Sunday Night Open Post

by | Dec 13, 2020 | Open Post | 236 comments

Now you say something.

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  1. Yusef drives a Kia

    Something!

  2. Rebel Scum

    Now you say something.

    Am I being detained?!

  3. Animal

    Fuck off, Tulpa.

    • Ted S.

      Juris Impudent is orgasmic….

    • Animal

      That’s a horrible idea. It would be horrible if the Dems did it, and it would be just as horrible if the GOP does it.

      • Chafed

        Agreed. This is an ill thought out fantasy.

    • DEG

      Uhhh…

      Both the House and the Senate have to vote by simple majority to reject Electoral College votes.

      There is no way the Democrat controlled House will throw out votes for Biden. There is no way the Republican (well, pending Georgia runoff) controlled Senate will throw out votes for Trump.

  4. Tundra

    Qualcosa!

    • rhywun

      Rhywbeth!

  5. Rebel Scum

    Biden To Introduce New Medal Of Honor For Bravery In Journalism

    “Listen, Jack, we gotta award the journalists who did brave things like stood there and let the president say mean stuff,” Biden said in a speech from The Office of the President-Elect, which looked suspiciously like a basement, Friday evening. “We give these reporters the highest honor for their acts of valor. Some even had epic comebacks against the president on Twitter. Such bravery. Such honor.”

    • rhywun

      No one can say that the H/B administration won’t offer lots of humor, between the tears.

  6. Don escaped Two Corinthians

    @jessinicoleb

    Ayn Rand and Rand Paul walk into an unregulated bar. They leave Paul Ryan at home, because he’s an ass with no principles. The evening is uneventful, because poisoning your customers is disincentivized by the free market.

    • grrizzly

      This kind of election disclaimer is on its own proof that the election was rigged and Biden will be nothing but a usurper when when they install him in the White House next month.

      • Q Continuum

        Biden doesn’t even know what day of the week it is. His handlers used him as a Stalking Horse to get Commiela in.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Chance Gardner is my wife’s nickname for Biden now.

      • C. Anacreon

        They did start talking about him for a run at the presidency at the end of that movie, just as he was giving the illusion of walking on water.

      • Chafed

        That’s excellent. I may have to swipe that.

    • Q Continuum

      “As of December 8, states of certified election results making Joe Biden President-Elect”

      YouTube, and parent company Google, are slimy, pathetic little bootlicking propagandists that I’m very glad I’ve made an effort to jettison from my life. Clearly I need to do even more.

      • Gustave Lytton

        So he wasn’t President-Elect before Dec 8 after all? Because I seem to recall contrary statements from the MSM and tech companies before that date.

        *electors still have yet to cast their ballots

      • Rebel Scum

        And those ballots have yet to be tallied. I know that “president-elect” is usually thrown around after the state by state poll of citizens in November, but there is not one until someone concedes and/or the technicalities of the constitutional process are fulfilled.

        Additionally there is no fucking “Office of the President-elect”. But there is a full bore propaganda campaign around Sleepy Joe and Kameltoe.

      • blackjack

        You WILL accept the results as called by CNN and you will call him whatever they deem proper!

      • robc

        Even concession doesn’t matter if the EC still votes for him.

      • rhywun

        My work laptop helpfully installed the latest version of Edge with the latest mandatory reboot.

        I immediately dumped Chrome, which was the company default browser.

        Edge is actually pretty decent.

      • Chafed

        I’m shocked MS built a decent browser. Is Bing its search engine?

      • rhywun

        It copied my settings from Chrome where I had DDG as the search engine.

        Oh, and I was able to install an adblocker which was prohibited in my work Chrome. W00t!

        I can’t imagine the brain-dead suits who decided that the worker bees shouldn’t be allowed to block ads.

      • rhywun

        PS. I can’t comment on Bing since I’ve almost never used it, but I do believe it’s the default engine for Edge.

    • Rebel Scum

      election disclaimer is on its own proof that the election was rigged

      It is propaganda that can be identified by anyone who knows anything about the electoral system. The trouble is that the government education system keeps most people ignorant.

      made an effort to jettison from my life.

      ///MeToo. I have pretty much shifted to Bitchute for most of my political-junkie content. But there are not a lot of movie clips or cat videos there so . . . YouTube will likely remain in my life. But I am not using Google as much as possible.

    • rhywun

      SHOW ME

      Blow me.

    • Chafed

      1 and done. Though 24 is GlibFit.

  7. hayeksplosives

    Some people did said something.

