Summer, summer, summer, summer!
Typical The Atlantic fare. I do think they could buy better shirts, though. Show some class. At least rock some Tommy Bahama.
Something about people in hell wanting ice water.
I’ll post any story that has the name “Lichtenstein” in it.
The other “religion of peace”?
You know who else was investigated for violating the integrity of a corpse?
Obviously he got Vlad’s approval first.
This is the nicest July we’ve had in Idaho since we’ve moved here. The weeks of sweltering 90’s hasn’t appeared and the weather is spectacular. It’s like living in a park.
It’s the Firstest of Summer!
That’s June 20th.
No, it isn’t, I just made it July the Elventy11111thist!
Hyperion Holidays Matter!
“On May 29, two federal security officers guarding a courthouse in Oakland, California, were ambushed by machine-gun fire as elsewhere in the city demonstrators marched peacefully to protest the killing of George Floyd.”
“machine-gun”
“But this co-option fit the ethos of online spaces perfectly, with a niche group celebrating its anti-government, libertarian views by draping them in colorful jokes and nonsense that could be remixed and reinterpreted endlessly.”
“libertarian”
Look, libertarians want your children to be able to purchase machine guns from vending machines on the playgrounds. Tater want the chillins to die.
There’s your unmitigated bullshit.
“Last summer, murderers who identified as fascist “incels” (involuntary celibates) attacked synagogues and mosques, and, in one case, a Walmart. Like the boogaloos, their stated goal was to spark a larger conflict. And in addition to posting hateful manifestos on the 4chan copycat site, 8chan, some coated their automatic weapons and gear in images from memes from the chans.”
“automatic”
“automatic”
Those are sentient and they ‘spray bullets’ like one zillion times a second and automatically aim for children. You ain’t edumencated.
Also “murderers”, “fascist”, “incels”, and “attacked.”
I think this one is right. They had Air Force weapons that were (capable of) full auto fire.
They took them home with them?
When I was in highschool a friend of mine brought an M72 in to school and showed it to me. He had walked it out of an air force armory where he had been doing cadet training with the CAP. So I have no difficulty believing actual active duty personel could get away with it.
We’re going to 122 Tomorrow and I have a tournament to play, all this talk of heat makes me want to pick up a,
TALLCAN!
/Cheers everybody!
just finished putting new brakes and rotors on the car. It didn’t really need new pads, but the rears had been rubbing for a while and the rotors were trashed from that and from the toxic humidity of DC. Somebody didn’t bother to grease the slider bolts on the assembly line, so I had to sand down the caked on brake dust and give it a good coat of brake grease.
whose brilliant idea was it to require a hex bit to get the slider bolts out? I didn’t have a full set of hex sockets, but I do now. I also trashed a ratchet, which is surprising given that it wasnt a harbor freight special.
Breaker bar and a Hammer, crack loose, proceed,
I had to fab a Giant Hexkey/breaker attachment once, what were they thinking?
I hate hex bolts. I’ve twisted hex sockets out of shape trying to get them loose. They weren’t cheap either.
Better a hex than the T55 Torx the GM full size truck chassis use. I like GM, but shit like that makes me SMDH.
“I’ll post any story that has the name “Lichtenstein” in it.”
Even if it’s paywalled?
Andorra or GTFO.
Andorra, Europe’s very own duty-free shop.
It’s also stupidly pretty, as I recall – though I was a wee chap then.
Yes, the entire country is nestled in a spectacular mountain valley. And yet it’s filled with every high end jewelry, perfume, electronics and apparel store imaginable, as well as countless tour buses lining every road, delivering French, Spanish and Italian shoppers looking to avoid VAT and other taxes.
How did that happen? Did they get utopian socialism?
Guessing a tiny population of more-or-less productive citizens, and few politician-grifters, relatively not so demanding of free shit. All the rich, low-tax countries are micro-states.
Is it? Because of the sale price of a Lichenstein nude, they sold $421 million in the auction. That’s it. I just posted it because the artist’s name was “Lichenstein”.
“You know who else was investigated for violating the integrity of a corpse?”
He was just giving orders.
IN STEVE SMITH DEFENSE, HE THOUGHT HIKER SLEEPING
As with the alt-right, many boogaloo posts are about men in crisis, humiliated or debased. Intermingled with memes about revolution are nostalgic images and video clips, glitched out to look like old VHS tapes, of what they imagine was the ideal existence: being the patriarch of a middle-class American nuclear family sometime between the 1950s and the 1990s.
Ho boy. How did I get this far through that article? I’m tapping out.
Authorities in France will investigate claims that human corpses donated for science were left to rot and be eaten by rats at a university research facility, the Paris prosecutor’s office has said.
Prediction: Procedures were followed.
President Trump acknowledged this week that in 2018 he authorized a covert U.S. cyberattack against a Russian “troll farm,” according to a report.
Further proof he is in bed with the Russians.
Good music picks.
It’s the Atlantic. They’re the lunatic fringe version of the NYT.
“…lunatic fringe…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovnJWwBcEks
“According to Thiessen, Trump claimed Obama “said nothing” about Russian interference that year because he thought Hillary Clinton was going to win the race for the White House against Trump.
Trump said Obama “knew before the election that Russia was playing around. Or, he was told. Whether or not it was so or not, who knows? And he said nothing. And the reason he said nothing was that he didn’t want to touch it because he thought [Clinton] was winning because he read phony polls. So, he thought she was going to win.”
Obama knew way more than that.
Trump said Obama “knew before the election that Russia was playing around. Or, he was told.
Sounds like bounties.
The rain they’ve been predicting for the past four days finally came, bringing down the humidity and heat a bit. We’re now just in the low 80’s instead of the low 90’s, and the humidity today is under 50%.
No rain from Fay here. The storm is a bit too far west. We still have lots of wind though.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8513409/Demi-Rose-flaunts-ample-assets-poses-storm-skimpy-multicoloured-bikini.html
Look at Mr Money bags here wanting Tommy Bahama.
“critically maligned”? Critics are dumb.
“Critics are dumb.”
Not as dumb as the Atlantic.
“‘Stop being cry babies’: NBA stars are blasted for complaining about Fyre Festival-like quarantine meals and ‘Motel 6’ hotel rooms as they isolate at Disney ahead of the season but Ja Morant takes a swipe at players saying ‘I’m not a silver spoon guy'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8512795/You-want-eat-s-J-R-Smith-Joel-Embiid-join-NBA-players-blasting-airline-meals.html
Why can’t they just buy their own food?
Racist!
Because it could be tainted with cooties. I’ve heard that the leagues playing there (MLS too) are basically under total lockdown.
“The motel room I was provided wasn’t nice enough” is zeroth world problems. And if a multi-millionaire can’t figure out how to get good takeout via one of the many delivery apps*, he should starve for the good of the human gene pool.
