Lack of posting lately – finished most of the move but may not have real internet at the house for 2-4 weeks.
Quick advice question – trying to get excess dirt/lint off some furniture post move – the small attachment on my vacuum is having some effect but depending on the specific material, not as much as I’d like? I’ll try Linton rollers again too, but any other suggestions are appreciated.
So you are saying that it is another couple CoVid deaths.
Miraculously, no one seems to be afflicted by any of the others things (any other cold/flu strain that is constantly mutating and spreading and is generally innocuous among the population) that I presume are still just as prevalent as always. Weird.
westernsloper
on May 6, 2020 at 7:53 pm
I saw that happened this morning but it is a school night so I can’t delve deeply into the replies of that thread. Being a fan of tinfoil I am a believer in the the theories this shit aint happening because we are all gonna die.
Heroic Mulatto
on May 6, 2020 at 7:18 pm
Why does 페도라 have a Japanese accent?
CPRM
on May 6, 2020 at 7:25 pm
Because I’m racist AF.
Heroic Mulatto
on May 6, 2020 at 7:30 pm
SON OF A BITCH CPRM
CPRM IS PIG
DO YOU WANT A HAMBURGER?
DO YOU WANT A PIZZA?
CPRM IS PIG DISGUSTING
MEXICAN SHARPSHOOTER IS A MURDERER
FUCKING GLIBERTARIANS.COM
Bobarian LMD
on May 6, 2020 at 9:50 pm
That’s not a Mexican accent?
Tejicano
on May 6, 2020 at 8:49 pm
Maybe he/she is a Zainichi?
Seguin
on May 6, 2020 at 9:08 pm
You think Kim Jong Un would be caught dead in a domestically made hat?
The reckless Republicans opening America up to a deadly pandemic want us to risk sacrificing our lives for their power
Since when should dying be the price of freedom? What kind of liberty could be won? And when we hear authority figures saying that we should accept that risk, should we feel liberated? Or just the opposite?
I remember when the Democrats were the party of civil liberties, at least when Republicans were in power?
Crusty Juggler
on May 6, 2020 at 7:40 pm
No
Winston
on May 6, 2020 at 7:43 pm
Nolan has a sad.
Crusty Juggler
on May 6, 2020 at 7:51 pm
Just re-watched “Interstellar” – it still slaps, bro.
Rhywun
on May 6, 2020 at 8:06 pm
I love that movie.
Crusty Juggler
on May 6, 2020 at 8:09 pm
It’s such an emotional movie. Dumb science and all but also it’s dumb science! It’s an immersive experience, which in these times…
In these times…
…
Is welcome.
Rhywun
on May 6, 2020 at 8:14 pm
“Immersive” is exactly right. I can overlook a lot of problems when a movie hooks me in like that. And I love the soundtrack.
Crusty Juggler
on May 6, 2020 at 8:17 pm
Yes.
Immersing yourself in something for almost three hours is a true joy.
It’s why “going to a movie” will always be better than watching it at home. You paid for it, damnit you will watch it, and you will give it your attention.
“Interstellar” excels in that respect. Most Nolan movies do. It should be celebrated.
commodious spittoon
on May 6, 2020 at 10:01 pm
But I can’t pause the movie to make myself a drink.
I also can’t get shitfaced watching the movie.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 6, 2020 at 10:16 pm
Ooops–someone’s never been to Studio Movie Grill….
Or, Alamo Drafthouse
Or, an AMC Dine-In Theater
Or, Flix Brewhouse
Sorry; got carried away.
commodious spittoon
on May 6, 2020 at 10:37 pm
I prefer drinking home alone. It’s healthier than drinking out in public where people can give you the plague, or at least the evil eye.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 6, 2020 at 10:42 pm
Oh, I do tend to agree with you, to the extent I drink.
I was taking the piss (ahem) about not being able to drink in a theater.
commodious spittoon
on May 6, 2020 at 10:45 pm
I *think* we have a theater with a beer and wine license here in town, but I never went and now, who knows.
Hyperion
on May 6, 2020 at 7:43 pm
They’re terrified of something. But it’s not a virus. Let me see, maybe the key word is hidden here… oh, there it is ‘freedom’.
The only thing that galls me about Corden’s apology is that “its just entertainment! We dont always tell the truth!”
Ive heard that from Springer, Bill Cunningham, Alex Jones, et al when pressed. “Hey…my show is entertainment. The incendiary political commentary I make isnt for you to take seriously….”
She knocked on the Oval Office door as she let her musk flood the agents to either side. She never wore any perfume but herself, a quick finger in the honey pot and a line drawn down both sides of her neck, each wrist. She smiled while they fidgeted. Had they really smelled what they thought they had smelled? Faint and familiar. No, surely not.
I’ll be in my bunk.
The understandably cherished freedom to exercise sincerely-held religious beliefs ‘does not relieve an individual of the obligation to comply with a valid and neutral law of general applicability,’” the judge wrote, citing case law. “More specifically, when a neutral law of general application places incidental limits on a religious exercise, ‘the right to practice religion freely does not include liberty to expose the community … to communicable disease.
I see the problem. You and the other assholes failed to cite the Constitution. And I daresay that people voluntarily associating in whatever proximity at a church service are knowingly accepting a certain level of risk. That’s called freedom.
Here’s my conundrum. We haven’t even really gotten into honest-to-God pegging yet, but I already have in my mind that I would like to fuck myself, i.e., that I would like to mold a dildo based on my own penis that my partner would peg me with. This seems … hopelessly narcissistic. A feeling that is compounded by the fact that getting pegged already feels like it’s about me and my pleasure more than it’s about our experience and our pleasure—though obviously we have been talking and thinking a lot about how to heighten my partner’s physical enjoyment of the experience, in addition to any emotional or intellectual pleasure she might get from it.
Bro
Hyperion
on May 6, 2020 at 7:45 pm
“but I already have in my mind that I would like to fuck myself”
There’s a whole lot of people I’d like to think in that way.
Rebel Scum
on May 6, 2020 at 7:56 pm
He doesn’t already engage in right-hand (or less commonly left-hand) shame?
Tejicano
on May 6, 2020 at 8:53 pm
I have been driven to recommend that to a number of people in the past so it’s nice to have somebody take the initiative here.
Count Potato
on May 6, 2020 at 7:54 pm
That’s nothing new.
Hyperion
on May 6, 2020 at 7:57 pm
Go on…
Count Potato
on May 6, 2020 at 8:34 pm
I read about people getting molds of their penis to get pegged by them years ago. I remember it was after 9/11 and before Obama.
commodious spittoon
on May 6, 2020 at 10:04 pm
It sounds like something Matt and Trey should’ve thought of years ago.
Most excellent! The fly crawling across Rocket Man’s face made it. I was laughing too hard to stand for applause.
CPRM
on May 6, 2020 at 7:44 pm
I’d just like to pat myself on the back, I wrote that Kim Jong Un was ‘having all the sex’ before the pleasure squad rumors started emerging.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 6, 2020 at 10:20 pm
PLEASURE SQUAD!! in color
Uh-oh…that should probably be ‘technicolor’.
Scruffy Nerfherder
on May 6, 2020 at 7:47 pm
Kim and the evil fedora are back!
Sweeeeeeet!
Sean
on May 6, 2020 at 7:48 pm
Good stuff, CPRM. Even if your accents are racist. ?
Rebel Scum
on May 6, 2020 at 7:48 pm
Totsch was unapologetic, especially for those employees who may lose their job for turning in their employers.
“I’d call it poetic justice, instant Karma, a dose of their own medicine,” he said. “What goes around, comes around. They are now experiencing the same pain that they themselves helped to inflict on those they filed complaints against.”
My understanding is that they had to check a box literally giving permission for the information to be released. Covered here.
DEG
on May 6, 2020 at 7:48 pm
The fly was a nice touch.
I guess since I noticed it I’m subject to execution by anti-aircraft gun?
Cuomo said the survey results were ‘surprising’ but showed people were not making the right personal choices even when at home.
He also warned that when the crisis was over, the true number of deaths would likely be ‘far worse’ than what is being reported now with more likely to be found in at-home deaths or even before the first cases were found in the US.
Cuomo was joined via video conference by Eric Schmidt, of Google, who announced the company will help the state with technology to boost tele-medicine services.
Well fuck my fuck.
Rebel Scum
on May 6, 2020 at 7:54 pm
people were not making the right personal choices even when at home.
Like not sitting in one spot not moving for multiple weeks?
Hyperion
on May 6, 2020 at 7:56 pm
Breathing. The governor has just issued a new ‘do not breathe’ order, in effect until further notice.
Rebel Scum
on May 6, 2020 at 7:57 pm
“We have to destroy capitalism kill you to save it you.”
AlmightyJB
on May 6, 2020 at 8:28 pm
So they’re going to start arresting people for masturbating.
AlmightyJB
on May 6, 2020 at 8:30 pm
Everyone stating home is destroying their healthy immune systems.
Great stuff CPRM, love how you and SF both broke the forth wall at the same time. If I may make one critical observation you should have had the fly go behind the frames of the glasses, it would sell the effect of the fly walking on Lil’ Kim’s eyeballs, as it is it looks like the fly is walking on the lens of the glasses. And perhaps it’s not possible with your animation hardware but having the fly disappear into Kim’s mouth at the end would have sealed it.
Those who can’t teach, etc etc… although this has aged pretty well.
westernsloper
on May 6, 2020 at 8:25 pm
LOL
AlmightyJB
on May 6, 2020 at 8:41 pm
On point
Tres Cool
on May 6, 2020 at 8:18 pm
fuckin Gene Shallot, he is
CPRM
on May 6, 2020 at 8:00 pm
When I was animating it did look like I had the layers set for the fly to be under the glasses, and looked so in the preview screen in the animation software. It wasn’t until I was in edit that I noticed it didn’t look like that.
salted earth
on May 6, 2020 at 9:19 pm
I was sort of expecting that the number of flies would increase throughout the video. One is a nuisance, two is a problem, twelve is a corpse.
The “Top Gun” star will be flying through the stratosphere shooting an as-yet-unknown film aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said Tuesday.
This takes doing one’s own stunts to a higher level.
AlmightyJB
on May 6, 2020 at 8:25 pm
I know the dudes a whack job but I really do like most of his movies. They’re at least entertaining.
I never thought I’d see a movie featuring Pine Bluff, utter shithole that it is.
And where a lot of my family is from.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 6, 2020 at 10:26 pm
Holy shit–Clark Duke is actually acting in this. As opposed to just being a hanger-on.
hayeksplosives
on May 6, 2020 at 8:14 pm
Kim’s hat cracks me up.
AlmightyJB
on May 6, 2020 at 8:21 pm
I think we need a hat throwdown!
Tres Cool
on May 6, 2020 at 8:22 pm
I think I’ve already mentioned that if you make a predictive model, and it falls short, and you have to make daily adjustments, your model was shit. And you essentially start over with a new model.
The models are shit because they built them from a faulty starting point. I am calling that fact because there is no way in hell the Vid was not here before the data points they are using. They started testing near peak in most places around the country. Yes there is going to be lag as cases come down which looks like spikes but they missed out on months of build up because there was no test yet. Thanks CDC! At least that is my opinion after reading constantly about this shit for two months.
hayeksplosives
on May 6, 2020 at 8:51 pm
Cuomo has it covered by merely saying that the real number of deaths was way undercounted.
That way he can never be proven wrong.
It was all based on power lust and his own personal fears.
While data shows the coronavirus is on the decline in New York, the new survey results appear to clash with Cuomo’s prior assurances that isolation can reliably prevent transmission.
“I was afraid that it was going to infect my family no matter what I did. We’re past that,” Cuomo said at a press conference on April 13.
“I was afraid”<—that sounds like a personal problem, bud.
Rebel Scum
on May 6, 2020 at 8:54 pm
Fear breeds tyranny.
CPRM
on May 6, 2020 at 9:03 pm
I was afraid that it was going to infect my family
Well, he did infect his wife, didn’t he?
