Wednesday night open post!

by | Jun 16, 2021 | Admin | 168 comments

Cats and dogs, living in sin.

 

Have at it, people!

 

 

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Spudalicious

Spudalicious

Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…

168 Comments

  1. The Bearded Hobbit

    “Every man has a right to his own destiny, until it crosses into another man’s.”

    Are you sure you don’t mean “density”?

    • The Hyperbole

      Isn’t “destiny” something that happens whether one likes it or not? I’m not certain that having a right to that actually makes sense.

    • blackjack

      Never cross destiny streams.

    • Gender Traitor

      “Destiny” is one of those stripper names, isn’t it?

      Demi Rose’s stripper name would be Density.

      • Chafed

        Ha! Well played.

      • blackjack

        Seconded!

  2. Ownbestenemy

    Never had Buffalo Trace. Not bad and decently priced.

    I had another overnight work of oil changes, waveguide swapping and 330 dipole elements that needed to be checked.

    Pasted out most of the day so now I will have to force myself to bed tonight.

    • blackjack

      I called in slick today. Oil changes tomorrow, bright and early.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I guess the adapter connecting to the drain/fill hose cracked and drenched the first crew in about 5 gallons of oil as it dumped from a bull gear.

      • blackjack

        Ouch! Hope it wasn’t hot.

    • blackjack

      I hope they didn’t pay her as much as the hot chicks they normally use.

    • Agent Cooper

      I can make an argument that the Angels had basically worn out their welcome marketing-wise by now. I once applied to be a Creative Director at VS and as I went through the interview process, I realized that it was basically ‘rearranging the Angels’ without any sense of innovation or ideation to keep VS fresh.

      However, what they’re doing now isn’t the answer.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Without the Angels and marketing, VS is just an underwear and loungewear company, and there are many others out there.

      • Agent Cooper

        They didn’t do anything but the Angels. Viewership for the Fashion Show was in a steady freefall.

      • Chafed

        I understand some type of creative change was in order. Going woke is not a creative change. It’s destroying the brand.

        I don’t know what percentage of purchases were made by men. Whatever the number was, it’s about to drop to zero.

      • blackjack

        I thought they angels, not the Angels.

      • Mojeaux

        Victoria’s Secret got boring in the late 90s.

      • rhywun

        This.

        It’s like looking at your Dad’s Playboys.

        There’s room for some different kind of “sexy” but without the, you know, shoving woke leftist politics down your throat which is what this seems to be.

        Oh, and with a different purple-haired chick half that one’s age.

      • Chafed

        Agreed. See my reply above.

      • Chafed

        Oh yeah?! Vince Neil got fat and Nikki Sixx realized he needs Mötley Crüe!

        *runs to room sobbing*

      • Mojeaux

        Curls curls curls.

        I actually don’t see Nikki anywhere on that stage. Looks like Tommy and two unknown guitar players.

        h/t SF

      • Chafed

        I believe it’s Vince and his solo band.

    • Spudalicious

      The replies are savage.

      • rhywun

        Oh I hope that’s someone trolling the Post because that’s the only thing that makes sense.

    • Q Continuum

      I’m going to start a fitness company and instead of using really in shape people for the promotional materials, I’m going to exclusively use morbidly obese people sitting on the couch eating chips.

      For diversity.

      • Q Continuum

        PS: Maybe the regular models’ self-esteem will be put down enough for me to have a shot.

      • Chafed

        Let me know if it works.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Negging as an advertising scheme?

        Bold strategy, Cotton.

      • rhywun

        morbidly obese people sitting on the couch eating chips

        Stop spying on me, bruh.

      • Brochettaward

        Chips are unsexy. You need to get real sloppy. Like greasy, oozing cheeseburgers and burritos where the refried beans pour out onto your lap.

    • Tres Cool

      She looks like Bowie and Annie Lennox had a baby boy.

  3. Agent Cooper

    Revisiting the GIF on Mexican Sharpshooter’s post, I realize that’s no cheek slap, that’s a 100% down-the-crack smack. Any farther and we’re talking sexual assault.