*I do this part time because I lost my job in the pandemic and haven’t received unemployment (thanks government for being there when I needed you). Driving around with multiple Outback Steakhouse orders filling my car with the smell of grilled steak and knowing I’m going home to beans on toast will stir the soul.
today I learned:
yellow light times very with the speed limit
***
The Federal Highway Administration’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices provides guidance that the yellow interval be between three and six seconds without tying the requirement to specific approach velocities. That said, anything falling below the yellow times shown here should be considered as a potential short yellow light.
25 MPH — 3.0 Seconds
30 MPH — 3.5 Seconds
35 MPH — 4.0 Seconds
40 MPH — 4.5 Seconds
45 MPH — 5.0 Seconds
50 MPH — 5.5 Seconds
55 MPH — 6.0 Seconds
***
http://www.shortyellowlights.com/standards/
Oops, did not mean for this to go here.
Those seem longer than any yellow I’ve ever seen.
“The motel room I was provided wasn’t nice enough” is zeroth world problems. And if a multi-millionaire can’t figure out how to get good takeout via one of the many delivery apps*, he should starve for the good of the human gene pool.”
What do you they think it will be like when they’ve cancelled their fancy foozball jobs with all this wokeness? They going to get a job as rocket scientist?
WNBA players have also complain of food, as well as bed bugs and worms
Well, they are mostly dogs….
Silicone Saturday is tits central.
http://archive.is/AFwyr
#13 looks fun.
#17 looks inviting.
The boogaloo boys are the great threat to civil society, but antifa doesn’t exist. Stop laughing!
Seems so. One psycho who apparently took what, I understand to be a joke, seriously and shoots up some cops and it is a movement that is a huge threat. Years of rioting by antifa gets a hand wave as not an organized movement and nothing to see here.
Today in 2020… this time it’s too local:
Blue and Black Lives Matter protesters clash at Brooklyn rally
I’m glad we got the race of everyone involved sorted out so I know what to think of this.
So they weren’t really white, maybe Slavic, Italian, or Irish?
Probably some of (((them))) too.
I’m picturing giant ants in yarmulkes.
So much for our secret weapon staying secret.
You were never briefed on the actual secret weapons.
(((We))) are weaponizing guilt. The JMB will strike terror into the hearts of enemies everywhere!
But I don’t *wanna* toil in underground sugar caves!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4jWAwUb63c
It’s better than some of the other fates.
today’s extra credit derp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yUqMIhzorY
wherein tolerance is bad, because no one should merely be tolerated
***
This workshop hosts the often-avoided conversation of race in the workplace. The premise of the workshop is that we cannot solve
for issues that we are not able to talk about. Participant dialogue is facilitated with the goal of increasing awareness of why this
conversation is difficult, fostering understanding of the impact of the issues, and making new agreements about how colleagues can
learn from each other and create new ways of being.
***
You see, I always thought any topic likely to make people upset (religion, politics, etc) was a no-go for polite conversation, especially at work. It’s to get work done if people are yelling at each other.
But evidently, the way to achieve racial harmony is to talk about it constantly.
And to pay the race
sensitivity trainershustlers. Lots and lots of money.That’s the luminary who presented at my employer’s optional struggle session a couple of weeks ago (mentioned in dead thread). Thanks, Sir Derpmeister, I needed to see this in case questions are raised down the road.
If you haven’t watched it, get Season 6 Episode 7 of Penn and Teller’s Bullshit to calm down. It’s Sensitivity Training, and was released over 10 years ago.
Ah, that’s the ticket. Glad to be working from home, easier to avoid confrontation. Social distancing FTW.
I was on a work call yesterday while they were upgrading some systems, and they started discussing taxes, and how the government needed so much money to spend on roads and schools and …
Mute is my friend.
Mute is my friend
If only I could mute my facial expressions.
Something tells me your role, as they envision it, will involve a lot more listening than talking.
“we cannot solve issues that we are not able to talk about”
Sure we can, just cancel the people you don’t agree with.
Meanwhile, in NYC..knife attack on the subway.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1282019127188692992
Is asshole out painting the street again while this shit is going on?
Fuck
More assaults on churches – https://mobile.twitter.com/WCJB20/status/1281955150886731777
Army’s ‘Captain America’ dies by suicide after nearly a dozen combat tours
Sad that many of the men in the article left behind young children.
I know many of you are quite knowledgeable about military history. The US had veterans return from equally or maybe even more harrowing combat in both world wars. I never heard anything about suicide in those cohorts. I have met several ww2 vets in my life. However that doesn’t mean the suicide wasn’t there. It could have been covered up. And there are people like my great uncle who came back from Germany unscathed but reportedly woke up screaming many nights for the rest of his life. I am wondering, is the suicide rate higher now and if so does anyone know why?
why?
it’s hard to imagine that recent volunteer militaries can secure as normal a distribution of human resources as conscripted militaries of wars past unless you believe that the lifestyle and other compensations of the latest, say, three decades’ service outweigh the utility of getting shot at for a living
Swiss probably has good data.
From my anacdotal experience, one mostly boring Iraq deployment. My guess is it’s that:
Garrison sucks.
Deployments are exciting and addictive.
The army sucks.
PowerPoint presentations about how whites are racists suck.
PowerPoint presentations about why you shouldn’t kill yourself suck.
PowerPoint presentations about how all men are rapists suck.
No alcohol down range sucks.
The promotion system sucks.
Losing good soldiers because the army sucks, sucks. The good ones tend not to re-enlist.
I can go on.
As far as the rates of suicide go, the last numbers from the army I got were in 2010, active duty and modern army suicides were lower than our cohort age group of civilians. The guys that were really offing themselves were in their sixties and seventies. Lots of Vietnam era guys. Old guys tent to kill themselves because they hurt or have some sort of terminal disease. The further you go back in time the greater the percentage of the general population are vets. Greater numbers of old guys killing themselves and more being vets it looks bad and scues the numbers somewhat.
One theory I’ve heard is the time for transport back to the States. In WW2, you spent 2-3 weeks returning from the war zone back to America. That gave time to decompress with the other guys your unit. Now you can you go from Fallujah to Atlanta in 48 hours without anytime to decompress and readjust. Don’t know the accuracy on those numbers… just something I’ve heard from a vet as a possible reason.
That’s part of it. And reorientation seminars and paperwork are also
Exasperating.
When I retired in 2012 the suicide rate was higher for those who had never deployed versus those who had.
Semi SD has a good point. When I brought my unit back in 2004 I tried to ensure that the first good drunk a Soldier had was with the unit- with men and women who understood what they went through. Luckily I was in SOF where that was permitted.
IMHO it matters how long you were in active combat as well. WWII, KW and VTN fought highly quality opponents- but they did it for a shorter period. The 34ID served the longest period in combat (around 511 days) from North Africa and up through the boot in Italy. That was a long time for an infantryman and it was routine for the “old line” divisions* to suffer around 300% infantry losses. But we fought Iraq and Afghanistan with too small a ground army. Many many members of the Army Reserve have over 750 days of combat. Depending on the breakdown of tours the MSG in question could have had 1500-2000 days of ground combat. That is a bunch of buckets to drink.
