Monday Afternoon Links of Huh

by | Aug 9, 2021 | Daily Links | 311 comments

 

Happy Monday. Or not. I am quite busy, between Dad having a couple of procedures done last week, and prepping the house for my wife to be laid up for 6 weeks (after her upcoming knee surgery)…but the Links don’t want to hear my whining, they want to be POSTED!

  • Ship still sinking. Rats spotted swimming away. Unlike Drumpf – this one might see a conviction.
  • Neanderthal artists. No word on if they had clove cigarettes and all black clothing.
  • Two things in this article made me give the dry, depressing laugh of East Germans in 1982. The word “despite” in the headline, and the numbers of “cases” reported being so miniscule.
  • I guess the French criminal justice system is as effed up as some American jurisdictions.

Bonus Link – Swiss Olympic Glory.

Comments away!

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Swiss Servator

Swiss Servator

Currently serving at the pleasure of a Swiss multinational. Previously a Soldier, rugby player, lawyer, bouncer, bartender, substitute teacher, risk manager, and cubicle mushroom. Will work for raclette.

311 Comments

  1. Brochettaward

    Glibertarians! Come out to pla-aay! Glibertarians! Come out to pla-aaay! Glibertarians! Come out to plaaaaa-aaaayyyy!

  2. KSuellington

    We started out badly when the Homo sapiens killed the Neanderthals after fucking the hottest of them. If only our Neanderthal DNA was higher.

    • Swiss Servator

      Well, if we were nailing the hottest ones of them, sounds like we got the best part…yes?

      • KSuellington

        I think we may have gotten the hot DNA but not as many as the other good Neanderthal traits.

        If you are a Euro or Asian background Tonio, then you have 1-2% Neanderthal. Pretty sure it is highest in Basque populations. Which may explain why the Basques are so frigging awesome.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Le grunt *blows hair out of face*

    • Tonio

      I am totally curious to find out what (if any) percentage of Neanderthal I have in me, but don’t want my data in a database somewhere.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Narrator *your data is already in a database somewhere*

      • Tonio

        Dammit, I should have known one of you would catch that. Yeah, but hopefully not *that* data.

  3. Rebel Scum

    prepping the house for my wife to be laid…

    It’s about time, you salty dog!

    …for 6 weeks (after her upcoming knee surgery)

    Best wishes on a speedy recovery.

    • Swiss Servator

      Laid Up! UP!

      You Glibs are all working blue, eh?

      • Animal

        No, just tangled up in it.

      • Animal

        It was, at least, subtle. And normally subtle ain’t really my thing.

      • blackjack

        I liked the subtly and the crossover from last thread. I give it at least a half of a yay.

      • B.P.

        I had ACL replacement surgery a couple of years ago. The hospital told me to use crutches for six weeks. After six weeks I visited the doc for a check-up. She said, “Oh, you could’ve gotten rid of those weeks ago.”

      • Bobarian LMD

        That has changed significantly. I had ACL reconstruction in 1985… I was on crutches for 90 days and it took 18 months before I was really able to run on it.

        Had to wear a brace for 6 months and used one for strenuous activities for another couple years.

      • The least-interesting BEAM in the world™

        {raises hand}  Complex bucket-handle tear, medial meniscus of the right knee; surgeon did arthroscopic surgery. Some people undergoing that surgery went back to skiing the next weekend, others (such as myself) weren’t as lucky. Took me about a month before I could ditch the crutch and several more before I was walking relatively “normally” again. Knee bends past 90 degrees hurt for around four to six months.

  4. Rebel Scum

    New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tried to cut a deal with the state Legislature — offering to drop his bid for a fourth-term in exchange for not getting impeached, The Post has learned.

    Trump got the best deals, and the best impeachments. Big league.

    • Surly Knott

      My schaden has a freude.

      • slumbrew

        schadenboner is apropos.

    • Sensei

      And right after they agree and time passes he forgets all about it and runs again.

      What are they going do?

      • rhywun

        Yeah, IT’S A TRAP!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      A record number of impeachments and he still kept his job while Cuomo will be one and done.
      SAD!!!

    • Sean

      With commemorative pens and everything!

      • Ownbestenemy

        I would appreciate it if they did it with purple paint and their thumbs.

  5. Yusef drives a Kia

    “they want to be POSTED!” Thanks Swissy! it worked……..

    • Tonio

      Check your email.

      • Gamera!

        I did, and I thank you, corrected

  6. Rebel Scum

    Prehistoric cave paintings in Spain show Neanderthals were artists

    That explains Hunter Biden.

    • Animal

      You do the Neandertal a grave disservice, sir, in comparing them to Hunter Biden.

    • Agent Cooper

      Biden’s paintings aren’t great but they’re not completely horrible, either. Of course no one would pay $500k for them if he had a different last name.

      • The Other Kevin

        $500 maybe.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    “China will have to pivot from its containment strategy, sooner or later,” said Chen Zhengming, an epidemiology professor at the University of Oxford, according to Bloomberg.

    “You can stay COVID Zero for a while, but you can’t stay COVID Zero forever because the virus swoops in before you know it.”

    Huh.

    • Agent Cooper

      SWOOP! There it is.

      • Tres Cool

        + Tag Team

        /or a Nike endorsement

    • The Other Kevin

      Great, now we’re back to spontaneous generation. Science continues its march backward.

      • juris imprudent

        The evil vapors emanating from swamps.

    • Rebel Scum

      The virus is like the war in 1984. It is that scary thing in the background that is ever-present that the government uses to scare and manipulate/control you.

  8. Rebel Scum

    China’s COVID-19 outbreak grows despite tough restrictions

    Clearly we should emulate everything the Chicoms do.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Absolutely, especially the reeducation camps.

    • The Other Kevin

      We’re doing pretty well at lying about the origin of the virus.

  9. Ownbestenemy

    Things that make a married man happy #5229456

    I was telling her that FIL and I need to go to the lake and hope our boat doesn’t sink. She said, she already has that squared away with him. Which led to her strategically explaining the weaknesses of our house but strengths of our area in the event we must defend our land or band together with certain neighbors.

    Never knew she thought about it but man…that was some greatness to hear.

    • Gamera!

      A hard Woman is Good to find,
      Cheers to you both!

    • slumbrew

      You done good.

