See, when your wife is gone for six weeks, things… happen. And not exclusively things of which she’d approve. So, I’m now in the process of turning the house back from its current bachelor pad level of hygiene and order to the sort of place that a solid, conservative middle-of-the-road couple would occupy. That means no heads in the freezer, for a start.
Birthdays today include SugarFree’s nemesis; one of the signers of the Declaration; a featured player in the first Three Stooges short; a guy who could shoot straight; a guy who truly believed; a brilliant performer who served his duke well; a character actor who was in EVERYTHING; a guy who started a salutary family tradition; a woman simulateously passed over for what she did and credited with far more than she did; a guy who was against the Vietnam war after he was for it; a woman with two heads; a brilliant and creative guy who died far too young; another guy who died far too young (and was a great argument for the Second Amendment); and a guy who was all sweetness and light.
Now, while all my parts are still attached, let’s look at Links.
Too much chlorine does funny shit to the brain.
I’m having trouble feeling sorry. There’s a lot of karma involved.
Continuing in the Olympic tradition of trash-sports.
Well, if this doesn’t convince you to make vaxxes mandatory, nothing will.
“We lost three guys doing the nasal swab.”
I saw him live once. Guess I won’t twice.
Old Guy Music answers the question, “Would you like to hear some slide guitar?” with an emphatic, “FUCK, YEAH!”
LYNX UP! The sabbath is officially on.
That was yesterday.
Here you go kvetching about the sabbath again…
Too bad his kvetching isn’t funny. 😉
It’s not Sabbath, it’s Rory Gallagher!
Thought he might have gone this way given one of the birthday boys.
this way [done right]
Morning, Old Man.
Belatedly responding to your greetings on the now-dead thread – good morning, U!
Just hit “Send” on a reply e.
Got it and responded.
Likewise.
Legit LOL on the signers of the declaration
I looked, yep good one,
“Covid could be spread through flatulence, say ministers”
Zomg! *masks up*
🙄
You’ll be safe as long as you steer clear of nursing homes. The ‘vid is a silent but deadly cloud permeating the atmosphere of those institutions.
The 16-bed recovery room I woke up in after my colonoscopy was nicknamed “Fart Central” by the nurses there (your colon’s inflated so the camera can get a good peek), and the place lived up to its nickname.
Guess I’m a dead man. Nothing left but to wait for the inevitable and ask someone to stack my corpse with all the others.
Speaking of which: https://twitter.com/DonaldWelsh16/status/1419268836528906244
As an old ‘Scopy Warrior, I assure you you will survive . One time I stopped to shop on the way home, that was a mistake. I didn’t go back to that store for about 6 weeks, hoping I’d been forgotten. Actually it wasn’t serious, a little leakage contained in the undies but it felt like a 3 dayer.
Rosalind Franklin was for the Vietnam War before she was against it? And she was a guy?
I thought the same. A woman (?) before her time! And before the war.
Yeah, there are two links to the Wikipedia bio of Rosalind Franklin: “credited…” and “he was for it”
It’s fixed now. The guy was a douchebag politician that Carol King bought a ranch from.
I had to leave the keyboard before posting that. When I returned I didn’t check for a fix. My bad.
Rewatched The Jerk just the other day…RIP Jackie.
Go to IMDB, that bastion of “movie news” and Jackie’s passing doesn’t even make the headlines. You know what is there though? “Michael B Jordan to Develop Black Superman Limited Series for HBO Max” SMGDFH
Take that, Norks. We have empty-headed personality cultists, to.
Why in the actual fuck were they even testing the snow leopard for COVID??
Is it government funded “gain of function” research?
Hey, it could be catastrophic if left unchecked.
I know, right? Where would we be without lynx to comment on?
~grudging smirk~
I bet we’d still have eight more tries to get it right.
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Good Morning All
The heat is returning to Oklahoma, have to water the plants, and work on the sheep fencing. My glib fit of the day.
Going to be a great day!
“Sheep fencing:” How do you even get a sheep to hold a sword?
Duct tape.
Lol
Ask the Scots, they have a way with them.
Last thing a Scot ever wants to see is a sheep with a sword!
An oldy but goody
Human society is on track for a collapse in the next two decades if there isn’t a serious shift in global priorities, according to a new reassessment of a 1970s report, Vice reported
In that report — published in the bestselling book “The Limits to Growth” (1972) — a team of MIT scientists argued that industrial civilization was bound to collapse if corporations and governments continued to pursue continuous economic growth, no matter the costs. The researchers forecasted 12 possible scenarios for the future, most of which predicted a point where natural resources would become so scarce that further economic growth would become impossible, and personal welfare would plummet.
