Sunday In New York Morning Links

by | Oct 24, 2021 | Daily Links | 143 comments

Tiki torches! They’re planning to beat up queers!

I make a lot of fun of life in our little town, but honestly, it’s Paradise to us. The small town life means far less hassle in day to day dealings, a network when you need help, quiet and uncrowded existence, and cops you can actually enjoy spending time with and sincerely give a shit about the community. The goings on of the young ‘uns is far more entertaining and amusing than annoying. We’ve got WebDom minutes away. Great wine and food, beautiful scenery. Running our own business. It’s not Thanksgiving yet, but I know what I’ll be giving thanks for this time around.

Of course, there’s birthdays. And today’s include a guy who thought small; a guy who thought blue and blew were the same thing; proof that a straight guy can create a homoerotic icon; an artist whose best work was shut down by the Feds; probably the last NFL player to be named Yelberton; a guy, who despite his name, couldn’t actually play bop; probably the next one to go; a guy whose best acting was the role of Harold Cooper; a piece of shit grifter from my home town; a piece of shit grifter from someplace else; a piece of shit grifter who… well… you know; and somebody who’s famous for reasons I can’t quite fathom.

On to links.

 

“Don’t keep letting me down.” The quote about rich guys was hilarious coming from an extremely rich guy.

 

Are you sure it wasn’t because of global warming?

 

The important thing is, what gender do they identify as?

 

Cuing up the next one. 

 

If anyone wants to know what to get me for my birthday, right here.

 

I am absolutely shocked by this. Shocked, I say.

 

What happened to the drought, which was supposed to get worse because Climate Crisis?

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Racism!!!!!!

 

Homos hardest hit.

 

Old Guy Music is a bit of a curiosity: Elvin Jones is not a drummer you would think of as an Ellington guy, yet here he is, and he is, as you’d expect, great. But the fun is the backstory. The other drummer was Skeets Marsh, who Ellington was unhappy with and Jones hated. And the feelings were mutual. It had even escalated to the point where the bassist (a friend of Marsh’s) would start shifting the rhythm around to make it harder for Jones. Look at the body language between the drummers and the dissing at the end.

Jones was one of the greatest drummers ever. Marsh… well… he’d have to have done more to even rise to the level of “obscure.” Anyway, enjoy!

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Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

143 Comments

  1. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    • Old Man With Candy

      Boker tov!

  2. robodruid

    Morning All. bad bout of insomnia today.

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m trying to reset my sleep schedule because it got badly borked. I’m into the hard part – staying awake until closer to the proper time on day 2.

  3. Gender Traitor

    Good morning, Glibboys (and old men!)

    PSA: If you add an “n” at the beginning of the last link’s URL, it’ll getcha there. If any of you actually click the links.

    • UnCivilServant

      But that would send me to the new york times. I don’t trust them.

      • Ted S.

        So now it’ll come with a paywall.

      • CPRM

        phishing expedition.

    • Old Man With Candy

      See if my new one works better for you.

      • Gender Traitor

        There you go! Thanks!

        On a couple of occasions, I’ve been able to get around someone’s linking error by figuring out what’s missing or what’s there that’s not supposed to be there and correcting it. It makes me feel (unjustifiably) so tech savvy!

  4. Sean

    Last link broken.

  5. Grumbletarian

    “The robot can cost up to $3,000 a month.”

    Math time!

    Assume 16 hours of operation per day, no days off over said month, that’s 480 operating hours in 30 days. $3,000 / 480 = $6.25/hr. So way cheaper than two full time employees.

    • UnCivilServant

      So what you’re saying is that those robots deserve a living wage?

      /Cathy Newman.

    • Brawndo

      Don’t have to pay benefits either

      • Ghostpatzer

        Not sure about that. Electric sheep are pricey.

  6. Ted S.

    Homos hardest hit.

    Hit so hard they don’t even get a working link.

    • rhywun

      I got a NY Times paywall but the beginning is so ridiculously “NY Times” I couldn’t bear to read more of it anyway.

      • Chafed

        Same here.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Youtube seems bound and determined to drive me away.

    Oh, well.

    • Sean

      I struggle with YouTube. They’re clearly commie rat fuckers running the place, but there is some content creators putting out excellent material.

