Saturday evening no pants links

by | Oct 29, 2022 | Daily Links | 141 comments

Yes, it is that time again. Spud slept in, woke up and surveyed the day, and determined that clothes beyond what I slept in were unnecessary.

 

It’s a Saturday luxury. Lay around, watch football, snooze. Totally different from every other day in my life.

 

Links anyone?

 

Nothing says Halloween like a stampede of death.

 

The best timeline.

 

“Now we can redouble our effort on Native American symbols.”

 

Fuck. You. In. The. Pucker.

 

“Needs salt.”

 

Let’s keep the theme going.

About The Author

Spudalicious

Spudalicious

Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right


141 Comments

  1. Aloysious

    Anybody have a wrist rocket?

    I have an overwhelming desire to shoot Hunter Biden in the Anthony Weiner.

    Also, I hate pants.

    • The Hyperbole

      Shibumi was written 4 years after Shogun so it could just be a zeitgeist thing. Also it’s a great book, As are all Trevanian novels I thought he only wrote six but looking this up I see he wrote one in 2005 after I figured he was done writing so thanks for that.

      • dbleagle

        Trevanian wrote “The Eiger Sanction” which later was a Clint Eastwood movie.

        Fun climbing trivia bits. They filmed part of the movie on the lower parts of the north face of the Eiger. The sandstone tower climbed as part of his training program in the movie is actually “The Totem Pole” and is on the Navajo rez. It, and the entire reservation, was closed to climbing by the Navajo authorities since the various formations were “sacred”. Several 10’s of thousands of dollars to the tribal coffers apparently made the Totem Pole unsacred.

      • groat scotum

        Thank you! I had no idea.

  2. Tres Cool

    “Needs salt”

    They’ll have to go to the Old Testament for that.

    Im going to bed.

    • R.J.

      Cover the pages with poison ivy oil and extract some Old Testament justice.

    • Spudalicious

      Clean.

      • Sean

        I went with the ceramic. I’m pretty pleased with it.

    • Ted S.

      Where’s the gun?

      • Sean

        In my pants.

    • Spudalicious

      Every. Single. One.

    • Grosspatzer

      Outstanding collection, they all appear to be real.

    • Chafed

      No. Just no.

  3. Shpip

    The new COVID-19 subvariants that are becoming dominant all over the world aren’t just more contagious than previous variants and subvariants—they might cause more severe disease, too.

    Might, or might not.

    That’s an ominous sign if, as experts predict, there’s a new global wave of COVID in the coming months. It’s one thing to weather a surge in infections that mostly results in mild disease. Cases go up but hospitalizations and deaths don’t. But a surge in serious disease could lead to a surge in hospitalizations and deaths, too.

    Could, or could not.

    It could be like 2020 or 2021, all over again. The big difference is that we now have easy access to safe and effective vaccines. And the vaccines still work, even against the new subvariants.

    Does this nonsense still work on anyone with three neurons to rub together? Something tells me that, other than coof-spooked geriatrics who want to live forever and the permanently brain-broken, no one’s paying attention to the self-appointed experts anymore.

    • Ted S.

      There’s a fair portion of government that’s paying attention and waiting for a reason to go back to more draconian measures.

    • Fourscore

      “coof-spooked geriatrics”

      A lot have learned the Fool Me Once and are not going to be caught in the Fool Me Twice part. Some of those I’ve talked to are not getting the booster(s) since they didn’t prevent the ‘Vid anyway.

      Skeptics like the Fourscores are not worried about the old or new varieties.

    • rhywun

      no one’s paying attention to the self-appointed experts anymore

      Pooh is.

      • Chafed

        Totally not about him showing everyone how much power he has.

    • Chafed

      She looks stable.

  4. kinnath

    Playing late today

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    • Grosspatzer

      #metoo. BR is asshoe.

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  5. Shpip

    Huge homebuilding company puts new subdivision’s driveways through Florida Man’s right-of-way.

    Rather than resort to violence or letting the lawyers sort things out, our Florida Man gets creative.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      That got a laugh out of me. And if it does get violent, Florida Man is already one step ahead for clean up.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      DR Horton, ugh


      I knew of a guy who would put unoccupied trailers on property to attract crackheads if he wanted to get even with the adjourning property owners.

    • Chafed

      Very clever.

  6. Grosspatzer

    Richmond Can Remove Last Confederate Statue, Judge Rules

    Now is the time to erect a statue of everyone’s favorite Richmond glib to fill the void. Unfortunately, Cynthia Plaster Caster is unavailable, last seen hanging out with Lou Reed, so we need to find an up and coming sculptor to rise to the occasion.

