Best part of Euro kick ball…any match is most likely to be replaying an old war!
I am presuming most of you had a very long weekend. I did not, but I am still sacking up to bring links! *strikes heroic pose*
But seriously, let us ease back into the routine with some fairly normal links:
- *Quietly crosses Ryanair off possible flights list* Actually, the large number of “Drunken Brits on flight from Spain…” stories had caused this years ago.
- Good news from Africa! No, not really...same old, same old.
- Hmmm. Wonder if this will go through?
- The Siege of Zurich.
Music… lets try this one.
Comment section is open and yours.
“However, it has not been confirmed whether the US singer and her entourage are staying at the Mandarin Oriental Savoy at all.”
Mandarin Oriental sounds redundant.
I really dont know what drives people to seek fame and fortune. I am onboard with the fortune bit but the fame? Why would you want swarms of howler monkeys following you around everywhere you go?
Some people crave validation from the outside. They need their ego stroked. Thankfully you don’t understand that.
What about swarms of groupies willing to put out?
I’d imagine much of the attention is detested outside ‘business.’ (It and ‘private’ overlap more, each gen.) Rich folk live in gated communities for a goddamn understandable reason. If my job were to be public, I’d do everything to ensure Private Ev was as free from outside exposure as possible.
I at least understand the ol’ Private Golf Clubs. I’d want somethin’ a little more ‘me,’ but I’ll just shout at my pony in the clouds.
I used to live next to an old fashioned country club.
They’d have golf, clay shoots, etc.
Kind of different.
I do, though. It’s one thing to have your mama tell you “u rite gud,” but it’s another to have a solid audience that has no vested interest in you to tell you they love your work.
Agree with Mo on that: The feeling you get when you get a table to laugh at your jokes; hit a homer (esp in an important moment); pretty much any accomplishment, they *mean* something. Some ‘require’ more active audiences. Ya also can’t “Cook a great meal!” if there’s no one to enjoy it fresh. (Social primates gonna/gotta be social.)
Were I fuck-off famous/wealthy, I’d pay to have my Private Left meticulously kept so. I do ‘get’ celebs who get secreted in behind the lines at hotels, sports events, etc.
So you’re not a fan*?
(*longtime MO advertising campaign)
“Good news from Africa!”
White people gave up on climate change?
Maybe if the conferences were held in Amarillo, Barstow, or such.
A “mass brawl” between passengers onboard a Ryanair “flight from hell” caused the pilot to make an emergency landing after taking off in a seemingly never-ending chaotic scene ignited by a man asking to switch his seat.
The London Stansted Airport-bound flight departed from Agadir, Morocco, on Wednesday when the chaos erupted at 30,000 feet in the air, the Sun reported.
At first I was confused as to why Ryanair was flying to north Africa. Then I figured they must be live music fans.
Some folks will bear great expense to hear Moroccan roll.
That was just saud..i
You should be banned for tangiers for that remark.
As the Europeans say…. “beaux!”
I’m hoping for a Dutch-French final in the big soccer tournament. As a decades-long Florida Gator partisan, it’d be neat to hear other fanbases do the “Oranje… Bleu” chant.
It looks like the Democrats are stuck with Joe unless he leaves voluntarily. From my reading of the 25th he can be removed from office, but there is nothing about preventing him from running.
This is what I don’t understand. The political parties can nominate whoever they want, however they want? That’s not governed by US law. So if, at the convention, they all vote to kick out Biden and nominate someone else, there’s nothing illegal about it, right?
There are fifty sets of state laws. Generally, committed delegates are required to vote for whomever they are committed on the first vote at least. After that, they can vote their conscience. Biden has enough committed delegates to win on the first vote.
Biden would have to release his delegates.
Their problem is that they do not have a ‘least worst’ candidate. All of them are the worst in their own special way. Also, every one of them has been lying their asses off about Biden for years in ways they cannot wash off with gasoline. Them and their media lackeys as well.
As far as I know, only he can release those delegates to allow them to vote for someone else.