    • Tonio

      Congratulations.

    • DEG

      🙂

  10. Count Potato

    “I am quite busy, between Dad having a couple of procedures done last week, and prepping the house for my wife to be laid up for 6 weeks (after her upcoming knee surgery”

    Thoughts and prayers for you and your family.

  11. rhywun

    125 new cases

    Authorities “disciplined” local officials who are being charged with allowing the disease to spread […]

    In Nanjing, 15 local Chinese Communist Party officials were blamed for failing to prevent an outbreak that began at a city airport […]

    LOL, you’d think the CCP could cook up some more realistic numbers to justify the latest round of purges.

    • Agent Cooper

      But they don’t want to look weak.

    • Gamera!

      CCP purges? good idea, coming right up, thanks!

      • Gamera!

        those Uighurs have no idea where They are headed………..

  12. Rebel Scum

    People who disagree with my politics should not be allowed to participate in polite society.

    Nigel Farage’s former Brexit Party, which has been rebranded following departure from the European Union as the Reform Party, has had its bank account shut down.

    Metro Bank has informed the Reform UK by letter that “after careful consideration, we are unable to continue to act as your bankers”.

    Former Member of European Parliament (MEP) and current Reform UK leader Richard Tice accused the bank of making the decision “based on politics” and told The Telegraph that he fears for the viability of the party if they fail to secure alternative banking services.

    Tice, who took over as leader of the party from Brexit champion Nigel Farage, said of Metro Bank’s decision: “It is absolutely outrageous.”

    I’m sure this could never happen here.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Just build your own internationally viable monetary institutions. What, the regulations in place don’t allow for that? What a shame…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “BUT IT’S A PRIVATE COMPANY”

      /LP

    • Gadfly

      Do the Swiss not offer discrete banking anymore?

      • The least-interesting BEAM in the world™

        No, it’s all connected now.

  13. Count Potato

    I would have thought Switzerland would win more at the Winter Olympics.

  14. Rebel Scum

    This is fine.

    The “Remote Accessible Ballots for Eligible Voters” is being touted by California Secretary of State Shirley Weber as a way for voters to download ballots in the “comfort of their own home.”

    “For the November 3, 2020 General Election, any voter can request to use Remote Accessible Vote by Mail,” the Secretary of State’s website states.

    “A Remote Accessible Vote by Mail (RAVBM) system allows voters to mark their selections using their own compatible technology to vote independently and privately in the comfort of their own home. To use a RAVBM system, a voter must:

    -Download the application
    -Mark their selections
    -Print their selections
    -Sign the envelope (using the envelope provided with the vote-by-mail ballot or the voter’s own envelope)
    -Return the printed and signed selections either by mail or by dropping it off at a voting location. The selections cannot be returned electronically.

    Now they are just fucking with us.

    • blackjack

      It all starts here and ends up in AZ, GA, MI, WI, PA and where ever else it helps a democrat to win.

    • Tonio

      Buy POCs can’t afford printers!!1!

      • Gamera!

        LOLOLOL!

      • rhywun

        Each BIPOC gets a personal voting assistant. Just tell them your vote and they’ll take it from there.

      • B.P.

        And the Imperial Valley doesn’t have Kinkos.

      • juris imprudent

        Without Net Neutrality there are surely digital deserts!

  15. The Late P Brooks

    I’m sure this could never happen here.

    Banking is not a right.

    Unless you’re black, or part of a similarly oppressed politically useful demographic.

  16. Rebel Scum

    Child abuse.

    “[W]e have a disagreement that I want to air with you,” Hewitt said to Fauci. “My friend, Chuck Todd, disagrees with me, too. It’s about children K-3. And as the grandfather of three of them, and I talk to a lot of parents, they don’t believe masks are a good thing. They believe they are developmentally difficult to deal with. They can hide developmental disabilities. They impair speech and hearing, and that they’re not very effective. And boy, they feel this strongly, and it’s what the UK felt. My grandkids were in school in England last year. Why do you disagree with the UK specialists and with the Wall Street Journal this morning, article by Dr. Makary and Dr. Meissner?”

    “You know, Hugh, that is a difficult situation because you really do have to balance the risk of transmission versus the real risk, and I’m not putting down what you’re saying. It’s not comfortable, obviously, for children to wear masks, particularly the younger children,” Fauci replied. “But you know, what we’re starting to see, Hugh, and I think it’s going to unfold even more as the weeks go by, that this virus not only is so extraordinarily transmissible, but we’re starting to see pediatric hospitals get more and more younger people and kids not only numerically, but what seems to be more severe disease.”

    A generation of children are going to have fucked up immune systems, among other problems.

    • Agent Cooper

      “but what seems to be more severe disease.”

      Why the gaslighting?

    • Ownbestenemy

      “…but what seems to be more severe disease.” Prove it asshole, give honest data and not data sent through the COVIDNATOR 2020 spin machine. That is all Americans want. Instead you will peddle your bullshit as long as you possibly can while you ejaculate on your own bobble head.

    • The Other Kevin

      Great, more predictions from a guy who historically couldn’t predict which direction the sun would come up.

      • Chafed

        So true. At least gained some humility fr– hahahahahahahaha. Damn. I almost made it to the end.

    • Gamera!

      Maybe the sickness has to do with the MASKS! it’s a breeding ground for more than bacteria, how about molds? oh yes, they can kill you quick, it’s fucking BS!
      /Leave them kids Alone!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Underwear causes crotch rot! Go commando! Don’t practice basic hygiene!

      • Ozymandias

        Are you suggesting that wearing a mask is “basic hygiene”? I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here, but maybe it’s not the take you think it is.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I’m saying if you must wear one for whatever reason, replace it or clean it regularly Don’t keep wearing the same filthy rag for weeks or months and then act surprised at the result.

      • Spudalicious

        Why do you hate the codpiece, Gustave?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Engorged pus filled fungal infections aren’t codpieces.

      • Aloysious

        Did you say… codpiece?

    • Chafed

      This is the Precautionary Principle in action. Fauci doesn’t have any numbers that actually support his claim. It just doesn’t feel safe to him so that’s the new policy.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is moving to have all active duty members of the US military vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus, he said in a memo released Monday.

