I told you so.
So I received and emergency request from Banjos a little bit ago. Sloopy is drunk and thinks he’s a ballerina.
Fuck you, right in the pucker.
Good. I like Tebow. ESPN could use a little pucker irritation.
Internal, external? Make your own jokes.
Okey doke. I’m going back to a game that Boise shouldn’t lose, but will.
How about a little K. D. Lang?
Come First with me my children, and together we shall change the world. It is coming. The First that will upend all of history. For those who cannot take the anticipation, here is a premonition given to me by the Great Firster of what is to come. Deuteronomy 25:11-12.
Deuteronomy is the fifth book in the Pentateuch. Do better.
One might even say the last book in the Pentateuch.
It is written, “The last shall be first”
“Where the White Women at?”
He who is last is first, and he who tries to first dresses up as a lass.
standing ovation
“Amazon.com Inc plans to take a more proactive approach to determine what types of content violate its cloud service policies, such as rules against promoting violence, and enforce its removal, according to two sources, a move likely to renew debate about how much power tech companies should have to restrict free speech.
Over the coming months, Amazon will hire a small group of people in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) division to develop expertise and work with outside researchers to monitor for future threats, one of the sources familiar with the matter said.”
If they need “expertise”and “research” then they aren’t going after inciting violence.
They’re a private company and can ban certain things if they want. You see, the 1st Amendment doesn’t apply to private companies.
*resumes huffing glue*
Nice avatar, bro.
If I knew how to change my avatar I’d have a nice one too. *kicks pebble*
Up at the top right of the black bar where it says “Howdy, Waffles.” Click that, then click “Edit Profile.”
Thanks but now I’m not gonna
LIAR!
Joe Moose?
That’s cute.
Do people who value their privacy use Amazon cloud services?
“outside researchers”
Aka our customers in the DOD, NSA, and CIA.
“Exclusive-Amazon to proactively remove more content that violates rules from cloud service -sources”
So things that show the evil fucking mandarinate for what it is? These fucking idiots think Orwell’s “1984” and Huxley’s “Brave New World” as instruction manuals instead of warnings of dystopian bullshit.
Maybe a lawglib could explain the concept of “common carrier” here?
So it’s really about transwomen?
It’s about making the serfs expendable, and when you need bodies to give to the mandarinate’s masters in Beijing, you need to give them some poon tang cause they need lots of that…
They need cuntes like this to enforce the convid/climate lockdowns on you flyover hicks.
You’d think that right after getting their rear ends kicked out of a country by a bunch of 7th century goat herders, she might want to be a little more reticent about bragging about how she’s going to kick her fellow countrymen’s rear ends.
She believes the Afghan mission was a great success because that’s what the people she is loyal to have told her…
Maybe making women register for the draft will generate enough support to end draft registration.
I think Tebow is OK, but ESPN still sucks ass.
I don’t want to talk about abortion. The, very real, pro-abortion people and ghouls who used planned parenthood as birth control poisoned the well forever and I no longer think of abortion as a civil liberties issue, if I ever did. In my view there’s a basic requirement to make abortion an option of last resort, not a macabre celebration to own the cons.
It’s like everything the left approached with “solemnity and somberness” 30 years ago has become some twisted exercise in who can approach the issue in worst faith these days. Of course, shitlord social conservatives like me tend to believe that this was merely the ripping off of a fairly translucent mask.
Progressive and conservative, two useless political definitions. One advocates change for the sake of change and the other advocates changing nothing.
Abortion on demand through the 75th trimester.
“The Pre-persons” is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine, October 1974.
The story was a pro-life response to Roe v. Wade. Dick imagines a future where the United States Congress has decided that abortion is legal until the soul enters the body. The specific instant is defined by the administration, at present the moment a person has the ability to perform simple algebraic calculations (around the age of 12).
You dick.
“abortion is legal until the soul enters the body”
This is basically the medieval Church’s position, main difference over time being when they decided that moment is. They did not always hold the view that it was at conception. I have a quote from a medical manuscript around here somewhere…
I thought traditionally it was “quickening” – when the fetus moves. Which generally happens at roughly the same time as viability (maybe a little earlier), so not a bad rule of thumb.
In medieval times, the church wasn’t particular about abortion.
Mobile abortion clinics that show up at your house if you want.
It’s called a SWAT team, and they are happy to put your dog down, too.
Or even if you don’t. It is for the state to decide.
I’m against abortion, but I also think it’s like drugs, prostitution, gambling, guns, etc. Regardless whether you are against it or not, banning it isn’t going to make it go away.
I’m against abortion in my own life. I am not willing to go to bat for or against it for others. I am willing to judge them harshly for outward displays of ghoulishness.
#metoo It is such a personal matter for those involved and absolutely none of my business. Celebrating the taking of a innocent life however, is a bridge too far for me.
True. But your list is a mix of physical objects and (mostly/usually victimless crimes). Abortion is the murder of an innocent. And if a state is going to exist, even a very minarchist state, one of the very basic things it can truly be responsible for is enforcing justice in the case of crimes against an innocent person.
And even if you want to go wobbly on “is it a person?”, then I think you have to err on the side of protecting innocent life.
Jimmy Carr had a joke though it may not be original: I don’t get the fuss about abortion. Falling down the stairs is not that hard.
Didn’t work for Princess Di, apparently. (To be a fly on the wall…)
Is that what made Harry such an imbecile?
I dunno, he probably takes after Uncle Andy, and where he gets it I don’t know.
Maybe falling off a horse would have worked.
I would like to point out that they are German.
or Scottish.
Only Europe could manage to produce a line of inbred mutts.
Its like they got hybrid vigor exactly backwards.
Or Danish.
She seemed to have all the aforementioned hybrid vigor, and was a distant relative of W. Churchill too.
In simplest form of hybrid vigor, with 2 traits, you expect 1 of 4 offspring to have both good traits, 2 to be the same as previous generation, and 1 drooling idiot.
The key is to select for the first. European royalty selected for the latter instead.
Could be worse: Hapsburgs.
From Edward VII?
I want them to be marching in the streets screaming “MY BODY, MY CHOICE” – while also demanding that I take an experimental vaccine against my will.
I am annoyed that “a woman’s body is her own business” is not usually followed with “also if she gets ill it is still her business so lets ban government involvement in healthcare”. Feel free to replace the pronouns as you wish
“Get your religion out of my vagina!”
“Happy to. Just as soon as you get your vagina out of my wallet.”
^^^THIS^^^
So much.
Moral issues aside, where I think this is headed is a narrow rejection of RvW at the Supreme Court level, followed by a massive push in the Congress to pass a bill legalizing abortion in all cases, which will turn into an extremely ugly and divisive debate and probably have implications electorally for the 2022 midterms, and likely far beyond.
And by narrow rejection I mean one based on the very weak aspects of the original decision, but likely along ideological lines.
I could be very wrong about this–it could end up being a forced unanimous decision either way, because the SCOTUS might convince itself internally that an extrememly narrow-in-consequence, but unanimous, decision is more politically desirable than a close decision split on party/ideological lines.
LOOK AT THIS SPARKLY THING OVER HERE AND IGNORE THE IMPENDING FINANCIAL COLLAPSE
Yeah, this too.
“When in irresolvable doubt as to whether something is human, it’s probably best not to kill it.”
-DFW
I’ve been to that airport many times and I never saw that mural.
the 5-4 decision stands as an ominous sign for the fate of constitutional abortion rights.
Literally attacking women and minorities . . . by trying to not have so many killed by PP.
Roe v. WadeThe Second Amendment Left in Peril as Supreme Court AllowsAbortionFirearms CurbsFunny how an actual enumerated right is less protected than one that was made up out of “emanations and penumbras”.
Don’t expect an easy life and be ready to struggle, Chinese President Xi Jinping warns officials…
They’re up to something.
I wonder if their DemOp surrogates in the US start parroting that line? He’s correct, of course, but that message is 180 degrees from what Dems have been promising for decades — an easier better life if only we destroy election integrity and tax the rich until they are no longer rich. Prediction: they’ll blame it all on Trump (supporters) and tell people they could have had that shining city on the hill if it wasn’t for the hoarders and wreckers.
Bend the knee you fucking serfs!
I’m hoping what they are up to is realizing how little time their abhorrent regime has left.
Unlike what was done during the Cold War to the USSR to kill their chances to keep the leaders in power, we spent the last 3 decades not just letting China buy our leadership and money managing classes and making them their bitches, but funneled trillions of dollars of wealth into their system, all why they robbed us of hundreds of trillions more in IP, so they could then build up a military and quasi-military capability that would make them able to hurt us all if they decided they were not going down alone. And have no doubt that that is the lesson the CCP took from the USSR and its fall….
