Thursday Afternoon Make-Up Links

by | Aug 10, 2023 | Daily Links | 223 comments

Look, I haven’t been around as much as I like, but I have an excuse. Well, multiple excuses. Work, sure, NPR Lady, sure, all lame. I mean really, what’s more important than this? Anyway, I’m making up for my absence this coming weekend when NPR Lady and I are going camping in the Catskills. I have a pile of Yiddish jokes ready. We are taking her “project,” a woman who is, ummm, neurodiverse (not Down’s, but mentally challenged nonetheless) and is cared for by several different people out of kindness. Including NPR Lady, who actually takes her Progginess seriously and takes action rather than morally preen on Twatter. The woman in question is quite ebullient and smothering, so I’m nominated as the buffer.

Buffer is alliterative with birthday (how’s that for a segue?) and today’s buffers, ahhh, birthdays include the king of frankenfood; a guy who tried to be a worse president that Wilson and almost succeeded; a guy who will be forever remembered for an oil can; a guy who should have been a lawyer; a guy who probably never played a Les Paul; a guy who should have been in Rocky; a guy who actually wanted to see the sausage being made; the reason that the Indians will never win a World Series; and a guy who always pisses people off when I use him in Old Guy Music.

Shall we Link?

 

As soon as I saw this was from a lawyer, I immediately thought, “OK, is he representing a union? What’s his grift?” 

 

Well, of course it is.

 

When I was a kid, or at least a much younger adult, I would from time to time see bumper stickers with a pot leaf and the slogan “Legalize It.” I always translated that mentally to, “Please pull me over and search the car.”

 

How can anyone take this shit seriously? Bumfight!

 

I don’t usually do links to videos, but here I’ll make an exception. Sooooo worth watching.

 

Man, when the smear goes nowhere, double down.

 

Jesus, is it that slow of a news day? 

 

Ukraine curries favor with the Biden administration by employing another dressed up dude.

 

Old Guy Music is the best song from the best version of this (at the time) awesome band. My less-than-awesome band covered it and we must have played it a thousand times. I still bang it out now and then with pure muscle memory.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

223 Comments

  1. The Late P Brooks

    OMWC’s doing makeup tips, now?

    • SDF-7

      It puts the lotion on its skin…

    • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

      Just the tip.

  2. Nephilium

    Well, I can think of another reason the Indians will never win the World Series as well…

    • UnCivilServant

      They play Cricket instead?

      • SDF-7

        Narrator: “We also would have accepted: ‘Smallpox blankets’?”

      • Nephilium

        They’re not monsters.

        Alternatively…

        NAGA please (story has been linked in the past three or four comment threads I believe).

  3. The Late P Brooks

    neurodiverse

    Schizo?

    • Old Man With Candy

      Tard.

      • John Nerfherder

        You’re tending to Feinstein?

      • Ted S.

        Fetterlump.

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        Eminem.

      • Bobarian LMD

        It’s in NY so I’m guessing it’s a Cuomo.

      • milo

        Dude. I think I love you. No homo.

  4. John Nerfherder

    If Lindsey Graham were an AI generated Twitter news bot…

    https://twitter.com/Terror_Alarm

    F-16s won’t be a game-changer for Ukraine in its war with Russia. Ask your governments to arm Ukraine with medium-range nuclear warheads instead.

    • R.J.

      That is a very confusing feed.

  5. Ted S.

    birthdays include the king of frankenfood;

    Happy birthday Michael Jacobson!

  6. Ted S.

    a guy who tried to be a worse president that Wilson and almost succeeded

    Happy birthday Hillary Clinton!

    • SDF-7

      I’m bummed — I was guessing FDR…. the only one that came close to the fuckup that was Wilson, imho.

  7. Ted S.

    a guy who should have been a lawyer

    Happy birthday Hyperbole!

  8. The Late P Brooks

    “The indictments against the president are exquisite,” Pelosi told New York Magazine in an interview published this week, referring to the recent charges connected to Jan. 6 and the indictment against Trump pertaining to his handling of classified documents.

    “They’re beautiful and intricate, and they probably have a better chance of conviction than anything that I would come up with,” she added.

    Bipartisanship is for losers.

    • John Nerfherder

      “They’re beautiful and intricate, and they probably have a better chance of conviction than anything that I would come up with,” she added.

      That would seem to be an admission of the ends justifying the means.

