Sexy Beasts is a new dating show where real-life singles sport elaborate makeup and prosthetics to put true blind-date chemistry to the test. pic.twitter.com/ES7pkvWTOM
— Netflix (@netflix) June 23, 2021
“Your skin is so rubbery.”
“It’s the prosthetics. Hold on, it takes a while to get it all off.”
“No, wait. I like it.”
“You, uh, I…”
“Get your blowhole ready… I’m going in dry.”
Poe’s Law: Masterclass Edition
The Class-Conscious Reboots Hollywood Should Make After Gossip Girl
Why does the girl on the left have on a costume from a C+C Music Factory video?
Gossip Girl is coming to HBO Max, with a new season from the show’s original creators that’s half reboot, half sequel. The new Gossip Girl is still about the trials and tribulations of a group of extremely wealthy Manhattan high schoolers (plus one fish out of water), but this time, it’s a different group of extremely wealthy Manhattan high schoolers. A few other things have changed, too. “These kids wrestle with their privilege in a way that I think the original didn’t,” co-showrunner Josh Safran told Variety. “In light of [Black Lives Matter], in light of a lot of things, even going back to Occupy Wall Street, things have shifted.”
Safran went on to say that the original Gossip Girl leaned too hard on “wealth porn,” which he described as “Look at these cars, or here’s a montage of the best plated food you’ve ever seen,” suggesting that the new Gossip Girl will rely less on that kind of aspirational vision of extreme wealth.
Specifically, this music video. I’m not saying this is the worst song of the 90s, but it’s dumber than “Ironic” by Alanis Morrisette, and that’s saying something, brother.
[I cannot recommend watching this video. -Ed.]
Jung Chan-sung (Korean: 정찬성; born March 17, 1987, anglicized as Chan Sung Jung) is a South Korean professional mixed martial artist and kickboxer. He currently competes in the Featherweight division for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). A professional competitor since 2007, Jung has also formerly competed for the WEC, Pancrase, World Victory Road, and DEEP. His nickname, “The Korean Zombie” comes from his zombie-like ability to continue to move forward and fight aggressively, even after taking heavy blows.
The Korean Zombie…
When he bites you, you turn into a Korean.
If he bites a Korean, they become a double Korean.
And from there the world.
Crankin’ The Hog: The World Tour
For the chance to travel around the US and internationally, with expenses paid for, men are meeting the sperm donor demand that has spiked during the pandemic. As women are fed up with sperm banks that charge an arm and a leg — upwards of $800 per nitrogen tank — they are going to the internet to find their baby’s daddy. Using Facebook groups, women post what they are looking for and men around the US are raising their hand to, artificially or naturally, inseminate these women.
Just think about the business write-offs…
Man’s throat slit, woman choked and 48 charged at ‘Redneck Rave’ in Kentucky
A “Redneck Rave” in Kentucky got rowdy, with reports of a man’s throat slit, a woman choked in a fight over a blanket and a man impaled on a branch.
Forty-eight people were charged, 14 arrested and others were injured in a list bizarre accidents at a five-day festival in Mammoth Cave billed as “the biggest country event you’ll ever go to,” according to WNKY.
In one of the strangest incidents of the music-themed Rave was a man whose throat was slit by a “friend,” The Lexington Herald-Leader reported on Tuesday. The questionable pal is still at large, the report said.
Edmonson County sheriff’s deputies arrested a 29-year-old man for strangling a woman in an argument over a blanket, the paper reported. The man denied doing it, but the woman’s neck showed signs of fingerprints and pressure, according to the report.
Accidents included a man who drove a vehicle over a 2- or 3-inch thick “log” and ended up with it piercing his abdomen.
“When it tried to come out through his back it was stopped by a steel plate in his seat,” Edmonson County Sheriff Shane Doyle told the Herald-Leader. The man was transported to the hospital with the branch still inside him.
Another man lost part of a finger when a car crushed hand [sic].
Hard Times on Talcum X Boulevard
Samira Rice (Tamir Rice’s mother) responding to Shaun King’s article he wrote about their conversation https://t.co/P5rRazO5Us pic.twitter.com/vXXzbqEt3y
— Fiona Applebum says Block Shaun King ? (@WrittenByHanna) June 23, 2021
Bang, bang
Late-breaking…
Antivirus software pioneer John McAfee dead after prison suicide
Antivirus software tycoon John McAfee died by an apparent suicide in a Spanish jail cell Wednesday evening — hours after reports surfaced that he would be extradited to face federal charges in the US, according to local media.The eccentric tech entrepreneur was arrested in October and was awaiting extradition when he was found dead, police sources told the newspaper El Pais.
The newspaper reported McAfee was pulled from his cell in Barcelona and police are investigating the circumstances around his death.
“Everything points to suicide,” the newspaper reported, citing justice department officials in the country. A second Spanish newspaper, El Mundo, also reported McAfee had died by an apparent suicide in the jail.
Hillary claims another.
“Everything points to suicide,”
When everything points to a preferred conclusion, I would question it all.
McAfee will live on in rootkits everywhere.
Well you knew he was protected against the coronavirus…
And whale STDs
?
I swear I wrote that hours before the McAfee news broke. I am but a conduit.
I am but a conduit.
Your blowhole is always ready?
RIP
Regardless the cause, flags should be at half-mast.
Take a screenshot of that as it is quickly going to disappear.
He has another from 2019
Getting subtle messages from U.S. officials saying, in effect: “We’re coming for you McAfee! We’re going to kill yourself”. I got a tattoo today just in case. If I suicide myself, I didn’t. I was whackd. Check my right arm.
So…
Stabbed himself in the back 29 times? Fell on some bullets? Cut his head off?
Meh, if a party ends without at least one throat being slit it probably wasn’t worth going to anyway.
I still distinctly remember one of the Hell’s Angels that worked for my father coming in and explaining that the cops might come for him because he slit some guy’s throat at a party over the weekend.
My father’s response was somewhere along the lines of “GTFO of here Scruffy” and “Why the fuck are you telling me this? I don’t want to know this!”
Hah, that’s fucking awesome.
Dad didn’t think so. The last thing he wanted was to be material witness in a case involving the Hell’s Angels.
3 incidents (which in the headline I saw treated each one as a plural) and 14 arrests (IIRC) – out of some 20,000 attendees. Yeah, HUGE crime problem there.
Well, they was rednecks, so probably not woke. Thus dangerous.
Kind of the way looney cosplayers sitting in Pelosi’s chair was an insurrection but BLM overrunning the state capitol Building of Oklahoma was noble, and BLM looting and pillaging stores is equity.
but it’s dumber than “Ironic” by Alanis Morrisette
You are uninvited.
Just perfect.
Dumber than “Ironic” and “Things that Make You Go Hmmm….”
Oh, yeah. A contender.
That brief but horrible moment producers thought they could crank the boy band down another 7 years in age. Criss-Cross, Lil’ Bow-Wow, others I’ve rinse from my mind.
They were just trying to re-capture the New Edition magic.
Which got us this scene for the ages (probably NSFW).
Which…is a great scene that should be on repeat for always.
It’s the sort of scene that warrants a “I’ll be in my bunk” even when I’m the one who linked it.
Or New Edition was just a retread of The Jackson 5.
Who wants to listen to children rapping or singing or doing anything but shutting up?
Or New Edition was just a retread of The Jackson 5.
True, but then I wouldn’t have an excuse to post that second link.
Who wants to listen to children rapping or singing or doing anything but shutting up?
I’m not anti-child but I pretty much agree with you. The precocious child trope drives me up the wall (looking at you, “Young Sheldon”).
This is why my life is where it’s at. It would never occur to me that something so fucking stupid would be successful.
