Seriously. Its like none of these people ever delt with a house full of whores with chlamydia.
I found one without a paywall motherfuckas!
If you want a quick summary of the state of play over fiscal stimulus legislation, here it is: Republicans insist that we should fight a plague with trickle-down economics and crony capitalism. Democrats, for some reason, don’t agree, and think we should focus on directly helping Americans in need.
And if legislation is stalled, as it appears to be as I write this (although things change fast when we’re on COVID time), it’s because Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, is holding needy Americans hostage in an attempt to blackmail Democrats into giving Donald Trump a $500 billion slush fund.
Yes, Krugnuts, I’m happy you learned your lesson from every fucking time you were wrong about everything previous to this point, by adding this little caveat. Lest the normies stop taking you seriously.
First, let’s talk about the nature of the economic crisis we face. At the worst point in the 2007-2009 recession, America was losing around 800,000 jobs per month. Right now, we’re probably losing several million jobs every week.
What’s causing these job losses? So far it’s not what usually happens in a recession, when businesses lay off workers because consumers aren’t spending enough. What we’re seeing instead are the effects of social distancing: restaurants, entertainment venues and many other establishments have been closed to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
Wrong again shitstain. Should this all go to shit, this is exactly the same as every previous recession. The history of every economic downturn:
Step 1: government identifies flaccid, shapeless boogerman.
Step 2: government insists on it can save you from flaccid, shapeless boogerman.
Step 3: Somebody reasonable tells government it has no ability to do anything against the flaccid, shapeless boogerman and any action taken will inevitably make the situation worse than if the government just played with its flaccid, shapeless dick.
Step 4: government takes action against boogerman, in spite of step 3.
Step 5: We all get fucked, but its the person in step 3’s fault the boogerman did it.
And we neither can nor should bring those jobs back until the pandemic has faded. What this tells us is that right now our highest priority isn’t job creation, it’s disaster relief: giving families and small businesses that have lost their incomes enough money to afford necessities while the shutdown lasts. Oh, and providing generous aid to hospitals, clinics and other health care providers in this time of incredible stress.
Now, while social distancing is currently driving employment destruction, there will eventually be a second, more conventional round of job losses as distressed families and businesses cut back on spending. So there is also a case for stimulus to sustain overall spending — although helping Americans in need will provide much of that stimulus, by also helping them continue to spend.
What the ever loving fuck are you talking about? People are still spending money. They just are buying online in such quantities that Amazon is hiring 100,000 workers., Typical prog, when all else fails—PROG DEEPER AND HARDER.
So what’s in the stimulus bill that McConnell is trying to ram through the Senate? It grudgingly provides some, but only some, of the aid Americans in distress will need. Funny, isn’t it, how helping ordinary Americans is always framed as a “Democratic demand”? And even there the legislation includes poison pills, like a provision that would deny aid to many nonprofit institutions like nursing homes and group homes for the disabled.
…and municipal museums in New York. Team Cuck had the nearly identical bill filled with the same bullshit, but apparently you missed where Team Cunt shat all over it because it didn’t include enough of their bullshit.
But it also includes a $500 billion slush fund for corporations that the Trump administration could allocate at its discretion, with essentially no oversight. This isn’t just terrible policy; it’s an insult to our intelligence.
Your an insult to our intelligence.
After all, it would be hard to justify giving any administration that kind of power to reward its friends and punish those it considers enemies. It’s almost inconceivable that anyone would propose giving such authority to the Trump administration.
Remember, we’ve had more than three years to watch this administration in action. We’ve seen Trump refuse to disclose anything about his financial interests, amid abundant evidence that he is profiting at the public’s expense. Trump’s trade war has been notable for the way in which favored companies somehow manage to get tariff exemptions while others are denied. And as you read this, Trump is refusing to use his authority to require production of essential medical gear.
So it would be totally out of character for this administration to allocate huge sums fairly and in the public interest.
Cronyism aside, there’s also the issue of competence. Why would you give vast discretionary power to a team that utterly botched the response to the coronavirus because Trump didn’t want to hear bad news? Why would you place economic recovery efforts in the hands of people who were assuring us just weeks ago that the virus was contained and the economy was “holding up nicely”?
Boy, your TOP.MEN. analysis of Trump’s pandemic response is aging like dick cheese on the sidewalk.
Finally, we’ve just had a definitive test of the underlying premise of the McConnell slush fund — that if you give corporations money without strings attached they will use it for the benefit of workers and the economy as a whole. In 2017, Republicans rammed through a huge corporate tax cut, which they assured us would lead to higher wages and surging business investment.
This isn’t a typical market downturn cause by organic market forces putting people out of work. Given the government effectively told them they can’t do business with anyone, the only way they stay open is if they lay off workers. Now nobody is “allowed” to work even if they want to. Its either give them cash to pay their laid off workers accordingly or setup yet another welfare scam paid for by Americans who probably aren’t born yet.
And If you want to play that “debt doesn’t matter” bullshit this time around I assure you will literally be nailed to that cross. Crucifixion 2: the Krugnut Boogaloo.
Neither of these things happened; instead, corporations basically used the money to buy back their own stock. Why would this time be any different?
Blah blah blah blah, stock buy backs, blah blah blah blah, stock buybacks, blah blah blah stock buybacks eat a bag if rancid dicks stock buybacks, blah blah blah.
As I write this, Republicans are ranting that Democrats are sabotaging the economy by refusing to pass McConnell’s bill — which is a bit rich for those who remember the GOP’s scorched-earth opposition to everything Barack Obama proposed. But in any case, if McConnell really wants action, he could get it easily either by dropping his demand for a Trump-controlled slush fund or by passing the stimulus bill House Democrats are likely to offer very soon.
And maybe that will happen within a few days. As I said, we’re now living on COVID time. But right now Republicans seem dead set on exploiting a crisis their own president helped create by his refusal to take the pandemic seriously.
Of course you’d be fine if it was an asshole YOU like controlling the slush fund. I don’t vote, but I hope you get four more years of DEEPER AND HARDER TRUMP.
“Step 1: government identifies flaccid, shapeless boogerman.
Step 2: government insists on it can save you from flaccid, shapeless boogerman.
Step 3: Somebody reasonable tells government it has no ability to do anything against the flaccid, shapeless boogerman and any action taken will inevitably make the situation worse than if the government just played with its flaccid, shapeless dick.
Step 4: government takes action against boogerman, in spite of step 3.
Step 5: We all get fucked, but its the person in step 3’s fault the boogerman did it.”
I’d like to offer you a tenured position in my civics department.
He’d be fired for hate speech if he he reads from a real text book.
So Who’s slush fund is it? Trumps or McConnells? I has Confuuz,
It ain’t yours, thats for damn sure.
Hey Yusef gets a super sexy $1200 slush fund to use as he sees fit!
Krugman, who never met a government dollar he didn’t want to spend, complaining about an eleventy skrillion dollar spending orgy is rich.
I feel sorry for Winston’s Mom having to try and come up with something funny since he’s way beyond parody at this point.
He’s rich in irony–as opposed to goldy, or, logic.
Where’s “Winston’s Mom”‘s photo come from? Amazingly, Google just points back here when I search by image.
Absolutely Fabulous.
Oh, yes.
Right you are, my love.
Its fucking amazing isn’t it?
It drove me nuts the first several times I saw Winston’s Mom, so I had to do some digging. I love this series.
Ha! What happens when you search image Krugman’s face?
I get this one.
People like cunt. I think festering syphilitic sore is more apt.
One of my favorite things from TOS (at least I believe that’s where it started) was the line, “They have neither the depth nor the warmth to be a cunt”. It has made it into my monthly insult list.
Don’t think that’s originally from TOS. Can’t remember exactly, but I think it’s from a movie.
Ok, I don’t feel so bad for first hearing it at TOS then.
At first I thought it was a Hitchens line.
Speaking of, James Delingpole interviewed Peter Hitchens on what a pusillanimous country they’ve got, and it’d be a shame if anything happens to it.
I didn’t understand a single word they said.
“In fact, I said that to Hugh about five years ago.”
