What’s up everybody? I hope everyone is having a fantastic day. I’m… not terribly bad. Could be better. I did have a couple of Cadbury eggs today, so that’s a real plus. Is it even Lent yet? Have I jumped the gun? Easter is super late this year, so probably not. Anyhow, here are some links for your afternoon ignorement.
Mardi Gras may not be here yet, but there’s already been a float-pedestrian fatality in New Orleans.
A breed the same as OMWC and SP’s Wonderdog has found a fren who just happens to be a rare coyote. Also, given the Grand Pyr’s name, I feel for the poor dog.
This is how you take a firing.
Huh, you’d think coronavirus would be a bigger problem in Germany if this were true.
Fecal Transmission – Dibs on the album name
Sorry, already taken by Assy Rick and the Santorums.
Kurt Cobain’s first abortive band was called Fecal Matter.
His last abortive project was called Brain Matter.
Good one.
*narrows gaze*
I agree. It was not an abortive project. Love saw him through to the end.
That blows my mind, man!
Booooooo
… *I* was saying Booo-urns…
Easter treat recommendation: Starburst jelly beans.
Those are good, but I’m eating Nerds jelly beans.
“Huh, you’d think coronavirus would be a bigger problem in Germany if this were true.”
You mean the pr0n acting community, ja?
But one presumes the Scheisse pr0n industry is driven by local demand.
I thought it was subsidized by Big Metamucil
Better Sendacot so they have somewhere to rest between shoots.
So how do we know the coyote wasn’t begging to be domesticated?
From the article it sounds like he was at least semi-domesticated.
There are also naturally occurring coyote-dog hybrids; natural in the sense that your in-heat dog escapes and gets impregnated by the local coyotes. I suspect that we will see coydog pets in the not to near future, though I wouldn’t trust them. I think it takes tens or hundreds of generations of weeding out to get something as sweet and docile as a typical Labrador.
They apparently developed a domesticated fox strain in Russia.
Everything on the wolf side of canidea, dogs, wolves, coyotes, dingoes, and jackals, can interbreed successfully and often do. It is almost impossible to find a culture or wolf that doesn’t have some amount of dog DNA at this point. Eastern coyotes tend to have a larger amount of dog genes than their western counterparts, resulting in larger sizes and wider coast variability. The coyote in question definitely has dog DNA, as black coats are a mutation that arose from selective breeding in dogs that doesn’t occur in coyote or wolf populations without hybridization.
I love it when you talk to me like that.
Now I want him to explain how Goofy is Mickey Mouse’s friend, but Pluto is his pet.
The real reason is that Goofy was made as an anthropomorphic dog and acts the same as the other anthropomorphic Disney characters, while Pluto was always meant to be a normal dog. No real thought was given beforehand about the contradiction by Disney. In universe, the discrepancy is never officially addressed either.
My head canon involves a Faustian bargain with the mouse were Pluto lost his real name and voice and is forced to live as the mouse’s obedient servant in an unending horror show to spare the one he loves from Disney’s mephistophelian advances.
wow
Clearly, Pluto is on the spectrum.
yeah! And how come only the ducks don’t have to wear pants?
No one has to wear them, But the ducks are the hung ones so everyone else covers up in shame.
Ducks don’t have external genitalia.
Also, why exactly is Goofy assumed to be a dog? He has no tail ( that I know of) and what kind of dog has a furless face. Is it just the long ears? long ears don’t make one a dog, fucking rabbits (hares?) have long ears, donkeys have long ears.
The shape of his head doesn’t remotely resemble a donkey or a rabbit. It looks like a dog.
Goofy
Dog
If Pluto is a dog. Goofy is a dog
Aw, thanks, my social ineptitude is my best feature. Probably why I fit in here, come to think of it.
I’m now wondering if it was a pet once upon a time and lost its family.
Speculation in the article was that it was raised as a pet, then dumped.
Not for nothing, but wild coyotes and wolves learn to “play” with domestic dogs to kill and eat them.
Coyotes at Ft Irwin would “mock play” and then bite the achilles of large dogs, hobbling them and then come back and eat them if you allowed your dog to roam.
Vet told me about treating dogs with bites.
^^^THIS^^^
Coyotes aren’t friends!
Yup. Pater Dean and his quail hunting buddies all had stories of coyotes trying to stalk or attack their bird dogs.
They are wily, after all.
But the story describes a single individual who was significantly domesticated. But that creates a whole ‘nother set of problems as you don’t know whether you’re dealing with one of Bobarian’s trickster coyotes, or an actual partially domesticated one such as in the article, until it’s too late.
Me, I’m going to get a Smilodon and name it Kitty Kat, and leash walk it past the coyotes.
Best to kill them all, and let Dog sort them out?
Those yellow-eyed bastards will go right though a screen door if you’re dog’s in heat.
Couple of hockey players come up the lane the other day.
Ain’t no reason to get excited.
This is how you take a firing.
I heard drugs fell out of his ass all the way out of the building.
The “threat” is only in your head, asshole
The father of a Parkland shooting victim has called for Kaitlin Bennett to be stripped of her weapons after she said she would return to Ohio University with “an army of gun owners” for an open-carry walk through the campus.
Fred Guttenberg told Newsweek that Bennett’s comment “pushes for the possibility of gun violence” and is just the latest example of why people should not be able to openly carry firearms in public.
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Guttenberg replied to Bennett’s tweet, saying that she was “desperately seeking attention” and that an Extreme Risk Protection Order should be issued against her.
“Sorry Kait, not getting the attention you wanted is not a reason to threaten gun violence. In fact, your tweet is the reason that open carry should not exist,” he wrote.
