Next year, bitches.
I hope all the Glibs had a good holiday. Happily, it was pretty uneventful here.
The Harbaughs got stomped on today by Ohio State. I’ll never forgive that guy for keeping Kaeperdick and trading Alex Smith.
People had birthdays today? Huh.
Hey Ralph, it’s called the Constitution, you cunte.
But the finances of Orangemanbad are totes, okay.
I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that no teams are interested in this cancerous tumor.
It used to be that they just stomped all over it, now it will kill you.
A little tune for your Saturday evening.
Still working on leftovers:)
Same here. I’ve finished the alcoholic leftovers at least. Tomorrow morning the plan is sweet potato pancakes, then walking up to watch the Browns/Stillers game.
I had some rum cocktails, Ommegamg Three Philosophers, Turkey sandwich, and pumpkin pie. Now drinking water and going for second energy surge.
My niece made a sangria for Thanksgiving. I filled a howler (32 oz) of it to reduce what she had to take home. That was killed last night. There was no pumpkin pie this year.
GF made a standing rib roast for dinner. Oh my, it was quite good. Gonna have some left overs from that.
“Nearly two dozen counties in Virginia have declared Second Amendment Sanctuary status ahead of Democrats taking control of the state legislature in 2020”
Molon Labe!
Colin Kaepernick will replace Nancy Pelosi.
And will lose the Dems the House like he lost his starting position to the school dweeb?
But the finances of Orangemanbad are totes, okay.
The senate just needs to request them for overviewing ethics in government or something…
” Death Toll Rising From Tainted Drug”
Must triple down on retarded policies, because drugs are bad m’kay.
Let’s sing it, everybody!
Tainted drugs/oh oh OH
Tainted drugs/oh oh OH
Once I ran to you/now I run from you
Finally we’re getting into a discussion of quality music here.
Rhy, if I had one of those friendship slap bracelets, I’d happily hand it over to ya.
I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that no teams are interested in this cancerous tumor.
I can maybe see Columbus day. But Thanksgiving? Isn’t that a celebration of common humanity?
That was two days ago.
Catch up, boomer. It’s a celebration of white supremacy and genocide now.
I draw breath as a white dude and it’s supremacist. I shop Walmart and it’s genocidal now. How can I tell what I’m supposed to atone for minute to minute?
The club in Berkeley we sometimes go to said it was closed for “Indigenous People’s Day” on Thursday. I guess already changing Columbus Day to that wasn’t enough? But at least it answered my inner question on Wednesday when someone said “enjoy the holiday tomorrow” and I wondered why anyone would be afraid to say “Happy Thanksgiving”.
I had a coworker wish me Happy Easter once, and then recoil in horror as she realized the unwoke gaffe she had perpetrated on me. This was almost two decades ago. Ain’t it grand what we’ve created for ourselves here?
We say “have a good shutdown” at my company instead of happy holidays or merry Christmas or happy hannukah or whatever. So dumb.
My thoughts. Wish someone Happy Haunnukah, Merry Christmas, or Happy Holidays. If you get offended by any of them you are the asshole.
I’m nonreligious so none of those are “my” holiday, but I can’t fucking imagine the mindset required to be offended that someone gave you a holiday greeting that doesn’t correspond to your own religion.
If someone wished me a happy Hanukkah, I’d just point at my stub-nose and say, ‘Not this goy’; but then again, I’m not racist, I just want to make people laugh.
So I’ve started a rewatch of B5, and just got to the first Mr. Morden episode. Let me just say again, this show works on so many levels.
I apparently need to revisit B5. I loved that series.
If you have Amazon Prime, you can stream it there.
Cool.
They’re the “enhanced” wide screen versions if you care.
/has the original versions downloaded on an external HD
I’m assuming they blocked the shows for 4:3 broadcast but actually filmed them in 16:9?
