Don’t ever try and outdo America.
Sure, fancy themes, bullet points, esoteric birthday references. Slick gimmicks all to get you to read the links. I mean yeah, they sometimes put in a couple of hours to make things look good for you guys. I however, rest comfortably in my underachievement.
Like they’ll stick to this. Is it November yet?
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
They need to find a new schtick.
Ford refused to be outdone. This is their exploding model.
Kiss that monarchy goodbye.
And in honor of the Yugo, the AMC Pacer, and the Ford Pinto, this seemed appropriate.
““Kristen Welker, moderator of the Oct. 22 presidential debate at [Belmont University] has selected topics: Fighting COVID-19, American Families, Race in America, Climate Change, National Security, Leadership,” announced the Commission on Presidential Debates in a tweet Friday.”
Climate change? Of course, nothing about Biden being a crook.
It’s about time we finally have a National Conversation about race.
They are going to ask Trump to condemn white supremacy again, aren’t they? Chris Wallace did it in 2016 and again in 2020, and that town hall moderator said “you seem hesitant” after he immediately answered her.
“Mr. Trump, why do you think Black lives don’t matter?”
Oh, there will be something about Biden being a crook. It just won’t be brought up by the moderator.
I expect Trump to be honed to a fine edge for this one.
Trump is a blunt instrument. There is not a single katana or rapier in his arsenal. He has a wide variety of morningstars, maces, bludgeons, and handful of risty, pitted edged axes.
Have you watched him at one of his rallies?
He’s funny, charming, self depricating, and sharp as fuck. The energy he has is amazing.
Try watching one all the way through. Seriously.
He’s funnysometimes, but he is not subtle.
Agreed. Not subtle.
I’m just going to say that everyone needs to vote for Trump, like I always do.
Anyone who never loved the Donald is a libtard fake news!
I’m sorry. I am just a commenter here, please do not feel that you need to keep hiding your views just to suit me. By all means go back to your overt support.
Dude, you were more pro-Trump than most of us here until his CDC extended the renters’ eviction ban. People who don’t own rental property don’t care that much.
Mexico is fucked until drugs are legal.
We’re all fucked until drugs are legal, especially if we take drugs.
drugs
more drugs
drugs!
Drug music.
Drug music
Fun!
I live for drugs.
damn it.
The 303 is a nice touch.
Heh that’s OK I knew what it was
“In a country where criticizing the king or his family is punishable by up to 15 years in prison”
Is this Thailand or Twitter?
Notice it’s Democrats who have women dress up like handmaidens.
“Nobody ever had the fantastic being tied to a bed and ravished by a liberal.”
I don’t know, there are some very good looking liberals.
But wouldn’t the very act of ravishing a non-liberal make them a non-liberal according to the current liberal consensus? Associating with the other seems to be verboten in these days of cancel culture. So the fantasy would axiomatically be limited to being ravished by a very good looking ex-liberal.
What if it is a liberal fantasizing about another liberal?
Touche. Although, ravishing does have the connotation of not being the level of forms-signed-in-triplicate-before-and-after-each-successive-interaction style of consent that seems to be in vogue on the left these days, so I’m still dubious.
Fascist America bad, Marxist America good.
Hold them up next to each other and there is no daylight between them
Don’t ever try and outdo America.
A Gremlin? I’d rather have the first gen Honda Civic. ///IkindalikeJapaneseCars
Even worse, its a Pacer
Missed it by that much…
Criticism stands.
Leave me out of this.
In 1970 I was tempted to get a new Gremlin but with a wife/2 kids but I went with a yuge Merc. It was a good decision. If I remember, more or less, Gremlins were about $2200 .
My dad had a Pinto.
A friend of my older brother had a Yugo. The guy said, “That joke about ‘Yugo five miles an hour’? It’s true, that’s about the car’s top speed.”
“Kristen Welker, moderator of the Oct. 22 presidential debate at [Belmont University] has selected topics: Fighting COVID-19, American Families, Race in America, Climate Change, National Security, Leadership,” announced the Commission on Presidential Debates in a tweet Friday.
American families. Hmm… how to work Hunter Biden into that?
. The first two weigh about seven kilograms each and allow the wearer to lift another 20 kilograms. They are powered by a lithium battery with a lifespan of around six to eight hours.
You could just… squat more.
The first car I bought was a Safety Orange Ford Pinto station wagon. I bought it from Grandpa and Grandma.
I tinted the windows. I put red lights and a mirror on the ceiling above the cargo area. I replaced the AM radio with an AM/FM radio with a cassette tape player. I added a CB that also had a loudspeaker under the hood.
I taught several people to drive a manual transmission in that car.
Cool. I had the red courtesy lights under the dash on my ’46 Ford.
My first car was an ’80 Pinto. I loved that car – prior owner had put a V-6 from a Mustang in that thing, and it was (for the time) a rocket. I could easily beat RX-7s and 280Zs. And that engine made the car so front heavy, I could get the rear end to break free with ease on dry pavement, and when it got wet it was a truly frightening car. Actually did two 360 skids, in opposite directions, while going around an S turn in the rain (left turn followed by a right turn, rear end broke lose on the left turn, spun the car counterclockwise and straightened out just in time to hit the right turn, spun the car clockwise, ended up heading straight down the road – my passenger nearly pissed his pants).
Yikes!
Turbo SBC-swapped Yugo, please, with trucknuts, and a Reagan-Bush ’84 sticker on the bumper.
True story, I walked by a Yugo dealership about 1986, “Buy one, get one free”. There were only 2 on the lot.
With the “winter package” which consisted of a heated rear window so you could keep your hands warm as you pushed it.
I had a company van, merging onto a freeway. Got passed by a Yugo, I still haven’t lived that down, after 30 years.
STAY SCARED!!1!!!!1!
Two more Granite Staters have died of COVID-19, and 90 new positive cases were confirmed, health officials said Friday.
Officials said a man and woman, both age 60 or older and from Hillsborough County, died of COVID-19. One of the deaths was associated with a long-term care facility.
Pintos
Pinto.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txcd0u-mppM
More Pinto:
In case you ever wondered how the pledge in Animal House got the nickname Pinto, since it wasn’t explained in the movie, you have to go back to the National Lampoon stories the movie evolved out of.
As a boy, the future Pinto got tar all over his naked groin, and no matter how much he scrubbed, he couldn’t get the stains off his penis, which forever more had black spots just like a Pinto pony.
I believe this was first revealed in the classic tale “Pinto’s First Lay.”
STAY SCARED!!!!1!!11!!!!
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott announced this week that New Hampshire’s Grafton County is considered an elevated COVID-19 risk, and people traveling to or from that county for recreation or extended visits will be required to quarantine for 14 days when entering Vermont.
The Upper Valley region of Hanover and Lebanon, along with White River Junction in Vermont are deeply connected. The Dresden School District was the first interstate school district formed in the U.S. and encompasses Hanover and Norwich, Vt. Many residents live, attend school, work, and recreate in both states.
Hanover and Lebanon have municipal mask ordinances. Does this mean mask ordinances don’t work?
Live free ordie.Oh squirrels. That was supposed to be on the New Hampshire post, obviously.
I just dumped a whole bunch of NH links. It works for a few of them.
Time for machine gun emplacements along the Connecticut River.
“SAN FRANCISCO, CA—In a last-ditch effort to stop negative stories about Joe Biden and his family from spreading, Twitter shut down its entire social network Thursday.
After seeing account after account tweet out one particularly bad story, CEO Jack Dorsey realized he had to take action. Dorsey smashed a glass box in his office reading “Break In Case Of Bad Publicity For Democrats.” Inside the case was a sledgehammer for smashing Twitter’s servers.
“Red alert — shut the servers down! Shut them all down!”
Dorsey ran downstairs and started smashing as many computers as he could, but he did need to ask for some help, as the hammer was pretty heavy. None of the programmers could lift the hammer, either. Eventually, they managed to program a robot to pick up the sledgehammer and smash the servers.
After hearing the Twitter employees talk about critical theory, the robot got woke and began attacking all the cis white males.”
https://babylonbee.com/news/twitter-shuts-down-entire-network-to-slow-spread-of-negative-biden-news
STAY SCARED!!1!!111!