    • limey

      I’ve noticed a huge increase in the amount, and length of unskippable ads. Really obnoxious stuff, to. I keep the remote ready for a mute. It’s a shame as youtube has been excellent over the years, at least as far as non-political content goes. The recent nonsense about perma-banning the RPI channel was the latest in a long line of bullshit moves against anti-Narrative content. A lot of my favourite channels have little to no ads anyway, but youtube is tacking more on the beginning and ends of videos regardless it seems.

      I wonder how much that has to do with the overall move away from youtube to tiktok. None of the content I watch is suited to tiktok, and it’s mostly by older folks anyway, and suited to long form videos, but overall I understand that a lot of content that the young folks engage with/upload like gaming and music is migrating away to tiktok and other platforms rapidly, and therefore a big part of youtube’s revenue is disappearing.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Unskippable ads (or any ads) aren’t a thing if you use plug-ins on Firefox, etc (although may still require a login – think I only get ads when I watch on my phone).

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I don’t see any ads on YouTube. uBlock Origin is your friend.

      • CPRM

        Vanilla Brave hides all the ads.

      • Ted S.

        Brave, brave baby.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Brave is everything Firefox could be if they weren’t sellout assholes.

    • anti pro state

      I’m curious if anyone else has seen this, or if I’m reading too much into a tech glitch: Lately, anytime I try to view a youtube video on browser mobile (android) the video plays for about 10 seconds then the resolution crashes and is unwatchable. It looks how unpaid premium cable stations used to look. No matter what resolution setting is chosen, and even after giving extra time to buffer, it stays like that. This is on high speed internet, so not a bandwidth issue. It is also the same on two different wifi networks and on 4g.

      It feels like they are trying to nudge toward their app, which I will not use.

  8. limey

    Have you heard about that Donovanosis? I caught a bad case of it from that Jennifer Juniper.

    • Gender Traitor

      An obscure reference worthy of Ted’S! Bravo, limey! ::enthusiastic applause::

      • Ghostpatzer

        Hei s fortunate not to have been visited by BARABAJAGAL SMITH.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    The projected rainfall total for the central Bay Area that includes San Francisco increased from up 1 to 3 inches to up to 1 to 4 inches. (See all forecast rainfall totals below.)

    Dooooom. Washed away, they’ll be.

    • Old Man With Candy

      If it washes the turds off the sidewalks, it’s a plus.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Naw, the City will get turd mud now.

        ‘Cause that is how this works.

    • Cy Esquire

      It’s wet:

      GLOBAL WARMING!

      It’s dry:

      GLOBAL WARMING!

      Joe farted:

      PANDEMIC!

  10. The Late P Brooks

    “Some people will do or say anything to get elected.”

    No shit, Shirley?

  11. Gender Traitor

    a guy who thought blue and blew were the same thing

    I confess – when I hovered over the link, at first I thought of this guy./refugee from IN

  12. The Gunslinger

    “YouTube deletes rapper’s ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ song claiming ‘medical misinformation'”

    It’s crap like this that might return the youth to the anti-authority rebels we need right now.

    • prolefeed

      He got banned because he was a black rapper who didn’t tow the lion, and instead did what rap is supposed to be all about – saying shit that offends lots of people but resonates with people with a rebellious streak.

      “But … but … he said stuff that resonates with pissed off Rethuglikkkans who attend NASCAR! That’s not the correct kind of rap that appeals to lefties! It might make black men decide to not vote for Democrats! Burn the witch111!!!”

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Biden is building a fence around his beach house? Must be to keep the adoring groupies away.

    “Biden” is building it. Sure he is. It’s probably the National Guard and Army Corps of Engineers.

    • Sean

      “Walls don’t work.”

  14. Grumbletarian

    Obama’s appearance also highlights a stark divide in the Virginia race. While McAuliffe has leaned on a stable of top Democratic talent, from Vice President Kamala Harris to Georgia’s Stacey Abrams to President Joe Biden, Youngkin has largely campaigned alone, looking to avoid nationalizing the race in a commonwealth that has rejected Republicans on the statewide level for years.

    Good lord.

    • Cy Esquire

      That’s not a stolen base or two, that’s straight up fantasy!

