Hi guys, happy Friday. Mine involved some phlebotomy (not for a hostile DUI evidence gathering), and a bunch of sales meetings. I fear I’m becoming on of “them”. I suggested on a call that they put our presentation (37 slides for a 30 minute preso? not bloody likely) on some branded thumb drives for the potential client, and got accused by my boss of being “sales” — a strong negative from a “delivery” guy. And then we laughed. Enjoy your weekend.
AOC, union champion, fails to pay dues to the organization who helped her get elected. Why should she give them her hard begged money?
You’ve probably all seen The Bee, but fuck hatebirds, the birds that hate! Noah is rightly pilloried by America’s New Source
A new Subaru FUCKS edition Forester is just begging for a Subaru House of Horrors appearance.
Pretty horrific crash here in local news. Some pool guy, drunk as a lord at 11:30 in the morning hit a jogger and sent them over a railing and into the bay. What a fuckhead. No happy endings here, the jogger was dead when local good citizens jumped in to help him.
HAH!
Karla Marx is a gift.
And hopefully one who will keep on giving.
Do you think she does this shit on purpose? Are the people around her actually this big of a pile of idiots that they encourage her to do shit like this? Do any of them see what it does to their image and to reinforce the belief that they are all asshats others have?
I think she does it on purpose. She seems to like riling Pelosi. Trying to ride that anti-establishment Dem wave.
I might have to donate money to her campaign. She is a gem.
In keeping with UCS, she is a germ.
I prefer my entertaining morons to not be in politics. Politics should be so boring that it takes up less than 5% of the news.
This! I come here to drool on cars.
I encourage her efforts to tear the Democratic Party apart.
She can try, but that’s one stubborn donkey.
“Aside from the head-turning name, Top Gear Philippines reported the car features “striking blue body paint” and red accent lines down the side.”
It’s also ugly.
I’d have to defer to a lesbian’s opinion, it is a Subaru after all.
I mix the wrx wagon.
Looking forward to the FUCKS WRX?
You know it!
AOC, so stunning, so brave. We need leaders with that kind of gumption! No Malarkey!
If it doesn’t come with the STI engine as standard, I don’t want to hear about the F—ks it gives.
But is it worthy of an STi engine? It’s a Forester, after all.
I’m all about that big ass.
I prefer the anime edition.
Those aren’t anime tiddies, these are anime tiddies.
Lyrics NSFW.
What is the links picture on the front page?
Its red wine spilled on drywall.
Outsider art.
You can call it art. I’ll call it what it is.
I thought it was the remains of Gwyneth Paltrow’s new candle.
Google image search says ‘Lox’
“According to Tampa police, 31-year-old Benjamin Ehas’ blood drawn at the hospital showed Ehas had a BAC of .234”
OK, that’s actually drunk, but .08 is bullshit.
“One drink = 1.5 ounces of 80-proof liquor, 12 ounces of 5% beer, or five ounces of 12% wine.”
According to this chart .08 is only 2 or 3 drinks.
https://dui.drivinglaws.org/drink-table.php
Keep in mind that the .08 limit is only a “limit”. In most areas, you can be convicted of a DUI/OVI with a BAC lower then that. The .08 limit is just an automatic lose.
That’s retarded.
That’s the way it is here. .08 and over is presumed intoxicated. You can be convicted below that if you exhibit signs of intoxication while driving.
In this day and age, if you drink and then get behind the wheel, you’re rolling the dice. Call an Uber or Lyft.
I believe every state but Utah has 0.08 presumptive limit. Utah is 0.05.
So like a six pack of Utah beer with dinner before driving.
Don’t forget to factor in weight and time, though.
A 200-lb man with three ‘drinks’ would technically go up to .09, but if it took an hour to drink them all, then subtract .015 — so the BAL would only be .075, under the .08 limit. If it took two hours to drink three drinks, you’d go all the way down to .06!
Those charts annoy me because there are quite a few variables affecting the rate at which alcohol is metabolized, and the amount which is being consumed and too many people take them as gospel. Completely ignoring the metabolic factors, unless you are drinking standard strength bottled beer you don’t really know how exactly much alcohol you have consumed. With .08 limits the only safe course is never to drive when you have had any drink at all.
It always makes me cringe when I see work trucks parked at bars. Sure, the dude might be having a coke, but it looks bad.
OK, I get that truck drivers shouldn’t drink on the job. The way the law is, you can go out to dinner, split a bottle of wine with your wife, safely drive your way home, and lose your license.
Oh, I totally agree. The DUI laws are just a fucking money grab.
I’m just talking about having your company trucks, with logos, etc., parked in front of a bar.
“What do you mean it looks bad?”
“You’ve got your company truck parked in front of a bar during the day! How can it not look bad?”
“I work for a distillery.”
Kids these days. You stash your logoed truck around the corner in an unrelated lot.
Magnetized door signs.
*repeatedly fails to get the sign to stick to plastic door panel*
I thought you said you always have duct tape?
But the magnets are supposed to hold it on their own.
If things worked as they are supposed to we wouldn’t need duct tape.
What work truck has plastic door panels?
Oh, I totally agree. The DUI laws are just a fucking money grab.
Yup, it’s in line with government thinking. Find a problem, criminalize whatever is measurable, and proceed to ruin lives.
If drinking and driving is wrong, then why do bars have parking lots?
Sounds like a caliber, not a blood alcohol level.
.234 BAC… hrmm
If it’s legal for deer hunting, you’re plastered.
Another Democrat was less diplomatic: “Deadbeat Cortez should pay her bills,” complained the Democratic source. “She’s always whining about people paying their fair share and here she is leaving her friends with the bill.”