An “isolated patient” at the Belknap County Nursing Home has tested positive for COVID-19, the first resident or staff member at the facility to do so.
The Belknap County Commissioners, in a prepared statement dated Oct. 14, said the board was notified on Tuesday “of an isolated resident positive COVID-19 test,” at the home, which has 94 beds for skilled and long-term nursing, and has served residents of Belknap County since 1835.
“We refuse to accept a fascist America” — The Handmaids
Don’t vote Democrat.
And/or learn what “fascism” actually means.
NH hospital hit with lawsuit over sexual assault
A female patient who was repeatedly sexually assaulted by a doctor associated with Wentworth-Douglass Hospital has filed a lawsuit, claiming the hospital and its affiliates failed to protect her and properly monitor the doctor’s Newmarket office where the assaults occurred before his arrest in an undercover police sting.
The victim’s case against the hospital and Wentworth-Douglass Physician Corp. comes a year after Dr. Hugh MacDonald was sentenced to 5-10 years in state prison for sexually assaulting the woman in 2018.
MacDonald, 59, of Newfields, pleaded guilty to four counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault for three incidents that occurred at his Newmarket office in March and April 2018.
According to the suit filed in Rockingham County Superior Court, MacDonald became the victim’s primary care physician in 2015 through his office at Great Bay Family Practice, which is part of Wentworth-Douglass Physician Corp.
Nashua, NH boondoggle
Nashua officials have approved another $8 million for a downtown performing arts center, almost a third of which will be used to build a parking garage, bringing the project’s tab to $25 million.
“Let’s not be short sighted. Let’s look at the people who will be attending the events at the performing arts center and allow them to enjoy their evening with plenty of adjacent parking to the facility,” Alderman Michael O’Brien said this week.
The Board of Aldermen voted 12-3 to approve an additional $5.5 million bond for the performing arts center and an accompanying $2.5 million bond to build a lower level public parking complex as part of the abutting School Street Flats apartment project. Aldermen had previously OK’d a $15.5 million bond for the arts center at the former Alec’s Shoe store on Main Street.
Alderman Ernest Jette voted against the new bond, which totaled $8 million for the arts center and parking project.
“People were hardly overwhelmingly in favor of this when, at the time, it was a $15.5 million project. Now it is a $25 million project,” Jette said.
So Big Build, the Musical?
Asshole
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has vetoed a key bill that would loosen restrictions on restaurants and bars in the state.
House Bill 2513 would set minimum capacity for restaurants and taverns at a minimum of 50% and even beyond that if the premises allow. It further would allow establishments to permit patrons to sit at bars, provided they socially distance, and would eliminate the requirement that a meal must be purchased to buy an alcoholic beverage.
I heard that Taste of Sicily in Lebanon County, PA won their court case over their defiance of Gauleiter Wolf’s orders, but I haven’t seen any news articles about it yet.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8848817/Demi-Rose-displays-ample-assets-cobalt-blue-dress-lounges-beach-Maldives.html
Nope. Hourglass figure.
NC DHHS’s case for masks has problems
Wait. DHHS’s own case for forcing masks is based on a meta-analysis that finds masks are not even effective? That’s even worse than what Cohen presented to the General Assembly just before the mask mandate — uncompelling research that, upon further review, wasn’t even applicable to North Carolina.
Bul armory was out at the range, as was CZ with some Dan Wessons. The Buls seemed much nicer, though I didn’t get to put any rounds through either. Glock is setting up their booth in a bay with some targets — but why? This isn’t their market.
Dude, lots of practical shooters run Glocks. Glock developed the Glock 34 and 35 specifically to run in IDPA ESP division.
Obviously people run Glocks. 20% of my squad was. But what is gained by setting up like that as opposed to a vendor that isn’t commonly available to rent and could benefit by convincing people that their premium prices are worth it?
I’m guessing it’s more of a flex than anything else.
Re: Bul
https://modernfirearms.net/userfiles/images/handguns/israel/1287738072.jpg
I had one of these ~ 20 years ago. I regret letting it go.
Since Neph is busy, I’ll host a glib happy hour at 8:00pm Eastern.
I probably won’t join tonight. I’m heading out soon for a late dinner and have been quite tired from work. I’ll probably head to bed after I get back.
Thank you for hosting tonight!
Chafed, in case you are out there this evening, you asked about Reopen NH’s endorsed candidates.
There are libertarians on the list. Note the small “l” not big “L”.
No 2020 LPNH candidate is on the Reopen NH endorsed list.
I have met or know a few folks on the Reopen NH endorsed candidate list. Carla Gericke, state senate candidate, was the head of the Free State Project and is the PorcFest organizer. There are a few state reps who are libertarians. I think they were LPNH members but I could be wrong on that. I don’t know them well. They almost certainly registered as Republican to get easy ballot access. I’m helping out with the campaign of a woman on the endorsed list who is registered Republican but has strong libertarian leanings.
Thanks DEG.
Any debate that gives no mention to the Biden family alleged Ukrainian and Chinese pay to play schemes is slanted garbage. What a damn joke, to ignore what might be one of the biggest stories of the century two weeks before an election is indefensible.
It’s tough to believe it really has come to this.
But people have been told by newsmen, neighbors on Facebook, celebrities, and athletes that Trump is literally Hitler, so I guess they accept anything the Dems do as necessary to fight Trump.
I refuse to believe that people are that stupid but maybe they are.
True, it’s not as though it is only one thing, and that Biden didn’t publicly admit parts of it.
Trump go impeached over way less.
um, got
Maybe they’ll work it in under national security or Trump can manage to shoehorn it in there but I’m not holding my breath.
He needs to learn how to calmly ignore the question like Pence did.
Fox is reporting that the laptop is definitely, unequivocally Biden’s computer and the emails definitely provable, without a doubt his. They have tracked the sends and replies to the other computers involved and found info there that only Hunter could know.
Everyone else is running with ‘smear campaign’ and ‘fake news’.
Meh, we have gotten so far from what a “debate” should be they are all garbage. They shouldn’t be about gotchas for one or the other or both sides (or all three or four if we’re talking what ‘real’ debates should be). The questions should be generic and issue based, i.e. “What is your foreign policy and why is it better than your opponents” Then let the candidates speak, they can answer the question, attack the other guy, whatever, the moderators sole role should be time keeper, that’s it. And they need to mute everyones (including the moderators) mic when it isn’t there time to speak.
^This^
The first debate was a shitshow. It was like being at your crazy uncle/aunt’s house where they both talk at the same time and you cant understand either one.
I had friends, an old married couple, that would say something and end with, “Isn’t that right, Elsa?” Then Elsa would reaffirm the statement and end with, “Isn’t that right, Bob?” They could easily complete each others conversation. They’re both gone but were a good time, just listening to the speech pattern.
That’s what long time marriages devolve into, isn’t that right?…
They should have opposing moderators, such as Alex Jones and Joy Reid.
I elect hyperbole to be the moderator for the debate hosted by glibs.
There isn’t enough Strohs in the world for me to listen to that crap.
Up your beer game, d00d.
They still sell Strohs?
But you should still try. I for one have no objection to a style of debate like you mentioned moderated by a drunk you.
That I can agree with but it looks like the agenda will be set by the moderator. If they let the candidates bring up issues on their own within a supplied framework I’ll withdraw my criticism but I don’t see that happening.
So just like the first debate—mostly SJW crap only one side pretends to care about.
You have to have neutral moderation to have what you describe, and that is hopeless today.
I’m hearing tons of rumours that Hunter’s computer had for real kiddie porn on it – possibly with him participating. The way this story is going, it may be the only debate topic.
Other Presidents and candidates have had fuck-ups in their families. But only Joe made the fuck-up his personal bag man for collecting foreign policy bribes.
The way this story is going, it may be the only debate topic.
LOL, you way underestimate the ability of TMITE to sit on a story until it stops breathing.
Remember, there is enough primary source evidence out there to have Hillary, Obama, Biden, Rice and a dozen others sitting in Club Fed for a few decades.