    • LCDR_Fish

      The Republican candidate for LT Governor is also a black female immigrant (marine vet) who previously served as congresswoman for one term. Not sure why she doesn’t get more press.

      My coworker said the repub candidate for Atty General is coming out of the Libertarian party, but I haven’t seen any confirmed details on that yet.

    • Spartacus

      The most funny/jarring part of the whole bit is that Harris, Abrams, and Biden are what pass for top political talent these days.

      • Chafed

        Aint that the truth.

  15. rhywun

    Poor Zephyr, being upstaged by the likes of that bitch AOC to be queen socialist.

  16. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “turning to robots to work the fryer, shuttle food to tables”
    Until they develop a robot that’ll spit in your food for complaining about the service I want no part of that.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    CNN haz exposay!

    Trash bags stuffed full of used medical gloves, some visibly soiled, some even blood-stained, litter the floor of a warehouse on the outskirts of Bangkok.

    Nearby is a plastic bowl, filled with blue dye and a few gloves. Thai officials say migrant laborers had been trying to make the gloves look new again, when Thai health authorities raided the facility in December.
    There are many more warehouses just like it still in operation today in Thailand — trying to cash in on the demand for medical-grade nitrile gloves, which exploded with the coronavirus pandemic. And they’re boxing up millions of these sub-standard gloves for export to the United States, and countries around the world amid a global shortage that will take years to ease.
    A months-long CNN investigation has found that tens of millions of counterfeit and second-hand nitrile gloves have reached the United States, according to import records and distributors who bought the gloves — and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Criminal investigations are underway by the authorities in the US and Thailand.

    Experts describe an industry riddled with fraud, with one of them — Douglas Stein — telling CNN that nitrile gloves are the “most dangerous commodity on Earth right now.”

    All apocalypse, all the time.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      More dangerous than fentanyl? I can see how this would be an issue but the hyperbole is a bit hyperbolic.

    • rhywun

      Pro-tip: Maybe don’t buy them from the 99 cent store.

      • DrOtto

        I just paid $35 for a box of nitrile gloves. 2 years ago, I was overpaying by paying $12 a box, but buying for convenience.

    • EvilSheldon

      You would think that it would get exhausting, being constantly terrified of everything. Apparently it’s only exhausting for everyone else.

      • rhywun

        They’re not terrified; they just want you to be terrified.

        See: masks.

      • EvilSheldon

        You’re right, of course. *checks pulse* But it doesn’t seem to be working for me. Maybe CNN should try another tactic…

  18. prolefeed

    My review of the Joe’s Kansas City BBQ off Roe Avenue in Leawood, Kansas: Competent, extremely popular with the NASCAR crowd in town, well executed, with BBQ sauce that is everything that KC Masterpiece alleges to be but isn’t – Joe’s didn’t skimp on the molasses. Atmosphere was quite similar to a Rudy’s Country Store, though without the faux rustic touch of coarse paper towels instead of napkins and butcher paper instead of plates.

    At the risk of sounding like the Central TX BBQ snob that I arguably am – the burnt ends I ordered weren’t very burnt-end-sy. The point of burnt ends is the ridiculously thick smoky bark, which it could have used more of. And the BBQ sauce could have been complemented with a variant or two with way more heat, spices, and cumin.

    They know what they’re doing, and are deservedly popular, but I’ve toured BBQ joints all over the South, and tasted greatness personified in BBQ, in particular the places that were permeated with the smoke from the pits and had a smoke bark to die for.

    • Mojeaux

      Joe’s didn’t skimp on the molasses.

      Well, that explains why my husband likes it. I’ve never had it.

      Email me youraddy and I will send you two non-molassessy sauces that are this town’s bbq backbone.

      moriah at moriahjovan dot com

  19. Ted S.

    And today’s include a guy who thought small;

    I would have guessed Billy Barty.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Or Banjos, who got her start in a Wizard of Oz production.

  20. Stinky Wizzleteats

    -U.S. may change definition of “fully vaccinated”
    I got the vax but I ain’t getting no booster…too many heart issues from what I’ve seen and mixing and matching is a nonstarter.

