PITTSBURGH – Although black keys account for over a third of the keys on pianos, they are played less often than white keys according to a new study. Al Sharpton was quick to call for Affirmative Composing in order to increase the number of sharp and flat notes being played. Others, such as Ta-Nehisi Coates, have called for piano pieces to be re-written such that black keys are played as often as white keys.
Other prominent Democrats also weighed in. In a rally that boasted a crowd in the double digits, President Joe Biden said that “black keys are just as smart as white keys.” Biden also promised to appoint a member of Black Keys Matter to a senior cabinet position. Pete Buttigieg suggested painting the white keys black and vice versa. This was condemned by Jesse Jackson for “perpetuating the hateful legacy of blackface.”
Leading Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer has promised to only use black keys in future scores, a move which was lauded by the NAACP. Across the nation, many pianos have been vandalized by Antifa mobs who were unable to find statues of Confederates.
Not in my house.
Not in my house, either
Less hateful than your typical offering.
Relevant
Yep. There it is.
Yep. There it is.
The commercial makes me grin every time.
I am the target demo, apparently.
Sprinkles!
Certainly you weren’t suggesting it was irrelevant, were you?
Quite the opposite, kemosabe
I’d have gone with “Just as sharp”.
On the one hand it would have made for a better joke. On the other hand it’s too clever even for pretend Biden.
That one fell flat.
These bass jokes are going to get us in treble with Swiss.
Not quite a bass joke
The pun assault has begun, retreat to Fort Issimo.
How about a base joke?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV5WqRnFejI
Dammit. Beat me to it.
The rest of the staff won’t be pleased either.
They will likely act in unison and we’ll be lucky not to be cleft in two.
On a scale of 1-10, I’d say this one is minor.
You guys are all so tone-deaf… it’s treble.
We will, but he’ll make it look accidental…
And report us to the security staff. He was a major, after all.
This guy on Tucker has the worse hairpiece I’ve ever seen.
“worst”, even
Best hairpiece?
Try this hairpiece
We are all left wondering what Johanna Gambolputty thinks of this.
She went black, and never came back.
Pete Buttigieg suggested painting the white keys black and vice versa.
It’s been done
Arturia, unintentionally ahead of Sharpton in this….
https://www.gear4music.com/Keyboards-and-Pianos/Arturia-Minilab-MKII-Inverted-Keys-with-Bag/3D4M
This manages to be funnier than Dr. Seuss
https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/05/04/dr-seuss-political-cartoon/
Tundra (from dead thread)
Try books from Hunter S. Thompson or Donald E. Westlake. Two of my favorite humor writers.
Classic PJ O’Rourke is a fun read as well.
But for HST I recommend his earlier books before he got way burned out. Either “Fear and Loathing” (Las Vegas or Campaign Trail ’72) are classics along with his earlier collected works like “The Great Shark Hunt” which has multiple fantastic pieces. When he was on the top of his game he was both trenchant and funny.
Bill Bryson’s “A Walk in the Woods” is a hilarious anti-adventure classic.
Agree. Haven’t had a chance to read his books but used to love his articles in Playboy and National Lampoon.
I’ve read 3-4 of P.J.’s stuff, all good but I though the earlier ones were better.
We’ve found a member of that elusive species, guys who read Playboy for the articles.
It’s not that he reads Playboy, but the pages were stuck together so this is what he got.
Mrs. Hobbit puts the Bunnies to shame so the articles were all I had left.
Seriously, though, there was some good writing in the classic Playboy era.
A Parliament of Whores did more to push me to libertarianism (anti-statism, really) than any other book.
a more apropos link
And now I’m re-reading it.
“… giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
That’s just from the introduction.
I can’t remember f he ever actually finished.
Patrick McManus. One of my earliest literary inspirations.
HST’s Hells Angels is not funny. Great Shark Hunt is pretty funny.
Westernsloper, I saw a play version of Three Men in a Boat.
https://synetictheater.org/event_pages/three-men-in-a-boat-to-say-nothing-of-the-dog/
It was fun
Terry Pratchett, Discworld.
If you are unfamiliar, start with the Night Watch books.
I own most of them.
