¡Martes por la tarde, enlaces mexicanos!

by | May 23, 2023 | Daily Links | 255 comments

Has it occurred to anyone we will never get to see commercials like this, or like this ever again?

Freaking clown world.

 

Mexico gives its citizens exactly what they want:  a non-binary option on their passport.  Personally, I support the measure because that implies TransMexicans would travel across borders legally.

When you hear a volcano erupting, always remember to simply duck…and cover.


Francis instills an inherent sense of gravitas and confidence in this regard.

El Salvador accused by AP of transphobia as El Presidentè Dude Bro inches closer to helicopter jokes.  Meanwhile, its suddenly safe enough for reasonable levels of hooliganism.

The answer is no.  BRICS cannot save the Argentine economy any more than the EU was able to save Greece.  Javier Millei on the other hand, can save them

This sounds like BLM, which if I am not mistaken it still hated by anyone in the western US that’s bothered to look at it with nearly any level of curiosity.  Elsewhere in Brazil, I am certain they are all going to die.

I totally forgot there was a band called Hellyeah.

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255 Comments

  1. Brochettaward

    Dare to be First.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Stunning and brave

    • juris imprudent

      You rushed in here rather than linger on the main page GIF.

      Gay confirmed.

      • Ownbestenemy

        ^^^ NTICBYGB

      • Sean

        Nose touching ichthyologists can’t buy young girls bread?

      • Not Adahn

        I thought CBGB closed.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Not that I care, but ya gay Brochettaward

    • SDF-7

      Only a complete wannabe sequel would invoke the spirit of Rodimus Prime.

      • Bobarian LMD

        They fixed the cable?

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder
  2. Certified Public Asshat

    “Since President Nayib Bukele’s party won a supermajority in the Assembly after the 2021 elections, democratic institutions have been under attack by him and his allies.”

    That makes sense.

  3. kinnath

    Thank you for the gif.

  4. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Hellyeah
    notices tiny cowboy hats
    Hellno

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Also, I didn’t realize Vinnie Paul’s dead. A bit late but RIP.

  5. Tundra

    Its a good day.

    Indeed. Gracias!

  6. Tonio

    LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Pope Francis has sent one of his top sex crimes investigators cover-up operatives to Bolivia at a time when the Andean nation is being shaken by an escalating pedophilia scandal involving priests.

    That il Papa even has a “top sex crimes investigator” tells you all you need to know.

    • Drake

      The “bottom sex crimes investigators” were all busy.

      • Not Adahn

        You misspelled “instigators.’

      • Tonio

        Boo, Drake, boo. Everyone boo this man!

      • R C Dean

        If the tops are all busy, just what are the bottoms doing?

      • Tonio

        Biting the pillow?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Pushing back?

      • Not Adahn

        *opera applause*

  7. Shpip

    Other countries that offer non-binary passports include the United States, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, India, and Nepal.

    It would be interesting to see what happens when a “non-binary” travels to a country that is still populated by serious people. Does he/she/it fly into hysterics and die from being misgendered?

    • The Other Kevin

      Good question. I’m not sure if we’re still supposed to “respect other cultures as long as they’re not American”.

    • Brochettaward

      Since their outrage is mostly performative in the first place, I suspect they are silent.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      India?

      That’s a little surprising.

    • R C Dean

      Yeah, a lot of places you still fill out forms on entry, that often have an “M/F” box to check.

      Here’s hoping hilarity ensues.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      For the sake of argument, is there any reason that sex or gender needs to be on a passport?

      • kinnath

        Determines who gropes you when you clear customs.

      • R C Dean

        Gender? No. Something purely subjective serves no purpose as an identifier.

        Sex? Maybe, as it has utility as an identifier. Like race. We all laugh at crime reports where they don’t give the race of the perp when asking the public for leads, after all. Imagine if the “black guy, 6 feet tall, 180 – 200 pounds” was just “a person, 6 feet tall, etc.”