    —Ilhan Omar

  8. TARDis

    Going to have a shitty Monday. A bunch of minions have managed to get themselves Rona’d out for two weeks. How convenient, right before Christmas. With my luck, I’ll get it Christmas Eve and it will kick my ass or kill me. Fuck me.

    • SP

      Ugh. Sorry.

    • blackjack

      I’m pretty sure I have it. I can’t taste anything, even beer. Imma try and get a test on Monday to tell for sure. Supposed to go back to work on Tuesday, but I’ll probably be out two weeks now. Pisses me off because I’ve been working on getting a transfer to a much closer airport and finally got them to agree to put it up, open to the whole city. That means I gotta be first to apply and the only way to see it first is to be there in person. I might be applying up to two weeks later. Thank dogs it came after T/G. Still gonna miss out on Xmas dinner, though.

      • R C Dean

        Well, don’t comment here until you’re cleared. Wouldn’t want to catch it over the ‘tubes.

      • blackjack

        It’s OK, I have a diaper hanging from the shifter in my car. It’s doing just as much good as if I were wearing it right now.

      • westernsloper

        Our policy if is you have symptoms 10 day stay at home from onset. Positive test = 14 days from result. #nevergettested

      • westernsloper

        if is? Whatever.

      • blackjack

        I’ve been getting the test at work, because it’s free and they have been just rubber stamping everyone negative so far. The last one, on Wednesday, gave a positive to the parts guy. They sent all three part’s guys home and made me record my temps, twice a day for 14 days. That was Thursday. Friday night, I lost my sense of smell and taste. I had congestion, but it seems to have cleared overnight. I need a test because I gotta use sick time unless I have the vid. I don’t have 14 days worth, so I’ll have to use VC for a chunk. I have enough to cover that, but I’d rather just get it comped completely. Oh, and, If is indeed.

      • TARDis

        The problem is that half of them tested negative, but their kids didn’t. It’s bullshit. It used to be, “I feel like shit. I need a sick day.” Okay, take a day or two or three. That was fine. I’ve sent people home for coming in sick. I’ve even threatened people with documentation. “You give anyone the flu, fucker, I’ll write you up. You have sick days for a reason, use them.”

        Nowadays, it’s my third cousin tested positive I after I had sex with her/him. Okay, you’re out for 10-14 days. What great protocols we have.

    • DEG

      Sorry.

    • Fourscore

      Got a lot dusty seeing those little kids standing in the window. Criminal to see kids treated that way

      • BakedPenguin

        Yeah, I should’ve handled that introduction differently. I regret that. It is a dusty video.

    • Tundra

      Fucking brutal.

      Thanks, BP.

  9. rhywun

    Making matzo balls. When the box said “roll into approximately one inch balls” I probably should have paid attention. Because it didn’t say they would greatly expand. Some of these guys are like the size of small oranges now.

    • SP

      We could have told you that, but did you ask for our help?

      • rhywun

        No. ?

      • Nephilium

        Way to (((mother))) him. 🙂

    • blackjack

      The biggest balls of them all?

      • The Gunslinger

        I’ve always been partial to this non politically correct AC/DC number.

        https://youtu.be/62OxFo4cZWI

        I think I got a magic touch!

      • blackjack

        That’s a good one. Thanks

    • Gustave Lytton

      Closest thing to a Jewish deli around here makes them that large. Basically one in a puddle of broth. And it’s still good!

    • Chafed

      When (((we))) give you instructions it’s for your own good.

      • rhywun

        Heh. They came out decent anyway – even the gigantic orange-sized ones. Could use more spice or something next time.

        I used them to replace noodles with some leftover stroganoff. Yummy.

    • hayeksplosives

      What the—? Unauthorized use of Pineapples?!

      • Count Potato

        Yes

  10. rhywun
    • hayeksplosives

      LOL!

      I’m rooting for the Bills tonight, and for sure the Browns tomorrow.

      It will be fun to shake up the playoffs a bit, get some perennial also-rans in there!

      • rhywun

        Too bad the Bills and Browns rarely play each other.

    • KSuellington

      RIP Ben Gazarra, one of my favorite character actors.

      • DrOtto

        -1 Jackie Treehorn

    • Nephilium

      Go Bills!

      In positive news, got a call from a friend of mine who invited me over to watch the game tomorrow night. We will be violating the curfew order and cheering for the Browns.

  11. westernsloper

    Now you say something.

    I got nuthin.