Thanks, Nixon and Clinton!
We’ve made them totally reliant on our consumer culture. Without us, they would have no market to sell into, and their whole economy would come crashing down around their ankles. It’s really a brilliant strategic move on our part, 3D chess, really. All we have to do is shut off the spigot of money flowing back to them by crashing our economy so hard that no one can afford to buy even the stuff that’s imported from China. We’ve got our hands around their throats.
“We’ve made them totally reliant on our consumer culture.”
Yeah, I hear that all the time, and this might have been true even as far as 5 years ago. The CCP realized this at some point and has been hell bent on creating a local consumer class. Something that while not easy will eventually happen – because you have a ton of stolen IP, stolen money, and foreign built infrastructure, and you have had time to develop a better class of IP stealers & copiers, all while building yourself a bigger middle class on the back of this crap – unless they really, really fuck up (like start a global war that ends up in serious damage to China). Right now the big question is if the CCP gets overly cocky and pulls their trigger on invading Taiwan too early because they believe that their consumer class is a done deal or they realize they are not there yet and hold back for another decade to 15 years to get there.
“Without us, they would have no market to sell into, and their whole economy would come crashing down around their ankles.”
I think you are incorrect. They so are far along already with their plan of becoming self sufficient that losing the Western markets would hurt them, in the short term, but don’t pose that existential threat it used to, and they will find a way to rebound in 5 or so decades. That’s on our corrupt classes for selling so much out so fast. We are far more likely to be crushed economically by them closing their gates on us. Yeah they manufacture a lot of low quality cheap shit, but the real problem is that we gave up the ability to manufacture even the most basic things. We now depend on other people to make everything that is important, ranging from our electronics to medicine. It would take decades – decades we don’t have – to bring this back. So this belief that China would fall apart if they lost our markets ignores the fact we would suffer far worse cause we have nothing to replace the vacuum because of our own doing.
Also remember that the CCP knows that most of their people are still used to a low standard of living and can endure a LOT OF hardship. We have the majority of our people demanding safe spaces, control of speech, free shit paid for by others, and the ability to pretend their gender is Wood elf breakdancer, because they are so spoiled. Yes, losing the markets will hurt China for a while, but it will cripple us and makes things far worse here where people are now so shallow and spoiled.
You *do* realize that I was making a joke, right?
e.g.,
I was responding to the misconception you were making fun of and should have acknowledged it was obvious you were cracking a joke. That’s on me bro Or do I have to say sis? What’s the gender neutral term here?.
You may address me as “Your Excellency.”
/not the governor of CT
I like the cut of your jib…
And the asshat in “The People’s Republic of CT” demands people call him governor pimp hand even though he is a beaotch without a spine.
Indeed. This is why I’m of the opinion that the time to tackle this problem is now. Write off all investment in the PRC as a sunk cost and just walk away. I’m pretty sure there are plenty of other places with cheap labor to make all the tchotchkes and sub-par consumer electronics. Hell, I would support normalization with the DPRK over further contact with the PRC. Let the ChiComs collapse from within.
One way to work on this, absent accepting much higher prices for US-made goods, or accepting depressed manufacturing wages in the US, would be to seek out partners in Africa who are interested in changing the international aid paradigm. Investment instead of donation.
“Indeed. This is why I’m of the opinion that the time to tackle this problem is now. Write off all investment in the PRC as a sunk cost and just walk away. ”
Those that are loaded in our wealthy classes, primarily from selling us out to China, would all be destroyed financially if this happened, so they have no plan to do this unless they can shift the loss to others and come out still on top. That’s why it will not happen.
They’ve been up to something for thirty or forty years. And like our left, they take the long view.
But yeah, this seems ominous.
“House Democrats also stifled a Republican bid to bar critical race theory from the ranks. Democrats shot down an amendment sponsored by Hartzler, as well as by Reps. Jim Banks (R., Ind.) and Mark Green (R., Tenn.), that would preclude military academies and instructors of enlisted troops from teaching the controversial ideology.”
Why would anyone teach any kind of egghead crap to a bunch of grunts?
1. To create a pretense for identifying and expelling the deplorables from the ranks.
2. To demoralize the ones they can’t prod into reaction.
3. And eventually to drive them out.
A very large proportion of the careerist officers are kool-aid drinkers now, to keep them sweet bennies and contractor retirements coming.
NCO ranks and the up-n-comers are the particular targets of this purge.
Feature, not bug.
Perhaps making a military that just lost a war to cave hobos LESS effective is a feature not a bug also.
A feature to whom remains to be seen in these interesting times.
^This.
And let me ramp up the paranoia a notch — they want to purge anyone they think will resist using the army against US civilians.
I wish I could tell you that you are wrong about this Tonio, but I am starting to believe that they realize that too many people will not willingly give up their right to bear arms, and they will need to use military force to make that so. In order to do so they must have a military that is not loyal to the country & constitution but to the people in charge. The Soviets had the concept of a political officer (Zampolit) to make sure the troops remained loyal to the leaders of the party under the pretense that leadership was the USSR.
Silver Linings: I think if we have a big war in the near future, a shit ton of officers are going to get fragged by their troops.
The enlisted folks who have their asses in the crack aren’t going to tolerate much woke nonsense from the officers. And those officers mostly came from ROTC programs on colleges where they brainwash those kids.
I can just see some butter bar calling in his NCO’s to berate them for not killing an equal amount of women as men. And of the KIA’s he has noticed that they tend to be darker skinned (sgt: that is because we used a flame thrower on them sir) which is problematic.
That night the lt’s hooch goes boom.
A larger percentage of women in military service are commissioned as officers than men.
Wut?
Can we just return to WACs and WAVES?
Poorly written, but of the women in the military, greater percentage are officers than percentage of men who are officers. That’s still badly written, so say 100 women in military , 30 are officers. 200 men in military, 50 are officers. 30% vs 25%
Exactly. This corresponds with the percentage of women getting college degrees. “I got a degree, I can be an officer in the military.”
Also, is it might imagination, or there are just way too many officers now? I read somewhere it’s over 18% of the population.
It’s the administration in education
While the usual suspects are reeing hard about this, legally it’s not a big deal. They refused to either overturn (or stay) a Texas law because of the way the motion was worded. IE, it was a shoddy, last-minute filing as one often sees in the last hours before the execution of a convict. I’m sure they’ll be back with more, better challenges.
Crap, obviously mis-threaded.
Imagine a military where there are 100 women and 900 men in uniform.
Now the officer corps consists of 50 people. 40 are men, 10 are women.
The enlisted ranks consist of 950 people, 90 are women, 860 are men.
Thus, 10% of the women in uniform would be officers, while only 4.4% of men in uniform would be officers, even though there were many more male officers than female officers.
Imagine a military where there are 100 women and 900 men in uniform.
Canada?
Rank has its privileges.
Whatever happened to the officers’ club stag bars? Being old has some advantages , not Biden old, I mean regular old. US Grant couldn’t make it in today’s military? Patton?, Hah!
^And this is why we can’t win wars anymore, even after 20 years against a tribal society operating out of caves.
Hell, the Soviets used 400,000 men and carpet bombed the hell out of Afghanistan.
I still can’t figure why our glorious leaders thought we would fare any better, unless they thought the natives would love us once they got to know us.
That is not a defense of our inept military leadership.
Civilizing war and being overly prosperous to the point where people no longer have to worry about basic necessities (shelter, food & water, and basic procreation) and can waste their time agonizing about pronouns or feeling triggered, has basically made it impossible to do what it takes to win wars today. We keep ignoring that to win a war you have to inflict losses on the enemy that break both their ability AND their spirit to fight. That means you need to be willing to kill and burn everything down. Germany & Japan surrendered and accepted what we imposed on them because we killed so many people, and so many more of the males of military age, and broke so much of their shit, but more importantly, because we made it clear that we were willing to do to them what Rome did to Cartage eventually.
Until we remember that war is supposed to be horribly brutal, kill indiscriminately, and destroy wantonly, because the objective is the destruction of the enemy’s will to keep fighting, we will not win any wars. It doesn’t matter how modern and big our military is if it isn’t fighting and being brutal about it when it is called for. The problem with this is that the leadership class wants these low intensity fights because many of them have made serious bank from it, but fighting real wars to win is some horrible shit, so selling more war becomes nigh impossible (committing atrocities to win is not going to be something people accept unless driven to it).
Our populace is not facing any personal cost of waging war. Until that changes (dollar collapse), I doubt we’re going to stop.