    • Spudalicious

      She taint mean nothing by it.

    • Brochettaward

      That sounds like the sort of headline a right wing site would write to describe a law. But that’s how they’re actually describing it.

    • Spudalicious

      My oldest sister is a retired math teacher from the Portland School District. She avoids the news like the plague. So of course, I sent her this article. She wasn’t too pleased and was damned glad she was retired.

    • blackjack

      This is a relief, because it explains why they’re cool with skipping two school years and barely negotiating a massively compromised third. They’ll be luck if any of these students can read or write after all this bullshit.

      • rhywun

        I was skeptical of the whole “lost generation” thing but geez I think they’re on to something.

    • Chafed

      It’s gated. What’s the rationale for this abomination?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Reader view bypasses their wallhedge.

        In reality, most schools relied primarily on standardized tests and most students easily passed them.

        But demonstrating proficiency proved most challenging for students who learned English as a second language, students with disabilities and students of color.

        Officials on the Oregon Board of Education, when they enacted the “essential skills” graduation requirement more than a decade ago, said they hoped no student would be denied a diploma for lacking the skills but that schools would step up and help juniors and seniors who hadn’t mastered enough English or math to do so. Many high schools created special math and writing workshop classes for seniors who needed to demonstrate those skills to get their diplomas.

        The bill calls on the diverse committee studying graduation requirements to come up with a recommendation “with the goal of ensuring that the processes and outcomes related to the requirements for high school diplomas are equitable, accessible and inclusive.”

      • Gustave Lytton

        Btw, the threshold is at a 10th grade level, not 12th.

      • Chafed

        I should have known equity/diversity/inclusion was the answer. I guess OR is challenging CA for dumbest state.

      • rhywun

        I think Ore. surpassed Calif. a while ago.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Went from hicks to Cascade Rouge in three generations.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Heres the scam…. publicly funded pre-k thru 12 doesnt provide the basics of education in math, reading, and science that it did 30 years ago, so young people now need to rack up massive student debt to get to those basics education levels hopefully by grade 14 (junior college).

      The reality is that undergrad is mostly commie indoctrination continuation to give the bachelor degree that isnt really worth the paper it is written on.

      So we have massive wealth transfers to commies who chose government jobs over from those that chose to educate themselves outside of the indoctrination centers but had kids.

      I am now reminding Libertarians that if you dont accept government service jobs, Lefties will. Lefties are for less likely to vote for the shrinking of government, so our corrupt government will expand.

      On the flip side, civil war 2.0 might resolve this entire bloated govt problem.

  4. UnCivilServant

    Well, I found my Walkman’s charging cable. It only appeared in my briefcase the third time I checked there.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      Site seems to be down.

    • Chafed

      Someone ignored his shout out above.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      All gun control laws are unconstitutional, therefore not legal laws at all.

      Serve on juries and acquit all defendants charged with gun control violations.

    • Brochettaward

      Never commit to a relationship with a woman before you’ve seen her without her makeup.

      • Don Escaped Texas

        before: you’ve seen her mother

    • Chafed

      Most hold quite well. Wood/would.

    • Festus

      Sure! I prefer the normal look to the “porn star” visage. They all look like fairly pretty girls that would be selling you cigarettes or beer at the local.

  5. robc

    Have a 3rd and 4th interview on Friday. Pretty sure I will be getting job offer next week.

    • robc

      And for those wondering, got a rejection email from Coinbase today.

      • Mojeaux

        I’m sorry. But good luck on Friday!

    • UnCivilServant

      I have to interview more people next week. I hate interviews from either side of the table. It feels like an adversarial process where both sides are suspecting the other of lying through their teeth. Half the time someone is.

      • rhywun

        One of the pleasures of being in a BigCorp silo is I don’t have to interview anyone any more. It almost makes working on the same project for the last six months and for the foreseeable future worth it.

      • UnCivilServant

        But if I don’t, then the people who actually do the hiring won’t be able to tell which of the candidates actually know what they’re talking about, since the hiring folks don’t understand our job.

