Feminist Hardware Store Offers Bisexual, Transgender Nuts and Bolts

by | Dec 29, 2020 | Satire | 208 comments

BERKELEY – “No one’s ever tried anything like this” said She-Ro Hardware proprietor Joanna Gambolputty. Among the unique products are the store’s signature bisexual, transgender nuts and bolts. “You see, all the bolts are threaded with a matching nut. It takes a lot of time and makes them more expensive and less convenient, but it’s worth it to make a statement about how everyone should be their authentic self and others should make the effort to accommodate them” added Gambolputty.

“When the user feels the bolt is ready to transition, the nut is removed and both parts are free to express their true gender” explained Gambolputty as she and her only employee worked feverishly to thread nuts onto bolts. Reaction from fellow feminists has been mixed. “The factories should make them Joanna’s way right off the assembly line” said Eileen Dover, who is at home recovering from injuries sustained from falling off a cliff. “Once again we see the dastardly patriarchy at work, undermining and exploiting women at every turn” as she tried to shoo away a cat determined to sit on her face.

Men’s rights activists have also criticized the move. “Once you take the red pill, you see the evil true nature of female hypergamy. I can’t tell you right now how it applies to this specific situation, but trust me, it’s there. It’s always there” said Mighty Sons of Odin president Haywood Jablome. “Can you believe my wife divorced me just because I gave her a limit on the number of words she could speak to me per day? Classic female irrationality” added Jablome. “Oh sure, I know chicks are all touchy-feely and with them it’s yak, yak, yak 24/7. But it’s a man’s world, they know it, and they’d be a lot happier if they would just submit” said Jablome as he thawed hotdogs in his sink.

Gambolputty, Dover, and Jablome all agreed that gender differences are too great for marriage to work.

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Derpetologist

Derpetologist

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208 Comments

  1. Mojeaux

    I read this to Mr. Mojeaux. We both had a good time with it.

    • hayeksplosives

      My mister almost choked on his dinner when I read him that Summer’s Eve comment by straff.

      • AlexinCT

        What did I miss?

      • Mojeaux

        A quote from a “Studies” person:

        “Absolving Shakespeare of responsibility by mentioning that he lived at a time when hate-ridden sentiments prevailed, risks sending a subliminal message that academic excellence outweighs hateful rhetoric.”

        Straff:

        Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s Eve product?

        *worth the repost

  2. Animal

    *Golf clap*

  3. DEG

    I don’t buy this is satire. This sounds like real news.

    • Chafed

      It’s just a matter of time.

  4. westernsloper

    I am thinking Derp is not drug tested in his current real life role.

  5. straffinrun

    Left Lucy gets Righty tighty when screwed.

    • Ownbestenemy

      *clap*

    • Tejicano

      You’ve got a screwy sense of humor.

    • TARDis

      What? I thought Lucy just adjusts to you. If she get too “tighty”, that could be a problem.

    • straffinrun

      My lover fell down the stairs again. Gotta fix that bannister.

      • C. Anacreon

        Sisters are doing it to themselves.

    • rhywun

      At work, my colleague Andy and I had recently moved into a new, small workspace just over the Mercury Lounge on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Andy bought a turntable for the office and brought in a rotating selection from his personal vinyl stash every day for us to listen to.

      LOL this is such a perfect depiction of “hipster douchebag” it must be real.

      • Tulip

        That along with the inability to actually speak to the man and just going along with what he says. Complete beta.

      • l0b0t

        $60 to have the guy from the hardware store nail up a rickety shelf? Son! Just go to Target down at the Atlantic Center. $60 would get you round trip train-fare, some Target shelving, and a wee lunch from Shake Shack or Yummy Taco.

      • rhywun

        Heh sounds like many of my Sunday afternoons in the before times.

      • l0b0t

        I REALLY miss lower Atlantic Av. for trips to Sahadis, and Damascus Bakery; there was a great, tiny Spanish tapas place down at the end by the BQE onramp where an old boss always had our Christmas parties.

      • Grosspatzer

        Back in the olden times (early/mid ’90’s) I worked at Metrotech. Once a week or so we’d shoot down to Atlantic Ave for lunch. Good times.