I believe they filmed them in HD, but the CGI can’t stand up to the modern day. I’m currently watching the episode that deals with sitting Shiva (which was the only introduction I had to the concept).
Wide Receiver at Colin Kaepernick’s Workout Gets Tryout With Cleveland Browns
🤣🤣🤣
Sweet, sweet karma.
LOL
More fuel for Kaepernick’s delusions.
They obviously only gave Veasy a tryout because he’s white.
For any Kapp supporters out there, I’ve got 2 words. Michael Bennett. See Michael was also a vocal blm supporter and knee taker. But he was also a sack master. Hence Seattle couldn’t afford to keep him, but they tolerated his shenanigans. See, starters can get away with more bs than third stringers. FWIW he also didn’t run around in Che shirts.
Also, Kap’s former teammate and kneeler Eric Reid
And Bennett agreed not to kneel in Dallas.
What’s this? Another thread?
It is another thread, the best thread. Bigly.
I got distracted painting a Tyrannid.
At least I’m 60% done with the Dictator Bee.
I HATE PAINTING ‘NIDS!
So amny irregular details with sharp or irregulat textures. And more spikes than Chaos.
Finally. Got all the claws, spines, and random details covered.
Now I wait for the first coat to dry and go back and clean up details.
I first read that as “I hate painting nads”
So far I’ve been able to not have to do that.
YAY!
Good enough for table top.
That looks awesome!
Thank you.
Should’t you be writing a sequel, Rothfuss?
Which one? Shadowfire? Fili Invictus? Junior Redemptioners? Red Ledger? Seven Gun?
Yes
Can you even name which of my books those are in-progress sequels to?
Shadow demon, No, The team one (something 8?)? No*, No*.
*One of those may be the Dug ‘Thickbottom’ Fitzhelen book but I thought it had a different name that I can’t be arsed to recall right now.
Pedantically, Shadowfire is the working title for the Travis-narrated Tarnished Sterling book after Shadowrealm, which was the Travis-narrated book after Snadowdemon so I’ll give that one to you.
Fili Invictus is the in progress sequel to Scintilla Vitae, a book I can’t monetize.
Junior Redemptioners is the narrative sequel to Lucid Blue, so you get partial credit, since it was a team book.
Red Ledger is the sequel to The Cure, my earliest book.
Seven Gun is a sequel to Cult of Steel (no link available).
The in-progress sequel to Beyond the Edge of the Map is On Unknown Shores.
Man, fuck that guy.
For someone with a reputation for hating anything fun, flavorful, or exciting you are certainly gifted artistically. So which part is the act?
The running gag accusing me of preferring bland and boring was spread by other people. Mostly because I only commented when I disagreed with the concensus.
What about the gloves?
I do have driving gloves, and nitrile gloves for cooking or spray priming. And Ifind those jokes funnier.
I was aiming for sincere compliment and meta joke about the running gag. I hope it came through that way.
Don’t worry. I appreciate the effort (and the compliment)
I don’t recall seeing the driving gloves when we met for lunch. Were you afraid you’d get bratwurst juice on them?
I left them in the glove compartment.
Why would I take the driving gloves out of the car?
UCS With THE FINISHER!
I umm…uh, yeah. Well, it was good seeing you.
A glass a day…
Well, you’re not quite adventurous either. I’d say it works to an extent; but there is a character to play, and you do play it well, and without hesitation. I say this as a good thing. It just makes me sad I didn’t think to present you with cheese eating gloves, that would have been epic!
That would have been funny.
UCS, is that some kind of carnifex mutation/cross-breed/evolution?
It’s a Hive Tyrant, base kit, wings and scything talons, using the on the ground feet instead of the flying feet.
Thaaat’s it! I never got into Tyranid back in my game store days…Or, any other time, for that matter.
Carnifexes(?) are some of the last remnants in my memory.
He is the gentle giant type. A simple man, who enjoys the simple things. I don’t know how he does that detail work with his giant mitts; when I do things like that I always feel like Lenny petting the bunny.
