Friday Night SMITHs Advice

by | Dec 3, 2021 | Advice, Cryptids | 208 comments

IT MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF YEAR!

 

STEVE SMITH WISH ALL FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN HOOMANS PEACE ON EARTH AND GOOD RAPE TO ALL. HIM HELP WITH LAST PART.

HIM ALSO HELP WITH ADVICE! STEVE SMITH BRING COUSIN SEA SMITH HELP TOO.  HIM ALSO SMART AND GIVE GOODEST ADVICES. NOW HERE ADVICE. FROM STEVE SMITH. THEN SEA SMITH.

 

Q: My loving daughter and her husband have been having dinner every night with us since my wife and I have both been too ill to cook. They bring their meal to our house and share with us. They have been extremely generous and helpful during our recovery time.

My son-in-law has started an irritating habit of holding up fingers as I am talking, supposedly indicating the number of times he has heard the story I am telling. This was somewhat amusing the first time or two, but has gotten to the point where I don’t want to say much of anything at the table.

How should this be handled? We love them both dearly and need and appreciate their help very much.

 

A: INVITE STEVE SMITH OVER DINNER. HIM HOLD UP FINGERS. IT MEAN HOW MANY TIME HIM RAPE SON-IN-LAW. STEVE SMITH THINK HIM GET MESSAGE. AND RAPE.

YOU WELCOME FOR GOOD ADVICE!

 

FREE CASCADIA!

 

SEA SMITH PLAY WITH SHIP!

 

SEA SMITH TURN! HE GIVE GOODEST ADVICES. HE SMART – YOU SEE!

Q: When I bring a dish to a gathering, is it proper for another guest to add seasonings to it to suit their taste? I believe it’s only right to season the food you’ve taken, not the entire dish. Two family members are always trying to adjust the food for everyone to their specific tastes.

A: THAT RUDE! NEXT TIME, TAKE BOILING HOT SOUP. WHEN FAMILY HOOMAN TRY CHANGE IT, SHOVE HEAD IN POT. YELL “SEASON THIS!” SEA SMITH PREDICT NO MORE TRY SEASON FOOD.

SEE? BEST ADVICES FROM SEA SMITH.

 

COME ON IN. WATER IS FINE!

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208 Comments

  1. Shpip

    Surprised that STEVE SMITH hasn’t been flogging his Christmas ornament yet this holiday season.

    By flogging, mean…

    • Fourscore

      That’s cold, the ornament

  2. Ted S.

    First one:

    Maybe you should stop telling the same damn stories over and over.

    • Suthenboy

      Oh? Just wait, you will hit that age too one day. Usually when I start telling a story everyone sighs and droops their shoulders while mumbling “How many times have I heard this? Here we go again…”

      “Hey, just shut up and listen. When you get old you can get your revenge and torment everyone with y our one hundredth telling of the same stories.”

      Now, let me tell you about the time…..

      • rhywun

        I’ve done that but usually it was after ingesting a lot of some illicit substance.

      • Fourscore

        If you only know one story you go with what you’ve got.

      • Swiss Servator

        “No shit, there I was…Panjshir Valley and…”

      • Fourscore

        “I was on this ship, see, we were headed to…”

      • DenverJ

        Sure. But the silver lining is that I’m also remembering old stories that I haven’t told in years. I’m recalling things that I did in my early 20s, and boring people with brand new stories. Also, that’s weird, right? I mean, they say that memories are actually memories of memories that you keep refreshing, so why am I now remembering things from 30 years ago? Does it mean I only have 20 something years left to live?

      • Fourscore

        When I start a story it seems my granddaughters sort of drift off and go upstairs to see what Grandma is cooking

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Does it mean I only have 20 something years left to live?

        Less, actually.

  3. DEG

    THAT RUDE! NEXT TIME, TAKE BOILING HOT SOUP. WHEN FAMILY HOOMAN TRY CHANGE IT, SHOVE HEAD IN POT. YELL “SEASON THIS!” SEA SMITH PREDICT NO MORE TRY SEASON FOOD.

    Not bad advice.

    • Suthenboy

      I am not shy. More than a few times I have told people straight up – Get the hell out of the kitchen when I am cooking.

      • slumbrew

        I have definitely told my wife to get out of the kitchen and stop trying to “help”

      • Ted S.

        You enjoy sleeping on the couch?

