Weekend is over, finally I can get back to work. But noooooooo. Sloopy is doing whatever…the Hell does Sloopy do anyways?
Fans seem to hate these players virtue signaling. I can’t help but assume they’ll keep watching because their lives are that fucking empty. What are they going to do, take up amateur locksmithing with the spare time? Start an OnlyFans?
Nah, they’ll keep watching like the cucks they are… You probably will to… its cool… there’s no judgement here… I understand.
They scrubbed them, like with a sponge?
Nipples are moer fitting. But those dumb shits will still find a way to spill.
Homosexual Econ Man links to a excellent video explaining his newest fetish: Swedes.
Thats it, I’m burning all my yoga pants.
Even I think this is in poor taste. Plus the blonde is clearly a boy.
Finally! Professor Cocksucker tries to gotcha the president.
Yeah man. BLS pretty clearly says they are releasing it on Nov. 6…the first Friday of the month. He since deleted this twat.
mornin’
Over fifteen minutes earlier than other lynx.
I see.
Winston’s mom has likely been ‘working’ all night.
Cocaine is a helluva drug.
Needed when you have a night of debauchery planned, though?
Required. Unless meth is available.
Everything’s premature when Winston’s mom takes care of it.
She knows how to maximize her productivity!
?
Turn-over is the key to profit.
Wut?
Look, no one is really clear on what the first or last day of the week is.
Whichever day is identified as 0 in the database system is the first day of the week. The last day of the week is identified with a 6.
Simple.
My calendar says we have 10 days in a week… must be one of those ghey metric problems!
Extended Labor Day weekend. Lady has been busy, Sean!
“work”
Mornin’
ATHLETIC APPAREL COMPANY LULULEMON SPONSORS “DECOLONIZING GENDER,” “RESIST CAPITALISM” WORKSHOP
While event aims to bash ‘capitalism,’ it’s asking attendees to pay to participate in the event
Nothing new under the sun. In the early 70’s I somehow found myself at a Yippie meeting where one of the main topics was fund raising. By selling buttons and other assorted counterculture swag. To fight evil capitalism.
Actively promoting ideas that’ll lead to you being shot and dumped in a ditch isn’t a particularly bright idea.
Telling your customers not to buy your products is a weird strategy but I think we should all listen.
This is highly irregular. I don’t like change.
Turn and face the strange.
Strange is a big no-no in the new normal.
We now have video of Rebel Scum.
I get that all the time when they ask for pegging.
Mornin’ neighbor
Shoot it.
Polar bears actively hunt humans.
Just dont eat the liver, unless you want Vitamin A poisoning.
Just get the lead out. The wrinkles will iron out, I’m sure.
He just wants to see what caliber you’ll be using.
Here.
Ouch.
Um…you have a high caliber firearm, I hope.
I’m not sure there’s anyone in the world who’s fallen as much in my estimation as Krugman. When I was in grad school in the late 90s we had to read a fair amount of his econ work–clever, well-written, accessible despite being mathematically based. But man, he’s traded all that in for his non-stop crap. I guess the NYT pays better.
They don’t call it “selling out” for nothing!
Sellout, bought it. Whatever.
The NFL followed through on going full woketard.
The Houston Texans could not decide, as a team, how to handle the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner and the “Black National Anthem.” Therefore, they decided as a team to remain in the locker room. The Chiefs, however, elected to stay and stood arm-in-arm during the playing of both songs.
The NFL highlighted social justice themes throughout the NBC pregame show. A show which featured several social justice themed songs by Alicia Keyes.
The NFL also unveiled its social justice messaging in the end zones. On the white line at the back of the end zones, were written: ‘End Racism” and “It Takes All Of Us.”
I’m so-so with geography but I am unaware of a country called “Black”.
The “Black National Anthem”???
I guess that implies there’s a “White National Anthem”
*Dons social justice logic cap*
The US National Anthem is an anthem for white people, who are all racist.
If it wasn’t Baby Got Back I’m going to be disappointed.
Toby Keith, Made in America.
The Duke of Hazard theme song?
White National Anthem
No love for Lou Reed?
It’s right there in Plessy vs. Ferguson. Separate but Equal. Don’t you even post-bellum your jurisprudence?
There’s a gay one.
DeeLite was robbed.
Maybe they are using the European definition of a nation. It worked out so well in Yugoslavia.
Could be they’re referring to Sudan. Sudan’s full name–“Bilad al-Sudan”–means land of the blacks.
Nubians are the darkest complexioned people on earth, so it’s not an inaccurate name.
What’s a Nubian? 😉
I just told you.
And they happen to live in the Sudan.
$20, same as downtown.
What’s a Nubian?
dammit
Nelson laugh
Some of the Nubians are nubile
Jungle fever happens, yo.
I don’t watch pre-game shows or any half-time stuff – so it was refreshingly easy to avoid the wokeness last night. I didn’t notice the end zones either. The main danger was that chick on the sidelines constantly launching into SJW crap.
To be fair, I was flipping back and forth to tennis.
I heard that Serena lost which makes me happy. The other colored girl won which I could give two shits about. Gee, I wonder why the CBC that has been ignoring sports for months would have this story as a banner headline?
Me too. At the very least I won’t go deaf listening to her shrieking and hollering.
The funny thing about Osaka – born in Japan to a Japanese woman and Haitian dude, IIRC – used to pointedly refuse to be pigeonholed by the media. Not any more. It’s sad watching someone get less mature with age.
She probably hired a PR firm as she started winning more.
She’s 22. Think back a bit.
Mahomes said “ ‘We are not going to let football distract us from making a change in the world.’”
Uh, the distraction of football, you mean? That peculiar institution that made you a multimillionaire—you don’t want it to “distract” from SJW bullshit?
I got news for you, Mahomie: we aren’t watching you so that you can “speak out” and make a difference; We are watching you because you are good at football.
Watching trained monkeys run about is nearly as satisfying as a belly full of bread. Bonus points if you get to both at the same time.
Hey buddy, without football nobody would give a shit about you, much less about what you think. You might want to protect the thing that gets you the money and attention you so desperately crave.
Watching trained monkeys run about is nearly as satisfying as a belly full of bread. Bonus points if you get to both at the same time. And it’s free!
Niger
and here is the anthem. Pretty standard anthem fair, not sure why they play it at NFL games now, but I have no hostility to Niger so it’s all good.
Self Pedant. oddly, neither Niger nor Nigeria is actually derived from the word Negro, or any of its more offensive derivitives. It comes from a native name for the Niger river, gher n-gheren. But I’d step on your jokes, so I have to step on mine.
No worries, just amplifies the stupid. That’s what we live for on this site, neh?
Hey Winston’s mom, what happened to your son?
“Ma Ma Where’s My Pa?”
“Gone to the White House, ha, ha, ha!”
*touches side of nose and winks*
That Bruchettaworm guy…with the Patrick Bateman axeman pic explained it last time. Winston’s been working, and has less time.
Hey! That asshole wasn’t first!
What are they going to do, take up amateur locksmithing with the spare time? Start an OnlyFans?
I already moonlight as a – actually forget I said anything.
I suppose I’ll read more. Mostly history oriented books, of which I have a growing collection that sit unread.
Here’s one I just added to my list.
America’s Rueing Class, that’s where I’m at.
Was there a football game last night?
I was too busy kneeling and saying a hundred Hail Kente’s too notice. Plus my internet went out.
“to” Fuck my life.
honestly it was worth it just for the Andy Reid fogged up face shield.
That was a marvel wasn’t it – half fogged up all game.
Ah, an InfoWars link. Now I can feel less self-conscious about my linking to ZeroHedge.
At this point, InfoWars has higher journalistic integrety than most media outlets.
I actually like Jones but only in small doses.
He’s an entertainer. much like the scrawny guy at the Biker Bar that talks big, gets his ass handed to him but always comes back for more. The one dude that I knew that was like that always said “Sure, they’ll eat dinner but I’m gonna get a sandwich!” Dude had a Homer skull. I never tangled with him but his little brother was the same. Hell of a pool player.
The craziest conspiracy theories all come from the mainstream media these days – covid-19 is dangerous to me and my family, the lockdowns and masks are just to prevent the spread, BLM riots are peaceful spontaneous protests against police violence, Russia got Trump elected, Hollywood and the left aren’t trying to normalize pedophilia, chloroquine doesn’t work against the covid, the government wants to help me, and I’m a racist.
Local headline:
Not even going to bother with the article or link to it.
It’s amazing how happy being lied to makes some people.
It’s the basis of quite a lot of cons, advertising, and sales.
It can’t be a lie if it is what I want to hear.
That last one is the deal breaker. Anyone that knows me even periphally knows that it isn’t true. I make jokes but I’ll never take the knee. Not for any cause. Fuck you. Shoot me!
I need a vacation
#metoo
The Starbucks lid thing is good. It will save me having to ask for one of those lids each time. Straws are, and always have been, bullshit.