  12. Timeloose

    Amazon Prime has starred streaming Most Extreme Elimination Challenge. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_Extreme_Elimination_Challenge

    It’s a redubbed Japanese challenge game show. It’s dubbed with English wisecracking and sexual innuendo. The Japanese game show is a obstacle course challenge from the 1980’s. The little protections for the participants is hilarious as are the juvenile commentary.

    • Tulip

      Excellent, just started it now

      • Timeloose

        Right you are Tulip.

    • Animal

      Brad Lesley, aka “Animal” (亜仁丸レスリー, 11 September 1958 – 27 April 2013) — American baseball player. His main job was to humiliate and frighten the contestants in any possible way, usually dressed as a samurai complete with a sword. Animal has also been seen in a green sumo suit, spider costume, Fred Flintstone–style outfit, a baseball uniform and a Las Vegas–era Elvis Presley jumpsuit costume.

      No connection. Honest.

  13. Aloysious

    Watching The Gorgon (1967) starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and most importantly, Barbara Shelley.

    • Count Potato

      Is that a Hammer film?

      • Aloysious

        Yep. Bought the Blu-ray collection. Lots of stuff I’ve never seen before. Plus some old favorites.

  14. The Gunslinger

    Michael S. Schmidt of the New York Times reports that Cleveland will announce a new team name this winter. (MLB)

    • SP

      The Cleveland Covids.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      The Steamers?

    • rhywun

      The Cleveland Baseball Team.

      C’mon America. If we work hard, we can remove every reference to those people from our culture.

    • Nephilium

      Probably the Spiders.

      Goodbye baseball fandom.

      /has several Chief Wahoo shirts.

      • KSuellington

        Wow what a weak ass name. That fucking blows.

      • Nephilium

        It’s at least got some history.

      • rhywun

        It’s not a terrible name. Bit odd.

      • BakedPenguin

        K S, Never heard of a brown recluse? They aren’t especially big, but I’ve heard of healthy guys having a month-long stay in the hospital after getting bit.

        What about the White Sox, or the Red Sox? What’s fear-inducing about them other than how bad they’d smell after a double header? Orioles? Angels?

        Spiders would be a perfectly cromulent name, even if I disagree with the SJW reasoning which makes it “necessary”.

    • blackjack

      The KneeTakers. They don’t win, but they start many conversations.

    • The Gunslinger

      Adding insult to injury for Indians fans:

      MLB rumors: Indians’ Francisco Lindor is a ‘fit’ for Yankees, but other trade partners loom

      • Nephilium

        Meh. Most of us knew that Lindor wasn’t going to be with the team next year. This past season was the last grasp before we go into another rebuilding cycle.

      • The Gunslinger

        I feel your pain. The Tigers’ general manager has pretty much come out and said that the Tigers are not really going to be trying to win yet this year.

      • Nephilium

        I’ve been watching the Indians since the 80’s, I’ve suffered through worse, and there were at least a couple of great runs in there. I’m going to guess that this song is going to be cancelled as well now.

    • Urthona

      The Las Vegas Indians

      Am I doing it right?

      • rhywun

        LOL

  15. straffinrun

    Hey, Commodious. Saw what you were going through. Hang in there. I remember getting that down when I was in my 20’s and it sucked. I like music at times like that.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko5isS9JQKM

    • blackjack

      I always just resorted to heavily pixelated porn. It basically doubles the blindness quotient. Eventually, everything seems pixelated. Still no hair on my palms, though, so there’s that.

    • Sean

      But why? Beijing Joe’s gonna take all yer guns away.

      • blackjack

        Not your shotgun. You can fire both barrels at the sky and scare ’em off.

      • BakedPenguin

        Including the ones I took on the unfortunate canoe trip? O my Gosh!

  16. DEG

    Etwas.

    • rhywun

      The cool kids just say ‘was’.

      • TARDis

        wirklich.

    • Mustang

      Looking at the pics they just look like excess ballots. I’m all in on the stolen election thing but the simplest explanation may be the most likely.

      • Sean

        I have no comment either way. Just shitposting.

        I’m still firmly team Trump though.

      • rhywun

        I’m firmly in the “it was stolen” camp and moreover it didn’t take some “grand conspiracy” either, just commitment from lots of individual Dems working in lockstep as they always do. And thus nearly impossible to prove.

      • Mustang

        Pretty much this. It never ceases to amaze and demoralize me how easily people will fall into lockstep with each other with zero thought. No conspiracies needed, just people doing what people do. It takes a monumental amount of willpower to break way from doing it, even for seemingly intelligent people, so most people don’t even come close.