      • SDF-7

        I was thinking “Talk about damning with faint praise….”

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        “…come up with” does have a certain connotation.

      • The Other Kevin

        Again, they’re not even trying to hide it.

  9. SDF-7

    Well, of course it is.

    The conundrum has crossed my mind more than one Lent, let me tell you… (Eggs as well… yes, unfertilized — but the building blocks of a baby chicken… and if you can’t eat chicken…).

    Then I learned how to stop worrying and love the tuna casserole.

    • Nephilium

      The girlfriend (who was raised an unobservant Catholic and unobservant reform Jew) still doesn’t grasp that fish aren’t made of meat when it comes to Lent. She demands to know what they’re made of, and she gets irritated at me saying “Fish is made of fish, not meat”.

      Tuna noodle casserole is still a comfort food to me, but I would not really subject others to it.

      • SDF-7

        Wait… there are people that don’t find tuna noodle casserole (preferably with frozen peas mixed in) a comfort food?

        Time for another Crusade…. heresy and blasphemy! 😉

      • Nephilium

        Growing up it was always cream of mushroom soup (Campbells natch), wide egg noodles, and a can of tuna. That was it. No crunchy bits on top, no veggies mixed in.

        I generally go with cream of potato or bacon soup and toasted bread crumbs on top. The girlfriend tried it the first time I made it one fall, and she likes it as well, but explaining it to people and expecting them to try it… I’m not going to make that attempt.

      • kinnath

        White Cheddar Mac N Cheese, Tuna, and a can of Mixed Veggies.

      • Gender Traitor

        Make it French-cut green beans instead of the mixed veggies – plus some garlic powder and tarragon – and you’ve got a deal.

      • kinnath

        taking notes . . . .

      • Gender Traitor

        To be clear, this never goes in the oven, although I suppose you could bake it if you wanted to. At Chez GT/TT, it was all done on the stovetop.

      • UnCivilServant

        You forgot to define the soup used.

      • SDF-7

        Cream of Mushroom, usually… Neph pretty much laid it out. I use panko if I feel like it… sometimes fried onions as if I were doing green bean casserole (if my son isn’t having any…. he mysteriously doesn’t like onions — which make me want to question my wife a bit…).

      • milo

        What in the crap are you talking about? Fish is a meat.
        Southern Baptist here. Anabaptist in a few ways that are not crazy.
        It’s so funny that I truly have no idea what you guys are talking about.
        Me and one other guy from Georgia were the only ones from the South in our boot camp class.
        They called us Backward Ass Country F*cks. I didn’t take it seriously as they were Yankees.

      • milo

        That was 70’s delicacy. I hates it. I hate fish because of fish sticks.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Especially with the little cartilage bones in it. Mo’s receipe list is a time of happiness

      • SDF-7

        Those were usually in Mom’s salmon or mackerel patties more than the casseroles. Funny what we remember from childhood though, granted.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Tuna Gut Bomb is disgusting. My Mom loved it and made it all the time.

        I would eat cereal.

      • rhywun

        We called it by its proper name, Tuna Helper.

    • Rat on a train

      There are separate scientific and culinary categorizations. Compare with a tomato.

    • rhywun

      The Supreme Court is broken because some of them are Catholics and conservatives.

      Never change, Slate.

  10. Ted S.

    As soon as I saw this was from a lawyer, I immediately thought, “OK, is he representing a union? What’s his grift?”

    Redirects me to the home page of MSN, which then doesn’t load.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Fixed, I think.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    She is airing warnings about another Trump term.

    “Don’t even think of that,” Pelosi told New York Magazine. “Don’t think of the world being on fire. It cannot happen, or we will not be the United States of America.”

    “If he were to be president,” she added, “it would be a criminal enterprise in the White House.”

    If the President does it, it’s not illegal.

    I made it a few paragraphs into that New York mag tongue bath and became too nauseous to continue.

    • SDF-7

      Y’all know my theme song when it comes to news links (more and more each day). Not going to link it again… but it is certainly running through my head now.

    • juris imprudent

      You said tongue bath in relation to Pelosi. Now I’m nauseous.

      • Bobarian LMD

        As dry as eating lint from under the couch.

  12. KSuellington

    Fish isn’t meat. If you ask most Latin Americans chicken is not even meat. Fish is practically a vegetable.