      • Swiss Servator

        …maybe she likes that…

      • Lachowsky

        after a few unnecessary fight in the early years of my marriage, i have learned to no longer touch anything my wife is cooking. it aint worth the trouble.

      • Fourscore

        I’m with you, Lach, I eat what the missus cooks, I clean up my own part of the table and get the hell out of the kitchen. I go to bed early, get up early, my wife is the opposite. Many days I don’t see her ’til noon. I eat my oatmeal watching the news, by lunchtime I’m ready to eat again and my wife has just finished her breakfast. Finally at dinner we can eat together, unless there is a home shopping
        program that has to be watched, then I eat alone again. It’s not too bad, no arguments.

      • Lachowsky

        i leave the house at 5 every morning for work. I’m lucky enough to be in a position where the wife hasn’t had to work in 4 or so years, since she got pregnant with my youngest daughter. Im always in bed before her, but it seems to work out okay. we had our 10 year anniversary this year.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I’ve a female friend I’ve said that to many a time over the last 25 years. She’s genuinely scared to come into the kitchen now. (That’s the way I like it, too.  ;-) )

  4. Ted S.

    Second one:

    Are you seasoning the dish wrong?

  5. MikeS

    supposedly indicating the number of times he has heard the story I am telling.

    ✌?

    • rhywun

      ? should get the message across.

      • Lackadaisical

        Exactly.

      • Chafed

        There comes a time when it’s only right to pull out your junk.

  6. Gadfly

    What monster tries to re-season the whole dish someone else made? I don’t always agree with SEA SMITH’s advice, but here I think he (she/it?) is spot on.

    • rhywun

      SEA is absolutely right. I would just invite those people ever again.

      • rhywun

        “not” ← insert somewhere

      • DenverJ

        SEA is absolutely not right. I would just invite those people ever again.
        Or
        SEA is absolutely right. I would just invite those not-people ever again.

    • slumbrew

      It’s a dick move on multiple levels.

      • Nephilium

        Yep. That’s when you make sure that the bowl/plate/utensils where they’re sitting are properly seasoned with superhot pepper dust/oil.

    • Lachowsky

      a real dick. I have never seen anyone even attempt that. that would be unconsionable to anybody with a modicum of common sense.

  7. Aloysious

    Zardoz, and then the SMITHs.

    What a beautiful night.

    • rhywun

      Terrifyingly beautiful.

      • mindyourbusiness

        Thanks for that one, Nick. Brought back some fine memories…

      • DenverJ

        I saw that tour for (but not quite on) my 17th birthday. Bob Seeger and The Silver Bullet Band. Don’t remember the album/tour name. East Troy, Wisconsin, 198x. Cougar in the crowd wanted to make me a man and I was so naive I turned her down because she was old. Lol she was probably in her 30s.

      • pistoffnick

        Dude! Do you know how rare an offer is?

      • DenverJ

        I do now. When I was still 16… not so much.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        It kinda makes you want to invent a time machine and go back and kick your younger self’s ass, doesn’t it?

      • Mojeaux

        I had that as my ringtone for a while. So I wrote a book and named a chapter “Everything but Yul Brynner”. My editor tweets at me and says, “WTF does that even mean?” I said, “Watch.”

        So I tweeted out “Everything but Yul Brynner.” RIP my tweet stream. My editor had never heard the song.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Your editor was a sad, sad human being.

      • UnCivilServant

        Something about chess?

      • MikeS

        The ultimate test of cerebral fitness.

      • MikeS

        I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.

      • rhywun

        One of the best lines in all of musicdom.

        I don’t lyric but that song is full of goodness.

      • MikeS

        It is a really great song. I’m not a huge lyrics guy either, but the song is one memorable line after another.

      • Shpip

        Shorter Mojo: Am I proud that I tweeted some lyrics to One Night in Bangkok to prove a point to my editor? Yes Siam.

    • Chafed

      The Tabernacle has blessed us.

    • kinnath
      • commodious spittoon

        Fuckin creepy I tell you what

      • kinnath

        Not ARS

    • MikeS

      I had no clue what those guys were talking about half the time, but I still enjoyed it. Funny dudes.

    • commodious spittoon

      Imagine, imagine, wait wait

      seriously, wait

      just imagine

      imagine she ever looked on you the way she does in that video

      Just imagine

      You’d be beside yourself,

      • commodious spittoon

        Heterochromatic eye color, that’d be the thing, that’d finally make it for you, that’d

        It wouldn’t, of course.

