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Of course there’s a YouTube channel filled entirely with Japanese stray cat cuddles
“Impressed cat video” is a YouTube channel that seems as if it’s always existed yet has only just now come to our attention. In it, a guy documents his journeys wandering around Japan, meeting stray cats and taking videos of them that he then uploads on a regular basis. That’s all there is to it. That’s all there needs to be to it.
If you’re not convinced that this material stands on its own merits, watch for yourself. Several hours ago, he posted “A stray cat came when I sat on a bench in the park.” True to this description, a striped cat with a chewed-up ear comes over to meow and purr and rub its head against his leg. The only plot twist comes when a second cat walks over and sits next to them. Otherwise, it’s just an HD video of a happy cat saying hello to a stranger.
So muchly happy cat facely.
On the program Økonomiekspertene, Norway’s national broadcaster NRK gave 10,000 Norwegian kroner ($1,122) each to four teams to see where they would choose to invest it and what return they could get in three months. The competitors: two stockbrokers, an astrology expert, two beauty bloggers, and a herd of cows. The cows were allowed to roam over a grid of 25 company names and do what cows do. The producers then invested the cows’ money in the stocks on which the most cow patties had landed.
VA started pushing crazy gun laws, so residents just bought 74,000 more firearms – in one month
RICHMOND, VA- It’s not surprising to see that the residents within Virginia purchased nearly 74,000 firearms in December of 2019.
Gun control bills and measures have been a hot topic in the state of Virginia, and with good reason.
Democrats within Richmond have been adamant in bringing forth legislation that can be contorted to strip citizens of their second amendment rights. As a result, citizens of the state thought it a good idea to purchase their weapons while they still could.
According to the Associated Press, December of 2019 saw an increase of 47% over the number of firearm sales when compared to December of 2018.
The tallied number of guns sold totaled out to 73,849. The outlet reported that the increase in sales was likely “due to growing fears of increased firearms restrictions backed by Democrats who control the state government.”
And I think we should include in the comments surprising facts about ourselves, to make us grow closer. Here’s mine:
I have eaten at The Rain Forest Cafe six times.
The producers then invested the cows’ money in the stocks on which the most cow patties had landed.
Welp. So much for the proprietary method of my 401(k) investing…
The Turd Blossom Fund died as it lived: dead broke.
So that’s why you like cow butt!
Well I learned that Norwegian “influceners” look just like American “influencers”. Well, the dudes sweater seems very Norwegian.
High steaks investing?
Cash cow.
Guaranteed moo-la
It’s certainly a bull market.
Cud it out man.
I stick to mootual funds.
talk about herd mentality.
I calfed in, went with the cream of the crop
So muchly happy cat facely.
I stay away from random pussy.
Random and feral are not the same.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2020/01/29/hit-a-nerve-gop-rep-lee-zeldin-tells-nbc-news-heidi-przybyla-and-media-firefighters-that-theyre-doing-a-great-job-as-schiffs-shills-video/
Lee Zeldin gets the restraint award for not telling that reporter to STFU and let him answer her question.
I think Stefanik is the congresswoman and she gets an award for straight up not choking that bitch.
The reporter was angling for a blowup so she could play the victim.
Being yelled at by angry Republicans is so hot right now.
Not gonna tell you how many of the 74k ended up at casa trashy
i didn’t do any firearms but mags.. oh hell yeah.
Metal.
Cutting.
Router.
Bit.
I had a very interesting conversation with my very-Candadian immigrant friend that is a 3D printer junky. He was floored by how weird US gun-manufacturing laws are. And I got to show him how easy it is to print up parts for a lower receiver compared to, say, a Błyskawica.
The cow patties reminds me of A Random Walk Down Wall Street which posits that you can’t beat the market average so just invest in mutual funds to keep your expense ratio low.
Index funds.
yep
yep. key detail i omitted.
Vanguard, Fidelity, or Schwab if you have the ability to choose.
That’s my plan. Expenses are guaranteed, returns are not.
At the University of Chicago I had a professor that would cross himself when he said “Markets are efficient”.
He didn’t say safe and secure. Past performance…
And I think we should include in the comments surprising facts about ourselves, you make us grow closer.
I have the death sentence on 12 systems!
But your best friend has an assface?
As long as cat videos seem to be shared herein, please watch mine again, because every view means $$$ in my pocket!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nD9FsSdLDo
Wait, you have a youtube video with 40 million views? If I’ve learned anything from Internet hype news stories, that means you make millions of dollars per year by posting cat videos, right?
I must say it’s a pretty great cat video.
More like $2k a year (before taxes).
It was once featured on some sort of Japanese variety show and my wife did a Skype interview with them.
JB is Mr. Sparkle
Fishbulb.
Not bad.
Now we know what happened to Mr Lizard
He never made it out of that foul Tub of Doom.
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
I’d actually seen that one before!
Ha – me too.
Yep
I like the kitteh avalanche too.
I did my part. Enjoy your filthy lucre.
It’s not surprising to see that the residents within Virginia purchased nearly 74,000 firearms in December of 2019.
I’d wager that it is mostly nondescript pistols/rifles with nondescript features that will all be lost in unfortunate accidents while on aquatic jaunts and voyages.
Why are gun owners such poor sailors? They have more accidents than NBA stars.
They have more aquatic accidents than
NBA starsthe Kennedys.Football spoiler alert…
Liverpool are going to win the Premier League by a record margin.
