I know, a day early, but sometimes Banjos ties one on and someone else on staff has to step over the puddle of vomit and work the Links Machine. This time it’s me.
Spudalicious spent several days with us and managed to get himself a good taste of the workings of the modern liberal arts student. Actual conversation at the local bar:
Spud: … so he’s definitely Aspie.
Liberal Arts Student: (icily) That is not a term we use any more.
Spud: Look, my son is an Aspie. He’s 30 years old and unable to work a job.
Liberal Arts Student: (glares, extra ice) That is NOT a term we use any more.
Spud: (realizes he’s about to get canceled with a beer bottle to the head, shuts up)
SP: (changes subject quickly) So we thought it might be fun to put pictures of our staff as little kids on our Instagram page!
Liberal Arts Student: That is NOT acceptable. Many of us had different gender identifications then and do NOT want to be associated with that. This is non-inclusive and problematic!
SP: (smiles and shuts up)
I should mention a few birthdays, including a guy who operated best under pressure; the nihilistic ‘stache; a guy who has a museum right down the road from us; the inspiration for Mahatma Kane Jeeves; a guy who was of two minds; a moray eel latched onto the Kennedys; a guy who made a fortune inflicting shitty cars on the American public; a guy who has been so easy to parody that he’s actually taken seriously; the nemesis of Earl Weaver; and a larger-than-life chef who can’t actually cook.
Let’s do links. That is a term we still use.
“I have information that could lead to the conviction of Hillary Clinton.”
Really, how long before Gloria Allred jumps into this?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Hand that seat back to Team Red, you morons.
The Jews are behind this, right?
These guys are getting canceled. No question.
“I find myself oddly excited by this. Those bags are faaaaaabulous.”
Old Guy Music is just an absolutely fucking delightful cover by some absolutely fucking amazing musicians.
Hey dipshit, your “we” doesn’t include me.
I would have started talking about how important it is to get double jabbed, plus take any and all boosters available.
More boosters = More human, right?
/failed to find the appropriate Dark Harvest scene
They should definitely stay really safe and take at least two of each version.
The vaccine.gov site sucks. I can’t find how to schedule a smallpox vaccination.
See if a search for “cowpox” works
I’d be confident that Spud & OMWC have used that pickup line before.
Excuse me a moment, while I wipe my stinging nose and then clean the coffee off the floor.
Can I be in your we?
Americans need to be more inclusive. When are we going to get an inclusive we?
When are we going to get an inclusive we?
As soon as we do something about all those nasty Trump voters.
That’s an interesting way of saying syphilis.
Bill does not “get” syphilis; he gives it!
You should have broken the bottle over the LAS’ head while screaming “You do not get to dictate my speech!”
“What means ‘we’ Kemosabe?”
You could have fun watching the seizure.
I’m curious why they were engaged in a conversation with a hostile.
Sealions.
What does that even mean?
https://store.wondermark.com/products/copy-of-go-away-sea-lions-sticker-4-x-3-2
I still don’t understand. My head hurts and I don’t think I’ve gotten much sleep.
NPR had a bit about the aftermath of the Lebanese judge — an “hours long” gunbattle. Six killed. Apparently Lebanon is where Imperial stormtroopers are trained.
Did they mention how jealous they were team blue couldn’t do that here in the US?
““I have information that could lead to the conviction of Hillary Clinton.””
Put em on a death watch…
Watch for dog comms
Facebook’s real crime
You don’t need a degree in neuroscience to understand why companies like Facebook are toxic to both society and our mental health. The problems of social media platforms, from facilitating genocide to elevating anti-vaccine sentiments during a global pandemic to boosting guys like Ben Shapiro, are much bigger than the individual brain chemistries of its users. And saying that humans are powerless automatons, unthinkingly moving from one dopamine crash to the next, cedes even more undue power to companies like Facebook while minimizing our own agency and capacity to self-regulate and moderate our time online.
Needz moar censorship.
Gawker? I thought you was dead.
Zombie.
Given the lofty opinion of humankind he’s displaying there, I would bet good money that he would be all in on reeducation.
The guy is a literal walking, talking totalitarian and is too stupid to recognize it.
Let’s go Brandon!
Heh….
Clearly a deplorable.
Approved.
I think Let’s go Brandon has legs because it’s got layers to it, like an ogre. I see it sticking around, dogging Joe for the foreseeable future.
Yeah. It’s not a mere shit-posting meme anymore. This one has legs. Long legs.
“These guys are getting canceled. No question.”
How many people will be banned for linking to this on social media?
As I keep telling idiots: There is no consensus, misinformation, censorship, and fact checking in science. When you see any of those what you have is propaganda…
If someone could explain that report in simple terms, that’d be great. I did try to understand it, but, yeah.
The sun is making the earth hot
Handle checks out.
I only scanned it, but the report focused on the differences in cloud cover being a much larger factor in the variation of the planets temperature than is commonly recognized by those modeling climate change.
Much of the peak heating periods over the past several years corresponds to times where cloud cover affected the IR being retained or radiated into space.
Thanks. Off to research cloud cover.
OMWC, when you come down with Wonder Dog, we can go to the dog park and you can hang out with a couple of (((them))). They’re not your people: ex-Soviet, then ex-Israeli. Fantastic dog though. And the wife has an amazing ass for her age and wears lycra to prove it. Her face looks exactly like you’d expect an aging Jewess with enough money for plastic surgery to look. Every now and then they go off on the other dog owners for being too pro-Commie.
Sadly, Wonder Dog is very old for her breed and moving slowly. But she’d enjoy a nice nap in a cool breeze.
When the illegal border crossers wear clothes from this collection, I will be impressed.
https://avavav.com/
Boots with fat toes
There’s a sucker with money born every ten minutes or so.
“Whoa! This placenta is composed of hunnerd dolla bilz!”
Da Fuq?
WTF did I just see?!
Fashion
I choose to believe it’s a parody site but you can never be quite sure.
Kind of. You can buy some of those items. The items and styles rotate in and out.
Why bother? Just blame Trump and his terrorist followers as usual, and your drooling masses will lap it up like porn queens do splooge…
PRESTO!
