Wednesday Afternoon Sugarlinks – Apocalyptical

by | Oct 27, 2021 | Daily Links | 334 comments

Vaginal ulcers could be new but extremely rare complication of Covid jabs, doctors claim

After treating a 16-year-old girl for agonising lesions in her genitals, they suspect her recent jab could be the only cause.

The teenager was not sexually active and had been given her second Pfizer Covid vaccine dose days before coming to hospital.

Docs said the young woman had developed agonising “sores” in her vaginal area alongside a fever, fatigue and muscle aches within 24 hours of having the US-made jab.

Two days later she went to the emergency room and, although given antibiotics, did not improve.

The lesions in her vulva had a “necrotic” flesh-rotting ring and were leaking fluid. They were “exquisitely painful” and prevented her from using the toilet or walking.

Her labia were also swollen, according to the report in the Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology.

Tests showed the teen did not have Covid or herpes, causing medics to consider the jab she’d recently had.

pics or gfto


 

Speaking of vaginas…

Is Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema bad for bisexual Americans?

It wasn’t that long ago that embattled Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema was hailed as a triumph of bisexual representation. After she was sworn in in January 2019, Out celebrated the first openly bisexual senator as a “rebuke to Trumpism,” positioning the “sassy lawmaker” in opposition to homophobic then-Vice President Mike Pence.

It wasn’t that long ago that embattled Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema was hailed as a triumph of bisexual representation.

But just a few years into her tenure, public opinion has soured on Sinema. Instead of a brash, bisexual icon willing and able to stand up to the far right, she’s now seen as an unreliable centrist, a self-absorbed Democratic turncoat more fixated on getting attention and lining her own pockets than uplifting her community. No longer a bi icon, she’s now held up as a cautionary tale about the limits of representation.

As a bisexual woman — and one who, like Sinema, is white and cisgender — I now cringe every time the senator makes the headlines. Whether it’s fashion columnists dissecting her showy personal style, cartoonists mocking her as a “manic pixie dream senator” or the seemingly endless analyses of her inscrutability, Sinema seems to embody many of the nasty assumptions about bi women I’ve worked my whole life to avoid.

Or… or… being bisexual has nothing to do with it and she is not a “bisexual” but, you know, a person. No one bigots so crudely as a CNBC bigot.


 

And speaking of not having a vagina…


 

And speaking of sort of being named for a vagina…

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334 Comments

  1. Ownbestenemy

    Why the scare quotes:

    agonising “sores”

    And I started to watch the video and then decided, I needed another beer before I do.

    • Swiss Servator

      Sure that would be enough?

      *offers bottle of Buffalo Trace*

      • Ownbestenemy

        I have a niece that has Turner’s and she doesn’t have a uterus either. But she doesn’t run around crying look at me, so she doesn’t matter.

        However, the girl in that video is a solid British 5.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Er…abnormal uterus…but whatever, see beer is working already.

      • db

        Is she into butt stuff?

      • db

        /asking for Straff

      • Ownbestenemy

        A 30 year old woman with the mentality of a Disney Princess…I think that answers your question.

      • Count Potato

        So, yes?

      • Pope Jimbo

        How dare you!

        That poor girl is just trying to cope and fill the hole in her life and then along come you with all your judgments.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I mean, I offered up my niece, you’d think you would shame me instead.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Everclear is clearly required here.

    • db

      fuuuuuck no

  2. Shpip

    positioning the “sassy lawmaker” in opposition to homophobic then-Vice President Mike Pence.

    They claimed, without evidence.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Well he wouldn’t allow himself to be in the same room with another woman without his wife, but said nothing about another man. I would say that he is a-okay with homosexuality.

      • db

        Well, he’s certainly anti-trans because he thinks he can identify a woman by sight to avoid being alone with her.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Check mate.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Pence wasn’t afraid of the homos!

        I have it on good authority that he’d have a bunch of gay guys over to his VP residence to engage in gladiatorial duels with them. He was even nice enough to sneak them in the back entrance because he didn’t want them to feel embarrassed after he defeated them.

    • The Other Kevin

      Oh I remember that. Back when he was governor of IN he signed one of those “you can’t force someone to bake the cake” laws and immediately and forever he was branded as homophobic. So yes, without evidence.

    • Tonio

      And “sassy” is somewhat condescending, as is “brash.” Imagine someone describing a progressive politician, AOC for example, with those words, and the backlash that would erupt.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Democrats sure hate when “the Maverick of the Senate” is on the other foot.

      • DEG

        Heh.

        Yep.

        I’ve noticed that too.

      • Rat on a train

        Wait. Bucking your party isn’t heroic anymore. Is resistance also no longer the highest form of patriotism?

  3. Ted S.

    Is Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema bad for bisexual Americans?

    Ah yes, the particularly wicked view that you can only be a proper [insert minority demographic here] if you parrot standard boilerplate from the left of TEAM BLUE’s center (never mind the center of America as a whole).

    • juris imprudent

      And the indignant self-righteousness of the person promoting that viewpoint. Makes any face punchable.

    • db

      I like it so far…1 minute in

    • Ownbestenemy

      *clicks link* This better be good *taps foot, raises hands, starts taking drugs*

      • Ownbestenemy

        Better than any of the sets I saw live streaming at EDC

      • db

        *setting up strobes in the barn

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Light show in living room, Winning!