Never mind the fact that most voters rank the economy as the most important issue (hits everybody right at home), the debates aren’t going to cover it.
How about a question on government overreach? Oh yeah—they did include climate change; that’s government overreach.
After the lockdowns I dont think anything counts as government overreach.
Yet another way that ‘for your own good’ has unintended consequences:
The outdoor faucet at my house leaks horrendously, and I looked today to see if it was an issue with the antifreeze part of the faucet or something else. Well, it was the vacuum breaker. It has rubber components that have degraded over the last 30 years.
Why not just remove the vacuum breaker (or maybe replace it)? Well, for our own good, they made the faucet 0.17″ thicker than a hose bib, and the threads are finer. This was evidently a short lived fad, because I can get a regular hose vacuum breaker, a fine thread vacuum breaker, but couldn’t find a thicker and finer thread vacuum breaker. I eventually tracked down an adapter online, but a $5, 5 minute fix turned into a 4 hour, 2 trips to the store, and $50 exercise in wait and see.
Fuck do-gooders, especially in the plumbing space.
Fuck do-gooders.
When it comes to government, I agree. Do-gooders spending their own money on voluntary works is just peachy.
I voted “No” on all CA props except one, and my reasoning for each considered “is this the government’s job?”
No, no, and no.
Even private funded doogoodery often has negative results, but as long as the
beneficiariesvictims have to actively seek out thehelpinterference and thedoogoodersbusybodies have no ability to force them to be involved or to punish them for deciding to back out it can be benign.Do-gooders spending their own money on voluntary works is just peachy.
Eh. Fuck some of them, too. As far as I can tell, modifying the connection was never mandatory, and doing so in some proprietary manner certainly wasn’t. In my opinion, the MYOFB (mind your own fucking business) principle applies in voluntary interactions, too.
I see we had the same weekend, just swap 02 sensors for vacuum breakers.
It’s 84 degrees and sunny. Lovely weather, and zero bugs. Ah…the good side of the People’s Republic of California.
We are still being eaten alive by mosquitos.
*prays for a frost*
Good luck with the frost. I can’t stand mosquitoes—they totally ruin the outdoor experience for me.
I didn’t know how relatively bug-free this place would be. I’m surprised it’s not more of a selling point.
Wait til our invasive little fuckers up here in LA reach you. They breed in a bottlecap of water and itch like a motherfucker. Nextdoor is full of “SOMETHING BIT ME! AAAARGH’.
Cooler weather will help, I hope, or the lizard in the wall gets his little tail going and eats some more.
Today was the first day since February I had to wear my my big boy pants to go out. Still going to be warm next week.
Two inches of snow here. Most of it melted, but some still lingers.
As usual, people were driving either too slow (“It’s not that bad!”) or too fast (looking at you, Mr. Jacked up Dodge with the wide tires).
We had 3 “, ground is still white but mostly settled. At least there isn’t any mosquitoes
I, myself, am an excellent driver. It’s all you other people who are crazy.
The Bee on ACB
Lol. Didn’t know the Bee does videos.
THE POWER OF THE CONSTITUTION COMPELS YOU!
I’m going to use that.
“They need to find a new schtick.”
It’s extremely disturbing that the women of the left believe their freedom hinges on the right to kill an unborn baby.
Her – “I demand the right to control my own body!”
Me – *points at baby* “Uh, ok, I agree but that’s not your body”
Yes, yes it is. 3 generations of women have been indoctrinated with the idea that somehow they’re entitled to risk free, consequence free sex. Granted, it’s not like they’re principled in other parts of their lives. They’re moralistic hedonists.
When the rubber (heh) meets the road, that means they couldn’t give half a fuck whether people have to die. They’re getting their orgasm, and they’re not gonna be stuck with any lasting effects.
My stepson’s newly knocked up woke GF posts on her page memes about women’s right to choose being at stake, and gay marriage is at stake.
Having won Roe V Wade decades ago and gay marriage rather more recently, there’s really no threat. So they use straw men to scare women.
You tell me which party is being condescending and is using women.
Having won Roe V Wade decades ago and gay marriage rather more recently, there’s really no threat.
In fairness, the conservatives really do want to get rid of Roe v Wade, so for people who value that decision there is a threat. It was bad case law and deserves to go on those merits alone, so those who support its results do have cause for concern, especially from originalist jurists.
But gay marriage is not under threat. That’s a phantom. After Roe v Wade there was a strong movement against it, and there has been no such similar movement against Obergefell v Hodges. The conservatives have (for the most part) accepted defeat on that front.
There is anger about Obergefell, but not a broad coalition as there is against Roe. The anti-Obergefell people are only the fundamentalists, and a few old people. Gay people being monogamous and filing joint returns oddly does not inspire the same motivation as chopped up babies.
Sure, but a lot of the freakout seems to be from people who believe that if RvW is overturned, abortion will instantly become illegal everywhere in the country. Which is not the case, and frankly a lot of the people freaking out are in blue states where their access to abortion isn’t at risk at all.
“They’re getting their orgasm…” not if I have anything to do with it.
You can’t bring a woman to orgasm?
It might not be long, but at least it’s thin.
https://twitter.com/ShelbyTalcott/status/1317515263751999489
So they get to gather for their religion but people can’t go to church.
“Trump is an unstable penis!”
https://twitter.com/ShelbyTalcott/status/1317491099485818881
“Nobody ever had the fantastic being tied to a bed and ravished by a liberal.”
Dudley Do-Right never ravished Nell, when she was tied to the railroad tracks and helpless. He just untied her. Maybe that’s why she was in love with his horse.
Dudley Do-Right was Canadian. Nobody wants to be ravished by a Canadian.
Sadly, there are a lot of women who want to be ravished by PM Zoolander.
Yeah, but only in blackface
Yuk. I’d sooner bed Mark Steyn. And I’d really rather avoid that too.
“Nobody wants to be ravished by a Canadian.”
Except half the women in the galaxy.
?
I had no idea Dan Ackroyd was so popular.
Maybe Norm Macdonald 25 years ago…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjBD6vLUOAE
I can’t believe a Ford Maverick didn’t make the list of shame. Talk about an ugly car. Ever seen one tricked out? Doesn’t help in the slightest.
Buddy of mine had the Mercury twin, the Comet in high school. We called it the Mecury Vomit.
Appropriate. Ugly car.
Hey, in college I had a 1974 Maverick Grabber with the 351 Cleveland engine, same as the Mustang. Fast as all get out. But yeah, not the most beautiful car, especially by 60s standards, but in the mid-70s, there weren’t a lot of pretty options on a college guy’s budget.
Chevvie Vega?
How was the song not My Hooptie by Sir-Mix-Alot?
Sir Mix-A-Lot
“Kristen Welker Deactivates Twitter Account Ahead of Moderating Next Presidential Debate
NBC News White House Correspondent Kristen Welker raised eyebrows after she deactivated her Twitter account just weeks before being scheduled to moderate the final 2020 presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
Welker disabled her account following controversy over the tweets of fellow presidential debate moderator, C-SPAN’s Steve Scully, who said he was hacked after his account posted a message to former Trump staffer Anthony Scaramucci.”
https://www.mediaite.com/election-2020/kristen-welker-deletes-twitter-account-ahead-of-october-29-presidential-debate/
Welker disabled her account following controversy over the tweets of fellow presidential debate moderator, C-SPAN’s Steve Scully, who
said he wasmade up a lie about being hacked afterhis account postedhe was caught sending a highly biased message to former Trump staffer Anthony Scaramucci regarding his handling of the debate moderation role FIFTa highly biased message to former Trump staffer Anthony Scaramucci regarding his handling of the debate moderation role
What was the message exactly. I thought it was “Should I respond to Trump?” and was in regard to Trump criticizing him.
To be honest, I don’t know the first thing about this incident, except for the article I saw where CSPAN suspending the guy for lying about his account being hacked. I guess I’m fake news, too.
*shrugs*
And which he later admitted was a lie.
What I did when my car broke down.
I always liked that song. I have the album.
