Back before I got tired of Octane pushing new pop-flavored rock on Octane (SiriusXM) I learned of a handful of good bands like Thrice out there making good music.
Thatās the whole paradox about the vaccine. If it works, get it to protect yourself from the UNCLEAN. If it doesnāt work, why demand that anyone get it?
“Warned”. Why didn’t you just say, “Don’t click this link!” I mean, I basically had to click it.
Lackadaisical
on September 29, 2021 at 7:35 pm
It’s your duty, right there in the social contract.
hayeksplosives
on September 29, 2021 at 7:39 pm
Oh, yeahāI keep forgetting that I signed that thing.
I did sign it, didnāt I?
The Bearded Hobbit
on September 29, 2021 at 8:13 pm
The USG signed a contract in 1789 and then proceeded to violate it (with extreme prejudice) over the last 232 years. I’ll have to check with the legal glibs but my recollection of contract law states that if one party defaults then the contract is null and void.
/Lysander Spooner
Urthona
on September 29, 2021 at 7:42 pm
The argument is something like “your deplorable asses will taking all the hospital beds”
Scruffy Nerfherder
on September 29, 2021 at 7:58 pm
Are they back on the extinction train again?
They havenāt been using that one much lately.
Scruffy Nerfherder
on September 29, 2021 at 7:59 pm
ā Although the woodpecker and some of the other creatures proposed for removal from the U.S. endangered species list have been functionally extinct for decades, scientists have warned that human-caused climate change and habitat destruction could make such disappearances more common.ā
Everybody knows things that happened decades ago were caused by the events of today.
You’d think scienticians would have to prove the existence of “human-caused climate change” first.
hayeksplosives
on September 29, 2021 at 8:09 pm
The Scientistic Method involves a faceless bureaucracy declaring it to be true, and maybe a sympathetic judge if anyone objects.
Hyperion
on September 29, 2021 at 8:12 pm
I guess I have to believe the ‘scientists’ because all of my Facebook friends believe the scientists. I don’t know who the scientists are, but I’m going to play it safe and sound really smart and sciency here.
Mark Steyn has been stuck in a lawsuit with Michael Mann for nine years (Mann sued Steyn, who counter sued and refused to give up without his day in court). But itās the Washington DC court system and theyāve been dragging it out as long as possible.
rhywun
on September 29, 2021 at 8:28 pm
I can’t believe that shit. Mann is an obvious fraud to anyone who has looked into the data and the way it has been manipulated over decades.
hayeksplosives
on September 29, 2021 at 8:43 pm
Hence kicking the court date down the roadā¦
Heck, now that they have Covid with which to scare people into giving up freedom and close all the small businesses (leaving only well-connected big businesses afloat), maybe they will tone back the climate change hysteria.
rhywun
on September 29, 2021 at 8:48 pm
Feh – if anything, they’re feeling their oats and ramping up the climate hysteria.
Not an Economist
on September 30, 2021 at 6:03 am
Even among climate scientist, he is something of a problem. He has a tendency to be careless with his calculations and and his conclusions as a result. His ideas –from their perspective — may be good but they need to be checked.
Yusef drives a Kia
on September 29, 2021 at 8:37 pm
Science is a Verb,
Urthona
on September 29, 2021 at 8:06 pm
No doubt they wanted its valuable ivory bills for aphrodisiacs and piano keys.
“You go first”
“No, you go first”
“OK then, we go at the same time”
“Tomorrow, then, we go together”
hayeksplosives
on September 29, 2021 at 8:55 pm
āYou go firstā
āNo, you go firstā
?
Exactly!
Toxteth O'Grady
on September 30, 2021 at 1:02 am
+1 Goofy Gophers
MikeS
on September 29, 2021 at 8:35 pm
Buried in literally the last paragraph (kudos for mentioning it at all?):
The Endangered Species Act has had some success stories, too, with 54 species removed from protected status due to their recovery, including the American peregrine falcon and bald eagle. Another 56 species have been “down-listed” from endangered to threatened.
Fourscore
on September 29, 2021 at 8:57 pm
Yeah, but, global climate change is gonna wipe out all those bald eagles I see. Then they’ll really be extinct, for real.
Fourscore
on September 29, 2021 at 9:05 pm
While I would like to see ivory billed woodpeckers around I must say that I really haven’t missed them. I see the pileated woodpeckers occasionally and I’m always happy to see them as well.
Kind of like dinosaurs, I’m sort of glad I don’t have to contend with them in my garden, the ‘chucks and gophers are enough of a problem.
MikeS
on September 29, 2021 at 9:18 pm
We have year-round resident snowy and hairy woodpeckers and they’re cool. But when a big pileated stops by for a day or two visit, it’s really a treat. I keep hoping every spring that one will hang around, but they keep moving through.
egould310
on September 29, 2021 at 9:37 pm
Was walking across the parking lot of a Target in Middletown, NJ this weekend and my wife says āHey! Look at that bald eagle!ā It was slowly circling about 40 feet above the parking lot. I was all, āThatās not a bald eagle.ā
We watched it circle for a couple of minutes. It was a bald eagle. Then it dove into some shrubbery and probably snagged a squirrel or something.
Circle of life.
one true athena
on September 29, 2021 at 11:02 pm
Bet all the Ice Age megafauna are pissed they can’t blame humans for all the warming that killed them off.
Hyperion
on September 29, 2021 at 8:06 pm
LOL. You guys are geniuses. Thanks to me, now known around the world.
Hyperion
on September 29, 2021 at 8:24 pm
For all you PC gamers, I highly recommend New World. No worries, plenty of servers in USA and you should be able to get right in now.
For now, don’t talk to anyone in chat, period. Voice or Text, don’t do it. Apparently, their moderation is automated and every bit as stupid as Twitter.
rhywun
on September 29, 2021 at 8:32 pm
I’m having a lot more fun with a game I just spent $2.49 on than should be reasonably possible. It’s a puzzle game so not everyone’s cup of tea but I like it.
