The stuff of my nightmares.
“An āunusual fishing RPGā indeed.”
“Many Politician Today Are as Socialist as Gorbachev”
I’ve previously posted this guy’s cover of Careless Whisper, but this is also pretty fine.
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About The Author
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.
Virtual pets? Thatās so sad.
Government lockdowns precluded in-person pets.
Better than Imaginary Lovers?
https://www.mathwarehouse.com/jokes/images/find-x-funny-math-image-joke.png
Whoops… page gave the wrong image, how odd… meant https://www.mathwarehouse.com/jokes/images/get-rational-be-real-funny-math-image.webp
Reminds me of advice for Army boards: Answer the question asked not what you infer they want to know.
It would be real sad if it wasn’t virtually unheard of.
On Tuesday I bring our real live pet to the vet for $1,100 surgery on his paw. That’s sad – could have been for something useful like a new.AR.
Dredge begins as you, a lone fisherman lost at sea, stumble across a small maritime village. Youāre greeted by the local mayor and the pair of you strike a deal: You are allowed to stay here on the condition that you provide for the town, and you can take out a loan to purchase a basic boat that will enable you to do so. A couple of days pass, during which you catch simple fish like cod and mackerel, both of which can be sold for decent money.
Stay away from Innsmouth.
That’s how they reel you in.
I was duped. Fell for it hook, line and sinker
You’re just trying to lure Swiss in here.
Are you implying that will net us a narrow gaze? I don’t think Swiss will be trawling through our comments today.
I think he’s preoccupied with Ernest-ly reading the Old Man and the Sea.
Go ‘way! Baitin’!
Swiss is way to chummy with us to cast his narrow gaze here.
Y’all are a bunch of trolls
Double pun points…..
Fishing in RPGs has always been the worst activity and usually why rewards were the best. Also great grind if you are high
Morning! Nice day for fishing ani’t it. Huh huh
Love the Viva la Dirt League guys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyw6n1EKlww
Love these guys
My plans involve interacting with some of the Glib Hoi polloi on Zoom
I’ll be driving to Utah and back. I have my reasons. š
Running illicit caffeine?
pssst… hey buddy? Wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper too?
Carbonated BBQ syrup.
I just may grace the zooms
I’ll be on the road this weekend. I might stop in after I get back on Monday.
Fab weekend?
I work the next 3 nights. Someone tell Rufus.
NH House Majority leader used a naughty word ten years ago when writing a post condemning racism and pedophilia
Speaker of the House Sherman Packard said Thursday he will not be removing House Majority Jason Osborne (R-Auburn) over a social media post from 2011 in which he used the āN-word.ā The decision comes just months after a progressive member was disciplined for reportedly shouting the word at a young Black activist in the State House.
The New Hampshire Bulletin broke the story that a Democratic candidate for the House, Kathleen Cavalaro of Rochester, was pushing out a screenshot of the comment from a long-disbanded chat room for a libertarian radio show. The Bulletin confirmed that Osborne, 45, was the author of the post.
Defenders of Osborne say that, while the word is certainly offensive, Osborne was clearly ā if clumsily ā using it to condemn racial violence, not to engage in it. Though at least one GOP House member conceded to NHJournal it was āa dumbass comment.ā
Osborneās 2011 statement:
āIf someone says to you that they support lynching a (racial slur), and in fact, they really are stimulated by the thought of lynching a (racial slur), would you associate with that person?ā Osborne wrote in response to another commentator. āWould you tell people about it? If you say that having an idea that lynching (racial slur) is good is not the same as having an idea that (expletive) kids is good, then that is the source of the disconnect there.ā
I will never understand the thinking behind treating nigger as a word that cannot be said no matter the context.
Why do they think we should treat a word as if it has magic power?
I found out about this tempest in a teapot by dropping in on the NH subreddit (I know, I know).
Holy shit there are a lot of people there that think if type the word “nigger”, regardless of context, you must be a racist. And yes, I said to myself as I read the subreddit, “If you hear the dog whistle, you might just be the dog.”
