Joemala: Episode 41

by | Sep 15, 2021 | Joemala | 154 comments

 

“How do you do keep getting in here?” Jen shouted.

“The tunnels, the emergency skylights, that faulty teleporter they salvaged from Roswell… honestly: Who knows?” Hunter said. He did a little twirl in his outfit of T-shirt and jockstrap, his indoor soccer shoes digging into the rich pile of the Oval Office carpet.

“If you want my body,” Hunter said, sashaying toward Jen, “And you think I’m sexy, c’mon sugar, and let me know.” He began coughing and spat something dark orange into a wastebasket. Jen realized then what his t-shirt spelled out in hottest pink.

“Hunter,” Jen began.

“Yes, I’m selling them,” Hunter said, holding the shirt away from his nipple to make boobs, “I’ve got the perfect plan. And you are going to help me.”

“I, just…” Jen said.

Hunter stepped in close and licked from her clavicle to the back of her left ear. Jen shuddered and moaned. Hunter dropped to his knees and stuck his face in her sensible skirt. “I can smell how wet you are,” he growled.

“Oh, shit,” Finnegan said as she wheeled Joe into the room. Hunter ignored her in favor of snuffling Jen like a dog digging through the trash to find a tampon.

“Stop that!” Finnegan said.

Joe grabbed at his crotch with a hand curled into a claw and screamed.

“See what you did?” Finnegan yelled at her father.

“What the fuck is going on?” Hunter demanded, rubbing his feather boa up under Jen’s skirt.

Joe screamed and worked his crotch.

“He’s been like that since we got back from California,” Finnegan said. She reached down and tried to pry Joe’s hand away from his crotch and Joe screamed in her face.

“He’ll stop in a minute,” Jen gasped, shuddering again as Hunter tore a hole in the gusset of her pantyhose, his fingers delighted by her lack of underwear.

“Fucking Gavin,” Hunter said. “He shouldn’t have even needed us.”

“Aside from fingerbanging the press secretary, is there another reason you stopped by?” Finnegan asked dryly in between Joe’s wails.

Hunter finally stood up, Jen gasping again, and made a show of smelling along the length of his index finger. He finally looked past her to Joe and said, “He’s going to pull his fucking dick off.”

“I know how to take care of Grandpa!” Finnegan said.

“Look at him and say that!” Hunter shot back. He walked over to Joe and stuck his slimy finger in Joe’s mouth. He quieted and began to suck at it, pulling the entire thing into his mouth. Hunter smirked with satisfaction as Joe’s hand opened and he stopped pulling at his genitals.

“Hunter…” Jen moaned, still stunned from his knuckle-plunging.

“No teeth,” Hunter said to Joe.

“Do you like the new shirt?” Hunter asked, peacocking. “Daddy is going to mandate that everyone has to buy it.”

“Shouldn’t it be Vaccinate Me, Daddy?” Finnegan asked.

Hunter smiled, Joe still working his finger and said, “You don’t know anything about fashion.”

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154 Comments

  1. Scruffy Nerfherder

    ohgodohgodohgod…. here we go…

    *opens eyes slowly, squints carefully*

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      He walked over to Joe and stuck his slimy finger in Joe’s mouth. He quietly and began to suck at it, pulling the entire thing into his mouth. Hunter smirked with satisfaction as Joe’s hand opened and he stopped pulling at his genitals.

      *involuntary face twitch*

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        Yeah, that was a rough one.

        bravo. bravo…

    • juris imprudent

      Yeah, the two word preview meant trouble.

      • WTF

        I knew that, and I read it all anyway.
        I wonder if that means I’m a sick person.

  2. kbolino

    An assault on all the senses, bravo

  3. Tundra

    Wow.

    I had a feeling with all the crazy energy in the world that today’s episode would be… memorable.

    He did a little twirl in his outfit of T-shirt and jockstrap, his indoor soccer shoes digging into the rich pile of the Oval Office carpet.