        It does nothing,

        You’re all alone, all alone, you’re

      • Chafed

        How much have you had to drink?

    • commodious spittoon

      They’re tearing down the K-Mart where I live.

      • commodious spittoon

        I don’t really remember what K-Mart did, tbh.

        They funny thing is, the old K-Mart is being torn down and they’re putting up a new Whole Foods across the street from an old Whole Foods.

      • Mojeaux

        K-Mart was a cross between Woolworth’s and Walmart.

      • commodious spittoon

        Speak English

      • Mojeaux

        I only speak Old.

      • Fourscore

        Kresge’s 5 and dime became K-Mart

      • Mojeaux

        I didn’t know that. I remember Kresge’s though and I used it as a key place in a book.

      • rhywun

        We had a couple K-Marts in Manhattan as recently as the mid-aughts.

      • Lachowsky

        the last one here closed less than a decade ago, but i don’t exactly remember when.

      • MikeS

        Ours closed in early 2019.

      • Trigger Hippie

        K-Mart existed to make Walmart look classy in comparison.

      • Mojeaux

        The first time I went to a Target it was in a very crime-riddled part of Baltimore. It was worse than any K-Mart or Walmart I have ever been in. I still don’t see Target as an upscale Walmart.

      • UnCivilServant

        Target Red hurts my eyes, so I can’t shop there.

      • rhywun

        We have a Target in downtown Brooklyn that looked like a tornado had just swept through every time I visited. I used to shop there before I learned that Amazon has free shipping without having to join Prime.

      • Fourscore

        Clothing, shoes, linen and bedding, jewelry, accessories, health and beauty products, electronics, toys, food, sporting goods, automotive, hardware, appliances, pet products

      • MikeS

        And an Icee machine. Every one I was ever in had an Icee machine up by the tills on your way out the door.

        Ours had a “cafe” in it. I don’t know how common that was.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Fairly common. Even into the early Oughts here in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (My Mom used to eat there from time-to-time before her untimely demise in early ’09 . . . ).

      • Gender Traitor

        K-Mart always evokes for me the fragrance of stale popcorn and/or the rancid liquid butter they put on it, smacking you right in the nose the moment you walked in the door. One dead K-Mart near us reincarnated as a Rural King, and it still had that smell.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Sporting goods to the max.

        Every time I’d open up my tackle box (purchased at K-Mart) I had my choice of lures or hooks and bail, all with the fluorescent orange tags saying “Dept XXX” and the price (generally well under a buck).

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        bail=bait

      • Mojeaux

        Yes. *sigh* Sears go bye-bye.

      • Gender Traitor

        One of the last times TT & I went into our nearest Sears – the last vestige of the demolished shopping mall of my childhood and adolescence – it was shortly before Christmas. I think we were there looking for snowblower parts or something power tool-related. There were “GOING OUT OF BUSINESS” signs everywhere, customers almost nowhere, the shelves were virtually bare…and there was Christmas music wafting from the sound system.

        It was one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen. I begged TT to get me out of there before I slit my wrists.

      • UnCivilServant

        Reminds me of my last Sears visit.

        And my last K-Mart visit.

        And my last Herb Phillipsons visit.

      • Gender Traitor

        Not familiar with the last. Regional department store?

      • UnCivilServant

        One location sporting goods store from which I bought some of my first rifles.

      • creech

        No Gucci or Cartier nearby?

      • Fourscore

        Louis Vuitton is cash and carry or maybe just carry

      • MikeS

        Smash and carry

      • Mojeaux

        I did not and I LOVE YOU SO FUCKING MUCH RIGHT NOW!!!

      • kinnath

        I don’t remember being 21.

    • dbleagle

      Mo you brought back horror thoughts of my mom taking us to KMart during those years to XMAS shop for the family and friends. I was trapped there for hours each year.

      Here is the XMAS album of my dreams.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jggM516KOk

    • Chafed

      That is Ted’S worthy.

      • Mojeaux

        High praise.

      • Chafed

        You earned it.

    • Gender Traitor

      In return for your gift, Moje, may I offer you another of my favorite Christmas albums. (I believe in some past year I sent you a link to my beloved Renaissance Christmas album.) Here you go.

      • Mojeaux

        That’s lovely!

        I have a CD of hammered dulcimer Christmas music I’ve yet to rip.

      • Gender Traitor

        Ooh! I do love the sound of hammered dulcimer! I’d be tempted to try to learn to play it if there weren’t so damn many strings to keep in tune.

