comfortable with.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Look, anyone advocating for drinking wine shouldn’t be throwing sissy ass corks at my beer fridge in my shower

        Grow a pair and drink manly shit. Let your wife drink the wine if you must.

      • Spudalicious

        A bottle of Mondeuse for this manly man.

    • Gustave Lytton

      You don’t need vitamins or minerals as an excuse. Just do it, and damn society’s disapproval!

    • westernsloper

      Obviously you have missed all my comments on the Trailer Park Mimosa that I start most weekend days with. For the real trailer park experience you have to go with Franzia Crisp White or lower grade. I have recently downgraded to Vella Delicious White and for 13 clams for 5 litres you can’t go wrong. Add in some boxed mango juice and a bit of soda water and you have breakfast.

      • But Enough About Me

        The only way I’m seeing thirteen bucks Canadian for five litres is if I’m smuggling the stuff back to the Lower Mainland. I’m sure our Glorious Socialist Government here in British Columbia can figure out a way to raise the price by at least 200%. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was 300%. Or more.

        Fuckers!

    • slumbrew

      I vote White Zinfandel as the test wine.

      You are a goddamn monster.

  24. Count Potato

    Remember in the mid to late 80’s, Volvos, Mercedes, etc. had little “windshield wipers” on the headlights?

    • Florida Man

      I member .

    • Drake

      I had a Prelude with pop-up lights. Way cooler.

  25. blighted_non_millenial

    Fox News is reporting a Sheila Jackson Lee staffer has been arrested for a slew of crimes in connection with the doxxing of Senators.

    • Count Potato

      See the previous post for the links.

    • Florida Man

      Resist LARPing is fun until reality comes crashing in.

    • But Enough About Me

      I hope they burn his/her career and life to the ground. Fuckers.

    • Brett L

      “You fucked up, you trusted [her].”

    • commodious spittoon

      Former staffer. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, it’s important we all be clear about Sheila Jackson Lee’s non-involvement in this heinous act. We wouldn’t want anything happening to the good Sheila Jackson Lee. We need to be respectful of the good congresswoman in what I’m sure is a very difficult time for her.

      • Count Potato

        But their is still no excuse for her hairdresser.

      • Count Potato

        um there

  26. Rhywun

    I recommend looking to the front page of the print edition of today’s New York Times. And what will you find? You will find not one single word about the Kavanaugh confirmation. It’s completely gone. We’ve moved on!

    Seems legit (really).

    • Pomp

      ?

      • Rhywun

        It’s over. Expect a pivot to general anti-Trump stuff as the next Pussyhat March approaches.

      • mikey

        Flake should be the victim of an innertubez “send Jeffie a pussy hat” campaign.

      • Spudalicious

        Jeffie needs a visit from STEVE SMITH. And by visit, I mean…

  27. Vacuous Insight

    As Halloween is approaching, I’m finding ” Our culture is not your costume” posters throughout campus. I’ll have to take a closer look next time and see what club or group made the posters.

    • westernsloper

      GO AS A PUDDLE OF HIPPIE MAIDENHEAD!!!

      Hippie is still a culture we can make fun of. Don’t forget the flies.

    • Q Continuum

      Dress up as Hitler and tell them that it’s your culture as a hetero-white-male shitlord.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        Why would you deny him the easy, zaftig Hillel girls?

      • Q Continuum

        4 hours of begging.

      • Pan Zagloba

        If they have daddy issues (HAH! IF!), what easier way to pull them?

      • Pomp

        12 years ago I went to a huge private Halloween party hosted by prog friends dressed as Hitler; black electrical tape makes a fine Hitler moustache.

        Many sodomy jokes ensued and appropriately someone else at the party fed me beer out of a big glass “Das Boot.”

        I sometimes wonder if one could pull off a crass Hitler likeness these days with such low consequences given the pervasiveness of smartphones these days.

      • Playa Manhattan

        You can only pull that off in a peer reviewed academic journal these days.

    • dbleagle

      I am willing to bet it is not from the local chapter of “The Sons of Norway”.

    • Vacuous Insight

      The poster has a black woman with her arms crossed and scolding while in the background, there is someone in blackface and a guy who looks like Remy in a police costume waving his finger at them.

      • Rhywun

        Your campus is a hotbed of blackface? What century is it there?!

    • Heroic Mulatto

      ”Our culture is not your costume”.

      Why not? These people don’t wear hanfu, dashikis, or just walking around butt naked, 24/7 like their ancestors did, so why should anyone listen to them?

      • Count Potato

        Anyone who isn’t Cro-Magnon shouldn’t be allowed to wear clothes.

      • Drake

        Only because Whitey made them wear clothes, eat with utensils, and bath.