    Driving back from camping in the Sierra Nevada this past weekend we had a newer Mustang in front of us with a massive (covering the entire back window) sticker of a skeleton puffing on a blunt and in large lettering above it “Blunted”. Even tho it’s legal here that dude is just begging to get a DUI.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      No doubt, it’s not quite a Gas, Grass, or Ass bumper sticker but it’s close.

      • Nephilium

        I always wonder about the cars I see with the back half festooned with brewery stickers. I have those on my luggage, keezer, and kegs as is intended.

      • KSuellington

        Yup. No way I would even consider putting an alcohol or drugs sticker on my rides. My all time favorite bumper sticker that I saw on a beater Ford 80’s pickup was “I brake for hallucinations”.

  13. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Good song, I always liked Jethro Tull-hell of a guitar player and far and away the best rock flutist out of the, uh, three rock flutists I can think of off the top of my head.

  14. Annoyed Nomad

    Re: Glibs Cruise (Oct 2024), if you’re a veteran and thinking of attending, be sure to let Suzanne, the travel agent, know. Celebrity provided a generous discount for me AND my wife (who is not a veteran, but they give it to spouses as well): $100 each. We also got an extra $200 on-board credit.

  15. Common Tater

    Girls on camels?

    • SDF-7

      Not just for Hump Day anymore apparently.

      • Common Tater

        Maybe they are (((jockeys)))?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Yelena Baturina is the human version of the Slobovian Rabbit.

      • Sean

        LOL

    • The Other Kevin

      If it turned out she pissed on Barack Obama’s bed this would be perfect.

      • SDF-7

        Heh. I laughed.

    • SDF-7

      But remember if Trump were there, it would be a criminal enterprise in the White House….

      (Projection…. thy name is Pelosi.)

      • cyto

        If Trump were there? Heck, it was Treason when Trump never had any relationship whatsoever with Russia. They certainly would have shot him on sight if he actually was on the take like Old Joe.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    There doesn’t seem to be a story at that first link.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Now there is. Maybe. No promises.

  17. Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

    Nice picture of camels and toes.

  18. Ownbestenemy

    It’s like a SpaceX countdown. Board is green until it isn’t.

    https://flightaware.com/live/flight/NKS700

    I need to get there. My anxiety is through the roof with like 4 hours of sleep a night. I need to see where I will be working and living.

    • SDF-7

      Huh… I swear I have nothing to do with the Louisville airport…. did not know that was its abbreviation.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Standiford Field == SDF == Muhammad Ali International.

    • R.J.

      What’s going on? I think I missed a conversation.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Initial trip to new location I’ll be working in a month. 2 week ago my flight was grossly over delayed.

        So we are experiencing delays out of Vegas now. Truly is weather. Should clear up in a bit. My plane is coming from ATL, so if that makes it on time, we should be still good to go.

    • Sensei

      It’s Spirit. (Initial typo Spirt – which I may use.)

      You should be getting hazard pay. It’s an airline I won’t fly because of its lack of reliability. OTH, since I’m close to EWR as we know United hasn’t exactly been doing so well here either…

      • Bobarian LMD

        Having made that flight on both Spirit and Alligiant, I stick with Spirit.

        They both suck, but I think Alligiant manages to take an extra 3 inches out between each row, mostly by removing any padding in the seats.

        Don’t worry, if they cancel the flight, there’ll be another in 3-4 days.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Honestly, we’ve had good interactions minus the last time. I’ve had worse times on United that would make anyone questioning Spirit or Alligent to shame.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    A bit of a bump in the road

    The European Central Bank is on the back foot again and this time the bad news doesn’t come from Greece, Italy or any of the usual suspects in the bloc’s poorer south.

    The club’s biggest member and supposed powerhouse, Germany, has been hit by a toxic mix of weak trading with key partner China, a slump in its large manufacturing and construction sectors and even some existential questions about a business model predicated on cheap fuel from Russia.

    Trouble in Germany is hobbling growth in the euro zone as a whole and threatening to push it into a recession, rather than the “soft landing” of moderate growth and inflation that the ECB had pencilled in and the United States is still hopeful of achieving.

    This is forcing a change of tune at the ECB — from ruling out a pause in its steepest and longest streak of interest rate hikes to openly talking about one as soon as next month.

    And the market thinks the central bank may even have to undo some of those increases sooner rather than later, just like it did at the time of its last tightening cycle in 2011 when debt crises in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Cyprus were accompanied by a broader recession. .