Hyperion
on May 6, 2020 at 9:10 pm
They’ve had a lot of practice. They’ve been predicting all the glaciers on earth and all the polar ice caps will be melted by [fill in year] and it never happens. But they just move the goalposts and repeat.
When your entire intent is to drive a political narrative, you never admit you’re wrong, you just move the goalpost and keep going.
Count Potato
on May 6, 2020 at 8:40 pm
Did you know that tin foil is actually made from aluminum? What is Big Metal trying to hide?
Tres Cool
on May 6, 2020 at 8:46 pm
Tin is currently 15,380/tonne
Aluminium (its a limey site) is 1,443/tonne
Can you afford Tin, shitlord ?
Count Potato
on May 6, 2020 at 8:48 pm
So you are saying the British are involved?
CPRM
on May 6, 2020 at 9:01 pm
To put in terms easier to understand, A 1.5×2 inch piece of real tinfoil is $20 on Amazon.
Count Potato
on May 6, 2020 at 9:44 pm
So it’s $6.66 per square inch. Sliced bread is 5″ across. So to wrap a sandwich, you would need 100 square inches. One hundred times 6.66 is 666.
It was for me when I sold my silver in 1980. Still not sure why I was thinking 1978. Probably because it was right after the 70s and I had a lot of money and free time and I was 19? Yeah, I don’t remember too much from then.
Jarflax
on May 6, 2020 at 9:39 pm
Gold and silver work differently. It is a HUGE error to buy silver because you cannot afford gold. The silver market is heavily manipulated (that $50 high was the Hunt brothers attempt to corner it). To give an example of the manipulation. The current $15 spot price is a drop from the pre Covid levels which had bounced around in the $17-$19 range. How you ask? Well when silver was at $18 the premium to buy was hovering in the $.80 -$2.50 range (depending on quantities and type of coin/bar). So you could buy desirable mintages at $20 and non-premium mintages at $19. Now with Gold up 35-40% over its price atthat point you would expect silver to have jumped some as well, or at least to stay constant. It sort of has stayed constant (and actually spiked for a while) because the premium you will pay to buy it now is $4-$10 an ounce. So you will pay more to buy silver now than you would have 3 months ago. But you can only sell it for about 80% of what you could sell it for then.
Hyperion
on May 6, 2020 at 9:54 pm
I had most of mine from coin collection as a kid. Now by far most of my coins gained more silver value than they ever would have collector value. Then I just started buying it when it kept going higher. That was sometime in 1978 or 79. But I was buying it dirt cheap. I just knew too many stoner friends and their drunk uncles who just wanted some cash on hand. I wound up with $18,000 cash when I sold it all. Maybe just by luck I knew it wasn’t going any higher so I just dumped it. It was almost perfect timing. I went back into it again after thinking it was going to peak again, but it never did. I didn’t lose money, but I probably broke even and I never got back in again.
Count Potato
on May 6, 2020 at 8:54 pm
The atomic number for tin is 50. The atomic number for aluminum is 13. M is the thirteenth letter of the alphabet. M50 is a gas mask for biological weapons.
Count Potato
on May 6, 2020 at 8:56 pm
Open your eyes, people. A wok can’t melt steel beams.
You know, he was one of them negroes, he didn’t even speak with one of them negro dialects when he didn’t want to. His uncle, Cornpop… Cornpop was a bad dude…
Now back in 1994, you know, we had a different way to deal with those guys. We’d just call them a super predator and we’d make sure they got sent to prison.
But now that I’m running for Senate in 2020, I’m demanding an investigation into the disappearance of Cornpop!
Transcripts of House Intelligence Committee interviews that have been cleared for release show top law enforcement and intelligence officials affirming they had no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election, senior administration and intelligence community officials told Fox News on Wednesday.
This would align with the results of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation — which found no evidence of illegal or criminal coordination between President Trump, the Trump campaign and Russia in 2016 — but the numerous transcribed interviews could raise further questions about committee Chairman Adam Schiff’s past statements saying that there was “direct evidence” of collusion.
“Schiff is in panic mode,” a senior administration official told Fox News.
*obligatory skepticism of “sources familiar with the matter* Also, duh, it was always bullshit.
The Justice Department on Wednesday released a mostly unredacted version of then-Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s August 2017 “scope memo” outlining the authority of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller — and the document reveals for the first time that Mueller’s authority went significantly beyond what was known previously.
Rosenstein, who later left the Justice Department for a law firm, oversaw Mueller’s probe and played a central role in its still-unfolding drama. He was the subject of a two-page memo written by then-Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe that outlined how Rosenstein allegedly proposed wearing a wire in the White House “to collect additional evidence on the president’s true intentions,” and thought the scheme was plausible because “he was not searched when he entered the White House.” Rosenstein has denied those allegations and slammed the FBI.
Previously, it had been revealed that in May 2017, Rosenstein authorized Mueller to probe “i) any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; ii) any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation; [and] iii) any other matters within the scope of [obstruction of justice laws].”
Gustave Lytton
on May 6, 2020 at 9:46 pm
No conflicts of interest there at all.
And how exactly did Mueller get chosen to be the special counsel again?
Hyperion
on May 6, 2020 at 9:19 pm
“So who is going to jail?”
Not any of the guilty in that scam.
Maybe the next person who posts something on Twitter that doesn’t agree 100% with the WHO on the commie flu? Or the next mom who takes her kids to the playground?
creech
on May 6, 2020 at 10:30 pm
Waiting for indictments on these clowns is like waiting for Hillary or RBG to croak. Always over the next hill (or news cycle).
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 6, 2020 at 10:32 pm
Yeah, I bet her daughter finds positively cold….blooded!
l0b0t
on May 6, 2020 at 9:31 pm
Listening to Beauty & The Beta, and a caller is complaining about how poorly written the Canadian gun-ban bill is written. Something about an outright ban on anything over 20mm, but know it’s sinking in that 12 gauge shotguns with no choke come in just a hair over 20mm and would be subject to the nationwide ban.
Right? I gave them 8 years. Not too solid on that right now. If the boy’s missing his testosterone-fuelled antics already, he’ll crack sooner than later.
Hyperion
on May 6, 2020 at 10:04 pm
One day he’s going to wake up with a bad hangover, a worse case of remorse, and half his stuff missing.
Get Sheex and then come back. Normal fitted sheets are fine. Those fold like the debil.
Chafed
on May 6, 2020 at 11:27 pm
Is that like Spanx?
Gustave Lytton
on May 6, 2020 at 11:29 pm
Probably. Stretchy material. Wife swears by them.
Hyperion
on May 6, 2020 at 10:05 pm
No, my wife is really good at it. Despite her best effort to teach me, it’s hopeless, I can’t do it. And it’s not that I want to do it, or not, I can’t do it. It’s fucking impossible!
It’s weird, having a nicely folded flat sheet and a rolled-up fitted sheet.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 6, 2020 at 10:35 pm
“Fold”?
A sheet??
Bobarian LMD
on May 6, 2020 at 10:46 pm
Yes, why?
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 6, 2020 at 10:47 pm
Why, indeed!
JaimeRoberto Delecto
on May 6, 2020 at 11:35 pm
I know how to slit a sheet.
Tundra
on May 6, 2020 at 9:43 pm
Oh yeah, that’s a good episode.
The fly is inspired,
Adult Swim doesn’t deserve you, brother.
Winston
on May 6, 2020 at 9:52 pm
Directed by the guy who wrote and Directed the Last Jedi
CPRM
on May 6, 2020 at 9:57 pm
David Cronenberg wrote and directed The Last Jedi?
Winston
on May 6, 2020 at 10:01 pm
I thought he was talking about the Breaking Bad episode of the same title what with “episode” line. Oops.
CPRM
on May 6, 2020 at 10:04 pm
No, he was talking about the episode at the top, you know, above the comment section.
Winston
on May 6, 2020 at 10:06 pm
ME ZO SMRT!
commodious spittoon
on May 6, 2020 at 10:31 pm
That’s just a myth.
Tundra
on May 6, 2020 at 10:07 pm
The fuck?
Focus, Winston!
CPRM
on May 6, 2020 at 9:49 pm
I just watched the video that has sparked this interest in the Ahmaud Arbery case, once again, why was this recorded? This is a question I often ask of cellphone videos that go viral. The video starts before either the truck or the jogger are in view via the road.
Also, whycome lockdowners aren’t calling the people out protesting this grandma killers?
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 6, 2020 at 10:37 pm
Dash cam? That’s what I would bet on….considering I’m on my 3rd.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 6, 2020 at 10:58 pm
Yup, I see what you mean. I think the person just held their phone up to the dash, trying to record this. Since it started before they were in sight, I had thought it was from a dashcam (I watched it yesterday).
Although, I do recall seeing some people move their dashcams around for whatever brouhaha was going on. But, I don’t see that here.
Winston
on May 6, 2020 at 9:54 pm
I remember the good old days when social media was supposed to be filled with libertarian Karens were supposed to complain all the time about everything the government does and force the pols to become libertarians.
Hyperion
on May 6, 2020 at 9:59 pm
Exactly what drugs were you doing at the time?
Winston
on May 6, 2020 at 10:38 pm
Wasn’t social media supposed to hold them accountable? Who and would people do that?
In Rove’s view, the interactive nature of digital communication promotes a feeling of individual agency among users and leads them to question the importance of a large central government. In this subtle way, the Internet nudges users toward libertarianism. But is there any proof of this claim?
I may be a bit touchy because we only have a single bathroom and Gov Kunt has Newsome & Inslee’s hands up her backside. I’ve given a lot of thought of how to order our house if it should happen and stocked up to get through those weeks.
From someone who actually had the virus
On the darker days, I didn’t want to talk to anyone. After days of trying to stay physically apart from my husband, it just became impossible. He hated to see me suffer and he couldn’t not take care of me. He began to hold me in those darker moments and let me cry, whispering: “Everything’s going to be all right.”
These simple acts of connecting with me and hugging me were restorative beyond measure. The isolation might be worse than the body aches. I am endlessly grateful that I have a selfless husband who is also lucky enough to have remained well while I was ailing. Get him one of those antibody tests because so far <> the man has yet to get sick.
I will put rounds down range if someone tries to forcibly remove my wife against her will.
straffinrun
on May 6, 2020 at 10:49 pm
Can’t separate kids from random adults they are with at the border, but this is OK.
Chafed
on May 6, 2020 at 11:33 pm
I don’t think you are alone.
hayeksplosives
on May 6, 2020 at 10:30 pm
WTF??
Hyperion
on May 6, 2020 at 10:31 pm
You tell me. This had better be a joke.
commodious spittoon
on May 6, 2020 at 10:35 pm
Get a warrant, assholes.
Scratch that, the judge is probably on call to expedite every request.
Who’s gonna wanna get tested voluntarily if he starts doing that? Oh yeah, I forgot about idiots that still trust govt as they are under house arrest.
Hyperion
on May 6, 2020 at 10:45 pm
They aren’t talking about volunteer anything. They’re talking about forcibly testing people and then quarantining them, even away from their family if they test positive. These people are evil. People, I assume a lot, are going to die over this shit, not because of the virus. I’m not sure the US survives this if there’s not massive resistance right now. They start talking shit like that, there’s no more time to remain passive.
straffinrun
on May 6, 2020 at 10:52 pm
Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about. If you aren’t forced, you won’t go in voluntarily.
Hyperion
on May 6, 2020 at 10:55 pm
People won’t even go to the hospital right now, unless they think they’re about to die. They already sickened and killed a lot of people who would have otherwise sought medical care when they passed Obamacare, because people’s health insurance deductibles increased so much they couldn’t afford the out of pocket.
Something needs to be done to reign in the evil and soon.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 6, 2020 at 10:46 pm
More migration from CA, maybe? I mean, obviously, the TruBelief brigade will most likely stay. Still…
Hyperion
on May 6, 2020 at 10:49 pm
This shit keeps up, you won’t be able to even leave your designated camp, let alone the state.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 6, 2020 at 10:54 pm
Now we see just why the Blue bloods have been doing everything they can to make guns illegal.