“50% reduction in waste sent to landfills”
I’ve already solved that problem
100%!
By throwing it into the ditch?
Their espresso is adequate – quad-shot iced americano is my go-to when I need coffee on the go
Preach. I can’t stand straws.
Bah. I hate the things. I want a fucking lid so my water doesn’t spill, not a infant sippy cup.
Over two dozen phones belonging to members of Robert Mueller’s special counsel team were wiped clean before they were handed over to the Inspector General, according to information contained in 87 pages of DOJ records released on Thursday. …
Andrew Weismann wiped two of his three Special Counsel’s Office phones.
He wiped one by accident.
He wiped the other by entering the wrong password too many times.
People seriously need to start going to jail.
In case you’re keeping score:
Lois Lerner destroys hard drives – not obstruction of justice.
HRC maintains an illegal server and wipes it – not obstruction of justice.
Wesmann wipes 24 phones before turning them in – not obstruction of justice.
Trump asks why he’s still being investigated for collusion if the investigator has already determined there was no collusion – obstruction of justice.
It’s called bipartisanship: team blue always gets its way…
I guess that implies there’s a “White National Anthem”
I want it to be this.
Puttin’ on the Ritz would be nice, too.
If federal investigators were found to have burned all their files related to a case, they’d get medals, right?
If the files related to an Obama SoS being investigated on corruption charges, yes.
If they related to whether Trump drank a diet Pepsi one time when he claimed under oath that he always drinks diet Coke, no.
Lots of the content on IMDB FAQ pages is (or at least used to be) user generated, so I’ll take that ‘Parental Warning’ with a grain of kosher salt.
That wasn’t as… enlightening… as I had hoped.
Good morning darling. ?Heard you were under the weather, how have you been?
Now he’s under the weather with a raging hard on due to your misleading headline.
I’m doin’ great, sweetie. Thanks for thinkin’ of me ?
Thats it, I’m burning all my yoga pants.
No sense in destroying what you’ve already paid for.
Multibillion dollar Canadian athletic apparel company Lululemon promoted an upcoming social justice workshop which aims to “decolonize gender” and “resist capitalism.”
Do they not ‘get’ business?
I think they get it fine–a lot of their customers are into this, and it provides free advertising all across the internet. I’ve seen this mentioned on multiple sites. Doesn’t mean the company executives believe any of it.
“Decolonize Gender”
What continent is this “Gender” on, and is there an active guerrilla movement to fight for their freedom?
I would tell you, but I never studied feminist geography.
“feminist geographers argue that misrepresentations of gender roles and taken-for-granted feminist movements reveal that the challenges of the colonial present lie within the confinement of women to limited spatial opportunities”
Oh, okay.
What an enormous steaming pile of horseshit.
I swear that I suspect people that peddle this shit are simply trying to see how much idiocy it will take before normals snap and say the shit has gone too far. Except, anyone that does gets railroaded.
I like studying female anatomy better
https://youtu.be/QyG0G96UB6k
Are you Captain Ron?
They seem to have familiar uniforms.
So are they saying the trans people with cocks pretending to be women need to go?
I think they mean decolonize, like how you decolonize bacteria in your gut with antibiotics.
Hiden Biden is going to leave his burrow to pay homage to the heroic victims of some plane wreck. I hope he sees his shadow.
If he sees his shadow, is that 6 more weeks of stripper baby mommas or Chinese investment firm board seats?
Nope. Right back into the hidey-hole, just like Iraq’s Supreme Leader.
Good morning, Winton’s Mom!
Might I say you are looking as lovely as always. The morning light suits you.
But these lynx are atrocious. It’s almost as if, as a planet, we’ve gone batshit insane.
Breitbart, ZeroHedge and InfoWars may play a small part…
Except Homosexual Econ Man. He’s awesome.
No pro sports for me. For the first time in my life, I have no clue what’s happening in the NHL. Instead, I’ve accomplished a ton of stuff around the house, read a bunch and spent time with my people.
The leagues won’t miss me, but I’m saving a lot of money. So thanks, wokesters!
My musical selection yesterday was pretty negative, so how about something a little more positive?
Happy Friday, my friends!
Yep, I’m just not really interested in engaging with culture at large, right now. I’d rather focus on family and local community than the diseased corpse that is American culture.
I’ve still got one eye on the Islanders. Probably not for much longer.
I don’t dig on most of your music but you are are good egg, Tundra. Hope you have a happy one!
Another week (and 2 days) and the Honey Harvest Moon will be shining brightly on us. Looking forward to seeing all the available Glibs and breaking bread. Football, smootball, who cares?
We’ll have a good time then.
My hockey team is out, I’m boycotting football due to woke retardation and the fact that they will not finish the season once the first few players come in COVID positive.
I’m following F1, which I got into after watching the Netflix series. There is a minimal nod to wokeness with their #weraceasone but the commentary sticks to the racing. And while it’s boring watching Mercedes cruise to victory every week (except last week), the smaller battles are entertaining.
If anybody’s interested, my new book is out, and is on sale today and this weekend on Amazon. It’s called Roll dem Bones. Thanks to those who bought the last one, and as ever, to Mojeaux, for helping convince me to go the self-publishing route, after beating my head for years against the wall of traditional publishing.
So, what’s it about?
it’s a YA horror about a kid who moves to a new town where the bullies pick on him, the teachers hate him, and things in the wall talk to him at night.
So, nonfiction then.
Autobiography.
Done.
Congrats on the release! I hope those reviews aren’t from your three closest friends! 😉
Thank you sir! I only had two reviews last time I checked, so already things are happening…
Your wish was the edit faerie’s command!
Kidding aside, Well Done!
Congrats.
Does it feature a hatchet faced singer with a helium voice trying to rap?
Yay! I’m so happy you made the plunge. I didn’t understand how much I cherished control of my work until someone asked me to contribute to an anthology and I didn’t have any control of that piece for two years. It made me batshit insane.
Oh, BTW, just bought it.
Well fuck. I guess I’ll never buy another Ford product again (like I would).
Ford’s crappy duratec motor ruined my ’03 Mazda. Ford blows.
Ya know, I’m tired of having my nose rubbed into the pee spot by these grievance monkeys. Enough is enough. I’m an older fellow and these assholes can just go fuck themselves. I want to live out the rest of my waning days without drama and probably die from something other than Covid-19. Is that too much to ask?
Obviously
So let’s summarize
Ram 3500 – shorted alternator yesterday
Silverado – shorted alternator last month and nobody told me
F350 – leaking head gasket
F350 – not done with engine rebuild, needs tires and inspection
Silverado – transmission died this week
I’m going to lose all my hair before this is over.
Ah, so that’s what they meant by the ‘Big 3’.
Sorry, dude.
Yikes!
Sorry to hear. I’ve had a few vehicles that made me scratch a new bald spot in my head but it was electrical issues. That leaking head gasket is a hell of a job but I mourn for you regarding the Tranny. Godspeed, Friend.
The other kind of Mexican Coke, morning music.
Flop. Sweat.
And the little douchebag looks like he is about 15.
Seriously, they gotta be trying to throw this one.
“Has Joe Biden ever used a teleprompter during a TV interview?”
Geez, this should be a lay-up. How about, “Like nearly all politicians, Joe Biden makes occasional use of assistance with remembering talking points.” There, situation defused.
Except Biden is using a teleprompter for interviews and press conferences. No one else has done that, not does Trump do that. He’s clearly reading his answers off of the prompter.
I just tune that shit out. I dunno how anyone can sit there and listen to that.
I swear, the Dems have a factory somewhere where they churn out smug, prissy 26 year old assholes like this to work on their campaigns. All of these guys are indistinguishable from one another.
It’s called college.
Depends on the college experience, I think. I’m not joking when I say that my fraternity brothers helped make me a man. I was clueless about how to talk to chicks, hold my liquor, and generally not be a little bitch. Those dudes straightened me out and a lot of them are still my friends today.
Wish I’d have went to your college
I can see that. It’s probably not a coincidence that fraternities are being systematically banned or essentially neutered across colleges.
*applause*
A good friend of mine from high school got into politics big time. He’s a great guy, but he was a prissy sort of guy and all his college buddies who were also into politics were prissy sorts of guys.
I think a lot of them got into politics because they wanted to be able to use the State to give them power that they never had personally. No more wedgies for them.
When I got out of the Marines, I was living in the same town as my buddy (and he was president of his college SGA). He would invite me over to various parties the political junkies put on. I loved those parties because usually they had pretty good booze and because I’ve never had and easier time getting laid at a party. I was like catnip to the gals that went to those parties.
They were looking for real men despite demanding guys neuter themselves? And I bet all the neutered betas resented you getting the poon they worked so hard to impress with their wokeness…
What is funny is that another factor in making me so hot to them was that I wasn’t going to school at the time. I was working as a stereo repairman making some more money so I could go to school the next year.
All those young ladies were sure that banging me would really piss off their daddies who were paying for them to go to a fancy private college.