The report’s most infamous scenario — the Business as Usual (BAU) scenario — predicted that the world’s economic growth would peak around the 2040s, then take a sharp downturn, along with the global population, food availability and natural resources. This imminent “collapse” wouldn’t be the end of the human race, but rather a societal turning point that would see standards of living drop around the world for decades, the team wrote.
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The good news is that it’s not too late to avoid both of these scenarios and put society on track for an alternative — the Stabilized World (SW) scenario. This path begins as the BAU and CT routes do, with population, pollution and economic growth rising in tandem while natural resources decline. The difference comes when humans decide to deliberately limit economic growth on their own, before a lack of resources forces them to.
“The SW scenario assumes that in addition to the technological solutions, global societal priorities change,” Herrington wrote. “A change in values and policies translates into, amongst other things, low desired family size, perfect birth control availability, and a deliberate choice to limit industrial output and prioritize health and education services.”
On a graph of the SW scenario, industrial growth and global population begin to level out shortly after this shift in values occurs. Food availability continues to rise to meet the needs of the global population; pollution declines and all but disappears; and the depletion of natural resources begins to level out, too. Societal collapse is avoided entirely.
This scenario may sound like a fantasy — especially as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels soar to record highs. But the study suggests a deliberate change in course is still possible.
The solution is clear. A socialist world government (with absolute enforcement powers) is the key to our salvation. We just need to demonstrate the righteousness of our cause. Crack some capitalist heads.
*I love the way it’s always “all costs and no benefits” with these bozos. Henry Ford built the River Rouge plant for the sole purpose of ravaging the earth and spewing vast clouds of toxic smoke into the sky.
“The difference comes when humans decide to deliberately limit economic growth on their own, before a lack of resources forces them to.”
And you’ll be one of the ones to guide the limitation of economic activity I’ll just assume. Go fuck yourself.
Scenario one: commie idiots stir up massive paranoia and cause huge suffering time and time again, yet mankind and the world carry on anyway.
Scenario two: Most of the rest of the world gets fed up with the commie idiots and tells them to shut up and go away, everyone is richer and happier and mankind and the world carry on.
Malthusians have to malthuse.
Travis Corcoran was on the Timcast this past week and this was referenced. Good episode. Big focus on his “Escape the City” homesteading book.
It’s Malthusiasm all the way down. They’re very Malthusiastic about it.
Just more proof it’s the seventies all over again.
Caught the tail end of an episode of The Carol Burnett Show on one of the local PBS stations last night. The big dance troupe number was surprisingly political, with the singers/dancers bemoaning the issues of the day on a set decorated with the words “INFLATION,” “DEFLATION,” “POLLUTION,” etc.
Plus ça change…
From Wikipedia, the original predictions were:
Global Industrial output per capita reaches a peak around 2008, followed by a rapid decline
Global Food per capita reaches a peak around 2020, followed by a rapid decline
Global Services per capita reaches a peak around 2020, followed by a rapid decline
Global population reaches a peak in 2030, followed by a rapid decline
I guess when it became apparent that none of these things were likely to happen, they updated the book to push the timelines further into the future.
Old Man- with Jugsy gone from Chez Tres for 2 weeks at a shot, you have my empathy. The afternoon before she returns I’m running around trying to make this place looks less like Delta House. With just me here (and The Dozer), the crib is littered with beer cans, pizza/delivery boxes, and post-it notes on each computer reminding me “run BleachBit and clean the browser history”.
I’m spending the day cleaning the kitchen and packing up my lab. It’s an exciting life.
Have you cooked her something tasty to (perhaps) soften the blow if the “disaster recovery” protocol fails to achieve the desired results?
Good luck. Your TDAP is up to date, right?
With all the clues emanating from the Phoenix area I sort of puzzled out that there is a move towards a cooler clime in store but I couldn’t quite put my finger on the exact place, those Rhywon left weren’t very exacting.
Too bad you didn’t decide on a bit farther west. Good luck to y’all. The Wonder Dog will be happier not chasing armadillos.
I’d have loved to see Wonder Dog going after a road runner (complete with all the Acme paraphernalia Old Man could provide.)
Rural western New York, basically Finger Lakes adjacent.
Pretty area, but humid summers. (I grew up across the lake in Mississauga, Ontario.)
I thought so growing up in the area until I moved to NYC and experienced real humidity for the first time.
Oh, the thermal inversions, air pollution and 99% humidity for weeks on end were pretty convincing to me.
At least, until the first time I went to Cancun. Holy crap, talk about humidity . . .
Maybe different weather on your side. We rarely got anything that dramatic growing up in Rochester or Buffalo.
