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Who would have thought that somebody would make an anime harem comedy?
Kazuya Kinoshita is dumped by his girlfriend Mami Nanami after dating for a month. He then decides to use an online app to rent a girlfriend named Chizuru Mizuhara, a beautiful and attractive girl. However, because she appears to be too perfect, he gives her a low rating. When Chizuru berates him for that, he realizes she is meaner than he expected. However, when Kazuya’s grandmother collapses in the hospital, he brings her along and his grandmother is smitten with how great she is. Kazuya continues renting Chizuru in order to keep up appearances with his family and friends, but things get complicated when they discover they are next-door apartment neighbors and attend the same college. Later, other girls from the girlfriend business also join in dating and showing interest in Kazuya.
Source: Wikipedia
Not as bad as I initially feared, but hard to recommend. At least half the reason I’m watching it is that I enjoy one of the voice actresses – Sora Amamiya. She is also known by her fans as Ten-chan as that is an alternate reading of her name. It also works because she is a bit of “ten nen” or 天然 which can be used for an “air head” in English. In a bit of rarity she actually looks a bit like the character she plays.
Japanese: 彼女、お借りします
Romanized: kanojo, okarishimasu
English Title: Rent-A-Girlfriend
I chose this particular anime title because it is an example of why I will never become truly fluent in Japanese. The verb that I was familiar with for “to rent” was 貸す (kasu). So I used this anime as a reason to learn some more vocabulary. Fortunately the manga cover actually has the romanized Japanese so no need to try to figure out the reading of the kanji 借. So hitting the dictionary I can find 借りる, 借り and 借る and a few others, but nothing that could initially be read from お借りします. Or so I thought. Mind you they read as some form of “lending” and I understood the meaning and tense generally, but I can’t figure out the verb form.
Conveniently enough I was going to be speaking with my friend with whom I do language exchange. This gave us something to talk about and she quickly set me straight. I realized I did indeed learn the verb form, but it is one I never use. It’s how you turn a verb into its polite and humble form. Normally this would be used in the service industry like hotels and restaurants. It makes perfect sense to use it here as the work is is essentially in the “service industry” as well.
彼女 – “kanojo” – This word is a bit interesting in that it can mean either “she”, “her” or “girlfriend”. It’s use is contextual so being vague with its usage fits with all of the vagaries of the Japanese language.
お借りします – The one that stumped me. The base verb is 借りる (かりる, kariru). First take the verb and put into what’s called the “masu stem” – 借ります. Next, drop the “masu” part – 借り. Now we add the honorific “o” that Japanese uses with lots of words to make them polite – お借り. Finally add the verb “suru” to the end of the verb. However, in this case we need it to be both polite and current tense – “shimasu” giving us – お借りします.
So someone is humbly renting you (or us) a girlfriend. The form is already quite polite, but we could take make this even more polite. Instead of using “suru” here you can use “itasu”. We also need to make “itasu” polite and present tense – いたします. So that would become お借りいたします (okariitashimasu).
Quick rule of thumb in Japanese is the longer the expression the more polite it is. Also note the meanings conveyed by this title aren’t really word for word translatable to English. You’d have to add additional context to convey the same meaning in English.
Omake:
I bequeath this First to the Glib who is second.
Finished so quickly?
竜頭蛇尾
勉強になりました！
It really describes this year for Japan when you think back at how we started out going into the year of the Olympics and then… …this.
Yup. And next year isn’t looking great in that regard either.
Is that particular expression an official four kanji idiom?
“Is that particular expression an official four kanji idiom?”
Yes, it is somewhat historic. My guess it that it is based on some older Chinese expression.
勉強、、、？
https://youtu.be/GoEvsP63NSc
I read that title as ‘Learn Japanese Through Anime Titties…”
Why would anyone else want to learn it? Asking for a friend.
Learn tit?
It’s a fascinating subject.
Kidding aside, I read that it was very difficult for English speakers. I figured the “experts” were wrong.
They weren’t. After that it became an intellectual challenge more than anything else. Plus I was interested in the history.
I worked with a guy who spoke it. He worked in Japan for 5 years.
Some people seem to have this built in ability to learn other languages. One of my son-in-laws speaks English, Spanish, Greek, German, and Mandarin. Fluently. His native language is Portuguese.
It seems impossible to me, it’s hard enough to try to master one other language, unless you start when you’re every young.
My wife and I were on a video this morning with our granddaughter, she’s 3. She can go in and out of Portuguese, German, and English virtually flawlessly without getting lost. She prefers English, good for her.
When I say she prefers English, I mean she’s 3. But her parents noticed that if you don’t prompt her by speaking in another language, she’ll just naturally speak in English. My wife even noticed that if she starts speaking to her in Portuguese, that sometimes she’ll just reply in English, and then she’ll seem to stop and ponder, and then reply in the other language. Her mom said she just naturally seems to want to speak English and she’ll just default to doing so, even though she’s not American and lives in Germany.
Kid’s brains are amazing when language forms.
My friend teaches Japanese and most of her students are older Korean or Chinese woman. All their young children generally speak both languages.
That is awesome. I will say the one of many bad things with American culture is we are single lingual for the most part. I might just be dumb and or have never committed to learning another language but over my past lives I have seen others from other countries pick up the local language way easier than I did even when they didn’t speak it when we got there. I pick up common words but some became fluent over a year or two.
I’d settle for Americans becoming fluent in English.
Now you’re reaching.
“I’d settle for Americans becoming fluent in English.”
racist
Aprender a falar inglês!
Yesterday, I posted an article from Vox about how AI used to detect hate speech/offensive speech online is “biased” against black people. It used the term “African American English” repeatedly.
That’s why I picked up Esperanto on Duolingo. It’s nice to learn something purely for the fun of learning it, not because it helps my job, or will even help me communicate with that many more people. It was something fun to learn for the fun of learning it.
Volapük or GTFO.
That would require more effort than clicking buttons/typing in Duolingo. But you made me look it up.
Hey there is always Klingon!
Don’t think I wasn’t tempted, Sensei. I get enough flak from my sister for Esperanto, though.