I completely understand it. It is a means of control – because you know it’s perfectly acceptable for certain people to say it.
Chappelle’s Show was on VH1 or MTV awhile back.
They bleeped it.
“Why, after 19 years of marriage, did you divorce her?”
“She was a BLEEP lover”
Is just not funny.
Some guilty white exec probably made that call.
So tedious.
GOP Establishment shanking NH outsider candidates
A GOP Super Pac known for helping oust Republican candidates viewed as extreme has dropped a tough ad targeting newcomer Karoline Leavitt in the First Congressional District primary.
Leavitt, who just turned 25 and legally eligible to serve in Congress last month, has been gaining in the polls recently on presumed frontrunner Matt Mowers. She has had considerable fundraising success and received the endorsement of several nationally-known Republicans including her former boss, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.).
My MIL is a very special person. If she hears you have lost a loved one, she’ll send you a card. And then you’re in her address book, and she’ll send you birthday and Christmas cards every year. She does this to people she has never met in person. Tomorrow we’re having a surprise 70th birthday party for her at my house, and at least 80 people are coming. Very few RSVP’s “no”. There will be relatives, friends, and co-workers. It’s going to be crazy.
Wonderful
That’s awesome (all the way around)
There are good things in the world.
I hope the party goes well.
Should be a great party. I’ll turn 70 next year, but I doubt that five people would show up if they threw a party for me. Now when they put me in a box, that will be a kickass extravaganza.
Not like this?
Such a great movie.
One of my favorites! Cary Grant & Audrey Hepburn! Does it get any better than that???
I just watched Green Mansions the other day. Audrey Hepburn in an absolute dud of a movie.
Agree. Great movie.
That’s the mark of a good person.
Give her a smooch from me!
WaPo headline:
As Biden Warned About Democracy’s Collapse, TV Networks Aired Re-Runs
Aghast, I am.
Is that some of that darkness that kills democracy?
Biden’s handlers should be down on their knees thanking doG that the speech was not broadcast more widely.
It is kind of surprising when you’ve lost the major TV networks.
They did not want to give trump equal time.
Heh. ā As Biden Warned About Democracyās Collapse, libertarians watched āBarbie and Kendra Save the Tiger King.āā
Reverence and respect
On Friday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended the administrationās decision to use the Marines in the shot.
āThe presence of the Marines at the speech was intended to demonstrate the deep and abiding respect the president has for these service members to these ideals and the unique role our independent military plays in defending our democracy no matter which party is in power. Again, no matter which party is in power,ā Jean-Pierre said.
Or, you know, an implicit threat.
It seems like Biden is back pedaling. Seems, because if you look close it’s another instance where he reads one thing from a teleprompter, and then goes off script when let off the leash.
Still no response from my progressive FB friends on my post regarding the sinister setting for last night’s address. They’ve all gone silent.
I’m debating about stirring things up with my mom. I probably should be a stoic and keep my mouth shut. But I’m sure she and dad watched the address, and I wonder if she thinks me and her three other kids are a clear and present danger to democracy, and what she thinks the president should do about us.
The imagery was so appalling that I couldn’t keep it in.
I decided it was time to start burning bridges with anyone that supported that cluster fuck last night.
Don’t make your Mom report you to the secret police.
Considering that TEAM BLUE think they should be able to stir it up without consequence, perhaps you should.
A lot of these debates aren’t so much about the other person as about the onlookers, who might be emboldened if there’s some pushback to the TEAM BLUE barrage.
Blood for the Blood God!
I am worried about that exact thing with my mother.
I got one of her rare emails the other day, and she pretty much said we are going to disagree on things such as this. Not sure if I should feed into it, or hash it out. She is pushing 80 now.
How many reporters burst out laughing at this line?
Itās time to play Guess The Beltway Libertarian
ā In any event, Biden’s soul of the nation speech last night was boring and entirely forgettable. ā
Hi Riven!
This is pretty cool!
AI is gonna fuck up the art market.
The sacrifice is real.
How monkeypox spoiled gay men’s plans for an invincible summer
Way to hold up the stereotype.
