MINNEAPOLIS – The streets were mostly calm in this mostly not burned down city for the first time since the mostly peaceful protests began. However, some have complained of the large number of mostly stationary bricks that were thrown by the mostly peaceful protesters through mostly not broken windows of mostly not looted stores. Meanwhile, the mayor, the chief of police, and the local head of Black Lives Matter were mostly in agreement that Trump is mostly to blame. Fortunately the owners and employees of the mostly not looted and/or burned stores are mostly not destitute. However, a Minneapolis police union spokesman said that the mostly peaceful protesters were out of line because the Minneapolis police mostly do not kill people. Furthermore, the spokesman added, Minneapolis police mostly do not commit crimes of any kind. In fact, the local jails are mostly empty and crime mostly does not happen in the city. The city’s paramedics, doctors, and nurses were able to keep the mostly uninjured protesters from losing most of their blood. Nonetheless, the mostly in control mayor has ordered a curfew since the mostly peaceful protests come mostly at night, mostly. Trump has warned that he may send the National Guard to restore order, adding that they will mostly not be shooting looters. Other critics have complained of the dangers of armed store owners shooting rioters, however several store owners argued that they mostly did not shoot people and that as a result, there stores were mostly not looted. And in other news, most drunk drivers get home safe, most planes do not crash, most soldiers survive combat, most people do not go to jail, most marriages do not end in divorce, most people who smoke do not get lung cancer, most people will reach the age of 70, most Americans are richer than most of the people in the world, most species go extinct, most crimes go unpunished, most of the art in museums are forgeries, and most American college students do not know what country the Vietnam War took place in.
Mostly Stationary Bricks Thrown at Mostly Peaceful Protest
About The Author
Derpetologist
The world's foremost authority on the science of stupidity, Professor Emeritus at Derpskatonic University, Editor of the Journal of Pure and Theoretical Derp,
Chancellor of the Royal Derp Society, and Senior Fellow at The Dipshit Doodlebug Institute for Advanced Idiocy
Mostly a good job Derpy 🙂
^The perfect first responder.
Mostly.
😉
Because they mostly come at night?
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The streets were angry that day my friend!
Mostly! Damn it all
*Hands ARV a glass of bourbon*
Thistle Finch tonight.
I started drinking white Russians in Vegas because a guy at the blackjack table was and now I’m hooked.
As a chilling on the sidewalk drink.
Mostly hooked.
I don’t do anything mostly
I mostly don’t do anything, but I’m really good at it.
If there was a cocktail you were hooked on mostly, it would be the White Russian.
There’s a beverage here, man!
My wife got hooked on Brandy Alexanders on a vacation. I had to learn how to make them – luckily it’s easy.
Sippin’ some Old Grand Dad. Damn it’s good.
I mostly enjoyed that.
Mostly
Damn you early birds….
Batman Returns! Michael Keaton in Talks to Play Bruce Wayne in ‘The Flash’ Movie (Exclusive)
Remember when Michael Keaton as Batman was the biggest deal of deals?
I love “The Flash” because every problem is eventually solved by him finally remembering he can go really fast.
Journos Against Freedom: Media Elites Air Grievances, Conspiracy Theories in Response to Fireworks
I am all for defunding for the police, but only after the firework monsters have been locked up.
It all comes down eliminating joy.
You Bring Me Joy
These pussies should move to Hawaii to see how to really pull off “do your own” fireworks displays. On Independence Day and New Years Oahu looks like flying over Berlin in 1944 or Baghdad in 1991. It is fucking impressive. Also do your own displays for graduations, birthdays, occasional the sun went down and the solstice this weekend was rocking. One NYE I was on a sailboat off the south coast and it was fireworks from the east to west horizon. The clouds of smoke soon formed and through it everything near the ground was in a haze while explosions filled the sky. Even almost a mile off shore the smell of black powder was distinct.
The shows generally start in mid afternoon and ratchets up to crescendo around midnight and trails off to 2-3 a.m.
For all the ultra-violet “blueness” in the body politic here I will give them credit for the illegal fireworks.
Canine Lives Matter
This summer is going to make 1977 look quaint
I’ve actually dealt with a guy who went to jail due to setting fireworks off in his driveway.
Actually, he refused to stop, and dared the officer to write him a ticket. Officer obliged, Sparky crumpled it up and let it go to warrant, and he got picked up a few months later.
Good times had by all.
I’m not a comics geek, do they ever explain how he doesn’t suffer a life ending concussion every time he starts or stops running?
He’s not real?
The Speed Force, I think. Yeah, you’ll have to look it up.
I remember everyone thought it was a terrible idea but he pulled it off.
I wonder if Tom Hanks could have.
‘I wonder if Tom Hanks could have.’
No. I just don’t see it. Tom has no air of danger or crazy about him. I saw that in spades from Keaton in Clean and Sober.
see, also Pacific Heights
Yes! Thank you. I was going to include that movie but I couldn’t remember its name. He played the role of the landlord obsessed with a Tennant’s wife, yes?*
*goddammit, I refuse to Google bar conversations*
Tennant? Da fuck, auto correct.
I must have drunkenly decided that was the correct spelling at some point…ha!
Big Doctor Who fan, perhaps?
almost – he was the new tenant, and promptly became a nightmare.
most marriages do not end in divorce
Had to DDG that one and low and behold The Derpetologist is right. Although, I believe the taking of official vows in on the decrease so that could explain some of it. My personal rate of a marriage ending in divorce stands at 100% so I am batting perfect in that statistical category.