That’s part & parcel of the changes the people that get stinking rich peddling these wars made to encourage us to let them keep doing this shit…
Note that I understand the Biden admin’s conviction that their Afghanistan withdrawal was a great success is absolutely sincere. They armed the enemy and are helping them settle in so they can get back to some hardcore terrorizing & terroristing, cause the goal of these people is to make sure we end up having to go back there (or somewhere else) sooner than later for another long stint that makes the people that love this shit stinking rich from tax payer lucre.
They actually seem to believe that they can negotiate with the Taliban and turn them into allies and friends. They’re completely delusional.
The Taliban will take our money just like they did in the 90’s and use it to crack down on their opponents.
Why not?
“They actually seem to believe that they can negotiate with the Taliban and turn them into allies and friends. They’re completely delusional.”
These are the idiots that in their infinite wisdom believe they can change the world to match their vision and had and emphasized “Pride Day” in a country where the vast majority of the people hold the belief that homosexuality is not just bad but evil. Then they wonder why the Taliban suddenly has more recruits and is more successful.
Seriously, our country is run by credentialed cretins, and they are pissed that they keep having dumb and destructive ideas that let the rubes figure out they are imbeciles, not because they are unhappy with failure, but because they want the rubes to cheer them on for trying. I guess this is what you get in the age of participation trophies and self esteem, when you never had to actually do anything of note and worth to get self esteem or win.
I have been thinking that we need to start pushing back on people that talk about “Thinking outside the box” or about how “all voices need to be heard”. Before we started allowing anyone to voice ideas, no matter how stupid they were, without ridiculing them and telling them to fuck off, we lacked the massive problems these people have foisted on us for the last 5 decades of government experimentation.
When I was born ~22% of all US adults were veterans. By the time I joined it was down to 15%. Now it is about 7% and falling. It is estimated to be 4% by 2040.
As we say in the IT world: “Those who can’t program, manage.”
Iron Maiden’s new album Senjutsu is out.
Sweet. I listened to one of the tracks they released early and noted that it was still Iron Maiden and I liked it,
awesome. I’ll have to give it a listen
The Taliban have been left feeling reportedly “angry and disappointed” after discovering that the million-dollar planes and choppers left at Kabul Airport were destroyed by US troops before they left.
So the Biden-Harris admin were supposed to leave ALL the weapons to the terrorists.
Also give some extra as good will gesture
Silly Taliban. You have to start writing checks to military-industrial complex if you want the good stuff to keep working.
It would not surprise me at all if the decision to destroy equipment was made at the battalion or even company level. I’m imagining a crusty old 1stSgt or SgtMaj sputtering in anger about leaving behind working gear that would be turned upon him and his troops in a hot second.
I was taught in infantry school to drop a thermite grenade on any equipment being abandoned. So it could have even been junior enlisted.
infantry ? could not cut it for the air force?
Sitting all day is bad for the back. Only the strongest can cut it.
We were given thermite for destruction of crypto and classified. The issue was more than needed. Any left over was to be used on other equipment at our discretion.
IKR? We even ran drills on that very thing.
Happy Friday! The post-Ida weather is fan-fucking-tastic. We had a decent amount of rain (~10″) and I’m super glad to not have to see the horror-show that was Philly or NYC.
I was 70 degrees yesterday afternoon. The dog park was packed.
Parts of NYC. Completely harmless in my area.
*shivers, dons hoodie*
Still hitting 90s in Northern Colorado.
the weather here has been great the last few days. Lows of 15 highs of 23 fairly dry
Minnesoda has to put up fence around the state Capitol again because the insurrectionists are coming!
Well as long as it makes the job of the legislators’ army easy, that is all that matters. I think the Line 3 protesters are a bunch of loons, but they have the right to protest.
fossil fuel reliance will magically go away if we ban pipelines.
Now you’re cookin’ with
gaswhale oil.They get fences & private security…
You fucking serfs get fucked in the ass, often by each other as they play one mob against the other, and the majority of you keep grumbling but electing more of the same idiots…
What’s that called?
DEMOCRACY!!!!
What do I win?
Unfortunately it will be more of the same shit you have been getting for a few decades now, your holiness.
” they have the right to protest” Peacefully
They also have a right to walk, high prices at the gas pumps and freeze in the winter.
Jokes on you Fourscore.
The tribes will be able to power their casinos entirely with solar and wind power. Their traditional way of life will become the goal for the rest of the nation.
The tribes will be able to power their empty casinos…
A year ago we stopped at the Mille Lacs Casino (rest stop, old people). Had to be masked at the door, etc. Easy to find a parking spot, available machines (we’re not of that temptation) and no food. So pretty much like No Pipeline.
No birch bark birdhouses being sold along the road, either. Does anyone, besides me, remember those days? ’40s-’50s? Maybe later but I was not around …
Ken Westin
@kwestin
How to properly pronounce various tech/cybersecurity terms and acronyms:
EDR = eee durrr
XDR = ex durr
SIEM = sai emm
OPSEC = oh pee sek
OSINT = oss in tea
CISSP = see eye double ess pee
DDoS = dee dee ossss
HIPAA = hype aye
NERC CIP = nark sip
PCI DSS = picky diss
https://twitter.com/kwestin/status/1433750175919403010
Hey Pie, can you page Mr. Don Keydick for me?
“HIPAA = hype aye”
Err, no.
(they’re all wrong)
…right up to the point where the governmedia start pronouncing them that way ’cause one of their interns found this referenced on wikipedia.
Amazon.com Inc plans to take a more proactive approach to determine what types of content violate its cloud service policies, such as rules against promoting violence, and enforce its removal, according to two sources, a move likely to renew debate about how much power tech companies should have to restrict free speech.
Well you can’t allow viewpoints that counter the prevailing/preferred narrative.
They are doing it smarter this time. Their first victim of censorship was a pro-ISIS site. Now you’ve got the warboner GOP types on your side. Those dumbasses will never think that they will also be shut down.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9953401/An-Italian-dream-Demi-Rose-puts-busty-display-sprawls-vintage-car-Capri.html
Oh, Fat Demi (Bamalam) Oh Fat Demi (Bamalam) Fat Demi has a clam,(Bamalam) like a ten pound ham, (Bamalam).
That is, far and away, the best thing I will read all day. Bravo sir, bravo!
Glad to be of service!
Yowza!
Hey, Stinky. I really dig your Pimp Bullwinkle avatar. Keep them coming!
He has the funniest avatars, and frequently refreshed too.
Oh, that’s what it is?
Chinese officials have been warned by President Xi Jinping to “discard their illusions” about having an easy life and “dare to struggle” to protect the country’s sovereignty and security
“The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered a key phase, and risks and challenges we face are conspicuously increasing,” Xi said, according to state news agency Xinhua. “It’s unrealistic to always expect easy days and not want to struggle.”
So you are saying there will be peace in our time.
After we conquer the world, the CCP will distribute larger monthly allowance of chocolate for those with good credit scores!
Uh-oh. So what he’s saying is that the Three Gorges Dam will fail?
Republicans pilloried the legislation. Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R., Mo.), a House Armed Services Committee member, lampooned the prospect that millions of America’s daughters could be put needlessly in the line of fire.
Women have a role in the modern military. Carrying a rifle into battle is not one of them.
The number 1 reason for pushing the idea of women in combat roles are ambitious female officers.
They need to do a few tours as a commander of a combat unit to become a general officer. For years they have bitched about how hard it is to become a general officer while being banned from those leadership opportunities.
Of course, the zeroes aren’t going to change their rules, so they are allowing women into combat roles instead. Why should they care what it does to actual effectiveness of the infantry units.
Equal Opportunity = Equal Responsibility
Applying the draft to women does not mean putting them in rifle infantry. There are plenty of things women can do other than frontline combat. As long as men have to be subjected to involuntary servitude, so should women. Maybe that will provide an incentive to end that bullshit.
You advocating for comfort women?
69J field whore is a perfectly crumulent MOS.
Thank you Maam, may I have another!
something laundry something cook
Yesterday I went into the office to pick up my personal items because our leadership has asked all employees to do this in preparation for them moving our desks to a new shared space for when they finally have us come back to the office. Needless to say I coordinated with a few good buddy workmates so we could do lunch at a local place we used to hit every Thursday for some of the best Buffalo Chicken/Chicken Parm sammiches in the area. We are leaving for this repast endeavor when we end up stuck in the elevator between floors.
Anyway, after being there for 15 mins I texted my girl and told her I wish she was there so she could ask me to make her feel like a women one more time before we all plunge to our deaths. She pointed out that was going to be a no-go with 3 of my buddies there…. So I told her she got it all wrong… We would all take of our clothes off and tell her to fold the laundry, so it would be perfectly innocent…
elizabeth bruenig
@ebruenig
the key to the kingdom is to never let people owning you on Twitter negatively polarize you into a viewpoint more extreme than you truly and honestly, in peaceful and generous moments, believe. this phenomenon alone has fucked up politics and discourse unbelievably bad
https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1433541181221261313
I don’t read anything written by anyone who can’t be arsed to employ the shift key. Next! Number 26!
