201 Comments

  1. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’
    I’m going to bed.

  2. Rat on a train

    The use of “Z” for the “special military operation” was confusing since it isn’t a Russian letter. I noticed looking at photos from Putin’s rally that they are using “Z” instead of “З” at the beginning of words. Is it the new normal for Russian?

    • MikeS

      Z = ??

    • grrizzly

      The Z thing started with the invasion of Ukraine. It didn’t exist before.

    • MikeS

      +1 WTF

    • R.J.

      I can keep that comment on-topic by saying that robot looks like a giant Nintendo R.O.B. Robot.

      https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/R.O.B.

      Also that commercial is horrible and only makes me think of sickness and hospitals. Agreed, WTF?

      • Compelled Speechless

        Well it wouldn’t be the first time aphrodisiacs were used to sell food.

    • The Other Kevin

      WTF. But it does remind me of a scene from Joemala.

      • Compelled Speechless

        That’s why I was getting a chub watching it. I was worried there for a minute that something was wrong with me. We’re all good!

      • hayeksplosives

        I was thinking it would have been better with a Biden lookalike or deepfake.

        Creepy AF either way.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Looks like a twisted homage to the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

      • Sensei

        That was my thought too.

        At the time I saw the film I didn’t know what to think of the set. Kubrick in an interview explained he illuminated top and bottom to try to minimize any shadows.

      • hayeksplosives

        Hard to believe that somebody even pitched that ice cream ad. Even stranger that it got approved.

    • groat scotum

      I just shared it with three people so it’s a catchy ad, anyway.

      *I assume Halo Top is a real brand, never heard of it

  3. The Other Kevin

    Sure is quiet in here. Maybe everyone is playing Tunic, or sleeping with Tres.

      • Translucent Chum

        A ton of the fraud we detect is done by AI before a person even looks at the claim. That’s where this will be headed next.

      • Translucent Chum

        And ‘we’ is not State Farm, but all of the insurance companies probably use the same data and indicators.

      • Sensei

        Verisk will always remain ISO for me.

      • rhywun

        #metoo

      • Translucent Chum

        Heh. Verisk may as well be called Money Pit. Our expenses for them just went through the roof. We also send dumptrucks of cash to Black Knight.

      • Sensei

        In the old days all the big insurers owned ISO.

        However, all the C-Suites of the carriers decided it was time to sell, IPO, rake in the proceeds and retire.

        Now the new C-Suite gets to pay. (Oh, and shareholders too. Naturally.)

      • Compelled Speechless

        So you all programmed your AIs to screen for names like Dontrell? Do you also ask questions about how much they like fried chicken and grape soda on your forms? Is this also question?

        What is the correct pronunciation? Circle one:

        Ask Aks

        You people and your white supremacy make me sick.

      • Sensei

        Yup. OTH for another type of AI – Colossus has been fun. And it couldn’t have ensnared a more deserving company.

        Colossus Insurance Settlements

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        A ton of the fraud we detect is done by AI before a person even looks at the claim

        I’m certain I’ve already seen a bunch of articles proclaiming AI is inherently racist because programmers are mostly white men.

      • Sensei

        My favorite bit is when black box (can we say that?) neural nets make decisions based on race and everybody screams.

      • Tulip

        It’s a complicated topic. Shifting the training data shifts results. Pretending neural nets are unbiased is bullshit.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        Boxes of color.

      • DrOtto

        Binders full of women

      • Drake

        I thought programmers were all Indian?

        (Back when I worked in Big Company HQ, you knew when you found the IT Dept by the smell of curry)

      • rhywun

        The fun part is we’ll probably never know if State Farm is really racist because this will be judged on political considerations rather than factual.

      • Sensei

        Credit scoring allows most insurers to rate in a race neutral manner for most regulatory purposes.

        Problem is that poor credit rating highly correlates to race… Hence political shenanigans and all kinds of concerns.

      • Lackadaisical

        Exactly. Nothing that semi-accurately predicts (like a credit score or IQ) can be considered race-neutral because there are differences between the races.