You are thinking of soccer.
Or the Beatles?
As a Liverpool supporter of 25 years, I am not ready to concede that yet. Not until it’s mathematically clinched.
We’ve been through some things.
I know, but since I’m not a supporter, I can speculate and not jinx it.
Even if Man City won all their remaining games, Liverpool only need 24 points from their remaining games to win the 14 games to win the title.
They just won Champions league, and while they have never won the PL they have won the equivalent 18 times.
this
Thousands Mysteriously Show Up At Trump Rally Even After CNN Explained To Them How Stupid They Are
CNN commentators say they are baffled to learn that tens of thousands of people showed up for Donald Trump’s New Jersey rally yesterday even after elite journalists carefully explained to them that Trump supporters were stupid.
Don Lemon said he was absolutely mystified by the development. In a statement made to a corner of his studio he couldn’t find his way out of, Lemon said, “We just got through discussing in elaborate detail the fact that Trump supporters are idiots who don’t even know how to spell or use a map, and yet for some reason, these people are still lining up for days just to get a glimpse of the president. It’s as if they don’t even care what we think of them. But that can’t be it. After all, we’re CNN.” …
Political Consultant Rick Wilson also said he was baffled by the huge, enthusiastic turnout for Trump.
Wilson unburdened himself to an empty table in the CNN cafeteria where he was yet again eating lunch by himself, saying, “What do we have to do to convince these people to stay away from Trump? We imitated them with fake southern accents, but that didn’t work. We joked about what morons they were, but that didn’t do the trick either. We even called them funny names, and yet they seem to think they understand politics better than a man like me, who actually worked as a strategist for Evan McMullen’s presidential campaign. I tell you: as elite as I am, even I sometimes don’t understand these people.”
I’d forgotten about Evan McMullen’s existence.
So did everyone not named “Moma McMullen”
The McMuffin campaign actually makes sense as a modern art project; more than it did as politics, certainly.
Speaking of the Bee, looks like someone from there is moonlighting at Daily Wire.
Or DW is shamelessly ripping them off.
How did they find it? Surely they couldn’t have used a map.
Followed the cheering?
For taking up Obama’s mantle, should Northam or Bloomberg get S&W’s Salesman of the Year award?
Surprising fact about myself? I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this, but I modeled for art classes in college.
Surprising fact about myself? I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this, but I modeled for art classes in college.
…….HAWT!
I thought about trying to do it full time at a larger university after I graduated, but that would have involved telling my mother what I was doing for a living.
Moms: ruining fun since 10,000 BC.
Are you calling GT old?
Yale Med School To Stop Teaching Medicine Discovered By White Males
If that link was to NYT and it was an actual Yale policy, I wouldn’t be surprised in the least. The scariest trend going on right now in medical academia is the entire ‘health equity’ bullshit. IOW, fuck actual improvements in medical technology, as long as everyone is equally sick, we’re making progress. So a policy like the Bee are doing a parody of there, it won’t be long before it’s no longer a joke. /science
as long as everyone is equally sick
Lowest common denominator, comrade.
Surprising fact about myself: I won the county spelling bee in 5th and 6th grade. But it was only for religious private schools.
In 7th grade I won a (team) county computer programming championship! It was … BASIC on the Apple IIe.
In 11th grade I competed at the state level in some kind of accounting test (I can’t even remember what) for the Future Business Leaders of America.
I was part of my high school team that appeared on a TV high school quiz show.
Me too. The show we were on was shot in the same studio that had the Mr. Food set against the opposite wall of the studio.
Thanks to my memory of useless facts, we beat the shit out of everybody.
Me too.
#metoo
Ours wasn’t televised.
Me too. We got second place one year, which came with scholarship money.
We didn’t get scholarships. 🙁
We were in two stations, only one of which gave out prizes. Got a station T-shirt, and an overnight bag that I still have.
The school district gave us inscribed key chains one year, and inscribed alarm clocks another. I still have the alarm clock, although the design meant the front cover finally came unhinged from the rest after about 25 years.
“On” stations, not “in”. That’s what I get for typing on my tablet.
It wasn’t a big scholarship, but $500 is still a pretty nice consolation prize.
#Me too if ‘part’ equals back up who stood behind the actual team with the teacher/adviser for three seconds at the beginning of the show.
Fun fact : I was wearing my Academic Challenge T-shirt when I put my thumb through a Shopsmith Mark V planner deep in the Canadian wilds, I used it to staunch the bleeding and the kindly aid station doctor had to cut it away, he was “sorrey” however.
Me too. We won the tourney, so I was on tv for it 5 times.
At one point, if you listen closely, you can hear me say that the county atlanta is in is fulton county stadium.
I used to be a male model.
I did all the BEFORE pics for diet pill ads.
Better than being the BEFORE model for penis enlargement pills.
Candid footage of Tres
I used to have the body of a Greek God. Now, I just look like a goddamn Greek.
/hey-oooooh
I’m Bob, the Exztenz Guy,
/Waves
Turkish prison guard…..
You say that like government schools turn out spelling bee champs like China turns out record breaking weightlifters that piss hot.
Just saying there wasn’t a ton of competition.
I would’ve gotten my ass handed to me by a homeschooled kid.
I had the highest GPA in FFA at my high school. I did not have a high a GPA.
