I’ll be honest… I’d try it.
Remember this simple phrase the next time to see someone with a thin blue line t-shirt. Removing the screams makes the video seem like they were just chillin’ in a empty hallway together, no big deal, I’ll check my phone and get a little hand-sanny. I get that the people editing the video didn’t want to freak people out, but maybe’s it’s fucking time to freak the fuck out. Disband that force, disband that city government, and tattoo COWARD on all their foreheads.
Charges: Man lit his camper on fire, defaced own garage to appear targeted due to Trump flag
MINNEAPOLIS – A Brooklyn Center man faces federal charges after he lit his own camper on fire to make it look like a politically-motivated crime, and then allegedly filed several fraudulent insurance claims.
Molla reported to police that someone set fire to his camper “because it had a Trump 2020 flag displayed on it,” and spray painted the Antifa or anarchy symbol, “BLM” and “Biden 2020” on his garage door. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says Molla actually lit the fire and defaced the garage himself.
Court documents show that Molla then “submitted multiple insurance claims seeking coverage for the damage to his garage, camper, vehicles, and residence caused by the fire.”
Molla submitted insurance claims totaling more than $300,000, receiving only $61,000 in the process. He then accused his insurance company of “defrauding him.” Court documents show he also yielded more than $17,000 from two GoFundMe accounts.
Never go full Smollet, bro. Next time a simple “Live, Laugh, Love” burned into you yard with salt will allow you to blame the HOA book club and everybody hates those bitches.
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Hey Brochettaward, I thought I’d hold this spot for you.
*squints suspiciously*
Nice.
🤭
Excellent!
Very cheeky.
I’m getting angry. You won’t like me when I’m angry.
I was already angry before you said that. I guess you could say I was angry……..first.
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I don’t like you now.
You were rightly and adequately rewarded.
That was my favorite ass-shaping gift, until the Mexican volleyball girls showed up.
Ass-slapping that is.
Surprisingly, this one seems firmer than the volleyball girl.
The whole of the clip of the #1 gif is…worth studying.
I still like this one best. ‘Cause glasses.
The glasses help sell that
And the nearly simultaneous head nods.
I’ll grant that it is more high brow.
Proper even.
A Brooklyn Center man faces federal charges after he lit his own camper on fire to make it look like a politically-motivated crime, and then allegedly filed several fraudulent insurance claims
Never go full victimhood, dude. Leave that to the dopey college kids.
If you are going to try a little “Greek Lightning” for insurance fraud, make it low key… “Some darn kids or bums accidentally set a fire – burnt muh camper, darn it.”
I would have said I saw a guy meeting Jussie Smollet’s description running from the scene. He’s got nothing to lose because he was wrongfully abused by the system!
Double Jeopardy. He can’t be charged twice for faking a hate crime.
He can’t be charged for faking the SAME hate crime. Wait, I see what you’re doing. Let’s tell him about double jeopardy!
The crimes are doubled?
Also; don’t argue with them when they give you “only” $61,000
“That’s not right! I caused way more than $61,000 worth of damage!”
No Sleep Till Brooklyn
He should use the BP Cop excuse: “I reached for my fire extinguisher, but accidently pulled out my Bic lighter”.
Of course they they would have busted him based on the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ekugPKqFw&t=8s
Think of all the taxpayer money that will go into treating those heroic officers for mental trauma. Think of the disability ratings they’ll get for PTSD! The poor dears.
I hope they hear those screams for the rest of their miserable lives and that it drives them to insanity.
I hope they hear those screams for the rest of their miserable lives and that it drives them to insanity.
So much this.
I fast forwarded through the video. How many kids bled to death while they stood around and did nothing? Fucking cowards.
Those dudes should hire the sheriff of Hennepin County for how to manage their PTSD claims. He’s doing a bangup job.
Sheriff Hutchinson has applied for early retirement (before the election) due to PTSD caused by his crash and everyone being so mad at him afterwards.
Stephin Merritt is always the right choice.
We used to hang out at the same gay dive bar in the East Village. Didn’t know him or anything but I knew who he was and did own one of his albums.
Huh, they just mentioned The Magnetic Fields on The Fifth Column podcast.
Haven’t heard that name in years, then twice in a week…
SugarFree moonlights as Moynihan.
SugarFree is waaaaayyy cooler than Moynihan.
/rage level: Max+
Declare them outlaws. Capture them and force them to listen to the screams on repeat forever.
This has made me abnormally hateful.
I’d settle for them all being fired but even that’s not going to happen.
The level of hate you feel is perfectly normal for watching a video where cops check their phone notifications and apply hand sanitizer for an hour and a half while they know children are being murdered ten feet away.
the hand sanitizer part really got me. But at least he could get on his cell phone and mark himself as “Safe from Covid” on Facebook.
I’ve read some excuses that they waited an hour before entering the classroom because they thought the shooting was over. But in that case, surely they knew that potentially dozens of kids (and as it turns out, a few teachers too) were in desperate need of immediate medical attention.
The teacher (since then confirmed deceased) who was talking on the phone to her husband during the “standoff/standdown” told him she was bleeding out! She could possibly have been saved if the cops had gone in there and shot the perp, then let the paramedics get to work.
Yup. This is standard police operating procedure, courtesy of the ‘No matter what, I’m going home at the end of my shift,’ chickenshit mentality.
At my shooting class this past weekend, the medical brief specifically stated that in the event of a gunshot wound to a student, we stabilize the victim and transport him to the hospital ourselves. The typical ‘secure the scene’ police response is why.
About 10 years ago, all my employers (then defense contractor, now dept of energy/Nuke stuff) have held mandatory active shooter training, in some cases involving role play.
