Nancy Pelosi on Impeaching Trump: ‘He’s Just Not Worth It’
“They will never impeach me,” Donald said.
“Of course not,” the hat grunted.
“Nancy said they would never impeach me,” Donald said. He was looking out the Oval Office window to the lawn below, brown and dead, winter grass waiting for Spring.
“Yeah, oh yeah, that’s it,” the hat said and gasped.
“You’re disgusting,” the hair told the hat. He hissed in revulsion.
“You,” the hat said, between thrusts, “Just wish you could. Swerve. Like. Me.”
“Do you have to do that on the desk?” the hair asked.
“They dig the desk. It gets them hot,” the hat said. “Roll over, girl.” He moved off the pummelo wrapped in gaffer’s tape and nudged it with his bill until it rolled away on the desk. “Not so fast,” the hat said lasciviously, ”I’m not done with you yet.”
“They will never impeach me,” Donald said again. The hair scampered off his head and settled on his shoulder.
“There was no collusion,” Donald whispered. “No collusion. This is all Presidential Harassment.”
“It’s your #metoo moment, Donald,” the hat said, engulfing the fruit once more.
“I never slept with her!” Donald said quickly, turning, waving his hands at the hat. “I do not have a deformed penis. My penis is bigly and yuge and so classy.”
“OK, Donald,” the hair said soothingly.
“I’ll pull it out right now and you can see,” Donald said, reaching for the closure on his Sansabelt slacks. “It will blind you with style!”
“Oh, god, no, Donald, no,” the hair said.
“I’m trying for a little citrus delight here, dude,” the hat said. He began humping away again at the bound fruit.
“Uh, sir?” Sarah asked from the Oval Office couch. “Is everything alright, Mr. President?”
The hair scrambled onto the top of his head as Donald buttoned his pants back. “Everything is fine, Pie. Just fine. Great. Tremendous. No impeachment, no collusion.”
“Yes, sir,” she said. “That was my plan for the press announcement.”
“It’s good to have you back out there, Pie,” Donald said, wiping his hands on his shirt. “Out on the front lines, in the trenches, battling the enemy of the people.” Donald paused to mime firing a machine gun and said, “Rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat-tat.” Sarah could see the saliva flying from his mouth in the sunlight streaming in from the window.
Donald sat down beside her and said, “Remember: no collusion, no impeachment.”
“No collusion, no impeachment,” she repeated.
“Donald! Hey, Donald!” the hat cried out excitedly. Donald waved him away as he leaned against Sarah.
“Oh, Pie,” he said. “It’s so lonely being me.”
“Yes, Mr. President,” she said, squirming as his hot McDonald’s breath rushed into her cleavage.
“No one understands but you,” he said. “Never leave me. Say you’ll never leave me.”
“Of course, Mr. President,” Sarah said, trying to stand and failing.
“No, say it. Say you’ll never leave me,” Donald begged, a timorous whine creeping into his voice.
“I’ll never leave you, Mr. President,” she whispered.
“Not even when I fire you?” he asked, his face pressing into her breasts.
“Not even when you fire me, sir,” she said.
“DONALD!” the hat screamed. “LOOK! LOOK!”
Donald glance over at the hat and his sex fruit. The hat was taking the pummelo from the side, grunting, hungry and pig-like, pausing only to pant or shift for better traction.
“I call this one The Deformed Avocado,” the hat said. “Because I made it up while fucking an avocado until it was deformed!”
Huzzah! *walks off to the salt mine*
“squirming as his hot McDonald’s breath rushed into her cleavage”
Every teen age boy’s dream.
Needz moar Jim Acosta in a gimp suit.
“I call this one The Deformed Avocado,” the hat said. “Because I made it up while fucking an avocado until it was deformed!”
You, sir, are a true Artiste!
Here we go with the avocados again. Yuck. I wouldn’t even stick my dick in one.