Oh … for the love of fuck….
Some things are better off being left forgotten.
The hummus wars…
I remember it as:
“I’d call you a cunt, but you clearly lack the depth and warmth.”
In fact, I said that to Hugh about five years ago.
I am pretty sure it is Swiss from a frat party back in the day. Drag night.
*narrows gaze*
That is a mugshot of Patsy Stone after a night out.
Before getting a facelift for her spread in Hello! Magazine.
‘Seriously. Its like none of these people ever delt with a house full of whores with chlamydia.’
This reminds me of possibly the strangest words I’ve ever spoken:
“Am I seriously the only person in this basement with pubic hair?!”
““Am I seriously the only person in this basement with pubic hair?!””
That’s what you get for attending an OMWC party.
What was most disturbing was the sight of a nude OMWC.
Smooth as a turtle shell.
Visual image that can’t be unseen now, thanks.
*giddily waves at LG*
I said that once after a krabs outbreak in 1982.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-e74kZip4I
I feel better knowing someone is as pissed as I am about this.
Our cower in home was just extended through May 1st. My rage is reaching peak levels. I’ve had to delete so many comments in work chats (so I still have a job when all this shit is over).
We get parole on April 30th, HAHA!.. wait….
I yelled at my mom today when she called it a quarantine. Said, “they quarantine sick people! This is a fucking lockdown.” I was asked nicely to stop referring to it as ‘moo goo gai panic’ at work today, as well. Ooops.
I’ve refused to use quarantine. It’s either been lockdown or cower in place for me.
Although I did get a ticket in my queue today that was a request for “access to the bartender”. I mentioned it in the team chat, and didn’t think until later that someone might think I was making fun of English as a second language people. I can translate a lot of garbage when it comes to phone systems (trees usually means menus; loops generally mean ACD queues; etc.) I have no idea what access to the bartender could mean, or even what autocorrect could turn into that.
But in these trying times, I think we all need more access to the bartender.
But in these trying times, I think we all need more access to the bartender.
Yes.
Keep fighting the good fight.
On the plus side, when I was asked to stop using moo goo gai panic, and I said okay, “bat soup flu” they backed off.
???
I have been using Kung Flu. No verbal pushback yet but many stares and shocked looks.
June 10. Those tickets.
Good grief autocorrect. Those fuckers
Our May 1st is only the new tentative. It was supposed to end April 6th. So now my two nephews birthdays are ruined, my birthday is ruined, my trip to Europe is highly unlikely.
There’s always the happy hour tomorrow at least. You bunch are the last bastion of sanity I have. Think how fucking scary that is.
If it makes you feel any better, right this very second I was supposed to be on a flight to Prague.
Fuck.
It does not. Wednesday I was supposed to be on a plane to Vegas for Viva (which was cancelled). Two weeks ago was the first St. Patrick’s Day I’ve worked since I can remember (fuck, I went to Catholic schools which tried once to hold classes on 3/17).
Besides, knowing other people are suffering with me doesn’t make me feel better, it just irritates me more.
I already missed my trip to NYC to see my peeps at the office, and my camping trip/spring break/son’s birthday was canceled because the country is shitting its pants, too. I say this not to make you feel better, but to let you know I’m just as mad as you.
Heck, I was supposed to be getting some equipment ready for sale at a gun show in Albuquerque.
That makes way more sense now.
Heh! That’s a funny motherticket, right there.
No way people last that long. Your governor is insane.
People are gonna get violent if they start enforcing this.
If you want true terror, listen to the Ohio broadcast today. You’ve got Dr. Amy Acton talking about hoping there’s a summer, while she gushes over being able to use the governor’s fucking pen to sign the lock down order extension until May. In general, I’m a non-violent man, but when this shit ends, the first motherfucker in a bar who starts bragging about turning someone in is probably going to be given a stern talking to by me, which may involve physical aids.
I had my first run-in with a friend who isn’t skeptical about the entire thing. Her Dad is (most likely) terminally ill so she’s highly emotional about people “doing whatever they want” and breaking social distancing bullshit. I tried my best to empathize but at a visceral level I wanted to tell her to FOS.
I’ve stopped discussing it with people. Too much casual acceptance of this bullshit as the cost of not having people dying in the streets.
It’s really interesting how it splits down party lines. All of the democrats think this is the apocalypse, everybody else is more skeptical.
I pushed this out to people I knew who wouldn’t lose their mind and sever contact with me:
https://www.pensford.com/why-flattening-the-curve-is-overrated/
It’s a tad long but great analysis IMO.
My parents are both high risk, and have apparently been doing the proper self isolation. The rest of my family has me and the girlfriend as the oldest (42/43). As it’s just the older generation who appear to be at high risk from this, my sympathy is quickly running out. Fuck, at what point is the Logan’s Run scenario the better economic option?
I texted my brother today that the food riots are going to be awesome. I don’t understand how people don’t see that you can’t slow down (or outright stop) production in one sector of the economy and not have it eventually slow down the others.
Because they’re the same economic imbeciles that think central planning could work.
“I feel better knowing someone is as pissed as I am about this.”
Oh, I’m pissed. Fit to be tied. That’s what the old folk would say when I was just a yungin. I’m fit to be tied!
Old Mickey Coot
Nice!
Thanks, Winston’s mom. Nice slush fund. *Takes out stimulus package*
Oh, put your package away!
Who was holding what up?
We simply cannot survive without a a watered down New Green Deal that nobody outside a political fringe ever wanted. They had to vote against anything less.
Don’t forget the identity politics Nancy was pushing. God forbid corporate boards don’t have the correct quotas.
It’s tangential to Apocalypse 2020…somehow…just roll with it.
women are forced to look after the kids after their husband dies of bat soup flu,so it’s only fair she get to be on the board.
#women most effected
‘And we neither can nor should bring those jobs back until the pandemic has faded.’
Meanwhile, my essential job has officially been rendered nonessential for the foreseeable future thanks to the precautionary principle advocated by gilded shitstains like Krugman.
But hey, fuck me, right? Who cares if I can’t pay my own way and am too proud and ideologically driven to accept a handout in a few months once my cash dies up.
I should just grift the system like everybody else.
ONE.CHILD.
Don’t worry Trigger Hippie. My call center IT job is double essential.
At this point, take every government hand out you can. Hell, for the first time in my life I helped someone apply for unemployment (the call centers I used to offer as jobs aren’t really hiring now).
Nah, fuck that. I’d rather work cash jobs in the sticks via Craigslist for more reasonable people and not claim taxes on those jobs than go on the dole.
You can always cam-ho.
I thought that cash jobs via Craigslist meant whoring?
Take. The . Money. it’s yours anyway, we all paid in,
Trigger Hippie, in normal times I’m right there with you. These are not normal times. I understand and fully respect the stand on principles (and have been there myself).
If you go that route, and need help. Reach out.
Dude, I’ll be fine. I’ve lived my entire adult life on the fringes of legality and have over the last twenty-five years created plenty of avenues to float around the system.
If I really pulled some strings and paid off the right people, I could be on Murder Mountain by Summer,; growing weed and living completely off the grid.
I ain’t gonna die, just maybe adapt or die/evolve in a worst case scenario.
At no point do I mean to imply you’re not going to make it through this. I’m just offering some resources if needed. I’m a white collar worker who routinely blends in at punk and rockabilly festivals. I have the feeling we would have great fun trading tales all night.
I bet!
Quick, link me your favorite Reverend Horton Heat song.
Off the top of my head… One Time for Me.
NSFW (for those who are still working).
Neph, you disappoint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt6Uq0fzjBY
Love Rev Horton Heat and seen him at least 4 times in concert. Now that I’m old, kinda love “Let’s Make the Bedroom.
Not bad. This one shows up as YouTube’s “Up Next” suggestion.
Tres:
I was asked for my favorite. While I enjoy Beer:30, I think it was done better by a local band as Beer!
LemonGrenade: I’ve seen the Rev *mumble mumble* times. I was supposed to see Royal Crown Revue on the Saturday before Easter.
/goes to grab another beer.