? A classic of that era
The fact that AMC managed to get the corporate six cylinder in the Pacer is amazing. With the original hood it is less awful and it actually sold well initially. GM was supposed to provide a rotary engine that they never produced and pretty well screwed AMC.
https://youtu.be/kcl98aBRkD8
I had a relative that worked for AMC so as a kid I rode in just about every model made in the 70s and 80s.
The Javelin? My freshman year in high school there was a senior who owned a seriously souped up Javelin. I swear it looked like the front tires were off the pavement when he hit the gas.
My second car was a 1973 AMC Ambassador Brougham wagon (wood grain decals on the side panels, an AC with a “Desert Use Only” setting, the works). That thing was an unstoppable tank.
52nd Street in Kenosha used to have the most bars of any street in America, and almost all of them were on the south side of the street. American Motors took up most of the space on the north side of 52nd where most of the bars were located.
Speaking of masks- I wonder if there has been a spike in sinus infections, due to breathing through germ incubators.
I’m suffering with one right now. I think “yes” is the answer.
I have to wear one at work when the “right” people are around and all week I am a stuffed up snot factory. After the weekend of not wearing one it goes away.
Yeah, I get stuffed up after wearing one for 20 minutes in the supermarket.
And we thought the changing a tire bit was bad.
Has he had a serious illness? That is a haggard looking fruit sushi.
He looks OK to me.
#metoo
LOL—asking the important questions
Never let that man operate power tools.
Twitter is a sewer. Any platform that encourages people to post that tripe is de facto evil.
Hey Rico, I got a boo boo on my finger, too. The difference is that I simply had my wife help me bandage it up (so I didn’t track blood everywhere) and then went about my business. I didn’t tweet out pictures of it for all my friends to see.
Yeah, it’s not like he had a serious hose bib problem. (insert whatever the appropriate ‘I’m just yanking your chain” emoji is)
*cries into stroh’s*
That thread reads like a conversation at a slumber party for 13 year old girls.
Toughen up soldier!
I bleed nearly every day
I think he looks like Kate McKinnon in Ghostbusters
Go ahead and laugh about AMCs. My ’69 AMX (390, 4 speed) was fun. Gobs of tiresmoking power, combined with absolutely diabolical handling. Highly entertaining, it was.
The Matador police package was also one of the best performing police cars of the late 60’s/early 70’s.
My childhood friend’s mom drove a Pacer. It was supposed to be maroon or burgundy, but the interior was sun faded into a lavender on all the molded parts like door panels, dash, etc.
It was a pain to get in and out of, but as young kids, we didn’t expect better and didn’t complain.
The passenger door was actually longer than the driver’s door to make getting into it easier.
“Oh nothing…
Just Obama’s former speech writer, Nathan Osburn, hiding behind a mask pretending to be an undecided voter…and @JoeBiden
pretending not to know who he is…”
https://twitter.com/Jali_Cat/status/1317350681758543872
Seriously?
Favorite comment: “It’s entirely possible Joe really forgot who he was”
They keep getting caught with their pants down and it will cause 0 change in the end results. We’re doomed.
Trump winning an electoral college victory and losing the popular vote again equals doomed?
OH SHIT IT’s THE GREEN GOBLIN GET SPIDERMAN ASAP
What the hell did I just watch?
Can’t wait to see this in the olympics.
The Matador police package was also one of the best performing police cars of the late 60’s/early 70’s.
Whacking 15(?) inches out of the wheelbase of the AMX, and pushing the motor forward might have been a good idea for the dragstrip, but it made turn-in kind of abrupt. You had to left foot brake it into the corner, and get the weight transferred to the outside front in a more or less controlled manner, and then apply power off the corner in a judicious manner.
Go directly to Jail, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars
If things don’t go Donald Trump’s way on Election Day, the President may face more serious matters than how to pack up the West Wing.
Without some of the protections afforded him by the presidency, Trump will become vulnerable to multiple investigations looking into possible fraud in his financial business dealings as a private citizen — both as an individual and through his company. He faces defamation lawsuits sparked by his denials of accusations made by women who have alleged he assaulted them, including E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who has accused him of rape. And then there are claims he corrupted the presidency for his personal profits.
As President, Trump has been able to block and delay several of these investigations and lawsuits — including a yearlong fight over a subpoena for his tax returns — in part because of his official position. Many of those matters have wound through the courts and will come to a head whether he is reelected or not.
But with the polls showing that Democratic rival Joe Biden is leading in the race, the stakes become much higher for Trump if he loses the election. A raft of legal issues, including a criminal investigation by New York prosecutors, will come into focus in the weeks after Election Day.
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The most serious legal threat facing Trump is the Manhattan district attorney’s broad criminal investigation into the financial workings of the Trump Organization. Prosecutors have suggested in court filings that the investigation could examine whether the President and his company engaged in bank fraud, insurance fraud, criminal tax fraud and falsification of business records.
They’ve got the goods on him. As soon as he walks out of the Oval Office, they’ll clap him in irons.
If Biden wins I think they will actually go after him with the real intention of putting him in prison. There won’t be any of the usual professional courtesy stuff for Trump, his family, or his associates.
If Biden wins I think they will actually go after him with the real intention of putting him in prison.
That would be a serious mistake, but I have no doubt there would be officials pressing for it. This country has no history of holding its presidents accountable, so to single one out would be seen (rightly) as highly partisan and divisive. But I can totally see the party that runs on “bringing the country together” turn around and start burning bridges as soon as they hold the reins.
The Southern District of New York has been going after Trump since Day One. They even bragged about it. “We will go after Trump” or some such. It will absolutely continue–and probably ramp up—after he leaves office.
zOMG THEY COULD INVESTIGATE STUFF!!
Apropos of nothing, HayEx’s comments about Zardoz reminded me of the ol’ Bad Movie Reviews page. Looks like it’s still around – nothing new in over a decade, but looks like the forums are still live too….
Good times reading the weekly updates 20 years ago…
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/zardoz/
“Trump Says He Won’t Force Americans To Take COVID-19 Vaccine”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-says-he-wont-force-americans-take-covid-19-vaccine
What a fucking piece of shit science denier, alternatively worst fascist ever.
Fascism means forcing citizens to make their own choices
They’re almost as bad as the Nazis who promote free speech and association. Truly disgusting human beings…
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/8NNKFwwqTaOkELsdeljqig.tUlOzEgh_H7FQlWtdttjKZ
Lil pumpkin lights hanging off our back deck.
BTW – my friend in PA drov by this. Said he concurred it was most definitely more than a few hundred cars.
MAGA Trump Rally Newtown, PA October 17, 2020
PA will go Trump again, despite commie voter fraud.
Dunno, Sean. Here in Chesco the woke educated women and their whipped spouses seem more in for Biden than they ever were for Hillary. I know two GayJay votes that are now going for Trump, but six Trump votes that are now going for Biden.
If Harris headed the top of the ticket, then I think Trump would cruise. But Biden heads it and the “he’s senile” meme doesn’t seem to be taking off because it doesn’t show in his ads and he has handled live interviews fairly decently. They should have trotted out the Hunter Biden e-mail shit back before the Dems handed their nomination to Biden.
I’m in new York, but way more Biden signs than last election had Clinton signs.
Not sure why people think they’re reallyany different, maybe people really are sexist. both seem ready to sell the whole damn country down the river for their own aggrandizement.
I don’t get it, either. I get the TEAM thing. TEAMs are easy to support. But him, personally? Holy crap, he’s despicable. And I thought he was pretty milquetoast throughout the Obama era, because who the hell pays attention to the VP—or the Senator from fucking Delaware? Now he’s in your face and the more he opens his mouth the worse it gets.
it’s 100% this:
People would rather a smooth talking authoritarian than a firebrand of any stripe.
Yup. He’s despicable even if you dislike trump for his stray comments about women, not sure having an accused sexual harasser and hair sniffer extraordinaire is the solution. But his supporters are immune to it all.
But trash, he’s not even smooth talking. That’s what gets me. But some people are only exposed to his polished exertions I suppose.
he’s not even smooth talking
He doesn’t sound like an asshole new Yorker, and that’s all that matters to them.