    “There are some similarities between the 2011 circumstances and now,” Richard Portes, a professor of economics at the London Business School, said. “There was a major supply shock and inflation was clearly going to be very short lived.”

    Nothing to do with fundamentals.

  20. Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

    I would find it more believable if it was the Indians trying to curry favor with this administration.

    • SDF-7

      Now, now… Swiss will have naan of that!

      • mindyourbusiness

        Swissy might make Zwak tandoori do his thinking.

  21. Common Tater

    “TikTok users are convinced that a CIA ‘cheat code’ to pain relief from a 1977 declassified document will make your discomfort disappear.

    The special method was developed by the Monroe Institute of Applied Science as part of the CIA’s Gateway program.

    This was a type of training with the aim of changing states of consciousness and to lead to a ‘gateway into different modes of perception’.

    The Gateway Intermediate Workbook writes to reduce pain you should close your eyes and then visualise the part of your body in pain.

    The special method requires you to look at the area of your body in discomfort. After this you should then repeat the number 55515 in your head.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12393517/The-CIA-secret-method-make-pain-away-TikTokers-believe-works.html

    Was there anyone who wasn’t on drugs in the 70’s?

    • R.J.

      I was there in the 70’s. Anyone over the age of 15 was on drugs. And anyone younger was gullible as hell.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Still a better time…

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        In Search Of…

      • milo

        This.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Now there is. Maybe. No promises.

    I just made something up. I should wok for MSN.

  23. Sensei

    I’m assuming they are going to put her marketing expertise on the Bud Light account next.

    You could either apologize to all the people you inconvenienced and explain you had an unexpected breakdown and are currently receiving treatment or you could say, ‘No one knows anyone else’s story, and no one should judge. No one knows what it’s like.’

    EXCLUSIVE: Tiffany Gomas breaks silence on airplane meltdown after being unmasked: ‘Things go viral and everything changes’

    • R.J.

      “Speaking from her 1.6 million dollar home in Dallas…”

      Fuck off already. If I was an editor, I’d have fired the whole staff by now.

    • DEG

      I love how the DailyFail includes information about what she is wearing.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        For the blind?

        I have never understood the appeal of those Goyard tote bags.

      • Tres Cool

        That’s generally how I know Im reading a brit tabloid. The in-depth analysis of what the subject is/was wearing.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        And property values.

    • Tres Cool

      I see an acceptable amount of risk for the hot/crazy matrix.

      Prolly would. She needs to eat some pizza and Wendy’s tho.

      • Sensei

        Yes, but bunnies could be boiled during the relationship.

      • Tres Cool

        I prefer my rabbit fried, but I suppose parboiling would be a 1st step.
        Still acceptable as long as she doesn’t know where you really live.

    • milo

      I’d still roll on her like a hound on roadkill.

    • The Other Kevin

      It’s pretty insensitive for celebrities to put this for free on Instagram when there are women trying to make an honest living doing the same thing on OnlyFans.

      • Sensei

        Are you milking it too?

      • SDF-7

        He’s just keeping us all abreast of the situation.

      • R.J.

        Times get tough, you gotta find a way to make it in a pinch.

      • Sensei

        Before the fad goes tits up?

      • juris imprudent

        You think this is gonna run dry soon?

      • R.J.

        Before this fad ends, these ladies would like to express their gratitude.

      • Tres Cool

        This whole pun thread is a…let down.

      • R.J.

        Is your enthusiasm sagging?

      • cyto

        That is a 10

    • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

      Breastfeeding being cool is actually… kinda cool. Lets have more kids, make having them cool.

      Just no hand tattoos.

    • SDF-7

      As firebombs?

    • Sensei

      Yeah, you can remove a car from your account, but if the car crashes and you can’t reset the computer.

      However, if the new owner wanted to do so they could reset the car and remove it from the account.

    • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

      Maybe that is why the new offense has…

      (puts on sunglasses)

      Stalled.

  24. Gustave Lytton

    Combining this one and the last one, I had broiled mackerel for lunch today. Delicious.

  25. whiz

    Hey, Derpetologist, I think I may have a general proof for any prime gap (regarding the difference of squares of consecutive primes). I could post it here, or somewhere else.

  26. juris imprudent

    Decent read and why I hate both of the two dominant political factions.

    So Brahmin Left vs. Populist Right does indeed seem to be our lineup for the 2024 election. Either side could win. But no matter which side does, the contradictions at the heart of this clash are unlikely to be easily resolved without substantial changes in orientation by at least one of the parties.

    • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

      I have been saying for years now, that until there is a forcing of the way, we will be stuck in this shit. We have diverged in our consensus, and there is no easy way around that.

    • R.J.

      The dominant parties are the edges. One side, RINOs and Democrats. (don;t say they aren’t aligned. They are) Other side, populist revolt. Nobody reflect the vast center. I proposed a party called the Common Sense Party to appeal to the middle. People really do want to shrink the Federal government and want it out of their daily lives. Nobody wants to hear about politics all day, not even us. Abolishing 90% of it would be ideal, but nobody should lead with that. Anyway, I have had the first of two vodka martinis this evening and I toast your comments. Let me know when we start on the new third party.

      • Brochettaward

        There isn’t even agreement on what the middle ground is in this country, but suffice to say that whatever it is, it would not be anything that the people here are part of.

        You aren’t going to find a Democrat who wants to shrink the size and scope of government. That’s off the table for any middle ground party.

    • milo

      It’s a big article about nothing.
      The true Democrats do not care one whit about right or wrong. Power is all.
      The political right does not care about what is right or wrong. They only wish to have the power in their hands.
      I spit on both.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      In the form of a strongly worded letter?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Impeach or blow me.

    • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

      They are doing this the right way. You need to get as many people on board as possible, and that is a steady, slow, drawn out process. And if you don’t do that, you get what Pelosi had, which was deeply unserious.

  27. Gustave Lytton

    Drove Herbert Hoover Highway yesterday.

    Are Hoover and Nixon the only Quaker adjacent presidents?

  28. KK, Non-Man

    I can think of other reasons why there’s a substitute linkster today…

    • Tres Cool

      Someone getting laid ?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Yeah but how long does that take? 3-4 minutes?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Or?

    • Old Man With Candy

      Oh? Do tell.

      I looked at the cruise and thought, “No weed for a week? What is KK thinking???”

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Edibles would probably make it through.

      • R.J.

        Is that what “Free Candy” stands for?

      • UnCivilServant

        No, that’s short for “Free Canadia”

  29. DEG

    All judges who approach cases with great political and social consequences believe they do so with the aim of objectively identifying the correct legal outcome.

    I tapped out here. I’m surprised I got that far in a Slate article.

    To track Thomas’ relationships and travel, ProPublica examined flight data, emails from airport and university officials, security detail records, tax court filings, meeting minutes and a trove of photographs from personal albums, including cards that Thomas’ wife, Ginni, sent to friends. In addition, reporters interviewed more than 100 eyewitnesses and other sources: jet and helicopter pilots, flight attendants, airport workers, yacht crew members, security guards, photographers, waitresses, caterers, chefs, drivers, river rafting guides and C-suite executives.

    I wonder what we’d see if ProPublica performed the same investigation on other Supreme Court justices.

    Old Guy Music is excellent.

    • The Other Kevin

      Yet they haven’t spent 10 minutes looking into anyone named Biden.

    • Gustave Lytton

      And none of them told PP to fuck off? Do I work for the only company where unapproved media interactions is subject to disciplinary action or where client records are confidential?

      • Sensei

        JFC – all my social media is monitored.

        Fortunately the only one I have is the standard one most professional park a resume on…

  30. Tres Cool

    “Fish aren’t really alive. They’re just less dead.”

    -Red Foreman

    • Nephilium

      Fish. For sport only. Fish meat is practically a vegetable.

      –Ron Swanson

      • Common Tater

        “Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish, and he doesn’t have fishing license.”
        — Doug Stanhope

      • Tres Cool

        One of my favorite Stanhope bits.

  31. Gustave Lytton

    Tin foil hat: Trump is allowed to win but is immediately impeached and removed with assistance of RepE and RepE VP assumes office…

    • The Other Kevin

      That’s why I predict he names Kamala Harris as his VP. CHECK AND MATE.

      • John Nerfherder

        Lindsey Graham

      • Bobarian LMD

        RFK or Tulsi.

    • R.J.

      Stay there this time. Remember, pants are a necessity. And you can only squeeze your own tits.

      • Brochettaward

        Sometimes, other people DO give you permission to squeeze THEIR tits, though.

  32. whiz

    Hey, Derpy, I think I may have a general proof for any prime gap (regarding the difference of squares of consecutive primes). I could post it here, or somewhere else.