        Oh, and one fine day I wound up at LI College Hospital (right by BQE ramp) with a kidney stone. This eventually resulted in meeting my future (and still) wife. I miss Brooklyn.

  6. TARDis

    Nicely done, Derp. Is there a Glib CBT module on delivering a proper euphemism?

  7. hayeksplosives

    I would not be surprised if the industry language for male/female parts, master-slave devices, nipples, etc get banned.

    All the bans would be called for by people whose degrees end in the word “Studies” but would affect only technology people.

    • kinnath

      master-slave devices

      Already done.

      • Nephilium

        As well as whitelist/blacklist.

      • Grosspatzer

        TRIGGERED!!!11!1!

        /me remembers the lost month of August spent whitewashing cleaning up our source repositories.

      • C. Anacreon

        What about a white-labeled product? Does that need to change?

      • AlexinCT

        Yup, We were told master-slave and things like black or white lists are all real bad..

        When I asked why I got told because I am racist/misogynist/homophobe for asking.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Wouldn’t need to outright ban male/female parts… just add “assigned male at factory” or “identifies as female” to the label.

      It’s already happening. There was a drug ad I saw a few weeks ago that warned the product had only been tested in “individuals assigned male at birth”.

    • Fourscore

      Nah, the Women’s Studies department will iron it out

      • Fourscore

        Some will try to skirt the issue but it’ll all come out in the wash

      • C. Anacreon

        They’ll make some way to sandwich it in.

    • westernsloper

      I vaguely remember the Hoteps discussion the other night.

      • straffinrun

        You’re gonna get your parking lot drinking story tomorrow (my tomorrow). You’re my fucking muse.

      • Gustave Lytton

        ありごとうございます!

        I’ve been watching more of that Japanese truck driver channel and it seems to get stranger the more I contemplate it. Even more than last time.

      • Sensei

        I loved that film even before I ever contemplated learning Japanese.

        I may have to watch it again now that I have a fundamental grasp of the language.

      • straffinrun

        I thought there really was a correct way to eat ramen after watching that movie. It’s fun, but no one actually cares how you eat it.

      • Sensei

        I do have trouble with the socially accepted noodle slurping.

        I can’t do it loudly without feeling ridiculous.

      • straffinrun

        Start with slurping…

        I can’t finish that joke during this holy time of year.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The movie, that is.

        Well, can’t slurp noodles either. The wife gives me dirty looks and tells me to stop appropriating other cultures (in slightly different wording).

      • Sensei

        Now I didn’t say I couldn’t do it…

      • But Enough About My "Essential Retiree" Status

        Great film. I have already mentioned the scene in which two lovers exchange an egg yolk mouth to mouth and it finally bursts in the young woman’s mouth; I saw this movie with a girlfriend who became, um, *inspired* by this scene later that evening. Memorable date, to say the least.

    • Grosspatzer

      Can confirm – a colleague in Tel Aviv was expressing concern about (((them))) possibly requiring “Green Passports” (his words) in order to, say, board a plane in Israel. His concern being, he does not trust the vaccine. To think we used to mock the Rooskies for saying things like “may I see you papers please”.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Why is it necessary to have a digital yellow card, when the physical yellow card has been around since 1933 for (at various times) yellow fever (still, a requirement to enter certain countries), typhus, plague, cholera, and smallpox?

    • rhywun

      (1) The Linux Foundation can go fuck itself.

      (2) I can’t think of a better way to convince me NOT to get vaccinated than to institute a worldwide “Papieren, bitte” regime.

  8. hayeksplosives

    There are many battles ahead in the war to save our culture.

    After some thinking, it’s clear to me that the absolute first priority must be free speech. All speech. None of this “hate speech” stuff.

    We need to get on this immediately while we can still rally the majority of Americans to defend free speech. It should be easy to show the dangers of letting what is and isn’t hate speech be determined by a committee.

    If free speech becomes criminal, the stakes immediately get much, much higher.

    • Nephilium

      All speech is free speech, and the proper response to hate speech is more speech.

      That’s been a hill I’ve been willing to die on for the majority of my life.

      • straffinrun

        It’s a no brainer. The anti free speechers got their asses handed to them back in the day and it was clear to everyone who won that argument. Yet, here we are. Back arguing the same arguments that failed so spectacularly before.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Michael Savage is an odd ball but his language cultural borders screed is probably spot on.