Spectacular.
I concur with this statement.
Dig them both. Westlake is amazing.
I’m not saying he’s very high brow, but there’s Dave Barry – the humor books and collected columns, not the novels some of which represent an attempt at seriousness.
Sample column so you can test the waters –
https://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article1937737.html
I always loved Dave Barry. At his best, he is side-splittingly hilarious. Truly.
To show what a neanderthal I am, I think Rick Reilly has written some hysterical pieces. His “Life of Reilly” column in SI had some great pieces: because I have the same personal experience, I can say with 100% accuracy that there has been no better description of what it is like to fly in the back of an F-14 Tomcat jet than anyone has ever written. (Yes, I’ve done it. No humble brag, just very lucky as a midshipman not too long after Top Gun. His description can’t be beat.)
I’ve always been fond of Dave’s “Year in Review.” A particular favorite was 2008’s, which included this gem:
Dave Barry was a colleague of TOS’ Sheldon Richman way back in the day when they were newspaper reporters in small town Penna.
and reportedly picked up his libertarian bent from Shel.
I’ve plugged these before – an entire (and ongoing) series of humorous novels: The Chronicles of St. Mary’s by Jodi Taylor, starting with Just One Damned Thing After Another. Humor (or, because it’s British, “humour,”) history, adventure, don’t-call-it-time-travel-but-it’s-really-time-travel, and occasional heartbreak. I MUCH prefer them to what I’ve read of Connie Willis’s works with a similar premise. When I first discovered these, I devoured them until I was caught up, and I still eagerly await each new release.
Just back from Sonoma. Best line of the trip, my kid after being in SF for about 5 minutes: “Can we go back? I’ve been here just a few minutes and I’ve already seen 4 freakshows. Why does that guy have lipstick on? How come everyone is from China? Can we just go? This is freaking me out!”
I like the freakshows and the Orientals. I don’t like the bums shitting in the streets or the pols with their boots on my neck.
^^This
I know. He’s eight. Oddly, masks were universal, except for me. My wife kept walking away from me because she was embarrassed. A chaotic place like that and they all had face panties on. Crazy! Columbus street was about 50% closed empty buildings. Took about 45 minutes to find a table anywhere. Of course it was great food once we did.
Had to side step turds about three times. Gotta remember to look down while you walk.
I wouldn’t even attempt to find a table in NYC right now. It’s shut tight almost as bad as high panicterror from late last winter.
Excellent, Derpie, another 4 bagger.
I’m thinking that all keys should be beige and equal, it’s the only way to achieve a level playing field and avoid discrimination. Should be more of them, too.
Agreed.
Although, does anyone really need 88 keys?
60 is enough, same as that assholes childhood
Referring to a harpsichord
Come on now, don’t be womxn.
WTF is that about? Wimmin was already taken in the 1970’s so I guess “X” becomes the new anti- men. How about blxcks next?
I know a Spaniard I sail against. Luckily he thinks latinx is as stupid as do so he just laughs at “Hola amigx.”
I thought it meant a Mexican chick that collects alimony.
We should look to the Turks for perfect gender harmony because their language is largely gender-neutral and so therefore it is a paradise for womyn there.
The cartels? Those guys can never get enough.
Stop giving them ideas Derpy!
This tale certainly struck a chord with me.
So, I went to see my niece. My nephew is a drug addict. Apparently, he OD’d last week and fucked himself all up. Stayed passed out on some concrete for about 8-10 hours and got “compartment syndrome.” Serious stuff. It causes a form of necrosis at the squished parts and then causes kidney failure. It happens to “found down” OD’s. Seems very rare and ultra serious. He’s getting surgeries and dialysis every day for the next few weeks in the hospital. Fucking kid is about 30. He has the worst attitude coupled with the worst luck. I’m hoping this pops him out of his hope-to-die mentality without damaging him too much. They say amputations are not uncommon. Poor kid. Put a cloud over the trip too. I had never heard of such a thing, and I have experience with heavy drug addicts.
So sorry
Yikes!