    • Raphael

      Welp, I was gonna go as Frankenstein for Halloween but I’m not green or German, oh well time to scrap that idea.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        You mean Frankenstein’s Monster, don’t you?

      • Pomp

      • Raphael

        Whoops, you’re right. That adds in another problem considering I’m not undead. Boy this is becoming really problematic.

    • straffinrun

      Go as an angry black woman who scolds people for their choice of costume.

    • Michael

      My favorite part:

      The home addresses and other personal information of Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Mike Lee and Orrin Hatch of Utah were posted to Wikipedia on Sept. 27 from an individual located in the House of Representatives.

      From this genius’ LinkedIn page:

      Jackson Cosko

      Democratic Political Professional & Cybersecurity Graduate Student

      Washington D.C. Metro Area | Political Organization

      • Brett L

        Graduate Student == Thinks he knows the ocean, actually knows a 1″ diameter cylinder all the way from the surface to the bottom.

  28. Drake

    Looked at Subarus for the wife a few months ago. Ended up buying an Infiniti QX30 for less than the equivalent Outback.

    • Count Potato

      Subarus seems to be getting bigger and more expensive.

    • straffinrun

      She grew up to be Sandra Fluke?

    • Florida Man

      What?

  29. straffinrun

    More shit stirring. https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Osaka-cuts-sister-city-ties-with-San-Francisco-over-'comfort-women'-statue.

    Interesting comment:

    Hiro
    Today 06:57 am JST
    What absurd is if we didn’t cut ties with them. What kind of friend would build a statue in front you that proclaim loudly to the world what kind of crimes your people committed 7 decades ago. Yes,it was awful back then and we had been paying it forever since then,but doesn’t mean our generation has to be reminded day by rubbing that statue into our faces.

    How would it feel if we build statues of US dropping bomb on us in every nations and happily proclaim it was for friendship and peace? San Fransisco is just trying to get closer to Korea and China and flattering them. Guess our six-decade meant nothing to them.

    • commodious spittoon

      Woah, wtf! Every other link opens a new tab. Your link hijacks my Glibs tab!

      • Florida Man

        That’s pretty sneaky…

      • straffinrun

        Works for me. *Shrugs*

      • commodious spittoon

        I’m just curious. Every other link, including all of Q’s shady links, open a new tab.

      • Rhywun

        #metoo

        One of the things I tip my hat to the overlords for is the default _blank when creating links. I HATE links to different sites that open in the same tab.

      • slumbrew

        +1000

        _blank is the default for external links on the app I maintain.

      • commodious spittoon

        So what’s missing here? I’m genuinely curious. AFAICT it’s just another link.

      • Rhywun

        Maybe because it’s a straight link instead of using the <a> tag…? But lots of people do that without this issue so I’m not sure…

      • straffinrun

        It doesn’t happen when I use hypertext. Also, that site always does something weird when I link to them.

      • slumbrew

        It’s the single-quotes in the URL; WordPress isn’t really just adding a _blank target, it’s using javascript onclick event (why, I dunno).

        The key bit:

        onclick=”javascript:window.open(‘https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Osaka-cuts-sister-city-ties-with-San-Francisco-over-‘comfort-women’-statue’); return false;”

        (No idea if that will get formatted right)

        The URL argument to ‘open’ is using single-quotes and it’s not escaping the single-quotes in the URL, so it gets confused.

      • straffinrun

        Thx. Either way is fine for me. You guys have a preference?

      • slumbrew

        Open in new window/tab is the One True Way.

        (WordPress should encode the single-quote as %27, not sure why it didn’t. “Because PHP”, I assume).

      • commodious spittoon

        Mostly just happy with the mystery solved. Straffin, you’re awesome. Good morning.

      • Rhywun

        Install Monocle ?

      • Rhywun

        Never mind, I don’t know if Monocle would solve it…

      • Rhywun
      • Rhywun

        Nope

      • slumbrew

        If any other web nerds care, that’s clearly a bug, as ‘ in URLs are valid, per the RFC:

        Thus, only alphanumerics, the special characters “$-_.+!*'(),”, and
        reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used
        unencoded within a URL.

      • Rhywun

        You’d think as long as WP has been around that would have surfaced already.

      • slumbrew

        You’d think, but it’s an edge-case, I think – up until now, I had no idea that unencoded single-quotes were valid in a URL.

      • Rhywun

        Ah, nice catch.

    • Florida Man

      Well, one of those things was a war action and one of those things was a war crime, so …

    • Pope Jimbo

      To be fair, San Fran once proudly flew the Confederate Flag in front of city hall. Diane Feinstein tried to prosecute the bastards who took it down.

      I think Osaka can be forgiven for thinking that a city that can roll with slave holders would be cool with a little forced prostitution.