      • Bobarian LMD

        Be on the look out for Black Guy Guy Person.

        They were seen wearing a hoodie clothes.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        “Somebody, did something…”

        -Illy

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I need to update my driver’s license this year. The photo on it is 16 years old, but I am still eligible to renew online. Height and weight are the same, but not sure I could update it even if not.

        I am sure this is all valuable information somehow.

    • Tonio

      Malta.

      So the Knights Templars are controlled by the QUILTBAG. Steve Jackson should update the Illuminati cards.

      • Rat on a train

        Knights Hospitaller. The Templars were exterminated in the 1300s.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Sure they were. Except for the ones running for their life to Switzerland, Scotland, and Portugal.

      • Gender Traitor

        …and Nova Scotia!! 😃

      • B.P.

        You beat me to it.

  8. Drake

    Someone called the guy who rammed a barricade in DC: “Indian U-Haul Hitler”. I laughed.

    We need immigrants to do the job as we seem to be fresh out of homegrown white supremacist terrorists.

    • The Other Kevin

      The joke going around is that white supremacists are now the most inclusive group.

    • Sensei

      In the old days cops used to carry “drop pistols”.

      Now the Feds carry drop swastikas for these kinds of opportunities.

      • R C Dean

        Yeah, a completely empty U-Haul, except for (1) an empty backpack and (2) a Nazi flag.

        I’m sold. I expect we’ll get his neo-Nazi social media history as soon as it can be planted on an obscure foreign website.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Given that he’s Indian, he may well have a swastika somewhere, which then gets reported as a Nazi flag.

      • Sensei

        I saw the picture. It’s got a Nazi flag.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Don’t believe anything you hear, and only half the things you see.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        1. Nazi flag, neatly laid out, brand new.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Right hand rule. Its not the “good” swastika.

      • Count Potato

        Actually, vedic swastikas can go either way.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Thats how you libertarian

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Yes, we all watched Kama Sutra repeatedly in college.

      • cyto

        The whole “there is only 1 thing in this rental, but we must lay it out on the ground so that it can be photographed and published by the media” thing is weird.

      • Drake

        That’s how you handle evidence in a terrorist investigation.

      • R C Dean

        I remain unconvinced that U-Haul Hitler actually had the flag (and nothing else) in the truck. If the FBI was, err, “monitoring” him, they knew he was coming and had plenty of time to get a drop flag ready to go.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Radio news made sure he was only identified as a young male from Missouri and is a citizen. That was what they reported

  9. R C Dean

    Every day with the beach volleyball gif is a good day.

  10. The Other Kevin

    While it does make me sad we will no longer have those commercials, I’m thankful that generally there are fewer commercials to watch.

    • R.J.

      You prefer to just hear about Camp Leguene and random pills instead?

      • B.P.

        As a Glib, I’m not much for federal restrictions on commerce, but I might make an exception for website sidebar advertisements with pictures of toenail fungus.

      • R.J.

        Hear hear!
        *bangs walker on table

      • DEG

        Don’t forget carpet humping guy.

      • B.P.

        Wow, that’s a throwback.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Maybe Pat can chime in here, but through the FedGov firewall I would assume ads that do appear on my work computer are an aggregate of all users on that firewall. If so..FedGov people look up some weird shit.

      • B.P.

        *Closes work computer, grabs plant, heads for exit*

      • slumbrew

        It’s quite a bit more than just client IP these days (browser fingerprinting, etc., so it shouldn’t be that aggregated.

        So, who’s been using your computer?

      • Pat

        I was going to say, it kind of depends on the ad network/platform. Some are less intrusive than others in their targeting and data collection. Anything that came by way of Facebook or Google is usually going to be as targeted as they can get it for your device and network.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I’m just happy the ED pills from the early 00’s are close to the generic stage so I don’t have to watch suggestive commercials portrayed by people over 55.

      • kinnath

        foreplay

      • mexican sharpshooter

        They could at least make it funny and have it be a 58 year old tech bro and his 22 year old wife he ordered online from Azerbaijan.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I always marveled at the his and her outdoor bath-tubs?

