You’ve seen them. Smug, silent, ingrates completely convinced of their own superiority over others in society leading pointless lives devoid of reason and meaning.
But enough about the average shopper at Target.
This is my review of Drekker Raspberry Coconut Crumble Raspberry Slang du Jour sour ā la mode:
I want to take a moment to explain this meme thats been around for several years but has come to define basic political discourse for the past year or so.
The Wojack: A nearly childish drawing of a bald white man with a blank expression on his face. Nobody is really sure where this came from but the earliest known use of it was on 4Chan boards dating back to 2009. A poster from Poland popularized the drawing. In essence, the Wojack is overwhelmed by a number of thoughts and emotions resulting in an outward expression of nothingness. This changed during the Trump era when it became the image used to depict anti-Trump elements online along with the NPC meme. The Wojack evolved to the Soyjack, where the conflicting thoughts and emotions erupt. Where the NPC depicted somebody without an opinion and simply follows along base programming without any thought to change it, the Soyjack does have a predictable opinion. An opinion defined by outrage at the thought one can defy the cultural orthodoxy (the programming if you will) of the day. An opinion constantly driven by his overwhelming emotions, and thus easily trolled by—
The Chad: Another product of the 4Chan hivemind, the Chad is a stereotypical alpha male. In general, the Chad is successful with women, and comfortable in his worldview in spite of his non-conformity with the cultural orthodoxy of the day. Generally depicted as a blond haired, blue eyed white guy with a beard (I thought it was supposed to be Gavin McIness when I first saw it), the Chad covers a variety of races and ethnicities. To be a Chad is a state of mind, not necessarily a worldview and certainly not an ethnicity.
Bear in mind, on any two issues these characters can exchange places and it is not a formal depiction of the right and the left. Case in point.
So for example when you see this, the point is the Soyjack is a bitch crying about the Chad not caring about whatever it is the Soyjack is mad about. Its doesn’t have to be humorous, it just has to be accurate in its portrayal.
This is probably the screwiest beer I have ever reviewed. This barely had any passing resemblance to beer, in that it came in a can and it contained alcohol. At its base is a raspberry sour ale. It happens to contain both lactose and coconut which give it an almost dairy like quality. In short, this is a beer smoothie that is so usual I might actually buy it again just to troll people calling it hipster juice. Drekker Raspberry Coconut Crumble Raspberry Slang du Jour sour ā la mode: 3.5/5
Way to ruin a Sour,
Howdy!
It was a lot better than I thought it would be.
Slice of normality last nite: party with neighbors, no masks, people shaking hands, some visiting Californian referring to “Mussolini” … aka Loathesome Newsom.
As much as I despise Tik Tok, every once in a while…(this was in reply to a Tater Stelter Tweet).
https://twitter.com/i/status/1436709441685045249
That was funny,
Hahaha..not what I expected.
I can’t stop watching & LOLing
You took one for the team this week MS. Thanks.
Also, that’s some interesting meme research.
Chads are cool. I hear they like to hang out in Florida.
But why?
Something’s gotta cool Florida down.
Pithy.
I was lucky to quit drinking 40 years ago. Missed another surprise.
Smallest size is a mini-keg, ’cause they need that much real estate on the container to affix the label.
Re: vaccine passports- a couple places here in Lake Placid said that proof-of-concept vaccination was required on their websites – but in person, nobody has said anything to me walking into their joints so far. Pics on Twitter later- will prob just do one thread for the entire vacation.
I’ve never actually seen an “Excelsior pass” in real life.
I have noticed that the unvaccinated and those who oppose being mandatorily vaccinated are the targets of some memes by the left that are, in fact, good memes. It’s dismaying that they may be learning to meme. But just because I don’t like a meme doesn’t mean it’s not a good meme.
Linkies?
I went looking and now they all seem lame. LOL They get to me when I’m scrolling FB, but then I thinned out my FB feed. It’s probably the people who post them because I thought better of them than that and…also, some of my family, with whom I do not want to be at odds.
The truth is, memes are only shared around and popular/funny in the echo chambers and never really make an impact on those whom they represent. They’re never going to change anybody’s minds or hearts.
These memes just remind me of a dumbed down Maddox. The Alphabet of Manliness will be required reading when the new age dawns under the kings of the Dank Memes.
