Remember a couple years ago I would write up various Xmas holiday Christmas movies and opine on whether or not they would be remade again today?
No? Oh…well then.
This is my review of Wayfinder Hell:
Given I am currently wondering how I managed to escape Thanksgiving at my mother’s house with only a few slices of pie to show for it. We’re going to start with a Thanksgiving movie…Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.
Meet Neal. Neal is an advertising toad played by America’s brother-in-law (Steve Martin). After meeting with a business client in Nee York that takes his time in deciding if he will pursue Neal’s proposal, Neal finds himself in a rush to get to the airport in time to catch his flight home to Chicago.
He discovers 1980’s New York is absolute shitshow, and has difficulty hailing a cab. He finally gets one after bribing an asshole a New Yorker for his cab he discovers the cab was taken by some fat ass after he finished buying off the other guy.
Meet Del. Del is a traveling salesman played by Canada’s morbidly obese uncle. He is at least a jolly, lovable uncle that we forget he’s actually Canadian and never hold it against him.
While at the airport, Neal recognizes Del as the fat ass that stole his cab, poisoning the well for every interaction between Neal and Del for the rest of the flight to Chicago. Upon finding out the flight was diverted to Wichita, KS the two set up a tenuous agreement in getting back to Chicago in time for Thanksgiving. Neal is a stuffy, straight arrow type who’s expectations for every step are thwarted by either bad luck, slapstick scenarios, midwest Americans, and Del is something of a annoying buffoon that irritates Neal every step of the way. Every scene we find relatable situations into Neal’s personal hell that allows for humor that holds up today.
This being a holiday movie, it falls into the mushy sentimental trap with its ending when we find out Del is actually a high functioning Hobo who’s wife passed away several years prior. Neal and Del began the movie at odds with each other and end up friends, with Neal inviting Del to his home for Thanksgiving.
Can this movie be made again today? No. Written and directed by John Hughes, with his signature distaste for Hollywood created an unusual cultural inversion unique to the 1980’s. Every one of his movies are comedies that take place in Chicago (this one at least ends there). He almost single-handedly put America’s cultural center in the midwest. Not just his movies, but others like Running Scared, The Fugitive, Police Academy, Blues Brothers, Wayne’s World, etc. In addition to TV shows in that era, like Family Matters, Perfect Strangers. and Oprah. This helped make the 80’s America’s weird decade we look upon fondly.
Today the cultural center is split somewhere between Northern California, Austin, and Miami. In none of these locations does the plot device work, and travel is planned easily enough through smart phone apps. Del would probably be actually homeless, as our current culture makes it acceptable for a man in his situation to become a drug addict and making a living with multiple side hustles involving eating out drug dealer’s buttholes. That and Neal’s profession doesn’t really exist anymore since advertising is delivered via algorithms.
Once again, Wayfinder finds the market niche for non-threatening yellow beer and pretty much nails it. This being a Munich-style Helles Lager at 4.7% ABV makes for easily drinking but not particularly eye catching in the grocer’s cooler. So they’re stuck trying to play on the word Helles with a lazy pun, which is a damn shame, this is pretty good. Wayfinder Hell: 3.6/5
Thanksgiving is the shower curtain ring guy.
Never seen it. Not a John Candy fan. Not a fan of stupid-fuck-up “comedy”.
Sue me.
I liked “The Sure Thing”.
I’ve seen it. I didn’t find it funny.
Yeah; I had big problems with the John Candy character as well.
Yeah, I was unimpressed, except for the second half of this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M0FfQzSngM
“How would he know where we’re going?!” remains a great joke.
MY BROTHER!!!
“But being clever is Haaard” – Average hollywood writer
John Hughes wrote some good films. This wasn’t one of them.
He got high school in the 80s right AND he knew his audience. I loved both Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller. But Ferris Bueller is an entirely different movie as an adult, and my (at the time 16yo) Gen Z daughter was thoroughly unimpressed. “He’s a douchebag.” Well. Yeah. (She loved War Games, though.)