There’s also the ballot rules so Joe (or rather electors pledged to vote for him in the electoral college) would still be on the ballot in some states even if he was replaced at the convention.
Except… no matter whose name is on the ballot, you’re voting for a slate of electors, who will undoubtedly vote the way their party tells them to.
He has the delegates locked in.
Super delegate says what.
Except, they rigged the primaries to make sure has enough regular committed delegates to get nominated on the first round.
https://apnews.com/article/biden-democrats-nomination-president-delegate-34a06d45d909c077fbeed17014f92986
The Associated Press declared Biden the presumptive nominee at 7:16 p.m. EDT Tuesday, after he won the Georgia primary and at least 100 of its 108 delegates, enough to put him above the 1,968 needed to lock up the nomination. When polls close in Mississippi at 8 p.m. EDT, he’ll immediately pick up another 35 delegates, as he’s the only candidate on the ballot. Earlier in the day, Biden won six delegates from the Northern Mariana Islands.
They ran off RFK for having the nerve to challenge their presumptive nominee.
As off today:
Presidential primary results; From The Associated Press
Joe Biden 3,896 delegates
Oh yeah, he was the only one on the ballot in some states. And they bragged about him winning in a landslide.
According to Wikipedia (yeah, but this isn’t controversial) Biden has 3,905 of 3,949 delegates.
“19 killed, over 100 shot over holiday weekend in Chicago”
https://thepostmillennial.com/19-killed-over-100-shot-over-holiday-weekend-in-chicago
#BlackLivesMatter
I skipped hockey practice because traffic was insane from that NASCAR race. Perhaps it saved my life.
Oh.
Pretty good pace this year: https://heyjackass.com/
That sounds terrible, I wonder which political party has been in charge for those generations of disinvestment and deep disenfranchisement?
“…but were due to a culture of criminality.” <–Fixed.
I grew up around people that made excuses for thuggery and barbarism. I dont truck with that shit.
In a vacuum, those bullets would keep going at the muzzle velocity until they hit the ground or an obstacle.
” I wonder which political party has been in charge for those generations of disinvestment and deep disenfranchisement?”
The party they elected and keep re-electing.
I wonder which political party has been in charge for those generations of disinvestment and deep disenfranchisement?
The same one that will still be in charge for the next 40 years?
It’s not the politicians. It’s the population, a third of which is very short on self control. They can be sort of controlled, by strict and impartial enforcement of laws but that is unacceptable to modern audiences.
Amazing to me how a bunch of low rent commie grifters can pull that off. Money matters. You could shove their concern about black lives up a flea’s ass without the flea even noticing.
Welp..looks like thay are running with its okay that Biden is overcooked broccoli
“Big Boy” press conference? I guess he isn’t at least fucking a horse.
Is this one of those “cheap fake” video clips I keep hearing about, or are we now just having a good time with it while Rome burns?
If you call a sore forehead from too many facepalms a good time
Wife is watching ‘In the Heat of the Night’, the tv show. Just saw a scene where the lovable white knight cops are in a grocery store chatting it up. Sign behind one of them says “Bananas 15 cents / lb”.
Show ran from ’88 to ’95.
https://youtu.be/8QqkrIDeTeA
Also noticed banana has a noticeably thicker peel now too
best I can find for 1988 is 42¢/lb which was 73¢/lb in 2024 pennies, bananas are currently 62¢/lb. possibly the Hollywood supermarket was using old set pieces, or there was a sale that day.
source : https://www.in2013dollars.com/Bananas/price-inflation
I keep hearing numbers for inflation, official numbers I suppose, that are wildly low.
I know in the last 4 years our monthly expenses have doubled and we buy less than we used to. I know this because I pay them all in one lump sum at the end of each month.
They can crank out the phoney numbers until their jaws fall off, I still believe my lying bank account.
I think “in the Heat of the Night” was supposed to be set in the ’60s? So probably close to accurate.
Or perhaps it was 15¢ each, which seems to be the way they are labeled in all the old flyers I can find.
Maybe, could be either one or both of those. In any case it doesnt say much for what the govt has done with the value of the dollar.