Or any of the Semitic languages, if we’re going for phlegm mastery.
When I was in a summer camp while in elementary school, I met a boy who had claimed to have studied Esperanto. 35 years later, I found the second person interested in Esperanto.
#metoo
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I often read it the same way.
TIWTANFL.
I’ll take Jap Anus Relations for $200
Yay!! Anime titt-Awww, dammit.
Itchy-bon!
Sanbon.
Nibon?
Sashimi!
I still don’t get what is so great about tentacle pr0n.
I realized I did indeed learn the verb form, but it is one I never use. It’s how you turn a verb into its polite and humble form.
So what you’re saying is you’re never polite?
Technically humble. I’m not humble.
To be polite you can elevate the speaker and/or humble yourself. So to be polite here the form is something you are humbly doing.
Argh. Elevate the listener.
Rent-A-Girlfriend
If only it were that easy.
$20, same as downtown
In our neck of the woods?? I don’t thi….oh, gotcha.
https://mobile.twitter.com/livesmattershow/status/1298376068324372480
Who had Kenosha as the flashpoint? Anyone?
This is not sustainable until November and I need to top off some pmags.
Don did.
Democrats are willing to sacrifice innumerable useful idiots to get elected.
It seems like the mood is turning. If a vigilante mob started stringing up antifa thugs and criminals before the year is out , I wouldn’t be surprised.
Hoping that the weather will cut some of this down.
I made a short perusal of twitter tonight and wtf with the DC mobs walking into sidewalk dining and demanding a fist in the air for solidarity? I’m not sure if I would put up with someone yelling at me when I am having dinner.
“…demanding a fist…”
I’m afraid I might comply. Just not exactly as ordered.
I grew up in Kenosha. I know one of the families that had their business torched the first night after spending years helping to rejuvenate a run down area. The people their are pissed.
I’ve got a bunch of invites on FB to join armed citizen groups tonight, and know quite a few people who are already armed and in the streets right now to help protect various locations.
I could see this erupting into shootings by citizens tonight. There’s a lot of hunters and well armed people in the community.
The democrats are going to get a lot of people killed and they don’t care, as long as it turns out well for them. It will not.
You wanted militias all over the country? Now you’re going to get it.
It would turn out very well though for Russia and China if they are the funders and handlers behind this. The democrat politicians, like Antifa, are likely just another group of pawns.
I hope the deep state hasn’t completely lost affection for this country.
I don’t think it’s that brazen. The core component of these Leftist groups is Marxism. We complain everyday here on on Glibs about how the goals of these groups would destroy the country. I doubt those consequences have escaped others and it makes sense that these movements would receive funding and guidance from those who would benefit from dissension and weakness within the US. If you wanted to weaken America as a foreign actor, would you engage militarily or would you try to rot the inside out? I’m not saying it’s Russia or China, but I doubt the Dems are the ultimate cause behind this.
We see it happening in real time with Soros and funding AGs. Soros isn’t providing funding to local AGs to advance some state’s Dem agenda.
Not that the deep state is behind it, but that they wouldn’t give a rats ass for foreign actors interfering here.
(Actual interference, not the delusional Putin puppet crap and Russian fever dreams)
The deep state doesn’t have to be the main actor coordinating and planning the activities of foreign actors for those actions to be detrimental to the future of the US. All they have to do is provide access and/or stay the hands of American entities to stop or interfere in those actions. The Russians and Chinese are perfectly capable of following through on their own plans of action to disrupt the American system – either the political system or the economy.
I’m pretty sure the deep state believes that the US is too big to fail and/or China/Russia doesn’t pose a real threat. I’d say they don’t understand that absconding with a few million dollars won’t do much good when the economy those dollars are based on has been gutted and inflation blows it all away.
George Soros’s Sturmabteilung is hoping some right winger provides them their Horst Wessel.
I just got the dubious privilege of proof reading an article that argued that leverage reduces risk. I haven’t felt my IQ drop that fast since the time I tried to watch the Democratic Primary Debates.
Leverage does indeed reduce risk. (for skinned knuckles) You never heard of a cheater bar when breaking a stuck bolt?
Your joke made more sense than his argument.
What was the connection there? Lemme guess… “it’s unsecured, so you can walk away”
No, better. His thesis was as follows: If you have $100k and you invest it all in one property, and that property loses money, you lose everything (not sure how that follows in real estate where very few things go to zero, but…). If, however, you buy 10 properties with $10k down and one loses money you only lose that $10k.
Where is this you are buying property for 10K? Overgrown lots in the hood?
Down, I missed the down.
$100k, $10k down, although you can buy a single family rental here for $50k all in that will rent for $800-$1000 if you know what you are doing (and can tolerate lower end tenants)
Kenosha, sounds like.
as much as I think collections agencies are scummy, sometimes I wonder if we haven’t neutered them too much.
The thing is that it would probably legitimately catch the author off guard to find out that somebody would find their scheme immoral.
Their scheme is unworkable. No need for a collection agency, just get the judgment and record a CJ (assuming we aren’t setting up a separate llc for each house, and somehow getting a bank to make the loans without a personal guarantee).
A variation of the Keynes 100 pound versus million pound quote.
Don’t read the manga. Where the relationship goes is not exactly healthy but that should be expected given the premise and genre. 仕方がありまへん。
There are some rare exceptions where the anime beats the manga, but I won’t count on it here.
It’s on episode 7 of 12 and has yet to introduce all the potential love interests. Can’t exactly get into the manipulative relationship drama of both parties wanting a more normal relationship but also for other reasons maintaining the paid, business aspect instead of progressing things in the remaining time. If they just follow the chapters in order they’d barely get to introducing the fourth girl teased in the opening/ending credits by episode 12. With a limited televised run you can edit for pacing, shuffle the timeline a bit and get something close to a well polished product with enough of a hook to get people to buy books. Different from having to keep people interested week to week with indeterminate length larger arcs in a weekly serialization. A lot of series that are fresh for a season or two animated can run into pacing problems and concept fatigue on the page and have trouble properly finishing everything (even when they’re not cancelled and given three chapters to wrap everything up). I think a lot of adaptations are better just because they can pick the best parts and stretch a meta plot arc across a known length.