        I mean, the boner pills don’t work that good, do they?

    • The Other Kevin

      I don’t watch live TV all that often, mostly I watch something streamed, or recorded where I can fast forward through commercials. And on YouTube you can skip after a few seconds.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Youtube keeps giving me commercials in Spanish even though all the videos I watch are in English. Must be some of their super smart algorithms.

      • one true athena

        My favorite was google serving me a bunch of Dutch ads when I was in France.

      • Pat

        And on YouTube you can skip after a few seconds.

        uBlock Origin + SponsorBlock and you will never see another YouTube ad again.

    • R C Dean

      There are? I haven’t noticed, at least on broadcast and cable channels.

      I have noticed that the 30 second skip option seems to be disappearing from a fair number of services/devices.

      • Bobarian LMD

        On Demand, where I can fast-forward thru everything but the commercials is how I really like to watch my commercials.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    El Presidentè Dude Bro inches closer to helicopter jokes.

    Just as long as he’s joking about helicoptering journalists.

    • R C Dean

      Well, leftists, so yeah, they’re on the list.

  12. Pat

    This sounds like BLM

    Just when I finally got used to thinking of BLM as Black Lives Matter instead of Bureau of Land Management, he pulls the old switcheroo on me.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      *Arms raised in V for VICTORY*

    • Mojeaux

      Srsly. Way before I got married, I had an internet friend who was a BLM firefighter and we usually communicated by chat. He said, “If I ghost you, I didn’t ghost you; I went to put out a fire.” Okay. That never happened. Till one night, he types “Fire” and then nothing. And I’m like WTF!!! getting all pissy and whatnot, then I remembered he’s a firefighter.

      He also said being a BLM firefighter was the best welfare program in the country. He bred Jack Russell terriers in his off time.

      Point: I cannot think of BLM as anything BUT Bureau of Land Management.

      • Bobarian LMD

        The other BLM starts fires too, also.

    • The Other Kevin

      I’m still not over WWF.

      • Bobarian LMD

        If it don’t involve the Camel Clutch, it ain’t the right one.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        But are you over Macho Grande?

      • The Other Kevin

        I’ll never be over Macho Grande.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I was taking some engineers out to our remote site and was explaining how we have to be aware cause people think its BLM land and they go out shooting (It isn’t) and the Asian engineer looked at me side-eyed and cautiously stated “I didn’t know that BLM claimed land out in Vegas…should we be worried about navigating through it like that place in Seattle during the riots?”

      I laughed.

  13. Mojeaux

    My 20yo XX is texting me anti-woke screeds before work. I suspect I’m the only person in her life she can vent to safely.

    • Pat

      One of the things I hate the most about the modern web is that total destruction of quasi-anonymity. Everything is a permanent record attached directly to your real name, phone number, device, email address, or other PIA. There’s no space anymore where a 20 year old kid can just say something controversial, shitpost, explore an idea by taking on a persona, things like that. Back in the late ’90s/early aughts, you weren’t worried that one day the racist or sexist jokes you told, or the hot take you had on a political controversy, or the misogynistic shit you said after a bad breakup while venting to a group of equally immature dudebros was ever going to define who you were as a person. __xX-FreakDaddy6969-Xx__ on a Usenet group or BBS didn’t have to be you. The young people who were born into web 2.0 don’t even understand that concept even once it’s explained to them. Even on their Telegram and Discord groups, they don’t shy away from sharing EVERYTHING about themselves.

      • Mojeaux

        Relevant.

        I told my kids that the internet is forever. I have come to determine that not only does this generation know that, they want to hang it all out there forever and hope it goes viral. A whole fucking generation of attention whores.

        My kid says, “I just want them to stop telling me who they’re having sex with.”

      • Pat

        I have come to determine that not only do they know that, they want to hang it all out there forever and hope it goes viral.

