Hard to get going today – so the links will reflect this lack of get up and go.
- Are they still doing this kind of thing? – Tabloid Link
- Very Serious News Agency of Great International Stature – News Links
- Lesser Wire Service – For the Children Link
- Swiss News – Women Hardest Hit Link
The comments are open and all yours.
You see this, MikeS? This is how you First.
Meh.
It’s not how I first. I would first with something from the post. Blind firsting is lame.
His mother warned him if he kept Firsting he’d go blind…
Meh meh meh.
That’s bordering on meh-thusiasm.
*narrows gaze*
And yet ennui go with these puns.
***WILD APPLAUSE!!!***
Concur.
Jesus, Kevin.
Save that for a non-meh day, brother!
*shakes head admiringly*
That’s fucking impressive.
Where is that damn standing ovation .gif?
Where Is That Confounded .GIF?
It’s cloudy, rainy, and cool, and I was up late playing hockey. So I agree with the meh.
Better than hot and humid.
84 (feels like 81), sunny, 11% humidity, light breeze.
Perfection.
When you’re playing Perfection
Here’s what to know
You’ve got to be quick
And here’s how it goes
Put the lever down
Turn the timer on
Put the pieces in place
Don’t be slow!
For Perfection,
You’ve got to move all fast,
Move all fast,
Before the pieces pop up
Before you’ve pulled out the last!
And that’s Perfection!
It’s a bit chilly in NYC.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11204543/Lily-Rose-Depp-shows-toned-legs-lavender-mini-skirt.html
Jelly. Hot and humid here. Not as bad as yesterday so there’s that.
I think it is the first day of Fall here, dropped into the seventies and it looks like it will hold.
“The right-wing bloc consists of the Moderates, the Liberals, the Christian Democrats and the Sweden Democrats.”
That doesn’t sound all that right-wing. Who the fuck is in the left-wing? The Communists, Democratic Socialists, Symbionese Liberation Army, and the Swedish Pedophile Front?
ALOL.
You left out the “More anti-Swedish Migrants Now” party, the “Just Kill the Swedes” party.
The Ranting Swede party, the Major Minor Party, the General Specific Party, the Private Public Party, the ANGRY Scientist Party and of course, the Urban Sheep Party.
Swedish Chef Party
Yodder-Hay Party
There was a PJ O’Rourke joke about Swedish socialists maintaining power for decades by refusing to implement socialism.
Social Democrats, Greens, Left Party, and the Center Party.
Dancing Drag Queen’s for Kids Party.
And this is how you First.
This is an afront to my honor. I’d challenge you to a First Off, but that is beneath me. GOOD DAY SIR
You have honor?
How do you know he isn’t first? The comments are no longer numbered.
A First cannot be defined with mere words, but one knows it when they see it. Or they don’t.
“No, YOU have no honor!”
Now show me your honor!
(NSFW)
In Japan, men come first.
But then how are we supposed to be breaking the rules if we’ve already been given permission?
Gah!
By only talking about the provided links.
It might be too complex for some to understand
😏
I’m not going to fall for it.
You only have nine days to wait.
puns?
That would be one meh-thod.
But would that appeal to the meh-lennials?
Maybe – if they found them to be sufficiently “meh-ta.”
Zubin agrees.
Sweden’s right-wing opposition parties were on track to win a narrow majority of 175 seats in the 349-seat parliament on Sunday, beating the ruling centre-left, the country’s election authority said as 78% of districts had reported results.
If confirmed, Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson is expected to become prime minister while the anti-immigration, far-right Sweden Democrats would be the biggest right-wing group and gain direct influence on policy for the first time.
The race remained tight, with a significant number of votes still to be counted.
The right-wing bloc consists of the Moderates, the Liberals, the Christian Democrats and the Sweden Democrats.
Nazis, one and all.
Putin should invade to deNazify the place.
The liberators of Sweden will arrive by submarines. As I recall in the ’80s Sweden imagined a Soviet submarine behind every dolphin.
No, no! It was a submarine on every shoal!
That shoal is pretty!
In mussel shoals the love them the governor.
That was part of the plot in one of the Wallander episodes.
“The 2022-23 school year in the city was supposed to begin last Wednesday, but more than 6,000 teachers in the Seattle Education Association walked off the job — mostly over complaints about teachers’ pay and a lack of scholastic support for children with special needs.”
At least the retards are sticking together.