The idea was to think it out and act it out in advance so there’d be no hesitation if it ever came up in reality.
A couple of years ago, one of my colleagues was driving along a residential road and saw a uniformed lady cop wrestling with a larger male “civilian”. He got out of his car joined the fray and likely saved her life.
Would a fellow cop have done that? We will never know.
This is what I’ve been saying since the beginning. Kids and teachers were in there bleeding out. They had to suspect if not know this. And that fat fuck police chief claim that they thought it changed from “active shooter” to “standoff” appears to be a bald face lie; I’ve not seen anything claiming they ever tried to make contact with the shooter. Wouldn’t you do that in a standoff?
The whole thing is so goddam enraging. I am truly flabbergasted (and honestly disappointed) that nobody -to my knowledge- has made these cops’ lives utter hell yet. At a minimum the town’s hardware stores should be out of spray paint due to “COWARD” tags all over town.
Presumably, there is a school intercom system like we had in every school I attended.
That’s an interesting topic. Every school has a PA, no? Operated from the front office, or “Principal’s office.”
Did nobody make an announcement or give instructions? Maybe they are trained not to do so, in order to ensure the hypothetical gunman doesn’t know the strategy. Maybe the office admins work from home now.
I’d like to see what the Active Shooter training that was allegedly held a few weeks before this real shooting happened instructs.
All the active shooter training I’ve had (as a civilian employee) pretty much amounts to “RUN-HIDE-FIGHT”.
Run if you can get away, hide if you can’t get past the shooter or shooters, and if need be, commit to taking up any means at hand: chair, hammer, 2×4 to clobber the guy. Because if it gets to the “fight” point, you’re more likely saving others than saving yourself.
What do they teach the cops?
They did make an announcement. No one knew what to do, because they hadn’t practiced any emergency drills.
Yep. And exactly what the fuck were they waiting for before going in? Camouflaged uniforms? They had rifles, they had shields, they had everything necessary except the balls to do it.
This got me wondering, is this the flip side of the war on “toxic masculinity?”
Not meant to be an excuse for their cowardice, but I’ve been hearing a lot about increased suicide rates among men and general malaise. The extreme end of that becomes these active shooters. The opposite extreme could show itself as cowardice. You’ve got a society of weak men who either snap and become violent or roll over and take it because they’ve never been taught to control their rage or suppress their fear.
Tyler Durden suspects you are on to something.
I think you are being to kind. The chief was, at best, incompetent. His loyal soldiers… I mean officers… lacked the initiative to do the right thing for the right reasons. The lessons of Nuremberg remain unlearned.
This isn’t new. Some teacher bled out during Columbine long after the shooting was over.
It’s new in the sense that supposedly everyone learned what not to do from Columbine, and yet, here we are.
No idea how that makes it new. There was similar shit at Parkland, etc.
And I have no idea what it not being new has to do with anything.
Columbine was 23 years ago.
Unfortunately, the Texas Constitution forbids outlawing specifically. However, shunning and/or lynch… err spontaneously delivering a rebuke by the general citizenry… only require a jury trial.
They just wanted to get home that night.
I watched the video with the “removed screams”. I assumed that the screams occurred during the original volley of shots. And I assume any kids still alive were hiding or playing dead. Thus no additional screaming. So it is not clear to me from that video that the police who were shitting their pants in the hallway would have heard kids screaming after they arrived.. There is already enough reason to hate the cops. I am not going to assume the stood there while kids were screaming.
The pussy that almost falls on his face running away from the killing floor classroom was hearing them.
But let’s see the raw video.
But let’s see the raw video.
Absolutely.
Put all the cops on the 50 yard line at the local high school. Play the video on big screen TVs. Let whatever happens at the end of the video happen.
I regret watching the edited video. I could not watch the raw one.
I completely understand.
But the unedited footage would really emphasize how long those fat fucks just stood there. I don’t get mad about much, just sort of live in a state of bemused cynicism (expect the worse and you are never surprised) but this has got me wound up. I want them peeled, salted, roasted and fed to feral dogs.
I want to see footage (if there is any) of the cops escorting the border patrol (I think?) officer out of the school because he was heading to the classroom despite orders. They allegedly took his firearm and removed him from the school.
That is so whacked.
I believe it was another cop.
Whose wife was being murdered at the time.
Or maybe his kid.
I could see that motivating a feller. I do think it was his wife, but the “journalism” of this whole event has been so terrible I don’t know what to believe.
I want their names published.
If they are tried their names will be a matter of public record.
And while I’m sure Uvalde School District and PD are scrubbing public records, someone has their pictures. Society needs to treat them like the personnel of the Nazi extermination camps.
I don’t get mad about much, just sort of live in a state of bemused cynicism
I am now deeply disturbed that this is also an accurate description of me.
Yeah, I can’t engage with this topic too deeply. It gets my brain running in incoherent loops of rage.
Unfortunately I can imagine scenarios where they’re still making plenty of sounds.
I would not vote to convict anyone who took retribution.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1547312809934979076?cxt=HHwWiICwia-zlPkqAAAA
Globalist elites have always been scum. Shocking, I know?
The Club of Rome?
Yeah, they were assholes extraordinaire. And they still are.
https://www.clubofrome.org/
Man, that’s a lot of buzzwards.
Michael Yon talking about Europe’s suicide. I had no idea that the “Hunger Winter” was that bad. There must be Dutch people around who still remember it.
https://michaelyon.locals.com/post/2414635/netherlands-incredible-laws-in-the-works
Europe is self-immolating and we’re urging it on.
The only gratification I will get out of it is when the system breaks and the nomenklatura hang.