      • hayeksplosives

        Yep.

        I hate it when the left forces me to ally with Savage.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Given the numerous definition changes under the spotlight of media coverage and not a whimper from most of the public…language is lost

      • Gustave Lytton

        It’s the same problem with government pork spending. There’s a small number of very vocal and committed advocates and larger numbers of don’t care/leave me alone.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, it’s pretty fundamental.

      And of the first things to go when someone fancies grabbing a little power.

      • rhywun

        “one of” gah

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Hmm, support for free speech only appeals to fascists. You’ve been reported. Your social credit score should take a hit in a couple days.

      • Grosspatzer

        That is… What is that???

      • straffinrun

        Dunno. Throwaway account.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Portrait mode inside of landscape? Definitely deserves a beat down for that.

  9. Nephilium

    Who could have possibly seen this coming after a cap on delivery fees?

    • Ted S.

      Helen Keller.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I knew about the Sterling and the Mauser, but not all of them. Now I can’t unsee the MG3/MG42!

      • Tejicano

        That was always an MG34 to me. Pistol grip and muzzle are too distinctive.

  10. Crusty Juggler

    The Ohio deputy who killed Casey Goodson once used his faith to justify use-of-force in law enforcement

    If you haven’t read a version of this gem yet, enjoy!

    There are many great sections to enjoy. My personal:

    In a recording of a Free Will Baptist Pastors conference that also took place in 2018, Meade spoke about the Biblical story of David and Goliath when he again brought up policing, comparing his actions to David using his slingshot to hit Goliath.

    “Because I learned long ago I got to throw the first punch. And I learned long ago why I’m justified in throwing the first punch,” Meade said, according to the Columbus Dispatch. “Don’t look up here like ‘police brutality.’ People I hit you wish you could hit, trust me

    Feel free to top it!

    This story hits all the key corporate media points – police brutality, religion, moral superiority, outrage – but…

    My God.

    • Derpetologist

      Goliath is called Jalut in the Koran. The Swahili word for giant is jitu, from goliath.

      ***
      Saul and the Israelites are facing the Philistines in the Valley of Elah. Twice a day for 40 days, morning and evening, Goliath, the champion of the Philistines, comes out between the lines and challenges the Israelites to send out a champion of their own to decide the outcome in single combat, but Saul is afraid. David accepts the challenge. Saul reluctantly agrees and offers his armor, which David declines, taking only his staff, sling and five stones from a brook.

      David and Goliath confront each other, Goliath with his armor and javelin, David with his staff and sling. “The Philistine cursed David by his gods”, but David replies: “This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down, and I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel and that all this assembly may know that God saves not with sword and spear; for the battle is God’s, and he will give you into our hand.”

      David hurls a stone from his sling and hits Goliath in the center of his forehead, Goliath falls on his face to the ground, and David cuts off his head. The Philistines flee and are pursued by the Israelites “as far as Gath and the gates of Ekron”. David puts the armor of Goliath in his own tent and takes the head to Jerusalem, and Saul sends Abner to bring the boy to him. The king asks whose son he is, and David answers, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”
      ***

      The last cop who acted like David was named Serpico. And the one before him was named Wyatt Earp.

      • mikey

        Weird. This morning at breakfast the wird “galoot” came up. I said it was Scandahoovian. My wife searched around and found the Jalut/Goliath connection. Same odd factoid comes up twice in one day. Their’s a name for that I think.

      • Derpetologist

        There is a place in what is today Syria called Ain Jalut, or the spring of Goliath. The Arabs won a major battle against the Mongols there, because the Mongol horses could not maneuver in the rocky terrain.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ain_Jalut

        History does not record the actions of the Hell’s Angels in that battle. I like to think they bashed the Mongols’ heads in with pool cues while Gimme Shelter played in the background.

      • Gustave Lytton

        the Mongol horses could not maneuver in the rocky terrain

        So… no Wild Horses….?

    • Chafed

      CWAA. How convenient there was no body am. This guy sounds like trouble for anyone unlucky enough to be in his field of vision.