Literally “sounds like an asshole” is the number one disqualifier for a depressing percentage of people in this country. Its why so many people hated W. It’s why they hated Reagan.
It’s part of why they loved slick willy (he could turn it on and off). Its why the Kennedy fetish still exists.
Reagan didn’t sound like an asshole. He was always smiling and pleasant even when the press was openly hostile. That is a big part of why he won 49 States in 84. The media tried to portray him as hateful, but every image of him was a smiling kindly grandfather. It is why I am worried about Biden actually winning this election. Trump sounds angry and boorish and a lot of people really hate that.
Biden is nastier in five minutes of listening to him than Reagan was over eight years.
https://youtu.be/4-Qj58o87sY
Trump in Wisconsin, working that crowd. ?
…ew! /teenage girl
I had a ’72 Pinto for a spell. It was a cheap piece of shit, no doubt – but the damn thing started every time you turned the key. Hot, cold, wet, dry, didn’t matter. The thing never ran well but it always ran, summer or winter.
Not too shabby for a $300 car.
Half of they guys in my HS class (itty-bitty rural Iowa) had a Pinto purchased for $300 – I graduated in 1986.
My ’72 Pinto was the best car that I’d ever had up to that time. The “explodes on impact” was bullshit from the start, having more to do with Ford’s reaction than the actual results. It was the first “modern car” that I had owned and had the 1.6 engine. I used to routinely get 40MPG on the highway.
Mine had the 2.0, I think. It got damn near 40MPG on the highway – and 40 miles per quart of oil. I used to carry a case of cheap motor oil around and dunk in a new quart every time I bought gas.
The engine and drivetrain were made in Germany and were basically bullet-proof. I never had any mechanical issues.
The only mechanical issues I had in my ’76 Pinto 2.0 were from hitting a piece of wood on the road and poking a hole in the oil pan. And the instrument cluster disintegrated. It really was a great first car.
OK, so the AMC is ugly, but it’s better than the Pinto. If the headlights fold down for .50s to pop out, then that’s good.
Trump is offering to kiss the men in the crowd again. ???
Milo broadened daddy’s horizons.
I don’t see much of Milo anymore. Is he still out there doing stuff?
I think he just went away to enjoy his money with a selection of large penises. I was never a fan honestly, he had some positions I agree with, and some not so much, but I do not like obnoxious flamboyance whether I agree with the underlying position or not.
I think he just went away to enjoy his money with a selection of large penises.
I do remember that he got married sometime before he disappeared, so perhaps that had something to do with it.
I hate the gays as much as the next guy, but I really enjoyed how much he riled up everyone I disagree with politically.
“I hate the gays as much as the next guy”
WTF????
Yea. Not cool.
I read that as a joke
Did he make any money? I remember a while back all the libs on derpbook were laughing over some news that he had been sued into poverty and was broke or something.
Looks like he’s still up to his old tricks, at least to a degree:
https://reason.com/2020/10/16/milo-yiannopoulos-defends-basic-traditions-of-journalism/
He got married. Haven’t seen/heard anything since then.
Disappointing since I found him to be entertaining.
I follow him on Gab. He seems to post a lot of stuff one day, then nothing for a while.
https://gab.com/m
I’ll do one for one if Melania is included.
lolfag
Ask Amy: If I ignore my wife’s recycling errors, she’ll never learn
“She recently put her career on hold to focus on our two small children, and she is an amazing mother.
My only complaint is her apathy toward recycling. I’m constantly picking recyclables out of the trash and trash out of the recycling bin.”
You should probably be more worried about her boyfriend.
Dear Dork, please give me your wife’s phone number. Any woman who has been married to an idiot like you for 8 years without having or developing any habits more annoying than refusing to wash garbage is wonderful enough for me to propose to sight unseen.
I read All the Trouble in the World by PJ O’Rourke, in which he writes of his travels to Haiti, Somalia, Vietnam, and Bosnia. One of his fun facts is that of the 50 worst Superfund sites, 15 are recycling plants.
It’s fun to tell this to environmentalists and watch their faces turn purple. More purple than when they scream for the trees:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJFYwRtrH4
My only complaint is her apathy toward recycling. I’m constantly picking recyclables out of the trash and trash out of the recycling bin.
Then he has no legitimate complaint about her. And I take great satisfaction in the fact that he is probably wasting his time, considering that much of the non-metallic recycling ends up in a landfill right next to the trash.
Better than where it used to end up back when the Chinese were taking it.
In the ocean?
and the atmosphere. They were stripping out whatever they wanted from the heaps of garbage they were paid to take, then burning (in unscrubbed incinerators) and dumping the rest in the rivers.
Even metal recycling is bad for the environment. All the electronic trash that gets melted down for gold contains a lot of lead and arsenic. It’d be better just to throw it in a landfill.
Much like talismasks, recycling is little more than ritual.
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Instrumentum regni (literally, “instrument of monarchy”, therefore “of government”) is a Latin phrase perhaps inspired by Tacitus,[1] used to express the exploitation of religion by State or ecclesiastical polity as a means of controlling the masses, or in particular to achieve political and mundane ends.
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I believe that it is the very thing which among other peoples is an object of reproach, I mean superstition, which maintains the cohesion of the Roman State. These matters are clothed in such pomp and introduced to such an extent into their public and private life that nothing could exceed it, a fact which will surprise many. My own opinion at least is that they have adopted this course for the sake of the common people. It is a course which perhaps would not have been necessary had it been possible to form a state composed of wise men, but as every multitude is fickle, full of lawless desires, unreasoned passion, and violent anger, the multitude must be held in by invisible terrors and suchlike pageantry. For this reason I think, not that the ancients acted rashly and at haphazard in introducing among the people notions concerning the gods and beliefs in the terrors of hell, but that the moderns are most rash and foolish in banishing such beliefs.
— Polybius
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“Religion is regarded by the wise as false, by the foolish as true, and by the rulers as useful.”
-Seneca the Younger
I can’t even. What a f-g.
You’re on a roll, don’t stop now.
Fun Fact Frolic
In the Sherlock Holmes stories, there is a smattering of foreign language quotes. Here they are:
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“Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo; ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplar in arca”
(“The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box”)
“l’Homme n’est Rien l’Oeuvre Tout” (“The man is nothing, the work is everything”)
“Il n’y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l’esprit!” (“There are no fools so troublesome as those that have some wit!”)
“Wir sind gewohnt dass die Menschen verhohnen was sie nicht verstehen” (“We are used to seeing that man despises what he cannot understand”).
Schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus Dir schuf, / Denn zum wuerdigen Mann war und zum Schlemen der Stoff
[Nature, alas, made only one being out of you although there was material for a good man and a rogue].”
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Tarzan is fictional, but there was a real warlord named Tzazon.
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Tzazo (also known as Tzazon or Zano) was the brother to King Gelimer (530–534), the last Vandal ruler of the North Africa. Tzazo died on 15 December 533 during the Battle of Tricamarum, which finally brought to an end the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa.
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The word federal comes from the Latin word for treaty, foedus.
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Foederati (/ˌfɛdəˈreɪtaɪ/ in English; sing. foederatus /ˌfɛdəˈreɪtəs/) were peoples and cities bound by a treaty, known as foedus, with Rome. In Republican times the term identified the socii, whereas during the Imperial period it was used to describe foreign states, client kingdoms, or barbarian tribes to which the Roman Empire provided benefits in exchange for military assistance. The term was also used, especially under the Roman Empire, for groups of “barbarian” mercenaries of various sizes, who were typically allowed to settle within the Roman Empire
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The Founding Fathers described the national govt as federal to make it clear that it was a pact between states that were otherwise independent. Hence the term “these united States”.
And finally, the song that every Tim Burton and fantasy film has ripped off: Camille Saint-Saëns – Aquarium, from the Carnival of Animals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVpl-RNzdE4
The words fascist and fag both are derived from words refering to bundles of sticks. Language is odd.
Indeed. The Arabic word for lieutenant is mulazim, which sounds exactly like the words that mean “not necessary” (mu lazim). Arabic military humor is a vast ocean.
“Teach your kids to swim before you teach them to read. They can pay someone to read for them but they can’t pay someone to swim for them.”
