LOS ANGELES – “In these unprecedented times, we need a great reset, and what better way than by rebooting a holiday classic”, said writer, director, and producer Joanna Gambolputty. The film has long been criticized for its negative portrayal of non-Christmas celebrators and uncritical acceptance of consumerism and materialism, not to mention the troubling racial subtext of the Grinch being a different color from all the other characters.
“The original film raises troubling questions of the Grinch’s politics, such as his beliefs in forcibly redistributing wealth and being celebrated as a hero when he abandons his principles” added Gambolputty. According to leading Seussologist Dr. Mike Hunt, “it is a grave error to assume that the Grinch is leftist when a far more plausible interpretation is that the Grinch is libertarian: he lives alone, hates everyone, there’s only two of them if you count his dog, and in the end they lose, but not before making complete asses of themselves.”
In contrast, Nick Gillespie of libertarian Reason Magazine forcefully denounced Dr. Hunt’s interpretation, calling it “the me of literary critcism” before he abruptly ended the phone interview and said “the Jacket doesn’t want me to talk to you anymore.”
Gambolputty explained that the new film takes place in the immediate aftermath of the classic. “You see, Grinch has just made this big change, but when the pandemic strikes, only he knows how to help everyone live like a recluse indefinitely. He’s such a fascinating character when you think about it. The guy is the psychological equivalent of Fort Knox – nothing gets in or not unless he wants it, and it comes from his many years of solitude. I’m thinking of a backstory where Grinch is war veteran suffering from PTSD, which would explain his anger and solitary nature. Plus, gritty reboots are all the rage these days.”
Hallmark Channel said it will run the film when completed because “Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas.”
“Joanna Gambolputty. ” very multi talented, I’ll say that,
Yeah, it’s like she’s everywhere lately.
She does seem a bit of a cunte.
She’s from Ulm.
Ulm, Goddammit.
A very multi-faceted character, Ms. Gambolputty’s chameleonesque nature and diversitty are a true boon for the common good.
I often wonder if she is related in any way to Diana Moon-Glampers.
Needs moar Seymore Butts.
Nice work Derp
I can’t pick between ‘the jacket doesn’t want me to talk to you anymore’ and the line about the Grinch being a libertarian, and … hell it’s all beautiful. A piece!
A plus plus piece, dammit.
“The jacket will save us”
-Trashmonster
Speaking of derp. We have a local arcade bar. They’re allowed to open the bar but the arcade games have to be shut off. You can drive a couple miles east to a casino where you can sit at a slot machine with a beer and a cigarette. This insanity has to stop.
Indian Casinos can’t get the ‘Rona, this is known…
Native American, Yusef, how many times do I…
We only have one Indian casino and that’s in Kansas. The rest are “riverboats.”
This insanity has to stop.
I’m putting no money in this particular slot.
Defy, what’s left? Guns? I hope not…
It’s worth kicking around the question philosophically.
We kings of slippery slopes talk all the time that this policy or that is evil, leads inevitably to death, etc. Anyone want to make the Colonel-Kurtz-morality argument that this or that violent act is valid given the coming consequences?
I’m not going to shoot anyone over the mask rules, but I heard a lot this year about voting for slow death over faster death, etc. When does one go full ZARDOZ: where is the line drawn in the sand?
It may be coming, I sit and watch the powder keg…
When does one go full ZARDOZ: where is the line drawn in the sand?
Killdozer guy. When you try to do the right thing and they screw you, you try to do the right thing again. When they screw you even harder and spit in your eye, you build a Killdozer.
I do have a dozer that’s sitting unused.
Hmmmmm…….
Defy has a big price for some. States run the liquor laws. They pull your license to sell if you defy. The state runs the liquor distributors, (the biggest scummiest cronyism game going) and they won’t distribute to a place that has had its liquor license pulled because then the distributor has broken the law and the liquor distribution company loses its license which took 100 years of cronyism to establish. Ya, the drinking part of the country is lost if they defy unless we go back to bars in the woods off the grid making their own and black markets which I am all for. Or I am driving to Neph’s house.
There is lots of defiance going on in Pennsylvania right now.
According to some facebook groups I watch, on the first day of Wolf’s latest order 100 restaurants across the state opened up in defiance. The number is up to 300.
Gyms are getting in on the action too. At least 32 are open up in defiance of Wolf’s orders.
Sounds like liquor laws. I hope more people realize it has all always been stupid. You are an Idahoite right? Hard to keep up with everyone’s local.