Yikes, never heard of that one either. Kids, drugs are
badwell, not something to mess around with without careful consideration.It seems like it has to be the perfect dose. Not enough to kill you, and just enough to make you like a sack of dead weight for a long period of time. I just hope he comes out of this ready to stop fucking around. He’s been in self destruct mode for his whole life. I hope he keeps all his parts and gains a desire to get out of his spiral. Thanks everyone, btw.
Man, sorry to hear that. I hope he does some soul searching when he pops out of it, finds out whatever has driven him to abuse drugs in the first place.
Youth truly is wasted on the young. But there’s no way for oldies to share that perspective with them. Everyone has to have their own screwups; some are milder and earlier than others.
Good luck to him and the rest of the family.
Hopefully this experience knocks some sense into him.
In the interest of harm reduction, does he have a place to pass out that isn’t on concrete?
Too late. He’s got fucked up arms and legs. They cut them open and scrape all the gunk out. They gotta keep doing that for the next few weeks. It’s like he gambled 10 bucks and lost 10,000. Poor kid.
If he truly has compartment syndrome from compression he’s in seriously deep shit regards the affected extremity. Sorry to hear that.
I have some ground beef and don’t want to make the usual burger or spaghetti so I’m going to make this recipe tomorrow: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/280273/weeknight-sauerbraten-meatballs/
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I don’t like raisins in my Sauerbraten but this recipe seems enough like sorcery that it just might work.
This will be a first try. I’ll report back.
Gingersnaps are common in sauerbraten recipes
“I don’t like raisins…”
There are no redeeming qualities to raisins. Why would you take a perfectly good grape and spoil it?
I also don’t like raisins. It’s a small list of things I don’t like: sea cucumber, fish eyeballs, raisins, cashews, five-spice cow stomach,..
I’m sure there are a few more
Cashews? You do have problems.
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No accounting for taste.
Show us on the doll where Will Vinson’s creations touched you.
I’m thinking minced ginger and bread crumbs might substitute.
If you want to go that route, you should also add cloves, cinnamon and a little brown sugar or molasses.
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I guess but my favorite Sauerbraten doesn’t have ginger at all. Red wine and sugar, yes.
But yeah, for a weekday dish I would find crushing ginger snaps easier than mincing ginger.
No vinegar?
Oh definitely
I don’t cook it, I’m just reading the ingredients on the package 🙂
I don’t have snaps on hand. Do have ginger and other precursors.
Pics. I’m sick of making burgers and spaghetti, too.
Looks good..now i want to make swedish meatballs tomorrow night.
There is a good Eyetalon recipe for meatballs with garlic and parmesan in them. After they are browned in olive oil and shallot you finish cooking in a mixture of balsamic vinegar adding cream near the end. Serve over egg noodles. It tastes great. WARNING: if somebody walks in the smell might knock them back a step or two.
Derpy, when I read this, I was like… “Daammmmnnn, Derpy’s into some Bee-like territory with that one.” Great conceit.
And by the way… I haz a big disappoint that no one linked to this. Starts to get good at 1:50 or so. The truly funny stuff is at 3 and change. “You are blind as a bat, and… I have sight!”
If the Bee comes up with something like this, we’ll know fo sho there’s a mole
That skit was great. No way it would get on the air today.
When Piscopo was was funny…
“side-by-side you are my amigo, negro”
JFC, I had forgotten that was the next line.
Everyone involved would be canceled now.
Nice. Ebony and Ivory, live together in racial hierarchy.
You are blind as a bat and I have sight
LOL.
Evidently we both scrolled past Ozy.
Yep I guess so
When derp makes more sense than what is churned out of top universities as the highest output of intellectual demigods, we are in real trouble.
This one is at least highly entertaining.
The solution that the school with white kids “over represented” in the advanced classes would have reacted by pushing the piano into a closet where no keys would be played.
I was in one of those “gifted” programs in elementary school, so once a week other kids in the program were bussed in to have an all day extra study.
It was more work but it was good experience.
The irony is that special class was where we read Harrison Bergeron.
Sounds like the lady who wants to cancel the program because of race could have used a good read of that story.
I was in one and it kinda pissed me off. Had to ride a short bus. Separate classes, got put in high school at the age of 13. I was happier just being the smartest kid in regular class. Seemed like the school expected me to compete in spelling bees and shit like that. I wanted to get into trouble like the cool kids.
