Worn to hold and shape the torso to look smaller, the garment dates back to Ancient Greece, but became a fashion staple in the Victorian era, which began in the 1830s.
They’ve been used in many period dramas in recent decades, including Bridgerton, Downton Abbey and Pride and Prejudice adaptations.
But now several networks and streaming services are said to be banning them.
In a move to appease young actors, they will now be allowed to wear their own underwear instead of the restrictive undergarment.
‘The corset is famously restrictive, and many actresses have complained to wardrobe departments about damage, both short-term and long, being done after a long 12 to 14 hour day wearing them on set,’ a source told The Sun.
‘Essentially, there were health and safety concerns about keeping women in a pinching corset for weeks at a time.’
‘Many stars have reported bruising and even breathing problems.’
They added: ‘In today’s increasingly woke world, it’s also not great optics to be encouraging women to have thinner waists.’
‘It may well have been reflective of the time, but broadcasters and streamers want to be seen as progressive.’
The source said this marked a ‘big moment in the history of the period drama.’
If Bridgerton is in danger, I’m fine with it. Although it seems the real issue is period dramas, so if they want to get rid of tea and strumpet soap operas, I’m OK with that as well.
Drinking Coke and Pepsi leads to larger testicles, more testosterone: study
A study has revealed how drinking Coca-Cola and Pepsi can lead to larger testicles and higher testosterone levels.
The Northwest Minzu University in China was attempting to determine the impact of carbonated beverages on fertility and sex organs in men.
The study looked at three groups of mice – one that only drank water, another that drank different levels of Coca Cola with another doing the same with Pepsi – over 15 days.
Tests on the rodents included weighing their testicles and drawing blood. They were tested on day one, as well as day five, seven, 10 and 15.
It was quickly discovered that the mice drinking Coke and 100 percent Pepsi, compared to a mixture of Pepsi and water, had a significant change.
For instance, the mice that were given pure Coca-Cola had higher levels of the male hormone compared to the group that drank water.
The study concluded: “Drinking Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola could promote testis development and enhance testosterone secretion [ …] our findings provide the scientific basis for fully understanding carbonated beverages effects and their mechanism on development and reproduction functions of humans, and how they benefit the prevention of prostate dysfunction and cancer.”
[staggers away under the weight of his enormous balls]
My husband disappears to Thailand weekly, spends hundreds — he won’t tell me what he’s up to
It sounds like a bad dream. But for one woman it is the very sad reality of her marriage.
A 70-year-old woman has shared on UK television that her husband of almost 50 years “keeps disappearing” to Thailand and sending “hundreds of pounds there monthly”.
Speaking on a segment called Dear Deirdre phone-in on This Morning, the anonymous caller who went by the name ‘Julie’ said he leaves without telling her, and is tight-lipped about where the cash is going.
His response when she inquires where he is going is equally charming. “None of your business,” she says he retorts.
“It’s normally on a Wednesday night he goes,” she said. “I just come home, there’s no note, nothing, passport, gone clothes gone.”
Deirdre strongly urged the caller not to “carry on putting up with this”, slamming the husband’s behavior as “appalling”.
Um.
Dr Pepper or GTFO!
I can’t stand period pieces.
Better than the colon comedies, I suppose.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9185206
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the scene in An Unmarried Woman where Jill Clayburgh is discussing menarche with her therapist. That’s also about the point at which I gave up on the movie.
💔 🖼 🚶♀️
🙄
I love period pieces: Breaker Morant, Gallipoli, A Bridge Too Far, Das Boot. Dangerous Liaisons, Come and See, The Shooting Party, the list goes on.
Das Boot only in subtitled form, though. I stumbled across the dubbed version once and it annoyed the hell outta me.
Seeing some ladyboy?
Many ladies-boy.
That’s one of the more pleasant possible explanations.
He’s very likely over there diddling kids.
You just had to make it weird, didn’t you?
Yeah, there are plenty of real women too.
I feel sorry for the UK Lady… boy, it sure is hard to guess what her husband might be doing on those Thailand trips.
