I spent Memorial Day weekend refinishing my pool. Now it is so white it is almost blinding. It needs a day or two to finish curing, and I need to do a bit of plumbing work by the motor but I will refill it by the weekend.
Otherwise my kids wanted to play Monopoly. We don’t play very often and not everyone was interested. I may have taken advantage of my daughter’s indifference by offering to purchase her option to buy (as she landed on it) Pacific Ave for $400 + the $300 price from the bank. She agreed but accused me of tricking her when I took possession of the deed.
Once I did that, the rest of my kids realized there was nothing in the rules stating you can’t do it, and the game went much quicker. My oldest realized everyone was temporarily cash poor and bought out the relatively cheap orange properties and built a few houses. He was in a great position to win, and was accepting property in exchange for the rent owed.
Its funny how the communist that made the game had no idea how actual capitalists would game this shitty system.
¡enlaces!
The only thing the AP wants you to know about the frontrunner for El Presidenté of Mexico is she is a woman.
That’s funny, I don’t care who you are.
Not the monkeys, this is sad.
Sometimes the Pope is in fact, Catholic.
Venezuela could’ve prevented this by adopting communism.
Would it kill anyone around here to play a little Foghat every once in a while?
That image is huge!
What, is it monopolizing your screen?
Go to Jail, go directly to Jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
Come on Tonio, don’t race to judgement. Get off your high horse and give him a thimble of patience. I’m sure you can iron this out. I for one tip my hat to his dogged approach.
He couldn’t leave things to chance, after all… let the jokes run rampant and next thing you know we get all kinds of Q posts of community chests.
This is shaping up to be a real railroad job, I wonder what Swiss will utilize to deal with it?
He could try charging us for each narrow gaze… sort of a tax on the luxury of his attention, but that’d almost certainly bring out the water works as we tried to get out of paying.
I think Tonio is saying that SDF has way to much B&O to be commenting, and needs to take a shower.
Damn Kevin, not from Evansville. Snuff the lantern out, cuz you win the punnery. I can’t walk in anyone else’s shoes, here. We’re all battleship-shape.
I haven’t figured out how to make it smaller. You’ll just have look at it.
the butt smack needs to be larger
*sigh*
Fine.
You’re now my fave.
G-d bless you MS!
I spent Memorial Day weekend refinishing my pool. Now it is so white it is almost blinding
Always with the racist swimming pools.
What do you expect in AZ?
Haboobs.
Chupacabras.
Speedy Gonzales.
You know, the usual.
Proof that they really aren’t sending their best.
Is she really a woman?
“The number of contested posts has fed bloodshed during the campaigns, as criminal groups have used local elections as an opportunity to exert power. A toxic slate of cartels and gangs have battled for turf and more than 20 people seeking political office have been killed just this year. ”
Legalize the drugs, you idiots.
I’m no biologist.
*shrug*
[Insert Sean’s avatar here again]
The Pope is always Catholic. It’s in the rules.
Some of us are more “Joe Biden” Catholic, than hard core Catholic.
Let’s not forget Pelosi.
Do you know how hard it is to keep the communion wine locker stocked when Pelosi is part of your congregation?
No thanks. Even with her tithing, it is a losing proposition.
Depends. Is her tithing based on her reported income or her actual income?
But does he shit in the woods?
Boy, the euphemisms round these parts are getting decidedly odd….
(“GO ‘WAY! REFINISHING MY POOL!”)
But I really did refinish my pool. What do you think I did?
You know, the real question is; did you refinish your neighbors pool?
Yeah, I went there.
“the first in modern history to lose all its glaciers.”
Modern history, sure. Once upon a time the place where I sir right now was under a glacier.
Was it hiding all the guns?
There are a lot of rocks and moraines here that were moved by the glacier. I suspect the glacier was the first to transport guns to Illinois, albeit very slowly.
Tropical glacier – amazed it took this long, I don’t care what elevation it was at.
Monopoly is definitely a game I prefer to play on the computer / Switch / whatnot so when people inevitably get bored, the board state is saved and we don’t have to worry about recreating everything.
Just leave the game set up in the middle of the living room floor – overnight, if necessary. It’ll be fine.*
*Your results may vary if you have cats.
That was going to be my immediate response, yes…. The kitties are very unlikely to leave small, swattable objects like hotels and player tokens undisturbed.
(The unofficial motto for the youngest is: Gravity works! — she’s very much an experimental physicist, always checking her results…)
“With the increase in global temperatures due to climate change, the melting of large ice masses is a continuous phenomenon that, among other things, contributes to raising sea levels around the world.”
Yeah, OK.
We’ve completely lost the polar ice caps as predicted, right…..
Right….?
All the polar bears at the south pole drowned.
True story.