-Arabic Proverb
“The Imam farts and the congregation shits” – Arabic expression meaning that when a leader makes a mistake, his followers make it worse.
Grazhadanskaya Oborona means civil defense in Russian. Using the traditional Soviet acronym formula, that becomes GrOb. Grob means coffin in Russian.
Line from an Australian song: “We took some prisoners to HQ, shared a fag and a yarn or two. They were the same as me and you.”
Confusing to many Americans?
Many Americans are voting for Biden and support lockdowns, so that is a low bar.
Language is weird, but it often makes sense, in a round-about sort of way.
Take your example. A bundle of sticks is a symbol of fascism, because fascism (as a collectivist ideology) is about bringing the many together and binding them to one another, as binding together a bundle of sticks, to become “stronger together”. A pack of cigarettes does bear some resemblance to a bundle of sticks, since a lot of long, slender objects are held together. And frotting could be viewed figuratively as holding two sticks together, so it works on that front, too.
*Full disclaimer: the above etymology is 2/3 BS, I think*
I used to think it was because all gay guys smoke, at least it seems that way.
I do think we do smoke (and do drugs) to a somewhat higher degree than you norms. It’s curious that I’ve never seen any research into that. ?♂️
Who smokes more? Gay men or gay women?
Or is it a 100% to 100% tie?
No idea. I pay zero attention to lesbians.
the series of tubes says
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Results: Younger lesbian/gay and bisexual women had higher relative odds of experimental use of all six tobacco products compared to heterosexual women, whereas lesbian/gay and bisexual women in both age groups had higher odds of regular use of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars, and hookah than heterosexual women. Younger gay men (but not older gay men) had higher relative odds of experimental and regular use of cigarettes compared to heterosexual men. Older gay men had higher odds of experimental e-cigarette and hookah use, but lower odds of regular cigar and experimental/regular smokeless tobacco use. Measures of sexual orientation identity and sexual attraction resulted in similar estimates of tobacco use with noted differences in those who identified as “something else,” as well as among those who indicated asexual attraction.
Conclusion: Our findings reflect a complex relationship between sexual orientation and tobacco use. Gender-based and product-specific approaches to tobacco prevention and control efforts are needed to address the high use of tobacco among sexual minority women.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5802250/
Not sure if I buy it – they didn’t say “more research is needed”.
That has always been an issue for the alliance. Not as big an issue as the hostility between both L and G and B, but significant nonetheless.
So if G and L don’t really get along, and
G and L both hate B
and L now hates T
and Black people and Jews don’t get along
and Black people and Hispanics don’t get along
and there are serious issues between the Black community and the LGBT community
and Hispanics and the LGBT community
How the hell does team D ever win elections? I really do not understand identity politics.
Identity politics is really fucking simple.
Toss out a shit ton of pandering crap to all groups. They hear what’s most relevant to them. They ignore the rest.
It works that way on both sides. libertarian (little l) trumpalos hear the anti-woke stuff and ignore the fundy stuff.
Dead people cement their coalition together. they don’t hate anybody.
@trash, does trump really say much fundamental things? He never seems that bad, but I could just be falling for his tricks.
there are some rather vague quotes in this (shitshow of an) article
Generally he’s strongest with the fundy crowd in
1) recognizing the shift of Christianity from cultural majority to cultural minority (and railing against it)
2) being against destruction of the “judeo+Christian principles” of the founding
and
3) being pro life
It’s about being united against the hated class.
https://youtu.be/bp6dsKleGpU
wtf.
And I don’t like anybody very much.
Tom Lehrer explains it for you.
“National Brotherhood Week”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgASBVMyVFI
The way some guys slob on cigars, I could buy this.
It does make a lot of sense. I award you four Merriam-Websters.
Famous Fags: Marshal Hubert Lyautey
His main contribution to warfare was the counterinsurgency “Oil Spot” strategy. He, was, however famous for other things:
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Lyautey has been called “perhaps France’s most distinguished – or infamous – homosexual.”[50] Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau – whom Lyautey despised, as he did most politicians – is quoted as having said:
Here is an admirable and courageous man who always had balls up to his ass. It’s just a shame that they are not always his.[51]
It has been speculated that Lyautey might have provided Marcel Proust with the model for the character of the homosexual Baron de Charlus in his magnum opus Remembrance of Things Past.[50]
The actual evidence for Lyautey being a homosexual is primarily circumstantial,[52] but it was widely regarded as an open secret at the time,[51][53] one which some historians claim Lyautey did not take any effort to hide.[54][55] Robert Aldrich writes that he liked hot climates and “the masculine company of young officers”.[9] Lyautey’s wife is said to have told a group of her husband’s young officers that “I have the pleasure of informing you that last night I made you all cuckolds,” implying that the officers were all paramours of her husband, and that she had had sex with Lyautey the night before.[51]
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Man, when the *French* think you’re being too gay…sheesh.
I will note as an aside that the most effective unit in the French military, the Foreign Legion, contains the fewest Frenchmen.
That’s the origin of the term “balls-deep”. Now you know the rest of the story.
I don’t think anyone actually knows how it became slang for homosexual men. I have seen a number of speculations but nothing definitive or persuasive.
Motti is a similar word in Finnish for a bundle of wood – or a bunch of surrounded freezing commies in need of headshots.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_(military)#Motti
Too early for GlibFit?
Fuck it, I’ll do it live!
I’ve ridden my exercise bike more than 500 miles since I bought it less than a month ago. My weight is the lowest its been since April. And I lifted a 145 pound atlas stone from the ground onto a 44 inch high post.
Such a victory can only be celebrated with Swedish power metal or John Lovitz.
I HAVE THE POWER!
Nice work. Don’t jack up your junk though.
Noted. I have a pretty good track record of not hurting myself from exercise. My biggest booboo was 7 years ago when I had the brilliant idea of drinking a 12 pack of Rolling Rock, which inspired me to walk to the all-night gym and try to bench press 225 pounds. Turns out that was my one rep max and the bar came to rest on my chest for an uncomfortable 30 seconds while I shook off the plates.
My ribs were a bit sore the next day, but that was it.
Speaking of booze, my last drink was 42 days ago. Yay sobriety! If I was in AA, I think I’d get a badge or something.
If I was in AA, I think I’d get a badge or something
A chip. So I hear. I’m no quitter! That’s a virtue, I’m told.
Nodding woman
TW: Hannity.
But she is fine as hell.
Nice rack.
Yes but she lookalikeamannn…
^^
She’s hawt. And thinks for herself. Leftist can’t have that.
Also, fried chicken.
Yikes! Was doing some pretty heavy work in the yard today and my legs went all wobbly-wonky. Sat down for a half an hour and aside from some stiffness seem to be fine now. I’ve had some vertigo issues over the last few years but nothing like this. Pinched nerve or something? I couldn’t stay upright on my pins and was not in a drunken state.
Dehydration? I have had the same effect frm dehydration (and once from low blood sugar when I was on a very low calorie diet).
It was weird. I didn’t feel dizzy or disoriented. My legs just stopped conforming to that shit-lord of a brain. Once I picked myself up off the ground my gait was peculiar, like the singing frog.
Maybe pre-diabetic. It runs rampant through the paternal side.
I play a doctor on the internet. I prescribe you 3 gin and tonics.
Goodness me, it looks like you have industrial disease. Next patient, please
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3X3rKtruSg
You’ll not remove my panties with such ease.
Where’s Rhywun when you need him?
Hah! I’m drinking Everclear and Fresca, which I call the “Panty Dropper”
Sadly, my wife doesn’t drink………………………
We called the drink made of Bailey’s, hot chocolate, and peppermint schnapps “Sore Pussies” as in some young thing saying, “I don’t remember what happened last night but I have a sore pussy this morning.”
May he just needs to skate it away
Blood sugar, have you checked it?
Went through a health scare a year ago. They bled me dry for testing. Surely something would have turned up then.
You can buy the test kits on Amazon. What you’re describing sounds like blood sugar out of whack. That’s what I would suspect first. It could just be an acute bout of hypoglycemia. That would make you weak and all wobbly like that.
