“RAWR!!!”
STEVE SMITH AND ZARDOZ SITTING IN A TREE!!!
FIRST CAME LOVE, THEN CAME MARRIAGE, THEN CAME SEA SMITH IN A BABY CARRIAGE!!!
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Spudalicious
Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…
Since April, Mr. Bryant had been on the run on charges of wounding with reckless disregard, possession of a knife, three counts of harmful digital communications and failing to appear in court.
Remember when NZ was a legitimate contender for expatriates? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Not a knife ?!?
My vapours, Holmes.
That’s not a knife.
AKA flipping someone the bird? Geez, people are awfully fragile these days!
I’ve seen some memes that could probably put an eye out.
Having spent a bit of time in that prison, I know the kind of crap they feed them, so I was very sympathetic
You know you’ve hired the right lawyer if he’s also done time.
I had a lawyer for a car accident once, who was previously hired to do a hit on a woman’s ex-husband. He claimed that, while he took the money, he never intended to do the hit and he used it all for his coke habit. He was acquitted. The lady did actually find somebody to perform the murder, two cops. They had done some robberies also. L.A. has had quite a few crooked cops in it’s time. This guy right here.
Sorry, he was actually never charged.
How much did he get for the hit? asking for a friend.
20k and then he kyped another 5k that was supposed to pay the real hit men, but this was back in the eighties.
It’s a fascinating story. The cops were crazy fuckers. They were involved in another murder attempt and a jewelry store robbery.
To serve and protect…
“You don’t want a criminal lawyer, you want a _criminal_ lawyer.”
Remember when NZ was a legitimate contender for expatriates?
These days I’d rather take my chances with Chilean leftists.
At one point, TT was speculating about bugging out to Chile. I was wary, given South America’s track record in general. And Chile just seems like one long earthquake zone. :-/
You are not incorrect. Chile is one long BIG earthquake zone.
“Remember when NZ was a legitimate contender for expatriates?”
I blame the horse-faced woman with the horse teeth who runs the country.
The toothy tyrant.
She’s just trying to take a bite out of crime.
She was soooooo brave for breast feeding her child in front of the NZ senate…
Come on, mang! Powerful (I am not an admirer of power, regardless of gender) women have been breastfeeding for millennium.
You don’t say.
Excellent links, spud, and excellent commentary.
Thanks, Hobbit!
Since April, Mr. Bryant had been on the run on charges of wounding with reckless disregard, possession of a knife, three counts of harmful digital communications and failing to appear in court.
Possession of a knife!?!?! OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
He was originally charged with possession of a knife, but the charges were whittled down later. Not to put too fine of a point on it. Just taking a stab at a few puns here.
I think the puns have blade themselves out.
Too much? oh hell yeah! Pink!
https://www.vans.com/shop/old-skool-vn:0a3wkt:ur1:090:m:1:
Just got my kid some. His fade to blue.
Vans are perfect for Disc, but you should see how they get destroyed, the uppers tear, and the soles stay nice, I still swear by Vans, always have, always will, great shoes!
The quality is way down since the early nineties. They’re still decent and I have a pair of black old schools. The pro series, but I removed the insoles and put my own in them.
I’ll take a slice at it.
Just started season two of The Expanse. I’m trying to give a shit but I’m not sure I do.
Space Opera, good stuff,
I’m on season four and I still have no fucking idea what’s going on or what any of the character’s names are, I put it on and fall asleep, Amazon must think I’m the biggest Expanse fan in the world, I’ve “watched” each episode at least ten times.
You and Trig I can’t even.
Tee-Hee-Hee.
It’s basically a Black Screen Thunderstorm video…
Sorry, rhywun.
I get that way too. Poldark, Outlander, Longmire – a couple seasons in and you’re yawning. Just finished all six seasons of Longmire – learned a lot of truth (I hope it was truthful) about the Rez and White man law differences. But how in hell did Longmire and a handful of deputies, who mostly hung around the office, police a county the size of Rhode Island? And what with a killing or two in every episode.
Aside from the frequent deaths, that’s pretty much the standard in the west. The county I live in is 4x the size of Rhode Island. A much larger sheriff’s office but much larger population than Longmire’s county.
I had some friend who rode through north east AZ. One of them broke his main drive belt. As they were waiting for the tow truck, a Rez cop pulled up and told them they better get out of there by dark. He said there was bands of roving bandits and there was no way to call for help. He told them it would take him up to an hour and a half to get to them even if they had cell reception. They thanked him, but weren’t worried because they were all packing and a few were off duty cops.
I am so over tolerating the trans lobby. I’m not insisting they change their lives, but they are insisting that everyone else must change to please them.
