My tinfoil hat brings all the libertardians* to the yard / And they’re like, it’s better than yours / Damn right, it’s better than yours / I can teach you, but I have to charge…
Sadly, the link to The Dark Backwards on TUBI remains broken. I always test the links I include on a couple of different systems to make sure nobody has a bad night – that link did not work on any system or browser. So, a change of pace!
With all the paranoia over a potential coup in China, I figured it was time to show this movie. The plot: Dirty Chinese commies are burrowing under the earth to blow up the United States. Mind you, this was released in 1967 – you would expect the Russkies to take center spotlight here. The paranoia is palpable from the opening moments. Really well done. What I enjoyed about all the movie reviews I read (mostly done in the 1990s) was how the critics all agreed that is was absolutely ludicrous to think that somehow China was going to destroy America. “Ha! The Chinese army burrows underground to blow up the U.S.? ABSURD!”
Who’s laughing now, movie critics? (Adjusts tinfoil hat.)
Think of burrowing underground as an analogy for discreetly taking over all our institutions and this movie is a nigh-flawless mirror of reality.
What other gems does this movie have for us tonight? Doctor Who-level British special effects! Asian appropriation! Damn dirty commies! And you know what? At least these movie commies seem to have a distinct purpose. I’ll be damned if I can figure out what the modern marxists hope to achieve by destroying America. Those folks are just plain looney tunes.
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! Next week, I give you choices!
- Bloody Muscle Bodybuilder in Hell: Sounds like a GlibFit tie-in! This movie is billed as “The Chinese Evil Dead.”
- Asylum Seekers: I added this to my list thinking it would be great for a border wall-themed post. Turns out this movie is about six people who want to go to a mental asylum, where only one slot in available. Let the escalation of insanity begin!
*Thanks forever to SugarFree
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*hits play*
what did play ever do to you?
Split with Kid?
I don’t have a gif for “massive support”…so consider one placed here
Damn it. I was going to do it for you.
“Sadly, the link to The Dark Backwards on TUBI remains broken.”
Sad!
I found a nice version that had a commentary track, oh well.
I turned in a ticket. A lot of other films recently added are having the same problem. Super annoying. I would think it gets addressed soon.
A brief announcement. NetFlix has Rob Zombie’s remake of The Munsters. Avoid it.
Is it a TV show or a movie?
I think it’s a movie. The wife and I got about 20 minutes in. She turned it off.
Hmmmm…I’ll look it up later.
Noooo!!!
Did Glenn Danzig ever make a remake?
If he did, it would be superior. Also I would expect him to do Addams Family.
Those movies were bad.
Does Danzig do directing? I haven’t heard that.
Doctor Who-level British special effects!
OH YEAH!
I have some work I’m wrapping up, so I’ll watch this tomorrow.
Thanks RJ!
You are welcome. You will like this one.
It’s a good movie when it starts with a complaint about police brutality.
Dirty Chinese commies are burrowing under the earth to blow up the United States. Mind you, this was released in 1967 – you would expect the Russkies to take center spotlight here.
You made me think of the Gregory Peck movie The Chairman, including a ridiculous scene of Peck playing ping pong against Mao Tse-Tung.
This has some great sudden drama shots. Guy is talking to someone – suddenly a swell of dramatic music and some zoom in shot, like Monty Python. A very enjoyable film. And fake Chinamen who don’t even look like Chinese.
Charlie Chan is in the movie?
General Chan Lu, played by Martin Benson! He acted in ‘The Omen’ and ‘Goldfinger.’
In a moment of absurdity I thought of the perfect throwback concept – Charlie Chan versus Fu Manchu. All of the Chinese characters should be played by asian actors except the title characters who, as an homage to the originals are played by white guys. Best part – because Charlie Chan was created in 1919 and Fu Manchu in 1912, they’re both public domain characters.
You must engage CPRM for a short subject ASAP.