Shit, I have to side with Tres on this one.
Sorry, bud!
LG, you romantic.
That made me smile.
My personal favorite is “Galaxie 500”, although I do think “Ain’t No Saguaro in Texas” is a fun little song.
why not both? 😉
He’s playing the “death is terrible” card and yet he’s an economist.
I totally wouldn’t blame you for taking the system for whatever you can. The state government deliberately destroyed your job; I recognize it partly comes out of my paycheck, but this was deliberately imposed on people, not a result of bad planning or luck. Take what you can get and I’ll pray people come to their senses soon.
My response to Neph.
If I can think of any cash jobs to offer you, I’ll let you know.
*Waggled eyebrows *
It is your mission, no your duty to get back as much of the money that the government has stolen from you as you can. They will steal even more the second you’re back on your feet. Think nothing of it.
My response to Neph.
Your call. But you paid the unemployment taxes. Are you not going to claim social security when you retire?
Obviously if you can find a job that’s better, but if not…
I don’t expect SS to be financially solvent when I’m eligible for retirement, to be honest.
Especially at the rate of debt we’re currently plummeting towards.
Trump is starting to make Obama look like a piker.
And as you read this, Trump is refusing to use his authority to require production of essential medical gear.
That literally made my head hurt.
Wake the fuck up https://youtu.be/45CFAgdEqHo
Fuck it. I’m down with the sickness now.
Oh shit…
Down with the sickness
It’s like you don’t even listen to the songs man…
Wake up!
Ted S.,
What do you like most about that song?
Wake Up!
I impulse bought a bag of Cheddar Goldfish today as I was standing Leper Length from the shopper in front of me. I must say, a candied Jap on a Goldfish is a fine snack. Then a hand full of fish to deal with the heat. This was a hot batch of Japs.
Your comment disturbs me.
Jalepenos….remember back here we call them Japs. The J is pronounced hau.
Agile?
Western be trippin ballz, man.
What is a candied Jap?
Hot batch of Japs.
None of them looked Jewish at all!
I’m like an advanced AI at observing the curvature of a human female calf and rating them. I see that and superimposed ratings just appear.
Chubby OL porn?
It’s a weird fetish, but I like Freshman.
Jalapeno
Candied Japs
6 baby carrots
10 Japs
1 C Water
½ C white vin
½ ACV
1 C Sugar
Slice the peppers into rings, slice carrots length wise into slivers. Add all to a pot. Reduce until jelly like.
Western, I’ve built several ARs with parts from these guys:
Redxarms
Thanks! bookmarked for when I am sober. I have no idea what I am doing but I have a freshly milled lower so I figure the best thing to do in this time of uncertainty is to build a gun.
I use jalapeno dip to cool off from the scorpion pepper salsa. Bring the heat.
Goldfish…you people…
?
It was a moment of weakness. I failed.
One of the local taco places replaced their ghost chili salsa with a reaper one. I was there the first week of the rollout, before they stopped putting it on tacos for people, and just offered it on the side. That night involved more heat then I was ready for.
You bunch are the last bastion of sanity I have. Think how fucking scary that is.
*the Abyss stares back*
Fear not, thy brother, and rest thy weary head. After the Trumpocalypse, we shall rule the wastelands and unlimited hedonism shall be the law.
What’s not to like?
Not being able to decide if I’m hot or cold has to be one the most annoying things ever.
“Not being able to decide if I’m hot or cold has to be one the most annoying things ever.”
Wait until you turn 60. I’m like that all the fucking time.
Are you feeling better man? What’s the temp? Any cough?
I still feel like crap. 99.1? So higher than today. Might be because I ate a couple hours ago. No cough worth mentioning.
I think you’re going to be fine. It sounds like high fever and severe upper respiratory inflamation are the signs of a bad case of Cov19.
Never do acid
I thought it was always do acid?
1. Big Beats are the best.
2. Get high all the time.
Menopause?
Manopause.
I spent the day with an off and on mild headache. I’m stubbornly sticking to, “it’s because you had too many beers last night, it’s just a hangover.” Hope you’re doing okay, dude.
Thanks.
Definitely not a hangover since I haven’t drank since Tuesday, and that was less than usual.
I’ve been watching Industry on Parade, old Propaganda from the 50s, its very Capitalist, even Libertarian, funny as all get out,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mcj8sU2vSM
WM, is this the Professor Krugman to which you refer?
Fuck yeah.
Alien invasions indeed may be necessary (from the professor, not myself).
I hope WM that you will not be uncomfortable with my posting (yet again upon the Glibertarian website) “Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt < a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyIfEpNfU2U" because it directly relates to your article.
Professor Krugman's aliens surely might shatter any number of windows.
Step 1: government identifies flaccid, shapeless boogerman.
Step 2: government insists on it can save you from flaccid, shapeless boogerman.
Step 3: Somebody reasonable tells government it has no ability to do anything against the flaccid, shapeless boogerman and any action taken will inevitably make the situation worse than if the government just played with its flaccid, shapeless dick.
Step 4: government takes action against boogerman, in spite of step 3.
Step 5: We all get fucked, but its the person in step 3’s fault the boogerman did it.
Beautiful. Accurate. Depressing.
Number 1 hit song from a true blue American band. Beach Boys: Girl Don’t Tell Me https://youtu.be/pS94YK3pscs
That is the shaving cream right there.
Which governor is going to say, “Yeah, you know what? Just stay inside until you die.”?
Michigan.
That Tyrant Up North
Sorry, Andrew “Nipples” Cuomo will not be out-assholed in this matter.
Newsom has been surprisingly hands-off. It’s city-by-city in CA. I get to work, My company is retooling to make masks and respirator parts, and trying to put the COVID19 recognizing proteins on our “lab-on–a-chip.”
That’s only because he’s getting ready to make us into a Socialist Paradise(tm).
As OTA has stated: https://www.theblaze.com/news/california-gov-newsom-sees-coronavirus-as-an-opportunity-to-usher-in-a-new-progressive-era
I can only shrug my shoulders any more, it’s so tiresomely predictable.
Well put, Rhy.
And they’ll get away with it, too. It’s not like any voters are paying attention.
The problem is the voters are paying attention and seem to be heartily endorsing it.
Anyone know of a printer that doesn’t print in China? I’m trying to crunch the numbers for a potential indiegogo campaign to extend the reach of the remaining fantasy books, but I need numbers to crunch.
Just get a Brothers printer. If you want to print in color you’ll need to look for colored Brothers.
I knew of some printers here in Cleveland. But back when I was there last they were primarily doing Adam and Eve catalogs.
I found a few online. The print cost per book evidently scales with volume, which is infuriating when trying to decide on what price point to estimate.
One of the guys I hunt deer with is a printer. He’s a dirty Wisconnie. I can send him your e-mail if you like?
Do you know what kind of printing and volume he or his place of work can handle? Or should I just ask him?
Going with a high per unit cost estimate, the funny thing is my random ass-pull stretch goal numers are pretty darn close to the likely cost.
Now I doubt my estimates.
Ah, there was my problem, I forgot the transaction fees.
“my random ass-pull stretch goal”
STEVE SMITH NOT UNDERSTAND BUT AM INTRIGUED.
Stretch goals are a crowdfunding term for additional perks if the funds raised exceed the goal by a certain amount.
When I first came up with a schema for how a book might be put into an indiegogo campaign, I threw out some random values which ended up really close to what the estimates are.
Dammit.
I’m staring at the campaign creation screens, and I have no idea how to write this up to sell the idea of buying into the books.
MADISON (WLUK)
OMG WE ALL GONNA DIE!
Oh, that was a waste of soiled pants.
The lockdown is working!
The better it works, the longer we have to keep it in place.
I worked so well, we have to do it every year!
Oh, that was a waste of soiled pants.
I don’t think that is possible.
Under 100 deaths in Ohio.
Cower in place until May.
Wait fuck! I’m over 40! Shut it all down!
SSHHH! If the virus don’t know it can’t getcha! *adjusts tinfoil bowler hat*
don’t worry, they will extend to June. just look at what their models say. ..