        That’s it exactly. As fast as the Overton window shifts left nowadays, I suspect a good many of them are going to eventually come to realize what a terrible fucking idea that is once even the formerly-correct opinions they expressed turn into social poison and begin costing them their careers and reputations, but they’re so inured to living in a panopticon that I honestly don’t know if they’ll ever turn against the monster even once it starts devouring them.

      • Mojeaux

        It will never cost them careers. The still-working boomer and GenX middle and upper management is spending its time appeasing the greedy little twats in the workplace, and the twats aren’t workers worth their salary. They haven’t been taught much in high school or college, so they can’t really do the jobs anyway. By the time GenX retires or dies, all the managers will be these people who were catered to and their social media barely registering because they all said the same stupid shit.

        This is a twilight time where your social media can wreck you, and only GenX has managed to thread that needle. Soon it won’t be necessary to thread it at all.

        And then everything collapses because the people running it are empty shells of human beings. They make nothing important, they contribute nothing of value, they know nothing of worth.

      • R C Dean

        Ah, but today’s GoodThink can easily become BadThink tomorrow. In fact, it pretty much guaranteed to be objectionable at some point as the purity spiral goes asymptotic.

        And when the social credit scores roll out, Daddy Gubmint won’t be there to help them, either.

      • Mojeaux

        The only thing it might cost them is in credit scores and insurance premiums.

        And even if their careers ARE affected, their credit scores affected, their insurance rates affected, they will either not make the connection or they will scream that it’s not fair and government will do something about it.

        Can’t get a place to rent? The gummint will force the landlord.

        Can’t afford insurance? The gummint will regulate prices and “discriminatory practices.”

        They will never suffer the consequences of their actions because they are building a world that will enable them.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        I wouldn’t be surprised if it was far fewer of them than we know of. I remember when my son, who is 28 now, and his friends all left Facebook due to their mothers and some fathers friending them. They all went to twitter, and made plans over there for whatever was going on, as they didn’t want family to either try to get them in trouble, or, worse, try to join them and be part of the gang.

      • slumbrew

        You’re right, “Pat”.

    • whiz

      You obviously taught her well — congrats.

      • Mojeaux

        I can take no credit. She was fed up with it by the time she was a sophomore in high school, and I’m coming to believe the girl was born an adult.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    The clutch pedal in the Element has been hanging up, recently. It was coming about halfway back up, but I could pull it up with my toe. “I should really look at that,” I said. Coming back from running errands, I pushed thr pedal down and it stayed there. I managed to get it to come up, but the clutch would no longer fully disengage. Those Honda transverse gearboxes do not like clutchless shifting, btw; I found that out a long time ago.. Fortunately, I was on the home stretch. I only had to run one stop sign. I had to stop at the last one, but I started it in first gear and lugged it through the intersection until it fired. Disabled clutch switch, FTW! When I got home and looked. there was a clevis pin lying on the floor right under the pedal. I wonder where the cotter pin which used to hold it in place went.

    • Mojeaux

      TFW you have leftover parts after a reconstruction.

      • cyto

        Leftover parts!

        Wow, that triggered a great memory. My dad and I rebuilt this Lionel train with chugging smoke and whistle sound. The smoke had ceased working years ago, and now the engine didn’t work.

        We took everything apart. Dozens of tiny gears and parts. We didn’t find anything obviously wrong. So we put it back together, planning to take it to a repair shop. We had one, important-looking gear left over. No idea where it went.

        So, just for giggles we try it out.

        The thing works perfectly. It has performed flawlessly since the rebuild 1978. All without the extra part.

      • Mojeaux

        That’s happened to me before. I do keep the part. I put it in a little baggie and label it, date it, document it so thoroughly the TSA would let it through, and put it in a safe place. Then I forget where that safe place is. But it doesn’t matter, because the thing works without it.

      • creech

        Just wait until you have a hazmat train derailment due to your incompetent maintenance of the engine and your whole train layout burns down! Then Pete Buttigag decides it is time to show up and fine you biggly.

