Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – The Cream

by | Nov 17, 2021 | Daily Links | 311 comments

Flatten The Curve

Once again, Karen let him put the mask over her face, tighter this time. Straight up proper too – over the nose and mouth, straps over the ears. Airtight.

No one masked like Tony.

No one.

“Hit me,” she said, her voice mumbling its way through the sky blue fabric.

Before she could revel in the scent of her own exhalation, Tony’s large hands invaded her peripheral vision. He strapped another mask to her face, right over the footprint of last one, pulling the straps so hard that she could hear them cut into his fleshy fingers. Then he let them go, and they snapped like whips across the backs of her ears.

“Oh…yeah!!!” she cried out in muffled ecstasy. Her heart skipped a beat and blood rushed into her cheeks as her lungs searched in vain for fresh air. The filthy warehouse she sat in began to blur, and a suffocated bliss took over.

“Hit me,” she said. The masks translated it into incomprehensible gibberish.

But more contempt porn is always welcome. A filthy world should be the goal for us all.


 

Mike Tyson Says Psychedelic Toad Venom Helped Him Lose 100 Lbs. and Taught Him That ‘Death Is Beautiful’

Former world champion heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson dropped 100 pounds, returned to the boxing ring, and has a new understanding of life and death — and he credits psychedelic toad venom for these positive developments.

In an interview with The New York Post, Tyson described his experiences with the Sonoran Desert Toad, or Bufo alvarius, an amphibian native to Mexico. The toad “spends seven months of the year living underground, but when it’s active, its venom can be smoked to produce a short psychoactive trip,” according the Post, and it’s been getting renewed attention along with other psychedelic substances like LSD that have shown promise in treating depression, anxiety, and addiction.

Tyson first tried “the toad” four years ago, when he was 100 pounds overweight, abusing drugs and alcohol, and feeling “sluggish and unhappy.” He told the Post that he tried toad venom “as a dare,” figuring that he was already doing “heavy drugs like cocaine, so why not?”

DO THE TOAD

 


Biden nominee arrested for “retail theft” in 1995

President Biden’s nominee to lead a branch of the Treasury Department was arrested in 1995 for “retail theft.”

Fox News obtained a Wisconsin Department of Justice criminal background check of Saule Omarova, the president’s nominee to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

According to the background check, Omarova was arrested by Madison, Wisconsin, police officers on June 2, 1995 and charged with a misdemeanor count of “retail theft.”

Who could have thought “It figures?”



“Donald Trump would show me his asshole. I trust him. WHAT ARE YOU SCARED OF JOE BIDEN?”


Bauhaus’ “All We Ever Wanted Was Everything” set to fan-made video using clips from The Man Who Fell To Earth.” Works perfectly.

About The Author

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SugarFree

Your Resident Narcissistic Misogynist Rape-Culture Apologist

311 Comments

    • DEG

      Yeah.

    • EvilSheldon

      I don’t like the idea that there’s more than one SugarFree out there.

      • UnCivilServant

        He’s just cross posting his work.

      • waffles

        Has anyone ever seen GregLemon and SugarFree in the same place? Thought not.

    • juris imprudent

      virtuous asphyxiation

      I’m impressed that SF was able to contain himself and not include that.

  1. Count Potato

    Arrested doesn’t mean he’s guilty.

    • Count Potato

      OK, “she”.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        OK, “whatever.”

  2. trshmnstr the terrible

    Rittenhouse trial update:

    Defense: “We move for a mistrial…”
    ???
    Defense (cont.) : “… without prejudice.”
    ???

    • B.P.

      And now the jury is going to stare at slo mo videos and freeze frames for hours and hours until they convince themselves they see something that isn’t there.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Yep. IMO, they should’ve been all over it when the pros tried to slow-mo and freeze frame everything. “This isn’t the NFL, you’re asking for all sorts of artifacts of the 10 cent cameras, the compression technologies, etc. when you slow it down or screen shot it.”

    • The Other Kevin

      The judge has already given the prosecution warning and told them they were “over the line”. Today they found that when the prosecution gave the defense a copy of the prosecution’s most important video, the copy was in a much lower resolution, it was cropped, and the file name was different. And now they go BACKWARD like this. So frustrating.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        The judge teed it up for the defense and they whiffed. All they had to say was “this technical ‘glitch’ is the latest in a pattern of shady and underhanded tactics from the State. The jury has been unreconcilably prejudiced by this issue, and this just piled on top of the other prejudices from these prosecutors acting in bad faith (your words, judge, not mine). Mistrial with prejudice. They intentionally persecuted my client and don’t deserve another bite at the apple. Our civil suit against the state will be filed Monday. “

      • Count Potato

        Maybe they are scared of rioters too.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Unless I misunderstood, the prosecutor also lied about Handbrake, the program used on the video. The prosecutor said he didn’t know anything about the program used but Rieketa caught it on the prosecutor’s computer when opening the file.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        “They said they didn’t know what was happening. Here’s the screenshot from earlier in the trial showing a program installed on their laptop that could modify the video in exactly the ways we were complaining about.”

      • Sensei

        That’s rather interesting as HandBrake isn’t generally used to view files. Instead you usually only use it to compress video.