Why does the West always self-immolate after lengthy periods of prosperity?
Soft time makes make soft men, soft men make hard times, hard times make hard men, hard men make soft times. It’s the circle of “luck”
Now do Chinese emperors.
The guys that got bitch slapped by Japan in spite of home field advantage and outnumbering them like 10-1?
Bad Things can not happen in Current Year
The Dutch attacking their own food production and self-sufficiency in the midst of a supply chain disaster and possible famine in many poorer countries is either calculated nefariousness or absolute insanity. Sri Lanka just booted their WEF guy and I hope the Dutch do the same.
Problem is will Sri Lanka get a new leader who isn’t a WEF Stooge or a shithead?
We’ll see I suppose but if they get more of the same the entire government will end up Mussolinid.
That’s the question I keep asking myself. Will the WEF swoop in and “rescue” everyone from the crisis they themselves created? Or will people realize the WEF was responsible?
I can’t be arsed to look for it, but the WEF has already indicated that they will “assist” the farmers by purchasing the land.
I believe I saw a Dutch politician saying they were going to need a lot more housing for immigrants, and so they were going to buy abandoned farmland for that.
One unaddressed piece of the supply chain crisis: there is a serious shortage of dead politicians.
“Abandoned.”
Forclosed, condemned, seized, appropriated. See also “land snatch.”
See: Snatch.
Hayley 7, United States nothing.
I’m guessing the former since hardly anyone knows what the WEF is. I’d bet that greater than 90% of the world’s population is totally unaware of it and that at least half of the remaining population supports it, a quarter of the remaining think it’s the paranoid delusions of conspiracy theorists, and the last quarter either know and don’t care or know and hate them.
They might not know specifically what the WEF is but the masses are actually pretty good at sniffing out things when they seem fishy although they might be confused as to the cause. Any power they hold is due to organizational capture by a small number of loathsome people who are bound by dogma to go too far too fast. I doubt more than a fifth of people have any sympathy with their goals and when it hits people in their wallets they pay attention.
The Dutch government really is unbelievable. If I was actively trying to start a populist uprising, I would be doing exactly what they’re doing right now.
It is unbelievable and I don’t think it’s due to stupidity. No one’s that stupid.
*points at the German Green Party*
*points at Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer, and The Squad ™. *. Really?
They have the added benefit of being stupid in addition to evil.
Not all the evil ones are stupid.
My FiL certainly remembered it; he also (as a young man in his early teens) was a part of the Resistance (along with his dad and brothers).
I’ve talked before about Den Topp, the family’s small cottage just across the canal from Sneek (pronounced like our English word “snake”). During the winter of ’44-’45, there was a barge that had coal and potatoes on it that got stuck in ice in that canal; by springtime, the barge had been almost completely emptied by the local populace (with the “regular” German Army mostly turning a blind eye). If it hadn’t have been for that barge, a lot of people in and around Sneek might not have made it through that winter.
There’s a reason Audrey Hepburn was waif thin.
was it stuck or “stuck”?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/la-county-covid-mask-mandate/2936528/%3famp=1
Happy Return of Mask Mandates everyone!
lulz
It’s about having people under their thumbs, not health. The current dominant variants aren’t that bad symptomwise.
Yeah, I had a feeling that I didn’t insult enough the Costco employees eagerly enforcing the mandate. I’ll have another chance in September. Mock their looks, mock their intelligence, mock their weight. Make them hate their jobs.
Ehh, go fuck yourself. If you want to change anything, go directly to store management.
Otherwise you’re just lashing out like a child at someone who’s choosing between wearing a muzzle or having to find other work (where they might have to wear a muzzle anyway)
The store management will tell me to go the governor or to a public health official in charge. You see they are only following orders. The vast majority of store employees don’t harass their customers who don’t wear masks. The ones who do, who enjoy being mask Nazis deserve being treated like the scum they are.
Perhaps, people working in retail cannot find a job where they are not forced to wear a mask but they can always get a job where they don’t force customers to wear one.
I mis-read that, I thought you were talking about a corporate policy, not a governor policy. I also didn’t realize you were talking only about the mask enforcers at these places.
If you couldn’t tell, I’m bitter because of the number of times my mask was below my nose and a customer told me to pull it up, or they snitched to management about it and I just had to deal with it. If I could call them pussy narcs to their face I would.
Meh. Rather than belittling the poor sod at the front entry, we cancelled our Costco membership, told the store manager why, and hopped over to Sam’s. Not only haven’t we had to wear a mask, but it’s actually a better store anyway.
I never did understand the Costco love. Had NOTHING we use daily, whereas Sams has most everything.
Yup. The difference is especially stark since we have Sams plus with the Sam’s mastercard. It’s an automatic 5% off everything we buy at Sam’s and sometimes up to 10% off gas. They even rolled out something where we can get Sam’s cash back on our other credit cards at certain places just by enrolling them.
Even just looking at the barebones differences, Sam’s is better stocked, the produce and meat is higher quality, and I walk out the door each time with lower per unit costs than if I went to Aldi or the like. That just wasn’t the case with Costco.
Costco is a mere shadow in comparison.
Costco seems to have “snob” value for some people. We only got a Costco membership when we were in Escondido because there was no Sam’s.
In Minnesota, we happened to live about as quarter mile from Sam’s, closer than the regular grocers! So we always got meat from Sam’s, which was terrific when we had 2 growing boys/teens. For some specialty stuff, we had to resort to grocery stores, but Sam’s was pretty great for everything else.
I’m thinking of joining Sam’s again so I can get dry good staples like rice and beans (for the impending hard times) when I am coming home front the Vegas office.