I’ve been knocked out by former world champions Fernando Vargas and Corey Spinks. I think I suffered some brain trauma….
I’ve been knocked out by former world champions Fernando Vargas and Corey Spinks. I think I suffered some brain trauma….
I’ve been knocked out by former world champions Fernando Vargas and Corey Spinks. I think I suffered some brain trauma….
I’ve been…
I was voted “Most likely to be Hung” and they was right!
Democrats within Richmond have been adamant in bringing forth legislation that can be contorted to strip citizens of their second amendment rights. As a result, citizens of the state thought it a good idea to purchase their weapons while they still could.
According to the Associated Press, December of 2019 saw an increase of 47% over the number of firearm sales when compared to December of 2018.
Can confirm. I mentioned earlier the gun store I went to a couple weeks ago looked like a hurricane swept through. Half of the firearms and nearly all of the ammo gone. While I waited, the phone rang continuously with people asking if they still had this or that in stock.
It’s almost like people don’t intend to comply with
tyrannical, unconstitutional horseshitgun-safety legislation. Don’t they know it’s for their own good?Yeah, I’m waiting for tax refund time before buying up. I hope they have stock by then but suspect it may fly off the shelves as fast as they can get it in.
Any suggestions, guys?
Buy online. Cheaperthandirt, PSA, etc.
Honestly, I can do better than those if it’s a gun that my LGS can get through their distributor. They will charge me more, but not more than PSA+transfer fee. They’re canny that way.
Is this one of those deals where you have to have it shipped to a licensed firearm dealer and pay a handling fee? Not that that’s a problem, just need to know ahead of time.
Yes. Any firearm your ‘order online’ needs to be shipped to a FFL. At the FFL, you’ll fill out your paperwork, pay the FFL their fee, and take possession.
The only exceptions are antiques and if you buy an M1 Garrand from the government. Those you can get shipped directly to your door.
Or if you have a Curio & Relics license and are buying guns over fifty years old; then you can have those shipped directly to your door. Since almost all the stuff I like to mess with is well over fifty years old, it works out rather well.
Scary looking ones. Particularly ones with the thing that goes up.
Anything that has “WARNING: Not CA Compliant” stamped on the case.
Claim 30 dependents.
Oh, you mean gun suggestions.
Its 2020, order online and have it shipped to your local FFL. Palmetto State Armory is a good place to go, but they are *slow*. In exchange, you know you are getting from a company founded on the idea that an AR15 in everyone’s hands makes them harder to outlaw. If you want faster shipping, Grabagun.com is popular and has good prices (but I’ve never used them).
they are *slow*
as molasses.
I just got an AR pistol upper kit from PSA a couple of weeks ago and it was at my door in 5 days….plenty fast for me.
I like Palmetto State Armory. They’re donating $10 to the VCDL, VA’s 2nd A group, for each of these lowers they sell.
PSA “VIRGINIA-15” AR-15 STRIPPED LOWER RECEIVER
https://palmettostatearmory.com/psa-virginia-15-ar-15-stripped-lower-receiver.html
Thanks.
There’s going to be a lot of boating accidents in VA soon, right?
These people really want a confrontation, don’t they? I mean with their political enemies. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread?
If I worked at a boat rental company in VA right now, I would have the [fire emoji]’est advertising right now.
Look, I’ve got a kayak. There is only so much under-deck space. Those things get tippy when you go through rapids. Who knew that cotton cooking twine wouldn’t hold?
I have eaten in actual rain forest.
I have eaten an actual rain forest would have been more interesting.
That’s… a lot of fiber.
Colon Blow!
Being eaten in a rain forest would be an even more interesting story.
My grossest childhood story involves me, a bunch of my 7th grade class-mates, a Sri Lankan waterfall, a van, and leeches. Many many leeches. By the time we got to the hotel the van looked like the sickbay of a ship at Trafalgar. Best field trip *ever*.
Eeeeeewwww!
Also, possible thread winner.
I was on a hike once where one of the other kids got a leech on the inside of his eyelid.
Jesus. Ours were all external – until we burnt them off and stomped on them. Blood and leech corpses *everywhere*. Of course, at that school we played full contact tackle rugby in PE class – one of my classmates broke his leg in a game – so squeamishness was… not an issue.
Does eating in a restaurant in downtown Singapore count?
Surprising fact about myself: as a young teen I was friends with a WW1 flying ace.
I saw that movie.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118636/
WW one, not two 😉
He had a considerable store of outrage over the Germans and especially the Nazis.
I thought of this one.
How are you guys so far off? This one.
Not this?
It’s a Sugar Free sort of day. STEVE SMITH NO LIKE!
The cow poop story is funny. But, not all that surprising. If you believe in the efficient market hypothesis, pretty much any opportunity is going to be pretty well priced in almost immediately, particularly the sorts of opportunities that might arise in a 3-month investment horizon. You might be able to get better returns taking a longer-term outlook, or avoiding excessive trading (the actual basis for the claim that women do better than men at investing), or buying into the market at opportune times (the old “Be afraid when everyone else is greedy and greedy when everyone else is afraid.” line). But, short-term in a hot market? You aren’t doing that much to add alpha.
Hi, my name is Tundra and I shot a man in Reno. Just to watch him die.
I’m really enjoying your work today, SF. I just forwarded the cow story to my financial guy. I’m looking forward to the response!
