Mailing it in…
This time is year is usually full of “Year in Review” pieces and other low-effort, vacation slowed newspaper columns and TV features. I will avoid that trap! Instead, I will post a passel of mediocre links – take that conventional wisdom!
Here is some year-end meh.
- Swiss link – Run Away! Run Away!
- Chinese link – setting the bar for the EU and the Biden/Harris’ DoJ.
- Korean link – “work ethic”
You all go forth and comment – I am going to go to the store and look for raclette cheese.
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HEY!
:runs of sobbing:
He said the resort had identified 420 guests from Britain, including Swiss nationals living there, who had to be quarantined before Christmas. About 50 left immediately and of the remaining 370, fewer than a dozen were still there on Sunday. Many remained in quarantine for a day before fleeing under cover of night, he said.
It’s good that they fled.
People fleeing from Switzerland? What is this? The 4th Reich? Oh yeah, the EU.
The CH is not in the EU. This was a homegrown Swiss Federal error – the cantons are not happy.
Yep. Though they have caved on some EU-pushed stuff like gun control.
The Swiss are in the Schengen Zone. They joined the UN in the early 00s.
There should have been some Swiss swinging from the gallows after WWII. Fuck their carefully cultivated yodeling image
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wauwilermoos_internment_camp
Now I’m picturingThe Great Escape, but with more pigtails.
“I don’t understand. All she did was say a few true words, and for that she got four years,” said Shao Wenxia, Zhang’s mother, who attended the trial with her husband.
Something… something… freedom after the speech.
Definitely setting the example i’m sure we are to see come back under Biden. Obamas DOJ and security apparatus harrased Glenn Grenwald. Media will of course not say anything, because they are propogandists.
Hate Speech isn’t Free Speech! It says so right … um.
Also:
“In 2013 the Obama administration obtained the records of 20 Associated Press office phone lines and reporters’ home and cell phones, seizing them without notice,”
“Obama’s Justice Department also secretly dogged Fox News journalist James Risen, getting his phone records, tracking his arrivals and departures at the State Department through his security-badge use, obtaining a search warrant to see his personal emails and naming him as a possible criminal conspirator in the investigation of a news leak.”
https://apnews.com/article/ffc60235c26c470c9047e0da6ff19f95
There’s more, of course. All of which will be repeated and downplayed under the next administration.
Scandal.Free.
Those weren’t scandals. Those were reporters who were “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” with the Obama Administration and DOJ
They got what was coming to them. What did they expect after writing those horrible things about the president?
So… I havn’t seen Don yet. Has he changed his moniker to “Don escaped VBIED”?
Too soon?
Still giggling at the reporter who described the scene as “looking like the aftermath of a car bombing.”
Don Escaped Yet Another Handle Change was on the previous post, I think.
oh that’s BNA stuff
BNA and MEM agree to not notice that the other exists
Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno!
Guess I need to change that avatar unless I intend to treat it like my christmas tree and leave it up till Easter. Or the summer solstice.
Raclette sounds amazing right about now. I had a heap of beef brisket for lunch.
Now it’s what I like to call “True Crime Bath Time”. On today’s docket, A&E’s long-running classic The First 48. It’s highly educational.
True Crime Bath Time
That guy was an asshole. Ain’t no one in his hood gon’ cooperate with the popo.
If Law & Order were were black.
Charlotte Corday was caught pretty quickly
This time is year is usually full of “Year in Review” pieces and other low-effort, vacation slowed newspaper columns and TV features.
Since you mentioned “Year in Review pieces, Dave Barry’s 2020 Year in Review.
Heh..that is a fun read.
“OK, here goes: Nobody got killed by the murder hornets. As far as we know.
That’s pretty much it.”
“This year, in an effort to modernize the caucuses, the Iowa Democratic party has upgraded from its old-fashioned manual reporting procedures to a modern, state-of-the-art “app” based on the same software used in the Boeing 737 MAX airliner.”
If I had three wishes, one of them would be for everything that Dave Barry writes about in his Year in Review column to retroactively come true.
“For their part, the Democrats, fed up with the longstanding pattern of systemic racism and police misconduct in major U.S. cities, vow to bring about real reform, just as soon as they can figure out who, exactly, is in charge of these cities.”
Zing!!
I am going to go to the store and look for raclette cheese.
As opposed to raclette non-cheese?
I don’t want the heat source or the knife.
Hundreds of British tourists flee Swiss quarantine ‘under cover of night’
There seem to be some holes in the Swiss quarantine system.
Once night fell, they sbrinzd their way out
Once night fell, they sbrinzd their way out
Your pun is like a potato, cheesy and twice baked.
I’ve given up and accepted my fate as a permanent double-poster. I don’t know why it happens, but it’s a bit like having the hiccups.
I’ve given up and accepted my fate as a permanent double-poster. I don’t know why it happens, but it’s a bit like having the hiccups.
Related:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13588860/tier-5-lockdown-what-would-it-look-like/
If Tier 4 is “Lockdown”, what’s Tier 5? Shoot on sight?
Execution by immolation of people who show symptoms.
Welding doors. Or something between Wuhan and Melbourne.
Camps. Where everyone can go and concentrate on their wrongthink.
I’ve never seen mass hysteria on this level before. It’s very disconcerting.
*buys more guns*
My wife gave me a bag of Doves Milk Chocolate for Christmas… and damn if i haven’t eaten almost the whole bag at work today.
Christmas chocolate never makes it past Dec 26 in this house
“Hundreds of British tourists flee Swiss quarantine ‘under cover of night’ ”
You know who else used undercover of the night ?