    That’s the pathetic jackass who got off a plane somewhere in full Branch Covidian doomsday cult regalia, right? Mask, face shield and gloves, as I recall.

    The SecDef of the most powerful nation on the planet is a pathetic cowering pussy. It’s a good image.

  18. Count Potato

    “An Ebola-like virus has been found in West Africa for the first time with a patient in Guinea dying from the extremely fatal disease.

    Health authorities in Guinea have confirmed one death from the Marburg virus, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever which causes suffers to bleed to death, the World Health Organization said on Monday.

    The death marks the first time that the deadly disease has been identified in West Africa. There have been 12 major Marburg outbreaks since the virus was first discovered in the German town of the same name in 1967, mostly in southern and eastern Africa. Simultaneous outbreaks also occurred in Frankfurt and Belgrade, Serbia.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9877741/Guinea-records-West-Africas-Marburg-virus-death-WHO-says.html

    Well, time to lock everything down again.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Makes me think of this line from MiB

      “There’s always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they DO NOT KNOW ABOUT IT!”

      Just replace spaceships with virus names.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Marburg? I thought naming a virus after where it originated was rayciss??

    • blackjack

      Shorter: I’m hot, right? Please tell me I’m hot. Please?

      • blackjack

        Goddamit! Misthread. This belongs in the AOC comment.

      • blackjack

        I guess it works with the fever thing, maybe.

    • B.P.

      The disease was named after the place it was discovered? That’s racist.

    • Surly Knott

      “Extremely fatal.” Well. I suppose if it were only mildly fatal, we wouldn’t be so concerned.

      • Gamera!

        HAHAHAHA!!!!

    • Ownbestenemy

      The act of ignoring needs to really make a come back.

    • blackjack

      Shorter: I’m hot, right? Please tell me I’m hot. Please?

      • The Other Kevin

        “I mean, look at me. Who wouldn’t come after all THIS?”

      • Tres Cool

        Bang-worthy as a bar maid after Ive had too many ? Plausible.

        But the r-word ? I wonder if she truly believes her own bullshit.

      • Fourscore

        Calls Mojo on the hot line .

        “Your call will be taken in the order received”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Perpetual victim attention whore

      • The Other Kevin

        Notice the news isn’t what happened, it’s what she THINKS could have happened. IOW a completely made up story.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        And people celebrate this overgrown child.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        She was apparently evacuated from her office before any rioting even happened.

      • Count Potato

        Her office is in a different building.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Great, now we’re back to spontaneous generation. Science continues its march backward.

    Humours.

    Bleeding.

    Wasps.

    • Gamera!

      Maybe he does…..

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The kid is obese.

      This “shaming” ban needs to go away. Shaming serves a function.

      • Gamera!

        Most fat/obese folks I know aren’t happy with their weight or health, and some are desperate to save themselves, but often it’s too late.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Then they need the outside stimulus, whether they want it or not at the time.

        I’m not going to go out of my way to bring attention to it, but if someone who’s obviously been abusing their own health wants me to take experimental drugs for their benefit, then I feel no obligation to not say anything.

      • Tonio

        I wouldn’t go out of my way to criticize them, but when physicians are afraid to say “you should consider losing weight,” then we have a problem.

      • Ted S.

        I think Mr. Chet has some sobering stories to tell in that regard.

    • rhywun

      None of this is “news”. JFC I hate the media.

    • Chafed

      The problem starts with there being a Team USA paintball team.

      • Tres Cool

        I read that and thought the same thing.

      • B.P.

        How are we going to win medals/awards if new contests aren’t constantly brought to the world stage from our popular culture before they take hold elsewhere? The Olympics took too long to consider making breakdancing an Olympic sport, since Koreans seem to dominate that now.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Since no one in the US has broken-danced since the ’80/90s???

  20. Rebel Scum

    Someone has quite the imagination.

    “I didn’t think that I was just going to be killed,” Ocasio-Cortez told CNN’s Dana Bash in “Being…AOC,” the first episode of the new CNN series “Being…” that airs Monday night at 9 p.m. ET. “I thought other things were going to happen to me as well.”

    Asked if that belief was driven in part by her experience as a survivor of sexual assault, Ocasio-Cortez said past traumas weighed on her mind as she hid.

    “Survivors have a very strong set of skills. And the skills that are required as a survivor, the tools that you build for resilience, they come back in right away,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview in her district in June. “And for me, I felt like those skills were coming right back so that I could survive.”

    She also traced the feeling back to what she described as the “misogyny and the racism” that “animated” the “attack on the Capitol.”

    “White supremacy and patriarchy are very linked in a lot of ways,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “There’s a lot of sexualizing of that violence.”

    Whatever you say, sugartits. Now where is my sammich?

    • SDF-7

      So the first episode is “Being…” a f’ing liar?

      • blackjack

        Give her a few years and this story will be how she was raped during the capitol riots. She’ll have lots of details, too.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “Survivors have a very strong set of skills.”

      Like hiding behind their desks or in their closets in a totally different building?

      Those are some real skills.

      • SDF-7

        She’s got a T-shirt in her closet with “I survived Rush Week 2005”. She never said what kind of survivor she is, after all…

    • Brochettaward

      I’d love to see some actual proof that she was ever sexually assaulted.

      • Ownbestenemy

        My guess she was slapped on the ass when she tended bar or hit on by drunk patrons. If she was really sexually assaulted, then yeah, sorry to hear that.

        Also remember she claimed that the capital officer gave her a menacing glare while he was looking for people to evacuate the building.

      • DEG

        My money is on her making it up.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    And the medics refused to obey the order, saying it was illegal

    While it was clear this was the path Biden wanted to pursue, the process is complicated, given the President must sign a waiver ordering it within the military if the vaccine does not have full approval from the FDA, according to a senior administration official.
    Monday’s memo from the Pentagon says vaccinations will be required starting in mid-September. If no Covid-19 vaccine has full approval by then, Biden is expected to sign a waiver that says members of the military do not have the right to refuse the coronavirus vaccine.

    This will be introduced as evidence in the impeachment trial, presumably.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Maybe she is still a first class twat.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        He certainly appears to be.

      • Brochettaward

        I fully support the holding of decades-old grudges. People shouldn’t be allowed to forget that they offended me.