        Now, you can argue why those exist, but that doesn’t change their existence.

    • Tonio

      Phrasing?

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I’m too thin for Tres.

    • Tundra

      It’s too nice – I’m headed out for a walk.

      • Ted S.

        I got back from my walk. Very nice outside.

      • juris imprudent

        Back from walking the dog and pilling the horse. Dinner shortly.

    • R.J.

      I was still talking on the other thread!

    • Rat on a train

      Preparing the fire pit for a pleasant evening.

      • R.J.

        I am reading in the car and for a moment I thought you said “preparing a firepit for the peasants “

      • Rat on a train

        sorry “for a peasant evening”

      • Swiss Servator

        Egads, no! They have to scavenge windfallen branches and build their own fire.

  4. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    That Nick Cage movie looks like the sort of goofy film that I would enjoy. I also liked Jean Claude van Johnson.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Depending how long it take Officer Doolittle to get here and inspect our trailer…I may partake

    • Animal

      A little bird told me there may be a special guest tonight.

      • Ownbestenemy

        They guy who had a chicken in his ass,

      • Lackadaisical

        No, Lottie moss.

      • MikeS

        Lottie Moss had a chicken in her ass?

  5. rhywun

    Under the surface, though, [Tunic] reminds me of 2012’s Fez by Polytron.

    OMG take my money already. I loved that game.

  6. EvilSheldon

    Sadly, I found Tunic to be a huge disappointment. They had almost everything – interesting and compelling storyline, prizeworthy art design, fantastic sound, and they went and ruined it by shoehorning in this awful Souls-like combat system.

    I played it for an hour, fought the same battle five times, then uninstalled and returned it. I enjoyed everything about the game except for actually playing it.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, that is concerning. “Combat” is not my jam so if it’s annoying that’s probably a no from me dawg.

      • EvilSheldon

        Anybody who played The Witcher or any of the Dark Souls games and didn’t have a complete meltdown will absolutely adore Tunic.

        I really wanted to like it, and it’s pissing me off a little that I didn’t.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I didn’t love the Witcher 3 until I turned it on bitch mode (the easiest difficulty setting). Then I loved it. Games are supposed to be a stress relief for me. Generally if it makes me anxious the entire time, especially if it’s going to take like 80 hours, I’m not going to waste my time.

      • EvilSheldon

        My thoughts exactly. I have no desire to get good at computer games, just like I have no desire to get good at crossword puzzles or Wordle. Computer games are interactive entertainment, not a vehicle for self improvement.

      • rhywun

        This.

        Nothing infuriates me more than a nice, relaxing, fun adventure ruined by a boss battle I can’t win.

        *cough* Oceanhorn 2 *cough*

      • Compelled Speechless

        That’s why older Zelda games are my favorite series. It’s a combination of all my favorite elements. Open world adventuring, just the right amount of challenging but avoidable combat, dungeons that are each their own cleverly designed puzzle box and the best boss fights in the biz. Perfect variety and usually perfect difficulty (maybe a little TOO easy.) I loved BotW too, but it either lessened or eliminated the best of these things. Especially the boss battles – the next one better fix that or I’m going to be pissed.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I’m not a fan of puzzles in games. Even the relatively simple ones in Skyrim or Resident Evil. If I can’t solve it in a few seconds, I’ll move on to an online guide.

      • rhywun

        Yep, Zeldas are classics. But I didn’t like BotW. Not when I wandered around for 25 hours building fires and collecting weeds and shit and not one dungeon in sight. Those mini shrines or whatever they were called not counting.

      • MikeS

        LOL

      • Ownbestenemy

        I’m a mixed bag in terms of games. Sometimes I want gut wrenching challenges and others is put me on baby mode and enjoy the show

      • EvilSheldon

        On the plus side, it’s on Gamepass and GoG, so you can rent it or wait for a sale.