Also undercover
OMG! Not the EXPLICIT version!
Its was released around 1983, I think. That cunte Tipper Gore ruined everything, amirite ?
Slack message from a colleague. Gee, thanks, guy*!! ?
https://pasteboard.co/JH4h2ue.jpg
(*he meant to type “UK”. Apologies to Limey, yet again)
My longtime work colleague and friend through… 3? different jobs has the initials KK. That’s just Monday for us.
Funny – this particular colleague and I have worked 2 different jobs together over ~15 years.
Though he has no idea I’m called “KK” in these parts, so it was just a silly coincidence.
Do they still get charged for the breakfasts?
Naturlich!
It’s Europe, you get breakfast as part of your hotel bill whether you want it or not.
I remember when that used to be the case in the US.
Peak derp! Getcher peak derp here!…..some UN womyn’s thing dreamed up their ideal world and drew it up. It is pretty much exactly what you would imagine, only more so, and with a LOT more people in wheelchairs.
And more gay couples than hetero.
And they have the only Jew laboring in the fields.
Where exactly do they think these children are coming from? The stork?
The lab in the upper left corner — between the lesbian wedding shop and the “support services” building. I am not making this up.
I can confirm that female welders look about the way you’d expect. Hint: not like Flash Dance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdXqyECQzck
More Subaru-y and The Closer I Am To Fine types.
If you look carefully in the windows of “Dream Big Academy”, the girl is doing something on the computer while the boy is cooking something
Accidental accuracy, given the work of Ada Lovelace and Chef Boyardee.
He changed the spelling of his name because he was tired of people mispronouncing it.
I’ve seen that place in my sleep. Funny, though – I always considered those nightmares, not dreams.
People who say “May all your dreams come true” forget that nightmares are also dreams.
Barf.
Quotas will totally work. Once we force inclusion of women in equal proportions to men on corporate boards, government panels, etc, then people will miraculously think of men and women as the same.
And in no circumstances will there be doubt or resentment about a less qualified female candidate being selected over a more qualified male.
They haven’t even figured out to correctly write their loopholes yet!
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/15/946905346/city-of-paris-is-fined-90-000-euros-for-naming-too-many-women-to-senior-position
They have an “unstereotype avenue”, but also mention “toxic masculinity”. The irony and projection are strong here.
They also have no industry of any kind
Excellent find.
Are women 50% of the prisoners in Equiterra?
Do men have 50% of the pregnancies?
Harvard calls women ‘birthing people’ because ‘not all who give birth’ are women
https://campusreform.org/?id=16477
[Kif sigh]
Once they get the gender equality sorted, they can start in on race.
The NFL has proven its willingness to provide a public platform for equality through efforts like support of BLM and such. So they should be the first to implement race quotas.
White players: 61%
Black players: 13.4 %
Samoan players: 0.06%
Hispanic players: 18% (might need to invent more opportunities for placekickers)
Asian players get lumped in with whites just like at college admissions. So that one place kicker named Hoo doesn’t count.
He certainly didn’t count yesterday.
Scene from Falcons locker room: “Who’s out plabrkicker? Not so fast, Hoo. Keep your bags packed.”
+1 Pitching Woo
Couple of weird things I first noticed:
1) The lone person working in the “Press” appears to have named herself as “CEO of the Year”.
2) In the explanation sections, in one passage they state the following:
In Violence-Free Alley, two women are walking along, discussing their days at work.
“They were respectful, and I was fully heard in that meeting today,” says one.
“Me Too,” says the other.
But they say “walking along” while one is in a wheelchair! Ableist language! Cancel the artist and the UN! Cancel!!
Strange. Now I’m going to look at the statistics. Yes as i thought, Men are slightly more likely to be victims of violent crime than women. So really their “Violence-Free Alley” is perpetrating a violent steryotype that women experience an outsized level of violent crime. And by adding to this they drown out voices of real victims. They should be ashamed by letting their preconceived notions of women inferiority complex make the focus be on women rather than on Men and women equally.
“violence free alley” just led me to think that clearly any other alley is violent
+1 Gun Free Zone
Is the Art Department ran by elves or pixies?
Inclusion square seems to exclude the Jew, as Not Adahn pointed out, is toiling in the fields.
The “Equiterra Is Proud to Represent Everyone” sign apparently doesn’t apply to heterosexual men.
Well they historically have been represented, so it’s time for them to take a backseat.
Also… Ugh i get upset about the “Toxic Masculinity” bullcrap. Because (imo purposely) lumps in Good stoic traits with bad “cocky” traits and calls them all “Toxic Masculinity”. Being a good Provider/Father means you do sometimes have to hide your emotions so that you keep the boat calm. Being a good person means you don’t let your emotions rule you and consume you. We all know the hothead guy who is liable to blow a gasket is not a stunning example of manhood, but if the feminists had their way they would destroy everything good about manhood.
Yes, because they want men to be subservient to women. It’s all a stupid power struggle.
Yes! Thank you!
Machismo =/= masculinity. Making guys into women with penises never ends well. Ask the interwar French what happens when you lack a masculine balance.
Men are just defective women. It is known.
And suggest that there’s such a thing as “toxic femininity” (say, the back-stabbing, gossipy cattiness), and people will look at you as though you’re nuts, if they don’t get pissed off at you. But the idea that masculinity is toxic is an article of faith.
Isn’t Equiterra where a bunch of cartoon ponies live? This seems to be about on that intellectual plane…
Day Drinkin’ Ye ha!
/sad day
I’ll raise a white russian to you & your doge
Skol! Mein Froind!
