Octopuses filmed punching fish in the Red Sea
Marine biologists filmed these interactions in the Red Sea but it has also been captured elsewhere. It’s not entirely clear why they lash out but scientists say it may be a way of keeping the fish in line.
Fucking scientists. This is obviously an octopus pimp keeping one of his fish bitches in line.
Florida man charged for eating pancakes in middle of the road
LAKELAND, Fla. – A man’s desire to eat pancakes in the middle of the road got him in trouble with the police.
On Monday, Lakeland Police Department received a call that a man was sitting in the middle of a crosswalk eating pancakes on a small TV table. He was disrupting the flow of traffic by causing an obstruction.
Police came to the area, yet the man had left prior to their arrival. A video of the incident was posted on Facebook and the police were able to track down 21-year-old Kiaron Thomas as the flapjack-eating man.
Thomas admitted he ate the pancakes in the middle of the road as a prank.
Thomas was charged with obstruction in the roadway and disrupting the free flow of traffic. He will appear in court for the pancake prank in April.
Local Hero Hassled By The Man should be the real headline here.
DEFUND THE PANCAKE POLICE
My Daughter Still Believes in Santa. Is She Really Ready to Learn About Sex?
Dear Care and Feeding,
I’m a mother to a 9½-year-old daughter. She’s thoroughly inquisitive and wants details about how babies come to be. She knows about vaginas and penises. She understands periods. She understands puberty. But I’m not sure if she’s old enough or mature enough to know about sex. She still believes in Santa Claus! My mother insists I should tell her. But I don’t think so. She’s an only child and I’m not sure she’s ready for that type of knowledge. How or when will I know if she’s ready?
The first thing anyone needs to know about having sex with Santa is that the beard is an erogenous zone. Rub it, tug it, wipe it across your body. Really get in that bushy white miracle.
Second, the lap might be chafed from mall work. Be gentle with it. Offer to rub some lotion on his upper thighs. Take care with the dorsal side of the penis; it might have been kicked or even scraped on a typical day of work.
And finally, don’t be afraid to invite a reindeer or even an elf into a session of Santa lovemaking. Santa likes to get freaky. Santa nasty. Be open and giving and–most importantly–listen to Santa’s desires and fantasies.
“She knows about vaginas and penises. She understands periods. She understands puberty. But I’m not sure if she’s old enough or mature enough to know about sex. ”
What?
Yeah…I dont understand modern parents fear of the sex talk especially if your child has a good understanding of the biological pieces.
My guess is its more about the fender-bender aspects and not procreation aspect of it.
Screwing is a popular activity. Word tends to get around.
I never had to have the full ‘birds and bees’ conversation with my son. I set him straight on a few things but used mostly humor to get the point across.
He turned out pretty well.
When my kids asked, I went with the calm, no big deal, gonna give you the bare facts and nothing else approach:
“Sex is when the daddy puts his penis in the mommy’s vagina. Occasionally that results in a baby. Like it did with you.”
Repeat that approach for any follow up questions.
I am going to tell my daughter the absolute truth when she asks: babies come from a laboratory in Nashville.
“Daddy was I adopted”
“Uffda! Be patient, I just posted the ad to Craigslist this morning”
ALOL
Yeah, my old man gave me the the “bird, bees and elephants” talk:
“you know about the birds, bees and elephants?”
“I know about the birds and bees, what this about elephants?”
“An elephant puts a rubber on its trunk.”
Do elves qualify as bestiality? Technically, they aren’t human. Like all those alien broads Kirk banged on Star Trek.
You just want an excuse to fuck the Keebler elves, don’t you?
He just wants to be the fudge in the middle.
The polar express is pulling into the station!
Its like you dont even hentai, brah.
“An open letter to journalists at the end of the toughest year of our careers:”
https://twitter.com/JulieWolfe/status/1341507161181085698
OFFS!!
She’s getting hammered in the comments (even Malice is in there), but I suspect that will just confirm her view that journalists are a persecuted minority of truth-tellers.
I don’t have anything to add.
This reply was hilarious:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1341519921352765442
LOL
My Daughter Still Believes in Santa. Is She Really Ready to Learn About Sex?
Yes. Santa likes to pimp out his ho, ho, hos.
Reach for his sack and feel his presents.
Swing and miss. I do that all of the time. You should have used ‘presence’.
Kick yourself.
Don’t sleigh my pun.
“…Police came to the area, yet the man had left prior to their arrival. A video of the incident was posted on Facebook and the police were able to track down 21-year-old Kiaron Thomas as the flapjack-eating man.
Thomas admitted he ate the pancakes in the middle of the road as a prank.
Thomas was charged with obstruction in the roadway and disrupting the free flow of traffic. He will appear in court for the pancake prank in April.”
Oh, FFS. They tracked him down, a guy who harmed no one, committed no violence and left prior to the cops showing up.
How much did that cost? They are going to fine him, arent they? He is 21. He doesnt have money.
As for Santa sex, I would prefer not to have that image in my head.
It starts with pancakes and next thing you know it’s Belgian waffles.
With huckleberries?
I might have to become a criminal mastermind if huckleberries are involved.
Drools… dreams of buckwheat pancakes with huckleberries, swimming in butter, with a wee bit of molasses drizzled on top.
Belgian waffles wouldn’t disrupt any traffic. German tourists would drive right through.
Waits for rimshot.
What if he was eating a pineapple pizza?
SWAT.
Drone strike.
“Respect women.
That’s it. That’s the tweet.”
https://twitter.com/UN_Women/status/1341754216579297280
No, go to your room.
*AHEM* “Go make me a sammich”
*Throws loaf of bread, jar of mayonnaise, and container of luncheon meat at Swiss*
Make your damn sandwich!
Prepares to throw knife
You’re just giving away food?
She doesn’t sound old enough to use a knife.
Shouldn’t you first start with, “Bend over, bitch.”, or something first?
Less bitchen’ more kitchen.
amirite?
Great reply:
Although, ‘Stop the steal.
That’s it.That’s the tweet.’ would be good too.
