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by | Oct 4, 2023 | Daily Links | 217 comments

Swiss LGBTQ+ rights groups hail 60-day sentence for polemicist who called journalist a ‘fat lesbian’

GENEVA (AP) — LGBTQ+ groups hailed the 60-day jail sentence a court in Switzerland gave to a writer and commentator for deriding a journalist as a “fat lesbian” and other critical remarks.

The Lausanne court sentenced French-Swiss polemicist Alain Bonnet, who goes by Alain Soral, for the crimes of defamation, discrimination and incitement to hatred on Monday. He was ordered to pay legal fees and fines totaling thousands of Swiss francs (dollars) in addition to the time behind bars.

Soral lashed out at Catherine Macherel, a journalist for Swiss newspapers Tribune de Geneve and 24 Heures, in a Facebook video two years ago. He called her a “fat lesbian” and said Macherel’s work as a “queer activist” meant she was “unhinged,” according to Swiss public broadcaster RTS.

“This court decision is an important moment for justice and rights of LGBTQI people in Switzerland,” said Murial Waeger, co-director of the lesbian activist group LOS, in a statement. “The conviction of Alain Soral is a strong signal that homophobic hatred cannot be tolerated in our society.”

OK, so…

She admits to being a lesbian, out and proud, and she is self-evidently overweight. Is the truth no longer a defense?


 

Drunk dental receptionist who groped schoolboy, 13, and told him she wanted to ‘ride him till morning’ before exposing herself and waking up ‘remembering nothing’ after a white wine binge is spared jail

A dental receptionist sexually assaulted a 13-year old boy after she began chatting him up at random following a white wine binge.

Jade Berry, 27, was staggering through Rivacre Valley Country Park in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, at 9pm when she accosted the child as he sat on a woodland bench talking with a friend about his forthcoming 14th birthday.

Berry sat between the two boys and began stroking the 13-year-old’s genitals over his clothing before offering him sex and saying she would ‘ride you till morning’.

As the shocked youngster and his friend got up to leave, she pulled down her trousers and exposed herself before passing out in a drunken stupor.

The two boys took videos of Berry before getting up to leave. She was identified after leaving her bank card and phone on the bench.

pass


 

She thinkin’ about that juicy caboose.


 

FREE HER!


I love, love, love a good break-up song.

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217 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    There are some holes in that story.

    • SDF-7

      The dental receptionist? Yeah — she needed a filling but was only looking at baby teeth.

      (More seriously — I’m wondering what the hell the kid and his friend were doing out at 9pm anyway… but whatever…)

      • Lackadaisical

        Eh, they’re teens, and in summer it wouldn’t even be dark out yet.

        Also, is the kid gay? Why would it traumatize him to the point of suicide? Geeze.

      • Ted S.

        Maybe she has man hands or was otherwise not gentle with him.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Being pimped by their single moms…

    • Common Tater

      I don’t think I can find a two-year old Facebook video, which might not be in English. So I don’t know if he called Catherine Macherel “Catchin’ Mackerel”. But everyone in every country with free speech should immediately start doing that.

      • Ghostpatzer

        everyone in every country with free speech

        Short list. If you have it handy, please share.

      • Pat

        Sealand?

  2. Common Tater

    “She thinkin’ about that juicy caboose.”

    They aren’t even related.

    • Lackadaisical

      Isn’t she dating/married to a vanilla white guy like Gaetz?

      She just likes the forbidden fruit.

      • SDF-7

        She’s looking for a brother who’s not a brother, it seems.

      • prolefeed

        Nothing forbidden about black women wanting white guy, since Loving v. Virginia.

        One of the rare SCOTUS cases Mrs Prole and I completely agree upon.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Sorry, but under the new regime your entire marriage is now a hate crime.

  3. kinnath

    she pulled down her trousers and exposed herself before passing out in a drunken stupor.

    Some kids have all the luck.

    • Suthenboy

      yep. I was thinking the same thing because the same thing happened to me….sorta. I was not traumatized and afterward I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I am grateful to that woman to this day.
      That dude needs to grow a spine.

      • Ghostpatzer

        I don’t think his spine was the problem.

      • juris imprudent

        Something wasn’t stiff enough.