    • Nephilium

      See… and here I was expecting this.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Help! I need anti-seizure meds, stat!

  4. Ted S.

    And speaking of not having a vagina…

    I think most of us here were born without a vaina. It’s not a big deal.

      • Ted S.

        Crap.

      • Rat on a train

        The g spot is difficult to find?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        That’s the end of the pun thread, anything else will be too invulvaed

      • Spudalicious

        Pussy.

  5. Ghostpatzer

    The lesions in her vulva had a “necrotic” flesh-rotting ring and were leaking fluid. They were “exquisitely painful” and prevented her from using the toilet or walking.

    This is straight-up plagiarism. Call your lawyer, SF.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Necrotic Vulva is hands down the best all female death metal band of all time.

      • Sensei

        Have you seen them flap around on stage?

      • db

        Yeah, they were opening for Wizard’s Sleeve in ’09

    • rhywun

      *taps the hell out of that story*

      • DEG

        That one I was able to read. It was the Sinema story I tapped out of.

  6. Ghostpatzer

    And I will call my tag repair person.

    *EDIT FAIRY TO THE RESCUE*

    • Ghostpatzer

      Thanks, edit fairy!

    • Tonio

      Labor enacted.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Rowr

    • Ted S.

      And I will call my tag repair person.

      Which half of the Maytag Man is that?

  7. Sean

    Lots of genital fetishism going on here.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Once again, I fail to see an issue with that practice.

  8. The Late P Brooks

    Everybody knows bisexuals are cloned in a lab, with identical AI programming provided by the Center for American Progress.

  9. juris imprudent

    Author Lux Alptraum (bitch bitching about Sinema) may claim to be bisexual, but I don’t think she could get laid by a guy even if Lena Dunham was her wingman.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Even if?

      • juris imprudent

        If you had to choose between those two? Or would you just cut it off?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Gimme the rope… And that stool over there.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Even on my most desperate, drunkest nights at closing time, I’d probably still choose to go home with only a copy of Swank magazine. Probably.

  10. Ozymandias

    I missed a few days while I’m away on business. I come back and…
    …welcome home!
    I see things are much as they were when I left.

    • Swiss Servator

      You are up at 1900 Glibs time…tonight.

      • Ozymandias

        Fantastic. Caught the government with its pants around its ankles again. I gotta get it captured in a filing by tomorrow AM.
        Thanks for the heads-up, Swiss! I’ll be around and on the computer putting final touches on the aforementioned motion.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Excellent and congratulations.

      • DEG

        Caught the government with its pants around its ankles again.

        Nice. Very nice.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Biden? That you?

  11. Mojeaux

    If my time in romancelandia, unwittingly spent with straight women reading gay male romance, is any indication, bixesuals should not be allowed to live. Trans? Cool beans. Bang both men AND women? DIE BITCH DIE.

    No, seriously, if there was a vagina anywhere in a gay male romance, it would get 1* reviews and a shit-ton of vitriol.

    • EvilSheldon

      To be fair, the straight guys reading lesbian porn probably don’t want to see a whole lot of wang flopping around, either.

      • Bobarian LMD

        pshaw! Straight guys are waiting for the pizza guy to show up in their lesbian porn.

        I don’t believe that they like real lesbian porn… Too much Andrea Dworkin and Lena Dunham.

      • UnCivilServant

        Or whatever audience surrogate character is in the piece.

      • EvilSheldon

        Ahh, yes. How could I have forgotten? “Evening ladies! Who ordered the large sausage?”

        There’s a reason I read a lot more smut than I watch, these days…

    • Ted S.

      From the women and not the gay men, I presume?

      • Mojeaux

        I don’t believe gay men read them. That is not the audience.

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t understand that, but the topic of the actual audience demographics is a fascinating one.

      • juris imprudent

        I’m trying to follow this and it isn’t making sense. Which is okay, I don’t want it to.

      • grrizzly

        Actual lesbians don’t watch “lesbian” porn created for straight men. It’s the same idea.

      • Mojeaux

        I do not understand what I, as a straight woman, am supposed to find hawt about two men going at it. A rat for every cat, I guess.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        I’m trying to follow this and it isn’t making sense. Which is okay, I don’t want it to it doesn’t have to.

        FTFY.

    • SugarFree

      You can even be pan or omni (which encompass bi) and be embraced, but you like cismen and ciswomen, you are some sort of monster. And most of it seems to come from women–men might think a bi man is just really gay, but women loathe both bi men and women equally.

      • Mojeaux

        I gave someone a stern talking-to about the 16 different sexualities. “There are girl-parts and boy-parts, and occasionally both-parts but there are no NO-parts. ‘Pan’sexual is just bisexual with worse branding and less meaning.”

      • Sean

        I thought involved a flute of some sort.

        *shrug*

      • EvilSheldon

        Male and female satyrs.

      • Mojeaux

        That’s funny, because the first time (and second and third and almost every time), my first thought goes to Pan and the panflute.

        Satyrsexual.

      • UnCivilServant

        My first thought goes to cast iron skillets.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I guess maybe, …with enough grease?

      • UnCivilServant

        I wouldn’t know. I’m not the one attracted to them.

      • Count Potato

        RACIST!!

      • EvilSheldon

        “It wasn’t the handle. I’ve been shitting pancakes ever since.”

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        And Enya.

        Don’t ever forget Enya.

      • UnCivilServant

        *raised hand* What about a eunuch that was fully emasculated but didn’t undergo any surgery to create imitation parts?