Thanks, Hyperion! If it persists I’ll check it out.
The correct Glib answer:
You should do more squats.
Surprisingly popular spanky videos.
F 18 carrier landing
How did the carrier get airborne?
Robert Redford had a plan to kill all deplorables and tricked Jules Winfield into pulling out Bad Mother Fucker and paying for it.
Looks like SF was flying.
Hawker Hurricane Low Flypast
Right before it was shot down by an ME because ME’s are superior.
Shut up! Just shut up! *runs to nearest aerodrome and shoots down a Heinkel*
That is why, when possible, the Brit ground control would send the Hurricanes after bombers & ME-110’s and the Spitfires after the Me-109’s.
https://www.allianceairshow.com/
The Thunderbirds have been rocking the building I work in for a couple of days. I left work yesterday to a coordinated unrestricted climb right over my head. It was pretty awesome. I almost ran into the ditch.
Which is least bad Truly or White claw?
Asking for a friend.
Is your “friend” an 18 year-old stripper? In any case, yes and yes!
Just hold your breath until you get dizzy, or huff paint, or find a male cat and a mirror, or lick a toad. Don’t do anything disgusting like drink White Claw just for a buzz.
Pshaw. You and yer high-falutin’ ways… We do Testors and we likes it!
White Claw is good. Truly is wanting.
Yes
I walked a little over 6 miles today. It wiped me out. I’ve been doing 4-5 for about a week now, pushed it up a little today.
I was complaining here a while back about lower back pain and getting up like 5 times a night to pee. The back problem just went away, so that was just my back.
I finally went in to check it out. It’s BPH. It’s been getting better as I’ve increased exercise and lost 8 lbs now (only 30 to go). But I’m still getting up 2 times a night. I never quite feel rested in the morning because of that. Dr suggested I could try a couple different medications and if that doesn’t work, maybe surgery. I guess they can even do something with lasers now for it.
I refused the pills for now. But I’m trying saw palmetto. Dr said OK to try, but probably won’t work. Of course, he’s just like all doctors, if a big pharm co didn’t make it, it doesn’t work. You need to ask your dr if the latest pharm product is right for you. If I’m going to take drugs, at least give me something that will make me feel like a god. Hey doc, is some cocaine and Ativan right for me? Maybe mix both with some weed and beer, that might be right for me.
With that cocktail you’ll be hiking 20 miles a day in no time.
Or maybe I just won’t care.
I like your method.
Provincial election coming up and I’m tempted to vote for the Libertarian just to push the total above double digits. This is a safe seat, the “Liberal” party (actually center-right) wins every time with a 2 to 1 majority.
“This ad was made safely. Please wear a mask in our stores.”
/just seen ad with that AT&T chick some of you lot like
?♂️
It bears repeating: we’re never going to be rid of this shit, are we?
Next bad flu season… Assuming a Republican is president.
Oh, don’t be so pessimistic. After Stimulus XXXVII devalues the currency and the Green New Deal outlaws fire no one will be wearing a mask while they wander the land sampling tasty roots and bark and pond water.
It’ll wind up like condoms from the 80’s. Low-risk populations will disregard.
Here’s you censor:
Anna Adeola Makanju is currently working on content regulation at Facebook. Previously, she was the Special Policy Advisor for Europe and Eurasia to Vice President Biden…
https://www.pdsoros.org/meet-the-fellows/anna-makanju
She was born and spent her childhood in the Soviet Union before immigrating to the United States.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/anna-makanju/
Literally a commie spy – but that’s now a badge of honor.
Atlantic council, a “non-partisan” non-profit on foreign policy. I’ve heard of them twice in two days. One employee is a Soviet former Biden side. The other is a former Obama deputy cabinet member.
totally “non-partisan”
I’m livid about this.
So does the enthusiastic Nascar crowd beat the brow-furrowers from NPR come November? I think they do.
We need you in the Zoom Hype is being an asshole.
Hype is being an asshole
Are you familiar she the parable of the scorpion and the frog?
Just being on Zoom with him is probably enough to catch the gay from him.
What’s the Zoom info?
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81197592540?pwd=ZTJlS2tYODM1TFBpbmo4czlJWlJDZz09
Awww… you’re hurting me feelings!
I’m not in the Zoom but that really should be the link if you copy and paste it.
Rgr. Thank you.
Try again Hype woke up.
See Tulip’s post above.
I posted Neph’s link from yesterday which he said would be the regular one from now on.
I was trying to be helpful. Honest.
MSNBC is calling the NYPost Biden Expose “reported Russian Disinformation”.
Not because there is any evidence that it’s Russian, but since someone reported that it might be that’s what we’ll all call it.
That they are:
https://youtu.be/xLTV_3leKNU
Trigger Warning: It’s Rachel Maddox and her smug and transparent propaganda.
And Rachel Maddow too.
“MSNBC is calling the NYPost Biden Expose “reported Russian Disinformation”.”
OFFS!!!!
Just got a notification on my phone that some random email was sharing a file with my Google Drive. Obviously a phishing/virus attempt. I open drive to block and report, and the file immediately opened. Way to go Google. Some random russian PDF with a link. Fortunately opened on my phone and 3rd party installs are blocked. But FFS Google you allow it to auto open, you’re supposed to have some of the brightest…
After opening the file I have the sudden urge to vote for Trump. So strange.
Вы должны проголосовать за плохого оранжевого человека
I recognize the last 2 words as “orange guy”.
Orange comes from the Sanskrit word naranja, meaning fragrant.
And now you know…
If anyone is trying to get into the zoom happy hour and can’t it is because Tulip made Hype host and he passed out in his chair.
Just mention cock. He’ll snap right out of it.
A few more fun tidbits to tide you over til the morn:
The most common bumper music for Rush Limbaugh is called My City is Gone. Turns out the first 15 seconds is the only good part.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvAYGz6Iwmc
There’s a beer called Spitfire. The tagline is: downed all over Britain, just like the Luftwaffe
I had a beer in Tanzania called Ndovu, which a less common word for elephant in Swahili. The standard word is tembo, which can also mean palm wine in some places there. Elephant comes from the Greek word for ivory. Kilimanjaro could be translated as ivory hill. Kilima means hill and njaro means an elephant tusk. Another explanation:
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One theory is that the name is a mix of the Swahili word Kilima, meaning “mountain,” and the KiChagga word Njaro, loosely translated as “whiteness.” Another is that Kilimanjaro is the European pronunciation of a KiChagga phrase meaning “we failed to climb it.”
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Kilima means hill. Mlima means mountain. Try harder, Live Science. Anyway…
I met a Chagga guy who told me the name means “you can’t get there”, because that’s what the Africans said when some white guy pointed at the mountain and said “what do you call that?”- in English of course. The initial reports of Kilimanjaro were dismissed as a hoax because no one believed that there could be a snow capped mountain so close to the equator. The two main tribes are the Chagga and the Pare. The Pare have a reputation as wachawi, witch doctors.
I climbed Kili in 2009. I went up the Marangu route, which is the easy way. I saw a blue monkey but Dora the Explorer was nowhere to be seen. There’s a frozen leopard that’s become a landmark on the Machame route. No one knows why it was up there. Hemingway wrote about it.
I learned some KiChagga. Ndesindisoma means hello. Gwifokudama means how are you. The ma at the end changes to a sa if you’re talking to a man. Ki is a prefix in Bantu languages that means style. The Swahili word for Swahili is Kiswahili.
Milima haikutani lakini binadamu hukutana – mountains don’t meet, but people do
I wrote a book in Swahili called Jinsi Inavyofanya Kazi – How It Works. I was annoyed by all the religious books in Swahili and the total absence of science or technology books in that language. I figured there’s bound to be people over there interested in science who can’t/won’t learn English. The section are cars was the longest because everyone knows what a car is and it’s a good illustration of many mechanical and electrical principles.
Carpathian folk music has a hell of beat – must be all the vampire raves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2ufwj4FhrU
Vampire comes from the Turkish word for witch, uber. The Hungarians garbled it into vampir and the French stuck a silent e on the end because of course they did. They use silent letters the way a horse shits. The mere thought of a silent letter gives them a hard on that could knock over a card table.