    How do you do it?

    • ron73440

      The whole thing is amazing, but that little bit at the beginning was perfect.

    • SugarFree

      I don’t create so much as describe objectively.

      • ron73440

        Holy Crap!

        I almost choked on my lunch.(Not a euphemism)

      • Tundra

        Good lord.

      • The Other Kevin

        Our “first family”, ladies and gentlemen. But it was Trump’s wife who denigrated the office of president by planting some roses and picking different silverware.

      • ron73440

        Remember there’s a little girl out there whose mommy is a stripper, her daddy is a crackhead, and her grandfather is the president.

      • Cy Esquire

        Oh boy… next week on Joemala!

      • R.J.

        His father was six feet to the left, dressed identically.

  4. Gustave Lytton

    Stupid verbing nouns.

    “He should have even needed us.”

    Hunter slipped one by the proofreaders.

    • Sensei

      Better than an adjective that share many properties of verbs.

      • Rat on a train

        How about verbal adjectives in Russian?
        Читаемая студентами книга = read by students book

      • Ted S.

        That’s a participle. (Specifically, a present passive participle.)

        Past participles function as adjectives in English: behind closed doors; a forgotten man; the unknown soldier; and so on.

        It’s just that Russian has more participles than English, and you picked an uncommon one (that and past active; the examples I gave above would be past passive participles in Russian).

      • Rat on a train

        Participle in English, but it is actually an adjective in Russian. It has an adjectival ending that must agree with the noun. Other participle forms don’t:
        Прочитав книгу = having read the book
        Читая книгу = while reading the book

    • Sensei

      Too many Glib cunning linguists.

      • Rat on a train

        Better a cunning linguist than a smeliy russkiy khor.

  5. Sean

    I…uh…

  6. Creosote Achilles

    And I was worried my article for tonight is NSFW. Good show as always.

  7. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    How do you come up with this stuff? There must be something wrong with you. Thankfully.

  8. This Machine

    Fuck. Knew I shouldn’t have read this after having larb gai for lunch.

    • juris imprudent

      Something spicy enough you don’t want it coming back up?

  9. R C Dean

    Honestly, my favorite was

    “No teeth,” Hunter said to Joe.

    • rhywun

      That is a practiced line.

    • db

      Yeah, that was priceless.

  10. Tonio

    “snuffling Jen like a dog digging through the trash to find a tampon”

    That is such a wonderful description.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Damn your nimble fingers! (said Jen to Hunter)

    • Fourscore

      Big city folks sure do talk purty.

  11. Ghostpatzer

    Hunter ignored her in favor of snuffling Jen like a dog digging through the trash to find a tampon.

    I am simultaneously in awe of and repulsed by this. Why, oh why, do I always read these during my lunch hour?

  12. The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

    I’m going to go downstairs and retch all over my electronics workbench now.

  13. mikey

    This place is special and Wednesdays are super special. A specialness of horror and wonder and revlusion.

    • Fourscore

      Any connection to the reason the the libertarian party can’t gain traction?

      • Tonio

        Jimmy Weeks was ahead of his time.

    • Zwak, jack off, all trades

      Indeed. Sugarfree has the heart of a little boy.

      He keeps it in a jar on his desk!

  14. ron73440

    This is either the greatest or worst thing I have ever read.

    • Necron 99

      I’m going with “and”.

      • ron73440

        I’m going with “and”.

        This is correct.

  15. Gustave Lytton

    I miss the wholesomeness of Hat & Hair and Pie.

  16. Mojeaux

    At school. Local juco. One 19yo girl discussing the stock market and investing to 2 other 19yo girls. The girl instructing knows her stuff, although she had to pull out “buy low, sell high.” I haz a happy.

    • Cy Esquire

      “buy low, sell high.”

      I think what she really meant was “buy SP500 index fund now, hold till you die.”

      • Lackadaisical

        In a limited way you can do both, but yeah.