I’m mostly batting .500 in the divorce to marriage ratio. Now if I was a lead off hitter when mostly baseball was mostly played in the summer I’d be cashing those kinds of paychecks Kaepernick mostly dreams about.
You can only judge this by comparison to the rate at which the spouses are divorced. Divorce Below Replacement.
Who is the replacement level wife? Rachel Maddow? Nell Carter? AOC?
replacement level wife
I’ve been doing this wrong. I paid FirstWife to ARod for another team and then invested heavily in NewWife’s multi-year.
If I had been thinking about this right, I would have dealt FirstWife to Alabama for Sela Ward and a sophomore to be named later.
Unlike baseball draft picks are valuable trade bait.
I spent Friday night drinking on couch and matching Saturday Night Fever, Blazing Saddles and Warriors. Now that is a potentially HOF wife
HOF but not first ballot.
If she sits through “Staying Alive” (in these times) she is legend.
I prefer the zombie version “Staying Undead”.
Patricia Richardson?
AOC is a secret fling and boy was she memorable.
Patricia Richardson, or, Pat Harrington?
Go.
I’ve never done either. I think I’m winning… ?
LOL
You’re batting 1.000
I don’t know anything about batting averages. From CO yo.
You people have the baseball. I once had an apartment on Blake St. A few blocks from Coors
I grew up here and the Rockies only started in Denver back in the 90’s after I moved away. I moved back in 2006 and not being raised following baseball like we were football I find myself ignorant to all things baseball. I sucked at little league so never pursued it as a young person. A younger me was a rock star at softball but there was a fine line between hitting where aiming and too drunk to hit edging toward just too drunk, much like pool. Nobody keeps track of rec league softball batting averages just who mooches more beer.
Todd Helton was second-string behind QB Colquitt (unrelated to the historic UT family of punting Colquitts) in 1994. Colquitt was injured first game, so Helton ascended but only lasted parts of three or four games before busting up a knee himself. This forced the Vols to play a kid they were hoping to redshirt: Peyton Manning.
I did not know that
(Sorry to butt in guys)
Yo, Don. I just realized why your grandmother likes Will Clark so much.
He reminds her of you.
*giggles, ducks, sprints away*
#MeToo
Of course, the at bat with NewWife isn’t over: could get lucky and just die this time
“Had to DDG that one and low and behold The Derpetologist is right. ”
Hail to the king, baby.
My jokes don’t always land, but they are always researched.
They mostly come out at night, mostly.
Just like Winston’s mom.
+1 Whirling Cervix
Oh oh here she comes…she’s a maneater
On my playlist in my car.
+1 Newt on LV-426
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrVZHxH2O1I
Dammit, I should have scrolled down, mostly.
WHODINI, bitches.
^^^ this guy gets it ^^^
They do it in the park, they do it in the dark.
/Complicated hand-shake with slumbrew
I dont mean to be rude about the OT stuff, but this has been bothering me since I read it, and we had the pickle discussion last night. I dont know if Gustave is around, but-
Gustave Lytton on June 21, 2020 at 6:07 pm
Mt Olive > Claussens.
You can keep your Kraft pickles.
Gustave? Mt Olive are the Nick Gillespie of pickles.
I like both.
Jarred cooked pickles are all sketchy.
I can’t tell any difference in taste.
My female friend says every guy’s pickle juice tastes different. I had no idea
It depends on their diet and whether or not they smoke.
Pineapples. Lots and lots of pineapples.
Hot dogs with sauerkraut and booze = no bueno?
*Raises Bubbies flag*
If pickles were The Golden Girls, Mt. Olive pickles would be Rose.
I don’t know what this means, but I feel like I should make fun of you for it.
Seems to me like I should make fun of you.
Pretty sure Trashy has it right.
Mt. Olive has pickled Vidalia onions.
They are divine.
Mt. Olive ?
They’re not great but the alternatives suck more.
County Fair was good but their quality tapered off and then they disappeared from the shelves.
Steinfeld’s was the gold standard but the heirs sold off the company and then Dean/Bay Foods fucked over the cuke farmers in favor of (dot) Indian cucumbers.
“We are really hitting some bedrock stupid with cancel culture. The image of St. Michael trampling Satan is literally centuries old. Raphael painted a version of this image in 1505, for fuck’s sake.”
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1275184626840023047
Relatives of Aunt Jemima actresses express concern history will be erased with rebranding
Blah blah blah her highly visual status means that someone could text their friends and say some Aunt Jemima looking bitch who lives near me just blew me a kiss again and I liked it.
No race should have to go through that.
Finally the stereotype of matronly black women making good syrup has been crushed.
Now do some old Finns tromping through the snow making maple syrup.
Gladly. That happens to be a major sexual fantasy of mine.
Laplanders, eh?
Did drugs fall out of their asses?
Mama from What’s Happening matters
Mostly on point, Derpy! Hope everyone had a mostly good day.
My day mostly sucked but that is because I mostly hate my job.
I don’t hate my job, I hate the customers. ?
J/k, I’m pretty lucky overall.
I’m not kidding. I fucking hate my job.
In these times…smdh
Ya, glad I have one, but it doesn’t stop me from looking for another.
You should “always” be looking for another – something I need to constantly remind myself – and I wish you well!