You’ll be happy to know that I’ll be serving fresh guacamole next Saturday.
At the dim sum place on Sunday, one of the carts was offering stuffed avocados. I had no idea there was such a thing as innovative dim sum.
Rock and pop until it’s guac!
Mmmmmmmmmm avocado
I wonder if there’s a crossover in the works with Penny Arcade. Hat vs. the Fruit Fucker.
I’m not going to ask why a hat would have sex with fruit, because I don’t want to know.
Hat’s ex
Hat’s other ex
I’ll ask, because I want CP to know.
The hat will have sex with just about anything, but certain fruits make a nice tight fit in his erotic concavity.
But let’s be honest, the fruit is probably just a phase, like trshmnstr in college.
I’m not even fazed.
You banged fruits in college?
No, the hat banged him in college.
That fucking hat gets around man…
“Here’s Lori Loughlin on the Today Show in 2017 discussing her daughter’s new college enrollment. How exciting.”
https://twitter.com/KenWebsterJrSho/status/1105809623309795329
Jeezuz…how about a Hoda-and-Kathy-Lee trigger warning?
Douthat: Ivy Leagues are for legitimation, like tradesmen of old marrying into aristocracy.
Meritocracy. Some people seem to be confused as to the meaning of this word.
It means a system where I get something by deserving it. And I would deserve it if I toe a good proggy lion.
Suthen, I actually have come to believe that there is a large contingent amongst the credentialed elite that feel they are owed the wealth & power they have gotten, that a meritocracy is evil. Specifically because it requires people to be successful and produce value. Our credentialed elite class fears nothing more than a system that would ignore their credentials and look at their track record to decide their merit. Considering how they have no successes of any kind to shore them up, I can see why they want to destroy any system that is based on a meritocracy.
Shirley you don’t mean someone like the gov of NY or Cyrus Vance
Vance grew up in New York City. He is the son of Grace Elsie (Sloane) and Cyrus Vance, Sr., who served as Secretary of the Army under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and Deputy Secretary of Defense under President Johnson, then Secretary of State to President Jimmy Carter
They achieved their positions on their personal achievements. The list dates back to the Adams family
How does Gomez and Morticia fit into this?
Morticia (Carolyn Jones) always reminded me of my first wife but much nicer than my ex.
“…a system that would ignore their credentials and look at their track record…”
Exactly why the words “…judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin…” were chiseled off of the walls at some proggie university.
Absolutely they believe they are owed it. They are convinced they are better than you. Everyone they know tells them so.
It’s the new class system. Far from perfect, of course, but the best they can do… for now.
Would, would, would. If she goes to prison I’m hoping for a special kind of movie.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ’S CIRCUITS ARE UNABLE TO PROCESS SOME OF THE WRITINGS OF THE CHOSEN ONE “SUGARFREE”. ZARDOZ NO LONGER CAN BELIEVE HE IS A HARSH MASTER. HE MUST BOW HIS STONY HEAD BEFORE “SUGARFREE”. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
SugarFree is your other gift to us, oh floating one!
OT, but there was just a school shooting. In Brazil. I think 10 dead. I suppose we will NOT be seeing this on CNN, because this only happens in the US.
Huh, Top story under the top stories column.
They obviously got the guns from Indiana.
We need a Gulag Barbie appearance on Hat & Hair. She’s being stalked by SPACE SMITH, but no one believes her.
Sandy was on last week.
Who the hell is Sandy?
Pol Thot
OK, I’m way behind here, I guess I have some catching up to do…
Karla Marx?
She Guevara.
Gulag Barbie
Occasional Cortex
Alexsandria
OT: Lib opens up about what makes them a lib:
“I define class rage pretty specifically. It’s how I feel when I think that someone is in a similar financial situation to me, and then I discover that they actually have this extra source of money. When I was younger, it was like, “Oh wait, you come from a rich family.” But now it’s like, there’s a secret trust fund. Or a wealthy spouse. At my core, I believe that if you have money, your life is easier. If a person grew up rich, or with relative financial security, then I just can’t relate to them at all.”
