Wednesday Afternoon SugarLink – Vegan Milk

by | May 11, 2022 | Daily Links | 190 comments

‘Babe’ Actor James Cromwell Glues Himself To Starbucks Counter In Animal Rights Protest

James Cromwell, nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1995 for his role in Babe, took up the banner of animal rights today in a protest at a New York-area Starbucks. As part of a PETA action against the chain upcharging for non-dairy milk substitutes favored by vegans, Cromwell and one other man glued themselves to the front counter in the store while other activists held signs protesting the policy.

“Non-dairy products all over the world…France, they give these things away. There’s no charge for it. Here, there’s an exorbitant charge,” said Cromwell as he sat with his hand glued to the store’s payment counter. “Why, when it’s so important now to address climate change and to understand the violence to animals to go on to make dairy products that are served here? There’s no reason for it except greed.”

That’ll glue, pig. That’ll glue.


 

The One Group That Can Stop Elon Musk From Unbanning Trump on Twitter

But Twitter employee action could make a real difference. Engineers and others who work at tech companies are in high demand. There’s lots of competition among the leading companies to bring in and retain the best talent. Employees can organize and seek to pressure Twitter’s likely new owner to do the right thing; they can threaten to leave if he doesn’t.

What would action by Twitter employees look like? Those in high enough positions can threaten to quit, though that could come at a potentially large personal cost. To make the threats credible, other social media companies with pro-democracy policies can invite these employees to apply for jobs with open arms. All employees could try to unionize to have greater power to push against anti-democratic moves by the company. Individual employees can leak information about what Twitter knows about the relationship of Trump’s tweets to threats to American democracy. At the very least, employees can make their views known within the company and seek to put pressure on managers to bring concerns to Musk.

As private actors not bound by the First Amendment any more than Twitter or Facebook, social media platform employees have a choice. They can help promote democracy. Or they can help to facilitate its demise.

It appears that fear has driven this poor man to madness.


 

David Cronenberg Breaks Silence On His Fleshy Return To Cannes With ‘Crimes Of The Future’

DEADLINE: It takes place in the art world, which is something you touched on in Videodrome, but you’ve never really gone into that before.

CRONENBERG: Yeah, it was also evident in Scanners, actually — there’s a sculptor who lives inside the head that he’s created, you’ll recall. So, the art world has never been far from my purview. In Toronto, I was an interested part of what was developing with the art scene here with the sculptors and the painters that were developing in Canada. You know, I’ve really avoided having a major character who is an artist, but with Crimes, it’s a very specific kind of art, a very fleshy kind of art. It’s surgical performance art, basically. So, it brings together a few of the themes of things that I’ve been dealing with. I’m always interested, as any, I suppose, writer, director, filmmaker, in the creative process, and turning your own lens on your own process. It’s an honorable thing. Many, many filmmakers have made films about filmmaking, or about writers, about sculptors. So, this is my very particular version of that because I’ve invented the art form. Not that performance art hasn’t existed; of course it has existed, and it is still thriving. But in my film, it’s an invented environment. So, it felt very natural to me when I was writing it those many years ago. And when I revisited it — from, of course, a very different perspective — it still felt quite viable, quite juicy, with meaning and potential, dramatically and thematically.

A very fleshy kind of art. I’m so excited. Give me the goo, DAVID!


 

 

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190 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    Isn’t PETA against forcing pigs to work in movies?

    • Count Potato

      Also, most glue is not vegan.

      • Chafed

        I thought horses no longer go to the glue factory.

      • MikeS

        Neigh.

  2. DEG

    James Cromwell, nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1995 for his role in Babe, took up the banner of animal rights today in a protest at a New York-area Starbucks. As part of a PETA action against the chain upcharging for non-dairy milk substitutes favored by vegans, Cromwell and one other man glued themselves to the front counter in the store while other activists held signs protesting the policy.

    None of his recent movies are good enough to get him laid?

    • SugarFree

      I don’t think vegans can have sex.

      • Count Potato

        What about with vegetables?

      • SugarFree

        Not even carrots want to fuck them.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Can a watermelon give consent?

      • SDF-7

        AOC does say everyone is “seeking Amy” around her (in the Britney Spears context…), so she’s one watermelon that’s not consenting.

