Monday Afternoon Formulaic Links

by | Oct 24, 2022 | Daily Links | 228 comments

Over there, be links.

 

Nothing jumped out at me so far today – so I will stick with my usual parade of tabloid, SERIOUS NEWS and Swiss stuff. Lets take a look at our dumb world….

  • Breathless tabloid headline….not sure I see anything wrong (legally or such) here, but just shows you that you can rake in tons of money and still be ineffectual and none too bright.
  • Lest anyone think the rest of the non-Russian invaded world is not war-torn.
  • Heh heh. *tugs collar* Glad I don’t work for these guys.
  • Gedanksexperiment.

The single greatest piece of music ever written. I will accept this also.

 

The comments section is all yours.

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Swiss Servator

Currently serving at the pleasure of a Swiss multinational. Previously a Soldier, rugby player, lawyer, bouncer, bartender, substitute teacher, risk manager, and cubicle mushroom. Will work for raclette.

228 Comments

      • Swiss Servator

        I guess Bach can’t laugh…he is dead.

      • Rebel Scum

        But, one day, he’ll be Bach.

      • SDF-7

        “Hey, you got a dead composer in there or something?”

        Dialogue options:

        a) “I’m just in a fugue state.”
        b) “Yes”
        c) “No”
        d) “Fuck you, asshole.”

      • Suthenboy

        Not a decomposer?

      • Aloysious

        I’m Bach. I’m Bach in the saddle again…

      • Spudalicious

        Dammit!

      • Homple

        Chuck Norris, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger decided they would skip the action flicks for once and add a little culture to the world by making a movie about the lives of famous composers.

        Norris said “I’ll be Beethoven.”
        Stallone said “I’ll be Brahms.”
        And Schwarzenegger said, “….”

      • R C Dean

        “I’m Austrian, so Mozart is a natural for me.”

      • Spudalicious

        He’ll be Bach in the saddle in no time.

      • Mojeaux

        Never mind I do love Bach (Handel rules, though) and, in fact, most baroque, the Rach 3 is unmatched.

      • Ted S.

        Funny enough, I thought you were going to link to some pop music and was all prepared to link to this in response.

        Or maybe this.

      • Mojeaux

        I love the Brandenburg Concerto, the whole thing.

        I use the Rach 3 and sometimes the Brandenburg Concerto as a Pomodoro-type timer. The Rach 3 is ~45 minutes long and so I measure my working time in units of “Rach 3″s.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Is this what the kids call “Clap Bach”?

      • R C Dean

        Baby got Bach?

      • WTF

        You guys are really going for baroque with these puns.

    • Rat on a train

      I concede Der Ring des Nibelungen isn’t a single piece.

  1. Rebel Scum

    Lest anyone think the rest of the non-Russian invaded world is not war-torn.

    I stand with the rebels.

    • Drake

      Having a rebel concert at a venue that can probably be found on Google Maps may not be the wisest way to stand with them.

  2. Rebel Scum

    Credit Suisse has agreed to pay $234 million to settle a French criminal investigation into whether the Swiss bank helped its clients launder tax fraud proceeds.

    Good thing they didn’t offend some parents in Connecticut.

    • Swiss Servator

      “French prosecutor moves to have trial held in American State of Connecticut.”

  3. slumbrew

    Huh, I can’t find the word “cannibalism” in that German piece. An oversight, I’m sure.

    • Lackadaisical

      That happens normally in Germany.

      • R.J.

        I figure the Germans will all just sit there because they don’t have permission to do anything else.

      • SDF-7

        So they finally beat the Royal Navy at something?

  4. SDF-7

    Eh… Bach’s ok, but I’ve always preferred Mozart when it comes to the classics.

    Interesting very quick (only 4 days? Florida’s done that with its eyes closed, hasn’t it? And I can think of an ice storm or two in Georgia that had the power lines down [young pine branches don’t take ice well] for at least that long) article on German blackouts. I’m not going to link it (because that’s kind of OT), but there’s rumblings that they’re already rationing orders of heating oil in the Northeast, so we’re looking to have fun Stateside as well this winter. PPP will get his winter of misery one way or another, I guess. (And that’s leaving aside that diesel inventories are getting rather low… that would be a whole heap of mess… Can you just imagine a perfect storm of diesel shortages and that looming rail strike just after the midterms? Talk about supply chain destruction…) President Clarke and Scorched Earth territory, almost.