As of today’s update which is yesterdays numbers, CO has 97 deaths. 90 of them being over the age of 60. We have 21 “outbreaks” in long term care facilities which is obviously a huge problem for the people in those facilities but I am highly doubtful it was the virus that offed most of those people. I really want someone to tell me how many people die in long term care facilities every day. The state does not disclose how many deaths were in those facilities but by all means, lets shut the state down because we have a problem in nursing homes. I don’t want to sound cold hearted, but jfc it is ridiculous.
The dems suspended the DNC Convention. LOL, the world really is ending.
Dang it! I was hoping the Bernie Bros were going to burn down Milwaukee.
The Bern that made Milwaukee flame ups.
“Dang it! I was hoping the Bernie Bros were going to burn down Milwaukee.”
A good start?
I want public executions of every public official that has been wrong so far. Starting with the Surgeon General who poo pooed mask wearing for weeks now. Along with everyone else from the CDC that went against their 2007 advice for this very situation. Assholes. Why do we even have a Surgeon General anymore?
We must have a surgeon general to keep people from living in food deserts.
The surgeon general decides what to print in small print you can’t read on the back of product packages, about what might be hazardous to your health. Essential!
Let’s start with Pooh Bear and all of the CCP. Then we’ll roll downhill to WHO and a large majority of the US MSM.
Buddy of mine just forwarded flyer from our local gun store. I see ammo prices are way up again. 14.99 for 9mm Blazer. Was on sale for 8.99 a month or so ago. I guess you have to order online, and can’t go in unless you have an order waiting.
Wasn’t supposed to be a reply.
After all this cower in place is over, mind teaching someone willing to head down to your neck of the woods to shoot pistols? So far my only experience was rifles, shotguns, and black powder back when I was in Boy Scouts.
There’s a pistol range in the Pyramid; did we talk about that? I feel bad.
It was either pistols or beer when you were here; beer winning out wasn’t the worst thing.
It was mentioned. Again, it’s been over 25 years since I’ve fired a gun.
It had been less then 24 hours since I had a beer. And going out for beers allows me to show some of my knowledge off. 🙂
Yeah, that would be great! I have a half dozen you can pick from:) I’d be more than happy to get you started. It’s a blast.
Although I don’t need another expensive hobby, I’m starting to think it’s one I should have.
Yeah, that is the thing. It can be an addiction. As soon as you buy that must have gun, the next must have gun comes out:) I try not to go too overboard, but if I had the money, I would have huge collection.
As soon as you buy that must have gun, the next must have gun comes out:) I try not to go too overboard, but if I had the money, I would have huge collection.
/looks over collection
/its too small
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caMHdcRNEkc
Colion Noir is right.
Lol
There’s a photo I’ve been meaning to take. I’m going to take a 5 gallon bucket and stack my handguns in it until it’s overflowing.
I already have a photo of some of my semi-auto rifles – spread and stacked on the floor to where you can’t see what color the carpet is.
Ammo? 80/20 ground beef was ‘on sale’ for $4.49/lb at Meijer today. That pink-slime crap is usually $1.99/lb.
Buckle-up, buckaroos.
I got a great deal on 5 pounds of 90/10 like 3.99 a pound about a week or so before the shitstorm.
Yeah, I thought beef seemed crazy expensive lately.
They were just knowingly lying to the public for their own good (sarc). The lie made no sense anyway, it they’re effective for medical professionals when worn correctly they’re effective for the public when worn correctly. They should have just told the truth about why they didn’t want people to buy them and let the chips fall where they may.
Yep. And that’s another thing- conflating respirators and facemasks. And ignoring that there’s medical versions of both of those categories (usually with a fluid barrier) and non-medical versions.
While were at it, lets throw in the corporate media that whipped everyone into a compliance frenzy.
Damn, they relieved the captain of the Theodore Roosevelt from from his command for allegedly leaking a copy of his letter to the higher ups about the CV on his ship:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pentagon-fires-navy-captain-who-spoke-out-about-response-outbreak-aboard-aircraft
That seems a bit harsh to me.
Military still takes jumping chain of command pretty serious and should
I guess it makes sense from a military perspective, it’s just kind of rough to see someone who’s willing to take career risks based for concern for those under his command being treated so harshly.
I think they’re worried about publicly exposing vulnerabilities right now.
The Captain panicked about an illness on his ship and begged for help. Reminescent of Ghormley at Guadalcanal. A ship’s captain, especially of a capital ship, can’t give the appearance of panic ever.
I have to agree. Leaders cannot show anything but calm, cool, and collect.
He’s not missing any meals, retains rank, pay, and benefits. Some Seaman did that shit, court martial and dishonorable.
That Suitcase Junket tune OMWC posted in yesterday’s lynx was fantastic. Never heard of him before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzmhRKB7Qdo&list=RD-T57mhKWHOY&index=2
Ya’ll rednecks, ya’ll ain’t got no fetchins up.
Um, that was this morning. And ya, that guy is tripping over talent.
I have no words. Screaming about this seems like squirting vinegar into the air at contrails. It makes my head pound, my heart ache, and my stomach turn over.
Shirley Knott said in a previous thread that watching a civilization commit suicide wasn’t amusing.
“…civilization commit suicide…”
Murder-suicide.
Mark Steyn on COVID19
https://www.steynonline.com/10168/the-preparedness-of-the-24-7-surveillance-state
It’s going be 20k deaths tops in the U.S. , if not, nice knowing you…………….
And YOU! *Points at Mojo* You had my head twisted into knots last night. Thought I’d read your M&M as I drifted off to sleep. Your writing style really pulls the reader into your world.
SorryNotSorry.
*evil grin* Thank you!
The characters’ insecurity and bravado manifesting simultaneously hit a little too close to home. Fuck of Slaver *starts biting toenails*
She’s got a’bit o’th’ Le Guin in her.
It’s that feeling of being helpless to change the lockdown. Impotent rage
Add to that the self righteousness of people when they call you selfish for questioning it.
In these trying times…
… I hope the ‘bra mask’ catches on.
So how heartless is it that every time I read “these trying times” I think of offering the person an egg (thanks It’s Always Sunny).
Not heartless at all. Personally, the phrase pisses me right off if the person using it is serious. To me, it’s made for mockery.
Also: I want a bra mask that covers my whole face.
Jared’s got you, sweetheart
ugh: he’s about fifth down
So, that was a twatter list of every leftist fuckwit (but, I repeat myself) in media? I asking, just to be clear, because…woof.
If alcohol could speak.
Lol
Weak dudes let their alcohol talk for them. I’ll fight you with both fists, see if I won’t
Curious, since many are (rightfully) angry about the lock-downs – what have you done about it?
I’ve gone about my life as normal.
Problem is, I’m a shut-in.
Shit, pretty much exactly this, except I’ve been yelling about how much the government sucks and we shouldn’t be grateful Northam put us in lockdown even more often.
Uh. I just cleaned the bathrooms.
They are spotless.
every bulb hot
every weed pulled
lots of old paperwork shredded
I’ve complied like a good sheep.
I can’t congregate with others except for online. We will need a virtual pimpernel of some sort.::
/Happy hour… tomorrow
Headset with microphone procured – two, in fact, in case the Mister decides to see what all the fuss is about.
Hopefully, more than just bitching about it. I’m trying to engage everyone I know in conversation. Mostly through simple questions. “How long can you last without working?” etc. I’m not very persuasive, so I’m trying to see if people can find the correct (IOW libertarian) answer themselves.
Personally? I’ve been eating out and buying from local breweries a lot more then I usually do. Moved up from eating out (maybe) once a week to multiple times a week, and ordering/buying beer from local breweries every week.
I’ve also been out driving when I can, and riding on the few days that the weather has been nice enough to allow it (within my parameters).
The extension to May 1st I hope will be the breaking point up here. I hope…
Im going to give it another week or two, then start a #ImpeachDeWine petition
And fuck his horse-faced, cunte, wannabe despot (like her Dad) daughter (and her FOP chums), too
https://alicedewine.com/#meet-scroll
And that f’g Amy that everyone is Gaga over. Fuck her.