He isn’t even good-looking.
Yeah, I had to see that for myself. You’re right.
This clueless straight guy has no idea whether or not he is good looking… but… I did have to do a double take because he looked like a gay guy I used to know, just with longer hair.
Oh come on, you can admit whether a guy is good-looking or not.
I can identify good-looking women easily.
Me too, Rojas.
#metoo
OFFS Stop. It.
Once more with feeling: “queer” is a political term.
Unless they are equating it with “whore” or something – I can accept that.
Damnit!!!
Swans had a comeback against Melbourne so now they’ve got to lose twice to go out.
Yeah, I stopped watching in disgust as the work day was ramping up this morning.
But AIDS wasn’t enough of a reason to stop doing those things?
Nobody has AIDS anymore. Guys are on PrEP, so they won’t catch HIV. And those who became HIV+ are on drugs that make their virus load undetectable and not in a position to infect anybody else.
Dead thread, but thanks. I did not know that.
I guess the current drugs make whoring yourself somewhat safer again. Yay.
“Somewhat safer”. Risky behavior has always come with risks, and the risks are not limited to gays. Before monkeypox, there was AIDS; before AIDS gonnorhea, Chlamydia, syphilis… which are all still out there if you like to take a walk on the wild side. Did people really think that sex with random strangers was safe before the latest round of STDs?
After AIDS, there was NRS, then there was UBT.
He should get Suzanne Sommers to do a TV infomercial fundraiser about his plight.
“Thank you, Thighmaster!”
Dammit, I meant Sally Struthers
70’s blonde bimbos, so easy to mix them up
They all blend together after a while.
He looks like that failed actor, Ian something-or-other.
Bidenās handlers should be down on their knees thanking doG that the speech was not broadcast more widely.
No kidding. Wiser heads prevailed. The networks are trying to save him from himself.
āI donāt know who the āItās not all Republicans, just MAGA Republicansā [is] for,ā said liberal pundit Elie Mystal during an appearance Thursday night on MSNBC. āIām sure there are some white supremacists who will vote with white supremacists, who donāt think they are white supremacists who are happy Biden didnāt call them a white supremacist.ā
Right.So insight.
ā In any event, Bidenās soul of the nation speech last night was boring and entirely forgettable. ā
Everybody already knows Republicans are evil white supremacists who hate democracy.
These are the libertarians whose response to the Biden administration putting dissidents in gulags will be “So passĆ©, been done already.”
Biden attempted to clarify his comments about Republicans more generally again on Friday.
āI donāt consider any Trump supporter to be a threat to the country,ā Biden said. āI do think anyone who calls for the use of violence, fails to condemn violence when itās used, refuses to acknowledge an election has been won, insists upon changing the way in which we rule and count votes, that is a threat to democracy.ā
Selective recall strikes again.
Yeah, I don’t care what the fuck they say now. I know exactly how they think and would be a fool to discount it.
Itās what he was told to say vs what he said off script again. What he was told to say is more important.
The demented bastard doesn’t realize they’re trying to get him killed or will kill him. They’re using him as bait.
“refuses to acknowledge an election has been won, ” Um. after 2016 you mean?
“insists upon changing the way in which we rule and count votes” So no more drop boxes?
Well I started to write and then it turned article length. Bullet points!
*All is well
*Just finished deadline for tomorrow’s paper–next deadline Tues–Sweeeeeet. And I’ve got stories for that one. Good.
*Moved up a rung! Furnished condo for two weeks. Feels actually like home. It’s amazing. Solid, tangible reward.
*Recently, the Cubs have been, for what they are this year…remarkably good. This is all due to my divine evaninity, of course.
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Too bad for you – the Cubbies are visiting the ‘birdhouse this weekend! šā¾š¦
Glad things are going well.
Happy for you. Best of luck!
As somebody that reads all day, I greatly appreciate the bullet points!
Too fucking bad for us
had someone more bloodthirsty occupied the Kremlin at a time.
Tell that to the people in Lithuania and Latvia.