Banging hookers, banging transsexuals, banging kids, or heroin smuggler-none are good.
What you did there has been seen by me
Boo that man.
Positive: High T and big nuts
Negative: Diabetes, blindness, and obesity
I’d rather just use the T gel if it comes to that.
Is that gel that pities the fool?
Coke Zero, FTW!
I’m so glad for all the “zero” options. Only fatties drink “diet” colas.
Swiss has teeny, tiny balls. They’re made of tungsten, but they’re very small.
How exactly does somebody weigh rodent testicles? And what does that job pay?
Unfortunately that was my first thought as well.
Microscale.
(If the stupid Internal Server errors let me post this for once…)
All the coke and pepsi you want.
Don’t forget all the rodent testicles!
You think that hard? You ever smelled moth-balls?
I can never get the legs apart
‘It may well have been reflective of the time, but broadcasters and streamers want to be seen as progressive.’
The source said this marked a ‘big moment in the history of the period drama.’
The moment when they said, “Fuck history”?
“Broadcasters and streamers want to be seen as progressive.”
This is not the winning strategy they think it is.
So the Polynesian lady playing an English dutchess won’t be wearing historically correct clothing? Oh no!
Bridgerton is basically a fantasy anyway with so many anachronisms that it doesn’t really matter. But if someone is trying to make an accurate depiction of the times, it’s stupid. That said, I don’t blame actresses for not wanting to wear corsets.
“tea and strumpet soap operas” for the win.
Yes, that was inspired.
Sorry to go OT so soon, but I just got a call from the Publishers Clearinghouse prize notification center, and I’ve won $5000 a week for life. So pretty soon I’ll have a lot more free time to hang out here.
Not sure if serious.
The robot voice and bad grammar mean it’s real, right?
That’s what the Nigerian prince told me.
Princes who adore you?
Booo.
I had this guy with a dot accent. Called maybe 4 times, couldn’t understand why a geezer didn’t want the money. I kept telling him to give it to some youngster. He absolutely would not give up, I cursed him, told him I was recording the call, etc. I told him to send the check to my address, which he must have, since I’ve seen the TV winners. On my landline. Annoying as hell.
I rarely get robo calls on either phone. In fact, I rarely get any calls.
Latest scam, eh?
Yes. I’ve gotten this one twice. The voice sounds like it was generated by a Commodore 64.
Given the time of year, I’m surprised they haven’t spun back up the “You are potentially being prosecuted by the IRS” ones again.
I like the one where it’s a recording of a real woman, and she’s like, “Uh yeah, just following up on that email about the business funding.” As if we know each other.
Ask it to explain black holes.
The PCH scams tend to be run out of Africa instead of India (once you start talking to a real person, I mean). They’re harder to mess with than the Indians because they’re far more wary and they don’t connect to your computer like the refund scammers
They rarely leave voice mails so I have to settle for all the “account frozen” text messages.
I hang up when I don’t get an immediate response after I say, “Hello?”
From what I can tell, this is real. And it’s spectacular
https://mobile.twitter.com/asyakhamsin1/status/1627541483245936642
Ha! Screwed by his own narcissism (and stupidity).
We emptied the mental hospitals so they could rule us.
I love this.
I really hope this is true.
I was thinking the same thing. It looks legit.
L O L
So he’s been at it since 2018?
Surprising absolutely no one. It’s absurd that he’s only stolen the two he’s been indicted for. I would guess dozens of thefts.
A girl needs her variety of outfits.
The thrill of wearing something you stole certainly plays into it.
The dude would be certifiable, if we still had a psychiatric system that functioned.
Talk about appropriating culture!
Looks like 3 outfits so far from just the one suitcase
https://mobile.twitter.com/asyakhamsin1/status/1628539531073925121
LOL this is awesome.
The first red dress is a bit different in Sam’s (who knows what the pronoun is) pic than hers, but he could be wearing it backwards or something.
It’s backward
Sounds like felony indictment number three on the way.
The bonus points for stealing from a black fashion designer. 😘
I’ll believe it when it happens.