        Since I have to train them either way, I’d rather not have to slog through training whoever charmed bullshat HR the best.

      • rhywun

        I do vet some of our consultants but only minorly and after the fact.

        I can see more of this in my future 🙁

        /i just want to code, why do they value my opinion??!

      • Sean

        As someone with hiring power/interviewing duties, I should take some offense at this, but meh…I’ll save my outrage for something else.

    • Chafed

      Sorry about not getting a Coinbase offer. Go kick ass on Friday!

  6. trshmnstr the terrible

    Well, the car saga has ended. After giving 10 separate traditional dealerships 12 hours to get me a motherloving quote for cars that are on their websites and getting exactly one quote that didn’t actually have all of the fees and assorted bullshit in it, I found a used version of the exact car we wanted (okay, the leather is black instead of brown, but I’ll live with it ?) on Vroom for enough cheaper that it warranted going used. 45 minutes later (mostly spent scanning in various documents) and they’re gonna drop the damn thing at my front door in a few days and haul off my trade-in.

    Good riddance dealership sales apes! I’m glad I found a used car at an okay price rather than buying some overpriced new car at sticker because “inventory is low”.

    • Mojeaux

      Well, hey, that’s not a bad end to the saga. In fact, rather anticlimactic. Then again, sometimes anticlimactic is good.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Yes, this. Anticlimactic is good.. I don’t hate the negotiation aspect of car buying. After all, negotiation is my day job. What I don’t like is negotiating with amoral shitheads. That feels too much like my day job.

        Like limey’s podcast link said, i just made a major purchase after doing a lot of research and saving. I should be rejoicing, not nursing my wounds and feeling like I just went 10 rounds with Mohammed Ali.

    • Don Escaped Texas

      Toyota had almost zero new cars on their lot yesterday.

      The thing about those dealer websites: 98% of the folks who use them never buy a car. It’s not that your business isn’t worthy: it’s that they can’t see you through the hail of utter bullshit.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Saw a classic car today. And by classic, I mean 50 years old. No micro chip.

      Remarking to wife that as the commies try to nuke our economy which has impacted micro chips—>new cars—>used cars…

      Classic cars might make a serious comeback. Not as efficient as modern engines but would you rather have an engine that runs or a “high performance engine” that is inoperable because of the car cannot get an operating microchip?

    • Sean

      Congrats.

      Never pay sticker price.

    • Not Adahn

      Good riddance dealership sales apes! </blockquote.

      Nick Sawark has a sad.

  7. Aloysious

    Since its an open post.

    People who sample a cherry out of the beautiful Washington cherry display, and then spit the pit back in to the display, suck. I would even go so far as to say that they suck sweaty taint.

    • Chafed

      What? Where did this happen?

    • Spudalicious

      Emmett?

  8. Gustave Lytton

    Hampton has updated their mask sign from required to a smaller one on the side of the door that merely asks you to follow state and local regulations. Almost makes up for the two assholes with trailers parked sideways across four spaces each, instead on the gravel lot on the other side of the bushes. Lots of amateur trailer drivers out this summer. Fuckers should be hanging from overpasses and trees pour encourager les autres.

    • Chafed

      I encourage you to park them in if possible.

    • Don Escaped Texas

      NewWife doesn’t understand why I just don’t patronize stores with any version of The Sign.

      The Sign
      * isn’t necessary
      * doesn’t improve health
      * doesn’t change behavior
      * doesn’t motivate compliance
      * doesn’t improve on my understanding
      * doesn’t teach me anything about the local jurisdiction’s law I didn’t already know
      * doesn’t work or create any actual benefit

      The Sign only does two things:
      * cream the jeans of authoritarian types
      * earn the undying and unforgotten hatred of the rest of us

      It is important to penalize the authoritarian types and the stupid types: don’t reward the guilty.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The state hasn’t eliminated their mask requirement, except under tortured conditions. Or remove their sign requirement. So for a business to do both, in the face of active fining, is a bit of pushback.

    • Gustave Lytton

      You misspelled WWOZ, but still good.