The worst part is I listen so closely that I tend to listen so closely I identify the voice actors and not character names.
I’m assuming that’s the character Rie Takahasi plays…
Got it in one. I’d bet they skip to her arc after this one is cleaned up so they can use her for more than one episode.
Tonight is the night I dial back my drinking just a smidge.
My poor liver…
I quit starting tomorrow. Only exercise then, no beer.
I’ve dialed it up recently, and overshot the sweet spot. I need to recalibrate.
I just have to get serious, Sean. I love drinking, but I’m looking to relocating and buying a new home. I have to get serious now. God, that sucks. Why can’t we just have run and drink forever?
I’m with you. I started by cutting out the Bourbon last night. A couple beers a night will probably stay but staying up late drinking hard liquor (even in small amounts – maybe three or four shots over 2 or 3 hours) is something I’ve decided to cut back on. I need more sleep and some recovery for the liver.
⬅
https://myanimelist.net/people/21517/Sora_Amamiya/pictures
She’s adorable. And forgetful in a cute way too.
Why is her blood type listed?
For her vampire fans?
Japanese believe that blood type has some parallel with certain character traits. They believe one blood type people behave/think/act differently than other blood types.
Then, the Wu FLu hit, and, BAM!–hypothesis proved.
No need to crap on Pie.
Me: I think I’ll go check out what’s going on at glibs
My wife looking over my shoulder: Are you looking at anime porn?
Something in your comment makes me want to write an article titled “Contract Murder v. Divorce: A Cost Benefit Analyisis” and see what happens.
Isn’t that anID channel show already?
Or, Khan Academy…?
Who was the liberal mouthpiece who screenshotted his browser with a bunch of porn, including I think, anime?
Kurt Eichenwald. But the story about him paying an underage teen who sold pornography online is more disturbing.
I enacted your labor for you. You are welcome.
“I enacted your labor for you.”
Thanks. I hope you washed your hands afterwards.
Kurt Eichenwald.
lol
Awkward.
Be honest, that wouldn’t be the worst thing she’s caught you doing, would it?
I still remember the early days with Thicc Thursday. I remember my wife walking up behind me one day and saying ‘OMG, her butt is bigger than mine, you like that!?’. Then after that for a long time ‘you talking to your crazy friends and looking at big asses?’
“Yes.”
^^^
Go Rand!!!
Wait, what did Rand do?
Speaking at the RNC. Far too briefly.
Well, shit, link?
Will probably be up later here: https://video.foxnews.com/playlist/politics-latest-politics/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6H6wjf3J1TY
Yea that Trump…just a real normal, down-to-Earth type of guy.
Well, he does like gettin’ paid, gettin’ laid, and Big Macs, so….
Just watched it. Typical Rand, real libertarian. Everything he said makes sense, as usual.
Well, that was over quick. ?
That’s what she said.
Sandy only got 90 seconds last week FWiW. I hope Rand got longer than that at least.
I love the dig against Biden.
Committed to ending the war in Afghanistan? I’ll believe that war ends when I see it.
Classy again. All their jokes have a slight murdery tinge to them.
https://twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1298423732843798529
“I would say, probably bangin’ you, Bette. But–Ewww”
Hype – yeah, the two planters are “raised”, wood framed – closer to the back fence than my house.
Originally it was just dirt – a couple massive weeds sprouted that I cleared out. Then I didn’t check much and in the last few weeks we’ve gotten a lot more rain and they appear positively verdant.
Next spring, I need to get a big ol’ weighted shade umbrella – since my living room opens directly onto the back porch – until i can get it roofed, I just don’t feel like stepping out into the west (afternoon) sunlight most of the time. Between that and my blackout curtains, I don’t look back there that much. Getting a mower later this year or early next year will give me more motivation for regular trips…
Also need to investigate more soil to level out the ground completely.
““raised”, wood”
What’s me after 3/4 of a bottle!
You aren’t supposed to take the entire bottle of Cialis in one go, CJ.
Hey LCDR Fish, I’m willing to talk about gardening a lot and I know that Fourscore is as well. If you have any questions, I’ll try to help, it’s one of my favorite topics. We’re still getting a lot of tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers coming on, and I’m gardening on a 10×24 ft 3rd story deck until next year. Been doing this for 40 years, longer actually. Started going to the garden and learning with my grandparents since I was 5.
Ask Hyperion what he does with the cucumbers. Go on. Do it.
Makes tzatziki?
Makes gazpacho?
Gardening is year round here. If you have little space try climbing cucumbers (aka Japanese Cucumbers) with a lattice or similar structure for them.
Cukes-tzatziki yes, German dill salad yes, kimchi yes.
HE STICKS THEM UP HIS ASS
Why would he do that when he can make a salad with them?
Confused
BECAUSE HE’S SUPER GAY
SO ARE SALADS THOUGH
*Wonders if Brochettaward is secretly gay and hates himself and salads*
Yes, it’s obvious
Not the tossed variety, one would presume.
Oh, I think he likes his salads tossed.*
*But hates himself afterwards.
Makes cucumber salad?
Ingredients
2 English cucumbers
1 tablespoon salt
½ large red onion thinly sliced
1 clove garlic minced
1 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons white distilled vinegar
2 teaspoons fresh dill
1 teaspoon ground pepper
Instructions
Thinly slice the cucumber and add to a large bowl. Sprinkle with salt, stir well, and let set for 30 minutes.
Stir cucumbers again and drain the liquid out of the bowl. Pat cucumbers dry with a paper towel.
Add the red onion, garlic, mayonnaise, vinegar, dill, sugar, and pepper to the bowl with the cucumbers and stir to combine.
Chill in the fridge for 30 minutes before serving. If desired, drain any excess liquid out of the bowl before serving.
So another interesting facemask for malicious compliance.
I was just pondering googling ‘face hugger face masks’ earlier today, wondering if anyone had come out with something. I was just thinking a print, but this is amazing.