R.J.
on September 29, 2021 at 8:58 pm
I started playing āSlayaway Campā on mobile. Really enjoyable funny puzzle game.
Adorable! I missed that one. Actually, I miss a shit-ton of games. I don’t play nearly as much as I used to so it’s easy to miss a lot of stuff that would appeal to me.
MikeS
on September 29, 2021 at 9:25 pm
OMG. The trailer is fricking awesome. I feel like giving hem $9 just because.
Yusef drives a Kia
on September 29, 2021 at 8:38 pm
Yeah, if my PC would run it, poor graphics card, poor Yusef, meh,
kbolino
on September 29, 2021 at 8:44 pm
The three deadliest letters for any video game’s appeal: MMO
rhywun
on September 29, 2021 at 8:46 pm
Yeap.
Not Adahn
on September 30, 2021 at 6:19 am
Nyope.
My favorite thing about MMOs is that they keep going. It would always piss me off when the next game in a series (Ultima, Xeen, Bard’s Tale) would come and you’d have to start over as a level one tard.
Now, if the game is set up where you have to interact with people, that would be a game breaker. But for games lie Star Trek Online of Lord of the Rings Online, you can solo those forever.
Also, City of Heroes (before the CoV expansion) had no real PvP and no option to play as a bad guy, so it attracted an amazingly non-douchebag playerbase.
The thing about MMOs is that they’re boring and cluttered with other people. Plus, having to cater to the individual games of all those people limits what can be done. Oh, and it’s online. Every MMO I’ve tried whether I lasted a short while or a long while died with the same realization – “I’m not having any fun”.
Well, it’s no longer true since you can play solo for hundreds of hours. If you don’t need PVP, it’s good.
Trigger Hippie
on September 29, 2021 at 9:20 pm
‘For now, donāt talk to anyone in chat, period. Voice or Text, donāt do it. Apparently, their moderation is automated and every bit as stupid as Twitter.’
Yeah its fun…but I have had to bounce to three different servers now cause of their server caps on the worlds. I pick a lightly populated server and now I am in a que for an hour. Sorry, I will not just sit around for that shit.
Trigger Hippie
on September 29, 2021 at 9:15 pm
If a few things go my way soon I’ll save myself around $800 dollars a month while improving my living conditions.
The point being: I may be able to throw some fetti at CPRM again and reclaim the contributer status he’s let me coast on in the credits for the past year…with back pay…no interest. We never settled on those terms..
…The Donald Level Shall Rise Again!
rhywun
on September 29, 2021 at 9:26 pm
Jealous. I just signed another year’s lease when I really would rather move.
OTOH the new-ish landlord has been trying to scam me out of hundreds of dollars in security deposits by claiming they don’t have any record of my topping it up every year when the previous owners raised my rent. And I sent the lease in a couple days late.
If they choose to be assholes and try to demand that security deposit or tell me I have to move out, I’m prepared to move and I know I will save hundreds of dollars a month. But moving is expensive AF and shit is too up in the air thanks to Uncle Joe.
Good luck.
Trigger Hippie
on September 29, 2021 at 10:20 pm
Thank you. I’m cautiously optimistic that this going to work out.
I’m sorry to hear about the troubles with new ownership. You’d think that they’d give your rental history a quick scan and realize that “Oh, this is a reliable cat. Let’s not treat him like a jackoff.”
And as I’ve stated before: the strategic placement of one’s self around a Midwestern city within a Maroon State with Bluish/Purple urban areas isn’t a terrible existence.
You’re a firmly middle-aged man now. How much overpriced excitement in a densely populated, increasing authoritarian city do you really need in your life now?
You have an in demand skill set across the country. Explore your options, dude.
rhywun
on September 29, 2021 at 10:48 pm
And it’s not like I have a social life any more.
Trigger Hippie
on September 29, 2021 at 10:58 pm
Move to Toledo! Find yourself a in demand job and marry a slightly pudgy man with a short trimmed beard who works as management in a discount tire outlet who also enjoys horticulture and Antiques Roadshow marathons. There’s wost fates in life!
Trigger Hippie
on September 29, 2021 at 11:00 pm
Err, worst.
*burp*
Hyperion
on September 29, 2021 at 11:03 pm
“Move to Toledo!”
Why do you hate Rhywun? Oh, yeah, he lives in NYC, never mind.
MikeS
on September 29, 2021 at 11:04 pm
Hey, at least they’re not Cleveland Detroit.
rhywun
on September 29, 2021 at 11:11 pm
LOL I have actually considered Cleveland. If only because my company is based there.
Also considering Pittsburgh for no particular reason.
Anywhere Great Lakes or vicinity kind of works for me.
Sean
on September 30, 2021 at 4:31 am
Pittsburgh was an enjoyable city to visit. No idea if it’s a fun place to live.
rhywun
on September 29, 2021 at 11:09 pm
“also”?
Trigger Hippie
on September 29, 2021 at 11:15 pm
Oh, I was just adding on to the extra characteristics of the mythical Midwestern husband I conjured for you. I have no idea if you’re into that shit.
MikeS
on September 29, 2021 at 11:19 pm
I like it, TH. They will also play bingo every Friday at the VFW. And go to Taco Thursday at the Legion.
slumbrew
on September 29, 2021 at 11:23 pm
“horticulture and Antiques Roadshow”
“bingo and … Taco Thursday at the Legion”
Wow. Is that what you guys imagine he’s into? He’s a middle-aged gay man, not a Golden Girl.
So hurtful.
(maybe not Taco Thursday. Who doesn’t like tacos?)
MikeS
on September 29, 2021 at 11:27 pm
slum…”Midwestern” is the key word here.
Trigger Hippie
on September 29, 2021 at 11:28 pm
All I’m saying is when you make a big geographical and cultural leap one must adjust and settle.
slumbrew
on September 29, 2021 at 11:34 pm
slumā¦āMidwesternā is the key word here.