Keep dudes out of women’s sports.
What happened to Divisions? I play 55+, the Kids are all open, and the Ladies play in their own division, maybe a Tranny division? or is that Racist?
It’s a sane option, so it must be bigoted.
Two tranny divisions. Manual and automatic.
It’s HYYYYYYYYYDROMATIC – Danny in “Grease”
“We go together like the one that I want shamalamadingdong greased lightning”
– ‘The Grease! Megamix’
I saw a meme.
Are we still using tranny fluid or is it gender neutral shift juice now?
It took a minute, but I’ve been drinking and smoking. That’s pretty funny.
The transsexuals are what they say they are hence no transsexual division needed and it’s bigoted to advocate for it. It seems silly but that’s the argument that’s used.
‘Member when believing that you were Napoleon meant that you were crazy?
I identify as “Emperor” and my pronouns are “His Execellency” and “His Majesty’s”
What I remember is the crazy folk would always say, ” the end is near.” Now, I’m saying that.
Does it make you crazy if the end really is near?
Well, I am crazy, but I’m not sure if that’s why.
Division along racial, “gender”, sexual
preferenceorientation, but also healing and unity. Segregate to congregate!Key word “lobby”. Most just want to be left alone. It’s the “lobby” that’s not helping.
“Trans female MMA fighter lashes out at Joe Rogan”
She’s justified in her anger, I mean you cave in one woman’s skull in a fight and the judgmental assholes just hold it against you forfuckingever.
So brave.
Could STEVE and SEA double team on the design engineers at LG? Three stripped out screws taking apart the dryer to replace the drum wheels. Off to the store in a little bit to get replacements.
the Chinese are way better at creating false narratives than they are at making decent hardware.
Does LG outsource their manufacturing to Red China?
Almost all companies are using Chinese components. I doubt that LG uses strictly Korean components.
They don’t, I know for certain they have a big OLED manufacturing facility in the PRC and there’s got to be plenty of other stuff too.
LG is a South Korean company. My daughter sells LG appliances and other brands. LG gets far fewer complaints, so the other brands must be real crappy.
Everything is crappy and everything contains Chinese parts.
LG is a South Korean company, but you are correct about the Chinese being better at creating false narratives. When I was there (in several places in China), there were hundreds of cul-de-sacs with half completed buildings, roads that went to nowhere, and roads that went from gravel to dirt just a few miles out of town.
China is very much a Potemkin village.
Lg is indeed South Korean. However,
They use stuff from all over. Ford, Chevy, Harley, they all do this.
Heard that the San Jose shooter had 12 guns and 22K rounds of ammo. That’s why there is a shortage and high prices, he’s the Hunt Bros of ammo.
Pretty nice stash for California.
Gimme back my bullets!
Was not disappointed!
One of their better songs.
Another.
Now look for them to start clamoring for limits on the volume of ammo you can possess – as if a) having more than a few hundred rounds would have any impact on any of the shootings we see reported in the media, and b) it is unrealistic to imagine anybody carrying more than about 1,000 rounds of 5.56 (and that would be pushing it) in a tactical situation without being too loaded down to move.
People will just freak out that one person has stockpiled an “arsenal” and look for a way to ban it.
I routinely carried two basic loads of 5.56,mm (420 rounds) and 63 rounds of 9mm plus a couple of “boom things”. That was heavy enough. I kept another 4 cans of 5.56mm on the vehicle. Schlepping around a can and a quarter of 5.56 seems like overkill unless you are on a raid or deliberate ambush.
The average person has no idea how much a hundred rounds of 5.56, 9mm, 45 ACP, or 7.62X39 weighs. I guess watching action movies or video games gives most of them the idea that carrying a couple thousand rounds would be no big deal.
They also don’t have much of a realistic concept for how many rounds one person can fire off from a semi-auto carbine inside a building – not likely to be as many targets as you would imagine. I figure that most of these shooters “pull the plug” on themselves after the first or second reload. Restricting the amount of ammo one person can posses won’t have any significant impact on these incidents.
Two bricks of .22 LR is a thousand rounds. They sell .54 round balls in a box of one hundred. Ammo restrictions are just a new version of infringing on the clear meaning of the 2A. Fuck them all.
Beginners set.
Eating their own. Feast! Feast!
Kamala doing standup at he Naval Academy
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1398333498465869832
Trump II: Reloaded vs Kamala (after Biden is 25th’d): I think he’d win. I think he’d win with a fair bit of tailwind.
Was that actually supposed to be a joke or did she just randomly break into one of her Joker-style laughing fits?
Is there really a distinction?
She reminds me Altuve being asked about the cheating.