“Expert on Amazon tribes is shot dead with an arrow by indigenous people while approaching them in remote area of Brazil”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8721697/Expert-Amazon-tribes-shot-dead-arrow-indigenous-people.html
That’s good eatin’.
Looks like they turned him into haggis.
I believe that’s how indigenous people say fuck off asshole
You are on to something there…
He should have thought twice before heading up Copperhead Road
Sounds like a real expert.
This has happened more times than I can count. Give that man a Darwin Award.
Not expert enough to realize they were hostile to outsiders.
Welcome to the natural state of man.
“Rhode Island University professor defends Antifa gunman who killed a Trump supporter by saying ‘there’s nothing wrong with it from a moral perspective because he was fascist'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8721235/University-professor-says-wrong-moral-perspective-Antifa-killing-fascist.html
CWAA
I’m not a violent person, but should that guy get beaten with a crowbar, I’d probably laugh uncontrollably.
If you arent a flaming communist you are a fascist. These people want power, should they get it is there any doubt what they plan to do with it?
😀 I like the thought, maybe we could alternate flaming commies with flying commies?
Hard times
It’s important for academics to acknowledge the impact the pandemic is having on their mental health instead of carrying on thinking that their problems are minor and that they should be coping, Dickerson says. “We have a real tendency to put on this shiny veneer,” she says. “Unless you’ve lost a loved one, or you’ve lost your job … it’s very easy to discount what you’re experiencing because you know others have had it worse.” As a first step, she recommends giving yourself some slack if you’re not maintaining the level of productivity you’d normally expect for yourself. Otherwise, you risk going down a further spiral thinking that “you’re not cut out for this,” she says.
Many institutions are offering mental health services remotely during the pandemic, and Dickerson and Harris both recommend tapping into those resources if they’re available. But they also acknowledge that not everyone has access to those resources—or the inclination to reach out for help. Harris, for example, says she “stalled on getting help for my mental illness early on” because she thought her struggles were just part of life as a Ph.D. student. Now, with a pandemic layered on top of the normal stresses of graduate school, it’s even more important for students to realize there’s nothing wrong with seeking help. “It’s OK not to be OK,” she says. “You’re not a bad person if you’re struggling; you’re not a bad grad student.”
Students who are members of underrepresented groups, including people of color or those who come from lower income backgrounds, are especially at risk of declining to seek help, says Diane Gooding, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin, where she served on a university-wide task force in 2019 charged with improving the mental health resources available to students. “There’s a lot of prejudices and stigma associated with not only mental illness, but with mental illness treatment,” she says. On top of that, students who already suffer from feelings of marginalization may be even more hesitant to seek help. “There’s expectations about what is normative, and certainly seeking mental health assistance would not be considered [normative].” Gooding believes that it’s essential for the academic community to “destigmatize mental health challenges—to encourage people to recognize symptoms and problems before they escalate.”
Guess who, hardest hit. Structural racism strikes again.
It’s not like they’re too busy working and studying or anything.
if the colleges and public education go tits up this might all be worth it.
We are currently in what story tellers call ‘the darkest hour’, the part where it seems the good guys are down and the bad guys are going to win. I hope that we get the part where the good guys get back on their feet and triumph in the end.
Russia’s darkest hour lasted more than 70 years, and the good guys still haven’t won.
Who do you suppose the good guys are in Russian history/culture?
Pavel Datsyuk?
Igor Larionovs daughters.
Thanks for proving my point!
Irina Shayk
I linked to the Ivor Cummins link yesterday.
and you want a cookie?
Sorry, I didn’t get any fortune cookies.
Sounds good. Or a tip of the hat.
Very disappointed I missed the flying thread yesterday. To anyone who thinks they want to learn to fly: Do it now, if you can afford it. The longer you wait, the less time you have to fly, and the more likely you’ll run into some medical issue that prevents you from doing it.
I learned to fly when I was in my late 30s, and I had wanted to do so since my early 20s. I wish I had done it then, but it is what it is. I’m so glad I did it. I’m building my own airplane while flying a Mooney I bought, and the possibilities it has opened up are very broad. Weekend trips that nebver would make sense to drive are easy now. It takes far less time to visit my far flung family and friends.
To HM, who I think expressed interest in a Sport Pilot’s license: I’d say just go for the PPL, it isn’t all that much more expensive and if you want to fly an aircraft with a meaningful useful load, you’ll need it anyway. Plus, if you decide to travel with it, you’ll pretty much need an instrument rating.
What are you building?
RV-10. Should out perform the Mooney (speed wise, maybe get there in fuel efficiency) and carry a bit more useful load. The gross weight is a little lower, but I should be able to build it with a lighter empty weight.
Very cool!
If you feel so inclined, post some pics. The process is amazing.
Nice. My dad and I are finishing up a Zenith 750. It’s for going up and looking at the ground, almost helicopter-like view.
I know a guy who is pretty far along in a 750 build. Looking forward to scamming a ride in it someday. I have definitely considered one as a second build. I love the idea of backcountry flying and the 750 looks like it could be a good one.
I have a question – does anyone actually use the packets of “duck sauce” that show up in chinese takeout orders?
I like them on egg rolls
^^this^^
me too
I realized I hadn’t had breakfast, so I decided to have part of my lunch to tide me over. In the bottom of the bag was a packet of duck sauce, so I started to wonder, since I’ve typically ignored them.
You….forgot to eat?
Yes. I was focused on remembering to go to work. I hadn’t had to physically get myself to the office for half a year.
With the spicy mustard (which is homemade at our local joint, not pre-packaged).
Most Chinese takeout places have house mustard. You just have to ask for it instead of the packets.
haven’t had chinese takeout in like 7 years.
^^this^^
(More like 10, though)
Cause you were hungry again in 2 hours or cause you were worried the General Tso could be chicken meow or chicken woof-woof instead of chicken book-book?
What does Romanian Chinese food consist of anyway? I know it tends to vary from country to country.
I dunno… stuff… noodles rice meat with bamboo wood ears…
this is probably the biggest one in Bucharest
https://www.wuxing.ro/en/
The advertising pictures actually look pretty good.
But of course, the ad copy is supposed to look good.
Thank you.
Huh. No pork on the menu.
I missed that.
The Tushin Beef and Chicken look like something I’d want to try.
It’s made with actual Chinese people Vlad keeps in the dungeon.
I save them for my daughter. She likes to add it to the stir-fry I make at home.
Never. It’s revolting.
Is it made from real ducks?
According to the packet, the ingredients are: Water, Corn Syrup, High Fructose Corn Syrup, starch, peaches/apricots, salt, vinegar, garlic, onion, pepper, caramel color, FD&C Red #40, FD&C Yellow #6, 1/10 of 1% sodium benzoate.
I can’t find the ingredient label for ducks.
Here it is: duck, feathers, quack, rape.
Wut?
Someone actualy read my comment?
I’ve been told that ducks are made of wood.
Well they float don’t they?
I tried one once, and you could barely taste the duck.
“How comeback kid Sweden got the last laugh on coronavirus: Infections and deaths fall to record lows and economy improves as Britain removes the country that shunned lock-down from the quarantine list”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8722051/How-comeback-kid-Sweden-got-laugh-coronavirus.html
We called it. I called it in the spring. And even have witnesses and an argument with a buddy over it!
Am I vindicated!?
no Rufus we science deniers who got literally the whole thing right the whole time were crazy than and are crazy now.
You know who else did not like 11 year old girls? Am I doing this correctly?
11-year-old boys who don’t want to get cooties?
I think you have that backwards…. “You know who else liked 11 year old girls”?
Literally no one?
“I’ve never understood child molesters, because to molest a child, you have to be in the same room with the child, and I don’t know how the perverts can stand it.” – Florence King
Wait… what?
I’m studiously avoiding this story. I don’t want to give it the attention it so obviously wants.
If you object to an eleven year old black girl dancing like a five dollar club whore you’re an anti-semite. Simple.
I’ll assume (((they))) produced it. And it’s timed up with the gay, Jewish, pedo legislator in CA who got ass-raping a minor downgraded as a crime.
And timed for the post-election Epstein-related pedo indictments? Eh, who am I kidding?
Tenet was a garbage confusing film. But I was happy to go to a an overpriced movie theater.
It didn’t even try to make sense. Even the action scenes sucked. Denzel’s kid sucks. He’s a charisma-less void. And yea…my movie theater maybe had 10 people in it but they were charging over $10 a ticket.
I honestly have no idea what happened the entire time nor do I care. that tall chick’s pretty hot.
It wasn’t just the ‘inversion’ stuff that didn’t make sense. It was basic plot stuff like why is the main character doing x or going from point a to point b that was confusing as shit. And not because it was so smart.
total agreement. The inversion stuff was nonsensical but the basic premise made no sense. Usually his premises are very basic with convoluted shit going around inside a basic story this time I legit had no idea what the actual goals were or the stakes.