Kansas City metro. I’m in Kansas the bar is in KCMO.
The casinos take top priority, dontchaknow.
Gotta make those tax dollars.
For the childrenz!
it has all always been stupid
pretty much all purpose in sweet sweet evergreen
I work in a Deli/Arcade/Bar. It is frustrating, to say the least, that due to size and economic constraints, we have been unable to have the games on.
What really hurt was that we actually started doing private parties for up to 20 people from 8-10 pm, which were helping us immensly, until they once again decided to reset the rules.
This past 10 months has been the longest two-weeks I can ever remember.
No, YORK HUNT!!!1
Nope. I’ve got more like 6′ 6″.
Is that calculation done in penis math?
I forget, is penis math multiplicative or additive?
Transitive.
Lol
Literally 6′ 6″. It’s how I make sure no one is giving me the vid.
I HATE when lazy writers put that crap in a story.
Carry on….
I clicked, with crossed fingers for luck, hoping this was a Derpetologist article.
OT – Has anyone played Star Wars: Squadron? If so, did you like it?
I’ve been having fun with it so far. Using Xbox Elite controller does alright, although a HOTAS controller would be best (don’t have one, though).
Don’t really care for the “you must play both factions at least once at the beginning” mechanic, but I suppose that’s how they want to setup the rest of the story.
Worth it at the significantly discounted price I paid a week or two ago on Steam.
You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch
I wouldn’t touch you with a 39 and a half foot, POLE!
Good to see that one again… a new Xmas classic ?
Wow!
That’s a keeper. Thanks kinnath!
That. Was. Awesome.
Fuck yeah
OT. My wife went to the grocery store tonight. She asked if I wanted anything. To which I replied ‘whiskey’. So now I’m sipping on some Knob Creek 100 proof. Mmmmm.
I was recently fired by the firm that designs a good deal of their construction work.
Had a very nice office but a very long commute.
Ouch. Sorry
Oh, damn. That’s too bad. I’m sorry.
Should we offer condolences or congratulations?
clarification: recently in geological context . . . I’ve been working at another place for a year already
I think stuff like that is funny. I haven’t given a damn about anything since I got my son’s college squirreled away well over ten years ago.
They laid off my entire department, the HR girl is in tears, and I’m laughing and thanking them for doing it as good golf weather was coming on. My problem is that someone will hire me before I’m truly done screwing around between jobs. I turned in my phone, keys, and laptop but pretty much lived high off the credit card all the way home.
As long as we get Grinch Vietnam flashbacks, I’m down with it.
Hey, that’s just Derivative
All great art is.
I got a whiff of the burning shit barrels
“Take me home, Country Roads”
Sneetches get Steeches.
calling it “the me of literary critcism”
Heh.
My favorite as well
Did anyone watch the entire Biden speech tonite? I caught a minute or two (while flipping through channels) and thought he was about to pass out or something.
I wonder when he gets his first medical exam at Walter Reed and what the docs will be forced to cover up. It would be fascinating to be a fly on the wall in President-Elect Backup Commiela Harris’ home or to hear the pillow talk in Hillary and Huma’s bedroom.
Nope. I wasn’t about to watch that shit.
I watched an obscure Kirk Douglas movie instead, The Juggler.
Happily unaware of any such thing.
Ya, that aint no shit. He made a speech?
I had an idea for Derptologist.
Do an advertisement for a hardware store that specializes in gender-fluid nuts and bolts.
Plumbing supplies
Anything with male and female parts — the entrenched patriarchy.
Also, master and slave components.
Excellent choice! I’ve been waiting for the backlash on master/slave flip flops or on master/slave drives in a computer or similar.
It’s gonna be great.
There’s already been a backlash.
I recently encountered something similar in software. The default branch in a git code repository is named ‘master’. Well… (and you know what’s coming…) there’s a movement afoot where woke developers are renaming it to ‘main’ and I saw it in the wild the other day.
It’s already happening.
Once upon a time, I bought an O2 sensor and the part they sold me had a female connector and not the male connector I needed. We looked up a picture of the part online and determined it was probably mis-boxed. Before sending me across town to get another with the same problem, the parts guy called the parts guy at the other store to verify the one they had, had a male connector. The guy at the other store didn’t know what we were talking about, and my guy finally said, remember in biology, is it a pitcher or a catcher. The guy finally got it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCtlypr3G3w
Too late they got ’em.