    • Bobarian LMD

      There is a simple little shear pin on the shifter of my Cobalt that connects it to the transmission.

      It only takes removing the PCM and fuse box, and then disassembling the wiring harness to be able to get to it.

      Replacing it only requires a second joint, somewhere between your wrist and elbow to get the pin to slide in.

      But it ain’t as easy as it sounds.

  15. rhywun

    El Salvador accused by AP of transphobia

    OFFS. Where are the articles accusing Saudi Arabia or China or Venezuela or Cuba or Ukraine of transphobia?

    • Count Potato

      I doubt many people in Venezuela or Cuba care one way or another. Not starving tends to take priority over any other concern.

  16. Certified Public Asshat

    Ron DeSantis's ultra-MAGA Florida isn't safe for people of color, LGBTQ+ people, or even multi-billion dollar corporations. pic.twitter.com/1sxKM5W9ol— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 23, 2023

    Who said Hillary wasn’t funny?

    • Ownbestenemy

      This is the play they are going with huh?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I guess billion dollar corporations are minorities?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        It’sa really stupid one.

        DeSantis’s biggest problem is diehard Trumpers. It seems inadvisable to be validating him with MAGA labels.

      • B.P.

        Yes. I’ve seen this claim from multiple persons on multiple platforms today. The new talking point has been issued.

    • Bobarian LMD

      *Raises hand

    • The Other Kevin

      DeSantis is one of those ultra fringe right-wing white supremacists that somehow gets a lot of votes and has high approval numbers.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well all races are now white supremist. So this checks out.

    • Grosspatzer

      Jeffrey Epstein?

    • Pat

      Man, remember the ancient times back in 2010 when Hillary Clinton and the collective left were shouting into every TV camera they could find that corporations aren’t people and Citizen’s United was a travesty of justice?

      • grrizzly

        In those ancient times some corporations were not on their side.

    • The Other Kevin

      Times are tough, gotta do what you can to make ends meet.

      • Pat

        OnlyPlanets

      • hayeksplosives

        A-LOL

      • Gender Traitor

        ::Pluto kicks pebble::

      • Not Adahn

        Dwarfs have a niche audience.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ya know..if someone hasn’t ran with this and setup a complete socials profile on Uranus to include an OnlyFans…wait..no one take my idea!

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Geez, even NASA is doing this Pride Month thing?

  17. Sensei

    Nothing left to cut

    Administration officials are seeking to protect roughly $5 billion in funding for a program to develop the next generation of coronavirus vaccines and treatments. They are also looking to preserve more than $1 billion in funding for an initiative to offer free coronavirus shots to uninsured Americans, according to the officials.

    Paywall https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/us/politics/biden-debt-ceiling-covid.html

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      It’s basically a mutual blackmail operation now. Neither party can disavow the other without getting incinerated.

      But it’s the taxpayer who’s footing the Bill.

  18. Count Potato

    “a non-binary option on their passport”

    Non-binary is bullshit.

    • Sensei

      I actually see the container confusion, but the smell and taste…

      • R C Dean

        I know – without the container, who could tell them apart?

    • Grosspatzer

      Is this the latest Tiktok challenge?

    • Pat

      This is going to turn into one of those cases that explain why we have warning labels on kitchen utensils.

    • Grosspatzer

      The gator was after something else, but his arm got in the way.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Tonio whistles on by

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      See! Hillary was right! Florida is not safe for brown people!

    • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

      So, he just pissed it away?

  19. Grosspatzer

    Out for my evening walk/smoke when a patrol car flies by at about 90mph, lights flashing, silent. I start walking in that direction and 2 minutes later a second patrol car does the same. Now I am really curious, we don’t have any crime to speak of here in paradise. 10 minutes later three cop cars and four cops are surrounding a car, out of which emerges a fairly normal looking if somewhat large dude. Watching from a distance, looks like they’re questioning this guy; he gets in and out of his car a couple of times before he is finally cuffed and spirited away.