Meh, the value of the dollar is meaningless in the discussion of banana purchasing power. (yes, yes, they are stealing your savings if you don’thave it invested iwhere it at least keeps up with inflation) The only true test is is how many hours the the average joe has to work to buy a pound of bananas, I’d wager an apprentice carpenter today making 15-17$/hr could by more bananas that I could back in the 80’s when I was making 7½-10$/hr.
“I know in the last 4 years our monthly expenses have doubled”
Someone’s ripping you off, or you need to move to Ohio, My expenses are up right around 20%, some things are higher than that some are lower. I’ve said it before , I’ll likely say it again – when you people bitch about these things I gotta wonder if I’m not living in an alternate universe.
“Joe can’t do four years as president!” “He’s too far gone!”
(All things said in 2020, yet here we are)
Joe? We cant do four more years of Joe.
I would agree.
The people pulling Joe’s strings:
“Wanna bet?”
Weekend at Bernie’s.
Sadly, the redux won’t be as good as the original, just like the movies.
Thinking of this today:
Just imagine the glorious pomp and ritualistic faux grief of a state funeral for The Greatest Mostest Self-Sacrificing President of All Time. Doktor Grandma wouldn’t miss it for the world.
I guess that’s the tinfoil hat scenario: Uncle Joe kicks off in mid-October and Kamala gets elected in a landslide of sympathy.
Carter outlasts Joe in our latest work pool.
Waiting for our extra day off.
I am sure they would tie it to Jan 6 somehow too
Joe died alongside his son Beau in Iraq.
First the Hunter laptop, now dementia. It really is something how things that might make people not vote for Biden keep getting hidden. This must be how “democracy” works.
*Our* democracy.
Just wait until they come clean with the revelation that the whole damn family is an influence peddling and money laundering operation.
I skipped hockey practice because traffic was insane from that NASCAR race. Perhaps it saved my life.
*shuddering flashback*
Trying to get back to Indianapolis Sunday evening after the races at Milwaukee or Elkhart Lake was fucking horrible. You could make better time on a bicycle most of the way. Chicago- what a shithole.
Drove thru Chicago on a Saturday afternoon on my way to Ft McCoy. White Sox game gets out just at the perfect time. The next 30 miles took me almost 2 hours. Fuck that place.
Sign behind one of them says “Bananas 15 cents / lb”.
Wonder Bread was probably 19 cents.
don’t know about Wonder Bread™ but white bread was 61¢
Commission finds COVID pandemic caused $18 trillion in economic damage to US
Sounds light.
And yet the people that engineered that are still breathing free air.
+1 “ $6 trillion due to chronic conditions such as “long COVID””
The pandemic didn’t do much damage. Our ridiculous policies in reaction to it did massive damage.
As they were intended.
Evolution
Honda has confirmed that the production version of last year’s pretty Prelude Concept will go on sale in Europe, and the automaker is bringing it to this month’s Goodwood Festival of Speed to build fans’ anticipation.
Releasing images of a red coupe – the original concept was white – alongside an original first-generation 1979-82 Prelude that looks tiny in comparison, Honda claimed that the first new Prelude in 30 years would blend driving fun with efficiency via a hybrid drivetrain.
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Plenty of car enthusiasts would rather see Honda drop in the Civic Type R’s 315 hp (319 PS) 2.0-liter turbo engine and six-speed manual transmission, but it doesn’t sound like that’s on the cards. Honda officials have been quoted in the past as saying the Prelude “isn’t going to be the sportiest, zippiest car.”
Just what your mistress needs.
Nailed it Brooks. Impractical chick car.
*yawn*
Sad. They have no choice because of emissions but to use that powertrain if they are selling in volume.
Also look how high and fat the front end is in profile. Crash and pedestrian safety requirements.
No question. Almost every car now, at least more premium ones, have some form of hybrid system to game the stupid tests.
I think those of us who love cars are not going to to love the next 10 years.
The Porsche 911 hybrid looks like it’s amazingly light and powerful. So great power for the weight penalty.
Bad news is typical crazy German engineering and long term reliability and repairability.