I TOTALLY AGREE
Heh. Usually not those either.
And then there are some who don’t use commas or periods I don’t get this but I think it’s a genuine learning disability I’ve seen it even before the internet so I don’t think it’s just haste or laziness
The Brits seem not to have recovered from the rationing of commas during the war.
I thought the comma shortage was due to the extreme overplay of that Culture Club song in the ’80s.
*paging Switzy to the dance floor*
It could be a BDSM thing.
omg! omg! omg!
what a shitlord! all right thinking people know capitalization is a tool of the colonizers!
and before you even think of responding, ask yourself “am i a associate vice-president of indigenization and decolonization?”.
It’s crap like that which makes me yearn for the collapse.
No, what has “fucked up politics” and “radicalized” me was the realization that there are millions of people out there who are dumb, evil, and fanatical all at once. Twitter and other SMITE have stripped away my innocently naive belief that the average person was just like me, but just a little different, and those small differences accounted for our differing worldviews. Nope, most people are incompatibly different from me.
Yeah, turns out I was mostly right in high school when I grumbled about people being stupid conformists.
“let people owning you”
Is that an admission of her idiotic arguments?
Juniata river has receded, at least enough that the local roads are open. Not too much damage at my place that I can see. Search and rescue boat was out looking for a teenage girl that abandoned her car by the flooded road and took off walking. I guess she turned up. Power back on after 32 hours.
Glad to hear you probably escaped damage. Are you near Huntington? Any idea how Raystown lake is handling this? I’d bet there’s a ton of debris on the lake now.
Yes, I live near the southern tip of Raystown Lake (Weaver’s Falls) The lake is expected to crest this afternoon. And yes, there is a ton of debris. I work in Huntingdon, so we’ll see how the drive to there is tonight. I am not quite sure how to post pics on here or I would.
You could try https://pasteboard.co/
This sounds about right. The cop fucked up bad, but it is hard to think that it was malicious in any way. I still think that the black rookie cop bears a good deal of responsibility for this. His inability to get the cuffs on the guy and allowing him back into the car is what started this whole shit show.
“Amazon first requests customers remove content violating its policies or have a system to moderate content. If Amazon cannot reach an acceptable agreement with the customer, it may take down the website.”
How about when you colluded with Twitter and the FedGov to kneecap Parler? Did you try to reach and “acceptable agreement”? Oh wait no, that was to crush competition on behalf of one of your tech oligarch buddies to preserve their functional monopoly.
Cocktail parteez in Silicon Valley must be even more insufferable than in DC.
I think SV parties have more drugs and hookers.
Cocktail parteez in Silicon Valley must be even more insufferable than in DC.
They are
Thought experiment for the glibs:
The Earth is going to be destroyed. Aliens can transfer one million people to an different earth like planet along side one ton of cargo for each human. The Aliens choose 10 thousand people and each gets to choose an additional 99. You are chosen do you think you would choose the 99 people based on:
1. What you think is best for the human species
2. Friends Family
3. Random glibs
4. Large breasted women / buff men whatever be your interest
5. You would refuse and go down with the Earth.
6. 1 and 3 are the same
7. None of the above
1, 3, and 4 are the same.
Damn I was going to include 1 and 4 are the same when I first started typing but forgot by the end
1, 2 and 4 are the same.
Toss-up between option 5 and option 2 (although with option 2, there would certainly be some Glibs in the ‘friends’ category, and they’d probably be pretty good for the human species…)
But really I lean towards option 5. Everyone remembers Have Space-Suit, Will Travel, right?
I remember that one, Roman centurion who critics students Latin?
And a spear chucker as well.
they go the house
I’m not sure, but I’d have fun making people jump through hoops.
“Congresswoman Omar, I understand you want to be on my list. First you need to hold a press conference and admit you married your brother. Explain how you did it to commit fraud. Also admit to filing tax returns with your real husband.”
Then I’d still reject her application.
#5 Not my choice.
5 could come with nominate someone else in your place
This sounds like a LDS entry exam.
2 and 3, but I consider some of you to be friends. Also 6 is true.
Sorry bro’s but in this case it is not bros before hos…
Bitchez & hos… That’s my kind of people…
Auction time! How much is it worth to you to get on The List?
Ya think?
“China is a heck of a lot closer to Afghanistan than the United States is. And now that we’ve withdrawn all of our military forces, we have nobody nearby to monitor and surveil Russia, to monitor and surveil China. So who do you think’s going to come in? China’s already brokered deals with the Iranian government in their roads and bridges projects. You’re absolutely going to see Russia and China sweep in. You already saw one of the China foreign ministers meeting with the head of the Taliban. They’re already starting to have discussions. And think about all of the military equipment…that now can be handed over to our enemies, China, [Russia], the Iranians. They’re going to give them all of our secrets and all of our equipment so they can reverse-engineer it and use it against us. We are going to be feeling the implications of what has happened in Afghanistan for decades.”
Might as well hand over a couple F-22s while we are at it.
Aren’t the Chinee already manufacturing all the chips for our “secrets”?
I’m not sure their is anything all that secret about the helicopters, machine guns, and prop planes we left.
If we left communications gear or drones – the Ruskies and Chicoms would be very interested.
Taiwan manufactures most of our ICs & chips. China just makes the components with them in it for us now, your holiness.
Friday Funbags eases you into Commieday weekend.
https://archive.li/wfwTO
Sloopy is probably recovering from the scare the Golden Rodents gave his football team last night.
I’m happy that the local kids were competitive. That is all we need here in Minnesoda.
Man, I am hurting. I mean hurting today. I was content to drink my usual 8-10 beers during a game but some stupid asshole decided we needed to do shots of fireball after every big play in the second half to flip the bad luck we’d endured in the first half.
And some shitass kept pouring me double the dosage everybody else was drinking. So today is gonna be a bad day.
Speaking of tOSU football, an Ohio brewery (unfortunately north of Dayton) released a beer you may want to try:
Xichigan Copper Ale:
In honor of OSU football – brewed with Mackinac and Michigan Copper hops from Hopyard29 – Go Bucks!
You’ll live to drink again, Friend Sloop, until you don’t. I’m waiting for the breaking point right now.
Fes, maybe you should talk to someone on the, uh, teleophone.
Fireball, yum.
LADY AMINA
@Alpha_Mind7
The Australian federal government is planning to de-anonymize the internet to introduce a social credit system to combat “online abuse” – police will have access to individuals’ social media accounts, which will be linked to people’s passports.
https://twitter.com/Alpha_Mind7/status/1433385841179643910
I hope this is a parody, I really do.
Least free country in the world now?
North Korea might take a back seat since most people are too poor to have a phone / online tracking device.
The Chinese model for slavery is the best model. I remember when our illustrious Guv. took a trip to China and came back full of praise for their leadership. My take was he wished he and his cronies could treat the proles here the way they slaves are treated there. That was more than a decade ago and look where the world is now.
The Chinese model is really modeled off of 1984; Orwell was a genius. None of the social credit stuff is possible without the Panopticon; note the additional calls to eliminate cash and the attacks on crypto.
It’s frightening to see how easily Australia has surrendered.
Orwell was a genius
He certainly understood human nature. Anybody have favorite biography about him? I see plenty of them out there.
His son seems to do lectures, but was small when he died.
Dang, I want to dance like Jim Carrey. It’s been awhile.
“Could YOU be a lesbian and not know it? TikTok trend sees users post checklists to help women identify if they REALLY like men or they’ve just ‘succumbed to compulsory heterosexuality'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9951237/Could-lesbian-not-know-TikTok-trend-sees-users-post-checklists.html
1. Do you own more than a dozen flannel shirts?
2. Do the the words “rock paper” fill you with anticipation?
3. Are your shoes comfortable?
4. Does your hair color exist in nature?
5. Who needs they pussy ate?
Somewhat related
https://twitter.com/Undoomed/status/1432003204003373056
Milk just shot out of nose on the first two.
Genuine LOL
“Democrats Tuck Female Draft Into Defense Bill”
EL OH FUCKIN EL
You want equality, you got it.
I was not inclined to travel but now I might just to spite you.
If you’re not vaccinated, you shouldn’t travel over the long Labor Day weekend.
That’s the bottom line, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky.
“First and foremost, if you are unvaccinated, we would recommend not traveling,” Walensky said at a White House COVID-19 briefing on Tuesday.
Sorry Rochelle, you blew all your credibility around June of last year.
I’m going to continue to do exactly what the fuck I want.