    • Mojeaux

      De gustibus and all that, but I reeeeaaaaallllyyyyy do not like Mozart.

      • SDF-7

        I was expecting the scene where he’s faking flatulence while pretending to be Salieri at the party, but that works too.

      • Ted S.

        I was thinking this.

      • Drake

        How is that possible?

      • Mojeaux

        I exist, don’t like Mozart, so … totes possible.

    • Swiss Servator

      That is not OT – plz link it!

      • SDF-7

        You’re not my supervisor!

        😉

        Well, since you asked nicely.

      • ron73440

        What really pisses me off about all of these incoming shortages, is they are all caused by government policies.

        I tried explaining this to my mom and she said, and I quote, “I know you don’t believe in climate change, but I do.”

        I mentioned the possibility of people starving or freezing this winter, but those concerns were hand waved away. “It won’t be that bad.”

      • Mojeaux

        “It won’t be that bad.”

        “I don’t live there, so why should I care?”

      • SDF-7

        I suspect more “We’ve been comfortable for so long, surely that’s the natural state of things…”

        The whole “food comes from the store, water from the tap, power from the outlet” mindset.

      • B.P.

        Was going to say something similar, not about ron’s mom in particular but the mindset in general. Layered onto that is a thick topping of living in a prosperous society that took centuries of hard work to come together, and feeling bad about it.

      • ron73440

        I kind of knew it before, but COVID really highlighted her lack of sympathy for those not on her side.

        She had no concern for anyone that lost their business and nothing but contempt for those who fought back.

        I haven’t asked her opinion on the people from Jan 6 that are in solitary, but I probably know what it is.

      • Drake

        My Mom bought into the Trump = evil stuff they told her on TV. Now she can’t understand how things have gone so bad so fast.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Yeah. My mother boutique shopped at NPR, but same thing.

      • Ted S.

        I mentioned the possibility of people starving or freezing this winter, but those concerns were hand waved away. “It won’t be that bad.”

        She’s obviously being stoic about it.

      • ron73440

        She is about as far from stoic as you can get.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        People probably won’t starve and freeze in the US or in Europe. People in poorer countries might get considerably thinner though, but who cares about them?

      • ron73440

        People probably won’t starve and freeze in the US or in Europe.

        “probably”

        3 years ago, there wouldn’t have been the possibility.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        It’s still not a possibility.

      • ron73440

        There’s also desperately poor people that this incoming stupidity will impact heavily, not just Europe or America.

      • DEG

        They cite a Bloomberg article (archive because it is paywalled).

        They leave out the last paragraph of the Bloomberg article:

        A bit of supply relief is on the way. A full Colonial pipeline and overseas cargoes are headed to the region, which should also help ease prices in the short term. Longer term, the global supply squeeze could make the diesel crisis worse as the cold winter months set in and European sanctions come into effect.

        I spent some time poking around NH news sources. Not a word. I’ll note the Bloomberg article only quotes one oil supplier who is in Connecticut. PJ Media quotes Maine gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage to say the same thing is going on in Maine, but quotes no Maine oil suppliers.

      • Fourscore

        3-4 years ago I gave away 250 gals of fuel oil, I had a heck of a time getting anyone to take it, it was in a basement but could be pumped through a window. Finally a neighbor took it for his bobcat, then cut the tank apart and scrapped the furnace. The furnace was old and there are just not any repair people around anymore. I feared a leak that would contaminate the water table that I was using for my well.

        Most folks here are using propane, some still use wood, few electric (as a primary source of heat)

    • rhywun

      Haven’t read it yet, but am I questioning myself why a Swiss newspaper is publishing a chin-stroker over energy problems in Germany.

      What’s German for Schadenfreude?

      • rhywun

        LOL I see they’re targeting (mostly) the Ostländer with their little fantasy. This ought to get interesting….

      • DEG

        I noticed that.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Bach’s ok, but I’ve always preferred Mozart

      Mozart thought Bach was the shit, though.

  5. Rebel Scum

    J. S. Bach: “Little” Fugue in G minor, BWV 578

    I thought it was frowned upon to Fugue a minor.

    • The Other Kevin

      Compose yourself, those were different times.

      • Shpip

        Oh come on, that was a suite play on words.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Fuegetabout it. It is Classics Town.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Like clockwork, here comes Swissy, Chief Engineer of the Narrow Gaze Railroad.