Hey!
Big Hanson fan?
Mmm-Bop?
Needs more Old Skull! Rockabilly Girl signal lit.
“Just think about the business write-offs…”
Or being on the hook for child support.
A lot of this.
My thoughts exactly. It’s not even hypothetical. It has happened.
Spoiler alert: the man is always on the hook financially.
Sigh… so much for any optimism that the US isn’t culturally going down the toilet. Those links just weigh down my very soul. (So… “Mission accomplished, SF?”)
It was all dark today, man.
This had been coming for a while. The last couple of JoMala’s were pretty light and funny.
Just think… over 8 years ago we were joking about it.
To go back to such simple times.
Thanks Edit Fairy!
It’s what I get for posting while waiting for some responses to work e-mails before I log off for the week.
What kind of music did they play at this “Redneck Rave”?
An endless loop of Lynyrd Skynyrd B-sides.
And Molly Hatchet, don’t forget the Molly Hatchet
This is a great tune
Beatin’ our Rods!
Saw these guys in a bar in 1984? They were on the hard edge of washed up by then.
They’re still performing their three songs now (or at least some people who call themselves Molly Hatchet).
Deep cuts, no hits, man.
Not for nothing, but a guy I used to work with lives in Edmunson County, which is 10 miles across and about 10K people. Half the county is Mammoth Cave.
Everyone there is related to everyone else in some form or fashion.
That event tripled the size of that place.
If you have never been through Mammoth Cave, you owe it to yourself to fix that condition.
No Green Grass and High Tides?
I was expecting this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOYZaiDZ7BM
I suddenly feel a need to bathe.
I contemplated posting that but I have my limits, you monster.
At least it’s kind of techno.
Better version.
Kneel before PEACHES!
Not the Peaches I thought it was going to be. Mine is more…NSFW
Cotton Eyed Joe
I was looking for this link yesterday, but it finally showed up in my Daily Malarkey email.
https://twitter.com/spinte8/status/1407258675358715907
Bear witness to our thought leaders and what they have in mind for us.
Seriously, WTF?
Buy more ammunition.
Tempting.
I’d be happy if I could find some CCI Green Tags or 12 gauge AA trap loads.
I’ve shot a bunch of that stuff. It’s reliable and extremely hot, but the accuracy is only average. Still pretty good stuff.
And they wonder why folks are wary of their vaccines… Jesus, if anything would push me to “Bring it!”, trying to gene modify me or my family to fit how they think humanity should live would do it.
Bioethicist.
Of course he’s lactose intolerant; he’s a gook.
He and his ilk will find an armed (True) American behind every blade of grass.
Stupid or dishonest?
“Trump resided over the greatest crime rise in modern American history. The murder rate shot up 26%, and mass shootings spiked. Hate crimes spiked more than 20% during his presidency. Now I don’t want to lay the whole thing at his feet, but he did create four years normalizing crime. They consider themselves the law and order party, but all I see is more crime coming out of that administration where he seemed to let everybody off the hook. So I think it should be considered certainly in this discussion.”
Pay no attention to the Democrat controlled cities burning behind the curtain.
“Trump made us riot.”
They are fucking liars. Evil, dishonest people – the whole lot of them.
As always, why not both?
Are the crime stats for 2020 even available from anything close to a reputable source or is it speculation on preliminary numbers and then doing the normal dance of placing the blame on a political enemy.
From a quick search, it seems she is pulling it from Vox.
I don’t know if there is anything more recent, but this says violent crime overall went down in the first 6 months of 2020. The only one that went up close to 20% was arson (huh), with an increase of over 50% in large cities (huh, again). Murder/manslaughter was up over 14%.
Joy “Oh hell no Reid will not be the bigger asshole of the two of us” Behar?
Joy Behar? Embrace the power of AND.
“but he did create four years normalizing crime”
I’m going with dishonest on that one.
Lunatic retard with a superiority complex
Dem states and cities were busy decriminalizing illegal immigration, arson, vandalism, squatting, public indecency etc etc the whole time.
They also created whole new categories of crime such as not wearing a muzzle, being out after “curfew” (this should NOT be a thing), going to church and other gatherings, etc in 2020.
Joy should rename herself Miriam.
What a malignant hack she is, and most of the cackling hens with her on that dumpster fire of a show.
Don’t forget, at least some of the cities refused Trump’s offer of federal help, and tried to hamstring the federal officers that were present.
There is some truth to this. Crime committed by the FBI, DOJ, etc. was normalized, and a lot of people were let off the hook for #resistance crimes.
But I don’t think that’s what they meant.
Sisters of Mercy. Good choice after that group of links.
I got wrecked out here
In a Eldorado
I got wired, white-walled
This hot-wired sedan
I caught something weird in Encenada
I’ve a brother of sorts in Torquemada
Long distance information
Disconnect me if you can
Underrated album by Sisters of Mercy.
Some great driving music with lyrics like these.
Dr Jeep:
Everybody shouts on I Love Lucy
Pee Wee reads the evening news
A pre-owned song or a second-hand Uzi
Everybody got a job to lose
Here come the golden oldies
Here come the Hizbollah
Businessmen from South Miami
Humming AOR
Meanwhile…
I like Cal and his dog Napalm
I like Ike and his itty-bitty A-bomb
Everybody got one, I want mine
You can order it up on Channel Nine
Meanwhile, in the Sheraton,
Doctor Jeep plays on and on and on
There was a time but it’s long gone
Janie got a crush on the Viet Cong
Burning through downtown Saigon
Me, I’m sold – down the Mekong
even more underrated- The Sisters of Mercy cover…..Hot Chocolate
And covered by a different band…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adPIz1xIPIc
Ty Segall covers Hot Chocolate…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2_3gOKr_pg
A Sisters of Mercy cover.
My personal favorite.
Not real hep to Sisters of Mercy.
I loved the song, and I loved the video, but…the song and the video didn’t go together at all. Just me?
Jason Aldean says, “Shit, that ain’t nothin’.”
“The Korean Zombie” comes from his zombie-like ability to continue to move forward and fight aggressively, even after taking heavy blows.
Taking two of my absolutely least favorite anime genres and mashing them together:
Zombie Land Saga (series)
The dreaded plucky idol group, but this time they are all zombies. Surprisingly it works because it takes all the tropes of both and turns them up to 11.
You know who else could continue to move forward after taking heavy blows ?
STEVE SMITH MOVE HIKERS FORWARD WITH HEAVY BLOWS. AND BY HEAVY BLOWS, MEAN HEAVY RAPE, TO ANUS.
Johnnie Keyes?
Hunter Biden?
I had to put my mail on hold because otherwise I’d have a $50 box of plastic crack on the porch all weekend. I don’t know if any of my neighbors collect, but a plain brown box on the porch for days is just asking for theft. (Or rain)
*stares at Warhammer+ announcement*
*contemplates if unique Vindicare is worth $60 on its own*
Crankin’ The Hog: The World Tour
Judging by the face diapers in the video, they’re making “Idiocracy” reality.
In one of the strangest incidents of the music-themed Rave was a man whose throat was slit by a “friend,” The Lexington Herald-Leader reported on Tuesday. The questionable pal is still at large, the report said.
Some friend.
RIP McAfee.
Left out of the report was that his “enemy” was waiting to slice his cod…. the “friend” was just being nicer.
I like that Sugarfree posts links at a reasonable hour. PM links need to happen at or around 4pm so I can use them to not work so hard. Otherwise it’s a waste and I may as well leave work early and avoind the pm links altogether.
Are the links posted at different times on different days cause I am sure they are posted at the same time (or supposed to if someone doesn’t sleep in or is in jail) each and every day.
