Of all the misplaced outrage I encounter online, the anger at wealthy people (usually libtards) who complain about issues that effect poor people is the most perplexing. “Fuck him for expressing concerns about injustices that he never faced”, is a really shitty take.
Why do musicians put Persian rugs on stages and in studios when they play or record, I imagine they help with sound dampening of some sort, but why Persian rugs? and they are always the same style Persian rug as well.
Freedom of association is just as important as freedom of speech.
I always mention The Beach Boys when the topic of horrible, horrible music comes up, but The Grateful Dead are even worse. Luckily I so rarely hear any Dead music that I forget how bad they are.
White, Christian, Male, Rednecks whinging about being the only group that still gets made fun of and no one whinges about it, is in fact whinging about it.
Most people don’t swap tiles as often as they should when playing Scrabble.
I like it when an author has one of his characters reading another author’s book in the story. it’s similar to discovering ‘new’ music when a musician you like does a cover song of an artist you’ve never heard of.
The only problem I have with Twitter is when you reach the end of a thread and there’s a warning that the rest of the replies might be offensive so you have to click a special box to see them….and then there is nothing offensive about any of the comments.
There is no way to explain what it means to say about someone that “at least he loves America” without either begging the question or relying on circular reasoning or ‘no true-Scotsmaning-ing’, It’s the epitome of empty platitudes.
Luck is simply being on the right side of probability more often than not.
Calling an artist, musician, writer, actress or anyone else in a field where the valuation of ones work is completely subjective, either overrated or underrated is as meaningless as the “he loves America” thing.
Giardiniera vegetables ranked – 1. Cauliflower, 2. Carrots, 3. Pepperoncini, 4. Red Peppers, 5-X. Any other veggie, X. Celery.
LIEZ!
I have to do something while the article loads.
The only problem I have with Twitter
If that’s your only problem with Twitter, you need . . . oh, its The Hyperbole. Never mind.
You’re wrong, except about celery. Celery can go die in a fire.
So, you’re a fan of roast celery?
I can tolerate it in dressing, but I need lots of gravy.
I concur, that ranking was inverse order, except for celery.
Celery seed? celery tonic?
Celery is very rare in Romania. Celeriac root and leaves are used most often.
Now I want celery stuffed with peanut butter – or dipped in just about any dairy-based dippable substance. Extra points if cream cheese is involved.
I’m a fan of this product.
Better idea, just eat a spoonful of peanut butter.
That’s an awful idea. The textural and temperature contrast is the key to that snack.
Peanut butter cannot save celery. If you are trying to be healthy, put it on an apple. If you just want texture, use a graham cracker.
Save?
Celery doesn’t need saving, if anything it’s improving the peanut butter, which is just really heavy on its own.
Celery improves peanut butter, now that’s a take.
You misspelled “the truth”.
Cream of celery soup saves it IMO, or any way that kills the stringiness.
Celery is fine in soup when it has been cooked to death.
The only acceptable use of cream of celery soup is to put two grouse breasts in a big crock pot, pour the soup over them, and leave to cook all day.
Celery is essential in tuna salad but yeah you have to chop it up
Crunchy.
But if you can chew it, a great source of iron!
So are metal shavings.
oh, look who’s got the money for pre-shredded spoons.
I do that, too.
Please don’t judge me too harshly.
Instead peanut butter, I think it should be called nut frosting.
I like the way you think.
I’d also like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Nut frosting sounds a little gay.
Especially if it’s dribbling down you chin.
Celery is also, along with onion and green bell pepper, part of the “holy trinity” of Cajun cooking.
I like chopped celery, chopped apples, and a little blue cheese; tossed with a simple vinaigrette.
That sounds yummy! ?
I thought that was just for giardinera, in which case he’s right. Celery shouldn’t be in it.
I don’t dislike celery as a rule, but the pieces they use in giardiniera (at least the brands I’ve tried) are tough nasty little things. Maybe the brine shrinks them, but I suspect they just use the end bits and pieces that aren’t good enough to sell as stalks.