They didn’t have Chinese people back in the 60’s.
https://www.alamy.com/gregory-peck-the-chairman-1969-image222273706.html
A Majority of One, 1961, starting Alec Guinness as Koichi Asano.
Straker!
Think of burrowing underground as an analogy for discreetly taking over all our institutions and this movie is a nigh-flawless mirror of reality.
No sense getting all dirty and sweaty when your “partners” will just hand over everything you need to cut their legs out from under them.
Trivia indicated the yellow mining cars were repurposed Volkswagen Things. If so, that’s quite the repurpose.
Always insightful
She-Hulk 7 and Andor 4 combo review
Does that guy review the new Munsters? I’d love to hear that.
I don’t see one.
Oh sure, just start a world war.
Look, if they win, we get all those spiffy gold lion head coins instead of dirty green bills!
I don’t see one.
In the first mine cave in, they found a spiffy gold coin with a lion head. Later, the evil commies had a huge chest full of powdered gold.
Ooops. Posted in the wrong place.
Clearly you can just run away from an underground nuclear bomb explosion. Good to know.
🧐
In fifth grade we did drills hiding under our desks in case the Russians attacked. My science teacher mercilessly mocked those drills. He was skeptical a desk would protect us from a hydrogen bomb.
Outstanding, Hale!
OK… I skimmed some of this because how could I not, and it looks amazingly awful and therefore perfect.
My thoughts exactly.
Watched Seventh Son last night. I’m not bragging, just sayin’.
This will be better.
This is pretty darn good. Pulp novel good.
Couple minutes in, and already chuckling. “Quiet, you fools!” I like it when the crazy guy calls everybody fools.
I am at the end now and can’t spill any beans.
Heathen Chinee and an evil underground lair.
+1
You know, this film also foresaw the destruction of massive underwater tunnels….
This fine movie, in spite of being low budget, shows more imagination and better writing than 99.99% of modern movies.
Goes well with a big platter of pot stickers.
Also, I like Dr. Naughty-pants. She’s a hottie.
Tua Tagovailoa just got his bell badly rung. They strapped him to a gurney and wheeled him out.
Immediately after his head banged on the ground, his fingers involuntarily contorted, which is a neurological response to head trauma.
He’s been taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center 5 miles from the stadium. They reported that he was conscious, but he didn’t move his hands or feet after they strapped him to the gurney. They didn’t even take his helmet off.
Mr. T. He dead.
They just reported that he does have head and neck injuries, but that the good news is he has movement in all extremities.
He still might be done with football. That was brutal.
He makes millions, so if he comes back, more power to him.
I was a cheap addition to the U S Army, and my local rugby clubs….if end up fooked…that is on me.
Yeah, he doesn’t seem to be one of the guys who blows all his cash on bling and cars, so he’ll be ok.
Also emerged that he was evaluated for concussion 4 days ago, and that the NFL players association (union) had requested an investigation at that time.
This could get expensive for the Dolphins.
oh yeah, I watched the video on Sunday. He couldn’t stand up. No one should’ve let him play today. Feels wildly irresponsible even if he “felt fine”.
But he said he was fine!
/NFL neurologist
Is this football?
Were you ready for some football?
…maybe?
I wasn’t, because I don’t have Prime.
But yeah, Miami, so… sorry, not sorry.
/Bills fan
JK!!
When they were tending to Tua on the field, I thought back to the Bills team doctor who saved Kevin Everett from paralysis by infusing chilled saline into his blood almost immediately after his injury, thus preventing further swelling of his spinal cord.
I have often wondered if having chilled saline at all NFL games had become common practice. That doc was in the right place at the right time.
I want to learn guitar so I can start a band so I can name it that.
Damn
Thats terrible, I hate the ‘fins especially after sunday, but I have nothing against their Tua, who seems like he has a bright future ahead as QB, and not an asshole (?).
Seems like way too many injuries lately.
I saw the replay this morning after hearing about it. I expected it to have been a dirty hit, but it wasn’t. Clean hit, but an unfortunate outcome. Hope he recovers fully.