I’m not sure. My perception of time hasn’t been quite right since the total solar eclipse back in summer 2017.
My perception of time broke around the year 2000. I don’t think my brain was Y2K compliant.
So you think it is 1921? Here in about eight years or so, go short on everything.
If you keep tugging I am sure the answers will come to you.
“There are two big issues before Congress right now. There’s infrastructure, and there’s voting rights,” Toobin outlined. “Infrastructure is sort of the classic stuff of politics. How much do you spend on roads and bridges, how do you pay for it, and that should be the stuff of compromise. The voting rights is very different. This is life or death for the democracy. This is about whether the people are going to control their government, or the government is going to decide how the democracy works or doesn’t work. And I just think one of them is an existential crisis for the United States, and the other seems like it’s going to be worked out.”
I read that sentence several times but I can’t figure out what it means.
It means “Fuck you, we’re going to do what we want and you’re going to like it.”
It means the people who “fortified” an election are progjecting about electoral theft.
“Public Supports Both Early Voting And Requiring Photo ID to Vote
One-third remain convinced of 2020 election fraud
A large majority (71%) of the public feels in-person early voting should generally be made easier. Just 16% say it should be made harder. Opinion is more divided on voting by mail – 50% say this should be made easier and 39% say it should be made harder. At the same time, fully 4 in 5 Americans (80%) support requiring voters to show photo identification in order to cast a ballot. Just 18% oppose this.”
https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_us_062121/
If you go to the pdf, 77% non-hispanic-white support requiring voter ID, and 88% black-hispanic-asian-other support requiring voter ID.
There’s the kicker.
False consciousness. They don’t know what’s best for them and the white liberal will once again have to pick up the white man’s burden.
Consider the number of people who believe both (a) vote by mail should be easier, and (b) you should have to show a photo ID to vote.
Idiocracy, indeed.
……was a man whose throat was slit by a “friend,”
Friend?
RIP Mcaffee. Crazy fucker. Twitter hasn’t been the same since he got locked up and never will be forever more.
Now if these aren’t some “hold mah beer an’ watch this” moments, I don’t know what is.
And I should know. I know all about crazy rednecks. I grew up amongst ’em.
Unless some bad blood was brewing, it probably was a hold my beer moment and a drunken stunt gone terribly wrong.
Following some links:
“They were intoxicated, they got into a fight, one of them slit the other one’s throat and then fled into the park,” Doyle said.
Ah so normal redneck party.
Not to be confused with a mountain party
It would be a quiet weekend in Chicago.
Uzbeks ?
Hey Tres Cool, I bet these Uzbeks I could get you to write three words to me.
Uzbeks drank my battery fluid
Does “throat slit” mean dead? Or is it more or less survivable, just leaving you with a sweet scar, like The Kurgan?
That was just extreme vocal theapry.
What is it with you today and candy girls?
Dammit, how did I miss that connection?
Not even parody: Conservative SCOTUS Doing Great Job Of Conserving All The Bad Laws Democrats Have Passed
Hey at least they ruled that schools can’t dictate speech outside of their grounds and off their time today.
To be fair, bad laws can be constitutional, and constitutionality is the standard the Supreme Court should use.
Dwelling on it a bit — I have to vote for this as worse/stupider than any Alanis or C&C song. Or just about any other song.
???
Fuck you not listening. *thanks the lord for a slow load on youtube*
Jeffery EpsteinJohn McAfee did not kill himself.Nor did Christopher Sign.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9714259/Demi-Rose-barely-contains-ample-assets-new-racy-snap-wearing-low-cut-swimwear.html
Nope. Sizzling.
She is gorgeous from the neck up.
“Does this mean Night at the Museum is canceled too? NYC’s Museum of Natural History announces that statue of Theodore Roosevelt played by Robin Williams will be removed because of complaints of racism”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9717093/Theodore-Roosevelt-statue-New-York-museum-relocated.html
OFFS!
Well now…wasn’t the call not so long ago that “these should be in museums!”
Shocked face
“Nevertheless, the commission wrote, ‘Height is power in public art, and Roosevelt’s stature on his noble steed visibly expresses dominance and superiority over the Native American and African figures.'”
Sitting on a horse next to two other people on foot does tend create a height advantage.
Speaking of Salma Hayek…..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9717967/Salma-Hayek-says-breasts-grew-lot-pregnancy-menopause.html
Current Lower Back Problems?
Based on her bikini pics, I rate this as “Hell, yeah!”
“Now MATH is racist: Educators condemn $1M ‘Dismantling Racism in Mathematics’ program funded by Bill Gates which tells teachers NOT to push students to find the correct answer because it promotes white supremacy”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9717063/Educators-slam-math-workbook-claims-racist-ask-students-right-answer.html
No, Bill Gates is racist.
They should just move to Oregon. Heard they are just handing out high school diplomas for the next 4-years.
I don’t think Gates knows or cares what his foundation is doing with his money.
The leftists are on him likes flies on shit. They love oversized philanthropic organizations. They come in and bleed them dry.
“Ivy League activist, 25, who founded nonprofit to end sexual violence against children is sentenced to 13 years for child rape and pornography charges”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9717777/Activist-child-sex-abuse-victims-sentenced-13-years-jail-child-rape.html
Typical, just typical.
Idiocracy.
A bill to prohibit Oregon schools from requiring students to show they can read, write and do math at a basic high school level is headed to Gov. Kate Brown after lawmakers gave final approval Wednesday.
The idea is to hit pause on the requirements, in place since 2009 but already suspended during the pandemic, at least until the class of 2024 gets their diplomas and for Oregon to thoughtfully reexamine its graduation requirements in the meantime. A report recommending what the new standards should be is due to the Legislature and Oregon Board of Education by September 2022.
Basic knowledge and skills are white-supremacy.
Trump GPS
For once, I don’t regret clicking a Twitter link.
Anti-budget rally planned in Concord, NH
More than two dozen groups plan to rally at the State House Thursday in opposition to the proposed two-year state budget just as it goes to an up-or-down vote.
Lining up against the bill at the 10 a.m. rally Thursday in Concord will be advocates for racial justice, reproductive rights, public education, disability rights, tax fairness and climate change response.
Meanwhile, leading supporters of the $13.5 billion spending plan say that with less than 48 hours remaining they are fighting an uphill battle to convince some rank-and-file Republican lawmakers to drop their opposition to the budget trailer bill (HB 2) over provisions for emergency powers and a voluntary family leave program.
A coworker in the next cube got a crazy itch on his ankle today. Kept scratching like a madman.
So I taped a kleenex over my ankle and called it a sock mask. I chastised him for not also wearing a sock mask too (for my safety). He and I have been having a blast riffing on the efficacy of sock masks and how everyone should be wearing one.
Most of our section of cubes are laughing and joining in, but there are 2-3 people who are not as amused as they should be. I’m guessing there is a 50/50 chance that I get a note from HR saying that my sarcasm is problematic.
Then maybe they should have been wearing their sarcasm masks.
Nashua, NH residents tell city officials spending is out of control
Accusing city officials of failing to control costs, a group of Nashua residents lambasted the proposed $346 million city budget and called for the elimination of a number of jobs — including the mayor’s full staff.
“You are public servants, and this Board of Aldermen has been negligent in controlling the cost of city government,” former alderman Dan Richardson said during a public hearing on Monday.
Mayor Jim Donchess said that if the state hadn’t raised Nashua’s pension costs by $4.4 million and cut school aid by $7.4 million, the tax rate would be flat or even down slightly for the upcoming year.
“The state of New Hampshire is really going to slam the city, our city, as well as cities and towns across New Hampshire during fiscal 2022 — one could argue at the worst possible time these pension costs are going up,” said Donchess, who anticipates a tax increase of at least 3%.