Save us, SCIENCE!
For the love of Government, SAVE US.
Why in the actual fuck were they even testing the snow leopard for COVID??
An abundance of caution.
I think you spotted the reason.
An abundance of government funding, I reckon.
I agree that skateboarding does not belong in the Olympics. Even back in the seventies, we bitched about contests being totally subjective. You can tell if someone is a good skater, and if they had a good run. You can’t tell which of two good skaters is slightly better.
Next up, synchronized skateboarding.
and one of the few ‘celebrity’ impressions I can do.
TERROR on the tarmac
A United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Orlando was evacuated on Thursday after a teenager sent a photo of an airsoft gun to other passengers on the plane, according to NBC Bay Area.
United Airlines Flight 2167 was preparing to leave the gate at San Francisco International Airport when several passengers received the image of a replica weapon via Apple’s AirDrop feature, airport spokesperson Doug Yakel told the media outlet.
The pilot announced a “threat on board” after several complaints were made to flight attendants, according to SF Gate.
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It was determined that the image of the airsoft gun was taken at a prior date and that the teenager did not have the imitation firearm in his possession, the spokesperson added.
The plane was then cleared for reboarding, NBC Bay Area reported. The teenager was not allowed to get back on the plane, the media outlet said.
Life in Supermax for you, you foul fiend.
No capture of the pic in question? That’s a trend I’ve been noticing lately, the steadfast insistence by the press that you’re just going to have to take their word for it because they won’t the picture/words/whatever that form the nucleus of the story. I wonder if it had a big orange piece of plastic on the end.
See the recent explosion of stories on the “racist” graffiti on the Marcus Rashford (soccer dude) mural. Pixelated out in all coverage, and then eventually we find out it was nothing race-related after all. Not that it matters; they just needed long enough to spew out enough pieces to set the narrative in stone.
Facts don’t matter. We needed to start a “discussion.”
I thought that was when the entire episode was actually the work of a SJW perpetrating a hoax?
Criticism of a nonwhite person is defacto racism by definition, unless they’re Asian (our Asian, not your Asian) of course.
Eventually they’ll just write the propaganda headline and just skip the tedious article-writing altogether. Just paste in the “Lorem ipsum” and call it a day.
Just now I tried reading an article titled ‘What was written on Marcus Rashford mural? Artwork of footballer defaced with graffiti ‘not racial’ say police‘, and this is still the only info in the article on the content of the graffitti:
the motive behind defacing the artwork
I’m now betting that the motive was the wanker missed his penalty.
If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen. Screw that whiner, good god the English speaking world has become irredeemably soft.
CSI: Paint division
Rory Gallagher was an absolute demon shredder.
Yup. That guy was a badass!
My best mechanical engineer is a practicing Jewish man, Russian born, American raised. Very quiet typically and (I think) trying to avoid derision of his peers for actually believing in God.
He has fallen into the clutches of a draconian project manager who wants to own him 24-7, but that manager still has to go through me as the functional manager for his time.
I have stunned the pushy project manager a few times by giving a simple unyielding No whenever a Jewish holiday comes up. I never say why, and I also am able to fine tune it sometimes by saying, “no, he will be out starting Friday afternoon. It’s a long pre-arranged day off.” It rarely is that far prearranged unless you count the Torah as being the reservation.
So even for the days around Tisha B’av I had his calendar blocked.
The dickhead project manager also wanted to own him the week of Rose Hashashana but I cut him off and said “That’s a negative, Ghost Rider. He is unavailable until Thursday that week.” The PM has no idea what to make of a woman who says no without further discussion.
I rather enjoy my job.
???
You tell him, H.
“Rose Hashashana” for the win. Now I’m picturing an elderly Jewish woman saying “oy, they never visit.”
I hate my “smart” phone
I had a manager (from Staten Island) who referred to it as Rusha Homa.
My company is so (((this))) that there is officially early Friday close during the season of short daylight.
That’s cool.
Legit ancient religious tradition is one of the few stable things left.
I used to work for a (((company))). There was a mezuzah on every door frame in the office. Catered events were always kosher. Never had an event Friday nights or Saturdays. It was a great company that treated us well. The owner sold it when it got to large for him to manage.
Good on ya. Related, the guy who hired me 3.5 years ago submitted his resignation Friday, and I am going to miss him. Israeli, practicing Orthodox, he is the one of the nicest guys I have ever met, and also the lead architect on a key component of our software stack. Brilliant guy.
He is also on radio silence from sundown to sundown on Sabbath, in addition to all the usual holidays. Somehow, that has never been an issue, and rightly so.