Shorter: I am jealous/envious of people that are doing better financially than me!
mo’ money, mo’ problems.
This is what passes for deep thinking.
That Tenth Commandment is filed away with the Tenth Amendment somewhere.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the decrease in people who adhere to a religion. In Catholicism, envy is one of the 7 deadly sins. In Buddhism, desire is seen as the source of suffering. Without that moral compass, some people act like toddlers and want everyone else’s toys.
Err, yeah maybe. On average it certainly is easier but it is not without it’s problems and for a large minority (at the least) of people the problems that come with financial wealth are not actually easier to deal with than the problems that come with financial deprivation
In my experience people with money have fewer “money problems” but a hell of a lot of other far bigger problems they deal with. Money never buys happiness. All it does is alleviate some worries. Life is far more than just money problems, however. But no matter what problems I have had to deal with, I don’t think I ever wished someone that had it better than me was punished for just having it better than me. People that believe this sort of feelings are anything but a sign of them being deficient lowlifes, let alone, feel it is good to punish those doing better by taking things away from them, are evil. There is no other way to categorize that.
Eh. Having money just means you have a different set of money problems. And you still have lots of other problems. Money can’t make you love yourself, or give you the drive to feel accomplished, or help you make the kind of true friends who really get you and have both your back and will call you on your bullshit when you are being stupid. It can’t get you a minute with your aging parents, or relieve your child’s heartbreak when their crush rejects them.
I think sometimes the root of envy is a lack of empathy and compassion.
Money never buys happiness.
It buys this.
From what I’ve read, this is true up to a point. If you are literally starving, or even if you are struggling to pay your bills every month, then yes, more money will make you happier. You will have less to stress about.
But beyond meeting your basic needs, more money does not mean more happiness. There is a big difference in happiness between someone making $40k per year and someone making $1M per year. But not so much between someone making $1M and someone making $10M.
yeah but you can put the point where it stops really making a difference way below $1 million. Where that line is varies from place to place and with life circumstances but more money not really making you happier probably starts becoming the case as low at $75k a year for single individuals in low cost of living areas and is true for pretty much everyone by the time you get to $400k a year
The complication is lifestyle inflation. It is a secret killer of wealth, and you can disappear hundreds of thousands of dollars without even knowing if you don’t rein it in.
The first year we made 6 figures, my wife and I looked around wondering where the hell it all went. We had a delta net worth of ($100k) that year, and it didnt even feel like we were spending that much money. A couple “we deserve” cars, a couple semesters of student loans, and not much of an eye to the budget evaporated $215k of our $115k income.
Every time I have an “I deserve” moment the half-century of cheapness takes over when I see the prices. “I deserve to not get ripped off!” So only about 10% of the time do I actually spend the money. The good news is I don’t have any stress about what I’d do if I lost my job. “Move to a lower tax locale” is my strategy if that happens.
One study pegs it at $95k.
Not being able to read it and figure out how and what costs they control for – my thinking is something between $80k and $150k depending on where you live seems reasonable.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0277-0
I have a family of five and we are around 70k/year while owning ~1800 sq foot home, 2 used vehicles and a pop up camper. Enough money to re-roof the house last summer without taking out a loan. Summer before replaced appliances left and right.
Spending less than you make will allow for all sorts of stress free living.
This, if you can put money in savings and leave it there for rainy days, you should be golden.
I lost one of my oldest friends because of money. Until then I always said, the more, the merrier. Yeah, it’s a little more complicated than that sometimes.
I can understand part of the disconnect. It happens between the girlfriend and I. She came from a much wealthier family then me, and she seems to think that the things she did as a child were common for everyone (extended family all going on a cruise together, or going to Hawaii for vacation, etc). Even now she would still be asking if I wanted to go somewhere on a vacation at some point, and it got to the point I had to set up a spreadsheet to show how many hours of vacation I would have at that point of the year (let alone who would be paying for this vacation).