Fair. In fact, that _is_ what I imagine middle-aged Midwesterners are into, regardless of sexual orientation.
‘I like it, TH. They will also play bingo every Friday at the VFW. And go to Taco Thursday at the Legion.’
And they’ll enjoy serving their friends a cream of mushroom/green bean casserole topped with cornflakes lickety-split!
rhywun
on September 30, 2021 at 12:51 am
I grew up on the other side of the Appalachians. That’s Midwest as far as I’m concerned.
Lackadaisical
on September 30, 2021 at 4:17 am
” Who doesnāt like tacos?”
…Gay guys?
Chafed
on September 29, 2021 at 10:15 pm
Someone hooked up with a cougar.
Trigger Hippie
on September 29, 2021 at 10:35 pm
Ha!
If only.
I just cleaned up a lot of credit and got out of a messy and costly under the table rental agreement that I desperately needed at the beginning of the year. It was ugly. Remember when I had a breakdown and begged you all for a few hundred bucks last fall?(You glorious pricks responded with around $1200. God, I love you people.)
Things went sideways on me and I was on the edge of homeless/suicideal around that time. I’m finally able to tell these people I no longer need the cover at a premium price.
A few weeks ago I was convinced that things were getting darker. Maybe not.
Similar to CA Germany just passes the, errr, Euro.
rhywun
on September 29, 2021 at 10:12 pm
Did Russia play gas games again?
I dunno but that does seem to be the end-stage.
Chafed
on September 29, 2021 at 10:06 pm
So fucking stupid and they won’t learn. It would be wonderful if wind and solar reliably provided enough power. But they don’t. And they won’t any time soon, if ever. So obviously, burning oil is the solution. Someone help me keep my eyes from rolling out of my head.
Ownbestenemy
on September 29, 2021 at 11:35 pm
You cannot bring reason or anything into the argument. Doesn’t matter.
Colbert quit being funny in the final year of the Colbert Repor.
That was uncreative and he should feel humiliated for having OKād it.
āThatās what a junkie sees when he scores heroin.ā Hee hee.
Chipwooder
on September 29, 2021 at 11:29 pm
God almighty that’s pathetic
Akira
on September 29, 2021 at 11:52 pm
Holy living fuck.
If the White House, the corporate media, the entertainment media, Big Pharma, and Big Tech were all having daily meetings to coordinate their propaganda efforts, how would it look any different than this?
Ownbestenemy
on September 29, 2021 at 11:54 pm
Since it looked like that, minus the visuals, 19 months ago…I am not sure.
Chafed
on September 30, 2021 at 12:22 am
It would be even worse than it is now. I don’t know how. I just know it would be.
Good Tom Woods episode. Itās actually another guyās podcast in which he interviews Tom Woods by giving him a series of libertarian authors/thinkers and has Tom tell him in just a few minutes each what important thing heās learned from each of them.
hayeksplosives
on September 29, 2021 at 10:20 pm
Itās thirty minutes or so, so might be good to save for tomorrow.
Hilarious. Local city has plans for shed homes available in their quest to densify and destroy SFH zoned neighborhoods (fees waived, build now!). 500 odd sqft studios. No interior walls except for the bathroom to save costs and then put a crawlspace on top of a full slab instead of just using the slab.
slumbrew
on September 29, 2021 at 11:08 pm
Be a shame if a raft of unexplained fires burned those down while they were being built.
(SLD, respect property rights)
MikeS
on September 29, 2021 at 11:37 pm
Way past time for bed. I leave you with a logical and reasoned plea for common sense, from the celebrated political scholar, Joy Behar:
“The Democrats have the numbers to make it happen, but Manchin and Sinema are standing in their way. They call themselves Democrats, and they will be the ruination of this nation. Those two,” Behar said.
“These people are destroying the country in my opinion. We are so in trouble in this country, I donāt know if people understand how dire the situation is,” Behar said. “If Joe Biden loses, if the Democrats lose, the Republicans, who are so corrupt right now and we all know that, they will move in, Trump will run in 2024 ā he might win because of all the cheating thatās going on. We cannot let this happen!”
“Manchin and Sinema must be brought to task! They are the enemies right now of the democracy,” she added. “Yes, we have a great democracy, but it is really on life support right now because of these two people!”
hayeksplosives
on September 29, 2021 at 11:45 pm
The proggies in AZ have already started fundraising to primary Sinema.
How DARE she block $3.5T in new spending!!
Ownbestenemy
on September 29, 2021 at 11:52 pm
The quicker we advance the destruction, the quicker the rebuilding can begin.
dbleagle
on September 30, 2021 at 12:09 am
Did you get the email I sent you HE?
hayeksplosives
on September 30, 2021 at 12:55 am
Yes; but I didnāt see it til just now. It had landed in Span.
Iāll elaborate in an email tomorrow. Itās a professional thing.
Thanks!
Ownbestenemy
on September 29, 2021 at 11:53 pm
For Tulip…regarding my teens receiving EBT cards from the State. We have come up with a plan. Tell the kids that we will see a tax hit and that any additional tax hit we receive from their use will be out of their hides if they decide to use those cards.
Just call it paying them to go to school. Like it’s their job or something.
The school feeding Goliath makes my blood boil. Food stamps, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks. Gee, and the opposite of starvation is happening. What a shock.
Toxteth O'Grady
on September 30, 2021 at 12:52 am
OBE:
1) Your kids haven’t voted (have they?).
2) Their parent/s signed them up, not them.
Toxteth O'Grady
on September 30, 2021 at 12:55 am
Er, that is, try not to be adversarial even if you feel that way. It’s an opportunity for further education in cynicism!
Ownbestenemy
on September 29, 2021 at 11:56 pm
Oh…Senate rejected the CR from the House. Back to the House and word is ol’ Chucky struck a deal. Tomorrow will be interesting because if nothing happens I get to cancel leave and training otherwise.