      • Nephilium

        We’re social animals, with built in tribalism.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        It wouldn’t surprise me if it ever came out that they coordinated it from the top, but I agree that it’s more likely structured like terror cells. People meet at non-profits. They learn skills from one another. They happen to volunteer at the same precinct, and it’s game on.

    • Count Potato

      “Unfortunately, Twitter is blocking this tweet.”

      Of course.

      • Mustang

        Worked for me.

      • Count Potato

        Hmm, me too. I guess everything is fake news now.

    • kinnath

      Still in shrink wrap.

      The single sheet in the one photograph was not filled in.

      Looks like excess ballots.

  17. Mustang

    I don’t remember if I announced it here, but the wife and I welcomed the newest little shitlady to the shitfamily. We both look forward to teaching her how to oppress people with freedom and she’s got me totally wrapped around her tiny, adorable finger.

    Also, Tejicano, if you happen to pop in, based on some of your recent posts I wonder if we work in similar areas. If you want, feel free to contact me (if the mods would be so kind as to give him my email).

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Congratulations! I hope you are getting some semblance of sleep.

      • Mustang

        Thanks. It’s not been too bad. The wife and I do a kind of split shift to give each of us bigger blocks of time to sleep.

      • Fourscore

        You just made your parents happy older people. Don’t let them see the child for a few years, Grandmas don’t like to give them back.

        Congrats to you and especially Mrs Mustang, she did the labor.

      • Mustang

        She’s intense. 8 hours of “labor” and only 30 minutes of actual pushing while I stood around. She teaches some fitness classes though.

      • Mustang

        Oh, and the grandparents won’t get to see her for almost a year because of travel restrictions. We hate every second of it. It breaks our hearts that they don’t get to see their first grandkid at their youngest. There aren’t enough words to describe my hatred for the panicmongers.

    • blackjack

      Grats! I love babies, but they all grow up to be insolent teenagers, some even start 5 years too early.

      • Fourscore

        Insolent adults, too, if we did our jobs properly.

    • Count Potato

      Congrats!

    • Sean

      Congrats

    • DEG

      Congratulations!

    • Tundra

      Shitladies are the best.

      Congrats, Mustang!

      You should come around more often, dude!

      • Mustang

        Thanks. I’ve been trying to stay unplugged a bit just because the news sucks, but I do circile around here a couple times a week to read day-old comments.

      • Tundra

        I understand.

        However, this group of crazy assholes actually keeps me from losing my mind.

        Good luck with the little chick. I’m really happy for you and mom.

    • Chafed

      That’s fantastic. Congratulations. I have 2 of them and wouldn’t trade for anything.

    • kinnath

      Congratulations

  18. Count Potato

    I’m watching an AFC game I couldn’t care who wins, and going to mix another bacardi, anyone want anything?

    • The Gunslinger

      You got any straight 100 proof whiskey I can sip on?

      • Count Potato

        I can drink pretty much anything except whiskey.

    • rhywun

      Since you don’t care, please root against Pittsburgh kthxbai

      • Nephilium

        One should always root against Pittsburgh.

      • hayeksplosives

        That INT didn’t help.

        :/

      • rhywun

        Yeah, this is… uninspiring.

      • Count Potato

        OK 🙂

      • Mojeaux

        So doing.

      • Rebel Scum

        I don’t care for either team. But there is a historical rival in the family. One faction supports Pittsburgh. The other supports Baltimore. That one is my father so by default I will take any team playing against Pittsburgh.

        There is another faction that supports the Washington Football Team Redskins. I used to default to that because of geography but then they cucked and changed the name. Carolina is my team now. But I am not serious about it anyway. Football is just something I put on in the background.

      • rhywun

        Football is just something I put on in the background.

        Pretty much.

      • creech

        Eagles/Saints. Any given Sunday.

      • Count Potato

        Now they’re the New Orleans Niggas. Saints was offensive to atheists.

    • Rebel Scum

      *sips reasonably priced chardonnay*

      Nah, I’m good.

      • Count Potato

        Is the box nice?

      • Rebel Scum

        The carton is ok but has no secondary uses that I am aware of.

  19. Tres Cool

    | Now you say something.

    Fine- oodles of noodles make poodles jump der strudel

    • Count Potato

      Is that gaijin ramen?

    • blackjack

      Is that the whole Kit and Kaboodle?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Enough with the Falderal! No Hoopla!
      sit in your designated space and drink your Soma!