I am of the opinion that, considering this is Cali, if people in the TV industry (show hosts, mostly) have this done to them–even just one–we might get someone who goes off the reservation, and try to shame anyone who pushes this, or, lauds it.
Hyperion
on May 6, 2020 at 10:56 pm
They’ll be careful not to do that.
KSuellington
on May 6, 2020 at 11:39 pm
I’ve been thinking about getting an antibody test since there is a private company that is doing them here for 120 bucks. I had a flu type respiratory illness in early January and I work in multiple different houses, apartments and businesses in the city every day. Even though I’ve had a drop in biz and having to homeschool, I’m still going all around the city doing work. I’d like to know if I had it, but with shit like this as a possibility I don’t want to get tested. If I get a positive I don’t want them notified and coming around to quarantine me. Fuck that noise.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 6, 2020 at 10:51 pm
C, I think you know I found the episode to be top-notch. With that in mind–
Gojira and I are still interested in doing a Metroplex Glib-up in the Summer. We’re both hopeful that there will be plenty of options for actual social outings at that point. So, for our fellow North Texans, and anyone who can be cajoled into traveling here to attend, let me know.
Since site security is what it is, if you need to contact me, TPTB have my permission to release the Kraken my email address.
CPRM
on May 6, 2020 at 11:12 pm
My Vacation Days are based on hours worked, another way I’m being screwed over. Speaking of which, today was the latest estimate for when my birthday present to myself that I bought in February was set to arrive. It didn’t. I go to ebay and see a small text under my order ‘This user is no longer registered on ebay’ go and look at reviews for the seller since I ordered it and it appears no one got their orders since then. No Birthday For You!…speaking of which when I ordered all the parts for my new PC build they were all supposed to arrive while I’m laid off and have nothing else to do, good time build a PC and migrate everything over. Now some of it is supposed to be delivered by 22nd. Just extra things, like the motherboard.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 6, 2020 at 11:57 pm
‘This user is no longer registered on ebay’
Oh, FDS! Now, I’m pissed off… I was just about to tell you that I got an email that was actually addressed to someone else ? advising me of something being on the way to me. That made me happy, and your ebay “adventure” kinda deflates that.
What I’d like to see is a government where you take all these ideas, and libertarians can come into the government, conservatives can come in, progressives can come in. And we can all debate these ideas, and then have a vote, and whatever happens, happens. But let us debate the ideas in front of the American people and let them weigh the outcomes. Let them make decisions based on what happens in our debates, in our discussions, and judge us on the outcomes we produce.
Well since he’ll never be president I guess we won’t get the chance to see him break his promise.
Winston
on May 6, 2020 at 11:15 pm
Reason, Cato and Amash are all awfully ambivalent about the shutdowns. Those cocktail parties and the fact that the BadOrangeMan wants to end them sooner than later and that the deplorables are against them surely does wonders.
Heroic Mulatto
on May 6, 2020 at 11:49 pm
Reason, Cato and Amash are all awfully ambivalent about the shutdowns.
As a federal official, I do my best to stay out of state politics. But I have a constitutional duty to ensure states don’t trample on the rights of the people. @GovWhitmer’s latest order goes too far and will erode confidence in her leadership. She should immediately reassess it. …
People will not long tolerate extraordinary restrictions on liberty that contribute so little to safety. Eventually, even basic measures, such as social distancing, will be ignored as people grow restless. Other aspects of the governor’s order may also produce unintended and undesired consequences. For example, while she understandably doesn’t want too many people inside stores, a blanket limit may create long lines outside, which will put people in closer contact with one another. The governor needs to allow communities and businesses to establish safety procedures based on actual conditions. Not every place has the same risks, and it’s not good governance, good health science, or good economics to pretend they do.
Winston
on May 6, 2020 at 11:56 pm
The ambivalence I am referring to is the fact that there is support for the actual lockdowns but sometimes they go a bit too far, some protestors are icky and too much money is being spent.
Heroic Mulatto
on May 7, 2020 at 12:11 am
An opinion on strategy is not ambivalence. Again, you don’t have to agree with him, but you can’t deny his admonition against letting the protests turn into the Tea Party Carnival 2.0 isn’t warranted. There’s a lot of clownery erupting that is being exploited by a venal and dishonest media to distract from the central message that Amash identifies above. There is nothing in the NAP that states one has to let boogaloo LARPers set the tone for every event without objection until the end of time. I mean just a month ago, we were all pragmatists whining about purity tests and now we’re all supposed to be fire-breathing deontologists. I can’t keep up with this shit. I don’t even know when the next Taco Tuesday is at Glibs HQ.
CPRM
on May 7, 2020 at 12:18 am
So what you’re saying is ‘Aamash is China is Asshole Karen Bukkake Lord of the Dance Tiger’?
Heroic Mulatto
on May 7, 2020 at 12:25 am
Yes.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 7, 2020 at 12:38 am
HM, if you’re still around, and, up to the task (no, not that), I’ll leave it to you to tangle with Winston on…well, whatever the hell he’s on about.
Heroic Mulatto
on May 7, 2020 at 12:42 am
It’s almost 2 here…so I’m going to bed.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 7, 2020 at 12:47 am
Oh, playing it smart, are ya??
Winston
on May 7, 2020 at 12:24 am
There is nothing in the NAP that states one has to let boogaloo LARPers set the tone for every event without objection until the end of time.
Who will be the gatekeeper who will decide what is not allowed at these protests and how to enforce that? And is it a good idea to give the “venal and dishonest media” a veto over what you should say or do?
Also I find the complaints about the “politicization of everything” and “the culture war” incredibly hypocritical since that is clearly what the classical liberals and libertarian wanted however they just assumed that they would be the victors instead of the losers.
CPRM
on May 7, 2020 at 12:29 am
Also I find the complaints about the “politicization of everything” and “the culture war” incredibly hypocritical since that is clearly what the classical liberals and libertarian wanted however
How do you get that from leave me alone and I’ll leave you alone?
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 7, 2020 at 12:32 am
that is clearly what the classical liberals and libertarian wanted
I am so lost in this back-and-forth….Winston, you may be right, but, how do you know this? Who are these people, specifically, and did they state exactly what they wanted, in whatever particular instances?
Winston
on May 7, 2020 at 12:32 am
The classical liberals also engaged in tribalism and us-versus-them thinking but that was okay since they were supposed to win and crush the reactionaries.
Heroic Mulatto
on May 7, 2020 at 12:38 am
Who will be the gatekeeper who will decide what is not allowed at these protests and how to enforce that?
Why does there need to be a gatekeeper? Norms and mores cannot be instituted or changed organically through dialog?
And is it a good idea to give the “venal and dishonest media” a veto over what you should say or do?
The reality is that mass media exists and shapes public opinion. One can ignore that fact or one can exploit it. I’m reminded of something Colin Powell wrote in one of his books. During the Gulf War, he realized that whenever he talked to the media, there were what he called 5 Audiences. A wise leader shapes his or her message to achieve what he or she wants from those 5 Audiences. Now, if we are interested in expediency, to win the hearts and minds of the 3 or 4 Audiences that are not hostile to us, are we going to let “Plandemic” be our version of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense or might it be better to rationally explain how draconian, top-down measures by government central planners have served to actually prolong the pandemic? I don’t see why that’s such a controversial stance.
These masses were not concerned with any political issue; they obeyed blindly, because they lived in fear of punishment in hell, with which the church threatened them, and in a still greater fear of the police. They were outside the pale of German civilization and German cultural life; they knew only their regional dialects, and could hardly converse with a man who spoke only the German literary language or another dialect. But the number of these backward people was steadily decreasing. Economic prosperity and education spread from year to year. More and more people reached a standard of living which allowed them to care for other things besides food and shelter, and to employ their leisure in something more than drinking. Whoever rose from misery and joined the community of civilized men became a liberal. Except for the small group of princes and their aristocratic retainers practically everyone interested in political issues was liberal. There were in Germany in those days only liberal men and indifferent men; but the ranks of the indifferent continually shrank, while the ranks of the liberals swelled.
This quote by Mises on German classical liberals is a pretty good example. What pray tell do you think was meant by all the talk of the eliminating “backwardness”, ending regionalism, fighting the church, education, all civilized men being liberals and there being only indifferent men and liberals?
Winston
on May 7, 2020 at 1:03 am
Norms and mores cannot be instituted or changed organically through dialog?
I assume these norms and mores will be changed in ways you like?
And are you talking about keeping about the boogaloo types out of these protests or just criticizing them?
rationally explain how draconian, top-down measures by government central planners have served to actually prolong the pandemic?
Interesting. Do we know for a fact these things are “prolonging” it? As to being useless or reducing it as the planners themselves say? Or irrelevant to human liberty?
CPRM
on May 6, 2020 at 11:19 pm
I still maintain, the best libertarian president wouldn’t promise anything. He’d go in, in force every law on the books to the fullest extent and go on TV every night and say, ‘As president I do not make law or policy, my job is to enforce the laws as written. If you, like me, disagree with the outcomes this enforcement brings, pressure you congressman and your senators to change the laws.’
straffinrun
on May 6, 2020 at 10:59 pm
Spending my day going to 3 different companies so that I can give them my hanko. Work from home, but commute to fill out paperwork.
But women should also be free to point out when a trope has become mired in sexism without being accused of being humourless old shrews, ie Karens. No one wants to be a Karen, amirite? The Karen meme has become a way of not just describing women’s behaviour, but controlling it. No wonder so many men enjoy it.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, “Karen” has been adopted as a shorthand to call out a vocal minority of middle-aged white women who are opposed to social distancing, out of either ignorance or ruthless self-interest.
Incentives Matter
on May 6, 2020 at 11:41 pm
They’ve managed to get that definition of a “Karen” precisely backwards.
straffinrun
on May 6, 2020 at 11:48 pm
Written by a Karen is my guess.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 6, 2020 at 11:52 pm
It’s always someone else’s fault. If people would just get in line, and follow the rules (as I believe them to be), then I wouldn’t have to hit you….?
Uh…I mean…it’s their fault!!
straffinrun
on May 7, 2020 at 12:56 am
Too bad I don’t know Kung fu.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 7, 2020 at 1:10 am
But, you know “Cah-RAY-zee”, amirite??
CPRM
on May 6, 2020 at 11:42 pm
Will no one else point out that the ‘Karen’ memes started spreading with black people complaining about middle-class white progs being racist?
Heroic Mulatto
on May 6, 2020 at 11:53 pm
That was mentioned in the article.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 7, 2020 at 12:00 am
Considering how ass-backwards they are with their blame, I won’t fault anyone for not going to that article.
What I’m saying, is, CPRM is the trusted name in memes.
CPRM
on May 7, 2020 at 12:12 am
Wait, there are articles in the comments?
Heroic Mulatto
on May 7, 2020 at 12:14 am
It all went wrong when faux-incest step-porn became popular.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 7, 2020 at 12:20 am
Wait…I thought we looked at that FOR the articles.
CPRM
on May 7, 2020 at 12:22 am
It’s not my fault that POV porn took that rout. Don’t blame it on me. I would have made great POV porn! The Best! The Classiest!
Encouraged by near-saturation media coverage, the right-wing protests against commonsense social-distancing measures are getting out of hand. While the absolute numbers involved in the protests are tiny, their effect—when amplified by the credulous, cheerleading tone of the coverage—is massive and dangerous. On April 30 in Michigan, rifle-touting, Confederate-flag-waving, Trump-supporting militia types attempted to intimidate the legislature (to predictably sympathetic tweets from the president). These anti-lockdown rallies are popping up everywhere, often with nearly as many reporters covering them as there are protesters in attendance.
The right to not only infect oneself with a potentially life-threatening disease but also to infect others and worsen the crisis that threatens the world’s public health and economy has become a symbol of the extremist libertarian right wing, whose members make up a significant segment of Trump’s political base. Governors—such as those in Georgia and Florida—who identify with Trump’s brand of faux libertarianism are embracing the right to infect, no matter the cost to their constituents, their country, and the world at large.