  4. R.J.

    Is white privilege when you get stoned on white wine like a ten year old at a Christmas party?

    • Lackadaisical

      Your wine and Christmases are different from mine.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Christmas is clearly for cheap ass red wine. Or gluhwein.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Female privilege at least.

  5. The Late P Brooks

    Is she fat? Is she a lesbian?

    • SDF-7

      Apparently she could also be a trans Lutheran bishop.

      I’m with SF on this one (oh man… that’s a scary sentence fragment) — if it is the truth, how is it defamation?

      • prolefeed

        It’s in another country, so it’s not about defamation or the truth. It’s about saying accurately offensive things, which is a crime there.

        And here, the standard Democrat position is we can or should lock up wrongthinkers. “Hate crime” laws are the tip of that iceberg.

      • juris imprudent

        …how is it defamation?

        He didn’t say it with love and acceptance in his heart.

    • rhywun

      Looka likea dude

  6. Stinky Wizzleteats

    For god’s sake lady, if you’re that desperate just go to a dive bar and pick up a drunk. I’m sure there’d be plenty of hopeless alcoholics willing to give her a rogering.

    • SDF-7

      Heh… now you made me remember this one. Being in a park, she probably could have found a drunk man having sex with a bush…

  7. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    She can poach my turkeys any time. Seriously, we have way too many turkeys around here.

    • SDF-7

      “We recognize that we are living on land stolen from the Velociraptors and must atone to the turkeys descended from them…”

  8. Tundra

    Ew.

    Eeek.

    Lol.

    Yum.

    Also yum.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Omar(?) looks like she is farting in his general direction.

  10. Ted S.

    Drunk dental receptionist who groped schoolboy, 13, and told him she wanted to ‘ride him till morning’ before exposing herself and waking up ‘remembering nothing’ after a white wine binge is spared jail

    Now imagine a 27-year-old drunk man groping a 13-year-old girl and claiming it was the fault of a white wine binge.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Seriously. I mean what kind of man would drink white wine?

      • SDF-7

        Funny you should ask….

      • Nephilium

        Fuck yeah.

        /points upthread

      • Ted S.

        UB 40?

      • DEG

        Riesling is OK.

      • slumbrew

        *eyes 1er cru bordeaux in wine fridge…*

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It were the sinful grape what done it guvnor. Doubt it’d fly.

  11. Certified Public Asshat

    The 13-year-old, who has ADHD, said he was so traumatised by the encounter that he tried to take his own life.

    I think it’s weird when guys celebrate older women sexually assaulting teenagers (boys), but this seems a bit much in the other direction.

    • Bobarian LMD

      “said he was so traumatised by the encounter that he tried to take his own life.”

      Sounds like something his legal representation said.

      Lionel Hutz, esq.

  12. Sean

    Sentencing, judge Eric Lamb said: ‘As it was a chance meeting, you were not aware of the vulnerability of your victim but the consequence of what you did have been awful for the complainant and his family.

    ‘He has tried to take his own life, suffered night terrors, and required counselling in an effort to overcome the impact of that which you have done.

    The Brits are giant bonus holes.

    • Lackadaisical

      The sentence is bizarre.

      She has past alcohol abuse problems, but got such a light sentence… unless the judge didn’t buy the kid’s self reports? I can’t justify it in my head if you take it all as fact.

    • Shpip

      If you get nightmares, make suicidal gestures, and need counseling after seeing a chick with her pants off… then the Royal Navy might be right for you.

      • Suthenboy

        Yeah. I am disgusted with everyone in that story.

  13. B.P.

    Catherine! Good news! That mouthy guy who said you’re a fat lesbian has been jailed! Um, some bad news, too. Google stats indicate that you’ve been image searched about 5.5 billion times.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Why isn’t calling someone a lesbian considered a compliment?

    • rhywun

      Inorite? He could just as easily be a fat-accepting ally. But no, laws are based on mind-reading now.

      • prolefeed

        Or even meaning it as a compliment:

        Mrs. Prole: “Does this make my ass look fat?”

        Me: “Mmmm … sure does.”

        * squeezing her booty and pushing her toward bed, while she laughs, thereby defusing a conversation fraught with peril *

  15. Grummun

    How is the pic of the turkey huntress “sensitive content?”