The thing about Ferris Bueller is that everyone — except the antagonist principal — liked him.
Yes. My dad loved that movie, which at the time I found odd, because if *I* acted like that, I wouldn’t be able to sit down for a month.
Some years later, I decided he liked it because Ferris was wish-fulfillment for his adolescent self, without regard to what he would do as the adult.
At the time, I was of two minds. It was a grand adventure and I like those. BUT I didn’t like the golden child/scapegoat dynamic of him and his sister, and I didn’t like that Cameron allowed Ferris to treat him badly. If I’d been as sick as Cameron that day, nothing could have pried me out of that bed. Lastly, I cringed at destroying someone else’s property like that. I remember the movie fondly because my dad and I went to see it together after spending three days on a river canoe trip.
“The thing about Ferris Bueller is that everyone — except the antagonist principal — liked him.”
Not me. I hate that movie with the fire of a thousand suns.
If I hadn’t found him attractive, I would have chucked that movie out a window. He is thoroughly repulsive in every other way. I never got the love for that movie; it’s amsuing, and I do watch it. I just hate it.
Yeah, War Games is better. Hell, Ladyhawke is better.
Ladyhawke is unwatchable because of its soundtrack and I’m an Alan Parsons fan. It didn’t wear well at all, unlike Labyrinth‘s.
Heh yeah the soundtrack is… off. But the movie itself is charming.
I was gonna say.
I haven’t seen this one but I thought, “How could it miss?”
“Three coins in a fountain… 🎵”
You people are no help.
😐
“Flintstones! Meet the Flintstones… 🎵”
Buckeye football.
Queue up the Buck-cry.
I despise them with the heat of a thousand suns,
but they are now the best one-loss team, they remain better than Texas, and they are much better than Florida State, and they will get almost nothing for that.
Really? You don’t think Alabama would beat them? I’ll grant you this isn’t an Alabama team of 4 to 10 years ago; but that kind of Alabama team would put a whipping on this group of Buckeyes. And if Alabama knocks off Georgia – who’s the best 1 loss team then?
Bravo!
I watch Trains, Planes, and Automobiles every Thanksgiving. An absolute masterpiece. This year I paired it with the South Park Starvin’ Marvin’ episode and, of course, the WKRP turkey drop. On the making…
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/11/planes-trains-and-automobiles-oral-history
Holy smokes this is a tough room.
I haven’t seen TPA because I don’t like John Candy and at the time I didn’t find Steve Martin funny. Now I appreciate his drama/light comedy/straight man work (Only Murders in the Building), and I definitely appreciate his banjo playing, at which he is totally and completely serious.
His stand up album was extremely popular.
I agree that Steve Martin’s wacky comedy style in general is off-putting. He plays the put-upon straight man in TPA. It’s a fun, schmaltzy holiday comedy with a bit of heart of gold-type stuff, and not supposed to be Hitchcock or Coen Brothers. I will say, apart from a Ray Charles song, it has to have one of the worst soundtracks in movie history. Classic limp, 1980s synth crap.
Yes, the soundtrack is bad. Not that there wasn’t a bunch of great synth music in 80’s, and in other John Hughes films.
“There wasn’t a bunch of great synth music in 80’s.” <—-FIFY
'80s music sucked balls. NO SOUL. It was the cardboard cutout of music. Like eating fake cheese. The spirit of wearing polyester leisure suits.
That’s more of a description of 80’s hair metal.
One of the reasons the 80s are hated by the cultural elites is because they were the pendulum swinging the other way from the Boomershit of the 60s.
Hell, we even see the attitude here to an extent, where there’s a lot of suggesting that only punk and hard metal are real rock music.
True, the whole “new wave” thing was sort of a rejection of dinosaur arena rock.
The two best Steve Martin movies are L.A. Story and Bowfinger, and because in neither he really has to lead all that much.
*Bowfinger* is absolute genius.
L.A. Story was amazingly written. So many sly little jokes.
No love for Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid?