MM is one of those bands that I’m not always in the mood to hear, but I do really dig them. Here’s another gem.
Thanks, dude!
Yeah, I seem to like about 50% of their output overall, but that is easily my favorite album.
Just got your email, going long on cow fertilizer. Broker said the music selection needs more cow bells.
You would be happier if MM stood for Monster Magnet.
Space Lord motherfather!
Enact your own labor to see it.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7944183/Demi-Rose-sizzles-satin-floral-print-mini-dress-enjoys-night-Manchester.html
I’ll repeat, a size 16 cannot be considered a mini dress.
Those jap kitties tho
Briefly makes me wish I wasn’t allergic to the little bastards.
Straff says it’s because the Japanese are such nice people. My theory is that the Japanese murdered any cat that wasn’t adorable.
https://imgur.com/gallery/hj4yD/comment/1599950705
“‘He was a rapist. Deal with it’: Disney heiress Abigail Disney weighs in on Kobe Bryant’s rape case past after the Washington Post writer suspended for tweeting about it is reinstated
Abigail Disney has weighed in on Kobe Bryant’s controversial past, after actress Evan Rachel Wood and a Washington Post journalist were berated for tweeting about a rape allegation against him from 2003, just hours after his death in a helicopter crash Sunday.
The Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker posted her opinion Wednesday morning, after Wood made her Twitter account private in response to backlash and Felicia Sonmez was reinstated as political reporter following her ‘ill-timed’ tweet that garnered death threats.
Disney – whose grandfather Roy O. Disney co-founded The Walt Disney Company – tweeted: ‘I haven’t said anything about Kobe so far because I felt some time needed to pass before weighing in. But yes, it’s time for the sledgehammer to come out. The man was a rapist. Deal with it.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7943219/Abigail-Disney-weighs-Kobe-Bryants-rape-case-past-rapist-Deal-it.html
So you are saying Disney still hates black people?
Now I’m not that familiar with the case but he was never convicted, right?
Black. Guilty. Next.
Finally. I was breathlessly awaiting her input.
She seems nice.
What a nice evening. Get home and found a Sam and Dave album that I had forgotten I had ordered. I have a bottle of Laphroaig, a really nice strip steak getting up to room temperature, and the woman is meeting with her fellow editors for a few hours. Just me, music, scotch and the dogs for a little bit. I’m down.
I’ll be right over.
Dang.
Cheers, bob!
I had lunch at McDonald’s in Andorra once.
Pushkin Square for me. First McD’s in Russia.
There was no McDonalds in East Berlin before the wall came down. Unfortunately, because their food sucked.
McDonald’s? Or East Berlin?
“A convicted baby rapist and pedophile is being released from prison because they now identify as a woman.
Yes, you read that correctly. This is a disgusting and dangerous precedent. We need to talk.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9bZirRtoMo
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1222580189181251584
“Joseph Matthew Smith, who now goes by the name Josie Smith, is a convicted baby rapist and pedophile who has molested as many as 15 children ranging in ages one to 15. Common sense would tell you that an individual as depraved as Josie would be behind bars forever, but the Iowa Attorney General’s Office disagrees. Josie is set to be released from prison because she now “identifies” as a woman and is taking estrogen medication.
Many are horrified by this story and want answers. According to the Cherokee Civil Commitment Unit for Sex Offenders, the recommendation for Smith’s release is due specifically to the fact that Smith is undergoing hormone replacement therapy and therefore no longer has a “male sex drive”. A director for the facility, it is much harder for the state to prove someone is at risk to reoffend once the individual significantly lowers their testosterone levels.
Smith began their prison sentence in 2014. In Nov. 2017, they came out as a transgender woman, began using female pronouns, and started undergoing hormone replacement therapy.
The spokesperson for the attorney general Lynn Hicks told the Storm Lake Times that “an offender’s hormone levels are an important part of substantiating an offender’s likelihood of recidivism.””
“We don’t believe we have evidence sufficient to prove Josie Smith has a significant chance of reoffending,” Hicks proclaimed.
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/convicted-sex-predator-of-young-children-to-be-released-for-being-trans/
Holy smokes, one? That’s fucked.
Fifteen is arguably statutory, but anything under ten and you should be looking at a life sentence with no parole.
This is not going to work out well for the trans community, allowing themselves to be used as an escape hatch for pedos.
I thought the person was convicted, not the gender. So if a bank robber joins Moms Against Guns he can get out of jail?
Everything is so topsy-turvy these days. Men on the Moon. Men on the Moon!
Can you spare some cutter, me brothers?
“They” is not a female pronoun.
The story goes back and forth on the pronoun. I thought they had sensitivity readers for this sort of thing.
Chemical castration will usually lift a civil commitment, but transition hormones are not chemical castration.
Sentenced in 2015 and in Civil Commitment in 2017? So he did 2 years for that many rapes?
They sentenced him based on mass of victims.
Worked for Alan Turing, amirite?
The Enlightened Monarchy of Great Britain never kilt nobody.
Surprising fact about myself
I competed at an amateur national ballroom dance championship and I know Mary Murphy (crazy shrieky lady on So You Think Can Dance)
Damn.
Scruffy can cut a rug! Username checks out.
“A man who was let out on parole has been charged with the murder of a 22-year-old sex worker after being granted permission to meet with her by his case manager.