  11. mikey

    “It takes a lot of time and makes them more expensive and less convenient, but it’s worth it to make a statement about how everyone should be their authentic self and others should make the effort to accommodate them” added Gambolputty.

    Damn, Derpy. I’m getting worried about you. You’re getting way too good at this.

  12. Sensei

    Also despite the fact that the nut/bolt identifies as stainless steel doesn’t prevent it from rusting at the first hint of moisture.

    • Crusty Juggler

      My God.

    • straffinrun

      Hope Reese gets here soon.

    • rhywun

      It’s cute and funny before the killings start.

      • Derpetologist

        “Three billion tiktok videos ended on August 29, 1997. The survivors of the viral sensation called the meme Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the dance-off against the machines.“

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7nq-r7QWW0

    • Gustave Lytton

      Still not as creepy as Herbie Hancock’s Rockit video.

  13. Derpetologist

    I must confess. I had a pint of beer a few weeks ago. I enjoyed and didn’t want another when I was done. Cured of alcoholism? No, but certainly a lot of progress. I drank tonight too, but I was stone cold sober when I wrote the above. Sober me can be very funny, even though drunk me is funnier. Usually.

    I got the Worf Therapist satire in the pipe already. After that, I was thinking “First Man to Climb Mt Everest Without Making a Big Deal About it Dies”. Feel free to give me your ideas.

    Believe the lies that make you brave, and strong, and good.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1YUNjJiTpE

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Yay!

      • Derpetologist

        Good to see you back to your old cheerful self so quickly.

        Life is a special operation.

        Carry on.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Happy drunk, still sad, Bring the Worf!

      • Derpetologist

        You are not a merry man. This is good.

        If you cannot control yourself, you cannot command others.

        If winning is not important, why keep score?

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zmK-Sn2Ss0

    • C. Anacreon

      After that, I was thinking “First Man to Climb Mt Everest Without Making a Big Deal About it Dies”.

      How about “Researchers still hoping to discover a Harvard alumnus who doesn’t bring up where he went to college within 30 seconds of being introduced to you”?

      • Gustave Lytton

        All this ragging on Hahvahd all day. Anyone seen Dr RC Dean, Esq?

        (Love you, Mr Dean! Only joshing!)

      • Gdragon

        We still call it “the second best school in Cambridge” anyway 😉

      • Gdragon

        Haha, to be honest unless I’m giving Harvard shit or I have a specific reason (like when I shared that I know The Clown Prince) I try not to bring up MIT. It too often immediately leads to some version of “here’s why this person I know is smarter than you”.

      • slumbrew

        Working in a building filled with masses of MIT grads made me get over any inferiority complex I had about not going there.

        Some MIT grads are staggeringly smart. Most are quite bright. Some, I’m puzzled by how they were accepted and graduated.

        i.e., just like grads of every other school I have met.

      • Gdragon

        Oh for sure.

        Now that being said I don’t know that I’d say that the percentages in each of those subsets are the same at every school. But it really doesn’t matter too much since for anything that’s important one should obviously get to know the individual rather than generalizing about them based on where they attended school anyway, right? I figure if the U of XYZ grad I’m talking to knows his shit it doesn’t make much difference if XYZ grads are “generally” not so bright.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I feel dumber for having watched it.

    • Sensei

      In the old western kingdom of the blind the one eyed cowboy is king.

    • AlexinCT

      Is that Crenshaw?

    • Gdragon

      “My wife is a doctor, she can probably take a look at that”

    • Gdragon

      “Some people will work
      Some simply will not
      But they’ll complain and complain and complain and complain and complain!”

    • Festus

      Tall hats, small saddles?

  14. Crusty Juggler

    BJ through the zipper or a Dale Jr autograph on the fender?

    • Gustave Lytton

      I’ve got the volume muted because I’m in the living room. Please tell me they’re playing the rururu song.

    • Mojeaux

      Okay, first, I loved it, thanks. I like that guy.

      Second, I made Mr Mojeaux pause the TV to losten to it. So I said to him, I said, “Hold on. A Glib linked me … ” [queueing up vid] ” … um, Ron, um, Ron, um— You know, cigar, whiskey.”

      “White?”

      “That’s it.”

      [listen, laugh “Never let a Mormon set your buzz.” Bwa!]