Caveat: haven’t seen it in ages. But I recall enjoying it.
“Today the cultural center is split somewhere between Northern California, Austin, and Miami. ”
Back in the 80’s the city competition was between New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Then Chicago dropped out. New York got a boost after 9/11. Now they are all shitholes.
I don’t remember much about Illinois politics. It might have been a solidly blue state back then, but the country wasn’t split into red and blue states like it is now. Also, politics weren’t anywhere near as polarized back then. Some people were Republican, some people were Democrat, and no one gave shit. Libertarians were saying “Demolicans” and “Republicrats”, because the two parties weren’t all that different. Reagan was governor of California, then President. He won in a landslide in 1980 (including NY) then won every state except Illinois in 1984. Now elections are down to a tiny number of swing states.
I’d guess that switch to a hard partisan divide in politics was partially due to people now getting their news online, and getting ensconced in self-chosen media bubbles that don’t even try to give outside perspectives.
Like this site, for example, in which everyone is more or less on the same page, though we do get frequent links to outside views, which (deservedly) get roundly mocked.
Living with a bleeding heart liberal, I get plenty of exposure to opposing views.
It’s the algorithms used by Google, Facebook, etc. that give people more of what they want to hear. So their bubbles are not entirely self-chosen.
It’s also that everything is laced with politics now. Back in the 90’s and 00’s people rarely discussed politics outside of politics. Now everything from food to sports is politicized. There is no way to avoid it.
You do have to fight the algorithm, but it isn’t that hard to vary your media diet. You just won’t get it spoonfed to you.
Also, non-libertarian (especially) and non-TEAM RED views are easy to get. My podcast listening is mostly the English services of public/international broadcasters, and I increasingly find myself thinking of the term Public Broadcasting Class. It’s the proverbial elephant in the room, and very much of a hive mind, with the latest examples being anti-Geert Wilders, anti-Milei, anti-Law and Justice (Poland), anti-Robert Fico (Slovakia) and the like. You can probably guess the biases on a whole bunch of other issues too.
At the same time, my work computer has Windows and the Microsoft news feed (or whatever it’s called), and every time I hover over it by accident, the pop-up stories are invariably anti-libertarian and anti-TEAM RED.
You can filter out by site. I tried that for awhile but I got tired of the whack-a-mole and just turned the damn thing off.
This. I much prefer to subscribe to a few thoughtful liberal and conservative sites, that give me an overview of opinions.
Right there with you in living with a bleeding heart liberal. It keeps me thinking about my own positions, how there are other, just as valid positions, and also keeps me from living in a bubble, intellectually.
While Chicago has been solid blue forever, Illinois as a state was purple to red for a long time. Not so true the last 20 or 30 years.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Chicago machine cheating was the reason Reagan didn’t win all 50 in 84.
Right outfit, wrong election. That was Nixon in ’60. Reagan won Illinois, it was Minnesota that couldn’t abandon their boy.
In fact, Reagan won Illinois both times.
Oh, you are right.
The major difference is that the left took over the suburbs.
There was time (like my childhood) when the suburbs were solidly red. Now they are just as blue as the cities.
Nah,least not here. Downtown Austin is hard Team Blue. Politically it’s a bullseye, getting less Blue the further out you get.
Oregon and California are like that too. The biggest difference seems to be how far that blue extends out. In CA it is pretty far as no one can afford to have a house in the city for normal job salaries.
50 miles from the ocean, the West coast starts turning pretty red.
What I’m saying is that the immediate suburbs went from red to blue in my lifetime. The exurbs and rural areas are deep red even here in New York.
That suburban vote is the deciding factor now. Donald peeled a lot of them off. Abortion is bringing all of them back.
Watching TPA once gave me a lifetime supply of that movie.
“EXCLUSIVE: Chinese scientists find a NEW bat coronavirus linked to pangolins that has same freak mutation as Covid – and some experts say it shoots down the lab leak theory”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12772991/China-says-proof-Covid-wasnt-lab-leak-discovers-closest-virus-wild-bats-1-000-miles-away-Wuhan.html
No.