Yusef, if what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, you are well on your way to Iron Man status.
My condolences.
Hey YUFUS!
I read the bad turn of events from the earlier links- you have my sincerest condolences, sympathies, and empathy. Losing doge sucks.
On a perhaps bright side- you’re running out of things to go sideways for 2020. 2021 could be better if only by exclusion.
TALL CANS!
I am so sorry, we have lost 3 dogs this year.
2020 has been so horrible.
Wow, so sorry
One Euthanization, old age. 18+ yo Basinji Rescue
2nd Fanconi Syndrome 3 yo basinji Rescue (3 days later died 5 min from doggie hospital)
3rd Inoperable bladder cancer 15 yo Basinji Rescue (about two months later) Euthanization scheduled…
I feel so sorry for Yusef. The pain is so very real.
My condolences to you as well. I had to put down my 17 year old kitty last week. It truly sucks.
Sorry 🙁
Really sorry to hear about Bella, Yusef. And day drinking does sound like a good idea.
My condolences Yusef. You’ve had a rough few years.
Sorry Yusef.
That sucks. We lost ours in March, right as everything was locking-down. Crap way to start the rest of a a crap year.
I can’t imagine 3.
(meant for robodruid)
If Yufus has a pickup truck too…well, I don’t know what to tell you.
Write a country song ?
Hope things turn around for you.
Hey Yusef.
Bella was a great dog.
I know how The Year From Hell feels: in the early 10s, my Mom, the spousal unit’s Dad, and both of our beloved dogs died, and both of my brothers had life-threatening heart attacks, all within about 18 months.
It.
Just.
Kept.
Coming.
But I’m here to say that it also stops, thank whatever God you may believe in.
Hey Yusef! Very sorry to hear about Bella. I know how difficult that is. Keep your chin up!
Kentucky man.
A Kentucky man was filmed using a flamethrower to clear snow from his driveway while apparently dressed up as the character cousin Eddie from the Yule day classic “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”
Footage showed Timothy Browning — wearing only a white bathrobe, slippers and a hat — chugging a beer and popping a cigar in his mouth before handling the fireblaster outside his home in Ashland.
“Browning snow services removal now available!” a woman says at the start of the clip.
Browning snow services removal? So it removes snow services? Browning? Does it involve a .50 round?
I’ve always thought about using a flamethrower to clear snow.
With the heat capacity of water? Feh!
D.C. had such a big blizzard in January 1961 that the Army used them to clear snow from Pennsylvania Ave. for JFK’s inauguration parade.
I had neighbors install a heated driveway when the did a gut-reno of their house. Just seeing their driveway gently steaming while the snow comes down used to fill me with envy.
Soon we’ll be rid of President Cartoon Villain and his totalitarianism.
Free at last, free at last!
Well now that 2020 is turning ’21, it can drink.
*clap*
I got a Merkur safety razor for Christmas and finally got to use it. So good. How have I not been doing this in my 39 years yet?
It only gets better as you refine your muscle memory.
Swiss says: “… go to the store and look for raclette cheese.”
The imported (from Switzerland) stuff is rare and expensive.
I found a place in Michigan that makes their own: https://www.leelanaucheese.com/
Bookmarked.
Still expensive, but less so than imported. I think it is very good. I usually buy myself a quarter wheel as a Christmas present.
Can you explain to this novice the difference between raclette and fondue? Other than replacing the bread with a potato.
Raclette is a specific cheese, fondue is a cheese/wine blend. Fondue is made in a pot, raclette is perpared by direct heating.
Raclette cheese (for us) is melted on one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Swissmar-Stainless-Nonstick-Aluminum-Raclette/dp/B074T6JJBM/ We serve it over boiled potatoes (or blanched broccoli and cauliflower for my fat ass).
Fondue (for us) is half Emmentahler, half Gruyere, mixed with the cheapest bottle of white wine that is still drinkable melted in a fondue pot. We usually serve it with crusty French bread (or blanched broccoli and cauliflower for my fat ass).
Different variety of cheeses and different preparations. Both very good when done right.
Define “success”.
Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer threw some shade at other governors who “haven’t done enough” to combat the spread of COVID-19 during a Sunday morning appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
During a joint interview with Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, Whitmer defended her strict approach to coronavirus lockdowns, telling anchor Margaret Brennan that the backlash she has received is because they have made “sure that every measure is about saving people’s lives.”
“We have largely had a lot of success,” she claimed.
Yes nothing says success like 1284 deaths per million people.
But otherwise intelligent people just completely buy what the teevee tells them, this is the most dangerous thing ever, and the politicians are doing a great job protecting us!
Here’s some recent quotes from a football listserv I’m on, on whether anyone might want to travel to Florida to see a game, since they allow 25% seating in the stadiums for football games:
*No plans to attend, I don’t trust the rednecks, and Florida has no mask rules*
*I’m with you, not going, and there’s nowhere I’m really interested in going
right now outside my home, anyway. Maybe in 6-9 months there will be places safe enough
to drive to, as it is I haven’t been outside of city limits since probably
last January.* (note: this person lives in Lincoln, Nebraska)
*I won’t voluntarily get in a security line at an airport–Not to mention, not using a lavatory on the plane for a 6 hour flight. If you do those things you might as well jump off a building, at least the certain death will come more quickly that way.*
If you do those things you might as well jump off a building, at least the certain death will come more quickly that way
Unless that person has full-blown AIDS, I don’t think they have a good grasp of the risks.
Heck, I remember when the transmission of AIDS wasn’t well understood and folks were actually worried about catching it from a toilet.