Not even with your cock.
But Mike goes and waves at Alice so he can stay social distant.
Amy DeWine is a “devout Catholic” that wont take her husband’s name.
That dude is cuck’d. She’s riding on Daddy’s brand.
So… she’s going to Church on Easter, in violation of her father’s order right? I mean as a devout Catholic, holy days of obligation are pretty high up there.
And I thought Taft was bad…
Fuck, if this all blows over and the bars can open again, I’ll be the crazy motherfucker who will go off the first time someone talks about how “DeWine saved the state”.
Most of my family are “essential”, the girlfriend and my niece have been the only family to lose jobs due to this so far.
People talk about “whataboutism”. But this is a prime example of 1 state shitting their panties, and the (media) asking the governor next door- “THEY just did this- what are you going to do about it?” And its been mentioned, but not wanting to look weak, that guy “does something”.
I honestly kinda blame “The Walking Dead”. Despite being a soap opera with zombies as a backdrop, it was wildly popular, and has made a lot of people believe in the whole pandemic thing.
The fact I’m seeing positive articles about DeWine in my newsfeed tells me two things:
1) The algorithms really don’t get me.
2) His lockdown orders are popular
I’m happy about one of these things.
About every 2 days, I informally poll half dozen friends of mine, 2 of whom work in health care, and I ask them “do you know anyone that has CoVID-19 infection?” That answer was “No”, until 2 days ago, when I polled my former employee, and he said “Yes”. I said “who?” He said, “me”. He lives in NYC- Brooklyn. His diagnosis wasnt due to a test- his doc said “If this comes back positive, you have to go to a hospital, and you dont want to be there right now.” As of this morning he said, ” I had the flu”
I’ve avoided much drama with the family (sister works at the Cleveland Clinic, BIL is a fire chief, parents are both high risk). I think there’s a higher chance my nephews learn 80’s discipline the longer this goes on, and my parents are properly isolating (definitely not what I was expecting).
My niece is enjoying her time off that’s getting her unemployment… but she’s also a Bernie fan, so I failed at some level.
Their kid isnt your direct responsibility. Your job is to poison her.
Take a spin on the bike tomorrow- I may air up the Astro-Daimler and do 6 miles or so
I haven’t done crap either – we take walks, purchase take-out from some restaurants we want to support, complain to my son’s college, praise our Governor to anyone who will listen b/c Iowa isn’t in full shut-down.
Haven’t sent any emails to elected officials (complaints or praise), no protest signs in my yard, Glibs is my only social media (other than Linkedin, which is just a professional address book).
Fat and lazy is just no way to go through Covid-19.
As long as the daily death counts are trending up, there is not going to be any traction on mass disobedience. I am telling everyone I talk to that we can protect the at risk population without putting the 99% of us not at risk under house arrest. The feeling I get here is that people are willing to give this thing until the end of the month, so it will be interesting to see if there will be a meaningful amount of people at that point willing to have a giant party on the Statehouse lawn when Here DeWine announces mid-June as the new target. If every bar and restaurant opens and everyone shows up, there’s not shit he can do.
Fuck, I’ve got a pile of vacation days to use. I’m willing to go sit on the fucking statehouse lawn drinking if others want to join me.
In Ohio?
Not really sure.
If it comes to that, I’ll call the local radio station and try and rile up some folks.
As long as Ohio refuses to post ages associated with CoVID-19 dead people (who we’re gonna die anyhow), I dont trust the state (state).
But death counts, when they attribute every 95 year-old thats got a broken hip but tests CoVID-19, to the CoVID-19, are going to soar.
Which is what they want.
I could easily be CoVID-19 + right now (and asymptomatic) and walk out in the front yard and blow my brains out. What would the media say?
“Complications due to coronavirus”
I send a nasty email to my elected representative telling her to shut up about the Governor not locking down the state.
I go out when I need to without hesitation, but sadly, the only places I go are “essential.”
Last week I went to JoAnn’s. That was essential.
And Best Buy. Totes essential.
Home Depot. Office Depot. Dairy Queen.
Oh, and the therapist.
Careful about the JoAnn’s. Hobby Lobby caved to pressure here in Ohio.
It was cease and desist order from the AG.
Did you see my link about Montgomery County Board of Health? They’re conducting “compliance inspections” accompanied by law enforcement.
Did you hear the bit about “Compliance Boards” that are now part of Ohio law, but not really, because there’s no appeal and they don’t know who’s going to be part of them yet.
Rule of law is not only dead, the state is pissing on it.
Well, its also how they rigged the marijuana licensing boards.
We do corruption almost as good as Illinois. Its just more on the d/l and with favored families. Which is why I hate political dynasties….like fuckin DeWine
I think Herr DeWine called them “Arbitration Boards”. But I know what you mean.
216 businesses under investigation. I may make a point of trying to patronize as many as possible.
I know Jeff Cooper, the director of health. I used to play poker with him.
He’s a complete BS artist that worked his way through the system- he has an MS in Biology
“Remember – he’s not a real doctor.”
“I have a Master’s degree!”
“…in science!”
Loved that show.
I liked playing cards with him- his mom was a croupier in Vegas (as I recall), cause he had the legit chips.
But I liked it better when the Health District was run by doctor. Well, actually, Dr Vogel.
Im sure as the Health Inspectors and their buddies in the Sheriff’s Dept go out with pre-printed Cease & Desist orders, everyone in the cars is doing 6′ distancing, right?
You never send a deputy alone, and you sure as shit arent sending a Health Dept. employee by themselves- they’re getting Hazard Pay. And Union.
You got 2+2 or 4+4
Res ipsa loquitur.
I would SO love to see ABF freight, Cargill, Caterpillar, Cintas, GE Aviation, and Local 82 shut down.
Specially IBEW 82- I know those guys. Try getting re-elected next term.
I just emailed both the teamsters and the IBEW and cited that, and told them “next time, do NOT vote the incumbent”
New rifle and 1700 rounds of 5.56 Nato. Does that count as doing something?
You already won with the email to an elected official, now your just trying to make the rest of us look bad!
I managed to not use the actual phrase “shut the fuck up”. Three and half decades of writing corporate emails finally paid off.
kinnath wins the internet.
I think I’m moving from looking at plate carrier to clicking buy.
Also, since it doesn’t look like I’ll get getting new eyeglasses soon as intended, I’m going to use this year’s FSA for more first aid kits. Well, trauma kits & IFAKs. Current ones are close to expiration anyways.
We’ve been getting carry out almost every night for dinner, almost all from local joints. Tried a new one tonight we’d almost forgotten about. Especially with the ones that only opened recently, we’re hoping we can help give them a fighting chance to survive.
I dont know if El Greco’s has emptied their inventory yet, but check them for $1 tacos
El Meson is tanking, too. In case you didnt read it.
Tonight’s was Mila’s Suburban Cafe up in Northmont Plaza – right next door to the China Star restaurant (our go-to for Chinese, but now “temporarily closed.) Chicken salad wraps FTW!
Thats the one that used to be a bank?
Don’t know about that – it’s in the strip center on Taywood just off 48 (just north of the dam.)
Do what ever the hell I want? Strangely, my normal behavior is similar to a lock down other than they told me I couldn’t go to work and sent me home.
https://youtu.be/0V2sTlmI8-w
There’s no lockdown in Massachusetts. I walk or drive to stores whenever I feel like doing it. On Sunday we even drove to a neighboring state to pick up a laptop at Best Buy with an explicit purpose of avoiding paying the sales tax. Bizarrely, that was probably the first time I did this in twenty years of living here.
I’ve found every excuse I can to get out of the house… though it all amounts to things that asshole in Concord deemed essential.
I have gone out for take-out a bit more often than I used to eat at local restaurants in an attempt to keep a few I like afloat.
Pick up coffee and bagels at the local shop. They’re not sure they can stay open much longer. That place needs to survive – where else can you find these two things on the wall:
– Award to owner from local church for donations and service to said establishment
– Autographed photo of owner with Ron Jeremy
All you customers who made Amazon what they are today, I hope y’all don’t want masks or CV test kits:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/02/amazon-blocks-sale-of-n95-masks-to-public-begins-supplying-hospitals.html
Mentioned it yesterday or the day before. They’re also restricting sales of hand sanitizer, sanitizing wipes, and gloves.