How exactly does somebody weigh rodent testicles?
The hard part is putting them back.
Love the Dead Boys.
Love.
Thumbs up.
Oh yeah. One of the greats.
Agreed.
tea and strumpet soap operas
The wife has come around to leaving Downton Abbey run as background noise.
Every time Mary and Edith are in a scene together, Mary’s line should be “Stick it, Edith” and exit.
Edith Ann
Fourscore remembers…
And then you hear a toilet flush off-camera.
“Stifle yerself, Edith!”
The man going to Thailand is meeting up with Ming Lee.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WtFeRPanB6Y
In a move to appease young actors, they will now be allowed to wear their own underwear instead of the restrictive undergarment.
So they really won’t be period dramas anymore?
Now it’s just dramas about periods.
padded dramas?
Sponsored by Campbell’s tomato soup.
“As the Moon Cycles”
“Genital Hospital”
“The Days of the Month”
Everyone knows having realistic details to a show doesn’t add anything. They should just let everyone show up in sweat pants and messy pony tails.
Not after this pause.
Mwahaha! The movies will flow freely after this costume change.
Oooh, spicey!
We watched Lidia Poet on Netflix. The legal drama is a little Perry Mason-ish but the wardrobe (with corsets) is excellent.
I made the grievous error of clicking on a Bulwark link from google nooz. A giant steaming pile of words by Cathy Whats-er-name. Then, because I’m a glutton for punishment, I read part of another one, a load of juvenile”snark” about paranoid Trumpalos and their bizarre obsessions about vaccines and immigrants and who knows what else.
I’d rather read Vox, or the New Republic.
OMG this movie is tedious. I don’t mind Scarlett doing what she needs to do to get what she wants, but I hate her little temper tantrums.
You know, there is a solution to boring movies for extra credit. You could show up on Thursday and do a code review of “Abar: Black Superman.” Or the week after that is “Dead Ant,” a horror comedy with tons of injuries.
Sadly, the movies are chosen for you.
Also, I have to switch my transcription gig from 8p to 7p because of charting software issues after 11p.
Permanently or just tonight?!?!?!
Sadly, likely permanently. I think the charting software undergoes some type of maintenance at 11p, which prevents me from loading up the notes.
OMG now my weekends are ruined and I hate everything.
Well, that makes the weekend Zooms less interesting.
I am now sad.
This is sad.
*wipes tear*
Aw, thanks, guys. I’ll see what I can do about scheduling, because the work is just there till it gets done. I am considered part of the “clean-up” crew. But it’s a clinic, not a hospital, so this also might mean I don’t have to work on Saturdays at all.
The code review would spoil the movie.
So frankly, you don’t give a damn?
Why, you’ve got it all wrong, Mojo. Scahlett is just high-spirited and vivacious.
Right?!
Frankly, Toxteth, I don’t give a damn.
Okay I got my list of injuries. I’ll be damned if I sit through another hour of that drivel.
For the title of the Most Unwatchable Movie of all Time. Ever. nothing beats, IMHO, Ordinary People(1980?).
I’d rather watch My Dinner with Andre.
Ordinary People was a great movie.
*gets popcorn*
Gotta go with Kinnath here.
And you’ve gone and pissed off Dr. Chet.
Is this a hold my beer moment? I mean… I can show you some movies that require sedation and restraints to finish.
But don’t people pay extra for those… films?
I can’t wait for the BBC series about the plucky Indian girl who grew up in the slums of Delhi and overcame her status as an outcast to become Prime Minister of England and win the Battle of Britain.
Churchill was Indian?
Who knew?
Tall Cans!
OMG this movie is tedious. I don’t mind Scarlett doing what she needs to do to get what she wants, but I hate her little temper tantrums.
She deserves to be pampered, and waited on hand and foot.
TW – Vertical video and crazy person
Idiot moves her neighbor’s car
Idiot status confirmed
Was she a kung-fu master?