Did they drop their mic on the way out?
FFS I hate this teenage talk coming from “serious people”.
Welcome to Harvard.
You should really close with “and get off my lawn”.
I’m not old enough to be yelling at clouds. It’s the world around me that makes me to do it.
Several countries in the UN in which women are second class citizens could not be reached for comment.
“It takes two, baby! Michelle does all the hard work as she and buff-looking Barack enjoy Xmas kayak trip in Hawaii”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9083691/Barack-Michelle-warm-holidays-Hawaii-couples-kayak-outing.html
It looks like she is detransitioning.
No photos of the wookie standing up with the wang showing through the suit? Color me surprised.
One of my favorite Obama-era internet conspiracy theories.
Did they just call those saggy moobs “buff”?
“he’s still such a dreamboat! Clean and articulate, too!”
Yeah, I got a good laugh out of that. DM always pulls that prank.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/12/23/19/37200474-9083691-image-m-90_1608753202440.jpg
“buff”
Oof. Those are some rough pictures of her.
I wonder if they still shut down the entire neighborhood when they are there. We rented a cottage there after they visited one time, and a lot of the locals wished the Obamas would go someplace else because of the hassle it creates.
Back in my whitewater paddling days, a K-2 (tandem kayak) paddled by a married couple was referred to as a ‘Divorce Boat’.
Nice convid party.
buff-looking Barack
Just wait until we have to hear about buff Biden.
Dang. I’d kill to have her lats. Pretty sure she couldn’t button the top button on my dress shirts around that neck, too.
Wondering if Mr. Pancake would have gotten away with it if he had gone with the indignant defense, “Can’t you tell that wasn’t me in the video? Are you a racist who think all black men look alike?”
Never talk to cops without a lawyer present, dude.
“BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump VETOES Defense Bill because it strips Confederate names from bases but has ‘not decided’ if he will also veto COVID stimulus”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9082999/President-midnight-veto-massive-Defense-Act-ends-Confederate-base-names.html
Here’s his covid bill speech:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1341537886315950080
He makes some good points.
“‘Mr President this can be done by noon on Christmas Eve!’ Pelosi urges Trump to get Republicans behind his own $2,000 COVID check demand as she sends letter to Dems saying: ‘Just when you think you’ve seen it all'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9082677/Trump-heads-Mar-Lago-Christmas-today-threatening-veto-massive-COVID-relief.html
So why weren’t you for it back in October?
I’m thinking Pelosi hasn’t accounted for the possible retort, “We’re gonna gut and replace this monstrosity with a single page bill that authorizes $2,000 checks, and not a damn thing else of the thousands of pages of pork you asked for. Or it gets vetoed … again.”
Which would still be a bad idea, but way better than what is almost sure to transpire.
October? Try July.
Oh, wait- she was waiting on the results of the election.
“Fucking scientists. This is obviously an octopus pimp keeping one of his fish bitches in line.”
Does 8-Arm have to slap a bitch?
“Just be glad you didn’t get all the suckers, bitch!”
An octopus’s love is different from that of a squid.
But a cuttlefish bone lasts for more than 4 hours.
How many canes does a octo-pimp need? If you keep the ratio the same, 8-Arm needs 4 canes, but that seems execessive.
I’m thinking of the elaborate dap that two octo-pimps would give to each other when they meet up. The ritual would take hours!
Your math is off.
They would need only two.
You must be assuming that 4 of the octo-appendages are legs? Swiss clearly called him 8-Arm!
It’s just a nickname, Jimbo.
1) Nicknames are always accurate
2) That is “2 gun” Jimbo to you
Both guns must be for fighting
“Fake news tricksters Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman have been subpoenaed by the New York Attorney General over a voter suppression robocall campaign, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The subpoenas, exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com, suggest the state is soon to join Ohio and Michigan in prosecuting the alleged fraudsters.
Wohl, 22, and Burkman, 54, set up robocalls that phoned more than 80,000 people across the county in late August, aiming to dissuade voters from mailing their ballots for the November election, according to prosecutors.
The calls targeted mainly black neighborhoods and have been labelled ‘electoral terror’ by a New York judge in a civil case already launched against the two men and their company.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9083723/Jacob-Wohl-Jack-Burkman-subpoenaed-New-York-voter-suppression-robocall-campaign.html
They’re totally doin’ it
Sure they did. ?
Of course they did – all you have to do is use the black neighborhood area code and prefix.
This should have been the post related music
https://youtu.be/9z53kAiVC9g
Lyrics
I would have suggested this.
Thomas admitted he ate the pancakes in the middle of the road as a prank.
He should have said it was a BLM protest. Nothing would have happened to him.
I am trying to figure out what the point of the prank was. Even if it was dumb or pointless the guy doesnt deserve criminal charges. No property destroyed or stolen, no one harmed.
I amend that. I looked at the photo again. He is in public in pajama pants and house slippers. To the gallows with him!
” Really get in that bushy white miracle.”
But enough about Bea Arthur’s crotch.
Thomas admitted he ate the pancakes in the middle of the road as a prank.
I regret that I have but one stack of pancakes to give…
on topic, because pulpos
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Octopus wrestling involves a diver grappling with a large octopus in shallow water and dragging it to the surface. An early article on octopus wrestling appeared in a 1949 issue of Mechanix Illustrated. Octopus wrestling was most popular on the West Coast of the United States during the 1960s.
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In the traditions of ancient Hawaiʻi, Kanaloa is a god symbolized by the squid or by the octopus, and is typically associated with Kāne.[1] It is also the name of an extinct volcano in Hawaiʻi.
In legends and chants, Kāne and Kanaloa are portrayed as complementary powers (Beckwith 1970:62–65). For example: Kāne was called upon during the building of a canoe, Kanaloa during the sailing of it; Kāne governed the northern edge of the ecliptic, Kanaloa the southern; and Kāne then taps them out. In this way, they represent a divine duality of wild and taming forces like those observed (by Georges Dumézil, et al.) in Indo-European chief god-pairs like Odin–Týr and Mitra–Varuna, and like the popular yin and yang of Chinese Taoism.