That’s the spirit! Vote with your feet.
Mostly Harmless.
Mostly pregnant
Congratulations on getting knocked up! When’s the due date?
Mostly pulled out.
Mostly Dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbE8E1ez97M
the real Johann Gambolputty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Blaine_Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff_Sr.
His name is full
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It tells a story of a wolf-killer, a resident of a stonehouse in a village, whose ancestors were conscientious shepherds whose sheep were well fed and carefully guarded against attack by ferocious enemies and whose ancestors 1,200,000 years before the first earth man, in a space ship made with tungsten and seven iridium motors and using light as a source of power, started a long journey across interstellar space, searching for a star around which was an inhabitable planet where they could establish a new race of intelligent mankind and where they would live long, happy lives and be free from attack by other intelligentsia from the outer space from whence they came.
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ramjet artillery, the wave of the future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vIPNElDkns
gas-assisted artillery has been around for a while – since the back of a traditional artillery shell is flat, it creates a vacuum behind which increases drag. Gas-assisted shells spray out gas to fill that vacuum.
No love for the rail gun?
https://news.yahoo.com/navys-electromagnetic-rail-gun-nothing-114500731.html
Not consulting with our Mrs. hayeksplosives in this one?
Meanwhile at the White House
https://twitter.com/RichieMcGinniss/status/1275219247107649539?s=19
Is that the Andrew Jackson statue?
awesome….people have some weird fucking priorities.
And now we have BHAZ
https://twitter.com/RichieMcGinniss/status/1275224278582071296?s=19
Update: the AMC Network family has promised to fight systemic racism.
That’s a relief…what movies are they going to purge first?
Soul Man
I remember watching this and being horrified to discover that Frank Drebin was such a hateful racist.
Gone with the Wind is already gone
I haven’t seen a Charlie Chaplin episode in forever.
Little Rascals of course
any version of Huckleberry Finn.
Blazing Saddles because making fun of racism is racist.
My nominations for the first ten to be cancelled are:
“Glory” because it shows racists shooting blacks.
“1776” because it shows the compromise required to get an unanimous Declaration of Independence.
“Apollo 13” because it doesn’t give film time to the 4th astronaut on the mission- a black American.
“Dogma” because the Apostle Rufus is not the lead character AND he ogles a Latinx dancer.
“Milagro Beanfield War” because it doesn’t address the issues raised by the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.
“Blazing Saddles” “No, the sheriff is a… CLANG” Need I say more except that all mention of Mel Brooks and his movies must be scrubbed from existence.
“Hello Dolly” because a black performer is forced to sing a song introducing a (((woman))).
“The Ten Commandments” for not portraying Jesus as a black man.
“Planet of the Apes” (Chuck Heston version) for suggesting that blacks are non Homo Sapien great apes.
“Monty Python and the Holy Grail” for having a white man play the Black Night and having the knight lose.
Do I win a prize?
You forgot Soul Man.
They were so anti black Jesus he’s not even in the film!
^this^
?????
I’ll have my representative give you a handie behind your local Pizza Hut. What’s your address?
Now, this is a euphemism we can all get behind!
Thank goodness. Now I can sleep peacefully tonight.
Mammary Monday is mostly peaceful. Mostly.
http://archive.li/LK2UF
Mostly NSFW
Mississippi Monday
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/98/35/3b/98353b620cda229274d24da93661f969–sela-ward-homecoming-queen.jpg?b=t
https://www.maxim.com/entertainment/hottest-girls-sec
Nikki Griffin
3 is mostly covering her right nipple, 8 appears to be mostly hard wood floors, 10 is mostly standing under the AC vent, so is 19, 52 has mostly painted on eyebrows which I find mostly weird, 53’s tits would most likely set off a metal detector, 65 has mostly a Karen hair cut but I don’t care, 70 needs to eat a cheeseburger.
Kind of Alannis Morrette i posted this on the wrong thread….
You know who I mostly hate? IT people. You will mostly never admit it’s a system problem.
We just had a new system put in and it takes a day or 2 of back and forth for you fuckers to admit it’s something you need to fix.
Just one example. The other day i sent this guy 2 templates labeled “good” and “bad” and he refused to look at them and then on a conference call said I wasn’t clear on what I wanted.
TG we are working remotely or I’d be out of a job
Not a fan of this systemic bigotry against IT people.
Like plumbers, nobody gives us a thought when things work perfectly, just screams when things go badly.
“Hi. Yes, I need a plumber. Well, no–nothing’s wrong, really. I just wanted to hang out, shoot the breeze…maybe some refreshments. How much? Wait….like, per hour??”
/dial tone
My favorite thing is to get yelled at by an overly emotional IT person who outranks me.
Chill nerd.
Morissette?
No problem. I just now noticed that her name actually isn’t Atlantis.
RIP Joel Schumacher.
“Batman & Robin” is truly one of the worst movies ever made. It’s impressive and deserves a yearly re-watch.
He also directed “The Lost Boys,” which is inferior to “Near Dark” but will forever have a place in my heart for numerous reasons, one of which is the introduction to music legend Tim Cappello, sseen here in last 2019 still rocking dicks off.
Falling Down was his top accomplishment. His Batman movies were neon garbage.
this is very true.
Rare indeed is the man who’s fucked as many people as Wilt Chamberlain.
Aaah, don’t you just love a misplaced comment?
I’m…something right now.
^this
Mostly yup.