Quelle surprise – a good bit of the AIDS paranoia was being pimped by Dr. Fauci.
Yeah, fuck that guy – he’s one of the douches behind “AIDS is an equal-opportunity killer” noble lie.
Heterosexuals are at just as much risk as intravenous drug users. Oral sex requires condoms and dental dams.
Way to fuck up my teenaged years.
Try keeping your husband from breaking covid rules first.
The ability of the Swiss to have such different laws in each canton is fascinating.
The last cantons to extend the vote to women did so in the 1970s. (Stifles secret wish to take vote away from women in the US because the majority of women always votes opposite of what I want.)
Fun fact, in both Wyoming and Utah territories, Women had the right to vote, and then lost the right to vote when they became states, before getting the right to vote back after the 19th Amendment (i think that was the one).
Two part Post, Hope this goes well.
1. @HM and resident linguistics and linguistics enthusiasts. What is your Opinion of IPA? I’ve been trying to learn some pronounciation and IPA has, in my opinion, been very helpful. However i noticed Websters doesn’t use it and so i querreid the Duck Duck Go’s to see if they had an explanation for why they don’t use it, and found this thread on stackexchange. Is what they are saying right? That there is an evil cabal of American Nationalists in linguistics that are tearing down the IPA? or is the IPA really a euro-weenie plot to spoil our precious bodily fluids?
2. I find that linked thread, very interesting, because it kinda shows a great example of what drives Europeans mad about Americans and Americans mad about Europeans. Europeans see American insistence on using different systems as childish and provincial need to be different, while Americans see the Europeans as rude butinsky type know it alls trying to impose their system over us. See also any debate about Metric vs Imperial.
IPA? Overhopped swill
There is no comparison: metric is silly decimal fetishization.
The pre-decimalization British money system was vastly better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2paSGQRwvo
Also it had the additional benefit of being able to count mixed coins by weighing.
I find the funniest argument being the ones arguing that Celsius is a better system than Fahrenheit, when they are both equally arbitrary, and that you can be more “precise” with Fahrenheit, with fewer decimal places in expression, since the range is larger (0-100 being mapped onto 32-212).
“…you can be more “precise” with Fahrenheit, with fewer decimal places in expression, since the range is larger (0-100 being mapped onto 32-212).”
Marquon Rankine haz much sadz.
We’ve all seen the “really cold”, “really warm” and “dead” comparisons.
Here’s another “units in real life” conundrum.
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a3eb73a40e3f61590e54409c03b6ddc2
“Valuing Unit Standardization over being helpful probably makes me a bad friend”
^^^ lol
We’ve all seen the “really cold”, “really warm” and “dead” comparisons.
That’s the most compelling argument for me. I’d be cool with metric-everything-but-temp.
I used to watch BBC weather when I lived in Stockholm.
The maps invariably listed Celsius temps and km/hr wind speed, and the weathermen inevitably spoke the temps in Fahrenheit and Wind speed in miles/hour.
I guess once you’re committed to driving on the left side, adopting universal units seems less important.
Doesn’t Europe normally list wind speed in m/sec, not km/h?
Yup. Although for electronics I use Celsius because that’s what all the specs usually use.
The metric system is cultural coddling of people who have to count on their fingers to do basic arithmetic.
They functionally don’t hVe a measurement roughly equivalent to a foot. It’s cm all the way down.
That’s because they chose to mimic the yard
I know, but our yard is divided into 3 and they have no equivalent THAT THEY USE.
Ever hear anyone say decimeter? Me neither.
Hmm… I haven’t.
But I have heard people use deciliter and centiliter.
Ever hear anyone say decimeter? Me neither.
I heard something that sounded like that, it was Lucille Ball’s device to measure the severity of her husband’s outbursts.
There are medical lab values measured in deciliters.
I liked it. There are certainly reasons to not recommend the metric system, the “Base 10” is probably one of the worst aspects of it, while being touted as fantastic. The fact that most fetishists (as you call them) don’t see any downside is probably what infuriates me the most.
That being said i’m fairly comfortable with using Meters and Kilometers when talking about distances. I actually like the Meter/yard size. it is fairly good for describing something of an areay bigger than just your room (Small Farm plot, distance to the place down the street, etc). I wish it was used more in Imperial parlance, rather than feet.
five lakh millimeters
yeah, I’ve worked in several countries back and forth seamlessly
but I don’t know how anyone could be offended by a system that gives you a cubic meter of water = a ton . . . that’s handier than the machinations I go through with piping and tank systems in English
Meters are natural in a way: your elbow is pretty close to a meter off the floor, even if you’re part of the great bathtub Swedish height distribution. So even in inches, there’s a part of me that’s thinking metric when I design work stations. Or forty inches if you prefer. Makes no difference to me.
Then again I’m fairly ambidextrous (can’t through a football lefthanded, though) and am very content with flipping things and ideas upside down or inside out
can’t through a football
which side of the brain causes that?
I like the AD&D shout-out.
For any serious work in linguistics, knowledge of the IPA is necessary. It’s Intro to Phonetics 101 stuff. However, for the purposes of a monolingual dictionary used by native speakers of a language, IPA is overkill. The IPA is supposed to represent all known sounds (i.e., phones) that are possible to produce with human anatomy, a dictionary of American English only needs to represent those sounds in General American English.
Well that’s a reasonable and understandable opinion.
So it must be excoriated and removed from the internet!
Got it – Unicode vs. ASCII.
An apt analogy!
But if you don’t use Unicode how can your coworker put emojis in all his comments and the text output of the test harness you are writing?