Thanks, RJ
Thanks for coming! It was a lovely film tonight.
Bloody Muscle Bodybuilder in Hell: Sounds like a GlibFit tie-in! This movie is billed as “The Chinese Evil Dead.”
It’s a Japanese film. And awesome in its cheesiness. Watched it a couple of weeks ago. The story behind making it is even better than the movie.
First!!!!
Yaaaas queen!
You’ve been drinking, haven’t you?
🍻
*salutes MikeS with PBR Extra^
From Beer Advocate:
6.5% session beer?
Sconnies got nothing on Nebraska, apparently.
*Salutes Aloysious with Busch Light^
DenverJ is that you?
Today I learned that there is such a thing as Professional Disc Golf, and that A man is dominating the women’s championships.
You just learned there is such thing as Pro Disc Gold?
Why would anyone with a smidgen of pride find it an accomplishment to dominate in a weight/gender/age class so far below them? It’s like an adult sweeping all the trophies at a kindergarten karate tournament. Just cringe.
It pays money and shame isn’t a thing in our culture anymore.
☝🏻
Cosmo?
Evidently it takes a man to break the glass ceiling.
I love how the excuse is that Paige Pierce (the GOAT by a wide margin) is still out driving him. No shit, your form is abysmal.
I thought the same. And it’ll play with 99% of people who read about it because they don’t understand.
Hilarious. I hope this gets covered on The Ocho.
It’s got nothing on professional cornhole.
Kinda on topic: I bought an old HP proliant server the other day for $250, and spent some of this evening putting Ubuntu on it and installing Plex. Now it sits under my bed, transcoding HD movies on the fly with zero buffering. The movies that were a struggle for my NAS to serve without constant buffering have zero delay when routed through the server. Navigate to any part of the movie, and it starts playing immediately This thing is a beast!
eBay or somewhere else? I need a rack mount one.
I was wandering through my local Harbor Freight, as I am wont to do, and came across this modern marvel. Why the hell didn’t someone invent this 20 years ago? For some stupid reason I only got one. I’ll be going back to get one for each vehicle and some extrs for stocking stuffers this Christmas.
Modern cars do not come with enough cigarette lighters for all the gadgets which want to charge from them.
Bullshit.
A. They don’t all need to be charged at the same time
2. Wouldn’t a flashlight be high on the utility list due to utility?
iii. Modern cars have more than enough cigarette lighter holes to handle “one more” gadget
Ha! Meant “priority list” not “utility list”, but it works.
A. They’ll all have dead batteries when you need them.
2. No, because there are multiple other flashlights with real batteries and/or manual charging options.
iii. Mine has all of one, which is already holding a splitter to power all the other stuff.
A. Exactly how many gadgets do you have in your car and how long do you wait between charges?
2. This is a flashlight with a battery that is rechargeable by cigarette lighter. It has a real battery and you manually charge it by plugging it in. Not sure where you’re going with this one.
iii. One?! My 2009 Silverado has three. Also, it’s not like this thing has to be charged daily…or even monthly. C’mon.
Do you know how it takes to charge a pair of complaining gloves?
Enough energy to charge this stupid little flashlight, that’s for sure.
Yeah…for that price will probably pick up a couple even if I can’t charge it in the house.
Interesting and clever but I’d worry that, at that price, the rechargeable battery is total shit and won’t hold a charge in 3 months.
Very valid concern. Three months from now we’ll be well into a NoDak winter; I’ll report back and see how well it held up. I’ll add it to my calendar.
Please do.
Done. And I added a link to this thread for a reminder. I’ll leave it in my truck to fare for itself in the NoDak winter. I’m looking forward to doing Science™!
Are you sure it’s science? I don’t see how this promotes gender equity.
Fair point.
I’ll listen to this and this while doing said Science™
And this and this.
And some disco
All good choices.
I’m still tickled Dude Looks Like a Lady was inspired by Bon Jovi.