        Most people would use something like VLC to view files. So did the gallery at Rieketa see the distinctive pineapple and drink themed icon?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        With the caveat that I’ve only been halfway listening while working so may be wrong, they saw prosecutor’s folder when he opened the video and saw handbrake within the folder.

        The prosecutor said he didn’t know why the file was compressed and has no idea how compression worked. Something like “it must have happened automatically when sending the video to an android”. But then he has a compression program next to the video.

      • grrizzly

        I thought HandBrake was for ripping DVDs.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Genus-species. Ripping DVDs is one form of transcoding.

      • ignoreLander

        The judge has already given the prosecution warning and told them they were “over the line”. Today they found that when the prosecution gave the defense a copy of the prosecution’s most important video, the copy was in a much lower resolution, it was cropped, and the file name was different. And now they go BACKWARD like this.

        What exactly DOES the prosecution have to do to trigger a mistrial. My count we’re up to about a dozen or so things, some of them quite egregious, up to and including violating multiple of the Bill of Rights.

        I thought this judge was going to be a no-nonsense spark plug but he’s turned out to be a major major dud. The mob must have got to his family or something.

      • robc

        The news article I saw said he hadn’t reviewed that mistrial motion yet and hadn’t yet given the prosecution a chance to respond. He might be waiting on jury verdict, as they could make the point moot.

      • B.P.

        At today’s proceedings, the judge did indeed note that he’d had time to read the mistrial motion, and proceeded to lay out a trail of breadcrumbs for the defense to follow toward a mistrial. The defense gave the trail of breadcrumbs a puzzled look and said they’d be okay with a mistrial without prejudice. They must think their defense is going badly.

    • robc

      What is this one for?

      They have already filed two motions for mistrial with prejudice.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        For attempting to get the high res drone video into jury deliberations despite giving only the low res video to the defense and blaming a “technical glitch”

      • robc

        They filed for mistrial with prejudice over failing to turn over that evidence. At least according to reports I have seen.

      • db

        They said “without prejudice” in verbal discussions, but supposedly also filed for “with prejudice.”

    • db

      Yah, I’ve been watching the rekieta stream and I actually yelled “WHAT!?!?” out loud when I heard that.

  3. B.P.

    “Biden nominee arrested for “retail theft” in 1995”

    And now she’s seeking a nomination to position herself for wholesale theft.

    • grrizzly

      What did she try to steal?

      • Bobarian LMD

        I remember acting Secretary of the Army, under Clinton got snatched up for stealing women’s underwear from the PX.

        Togo West? John Shannon.

    • rhywun

      Another reason we’re not arresting people for theft any more. Imagine selflessly putting yourself out there to serve your community or country and having pesky little roadblocks like this put in your way.

      • ignoreLander

        Yup. And from what I’ve read about this women, “theft” pretty much sums up her economic philosophy.

  4. Sensei

    Biden nominee arrested for “retail theft” in 1995

    Remember when nominees used to get tossed for “nanny problems”?

    The good old days…

  5. Swiss Servator

    Good Lord…just when I thought Joemala was a bit much…these links.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      She’s been hiding out in academia, where else?

    • rhywun

      Oh, I didn’t realize this was that commie. FFS.

    • one true athena

      my fave part of the thesis story is that some press outfit asked the Lenin institute or whatever it’s called for a copy, and they answered basically “oh yeah we burned all that shit twenty years ago”. lol

    • R C Dean

      Just to be clear, this wasn’t some youthful prank. In 1995, she was 29 years old and working on her Ph.D. at UW-Madison.

      • Gustave Lytton

        “Struggling college student”

  6. Shpip

    Tyson first tried “the toad” four years ago, when he was 100 pounds overweight

    already doing “heavy drugs like cocaine”

    Does not compute.

    • UnCivilServant

      Isn’t cocaine a light powder?

    • B.P.

      I think this is, “Sure I’ll try the toad. I’m already jacking myself up. What do I have to lose.”

  7. UnCivilServant

    Fucking Detroit Garbage!

    My Mexican-made Focus didn’t have so many issues, just a few pieces of character with the radio and shifter collar.

    Now my right front turn signal has gone the way of the left. That’s probably another $900 because it’s not going to be the bulb, it’ll be the socket assembly.

    Fuck the UAW.

    • Sensei

      I just dumped $900 into repairing my Ford Explorer sunroof.

      Part of that blame can no doubt be made on NYS’s salt encrusted roads. Ford and every other OEM has done the calculation that it doesn’t pay to spend the money on prevention in wire harnesses that only 1/3rd or so of the US coats in salt.

    • pistoffnick

      “Fuck the UAW.”

      Agree.

    • juris imprudent

      Well you could always wait a couple of years to buy a new car compliant with the latest mandates.

  8. Brochettaward

    Saule Omarova is a full blown commie who wants to do away with private bank accounts.

    • Tonio

      Nice.

    • SugarFree

      Hollywood has been threatening a The Man Who Fell To Earth remake after the success of Queen’s Gambit. Imagine how fucking shitty that will be.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Starring Tilda Swinton as David Bowie?

      • Chafed

        Lol.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Tilda Swinton as David Bowie

        {shrug} It’d work.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        And that is why I don’t watch movies of books I have read.

        They will probably try to do The Hustler next, with CGI.

  9. Old Man With Candy

    We convinced someone to smoke a toad at one of my buddies’ wedding.

