Look at that little guy go
“Instagram Will Pause Updates Until All the Yelling Stops”
“Elden Ring’s Turtle Pope Wins All-Out Death Battle By Doing Absolutely Nothing”
Hope to see some of you tomorrow. (But hopefully not all of you, yikes.)
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Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
Did I outfirst Brochetta?
Yes Sir! You win a prize!
What do we have for him Larry!
Nah, Bro’ll just take a page outta President Puddin’ Cup’s playbook and redefine what “First” actually means.
“If you’re not really obnoxious about it and make vague pregnancy or sexual allusions, experts consider it only a First to the layman. Real Firsters show up three hours later after all the comments have passed to preen with a shtick everyone got tired of within weeks, if not days….”
Lol
I’m pretty sure he redefined first years ago. I have a theory that he comes from a small race of people called the Firsts that use their name in place of random words in their sentences much like the Smurfs. It’s the only way I’ve ever been able to make sense of all his talk of “firsting”.
Marklar marklar marklar. Marklar marklar.
So, President Broden?
Yes. You are now the world’s tallest midget.
“An all-too-brief teaser trailer focuses on the vibrating uvula of a snoring young person, who is awakened by a dog licking their face.”
I misread this at first as the vibrating vulva of a snoring young person.
Me too, thanks Ted
Me 3.
I too was turned on the first time I read it. And still after the second time when I read it correctly.
Well, the uvula *is* positioned deep in the throat. Some find this stimulating.
Oh. I was talking about the dog licking.
Who loves peanut butter????
It’ll behoove ya
To care for your uvula
With each passing day I care less and less about the MCU++… and I’m fine with that.
I still haven’t watched part 2 of the last one. The DVD sits unopened downstairs.
*shrug*
I don’t think I’ve watched part one of the first one, maybe on accident?
I think it’s pronounced MCULGBTQ2+XYZ
I told myself I would stop after Endgame on account of no longer being 14 years old anymore. I made the mistake of watching a few episodes of most of the D+ shows. I should have stuck to my promise and been able to remember the whole thing fondly. Falcon and Winter Soldier was beyond embarrassing. Apathy is the appropriate response.
I liked Wandavision and Loki. Moon Knight was OK. Only got through 2 episodes of F&WS, I agree, it was turrible.
Wandavision was actually okay accept for the classic Marvel descent into a stupid blob of bad CGI third act that really undid all my good will towards it. Loki was where the gender bait and switch started. Not only was the show not about Loki, but he was reduced to a stupid, helpless, whimpering coward. That’s the one that took me from apathy to disdain, at which point I decided the whole thing is not worth my time or concern, thus my return to glorious apathy.
Yep Loki was awful. Total Mary Sue incoherent garbage. I haven’t watched anything marvel since they baited me with that.
Completely incoherent. I thought The Architect from The Matrix Reloaded was going to show up and tell Kang to take it easy on the exposition.
LOL. so true!
“Yeah, let me just put 20 minutes of nonsense infodumping that isn’t even useful for the series you just watched because there was no indication any of that was happening, because I’m actually just an advertisement for the Next Movie/show, and narrative climaxes are for suckers! Also, don’t forget Sylvie is great, bye!”
Best thing to come out of the Loki series is the whining and gnashing of teeth over how the PR baited it as being “genderfluid and bisexual” and it was actually the dull heternonormative ‘romance’ ever.
I should find the link to the terrible Waldron film script he cannibalized for the show. I can’t believe Feige read that thing and said ‘hey that’s a great series idea, just change the names and add some nonsensical comics references to get the geek crowd and then Kang at the end, and you’re good to go!”
Sorry. Man, I hated that show. I suppose because I was actually looking forward to it and they took every bit of great story possibility they had and completely ignored them.
Wait, you mean Loki didn’t give birth to Slepnir?
I stopped with Endgame, barring No Way Home. And that one was nostalgia bait but given how incredibly stupid they had to make Strange and Parker for the plot to even start, I figured I was making the right decision to ignore everything else.
Easier since I’m not paying a subscription to the Haus of Maus, If (ever, given how it looks) they happen to make The Mandalorian and Orville Season 3 since they have their sticky little rodent globes on it for sale, I’d buy them via iTunes like the rest of my library. But I’m not supporting those weasels. Apathie macht frei.
I have no idea what any of that means.