      • Plisade

        You wouldn’t be the first to feel this way.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Useless cunts in a mutual admiration society, all of them.

      • Tres Cool

        That’s about 3,499 more words than can hold my interest in her.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Wintour is one of the bitchiest ball buster elitist cold fish nags on the face of the planet and she looks the part too. A truly hideous human being both inside and out.

      • Count Potato

        The devil wears Prada.

  22. Rebel Scum

    BOMBSHELL, BREAKING NEWS

    A burst of new disclosures exposing the extraordinary efforts by ex-President Donald Trump to steal power after his election defeat constitute a grave warning about the future and his potential bid to recapture the White House.

    The audacity of the former President’s attempts to subvert the law by weaponizing the Justice Department not only underscores how close the United States came to a full blown constitutional crisis this year. It also emphasizes that any attempt by Trump to use a war chest already worth $100 million to try to recapture the White House in 2024 would represent a mortal threat to democracy and the rule of law from a leader who was undeterred even by his own first impeachment.

    New revelations emerging from Senate testimony, about a Trump Justice Department loyalist’s alleged behind-the-scenes efforts to call into question elections in states the ex-President lost, also render the continued GOP whitewashing of history about Trump’s crimes against the Constitution even more blatant and dangerous.

    Aaaaaaand, I’m out. Some people clearly inhabit a different reality than me. Or they are just lying liars that want to propagandize everyone.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      So someone in the DOJ thought he might have a case. God forbid.

      The real crime was that Trump was keeping them away from their real job cleaning up after Hunter and burying evidence on his behalf\.

    • Count Potato

      Why not both?

    • SDF-7

      Wait… there was someone in the DOJ who actually supported Trump, as opposed to all the ones frantically working against him? That is a bombshell…

    • Gamera!

      Capture? Recapture? is this Fucking King of the Hill? WoW?
      Want a war? this is how you get a war.

    • B.P.

      “It also emphasizes that any attempt by Trump to use a war chest already worth $100 million to try to recapture the White House in 2024 would represent a mortal threat to democracy and the rule of law from a leader who was undeterred even by his own first impeachment.”

      So I guess the groundwork is being laid for barring Trump from seeking reelection. This is what democracy looks like.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I don’t want him to, but now with that…I want him to. Would love to see all the tricks on the table on how they won’t certify his campaign in all the states.

  23. Pope Jimbo

    Empire building ain’t got no end.

    The US Army announced Friday that it would retain troop sites in Germany and Belgium that had been slated for handover, saying they were needed for “growing” defense demands in the region.

    The reversal to plans made years ago to leave the locations is “due to growing requirements in the European theater,” the army said in a statement.

    In July 2020 Trump announced that the United States would withdraw almost 12,000 out of the nearly 35,000 US soldiers based in Germany, bringing some home and redeploying others elsewhere in Europe.

    But Pentagon officials, citing the need for long-term planning for such moves, did not take immediate action and the current level of troops in Germany remains around 35,000.

    After Biden came into office in January, the Trump plan was dropped as Washington views Russia as a significant threat to Europe and believes the US troop presence is crucial to the NATO mission.

    So the Pentagon disobeyed the orders of the Commander in Chief? Are charges being brought against those who failed to follow civilian leadership?

    Also good to know that the dementia patient in the Oval Office is prepping for a war in Europe against the Russian Bear.

    • SDF-7

      As if Putin needs to do anything beyond turning the gas pipelines off at this point.

    • Gamera!

      But I thought the ’80s wanted there Foreign policy back?

    • Tres Cool

      Hillary couldn’t piss them off over Syria, so why not just poke the Kremlin ?

  24. DEG

    Swiss, I hope things go well for your family.

    New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tried to cut a deal with the state Legislature — offering to drop his bid for a fourth-term in exchange for not getting impeached, The Post has learned.

    I’ll believe he gets impeached when I see it.

    Authorities identified a COVID-19 cluster after an infected individual with the surname Wang came into close contact with 23 individuals, according to the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Yangzhou City on Monday.

    More welding-into-houses coming up?

    The slain priest, 60, had been welcoming the man into his church for several months, according to the source.

    The man, a Rwandan national named as Emmanuel A., has confessed to being behind the fire at the Gothic Nantes cathedral that horrified France on July 18, 2020.

    The priest welcomed the guy into the church then the guy set the place on fire? What an asshole.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      “The priest welcomed the guy into the church then the guy set the place on fire? What an asshole.”

      Not exactly Jean Val-Jean.

      • Swiss Servator

        “I have bought your soul for God!”

        “Nah” *burns church, kills priest*

  25. The Late P Brooks

    In July 2020 Trump announced that the United States would withdraw almost 12,000 out of the nearly 35,000 US soldiers based in Germany, bringing some home and redeploying others elsewhere in Europe.

    But Pentagon officials, citing the need for long-term planning for such moves, did not take immediate action and the current level of troops in Germany remains around 35,000.

    It’s almost as if the boys at the Pentagon knew in advance who was going to win the election.

    • Gustave Lytton

      The Pentagon needs a thorough house cleaning, and by house cleaning mean hangings.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Every one of the cocksuckers dragging their feet should have been fired and their pensions pulled but Trump, for all his loud talk, is a wuss.

      • Gustave Lytton

        And “THATs Col Shitbird”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It’s shit like this that makes me want to move out of this country.

    • Tonio

      The article also mentions mandatory alcohol detection devices.

      • Gamera!

        Alcohol sensors, so if your friend is buzzed, you can’t drive him home, nice eh?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah I pointed out that Uber/Lyft etc will be real fun when the detectors don’t allow the car to move cause there are 4 drunk college chicks trying to get home.

    • Gamera!

      I know some friends who make Ethanol from their Corn crops, Life finds a way,
      My Kia ain’t chipped, I don’t think

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        What a waste of moonshine.

      • Gamera!

        We have plenty of that too, this place is hillbilly without the hills, I like it, it feels safe
        /stay out of the deep woods….

    • Animal

      I predict massive non-compliance.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Two years ago I would say that same thing, but 2020-21 have exposed what the over arching culture of America is and it is not non-compliance.

      • Suthenboy

        Only one business is complying with the statewide mask mandates here and it is a big corp. No one else is paying attention to that horseshit.