      • SDF-7

        Honestly, I’m always disappointed if one of our pun threads doesn’t get that stamp of legitimacy.

  6. DEG

    The police inform the population via loudspeakers. They recommend staying home and staying inside.

    I wonder how many Germans would do that after the Lil Rona Panic.

    • Lackadaisical

      99%?

      The billionaires and politicians will continue doing what they want.

      • DEG

        They had massive anti-Lil Rona Panic protests. Probably bigger than anything here in the States from the coverage I remember.

        When Germans don’t like the rules, you know the rules are fucked.

    • Fourscore

      We had a 19 hour power outage this summer, caused by a serious storm. We got by OK but still wasn’t fun with no coffee. Winter would be tougher but with some wood heat we probably wouldn’t freeze, 5 gallon buckets and a toilet seat, melt snow.

  7. Q Continuum

    “The single greatest piece of music ever written”

    Pfft. Written by a dead, white racist who was probably slave-owner adjacent. CANCELLED.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      This is true

    • The Other Kevin

      Agreed. I used to have that on CD, and listen to it on repeat every Christmas. The songs are iconic, and the craftsmanship of the musicians is amazing.

      • Mojeaux

        Absolutely.

    • Tonio

      I’m sure that my friend Hyperbole will agree that the best Christmas Album is indeed this. [runs away giggling]

      • MikeS

        🤭

      • Mojeaux

        Put your nose in the corner and think about what you’ve done!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well now a man after my own tastes!

      • R.J.

        *Raises bourbon glass to Ownbestenemy

        I should have posted “Merry Christmas to my Penis.” But the other one is so topical! To think that album is 26 years old….

      • Tonio

        Bravo!

      • The Hyperbole

        As I’ve said before there are only 3 acceptable winter holiday songs, but it’s far to early to go into that now, maybe in six or seven weeks, even then it’s probably better just to say ‘bah humbug’ and stay out of the silly issue.

    • slumbrew

      That album makes me incredibly melancholy, and always has. Dunno why.

  8. Q Continuum

    The funny thing about the breathless “OMG JURMUN LYTZ NO GO ON!!!” article is the complete lack of acknowledgement/insight that the whole fucking farce is self-inflicted!

    Related:

    https://youtu.be/I49iDDi1Pb4

    • Drake

      It’s being inflicted by elites who have never been truly hungry or cold and have no idea how hunger and cold can change the behavior of otherwise peaceful people.

    • R C Dean

      I have no doubt most people will go along with the cover story blaming the Russians, and the object lesson that Green = death will be missed.

      • Drake

        I don’t think it will work here. Trump bragging about energy independence is too recent.

      • juris imprudent

        Sooner or later they will learn.

    • Lackadaisical

      ‘tumultuously torture your testicles.’

      Hard pass.

      • Tonio

        “Bathykolpian” for the win.

      • Lackadaisical

        Callipygian is more my speed. But it is an amazing word.

      • The Other Kevin

        Maybe “teasingly tempt”? But I’m not going to fault Q. Coming up with unique one liners every day is quite the challenge.

      • Tonio

        Indeed. It’s a turgid and bombastic style of prose that has long been out of fashion.

      • Q Continuum

        “turgid and bombastic”

        The effect my links should be having on the Glibertariat.

      • Spudalicious

        Great band name.

      • Lackadaisical

        I’m in awe of his ability to eke out enunciations.

  9. Yusef drives a Kia

    There is too much music in the world to pick the “best”
    /sighs…

    • Lackadaisical

      Both?

    • The Last American Hero

      Probably just some pvp play.

  10. DEG

    GOP Establishment would rather a Democrat win than an Outsider win part #128729892836523:

    Senate Republicans’ campaign arm is pulling millions of dollars in spending from New Hampshire’s race to shore up other candidates across the board, as Democratic incumbent Maggie Hassan continues to poll ahead of her challenger.

    The National Republican Senatorial Committee is canceling the remainder of its fall ad slate for New Hampshire after launching a coordinated ad with GOP nominee Don Bolduc earlier this week. The move comes as New Hampshire appears increasingly out of reach for the GOP, although Republicans still have millions more on the books for the final month of the campaign.

    Bolduc is an Outsider so he can’t be allowed to win even though Hassan is a weak candidate and not that popular.