    • slumbrew

      How would it feel if we build statues of US dropping bomb on us in every nations…

      Most nations would say you deserved it.

      • straffinrun

        His example was terrible, but notice how the US treats Iran, Iraq, Syria etc. They point out America’s destructive foreign policy and get demonized for it.

      • slumbrew

        Yeah, he could have made a much better point – that one was really poorly chosen.

    • Gustave Lytton

      It was a long time ago and it never happened.

    • Timeloose

      I can see why they might be pissed considering it was put up last year. We have been allies for 70 years.

      • straffinrun

        True. I think they’re pissed about the blatant political point scoring and the selective way some victims deserve statues and others deserve squat.

      • Timeloose

        They did mention that the Japanese have begun memory holeing that it happened at all.

      • straffinrun

        We all memory hole our sins. America, thanks 1A!, at least has some vocal people pointing out our sins. We still aren’t great on many things, though. How much sympathy is there for slaves, uh, I mean conscripts that died in our wars?

      • slumbrew

        I thought that was used to great effect in Fatherland – the central mystery of the novel was something we’re all well aware of but had been memory-holed in the novel.

      • straffinrun

        Do we need any better example than Fuckhead Arizona senator’s funeral?

      • Pope Jimbo

        They should just put up a statue of American Nisei being put into internment camps.

      • straffinrun

        Yes, that would’ve been a much better argument.

      • slumbrew

        That would be epic.

    • Rhywun

      San Fransisco is just trying to get closer to Korea and China and flattering them.

      Yeah, that’s exactly what it is. ?

    • kbolino

      On the one hand, the Japanese do seem to gloss over the atrocious parts of their Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

      On the other hand, I haven’t seen anything good come of more than 1 generation’s worth of collective shame and cultural guilt. Accept that the evil happened, vow never to repeat it, and then move on.

      • C. Anacreon

        Perhaps also put up a statue commemorating the Rape of Nanking while they’re at it. That would also make China like SF better and further anger Japan.

        All these memorials are just new sites for SF’s noble homeless to drop trou and defecate under regardless of their intent anyway.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I guess my question is “What does San Francisco have to do with it?”

      Other than it being controlled by a bunch of virtue-signaling assholes.

      But by the same token, Germany doesn’t complain about the myriad number of Holocaust Memorials across the US.

  30. straffinrun

    I’m rereading As Good As It Gets. Totally forgot the plot. Dude got totally sperm jacked.

    • straffinrun

      Nice brain fart. Alls Well That Ends Well.

      • slumbrew

        Ah, ignore my post below.

        Though I’m not sure you could get two works of art (using that term loosely, in one case) that were further apart.

    • slumbrew

      That was a book!? I thought it was a crap movie. Or are you talking about this? I are confused.

      • straffinrun

        No, I’m a bit hungover. Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well.

    • commodious spittoon

      Wait, what?

    • commodious spittoon

      Okay, I was going to say, even as a pre-teen, I think I’d have remembered that.

      But having read the novel as a teenager, I don’t remember any sperm jacking.

      • straffinrun

        He gets tricked into humping a chick he doesn’t like so she gets knocked up by him. Rape by today’s standards.

      • CPRM

        No, the woman wanted it, the man didn’t, therefore not rape. Get your shit together!

    • Florida Man

      I think of a man, then I take away reason and accountability.

      • C. Anacreon

        Ah, you make me want to be a better man.

    • straffinrun

      Take the win. You think the left wouldn’t?

    • CPRM

      ‘Cloture’, that sounds dirty. Those perverted white men are going to perform cloture on Christina Ford? Disgusting! A bunch of sex addicts!

    • Playa Manhattan

      OH MY GOD! NOT A VOTE!!!

      THIS IS DESTROYING OUR DEMOCRACY!!!!

    • kbolino

      The only good to come of it will be that this goddamn travesty is over.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I twill never be over. The Democrats will campaign on this shit for decades much like the way they handle the presence of Clarence Thomas on the court.

  31. slumbrew

    Red Sox v. Yankees it is, then. Could it be otherwise?

    • Chipwooder

      My boys were sharp tonight, and will have Sawx-killer JA Happ on the mound for Game 1

  32. Plinker762

    The real horror is getting stuck behind two slow ass Subaru drivers blocking both lanes.

    • Chafed

      Obviously they are admiring each other. By that I mean they are lesbians hooking up.

  33. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Sam Raimi approves

  34. DOOMco

    Lift Tacoma is sweet. Around 3 inch is ideal, past that you start needing to think about drive line angles.
    Old man emu still makes good stuff.

    Ill have to post a picture of my old/new Impreza now.

  35. Threedoor

    My Subaru horror theater involved a new to us 82 Brat and a semi truck. Didn’t die.