    This might be the first time our cops have actually cuffed someone, I was surprised at how smoothly it went. I can’t wait to find out the charges. We don’t get much excitement around here.

    • Sensei

      Expired registration.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Excessive tint

      • Grosspatzer

        You misspelled taint.

      • Sensei

        You’ve driven in NJ. We have essentially a zero tint law on front windows.

        Easy way to get pulled over.

      • Drake

        We rented a car last week in Florida. My wife loved the tinted windows that made more tolerable.

      • Grosspatzer

        Maybe. 50/50 it was a training exercise.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    I actually see the container confusion, but the smell and taste…

    As a general rule, liquids which make your eyes and nose burn are not good for you to drink.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      -1 Jäegermeister

      • Bobarian LMD

        That has probably hospitalized more people than NOS.

  21. Count Potato

    “Target takes ’emergency’ action to ‘avoid a Bud Light situation’ and removes ‘tuck-friendly’ women’s swimwear and LGBTQ products from display in Southern stores – as CEO DEFENDS the line

    Criticisms were also levied against the company after it was believed the ‘tuck friendly’ clothing was also for children, however a spokesman for the company told the Associated Press the swimsuits are only offered in adult sizes.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12116323/Target-CEO-DEFENDS-marketing-tuck-friendly-womens-swimwear.html

    Not sure whether they are lying about kids clothes, but how much of a market demand is there for ‘tuck-friendly’ women’s swimwear? Does it even pay for the space it takes?

    • Urthona

      I actually don’t give a shit that Target was selling to crazy people. Sell to whomever.

      Just don’t insult my intelligence with overtly stupid transgender marketing.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Target was already on thin ice because of their position on trans in the bathroom of their choice from a few years ago.

      If this gets momentum, it may kill them in the South.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I wonder how many layers of management this whole thing had to go through, how many departments were involved, and nobody said, “You know, this is really stupid.”

      • Mojeaux

        That would get you fired.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Purity spirals are a real bitch

      • Mojeaux

        Right? Say, how’s your elderly neighbor situation?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Now there’s a long story.

        At the moment, she’s coherent.

    • Pat

      You can’t put a price on moral superiority.

      • Urthona

        They just came out and said “it’s the right thing for society”.

        See here’s the thing.

        I didn’t really care. Sell shit to crazy people.

        Try and tell me you’re a hero for doing it? Fuck off. Im out now.

  22. Urthona

    As an American, nothing makes my bosom swell with pride more than the racial diversity of our Nazis.

    • R.J.

      I did nazi that zinger coming,

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        The fascist gun in the west.

    • R C Dean

      What with the black, Latino, and now Indian white supremacists, the KKK’s ESG score must be off the charts.

  23. Mojeaux

    My 2nd interview went VERY well, as the hiring manager thought I would be a perfect fit. Really, this job is nothing I haven’t done before AND I can keep the same hours I’ve had for the past 5 years, to their excitement. Now to schedule a last interview with HR.

    • Ownbestenemy

      +1 +1

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Good news!

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Awesome!

    • DEG

      Excellent news!

    • Grosspatzer

      Outstanding!

    • Pat

      ‘grats!

    • Count Potato

      🙂

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Congratulations. Before meeting with HR be sure to dye your hair pink.

      • Mojeaux

        And change my pronouns to dragon/otherkin?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Of course.

    • rhywun

      3 interviews?! Good grief.

      👍

      • juris imprudent

        My son just went through more than that, but he got the job!

  24. DEG

    Has it occurred to anyone we will never get to see commercials like this,

    Yes. It occurred to me a long time ago. It makes me sad that Carl’s Jr. commercials will never be the same.

    • Count Potato

      There were even Carl’s Jr. commercials about how they were changing their commercials.

  25. DEG

    Bertomeu “is a person of great trust to Pope Francis, who is responsible for addressing these issues, and he is coming to provide some guidance on how we can handle this issue, listen to and support the victims,” said Monsignor Giovani Arana, the Episcopal Conference’s secretary.