Wow. An ur-Karen in the wild. The shovel was a nice touch.
https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/local/2023/02/21/food-desert-map-shows-locations-with-no-supermarket-nearby/69920965007/
Apparently, I live in a food desert…GJ gov’t toadies.
🙄
Despite multiple grocery stores and a fucking farmers market.
According to those assholes, most of Alaska is a feed desert.
I’d imaging most swanky neighborhoods are food deserts.
Oh God the writing is so tediously pompous to boot.
They have me in a food desert but not my sister. I can get groceries at 7 stores within 6 miles. She has to drive 12 miles to the closest.
Sununu’s NH approval spikes
Would becoming a national candidate running for the White House hurt Gov. Chris Sununu at home? Not according to the latest poll from the UNH Survey Center. In fact, quite the opposite.
Since December, when talk of a Sununu presidential race first began, Sununu’s net approval has nearly tripled, from +13 to +36.
Anything to get him to leave?
My thought exactly.
“My husband disappears to Thailand weekly, spends hundreds — he won’t tell me what he’s up to”
I get my kicks above the waistline sunshine.
Man who go through airport turnstile sideways going to Bangkok.
NH Dem party official calls gay Republican a homophobe
Full disclosure: At the risk of doxxing myself, I did a little work for Tim Baxter’s US House campaign. I had no idea he is gay.
The New Hampshire Democratic Party’s top communications person took to Twitter to smear former GOP state Rep. Tim Baxter as an “anti-LGBTQ, Christian nationalist nut job.”
The problem is that Baxter, who gained national attention running a pro-liberty campaign for U.S. Congress last year, is openly gay.
In response to an NHJournal story about Baxter and fellow 2022 congressional candidate Karoline Leavitt working to win leadership positions in the New Hampshire Young Republicans (NHYR), state Democratic Party communications director Colin Booth tweeted, “Just what every young person wants, to be associated with a bunch of anti-LGBTQ, Christian nationalist nut jobs.”
Look, if Larry Elder can be the “face of white supremacy”, I’m sure he can be the poster boy for homophobia.
Well, he would know?
“Homophobe” now equals “anyone who doesn’t enthusiastically support the most nutjob positions advanced by the radical activist set”.
Ditto “far/extreme right wing opinion.”
Ready to run
Utah’s Sen. Mitt Romney threw some shade at Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s call for a “national divorce” to divide up the country by Republican and Democratic states.
“I think Abraham Lincoln dealt with that kind of insanity,” Romney said as he briefly met with reporters after meeting with Utah lawmakers on Tuesday. “We’re not going to divide the country. It’s united we stand and divided we fall.”
Greene on Monday called for the United States to “separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government.”
Mitt- the bipartisan healer this nation needs.
I’ll agree to the divorce only if the Northeast gets Mitt.
We want to separate from you too Mitt.
Will anybody have the courage to primary him?
Except it looks like we’re headed for “united we fall”.
If he knows a way to unite with the woke mob I’m all ears.
Oh, he’s united with the woke mob, so I think he knows how.
The contrast between Biden stumbling around Europe talking war and Trump showing up in East Palestine to help people with his own money is incredibly revealing.
Our elite haven’t cared about middle America for a long time. But now they can’t be bothered to pretend to care. In a way it’s more proof that we are never voting our way out of this than any election records. They are completely untethered from the reality of life for most of us.
Trump showing up in East Palestine to help people with his own money
I saw Trump was there, but didn’t read the articles.
So far he brought some truck loads of water and bought a bunch of McDonald’s for police and firefighters.
But it’s Trump brand water!
(I didn’t know such a thing existed.)
My personal experience with some of those I went to college with is that they openly disdain rural residents. They will tolerate the rednecks if the bubbas vote the correct way, but other than that they don’t give a shit if they live or die.
It was startling at first, but now I’ve come to expect it from them.
It’s more than just rednecks, it’s the entire middle class everywhere too.
The open economic warfare being waged against the middle class confirms.
Can confirm.
When I went to grad school, I was appalled at just how much the faculty and TAs disdained students that weren’t from Lexington or Louisville.