  20. Tres Cool

    Mind Ye Olde Shoppe, kids. I’m off to work

    Night Shift !

    Hopefully Ill have a cold beer in my hand around 06.30h

    • blackjack

      Why are they all wearing Russian hats?

  21. Count Potato

    Oh, fuck that Kornacki guy.

  22. kinnath

    A lot of talking in circles, but he’s almost there.

    https://www.salon.com/2020/12/13/why-the-democrats-failed-again-on-the-cosmological-emptiness-of-liberalism/

    Indeed, the failings of liberal democracy since the end of the Cold War lie squarely in the donut hole of the Democratic Party in particular and liberalism in general. This donut hole emerges from what one might call the “cosmological emptiness” of the Democratic Party’s organization and program, and of its governing principles and ideology.

    What do I mean by this somewhat grandiose term? By cosmological emptiness, I am referring to the absence of any animating set of principles and beliefs about human nature, history, society and politics which is grounded in the mystery of creation itself. Say what one will about the take-no-prisoners, animal energy of the Trump insurgency, with its play to the darkest impulses of its religious and rural bases. Christian conservatives within the Republican Party take that mystery seriously, and have articulated and organized a coherent strategy that fully exploits its subdural power.

    If we could only figure out how to care about the world the way those morally-defective deplorables do, we could rule the world.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      The existential cynicism is dripping from that article. Nothing can be done or believed or felt for its own sake. Everything is a power struggle.

      • Chafed

        What’s the Mussolini quote I’m looking for?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        This one?

        If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity. From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, we Fascists conclude that we have the right to create our own ideology and to enforce it with all the energy of which we are capable.

      • Chafed

        No, sorry. I know that was a broad question. It’s something like all for the state, nothing outside the state, all within the state. I’m sure I mangled it.

    • rhywun

      Meh, you don’t have to be “religious” or “rural” to notice the complete lack of understanding of human nature coming from the Dems.

      Chin-stroke harder, dude.

    • Mustang

      Probably because if they coalesced into a set of principles it’d look remarkably similar to the tenants of Naziism.

    • blackjack

      OOOHHH! Trump took us to the dark side! Those damn Christians love some dark ideology too! Fucking hacks. Trump did nothing that can be called the “dark side” He cut taxes and regulations, he started exactly zero new wars and did some real winding down of the existing ones, he made progress on M/E peace and got us out of some really shitty deals. He exposed the alphabets as the partisan hacks they truly are and let the legacy media hang themselves. Not a lot of dark side impulses in any of what he actually did, that I can see.

      • blackjack

        In contrast, the left embraced anti-semitism, burned down a bunch of cities, killed a few people just for being conservative, lied, cheated and stole to stop Trump, embraced book burning censorship and desperately want to start up a few new wars. Collectively, they have lost their freaking minds if they think they have the high road here. Darkest impulses aptly describes the left, not Trump.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        They’re zealots for all things evil. Zealotry in and of itself can cause you to do evil, even when you’re a zealot for big G Good. These ghouls are zealots for big E Evil, and the zealotry amplifies their badness.

      • rhywun

        Not a lot of dark side impulses in any of what he actually did, that I can see.

        Well, except for appointing DeVos to rubber-stamp rape-bros and unleash a holocaust against trans kids.

  23. Mojeaux

    Thank you, Rhywun.

    • rhywun

      What’d I do now?

      • Mojeaux

        Bills beat the Stillers.

      • hayeksplosives

        And in splendid fashion!

      • Mojeaux

        Indeedie. That was an enlivening game.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, it took a while but it finally kicked into gear.

      • rhywun

        Cool. I’m happy to take credit for that. 🙂

        Full confession: I don’t dislike the Stillers. There are any number of teams I would root for them over.

        But not my Bills.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Nothing a little bit of strong arm politicking can’t resolve.

      • Chafed

        I think the strong arm would have to come from the state. It’s usually in the form of telling insurers with multiple lines they have to keep writing business liability if they want to keep offering their other lines too.

        Some insurers pull out because they don’t have the other lines. Some conclude, on the whole, it isn’t worth it. Some stay but rates go up. It could be substantial.

    • Q Continuum

      When you’ve lost Joe Scarborough…

    • Gustave Lytton

      Just an opportunity for the city to create their own municipal insurance corp.

  24. Gustave Lytton

    I want a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel just so I can name Oliver (or Olivia) Cromwell.

  25. Sean

    I will not be taking your stupid fucking vaccine, thank you very much.