    I wonder. Is Bertomeu there to bump off people Cardinal Pell style?

  26. Ownbestenemy

    If there was ever a time for Sarah Haskins and her show Target Women about ads and their ridiculous attempts to sway females on buying their shit would be appropriate to bring back, it would be now. But I suspect she would be hindered to just tow the lion. Alsos.

    • creech

      Does anyone remember which poster first used “tow the lion?”

      • R C Dean

        I think it may have been me, back in the TOS days. There was a back and forth about whether the expression is “toe the line” or “toe the line”, and I think that was my contribution. Although its been a long time.

        Anybody else have the Plague Years as this weird dividing line, where everything before them seems like longer ago than it was?

      • R C Dean

        Aargh. “Toe the line” or “toe the line”.

      • R C Dean

        Oh, FFS. Fucked by autocorrect again. “Toe/Tow”.

      • Plinker762

        TOH!

      • Gender Traitor

        Teaux! 😁

      • Pat

        Anybody else have the Plague Years as this weird dividing line, where everything before them seems like longer ago than it was?

        Absolutely yes. It didn’t help that my mom got diagnosed with cancer in 2020 either. The last 3-4 years have been kind of uncanny/surreal. It’s almost more like reality ended, and this is some kind of a collective dream state from which it’s impossible to wake.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Does anyone remember which poster first used “tow the lion?”

        I first saw it used on USENET in alt.folklore.urban in the early ’90s. Long before here or TOS.

        Also (hah!), “cow-orker”

      • Plinker762

        cow-oinker?

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Hostile environment

    The Department of Education has found that a Georgia school district may have created a hostile environment for students by banning certain books from its libraries, the agency’s Office of Civil Rights said.

    In late 2021, several parents complained at school board meetings that Forsyth County Schools were carrying books with LGBTQ+ and sexually explicit content. Opponents of the bans said the district’s book screening process deliberately left out non-white and LGBTQ+ authors, the Department of Education said in its memo released late last week.

    The agency concluded the district limited its screening process to sexually explicit books and did not violate two laws governing institutions receiving federal aid: Title IX, which prohibits discrimination based on sex, and Title VI, which bars discrimination based on race, color or national origin.

    But the Department of Education also said that if a sexually or racially hostile environment was created for students as a result of the process, the district did not do enough to alleviate those concerns.

    What the fuck does that even mean? Not too long ago, it was the explicit policy of the education department that students had no rights at all.

    • Pat

      And then she was charged with assault and battery and arrested, right?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I figured she was aiming for a promotion, but shockingly she got fired.

      • Sensei

        Adjunct. Easy to do.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Yeah, but I figured they’d give her tenure for this.

      • juris imprudent

        You’d think they would’ve kicked her over to a Title IX administrative position.

      • rhywun

        as it emerged she is suing the NYPD for allegedly abusing her during the 2020 George Floyd protests

        She’ll never need to work again. Maybe she’ll do the city a favor and move far away.

      • R.J.

        No, please stay there.

      • Brochettaward

        It really is better for the rest of the country if the crazies stay clustered in their blue hellholes. No offense to those stuck in same blue hellholes.

    • Not Adahn

      The professor briefly chased The Post’s photographer down the street to his car before coming back to kick the reporter in the shins.

      Ok. About your hiring practices…

    • blighted_non_millenial

      Dude’s lucky a camera was rolling.

  28. Mojeaux

    “Alsos”

    We really need an origin story FAQ for our in-jokes. For the alsos.

    • Count Potato

      Also, fried chicken.

    • DEG

      I’m too busy gamboling to do that.

      Besides, since I’m not Tulpa, I’d miss most of them.

      • R.J.

        Are we not men?
        We are Tulpa!

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Clevis pin is back in, so I will be able to more easily move it down to the shop building to replace the missing hairpin clip with a piece of fence wire.

    • Brochettaward

      It’s a bold move when anyone can go to their local Target to confirm the story.