30 bucks and leather?? Take my money!
Looks too good to be true
It sure does 🙁
Sigh…
Ruh roh
Do you have any idea what the difference is between the regular and deluxe editions?
The season pass?
Love it!
I was hoping for something more like Hannibal Lector’s mask
I don’t get the appeal of wanting to look like you’re getting mouth-raped by an extraterrestrial crab. If I saw that in public, I would immediately think “cool!”. But, that would immediately be replaced by wondering what the wearer is angling for.
Or, is ‘social distancing’ the point? Is that now a positive thing around here?
Eh, I don’t think it’s a cultural thing, it’s just not a necessary skill. We’re not some tiny European country that has five languages within walking distance. There’s basically only three languages spoken on the whole (very large) continent, and in most places you can drive as far as you want in any direction and still be in a majority-English area.
I meant, and my perspective may be off because I am old, but we were not encouraged to learn other languages and haven’t. (again for the most part) When I actually started traveling the world, I couldn’t/didn’t pick up other languages as fast as those who had grown up in multi lingual communities. The guys I worked with in Afghanistan spoke five/six languages. But you are right, we never needed to so ya cultural was a bad choice of words. And in my experience, you don’t have to speak the native language in most parts of the world. I could always find an english speaker or flub our way through communication. My life experience is most normal people aren’t dicks and if you try you can communicate. I once assembled a bunch of crated up atv’s meant to be used on an oil and gas exploration project with a bunch of Venezuelan mechanics and none of us knew much more than three words of the others language. It worked out fine.
I often regard my affinity for languages to having grown up in a place where Spanish was arguably the dominant language. Education in the schools was all in English but for most social interactions you had to have some ability in Spanish or you would be lost much of the time.
So I’m not sure how I would have come out had my parents never moved to the Texas border area and I had been raised where only English is heard.
Another aspect of this which I ponder – something like 80% of all humans never travel further than about 60 miles from where they are born. Of course some of that is economics but I’d argue that a lot of it is interest. That means that people (not just Americans) who are open to other places, cultures, and languages are in the minority.
I blame part of my struggles on never learning another language until HS.
My son at least started Spanish in grade school. So it may be getting better in the US.
I think I mentioned Latin was oddly helpful to me in learning Japanese.
I had Spanish in grade school thought high school.
I remember maybe a dozen words, and none of the grammar.
Perhaps not surprising. A number of the sounds are similar to Spanish sounds, so Latin would possibly be similar?
I’ve taken French, Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese at various points in time. I wish I’d kept up the Spanish and that I’d taken Mandarin and Japanese much earlier instead of being put off as too difficult. Local school district has Japanese immersion school and is starting a Mandarin one. Jelly of the kids, except for the general downward trend in education.
Not so much for the pronunciation – I’ve generally got a good ear.
For me the crossover was that Latin declensions made the usage of Japanese particles relatively painless for me.
Ahh.
Another thing I’ve gotten from studying other languages is a better understanding of English grammar & terminology. It was never really taught in a systemic way in my elementary school and later it was either assumed to be too basic or were more specialized English/writing classes.
I’d agree that a lot of that is interest. I live in a fairly well to do area and while people travel for vacations, it’s almost always to the same damn spot. Back to the beach for a week or two, or to Disney, then call it good. For me, the US is yuge and I want to see all of it. I’ve visited 25 states in the past three years alone. I want to knock out the rest of the continental US within the next five years.
I need to visit more states.
I need to do the same.
I have been to all of the states east of the Mississippi except for Wisconsin.
None of the upper Midwest, only half of the mountain west, and none of the NW barring airports.
I welcome you to Minnesota. Neither Wisconsin nor Canada are that far away.
“…upper Midwest…”
I can’t say much for Norf Dakota (Hey, MikeS.). I remember kids sledding on the overpass hills BECAUSE THEY WERE THE ONLY HILLS THERE! The whole town of Fargo smelled like burnt sugar (sugar beets).
Sconnie has cheese and beer and apples.
South Dakota has beautiful, but brutal scenery.
There are some nice places in Iowa between the never-ending cornfields (Hey, kinnath!)
I’m not sure what to say about Yoopers. They cray-cray.
There are some very pretty parts in Iowa, particularly North East Iowa (hello Animal!).
I lived in Dubuque for a little while. It was very nice. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a damn job.
I can’t keep track of that river. I know I’m missing Maine, Rhose Island, and West Virginia.
I need to do the rest of New England, and the southern coastal states between Florida and Texas, then hit the west coast, and I’ll have almost all of it complete. I’m putting off the west coast until last, in the hopes it won’t be burning down at the time.
It’s a lot of fun, and I may just have been lucky because I’ve been staying in campgrounds instead of big cities, but my experience has been that every state has something incredible to offer, and the people are almost universally nice. Every time I go camping it keeps me optimistic. The country is still great.
Me too. I haven’t really seen the prairie states, NE, or non-coastal South.
I do understand the allure of returning to familiar destinations and really digging into it.
This doesn’t mean we never repeat a stop; a number of our stays this summer were repeats from previous years (CO, MI, OK, IN, NM). But there’s more than one way to get from point A to point Z and we try to explore them. We’re still looking for a good homebase campground – the place we escape for random weekends – but haven’t yet settled on a site. Next summer, our aim is to explore New England.
Back in the 90s when I was backpacking Europe during college, I spoke an older nun in Venice, Italy. Luckily between her broken English and my Spanish and Berlitz Italian we could talk. And I was stunned that she had never left her parish in Venice. Come to think of it, I didn’t clarify if she meant ever, or just since she became a nun, but still, that was a long time in a very small area.
Among many of the people I went to high school with the “travelers” are the few who have been places other than LA or further south than Ciudad Chihuahua. Most of those were to see relatives. They are all bilingual due to where they have lived their lives but that doesn’t make them interested in seeing more of the world or learning other languages.
I took 4 years of Spanish in highschool because Ms. Noll, the Spanish teacher, was HAWT! She had long legs and wore high heels and put on outrageously red lipstick.