“Comments like Kaitlin’s in which she pushes for the possibility of gun violence because she was feeling insulted should result in the immediate removal of her weapons,” he added Newsweek.
“I would also add that as we have seen in Virginia, people are confusing open carry with open intimidation,” he added, referencing the fears of violence stoked ahead of the pro-gun rally that took place in Richmond, Virginia in January.
Guttenberg also said that armed protesters had shown up in Virginia to “harass” advocates from the Moms Demand Action group a few months ago.
“Kaitlin’s tweet is only the latest example of why open carry should not exist,” he added. “You now have gun owners using their guns as props to intimidate others because of open carry and it is inevitable that one of these displays will result in gun violence.”
The guy who stands atop the corpse of his child screaming about how law abiding citizens should have no rights which might cause him emotional discomfort. The existence of a gun is not a threat just because you’re pathetic.
Blow me, Fred.
Words are violence, I’m going to wilfully pretend to be a pussy who doesn’t comprehend language so that i can abuse you.
Any Conservative who votes for Red Flag Laws either hates you Gun Owners or is far to stupid to be trusted with the ability to vote for lunch let alone on laws.
Please provide a list of previous gun rights protests that became violent.
But Charlottesville!!!
/prog media
Dammit!
For some the very sight of a gun in public is dangerous to their health.
Triggering, even.
And Tonio delivers the stock pun.
Way to ram it home. I mean, you really dropped the hammer.
He took aim and hit the bullseye
We have to guard against slinging such puns around instead of barrelling along.
And I’m sure Swiss appreciated being the receiver of this thread… or at least he will appreciate its scope.
Lock, stock and barrel.
Some say that those carrying have only a Half-Cock.
Charlottesville, you Nazi-enabling shitlord!
And I know that it was not specifically a 2A protest, and nobody got shot, but they will pin that on 2A supporters because of all the open carrying going on at that rally.
Sounds like Guttenberg is the one desperately seeking attention.
Yeah, what has Steve Guttenberg done lately?
Police Academy 26, which was released straight to VHS.
Don’t forget Three Men and a 30-Something Single Mom
Maybe he pissed off the Stonecutters.
I’ll be the first to say, I loathe open carry like any other form of public attention-seeking.
But I was at the VA lobby day rally, and there were zero incidents. AZ rally, zero incidents.
I’m having to re-evaluate my assessment of the common North American Gun Nut.
I’m split on the Open Carry.
If i carried, i think i would prefer concealed carry because i don’t want to signal that i’m armed. But at the same time i can see that if Gun Owners constantly are going to conceal their weapons, there is a part that that people get used to not seeing guns in public, and helps to increase the fear of seeing someone carrying.
As an example: According to USCCA ~21% of the population of Utah has a CCP. I don’t see 1/5 people carrying weapons, and people who don’t carry get used to thinking that no one is carrying. I even had a (visiting) professor at school say she would cancel class if she found out a student was carrying a weapon to class, because the UT Supreme Court had just ruled that Public Universities couldn’t ban firearms on campus. I know that there were people carrying in that class, but luckily they were professional enough to let classes continue.
If I carried, I would not do it openly, especially here where it is constitutional carry.
Meh. Pluses and minuses to both. Sometimes you want it known, others not.
The biggest thing, is that it’s nobody’s decision but mine (on public property).
I mean, I’m all for facing your fears, but if someone is afraid of guns, it ain’t gonna help for them to see a bunch of pasty dudes in knockoff plate carriers walking down the street with slung ARs. It’s like curing someone’s fear of snakes by throwing them into the feeding pit at Florida Joe’s Rattlesnake Sanctuary.
Too damn bad. Your fears don’t allow you to curtail my rights.
Everybody knows, at Florida Joe’s, that it’s the gators that’ll git ya!
gators that’ll git ya!-
Now I want Polk salad.
Who said open carry was therapy for hoplophobic nancies?
Denormalizing guns is a big part of the controller agenda. Open carry normalizes guns. Its a direct counterattack on the ccontrollers.
“…a bunch of pasty dudes in knockoff plate carriers walking down the street…”
Yet they wouldn’t bat an eye if said pasty dudes were wearing a blue uniform and a badge.
We had Active Shooter Training at work a while back. The cop, who was *hawk spit* a Yankee carpetbagger from New Yawk who spoke approvingly of the now defeated gun bill, was talking about how he goes to the range twice a year, which of course makes him a steely eyed gunfighter, a trained professional.
Twice a year. At the range. Probably shooting at paper in a lane. Anyone who’s ever taken any kind of actual combat handgun course, and goes to the range once a month is probably a better (not to say good) actual gunfighter then the vast majority of cops.
The most terrifying person other than an actual criminal I can imagine with a gun is a cop. I’d rather an actual child was standing in front of me holding a pistol then be confronted by a cop with one. Those fuckers are dangerous.
Remember a few years back in front of the Empire State Building? Lunatic is firing at the cops with a .45. Cops fire back. Half a dozen wounded civilians, all with 9mm holes in them.
A 12lb trigger doesn’t exactly help with accuracy.
ain’t gonna help for them to see a bunch of pasty dudes in knockoff plate carriers walking down the street with slung ARs
Given the poor trigger discipline, marksmanship, and generally lousy judgement of far too many cops, that’s probably not unreasonable.
“Kaitlin’s tweet is only the latest example of why open
carrywriting should not exist,” he added. “You now havegunpen owners using theirgunspens as props to intimidate others because of opencarrywriting and it is inevitable that one of these displays will result ingun violencemean words.”I’ll add that this seems like an example of progjection. I carry occasionally and the last thing I want is to have to draw and shoot someone. He knows what he would do with a gun and he assumes everyone else would too.