*Long combat days divisions: ETO- 1, 3, 9, 34, 36, 45 Inf. 1 Armor, 82d ABN. PTO: Americal, 32, 33 Inf, 1 Cav
Not to mention that by Pearl Harbor, most of the National Guard had been mobilized for ~15 months. So by the time they first went into combat, the original cohort had been mobilized for 2-3 years.
Sub trivia: the original mobilization was supposed to be for one year. That was extended which led to a bit of unhappiness and an acronym OHIO- over the hill in October. Apparently it never really materialized and more or less disappeared after Dec 7.
Example of the “greatest generation” before the white wash was applied.
https://books.google.com/books?id=YU0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=%22over+the+hill+in+october%22&source=bl&ots=vaYxqNsgRn&sig=ACfU3U2mCtXS8kxp1aIfB22mMlGjruccPw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiX1ZnfwcbqAhXpN30KHbtAC4YQ6AEwDXoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22over%20the%20hill%20in%20october%22&f=false
Sounds very familiar.
The article after it about spending too much time on admin also strikes a familiar chord.
I had to attend a division formation where our general called us all in and rethoricaly asked why so many of us (101st) were killing our selves. My squad leader gave me the stink eye when I yelled “because fort Campbell sucks.” No one other than me in the formation said shit.
Iraq was better. The weather was nicer and the locals were friendlier.
There’s a great book about PTSD and vet suicide called Flashback. It seems the same lessons have to learned over and over. In the early 19th century, alcoholism was the leading cause of death among US soldiers. Later, troubled Civil War vets were said to be afflicted with Soldier’s Heart. In those days, perceived alcoholism could lead to a revoked pension so that padded another layer of suffering on them.
In WW1, the British and Americans did a pretty good job of dealing with Shell Shock. The Anatomy of Courage by a British Army doctor gives a detailed description of that. When WW2 rolled around, there was a belief that PTSD only affected weak men, and so there was a kind of half-assed phrenology where the courage of recruits was assessed by how wide their chests were.
Military life is often stressful even outside of combat. My take is that there are a lot of tasks that don’t do much good and so stress people needlessly.
And for the love of god, enough with the damn PowerPoint!
Slide shows kill.
There is something amusing about a 5 hour presentation being called a “brief”.
If PowerPoint and online classes made soldiers smarter, everyone in the Army would be a genius.
I was in a particularly horrid class once, and I began to vent in the manner of Dale Gribble. A Sergeant Major walked in to ask why everyone was laughing so hard.
I forget everything I said, but I do remember asking him if he wrote the manual he was touting that day. He said no and I said “good, because that manual sucks” and went on another rant.
I was very proud of the feedback on wrote on the survey for that course, which was: this course will cause catastrophic damage to the Army if it continues. Everyone with a brain or a spine is going to leave and the only ones left will be those with a high tolerance for PowerPoint and people who are scared of getting yelled at.
One of the reasons I want to stay in is for the challenge of trying to get the Army to stop hitting itself on the head with a hammer.
Yes*
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Lester/publication/296539307_Suicide_rates_before_during_and_after_the_world_wars/links/5af98c00aca2720af9ef2f6a/Suicide-rates-before-during-and-after-the-world-wars.pdf?origin=publication_detail
( has before/during/after rates for WWI and II)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/187478/death-rate-from-suicide-in-the-us-by-gender-since-1950/
Rates are higher now than post both wars, but not pre war of either one. Note that these are overall population, not veteran specific.
First world problems? A hard(Er) life striving for advancement has to be more satisfying when you succeed than an easy life without direction or challenge.
News you can use.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/tantric-sexpert-explains-how-energy-22332918
Well where’s the fun in that.
So instead flicking her bean she rubs a balloon on her head?
Would doing both be like rubbing your tummy and patting your head at the same time?
From the previous thread:
I assume it has something to do with USMCA. Goya sells a lot of products in Mexico.
I wa thinking more “make a public show of support for Trump”.
Every man has his price…
Failure.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/12096966/wife-left-me-because-i-couldnt-get-an-erection/
I’m sorry your wife left you, Q.
I just couldn’t get the tantric energy orgasm technique right.
A vagina scented candle could help set the mood.
Okay, so that would suck for everyone involved. Or not suck, as the case may be.
But IMO it’s not a leave-able offense.
This presupposes that the “protesters” give two shits about any cause and aren’t just opportunistic, Commie shitstains.
https://disrn.com/news/protests-erupt-after-detroit-cops-kill-unarmed-man-police-release-video-showing-him-firing-on-officers-at-point-blank-range
Holy crap. Who’s doing the shooting when the cop is on the guy? That is a lot of shooting.
Apparently it was the perp.
And then there’s this: As the Littleton raised the gun in his left hand he was aiming at the head of the officer
Amateur hour. Center of mass or GTFO
Shooting people in the head is pretty effective according someone who has no associations with the Clintons.
I’m sure he was trying to miss the cops’ body armor. At that kind of distance, you don’t need to be John Wick to put one in the dome.
Looked like he was firing offhand while walking away sideways/backwards. I’m not sure what he expected to happen with so many cops there.
Imma shoot em all and walk away from the explosion without lookin
*shrug* Street-level dealers and hangers-on aren’t typically known for having a lot of high-level planning ability.
That said, if he’d known what he was about with a pistol, I’d give him no worse than fair odds of shooting his way clear of the initial contact. As usual, the cops fucked up their approach.
Hard to tell. Some of it might have been from the dead guy (who was not dead at that point.) Dude came to party.
Some of it might have been from the other cops, who for the most part don’t get any useful training in Rule #4. It’s more, ‘hear gunfire, pull out the jammie and make it rain.’
Went to the gun shop today to pick up my Ruger Mini-14. There were at least three separate gun sweeping incidents while I was there. So many first time buyers who are unwittingly pointing pistols at their spouses while standing at the counter.
I find that very annoying.
Three sweeping incidents for one transaction is about par for the course.
“Unwittingly”
Crazy.
How do cops kill an unarmed man shooting at them?
A margarita with a beer in it? ?
https://mobile.twitter.com/ArtValley818/status/1281987752834170880
That doesn’t seem to have been done correctly.
I’ve seen that as an option in a couple of places. These are not places known for quality cocktails or beers.
To be fair, most margarita places are basically well tequila with sour mix at levels just below “teeth instantly fall out”. The bitterness of the beer actually helps.
Another common one is the Michelada, which is essentially a bloody mary with a beer tipped over into it, and chili salt on the rim. I just about flipped a table when someone told me to try it at the Night Market here in orange county. However, there is something about a hot summer night, with a michelada and a giant squid on a stick, and a burger on ramen noodles bun that just works when the music gets going.
The next day though…holy shit, I am old.