Kanaloa is also considered to be the god of the Underworld and a teacher of magic. Legends state that he became the leader of the first group of spirits “spit out” by the gods. In time, he led them in a rebellion in which the spirits were defeated by the gods and as punishment were thrown in the Underworld. In traditional, pre-contact Hawaiʻi, it was Milu who was the god of the Underworld and death, not Kanaloa; the related Miru traditions of other Polynesian cultures support this.
The Eye of Kanaloa is an esoteric symbol associated with the god in New Age Huna teaching, consisting of a seven-pointed star surrounded by concentric circles that are regularly divided by eight lines radiating from the inner-most circle to the outer-most circle. Kanaloa is also associated with the Ocean as a god of the sea, hence his association with boats and squid.[2] Huna, as a New Age religion developed in the 20th Century by a Caucasian-American founder, bears no relation to the Native Hawaiian Religion. Native Hawaiians reject “Huna” as a mishmash of Hawaiian elements with European religious metaphysical ideas.
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Cirrothauma murrayi. Octopuses are famous for having eyes remarkably similar to those of humans but without the blind spot. The Blind Octopus is different in that it has nothing BUT a blind spot!
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Seattle Aquarium Cancels Octopus Blind Date Amid Pregnancy Scandal. Each and every year, Seattle Aquarium kicks off its Valentine’s Day celebration with a Giant Octopus Blind Date. A male and a female are united in a tank to make love under dimmed lights, decorative hearts and roses, and romantic music.
This year, though, things went awry when female octopus Raspberry began laying eggs before the romantic meeting.
Upon finding out that the sex show was indeed cancelled, disappointment fluttered in through all avenues. Paying guests galore had to skip this arousing display for more standard Valentine’s dates, like dinner and movies. Pancake, the male octopus who was gallantly awaiting his female counterpart, must put off his sexy time indefinitely.
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Squishy, you are NOT the father!
These guys can be a real problem for scuba divers. There is a reason people wrestle them in shallow water.
They are very friendly and curious. They have a tendency to take diver’s regulators away from them. In more than 10 feet of water, that is a problem.
I forgot the link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Pacific_octopus
Friendly and curious and shockingly intelligent.
Pancake is the name of my niece’s sting ray plushie. This is hitting pretty close to home here.
Not Irwin?
I have a Great White Shark plushy I got from Sea World many moons ago. But my favorite plushy was a white fur seal pup. I carried him everywhere like Linus and his blanket for years.
She’s an only child and I’m not sure she’s ready for that type of knowledge. How or when will I know if she’s ready?
When she climbs in bed with you and that “fireman” you’ve known for 45 minutes, you’ll know she’s ready.
How or when will I know if she’s ready?
She’s ready. Trust me on this one.
Eww!
“How or when will I know if she’s ready?”
When she tells you she’s pregnant?
Angry Cops brings the music
https://youtu.be/haoUoCP7-Yo
Cadillac
Cadillac
Back seat of
Did you build it one piece at a time?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmeVwYojB-s
My favorite car song besides Hot Rod Lincoln – holy shit, that sounds like a gay porno.
Not this one?
One piece at a time
Voodoo Cadillac
Cadillac?
Ya’all niggas gots no fuck. Or soul.
You need a Diamond in the Back
Sun Roof top?
Not Hot Chocolate? Disappoint.
I miss disco just for the pants.
Here you go
This is the first thing that popped in my head when you said ‘disco’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNX6efgb25M
Welfare Cadillac
Children survive and overcome all kinds of pain and sorrow without turning into Dexter or Magneto. Part of the reason the Harry Potter series are so popular is because it’s about a boy who overcomes a painful childhood. You may have read this story before when it was called David Copperfield.
That is, they can handle hearing about the birds and the bees. My parents spent about 5 minutes talking to me about that stuff. I would have preferred the King of the Hill treatment, where they just give the girls a picture book of flowers. I forget what the boys got in that episode. Hunting trip maybe? Driving lesson?
One of the disappointments of adulthood is the anticlimax of various milestones. I find solace in freedom to roam and do as I please.
Once you realize the milestones are just one more step on the way to the grave, it takes some of the luster off.
obligatory Perry Bible Fellowship cartoon
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/todays-my-birthday/
Nashua, NH Board of Aldermen reject curfew
Nashua’s Board of Aldermen overwhelmingly rejected a proposed 9:30 pm curfew Tuesday night, delivering a setback to advocates of more strict lockdowns in the Gate City and embarrassing the city health officials who lobbied hard for the measure.
After weeks of debate in the media and hours of debate, the Board ultimately voted to kill the proposal 4 to 11.
Restaurant and hospitality workers lined up the night before to appear before the Aldermen, albeit remotely, to express their disapproval for the curfew.
Kurt Mathias from the Boston Billiard Club and Casino told NHJournal the Nashua health officials “absolutely did not” present data to back up their call for a curfew. “We’ve asked for the evidence that the curfew will work, and we haven’t seen it,” Mathias said. “When you point out that Massachusetts has had a curfew for five weeks and their cases are skyrocketing, they just say, “If Massachusetts didn’t have a curfew, it would be even worse.’ That’s their answer.”
“There is no data,” Mathias continued. “The only real result of this is businesses are going to close down, and people will lose their jobs.”
This surprised me. I expected the curfew proposal to pass.
So what’s the status of the rest of the NH lockdowns?
No change.
Ah well.
I’m not sure I’d trust the roads in between just yet anyway.
I’ve heard a few Hannafords in NH have changed course and now enforce the corporate mask policy. Saturday I’m going to shop at my go-to Hannafords to see if it changed.
The Clown Prince announced that he thinks NH needs no new restrictions at this time. He even said more restrictions don’t mean less Covid. This is…. odd. I am wondering when he will change course to impose new restrictions.
Of course he won’t go so far as to admit that less restrictions doesn’t mean more coronavirus.
Ahahahhahhhhahahhahah!!!!!11111eleventyhundred
Christmas Eve in DC is no more. It is now Dr. Anthony S. Fauci Day!