Wait….He’s dead??? WTF?!?
First, Ian Holm, and now, Joel? The guy who got his start with the venerable Car Wash? The man who got one of Nic Cage’s best performances out of him, as well as Joaquin??
GDMF…
And, yes–I do mean he got a great Nic Cage performance out of Joaquin.
“Schumacher claimed that he had had sex with up to 20,000 men”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Schumacher#Personal_life
Good for you Joel.
Legend.
In a row?
Mostly great job, Derpy… mostly.
I mostly enjoyed it.
Thank you mostly.
Whew. Just had a fun time filling out my employers’ employee survey on racial relations.
Basically, I politely took on the wokester brigade. Told them that their pursuit of equity would inevitably lead to racial discrimination and would undermine the big project to make excellence a cultural value. I used the example of shoe size and eye color to point out the absurdity of fighting racism by focusing on race. On the subject of their pro-black lives matter messaging I politely told them that they were in the wrong; that once one crunches the numbers, one finds that race actually has no effect on use of force, but that poverty and class has a huge component. Pointed out how our policy of requiring commerical policy holders to not permit employees to carry fire-arms and our insistence that they call the cops for minor issues actually exacerbates the problem of police violence; that we could do the right thing and end our silence on the subject of qualified immunity. Pointed out that there was an opportunity for the insurance industry to push for police to have to carry malpractice insurance (which we could sell them). I said that pretending a non-racial issue is a racial one ensured that non only would the solutions that people tried out would prove ineffective – but would likely worsen racial relations. Thus, I said, we had made ourselves part of the problem rather than contributing to the solution.
Two mini-essays of which I am immensely proud, but probably will never see published anywhere. It will be interesting to see what gets reported when the survey results are discussed at the next all-employee meeting.
Good luck, man. If I remember correctly, you’re in the education field and making those statements isn’t an easy thing to do at this point in time. I’m just glad that somebody who has at least a little bit of clout will use it to push back at this insanity.
I’ve actually changed industries. I’m in commercial insurance now.
It’s pretty bad. I heard through the grapevine that we are non-renewing businesses in West Virginia for allowing their employees to conceal carry. Just as the facebook doesn’t have to provide its users with a platform for their speech, we don’t have to do business with people exercising their right to self defense.
I have a feeling that if I quietly, politely and firmly stand up for truth that things are going to get very interesting.
James Damore kind of interesting, I suspect.
Good on you tarran. You’ve inspired me to probably fill out the next employee survey if they ask about that. I’ve given up and sat on my hands for the past several rounds (pre Covid/BLM).
You are a brave man.
Wow. So woke.
https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1275232893200105477?s=19
A literal spittle flecked idiot (the second video) calling a Black man. Such brave.
https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell/status/1274886061920051201
A national treasure.
There you go.
It’s horrifying witness 1984, Animal Farm and Atlas Shrugged come to life in real time.
fun fact: native English speakers use qualifying adverbs like mostly, probably, and usually a lot more than speakers of other languages. I forget the name of the book, but it was a female Polish linguist who discovered this. For example, there are ways to say probably, mostly, and usually in Swahili, but it rare to hear those words. It’s taken as a given that general statements may only be partially true. That prevents a lot of arguments.
Pretty sure this is the Polish linguist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Siewierska
She said that English became a more precise language because of the growth of science in England.
That’s probably only true sometimes, maybe.
It is my belief that English speakers are keen to pick apart opinion from fact – whereas most other languages I’ve been exposed to allow for a lot more stereotyping in expressions. It’s something I have been teaching my kids – who are in grade school – as they study for their English proficiency exams. On the written portion they have to express themselves in natural ways but having been raised and educated primarily in Japanese, until now, they have not been pressed to differentiate between what is fact (taller, faster, heavier) and what is opinion (cuter, more fun, more interesting).
I hate to say it, because it’s usually the last thing I want, but the police have to put a stop to these anti-statue mobs. If not, some lunatic is going to take it upon himself to stop them. These dumb kids are knowingly or unknowingly baiting the crazies to take action and I fear it’s not going to end up good for anyone.
Baiting the crazies? They are the crazies. And since when is destruction of public property not a crime? We’re totally fucked here, the end of Western civilization is what we are looking at. Good luck living in that world, I know I don’t want to.
Not saying they’re not. Just saying they’re baiting the crazies from the other side.
Cops versus commies? Yeah, I’m on team cop in that case. Crack some motherfucking skulls, I don’t care. There is a hierarchy of who I hate, and commies are on the top of that list every time.
Has The Hyperbole been seen recently? I really don’t want that dude to bail…
He was here yesterday. He said he’s taking a detox from current events; I don’t think it’s anything personal against Glibs, just a general unplugging.
I totally understand that.
I don’t think it’s anything personal against Glibs Not “most” Glibs anyways.
But yeah, just taking a break from the anger/lies/hatred/stupidity/etc.. that counts as politics and news anymore. Also with the longer days and nicer weather it’s seems especially unproductive to sit and stare at the computer all evening.
What Q said. He showed in Fri’s Zoom but didn’t stick around long.
Hard boiled eggs smell like a chemical toilet and anyone who eats them should be cancelled.
This man should not be trusted.
Deviled AIGS are a gift from G_d
But they will make your fridge smell like farts.
You’re cooking them wrong if they do.
No joke, there’s been points in my life where microwaved hard boiled eggs have been the only thing I’ve had to eat for days on end.