        I have a fond memory hearing Ashokan Farewell (the theme from Ken Burns’s Civil War series) performed on hammered dulcimer. (Kinda sorta like this, but ‘cept without the guitar.)

      • Mojeaux

        This was in my sidebar.

      • Gender Traitor

        Yup! Ted’s original video of that has about a bazillion hits. And that’s rural Indiana for you – they have to wait for the tractor to drive past before they start! ?

  8. The Late P Brooks

    Weaponized idiocy

    “Although we haven’t proven it yet, there’s every reason to believe that if you get vaccinated and boosted, that you would have at least some degree of cross-protection — very likely against severe disease — even against the Omicron variant,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top medical adviser to President Biden, said during Friday’s briefing.

    Would somebody please shut that senile quack up?

    • Q Continuum

      How much fucking Pfizer stock does that asshole own?

    • rhywun

      “It may or may not work. What the fuck do I know?”

    • Lachowsky

      “our vaccines are bound to work against one of these variants eventually”

    • Chafed

      Hi everybody!

      Hi Dr. Nick!

  9. The Late P Brooks

    They funny thing is, the old K-Mart is being torn down and they’re putting up a new Whole Foods across the street from an old Whole Foods.

    The Starbucks business model?

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      They tore down the McDonalds to build a new Starbucks in Los Alamos. This is #3 (and I might be missing one) in a town of about 15k.

      Bleah; overpriced bad coffee. Seattle’s Best is vastly superior and is also available in LA (only one location, sadly).

  10. MikeS

    LOL

    • kinnath

      Ice. Lovely.

      • Fourscore

        Please, don’t talk about ice. I’m trying to forget.

      • MikeS

        Are you getting back to normal?

      • Fourscore

        A new normal. I’m out and about, walking, driving. I don’t use a walker, turned my wheel chair in about 3 months ago. I was in my deer stand a couple weeks ago, shot a deer and dressed it out but had to get a tractor to pull it in. Not because it was too big but I’m very cognizant of not wanting to fall down.

        I lost a lot of strength and can’t carry wood in now but we have the gas furnace. I’m replacing the little wood stove in the downstairs living room with a small gas one but for now I’m still burning wood. I can carry in the smaller stuff. We’re going to get snow over the weekend, I’m going to try to use the snowblower, it goes slow so I can keep up but I get tired fairly fast. Maybe take 2 days to clean up. May have to hire a plow guy, I want to try to do it myself first though.

        Fortunately the pain is gone, a little discomfort once in a while. I limp but that’s what its gonna be, I guess.

      • MikeS

        Glad you’re getting around. And that the pain is gone.

        Hopefully you don’t get too much snow. We’re in the 70% chance of 6+ inches (giggity) zone. And my Bobcat is currently not in running order.

      • Chafed

        Maybe your wife can help with that.

    • Mojeaux

      I shouldn’t laugh.

      But I did.

  11. The Bearded Hobbit

    1. I would give my left nut and maybe my left arm to spend an evening with my (deceased) father listening to his stories.

    2. Those people are dicks. Deal with them as you will. Also, rhywun (#5)

    Welcome back Lachowski!

  12. UnCivilServant

    I went and decided to sort my ammo box. Found I have a bunch* of .22LR… and not a whole lot of anything else. But for some reason I’ve got cartridges in calibers I don’t eve shoot or have guns for. I was also overjoyed to find a box of .308 for $16.99… then realized it was the price from a few years back when I’d bought it. Most confusing are the 200 rounds of .38 special and 50 of 9mm para.

    * about 1650 rounds or so… okay, not that much.

    • MikeS

      Sounds like you know what caliber your next two purchases will be.

      • UnCivilServant

        I started looking for a .38 henry, but they’re sold out everywhere.

    • Sean

      I could find more in my couch cushions.

      Do better.

      ?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The neighbor with whom I had a falling out with was in possession of small ammo dump in various calibers. At one time, she was prepared to give it all to me before she decided I was stealing it, for whatever reason her fevered brain came up with. Ah well, easy come, easy go.