I may be going out on a limb here, but I’ll bet Mr. Dickhead is all in on DEI; funny how champions of diversity are all about conformity in practice.
Funny how champions of diversity are all about conformity in practice.
“Funny” in the non-humorous sense.
Good morning glibbs!
Good morrow to you sir!
-curtsy-
“The passing of Steven Weinberg is a loss for The University of Texas and for society. Professor Weinberg unlocked the mysteries of the universe for millions of people, enriching humanity’s concept of nature and our relationship to the world,” said UT president Jay Hartzell. “From his students to science enthusiasts, from astrophysicists to public decision makers, he made an enormous difference in our understanding. In short, he changed the world.”
Yeah, but did he advance the political interests of the LGBTQRSTUV community?
He’s lucky he made it to the end without being canceled for some off-color comment made decades ago.
No capture of the pic in question? That’s a trend I’ve been noticing lately, the steadfast insistence by the press that you’re just going to have to take their word for it because they won’t the picture/words/whatever that form the nucleus of the story. I wonder if it had a big orange piece of plastic on the end.
That would perpetuate the terror and needlessly expose millions to an unacceptable risk.
Also, bad words and phrases which are lethally destructive to the delicate sensibilities of people of color cannot be allowed to infect the goodthinkful interhive.
I had no idea Jackie Mason was still alive.
https://drinkmonday.co/
Zero alcohol gin. Pass.
Sounds disgusting.
What’s the point?
Maybe if you’re in recovery but really like the taste of a true martini and/or a G&T? Never having knowingly ingested either drink, I don’t know if I’ve ever drunk gin – unless it’s one of the many ingredients of Long Island iced tea.
I believe TT has said he didn’t like gin even before he sobered up.
It’s definitely an acquired taste. If you love the smell of Pine Sol you’ll probably like it.
It’s one of the ingredients in a Long Island.
If you want to get technical, if you’ve ever had a flavored vodka, you’ve had gin.
I have not. And I’ve not had a LIIT for at least 25 years. Found out the hard way it was much too tasty for my own good.
Boodles is good. Hendricks is pretty good.
Even though it’s hanging from a large S-hook from the frame of the patio roof, bugs (ants?) still manage to get up to my hummingbird feeder. It looks as if one actually managed to get through the tip at the end of the dispensing tube, drowned, and floated to the top of the nectar. The hummer is still drinking from the feeder, but….ewwww!
Any clever sciencey or engineeringy types have an idea for how to keep bugs from getting to the feeder at all, much less through the tip? I suspect some enterprising insects would still make their way to the sweet stuff even if I had the feeder suspended with fishing line.
https://dwazoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/giantanteater.jpg
I saw one of those (in the wild, not a zoo) in Brazil.
Magnificent bastard.
Nice Jackie Mason tie-in.
Whoops – that was an aardvark, not an anteater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Aardvark
I’ve had great results using ant baffles. You hang your feeder from them and the ants can’t get around the “moat”.
They have them at Amazon or wild bird’s unlimited, etc.
If you search “ant baffle hummingbird” you will have a wide selection.
Thanks! Might even be able to rig up one DIY.
Good morning, Old Man!
I guess I’ll add the Olympics to my list of ‘sports I formerly enjoyed but now have become too retarded’.
It’s a long list.
Nice song! Rory could play a little.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/23/new-us-capitol-police-chief-500679
They hired an old white guy? Seems problematic.
They have “thousands” of officers? To protect a city block or so? Holy fuck, that’s a lot of cops. Why did they ever need any reinforcements of any kind?
When you steal half of what people earn and most of their liberty, you might need a lot of armed people protecting your criminal gang.
Just more proof it’s the seventies all over again.
In that case, where are my cocaine-fueled all night sex adventures?
It’s the post-AIDS 70s, not the fun part of the 70s
Are Ludes back?
Cosby is out of prison, so yes.
Lol
Yusef, wherever you are, kudos to you for sticking to your guns and actually resigning when your employer tried to force you to get the Covid vaccine.
Many of us said we’d never submit but buckled when it came down to choosing paycheck or principles, but you stood firm.
Respect.
Thank you
\humbled
What ‘splosives said.
Yeah, keep taking Nancy Reagan’s advice on this.
Probably posted already but “CNN: Segregate Unvaccinated, Make Them Pay For Tests Every Day”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/cnn-segregate-unvaccinated-make-them-pay-tests-every-day
Now we aren’t going to force you to get vaccinated, we’re just going to effectively charge you fifty bucks a day or whatever it costs to exist in society.
The division they are promoting is going to be far more deadly than the goddam virus.
JFC this is getting disturbing.