Praise be to the good doctor.
Don’t read the replies, they’ll give you cancer.
Jesus…..
oh god that’s not the Bee.
The cultish behavior of all this is rather disturbing to me. the “I fucking love Science” people sure do love their personality cults.
And that arrogant fuckstick is soaking it up.
I think that is the biggest tell to his personality.
Yeah, for Short Tony 2020 is, by far, the best year of his life. The little shit wants this to never end.
And he’s doing his best to insure it doesn’t.
Jesus Fucking Christ
Goddamn do I hate these fucking people.
Well, not hate but their behavior exasperates me. I just don’t get the worshipping of a guy who’s been wrong as often as he’s been right. It doesn’t make sense.
*vomits*
“When you point out that Massachusetts has had a curfew for five weeks and their cases are skyrocketing, they just say, “If Massachusetts didn’t have a curfew, it would be even worse.’ That’s their answer.”
Nice thumb to the eye.
Jobs saved or created.
Unfalsifiability for the win.
That is how you fucking science!
Last day to drive the 350Z today. 50 degrees at lunch time. Will be 5 degrees tomorrow morning.
That CVT wont work below freezing?
Six speed manual.
Summer tires.
Snow flurries possible overnight with the rapid drop in temperature.
Snowies can be your friend, my friend. Jugsy’s Camaro with some blizzaks can handle snow better than my dopey truck in 4WD.
Yup, I drove to work on uncleared roads and the traction control only activated once (WRX/STI with Pirelli sottozeros).
With the summers on I literally could not make it up one of the hills (I was a bit late getting the tires swapped last year)
That’s why I have off-road tires on the Xterra.
Fairweatherlady Z
Ha! Nice.
Lies, damned lies, and vote counting
A top employee of Dominion Voting Systems, who has gone into hiding after becoming the subject of conspiracy theories on the right since the election, is suing the Trump campaign, a number of campaign surrogates and pro-Trump media outlets, alleging defamation.
Eric Coomer, director of product strategy and security for the Denver-based company, has been baselessly accused of using his position to mastermind a high-tech plot to steal the election for President-elect Joe Biden. Biden’s victory has been certified in the states by officials of both parties with no evidence of widespread fraud or irregularities.
Coomer’s suit, filed Tuesday in Colorado state district court in Denver, accuses those responsible of spreading the falsehoods of intentional infliction of emotional distress and civil conspiracy.
The lawsuit says the claims made about Coomer have led to death threats, constant harassment and “untold damage to his reputation as a national expert on voting systems.” Coomer was forced to leave his home one week after the presidential election ended and move to a safe undisclosed location where he remains.
If he sues them personally, does that restrict discovery? That could get interesting.
“…no evidence of widespread fraud or irregularities.”
Yeah, they keep saying that and yet…
Talk about moving the goalposts: “Sure, there’s evidence of both fraud and irregularities, but it wasn’t widespread … it was confined to just Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia, and a couple other geographically limited parts of swing states.”
Shorter: “Mostly fraud-free elections.”
If it was Philadelphia, it was entirely within what is NORMAL fraud and irregularities there. Biden didn’t win PA because of Philly.
I am sorry, but that is the most bullshit, self-serving response I have seen on this site.
a national expert on voting systems.”
That claim raises the bar for defamation since he is admitting that he’s a public figure.
Hell, all Trump has to do is publish the guy’s social media posts. He damns himself.
It’s Christmas Eve Eve! That means a Glib Chat!
Join us! Complain about your relatives/the commercialization of Christmas/etc. or just drink with us.
Oh, yeah – I’ll start it at 8pm.
save me a seat tomorrow- I gots to work tonight
Will do
Link didn’t work – trying again https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81779934509?pwd=cW4vZitnelFxYWZYa3FFQ3I0Ykhpdz09
Thank you Tulip.
I will have the aluminum pole handy.
Pretty sure the poles are usually steel. Plus you really have to make sure they’re securely anchored to both the floor _and_ the ceiling.
That is 100% against cannon, and you should be excommunicated & shunned in the Amish way.
It also violates canon.
Dagnabbit
I may be thinking of another sort of pole.
Women name their, um, intimate toys?
Ooooh. After my last meeting maybe
Wow, we’re having four Zoomafoos this week?
Here’s hoping NW and girlfriend can drop in one of them
I miss the red shirt & tie!
I don’t know. I dropped in last weekend and was forced to undergo some crazy Clockwork Orange type torture and watch a “special” video
You liked the video. We saw you.
*gets crazy Toobin face*
No I didn’t! That wasn’t me!
I should really make sure that’s no longer in my downloads folder.
The story of one of hundreds of restaurants in PA defying Gauleiter Wolf’s orders
Despite being ordered to close last week, the parking at the Hot Dog House was full Wednesday afternoon, and owner Jeff Grimes has no plans to comply with the latest COVID-19 restrictions.
Grimes wasn’t available to comment due to the lunch rush, but he did confirm the Spring Township business is open and offering indoor dining — defying an order enacted by Gov. Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine.
Wolf’s administration banned all in-person dining from Dec. 12 through at least Jan. 4 to slow transmission of the coronavirus. Takeout and outdoor dining remain viable options. But a handful of local business owners refuse to comply.
“It’s not about money. It’s about fairness and government overreaching,” Grimes told the CDT last week. “I’m gonna stand up for that every single time. I think it’s unfair when you pick-and-choose who can be open and who can’t.”
Literally taking the food out of babies’ mouths
“Donald Trump just vetoed a pay raise for our troops so he can defend dead Confederate traitors,” Democratic leader Sen. Chuck Schumer wrote on Twitter, highlighting one of Trump’s issues with the must-pass defense bill.
“Democrats will vote to override it,” Schumer added.
“Disturbingly, Trump is using his final hours in office to sow chaos, including by denying our servicemembers a long-overdue pay raise and hazard duty pay; our families paid family leave, child care, housing and health protections; and our veterans the benefits that they need and deserve,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote in a statement.