        When you start chopping, you can get a no-parts person.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Prostrate or uterus. That’s your boy/girl parts, not to mention XX or XY chromosomes.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    No longer a bi icon, she’s now held up as a cautionary tale about the limits of representation.

    What the fuck is that even supposed to mean?

    • SugarFree

      She went off the bi plantation. She’s an Uncle Bi.

      • db

        I hear they hang around in a den.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        No one likes a bipartisan.

      • Swiss Servator

        *squints suspiciously*

      • TARDis

        *golf clap*

      • Ownbestenemy

        *holds up mirror for Swissy*

      • Tundra
      • Bobarian LMD

        No need to get upset, let b-icons be b-icons?

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      IKR. The entire Congress is a cautionary tale about the limits of repetitive democracy.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    We’re called greedy for finding more than one gender attractive, “confusing” for liking more than one gender and self-absorbed because apparently our brains are unable to think about much beyond our own sexual gratification.

    Maybe if you’d shut the fuck up about it for a while people wouldn’t accuse you of being so obsessed.

    • UnCivilServant

      It’s almost as if it’s illegal.

    • db

      Let’s try “unvaxxed man” next.

    • robc

      $10MM seems extreme.

      • Swiss Servator

        That was the punitive damages.

      • Rat on a train

        I hate punitive damages going to the plaintiff. It is like a lottery. Sorry plaintiff 2, you were wronged by a small company so you don’t get as much.

      • UnCivilServant

        Then who should get it?

      • R C Dean

        May I suggest the local nonprofit community hospital?

      • Ted S.

        I should.

      • robc

        Put it in the fund for paying out city/state lawsuits.

    • EvilSheldon

      I’m having some trouble cheering for a ‘VP of Marketing’ even if he was the wronged party…

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m okay with condemning him for his actual crimes and defending him against something that was wrong.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    One obvious answer is that bisexuals have a unique perspective that should ideally be helpful when crafting legislation.

    Stop it. You’re killing me.

    • R.J.

      It really said that? I just got here. Haven’t read yet. The comments are too good.

  15. SugarFree

    By the way, this entire links theme is due to my expressing concern for a friend’s vagina. They can be hard to read, all folded in on themselves, pensive even.

    • Bobarian LMD

      If you knew braille, you could read the bumpy parts?

    • pistoffnick

      Inscrewtable?

    • Old Man With Candy

      Given her husband’s, uhhhhh, notable feature, she’s lucky it’s even intact.

  16. grrizzly

    A stunning piece of writing.

    I Have Been Through This Before

    We blamed ourselves for our son’s problems and most of the new theories did, too. His autism was because we’d had him vaccinated. Because we fed him wheat or dairy or corn. Because we hadn’t employed a team of workers to have constant “floor time” with him (the so-called Son Rise cure) or apply behavioral techniques according to the Lovaas method, beloved not only by late ’90s autism parents but also by conversion therapy folks.

    Each new wave was certain: The approaches to autism that had come before were barbaric and uninformed, but this most recent breakthrough was the one clear truth. Science had spoken. Over and over for a dozen years.

    We were heartbroken each time a treatment failed—and guilty because without fail, someone would insist we hadn’t tried hard enough. Sure, we’d gone gluten-free, but had we cleansed with hyperbaric oxygen? Behavioral training worked, but only if you did it 18 hours a day. Why hadn’t we taken a second mortgage and flown to the Catskills for a workshop at the Son-Rise Institute?

    Just shy of his 36th birthday my then-husband gave in and began drinking in earnest. He lost his job and grew dark and silent. One day he apologized, hugged us all, got in his truck, and drove away.

    • Count Potato

      I wasn’t expecting the country music ending.

      • grrizzly

        Spoiler alert: that wasn’t the ending.

    • pistoffnick

      “One day he apologized, hugged us all, got in his truck, and drove away.”

      I sometimes feel like that several times a day.

      *throws another $20 into the “Fuck You Money” pile*

      • Mojeaux

        I’ve wondered, occasionally, about just running away, but I don’t really want to run away without my husband.

      • Old Man With Candy

        That’s pretty much what we did. Just ran away, but both of us.

      • Tundra

        Same. One of the best things we’ve ever done.

      • rhywun

        I wouldn’t mind running away but my job would have to come with me.

      • Animal

        Us too.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Well since SP doesn’t even have a learner’s permit, you are sort of obligated to take her along.

        I know she has a kickass bike, but I know from experience that it can’t keep up with a van (even a van loaded with candy).

      • Ownbestenemy

        We are close. All depending on if Daddy Government deems me unclean and unable to work or unclean but can still work.

    • Sensei

      That’s a kick in the balls.

      That said I’d rather not conflate the two issues and rather look at each by itself.

    • Compelled Speechless

      It’s a great reminder that appeals to authority are a logical fallacy. Unfortunately it’s also a terrifying reminder of how the vast majority of people will just follow orders unquestioningly without questioning a) Is this person’s expert status deserved or b) does their superior knowledge also grant them superior morality? As the previous post today pointed out, expertise is extremely overrated and just as in something as inconsequential as sports predication, medical and scientific experts can be wrong most the time and not face any consequences or hits to their expert status. Unfortunately in the morality department, expert status and morality appear to be inversely correlated.