      • Tonio

        Is that anything like in the Kevin Smith context? [waggles eyebrows in Groucho Marx fashion]

      • SDF-7

        Given what Affleck / Smith-stand-in wanted to do with Amy in that movie? Yeah, pretty much.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Finger cuffs?

      • ron73440
      • Pine_Tree

        Didn’t we just have a Joemala post?

      • ron73440

        So you’re saying that song is on topic for both posts?

      • Tonio

        Only if they get the carrot’s consent.

    • Drake

      Sounds like he has a lot of free time. Maybe he should open a vegan coffee shop instead of bothering people.

      • Bobarian LMD

        He can’t afford the free milk, apparently.

    • SDF-7

      Well, he tried plying Troi with tequila but she kept going on about how there wasn’t time to talk about the timeline….

  3. Ted S.

    The One Group That Can Stop Elon Musk From Unbanning Trump on Twitter

    I see a lot of dismissals for cause in the near future.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      I read just yesterday that Elon plans to fire a goodly chunk of Twitter anyways. Why would he fear people walking out of his goal is to fire much of the existing employee pool anyways?

      • SDF-7

        I’d hazard a guess that the storage / server engineers that actually keep their data centers running and the product responsive aren’t anywhere near as into shutting down speech — and those are the folks he’d want to be keeping anyway.

    • Tonio

      I don’t think this is going to turn out the way Slate thinks it will.

      Also, LOL at their definition of democracy.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ??

        There has to be a underserved market for “not-insane” tech workers.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Yup, and the doors were flung wide open with the remote work revolution.

  4. CPRM

    Was the glue vegan?

  5. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Elon just payed 44 billion fucking dollars for a company, I’m sure he’d be capable of absorbing some losses while he carefully replaced a bunch of fired employees who don’t agree with his vision.

    • Bobarian LMD

      And likely have three prospective employees lined up for each of those positions.

  6. Rat on a train

    Non-dairy products all over the world…France, they give these things away. There’s no charge for it. Here, there’s an exorbitant charge
    Making your own coffee is a lot less expensive and you can add whatever you want.

    • SDF-7

      I thought Starbucks was an overpriced milkshake company that happens to sell some coffee anyway.

      • Rat on a train

        Would you like a shot of coffee with your cream?

  7. juris imprudent

    I think Dead Ringers is Cronenberg’s best – fight me.

    • SugarFree

      Videodrome, but Dead Ringers deserves high praise.

      And I love Crash, but then I was a fan of the novel and knew what I was getting myself into when I watched it.

      • Count Potato

        Those are both excellent, but I wouldn’t call them horror films.

        Anyway, I wonder how much this will be a remake of his 1970 Crimes of the Future.

      • Bobarian LMD

        A History of Violence.

        And Nightbreed was way under-appreciated.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        The Bobs/Archer version was better.

    • rhywun

      I haven’t seen that in decades. Is there enough body horror to make that statement true?

      • SugarFree

        “Gynecological Devices for Operating on Mutant Women”

    • Count Potato

      I’d say Shivers is the best of his early horror films.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Still haven’t seen Shivers or Videodrome. Only just saw Scanners (need to buy). I like Rabid though.

        Similar good movies – Nightbreed was by Clive Barker, Society by Brian Yuzna, and more recent surgical horror – American Mary by the Soska sisters.

    • Sensei

      Naked Lunch…

    • rhywun

      Probably not his best but I like Existenz a lot.

      • C. Anacreon

        After the head explodes in the opening scene, Scanners is all downhill.

    • hayeksplosives

      Dead Ringers was excellent but i Will never watch it again.

      Once was enough.

  8. Count Potato

    “other social media companies with pro-democracy policies”

    Such as?

    • Count Potato

      “Individual employees can leak information about what Twitter knows about the relationship of Trump’s tweets to threats to American democracy.”

      What?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Don’t try to make sense of arglebargle, you’ll go nuts.

      • Tonio

        I wonder if Twitter puts its employees under NDAs about things like that. Musk might not be able to prevail in lawsuits against leakers, but he could damn sure make their lives miserable.

      • R.J.

        I can’t imagine that anyone would hire for a company loke that without such a thing.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Such as banning candidates they don’t like from their platforms. That’s what democracy looks like.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Interesting how the wokeocracy’s idea of democracy has a lot in common with theocracies like Iran.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Democracy, it’s got what plants crave.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Stormfront?