    • Ozymandias

      Phrasing? Or you actually had someone do bufo at a wedding? ‘Cuz that would be a very interesting wedding.

      • The Other Kevin

        Sounds like one of those “and then the groom got arrested” kinds of weddings.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Utah Sail Toad. We made up a wonderful story in advance to get a guy to smoke it. It was a small toad that got flattened in our driveway, then sun-dried over a week or so. Carefully peeled, folded, placed in a Balkan Sobranie tin for the reveal. He took a few hits and thought he might be feeling something.

      • Spudalicious

        Glorious.

    • UnCivilServant

      Hickory-smoked frog’s legs?

    • Tonio

      Go on…

    • kinnath

      Mesquite or Hickory?

  10. Sensei

    If you are crooked cop doing a Walter White imitation, don’t piss off your wife.

    Cops saw materials and chemicals used to make methamphetamine as well as meth residue in glassware in the basement and a backyard shed when they were called to Walls’ home on West End Avenue in Long Branch on May 15 for a domestic disturbance, officials said.

    Former cop admits running meth lab out of his N.J. home

    • UnCivilServant

      You don’t run a meth lab in your home. That is all kinds of stupid. You don’t want to sleep with those fumes.

      • Bobarian LMD

        If you’re running a meth lab, I don’t think sleep is one of your issues.

        Invisible spiders are an issue… And the neighbor being a member of NSA spying on you…

        And dentistry.

        But not sleep.

      • UnCivilServant

        Don’t use your own supply.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        And not having any light bulbs.

  11. Mojeaux

    “smoke a toad”

    Ozy had to explain that to me because sweet little Mormon girl.

    • juris imprudent

      So it will be a short?

    • UnCivilServant

      Yup. Allred makes me believe whoever hired her is in the wrong.

      But I’ll embrace the power of ‘and’. Whoever hired her is in the wrong and Alec is guilty of manslaughter for his reckless disregard of basic firearm safety.

    • SugarFree

      There was a rumor, a few hours after the first reports, that the director asked Baldwin for another take of a scene and Baldwin jokingly said something like “Don’t ask me for another take, motherfucker!” pulled out the gun and shot at the director.

      The story got disappeared quickly, but it makes me wonder.

    • Chafed

      What are the odds Allred knows what it means to cock a gun?

      • UnCivilServant

        “Something to do with rape.” -Allred

    • rhywun

      I dare Biden to cancel flights from Africa.

      • C. Anacreon

        The news media probably won’t even report on it, for fear of using ‘monkey’ and Africa in the same sentence.

    • Penguin

      Ok, if Sensei can post Peter Schilling, I can post this. As apropos, but with less taste.

      • Penguin

        Oops, that was Rat on a Train. My bad.

    • UnCivilServant

      “What’s so hard to understand about ‘Freedom of Speech’, Alex?”

    • Ted S.

      Now do Kathy Griffin.

      • TARDis

        Now do Kathy Griffin.

        No thankee. I’ll masturbate with a cheese microplane first.

    • ignoreLander

      Every time I see that

      ‘depiction of the murder of a member of Congress’

      garbage, it makes me sick to my stomach. Pelosi said something similar.

      They truly do see themselves as the important, upper crust of our nation. Real, true threats of violence against anyone else (see: NYC policing proposal, Kenosha)? Ain’t no thang.

      A fake, obviously humorous “threat” against a politician? *PEARLS HAVE BEEN CLUTCHED* AIR HAS BEEN GASPED*

      Lock them in solitary confinement for 10 months or so without trial. We can’t EVER have the ruling class questioned.

  12. Chafed

    OSHA has suspended enforcement of the its vax mandate. I only see it on National Review. Funny that isn’t considered breaking news.

  13. Sean

    LOL

    • Fatty Bolger

      What’s this about?

  14. Scruffy Nerfherder

    That butthole video is everything I expected.

  15. DEG

    “Donald Trump would show me his asshole. I trust him. WHAT ARE YOU SCARED OF JOE BIDEN?”

    WTF?

    • C. Anacreon

      Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.

      Not in New York.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Not like you.

  16. Scruffy Nerfherder

    SJWednesday: People With Crippling Disease Don’t Want A Cure, Just Your Compliance

    As the sibling of an autistic person, I felt it was my duty to do these things to show my support for her and others like her.

    Here’s the thing, though: Many autistic people don’t actually want a cure.

    More heartbreakingly, I didn’t realize that my own sister felt that way, too – that as I was proudly marching to help her, she was right there silently wishing that I wasn’t.

    It was incredibly insensitive, and even ableist, of me to advocate for her without first checking with her to see if she wanted my advocacy.

    And what I would later learn is that the most critical part of being an ally is prioritizing the voices of the marginalized, like Caley’s, instead of overwriting their words and beliefs with our own assumptions.

    If you’re advocating for an autism cure, you’re making the same mistake that I once was.

    • Mojeaux

      So is autism a disease that can be cured, or what? Because I thought autism was just the way a person’s brain was wired.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        See below.

        “Autism” is a diagnosis of symptoms that is too often used to just shoo away difficult patients by doctors who don’t know what to do. I’ve been though this with my son, and I can tell you that I hate his original pediatrician for doing exactly that. It was only through our own efforts that we found that he had crippling underlying health issues that could be treated. The medical system just labeled him and sent him packing.