I sort of get it. My wife is from a very wealthy family. My family were dirt poor. I had to pay my way through school and work for everything I have. My wife will just fly all over the planet and doesn’t have to work. Sometimes she doesn’t seem to get it if I have to work on a project and cannot do the same. Also, things like accrued vacation time. What, you can’t just take 3 months off and go to Europe?
The girlfriend didn’t understand why when I switched jobs I didn’t get to keep the same vacation benefits from the place I left (I had been there for 10 years, and was getting something like 45 days PTO a year). New place does accrual per paycheck, so I had to adjust to that, and then point out we’re trying to plan a two week trip to Europe next summer, so if that accrual isn’t at 80 hours when we take the trip, I can’t go.
For me, there’s the cultural divide as well. Americans work too much, so I hear.
My ex came from a family where they counted every penny, and her reaction was to overspend as soon as she got out on her own to make up for it. My dad was a very successful guy, but all his kids worked hard because there never was any free shit in the world according to him. Background matters, but there are lessons we all take from that. People react to this stuff differently I guess.
The scary thing is that her family thinks I’m really great with money because I do things such as save money, and have funds set up for different things (emergency, home improvement, vacation – hey it can’t all be responsibilities).
I like this guy’s advice for people like him.
Well said.
Well…..I knew some very, very rich kids in my younger days at school (both high school and college). Yes, it can be galling that some people, through no abilities or accomplishments of their own, had more money than they knew what to do with, and yes I could be envious of them at times. Ultimately, though, who said the world is fair? That’s life, deal with it.
As a high school teenager I spent a summer hanging out with a bunch of kids from rich and influential families, and it was a real eye opener. That was probably the unhappiest group of people I’ve ever known.
Coming from a poor family gave me the incentive to not want to be poor. To go to school, work extra hard, to save, etc. My two brothers were not quite so ambitious but there was never any jealousy/envy. I think there was some resentment though,among their wives, particularly when we were younger.
My ex was a flaunter though and it would piss me off.
Yep. Envy.
I came from a fairly well off family; at least for the Midwest. No overt displays of wealth like super expensive cars or vacations; but that’s wasn’t the way with my parent’s generation, at least around here. And you would never look at my dad and say: “I bet that guy is loaded” because, after years of wearing suits for work, he now dresses like a bum. And he drives Buicks (and before that, Oldsmobiles or 15 year old Cadillacs). He was always more interested in land and accumulating wealth than an extravagant lifestyle. And saving and investing. But he came from a poor family and grew up in a house without running water.
I’m afraid the lesson was kind of lost on me – I’m nowhere the saver or investor that he was.
At the dim sum place on Sunday, one of the carts was offering stuffed avocados. I had no idea there was such a thing as innovative dim sum.
FusionCultural appropriation!Am I evil for finding joy in this?
I define class rage pretty specifically.
“Better than me.”
That seems to be the driving force behind most people that like socialism Brooksie.
Stupid also factors in heavily. The ‘Tax the Rich!’ thing is easier to figure out. The part where they actually believe they’ll somehow benefit from that is the stupid part.
And in case you need to drink to blot out the horrors of Sugarfree, Paste has continued their ranking of the bottom shelf liquors. Up this time: Rye. There’s only 6 in this go around, and number 4 may surprise you.
I completely agree with Rittenhouse. It is an amazing rye for the price. And until a recent surge in popularity, it was even cheaper, sometimes as low as $16 here in Kentucky.
I’m going to need to pick some of that up, I’ve always gravitated towards the Bulleit since I enjoy the bourbon (and it’s at a great price point here). Checking the Ohio Liquor site, looks like Rittenhouse runs $26 here.
The Basil-Hayden Dark Rye is also very, very good. Sort of weird as an idea (high rye ticket smoothed out with port) but it is delicious.