I think the idea of keeping any newer cars long term with large electronic module counts is going to be close to impossible.
Ugh, the proportions are all wrong and the hood makes it look like it’s pregnant.
Looks kinda like a Nissan Z to me.
I think the idea of keeping any newer cars long term with large electronic module counts is going to be close to impossible.
How many people will be driving 30 year old cars in 2055? Or, more to the point, how many mid-2020s cars will be operable and on the road? Not many, I’d guess.
I dunno, but given the relative simplicity of e cars, there may be some that are good to go after a battery swap.
They are anything but simple. Just complicated in new and exciting ways. Also, a minor crash often means totaling the vehicle.
In my experience, the mechanicals can go almost forever. It’s the electrical systems that cause the most headaches when the car gets old. I think Brooksie is right – these cars are almost all disposable.
I watch a fair amount of motor trend and the traditional engine is a kludge. A Tesla is a motor a battery and a computer that tells the motor how fast to turn.
Hyperbole nails it,,,lots of exaggeration which doesn’t help make the case. Biden has not “destroyed America.”. Trump isn’t promising a “bloodbath ” for his enemies. Biden is flat out lying about inflation but based on local crowds at the beach and in restaurants most Americans are coping without resort to eating cat food. Perhaps we need Perot style charts to get a better handle on reality?
Anecdata: A lot of restaurants are shuttering in my area. I grab takeout now and then, but I don’t go to sit-down restaurants anymore.
Are you downtown? One of the guys I play hockey with was bitching about how his favorite places keep dropping.
NW of downtown, but I work downtown.
Hmm. There is a pho place I’ve been meaning to try in Old Town. I guess I better get to it.
I don’t care about the price of bananas or gasoline. I can afford both.
I’m a tad concerned about this.
Particularly since no one in either party will talk about it. The RNC just released Two Scoop’s “Contract on America.” It’s full of sound bites but not a word about the empire-killer.
What are the odds the deep state gets some “crazy MAGA guy” to assassinate Biden?
Lew Haley Grizwold. I hear that guy did not revoke his citizenship and move to the USSR. Right wing nutbag. They could probably talk him into it.
*In such a scenario I am wondering how hard they would have to spin a totally not a Palestinian supporter into a right wing fanatic.
“Public libraries across Idaho have banned children from entering due to a controversial law putting a ‘bounty’ on thousands of books.
Conservative lawmakers pushed through legislation allowing parents to sue libraries over books they deem ‘obscene’ or otherwise inappropriate for children.
Public and school libraries had 60 days to remove the book or move it to an adults-only area closely monitored by staff, or face lawsuits from parents.
However, many libraries were too small to create a special section, or lacked the resources or appetite for risk, and instead banned kids entirely.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13609223/Outrage-Idaho-libraries-BAN-children-demand-visitors-ID-30.html
WTF??
They can’t have a back room like a video rental shop?
It’s what pushback looks like.
It’s always two retards fighting.
Do we have a list of these books?
I dunno, but given the relative simplicity of e cars, there may be some that are good to go after a battery swap.
I keep hearing that, but there’s a lot more to those whizbang electric cars than a battery and a motor.
a lot of things with software and sensors and servos work great until they don’t.
My Triumph had three fuses. It was 43 years old when I sold it. Tell me how that wasn’t one of the greenest vehicles ever made?
I don’t care about the price of bananas or gasoline. I can afford both.
I’m a tad concerned about this.
#METOO
We are ruled by of people who believe the proper function of government is to spend unlimited amounts of money.
This is pretty cool:
After an earlier era of flying ‘sausages’ and ‘jellyfish’, balloon warfare is having a renaissance
Riiiiiiight.
A song to listen to while you read.
Mammary Monday!
https://archive.is/4Ad6Z
Dozens of “Swifties” besieged the Hotel Savoy on Zurich’s Paradeplatz on Monday afternoon. Taylor Swift is supposed to be staying at the hotel. The police had to intervene.
Oh boy.
I sense a new fun game!
“I heard Taylor Swift is staying at DEG’s house!”
Just what I need.