This is pretty standard for Christopher Nolan movies, isn’t it? The guy can direct a scene, but he can’t tell a story to save his life.
I mean, Inception and his Batman movies mostly made sense. They have some occasions where you have to make a bit of a leap like how the hell did Bruce Wayne get back to Gotham in time or find the time to set up a fire logo on a skyscraper in Dark Knight Rises. Interstellar starts off well enough and kind of gets loopy with the whole love transcends time and space thing at the end. It’s more about the emotions or whatever so it still works.
Tenet is a fucking mess. There’s a throwaway line of dialogue early in the movie about the inversion concept the movie is based on not making sense. A female scientist type explaining it to the protagonist literally says don’t think about it too much because it won’t make sense. But as I said above, it goes beyond just asking the audience to suspend their sense of belief for a cool concept. The plot just jumps around with no real logic. It goes from plot point to plot point with no why’s or how’s really being established. It’s a fucking trainwreck.
And to top it off, the action scenes suck. The set pieces are boring with the locations being reused in the second half of the film. The inversion concept the entire movie is based around is barely used and is kind of retarded even when it is. I don’t even know how the movie cost what it did because the special effects are nothing compared to previous Nolan movies (it was his most expensive film to date).
It’s called hanging the lantern. I use it occasionally.
I could live with that if:
1. The concept itself was actually worth it. It aint
2. If basic plot elements like why is the main character going to this location, or how does the main character know this character even exists made sense. They don’t.
I’ve liked every other Nolan movie besides Dunkirk. This was a disaster.
Oh, I understand what you meant (the hanging lantern not being adequate to the plot); I’m just saying, hanging the lantern is a thing.
It is a thing, but it doesn’t fix the plot hole, it just admits to it.
I’ve used it in cases where I’m writing a scene based on something that actually happened that is unbelievable in fiction. I did not do this convincingly enough in my interracial romance with regard to how the hero (dot Indian, dark) views racial prejudice against him. The real-life guy I based him on could see that he faced some discrimination, but he discounted its racial component and felt it was because he was an asshole and, further, didn’t care about it one way or another or which one it was. He just worked around it.
This was unbelievable for quite a few people, even after my hero explicitly told the heroine he didn’t care, and that he’s just an asshole.
You’re a lot more generous towards the Nolan Batman movies than I am. I saw them as a collection of action scenes barely connected by the pretense of a plot.
I like Memento, Inception, and Interstellar. I had no idea he did any comic movies until I was reading about Interstellar on wikipedia a year or two ago.
So I’ll chalk one bonus up to joining the AARP set: stuff I don’t care about just doesn’t get filed away 🙂
Batman Begins made sense, The Dark Knight made sense for about 20 minutes. The Dark Knight Rises is wholly disconnected from rationality.
The dark knight was awesome Batman rises was total garbage. Dark Knight made no sense in a comic book way. The whole subplot with the mobs money was hilariously terrible but entertaining.
It’s not that hard to follow. Ra’s Al Ghul is a man with a particular set of skills that he teaches to Batman, who uses those skills to go after the bad guys until he gets hit in the head too many times.
Interstellar was two different scripts at one point so I’ll let that slide. I dig it.
I liked Inception a lot.
After Val Kilmer, I stopped caring about Batman. I love me some Val, but he was a bad Batman and I’m just not willing to see endless reincarnations. It’s like a TV show at the cinema.
“This week, in a Very Special Batman Episode…”
yes. But the central problem with this film is the part that try’s to explain whats happening to the audience makes it more confusing. Like inceptions plot was an incredibly convoluted, dumb and made no sense but they had rules in place the to explain what was happening.
So being in a swing state, the presidential ads have begun. The general themes so far:
Biden – We’re going to fix health care (again), and we’ll stand with you.
Trump – Mericah! FUCK YA!
We canceled our DirecTV subscription a few months ago, so I see no ads. Except the occasional one on Youtube, which I skip if possible, and mute if not.
This brings up something I learned last night.
I own a Roku and an AppleTV. The AppleTV is 5-6 years old, the Roku is about 1. I use the Roku 99% of the time. (I got the AppleTV used, cheap – mostly for the Airplay feature, but time and tech change has made that somewhat moot.)
I used to subscribe to MLB.TV, but I dropped it last year because I didn’t have the time to take advanatge of it and it seemed like Disney was slowly adding annoying things to it since buying it from MLBAM. But I still do watch the free game of the day once or twice a week.
Years ago there used to be no commercials on the streamed MLB.TV games. Then a couple years ago there started being some during the breaks between innings. Last year there were commercials during the entire inning break. This year, there started being commercials as soon as you select a game. I speculated that this was happening because I was watching the free game and not subscribing.
Then last night I had an issue with the Roku remote. I didn’t want to deal with it so I booted up the AppleTV and watched the free game on MLB.TV using that. NO COMMERCIALS.
So it wasn’t Disney fucking with the product at all, it is Roku fucking with it, putting their bullshit ad sales in during as many interruptions as they can. I’m probably going to stop using the damn thing.
Do you pay a subscription for AppleTv? Roku charges to carry channels so MLB probably agreed to let them run ads for the free games in lieu of paying a fee. AppleTv probably covers the carrying fee out of their subscription model.
I still can’t get HBO Max on the Roku because of a fee fight between HBO and Roku.
^^^This. Normally I would consider living in a swing state to be a good thing – there being some semblance of competitiveness to the politics. Already saturated with presidential ads – anyone else can barely get air time.
I receive more than a dozen letters soliciting donations a week. From the Trump campaign alone! (I gave them $200 that I had earmarked for Reason back in 16 when Reason posted something especially stupid, at the time I was very pleased and amused with myself, several hundred begging letters, texts, emails and calls later I may have some regrets)
I gave Ron Paul some money way back when (first and only political contribution I ever made) and ever since I have been on every Republican politician’s mailing list, it seems.
Actually, I guess my donations to the Reason Foundation probably count as well, and probably got me on a mailing list that got sold as well.
The worst commercials are the just vote bullshit that seeps through everything. I hate that more than anything.
I once asserted that “just vote” was corrosive to the republic to a bunch of lawyers. It was fun to watch their brains explode.
I got an ad for congress from the incumbent. It was about 3 differences between himself and his opponent. It was a great ad, as it totally convinced me to vote for his opponent. I wasn’t sure before, but based on those 3 points, she is getting my vote.
What were the differences?
They were health care related. Basically he wants to expand Obamacare and she wants to get rid of it.
I have received more mail from mine than all other mail combined for several weeks now.
His opponent has joined the lawsuit against Cuomo’s and Deblasio’s bullshit restaurant-killing schemes. She has my support just for that.
There’s a lawsuit? Do you have a good source to follow on it?
I don’t. It’s some sort of class-action thing being filed by like a hundred restaurateurs.
Eggplant Parmesan: Original vs Gourmet with Neapolitan cook Carmela Abbate and chef Angelo Sabatelli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eox3ZN0e07I
I kind of like this channel…
Oh man, sugar in the red sauce? My grandpa would have a heart attack!
Good stuff though, thanks for the link. Gonna check out more of those videos.
Assuming that’s some sort of marinara… yeah. I try usually in vain to find any without added sugar.
Rao’s.
Good stuff.
Yeah, but expensive as fuck at my supermarket. I do like their pizza sauce.
Victoria?
*nods sadly*
It’s from the gourmet one. He makes what he calls a tomato cream, which is what I would call a simple red sauce. Tomatoes pureed with salt and oregano, and he adds some sugar to it.
you are jealous you don’t have a siphon thing to make the parm cream
Well, yeah, that too. The parm cream did look awesome. I could totally see topping a bunch of Italian dishes with that.
I’ve been trying to recreate the tomato sauce from one of my favorite restaurants but I can’t get it just right. It’s a bright very light red (almost orange) simple tomato sauce with a silky texture. Out of this world.
I can make a decent sauce with a can of peeled tomatoes, salt, olive oil, a little onion, and oregano but it’s missing something key.
Carrots. Seriously, that’s where you get the sweetness in a red sauce like marinara.
According to Marcella Hazan – butter.
Thanks, will try both of these
Sugar is added to quell the acidity factor of the tomatoes.
Eggplant is an un-food. It destroys any foods that it comes in contact with.
The entirety of the Thai and Chinese cooking world disagrees with you.
They can keep their slime fruit. They are welcome to it.
Try aubergine instead.
Krugman watched Cuties twice already.
Has he written an article about how lockdowns and riots are awesome for the economy?
This is terrifying.
In September 2019, months after releasing HTBAA, Kendi gave us our answer — a single paragraph in Politico, a proposal just specific enough to expose the totalitarian heartbeat of a CRT Idea Man:
Ministry of Goodthink
I remember seeing this a few months ago. Good on Donald for drawing attention to it.
What’s more terrifying is the number of apparently normal people who would read that and say “What’s the problem? If you’re not a racist then what have you got to worry about”?