Indeed. If there’s some American “resistance” to IPA, I’ve never noticed it.
And it’s not like general-audience dictionaries in other countries use it, either.
The comment by mike pollard matches some of my frustration of IPA as a non user. I just want an approximation when looking something up in Wikipedia.
Wikipedia usually gives both IPA and an approximation, e.g.
Some, but not all.
Such as https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise-en-scène
Fair enough.
To be fair, that phrase includes one sound that is impossible to represent in an “English-like” way. Or, at least the various approximations I’ve seen of [ɑ̃] (like “awng”) are severely misleading.
Do yourself a favor and learn IPA. You won’t regret it 🙂
Are we still talking about hipster beer?
Something something money in politics.
Georgia Senate Democrat Jon Ossoff raised nearly six times more in California than he did in Georgia, according to a recent Federal Election Commission (FEC) report.
Breitbart News reported Sunday that Ossoff, who hopes to defeat Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) in January, became the highest-funded candidate in the history of U.S. Senate elections as he raised $106.7 million between October 15 and December 16.
This is also the record for the most raised in two months.
I’m sure California has the interests of Georgia at heart.
That is the one that i think will be closest of the two elections, but are we all fucking just going to forget the election that happened two moths ago? Didn’t plenty of Dems outraise their GOP incumbents and then fail to unseat them (:cough: Maine :cough: South Carolina :cough:). Also isn’t Ossoff the same prick who raised tons of money out of state a few years ago and still lost the election?
I’m fairly certain it’s been proven money doesn’t mean anything. How many Democrats outraised their opponents and lost?
Didn’t Hillary outspend Donald by a factor of 3?
Donald got a shit-ton of free publicity, so I don’t think that’s an apples and oranges comparison.
*sigh* It IS an apples to oranges comparison.
Is NOT an apples to apples comparison.
Jeffrey Epstein’s last cellmate has been found dead
If i had any confidence in pollsters, i’d like to see the result of a poll seeing how many people believe the official story about epsteins death.
One of my college besties, back in the early-mid 90s was a fairly quiet libertarian.
He got on to the topic of the Clintons and what known criminal scumbags they were and how many murders and “silencing” they had committed.
I was appalled and although what he said rang true on several counts, I just rejected it mentally. I just couldn’t believe that it could be true that such people would attain the presidency.
I feel quite different about things now. I’d love to have had those conversations recorders and listen to them again from this perspective.
I have a friend who grew up in the upper crust of Littlerock back in the day. The stories he told me about what he or his family personally witnessed of the Clintons leads me to believe that any evil they are accused of is a gross underestimate of what they actually did.
Ghislaine Maxwell did not die of Covid.
Not yet…
It’ll be a bad P̶o̶-̶2̶1̶0̶ ̶i̶n̶j̶e̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ batch of CoVID vaccine.
Just ended on Bring a Trailer: Fox Body Mustang collection.
Worst Mustangs ever.
I had one.
It was fun to drive. Shitty to own.
You’re just upset that he’s horning in on your fox body territory.
I drove an SVT owned by a friend. Best part was the speedo, unlike the GT, was only numbered to 85 mph, but had all the ticks up to something like 140.
Seats were Recaro and much better than the GT.
That said it was way too much money versus the GT.
Not including the Mustang II, I assume?
I’ll take the 85 GT.
Cheap and easy to work on.
Fox bodies are the second best, right after the first generation ’65-’66.
Once upon a time on Mammary Monday…
https://archive.li/426rP
Judging by her quads, I think #4 squats. Maybe #14 too. #38 too, maybe.
#41’s eyes. Something off about them.
#43 looks fun.
Ladies and gentlemen, Harvard medical school.
Globally, ethnic minority pregnant and birthing people suffer worse outcomes and experiences during and after pregnancy and childbirth. These inequities have been further highlighted by #COVID19. Watch this panel discussion on #MaternalJustice.
My niece has applied to Harvard. She has zero business being there*, she’s currently a good person, and there is no universe in which attending there will be a net financial benefit for her (or my brother who will be paying).
However, I can’t tell her (or her dad) that she’s being a complete ldiot, so I’ll just rage to you guys.
*she’s not a networking guru, she’s not ruling caste, she has no future plans, and she’s only very bright.
Actually with the most ridiculous degree possible there she can still find employment at the Fortune 500.
It really demonstrates social signaling and the Ivies.
Unless she’s a foreign national, no way should she be paying full boat, so there’s that.
It certainly is madness.
The NCAA has filed a trademark for MASK MADNESS.
The filing, made on December 23, indicates the NCAA will:
1. Sell “MASK MADNESS” branded face masks.
2. Start a “MASK MADNESS” public awareness campaign to promote the benefits of wearing a mask.
Are we living in a simulation? If so, please let me out. I’m through playing now.
I say we help them with some seed ideas:
– Makes robbing a bank easier.
Lots of high rising PTPers covering up those mugs, it’s gonna be safe with a capital “S” baybeee!
One of the good things I’m starting to realize with my new therapist is that I’ve stopped giving a shit about what people say about me. However, I’m still paranoid about what they’re not saying about me. Which is weird, but… whatever.
The old marketing dichotomy of “its better to be talked about than NOT talked about” ?
………………………………………
/ jk
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9087917/Demi-Rose-stuns-green-lingerie-red-jacket-Christmas-Ibiza.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9091139/Demi-Rose-puts-busty-display-slips-white-bodycon-dress.html
Nope. Enviable curves and toned pegs.
Are we living in a simulation? If so, please let me out. I’m through playing now.