Is there no abomination President Cartoon Villain is incapable of?
“…so he can defend Confederate traitors,”
Yep, that it totally what it is about.
Is there any bigger fucktard in the world than Moobs?
He knows that’s bullshit. He also knows his bullshit will be lapped up.
He’s not stupid, just evil.
Everyone of the fecal stains who voted for him? Again, and again, and again….
Pelosi misspelled, “giving in to all of our unreasonable and unconstitutional demands.” Though perhaps she meant that, but was striving for brevity at the expense of clarity.
Were I in Trump’s place I would go balls deep and break it off. The left is beyond despicable.
Hey, bud. I saw your response on the overnight thread. Much appreciated, thank you.
I like to think that they’re getting pushback from the usual birds at the feeder- SEIU, AFGE, TEAMSTERS, et al when it makes the news (via social media) how many pallets of cash are leaving the country and they’re not getting a wet beak.
“Chaos”, in this instance, means not meekly falling in line with whatever the Democrats say.
Oddly enough, it always seems to mean that in a political context.
Now its a ‘defense bill’?
And the label is “Must Pass”?
Suck my ass, Schumer
Different bill than the hoopla one from yesterday.
Trump also wanted to take the troops out of harm’s way.
*uck Schumer and company want to keep them there so they can keep raking in the defense contractor graft.
“The Kremlin is actively attacking our cyber networks”….
Have we established that or we just rollong with it now?
It’s been a week. The media has been consistent. What more evidence do you require?
Misspelled “Beijing”.
so he can defend dead Confederate traitors
Nah, bruh.
his final hours in office
Objection. Presumptive.
Modest Mouse is one of my favorite bands. I really like Isaac Brock and I’m the perfect age for it. Good New for People Who Love Bad News came out in 2004 when I was a jr in high school. Musically and lyrically a perfect album…and I think I’d have to call it my Favorite Album. Just like the Favorite Movie conversation, it’s always hard and important to make sure that we’re all talking about the same thing. That’s my Spirit Album.
Also fun! Isaac Brock is also the name of a British Officer who died in the War of 1812! Pretty crazy life, actually. From wiki: Brock’s actions, particularly his success at Detroit, earned him accolades including a knighthood in the Order of the Bath and the sobriquet “The Hero of Upper Canada”. His name is often linked with that of the Native American leader Tecumseh, although the two men collaborated in person only for a few days.[2] Brock died at the Battle of Queenston Heights, which the British won.
You guys always talk about your old guy music…most of which I quite enjoy. But this is more my age. Word up.
Yes: Relayer.
Key moment: The guitar on Sound Chaser.
Listened to them for a couple albums back then too – good stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=penvn9VL32Y
Surprise!
Scores of students are getting F’s: What’s the point of failing them during COVID-19?
More importantly, why are their “teachers” getting paid?
Yeah no shit. Also kids are offing offering themselves but we will keep that quiet.
Oh now that I read it it has nothing to do with failing grades and everything to do with race.
I think that was the biggest bear Trump poked when he sorta went after critical race theory
“Traditional grading practices aren’t just giving us inaccurate information; they’re also inequitable,” said Joe Feldman, an education consultant who works with schools to improve grading practices and wrote the book “Grading for Equity.”
Grading for Equity…..oh just go fuck yourself, man. This is all very simple – online classes are crap, the teachers barely put forth an effort to teach anything in them, and most of these kids weren’t failing when they actually had to go to school.
Look, he can’t get any sweet consulting his unless he plays the buzzword bingo.
Oh man I didn’t even notice his occupation on there……seriously, as wretched as consultants tend to be in any industry, I have to believe that education consultants have got to be the scrapings of the bottom of humanity’s barrel.
The most worthless of the worthless.
Those who do, can, and those who can’t, teach.
And those who can’t teach become “educational consultants”.
I thought it was teach PhyEd. That’s where my school stuck the fat alcoholics. Well that and civics.
Our covics teacher was..by all accounts of a teenaged OwnBest..a hot momma.
PhysEd checks out though.
Fun fact – my dad was, technically, a PhysEd teacher.
An associate prof at a CUNY school, teaching (mostly) condition (i.e., weight lifting). I think that qualifies as PhysEd.
He was a smart guy and where he ended up was a tremendous leap from where he started – the only child of the wrong-side-of-the-tracks single mom in one of the most dangerous blue collar fields (commercial fishing).
A consultant is someone you hire to tell you the time using your watch.
You need to ease up on education consultants. Like cops, they tend to become warped and twisted over their careers because of the degenerates that they come into contact with every day.
I’m in the education biz now and I’ve been appalled at the conferences that I’ve attended. The people from govt education IT organizations are just amazingly dumb/lazy. The vendors can be spotted because they all have phony smiles plastered on their faces while they try to
swindleprovide services to them.On the other hand, the diversity of the groups that govt IT organizations send to those conferences is impeccable.
Ethicists are probably worse.
OFFS. That’s where I tapped out.
Grading for Equity.
Lowest common denominator… Where have I heard that concept before…?
Wow! NYC has gone the other direction. No child will receive below a D, no child will be held back, and (what’s really screwing our daughter over) competitive admission schools are all unweighted lottery.
Because college admissions people will never adjust based on the change
Yeah, Deblasio and that other commie schools commissioner of his are using this crisitunity to completely gut any standards. I don’t understand why every parent isn’t absolutely livid about what they are doing. Maybe they are, and the media is suppressing it – I wouldn’t put it past them.
Dude, you’re ruining Santa for me.
But I would contribute to pancake dude’s bail. That is the performance art we need.
Moneygrubbers
New Jersey, along with Connecticut, Hawaii and Iowa, submitted an amicus brief on Tuesday in a lawsuit that challenges the authority of states to tax nonresidents’ income while they’ve been working from home.
At the center of the controversy is a court case between New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The Bay State has been taxing New Hampshire residents who have been working remotely since the pandemic, spurring the Granite State to file suit against Massachusetts in October.
he brief also pushes back on New York, which taxes Garden State residents who normally commute there — even though many are now working from home.