^^^^THIS^^^^
I am baffled by people that can never see the consequences and guaranteed abuses these well intentioned (giving the benefit of doubt here, but I usually suspect people proposing these things know the destruction that will happen and are actually looking to create said destruction) idiotic freedom quelling bullshit rules will cause.
You can’t fool me. Kendi cribbed the idea for the DOA from the Equality Police in The Turner Diaries.
Baseball trivia question:
Who was the first MLB player to hit a homerun into another state?
If you know a bit about stadiums, it is actually a reasonably easy question. I am sure Pie will be all over this one.
Adam Dunn did it as a Major leaguer (sort of), Jim Thorpe supposedly hit 3 into 3 different states in one game, but it was before his major league career.
No sort of, the Ohio River is in Ky. The ball went out of GABP and bounced into the river.
Now I want to know the Thorpe story.
The ball bounced and rolled and eventually ended up on a piece of wood that was below the high water mark, and therefore arguably in KY. Both the ended up in KY and the fact that it was after a bounce and roll make this a sort of lol.
Actually, high water mark doesn’t matter. High water mark on June 1, 1792 is the state boundary. That is why Ellis Park Race Track is in KY, despite being north of the river.
I was being generous, the actual boundary is way out in the water as the river is now deeper and wider than in 1792.
Is it around Cincy? I know that was also the case that allowed Indiana to have riverboat casinos in a few places, as there were places the river was in Indiana. Although it almost led to a casino getting seized by KY authorities when it drifted across the line. The threat to seize it the next time lead to IN changing the law and allowing them to stay in dock. Or just be built on dry land.
The river has moved a good bit, so the boundary is interesting at points (like the Ellis Park situation).
Looking at a map, it looks like about 1/5th of river width is in Ohio around Cincy. That sucks, it ruins a good story.
Following the map, KY doesnt have much of the north side of the river with Ohio, like they do in parts with Indiana. The shore outside of Manchester, OH is in KY, but then is a very thin stretch. Ohio has over 1/2 the river right ouside the mouth of the Great Miami River.
Yeah, the various locks and dams here have widened it a good bit. I think the Ellis park thing is because of a cut off loop when the channel shifted, isn’t it? I remember the river boat fight, and how angry Rising Sun was at KY.
Remember Cincinnati is an old city (by US standards) and the downtown (or at least the fort that it grew around) has been there since roughly the time of the boundary establishment, so efforts have been made to keep the river from shifting away from or into the shore along here. Along Indiana’s southern border you have more the same thing that Twain writes about along the Mississippi where islands form, channels silt up and poof the River suddenly is 5 miles away from where it used to be.
My father told me that, growing up on the KY side of the river in the 1920s and 30s, he could walk across the river because it was shallow, before the feds started channeling it. I assume the 1937 flood prompted that.
Also, I worked for a law firm in the mid-1990s that was involved in that Indiana riverboat litigation. Indiana law said the boat had to “cruise,” but there wasn’t enough room for it to turn around.
Nah. I went cold turkey. No sports.
After seeing the commentary here about it, I believe I too made the right decision to not bother.
Looking at Potato’s Daily Fail link about Sweden, I notice something interesting. There are two charts: daily cases, and daily deaths.
Daily “cases” rose to April, leveled off for a few weeks, and then took a big jump in June, and then plunged.
Daily deaths peaked in April and then tailed off rapidly.
But let’s pretend the plague is universally fatal.
Even if it doesn’t kill everyone, it maims the survivors!
They must’ve had a big biker rally in June.
I am being completely inundated by Bullock-for-Senate ads. If I didn’t hate that bastard before… And the ads are almost entirely populated by women. Whiny, annoying obnoxious women.
Most of what he’s pushing sounds like free unlimited health care for all. Also, standard issue Montana
xenophobiapride. I expect him to go all in on universal basic income, before long.I wonder what Vasily Borodin would have thought of Montana now?
He since deleted this twat.
RIP Winston’s Mom. Rest assured we will not rest until Krugmann has been brought to justice!
*narrows gaze*
I don’t get it. You think I’m dead?
Necros are the worst.
That was the part of my comment that bothered you? Not the implicit calling you a twat?
What the fuck makes you think I’ve never been called a twat? Get better insults.
Tell me about it.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ehj7GfOXgAIJgN1.jpg
Deleted, but still awful in the first place.
The same assholes would complain when the political right points out that Islam is repressive towards women.
There appears to be no middle ground between burqas and twerking ten year olds.
You know, maybe the QAnon people have a point. When sexualized 10 year olds are being pushed by the media as some sort of protest against the patriarchy, there’s an agenda there.
https://twitter.com/poetatoeboi/status/1304140116814823424
Is big boobs egg cooking a thing now?
Hopefully.
Dude seems nervous.
While appearing on Fox News on Thursday, Biden’s national press secretary, TJ Ducklo, had an opportunity to go on the record on this issue but refused.
“Does Joe Biden ever use a teleprompter during local interviews or to answer Q&A with supporters?” Baier asked.
“We are not going to engage—this is straight from the Trump campaign talking points,” Ducklo dodged.
“Well yeah, they’re using it,” Baier pointed out.
“And what it does, Bret, is it’s trying to distract the American people from—” Ducklo began to add before Baier interjected and asked him to provide a yes or no answer.
“I’m just—they’re using it. They talk about it every day. Can you say ‘yes’ or ‘no’?”
Ducklo rather angrily refused multiple times after that to even answer the question, deflecting the question with campaign talking points, ultimately telling Baier that he wouldn’t allow the Trump campaign to “funnel their questions through Fox News and get me to respond to that.”
“Ducklo”
That’s his name?
Sounds like a villain from Duck Tales
It sounds like a dub step “musician”.
DJ Diplo. TJ Ducklo.
So, I watched a little bit of the Chiefs game last night (third quarter I think). This meant I missed most of the additional commentary and also the pre-game, etc.
Not having watched the anthems, but reading about the events (from both sides of the divide), I’m a little confused at the fans. From what I understand, the players from both teams stood together, nobody kneeled, nobody showed any disrespect, but fans booed them. Was something omitted from the stories? Or were the fans just primed to boo anyway?
Primed and deserved.
Primed to boo, mostly, but I think there was some kind of SJW spiel being announced over the PA.
Houston refused to come onto the field for the anthem to start things off. KC players apparently locked arms together during the anthem. And yea I’m guessing people were “primed” to boo. A lot of people don’t want to hear this bullshit at a sporting event. They don’t want a call for “unity.” They want to watch a game.
Oddly enough, playing the national anthem was supposed to be a show of unity by players and fans before the game, wasn’t it?
It’s just a stupid tradition. Amurrrrica herr-derr-herr. We don’t get the anthem at a movie, or a concert, so why at this particular form of entertainment?
Go to a movie theater on a military base, and yes, you do get the anthem before the movie. My German wife (who grew up during the height of the love-of-nation-is-evil teaching in Germany) stood there with her jaw on the floor when we went to our first, and last, movie on base. From that point on we only went to the theater on the economy that showed movies in English.
I dunno but it’s not unique to America, either.
It’s always been a sop, originally began during the Spanish Flu pandemic.
I know a lot is lost in the vomitorium our political process has become, but in a sea of bullshit I wanted to take a minute to remember just a few of the good people we lost 19 years ago.
Joe Coppo was a dad and a man about town in the town I grew up in. He coached baseball every year and most everyone wanted to be on his team; he had a reputation for working well with the kids who weren’t the best players and being thrilled when one of them got a hit or made a play. I was never on his teams but knew him and his sons through baseball.
Tim Stackpole was FDNY and was childhood friends with my father. In ‘98, he was on the roof of a massive fire in Brooklyn when it collapsed, killing two other firefighters. He was in the hospital and rehab for the next three years before returning to FDNY in March 2001 and was promoted to Captain less than a week before 9/11. After miraculously surviving the ‘98 fire, he was killed when the towers collapsed.
Finally Steve Siller was FDNY. He grew up in the same neighborhood that my father’s family used to live. He had finished his shit and was on his way home when he heard what was going down, and he turned his car around to go help. By then the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel had been closed to traffic, so he put on all his gear and ran through the tunnel to the WTC, about three miles, and was killed when the towers collapsed. Every year, there’s a great 5K in NYC that’s organized by his parents. People and firefighters come from all over to retrace his steps through the tunnel to the new WTC. I’ve run it a few times and my most vivid memory was overhearing a father tell his young son before the race “Don’t worry, there’s only good people here today.”
We could go on forever about what we did wrong afterwards, but to me that’s for another day. It’s important now more than ever to remember those who suffered most that day were doing nothing but trying to be do their best, to be good people.
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Right on.
Thanks, dude.
Danny O’Callaghan was my cousin. He wasn’t even on duty that morning. Shift change was that morning, but he hadn’t gone home yet, and when the call came he jumped on the truck.
Sorry for your loss and for your family’s loss. A lot of brave people like your cousin died that day, we could sure as hell use more of them today.