As there’s still demand, and I will hopefully not get called by work tonight.
That Zoom thing, I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern.
Thanks Neph!
Thanks!
Beef. It’s what’s for dinner. https://twitter.com/egould310/status/1282083515027189760?s=21
It’s been a looong hard week. I need to treat myself.
Rocking.
I got a belly full of takeout bbq.
I don’t know if I’d already mentioned this, but your new avatar inspired me to go look up Sister Havana on YT.
Cool. If you’re not familiar with the “Stull” ep, give that a try, too. Bluesy gothic punk rock soul from a couple of degenerate heroin addicts. From Chicago. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLALZtwXPtUFKfGbfQFSTv6cWXAtboIPNS
Nice.
I ran my fat mouth too soon this morning, bragging about being defiant of the governor’s order to wear a mask everyplace. I tried to walk into my Meijer raw-dog to get my grocery on, and some old bitch @ the door punk’d me out.
I capitulated.
You need one of these: https://mobile.twitter.com/JoyceDurand5/status/1281819997556400128
I prefer this one
https://www.treehugger.com/build-your-own-face-mask-and-respirator-empty-soda-bottles-4848004
That is awesome!
When I went into the liquor store today, a couple walked out maskless, but the Little Caesar’s next door had a sign up, “No mask No service.”
Of course, it appears that most of my area have stoma that they need to cover up instead of their mouths and noses.
Don’t stigmatize neck breathers.
I’m not making fun of you.
Meh, I had to go the menards and they require masks I tie on my bandana (a quality 3 dollar one) and pretend i’m an outlaw.
I wear a camo bandanna. Nobody notices, it’s Idaho.
I could do that, but I had a fresh N95 in the truck, still coated with the hydroxide-base layer (w/e it is that tears the lipid layer off the virus). Unlike my home-girl GT I wasnt going to drive to the next county over just to shop. So I did it. I wasnt going to be the asshole screaming “AM I BEING DETAINED?”
Maybe Im most of the problem by going along with it.
“Am I being detained?”
No, you are being reeducated.
Ill order that shit online from Amazon, InstaCart, or Shipt from now on. Until DeWine simmers down.
I know its a premium to pay someone else for labor, but I dont have to leave the house, and there’s a drive-thru up the street with beer and my man will generously pass off a couple blunt hits for a $2 tip
Try carrying a concealed handgun while wearing a mask. It will make you feel a lil bit naughty. In a good way.
Or wear a full-face ski mask and carry an AK. Tracksuit is optional, but highly recommended.
Holy fuck, what am I saying?
I’ve already used “rawdog”.
Jason Vorhees in a pro mask PSA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SqfIegRX1I
Starts out funny and ends on an overbearing note.
Guess who took out a PPP loan here in Ohio? The Democratic Party!
Grifters gonna grift.
To be fair, they are intellectually bankrupt.
this may be the most obnoxious maskanista psa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm7f1uTK4jQ
***
A simple piece of fabric makes a big statement: I care.
***
Oh does it now? And what kind of statement does it make when governors shut down their states and millions of people lose their jobs?
They care a lot?
https://youtu.be/LQhX8PbNUWI
I expected no less from you.
I live to serve.
I approve.
Oh does it now? And what kind of statement does it make when governors shut down their states and millions of people lose their jobs?
They don’t want grandma to die.
Excellent, I completely agree. Since I do not care, I’ll continue to not wear a mask. Glad we could come to this agreement…
Repost from dead thread: Hey, @kinnath, about that bow. My email is moriah at moriahjovan dot com. I would like it to go to a nice home.
Email sent
My mistake – this is the most obnoxious maskanista psa
What Anti-Maskers Would’ve Sounded Like on The Titanic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kd7dpsZrhY
I made it 16 seconds in. He can go fuck himself.
I’m really worried that they’re gonna want to make this a permanent thing (“they do it in Asia!”).
I commented in the post earlier this week about work-related social distancing shit that these measures including mask-wearing remind me of the TSA security theater, and that one of the points is to inculcate into a new generation the idea that of course the government can and should do this to you, with them growing up to know no other alternative.
Richard Reid was how many years ago and we’re still taking our shoes off at the airport.
One of the Twitter-mobs talking points is about how “stupid” people used to complain about the seat-belt laws when they came out too. Which, of course, is precisely why such laws were such a bad idea in the first place and it was right to resist them. Once you concede the fundamental principle, it’ll never stop at seat belts.
I remember in the 80s when the anti-smoking thing was really taking off there were people saying “next thing you know they’ll tell us what we can and can’t eat”, and this being pooh-poohed. They were right, of course.
Time to learn how to use the 3 shells after a dehydrated meal at Taco Bell,
A life jacket won’t keep you from freezing to death and a mask won’t keep you from catching coronavirus. An apt analogy but not in the way that douchebag intended.
To repeat, when exactly did being a smug self-righteous prick become something to aspire to? I get that you feel the issue is important (I disagree but whatever) and that you want to convince people to your side, but do you have to be such a braying jackass about it?
.Minnesota denied federal aid to pay for riot damage. I am so glad Trump had the stones to say no.
https://m.startribune.com/feds-deny-walz-s-request-for-aid-to-rebuild-after-riots/571715162/
But… but… Emergency funds?
The country is afraid of me…
I’m of two minds on this one. On one hand, there were plenty of victims of the riots that weren’t involved and didn’t want to see them happen. On the other, it would reward bad behavior on the part of the local governments who allowed toe riots in the guise of protests to continue. It was a gutsy move regardless.
is it wrong not to want to bail out other taxpayers? do the perps, the police, the mayor, the neighbors, the governor, and the victims all live in some smaller, neater jurisdiction than the entire USA ? It seems like Allstate asking all the other insurance companies to help them pay for a hurricane
These sorts of things, like the PPP and stimulus packages, etc. all help provide cover for questionable, bad or even illegal things the government does. If nobody had been promised a single shiny dime from the government, I reckon that the lockdown would have lasted about 36 hours.
It seems to me the local citizens are reaping what they have sown. If they are satisfied with the outcome that’s fine. If not then they may want to implement new policies with new politicians.
Yeah, they need to get rid of those evil Rethuglicans!
New politicians? Nah, it will be the same ones who will pretend they had nothing to do with the old policies but have all the solutions needed to reform the system. This works over and over again in one-party control cities and towns.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/huge-cdcs-reporting-coronavirus-deaths-suspect-caught-tacking-previous-deaths-current-totals/
Shocked I am. Shocked!
Dissolve the CDC. It’s too necrotic to continue in any viable function.
Strictly limit the Federal payroll to no more than 1000 employees per State, excluding active duty military, and ban non-military use of miltary personnel
That number is insufficient to protect the borders.