This fucking guy has been using his daughter’s death as a magic force field to deflect any criticism for the shit he does any says. Christ, what an asshole.
Go ass fuck at least a dozen goats before you let him blow you
unhinged leftists constantly threaten her life. therefore she shouldn’t be allowed to carry.
^that doesn’t seem like a winning message but here we are
My day is ok… made some stock option plays today. Some went in my favor, some didn’t. Hopefully goes my way tomorrow and I can cash out and not get stuck holding the bag much longer.
And so he froze,
in the Snow,
like Jack,
Jack wanted someone to feel.
MMMkay…..
I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise
https://giphy.com/gifs/fight-club-quote-quotes-xhww30orMbrlS
Guttenberg has become a vocal gun control advocate since the death of his 14-year-old daughter Jaime in the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018. He recently made headlines after being removed from the State of the Union after an outburst in response to President Donald Trump’s address.
Guttenberg, who set up an organization in his daughter’s honor called Orange Ribbons for Jaime, previously told Newsweek that he had acted out because Trump’s words were “hateful and inciting and ultimately not doing anything about why gun violence happens.”
Take a bow, drama queen.
I feel for the guy. I can’t imagine losing my daughter. Tragedy, however, does not give him a golden ticket to be a cunte.
He can kiss my ass. Using his daughter as a shield from criticism is grotesque.
Yeah, Munchausen’s by Proxy is a terrible disease.
They named their Girl Jaime? That’s Spanish for Jim,
,Hi Me
Hi You.
Oh, just take your meds already, Guttenberg.
Jaime’s got a gun…
She thought Ruth Bader, the dog, had made a new dog companion.
Rock star.
The bizarre transformation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg into some sort of pop culture phenomenon among the woke is definitely one of the weirder things about the 2020s, and they’ve just started.
They made a movie where a relatively attractive woman played a wizened gnome.
It had Sex in the title.
The magic juice that keeps her, Hillary and Bernie alive will probably be cut off if Trump somehow loses
Heck, Trump probably has access to the magic juice ass well. How can he still have this much energy at his age?
Blah blah blah rich people suck and we should beat them up and take their lunch money
This week, the richest man in the world announced that he will give $10 billion dollars to the fight to stop the climate crisis. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced his new fund in an Instagram post on Sunday.
“Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet,” Bezos wrote. “I want to work alongside others both to amplify known ways and to explore new ways of fighting the devastating impact of climate change on this planet we all share.”
The details are pretty nonexistent; he didn’t say what the money will fund or how quickly he’ll spend it. But regardless, $10 billion is a veritable shitload of money. As Robinson Meyer at the Atlantic wrote, that investment would virtually double the amount American philanthropists spend on climate change. If my dude Jeff spends that sum evenly across 10 years, he’ll be the biggest climate philanthropist in the U.S. by a wide margin. It’s like Christmas came early for climate action!
To which I say, bah humbug.
To be clear, it’s not that I think we can take on the climate crisis without massive investments. Climate action that meets the scale of the crisis will require a radical restructuring of society. We’ll need new grids, new infrastructure, new food systems, and more, and all of that will cost money. It’s also not that I don’t think some of that money should come from Bezos, whose net worth is currently $130 billion. I just don’t think Bezos should get to decide how to spend it.
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Even if Bezos does fund some good climate work, I still think relying on billionaires to fund climate action is a bad idea. For one, it could force those who accept the money to keep Bezos happy, which may mean, for instance, not calling his company out for threatening to fire workers for speaking out without approval about the need for climate action.
Oh, no. The richest man in the world thinks he knows where his money should go better than I do. Not fair.
Bossy people like this writer are the real greedy ones.
Their “tax the rich” schemes still rely on billionaires to fund their pet projects.
Until they run out of other people’s money. But they probably believe that the money will, somehow, magically replenish. Perhaps those “investments” in government schools and green energy will finally start paying dividends.
It’s not pure until it gets filtered through the bureaucracy.
Pure? It’s usually gone by then.
They use the homeopathic method of purity.
Oh fuck off. It’s called “don’t talk shit about your employer” and it’s SOP. You want to blather about climate nonsense, quit your job and go on tour with Greta or something.
I just don’t think Bezos should get to decide how to spend it.
Government have a clear and successful record of allocating and efficiently utilizing funds.
I was cracking up last night when Biden touted solar energy and trains as the way to stop global warming. I remember when solar energy was a big deal in 1978.
And remember, he’s one of the “moderates”.
I still remember the solar energy windmill I made for my 6th grade science project.
Don’t get me wrong, governments don’t always listen to scientists or workers, either. Just look at our current presidential administration. But at least in government, there are democratically elected leaders who can regulate how climate funding should be spent to protect the interest of the country and the planet. If leaders are doing so in ways we don’t like, we can put pressure on them, and if they don’t respond to us, we can run other candidates to replace them. Those leaders are ultimately accountable to voters.
By contrast, no matter how much money pours into his climate fund side hustle, Bezos’ job isn’t to represent Americans. It’s to be the CEO of Amazon. He’s accountable not to the American people but to his shareholders.
Das collective uber alles.
Go suck on a tailpipe.
I think this person means “government scientists or workers”
Those leaders are ultimately accountable to voters.
That’s why they have a 10% approval rate but a 90% re-election rate.
This putz overlooks the fact that society can very democratically decide to no longer buy stuff from Amazon, or use any Amazon services and Jeff would in short order stop having all the power they claim he has. He’s just pissed that society has overwhelmingly voted in favor of Amazon.