Sam’s has the taint of Walmart./hipster prog
Sam’s meat is great. I think the only meat we get at our regular grocery (Meijer) is cold cuts.
Costco has a much better selection from my point of view and is much further away from both homes of ours (as in a neighboring state).
If people had actively confronted the mask Nazis in all their forms right away–instead of coming up with excuses why we need to stay polite and civil and, surely, this poorly paid concentration camp guard is just doing her job–we wouldn’t have gotten in a situation when governments and corporations demanded non-stop injections of a toxic gene therapy from most working-age Americans.
…Sam’s club is much further away…
I can’t watch any more of that video.
And I also can’t decide if I like the original or Superchunk’s homage better. So I’m gonna say they are both brilliant and that I really, really miss the ’90s.
I wish I had realized in the 90s that I was living through the pinnacle of American civilization.
Merritt needed to trust his voice more on that first album. But I like Mac’s scream/sing version quite a bit.
Asshole, now my comment looks like early onset dementia!
Don’t get so angry. Go have a pudding cup and relax.
Why the Right to an Abortion Matters for Every Person
Well, I am not moved at all by this awful story and I am very unconvinced that men have lost any rights in all of this.
I’m so glad they murdered that baby so that we could be together.
Me. Me me me. Meeeeeeeee! Me? Me.
Mrs. TOK often says that a lot of the pro-abortion stuff just comes off as selfishness. And here’s your proof.
This poor guy almost missed his trip to Nicaragua.
CWAC
The poor, underpaid COVID-hero schoolteacher. Wow, could you be any more hackneyed and unbelievable?
Check out the link to the story about the Hero Somali Teacher of the Year who is being forced to quit because of “systemic racism”. Her main gripe is the kids all came back fucked up from the lockdowns.
She should be checking her union before she falls off that high horse and breaks her neck.
Better wear a rubber with this one Grant, if she’s half as self-involved as she comes across you’ll be divorced inside three years.
So literally her argument is “My boyfriend who’s like super perfect for me, was with someone that like, wasn’t me and he would have had to stay with this girl who like totally wasn’t me to raise their stupid kid together. But they like, totally killed the kid, so they didn’t need to be together and now he’s my boyfriend! And that’s why it’s like, the most important!”
Here’s an argument along the same moral lines sweetie. If the holocaust never happened, almost no one alive today would be here since it would completely change the course of all human events causing infinitely different pairings of humans and infinitely different insemination times even for couples that would have been the same. By your logic was the holocaust good since it totes made you be alive and stuff?
I hate to admit it but as terrible as the reality you are snarking about is, your snark is so perfectly executed that I LOL’d.
My boyfriend who’s like super perfect for me…
That is spot-on. I can hear the vocal fry when she says “super perfect.”
Have you ever considered writing in slightly longer form? I know this total shitpost website that will publish almost anything.
Thanks. I have always been super shy about my writing since back in school and honestly haven’t written anything more than an inappropriately long post on forums like this since I left school at the turn of the millennium. I do get some ideas I’d like to flesh out from time to time. I’ll let you know if I ever produce anything I think people might want to read. BTW, I really enjoy your posts on here.
Thanks, and please do. I’m happy to read anything you write if you want a second opinion.
Hell, even I’ve posted an article here. Sure, it was about a trivial topic (boxing) but it still received largely on topic responses for the first hour or two. If I can do it you sure as shit can.
They let me write here. Clearly anyone can.
Aliens, zombies, vampires, large chested women of questionable morals… you’re a gold mine, dude.
Medium?
“almost anything”
So something has been rejected?
FOS’s white supremacist treatise?
I don’t know if it was rejected or just lost in someone’s spam folder, but I never heard back about my 2019 submission entitled “Beto O’Rourke: The Hero We Need, The Hero We Don’t Deserve.”
I’m sure it was just lost somehow. We’ve tried to always get back to people–well, real people. We get a lot of “want to republish this for a fee?” spam.
That was a total joke. There’s no such thing as a Beto fan in real life. Except Matt Welch. I’m definitely not secretly Matt Welch.
***Eyes dart in all directions to see if anyone is looking at me suspiciously***
I tried to make the title so laughably absurd that it was obviously a joke.
Okay, our bad. Someone should have gotten back to you on that, probably me.
It’s a very lax organizational structure, as you’d expect. There is nobody explicitly tasked with replying to things sent in using the “submit” feature, and things slip through the cracks. I’m going to take this up at the nextether frolic editors meeting.
If anyone submits something and doesn’t get a response of some sort within ten days, please re-query us.
Write to me at my_handle (at) thisdomain (dot) com.
Again, apologies to you, and any other first-timers we ignored.
That’s how you honor a holocaust.
“In a deeply personal essay, the actor Sophia Bush and her husband, Grant Hughes, share the impact abortion has had on their life.”
I know the answer, but do they not understand how deeply disturbing this sounds? This probably doesn’t change minds, it just reinforces entrenched positions.
Next on Glamour, how giving up my annoying teen for adoption changed my life for the better because I could finally take that trip to Fiji.
She really typed it out thinking that this was going to be the thing to convince pro-lifers that she is correct.
Don’t know if it was so much for the pro-life crowd as much as it was an attempt to galvanize support from members of the progressive hive mind who have remained generally unmoved about the whole thing. Men who think it doesn’t really impact them, but who are pro-choice.
^this, or she’s secretly pro-life.
I pissed my proggie sister off because I told her that I was being pushed more and more into the pro-life camp because of the shrill screeching from the pro-choicers.
The gushing about how great abortions are and how no one should feel bad at all about having one creeps me the fuck out. And I’m pretty OK with legal abortions early in the pregnancy. But for fuck’s sake have the decency to treat an abortion as a terrible choice.