She’s that chick who tags along to the nice restaurant with you and your friends, guzzles drinks, orders something really expensive, and then doesn’t throw any money into the pot, because she’s “cute”.
I was about to quote that part too. I’m surprised she’s not expulsed from the party, she’s a DSA candidate, and i wonder if she thinks she’s really that safe.
Either way i thought it was interesting that she’s raised “Millions”, but rest assured if anyone else had millions from voluntary purchases and donations -> That is evil.
There is no way she’s raising that kind of scratch from her constituents. It’s not a wealthy district by any means.
I’d be surprised if she was getting any funding from within her district.
She leaves early cause there is a some emergency, and she doesn’t leave any money..
After lamenting that women only make 77 cents on the dollar compared to men.
No surprise. That is what communists always look like. The guy in charge of doling out daily bowls of gruel jaunts around the world in a private jet to the most expensive hotels.
And that’s after she suggests just dividing the check evenly, instead of breaking it down by person. Because “it’s simpler this way”.
/insert Mystery Men clip here
Bitch got alligator arms, yo.
That some good crispy duck!
Lol. I’d forgotten that commercial.
I had a business associate who deliberately got a discover card for his expenses so he could avoid having to occasionally pick up checks at work dinners when we were all together for two weeks for an auction. Half the restaurants we went to didn’t take it never always find a reason to go take a piss when the check came at the places who did. He said he just didn’t want to have to fill out his expense reports.
It was a shrewd move. I got called to the mat more than once on dinners where we spent well over $250/head and had a lot of people attending. He never did once, although he was always in attendance ordering high end wine or booze.
What a fucking jerkoff.
It’s like Tony Blair’s education in socialism when he was a waiter in Paris. The waiters were supposed to put their tips in a jar to be shared with the entire staff. After a while he discovered he was the only one putting money in the jar.
Her coworkers accused her of stealing/hoarding tips.
No idea if it’s true, but it’s very believable.
I remember reading an article/interview with her which touched on her leaving her bartender job. According to her, management was so happy for her.
My first thought was, “No, they’re happy they’re rid of you.”
OT: I ran into this gemearlier today and I think it made the insanity that these people now have towards him a lot easier to understand.
Those never get old. Now they all pretend it never happened….along with the 10 million other times they were dead wrong.
Those of you who were around TOS 15? or so years ago might remember me railing that the establishment class is corrupt as hell, completely incompetent and needs to go. they are parasites and fuck up everything they touch.
I never dreamed we would get a Donnie Two-Scoops and it sure is damned fine to watch.
I didn’t think he’d win either, but I knew he had a chance when I found out my then 17 year-old daughter was following him on Twitter.
This is awesome. The first time I’ve seen this video. I’ve been saying it for several years now that the fact that Trump revealed in the most humiliating fashion that the political class was totally wrong is a huge factor why they can never forgive him.
The December 2015 cover of the Reason magazine had half a dozen of Republican presidential candidates. Matt Welch wrote that he picked only those who had a somewhat reasonable chance to win the nomination. Trump wasn’t on the cover.
Beautiful. Especially the “celebrity” dipshits.
“Hopefully, we will start to get away from this circular firing squad,” said Cuellar, who paid all his dues to the DCCC, records show.
Don’t bet more than you can afford to lose on that horse.
The official Twitter account of the Socialist Party of Great Britain is posting some very silly “that’s not real socialism!” stuff.
That is pretty awful….
I’m speechless.
I go to the box now, and feel shame.
Happy now?
Wow.
LOL. The obvious solution is to install an economy that doesn’t have money you can throw at health care.
It reminds me of all the British people on the Internet who love to smugly go “Nah, my healthcare is free.”
No, you moron, your healthcare cost is 20% or so of your total tax burden, because thats what the UK government spends on healthcare. If you are a net contributor to the State, then 20% of your net contribution is your annual healthcare cost.
Maybe thats a win for you, maybe its not, but its not free. It just comes out of your taxes.
Look at our own Ted’S jumping into the fray.
That is also not a real link, just sayin’
You SF’d the link, bro.
Money-dependent statism and genuine socialism are very different.
At least they know you can’t get money prices in a true socialist society…..
Ocasio-Cortez says she has beef with the DCCC and she’ll withhold her money in protest of how the Democratic Party won’t back insurgent progressive primary candidates, like herself, in the name of protecting incumbents.
Can’t wait to hear her opinion when DCCC funds a primary challenger….
Rumour has it that the state party is going to redistrict her out of congress when NY loses a seat after the census.
When life hands you lemons…squirt the juice in the eyes of the people who you dislike
I have bell peppers, chorizo, mini tater tots… something’s missing.
Melted cheese.
…. I’m out of cheese!
How did that happen?
Check under your foreskin.
Onions, some hot peppers, and cheese.
Liquor.
Roast the peppers, deep fry the tots, and cook the chorizo. Combine them all in a skillet. Dump the skillet in the garbage. Order a pizza.
You’re welcome.
We already know the two of us do not agree on food.
In other words, you’re wrong.
My pork shoulder was so damn big I had to use two slow cookers. So now I can make one extra spicy and the other a bit more bland for the kiddos.
Everybody gets the same charro beans though. I don’t allow anybody else’s tastes to dictate how those are made…since I make them too good to criticize for any possible reason.
In fact, shit, I need to start sautéing the bacon, garlic, and shallots to get it going so it’s ready by 6 or so. The mise en place has been done for a while, so I’ve got a bit of time to hack around if I want.
The guacamole has already been made and won’t last until dinner, but that’s ok. I got my share before the kids got home from school.
Are you talking about food or anatomy?