    • Don escaped Texas

      not that popular

      continues to poll ahead of her challenger

      what does it mean?

      • slumbrew

        Off the top of my head:

        1) The polls are skewed
        2) The challenger is even less popular
        3) some of 1 & 2

      • Don escaped Texas

        doesn’t (2) mean that the party has a point?

        I think I’m missing something

      • slumbrew

        Depends on the party’s motivation, I suppose; that’d just be a happy coincidence for the party if their objection was his outsider status. Not saying 2) is true – no idea.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Canceling an ad buy later in the same week as starting a joint campaign seems like a bit of Lucy pulling the football.

      • DEG

        Bolduc is an outsider.

        He’s been open about thinking the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. He flip-flopped on that, and then suddenly McConnell wanted to help out Bolduc.

        And then I found that a few days ago Bolduc said he wouldn’t vote for McConnell for Senate Majority leader. So, no more money for Bolduc.

      • DEG

        Hassan has never been well liked and only barely won the 2016 Senate election against in incumbent Kelly Ayotte. I think had Ayotte kept her mouth shut about her not liking Trump, Ayotte would have won that election.

        I do not trust the polls. From what I’ve seen, rank-and-file Republicans in NH like Bolduc. Unaffiliated voters are a big block in NH, but I have trouble believing that with all her negatives Hassan is doing well.

        Contrast with Jeanne Shaheen, NH’s other Senator, who is very well liked. Even to the point that Republicans campaigned for her.

  11. Rebel Scum

    Nailed it.

    “I think it’s a legitimate thing to be concerned about anyone’s age, including mine,” says Biden.

    “Watch me. You know, am I slowing up? Am I don’t have the same pace?…I could get a disease tomorrow, I could, you know, drop dead tomorrow.”

    • Lackadaisical

      He finally said something I agree with.

  12. The Other Kevin

    Mrs. TOK took the youngest to her first college visit today, to Indiana State University. The Mrs. initially wasn’t a fan, but the visit won her over. Not a huge school (which is good), and it’s about 2.5 hours away, so not too far. The reality of us being empty nesters is starting to hit.

    • Tundra

      Fun times. And a good choice. Far enough away, but still close enough to hang.

      The reality of us being empty nesters is starting to hit.

      It goes from weird to wonderful pretty quickly!

      • The Other Kevin

        I will admit, the day the youngest got her license and I was no longer required to drive children anywhere was one of the most magical days of being a parent.

    • Pope Jimbo

      You know what I hated about college visits? The realization that I was the pathetic old coot dad walking around with his kid.

      Worse, I didn’t realize that for the first 3-4 visits. Since I am perpetually 19 in my mind, I kept walking around expecting some cool college kid would whisper about a cool kegger I could hit after the tour. I wouldn’t go of course because I am a responsible dad, but surely these college kids would recognize a fellow Joe Cool when they saw me.

      Then our tour passed a different college tour group and I was laughing at all the old dorks in that group when it hit me like a thunderbolt: Somehow I had become a geezer! How did that happen?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Since I am perpetually 19 in my mind, I kept walking around expecting some cool college kid would whisper about a cool kegger I could hit after the tour. I wouldn’t go of course because I am a responsible dad, but surely these college kids would recognize a fellow Joe Cool when they saw me.

        Next time offer to buy the first keg to kickoff the kegger. My parents never took me on college visits or visited me at college. But my friends’ parents would visit a couple times a year, usually around parents’ weekend or a football game. We’d throw a party and each pair of parents gifted a keg of nicer beer than we were used to (we usually drank $42/kegs of natty light). Played beer pong, cornhole, and ladders with the old coots all evening and night. Sometimes a live band would set up with a stage in a shared yard space. A lot of fun.

      • Don escaped Texas

        Camden is still here

        was pretty last week

      • Pope Jimbo

        Was it still a dry county? I remember that if we fucked up and forgot to pack in enough booze, we would have to drive over to the next county to stock up.

        Did you burnish your shitlord credentials by visiting the Nathan Bedford Forest State Forest?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Meh. Don’t worry about it. Everyone remembers fishing as a kid to be way better than it probably was. If you fish long enough, your standards rise.