      • Mojeaux

        My son’s first drug dealer (APRN) wanted to dx him with autism and sent him to a pair of child psychiatrists. They came back with ODD and ADHD. She just shook her head and said, “I would swear he’s autistic.” We don’t have her anymore. His current drug dealer is a psychiatrist who doesn’t do much talk therapy.

        Anyway, I told my son he couldn’t rely on drugs forever and the drugs are there to help him establish some coping mechanisms, and that he IS going to have to develop some coping mechanisms because some of his problems are just his personality and he needs to learn how to get on in the world.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Anyway, I told my son he couldn’t rely on drugs forever and the drugs are there to help him establish some coping mechanisms, and that he IS going to have to develop some coping mechanisms because some of his problems are just his personality and he needs to learn how to get on in the world.

        The level of courage and foresight required to say that to your son is uncommon. You’re a damn good mom.

      • Mojeaux

        Thanks, Trashy. That means a lot.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Seconded

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I encourage people to look into Amy Yasko when discussing autism.

        Her research in this area has been underpromoted and underutilized.

      • Akira

        some of his problems are just his personality and he needs to learn how to get on in the world.

        My life got immeasurably better when I realized this.

        I think there are a ton of grown adults with no official DSM diagnoses who need to hear this, but these days it’s in fashion to get as far away from that as possible – popular notions of “my truth” and whatnot.

      • robc

        Lots* of autistic kids who go thru ABA therapy lose their diagnosis. Is that a cure?

        My daughters feeding therapist (who is a PhD psychologist who knows a lot more than just pediatric feeding) was surprised my daughter still has the diagnosis. But, yeah, I still see it so wasn’t surprised. The psychologist who did the followup (January of this year) pretty much said that she probably only diagnosed her based on the previous diagnosis. With a complete blank slate she might not have.

        There is a big argument between different branches of psychology of this. Some are of the “once saved, always saved” branch — the diagnosis is for life. The behaviorists think otherwise, if there is a room of 30 kids and you can’t pick out the autistic one, then there isn’t an autistic one (or they all are). Sort of a Turing test.

        *I think the number is something like 56%.

    • EvilSheldon

      Let this be a lesson to all the ‘allies’ out there – no matter how had you advocate, no matter how much you give, no matter how shamefully you abase yourself, it will never, ever be enough.

      You are the blood dolls for a cult of emotional vampires.

      • Drake

        Grifters want to collect tribute.

    • Sensei

      JFC…

    • Ted S.

      What about those autistic people who do want cures, you fucking cunt?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’ll speak from some personal experience here. “Autism” is a diagnosis of symptoms that can have many possible underlying causes, some more common than others, some known, some unknown.

      Some of these symptoms are physically crippling and lead to lifelong health issues and suffering.

      People keep misunderstanding this critical point, but there is no cure for autism.

      There is no “cure” per se, simply because it is not a one size fits all scenario. Some of the effects cannot be treated, some can. Some causes are hardwired into genetics, some are neurological inflammation issues brought on by gut disease. Some are caused by heavy metal poisoning at critical developmental points. There’s a laundry list of issues at play and this person throws them all the window because there isn’t a “cure.”

      To just handwave away the problems and move towards “acceptance” is to actually marginalize the needs of a significant number of people, and I suspect that this call is more motivated by those who wish to call themselves “neuro-atypical” than it is by any desire to help those who need it. See below:

      So What’s an Autism Ally to Do?

      1. Don’t Donate Money Towards Cure, Cause, and Prevention Organizations

      • Not Adahn

        Donate to meeee!

    • Sensei

      Reminds of the deaf community and cochlear implants.

      • slumbrew

        I really need to refresh before commenting.

    • Bobarian LMD

      When it comes to autistic screeching, I guess you went right to the source.

    • ignoreLander

      I ran this through Google SJW and here’s what it came back with:

      “My personal anecdote about a relative, which might or might not be true, means we shouldn’t be trying to cure a condition that millions of people have now, and will have in the future. Screw those that actually might want a cure”.

    • ignoreLander

      Also,

      It was incredibly insensitive, and even ableist, of me to advocate for her without first checking with her to see if she wanted my advocacy.

      Hey, now do black people.

    • slumbrew

      See, also, deaf people opposed to cochlear implants.

    • juris imprudent

      No, this makes sense. It will help everyone accept their handicap from Diana Moon Glampers. We are all to embrace that which brings us to the lowest possible common denominator – then we have equity.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Now that right there is CRT in practice.

      It’s an outgrowth of postmodernist theory.

    • rhywun

      ?

    • robc

      I sort of agree. Pre-20th century, there was no pretense of objectivity.

      That is why cities had competing newspapers. You had clear “Republican” newspapers and “Democrat” newspapers. The key was, they were open and honest about it.

      I have no problems with going back to that.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Judges could make miscreants work as a journalo at the Republican newspapers (the same way they used to say Jail or the Army).

        Because why else would any sentient being ever work at a non-Dem newspaper? Can you even imagine?