They’re getting desperate
This Christian says sabbath starts at sundown friday and ends on Saturday at sunset, (((they))) started it,not us.
I resigned my position at Gourmet Mushrooms last week, I won’t get the vaccine, so must wear a mask forever. Those who can prove they got the shot wear a shiny red badge and no masks.
Flat out second class citizen Bullshit, so I left. My main Boss warned them we would lose good people, and is trying to accomodate me, but the Ethics the Company has shown me tells me I should back away. I told them it was a religious thing, but they don’t care, so I’ll just keep my Soul thanks, God will provide.
Finding a job where that’s not a requirement is going to get more and more difficult depending on local especially. Best of luck to you.
That’s rough, man. Hope you find something soon. This bullshit has to stop.
McDonalds, Spotify, ITunes, Etsy, Ebay. I’m going to sell some art, and promote my music, and still get to keep my Soul, a good trade off,
hope for the best!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rEZH0t5Yozw
If I gave you everything that I owned and asked for nothing in return
Would you do the same for me as I would for you
Or take me for a ride, and strip me of everything including my pride?
But spirit is something that no one destroys
And the sound that I’m hearing is only the sound
The low spark of high-heeled boys
I hope you’ve consulted a lawyer.
Screw them, if you can.
I may, others at the company will, and those Lawyers will seek Me out.
Good for you, Bob.
Yippee! I’m on Itunes! a bit of Electronica to get started, but my entire catalogue is going multiplatform, away from YT,
https://music.apple.com/us/album/soundtrack-single/1578047220?uo=4&app=itunes
Nice! Not my usual fare these days, but brings back memories of some good times in my younger days.
I have a kinds of stuff, punk, jazz, reggae and more, I’ll post as they come online,
Thanks
California Dreamin’ coming to Spotify,
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/cbsoundcraft/california-dreamin
I love it! I just remembered, I bought Copyrights to this song, 22 years ago, they get 3 cents per copy sold,
Yes!
Swing for the fence
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 99.5 percent of Americans who have died from COVID-19 during the last six months were unvaccinated. In addition, more than 97 percent of current hospitalizations that involve the highly contagious delta variant, today’s predominant strain, are being experienced by people who have not received shots. Thus, vaccinating substantial numbers of the unvaccinated would almost certainly save tens of thousands of lives,/strong> — in terms both of preventing new infections in the near future and in protecting all Americans vaccinated and unvaccinated — against the prospective spread of more lethal covid variants.
Magic potion is magic.
Let people take the risk for themselves if they want. If you can force people to introduce foreign substances into their bodies you can force them to do anything.
More lethal? Case numbers have gone up, but deaths have remained flat, at least so far as I recall from all of the journalisming.
More easily spread, less severe symptoms AKA the natural tendency of viruses to flow into niches that facilitate transmission and the survival of the hosts.
Are you speaking… science?
The division they are promoting is going to be far more deadly than the goddam virus.
“E pluribus unum”? Fuck that.
Divide and Conquer.
Divide & Conquer
They use what works and that works. Always has, always will.
not sure if this is a butt drugs link or not:
Eric Clapton refuses to play venues requiring vaccines for concertgoers
Nope, but good on him, puts his money where his mouth is,
Alright, fess up. How many of you are featured in this film? Hyperbole, get your sign!
https://youtu.be/hsp1JJk8d9k
From the introduction to Johan Norberg’s “Open: The Story of Human Progress”
The only conclusion I can draw from the past 18 months: the credentialed class hates you and wants you to suffer.
Same here.
We have nothing to fear, but
fearthe government, itself.Alex Berenson on the vax nonsense.
Dead horse could use more beating .
No doubt, now sensible people know what it was like to be alive during the witch burnings.
No, they’ll be preaching that Jan.6th was equivalent to the firing on Fort Sumter.
?Sunday, Slutty Sunday?
https://archive.li/GkHmh
Society circling the drain
The site has been mostly cleared and its debris relocated to a collection site as evidence for investigations into the collapse.
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman has appointed a receiver, attorney Michael Goldberg, to oversee the complicated legal and financial issues involved and explore the land’s value as a potential source of compensation for the victims.
Hanzman also ordered the start of the process to sell the land, which could fetch up to $110 million, said Christina Pushaw, a spokesperson for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The judge said this week that proceeds from the sale should go directly to the survivors and victims’ families.
Some relatives of victims have said they don’t want another condo building erected on the site.
“I’m not saying to not sell the land. The land needs to be sold and we need to be compensated for what happened,” Martin Langesfeld, whose sister died in the collapse, told CNN affiliate WFOR.