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Wednesday announced an “ambitious road map” to developing wind farms along most of the U.S. coastline, leasing plots for seven major offshore wind farms by 2025. The leases off Maine, New York, California, Oregon, the Carolinas, the Mid-Atlantic States, and the Gulf of Mexico would host windmills that generate a combined 30,000 megawatts of power by 2030, avert 78 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions, and create up to 77,000 jobs, the White House says.
The plan advances President Biden’s “plans to confront climate change, create good-paying jobs, and accelerate the nation’s transition to a cleaner energy future,” Haaland said. “This timetable provides two crucial ingredients for success: increased certainty and transparency. Together, we will meet our clean energy goals while addressing the needs of other ocean users and potentially impacted communities.” She added that the Interior Department is also working with other federal agencies to generate at least 25,000 megawatts of solar and wind power on public lands by 2025.
The magic hat never lets us down. Soon we’ll all be rich.
I was playing Simcity 4 yesterday, and finally met the requirements to build nukular power plants. It was awesome.
Did you promptly get rid of any and all maintenance in the hopes it would melt down?
That’s old and busted.
The new hotness is building virology research labs with insufficient ventilation.
And, the virus spreads more rapidly if you have fully-funded clinics and a city ordinance of “Free Simvaccines”
It’s on my “to do” list
I have about four or five cities going, none of them too well.
Does they take 20+ years to build due to bureaucracy and lawsuits?
They can solve the seabird overpopulation crisis too!
So, we have gone from Dead Naming the little shits to Dead Picturing the little shits.
Seems like Progress with a capital D.
I remember in less enlightened times when dying from too much sausage was a euphemism for AIDS.
Really? That one would have flown over my head as a kid. That’s pretty good.
What do Lean Bez and Magic Johnson have in common?
Both had bad crack…
John Walsh appears to be getting a little desperate. Maybe he could drum up some business by kidnapping a few on his own.
So I posted an ad for a mechanic’s job on Facebook. Specified no mandate in the description and got a few applications.
Some asshat decides to advertise his own mobile repair services in the comments. I’ll give him credit for chutzpah.
In the regular e-mails I get soliciting me for support roles that are all over the state of Ohio (go overseas and H1-B recruiters who have no idea how large Ohio is), I’ve noticed about 25% are now including proof of vaccination or weekly negative covid tests required.
Work had a meeting yesterday and stressed multiple times that it was the US government imposing the vaccination mandates, not %company%. Of course, still waiting on the rules to be published before %company% releases any rules for us workers.
Yesterday someone checked me on Linked-In. WTF is up with that, how, why did I ever get on Linked-In? Got to be a parody site.
PSBA governing board voted to LEAVE the NSBA, citing the letter to Biden as the last straw.
Didn’t see this in the news this morning.
Wow, that’s good news. I’ve seen a number of local signs advertising candidates for our local school board, and prominent among them are calls for more oversight by parents.
The Data for Progress poll released on Thursday also showed Sinema’s favorability among prospective primary voters in her state in free fall, at just 24 percent. Meanwhile, a staggering 70 percent reported an unfavorable opinion of the first-term senator.
Those numbers stand in stark contrast to those of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Arizona’s junior senator who was elected just last year. Eighty-five percent of potential primary voters say they have a favorable view of Kelly, while only 11 percent hold an unfavorable opinion of him.
The Data for Progress poll surveyed 467 likely Democratic primary voters and has a margin of error of 5 percentage points.
Did they conduct that survey in an ASU sociology lecture?
Kelly is just a standard Democrat twat. I’ll give Sinema credit for having a spine.
Surveys and polls are all conducted using Dominion machines, which are totally unhackable because they are definitely not hooked up to the Internet.
Is that a thumb drive in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
If you can’t trust a poll from a company called Data for Progress, what can you trust?
Re: the bar conversation: ugh. just ugh.
If we get another pet, I am going to push for the name “Enthalpy”
I also want a charmander
“Enthalpy “Charmander” von Schuckmann
Girl Genius:
Agatha Heterodyne, daughter of Bill Heterodyne and Lucretzia Mongfish is currently in a relationship with na-baron Gilgamesh Wulfenbach (son of Klaus), though Tarvek Sturmvoraus want to win her for himself.
Sounds like an Agatha Christie/P.G. Wodehouse crossover novel.
I’d read it.
My favorite comic.
A sequence from the first time she makes coffee:
https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070618#.YWl8hTHMLIW
hawt
Thanks!
I am a fan of “The Order of the Stick”, myself.
http://www.giantitp.com
Big fan of OotS.
Hunh, I wondered what Phil Foglio was doing since Dragon magazine went under 15 years ago.
Lucretzia Mongfish
I love that name. Just reading it, you’re thinking “ooooh she’s evil.”
Yes she tried to TAKE OVER DE VURLD via mind control slaver wasps. Currently is living inside her daughter’s skull in a not-completely successful attempt at immortality.
Yeah, I’ve read some, but not all, of the comics. I’ve got the four “Agatha H.” novels, and I’m really hoping they do at least one more of those.
There is a scene, fairly early on, where DuPree reports having seen a “vision” of Agatha and Gilgamesh, clearly something time-travely. That teaser hasn’t paid off yet.
I want the electric rat.
I have some spares. What have you got to trade?
I wish they’d finish replacing the gas main. The noise is making my head hurt. I get it, no one wants the old pipe to go boom, but get the new one in the ground.
no one wants the old pipe to go boom
That reminds me.
ManPersonhole explosion season is approaching in DC. I wonder how many they will get this year.I know you weren’t a fan of Phoenix OMWC, but I don’t know how you can tolerate living in a place like your current digs.
It’s cold up there, true; but, it’s a *dry* cold.
Could be worse for OMWC, could be my neighbor and really cold. Today’s high is 45 and rain.
It’s cold outside, there’s no kind of atmosphere, he’s all alone, more or less?
I want to lie, footloose and comatose; drinking fresh mango juice?
The wind farm plan was announced amid “an energy crisis around the world” nestled inside “a perfect storm of crises,” Axios reports. “A combination of weather-related issues (many of which are related to climate change), unexpected demand, and planned outages has sent natural gas and coal prices through the roof,” and the “global energy transition to renewables” just “hasn’t come soon enough.”
Yeah, just keep saying that. “We” believe you.