Why a bee? Why not an ant, or a katydid, or a grasshopper?
Praying Mantis. Whatever it is, it’s spelled, “OUCH!”
I feel like a praying mantis
I sense her antics
I can’t help it
I’ve been too frantic too long
The thing you were in sounds way more intense. They didn’t try to get us into academic competition or graduation early. It was just 2nd-6th grade, probably to keep us from getting bored.
And it did improve my educational experience for the better.
When we got to high school, we had quiz bowl and “academic contests,” but whether we’d need in the so-called enrichment classes in grade school was irrelevant.
Academic contests were a bunch of kids piling on a bus to a college campus to take challenging written exams against other cities. There were medals for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. It was a way of colleges to attract top talent in an “open house” type of setting. Pretty cool, no outside studying, no segregation from other kids. You qualified to go if nominated by your teacher in a particular subject.
Relatively low on the nerd factor.
No gifted program – the best my elementary school could offer me, early in sixth grade, was the opportunity to move up to seventh grade so I could be reviled by everyone in TWO grade levels instead of just one. I respectfully declined. (Read: “cried and begged them not to make me do it.”)
It does make me wonder why they want to have kids skip grade levels. There are other things to learn in school than the subjects. Social skills, handling disappointment, handling good things, how to tell a good friend from a toxic one, etc.
One kid in my town (southeast Asian) advanced past everyone and graduated at 13 y.o. He then finished college in 2-3 years. Was accepted into med school before he could drive a car.
He ended up coming back to town one summer and beating the ever-loving shit out of his dad.
No idea what happened after that. When I read it in the local rag I was shocked but somehow not totally surprised. Kid’s social life must have been hell.
We had something similar. Tutors for the Talented if I remember correctly.
It was just some time away to work/think on more advanced stuff. Nothing serious. Like H-E said it was more a reward than anything else.
Unless there was a closet pianist.
Or a really short pianist, like in the joke about the hard-of-hearing genie.
“Do you really think I’d ask for…”
That’s for Nanking.
https://japantoday.com/category/politics/japan-asks-china-to-stop-anal-covid-19-tests-on-japanese-citizens
So, they were butt-hurt?
China is just fuckin’ with the rest of the world at this point.
Yeah, what-what?
Rapey CCP humiliating and subjugating people because FYTW. No honest justification for lockdowns or masks, so of course they weren’t going to stop there.
I just wanted to say that Tedros is one of the worst people in the world. He often gets left out of the discussion when it comes to the world wu flu pandemicpalooza, but he is 33rd degree CCP fellow traveler and should be treated as a CCP agent.
The sodomization is just the icing on the cake. Unfortunately there is a rational purpose for the anal swabbery, much as it pains me. I think the Chinese are still scared shitless of uncontrolled spread and are just reacting like they were a year ago.
What is the rationale for anal swabbing a respiratory virus?
Maybe someone sneezed while tossing a salad.
They have special guards for that.
Red Guards?
It’s way sexier than just the nose.
Viral matter is excreted through the anus and is detectable in fecal material. I would bet that the Chinese aren’t using it exclusively but as a battery with other testing to try to identify any possible cases.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41575-021-00416-6
GI infection by sars-cov-2 wouldn’t be unique. Existing influenza and coronaviruses can do so in other species as mentioned on page 4.
Oh, they are still swabbing the nasal cavity. Just going at it the long way round.
There always will be rationale. If you don’t draw the line at your anus, where will you draw the line for govt overreach?
Neptune?
Oh, it’s not my cup of tea by a long shot. I just think that the Chinese are motivated more by paranoia and reaction rather than intentional humiliation and they don’t care if it’s overreach. Their entire country is government overreach.
I’m going with some from column A and some from column B.
With three, you get egg roll.
Would they be ok with it if the swabs were made from the panties of schoolgirls?
Only if you could buy them in coin-op machines.
If you don’t want an anal swab up your ass, you just want grandma to die.
This message brought to you by the American College of Gastroenterology and the makers of the purge drink.