      • creech

        Not only were they open and honest about it, their reporters made it a point to ferret out every graft, grift, incompetency, and cronyism practiced by the other party.
        Voters might still re-elect the bums, but their evil deeds were out there for all to read about. An there was some nasty shit too: when Democrat Andrew Johnson went back to Tennessee (after being president) and ran for congress, his fellow Democrats backed someone else in the primary and slandered Johnson’s wife as a whore. Wife was so upset by this malicious reporting, that she committed suicide.

    • Not Adahn

      Wonder if the Chron is going to cover this.

      Lol, I crack myself up sometimes.

  17. Tundra

    I have no idea if Iron Mike is telling the truth, but psychedelics sure appear to be valuable for nudging fucked up brains.

    Any microdosers here?

    (Not a Fed)

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      I have pretty much less than zero interest in most drugs, but the medical uses of MDMA (Ecstasy, a known empathogen) to deal with things like PTSD fascinates me. I’d love to try MDMA under controlled circumstances and dose regime, simply because I suspect it would help me with “integrating” some of the traumas I’ve had throughout my life that I can’t quite shake.

      • Tundra

        Precisely this. Peter Attia has had a number of people on his podcast that present damn compelling arguments.

      • rhywun

        I don’t know about any of that but it’s probably the most fun I’ve ever had with a recreational drug. No downsides, at least from the few times I tried it.

    • R C Dean

      Hell, Timothy Leary (who people forget was a highly trained and regarded researcher) showed some very interesting results with LSD. There is no question in my mind that psychedelics have therapeutic uses, but researching it is illegal (effectively), so . . . .

    • Ozymandias

      If they are treated with the respect they deserve, and done with the proper self-preparation, the results are life-changing.
      They have been for me, anyway. And I know someone who uses hallucinogenics to get amazing results in people’s lives.
      The toad might be a bit much to just jump in with, but I’ve seen people do it successfully.
      Ayahuasca, ibogaine, bufo, psilocybin, peyote, MDMA, ketamine are finally coming to be viewed as something more than just “hard drugs” that should put users in prison.

    • DrOtto

      I have had nothing but positive experiences on psychedelics (‘shrooms and LSD). I wouldn’t say they’ve been micro doses, but I don’t get too carried away either.

  18. Count Potato

    “| NEW: In order to respect the Paris agreement and save the planet, an ideal citizen must:

    • Shower three times per week, max 8 minutes
    • Stop playing video games
    • Buy three shirts max per year and two trousers
    • 2 hours max of streaming per day”

    https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1460963425987829767

    • Fatty Bolger

      Fuck that, let the Earth burn.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Let our leaders show us the way by example.

    • The Other Kevin

      Did they come up with that during the meeting that everyone flew to in a private jet?

    • Tundra

      Blow me.

      • Pope Jimbo

        That is 2 x year comrade

      • Tundra

        Wow.

        Lucky.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        So, birthday and anniversary?

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      So, we’re all supposed to be 1960s Europeans?

      • UnCivilServant

        No, you’re supposed to be 960s Europeans, they just have trouble getting you there in one hop.

      • Bobarian LMD

        COVID was supposed to be the Black Plague, but they fucked that up, too!

    • Ed Wuncler

      Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you.

      Tired of these rich assholes telling me to stop consuming so they can save they can feel better about themselves.

    • slumbrew

      ideal citizen

      Gargle my balls, authoritarian shitstains.

    • ignoreLander

      Finally, an excuse to stop bathing.

      The rest of those, yeah, imma hafta say ‘fook you in da ear’.

    • rhywun

      Good thing I’m not an ideal citizen.

    • The Hyperbole

      Make it four and I’m good
      Okay
      Okay
      Are we talking video or does Sirius/XM count as streaming?

      • The Hyperbole

        Oh and my four showers will only be 5 minutes long so I’m ahead of the 3-8minute showerers.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Is it really even a shower if you stand in the backyard and spray the hose at your crotch for 5 minutes?

      • The Hyperbole

        Hose? I use the Wham-O Fun Fountain like any civilized person.

      • slumbrew

        Well la-ti-dah, with your fancy bidet!

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        What, you couldn’t spring for the Foam Party Factory?

      • Tundra

        Euphemism?

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Most definitely

    • one true athena

      I think we’re gonna need a lot more woodchippers and helicopter rides to save planet earth.

    • EvilSheldon

      Hmmmmm.

      On the one hand, I could be an ideal citizen and save the planet.

      On the other hand, I could drink whiskey sours, eat ribeyes, shoot guns, play loud guitar music, ride motorcycles, and participate in a wide and wonderful array of other perversions.

      Hmm.

      Real angel/devil moment here, let me tell you…

      • slumbrew

        I like the cut of your jib, sir.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Ahem…suck my dick.

    • creech

      I know what will really get the college kids on board: no Spring Breaks, no Semesters Abroad.

    • Animal

      NEW: In order to respect the Paris agreement and save the planet not angering Animal, an ideal citizen must:

      Fuck off and mind your own damn business.

      • juris imprudent

        You got some species other than humans in mind?

    • Zwak, sensual panzer

      Huh, I already do most of that.

      It’s called being cheap. I spend my money on shit that the watermelons don’t like though, like guzzaline.

  19. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Cringey work situation is official (kind of – my friend still needs to go through a lengthy process to get the job). I guess I’ll be seeing her on a conference call sooner or later.

    Shit.

    I’ve never worked with a friend before (I’ve made friends with people I work with, but never worked with a friend I’ve met outside work). And she’s going to be, like, my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss.