      • Gadfly

        As the previous post today pointed out, expertise is extremely overrated

        What?

        and just as in something as inconsequential as sports predication

        OK. That was yesterday’s post. For a minute there I was wondering what subtext you were taking from SF’s story.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Oops. I was referring to yesterday’s post by Don escaped Cancun. My bad.

    • Mojeaux

      I find that with issues like the autism and even with the COVID theater, the appeal to authority and desperate attempt to mitigate or cure or somehow stop [insert disease du jour here] is really rooted in fear, which gives rise to a WE MUST DO SOMETHING reaction. And so they cling to whoever has a decisive and authoritative voice. Charisma helps buttress that authority.

    • EvilSheldon

      Jeez.

    • Tundra

      Fuck.

      That’s a tough one to read. The helplessness when the world (or at least the world of “experts”)seems to be aligned against you must be crippling.

      Thanks for the link.

    • Chafed

      That was a powerful piece.

    • DEG

      That’s infuriating in places and sad in others.

      Thanks for it.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    This brings me back to my frustration with Sinema. Watching news outlets eat her alive, it’s hard not to feel like America’s getting a rather poor first impression of what bisexuals bring to the table as legislators.

    Oddly enough, in that Politico piece I linked earlier, nobody mentioned Sinema’s sexual proclivities. Almost everyone, however, described her as one of the smartest people they had ever met. Maybe, for a legislator, an ability to see what is possible and how to attain it is more noteworthy than whom you bed down with.

    • R C Dean

      Almost everyone, however, described her as one of the smartest people they had ever met.

      I’ve met her. She was no dummy, but if you think she’s one of the smarter people you’ve ever met, you need to stop hanging around with politicians, hangers-on, and dilettantes.

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      Suck it up. I don’t think most of us get to choose who our poster girls are gonna be.

  18. Certified Public Asshat

    The writer of the Sinema article:

    One thing that's fun about me is whenever someone is all "Are you mentally ill?????" in an attempt to insult me I can just be like "Yes ?"— Lux ? Alptraum (@LuxAlptraum) October 27, 2021

    • Mojeaux

      So am I but that doesn’t mean all my reasoning faculties have rotted to their moth-eaten core.

    • db

      I love the noodle press. I was going to call it a Noodle Lathe but it’s really a roll press.

    • db

      Woodchipper footage starts at 12:08

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      I love the candy making videos too.

    • Sensei

      Scary thing is I’ve already watched that!

    • pistoffnick

      I’d donate money to send Straff there! But only if he livestreamed it.

      • db

        I’d pay extra for him to lick the cheap plastic sheet dividers between the tables.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Rule 34 says we can’t judge, however…

    • db

      oh, the pork cutlet bowl at 27:42

      This is too much. I’m insanely hungry now, l0b0t

      • l0b0t

        I’m glad y’all enjoyed it. Yes, the pork cutlet was just too much; when the egg went in, I think I drooled a bit. Also, I’ve worked with fancy dough rollers before, but never with a noodle attachment. I want one.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        I think I just had a foodgasm.

      • Old Man With Candy

        So many comments I want to make, but number one is that if we had that scallion chopping machine at 12:00 or thereabouts, we’d be eating scallion pancakes every fucking night.

        Careful and long preps make short cooking/serving. This guy is great. Domo arigato for the link.

  19. Aloysious

    Just finished ‘The Curator of Rare Books’.

    Loved it.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    And-

    Watching news outlets eat her alive

    “Petulant bitching and moaning” not same as “Eat alive”.

  21. Scruffy Nerfherder

    As a bisexual woman — and one who, like Sinema, is white and cisgender — I now cringe every time the senator makes the headlines.

    Seek help.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Can you be bisexual and cisgender at the same time? I though cisgender was effectively straight.

      • grrizzly

        Cisgender means not-trans. Both straight and gay people are usually cisgender.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Cis = not trans.
        Basically if you act like a person with the kind of junk you have, you’re cis. It has nothing to do with what you fuck.

      • Ted S.

        Cisgender is the opposite of transgender, so believing you’re the same sex as the body you were born in.

      • R C Dean

        I guess “nondelusional” wouldn’t really be specific enough.

      • Rat on a train

        From the trans perspective, everyone must be bi, at least as long as the other person identifies as what you like.

      • Rat on a train

        exactly

    • Shpip

      All those victims just trying to show the cishetwhitemale the error of his ways.

  22. Tulip

    So Nicki Minaj’s friend is owed an apology?

    • R C Dean

      Tests showed the teen did not have Covid

      The only reason I can think of for testing somebody who has vaginal lesions for COVID, is if COVID causes vaginal lesions.

      • UnCivilServant

        I donno, they’re testing me for just refusing to even attest to a vax status.

        They also tested me for daring to need a gall bladdar removed.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, all three times I have been tested were before extended (few hours or more) hospital stays last year.

  23. Yusef drives a Kia

    It’s crunch time at chez Yusef, all bills are paid, and with some help from a friend, I have my lot rent in hand, but 0$ on my mortgage.
    I’m actively looking for a gig around here,and I’m looking into tutoring online, this is very promising. I have the Food stamps and medical covered, but here’s the kicker.
    I can’t apply for assistance until I’m in foreclosure, pretty stupid, its 450$. Or I guess I’m better off homeless? ah well, beggars can’t be choosers…
    /God I want to work again…

  24. Mojeaux

    50s, raining, flaming red leaves on the trees.