This.
That’s right on the money.
Wow. Just… wow.
Do they really want to go down the road of the baby-daddy having the right to abort their spawn?
“I am so thankful my wife’s precious fiance got murdered.”
I want to hear Dr. Jill’s take on it.
DR. Jill ain’t gonna say shit about what some woman wrote. She’s already been burned once by commenting on tacos. Not gonna get fooled again.
You’re being awfully presumptuous yourself there your holiness. Who’s to say that this “Sofia Bush” is even a woman?
Dr. Jill will absolutely get fooled again. She fancies the spotlight. The media will be ready and waiting to forget any unbelievably racist thing she says.
If we weren’t all getting screwed so badly, it would be funny to watch DR. Jill get dragged for the ninny she is.
She is a terrible person who pushed Joe to run for Pres because she wanted to be First Lady so badly. Normal loving spouses would have told Joe that he should retire and enjoy his last few years on Earth.
After watching the tongue bath that Michelle Obama got, Jill was convinced she was going to get the same. She’d be the Alpha this time. No more second fiddle. Now she is getting mocked – and deservedly so – by the public.
What would she say if it was a miscarriage?
That it was doG’s will that she and her beta dude were meant to be together?
Sorry, tapping out.
https://arnoldkling.substack.com/p/keeping-up-with-the-fits-713?utm_source=%2Fprofile%2F13277919-arnold-kling&utm_medium=reader2
Why did Kling think this would not happen?
Why do you hold us responsible for explaining?
Thank you Tulip. I particularly don’t get this one. Arnold King is a bright and thoughtful guy. Flinging shit at him makes no sense.
Where did I say that?
So your question is rhetorical? Ok.
Because you act as if this post was me attacking people here instead of a critique of Kling?
It is your shtick. I’ll go back to ignoring you.
Kling has a website. Go ask him and report back.
Shouldn’t we delete this post and only send angry emails and tweets to the Uvalde PD?
Where did I advocate for that? I said I want their names published, but nothing about tweets or emails. That came from your fevered imagination. Or, is this another rhetorical question?
Because you literally said that since Kling and Caplan have websites it is improper for me to critique them here? Everyone here constantly post links to people who have websites.
Isn’t really much of a critique.
Agreed. Really, though, Im just such a Superchunk bobo.
https://betonit.substack.com/p/the-stillbirth-of-the-liberty-institute
I love how Caplan seems so shocked that this happened.
Caplan has a website and he loves to debate people. Go ask him and report back.
LOL! This may be the perfect Winston response, should work for majority of his comments.
You can even bet with him if you think he is wrong. Hence the name of his website.
I 5hought it was about Beto O’Rourke’s lice eggs.
Demand that he wear pants if he wants to be taken seriously. And offer to take him out to the Italian eatery of his choice on Columbus Day.
I’m a plus-sized teacher and my students beg me not to eat them
Maybe there is hope for the future.
Is that a Daily Ray of Sunshine post?
Speaking of someone who will publish anything….
Please let them be high schoolers, pleeeeeease let them be high schoolers.
*clicks link*
Oh I totally would.
Don’t forget to look at the full moon tonight, if you have clear skies. Supposed to be a spectacular one!
I will do just that. Links are too much this afternoon.
hayeksplosives is objectively pro-werewolf.
Only werewolves who retain toxic masculinity. Those Twilight cunts don’t make the grade.
Were-Pekinese.
LOL
In related news, SpaceX is launching a resupply mission to the International Space Station tomorrow. The launch is scheduled for 8:44 PM EDT, which is 23 minutes after sunset at the Cape.
Given the timing, I think there might be a chance to see a space jellyfish, but I can’t be certain.
I was expecting this space jellyfish.
“Editor’s Note: The sound of children screaming has been removed.”
Damn.
Google News fed me this. Now I feed it to you fine folks. May I present Woke Shakespeare. Now featuring 1000% more 2022 wheelchairs.
https://www.slashfilm.com/926478/richard-iii-review-an-incandescent-danai-gurira-commands-the-throne-under-the-night-sky/
Just looking through the photos. I don’t see a problem with disabled actors, but in one of the photos the person in the wheelchair would have to ask the person to bend down so they could stab them.
Like most woke stuff, it’s not the inclusion that I have a problem with. It’s the inclusion for inclusions sake. It takes the focus of the story telling and breaks the illusion for the audience. I was really just pointing out the wheel chair since it’s so obvious. Based on the few things I’ve seen her in, Danai Gurira seems to have the sort of natural commanding presence for this kind of roll, so I don’t think the race/gender swap is inherently a bad thing. There are other things in the article that make me think they’re trying to bring in parallels to modern politics and that is where they always really lose me. Everyone in modern Broadway/Hollywood’s politics are stupid to the point where I’d rather watch the shows my toddler watches since they’re more nuanced.
for this kind of roll
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**This Richard, interpreted by a Black woman performing snarling and self-entitled toxic masculinity, appears to despise his rivals less out of perceived injustice and more for inhabiting (white) privilege and power denied to him.**
Fuck. Off.
*barf*
Oh, just one of Shakespeare’s well known polemics against white privilege.
Serious question. What are the chances that Shakespeare ever even came into contact with someone who wasn’t white?
Unless he hung around the docks, quite low.
You mean because of the rampant Swamp-thing creature problem that England historically had around this time?
They had mostly been hunted to extinction by Billy Shakespeare’s time. Maybe stop watching those dumb shows on TLC.