    I’m just ready to get out of dodge.

    • rhywun

      she’s going to be, like, my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss

      Oh, hell no. Sorry.

    • ignoreLander

      And she’s going to be, like, my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss.

      Ouch. Yeah, I wouldn’t have a problem working with a friend who was on my level, but that circumstance, yeah that’d be a deal breaker for me. Get out while the getting’s good.

    • Ed Wuncler

      I worked for a friend and it did not end well. I wasn’t comfortable with what the guy who owned our small company and the pay was bad, I decided to put in my two week notice after a year of working there. He took it bad and told me that while I was invited to his wedding (COVID pushed it back and still haven’t picked a date) he didn’t want me to be one of his groomsmen (he was a groomsman at my wedding). We haven’t talked in four years.

      • Tundra

        I went into business with a couple friends.

        Bad, bad, bad, bad idea.

        Bad.

        It’s like owning property with family. You will regret it.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Yeah, owned a house with my brother once. Never do that again!

      • Raven Nation

        I believe I remember hearing you post about this as it was happening. It was not a good thing that happened.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      . . . my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss.

      You gotta be shittin’ me.

      I’d be outta there so fast you’d think Einstein was wrong about the speed of light.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      When I say get out of dodge, I mean my physical location. I ain’t leaving the organization unless they kick me out.

      The good thing is, my friend’s job is a…temporary assignment. If you know what I’m getting at. If you don’t know what I’m getting at, no worries 😉

      • one true athena

        You’re friends with Kamala?

    • Not Adahn

      hells to the yeah!

      Far enough away to have zero direct interaction, close enough to gather a ring of suckups trying to get you to put in a good word.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        close enough to gather a ring of suckups trying to get you to put in a good word

        This is what I’m afraid of…

      • Not Adahn

        Suckups are there to be exploited. Even moreso than orphans because they’re voluntarily putting themselves in that position.

    • juris imprudent

      Isn’t that appointee level?

      • whahappan

        I believe that’s what she was implying with the “temporaray” part.

  20. Count Potato

    “Scott Alexander has cracked the ivermectin riddle. The drug does appear to help a little bit—in areas where intestinal worms are common. Worms render the immune system less able to fight off covid. By killing the worms, ivermectin was helping indirectly.”

    https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1460951571521585157

    *doubt*

    • Tundra

      Bullshit.

    • ignoreLander

      This explains why some specific studies conducted in places like India and Bangladesh show very mildly positive results for ivermectin.

      “very mildly positive results” like pretty much eradicating the disease in that one Indian province? Yeah, add me to the “bullshit” list too.

    • R C Dean

      Ivermectin is mainly used as an anti-parasite. Does it have demonstrated anti-viral properties (and I’m hoping for something other than observational studies, which is all we have with COVID)? I genuinely don’t know.

      • DEG

        I remember reading about some work using ivermectin to treat some tropical viral diseases and in vitro work on Covid-19.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        As I understood it, IVM inhibits furin (an enzyme made by our own bodies with useful protein-altering properties such as folding, unwinding or cleaving) from cleaving the virus’ spike protein (a necessary precondition to the virus “invading” human cells via the ACE2 receptor site and replicating).

        I thought that’s also what the new “breakthrough” Pfizer drug (another protease inhibitor) supposedly does.

        {shrug}

      • Pope Jimbo

        We don’t like furin-ers around here boy.

        Take your funny talking ass back to where every you came from

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        If that’s the case, it would mean that the Pfizer pill may be useful in minimizing the deleterious effects of the Pfizer shot. One proposed mechanism for the damage caused by the shot is the cleaved subunit (S1) getting into the blood stream and wreaking havoc. I’m thisclose to officially predicting that a shot-pill cocktail will be standard for boosters by this time next year.

      • juris imprudent

        the Pfizer pill may be useful in minimizing the deleterious effects of the Pfizer shot.

        Either marketing brilliance or Harkonnen evil – it’s a close call.

      • Not Adahn

        Piter has given you a residual poison. The antidote is in this sleek cat. You must pet it every day if you want to live.

      • juris imprudent

        Stupid Lynch ‘innovation’.

  21. DEG

    Rittenhouse jury is breaking for the day.

    • ignoreLander

      Alright who was it yesterday that had “Friday” on your bingo card? I’d say that’s looking pretty likely.

      Maybe they’re taking a page from the biden regime and they plan on releasing it at 9:30 Friday night so no one notices.

      • R C Dean

        Is it wrong that I’m hoping for a full acquittal because it will set off riots nationwide? Because that feels wrong.

      • ignoreLander

        Is it wrong that I’m hoping for a full acquittal because it will set off riots nationwide? Because that feels wrong.

        Actually that’s best case scenario. First, the law actually does right by Kyle. Secondly, nationwide riots set off by justice clearly being rendered, might just MIGHT be the thing that awakens those obliviates to who the real threat is in this country.

      • C. Anacreon

        I keep learning that many people in this country think that Rittenhouse killed two black people who were peaceful BLM protestors. No wonder there’s so many wanting to riot about it.

        And I’m sure the networks will be on that right away, to make sure people are accurately informed and don’t riot for the wrong reasons.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        It’s such a spirit of the age to be riled to a froth about something you’re woefully ignorant about.