And immediately you’ll have non-personnel expenses being used for contracted staffing who are not on the federal payroll, indefinate outsourced projects to run programs, etc, etc
The Border patrol has 19,437 agents. That leaves 30,563 other positions for the Federal Government to fill. And we will deal with the other issue in my new annual spending bill. It is a fantasy conversation anyway. We aren’t getting any of this under control until the entire system collapses, and what that control looks will look like is anyone’s guess, but the choices are all horrible.
Ya. WEAR YOUR MASK!
They’ve been doing this all along. The bigger question is what info do they suddenly now have on someone that died two months ago that leads them to believe this is a COVID-19 death?
Not everyone that dies from respiratory distress dies from COVID-19, obviously. It’s a common fatal problem for the elderly.
Now what I will listen to is an argument that says that the yearly “flu” deaths get inflated the same exact way. That influenza really can’t be confirmed to have killed that many people, but that’s just what they write down (ILI – influenza like illnesses) for want of something better. I don’t believe many other countries do things that way.
The reimbursement rate for COVID deaths and what they feel they can get away with.
Jeffrey Tucker: When Will the Madness End?
Yup.
Consider this next to my observation in the A.M. thread, that members of the social justice set are invariably psychologically damaged.
The media and institutions in the United States have gone insane, and they are actively trying to spread their insanity.
I used to retort, “But why is every other country doing the same?”
Well, with many countries now “opening up” much faster than the US is, I am not so quick to make that observation any more.
PS. I meant to quote this:
Also American politics are effectively world politics at this stage. If it’s a political issue to us, it’s a political issue to everybody else, albeit to a much lesser degree.
And most of the western world’s political classes do what they can to fuck over Trump.
Well, with many countries now “opening up” much faster than the US is, I am not so quick to make that observation any more.
I still lean towards the idea behind your original observation. While I do think politics is playing some role in this, I think the main reason behind it is fear mingled with people’s determination not to abandon the increasingly popular fiction that everything can be controlled and made safe. What explains other countries opening up faster than the US is simply this: the US, being the richest country on earth, has the luxury of indulging in stupidity longer than anyone else. I don’t think the politicians of other countries are opening up because they want to, but because they realize they have to in order to avoid a collapse.
I can’t decide how big to make the Venom Rats.
Should they be Rat-size?
Cat-Size?
Lion-Size?
Horse size?
Oh, Hell No-Size?
Unusually sized, of course
⬆
Funny thing is, I set out to add a monster for my fantasy setting and ended up with something that was entirely biologically feasible.
Their venom is their saliva, which can be administered by bite, but they also have rather sharp foreclaws, with males have an exaggerated claw on the first digit because of its use in contesting for mates. Both sexes have a habit of licking their claws, making them as venomous as their teeth. The only real detail left out was their exact size.
The Princess Bride sized was what he was referring to.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv9CkjkOyzo
And I concur on the sizing.
Naw, that’s too small.
I’m personally leaning towards “Lion”- or “Oh, Hell No”-Size
Giant Rat discovered – Lost Land of the Volcano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uP-kOPirdg
comment gold:
That rat is so big i keep expecting some turtles to jump out and defend him…
That’s smaller than “Unusual-size”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephoartigasia_monesi
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The giant rodent Josephoartigasia monesi, which might have weighed more than a ton when alive, compared with its distant living relative, the pakarana (Dinomys branickii). The largest rodent that ever lived weighed a ton or two, scientists revealed today. The extinct mouse-like critter was larger than a bull.
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The rodent’s fearsome front teeth and large size may have been used to fight over females for breeding rights and may also have helped defend against predators, including sparassodonts, short-faced bears and terror birds.[4]
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Terror birds?!?
Cute little things
IMO, the size should depend on the type of fear you want these creatures to instill. Larger creatures are more intimidating, but smaller creatures have the ability to surprise their prey (or you can always pull a Jurassic Park and let large monsters stealth like small monsters).
Didn’t you know the TRex could teleport so long as there is no one looking at it?
Venom Rats? I would go with rat size with a venom whipping tail like a scorpion. Are they going to torment sidewalk diners in NYC?
No, they’re being kept as guardians of deep treasure vaults by dwarfs.
Well, they could be used to clear a crowded bistro seating area. It’s not like a dwarf doesn’t want some fancy overpriced brunch on occasion.
Are you going to chain them up like cave trolls with multiple handlers?
I have a mental image of the Ratkeeper Dwarfs that has them so ratshit insane that the rodents are probably the stablising force in the equation.
Got it, the dwarfs are on chains.
I did contemplate tail stingers, but realized toxic saliva was easier to explain biologically.
Humza Yousaf complains that all the important offices in Scotland are held by whites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EYfbjZAFsk
fun fact: Scotland 98.19% white
Dear Mr Yousaf – please look into the percentage of non-Muslims in the govt of Pakistan. The results may shock you.
I hear there are a lot of black people in important positions in Kenya.
Celebrate Diversity!
As broken as the modern Scots are, a majority probably agree with him.
suggested music: They’re Coming to Take Me Away
WHO alters timeline to indicate it first learned of coronavirus from Internet, not Chinese officials
More questions raised over the WHO’s ties to Beijing after coronavirus timeline change
https://www.foxnews.com/world/who-quietly-alters-coronavirus-timeline-to-indicate-it-first-learned-of-coronavirus-from-the-internet-not-the-chinese-government
+1 Dr.
I have been at an event and wound up spending the night drinking with Dr. Demento. This would have been back in 98/99.
You can’t just leave that laying there like that.
I can…
But, there’s a group that was the UBS Casual. It is either a sci-fi group with a drinking problem, or a drinking group with a sci-fi problem. There was a convention back in the day called Marcon down in Columbus.
They used to run a room party, and I used to be a member of the group. There was an ungodly amount of alcohol consumed. Dr. Demento was wearing pajamas, a top hat, and giant fuzzy ape slippers. We drank with him at the Big Bar on 2, and then he came to the room party.
One of the drinks that was on offer was Dr. McCoy’s Horta restorative. It was the remnants of every bottle that had ever been poured at any party they had hosted. It got carried forward from year to year. There were always people who decided (with all the other options) that’s what they wanted to drink. We mocked them during the afterparty. When we drank more.
Your “restorative” is reminiscent of the bucket in “Cannery Row” that the local bartender dumped the remainder of every patron’s drink into, which he later gave to the nearby cabin squatters every night for their wacky consumption together.
Hard pass either way.
Rhywun, I never drank it. Those who were polite, I guided to good cocktails. Assholes got pointed towards the “restorative”.
I do like the name. It’s like Edwardian or something.
Did you kill him?
WHO alters timeline to indicate it first learned of coronavirus from Internet,
Reminiscent of Obama.
“Just had a cup of coffee and a two cans of Goya beans! Take that, libs!
Time to start the day.
Today’s task: SAVE AMERICA!”
https://twitter.com/KwCongressional/status/1281925161491431429
“By the way, dinner is going to be some great T-bone steak because KW Miller is NOT a vegan!