Sour cream
eggs
Cabbage
You are missing fried eggs, diced onions, and New Mex red sauce.
Cook everything but the fried eggs and sauce in a hash in a frying pan. Cook the eggs sunny side up (runny yolks, por favor), put the fried eggs on top of the hash , douse in red sauce.
You’re welcome.
How the fuck does she get on committees without an ante? Big tits?
Yes.
I’m surprised she’s not expulsed from the party, she’s a DSA candidate, and i wonder if she thinks she’s really that safe.
According to her interview the other day (solly no linky), if anybody needs to be drummed out of the party, it’s Middle-of-the-Roaders like Joe.
I believe she believes that, cause i believe she believes that the Democratic can maintain strongholds by tacking left. It is foreign to her that even some Dems are opposed to what she believes and while they may not vote GOP they won’t vote for a candidate like her.
Friday Funbags puts the NaN in onanism.
http://archive.is/aS6iL
Not a bad collection.
Can’t wait to hear her opinion when DCCC funds a primary challenger….
Like the guy she beat? I think the actual constituents of that district miss him.
*I forget his name, and I’m too indolent to look it up; enact my labor, wouldja somebody?
Neil Peart is dead at 67.
Fuck
Damn it, I had a premonition about Rush on the Dead pool this year, that sucks…
That’s pretty young. He must have been in a rush.
Always tried to steal the limelight.
He was in a fish-eye lens.
By-Tor and the Snow Doggone it!
He couldn’t keep Working, Man.
Do you think at the funeral they will display a montage of touching images.
That was pre-peart, you lose.
Fuck. That’s just awful. Brain cancer. And he’s been dead for three days.
He really stayed out of the media after Rush’s final tour. I’m not surprised it took some time to announce his death.
Some years back he lost his wife and then his daughter. He remarried and had another kid. He had said some things about enjoying his family once they were off the road. He was denied the time he hoped for.
His daughter announced his retirement. She introduced him at school as an ex-drummer and he realized, yeah I guess I am done.
Dammit.
Funeral to be held at the Temple of Syrinx ?
Neil was also a pretty hard-core long distance motorcyclist.
Much respect – both for the percussion and the thrumming.
I suggested on a call that they put our presentation (37 slides for a 30 minute preso? not bloody likely) on some branded thumb drives
Of course, security conscious firms don’t even allow thumb drives to be plugged into or function on work computers.
I like to leave thumb drives in offices that have an auto executable to email me when someone plugs it in…
Ok, i don’t do that, but it would be funny….
Verboten!!!
I’ve always though that an outfit that was serious about security would fill USB ports with silicon caulk before PCs are handed to users. Or epoxy. Is epoxy conductive?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Yeah, I just came by to see how everybody was reacting.
I was never a huge Rush fan, but you gotta admit, the guy had some serious skills. And he was also their lyricist, from what I recall.
RIP.
Damn, now I know why people get all choked up when their celebrities die. I’m a little hurt in the feelz.
Okay, a lot hurt.
Pfft, none of y’all cared when I posted that Mike Resnick died last night, so you get no sympathy from me.
I hate to admit this, but… I had never heard of him before this morning.
I haven’t felt this sad about an author’s death since George Macdonald Fraser died.
Well now you both know how the Iranians felt when General Salami left his mortal coil, and you all cheered!!!
How many terror attacks did these celebrities I’ve never heard of enact?
I’m still cheering, I am just crying at the same time.
Salami? SALAMI?! Baloney.
I cared!
True and you posted a quote showing you knew who he was, although I don’t think Santiago was his best work.
Santiago was my introduction to his work, and it really, really affected me.
Did you read his Galactic Comedy?
JF, I looked him up because I hadn’t heard of him. Pretty prolific, but somehow I missed his scifi in my younger years. Is there one book that is quintessentially “him” that you would recommend?
I’ll read it on your say-so and let you know what I think.
What Ozy said. I’ve been looking for some sci-fi
I liked “The Outpost.” A bit of a Rashomon-in-space.
No. I’ll check it out.
He is Kiplingesque. His fiction takes frontier themes of outsized figures, hunters, bounty hunters, criminals etc. and plays against a Science Fiction background. If you want to start with one book, I’d recommend Kirinyaga, which is a story collection.
What? No!
This year sucks.
Well, at least we still have Lou Reed.
So as I was going to say before I found out that Neil Peart died…
TPTB, my friend Tulpa is awaiting a pending comment.
Got it, thx
YYZ belongs to the heavens now.
Eating their own: When Feminism Functions as White Supremacy
True feminism has the power to transform society, but too often what is advanced as feminism is actually White supremacy in disguise – a counterfeit we sometimes call White Feminism. White Feminism exists to promote the comfort and safety of middle-class and affluent White women.
Sounds like a bunch of Scottsmen. Or not.
It’s not complete bullshit, feminism is largely run by affluent white women.
Particularly white women who claim to speak for PoC as “allies” because I guess they need to save women of color or something something white savior complex something.
Yep, and its run by the leftist establishment. Feminism, INC, is just the DNC painted pink.
One of the biggest, if not the biggest and most important female led movements in America today is the school reform movement, which is built on poor and middle class black women doing their very best to break the strangehold the teachers unions and the educational bureaucracy has on their children’s education. These women, many of whom are single mothers, are taking on the entrenched powers that be to fight for a better future for their children.
How many stories about them do you see on the news, versus the latest “pretty white girl in the office had to deal with boorish behavior from a client.” story of the day?
Yeah, it’s like what Rhywun says about “political gays” or the queer movement.
“pretty white girl in the office had to deal with boorish behavior from a client.”
I saw that documentary.