Damn. Wisconsin is taking it to Minniesoda.
Waiting for the OU v OSU game just because I hate OU. Not that I am a fan of OSU. It is just a big hate.
Ah yes, the battle to see who really is THE Ohio state university.
Hopefully they take the axe to OSU next.
Nope!
You know Uncanny Valley? Just had an old woman show up on my doorstep, saying she had just gotten out of the hospital, was the sister of my next-door neighbor, and wanted me to take her to get her rx filled and bring her back to sit and wait for her sister to get home. She had a hospital bracelet. I called the hospital. They couldn’t tell me anything bc HIPAA. Apparently someone in my neighborhood called the police (we were debating whether we should) (Mr. Mojeaux was getting ready to take her to Walgreen’s).
Thing was, she knew all the right names for my neighbor, so I believe she was her sister, but … I also don’t. She was all there mentally, but … not. It was like Uncanny Valley for mental health. She didn’t have her sister’s cell (neither do I). So many weird details, but so many of them plausible.
We just really didn’t know what to do, but the police took her. She was all there, but she was not all there, but not in any forthright way. Very disconcerting.
“apparently someone in my neighborhood called the police (we were debating whether we should)”
So, you wanted her or someone close to you, to die? Have we taught you nothing?
You’re semi-teasing, I know, but here’s my cop dilemma:
I have been stopped for speeding and treated with dignity, though I still got a ticket (sometimes). My son has been stopped on a hot day when he was out, for the cop to say it was too hot, ask him if he wanted a ride home, if he had water. Son said no because I’d flip my lid if he came home with a cop. There are other small experiences, none of which have ever been negative.
My dad hated cops because he often had to work against them in his line of work and the KCMO cops back then were selected FOR their sociopathy, not IN SPITE of it. I’ve grown up knowing cops were “bad.” I see the stories and cops are “bad.”
Yet my personal experience with them has never been anything but courteous, professional, and helpful.
It’s a philosophical dilemma for me.
You mean they’re human, just like the rest of us?
Except for with diplomatic immunity for murdering you because your cell phone looked like a gun or you interrupted their doughnut time.
I’m talking about the actual people, not the policies. I’ve worked with a number of different law enforcement agencies. They all had good people, and some turds. I’ve also worked with turd EMTs, turd Paramedics, and turd firefighters.
My dad also didn’t like firefighters, but that was mostly because of the percentage of disability calculator for each injury no matter how small.
I did have a friend who was a BLM firefighter (#BLM confuses the hell out of me) and he said it was the greatest welfare program ever. He bred Jack Russells in his off hours.
And again, it’s not the people, it’s the policies. I was a fire Captain and my dad was pissed as hell at some of the perks the local department received. Get pissed at the politicians that said, “okay” instead of the people who asked for something.
As for the BLM, they handle all the federal land that no other agency wants.
My Brother In Law is a firefighter, and did work as an EMS before that. I like him, and he and I will gladly argue politics for days. Yet we can both agree to disagree, pour a pint, drink, and walk away as friends. I like him (and I actually hope he likes me).
And again, my experiences with cops, EMS, and firefighters have been nothing but positive, even when I got cited for something. I deserved it, no question, but I was always treated with courtesy and dignity.
“Don’t get in the way of the narrative” is not just a prog vice.
That’s good to hear. There are turds in every profession. I’ve been threatened to be arrested because I wouldn’t open a lane on the freeway at an accident. I’ve given cops a ration of shit because they put somebody on a mental health hold because CYA. There was a small city I worked in as a medic that nobody trusted the police department because everybody knew they were as corrupt as hell. But the bad were far over shadowed by the good that actually cared.
Get pissed at the politicians that said, “okay” instead of the people who asked for something.
Why not both?