“In the course of this once-in-a-century pandemic, hundreds of thousands of New Jersey residents who typically commute to New York and pay New York taxes have been working from home for the last nine months,” said New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, in a statement.
“We are hopeful that the Supreme Court will hold that states do not have the constitutional authority to tax individuals who neither live nor work there,” he said, adding that such a ruling could save the state $1.2 billion.
The rats turn on each other.
Good luck. Convenience of the employer is and always has been a bullshit standard.
Pretty sure that Murphy & co. will raise my NJ tax by an amount equal to or greater than the current NY hit if the suit is successful, so no benefit to the little people. Too bad these gangsters won’t shoot each other up the way the mafia families did.
Exactly this is infighting berween siblings on who gets grandmas china at the funeral.
“In the course of this once-in-a-century pandemic”
What complete hyperbolic bullshit. I guess the Spanish Flu, German measles, smallpox, polio, and a slew of other diseases over the last hundred years or so were nothing in comparison to…something slightly stronger than the run of the mill flu virus.
The world didnt begin until 2016 TH
Trump killed history!
*snort*
New Jersey does the same thing to New Yorkers. Ask me how I know.
Most states tax non-residents that work in state. Only a handful tax out of state residents who work out of state. AR, CT, DE, NE, NY, PA and now MA
https://taxfoundation.org/remote-work-from-home-teleworking/
My paystub says NJ should be on that list. I have not set foot there since I was (re)hired a few months ago but they’re collecting a ton of taxes from me.
This should have been the music link for explaining the birds and bees with a Xmas twist.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s0NoalRsk5w
Now they’ve gone too far. They’re defaming the greatest film of all time.
https://news.sky.com/story/flash-gordon-gets-stereotype-warning-for-dubious-if-not-outright-offensive-ming-the-merciless-12171032
A reminder to get physical media of anything you love (and rip it, too).
That movie was terrible, shouldn’t be bothering with trigger warnings for it though. We’ve become a society of fragile Fabrege eggs.
I was watching The Nutcracker last night (Baryshnikov version), and boy, howdy! How long until it’s modified to no longer represent the actual story, what with the Moorish doll, the Chinese dance, etc.?
Heh, you should see the Washington Ballet’s version (Septime Weber) native Americans, etc. I’m surprised they haven’t been cancelled yet. Especially after they canned the orchestra and started using recorded music.
I had a lovely encounter with a mask Nazi today. I was dropping off a package in a store when a customer behind me in line started yelling “masks” to the employees pointing at me. The guy working with me asked me to put on a mask. Obviously, before the angry customer’s involvement that wasn’t an issue. When both the mask Nazi and I were outside I told him to fuck himself and shove his mask up his fat ass. He asked me if I wanted his parents to die. I confirmed that indeed I wanted them dead. After that I started walking to my car while the guy pulled out his phone and started yelling something in my direction wishing to shoot the confrontation on video. While I was walking to my car he managed to drive to where it was parked and started filming me behind the steering wheel.
He then followed me to another store nearby where I was waiting inside my car for a curbside pickup. He placed a face mask under a wiper telling me that I can have one if I cannot afford it. I picked up the mask, dropped it on the ground and stepped on it. That’s it so far for tonight’s entertainment.
Good times. UPS store, by any chance? They were laid back when I was in there a couple days ago.
No, that wasn’t in our local UPS store, which is indeed nice.
People are crazy, news at 11. Once he followed you he was lucky to not have just a verbal confrontation in my opinion.
What a busybody snitch.
You should have said, “Yes, preferably before you were conceived.”
“Yes, but I’d also need a time machine to make it worth it”
Do you have a medical exemption for mask wearing in your state?
When the a-hole started yelling about you wanting to kill his parents, you could have wheezed and asked why he wanted to kill you by cutting off your O2.
Wow. That guy is destined to be the lead story on the evening news one of these days. Good on you to keep your cool.
Calmly: “I’ll put on a mask as soon as y’all kick out that guy right there yelling at the customers and you. You do have a store policy about ejecting customers being belligerent, yeah?”
I’m afraid grrizzly is too clean-cut to look that scary. He’d make a good assassin.
Er, visualize this being under Trigger Hippie’s comment.
See, I was picturing the Russian road rage videos with the guy who makes Drago look like a 90lb weakling.
My own mother once described me as “evil-looking”.
Thanks, ma!
Should have called the cops on him for stalking you, knocked him on his ass(I know, I know, more trouble than it’s worth).
I honestly can’t imagine somebody trying that with me. Probably because my default facial expression reads as: “Just give me an excuse to rip your lungs out, motherfucker”.
Get some more facial scars, people tend to back away from you when you look like you’ve been in a few knife fights(not that I’ve ever been face slashed by a knife. Been in a brief knife fight once, got broken up before anything permanent happened but it looks like I have a better story than I actually do…ah, my tweeker youth).
“If you’re afraid for your parents, why are you out here?”
This is the kind of thing I carry pepper spray for.
I told myself that I should get something like this after reading this book. Still don’t have it. Perhaps I’ll get it now.
Just grabbed it. Ayoob’s endorsement is solid.
I still need to get insurance. ES, you recommended USCAA right? I think that’s where I’m leaning with the spouse rider.
Given where you are, I’m surprised it has taken this long.
Tonight I discovered that the staff at my favorite no-mask place in Nashua are wearing masks. Some of them in a half-assed manner, but they’re still wearing them. They said nothing to me about my not wearing a mask.
The place has two entrances. The one I usually use has no signs up. Tonight I left through the other one. Next to it I noticed a sign which read, “NO SHIRT NO SHOES NO MASK NO SERVICE”.
A few weeks ago I had a conversation with the staff about masks and all the other bullshit. They told me they had been visited by government goons five times. I’m assuming they got visited again.
I’ve mentioned how that sort of nastiness puts my teeth on edge.
Ask nicely, and I might comply.
Give me a snotty command, and I’ll tell you to go fuck yourself on my way to somewhere else.
As long as they don’t say anything to me about my not wearing a mask, I’ll keep going there.