FDA is not helping either. TW Suderman
https://reason.com/2020/04/02/the-fda-is-making-it-much-much-harder-for-distilleries-to-produce-hand-sanitizer/
3M just got DPAed, Amazon wants to avoid the same fate.
Can a retailer get DPAd? Because Amazon really doesn’t produce anything themselves.
Damn it!
/looks in beer fridge
I may have to order a resupply to make sure I have enough for tomorrow night. Any suggestions?
Nope,
/looks at stack of Natty Ice 30 packs………….
Motherfuckin MBL !
(Natty light works in a pinch tho)
My last growler was the Goggle Fogger. Really enjoyed it.
I’m just more annoyed they don’t offer the 15 packs on the website. My other option for home delivery is Sibling Revelry which have some decent beers, but if I had to chose, Fat Heads wins every day.
Ladies (heh) and gentlemen. I have a one time rant. This is stupid. My soon to be senior in high school cannot get surgery or a brace for a torn ACL because essential shit had been cancelled. He will limp into his last year of school to kiss scholarship offers goodbye.
My hard as nails daughter made varsity as a sophomore and watched it turn to dust when they cancelled school for the year.
They both cried today when they heard school was done for the year. Telling them the reaction to this virus is insane does them no good. I hate panic and I hate people who perpetuate it. Thank you. Goodnight.
I’m very sorry to hear that P Chip – I’ve seen a lot of nonsense about how the younger generations aren’t impacted by this and it’s bullshit.
Best wishes to your family.
As an asshole, make sure they understand that panic is what ruined their year.
Then watch Logan’s Run with them.
I’ve been beating that drum so much my wife is pissed about it.
Always a wise decision.
Damn, sorry for your kids. Lots of kids in sports missing out because of this BS. I know parents of wrestlers who were set for nationals and then nothing. It just ended.
Yeah, my son’t robotics team was in position to do well at state and hopefully go on to world’s But, nope. all canceled.
Plus they announced the AP tests are going to be 45 minute at-home exams, so … basically worthless. At least he’s only taking the calc one this year.
High school kids are definitely getting screwed.
That sucks, man.
Does your son have a timeline for the ACL operation?
Thanks to all. We’re holding off on surgery until fall season is done, but we can’t do PT or get custom brace ordered.
It’s weird. He moves liked there is no injury, but will just randomly fall over when running. He will be able to manage until he goes under the knife, but tough for a 6’2″ monster that is used to dominating people.
And this is euro fagball that he plays, but he’s very good ??
Sorry.
Sorry, PC.
That’s awful. I hope when the dust settles things turn around for them.
Economics? We’re talking economics? Economics are fucked for the auction business. I found that out today.
Demand-Supply
How does it work ?
It doesn’t work for fuck when the government fucks it up.
Well isn’t that just because you’re just gouging innocent people?
how can anyone know what anything, from corporate paper to a D9, is worth until the USG is done picking winners and losers ?
My ass couldn’t be redder than it is now due to Gov’t influence.
The entire economy is fucked. It’s shifted into neutral and the idiots think that just because there’s still forward momentum that economy is in gear, albeit a lower one.
What’s the going rate for a 8-12k lbs rated 4wd telehandler going for these days?
^ This is a good question.
I sold a 2018 Cat TL1255D today for $73k. That was worth $95k three weeks ago.
Thanks. We need to replace a Gehl that’s just about to move into ‘throwing good money after bad’ territory and we’re looking for lower hour replacements of any brand.
I’ve got one more of you want to put your money where your glibhole is.
We’ve been looking in the PNW since it would have to be barged up to a site off the road system in AK.
Damn.
Yeah. Like being kicked in the nuts.
No kidding. And I thought I was taking a hit in the wallet.
My seller was happy as shit. That’s the times were in.
Hashtag: sadasfuckingfuck
Subscribed
I have had my best quarter ever, so I shouldn’t bitch too much. But still…this stupid shit cost me $50k today.
I had my best year last year and this year was looking the same. Had a 136K contract cancel two weeks ago.
Brutal.
If someone had corona virus and then got a different, but deadly disease, how would they classify the death?
Where did they die?
They’d classify it in whichever way is politically advantageous.
If it were here, they’d call it “age related”.
No one dies from the coronavirus or the influenza virus. What you die from is either the massive inflammation they cause which leads to links like ARDS or from opportunistic infections like pneumonia. I’ve been hearing that coronavirus can get into your kidneys or liver and you can die from sepsis or a liver infection too.
And it makes you cray-cray. And everyone else as well evidently.
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/04/02/small-percentage-coronavirus-patients-neurological-symptoms/
Let’s say that you can live with Covid 19. You can also live with diabetes. But you can’t live with both. Maybe we should put up a quarantine around the candy story and you can only go in with a government pass.
Hey Chief, you think those gunshot wounds were from a .40 or .45? Looks like Coronavirus to me Lou.
!
Lol
Proof homeschool is superior.
Cute kid btw.
Ok, Tulpa.
Aren’t we all a little bit Tulpa inside?
I’m a little bit rock n’ roll.
And I’m a little bit country….
…to Chafed’s dismay.
?And I’m a little bit cuntry ?
JFC MikeS. What happened to you?
No
Better than being a little bit White Indian or Mary
Okay, Jesus Christ!
That got a legitimate LOL!
Ha. Awesome. My daughter did this for me today.
Yeah https://imgur.com/gallery/lMZOqOZ
Winning!!!
*wipes away a single tear*
?
For a Sinophobe, she does the Asian squat well.
It’s all about the CCP.
Ok, but are you down with OPP?
Yeah, you know me.
I would break something if I tried that.
I don’t know if I would break something but I would fall over and have to roll around a bit before I got myself up.
Bullshit. You need a Hope filterless hanging out of your mouth to do that.
Baby steps.
Or an Adidas track-suit.
Asshoe? Is that what it says?
Part of it.
?
Is she yours?
Half the people born between 20013 and 2015 are mine. I. That fertile.
Lucky for them, and I suppose everyone, that you married a cute gal.
You think that stopped it? His sperm is more airborne spreading that measles!
Someone actually wrote an essay about it.
Fact check: ::checks child support::
too true.
Sorry, but I do need some sleep to work tomorrow.
But if any of you are interested, Virtual Happy Hour(s) tomorrow. I plan on logging in at 19:00 Eastern, and leaving it open as long as I can.
To paraphrase, reword, and completely take out of context the the words of the absolutley great comic Doug Stanhope:
How does knowing that the Republicans’ suck, sucks less than the Democrats’ suck make the Republicans’ suck suck less?
Goodnight, all.
Be sure to warsh your hands.
Flattenin’ the curve
Straightenin’ the hill
Someday Coronavirus might get us
But the law never will
Makin’ our way,
The only way we know how.
That’s just a little bit more,
Than the Cuomo allow.
I have to go warsh my hands. Night all!
I just finished a pantry inventory checklist. Now I have to actually go count stuff.
Yes, you read that right. My life is absolutely thrilling and you should envy me.
A panty inventory? Do tell.
Perv….
My thoughts too after the comment below.
We’re definitely going to need pics.
+1 Kanga’s towels ?
I will do this on tomorrow’s Zooming With Neph.
Japan has some of the weirdest and awful and insane and yet most common-sense things.
Put the panty vending machine next to the feminine hygiene products vending machine that also has diapers, wipes, and various ointments and unguents.
*rethinks moving across the world*
Just send me 500 yen in bitcoin. Hope they have extra large.
Was that a poster of Steven Seagall behind the machine?
Yeah, Yeah–it was prominent before the denouement, TYVM.
I don’t get why I can’t do a while loop with and conditions? Could somebody explain that to me?
I understand, but there is no Syntax to follow….
We’ll do our best if you explain to us what the fuck it is you’re asking.
Boolean Logic, and, if, then, etc.
add an if after the loop, before the conditions?