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Duckface can be triggering.

    • Ted S.

      I assume most of you were expecting this

      • kinnath

        You’ve now managed to find two songs in the last couple of weeks that I actually like.

      • Ted S.

        I pick songs that are lyrically appropriate. It they make people recoil in horror, so much the better.

        Needless to say, I couldn’t come up with any credible way to claim “We Built This City” is a breakup song. But then I had some inspiration.

    • SDF-7

      Not a good breakup song…. a GREAT breakup song.

    • Fourscore

      Apparently breaking up isn’t hard to do, happened to me many, many times

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      All you all wouldn’t know a good break up song if it hit you in the head, sheesh:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FIw7ERlVxU

  16. rhywun

    LGBTQ+ groups hailed the 60-day jail sentence

    Someday it will dawn on “queer” activists that they are not at the top of the victim stack anymore.

    • SDF-7

      I know it is my Extremist Traditional American upbringing and all… but I can’t imagine applauding the jailing of someone (even an opponent) for political speech. The idea that it would never be used against you or something you agree with seems like the level of optimism 1000 times beyond human comprehension….

      • rhywun

        It goes to show you that there are some seriously fucked-up people out there – and in current year those people have a loud voice that travels everywhere thanks to the internet and sick media.

  17. Rebel Scum

    “This court decision is an important moment for justice and rights of LGBTQI people in Switzerland,”

    This logic is full of holes.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Seems pretty gouda to me.

      • Shpip

        Apparently the Swiss won’t defend free speech when push comes to chevre.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        The opposition won’t do jack.

  18. Rebel Scum

    white wine binge

    Band name?

  19. Rebel Scum

    She thinkin’ about that juicy caboose.

    She’s all about that vanilla.

  20. Rebel Scum

    FREE HER!

    Why the sensitive content warning?

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Blame the Fed

    The Federal Reserve has overseen a sharp drop in inflation, without unemployment spiking or the US economy slumping into recession. However, Fed Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues deserve little praise as they caused the headache in the first place, Jeremy Siegel says.

    “We should not give the Fed credit for fixing a problem they created,” the retired finance professor wrote in his WisdomTree commentary this week.

    “It is comparable to the Fed recklessly driving on the streets, hitting a pedestrian and then rushing him to the hospital so he did not die,” Siegel continued.

    “But there are still massive injuries; the American public suffered through the worst inflation in 40 years — something that did not have to occur had the Fed curtailed its money growth much earlier,” he added.

    ——-

    Siegel — whose nickname is the “Wizard of Wharton” — has attributed the inflation surge to a historic increase in the US money supply, and blamed the nation’s central bank for it.

    “The Fed produced an explosion of the money supply such as has not been witnessed in the last 150 years,” he wrote in a recent Barron’s column. Siegel noted the money supply swelled by almost 18% between March and July 2020, and 41% in the two years ending March last year, after growing at an average yearly rate of 5.5% for over three decades.

    Powell just hopped out of bed one morning and said, “I think I’ll double the money supply today. Just for laughs. And then I’ll force Congress and The President to helicopter it into circulation.”

    • Ted S.

      However, Fed Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues deserve little praise as they caused the headache in the first place, Jeremy Siegel says.

      The bipartisan making money printer go brrrrr during the so-called pandemic had nothing to do with it, no sirree.

      • prolefeed

        It’s almost as if they think there’s no consequences for spending way in excess of taxes, and then paying for the rest by devaluing the currency.

      • Pat

        I’m with Siegel here. There’s no law stipulating that the Fed must irreversibly fuck up the money supply to help congress finance its spending binges. That’s the entire purpose for the Fed’s ostensible independence.

      • juris imprudent

        That’s the entire purpose for the Fed’s ostensible independence.

        Don’t you mean that is the entire purpose of the Fed, full stop?

  22. Common Tater

    “An Airbnb host had his $3.8million California mansion hijacked by a guest who refuses to leave after spending more than 540 days in the home unless she is paid $100,000.

    Sascha Jovanovic rented the guesthouse of his Brentwood mansion out on Airbnb in September 2021 to Elizabeth Hirschhorn, and his guest has long overstayed her welcome and has refused to move out of the mansion.