There’s a comedian who has been in SF for decades now, Will Durst. One of his jokes is something like, “I’m originally from Ohio, America’s Heartland. They call it the heartland because there’s no brain there.” The joke gets lots of laughter from the SF crowd, but it exemplifies the attitude you are talking about.
The only yokels that the Dems don’t openly sneer at are the farmers in Iowa.
They kiss the ass of those Iowegians because they want to win the Iowa Caucus so bad. Now that Iowa doesn’t start the shit show anymore, I’m sure that they will show their true colors soon and start shitting on the corn farmers.
Of course, those farmers are heavily involved in the Ethanol Scam so they might stay in the good graces of the Dems. Gotta love a program that pays welfare to the farmers to grow a crop solely for a product that is mandated and subsidized.
Mandated, subsidized, damages engines, and reduces fuel efficiency.
Yeah but other than that I don’t see any problems
The villain, revealed
Donald Trump’s visit to the site of a toxic train derailment in Ohio is offering a political opening to battered Biden administration officials — by calling new attention to the former president’s record of rolling back regulations on both rail safety and hazardous chemicals.
Trump’s administration withdrew an Obama-era proposal to require faster brakes on trains carrying highly flammable materials, ended regular rail safety audits of railroads, and mothballed a pending rule requiring freight trains to have at least two crew members. He also placed a veteran of the chemical industry in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency’s chemical safety office, where she made industry-friendly changes to how the agency studied health risks.
These actions have mostly been a matter of Trump-era trivia amid the furor over the Feb. 3 derailment in East Palestine, which has brought fierce GOP criticism of the response by Biden appointees such as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. But Trump’s Ohio trip on Wednesday is provoking new scrutiny of his own track record — a development that some in the Biden administration were privately welcoming.
Other Trump critics were more blunt in dismissing the motives behind his visit.
“It’s clear that it’s a political stunt,” said former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a Republican and former member of Congress who led DOT during President Barack Obama’s first term. “If he wants to visit, he’s a citizen. But clearly his regulations and the elimination of them, and no emphasis on safety, is going to be pointed out.”
Buttigieg took his own veiled shot at Trump — though not by name — when answering a POLITICO reporter’s question about the tension between Trump’s rail safety record and his criticisms of the Biden administration.
He took away the magic spells which would have prevented the catastrophe.
This junior high clique mentality is so fucking exhausting.
I’m assuming the railroads were free to implement whatever extra security precautions they deemed necessary…?
Nyet. Everything not mandatory is prohibited, comrade.
Because there was never a spill of toxic materials during 0bamas two terms.
F’n retards.
Not mentioned – exactly which regulations would have prevented this.
The EPA formally put the rail company on the hook Tuesday for covering all costs of the clean up, which the railroad had already pledged to do.
Can they just do that?
Haha, you’re right. Never mind.
It does appear that the railroad is at fault, so they should be on the hook.
Many things appear so, until investigations are conducted and evidence collected.
Don’t get me wrong – I’d be surprised if this wasn’t the railroad’s fault, but a decree that they shall pay seems premature.
The railroad should be covering the costs if they caused it.
I wonder what the second order issues were, though? Did the state or fed mandate some stupid procedure that resulted in this accident? Did they not take care of some issue on their end?
I get them not wanting to go too far down that street, but it needs to be done, especially if they are claiming that some bit of deregulation was done by the previous admin to cause this.
I’m sure the railroad will sue if there are other issues.
“Can they just do that?”
How many divisions and F-16s can Norfolk Southern call on?
They were cleaning it up. They said they were willing to clean it up.
FedGov took over as they are allowed to do and in turn ordered them to clean it up.
This way FedGov can do something as well as micromanage the process. It’s semantics and power.
If the railroads had been on strike that train would never have derailed.
I haven’t been hearing too much about that “keep working” order. I wonder why.
*Not that I think a new contract would have done fuck all to prevent this.
I almost hate to ask, but is there even a sliver of an argument for the constitutionality of the federal government aiding another country fighting a war?