Restless Anal Syndrome is now my fictitious band name
Plinker762
on September 30, 2021 at 12:41 am
Restless Anal Syndrome sounds more German than Japanese.
Yusef drives a Kia
on September 30, 2021 at 12:43 am
“Restless Anal Syndrome” I opened for them in Japan in ’83!
Yusef drives a Kia
on September 30, 2021 at 12:41 am
I need to find a place to practice my crossbow, in town es no esta bien, yikes!
Tres Cool
on September 30, 2021 at 4:20 am
suh’ fam
whats goody yo
Sean
on September 30, 2021 at 4:39 am
No winners last night for Powerball. ?
Tres Cool
on September 30, 2021 at 5:11 am
You just reminded me to flush a couple bucks on a ticket today.
But if I DID win? One of those converted missile silo-thingies in the desert to start Glibertopia.
Suthenboy
on September 30, 2021 at 5:24 am
My son asked me what I would do if I won.
“Buy the Blackman place and the Eames place. Probably give the rest of it to you. I certainly don’t need to buy more junk to pile up on the junk I already have.”
Gender Traitor
on September 30, 2021 at 5:39 am
Not the desert – gotta be in the woods! I know of a place out in the kneehills of the Mozarks – 112 acres, mostly wooded, big ol’ oversized cabin (the size of a barn.) Sadly, though, civilization may be creeping up on it. (TT’s family’s old Country Place, since sold, but at last sighting, almost entirely unchanged.)
In a half hour we’re taking off on a 2 week road trip to visit family. We will have a 4 year old and an 11 month old in tow. If I don’t make it back, you’ll know I went insane. Pray for my soul.
Gender Traitor
on September 30, 2021 at 5:33 am
Bon voyage! Or, to translate that into Texan, happy trails! Is the family Back East?
Suthenboy
on September 30, 2021 at 5:35 am
I am snickering.
On this trip be sure to take them into a restaurant. Make certain your table is centrally located in the dining room.
Tres Cool
on September 30, 2021 at 5:58 am
Benadryl is your friend.
Diphenhydramine- the $6 babysitter
EvilSheldon
on September 30, 2021 at 8:47 am
Alternately, give ’em a little bit of vodka in a cherry Coke…
Ghostpatzer
on September 30, 2021 at 6:14 am
May the peace of the Lord be with you, Trashy. Peace will otherwise be in short supply
CareSource and Dayton Childrenās Hospital are both sponsoring the event and also will be providing free and optional COVID-19.
Tres Cool
on September 30, 2021 at 5:57 am
Duh….cause people will be there with their kids.
whaddup, pimp-juice
Gender Traitor
on September 30, 2021 at 6:09 am
Tonight’s planned excitement: wrassle our futon sofa’s old mattress out and wrap it in plastic like a dead body so the dustman will take it. Then carefully extract the new one from the alarmingly small box into which it is crammed, taking care to stand back when it bursts back to full size like an inflatable raft.
Festus
on September 30, 2021 at 6:22 am
Great use of “dustman”!
Gender Traitor
on September 30, 2021 at 6:35 am
Source: Monty Python (who else??)
S: There’s a dead bishop on the landing, dad!
K: Really?
M: Where’s it from?
S: Waddya mean?
M: What’s its diocese?
S: Well, it looked a bit Bath and Wells-ish to me.
K: (getting up and going out the door) I’ll go and have a look.
M: I don’t know who keeps bringin’ ’em in here.
S: It’s not me!
M: I’ve got three of ’em down by the bin, and the dustmen won’t touch ’em!
It would appear so. If I’d paid good money to catch it, I’d be pretty durned annoyed right now.
Ghostpatzer
on September 30, 2021 at 6:15 am
That is some sick shit
Festus
on September 30, 2021 at 5:59 am
Nice work, CPRM! Judi just got the mandate yesterday. Mine is soon to follow. We grasshoppers have no choice but to submit. I feel like a weakling and a loser but we’re old and it’s too late to start over. She was in tears when I called her. All of this is meant to grind free-thinking people underfoot, to let us know who is really pulling the strings. It’s a long weekend for me but it won’t be pleasant. I kinda barked at her yesterday when she suggested that we pack up and move into the wild. That’s gonna leave a mark… She’s been doing the rally thing and I’ve been merely holding out. Divide and Conquer. Split families, set people against one another. Now I feel like crying. All of this because populists were gaining traction against the entrenched powers. It will get much worse before it gets better.
Tres Cool
on September 30, 2021 at 6:02 am
I do believe that part of their plan is to divide people (families, too) over this nonsense. Grind on.
Illegitimi non carborundum!
Festus
on September 30, 2021 at 6:12 am
This will schism our Family, our Neighbors, our Cow-workers and the Populace at large. It’s been planned and executed with blinding speed. Certain family members won’t communicate. I used to laugh at the suggestion of badges for the unclean. Little did I know that it would be a hall pass for the anointed.
Festus
on September 30, 2021 at 6:14 am
If she has to get vaxxed then I’ll be there for her. In for a penny, in for a pound. We do this together.
Ghostpatzer
on September 30, 2021 at 6:30 am
+1 Jimmy Hoffa
Gender Traitor
on September 30, 2021 at 6:13 am
Please don’t beat yourself up over this. All you can do is all you can do. ::hugs Fes::
Festus
on September 30, 2021 at 6:18 am
I’ve never felt so powerless except for the times that I spent in custody. At least then there was a concrete release date. Now I believe that this is going to snowball. Thanks for the ::hug:: We both needed it!
Stinky Wizzleteats
on September 30, 2021 at 6:21 am
Itās classic divide and conquer but thereās no dishonor in taking it instead of getting fired. Just donāt forget what they made you do and thereās nothing wrong with a smoldering feeling of resentment as long as you donāt get consumed by it.
Festus
on September 30, 2021 at 6:27 am
But I AM a smoldering feeling of resentment already. The drink keeps it at bay, for now.