Be prepared for it to suck…
I read it as “We have so much crap in each Phase with all the stupid TV shows with characters no one cares about, we need to stretch out the movies people might actually watch across a couple of Phases. So we’ll do slow teases of an over-arching “plot” mixed in with all the crap and then pretend we built up to a momentous story when it comes time.
You know, instead of building characters and the world like established this franchise or using characters people could pick out of a lineup or anything…”
But then, I’m a grumpy, cynical snarker this afternoon.
Why would they run the movies any differently than they ran the comic books?
I guess they’re really hedging their bets that the grants they’ll get from being ESG certified will be greater than what they could make at the box office. We’ll see if that works out.
I watched some clips from the latest Thor movie. It was just bad, really effing bad.
This is the proper response.
I have to go do something which will be a lot like work.
DRAT!
Biden administration to close border wall gaps in Arizona
Not building a wall per se, just filing in some gaps.
“The Biden administration said Thursday it had authorized US Customs and Border Protection to close gaps in a border wall in Arizona near the Morelos Dam in order to protect migrants from drowning and sustaining injuries while trying to cross the Colorado River into the United States.” Wow. He can’t even pretend he is trying to enforce our borders.
That’s the wall the D’s have backed themselves up against. Literally any recognition of borders = fascism. Watching all of the woke chickens come home to roost come November is going to be quite the show. I’d better go buy popcorn now while I can still afford it.
Just a couple of months after they started busing immigrants to NY and DC. Coincidence?
The coincidence I’m noticing is that huge swaths of Hispanic voters are switching to the Republicans. Suddenly the Democrats might no longer think importing millions from south of the border is the way to a permanent supermajority….if indeed it’s instead a pathway to Rs gaining power, watch how they won’t be able to build that wall fast enough.
Or “just cleaning up the mess” Trump left. What a bunch of wankers.
Hmmm. Couldn’t you “clean it up” by knocking it down and hauling it all away with about the same level of effort? Since it’s so racist and all.
Don’t fill the gaps, build a bride across the river.
Do you usually push your wife over into streams so you can cross without getting wet? I miss the gold old days when that was still socially acceptable.
She really isn’t very good at this, is she. Though to be fair, look at the material she has to work with. I don’t think anybody can spin that shit.
Bill Clinton could. That guy was the Micheal Jordan of bullshit.
“That depends on what your definition of what the word “is” is.” In that exact moment, he spontaneously created the concepts of both trolling and based. I’m a little ashamed to admit that I kind of admire the guy for that one..
lol you’re probably right
Even my fifteen year old daughter is over Marvel.
I only care about special effects on my 4k TV. I got a free Disney+ subscription a couple of weeks ago and still haven’t watched a single Marvel movie. My neighbors once complained about my subwoofer when I watched one of these movies in the past.
I would consider paying for another Deadpool movie if it wasn’t too woke. Otherwise, I’m very done with it.
If Lucy McBath and Bennie Thompson had a child it create a blackhole of stupidity that no fact could penetrate.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/07/20/rep-lucy-mcbath-testifies-that-assault-rifles-can-leave-exit-wounds-a-foot-wide-and-explode-skulls-on-impact/
Any links to where I could purchase these particular rifles and roughly 535 rounds of that ammo? Serious question, are the skulls only exploding because they’re entering the completely hollow skulls of congresscritters? Like would they still explode if you were to shoot them into some actual brain matter?
Some good replies.
‘Hope to see some of you tomorrow. (But hopefully not all of you, yikes.)’
I feel personally attacked.
Just arrived safely in lovely Hornell NY, 9 miles from party central. Yay! Looking forward to seeing *some* of you reprobates tomorrow.
It’ll be a roight Glib Invasion.
Ensconced in Olean!
The Southern Tier is gonna be lit
Remember – you are the product. Advertisers are the consumers
That’ll teach them not to listen to the luser community.
IF!!!!!
Just visited the Corning Museum of Glass with Tulip and CPRM. I should walk more.
The worst part was when your enjoyment of artistry gets interrupted by some artist or curator who injected woke crap. So my advice to those who want to visit – don’t read the text. You’ll enjoy it more that way.
Worst euphemism ever.
also, fuck sake, that just sounds horrible no matter who you were with.
It’s more interesting than you’re giving it credit for.
Did you see any Chihuly works? Local art museum has been big on his stuff for quite a while. [Note in my nerdy defense: I have a sister who’s a stained glass artist.]
We saw an awesome, outdoor Chihuly exhibit in Phoenix a few years ago. Really impressive.