I want to know how I identify as Eskimo Queer. Because I have not seen that checkbox. It’s proof that I am being discriminated against. All the rest y’all Eskimo Queer get it! Class action queersuit now!
And we want our own bathrooms!
I don’t think we can say “eskimo” anymore, and queer just means odd colored hair now.
Eskimo Joe’s, one of the best known college bars around, begs to differ.
Also, “queer” is still the preferred term for political gays everywhere.
Inuit Jose’s is pretty good too.
Dr. Mike Hunt? I bet you wouldn’t have given a woman Suessologist the same treatment, you would just called her Ms. Hunt.
Dr. Sheka Hunt. (Best pronounced with a SE Asian accent.)
She seems nice.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2020/12/14/yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes-debra-messings-defense-for-her-pro-prison-rape-tweet-about-donald-trump-only-makes-her-look-worse/
Twitchy is featuring tweet replies that had 10 likes?
show me on the graph where the governor touched you
I defy anyone to show me on the deaths/100k charts a phenomenon that clearly indicates a state successfully managing the virus.
I see nothing but a virus doing what a virus wants to do.
It’s extremely easy to transmit. We need to lockdown.
OK. Then what?
Then we get a vaccine.
OK. Then what?
Then you still need to wear a mask and social distance.
OK. Then what?
Quit asking me that.
She looks like a zombie Lindsay Lohan in that pic. Yikes is right.
To be fair, she’s been a reprehensible twit for a very long time so there’s that.
To be fair, I don’t care what Messing tweets.
Isn’t she the actress with mosquito-bite boobs? Surely some gal pal could have recommended a plastic surgeon specializing in, at least, B cups.
Easily made up for by having a flaming gay best friend.
Choose your fighter.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=55e6Sw95ScY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA8hjkfL_fA
Home run, Derp, you got the doctor part in there and 2 Gillespies playing himself. One has to be a Glib to be able to interpret all the innuendo. Gambolputty is kind of a staple, like keeping the maple syrup on the table, in case.
Good stuff
Got the Black ‘Maters in, and 2 kinds of peppers, Thanks!
I’m working this week in the land of MOjeaux. Saw people eating inside restaurants and was stoked. Then I found out that St Louis County has banned indoor eating and that I’m staying inside the county line. 😉 The guys I’m working with tell me there are waiting lines at the restaurants just over the border. Imagine that!
borders prove who is stupid
uHaul accelerates the analysis
That’s clear across the state from me. ? We have indoor dining over this away.
It’s all the same to me. p)
The Bee pulls no punches:
“Old, Failed Idea Repackaged As New, Progressive Idea
https://media.babylonbee.com/articles/article-7619-2.jpg
https://babylonbee.com/news/old-failed-idea-repackaged-as-new-progressive-idea
Jesus was the ultimate Smartass,
The Denis Leary of Messiahs
/Ducks..
except funny.
I have the time, so Tomorrow I’ll attempt some Disc Golf, very cold, and kind of snowy, but I shouldn’t lose any, discs that is, fingers?
Ima make a piñata and have my mix breed kid hit it with our futon beater.
Kinky!
In a sane world Georgia would know they are under a spotlight after their public vote counting fails in November. But we live in a OMB insane world so Georgia has declined to prosecute any of the identified double voters from last month.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/12/13/with_runoffs_near_georgias_not_prosecuting_its_unprecedented_number_of_double_voters_126356.html
Of all the bad actors identified in the story Stacy Abrams and the gutless wonder State AG really stand out. Would it be a violation of the NAP to wish really hard for a Festivus miracle of a tiny neutron bomb going off in Abrams car as she drives it? (Note to FBI- satire and a Seinfeld reference used for comedic effect.)
I suspect those were not counted and were not the real issue though.
The submission of two votes by a voter is a felony in GA. If the fraud is detected and stopped it doesn’t mean the fraud didn’t occur. I assume, perhaps wrongly, that if a voter submitted a mail ballot and then showed up at the polls and stated to the election officials they had already mailed in a ballot that voter would be denied a 2d ballot and not included in this total.
Why not? How do they know which votes to uncount if they discovered the multiple votes after the fact?
Princeton student: Ivy League made me a ‘social-climbing weasel’
Spoiled rich kid complains about spoiled rich kids while continuing to live as a spoiled rich kid.
OFFS
‘In contrast, Nick Gillespie of libertarian Reason Magazine forcefully denounced Dr. Hunt’s interpretation, calling it “the me of literary critcism” before he abruptly ended the phone interview and said “the Jacket doesn’t want me to talk to you anymore.”’