“AR-15 maker Remington subpoenas report cards and disciplinary records of five kids killed in Sandy Hook massacre: Families which sued now-bankrupt company say they have no idea why it wants the documents”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9953787/Gunmaker-subpoenas-report-cards-five-kids-shot-dead-Sandy-Hook-massacre.html
Stupid response to stupid lawsuit?
Let’s be clear and state that Remington, for all intents and purposes, doesn’t really exist anymore as a maker of anything–I wonder if its dissolution was partly brought on by concern for where this lawsuit may go.
It’s an odd action by them for sure. What could it possibly do to help them, unless they’re trying to disprove a specific claim that the plaintiffs have made about certain students?
My first guess was it’s a small part of a plan to pick apart the “victim impact statements” or whatever they’re called. Somebody somewhere in the suit may have called one of the victims a “straight A student”, and may have even based part of a future-earnings claim on an extrapolation from that. So this is fishing for a way to poke a hole in that particular claim, and more broadly to call the rest of it into question on honesty grounds.
L0b0t, yesterday you mentioned I linked to one of your favorite bands. Did you mean Dead Milkmen or Animal Logic?
I have an idea which…
Dead Milkmen all the way. I think I was in ninth grade when Big Lizard came out, and I was hooked. They’re next 3 or 4 albums were pure brilliance, then they did a song advocating gun control and I disregarded their work product after that.
I wasn’t a fan at the time, although I had some friends who were. I have warmed to them over the years, but I heard the gun control song and it put me off their product, too.
Look the WM’s who went to Parris Island and the Marines who trained at San Diego may have their differences, but we can all agree that this stupidity should be stopped now!
gender-integrated training – and hopefully gender-integrated showers people have been waiting for since starship troopers (the movie ). Hopefully the average female recruit looks like a young Denise Richards
So, instead of a boot camp parade at graduation time there will be a dance instead? You can dance with any partner you chose?
“The Spirit of the Bayonet is to Kill”.. Hahaha, The Spirit of the chopsticks is to learn to use them properly, just in case….
Trump signed a bill requiring co-ed training. It will destroy the “edge” that Marines have always had.
Xi’s “struggle” thing is about trying to get out ahead of the messaging of the confluence of a few things:
– Year-over-year wage increases in PRC have been really high for a long time, it can’t go on forever, and the inertia’s already started.
– They’re seeing the inflation bomb in the US start to go off, and it’s going to hit them hard from a consumer-products standpoint.
This is them trying to look/sound proactive in the message instead of reactive. They know it’s coming and (unlike the politicians in the US) aren’t going to pretend otherwise.
When you run a totalitarians state, the people have only one option to deal with you when you fuck things up real bad: revolution. And the CCP doesn’t want that.
Correct. What they DO want is for the masses to stick to them, and view them as the leaders/representatives in the process, not as the ones who caused it. That’s what they’re hoping to get by saying it first. The whole “struggle together” thing is VERY Chinese, and is calculated to resonate even with the prosperous young people and hipsters – it’s in their souls. So when it comes (whatever comes), Xi is already positioned to be the one they look to instead of they one they think did nothing.
I’m against abortion, but a ban on abortions after 6 weeks is basically a ban on the vast majority of abortions. Most (unplanned) pregnancies aren’t even noticed until about 8 weeks. Additionally, fetal viability isn’t even determined until much after 6 weeks, meaning a woman could be legally required to carry a nonviable fetus to term.
Nothing personal on you but I’m forced to reply with “who cares”? When you copulate, no matter how much birth control is involved, there is always at least a slim possibility that pregnancy could result. People implicitly accept this whether they acknowledge it or not (except rape but I’ll leave that aside for the moment).
I did my share of sport-fucking in days past, but I was always prepared to accept a child that could have resulted (none did, at least that I know of…).
Outside of rape yes you always take the chance of pregnancy and/or std when you fuck irrespective of precaution
I agree. The de-coupling of sex from reproduction in recent decades has consequences. My main point is, the people that passed this aren’t being honest if they are trying to say “oh you can still get abortions.” It’s basically like gun control laws that are so onerous that it becomes practically impossible to own and operate a firearm. Just be honest and say you don’t think people should own guns.
To continue with the jokes “I am for abortion but I hate women having choices”
I expect another soviet-esque apology.
Jacob Chansley, the horned “insurrectionist” known as the “QAnon Shaman”—and arguably the face of the January 6 protest—has accepted a plea deal for walking his actions at the Capitol. Funny, what a person will agree to when he’s kept in jail for eight months.
Chansley, dressed in a wrap he apparently borrowed from Fred Flintstone—and heavily armed with a bullhorn—was seen in numerous videos in the Capitol NOT fighting with cops. The terms of his plea deal haven’t been released yet, nor has his sentence. Chansley has been in jail since January 9.
It is going to be interesting when the majority of these are misdemeanor charges that should have been a night in city lockup but instead has been 9 months of denied bail.
DIY transgender surgery?
At least it was for a good cause.
A man’s got to have some life goals.
Disclaimer: I am opposed to conscription. It is a grave offense against a person’s bodily autonomy only overshadowed by slavery. If you can’t convince enough people to join your war, perhaps you shouldn’t have it.
As it stands there is a price for the franchise that is only applied to 49% of the population. That price being registering for the draft, a price that has cost hundreds of thousands their lives and left millions more broken and not whole. If that price is to be paid, it should be paid by all.
P.S. I predict that the inclusion of women in the draft will lead to the end of it.
That’s outraged (exempt) me since I learned of it as a teen, speaking of good adolescent instincts.
“So do it, at any U.S. Post Office. Hey: thank you.”
Stagnation alert:
Plans to build the largest US solar field were scrapped after NIMBYs said it would be “an eyesore and could curtail the area’s popular recreational activities — biking, ATVs and skydiving”
https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1433480267176595462
I don’t like NIMBYs but I also oppose solar panels
How else are we supposed to get Helios Project up and running. Fuck ya I used it as a weapon.
Two options: 1) dump her or 2) take her up on the offer.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16039221/sex-wife-says-sleep-with-hooker/
I suppose ZARDOZ would have an option 3…
3. If you are rich / good looking enough get a younger mistress.
Then the wife will get pissed that you are spending too much money she feels is hers and divorces you. Of course, I think that’s the setup here anyway, cause as soon as he pays for a hooker the wife will divorce him on that ground. He needs to get creative and make it her problem so she gets him the hooker (that would make the whole divorce thing a far more fun experience in court).
Well that’s some horseshit. That’s putting all of the burden on him to fix her issues.
Most of human history was men having wives for children and mistresses for entertainment. While I don’t have that arrangement personally, it’s obvious there’s precedent for its success.
4. Rub one out like every other lonely guy and realize the basis for marriage shouldn’t be sex?
Yeah nah.
Monogamy doesn’t give your partner the right to declare you a celibate.
Maybe not the basis, but unless they agreed from the outset that this marriage wouldn’t include sex, she’s breaking her vows.
Either way, sooner or later that will be the case. Be it your ‘disfunction’ or hers. If you can’t watch Perry Mason together without wanting to strangle your partner because there is no sex then you have a sorry future upon you anyway.
Since sooner or later everyone’s going to die anyway, killing someone is NBD.
Judgment-proof!
4. See gyno / endocrinologist / g-e re diminished libido. What does “miracle baby” mean anyway?
The only good thing about The Sun is the Jeremy Clarkson column.
That having had sex only three times in a decade, they conceived a child?
Or she was banging the milkman the whole time.
I assumed infertility; side of “marrying him just for his sperm” possible.
Luis Gonzalez, Ed Konetchy, Eddie Stanky.
Happy Friday everyone!
Happy Friday!
Indeed happy friday!
what is happy about it?
Are Romanians as dour as Russians?
? Ochi tchornye / You have doomed me / I wish I’d never met you
For those of us (at least the majority) in the US, it’s a three day weekend. Which means those of us in support positions get a really slack day as no one wants to report a problem the day before a long weekend.
All this means for me is that next week I will need to do the work I would do in a week in 4 days… I hate holidays…
I’m just in Tuesday to settle down anything that cropped up over the long weekend, then I’m off for a week. So I’m looking forward to it.
Freaking bastage!
Quit rubbing it in..
no one wants to report a problem the day before a long weekend.
I have never encountered this phenomenon.
That’s cause you must work in a place where after you report an issue it is someone else’s problem and you are not expected to be part of the resolution team…
Never seen it up close like this. Pretty cool.
https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1433595817420410881
robots
Feel free to try, I guess.
If tomorrow you wear a gun exposed in a public place where families and kids are around, I’m gonna be real tempted to unholster you, pistol whip you, and teach you some West Texas manners. #txlege @The87thTxlege
That doesn’t sound like west Texas manners, but the response to the attempt will.