“A combination of weather-related issues (many of which are related to climate change), unexpected demand, and planned outages has sent natural gas and coal prices through the roof”
You mean climate change is responsible for crippling regulations and ideological policy that makes fossil fuel extraction and exploitation non-feasible? Is there nothing it can’t do?!
Yes … and no.
Climate change is responsible for whatever the people that tell you you must give up your freedoms and standard of living so the elite can feel even more superior cause they keep theirs say it is responsible for, you fucking serf!
“Bill Clinton in California hospital with
non-Covid infectioncrotch rot”FIFY.
That conversation. What a world, what a world…
Not sure why LAS has a say about putting pictures up – are you exploiting they’s labor?
It’s cold up there, true; but, it’s a *dry* cold.
Well, axially, it’s not. It’s a wet cold. Wet, bitter, biting, brutal cold.
It’s transdry weather. Stop being problematicallizational.
“Hand that seat back to Team Red, you morons.”
McCain would probably have voted for the $3.5T monstrosity.
While flipping the bird to his party members.
What a maverick.
No probably… That fucker was a massive statist asshole.
He would have stroked out when we stopped fighting pointless wars.
In the absence of sports links I will contribute a Go dodgers! (I still don;t know anything about baseball but in the end I concluded that as a lakers fan I should root for the dodgers and rams)
In baseball, the most important thing is the vendor food at the ballpark. Also, despite the name, you can’t put you ball on a leash and take it for a walk.
as a lakers fan I should root for the dodgers and rams
and Kings
Why the Rams instead of Chargers?
Why the Dodgers instead of Angels?
Why the Kings instead of Ducks?
or, really, why not the Clippers?
The Angels and Ducks are in Orange County, the Chargers moved from San Diego, and the Clippers are the Clippers.
The Rams moved from St Louis (and Chicago).
Also, as someone who has never been in California, like there is a difference between LA County and Orange County. No one east of the Rockies can tell them apart.
Next you are going to tell me that there is a difference between Queens and Suffolk County. Same island.
Huge difference between the counties.
It was bigger before the fall of the Orange Curtain.
Aint that the truth. Hell, even within the counties there are difference. I had no connection to San Fran valley. SGV for life! lol
We can all agree that Huntington Beach was the best beach.
+1 Missing first period of every day of senior year to be at the beach and surf.
My high school had a competition surf team. Lucky bastards got to leave school early to go surf.
Also late of San Diego.
And the Angels started in LA, unlike the Dodgers.
+26 Gene Autry
Why the Rams instead of Chargers – well I don’t know. which have the better quarterthingy?
Maybe you should decide based on which team has the better stadium, team colors or such.
which stadium milked less from the taxpayers you mean?
Now that’s funny since the Chargers play in the Rams stadium.
Do the Chargers use a different name similar to the short time the Angels played at Chavez Ravine?
SoFi Stadium for both, but the Rams owner built it (mostly on his own dime – praise to him). Spanos and company are tenants.
At least you aren’t rooting for the Yankees *spits*
Take a trip down mammary lane with Friday Funbags.
https://archive.is/ABISb
McCain would probably have voted for the $3.5T monstrosity.
He would have gone into reconciliation looking for a $6T compromise.
On a side note, how dare you drop these fat links on Friday? I’ll never catch up. I’ll get you one day, Gadget!
Two hours to go of work from home and I am already half in a bottle of wine plus a whisky. I did not drink any alcohol at all for 4 days and I have a tendency of overcompensating when I stay off the sauce for a while. The challenge for next week is not to drink anything Monday to Thursday *and* not over-drink on Friday. A challenge indeed.
Not drinking, like most anything becomes easier the more I (not) do it.
I thought Romanians never drink … wine.
+1 Coppola’s soft-core
Somebody got a surprise while sleeping.
She gonna make a lot of money out of this.
*hovers over link*
Huh, not Cosby related.
“Meteorite” is street slang for Triazolam.
A test run for SMOD?
We can only hope.
“Professor Peter Brown” *snickers, tries not to make a gay joke*
How much will pilgrims pay to gain access to her bedroom for a peek at the rock?
Look at the moronic science deniers.
https://www.chron.com/news/article/Dozens-of-US-nuclear-lab-workers-sue-over-vaccine-16533931.php
Meh, I’m sure there are many people qualified to hold those positions that can pass a background check and hold a clearance and have the general qualifications. Then, after finishing all of the training a little more than a year after hire in, they’ll be ready to start working. Shouldn’t effect the facility at all.
“I was a barista for six weeks. Can I be a nuclear scientist?”
They’re making a strategic error by suing; the courts are 100% on board with this totalitarianism. The only thing that seems to be working are mass “sick outs” (see: the SW pilots). You can’t rely on a corrupt system to counteract corrupt mandates, the only way out is mass passive resistance a-la Gandhi.
If you try to plan a sick out at a nuclear facility you’ll be ratted out ahead of time and fired.
https://twitter.com/RastaRedpill/status/1448721454216982529?s=20
“Don’t be no yellow-bellied sonofabitch.”
Best advice I’ve heard in a long time.
Helps he had a bunch of people to go with …
+1
People are scared of stepping out alone, and getting squished.
Exactly.
So far, My Dude’s employer is only requiring testing and masks when he has to go into the office twice a week. Big bank apparently not going there with the vax. Yet.
That guy is doing right.
Me avoiding the jab:
https://mobile.twitter.com/jakecoco/status/1447386821151887363
Actual footage of me avoiding the vax.
Cuck.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16421479/my-new-neighbour-offered-sex-machine-husband/
Now do one of these where it is the guy that offers up his wife to his neighbor that says having sex with his wife is like fucking a corpse, and lets see the reaction…
Surprise ending – her ‘husband’ is an actual sex machine.
Sounds like the cure was worse than the disease.
Looks it needs to be banned so people won’t be able to kill themselves anymore.
But he did look good at the viewing. Better living (dying) through chemistry.
I can’t say as I’ve never heard anything by The Disease.
Shake the Disease singing “Depeche Mode” ?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_0sL_SQYvw
But he’ll be well preserved.
Holy fuck. The Hill, in its ongoing race to make itself a completely unreadable video popup nightmare, just threw a petition at me to “demand” national universal vote-by-mail.
Because elections just aren’t corrupt enough.