6,000 teachers for 50,000 students? 🤪
Lemme guess – they want smaller class sizes.
“It is such an affront and embarassment to expect me to actually have students in MY classroom.”
Of course, even if it isn’t real. Gotta keep that fear level baseline ratching upwards.
Can anyone explain to me why men in Sweden have a higher age to receive pensions than women in the first place?
“Equality”
equity
“Equity”
You want to be stuck in the unheated house all day with the wife?
Take A Chance On Me
What do Swedish women have to do with Swiss pension laws?
Poor Chett mixed the two, or Swizterland is paying Swedish pensions.
This is a stark reminder that as great as I am, even I am not perfect.
I actually read the bullshit explanation as to why the left opposes the move to up the age to the same as men in the article. Yes, I do deign to read a link occasionally.
So help me, I went and looked up the Swedish pension system and unlike a number of european courntries, there is no difference in eligability age based on sex.
So, Chett just mixed up the two
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcYYDssX0AEnWL4.jpg
INSUREKKKTION!!!
The font of NZZ’s header bespeaks tradition, solidity and trustworthiness. Do they own a bank? I would like to make a deposit.
I…I could make that happen.
*shifty eye gaze*
I got an interesting text, a while ago.
“Your card has been LOCKED! Get in touch with us right away! [other nonsense]”
I did not get in touch.
I’ve received messages like that for the Visa card and other accounts I don’t have. Some have been so amateur they only sent “Unusual Activity” without the link to their scam site.
Recently I’ve been getting emails with receipts for purchase I never made. I’m probably supposed to call them back with account and credit card numbers so they can “check”. I just delete them.
Been getting tons of those lately. So annoying.
The funny thing to me as the email address is always something stupid. USBankChimichanga@gmail.com. I mean, come on. If you’re gonna scam, at least make it legit!
But who doesn’t trust google?
/snark
Those are the only junk texts I get. All “from” two banks I have never used.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11203593/New-York-judge-called-Hispanic-people-liars-gay-men-f-s-court-docs-claim.html
Wow. She sounds nuttier than a server squirrel turd. How did she get the job in the first place?
“Black people can’t be racist” ?
Okay, this nutjob is a judge on the surrogate court. What’s that, you ask? It’s a court of limited jurisdiction.
It doesn’t feel limited when you are the losing party and believe the judge was biased.
She sounds nice.
It’s not about the money!
“Yuri, when wars is over, weight limit and fitness tests will come back…”
Which one is the tank?
“Hey, why tires on left side all worn down?!”
“Not pictured, Yuri’s other combat boot…”
He flies their drones (gamer bod) and is the deadliest of the bunch.
Meat shield.
Meat Ball. Urka style.
Yuri “the refrigerator” Cosmo.
Slol
Yuri the Bullet Sponge
“EXCLUSIVE: Giuliani’s failed presidential bid left him constantly ‘s***faced,’ unable to get out of bed and forced to do LifeLock INFOMERCIALS to pay for $17k cigar and fountain pen habit – until he was pulled from the brink by Trump, new book reveals”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11203843/Rudy-Giuliani-forced-INFOMERCIALS-Trump-pulled-brink.html
Fountain pen habit?
It can happen.
I’m just experimenting with Parker ballpoints, myself. I can stop whenever I want to.
$17K a what? Year? Week? $17K a year is less than $50/day. Two to shelf cigars and the occasional collector pen could easily get you there.
17k in six months. I agree that’s not exactly Hunter Biden money.
But this is so much worse than crack and hookers.
At least Hunter got his money’s worth.
Whose money?
Right, my bad. Hunter got *OUR* money’s worth…
And being “forced” to do commercials? Oh, the horror.
Seriously. I’ll fall and not be able to get up for the right paycheck.
Don’t you do it for free on the Zoom?
If only he had stuck to flicking his Bic.
“Bai Ling, 55, is still a pinup in a white cut-out mini dress at a Beverly Hills event… 17 years after she posed for the cover of Playboy”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11204195/Bai-Ling-55-pinup-17-years-posed-cover-Playboy.html
No.
Steven Tyler really needs to lay off the drugs.
Less lipstick. Makes him look like a clown.
In unrelated news, Mrs. Potatohead has filed a police report stating that she was mugged Sunday evening, and that “some bitch stole my lips.”
Correct answer.
They baffle SCIENCE!
By this point in the pandemic, most Americans have had at least one bout of COVID. For children under age 18, more than 80% of them have been infected, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.