Celery is good and should be celebrated. https://www.tastecooking.com/celery-was-the-avocado-toast-of-the-victorian-era/
Thanks, Tulip.
For a couple of moments there, I was worried celery was going to cause a civil war in the Glibnation.
Also, I like a bit of celery seed in my beef rubs.
The celery seeds in this coleslaw recipe add a nice bit of flavor.
Celery can go die in a fire.
Personally, I would amend it to celery can go drown in a soup. I find it a perfectly acceptable addition to many soups. On it’s own, I don’t much care for it.
My wife concurs. She hates celery with a passion. Just mentioning celery causes her jump right past eye-rolling and into raised blood pressure, borderline anger territory. She refuses to show me on the doll where the celery touched her.
I’m a super-taster and textures get me more than smell or taste. However, celery also hits my awful-smells button and I have a touchy gag reflex, so…yeah.
I’m mostly anti-celery, but there’s a spicy stir-fry with chicken and celery cut thin, on the bias, that I really like.
Celery, at its best, is good. Crunchy, juicy and slightly sweet. Celery, on average, is not good. Chewy, bitter, squishy, and dried out.
Celery, at its best, is good. … Celery, on average, is not good.
This is my opinion on bananas. For some foods, it seems, the average just ain’t good, even if the best representation of it can be considered great.
Y’all are strange.
I like celery.
There are two uses of celery:
1. In dressing on Thanksgiving, but even then it has to be cut small and sautéed until you just have vaguely celery flavored butter.
2. As a support when cooking a roast to keep it from directly contacting the pot while it is slowly cooking. It is discarded before serving.
Celery’s purpose is to be with hot wings for a bite or two midway.
Or flavoring in soup.
I don’t. I read a series where one of the characters ends up acquiring a bookstore at one point, and from that point on the number of literary references to works I don’t give a damn about just started getting in the way. It makes me think the author would rather just be reading something else instead of writing his own work.
I see that in the same vein as pop culture references in TV shows – it’s usually a substitute for actual wit.
It also makes the work dated very quickly.
Is the format, the user base, the company, the administration, the news sites who make articles just quoting twits…
Who, me?
/not-the-bee
//gripe
what the hell is Giardiniera ? Sounds like an STD
Or a medication to treat one.
Nah, disease from polluted water.
It’s the pickled vegetables you put on a hot italian beef.
hot italian beef. – sounds gay
Wait until you let it dribble down your chin.
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Yeah, it had me going.
Japanese pop duo.
GARNiDELiA – Grilletto
Calling an artist, musician, writer, actress or anyone else in a field where the valuation of ones work is completely subjective, either overrated or underrated is as meaningless as the “he loves America” thing. – I would not call those things completely subjective, though highly subjective sure.
I sort of agree. There is technical prowess and storytelling ability. These two are on highly variable axes, but the technically proficient who is not a good storyteller will lose to the good storyteller who might not be technically a good writer. But there’s a reader for every writer no matter what. The trick is to find that reader.
These two are on highly variable axes, but the technically proficient who is not a good storyteller will lose to the good storyteller who might not be technically a good write – sure… Asimov was not necessarily a good writer imo, to take on the legends of SF. Still… And while not knowing how to play instruments can still make “music” meh…
But anyway overrated is also subjective. I always hear it as overrated in my view. Someone once said “The four most overrated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics.” and many would not agree
champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics
That’s only three things.
‘He met Mandela, a demi-god and a dildo collector’
Anal Sex Picinic opened Lalapalooza in ’05, right?
We can map the poem on two axis, one is its structure, the other importance. the area formed by the rectangle gives you the total value of the poem.
Not exact, paraphrasing from memory. It has been a long time
Most people don’t swap tiles as often as they should when playing Scrabble.
You must lose a lot at Scrabble.
Because if you swap, you’re probably gonna lose.