    PERFECT WEATHER.

    • UnCivilServant

      The leaves continue to burn in the rain? What kind of trees are these?

      (outside of joke, jots down notes for use in fiction)

      • Mojeaux

        A phoenix tree.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Larf!

      • Mojeaux

        When you think about it, deciduous trees are all phoenix trees.

      • UnCivilServant

        Fun Fact, Eucalyptus trees evolved to be more flammable and even explode in a fire because they regrow faster in the aftermath of a blaze.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Redwoods require fire to open their seeds,

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Dammit! no trees in my playground!
        / hits UCS upside of head with railgun, bounces and ricochets off Mojeaux, ala Baldwin….

      • UnCivilServant

        You know, you’re not supposed to throw the gun…

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Yes, actually you can, but it’s a trade secret and Elon would kill me if I explained, he makes Hillary sane sometimes.

  25. Brochettaward

    I don’t have a vagina and I’m pregnant. You don’t see me making Youtube videos about how special I am, and I’m carrying The First That Will literally fucking Change Everything to term. Get over yourself.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Well, you are a Cunte,

      • Bobarian LMD

        The immaculate infection!

    • EvilSheldon

      Traumatic insemination?

      Brochettaward, are you carrying STEVE SMITH’S love child?

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      That thing growing in your GI tract? Yeah, it’s a tapeworm.

  26. UnCivilServant

    I’m sitting here waiting for my beef to cook. Thermometer is creeping up sooo slooowly.

    I forgot to turn the oven on.

    🙁

    • Ownbestenemy

      Ive done that.

      • The Hyperbole

        I ruined a corned beef once because I neglected to plug in the crock pot.

      • Ownbestenemy

        If it was prepackaged it was already ruined.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I did that this afternoon. “why won’t my grill get above 200 degrees?” oh, forgot to open the bottom baffle.

    • UnCivilServant

      I corrected the previous error. The Beef is tasty.

    • rhywun

      I forgot to turn the stove-top off the other day. Like, overnight. That was embarrassing.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I did that but there was also a pot with water and eggs I was hard-boiling when I got off a night shift. Suffice to say, eggs explode.

      • rhywun

        I melted a sponge into a pot that way a few months ago. The smoke detector alerted me to it while I was on Teams.

        I am not enjoying my brain turning to mush lately.

      • Spudalicious

        I went to an alarm once because eggs were left boiling on the stove and the water evaporated. That’s how I happened to meet the widow of a famous Hollywood photographer. The house was filled with Marilyn Monroe originals, along with a story about many of them.

  27. Gadfly

    pics or gfto

    If those are the options, I choose GTFO.

  28. hayeksplosives

    I note that the feds are now “recommending” Covid booster shots for the already “fully vaccinated federal employees.” How long until recommended becomes required?

    • Ownbestenemy

      ^^^ Yep. I cannot see that going over well for the reluctant that did it for the job.

      • hayeksplosives

        Pfizer exec: Hey, we were promised we’d get $$umptysquat billions of dollars fir this vaccine, and so far we’ve only gotten 75% of that. Now make with the booster shot mandate, or it’s curtains for Fauci’s lab dogs.

    • Sean

      By Christmas.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        I can already hear Fauci now. “As long as you are fully vaccinated and have your boosters, you should be able to celebrate Christmas with your family. Just make sure you are masked up and socially distanced and you keep the windows open. And leave the dog outside so I can come pick it up. The supply chain problems are hitting us too.”

    • grrizzly

      Everything not forbidden is compulsory.

    • Sensei

      Do you have an external source for that?

      • Ownbestenemy

        No outside source but: DOT Policy Bulletin has authorized duty time to get a booster for those eligible and all internal communication to employees are praising those who have gone and gotten the booster. However, the agency is for the time being, holding to “fully vaccinated” to the initial dose(s) one would get.

      • hayeksplosives

        No, mine came through the DoE. The local management isn’t thrilled but they have to toe the line.

      • UnCivilServant

        Don’t know about Federal, but today we got an email from HR stating that there was an authorized (paid) leave for boosters that can be used an unlimited number of times (with documentation).

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Oh boy. There won’t be any fraud in that system at all ?

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        I’m going to start using the phrase “Original Antigenic Sin” in everyday convo surrounding shots, boosters etc. Never too early to start.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Thats nice but why not open the lifts and trails?

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Staffing

    • db

      nice!

  29. The Late P Brooks

    How long until recommended becomes required?

    EVERYTHING NOT PROHIBITED IS MANDATORY

  30. Yusef drives a Kia

    I got the call from Property management today, they were hoping I was OK and offering Foodbank services, Shar is nice people. So I let her know what my status was,
    I don’t need her blindsided, and she is going to work her end, but she is just another cog herself, she doesn’t have that much say in things.
    At least she is aware, it’s the right thing to do,

    • Ownbestenemy

      Wish you the best of luck Yusef

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Thanks, I’m done yet,

    • DEG

      Best wishes Yusef.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        If I lose this place, I’m fucked, Sister will cram me and some of my shit in her basement, but damn! how far I have fallen, oh well, job opportunies, and my Kia runs like a Kia,
        Cheers!

  31. DEG

    Dozens of side effects have been linked with the Covid vaccines, none of which have been considered too serious to cease vaccine rollouts.

    I thought some countries decided the side effects were serious enough to stop administering certain Lil Rona vaccines?