Thank you. I didn’t know him well, he was more extended family for me (first cousin once removed, so a good bit older than me), the kind of relative you generally see only at weddings and funerals. Hell of a brave dude, though.
The local front page is littered with Twitter hot-takes of people “disgusted” with this or that other facet or hot-take. I really need to stick to my plan to avoid reading the front pages any more, for my blood pressure.
The phrase that always stuck with me about 9/11 I first saw written about Rick Rescorla. “Last seen on the 10th floor, heading up.” But it’s an epitaph that applies to hundreds of men that day. Last seen heading up. Towards the danger, selflessly trying to save lives.
Rick Rescorla would be an excellent candidate for one of Animal’s Profiles in Toxic Masculinity
I nominate Mark Bingham.
I agree.
A Day To Be Proud
I read his bio, many years ago…Interesting guy, lots of adventures that story tellers could incorporate into some tales.
It is funny. I watched the towers burn and collapse live. I was so angry I would have killed anyone involved in planning/executing the attacks with my bare hands. <— Not hyperbole. I mean that literally.
Afterwards, every time I am reminded of what happened that day I cant help but tear up. Until that day I had not shed a tear in 30 years. Even now, nearly 20 years later the anger has not abated one bit.
I feel much the same way about the rise of authoritarian leftism in this country. I am afraid it will get worse before it gets better.
Thanks for sharing. So many good folk lost.
We could go on forever about what we did wrong afterwards, but to me that’s for another day. It’s important now more than ever to remember those who suffered most that day were doing nothing but trying to be do their best, to be good people.
Well said.
It’s always a rough day for me. I was at work right across from the road from the Pentagon on 9/11, and I knew several of the people lost that day. That night I walked from my apartment to the hill on Army-Navy that overlooks the Pentagon and just sat there. I knew at the time I was watching the world make a very abrupt change. I never thought at the time that it wouldn’t have worked its way back to something similar to the old normal by now…
Sometimes Info Wars just calls out the obvious bullshit.
CDC: Cloth Face Masks Used to Stop COVID-19 Will NOT Stop Wildfire Smoke Inhalation
Let’s see…
https://www.setra.com/hubfs/Critical%20Environments%20-%20Particle%20Size%20Chart%20180222%20v2%20-%20White%20BG.png
Compare the size of viruses with the size of smoke and soot, and get back to me with conclusions.
Mosquito => Chainlink fence.
And remember the X-Axis on that chart is descending.
Well, clearly, the virus stopping filters are too delicate and the soot just rips right through the strands.
*snickers giddily*
It’s only logical.
I don’t follow. Who is SETRA?
It’s immaterial. It’s just a chart of relative particle sizes, one of many available online, that I happened to link to provide useful data.
See how they weasel word it with cloth facemasks (which can vary greatly in filtering capacity depending on construction) and not 3 layer surgical/procedure masks. It’s noticeably reduced by wearing one outside.
I’m sure in the future itt will be they knew it wasn’t true, but they wanted to reserve N95 masks for wildland firefighters or such. From the archives, https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/surgical-masks-surprisingly-effective-pm2-5/
we live in the most retarded time.
As one doc put it to me “Yes, but it provides psychological protection!”
Fuckwits all.
Some doctors have been the worst pant shitters.
Funny you should say that, cause I have had several of them admit until we have developed herd immunity, this shit is all LARPing.
And that’s what it’s all about: testing psychological manipulation boundaries.
Last night I saw my first Biden ad. They really are getting good at those deep fake things. He looked so life-like!
The mask coves the instruction intake valve!
The mask is a not so cleverly designed disguise for the speaking unit that takes wireless input from staffer’s system that creates real-time audio deep fake responses to questions from their quickly-typed answers.
Weekend at Biden’s!
Reports from the FB fandom say that the audio was misaligned with the action, and that the boo’s were when the Texans came out onto the field.
However, I am convinced there were two sets of booing
Me: “Are they booing?”
Mr. Mojeaux: “No … NOW they’re booing”)
so I was heartened. Even Mr. Mojeaux’s getting tired of it and the more Mahomes talks, the more his mancrush wanes.
Anyway, boring game. Our defensive line apparently got tired there at the end, spotting them two touchdowns. No. CRUSH. THEM. Grind them into the turf. That’s what football’s supposed to be about.
I’m surprised they didn’t just pipe in cheering.
I’ve watched about 3 minutes of baseball this season. The fake crowd noise drives me crazy. Like the white noise they used to pump into our wonderful “open” office.
They didn’t have to.
I reject the notion that their “unity” moment was apolitical. From what I’ve seen of what Mahomes was saying during it, it sure as shit seemed like another form of protest to me.
Political or no, it’s wholly uninteresting. I hated it when human interest segments took over the broadcast. I hated it when Bob Costas spouted off. I hated it when everything turned pink and yellow and whatever other color to fight cancer and honor teachers and whatever else.
I want to see large men smash their bodies into one another chasing an oblong piece of leather. Anything not calculated to further my entertainment while watching said large men is an unwelcome distraction.
Bob Costas is a raging douche.
He almost single-handedly ruined sports with his human interest segments and he definitely ruined the Olympics broadcasts.
He’s just stealing Jim McKay’s shtick.
People don’t watch the Olympics for the sport, they watch it for the jingoism. The audience overlap for the Olympics and any other sport is pretty small. I might argue that football has the largest audience overlap with the Olympics because a growing segment of the football audience is watching for the gambling and doesn’t actually care about the sport in any other context.
Or, to quote Junior Soprano, “Chinks and housewives are betting football.”
There are those of us freaks who actually want to see the competitions and couldn’t fucking care less if the competitor was bullied in middle school because they were adopted.
The ever-present athlete sob stories tick me off.
The only human interest stories that I enjoy are the ones directly related to the competition. The one that comes to mind is a early 90s indy 500 (maybe 94?) where one of the drivers had a second mortgage on his house to pay for the ride, and needed to finish in a certain position to pay it off. (spoilers: he didn’t)
The only olympic human interest story that interests me are also directly related to the competition: The only thing I remember from the 2012 olympics is watching a fencing semi live and the South Korean having to stand along on the platform for about an hour as the appeal process took place.
Apparently, leaving the platform means you have accepted the judges decisions.
She was totally jobbed. She should have been in the final.
To appeal, the South Koreans had to come up something like $1000. They didnt have it on them and had to scramble to ATMs to collect up the required appeal cash. All the while, the competition is delayed because she couldnt leave the platform.
She was in tears.
After she lost the appeal, she had to come out for the bronze medal match a few minutes later. That went about as well as you would expect.
Basically, what happened was that the clock wasn’t working properly. She was using a very defensive style. Normally, the matches go to N touches, or until the clock expires. They didnt get anywhere near N and the match ended in a tie. OT is sudden death, but there is a coin flip, the winner of the flip wins the match if time expires in OT without anyone scoring. She won the toss, and went even more defensive in OT. Late in OT when the other fencer had to attack hard, they had a series of simultaneous touches, which dont count. The problem is, some of them were so fast, the clock never started before the touch signal turned it off. They went thru like 5 in a row with no movement on the clock. The clock should have expired after about 2 or so. Finally the attacker succeeded, but the clock should have expired well before.
Why I was watching women’s epee that day is beyond me, but here is the story from wikipedia:
Shin competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women’s épée in both the individual and team event. In the semifinals of women’s individual épée, she lost to German Britta Heidemann after a timekeeping error extended bout time. The situation arose at the end of the one-minute overtime (sudden death) with the match tied 5-5. Without the extension, Shin would have won the tied bout on the basis of priority, which is randomly awarded to one fencer prior to the overtime period.
With one whole second showing on the official clock, Heidemann made two rapid attacks in succession, both halted by double-touches. The clock in the arena continued to show “00:01”, because it could not display decimal fractions of a second. The referee then called “halt” to the bout. At this point, the timekeeper (a Games volunteer) restarted the clock, inadvertently expiring all the remaining time, reportedly 0.02 seconds.[2] This action caused the arena clock to show “00:00”, giving Shin reason to celebrate. However, the error was noted and since an overtime minute had to be fenced in its entirety, the referee applied FIE rule t.32-3, which states that in the event of a failure of the clock or an error by the timekeeper, the referee must estimate how much time is left.[3] The timekeeper, with the referee’s permission, reset the clock to show “00:01”, one whole second being the minimum unit of time possible. Following the resumption of the bout, Heidemann scored a single touch just as the full second expired.[4] The result was partly due to the failure of the referee to stop both fencers restarting closer than the specified distance, Heidemann’s “crowding” to hurry her attack, and Shin trying to avoid retreating across her end line.[5]
The South Koreans immediately appealed the decision, stating that 0.02s had already elapsed and the final touch occurred after the end of the bout. In accordance with fencing bylaws, Shin could not leave the piste while the officials deliberated the situation. Sobbing profusely, she sat alone for over an hour awaiting their decision.[6] Ultimately, the judges gave the victory to Heidemann.