I got Mxyzptlk on a triple word score, but lost cause proper nouns are not allowed.
So then you got your opponent to branch off Kltpzyxm and they disappeared back into the 5th Dimension?
What, is it the Age of Aquarius again already? I’d say it’s time to be Workin’ On A Groovy Thing, but I’d rather go Up, Up and Away in my beautiful balloon.
One less bell to answer
Never my love
+1 Bacharach & David
In a story that’s actually true, I once chose to lose a game because the only word I could have played was ‘Yaoi’, and I didn’t want to have to explain to my opponant what it was and that I had learned the word as something to avoid when browsing user-generated content online.
But would it really count anyway? It’s a Japanese word.
“Oh, it’s a genre of Japanese comic books.”
I don’t know the rules on loanwords, or whether it was sufficiently in use to count.
I probably would have lost even if I’d played the word.
How many times did you learn that, Mr. Eichenwald?
Who knew UCS swung that way. In that case does BL count as an abbreviation?
*sigh* I don’t.
I remember words. And negative reinforcement makes an impression.
Mojeaux and I had this conversation before.
I was really surprised that most BL love readers are heterosexual women.
And writers.
I don’t get the attraction.
It took me a while to remember who you were referencing.
What would you have done if the word you could have played was “Yuri?”
That would run into an argument with the identically spelled russian name that’s more commonly known.
All sorts of valid words share their spellings with a given name, such as TED, SALLY, VERONICA, PETER, and on and on.
That originally only meant lilly – as in the flower. So you could put it under the “foreign words” rule.
Also recommended – YuruYuri
It’s not in the TWL (Tournament Word List), so it should have been challenged and taken off the board.
Then again, I’ve been watching old episodes of Countdown and getting caught out by words that are in the TWL but not in whichever desktop version of the Oxford Dictionary the show uses.
The Limeys use the Collins Word List.
I’m assuming UCS wasn’t playing in the UK or anywhere else that uses that list.
And I went to the Collins online verifier to check YAOI and YURI mentioned above. Neither one is valid.
TRAVOISE and PSOATIC are both legal in TWL and CSW, but not in Coundown.
1,126 wins – 208 losses – 4 ties, And I swap anytime I can’t score 20 or more points, or pay at least 5 low value tiles from my rack, or for the occasional defensive play if it’s a close game.
Granted I’m playing idiots on a phone app but I refuse all games from anyone with a word score ranking under 20 to try and make it competitive.
Ok, you can’t call other people nerds anymore. Because you know how many wins, losses and ties you have.
Nerd.
The app keeps track.
And because you have played more than 1000 games.
Nerd.
I used to play with a group of extremely good players on the expanded board. When we got done it would be packed in like a crossword. 20 points is about right for a minimum, but if you had to draw letters, you were toast.
It should be like chess.com and only* match you against closely ranked people, so your won-loss record will always be in vicinity of 50/50.
I am 293-265-27 on chess.com. 1129 ELO at the moment. I was at my all time high of 1146, but lost my last two matches.
This is more for when checking out property before buying. If I only have my Verizon Android on me, is there a fairly cheap device (or app) that I can carry with me to check if there are other services within range?
https://www.cellmapper.net/
It is crowdsourced but tweak and play around to see what coverage different services in an area
Thanks. I’ll have to mess around with that one.
Why does Revolut want me to input my tax info? fuck that
Agreed on the Beach boys, whinging?
Sorry to whine about it,
I think what they are whinging about is that nobody Who Matters seems to mind. Its the last acceptable overt prejudice.
But whinging isnt a word, its whining,
Eh, if you’re English it is.
Im American, I whine,
I’m with Yusef; I’m sick of people using “whinging,” “whilst,” and other cutesy loan words from the British.
So, you’ll be switching to a different language?
Words can slightly differ between dialects, who knew?
+1 soda v pop
It’s the affectation of the dialect by the speaker/writer that bugs me.
Cultural appropriation, if you will.