    Bisexual women are constantly told we’re untrustworthy, that our attraction to multiple genders means we’re more likely to cheat

    Oh fuck. Moving on.

  32. Ownbestenemy

    It’s a dog and pony show, but it has been a while since I have heard a quivering voice from someone getting grilled. Garland sounds like he knows his agency done gone fucked up with that letter regarding school boards. Not that anything will change.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I don’t like Ted Cruz, but he is a good attack dog.

  33. Pope Jimbo

    prevented her from using the toilet or walking

    My dyslexia made me read that as “or wanking” and thought, no duh!

    • Pope Jimbo

      Also for all the other Marines out there, this is the very personification of Suzy Rottencrotch.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Lets see…I knew of a Suzy Slamber and a Suzy Slimmer, but never a Suzy Rottencrotch

      • Ownbestenemy

        grrrrr.slimer

    • Tulip

      Good.

    • Chafed

      Sounds about right even if George Gascon is involved.

    • DEG

      Procedures weren’t followed?

  34. The Late P Brooks

    This is CNN

    Wall Street shrugged Monday, as scathing headlines based on the Facebook Papers spread across the internet. But Tuesday, following Facebook’s earnings report in which it missed analysts’ expectations for sales, its stock fell 4% Tuesday. Investors care only about dollars and cents.

    You say that like it’s a bad ting.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Dad (long time comptroller): Invest long-term in companies that produce products people use every day. Spend a day at the market and see what is in their baskets. Invest short-term in companies that you think are breaking out of a niche market and are going to explode. Never invest because the company tugs your heartstrings.

    • rhywun

      senior leadership, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, were made aware of the potential for real-world harms from its various platforms — amplifying hate speech, encouraging eating disorders in teens, inciting violence — and did nothing about it.

      OFFS.

      There are plenty of reasons to hate Facebook and CNN won’t touch on any of them when there is a tale of people lacking any fucking personal responsibility to spin.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      I once got a telephone marketing survey for Dominion Energy. The questions were along the lines of “is Dominion a Jesus-like altruistic charity or an evil money-grubbing monolith that only serves its investors?”

      I told them their questions were complete BS because they assume that everyone thinks a) is good and b) is bad, and that the results of their survey would be useless for whatever marketing they’re tryna do.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        I also told them I have no training or education in survey design, but I could have done 10x better than whoever they paid for that GIGO mess.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Unfortunately you’re only talking to the poor schlub who’s paid to read the questions, not the manipulative shlub who wrote them.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Oh, I know. I wasn’t mean about it. Maybe it would make it up the chain somehow. ?

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        I do that too sometimes. Usually the poor shlub agrees with me.

  35. Ownbestenemy

    Gonna solicit thoughts from the GlibMind

    Ex-wife, who 3 years ago finally agreed to give me ‘custody’ of the boys has been persona non grata to her own family and has dropped off the face of the planet from what we can tell. One teen is 16 and the other is 18. The 18 year old, I have cleared of any child support. Question is, how can I make a motion to stop child support for the 16-year-old if I cannot find or serve the ex-wife?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I’ll bet you can, serve her and if she doesn;t acknowledge then your done,

    • UnCivilServant

      Which direction is the money supposed to be moving, and who would get in trouble for nonpayment?

      • Ownbestenemy

        From me to her and I would get in trouble for non-payment. Actually, I have no say in it because the States work hand in hand with FedGov and garnish it, even if I am willing to handle it on my own.

      • Ownbestenemy

        From what I can see…I don’t even think she has withdrawn from the State. They just collect all too happily. Basically, I am paying a California tax.

      • UnCivilServant

        So you didn’t officially register the agreement for change in custody? That might make it simpler to get the requirement canned.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Custody was changed, but child support wasn’t. It was a very complicated process and I wanted to make sure I had the kids first before going after what mattered to her, the money.

      • UnCivilServant

        So legally you have full custody but are being required to pay for the support of children that she doesn’t even see?

        That’s a form of abuse by the family courts I hadn’t heard of before.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Family Court is worse than any mob boss ever wishes they could be.

      • hayeksplosives

        Do you have to pay alimony for her too or just child support?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Got that cleared already cause of my shitty original judge didn’t put a timeframe on it. Divorced in ’05, married for 4 years and she drew alimony for a decade until our lawyer was like nah…fuck that.

      • juris imprudent

        A mob boss has some sense of justice.

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      Want her to come boiling out of the woodwork? Just stop sending child support. You’ll find her real fast if’n she wants to be found.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Wish I could…forced by my employer 🙁

      • Mojeaux

        From what I can tell, she is not getting the money. The state is garnishing his wages to pay her, but if she can’t be found, they can’t be paying her.

    • Chafed

      Most states have a procedure, often a motion, in which you prove personal service can’t be made with reasonable diligence so the court permits service by publication.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ill reach out to our part time lawyer. He is impossible to get a hold of but knows our situation.

      • Chafed

        OBE I gather you case is in California from what’s further upthread. If your current lawyer can help then use him. If he won’t respond then find someone else. You are unlikely to get this right on your own. Assuming you are permitted to serve her by publication, there is an infinitesimal chance she will see it. Her failure to respond should result in a win for you. This is definitely the time to spend some money upfront to get a payoff later on.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Thanks Chafed. Yeah Cali. We have a lawyer out there for other reasons so we will lean on them.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      There are criteria for what reasonable attempts to serve look like, and after that it gets into default judgment territory. If you’re working with a lawyer, I’d bring the possibility up early in the process.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Thanks All. Gotta get that going cause…well….might be out of a job in a couple of months. Not that it will wrap up before then, but it is what it is.