But Langesfeld said he’d prefer to see Miami-Dade County or another government agency buy the land and not build new condos on it so that “the victims’ families get the dignity and respect we’re looking for.”
He added, “Would you want to live where your family died?”
Soriya Cohen, whose husband, Brad Cohen, perished in the condo collapse, also said she doesn’t want a new building erected on the property. Instead, she said, the whole site should be set aside as a memorial for those who died.
“I can’t even imagine such a desecration. Imagine if that was your spouse, your parent or your grandparent and to make money, they built on top of it,” Cohen told CNN affiliate WPLG. “I’m asking people to respect that and respect the families and the people who have already suffered so much and not to add to our pain.”
By all means, wallow in your grief and self-pity. Demand that others support you. Make a career out your victimhood.
Good luck finding a man who doesn’t watch porn lady.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15664850/my-partner-has-a-secret-porn-addiction/
The process of determining what happens to the site will be based on three steps. Goldberg, the receiver, will determine what the majority of the condo owners want and issue recommendations to the judge, who will ultimately make the final decision, said Burkett, the mayor.
State officials won’t have any say in it, according to DeSantis’ office.
“It’s not up to the state how the land is used, because it’s not public land,” said Pushaw, the governor’s spokesperson. “Survivors have expressed different opinions about what to do with the land, with some suggesting that it should be sold to local or state government, and some wanting to sell to a private developer to rebuild on the site so they can move back to the place they still consider their home.”
But what about SOCIETY’s needs?
*As interpreted by the Public Victimology Experts’ cartel.
I decided to use some personal days , so I don’t have set foot inside the grocery store until Thursday night. I’m already buzzed and eating leftover pizza pie.
“The snakes they can crawl
And the cheetahs they can bawl
And their ghosts can wait for the hereafter
But if you are so proud
As to say that’s not allowed
We will get sick and choke ourselves with laughter
And all the girlfriends that you knew
To whom you promised to be true
We’ll have their sisters
Hanging from the rafters
And every dirty shade will rise rotting from its grave
Tomorrow will be just like the day after
And this bitter desert wind
Will come ripping through your skin
And everything that’s calm will turn to madness
And all of your false tears
Will come whirling down the years
And what was kind and warm will turn to sadness
And the sun and the moon
Will come begging at your door
The stars will turn to rust
And drop from the skies
And everybody will soon be asking you for more
And everybody will be telling lies
And all the girlfriends that you knew
To whom you promised to be true
We’ll have their sisters
Hanging from the rafters
And every dirty shade will rise rotting from its grave
Tomorrow will be just like the day after”
I AM VINDICATED!
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/women-smaller-breasts-more-likely-24534605
I fucking love science! Or is it I love fucking science?
I couldn’t find the number, but do 52% of all women have a bust size between AA and C?
Fatties tend to have bigger busts.
Fatties also have a harder time cheating.
Correlation ≠ causation.
Today, in the politicization of everything
Women being judged on their perceived femininity rather than their athleticism is a symptom of a bigger problem. Sports are often a “microcosm of our society,” said Akilah Carter-Francique, the executive director for the Institute for the Study of Sport, Society and Social Change at San José State University.
“There are those societal expectations that fall in line with gender norms that are couched in patriarchy about how women should present themselves. … From hair to makeup to clothing, to how tight [or loose] the clothing is, to the colors,” Carter-Francique told NPR. “[All] so that they can be more in line with this notion of girlhood, of womanhood, of what is deemed femininity.”
Having to combat sexist standards that echo what they’re already dealing with isn’t the only thing that can turn girls away. A lack of access and cultural stigma also contribute to low participation numbers, according to a report from the Women’s Sports Foundation, and girls who do stick with sports may find themselves in programs that receive less attention and funding.
A change in culture needs to happen, Scurry said.
“It starts with the dollar, and it starts with the seed — not the fruit,” Scurry said. “If you were planting 100 seeds and you plant 98 on one side and two on the other? Good luck with the harvest on the other side. … You have to be a lot more fair in the beginning, not at the end.”
Fucking patriarchy. It’s everywhere.
How long before Women become extinct? We need Moar Wimmins Laws!
/Save the Wimmins!
So they have some complaining that they have to wear too little, and others complaining that they can’t wear little enough.
Incoherent logic FTW
“…executive director for the Institute for the Study of Sport, Society and Social Change at San José State University.”
Fuck. Off.
Where exactly are these people? Seriously. I don’t think I’ve ever actually encountered someone who actually cares what the hell a female athlete actually wears. About the only thing I’ve ever seen is people who get their knickers in a twist when someone doesn’t clap like a trained seal over them.