  9. SugarFree

    I’m having trouble thinking of a whiter white people problem than protesting a markup on vegan “milk” when you are already spending $6 on 40 cents of material and labor.

    • Compelled Speechless

      I just went through this entire archive:
      https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/

      I was unable to find a whiter problem. I think it might just be best to declare this the single whitest problem in the history of mankind rather than descend further in to madness searching.

      • The Other Kevin

        #135 Roller Derby LOL

  10. Shpip

    Elon Musk’s apparent decision to restore former President Donald Trump’s privileges to post on Twitter if his purchase of the company closes is a dangerous one for American democracy.

    He asserted, without evidence.

  11. The Other Kevin

    “Individual employees can leak information about what Twitter knows about the relationship of Trump’s tweets to threats to American democracy. ”

    As if they’ve been holding back that sort of information. If Elon wants programmers, I’m sure he’d find plenty of applicants (yours truly included).

  12. rhywun

    ‘Babe’ Actor James Cromwell

    OFFS. He has like a zillion appearances in the Trek-o-verse plus Six Feet Under and they choose to go with Babe?!

    What is wrong with people.

    • Animal

      Forget all that shit. They never even mention his appearance in Tank.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Anything with Garner is at least not total garbage.

      • juris imprudent

        His better law enforcement role, L.A. Confidential.

      • Compelled Speechless

        This is the one I was going to mention. Such a great flick.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Rollo… Tomasi.

      • SDF-7

        I don’t know why I have a soft spot for that movie as well as Eastwood’s The Gauntlet. Corny but good.

    • Rat on a train

      Let’s go all the way back to Murder by Death.

    • invisible finger

      James Cromwell: Prig In The City

      • hayeksplosives

        Nice.

  13. CPRM

    To make the threats credible, other social media companies with pro-democracy policies can invite these employees to apply for jobs with open arms.

    Come to us and tell us how we should be doing our jobs, you selfless heroes!

    • SugarFree

      I figured anyone fired from Twitter just goes straight into a position in the Disinformation Ministry.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Already employed as unpaid consultants.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The latter far more than the former. They know exactly what they’re doing.

  14. UnCivilServant

    I was setting up to do some painting, so naturally I shook the little bottles of paint to make sure the pigment is distributed, etc… then I went to go shake the container of water for washing the brushes in…

    Thankfully, it had a lid, so I merely laughed at myself instead of throwing water all over my work area.

    • Pine_Tree

      The other day at supper I had a bottle of beer sitting near a bottle of Worcestershire sauce and distractedly grabbed the wrong one.

      You know how the Worcestershire bottle has the little flow inhibitor in the top, so you have to sorta shake it to sprinkle it out?

      Well, if you do that with a full bottle of beer, you get a LOT of it on your plate.

      • UnCivilServant

        “It’s just beer batter, I swear!”

  15. Count Potato

    Anyway, can we all agree Cosmopolis sucked ass?

    • SDF-7

      No, but only because I never saw it. I’d probably agree if I did.

    • rhywun

      *scratches head, finds plot at wikipedia*

      It sounds ridiculous.

  16. Certified Public Asshat

    social media platform employees have a choice. They can help promote democracy.

    Which one is it?

    • kinnath

      actual justice

    • Bobarian LMD

      You gotta train up for that.

      • ron73440

        It always makes me laugh in movies or shows when someone digs a hole.

        Obviously those people have no idea how hard that really is.

      • Tulip

        I dug garden beds in clay. Small garden beds. Oof. I will not be digging graves by hand.

      • TARDis

        I took me forever just to bury my cat. I hate clay.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I dug a similar sized pit for a soil sciences class. Six feet is a long ways to go. Clay is better when it’s somewhere between brick hard and saturated glue.

    • whiz

      The real question is, did he call 811 before starting to dig?

    • Ted S.

      The depression will be on when overpriced shit like this goes out of business.

      My dad and I were watching Queasy, ME on Cozi at dinner a few Saturdays back, and virtually all of the ads were for websites selling overpriced shit like this, with all of the ads also showing people browsing simulated versions of the sites on their smartphones.