I don’t wanna ride this ride anymore.
There’s some asshole alien kid playing “Earth” on his SpaceGameStation 33, trolling on the alien version of 4Chan about what he puts his little sims through.
through playing
playing through?
Don’t know if this is a reliable source, but I could believe Lord British actually did this:
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/james-doohans-ashes-have-been-on-iss-for-the-past-dozen-years/
Nowadays people can get their ashes into a cube satellite pretty cheaply, $3000 a pop. Celestis Cremains pays for a spot on the cube satellites my company makes and we launch them like we do with any other payload.
Not my bag, but whatever.
There’s a company down here that mixes ashes into an artificial reef that’s placed offshore, and they give you coordinates for SCUBA diving purposes. A friend of mine was buried like that after she died.
Any vet (I think – maybe just Navy?) can request free burial at sea. Your ashes might spend a few months on a shelf in a military hospital, but eventually they’ll be poured over the side of a ship, given a 21 gun salute and the 21 casings and a formal signed letter with the lat/long of your burial (and flag) will be sent to your next of kin.
I could believe Lord British actually did this:
#metoo
Taking one for the team.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/13570344/prostitute-sex-husbands-boss/
“On top of that there is the risk of transmitting the virus and of someone spotting your car in the firm’s car park.”
OMG just think if one of them got COVID! What a disaster that would be!
“You’re not doing this for the hunting, are you?”
Man, I love that joke. Always breaks the ice at a bar.
Deidre needs to use different pornos to inspire her columns.
No shit. Even assuming it’s true, does the wife really think she’s saving her husband’s job? Because I guarantee if the boss was forced to lay off whoever and however many, her husband is getting the sack regardless of how many times she blows the boss.
I wouldn’t mind giving Baldwin’s wife a Spanish kiss.
You mean an Australian kiss? (like a French kiss but down under…)
demo of full size Babbage Difference Engine (steam punk computer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlbQsKpq3Ak
gear porn starts at 15:30 mark
Since about half the country really does think that COVID-19 is a new and unique threat that demands unprecedented curtailing of freedoms for the “public good” , while half of us are outraged at the overreach, is there a way to coexist?
If we set up institutions where people can get an apartment for their family unit, free food, free entertainment streaming; and total protection from contagion, car accidents (you aren’t allowed to leave, because the government can’t protect you if you leave the cocoon, the “safety first” crowd can move on in.
Then the rest of us can free-range it in libertopia.
Unfortunately only the free people of libertopia would be able to create wealth, so the Cocoon would confiscate cash from the free society.
Ok, they’re not compatible. This is going to get worse before it gets better.
As seperate, independent entities? sure. As a unified culture, probably not.
Unfortunately when you ask this question most peoples answer is “No”, but the idea of “seperation” is not the one that they think of. Hence why we need “Truth and Reconcilation” committees.
Sadly they cannot exist. Its an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object at this point.
Unfortunately only the free people of libertopia would be able to create wealth
Unpossible since libertopia would be filled with free rider psychopaths and be bereft of the beneficial guiding hand.
who wants to be in a republic with the others whatsoever?
my family did our part, but Union survived, so good luck
“…free-range it in libertopia.”
Gambol even!
It’s not enough to them that they’re safe in their cocoon. They’re ashamed of their weakness, and the only way to relieve that self loathing is to force the strong and free into that cocoon with them.
They have zero desire to allow you to live your lives as you see fit. They literally are willing to suffer just to have the opportunity to make you suffer more. Because that will make them ‘right,’ which as we all know is the most important thing in the world
See that article this morning about the kid who sat on his classmate’s n-word video until the most damaging moment.
These people are Zwinglians, and they’re looking for some Anabaptists to baptize until they stop moving.
This insight is profound.
I don’t like it, but it does help explain why they aren’t content with “ my body, my choice.”
Someone posted an article a couple of weeks ago where some guy went undercover with a leftist group.
His takeaway? “In the end we are going to have to shoot these people”.
Seems like a wasted effort. He could have just gone on vacation in Miami and asked anyone with a Cuban accent.
Huh, looks like Netflix USA yeeted all of Johnny Depp’s movies today:
https://www.ibtimes.com/twitter-reacts-netflix-allegedly-removing-johnny-depps-movies-disgusting-3107879
Maybe he was a meanie to his wife, maybe not (I’m not sure that’s been established), but just think of what some of the people associated with movies that are still available on their platform have done. I was going to state that a simple search show several of Polanski’s movies still available but there actually aren’t any of those either. They must be going all Puritan, with the exception of “Cuties” of course.
Wifey always mocked my obsession with collecting media onto an ever-increasing suite of hard drives. I feel better about my choice with every announcement like this. With Plex, I can stream my collection to any device, anywhere there is a signal.
*spins up new Blu-Ray drive and continues to rip movies to Plex*
I got a Silicon Dust tuner for my Plex setup not too long ago – nice to stream local TV (i.e., football games) when elsewhere.
*Goes to look up Silicone Dust*
Sweet, thanks; I’ve never before seen this stuff.
I got the 2-tuner version:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B076FNSM6B/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
it’s pretty slick. Plex acts like a DVR. Local HD has some decent stuff – I end up watching a lot of cooking shows on Create even with cable (still convincing the wife on cutting that cord).
Let me know how it holds up. I have a Tablo and have a love-hate relationship with it.
Shit, I’ve apparently had it far longer than I thought. 2017? Really?
Anyway, Plex provides all the brains. It’s underutilized, but works fine when I do poke at it.
e.g., I streamed the Pats game last week while sitting in my car, waiting for someone in urgent care.