    • rhywun

      The whole mix’n’match business should give lots of people pause, in a normal world. I can’t believe they’re even pushing it.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    It’ll go; you’re just not hitting it hard enough

    Biden’s job approval rating has steadily ticked downward since the summer, leveling off at 42 percent this month, according to a Gallup tracking poll released Friday. His public approval has fallen by 14 percentage points since June, according to Gallup.

    Democrats say rising public impatience and frustration over the president’s stalled legislative agenda is likely a factor.

    Yeah, that’s it. Joe is just not nationalizing the economy fast enough.

    • TARDis

      leveling off at 42 percent this month

      Does anyone believe his approval is that high? If it is 42%, then this country planet is toast. Bring me some hookers and blow, then the SMOD please.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I don’t believe that figure for a second.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Likely a fair number in there who disapprove but don’t want to express it because they don’t want to validate the other side too.

      • TARDis

        Team politics all day, everyday. And the more the progtards find out how wrong they are, the more they dig in and double down on the derp and mendacity.

      • DrOtto

        He’s the most popular president in history. I know this because the media told me so.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    And now my goddam telephone is back to telling me “Launch Device Pulse!” every ten minutes.

    What is it? What does it do?

    I guess that’s need-to-know. I’m just going to assume it will make my life better and easier (to track and analyze).

    • Ted S.

      Did you try entering the phrase “Launch Device Pulse” in your favorite search engine?

      • rhywun

        Looks like some sort of crapware or even spyware. Meh, just click “Sure!” and see what happens.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Hard reset…

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        every hard reset I get the same device pulse bullshit lighting up, I just hit clear, it goes away

    • Ghostpatzer

      “Launch Device Pulse”

      Mr. Lizard has an app?

    • EvilSheldon

      I can’t remember when, or why, I got out of the habit of rooting my phones and installing an open-source OS image. But I really should get back in to it…

    • Spartacus

      Don’t do it!! Launching the device pulse will cause the anti-chronoton field generator to reverse its polarization and you will begin duplicating yourself uncontrollably.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    You know what I herd? Those plague masks are made of recycled disposable diapers!

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Back in before “I herd moo.”

    • Grumbletarian

      Someone who weighs roughly 187 pounds can expect 15-20 minutes of flight time before the batteries need a recharge.

      You can buy one for $92k. Not worth it unless you’ve got stupid money to burn.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        So, we can expect to see them all over silicon valley?

    • tripacer

      New Atlas noted the eVTOL comes 50% built, and presumably, owners will have to assemble the rest. For that reason, the craft will likely fly under “experimental”where pilots don’t need a license to fly.

      That’s not what “experimental” means. Perhaps they mean ultralight under FAR part 103.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said the dragging talks are “hurting Biden” and “hurting the Democrats.”

    “It’s undermining the vision of all the accomplishments we will have as being highly significant. The frustration is people’s heads are blowing off,” he told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd last week on “MTP Daily.”

    *bangs space-alien-to-pidgin-english translator on edge of desk*

    • rhywun

      people’s heads are blowing off

      Perhaps this is a troubling new symptom of the Omega variant.

    • TARDis

      Is it possible Biden’s dementia is contagious? That’s some delusional gibberish right there.

      accomplishments we will have
      *snort*

      • EvilSheldon

        Marxism is a memetic contagion, so yeah, probably.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Maybe, but not here. Merkley has always been a room temperature idiot. His only achievement is making his senior senator look like a smart guy by comparison.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    I’m curious if anyone else has seen this, or if I’m reading too much into a tech glitch: Lately, anytime I try to view a youtube video on browser mobile (android) the video plays for about 10 seconds then the resolution crashes and is unwatchable. It looks how unpaid premium cable stations used to look. No matter what resolution setting is chosen, and even after giving extra time to buffer, it stays like that. This is on high speed internet, so not a bandwidth issue. It is also the same on two different wifi networks and on 4g.

    It feels like they are trying to nudge toward their app, which I will not use.

    Oddly enough, I was looking for a song yesterday. I use duck duck go for search.

    When the results came up, something tried very hard to steer me to the “watch on youtube” option.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      What’s the problem with the app? Not enough anonymity?

      • anti pro state

        Yes, I feel that app data is far less anonymous and far less manageable from the user end.