    • blackjack

      KKJZ out here, but you gotta wait until Sat. 2-6 and Sun. 2-7 for “Nuttin but the blues” The rest of it is some kind of jazz or something.

  9. Gender Traitor

    Our beloved minor league baseball team has now won all three of the games we’ve attended so far this season, and they’re leading their division. Also, it has not rained on any of our games yet.

    This is messing with my reality.

    • rhywun

      This is messing with my reality.

      I feel the same way about the gorgeous, cool, windy weather we’ve had for two nights in a row now.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      You should get free tickets.

    • Spudalicious

      A rare moment of Shumer speaking his mind.

  10. Gustave Lytton

    Was talking with a coworker today and the mask policy at work came up. Coworker remarked that as soon as it changed to vaccinated didn’t need to wear one, they went into the HRIS and updated their vaccination status so they could do so. This status reporting is voluntary and only accessible to a limited number of HR pukes. Which excludes people managers and coworkers… so why not just leave it blank and just ditch the mask?… I kept my mouth shut.

    • hayeksplosives

      My spouse keeps getting asked “ Are you vaccinated? “

      He says “Of course.”

      The fact that he’s talking about polio, smallpox, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, measles, mumps, and rubella hasn’t really come up.

      I’m pretty sure he’d pass a lie detector test on that question though.

  11. hayeksplosives

    California finally is letting folks go around unmasked.

    It’s great, BUT:

    1) I’ve seen many young people, from age 10 to 29, wearing masks even when they’re part of a group of unmasked older adults. We have fucked these kids’ mental health.

    2) OSHA guidance is inconsistent with CDC guidelines, so my employer is making us wear masks until they get clarification. Barf.

  12. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam

    They really need to stop giving me time off. Im eligible for a public intox just taking my trash to the curb.

    TALL CANS !

    • TARDis

      Drunken Recycling? Off with his pinky finger!

      TALL COFFEES!

      • Tres Cool

        Brah….its been 2 weeks. My little recycle bin sounded like someone emptied a bar’s dumpster.

      • TARDis

        They recycle glass where you are? Glass recycling ended a couple years ago here. That’s when pickup changed to every other week.

      • Gender Traitor

        All recyclables go into a separate bin, and they haven’t told us NOT to put in glass, so…

      • TARDis

        Until the Plandemic, we were barely filling the recycle bin every two weeks. Then when had to get a second recycle bin to accommodate all the Bezos boxes and bags that were getting delivered. Now my wife has become the Composting Obergruppenführer, so we have empty bins again. ?

      • Gender Traitor

        You throw away Useful Boxes??? We can’t fit any cars in our two-car garage anyway, so…

        In our defense, we rarely order from Amazon, so it didn’t get THAT much worse during the panicdemic.

      • TARDis

        You throw away Useful Boxes???

        No, we recycle them.
        First it was fast recycling, now it’s slow recycling. 🙂

      • Festus

        Dude. I recycle my cans in industrial bags that hold 150 of them. The wall-o-cans is currently stacked high at eleven. I can only fit eight in the bed of the Tacoma and I can’t put them outside because the bears would go on a bender. Yes, I drink too much…

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, homey & TARDy ::glances downthread:: & Sean!

      ::scrolls down to check out Sean’s AM tunage::

      • Gender Traitor

        Good morning to you, too, U!

      • Sean

        Greetings

    • TARDis

      Kind of disappointing actually. The narration fits.

      • Sean

        Yeah, the snark was better than the jiggling.

    • TARDis

      The experiment to determine just exactly how many people who should be institutionalized are wandering around freely?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Seems like twice the unknown long term risks with no added benefit. Get it or don’t but combinations sound like a really stupid idea.

      • TARDis

        It’s a replacement for getting the most piercings, or tattoos crowd. “Look at my vaccinations card! Look! Look! Look!”

    • Gender Traitor

      They afraid it’s going to trigger The Big One?

  13. Tres Cool

    I’m not an advocate of violence. But if I heard someone on this road yanked the asshole Rumpke driver out and beat him into a coma for leaving everyone’s bins laying on their side in the way of traffic ?
    I’d understand.