But just as with HIV, some people have been exposed multiple times but never had symptoms and never tested positive.
“We’ve heard countless anecdotes about nurses and health-care workers being exposed without any protection and remaining negative over and over again,” says pediatrician Jean-Laurent Casanova, who studies the genetics of viral resistance at Rockefeller University. “Or people share a household with someone who’s been coughing for a couple of weeks, and one person stays negative.”
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“These findings are like hot off the presses,” says immunogeneticist Jill Hollenbach, who led this research. “We haven’t published them yet. It’s all stuff that’s been happening this summer.”
Hollenbach and her team have found a genetic mutation that doesn’t prevent the virus from infecting cells – that’s what Landau was searching for in his HIV research – but still does something remarkable: It prevents a person from having COVID symptoms.
Foochy haz a sad.
I’m convinced it has been so politicized at this point it’s impossible to anything.
Damn, the Bee was already on it.
https://babylonbee.com/news/cdc-warns-of-new-stealth-covid-variant-where-you-test-negative-and-get-no-symptoms
It’s neat that they’re looking into why this happens, but the article seems a bit too surprised for my liking. We knew from the start that there were people who never got it – people on the DIamond Princess who didn’t catch it despite their spouse coughing all over them in a tiny cabin, etc. There’s always some percentage of people that just don’t catch the plague or the human race would be extinct. Hell, I was exposed to chicken pox multiple times as a child, but I never had it until I was an adult and, presumably, my childhood immunity to it had weakened enough or it was a different strain or w/e (I was a highly allergic child, so my immune system was pretty much in overdrive as a little kid). And I’ve still managed to escape covid altogether – granted, I’m mostly at home, but my kid was at school and he hasn’t got it either, even when his friends did. So I don’t know if we’re naturally immune or just lucky so far, but I’m hoping we outlast the next wave until it’s settled into just another cold.
I got it a couple of months ago, but it was like a moderate cold and would never have suspected it was COVID, but my husband had to have me do the test because of his job.
For me it was a mildly scratchy throat.
Cops “immediately” cleared out Terminal C’s lower level “as a precautionary measure” upon learning of the package around 12:45 p.m., officials said.
Moonites. It’s always Moonites.
⬅
That is very UR of you.
What does a lost Sumerian city-state in Mesopotamia have to do with it?
Because people here like to babble-on?
That is where the Mooninites Ignignokt and Err live.
(Err posts as MikeS.)
Ignignokt posts as MikeS.
That’s what PM Abe said.
Oh… MoonITES. Nevermind.
So having one of these mutations would make you a sort of COVID mini-dodger, if you will. There are other ways to resist an infection besides denying the virus entrance into the cell, Landau explains. And they likely involve your body’s immune system.
That’s exactly what the team at UCSF has found.
Since the pandemic begin, Jill Hollenbach and her colleagues at UCSF have been studying people who test positive COVID but show no symptoms. “Not even a sniffle or a scratchy throat,” she says. “So they are entirely asymptomatic.”
After analyzing DNA from more than 1,400 people, they identified a mutation that helps a person clear out a SARS-CoV-2 so fast that their body doesn’t have a chance to develop symptoms.
Who could ever have conceived of such a thing?
Yup, that very well could be me. I should probably be worried about being snatched off the street and imprisoned in some evil corporate biolab, Resident Evil style…
The first film was a perfect low budget adoption. Plus Milla Jovovich…
I’m just gonna pretend you didn’t say that.
Did they use horse de-wormer, bleach, or aquarium cleaner?
Old covid mini-dodger sneaking by the basement door
Everybody knows what he’s tippy-toein’ down there for…
Waiting for the communal pussy to show up so I can give it some beef.
Make sure and give it a good petting first.
Phrasing?
Yeah… now she’s just taunting us.
I mean, it’s just so easy
We don’t do that around here.
That’s something Tres would say.
Jesus H. Crist.
Alternate Title: Florida Man runs for Office
I mean, isn’t this the progressive/Democratic playbook at this point?
Heretic, traitor, racist, etc. This is pretty much page one of their playbook.
Sounds like he has a future as Most Popular Vote
PresidentGovernor Ever.Project Veritas receives a letter from the CT AG.
Nice response to an obvious attempt to backdoor an investigation of PV.
“This letter presumes the AG has read the First Amendment.”
nice
Well, fuck. Last week I got a nasty letter from the IRS telling me that I owe them $31K in unpaid federal taxes, penalties and interest.