      • Suthenboy

        Oh, and the constitutional carry bill failed here yet everyone is acting as if it passed. I see people wearing pistols nearly everywhere, even in the pharmacy.

      • Sean

        This pleases me.

      • Tundra

        Jeff Deist was talking the other day about the need for some type of separation. We will never persuade our opponents.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        On Woods’ show with Smith? I concur with his viewpoint as the differences are irreconcilable at this point.

      • Tundra

        Yes, that was the one. Quite a good interview, I thought.

      • Suthenboy

        The trouble is they will descend into poverty very quickly. Everything they have will look like SF, Portland, Seattle, Detroit, etc and they will be stomping their feet and demanding ‘reparations’ or some such bullshit. One way or the other it is probably going to come to blows.

      • Animal

        Got a link? Sounds interesting.

      • Animal

        Never mind, found it. Gonna give it a listen.

      • Gadfly

        It should be noted that the US is not homogeneous, that there are many areas that flouted the rules and many others that did not go so hard with the rules in the first place because the leaders knew they wouldn’t be supported in such action. All the “Big” institutions are pushing compliance, but why wouldn’t they?

    • The Other Kevin

      Great, more massive taxes on the poor. But keep voting Democrat everybody!

    • Gustave Lytton

      Anyone checked on Bob Poole? He’s probably stroking out from the orgasms.

    • The Other Kevin

      I’d swear the Democrats are basing their policies on old episodes of Rush Limbaugh.

  26. Count Potato

    This is from back in February, when Tim Pool did a great job explaining it:

    “I Have PROOF AOC Lied About Her Capitol Story, Its Way WORSE Than You Thought (MAJOR UPDATE)”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prlmJQAf1ns

    So there is no way by now that CNN doesn’t know that she wasn’t even there.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Because it is propaganda.

    • wdalasio

      Oh, Dear Lord! Joemala overestimated the quality of the people.

    • Ownbestenemy

      You do you I guess. Not you, but that person. I see these posts as baiting to get a bunch of negative replies and that video passed around so they can write about how terrible America is though.

      Another reason that ignoring needs to be brought back in style.

      • wdalasio

        I’d normally say, his life let him live it how he wants. The thing is he’s part of a government that’s asserting control over vastly increasing portions of my life. Sorry, I don’t really have much patience for being ruled by some little bastard that wants to act like a circus clown. If they were inclined to let me do me, I’d share your sentiment.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It highlights to me that to a significant portion of people this is a game.

        Running roughshod over liberty in pursuit of their unattainable goals is just part of the fun.

    • rhywun

      GO ?? FUCK ?? YOURSELF ??

    • Aloysious

      (⊙_⊙;)

  27. Tundra

    *REPOST*

    On behalf of our pal Fourscore, I am pleased once again to be shilling for the legendary Honey Harvest!

    For any newbies or dementia patients, HH is an annual event hosted by Fourscore at his amazing compound near Emily, MN. Last year we had a terrific turnout, perfect weather, lovely people and NO MASKS! Honey processing, potluck, mead tasting courtesy of kinnath and so much more.

    HH is held on the third Sunday in September, so the 19th this year. I maintain a list of veteran and potential Honey Harvesters. If you are interested, shoot me an email at:

    minnetundra AT those evil fuckers from Mountain View.

    Do it. You know deep down that you really want to meet Pope Jimbo.

    • Gamera!

      I really wanna but moneys beyond tight, I can hope!

    • Ownbestenemy

      We would love to and maybe we might. Though we are dropping a pretty penny to hang out with Neph and Girlfriend the weekend prior. Calendar date pinned though.

    • db

      What’s involved? Do we help actually harvest honey?

      • Tundra

        There will be honey production, but all post-hive removal. Mostly it’s sitting around eating, drinking, laughing and watching Jimbo hit on the women.

        It’s a fun day and Fourscore’s place is smack dab in the middle of lake country, so you can make a weekend of it!

      • Fourscore

        Newbies are sometimes eager to get their hands sticky but the novelty wears off pretty fast for most. Some last quite a while, until they hear the Glibs yukking it up outside. The regular workers will be happy to explain what they are doing. Lots of food and laughs.

      • Fourscore

        There are those that think the night before with the NoDak boys is worth the pain and suffering the next day.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I’m gonna see if i can weasel out of the conference I have and get up there. Of course they scheduled the one conference I regularly attend on the next day. I’m hoping they decide to cancel the in-person portion again so that I can come up. I’ll be happy to sling honeycomb around. It has been about a decade since I last helped at harvesting honey.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      No flights to Duluth on AA. Which airlines service Duluth – anyone know?

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        You’ll see in tonight’s post why I want to fly into DUL

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Although I could fly into MSP and make a mini road trip out of it.

      • Fourscore

        Delta flies to Brainerd, 30 miles from the HH, also a shuttle from the MPLS airport to Brainerd

  28. grrizzly

    Apparently, San Marino (pop. 33k) won 3 Olympic medals in Tokyo. Last week I saw one of the medalists on TV. He was an American wrestler from Michigan whose great grandfather immigrated from San Marino about a century ago. He represented San Marino at the Olympics presumably because there could be only one wrestler from the same country in each weight class. I wonder if the other San Marino medals were won by the actual residents of the country.

    • Ted S.

      If memory serves, his grandfather won an Olympic medal competing for Lebanon.

      That having been said, there are people who are legitimate candidates to compete for multiple countries, like Naomi Osaka who has a Japanese mother and Haitian father. (I don’t know which one she inherited the crazy genes from.)

  29. Annoyed Nomad

    According to 23&me, I have more Neanderthal DNA than 92% of people (although it’s still less than 2% of my DNA).

    I just hope President Biden stops insulting us Neanderthal-Americans.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      So easy even a caveman can do it.

      • Annoyed Nomad

        Hey! I resemble that remark.

    • Suthenboy

      Pikers. 4-5% here.

      *scratches armpit*

    • ignoreLander

      So she and Armoured Skeptic broke up, I see. Damn, I’m actually proud I didn’t know this until now — shows my YouTube self-imposed exile has been effective.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Carrot or cudgel?

    By mandating inoculations, corporate America is taking action in a way federal legislators cannot, said Dorit Reiss, a professor at UC Hastings College of the Law. Outside of requiring vaccines for its own employees, Reiss said the federal government “probably doesn’t have the power to say everybody in the U.S. has to get vaccinated or pay a fine.”