  17. Jerms

    What a sick mind.

  18. waffles

    “No teeth,” Hunter said to Joe.

    I think I actually retched. I hope this doesn’t mean I’m homophobic. Thanks SugarFree, you’re a peach.

    • kbolino

      I was expecting the Christian Scientists to take a hard line against it (to be fair, based more on my own biases than genuine experience), but it seems they’re neutral on the topic.

  19. Not Adahn

    “Oh, shit,” Finnegan said as she wheeled Joe into the room.

    Since it doesn’t say that he’s in a wheelchair, I’m assuming he’s strapped onto a furniture dolly a la The Silence of the Lambs

    • ron73440

      I assumed wheelchair, but that’s hilarious.

      I guess they tied him to it after wandering off one too many times.

      • Bobarian LMD

        That and the button that lets him talk.

  20. Ownbestenemy

    Wow…so on an all-hands with upper executives in the FAA.

    “Do you have contingencies if large amounts of the workforce are release?”

    Their answer? We basically will say good-riddance. Based on the questions received and they are answering, it sounds like they have a lot of people that are not happy with this mandate to the FedGov workers…

    • Urthona

      Yes. This is a fantastic upside of the vaccine mandates. The only thing that could cause federal workers to leave their jobs.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Only 13,000 in the FAA have attested to being vaccinated. Best estimate I have is the total of FAA workforce is 30,000+

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      The long spiral towards the drain continues.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      “For our next trick, we’ll plunge a faltering economy into a history-changing depression!”

      TR, Wilson, and FDR are only going to be seen as morningstars of the demise of the US (and the West as a whole). Obama and Biden are going to be the ones remembered for centuries to come.

      • rhywun

        Obama and Biden are going to be the ones remembered for centuries to come.

        How they will be remembered depends on who’s writing the histories.

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        This. It’s only 100 years later that FDR is being seriously looked at as a bit of a failure.

      • Rat on a train

        Failure because he didn’t prog harder?

      • ron73440

        Looked at as failure by whom?

        Maybe nerds like us, but it’s definitely not the mainstream view.

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        Like I said, a “bit” of a failure.

        And this is by the entire right. They fuckin’ hate him.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Q: “What if I am scheduled to retire on December 31”
      A: “You will have to be vaccinated by November or be fired”

      Q: “Will you recognize natural immunity”
      A: “NO!

      I mean, Joe will accidentally reduce the size of the Federal Government. *claps*

      • Gustave Lytton

        The retirement one is just malicious. What’s to stop someone from going on vacation or on disability at the end of October and just coast to the end of the year? Assuming they have enough leave. Are they going to demand people provide proof during their vacations?

      • db

        I don’t know; when the rubber hits the road, how many will stand firm?

      • Ghostpatzer

        Don’t even know if I will. You really don’t know until you actually have to make that decision, as not a few here already have (and there is no “right” decision other than the one that is right for the individual). But eventually, we all face the ultimate test (NSFW).

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Still here, still standing,

      • Ghostpatzer

        Amazing, in multiple ways. *salutes*

      • blackjack

        I stillhave taken the sacrament, either. Management is dragging feet to see which way the wind is gonna blow. An Elder governorship would have been very helpful.

      • blackjack

        *have’nt

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        I get the feeling that a lot of people are looking around and seeing all the help wanted signs, and are starting to think long and hard about their current position.

        But, and I will certainly say this, I have been wrong before.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        *hangs up after second phone screener in 3 weeks*

        What’s that about “long and hard”?

      • DEG

        #metoo

        First phone screen of the current job hunt tomorrow.

      • R.J.

        Good luck! And always build vanity examples (project templates, SOP examples, etc…) in case a job asks for such things. Especially for a technical job that can seal the deal and get you a little extra cash in negotiations.
        I now return to my position as court jester.