Oh, and don’t get me started on “Boffins.” That’s offensive even when spoken by a native British speaker.
The best part of the Daily Mail are the headlines about moggie boffins.
I’m not a fan of “whinge” and “whilst” myself.
I find them innately irritating, yet I can’t figure out why.
I didn’t mean to but I always forget which way is the correct American way whine or whinge , but I was In a hurry and couldn’t be arsed to check.
What you did there, it was seen by me.
I like “can’t be arsed” or CBA. No vulgar Yank equivalent that I know of.
That’s a load of bollocks.
Wanker!
Calm down and have a fag!
I didn’t mean to but I always forget which way is the correct American way whine or whinge
You must either watch a lot of British TV or read a lot of British writing without watching any TV. Unlike a lot of British vs American spellings, these two words, while they mean the same, are pronounced differently. I never hear any Americans in daily life or on TV say “whinge”.
I’m not seeing why complaining about judging a group of people based on immutable characteristics is something we shouldn’t be doing.
Wait, we can’t hate on the Dutch anymore?
Freedom of association is just as important as freedom of speech. – NO IRISH
*breaks empty booze bottle over pie’s head*
WhaddahaveagainsIrishmen?
Of all the misplaced outrage I encounter online, the anger at wealthy people (usually libtards) who complain about issues that effect poor people – affect surely. What is the deal with Americans and affect/effect
“Fuck him for expressing concerns about injustices that he never faced” – To Be Faaaaaair… it is mostly empty virtue signaling.
I don’t know how to effect change in them, Pie, what with their sluggish affects.
I’ve no issues with such people claiming to have identified an issue affecting low income people. My issue is that after that they offer solutions that usually involve removing money from my pocket.
It’s their solutions and absolute tone-deafness about what it means to be low-income that is offensive. Poverty is expensive.
Also all the rules that require to prevent anarchy usually trip up low income people.
For lower income folk those rules have a much higher percentage chance of putting them behind bars for non-violent offences.
It’s their solutions and absolute tone-deafness about what it means to be low-income that is offensive. Poverty is expensive.
^^ this. I’d add that grouping all poverty into one bucket (not pointing this finger at you, Mo) is an instant clue that the person is clueless about poverty. Somebody bankrupted by cancer has almost nothing financially in common with a meth head who spends all the child support on more meth.
And which do nothing to address the issue they are claiming to care about, and in fact usually make it worse.
See also: crime, and I’m sure there are others.
And which do nothing to address the issue they are claiming to care about, and in fact usually make it worse.
This. So many “solutions” either create inflation, make it harder to hire people, or encourage bad behavior.
Exactly. It’s not anger at wealthy people complaining about issues that affect poor people, it’s that the wealthy, or libtards if you prefer, always seem to propose the same solution to the legitimate issues they may have identified. Most often said solutions make the problem worse, if in fact they are not a major cause of the identified problem. Almost as if an excuse to enact the solutions is the true motivation of the complaint/concern (see e.g. ‘climate change’, ‘never let a good crisis go to waste’), rather than truly being concerned. And if it’s true concern and a desire to improve the world, if you’re going to berate everyone else for not being as enlightened and virtuous, you have an obligation to have something more than a 0th level understanding of the problem before you rush off to enforce your vision on everyone else.
PS – I like this approach to an article. There’s often 1 or 2 sentence observations that can’t really be expanded into a full article (or at least without more effort than I’m able to invest at a given time!); Any objections (from THE Hyperbole or TPTB) to stealing this schtick in the future?
Hype wasn’t the first to do it and won’t be the last.
None from me, the first Random Thought™ in the first one of these was telling people to do just that.
It’s performative.
If they actually gave a shit, they would volunteer at a soup kitchen.
There’s nothing almost about it. Control is their primary objective. If some problem happens to get solved, well, it’s time to move the goalposts.
This
but The Grateful Dead are even worse.
Get the fuck out of my cab!
I like the Grateful Dead, but I dislike the Deadheads.