There were corner preachers for it, even, I guess.
As for the 9/11 ceremonies today, I will not be watching and I do not want to think about it. A) Dust will start flying and nobody likes dust in their eyes and B) we are so far from that USA it might as well not be the same country. A few ceremonies is not going to change that. and C)
the terrorists won.
Can’t say I disagree with (C). Alas, Freedom, we hardly knew ye.
There’s an Internet saying going around: “If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.” The place I saw it attributed it to “Marty Soote.”
And yet, were I to post that on FB, I’d get the howlers talking about how it’s not tyranny and “your rights end where my body begins” and “‘my body my choice’ doesn’t apply when everyone else is affected.” And no, they won’t even listen to an alternate viewpoint, there are no sources they would consider valid, you’re not going to change their minds, and they won’t hesitate to cut you out of their lives.
It hurts, even when I shouldn’t care.
It does hurt. This is why I left Facebook; it is distressing to learn that people you’ve known all your life are not who you thought they were.
It’s certainly one of the reasons I left FB, but I was also appalled that a service which had become a digital “public square” was rapidly turning into a censorious mouthpiece for The Received Wisdom of Our Moral and Intellectual Betters, which was more shocking to me.
I miss FB Marketplace, simply because I found some decent deals on there, but I don’t miss the rest of it. I’d been pulling back for a couple of years, slowly backing out of FB groups that I was previously a member of as they became more unhinged for one reason or another. I finally got to the point where FB was a net negative for me, so leaving was logical.
FB’s basically a hothouse environment for extremeophiles.
I am on one group there that I really like. Every post is moderated and politics is strictly forbidden. Also, I like marketplace. Whenever I post on my own wall, it’s just something silly and/or it’s about my books.
It has also gotten into real life. A lot of people have been supportive of us while we’re in quarantine. And maybe I’m being too sensitive about this, but some people are asking if I was vaccinated, and you can sense the judginess when I tell them No. My immediate family was pretty blatant about their feelings.
Yah – my best friend in elementary through high school was this nerdy chubby kid who was also smart as hell. We had a lot of fun hanging out together, listening to punk rock, cruising the suburb in his Valiant, going to parties, etc. He was also cynical about politics and religion : Church of the Sub Genius, Jesus Christ, Physicist, etc etc.
Now he’s a lockstep Democrat; lives in Austin, supported Warren for president, etc. I had to block him on FB due to the sheer amount of stupidity I see. And this from one of the people I thought was the smartest guy around. It’s – needless to say – disappointing.
Intelligence != Wisdom
Something I try to keep in mind for myself when I’ve daydreamed my way into PWNING ALL OF THEM that don’t see it my way.
I saw that meme posted by a few lefties when Trump was prez. I forgot what they claimed he was being called a tyrant.
I still struggle with the fact that I didn’t get to see what really happened – I had no overview of events in real time. Other than planes hitting the Towers and Pentagon, I had no information beyond that, as I and my colleagues were pretty much in a panic on the streets of DC, and I was not able to get home until ~3pm. Not sure why I feel like I need to have the perspective of watching from a distance, but there it is.
I saw it first hand. Something I will never forget.
As you know I used it as a character point in Proviso. I wasn’t there. I can’t imagine. It was hard enough watching it on TV real time.
I wish I hadn’t seen the Pentagon on fire as I scrambled to figure out where to go & what to do. I didn’t ask for or want an “on-the-ground” perspective. Wishful thinking. But yeah.
#metoo
Not Drekker Noir?
Am I late with this?
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/09/the-week-in-pictures-long-strange-trip-edition.php
The Shat’s picture as James Tiberius Kirk holding what is (I presume) an early prototype phaser rifle always confused me for one reason: why the Hell does a phaser rifle need a little antenna on its stock? Is it also an AM/FM radio? (NTTIAWWT . . . )
I don’t think that appeared in the series. It looks like something from the pilot. Roddenberry made some significant changes between the pilot and the the series launch.
The I do, in fact, want a dragon fire pit.
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Psalm 59:6-17
Amen.
Amen, I read a few psalms for a friend last evening, she needed a hand,
Psalty.
Ps’all Good
“And then Jesus circled back 7 days later..” Psaki 7:21
Marcus Lucanus, Pharsalia, Book 1
“Fuck it Dude, let’s go bowling.”