Does not compute.
guess_sex = input(“What is the sex?”)
guess_hair = input(“What is the hair color?”)
guess_glasses = input(“Wears glasses?”)
while guess_sex != “Male” and guess_hair != “Blonde” and guess_glasses != “Yes”:
print(“Not quite! Guess again.”)
guess_sex = input(“What is the sex?”)
guess_hair = input(“What is the hair color?”)
guess_glasses = input(“Wears glasses?”)
print(“You win!”)
It seems to break down with trying to link together != conditionals.
Should all those conditions be an or? If you need the right guess to be Male, and blond, and Yes to glasses.
Learn
To
Code
I’m trying but I think I started too late.
Try parentheses around each != expression.
Is that python3?
I just copypasted it and ran it and it worked fine after I replaced the quotes (“ and ”) with regular straight quotes (“)
… and added in proper spacing for the while loop.
It doesn’t work for me, if I’m understanding the logic – I still “win” even if I enter “Female”. He seems to be aiming for “Male”.
I’m stumped – it should work. But I am not a Python expert so I might be missing some “quirk”.
I’m more curious why you’re looking for a blonde male with good eyesight.
Oh wait, I see the problem you’re having, it’s exiting the loop on a ‘match any’ instead of ‘match all’…
“not match any”, I mean, rather than “match none”…
Yeah, that’s the expected behavior, the while condition is going to exit as soon as any of the conditions is untrue. So if you put in “Male” “Brown” “No” for example, it’s going to fail at the “guess_sex != ‘Male'” and not even move on to evaluate the rest of the expression.
Here, do this:
while (guess_sex == “Male” and guess_hair == “Blonde” and guess_glasses == “Yes”) == False:
^^this is the correct answer.
However, as a code organization suggestion, if you have a group of related variables, you can combine them and compare that data structure to the expected results:
sorry, you’d want to use the inequality comparator (!=) not the non-identity operator (is not).
Yes
https://stackoverflow.com/
you can in Fortran 4
or nest a DoWhile inside another DoWhile
/ pretty sure
if (${lockdown} > 1) {
string reality = “Fuck everyone with a rusty saw”;
} else { string reality = “What the fuck are you people thinking?!”;}
print reality;
I just Hemmed and Sharpied my new Corona Bandana! kite fabric FTW!
/Comes in six colors…
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZPEPuY3SbYo8KUg8A
If I made a bunch of these and sold them, would the FDA come down on me?
If I made
a bunch of these and sold themanything, would the FDA come down on me?Yes. Yes, they would.
What if I gave them away to friends?
Commerce Clause.
Fine, I’m a Mask Pirate!
YARG!
https://www.stinson.com/assets/htmldocuments/Alert%20-%20FDAs%20Policy%20in%20Response%20to%20Face%20Mask%20and%20Respirator%20Shortages%20Resulting%20from%20COVID–19.pdf
Cute.
http://archive.li/OZSis/6b2249253456c854b0656db93f99a6d24f058576.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/3TRww/f9b380af77ce4bdc4bf5c0cd052ee992d23b4236.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/iNQKA/e3bdf5a67ce50a9de68e0f6130a5ca99c175ac01.jpg
NSFW.
I want to be quarenteened with her.
http://archive.li/ce9B4/8cb8edb335146270d2dafd64d64cce0e92fb4d55.jpg
NSFW.
Thanks, I needed that.
On Target!
Yowza.
Because it’s Canadian?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/is-canadian-whiskey-good
Wah, wah, wah. Those damn Americans fucked us again!
Already drinking Canadian Club tonight.
You want a hero? Here’s a hero:
‘I prefer dangerous freedom to peaceful slavery,’ says small-town North Dakota bar owner who has repeatedly defied shutdown orders over coronavirus
Police states always need functionaries.
Vermont telling retailer to stop selling “non-essentials”
Vermont ftw
Christ. The people are already there, the damage is done. Just let them buy the goddam goods. And the list of “non essential” is bullshit as well. Half the items are essential under the terms of the current house arrest and the others are essential if they’re needed. I’m past the point of shedding a tear if any of those Quislings contracted a case of acute lead poisoning.
I like how clothing is non-essential, lol.
Bezos doesn’t have a sad.
One way I’ve been amusing myself since the lockdown idiocy started – while walking on the trails through the park adjacent to my neighborhood, whenever someone is coming by in the other direction, I edge closer to their side. They usually react like I’m waving an axe around, veering sharply away from me. Asshole move? You bet!
Night kids.
Its 00.05 here
That much?!?!
Quick story from work, as told to me yesterday: So, one of our officers (the most senior officer, btw), died a couple of weeks ago. Sitting, and playing cards (or, somesuch) with his grandkids. Drops his face to his left shoulder, and died.
But–daughter is a medic of some sort, and manages to bring him back! No idea what it was that happened to him; no diagnosis has been forthcoming.
Oh, but, while in the hospital, he tests positive for COVID. So, yeah; that’s a thing that happened in my dept*.
*If I’ve ever met the man, it was over three years ago. He is posted to another campus, and there’s no contact between him and where I work.
a/ does his revival count as -1 deaths due to CV ?
b/ does his previous death count as a death per CV ?
c/ will his eventual death count as 1 death against CV or as a second ?
The world may never know…
Also–what has happened to the text? Is anyone else seeing the font change to light gray/pencil thin?
Again….
Dayum…
Men much more likely to die of Kung Flu, women hardest hit.
https://dnyuz.com/2020/04/02/why-are-so-many-more-men-dying-from-coronavirus/
I dunno how “much” more likely. The one figure I remember is 56% are men?
And are men more,likely to get affected? Are they just leaving the house more?
Ok just found a source.
Men represent 56% of coronavirus cases.
Men Hardest hit…..
/that’s a first…
Well, yeah… Men who die of Chicom virus are dead in a week or so while women have to worry for years and years about getting it.
Plus the dead guy will never finish his honey do’s.
O belive women have a stronger immun system in general and have been less affected by most epudemics in history
I believe is wrong, i thought is better, it is not about faith
While most citizenry is being told they aren’t doing “essential” work, NY pols continue to excel at being shit-stains.
What a fucking douche. He is a barnacle.
I notice the hospital is Mt. Sinai and the temporary one is Samaritan’s Purse. Perhaps hizzoner can explain why the Communist Party hasn’t done a damn thing.
I’m gonna take my beat down CV carrying ass to the park tomorrow, stay back!
Maybe I should wear my Carrier A/C shirt………………
Weed AND self-defense?? That’s some mighty fine shootin’,
TexOkie!You can have my weed after you take the bong from my dead Body…….
There’s one less in the world to do that. Hip hip hooray!
You americans seem to ehm… trigger easy maybe you should not have guns
Thank God at least one of us triggered easily in this situation!
Another heartwarming story.
::High fives for Chafed::
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmXYJOyAGc0
First! Also, Imma repeat my observation that the silver cloud is being able to watch a civilization commit suicide up close and personal.
Hei we live in that civilisation and are still using it. I don’t do well in leather
At some point prior to Pleny writing his book, things went bad. No contemporary writer wrote anything, letting Pleny set the narrative generations later.
I wanna keep this civilization, too, but am
Oh that’s perfect – gonna keep it
I don’t even know where that came from… I didn’t write it
Friday afternoon. Watching my kids and Carnitas cooking down in the slow cooker. Contemplating if I should start on the bourbon early.
I say lock the kids in a room and get drunk. They can learn to watch themselves.
I hate everyone
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2020/03/31/louisville-circuit-court-ankle-bracelets-noncompliant-coronavirus-patients/5094594002/
We’re all China now.
ACLU is on this right? RIGHT?
So no work to day. User poll: should pie have a morning beer.
1. No! Be responsible.
2. Yes. At 8 AM is ok
3. Yes but wait till 9 30
Well, that depends, how much are you going to drink after the beer?
4. It’s not morning drinking if you didn’t stop from last night.
2 or 3.
You ran out of scotch already?
Drinking before 7 PM is wrong.
someone revoke this guys glib card.