I’ll probably down another can of Goya beans just so you Leftist degenerates can cry some more.
I’ll wash it down with a big glass of your liberal tears, you globalist hacks!”
https://twitter.com/KwCongressional/status/1282024146524934144
After he’s had coffee and two cans of beans, I’ll be
impressednervous if he makes it out of the bathroom.Narf!
“Based on that breakfast, I’m betting you have at least one more urgent personal task than saving America.”
“Florida Man Sets Fire Inside Catholic Church In Ocala After Plowing Van Inside”
https://miami.cbslocal.com/2020/07/11/florida-man-sets-fire-inside-catholic-church-in-ocala-after-plowing-van-inside/
Confession – you’re doing it wrong, Florida man.
After Plowing Van Inside
Euphemism?
“Trump Admin Tells Minnesota Governor To Get Bent Over $16 Million Aid Request Following Riots”
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1282102377567461376
Good. And some people cannot seem to figure out why I sort of like bad orange man.
I would donate to his campaign if he actually said “Get bent.”
Well, it’s exactly like that.
I forget how I got here, but I’m glad I did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_versus_lion
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A newspaper Harper’s Weekly in 1859, mentioning the same 10-minute fight in London[61][62] where a tiger named ‘Gunga’, who had previously belonged to the King of Oude, allegedly killed nearly 30 lions and after its arrival in England, made the keepers spectators to a fight where a lion was killed in 10 minutes.[63] A 1857 London newspaper talking about the same incident reported the lion was a “very fine lion, six or seven years old”.[64] One source stated the lion was in confinement (captivity) for three years, implying the lion would be three years old at a minimum.[65] A newspaper talks about Gunga, whose name was also “Nina Shahib” and who, before the fight took place with the lion in London, had attacked its keeper, after which the keeper severely injured the tiger with a crowbar, blinding him in one eye, meaning the tiger would have been blind fighting the lion. The two animals were found fighting each other, in which the keepers made fruitless efforts to part the two animals. Towards the end of the fight, the lion gained a brief advantage, at which point the tiger, while on his back, with swift strikes and using his back legs, tore open the lion’s stomach. The lion died after that. The tiger “Nina Shahib” was thought to have been mortally injured. However, the tiger did recover and became one of the biggest attractions of the establishment.[66]
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No liger resulted from the interaction, I am disappoint.
However, the tiger did recover and became one of the biggest attractions of the establishment.
Yeah he killed all the other attractions
Damn, sounds like some ancient Roman shit.
Hannibal Season 3 sucks. That is all.
Yeah it really went downhill quickly. Shame, it was a good show prior to the third iteration.
I think half the show is psychodramatic filler cutscenes that provide no information other than reinforcing the “mood”.
I think the writers just ran out of plot and the editors filled it with videos of dripping blood and discordant music.
Was this the year he crosses the Alps?
No, I think he’s already lost to Scipio outside of Carthage.
I don’t know how you people watch TV. It’s fucking horrible. My wife has been watching this series, something revenge something. The plot is that this girl’s dad gets framed as a terrorist by actual bad guys, but he’s innocent. So she’s then an orphan or something. But when she grows up, she goes to get revenge.
I got that much because most of our flat is open and my little man cave back here in on the opposite side of the living room. It’s sort of separated, but there’s no door, so I can hear the TV.
Anyway, the 4th, since I wasn’t working, I went to sit with her and she was watching an episode. I thought it might be fun, but the acting sort of ruined it, because all the actors are so overly dramatic all of the time. I told her ‘no one acts like that all of the time, it’s not believable’. She said ‘Ah Maria, go find something to do, I’m watching my show!’, lol.
Shouldn’t you be telling someone to get off your lawn?
I don’t have a lawn. I’m not telling the sassy Latin girl anything like that, are you crazy? I’ll be sleeping on the deck with one eye open all night.
I keep having this recurring dream that China invades Australia. I’ve been having that dream for at least 10 years. I had another one last night. It doesn’t really vary much at all. In it, the Chicom soldiers are herding the Aussies through a doorway. It’s just a doorway, like a steel frame, out in the middle of a desert. But it’s not an ordinary doorway, there’s nothing on the other side, it’s really weird, but there’s something about that doorway in the middle of nowhere, I just cannot figure out what it is. The dream is like I’m supposed to figure out what it is, but I can’t and then I wake up. Fucking weird.
Aussies in Narnia
Did that happen in a Narnia film? I saw one of them and all I remember is that there was a lion who talked.
I’ve seen or read of that doorway in multiple stories.
They’re sailing away to China in a little rowboat to find you.
Dude, at least read the story. In the dream, the Chicoms go to Aussieland, no one goes to China! Jeebus.
They do to get there laundry cleaned.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F8pL7a0Qzjs
Their, I’m blaming spell check on this one.
Do they use Calgon?
Ancient Chinese secret, huh?
I was positing where the Aussies go when they go through the portal.
I assume you’re not having Stargate dreams.
“A Black Lives Matter march in Washington, D.C. turned anti-Semitic as protesters began accusing Israel of murdering children.”
https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1282053297738678275
https://freebeacon.com/issues/d-c-black-lives-matter-protest-turns-anti-semitic/
Imagine a left wing group being antisemitic. That’s never happened before.
I’ve been assured that there are no ties between the sentiment and the group of the same name. It’s just a coincidence.
Lives are neither black nor white. It is sort of a defining trait of humanity.
I read somewhere that we were all the same color before some of us walked out of Africa, 50-100 thousand years ago, probably because Africa didn’t have AC and had large critters with fangs and claws, or something like that.
And then some of us walkers ran into Neanderthal folk and thought some of the chicks had a most excellent big butt and titties and so started dating them. And then we turned into white debils and ruined the entire planet, except for Africa, which was still a utopia, even without AC and having the big bitey critters.
And here we are and must now atone for our sins.
“Lives are neither black nor white.”
I’d say my life is sort of puce.
If I were a fruit, I’d be a kumquat.
If I were a tree, I’d be an oak.
*Actual interview questions I have been asked
“We’re done here.”
*walks out the door*
Turned?
“Wisconsin driver intentionally crashes into motorcyclist because he was white
A Wisconson man who struck and killed a motorcyclist told investigators he intentionally crashed head-first into the victim because he believed all Harley riders are “white racists,” local officials said.
Daniel Navarro, 27, of Fond du Lac, has been charged with a homicide as a hate crime after he allegedly veered across a road around 6:45 p.m. last Friday to hit former Marine and police officer Phillip Thiessen, 55, on his Harley Davidson, the county sheriff said during a press conference Thursday.
“Navarro told detectives that he believed the person driving the motorcycle was white because in Wisconsin, white people drive Harley-Davidson motorcycles, and the Harley culture was made up of white racists,” Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt said. “He admitted he could not specifically see who was driving this motorcycle.””
https://nypost.com/2020/07/11/wisconsin-driver-intentionally-crashes-head-first-into-motorcyclist/
“Navorro told detectives he believed he had been intentionally poisoned by coworkers and by a neighbor; that people drive by his house and rev their engines and squeal their tires to try to upset him; and that people make racist comments towards him — all because he’s Hispanic,” Waldschmidt said.