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Dear Care and Feeding,
I need some help gaining perspective on my 15-year-old child’s whiplash approach to gender and sexuality. For the last three years, they have been on a journey with regard to their sexuality, declaring and changing identities one every few weeks or months, even when those identities have been both contradictory (how can one be both asexual and polyamorous?) and hypothetical (my kid isn’t dating and hasn’t dated). They are committed to being anything but cisgender and hetero, and that identity—whatever it turns out to be—appears from their actions and words to be the central part of their sense of self. They spent a lot of time on queer wikis, looking up new possible identities. They avidly “ship” fictional characters into same-sex couples, express anger/disappointment when shows/books have hetero couples, and talk constantly about LGBTQIA issues, representation, etc.
I have been, and want to be, supportive. My kid deserves to be loved and celebrated for who they are, and however their identity settles out is fine with me. But I am also struggling with these rapid changes. In the last two weeks, my kid has changed their name once and pronouns twice, colored their hair, worn exaggeratedly feminine eye makeup, pinned their hair up to look masculine, purchased a bikini and a dress and then asked me to buy them a binder (because they think it would be “fun” to look like a boy sometimes). At this point, it feels like they’re trying on identities like costumes, and that makes me very uncomfortable. None of it feels authentic—it seems more like a bid to stand out in a crowd or perhaps to find the limits of my acceptance.
I have worked so hard to make sure my kids know they are loved unconditionally, but if this kid is looking for a boundary, maybe I should set one? I literally squirmed when I wrote that sentence; setting a random limit on acceptance goes against everything I believe. But at the same time, I am so, so tired of hearing about their identity day after day after day and of trying to keep up with the changes. They’re a great, smart, interesting kid for a dozen different reasons; their gender/sexuality is just one aspect of their personality. Would it be wrong of me to say, in essence, “I love you, and will never not love you. When you figure out your identity let me know, and in the meantime can we maybe stop talking about it all the time?” Also, as the world opens up and my kid spends more time outside of our home, can I/should I ask them to be more thoughtful in how they present themselves? It seems to me that trans and nonbinary people cannot simply change their identities and expression for “fun,” so my kid’s behavior feels a little bit like cosplaying in a way that could be hurtful. Or do I just keep keeping my mouth shut, do my best to remember this week’s identity, and pray that this phase ends soon?
—Tired and Confused
Dear Tired and Confused-
Congratulations. You taught your kid to play you like a fiddle.
The current generation of kids has been broken by stupidity.
“None of it feels authentic—it seems more like a bid to stand out in a crowd or perhaps to find the limits of my acceptance.”
DING DING DING DING DING!
Not as though teenagers haven’t been doing this kind of shit for time immemorial. It’s just that when I was coming up they’d get tattoos (before tattoos were fucking ubiquitous), wear black clothes and makeup and pretend to be Satan worshippers (or whatever). Now most of those “rebels” are settled down in the ‘burbs with 2.4 kids, complaining about mill levies and having affairs with the neighbors.
…and their 2.4 kids are having to come up with new and different ways to rebel.
Right?! That’s like so boring and stuff.
It sounds to me like the child needs to try on the identity of “Recipient of a swift kick in the ass”.
/Red Forman.
Tell the kid to knock off all the freaky shit. Tell it to wait until it’s over eighteen and then it can live out it’s fantasy of being a character from a Lou Reed song all it wants. If that doesn’t get through to it, kick they/them right the fuck out. That would be my plan.
Headline:
“Floridas Covid hospitalization jumps by 65% since last week.”
From 3 to 5?
Reminds me of headlines during the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.
“Fastest growing demographic of HIV+ people is straight women over 65! Numbers up 200%!!!”
5 to 15.
I’m sorry we’re all such a bunch of sniveling cowards
British Health Secretary Sajid Javid issued an apology on Sunday for saying people should no longer “cower” from the coronavirus.
“I’ve deleted a tweet which used the word ‘cower’. I was expressing gratitude that the vaccines help us fight back as a society, but it was a poor choice of word and I sincerely apologise,” Javid said on Twitter. “Like many, I have lost loved ones to this awful virus and would never minimise its impact.”
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In a now-deleted tweet, Javid had written, “Full recovery from Covid a week after testing positive. Symptoms were very mild, thanks to amazing vaccines. Please – if you haven’t yet – get your jab, as we learn to live with, rather than cower from, this virus.”
Javid’s original tweet had elicited a slew of criticism from British lawmakers who characterized it as insensitive, the BBC reports.
A spokesperson for Health for the Liberal Democrats party, Munira Wilson, called Javid’s tweet “outrageous,” adding that his “careless words have insulted every man, woman and child who has followed the rules and stayed at home to protect others.”