    • creech

      On public property, the voters can decide whom to honor, with a statue, whom to remove when they become repugnant or irrelevant, and whom to ignore entirely. There are plenty of visible, yet privately owned, spaces where admirers can place statues to people such as Stonewall Jackson, STEVE SMITH, Joe and Dr. Biden, Michele Obama, Woodrow Wilson, Ayn Rand, Karl Marx, etc.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        On public property, the voters can decide whom to honor, with a statue, whom to remove when they become repugnant or irrelevant, and whom to ignore entirely

        Fair enough. Though the Confederacy is still held with some regard by many Virginians living outside of the cities. I pass several stars and bars flags flying from neighbors whenever I leave my house. And that’s the very small percentage that publicizes it. Make no mistake that Richmond is removing these statue for the reason of irrelevance or repugnance, but rather the Dems are doing so with the full intention of causing further division between Virginians, especially rural vs. urban, and even more to show their disdain for the group that Hilary labeled the deplorables.

      • Gustave Lytton

        It’s fucking Orangemen parading through traditional Catholic neighborhoods.

      • Plinker762

        They should change the name of Richmond to help purge its connection to the Confederacy.

      • Mojeaux

        There are plenty of visible, yet privately owned, spaces where admirers can place statues to people such as

        weeping angels?

      • Sean

        💗

    • rhywun

      Finally, the healing can begin.

  7. Raven Nation

    OK, OT, and apropos of nothing, but I get a monthly letter from one of my old high schools.

    Here is the opening sentence written by the Executive Principal (top of the heap):

    “[current academic period] ends with a long depth of field to our lens to ensure we keep the current, near and more distant futures in focus.”

    Apart from any jargon in there, how is that even a grammatically correct sentence. I’ve kept a whole bunch of these over the last year. Embarrassing.

    • Nephilium

      I can parse it, but I’m more upset by the lack of the Oxford comma.

      • Raven Nation

        Well, that’s because of where it’s written, but it’s still a badly phrased sentence.

    • RBS

      But tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

      • Chafed

        Exactly

  8. Evan from Evansville

    Overall, I’m rooting for a Game 7. I’d prefer the Phils to win, but Game 7 is priority. Game 1 was All-Time Classic good. Damn.

    The 90-day probation-period type thing in my new gig is up in 12 days. Hrm. I am not sure how they or I want to proceed. I’ll think about it, but I’m not exactly sure what that means, other than I won’t really think about it. Hrm.

  9. Semi-Spartan Dad

    To follow-up from Evan’s post, more details are being released.

    At Least 149 Killed in Stampede at Seoul Halloween Celebration
    An estimated 76 people suffered injuries in the city’s Itaewon club district
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/halloween-celebrations-in-seoul-lead-to-stampede-possible-injuries-11667064286

    SEOUL—Nearly 150 people have died from a stampede in one of Seoul’s popular nightlife districts, following a massive turnout there for the Halloween weekend.

    At least 149 people were killed, while 76 others suffered injuries in the city’s Itaewon neighborhood, according to the fire department for Yongsan, the district in which Itaewon is located. More than 140 emergency vehicles had been dispatched to Itaewon, home to many nightclubs and bars that were throwing late-night Halloween parties.

    The victims largely were people in their teens and 20s and included two foreigners, Yongsan Fire Department Chief Choi Seong-bum said at a briefing. Among the 76 people injured, 19 were in critical condition, he said.

    But this next part’s kind of strange. Unless if they are saying several young people suddenly dropping dead at once caused the stampede. But that still leaves the question of why several young people just simultaneously dropped. Maybe it’s translation confusion. There was no other cause mentioned.

    Mr. Choi said that the fire department first received reports of the accident around 10:15 p.m. Saturday and that several people who were attending Halloween festivities in the neighborhood fell at once, causing multiple deaths and injuries.

    • RBS

      It’s definitely strange, I’m going with OD’s then a massive freak-out.

      • Sean

        Alien death ray.

      • Urthona

        Pretty sure it was MAGA.

    • Spudalicious

      I read something about that in the links.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Shit, sorry Spud.

      • Spudalicious

        ;P

      • Ted S.

        To be fair, nobody reads the links.

      • Urthona

        I read everybody’s comments on them. Does that count?

      • Chafed

        You’re a mensch.