Ghostpatzer
on September 30, 2021 at 6:26 am
Take care, Festus. Some things cannot be changed. I’m trying not to blow up relationships over this, but it takes two. Best you can do is not be the one who pulls the trigger.
Festus
on September 30, 2021 at 6:29 am
Wise council, Patzie. I’ll tread lightly and try to keep my fool mouth shut.
Sean
on September 30, 2021 at 6:34 am
Fuck that. I’ll burn bridges over this shit, if needed.
Ghostpatzer
on September 30, 2021 at 6:40 am
Oh, I have burned a few already by quietly withdrawing. I’m trying to leave the door open if/when people come to their senses.
I had no idea that the vax had been proven safe for fetuses. I couldn’t find any links to that research, but I’m sure it’s out there. I mean, the CDC wouldn’t recommend it otherwise, right?
Remember when the Internet was going to usher in a new age of free thought? Now it’s just a bully-pulpit for the 50% plus one to compel you to obey. I hate to go Winston but he is right about opening Pandora’s Box regarding trade with the CCP. Nearly identical. New cars will be able to sense your three martini lunch or even what you smoked on the dock with your friends from the warehouse. It’s insane and everyone has been so fucking comfortably numb that they let it happen. I hate the “New Normal”!
Yay! STFU and get the shot!
“Sentient hairpieces”. My day is complete.
Seconded.
Thriced.
Ah. That reminds me of a good tune I haven’t heard in a while.
I never heard that before. It was good.
Back before I got tired of Octane pushing new pop-flavored rock on Octane (SiriusXM) I learned of a handful of good bands like Thrice out there making good music.
Bands like Royal Blood
No shit.
I really liked that one.
Blood Hands
That entire album kicks ass. And it’s just 2 dudes. Cool.
+1 Black Keys
That’s on the sd card in my car.
?
Took a second listen for me to catch, “I have the cerveza virus!”
‘Sconnie confirmed? Well done!
Excellent.
Yes. ā¬
Zoom for anyone interested.
Don’t you people work?
*applause*
great job
Ripped from the headlines!
Hat is a vaxxhole, but I still love him.
I never thought I would learn to love the hair.
“How many hairpieces have died from the virus?”
Great work, CPRM
It’s a heart-shaped Ass Wednesday.
https://archive.is/zRVPm
Indeed it is!
That did NOT disappoint! Well done.
āBut Iām worried!ā
Thatās the whole paradox about the vaccine. If it works, get it to protect yourself from the UNCLEAN. If it doesnāt work, why demand that anyone get it?
It’s pretzel logic.
MikeS hardest hit.
It’s ok. I distracted him with some Royal Blood.
Gah!
*crawls back upthread*
You were warned.
“Warned”. Why didn’t you just say, “Don’t click this link!” I mean, I basically had to click it.
It’s your duty, right there in the social contract.
Oh, yeahāI keep forgetting that I signed that thing.
I did sign it, didnāt I?
The USG signed a contract in 1789 and then proceeded to violate it (with extreme prejudice) over the last 232 years. I’ll have to check with the legal glibs but my recollection of contract law states that if one party defaults then the contract is null and void.
/Lysander Spooner
The argument is something like “your deplorable asses will taking all the hospital beds”
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/083/398/821/original/728084d3588df85d.jpeg
Lol
To walk as an unclean,
not taken the Vaccine,
I killed all of my Friends,
the covid never ends,
I live in a small town,
No Covid in a small town,
My friends live in a small town,
Ain’t got Covid, same as me,
Errā¦your two verses seem a bit contradictory.
Did I ever make sense?
Thatās the most sensible thing youāve written in months.
-100 not haiku
Never in the lifetime of planet earth has a species gone extinct before anthropogenic global warmingā¦
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-declare-23-species-including-ivory-billed-woodpecker-extinct-ap-2021-09-29/
Are they back on the extinction train again?
They havenāt been using that one much lately.
ā Although the woodpecker and some of the other creatures proposed for removal from the U.S. endangered species list have been functionally extinct for decades, scientists have warned that human-caused climate change and habitat destruction could make such disappearances more common.ā
Everybody knows things that happened decades ago were caused by the events of today.
Yeah I don’t know so much about this shit.
You’d think scienticians would have to prove the existence of “human-caused climate change” first.
The Scientistic Method involves a faceless bureaucracy declaring it to be true, and maybe a sympathetic judge if anyone objects.
I guess I have to believe the ‘scientists’ because all of my Facebook friends believe the scientists. I don’t know who the scientists are, but I’m going to play it safe and sound really smart and sciency here.
https://www.steynstore.com/product133.html
https://www.steynonline.com/11153/michael-e-mann-loser-again
Mark Steyn has been stuck in a lawsuit with Michael Mann for nine years (Mann sued Steyn, who counter sued and refused to give up without his day in court). But itās the Washington DC court system and theyāve been dragging it out as long as possible.
I can’t believe that shit. Mann is an obvious fraud to anyone who has looked into the data and the way it has been manipulated over decades.
Hence kicking the court date down the roadā¦
Heck, now that they have Covid with which to scare people into giving up freedom and close all the small businesses (leaving only well-connected big businesses afloat), maybe they will tone back the climate change hysteria.
Feh – if anything, they’re feeling their oats and ramping up the climate hysteria.
Even among climate scientist, he is something of a problem. He has a tendency to be careless with his calculations and and his conclusions as a result. His ideas –from their perspective — may be good but they need to be checked.
Science is a Verb,
No doubt they wanted its valuable ivory bills for aphrodisiacs and piano keys.
Millions spent, directly and indirectly, on “preserving” species that are already gone. Someone’s pockets were lined.
But a hell of a lot of hairless apes have died from global cooling.
Muh Climate Change!
Yeah, well thatās just like, a good start, man.
āMargaret Mead
&
āThe Society for Voluntary Human Extinction
“The Society for Voluntary Human Extinction”
I with they’d hurry up and have at it so we can divide up their stuff.