Don’t act like you know more than me. Clearly you’re not familiar with his last, unfinished autobiographical work “Bill Shakespeare: Swamp Creature Hunter”. He was going to sell it as a spec script to a touring company that would eventually become Warner Bros., but he died before he could finish it because he was killed by a vicious pack of drowners. The unpublished manuscript would go on to be the basis of The Witcher series.
Learn your history.
He might have seen a moorish doctor…from a distance.
What are the chances that Shakespeare ever even came into contact with someone who wasn’t white?
Bill lived and worked in late 16th- and early 17th-century London, which was then (as now) one of the world’s leading trade centers and most cosmopolitan cities.
It’s virtually a certainty that he stumbled upon an Irishman at one time or another.
Obviously I know that. I meant people. The Irish don’t count.
If you prick her, she doesn’t bleed.
Snarling and self-entitled like ohhhhh say……a group of artists who feel it’s their right to take a 500 year old work of one of the most respected writers that ever lived and rework it to their own purposes current day political purposes because something something patriarchy, sexism and white privilege? Also, they won the most intersectional Olympics points!!!
Meh, there have been many reinterpretations of Shakespeare. His work remains.
I still maintain that majorly reworking what he wrote is almost always self-entitled and hubristic. I do have a major problem with skin-suiting people’s work to push their own messages that don’t or in this case couldn’t possibly represent the original artist’s intent. Write your own shit for that.
No way am I watching that video, I saw the stills of the cops checking their phone and getting hand sanitizer and that was more than enough.
How about the mayor who thinks the chickenshit thing about that video was not the actions of the cops but whoever released it to the media?
How about the fact that the police chief still hasn’t resigned, but is on administrative leave? I didn’t see anything about it being unpaid, either.
That fuck waited a month to resign from his newly won city council seat. The arrogance is astounding.
Probably not unpaid. I’m sure he is hiding out far from the town, likely on vacation out of state for a few months.
People say you don’t know how you’d react in such a situation if you were ever put in one. I’ve had a knife put up to my belly and I’ve been twenty feet away from cops unloading their guns on some (fellow?) criminals in Brazil. Neither caused me to panic. I don’t know how those fuckers could live with themselves after not stopping that from happening.
There’s a dark, dark part of me that almost hopes that the officers of the Uvalde P.D. get picked off, one by one, Unintended Consequences-style, starting with the chief.
I try to keep that part hidden away and placated with whiskey.
It’s an entirely understandable thing to feel that way in a situation like this, especially as people this cowardly likely won’t experience the utter soul crushing shame that they should feel for being such lowlifes.
I’ve heard there’s a little town in PA that’s looking for a new officer after they discovered some issues with their previous hire…
Same. The stills I’ve seen make me want to rage.
In other news, I’m ignoring Amazon Prime Day.
They have my favorite pens on sale.
I don’t have a favorite pen.
That’s just weird. The answer is Uniball Vision fine-points.
Well, life is weird. On the way back from visiting my mom, some black guy was fucking blasting Oasis. People at the stop light were looking at each other, “how can he drive if he’s blind?”
You are wrong. Wronger than wrong. Pilot Precise V5 rolling ball pens.
Alvin mechanical drafting pencils.
I don’t have one of those. My most beloved mechanical pencil is 34 years old.
I am rabidly defensive of my mechanical pencils and my drafting pencils. I will stab anyone who tries to swipe em
I’ve never used an Alvin. I still have my set of Staedtlers I got back in drafting school in the mid-90s. Great pencils.
Yep. Staedtler Mars micro 0.5mm mechanical pencil FTW.
My project for my Engineering Graphics class was a redesign of the mechanical pencil to waste less of the little stub (I hate throwing out that tiny piece that won’t stay in place). My design was entirely unworkable but got me a good grade.
Pilot G-2
Just when I thought Glibs couldn’t get any wronger.
Y’all need pineapple.
I wonder what pen he uses
Y’all are wrongest.
The best pen of all time under two bucks is Pentel’s BK-77 Superb, available in red, blue and black (also, weirdly enough, in green and violet 🤮 ), with a very fine line (0.25mm) and oil-based ink that just doesn’t clog or clump.
I buy them in packs of 12 off of Amazon, ’cause I haven’t been able to find them in the stores for many years (they were a staple of my Uni days back in the mid-80s). I’m due for another three boxes soon.
Pentel EnerGel Deluxe RX in 0.5mm
Got one with Metal Tip .7mm right in front of me. Love them, except about 1 in 4 or 5 gets scratchy real quick.
Yep. I’ve noticed that, too. I also don’t love the grips. They tend to get loose after a while. However, as a lefty, it’s the first low-smear gel pen I’ve ever owned.
Nah. Parker Jotter with an Ohto Flash Dry 0.5mm gel refill.
Heathens.
Your favorite WHAT?! Oh, there isn’t an “I” in the word “pens”
He’s downstairs in his mancave.
You’re not missing much, it ain’t what it used to be.
There are some great deals on Garmin watches, if ya’ll are looking for one.
Here
I have the Vivoactive 4, but I would look hard at the Instinct Solar or the Fenix 6.
The new vivoactives look much better than the one I had 8ish years ago.
Alas, I just got one of these instead (didn’t pay even close to that much, though). I don’t need the high level fitness tracking or Google pay or whatever else they jam into the high end smartwatches these days.
I like mine, but I’d rather have altimeter, compass, etc. for what I do now.
It’s great for basics, though.
Tundra,
I bought this watch
https://www.amazon.com/Casio-PRG600Y-1-PROTREK-TRIPLE-SENSOR/dp/B01LEEDMAA
as my retirement gift to myself. Compass, altimeter, thermometer, and more. I think it was $165.
Thanks, Hobbit!