Hyperion
on May 7, 2020 at 12:04 am
“Encouraged by near-saturation media coverage, the right-wing protests against commonsense social-distancing measures are getting out of hand. While the absolute numbers involved in the protests are tiny, their effect—when amplified by the credulous, cheerleading tone of the coverage—is massive and dangerous.”
I hear a whole lot of conflicting narrative going on there. Wonder why that is?
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 7, 2020 at 12:07 am
Eric Alterman is “The Liberal Media” columnist for The Nation, where he has been a contributor since 1983. He is also Distinguished Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
Alterman is the author of the national bestseller, What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News, and 10 other books, including the forthcoming Lying in State: Why Presidents Lie and Why Trump is Worse (Basic Books, June 2020). Winner of the George Orwell Prize, the Stephen Crane Literary Award, and the Mirror Award for media criticism (twice), he holds a PhD in US history from Stanford, an MA in international relations at Yale, and a BA from Cornell.
That poor bastard–so educated, he actually broke his brain.
Lady Z
on May 7, 2020 at 12:16 am
The Orwell Prize, now that’s ironic.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 7, 2020 at 12:40 am
Oh, good catch.
Plus, award for “media criticism”? I didn’t think cheerleaders criticized the players.
Lady Z
on May 7, 2020 at 12:59 am
Gotta have those outliers that keep pushing the envelope. This guy has a serious case of TDS.
Hyperion
on May 7, 2020 at 1:02 am
Funny how TDS is way more infectious and deadly than coronavirus, but no one is being locked down for it. I mean come on, it eats brains whole!
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 7, 2020 at 12:09 am
Also, you have to deduct, what…10, 20 IQ points from him, simply for the use of “commonsense”.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 7, 2020 at 12:15 am
Americans like to see their “don’t tread on me” ethic as one of the country’s most admirable traits. And maybe in some contexts and historical moments it is. But during a pandemic it is idiocy to cry tyranny at efforts to mitigate the spread of the pathogen. In such circumstances, our incorrigible individualism can become lethal — a suicide pact that threatens individuals as well as the political community as a whole. That makes it a public menace.
mrfamous
on May 7, 2020 at 12:18 am
Here’s a great interview with Hendrik Streeck, a virologist in Bonn, who studied a localized super spreading event from a small village in Germany. I wish people would “science” more by looking at individual studies than appealing to authority:
Interesting. How do they determine a cause of death with co morbidities? It’s hard to compare studies when I’m not sure if they are apples to apples. (Insert tired joke about getting hit by a bus=corona death)
mrfamous
on May 7, 2020 at 1:03 am
I think their advantage in this one is that the superspreading event in an isolated village, you can really track things pretty closely. For me the interesting part of the study is the difficulty they had swabbing the virus from surfaces and then growing a culture from it. They couldn’t do it. Also interesting is the idea that viral load appears to be a big part. That getting it in a smaller dose reduces your chance of actually getting sick from it. Close contact and indoors appears to be the magic combo.
straffinrun
on May 7, 2020 at 1:07 am
I’d imagine that is the reason doctors and nurses could get a higher dose.
mrfamous
on May 7, 2020 at 1:15 am
Unsurprisingly he’s getting yelled and screamed at by blue check marks on Twitter, but it’s awfully hard to claim the guy is some sort of weirdo crank.
Chafed
on May 7, 2020 at 1:39 am
Everyone not panicking is a weirdo crank. It’s just science.
Gustave Lytton
on May 7, 2020 at 1:41 am
I’ve been reading elsewhere about the viral load theories. Would explain some of the difference seen in Europe/NYC and elsewhere, particularly Asian countries.
Chafed
on May 7, 2020 at 1:46 am
If you say viral load and Asians in the same sentence you’ll summon HM.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 7, 2020 at 12:36 am
Excellent find! I’ve, no doubt, heard that line many times.
CPRM
on May 7, 2020 at 12:44 am
I’m a big Riddick fan. I like all the movies, but David Twohy is a bigger revisionist than George Lucas. Continuity is something he don’t give AF. Low budget of the first one, so they use firearms, next one lasers are everywhere. Riddick was left for dead in a dumpster behind a liquor store strangled by his umbilical cord, naw, next movie he was a strangled by a Necromonger in his crib…
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 7, 2020 at 12:50 am
Unless Twohy has actually called it revision, I’m somewhat reluctant to call it such. Yes, there is a huge difference between the “universes” in 1 and two (PB vs CoR). I think they can both be a part of a single vision, and I get why they were done the way they were, in real-world terms.
But, I’ll concede that that doesn’t mean they aren’t revisions, either.
CPRM
on May 7, 2020 at 12:59 am
Well, Twohy didn’t write Pitch Black, so it is all revisionism after that.
CPRM
on May 7, 2020 at 1:04 am
It’s kind of the opposite of Lucas in a way. Twohy came on board as a director for Pitch Black and bought into the universe the writers created so much that somehow he got all rights, along with vin, to control the property.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 7, 2020 at 1:08 am
Huh….I hadn’t paid that much attention to the credits of PB, and so I thought he and Vin had written it.
(I had an unfortunate pronunciation ‘situation’ with a customer named Twohy one time, so I pay attention when I see the name–overly so, I guess)
OT: Why the fuck do people say “I’m over it” these days when they actually mean “I’m super pissed about it”? If you’re over it, you wouldn’t be angry about it… But you are.
Chafed
on May 7, 2020 at 2:09 am
People are stupid.
Tejicano
on May 7, 2020 at 2:39 am
… and some seem to have a need to revel in being that way.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 7, 2020 at 2:12 am
I think they mean it in the way someone is “over” an ex. “Over” being positive about a thing, and moved on to being negative about it.
We are weird with language.
Chafed
on May 7, 2020 at 2:17 am
If they were over their ex, they wouldn’t be talking about him/her.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 7, 2020 at 2:23 am
Go with my second sentence….
::kicks rock down the road::
salted earth
on May 7, 2020 at 2:12 am
Maybe they mean they are over talking about it?
Akira
on May 7, 2020 at 2:18 am
But people typically begin a conversation by declaring how they are “over” something, then it’s followed up by 10 minutes of complaining about it.
… Unlike me, for instance. I never complain about anything.
/sarc
straffinrun
on May 7, 2020 at 2:18 am
I’m pissed about Macho Grande?
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 7, 2020 at 2:39 am
You’ll never always be pissed over Macho Grande
Tejicano
on May 7, 2020 at 2:50 am
You’re pissed because they called it Nacho Grande?
Tejicano
on May 7, 2020 at 2:43 am
Today is camping day. Up on the roof top of our place here. I put up the tent, air mattresses are pumped up, canopy up, fired up the Weber, and popped open an Asahi.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 7, 2020 at 3:08 am
That sounds utterly fantastic. I hope it’s a nice as I am imagining it.
Tejicano
on May 7, 2020 at 3:14 am
The wind is a bit more balmy than I prefer but it’s not raining and the temp is about perfect. My kids are diggin’ it big-time.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 7, 2020 at 3:19 am
Hell, I would be too. We’re fortunate to have had the recent spate of actual Spring weather here–plenty of rain, and some humidity, but, not the typical N. Texas kind.
Yet.
Akira
on May 7, 2020 at 3:28 am
Here in southwest Ohio, I thought we were done with the cold-ass bullshit… Unfortunately, it’s supposed to get down to 29 degrees this Friday night. I’ll have to bring my damn green onion planter inside.
Oh yea, after observing that the root ends of green onions sometimes sprouted in the compost pile, I decided to stick them in a planter full of soil. They’ve already grown 3 or 4 inches. I’ve planted a dozen so far. I wonder if they winter over… Because if so, I could be eating the same 12 green onions for the rest of my life. That would be awesome.
Digby something something Unclothed Intruder
on May 7, 2020 at 3:42 am
Damn skippy. I don’t know anything about cultivating them, but, if they’re as hearty as the wild ones that grew around the house when I was a kid, they may very well do OK in Winter.
They changed the shape of fig newtons, making them narrowing and longer so that the ratio of fruit to grain skews towards the grain more. They used to be square, now they’re bars.
I’m annoyed.
Tejicano
on May 7, 2020 at 5:31 am
I hate when things are changed for the sake of change only. That really pisses me off. As if different just has to be better. Microsoft is one of the biggest culprits of this crime.
610 more pulpy words (plus the portion posted yesterday):
I’d gone to Baranga because it had a reputation as a place where it was easy to get laid. I’d found a seedy, run-down cosmopolis on the edge of the jungle. Working for Krug had not been my first choice, but the one-eyed man knew his way around and hadn’t robbed me yet. Instead, he’d given me a .45 and told me to act as his bodyguard. Each of the guests in Madam Zu’s casino were permitted one armed guard in addition to two unarmed companions. Though with my vest and rolled up shirtsleeves, I looked less threatening than the man himself. Inside the casino, it didn’t matter as much, as Madam Zu’s own men with fedoras and thompson guns patrolled the perimeter of the game rooms.
The casino was one of the few well-lit areas I’d seen in Baranga, meaning it had its own generators. Of course, with the amount of money being wagered, the harder it was to cheat, the better. With the number of people in Madam Zu’s, the naturally humid air of Baranga turned stifling. the slow-turning ceiling fans did little, if anything, to help with the perspiration beading my brow and seeping into my shirt. The nubian across from me appeared unphased by the conditions, though he had the advantage of not wearing a shirt. He looked to be twice my weight, and all of it muscle. His employer was equally weighty, though all of that was fat. Their two female companions were of a similar complexion, but wore vibrant, multi-hued gowns. Both women looked bored. I didn’t blame them, the fat man had been gambling since before Krug and I arrived.
The third gambler at the table was pale in comparison to the nubians, but still swarthy by objective measure. Kassim’s dark eyes flashed with irritation and consternation as he checked his cards again. The sleeves of his loose brocaded red kaftan were buttoned up above the elbow, keeping his hirsute forearms bare. The gold thread woven into the fabric gave a different pattern on the inside of the sleeves than the outside. He was clean-shaven, save for a moustache which buried the entirety of his upper lip. Kassim looked to his aide. The wiry man with a pencil moustache shook his head, but Kassim threw a few more chips on the pile anyway.
Krug didn’t even look at his cards, just nonchalantly calling the bet. In response, the fat man laughed.
“The two of you have nothing,” he said. “I call,” he threw a few chips into the pot, “And raise.” He picked up a couple of stacks and rained them on the pile from above.
“You can do that Tsunga,” Kassim said, “We have to be able to tell how much you threw in.”
“Three thousand,” the fat man said.
Kassim scowled at the dwindling supply of chips in front of him. The man with the wispy moustache shook his head, but Kassim snapped his fingers. A man in a loose red shirt stepped forward and held out a metal case. The man’s beard ran past his collarbone and mingled with the ample chest hair showing from the open front of his shirt. With a resigned sigh, the wiry man unlocked and opened the case. It had once held a full tray of chips, but now only a single row remained. Kassim extracted all of them, stacking the lot before him. The bearded man closed the case and stepped back.
“Three thousand,” Kassim said, counting out chips.
Not for the first time this evening, my eyes wandered to Kassim’s female companion. She perched on a stool, trying to maintain an aloof expression, despite the sadness in her blue eyes. She would have the pallor of fine porcelain save for the light sunburn on her nose, cheeks and part of her shoulders. Her blonde hair tumbled to partway down her back. She was clad in a pink gown with a plunging neckline and a hem that only reached the mid thigh. The image of beauty was marred by the shackles about her ankles, and the iron collar about her slender neck. The chain from her collar was padlocked to Kassim’s belt. I didn’t know which made me more angry, her treatment, or that the scene didn’t so much as raise an eyebrow from the people of Baranga. Still, pulling the .45 and putting a bullet between Kassim’s eyes would end with me gunned down by either the bearded man, the shirtless nubian, or Madam Zu’s guards. So I squelched the impulse.
Kassim called Tsunga’s bet. “There,” he snarled.