      • Ghostpatzer

        It’s much tougher to block ads in mobile apps, I suspect this is why YouTube and others are pushing the apps.

      • EvilSheldon

        It’s good to occasionally remind ourselves – Big Tech is really Big Advertising.

    • l0b0t

      Did you see the video of their ROTC attempting push-ups?

      • Tres Cool

        I saw that, and thought to myself “Jesus- even at my age I can knock out 25 w/o too much pain (for some reason getting much beyond 30 is a struggle).
        So I did. Maybe not 100% army-correct and sloppy, but 25.

        I should challenge Joe.

      • Ownbestenemy

        That was just embarrassing. I remember getting to 30 on way to 60 and had one wrong pushup and starting back at 1.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    NPR headscratche

    Across the country, employers are firing workers for refusing to comply with vaccine mandates. Some people are opting to quit their jobs rather than take the shot.

    These workers represent only a tiny fraction of overall employees, not even 1% in some workplaces. But it can add up to thousands of people in many states.

    Washington state reports that so far, nearly 1,900 state workers, including the head football coach at Washington State University, have quit or been fired for refusing the vaccine. In Michigan, 400 workers at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit walked away from their jobs. North Carolina-based Novant Health fired about 175 employees. And the list goes on.

    Their resistance has stirred great condemnation and controversy. Many view unvaccinated workers as a potential risk to the workplace. And overwhelmingly, workers have accepted and even embraced the science showing vaccines protect not only you but those around you.

    Whycome them not take SCIENCE! into their hearts as lord and savior?

    Wreckers! Kulacks! Saboteurs!

    • rhywun

      Except THE SCIENCE is showing no such thing.

      “You lie!”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I so love funding NPR with my tax money. The fact that Trump couldn’t even manage to yank that comparatively little bit of funding shows he was either incompetent or unserious.

    • Grumbletarian

      Washington state reports that so far, nearly 1,900 state workers, including the head football coach at Washington State University, have quit or been fired for refusing the vaccine. In Michigan, 400 workers at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit walked away from their jobs. North Carolina-based Novant Health fired about 175 employees. And the list goes on.

      No problem! All those health workers can be replaced with Woke Studies grads in no time!

    • Gustave Lytton

      And overwhelmingly, workers have accepted and even embraced the science showing vaccines protect not only you but those around you.

      If by that, you mean they got vaccinated, no. There’s now a lot of resentful people that are stewing over being forced, people who think this is supposed to be a free country, and more when boosters become mandatory. They going to embrace shanking you fuckers.

  28. Ghostpatzer

    Three piece of shit grifter birthdays. Gonna be a long day.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    What’s the problem with the app? Not enough anonymity?

    That’s a big part of it, but mostly I just don’t need the googletrons trying to aggregate my life on my behalf. I noticed the other day when I neglected to sign out of google mail I suddenly got weird “signed in” messages at a couple of sites, Zillow being one I specifically recall. I don’t want my phone to synch to my computer. Different tools for different things.

    I don’t really want or need a “good for all rides” third party provider ticket to the intertubes.

  30. Fourscore

    Good Morning, Old Man, be quiet about the small town quietness or else there will be a stampede of others looking for the small town quietness. After having lived and worked in the Big City I settled down in my later years to a rural setting, only to see neighbors pop up nearby, even if I can’t see them for the trees I know they are there. Fortunately they are good neighbors that don’t bother anyone or socialize and shoot their guns every day. I see another building lot cleared off about 3/4 of a mile away, looks like they are closing in on me.

    It’s not paranoia, it’s reality. Be careful out there.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Melcer was not originally opposed to the Covid vaccine. She’d actually made an appointment to get her first shot in early January. But twice, that appointment was delayed for reasons beyond her control. Then, she says, God came to her in a dream.

    “He kept telling me, ‘Don’t take it. Don’t take it.’ And I said, ‘Really?’ And I kept questioning it, and He kept coming back with, ‘Yeah, don’t take it,'” she says.

    So, despite the strong evidence that the vaccines work, her mind is made up. She says she’ll never take the vaccine.