(the Pats season may have me needing urgent care)
Guess who I’m rooting for tonight 😛
As you should.
It’s time to root for the Bucs. At this point I might recognize more players in their lineup than among the Pats.
It’s never time to root for Tampon Bay.
Do you know the price of corn in Tampa Bay?
Buccaneer.
I’ve been using SD’s stuff for decades.
OTA and cable card.
Used Windows Media Center for decades. I have a lifetime Plex Pass, but prefer SD’s HDHomrun for its simplicity.
I archive on Kodi and don’t keep TV shows.
Windows Media makes my computer run very hot. I had to stop using it. Music Bee for music (changed over from WinAmp) and VLC for video,per Rhywun recommendation.
It’s long dead and unsupported now. But I never had that issue when I used it.
Being able to run extenders to other TVs and play copyprotected shows through the house saved me much money over renting cable boxes.
I need to start doing the same. I have a ton of movies and TV on Apple’s service but who knows how long they’ll be there, probably 99 percent of them would be considered problematic if the Lords of Woke came for them.
Ditto. I have every movie and tv show I’ve ever owned on a Synology upstairs in my office.
I have DVDs. I don’t have the appropriate software to rip them.
Handbrake is FOSS.
Thank you!
At least Amazon Prime still has Porky’s.
For now.
I purchased a Blu-Ray of Blazing Saddles a few months back, because I have no confidence that will be permitted to sully to minds of today for much longer.
I’ve been told that will never happen, because Blazing Saddles is making fun of the racists. Which is true. But that’s never stopped any movie or book from being cancelled before.
They’re coming for Honest fucking Abe for Christ’s sake, Blazing Saddles getting scrubbed off at least all of the paid services wouldn’t surprise me at all.
Juvenile Bluster is right about slumbrew being right.
Correct. Racists are the bad guys but bad words are said, so it has to go.
Blazing Saddles is to Porky’s as wry satire is to fart jokes.*
They are not in the same league.
*actual SAT question
I’m not comparing the two and your comparison is apt. But Blazing Saddles will still get the ax.
Of course there were a number of fart jokes in Blazing Saddles. Hell, the Governor’s name is La Petomane. And this https://youtu.be/FXHkFZ-nG4Y
Yep, upgraded Blazing Saddles and Tropic Thunder.
Disney is pretty much the worst offender bar none though – never releasing some of their films past the initial VHS (and overseas laserdisc) – and now that they’ve bought up Fox – pretty much the entire classic Fox library is on ice in the vault. It’s a crime.
Warner Brothers is still putting out remastered Blu-Rays – not to mention Kino Lorber, Cohen Media and a lot of other small indie production companies.
+1 shower scene dick through the hole
Howard Stern optioned both Porky’s and Rock & Roll High School a couple decades ago, with the aim of remaking them. I’m quite glad that never happened.
Porky’s is so weird, btw:
“You know what our teenaged sex comedy needs? A nice anti-semitism sub-plot.”
In 1950s South Florida, no less.
That was before NYC heard they had gotten a handle on the mosquito problem. Duh.
Blazing saddles is on HBO Max. I kid you not they added a disclaimer video to the beginning of it.
https://youtu.be/O5mVQh4Tzl4
I’d be interested to know what Richard Pryor (who co-wrote it) would have to say about this were he still alive. I doubt he’d be happy with it.
Netflix doesn’t have every movie under the sun, so it wouldn’t surprise me that they didn’t have any of Polański’s movies.
I was going to search and see if they have anything from François Truffaut (arbitrarily selecting a foreign director), but apparently you can’t search if you don’t have an account.
I’ve tells you where films are available
Imdb
They’ve got “available on Amazon”, which is unsurprising since I think they’re owned by Amazon now, but I don’t see links for availability anywhere else.
Not long ago somebody here mentioned a site that lists all streaming options for any movie. It was good: with prices and quality (4K/HD). But I forgot to bookmark it.
https://www.justwatch.com/ ?
Yes, that’s the one. Thanks!
They had The Pianist for a while but looks like it’s no longer on there.
I get only “titles related to François Truffaut”, no François Truffaut movies. Netflix is also woefully missing any Kurosawa or Melville films, I’d accuse them of xenophobia but every other show is anime so they at least like the Nips that make cartoons.
Are they yeeting Amber Heard’s movies?
Nerdy thing that has bothered me. In Dungeons and dragons, the players handbook their is a fixed exchange rate between coins of different metallic bases.
The in campaign I am currently running for TPTB (aka the Campaign of the Demi-Gods), I’ve homebrewed that nonsense along with adding a system for money-changing that punishes anyone foolish enough to use Charisma as a dump-stat.
Brilliant! Also, that would make a fine article.
Piqued interest. What did you do?
*looks down at depleted moneybag*
Zounds!
^^Nerdiest thing I’ve heard in weeks including all the glib zoom nerd shit (which is impressive).
That was historically true, within a particular kingdom at least. The 20:1 silver:gold used in AD&D came straight from England.
My understanding is that still most systems were single metallic base (I.e money could only be turned in for either gold or silver.. Bimetallic systems didn’t tend to work out when exchange rates are fixed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_silver#/media/File%3AFrankenstein_1896.jpg
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_free_silver_jabberwock_-_Keppler._LCCN2012648547_(cropped).jpg
Spain To Keep Registry Of People Who Refuse Covid Vaccine
I’m amazed that sticks only–no carrots–are used to promote mass vaccination so far.
The heavy handedness has been there from the start. There’s no room to allow people to make their own decisions, they must immediately comply whatever dictates are issued. It’s too important to allow them to make the wrong decision.