    But insurance agencies might, a recent op-ed by Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal and Glenn Kramon in The New York Times suggests. In the model of policies that deny coverage for injuries sustained during dangerous activities, the authors indicate that insurers could start “penalizing the unvaccinated” because their refusal to immunize poses a threat to public health. Rosenthal is editor in chief of Kaiser Health News and Kramon is a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

    In a world ruled by The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf…

    • Ownbestenemy

      If immunized persons are less likely to be infected or have less health issues if they contract COVID, then why would an un-vaccinated be penalized as being a threat to public health? Oh yeah I forgot, they are all full out shit.

    • Gustave Lytton

      These fucking Roperites are going to be surprised, shocked, when all of these tools they’re setting up are used against themselves.

    • B.P.

      “Dangerous activity” will now be any action the power structure does not like.

      • Sean

        Fall off your bike without a helmet and get hurt? Coverage denied.
        Speeding 10 mph over and crash with an injury? Coverage denied.
        Stabbed at a Trump rally? Coverage denied.

      • Sensei

        Being in insurance I’ve suggested this was coming for years.

      • Sean

        Well, then I fully expect all the fatties to have their policies cancelled. The smokers too. Let’s kick this shit off.

      • Nephilium

        One of the places I recently worked at had a policy that if you were not taking a medication that was prescribed to you by your doctor, you would have your coverage cancelled. They (and my current work) do annual nicotine tests as well. Fail that, and it’s a $50 surcharge (I believe per month at one place, every paycheck at the other).

      • Sean

        How would they know if you weren’t taking your scripts? That’s a new one to me.

      • Nephilium

        Sean:

        My guess would be it was an easy catch and coverage removal for chronic conditions (such as high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, and the like). Compare refill rates requests with the scripts, and that should easily identify those who weren’t even keeping up with the prescriptions. The company had fairly expensive health care, as I was one of the thinner employees, and that was when I was heavier then I am now.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    prepare yourself for our totally serious administration in DC.

    Great googly moogly…

  32. Ghostpatzer

    Another day, another lecture from Dear Leader.

    https://patch.com/new-jersey/westwood-hillsdale/s/hpzqh/wont-surrender-kids-politics-murphy-says-mask-mandate

    “He also made the comments after announcing that there are now 13 children who have been hospitalized with the coronavirus, including two in intensive care. He blasted those who would use the word “only” in front of that number, citing the seven deaths of children under the age of 18 since the pandemic began in March 2020.”

    I can’t imagine anything worse than losing a child. Which is why, O exalted one, standing on their graves stamps you as the lowest of life forms. You’ve seen this haven’t you?

    https://www.healthy.nj.gov/health/chs/documents/Prelim2020LCOD.pdf

    What’s this? Among the 25 and under, more deaths from accidents, homicide, suicide, cancer, and heart disease than from COVID? 5 TIMES more from suicide? Why so many suicides? Where is your outrage?

    • Sensei

      Jackass has an election soon. It’s the only reason he hasn’t gone full out.

      Sad part is I assume whoever our feckless Rs put against him will lose.

      • Ghostpatzer

        I am not normally a violent man, but something about Murphy gets my blood boiling. / Note to 3-letter agencies, not an actual threat.

      • Sensei

        He killed as many grandparents as Cuomo with his policies. He just didn’t brag about how great he was.

    • rhywun

      Christ, what an asshole.

    • Gadfly

      And New Jersey was one of the states hardest hit by COVID, yet it still barely registered as a threat to the young. Policymakers seem to not have a proper sense of proportion.

      • Sean

        This ain’t about logic or science.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    If immunized persons are less likely to be infected or have less health issues if they contract COVID, then why would an un-vaccinated be penalized as being a threat to public health? Oh yeah I forgot, they are all full out shit.

    “If you’re not with us, you are our sworn enemy in a Total War Environment.”

  34. juris imprudent

    I went to the Bee to see what reaction they had to AOC and her imagination – nothing on that yet, but there was this and it is brilliant.

    I was baptised into the Kirkland-brand Anglicans.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Ha! I was born again to be a “Frozen Chosen”

      Legit lol “Cavalry Chapel — Obscure cult that worships soldiers on horseback.”

      • Bobarian LMD

        attending a Pentecostal worship service is like going to a drug-fueled rave—for Jesus!

        *snort*

        I’ve been to that service.

      • Gender Traitor

        Reared Frozen Chosen. It’s a miracle I survived routinely getting the giggles in church thinking about sketches from The Carol Burnett Show the night before.

      • Sensei

        Another winner!

    • The least-interesting BEAM in the world™

      Man, that Costco’s got its fingers in every pie.

      • blackjack

        No link to the Southpark fingerbang video?

  35. Ghostpatzer

    “prepping the house for my wife to be laid up for 6 weeks (after her upcoming knee surgery)”

    This will sound strange but I hope to be in your shoes sooner rather than later. I have been trying to get my wife to get her knees taken care of for years, watching her try to get around is painful. That said, hope everything goes well.

    • The Hyperbole

      $40 for a ballcap? Say what you will about Donny the man knows how to grift.

      • westernsloper

        I am on the fence about this stuff. Is it really “grift”? It is also well established I don’t really know the meaning of many words. Like Pectin. I know it is for canning but what the fuck is it? I never cared to find out. The new hat is dumb af but when I first saw it all I thought of was Hat and the Hair and what trouble bedazzled hat is going to cause.

        As to “grift” I think AOC selling $40 sweatshirts is 100% grift because she preaches anti capitalism but has no problem using capitalism to fund her ventures. She is a fraud. OMB is an asshat therefore different levels of “grift” there. Apparently according to many in the twittersphere anybody who makes a living talking about libertarian politics and making liberty merch are grifters. Hence my ignorance as to what the word “grift” actually means in this day and age.

      • The Hyperbole

        It’s grift because he is fleecing suckers, telling them one thing to get their donations, (or get them to overpay for apparel that (regardless if it’s a MAGA or Guardians hat) no grown man should be wearing in public unless he is actively playing baseball) and then not doing what he claims the fundraising is for. I haven’t done a deep dive but I’ve yet to see any rebuttal of the claim that of the 75 million plus Trump and his PAC’s have raised off the “Stop the Steal” etc.. not one cent has been spent to litigate the ‘stolen’ election. He’s selling political outrage the same way he sold steaks. Overcharge for a shitty product and convince everyone that the ‘Brand’ is what matters not the substance.