Jokes on them since they keep voting for the teacher union selected Democrats that won’t change shit.
Sounds like a bunch of Scottsmen.
They both have hairy legs you don’t like seeing in skirts.
Well they are liberals
https://babylonbee.com/news/liberals-urge-nation-to-respect-minorities-opinions-until-those-opinions-contradict-them
“The #metoo movement included a responsibility for privileged women to stop victimizing men of color, many of whom have been lynched, beaten, incarcerated, and electrocuted on the false whisper of a White woman.”
Beautiful trolling
A… careless whisper?
You’re still suffering that earworm?
Turn a different earworm and we never would have met
Hopefully the good version
https://youtu.be/zALiyJ02k_Y
Disappointed, I am.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt8lViuzILg
I was really hoping for this
No, I’m good. Or was. Just triggered by that line in the quoted text.
So oppressed:
Monnica T. Williams, Ph.D., ABPP, is a board-certified clinical psychologist and Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut.
Monnica, with two Ns, she can’t be real.
*let the racism flow through you*
Her fourth-quarter fundraising is even bigger. Her campaign nearly hit its goal of raising $2 million in the final three months of 2019 from online donors from every state. That amount puts her 2019 fundraising at more than $5 million, a groundbreaking amount for the youngest female ever elected to Congress.
Dark munny! She sent it all back, right?
RIGHT?
“AOC, union champion, fails to pay dues to the organization who helped her get elected.”
She also just bought a $3,000 dog. Not a very smart move for someone who couldn’t afford rent a year ago.
Yeah, PETA is not happy about that.
She can always kill it and get back in their good graces.
So it’s not all bad.
I hope she got a pure breed, so she can have fun stopping it and asking it for its papers.
I bet she got a girl so she can say “Your MY bitch now!”
She name it Nancy?
Is she that clever?
Look The market has decided that dogs deserve more time with babies than Moms do, so clearly she had to pay for a ridiculously expensive Dog to show her solidarity for hate of the market…..
I dunno
for an inbred animal with health issues, nice, Asshole…
she believes that the Democratic can maintain strongholds by tacking left.
College kids and their professors
Gender dysphorics
and, uh, uh, some politically active subset of teh womynz.
That should be enough put them over the top.
Every day I become further convinced that the Democrats WANT Trump to be re-elected.
It’s the only explanation for their recent pro-Mullah policy.
Trump maneuvering Dems into defending Iran might just finally convince me that he really is some kind of master strategist
It’s more so that they’re just so fucking dumb, and they’ve never had to deal with a Republican POTUS that wasn’t the controlled opposition.
It’s become abundantly clear at this point that the pre Trump Republican Party really was the Washington Generals. Trump joined the team, basically by force, and started actually making good shots, going up for the ball the ball off the glass, and hustling on defense.
Good analogy. However, do the kids today even know who the Washington Generals are?
Yeah. Its a hockey team.
That really is a pretty good analogy. The ‘Pubs were supposed to lose from now on forever ‘cuz ‘demographic inevitability’ and then the Big New York Cheeto shows up and starts acting like they can actually win. What a douche.
Trump maneuvering Dems into defending Iran might just finally convince me that he really is some kind of master strategist
Given how many times he’s stuck his foot in his mouth, I don’t think he’s a master strategist so much as a master troll. He presses all the buttons, and having figured out which ones give the best reaction goes back and presses them again. The fact that this is successful speaks to the lack of strategy in his opponents.
He’s playing checkers with idiots.
I am starting to think he is less stupid than I had believed, and that the momentary gaffs are just that he doesn’t focus group and bounce ideas off advisers to reach consensus. He has a thought, throws it out to see what happens, then follows up the results if he thinks the opposition is silly or drops it cold if he doesn’t. Frankly I do the same sometimes so I can’t very well dismiss that technique.
I think the world might run better if we did some more of this. It requires that you not dig in your heels and twist reality to rationalize your errors, but you learn more from people disagreeing with your ideas than you do from agreement
I am starting to think he is less stupid than I had believed
I’ve said it before – commercial real estate is a brutal, cutthroat business. It eats fools for breakfast. You don’t survive, much less thrive, in that business unless you are cunning and, at a minimum, pretty smart.
I’m tempted to live tweet Oracle shitting the bed in this software demo meeting of 7 hours. But I don’t have twitter.
I’d be interested in whatever highlights you can share.
They made the shortlist for our software selection. We gave them annonymized (sp?) data to build a model to demo the software using our data, along with an agenda of points we want them to address and functionality to show. We’re working with consultants to make the selection as the area is pretty niche. I hope you aren’t one of them. So far:
* They showed up, without telling us until yesterday, with a consultant from a different selection and implementation consultancy.
* After promising that he was simply there to provide concessional color, he’s basically done most of the demo.
* He’s in a suit he apparently bought at the airport as the sleeve still has the tag, and the vents haven’t been cut. And we’ve had a view of his back for an hour as he “demos” a function by constructing it, poorly, on the fly without really explaining well what he is doing.
* Their presentation has been lackluster. Other two vendors were great, had us engaged. About half my score card is either Did Not Rate because they didn’t demonstrate the functionality or it’s been glossed over, or they can’t do it.
* Our end users did not like them one bit. Multiple comments about them being both arrogant and unprepared.
* We aren’t seeing our data, and what has had our data has been hilariously wrong.
* They should have had an ‘in’ as they are a favored vendor of IT that provides some of our core software.
Three months later: “how did we end up Oracle???”
LOL. Been there.
#metoo.
God willin’ and the creek don’t rise I hope not. I”m doing all I can to go with Vendor 2 and not Oracle.