Wordlessly, Krug pushed three small stacks to join the pot. Tsunga grinned, his white teeth shining. “Well,” the fat man said, laying down part of his hand. “I have three threes,” he put down the other cards, “And two kings.” He crossed his arms and sat back. With a curse, Kassim threw his cards on the table. The wiry man quietly made sure they were all face-up, showing two eights, two tens, and a jack. Tsunga’s eyes turned to Krug.
“Well,” Krug said, “I have your missing three. I also have a two, a four, a five, and a six. they’re all spades, as it turns out.” As he laid the hand on the table, Tsunga shook his head and let his arms drop.
“You cheated, didn’t you?” Kassim asked.
“You dealt,” Krug said.
“He didn’t,” Tsunga said, “I have as much of your money as he does. You’re just having a bad night.”
Krug began collecting the pot, sorting the chips into neat stacks.
“Get me more chips,” Kassim said.
“My lord, you said we would not bet anything we didn’t bring in tonight,” the wiry man whispered. He flinched back at Kassim’s glare.
“Yes, I did,” Kassim muttered, his gaze turned back to the dearth of tokens in front of him.
Sounds a bit straight for a ‘Pulp’ but I may be conflating ‘Pulp’ with “noir”, where lines like “the dame had legs so long you had to ask directions ant the knee cap” are the norm. Another small nit, the wiry guy exposing Kassim’s cards. Most card games allow a player to muck his cards if he knows he’s beat after an earlier player reveals a better hand. Now while it’s good practice to turn up ones hand, especially in ‘cards call themselves’ games, as you may miss something (not likely in the 5 card game you describe but in Texas Hold’em for example I’ve seen people think they have nothing when they have a straight (of course the people I played with were generally drunk and/or stoned)) even if the game required all players to turn up their hands at the showdown I don’t think most casinos would let a non player touch the cards.
I’ve never read either genre, and I doubt I could write in that voice anyway. (It would drive me mad to read.) But that sentence sounds like a caricature of film noir.
It’s an over the top example to be sure, but there’s a reason the hard-boiled dic became a stereotype.
I doubt I could write in that voice anyway
I had that thought when you first mentioned writing a ‘Pulp”, your normal writing voice doesn’t lend itself to my idea of what pulp is, but again I’ve mostly read the classic noir/crime sub group of the genre.
I’m hoping to find some content from when they were schlocky adventure stories but before they degenerated into mere porn mags. The story of each imprint appears to be a slow slide from general fiction to outright porn over the decades, ending around the 1970s when they couldn’t compete with the titles that had started in that market.
Ah I see you aren’t writing a Pulp just using a Pulp cover for inspiration, ignore my genre based criticisms, or you know carry on as usual.,
Festus
on May 7, 2020 at 6:49 am
You’re a good egg, Hype. I like you.
JD is Unemployed
on May 7, 2020 at 5:44 am
I like it. “Baranga” is one of the names me and friend used to give this girl because for some reason we never used her real surname, just made something up every time. Brings back memories.
I made up a pronouncable but nonsense word, looked it up, found it was a river in Romania and went “I’m okay with that” and applied the name to a city on the edge of a jungle.
Sean
on May 7, 2020 at 5:55 am
I don’t own a Thompson or a fedora. ?
JD is Unemployed
on May 7, 2020 at 5:58 am
Are there some sort of off-brand, historically-accurate replicas of Tommys available to today’s discerning mob LARPer to use at the range?
So, in black, closer to Bogart than to Indiana Jones?
Festus
on May 7, 2020 at 6:33 am
The closest I’ve ever got to that was a woolen slouch hat that I bought on a drunken whim in the city circa 1988. A few years later I started wearing it turned around bass-ackwards and it was cool again. Couple years later Step-daughter appropriated it and made it hers. It probably has more stories than Moe’s bar rag.
I just woke up….and just finished catching up on overnight comments, including your scene. A classic pulp poker game, but the blonde in chains is pretty evocative/provocative. (Good choice – a redhead would never allow herself to be treated so!)
I’m telling you the whole story’s inspired by cover art.
And, well, bondage/damsels in distress is a fairly common motif.
JD is Unemployed
on May 7, 2020 at 5:54 am
I had a monster lay in this morning until about 10:45 because I had a terrible night’s sleep. I fell asleep on the couch which is terrible for my back, then hobbled to bed when I woke up about 03:00, couldn’t get back to sleep possibly because the chocolate I ate was dispersing it’s sugary alterness throughout my body, listened to a podcast, then eventually must have drifted off by about 04:30-05:00. Woke up at 10:20-something and didn’t care. I keep falling asleep on the couch and getting up to go bed in the wee hours. I gotta make a conscious effort to avoid that.
We need to revive freedom of association. It’s been too dead too long.
Gender Traitor
on May 7, 2020 at 6:24 am
Here in OH, we MIGHT hear today about the plan to reopen restaurants. Still hoping for word about salons and/or gyms soon. I’m in desperate need of both.
Festus
on May 7, 2020 at 6:54 am
I notice vehicles parked outside the businesses. It’s spring-time for Hitler!
I’m still revealing from the morning after the harshness of SF’s POV change.
Fuck Adult Swim, submit your stuff to Rooster Teeth.
LOL
I have no idea if he is dead or not.
Epic stuff.
Lack of posting lately – finished most of the move but may not have real internet at the house for 2-4 weeks.
Quick advice question – trying to get excess dirt/lint off some furniture post move – the small attachment on my vacuum is having some effect but depending on the specific material, not as much as I’d like? I’ll try Linton rollers again too, but any other suggestions are appreciated.
Rent an upholstery cleaner?
Seems like a bit much for la z boy and loveseat. Not excessively dirty, but visible detritus.
Use the heat method?
https://youtu.be/0aRpOtBN7yE
rent an upholstery cleaner, ya skinflint ya
If it’s lint/hair, use packing tape.
If you got rugs, get a rug cleaner with an attachment. It’ll pay for itself.
https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1258021120676114432
*adjusts tin foil*
So you are saying that it is another couple CoVid deaths.
Miraculously, no one seems to be afflicted by any of the others things (any other cold/flu strain that is constantly mutating and spreading and is generally innocuous among the population) that I presume are still just as prevalent as always. Weird.
I saw that happened this morning but it is a school night so I can’t delve deeply into the replies of that thread. Being a fan of tinfoil I am a believer in the the theories this shit aint happening because we are all gonna die.
Why does 페도라 have a Japanese accent?
Because I’m racist AF.
SON OF A BITCH CPRM
CPRM IS PIG
DO YOU WANT A HAMBURGER?
DO YOU WANT A PIZZA?
CPRM IS PIG DISGUSTING
MEXICAN SHARPSHOOTER IS A MURDERER
FUCKING GLIBERTARIANS.COM
That’s not a Mexican accent?
Maybe he/she is a Zainichi?
You think Kim Jong Un would be caught dead in a domestically made hat?
Fair point.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/coronavirus-reopen-states-death-liberty-trump-994421/amp/
I remember when the Democrats were the party of civil liberties, at least when Republicans were in power?
No
Nolan has a sad.
Just re-watched “Interstellar” – it still slaps, bro.
I love that movie.
It’s such an emotional movie. Dumb science and all but also it’s dumb science! It’s an immersive experience, which in these times…
In these times…
…
Is welcome.
“Immersive” is exactly right. I can overlook a lot of problems when a movie hooks me in like that. And I love the soundtrack.
Yes.
Immersing yourself in something for almost three hours is a true joy.
It’s why “going to a movie” will always be better than watching it at home. You paid for it, damnit you will watch it, and you will give it your attention.
“Interstellar” excels in that respect. Most Nolan movies do. It should be celebrated.
But I can’t pause the movie to make myself a drink.
I also can’t get shitfaced watching the movie.
Ooops–someone’s never been to Studio Movie Grill….
Or, Alamo Drafthouse
Or, an AMC Dine-In Theater
Or, Flix Brewhouse
Sorry; got carried away.
I prefer drinking home alone. It’s healthier than drinking out in public where people can give you the plague, or at least the evil eye.
Oh, I do tend to agree with you, to the extent I drink.
I was taking the piss (ahem) about not being able to drink in a theater.
I *think* we have a theater with a beer and wine license here in town, but I never went and now, who knows.
They’re terrified of something. But it’s not a virus. Let me see, maybe the key word is hidden here… oh, there it is ‘freedom’.
OT: Olly Murs Stuck His Dick In A Pringles Can On TikTok To Trick His Girlfriend Into Grabbing It — And Now It’s A Big Controversy
My God TikTok is a not only a dance-friendly app, it’s rape-friendly too.
My God.
From that link, I got drawn to this from the sidebar
The only thing that galls me about Corden’s apology is that “its just entertainment! We dont always tell the truth!”
Ive heard that from Springer, Bill Cunningham, Alex Jones, et al when pressed. “Hey…my show is entertainment. The incendiary political commentary I make isnt for you to take seriously….”
See also, Joad Cressbeckler from the Onion
Who’s James Corden?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfudXO_vzWk
Since I wasn’t around earlier…
She knocked on the Oval Office door as she let her musk flood the agents to either side. She never wore any perfume but herself, a quick finger in the honey pot and a line drawn down both sides of her neck, each wrist. She smiled while they fidgeted. Had they really smelled what they thought they had smelled? Faint and familiar. No, surely not.
I’ll be in my bunk.
The understandably cherished freedom to exercise sincerely-held religious beliefs ‘does not relieve an individual of the obligation to comply with a valid and neutral law of general applicability,’” the judge wrote, citing case law. “More specifically, when a neutral law of general application places incidental limits on a religious exercise, ‘the right to practice religion freely does not include liberty to expose the community … to communicable disease.
I see the problem. You and the other assholes failed to cite the Constitution. And I daresay that people voluntarily associating in whatever proximity at a church service are knowingly accepting a certain level of risk. That’s called freedom.
Related: What It’s Like to Believe Everything the Media Tells You
UV lights, a Nork hat, and blue lips…..I think someone has hit his stride.
OT: I’m Considering Making a Mold of My Penis
Bro
“but I already have in my mind that I would like to fuck myself”
There’s a whole lot of people I’d like to think in that way.
He doesn’t already engage in right-hand (or less commonly left-hand) shame?
I have been driven to recommend that to a number of people in the past so it’s nice to have somebody take the initiative here.
That’s nothing new.
Go on…
I read about people getting molds of their penis to get pegged by them years ago. I remember it was after 9/11 and before Obama.
It sounds like something Matt and Trey should’ve thought of years ago.
Subtext: If it’s my own dick, it’s not gay.
Thank you!
SEE, DAD!
IT’S NOT!
It’s mine, and Ill wash it as fast as I want !
Oh go fuck yourself!
Only a man with a small dick would do that.
SHUT UP NOT TRUE
https://shop.goop.com/shop/products/this-smells-like-my-vagina-candle?country=CAN
W
How many has Harvey ordered?
Most excellent! The fly crawling across Rocket Man’s face made it. I was laughing too hard to stand for applause.
I’d just like to pat myself on the back, I wrote that Kim Jong Un was ‘having all the sex’ before the pleasure squad rumors started emerging.
PLEASURE SQUAD!!
in color
Uh-oh…that should probably be ‘technicolor’.
Kim and the evil fedora are back!
Sweeeeeeet!
Good stuff, CPRM. Even if your accents are racist. ?
Totsch was unapologetic, especially for those employees who may lose their job for turning in their employers.
“I’d call it poetic justice, instant Karma, a dose of their own medicine,” he said. “What goes around, comes around. They are now experiencing the same pain that they themselves helped to inflict on those they filed complaints against.”
My understanding is that they had to check a box literally giving permission for the information to be released. Covered here.
The fly was a nice touch.
I guess since I noticed it I’m subject to execution by anti-aircraft gun?
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1257784933147279360
I never realized Eminem was that popular.
I didn’t know Barbra Streisand was ever a musician.
Somebody had to fill the “skinny white boy with no ear for music” niche.