  13. The Late P Brooks
    • Lachowsky

      Ukraine in NATO would guarantee a war between the U.S. and Russia. I believe it was sergie lavrov who told the bush admin in 08 that “nyet means nyet”

      https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html

      After the fall of the soviet empire, Nato should have been disbanded. No Warsaw pact, no NATO necessary, if it ever was necessary in the first place. Instead, the U.S. government has done nothing but expand NATO all the way to the Russian border and now we have war guarantees with countries like latvia, lithuania, and turkey.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Turkey has been a NATO member since Eisenhower.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Yup. It was important to keep the Soviets from having a useful warm water port. And it led to them setting up a naval presence in Syria, which is why all the crying about Trump letting Russia into Syria was so stupid.

      • Lachowsky

        understood. i think its still stupid to have a war guarantee with them.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Don’t disagree. The peace dividend from the Cold War was never really cashed.

        Congrats on the 10 years, the missus and I celebrated the same for the legal portion of our time together.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Either America ends all alliances and waits for war to land on North america or we have some alliances and defend our allies before the enemies get too bold.

        Im fine with alliances as long as our allies carry their share of the military burden.

        Russia, china, and Iran are nations almost guaranteed to start a war with the USA. Technically we have casus belli with all 3.

        Peace thru superior firepower is the only thing these tyrant fucks understand. There is strength in numbers, so alliances prove useful for America.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Oh, for fuck’s sake.

    Halp, Edit Fairy! Haaaalp!

  15. The Late P Brooks

    “What I am doing is putting together what I believe to be will be the most comprehensive and meaningful set of initiatives to make it very, very difficult for Mr. Putin to go ahead and do what people are worried he may do,” Biden told reporters.

    The Kremlin said Friday that Putin would seek binding guarantees precluding NATO’s expansion to Ukraine during the call with Biden. But Biden sought to head off the demand.

    “I don’t accept anyone’s red line,” Biden said.

    Putin is quaking in his boots.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    After the fall of the soviet empire, Nato should have been disbanded. No Warsaw pact, no NATO necessary,

    You crack me up.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Yup. People dont realize that Ukraine is a great Ally to counter Russian aggression because they hate russians so much. For those that dont know, Stalin murdered millions of ukrainaians thru starvation in order to force them into the UsSR and its collectivization programs.

      BTW, its a very good force multiplier to use allies to keep aggressive nations in check. America putting pershing nuke missiles in Turkey effectively dragged commie russian leaders to the SALT talks. Russian leaders knew that 15 minute alert times for their cities glowing for 15,000 years was not tenable.

  17. Brochettaward

    A day which shall live in infamy. The day in which The First That Will Change Everything is unleashed, blossoming into the world at its birth. Everyone will simultaneously feel a quiver in their crotch. Colors will be brighter. Food will taste stronger. Men shall have multiple orgasms and women shall collapse and convulse as their vaginal juices gush forth.

    You are a chosen lot who will be First to hear the message. But it will spread out from you in every direction thereafter.

    The Bro, First Of All Firsters, has spoken.

    • Sean

      “Everyone will simultaneously feel a quiver in their crotch. ”

      I don’t want arrows near my junk. Thankyouverymuch.

      • Sean

        Very, but I can still assist her with her whisker biscuit.

  18. MikeS

    Have you ever burped while yawning? It’s weird.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Oww!

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Treason

    Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said Thursday that he would join all 50 of his Republican colleagues in backing a resolution challenging President Biden’s vaccine mandate for private business.

    “Let me be clear, I do not support any government vaccine mandate on private businesses,” Manchin said in a statement. “That’s why I have cosponsored and will strongly support a bill to overturn the federal government vaccine mandate for private businesses.”

    ——-

    While Braun’s effort is unlikely to ultimately succeed, Manchin’s support would give the resolution the votes needed to pass the Senate. The Indiana Republican told The Hill Thursday night that he is talking with other Democratic senators about lending their support to the resolution.

    When asked about Manchin’s stance Friday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters: “We simply disagree.”

    “We disagree based on what we feel is a preponderance of evidence of the effectiveness of requirements — vaccinating or testing,” she added.

    “We [the federal government] have implemented requirements and we have seen 96.5 percent compliance, something we’re going to continue to build on,” Psaki said. “And these companies and the federal government are doing it for a range of reasons. It creates certainty. It allows people to feel safe in the workplace, and it’s good for the economy. So we disagree on that front, and we’re going to continue to press forward with these requirements.”

    Fuck your so-called freedom.

    • Yusef the Unclean

      I tried to like Strawberry, her beind a Ginger and all, but she is such a vile creature, Blech!

      • MikeS

        Agreed. And I still would.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        She’s so awful, wouldn’t even with your dick.