I almost hate to ask, but is there even a sliver of an argument for the constitutionality of
the federal government aiding another country fighting a warmost of the shit the Imperial government has been doing since about 1860?What’s “constitutionality?” Sounds commie to me!
More importantly, how are your beautiful wife and baby?
One senior administration official, granted anonymity to speak freely because he was not authorized to talk to the media, said Biden’s appointees are “supporting people in East Palestine” while Trump and other Republicans “see the people there as political props.”
“Trump’s visit validates that this is all about politics for him and Republicans who have been quick to criticize and bizarrely blame Secretary Pete yet are the same people who have done Norfolk Southern’s bidding on rolling back major safety requirements,” said the official. “Trump more than anyone.”
Cut it the fuck out.
It does appear that the railroad is at fault, so they should be on the hook.
I’m certainly not going to argue with that, but I can’t help thinking there is some established legal structure to govern cleanup and restitution other than edicts from the White House.
DeWine and Shapiro mutually decided to burn off the chemicals, which was probably a bad idea? Not sure what other potential efforts may have been since I have no idea how to clean up toxic chemical spills.
That’s because you’re not a senior administration official granted anonymity to speak freely because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
On today’s episode of Square That Circle: Reconciling “Voter ID laws are Racist” with “We need a Driver’s Licenses For All law so
illegalundocumented immigrants can drive legally”I’m pretty pro-immigrant, but shit like this makes me grind my teeth.
The bonus round will be explaining why minorities can’t fill out a voter registration card, but can somehow pass a written driver’s license test. One is racist because it is so hard.
No, no, no. See, it is the Blaq’s that cannot do this, not the latinx’s.
Please, get your approved racisms right.
Minneapolis Town is full of Somalis and other East African illegals. We are very diverse when it comes to our illegal population. We don’t limit ourselves to just the latinX.
Is it the grandiose pomposity that always accompanies such exclamations?
Or the recognition that it’s all self-serving claptrap?
What gets me is the umbrage that they take when you don’t think that lawbreakers should have the red carpet rolled out for them.
I have dealt with ICE when my wife was getting her green card/citizenship. I hate those evil fuckers as much as anyone. I’m completely down with reforming our immigration laws and gutting ICE. I’m totes on your side.
But subsidizing the shit out of people who are breaking the law is crazy. And then getting mad when you tell them to do the work to change policies and laws. Not just reward bad behavior.
Oh absolutely. To take one recent example, I am NOT happy that my tax dollars are going to room and board for all the illegals that Texas sends our way. In nice hotels that used to house tourists and businesspeople before the city and state decimated those industries.
Time for a Golden Oldie: FOOD DESERTS!!!! OMG!!!!
There is also some vague references to there being a lot of crime at that store too.
Good to see an old time proggie hobby horse rolled out. Food deserts are far more fun to read about than the Ukraine.
I don’t understand. We “know” greedy capitalists rip off consumers with high prices for groceries. And “community activists” believe they can run things better than some neo-Nazi German food chain, right? So progressive rich folks ought to be flocking to set up a new store, run by said activists, to show the world how socialist, worker run grocery stores can succeed.
“IRS ‘is developing new Biden-backed algorithm that’ll see more white and Asian people targeted for tax audits to boost racial “equity””
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11781007/Group-accuses-Biden-using-executive-order-target-whites-Asians-IRS-audits.html
No idea how that can be legal.
It doesn’t fucking matter anymore. DC is going full Cultural Revolution and they will not be deterred.
“It doesn’t fucking matter anymore.”
So much this. Even if you can get a court to bestir itself to issue an order, by the time this shit gets stopped it’s been years, and much damage has been done.
I’m getting to the point where, if I have to live under a racist government, I’d like it to be racist in my favor.
Pretty sure the courts will say that no one has standing to sue. That seems to be the SOP now.
So since the courts didn’t strike it down, it is legal. Suck on that nerd.
“Because it’s the right thing to do.”
“protecting the public from algorithmic discrimination”
Yup, that absolutely means exactly what they’re being accused of.