Mentally ill man kills someone. Not really a political thing IMHO.
Your summation is the truth IMHO – however, had the headline been “White man crosses median in traffic to hit a Hispanic man on a motorcycle because he believed he was an illegal alien MS-13 gang member” that would have totally been a hate crime.
That would have been the narrative. The truth would remain the same most likely. Also, Hispanic is not a race damn it!
As far as I can tell, by ignoring the media, it’s someone who speaks Spanish and lives in Central or South America. IOW, anyone who lives in Central or South America, except for Brazil.
Most people living there are mixed race, some mix of European/Amerindian/Black, but a large percentage are of European descent only, or black only, or Amerindian only. The media totally ignores the latter and describes them all as ‘brown people’, their ignorance is stunning.
There are Hispanics of all races and all mixes of races. There are Jews of a variety of ethnicities. Asia is populated by a wide variety of racial types, many of which are as distinct genetically as any groups on the planet. A Hmong and a Dravidian do not look alike, speak related languages, or share cultural roots. It is a pet peeve of mine that the media are too stupid to understand the distinction between racism and other group based prejudices. It feeds there narrative of ‘white guilt’ to pretend that the basic human distrust of the other is a racial thing, but the Protestants and Catholics killing each other in Belfast were from the same genetic roots. People are wired to distrust the other. The solution to this, when it becomes a problem, is to cause people to see each other as part of the same group. But that does not play into the cultural Marxist need for division so it must be portrayed as an inherent evil found in Whitey, while stoking division by dividing us out into African Americans, Asian Americans, etc.
Their narrative damn it.
One of my pet peeves is the fact that the leftists have gotten the term “people of color” into popular usage. For a similar reason that you mentioned it really chaps my hide. Placing all humanity into two groups, one white and one colored is racist as shit. I have a problem placing all “white” people together, much like Asians, as there is way too much variation between groups to really show almost any commonality. “White” is useful as a general descriptor and for not very many other things.
“There are Hispanics of all races and all mixes of races.”
Well, yeah, that’s why I abhor the lefts’ characterization of Hispanics as ‘good brown people’.
it’s someone who speaks Spanish and lives in Central or South America. IOW, anyone who lives in Central or South America, except for Brazil
And Belize, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname…
The frogs don’t count.
Are the sidewalks in Glibland rolled up now?
Probably most in the zoom
Nah, Zoom is usually around six to eight people at most.
That just jogged my memory. Yesterday, during one of my 6.5 hours of Skype, MS Teams, and Zoom meetings, one of the the guys from my client’s office said something wonderful. It’s one of those rare moments these days that sort of makes me still have a little faith in the future of humanity.
Someone said something about liking my chair. I have one of those gaming chairs, black with the orange trim and high back. So I said ‘Yeah, it’s OK for a budget gaming chair, I mean it’s not one of the high end ones, you know, it was less than a grand, but it works’.
So my project manager says ‘Good grief, you gamers will spend a grand on a chair?
And the guy says ‘Well, we can’t spend all our money on loose women and drugs, so….’
LOL fucking L.
The guy is Italian and there’s been many times in meetings that he’s basically said things you will only hear from a libertrarians.
I truly wanted to say ‘I love you man’, but you know, there was work to do. I need to talk to the guy more, I always liked him from the start.
He’ll be metoo’ed by Monday.
No, he actually will not. I know the director of the department, she emails me all of the time outside of work and she likes him, he’s totally safe, for now.
Also, no one in that meeting was a woketard. Some signalers, yes, but no one who actually believes any of that shit.
Hot dates
https://twitter.com/Ga11owG1ass/status/1281984789202046977
Oh my.
those are some pants
Bad Dates is more my speed.
Spent the last two hours jammin’ on the acoustic guitar. Feels good. Fingertips throbbing.
Euphemisms?!?!
Something is throbbing alright.
Maybe you can answer this question.
Realistically, how fast can someone play an acoustic guitar without picks?
Extremely fast if you a talking about a classical guitar.
Thank you.
I’m not going to worry about Ewald rocking out with an acoustic guitar.
Not screaming fast, but not bad for acoustic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gphiFVVtUI
Get to at least the 2 minute mark.
Can’t help but notice those fingertalons.
Who needs a pick when you have a claw like that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbfPDbjauWA
5 minute mark
Umm, how is that not using a pick? Look at those nails on the picking hand.
five picks at once
Ewan Dobsan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZDOV2i61tM
Mike Dawes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bijQXgNM0g
Rodrigo y Gabriela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT9hvyDvKHA
I guess this is with pick so it doesn’t count.
Slap bass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa_OUS_vr3s
Moar slap bass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPFQbG8U_0k
I..uhh… have a thing for women who play guitar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj8rlJicDy8
They are playing Rodrigo y Gabriela
The Chinese lady or Gabriela. I like them both.
Dust in a baggie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFEZOjtrwls
There are a million fingerpicking techniques, and some players are very fast. Banjo technique. Indian raga technique.
Picks don’t equal speed. Picks are a plectrum, they impart a tone/tonal quality.
It’s just guitar. Pick, no pick whatever. Don’t over think it. Make music.
I just jumped on my electric guitar after the acoustic session; so much faster on electric.
My experience; get your tune tight on acoustic, then it’s ready for electric.
The question was for a character’s believability. I don’t have much rhythm.
I like picks myself, for either acoustic or electric. I like the thinner ones, it’s just my playing style, I’m always breaking them, and sometimes, depending, I’ll use a thick pick. It’s all about style and what you’re playing. I basically NEVER play without a pick.
I use a pick 85% of the time. If I’m just strumming/waiting for my wife to get dressed/thought of a tune/playing along to a song in a movie I’m strumming with fingers.
On electric, always using a pick. Tortex JazzIII .73mm to be precise.
I’ll do some finger picking while still keeping the pick in my hand. For strumming, the thin picks work perfectly.
Excellent music picks Spud, especially The Cars, stupendous song and video. Glad that the summer is treating you well in Spudville.
I remember when The Atlantic actually had some decent articles now and then. It’s taken a sharp leftward and shitward turn over the last years.
When they relocated, that was either the cause or bellwether. Possibly both.
Guess who’s going to the hardware store tomorrow morning for tub drain parts?
Lou Reed?
https://youtu.be/Z1E06cWL-cw
Isn’t Lou Reed dead? I mean I heard a rumor.
GFY, you fucking traitors
“Dreamers” aside… I’m struck by how much SCOTUS operates like, well, I do. Minimum possible effort to show a result of some sort.
I’m a little skeptical about this statement
It’s just…
https://twitter.com/TheRISEofROD/status/1282037233302876163?s=19
+100, JB wins the internetz for the day.
