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CPRM

CPRM

Organic troll farmer.

202 Comments

  1. Yusef drives a Kia

    Yay! STFU and get the shot!

  2. Ghostpatzer

    “Sentient hairpieces”. My day is complete.

    • DEG

      Seconded.

      • Chafed

        I never heard that before. It was good.

      • MikeS

        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

      • Tundra

        No shit.

        I really liked that one.

        Blood Hands

      • MikeS

        That entire album kicks ass. And it’s just 2 dudes. Cool.

      • Chafed

        +1 Black Keys

      • Sean

        That’s on the sd card in my car.

        ?

  3. Gender Traitor

    Took a second listen for me to catch, “I have the cerveza virus!”

    ‘Sconnie confirmed? Well done!

  4. DEG

    Excellent.

    • Sean

      Yes. ā¬†

  5. Old Man With Candy

    Zoom for anyone interested.

    • Chafed

      Don’t you people work?

  6. Count Potato

    *applause*

  7. kinnath

    great job

  8. Tundra

    Ripped from the headlines!

    Hat is a vaxxhole, but I still love him.

  9. TARDis

    I never thought I would learn to love the hair.

    • Fourscore

      “How many hairpieces have died from the virus?”

      Great work, CPRM

    • Chafed

      Indeed it is!

  10. hayeksplosives

    That did NOT disappoint! Well done.

    ā€œBut Iā€™m worried!ā€

    Thatā€™s the whole paradox about the vaccine. If it works, get it to protect yourself from the UNCLEAN. If it doesnā€™t work, why demand that anyone get it?

      • Chafed

        MikeS hardest hit.

      • Tundra

        It’s ok. I distracted him with some Royal Blood.

      • MikeS

        Gah!

        *crawls back upthread*

      • Chafed

        You were warned.

      • MikeS

        “Warned”. Why didn’t you just say, “Don’t click this link!” I mean, I basically had to click it.

    • Lackadaisical

      It’s your duty, right there in the social contract.

      • hayeksplosives

        Oh, yeahā€”I keep forgetting that I signed that thing.

        I did sign it, didnā€™t I?

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        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

      The argument is something like “your deplorable asses will taking all the hospital beds”

      • hayeksplosives

        Lol

  11. Yusef drives a Kia

    To walk as an unclean,
    not taken the Vaccine,
    I killed all of my Friends,
    the covid never ends,

  12. Yusef drives a Kia

    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,

    • hayeksplosives

      Errā€¦your two verses seem a bit contradictory.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Did I ever make sense?

      • egould310

        Thatā€™s the most sensible thing youā€™ve written in months.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      -100 not haiku

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Are they back on the extinction train again?

      They havenā€™t been using that one much lately.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      ā€œ 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.

      • rhywun

        You’d think scienticians would have to prove the existence of “human-caused climate change” first.

      • hayeksplosives

        The Scientistic Method involves a faceless bureaucracy declaring it to be true, and maybe a sympathetic judge if anyone objects.

      • Hyperion

        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.

      • rhywun

        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

        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

        Feh – if anything, they’re feeling their oats and ramping up the climate hysteria.

      • Not an Economist

        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

        Science is a Verb,

      • Urthona

        No doubt they wanted its valuable ivory bills for aphrodisiacs and piano keys.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Millions spent, directly and indirectly, on “preserving” species that are already gone. Someone’s pockets were lined.

    • Hyperion

      But a hell of a lot of hairless apes have died from global cooling.

      Muh Climate Change!

      • hayeksplosives

        Yeah, well thatā€™s just like, a good start, man.

        ā€”Margaret Mead
        &
        ā€”The Society for Voluntary Human Extinction

      • Hyperion

        “The Society for Voluntary Human Extinction”

        I with they’d hurry up and have at it so we can divide up their stuff.

      • Hyperion

        “I with”

        Wish, damnit!

      • hayeksplosives

        Iā€™m not entirely convinced they are serious.

        https://www.vhemt.org/

      • Fourscore

        ” 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”

      • hayeksplosives

        ā€œYou go firstā€
        ā€œNo, you go firstā€

        ?

        Exactly!

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        +1 Goofy Gophers

    • MikeS

      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

        Yeah, but, global climate change is gonna wipe out all those bald eagles I see. Then they’ll really be extinct, for real.