    The dispute has become the center of an ongoing lawsuit as Jovanovic looks to boot the squatter, but an LA judge said he has no right to remove the ‘tenant.’

    Jovanovic, a renowned dentist, rented the Airbnb without it being registered and it has no certificate of occupancy. It also had a shower built without a permit. As such it’s not a legal rental and she shouldn’t have been charged rent at the start.

    A new California law prevents landlords from evicting tenants without a legal reason, and with the facility being an unregistered rental, the legal standing remains murky.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12593365/Airbnb-renter-refuses-leave-LA-home-540-DAYS-judge-backs-efforts-stay-Brentwood-Hills-mansion.html

    Seems cut and dry to me. It’s his house.

    • kinnath

      trespass

      • Tundra

        Brute squad.

      • kinnath

        swatting

    • Sean

      Seems cut and dry to me

      Yeah. It’s called extortion.

      Lock her up.

    • rhywun

      Not in California it isn’t.

      • Pat

        I thought the same thing. Good flick. Michael Keaton is underrated.

    • Nephilium

      So if it’s not a legal rental unit, then isn’t she living in an unsafe building? Raze it.

    • juris imprudent

      It also had a shower built without a permit.

      I say we execute everyone in this story including the person that wrote that because it was allegedly relevant.

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      Patrick McHenry was a Office Stealing man!

    • SugarFree

      I thought about that one. It’s basically Borderline Personality Disorder: The Musical.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    We obviously need a scarier model

    Scientists say severe climate change is now the greatest threat to humanity. Extreme weather is expected to upend lives and livelihoods, intensifying wildfires and pushing ecosystems towards collapse as ocean heatwaves savage coral reefs. The threats are far-reaching and widespread.

    So what effect would you expect this to have on the economy in coming decades? It may surprise you, but most economic models predict climate change will just be a blip, with a minor impact on gross domestic product (GDP).

    ——-

    This, it is becoming abundantly clear, is a failure of the modelling. To make these models, economists reach into the past to model damage from weather. But severe climate change would be a global shock that is wholly outside our experience. Inevitably, models can’t come close to capturing the upheavals climate change could cause in markets fundamental to human life, such as agriculture.

    Why aren’t those fools panicking? Their faith in humanity’s adaptive abilities is stupid and wrong.

    • B.P.

      Our models are flawless. Your models are worthless.

    • rhywun

      Bullshit from start to finish.

      These people make me so angry.

      • Suthenboy

        Same here.

        1. They are not scientists. 2. No it isn’t. 3. it isn’t going to…they are lying just like they have countless times. Remember SOOPER storm sandy…never happened before ( https://i.pinimg.com/736x/cf/96/c1/cf96c143be7bf51b4fabf269a8bd3a4e.jpg ). Five Katrinas from now on every year.
        4. “models can’t come close to capturing the upheavals climate change could cause ” No shit? Who knew?

    • Ghostpatzer

      “Green” energy policy has already caused unprecedented damage to Germany, Britain, and other western economies. My model predicts disaster if these policies continue.

  24. Suthenboy

    1. My grass is cut in anticipation of our drought ending Friday.
    2. Truth is no longer a defense. It probably hasn’t been for quite some time elsewhere. This does not surprise me nor concern me much. What concerns me greatly is that truth is no longer a defense here in the US. Rule of law is dead. Rampant TDS has seen to that.
    3. Stay away from white wine. It brings out the pedo in a person.
    4. C’mon Ilhar, he is not even related to you.
    5. Cant speak to the Wildlife and Fisheries dept.s of other states. The Louisiana bunch is one of the only top notch departments our state operates. I have to hand it to them, they are good at what they do. If you are going to hunt game animals (belong to the state here regardless of location) then stick to the freakin’ rules. The only exception to game animals belonging to the state here are privately purchased animals on private land fenced in. That would include fish if the private body of water is not contiguous with other bodies of water not privately owned or exotic game animals purchased and fenced in. For native species a special permit can be had.
    6. Song. I know people who, if you give them half of a chance, will gobble up your entire life. I have never heard the song before but I knew what it was instantly when I saw ‘Vampire’.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    White Wine Floozies- song or band?