See this morning and OMWC’s links… She’s smart and she demands respect! AP left that little gem out, I see…
My brother liked to use the slumlord gambit. He’d buy the cheap properties and load them up with houses and hotels.
I used to do that, now I go for the green properties.
The Orange / Red corner always seems to be the one to go for for me. It may only be an impression — but people seem to land on those more reliably than the yellow/green zone (much less Boardwalk and Park Place), plus you have the “Go to Illinois” to look forward to. Not the bodyblow a “Go to Boardwalk” would be, but you can really wear folks down a grand at a time with that corner if you can get it.
I like the sudden psychological blow of knowing your opponent doesn’t have $1800 in cash for green. Plus there is a go to Pennsylvania as well.
I didn’t think there was an explicit “Go to Pennsylvania”… just the “Go back 3 spaces” chance if you’re on the right card slot ahead of it. :shrug: Been a while.
I didn’t think there was an explicit “Go to Pennsylvania”… just the “Go back 3 spaces” chance if you’re on the right card slot ahead of it. :shrug: Been a while.
I looked it up, you are correct.
I don’t know what the hell you guys are talking about. Monopoly has King’s Cross Station, Marylebone Station, Fenchurch Street Station, Liverpool Street Station, Park Lane, and Mayfair.
Almost as bad as actually having to go to Pennsylvania.
Literally.
Uffda. I thought Monopoly was the most boring game ever. I’d rather sit naked on a park bench and paddle my nuts with a wooden spoon than get roped into a game of Monopoly.
Who wouldn’t?
That sounds oddly specific.
You’d paddle Jimbo’s nuts? EWWWWW1
Quiet Fourscore!
I’m just about to talk ES into a nice back country trip into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area where we’ll be paddling all day.
Hey, twenty dollars is twenty dollars…
The case of the Humboldt glacier is not the only one. Glaciers around the world are shrinking, and some are disappearing faster in defiance of scientific projections, while others are growing. (Added for accuracy)
“Although the end of the glacier was something that was going to happen due to the cycle we are experiencing, there is no doubt that global warming, a product of greenhouse gases, has of course accelerated the disappearance process,” Bezada
said.claimed, without evidence. (Ditto)Unforeseen technical difficulties
— The U.S.-built temporary pier that has been taking humanitarian aid to starving Palestinians for less than two weeks will be removed from the coast of Gaza to be repaired after getting damaged in rough seas and weather, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
Over the next two days, the pier will be pulled from the beach and sent to the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, where U.S. Central Command will repair it, Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told reporters. She said the fixes will take “at least over a week” and then the pier will need to be anchored back into the beach in Gaza.
“From when it was operational, it was working, and we just had sort of an unfortunate confluence of weather storms that made it inoperable for a bit,” Singh said. “Hopefully just a little over a week, we should be back up and running.”
Just launch pallets of food to shore with a catapult.
I’d call that VERY temporary.
I wouldn’t blame Israel a bit if some unfortunate events just happen to happen at said port….
CentCom sends some beef…
Was thinking it might be a Lena Dunham link, but this did not really disappoint.
Cheapskates. You can’t get a decent pier for under a billion these days.
The final bill will have some “unanticipated” overages added to it. Then it will be a decent pier… or two.
Maybe that is were the took the bridge from Baltimore.
I would like to vote for a counterweight trebuchet.
With 320 million a guy could build one big ass machine.
Or, you could take the Olympic women’s shot put team to dinner…
Void where prohibited
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is planning to virtually nominate President Biden ahead of the party’s convention after the Ohio state Legislature deadlocked on a fix last week to get the president on the ballot in November.
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“Through a virtual roll call, we will ensure that Republicans can’t chip away at our democracy through incompetence or partisan tricks and that Ohioans can exercise their right to vote for the presidential candidate of their choice,” he added.
Rules are for chumps. We do as we please. That’s democracy.
He’s been a virtual president this whole time, so I see nothing wrong.
/signed OH legislature
Well, they seem to have the incompetency part covered.
Checking back an article (sorry, UCS — I was working… and you don’t want me to actually nitpick your C code, probably)… I see there was some mild heckling of the idiotic Biden campaign stop right outside the OMB trial. I think it deserves more heckling for the obvious confirmation of how much of a Joey Biden is regarding the court… but also wanted to share this cited in that article as it rather sums things up.
Just when you think things can’t get dumber… our politicians say “Hold my swill!”….
OMG, DeNiro was wearing a mask too? For real?
I don’t give a fuck what DeNiro thinks. He’s been coasting on Joe Pesci’s coattails for decades, I want to know what he thinks.
“Am I a political analyst, here to amuse you?”
Pesci thinks he’s a clown, there to amuse us.
Comment *Heh.
“Am I a political analyst, here to amuse you?”