Few things bother me more than watching shows in which the plot is filled with people who use guns professionally, yet somehow don’t know how to hold a fucking pistol properly.
If you have a special pistol just for fucking, are you not really a rapist?
You mean, sideways isn’t the right way?
Ha ha! Your reply went to the wrong thread.
(I’m assuming this response was supposed to be about anal swabbing)
No, but that would have been funnier!
My comment was about those gangstas in movies holding their pistols rotated 90 degrees around the axis of the barrel.
Well, they make sights for them ya’know…
https://tinyurl.com/ycmn4f53
That was one thing about Bosh that was interesting — the guy garried his 1911 in condition 1.
Straff!
You need to start exporting these to the US. With the work at home explosion the States are a prime market.
I could set that up in a parking lot. ÂĄ3000/day. Sweet.
You’d be turning a profit in just 3 days!
Caveat emptor
I’m going to assume that those dimensions were supposed to be ‘cm’ and not ‘mm’. It would be funny though if the dimensions were correct and they had just used a freaky small person as the model.
“…in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.”
“Wake up → drink → be lazy → sleep”
I don’t recall hearing about this chart during the Japan-panic of the 1980s.
They didn’t have the technology back then to create these private space pods. Love pillows hadn’t been invented either.
Love pillows?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakimakura
Thanks
I stretched my Achilles heel pretty good whilst hauling my non-petite other half around the house and doubling up on house chores.
I know the RICE routine (icing right now—ahhhh). But can anyone recommend a good ankle wrap or brace? I’m not going to be doing much more than walking and driving, but walking is a painful challenge at this point.
TIA.
I usually prefer warmth, but that’s just me. I can endorse Aleve wholeheartedly. I get hyped up on Naproxen every other week. Helps way more than those other analgesics.
Most of the commercially available wraps and braces are similar. They apply compression and restrict movement at the ankle. Although this takes pressure off the ankle, it diminishes the ability of the joint to absorb shocks, sending them up the chain to the knee and hip joints. I’m not sure any of them have ever been shown to outperform any others, but if they help with short term rehab, go for it. I assume you mean the Achilles tendon. Did you actually stretch it or did it just become inflamed? Achilles tendonitis isn’t an unusual thing but it’s tough to treat. Honestly if you can borrow some crutches that fit you from a friend that might be the way to go. Stay off it for a week and use the crutches along with a compression wrap. NSAIDs (like ibuprofen or Naprosyn) have been shown to delay healing a little bit but they do seem to help pain a lot so it’s a balancing act. Definitely keep the thing elevated when you aren’t using it and be very careful with it when getting up in the morning as it tends to tighten up overnight (you sleep with your foot flexed). Hope that helps.
Thank you both.
(Sorry for the delay—I typed my question and then promptly fell asleep.)
I don’t know if I pulled it or what. It hurts whether I’m using it or not, but worse when I’m using it. Today it’s been giving up sometimes in mid step when I’m pushing off with that foot; just collapses back to the ground. I’m limping pretty significantly.
I looked up Achilles’ tendon injuries and the first thing listed for “medical conditions that are risk factors” is psoriasis, which I have.
I will try taking it easy, and I have a phone appointment with my doc Wednesday to see if she wants me to get it imaged or what.
Not sure if you’re still awake and I’m rarely up for the morning links, so sorry if this misses you.
If you have no ability to push off with that foot it certainly could indicate an Achilles tendon disruption although those are usually pretty dramatic. There’s a pretty easy test called the Thompson’s test (plenty of diagrams and videos online) that you can use to verify that the tendon is intact. Just squeeze the lower muscle belly of the calf and your foot should flex downward. If it doesn’t you’re either holding it up or you’ve got no tendon. You can also video Kobe Bryant’s Achilles injury which is a pretty classic example of the no Achilles walk.
After that it’s hard to say. The good news is that in absence of tendon disruption most of these injuries heal up by themselves with time.
Speaking of music……
This could easily be me
And yes, having the “Barking” council fine you is exactly the humiliation I am accustomed to when I attempt to sing. My sister is actually a pretty good singer and I always give her a hard time about how many more singing awards I have collected through the years than she has. Being the petty younger sibling she always has to downplay my accomplishments by pointing out that all my awards are “The Worst Singer…” types.