Me too. Bunch of smelly granola eating hippies.
I have a thing for hippy chicks with loose morals, but I can’t stand the smell of patchouli.
I’m going to guess you could drop “hippy” from that sentence.
I like the Dead’s Americana.
I’m one of Jerry’s Kids.
I agree with you on the Grateful Dead. There were a group of deadheads in high school. And when I was in college, I knew some, and when “Jerry died” their world was torn asunder. Their music was just so damn boring. I know you had to be high to appreciate it, but if you were that high, you’d probably find birds chirping to be entertaining.
I wasn’t at their last concert, but it was in Chicago, and Pearl Jam played the same venue and used their stage, and I was at that concert. So that should count for something.
I went to my one Grateful Dead show in April 1995. Friend of mine asked if I wanted to go (his wife worked for a record company in Nashville, and got free tickets), and I decided that I should see them before the were the Actual Dead. Indoor concert too.
When I went for my first security clearance, they asked me if I ever smoked pot. I joked that I did go to an indoor Dead concert and I did breathe at least once or twice during the show. Turns out that the investigators really don’t have much of a sense of humor.
Interesting choice of tags. Vegan School?
Prager U went to self-hosting their videos a couple of years ago because Youtube was censoring them.
Now it appears the company that they license their video player from has decided they’re unacceptable too and is pulling their contract.
Pretty soon conservatives will have to build their own motherboards and operating systems in order to distribute digital media.
Last episode aggregated seems to be from May 11.
OFFS.
I would almost respect these types if they just openly admitted they will only support lefty propaganda.
But that would be fair play.
Why is this even a thing? Modern browers will play most
newish video codecs and containers just fine. I have
several hundred videos on my server that I don’t have
a “player” for, I just ship it to the browser via a video
tag and let the browser worry about it. Javascript
and CSS work fine with it. I’m not even a web guy, and
it was easy to set up.
If anyone from Prager is listening, I am available
for consulting deals. First order of business will be terminating
the IT staff that put you in this position in the first place.
Lots of website uses those – probably for DRM or tracking or some other “features”.
Some of it probably has to do with bandwidth and distribution. Just “put a video on a server” and enough people start to watch, and your bandwidth gets saturated, or people from farther away topologically have crappy performance. If you can’t get a commercial CDN to host…that makes it a lot more work to set up and manage.
This.
Bandwidth also costs money, which has hurt some websites. Going through a commercial CDN spreads that cost out a bit.
Also, server side scaling (storage, serving up the videos, probably some other stuff) is a concern, not just performance through the network. Commercial CDNs take care of that for you.
https://www.rt.com/usa/524092-pentagon-secret-undercover-army/
*Eyes everyone suspiciously*
Nothing to see here, move along.
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From Newsweek
While I’m not surprised, I’m becoming more and more motivated to GTFO of this country. The government is gearing up more and more for war on its citizens and this program is ideally suited for doing just that.
Sounds like the notes for Saturday’s Scott Horton with Jim Bovard (haven’t listened yet).
+1 Capital Hill security zone
Nuts HVAC dude just told me that the unit under the house has a freon leak and is a lot lower pressure than it should be – but main outside unit is still solid. Might still be under manufacturer’s warranty…but at least I did sign up for the AHS.
We saw a rust spot underneath it last year before I bought it, but inspection didn’t turn up anything (or the diagnostics check that the seller paid for based on our inspection).
Guy recommends probably letting it run until it dies (I’ll wait for report from company) – haven’t been using it much the last few weeks since I set it to cool (75 deg), but we’ll see over the next few weeks.
going into the office now to make up 4 hours, so I can’t reply to any more posts until I get home.
Ugh, having to Do Stuff. Hate when that happens. Stuff sucks.
If it has the old type of freon, it could likely cost more to refill than it would to replace.
I had this happen recently.
I pulled the trigger on a geo-thermal set-up, since I have enough property to make it work.