I thought it was Poison. No matter, dudes all looked like ladies back then.
Wrong. Vince Neil.
75 lumen?
Gay AF.
Thanks for that. At the price, probably worth picking up a few.
Speaking of getting stuck in holes in the ground. Internet Historian just came out with this really solid piece on dudes and caving. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip9VGZeqMfo
“Doctor Who-level British special effects!”
Well done RJ. Well done. Genuine lol.
“Myles Garret was travelling at an unsafe speed before his crash”
Oh, being a reckless dic…
“He was doing 65 in a 45 in his Porsche…”
Oh FFS. 20 over?!
Shocked because it was only 20 over in a porsche?
Dismissive, not shocked – 65 in a 45 isn’t out of control in my Honda Fit, never mind a Porsche.
The headline made it sound like that dude in Vegas a year or two back, who was doing like 120 downtown.
I wonder why Chase Strangio isn’t discussing this.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/09/29/ho-lee-chit-armys-first-openly-transgender-officer-and-lefty-praised-pioneer-indicted-for-trying-to-sell-soldiers-medical-info-to-russia/
I saw that. Almost like there is something wrong with trans people.
The endumbening continues.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/09/29/planned-parenthood-director-claims-men-can-get-pregnant-andrew-clyde/
I went for my Doctor’s ten minutes today. They made me wait out in the corridor for fifteen minutes and then at last the receptionist came outside of the locked door and gave me a upgrade for a drug I stopped taking in June. Turns out he was called away but they did give me an appointment three months hence. December 21st. Remember how I said waiting for the Doctor is like waiting outside the Principal’s Office when you were a tyke? The only difference was a comfy chair rather than one of those plastic ones and the fact that they were watching me the entire time. Locked door, camera on. Sure hope that I feel okay for another 3 months, Cuntes….
And around here they haven’t even had magazines since COVID!!1
Magazines? They even took away all of the children’s toys. They have more danger labels on the door than a nuke plant.
lol, that is crazy. We went to my son’s doc and they still had toys…. about a year ago.
I will give it up for the Receptionist though. Every time I meet her she always acts like I am on death’s door. Dr. doesn’t seem to mind. Plus she calls me “Dear”. It’s the little things.
No handjob?
Sad!
I got my peppers today! Thanks Sean!
It cost $1200 to get fuel oil for my furnace! Thanks Brandon!
Oil?! You cretin. Embrace the future.
I dig this tune even if they are dirty commies – https://youtu.be/6pKPNnk-JhE
👍metoo
First one I remember from them.
I’m running electric heat now, the oil won’t be delivered for a week. Hopefully I don’t burn the house down, I haven’t paid the property insurance yet.
Breakfast for dinner for the fourth night in a row! Peanut nods and wags. Good lord I am becoming helpless. Tomorrow I build a beef stew that will be eaten for three more days. Sure wish that I could really enjoy tasting food.
Our Peanut digs bacon even more than I do. Wonder what ever happened to our friend Bacon Magic?
😁
Sorry about the heating oil…
that sucks. hopefully that gets you all through winter. Maybe look into a little wood stove.
Bota Boxes at my liquor store were up a buck to $22.99.
Foreign wines didn’t seem to be up in price yet, possibly due to the exchange rates.
https://www.fox29.com/news/suspect-accused-of-carjacking-family-in-philadelphia-driveway-arrested-sources-say
*blinks*
Actual police work?
A drum magazine on a pistol for carjackings? What a loser…
In case you need that 45th round.
Oh noes, Google Stadia has been shut down for good.
It failed for all the reasons I said it would.
I saw this coming.
Who?
Google’s grand idea to charge people for a service to play games on their servers and stream the output to their device. They decided to charge for the subscription, and full price for the games. So you get display lag, control lag, unreliable graphics quality, plus you get to pay more.
I can’t see how that failed. 🙄
If there is one thing multiplayer games handle well, it is lag.
So the processing would be handled on their end and you could get better graphics out of a lower grade computer? If that was the idea I see how it could work in an ideal world but it sounds like the execution sucked.