I snorted beer out of my nostrils, well done.
I assume the Hat and the Hair will come to an end soon. Maybe we’ll get the Hair and the Jacket.
I’m thinking the Plugs and Veneers, if he wants to keep the theme going.
The Viagra and the Aricept.
Well sure but I was kind of hoping for a look into the twisted life of Nick Gillespie.
I have an illness whose pattern has become familiar to me: a sinus infection that then goes to my lungs and gradually decreases capacity until I get a week of prednisone and Amoxicillin or a Zpack, and then I’m right as rain.
Problem is that when I try to make an eVisit or I call for appointments, I say “yes” to coughing and shortness of breath (no fever, no muscle aches, no nausea so not likely flu) and then I’m shunted to Covid protocol where they send people for a drive through tent to get their brains swabbed and get sent home to wait.
It comes back negative and nothing else happens.
So I managed to get to a phone appointment with my reg doctor tomorrow at 11:30an. I hope I can just tell her my lung flow capacity is <250 liters a minute and have to use the nebulizer 4x a day.
I just need the damned medication.
NewWife is the same and had the exact same nonsense this year
* seething *
as if doctors don’t expect to be around sick people
It’s really ridiculous. You have to be pretty tenacious to get through their outer defenses. It’s easy to see why people might give up and say “I will get that lump checked out later” or whatever.
In my case, I strongly suspect the jump from sinus to lungs was when they cut power last week and I had to sleep without a CPAP for 2 nights.
Grrr. Experts, my ass. Just gimme my drugs.
Have you thought about getting something like a Jackery 500?
If she’s new she may still be under warranty.
?
Baker Mayfield for the rushing TD! Woot!
I zoned out for a bit, woke up and CLE is ahead. Didn’t see that coming.
Pretty shitty officiating. Ignoring blatant face mask penalties.
It’s a good game though for sure. 35 CLE to 34 BAL with 4 minutes left.
Two-minute warning. I don’t think I can last another half hour.
And on the shitty officiating front, the line judge stands directly in the way of the defender as the raven runs in the TD.
Lamar runs back out onto the field after presumably shitting his brains out, and just completely shifts momentum.
Good game, even if I hate the Ravens.
I assume Neph is off being a scofflaw and drinking at a bar?
Damn, this game. Too much time on the clock, though. On the plus side, only 1 timeout for the Ravens.
I’d have gone for 2
Tucker’s awfully good – gotta get stop them deep on their side of the field.
Boo.
Holy shit – I’m seeing the line was Ravens giving 3.5? And that meaningless safety just made it Ravens by 5?
Cue SVP and the Bad Beats segment.
Here’s an old skit that applies.
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/gambling-moment/n9526
Your a mean one Mr Grinch in the style of a Bond theme. Pretty cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQb0DJZLhRM
I feel a little embarrassed that it took me so long to figure out who was playing Santa in that Samuel L Jackson commercial.
Is it Dave Chappelle?
Nope. It was John Travolta. Jackson is wearing a sweater picturing a big burger “with cheese.”
Now I have to watch again to see what the ad was for…
Hey slumbrew, how is the new shutdown order playing in Somerville?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpP38-oUcAMEn1a?format=jpg&name=900×900
Lol
Joe Biden is a fucking clown.
2020 sucks.
I need to add more liquor to my stockpile.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0698sTH7mUk&list=FLT62wHjvIyKxHvrrWJxoznQ&index=996
?
https://www.wfmz.com/weather/calm-before-the-storm-as-a-big-snowstorm-is-still-on-the-way-wednesday/article_f3b2d622-3ebc-11eb-bd14-a383f2773eed.html
Snowmageddon approaches. ?
https://mobile.twitter.com/ArtValley818_/status/1338784352461787137
People are fucking stupid.
Maybe they have front row seats to see Gallagher?
Which, I realized as soon as I sent that, doesn’t invalidate your assessment.
??
Although it’s absolutely terrible what SCIENCE!!1 and fear have done to people over this godawful flu, it’s still funny to me to watch the incredibly stupid ones go “full retard” over it, as long as they are only fully retarding themselves.
That’s got to be some people making a statement.
Keep telling yourself that.
Passed out, snoring and slobbering in front of my desktop, Jugsy just poked me awake. Waving a credit card in my face and pointing @ the display(s) I only heard “WHAT DID YOU BUY?”