Come at me, bro! ;p
How can one man be soooo wrong?
Hard boiled eggs are nearly (mostly?) a perfect food. Nutritious, portable, inexpensive, easy.
There is no accounting for some peoples (bad) taste.
You eat something that not only smells of raw sewage, but is made with grotesque, vinegar-based substances, and wonder why someone would find it problematic?
What have you been boiling eggs in?
Why the FUCK would I boil eggs???
Puh-YUKE
Q. I love you. You know I do.
But you are WRONG. Not mostly wrong. Wronger than wrong.
Egg salad with cheese and tomatoes on white bread = nirvana
Soft-boiled over shredded toast.
Stop over cooking them. If you see green, you cooked them too long.
11-12 minutes in a steamer, then shock them in an ice bath.
Perfectly cooked and they fairly pop out of their shells.
Yep, alternatively you can start them submerged in cool water, heat until rolling boil, pull them off the heat, and let them sit for 10 minutes.
I’ve done that way too, but I seem to get the shells more easily and cleaner with steaming (I’m mostly doing deviled when I’m hard-cooking eggs – I want them to look good).
Seriously, if the Proud Boys (that eschew masturbation but have a cock on their shirts) could serve 1 purpose…go start tearing down Lenin and Stalin statues. Be useful McInnes, you closeted homo.
Yesterday I was having drinks with another veteran when our conversation turned to the police issue in the US. There are a few things I think should be done which would get us a lot closer to where things should be.
First, stop the practice of quasi-marrying patrol cops – making them into semi-permanent partners. They should have them paired up with different people as much as possible. I get that they need to trust each other but there is no need to take that to the extreme which leads to one covering for the other when one of them does the wrong thing instead of the right thing.
Second, many years ago I did a quick stint as a security guard and it was immediately obvious which guys I was working with were in it for the power trip. It’s high time we stopped this “just a few bad apples” BS discussion when it seems pretty obvious that many if not most police organizations are not seriously trying to root out these “bad apples”.
From my exposure to people I’ve known who work in law enforcement there seems to be a few general motivators for why people get into that job. The organizations need to be structured to shunt the bully/power-seekers into admin/unarmed roles with lower pay and other incentives to make them leave or change.
The jobs go to the people who show up. It’s like that South Park episode where people get mad at the cops and then when things go to hell, they beg for them to come back and chase the homeless people away from the Whole Foods parking lot. Then the cops act like assholes, but the crime stops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Td5vPfrOo
The only real solution is to get rid of laws for victimless crimes. I do not expect that to happen.
“The jobs go to the people who show up” – Not just the ones who show up but the ones who show up then stay. My short experience with a few “bad apples” totally soured my view of working in that field. I can imagine a lot of potentially “good apples” either don’t try or get turned off because of the bad apples.
Yes! The resentment created and the resourses wasted from enforcing victim less crimes is so clearly the problem that it has to be intentional
For live-and-let-live, no-harm-no-foul types, the idea of victimless crimes is insane. Unfortunately, such people are a minority. Any unpopular behavior or opinion is likely to be outlawed. That’s one of the big flaws of democracy.
You know how much energy I’ve spent explaining that just because I don’t like something doesn’t mean I think it should be illegal?
That concept is lost on most people
resourses wasted from enforcing victim less crimes
They’re not called revenuers for nothin’.
I kinda disagree- as a veteran. Marrying cops as partners is a bond. And an in the military we we’re taught “unit cohesion”. Now, the downside of that is when you get 2 asshole cops “wedded” and they go and do asshole cop stuff. Cause that’s gonna happen. Which is when you get rid of the FOP and police unions that cover their asses and let them be career asshole cops. Bonded, self-insured, your pension is at risk if you fuck up…
The cousin I mentioned to Spud last night was promoted to Arson Investigator. In the state of Ohio, an arson investigator has arrest authority. So he had to go through the police academy to be a cop- imagine this scenario: an already narcissistic, colossal, douche, of a fireman that was now a cop!
Anyhow….he was a local cop on his days off (I think those lazy fucks do 3-on/4-off or something). He quit cause the city was hiring cops right from the academy, at bargain rates (far as I know we’re not FOP) and he said, “I cant work with these guys. They’re not from here, they dont know anyone, and they just want to get arrests.”
My cousin, despite being the giant asshole fireman/paramedic/cop he is, quit cause he couldnt work with the “kids”.
I dont think Im the only one that said it, but during my short time in the Gulf on deployment I knew a couple MPs. They said the reservists were the 1st to draw down on anyone, with trigger control. And they were all cops in their regular jobs.
Remenber Abu Grahib — where military guards abused prisoners? The ring leader was a reservist who was a prison guard in civilian life.
but did he have a PhD in corrections!?
I get that marrying them creates a bond – but that doesn’t mean that you get no bond whatsoever when you make that a bigger unit. In my military experience you get a lot of bonding at the platoon level. When it seems obvious that the intimate pair bond breeds some serious downsides I think it’s time to change it.
Its a slippery slope. When you’re Chief of Police for any big city- as much as it pains me to type this out- you’re leading a brigade, a troop, a squadron….something. And you want your “men” to look after each other. I hate to ascribe a military tone to the cops, but organizationally its true. Ya got some douch ‘colonel’, captains, lieutenants, sergeants, etc.