Most of my business dealings have been with Chinese people. They understand Spanish less than I do.
Grassy-ass.
My high school German teacher looked like what you’d think a high school German teacher looks like, not like this.
My first high school German teacher was a nice-looking blonde, FWIW.
And down in the People’s Republic of Jonhson County — Man arrested for allegedly driving vehicle into protesters in Iowa City
Fuck this world.
Stepanek told officers that the protesters needed “an attitude adjustment,” according to the criminal complaint.
I may have to contribute to his defense fund.
It’s nothing new, just the uniforms.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jhozx819izU
Of course the article could be leaving out key info, but it sounds like he left the scene, came back from another direction and deliberately ran into people. What an idiot.
The Charlottesville incident was way more ambiguous than this.
Agreed, he seemed like he wanted to deliberately hurt people. I can’t get behind that.
I’m all for protecting you and yours, but he was apparently doing neither.
Assault. No way around it.
I have a problem when these assholes gang up to “inconvenience” others, who were doing nothing wrong, by blocking streets and making them impassable. Just because someone in is an automobile doesn’t mean that they aren’t being held against their will. In fact, in some states, this is a form of kidnapping, as leaving your vehicle to ‘escape’ puts you in immediate danger.
Since I have no idea the exact situation with McScruff, the Felony Dog, I can’t condemn OR condone. But, all in all, I find these situations tend to require use of force to be able to continue about your business.
I think it qualifies as false imprisonment.
Yes–thank you (term escaped my mind…heh).
Charlottesville was basically: driver (in a rental, not his own) is being a jerk harrassing the crowd – crowd surrounds and he ratchets up the panic to 10 – then batman, and he’s up to 11 – so he floors it blindly – then he hits the car in front, which he couldn’t see because of the crowd – so now he’s at a panic of 1100 – throws it in reverse and plows backward through the crowd.
It’s fantastically obvious in the video. He was there to be as big a jerk as he could. The rest was panic.
A bedtime story for you.
https://westernrifleshooters.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/898b79697778bc19.png
I LOL’ed – noice!
Dude kinda looks like he likes small boys…
I do believe that renting a girlfriend, like everything else I used to do for fun, is currently illegal in my state.
Not if you are paying for their time. Everyone knows that loophole.
Listening to Dave Smith’s latest.
The LP is staffed with the dumbest motherfuckers in politics. I mean, it’s pretty dumb to believe in most of what Democrats want, but to pretend to offer an alternative while advertising yourselves as the Democrat adjunct party is breathtakingly stupid.
But if they signal hard enough maybe they can get people who will never vote for them to vote for them. How many tweets have they fired off condemning the riots and standing up for the people who’ve been arsoned into the poorhouse?
You’d think an endless lockdown with tremendous economic consequences would provide some fodder for defending what libertarians should most pride themselves in defending.
There isn’t much money to be made being the third wheel on the bicycle. LP will always be made up of weirdos and fringe folk. Hate the game.
Not normally an anime fan, but this is one looks promising.
https://i.imgur.com/Pa5VwIv.jpg
Just friends?
https://youtu.be/9aofoBrFNdg
That is a beautiful song.
Biz iz tha bomb!
All hail Captain Tuneup!
Even better
Huh. Yet another teacher. What a shock.
https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status/1298450558726975490?s=21
I wonder how many of these arrested people – especially in the 35 and over crowd – are going to wake up and realize that they are facing felony charges? Yeah, sure, some of those might get dropped but usually a felony charge isn’t erased so easily. They have Effed their lives over some silly kid antics. There are a lot of jobs where you can’t just explain that away – a felony makes you a second class citizen for life and the system doesn’t care what the “cause” was.
No Felonies=Bach ground check,
???
No gun for you
If they are released from custody with charges dropped, there is a VERY good chance nothing will show up in a background check, which is compiled from state records, for the most part.
I can tell you definitively that, in TX, there is no mechanism to compel courts to submit arrest/conviction documents to the state Criminal Records office. Police departments, even less so, since the county is usually the compiler for their jurisdiction.
I can’t speak for how Oregon does things, but, Yusef isn’t necessarily wrong.
I would hope that a dropped charge wouldn’t show up. Of course innocent until proven guilty is a tool of old white guys
Arrests are different than convictions, when it comes to criminal histories (as far as LE is concerned). Since there are numerous services that businesses and individuals can use for background checks–which would include some form of criminal history, if there is one–I can’t say what they have access to.
I can say that it is HIGHLY illegal for agencies to run someone for any sort of “check”, even a DL check, and provide it to a private individual. Especially for money. That hasn’t stopped many a TOP. COP. from doing so.
A background check is variable. Some are deep dives that have a good chance of catching arrests/charges, as well as convictions.
You typically have to do:@ state specific check. But its rare for someone to have an arrest/charges in a state they never were a resident in, so if you do a deep dive, your odds of finding one are good.
Of course, most background checks are pretty shallow.
I have a story from some training about 9 years ago, to get certified to instruct classes for NCIC and TCIC (Texas). Out instructor told us a funny/shocking story about him talking to a court clerk in east Texas about not submitting criminal court files to the state (numerous local agencies weren’t finding either arrests or convictions on their frequent fliers, even though they knew the fliers were doing the time). After asking about what penalties there were for not submitting the files, and, if the state was going to provide funding for more court personnel, she told this guy to “kindly go to hell”.
The morals being, the system is only as good as the people using it. And, no one is going to tell Texas judges what to do, when there’s no punishment listed in the books.
But, yeah–it usually better to check with each state that’s relevant. Hell, it’s better to do the leg-work, and check with the local LE agencies for any arrest paperwork.
For some employment situations (military, fed gov) even arrests create red flags which have to be explained. In these cases when the charge was violence related it would be difficult to talk your way out of the consequences. And nobody is going to let you slide by because the cause you were acting for was “woke”.
Corollary- if there’s a penalty (criminal, denial of a voluntary benefit) for failing to disclose an arrest to a government agency, even if it didn’t result in conviction, just assume they already have the facts in front of them. “It was all a long time ago, and besides it never happened” doesn’t usually work once caught.