The 2 main tribes near Kili are the Pare and the Chagga, I mean. The Sukuma tribe near Lake Victoria is the biggest, but even they are only 15% of the population. There are 120 tribes in Tanzania and they all have their own languages.
The first president of Tanganyika (later Wonder Twin activated with Zanzibar to become Tanzania) was a guy named Nyerere. His Dad’s name was one letter off from burrito:
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Julius Kambarage Nyerere was born on 13 April 1922 in Mwitongo, an area of the village of Butiama in Tanganyika’s Mara Region. He was one of 25 surviving children of Nyerere Burito, the chief of the Zanaki people.
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I spent 10x longer in Africa than that asshole Hemingway and I bet I could write a better book about it.
I learned some Masai too. Plurals are weird in that language. Ingishu means cow and Engiteng means cows. There’s a big crater full of animals called Ngorongoro. That means cowbell in Masai.
Nina homa na matitbabu tu ni kengele ya ng’ombe zaidi – I have a fever and the only treatment is more cowbell
Yea. Fuck that Hemingway guy. Overrated hack.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
“To die. In the rain.” – Ernest Hemingway
Derp man and the c.
Derp Classics
Moby Derp
Journey to the Center of the Derp
Far From the Maddening Derp
The Art of Derp
Brave New Derp
A Separate Derp
Lord of the Derp
Tess of the D’erpervilles
Wuthering Derp
The Sorrows of Young Derper
The Naked and the Derp
All Quiet on the Western Derp
The Derp Badge of Courage
Heart of Derpness
The Wings of The Derp
War and Derp
Available wherever fine books are sold, someday, maybe.
Once A Derp
The Good Soldier Derp
The Derp of Monte Cristo
The Man in the Iron Derp
For Whom the Bell Derps
The Derp of Wrath
The Tao te Derp
The Derpiad
The Derpavad Gita
The Golden Derp
The Derpiridion
The Book of Five Derps
The Catcher in the Derp
Derp Expectations
Animal Derp
One Hundred Years of Derpitude
The Call of the Derp
Lady Chatterley’s Derp
The Derp Jar
Gone With the Derp
Slaughterhouse Derp
The Derp and the fury
The Lion, the Derp, and the Wardrobe
The Wizard of Derp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKti7QixnJI
world class readers
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Fath Ali, who upon becoming the Shah of Persia in 1797, was given a gift of the 3rd edition of the Britannica. After reading all of its 18 volumes, the Shah extended his royal title to include “Most Formidable Lord and Master of the Encyclopædia Britannica”.[4] Roughly a century later, Amos Urban Shirk, an American businessman, read the entire 23-volume 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica over a period of four years. He then went on to read the entire 14th edition, spending on average three hours per night.[5]
Elon Musk read the Encyclopædia Britannica twice.[6]
Bill Gates read the entire World Book Encyclopedia in his youth.[7]
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That shah had a wicked ZZ Top beard.
I can say with confidence that I’ve read more Wikipedia than anyone alive or dead. My latest reading projects include Gray’s Anatomy, the complete works of Shakespeare, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I will finish the 7 Classics of Ancient China tonight.
My Gray’s Anatomy is the 1860 version. It is full of genteel Victorian racism. From page 870:
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In Mongolian tribes, where the front teeth are large and inclined forward, the mouth is large; and this, combined with the thick and everted lips, which appear to be associated with prominent teeth, gives to the Negro’s face much of the peculiarity by which it is characterised. The smaller teeth, and the slighter prominence of the alveolar arch of the more highly civilised races, render the orifice of the mouth much smaller, and thus a small mouth is an indication of intelligence, and is regarded as an evidence of the higher civilization of the individual.
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Well, Julia Roberts has a big mouth and she’s dumb as a post, so maybe he’s on to something. In Chinese, Julia Roberts is called Big Mouth Pretty Lady.
“Sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery 140 years ago.”
“Of course you would say that! You have the brain pan of a coachman.”
Meanwhile, the sandal-wearing goldfish tenders of Japan have worked themselves into a frenzy over this:
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Kuchisake-onna (|口裂け女|, a “Slit-Mouthed Woman”)[1] is a malevolent figure in Japanese urban legends and folklore. Described as the malicious spirit, or onryō, of a woman, she partially covers her face with a mask or other item and carries some sort of sharp object. She has been described as a contemporary yōkai.[1][2]
According to popular legend, she asks potential victims if they think she is attractive. If they respond with “no”, she will kill them with her weapon. If they say “yes”, she will reveal that the corners of her mouth are slit from ear to ear, and she will then repeat her question. If the individual responds with “no”, she will kill them with her weapon, and if they say “yes”, she will cut the corners of their mouth in such a way that resembles her own disfigurement. Methods that can be used to survive an encounter with Kuchisake-onna include answering her question by describing her appearance as “average”, or by distracting her with money or hard candies.[3]
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I can say with confidence that I’ve read more Wikipedia – so you know very many things that might not be true
OK, just one more, I promise.
Wagon Wheel – Irish version
listen to the darlings sing in their magical elf language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-Xiq3EgSPU
Artists, poets, authors, and musicians pay no taxes in Ireland, which is probably why a nation of 5 million has punched above its weight for centuries. The Irish philosophy is that anyone who keeps Irish culture alive is a hero deserving all the help they can get.
The author of the Pippi Longstocking books mentioned this.
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“Pomperipossa in Monismania” (also called Pomperipossa in the World Of Money) is a satirical story written by the Swedish children’s book author Astrid Lindgren in response to the 102% marginal tax rate that she incurred in 1976. It was published starting on 3 March 1976 in the Stockholm evening tabloid Expressen and created a major debate about the Swedish tax system.
The marginal tax rate above 100%, dubbed the ‘Pomperipossa effect’, was due to tax legislation that required self-employed individuals to pay both regular income tax and employer’s fees.
The story, a satirical allegory about a writer of children’s books in a distant country, led to a stormy tax debate and is often attributed as a decisive factor in the defeat of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, for the first time in 40 years, in the elections later the same year. Lindgren, however, continued to support the party for all her life.
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[head desk]
I knew that but about Astrid.
Thank you for the other widely varied facts above. I bet you kick butt at trivia.
If only comrade Stalin knew.
Things I learned today: Ben Vereen performed in blackface at Reagan’s inaugural
https://youtu.be/v2_Z3496jj8
mornin’ ya’all
After a hard night of work, its Sunday a.m. morning beers….and I wanted to comment that while growing, the T. Cool family had not 1 but TWO AMC products. (Tres sr. was high school pals with our local AMC dealer) 1st was the Gremlin, in a shade of purple that looked like a cough drop. Second was….the Pacer.
/coolest family in town
Mornin ?
Mornin ☕
Morning drinking after getting off the night shift is the best. The looks you can get when buying a case at 6 AM can be pretty funny too.
30 fucking degrees outside this morning. ?
I think its in the 40s here. Feels warmer than it did yesterday.
47 and raining, rain golf sucks, maybe later,
Sup Tres! Fat doobies and Coffee!
Pie says that’s hot.
I only understand americanheit, not commigrade temps
https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2020/10/explosion-destroys-virginia-strip-mall-injures-several-people.html
Yowza.
I blame covid.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/video/4799187-lincoln-financial-field-set-to-welcome-eagles-fans-back/
They’re all going to die (some day)!
They’ll boo Santa, but cheer the coronavirus.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TwG-agL7viE
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https://mobile.twitter.com/SomeBitchIKnow/status/1317748089923555328
Dancing Trump. ?
Oh are they scared now. Here comes the Chocolate Jesus!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-to-stump-for-biden-less-than-two-weeks-before-election
It’s not indicative of a campaign that’s whooping ass but they’re probably just trying to motivate the black vote.
Good morning. I sat in the waiting room for the Zoom thingy for about 30 minutes last night, then gave up and watched Robocop.
I’ve been a fan of Found Magazine for a long time and have been collecting found art even longer than that. Last night at the store, behind a few cans of cat food, I found a note which read –
Someone, who ill remain nameless, had the hosting torch. They passed out on camera.