Added that one to the list as well, that runs at around $45 a bottle up here.
I enthusiastically agree with Rittenhouse and Dickel. Both are very high quality Rye and great bargains. My “daily drinker” bottle rotates between those two and Bulleit.
I thought the Beam was “OK” and I haven’t had the other two. Will have to give them a try. Maybe I’ll go buy them both for my birthday present…or maybe I’ll buy myself a bottle of High West Rendezvous Rye….decisions, decisions.
I’ve found their bottom shelf blind ratings to have some value, it’s made me aware of some reasonable priced liquors that are solid. It doesn’t mean I’m going to give up the top shelf stuff, but it opens up more variety for mixing.
Dickel is very good.
Plus, Merle Haggard endorsed them, so that’s good enough for me!
I agree with putting Rittenhouse at #1. It’s a good rye neat and also makes a very nice Manhattan.
$25 is not bottom shelf, though.
My liquor store has plenty of stuff in the under $20 range (which is where the top of the bottom shelf lies, in my opinion).
The Rittenhouse non-bonded is cheaper, and good. Old Overholt non-bonded not as good.
Old Turkey Rye is in the range of that list and better than George Dickel, in my opinion.
They scale the price point per liquor tasted (to be able to get at least a modest selection). For gin and bourbon, it was $15; for scotch and rye, it was $25.
I was not told!
That there’s a new Man-Kzin Wars book.
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Is that like Bigfoot Erotica shit?
Never read Larry Niven? You poor man.
That’s the wrong tact to take. Also expressed by Spider Robinson as, “You haven’t read the Travis McGee novels yet, you have a great adventure ahead of you!”
Okay.
Start with Protector and proceed through Know Space stories. Then Ringworld and the Wars.
I love Protector but would start with a set of the short stories. Either Tales of Known Space or Neutron Star.
Or Flatlander, because who doesn’t love Sci-Fi detective stories?
And then take a side trip to Inferno.
I would start any Niven/Pournelle side trip with Mote.
I would probably start with Oath of Fealty. It’s a bit more self contained.
Footfall is another very fun stop not related to the rest.
Lucifers Hammer
All good options, but only one has the Heinlein cover blurb of “Possibly the best science fiction novel ever.”
Heinlein offered that based on them cutting most of the first section of the book out. So the references at the beginning to the space battle that took place just before the novel starts? Yeah, that was originally in it, they had to rewrite to merely refer to it.
But now it’s like, there’s a secret trust fund. Or a wealthy spouse. At my core, I believe that if you have money, your life is easier.
“If you’re so rich, why aren’t you smart?” comes to mind.
There is a person whose rich wife has allowed him to play “brewmaster” and swan around as if he is the next Jim Koch. He has dumped a very large pile of her daddy’s moolah into a new bar/restaurant location. The project has been a massive clusterfuck from day one. I foresee his life getting extremely messy in the not too distant future, and that life easing money will have been the cause of it.
*He is not a friend. Not even an “acquaintance” really. It has been my misfortune to be in the vicinity as he spews his vacuous imbecility to everyone in earshot.
**Some people like his beer. i think it’s low grade donkey piss.
Ouch. The brewing business is no longer kind to those who don’t make quality product, and have solid QA behind it. I think there’s still room for growth, but unless he’s setting up the brewery as a company to get acquired, it’s not a career to be raking in big bucks. Large setup costs (stainless ain’t cheap), government regulations (federal, state, and sometimes local), huge amounts of competition (more active breweries in the US since before prohibition), and logistical problems (it takes time for beer to ferment and carb up, and it doesn’t last forever) all add up to a difficult business to jump into.
That’s not even touching the restaurant side of things.
It can be a hard business if you do make good beer, if you make a few other bad business decisions along the way.
Then one thing I did right was make good beer. Everything else, not so much.