Spudalicious: My BIL has a fun story he’s told about cops stopping in the fire house, and being scared and upset that they’re eating baked goods that were given to them. His story ends with him saying, “We’re firefighters, people are glad when we show up.”
No kidding. It ain’t easy being the public conscious. People like firefighters for the most part. I put on weight every holiday season, just because of the food that kept showing up at the front door.
@Hype
Then you should also be pissed at everyone who’s ever asked their boss for a raise.
Then you should also be pissed at everyone who’s ever asked their boss for a raise.
If those people’s bosses are using the violence inherent in the system to fund those raises then you’d be right, but since most people’s raises/compensation aren’t based on ‘how much can we squeeze from the public coffers’ I’d wager I’m safe only being pissed at teachers,cops,politicians,postal workers,street/water/sewer department employees, park/DMV workers, and firemen.
Spudalicious: My BIL is willing to argue with me about public unions, and will still willingly invite me over to his house. He actually asked me for recommendations for anti police reads that weren’t just hatred for cops. I recommended Balko (it was back in the day). I believe he respects my opinion, and I respect his.
It’s interesting, Neph. I was a conservative serving on a union executive board. I went against my values several times, because I was elected to represent the will of the majority, not my own views.
Spudalicous: My BIL’s main defense was that it took the decisions out of the hands of the worst elected officials to something agreed upon from both parties. The area he’s in charge of has been safe for a long time, and I like him enough that I don’t want to cause problems when I’m a guest.
yeah, well, when a guy handcuffs you, searches your car, impounds it (costing around 500-1000 bucks) and then takes you to a concrete box and hits you with a bogus made up charge like exhibition of speed (again costing you around a grand) and all because you have long hair, tattoos and were driving a souped up ’66 chevelle, it’s always a cop. Other people just don’t do things like that, like, NEVER! The entirety of the population who would consider this stuff is made up entirely of cops. I know some of them are cool, and they’re just people like anyone else, but they do shit like that everyday. They jack single mom waitress types out of thousands of dollars based solely on a flawed opinion.They “adjust” evidence whenever they feel like a bad guy might not get convicted. I can’t speak for the whole country, but here in L.A. it happens everyday and it’s happened to me prolly a dozen times. Straight out lies, because I “looked” like somebody who oughta be guilty. I’m out of the window, age wise, now but in my twenties, it was a weekly occurrence. You want respect? Don’t do that shit.
Yes.
My dad wasn’t wrong. He lived in fear they would plant drugs in his car in retaliation. Lots of stories, and lots of stories now that my dad would say, “See? Totally out of control.”
And there’s Balko.
Yet … none of it jives with my experience.
“My dad wasn’t wrong. He lived in fear they would plant drugs in his car in retaliation.”
They actually got caught at this once in Baltimore. Probably out the hundreds or thousand of times they got away with it.
They’ve been caught doing that and worse out here numerous times. They told some gangbangers that a girl snitched on them ( she didn’t) to try and trick them into confessing and they killed her dead. She was like 15 y/o. The hit was odered via jail phone call. It was recorded but no one listened and she got no warning. Yeah, I kinda dislike them, some.
Sorry, the bangers killed her for “snitching.”
And, if you had taken her to the pharmacy, se may have taken all the right pills.
This is my contribution to this particular thread.
/ahem
She probably threw heavenly parties and paid heavenly bills.
::points at Mojeaux and taps nose, but, not for cocaine::
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie.
I’ve met and been friends with good cops. Heck, my brother is about to go to academy if he can make it through the behaviorals.
Just like anybody else with authority/power, I try to avoid cops’ notice, because I dont get to choose whether I’m interacting with a good one or a bad one.
Yep. They’re like pit bulls. 95% are nice and friendly. It’s the other 5 that will fuck up your shit without a second thought.
As a long haired punk, I never had a good encounter with any cop. My one time getting arrested (for a DUI) had the police report saying I was both cooperative, and uncooperative (in the same paragraph).