“America’s lonely (male) hearts club: Record 63% of men in their 20s are single – almost double the number of women – with end of traditional masculine roles, porn and COVID blamed for stark rise
Experts put the disparity down to some women dating each other – with research suggesting bisexual women make up a large share of the young-adult queer community – as well as many also dating older men.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11781425/More-60-men-20s-single-compared-just-30-women.html
Before I blamed pr0n and the Rona, I’d blame:
1) Milk surplus, no pressure to buy your own cow
2) Danger of #MeToo bullshit
3) Having to listen to young women tell you how they are totes equal in everything
4) Did those researchers assume the gender of their test subjects?
I’d blame the incredible surplus of intolerable college-indoctrinated leftist women. Who would want to marry those crazy bitches?
This. I’d probably be a monk if I were in my twenties today. Your odds of finding a normal young woman seem fairly remote.
That’s pretty sad.
OFFS! Ladies play-acting gay in their 20’s are not part of the “young-adult queer community”.
Also, cut this shit out with trying to mainstream “queer”.
Revealed versus expressed preferences. Balance that self-reporting by asking the gender of the last 3 people you had sex with.
Sex =/= long-term relationship. Having sex =/= not single.
There are just so many ways that study can be complete bullshit that I’m confident that it is, in fact, complete bullshit.
More real & spectacular, but it’s Australia, so…
https://mobile.twitter.com/WAPoliceTraffic/status/1627992077752758278
Think they got a big enough truck?
The warmongering continues apace.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/gop-house-foreign-affairs-chair-says-momentum-growing-jets-ukraine
The crazy motherfuckers do not care what the American people want.
I’ll note that Biden went to Poland. Probably because if we do supply jets they will have to be operated out of there with NATO operators as Ukraine does not have pilots, runways, or ground crews. The SOBs are going to push us into full-blown conflict. Graham is out there talking insanity.
I’m not seeing any pushback from anyone that the current administration gives a shit about.
The college educated white liberals are completely delusional. And the Boomer-Cons ain’t far behind.
You people who know aircraft: what’s the over/under on # of days Ukrainian fighter jets would survive against well-trained Russian pilots?
See Scruffy’s comment. It ain’t gonna be Ukes driving.
What? You want mid-week zoomies? Well, we have your mid-week zoomies right here. The zoomsday device will trigger itself at 20:00 ET tonight. This is an autonomous, self-hosting GlibZoom, and all the decisions of that Zoom…
Tumor, it’s what’s for dinner…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-07/lab-grown-meat-has-bigger-challenges-than-the-fda
So Soylent Blue is… LUMP!!!
Oh fuck… he’s going to feed the planet with that thing, isn’t he.
I’m going to write an article building off of these. Just not sure when.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/oregon-secessionists-get-a-boost-from-the-idaho-house/
https://www.aier.org/article/the-thin-line-between-tribalism-and-human-flourishing/
I do have to read The Island of Missing Trees first I suppose.
Welcome to modern America
That’s one point I’m going to write – the cosmos won’t even know when the barbarians are at the gate.
What gates?
Oh, the ones in front of their gated communities? Oh, they’ll be very particular about who gets through those.
I have to admit, Hannity on the national divorce bandwagon gives me pause.
https://twitter.com/jokersillysongs/status/1628421305245569026
Why now?
It is odd since Hannity is perpetually concerned we aren’t at war with enough countries.
I’m perplexed. When the Cathedral allows something to see the light of day there is always a reason.
A civil war would be the ultimate war-boner, no? Finally, they can just machine gun the deplorables into pits.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/22/politics/pentagon-china-balloon-selfie/index.html
Because $400k missiles aren’t expensive enough.
So much for Kirby’s assertion that we will never really know what it was. Fuckhead.
Kirby
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirby_(character)
We still fly U-2s?
All the time.
This is gorgeous.
Indeed it is!
Words fail me
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/22/23610496/mercedes-benz-e-class-superscreen-tiktok-zoom-selfie
*clicks over to Bring A Trailer*
One word: “no”.