Democracy only happens when democrats win! Says so right in the name…
The bigger question here: what the hell does “Big Baps” mean?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/swinging-naked-doggers-cause-chaos-25218293
Heck of a grant application there.
It means Boobs that are Q worthy?
Boobs anyway. And sandwich buns. Double entendre. I assume the sisters have named it after both their products and their own poitrines.
Well Q did specify “Big”.
/pedant
So I learned two new words today. Well, three if I include French for Brisket. (poitrine de boeuf) *searches for recipes*
Champion of he little guy
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is calling for the breakup of Amazon after Reuters reported that the online retail giant created knock-off products and manipulated product searches in India.
In response to the report, Warren tweeted that the documents at the heart of the news service’s article “show what we feared about Amazon’s monopoly power—that the company is willing and able to rig its platform to benefit its bottom line while stiffing small businesses and entrepreneurs.”
As if Elizabeth Warren ever gave a fuck about entrepreneurs or small businesses, beyond the campaign checks and lobbying.
In India, was it? Warren is just looking after her people.
Apparently Warren has never been to a large chain grocery store or seen the “Kirkland” brand at Costco.
Sears did this for decades as well.
Newest update video from Corporate “Don’t get shot!” Fucking clowns.
They pay a team of useless assholes to promulgate this bullshit. Is it any wonder that our civilization is whirling down the drain? I’d like to wring their fucking necks but it’s hard to do when I’m wearing my mandated “anti-strangling” mittens.
PSA: remember to occasionally switch hands when jerking off to avoid becoming dependent on the sensations of your dominant hand.
is that what you call getting some strange?
I finished my mandatory “Hand Safety” course in record time.
Basically it said don’t stick your hand into places where they might get crushed or shocked. Don’t cut your hands. Wear gloves except at time when you shouldn’t wear gloves.
No shit! I never would have thought of those things on my own!
What a waste of 34 seconds.
Have they provided training for all body parts? I see some serious liability.
Our training department has gotten clever and disabled the ability to jump time. Too many people were successfully completing an course slated for 1 hour in 5 minutes.
Never mind the completion rate and pass rates were near 100%
Do they also have real, one-time tests at the end? Too much of the mandatory training has, fortunately, been no assessment or “select until you pick the correct answer”. That means I can mute the speakers and let the training videos run in a window while I do other things.
Real test, but these are annual training and nothing changes. The ones that bother me is “pre-test” and I think..cool, don’t need to do training. Take it, pass with 100 and then onto the training. WTF.
Our racism/bias training has real tests and they don’t show the “correct” answers. And it’s surprisingly difficult to guess the answers HR wants to hear for some of the questions. Example: “I do not consider how race may affect the experiences of an individual”; True/False. Now any sane person would immediately hit “True”, but I think HR actually wants false for this one since we’re supposed to defer to the experiences of women and people of color (aka everyone but white men).
Actually, it’s not really training and rather more of an assessment of how racist employees are.
I even had to google some of the questions to see what the hell I was supposed to answer.
What happens if you fail?
You need to install software on your laptop. Pick the correct answer:
A. You downloaded from a torrent site, so it’s safe. Install the software yourself.
B. Ask Achmed, your office mate, to hack your machine and install the software for you.
C. Contact IT services, file a form 6767730/5-B. Route request through 12 layers of management and await approval from huge-bureaucratic -bloated-sclerotic-department-of-redundant-security. Report request to at least 5 separate entities. Wait for 6 months for IT to get around to installing software on your machine. After you no longer need it.
PM contemplates what the correct answer is….
Always use lube to avoid friction burns.
The SCOTUS slap-slap-kiss
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10089465/Liberal-justice-Kagan-interrupts-Kavanaughs-questioning-Boston-Bomber-case-Supreme-Court.html
I thought SCOTUS changed the format to prevent interruptions. I guess that was a limited decision that only applies to Sotomayor.
“Radiative Energy Flux Variation from 2001–2020”
UNPOSSIBLE. SCIENCE! knows that the Sun is a completely static system with absolutely no variability whatsoever, certainly no variability that could affect temperatures on Earth. The *ONLY* possible explanation for any change is Earth’s climate is evil Deplorables living their evil Deplorable lives and in order to save the planet we much tax and regulate them out of existence. The “scientists” who published this paper are obviously White Supremacists (I mean, they’re German!) planting false stories to sabotage the work of those with Immaculate True Knowledge for the purpose of killing off all BIPOC LGBTQ+++ individuals and thrusting us into a dystopian theocracy.
You’re going to get kicked off of YouTube with that kind of jibber jabber.
Reuters, citing internal emails, strategy papers and plans, reported on Wednesday that Amazon ran a campaign to copy products and then sell them on its own platform in India, which is one of the company’s largest growth markets. According to the news service, Amazon’s private-brands team in India exploited internal data to copy products from other platforms and then offer them on Amazon.
Employees also increased sales of Amazon private-brand products by rigging search results so that the company’s products would appear in “the first 2 or three … search results,” Reuters reported, citing a strategy document.
Documents further reportedly revealed that Amazon employees studied proprietary data about other brands on its Indian platform to “replicate” the products.
OH
MY
GOD!
Reverse-engineered ripoffs of other companies’ products? That’s completely unheard of. Jeff Bezos’ entrepreneurial criminality knows no bounds.
Amazon actually manufactures stuff, now?
Do they write their own books?
“Fifty Shades of Off-White”, by A. Mazon. $2.99 on Kindle
It wouldn’t be cost effective to do that.
As it stands the authors do all the costly development work and Amazon just collects the distribution profits. ie, what they’re doing by copying popular physical goods.
If they had to pay someone to reverse engineer books… well it’d reduce their returns.
They’ve had a line of products called Amazon Basics for a while. Mostly random cables, headphones, and other commodity products.
How is this different from store brands at Giant?
It’s not.
It isn’t. It’s generic products, but since Amazon is Amazon, now it’s evil.
And clothing.
I just assume they pay some cheap Chinese shop to stick their name on it.
I doubt they’re “copying” anything.
Amazon Basics undershirts are actually really good. Or they were when I last ordered some.
Sam’s Choice chocolate chip cookies used to be really good
Sam’s Choice is a step above Great Value.