Yup. I’ve seen plenty of douche officers and NCO’s in the military but it was extremely rare to see them cover up for heinous behavior on the scale of what seems to be happening – admittedly rare enough but egregious enough – in the law enforcement community.
I’ve spent a big chunk of my career as a process engineer and one of the things that always gets my attention is when I’m told “this is the correct/only way to do this because it is the way we’ve always done it”. Whenever I was told that all I could hear was “we have no idea if there’s a better way to do it because we’ve never tried it any other way” – particularly so when there was an obvious flaw in the way they had always done it.
I have to say that, in 20 years, I haven’t seen this practice. “Partner” is used by many for any/all officers they work around, and, often times, when you see 2 officers show up on a call (particularly in videos that make the news), they are showing up in separate vehicles, one or more as back-up for the main officer. Not that there aren’t agencies who partner up their officers. It’s just that I’ve found it to be rather rare in the industry.
I do agree with the other points. Most candidates say they want to be in LE to “help their community”, or, some variation thereof. And, I mean, Every. Single. Candidate.
Mostly.
And, you look for even just a bit, and you realize that they are saying that they want to help the community by telling people what to do/not do, and using force to back that up. They just can’t say that they want to exercise their authoritarianism. I know, because I was in a very similar, many years ago.
Thank you for the update. I wasn’t sure if this “partnering” was still “a thing”. Good to know that seems to have gone away.
Just like every Marine will say he enlisted to serve the country – but there are a few who just want to get their psycho on. At least most of them would have to put their ass on the line for that opportunity.
I’d argue that, even though there is a line for service members, the point of armed forces is to be prepared to fight (use violence) when other means have failed. The humanitarian side of service has come after that, from what I know, so I’m counting it as secondary.
Given this, I allow more latitude for violence in the services, since we’re talking about combat. Not quite so much with police, since they have to do diplomacy first and foremost, and used to be about helping people out before going arresting someone, not to mention using violence. Of course, there have always been agencies and officers that violated rights and got their thug on, from the get-go.
Sorry – I wasn’t trying to imply there is a similarity between people who enter the LE field to people who join the military. I was just pointing out that people in general will always (mostly) state a common altruistic motivation for getting in to a job which is based in service to the people/nation. Their actual motivations may be quite different.
Oh, I fully understand. Ironically, or not, so many former service members end up as police. There is a definite over-lap happening.
As to how that plays out in the actual work is (obviously) up to the individual.
I think there’s regional and agency variations to the solo/partners diff. Mostly around here, except for limited assignments such as a downtown walking or bicycle patrol, it’s almost all solo.
Yeah–staffing levels and what calls there are to deal with. Lots of things are usually one-officer types of calls. Of course, this cuts both positive and negative ways.
Yeah, I can imagine. One of the agencies I interviewed with in a past life was a sheriff’s office. Lots of rural territory, solo, with backup either an 1hr+ away or mutual assistance. Where I live now has even further distances and all of the deputies are solo.
I can imagine that being a nice life for both resident and officer–provided people behave safely. Ending WoD implied.
Mostly Here https://youtu.be/rXRkWMkb0-4
Thank you. That is awesome
…There’s a mouse in the kitchen. I’m off to hunt vermin. Later, all.
Well, its a mouse. As least it’s not aRat In Mi Kitchen
Yet to see a mouse in this house, but it’s incredible how loud a roach can be. I thought I was tracking down a mouse scratching away inside one of my drawers, no, it’s a roach climbing up the backside of the dresser.
One more thing – please give me your funny headline ideas. The BB is giving me a run for my money:
Fox Announces ‘Night At The Museum: Revenge Of The Statues’
That’s gold, Jerry! Gold!
French Firefighter Fights Facsist Freedom Fighters
[rises to applaud]
http://imgur.com/gallery/Kd9LLSb
I’m laying in bed awaiting.
Ummmm hope that’s not really you and your wife because her phone number wasn’t scrubbed.
Gone now. Good.
🙁
No wonder I’m having trouble staying hydrated. It’s almost 11 and it’s still 86 outside, for some reason it’s ticked over 90 inside, I’ll need to reopen some windows.
Blech…
Time to get more water.
Brawndo: It’s got electrolytes.
What do I look like? A Plant?
Well, you said you are thirsty… and electrolytes are what plants need… ergo you are a plant!
What did I win?
More Brawndo.
ideas
HBO Pulls “Roots” Over Its Portrayal of Slavery
Pizzerias Scramble To Remove Images of Mustachioed Italian Chefs
Chef Boyardee To Replace Portrait With Nose-Ringed Feminist Mascot Named Strych9
Bush’s Baked Beans Considering Name Change to Gore’s Baked Beans
Fortune Cookies to be Segregated Based on Race of Customer
Angry Statues Come to Life and Burn Down Vegan Co-Op
Dozens of Antifa Die of Exhaustion While Attempting to Pull Down Statue of Liberty
BLM rioters burn local White Castle, whole town comes down with a case of the trots.
Protestors in CHAZ run amok in confusion as Seattle city government unveils a new statue of an ANTIFA protestor.
Lol
GM Removes All References to “Mr. Goodwrench” Despite Having No Idea What Race He Is
What race? Certainly not Daytona.
Hiyoooo!
Irish Protesters Burn Down Manhattan Blarney Stones
In a sign of solidarity with protesters in the U.S., German protesters rebuild the Berlin Wall.