That’s a good way to get shot.
The Venn diagram between ‘people who threaten to grapple with and disarm me’ and ‘people who are actually capable of grappling with and disarming me’ looks like a big ol’ pair of titties.
Obligatory disclaimer – open carry is stupid.
*looks at profile*
Guy fancies himself to be a Texas version of Garrison Keillor. He’s obviously got the asshole part down pat.
Yeah he’s trying real hard to look scary. And it’s not working.
Ran this by a buddy from Odessa. “Yeah, it may fly in a faggotty place like Midland, but everywhere else in West Texas, the dude ends up buried out on the llano.”
Morrnin’ Spud.
Mornin’ everyone.
*sips coffee*
World still fucked up?
*pours whisky into Tundra’s coffee*
*nods*
*sips gatorade*
yea…..
What are you going to do? Sue the cops who gave the order? Sue the paramedics who injected you with ketamine? Sue the hospital that enrolled you in a ketamine study without your consent? The Eighth district court of appeals doesn’t think so.
You don’t own your body. The state does.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2021/09/02/forcibly-sedating-an-innocent-woman-doesnt-violate-the-fourth-amendment-federal-court-rules/?sh=7142f56c7a9c
Fuck QI.
I don’t know I liked a few shows when Stephen Fry was host
“After her friend and sponsor in Alcoholics Anonymous called 911 for a welfare check”
I see the problem here.
Yes. NEVER CALL THE COPS UNLESS IT IS A LAST RESORT!
Just the one? Underline as many as apply.
ketamine is horse medicine like ivermectin. And ivermectinis bad. SO she should sue.
Boy, I figured that in our new kindly empathic Progressive utopia, we’d have gotten away from doing medical experiments on the mentally I’ll…
Mentally ill. Sick in the head, like my phone keyboard…
It’s becoming more and more apparent that this sort of behavior will only end when the aggrieved start implementing reprisals upon the offending parties.
If the cops show up at my home and tell me I’m on a ‘medical hold’, tell me why I shouldn’t just assume that I’m a dead man walking…
So they gave a woman with heavy alcohol intake a sedative like Ketamine?
JFC.
I would hope they have that same feeling for their sons…I hate everyone.
Young, dumb,. and full of cum.
Probably a stupid question about ivermectin. Would like to have some on hand just in case. Are people getting it from doctors or buying it online and figuring out the doses for themselves. Not sure how many Jerms equals a horse.
Go to the vet. Ask for the Pony dose. Tell him Giardo the jockey sent you.
Just make sure the vet isn’t a Brony, a Pony Dose means something completely different to them.
https://covid19criticalcare.com/
The protocols are posted and updated and they maintain a list of doctors that will prescribe it.
I should note that it is getting increasingly difficult to obtain pharmaceutical grade ivermectin. There appears to be a shortage of some sort.
This is what is keeping me from pulling the trigger and keeping some on hand. Specifically, I haven’t researched what the inactive ingredients are in the veterinary formulations and whether they’re okay for human consumption. You can find the dosing guidelines for the actual ivermectin online. Then it’s just some math to figure out how much of the medicine is required to get the proper dose for your weight.
FWIW: https://pasteboard.co/KiTKfcX.png
Quick research shows the inactive ingredients to be safe in doses smaller than dump truck loads and in common pharmaceutical use.
Joe Rogan gets COVID
Vaxxers: (shriek) See!!! He could DIE from getting the COVID. What an idjit!!!
“Anti-Vaxxers” (like myself): He made a decision based on logic; ie the chance of COVID killing me is remote. I will instead, if I get it, treat it.
Early treatment. Not waiting around for the fucking cytokine storm.
And now he is more resistant to future covid infection than anyone vaccinated.
But he can *afford* monoclonal antibodies and prompt solicitous treatment!
everyone could with medicare for all
More a question of access to doctors willing to prescribe that kind of treatment right after covid is detected. Most aren’t willing to so so because it goes against guidelines or is completely forbidden by states.
I saw a video of a doctor the other day and he said something to the effect of “call all the hospitals around you and insist that you want the antibodies. Don’t stop until you find one willing to give that treatment.”
https://babylonbee.com/news/joe-rogan-bounces-back-from-covid-to-win-kentucky-derby
Joe Rogan Bounces Back From COVID To Win Kentucky Derby
The photoshop is worth the click.
OMG!
IKR?!
When I worked at a vet clinic, ivermec (as we called it) was used all the time for worms.
But we also used it for Parvo, which is short for parvovirus.
So the use of ivermectin to treat (not prevent, but treat) viral disease is not unprecedented.
Does it matter that the Derby is in May?
NO IT DOES NOT!
https://m.jpost.com/health-science/israeli-scientist-says-covid-19-could-be-treated-for-under-1day-675612
The FDA and WHO recommend against using it. I’m betting it’s the $1 a day part they don’t like, not the effectiveness.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
Among the bills you could expect to see re-tabled, and perhaps re-worked by a re-elected Liberal government are: the online harms legislation aimed at tamping down hate speech online; the Criminal Code changes meant to reform mandatory minimum sentences; and a bill meant to strengthen the Official Languages Act.
Specifically on gun control, the Liberals are vowing to:
-Introduce stricter laws on banned assault weapons to make it mandatory for owners to either sell the gun back to the government or have it “rendered permanently inoperable”;
-Ban the sale or transfer of high-capacity magazines that can hold more than the legal number of bullets; and
-Earmark $1 billion for provinces and territories who move ahead with handgun bans.
Hopefully our Canadian friends know to only sell “back” to the government firearms that they purchased from the government.
Yeah, we’re fucked. I’m just waiting around to die at this point. Freedom was transitory. I’m gonna drink harder now.
Aw, Festy. Abbracci.
I encourage the other casual vice instead.
“the other casual vice”
Tentacle porn?
Beaver noodling…
Vegetable (versus animal or mineral) and legal.
At least they’re telling you how they’re going to stomp on your face prior to the election. Canadians have the opportunity to stop that in two weeks.
Idk. That cunte Trudy should have never won election in the first place, let alone reelection.
All this talk of us working with the Taliban seems a little farfetched.
Well that should preclude the CIA from funding Uyghur training camps in the north. I doubt the Chinese would look favorably upon such shenanigans.
Couple that with reports of our gear moving to Iran…yeah I am sure we knew it was all bullshit
We just gave China a free look at a ton of our equipment.
But in dealing with the Taliban, they now have a lock on most of the rare earth metals needed for all the batteries and solar cells our government insists we need. Follow the money, it’s a pretty short trip.
That guy that you linked has a great voice!
If that floats yer boat.
Kidding!
On the antique booth front:
The month of August was our best ever. 60% of sales were vinyl, most of the serious big ticket items were Calder lithographs, along with a single Matisse one.
But the past week has been dead slow. I’m trying to figure out why: end of summer, beginning of school? Last weeks of vacations being used? Dunno.
…
Yesterday I went to two estate sales. The first was 1/2 off day where I managed to get a pair of 1970-ish Dynaco A25 speakers in rather nice condition, a pink mid-century bathroom scale, and a board game called “Careers”.
The second estate sale was a wash. Everything was pretty much overpriced – like a 1970s Harmon-Kardon receiver for $138 and some ugly artwork to boot. So I walked out of there since finding something I could flip was out of the question. I call these “antique booth” or Ebay prices.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9951627/Vintage-lover-spends-50-000-turning-house-1950s-time-capsule.html
Is “vintage lover” the same as a GILF fetish?
Curious about why she married a 12-year-old.
Dunno, but I like the ballerina physique she’s sporting.
*sniff* Unironed apron.
Installing offset linoleum squares: that looks like a labor of love.
Formica was still making the boomerang pattern last time I checked, some time ago. RIP Ships Diners.
Atomic age #FTW! One of my design projects is from the atomic age. Not sure the teacher caught it, but I feel like I’m cheating.
Where’s the old stuff?
That’s … a lot.
Also, I’m curious if she has an aluminum Christmas tree and color wheel.
I do. Both are still in the box they were shipped in. The only thing my wife inherited upon the death of her great grandmother.
I bought one off eBay once. It was from a smoking home and thus, untenable to my olfactory senses. I resold it and have never gotten another one. They’re mad expensive for a little nostalgia ride.
Good for them. I do love eccentrics.
But the past week has been dead slow. I’m trying to figure out why: end of summer, beginning of school? Last weeks of vacations being used? Dunno.
That’s exactly it. I have customers all over the country and my phone pretty much dies the last couple weeks in August until after LD.
That’s really great! I wish I had your skills. The only thing that I’m good at is talking up the Ladies and that will be over soon. Picture Festus pinching bums from a wheelchair. That is my future.