I used to work at a Wal-mart warehouse. The Sam’s choice/Equate/Great Value stuff came from the exact same manufacturers as the name brand labeled things.
And some others such as Solimo and AmazonCommercial.
I want the electric rat.
Does it have a frickin’ laser mounted on its head?
Bad news: Gladys is dead. Good news: She died free.
You losers probably just say Who?
Some see an eagle owl.
I see Mothman
Bummer. Owls are cool. Not to bright, but still cool.
Raptors and corvids #FTW!
But hawks and crows hate one another…
Athena fumes with resentment
They all look the same, don’t they?
Fuck it. I’m going to take my Eureka moment and walk away. We’ll see whether it bodes well for Festus or not. Can’t get a hit if you don’t take a swing, right? Have a great one if you can manage it, dear Friends.
Ummmm… this isn’t code is it?
https://archive.is/w4QJ5
4 u.
I think he decided to go to work today, after all
Hmmmm……
Looks like Journolist has a new talking point. Another story about why Capitalism is why no on likes newspapers or respects journalism.
Why should us heartless libertarians care about newspapers?
Yup. Our newspapers and journalists work tirelessly to keep city budgets down.
WHYFUCKINGCOME YOU JUST DON’T ACCEPT ANYTHING WE TELL YOU TO ACCEPT EVEN WHEN WE CHANGE THE STORY CONSTANTLY AND LIE LIKE FUCK???
Is the solution government subsidies for local newspapers? That’s it, isn’t it?
I guess you could try to offer a worthwhile product as an alternative.
Also not considered in their analysis is how Fed policies incentivize this behavior.
At the time, The Wall Street Journal reported that the company used information from other sellers to make decisions on its private-label business.
“Hang on. Nobody buys those. Copy something else.”
Amazon lost hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to sell fat toe boots
“Though the original interview quoted Ginsburg calling the anthem protests ‘dumb and disrespectful,’ Couric omitted parts she deemed more problematic, such as when Ginsburg reportedly said that the protesters were showing ‘contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life.’”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/10/14/report-david-brooks-supported-katie-courics-decision-to-cut-key-rbg-quote-defending-anthem/
They wanted to make sure she didn’t have to be canceled, since everyone that disagrees on anything the morons tell you is the cult’s current beliefs has to be canceled…
Related to link I posted in PM links…3 of the 4 drinks seemed like really bad ideas. But I thought the Midori Margarita had possibilities.
So we thought it might be fun to put pictures of our staff as little kids on our Instagram page!
“My, what an ugly baby you have there, Madam.”
Has everyone heard about the new “gut” science?
Moderna Booster Shot Backed by FDA Advisory Panel
JFC.
I didn’t catch that quote.
That one may make it into the history books, and not in a good way.
The precautionary principle states that you do what you want to do until someone beats you over the head with overwhelming evidence that you are wrong, in which case you can say you were just following SCIENCE.
That last quote is beyond parody. It would be funny if the possible consequences didn’t include genocide.
I get a gut feeling a couple times a day, probably more useful than the vaccine.
Sigh. A respected ex-president on IV antibiotics. What troubled times.
This is what happens when you hound saints like Jeffrey Epstein into suicide. No one is left to provide clean girls to our ruling class.
You blaming this on him having to bang skanks now (cause he ain’t doing Cthulhu’s female incarnation on earth)?
“John Lawrence Sullivan (October 15, 1858 – February 2, 1918), known simply as John L. among his admirers, and dubbed the “Boston Strong Boy” by the press, was an American boxer recognized as the first heavyweight champion of gloved boxing, de facto reigning from February 7, 1882 to September 7, 1892. He is also generally recognized as the last heavyweight champion of bare-knuckle boxing under the London Prize Ring Rules, being a cultural icon of the late 19th century America, arguably the first boxing superstar and one of the world’s highest-paid athletes of his era. Newspapers’ coverage of his career, with the latest accounts of his championship fights often appearing in the headlines, and as cover stories, gave birth to sports journalism in the United States and set the pattern internationally for covering boxing events in media, and photodocumenting the prizefights.[1]“
Handlebar mustachios ought to be fashionable again for boxers.
I think hipsters have a lock on that particular fashion statement for the foreseeable future.
On the one hand hipsters annoy me. On the other hand most good specialty coffee is made by hipsters. And some of the craft beer.
Avatar checks out
Then hipsters need to pull on some gloves and climb into the ring.
dunno man a complicate hairdo can be easily ruined by that sort of thing
That would be entertaining.
“It’s more a gut feeling rather than based on really truly serious data,” said Patrick Moore, a member of the committee and a professor of molecular genetics and biochemistry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. “The data itself is not strong, but it is certainly going in the direction that is supportive of this vote.”
Get that man a Nobel Prize!
Happy birthday, Wodehouse!
Hope you are having a blast at the Eternal Drones Club. Just don’t take the bet with Tuppy Glossip.
I read the Wooster-Jeeves stories aloud to my wife.
Are you sure that he never did, say, or write anything that may be considered problematic by a current liberal arts student? Cause if he did, you need to stop and cancel old PG.
Sir A.C. Doyle once had Sherlock relentlessly mock a black man for smelling bad.
Good morning, Old Man!
And good morning, Glibs of all flavors!
Thanks for the glimpse into the mind of the MLAS. Tedious little fuckers, aren’t they.
Don’t know about the bags, but those Pumas are pretty sweet. Kinda clean for someone who arrived via caravan, though.
Sad story about the suicide kid. I guess good on him for not making a mess, but man I hate those stories.
Nice Old Guy Music this morning. Weirdly, I like S&G covers more than their own stuff. Like this.
Have a great Friday!
https://youtu.be/FSqVtmfDDFg
Good one.
Here’s another.
I like it. I have grown to like Glenn Campbell over the years. Some nostalgia, I guess.
He is one of my very favorites. So underrated as a musician.
Best S&G cover
I love the Lemonheads! I also love The Mighty Lemon Drops.
My favorite Simon album is “Graceland”.
Garfunkel I associate with “Watership Down”. The book was better than the animated feature film.
Richard Adams also wrote “Traveler”, a story told from the perspective of Robert E. Lee’s horse.
The Simon song, “Graceland” begins with the line, “The Mississippi Delta is shining like a Nation guitar. I am following the river down the highway through the cradle of the Civil War.”