Note that the rise of Eminem almost perfectly coincides with the Columbine massacre. Coincidence? I think not.
I’m going to run out of tin foil.
Michael Jackson sat at the top spot for a looooong time.
REVEALED: 66% of New York state coronavirus hospitalizations are people staying at HOME and NOT essential workers – which begs question: Does lockdown even work?
Well fuck my fuck.
people were not making the right personal choices even when at home.
Like not sitting in one spot not moving for multiple weeks?
Breathing. The governor has just issued a new ‘do not breathe’ order, in effect until further notice.
“We have to
destroy capitalismkill you to saveityou.”So they’re going to start arresting people for masturbating.
Everyone stating home is destroying their healthy immune systems.
Great stuff CPRM, love how you and SF both broke the forth wall at the same time. If I may make one critical observation you should have had the fly go behind the frames of the glasses, it would sell the effect of the fly walking on Lil’ Kim’s eyeballs, as it is it looks like the fly is walking on the lens of the glasses. And perhaps it’s not possible with your animation hardware but having the fly disappear into Kim’s mouth at the end would have sealed it.
Check out the animation critic here.
Hyp is actually Jay Sherman.
It stinks!
Those who can’t teach, etc etc… although this has aged pretty well.
LOL
On point
fuckin Gene Shallot, he is
When I was animating it did look like I had the layers set for the fly to be under the glasses, and looked so in the preview screen in the animation software. It wasn’t until I was in edit that I noticed it didn’t look like that.
I was sort of expecting that the number of flies would increase throughout the video. One is a nuisance, two is a problem, twelve is a corpse.
Tom Cruise really is the ultimate movie star.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tom-cruise-nasa-international-space-station-movie/
The “Top Gun” star will be flying through the stratosphere shooting an as-yet-unknown film aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said Tuesday.
This takes doing one’s own stunts to a higher level.
I know the dudes a whack job but I really do like most of his movies. They’re at least entertaining.
And inspiring. How do you think I get motivated to do yard work?
You use Napalm on your lawn? Good tip.
Snake and nape
No, it’s the gay volleyball that really does it.
^This. MIP series aside.
The new normal:
When you realize a new crime movie is the extent of your weekend plans
I never thought I’d see a movie featuring Pine Bluff, utter shithole that it is.
And where a lot of my family is from.
Holy shit–Clark Duke is actually acting in this. As opposed to just being a hanger-on.
Kim’s hat cracks me up.
I think we need a hat throwdown!
I think I’ve already mentioned that if you make a predictive model, and it falls short, and you have to make daily adjustments, your model was shit. And you essentially start over with a new model.
If coronavirus predictions keep changing, what good are they?
Hysteresis- how does it work?
The models are shit because they built them from a faulty starting point. I am calling that fact because there is no way in hell the Vid was not here before the data points they are using. They started testing near peak in most places around the country. Yes there is going to be lag as cases come down which looks like spikes but they missed out on months of build up because there was no test yet. Thanks CDC! At least that is my opinion after reading constantly about this shit for two months.
Cuomo has it covered by merely saying that the real number of deaths was way undercounted.
That way he can never be proven wrong.
It was all based on power lust and his own personal fears.
“I was afraid”<—that sounds like a personal problem, bud.
Fear breeds tyranny.
Well, he did infect his wife, didn’t he?
They’ve had a lot of practice. They’ve been predicting all the glaciers on earth and all the polar ice caps will be melted by [fill in year] and it never happens. But they just move the goalposts and repeat.
When your entire intent is to drive a political narrative, you never admit you’re wrong, you just move the goalpost and keep going.
Did you know that tin foil is actually made from aluminum? What is Big Metal trying to hide?
Tin is currently 15,380/tonne
Aluminium (its a limey site) is 1,443/tonne
Can you afford Tin, shitlord ?
So you are saying the British are involved?
To put in terms easier to understand, A 1.5×2 inch piece of real tinfoil is $20 on Amazon.
So it’s $6.66 per square inch. Sliced bread is 5″ across. So to wrap a sandwich, you would need 100 square inches. One hundred times 6.66 is 666.
We’re through the looking glass, people.
Silver is $15.23/oz.
FYI.
It was almost $50 in 1978.
Shit, 2011, lol. Not sure where I pulled that out of.
Actually, I was thinking of 1980, not 1978, when it was also near $50. I think it was slightly higher in 2011.
PrEcIoUs MeTaL iS ThE gOd Of InVeStMeNt InStRuMeNtS!1!!1!!!!!one
The future is all about cadmium.
It was for me when I sold my silver in 1980. Still not sure why I was thinking 1978. Probably because it was right after the 70s and I had a lot of money and free time and I was 19? Yeah, I don’t remember too much from then.
Gold and silver work differently. It is a HUGE error to buy silver because you cannot afford gold. The silver market is heavily manipulated (that $50 high was the Hunt brothers attempt to corner it). To give an example of the manipulation. The current $15 spot price is a drop from the pre Covid levels which had bounced around in the $17-$19 range. How you ask? Well when silver was at $18 the premium to buy was hovering in the $.80 -$2.50 range (depending on quantities and type of coin/bar). So you could buy desirable mintages at $20 and non-premium mintages at $19. Now with Gold up 35-40% over its price atthat point you would expect silver to have jumped some as well, or at least to stay constant. It sort of has stayed constant (and actually spiked for a while) because the premium you will pay to buy it now is $4-$10 an ounce. So you will pay more to buy silver now than you would have 3 months ago. But you can only sell it for about 80% of what you could sell it for then.
I had most of mine from coin collection as a kid. Now by far most of my coins gained more silver value than they ever would have collector value. Then I just started buying it when it kept going higher. That was sometime in 1978 or 79. But I was buying it dirt cheap. I just knew too many stoner friends and their drunk uncles who just wanted some cash on hand. I wound up with $18,000 cash when I sold it all. Maybe just by luck I knew it wasn’t going any higher so I just dumped it. It was almost perfect timing. I went back into it again after thinking it was going to peak again, but it never did. I didn’t lose money, but I probably broke even and I never got back in again.
The atomic number for tin is 50. The atomic number for aluminum is 13. M is the thirteenth letter of the alphabet. M50 is a gas mask for biological weapons.
Open your eyes, people. A wok can’t melt steel beams.
Calls for investigation, demands justice!
You know, he was one of them negroes, he didn’t even speak with one of them negro dialects when he didn’t want to. His uncle, Cornpop… Cornpop was a bad dude…
Now back in 1994, you know, we had a different way to deal with those guys. We’d just call them a super predator and we’d make sure they got sent to prison.
But now that I’m running for Senate in 2020, I’m demanding an investigation into the disappearance of Cornpop!
/Sleepy Joe
http://archive.li/eYQ7i/1088c67859525df7ac5960207abb4611a31e8395.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/rNwjY/afeb6615aa60a6b0924d16cb7e447f1d9f4869b0.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/JPuz7/f8db62787d514429817fc94a1a8934d083e83b97.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/nj9cQ/1870cc2c247b096b322ea012cb29aebed4c6e693.jpg
NSFW.
I guess I can overlook a little bit of ink, just for her.
CPRM, this was fantastic. Good call on the DPRK harem.
So who is going to jail?
Transcripts of House Intelligence Committee interviews that have been cleared for release show top law enforcement and intelligence officials affirming they had no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election, senior administration and intelligence community officials told Fox News on Wednesday.
This would align with the results of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation — which found no evidence of illegal or criminal coordination between President Trump, the Trump campaign and Russia in 2016 — but the numerous transcribed interviews could raise further questions about committee Chairman Adam Schiff’s past statements saying that there was “direct evidence” of collusion.
“Schiff is in panic mode,” a senior administration official told Fox News.
*obligatory skepticism of “sources familiar with the matter* Also, duh, it was always bullshit.
Related
The Justice Department on Wednesday released a mostly unredacted version of then-Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s August 2017 “scope memo” outlining the authority of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller — and the document reveals for the first time that Mueller’s authority went significantly beyond what was known previously.
Rosenstein, who later left the Justice Department for a law firm, oversaw Mueller’s probe and played a central role in its still-unfolding drama. He was the subject of a two-page memo written by then-Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe that outlined how Rosenstein allegedly proposed wearing a wire in the White House “to collect additional evidence on the president’s true intentions,” and thought the scheme was plausible because “he was not searched when he entered the White House.” Rosenstein has denied those allegations and slammed the FBI.
Previously, it had been revealed that in May 2017, Rosenstein authorized Mueller to probe “i) any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; ii) any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation; [and] iii) any other matters within the scope of [obstruction of justice laws].”
No conflicts of interest there at all.
And how exactly did Mueller get chosen to be the special counsel again?
“So who is going to jail?”
Not any of the guilty in that scam.
Maybe the next person who posts something on Twitter that doesn’t agree 100% with the WHO on the commie flu? Or the next mom who takes her kids to the playground?
Waiting for indictments on these clowns is like waiting for Hillary or RBG to croak. Always over the next hill (or news cycle).
And I thought I had a cool mother in law.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8294009/Neil-Fergusons-MOTHER-LAW-comes-defence-saying-believe-vilified.html
Yeah, I bet her daughter finds positively cold….blooded!
Listening to Beauty & The Beta, and a caller is complaining about how poorly written the Canadian gun-ban bill is written. Something about an outright ban on anything over 20mm, but know it’s sinking in that 12 gauge shotguns with no choke come in just a hair over 20mm and would be subject to the nationwide ban.
Linked video is private.
Me: *cleaning glasses* *can’t see*
Mr. Mojeaux: Yeah, she’s got his balls in her purse.
Me: Meghan? He was such a nice little troublemaker, too.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8290871/Prince-Harry-sells-50-000-hunting-rifle-Dr-Jane-Goodall-says-Meghan-doesnt-like-hunting.html
No gun pics?
Lord Varys had bigger balls.
But who had the biggest?
I knew before clicking your link. ?
True.
He would have been much better off selling Meghan.
Right? I gave them 8 years. Not too solid on that right now. If the boy’s missing his testosterone-fuelled antics already, he’ll crack sooner than later.
One day he’s going to wake up with a bad hangover, a worse case of remorse, and half his stuff missing.
Duchess of Rohypnol.
At least she hasn’t made him get rid of his gun yet.
Are my mama and I the only people who know how to fold a fitted sheet?
Yes. I just roll it up as neatly as possible.
Fold? Doesn’t it go back on the bed after you wash it? No one needs 2 pairs of sheets!
I learned how to do it from my first husband.
It’s not difficult. I don’t get it.
Get Sheex and then come back. Normal fitted sheets are fine. Those fold like the debil.
Is that like Spanx?
Probably. Stretchy material. Wife swears by them.
No, my wife is really good at it. Despite her best effort to teach me, it’s hopeless, I can’t do it. And it’s not that I want to do it, or not, I can’t do it. It’s fucking impossible!
It’s weird, having a nicely folded flat sheet and a rolled-up fitted sheet.
“Fold”?
A sheet??
Yes, why?
Why, indeed!
I know how to slit a sheet.
Oh yeah, that’s a good episode.
The fly is inspired,
Adult Swim doesn’t deserve you, brother.
Directed by the guy who wrote and Directed the Last Jedi
David Cronenberg wrote and directed The Last Jedi?
I thought he was talking about the Breaking Bad episode of the same title what with “episode” line. Oops.
No, he was talking about the episode at the top, you know, above the comment section.
ME ZO SMRT!
That’s just a myth.
The fuck?
Focus, Winston!
I just watched the video that has sparked this interest in the Ahmaud Arbery case, once again, why was this recorded? This is a question I often ask of cellphone videos that go viral. The video starts before either the truck or the jogger are in view via the road.
Also, whycome lockdowners aren’t calling the people out protesting this grandma killers?
Dash cam? That’s what I would bet on….considering I’m on my 3rd.
No, it’s clearly cellphone footage. Do people use cellphones as dash cams and then just randomly point them around?
Yup, I see what you mean. I think the person just held their phone up to the dash, trying to record this. Since it started before they were in sight, I had thought it was from a dashcam (I watched it yesterday).