Just in case you didn’t know… for board game references, you can always check out Board Game Geek. Assuming I picked the correct game, an example.
I mostly buy mid-century looking games: the Avalon Hill “Bookcase” games or anything with nice art work.
Some of them, like Strategy Poker, are actually fun.
https://boardgamegeek.com/image/69645/strategy-poker
Reason I was posting that is that some of those out of print games are worth some real money. Dune original printing, Then there’s some that go out of print for a limited time (Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small comes to mind) where the prices jump ($20 game was selling for over $100 for a couple months) before a reprint is announced.
Gotcha! thanks.
Is there any money in having just the board?
My aunt has had them on the walls in her basement since the 80s. No box, no pieces, just the board. For example she has
This Lone Ranger game board
Depends on the game. That may do better on something like Etsy then BGG. There’s been a long running debate in BGG about how new in shrink (NIS) is worse then like new (confirmed to have all pieces) just in case you open a NIS game and find missing components. If the publisher is out of business, or the game is out of print, you probably won’t be able to get replacements easily.
Search “game board shadow boxes” on Pinterest.
I don’t want to shadow box. I’m not a boxer /aloof
If you end up with comics you don’t want/can’t move…my friend has a web site.
http://alwaysbuyingcomics.com/
Bookmarked, thanks. I have… a few I don’t need.
My wife and her sister run estate sales out eastern Long Island. I get to pick through the house while my wife gets the house ready for the sale.
Awesome! If y’all ever come across any LEGO sets, I would be interested in them.
I will keep my eye out for them.
Are you looking for vintage sets, or anything in particular?
Vintage sets, bulk pieces, it’s all good.
On de-platforming, The Jacket has a pretty good piece in the latest TOS mag:
https://reason.com/2021/09/07/self-cancellation-deplatforming-and-censorship/
I was just listening to the Tom Woods podcast with a Lithuanian expat who now lives in UK.
She specifically mentioned vocabulary as one of the problems in the “new segregation” of vaxxed versus non-vaxxed.
She offered up the terms of Obedient versus Conscious instead.
I like it.
Very good podcast if you have the time.
https://tomwoods.com/ep-1962-one-countrys-struggle-against-the-new-segregation/
They are coming for us, whether we like it or not. The un-vaxxed will be shunned.
Is being shunned by annoying assholes really that bad?
Being shut out of society is kind of a big deal. I give no shits because I’m basically a hermit but they are coming for our jobs. Looks more and more like the song before the noose…
Lambda lambda lambda and…omega mu!
The World Health Organization (WHO) has reclassified the ‘Mu’ Covid strain, also known as B.1.621, as a “variant of interest,” amid concerns that its mutations indicate a potential risk of resistance to existing vaccines.
The WHO announced the classification in the organization’s weekly pandemic bulletin on Tuesday, several months after the Mu strain was first identified in Colombia.
“The Mu variant has a constellation of mutations that indicate potential properties of immune escape,” the WHO said, adding that “preliminary data showed it has the same behaviour as the Beta variant.”
Because nobody cares about your fearmongering.
These people are fucking with us, aren’t they?
The dreaded constellation of mutations!! PANIC!!! FEAR!!!
I can only hope that the rank and file wake up soon. Everyone needs to realize that this is a gigantic hoax. If you aren’t 250 lbs or over 70 years old you’ll be fine.
If you aren’t 250 lbs or over 70 years old you’ll be fine.
*steps on scale*
*panics*
/s
So does the virus have Buddha nature?
“Shocking!
CDC and CNN admit that covid infections were underestimated by HALF
Twice as many people were infected as they had previously thought which means it’s far less lethal than already known.”
https://twitter.com/jackmurphylive/status/1433775028471013378
Which really pokes a hole in the mask debate..not that it will matter.
Now I know they’re going to transition to a new panic shortly.
And it starts.
How can they know, with oversensitive tests?
With that and so many other variables, it’s like trying to reassemble a chopped salad.
Are sesame seeds carbs? I don’t care. Breakfast today is a seared ahi steak crusted with sesame seeds. – https://www.instagram.com/p/CTXIK58MbrjGYW-lxFwI3SAtSiYRVYnhOarf6I0/
For this brief moment, while I slather it with wasabi and shovel it into my gob, all is right with the world.
Can’t see picture. It wants me to log in.
Whoops. Follow me on the ‘gram; all the pictures of cheeseburgers, cannabis flowers, insects, and workplace safety violations you could ever want.
Nope. Social Media. I hear its The Enemy.
from the other side of the pond:
If this is ‘anti-fascism’, count me out
Paul Mason’s new book is batshit crazy.
It seems Paul Mason has all the intellectual depth of our thoughtleaders in the USA.
Yeah, but he makes such good sparkling wine – https://youtu.be/VFevH5vP32s
classic
I have a feeling he couldn’t define “fascism” to save his life.
Something only a fascist would say.
Easy. Fascism is “things, people and ideas I don’t like”.
Cartoon Frogs were well known fascist mascots in the Nazi times, LOOK IT UP!
On an unrelated nonsarcstic note. I picture Pepe memers as big Alex Jones types, so is the fricken Frog gay?!
I’ve been thinking of test driving this beast: 1968 Mercury Monterey
A 390 engine is sure to return great gas mileage 😉
Daily driver for sure.
I actually have this dream – since I was 20-something – of daily driving a vintage car.
Back then I had an eye on a ’72 Malibu that EF shot down because “it’s ugly”. I’ve never forgiven her for that 😉
In the early aughts I used to daily drive a 1986 Monte Carlo SS – one where I had replaced the 305 with a roller cammed 355 and redid the entire interior.
EF had a brown 1981 Malibu that was actually very reliable. I only replaced the entire engine before she started driving it!
If you’re driving 1-2 people for the most part, whatever you drive should be a 2-door.
I’ve got a 6’8″ 20-something son, EF, a greyhound, and a mutt to (sometimes) carry around. 4-doors makes life easier for everyone.
But yes, I do love me a 2-door coupe; long hood, short trunk, RWD.
An El Camino would be perfect for my needs. GD CAFE.
When I was young (1970s – 1980s), my maternal grandfather always bought 10 – 20 year old non-running Oldsmobiles at the junkyard, restored them and drove them until he found another one he liked. He would then sell the restored one for a tidy profit and start the process over again.
My paternal grandmother had a ’70 (I think, maybe a ’68) Malibu in a deep metallic plum color. When she sold it in the mid ’80s, my uncle on my Mom’s side (whos is a big car buff) bought it. He lifted the rear and did some really nice tuning on it. He eventually sold it, but it was a sweet car.
Go find yourself a T-bird from that era. That 429 thunder-jet was a fuel mileage wonder. You could floor it and watch the gas gauge go to the left at the same rate the speedometer went to the right.
AFTERBURNER!
Perfect for an old-school Sunday drive about town.
I found mine.
But holy shit, the price!!
er wow. That’s well into super car territory.
So did I.
https://www.grautogallery.com/vehicles/10772/1955-porsche-550-spyder-beck
Here is mine…
Nice truck, hut that is ridiculous.
Nah. They are stupidly rare. I’m certainly no vintage car expert, but that price doesn’t look out of line to me, especially since vintage trucks became teh hotness a few years back.
We’re probably going to spring for a new F-450 next year. Figuring on having one built for us, so we get everything I want exactly as I want on what will hopefully be the last pickup I ever have to buy.
So it will be the Dereck Chauvin treatment.
A Georgia circuit court judge has determined that Armaud Arbery’s history of posing as a jogger in order to commit robberies will not be allowed to be presented at his murder trial.
Judge Timothy Walmsley said that the “just a jogger” libel created by the fake news media and Black Lives Matter hoaxsters must be protected because presentation of the facts might “lead the jury to believe that although Arbery did not apparently commit any felony that day, he may pose future dangerousness in that he would eventually commit more alleged crimes, and therefore, the Defendants’ actions were somehow justified.”
“The character of victim is neither relevant nor admissible in murder trial,” the judge declared in his ruling Monday.
We wouldn’t want anything relevant in relation to the events and actions of the accused leading to Armaud’s death that are inconvenient for the prosecution to be presented.
I’m still trying to parse the sentence that says a libel must be protected.
IANAL.
Straight news reporting is dead.
I’m guessing it’s a bit of color from the journo to guide the reader to the preferred conclusion.
Posing as a jogger is a tried and true method to scope out houses.
Justice is rigged…
It’s only relevant if the defendants knew that fact before hand.
Judge Timothy Walmsley said that the “just a jogger” libel created by the fake news media and Black Lives Matter hoaxsters must be protected
Did he say that? I really doubt he said that.