I got 30% back as a tax credit to ease some of the pain.
Are any of the modern refrigerants as good as the banned ones?
If they weren’t used before, the answer is usually no on some metric. Otherwise they would in use already.
“Most people don’t swap tiles as often as they should when playing Scrabble.”
Kinky.
Right foot to Q on the Triple Word Score
Scrabble is the celery of board games. Right down there with Monopoly.
Besides all right thinking people play cards instead of board games.
Sorry and Aggrevation are acceptable board games.
Ugh, Monopoly. I know two people who have got angry enough to throw the game board across the room. I’ll bet every one of you has seen that happen at least once.
I’ve never seen the board hurled, but when I was a kid, my two older sisters, a neighborhood friend, and I would play marathon Monopoly games during summer vacation. On at least one occasion, we left the board out overnight midgame and awoke to find that a feline Godzilla had wrought havoc upon Atlantic City as we slept.
Good times.
My family is a bunch of card sharks who have been known to throw cards in anger.
I like playing cards, but learned to have a take/leave it approach. My father’s family is especially bad about cards. After every round, play is critiqued and gone over.
My kids are just as bad. Not uncommon to see the winner of a round gloating from a face that is still tear stained from the previous round’s loss.
I prefer Backgammon IRL. Scrabble’s just my time killing go to phone app.
The best 2 handed card game yet invented is cribbage. Unfortunately I seldom run across people that know how to play it.
We’re old, CTC. I learned at bout 6-7, so my folks always had a 4th if necessary. Was sitting in adult games by about 9. I credit cribbage to my early math skills.
I will forevermore picture & hear The Hype as Andy Rooney.
I won’t.
AFAIK, these tags are not generally tweet specific but rather author specific. You’re getting to do extra work to read inoffensive tweets from someone twitter has tagged (or sometimes the author themselves has tagged) as a frequently offensive person.
Does Twitter have an upvoting functionality to counteract the “offensive” tag?
I’m not sure how the Twitter tagging a user as offensive works. I just suspect that this is what is happening, because in the Twitter user options the user has the option to set their own tweets to be “offensive”, so I figured Twitter sets this for people who get reported but who they don’t ban. Or it is possible that all these users with inoffensive tweets marked as offensive are just jokers who thought it would be funny to self-tag themselves as offensive.
On the “I’m an idiot” front, I climbed on a chair to get something in my office last night and the chair fell out from under me. It hurt a lot and knocked the wind out of me. But, the real pain came after I went to sleep. It was bad enough that the wife called an ambulance. They basically told us there was no point in going to the emergency room and I should go to urgent care in the morning.
Fortunately nothing is broken. Just a lot of pain that I’m going to have to muddle through. And sleeping in a chair in my living room with a CPAP. I hate getting old. But, the alternatives suck a lot more.
Aw, which part of yourself did you land on?
Mo, sorry to hear about your friend’s ex. Terrible.
Thanks, but…actually not terrible. He was a terror to her and their kids, so they have been relieved of that abusive prick.
The only reason she called for a wellness check was because she knew he had animals that were chained up and needed care.
Well, sorry for the wee beasties then.
I think the back and side. Just shy of the shoulder blade. I was worried about broken ribs.
Hey, that’s rough. You’re going to be sore for a long time, but you did not break anything. That’s the most important thing.
You have all the compassion I can muster. Getting hurt doing the same thing you have done dozens of times before.
Rest and start stretching, be glad nothing was broken.
When I really feel story for myself one of the ads for vets or the kids in the Shriner’s Hospital comes on TV and makes me feel guilty.
Get well quickly, and don’t use a chair when the 6 ft aluminum ladder is in the garage.
The good news, if there is any, is that ribs are incredibly painful but heal faster than almost anything.
Feel better, dude.
Sorry, I hope you heal up quickly.
Dishonest strawman? Must be the Hyperbole.