Keeping in mind even the feds suck at this – recall the air force discharge guy whose domestic abuse charges weren’t recorded – who shot up the church.
Allow me to repeat:
Whether it’s criminal histories (called a QH in my line of work), or, NICS.
And that is exactly why we are creating a giant underclass of people who have nothing to lose and so are more than happy to burn the place down. You serve your time, it’s over. Add the BS drug felonies into the mix and it’s easy to see why the rioters seem to find plenty of recruits. This “Well, you’re a half citizen” stuff doesn’t make sense to me.
OK–now, I’m starting to wish that Mr. Looks-The-Pedophile had started up on Portland, instead of Iowa City.
Shit. Why didn’t the Iraqis figure out how to use improvised dumpster devices?
https://twitter.com/elijahschaffer/status/1298457857797558272?s=21
I’m thinking of making tank trucks with high pressure pumps and remote control nozzles.
I really want to speak up, but I won’t,
/proud idiot
Making Neville Chamberlain look like a no compromise hardass
https://twitter.com/multco/status/1298427062668034048?s=21
Too late, let it burn and quarantine the remains.. Oh and while we are at it. blow the bridges across the Colorado, just to be sure,
Missoula Flood II: Postdiluvian Aqualoo!
We need more active volcanoes in the PNW
Todd to be first in line.
At this point, why do they believe the protestors care what they have to say?
I assume it’s just signaling to the liberal populace really, than directed directly at the antifa rioters. I’m not proud to admit it here, but I’ve used the passive indirect method in emails cc’ing my actual audience.
I am enjoying the hell out of this story: https://www.theblaze.com/news/nj-gym-defied-governor-campaign-spot
Hi-larious!
I have no idea how that will work out. And, it’s not like they’re leading tons of people to freedom. In fact, I bet they have far more detractors and Karens tut-tutting them.
But, damn if it isn’t invigorating to see them try to screw with the wheels of power.
The commies are learning that Kenosha is not Portland.
At least one proto-commie has learned the same about Texas. And, that’s even in Austin!
No it isn’t. Suburban and rural Wisconsin has a lot of people that are proud of their communities.
What happened?
Multiple shootings, include one guy shot in the head.
Jeebus. That will turn some heads.
At least one.
Oooooooohhh. Right in the feels, man.
Back and to the left?
The great intellectual Talcum X
https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1298449333617135622?s=21
What an absolute piece of shit that guy is
He wants his name so he can write him a strongly worded letter, I’m sure.
He wouldn’t want a mob to threaten him or to track down his family or anything.
They just want justice. Who wouldn’t be pro-justice?
The bloodlust is strong these days. God help us.
He’s actually calling for a 21st Century lynching. The irony! It Burns!
So, when is violence against an oppressive state justified? I’m gonna always tilt away from using violence because the dogs of war will end up biting me in the ass, too.
What triggered this question was the movie The Watchmen. The animated cartoon that is spliced in throughout the movie was one of the greatest depictions of “be careful fighting monsters” I’ve seen out of Hollywood.
I ask myself this, too. With the understanding that “justified” /= “prudent”. But, with all that math done, the US was conceived with the idea that government serves the people, and that those in the government should have an underlying awe/fear of what the populace can do to their authority.
It’s a legit question. I see a lot of conservatives and libertarians objecting to the violence in the streets. Is it simply the violence or is it that the violence is being directed against normal people? If the rioters see the system as unjust, then the non oppressed are feeding the system. I disagree with that assessment. It’s gotta be about the degree of oppression and not simply about property rights. No libertarian is going to defend the property rights of the In Class in North Korea. Somewhere on the oppression spectrum all countries exist on, there comes a point where property rights cease being legit if the property is ill gotten.
Well, a lot us “us” would boogaloo over 2A infringements (OK, be alright with such), if agents started coming for firearms. So, the idea of injustice that you can’t fight by what is termed ‘legitimate’ is somewhat worthy of empathy.
That said, in the case of the leftist, they don’t want to be left alone; they want power and goodies they can’t currently have, and not having this leads to these deadly tantrums. This is in contrast with us wanting to be left alone. And, with the understanding that many have been saying that police/government reform is necessary, for a long time. The kicker being, many of these current rioters kept voting for the same people that grew the government they say they despise.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0a/a7/e9/0aa7e95bb2f500c3dbeee0e6b7c8c2b9.jpg
And that is why I’m one of the most reluctant Ancaps you’ll meet: The very idea of govt creates the soil for oppression , cronyism and corruption to grow. I’m reluctant because I’d take the night watchman state because it would allow my family, my grandkids and maybe even their grandchildren to live mostly free. It will inevitably self destruct, though. It’s a Gordian knot I’ve yet to see successfully untangled.
Oh, and the way we the people ate the shit sandwich govt gave us under the guise of protecting us from a virus doesn’t give me much hope on the final straw theory.
You and I appear to be in the same airplane isle, if not sharing the same seat.
I suppose you can sit in my lap, young man…
The problem is that you are going to get some kind of ruler one way or the other.
Of course–humans suck.
Present company
includedexcludedNot many violent revolutions turn out as well as the USA’s did.
In fact, I can’t think of any revolutions based on popular envy of the material wealth of others that didn’t result in horrific bloodletting and revenge crimes, and then to a broken society.
True. People want their pound of flesh without realizing that demanding that doomed Shylock. (((No offense))).
Shooting begins in Kenosha
Unfortunately open season on hippies doesn’t start until November.
Uhh–Wabbit Season, TYVM!
Duck season.
?
Damn.
Watched a crappy livestream. Looks like the shooter was being chased just before it happened.
That seems to be the case, yeah.
Guy who was shot in the head appears to be the sawed-off dickhead with the shaved head who was being really aggressive in earlier videos screaming “Shoot me!” Well…..not surprising if it turns out he was enough of an idiot to chase a man with a rifle.
What’s the limit and how much for a license?
You wanna plan a trip? Meet up with CPRM and rent a
deerantifa stand…drink some beer?Sounds good. Will the airline let me check my shotgun?