      • Fourscore

        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

        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

        Was walking across the parking lot of a Target in Middletown, NJ this weekend and my wife says ā€œHey! Look at that bald eagle!ā€ It was slowly circling about 40 feet above the parking lot. I was all, ā€œThatā€™s 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

        Bet all the Ice Age megafauna are pissed they can’t blame humans for all the warming that killed them off.

  13. Hyperion

    LOL. You guys are geniuses. Thanks to me, now known around the world.

  14. Hyperion

    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

      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.

      • rhywun

        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

        OMG. The trailer is fricking awesome. I feel like giving hem $9 just because.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Yeah, if my PC would run it, poor graphics card, poor Yusef, meh,

    • kbolino

      The three deadliest letters for any video game’s appeal: MMO

      • rhywun

        Yeap.

      • Not Adahn

        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.

      • UnCivilServant

        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”.

      • Trigger Hippie

        PtP?

        A distinction without a difference, I know.

      • Hyperion

        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

      ‘For now, donā€™t talk to anyone in chat, period. Voice or Text, donā€™t do it. Apparently, their moderation is automated and every bit as stupid as Twitter.’

      https://youtu.be/gv_f-8pt9wE

      • Hyperion

        That’s pretty much it.

    • Ownbestenemy

      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.

  15. Trigger Hippie

    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

      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

        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

        And it’s not like I have a social life any more.

      • Trigger Hippie

        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

        Err, worst.

        *burp*

      • Hyperion

        “Move to Toledo!”

        Why do you hate Rhywun? Oh, yeah, he lives in NYC, never mind.

      • MikeS

        Hey, at least they’re not Cleveland Detroit.

      • rhywun

        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

        Pittsburgh was an enjoyable city to visit. No idea if it’s a fun place to live.

      • rhywun

        “also”?

      • Trigger Hippie

        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

        I like it, TH. They will also play bingo every Friday at the VFW. And go to Taco Thursday at the Legion.

      • slumbrew

        “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

        slum…”Midwestern” is the key word here.

      • Trigger Hippie

        All I’m saying is when you make a big geographical and cultural leap one must adjust and settle.

      • slumbrew

        slumā€¦ā€Midwesternā€ 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*

      • Trigger Hippie

        ‘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

        I grew up on the other side of the Appalachians. That’s Midwest as far as I’m concerned.

      • Lackadaisical

        ” Who doesnā€™t like tacos?”

        …Gay guys?

    • Chafed

      Someone hooked up with a cougar.

      • Trigger Hippie

        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.

      • Q Continuum

        If you need motivation, check my posts below.

      • Q Continuum

        Trigger Hippie: resident cocksman.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Sadly, no. Things have been rather lonely except for one recent random hookup this calendar year.

    • rhywun

      Germany has had to ramp up coal plants, lolsnort.

      And I oop.

      • Sensei

        Did Russia play gas games again?

        Similar to CA Germany just passes the, errr, Euro.

      • rhywun

        Did Russia play gas games again?

        I dunno but that does seem to be the end-stage.

    • Chafed

      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

        You cannot bring reason or anything into the argument. Doesn’t matter.

  16. Timeloose

    ā€œI eat 3 masks a day .ā€

    Tremendous!!!!

    • db

      I loved that line

  17. Brochettaward

    I had to wait a little while after it was posted, but as promised, disliked. You have an enemy for life, my friend.

    • hayeksplosives

      Colbert quit being funny in the final year of the Colbert Repor.

      That was uncreative and he should feel humiliated for having OKā€™d it.

      ā€œThatā€™s what a junkie sees when he scores heroin.ā€ Hee hee.

    • Chipwooder

      God almighty that’s pathetic

    • Akira

      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

        Since it looked like that, minus the visuals, 19 months ago…I am not sure.

      • Chafed

        It would be even worse than it is now. I don’t know how. I just know it would be.

  18. hayeksplosives

    https://tomwoods.com/ep-1981-forbidden-thinkers-and-their-forbidden-works/

    Good Tom Woods episode. Itā€™s actually another guyā€™s 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 heā€™s learned from each of them.

    • hayeksplosives

      Itā€™s thirty minutes or so, so might be good to save for tomorrow.

  19. Gustave Lytton

    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

      Be a shame if a raft of unexplained fires burned those down while they were being built.