  10. Rat on a train

    I hate I-95 and DMV drivers. Two hours each way to go 71 miles.

    • Ted S.

      It’s not a surprise that Department of Motor Vehicles people can’t drive.

      • rhywun

        I’m struggling to guess what else it could stand for.

      • Ted S.

        I was thinking maybe Delmarva, but I don’t know where the not-so well-dressed rat is from.

      • Chafed

        I think it’s the DC metro area. Delaware – Maryland – Virginia.

      • Rat on a train

        DC, Maryland, Virginia

  11. robodruid

    Really odd thing that pelosi’s visitor has fallen off the media.
    Almost like something is wrong with the narrative.

    Boy gets around.

    • Urthona

      I hope the real story is as hilarious as my imagination is right now.

      • robodruid

        Is it Wednesday yet?

      • rhywun

        Ksue said this morning that the 911 tape says they knew each other.

        We’ll see if that goes anywhere.

      • MikeS

        I’m hoping for jilted lover.

      • rhywun

        God that would be epic but of course the MSM would suppress the fuck out of it.

      • dbleagle

        Co-participants at the Castro District nude in public protests.

        Cue the old joke about the proudest nudists should be the people wearing the most layers.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Bonus bucks if it’s related to the drunk accident.

      • Chafed

        I was thinking gay gigolo.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Rent boi.

      • rhywun

        You’d think Pelosibucks could do better than some psycho from Berserkeley.

  12. MikeS

    @ KK: I just now read part three of your high seas/Caribbean planespotting adventure. Just wanted to say that I really enjoyed the whole series, and especially the pics and alt-text in part the third. Well done. Thanks for sharing. Before your series I said there’s no fucking way I’d go on a cruise. Now I’m only pretty sure I never wouldn’t.

    • Ted S.

      To be fair, there aren’t many cruise ships docking in North Dakota.

      • MikeS

        Cruise ship inequity is real.

      • Chafed

        Inlanders hardest hit.

      • MikeS

        I live in a cruise ship desert! Where’s my reparation$?!

      • R.J.

        Sorry Mike. I shall have a champagne toast in Vegas to your pain.

        Just saw the Mirage volcano for the last time. Heading back tomorrow. Next time I am here those heathens from Hard Rock will have replaced it with a guitar. Where are my reparations!!

      • MikeS

        Are you seeing an University of NoDak people around down there? They’d be wearing green. We had two hockey games down there this weekend and our hockey fans travel well. There should be many thousands of them around. Say “hi” to them for me.

      • PudPaisley

        Mike, I was at this NoDak vs Wisconsin hockey game. We were sitting about 3 rows up from the boards by the penalty boxes. Never seen anything like it. 10 guys in the 2 boxes at the same time. Everyone but the goalies. It was like Slapshot on the ice for a while.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvjqW5pAuAg

        North Dakoda kicked their ass that night. They were WAY bigger, faster and better. There were a lot of vicious hits on the boards throughout the game.

      • Plinker762

        I hope there weren’t any fights, because if there were it wouldn’t be good hockey. 😉

      • MikeS

        Ahhh…the good old days. If that happened today, none of those guys would be playing for a game or two. In fact, ’07…maybe a guy or two did lose a game from that. That would have been about when they were starting to crack down on fighting.

  13. rhywun

    I’m trying to watch Hostel on IFC and I absolutely hate every character and it’s not even a half hour in. What is up with these movies where the dude-bros are so fucking loathesome?

    Debating whether to throw a DVD in.

    • Trigger Hippie

      You’re supposed to hate them. It makes the impending torture more bearable.

      • rhywun

        That was my guess.

        Sticking with it for now.

    • MikeS

      Well, hang in there, they likely die soon*.

      *Hostel is a slasher flick, right?

    • Chafed

      Is it a Babylon 5 CD?

      • Chafed

        Er, DVD.

      • rhywun

        I’m on S03E12 but felt like something else tonight.

      • Chafed

        Go in peace my son.

      • MikeS

        đŸ‘†đŸ» old person

      • Rat on a train

        Why yes. I have the series loaded on Plex.

      • MikeS

        I meant calling a DVD a CD. I guess he didn’t call it a tape, so that’s good.

      • MikeS

        Yaaaaas!

  14. R.J.

    MikeS, No hockey fans so far, just football fans enchanted with my Cowboys jokes.

  15. Lackadaisical

    ‘Elon Musk’s Twitter roils with hate speech as trolls test new limits’

    lol, they’re so predictable. Also, ‘hate speech’ should always use scare quotes. fuck them and their evil concepts.