    • tarran

      File a complaint for modification asking her to pay you child support. You can ask for her to pay you the same amount you pay her, and the two amounts will sum to 0.

      Because physical custody changed significantly, you shouldn’t have any problem getting the suit started.

      If she can’t be served, you will get a default judgement and be done.

      That’s how it would go in MA… if you get a semidecent attorney.

      Step 1 is hire a good attorney.

      • Chafed

        That’s always good advice (says the lawyer.)

    • hoof_in_mouth

      I’m sure it’s very state-specific, but in Michigan child support runs through an Orwellian adjunct to the district court system called Friend of the Court. You can run support changes and requests through them. Generally after a period of time (3 years) you can have your overnights and income differential recalculated on request, lawyer not required (though the FOC is a nightmare of its own).

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      Deadbeat dads do this all the time. Stop sending checks and *she* will find *you*.

      A good friend went through a divorce a long time ago. She sued for child support because he made more money. She took the child support, went to grad school and got a great job. He went back to court because she was now making more than she was. Court’s answer? FYTW, keep paying, you male oppressive bastard!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Like I said above…I would, but she is ‘missing’, deadbeat mom, whatever, but the State is working in conjunction with the FedGov to get the child support. I cannot stop that with the FedGov payroll without a court order.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Maybe they can pass a law that says a conviction after a not guilty plea means an automatic perjury conviction as well.

    • R.J.

      Good Lord. That is already resisting arrest. A waste of time and resources to pass anything new.

      • Sensei

        See now you can get two charges instead of one!

    • Spudalicious

      So…they don’t already have a “resisting arrest” law?

  36. KSuellington

    “One obvious answer is that bisexuals have a unique perspective that should ideally be helpful when crafting legislation.”

    Lawmakers: “There is still something not right with this proposed legislation. We need it to fuck everyone. Hey, maybe we can get Kristen to help us out with it. She’s good at that.”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They’re all for empowerment as long as whoever it is agrees with them.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Wouldn’t you need a pansexual for that?

  37. Ownbestenemy

    I am a geek. I enjoyed the finished scene here and laughed cause they highlighted some of the ridiculous sword fighting movements seen in movies that look pretty.

    • R.J.

      I saw that too! Very enjoyable.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Watching some of their other stuff. Funny, inspiring cause they show up the big studios and best of all…not shitty YouTube.

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      Hmmmm.

      My problem with it is the “magic tech.” Essentially, the combatants get unlimited re-spawning oppos, just like in a video game, ’cause they’ve got some kinda weird-ass Resurrection Machine.

      That changes everything. It’s kinda like the “mortality prevention” option that ST:TNG had on the Holodeck.

      But ignoring that for the moment, it was a nicely-done video.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    Success!

    Meatpacking giant Tyson Foods says more than 96 percent of its workers have been vaccinated ahead of the company’s Nov. 1 deadline for them to do so.

    The company based in Springdale, Arkansas, said the number of its 120,000 workers who have been vaccinated has nearly doubled since it announced its mandate on Aug. 3. At that point, only 50 percent of Tyson workers had been vaccinated.

    “This is an incredible result — not only for our company, but for your families and our communities across the country, ” Tyson President and CEO Donnie King said in a note to employees Tuesday.

    This is like Al Capone bragging that he didn’t have to kill anybody or burn their businesses down, because they coughed up the protection money.

    I am truly beginning to despair for the future.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      If Mr. King was chucked into the hot dog rendering vat I wonder if it’d ruin the batch (whoever our fed handler is: that’s a joke).

    • DEG

      Spokesman Gary Mickelson said very few employees have left the company so far because of the mandate.

      I guess it’s possible, but I’m suspicious.

      • DEG

        On further thought, I also wonder how many employees produced fake vaccination cards.

      • Sean

        I’d wager a decent amount.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        I wonder what the usual turnover is at a meatpacking plant. It’s possible that they screened new employees for vaccine status while the unvaxxed went away via the usual attrition. And if there are a lot of illegals working at these plants, they probably have no problem with producing fake documents.

    • Ownbestenemy

      We apparently are lagging Isreal and maybe the Aussies cause we are going for Zero Covid and Vaccines for Life.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    The industry was hit hard by the pandemic in the spring of 2020 when the virus tore through meatpacking plants and forced the temporary closure of many of them because so many workers became ill or had to quarantine. The United Food and Commercial Workers Union said at least 132 of its members died from the virus during the outbreaks and another 22,400 of them were infected or exposed.

    132 out of how many?

    Infected or exposed

    A case is 24 cans,

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      According to Wikipedia they have 1.3 million members so the Black Death rampaging through medieval Paris this ain’t.

  40. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    My local rag picked up this story: https://www.twincities.com/2021/10/26/minnesotas-covid-19-fatalities-trend-younger-most-were-unvaccinated/

    The numbers they use to show that a vast majority of Covid deaths are among the unclean go back to the beginning of the year when nobody was vaccinated, so it’s misleading to say the least. And the lady in the sob story they used allegedly had no known health issues. Well, no known issue other than being rather obese, which you can see be doing an image search for her, which I guess is why they used an overhead shot of her.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Didn’t the CDC just release a study that said nah, Delta didn’t increase anything. So places are using data from 2020 to hype up the numbers.