      • rhywun

        Cool, even supports Mac at GoG. Yeah, I’ll wait for a sale. 30 bucks is too rich for my blood.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I’m right there with you. The game either has fun, tight and challenging combat or it’s fun to explore. The way I see it, if I have to worry about dying and reloading every time I see even the most basic enemy, those two things are at odds.

    • Tonio

      Gov Youngkin has proposed the same thing, but it has to go through the legislature.

  7. B.P.

    Drugs, ass, etc. Anyone watch this Portland City Council trolling from the other day? Stick around for the second guy. The mayor’s reactions are also great.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml7LDFdQ36o

    • MikeS

      “And another positive note; George Floyd has been sober for 2 years now.”

      hahahaha

      Also, the finger clapping thing by that councilwoman. Grow the fuck up. Progressives are children. Plain and simple.

      • juris imprudent

        Most children are better behaved than progressives. And, they also stand a chance of maturing as they age.

    • Q Continuum

      “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”

      ‘Bout damn time people started using the Rules for Radicals *against* the Left.

      • juris imprudent

        The Left really has no concept of the reaction they are provoking. They aren’t going to like it.

    • Tonio

      Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving group of people.

    • Fourscore

      Really funny, it took Mayor Wheeler a long time to catch on. The other people were just as oblivious. I’m guessing that’s pretty much how the City Council meetings go, if every one is speaking gibberish does that mean they all understand the language?

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      They look exactly as I would expect them to.

    • KSuellington

      That was hilarious. I love how long they let them go. Dude #2 fit right in until the end.

  8. MikeS

    So, something a tish disconcerting happened; My LinkedIn profile was viewed by someone in a semi-local Sheriff’s office. When I say semi-local, it’s about 3 counties away, and on the Minnesota side of the border. I’m assuming they are investigating someone with the same name, but still.

    • rhywun

      Maybe they’re just looking to employ a whatever-you-do.

    • Drake

      Maybe they need a man with your particular skill set for a case.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Did MikeS daughter get taken?

    • MikeS

      Should have added this bit: I’ve been in manufacturing for over 20 years. Currently an estimator, before that a stint as a production planner, but the bulk of my years have been spent operating and programming CNC lasers, mills, and lathes. I can’t see my skillset having value in a cop-shop.

    • KSuellington

      How many MikeS’s could there be in NoDak?

      • MikeS

        One

    • Fourscore

      You’re getting a little close to Pope J’s home territory. You don’t suppose he…no, he wouldn’t do that to a friend…I don’t think he would anyway

      • MikeS

        Hmmm…

  9. Count Potato

    “J.K. Simmons On How Commissioner Gordon’s Role Will Change After Zack Snyder’s Justice League”

    He seemed to be doing a bit of an Alex Jones impression in the latest Spiderman movie.

  10. Ownbestenemy

    I get to sit at the pound waiting for an officer to ‘inspect’ out trailer. Come anytime between 9 and 5pm….no don’t make an appointment.

    And I get here and first thing they ask do you have appointment? Fucking city services

    • MikeS

      What kind of trailer? In order to license it?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Pet grooming. Just to see if we board dogs or anything like that. Hopefully not too much on condition cause some is still a work in progress

      • Ownbestenemy

        50 bucks for her ro look inside and say cool. Ugh.

      • MikeS

        Ugh, indeed.

  11. LCDR_Fish

    Well shit. In more “things I need to plan better for” – looks like the sump pump is dead. I’ve been getting worried not hearing it run the last few days during the rain we’ve been getting but this was the first time I had an opportunity to get in the crawlspace and check.

    Unfortunately….there’s a few inches of water – mostly under the plastic sheeting (moisture barrier?) – which means the pump itself is even deeper under water. I got down to it, unplugged and plugged it back in again, and then checked all the upstairs breakers and I’m not seeing any progress/pumping.

    I’ve got a feeling that this is something that would have been comparatively easy (FWIW) if there was no water in the hole, but being actually flooded….will require pumping assistance at the bare minimum.

