The Best Porn is Free Porn

by | Jul 31, 2021 | Beer, Books, Food & Drink, Sports, Womyn | 192 comments

Once upon a time I was 16 like everyone else here.  That year was the first year Sports Illustrated decided to include 3D glasses with the one issue each year people actually buy Sports Illustrated:  the swimsuit edition.  She wasn’t on the cover but that one lady in the Marky Mark remake of Planet of the Apes was on every other page, it seemed.

Yes, I just dated myself, deal with it.

This is my review fo State 48 Brewery Vortex Amber Ale:

Why does Sports Illustrated do this?  When the first issue was published in 1964 the sports scene was very different than today.  Back then by January there wasn’t much anything for a sportswriter to discuss.  But there was football wasn’t there?  No.  The NFL and AFL did not merge until six years later so there was no Super Bowl.  College Football back then scheduled the bowl games on New Years Day.  Baseball players didn’t even report for spring training until early March.

So they took pictures of women in bikinis.  Incidentally, wearing 1/4 yard of material was controversial back then.

For some reason, I got on a mailing list and every once in a while I get an SI issue in the mail.  This is the first time they ever gave me a swimsuit issue for free.  Of course, there’s a guy on the cover.

I went ahead and flipped through this so you don’t have to…

Make of this as you will.  This is a medium that is pretty much dead.  Does it really surprise anybody they are creating mindless controversy in order to sell magazines?

I got a crowler of amber ale!  Its full bodied, malt heavy, and provided ample sustenance while I watched Connor McGregor break his own leg.  Not terrible but nothing spectacular either.  Named for the vortexes (vortices?) supposedly found in Sedona.  Apparently, there are pools of magnetic energy located in and around the town that have some sort of healing effect or something. Having been to Sedona multiple times I can tell you, like the 3D glasses, its just dumb.  The beer named for them however, isn’t bad. State 48 Brewery Vortex Amber Ale:  2.9/5

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192 Comments

  1. Ted S.

    Yes, I just dated myself, deal with it.

    At least when you date yourself, the sex is good?

    • rhywun

      Yes, I just dated myself, deal with it.

      Youngster.

    • Trigger Hippie

      ‘At least when you date yourself, the sex is good?’

      Heh.

      To paraphrase Stanhope: At this point whenever I feel that urge I just click on a short porn clip and treat it like the medical condition that it is and drain it like a cyst so I can move on with my day.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      “Hey, don’t go knocking my hobbies! It’s sex with someone I love!”

    • blackjack

      Looks like it’s me and you again tonight.

  2. PieInTheSky

    Vortex Amber Ale – I did not know amber ferments

  3. Mojeaux

    Those are very early 1980s swimsuits. I went looking for the date, and was surprised.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      The high cut thing is actually coming back in style. That it coincides with the body positivity thing is another matter.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Apparently the female yutes are into wearing early nineties mom jeans again for some silly damn reason. Maybe making your ass look like you’re wearing an adult diaper plus naturally frumpy averts the dreaded Male Gaze or something.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah usually fashion goes in cycles, but it seems 2019-2021 went through the 20s, 50s and now 90s in three years

      • Gustave Lytton

        Why be original when you can just remake something that may have worked once? See Hollywood.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        With wide, ragged, *and* floodwater hems.

        Ragged and/or holey denim irritates me to hell, especially cutoff shorts where the front pockets are longer than the hem.

      • Crazy Capn Gunboat Willy

        Lol. I have been noticing that lately as well. I pine for the days of my yute in the early 2000s when ladies wore spaghetti strap tops and low cut jeans. But hey, to each their own… look at the 80s.

  4. Tulip

    I like Sedona. It’s cute.

    • blackjack

      I like everything around Sedona, but I do not like Sedona.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Same here. I prefer Flagstaff.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        And Jerome.

    • C. Anacreon

      We call it “Sedona and Shutuppa”

      • Ted S.