He didn’t say which time zone.
7pm is my earliest, too. I don’t day drink.
Although I’m considering a revision.
7 PM is a model of restraint. I’ve mostly done 5 as the acceptable hour to crack the first. It’s good to have some type of personal rules surrounding booze, yours may vary.
Most days, my rule is don’t drink after 7 PM
Only blood after dark. Vampire confirmed.
Seriously though Pie, hope Romania gets back to its normal self before too long.
Goddam insomnia.
My eyes are tired.
I want to sleep.
My body goes – nope, wide awake.
hot shower? glass of warm milk? reading The principles of Logic by George Hayward Joyce
Do you have to go into your office tomorrow UCS or are you WFH?
Working from home. I managed maybe two hours sleep if I’m lucky.
Its late but gave my kids a dose of SLC Punk! And Idle Hands (mostly to see young Jessica Alba in underwear.
But you don’t have the decency to give us the link.
Didnt realize my kids were on here…hold on while I use the same tools you have to find what you seek….
This has been an utterly depressing month for the world and I imagine it is only going to get worse. I do still think that ultimately it will be shown that the death rate is far lower than the current models have shown. The economic situation by then will likely be fucked. I have been working on businesses that I don’t think will last it out. I’m generally a glass half full (until I empty it) kind of guy. I hold out that there may be some positive flotsam in this sea of shite. Maybe if these models are proven vastly pessimistic there may be some pushback on the apocalyptic climate projections. Likely not, but a boy can hope.
Kswell have you checked into the Paycheck Protection Program?
I’ve been looking into it. We’re filling out the paperwork tomorrow.
Plinker I haven’t goiten a call back from my banker. Is it a direct application to S A or does it have to go through an approved lender?
Through an approved lender. For me it is the bank I have my business accounts with. I just stopped by and asked for the forms. There is some information on the SBA website.
Thanks C, my tax accountant just suggested the same today. At this point I can ride it out I hope. Thankfully I got a job at the soon to be Wuhan wing that is going to make this month. My real estate clients have almost stopped completely except for emergency stuff. It’s spooky driving and working in a quiet city. I really want businesses to be open again, but it’s gonna be a month. How many are going under? I feel really bad for them.
I hope so too. I’ll just suggest you check on it. The loan terms are staggeringly favorable.
Nope, these models were instrumental in lowering the death rate. Therefore the climate models will guide us to the correct police actions to prevent the earth from catching on fire. (The wholesale acceptance of the ever increasing government throttling of the economy has made me a little pessimistic)
Oh, Bee–Don’t stop with the funny!
Also–As seen on the mobile version.
Way too close to reality.
Especially the Ninja Turtles mention.
But, this is my current favorite BB article.
That is admittedly a good one.
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I like Don Exotic.
How about Dwight Exotic?
https://screenrant.com/office-dwight-tiger-king-joe-exotic-photo/
He’d make a good one in the biopic. I read today that Joe E himself prefers Brad Pitt or Joe Dirt to play him in the upcoming film. And it was Joe Dirt that he wanted to play him, not David Spade.
This is the most bizarre timeline.
Huh…..a new career path for Spade, maybe? Just go around ‘being’ Joe Dirt. Kinda like a Andy Kaufman thing.
Every other article in my local paper is about this… thing. I don’t know what it is. Also I see the word “Netflix” which causes my eyes to immediately skate over to the next article.
Well, as best as I can sum it up–it’s lurid, fascinating, disgusting (well, some of it was, to me), sad, funny…They managed to make get about 7 hours out of it. The story, is, for the most part, very true, but, there’s plenty in it that doesn’t ring very true–mostly, claims made by people talking to the makers.
I don’t know your like enough to say that you will definitely like it. But, I do think it’s worth watching.
I don’t have Netflix, which makes it easier to ignore.
For what it’s worth, I hate the Netflix interface so much, I just obtain copies of shows I like and watch via Plex. Right now, I’m enjoying the Hell out of Ozark. I hadn’t even heard of it before yesterday, but I’ve loved Laura Linney since Armistead Maupin’s: Tales Of The City, and Jason Bateman is, well, the eternal Michael Bluth.
I only watched the 1st season of Ozark. I thought it was decent, but, I just never went back, for whatever passes as a reason in my head.
How have the subsequent seasons been?
Just started season 2 and I’m really hooked.
As a late-nighter; here’s hoping the others can make the Zoom chat tomorrow at 7 pm ET, 4 pm, PT, other countries–do your own math, dammit.
2 AM which is a no for me
Damn.
https://youtu.be/26a-fiVz8Hs
Watch the first part of this video with the sound muted and try to tell me that isn’t from a comedy sketch.
Why do I suddenly want to start singing “I’m so Ronery”?
Paul Harrell gives the world what it needs right now.
https://youtu.be/CRoXZkyWx8A
Also, comes out as pro-pineapple.
Pineapple on pizza is the way of the future, man.
We’re all gonna die in the immediate future, eh?
I haven’t seen proof otherwise.
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I can’t take much more. When I watch these elected officials speak the stay-at-home/shelter-in-place orders, I’m turning into King Charles I at his trial – I just don’t recognize their ability to do this; someone will have to tell me under which authority these people think they are operating. I hate to say it, but “Am I free to gambol?”
All the guns they’ll bring to bear is their “authority”. Also, all your fellow citizens that will cheer that bullshit on.
Give ’em an inch, they take the whole friggin’ mile. Give those bitchez a rope, and they all think they’re cowboys.
Hell of a new handle, Diggers.
Heh–thanks (I think). When I’m bored, I’m silly, and I’d been mulling it over before bed yesterday.
/I’m often bored.
‘Allo, Sailors!
What about the rest of us?
I’m larping a French whore. All are welcome (except for you-know-who because he’s a cunte…
I’m running on two hours of sleep, and my workday is about to start.
My ability to think might be impaired.
Sounds about just right for government work.
Yesterday I couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t balance the recoveries (payments received toward charged-off loans) report for March. Then I realized I’d only run the appropriate general ledger report through 3/30.
I’m very glad it’s Friday.
I’m worried I’ll zonk out and miss the happy hour.
I may indulge in a Mountain Dew this afternoon. After which I’ll never sleep again.
And doesn’t March only have 21 days?
/ZZZzzz…
Mornin’, Fes!
Once again, I’m stuck typing with one hand because the cat’s lying on my arm.
Odd euphemisms.
Once again proving that guys can geterdun! Mornin’ GT!
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/04/more-complete-knuckleheads-drooled-spit-coughed-on-nj-cops-while-claiming-to-have-coronavirus-police-say.html
What a bunch of stupid mothertickets.
Wuhan Zombies are the…. fifty-third worst type of zombie.
https://www.wdel.com/news/delaware-state-police-say-they-will-conduct-checks-of-out-of-state-vehicles/article_b28237ae-7547-11ea-92e5-87affb8be838.html
I wasn’t going to your crummy lil state anyway.
Look, Fat – they have to protect Sleepy Joe!
Here’s a local after being denied service at his bank because the first hour of business is dedicated to senior citizens https://youtu.be/HnW2GtP_2Ig How long before the boogaloo?
I’m gonna add it to the morning links, too. Guy coughing on his hands and rubbing the door handles, then he licks the window. I swear it ain’t me!
I’m amazed their lobby’s open. We’ve gone to drive-thru/ATM/online transactions only.
Or by appointment, which may be the only option for some, especially seniors.
That myth aboot polite Canadians? Yeah, you can stick that where the sun don’t shine. Especially further North. People are on edge.
Local news: https://www.wfmz.com/sports/golf-ball-madness-ensues-at-putt-u/article_ac935ac4-7553-11ea-bc50-6bfd0c37ce73.html
I like Putt U. It’s a nice mini golf place.
I like mini golf but I’m too competitive. Turned off the in-laws when we played about 25 years ago. Just call me Todd Flanders.
Nobody at work is doing the Leper Length. It’s like they believe that Canada Post is a bubble of safety and I’d wager whilst out in public these same people are shying away from strangers. It’s the weirdest event that I’ve ever lived through.