    • Gender Traitor

      My theory is that someone at Rumpke is a township trustee’s BIL.

      • Tres Cool

        I concur. Someone connected lives in this ‘hood or has family at the township here.
        These streets are cleared of snow long before the city’s are.

  14. Festus

    Mornin’ Glibbies! In reply to Tres above, Rapinoe looks like something that I’d need to shoo away with a menacing broom. Bad critter! Begone!

    • Gender Traitor

      Is it transitioning? If so, which way?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They’re just trying to make inroads into the vast untapped boyish looking female soccer player that wants to buy sexy lingerie demographic. It is vast, isn’t it?

      • TARDis

        It’s just a subset of the whiny unattractive cunte demographic. They are looking to draw in the whole bunch. “Pretty on the outside, ugly on the inside”

      • Festus

        She wants to bite your dick off and then disembowel you with her bare hands. Solid wood!

      • Festus

        I’ve “Chased Amy” before. It doesn’t turn out like that stupid twee movie, either. (at least not for me)

  15. UnCivilServant

    I just put on the last of the ‘use it or lose it’ beef. It was a pack of ground beef that I mixed with finely chopped bacon and ground venison to make a meatloaf. I only used nine different herbs and spices because I forgot to add the salt and pepper (though salt is neither an herb or a spice)

    • Tres Cool

      However, salt (sodium chloride) makes up around 0.4% of your body weight.

    • Gender Traitor

      That sounds delicious. Do you put the hard-boiled egg in the middle, or is it just All Meat, All the Time.

      • UnCivilServant

        I used one raw egg as a binder since the venison has given me trouble in that department in the past. But the only place I’ve heard of wrapping an egg in ground meat is in the preparation of a scotch egg. Do people do meatloaf like that?

      • Gender Traitor

        I don’t make meatloaf myself, but I have a mental picture of slices of meatloaf with a slice of hard-boiled egg in them. Perhaps that just a product of my fevered imagination.

      • Tres Cool

        Uhhh….I just made meatloaf.
        Want me to bring you a sammich ?

      • Tres Cool

        1st off, I dont use ketchup, unless requested. And since its just me & The Dozer…
        2 lbs ground beef (Kroger recently had tubes of their 80/20 pink slime on sale, so thats the protein)
        2 AIGS
        1/4 cup milk
        1/4 cup bread-crumbs

        Packet of McCormick’s meatloaf seasoning. Mix, toss in a loaf pan, cook at 350º F or something like that until done. Maybe 45 minutes.
        Bon appetite!

      • UnCivilServant

        ketchup is not a meatloaf ingredient.

        Nor are bread crumbs.

        Why milk?

      • Gender Traitor

        Thanks, but I have to leave for the Subaru dealer shortly to get the A/C fixed once & for all.

        I like to think you’d say, “Girrrrrl! You NEED to eat a sammich!”

        (Does your meatloaf have the hard-boiled egg?)

      • Festus

        Abeula’s Grandaughter?

      • Gender Traitor

        (“that” s/b “that’s.” I give myself facial tics with typos like that.)

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, it’s out of the oven and… it’s okay.

        Not great, not terrible, just okay.

      • Gender Traitor

        Probably needs more bacon.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    the vast untapped boyish looking female soccer player that wants to buy sexy lingerie demographic

    If you only knew what they have hidden under those baggy shorts.

    SEXXXY!

    • Festus

      It’s just so cynical at this point. They’re not even trying anymore.

    • Festus

      Buddy’s Dad whom I used to fish with recreationally on the coast had a little break-down .22 that he’d use on halibut. The big ones are dangerous when you get them in the boat so you need to shoot them through the brain after gaffing them. Even after he shot and killed the 120 pounder I caught, three hours later I wound up sitting atop the cooler just to keep it within. Halibut is nothing but a huge sideways muscular eating machine.

      • Festus

        It was like those scenes from “The Evil Dead” where his sister is locked in the basement.

      • Sean

        LOL

    • Tres Cool

      She’s 44 years old and behaving like that.