      Mr. Mojeaux: When you said your Glib linked you and you said Ron, I thought you were going to say Jeremy.

      LOL

      Mr. Mojeaux: See, and you’re not even disturbed.

      • Tulip

        Is he calling us a bad influence?

        I mean, he’s right, but…

      • Mojeaux

        Yes.

        And yes.

      • Gender Traitor

        Who’s influencing whom?

      • Gdragon

        I’m still waiting for you weirdos to tell me who this “Ron Jeremy” fellow is ?‍♂️

      • Gustave Lytton

        You’re not missing much. The guy’s a dick.

      • Gdragon

        Don’t hedge, hog the stage and tell us what you really think of him.

    • straffinrun

      Never let a Mormon set your buzz level.

      Great line. Is it true that Mormons can’t give us heathens stimulants?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Jesus Christ Superstar did it first,

      • Derpetologist

        QUIET, YOU!

      • Gender Traitor

        Also Godspell.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        It’s tough being the Derpetologist, but we need your good works,
        Huzzah!

      • Derpetologist

        Forgive them, lord. For they know not what they do.

        [blasted with extra shocky bolt of lightning]

        Ow! That’s not funny, lord!

      • Gdragon

        Ever noticed how much Herod’s Song sounds like “Red Solo Cup”?

        If you’re the Christ
        The great Jesus Christ
        Proceed to party!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        No idea, Tulpa, you never got one, and,
        Fuck Off!

      • Gdragon

        I always appreciate a good “Fuck off, Tulpa!” but I think I got one quite a while ago 😉

  15. Yusef drives a Kia

    Finally! heavy snow falling, good times tomorrow, I get to drive,

  16. Gustave Lytton

    WTF is with commercials about the Colts kicking the “stigma” of post party depression? Have they really run out of noble causes to scrape the bottom of the barrel? Or they could just play football…

    • Gender Traitor

      post party depression

      Because you’ve run out of booze?

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Or you went home alone.

      • Mojeaux

        My guess: One of the players’ wives had really bad post partum depression and he got slapped in the face with it.

        Now do ante partum depression.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Ante Bea’s Italian Cousin?

      • Gustave Lytton

        I thought they changed their name to Lady Ante P?

      • mrfamous

        This is one where I literally didn’t know what you meant (haven’t seen said commercial). It makes much more sense now.

  17. Yusef drives a Kia

    22 years and 3 dogs, my Kittah wins the sit in dads lap game!
    /Kittah!

  18. Ownbestenemy

    Looks like middle son’s GF family might have the Lil Rona. Their symptoms onset on day after Christmas. Guess we will see if the wildfire sweeps through our house too.

    Me: Son, you have to quarantine in your room.
    Son: Ok. Bye.

    • Don escaped Two Corinthians

      We just got the all clear

      NewWife has tested negative five times now

      • Ownbestenemy

        Pretty sure it went through our household back in Feb/Mar time frame. Also, we have awesome genes and inflated egos and filled livers so we should be good.

    • C. Anacreon

      My son’s been quarantining voluntarily in his room since he got home from college a month ago, but not because of the rona, though it is because of the lockdown not allowing him much chance to revel with friends. So instead he and all his peers stay in their rooms in their individual homes playing video games with each other until 4am.

      Occasionally he will surface to request a meal.

      • Ownbestenemy

        That is every 10-25ish person in the nation probably.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I’ve seen that somewhere…not sure where, but I have.

    • wdalasio

      See my comment below.

    • Ownbestenemy

      “Sir our lockdowns have done nothing to temper the numbers!”

      That is okay, we can blame the 40% of Republicans for our COVID issues and I have it on good authority that the media will carry that water for us so we can continue to not have to fight for reservations at our favorite restaurants.

      • Ownbestenemy

        bah…tamp down, not temper

    • egould310

      His hair. The man has fantastic hair.

    • hayeksplosives

      the prolonged lockdown measures and their impacts have killed more people than COVID. The liberal media hysteria has been more damaging than the virus as well.

      This is undeniable.

      Those of us who recognize this as hysteria whipped up to gain more power should clobber the emotional “Think of grandma!”types over the head with emotional true stories of the harm lockdowns have done.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Stacy Abrams’ sister…seems like she should have recused herself from that one. Talk about the fox guarding the hen house…

  19. Sean

    Ugh. It’s morning again?