Good Day, my Friends! I’m off to eat something and not die of the fear.
But are you Down with the Sickness?
If not, he can always Shout.
Come on… just get down with the sickness.
I’m a Creep, I’m a weirdo.
Well, here’s a restaurant I won’t be visiting.
Neutral, unbiased NEW[S]CIENCE!
Lord love a duck.
This “reporter” is a despicable human being and doesn’t even know that.
I don’t see any pushback when ALL restaurants go this route – not any that is reported by TMITE, at least – I doubt one restaurant casting out the unclean is going to merit any attention beyond the opportunity for virtue signalling it offers.
Unvaxxed are the wreckers, obviously. Our betters’ plans would work otherwise.
The thing that still gives me some hope is that most scapegoats in history didn’t have our resources.
While the anti-Biden resto gets death threats, apparently. (Dunno how many; haven’t RTFAs.)
Greyhound runs pell-mell in the backyard. Takes a small drink of water… comes inside and then proceeds to barf. I just _love_ dogs.
I read that as pall-mall and thought…well there is your problem.
My beloved cat disassembled a dove in the house yesterday.
Why he has to bring them inside is a mystery to me. I now refer to the back stairs that lead down to the garage (which is under the main house) as the Killing Fields. Lizards, snakes, mice, birds. A new surprise every day.
To show momma how proud you need to be.
Or to show the poor hunter how to hunt.
But did the dog make sure to find the most expensive rug in the house to puke on?
Because mine do. The entire house is tile, and they puke on the fucking rugs every time.
Hee hee, yeah,they do that. When Babs was sick, she was lying on the sofa with her head on the pillow, then leaned her head over the side, barfed, and put her head back on the pillow. Like a frat rat. At least she missed the side of the sofa.
You people are awesome. We hit (and then some) the goal for Professional Beach Bum’s thumb and finger amputation recovery.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/professional-bb-glibertarian?qid=79630a0aa7703e7116a52925d8a31409
He’s already looking into some sweet prosthetics, and the cash will definitely help with that.
I’ll leave it up to him to share the rest of his adventures. All I know is that he’s now qualified to be a shop teacher, as I’ve never met one that has all ten fingers.
Thinks back to shop teachers…checks out! You people are awesome!
/avoids linking to Emo Philips UHF clip
sheDOOM’s tooth procedure was also fully funded (and then some) last I saw. Generous lot here.
Impossible! We only care about ourselves and no one else and want people to die.
And run over orphans, pensioners, and small animals for sport.
+100 pts
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S06E23/436034
Just more proof that there are no True Libertarians here.
But plenty of Glibs!
/Hobbles into corner……
want people to die
Well, not everybody.
Bookmarked. I’ll shoot the bum a few dollars this weekend.
God knows y’all went above and beyond for me last fall when I had my meltdown.
Yinz are such nice people. Thanks for reminding me of that there’s folk like you out there. I mean it, truly.
Well sometimes I like to give money to people who actually appreciate it. Don’t thank me, I’m spending the kids’ inheritance is all.
/Grumpy Cynical Bastard
Gifts to the United States! PO box…
Bless their hearts, I read about an old immigrant couple who did just this with their estates. ?
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/german-companies-cannot-ask-employees-about-covid-vaccination-status-labor-minister-says
So common sense?
Almost good but the “pragmatic solutions” loophole is big enough to drive a sixteen wheeler through.
Hey, at least it wasn’t “final solutions”.
At least, not yet.
1. Heil?! as in Heil Hitler!? Literally Hitler!
2. There’s probably no right, but they’ll probably do it anyway, who’ is going to stop them? Ze Nazis? Like, LITERAL Nazis.
Which implies they can’t strap you down and inject you, right?
Be more like Germany, the US.
Germany has a long history of protecting employees from management whims. When I was doing IoT stuff you couldn’t sample GPS location data more than every 15 minutes (I think, might have been an hour). Which sucks if you are trying to track deliveries.
Looks like GDPR hasn’t improved things. A case saying that employers had no right to put GPS tracking into company vans.
The saving grace for Germany is that most workers are pretty obedient and conscientious about their jobs, so it isn’t abused as badly as an American would expect. I wonder if attitudes will change as more and more immigrants fill the ranks of workers.
In which Robby gets attacked by twitter for remarking on how many people in DC wear masks outside.
‘Pandemic of the unvaccinated’ – Biden just now. Looks at reports from around the world…uh…bullshit
“Othering” people is fine when we do it.
He is scum.
I need the link back to DoomCO’s LadyDoom’s GFM.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-laine-keep-her-teeth
Awe dirty pool with a pic of the kid! *pulls out wallet*
Thank you!
This lady lost her teeth to pregnancy. I never knew that was a thing.
Pretty teeth and when she removes them….
I mentioned I got a crown this week. What is cool was the the complete life size 3D hinged model of all the teeth on left side of my jaw.
Yep, she’s a mite older looking when when takes them out, for some understated definitions of “a mite”, say, 30 years or so.
Put your teeth up on the window sill
I think it is an evolutionary adaption. Women who lose all their teeth after pregnancy tend to not have any more children.
Unfortunately most of them also develop severe knee problems.
Bazinga!
I dropped some $ into the GFM not because I have any empathy, but so I can make cheap jokes with a clean conscious.
Random question. Can a modern diesel engine be converted to run without DEF?
Mos Def /not a real answer
I was rather good in the roles he got, unlike some other musicians.
He, not I. I would have been better, but not as Black.
Maybe the former CDC director was right and vaccines are less effective than face masks.
Chapman University sees COVID-19 outbreak as in-person classes resume
Maybe none of it is effective. And also, if we tested everyone all the time how many cases of the flu would we have each year? As I’ve said before, I have never been tested for the flu in my entire life. You go to the doctor, they say ‘you have the flu’, you go home and rest and drink juice. That’s when one even bothers to go to the doctor.
You are not allowed to discuss or speak of such things
The test is as much of a farce as the rest of this bs. It can’t tell you anything anyway.
President just today blamed it all on that 11% that are unvaccinated. Not this instance specifically, nationwide. They will continue using that as a hammer.
Wait, the country is up to 89% vaccinated? OK, herd immunity.
Ya ya, I knew someone would say that.
“Pandemic of the unvaccinated”…
Scamdemic on the sheep.
Plandemic for the elite.
I have a great job opportunity that I can probably do while I’m getting my back fixed, just one problem, a MM card.
It’s all corporate BS, they know I am literally the only person in the County who is qualified and available, and they are trying to work around it. Meanwhile I wait til 9/20 before I can see my Dr. and then get my card started, then call back and see what can be done. I just hope I don’t go flat broke til then, yikes!
M&M card?
Weed, while legal, recreational or Medical, Medical is Fed approved, that’s what this company goes by, so I get one and save money on weed, no taxes on Med,
2A rights not worth the deduction.
Who said I own any weapons?
If you wanted to buy one from a dealer.
M+M’s
That’s from before they were popular! So it sucks! /reverse hipster
Medicated Misanthrope? Malleable Morals? Midnight Madness?
MM card? I thought it was recreational in MI now.
Most places with medpot have doc-in-a-box operations to rubberstamp cards. You might not have to wait three weeks.
Nope, not in MI, the GOV makes you jump through hoops as far as I can tell.
Most Companies that test, exempt Mj, even the DNR, which is state/Gov. so the company in question are just stupid IMO
Sigh… I shared this on the zoomies, but I’m cross about it and I want to vent. I’ve been buying certain products on the unregulated market (in several sates and countries) for 20+ years now with no problem whatsoever. Two weeks ago, I became Fat Freddy for the first time and got burned. A young lady, with whom I have been transacting satisfactorily for about a year and a half, took $160, failed to deliver, two days later gave me a song & dance about fighting with her boyfriend, and another two days later a little tweak (I requested a refund via CashApp and, rather than refunding me she immediately requested another $160). Today, I get this text –
Do I take the chance, promise her the moon in hopes of getting my product, or just count that $160 as a sunk cost and move along? SLD, I really want to apply my 3lb. rubber dent mallet to her hand for thievery.
Sunk cost. Cynicism is only because I like you and don’t want you to waste your time.
Be Ilsa. Let it go.
Do I take the chance,
Oh, hell no. Ghost her. Write off the $160.
She’s confirmed she is a scammer. If she has “product”, then she doesn’t need a $300 loan. She just needs to move some product.
“with whom I have been transacting satisfactorily for about a year and a half”
wasn’t a scammer before, is one now.
or long con, w/e.
500!
Last!
Timmeh!
Thanks everyone. That’s what I needed to hear.
Head for ze hills
Worst case, the BF really is abusive, he beats the information out of her that you have his product, and he comes looking for you.
Write it off.