Yeah, it’s hard if you make good (or great) beer… if you don’t make good beer, it’s getting to be impossible.
Out of the ones that have closed up here, two of them had decent beer. One had a fire at their location, and couldn’t find another location in their budget so they just folded. The other were also doing a distillery, couldn’t make up their mind on how to market it, and (from what an old brewer there told me) had an eccentric brewing system that didn’t allow for a proper boil-off, so they had to use special malt (that was low in DMS precursors), driving up costs. The others all had… issues… with consistency and product.
OT: Why are these people not wearing orange jump suits and making license plates?
The same reason they’ll never be lined up against a wall when we get socialism. They’re the ‘right thinking’ people.
huge amounts of competition (more active breweries in the US since before prohibition)
It seems like another fucking “brewpub” opens every week. Montana’s liquor license quota system for bars is a total outdated mess. Of course, the people who already own licenses like the artificial constraint on supply, and squeal like stuck pigs every time anybody suggests adding more.
Brewpub licenses are a partial workaround, but hours of operation are limited, and there is a three beer limit (some proprietors seem to adhere to this rule more closely than others).
Here in Ohio, there are some breweries that opened up because while the rules are a pain in the ass and the license is expensive, if you got a brewery license it came with a limited full liquor license as well… even in a dry county/city (there’s a couple still hanging on in Ohio). A local journalist wrote up a list of all the breweries (at the time of the writing), and one of the breweries was a private country club that brewed the legal minimum to maintain their license each year. They were in a dry county, and this let them be able to sell liquor at the country club.
Drunks… uh… drunks find a way.
Salute!
OT: Alyssa Milano’s apology for labeling herself as ‘trans’ and ‘disabled’ backfires: ‘Playing the victim’
SJW’s attack Alyssa Milano for complaining about how SJW’s always eat their own.
“The media” has been publishing her every brain fart and she’s just now coming to the realization that it’s all just click-bait?
Deeerrrrrrrrp
“Every time those on the left eat one of our own, the Right sees this as an opportunity to discredit the entire progressive movement,” she added.”
But, what’s the problem?
She should have labeled herself as a shitty actress whose one redeeming quality might be sucking cock. That she could get away with.
“Every time those on the left eat one of our own, the Right
sees this as an opportunity to discreditpoints and laughs at the entire progressive movement,”Fixed that for you, sweetheart.
So what you’re saying is that the right pounces.
Two Fox shows loosing advertisers for upsetting the SJWs
Tucker has a great response:
So fucking tedious.
I’m sure you saw this – the left is simply progjecting, as they always do.
Quelle surprise.
This was better…
I do like how Tucker politely raised his middle-fingers to these censorous fucks.
OT (and soccer related): Looks like those of you who root for the German soccer teams may have some ability to stream their games in the future.
Fox does a halfway decent job in the US. Many Bundesliga 1 games are on cable and I believe all of them plus selected Bundesliga 2 matches are available if you pay extra for streaming. The situation is very similar for the English leagues and MLS too – and of course each one is on a different provider.
But yeah, it could be better.
I pay through the roof to watch La Liga on TV. I probably have every single English-language channel available through my cable company (other than HBO/Showtime and such) in my package to be able to add beIN Sports.
Real soccer always involves the occasional riot mixed in with extremist politics and regional stereotyping. Series A or bust
That’s why I watch cricket. The lower classes opt out of it.
And none too soon. I’m sick of hearing hipsters discussing their favorite English Premier League team.
Sounds like you’re channeling me.
But what about the global warming? I thought snow was a thing of the past.
Crews are now working to clear snow off of other buildings across the campus of Montana State University after two buildings suffered roof collapses just days apart.
A third building, one connected to both the North and South gym, is the focus.
The loss of both gyms and the closure of the Marga Hoseaus Fitness Center has raised concern among students, even their parents, all who find themselves looking up and asking questions.
Meanwhile, MSU officials say now the goal is clearing snow from other buildings, with what they are calling an abundance of caution.