Simon and Garfunkel were now-Confederates.
What did I put in this coffee?
*neo-Confederates
My parents had an unhealthy love for the Simon & Garfunkel Concert in Central Park live album. I still can repeat most of the lyrics from memory.
Why was Cecilia such a slut?
Graceland has been under fire since its release
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graceland_(album)#Controversy
I also like it. Part of it may be recalling the endless Graceland concerts that would repeat on PBS for pledge drives in that era.
“Only Nixon could open China”, or something
Nixon should have left China closed.
Probably the communist nations only lasted so long because our own government continually propped them up
No Bangles?
“Walk Like an Egyptian” is my ringtone.
Good idea!
Yum.
Only in my spank bank
Is the solution government subsidies for local newspapers? That’s it, isn’t it?
Don’t forget the Journalisming License. It’;s crucial to the success of the program.
Speaking of Wodehouse-
I thought this was pretty good
I know someone who went to an Emeril show taping and they got to sample the food.
Her review?
It sucked.
She must not like authentic New Orleans cuisine.
She doesn’t care for spice weasel?
I’m guessing that the show food wouldn’t be as good as the same dish made in a normal kitchen since the preparation is chopped up into TV-friendly segments.
Being a proper Glib, I’ve no issues with people spending money on what they choose. I do, however, enjoy the cognitive dissonance that the wealthy go through in order both consume and be green at the same time. Here is but one exhibit.
2022 Porsche Taycan: A Tesla Rival That’s Eye-Catching—but Pricey
The color for the tester is green, naturally.
Meanwhile, I am looking at purchasing some new boots. There is a Redwing store in town. $300 of a pair of waterproof boots. My wife says it might be worth it. She also says getting the entire collection of “Foxfire” books for $250 (only 3 left!) would *not* be worth it, even though we clearly are heading into an electricity-less and modern plumbing-less future rather quickly. Then, she complains that I don’t think ahead. I don’t understand her, sometimes.
Women… can’t live without them… can’t…
I have the first 3 of those books.
If you have the first three you have about 95% of the useful information. If you have the very first book you have over half the useful information.
The design the Old Man used to build the limestone fireplace/chimney on our old Allamakee County place came from the first Foxfire book.
OMWC, please tell me the LAS was the Gonzalez chick that Instagram wants me so desperately to befriend. She’s hot and ideologically addled; she should be the first member of my future
death cultone true faith.DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK?!?!
If someone can provide me with an update to past link it would be great.
Yes, Rufus.
I’m at work(ing from home).
I’m even in a meeting where we’re discussing patching of a large set of systems.
Nice to see you. Been a while
Welcome back Rufus!
Rufus!!!
I work-ish from home looking over maintenance logs.
Also, nice to see ya Rufus
RUFUS! you’re back!!
WFH and catching a break between meetings.
*Kermit-waves Bonjour-Hi!*
I’m checking in. Say hi to the gang. Ralph Malph, Potsie, Richie, Ciaci, Fonzi, Carmine.
I’m busy fighting the rotten cocksucking commie jerk offs of what constitutes Quebec’s and Canada’s contemptible, incompetent, and pseudoscientific political and public health class. Hell can’t burn long and hot enough.
Once was lost, now has been found…Good to see you and hopefully cooled down up north
Shapiro is really going to win governor of Pennsylvania isn’t he? It’s incredible how this state is so utterly hamstrung by the executive. Ughhhhh, they are rallying for him today within spitting distance of my workplace.
Then by all means spit that aways for me.
It’s more than a year to Election Day. Plenty of time for more Pennsylvanians to come to their senses. By then, Shapiro will have to take a stand on some issues, not just bad-mouth the GOP for “endangering our kids” with “weak COVID response.”
Hopefully the Republicans don’t self-destruct like they did in the last gubernatorial primary. Not holding my breath.
Happy Friday everyone!
Hello, Doom.
I finally got a chance to crack back into Gruefield 18.
Really have to finish it, it’s been great.
I’m glad you’re enjoying it.
I really have to finish the next book.
Hi Doom!
How’s BabyDoom?
We all had a cold this week, so we had the first sick snuggle in bed all day. That was nice. She’s also had about 10 meltdowns now because I can’t pick her up high enough to go to the moon.
She’s through the cold now, ladydoom is on the last day or so.
Good. I’m glad everyone is on the mend!
How’s the dental issue these days?
DFW glibs:
5200 sq ft, 4/4 w/private strip club:
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5125-Mystic-Trl-Dallas-TX-75241/26776730_zpid/
Pretty sure I’ve seen that in some pr0n.
That’s a house with a backstory.
What is the story?
Previously owned by Michael Irvin?
Prince
3 dance halls, a stripper pole, an indoor hot tub, a projection screen, a Poconos goth honeymoon suite, and Mamie pink bathrooms. I notice the kitchen is remarkably normal.
Direct access to the back yard from said bedroom, and a garage with a dual-oven range and $10k toolchest.
Galley kitchens are soooo passe.
I like galley kitens. In fact, the smaller the kitchen, the better. We are not foodies and not cooks and I hate cleaning (although I like having cleaned), so it’s good for me. We’re downsizing from a 2-butt kitchen to a 1-butt kitchen.
kitchen*
I need my prep space. I can do with little, but since I am a “lets see what we can make today” type of cook, I need stuff all over.
Nah, bruh. When I cook, I make one of 3 things: Beef stroganoff, spaghetti, or lasagna, all of which my son REALLY likes, but are labor-intensive. I make a stock pot full of spaghetti sauce or stroganoff, and it’s gone in 24 hours. I offered to teach him how to make it himself, but he burned the bottom of the stroganoff because he didn’t mind the pot, so now he’s scared he’ll do it again. It was fine, but you could taste the burnt part.
Ive tried to teach the teens. Teen#1 doesn’t mind anything when he cooks. He wants to treat the stove like a microwave. He exploded a glass measuring cup when he put it directly on the flame. Luckily no one was in the kitchen when that went off.
Teen#2 wants to learn. Asks me about spice profiles, what goes with what. Teaching him prep makes your life much easier in the kitchen. But then he gets lazy and doesn’t cook.
Fuck I hate teenagers.