“What?! Hahahahahahahahahahah.”
Mr. Bryant had been on the run on charges of wounding with reckless disregard, possession of a knife, three counts of harmful digital communications and failing to appear in court
Add in public intoxication and that’s just Memorial Day weekend.
When I was young and more idealistic, I got a number of 40508a charges. I just didn’t feel like they had any right to make me. I fought the law and the law won.
Wait… is harmful digital communication throwing someone the bird?
Damnit.
It’s New Zealand. It could be anything.
possessionconfessions of a knifeSometimes life comes around and kicks you in the taint. On the overnight post I was joking about Hayek’s new cat and my naming conventions for pets. Today we lost our Whisker Biscuit. He was pretty chipper this morning but keeled over this afternoon. He weighed 25lbs in his prime.
Oh, I am so sorry, Festus.
Oh, I’m so sorry, Fes! 🙁 Been there, done that – when we lost George Kitteh, it was very sudden. We recalled later that on one of his first visits to the vet, the doc detected a heart murmur, so we guessed that may have been the culprit.
That sucks. I certainly hope you got to spend a good amount of time with him. I’ve lost a few cats, it’s never easy.
15 years. I rescued him from the reserve when he was teeny and he just grew and grew and grew. He’s sleeping under the lilacs now. Judi and I dug the hole and there was much free-flowing tears, snot and ugly-crying. He was an awesome cat but he hated small children.
I feel for you. I had sisters. One went 19 years and the other 21. It’s a big chunk of one’s life. It was hard to imagine life without them. It eventually got easier. I’m sorry.
Sorry.
Very sorry to hear, Festus. I know the feeling.
About 30 years ago I was in probably the lowest period in my life and I got a little tuxedo kitten to help cheer me up. She grew up into the most amazing cat, super friendly to everyone and much loved by all our friends. By the time she grew old, I had a wife and son, and that cat was there to get me from that low place to a very good place.
The cat used to wait until my wife and I were going to sleep and spooning together. Then she’d climb in to the bed and curl up on the little dimple in the covers between our midsections, and gently purr us to sleep.
She got sick and scrawny, and the vet said there was nothing to do. She hadn’t climbed on to the bed and curled into that dimple for months, but one night she managed to jump up and climb on us again. The next morning, we found her dead on a pillow in a sunbeam. Somehow, I think she knew she was going to die, and wanted to curl up with us that one last time.
I owe so much to that cat. I still miss her and think of her often. So, yes, losing a cat can be really hard.
It’s getting all dusty in here, and remembering our own late cat.
Sorry Festus, hoping you have a rainbow.
Yep.
Was just remembering how my Maggie would go to sleep with me every night, well, for ten minutes or so before blowing me off and jumping off the bed to do whatever cats do all night while you’re asleep.
Thanks, everybody. It’s been rather a shitty day.
That’s him about two months ago.
So handsome!
Much like C’s wonderful story, he always insisted on tucking me in every morning. He did it today and it will never happen again.
That’s a good looking boy. Sorry for your loss Festus. I’ve been down that road many times. It’s painful. Enjoy your memories.
Oh no. ?
That sucks dood. Sorry.
That sucks, Festus. Lost our hound rather quickly about 14 months ago and it still sucks.
Oh, Festus, I’m so sorry to hear that.
Another reminder that life dishes out both good and bad.
Sometimes it seems to get stuck on a “bad” streak for far too long.
I’m sorry man, it sounds like the little guy was living until he didn’t, at least ?⬛
Awwww….sorry Festus. ?
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I am unsettled ever since the layoff at work, and to some extent even before.
The lyrics to “Revelation” by Third Day popped into my head this evening and won’t leave.
https://youtu.be/sx92xJnINyc
I had accepted that the company had to do layoffs because we didn’t have enough contracts to justify so many employees.
But I managed to obtain a list of the 150 people who were laid off, and every one of them was either an engineer or a technician.
No contracts weenies, no finance, no buyers, no vice presidents, no “ strategic development” people.
Even if those yokels manage to win new business, who the heck do they expect to execute those contracts?
Unbelievably short sighted.
Ah. Your company is echoing the University model. How do we design this killing machine to less impact Black or Brown Bodies?
My apologies. Feeling a little pissed off and cynical right now. No harm intended.
Ugh that’s bananas. Sorry.
My guess? They believe they will hire them back or somebody like them.
With no idea that those guys won’t be available and no concept for how long it will take to spool up somebody like that hired from a different industry/environment.
One of the best bosses I ever had, Japanese guy, a bit younger than me.
He was in charge of all engineers for our part of the business spread out around the Pacific. His boss called him down to a meeting with their employees in Singapore/Malaysia. His boss broadsided him in the meeting – laying off half his staff there without ever mentioning, much less discussing, it beforehand.