    • Sensei

      Dude it’s Harry and David.

      Although they got nothing on Japan and extravagant gifts.

      https://adayofzen.com/the-most-expensive-fruits-in-japan

      Yubari King Melon Yūbari, Hokkaido ¥2,456,381 $22,500
      Ruby Roman Grapes Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan ¥1,200,897 $11,000 (bunch of 24)
      Egg of the Sun Mango Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan ¥403,938 $3,700
      Square Watermelon Ginza, Tokyo ¥10,917 $100
      Sekai Ichi Apple Morioka, Japan ¥2,183 $20
      White Jewel Strawberry Saga Prefecture, Japan ¥1,091 $10 (each)

      • Timeloose

        I really like the Sumo Oranges. Really good.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Fun fact, H&D parent company Bear Creek Corporation was owned by Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical from 1989 through 2004.

    • R.J.

      Better not be. I am just starting to write up depression era hooch recipes. Need a lot of fruit.

      • Nephilium

        If you want to go pre-prohibition, check out the The Bartender’s Guide by Jerry Thomas. It’s the oldest known cocktail book written and published in the US, and includes a section on distillation, as well as liquors.

      • R.J.

        I just posted the recipe for dandelion wine. This is all how to make your own wine, cordials, etc… From a country perspective, not a perfectionist perspective. It is really cool.

      • R.J.

        I marked that and will be reading it also. Anything that can be done with basic kitchen equipment is fair game.

      • Nephilium

        I’ve hunted down a recipe for that once, the one I had used only the yellow parts of the flowers, and they had to be completely untreated by any chemical fertilizer, pesticide, and herbicide. So I threw that concept on the backburner.

        If you’re interested in some other items to make at home, feel free to hit me up at my handle at the Don’t Be Evil company’s e-mail service.

      • R.J.

        I shall use the magic FORUMS to send you a message. I put dandelion out there first because of requests. There is a ton of from-scratch recipes here to experiment with. We’ll all be hobo-rich!

    • Sean
      • TARDis

        They are just conditioning you to eat bugs!

    • rhywun

      OFFS.

  17. Count Potato

    Speaking of body horror…..

    “Girl gone wild! Madonna debuts VERY bizarre NFT collection featuring digital depictions of herself NUDE – including a graphic 3D scan of her own vagina – and showing her giving birth to trees, butterflies, and robotic centipedes”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10805341/Madonna-launches-NFT-featuring-digital-depiction-naked-including-3D-scans-vagina.html

    “‘There’s aging gracefully… then there’s this’: Madonna sparks HORROR with graphic NFT videos that feature digital depictions of her vagina and show her birthing trees and bugs, as critics call 63-year-old ‘desperate’ and ‘creepy'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10806637/Internet-ridicules-Madonna-singer-releases-NFT-featuring-graphic-3D-scans-vagina.html

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Only one Sugarfree article a week please

      • SDF-7

        Well, once you’ve been part of a Shadow vessel, you’re never quite the same.

      • hayeksplosives

        ?

      • Ted S.

        If they’re 20 minutes away from the center of the Town of Woodstock, then they’re probably in the heart of the Catskills (although I think you can get across the river from Woodstock in 20 minutes).

        20 minutes from Yasgur’s farm? No.

        Unfortunately, all the rich lefties moving the Catskills are making it unaffordable, and politically fucked up.

        All that said, I can’t imagine celebrities moving someplace like the Town of Hardenburgh. That’s the middle of nowhere.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Speaking of Cronenberg films.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      Is there two cronenberg movies coming out?

    • Fatty Bolger

      Collectively entitled Mother of Creation, the digital art pieces are attempting to deliver the message that ‘you never know where you are going to find life, and you can never give up hope’

      lol, OK.

  18. Count Potato

    “EXCLUSIVE: Bill Clinton’s special advisor who let Jeffrey Epstein into the White House seven times and flew on the Lolita Express dies at 59 – the latest associate of the former President to suffer an early demise

    Mark Middleton’s family said that he passed away on Saturday in a statement which did not reveal the cause of death.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10805997/Bill-Clintons-special-advisor-let-Jeffrey-Epstein-White-House-dies-59.html

    Nothing to see here.

    • Bobarian LMD

      in a statement which did not reveal the cause of death

      Talking about it might make it contagious.