        I misread that at first as “Sedona and Shtuppa”.

  5. Tulip

    The WaPo had an article about the transwoman on the cover. Blah blah blah empowering. I’m tired of being told that performing for the titillation of men is somehow empowering for women.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I’m tired of being told that performing for the titillation of men is somehow empowering for women.

      No, no, you have the narrative all wrong. It’s only empowering for fat women and men with bolt ons. It’s degrading for attractive women because the male gaze is evil. There’s evidently some optimum amount of male gaze that feminists require be equally distributed among all women and wannabe women. Pretty women get too much of it while less attractive women and men who dress like women don’t get enough of it.

      • Tulip

        Nope Jennifer Lopez and Shakira performance was empowering I’m told. Personally I thought it was really aimed at gay men, but whatever

    • Trigger Hippie

      ‘I’m tired of being told that performing for the titillation of men is somehow empowering for women.’

      Hell, I’m not going to lie. I enjoy watching women perform for my titillation. I’m a single, straight, lonely male. That being said, I completely agree with you. In my personal experience, every women I’ve known that makes that claim in one form or the other has been either a drug addict, abused as a kid, abandoned by their father, or had other deep rooted mental issues. I’ve never spent much time around the beautiful and wealthy so maybe just shallow vanity might be most at play in that scenario.

      From what I’ve seen personally, public displays of sexuality(from both sexes) are often little more than a way of saying: “I’m deeply insecure and am desperate for attention and approval!”

      • Tulip

        Yes, desperate, not empowering. Also reduces the individual to nothing but a sex appliance.

      • Tulip

        I know this is an excuse to post a song, but that’s why I used the word individual.

      • blackjack

        Women get what they want. Some women want to be objectified. They get it. The only problem is when other women try and force them to stop. It’s the same with men, but nobody thinks we are hapless victims, so nobody cares.

      • Tulip

        Where did I say I want to force women to stop performing for men? They can do what they want, I want to stop being told how empowering it is for women.

      • blackjack

        I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to insinuate that you were doing that. I was speaking generally.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Many confuse some form/any form of validation of their existence as empowerment…this is why the Like Button exists and why I vehemently oppose this site ever adopting it.

      • Lackadaisical

        +1

        😉

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Eyyy! ? ?

        I wanted to make that point to Limey the other day when he complained of insufficient replies, but I was still too sleepy.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Clicks Like Button

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ?

      • Trigger Hippie

        Stop that!

  6. Ownbestenemy

    Welp, I think I am getting the shot after all. Not cause of Biden and his Federal mandate, though he will get to use my numbers for his celebration, but because my favorite niece is pregnant and I have basically gotten from her that she will shelter the kid from a family member that is unvaccinated. I don’t want that. We all have our breaking points. Now to choose which one. Looks like J&J isn’t available at all in Nevada.

    • Gender Traitor

      Worth traveling for? How far to the nearest adjacent state?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Still your favorite?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Raised her while my sister worked her ass off for her job after her divorce.

        Yep still my favorite.

    • Mojeaux

      We all have our breaking points.

      Yep.

      I expect Mr. Mojeaux will end up having to vax to keep his job.

      • Ghostpatzer

        “We all have out breaking points”

        Until there is nothing left to lose. A dangerous game is being played and there will be hell to pay when the tipping point is reached.

    • blackjack

      I’m going to do the fucking punishment tests until Bidenarris figures out how to get full approval without really testing the vax. Then, I either quit or get shot. I would feel much better if I chose it for a personal reason. I probably will investigate the possibility of suing for coercion because I’m getting punished for not getting it. It’s silly because we are at a record low in deaths. RECORD LOW. It’s never been lower since it all started.

      • blackjack

        According to the CDC, Magic Eight Balls are a little bit better than the tests they are using now.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Apparently Walmart and perhaps some other places have DIY spit tests, 2/$20. Dunno who accepts the results.