      • robc

        Maybe the $6 a day is just too juicy to resist.

        I think that is what I got, maybe it was $7.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I think Minnesoda was paying me $13/day.

        I was a contractor at the time and let’s say that that was slightly below my normal billing rate.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      “Handbrake” is trending on the Tweeters. LOL

      I hope FaFu and Dandy Binger get their comeuppance.

      • R C Dean

        Me, too.

        *peruses voluminous history of prosecutorial misconduct without consequence*

        But I’m not optimistic.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Me neither. But I’m generally a white pill type.

    • R C Dean

      Rittenhouse jury is breaking for the day.

      Juror R C: Here’s the dealio, fellow jurors. I will not vote for a conviction on any charges. Period. Full stop. Not gonna happen.

      So, really, the only options on the table are acquittal, or we sit here until the judge gives up, hopefully before Christmas, says its a hung jury, and calls a mistrial. Your call.

      • Pope Jimbo

        While we wait, you have a choice.

        I can give you my lecture on jury nullification and why it is one of the citizen’s great powers

        OR

        I can read you SF’s entire collected Hat and Hair stories.

      • R C Dean

        This isn’t even a nullification case. That’s really for defendants who are clearly guilty of breaking an unjust law. This case is a straight-up not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

      • DrOtto

        I’d go with Subaru Horror Theater…

  22. Sean

    Did Suthen get his new flashlight? Inquiring minds want to know.

    • SugarFree

      Learn to spell, moran!

      • mock-star

        10/10

    • Ted S.

      I thought he was looking for a fleshlight.

      • slumbrew

        *points to SF’s comment, cues Rainier Wolfcastle*

  23. limey

    26yo shoplifting charge? Was it even prosecuted?

    This opposition research garbage is clutching at straws. I don’t care who’s doing it.

    • Not Adahn

      The fact shat she was a no-shit card-carrying CP of the USSR member should have been disqualifying.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ?

      • limey

        Well, that, yes. That’s a thing.

      • grrizzly

        Was she? I haven’t seen this claim before. I thought she was too young be become a Communist Party member before leaving for America.

      • Ted S.

        Didn’t she go to MGU? I would have thought college-aged was old enough to become a Party member.

      • grrizzly

        At the time she was most likely a Komsomol member. It’s not the same as being a CP (КПСС) member. Theoretically she could be a party member but that was unusual for her age.

      • C. Anacreon

        In America there’s plenty of Bud Light and you can always find a party.

        In Soviet Russia, party always find you.

      • Not Adahn

        I may be mistaken. I somehow got the idea that joining the party was part of getting an econ degree.

  24. Not Adahn

    You know what’s better than arriving home to a dog and a smoked turkey on the doorstep? Arriving home to a dog, a smoked turkey, and a case of birdshot on your doorstep.

    #shotgungames

    • Not Adahn

      I may have to install a tighter choke for this. I’ll pattern on Saturday.

    • slumbrew

      Why is your dog on the doorstep? Poor girl, outside all day.

      • Not Adahn

        You’re kidding right? This girl LOVES the cold. She will move out of a sunbeam to take a nap.

      • slumbrew

        Last dog had a double coat and would just dive into snowdrifts.

    • Sean

      ?

    • Ted S.

      I hate having birdshit on my doorstep.

    • Spudalicious

      What size shot, what are you shooting(at), and what choke are you using?

    • Urthona

      Arriving home to a case of smoked dog = not good.

  25. trshmnstr the terrible

    TFW you spike the 4 year old’s apple juice with laxative (long story) and you hear “HEY [1 YEAR OLD] STOP DRINKING MY APPLE JUICE!” from across the house.

    • Ted S.

      Sounds like you’re having a shitty day.

    • slumbrew

      Get ready to have some fun spread around

    • ignoreLander

      Is there an English version of that thread?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Summary: If you fail the reverse paper bag test you ain’t really black.

      • rhywun

        Stewardess, I speak jive.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        What it is, big mama? My mama din’t raise no dummies. I dug her rap!

      • ignoreLander

        Example #2,751,773 in file folder: Classic things that could never be done today, and praise the Lord they got made when they did.

    • Lady Z

      Guess they didn’t vote for Biden.

    • Lackadaisical

      Hilarious, when I was a kid I used to think this, not was always afraid to say it.

    • Suthenboy

      Another steaming pile of racist shit. Racist really is for retarded simpletons.

    • Raven Nation

      “transient schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety.”

      Umm, yeah.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        What? me every day?

    • rhywun

      He should be in a mental institution if anything.

      Prison seems to be the first choice for the mentally ill these days.

      Four people died in the violence.

      Et tu, Daily Mail?

      I’m still trying to figure out what exact crime he committed. ??‍♂️

      • Lackadaisical

        Right there with you. Sounds like baloney.

      • Suthenboy

        “Four people died in the violence.”

        No they did not.

      • ignoreLander

        One person died in the violence, and she was an unarmed vet posing no threat to anyone, but frankly I’m sick as shit of repeating it so whatever. They win. By sheer brute force, sure whatever. Hey let’s make it 400 died in the violence, why not?

    • pistoffnick

      Four years for trespassing? Did he do any rioting?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        He trespassed and acted the fool in the sacred halls of democracy…hallowed ground. He had to pay.