Preach.
Oracle is bloatware.
Nope, not one of the vendors or involved parties. 😉
I’m retired. I have a friend who worked for them up until a few years ago. I never quite ‘got’ what made them so special. (Insert shrug glyph).
Most of my work was Smalltalk, then Smalltalk + GemStone.
Then a handful of Ruby on Rails + POSTGRES + geospatial stuff.
Fun, but I’m done. I may pick ST back up after I get a new machine, but we’ll see.
I love Smalltalk – it was one of my first interests when I started teaching myself into a career a couple decades ago – but I wound up in a Microsoft shop so… yeah.
Yeah, it was great while it lasted.
I can point to at least 2 big decisions that, had they been made differently, would have changed the course of Smalltalk history:
1). ParcPlace declined a deal to put a copy of Smalltalk on every Sun workstation sold
2). GemStone declined to follow through on their GeODE, GemStone OO Development Environment, that put the x-windows framework in a GemStone
sigh. The worlds that might have been ;-\
Dell sent us a sales team that had literally been handed our account 1/2 hour before our initial meeting. They were trying to read the RFP during the meeting.
I’m chuckling.
Neal Peart is dead.
https://twitter.com/CBCAlerts/status/1215738468795650054
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quBCjo2rUZg
Light a candle at the Ron Paul alter tonight
Dammit.
Did drugs fall out of his ass when he died?
Who is this person, did he play for the Washington Generals?
I lol’d pretty good at that one.
Stupid Skype for Business. Some idiot turned off the offline message feature and idiots are using that to IM instead of picking up the phone. Hey jackass, there’s a reason I’ve been Away for two hours. To top it off, it always some stupid leading IM “I’ve got a quick question” or “are you busy right now?”. How about just making your fucking request and let me deal with it when I can?
Also, I don’t know if I’m shooting my balls to drug my ass, but Marianne Williamson is out.
” says she didn’t want to make it tougher for a progressive to win”
Bernie Sanders and Warren can rest easy..
You magnificent bastard…..
Wow, the first caucuses is in just three weeks.
Now I don’t know who to vote for.
Oh no! Marianne Williamson is dropping out.
Did you here Neal Peart died?
Thank God that Lou Reed is still with us.
It’s just not my day
No; I there Neil Peart died. :-p
Yeowch.
Watever
I heard drugs fell out of his ass.
And the Cleveland Browns let him down.
Hermits with internet connections? Sounds like Glibs.
Great band name.
Hermits With WiFi
Ouch. I bet we’ll see a lot more of this.
Damn.
Gilmored
“Gywneth Paltrow’s Goop is selling a candle called “This Smells Like My Vagina.” But does it … really?”
https://twitter.com/TheCut/status/1215334456527085569
Hehe.
Neil Peart died.
Lou Reed is still around, right?
I heard he recovered
Why is it always the drummer?
Because the lead singer dies young of autoeroticasphixia?
Didn’t see Tulsi’s post. Sorry.
Thank god we can turn to Steve Irwin for solace. Otherwise this would be a stab through the heart.
That was kind of fishy, IMO
Was he running for president too?
One of my favorite Rush songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAvQSkK8Z8U
Mine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JphWi_GOIao
Here, hold that, while I light this for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaC041pQl4I
Good one. Rush was a huge influence on my formative years. Pretty sure my senior year roommate would have been happy to break my Caress of Steel LP over my head. I could listen to pretty much anything up through Moving Pictures and be happy, but I think maybe songs from Permanent Waves would be my favorites: Natural Science, Different Strings, Freewill, Jacob’s Ladder. Good golly, that’s a good album.
Mine:
Catchy, ain’t it?
I was going to say Working Man, but that just would been mean.
Rutsey was a drunk Diabetic, thank God they tossed him, for many reasons….
There’s too many good ones, I have a lot of Rush favorites.
Mine depends on my mood. Right now it’s “New World Man”. Anyway, I was 14 when this came out and I could not wait until this song came on the radio. I transcribed the lyrics. I was transfixed by the dichotomies of this arrogant young man. I built a whole mythology (in my head; I never wrote it down and it has no words) around the new world man.
Like most good songs, I am always tempted to write a story around it, but the song is the only story that’s necessary and needs no filling out.
I had a Rush poster for about a hot minute before my dad saw and blew a gasket. DO YOU KNOW WHAT RUSH MEANS? (It’s 1982; Google didn’t exist) “No.” IT’S A DRUG REFERENCE! GIVE ME THAT! And out it went. *sigh*
How you can tell that Glib skews old, white and male…… much love for Rush.
How you can tell that Mojeaux is not your typical broad….. well, all of the above.
Now go listen to Hemispheres and get off my lawn…..
Bum fight
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy continued his long-running feud with Deadspin on Friday, offering to buy and save the struggling website out of “spite.”
Portnoy’s taunt was in response to news that Deadspin parent G/O Media would move the website from New York to Chicago and suspended negotiations with unionized employees. G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller’s memo about the decision was tweeted by a Wall Street Journal reporter and Portnoy quickly offered an alternative solution.
“Hey @JimSpanfeller call me. I will buy, save, and make @deadspin successful. Why? 1 word. Spite,” Portnoy tweeted.
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Deadspin was famously a thorn in Barstool’s side, regularly posting critical stories about Portnoy and his company. As a result, Portnoy mocked Deadspin as the site crumbled last year amid a mass exodus of employees after staffers were told by new ownership to focus solely on sports.
“So by now everybody knows that Deadspin has imploded. 90% of the staff has either been fired or quit. It’s over,” Portnoy wrote in a blog post in October. “They are dead. I have destroyed them just like I have destroyed every single enemy who has ever dared cross my path.”