Razorfist: Jon Shaceffer Did Nothing Wrong (a rant)
It’s been painful to see people on the right bend over backwards to condemn the capital riots and go along with the narrative that they were the worst thing since the Holocaust or slavery. It”s nice to see someone take a fuck you stance to the bullshit trumped up charges being thrown around by the FBI, even if it’s a relatively obscure Youtuber.
Those people did not have hall passes. Bad, bad, bad.
I can’t say I’ve read, like, every word, but here’s Donald McNeil on how he got fired from the NY Times. The link shows the four parts of his narrative in reverse order.
https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/
It’s hard to feel for bad for people at the NYT’s who get cancelled.
Agreed, but he’s old enough that I _do_ feel bad. He’s been wished out into the cornfield by some snot-nosed kids and he must be bewildered.
Yeah. My understanding is a bit shaky but I think he has been there for decades and is a run of the mill liberal. He didn’t sign up for a progressive purge and was blindsided. Sure, he kept shitty company but he didn’t deserve to be forced out.
He’s 67 years old and had been at the Times for 45 years – i.e., since he was 22. Je’s an antediluvian lefty who thought you can still ask “did he say ‘nigger’ or ‘nigga’?”, because context matters.
Context no longer matters – he spoke the magic word and was promptly (-ish) shown the door.
Dean Baquet is a gigantic pussy who thinks the monsters won’t eat him if he keeps feeding them. Ironically, his own phenotypical traits are not protecting him.
I’m not going to be sad when Baquet gets eaten by the mob.
Then he’ll be Dean *Banquet,* am I right?
Oof.
Oops, “voluntary” resignation.
Not so voluntary when they are holding your balls.
Good.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/03/01/golden-globes-tv-ratings-nbc/
My wife tuned in for a bit; Mark Ruffalo confirmed he’s the gigantic blowhard I’ve always taken him for.
Next time, Jason Sudeikis should probably give a minute’s thought to what he’d say if he actually won the award he’s nominated for, instead of rambling on for 10 minutes when he’s surprised by a win. Also, he should wear something nicer than whatever he found on the floor next to his bed.
Your wife is stronger than I am. I can’t stand those award shows. A bunch of self-congratulating by pretentious blowhards.
Ruffalo is a jackass. He could not shut during the last election. I don’t ever want to hear from him.
I have the same reaction: why watch all these actors/entertainers dress up and congratulate themselves?
They act like they’re graciously giving a glimpse of done solemn and well-respected ceremony, when really it’s the same as a local furniture dealer’s annual sales award dinner.
I quit watching years ago. With wokeism invading all corners of public life and seemingly in a race with itself to see how far it can go, I can’t even begin to imagine watching.
The Ricky Gervais hosting in which he did a brutal takedown of awards shows was the closest I’ve come to actually watching an awards show in a decade.
I do enjoy how woke entertainment folks are pretending to care about equality and proper representation: needs more PoC! Needs to use an actor who’s on the spectrum (the actual gripe with “Atypical”, a series about a kid with autism)! Needs moar gay actors, not actors pretending to be gay. Don’t get me started about “My Left Foot.”
I for one am outraged that all the roles for murder victims go to living actors. They should be shot, poisoned, etc as the role requires. Otherwise they’re just pretending to be dead.
Heaven forefend that actors pretend things in order to tell a story!
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/03/01/scotland-kitchen-construction-time-capsule-whiskey-Edinburgh-Scotland/8301614634072/
No treasure map? Lame.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=scmvAg_S97k
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https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/03/two-hurt-after-car-winds-up-wedged-between-toll-booths-on-nj-turnpike.html
Lol @ the pic.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/ap/ap-business/minimum-wage-hike-all-but-dead-in-big-covid-relief-bill/article_58bec0df-3244-5ee3-a8e3-5dc824515178.html
Small victory, I suppose. They’re still going to try to find ways to fuck us. It’s all downhill from here. ?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/nyregion/cuomo-harassment-anna-ruch.html
Up to three accusations now.