      • Chafed

        You’re doing it wrong. It’s a hate fuck. When you’re done, wipe your dick on her curtains.

      • Yusef the Unclean

        Nah, Her hair, let’s get Ginger dirty,

      • Festus

        Well-played!

      • Sean

        JR has it right on this one. Nope. Not even with a lot of tequila and meth.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Seconded

        Maybe after I stranded her on a desert island for a couple of years to get her in line.

    • rhywun

      we have seen 96.5 percent compliance

      Bullshit. Even among a cohort of natural-born bootlickers.

      • Chafed

        Are you accusing a government spokesperson of lying? Prepare my fainting couch.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah again with that number..that includes persons who have only received one shot and also persons who have requested accommodations. The compliance is really that the workforce has attested to their status.

        FedGov is lying out it’s ass

      • Sean

        ?

        My shocked face.

  20. UnCivilServant

    Why do software developers keep changing interfaces for no good reason? They always make it worse.

    • slumbrew
      • UnCivilServant

        There is no reason the top pull-down menu on my phone should now take up the whole screen. There’s never enough content up there to need that. And of course they changed the color to make it ugly.

  21. grrizzly

    I ended up watching the dog & motorcycle video several times. If the sound is off, there’s no need to touch eyes.

    • slumbrew

      That’s a great video. Stupid dust.

  22. Ownbestenemy

    Agent Sloper…caught your comment late. Make fun away at the pussy hat! I hated my dress blues, especially as a maintainer.

  23. Festus

    Day 13. 20 more until two days of Fweedom. Usurping Tres’ schtick, this just dropped yesterday and it’s what is Goody – https://youtu.be/v0KlBoY96Xg

  24. Festus

    Judi set up my appointment for round two of the venom. December 18th. What the fuck, you fascists? I thought that you wanted us unclean to come to the light as quickly as possible. If you’re around OBE, let me add my voice to the rest of us here. I’ve always liked you and your stand is inspirational. Too bad that I made choices early on that precluded such a stance. Godspeed to you, Sir!

  25. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam
    yo whats goody

    • Sean

      Mornin, you tv abuser.

  26. Tres Cool

    MikeS on December 3, 2021 at 10:21 pm
    Have you ever burped while yawning? It’s weird.

    A phoned a buddy once and he sounded in pain. I said “are you alight?”
    He replied “I sneezed in the middle of a shit. I think I ruptured something.”

    • Sean

      *holds up two fingers*

    • rhywun

      Finish reading this article for free.

      Pass.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Most of that was already known. His conclusions are rather bombastic, mostly for effect I assume.

      I don’t think there’s any doubt that Fauci, Daszak, et al were way out of line in their research. I don’t believe Fauci was trying to develop a weapon. I just think he’s a psychopath who believes he’s saving the world while his arrogance has killed millions.

      But this I was not aware of:

      The approximately 20 amino acids surrounding COVID-19’s furin polybasic cleavage site possess sequence and structural elements comparable to those of Staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB).

      SEB acts as a “superantigen” and immune system activator stimulating the release large amounts of cytokines, often called “cytokine storm” and capable of producing multi-organ hyperinflammation similar to toxic shock syndrome.

      The authors also state that COVID-19 mutations strengthen its “superantigen” character.

      As a confirmation of those observations, the same authors demonstrated that monoclonal antibodies directed against Staphylococcal enterotoxin B “superantigen” inhibit the entry of the COVID-19 virus into cultured cells.

      • Sean

        If he was really “saving the world”, we’d be seeing more off label medicines allowed for the hospitalized. Not the insane “horse dewormer” bullshit.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Fauci has been on the more and more vaccines bandwagon for thirty years or more. I think he truly believes that his sponsored research (therefore something he can take credit for) will change the world. He desperately wants to be a Jonas Salk-type figure.

      • Surly Knott

        Yup. It’s not about saving the world, it’s about him saving the world.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        There’s not enough $$$ in that.

      • rhywun

        I don’t believe Fauci was trying to develop a weapon.

        He’s content to let China do that work.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It’s incredibly bad precedent unless they actively facilitated it and you’re right, this could be applied to all kinds of activity including gang related stuff or even just to general teenaged surliness.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Looks like something Tres would be into.

      • Festus

        It’s faking it. The only reason that fish looks Tres-worthy is because of decompression. The swim bladder sticking out of the mouth is a dead giveaway. Different fish sticks for different folks.

  27. Festus

    So very tired.