Portnoy even offered the site’s now-former deputy editor Barry Petchesky a $100,000 yearly salary with benefits to be his “butler” when he was fired by Deadspin for refusing to stick to sports.
I don’t really pay that much attention to sports, and I certainly don’t read the “sports news” but that’s pretty amusing.
And if Portnoy is making his business model to stick to straight sports coverage, more power to him.
Barstool does like a frat boy style. They do sports. They post pictures of hot girls. They are not politically correct.
Deadspin was the leftist soyboy PC sports site that virtue signaled about Kaepernick.
Guess which one is a runaway success and which one is bankrupt.
MARKET FAILURE!!
ATTN: Trigger Hippie and Grrizzly the GlibDip game has started, this is not a drill.
Thanks, checking in now…
Somehow, I thought it would start on Monday. Sorry. In now.
No problem, I should have given a heads up once the slots were filled, so to speak.
I posted a bunch of stuff about the rules in the Global channel in the game for people who had never played.
Did you mention that you don’t have to wait 24 hours for the next turn?
“BREAKING NEWS: Iranian national ‘armed with knives and an ax’ is detained on a bridge just four miles from Mar-a-Lago – as police search his car parked at Palm Beach airport”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7874759/Iranian-national-detained-bridge-Palm-Beach-four-miles-Mar-Lago.html
Doesn’t seem like gear for getting past a secret service perimeter.
I mean you need coke and distraction whores.
Unfortunately Iran spent all their Death to America Money on New SAM sites.
UPDATE: Iranian national was a groundskeeper employed at Mar-a-Lago, which sponsored his visa. Over Trump’s signature.
That’s gratitude for you.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7874031/See-obese-Remember-Titans-actor-Ethan-Suplees-muscular-transformation.html
From the side bar. Holy shit.
My first thought was steroids, but I haven’t heard word of him in so long it could have just been iron.
Wait, Ethan Suplee? As in “it’s a schooner” Ethan Suplee?
Would.
Oh, that’s why they stopped him – highway robbery. That money is going to get civil forfeiture charges placed against it.
“a machete and a pick ax”
I think you are right. Obviously this poor sap was on his way to do the gardening at Mar-a-Logo when they nabbed him.
I’m going to need some more evidence besides a few odd tools on hand. I know people would draw the wrong conclusions from a search of my car a lot of times.
Well, you have to admit that driving around with ether, tarps, duct tape and shovels is a bit suspicious.
Except for the ether, I often have those.
Sadly, me too. Plus cable ties.
I have to have my tools!
I’m still convinced my gardener theory is the correct one. The knives were for peeling taters.
Either that or he’s the worst terrorist in history.
But at the end of the day, we do have to concede that this IS Florida we are talking about.
*checks time stamps*
Your gardener theory?
I can relate to this. Though I think the lack of driving gloves makes me mildly less suspicious. However a cop might see my toy bag as a kidnapping kit. Po-TAY-to, Po-TAH-to, I suppose.
“I’m a writer.”
Pick axe? Yeah, not a weapon.
I’m trying to come up with a plausible scenario that involves carrying a pck axe and $22k tho.
Are we sure it was a pick axe and not a mattock? And what does “had in his possession” mean?
Old timey gold prospector?
“AOC, union champion, fails to pay dues to the organization who helped her get elected. Why should she give them her hard begged money?”
Perhaps is it YOU, not her, who is confused here. YOU should give the organization YOUR hard earned money for her.
Glad I could clear that up.
She’s up to something and is racking in the donations apparently.
“She’s up to something”
Defrauding the tax payers by posing as a public servant serving a term in Congress?
You think she won’t get re-elected?
Dude.
I didn’t say that. Apparently in some heavily blue districts, doing exactly what I said is the sure way to get re-elected.
Ah. Thought you meant she was going to serve A term.
She’s sticking around like a virus I’m guessing.
Well, I mean no one expects her to ever do any real work. Everything the proposes is so outlandish she knows it will never even make it to the floor. 175K a year to act like a clown.
Trump maneuvering Dems into defending Iran might just finally convince me that he really is some kind of master strategist
Just wait ’til he *acquiesces* to a request from the Iraqi sovereign government to remove all American troops.
“Just wait ’til he *acquiesces* to a request from the Iraqi sovereign government to remove all American troops.”
Badorangeman lets libertarians win once again. Democrats hardest hit.
Or he tucks his tail between his legs as he accepts congress’s assertion that they should approve all wars.
My Tulpa fren (((Frank Lloyd Righteous))) has arrived (previous thread). Please be on your worst behavior.
Well since you asked nicely…
I’m stuck in a feeback loop.
Pfft. I’m not going back there. Let him figure out the schedule on his own.
LOL
https://youtu.be/LXL5_tc8UyY
No kidding. Moving the mouse and clicking is too much work for me.
On my war-bomb thread? Aw, fuck. Alright…
/sloughs out of thread
He was in holding. First post.
Hell of a first post, though.
You’re turning into the Pied Piper of Tulpa’s.
I’m just that good.
By killing their children?
*slips pick axe behind back and whistles innocently*
I played the Pied Piper in a school production back in about third or fourth grade. I had to wear white tights, and felt like I could see the outline of my undies through them. Eek!
Another Democrat was less diplomatic: “Deadbeat Cortez should pay her bills,” complained the Democratic source. “She’s always whining about people paying their fair share and here she is leaving her friends with the bill.”
DELICIOUS!