The only flavor profile I’m really militant about is rosemary on pork (not including bacon).
If I cook a turkey, I spatchcock it. The first year I did it, the rub was good (black pepper, lots of sage, and thyme, brown sugar) (butter pats under the skin) and the vegetable bed just right. The second time I did it, I used the same rub, but changed the vegetable bed to oranges, apples, cranberries, and something else I can’t remember. The gravy turned out too sweet.
“I’m stirrin’ the sauce!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utJT_Q_NFCM
You can make stroganoff in the crockpot.
Yup. This is the single biggest reason I pushed to sell our old house and move to this one. The old kitchen had a counter about the size of a postage stamp. Every damned night when I was making dinner, I’d have to use the kitchen table for things as well as the counter, and I was constantly bumping into everyone else as well as the dogs.
My son has recently ventured into food prep. He doesn’t do anything more intensive than spaghetti with jarred sauce and browned ground beef and sausage, but I appreciate the effort nonetheless. More than I did at 13, anyway.
Have him try Beef Lombardi next
I make my spaghetti sauce from almost scratch. I use canned tomato paste. I don’t measure anything.
I make my own too, family recipe from the old country from my great-grandmother. Only thing I do differently is I usually use canned San Marzano tomatoes rather than fresh tomatoes. His attention span isn’t quite long enough to do that, I think.
I did make sauce from fresh tomatoes once recently. The local produce stand always has these big discount bags for two or three bucks which are full of stuff that’s close to going bad. They had one full of tomatoes one day, the prized local Hanover tomatoes. Bought it and made sauce that day and it was heavenly.
I’m too impatient/lazy to use fresh tomatoes.
https://youtu.be/j43yX5PiaKQ
Galley Kittens
Shit neighborhood. Nice house!
All kidding aside, that’s a swingers club house. $450 is pretty cheap for how much potential income you could get.
It’s now officially mid-October, so I’ve switched my protein intake from dove and quail to pheasant and venison.
Quite the game changer.
Ba-dum bum. *rimshot*
Bitcoin back over $60k.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/opinion/australia-far-right-america.html
If they have to say it, they are lying.
The beat goes on.
Isn’t fascism efficient?
Curious on the date. Wonder if he is an anti-vaxxer…11/8 is the deadline to get your final bout or the J&J. November 7 I doubt shows up on anyone’s “best date to retire” from OPM
And this asshat…can’t see the trees in the middle of the forest.
$ENZC has the cure
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Men have been doing it for years, now it’s a problem?
Its always been a problem. Always.
I’m not ready for hyperinflation.
I…..I was just making a joke.
Looks like the Supply Chain Czar is as effective as the Border Czar. You really can’t make it up.
Making the argument against paid family leave.
In case anyone wants to know…FedGov and our Union negotiated, wait for it….9 months in addition of approved FMLA of baby leave, to be used however you want.
Perhaps it’s for the best.
Government just needs to get the fuck out of the way.
My wife had a very difficult pregnancy with our daughter. She also actually, y’know, gave birth.
She took six weeks of maternity leave.
This fuckin’ guy did nothing more strenuous than filling out forms and writing a check and he’s been gone for two months? Fuck outta here. Does Chasten even work? Is there some reason both of them have to be home for two months?
Is he a gypsy? Stealing babies?
today in youtube recommends
English Words Americans Mispronounce ❌ Difficult English Words | Common Mistakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50sVMNMYNjA
1, I am unsure mispronounce is right, maybe different pronunciations
2. if this youtube is right I have been mispronouncing mischievous
Me-skev-wa?
To be fair, look up Ghoti some time
Jon?
No, Ghoti
GB Shaw quote?
Well, I certainly didn’t come up with it. 😛
English Words Americans Mispronounce
We speak American.
There’s a trope in these explanatory videos that irritates the hell out of me because I can’t not hear it now.
“Oh my gosh you guys….”
“Hey guys….”
“Look at this, guys….”
It’s fairly ubiquitous too. The gun videos I watch feature those intros. The arts and crafts videos my daugher watches do as well.
I’ve started watching that video before. She pronounces “echelon” correctly, of course, but it’s not an English word. Most of the words she talks about are French, so I take exception to her classifying them as English.
I get where you’re coming from, but it’s a word in common use in English.
It’s an interesting question – how many words in the English language have roots in other languages? Quite a few of them, right?
One of the hobbies of English is stealing verbiage, then changing it just enough to fit.
And we don’t have an equivalent of L’Academie Française to throw a fit about it
changing it just enough to fit. – not quite enough, that’s how you people get your stupid spelling
Most languages change the spelling to fit the pronunciation when they borrow words. English often keeps the foreign spelling when borrowing from other Latin-alphabet languages.
Naw, she outright says it’s (American) English and it’s not, then expresses incredulity that people can’t say it right. Then she throws in a British word, “draught.” Yeah, we don’t spell it like that.
Not to mention that the Brits pronounce schedule differently than the Americans.
In some of the British TV shows I watch, I’ve noticed the American “sked-dule” pronunciation a few times.
I almost said that in my comment above.
Brits pronounce the H in “herb” and they pronounce lieutenant “leftenant”, because at some point, the Brits and French were such enemies that the Brits didn’t want to use French words. So it all stuck.
“at some point, the Brits and French were such enemies that the Brits didn’t want to use French words.”
American English is different from England English for the exact same reason.
The American accent (I think mid-Atlantic) accent is said to be closer to the mid-18th century British accent (some say even Shakespearean, but I doubt that) than the British accent is now because it’s undergone a lot of changes ours hasn’t.
I wish HM would weigh in on some of this stuff but he hasn’t been around in forever.
There really is no such thing as a “British pronunciation.” The classism in Britain is so strong that there are more discernible accents in Britain than there are in the US. Cambridge grads purposely pronounce words differently from Oxford grads (and vice versa), and the elitists will often change pronunciations (and spellings) once something has been in use for a while.
Interesting. I did not know that. However, we have our own class-based accents, e.g., redneck, some combination of southern and country.
Even the Queen’s accent has changed
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160202-has-the-queen-become-frightfully-common
I grew up hearing “mis CHEE vee uss”. It’s “MIS cha vuss”.
I also grew up hearing “sac rih LIJ ee uss”. It’s “Sac rih LEE juss”.