Earlier today my CPA called me and gave me the bad news that the goddamn government is correct.
So naturally I called my wife to give her the bad news. She said she would stop by the store on her way home and pick up a bottle of my favorite soy sauce.
She really knows how to Kikkoman when he’s down.
Now I’m not sure if you were just going a long way for a joke, or if you actually owe money.
I actually owe Uncle Sam $31K, in addition to the six-figure sum I already
had extorted from megave them earlier this year.May as well make a joke about it while grousing.
I’m sorry to hear that.
Sad.
The only controversial thing we had with taxes happened more than 3 years ago. In the clear by now.
Well, on the plus side, I got a check for 86 bucks from them the other day! I guess we over paid when filing.
Bravo.
Plus there are better soy sauces as well.
For you.
“When the drums, bass, and keyboard player were late for a gig.”
Apparently the vocalist was absent as well.
Unreal.
Both of the videos make me feel pretty shitty about what I’ve done with my life!
Orion, (sans a loop)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zq4MrctxZM
Love Rodrigo y Gabriela
I thought the CPA was supposed to prevent that.
My CPA retired last December, and stupid me procrastinated instead of immediately hiring another one. Suddenly it’s late March, and every tax guy was already up to their ears in clients, so I went to one of those tax prep firms that apparently hires anything that wanders in off the streets — kids who flunked high school math, tweakers, stray dogs, whatever. Costly lesson learned.
Earlier today my CPA called me and gave me the bad news that the goddamn government is correct.
Sorry.
“Despite Cole’s choice of words, matching that of many anti-trans activists, federal judges, the ACLU and now the Associated Press have made it clear that the transphobic terms, “biological male,” “biological female” and “biological sex” are nonsense words, coined during the North Carolina bathroom bill days specifically to oppress trans people.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2022/09/11/ex-trans-activist-chloe-cole-in-her-own-words-im-autistic/
This is some article.
“As for the protests against libraries that host drag queen story hours, Cole again said: “I condemn any/all violence,” But in her next sentence she echoed what LibsOfTikTok, The Proud Boys, Gov. Ron DeSantis and other anti-drag activists have said: “The hyper-sexualization innate in most drag performances is not age appropriate for children.”
OFFS!!
Well, yes – “biological male” is nonsense, when the perfectly serviceable “male” exists.
Most people to whom the additional descriptor needs to be added are not perfectly serviceable as males. The soy-contaminated, castrati, mentally ill, and tending pretenders all have their own… issues.
“when the perfectly serviceable “male” exists.”
Phrasing.
First, the trans activists and the progs got what they wanted when people started using terms like biological male. If anything, like Rhywun stated, the term male or female should suffice to describe it as it has throughout the entirety of human history. They were the ones who told us that gender was a social construct and different than biological sex. So explicitly stating that you are referring to biological sex was, if anything, giving these people what they wanted. But if you give them an inch, they’ll take a mile. It’s never enough with the left so even that became discriminatory because the wrong sorts of people were saying it.
There is no clear way for people who disagree with the redefining of biological reality to describe it without being labeled a bigot, so even trying to be polite is kind of off the table for those who were so inclined in the first place. You were born with a dick? You are a male. You were born with a vag? You are a female. I don’t give a shit what you do yourself later in life, how many hormones you pump yourself with or how you want to identify anymore where as 5 years ago I probably would have just shrugged and called someone whatever they wanted/preferred because really, I didn’t give a shit.
And it’s hard to look at the progressive actions here and not see a deliberate effort to sexualize children and to actively spread behaviors that are outside the norm. It’s not even just about acceptance. They want more people who are confused about their gender, more people who question their sexuality. They want to instill this shit in kids. It’s a long ways away from the argument of even ten years ago that people are born gay and the implicit, sometimes even explicit statement that no one would choose a path in life that makes things more difficult and where they’re more likely to face discrimination. Which is fine – the argument that it was natural was always spurious to me, but this goes hand in hand with forcing people to not just accept, but to actively support and champion this behavior regardless of any beliefs they may hold.
I had to fill out a new patient form for a new doctor last week, and had to answer what my “sex assigned at birth” was
“I’m sorry, I need a real doctor, not someone who graduated from Woke Medical School.”