The document ends with a prayer begging forgiveness as the surviving geese are released into the post-flood world, lamenting that, despite the many evil men and women who had been wiped out, the most evil of all creatures had been preserved and would continue going back and forth on the Earth and in the sky just like Satan, a winged ripe slice of hell destined to dominate local parks and areas of human recreation, and to emit large amounts of excrement without ceasing.
It’s all part of God’s plan.
Subaru has not addressed whether the acronym was an intentional market ploy — or the initials were accidental.
Apropos
Police also mentioned two Good Samaritans jumped into the water to help rescue the pedestrian before fire rescue arrived.
Wouldn’t the Good Samaritans really be First Responders?
Now drinking.
“the most evil of all creatures had been preserved and would continue going back and forth on the Earth and in the sky just like Satan, a winged ripe slice of hell”
Impossible, deer have never been able to fly.
Only government employees count as first respondents
For any old computer geeks here, today is Donald Knuth’s birthday.
Who finishes their magnum opus first and before croaking? Knuth or GRRM(*)
*at this point I no longer care about GRRM’s pile and if he croaks unfinished, nbd
On and on and on
The law forces Uber, and other companies that rely on independent contractors, to make their drivers W-2 employees — thus requiring the companies to pay its driver-employees a standard slate of benefits, as well as guarantee that employees make at least the California minimum wage. Of course, this doesn’t merely apply to exploited gig workers like Uber and Lyft drivers. It applies to all freelancers, including writers, artists and musicians, many of whom are reportedly experiencing unintended consequences of the law, some of them losing work as a result. Assorted independent workers have banded together to try to argue for exemptions from the law. Freelance journalists have yet to receive one, despite a request. However, a California judge ruled that truck drivers aren’t covered by the new law, and hence can retain their independent contractor status.
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The changes that Uber made as a result of AB5 give drivers more control over their rides — a change which on the surface may seem benign. Yet the sinister purpose of such a change is to let drivers skirt the law and be more clearly defined as contractors. (A full-time employee, presumably, would not have a choice as to which riders they do and do not take.)
“let drivers skirt the law and be more clearly defined as contractors”
Those stupid stupidheads. Whycome them no wanna be fulltime employees?
Whycome them no wanna union?
No exemptions, particularly for journalists. Either everybody suffers or no one.
“It applies to all freelancers, including writers, artists and musicians, many of whom are reportedly experiencing unintended consequences of the law”
Oh duck off
I have said it before and I will say it again:
I feel really really sorry for anybody who can’t afford to get out of California.
Unless you move to Libertopia, you’re still fucked. It’s just degrees.
And it’s coming for you no matter which state you’re in.
That’s what I mean.
Yeah, brain fart.
Blame California. Everyone else does.
“Unintended consequences.” Yeah, nobody could have seen that coming. ?
They are not experiencing “unintended” consequences.
Foreseeable consequences are not unintended.
They are just the price politicians are willing for you to pay.
Unintended consequences aren’t.
See, the problem is that gig workers are really the exploitERs not the exploitEEs.
The judge didn’t rule that truck drivers weren’t covered. He ruled that federal interstate trucking laws preempted state law in that case.
If they’re so exploited, why are they doing— oh fuck it, I give up.
Another dry Friday. Oh goody. And I was so sure I was going to get my beer on. Nope. GAY.
How did that happen? Are you like some sort of werebaptist who can’t drink on a full moon?
I prefer backsliding Southern Coptic Christian.
I made it a whole week without any alcohol. my resolution was to only drink on Fridees and Satdees.
Lemme just say that your tolerance goes away quickly. /slurring at 2 glasses
My goal was to stick with light vodka & mixer drinks until the weekend. Made it to Thursday.
University of Connecticut Student Narrowly Avoids Jail For Using the N-Word
??
Don’t mention wood chippers!
Too bad he didn’t get the jail. The payout from the taxpayers could have been significant. Hell, he might still have a case. None of what I see there is legal.
Uppity kid should be hit the head with a shovel.
That would be a good bumper sticker.
Accelerated rehabilitation? When your thoughts and words are being rehabilitated by the government, there’s another word for that.
zàijiàoyù yíng?
Bingo.
They’re just weaning him off
Islamfreedom.What’s with the ‘we were playing a game’ excuse? First those racist cadets flashing white power signals and now this guy, is this going around as a get out of trouble tactic with the nazis?
Poe’s law was passed by the house?
Smoking dope is a “get away with killing Juifs” in France. We’re just trying to be more sophisticated, like them.
Somehow my browser has shown me an article that is “trending,” but was written in 2018. Here it is:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/yes-this-meal-is-supposed-to-make-you-feel-uncomfortable?utm_source=pocket-newtab
It’s about a chef whose family came to America from Asia when she was young. She experienced some culture shock between family life and growing up in a new place. She encountered some insensitive people along the way. Also along the way, she was taught to be psychologically damaged. Imagine sitting down to an expensive “pop-up” meal and facing this:
“The theme of this evening’s meal is radical honesty, and 42 people sit listening with some of the innermost pieces of themselves exposed: written proclamations of their biggest failures, job insecurities and societal frustrations immortalized in front of them. I tell them the menu is my thanks for their offerings, seven courses of my own fears and confusions, curiosities and conflicts. “This may make you uncomfortable,” I warn them. I start the evening with “Privilege,” a course of tiny portions: plump mussels carefully shucked, soaking in corn juice, and hand-peeled baby tomatoes. It’s about the excess in our conscious choice to waste.”
She can go fuck herself.
The hypocrisy is overwhelming. I’d want to punch everyone in there.
She could.
But I’m happy to help out where I can.
So much this. It’s sickening.
Fusion is just culinary modern art. Of course it’s trash, but it’s good for attracting well-heeled nitwits.