Although, I do recall seeing some people move their dashcams around for whatever brouhaha was going on. But, I don’t see that here.
I remember the good old days when social media was supposed to be filled with libertarian Karens were supposed to complain all the time about everything the government does and force the pols to become libertarians.
Exactly what drugs were you doing at the time?
Wasn’t social media supposed to hold them accountable? Who and would people do that?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/bigthink.com/is-the-internet-making-us-more-libertarian.amp.html
You must be from the Barenstein Bears universe.
Barenstain.
I am beary pedantic
Berenstain.
I am pedanticker than you. ; )
Y’all are wrong. Bernstein Bears or GTFO.
Maybe your bears spell it that way, but…
Have Glibs now officially argued about everything?
GT obviously doesn’t conspiracy good enough to be a Glib! Quarantine her!
The Camps
This had better be a joke.
*opens up tab for sgammo*
I may be a bit touchy because we only have a single bathroom and Gov Kunt has Newsome & Inslee’s hands up her backside. I’ve given a lot of thought of how to order our house if it should happen and stocked up to get through those weeks.
From someone who actually had the virus
I will put rounds down range if someone tries to forcibly remove my wife against her will.
Can’t separate kids from random adults they are with at the border, but this is OK.
I don’t think you are alone.
WTF??
You tell me. This had better be a joke.
Get a warrant, assholes.
Scratch that, the judge is probably on call to expedite every request.
wArRaNtS aRe UnNeCeSsArY iN aN eMeRgEnCy!!!
Who’s gonna wanna get tested voluntarily if he starts doing that? Oh yeah, I forgot about idiots that still trust govt as they are under house arrest.
They aren’t talking about volunteer anything. They’re talking about forcibly testing people and then quarantining them, even away from their family if they test positive. These people are evil. People, I assume a lot, are going to die over this shit, not because of the virus. I’m not sure the US survives this if there’s not massive resistance right now. They start talking shit like that, there’s no more time to remain passive.
Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about. If you aren’t forced, you won’t go in voluntarily.
People won’t even go to the hospital right now, unless they think they’re about to die. They already sickened and killed a lot of people who would have otherwise sought medical care when they passed Obamacare, because people’s health insurance deductibles increased so much they couldn’t afford the out of pocket.
Something needs to be done to reign in the evil and soon.
More migration from CA, maybe? I mean, obviously, the TruBelief brigade will most likely stay. Still…
This shit keeps up, you won’t be able to even leave your designated camp, let alone the state.
Now we see just why the Blue bloods have been doing everything they can to make guns illegal.
I am of the opinion that, considering this is Cali, if people in the TV industry (show hosts, mostly) have this done to them–even just one–we might get someone who goes off the reservation, and try to shame anyone who pushes this, or, lauds it.
They’ll be careful not to do that.
I’ve been thinking about getting an antibody test since there is a private company that is doing them here for 120 bucks. I had a flu type respiratory illness in early January and I work in multiple different houses, apartments and businesses in the city every day. Even though I’ve had a drop in biz and having to homeschool, I’m still going all around the city doing work. I’d like to know if I had it, but with shit like this as a possibility I don’t want to get tested. If I get a positive I don’t want them notified and coming around to quarantine me. Fuck that noise.
*Ron Paul It’s Happening gif*
C, I think you know I found the episode to be top-notch. With that in mind–
Gojira and I are still interested in doing a Metroplex Glib-up in the Summer. We’re both hopeful that there will be plenty of options for actual social outings at that point. So, for our fellow North Texans, and anyone who can be cajoled into traveling here to attend, let me know.
Since site security is what it is, if you need to contact me, TPTB have my permission to release
the Krakenmy email address.My Vacation Days are based on hours worked, another way I’m being screwed over. Speaking of which, today was the latest estimate for when my birthday present to myself that I bought in February was set to arrive. It didn’t. I go to ebay and see a small text under my order ‘This user is no longer registered on ebay’ go and look at reviews for the seller since I ordered it and it appears no one got their orders since then. No Birthday For You!…speaking of which when I ordered all the parts for my new PC build they were all supposed to arrive while I’m laid off and have nothing else to do, good time build a PC and migrate everything over. Now some of it is supposed to be delivered by 22nd. Just extra things, like the motherboard.
Oh, FDS! Now, I’m pissed off… I was just about to tell you that I got an email that was actually addressed to someone else ? advising me of something being on the way to me. That made me happy, and your ebay “adventure” kinda deflates that.
https://reason.com/2020/05/06/justin-amash-im-promising-to-be-a-president-who-will-reduce-my-power/#
Well since he’ll never be president I guess we won’t get the chance to see him break his promise.
Reason, Cato and Amash are all awfully ambivalent about the shutdowns. Those cocktail parties and the fact that the BadOrangeMan wants to end them sooner than later and that the deplorables are against them surely does wonders.
Listen, no one has to like the guy, but it’s mendacious to shadow-box with the Amash in your head while ignoring what the man actually has said on the topic. E.g.,
The ambivalence I am referring to is the fact that there is support for the actual lockdowns but sometimes they go a bit too far, some protestors are icky and too much money is being spent.
An opinion on strategy is not ambivalence. Again, you don’t have to agree with him, but you can’t deny his admonition against letting the protests turn into the Tea Party Carnival 2.0 isn’t warranted. There’s a lot of clownery erupting that is being exploited by a venal and dishonest media to distract from the central message that Amash identifies above. There is nothing in the NAP that states one has to let boogaloo LARPers set the tone for every event without objection until the end of time. I mean just a month ago, we were all pragmatists whining about purity tests and now we’re all supposed to be fire-breathing deontologists. I can’t keep up with this shit. I don’t even know when the next Taco Tuesday is at Glibs HQ.
So what you’re saying is ‘Aamash is China is Asshole Karen Bukkake Lord of the Dance Tiger’?
Yes.
HM, if you’re still around, and, up to the task (no, not that), I’ll leave it to you to tangle with Winston on…well, whatever the hell he’s on about.
It’s almost 2 here…so I’m going to bed.
Oh, playing it smart, are ya??
Who will be the gatekeeper who will decide what is not allowed at these protests and how to enforce that? And is it a good idea to give the “venal and dishonest media” a veto over what you should say or do?
Also I find the complaints about the “politicization of everything” and “the culture war” incredibly hypocritical since that is clearly what the classical liberals and libertarian wanted however they just assumed that they would be the victors instead of the losers.
How do you get that from leave me alone and I’ll leave you alone?
I am so lost in this back-and-forth….Winston, you may be right, but, how do you know this? Who are these people, specifically, and did they state exactly what they wanted, in whatever particular instances?
The classical liberals also engaged in tribalism and us-versus-them thinking but that was okay since they were supposed to win and crush the reactionaries.
Why does there need to be a gatekeeper? Norms and mores cannot be instituted or changed organically through dialog?
The reality is that mass media exists and shapes public opinion. One can ignore that fact or one can exploit it. I’m reminded of something Colin Powell wrote in one of his books. During the Gulf War, he realized that whenever he talked to the media, there were what he called 5 Audiences. A wise leader shapes his or her message to achieve what he or she wants from those 5 Audiences. Now, if we are interested in expediency, to win the hearts and minds of the 3 or 4 Audiences that are not hostile to us, are we going to let “Plandemic” be our version of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense or might it be better to rationally explain how draconian, top-down measures by government central planners have served to actually prolong the pandemic? I don’t see why that’s such a controversial stance.
https://mises.org/library/origins-nazism
This quote by Mises on German classical liberals is a pretty good example. What pray tell do you think was meant by all the talk of the eliminating “backwardness”, ending regionalism, fighting the church, education, all civilized men being liberals and there being only indifferent men and liberals?
I assume these norms and mores will be changed in ways you like?
And are you talking about keeping about the boogaloo types out of these protests or just criticizing them?
Interesting. Do we know for a fact these things are “prolonging” it? As to being useless or reducing it as the planners themselves say? Or irrelevant to human liberty?
I still maintain, the best libertarian president wouldn’t promise anything. He’d go in, in force every law on the books to the fullest extent and go on TV every night and say, ‘As president I do not make law or policy, my job is to enforce the laws as written. If you, like me, disagree with the outcomes this enforcement brings, pressure you congressman and your senators to change the laws.’
Spending my day going to 3 different companies so that I can give them my hanko. Work from home, but commute to fill out paperwork.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/apr/13/the-karen-meme-is-everywhere-and-it-has-become-mired-in-sexism
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/611104/
They’ve managed to get that definition of a “Karen” precisely backwards.
Written by a Karen is my guess.
It’s always someone else’s fault. If people would just get in line, and follow the rules (as I believe them to be), then I wouldn’t have to hit you….?
Uh…I mean…it’s their fault!!
Too bad I don’t know Kung fu.
But, you know “Cah-RAY-zee”, amirite??
Will no one else point out that the ‘Karen’ memes started spreading with black people complaining about middle-class white progs being racist?
That was mentioned in the article.
Considering how ass-backwards they are with their blame, I won’t fault anyone for not going to that article.
What I’m saying, is, CPRM is the trusted name in memes.
Wait, there are articles in the comments?
It all went wrong when faux-incest step-porn became popular.
Wait…I thought we looked at that FOR the articles.
It’s not my fault that POV porn took that rout. Don’t blame it on me. I would have made great POV porn! The Best! The Classiest!
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-06/gavin-newsom-releases-california-coronavirus-mask-contract
But what about his business cards??
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thenation.com/article/politics/lockdown-protest-media/tnamp/
“Encouraged by near-saturation media coverage, the right-wing protests against commonsense social-distancing measures are getting out of hand. While the absolute numbers involved in the protests are tiny, their effect—when amplified by the credulous, cheerleading tone of the coverage—is massive and dangerous.”
I hear a whole lot of conflicting narrative going on there. Wonder why that is?
That poor bastard–so educated, he actually broke his brain.
The Orwell Prize, now that’s ironic.
Oh, good catch.
Plus, award for “media criticism”? I didn’t think cheerleaders criticized the players.
Gotta have those outliers that keep pushing the envelope. This guy has a serious case of TDS.
Funny how TDS is way more infectious and deadly than coronavirus, but no one is being locked down for it. I mean come on, it eats brains whole!
Also, you have to deduct, what…10, 20 IQ points from him, simply for the use of “commonsense”.
Paging Chafed!
Just move here, already. Yeah, we got crime, and we got good SD legislation…mostly.
All’s well that ends well.
Dipshits be stealin’ instead of trainin’. Not a complaint, mind you.
https://theweek.com/articles/912853/american-individualism-suicide-pact
Here’s a great interview with Hendrik Streeck, a virologist in Bonn, who studied a localized super spreading event from a small village in Germany. I wish people would “science” more by looking at individual studies than appealing to authority:
https://unherd.com/thepost/german-virologist-finds-covid-fatality-rate-of-0-24-0-36/
Interesting. How do they determine a cause of death with co morbidities? It’s hard to compare studies when I’m not sure if they are apples to apples. (Insert tired joke about getting hit by a bus=corona death)
I think their advantage in this one is that the superspreading event in an isolated village, you can really track things pretty closely. For me the interesting part of the study is the difficulty they had swabbing the virus from surfaces and then growing a culture from it. They couldn’t do it. Also interesting is the idea that viral load appears to be a big part. That getting it in a smaller dose reduces your chance of actually getting sick from it. Close contact and indoors appears to be the magic combo.
I’d imagine that is the reason doctors and nurses could get a higher dose.
Unsurprisingly he’s getting yelled and screamed at by blue check marks on Twitter, but it’s awfully hard to claim the guy is some sort of weirdo crank.
Everyone not panicking is a weirdo crank. It’s just science.
I’ve been reading elsewhere about the viral load theories. Would explain some of the difference seen in Europe/NYC and elsewhere, particularly Asian countries.
If you say viral load and Asians in the same sentence you’ll summon HM.
https://m.imgur.com/p3U8bjS
His balls are going to ache.
https://imgur.com/alfvsg4
I will say this about Funemployment 2: Electric Boogaloo, Drinking for 8hrs is better than working for 8hrs.