      • blackjack

        Oh, no. If they force tests on me, they are paying and it’s on their time. It’s bad enough that I’m being punished for not complying with their illegal order.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I’d pay it in order not to have a q-tip lobotomy. Does anyone still use the throat swabs? That sounds easier.

      • blackjack

        We had (voluntary) mouth swab tests all last year. The one I just did was nose, but only a half inch deep, not the “jam it in until it hits the cerebral cortex” type. Either way, all the paying for it is going to be done by the mandaters, not me.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Thanks for the current 411.

      • Ghostpatzer

        “Anti-vaxxers”. So anyone who chooses not to get this specific vaccine is conflated with a group who believe that all vaccines are part of some evil conspiracy to do something REALLY BAD. So I just got my tetanus booster this morning, am I still an anti-vaxxer?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Rationality and reason are not required to attach slurs to wrongthinkers. You are an anti-vaxxer not because you don’t take vaccines, but because you won’t take the particular vaccine that shows your acceptance of the hive mind.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Downright inconducive to slurs.

    • Sean

      That’s depressing on multiple levels.

      • blackjack

        I know, right? I would let them fire me and then sue, but it wouldn’t be fair to my wife and kid. If I were single, I’d even refuse the test.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I know. No different than me stepping in front of a bullet for her either.

      • Sean

        Junk science and mass hysteria is bad for everyone.

        We’re on the wrong fucking path.

      • blackjack

        I will be getting a tattoo of crosshairs right where the needle goes in with the caption, ” This is where the government forced me to take drugs.”

    • Trigger Hippie

      If she’s still pregnant you might want wait it out and see if her fervency tapers off in the future. Even if she gets upset now I’m sure she’ll melow out if you do it just before the birth.

      Or is she worried about her baby getting second hand Covid from the unwashed?

      • Ownbestenemy

        We will see. I wasnt running out today to immediately get it and who knows, next week might be different.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Im sorry but if hysteria is okay then so is lying that you got the vaccine.

      Catering to unscientific family/friends will only embolden them in the future.

      See if you can quarantine for 10-14 days and do a family visit. This way you dont need a mask or vaccine to visit the family members.

      Personally, Lefties cant full destroy America without wrecking family cohesion. They are using vaccines and masks as family wedge issues. Most Americans dont know what is going on politically or get their news from commie outlets. Libertarian and scientific rational just sound crazy to many people. But libertarians are crazy for knowing what much of the constitution says.

  7. Animal

    OT, but I think I might need this.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Sure do. Looks like an Alaska woods gun*.

      *not for use against bears, moose, or other megafauna.

    • Ghostpatzer

      This is glibs. That is never off-topic

    • blackjack

      I have an SAA in that caliber. Never fired it. I have to go get some ammo and I resent the background check. I have my other calibers.

      • dbleagle

        Sounds like it is time for a road trip to AZ or NV to stock up on your Class V (aka ammo) before biden/HARRIS decides to federalize Cali craziness.

      • blackjack

        That has been deemed totally illegal. I’m sure that many people are doing it, but I would never try something like that, Preet.

      • dbleagle

        WTF?! Banning bringing in ammo is verboten? So if I go on an out of state hunt and bring back my remaining ammo I am breaking the law. Jeebus dude. Get the fuck out. You have skills that can be used at any airport maintenance facility. And to steal and use a line from a movie, “Run Hayek! Run!”*

        *And Athena, Chet, et.al

      • Animal

        Yeah, we’re more convinced every day that getting the fuck out of the 48 was a good move, for a variety of reasons.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Steven Hyde: Everything’s legal, long as you don’t get caught.

        Leftist CA thinking seems to be spreading faster than flu, though. ¡The blob!!1!

    • Zwak, jack off, all trades

      I have one. Well, a New Service that was formerly of the British Expeditionary Force in France. It was .450 Eley originally, but the cylinder has been cut for .45 Colt.