    • Derpetologist

      Neato. Feel free to post it here. I was reviewing some of my work and noticed a similar pattern not just for consecutive primes, but for others as well.

      I emailed some of my ideas to math professors at the University of Florida, but they haven’t responded.

      • R.J.

        *Channels Tonio
        This is an article, not a comment. Submit it!

      • whiz

        I just realized that my proof works for any two primes 5 or above. And the difference of the squares is divisible by 12, not just 6.

    • Derpetologist

      This chart shows that 6 is the most common prime gap up to 1.6 billion and that the remaining peaks occur at multiples of 6. That’s an interesting empirical result.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_gap#/media/File:Prime-gap-frequency-distribution.svg

      All primes greater than 2 are odd, so the squares of those primes must be odd. The difference between any 2 odd numbers is always even. I’m still trying to figure out how 3 gets in there. For even numbers in general, the larger they are, the more likely they are to be a multiple of 3. And since the difference in the squares of prime numbers are increasingly large even numbers, it becomes more likely that they are multiples of 3.

      6 is the smallest even number which is the product of both the smallest prime and the prime number with the smallest gap. I’m not sure if that’s important, but it is intriguing.

      Euclid described 6 as a perfect number and gave the formula for all perfect numbers in the form of primes.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number

    • whiz

      It seems a little too technical for a general article, although I suppose people can skip to the comments if they’re not interested. I’ll run it by Tonio.

  33. rhywun

    Because if you somehow didn’t scan something appropriately, or the machine accidentally didn’t pick it up when you scanned it, you could potentially be charged with misdemeanour larceny – or felony larceny, depending on how big the item was.

    Or, you can just walk out the door with a whole cart full of shit and nothing else happens.

    Join us in current year, author.

      • John Nerfherder

        Lifter’s Remorse?

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        Maybe he should have stole some Gainz!

      • R.J.

        “I don’t want to go to jail,” the suspect is heard wailing in the body camera footage. “I don’t want to go to f—— jail.”

        Don;t worry little man. You’ll only be there for a day or two.

      • R C Dean

        Is that a mattress flying through the air in one of those pictures?

      • Tres Cool

        Persian joint. Its a flying carpet.

  34. Sensei

    In my over a decade of learning Japanese have never ever seen Japanese romanized like CNN did in this article.

    San’in: Japan’s least-populated region is home to some of its finest treasures

    What is interesting is that it IS the way Wiki romanizes it.

    It’s written 山陰地 – さんいん. I’d romanize it as “sanin”. I guess the idea is to let somebody realize that it is not pronounced “sa nin” and is instead “san in”

    • R.J.

      Texas has welded steel armadillo statues, and BBQ. Beat that!

      • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

        And a Cadillac desert.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Surprised they didn’t do it Sa’n’i’n.

    • Rat on a train

      It looks like the apostrophe is Modified Hepburn.

      • Sensei

        Interesting, thanks. If you are serious about learning Japanese you abandon romaji only quickly.

        A wall of romaji is actually hard to read as it’s not really commonly used day to day. Kanji give quick meaning once you learn them.

      • Rat on a train

        Romaji is for foreign devils who don’t understand Japanese.

      • Sensei

        So is hiragana only. It has the same issues as romaji with the exception of pronunciation being almost impossible to be read incorrectly.

      • Rat on a train

        Have you done a primer on Kana?

      • Sensei

        Romaji gets strange with things that use “n”.

        For example
        せんぱい【先輩】
         
        noun
        senior (at work or school), superior, elder, older graduate, progenitor, old-timer

        The middle character ん is written “n”.

        So you’d write “senpai” in Japanese standard romaji. But Hepburn correctly notes that in certain uses the “n” shifts to a “m” sound and you’d write this word “sempai” which is closer to the Japanese pronunciation.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    So Brahmin Left vs. Populist Right does indeed seem to be our lineup for the 2024 election.

    Waitaminnit. I thought it was the Brahmin Right and the Populist Left. Did the parties switch, or something?

  36. cyto

    I missed a few sessions and youtube just caught me up by pushing Meghan Kelly at me…..

    Soooo…. apparently Barak Obama wrote letters to his early 80s girlfriend in which he says he frequently fantasizes about having sex with men? And apparently many in the press knew this and are keeping it confidential?

    Uh…. there is too much there to unpack. Did we come to a consensus on this one?