I think I hear a faint “help me”…sort of a tinny….no, copper-ish tone to it.
Like Riddick?
Excellent find! I’ve, no doubt, heard that line many times.
I’m a big Riddick fan. I like all the movies, but David Twohy is a bigger revisionist than George Lucas. Continuity is something he don’t give AF. Low budget of the first one, so they use firearms, next one lasers are everywhere. Riddick was left for dead in a dumpster behind a liquor store strangled by his umbilical cord, naw, next movie he was a strangled by a Necromonger in his crib…
Unless Twohy has actually called it revision, I’m somewhat reluctant to call it such. Yes, there is a huge difference between the “universes” in 1 and two (PB vs CoR). I think they can both be a part of a single vision, and I get why they were done the way they were, in real-world terms.
But, I’ll concede that that doesn’t mean they aren’t revisions, either.
Well, Twohy didn’t write Pitch Black, so it is all revisionism after that.
It’s kind of the opposite of Lucas in a way. Twohy came on board as a director for Pitch Black and bought into the universe the writers created so much that somehow he got all rights, along with vin, to control the property.
Huh….I hadn’t paid that much attention to the credits of PB, and so I thought he and Vin had written it.
(I had an unfortunate pronunciation ‘situation’ with a customer named Twohy one time, so I pay attention when I see the name–overly so, I guess)
So, yeah, I see what you mean about revision.
FUCKSAKE! I went to IMDB to get the names of the guys who wrote Pitch Black, and this was linked on the front page.
And This too. Fuck.
OK, team from the Office, now do the Coast Guard!
How about the Marines?
Jim and Ken Wheat, by the way, they are the ones who created the universe.
This just proves who makes the best sci-fi franchises.
You assume they are brothers and not gay lovers!? You Neocon asshat!
G’night Digby. I am The Betht! The Motht Clathy pather outer!
Peacus
Pieces?
Peace-us?
¿Qué?
🙁 I didn’t mean to brooks that.
Well, it IS a question that needs to be asked. So, I think you’re good, there.
Are you up late or early?
I would like to know the answer to that too.
Chafed–In ref to earlier emails, how’s tricks?
Sorry if I missed a recent one. Will email you tomorrow.
Oh, no–just relating back to earlier ones. But, type away!
Early.
I fell asleep after work yesterday and slept till 2am.
You’re getting one hell of a jump on your day.
Stupid but fun.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Real_Israeli/status/1258009320995852288
BTW, good to have you back….where we can keep an eye on you.
Thx, Digs. Got a lot of work right now so can’t be around much. Was thinking about doing a zoom walking tour of Tokyo. Maybe Sunday.
Dang! If that is your Sunday (Sat night here) that would be awesome. Awesome either way, but, I would probably miss it on USA Sunday (sounds weird).
Sorry about the work load, so Godspeed, and all that.
It’s be Sat night for you. Late. 11:30 pm start. If people show interest.
Yes, please and thank you. That sounds far more interesting than watching me LARP Sleeping With The Enemy.
It’s not weird. You drink a lot.
https://youtu.be/RG69PMDBfaE
It comes with the territory.
When will we see you in a video of the oddly quiet part of Tokyo Gustave Lytton is so fond of?
Where’s that?
I’m not sure. GL has posted some YT videos of a downturn intersection that is typically packed. But in the videos it is devoid of cars and people.
Shibuya crosswalk with a handful of people in it. Weird AF.
The scramble by Hachiko the Dog? Uh… I’m doing WFH so I’m not near Shibuya for now. Maybe Kichijoji. Nearby for me.
https://www.gotokyo.org/en/destinations/western-tokyo/kichijoji/index.html
Yep. Lots of live cams to watch empty pavement. I think there’s more people at my local grocery than out there.
Meanwhile…
OT: Why the fuck do people say “I’m over it” these days when they actually mean “I’m super pissed about it”? If you’re over it, you wouldn’t be angry about it… But you are.
People are stupid.
… and some seem to have a need to revel in being that way.
It’s fun, join us.
I think I’ll just watch from here
I think they mean it in the way someone is “over” an ex. “Over” being positive about a thing, and moved on to being negative about it.
We are weird with language.
If they were over their ex, they wouldn’t be talking about him/her.
Go with my second sentence….
::kicks rock down the road::
Maybe they mean they are over talking about it?
But people typically begin a conversation by declaring how they are “over” something, then it’s followed up by 10 minutes of complaining about it.
… Unlike me, for instance. I never complain about anything.
/sarc
I’m pissed about Macho Grande?
You’ll
neveralways be pissed over Macho GrandeYou’re pissed because they called it Nacho Grande?
Today is camping day. Up on the roof top of our place here. I put up the tent, air mattresses are pumped up, canopy up, fired up the Weber, and popped open an Asahi.
That sounds utterly fantastic. I hope it’s a nice as I am imagining it.
The wind is a bit more balmy than I prefer but it’s not raining and the temp is about perfect. My kids are diggin’ it big-time.
Hell, I would be too. We’re fortunate to have had the recent spate of actual Spring weather here–plenty of rain, and some humidity, but, not the typical N. Texas kind.
Yet.
Here in southwest Ohio, I thought we were done with the cold-ass bullshit… Unfortunately, it’s supposed to get down to 29 degrees this Friday night. I’ll have to bring my damn green onion planter inside.
Oh yea, after observing that the root ends of green onions sometimes sprouted in the compost pile, I decided to stick them in a planter full of soil. They’ve already grown 3 or 4 inches. I’ve planted a dozen so far. I wonder if they winter over… Because if so, I could be eating the same 12 green onions for the rest of my life. That would be awesome.
Damn skippy. I don’t know anything about cultivating them, but, if they’re as hearty as the wild ones that grew around the house when I was a kid, they may very well do OK in Winter.
They changed the shape of fig newtons, making them narrowing and longer so that the ratio of fruit to grain skews towards the grain more. They used to be square, now they’re bars.
I’m annoyed.
I hate when things are changed for the sake of change only. That really pisses me off. As if different just has to be better. Microsoft is one of the biggest culprits of this crime.
I wonder if this change was made to hide the reduction in overall material per package.
To make you feel better (or give you an insufferable earbug,) here’s this classic from the good ol’ days when Fig Newtons were square.
(We always got the cheaper house brand fig bars that were rectangular and distinctly drier than Newtons. I had a
depraveddeprived childhood.)610 more pulpy words (plus the portion posted yesterday):
“You can do that Tsunga”
I think you meant “can’t.”
So what did you think of the rest of it?
Sounds a bit straight for a ‘Pulp’ but I may be conflating ‘Pulp’ with “noir”, where lines like “the dame had legs so long you had to ask directions ant the knee cap” are the norm. Another small nit, the wiry guy exposing Kassim’s cards. Most card games allow a player to muck his cards if he knows he’s beat after an earlier player reveals a better hand. Now while it’s good practice to turn up ones hand, especially in ‘cards call themselves’ games, as you may miss something (not likely in the 5 card game you describe but in Texas Hold’em for example I’ve seen people think they have nothing when they have a straight (of course the people I played with were generally drunk and/or stoned)) even if the game required all players to turn up their hands at the showdown I don’t think most casinos would let a non player touch the cards.
I’ve never read either genre, and I doubt I could write in that voice anyway. (It would drive me mad to read.) But that sentence sounds like a caricature of film noir.
It’s an over the top example to be sure, but there’s a reason the hard-boiled dic became a stereotype.
I doubt I could write in that voice anyway
I had that thought when you first mentioned writing a ‘Pulp”, your normal writing voice doesn’t lend itself to my idea of what pulp is, but again I’ve mostly read the classic noir/crime sub group of the genre.
I’m hoping to find some content from when they were schlocky adventure stories but before they degenerated into mere porn mags. The story of each imprint appears to be a slow slide from general fiction to outright porn over the decades, ending around the 1970s when they couldn’t compete with the titles that had started in that market.
I’m going to have to find one of those magazines whose covers I’m using for inspiration and see what the style is… after I finish the story.
Ah I see you aren’t writing a Pulp just using a Pulp cover for inspiration, ignore my genre based criticisms, or you know carry on as usual.,
You’re a good egg, Hype. I like you.
I like it. “Baranga” is one of the names me and friend used to give this girl because for some reason we never used her real surname, just made something up every time. Brings back memories.
I made up a pronouncable but nonsense word, looked it up, found it was a river in Romania and went “I’m okay with that” and applied the name to a city on the edge of a jungle.
I don’t own a Thompson or a fedora. ?
Are there some sort of off-brand, historically-accurate replicas of Tommys available to today’s discerning mob LARPer to use at the range?
https://www.auto-ordnance.com
I was born under the wrong sky.
I did go look what was currently listed at Gun Jesus’ regular hangout.
Yes, of course there are
I own a fedora, but not a Thompson.
Well color me surprised.
I’ve had it since 2007. It’s my everyday hat.
It is getting a bit worn though. It’s no longer black.
That just brough back memories of a dream I had at some point last night in which I was wearing an orange, 3D-printed copy of some guy’s Stetson.
Old school & classy as hell. How wide a brim?
I think it’s three inches, might be two and a fraction. I never measured.
Two and a half
So, in black, closer to Bogart than to Indiana Jones?
The closest I’ve ever got to that was a woolen slouch hat that I bought on a drunken whim in the city circa 1988. A few years later I started wearing it turned around bass-ackwards and it was cool again. Couple years later Step-daughter appropriated it and made it hers. It probably has more stories than Moe’s bar rag.
Yes, GT, and the model from the (online) hat shop was even called the Bogart.
You own a fedora but have to order new fig newton gloves from the Amazon. Such disappoint!
Did everyone fall back asleep?
I just woke up….and just finished catching up on overnight comments, including your scene. A classic pulp poker game, but the blonde in chains is pretty evocative/provocative. (Good choice – a redhead would never allow herself to be treated so!)
And good morning!
I’m telling you the whole story’s inspired by cover art.
And, well, bondage/damsels in distress is a fairly common motif.
I had a monster lay in this morning until about 10:45 because I had a terrible night’s sleep. I fell asleep on the couch which is terrible for my back, then hobbled to bed when I woke up about 03:00, couldn’t get back to sleep possibly because the chocolate I ate was dispersing it’s sugary alterness throughout my body, listened to a podcast, then eventually must have drifted off by about 04:30-05:00. Woke up at 10:20-something and didn’t care. I keep falling asleep on the couch and getting up to go bed in the wee hours. I gotta make a conscious effort to avoid that.
Are you working from home these days?
I am working from home.
I’m sick of it, but the building where my cube is makes me physically ill, so I’m probably better off here.
With any luck you’ll have more opportunity to split time between home and cube after the panic-demic has subsided?
Yeah, Andy hasn’t extended his illegal orders past the 15th as far as I’ve seen. We may return to the office the week following.
I went on an hour-long “Hayde” binge. H/t to the Suthen Boy.
Hope Hicks eternal. Mornin’, Glibs.
Mornin’, JD, though I assume it’s afternoon where you are.
Mornin’ GT! You’re just in time with that; PM still 6 minutes away.
Well…fuck… ?
https://www.wfmz.com/health/coronavirus/us-supreme-court-declines-to-lift-wolfs-business-shutdown-order/article_05493532-8fe7-11ea-b4c6-3b0d5952ba06.html
Fuck Wolf, fuck the SC.
We need to revive freedom of association. It’s been too dead too long.
Here in OH, we MIGHT hear today about the plan to reopen restaurants. Still hoping for word about salons and/or gyms soon. I’m in desperate need of both.
I notice vehicles parked outside the businesses. It’s spring-time for Hitler!
https://www.nj.com/hudson/2020/05/six-arrested-after-jersey-city-street-fight-where-police-used-pepper-spray-batons.html
They’re not social distancing very well.
Huh. Up here in the day-to-day people seem to be much more friendly and helpful. Even the vagrants are leaving everyone else alone.