You become wholly dependent on latency and bandwidth. It was a stupid idea from the beginning.
I think they were figuring that Google Fiber was going to be more heavily deployed. They vastly underestimated the costs and regulatory issues with that project.
They were tapping into the massive market of people willing to pay 100 per month on gaming and high-speed internet, but who also had crap computers.
Oh wait…
Part of the problem: https://youtu.be/mbpjzyZywYo?t=4230
Way too ling episode, but the next two minutes linked above is interesting to me- who is ‘the white house’?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/trevor-noah-to-depart-the-daily-show/ar-AA12pLY9
7 years is a long time to last at a job you suck at (non government).
But he was so brave, half-black people never succeeded in entertainment before.
That guy was the smuggest asshole, and that is saying A LOT.
This. He is one of the few people that makes me launch across the room to change the channel.
When you’re actually more smug than people like whatshername , the dike one, and Cuomo jr., and with even less justification, it really is an accomplishment.
He’s the Ali of smugness.
Don’t you worry about him, he’ll land on his feet with a nice well paying job he also sucks at doing.
I don’t think I watched a single episode after just sampling his lousy schtick.
The dumbasses at Comedy Central couldn’t fire the first black guy they hired for the job. They wrote themselves into a corner with that one.
https://www.chewboom.com/2022/09/28/baskin-robbins-introduces-new-spicy-n-spooky-ice-cream-made-with-real-ghost-pepper/
The cake is cute.
I loved hot peppers until my digestive system betrayed me and allowed them to burn on the way out. No thanks.
Indeed, still like the first taste, but the second hit of heat ~12 hours later is no bueno.
Nothing hotter than a liberal dosing of Tabasco for me anymore. They’re good but not worth napalmanus.
But why?
Masochists will eat them right up
The Question called it years ago.
https://youtu.be/oYaOMroh4Ec?t=59
Good morning,Shiny, Stinky, Sean, Lack, and U! Friday – not a moment too soon – and payday.
Today at work: plod through more of writing up the minutes from this month’s Board meeting – left off at the beginning of my boss’s invariably long-winded report 😴💤 – and field calls from co-workers when they figure out their vacation balances aren’t right. 😒
This weekend my goal is to do as much nothing as possible.
Morning.
Just reached my cube and logged in. I hope today is quiet.
Last day of the week, month, and quarter – with any luck, lots of folks will decide it’s an ideal day to take off.
Naw, next friday is the one they’ll take off, to get a four day weekend with Columbus Day.
Oh, yeah – C’bus Day. Means I’ll have to harangue all the supervisors and rush to process payroll on Tuesday.
I need to liven up my life a little more.
Wow, Columbus Day is also Thanksgiving Day of the North and the first of two days I get off for (I believe) Sukkot. It’s a trifecta!
… but you still only get the one day off, don’t you?
Two days. Plus two days the following week.
Ah, Sukkot. Glad I am currently WFH; Sukkot is the time of the year when I am accosted on city streets by enthusiastic young men wearing long coats and large fur hats, asking if I am one of (((them))). They leave you alone if you say no; one of these years I am going to say yes so they can practice their argumentative skills.
You have a cube? I thought those were obsoleted in favor of the dreadful open office plan.
The state is always out of synch with private industry standards.
Besides, no one wants to approve the spending required to remodel the office. It’s easier to let the ongoing renewals continue than to take an active stance to change.
oof. That is a hard no from me.
The closest I’ve had to that were 4 cubes combined together, but we were all the same group, so it kind of made sense in regards to collaboration.
When I worked helpdesk I was stuck in a three person cube.
No thank you.
I want an office. With a door.
Sadly, there do not appear to be any of those in my career track unless I change my back room into a home office.
I did that for a while but I had to summer in the living room and now bedroom where there is AC. Now the back room is full of junk. The setup in my bedroom is pretty nice so I’ll probably keep my office there and also I’m feeling too lazy to clean out the back room again.