    • Beau Knott

      Hobby or profession?

    • kinnath

      Drag show

      • Ownbestenemy

        including two who were born in the United States, while two of their adult children are married American citizens

        Uh…

        Also they should make it another Elián González situation…judge made their order now enforce it.

        Would also be interesting to see if they ever moved to become citizens or rode on the asylum train.

    • Pat

      I mean, it worked for Mary Kay Letourneau.

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      Best time line.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    California squatter story: Why doesn’t he just bulldoze the illegal unpermitted not-to-code “guest house”? I’m surprised the city hasn’t already ordered it.

  27. The Other Kevin

    Mrs. TOK is back from jury duty. They had a mistrial.

    The case was a guy accused of rape, basically a he said/she said between people who had known previous contact. I’m proud of Mrs. TOK. She and a number of other jurors pickup up from the 911 call and the police body cams that the cops had been to the alleged victim’s apartment a number of times in the past. They were not supposed to notice that, but they submitted questions to the judge about it. And so, mistrial. (Lawyer Glibs, can you clarify why this information would be a problem?) The judge and the lawyers met with the jurors afterword so she got a good look into the legal process and thought it was cool.

    • prolefeed

      Reasonable doubt?

      If someone “rapes” someone over and over and over after being invited inside each time, it can call the credibility of the plaintiff into question.

      Maybe the prosecutor wanted to preserve a good win/loss record, and found a way to tank the case without it counting against their stats?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Probably prejudicial and not introduced as evidence (or explicitly excluded by ruling or procedural rule).

      • The Other Kevin

        Probably this. In the 911 call, they asked the victim her address a few times, and she said “They know where I live.” In the body cam footage, the cop says to himself “Oh shit it’s real this time.”

      • Ownbestenemy

        Whoopsie!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Hrrr. Hit post too soon. Going with prolefeed and prosecution probably were blindsided that the copshop didn’t give heads up they have gone over and over to this chicken little’s house.

      • The Other Kevin

        The judge said that in the past most people wouldn’t notice this. But in our age of true crime shows, people are paying more attention to details. 6 jurors noticed.

      • Mojeaux

        True crime and cross stitching—hell yeah!

    • Social Justice is Neither

      IANAL but it shifts the focus from the defendent to the alleged victim through their past acts. Even if she’s insane and has reported 100s of fake incidents they’re supposed to be judging the facts of this one as presented, not those past acts.

      That said, I’m assuming the prosecutors brought those clips into evidence.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    So why, in 2023, are we still not properly accounting for the real risks? It’s hard, but it is possible. My research – as well as that of other other economists – is working towards building global weather shocks into modelling of what climate change will do to individual economies, which should radically change economic predictions.

    In the meantime, when you see economic modelling suggesting climate change won’t do much, you should treat it with serious scepticism. Look at what is being modelled – and everything left out.

    Assume an apocalypse.

    • prolefeed

      When you’ve predicted economic catastrophy multiple times, and people stubbornly keep getting wealthier on average, surely the solution is to change the modeling to predict an even worse catastrophe?

      The science has spoken … repeatedly.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Wait, is this climate change or Zerohedge?

      • Ted S.

        It depends on whether anyone is blaming the Joooooos.

    • Sensei

      Funny. The insurance industry has been doing this kind of modeling for decades.

    • Suthenboy

      The projection and sophistry of the gun grabbers and AGW crowd knows no end. Fucking liars.

  29. Pat

    She admits to being a lesbian, out and proud, and she is self-evidently overweight. Is the truth no longer a defense?

    There was an article that I can’t seem to scare up now where William F. Buckley, reflecting on the incident in which he called Gore Vidal a queer and threatened to “sock him in the goddamn face” after Vidal had called him a crypto-Nazi, said something along the lines of: “While I was wrong to lose my temper, I was not in fact a Nazi, but he was a queer.”

  30. DEG

    illegal taking of wildlife (hunted a turkey at beginning of the season without tagging it or reporting it)

    Look at those eyes. She’s plotting revenge.