I thought Franco was dead
Not enough vaccine to bring out the big sticks
Carrots imply the intent to persuade.
These jackbooted thugs have no intention of persuading you of anything.
Obedience is demanded. Sticks will be applied.
Thissss. The rationalization dance that most people are doing is an added benefit and allows the charade to go on a bit longer.
After spending Christmas with the family my brother in law and I both came down with fever, headache, and a cough yesterday. He tested positive for the rona while I tested negative. We both got the rapid test. I don’t know what to believe.
¡Adios amigo!
I would act like you have it even though the test is negative.
Easy. The tests are bullshit.
Jeez. Well take care of yourself and get well.
+1
+2
I’m young and the symptoms are mild so I’m not too worried.
Good to hear. Rest up
The tests are shit. Chances are that you have the cootie bugs. I am guessing you will recover just fine, as will your BIL.
Chances are that you have the cootie bugs.
Or any other cold/flu strain.
Get well soon!
One of you is a can of Coke?
When I’m asked a pointless or annoying question, I like to respond with “What are you going to do with that information?” That usually gets the asker to realize it doesn’t matter or it’s not worth it. If they have a good reason, I will then answer.
I would treat the Covid-19 thing the same. So you got the test. What are you going to do with that information? If the answer is “same as I was going to do anyway” then don’t get the test. If you were going to stay home until your symptoms are gone, then just do that with or without the test.
This, in a nutshell, is why I refuse to get tested.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqVmmk4W4AADJQW.jpg
This shit pisses me the fuck off.
I don’t get it. Is it supposed to be Fauci and a bunch of nurses gleeful that people can’t hold their dying relatives’ hands?
They’re doing a “viral” TikTok video
But the hospitals are overwhelmed and there are sick and dead in the hallways and mountains of body bags in the parking lot. Or so I am told…
It’s the combination of hospitals not allowing visitors, and this insufferable horseshit:
“The Problem With Tik Tok Nurses”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kntLVW3KRs
Epidemic comparison
Clearly overwhelmed by the surging pandemic…
On the Facebook page for the informal “Friends of (city)” page in the nearest town to me:
Sure, pal. Unsubstantiated whining from an unnamed source equals “facts.”
“We choose truth over facts!” —Joe Biden
Not being able to take lunch is the red flag for me. Every time that happens, it’s because the person has poor time management or chooses not to take a lunch. There may be one or two days where it’s so slammed that it happens, but no way does it happen repeatedly except by choice. Not only a fault of the person but their supervisor and their managers. Having someone with low or wildly swinging blood sugar level is no good for patient care, nor is just burning them out. For marathon work, you need to set a cadence, whether it’s eating or sleeping, that’s sustainable.
Or they could be lying.
I can’t remember the last time I didn’t eat lunch at my desk. Between regular noontime meetings and the desire to get done an hour earlier, I choose to work through lunch most days.
I could easily blame it on the neverending pile of work if I were looking for victim cred, but I choose to take responsibility for my own decisions.
My response to the imaginary friend would be something along the lines of, “I’m sorry that you find it difficult to do your job. I often find it difficult to do mine, but lacking a Twitter account I rarely have an outlet to whine about it. As to staying home, I regret that I won’t be doing that, because I don’t want to, and my wants are more important than your needs. Ta!”
I keep hearing this but I see no evidence and there have been so many lies. Who the fuck knows?
I have made my way past the Covid test guardians at my local clinic (rather a big and comprehensive facility.)
I can attest that the few nurses, technicians, and doctors I’ve interacted with are at their wits’ end with rules requiring them to postpone non Covid related treatments if possible.
I will believe them because I see it. And I’ve seen that they had to lay off nurses because they don’t have enough patients to treat and bill.
Let’s take it as fact. California has a low case count per million pop at approximately 56k. Kansas has 78k per million and still had 30% of ICU beds open. So what’s wrong with California? Could it be an overloaded bureaucracy that requires you to bribe politicians get a new hospital built? Naw, it’s easier to blame it on the monsters who don’t wear masks and social distance.
I admit to trolling mildly on that guys post. I said now is a great time to talk to their state legislator about abolishing Certificate of Need laws.
I know he won’t get it, but…
To further prove my point California has 1.1 hospital beds per 1 million pop. Kansas has 3.3.
Perfect.
https://youtu.be/cXrTm0U0poI
Weird to hear a white chick from California speaking accented English. I mean other than straight valley girl.
Very odd accent. She’s from CA?
Better still, Japanese, but not English wiki page.
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ジューン・ラブジョイ
CA native.
She have that speech impediment before she started?
She has a lisp.
We could have this if it weren’t for you.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqRXFlgXUAAu3_J?format=jpg&name=medium
If it weren’t for me?
“Exxxxxxxcellent, Smithers!”
They left out the unicorn shitting skittles.
Let me add a few touches.
https://i.imgflip.com/4rvtp7.jpg
LOL
Soylent green
Cuckoos nest
Arbeit mach frei
Swastika
Noose
I saw another. I’ll let some other Glib call it out.
Bit hungover. Got any other suggestions?
Start drinking again.
Agreed.
Post a bigger image?
No ovens?
I think I saw that in a nightmare recently.
*shudder*
I think you saw it earlier in the comments. 🙂
*ahem*
“She said, ‘Oh man, you foolish man, it surely sounds like hell
You might be lord of half the world, you’ll not own me as well…'”
How is “Climate Change” a “women’s issue”?
Women are always hot, and this just exacerbates the problem.