The pretense is gone.
https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1565703864338132993
The amount of projection in progressives is quite amazing. They spent 4 years complaining about Hillary losing fraudulent 2016 election, supported actual violence all summer of 2020, completely ignored Constitutional rights during blue state COVID lockdowns but it’s the Republicans that are a threat to democracy. Then, Biden goes full retard/facists in his speech last night and they’re cheering? Just WOW.
https://democraticunderground.com/100217111115
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Your daily dose of Sanford and son:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNk5zohPhsA
Turns out Olivia Wilde is an idiot.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/olivia-wilde-jordan-peterson-chris-pine-dont-worry-darling-b2158184.html
Wut
It would have been a bigger surprise had she not been an idiot.
Pretty much everybody in Hollyweird is nut job. Anybody looking for intellectual and philosophical enlightenment from a bunch of paid liars, deserves the drivel they get.
Who?
Turns out Olivia Wilde is an idiot.
I never would have guessed.
In the battle of worst movie to put on, OBE won when Titanic was put on the front
Fishing with a RPG >> Fishing in a RPG
Who’s going to watch Woke LOTR?
The guy that puts out my favorite rants
I will not give them the watchtime.
I want them to suffer.
I’ll give it a shot.
The wife just put it on.
Thoughts and prayers.
I am viewing it like Halloween III. That should not have had the Halloween series tied to it. Likewise, of you remove āLord of the Ringsā from this series, it just another fantasy series with decent special effects.
it just another fantasy series with decent special effects.
See the rant I posted above
I don’t even want to watch the youtube videos about the series lest I encourage their watching of the show.
That’s funny. I had not seen that rant yet.
Luckily one of my super powers is my complete lack of care for whether a movie or TV show follows the source material (especially source material that I’ve never read)
That’s not a super power, that’s terminal apathy.
I like to think of it as lazy stoicism.
Iām with the Hype on this. I find it easy to take completely different media on their own merits (or lack thereof).
Cancel your Prime Membership in retaliation.
Someone mentioned it at work and I was like, “Another one?! Sigh.”
“It’s on Prime.”
“Oh, I guess I’ll have to miss it, then š.”
Yesterday I won $120 on slots (on a $20 lark pay-in) and then played bingo at the neighborhood bar, just cuz I was there anyway watching Ok State win at football.
I won an early round of bingo and picked a ābroomstickā skirt as my prize.
Then I won the Coverall for cash.
I have never had so many old ladies shoot me dirty looks.
But I feel lucky!! š
WooHoo!
Don’t let their jealousy ruin your mood.
Additional background: old ladies who play bingo resent the shit out of newbies who breeze in and win. They seem to think you have to EARN it by being a bitter old woman for at least a few months.
Oh, they’d resent one of their own.
Hell yes!
Back in the olden days, my FIL had a place up on Lake Vermilion. One of our haunts was the Muni.
One day, me, my wife, her sister and my BIL went into town for cocktails and pull-tabs. We cleaned up.
Even after massive tips, cocktails, etc, we left with like $600. The girls kept shrieking every time we hit another one. My BIL and I kept looking at each other while the locals were getting increasingly irritated. Finally. the last $100 prompted us to haul them back to the lake.
My favorite gambling experience ever. (And I was in the business!)
That looks like a cool place. I used to be a regular at this place: https://www.yelp.com/biz/round-corner-tavern-sacramento?ylist=bars-with-pbr-on-tap-sacramento
In fact, it’s where I met my wife.
Nice.
You and I need to meet some day, Zwak.
Yay. Holiday weekend!
Ay, suppose.
I’m retired. What’s a holiday? What’s a weekend?
And all of you damn tourists, get off my road!
(Tightens onion)
Holy crap. Check out the Babylon Bee tonight, after the Presidents speech last night. The whole first page is devoted to it.
Zooms seems to be an issue. Neph may have been carried off by Sloopy and Banjos, WebDom is busy fixing up her new nest, and I don’t have any kind of account.
The link is in the previous post.
The zoom link, reiterated:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09