These kids wrestle with their privilege in a way that I think the original didn’t
While “extremely wealthy Manhattan high schoolers” are undoubtedly about as privileged as they come, I doubt they will be wrestling with their real privilege, rather than made-up critical race theory crap.
When I’m wrestling with my privilege, I think about what my father used to say when we were on his yacht. “I wonder what the poor people are doing today”.
Deal between Sununu and legislature on emergency powers?
Legislative leaders and Gov. Chris Sununu have reached an agreement on additional reforms to emergency executive order powers, NHJournal has learned. According to House Majority Leader Jason Osborne, the deal will give House Republicans “the reform they’ve been fighting for all year.”
While the legislation won’t move forward until the fall, the agreement has the potential to impact Thursday’s House vote on the state budget, where its fate is expected to come down to a handful of GOP votes.
Some libertarian-leaning members of the House, supported by organizations like ReOpenNH, say they will vote against the budget because of objections over the executive powers language. While the budget puts new restrictions on the use of executive power in the future — including giving the legislature the authority to end specific executive orders without ending the overall state of emergency — some members of the Freedom Caucus insist it’s still not enough.
They want to require the governor to seek approval for a state of emergency to continue, rather than requiring a vote of both chambers to bring it to an end.
“The reality is the amendment further dilutes existing statute by extending the state of emergency length from 21 days to 45 days and, contrary to comments by the Senate, the language does not correct the issue at hand,” the House Freedom Caucus said in a statement. “The language would require a vote to end the State of Emergency, not to continue it.”
In a podcast interview with NHJournal, Osborne acknowledged the budget deal didn’t do as much as he wanted to balance power between the governor and legislature. “I don’t think we accomplished everything our members wanted,” Osborne said, but he added that the legislative process to add more reforms would continue after the budget vote.
Apparently, it’s underway right now.
legislation won’t move forward until the fall … impact Thursday’s House vote on the state budget
Am I reading that right? “Give me what I want today, and I’ll give you want what you want tomorrow”?
Riiiight.
Trigger Warning: I’m gonna take a stab act making sammiches for a picnic. The rule of thumb is bread, veg, meat, cheese, bread and you’ll be killing it. Otherwise you are off the reservation.
Apparently, phrases like “Killing it” or “Take a stab at” offend those pristine Brandeisian sensibilities. Fans of Boondock Saints will laugh at reading the old Karen complaint about the phrase “rule of thumb,” which of course has an ugly history but which has nothing to do with beating wives today. PARC also shares the false claim that the word “picnic” traces back to “lynchings of Black people in the United States.” In reality, it traces back to the 1600s French term “pique-nique.”
Yet the best part of the “violent language” document is, of course, the cancelation of the phrase “trigger warning.” According to the fine upstanding totally-not-racist Woke language police at PARC, “The word ‘trigger’ has connections to guns for many people; we can give the same head’s up using language less connected to violence.” According to PARC, “Content note” or “Drop-in” will suffice, so “trigger warnings” are out.
they want newspeak.
Want?
Well they dont not want it.
My take is we are living with newspeak.
” which of course has an ugly history but which has nothing to do with beating wives today”
It never had anything to do with beating wives.
the phrase “rule of thumb,” which of course has an ugly history
No, it fucking doesn’t. The idea it was OK to beat your wife with a stick as long as it wasn’t wider than your thumb was made up out of thin stupid air by some idiot judge in the early 20th.
It’s been a while, but last I looked they suspected it goes back to brewers using their thumb to gauge temperature.
Bugs Bunny on You Beat Your Wife
(before/after cleansing)
““African-American” is out because “Not all Black people are from Africa and/or America.” ”
That actually makes sense.
I’m still pushing for Blackrican-American.
Except, virtually no one who is called “Black” is that color. While, in America, the American part is correct, and if you go back to fairly recent history, the African part is usually partially correct.
My wife gets upset when I point out that we are both Beige-Americans.
It’s dumb because white people are white wherever they go. I rarely ever hear “European-American”. If some Jamaican/Haitian/etc. visits America, and are involved in some event, having the press, witnesses, first responders, etc. call them African-American is just silly.
Back during the days when people wore ‘X’ hats and those leather Africa medallions, I had a friend who wore one of the medallions and called himself African American. White as hell, but was indeed born in Africa to Peace Corps parents.
In 2017, when I was working a gig in Silicon Valley (ugh) I was sitting at a bar in the San Francisco airport having a beer while waiting for a delayed plane. I ended up chatting with a very nice lady, maybe early sixties, as white as white could be, red hair and blue eyes. She had been born in what was then Rhodesia, where her parents owned a farm.
The farm ended when she was about ten, she told me, when rebels invaded the farm and murdered her father in front of her, her mother and her younger brother. Her mother put up such a fight that “out of respect” the rebels didn’t rape her, just allowed her to take the kids and leave. They managed to make their way to Australia, then the U.S., where she gained U.S. citizenship.
That lady actually was an African-American, in the truest sense of the word. Try telling any of the BLM assholes that.
Years ago ran across a journalistic style guide gone wrong where 2 algerians in Paris were described as African-Americans…because of course they were.
“Drop-In”, huh? Are they referring to the Drop In Auto Sear in my M-16?
I was in a meeting one time and a guy stopped the woman presenting a powerpoint to object to her use of the term “bullet points” due to the violent connotations.
“Thanks for your input. As you can see, the next bullet point addresses . . . .”
I had a woman object to “abort” for terminating a process in a class I taught in the mid-90s.
Trigga, please.
**Preparing to dodge bricks**
I don’t get the Libertarian love for McAfee. He was a nut job and scum bag.
crazy people are entertaining.
*shrug*
I never got agile cyborg’s schtick either. Drug addled absurdist humor isn’t really my thing.
I don’t think he was ever trying to be funny-funny.
Well, then I just feel bad for him in the same cringey way that I feel bad for a kid who forgets their lines in the school play and starts ad libbing.
I appreciated him and his colorful way of expressing himself. It took a while, but I could usually figure out what he was getting at.
I did notice that as the day went on into afternoon and evening, he got more convoluted and turgid.
If you don’t like him, you simply aren’t trying hard enough.
Agile Cyborg
August.12.2015 at 11:41 pm
Houdini of aliveness is like a banjo of rainbows jabbing a million heroine needles in your arms without the disconnectedness but with multitude journeys.
He was a nut job and scum bag.
Who isn’t. He also started a company and made himself a bunch of money which got him a loud voice. I am just a poor nut job and scumbag so I doubt the feds will murder me so I got that going.
Think the inherent ‘leave me the fuck alone, who cares if I wanna bang whales’ attitude sits with certain elements? Crazy or scum, he ain’t wrong.
McAfee did McAfee extremely well. He lived on his own terms that were definitely different than the majority and he was unapologetic for such. I don’t know what he did that was particularly scummy (I don’t believe for a second that he killed the neighbor in Belize and the charges of the pump and dump I view as suspiciously motivated as he had already thumbed his nose at the government. The tax evasion I don’t believe he was guilty of). He was also extremely humorous. I liked the manner his jib was serrated. He made a few tweets on Cuba that I didn’t like at all, but I forgive him. RIP to that crazy bastard.
I actually met the guy back in March of 1996 at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in San Francisco; we had a brief discussion about whether the Canadian government was scanning/eavesdropping on various forms of POTS communications (mostly voice stuff, harvesting it based on “trigger-words” and using secondary processing on it, looking for EEEVUL). He was incredulous at first, and then the Spousal Unit (who was working for one of the major Canadian telcos back then) gave him sufficient info to confirm the possibility for himself.
He was upset.