“I with”
Wish, damnit!
Iām not entirely convinced they are serious.
https://www.vhemt.org/
” fast-track route to the Next Level:”
Ahead of their time.
“You go first”
“No, you go first”
“OK then, we go at the same time”
“Tomorrow, then, we go together”
?
Exactly!
+1 Goofy Gophers
Buried in literally the last paragraph (kudos for mentioning it at all?):
Yeah, but, global climate change is gonna wipe out all those bald eagles I see. Then they’ll really be extinct, for real.
While I would like to see ivory billed woodpeckers around I must say that I really haven’t missed them. I see the pileated woodpeckers occasionally and I’m always happy to see them as well.
Kind of like dinosaurs, I’m sort of glad I don’t have to contend with them in my garden, the ‘chucks and gophers are enough of a problem.
We have year-round resident snowy and hairy woodpeckers and they’re cool. But when a big pileated stops by for a day or two visit, it’s really a treat. I keep hoping every spring that one will hang around, but they keep moving through.
Was walking across the parking lot of a Target in Middletown, NJ this weekend and my wife says āHey! Look at that bald eagle!ā It was slowly circling about 40 feet above the parking lot. I was all, āThatās not a bald eagle.ā
We watched it circle for a couple of minutes. It was a bald eagle. Then it dove into some shrubbery and probably snagged a squirrel or something.
Circle of life.
Bet all the Ice Age megafauna are pissed they can’t blame humans for all the warming that killed them off.
LOL. You guys are geniuses. Thanks to me, now known around the world.
For all you PC gamers, I highly recommend New World. No worries, plenty of servers in USA and you should be able to get right in now.
For now, don’t talk to anyone in chat, period. Voice or Text, don’t do it. Apparently, their moderation is automated and every bit as stupid as Twitter.
I’m having a lot more fun with a game I just spent $2.49 on than should be reasonably possible. It’s a puzzle game so not everyone’s cup of tea but I like it.
I started playing āSlayaway Campā on mobile. Really enjoyable funny puzzle game.
https://bluewizard.com/slayawaycamp/
Adorable! I missed that one. Actually, I miss a shit-ton of games. I don’t play nearly as much as I used to so it’s easy to miss a lot of stuff that would appeal to me.
OMG. The trailer is fricking awesome. I feel like giving hem $9 just because.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6ZvYdBDBrw
Yeah, if my PC would run it, poor graphics card, poor Yusef, meh,
The three deadliest letters for any video game’s appeal: MMO
Yeap.
Nyope.
My favorite thing about MMOs is that they keep going. It would always piss me off when the next game in a series (Ultima, Xeen, Bard’s Tale) would come and you’d have to start over as a level one tard.
Now, if the game is set up where you have to interact with people, that would be a game breaker. But for games lie Star Trek Online of Lord of the Rings Online, you can solo those forever.
Also, City of Heroes (before the CoV expansion) had no real PvP and no option to play as a bad guy, so it attracted an amazingly non-douchebag playerbase.
The thing about MMOs is that they’re boring and cluttered with other people. Plus, having to cater to the individual games of all those people limits what can be done. Oh, and it’s online. Every MMO I’ve tried whether I lasted a short while or a long while died with the same realization – “I’m not having any fun”.
PtP?
A distinction without a difference, I know.
This is a MUMORPUGER!
Well, it’s no longer true since you can play solo for hundreds of hours. If you don’t need PVP, it’s good.
‘For now, donāt talk to anyone in chat, period. Voice or Text, donāt do it. Apparently, their moderation is automated and every bit as stupid as Twitter.’
https://youtu.be/gv_f-8pt9wE
That’s pretty much it.
Yeah its fun…but I have had to bounce to three different servers now cause of their server caps on the worlds. I pick a lightly populated server and now I am in a que for an hour. Sorry, I will not just sit around for that shit.
If a few things go my way soon I’ll save myself around $800 dollars a month while improving my living conditions.
The point being: I may be able to throw some fetti at CPRM again and reclaim the contributer status he’s let me coast on in the credits for the past year…with back pay…no interest. We never settled on those terms..
…The Donald Level Shall Rise Again!
Jealous. I just signed another year’s lease when I really would rather move.
OTOH the new-ish landlord has been trying to scam me out of hundreds of dollars in security deposits by claiming they don’t have any record of my topping it up every year when the previous owners raised my rent. And I sent the lease in a couple days late.
If they choose to be assholes and try to demand that security deposit or tell me I have to move out, I’m prepared to move and I know I will save hundreds of dollars a month. But moving is expensive AF and shit is too up in the air thanks to Uncle Joe.
Good luck.
Thank you. I’m cautiously optimistic that this going to work out.
I’m sorry to hear about the troubles with new ownership. You’d think that they’d give your rental history a quick scan and realize that “Oh, this is a reliable cat. Let’s not treat him like a jackoff.”
And as I’ve stated before: the strategic placement of one’s self around a Midwestern city within a Maroon State with Bluish/Purple urban areas isn’t a terrible existence.
You’re a firmly middle-aged man now. How much overpriced excitement in a densely populated, increasing authoritarian city do you really need in your life now?
You have an in demand skill set across the country. Explore your options, dude.
And it’s not like I have a social life any more.
Move to Toledo! Find yourself a in demand job and marry a slightly pudgy man with a short trimmed beard who works as management in a discount tire outlet who also enjoys horticulture and Antiques Roadshow marathons. There’s wost fates in life!
Err, worst.
*burp*
“Move to Toledo!”
Why do you hate Rhywun? Oh, yeah, he lives in NYC, never mind.
Hey, at least they’re not
ClevelandDetroit.LOL I have actually considered Cleveland. If only because my company is based there.
Also considering Pittsburgh for no particular reason.
Anywhere Great Lakes or vicinity kind of works for me.
Pittsburgh was an enjoyable city to visit. No idea if it’s a fun place to live.
“also”?