    • Nephilium

      To stay on this topic, local news is lamenting that the Ohio legislature stripped the power to enact a state-wide mask mandate. Already some of the city councils and the like have started passing new city wide mask mandates. At least they’re at the city (and in some areas potentially) and county level so far.

      • db

        Can’t wait until the local PDs and County Sheriffs start cracking down on the unmasked. That’s when shit will get real, if they don’t just say “nope. not my department,” which many probably will.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Hell even the L.A. Sheriff said nah

      • rhywun

        Yeah, localities seem to have much more latitude for tyranny. And boy are they itching to use it.

      • ron73440

        That should be pretty disturbing, but in a SugarFree article?

        Not even a blip on the scale.

    • db

      I should add, NSFW.

  21. db

    Hunter ignored her in favor of snuffling Jen like a dog digging through the trash to find a tampon.

    Just one of many fine turns of phrase.

  22. trshmnstr the terrible

    OT: came across this gem from 2014

    If—as advocates of the trust-promotion argument hold—the importance of informed consent consists in its role in getting people to use medicine effectively, then (ceteris paribus) other practices that achieve the same end should be viewed as similarly important. Paying patients to use the medical system is one such practice. We can imagine other promising candidates for such practices, too: providing comfortable seats in surgery waiting rooms, affordable parking facilities, media propaganda to exaggerate the reliability of the medical system, ensuring that medical staff are physically attractive, celebrity endorsements, brainwashing, and so on. I suspect that few would wish to claim that such practices are as central to medicine as informed consent; indeed, some of them are highly undesirable.

    • kbolino

      Simultaneously, we are supposed to be believe that it is the sovereign right of every moron to cast a ballot, and that any restriction, limitation, inconvenience, or delay upon that right is unacceptable tyranny, and also that these selfsame voters must be told what to do, with Straussian lies and subtle behind-the-scenes manipulations, by the very same government that allegedly answer to them through that very same democratic process they are inalienably entitled to.

      • juris imprudent

        Duck-speaking requires the necessary recitation of words without any coherent thought behind them. Does that answer your quandry?

      • kbolino

        The Habits of the Midwit, becoming writ large, lead inevitably to the Era of the Midwit

    • R C Dean

      the importance of informed consent consists in its role in getting people to use medicine effectively,

      That is not the purpose of informed consent, at all. The purpose of informed consent is to allow patients to control what care they get. Whether they make “good” decisions or not is of no concern. Remember, you aren’t free unless you are free to be wrong.

      Paying patients to use the medical system is one such practice.

      That would be unethical, and is currently illegal outside of certain research studies.

  23. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Excerpted because substack paywall. From Berenson.

    The FDA just released its briefing book for Pfizer’s request for a third dose of Comirnaty (or is that BNT162b2? No matter! It’s approved either way, sorta).

    It is every bit the mess we all expected.

    Let’s go to the highlights:

    Pfizer basically hasn’t bothered to test the booster AT ALL in the people actually at risk – it conducted a single “Phase 1” trial that covered 12 people over 65. The main Phase 2/3 booster trial (beware efforts to cover multiple “phases” of drug research at once, you want it bad you get it bad) included no one over 55.

    No one.

    As in NONE.

    Which makes total sense – why test the booster in people who actually need it because they’re at high risk from the ro? Nothing good can come of that.

    So that’s our trial design.

    Now safety:

    Of the 300 people who received the booster, one had a heart attack two months later. No worries, Pfizer concluded it wasn’t related. Yay!

    Five percent of recipients had enlarged lymph nodes.

    How about effectiveness?

    Well, we don’t have enough data – or any data, really – telling us how well the booster will work.

    But the FDA made Pfizer go back and review its data from the pivotal clinical trial from last year. Pfizer compared people who received the vaccine with those who received the placebo and THEN the vaccine (the best we can do at this point, since Pfizer blew up the trial by giving placebo subjects the vaccine, double-yay!)

    Pfizer concluded that your annual risk of getting Covid-19 IF YOU ARE VACCINATED is about 7 percent.