    See? Crazy people. Not like us smart folks who love SCIENCE! and follow Saint Foochy’s incontestable Truth.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      As far as I’m concerned a simple “I just don’t wanna get it” is good enough for me. If the vaxes do actually work why are so many of the vaxed still scared shitless?

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        I am telling you, it has nothing to do with Covic, and everything to do with the environment. Also, it doesn’t help that so many of these people are being “nudged” in the direction of technocracy, which as we have seen around the world, is failing biggly.

      • EvilSheldon

        An even simpler “Fuck you, that’s why,” is also good in some situations.

      • rhywun

        Because MSM propaganda works.

  32. l0b0t

    Music today was fantastic OMWC, thank you. Regarding the Ricky Jay collection, I would love some of that Malini ephemera, he has always been one of my favorites. He is said to have once made a sizable gouge in a fancy dining table at a swell’s dinner party. When confronted by the rather cross dowager hostess he quipped that she should be proud of the damage and show it off to future guests – “Madam, you may say that mark was made by Malini!”

  33. The Late P Brooks

    CHAOS! ANARCHY!

    Afghanistan will shortly collapse into chaos unless the international community acts rapidly, Swedish and Pakistani ministers warned on Saturday.

    Afghanistan plunged into crisis after the hardline Islamist Taliban movement drove out the Western-backed government in August triggering the abrupt end of billions of dollars in assistance to its aid-dependent economy.

    “The country is on the brink of collapse and that collapse is coming faster than we thought,” Swedish development minister Per Olsson Fridh told Reuters in Dubai.

    And what does this tell us about the competence of those who spent he last 20 years “modernizing” and “democratizing” Afghanistan?

    What does it tell us about the learned institutional helplessness of aid based economies and puppet governments?

    Nothing, you say? That’s what I thought.

    • rhywun

      “Our work is not done.”

      *copters turn around*

    • Gustave Lytton

      If the Pakistanis are in on it, it must be because the Taliban are telling them to fuck off, this is our country not your puppet.

  34. l0b0t

    “In “The Lion King,” a pair of longstanding references to the shamanic Rafiki as a monkey — taxonomically correct, since the character is a mandrill — have been excised because of potential racial overtones, given that the role is played by a Black woman.”

    I should likely just go back to bed. No good can come of this.

    • rhywun

      Almost makes one wonder who is the racist here.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    As far as I’m concerned a simple “I just don’t wanna get it” is good enough for me. If the vaxes do actually work why are so many of the vaxed still scared shitless?

    An excellent question.

    *reports Stinky to medical misinformation tribunal*

    • creech

      I dunno why “I just don’t want to get the jab” is not a good reason but “My supreme being says I shouldn’t get the jab” is.

      • rhywun

        Even worse, we seem to be moving toward “My supreme being says I shouldn’t get the jab” is not a good reason.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    You would think that it would get exhausting, being constantly terrified of everything.

    This, on titanium stilts.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Some people just get off on it and others don’t know how to evaluate risk.I saw a guy who looked to be around 30 tooling around on a motorcycle with a mask on with no helmet the other day. Unless he had some underlying problem that wasn’t apparent by his appearance, he didn’t look sick or anything, he could greatly benefit from a basic stats course.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Sorta like mom vans with ‘baby on board’ are the worst drivers on the road. It’s offloading their risks to everyone around them. That guy riding sans helmet but masked up would blame everyone around him if he laid the bike down.

    • Cy Esquire

      Not in todays world. Just pretend to be terrified and you get to stay home and watch netflix, jerk off, “work,” drink and never leave your house.

      “WHY COME NOTHING WORKING RIGHT!?!?!?”

      • EvilSheldon

        Yeah, I’ve thought about that. Most of my co-workers played that game, right up until it became financially untenable. Myself, I have too much self-respect (plus I get bored easily.)

        Maybe it’s just my lot in life to be used by people even lazier than me.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yeah, even during the height of this thing I still insisted on coming to the office even though there was barely anyone there. I’d occasionally work from home but that was doing accumulated paperwork and whatnot and I wasn’t dicking around.

      • rhywun

        Fuck the office. Mask theater on the long commute, mask theater in the office, “have you had any symptoms in the last 24 hours?”, all the good restaurants went out of business.

        Hard pass.