Plot Twist: It’s West of Nantucket.
your avatar is talking…what is he saying?
“I don’t like your jerk-off face, I don’t like your jerk-off behavior, and I don’t like you, jerk-off.”
I’ve been a touch salty these last few months.
I’m sure you can appreciate that.
yes 🙂
It’s the chief of police of Malibu (a real reactionary) saying “I don’t like your jerkoff face, I don’t like your jerkoff name, I don’t like your jerkoff behavior, and I don’t like you, jerkoff.
Correct. I forgot the name portion of the comment to The Dude.
This, Derpy!
Denzel Washington Announces Name Change, Denies Any Connection with First President.
Angry Statues Come to Life and Burn Down Vegan Co-Op
Illustrated.
Not these statues?
Trump Disintegrates as Last Statue in America is Destroyed
“Nooo! The secret sources of my power! How did they know?” he cried as he turned to ash.
Ooooh, good. Combining both Trump and Rowling, now that she’s being unpersoned.
I was thinking more “collapsing like the Eye of Sauron”, but whatever.
for Rowling, though, how about:
Harry Potter Sent to Azkaban After Voldemort Comes Out as Trans
Ding Dongs transition to Twinkies.
Jolly Green Giant statue collared for not enough collard
Supreme Court Rules 5-4 that Every American Gets a Unicorn
NYT Columnist Explains that, Actually, It Was the Jews Who Enslaved the Ancient Egyptians, Not the Other Way Around
“Well, that’s it, we’re done for the year,” announced the Pulitzer committee.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
What a nice smile. Like… Mary Tyler Moore.
So just saw footage on local news of the protester who they claimed the cops took his prosthetic legs. Didn’t happen. After he threw some liquid and plywood sign that hit some cop in the face, the cops tried to grab him but his buddies pulled him away, by his legs which were still attached at that point, and carried him off. The cops disengaged and let them go. It was all on camera.
On cultural appropriation…
About 40 years ago when the song “Turning Japanese” was first popular I was in undergrad. There was a little discussion among the Asians I knew regarding the opening 9 note riff of that song – which for most Americans evokes something obviously Asian. The Japanese I asked had all heard that tune before and to them it was obviously Chinese. The Taiwanese I asked about it also had heard that before but for them it was a reference to Japan. The mainland Chinese I asked (only a small handful on the campus back then) had no idea what it was.
That entire Vapors album is a power pop classic:
https://youtu.be/sNowJK1vDQA
I’ve always understood the song to be about the squint one gets in one’s eyes when you’re about to cum.
Er, my response wasn’t about the opening rift.
I should really parse out the gist of the content of a post before commenting while stoned.
you’re doing fine.
Did you get the mouse?
Meh, I have a dip in my kitchen flooring behind the fridge so there’s a small gap between it and the bottom of my base trim. I just filled it with caulking but that won’t stop the little bastards for long. Picking up some traps tomorrow.
good luck.
had about 6 of them last year, probably a mom and babies. i was sitting in bed and saw something coming across the floor. i thought gee, that’s a big spider. then there was a lot of screaming.
Afterwards, you got to work getting rid of it, right?
i’m going to keep digging…i must have closed my eyes when i screamed because i didn’t see where the curse word went. traps were set, necks were snapped.
Hey–I screamed so loud, when I found a ***** had crawled up my leg at a mall job, that it reverberated throughout the entire effing mall. All the old people out for walks whipped their heads around, to see where the shriek came from.
Well, as quickly as the elderly can.
So, jokes aside; I feel you
paindiscomfort.I hate mice. Fired the pest control service last year and do my own baiting now.
Did….did you tell ’em to go away?
Cover
https://youtu.be/C0X3CLJVMJU
SFW
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBvufKhJCl5/?igshid=9z27cxjty5fj
That picture is not really Safe For Wife.
Shoot Fat Wad.
yaaaaaaaaas…
Anybody who thinks massive violence isn’t going to be needed to stop this Maoist bullshit is out of their Gawddamn mind. Of course the little lunatics aren’t gonna stop at any reasonable line. They’re already way past it and nobody in power did a thing except encourage it.
Vote Biden and everything will come back to normal.
A while ago I said that since they’ve been declared a terrorist organization, can’t they be treated as enemy combatants? If so, they can be killed with no judicial process right?
Drone time?
Apparently, in 2008(ish), Tina Fey and NBC didn’t realize that blackface might be offensive. Now they do, so they are removing a couple of episodes of 30 Rock from streaming.
May be wrong here, but I don’t think people like Jeff Foxworthy ever get caught in blackface.
interesting.
you might not be a redneck if…
Truth.
The Pythons did so quite a lot, and used many a slur in the skits. I cannot see, from all the years they’ve been in the public eye, where they did so out of any personal racism.
No wonder Cleese is getting riled up.
Lampooning prejudice and being prejudice is a nuisance lost on many today. See: Blazing Saddles.
*nuance
Heh, this good shit.
Okay, I’m off. Getting sloppy and I need to sleep.
See ya!
Is there a picture of the rope noose that Bubba Wallace team saw?
Is Bubba Wallace “Rope Noose” a Hoax or Misunderstanding? All Talladega Garage Doors Have Nooses – NASCAR Video Evidence…
Wallace never saw the noose. A member of his team discovered it and immediately brought it to NASCAR’s attention
That’s pretty amazing – all this nonsense and he never even saw it.