    Looks like I’m digging out American Home Shield coverage again and hoping for the best. What a pain in the ass. (least I’m on day shift next week).

    • MikeS

      looks like the sump pump is dead

      SHIT!

      /runs down to the basement

      • LCDR_Fish

        Normally I can hear it go every .30-1:00 while I’m sitting on the can depending on amount of rain (almost directly overhead – so useful enough), but nothing at all, even during a lot of rain.

        Motor may have run a little harder the last couple years. In 2020 after I moved in, I found a leak in the hose right outside the foundation that was putting water right back in the same spot next to the house – and that took me a while to nail down and determine the best fix – mostly continual running for a while even on drier days…

      • Tundra

        Fuck, I’ve been there. Hauling 5 gallon buckets upstairs to dump in the tub during a nasty storm.

        Pull the pump and check the impeller. Mine had some debris that jammed it.

        Don’t buy a cheap replacement from a big box. Find a commercial plumbing place and buy a Liberty or something higher end. You may also want to consider a backup system.

        Good luck.

      • MikeS

        Is Liberty a step above Wayne and Simer?

      • Fourscore

        Mine had the float switch not working. A kid at Home Depot convinced me to buy a new float rather than a new pump. That was 10-15 years ago.

      • MikeS

        Good point. The switches often go out on perfectly working pumps.

      • MikeS

        Not saying this is why your failed, but I’ve read that when they dry out and don’t run for long periods of time, that can actually speed up their failure. That’s apparently been the case with two of mine going out. Ran just fine in the fall, and then spring comes and it’s dead.

        Sorry to hear about your troubles. Dealing with a dead pump is bad enough, but having to fuck around in a crawl space only compounds things.

      • LCDR_Fish

        It does look like there are portable sump pump options – but I may look at that as an option after this – since some of the water is above the plastic moisture barrier and some is below it makes things a bit more complicated. Also do not currently have a wet/dry vac or dehumidifier.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Also do not currently have a wet/dry vac or dehumidifier.

        Buy a wet/dry vac. Every homeowner should have one and Harbor Freight has decent ones for not much. They also have inexpensive utility pumps that can clear out the existing water. I use one to drain the pool.

        For the dehumidifier and large fans (depending on the surface area), I’d try to rent commercial grades ones. You’re going to want the massive high powered ones that will work as quickly as possible.

      • Fourscore

        I use mine frequently but luckily not on the wet side

      • LCDR_Fish

        I’ll look into those suggestions going forward, but as usual, this sort of thing happens when I’m tapped out in the wrong way.

        Submitted a claim with AHS, but I’ll add those to the list going forward.

        Unfortunately, in my crawlspace (only accessible from outside), I don’t think there are more than a couple sockets – one being the one that the pump is currently plugged into. Once it’s clear, I guess a dehumidifier hose could be rigged to go into the sump pump barrel for continuous operation – but only if there’s a socket to use full time.

      • MikeS

        I wouldn’t to buy a sump pump there, but Harbor Freight has decent and cheap transfer pumps to solve the immediate problem.

      • Lackadaisical

        Either you’re in the can too long or your pump was running too frequently. Probably over heated and died.

      • Fourscore

        Maybe need to adjust the float level.

      • Lackadaisical

        There’s a lot of things that can go wrong.

        Could have been missing a check valve.

        The sump pit for mine was too narrow and the float would get hung up on the sides. Happened more often when my son would toss crap in there.

      • MikeS

        Ground is still froze. Pits are dry.

        /back to day drinking

  12. Count Potato

    “A California mother says the government wrongfully took away her daughter, pushed the girl into transitioning to male, and is to blame for his suicide age 19.

    Andrew Martinez, born Yaeli, stepped in front of a train on September 4, 2019.

    In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, bereaved mother Abigail Martinez accused her Los Angeles County school of encouraging Yaeli to take hormones and undergo gender reassignment surgery as a child, while failing to properly treat her severe depression.