I’m confused by this one. Isn’t this just stating the definition of luck? I guess it fits in the category of random thoughts, because every thought fits said category, but all the other thoughts had some sort of point to them or made some sort of statement. You may be making the statement that there are no other forces besides probability involved in luck, but if there were other forces involved it would still manifest the same as you have defined it (i.e. if you were blessed by the gods or your charm worked you would find yourself “simply being on the right side of probability more often than not”). If you did want to make that statement, I would suggest refining your definition to something like “Good luck is simply the probability outcome of being on the right side of probability more often than not”.
It’s a callback to a conversation a few days ago about luck, what it means, what it really might be, and if it even exists.
That makes sense. Thanks for the info.
I didn’t put that much thought into it. Or any of the others to be honest.
“The only problem I have with Twitter is when you reach the end of a thread and there’s a warning that the rest of the replies might be offensive so you have to click a special box to see them….and then there is nothing offensive about any of the comments.”
I’m usually relegated to that section probably. According to shadowban.eu it’s because Twitter thinks I could be harmful. I don’t issue threats. I don’t curse. I don’t engage in name calling. But I’ve criticized certain protected people (cough, Hillary, cough, Biden, cough) and stated that the vaccines are a new technology so we don’t really know the long term effects on people. I wear it as a badge of honor.
White, Christian, Male, Rednecks whinging about being the only group that still gets made fun of and no one whinges about it, is in fact whinging about it.
I think “and no one whinges about it” is supposed to be a way of saying its considered socially acceptable in this case. And that much is actually true. Although I’d suggest that there are a lot of other groups of white males (Italians, Polish, etc.) its considered socially acceptable to make fun of. I think the issue is raised to point out the moral vacuousness of the perpetually offended. If you’re saying it’s wrong to engage in slurs, except for those guys and those guys over there, you’re really not saying it’s wrong to engage in slurs. You’re just rooting for a particular team.
Slurs and insults (the old Sticks and Stones from our childhood) are often used in humorous attempts. I’m glad we learned to fend those off as youngsters. Just had to get a bigger and more offensive vocabulary in our repertoire and move on.
Every ethnic/dirty joke always has the fall guy, we just laughed at ourselves and never took it on a personal level.
The most inveterate tellers of Norwegian jokes are Norwegians. They love telling jokes on themselves. Of course when they want to tell a really mean and nasty joke, it is about the Swedes.
Q: You know what a hippie says when he runs out of pot?
A: “Dude, this band sucks!”
I don’t get the Beach Boys hate.
Grateful Dead… yeah, I get that.
Same.
Wendy.
Because their music is frothy, light, and ultimately devoid of any insight or surprise.
Heh.
Pet Sounds is still far more interesting than the car songs.
Or this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx6dgEgbMNU
…but why Persian rugs?
Persian rugs are comfortable and incredibly durable. I have one that is more than 20 years old, a veteran of many kids, dogs and people. Still looks new. Were I a musician wanting to perform barefoot, it would be my first choice as well.
Most people don’t swap tiles as often as they should when playing Scrabble.
Yes.
I love ’em. Quite popular in the South too.
Biden is on TV. He really is either stupid or his speech writers are right out of the squad. Economics apparently isn’t taught or learned these days.
Also, a lot of what he is saying is just plain untrue.
Either?
Will wait for a transcript.
There is a piece in the WSJ – Yellen wants businesses to support higher taxes, stronger unions, increased foreign competition, and a global minimum business tax to stop companies from moving to lower tax countries. Other than that…
I saw that, Yellen is in the same group. Why she was recycled I’ll never know.
Is it intelligible enough to determine its veracity?
A lot of the phoniness is the delivery. The inflection at the wrong times, etc
“Look, ”
It’ll be interesting to see the major network s’ interpretations .
At least the ones who haven’t closed up their fact checking departments due to Joe’s honesty.
“Or?”
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2021/05/14/trainees-not-getting-rifles-at-fort-jackson-after-one-hijacked-a-school-bus/
I didn’t even realize trainees kept their weapons with them now, versus just drawing them from the arms room as need. An actual improvement. Well, until now.