Absolutely!*
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/transporting-firearms-and-ammunition
*does not apply in NY, NJ, and certain other jurisdictions
Eh, just FedEx to him/the hotel ahead of the flight.
Ha ha ha. Yeah, ..ah, no.
Don’t try this at home kids.
Ugh, fine….UPS, then.
😉
I have an Aunt and Uncle, plus a plethora of cousins in Kenosha. I doubt they’re caught up in this crap but, I should probably check in on them soon. Then again, a near instant update would require me to start a new FB account…yeah, not happening. If they fall prey to the uproar, I’ll get a text by tomorrow morning in all likelihood.
Stay strapped, Brandon, Becky, and Kyle!
That’s the fucked up thing: the only way to try and not get caught up in mob violence is to stay home and they are hell bent on taking away even that option.
Goddamn, stupid fucking weekly log out! Misplaced this response due to unfortunate timing.
*frustrated sigh*
Fuck it, nevermind. I have no patience for this glitchy shit right now.
Mark Steyn with a timely comment tonight talking about elected and unelected government officials thwarting the American people’s right to exercise their sovereignty through voting:
We could probably fill the site up with content for years to come dissecting the hows and whys of getting to this point. But, yes–very concise wisdom.
I fear that also includes a number of BLM supporters.
That occurred to me as well. Not a phrase I want to see “memes” because it will be interpreted as instruction rather than as a warning.
If you’re up for some nuanced, but, fairly uplifting protester comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7f9TESoPJQ
Pass. I gave the sound of train tracks on my headphones; youtube will wait.
I should point out that these are people protesting in NYC for Free HK.
It’s not a peaceful protest if nothing is burning.
The Japanese maid cosplay outfits are getting weirder
https://www.amazon.co.jp/【globalzakka】-ミリタリー-サバゲー-チェストリグ-グリーン/dp/B00WFYBGQG/
From the YouTube randomizer
https://youtu.be/tKZzgeqJb0Y
Notice positive test. Not Symptomatic cases or deaths. Among the healthiest demographic in the country.
Guess what the positive rate would be if they didn’t test for it? Zero.
What a bunch of Nancys we’ve become.
Cuz those tests are all sooper accurate. ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgV9WGzOFUg
Come on, man!
Good morning Glibs.
How’s everyone doing? I think I’m going to manage to reach vacation without losing it.
After having to return to work, however… I’m not so sure about then.
Good morning UCS.
Did you mention your vacation plans?
I’m going to visit my mother for a day.
Then I’m going to play Crusader Kings 3.
Everything old is new again.
I remember playing Castles 2 back in the early 90s.
Enjoy your time off.
I need to burn leave to avoid losing it, so a video game release was as good an excuse as any.
I still hope to be able to use my vacation to go somewhere but it is looking unlikely
Sorry to hear that. I hope you find a way to travel somewhere pleasant, even if it isn’t far from home.
Good morning, UCS et al.
Things at my office were less tumultuous yesterday than they’d been Monday, so I’m hoping for more of the same today. I may even start to make a dent in the stack of returned mail. Got a text from my recuperating-at-home boss, but not work-related. He wanted to be sure I’d heard about the (unlikely to succeed) impeachment articles brought against our not-so-esteemed governor. He knows how I feel about DeWine, and he somewhat concurs, though he doesn’t feel as strongly as I do. He had to get a COVID test before his tonsillectomy and did NOT enjoy the process.
I also have two new pairs of shoes scheduled to be delivered today. For some reason, it’s only been in the last few years that my shoe-shopping gene has kicked into high gear.
Morning, GT.
Why are my eyes asleep when the rest of me is wide awake?
Well, they say the eyes are the windows to the soul, so…your soul needs sleep even if your brain and body are awake?
In other words, I got nuthin’. Except to wonder if perhaps you have any seasonal allergies that might be irritating your eyes.
I don’t have seasonal allergies.
A few doses of caffiene have started to correct the issue.
You know where I live, you are always welcome. Motel FS is empty most of the time, light is on.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/no-shock-shocktoberfest-will-be-different-because-of-pandemic/article_39069518-e73f-11ea-af2b-73a6c4b8049a.html
Walk the hayride trail? *faints*
Roll, roll, roll in ze hay!
Kenosha ain’t Portland.
https://mobile.twitter.com/livesmattershow/status/1298478972964044801
Rooftop defenders making a fashionable comeback.
Isn’t a fist-sized or larger rock thrown with that kind of force potentially deadly? Rifleman has a lot of restraint.
And the kids throw rocks at them. Clearly products of today’s US public schools.
It’s irredeemably stupid isn’t it? I learned not to throw rocks at people with guns way back before kindergarten.
There’s not much consideration for self-preservation being shown.
They’ve been watching the Intifada.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1298501182382473216
Fuck around and find out.
Quick, give that guy a band-aid.
I think he’s going to need a stitch or two.
He’s going to be in prison too, he was swooping in for a kill with a pistol in his hand.
Is that what he was trying to do? Jesus, malevolent and incompetent is no way to go thru life.
It’s further down in the thread, he’s busted dead to rights unless photoshopped.
That is probably gonna leave a mark.
“Mob order lone woman to “put your fist up” outside restaurant in Columbia Heights”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCOx9tREWc
A strangely disturbing video with zero violence. Mao would be proud.
Columbia Heights is adjacent to the MPLS suburb i lived in before the move to California.
Columbia Heights has become an Islamic enclave, including all that implies (not just a religion in a mosque but a desire to change the law and the culture), and it was starting to spread to my neighborhood (thinks of former neighbor’s vanity plates “1UMMAH”).
When I left, the Somalians were starting to clash with Eritreans, North Sudanese, and “Syrian refugees”.
The women walking down the street were best described as piles of laundry. Total coverage.
Somalians and Eritreans being clannish? Gotta be fake news.
Good grief I am slow. I worked for two hours this morning on my submission and I have 4 paragraphs. I was basically reworking. my 6th draft and amazed myself at how much clutter I was able to take out and still make the ideas clear. I also have a better idea now where I want it to go and how to get there.