An hour later, Shin returned for the bronze medal match but lost to her Chinese opponent despite loud encouragement from the cheering crowd.[7]
Later, the International Fencing Federation offered her a “special medal” after her semi-final defeat.[8] She rejected the offer, saying “It does not make me feel better because it’s not an Olympic medal. I don’t accept the result because I believe it was a mistake.”[9]
Shin won a silver medal in Women’s team épée competition five days later.
“I want to see large men smash their bodies into one another chasing an oblong piece of leather.”
Kinky.
I find myself in the odd situation of being far, far more entertained by cars doing laps (F1 Italian GP) than by football.
If you had told me that 18 months ago, I would have thought you were talking nonsense.
Glad you are becoming an F1 fan. This season hasn’t even had a number of great races, but it is still fun to watch. Aside from the beginning of the first race, the SJW nonsense has been absolutely minimal. I tape it so maybe there is some in the pre race stuff, but the main broadcast has almost none of that shite. The last race at Monza was a very good one, I liked seeing the three middle to back of pack racers take the podium for a change, fuck Lewis Hamilton (although he is a great driver). This week is at Imola, the track where Senna died. Hope it will be entertaining.
So, not a football? Pigskin ain’t leather, and I don’t think it’s even pigskin anymore.
¿que? How would pigskin differ from any other leather?
There are different names for the hides from different animals: “lambskin”, “suede”, “kid leather”, stuff like that.
Suede isn’t a definition for an animal, it’s a type of cut that generates a particular texture. You get it by splitting a regular piece of leather into two sheets, one is a thinner grade of regular leather, containing the exterior skin, the other is suede, containing none of the exterior skin.
My bad. I legit thought suede was just brushed-up pigskin. Thanks!
Mahomes is richer that you so there. you need to sell more books and get a few movie deals to make that kind of scratch
Right?!
Seriously now, my dream is to have an HBO series. For real, that’s what I want.
when I make 100 billion I will buy HBO and give you one. You just need to wait a bit
???
Oh God, another Vampire Romance…
Nope. I mean, at least not in the usual way.
“There is plenty of sucking and biting, but it’s not just the vampire doing it”
my dream is to have an HBO series
Game of Glibs?
Cast yourself as the Mother of Cryptids.
Sometimes Info Wars just calls out the obvious bullshit.
It doesn’t have to make sense if the government does it.
Oh shit. Another Nobel nomination.
I’d regain a modicum of respect for that prize if he actually ends up winning.
Agree, but for any real respect, they have to tell Zero to turns his in.
*turn*
If that guy had any humility at all he would have declined to accept the award on the grounds there were far more worthy nominees.
The nomination alone is worth the angst and dick punch it causes the woke asshats, including the ones on the Nobel committee that have turned the price into a joke by giving it to people like Arafat and Obama.
Somebody has been watching the Hat and Hair cartoons, the Hair’s lobbying was sure to pay off.
Mayor Ted Wheeler Bans The Use Of CS Gas For Riot Control
Now the cops can deal with blinding lasers and firebombs with harsh language.
*eye roll*
Nobody tell Ted that the last time riot cops used CS was during the Days of Rage…
They’re keeping the sarin in reserve.
(I just got this site on another list, didn’t I?)
Remove all non-lethal crowd control and see what you have left.
Axe body spray?
And a lighter?
No – Axe is lethal.
You wanna know what I haven’t been able to find?
The OC “antidote spray”.
https://www.amazon.com/Mace-Antidote-Decontamination-Enforcement-Consumers/dp/B073ZJG456
Celery and blue cheese dressing.
Nonpartisan straight news
Twitter is putting new restrictions on election-related content, including labeling or removing posts that claim victory before results are official or attempt to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power.
“We will not permit our service to be abused around civic processes, most importantly elections,” the company said in a blog post Thursday.
The moves come as pressure is ramping up on social media platforms to halt the spread of misinformation and prevent interference in November’s presidential election, including from American politicians such as President Trump.
Democrats would never even contemplate an attempt to throw the legitimacy of an election into doubt. They are the good guys.
to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power.
Which doesn’t happen until January…
to throw the legitimacy of an election into doubt
They are laying the groundwork for normalizing the concept that votes can just trickle in after election, when Donald wins in a landslide, to tilt the election to Biden.
If your absentee/mailed ballot is not in the proper location to be counted on election day then your ballot does not count. The end.
How retarded do you have to be for the line about not wanting politicians to interfere in an election to make sense?
Trump is not allowed to campaign for reelection because it’s a Hatch Act violation or something.
It is cock tail o’clock so cheers glibs
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N_TuTJiayQSclWQMpMKHEfSS484ySqjf/view?usp=drivesdk
This is a mix of my own invention. Rye whisky Peychauds bitters and a little bit of absinthe
You mean a Sazerac?
Needs cognac and sugar.
oh it was also independently invented in the US?
Yup. Around 1850, in New Orleans. The original version did call for cognac, but the modern version uses rye whiskey.
Hey, waitasec… New Orleans, 1850, possible immortal vampire… Pie, are you really Aaron Bird?
Or mayhaps
Brad PittLouis orTom CruiseLestat.^^^ this ^^^
I have an off-topic question/request.
I was just asked to nominate faculty to serve on a “stakeholders group” with an organization called the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN). Apparently our state-level (Florida) governing board wants the universities to start working with NSIN…somehow. I have been given no additional information about this organization, and what little useful material I can find online makes NSIN look like the bastard love child of Herb Tarlik and DARPA.
I’m just trying to figure out people to nominate who will (a) contribute something useful and (b) not severely embarrass the university. I have (b) covered, but (a) is difficult because I still have pretty much no idea what NSIN actually does. Does anybody here have any experience with them, or any knowledge they can share?
Legit LOL.
Thank you! *Takes bow*
The rest of the day is all downhill.
OK. I get b, but not a.
Myself, I would assign to most useless, worthless obstacle of a human being to the role. Nothing good is going to come from the government managing innovation. If anything would produce skynet, it would be something like this. In my opinion the best thing that could happen to this organization is paralysis.
I want to gum up the works with someone who thinks environmental reviews and diversity statements are good things that should be prioritized above all other goals.
My recommendation, pick the five people you know who excel most at being officious wastes of space, and select the least offensive one. Nominate that guy.
At least it might keep them occupied and away from the productive class.
*wild, raucous applause*
In reality, this group is not expected to accomplish anything. If it was it would never combine the brilliant minds in national security with the proven go-getters in academia.
You’d be amazed at how entrepreneurial professors can be when their own interests are involved.
I was involved in a startup with one.
It was a fucking nightmare. Entrepreneurial zeal does not equal entrepreneurial suitability.
Dude, professors are EXPERTS. They are certified experts in something, which means they are experts at anything. It is known.
Difficulty: nearly all the people you mention are eliminated by (b).
It’s a balancing act. If we are too obvious about sandbagging, the state board will get pissed, and we have to stay on their good side.
I think that what ultimately will happen is that the two or three universities that are close to a military base will grab this and run, which will be enough to make the board and legislature happy, and the rest of us will be allowed to get back to work. But there could be some substantial grants attached to this down the road so I don’t want to ignore it completely.
the bastard love child of Herb Tarlik and DARPA.
Innocently ask who is really excited about the new Dune and Foundation movies – those will be your people.
DoD has a number of programs similar to this. The two I’m familiar with are Defensewerx and SOFWERX. Not sure if it is the same in NSIN, but in those two programs the DoD identifies different areas that they want people to do research in, then gather the companies/schools that have produced stuff to demonstrate what they’ve done. It can then lead to contracts for actual production.
It can also lead to people showing up saying things like “I’m Here To Help…”
Executives at both Twitter and Facebook said they are worried about the election and, in particular, the potential for confusion, disruption and even violence if the outcome is not immediately clear, as many experts said is likely because of increased mail-in voting during the pandemic.
“There’s a lot of opportunities to introduce fear, uncertainty and doubt at strategic moments,” Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of site integrity, said last month during a panel discussion on election security.
Both companies have cracked down on foreign interference, including last week removing a campaign linked to Russian state actors who had spread disinformation during the 2016 election.
This time around, the social media companies are also grappling with the spread of domestic misinformation, including from Trump. Twitter and Facebook have labeled and in a few cases removed recent posts in which the president made false claims about the coronavirus and about voting by mail.
DEFUND NPR
if the outcome is not immediately clear
Certain people intend for the outcome to not be immediately clear.
And even if it is, actually especially if it is, they intend to sabotage it and ultimately run a coup. Cause if the fucking serfs have not learned from the last 4 years that only team blue (and the occasional RINO) are allowed in the WH, the inept but credentialed ruling aristocracy class will have to take matters into its own hands….
Out of how many?
At least three teachers have died from complications of Covid-19 in recent weeks, according to CNN reporting and local media reports.
How many died in car crashes, or falling down stairs?
Or crashing their car down a flight of stairs.
let’s not forget the obvious whale in the room.