      • westernsloper

        regardless if it’s a MAGA or Guardians hat) no grown man should be wearing in public unless he is actively playing baseball

        *snort

        I know nothing about any 75 million or any “stop the steal” campaigns. I am ignorant there as well. There have been some interesting developments in that area the past weeks though. None I care enough about to go find at the moment.

        Anyone who buys a “Trump” branded hat or Trump branded steak gets what they made the choice for and deserve. People make poor buying choices every day. I don’t see how that is grift. The best selling baby powder for decades apparently causes cancer but everyone bought it because it was the brand they like. Americans having brand loyalty is not a new thing and or grift, it is good marketing to people who want to buy their shit. I am considering getting a TopLobsta t-shirt (and ordered a glibs beer glass that I have not received yet!) Are those two orgs grifters?

      • The Hyperbole

        Are they telling you that the proceeds from your purchase of T-shirts or beer glasses will go for some cause that they wont actually go to? That’s the grift, it’s fraud plain and simple, It’s saying “Support me by buying this Merch and I’ll save America from the libtards” and then you spend the money on hookers and blow. Think televangelists and their tickets to Heaven. Yes there’s a bit of PT Barnum in every salesman, but I don’t think it’s that fine a line between “Buy my body spray and the hot chicks will sex you up” and “send me money and I’ll cure your cancer through the magic of crystals and pyramids” I could be wrong, maybe it’s just different sides of the same coin but it seems pretty cut and dried to me, even if I haven’t nailed down the specifics of what makes which which.

  36. KSuellington

    I think I just lost a customer due to my mask avoidance. I went into a property management office to drop off some keys for a job I did. It should have taken ten seconds and two feet into the office to drop them at the front desk but I got the wanker in there today that hates me because I told him off last year over his shitty attitude. He turned that ten seconds into two minutes by repeatedly asking me the same question. Then at the end asked me to put on a mask. I said no and he got huffy. Then the owner called me up all pissed with a tone that you use with a child. He got his ass hung up on. Fuck em. I’ll lose money rather than be treated like a misbehaving ten year old.

    • Gamera!

      Good on Ya, treat me as an adult and we can talk…..

      • KSuellington

        Cheers Bob. At this point we need to make a stand in whichever ways we can.

  37. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Going back and listening to some COVID debates from a few months ago. A lot of it seems rather quaint in comparison to our current hysterics but one particular thing is sticking out like a sore thumb.

    The trials of the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines indicated a higher resistance to reinfection than natural immunity.

    That is completely inverted from our current situation. I think there are multiple conclusions you can draw from that, but it’s certainly a testament to the work of those like Geert Vanden Bossche who predicted exactly this situation from the beginning knowing those results from the trials.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I’d like to see the raw data from those studies because that sounds like a hair on fire lie. The vaccines as you know are spike protein based and are focused on that aspect while natural infection should impart a reaction to the spike protein as well as to other constituents of the viral bodies which should more effectively prevent a small mutation of that aspect from getting around the immunity. I call bullshit.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That was one of my unmentioned conclusions.

        Pharmaceutical companies have never played games with trial numbers, this is known.

    • limey

      Mohrrrrrdohrrrrr IRL.

    • db

      So hot.

  38. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    The opal channel I shared in my YouTube post last week has a new video. I thought some of you might enjoy the business’s marketing manager.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNB5G0HRa74

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      (she’s the young lady driving at the beginning)

  39. blackjack

    I have to call after 7:00 and see if I have to show up for federal jury duty. I’m hoping I have to do it. Beats working and maybe it’s an interesting case where I can make a difference. Don’t know if it’s criminal or civil, yet.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      Here’s a question: are they going to exclude the unvacksed from jury duty?

      • blackjack

        I doubt it, but they’ll probably make me wear the feedbag.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        What if you refused the diaper, too? I mean, they need warm bodies in there. I’m very curious, because at the same time they’re screaming about excluding unvacksed from certain aspects of life (or, requiring vacks to participate in certain parts of life), they need people on juries.

      • blackjack

        It is interesting, because most people view it as punishment (jury duty, that is.) Imma guess that everybody in the court is required to mask up. It’s federal and creepy Joe is in charge of it all. I have to wear them at work anyway. I prefer court to work, anyday. I can stroll in around 8:00 a.m. and take an hour lunch. Be home by 2:00 or 3:00. I hope I get picked. And, I might get to assert myself in whatever case it is. That’s how it went last time. I hope the BBQ place is still open down there. I miss the chili they serve.

      • rhywun

        You probably can’t get past the metal detector without a scrap of cloth over your face these days.

      • Sensei

        Interesting question! WIll they make the vaccinated wear masks so folks can’t tell who is who?

      • Gustave Lytton

        I can see it now. Vaccination is mandatory for jury service. Failure to do so is contempt of court. I can machine it’s already happened twice a mask refusenik. Judges act as unAmerican dictators in their courtrooms.

      • Ted S.

        I can machine it’s already happened twice, too.

    • creech

      Federal Grand jury? You could be tied up for years. And it would be harder for an employer to fire you as you could claim retaliation for not trying to get out of your civic duty.

      • blackjack

        I work for the city. They pay full pop for as long as it takes. the summons predicts, “average of two weeks.” I’ll do two years if I can, happily. BTW, not grand, just jury.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      I got called for Fed jury duty a week before I was due to start a new job. I didn’t get picked, and started the job on time (worst job of my life, BTW)

      The case was a terrorism criminal trial for the guy accused of bombing the US Embassy in Jakarta.

      I found out a year later that a friend of mine’s parents were working at the Embassy in Jakarta at that time. Man, that would have been an easy out.

      (normally I don’t mind jury duty, but not right before starting a job)

      • blackjack

        I worked for a place that had a customer from Jakarta back in the early nineties. He would buy every motorcycle we offered him. He’d fill a container about three times a year. After the maids killed all of the rich people, he stopped coming around. I guess he had his fun while it lasted.