      • ignoreLander

        Damn right. Just like that guy who stole beer from Pelosi’s office. Nothing says dignity and decorum like stashing beer in your Congressional office.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Steal my beer and we will have words….
        /Pelosi

  26. Yusef drives a Kia

    Our Disc club set up a new hole with one of our won baskets, so now we have 6, times 3 makes 18 holes, we are happy!
    Nick, Angela and Bob,
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/q9ZvdYgdBTPT5ouc8

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      The color is amazing,

      • slumbrew

        KK from the top rope!

      • The Hyperbole

        I’m surrounded by Philistines!

      • slumbrew

        Are you suggesting that Zoom bullshit/drinking sessions are a mark of refinement?

      • The Hyperbole

        Only when Festus is participating .He tempers the crudeness of the rest of you jerks.

      • slumbrew

        Tonio dresses up special sometimes – what’s classier than that?

    • Zwak, sensual panzer

      That isn’t bad.

  27. Sean

    Pallets of bricks found on the streets in Kenosha.

    I hope the sequel doesn’t disappoint. The first one was quite original.

    • Q Continuum

      How is there not more curiosity about where these bricks come from?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        no, silly, they come from the brick store, these were just donations for new sidewalks…..

      • Urthona

        The brick store called and they’re running out of YOU.

    • kinnath

      for real?

    • slumbrew

      Link?

      • slumbrew

        I’m sure clicking on that will get me on another list.

        *checks VPN status*

        Here I go…

      • slumbrew

        Audio looks legit, at first glance. Heightened awareness of bricks or someone prepositioning piles? I dunno.

        I’d love to see some surveillance video of somebody dropping bricks off.

      • Urthona

        What was so suspicious? Were the bricks black?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Black Bricks Matter!

    • Suthenboy

      They re going to riot regardless of the verdict. It is just an excuse for them to sew mayhem and shred our social fabric. This shit won’t end until they win or we shut them down. I keep thinking of what the UC cop that infiltrated ANTIFA said…”In the end we are going to have to shoot them.”

      Match the bricks with a retailer. Get a warrant, find o ut who the purchaser is. Trace the money used to pay for the bricks.
      This is pretty simple police work. The commie thugs are getting away with it because we are letting them get away with it.

      • creech

        The only “police work” going on is tracking down every last “insurrectionist” of Jan. 6th.

    • slumbrew

      Yeeeeah! Suck-it, Hype!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        That’s not nice, at least he was trying,

      • slumbrew

        Do you imagine that is a serious comment?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Around here you never know,

      • The Hyperbole

        That’s no way to talk to a long time glib like Hyperion.

  28. Yusef drives a Kia

    A big Shout out to all who helped me, i’m paying bills and laying low for a while, hopefully I can heal my back like my Neurologist said,
    it takes time,

    • rhywun

      ??

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Racist! Homo! I knew MAGA was Ghey!

    • DEG

      🙂

  29. rhywun

    So I was wondering why the destruction of the building next door ground to a halt a week and a half ago, and as I was passing through the sidewalk shed today after I cut out of work early to buy some liquor and saw a sign attached to the plank stating that all work must cease until further notice. Something about “safety violations”.

    I wonder if somebody caught wind of the guy I saw looking out my bedroom window doing the balancing beam act without any visible safety gear three stories above a gutted out basement full of crumbling debris.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      “doing the balancing beam act without any visible safety gear three stories above a gutted out basement full of crumbling debris.”
      Sounds about right for people who get shit done, safety is a consideration, but getting it done is the Sign of Manhood! ‘Murica!
      Fuck Yeah!

      • kinnath

        Safety Third!

      • The Hyperbole

        If you ain’t missing digit or two you haven’t really lived.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        WRONG! it means you weren’t paying attention, ever drive a Wormdrive Skilsaw? that will fuck you up.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        That’s just a stupid staement, what an …..

      • juris imprudent

        If you ain’t missing digit or two you haven’t really lived.

        My brother was a machinist before he retired. He said you could always tell a foreman by the number of fingers he was missing (and thus moved up).

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I have done the trapeze many times, above ceilings , over T bar, lot’s of fun and a challenge, but if you fall, yikes!

      • rhywun

        It was weird because they WERE wearing safety gear during the previous couple weeks of tearing the roof up.

        Finally all the girders were exposed and I have no idea what that guy was doing but I couldn’t watch any longer it was so… wrong.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I hate it, but sometimes you need to break all the rules to get shit done. you setup and do it, and hope it works out.
        welcome to Real building.

      • rhywun

        Except he wasn’t doing anything. Or carrying any tools that I could see. There was nobody else nearby ready to throw up a tool or catch him if he fell. Everyone else was busy in another area knocking down a brick wall.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Well then, stupid is as stupid does I guess,

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        When I play high in the air, I think rock climbing, eveery move is preplanned and when you ar ready you make the push, and don’t stop, or you die,

  30. Tundra

    Ripptoe and Musser on comedies.

    Their movie episodes are great. You don’t need to agree to be entertained and enjoy the memories.

  31. westernsloper

    I would have got to the links earlier but I was allowing my rouged cock to bob to a beat only he can hear.

    • slumbrew

      And Sloper ends up on yet another list…

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      with MLW present?, God no, I’m not SF,