Pesci thinks he’s a clown, there to amuse us.
I like this movie already. Does it also star a terribly aged Sharon Stone?
I like this movie already. Does it also star a terribly aged Sharon Stone?
I’m thinking Ray Liotta’s rotting corpse, for Martin Scorsese presents “Week-End at Bernie’s”
Someday, a real virus will come and wash all the has been actors of the streets…
Liz Walters, chair of the Ohio Democratic Party, accused Republicans of “playing politics with our democracy” in a statement Tuesday.
WHEEEEEEE!
The Ohio Repub’s should issue a statement saying that the D’s are too white, and that this is just DEI to have Cornell West get some equity.
Now it is so white it is almost blinding.
THAT’S RACIST!!!1!1!!@!!11!
With the increase in global temperatures due to climate change, the melting of large ice masses is a continuous phenomenon that, among other things, contributes to raising sea levels around the world.
WTF is wrong with NBC? I had to get a third of the way through the article before the writer blamed climate change. Put that writer on a PIP.
Would it kill anyone around here to play a little Foghat every once in a while?
It’s a good song.
NH Federal court strikes down divisive concepts law
The U.S. District Court of New Hampshire struck down a 2021 law Tuesday that barred teachers from advocating for certain topics, siding with teachers unions and the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire and ruling that the law is unconstitutionally vague.
In his decision, Judge Paul Barbadoro held that the law, known by opponents as the “divisive concepts” or “banned concepts” law, violated teachers’ 14th Amendment rights because it is too vague for them to follow.
The law prohibits K-12 public school staff from any instruction that advocates for four concepts: that a person of any race, gender, sexual orientation, or other characteristic is inherently “superior” to another; that any individual is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive against another for any characteristic; that an individual should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment for any characteristic; and that people of one characteristic “cannot and should not attempt to treat others without regard to” one of their characteristics.
Here’s a wacky thought — school vouchers, let parents decide what the teachers should teach their kids via the marketplace and don’t allow a state wide union, “accredidation panel” or other gatekeeper to control the curriculum.
If Lincoln could train himself to be a lawyer using whatever books he could find in a f’ing log cabin, I’m pretty sure with online or private school resources parents can figure something out (if their kids are motivated, of course…)
If there were vouchers and I ran a school, I’d give good grade rebates. If the kid scores above certain thresholds, I’d give the parents some cash back.
I bet that would get the parents to care about how their kids were doing.
It isn’t jury tampering when the President does it.
And if you complain about it, you’re politicizing the judicial system.
“cheap orange properties”
Jeez, does everything have to be about Trump?
Isn’t the Taj Mahal literally on the Boardwalk?
I mortgage myself to the hilt to buy property whenever I land on it in Monopoly. I never turn down a property if I can scrounge the cash.
Your Libertarian Presidential candidate.
Gary Johnson did it for me. He seemed ok, had some experience and sounded good. Then it was like someone gave him a big bag of pot and he smoked it all at once. I haven’t paid attention to that party since.
Sadly, I have to agree with TOK on GJ. He and/or Weld and/or the LP decided that the strategy in 2016 was to appeal to disaffected leftists instead of promoting pro-freedom values across the board.
Yep. Johnson was the perfect candidate. He *was* great. Then…suddenly that ended. My rough affiliation with LP ended. However, I *have* gone to local, Hamilton County meetings and semi-know a few folk. I’ve had lunch w ’em twice within the past year at least, mostly to listen as they talk local shop.
I wish I could kinda slide into that arena in some capacity. I’m sure I could write something that could assist ’em. I wrote a piece on Indiana smoking legislation c. 2008 that got me LP attention.
Pretty sure he’s a COVIdiot too
But I left the LP when it was Bob Barr.
My candidate? My vote is still for McAfee.
Less stiff than Biden! is a helluva campaign slogan.
At least McAfee wouldn’t have gotten unworkably fucked up on one goddamned edible…
You forgot the scare quotes.
That article reeks strongly of bullshit. Pics of weeping natives and flags at half-mast or GTFO.
OMWC: 3 Year Letterman had a banner day today
https://x.com/3YearLetterman/status/1795499539970830384
Green energy is RACIST!
Now do offshore oil rigs and deep sea fishermen. I strongly suspect this really should read as “Groups whine they’re not getting enough slops from graft trough!”
Just like The Man to be focused on profitability. I’m also glad to see that we are training the grifters to write fancy documents to get more money from the guvment.
Black people already absorb more solar energy.
So, explain Sun Ra then!
Didn’t things so.
Boom, Tater. Legit LOL. Will share (w certain folk in w the joke).
Ok, which CA Glib is this?
https://www.modbee.com/news/california/article288779840.html
A cop gave a California man a jaywalking ticket. Then came a ‘campaign of hate and revenge’
Not me.. I’m close to Modesto but not Fresno.