– Walter
She may be waking up. Or she just has to fart real bad.
http://hraun.vedur.is/ja/oroi/faf.gif
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-EkZaqLU2A
Hawt.
She’s alive!!
https://www.facebook.com/sean.percy.5/videos/870529910532989
Happy 9/11 Day, everyone! 🙁
Enjoy the surveillance! And the TSA!
LH Jr was only 6 months old. I was a stay-at-home dad back then. Flipping through the channels I came across CNN which showed one of the twin towers on fire in NYC. There was a mention of a plane hitting it. Based on the smoke I was thinking a little Piper smacked into it by accident.
I went to the grocery store.
Came back and saw the second building on fire. And then I watched… and watched… the falling bodies, the constant replay of the _JET_ hitting one of the towers. And then the first one came down. The CNN newsman seemed oddly unconcerned. As the smoke/dust began to clear I kept expecting the tower to still be there. Nope. After the second one went down I decided it was time to buy some gas for my truck.
As I drove it seemed oddly muted – like no one was driving fast or honking their horns. I filled up. I saw some teenage girl crying and then hugging her dad. I got home; EF was heading back from her Technical Writer job of the time.
You never knew how ubiquitous airplane noise was until it wasn’t there anymore.
In the days following 9/11, I watched plane after plane take off from DCA airport, knowing they were empty of passengers, and the airlines were just repositioning them to operational airports. I called them “ghost planes”. We didn’t know when or if DCA would ever reopen. None of the hijackings originated at DCA.
Our temporary offices were in Rochelle Park NJ, in the flight path for NY airports. Standing outside the entrance for a smoke break, every time a plane passed overhead we’d all look up, wondering who was piloting it.
I was stuck in the bed when the news broke. I knew what was happening the instant I saw it. I couldn’t get out of bed so I just leaned over the side of the bed and puked on the floor.
20 years and the Taliban are still breathing.
I was at work. At the time I had a job with a small medical device company in Colorado. After the second plane hit, the owners told everyone to go home, realizing that no real work was going to get done that day.
Before I left I told the owners that I was pretty certain I’d get recalled to active duty, as I had just left my last assignment four years prior. I went home and told Mrs. Animal, “I’ll get recalled.” I held a specialty, Medical Logistics Management, that the Army was supposedly short of.
I never got recalled. And while I thought of volunteering to go back on active duty for the first few post-9-11 weeks, seeing as to what a Charlie Foxtrot the whole thing ended up being, maybe it’s just as well I didn’t.
It is better that you didnt.
I was at a girlfriend’s house, still sleeping. She came in yelling that we’re being attacked. I was like “what?” She said, “Hold on.” and started trying to find something on the radio. Then she gave up and turned on the TV instead. There, on the screen was one of the WTC towers with the smoke coming out and the announcer telling us that terrorism is suspected. Mid sentence, the second plane hit and the newsroom started wailing and screaming live. The lack of airplanes for the next two weeks was very strange. The lack of freedom thereafter was even more alarming.
I posted this the other day, I was right down the block working on Maiden lane. I’ll never forget the screams from the girls in my office every time we saw another person jump to their death.
Our building got evacuated and when the first tower fell a huge black cloud came rushing over me and I couldnt tell if it was buildings coming down or just dirt.
I shit my pants and walked over the Manhattan bridge to Brooklyn. Second tower fell while I was on the bridge.
After I got home I hung out with my Turkish girlfriend who talked for hours about how everyone was going to hate Muslims because of this. What an asshole she was. Very good looking but terrible person.
As we remember 9/11/01, I decided to read over the Federalist Papers. While Hamilton was wrong about not needing the Bill of Rights, the Founders were correct about future generations needing to fight for Liberty and freedoms or they will lose them. The BoR has only slowed down American Commies from ignoring the Constitution.
Federalist 1-10
https://archive.is/eF6Y8/89308832632d62df48f2da0d852b998175d73175.webp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP_qF5E4w7U
Bloody Mary time!
Brigantine restaurant. Oh yeah.
Enjoy lunch,
Cheers!
/short cans..
Bloody Mary!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qcznImloseA
Brooksed. Oh, well.
Those memes are too far down the meme hole for me. I like to look at the funnies on Powerline now and then.
Saturday evening! Various sized cans!