White Knight Rider.
My friend bought me one of these. Took a swig. “Geez, that tastes like a 15 year old’s pussy”. My friend asks, “How would you know?” Why ask a question that is answered by the joke itself?
Ugh.
https://www.theimpulsivebuy.com/wordpress/2020/03/17/monster-energy-ultra-rosa-and-ultra-fiesta-review/
I almost think that you should have said, “Because, I was 20…once”
See. ^That is how you do it.
Finally!
Always enjoy Digby digs.
::ponders the joke; realizes it wasn’t age that was the issue for me::
Folk, be sure to bathe after a softball game, and before any….you know.
Paging dbleagle
If/when the revolution drops, the ‘counters’ need to put them up again’ a wall.
I wouldn’t shed a tear if her corpse turned up floating next to the Arizona.
I’ve said it before, these people particularly blue checkmarks are downright fucking stupid to go after others with their real names attached.
If just one court precedent goes their way, I can see a tourist they went after going after her with mucho gusto. And, I would very much like to help them do that.
The journalists aren’t enemies of the people???
/she really is determined to prove DTJ right
OFFS
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2020/06/klansman-turned-candidate-david-dukes-1992-showing-in-oregon-elsewhere-signaled-racisms-return-to-politics.html
Dusting off a thirty year old election to try and paint everyone now was racist. And the only reason someone might have pulled a lever for David Duke is because they’re racist.
I can see why Mr. Douglas Perry is upset:
I mean, what a piker–look at what the PacNW has going now. Makes ’96 LA look like Switzerland.
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/06/legacy-health-suspends-practice-of-handcuffing-arresting-non-violent-patients-for-trespass-after-complaints-about-black-woman-detained.html
Cue future headline of assault or worse of staff and the public.
Gee, what a surprise that people who argue or refuse to leave the property when the guard tells them to are more likely to be mentally ill. I bet psych wards are disproportionally filled by people who are experiencing mental illness too.
DRO sounds like a bunch of people who either never interacted with mentally ill people (the violent kind), or, only know family members like that, where there is a previous relationship.
You can’t love/emote a person out of a psychosis. And, the more you oppose their actions, the more likely you are to get a violent reaction, since they often can reason clearly.
I saw a gentleman opening carrying the other day. He was wearing khakis, a casual, short-sleeve button-down shirt, and…athletic sandals/slides. Seems like for “readiness” you might want shoes you can run in.
Why run, when you can shoot?
what if you have to run after the bad guy?
Well, if you shot him/xir, it’s quite probably that you could leisurely saunter after them–just follow the blood trail.
or run to the bad guy?
SECOND WAVE, PEOPLE!!1!1!1!!
Get out there and stockpile toilet paper.
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Good morning. I think.
That’s definitely what they’re pushing. Not only that, supposedly there’s a new strain going around Beijing that spreads more easily and has a worse course of symptoms:
https://youtu.be/3aIkuJjDSOw
Contain the spread – Nuke Beijing.
A second wave of dishonest numbers coming from China?
::waves at Sean:: Good morning!
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At work now. I’m missing the pandemic traffic levels.
::waves at Sean again:: Am I doing this right?
Who knows.
According to a Mark Dice Twitter post here’s a pic of the NASCAR noose:
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1275363773730045953/photo/1
It’s a garage door pull with a loop on the end of it. I can’t tell if it’s tied like a true noose but come on.
Scratch that, I can’t tell if he’s joking or if he’s serious.
I’m so disappointed by this whole NASCAR situation. I’m a fan, and I like Bubba. He’s always been very personable with a great sense of humor – at least until the whole George Floyd situation took over everything. I think he’d be a contender as a driver in a better-funded team. I couldn’t bring myself to watch the Talladega race (delayed until yesterday afternoon) because I didn’t want to hear the nonstop political and/or racial stuff.
They really seem intent on nuking their own brand. If there’s any group of fans that don’t want this particular brand wokeness it’s NASCAR fans.
They were already pushing their luck with what seemed like nonstop rule changes and fiddling with racing formats. Then, between the COVID Kabuki theater (drivers and reporters in masks, with a TV crew member holding out a ten-foot mic boom for interviews, and no fans in the stands) and now the BLM stuff, it’s been ruining my enjoyment of the only American sport that had found a way to restart its season.
The Vietnam War took place in Vietnam. Mostly.
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/06/florida-man-who-got-4-years-for-stealing-4-phone-chargers-beaten-to-death-in-prison.html
Sad story of the morning.
That headline is remiss for not mentioning the knife part for why he went to prison. Still shouldn’t have been beaten to death though.
*looks at work calendar*
*muffled profanity*
Once the meetings start, I have only 90 minutes of today not occupied by them. And those are not a cotiguous 90 minutes.
How am I supposed to get anything done?
Are all these meetings new for you since you became a supervisor? If so, welcome to the world of those for whom meetings are among the few things they actually “do.”
Well, there’s the management meeting, the change management meeting, the status meeting, the team meeting,oh, look, there’s a half hour where I’ve blocked off time to do some work – accepting a new ssh key from a business partner (which takes ten seconds plus time to log in), then there’s the database upgrade meeting…
Look at Mr. Ambitious over here, wanting to be productive.
I’m interested in reading some more Warhammer 40k fiction, any recommendations?
Look for anything written by Sandy Mitchell.
Avoid anything labelled as “Horus Heresey”
Will do.