        My buddy who brought me to Camden the first time was an old skool redneck that insisted on fishing with a cane pole. No matter how many times I outfished him with ultra-light spinning tackle, he kept using that shitty cane pole. Worse, he would get so excited if he ever caught anything decent he would immediately try to horse it in. Almost 100% of the time it would result in the fish getting off.

        Those fishing trips to Camden were always a blast because of the company and fun we had. I’ve caught much bigger and more fish other places, but I have a soft spot in my heart for the Tennessee river there. I would love to go back someday and fish it with a real boat. (We had a crappy jon boat with an electric motor).

        Glad you had fun there though.

      • Don escaped Texas

        I know what you mean, but my memory is pretty good:

        The bluegill fishery ranks as one of the best in the state for both catch rate and average weight. Anglers can be found fishing with crickets or a little grizzly jig around the cypress trees and in the bonnet patches. The mean weight of bluegill has averaged 0.45 pounds during the last ten years.

      • Tundra

        When my daughter was looking, we toured a few other schools out here. At CSU, the young lady leading the tour appeared to think she was selling time shares. Stadium, amenities, etc. I asked if the dorms had hot tubs.

        At UC Boulder, the chick was gushing about the fact that they has seven (7!) diversity offices!!! Of course, being a prick I asked her to tell us more. My wife was pissed at me but one of the other dads came over and said “I guess we can cross this one off the list.”

        Still, it was fun when the kids landed at a somewhat reasonable school. Parents’ weekend, football and all that.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I met a buddy of mine over near THE U of M years ago for lunch. We were sitting on the patio when a tour went by. The tour guidette was an 11 on a scale of 5. She was wearing tiny silk running shorts and her t-shirt was knotted up in front to show off her flat tummy. She was also Q-worthy. She seemed oblivious to all the dads who were drooling and moms who were staring daggers at their husbands. They kids didn’t seem to care one way or the other.

        My buddy and I called them the Tour of Doom because none of those kids would ever be able to afford college after the acrimonious divorce caused by the ogling of the guide.

      • Pope Jimbo

        The other tour story I have is when Altar Boy #2 and I were touring NoDak State University. Altar Boy asked about whether a guy could keep a shotgun and/or rifle in his dorm room for hunting. The guide said that they couldn’t keep them in the room but that they could be stored at the Safety Office.

        Anyhow after that question, I had one grandpa and another dad of comely young ladies come over to talk to me. If I had wanted I think I could have gotten him married off to one of them. The grampa and dad would have been tickled pink to have a son-in-law that hunted.

      • Tundra

        Haha! Didn’t AB2 end up at the U?

        I did a year and a half at St. Johns. We couldn’t have guns in the dorms either , but there must have been 100 or more at the cop shop. And this was 1985.

      • whiz

        A buddy of mine in grad school (Tom Kirkman) taught at St. Johns starting in 1982 or so. I don’t suppose you ran into him…?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Ummmmm…. What are these plans that Donna kept talking about to fight inflation? Unless it involves abortions somehow, I have no idea what they are because all the Dem ads here about abortion.

      • Ownbestenemy

        The plans are to blame the coming Republican congress for 2 years on new found data that inflation and recession began Jan of 2023

      • The Other Kevin

        “Democrats have ideas.” Unfortunately for some magical unknown reason they were unable to implement those ideas, or even mention them, in the last two years.

      • ron73440

        All the ones I see are talking about the “EXTREME” Jen Kiggens.

        Some in regards to abortion and some about her election denying.

      • rhywun

        All the ads here mention both in the same ad.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Same here. All the ads are about abortion, very occasionally they mention something else as well, but the primary point is always abortion.

  13. Pope Jimbo

    I assume that Biden could repurpose his Afghanistan Withdrawal Plan and get everyone out of Germany with no problems.

    • Ownbestenemy

      “Back when I was a C-47 pilotrainian during the Berlin airlift….”

    • slumbrew

      My man.

      I don’t even have to let that second link roll to agree with you. Plus, those laigs…

    • KSuellington

      I listened to that album obsessively for years. No other album comes close to amount of times I’ve listened. The first track is indeed musical perfection.

  14. KSuellington

    | The single greatest piece of music ever written.

    Damn, I guessed wrong, I thought for sure it was gonna be a Chumbawumba tune.

    But if we are going with Bach, this one I have always really loved, especially this Segovia version.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zcGt9AFlIPY

    • slumbrew

      I thought for sure it was gonna be a Chumbawumba tune

      *calls in airstrike on KSuell’s location*

      • KSuellington

        Well, if I get knocked down…

      • Ted S.