He’s just pissed that he doesn’t measure up and that his girlfriend thinks he’s a loser.
A high school friend has a project going at CERN. There’s a good chance he’ll win a Nobel Prize if he doesn’t create a black hole that kills us all first. Hearing his description about how the money is handed out is eye opening. In theory, there are benevolent managers deciding on the best projects, but that’s not the reality.
I work at a regional environmental partnership made up of a bunch of people from various parts of various levels of government and nonprofits. The EPA more or less runs the show, and they’re the only people not paid via grants. Everything else is grant money. And you can tell. Have I mentioned there was a “microaggression workshop” run by the Diversity Workgroup for anyone who wanted to get paid to be woke in a conference room instead of pretending to do something of value?
Just called a redfin real estate agent to come over on Saturday. We had originally settled on moving out of VA in 2-3 years when we get the student loans paid off, but we’re hoping we can get while the gett’n is still good in the local real estate market. If the agent thinks we can sell it for high enough without sinking too much into repairs, we may pull the trigger without a real plan in place. All we know is that I would be able to keep my job in either of the cities we’re considering. We’re still split between Ft. Collins and Dallas. Impulsive? Yes. Exciting? Yes.
I’ve lived here my entire life and am seriously considering relocating.
Through all the dirt and muck, I can see what once was. Up here in NoVa, there’s very little of that old Virginia left. Just mile after mile of asshole office drones packed into cookie cutter townhomes, honking their way to work each day. I’m 35 miles out from the city in a rural area, and I have to wait for a break in the line to get out of my neighborhood during rush hour.
I’ll save the full rant and say that, just like California, the prog drones have ruined a beautiful place.
“, I can see what once was. Up here in NoVa, there’s very little of that old Virginia left. Just mile after mile of asshole office drones packed into cookie cutter townhomes, honking their way to work each day….”
You just described Colorado. I lived there in the 90s. There was pretty much nothing between Denver and Castle Rock, about 40 miles to the south. Now that whole stretch along I25 is lined with townhomes and a light rail. CA and NY transplants ruined that state.
“Call someplace paradise, kiss it goodbye.”
On the one hand, I am pretty sure I’m going to hate living in this state going forward and I do ponder leaving. On the other hand, it will be very hard to leave the family behind. I was gone for a little over a decade and coming home was a wonderful experience. Especially as my parents are getting close to their seventies, I don’t want to go back to seeing them once or twice a year. Don’t want to take my kids away from their cousin, who they adore.
It’s tough. Not sure where I’d go even if I did decide to vamoose.
If we returned to Dallas, it would be exactly that. Grandparents, cousins, etc. It’s one of the big benefits and one of the big detractors of moving back there. The other detractors being that it’s an enormous metropolitan area and they don’t have winter down there.
Ah, I see. VA wasn’t your original home. I would definitely leave if that were the case.
Would it have to be Dallas proper, or a smaller city near Dallas work?
No winter would be a detractor for me, but my wife will never agree to move anywhere that gets more winter than here. I’m still amazed I managed to talk her into leaving Florida for Richmond. She grew up in Erie and it inspired in her a loathing of snow.
It would be in the northern suburbs. The office location is in plano/Frisco, so I’m buoyed to the north side.
Wife is a native Texan and all of her extended family is within a few hours radius. Personally, I liked but didn’t love Dallas. Culturally tons better than DC and Palo Alto. Weather and nature-wise, it sucks. It’s also much bigger of a city than I’d prefer to live.
her extended family is within a few hours radius
When I say every silver lining has a dark could, this is the kind of thing I am referring to.
*knowingly nods*
Granted, the worst offenders moved to arkansas
Wait – TrashyEscapedTexas?
Trashy has lived in IN, CA, TX, OH, and VA.
…they don’t have winter down there.
Hey, we had a whole two hours of snow this year. That counts in my book.
I don’t think we in NYC have even had two hours of snow.
It’s been a year since WA has recorded an inch of snow.
This has to be the mildest winter in my lifetime. In philly now and all we had was an immeasurable dusting and one week of cold
Ft. Collins and Dallas are, from my very limited experience, nearly opposite.
That’s what makes it hard. I want pieces of each.
There is a pack of coyotes in the woods behind our house. Around 11:00 p.m. every night, they start yipping and yapping. Then again about 3:00 a.m. Then again about 5:00 a.m. Assholes.
We can’t let our cats out any ore, and we had them trained to the cat door. But they would go out into the woods and not come when they were called. Then we saw a coyote (at that time, we didn’t know we had any) and they became indoor cats forever more.
They still whine to go outside.
I hear a weird mix of crack heads and drunk yuppies in the middle of the night here
Those are good, but I’m eating Nerds jelly beans.
Never had those. I like Starburst because they have some tartness to them.
^this…
We’re still split between Ft. Collins and Dallas. Impulsive? Yes. Exciting? Yes.
Nice. It might be a good idea to sell out while President Cartoon Villain is still in office. I suspect the housing market will lose some luster (even in NoVa) if one of those other idiots gets elected.
Well, you might get an influx of people associated with the new administration moving in. But I’d say get while the getting is good.
Yep, fear is that a recession puts us into a buyer’s market and makes this shit hole of a house hard to sell. I’d also like to avoid burning through all the equity we built up solely because we waited to sell.
Honestly, if one of those assholes get elected, NoVa will be the only part of the country still flourishing,
The sweet government teat will never stop flowing.
This. The Imperial Capitol was never touched by the Great Recession. It grew and flourished under the benevolent gaze of Barack, First of His Name.
Ekranoplan! very good work,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY3PgBXeV9Y
Nice.