These are the spirit children of those who believed the USSR’s official economic stats or the food production reports from the Great Leap Forward.
Yeah, I believe they found coronavirus in bats and pangolins… because they put it there.
I support this explanation.
No matter the absurdity or transparency of their lies there will be plenty of morons duped by them.
China says eh? Why do I find myself so skeptical?
Chinese scientists. So some of the bullshitiest bullshit in bullshitville.
I’m thinking about going to Midnight Mass again this year, but have no one to go with. NOBODY I know is interested in going to hear sublime music on Christmas Eve.
Thats wild. I’d go with you Mo’, traditional Christmas music is some of the best.
I watch it every year on TV if only for the music. St. Pat’s.
Now that I don’t live in NYC I wonder if TV will show some random cathedral in Syracuse I’ve never heard of.
Cosmo’s Pizza, maybe?
Catholic I assume?
When I lived in the area, I tried to get to the Grace & Holy Trinity midnight Christmas service every year. Sublime is the right word. I’ve gone once or twice here but the main cathedral is much smaller and doesn’t have the same ambience (?).
I’m not Catholic, but I like to go for the music, the pomp and circumstance (which my chirch has none of), and sometimes I stay for the sermon.
Oops, that’s what I meant but my first sentence contained insufficient words (as I frequently tell my students).
You also get to shake hands with a bunch of drunks.
During the COVID nonsense, they stopped the shaking hands part and had empty rows between everybody. That’s when the Mrs. noped out and we haven’t been back since.
When I visited my relatives in Germany, I had to go to Mass since my cousin was *very* Catholic. I was very pleasantly surprised that they didn’t do the “spread your germs as a sign of Christ’s peace” thing.
Once upon a time the Mrs. and i were in a church choir. The director was this old school guy who used to sing with the Mrs.’s grandfather. We had a great song lineup, classic stuff that wasn’t what you’d normally hear. But the director passed away, and we stopped going as much, and that was that.
Midnight Mass is when they have that chanting part: ON THE 25TH DAY OF DECEMber…
Actually, Episcopal or Lutheran is probably your best bet for Christmas service music.
Anything would be better than what my church does, since we don’t have paid musicians or clergy. Further, the leadership frowns on any music not in the hymnal.
One year in the 1990s, I was in charge of the service, and it was almost all music, interspersed with scripture reading of the Christmas story. No sermon/talks. I had all sorts of stuff and everyone loved it. That would never be allowed now.
One year a while back, my friend and her daughter played “O Come O Come Emmanuel” on the cello and viola and I was SOBBING by the end. I doubt that would be allowed now, either. Strict adherence to the approved material, with little deviation.
Anything would be better than what my church does, since we don’t have paid musicians or clergy. Further, the leadership frowns on any music not in the hymnal.
You don’t want shit like Marty Haugen or “On Eagle’s Wings”.
I have a Mormon Tabernacle Christmas songs cd that is terrific.
What does the LDS church permit/approve/require for Christmas services?
Not much different than a normal service.
Our services run like this (generally speaking):
* greetings and announcements by the bishop/counselor
* opening hymn
* opening prayer
* bishop/counselor saying it’s time for the sacrament (communion/eucharist)
* sacrament hymn
* sacrament prayer
* passing of the sacrament
* bishop/counselor thanking the congregation for their reverence during the sacrament
* youth speaker (topic: whatever talk a general authority gave in the last general conference)
* possibly congregational singing OR possibly special musical number (choir, singing a hymn; instrumentalist, doing a hymn)
* 2nd speaker (topic: whatever talk a general authority gave in the last general conference)
* 3rd speaker (topic: whatever talk a general authority gave in the last general conference)
* closing hymn
* closing prayer
* dismissal to classes
Post-Thanksgiving, the hymns will be (should be) Christmas carols, although one year the hymn-picker misunderstood her assignment and we had ZERO Christmas carols, which upset EVERYBODY.