It’s Miss Jeeveeus, you’re all wrong.
Supposebly…
I still say in game of thrones they pronounced eyrie wrong.
One of the words I pronounced wrong for a long time was mused.
I had a friend who first pronounced pomegranate as pom-grenade
I grew up reading A LOT and never hearing words I read and understood. I thought misled was “MY zeld” for a long time, and “Tucson” was “TUCK sun”.
My dad had a friend like that. Widely read, but never hearing the words. My dad’s favorite gaffe was “swayve and di BON er”.
suave and debonair I presume
Yes. I don’t think my dad ever corrected him.
My husband says subsequent “sub SEE quent” and I corrected him once, but he didn’t change and I didn’t correct him again. Then I started noticing that other people say it that way too.
I pronounce fizzy drinks “pop” and he pronounces it “soda,” which is so wrong.
I pronounce fizzy drinks răcoritoare myself.
Also wrong. It’s “pop”.
“Pop” is correct. A “soda” is a thing in a tall glass with root beer, ice cream, whipped cream, sprinkles and a cherry on top.
Pop is a quick punch, typically to the face.
Soda is the drink.
It’s Soda Pop, I have proof!
Where does Corn Pop fit in?
I thought misled was “MY zeld” for a long time
I thought it was “mizzled”.
I made the mistake of mispronouncing impotent wrong in HS literature class. Almost all the girls giggled. I felt a little… ya know.
We watched a lot of westerns in Italy on our TV that only displayed B&W because of the conversion hardware. The Italians were still enamored with the mythical American West at that time. They pronounced Tucson as Tewk-Sahn IIRC.
When I was a younger lad, I believed there was a city named Erie Pa, as that’s what the freeway signs said. There should have been a comma, or at least a period after Pa if they weren’t going postal abbreviations. For the past 15 (or so years) as they’ve replaced the signs, they now say Erie PA.
It’s Eerie Indiana, dipshit.
Here’s one – is homage the Frenchy-sounding OH-maj or the one-syllable homaj?
French ain’t my fortay.
I pronounce it “oh-MAAJZ”.
Now I’m picturing a romance novel character named Maajz.
The interesting thing I’ve noted about that – if someone is saying “paid homage”, they tend to say homaj. If they’re saying “it’s an homage”, they say oh-maj.
Not sure what that means, but I’ve found it interesting.
It is Oh-maj. Math is singular, and words with a hard H sound are ‘a’ not ‘an’. It’s not ‘an Historic event’, it’s ‘A Historic event’. fucking monsters!
It is “a herstoric event”, shitlord.
Oh I almost forgot one of my favorite pronunciation disputes, a constant argument in my house. I pronounce syrup like seerup and my wife constantly mocks me and says suhrup. The boy takes my side and the girl takes mom’s side.
In Philly, it’s “surp.”
You all wrong, it’s pronounced ‘diabeetus’
Sorry Chip, but you are wrong.
Given how the English pronounce Worcestershire – they are in no position to talk.
Amazon just dropped off a new 75 inch TV.
And the sun just came out. Retail therapy for the win!
what is he carbon footprint on that thing?
uh, 6 ft long by 2 inches wide.
Doubtful, since TVs are measured diagonally.
Oh, and DAMMIT!
footprint.
take it out of the box and look down on it.
About 75 inches
75 inches?
Talk about misgendering.
Re: staff pictures as kids. The LAS is right, but for the wrong reasons.
https://apnews.com/article/europe-london-england-eda5b4786c84e68a59de9075efecbcf7
LONDON (AP) — A member of Parliament was stabbed to death Friday during a meeting with constituents at a church in eastern England, an attack that united Britain’s fractious politicians in shock and sorrow. A 25-year-old man was arrested at the scene.
Loads of British understatement there. This would be a national panic here.
Not if it was a Republican.
Unless the Congress critter was murdered in a foreign country or shot down by the Ruskies. Then NBD.
What?!?
*reads article*
Oh, wrong Parliament.
Whew!
Like there was a panic when the Republican baseball team was attacked? I bet 99% of America doesn’t even remember that.
The final, irrefutable proof of the GOP’s essential worthlessness, is that not a single one of the Republican congressmen pulled out his own heat and clipped that little bitch.
Next you’ll suggest carrying when mowing the lawn in your own yard…
I suggest carrying whenever you’re wearing pants.
Most bottoms-optional events are probably not appropriate for carrying weapons, if only for the problems in securing your, err, ‘weapon…’
Shoulder holster.
Yikes.
Out of curiosity I checked on the number of MPs in the UK: 650. At the current population of about 68 million, that makes about 105,000 constituents per MP. In the US it’s over 613,000 constituents per member of Congress.
Interesting.
If you consider the House of Lords as well, which outweighs the House of Commons 788 to 650, it’s around 47,000:1
Lords don’t represent constituents.
Correct. They represent the parties, civil service, and celebrities. Basically the house of the deep state now.
And, how appropriate that they outnumber the Commons
That’s kind of why I said “if you consider the House of Lords as well”
Two inches of snow this morning. Go, Alaska!
Last morning I’ll be able to walk the dog while I’m wearing a t-shirt here. It’s been a very mild fall so far.
It actually has been here too. Last year at this time we already had snow on the ground. This is the first snow that was more than a dusting, and it should melt by Saturday; supposed to be a bright sunny day in the mid-thirties.
35 when I got up this morning. But it looks like high-60s low-70s for the weekend!
Never saw the snow that was predicted.
It was 35 when I left work this morning, thankfully no fog, which we’ve had way too much of recently.
Animal: Oh, shut up, you self-absorbed, entitled, soft-shelled little twat.
This is why I don’t interact much with the general public.
ES: *Gallic shrug* It’s acceptable to me, and I’m the one who counts.
Is it pronounced Gay-Lick or Gah-Lick…Seltik or Keltic…Tomato or Clamato?
derived from the greek keltoi . . . .
The Romans may have fucked with the Gauls, but not the Gaels.
Acceptable according to whom my dear?
“Well, this is a democracy. You like democracy, right? One man, one vote and all that.
I’m the man, and I have the vote. My vote is, its perfectly acceptable.”
I don’t know if I can take Subaru Horror Theater…