Not available, but I’ll see if they just changed it.
I dropped a dollar for Paramount+ to catch the South Park specials, and the second season of Evil. Already set my reminder to cancel it when the $1/month special price expires.
__Evil__ is so weirdly good. I can’t believe I love Catholic X-Files.
At least for the first season, I really enjoyed how they left everything ambiguous enough.
It’s worth the $1 just to watch the milfy chick walk around.
In other news, I’m ignoring Amazon Prime Day.
Hey, don’t knock it. My wife got $10 off (and free shipping) on a split keyboard she’s been eying.
“‘You need to get to go and need to be able to get where you need to go to do the work and get home’: Kamala touts the importance of transportation after word salad answer on abortion in CBS interview”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11011107/Kamala-Harris-stumbles-transportation-remark-job-development-speech-gaffe.html
Joe is contagious.
Wow
Its not Joe. Its her or her speechwriters cause its the same formula each and every time.
I think they’re doing that comedy bit like in 80’s sitcoms. You know, the one where someone is super nervous and can’t think straight and so someone talks into an earpiece for them and they’re just supposed to repeat whatever they hear. The person on the other end has a stroke or diarrhea or some other hilarious medical condition and so the neurotic intern has to put on the headset and stumble their way through a speech because they spilled coffee on the real one. Classic.
“Ohio girl, 10, mentioned by Biden WAS forced to cross state lines for an abortion in Indiana: Man, 27, is charged with rape a day after Ohio Attorney General said ‘not a whisper’ was heard about her sexual assault”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11010989/Ohio-girl-10-forced-cross-state-lines-abortion-Indiana.html
Huh
Its not Joe. Its her or her speechwriters cause its the same formula each and every time.
Twice in a day I missed threaded….
[Moistens middle finger with own saliva, plots best course of attack on OBE’s ear canal.]
Two possibilities:
1. A 10-year-old really was raped, but they buried the story because it was an illegal immigrant. When the story got too hot, they actually admitted it.
2. (More likely) The whole story is bullshit. It was a convenient lie right after the Supreme Court ruling, They got called on the bs so they grabbed a guy cutting lawns somewhere as the patsy.
What’s really sad about the article is they note he has somewhere to stay separate from the girl. So, he’s in the same building, or he’s the mom’s boyfriend.
he’s the mom’s boyfriend
Single most common avenue for child molestation.
Like that first asshole Rittenhouse shot. Not only was he let out of jail for multiple child rapes, he was living with a women with little kids already.
If you’re anti-abortion, I don’t see how this unique case is going to change any minds. But they’re going to keep trotting out that poor girl forever, aren’t they.
In more Let’s Go Brandon news, just got an email from Verizon that my bill is going up $12/month. Approximately a 10% increase.
I have a Verizon work cell phone and a T-Mobile personal. I’d say T-Mobile reception is at least as good as Verizon now.
Up here in the hinterlands, Verizon used to be a must have if you wanted good service everywhere. Like you say, I bet that’s not the case anymore…I need to look into switching.
Grant and I first met 10 years ago. If our journey were a rom-com, it would start with a meet-cute.
From here, there’s nowhere to go but down.
So much stupid. I don’t even know where to start.
Fierce, Brave (her words, not mine) Somali teacher (who was once Minnesoda’s Teacher of the Year) is getting out of the teaching biz. Long article about how horrible it is that this great woman is being forced out. The first time she was fired it was because of the Teachers’ Union rules of last in, first out. This time it is because of “systemic racism” and she just can’t even anymore.
*No mention of how much the student population declined. I saw something that in Minneapolis it was more than 10%, but I can’t be bothered to enact any labor to dig that up.
Seriously, this story has so much stupidity.
Taxes are not voluntary; she voluntarily enacted labor to promote her ideology.
“Leadership.” LOL
You teach 2nd grade. That is pretty much childcare.
You teach
2nd grade. That ispretty muchchildcare.Depends on the school system. My granddaughter got pretty vigorous 2nd grade education at a public school in Dr. Jill’s husband’s state.
Yeah, I’ve got few complaints about my kids’ education thus far.
I learned cursive in second grade. No idea what they teach now.
ひらがな。
Last night, my son asked me how I type so fast. I told him I learned to touch type with the home row and all that. He was not willing to learn how to so that, but if I grew up a digital native and was adequately fast just winging it, I probably wouldn’t bother either.
My handwriting has always been poor. My sixth-grade teacher advised me to take typing “as soon as possible”. Dad commented, “You can’t carry a typewriter around in your pocket.”
Fast forward 60 years and, oh!, hey!, I *can* carry a typewriter around in my pocket.
Typing was probably the most useful class I took in high school.
Horseshit.
Look it is quite an honor to be on the Committee for Public Safety, but sending people to the guillotine doesn’t pay the bills.
Next on Glamour, how
giving up my annoying teen for adoptionselling my teenaged daughter to Jeffrey Epstein changed my life for the better because I could finally take that trip to Fiji.Gahhhhhh the hypocrisy
https://mobile.twitter.com/melaniejoly/status/1546863096957902848
Good when it confirms my beliefs and bad when it works against them…it must be nice to not have principles.
Yeah, Joly’s a piece of work, she is. Mind you, she’s been a disaster in all her portfolios, so this isn’t really all that surprising.
And the cluelessness.
“BMW starts selling heated seat subscriptions for $18 a month
The auto industry is racing towards a future full of microtransactions
In the case of heated seats, for example, BMW owners already have all the necessary components, but BMW has simply placed a software block on their functionality that buyers then have to pay to remove. For some software features that might lead to ongoing expenses for the carmaker (like automated traffic camera alerts, for example), charging a subscription seems more reasonable. But that’s not an issue for heated seats.”
https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/12/23204950/bmw-subscriptions-microtransactions-heated-seats-feature
WTF??