But otherwise, yeah, I agree with you.
The double entendre in the title pretty much sums it up. #85 had the best pose IMO:
https://thechive.com/2020/12/23/the-best-humps-of-the-year-part-1/
or
https://archive.is/1IRHv
My most reliable investment so far appears to be Plastic Crack.
Games workshop has been the most reliable piece of my investment portfolio, gaining slowly but steadily the whole time I’ve held it.
Even my mutual funds have been unreliable.
CDPR has tanked enough to drag the rest of it below where I started 🙁
Its been a week? Two? Stop paying so much attention. I know, its kinda fun and as long as you dont make freak out decisions, its okay. But still, ctfd.
As I said, I have no intention of selling anything I’ve bought anytime soon. I bought it to own a piece of the company.
The little chart on the website is just addicting.
Besides, the market has closed for the year. End of month, end of quarter and end of year are perfectly valid times to check in on these things.
And it’s been a month.
My stocks are in a low-load mutual fund that tracks the entire market.
Unless I have to make a big withdrawal, I don’t pay attention to whatever craziness is transpiring on Wall Street. The market is gonna go up and down, sometimes bigly – don’t sync your mood to that.
SWTSX ?
This. I’m in FZROX, FZILX and a couple more low fee index funds. I check the balance of my accounts 2x per month when I pay into my Roth and my kids’ 529s. Besides that, I ignore the Rollercoaster.
+1 not making yourself crazy
Police came to the area, yet the man had left prior to their arrival. A video of the incident was posted on Facebook and the police were able to track down 21-year-old Kiaron Thomas as the flapjack-eating man.
Thomas admitted he ate the pancakes in the middle of the road as a prank.
Should have gathered his white friends dressed in black and burned down a Wendy’s.
The first thing anyone needs to know about having sex with Santa
I really wish I did not continue. Excuse me. I have to go take a cold shower.
Hey derpy, this one’s for you.
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/12/cyberpunk-2077-aesthetics-elon-musk-anti-capitalist-fiction
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Indeed, cyberpunk’s antiheroes — often hackers or street kids — never seemed intent on saving the world, just themselves or their ragged communities. Hyperindividualism and free expression trumped solidarity and collective action.
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Won’t somebody *please* think of the liberal arts majors?
Why does it have to be about saving the world?
What’s wrong with a heist yarn where the goal is to strike it rich? Or merely saving oneself from an awful fate whether deserved or not?
QUIET, YOU!
Because their goals are noble. Everything must be subservient to utopia.
Because we desperately need to see ourselves as heroes fighting valiantly against an existential threat. That is, if we’re emotionally crippled children who never got past Harry Potter in the development of our personal narrative…
If Philip K. Dick was anti-capitalist it was because he was “anti-” just about everything and he was also a violent nutter as well. And separating him out from Cyberpunk is about the same as separating Marx out from Socialism.
Nobody tell them about this PKD story:
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“The Pre-persons” is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine, October 1974.
The story was an anti-abortion response to Roe v. Wade. Dick imagines a future where the United States Congress has decided that abortion is legal until the soul enters the body. The specific instant is defined by the administration, at present the moment a person has the ability to perform simple algebraic calculations (around the age of 12).
The main protester — a former Stanford mathematics major — demands to be taken to the abortion center, since he claims to have forgotten all his algebra.
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He got a collective QUIET, YOU! from the sci fi community over that one.
I keep getting texts from the neighbors about ‘porch deliveries’ aka cookies and other treats. My waist is glad I’m in Florida.
I drove my neighbor’s elderly parents to urgent care the other day (he’s been ignoring a sore on his foot) while said neighbors were at their lake house – I’m up to four bottles of wine, plus a bottle of rye for what was no big deal. Plus cookies from other neighbors. Plus chocolate.
I did well on Thanksgiving, but Glibfit is going to be a disaster this month.
Santa? Would.
An encounter with a maskinista vigilante – at the door of the kwik-e-mart, she looked me in the eye and said “that’s not gonna work”, most likely referring to my Hyperbole-approved bandana. What’s next? Mask registration and licensing? Good grief, I heard some awful short fiction on NPR where some surgeon described a future where everyone lives like bubble boy.
relevant re-run: the 5 monkey experiment
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An experimenter puts 5 monkeys in a large cage. Again, the experimenter sprays the ambitious monkey with cold water and all the other monkeys as well. … When a third monkey tries to climb the ladder, the other monkeys, wanting to avoid the cold spray, pull him off the ladder and beat him.
***
As the monkeys are removed one by one, the behavior continues even after the spraying stops. Monkey see, monkey do. People are glorified monkeys. “That’s the way we’ve always done it”.
The Sumerians would bang a drum every solar eclipse because they were worried a monster was eating the sun. The banging continued 2,000 years later even after Babylonian astronomers had proved that solar eclipses are caused by the moon moving in front of the sun and could predict eclipses accurately.
Collective punishment for individual transgressions is a useful brainwashing tool. You should know that, having been thru boot camp.
You know you’ve broken a drill sergeant’s spirit when they stop yelling at you and start saying “please”.
Making them laugh and watching them try to hide it with their campaign hats was fun too.
Fun fact: female drill sergeants got a different hat with the right side folded up. That started in the pike and shot era when musketeers would fold up the right side of their slouch hats so they could march with a rifle at their right side.
I figured they just got a bargain on them from the Australians.
Oh yeah. In AIT (2004), some jackasses in my platoon at Huachuca got into the DI’s dayroom in the barracks and took selfies (on a disposable camera) of them modeling the different hats.
They might have gotten away with it to if they had waited to get the film developed after graduation – rather than the same week.
These were the DIs who would go around downtown Sierra Vista on the weekends checking in on the “regular” motels to bust the orgies and alcohol poisoning.
Don’t look at it, Marion!
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/19/892757810/texas-doctor-tells-story-depicting-a-future-after-covid-19
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TABATABAI: (Reading) It’s hard to describe to people nowadays what that mindset was like. Global warming has destroyed most of our nationalistic tendencies. We survive together. I wrote down notes on cards. Archaic, I know, but I like the way they feel. I described those first few news broadcasts.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: Chinese health authorities are still working to identify the virus behind a pneumonia outbreak in the central city of Wuhan.