“It is pretty crazy,” says Ben Kobrin, a junior at MSU and an Industrial Systems Engineering student. “The first thought that comes in your mind, of course, when you see a building on campus that has fallen down is, am I safe?”
First the South Gym, then the North Gym — two days apart.
Now, MSU officials say future safety is key, something students like Ben Kobrin agree with.
“Professor was talking the Monday before this happened about Montana State University is known for their snow load and their overall great problem-solving skills as an engineering school for snow loads and then that Friday, we had two roofs fall down,” Kobrin says.
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“MSU has been here 125 years and we haven’t had buildings fall in,” Becker says. “This has been an unusual winter. It’s an unprecedented situation and we are coping.”
Becker says while the emergency is over, this has been an eye-opener for the university.
Flat roof plus day after day of snow. What could go wrong?
Not much point in rebuilding. We’ll all be dead in
2010 years.Snow is melting here – right into my basement.
Way up thread: Discussion on whether money can make you happy, envy etc.
The reason you dont make a reloading table very large is that the available space will become cluttered with junk. The reason you dont buy a double cab pickup is because the extra space will fill up with junk…your truck will become a rolling dumpster. A giant walk-in closet will turn into a dumping ground to the point you wont be able to close the door.
According to this same principle expenditures will expand to gobble up all of your available money no matter how much that is. There is no such thing as a bottomless pit. You can blow a million bucks just like you can 10 bucks. The key to money making you happy is learning that you really dont need all of those sparkly things. Stop spending your money. If you have a roof over your head and food in your mouth then relax and be happy.
“A giant walk-in closet will turn into a dumping ground to the point you wont be able to close the door.”
This is exactly the reason I’m not buying that mega-yacht this summer. I hate clutter.
Wise decision. A boat salesman once told me if you want to find out how much a saltwater boat will cost you over 5 years triple the price you paid for it. Taking stacks of cash and tossing it into the air while exclaiming “Wheeeee!” is a better way to dispose of money.
A hole in the water you throw money into.
The family had a sailboat growing up.
“A boat is a hole the water into which you pour money”
And my personal favorite – “a sailboat is like a woman, the rigging costs more than the hull”.
I don’t even go into our giant walk in closet, anymore.
It’s scary in there.
I’m still buying that Yoder pellet grill tomorrow.
It will end up so full of meat that you won’t be able to close the lid.
I fail to see the problem.
It won’t be your meat?
You will love it.
I’ve had one for 2 years .
Try a pizza cooked on it.
I’m reading “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” right now in part because I’ve read other Glibs on here who speak highly of it. I gotta say I’m looking at money differently. Wealth is the length of time you can live off the proceeds of your assets. Expensive junk is just that.
I am notoriously asset rich and cash poor.
If I didn’t have kids, I’d be rolling in it, but between tuition, orthodontics, music lessons, food, etc…, they’re sucking the greenbacks right out of my soul.
The nice thing is those assets will still be there once they are grown. You’re so much better off than people like my brother where it’s the polar opposite. The fact that he a his wife always prioritize fleeting liabilities over assets will ensure he’s perpetually broke.
It is a measure of security, but for the most part, it’s tied up in the business. The game is one of delayed gratification by continuing to reinvest in the business. After a while, you begin to wonder if you wouldn’t be better off by taking more money out.
I hope that one day you look back on the times that you pinched pennies with satisfaction as you live off the profits of your business that you’ve been able to largely step away from. I for one feel really foolish that I’ve wasted so much time and money and have nothing in the way of assets. Plenty of cash saved up but nothing that is going to do anything but depreciate over time.
It’s not just expensive junk. It very quickly turns into dust collectors that take up space and one day you look at it and realize it is rusty crap you haven’t laid a finger on it in years.
Keep the money.