  8. Gustave Lytton

    Incurious report regurgitates press release

    https://coloradosun.com/2021/07/30/bus-covid-vaccines-colorado/

    [argle bargle about why public health parasites think rates are low]

    So public health officials worked with transit authorities to identify where high-ridership bus lines intersected in the corridor, settling on a location by a Walmart, a Sprouts grocery store and the Little Caesars restaurant where Letson had gone to buy pizza.

    ?‍♂️

    • Ghostpatzer

      “Bus stop by bus stop, Denver-area health officials microtarget vaccine hesitancy”

      Alternate headline, coming soon:

      “House by house, law enforcement officials round up vaccine resisters”

      • Gustave Lytton

        “Racist cops target minorities.”

      • rhywun

        ^ this is what will happen but it will be worded… differently

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Ok, that drives me fucking nuts. The left calls the right Nazis all day long, but the right makes one holocaust connection and it’s a fucking scandal.

        TMITE.

      • blackjack

        The prohibition on coerced participation in experimental medical procedures actually came about during the Nuremburg trials. So there.

      • Gustave Lytton

        “But we’re not the baddies! Totes different!”

        /same thing Nazis said

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “Hans…?”

      • blackjack

        I am going to ask them, in our safety meeting, when they inform us the vax is required, ” Do you know who else mandated participation in experimental medical procedures?” I have a friend or two who will know what I’m saying.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Julius Caesar’s mother?

      • blackjack

        That one cuts a little too deep.

      • rhywun

        This may be why my (((employers))) aren’t forcing it on us. At least that’s what they said.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “Whycome you no got tattoo?”

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        *got no

      • Sensei

        Unit 731 would like a word.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Now that’s a chilling episode in world history. Ishii was as bad or worse than Mengele, but you never hear his name because we gave him immunity for his crimes. He lived to age 67 and died wealthy.

      • Trigger Hippie

        “Oh, by the way…the State has declared that anyone who hasn’t received the vaccine is guilty of being a domestic terrorist and has forfeited their constitutionally enshrined rights. We’ll go ahead and confiscate your firearms while we’re here. Count yourself lucky we don’t have the manpower or enough camps built to remove you from society completely…but we’re working on that. Good day.”

  9. Sean

    I’m gonna go enrich some large corporations.

    Hopefully there won’t be too many covid corpses in the parking lot.

  10. Mojeaux

    @whoever went on a spending spree at the Kindle store, THANK YOU!!!!

    • Ghostpatzer

      Needed some stuff to read on vacation. My purchase would be enough to cover a bottle of wine or two. If you actually drank wine, that is.

      • Sensei

        This is generally a good place.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Drawing pads, maybe.

      • Mojeaux

        That and fruit tootsie rolls. 😉

      • Mojeaux

        Well, I hope they give you a bottle of wine’s worth of enjoyment!

        Thank you. You are a doll!

      • Ghostpatzer

        Aww. Your excerpts got me hooked, thanks for posting them (and thanks to TPTB for keeping this little oasis of sanity alive).

    • rhywun

      Heh. Some outlet like CNN is going to print that as straight news.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Why is he back? Will it be old Judge or reformed judge? Will he have a new hairpiece? Will we argue the the government under Trump was no where near the hysteria he described?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Heh.

        Did he really rant that often about Trump versus the Obama and Bush eras?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Probably not. He probably ranted equally

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Principles, hm.

        I bet it’s not that but his personal scandal that’s kept him off TV recently. Before that I liked what one could see of his house via Zoom.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Good. We need more outlets that are like-minded.

  11. Raven Nation

    *sigh*

    So parts of Queensland were put into a snap three-day lockdown on Friday because of 2 or 3 delta cases.

    The Tasmanian government said “hold my beer.” They decreed that 11k people who arrived in Tasmania since July 17 have to self-quarantine at home for three days.