    I lost that other extra vacation carb pound, so I have that going for me.

    Yay. ?

    • Dr. Chipping Pioneer

      Only 2?

      *grumbles*

      • Sean

        I didn’t go full on decadent, and still avoided sugars.

        Man, they did have some very good steak though. And they were (rightly) proud of their aus jus.

    • Festus

      I don’t even weigh myself now. Shirt tight across chest – Good! Pants falling down – Also Good! Haggard appearance – Not So Good.

  20. wdalasio

    I’ve been thinking over the comment from MrFamous yesterday:

    I’m actually far more worried about the culture of informing on your neighbors that seems to be spiraling out of control. “Snitching” and “self-righteousness” appear to be emerging as “virtues” of all things.

    A little later, I ran across this story that really drove his point home.

    What changed? I don’t think human nature is that malleable that it’s just some deterioration in people’s character. I’d suggest the problem is the “safening” of our society. People haven’t degraded. The incentives have changed. A hundred years ago, or even a couple of decades ago, doing what this little bastard did would be a surefire way to be the recipient of a beating. But, we’ve rejected the “honor culture” that would have responded that way as “uncivilized”. So, snitching and setting mobs against your neighbor have become safe. There are no official rules saying this is unacceptable. In fact, the Karen Corps relies on the fact that they’re enforcing the official rules. So there are no adverse consequences. And when the snitches and Karens prosper while their victims are destroyed, it’s hardly rocket science to figure out how snitching and being a Karen grow to become the popular standard.

    And all of this has gotten me thinking still further. Our society writes off honor cultures as uncivilized or backward or ignorant. And I can certainly agree that they have a myriad of problems. I don’t want people engaged in violence over the slightest provocation. But, the older I get, the more I start to think that maybe there was some value in having its implicit threat there. That threat might have served as a deterrent to behaviors that might not be a violation of rights, but are nevertheless unacceptable. And I wonder, can a dignity culture maintain itself without some undergirding of honor culture? Or, on its own, does it inevitably devolve into victim culture and worse?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Doing what that kid did should lead to an ass whipping the NAP notwithstanding but, you’re right, the incentives to behaviors have changed lately and the snitch culture is dangerous, particularly when it takes the side of a malevolent government.

      • wdalasio

        The thing I’d suggest is that a culture where what that kid did might lead to an ass whipping would probably obviate the need for an ass whipping in the first place. Because it would make it much less likely that he would have done it. I wish the world were a better place and it weren’t part of the equation, but fear, be of it of God or your fellow man, can be a powerful motivator of the good. Heinlein said “An armed society is a polite society.”. And that’s sort of true. But, you don’t even need to go to guns to see the point.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The God thing is a good point too as a lot of people need to feel like somebody’s watching them and that they’ll be judged in order to do the right thing. That’s been largely lost now and society is not the better for it.

      • Derpetologist

        I read about some psychology experiments about how to stop cheating during tests. Some successful strategies:

        -telling the students the building is haunted by the ghost of student who committed suicide after failing a test

        -asking each student to recite the 10 commandments before the test

        -putting a large picture of an eye at the front of the classroom

  21. westernsloper

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/salon-owner-oregon-governors-retaliation-lockdown

    Glamour Salon owner Lindsey Graham reopened her salon in May and received a fine of $14,000 from the state. Graham claimed that Brown began to personally “terrorize” her family, and threatened to place her children under the care of Child Protective Services to “intimidate” her into closing her salon doors.

    These people are evil.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I’d call them assholes using the power at their disposal to bludgeon people into bending to their will but evil works too.

    • Gender Traitor

      Maybe the guv has her mixed up with someone else…

      • mrfamous

        It’s an unfortunate name.

  22. l0b0t

    Ugh… in a depressive funk I can’t shake. Billy knows what’s up – https://youtu.be/6WNjA03CkKk

    GT, I hope your hubby is on the mend.

    • Gender Traitor

      Thank you! He’s doing very well, I’m taking him one of his guitars today for part of his occupational therapy. He’s very motivated and optimistic right now. I just hope the stroke’s effect on his playing doesn’t frustrate or depress him.