Since my heads been shaved, the cops treat me much better, which irritates me in different ways.
I never had any experience with them growing up, that was not positive. I remember seeing them on street corners when I was little kid and they would talk with us. I thought there are good guys who protect you from the bad guys. I never heard of cops killing innocent people. Maybe it happened, just there was no internet or social media back then.
First time I remember anything negative, I was living in KY working on a construction project and my cousin was visiting down from Cincy.
He had went to the store to pick up some stuff and a cop followed him right into our driveway. The cop comes up to the driver side window and says ‘Hey hippy, where’s the dope!?’. So my cousin says ‘I don’t have any dope’. That was when I came out of the house and approached, and the cop says ‘You know this dirty hippy dope smoker!?’. And I said ‘That’s my cousin’. And the cop says ‘I’m watching ya’ll, I better not find any dope around here!’. All of this I guess because of the Ohio plates and my cousin had long hair.
Haven’t really had much experience with them since, I avoid them like the plague.
I ran in different circles when I was younger. Hair down to my waist, full on hating authority. Getting pulled over on a regular basis only helped to feed that hate. Now I look like a respectable person, and people are more shocked when I mention that I dislike cops.
When I was younger, poorer, drove shitty cars, and had longer hair, I had more encounters with the cops and a significant number were unpleasant. There were a few where the cops were professional.
Now I’m older. I have a bigger bank account. I drive a nice car. I have short hair. I can’t remember the last time I had dealings with a cop other than having to renew my pistol license. Thanks to NH moving to Constitutional Carry, I might not have to do that anymore. I might do it so I have a piece of paper for reciprocity purposes for when I travel to PA or NC.
I grew up in a tiny town where all the cops, including the chief, would routinely stop into our house in the evening because they knew there would be a pot of coffee and a chess game available. I had nothing but positive interactions with them growing up.
When I lived in LA, I was part of a circle of homicide cops who hung out at a bar where I played music. Nothing but positive interactions.
When I lived in the middle of nowhere, I also worked Fire/EMS so knew all the cops at all level of jurisdiction, and taught a bunch of them. Nothing but positive interactions.
THEN a newly minted State Trooper from the city was assigned to our district, and made it a point to harass me when a fellow city dweller with a hunting camp up the road from my house claimed I had discharged a weapon at his semi-feral dogs (I had not, because if I had, I would have hit them and they would have been dead). Nothing but negative interactions with that guy. Apparently I wasn’t the only one, because he was transferred shortly thereafter.
When I lived in Santa Fe, I was back to nothing but positive interactions, including the guys who trained in BJJ at the same studio as WebDom.
And, I’m happy to say, no interactions with them in the last 10 years, except once when a nice female cop neighbor delivered a package to our place when it was mis-delivered to hers.
But don’t get me started on the way my son, Captain America, was treated by the City of Rochester, NY cops under a bullshit firearm law.
Captain America was fucked up royally by the cops.
I understand Spud’s point, but… even if 90% of cops don’t act like turds (and my experience has been very mixed), when one of them is on the line for being a turd, even a murderous turd, nearly 100% will get behind him. And 100% of the unions. I cannot forgive that.
If I ask my boss for a raise, but I’m paying him off as well, we have a word for that, starts with “b.” The public employee unions are all major political donors, which sorta makes the whole process innately corrupt.
Public unions do not make sense.
They do if you look at them as the money-laundering operations they really are.
^this^
Unless we want to concede that a tax payer funded entity should be able to vote themselves more money, from us.
They should be disbanded, forever.
Even FDR was against public unions.
Hey Ralph, it’s called the Constitution, you cunte.
This shit is going to end very poorly. Is Northam gonna send state troopers and/or the national guard to enforce his bullshit laws?
No, they’ll just give up their rights willingly, so he won’t have to.
I really hope that they stand their ground. Shit’s gonna get bad fast if/when they don’t.