This is why we intentionally stopped teaching real history in public school.
Sadly true. Slippery slope turns to an avalanche quickly.
I’m sad to report that I’ve recently learned that my sister has been turned leftward, as have her college aged children, and they minimalize any loss of freedom while greatly exaggerating the ignorance of mask-flauters.
They even think we should cede the tropical shirt thing to the “antifa” crowd by pretending they’re racist, saying “Now that the shirts have been claimed by racists, anyone who doesn’t stop wearing them reveals to the world that they’re racist.”
Ugh. Funny how the “fairer sex” are the ones shrieking like harpies and refusing to acknowledge nuance. You either are on their side, or you are PURE EEVIL!!
Only 99%, 1% Eastern European EEVILSTEIN.
“I’m sad to report that I’ve recently learned that my sister has been turned leftward”
You might want to talk to her. I posted earlier today about a long time friend of mine who has suddenly, having never talked politics before, both claiming he is libertarian, as well as saying he ‘leans left’.
I have to say, it’s up to us now.
I really just want to know if your sis is as pretty as you. Pics or it didn’t happen!
You know, I mean forgive my drunk horny and all that. Not really, pics?
Bravo.
“It’s Just a box car” Lol
http://archive.li/MEpgd/cea2ffcda2bf41bac1f6bcf5941894f8f65812e9.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/F5H7H/ed8f61360a053a51054447399d303518beecd5a9.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/0c0pe/791c360aea57d0f3a913af30c9def59f63f91c9f.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/7vDt5/d64447bb614959d1efdd69105e7e085281cbe9e0.jpg
NSFW.
Strong showing tonight Q. All 4 ladies are GlibFit.
Winner for me.
#3
So this came up suggested by youtube Grandpa Voted Democrat
Since Washington went 100% vote for mail we seem to have elections more often and there always seems to be a new bond measures.
It was the hottest day of the year, but the mission to hold a graveside service for my father was a success. “Amazing Grace” by Elvis was played, my brother delivered a brief eulogy. The honor guard held the flag and bugled TAPS, then folded the flag and presented it to me to represent the family. We then framed it and gave it to our mother, who didn’t attend the service due to health concerns. His grandchildren and one great grandchild were there too, as were some old friends and other relatives, despite our attempt to have a quiet service without the spread of illness to at-risk mourners.
Hot, but not too bar at 10AM. Nice, dignified service, some smiles and some tears. Everything looked great; we are lucky that the rain held off until this evening.
Now I’m being treated to a great lightning storm—a multi-gun salute to the man we had the honor and good fortune to call Dad.
Sorry for your loss.
Thanks, Hyp.
You’re welcome. I lost my mom early last year, so I know how bad that feels. My dad is 91 now.
That’s a fine send-off, Lady Hayek. Sorry for your woes.
Sorry to hear of his passing. I’m not around much with my current work schedule. This last week marked 6 years since my own father passed. At the same time it feels like it can’t be that long and that it has been longer.
The thing is, the finality of it. Like one day I realized that my mom was never going to call me again. I remember laughing after she would call me at 1pm on a weekday and I would say ‘mom, I’m in a meeting, I’ll call you back’. Then I realized that is never going to happen again. Life as a human sucks. You are sentient enough to be aware of your own mortality. Is there anything worse than that? Knowledge is the beginning of all sorrows.
“Knowledge is the beginning of all sorrows.”
This is why humans who lose a leg grieve for it and feel depressed, whereas a 3 legged dog doesn’t brood over it, he runs and gets the frisbee.
That’s because dogs live in the moment. Every joy is the most joyous joy that ever happened and every sorrow is the most sorrowful sorrow. For about five minutes. They never forget, though.
That Bitch ate some apple! Don’t listen to no Snake, Girl… In all seriousness, I remember being heart-wrought when I was about 3 or 4 years old when I realized that my Granny and Grandpa were going to die someday because old.
One of my grandfathers was deceased before I was born, so I had a vague sense that it’s “normal” to die of old age when I understood why Grandma (Redacted) didn’t have a corresponding Grandpa.
Doesn’t make it easier when the parents go.
The finality of it really is striking. His passing was a blessing, as it abbreviated his slow fade into Alzheimer’s.
But he really did leave a legacy to all the people he advised or helped along the way, so in that sense he lives on.
The legacy lives on every time you make things go boom or post your thoughts on this site. I’m really sorry that you lost him.
Sorry to hear about your dad, HE.
Sorry about your father.
It’s raining once again here. Mid July and we haven’t had a single day over 75 degrees American. Starting to acquire the “Innsmouth Look”. The siren song of the sea grows stronger with each passing week. Have to cut the nascent webbing between my fingers and toes daily. Showering means it grows back faster than a man can manage so now I am reduced to rubbing a mixture of salt and sand on my body. The cats have begun to narrow their inscrutable gaze upon me.
Jelly.
Hotter than the usual summer here. It occasionally goes under 75 at night but with 80 or 90 percent humidity it doesn’t really count.
I spent part of a summer in Montreal as a kid and the humidity was brutal. Every suburban home had an above ground pool. I caught pinkeye!
If you have a chance to sit it out or dance, dance.
https://twitter.com/WileGenius/status/1281997062628876290
Roger Stone is the King of Dontgiveafuckistan. His daughter is a glib-wood.
If you don’t dance, you can’t be a dancing hero.
All She Wants to Do Is Dance
https://youtu.be/qfuw3CZQuwk
Red beans and ricely yours, the world isn’t completely filled with assholes (and I put myself in that group).
You are a good egg, Gustave.
Sifting through my existing work to try to get my mind going, I found a completed short work and submitted it as an article to Glibs.
I guess it says something when I can just shake my thumb drive and completed existing pieces fall out.
Cool! I watched an online tutorial that solved a nagging problem.
Maybe.
What was the problem?
A piece of equipment that I need for my job. One weird trick… It was literally replace the filter LOL.
Let us know when the answer is check the thermostat.
I hope that was what he tried first…
Well I was going to use a butter knife as a screwdriver and a rock as a hammer but you guys have talked me out of it.
Hammerstones are perfectly valid… if you’re knapping flint.
Just watched a bunch of deck building tutorials. Festus has sad.
Buenos Dias Glibs!
morning
Buenos noches!
Bonjour, Cy!
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/07/12/video-of-allentown-police-officer-putting-his-knee-on-mans-neck-during-arrest-prompts-protests/
Here we go again. With even less context or details.
And that looks like more on his head than neck.
The cop didn’t do it for eight minutes and the guy isn’t dead. If police are going to be a necessary evil how are they supposed to arrest somebody if they’re severely curtailed with what holds they can use to restrain people? They’ll go back to nightsticks if they have to which will be much worse.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JoDavi_2020/status/1282207426935246848
We’re living in crazy times.
Boom. Headshot.
https://mobile.twitter.com/stillgray/status/1282230350823841793