    Further:

    “An additional analysis appears to indicate that incidence of COVID-19 generally increased in each group of study participants with increasing time post-Dose 2 at the start of the analysis period.”

    Oh.

    But don’t worry, Uncle Joe already told you you can get your booster on September 20. If it’s good enough for our fearless leader, it should be good enough for the FDA, amirite?

    SCIENCE!

    SOURCE: https://www.fda.gov/media/152176/download

    • kbolino

      We got a glimpse into modern state-corporate behavior with the Boeing 737MAX fiasco. Why would pharmaceuticals (or anything else) be much different? The FAA and Boeing are basically one organization when it comes to any matter that might be called “conflict of interest” in a different era, and as it turns out, that one organization is incompetent and malicious. But fear not, Boeing will have to pay $2.5 billion in criminal compensation. Of course, they received ten times that amount in their COVID-related bailout from the government, so really the government will pay $2.5 billion on Boeing’s behalf, some of which will go back to the government itself. And no one will see any jail time.

      I wonder why the government gave Pfizer and others a blanket immunity. Must simplify the accounting.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I imagine they gave them blanket immunity to keep any and all cases out of the courts and avoid discovery.

      • kbolino

        Boeing still exists, and hasn’t been carved up, had its top executives hanged, nor its middle managers imprisoned in Gitmo, pour encourager les autres, yet all of the records are out there thanks to discovery. So I don’t know what Pfizer would have to fear.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Oh, I think there are a few very aggrieved people out there that they might have reason to fear.

      • Gustave Lytton

        *Vitaly Kaloyev nods*

    • Rebel Scum

      Racist?

      • Necron 99

        Black white supremist?

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Another black face of white supremacy. Just like Larry Elder.

    • cyto

      Sooo… $53,000?

      Does that actually exist?

      My instincts say no.

      And we have crazy lady talking smack. I would have said kidding around, but she pleads out…. So who knows.

      She clearly had no means of carrying out such an attack. Seems weird.

      Also weird? No national press coverage of all of the right wing racist hate-group inspired would-be assassins.

  24. Rebel Scum

    Way to ruin Jen Psaki for me.

    General Milley Rides Through Streets Of Beijing Shouting ‘The Americans Are Coming!’

    “Hey look, those Chinese generals are my buddies, they deserve fair warning—I’ve known them for ten years now, and they are always so nice to me. They were super supportive about that whole Afghanistan withdrawal thing—those friendships are more important than some job,” explained General Milley, America’s highest-ranking military officer.

    “I mean—they aren’t close friends, we don’t get together for poker or anything. But we do sometimes exchange funny memes and nuclear codes. We also play that game ‘Battleship’, but I use the actual coordinates of the 7th fleet, which adds that element of realism which makes it more fun.

    Heh.

    • Cy Esquire

      #resistingforalltherightreasons

  25. Zwak, jack off, all trades

    So, General Miley: he is being sacrificed by the admin to cover up the complete and total fuck up that is Afghanistan.

    California is an alcoholic that hasn’t hit rock bottom yet.

    That is all.

    • Ghostpatzer

      California is an alcoholic that hasn’t hit rock bottom yet

      When alcoholics hit rock bottom, there is a lot of collateral damage. Not looking forward to this one.

    • Ownbestenemy

      An alcoholic that hits rock-bottom has a chance to make a recovery and live a good life. There is no chance for that in Cali.

      • Cy Esquire

        This brings a question to mind. Without total devastation, have any cultures that peaked and then dove to rock bottom ever beat their peak again?

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        Thatcher?

      • Cy Esquire

        Meh? She seems more like a speed bump to the dive.

    • KSuellington

      There is now no more limit at all on Newsom and the Dems. We will slide even further down to shithole status. This recall will have national implications in that the Dems will now continue on full bore with COVID hysteria. If he had gotten tossed you can be sure that they would have tamped down on that. Now it’s full steam ahead.