There may be poinsettias and wreaths in the chapel. Or maybe not, if nobody got around to it (the hazards of a volunteer force).
The talks may or may not be about Christmas, but they WILL be on whatever talk a general authority gave at the last general conference.
On the Sunday before Christmas, there may be a program with the choir singing carols…out of the hymn book or some marginally more elaborate arrangement thereof. And the talks will most likely possibly be about Christmas.
We don’t have any rituals, like what Catholics have. We just have our program/routine (which I do not liken to rituals). And Christmas and Easter services are only marginally more on-topic/elaborate than that.
So you can see why I might find Midnight Mass a delight.
“Del would probably be actually homeless, as our current culture makes it acceptable for a man in his situation to become a drug addict and making a living with *multiple side hustles involving eating out drug dealer’s buttholes.* That and Neal’s profession doesn’t really exist anymore since advertising is delivered via algorithms.”
I can see one side hustle being the butthole eater, but multiple? I guess even drugs are getting more expensive these days.
“Once again, Wayfinder finds the market niche for non-threatening yellow beer and pretty much nails it. This being a Munich-style Helles Lager at 4.7% ABV makes for easily drinking but not particularly eye catching in the grocer’s cooler. So they’re stuck trying to play on the word Helles with a lazy pun, which is a damn shame, this is pretty good. Wayfinder Hell: 3.6/5”
Sounds like a nice relaxing beer to drink. Wish I had one. Nice reviews.
If Del were homeless today, his main side hustles would be panhandling and/or thievery.
But Ferris Bueller is an entirely different movie as an adult, and my (at the time 16yo) Gen Z daughter was thoroughly unimpressed. “He’s a douchebag.” Well. Yeah.
I watched part of Ferris Bueller recently. I wanted his friend to stab the manipulative little narcissistic sociopath in the eye.
I was already an adult when Bueller came out. It was clear to me that he was an anti-hero.
As I was taught, a hero is a protagonist with one fatal flaw, and an anti-hero was a questionable protagonist with one redeeming virtue.
Ferris has no fatal flaws or redeeming virtues. He’s not portrayed as a villain, either. He’s portrayed as the hero we all need.
It doesn’t take much thinking past that surface protrayal to see what he really is.
It was a teen movie. He wasn’t trying tomake great art, although I would argue it is.
I’d say besides his extreme popularity and charming personality, his redeeming quality was that he engaged life. He wins over the audience with his gumption and enthusiasm.
I think I can go with that.
He engaged life by screwing over everyone. Never really liked that movie, although it has its moments.
And Mia Sara.
“And Mia Sara”
Rawr.
🍆
You misspelled “Villain”
See my reply to @Count Potato above.
Ohio State had better get their shit together.
They did. And then they stepped in it.
No matter the absurdity or transparency of their lies there will be plenty of morons duped by them.
Doomsday cultists. Their puny meaningless lives can only be validated by the fantasy that the Great Forces of the Universe conspire to rub them out.
The two best Steve Martin movies are L.A. Story and Bowfinger, and because in neither he really has to lead all that much.
He was was pretty good in Roxanne, as I recall.
I knew someone would say that.
The Jerk
This, The Jerk is the bomb.
“I found out what my “special purpose” is for!”
The remake would be gender-swapped with Kristin Wig and Melissa McCarthy, and they would literally piss on the grave of John Hughes while making queef jokes.
Shhh! Don’t give them ideas!
I can see the Pitch Meeting episode now.
America’s brother in law and Canada’s morbidly obese uncle are just spot on.
We’ve watched Only Murders in the Building two or three times. Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez are perfect together.
Mrs. Whiz and I like Only Murders, although I feel that it is getting stale after three seasons.
Regarding Ferriss Beuller, I have a pretty detailed idea for a sequel. But I have no idea how to write a screenplay.
Ultra MAGA Canucks
Justin Trudeau is blaming the MAGA movement and Republican ideology for eroding support for Ukraine.