The whole “pooping on the sidewalk” think in China – in a fairly new, populated industrial city – was one of the things that really surprised me. Mostly kids – nobody even blinks at that. Add the pervasive sewage smell from (among other things) the lack of p-traps in lots of the plumbing, and it’s hard to get past the mental impression that you’re getting way more exposure to human waste than you’re used to.
From my hotel room in Donguan, I would watch the squatters in the next lot hang ass cheeks over the river bank and drop bombs every morning.
Yes, the smell was pervasive
Yep
Most of the migrant workers had never seen indoor plumbing prior to coming to the city. It’s no wonder that they don’t take full advantage of it.
BREAKING: Teenagers are Stupid
https://nypost.com/2020/02/20/tiktoks-cha-cha-slide-challenge-could-be-the-most-dangerous-yet/
Ha cha cha!
If only they could weed themselves out of the gene pool without taking innocents with them. The thallium milkshake challenge perhaps?
Great Pyrenees are bred to kill coyotes. I’m surprised this story didn’t turn out differently.
Yeah, that was some excellent guard doggin’ Lou.
700 residents? My town is 600 and no cops (state police and sheriff only). I applaud the board’s decision. NOW…get rid of the board!
But I like the guy’s pluck!
Haha. Yeah i lived in a town of 4000 and we piggybacked off the neighboring towns police department and the county sheriff.
“Maybe Hell is just being trapped in a room with crappy movies playing and Anita Sarkeesian telling you you’re a sexist if you don’t like them for all eternity”
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1230146721876975618
“Why Birds Of Prey Is Bombing At the Box Office (Hint: It’s Not Misogyny)”
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/birds-of-prey-bombs-at-the-box-office/
Birds of Prey is bombing because it’s an awful movie. I saw it for free on a free movie pass that was about to expire and I still feel like I got ripped off.
My daughter wants me to take her to see Sonic the Hedgehog next weekend. It has to be better.
I haven’t seen Birds of Prey but I took my son to see Sonic. It’s o.k. My son seemed to enjoy himself that was the important thing.
America isn’t ready for a girl-power movie.
Or female comic book heroes
It is possible that Margot Robbie is the most beautiful woman that has ever or will ever live.
You misspelled Audrey Hepburn.
No, she misspelled Grace Kelly.
That’s a very close second, I’ll give you that.
Tough call. Probably best to just have a short list rather than try to pick the One True Most Beautifulest EVAR.
I might nominate Christie Brinkley for the short list.
Can we just roll a golden apple into a wedding reception or something?
Hail Discordia!
I would add Mila Kunis.
Yep, it’s virtually impossible to single out just one. Although I still do have a pick and it is Liz Taylor. 😉
Ingrid Bergman
Yeah. First time I saw Casablanca I was in love.
You misspelled Monica Bellucci
Meh, her eyes are too far apart and her lips look bloaty.
Man, that’s a Mount Rushmore with those three.
That bitch farts in her sleep…
Ric Okasek sold his soul for the correct answer.
Monica Bellucci, I will allow.
Sorry, straight women and gay men do not get to vote in this. That is how we got crap like Twiggy.
Check your premises.
Mr. Mojeaux in for a surprise?
Your premise is that women and gay men think Twiggy is attractive. I wouldn’t be so crass as to go the “not all women” and “not all gay men” route, however.
Women like Twiggy are clothes hangers, no more, no less. Clothes that fit on Twiggies are aspirations of women to be able to wear them, with the (mostly mistaken) belief that other people (women) DO find Twiggies attractive.
Twiggy may be attractive to a select few individuals, but Twiggy is an aspiration and ideal based on stupid assumptions.
No my premise is thatattractiveness can only be judged properly by that which is attracted. Vegans don’t get to judge steaks. Twiggy was just a joke thrown in.
I’ll push back on that. I have no difficulty identifying an attractive woman, despite having no interest in doing so.
Ohhhhhhh, okay. I see.
Check the premise.
I am sure you can recognize one. But if you disagree with a straight male about which woman is more attractive, or to be fair in the reverse case which male is more attractive, whose opinion is more relevant? It’s attractiveness we are talking about, not some abstract beauty, and if you do not feel the type of attraction you are manifestly not the best judge.
So you’re saying that vegans are not attracted to steak. At all. Ever.
I’ll allow it. I was using “attractiveness” as a stand-in for “beauty”.
Rebel Wilson
Yeah you know me!
Whose opinion of the quality of a steak would one consult? A vegan who kind of sort of wishes they could try a bite, or a fat carnivore guy savoring every morsel? An extremely attractive woman causes actual sexual images in a straight man’s mind. Do you see a woman and imagine what it would feel like to run your hand or tongue along those curves? Do you picture the way her breasts will move as the bra comes off? You are not having the experience being judged. It isn’t just noting symmetry, proportions, and eye size.
I’m apparently poking a hot spot here, but I genuinely do not get why. My opinion of most male heartthrobs is that I don’t see the attraction, but my opinion of them is worthless because it isn’t me that is being attracted. If you are not attracted to women on what basis are you judging attractiveness? I think the guys posting above would agree with me that we are not judging raw beauty, we are judging degree of desire aroused.
Well, see, here’s the thing. I said “most beautiful.” I didn’t say, “most attractive.” I didn’t say, “I’d do her.” I said, “most beautiful.”
Your premise is that I can’t have an opinion because I don’t desire to run my tongue on her skin.
Leaving aside whether I can have an opinion or not, I said absolutely nothing about desirability or attractiveness. I said “beautiful.”
Beautiful != attractive != desirability.
See: hot/crazy matrix.
Ok, fair enough, I popped in down the thread and missed that you had posted originally. Mea culpa.