Afterwards, we went to the Sonoma County Inn (a great little B&B upstate) where, to this day, I had the best sleep of my life.
Weird what we remember, eh?
Got some new bling for the Expedition today.
Wondering when the first chucklehead will either thank me for my “service,” or claim that I’ve “stolen valor” because I didn’t actually see combat in the Bug Wars.
*clicks “Would you like to know more”*
Mrs. Animal’s Expedition sports this one.
Hail Sithis.
Oh, I like that. Ominous and obscure.
The other side of the rear window.
A bit more difficult to read, unfortunately.
TANSTAAFL. Perfectly clear.
I still enjoy the person who got very confused by the 50.0 and 62.1 ovals on my car. The 50.0 one had half century written below it (62.1 is ~100 km or a metric century). He figured it had to mean caliber.
The imgur recommended image after yours was a dick slurp for LBJ. The second time I’ve seen that asshole mentioned fondly today. Who in TMITE is leading the charge to dust off that old corpse and polish his balls?
That’s fantastic.
Too Many Black Folks Break the Law? Get Rid of the Law! (Portland, of Course)
Story is meh, but this comment elicited a chuckle:
A few years ago I heard that Al Sharpton was going to speak at a Black church nearby, so I decided to go check him out.
After his sermon he approached me, put his hand on my shoulder and said, “Brother, through the power of Jesus you will walk today.”
I thought he had singled me out because I was the only White person there. I told him nothing was wrong with me and that I was healthy. Again Al said, “Brother, through the power of Jesus you will walk today.”
When I left the church, I discovered my car had been stolen.
The headline is misleading. They’re not getting rid of the law, just supposedly not enforcing it. It’s still there and can still be used at any time as allowed by their new own policy.
There was a (failed) effort to do so statewide in the legislature. Again, not actually repealing the law so selective enforcement, those complying are chumps, or both.
PJ Media’s pretty famous for misleading headlines and non-existent copy-editing.
Nothing more reassuring than laws that only get enforced when it suits the powers that be.
Smells like freedom*!
*until someone decides to take it away
Road tested the freshly rebuilt carburetor. Seems happier. On a long fairly steep climb on the interstate, it was accelerating at not even WFO. 80mph traffic couldn’t catch me.
Next test: we’ll see how it does with the 4500 lb Airstream back there.
Always glad to see a success story.
Rectal narcotics? Or is This story new?
Either way, I’m happy the union thugs lost their ability to barge into places they aren’t wanted to disrupt and intimidate.
Good.
The government is infringing on my basic property rights by prohibiting me from excluding people. Sounds like an appropriation to me.
Of course, carried to its logical end, this means that the public accommodation laws are also an appropriation. Huh.
Of course they are. That’s like saying, ” you will be forced to serve who we tell you to based on what we want. Nevermind what you want.” They are using your business to perform a service THEY want performed.
From Breyer’s dissent:
But this regulation does not “appropriate” anything; it regulates the employers’ right to exclude others.
If you’ve “regulated” a right, then you’ve appropriated the right-holder’s ability to freely exercise of that right.
That footbridge never would have collapsed if the District of Columbia had two Senators to defend its political interests.
Deplorables are icky.
lol….you forgot sunburnt guys with dirty fingernails needing a haircut.
All of my friends are humans.
*searching for other criteria*
Who speak English.
All my friends are assholes. And I like it that way.
So is that bad grammar, or are they only friends with gay feminist intellectuals? Is it a set or a collection? Are heterosexual misogynistic intellectuals allowed to befriend that person?
I took it as a statement of moral and intellectual superiority over those who wrongthink.
Oh I’m sure it is. I just like asking questions that rely on the ambiguous nature of their statements to point out some issues with it. Especially because it’s now showing they’re advertising that they’re friends with the worst kind of people.
It may just entertain me because quite a bit of my job is breaking things down so that a computer can understand them without causing completely unexpected (but always foreseeable) consequences.
They probably mean || but it’s funnier if it’s &&.
Rarefied company.
Who is she trying to kid? She doesn’t have any friends. Cats don’t count.
That’s ’cause cats aren’t anybody’s friends
“intellectuals”
I doubt she knows any of those.
Or if she does, they don’t consider HER a friend.
I did wonder how you had such a fine appreciation of reddit.
Reddit has its place.
Like Miracle Whip.
The trash can (not mine)?
/kidding, sorta
Philistine.
[I cannot recommend watching this video. -Ed.]
That’s good advice, Ed. I wish I would have listened.
Thank God for The Sisters of Mercy to obliterate the harm.
RIP McAfee.
That’s good advice, Ed. I wish I would have listened.
But the advice came after the video, so while it may be good advice it wasn’t exactly useful.
Yup. That is a terrific music selection.
Best track on that album IMHO
Good news people! I’ve got my online class in a few minutes and Zoom just updated.
Release notes of 5.7.0 (522)
General features
-Support for gender pronouns
-Scheduling privilege and alternative host between linked master/sub accounts
-Authentication profile enhancement: Domain block-list
-Update to ARM version of desktop client
Meeting/webinar features
-Custom video filters
-Request Live Transcription enablement as participant
-Pairing with Zoom Rooms on Zoom desktop client
-NDI live streaming consent
-Hide full transcript panel
-Secure share with window filtering
How long until that’s Dom/Sub accounts?
This is only the second time in my life that I’ve found myself on the leading edge of a trend…
linked master/sub
*twitches on floor in triggered agony*
Our internal contact site added a field for ‘pronouns’. I am disappointed in every co-worker who specified them.
Dude I work closely with has
‘he/him/his or they/them/theirs’
WTF, dude I’ve known for over a decade who’s happily married with children?
We have that on our Teams and SharePoint sites. It is a tribute to my boss that no-one said a word when I set mine to Fuck/You.
Someone I work with told me that, if we’re forced to specify, she’s going with it/its. And she’s definitely a prog.
I’ve never had any trouble using pronouns, gender or otherwise, on Zoom. When I say them, the other Zoomites can hear them just fine.
No Toobin filter support yet?
I heard that’s coming, it’s called the fap detector.
That actually reminds of something funny that recently happened. I don’t think I spun this yarn here yet. Anyway, one of my client’s offices were in a meeting one day and one of the people had up one of those backgrounds. But the person who was telling me this, said you could see through it half the time. And I said, yeah, if you don’t have a green screen or a wall really close behind you, that’s what happens, it doesn’t work or it mostly doesn’t work. Anyway, she says ‘and all of the sudden I see this naked guy walk through the room behind her’. And she said all of the sudden everyone is giggling and then one of them tries to warn the victim, but couldn’t get it out because then there goes the naked guy again and she starts laughing. I guess the victim never knew what happened and everyone just remined quiet.
Do the backgrounds work now without a green screen? That’s the reason I don’t like Zoom.
Sort of, just not very well.
SP is on the road, so looking for volunteers to kick off our regular Midweek Stress Relief Zoom.
I did a stress relief zoom this morning. Cost me 20 bucks. Same as downtown.
Shut the fuck up, sloper.
?
I tried to submit a post. Did I do it right or fuck it up?
I don’t really want to see you “submitting your post” on zoom.
Hah……no I actually wrote something. I won’t be zooming tonight I have early work tomorrow. Last night I was ready to zoom happy hour but no takers until nw showed up after I retired to snooz land.
OMWC, based on your experience, would you say Glibs prefer Drylok or RadonSeal?
Those are both negative side treatments and as such will fail rather quickly. Give me some details on the problem you’re trying to solve.
I don’t have stock in either of those companies, so fuck ’em, I say.
LOL
I’ll host the zoom. Starts At 8pm Eastern https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84790549092?pwd=NGRQa2kxS0pJcmp1UjBOVk5qcGgvQT09
Bless. Ive stayed awake most of the day for this.