    • Suthenboy

      I am not sure why anyone would shoot a wild turkey. They are like chewing on a pair of old boots and taste about the same.
      Down at Mac’s Fresh Market I can get a nice juicy, tasty farm raised turkey for about the price of 1 box of shotgun shells.

      • prolefeed

        Now, shots of Wild Turkey — sure.

      • R.J.

        Beat me to it by *that* much.

  31. Pat

    I love, love, love a good break-up song.

    Bruh. Olivia fucking Rodrigo? You are officially banned from ever shitting on me for listening to CHVRCHES again.

    • SugarFree

      My only objection to CHVRCHES is that shit cover of “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” they made. And that Lauren Mayberry is a vegan.

      • Pat

        To be fair, even for me they were a one album wonder. Everything after their debut is meh at best. Also, being a vegan is actually one of the least insufferable things about Lauren Mayberry. She’s like a golem willed to life by a leftist subreddit. She also dumped the two actual producers in the band and is going solo now.

      • SugarFree

        She dated Justin Long. She’s obviously not right in the head.

  32. Rebel Scum

    That is so fetch.

    President @JoeBiden isn’t a regular president—he’s a cool president. 🕶️
    #MeanGirlsDay

    • slumbrew

      Stop trying to make “fetch” happen.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        It’s Streets Ahead!

      • MikeS

        I think it kinda slaps.

    • The Other Kevin

      Cool, like your grandpa who’s got dementia.

      • CPRM
    • Suthenboy

      They already let the cat out of the bag that they were starting a deliberate propaganda campaign to shit people into thinking Brandon is cool.
      This is as lame as Family guy Peter “hello fellow young people” . The left cant meme. They just cant.

  33. CPRM

    That kid that got touched by the dental hygienist, I’m guessing the trauma stems from NOT taking the offer. I can relate.

  34. Pat

    U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reveals plan to raise smoking age every year

    Oct. 4 (UPI) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled an ambitious plan Wednesday to prevent smoking-related deaths for future generations by raising the age to buy cigarettes one year every year “so that eventually no one can buy them.”

    Sunak’s plan, which he discussed at a Conservative Party conference, would be among the toughest anti-smoking rules in the world and prevent 14-year-olds today from ever buying tobacco.

    “There is no safe level of smoking,” the prime minister told the conference. “If we want to do the right thing for our kids, we must try and stop teenagers taking up cigarettes in the first place.”

    How do you say “fuck off, slaver” in British?

    • MikeS

      He got that idea from that cunt in New Zealand, IIRC

    • MikeS

      There is no safe level of smoking

      Partial list of things that also have “no safe level”:

      Swimming
      Walking
      Running
      Sitting
      Laying

      • creech

        Voting.

    • rhywun

      Meanwhile we’re encouraging them to become potheads and junkies. I wonder what the next favored drug will be.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Soma

      • Robonerfherder

        Tranq

      • MikeS
      • Tundra

        One of my favorite episodes.

    • Ghostpatzer

      How do you say “fuck off, slaver” in British?

      In many parts if Britain, like this.

      اللعنة على العبيد

  35. Name's BEAM. James BEAM

    The Line‘s Jennifer Gerson brings the pain regarding the latest foray of the Canadian FedLib government into ruling the entire Internet with an iron fist inside a velvet glove:

       Do Not Comply.

    She’s one of the most level-headed, non-hyperbolic Canadian journos that’s ever existed; if she’s calling for non-compliance, we’ve got trouble right here in River City.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Good on her. I wonder how many will heed her call to action.

  36. Beau Knott

    Once in a very great while, even Los Angeles gets one right. TW: the book of faces. A new town square.

  37. Not Adahn

    First day of Nats is in the can! Currently I’m 5th/110* in my division, 2nd/17 in my class**

    *100 of those competitors start shooting on Friday.
    **As above, but 13

    • R.J.

      This is a fine thing.

  38. KK, Non-Man

    It’s going around the tweeters that Zelenskys wife went on a Cartier shopping spree. Hope it’s true

    • The Other Kevin

      Me too. We know this is going on, let’s see it in the open.

    • rhywun

      Blood diamonds?

    • Tundra

      Lots of evidence that the elites and their families are living it up.