    Fuck off.

    • l0b0t

      Drug Me

      Also, good morning.

      • Sean

        Mornin’

        Time to get ready for work. *sigh*

      • Gender Traitor

        Good morning, gentlemen.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m glad to have managed to reset my sleep schedule that this is in fact morning and not some odd corner of a wakeful span, or worse, the middle of a sleep period.

      • Gender Traitor

        I was lucky that I didn’t screw up mine by having a fancy coffee while we were out Saturday evening, nor by taking a nap late yesterday afternoon.

        So far (knock wood) this month – one of my usual Hell months at work – hasn’t been bad at all. I’m even caught up on dealing with returned mail. I’m sure I’ll get a bunch more today. Overall, I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop.

      • UnCivilServant

        I wanted to ask if you figured out what extracurricular activity has been confirmed for Donny Colfax at Leyden Academy. If you do (or can’t) figure it out, send me an email, since the key piece of information is in an as yet unpublished story, and I don’t want to spoil things for other Glibs by discussing details.

      • Gender Traitor

        I’ll go back and refresh my alleged memory, since I’ve read at least two full books in the last couple of weeks (including a prequel to The Hunger Games that I didn’t know existed until I went Christmas shopping in the neighborhood new/used bookstore.) That’s in the JR file you sent me, correct?

      • UnCivilServant

        The key detail is, yes, but it’s not designed to be obvious.

      • TARDis

        gentlemen?

        Hey what about me???

        *waves*

      • Gender Traitor

        Oh, sure – you too, TARDy! : )

  26. UnCivilServant

    It goes the show the ephemeral nature of the notifications I get that of the ~1500 emails I got in one week’s vacation, I only need to sift through 115 of them, some of which will still not need action on my part.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, I get hundreds a day from one stupid job that’s not even on my radar.

      Unlike everyone else I work with, I actually try to keep on top of my email. It’s comical when my boss shows his desktop because he has like 95,000 unread emails in his inbox and a bunch of subfolders with thousands of unread mails in each of those too.

  27. TARDis

    Got an FNG today. Kid’s got some work experience, but he doesn’t even look old enough to drink.

    *Sigh. Takes meds*

    • Gender Traitor

      I’m casting about for my own exemption from the COVID shot, I’m hoping scarcity and a mostly “behind the scenes” job work in my favor, because I have a distinct lack of color.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I don’t have a problem with the exemption, just the unequal treatment. Maybe keep some vague Warrenesque Native American family history in your pocket if nothing else works I guess.

    • rhywun

      I figured students of color were going to move to the head of the line for that one. I dunno; it’s hard to keep this stuff straight in my head.

  28. l0b0t

    One of our new hires, a really nice 18 year old fellow who rides dirt-bike to work, found out I was once in Army and gushingly thanked me for my service. I hate that shit from all angles. The I find jingo-twanging patriotism off-putting at best, I’m troubled by the idea that paid warfighting is looked upon as noble and selfless, but most of all, my service consisted largely of rum, sodomy, and the lash drinking to excess, keeping my squad from being chewed out, and trying to bed ideologically addled co-eds from UC Santa Cruz. So… you’re welcome?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It’s just some young guy trying to be nice and maybe ingratiate himself a little bit, he’ll wise up.

      • l0b0t

        Indeed. I wasn’t cross at him specifically, just the whole veneration of the military thing.

    • Plinker762

      Thank you for your service 😉

      My greatest contribution was preventing an airman from paying for damage to a 40ft trailer by “loosing” the paperwork. Seemed stupid for some enlisted guy to pay when the pilots caused much more expensive damage to aircraft and weren’t held financially responsible.

    • rhywun

      Thanks for nothing.

    • Don escaped Two Corinthians

      My goal: trying to keep military equipment effect, robust, repairable, and cost-effective.

      My contribution: none of the above . . . I’ve always worked for huge, stupid multi-nationals . . . so your truck sucks.

      Would Garand approve of this X? No fucking way, buddy, but it’s profitable. Can you field-strip it and get it running again? Pffft . . . . abandon in theater and run like hell.

    • TARDis

      When the Harris signs an EO implementing a common sense safety tax of $10 per round, the backlog should dry up pretty quick.

      • R C Dean

        “common sense safety tax of $10 per round”

        The one that will be retroactive, for the children?

      • TARDis

        Of course.

        If you can not afford it, you will be allowed to sell the ammo to the government for $0.05/$0.10 per round for pistol/assault rifle respectively, or it will be confiscated.