Now I have to make breakfast. Im sure Ive posted this before, but goddamn I need a drink.
Heck, it’s 5 o’clock
somewhereat your house.Also, sorry to bury the lease but:
A) what did you buy?
B) good morning!
*lede, goddamn autocorrect
Overnights at work have my clock messed up. So yeah, afternoon/evening in my head since I had a day/night off.
I copped some flannel-lined jeans for Tres Sr., since he’s 81 and perpetually cold. Unless he’s in FLO-rida, old fucker shakes like a chihuahua. Since I needed to spend another $0.25 to score free shipping, I spent a pile getting a jump pack for Jugsy’s truck, since she asked the other day “do we have jumper cables? My friend’s car wont start.” Like I trust that dope to know that polarity is.
Since Im up now, making breakfast with beer in hand- caught my 2nd wind. We got us a motherfuckin’ CONVOY.
Those are both sensible purchases. Your mind shuts off but your body don’t care…
Probably best to see what’s on the screen before you say, “Why, your Christmas present, Honey!”
+1 future boating mishap
‘sup pimpnotics?
Swing buy on your way South and Ill have sausage groovy, hashish browns, and some hammond (B5) AIGS w/cheese.
Hammond eggs should also have green onions.
ILY
I know its Booker T and I didnt even click.
“one size fits most”
-Doc Johnson
test
Fuck off Tulpa?
Why thank you!
Long time reader, infrequent poster
Don’t let the calm fool you…
Morning.
Want a beer?
“its 7:30 in the morning!”
“OK….scotch?”
I’m “at” “work”, so I shouldn’t drink.
Morning, UCS.
I saw you had a few issues getting the epub I sent, did it work in the end?
Oh, yes. I just couldn’t see the attachment until I scrolled down to the bottom of the e-mail to the button that said “Load complete message.” I have the epub copied to my Nook, and I just finished the first chapter.
Okay, so I don’t have to resend it.
PC crashed today. 8 years old and using unsupported Windows. Gotta get a new one tomorrow. Dell, HP, NEC desktop under a grand. Whaddaya go with?
Do you need a monitor?
If you want one that will monitor you, maybe Huawei?
Yeah. No gaming. Last three in order: Fujitsu, Dell, HP. Dell had bugs, Fujitsu was fine but expensive. Last HP seemed fine. I just don’t wanna get burned by cheap being expensive. On a weird side note, I got a couple extra grand direct deposited in my bank account this month. Wondering if my govt contracts kicked in some stimulus money and didn’t tell me about it. Find out tomorrow with a couple phone calls.
No… gaming?
DOES NOT COMPUTE.
Played enough back in the day. Time sucking endeavor.
Lenovo makes a mini PC that slides into a slot in the back of a monitor. They’re popular business machines and are usually available on Ebay. You can get a decent work setup for much less money.
Example
I use these for our company desktops.
Bonus: Most of them are fanless
Monitor is toast since I put my fist through it. (Not entirely kidding). Lenovo are reliable? I’m looking at this so I can get it all set up by 10am tomorrow:
https://www.biccamera.com/bc/item/3594162/
NEC is probably fine. Japs and all that.
Dell and HP are roughly equivalent although HP is known for factory bloat. Not that familiar with the others you mention. Whichever’s cheaper would probably be fine.
My HP printer sucked, but the PC was fine. Just haven’t bought a PC in years and have no idea what I’m looking at.
Gah! Win10 update fucked me over a barrel two nights ago. I still have apps to reinstall. Not missing the E-mail much.
I’m Least tech guy on this site. You saying I should avoid Windows 10? How about Windows Original?
Don’t ask me! Screen prompts for me are like Turkish delight for that bad brother from the C.S Lewis story. I sobered up and figured it out.
Build your own for only a couple hundred more? ASUS and Corsair FTW!
No time. I’m not doing 8 hours of work from home on my phone.
I haven’t turned on my home pc in probably 2 years.
It’s a Dell.
So Judi bought a nice card and huge tin of fancy-smanchy Belgian chocolate cookies for the staff at one of my sites. The way that the last few weeks have been going I was sorely tempted to keep them for myself, sit in my darkened room crying and eat the whole thing at one go. Nah, I took them in and gained a couple of brownie points. I really hate Xmas.
It’s good to have a Judi in your corner. Hang in there, Mardi Gras is right around the corner, 16 Feb 2021.
Thanks, Friend!