      • db

        that’d be interesting to see a link to that

      • Ownbestenemy

        https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7043e1.htm?s_cid=mm7043e1_e&ACSTrackingID=USCDC_921-DM68466&ACSTrackingLabel=MMWR%20Early%20Release%20-%20Vol.%2070%2C%20October%2022%2C%202021&deliveryName=USCDC_921-DM68466

        COVID-19–associated hospitalization rates increased after the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant became predominant. However, the proportion of nonpregnant adults aged ≥18 years hospitalized with COVID-19 who were admitted to an ICU, received IMV, or died during their hospitalization did not significantly change during this period. No significant differences in severity were observed between the pre-Delta and Delta periods among fully vaccinated or unvaccinated hospitalized patients, overall or when stratified by age and vaccination status.

      • db

        OK, so Delta was no big deal other than the fact that it mutated away from strains covered by the vaccines, and possibly even was assisted in its evolution by those vaccines.

        So please, tell me, why is it important to get the vaccine?

        FFS, do these people even logic, brah?

      • Ownbestenemy

        CDC be like

        NSFW language

  41. The Late P Brooks

    The numbers they use to show that a vast majority of Covid deaths are among the unclean go back to the beginning of the year when nobody was vaccinated, so it’s misleading to say the least.

    I have been wondering about that, every time I hear one of those “90% of plague fatalities were unvaxxed!” claims.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Me too. If they want people to trust them, maybe they should stop being so manipulative. Just a thought.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    “We urge every company, across this country, to do what is right by their frontline workers and work cooperatively with their unions and employees to help end this pandemic and keep all of America’s essential workers and their families safe,” UFCW President Marc Perrone said.

    Why do I assume ol’ Marc gets a little something off the top for each employee who gets the needle?

  43. Count Potato

    “HAZARD, Ky. (WKYT) – Several parents have said they upset about inappropriate actions at an assembly at Hazard High School.

    Pictures were even posted earlier this week on the Hazard High School Athletics Facebook page. The post has since been deleted.

    The costume contest was part of their homecoming week.

    Several students dressed like Hooters restaurant employees and carried mugs that looked like they had beer in them. Other students were paddled as part of the event.

    Parents we’ve heard from were most upset about pictures showing teenage boys dressed in women’s lingerie, dancing on and near school leaders.”

    https://www.wkyt.com/2021/10/27/parents-outraged-by-inappropriate-actions-during-hazard-high-school-assembly/

    https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1453415708960886785

    • Ownbestenemy

      I think it was the twerking and playing with the teachers’ bellies that people are probably upset at. Other than that, let teens be teens and throw a crazy pageant. Most of all…you don’t video and don’t post about it.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Other than that, let teens be teens and throw a crazy pageant. Most of all…you don’t video and don’t post about it.

        Yeah, fuck that. Secretly having dress like a Hooters waitress and cross dress for a drag pageant events at government school is just as bad as doing it transparently. What happened to silly socks day and school pride day and all the normal, not oddly pedophilic, ways of having a costume week?

        Public schooling is child abuse.

      • Ownbestenemy

        If the kids came up with it and wanted to have fun with mocking or just raising the simmer point a bit, I am okay with it. I guess I wasn’t swayed by wig day or whatever and knew it was to be odd or queer (yikes!). Now school officials involved and pushing it and promoting it, yeah I agree.

        Something you’d see college students do all the time…see Nerds. I don’t see that as a driver of deviant behavior.

    • rhywun

      I’m confused. Where are wypipo getting masks for free that minorities don’t?

    • db

      Why would anyone pay $10 for a face mask? The only possible answer is social signaling.

      • rhywun

        Being an “ally” isn’t cheap.

      • EvilSheldon

        Or worth it.

  44. db

    I don’t know what it is with these flies and my beers. I just spit a mouthfull all over my keyboard and monitor when I got one in my mouth. I think that’s the last of them though.

    Sucks because it’s Troegenator–a great beer, and also has a bit of unfermented sugar, so it’s a bitch to clean up.

    • Count Potato

      OFFS!!

      • rhywun

        At this point, what power does the mayor not have?

      • Count Potato

        The power to stop crime, apparently.

    • EvilSheldon

      I have no problem with the cops being made to follow the rules that they would enforce upon the rest of us.

      • rhywun

        Feh. It’s wrong for everybody.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Cant be arsed to link the ruling. Not you rhy, but the news….Usually they throw in what they think is the money shot on logic, but here it is just “he said so, so fuck off”.

  45. Ownbestenemy

    Was enjoying there stuff…until this video and I did laugh at this part. I am after all, only human.

    • Ownbestenemy

      “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for I am the baddest Motherfucker in the Valley.”
        QED, ready,

    • rhywun

      The Age of Antichrist is not about Ozzy Osbourne and pale Goths. It’s about nebbishy Lin Jinyue, the head of Human Resources at major companies, and Silicon Valley. And it is here. They are going to use their power to establish a reign of virtue.

      True dat.

      Good stuff.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Vaccine as the Mark fits the prophesey to a tee, I saw it early and didn’t want it to be true, but if you look around the World it’s alread here,

    • db

      oh man

    • EvilSheldon

      I don’t get it. Where’s the costume?

  46. Tres Cool

    B-wad is my bitch.