Oh, I was just adding on to the extra characteristics of the mythical Midwestern husband I conjured for you. I have no idea if you’re into that shit.
I like it, TH. They will also play bingo every Friday at the VFW. And go to Taco Thursday at the Legion.
“horticulture and Antiques Roadshow”
“bingo and … Taco Thursday at the Legion”
Wow. Is that what you guys imagine he’s into? He’s a middle-aged gay man, not a Golden Girl.
So hurtful.
(maybe not Taco Thursday. Who doesn’t like tacos?)
slum…”Midwestern” is the key word here.
All I’m saying is when you make a big geographical and cultural leap one must adjust and settle.
slumā¦āMidwesternā is the key word here.
Fair. In fact, that _is_ what I imagine middle-aged Midwesterners are into, regardless of sexual orientation.
I stand corrected.
*pictures rhywun in Toledo kinda like this*
‘I like it, TH. They will also play bingo every Friday at the VFW. And go to Taco Thursday at the Legion.’
And they’ll enjoy serving their friends a cream of mushroom/green bean casserole topped with cornflakes lickety-split!
I grew up on the other side of the Appalachians. That’s Midwest as far as I’m concerned.
” Who doesnāt like tacos?”
…Gay guys?
Someone hooked up with a cougar.
Ha!
If only.
I just cleaned up a lot of credit and got out of a messy and costly under the table rental agreement that I desperately needed at the beginning of the year. It was ugly. Remember when I had a breakdown and begged you all for a few hundred bucks last fall?(You glorious pricks responded with around $1200. God, I love you people.)
Things went sideways on me and I was on the edge of homeless/suicideal around that time. I’m finally able to tell these people I no longer need the cover at a premium price.
A few weeks ago I was convinced that things were getting darker. Maybe not.
If you need motivation, check my posts below.
Trigger Hippie: resident cocksman.
Sadly, no. Things have been rather lonely except for one recent random hookup this calendar year.
https://archive.is/xNkDv/15925d9e65b763c626497c17691942452376ad22.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/c4Adg/14b0d8d406581b485a5718c39083d27d824cfac2.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/4qy3m/31f65ae0b42074748fe4c57cc972715a7442e60a.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/s9IfE/b7b5e1d5a5c72c82cb2eeee0b20a924fd727ea94.jpg
NSFW.
Blonde Jamie-Lynne Sigler?
Niiiiice.
I think my t levels are higher.
No way!
Relevant.
Germany has had to ramp up coal plants, lolsnort.
And I oop.
Did Russia play gas games again?
Similar to CA Germany just passes the, errr, Euro.
I dunno but that does seem to be the end-stage.
So fucking stupid and they won’t learn. It would be wonderful if wind and solar reliably provided enough power. But they don’t. And they won’t any time soon, if ever. So obviously, burning oil is the solution. Someone help me keep my eyes from rolling out of my head.
You cannot bring reason or anything into the argument. Doesn’t matter.
Fun update of a classic.
https://youtu.be/NrFVJz65F_M
Original much more in the prog rock style.
https://youtu.be/yq1sDDXlUAc
āI eat 3 masks a day .ā
Tremendous!!!!
I loved that line
I had to wait a little while after it was posted, but as promised, disliked. You have an enemy for life, my friend.
Trigger warning – this will be the most cringe worthy think you will see all week, and they are passing it off as comedy.
Colbert quit being funny in the final year of the Colbert Repor.
That was uncreative and he should feel humiliated for having OKād it.
āThatās what a junkie sees when he scores heroin.ā Hee hee.
God almighty that’s pathetic
Holy living fuck.
If the White House, the corporate media, the entertainment media, Big Pharma, and Big Tech were all having daily meetings to coordinate their propaganda efforts, how would it look any different than this?
Since it looked like that, minus the visuals, 19 months ago…I am not sure.
It would be even worse than it is now. I don’t know how. I just know it would be.
palate refresher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9P4SxtphJ4
https://tomwoods.com/ep-1981-forbidden-thinkers-and-their-forbidden-works/
Good Tom Woods episode. Itās actually another guyās podcast in which he interviews Tom Woods by giving him a series of libertarian authors/thinkers and has Tom tell him in just a few minutes each what important thing heās learned from each of them.
Itās thirty minutes or so, so might be good to save for tomorrow.
Hilarious. Local city has plans for shed homes available in their quest to densify and destroy SFH zoned neighborhoods (fees waived, build now!). 500 odd sqft studios. No interior walls except for the bathroom to save costs and then put a crawlspace on top of a full slab instead of just using the slab.
Be a shame if a raft of unexplained fires burned those down while they were being built.
(SLD, respect property rights)
Way past time for bed. I leave you with a logical and reasoned plea for common sense, from the celebrated political scholar, Joy Behar:
The proggies in AZ have already started fundraising to primary Sinema.
How DARE she block $3.5T in new spending!!
The quicker we advance the destruction, the quicker the rebuilding can begin.
Did you get the email I sent you HE?
Yes; but I didnāt see it til just now. It had landed in Span.
Iāll elaborate in an email tomorrow. Itās a professional thing.
Thanks!
For Tulip…regarding my teens receiving EBT cards from the State. We have come up with a plan. Tell the kids that we will see a tax hit and that any additional tax hit we receive from their use will be out of their hides if they decide to use those cards.
Lie? Maybe. Life lesson…absolutely.
Wait, the state is giving your minor children money directly?? What the everliving fuck??
Yep. Through a USDA program after they’ve dropped the financial barriers on ‘free lin h’
Best part is on the letter they emphasize that it isn’t ‘welfare. I guess we can refine that word too.
Of course, it’s infrastructure.
Just call it paying them to go to school. Like it’s their job or something.
The school feeding Goliath makes my blood boil. Food stamps, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks. Gee, and the opposite of starvation is happening. What a shock.
OBE:
1) Your kids haven’t voted (have they?).
2) Their parent/s signed them up, not them.