Elizabeth Hurley during her “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles” days (before she became famous). Holy Mary Mother of God, when I saw her for the first time on that show I thought I’d died and gone to Heaven. She’s just a complete vision in that episode, an Impossible Dream come to life. Young Indy was a total tool for leaving her. I even had a gay friend in Uni who said that she — in that episode — was the closest he’d ever come to being “turned.” Amazing.
This is when I lost it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubetfj_QhQ8
Julie Christie in Dr. Zhivago.
The short list may not be all that short. I see nobody yet that I would object to,
That doesn’t look like a Spielberg…
Or Kate Capshaw
Tweet of the year?
Keith Ellison – “Minnesota Attorney General Fighting to help Minnesotans afford their lives and live with dignity”
STEVE SCALISE PUT SMACK DOWN ON STUPID TWEETER… AND BY SMACK DOWN, MEAN….
With apologies to our resident cryptids, of course…
No kidding. Scalise from the top rope!
$20 says Ellison had to Google that. Or have one of his staff tell him.
I’m sure somewhere in there is “NOT A REAL BERNIEBRO!”
This is the reply you’re looking for
Lets go to Urban Dictionary:
Apparently, she is the only person who thinks it refers to internet activism. Of interest, according the UD, it was invented by the Hillary campaign to denigrate Bernie supporters.
LOL of course
Keith’s not very bright, is he?
He was/maybe still is a member of the Nation of Islam.
So that’s a hard no.
19 Motherships coming to kill the white Devils!
Tricknology!
He is stone cold stupid. He was speaking to my former employer in 5th district MN, a defense contractor, and I was seated I in the front row, mere feet from him.
He started in on a standard rant and talked about war and stuff and realized that his inevitable line of reasoning led to “and then y’all will be out of jobs.” He broke out in a sweat and tried to backpedal.
I crossed my arms, held my chin up and smiled broadly while staring without blinking the rest of the speech.
He couldn’t look away. Turns out he’d been assured the front row audience would be curated and friendly to him. I had been invited because I was a woman executive so the “outreach committee” assumed i was pro Dem/DFL. They even fed me a slip of paper right before the speech with a “friendly question” for him. I took it, read it, put my Nicolette gum in it and told the organizer “Oh Deb. You got the wrong bitch for this one.”
my Nicolette gum
The worst.
Rofl.
You know what I meant.
I can smell smoke from here.
That has to sting!
What the fuck Ellison?
As near as I can tell, he is classic nomenklatura – his sole skill/ability is as a sycophant to those in power. It is a role that strips a man, not only of self-respect, but of the things that give rise to self-respect – intelligence, dignity, honesty, ability, perspective, you name it. We should expect nothing other than self-serving stupidity from him.
He acts like a contemptible creature because he is a contemptible creature.
Ellison inquires:
I would bet my own money that he has done exactly that with Trump.
The Democrats have certainly done it regarding the shooting of Gabby Giffords.
Grilled tuna salad with swiss cheese on sourdough. Tasty!
Tuna melt.
that was my Lunch…..
RIP Sy Sperling, who was not only the founder of Hair Club For Men, he was also a client.
Did he have something on Trump?
As somebody who lost most of his hair by his middle 20s I could relate.
At the time I looked into it and it was pricey! Both the piece and the upkeep for the wig and blending your existing hair into.
Smart business because of the reoccurring revenue.
Thank goodness for Michael Jordan bringing the bald look mainstream.
You misspelled Telly Savalas.
Ahem, misspelled Yul Brynner.
And Yul Brenner (yum!).
But young dudes voluntarily shaving bald and sporting a goatee was Jordan inspired.
Puh-LEEEZE.
Patrick Stewart. Honestly, somedays I think you people are all retarded.
I kind of think of him as the groundbreaker who laid down the path that Keith and Clyde walked on in the “Just For Men” ads.
“No play for Mr. Grey!”
It is my privilege to share with you guys and dolls that GoFundMe finally transferred the money for Yusef to my checking account, and I just Paypalled the total to Yusef.
You are the best.
Excellent! Bravo to you for organizing the whole thing.
I second that motion!
There was a GoFundMe for Yusef?
Damn. Missed it.
It’s still technically open until 90 days after the last donation. So if you or anyone else wants to go again, it’s “Bob’s Farewell to Wendy”.
I will sweep any late donations into a monthly payout.
Dumb question. Never did this before but in the area where you put your name, will there be an option on the next page to put a ‘public name’ like Rufus?
yes
Put your screen name in as the name. That’s what will show on the list of contributors.
That Guy Anonymous was awesome!
He just kept on a-giving. What a mensch.
I get to Cauterize the Skin Cancer off my right arm, Yippeee!
I also wear long sleeves and sunhats at all time s nowadays,
I’ve got a butane torch. Just sayin’.
I have an appointment Monday at 9, to finish it,
Thanks to everyone, and a Special Hug to Hayek, for putting it together as fast as she did!
Yay! And thank you for setting this up and managing everything!
Nice work, chickiepoo.
Truly the best timeline: Mysterious group protests Dem debate by unleashing pigeons wearing MAGA hats
O M G
The envelope is pushed again.
I would like to get a shirt made that has MAGA on the front and Trump sucks on the back. Confusion, mayhem, and hilarity would ensue.
Oh, Fuck Off Tulpa!
is that what you were looking for?
I’ve had my “Fuck Off” already but I don’t know if the timer gets reset after a certain time of not posting.
Oh, OK then, just Fuck Off in general, Thursday and such…..
Oh I’ve been fucking off all week since I’m in a going on vaca next week and am in a good mood.