      Have fun in hell, assholes.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Apparently she’s also trying to raise money for her foundation for Ukrainian children. Why she has a foundation, I do not know.

      • Tundra

        Hillary says hi

      • rhywun

        The Klintonskyy Foundation.

  39. MikeS

    TWINS WIN!

    TWINS WIN!!

    TWINS WIN!!!

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Both of the AL East wildcard teams swept. Maybe that division wasn’t so tough after all.

  40. KK, Non-Man

    Coffee drinkers – Peet’s or Green Mountain?

    • rhywun

      Never had either.

      Illy is my current favorite.

      There’s a couple locals I want to try.

    • Sensei

      I’m meh on both, but Peet’s over GM.

    • KK, Non-Man

      Needs to meet the following requirements:

      1) decaf
      2) dark roast
      3) k-cup

      Peets and GM seem to be the only options, so those are y’alls only choices.

      • one true athena

        Those are my parameters, and I like Peets better

      • Sensei

        I knew I liked you.

      • KK, Non-Man

        danke schon!

      • Ghostpatzer

        3) k-cup>/em>

        No. No. No.

      • Ghostpatzer

        No to closing tags as well.

      • Sensei

        Well yeah. But for non aficionados allowances have to be made.

        I’m not a fan of k cups at all. Probably because I drink it black.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Wait, is there some other way to drink coffee?

      • Sensei

        Not that I’m aware.

        However, Starbucks seems to make quite a lot of coffee flavored dairy and dessert beverages. Heaven knows they aren’t coffee.

      • Ghostpatzer

        *fiercely narrows gaze*

        Some of you have your guns, some have beer, whiskey…

        All I got are coffee and tobacco, and here I am subjected to posts about Brits banning smoking and k-cup “coffee”. If this keeps up I’m going back to usenet.

      • KK, Non-Man

        Yes yes yes on an RV

      • Sensei

        https://aeropress.com/

        And a kettle will make a better single cup of coffee than a Keurig could make in its wildest day.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Pour overs for single cup.

      • Sensei

        They are more fiddly, but also a good choice for small space and small quantity.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, pour over is my go to.

        I did Aeropress for awhile but I got sick of the slightly less convenient cleanup.

      • Tundra

        This.

        Don’t use those fucking K Cups. Microplastics are not your friend.

      • Ghostpatzer

        OK, you get a pass, KK. Not that I am your supervisor or anything.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, my parameters are very different.

        1. caf
        2. medium roast
        3. beans

    • R.J.

      I drink Community Coffee. The official coffee of the Louisiana rest stops.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        White coffee?

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      What ever the store has that is darkest.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      Folgers

    • KK, Non-Man

      I do not drink my coffee black, and that there Keurig makes a really nice iced coffee (brews at a lower average temp). I feel like I might be able to switch over to hot coffee in the next few weeks.

    • Suthenboy

      I learned about coffee a while back.
      Wholesaler buys different beans from around the world. Takes orders from localish coffee companies, custom mixed. Localish distributors bag custom mix in their bags and sell. Every area seems to have it’s favorites, usually two different mixes and they are usually close to the same.
      In Louisiana it is Community Coffee and Mellow Joy. I will drink either as they are nearly indistinguishable to me. I drink a lot of coffee. Custom here is anytime someone comes. to your house for any reason at all the first thing you do is offer to make coffee. That custom seems to be fading a bit but it is stilll around.
      Even if they say no I make coffee anyway. ” No? Ok, if you change your mind let me know”
      Then I sit in front of them and sip my coffee. About half of the time they change their minds.

    • MikeS

      Atta boy. Pew pew!

    • Sensei

      Awesome!

    • l0b0t

      That’s beautiful.

      • slumbrew

        Hey, stranger!

    • MikeS

      Very weird.

    • Tundra

      I was baptized Catholic. I am a Christian. This is neither.

    • Suthenboy

      Only a commie pope could make me miss the days of the nazi pope.

      • "RFK Apologist"

        Benedict XVI was a good and decent man. Francis is neither. He was hated because he wouldn’t go along with the Davos crowd. The Nazi smear was always unfair

  41. prolefeed

    Cold press medium roast, freshly ground on finest grind setting.

    • prolefeed

      Cold brewed, not cold pressed.