  26. cyto

    I have been focused on the propaganda machine for a few years now. Today, we witnessed a rare event… The propaganda machine had a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand was doing.

    We all watched the right wing media flip out when Woodward’s book revealed General Milley had called his Chinese counterpart on his own initiative, offering to give them a heads up of any attack. Treason and sedition were bandied about.

    The propaganda machine went into action… I learned of the response from NBC and the Today Show, Milley was a hero who prevented a nuclear war. I checked, and very quickly this was the official position of the news media. It was probably Woodward’s intended message…. Trump so dangerous he had to be stopped.

    But someone forgot to tell the DoD. Now they are saying that Miley was operating under orders from his boss at DoD. They intended to “lower the temperature”. And absolutely no talk of a heads up about any attack ever happened.

    Ooops.

    So…. What did we learn?

    Well, either DoD didn’t like the blowback and are cutting of the treason talk… So they made up a cover story, leaving NBC and the rest with their naked tails hanging out in the wind….

    or the DoD is telling the truth… Which means that the Book and all of the spin are lies.

    Either way, the entire propaganda machine was lying

    • Gustave Lytton

      Of course they don’t like the treason talk, this isn’t sole example either, and someone might actually get punished for it setting a dangerous precedent. Worse, it might go to pour encourager les autres level. Being a general officer isn’t about putting yourself at personal risk of death or serious injury beyond a papercut.

      I still say Mike Boorda had more personal integrity and honor than Milley or most of the general officer corps of all fourfive services today.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Four, Space Force is just the Airforce with different flair.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Apparently it’s the USMC now, it’s part of the Dept of the Air Force but gets its own seat at the JCS. So does the NGB, too.

    • kbolino

      Milley was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. There was only one person above him to give any kind of order, and that’s the Secretary of Defense.

      • cyto

        That is the claim

  27. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Paging RC Dean….

    I was not aware of this little legal twist to the PREP Act. This would seem to be why hospitals are refusing to go outside any FDA or NIH guidance for treatment. Do you have anything to add to it?

    https://www.law360.com/articles/1260971/upping-hospitals-liability-defenses-for-covid-measures

    The PREP Act[1] authorizes the secretary of HHS to issue a declaration that provides immunity from liability for individuals involved in the development, manufacture, testing, distribution, administration and use of countermeasures to address a public health emergency. A PREP Act declaration is specifically for the purpose of providing immunity from liability, and is different from, and not dependent on, other emergency declarations issued by HHS or other government agencies.

    Covered countermeasures include products that have been approved or cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, such as vaccines, drugs and medical devices like diagnostic tests and medical equipment (e.g., ventilators, respirators). Vaccines, drugs and devices authorized for emergency use also are covered countermeasures. Uncleared devices and unapproved medical products that are not authorized by the FDA are not considered covered countermeasures.

    • Drake

      The “let ’em die act”.

    • kbolino

      I took a wild guess that the PREP Act was passed under the Bush administration, and what do you know, I was right. Passed unanimously in the Senate in 2005 and with only 17 nays in the House, one of whom of course was Ron Paul. 109th Congress, H.R. 2863. Bipartisanship FTW!

      • Plisade

        Rumsfeld looks up from hell, smiles and waves.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Interesting group on the nays, Rangel, Kucinich, Waters, Conyers…

      • kbolino

        There’s over 5 times as many nays on the version that came back from the Senate as on the original, too. Digging down deeper into the actions, and any contemporary press (assuming you can find it; it took me awhile just to find the legislative record since everything is swamped by COVID-related stories) would probably illuminate why. The immunity authority might not have been in the original version.

      • kbolino

        Yeah, the PREP part seems to have been tacked on at the last minute, as far as I can tell from the various versions of the text.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Rangel??? What happened, bagman got detained?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        He always struck me as a bit conspiratorial and nutty like Kucinich.