        🎶 KSuellington gets knocked up,
        But he goes down again….🎵

  15. Ownbestenemy

    Fire up the impeachment machine and get ready to null and void Dobbs!

    “Alito Assured Ted Kennedy in 2005 of Respect for Roe v. Wade, Diary Says”

    “It was Nov. 15, 2005, and Samuel A. Alito Jr., who was seeking Senate confirmation for his nomination to the Supreme Court, had just assured Mr. Kennedy in a meeting in his Senate office that he respected the legal precedent of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 court decision that legalized abortion.”

    That’s the game…he lied! Lied!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      That was 17 years ago. Things change.

    • Fatty Bolger

      If we’re using that standard, there won’t be a liberal judge left standing.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well the left is surely trying to use that standard…

      • Fatty Bolger

        As usual, only for the judges who don’t give them what they want.

    • Pope Jimbo

      You fucked up! You trusted me.

      Since LEO’s can lie to suspects, why should judges also not be immune from any charges of lying? Besides did Kennedy put him under oath?

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Don’t care.

    • R C Dean

      “I will give Roe v Wade all the respect it deserves.”

      Seriously, even legal scholars who like the outcome won’t defend the reasoning.

    • R.J.

      “Dr. Coke Penis.” I didn’t expect him to look so nerdy!

  16. Tundra

    KIA seems like a bad acronym for an army.

  17. Pope Jimbo

    In these times of financial uncertainty, I am here with a sure fire investment opportunity: A women’s soccer team

    Given the “overwhelming community support in our first year, we now have the opportunity to pursue a professional team far sooner than we initially expected,” the Aurora said in a statement Monday.

    Professional soccer, team leaders added, “requires deep pockets” and involves finding higher level investors, noting that they are in the exploratory phase and that the “specifics and logistics of what a future will look like are not set at this point.”

    This is your chance to get in on the ground floor of something big. You missed the chance to invest in the WNBA and now you get another chance.

    • UnCivilServant

      I thought you weren’t allowed to buy people anymore.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Is their a 30% discount?

      • UnCivilServant

        I figured they were selling off the players after disbanding the team. I’d expect a lower price than that.

      • Ted S.

        Is their *what* a 30% discount?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ya ya I blame Siri

    • ron73440

      I’ve seen new commercials for women sports, saying if you watch me, it will inspire your daughter.

      When my daughter was playing volleyball and basketball, she said watching women was boring.

      Also nowhere in the commercial was a promise to be entertaining.

      • Q Continuum

        As part of the inspiration, did it mention the non-zero possibility that a recently transitioned trans-woman would join up and immediately clobber your daughter?

      • UnCivilServant

        “Transitioned” without medication or surgery.

        Oh and “She” has full access to the locker rooms too.

      • UnCivilServant

        Not that I’d give eunuchs full access to the girls’ locker room either, but it’s more egregious this way.

      • Pope Jimbo

        A buddy of mine said that the worse job he ever had was ref-ing 7th & 8th grade intramural girl’s basketball.

        He claimed he’d basically count to 20, blow his whistle and then point to some random player and call a foul/traveling/carrying/etc. His claim was that if he even attempted to call every violation games would last 20 hours and everyone would foul out. The girls were very uncoordinated and were always fouling or traveling.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Watching biological males dominate women, how very inspiring for our daughters.

      • R C Dean

        “Watching biological males dominate women”

        It would be nice to hear from Creosote Achilles again.

      • Mojeaux

        Discord.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Really? My daughter* said that Trump was a bastion of hatred and division in the country. She had just turned four.

        *Does not exist in some states: liquid, solid, gas.

    • slumbrew

      I applied a time-saving life-hack and just set some money on fire instead.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Altar Boy #2 and I were watching a NFL game yesterday and there was a really long commercial for the World Cup. The commercial included Santa and the premise was they were going to be swamped with requests for Team USA soccer gear this Christmas.

        We looked at each other and started laughing. Mostly because that had to be the stupidest ad buy in history. I’m watching the Chiefs and 49ers play, what are the odds I’m gonna be swayed to watch World Cup soccer?

        So I think they set a much larger pile of money on fire than you did slum-sy.