Eustachio Gallese had been serving a life sentence for murdering his wife in 2004. He was released on parole in September of 2019 after serving 15 years of his sentence. Last week, Gallese met with Marylene Levesque at a hotel in Quebec City where Levesque gave massages. He was later arrested by police and charged with her murder.
According to CTV News, Gallese’s case manager wrote that Gallese was on parole even though he had a moderate risk of reoffending.
Gallese was also told by his case manager to stay away from relationships but that strictly sexual encounters are fine.”
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/man-on-parole-accused-of-killing-22-year-old-sex-worker-he-was-permitted-to-meet/
Via Instapundit:
Buh bye!
Heh, he’s the most significant man in British politics in the past 30 years and Corbyn’s just a footnote. Maybe things are turning around.
I love the fact that they just walked out. That’s the way to Brexit.
Also, the chick was about to get butthurt about the ‘hate’ comment, but the video stopped. Hilarious.
There is hope that the Brits still like themselves.
Of course there’s a YouTube channel filled entirely with Japanese stray cat cuddles
I’m partial to this Jap cat…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6PVROYZKDI
A sled?
And I think we should include in the comments surprising facts about ourselves, you make us grow closer. Here’s mine:
I can wiggle my right ear but not my left. That’s all you are getting out of me.
Surprising fact about myself:
I once shared a locker room with Pelé
Oh, and the future Speaker of the House of Assembly of Bermuda was there too.
I’ve won forensic awards for both extemporaneous speaking and poetry reading.
That’s cool.
Cool!
Was Quincy one of the judges?
I wish. Different type of forensics, but I have always enjoyed the mileage I get out of the name.
Fun fact, I’ve played a few bars
1) I had more than 18 mailing addresses by the time I was 18, and that’s without being in a military family or the foster system.
2) My bbq smoker cosplays as a Dalek.
3) Every scar on my body is self inflicted.
Here are some “accomplishment” type about me’s.
A) I’ve co-author on three peer-reviewed academic journal articles. None of them in my area of study, all three are in different fields. Only once with my real name.
B) I taught myself to use chopsticks as an adult.
C) I’ve been injured by robots 4 times. Twice requiring medical care. One of them left a scar and I count it as self inflicted. I made all these robots from the ground up back before “robot kits where a thing” and non of the injuries were due to faulty constructions. Always human error.
D) I’ve sent two people to the dentist as a result of them picking fights with me. This was all before the age of… I don’t know 14. I also have a history of concussions…
E)I have never tried it, but I believe in my heart I can eat 50 hard boiled eggs.
” I believe in my heart I can eat 50 hard boiled eggs.”
That will come in handy next time you’re on an Alabama chain gang.
I stood next to Charles Barkley in a bank of urinals at a strip club in Philly. I was there for a friend’s bachelor party.
He’s not that big…
Ok I’ll share another, I peed with Jason Witten at a bank of urinals. I did not see anything however.
I had beers with Whitey Ford. I let him go to the bathroom alone.
I’m like that.
Man, now I want to pee next to a good-but-not-great, beloved athlete. Totes jelly.
I have also peed next to a local morning radio show DJ. You just need to drink more water.
I’ve done that to, but I wiped it up before I left the bathroom. Some mornings the aim just isn’t good.
A Nobel Prize winner’s son crashed on my couch.
Trayvon?
*golf clap*
Oh that reminds me of one, I have sung karaoke with a Nobel Prize winner (Economics, Myron Scholes).
and you sang with TOP
I imagine you’d have a lot of options singing karaoke with Scholes.
This is hard to admit…but, I have family members that are minnysodans.
Braggart.
I hate to admit I have family from Kenosha. 😉
There’s a multiple murderer in my family tree.
I did work with a guy who was convicted of multiple 1st degree murders a couple of years after I left the company.
Sweet! Two of my childhood boxing friends murdered three people in a botched robbery about ten years ago.
Tony and Tubz haven’t seen the light of day since.
I got kicked out of the Pits at the Long Beach Gran Prix by Mario Andretti
Damn, dude.
1976, 12 years old, it was COOL!….
To be fair, nobody wants a drunk twelve year old stumbling onto the race track.
I talked to a guy (friend of a friend) two days before he murdered THEN raped a girl. He seemed like a normal decent guy at the time.
Well he was normal and decent until he met you.
My sister lives in Minnesoda now.
Oh, looky. Schiff lied again:
And he was quite open that they regard due process as obstruction:
Will obstruction be the new impeachment charge when this one ultimately falls short?
I thought “obstruction” was already the 2nd article of impeachment.
Is it? I haven’t been following too closely to be honest.
That is how pathetic this whole thing is.
It is.
Double secret impeachment!
Yeah, it’s the second one; Obstruction of Articles of Abusement.
Obstruction of Congress, because they can’t point a single instance where invoking executive privilege was adjudicated as obstruction of the law.
He tweet threatened that one woman while she was testifying.
They wanted to get the impeachment rolling in time for the election season, so they couldn’t wait for the subpoenas to wind their way through the courts.
Asking for something to be adjudicated is now obstruction. Think about applying that to any other sort of indictment.
When didn’t he lie?
I put gas in Rod Carew’s car in the summer of 1976. Very nice guy.
Still trying to conquer Europe by other means.
Following a meeting with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on the European Union to open negotiations with Albania and Northern Macedonia to join the bloc.