Fuck that entire industry and the FedGov agencies that prop it up. Give me a car with an engine, A/C and enough mechanical safety features to survive a crash. Leave the rest on the design floor.
I’m not giving up my car’s automated ball massage and lotioner. It’s an integral part of the driving experience. It’s like cocaine – if you’ve never tried it, you’re better off not knowing how great it is. I can’t and won’t give it up. I’ll pay $18 a month for it as long as it calls me El Jefe and helps me clean up when it’s done.
Seriously though, that’s all true with HID headlights, auto dimming mirrors, automatic headlights, automatic wipers, etc.
If my law professor’s experience carries over, you can get the same treatment by driving under certain overpasses a couple of miles from campus with a per-use payment scheme.
With my needs it will come out to way more that $18 per month, I promise you that. They all want to charge extra for nicknames. I can’t get off without being called El Jefe! It’s a racist policy I tell you.
Moar work for Pie and his friends!
The engine is $100 a month.
Wednesday. Zoomie zoom zoom. 8pm ET.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81891984758?pwd=Z3lqZE96eElxeVBxZ2lXNjNPY24wZz09
I don’t dare drink while Prime Day is going on.
Afraid of your wife?
Where do you think the 55-gallon barrel of lube joke came from?
All right, which one of you is this?
hahahahaha
Apparently it’s OMWC:
But Drunk Amazon Santa is the best kind of Santa!
All kinds of crap will arrive on your doorstep.
I can attest.
It’s like hiding your own Easter eggs.
Double dose of Sanford & son:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HvkymXTfHag
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6IA6rrVSNRQ
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-buck-moon-e2-80-94the-year-e2-80-99s-biggest-super-moon-e2-80-94has-arrived-here-e2-80-99s-the-best-way-to-see-it/ar-AAZwPci
Super Buck Moon.
(Not a Redneck crime fighter.)
Will it be pink?
Probably blue.
It’s only paper.
https://www.aier.org/article/tyrannies-of-hyperreality/
I’m not sure if reality will reassert itself before things turn really bad…
Sounds like a really fancy way of saying that the boom-bust cycle is a thing, and the more ways you prop up the boom, the harder the bust. Not exactly groundbreaking thought from that particular think tank.
True but he seems to realize the bust is much worse than he thought and wonders if a boom is even possible afterwards?
There hasn’t yet been a bust without a boom.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190122012624/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/08/this-is-how-we-will-make-sri-lanka-rich-by-2025/
Hmm, so did they truly believe this or are they intending to “fix” Sri Lanka’s mess that they themselves caused?
The Sri Lankan PM has a website, you should ask him?
You’ll note that nobody’s calling the Sri Lankans in the presidential palace “insurrectionists”.
Current Acting President wrote this by the way…
OT: anyone here happen to have a stock of vacuum tubes that they might part with one? I’m looking for a 6FG6 / EM84 display “magic eye” tube, and the online stuff that’s available (very little choice) is asking prices in STEVE SMITH territory. It’s for an older EICO 955 In-circuit capacitor tester, in great shape except for the indicator tube (non-functional).
*checks pockets*
*shrugs*
Sorry dude, no gots.
I have a stock of vacuum tubes, but not one of those.
I’ve decided to bite the bullet on a 6E2 from China — supposedly a plug-compatible replacement for 1/4 the price of any comparable tube from North America. Online reviews on Aliexpress were consistently positive (and there’s several hundred of ’em), and the seller gets a 4.9-star rating for this item.
I’m just pissed that the recommended tube clip on the Eico basically destroyed the original tube, and the installation manual had no warnings about it. Fargers!
If you see OMWC posting ask him.
Still hearing that this is the worst chatroom on the internets and that Sea Smith is wrong!
Hide your hipster juice! He’s back!!!
Lurking in the shadows…
Shocked, shocked I tell you!!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11010247/Harvey-Weinstein-Bill-Clintons-close-relationship-revealed.html
“ Clinton told author Ken Auletta in an interview for the book that he and Weinstein bonded over a ‘deep yearning’ to get a lot of things done in their life”
Mission accomplished.
Yeah. Deep Yearning. That’s the ticket.
Surprised there isn’t a “No Bullying!” Poster hanging next to the cop.
A “See Something, Say Something” one would be good too
So did anyone buy anything interesting on
Prime DayClear Out Old Inventory Day?I was tempted to buy the Cheetos variety pack.
Stupid address vanity lightbulbs that my HOA is taking me to a hearing over. I am thinking rather than saying ‘its fixed’, I might take up and abuse the floor at the hearing. If the most pressing thing is a light in the address box is concerning, we should maybe address the wafting marijuana stench invading the neighborhood with the influx of Californians
light in the address box
I don’t know what this is, but it sounds trivial.
OT: June 28 my husband had right eye cataract surgery. It’s almost healed and he can now see much better but that eye also has some old retina problems so it’s not perfect. But he can now tell blue from black in that eye!
Yesterday he had cataract surgery on his left eye and has already gone leaps and bounds beyond where he was!!
He chose the artificial lenses to be primarily for long distance vision (best for driving, appreciating scenery etc). In about a month he will get fitted for good short distance (reading, computing) vision.
Meantime, he’s using “cheaters” from Walgreens.
My fervent wish is for him to be able to get a drivers license in another month or two so I don’t have to be his chauffeur anymore. Driving him around makes us want to kill each other.
Anyway, don’t fear the cataract surgery!! It’s so worth it!
Without a doubt!