It’s madness. The terminology and what is or isn’t acceptable is constantly changing. There is no real norm so anyone can really run afoul of this nonsense even if they are a true believer. And when it comes to the ringleaders behind this, I can’t help but feel as if that’s the goal. It’s a complete deconstruction of one of the most basic aspects of a culture. It’s basically the most successful assault on objective truth the Western world has perhaps ever seen.
It is the goal. They have made themselves the priests of a new religion that doesn’t even have a holy text to hold them accountable to. The commandments change daily and the meaning of the words they use can only be interpreted by those credentialed by the church.
This is the point.
The intended result is to make everyone second-guess and silence themselves. And if you repeat the lie, even better. It’s exactly how cults work, and it is very effective at creating fanatics while frightening the rest into compliance.
The power rush that the psychopaths get by forcing others into complying with their increasingly bizarre demands is probably more thrilling than any sex they will ever have, particularly after they cut off their junk.
We need an Internet Rule for fluctuating word salads such as this — a Cole’s Law if you will.
Except Cole is the one who makes sense here.
That Forbes is running articles to personally attack a detransitioner is very telling.
Running articles and then removing them?
The running of the articles is a very dangerous activity.
You mean Coleslaw, right?
pssst… don’t explain the joke!
Well, I slaw what you did.
“Last month, Raichik published and tweeted recordings and screenshots that she claimed proved surgeons were performing hysterectomies, double mastectomies and orchiectomies on children at The Center for Gender Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital and Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. Both hospitals were subsequently targeted with a series of bomb threats, as recently as Friday. Children’s hospitals in other cities have also been targeted as a result of Raichik’s campaign, which has resulted in temporary bans on some of her social media platforms.
But her campaign is based on lies; The factchecking team at Politifact determined Raichik’s viral claim was false. While there have been exceptions for some 15, 16 and 17-year-olds, most surgeons won’t operate on anyone younger than 18.”
So they’ve performed surgeries on children.
Woops, I brooks my own comment.
Except for all those time Jeffrey Dahmer killed someone, he never killed anyone.
And their fact-checking consisted of asking them after the fact and they mostly tried to cover their asses.
The people who answered the phone and basically begged Libsoftiktok to come get the surgery herself were just misinformed!
I was willing to give the hospital the benefit of the doubt with the first person thinking she was just being agreeable and wanting to forward the call to the next person. But when the second person gave basically the same info and said she saw plenty of young people come through the hospital for this sort of thing, the benefit of the doubt disappeared.
Anyone under 26 is a child, so yes they did.
“Your card has been LOCKED! Get in touch with us right away! [other nonsense]”
I actually got a laugh out of a telemarketer today. A woman called about “saving me on my car insurance.” I gave her a long song and dance about not having insurance because of so many DUI’s, all which were cop entrapments, judges repeatedly taking my license away, etc. She was taking me pretty serious, and until I said “hold on a minute, I have to make a right turn here into this parking lot.” That cracked her up.
Would you be interested in joining my organization DAM? Drunks Against Moms?
That’s DAMM (Drunks Against MADD Moms) you splitter!
I thought it was ADAM (Angry Drunks Against MADD)
It’s DPFJ
Drunken People’s Front of Judea
So did you ask her out?
*grumble* stop being helpful, you’re not.
At some point firefox apparently decided to make “unload tabs on memory low” default to true. I don’t want it to unload my email or glibs because this laptop only has 4gb of memory. I’ll close some tabs if need be, but I’ll pick them!
New Drinker
Your daily dose of Sanford and son:
https://youtu.be/lt_Nuf8WTZ0
https://twitter.com/jaythechou
I don’t even know who Padington is.
It’s a train station in London.
I had no idea this song was shadow banned by Google. I always listen in Japanese with Japanese subs and search terms (kanji and kana).
Why YouTube HATES This Japanese Song
Also no idea search was shaped so much by region US v Japan. You expect this shit in Saudi Arabia and China.
To be clear it shadow banned in English only.
We should ban Romeo and Juliet.
Hadn’t thought that but it’s on point.
This song is based on a short story. I wasn’t aware of that until this video.
Holy Fuck! Just discovered what my benefit rate is. I’m making just under 20 bucks less every pay period than I was EARNING working full-time hours. No wonder nobody wants to work anymore. Insanity.
I’m not complaining overmuch on a personal level, seeing as what my situation has become but this can’t be tenable in the long run. Employment insurance is supposed to a bailey bridge across a difficult river crossing, not a carnival on the near bank. Hard times coming.
Is there a time limit?