The call from the German leader comes following a meeting with the Albanian prime minister in Berlin earlier this week with Chancellor Merkel saying that the countries in the Western Balkan region should be considered for membership of the EU, Euronews reports.
“For the German government, I want to say that we clearly stand by the EU perspective of Albania and the entire western Balkans,” Merkel said, and added: “We want these countries to be brought closer to the European Union.”
Albania’s a backwater and Macedonia hasn’t been doing too well since they got whooped by the Romans. She’s nuts…
I used to see Tony Oliva at the gym. Cool guy, as well.
Still has that heavy accent, though.
Oh, forgot one. I used to work with Danny Carey’s little brother a few years ago.
…and this guy is related to Rufus through marriage:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9ym3RlvVR9M
Arabs that are not insane may be on-board.
Perhaps the sole silver lining of the otherwise-harrowing capitulation to fundamentalist jihadist evil that was President Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear deal was the fact that the leading Sunni Arab states — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Egypt chief among them — began to warm up to the Jewish state of Israel. The enemy of my enemy, as the venerable maxim goes, is indeed my friend. And these Sunni stalwarts have found common cause with Israel in opposing the Islamic Republic of Iran’s decades-long hegemonic ambitions, which were only augmented by the capitulatory cash influxes provided by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
To date, however, the thawing of relations has generally taken a clandestine form — mostly on the intelligence and counterintelligence level. But the unveiling yesterday of President Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century” peace proposal for Israel and the Palestinian-Arabs represents the clearest public sign yet of just how far this thawing has progressed.
It is nothing short of remarkable just how far we have come, when considering the “Three No’s” of the infamous 1967 Khartoum Resolution, decreed in the aftermath of Israel’s miraculous Six-Day War victory: “No peace [with Israel],” “no recognition [of Israel],” and “no negotiations [with Israel].”
Listen, fat. Can you even do a pushup?
“I can think of at least eight women, at least four or five people of color, that I think are totally qualified to be vice president of the United States. But for me, it has to be demonstrated that whomever I pick is two things: One, is capable of needing to be the president, because I’m an old guy,” Biden said. “No, but I’m serious. Look, thank God, I’m in great health… I work out every morning. I’m in good shape, knock on wood, as my mother would say.”
OMG it’s going to be epic.
And the groping…that’s not going to be funny because he really is an old perv (sorry, OMWC), but the the feminists and media will overlook the incidents until it is way past too embarrassing. Stuff that will make “grab ’em by the pussy” look like an eighth grade playground brag.
ORD
There’s an art to being the right level of airport buzzed:
a/ max out expense report (free beer)
b/ get brave enough to chat up hot but obviously married copassengers
c/ dont get so gone you lose track of time and miss your flight
d/ establish glide path to legal BAC by the time you land, find your car, and drive home.
Just file an IFR and call an Uber
e/bathroom timing before the flight is also key.
Throwing back a few at the skybar is one of my favorite things. Light banter with strangers, and there isn’t an hour in the day that’s off limits to cocktails at the airport.
Delightful Polish waitress
Is shocked and delighted MS named a town for Kosciusko
I have a bridge to sell her in NYC.
Our online company directory has employee pictures – the Polish employees tend to be rather attractive.
The hookers in Krakow have a sweet countenance
1) I no longer have a belly button… lost in the surgery fuck-up last year.
2) I may be the Glib with the most
tax creditskids? Expecting #4, a girl, in April. This will be the grand finale for the SSD family.Sloppy has five, maybe five and half.
Congrats on.. both, I guess?
Way to bolster the flagging fertility rate!
Congrats . . . On still being on speaking terms
“…the Glib with the most tax credits kids?”
You haven’t figured out what causes it to happen, yet?
Congrats on #4 upcoming!
Congratulation on #4!
What the others said.
Congratulations!
May she be born under the sign of the bull.
Thanks everyone!
Congrats! Have a glib naming contest!
Back in the day, I was friends with Ward Cunningham (the wiki concept), and more than passing acquaintances with Kent Beck (extreme Programming), Ivar Jacobson (invented use cases), and Trygve Reenskaug (invented MVC), but I haven’t peed next to any of them /-)
^Geek
With a degree in philosophy no less.
Oh, also Morris and Linda Tannehill were good friends in the 1969 to maybe 75 or so time frame. I’m actually the person who turned them on to psychedelics. How’s that for obscure bragging rights 😉
Whoa. Respect.
Surprising (not really, but my life is pleasantly boring) facts:
I’m the oldest of five girls. Almost my entire immediate family went to Georgia Tech. I did fencing and quiz bowl in high school, and one of my friends from quiz bowl was on Teen Jeopardy.
And you and your three siblings joined forces with a talking lion to overthrow a wicked enchantress that held a magical land in perpetual winter; becoming a queen in the process.
Don’t be so modest.
Well, there is that.
I did cosplay as Susan at Dragon Con this year. I’m pretty proud of the dress. It took me a long time to make, and this was my first attempt at sewing something without exactly following a pattern. I still need to make the bow and horn though.
Pix!
dress pix
WOWOWOWOWOW!!!! I am SUPER impressed!
Thank you! I had fun with it.
Woah:
Two real libertarian chicks.
* wipes away tear *
Well done!
Lovely!
However, since TANLW, I’ve got to call shenanigans. 😉
??
Hawt.
So cool!
Very cool
Darn. Here I was hoping you were going to say your avatar was a homemade Susan skin suit.