    • Rat on a train

      I’ve returned to Twitter to see how it goes. No, not the return of people I can ignore but how Twitter treats those I can ignore.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      How much of the supposed hate speech is due to leftists trying to throw a wrench in the gears in an attempt to spook advertisers I wonder.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        A lot.

        I wouldn’t be surprised if major media companies were sponsoring the activity so they could report on it.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Considering the major media companies are a hive of groupthink scum, that’s absolutely a possibility, a likelihood even.

  16. Lackadaisical

    “Fuck you in the pucker”

    “Scientists Fear New COVID Strains Are Deadly—Just Like 2020 Wave”

    couldn’t say it better spud. ‘Scientists’ can fuck themselves to death, thanks.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      “ —they might cause more severe disease, too”
      Then again they might not
gotta love the framing.

  17. Lackadaisical

    ‘Left-wing activists harass conservative reading Bible, steal book and rip it up, protester eats pages’

    I was thinking yesterday that a society where few people vote is potentially a good thing- it can mean people are generally happy with the direction of society and don’t expect big changes in direction. All the contentious politics and increased turnout is actually more dangerous. thoughts?

    • Rat on a train

      Remember when you vote, your vote counts the same as those from people who are swayed by campaign ads. There are more of them than you.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        IQ, normal distribution, half are on the left end by definition: Hell yes it’s better when fewer people vote.

  18. Lackadaisical

    This Kari Lake interview is…. different. I haven’t really been following her, but I’ve heard some people talking about her running for president already. She seems a little bombastic to me, and it appears way too early to think about a presidential campaign.

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/10/28/kari_lake_propagandist_journalists_will_run_with_any_story_that_benefits_democrats.html

    Regarding Hobbs, how is she even a contender? With all the election shenanigans that went on in Arizona, she should have been recalled or impeached.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Lake is a bombastic and ambitious politician that knows the ins and outs of the media and she likes attention. Unlike Trump though, she seems wily and capable but people with her characteristics often get themselves in hot water. If she can govern well and not do or say anything too stupid she’ll be formidable.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yeah, but I get the feeling that she will have issues. Just my first impression. And that is course assumes she wins when going against a candidate that gets to count the votes.

    • Ted S.

      Media carrying water for Team Blue, I’d guess.

  19. Sean

    Morning Glibs.

  20. Stinky Wizzleteats

    So over 150 dead from a crowd crush? What the hell?

    • Sean

      Sad. And crazy.

  21. Sean

    Powerball is up to a billion.

    • Rat on a train

      I might have to not buy two tickets this time.

      • Fourscore

        Please do not buy one for me, as well.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I could buy that TV I’ve been eyeballing with that kind of coin.

      • Rat on a train

        We’ll just make it a pool that all Glibs can join.

  22. Shiny Nerfherder

    Worth reading.

    https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trump-covid-official-relates-shocking-saga-of-experience-in-dc-profound-corruption-of-deep-state/

    “ Yes. We just heard everything that was said there. We need you to understand, Dr. Alexander, President Trump has no power.’ This is the exact terms and I want to be able to say it. ‘President Trump has no power. He can’t tell us in the bureaucracy what to do. He has none. This president has no power. None. Zero. We are telling you, bring your equipment or we will come for it. And you come and you resign by 4:00. We run the government. President Trump runs nothing.’ That’s the exact words. ‘We run the government. President Trump runs nothing. So, we expect you here in about 15 minutes.’ And they put down the phone.”

    • robodruid

      Believable.

  23. l0b0t

    I’ve been watching the livestream of the Javelina Jundred, trying to catch a glimpse of Deadhead crossing the finishing line. It is is made difficult by the fact that seemingly every male racer is skinny, tan, and lusciously bearded.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I bet he was all sniffed out after that day was done.

    • l0b0t

      Then it’s back to the beach house for a nice, hot mug of Postum and Doctor First Lady Doctor Jill Biden PhD (real doctor) rubbing Aspercreme (Aspercreme does not contain aspirin) on his diaper area.

      • Tres Cool

        Point of order- AspercremeÂź contains trolamine salicylate. Im pretty sure thats some flavor of aspirin (salicylic acid).

      • Rat on a train

        Trolamine salicylate (Aspercreme, Aspergel) is an organic compound which is the salt formed between triethanolamine and salicylic acid.

  24. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam
    yo whats goody yo

    TALL SABBATH CANS!

    *after I have breakfast with Tres Version 2.0