    • R.J.

      Yeah. He’s gay. His own brother said so.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Well, he did marry a guy…

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Hey hey, wait just a minute…can’t straight guys enjoy sucking the occasional dick?

      • milo

        Yes…if you are a Democrat.

  37. Spudalicious

    “Yogurt is not a subset of cheese.” No moron, yogurt and cheese are subsets of dairy, just as fish is a subset of meat.

    • R.J.

      I need a Venn diagram.

    • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

      Further proof that dairy is RONG!

      • Gender Traitor

        “Cheese is milk’s leap to immortality.” – some edition of The Joy of Cooking, which I don’t consult very often ever.

  38. Tres Cool

    WRT breast-feeding celebs: Dozer the Boxer (likely not going to be with us much longer) got his name due to the fact he was part of a littler of 11 puppies.
    His mom only had 8 teats, and when feeding time came, he plowed his way through the other puppies like a…..dozer.

    Now you know….the rest of the story.

    • Gender Traitor

      (likely not going to be with us much longer)

      😢

    • milo

      Oh man. I hate to hear that. Puppies do not last long enough.
      They have to get back to Heaven though. It wouldn’t be Heaven without puppies.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    So anyway… fucking around with my car. Yesterday, after I put the exhaust back on, I decided to give it a quick start, see how it sounds, check for exhaust leaks. You know. Reach in and turn the key- nada. Hahahahaha. I resisted the urge to roll it outside, dump the can of mower gas in the window and set it on fire. Later, I went back out, and it fired right up, making me think I’m back to Square One. I went back in the house to ponder over a few beers. I decided to pull the ecu out, open it p and look for obvious signs of malfunction, and blow the dust out.

    A little while ago, I was out there straightening up and putting tools away prior to pulling the ecu. As soon as I got down there, I reached in and turned the key. It fired right up. I did a bit of random fucking around, cleaned up the battery connections and put them back on. Turn the key, no fire. It spins like a champ; there’s nothing wrong with the starter. So- just out of random do-something-ism, I reach down and give the relay (under the dash by your left shin) a swat. The relay goes “click”, the Change Engine light goes out, and the car fires. Now I’m left wondering if I replaced my old bad relay with a new bad relay last summer. I have heard the stories about bad parts new out of the box, but have never had it happen to me. Maybe it’s not haunted by a malevolent spirit after all. And when it runs, it runs a lot better than it did before the distributor rebuild.

    And I can hear members of the audience muttering, “And this is exactly why I don’t drive an old beater.”

    • Gustave Lytton

      Audience is thinking “at least you can fix an old beater and change out relays”.

      • cyto

        Exactly

    • R.J.

      RJ’s solution is to put a voltmeter behind each point of failure, label them and watch for when it doesn’t start.

      VE VILL FIND ZEE FAILURE!!!

    • Tres Cool

      There’s been two instances where I bought AC-DELCO parts from the dealer for the POS Envoy, only to take it out and see it printed with DORMAN.
      I dont know if Dorman is a preferred supplier, or someone switched parts and they put them back in inventory w/o checking.

      • Sensei

        Dorman is 80% shit.

        But with the current fucked up supply chain…

    • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

      You are saying ECU, so the Honda?

    • juris imprudent

      You’ve got Lucas Electronics?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      She funny.

    • Tres Cool

      Ohio chick looks like nearly every Gen-Z I saw during my brief stint in Steubenville.

      5/10 may concur.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I see Rhode Island is into Xenomorph harvesting.

    • R.J.

      Texas is correct. Don Escaped can verify. Louisiana is also pretty good.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Missouri’s is bullshit. That looks like BTK without the glasses and that guy’s from Kansas.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Seems a lot of hipster looks for states that are not hipster states. I call propaganda

  40. R.J.

    I forgot tonight is movie night. The feature is:
    “The Assassination Bureau” with Oliver Reed and Diana Rigg.

      • R.J.

        Added.

      • kinnath

        It is a great movie. I have very fond memories of it. Low budget, but great effects.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    ,em>You are saying ECU, so the Honda?

    Yes.

    I need to get it back in the rotation because the other Honda (Element) needs rear wheel bearings (among other things). They are getting disturbingly noisy. Winter is coming.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    I watched this last night. Entertaining but dumb. No boobs, I regret to say.

    • R.J.

      I found the movie I was looking for last week. It really was “Blood Car.” From 2007.