Collectively, we have the attention span of a gnat.
Gnat that anything wrong with that.
To clarify:
Ted’S’s position at the far right on the Bell curve in no way impacts our collective gnat’s attention span.
Except for that blankety-blank Ted S., who seems to remember everything that was posted multiple times and asks if drugs fell out of the ass of the person who posts it yet again.
We love you Man!!!!
/Buzzed Yusef…………….
Collectively, we have the attention span of a gnat.
Please. We have the attention span of a camera flash.
You buried the best part.
“The group, calling itself Pigeons United To Interfere Now, or P.U.T.I.N”
Now that’s funny.
There has been a spate of pigeons wearing hats in Nevada over the past month. First cowboy hats in Vegas, then sombrero donning pigeons in Reno, now this. It’s all very mysterious.
https://sfist.com/2020/01/16/pigeon-found-wearing-tiny-sombrero-in-reno-prompts-calls-of-animal-abuse/
“…local pigeon rescuer Mariah Hillman leapt into action…”
Cat ladies everywhere suddenly feel a jolt of self esteem. And from the comments…
“This is flagrant cultural appropriation.”
New treat in my open office…the woman in front and to the left of me (I’m Keith Hernandez) just started having a pic of a waving Obama on one of her 2 screens. Right in my line of vision.
It’s a brilliant troll, since she can’t see anything I put on my screen.
Advice?
Can you print out a picture of Epstein waving back?
Wait for her to leave her desk.
Before her computer logs her out, replace Obama with a pic of Trump.
Yeaaaah…
That’s a firin’.
I would assume for her, since she left her desk without locking her account.
Both. For security violations.
Put “The Hair” on her monitor.
By that I don’t mean the kind of hair that got Clarence Thomas in trouble.
Lol
Ignore it. Ignore her.
Like a fart?
Unless it’s your own, then savor it and ask others in the area how your shit flakes taste.
So Straff is saying Ayn should crop dust her coworker.
Try to not be bothered by a picture of Obama?
And avoid the 15 yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.
So her desk is the Home Team dugout?
Euphemisms…
Lol, no I am seriously trying to figure out what was meant by (I’m Keith Hernandez)
Back and to the left…
It takes a NYer
…
My sister unblocked me on FB and the post she has today is a pic of her sitting on an airplane reading “White Fragility” and her caption is, “Some white guy saw me reading this and gave me an eye roll!” All her dipshit friends are piping in with You-go-girl! After we solve Ayn Random’s dilemma, can we figure out how to get me blocked by sis again?
Post “It’s okay to be white.”
“Islam is right about women”.
In order for that to get a satisfactory reaction, she would have to admit to herself that Islam is not a friend to feminism and that woke feminism is wrong.
Maybe I’ll ask my wife to post that.
Sounds like she needs to check her female privilege.
So, she was parading around an airport with the book trying to get a reaction, then? When I’m reading a book, I’m usually looking at the book and and not the facial expressions of those nearby.
You’ve met her I see. It’s weird to me because every time you buy a book here the bookstore puts a cover on it. Doesn’t matter the book. It’s nobody’s business what you’re reading.
This is why God invented ebooks.
^this
. . . every time you buy a book here the bookstore puts a cover on it.
God, that’s so civilized.
You’ve seen the kinds of comic books the Japanese read?
But what if you buy your book from Amazon?
https://www.amazon.co.jp/b?ie=UTF8&node=6003505051
They’ve got you covered with DIY.
Post a pic of Biden, Warren and Bernie ( to cover all the bases) with the caption “White Fragility “?
Ok, but is she hot?
Planning a penetration test of her ‘white fragility’?
Always willing to help.
Used to be.
You two cut it out or I swear I’ll turn this car around.
“Your husband let you out of the kitchen?”
Can you get a picture of her neice (aka your daughter) holding this book?
Readings on Diversity Issues: From hate speech to identity and privilege in Japan
Celebrate with me, if you will, week 2 of ‘new computer, new OSes’ completing successfully.
My much loved, much used, 2009 17” MacBook Pro finally died the real death.
Financial reality set in, and I purchased an HP 17” laptop with Windows 10, 16GB, Ram 1TB SSD, partitioned 128 GB of disk to Ubuntu Lime Mint. Built in CD/DVD burner.
My environments are mostly set up now, although I need to master more hot keys and probably create some, especially on Linux. I suspect I’ll be spending more of my time there than on W10.
Interestingly, to me anyway, Linux is considerably more performant than Windows. VCV Rack, for example, reports meaningfully more processing power on L vs the identical parch (same file) on W. Also, Linux support for midi and audio are much better now than the last time I tried setting it up.
Bob, you should check out VCV Rack, or miRack the paid IOS clone.
I think Reaper runs on Linux as well.
Yup. Switching from Logic Pro, I’m looking at Reaper and LMMS on both OSes. First look, I like LMMS, but that’s way premature.
“Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother and said she would ‘do what she had to do to get him “papers” to keep him in U.S.’, reveals Somali community leader”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8013283/Ilhan-Omar-DID-marry-brother-reveals-Somali-community-leader.html
Yeah, but she’s a woman of color and a member of the religion of peace in a true blue district.
She could sacrifice a baby on live TV and still win re-election.
“Dad’s fury after school booklet tells daughter, 14, to ‘suck boyfriend’s toes'”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dads-fury-after-school-booklet-21528484
I remember 10 or 15 years ago absolutely laughing my ass off at all the stupid crazy SoCons who used to swear that after the Left got gay marriage, they’d start sexualizing children.
But they’re suggesting toe sucking as an alternative to sex. Along with “Naming a star after them” “Adopt a pet for phem” and “Proposing marriage”.