“Hacking” the email account is lame (I think he just intentionally started a brute-force style attack to trigger the password lockouts intentionally)… but he really loses me at the false police report (That’s a crime, so why is he just being sued?) and most certainly when he put out false domestic violence claims. That’s just being a total dick there — you can really ruin any man’s life putting that bullshit out there.
TL;DR – CWAA. I don’t think I’d go $5.5 million a pop for 3 people for it… but I have more sympathy for the cop at this point than this cunte.
The CA lurker crowd could have done it. But they would not have gotten caught.
Mmm… Life in the ‘No.
Veterans Day, Russian style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zrW3Fj3XR8
A device to prevent careless pedestrians from being injured by cars:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlyEIaRw010
My first thought was “Modified cow catcher”. I am not disappointed.
The latest weird computer glitches I’ve experienced:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2024/05/weird-internet-glitches.html
Great White Shark stalks kayak fisherman in Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EZa6bTpung
I can say from experience that it is a bad idea to go kayaking by yourself in the vicinity of the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Shark! Shark! Stop eating my kayak, shark! Why are you even here?!?
Heh… from the comments on that gem:
Look, Tonio causes computer glitches. This Is Known. All that squirrel talk is just cover.
Once you mako your bed, you have to lie in it.
No dodging responsibility for it Tonio.
Great White sharks bring out the best in us.
My god. What sort of monster attacks 10-year-old children like that.
He’s gonna need a bigger boat to beat a monster like that. Good on him though.
I don’t care what (some people here) say, Jaws is a Perfect Film. Everything is pure to character and action. Nothing wasted and all successfully accomplished.
Meet the Jewish grandmother who ran New York’s gritty 1970s porn scene
Gritty porn sounds painful.
Sand in the Vaseline.
Its coarse, rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere!
I have never beaten Older Bro at Monopoly. EVER. I fear this will never change. He’s also the only person I cannot lie to. (I’m sure others detect it as well.)
246 4th grade essays “evaluated” today. Just me and Peabody tonight and it’s gonna be fun. Happily, I am not even tempted to go to drink. Good things.
Taking a Model T to a modern Ford dealer.
So I was speaking with one of my friends in Japan last week trying to explain what a cell phone hotspot is in Japanese.
She types back in Skype to me “デザリング”. Now comes the crappy part, first you sound the katakana out. “dezaringu”. You go WTF English is this derived from? She goes, “I’m pretty sure it’s English.”
Stare some more and go, “ah, tethering” and type it back. She looks at the word and goes, “oh, I’ve been spelling it wrong it’s ‘tezarningu’ “. (テザリング)
Every native Japanese speaker thinks English speakers should easily comprehend katakana loan words quickly. Talk to any English speaker learning Japanese and they will tell you it’s much easier to learn and understand native Japanese. This English, but not English middle ground is just another foreign language.
+1 森高千里の「ロック・アライヴ」
(I’ve seen it spelled as Lock Alive on youtube)
+1 アイスクリーム
And since they like to shorten words including loanwords frequently just アイス.
And using Latin letters too:
https://ibb.co/rG6R1PS
W = double
No idea W meant double.
勉強になりました。
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HomerEv maintains gaze, slowly walks backwards through hedges*How the hell does that pier cost $320 million? Does that include the cost of the aid that was supposed to be delivered and the personnel who would be getting paid with or without the pier? We need to start the Glibs Military Contractors Bizness.
“The U.S. military cost estimate to build the pier and operate it for 90 days is $320 million, roughly double the initial estimate.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_floating_pier
I think it includes the cost of the vessels too – although we should be able to recover the entire system and repair it, disassemble it, transport it again, etc.
So I’m watching Clint Russell talking about the LP convention on YouTube and he said Rectenwald blew it in his speech before the nomination process started because he ate an edible. HOW can any serious person trying for something like that not wait an extra thirty minutes before getting stoned?
Libertarians got pot in most states now. They have no higher purpose now.
story I heard was that Rec thought he was through his speaking obligations for the day when he had the edible
Ah, OK, that’s a lot less bad.
Another weird site error on DDG browser on my phone.
The center top drop down menu (for login link, etc) is now completely blank – or at least invisible text.
Couple more notes – re the Barr discussion from this morning – while maybe not the best candidate – he did help defend Gourmeltz against the state of VA.
Good link with a vid review of The 3rd Man from Razorfist – not available on YouTube. https://x.com/RAZ0RFIST/status/1795580543985500287?t=x4hqvhuIbmbANsQne-wdZg&s=19
Interesting link and article I came across earlier this afternoon.
https://x.com/Chabad/status/1795187693720146212?t=_XcToFMjbp4yOFO1wgjByA&s=19