  37. Ghostpatzer

    Love today’s Old Man Music. Elvin was a force of nature, and his bored expression during Marsh’s solo was priceless.

  38. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Strong auroras in Svalbard a couple weeks ago. Incredible timelapse at the end. Because they’re so close to the north pole, you can almost see the whole circular shape of the lights. Further south, in Churchill, for example, it looks like a string.

    My colleague and I are planning a Bob Ross paint-along, and I’ll definitely be doing one of his aurora pictures. (except the colors in mine will be scientifically accurate, if I can figure out how to place the colors correctly)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uQ9Nhlhpa0

    • Ownbestenemy

      My teen have been doing Ross paint alongs

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Cool! How are they turning out? Is it easy to follow?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Not bad for two 16 year old boys that are going against nature to not think about girls for 30-40 minutes.

  39. DEG

    It’s Sunday in New York. The leaves are nearly done dropping.

    They’ve only just started here in NH.

    “You can’t run ads telling me you are a regular old hoops-playing, dish-washing, fleece-wearing guy, but quietly cultivate support from those who seek to tear down our democracy,” Obama said,

    Go fuck yourself.

    The U.S. will “unfortunately” continue to delay the public release of records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and officials say the COVID-19 pandemic is to blame.

    Sure, the pandemic is to blame.

    “Our strategy and our vision for automation at Inspire is really not about the labor shortage, it is all about how we increase our capacity,” said Stephanie Sentell, SVP of restaurant operations and innovation at Inspire. “The automation that we are looking at will allow us to unlock that and provide faster food to our guests.”

    “Fight for $15” will fix this.

    What they’re saying: “We have not yet changed the definition of ‘fully vaccinated.’ We will continue to look at this. We may need to update our definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ in the future,” Walensky said during a press briefing.

    Go fuck yourself.

    The latest runs of the weather models showed the storm moving more slowly across the region Sunday into Monday than previous ones, potentially increasing the amount of time the storm will dump rain.

    That’s one way to clean the poop off the streets.

    “Jumping in – we’re passing this along to the right team for a re-review,” YouTube said on Twitter. “We’ll share updates once we hear back from them. Appreciate your patience in the meantime.”

    I’m certain they’ll get right on it.

    LET’S GO BRANDON!

    I like “Take The A Train”. I didn’t watch the video but had it playing in the background. It did sound…. off. I could hear some of what you were talking about.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Cute

    • Tres Cool

      I enjoy those videos from time to time, but I always end up asking myself the the same question-

      “How much does all that fencing cost ?”

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.

  40. rhywun

    Don’t look now, it’s two completely non-competitive men’s tennis finals playing at once. Choose to be bored in Antwerp or Moscow!

    Something in this system is broken when tournaments are routinely ending in dull blowouts.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      What has happened to American men’s tennis? Will there ever be a top American man anytime soon?

      Also, I liked the game a lot better when it was less about raw power and more about finesse and out-thinking your opponent.

      • rhywun

        What has happened to American men’s tennis?

        It’s in the shitter, for sure. Some say it’s because a lot of tournaments have departed the US for Europe and elsewhere. Chicken and egg. I’ve seen the media pin their hopes on a half-dozen new flashes in the pan who peak at around 22 years old and nowhere near the top.

        Fucking Canada is doing way better.

        Also, I liked the game a lot better when it was less about raw power and more about finesse and out-thinking your opponent.

        Ditto. People think tennis is boring because it’s just banging the ball back and forth from the endline. Yeah, it wasn’t always like that.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Goes that way for a lot of sports. Hockey? Who wants to watch a 0-1 game that was hard fought…we want 9-6 games! Baseball? If there aren’t 10 HRs in a game it sucked. Boxing? Why do I want to see it go to rounds when some one can knock someone out in 2 rounds.

    • rhywun

      Dems across the land orgasm in sync.

  41. KSuellington

    Well it looks like what happened in Israel is now happening in Ireland. The leading Vid spread area is County Waterford with a vaccination rate of over 99% for those 18 and up. Get those jabs in the chilluns arms quickly! They must be the ones driving the spread! Seriously, how fucking long can they keep the charade going?

    https://spectator.org/irish-quandary-who-to-blame-when-everyones-vaxxed/