*grabs popcorn*
And under the bus he goes. Funny, the whole policy leading to the probable unnecessary deaths of who knows how many seniors is not the thing that took the shine off that turd, it was talking dirty to female staffers and making unwanted advances. Something something priorities.
*not that I am excusing the accused behavior, just ya know, nobody fucking died*
There are almost certainly people privately praising this timely distraction from the dead grandma problem.
Is Cuomo a threat to other Dems or something?
Potential competition in 2024?
I can’t imagine that he’s not universally loathed by anyone who’s met/worked with him.
*sigh*
Time to get ready for work.
I almost had to call in disconnected.
My internet was unresponsive this morning.
Isn’t this where you should ask for the score of the Cal game?
Why would I care?
Today could be….interesting if our payroll processor’s website isn’t back up and running. Happily, I’ve printed off the details of everyone’s hours from last pay period, so if the site’s still down – or even if the timekeeping site is down (perish the thought) – I can give them what they’d need to figure out our pay.
Your payroll processor might be in breach of contract if they can’t provide a mechanism to process it on time. I’m guessing they have a manual process you’re alluding to.
Heck, as long as our phones work, I could read down the list – “Person A has 64 regular hours, 8 Holiday hours…” And as a financial institution, even if for some reason the processor couldn’t do the direct deposit, as long as someone there could do the tax and other withholding/deduction math, we could get everyone paid even if it had to be with green foldy money.
suh’ fam?
nigga Im faded, yo
* in the event you thought “kinda racist for this hour, Tres” its in reference to a little ditty by Tyga
Mornin’, homey.
suh’ pimp
Leftover Donato’s for breakfast-supper !
We did Oinkadoodlemoo for dinner. Never any leftovers! Little Black Cat likes pulled pork.
Who doesn’t like pulled pork?
*Homer drool*
Welcome to my evening.
My clock is 12-hours opposite from the “normies” due to 3rd shift. Im in the same group as Festus, l0b0t, and you people.
I’ve noticed you pop in during that last little flurry of posts before the morning links drop. This is just before I get pulled away for bedtime stories and other evening daddy tasks.
Yeah, 6 am is my 1700h.
TALL CANS !
wait…people here pay attention to me? You like me! You really, really, like me !
Walking out of the job after a third shift is fabulous: the ozone load of a dewy morning, the satisfaction of being done, the freedom of the moment, the happy fact that almost all the bums and criminals are asleep on their momma’s couch, that only decent and hard-working people are out and about.
GT – I’m sorry if my email got a little ranty. I don’t suspect it’s a topic that would offend. I just got worked up because of unrelated things and vented on the least significant thing.
You’re fine. I concur with you (and have replied to that effect.)
He wasnt wearing his ranting gloves.
GOOD morning fellow shut-ins!
how’s she goin’ eh
Just got a big, steaming pile dumped on my lap from the new Corporate Compliance officer that is going to force me back to seven days a week for the next month. Other than that, not too bad. How’s you?
Canada- worker’s paradise!
After puttin’ the drain on my main vein (IYKWIMAITTYD), Im on TallCans™ #3
Cans dont have twist-offs eh
They seem to go through two or three of theses eager-beavers per year. Desk jockeys that don’t understand the reality of the situation. They burn out quickly but make my working life hell. The latest one is a real peach.
How does overtime work north of the wall? When I was working at Freescale, everything over 60 was double time, which was lawyer’s wages.
If you thought that “twist-offs” rocked our world, you should have seen the end of the Stubbie!
You hoseheads still buy milk in bags eh
though my Canuckistanii friend from TO introduced me to the word “mickey”- 375ml bottle of liquor
Which Id call a half-pint
That an Easterling convention *spits* Milk in a bag was a flash in the pan out here in God’s Country.
I’m pretty sure that “mickey” refers to the fact that it fits in an upper pocket of a suit jacket.
Mornin’ all!
/hockey-stops @
John Cage already wrote a piece that treats black and white keys equally.
Isn’t anything more than about 13% Black kinda racist? What about all those other colors on the keyboard?
John Cage looked at all the people staring at modern art and pretending to understand it and said “Hold my beer.”