Jus’ sayin’
Proposing marriage is the most problematic.
Proposing an abortion OTOH is a really sweet first date idea.
Sadly, the spousal unit has had sand in his vagina all day but swears that it is my fault for “poking him with a stick”, “making him do it”, and “being a cunt” to him.
He believes he is punishing me by dropping me off at the house and going elsewhere for a few hours to get away from me.
I couldn’t be more pleased.
Bipolar disorder. It’s real. How does one persuade a loved one to get checked for it?
It’s more likely to be an axis II disorder rather than bipolar. People who are bipolar are very aware that they are bipolar, the manic episodes are kind of hard to miss. The mood swings with bipolar also aren’t hourly, but last for weeks or months at time.
Unfortunately, axis II disorders, or personality disorders if you prefer, are notoriously hard to convince people of.
axis II
Fourth Reich Boogaloo?
Hayek, please feel free to e-mail me at LinnieRed [at] WOH [dot] RR [dot] com if you care to hear any more about my second-hand experience with this (more than I’ve mentioned here before.)
He’s not trying to punish you. He needs his alone time. It’s not always about you
^this
His pattern of behavior suggests that he does not know how to communicate his “it’s not about you, dear” to his dear. In fact, his pattern of behavior is to blame her for his distress.
What he needs is to find purpose in life. Until he enlarges his own world, he will find his enemies in his small world, which is now our home. So I’m the enemy.
He wanted to spend the day together. We did. He didn’t like me being silent and didn’t like me talking. He gave mixed signals all along the way and contradicted himself. I wanted to avoid a fight so I’d say nothing but somehow that egged him on too.
Now I’m eating pasta salad on the patio and listening to birds. I intend to stay in the guest room for a few days.
Are you Elizabeth Warren?
That sounds like an insult.
I shall ignore it.
That’s an insecure man who is lost.
Well, he’s back from the local bar and is acting completely pleasant now.
I am on eggshells but it might be ok now.
Bar?
I guess he isn’t off the sauce.
Is he still the sole driver?
I hate to weigh in on this because we only have your perspective and one side is never entirely accurate, but if things are as you have described I’d say the only chance things get better is if he finds some work, and work that gives him some satisfaction and purpose. From your accounts I think his problem is resentment at the move and everything you describe doing to alleviate that is (pardon me here) dead wrong backwards and counterproductive. You can’t fix resentment by giving people things. That makes it worse because the gifts and indulgences just highlight the fact that they are freeloading and not in control of their own life.
He is still there grudgingly, the only way he stops being angry is if he comes to grips with the fact that he lives in Cali now, and makes the best of it. That means finding something productive to do. Also he needs a job not a hobby. Purpose is what heals resentment.
+1infinity
But there is likely a personality disorder also and/or mental illness. Mix that with alcohol and…
A dude who’s all there would have actually gone out and gotten a job just to have somewhere to be. Retired dudes who are used to being productive eventually go get a job at Home Depot.
She can’t give him a purpose or resolve any more than she can give him a sense of self-worth. I mean, other than saying, “Go get a job” and expecting it to happen, nothing’s going to happen if he doesn’t want it to.
1. I’m not suggesting she can do anything to fix this. She can’t. He has to do it for himself
2. I’m not going to chime in on a personality disorder from a one sided account. Nor am I accusing Hayek of any deception or bad faith. But we have one side only and your perception of a relationship you are in can NEVER be fair and unbiased.
It’s a tough situation for him as described. It is brutal to be uprooted for someone else’s ambitions. It puts you in a situation where you feel you have made this massive sacrifice for them, and are unhappy while the person you moved for is probably excited and happy about the job, and is meeting new and interesting people just at the point when you are at lowest ebb. But he is the only one who can fix it, and the fix is getting on with his life, and really accepting what he grudgingly agreed to (or deciding it isn’t worth it and leaving,.)
Now, in all fairness the reverse situation is just as bad, so Hayek needs to not feel guilty about it. If they had stayed in Minn. Hayek would be the one suffering the resentment. She’d have gven up this great exciting opportunity for him.
It is kind of your fault for pegging him at the beach.
NA with the correct answer.
“Pickles and beef: McDonald’s creates candles that smell like 6 ingredients of a Quarter Pounder”
https://fox8.com/news/pickles-and-beef-mcdonalds-creates-candles-that-smell-like-6-ingredients-of-a-quarter-pounder/
Because the Filet-O-Fish smells like Gwyneth Paltrow?
Pigeon Wearing MAGA Hat Attacked by Pigeon Antifa:
https://babylonbee.com/news/pigeon-wearing-maga-hat-attacked-by-pigeon-antifa
thee pigeons swooped in and threw tiny bricks and adorable little Molotov cocktails
Made my day.
ROFL
The bike lock is a nice touch.
https://twitter.com/sankakucomplex/status/1229497256774119426
What?
Aww man, not in Japan too.
https://twitter.com/someblackg/status/1230373541012312065
LOLOLOLOLOL
Stop it. I’m peeing!
iS tHiS ViDEo DeCepTiVelY eDitEd???
Schoolmarm Stalin and Grandpa Gulag team up on the Gnome Nazi, while Minnesota Nice gets mocked by the guy with the stupid name.
For our biking riding, weight losing Glibertarian Nephilium. I think she’s smiling at you.
https://thechive.com/2020/02/20/pro-cyclist-puck-moonen-is-riding-her-way-into-our-hearts-32-photos/
Look who didn’t skip leg day!!
Pedal on, gurl!
Entirely off topic(s): “Lars Anderson: A new level of archery”