  19. Old Man With Candy

    Tell ya what, Jamesie, we are approximately 1/10,000 of your wealth and soy/almond/oat milk costs us 40-50 cents extra per cup. How about you just make up the difference?

    Fucking retard. No idea how he was able to invent the Cochrane Drive.

    • Shpip

      No idea how he was able to invent the Cochrane Drive.

      Zefram Cochrane is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe. Created by writer Gene L. Coon

      REEEEEEEEEEE!!!!1!

  20. The Other Kevin

    I’ve had quite a few DNF’s lately, but I got lucky and got the first word in 2 today.

    Daily Quordle 107
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    • Raven Nation

      Daily Quordle 107
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      • grrizzly

        Why didn’t you enter the correct answer for the lower right word with your seventh attempt? You had all the letters in the right places.

      • kinnath

        Tunnel vision — chasing the lower left

      • Raven Nation

        Because I knew the answer and wanted to use my guesses for the one I didn’t know. Probably doesn’t make much sense, but when I know one, I feel like I have it in the bank.

      • grrizzly

        It’s a completely wrong approach. Unless it’s the last word, a wrong guess increases the counts of the unguessed words.

      • whiz

        ^^ This

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Yup. Take what you can get when you can get it*.

        For me, avoiding overaggression is important. I almost took a shot at a word in 2 this morning, but decided to go with a seed instead. It was a good call. I would’ve missed the word AND had to play the seed word in 3.

        *unless there are a number of different letters that could fit in the same spot to make words, then it’s sometimes worth moving to a different word.

      • Raven Nation

        I guess. I’m more motivated by not busting than getting low score. But, your point is well taken.

    • MikeS

      So you’re only posting scores when you win?

      • MikeS

        Just went through collecting scores and realized I haven’t posted mine yet.

        6️⃣4️⃣
        8️⃣3️⃣

    • The Other Kevin

      Ignoring Epstein Island : monitoring text messages :: Ignoring Biden’s corruption : monitoring $600 transactions

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They’re for the little guy, why don’t you understand that?

      • Nephilium

        They’re for the little guy kids, why don’t you understand that?

        FTFY

    • SDF-7

      At which point I’d tell the EU they’re more than welcome to go back to Minitel and leave the rest of the world out of it. Big part of why I can’t get behind US companies issuing weasel statements like “We seek to obey local laws in all jurisdictions” — that quickly turns into “We’ll oppress you because that’s the lowest common denominator for laws across the planet”. Screw you — you’re a US company, hold to US standards.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Not your keys, not your encryption. End to end encryption is mandatory if you care about privacy.

      I’m even skeptical of Signal, even though they claim E2E encryption.

      • Animal

        It’s the only way to be sure.

    • rhywun

      I am shocked.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      On the one hand, the number is so outrageous I have to think they are misinterpreting the data. On the other hand, getting royalties on patents reminds me of how Elizabeth Holmes put her name on patents that she had nothing to do with. It sounds like a clever way to deliver a kickback.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        A kickback is exactly what it is.

  21. Tundra

    Blood Red Shoes is new to me. I like it!

    But why is hot girl so angry?

    • The Hyperbole

      Because even though she’s the guitarist the drummer is the ‘front man’ and gets all the credit due to the patriarchy.

    • whiz

      “… when the outer portion of the Earth’s shadow starts to slightly shade part of the moon — in what is known as the penumbral phase,”

      Damn, the Supreme Court might have something to say about that.

  22. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Did y’all catch Jim Browning, Trilogy Media, and Mark Rober epically trolling Injun (dot, not teepee) call centers?

    Here’s JB’s entry (my favorite): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dT6jB2Dbmk

  23. MikeS

    Last call for Quordle. I’ll be posting DQR™©® at 6-ish sharp!

    • Ted S.

      It’s already well past 6:00.

      • MikeS

        I was waiting for some left-coaster to spew hate.

      • MikeS

        Dammit! I meant the other left!

      • Ted S.

        I was referring to UTC.

      • Rat on a train

        It is almost 23 in UTC.

      • MikeS

        I meant +6

      • MikeS

        Or -6.

        Or I suppose that’s wrong now because of DST. Whatever. I posted it at exactly 6:00-ish my time.