I’m the oldest of five girls.
Fake news. There are no female libertarians.
+ gazillion
/robc
Surprising fact about myself:
At age 13, I was one stroke away from winning $2,000 and an amateur berth in the US miniature golf open.
At 13, I was always one stroke away.
Bravo!
Cool!
Fun fact: I’ve been fired twice for talking shit to customers.
Fun fact, yep!
Bravo, again!
One of the founders of Tinder got me into club 33 at Disney Land.
Kinky…..
OK, one more:
I was once the vaguely racist mascot of a fast food franchise in a 4th of July parade.
That’s not me, but it was the costume I wore.
Aunt Jemima?
Colonel Sanders?
Only a problem cuz you went off script. “Ehhh Vaaato. Jew wanna Tahko?”
I need that costume.
I could never understand why it wasn’t “Taco Jaun’s.”
Ever eat at Juan Pollo?
No thanks, I’d like to keep the use of my legs.
There’s a mini-chain of vegan Mexican cafeterias (because it’s Austin) called “Juan in a Million.” They didn’t change their name when the second one opened up.
1. I have eaten at the Century Club in NYC.
2. I roomed with the daughter of B-list (?) actress Laraine Day, who actually taught me a lot about kindness, beauty, and business. I never met the mom, but I did talk to her on the phone quite a few times. At 6:00 a.m. “Hi, Elizabeth. Is Gigi there?” “Sister Day, I was asleep.” “I’m sorry. Could you please get Gigi?”
3. I lettered in high school for something, but I don’t remember for what. I just found it and a whole bunch of medals and ribbons I won. Almost all 2nd place. No wonder I stuffed them away.
Laraine Day was married to Leo Durocher, so she’s not *that* B-list.
And she was the female lead in on of Hitchcock’s most underrated movies, Foreign Correspondent.
I haven’t seen that many movies that were made prior to Easy Rider, and I’m not a cineophile, so I really didn’t know.
The male lead is Joel McCrea, who most women seem to think was incredibly hot, at least for the era when the standard wasn’t overmuscled like it is today.
And Santa Claus from “Miracle on 34th Street” plays a hired killer.
And that reminded me of Gigi again, and she was probably more influential in my life than I realized. Gigi is one of the two most Christ-like people I have ever met.
A blonde with a beard?
Oh, who wasn‘t married to Durocher for a few weeks once upon a time?
Cool, particularly the Century Club.
I’ve eaten at the 21 Club in NYC, specifically in the hidden vault that was used as a speakeasy during prohibition.
That’s cool – jelly.
The Campbell Apartment, while not quite the same thing, is on my TODO list.
That is very cool. @ slumbrew, that looks neat too.
I do love NYC, but as the cliche goes, wouldn’t want to live there.
This is why I broke down about twenty-five years ago and consigned my trophies to the fire pit. So many Third Place.
Fun Fact #2: I never learned how to love.
It’s your jam
I used to put that on at the local bar, put my feet up on apart on two bar stools and fake masturbate like a woman as I lip synced that song. Unfortunately, that is a true story.
Did you do it drunk or sober?
LOL. That was when I first got here. I was never sober.
See, if you were sober while you did it, I could respect that.
I didn’t want respect. It was my desperate attempt to get men to pay attention to me.
There was that special stall in the men’s room with the hole in the partition, wasn’t there?
Never found out why it’s there. Darn thing nearly poked eye out.
*cringes*
These are supposed to be surprising facts.
I read that as “drive” and thought that it stood to reason that you would abandon America for the exotic shores. My Mother and my brother both never learned the skills.
Fun Fact: I did some of the sound recording for the movie Wind with that guy from some movie and that chick from Dirty Dancing. They wired up our boat for sound and had us sail around the Bay for a while because they forgot to do it while filming in Australia.
that guy from some movie
That movie would be Vision Quest
That’s the one. I get him confused with Jeff Daniels.
Surprising fact about myself, I once had drinks with ELO.
Must’ve been illuminating.
Enlightening, even.
Was Jeff as cool as they say?
/hero
It was the mid 90s. I didn’t really care and was way more into my girlfriend at the time. She had great tits.
‘Red Hot Magazine’ | Virginia Lawmaker Trying to Ban Assault Weapons Has Zero Understanding of Guns
Magazines!
Magazine…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCULiAKoDcM
Magazine
He sounds like a retard.
Japanese police officers increasingly forgetting their guns in public restrooms
They obviously need more blowjobs from mom to keep them focused on their careers.
I knew a hooker once named Minnie Mazola.
Not this Minnie ?
I had an epiphany once. But that may have been her stage name.
Maybe someone posted this at the beginning of the year – just found it on a Scott Adam’s twitter thread about [suspected] fentanyl dealers walking out without bail.
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/12/31/all-crimes-new-york-bail-reform/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
I’m all for criminal justice reform but in many of these cases bail seems relevant. (Full list in the article)
This is all about the cockamamie plan to “close Rikers”, nothing more.
I get that..but the inclusion of stuff like child porn, money laundering for terrorism, etc is just ridiculous.
And homicide. “Manslaughter” is considered non-violent.
To be fair, the cockamamie plan to close Rikers is all about “social justice” horseshit so yeah it’s just a vortex of stupid.
I didn’t miss a single day of school from 4th through 12th grade*.