Looking forward to reading it. Any teasers without spoilers? General topic?
At that rate, it clearly must be a treatise on talking to trees.
“You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.”
Something like that. I whir out a page or two and think I have hit it out of the park, then I go back a day or two later and read over it and it is facepalm time. So I rework it. And again. And again…two days to a week apart.
I just condensed two pages to four paragraphs mostly by cutting out all the parts where I wandered off into the weeds. I get lost in the weeds too much.
Heh. I can barely manage a long comment without rewrites and editing.
Why are we still at war in the ME? We whipped organized industrial nations in short order in wwII. Why are we still in the ME after 18 years?
I ask and ask and get no answers, then I had an epiphany and figured it out myself. That is one subject it addresses. I have probably discussed most of it at one time or other here in the comments but I want everyone’s take on it.
Goddammit. The dog sleeping under my feet just farted.
For that reason among many, I hope you’re not a smoker.
We’re there because it’s profitable for DC and it’s cronies.
I tried to dive deeper than that.
If the enemy is willing to accept defeat, the war can be over quickly.
If the enemy sees the war as an unending conflict that started long before you think it did, they’re just going to keep fighting past all reason. Especially if they have no central authority to issue a surrender or negotiate a treaty.
The western tradition of honorable warfare is a farce, especially when fighting people who don’t subscribe to it.
See the evolution of battle style in WWI. See the French Indian war. As the fighting progresses both sides less honorable and more savage.
Von Clausewitz haz a sad…
Shit got real in Kenosha last night. Holy Moly.
At some point the commie cockroaches are going to start arming themselves more heavily. That is what I fear.
Yup. At this point, it’s on. And that ain’t good for anyone.
Be safe out there folks.
I really dont expect it to come here but then neither did the folks in Kenosha.
It was bound to happen eventually and now it is happening. The governor or Trump or somebody needs to send in the troops or there’s going to be a bloodbath.
I dont know how old you are but back in Cold War days we had the USSR to contrast ourselves to. We had pinko shit-stirrers but the country was overwhelmingly against communism. As a kid I heard it once if I heard it a thousand times…
“It can never happen here”
https://mobile.twitter.com/ShelbyTalcott/status/1298473810744750082
There’s a lot of hardware on display. It should have never escalated to this stage.
This is how you mismanage your city/state. Who runs Wisconsin again? Democrats.
Who could have seen that coming?
There have always been closet commies in the dem party at all levels but the effects of their rule is most prevalent at the municipal level.
I think it is a good thing that they are out of the closet now. What I am seeing in those cities is nothing short of a full communist insurrection.
I think, I hope that Trump is waiting until after the election. If he wins, and I think he will, then I am hoping the hammer will come down.
I am not talking about the useful idiots, I am talking about the people who organized, financed and executed this. Charge them with treason and toss them in prison. Their trials will no doubt flush out the rest of the rats.
Hold the trials on live TV like the OJ trial and keep everything strictly on the up and up. Let everyone see who these shitstains are. I would love to see the Pelosi/schumer/crowd behind the defendant’s table. I dont think they are the tippy-top of the pyramid and I would love to find out who is.
I’ve read two people died in Kenosha last night.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2020/08/26/breaking-two-dead-in-multiple-overnight-shootings-amid-kenosha-antifa-and-blm-riots-n845402
Sorry can’t do html.
I could see this coming and an extremely pissed it got to this stage.
Were they riotors or bystanders?
Rioters. Whom are now declaring that war is on. This wont go well for them.
After the shooting: “Antifa and BLM comrades tended to the man who had been shot, yelling, “Call the police, call the police!”
Were I the police I would not have responded.
3000 people have volunteered to fend off the rioters and they are all armed and experienced with arms.
— 3000 people have volunteered to fend off the rioters and they are all armed and experienced with arms.–
This is what happens when the government isn’t doing the one thing it is probably supposed to.
Mornin’ Morngsides! A little levity to start your day – I was carrying the the trash to the dumpster at work this morning when I glanced up and noticed the lid was open. *Hmm, something ain’t right…* Just then a little bear cub came wandering around the side. I dropped the bags and hurried to the truck, started it up and drove it toward the bin at a good clip, honking the horn and flashing the high beams. Mother Bear jumps out of the bin with a bag in her jaws, drops it and starts to run away. Unfortunately, her two cubs decided to climb trees so she wouldn’t leave. I back off and park around the corner and that overgrown raccoon went back to the garbage so I do it again. This time she runs away with cubs in tow but still won’t leave so I repeat the exercise but now I approach more stealthily… Sure enough, a third cub has been cowering in the shrubbery the whole time! He runs off to join Momma and that’s when I really laid into the horn and light show! Had to get some heavy duty tie-wraps to secure the dumpster and plead for management to buy a lock. You guys have rioters, we have fucking asshole bears.
Overgrown rats
I have one that comes around and steals all of my figs every year. Somehow it always knows exactly what morning they will be ripe and the night before they disappear.
Have you thought about building a bunker around the trees and making an armored greenhouse?
Nah…it’s just a fig tree. I grow it for my amusement. It is hard enough for wild critters to find enough to eat and the tree makes more than I can eat. I will buy a couple of pounds of figs if I just cant live without them.
Besides, building the bunker would probably kill the tree.
They like apples, too. No problem this year with the bees, electric fence is working as GE intended it to. My neighbors are having the bird feeder/garbage can problem.
I have a fox that comes every night to sort through the garbage pile but there is not much left after the Fourscores clean up their plates. Foxes like melon rinds, skim those things down to the skin.
I don’t blame them. They’re just trying to make a living, just like everybody else but they can be dangerous and since everyone up here seems to have quit hunting there are far too many around. Too many bears = too few moose.
Most of ours are Blackies but we have the occasional Grizzly. Girl got mauled on a trail this spring and a couple of years ago another girl had to climb a tree to escape on the same path that Wifey walks the doge. Fuck bear! Bear is Asshoe!
https://mobile.twitter.com/badluck_jones/status/1296226202185859074
OMFG. That’s hilarious. Kitteh involved.