      • Rat on a train

        Two lefts don’t make a right.

      • Ted S.

        Two Wongs don’t make a white.

      • Tres Cool

        But 2 Wrights can make an airplane.

  24. Mojeaux

    @PopeJimbo, I just answered one of your posts on the forum.

  25. ron73440

    NorVA folks, there is a meetup for Gourmeltz on the 21st posted on the Forum.

    • LCDR_Fish

      Gonna need KK to bring her new RV down so we can give it the once-over.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        LOL…it’s in storage in SC. I won’t be moving in permanently until late June/early July

  26. MikeS

    DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©®
    (The ‘I got nothin’ Edition)
    #107

    Champs
    grrizzly 19
    Rat on a train 19
    trshmnstr the terrible 19

    Grumbletarian 20
    Not Adahn 20
    MikeS 21
    TARDis 21
    Bobarian LMD 22
    kinnath 22
    one true athena 22
    whiz 22
    Ghostpatzer 23
    rhywun 23
    Ted S. 23
    The Hyperbole 23
    Grummun 24
    The Other Kevin 24
    Tundra 24
    Sean 25
    Tulip 25
    Raven Nation 26
    Ozymandias 27

    Chump
    SDF-7 29

    A pretty average day, all around. Three players tied for the win. 11 were at or over the T-line and 12 were under. Nobody busted. Average score was 22.7

    Tuesday’s numbers were very similar to today in all respects but one; the Scrabble score. Tuesday was 36, today 29.

    The Hyperbole and Sean continue their impressive no-bust streak at 29 each. Tundra is on their heels with a 25.

    • l0b0t

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        ?⭐?⭐?
        ?????

        ? streak: 7
        wafflegame.net

    • TARDis

      SDF finished, how is he a Chump? I mean he’s dead last by +2 so he’s a loser an’ all, but that shouldn’t require a move to C-Town.

      • SDF-7

        Meh — I’m Dictator For Life of Chumptown, after all. My minions just miss me.

      • MikeS

        Unless I am mis-remembering, last place -regardless of score- is always the Chump. I emailed the boss for a ruling.

      • The Hyperbole

        It’s a carry over from early days, originally “chump” was just the high score of the day, calling failures “chumping” and MikeSing (aka double chump) and SDF-7ing (aka Triple chump (how does one triple chump, that’s impressive)) developed organically as the DQR grew in popularity and earned the respect and admiration of the most important corners of the internet.

    • db

      I did the Quordle this morning but couldn’t report until now.

      Unfortunately the screenshot I took of it seems to be missing, and my browser seems to have cleared any record of it, so, my score is lost to posterity.

      • TARDis

        Quadruple Chump? 400?

      • MikeS

        Do you delete cookies hourly, or…?

      • db

        I think Brave does, at least on my phone.

      • MikeS

        Huh. Well, I’ll mark you down for a 309 and call it good. ?

      • Raven Nation

        “my score is lost to posterity.”

        But it was 10, right?

    • MikeS

      So…I guess l0bot is the akshul winner. I’ll update the spreadsheet.

      • TARDis

        Where is this secret spreadsheet? Do we need to file a FOIA thingie to see it? Will we be detained?

      • MikeS

        1. It’s secret
        b. It’s protected from FOA by FYTW
        iii. You are already being detained! ?

      • TARDis

        *whimpers*

  27. Sensei

    For all the grief we give cops I’m watching two extremely patient cops deal with a homeless guy in Hoboken Station.

    Easily could have arrested him, but did everything to just get him to either buy a ticket or leave the two hour waiting area that he has been camped in.

    Of the cops the one was white and the other black and naturally the black homeless guy is all over the racism angle, but only with white cop.

    • Drake

      If they arrest him, they have to touch him.

      • Sensei

        True. No noticeable smells, but who wants to get stuck.

  28. db

    I was indisposed earlier today and couldn’t read Joemala, but oh my sweet towering inferno, it was genius.

    never, never, never, indeed.

    • hayeksplosives

      It was lovely.

      Blackberry. LOL.

  29. Evan from Evansville

    Are folk around?

    Life is strenuous.

    I have a few hours. Then i need to bounce, Ev does not like any of this.

    • Tres Cool

      WE OUT HERE!

  30. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam
    whats goody