Now I have a ‘safe space’ to expose my penis.
Message in a bottle.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/06/23/cheboygan-message-in-a-bottle/5318912001/
95 years old.
Obvious link is obvious.
It’s obviously not a link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbXWrmQW-OE
“…regulations prevent divers from taking artifacts from most places in Michigan,”
What. The. Fuck?
“…removing debris from the Cheboygan River is considered river cleanup,…”
Again, what? The? Fuck!
Outlier or the tip of the iceberg:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/myocarditis-vaccine-covid-shots-may-be-linked-rare-heart-problems-teens/
This is just short term issues and probably under sampled.
Long term is completely unknown.
I’m anxiously waiting for my Covid vaccine super powers to develop.
The power to nag compels you!
With any luck, it will be a permanent liability shield.
Hey baby, wanna see my spike protein?
Local rag asked legislators if they’ve been vaccinated and reported the results. Part of me says good, harass the shit out of those fucknuts. The other part wants to email the reporter and ask why she didn’t report her own, and then ask all sorts of personal medical questions which are absolutely none of my fucking business.
Email the reporter and ask her if she has herpes.
And if she’s testing twice weekly and using the contact tracking app to make sure.
I had a buddy that, every time I saw him with a chick, I’d ask him how his child molestation case worked out. You had to lower your voice so only he and his date could hear it. Then when he laughed and said, “get the fuck outa here!” I’d say,
“oh yeah sorry, I get it.” He got kind of pissed about it one time, so I stopped. Good times.
There is no feeling in the world, like convincing your buddies’ fiancé that he’s actually a serial killer known as the ‘Whiskey Dick Slasher.’
The trick blind date show ends up with everyone beautiful underneath, it seems. It would be much more interesting if it was a hag or dork underneath, like ending up with Poindexter on Mystery Date.
I am shocked.
“The trick blind date”
Yeah, I’m not sure on even taking a chance with someone who doesn’t yet know about the internet and digital photos or video. I mean, WTF, have they been living with an uncontacted tribe in Papua New Guinea until just now?
You know who else had a blind date?
Stevie Wonder ?
He was the blind date. Only one I can think of is Rocky from the movie Mask.
Peter Fagan?
I don’t wanta work
You know, when the government can keep you forever and no one has to pay for it, utopia has really arrived.
Looks like this message got out.
I hate to tell you this, but your bliss is idiotic.
Did anyone watch The Stand miniseries? Was it any good?
I found it OK. A little too modernized for me.
It’s the best minseries I’ve ever seen, if that helps.
Wait, y’all are talking about the original made for TV back in the 90s I think?
All the newer made for TV stuff based on King’s stuff is pure woketard horse shit. Under the Dome for instance.
No, the old one was great. The new one is OK-ish.
Yeah, the 1994 one, I just looked it up. That is fantastic. If anyone has not watched that, they need to now.
There’s another one?!
No. Just… no.
I see it’s on some pay-extra service so I can’t watch it even if I wanted to 🙂
I remember the 90s one. It was… ok. I didn’t know there was a new one.
nope
RIP McAfee.
And I didn’t even know he knew the Clintons.
Truly a loss to the world.
Yeah, I was a big fan and and supported him for LP presidential candidate. Right before the LP lost their fucking mind.
Was he on one of the Lolita Express flights? I hear no one survives that for long.
So, Cackling Heels Up is visiting the southern border soon I guess. That should be spectacular.
Anyone notice the recent photos of her? What’s wrong with her neck? Is that a reverse goiter or what?
Too much necking with married men?
Visiting El Paso..far from where the real action is taking place too. So brave for that photo op to get CNN off her back
Kamala headed down, to old El Paso,
(clap clap clap clappa clap)
Where she ran into a great big hassle,
Biden Joe stayed within his big white castle,
Janet Yellen, took the money and run.
Group that is shielded from competition suddenly meets a more historically oppressed group. The new group insists on being included or *bigotry*. New group kicks the old group’s ass. This all happened because the narrative emerged that women’s sports were just as good as men’s sports. I don’t have a dog in this fight and am enjoying watching the clash of “protect my group!” titans.
Well, we’ll solve the long standing whining about why female sports stars don’t make as much as male sports stars. They will be, and all of them will be men, lol.
Yep.
And Maybe the aliens are…?
And maybe there ain’t no fucking aliens because the nearest fucking star to here is 4 fucking light years away. The NEAREST ONE. Maybe y’all ought to do some math with your science and figure out just how fucking far away that is. Maybe they use woke math now? SCIENCE! THEY FUCKING LOVE IT!
That was a lot of well deserved fucks.
“Scientific” American
lol
Credit where it’s due – I clicked through and the subhead – “But if so, it’s probably in the form of robotic probes” – is correct.
Skimming the article, it’s not bad at all – it assumes re: UFOs 1) they’d be machines and 2) operating on an extremely long timelines (“Relatively simple flyby probes might intermittently surveil nascent solar systems, for example, at 200-million-year intervals.”)
Still, the sidebar earns every bit of scorn, e.g., “The Time to Dismantle the Racial Structures That Pervade Global Science Is Now”
UFOs are nothing more than someone’s imagination. Sure, they’re unidentified, but they are not aliens.
If we accept the theory of relativity, then any version of ‘aliens’ is so unlikely as to be ignored.
Intelligent beings as we know them, just do not plan for 200 million year intervals. Today, we can’t even wait for 2 days for something to be delivered until we freak out. Intelligent life didn’t even exist on this planet with the capability to ponder such questions until less than 100 years ago. If someone would have sent a probe here 100 million years ago, they would have found dinosaurs.
I grew up in the era of Star Trek and Star Wars and was this starry eyed young guy dreaming of a space faring civilization. As soon as I understood math well enough to understand the mind boggling distances are are talking about, I fell right back to earth.
It’s all machine intelligences out there. And they hate biological life…
Sure, lol.
Possibly relevant, today’s SMBC.
I am puzzled by all the recent ‘aliens’ talk. I can only assume it’s a distraction from something else.
‘Leveling the playfield thru hockey’
Because gals are just as interested in playing hockey as dudes. Ayup.
Go Isles!
With the B’s out, I ought to be rooting for the Isles – born and raised on LI during the “Drive For Five” Islanders era – but the shitty fans (chanting “Boston sucks” while Carlo is down on the ice) have me hoping they lose.
But Boston does suck. ?♂️
Perhaps, but celebrating an opposing player being seriously injured is some bullshit.
I don’t actually have any skin in this game – the Islanders are not my team, and while conceding that the situation as you’re describing it sounds awful, I’m not going to accept the idea that one team’s fans are objectively any worse than another’s.
TL;DR – sports fans are awful people.
TL;DR – sports fans are awful people.
This is absolutely true and god knows I don’t want to be in the position of defending various Boston sports fans.
But still, fuck those fans – I want them to wander in the Cup-less desert a bit longer.
Hey Rhywun! I was assured by the BBC yesterday that, as a gay American sports fan, you were ecstatic about the coming out of whashisname.
Confirm or deny?
Not a ‘D’, so not a real gay, etc.
Finally, someone who
looksfucks like me.You’ve been misinformed. Not only is that “gay” guy white, he’s also a Republican.
Icky.
“It’s time to get uncomfortable!”
Maybe it’s time for Lexus to stop treating its potential customers like racist infants.
I believe the market for Lexus is upscale white people that probably want to be treated like racist infants.
Nothing says “I want to be uncomfortably challenged” more than buying a luxury car.
Looks like some of the vaccine side effects have gotten the attention of TMITE. Saw a CBS news video admitting heart inflammation issues from the mRNA vaccines.