*granted some of that was technically getting attendance by being there for first period and leaving after when we would travel for vaca or to see family for the weekend.
Jeez, what a brown-noser.
God I hated you kinda of people.
#metoo
/sickly child
I’ve overshared enough. You people know my history and you’ll not get any more boring stories from me until the next time I’m in my cups. It’s pretty much my jam, as the kids say, on this site.
until the next time I’m in my cups.
So, later this week, at the latest? It’s a date.
Uh, like… now?
Done and done.
Sh*t F!rearm Owners Don’t Say
Fun fact: I had a one night stand with Danica Patrick. And I peed in her bathroom when I was done.
Hawt
Top shelf, hamper or waste basket? Did you just go full “lawn sprinker mode” and soak it down? We need to know, Spud!
I sharted while picking up a girl for a very formal date and stuffed my underwear under the waste bin. Went commando but got lucky that night so I was able to retrieve the evidence later and dispose it. None the wiser except me and now you.
Let’s just say she had to use the hover method after I was done.
So it was just like her racing career?
Pretty much. And I wish the above was actually true.
Went to boarding school in Malaysia and the Philippines. (was on Indonesian national TV (the one channel they had at the time) sometime in the 80s when I attended an Indonesian kindergarten).
That reminds me – I was featured in company photos in Japan; the lone gaijin, seated at the keyboard while my Japanese co-workers huddled around to see what wonders I produced.
It seemed weird even at the time.
My dad’s clan is married into the Presleys
as if my blood kin weren’t a toothless enough shitshow already
I once drifted through a house party drugged out of my gourd and I’m pretty sure I saw George Clinton smoking crack.
Fun fact: I drove all the way to Truckee from the Bay Area to have a first date wit a gal I had been chatting with for a few weeks. Ten minutes after we sat down at the restaurant bar, she got banned for life from the establishment. I should have payed closer attention.
Done that. The cold light of day almost never bodes well for those sorts of budding romances. Present PTB excluded.
What am I missing?
Banjos and Sloop! Chatted at the other site, met up and bliss occurred. Happy family with three new shit-lasses.
I meant the banned for life part.
Ah. The reply function on this site has lead to many WTF moments over the years. It’s tricksey.
Sloopy & Banjos met in the comments section of TOS.
As did, I think, kibby & Grand Moff Serious Man.
That one too. There’s hope for you yet, CPRM!
I had sex with a Hobbit once. It said it’s name was Rhea Perlman.
Might have been worse. Xe could have identified as Danny Devito.
I don’t know if anyone cares, but Speer Gold Dot LE Duty 9mm Luger Ammo 124 Grain Jacketed Hollow Point is going for $349 a case (1000 rounds). Price shows up in check out.
targetssportsusa.com is the shizzle. You can get cheap Russian steel cased 9mm for <$0.13/round when it's on sale.
That’s not a bad price. I love Speer Gold Dot. But I would never shoot enough of it to buy a case.
Good price. Federal’s HST is my preferred brand for hollow points.
I was a left-handed third baseman on my sixth-grade lunch time softball team.
I won the championship game with a two-run homer.
My life has been downhill eversince.
Just like peaks you never recognize the bottoms until you’ve got past them.
Fun fact: After the unprecedented success of my Marshal Dillon article I’m considering turning “Libertarian Hero or Capital A Asshole” into a recurring series, if there is interest. Suggestions of real and fictional people that you would like to see given the treatment would be appreciated. I will not, however, be reading Moby Dick or Gravity’s Rainbow or The Bible so characters from those sources need not apply.
The lead character in The Grapes Of Wrath.
Clark Gable in Gone With The Wind.
Dr. Zhivago.
The Fonz.
That’s actually a good choice.
Back-handed compliment from The Hyperbole! I’m attempting to dap with the pets right now!
The lead character in The Grapes Of Wrath.
Can I base my assessment solely on the Bruce Springsteen song?
Nope. Gotta read it.
I have but it was years ago. I preferred Cannery Row
I’m more of a “Last Exit To Brooklyn” sorta guy. “Shaaaad-up!”
Leto II, duh.
Can I base my assessment solely on the Boz Scaggs song?
You think here, of all places, I could tell you what to do?
Bertrand Russell
Felix Unger
Walter Cronkite
Huey Long
Salvatore Tessio
Conrad Hilton
Philip Armour
Hank Stimson
Barney Kroger
Jones Meacham
John Muir
Elia Kazan
Ted Turner
Fred Sanford
Fred Sanford it is.
A friend of mine did some carpentry for Redd Foxx back in the day, and he said the guy had a hot tub full of 20-year-old hotties every single time he went over. That makes him a hero in my world.
Redd Foxx! Makin’ it rain!
Aw. No Ned Flanders?
Will Smith’s character in Independence Day.
Scarlett O’Hara
Mary Poppins
Lucie Manette
Dominique Francon
Nancy Drew
Meg Murry
The spider in Charlotte’s Web
Cruella de Ville
Dorothy Gale
Nurse Ratched
Glinda the Good Witch
Oooo good one. Love that book.
I’d want solid commentaries on Mary Poppins and Glinda the Good Witch, too.
Anyone ever fired an AR-12? Seems like a solid price point.
Nope.
However, my inner teenager keeps trying to make me pick up one of these: https://armscor.com/vr80/
Meant as a reply to Fish above.
Why, when you could have one of these?
I worked on a small film named Titanic.