    • Don escaped Texas

      Bill Burr’s latest routine dunks on the women who won’t go to women’s basketball games but bust his balls for his not going

      apparently its men’s fault when a women’s team goes bankrupt

      • R.J.

        It’s always our fault. His routine is hilarious and accurate.

    • Q Continuum

      It’s all the same with your eyes closed right?

    • kinnath

      Eh, Fuck Des Moines

      INDIANOLA, Iowa (KCRG) – Police in Indianola have confirmed a mountain lion sighting, and they say it’s heading east.

      Police confirmed a sighting of the mountain lion within city limits on Friday, on the southwest side of town.

      In the latest update from law enforcement, the mountain lion has been seen on cameras heading east.

      As of Sunday morning, the Iowa DNR confirmed it was seen about six miles east of Indianola.

      They are in Iowa, but not in the suburbs.

      • Don escaped Texas

        Police confirmed

        did it make any furtive moves or gestures?

  18. Tundra

    I don’t care for classical music.

    But I can fake it.

  19. robodruid

    Re Berlin loosing power.
    Isn’t that the first step from a Russian EMP burst?

    • UnCivilServant

      Why waste a nuke when the krauts fucked up their own infrastructure for you?

    • Q Continuum

      Avatar checks out.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Unfortunately, I was unable to find a clip of the William Tell Overture scene from A Clockwork Orange. That’s classical.

      • Suthenboy

        *BZZZZZZ!* Wrong.
        We cant know until we actually have a libertarian candidate.

      • MikeS

        I’m the only true libertarian, and I’m not running for anything, so…

      • MikeS

        Who is that idiot?

      • The Hyperbole

        Senior advisor for policy and White House director of speechwriting to President Donald Trump.

      • MikeS

        Huh. Another bad Trump hire. Where’s my shocked face?

      • grrizzly

        In 2020 the Libertarian party ran an anti-white racist as their presidential candidate who had nothing to say about the wholesale abrogation of rights during the covid tyranny. So, he is not completely wrong.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        He’s not completely wrong and he’s also a retard. Those aren’t mutually exclusive.

      • The Hyperbole

        Some stupid pablum about being actively anti-racist and adding #BLM to a tweet or two doesn’t make one an ‘anti-white racist’, and bullshit, she condemned vaccine mandates and lockdowns numerous times.

      • grrizzly

        The unaccomplished bitch praised firing a person for posting all lives matter on FB. That’s what libertarianism is all about: a private company will cancel you without the government.

        From one of your links: Jo Jorgensen’s Facebook campaign page features the following three policies: “Immediately grant FDA waiver requests needed for companies to produce COVID-19 tests, N-95 masks, ventilators, protective gear, etc.”
        LOL. More ventilators to kill patients. And more masks.

      • The Hyperbole

        Oh noes, she advocated for getting the government out of the way and letting companies produce shit that people may or may not want! how un-libertarian of her.

  21. robc

    Bach never existed, this was covered in the first Dirk Gently novel.

  22. B.P.

    Here’s a live set of passable indie rock on KEXP. What really struck me was everyone in the audience wearing a mask. This was filmed two months ago, not two years ago. It’s like stumbling across a lost Shaker colony.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVVC7UIGRGc

    The most beautiful piece of classical music ever written, if the 19th century counts…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOWN5fQnzGk

    • Ted S.

      Your selection dates to 1914.

      • B.P.

        I might be even further afoul of the rules, then. I assume there are rules.

    • Tres Cool

      What are those purple thingies on the guitars?

    • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

      They are up in Port Townsend. So, super hippy area, and I am not surprised in the slightest about masks.

      Flat earthers.

      • B.P.

        Another good one, although I somehow got caught up in Mr. Tortilla’s diary in the comments.

      • rhywun

        I am a fan.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        I grew up with Mom playing the piano so I’ve been a fan of the instrument forever.

        Kieth Emerson and Nikky Hopkins loom large in my musical preferences.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Amazing that I can commit two spelling errors in one post

        “Keith Emerson”
        “Nicky Hopkins”

      • whiz

        I have that album +++

  23. The Late P Brooks

    I assume there are rules.

    In a knife fight?

    • MikeS

      #1. Bring a gun

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Rule #0, Skip fight, find bar.

      • MikeS

        🍻

      • Mojeaux

        Drugs, ass. Tundra beat you to it.

      • Tres Cool

        Yeah, well….I just woke up