I think it’s starting to unravel. Bret Weinstein and Pierre Koury on Rogan yesterday has the potential to redpill hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people.
Anyone have some numbers broken down by age?
From a CNBC article I see “there were 12.6 heart inflammation cases per million doses. The cases were more frequent among Moderna’s vaccine recipients at 19.8 cases per million versus eight cases per million for Pfizer’s”.
I don’t believe there is any study (surprise!) and VAERS reporting is both delayed and undercounted. The reports I’ve read are almost always people under 30.
I want a way to download Joe Rogan without having to pay for spotify.
Although, I heard even spotify is restricting that video.
Joe Rogan used to have all his podcasts on YouTube.
Dummy account.
Play and capture in audacity.
Unfortunately, need to capture in real time – don’t see a way to speed up the playback in spotify – so it’s like 3 hours to ‘download’.
OK, thanks, better than nothing. But downloading in real time is still wack. I used to download Rogan from YouTube in a matter of minutes using a downloader. No ads either.
I guess I need to find a site that pirates his podcasts.
Yeah, and as someone who once suffered from congestive heart failure, you take that very seriously.
Everything I’ve seen indicates its young people with the heart problem
According the the CDC’s own web site the number of deaths due to the ‘vid for people 0-20 is in the single digits for each year group. And you know every one of them had something else serious going on.
Why would anyone subject a child to any risk at all for a disease that does not affect them?
https://archive.li/4rxh1/c6cd9eb1eecacacd764507bad205a2d48e304052.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/c5yrV/ea037694eba22d7706eb8f09db58c8bbf3253f81.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/LmT1b/d6f59faa32d5b96845936db310402a531c8664e5.webp
NSFW.
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NSFW.
Oh my.
George Takei confirmed.
Proper male response to those though…oh my indeed.
Agreed. I’m just having fun with slumbrew.
That first one might turn George.
(nah)
Probably not but if anyone can, it’s one of tonight’s contestants.
All four are definately not fags.
Nice lengthy debate with teen boy#1 on words.
Wife mentioned she does not like the word fag and my teen got all righteous that we are not allowed to utter slurs in our house, not even outside context to say what we are talking about. He wants us to use ‘f-slur’
I fear I have lost him after an hour long dress down on the mere uttering of the word does not constitute its use as a slur.
I had a similar argument with my daughter about the word “nigger.” It’s a vile epithet when wielded against someone. It’s just another word albeit a loaded one, when cited in a discussion.
Words are just words. I hear blacks calling each other that all of the time and if anyone called me cracker, I’d laugh. People need to get over this shit.
I’ve never understood the reasoning behind that. The only explanation I’ve ever heard is something along the lines of: “We (black people) are taking back the word to destroy it’s offensive power. White people used it to demean and insult us, but now it’s our word.”
… Which kind of makes sense, but in order to achieve that goal, they’d have to stop reacting to it as though it were offensive – which is not what’s being done. If they wanted to take away it’s offensive power, they’d have to treat it as though it were “buddy” or “pal”, e.g. if someone calls a black person that, they should just smile and say, “Hey thanks, you’re my nigga too!”
It’s not the word, it’s the mind-reading of the intention behind the person who uses the word, and in a context where society is being convinced to tear itself apart along racial lines.
Jeebus. I would tell my son (not a teen), your shit is all fucked up and you sound like a fag. In true Glib style. We don’t do political correct around here.
He is quite the little debater which is good but you cannot debate if you don’t know what the discussion is about. Saying we are discussing the ‘f-slur’ doesn’t mean anything to me because that could mean anything if we are not on the same page.
Once we established the word, I have no problem not using it again to advance the discussion but he was hung up that I am willing to even say the word. Even in the same route that Chafed said, that I agree, its use is vile.
Either you believe in free speech or not. If you respectfully ask that I not use a particular word around you as a personal request I will in all likelihood honor it. If you try to shut me up for no good reason beyond MUH FEELZ I will probably torment you with it.
+1
That is what I was hammering into him. We used the word once. Beyond that, because you have a strong request for me to no longer say it, I have no problem, but I will not start off in some shroud of the mystery of what we are talking about.
OT: Got an audiobook from “The Great Courses” called “Understanding Literature”. It was on sale, and I figured it might help me (sometimes I consume literature but don’t feel as though I “get” anything).
There’s a lot of good information in there, but good god, women women women. It’s almost like feminism is the main “lens” through which literature is supposed to be viewed. Every work by a male is analyzed on how it portrays women, and everything written by a woman is taken to be a cryptic stab at the patriarchy (he uses this term as though it’s some self-evident thing that is beyond any dispute whatsoever).
Women can and do write about things other than what it’s like to be a woman, ya know. It must be pretty frustrating to put all that work into a story or poem and just have it being interpreted as the work of a woman rather than a great piece of literature.
That’s a shame. I had no love of Shakespeare before taking a class. It really opened my eyes. I didn’t love all of it but I enjoyed quite a bit and appreciated most of it. For someone to treat all of literature as a political device is just misleading.
Misleading , yes, and it deprives the literature (or other piece of art) of some of its intensity, whether joy, sorrow, humorous, or profound. One of the best parts about art is that individuals find different aspects of it connect with them than what some other individuals find.
If everything is reduced to a political statement, it makes for a 2 dimensional world.
Also, as a womsn I get really tired of being told what my opinion or point of view is.
Nobody speaks for me but me.
It’s called Feminist Analysis and was being taught to me in high school back in 19xx. To be fair, it was mentioned but we were vastly more often using Formal or Traditional Analysis.
I lost my job Friday evening, was hired elsewhere today…given the demand for labor, especially at the working class/skilled labor level, if you don’t have a job, you’re not trying.
Fuck the Gravy Train, The Gods of the Copybook Headings still rule reality.
Hey! Congratulations!
I am considering looking seriously for a new job. I don’t think my current employer’s way of doing business is something I can happily be a part of the rest of my career. The money is nice, but…
I’ll start brushing up the CV and see what’s shaking in the local market.
Glad you weren’t deprived of a paycheck for long. 🙂
From what I’ve gathered here, you’re one of the most educated, successful, juiced in, highly sought-after Glibs on the job market.
Don’t sell yourself short or compromise your principles in the name of comfort, fear, or financial expediency in the short run.
You’re a rock star and don’t you forget it. A little less ‘fetti for more freedom may very well be worth it…
And thank you.
I may have another night shift lab tech job opening.
Good for you!
I wish I could hide some peeps around here. ?
*hire
I watched The Producers (1967 version).
Even though I already knew the rough plot, and even though it was dated, I enjoyed it.
Maybe I’ll try the 2005 version at some point…
Save yourself the time and watch another Mel Brooks movie instead. Matthew Broderick isn’t terrible and that is the kindest thing I will say about it.
Thank you; I’ll heed that advice, especially after learning that the newer one is itself a musical. I don’t think I could take that…
What a strange place, it’s 71 now, headed for a high of 72, Hoomans can’t even feell a one degree shift.
Hello Glibs, happy Thursday
https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/400x/33981448/ahoy-hoy.jpg
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/britney-spears-conservatorship-address-fans
#FreeBritney
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/OsnV/fix-our-senate-tested
As seen on tv this morning. *barf*
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/24/emergency-operation-under-way-after-miami-building-collapse
Oof. Not good.
Yikes! Coming soon to an episode of Engineering Catastrophes?
Surfside?!?! I hope those handsome young bachelors on their houseboat weren’t injured. How will they run their detective agency?
https://youtu.be/LwM-C8wfJMU
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kE_VupU_8NQ
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jrxI_euTX4A
Moar ?