I don’t know, man, I’ve had some chicken curry tacos that were pretty good.
Baffling
In a year that featured otherwise solid job growth, manufacturing stood out as one sector that lagged behind.
It’s not that the jobs aren’t there: There were still 477,000 open positions as of October, down less than 5% from the year-ago level, according to the Labor Department’s most recent data.
Instead, it’s more a case where the manufacturers themselves are having a harder time filling positions. The hire rate was down more than 18% as the industry struggles with a skills gap and a slowdown amid the pressure of the U.S.-China tariff battle.
“Until we have a better-trained, more-skilled workforce, which is not really out there, you’re going to have a lot of these positions open. It’s a challenge,” said Steve Rosen, CEO of Resilience Capital Partners, an investment firm that owns a diversified portfolio of manufacturers. “There are job openings, and they are very tough to fill.”
It’s inexplicable. How could we have a “skills gap”? Don’t we teach skills in school? It’s not like it’s just some vast free babysitting scam, is it?
Why aren’t the business doing any training?
Why would they if they can get big gov to do it for them if they just gnash their teeth enough?
We’ve started doing that to get techs. 200 hours of training as a new hire.
Cool. Prolly welcome in that area.
At some point, it’s just easier to roll your own.
When I was a freshly graduated medical transcriptionist, I was hired by a company that specialized in training MTs straight out of the gate. I hated it while I was going through it, but it stood me in good stead.
Or maybe employers could do in house training and some sort of skills progression instead of expecting fully capable employees to spring from the earth like a hydra? Leaving aside the many government policies and regulations that increase the friction of hiring and firing employees.
Bernie supporter Seth MacFarlane signs $200 Million Overall Deal
He’ll be sending all of that straight to the government, right? LOL, j/k. I’m guessing the “too much money” line just took a big ‘ol jump for Seth.
Do people actually think he’s funny?
I think he’s quite talented. I had some pretty good laughs at “1,000,000 Ways to Die in the West” although not enough to call it a ‘good’ movie, but dude’s not without talent or intelligence. Family Guy has had some great moments over the years.
Unfortunately, like too many people who can act, or sing, or play guitar, or whatever other “gig” they may have that makes them popular, he has convinced himself this means he fully understands all that there is to know about economics, political theory, philosophy, and most importantly of all – how other people should live their lives. Especially rednecks – he definitely knows more than those rubes.
And voila! That’s the recipe for giant Hollywood asshole.
Meh, there are some funny bits and then the dog goes off on some proggie spiel. Fuck that – I have better things to do with my time.
I don’t watch, but I’ve caught some pretty funny bits through cultural osmosis. Again, he can sing and dance and animate, do voices, etc. but he knows fuck-all about what the rest of us should be doing with out lives so he should shut his mouth and stop embarrassing himself. But unfortunately, these pretentious d-bags all coagulate in the same place and enable each other by telling each other how amazing and smart and caring they all are. Plus, they’re fans give them the false sense that they must be correct ‘cuz, well, look at all of the twitter followers they have!
Jeez, that has a lot of grammar errors. That might be a record for me in one single comment. Fuck.
Time for me to go work out.
Liberals? Maybe he and Obama can team up for some edgy streaming than nobody watches.
I think “The Orville” is awesome.
Watched it for a while, but dropped it when it started to feel like I was being lectured at. Even when I agree with the premise, I don’t find that to be entertaining.
This describes why I got sick of
Seth’sBrian’s screeds in Family Guy years ago.Bob’s Burgers > Family Guy > Simpsons
But The Oblongs were the GOAT.
Saw Bob’s Burgers for the first time the other day. Not bad.
But yeah I think we agreed about The Oblongs a while back. I need to obtain that.
What I like about B’s B’s is that they’re a bunch of weirdos – Bob least of all, though he has his moments – but there’s genuine affection there, much more than I see from FG or Simpsons.
(very) (early) Seth Macfarlane. Likely my favorite. Quite NSFW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chhUG53PdSI
I remember that! Or a heavily edited/censored variation on it.
My personal favorite: the ipecac drinking contest. Will not even attempt to find the clip to link. You’re welcome.
Fist Pump! Yes!!
Off their worst album (up to that point), but I don’t care
https://youtu.be/lG3KbhXPX3E
Can’t wait to get home and end this week.
Will Smith as Neo and Val Kilmer as Morpheus? Egads!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/10/entertainment/will-smith-matrix-jimmy-fallon/index.html
Slick trip.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1215723594313076742
Assholes.
Tragic: Footage Of Epstein Suicide Found Hanging In Cell
OT: If I see this latest Peloton commercial one more time I’m going to lose it. It is on every damn channel during every commercial break.
A gay guy buying his partner a Peloton for Christmas? 😉
The one with the hot brunette? I’m still trying to figure out why he hasn’t got in her pants yet.
“A gay guy buying his partner a Peloton for Christmas.”
*narrow gays*
LOL
Some kid rolling his eyes while his dad’s geeking out to some R&B crap I can’t identify.
So I finished the woke fever dream called Watchmen on HBO.
I thought it was pretty well done, but the suspension of disbelief required was a little much. It intentionally painted anyone who complains about gun control and identity politics as a white nationalist/supremacist.
There’s a reason the poem didn’t start with, “First they came for the Nazis…”
I thought about watching it, but didn’t.
It was megalomaniacs with good intentions versus white supremacists versus african americans.
The writers did a fair job, but the basic premise was apparently written by an Evergreen alum.
Guess who accidentally scheduled appointments all day from 10~6 without leaving a lunch break for hisself? *stomach growls*
On Saturday?
Yep. I like working Saturdays and having Mondays off.