    Yep, you read that correctly: you’ve been going about public life for two weeks, but NOW have to isolate.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I’ve always liked Oz from afar (Kath and Kim, INXS, quokkas…) but now I’m afraid I’ll never get to see it.

    • limey

      Let’s go AMLO!

      • Ownbestenemy

        I really think him and Trump were on the right path at the right time. Really sucks one of them lost.

        Actaully funny and tragic cause Trump was addressing the “root causes”

      • Lackadaisical

        Right? Not at all what I expected form mexico.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        ‘Ello, limey! Was just talking about you above.

        I should get back to rearranging the furniture. We’ll see…

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        (Er, nowt meant re you, just that I have been talking too much here on my day off.)

  12. Ownbestenemy

    Gina Carano can put me in a headlock any day she wants to

    Whether you are vaccinated or unvaccinated that will not determine if I want to be around you or not.. I will not tell you what to do with your body or ask you personal medical questions. I will treat you as any other person, equal under the heavens with as much care as I can

  13. Timeloose

    Hey Glibs.

    Hope you are all having a good Sat.

    It’s BBQ time at casa de Time. I have brisket flat wrapped and on the smoker for about 4 hours and a whole chicken just put on the smoke.

    It’s about time to crack a cold one.

  14. UnCivilServant

    Afternoon, Glibs.

    I went and dragged the lawnmower out to cut the grass before some code enforcement asshole decided to write me a ticket. All the rain + weight restriction meant the grass was pretty wild.

    I’m most pissed off that I’m tired after just clearing the margin.

    • R C Dean

      Two words:

      flame.

      Thrower.

      • UnCivilServant

        Lighting code enforcement assholes on fire might be cathartic, but tends to attract attention.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Cash only Mexican is what I use.

      • UnCivilServant

        But then they keep coming back. And people might think I actually have money.

    • Sensei

      JFC.

  15. rhywun

    In case you thought it was only America was going off the rails, the world chimes in with evidence that we ain’t seen nothing yet.

    Anyone convicted of publicly and intentionally insulting the Chinese national anthem could be fined more than $6,000 and sentenced to three years in prison, Chung said.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Here they’ll be busting you for not taking a knee.

  16. Count Potato

    “The next Covid variant could kill up to one in THREE people: SAGE warns doomsday scenario is ‘realistic possibility’ and UK’s vaccine roll-out may even speed up mutant strain’s emergence

    Documents published by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) today warned a future strain could be as deadly as MERS — which has a case fatality rate of 35 per cent — could be on the way.

    Experts — who weren’t named — said a future strain may be resistant to vaccines if it came about by the jab-resistant Beta variant merging with the more transmissible Alpha or Delta variants.

    The process — known as recombination — could lead to a strain with ‘increased morbidity and mortality’.

    The team admitted vaccines should work unless there was an extra-potent mutation that rendered jabs much less effective at blocking serious disease — which many experts say is unlikely. ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9844701/SAGE-Covid-variant-kill-one-three-people.html

    Unnamed experts?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      invented?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        (the rule for gossip sites, anyway)

    • Sensei

      They work for the Umbrella Corporation.

    • EvilSheldon

      An airborne virus with a 30% mortality rate would be the end of human civilization. There’s no possible way to stop something like that, so why worry?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Wouldn’t something that deadly burn itself out fairly quickly?

        I mean it would wipe out cities, but people with supplies and a secure place could wait it out.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Smallpox has a 30-40% mortality rate but didnt wipe out humans.

        MERS has a 50%+ mortality rate.

        Remember that humans have a symbiotic relationship with viruses and bacteria. Sure some viruses kill many humans but not all since we humans have differences and our immune system is very good at fighting disease overall.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It’s not like we don’t have a huge breeding ground for vaccine resistant viruses in play now.

      And they are correct, MERS is no fucking joke.

  17. Nephilium

    I should be able to kick off the Zoom tonight. Still out now, but should be home by 20:00 Eastern.