Er, that is, try not to be adversarial even if you feel that way. It’s an opportunity for further education in cynicism!
Oh…Senate rejected the CR from the House. Back to the House and word is ol’ Chucky struck a deal. Tomorrow will be interesting because if nothing happens I get to cancel leave and training otherwise.
Straight news…
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/29/government-shutdown-funding-514695
Not really. Fun to read and editorialize on the fly though.
I predict in 6 months when you use WebMD all results will be Long COVID
https://m.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/covid-may-cause-restless-anal-syndrome-report-680582
Restless Anal Syndrome is now my fictitious band name
Restless Anal Syndrome sounds more German than Japanese.
“Restless Anal Syndrome” I opened for them in Japan in ’83!
I need to find a place to practice my crossbow, in town es no esta bien, yikes!
suh’ fam
whats goody yo
No winners last night for Powerball. ?
You just reminded me to flush a couple bucks on a ticket today.
But if I DID win? One of those converted missile silo-thingies in the desert to start Glibertopia.
My son asked me what I would do if I won.
“Buy the Blackman place and the Eames place. Probably give the rest of it to you. I certainly don’t need to buy more junk to pile up on the junk I already have.”
Not the desert – gotta be in the woods! I know of a place out in the kneehills of the Mozarks – 112 acres, mostly wooded, big ol’ oversized cabin (the size of a barn.) Sadly, though, civilization may be creeping up on it. (TT’s family’s old Country Place, since sold, but at last sighting, almost entirely unchanged.)
š Why are you spoiling it for people who haven’t had a chance to check yet?
In a half hour we’re taking off on a 2 week road trip to visit family. We will have a 4 year old and an 11 month old in tow. If I don’t make it back, you’ll know I went insane. Pray for my soul.
Bon voyage! Or, to translate that into Texan, happy trails! Is the family Back East?
I am snickering.
On this trip be sure to take them into a restaurant. Make certain your table is centrally located in the dining room.
Benadryl is your friend.
Diphenhydramine- the $6 babysitter
Alternately, give ’em a little bit of vodka in a cherry Coke…
May the peace of the Lord be with you, Trashy. Peace will otherwise be in short supply
Local food giveaway includes a bonus extra!
Duh….cause people will be there with their kids.
whaddup, pimp-juice
Tonight’s planned excitement: wrassle our futon sofa’s old mattress out and wrap it in plastic like a dead body so the dustman will take it. Then carefully extract the new one from the alarmingly small box into which it is crammed, taking care to stand back when it bursts back to full size like an inflatable raft.
Great use of “dustman”!
Source: Monty Python (who else??)
A Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells?
Hmmm…don’t know about his dietary proclivities.
Nobody ever acknowledges my Blackadder references.
I’m sorry! ? That’s one I definitely need to see.
So they’re giving out the disease for free?
It would appear so. If I’d paid good money to catch it, I’d be pretty durned annoyed right now.
That is some sick shit
Nice work, CPRM! Judi just got the mandate yesterday. Mine is soon to follow. We grasshoppers have no choice but to submit. I feel like a weakling and a loser but we’re old and it’s too late to start over. She was in tears when I called her. All of this is meant to grind free-thinking people underfoot, to let us know who is really pulling the strings. It’s a long weekend for me but it won’t be pleasant. I kinda barked at her yesterday when she suggested that we pack up and move into the wild. That’s gonna leave a mark… She’s been doing the rally thing and I’ve been merely holding out. Divide and Conquer. Split families, set people against one another. Now I feel like crying. All of this because populists were gaining traction against the entrenched powers. It will get much worse before it gets better.
I do believe that part of their plan is to divide people (families, too) over this nonsense. Grind on.
Illegitimi non carborundum!
This will schism our Family, our Neighbors, our Cow-workers and the Populace at large. It’s been planned and executed with blinding speed. Certain family members won’t communicate. I used to laugh at the suggestion of badges for the unclean. Little did I know that it would be a hall pass for the anointed.
If she has to get vaxxed then I’ll be there for her. In for a penny, in for a pound. We do this together.
+1 Jimmy Hoffa
Please don’t beat yourself up over this. All you can do is all you can do. ::hugs Fes::
I’ve never felt so powerless except for the times that I spent in custody. At least then there was a concrete release date. Now I believe that this is going to snowball. Thanks for the ::hug:: We both needed it!
Itās classic divide and conquer but thereās no dishonor in taking it instead of getting fired. Just donāt forget what they made you do and thereās nothing wrong with a smoldering feeling of resentment as long as you donāt get consumed by it.
But I AM a smoldering feeling of resentment already. The drink keeps it at bay, for now.
Take care, Festus. Some things cannot be changed. I’m trying not to blow up relationships over this, but it takes two. Best you can do is not be the one who pulls the trigger.
Wise council, Patzie. I’ll tread lightly and try to keep my fool mouth shut.
Fuck that. I’ll burn bridges over this shit, if needed.
Oh, I have burned a few already by quietly withdrawing. I’m trying to leave the door open if/when people come to their senses.
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2021/09/cdc-urges-pregnant-women-to-get-vaccinated-against-covid.html
I had no idea that the vax had been proven safe for fetuses. I couldn’t find any links to that research, but I’m sure it’s out there. I mean, the CDC wouldn’t recommend it otherwise, right?
Meet Astro.
Really? Astro?
Ruh-roh.
+1 Tralfaz
Remember when the Internet was going to usher in a new age of free thought? Now it’s just a bully-pulpit for the 50% plus one to compel you to obey. I hate to go Winston but he is right about opening Pandora’s Box regarding trade with the CCP. Nearly identical. New cars will be able to sense your three martini lunch or even what you smoked on the dock with your friends from the warehouse. It’s insane and everyone has been so fucking comfortably numb that they let it happen. I hate the “New Normal”!
Here’s one for KK.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/09/30/Hawaii-Kilauea-volcano-erupts/5091632983487/