The Canadian prime minister used a press conference with visiting European leaders to connect a gambit by his Conservative rivals in Ottawa to hard-right rhetoric in the United States and Europe, which he said is “starting to parrot Russian disinformation and misinformation and propaganda.”
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Trudeau called the Conservatives opposition to the deal “frankly absurd.”
During Friday’s press briefing he called out what he described as a bigger trend behind the Conservatives’ twist — using the moment to tie his political foes to Trumpian influences.
“The real story is the rise of a right-wing American, MAGA influence thinking that has made Canadian Conservatives, who used to be among the strongest defenders of Ukraine … turn their backs on something Ukraine needs in its hour of need,” Trudeau told reporters in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Trump’s dictatorial reach is limitless.
Turning backs on Ukrainians in their hour of need. Trumpian influences. Eroding support for Ukraine.
Let me sum it up. Stop stealing our money and using it to perpetuate a war between two thuggish regimes that in no way benefits us. By us I dont mean either the thieving governments of the US or Canada. I mean the citizens of those countries to whom the money actually belongs.
Does that make me an extraultramegaMAGA right wing extremist?
In current year it sure does.
Does that make me an extraultramegaMAGA right wing extremist?
We’ll see you in the camp.
Two hell themed posts in a row. Interesting. I did not like Planes trains automobiles at all, but today I learned the dog loves snow and the best carrier for crab dip is a slice of summer sausage.
Straggler.
It’s starting to snow here.
I may be a straggler but I remain 100% correct on all things.
Dogs absolutely love the snow. They’re fun to watch.
Last dog would just flop out in the snow. Double-coat helped.
Current dog hates the cold and wet. I said I’d never be a guy who has clothes for his dog but she’s shivering without her puffer jacket (she’s not some little rat dog either, just lean and short-haired).
I give thanks this is done.
I played https://squaredle.com/?puzzle=thanksgiving:
128/128 words (+34 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 41% by accuracy
LOSERS.
Ryan Day has to go. Urban Meyer would have run tempo and won by two scores.
Fuck this shit.
Fuck Tosu. That is all.
Urban Meyer would have gotten the program sanctioned had he stayed.
59-0 against the lesser programs. You’re just complaining because he’s pulling a James Franklin.
Yeah,tOSU needs to arrange their schedule to just play tPSU every week.
Have they checked Sam Brinton’s storage?
That’s funny because it’s true.
Behold the power of weaponized gibberish
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, could lose $75 million in advertising revenue by the end of the year following owner Elon Musk’s apparent endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory last week, The New York Times reported Friday.
The Times said it had viewed “internal documents” revealing that the social media company is in a tough position. The documents reportedly list over 200 ad units from companies like Amazon and Coca-Cola that have stopped or are considering pausing their advertising on X.
The Times said the documents are from the sales team at X, and that they are used to track the impact from advertising pullbacks in November.
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Companies such as IBM, Disney and Apple announced they would pull ads from X in the wake of Musk’s comments. The platform had already been struggling with ad revenue following half of X’s top advertisers’ exits in 2022 after Musk took control.
Leaving aside the leaking of internal documents, it’s fascinating to watch the “legitimate” media gloating over Musk’s manufactured antisemitism.
Isn’t $75 million sort of a rounding error for that enterprise?
WordPress won’t let me post my actual thoughts but yes, that was another one.
Carried over from morning linx……
SDF-7 on November 25, 2023 at 7:07 am
Another conversation was about how people THINK they have gluten sensitivities, but it’s really about the poisons that kkkorporations put into the flour.
So… couldn’t they experimentally prove this, or do they also think the evil GMO wheat is ubiquitous so it wouldn’t matter if they milled their own flour?
Just trying to get a sense of how deep the crazy goes here.
I don’t think it is crazy at all to believe the poison (glyphosate) they spray on wheat prior to harvest might be making people sick. I actually believe it is probably true and predict Bayer will be filing for bankruptcy within a few years because of it. Monsanto might be evil, but they aint dumb and is why they sold the rights to that shit when they did.