  18. Derpetologist

    I had some kind of copper ale from a Minnesota brewery in a 32 oz can a few years ago. Can’t remember the name.

    humor warm-ups

    Future Olympic Athletes Must be the Same Average Age, Weight of the Country They Represent

    Coronavirus Revealed to be Hoax by Andy Kaufman

    Feminists Demand Action to Close the Purse Gap; Suggest Banning Pockets

    Biden Becomes First User of Presidential Walker, Mobility One

    Scientists Redefine Absolute Zero as The Number of People Watching CNN

    Cuba Is a Worker’s Paradise According to People Who Don’t Live There

    Russia Requires Critics of Government to Dress as Clowns

    Old Man Reassures Masked Preschooler That It’s a Free Country

    Birth Continues Despite Best Efforts of Feminists, Environmentalists

    Federal Reserve Declares Monopoly Money to be Legal Tender

    Congress Approves $1 Billion for Mitch McConnell Crossings

  19. Count Potato

    “NEW – Fortnite streamer RaulZito has been arrested over allegations that he’s raped two children, ages 10-14.”

    “What a fucking shocker, I would never think someone who looks like that would do such a thing.”

    https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1420800009000284160

    LOLWTF

    • Mojeaux

      Blaire is a hoot.

    • Ghostpatzer

      He looks more like someone who would date himself.

  20. Scruffy Nerfherder

    JHTFC

    That’s another one dead after a COVID vaccine. In this case, the vaccine is to blame, but the incredible stupidity of all parties is more so.

    Wife’s childhood friend (in her late fifties) had long-COVID and difficulty breathing, so instead of getting therapeutics to treat the condition, she decided to take a vaccine instead. Dead within days from blood clots. I don’t know if it was recommended to her or not by a professional, but I damn sure know what the messaging in the media has been.

    It’s a complete fucking failure of medical care. Somebody should have treated her properly for the after-effects of COVID. Somebody should have said that it’s insane to inject yourself with the same protein that caused the vascular damage you’re already suffering from. Her death is on the medical establishment’s hands and their total abandonment of ethics and reason.

    • Derpetologist

      The best way to understand the behavior of any large group is to assume it is secretly controlled by its enemies.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Sorry to hear that Scruff. Odds that her death ends up in VAERS?

      I didn’t do the exact math, but the Pfizer study showed you have something like a 50% greater chance of dying from cardiac arrest after receiving the vaccine than dying from Covid if unvaxed.

      • Count Potato

        Do you have a link?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Here’s a recopy of yesterday’s post and the link to the study.

        https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261159v1.full-text

        During the blinded, controlled period, 15 BNT162b2 and 14 placebo recipients died; during the open-label period, 3 BNT162b2 and 2 original placebo recipients who received BNT162b2 after unblinding died. None of these deaths were considered related to BNT162b2 by investigators. Causes of death were balanced between BNT162b2 and placebo groups (Table S4).

        This is six months follow-up for Pfizer vax versus placebo in 44,000 study participants. 2 people out of 22,000 in the placebo group died from Covid. 2 out of 14 total deaths.

        If those two deaths are significant in any way, consider that 4 people in the vax group died from cardiac arrest compared with 1 in the placebo group. A much greater difference than deaths from Covid.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Jesus…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        And I say that in regards to the utter uselessness of that data in all regards. Everything is in the noise. It’s all a bad joke.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I think I should add another “in regards” just because.

      • Count Potato

        “consider that 4 people in the vax group died from cardiac arrest compared with 1 in the placebo group”

        I don’t think you can jump from that to the vac increases death from cardiac arrest by 50%. It’s a very small number, and one would have to have the same risk of cardiac arrest for both groups.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I don’t think you can jump from that to the vac increases death from cardiac arrest by 50%. It’s a very small number

        It’s double the deaths from Covid in the placebo group. If someone considers the deaths from Covid in the placebo group to be significant, then these deaths from cardiac arrest in the vaccine-receiving group should be significant too. I agree that absolute numbers are too small to be meaningful, but that’s not the game that’s being played with this vax mandate and covid hysteria.

        one would have to have the same risk of cardiac arrest for both groups.
        They should be. The whole purpose of running an RCT with 44,000 participants is to minimize variability between groups.