When I was in boot camp we put our rifles in a rack in the squad bay and secured them with a cable lock. But other than sleeping and cleaning the squad bay, you pretty much carried your weapon everywhere with you as a boot.
The only time we got close to ammo though was when we were at the range and I pretty much remember them being super tight about accounting for every round.
I’m interested to know if the recruit who hijacked the bus had a magazine in his rifle or not. I doubt it. Which means that our youth are horribly ignorant of firearms. If someone had tried to hijack a bus with my buddies and I with a rifle missing a magazine I think we would have realized it was a bluff.
and proceeded to beat the living shit out of the guy.
No, no magazine but this isn’t a HiPower as many a ND into the clearing barrel have discovered.
https://youtu.be/j68OwILte3c
“You sure about that?” x2:
https://www.10news.com/news/national/climate-change-is-forcing-americans-to-relocate
https://www.kusi.com/carl-demaio-calls-on-san-diego-county-to-take-down-billboards-presenting-unsubstantiated-racism-claims
The only climate causing people to move is a political climate.
Climate change is forcing Americans to relocate from states that want to stop climate change to states that don’t. Because Gaia wants the climate to change, so rewards those who contribute to the effort.
I feel sorry for all of those rich liberals moving out of their beach front properties.
I believe most of the relocation is from cooler to warmer climates.
Which is exactly what you would expect from global warming, right?
The Bee just delivers, day after day after day. Kids Demand In-Person Learning So They Won’t Have To Keep Explaining Math To Their Parents
Have you ever noticed that no matter how clever your except is no one seems to read it, why is that?
Why is it that I thought of this Beavis and Butthead clip when I read this?
LOL! Funk dat!
Re: “at least he loves America.”
“My shoes are gone; my clothes are almost gone. I’m weary, I’m sick, I’m hungry. My family have all been killed or scattered… And I have suffered all this for my country. I love my country. But if this war is ever over I’ll be damned if I ever love another country.”
Unknown confederate soldier during the retreat to Appomattox.
https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2021/05/18/some-voting-machines-in-fayette-co-not-accepting-ballots/
Shenanigans continue.
Ha hah hah ha ha, this is fine.
Now you’ve gone and pissed of JI.
You’ve got no proof of that!
Uh-oh.
I’m still hopeful I will have joy tomorrow as Wolf loses.
Yes, I am not very smart.
Shit, I’m the dummy who went and voted this morning, expecting it to matter.
You may have attempted to vote. It’s still unclear whether you will be successful or not.
Oh, I’ve been to Fayette County.
I’m not surprised it’s just Republican ballots.
A friend of mine grew up outside Uniontown. His parents used to say, “I think we’re the only two Republicans in the county.”
https://welovetrump.com/2021/05/18/cdc-director-admits-223-vaccinated-people-died-with-covid-19/
OFFS.
Now they start splitting hairs.
Not all of those 223 cases who had covid actually died of covid.
???
Now do the last 14 months.
“The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never play it the same way twice!”
Love you The Hyperbole, I really do. But with all due respect these are probably the worst Moar Random Thoughts I’ve ever come across frim anyone.
Uhh, OK, nice attempt at being a shock jock. One of the top 5 most influential, innovative and talented bands of the past 70 years is “horrible, horrible music”. Sorry everything can’t be U2 and Sum 41 for you.
If that’s the ONLY problem you have with Twitter, you’re Libertarianing wrong.
See: one of the greatest bands in history, Beach Boys, above.
Holy shit I won’t even throw out an insult here, just correct your wrongthink:
Giardiniera vegetables ranked – 1. Pepperoncini, 2. Red Peppers, 3. Celery, 4. Red Peppers, 5-X. Any other vegetable (“veggie” isn’t a word that exists in the English language), -48,212 or whatever the lowest ranking it can get is: Carrots.
And yes, red pepper appears twice. I like red pepper.