    Martinez, 53, a mother of four, claimed school staff told Yaeli not to speak to her mother about transgender issues, but secretly had her join an LGBTQ group that persuaded the girl that the only way to be happy was to transition.

    The El Salvador-born mother said an older trans student ‘coached’ Yaeli on what to tell social workers to put her into foster care, so that the state would pay for her gender reassignment.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10612285/California-mom-claims-LA-school-encouraged-daughter-transition-blame-suicide.html

    Many such cases.

    • Ted S.

      Her suicide at 19.

      • Lackadaisical

        That bugged the shit out of me too.

    • Mustang

      There’s a very primal part of me that would feel zero sympathy for the school employees involved if the mother went postal on them.

      • juris imprudent

        Absolutely justifiable homicide in any jury I’m on.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      *insert trashy’s mantra here*

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      It’s possible that the girl had issues that would have led her to commit suicide anyway, but the people at school sure didn’t help her and may well have made it worse. I don’t understand why schools feel like they should get involved in this stuff.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Moral arrogance

    • MikeS

      I’m just a country rube from the steppes of North America. (I can’t even photocopy things because there’s no Kinkos nearby!) So, I need a super-smart progressive to explain to me how come kids can’t make the decision to smoke until they are 21, but they have the necessary understanding to get gender reassignment surgery ASAP.

      The people encouraging this are fucking monsters.

      • Mustang

        I’ll break it down for you. Smoking and drinking can damage your body and only puts money in the pockets of tobacco corporations, who are totally different from the pharmaceutical corporations, and are basically the embodiment of the patrarchy. I mean, bottles and cigarettes are shaped like dicks.

        Chopping off your dick and balls, however, is the best way to protest the patriarchy because you are literally removing it from your personhood. It’s better for society as a whole to have one less shitlord male.

        Cutting off your boobs leaves nothing for the male gaze. Another strike at the patriarchy.

        Turning your vagina into a dick and balls is the third strike against the patriarchy because it shows how gender is a social construct. The fake dick and balls are constructed by a person and are symbolic of the way gender norms are totally made up and not at all based on centuries of human interactions.

        See? When children decide to mutilate themselves at the encouragement of adults, it’s how they fight the patriarchy. When they make the wrong choice to smoke and drink, they are enforcing the patriarchy.

        *Takes long whiff of own fart*

        (I got an actual headache writing this)

      • Fourscore

        Mamas, make those boys grow up driving pick up trucks. Girls like driving pick up trucks too, ’cause they meet boys driving trucks.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Whoa! 21? Way too young. They can’t handle adulting until 26. At the earliest.

    • creech

      Local tv news (NBC) reported yesterday that of the pack of qualified candidates for new Philly school superintendent, “11 identified as women.” Should we mock and ridicule such stuff, or just keep ignoring it and continue to talk about “men” and “women?”

      • rhywun

        It needs to be mocked.

        I don’t care if you want to live as a woman or vice versa. Just be convincing. Don’t look like a man and tell me you “identify as a woman”.

        And it is not a decision that can be made before puberty, I don’t care if the “doctors” claim it’s “easier” that way. These sickos who twist kids’ minds like this are indeed monsters.

    • Q Continuum

      “[Camille Paglia] says that androgyny becomes prevalent “as a civilization is starting to unravel. You find it again and again and again in history.”

      “People who live in such times feel that they’re very sophisticated, they’re very cosmopolitan,” she says. But in truth, they are evidence of a civilization that no longer believes in itself. On the edges of that civilization are “people who still believe in heroic masculinity” — the barbarians. Paglia says that this is happening right now, and that there’s this tremendous “disconnect” between a culture that’s infatuated with transgenderism, and “what’s going on ‘out there’.””

      https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/paglia-transgender-civilizations-decline/

      Putin and Xi are psychopathic murderers and lunatics. However, drawing comparisons between the gravely ill, suicidal culture of the West and the dynamic, proud and muscular cultures of Paglia’s “barbarians”, it becomes hard to see how she’s not being prophetic.