  40. Sensei

    This Is Rachel Uchitel, Representing Herself
    For more than a decade, a sweeping nondisclosure agreement with Tiger Woods, brokered by Gloria Allred, has ruled her life. Now she’s ready to rip it up.

    So she (likely) got 66% of $5m + $1m for 3 yrs. Best I can tell she has buyer’s remorse and is unhappy how she was portrayed and unable to defend herself thanks to the NDA. I couldn’t read more than the first 10 paragraphs or so of what looks to 1,500 words of sympathetic dreck.

  41. db

    Swiss, Tonio, or any editor: Is there a way to reopen my upcoming article for edits? I found some typos I’d like to correct.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      Slashballs?????

      • db

        Unfortunately not, but I felt like I needed to write something, and I felt stuck with D/B so maybe this successful attempt at writing something will loosen up the works, so to speak.

      • Swiss Servator

        You should be able to work on your post.

      • db

        I don’t seem to be able to select it or click on it anywhere…it says “scheduled.”

  42. grrizzly

    Starting from today the health pass is mandatory in France. It includes dining outside. For some reason, I mistakenly believed that it affected only dining indoors. Probably got it confused with the rules in Moscow.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      No indoors eating in Moscow without it? Gonna be a rough winter for unvaxxed restaurant patrons there.

      • grrizzly

        I don’t have complete information right now but I’ve heard that all this business of indoor dining only for vaccinated got quietly cancelled–people just stopped dining in restaurants.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Covid vaccination will only be the first. Flu, polio, measles …sure, why not? And the list will only increase. Just as child support can block license renewals.

  43. Gamera!

    I need a writer please, should I add dialogue to what is already a long narrative? it just seeems right to make the story bigger,
    I promise it will be better than my other crap,

    • Gamera!

      Meaning, I wan’t to add a bit of dialogue,

  44. wdalasio

    My backdoor neighbor just got a clay pigeon thrower. Had a good time firing off a couple of rounds in the back yard. Nice release after a work day. But, I really need to get some practice in. Couldn’t hit a one.

    • The least-interesting BEAM in the world™

      My carbine hasn’t seen action in over two years. Sad!

      • Sean

        Euphemism?

      • db

        You passed right over “backdoor neighbor” for this?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Not everyone likes a mudslide.

  45. Sean

    Got my super flashlight mounted.

    I cannot recommend the Fenix ALG-00 mount. It’s quick and easy, but not rock solid.

    The Vltor scout mount I can reccomend. Simple and solid.

    The flashlight is a beast.

    • Sean

      ?

      • rhywun

        Also ?. In my head I pooh-pooh all the “mole” talk but this is pretty uncanny.

        I was going to point out yesterday (?) that this isn’t terribly unusual or particular to English but I didn’t want to steal anyone’s thunder. ?

    • Gamera!

      Maybe document it and sue the bastards!
      Free Money!111!1!!!

    • Sensei

      For sure!

    • The Hyperbole

      Except the tweet referenced in the article is from 5 days ago, apparently Mojo is the plagiarist. For shame, Mojo, for shame!

      • Mojeaux

        *haughty sniff*

        It’s not a new idea. Anyway, this was the one I was really looking for:

        Put “only” anywhere in this sentence: She told him that she loved him.

      • blackjack

        OK, “Only put anywhere in this sentence”

      • Mojeaux

        Well, damn.

      • blackjack

        There’s always a way to be a smartass.

      • Mojeaux

        I sleep with one so I should’ve been more precise.

      • Count Potato

        William Sapphire wrote a whole article on that.

  46. westernsloper

    I guess the French criminal justice system is as effed up as some American jurisdictions.

    Ya, that is effed up. Also effed up in France, I saw some video of police making the rounds at cafes to check Vax status to make sure the people eating in public were the right people.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Just following in the glorious legacy of their Vichy predecessors!

    • westernsloper

      Seems grrizzly posted same video I saw. Insanity.

  47. rhywun

    OK so my Columbo box-set just arrived ? and it comes in two (2) cases with like a 16 disks in each case, all packed in on top of each other in the most inconvenient way imaginable. What in the ever-loving hell?

    I immediately went on Amazon and ordered some proper cases to move them into.

    Does anybody beta-test this shit?

    • Gamera!

      Caveat Amazon?

      • rhywun

        I don’t blame them, I blame the chintzy DVD manufacturers. Most of my box-sets are in nice cases with at most a season of material in each one. I’ve never seen someone stuff four or five seasons into one case before.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I got a box set of Star Trek TNG that was like that. Four discs per insert, 10ish inserts crammed into a cheapo box. All 7 seasons in one container. Didn’t help that the plastic was brittle.

    • Sensei

      I’d be using Handbrake on those so fast. I hate flipping DVDs.

      I ripped all my DVDs for convenience and play everything through Kodi.

      Wish I could do the same on Blu-ray, but I don’t want to compress and even with that the storage required.

      • rhywun

        I ripped all my DVDs for convenience and play everything through Kodi.

        I don’t (presently) have a computer that can read DVD’s but I am in the near future going to be in the market for a new PC so that might be a feature to look for.

      • westernsloper

        RE the Mac dumping due to snooping for the man, I read today that it only applies to photos stored in icloud. I have never enabled anything to icloud because fuck that. (and to the feds reading this I have nothing on my computer, photographic or otherwise that is illegal so fuck off) Have you heard otherwise or is this a principle thing for you?

      • rhywun

        It’s a principle thing, plus I have several other reasons to move back to Windows. I don’t like the direction Apple is taking – their obsession with breaking backwards compatibility has finally broken me.

        I’ve been switching back and forth for months but this just made my mind up for me.

      • westernsloper

        Gotcha. My work computer, that I spend about an hour a week on because my job is not a desk job is windows and I hate the thing. I am not sure I can make that jump to bring that hell into my personal time spent on computers which has been Apple for the past…..since 2008. And those fuckers have been snooping computers for the feds since they were developed so what is the point. I am too dumb lazy to figure out a secure cell phone platform/OS so I am kind of at the what’s the point stage.

      • rhywun

        I’ve been about 80% Mac/20% Windows (in my personal life – work has always been 100% Windows) since 2006.

        Macs are more pleasant to use – it is IMHO a better OS.

        But Windows is more useful.