Chihuly studied at RISD in Providence. The RISD museum has his works or perhaps I attended Chihuly’s special exhibition there years ago.
Don’t miss the Chihuly Vibrating Uvula.
There was one I most distinctly did not see. A fifteen foot tall yellow-green thing right inside the front door. Walked right past without even noticing it existed until I was waiting for the others fifteen minutes later.
I don’t get what people see in his work.
If you don’t like his stuff, do not ever look at this paintings. I like his glass works, but his paintings are shit.
Personally, I found the historical glass prior to 1960 more interesting than the modern stuff. It’s as if in 1960 the world read something out of Lovecraft and went insane.
“You should be delighted to see it.”
Because we own you. You’re the product.
“China says it WILL shoot Pelosi’s plane down IF she travels to Taiwan under US fighter escort: Speaker refuses to confirm trip – as Beijing warns it would ‘cross a red line’ and aircraft carrier holds drills in the South China Sea”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11062421/China-warns-fighter-jets-escorting-Pelosi-Taiwan-shot-down.html
I have mixed feelings about this.
That CCP, always promising nice things and failing to deliver.
I don’t.
Fire away. China sees Taiwan as part of their territory. Unless if we claim Taiwan as part of America’s territory, I don’t see why we’re getting involved. Pelosi going there is like deliberately flicking an aggressive dog’s ear as it growls at you.
America lost something when the world watched DC retreat with its tail between their legs from a bunch of third world peasants with AKs in Afghanistan. Russia then called our State Department’s bluff in Ukraine about getting Ukraine to join NATO. I think China will do the same now in Taiwan.
Sarajevo 2022? Not calling China’s bluff would be more dangerous in the long run than Nancy “coming down with Covid” and having to cancel the Taiwan leg of her junket.
Your daily dose of Sanford and son:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zX1ruDP_jog
“A South African opposition figure has warned of impending civil unrest in the continent’s richest country and likened it to ‘an Arab Spring.’
The controversial opposition leader Julius Malema spoke of the country waking up one day with ‘very angry people that are not going to be reasonable.’
Discontent with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party in South Africa is at all-time high levels due to the social conditions within the country and ‘the poor becoming poor,’ according to Malema.
‘When the unled revolution comes… the first target is going to be white people,’ Mr Malema told the BBC’s Hardtalk programme, adding that the uprising would also target ‘black elites.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11062235/White-people-target-South-Africas-Julius-Malema-warns-impending-violence.html
You’re doing great.
And this will be different from the current ongoing murder and mutiliation of white south africans how? Oh, they’re threatening to add blacks to the victim pool.
I would have hightailed it out of there decades ago.
Wow. I missed that.
I guess Rand Paul stayed silent after being added to the pro-Russian list issued by Ukraine.
I’d say Russia IS a sponsor of terrorism, but so is the US.
Now some family is suing Sesame Place for $25 million because some character at the amusement park failed to pat their little darling on the head. Racial discrimination!
The upshot will probably be that Sesame will order their characters not to interact with any kids at all so as to avoid any perception of exclusion of genders, sexual orientation, skin color, religion, national origin, childishness, cookie monster larping, poverty as exhibited by torn jeans, or other appearances that might be law suit worthy.
You left out the mandatory struggle sessions.
“Most of the long-term problems associated with being a child of divorce are instead related to sexism, racism, homophobia, shoddy recordkeeping, and insufficient government support.”
https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1551749084465209345
It takes a village to be retarded.
Neph’s zoom link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
Que hora est?
He said it would just be on all weekend. I haven’t tried signing in yet.
Nice, instead of Spanglish you did Span-Latin.
I go back and forth between the Latin I take online and the Azorean Spanish I learned back in HS.
Zoom is up and running, the beer is flowing, and the pigtails are out
Blah.
I was planning on bringing five things previously referenced on this site. Four of them are not to be found in town. The fifth is only-sort of available.
🙁
At first I wasn’t all that burned up about it, until I realized the route there goes nowhere near Warrensburg.
So what’s your plan now?
Less interesting substitutions.
One of the cheeses was available as a “mini” version, so I’ll bring that.
I am officially on vacation. 🎉
Any plans?
Resort bound on Monday.
Go you!
I guess I am too as I decided to take Monday off – my brain needs a rest in the middle of this huge project I’m working on.
Ich auch.
I have company and I’ll need a day to recover.