      • rhywun

        Didn’t she recently claim to be trans herself?!

      • Lackadaisical

        Essentially.

  13. Brochettaward

    The Browns are basically selling the farm to get Deshaun Watson. A guy who has never won a damn thing in his career and is facing 22 sexual assault allegations, even if he isn’t going to be charged criminally. They gave out the most ridiculous contract in NFL history and three first round picks to do it.

    They’re already over the cap now and will have to jettison talent. They really didn’t have much to spare. Like, how good do they think their roster is and what makes them think they’re going to be in anymore of a position to win than Houston was the last time Watson played for them?

    I’m sure he’ll put up some nice fantasy football numbers, though.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Maybe they can sign Kaepernick to be his backup.

      • slumbrew

        That would be hilarious.

        That, and Mayfield lighting it up wherever he lands.

      • juris imprudent

        Just saw an AT&T commercial with Mathew Stafford where he makes an allusion to trading in your 12 year old, crappy phone for a brand spanking new one that does everything you ever wanted and the punch line is “sounds like a good trade”.

      • Lackadaisical

        I think I’ll enjoy that part. I can understand feeling you’re not getting what you need from Mayfield, not sure how you decided Watson is the answer though. Sad cause I usually root for the Browns when they’re not losing to my Bills.

    • MikeS

      I’m sure he’ll put up some nice fantasy football numbers, though.

      And really, isn’t that all that matters?

    • Lackadaisical

      Sounds like a fail. Did they get rid of Mayfield?

      • slumbrew

        Not yet, but he’s requested a trade.

      • Brochettaward

        The Browns have won the off-season many times that I can remember over the years. I fully expect a lot of people to be on that bandwagon as it crashes into the hillside and burns.

      • Hyperion

        Just take comfort in knowing that they will never equal the stupidity of the Raiders, who just apent an obscene amouht of money on a washed up receiver. I mean the guy is 30 years old, in the NFL, that’s the same as 75-80 in any other occupation and the guy wasn’t even any good when he was 29. I can’t even do the foozball anymore, the stupidity is unbearable.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Screw the Raiders. A bunch of carpetbagging douchebags.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        Funny story. When I was an ATT tech in Berkeley, most of my co-workers were from Oakland and were Raiders fans. One weekly meeting the bosses were talking about how to be sensitive to handicap people when working for them, and when it came time for workers to ask questions and make comments, I stood up and said

        “Look guys, working around the handicapped is really no big deal. It is no different that working with Raiders fans.”

        Got a good laugh out of that one.

    • rhywun

      The real question is will this guy be the new face of Progressive?

      • Hyperion

        Everything must be about politics, all of the time, without exception, always, forever, it’s the only way to utopia.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        It’s going to be an awkward commercial when he sexually assaults Flo.

  14. Lackadaisical

    Nothing like your injured kid suddenly becoming sick too. Glad I cancelled all my plans for today now.

    • grrizzly

      Sorry to hear that.

      • Lackadaisical

        He’ll bounce back.

        Right now I have to sit next to him (not too close), but not look at or touch him. Also I’m not allowed to move the water bottle. Naturally he decided that my room is the place this all must occur, not his. Kids are goofy.

  15. Lackadaisical

    Taking off from work had one nice bonus- got to watch the movie RJ posted yesterday (Attack of the Mushroom People). I liked it.

  16. Hyperion

    I planted all my little veggie plots to make sure something sprouted. I planted 6 seeds in all the plots and every single one of them came up for the maters and lettuce, so now I have to thin. The peppers, 3 biquinhos up, no baby bell peppers yet. First try at hydroponics, I need to expand my operaion to about 3x so I can add jalapenos, cucs, more maters, and something else, I don’t konw what… but no seed, that gets you prison in the commie backwards luddite shithole of MD.

    • Hyperion

      By seed, I meant ‘weed’.

      • MikeS

        ? Oooooohhhh!