GMO crops are not inherently evil unless the genetic modification made is to make them immune to poison that you then feed to people that then makes the people sick.
And to clarify, the wheat is not necessarily GMO to be roundup ready, most roundup ready crops in the US I believe are soy beans and corn. They spray wheat with glyphosate as a drying agent to kill the plant for a faster harvest and processing and is why there is glyphosate in pretty much all wheat produced in the US.
Hail to the Victors!
’80s music
Does it still count as 80s when I hear that f#@$!@ song on more commercials today than it ever played on the radio back then?!
It was a #1 hit, so it got a lot of airplay back in the 80s.
Oh I know, I’m just being a bitch.
Is IS on tv a lot even today.
Also 80s music
https://youtu.be/1C_fVnE3xHY
Soooo great. One of my favorite one-hit wonders.
That takes me back.
Dour comedian provides best coverage of exploding Bentlys.
The derp, from Forbes? Salon I could understand.
Now gimme gimme gimme some of that sweet cash and I’ll help you fix it. Eventually.
I refuse to believe that isn’t satire. It’s so over-the-top even by current year standards of performative woke bullshit.
I believe the Forbes family sold a majority interest some years ago. I assume it’s run by the same chattering case as Insider.
Forbes became the liberal investment magazine.
White means the culture born of the enlightenment. Science, rule of law, inalienable rights for individuals, Individualism, not collectivism.
A bunch of slimy fucks really do want to drag us back into the poverty and superstitious dark ages. They are evil.
Sometimes I wonder if I am nuts or not. Maybe people just dont know how to take me. I recently had a short rant while driving with two other couples in the car. I got no real response so that is why I wonder about me being nuts. You decide.
Woman #1: ” I was at dept. store X recently and the salesman was talking but he was looking at my breasts so I said ‘hey pal my eyes are up here’. He was so embarrassed he excused himself and a saleswoman took his place.”
Me: “Yeah? I usually respond to that with ‘yeah, I know but your tits are down there’.”
Woman #2: “Oh my god, no you dont.”
Husbands: *silently cautiously waiting to see if it is safe to open their mouths*
Me: “Let me explain. Y’all dont get us. We love to look at you. We like the way you are shaped, the sound of your voice, the smell of you, the way you move. We love your eyes and your tits and your asses. We love your mannerisms and your quirky little habits. Study after study shows that men around women have better mental health. If you dont believe it go visit a monastery. Those guys are nuttier than a bunch of squirrel turds. We dont just like to look at you We NEED to look at you. You are the reason we exist. If you weren’t here what would be the point of us even being here?”
*paraphrased. Cobbled together from comments here in various comment threads*
*silence in car. In the rearview mirror I see husbands looking at wives with confident smirks. Woman #1 is blushing and clasping hands in her lap while leaning a bit forward to hide the demure smile on her face*
Me: “So, where are we gonna eat?”
Hooters?
*wild applause*
No, we chose this little Cajun hole-in-the-wall cafe.
As I mentioned in last nights zooms, which was good fun and lots of laughs so thanks to the zoomers, I spent all day thanksgiving day watching BBQ vids on Youtube. I just pulled a batch of shotgun shells stuffed with itialian sausage and chorizo finished with a candied jalapeno glaze. I am a fan.
itialian sausage and chorizo
Just because the flags look alike.
I forgot to mention there was Bratwurst in there too.
Sloper loves the sausage.
NTTIATWWT
The derp, from Forbes?
Malcolm must be spinning in his grave.
Because white-centering is often left unexamined and unchecked, equity and justice have continued to evade organizations.
Somebody has to do the actual work.
John Candy in “Going Berserk” is a good, senseless, funny, stupid movie.
Same with Dan Akroyd in Dr. Detroit.
Paging SF….
Jill gets in shopping and a workout with granddaughters Naomi and Finnegan as protesters gather on Nantucket to interrupt Biden holiday