      • Ghostpatzer

        I’m too old – old enough to remember the king of all NY grifters, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Rangel was his spiritual heir.

      • Timeloose

        Daniel J. Flood (1903-1994). US Congressman from Pa. 11th District, 1944 to 1980. His seniority on the House Appropriations Committee and knowledge of the legislative process enabled him to play a key role establishing national programs such as Medicare, Appalachian urban economic development, and Coal Mine Health and Safety Act. He promoted the strength of US military forces and proliferation of nuclear arms during the Cold War. He resigned from Congress amid controversy.

        This guy couldn’t get convicted of >150 cases of bribery, because he always spread the wealth.

        MF looked like Snively Whiplash.

        https://www.taxpayer.net/wp-content/uploads/ported/articles/Untitled-2.png

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        It was always interesting how many times Paul and Kucinich ended up caucusing together, for diametrically opposed reasons, of course.

    • R C Dean

      Honestly, I haven’t heard anything about not doing off-label use of quinine, GCQ, etc. because of liability concerns. Its just pure herd behavior, groupthink, showing the effectiveness of the anti-Trump propaganda the the CDC campaign to submarine any treatment to get the EUA for their precious vaccine.

  28. Ghostpatzer

    Dear Market Watch

    I just changed jobs and received a 30% wage increase, to a level I didn’t think I’d be at for years.

    On the other hand, my girlfriend, who I love very much, is in the opposite scenario. She’s been trying to find her path, working part time, and trying to start her own business, but she doesn’t have her nose to the grindstone the way I’d expect. Which admittedly is another issue.

    I want to get rid of my practical little second-hand commuter car that I bought years ago, and get something fun, like a Miata, as a bit of a reward to myself. I feel weird splurging on something fun like this for myself when she is sometimes stressed about money.

    Leave the gun girlfriend. Take the cannoli Miata.

    • Cy Esquire

      Or get a corvette and then you won’t have to worry about the girlfriend issue ever again.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That just causes premature hair loss.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Cart and horse.

        Hair loss causes Corvette.

    • Sean

      He wants a Miata. Maybe he’s thinking of getting a boyfriend instead.

      • R.J.

        ^THIS.

      • Sensei

        Also could be a successful hairdresser.

        Although I’d actually be very happy if I could find a good NA and would cheerfully drive it.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        I worked with this tall lanky dude that drove a Miata. It looked like a Hanna-Barbara cartoon when drove it.

        Also, screw Miatas, I don’t know how many times I have tried to pull into what appeared to be an empty parking spot only to find one of those damn things tucked in the corner.

      • Animal

        Personally, if it ain’t got a tailgate, I ain’t buying it.

  29. DEG

    “What the fuck is going on?” Hunter demanded, rubbing his feather boa up under Jen’s skirt.

    These euphemisms.

  30. Scruffy Nerfherder

    My youngest (11) occasionally sends me emails. She’s a very serious child and undertakes little projects, the latest of which involved raising a specific species of butterfly.

    I just received this:

    Well I don’t know how it happened, but the two caterpillars I named for you are dead. One I found on it’s side with blood smeared next to it, and the other was decapitated. They either fought each other to the death, or something got into the terrarium and killed them. They were my last caterpillars, so I have none left and probably shouldn’t try to ever raise caterpillars again.

    I am so glad she sent me that instead of telling me in person because I would never have been able to suppress my laughter.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Noble creatures ripped from their homes generally have to resort to violence

    • The Other Kevin

      Poor Scruffy and Nerfherder. Taken before their time.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I think they were named Fred and Ethel.

    • Sean

      Her punctuation skills on point.

      • Sean

        *sigh*

        are on point.

    • Sean

      I like it when they fight amongst themselves.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Miley is evil and corrupt, Vindman is the textbook definition of a chicken-shit officer.

  31. KSuellington

    Tremendous job SF. Always look forward to Wednesdays.

    • R.J.

      I second. Thank you for brightening this Wednesday.