My boss took at all stoically – and resigned the first day back in the office in Japan. He directly went to work for a global competitor and was soon in the top ranks of that company.
This dude had integrity in bulk and backed his employees 100%.
Sorry, I meant to add that you sound like him to me.
Durn. My social life is dead, my cat is dead and apparently the Glib-Zoom is dead. We did a mid week all-nighter a couple of weeks ago.
I can commiserate on the lack of social life. This COVID crap has put a torpedo amidships on my social life. This site has been my major, consistent source for adult interaction for the past 18 months.
I wish I could add something about your loss but I’ve never had a pet. My parents were allergic tp dogs and cats. I had a turtle when I was 7 but didn’t take care of it. Too young. I like animals a lot but they’ve never been part of my life.
In the grand scheme of things he was just a cat but he was our cat and we shared a home for 15 years. Some people will belittle that but he was part of our family. I’ll miss him, terribly.
“In the grand scheme of things” is usually used to downgrade some major issue to “you’ll get over it”. I don’t usually buy what people tack on after “in the grand scheme of things”, especially when most of our lives are lived in the here & now which has little to do with the grand scheme of things.
If pets didn’t matter we wouldn’t have them around. I get that they are important to most people and sometimes think about getting into that lifestyle. I just don’t have any direct experience with it and probably don’t need the complication it would add for a family that likes traveling a lot.
ok
Pets actually don’t matter to some people, other than being like a designer purse or something. Having a fancy expensive breed for Instagram likes or something. Vacuous douchebags. Not that some of them don’t develop real affection for their designer accessory animal, or at least a facsimile of what they think a non-pathological person would feel.
He was my furry pal. I loved him for all of his short life. Is that not enough? Some people are fucking cruel.
So sorry Festus.
“In the Grand scheme of things, I did have throat cancer but my cat didn’t die!” Satisfied? Go fuck yourself, Tej.
I think you’re misreading Tejicano. He’s saying your cat was important.
You’re probably right and I’m a little too emotional right now. I withdraw my statement.
To Hayek – Did you settle on a name for your new companion yet?
+1 suggestion for naming him Javy. This is such a cat move.
If he was all white, and liked Elton John, “Honkey” would be appropriate.
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Sorry to read about your loss, Canuckian. While not a cat person, Ive been through half dozen doge over the years, and its never pleasant regardless of the circumstances.
It’s gonna happen twice more.
Id say plan for it now, but it’s pointless. Never any easier.
Buddy, Abby, Hannah, Maggie, Ginger (aka Stupid), Lucy, Ava….the ones I lost.
Then Jugsy lost her female boxer, and this current meathead is next in line.
You have my empathy & sympathy.
Thanks, Friend. I’m thinking about getting a parrot that will bury us all and teaching him to say “Father Time! Father Time!”
Fuck New Zealand.
Morning, Glibs!!
*raises cup of coffee*
Eating their own.
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The only way to pass the purity test is to be the one administering the purity test.
Is “nascent” under AFL-CIO ?
Probably SEUI or DC-37. They’re the 800-pound gorillas around here.
These are some of the same people who want to control every aspect of your life.
suh’ fam
yo what’s goody
Not much.
Good morning, homey! It’s a little on the cool side here at Tranquility Base, but I have socks & fuzzy slippers on my feet and my Maumee Bay State Park hoodie on my upper half, so I’ma try to tough it out. A bit less gray would be welcome, but I’ll take what I can get. And our Brave Little Whirligig is whirling away, sticking up from the ground-up remains of a stump at the back of the yard.
Yeah….I get home and Jugsy (being well-insulated) failed to turn the heat on here @ Chez Tres.
I seriously need to cut the grass, but according to FriedEggs, its going to be another couple days till things dry out.
Yeah, our neighbor across the street – the one who’s OCD about lawn care – will probably get a facial tic until TT can mow, but he can just suck it up.
In other nature news, it’s softening the blow of losing our front tulip poplar that the one in the back yard is now blooming profusely. Makes me feel better.
I had to operate the portable AC last week and this morning the heat comes on.
I don’t think it’s ever overlapped like that before. Normally when the sun cranks up it stays that way for the rest of the summer.
It started raining here yesterday afternoon and is supposed to be in the 50s until Monday.
Traffic was ridiculous yesterday. I took Dad to the train station and traffic was backed up halfway across the bridge over the Hudson.
Mornin all y’all.
Good morning, Sean! Thanks again for your generosity to my friend. And I saw how you ID’d yourself! 😉
Helping people is its own reward or something.
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