TABATABAI: (Reading) The denial that ran rampant.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: The number of cases has increased to 44.
TABATABAI: (Reading) The data and the disinformation. I know the vast majority of what I say sounds too bizarre to be true. People questioning masks…
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
***
[head desk]
His last name is Persian and is pronounced tuh-BOT-uh-bye.
THIS is CNN.
Donald Trump’s presidency is blazing into history in a way that epitomizes his corrupt excess, with pardons for cronies and war crimes, assaults on democracy, fresh Covid-19 denial and impunity for Russia.
That is a literal description of the Obama admin, minus the convid stuff.
And in a trademark bombshell that blindsided aides, Trump on Tuesday also issued a sudden pre-Christmas demand for changes to a desperately needed $900 billion pandemic relief bill that risked shattering a fragile bipartisan compromise he had made no effort to shape. His move could send global markets into free fall and prolong the deprivation of millions of Americans who are going hungry or have lost their jobs.
*hysterical out of context nonsense* Oh, and I wonder why that is…Any-who I am sure a paltry $600 dollars to individuals and billions to foreign countries will fix it.
The antics of the outgoing President in recent hours further weighed down the yet-to-begin presidency of his successor, Joe Biden, who already faced the most challenging debut of any US leader since Franklin Roosevelt in 1933.
Oh, good. The 30s were nice…
Some people have paid for the victory of the Bengals over the Stillers.
A true patriot!
Christmas Trees: A Forgotten History
Leslie West, 75,
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/leslie-west-dead-1106777/
This year just keeps sucking. Hell of a Christmas gift
Are you ready to rock?
New jam from Too Many Zooz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTA7Qg6H92g
(in case you’re not familiar, they’re subway buskers-turned-big-time. I dig them because they are innovators, like Dick Dale was in his time.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD8ZO5P9yzQ (busking)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krLYZmPRtnc (sax player at BBC proms)
some more history
Fort Pulaski was a POW camp for Confederates from 1863 til 1865. At first, the guards were kind to the POWs until word of the Andersonville horrors spread. After that, the POWs were put on starvation rations. The camp commandant ignored the order and when some POWs were released, they wrote a later thanking the commandant for his gallantry. The commandant was threatened demotion, and so reluctantly enforced the starvation ration order for the last 6 months of the prison’s operation.
No good deed goes unpunished.
The Confederacy issued a rebuttal to the Emancipation Proclamation. In it, they declared they would no longer exchange prisoners because the Union was sending armed Negroes to fight them. There was also the tactical hypocrisy of Lincoln specifying that slave holding areas NOT in revolt were not subject to his edict.
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St Nicholas was the basis for Santa Claus. Not much is known about the real St. Nick other than he was a Greek Christian in what is today Turkey around 350 AD. This was the period right after the persecutions of Emperor Diocletian and the beginning of the promulgation of Christianity by Emperor Constantine. St. Nick performed many acts of kindness, including giving gold to 3 young women so they could marry and not be sold by their families to brothels.
Claymation Xmas music – We 3 Kings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnIFTtW1pko
Merry Christmas movie house!
I now have some hot banana bread, slathered with butter, with a slice of extra-sharp cheddar on it.
Merry Christmas.
Love banana bread with butter. Not sure about the cheddar. Have to try it.
When I typed “banana bread with “ my phone suggested avocado. Don’t think I’ll try that.
I don’t know how to describe the way it works, but it does. Husband won’t even try it.
It does not sound like it should work.
I’ve been surprised before, particularly at the tapas restaurant I love so much.
Question for cooking Glibs:
I have a par-cooked prime rib for four – guesstimate from room temp to 120 in a 200 degree oven?
Use a probe and go until it beeps.
I’ll be using a probe, for sure, but that doesn’t help with timing out everything else.
Although, looking at my timeline, I think I can just get everything else going once I get to the rest period.
https://imgur.com/a/TPehupR
I’m going to need two ovens anyway, so I can just go off of when the prime rib is done w/ the initial cook.
Weight?
4 lbs (and 2 oz)
And par cooked? It’s already filled cooked and you’re reheating it or ?
*already fully cooked
Mostly cooked, I assume – it’s take-away:
https://imgur.com/a/69cBFEN
“cook to an internal temp” isn’t an instruction I associate with previously cooked food.
I see that all the time – probably for liability reasons.
Got a loud laugh from this response:
https://twitter.com/theMLBeat1/status/1341842680129720325
All Saint’s Day is a public holiday in much of Germany.
*sideways glance*
Since it’s only going to be me and my mom this xmas eve, I figured maybe we could watch a movie together? Any suggestions? She doesn’t seem to be into Die Hard.
Breaking Away.
Or were you hoping for a Christmas movie?
Yes, a Christmas movie.
Miracle on 34th Street?
I just grabbed it. She probably has seen it already, but I haven’t.
Bad Santa?
+1
An honest title if there was one.
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Bad Santa or Christmas Story
OK, thanks 🙂
Mr Mojeaux and I are going to watch this, but Nightmare Before Christmas is adorable.
“Nightmare Before Christmas”
Thanks, but Tim Burton animation might be a bit too weird for mom.
The Bishop’s Wife at 8:00 PM if you have TCM.
OK 🙂
“The Hebrew Hammer” be like I got your dreidel right here. (Funny movie but largely unknown.)
Silent Night, Deadly Night
This was always my relief from the mania of the holidays.
Mdm. de Zwak purchases a “mushroom growing kit” the process of which will now take over a portion of my basement.
I feel the need to read Lumly’s Fruiting Bodies and other Fungi, in tribute to SugarFree.
more music for UCS – featuring metal with lead female vocals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bty4-TgBV9I
Sonne or Feuer Frei, both by Rammstein might be up your alley as well.
I dig this song. More growling than cookie monster, but there is a chick who sings auf deutsch.