    • Count Potato

      I’m no immunologist, but I don’t see the sense in getting a vaccine for an infection that person already has. It’s like putting on a seat-belt after you crash your car.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        So why are the authorities pushing it for everyone instead? The Cleveland Clinic stated clearly back in May that there is zero advantage to taking the vaccine if you’ve already had COVID. They followed that statement within days with a disclaimer saying that they fully support the vaccine and you should definitely get one. They were obviously threatened or pressured to do so.

        It’s bonkers.

      • Gustave Lytton

        There’s been some outcome from some of the UK long covid studies that vaccination can provide relief of symptoms. I saw a reference to it but didn’t look any further so not sure offhand at what stage it is. But it’s not just something pulled out of their ass.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Holy shit. If Dante were alive today he’d need to add a tenth circle for these vermin.

    • Sean

      Sorry dude. That’s fucked.

  21. Chipping Pioneer

    Listening to KC-TOR as I’m smoking some ribs. Manoah is cruising through 7: 0 runs, 1 hit, retired the last 17. Of course they’re taking him out because analytics.

    The slavish adherence to statistics in baseball is as dumb as the “right way to play” bullshit of the past.

    • Jerms

      Jays have an insane lineup with Springer healthy.

    • Penguin

      I’m not following baseball as much, but I do remember a game last year where they took out a pitcher due to analytic after he threw 100 pitches or whatever. He was throwing a no-hitter. I’d have been livid if I was that guy.

  22. Derpetologist

    sci fi story idea: Planet of the Robot Snakes

    sample dialog: “Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfuckin’ robot snakes on this motherfuckin’ planet!”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtBDzWVnC1k

  23. Derpetologist

    movie pitch: Olympus Has Fallen and Can’t Get Up

    sponsored by LifeAlert

    • Ozymandias

      You’re on fire tonight, Derpy. Thanks for the lulz.

  24. Count Potato

    “It’s indescribably chilling how — since the pandemic began — Big Tech monopolies have banned any questioning of or dissent from official COVID orthodoxy. As that orthodoxy morphs and changes, so too do the rules of what’s permitted and banned: a frightening template.”

    https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1421457944659513345

    • Mojeaux

      Template? It’s done. The only platform to successfully navigate the tech/social media waters (Gab) can’t cut through the prog noise.

    • Derpetologist

      I have heard leftys complain about Big Oil and Big Tobacco. Not a peep from them about Big Media or Big Tech. Gee, I wonder why…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        And they seem to have completely memory holed Big Pharma.

  25. Sean

    Back from shopping at the outlets.

    Some masks still seen.

    Pretty wide demographic group too. Very few little kids with masks.

    ?

    • rhywun

      Getting a little tired of the eyesores myself. Most of the ones around here are abandoned, as are the restaurants that built them.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Thank you for the laugh

  26. Derpetologist

    more satire ideas

    CDC Declares Biden as Least Senile President Ever

    Distraught Americans Rush to Kiss Hem of Fauci’s Robe

    North Korea Forces Citizens to Walk Backwards to Conserve Energy

    Germany Continues to Lead the World in Corruption Efficiency

    NSA Urges Americans To Stop Looking at So Much Weird Porn

    Old Women Hang on Every Word of Old Man for Some Reason

    Angry Irishmen Not Sure What to Set on Fire; Demand Guinness

    French Workers Annoyed That No One Notices Strike

    Drag Queens Protest Prayer at Football Game

    San Francisco to Combat Crime By Blasting ‘Come On People Now’ Over Loudpseakers