Time to get ready for work. *sigh*
Vishnu H. Yahweh….now I remember why I avoid you people and Zoom calls.
I need dialysis. My blood is totes pollutes
I can’t believe I missed you. I couldn’t join until after midnight (stupid work); I hope you had fun.
I must still be drunk.
Wait, I am.
But have TPTB send you my contact info since Jugsy is Rockaway all weekend.
Im (from a distance) prodding her fat-ass to leave the hotel and do something. Specially since you’re about to get the nice weather that’s leaving here.
*is in
Where’s Pie when he could be handy? I need a quart or 2 of fresh, clean, A- blood. The mosquito that bit me last night will be in rehab until Christmas.
I run my mouth too much, so I bailed before I said something stupid,
Count Potato, and anyone else interested, I have access to every (I think) Rogan episode back to 2014. Let me know if you want some or all and I will share them.
The interview with Jake the Snake where they talk about Andre the Giant is good stuff
So three weeks in to “back to the office” and I finally met my boss yesterday. Official policy on WFH hasn’t changed since the before times (i.e. you are expected to show up except for a special request to WFH etc. etc.) but I managed to get out of him a blessing to just more-or-less show up when I feel like it (within reason, I would guess). Hallelujah!
So instead of shambling around the house half-asleep getting ready for work and eventually winding up 45 minutes later than I wanted, I think I’ll make a cup of coffee and relax for a bit.
That is wonderful. Right on, brother!
Word is everyone is rolling in once or twice a week. That sounds fair to me 🙂
Chump me has shown up almost every day and I hate it.
Hopefully I can ride this out until the next wave of lockdowns without drawing too much attention. Of course, my boss is the only person who would notice my absence and he never shows up either so that should be easy.
I want one, or several, of those no-show construction jobs that the mob likes. Why not? My morals are situational and lax; I could be a torpedo. Hell, I’ll be a gun-moll if the pay is good.
You could be a public school teacher with all the same “benefits”. And if you play your cards right, you could wind up in one of the “rubber rooms” and never have to lift a finger again.
No. L0B0T is too intelligent. He’d trip himself up with the fact he’s not allergic to knowledge. Then they’d get him.
Good news! Way to make it happen.
Anyone make me a Bloody Mary and let me know how I should feel about this cover/sample.
Im trying to hate it, but I cant articulate why.
I like mine heavy on the Worcestershire sauce, a wee dab of wasabi, and overloaded with bar fruit – pickled okra, pickled green beans, olives, bacon, Hell throw some shrimp in there. A good Bloody Mary should drink like a meal.
Nope, fucking hate it! Copies? Write yer own shit
For me, it’s the hipster look of fascist haircut, old people glasses, and neck tattoos that immediately turn me off.
Yeah, I just want to punch that guy in the face. Forget the music.
At least change it up, but noooo, just loud guitars, bla bla bla….
You have be to under a certain age (30?) to enjoy that crap.
*smacks tres upside the head*
Careful, he may consider that foreplay.
I have 2 blue pills and nobody to use them on.
/eyes @ GT
::waggles wedding ring and multiple anniversary rings under Tres’s nose::
yo….ring dont plug no hole
nowhaimsayin’ ?
::keeps hand on spray bottle usually reserved for cat discipline::
Kinky.
Have some techno remix of Peter Schilling as a pallet cleanser. https://youtu.be/RnmnXGpny8I
My god, that’s gayer than Sloopy’s gay porn soundtracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwzlySJJJQQ
Have some rock, fer fucks sake.
OMG, totally would. Where are you my gutterpunk waif… I can fix you!
That girl needs a sammich but I like their attitude.
I like this one better.
The song is pointless without an intro that expresses his humanity, which he is about to lose.
I like it. But I can understand why someone would hate it. Neil Young is a fucking a treasure and any homage/resurrection of his songs is fine.
I listened to the whole thing, and I changed my mind. I hate it.
I like many of Neil Young’s songs, but I prefer to have GOOD singers cover them. 😉
+1 Bob Dylan
::fistbumps TARDy::
I would agree if not for the best damn song that marble-mouthed perminator ever penned – https://youtu.be/agdoeRpTfHg
That kind of greatness excuses a great many ills.
We used to enjoy his Theme Time Radio Hour on SiriusXM. (I’m pretty sure it was on the Deep Tracks channel.) Lots of interesting stuff from all over the musical spectrum – even old radio commercials if they fit the theme du jour.
I as a HUGE fan when I was in my late teens. Of course that was when my life’s journey involved living like a fucking Hippy and sticking it to the man, Man! His politics turned me off the music as soon as I had to get a haircut and a real job.
I did kind of like his stab at Shrub Daddy though.
Kinder gentler machine gun hand.
The rap cadence in the verses?
Time for work, peace out!
Since I just cracked a beer (I dont have to work till tonight- dont judge me!) and wishin’ I was back in Tejas
Mornin’ glibbies! My new superpower is chatting up attractive younger brunettes with daddy issues! I don’t mean to do it. It’s just muscle memory. I’m a well-kept old janitor that can make a joke land. Little wonder that Judi always has the side-eye zeroed in. The fun part is the fun part. Hell, I haven’t even been fishing for years.
Is it different skill set than with blondes and gingers?
I work with nothing but crusty grumpy middle aged middle school men. When a female enters the work zone, production stops.
LOL… My female co-workers are either nice old Irish ladies or fast-assed young black women. No action for this old, cracker, beardo the weirdo regardless.
It’s not the action, it’s the game! It’s fucking near the only thing left in life that brings me a little joy and soon enough will fade away. I love women, always have.
“I have a certain skill-set …” I dunno. It’s always been brunettes that gravitate, blondes and red-heads I needed to pursue (with exceptions). Stupid fucking humblebrag. Sorry, folks. Wish I could edit comments.
Jugsy is 14 years my junior.
HMU for tips.
You just have to be not hideous, exude confidence and be excellent in her presence.
Neil Young is a canadian POS worthy of all my contempt.
This is why.
Amen, brother! https://youtu.be/sDz2rVgv0uM
A southern man don’t need him around anyhow.
One of my favorite songs of all time was written by commie POS Pete Seeger. If the song itself doesn’t espouse stuff I find offensive, I try not to hold the author’s identity against the song too much.
Really? And I was going to bring deviled AIGS to your crib ?
Only 3,000 views in three years? Sad.
A not insignificant number of those are probably mine, even though I have one of the original albums on vinyl and the collection pictured on MP3. I discovered her by winning the vinyl from some (probably public) radio station.
Meanwhile, Baby Shark has 8 jillion.
*rolls eyes, sees brain*
This new weed I got yesterday is the most fragrant I’ve come across in years. Opening my jar sends such a wonderful aroma around the house.
Im considering trying to dabble in the THC and cut back on beer.
The last time I got seriously stoned (like an old testament whore) I was messing around with this broad nicknamed “Miss Ganja”.
I woke around 2 am thinking Shaquille O’Neal was making cookies in my kitchen. I was starved- cookies seemed awesome.
I went in the kitchen, turned the lights on- no Shaq. No cookies. I was bummed out.
If I wanted to nurse myself off my bingeing, there is a pot-shop on nearly every corner here. Weed makes me paranoid even though I smoked it nearly every day for ten years.
Have some ridiculously bloated narcissism.
Pro-tip: people watch sports to get away from politics. Not to fucking soak in it.
Apparently plucky Germany wanted to tear down Hungary’s hate or some such bullshit I can’t be bothered to look into and the league wasn’t having it. But love finds a way! ?
“Pro-tip: people watch sports to get away from politics. Not to fucking soak in it.”
But if you’re a power hungry politician, why not exploit that demographic ?
Moonwalk octopus.