      • Hyperion

        True story, I had put my old beater car in the shop to get new tires and a guy who worked there gave me a ride home. He told me that he had just got out of prison in Baltimore City prison, a fate that could not be much better than death if at all, for 6 months for possesion of a small amount of weed, for fuck’s sake. Do not even think about even visiting this state, not even once, do not even think about crossing the border to drive through to another state.

    • Tulip

      I read this in the guy from Slingblade’s voice

      • Hyperion

        I don’t wear my britches quite that way…

    • Count Potato

      Because everyone knows there are no drugs in Baltimore.

    • Lackadaisical

      I agree she’s hotter than Kate. Also a total trainwreck.

    • rhywun

      OFFS rehab at 24? When I was 24 I had to collect empty pop cans to exchange for cash to buy a pack of cigarettes.

      • Festus

        Right?

      • Lackadaisical

        No offense but you probably weren’t as hot as her.

        I doubt she needs to buy her own weed.

      • Count Potato

        She’s cokehead like her sister.

      • Festus

        Or as like I used to say back in the late 80’s, Fun Time!

      • rhywun

        Drugs were a sometimes food. I guess I couldn’t afford enough of them to make it into rehab.

      • KSuellington

        Mo’ money, mo’ problems Rhy.

  17. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    T-minus 17 hours. ????

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      Wind forecast is 20mph…I might have an avgasm.

      • Brochettaward

        You need to try a Firstgasm, sister.

    • Festus

      He’s not that big, is he? (feels undersized)

  18. Ownbestenemy

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrats-sue-disqualify-3-gop-congressmen-2022-ballot-alleging-role-insurrection

    The legal challenge is being underwritten by the Minocqua Brewing Company Super PAC. In a March 13 statement on the left-wing political action committee’s website, founder Kirk Bangstad estimates the lawsuit “could cost $300,000 to fight over the next six months.”

    Bangstad is also the owner of the Minocqua Brewing Co., makers of “progressive beers” such as Biden Beer, Bernie Brew, AOC IPA, and Filibuster Ale.

    I wonder if this is a ploy cause their beer is shit?

      • rhywun

        Good grief.

    • rhywun

      Keep playing “nobody will ever use this against us some day” and see how that works out for you, dumbasses.

    • Brochettaward

      I’m sure Biden beer is flying off the shelves everywhere it’s sold.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        The AOC IPA seems appropriate. Bitter and horrible.

      • Lackadaisical

        Shots fired.

        *Grabs popcorn*

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      We need to get sharpshooter a bottle of each of those beers, Stat.

      Also, how can you worship Biden and call yourself “progressive “?

  19. TARDis

    Words like Zelda like have no meaning for me. I have not turned on my gaming desktop in maybe 6 weeks. I think I might be depressed.
    Inflation, more inflation, standing with some Nazi wannabe country with a low rent actor for president, groomers all over Florida, and dudes playing women’s sports. WTF.

    Oh well, booze to be delivered soon.

    • Lackadaisical

      Groomers? Please expound.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        People wanting to teach 3-year-olds about sex

      • Lackadaisical

        Oh, I thought we just made some headway against them. Should be good news, no?

    • Lackadaisical

      I was feeling depressed this morning too.

      Then I started day drinking.

      All the other stuff you can’t really control. Even if it sucks, you just gotta go with the flow, adjust expectations accordingly. It’ll all work out in the end.

      • Lackadaisical

        Not that drinking usually helps depression. But I was bummed at not being able to do anything fun today, so getting to do that perked me up.

      • Festus

        Pet your cat, walk around the yard, breathe deeply. You’ll be fine.

      • TARDis

        I have no pets. All dead in the last 3 years. 🙁

      • Festus

        Ouch. Ours are getting on in years too,

      • TARDis

        I know I should not stress, but my son got his second jab today. He’ll be okay, I think. He has my awesome defective genes.

  20. Festus

    Where is the zoomy? Seeing as my ass is stapled to the chair, may as well have some entertainment.

    • Festus

      Fecking time-lords.