Don’t be a fool. OBEY.
It’s not the people who haven’t been jabbed that are cowering from the virus. Watching vaxxed people still cower in fear is one of the strangest aspects to all of this. I can’t think of a better example of 1984-style doublethink on a scale this large
This. And somehow I have morphed from the 98-pound weakling in a Charles Atlas ad into a terrible scourge.
Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds
Fear me, the mighty unvaccinated.
“Jab” is one of the most annoying limeyisms to come out of this.
Go to 02:44 – https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x36a4gf
Is it limey?
I loathe it too.
I think it is annoying by design. It’s an attempt to belittle the vax, in the mold of how Bush the elder used to mispronounce SADDAM’s name.
Yeah, “get jabs in arms.” Go fuck yourself.
Now most of those “rebels” are settled down in the ‘burbs with 2.4 kids, complaining about mill levies and having affairs with the neighbors.
All grown up
Art is a survivor.
Those were not the kangaroos we were looking for
More than six months later, House lawmakers will launch a riot investigation that has provoked a partisan battle that now threatens any future cooperation between the two parties.
“This is a sham committee that’s just politically driven by Speaker Pelosi,” Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, said Thursday.
Pelosi last week took the unprecedented step of blocking two of McCarthy’s appointees to a 13-member select committee that appears to focus on the role of then-President Donald Trump and other Republicans leading up to and during the attack on the Capitol.
Citing past statements made by Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Jim Banks of Indiana, Pelosi declared that the two Republican lawmakers would destroy the integrity of the committee.
“When statements are ridiculous and fall into the realm of ‘you must be kidding,’ there’s no way that they’re going to be on the committee,” Pelosi said Thursday.
Our show trial will require people who can nod and cluck their tongues on command and in unison.
Maybe the solution is for McCarthy to pick the Dems who will sit on the committee and Pelosi to pick the Republicans?
It generally works for sibling children and they do act as children. This method checks out.
My solution: constantly point out that this is a Stalinist show trial and relentlessly mock and troll Pelosi and her band of sockpuppets.
Sham proceedings don’t deserve respect.
A commission in Congress while active cases are being prosecuted will surely not muddle the jury pool at all.
We recently went through two impeachments and a couple SCOTUS and assorted cabinet member appointments that were all Stalinist show trials and nothing else happened.
They don’t care.
“No Republican contingent that doesn’t include Marjorie Taylor Greene!”
Loren Boebert. Carrying.
The “solution” is for everyone to pretend they are grownups and understand that a protest got slightly out of hand and almost no damage was done by anyone other than one murderous cop who should be in prison. If they want to investigate all of the lies told by TMITE and the pols involved, then , yes, that might be worthwhile.
Can I get a harrumph?
“…executive director for the Institute for the Study of Sport, Society and Social Change at San José State University.”
A Serious Person, thinking Serious Thoughts.
Do not diminish him/her/it.
Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds
Your friends. Your family. Everyone you ever knew. The clerk at the gas station. Your tax preparer. The sweet young girl who brought you lunch. All dead now.
AND IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT.
The sweet young girl who brought you lunch
Yes, lunch. Very tasty.
Heartless bastard. You defile her and then infect her with the plague. What a monster you are.
You defile her and then
infectinject her with the plagueFTFY
For Neph:
Hard times for mascots of color
They should have replaced Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima with Uncle Ashley and Aunt Ashley.
A music
Good morning, everyone!
Morning, Mo.
Hola, Senora!
Good morning, Moje! How’s every little thing in the greater KC metro area?
D00dess.
I am busily getting my shit together with regard to putting Cods & Cuntes into print, since Swissy is awaiting it. He doesn’t do ebooks.
Chortle, snort, guffaw…
Man Casually Mentions He Chose Jesus, Calvinist Pops Out Of Nowhere To Argue With Him
My vote for best Calvinist joke from the Bee
I’ve never really been a Corvette guy, but- WANT
The “Sudden Death” on the side is cringy
I think that’s a reference to the crappy Rochester mechanical fuel injection, personally. Great car, except for the mailbox full of trouble on the manifold.
What kind of lame-ass circus doesn’t have clowns?
The Coulrophobic Brothers’ Circus.
There’s some sad things known to man,
There ain’t too much sadder than
The fear of a clown….
When there’s no one around.
Labor shortage caused by competition with the government?
That’s exactly it. All the clowns went to work for the government.
So, my daughter’s coworkers are both sick with COVID. And both were fully vaccinated. She doesn’t have any symptoms herself, but is getting tested today.
If this is happening all over, no wonder the powers at be are freaking out and blaming lack of masks and the great
unwashedunvaccinated.