My parents have two large homes. The last time I attempted to talk my dad into selling one he cussed me out. They’re both about 80. The properties have sucked so much damn money over the past few years, it drives me nuts.
My in-laws are in the process of getting ready to downsize. My MIL is not exactly a hoarder but she’s been working on getting rid of things for about a year, and there seems to be little progress. She doesn’t so much have expensive toys as a lot of smaller things that were either “pragmatic” purchases or hold lots of emotional value to her. Nonetheless, I’d wager that all those smaller purchases have added up to a LOT of money over the years.
So what your saying is taxes are too low.
/feelthebern
So, the media in Brazil are blaming the shooting on the US. ‘They got this idea from the United States! This happens a lot more there!’.
Geez, someone in the United States did it. Was I not supposed to do that? Was that wrong?
I’m beginning to believe that the media is just a place where all the lowest life scum in society gather to feed off each other’s scumbaggery.
Blaming others is always easiest. The media has honed in on this and learned how to monetize it and we’re all worse off for it.
Well we (justice department) may have sent guns there…
“Fruit fucker” is now a thing on the Glibs.
Next we will be discussing fruit sushi fuckers?
It’s older then Glibs. Google it + Penny Arcade (it’s a long running webcomic). I would link to it, but I’m at work, on a work computer…
Divx was better.
We needed our own Fruit Sushi.
Yeah,… now.
And yet, despite the best efforts of Sugar Free & HM, we maintain the Family Friendly rating.
We’re obviously not working hard enough. If image posting was opened up for all users, I’m sure this site would become a banhammer shitshow within a day.
I was sure heating a cantaloupe up in the microwave would do it.
A nice warm pumpkin…
“Dammit! Is it after midnight already?”
Social Justice, baby!
It’s amazing how much the working class in the West has in common with the people of Venezuela. Both suffer under a corrupt establishment that imposes market controls that impoverish them while maintaining the same living standards for the wealthy.
Feature or bug? I keep saying it – our leftist elites love feudalism and hate the middle class.
“It’s not bourgeois when we do it”
/ Bernie, AOC, et al
“When they see the reality of their beautiful world of social justice and equality they wont like it very much. It is about power, nothing else.” – Yuri Bezmenov on why useful idiots are shot and starved
How many starving Venezuelans were cheering Chavez on 20 years ago?
The movie ‘Cuba’ is on my teevee right now. The best scene in the movie is where Batista and his brother are arguing over money and Batista says to the brother “What do you want? I give you all of the money from the parking meters in Havana!”
Cheap thugs. Mafia types. They are just petty criminals who have figured out the biggest racket is government. Power is all they care about. That is who they voted into office. Ours are no different, they just have a bigger cache to loot.
“How many starving Venezuelans were cheering Chavez on 20 years ago?”
Looks like I’ll have to be the one to write the “I Was Not A Chavista Merengue”
The Cubans were better off with the cheap thugs in charge. When the ideological crazy thugs took over, things got really bad.
For those that enjoy the body chopping stories… SF Is this guy related to you?
I started to click that link…then….hard pass.
I suppose the callousness of the surgeon tells you a little about the people willing to do that type of operation.
Oh, c’mon, man. If you are going to geld men and cut off boobs all day, you’d have to develop a sense of humor about it.
Which career option requires less commiseration with the clinically insane, trans-surgeon or state executioner?
My guess is that with the latter, you don’t have to pretend as much.
had been operating the since-deleted Instagram account, @sexsurgeon
You are a damn tease, Alex.
It was less of a tease and more of a threat.
I’m more surprised that Instagram has “secret” accounts, whatever those are.
“Oh, Pie,” he said. “It’s so lonely being me.”
“Yes, Mr. President,” she said, squirming as his hot McDonald’s breath rushed into her cleavage.
I am surprised none of my coworkers have asked me why I am sitting in my cubicle giggling.
They’re afraid to interact, because of the hot McDonald’s breath?
Nobody wants to get honked by her coworker.