      (SLD, respect property rights)

  20. MikeS

    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 donā€™t 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 thatā€™s 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

      The proggies in AZ have already started fundraising to primary Sinema.

      How DARE she block $3.5T in new spending!!

      • Ownbestenemy

        The quicker we advance the destruction, the quicker the rebuilding can begin.

      • dbleagle

        Did you get the email I sent you HE?

      • hayeksplosives

        Yes; but I didnā€™t see it til just now. It had landed in Span.

        Iā€™ll elaborate in an email tomorrow. Itā€™s a professional thing.

        Thanks!

  21. Ownbestenemy

    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.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Wait, the state is giving your minor children money directly?? What the everliving fuck??

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yep. Through a USDA program after they’ve dropped the financial barriers on ‘free lin h’

      • Ownbestenemy

        Best part is on the letter they emphasize that it isn’t ‘welfare. I guess we can refine that word too.

      • Chafed

        Of course, it’s infrastructure.

      • Gustave Lytton

        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

      OBE:

      1) Your kids haven’t voted (have they?).

      2) Their parent/s signed them up, not them.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Er, that is, try not to be adversarial even if you feel that way. It’s an opportunity for further education in cynicism!

  22. Ownbestenemy

    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.

    • Plinker762

      Restless Anal Syndrome sounds more German than Japanese.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        “Restless Anal Syndrome” I opened for them in Japan in ’83!

  23. Yusef drives a Kia

    I need to find a place to practice my crossbow, in town es no esta bien, yikes!

  24. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam

    whats goody yo

  25. Sean

    No winners last night for Powerball. ?

    • Tres Cool

      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

        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

        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.)

    • UnCivilServant

      šŸ™ Why are you spoiling it for people who haven’t had a chance to check yet?

  26. trshmnstr the terrible

    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

      Bon voyage! Or, to translate that into Texan, happy trails! Is the family Back East?

    • Suthenboy

      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

      Benadryl is your friend.

      Diphenhydramine- the $6 babysitter

      • EvilSheldon

        Alternately, give ’em a little bit of vodka in a cherry Coke…

    • Ghostpatzer

      May the peace of the Lord be with you, Trashy. Peace will otherwise be in short supply

  27. Gender Traitor

    Local food giveaway includes a bonus extra!

    CareSource and Dayton Childrenā€™s Hospital are both sponsoring the event and also will be providing free and optional COVID-19.

    • Tres Cool

      Duh….cause people will be there with their kids.

      whaddup, pimp-juice

      • Gender Traitor

        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

        Great use of “dustman”!

      • Gender Traitor

        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!

      • UnCivilServant

        A Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells?

      • Gender Traitor

        Hmmm…don’t know about his dietary proclivities.

      • UnCivilServant

        Nobody ever acknowledges my Blackadder references.

      • Gender Traitor

        I’m sorry! ? That’s one I definitely need to see.

    • UnCivilServant

      So they’re giving out the disease for free?

      • Gender Traitor

        It would appear so. If I’d paid good money to catch it, I’d be pretty durned annoyed right now.

    • Ghostpatzer

      That is some sick shit

  28. Festus

    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

      I do believe that part of their plan is to divide people (families, too) over this nonsense. Grind on.

      Illegitimi non carborundum!

      • Festus

        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

        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

        +1 Jimmy Hoffa

    • Gender Traitor

      Please don’t beat yourself up over this. All you can do is all you can do. ::hugs Fes::

      • Festus

        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

      Itā€™s classic divide and conquer but thereā€™s no dishonor in taking it instead of getting fired. Just donā€™t forget what they made you do and thereā€™s nothing wrong with a smoldering feeling of resentment as long as you donā€™t get consumed by it.

      • Festus

        But I AM a smoldering feeling of resentment already. The drink keeps it at bay, for now.

    • Ghostpatzer

      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

        Wise council, Patzie. I’ll tread lightly and try to keep my fool mouth shut.

      • Sean

        Fuck that. I’ll burn bridges over this shit, if needed.

      • Ghostpatzer

        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.

  29. Sean

    Meet Astro.

    Really? Astro?

    • Ghostpatzer

      Ruh-roh.

      • Sean

        +1 Tralfaz

  30. Festus

    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”!