    • Gender Traitor

      P.S. Don’t know if it’ll help, but once again, here’s my favorite audio antidepressant.

  23. Derpetologist

    Huh. Somebody must have spike the Guinness with xtc:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A6__HssHW8

    in other news

    ***
    Warner blew up an RV parked in downtown Nashville around 6:30 a.m. on Christmas, damaging dozens of buildings, killing himself and injuring three others.

    The lizard people conspiracy, popularized by controversial British writer David Icke and others, posits that shapeshifting alien reptiles can assume human form in a bid to take over the world.

    Icke was banned from Twitter last month after allegedly spreading COVID-19 “disinformation” and attacking Dr. Anthony Fauci, the BBC reported. He had already been banned from Facebook and YouTube, and also embraced 5G conspiracies.

    Authorities have not released a motive for the bombing, but Warner showed some odd behavior before the blast.

    His only arrest came in 1978 on a marijuana charge.
    ***

    Ah ha! Textbook reefer madness. Take ’em away, boys.

    • R C Dean

      Holy non sequitur, Derpman.

      We don’t know why this guy blew himself up, but that guy way over there is a nutter, so there you have it.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Link the two in the public consciousness and link the people who don’t publicly condemn Icke and insist that he be deplatformed to violent extremism. It’s stupid, it’s unfounded, and it’ll work.

      • R C Dean

        I’ve run run into several people who think he was a 5G nutter. Maybe he was , but there’s zero evidence of it as far as I know. The speed with which the speculation spread makes me suspicious that someone is pushing it as a distraction/coverup.

        This whole thing reminds me of the Las Vegas shooting.

  24. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Twitter suspends Dr. Zelenko, the hydroxychloroquine protocol guy, for tweeting that you don’t necessarily need a vaccination for a virus that has such a high survival rate:

    https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3918448/posts

    Listen to the experts plebs: our experts.

  25. Tres Cool

    ‘sup ya’all

    • Sean

      I’m cranky AF.

      I shouldn’t be, but I am.

      Woe unto the first person to piss me off.

      • Festus

        Dr. Who is an Asshoe! *runs away*

      • Tres Cool

        YOU SHUT YOUR FILTHY WHORE MOUTH!

        I think Ive outlined this before, but Tom Baker was the best doctor. Followed closely by David Tennant, and Chris Ecclestone.

      • Sean

        Tom Baker was the best doctor.

        This is correct.

        Followed closely by David Tennant, and Chris Ecclestone.

        I wish Ecclestone would have gotten at least a second season. *frowny face*

      • Timeloose

        Eccleson was the perfect new doctor.

        I’m a big fan of the Pertwee years.

  26. Festus

    Was asked last night how I wield the 4′ dust mop with such precision while looking like an idiot doing so. It’s like a dance. You can’t force your partner’s moves, they have to flow. If you try to bull it you will get tendonitis. It’s much like Judoka. Use momentum and angle of attack as your friends. Silly little leg kicks when turning are not just for the amusement of the paying cliental. I could run workshops on my mopping and sweeping skills. Literally thousands of miles walking behind the dust grabber will teach one the way.

    • Tres Cool

      You know what else can cause tendonitis…

      Protip- remove your Fitbit before browsing pr0nhub

      • Sean

        Why not use it as a cock ring?

      • Tres Cool

        One day mine thought Id ran 6 miles, yet I never left the house.

      • Festus

        Ah! The Fappening! That’s one of those “Do you remember when?” incidents like 9/11 or the Moon landing.

    • Festus

      I could be the Yoda of the Custodial arts. Make the job easier to do, Dagnabbit!

    • Festus

      “Stellar Patrol Ship Feinstein” was the cherry on top!

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Make the job easier to do, Dagnabbit!

    That’s my motto:

    “It’s never a bad time to make my life/job easier.”

    • Festus

      I’m a dull man but also a lazy Man. If I can figure a way to cut time off the job without losing productivity it will be written. It’s not like I have anything else to muse about.

  28. hayeksplosives

    Good morning early/late Glibs!

    I woke up early, I had stayed up too late Tuesday night watching Milton Friedman’s “Free to Choose” /980 special.

    I just re-read that sentence. I don’t know if a jury would believe me if that were my alibi.