Yeah. I don’t want to move my computer from the living room where it is now, and I’m not buying another computer right now.
‘morning
Just got my first raise at the new job, not bad, considering. Boss’s boss promises more in the near future.
That’s great! 😃🤑💰 “Adjustment for inflation” or just because you’re awesomely awesome?
“Payroll Error” but it would cost more to fix it than leave it.
They’ve been working on a ‘pay study’ for the past year, and the results just came out. Naturally well below the inflation adjustment they would have otherwise done. oops.
Nice! We could all use a little help keeping up with inflation.
Mornin’, reprobates!
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Focus your reality? No thanks, I just wanna be sedated.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bm51ihfi1p4
Like I need any help with that…
Not all people experience all side effects. Chance of side effects is low, but not unknown.
/end pharma rep voice.
We croudsourced the side effect data at glibs. If you have knowledge of any other adverse effects…
Have you, or someone you know taken Creantix?
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*sues lawyer for claiming the symptoms being treated were among the side effects*
Not my fault your drug was so defective it made your clients worse.
You’re just making the judgement bigger.
Creantix is the new Camp Lejeune?
Good morning, ‘patzie! Hangin’ in there?
Mornin’, GT, I wish the best of nothing for you. Will be glued to the teevee watching Mets/Braves this weekend.
Sunday we get to drive to Lawn Guyland to celebrate my godson’s engagement. The route goes right past Yankee Stadium where Judge may be trying to break the AL home run record. Hope he breaks the record before Sunday; if not, a detour may be in order.
Go Mets! (For now…) ‘birds were off, but the damn Brewers lost, so the NL Central is officially ours!
And mazel tov to your godson!
Another Theory on Nordstream – The EU/Davos pushed for it in order to consolidate public opinion against the US and Russia.
https://tomluongo.me/2022/09/29/the-curious-whodunit-of-nordstreams-1-and-2/
Thinking through who blew up Nordstream.
Pretty much
Our president and his foreign policy is off the rails. He keeps saying the quiet part out loud (‘There will no longer be a nordstream 2, we will put an end to it’). I really hope not, but I think we did it. 🙁
Even before he went senile he was stupid enough to brag about the quiet part out loud.
Either us or one of our lackeys for plausible deniability’s sake. I doubt it was done without our explicit buy in but good servants also know what the “need” to do without being told. My money’s on Britain.
I smell a new series: The Drowned Rat Patrol – incredibly hawt American and British divers blowing shit up and repeatedly running into the same handsome Russian officer nemesis…
I’d buy that for a dollar!
That wouldn’t cover the kickbacks to the communist activism societies. We’ll have to charge you more, and get government subsidies, since no one is watching the updated version.
Not enough diversity. The frogmen will have to look like toads, be of multiple origins and genders, and the antagonist will have to be cartoonishly evil.
/Hollywood
Well….I was going to pitch it to Fox, so I assumed it could still be as racist, sexist, and homo-/transphobic as their corporate mission statement requires.
To likely for it to become public knowledge.
It was us.
I don’t think we have been this close to a nuclear exchange since the Cuban missile crisis.
‘Won’t someone rid me of this troublesome pipeline?’
I was trying to find a clip of Biden’s comments, managed to find it embedded in a house flipper youtuber’s video on this topic (??? why dude) and he can’t believe we would have done it because the US and EU are super concerned about the environment. ffs.
If anyone’s sold down the river now it’ll be the Ukraine who will continue the war and will eventually be ground into nonexistance. The EU’s nations will pay with their industry, their prices, and their jobs while the Ukrainians will continue to die in droves until they’re eventually ground to dust. The higher ups in Brussels and D.C. will make out like bandits though and the bullshit narrative is set so ultimately it doesn’t really matter whodoneit.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody
The world is going to shit and I can’t begin to drink myself stupid for another ten hours.
well you can, but you should not.
Morning! I plan on doing the same. Sounds fantastic!