Have I announced here yet I’m going to vote for (write-in, because he didn’t get Ballot Access) Kanye West? I figure if I’m going to vote for someone I disagree with it might as well be the craziest option. That, and The Hat thinks he should be Donald’s Best Friend.
Hi
Yusef!!!! How are you, dude?
good morning
He’s alive!
How
Where are you dood?
HEY YUFUS!
TALL CANS!
I have tall cans for tonight’s Zoom thingie, if t happens
I’m back home, and planning on hosting. Unless Tulip wants to step up, as she’s more popular then me. 🙂
Yo, Yusef!
Thicc? https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=CFcDU_1599761095
Chonky
Dat ass
Yakkity Yak, don’t look back!
Judge Beckloff is asshole.
On Thursday, Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff ruled against Grace Community Church and its pastor, John MacArthur, issuing a preliminary injunction allowing Los Angeles County to ban indoor church services. MacArthur’s lawyers, Trump attorney Jenna Ellis and Thomas More Society lawyer Charles LiMandri, announced their intention to appeal at the earliest opportunity.
Fuck him. Judges are not the final arbiters of constitutionality. You can read. Hold the indoor services anyway.
It’s gonna be a real good look for LAPD to be frog-marching the congregation out of the church.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or ——>the right of the people peaceably to assemble<——-, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
The First Amendment protects the freedom to peacefully assemble or gather together or associate with a group of people for social, economic, political or religious purposes. It also protects the right to protest the government. Every single one of the 'lockdown' and 'closedown' orders are wildly unconstitutional. Any and all attempts to enforce them are illegal. They are criminal acts committed by our state and local governments.
If the people of the US dont sack up pretty quickly they are really, really not going to like where this is going. Didnt I hear recently that some state govt was gearing up for a permanent lockdown? What the fuck does that even mean? A permanent lockdown? Wut?
Insulting
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued its first Covid-19-related citation at a meatpacking plant on Thursday by proposing a $13,494 penalty on Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. in Sioux Falls, S.D.
OSHA, part of the Labor Department, says the company failed to protect its employees from the coronavirus.
Worker advocates have been pressing for more attention and protections to address the risks faced by vulnerable populations — including farm and meatpacking labor — to Covid-19.
The penalty is the maximum allowed by law. The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union called the fine “completely insufficient” and “insulting.”
How is extortion money to the government relevant to what happened, one way or another?
Was anyone even hospitalized?
Fuck OSHA. Those asshats are going after a company that made good-faith efforts to stay in business when everyone needed them to and to comply with onerous on-the-fly orders from the government.
4 died
Aaaah, the equivalent of Article 134 of the UCMJ: You did something that pissed us off and even though it wasn’t against any rule, we will fuck you over.
So there was no standard, but we will fine you anyhow because your governor didn’t shit herself in panic and close down. And if I remember correctly the big outbreak at the SD packing plants was pretty early in the timeline when people weren’t sure what was going on.
Serious question: Can’t Trump simply order OSHA to standTF down on something like this?
Back in the day my grandfather was cutting a tract of timber when out of the blue OSHA shows up to check on his operation. They wanted to see the workers performing their work.
Grandaddy – “Sure. They are on the other side of the creek. Get on this pig trail and follow it until you see them. Now look, no matter what you do, stay on that pig trail. Dont get off of it for any reason. We dont want to have to go find you boys if you get lost and there are some nasty, dangerous critters out here.”
*Back then we had open range in Louisiana. Everyone knew to stay away from pig trails. Walk o n one for five minutes and you would be covered in ticks from head to toe. Also, that pig trail he put them on was the longest, wind about way to get there. He always laughed when he told that story.
It’s gonna be a real good look for LAPD to be frog-marching the congregation out of the church.
They’ll need to roll some tear gas canisters down the aisle, first. And maybe some flashbangs.
Make sure to march them past a tightly packed BLM protest – just to rub their faces in it.
Aim for the children.
This makes me sick to my stomach. And I have not been a church goer for more than decade.
That’s because you are a principled libertarian. You win today.
Thanks, but I’m afraid nobody wins today. This is just another example of how far we have fallen. September 11, 2001 was the day the long knife was plunged into the back of our once great, if imperfect, republic. It was the next great leap towards our future of totalitarianism.
Nah, this shit has been going on for a long, long time. Woodrow Wilson’s ghost is furiously masturbating as we speak.
We’ll see when and how the push back begins, but I do think it’s gonna happen.
I’m currently wrestling with what exactly I can do and how far I can go in actively resisting the state, as a Christian. My faith requires me to suffer a lot of bullshit that would be more easily fixed with bullets and bombs. That, I accept wholeheartedly. The question is where the line is drawn between bullshit and evil.
I don’t consider myself religious, but I have pre-ordered Rod Dreher’s Live Not by Lies. I think it’s going to be a good reference and inspiration for persecuted peoples, religious and otherwise.
Woodrow Wilson’s ghost
Yeah, that’s why I think of a leap. Covid Plandemic is just another one, taking advantage of all the weaponized bureaucracies that were created by the Bush II dynasty. Then Obama is delivered to us to enhance their power by corrupting our judicairy, among other things. Fortunately, Hillary was denied the opportunity be our final destructor.
If I had the historical chops (and some writing ability), I would produce a series on all the steps taken to render the BoR meaningless.
Yeah, I haven’t attended church for a very long time other than weddings and funerals, and this pisses me off. If we can’t even respect the very first amendment in the Bill of Rights, then, seriously, forget the rest.
CDC telling people that cloth masks don’t filter out smoke particulates while also telling people cloth masks protect against virus particles might be peak 2020. I think I might overdose on red pills this year.
SCIENCE!
Aren’t masks only to keep you from breathing out your gross Rona viruses? The protection only works one way! Exhalations are totes scrubbed, so why would you expect any protection during inhalations?
Never let a fundraising opportunity go to waste
New York City subway and bus riders who are caught not wearing a mask will soon face $50 fines, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and transit officials announced Thursday.
The New York Police Department and the Metropolitan Transit Authority police, starting Monday, will be allowed to issue the summonses to riders who aren’t complying, according to the New York Post.
“The vast majority of people are complying and I thank them,” Cuomo said in a tweet. “For the handful who refuse, there will be a new $50 fine.”
Who needs a functioning economy, when you can just squeeze random payments out of the serfs?
CWAA.
I’d be glad that this sinking ship is what they want to campaign on, but it seems to resonate with the dumb motherfuckers who keep voting for him. Sure, your economy’s in the shitter and rioters are burning down city blocks, but at least you can punish the heretics and unbelievers!
The last time I rode the bus some crazy homeless lady wouldn’t pull her diaper up so the driver stopped the bus and kicked everybody off. Fortunately it was my stop.
I’m sure adding cops to the mix is going to be so much better for everyone.
“It is reassuring to other passengers who play by the rules that mask-wearing is mandatory,” MTA Chairman Pat Foye said Thursday, according to the New York Post. “It’s a matter of respect for co-commuters and employees.”
Wear the damn swastika. Demonstrate your fealty to the collective.
Cox now makes it next to impossible to report a service outage.
Fucking cable monopolies
I have two friends that are now on day 33 and counting without Internet/cable service after the derecho hit Iowa.
If only we had more government, those monopolies wouldn’t exist.
those monopolies
Nice!
I’ve literally heard people say about Internet in the US, “There’s not going to be any competition until they start regulating it”.
They just hear stories about how the Internet in Europe and East Asia is blazing fast and assume “more gummint” will solve everything like usual.
It is reassuring to other passengers
What that really means is, “We don’t want the people whom we have successfully bamboozled into believing in our pigeon superstition dance to start asking themselves if they really need a mask.”
psychological protection. Fuck other people’s feelings.
Question: If you are wearing a mask that actually does stop the cooties are you not in danger of re-introducing viral particles when you inhale that you would have otherwise have expelled by exhalation? Wouldn’t an effective mask actually increase your viral load and thus increase your chances of being symptomatic?
*I have not seen an effective mask yet but this effect is bound to happen to some degree
So my wife fast forwarded through Cuties last night to see what the fuss is all about. I’m going to play devil’s advocate a little. The woman who wrote the story says its about young women become sexualized at an early age. In the dance scene that was going around, the main character stops dancing and runs home to mom and kind of patches things up. In the last scene she is shown playing with her friends, dressed not at all provocatively. So it’s possible that people are getting the theme all wrong. Maybe the director could have told the story without being so explicit. Maybe Netflix should have marketed this in a way that didn’t sound like the dancing was a good thing. And take this with a grain of salt, because we really only saw about 10 minutes of a 90 minute film.
From what I’ve read, you’re not wrong about the theme in the end. Still doesn’t justify quite a bit of highly sexualized dancing by preteens IMO.
When I see ‘coming of age’ in a movie description I know it is going to involve children coming to terms with sexuality in some way or other. I am not against the theme but there is a line. I have no intention of seeing this movie so I have no idea which side of the line it is on.