      As a Firster, I knew I was a Firster from an early age. But that is a very different thing from being transgendered and it did not require me to hide my penis in my bathing suit.

    • R.J.

      Of course. And just pulling them in the South? Fuck you! EVERYONE is tired of this bullshit! Just pulling those in the South confirms what those twats think of Southerners.

    • Urthona

      The other week I semi-accidentally stole an avocado from a Target.

      You see, I don’t usually put the avocado in a plastic bag. I don’t eat the skin and it feels like a waste.

      So for whatever reason I put it directly in the drink holder of my shopping cart. That day it was an avocado holder.

      I went through self checkout forgetting I had it in there and then wheeled everything out to the car.

      As I was putting groceries in, I realized my mistake and that I owed Target 49 cents. However I was late to pick up my kid so I rationalized it was ok. I’m only stealing to feed my family, you see. Guacamole and chips to be specific.

      Anyway all I’m saying is that if this keeps up I’m stealing a second avocado.

    • R C Dean

      Yeah, I was pretty sure the first story said it was in the kid’s section. I was willing to entertain that it had just bee misplaced there.

      Nope. Target is officially pro-groomer. I almost wish I shopped there, so I could stop.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    NYT story:

    “How One Uvalde Family Learned to Grieve in Public”

    There’s something the grief hustlers can be proud of.

    • Urthona

      Twitter doesn’t even ban people for misgendering.

      Clearly a platform of right wing hate.

    • Brochettaward

      It’s strange how whenever restrictions on speech and thought are lifted, “conservative” viewpoints flourish.

      • Pat

        rEaLiTy hAs A LiBErAL bIaS!

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        We’re not in favor of censorship. We just need to be protected from misinformation.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        ABC News watcher confirmed

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        It’s for the children.

      • Brochettaward

        Who while being subjected to carefully curated content approved by the federal government, should still totally be allowed to vote.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        They are our future and the future of Our Democracy.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Looking at the headlines from the WHO’s “A NEW and MUCH MORE DEADLIER Virus is Coming” press release all I hear is how disappointed they were that the plague wasn’t as lethal as they had hoped and dreamed.

    Better luck next time, WHO.

    • Drake

      Every country that has signed up for American foreign aid appears to have a few dozen bio-weapons labs working on the next plague.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Does anyone remember which poster first used “tow the lion?”

    I can’t remember who, but it was in response to one or more somebody’s persistent use of the phrase, “Tow the line”.

    It’s “TOE” goddammit.

    • Urthona

      Not anymore.

      It is now Tow the Lion here forever.

      • Q Continuum

        Throw the loin.

  33. Q Continuum

    “Has it occurred to anyone we will never get to see commercials like this, or like this ever again?”

    People question the rationale behind my tit posting, but I am here to serve you!

    https://archive.is/MjdE2

    • R C Dean

      If I have to choose between titposting and shitposting, I’ll go with titposting.

      • Pat

        How do you say “Why not both?” in German?

      • Urthona

        Warum biden nicht?

        Which would also make an excellent political slogan if you capitalize one letter.

  34. DEG

    FDA tried to hide a document on the Pfizer vaccine

    When the Covid-19 vaccines rolled out, public health officials took great pains to downplay how the vaccines spread from the injection site. Articles with language like this were common: “Most of the mRNA vaccine stayed in the injection site muscle—where you get the shot.”

    We now know the truth. The lipid nanoparticles, or LNPs, travel widely throughout the body. These LNPs carry the Frankenstein mRNA that causes the cells to produce spike proteins.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      The FDA tried to hide all the documents.

      The Japanese biodistribution study confirmed these results within two months of the vaccine release. It’s been complete denial since then.

      Hang them all.

      • Brochettaward

        Somewhere there is an alternate reality where Trump won the election despite fortification, and all the people who shilled for the vaccine were forced to oppose it because it was Trump’s vaccine.

    • R C Dean

      Say, how’s that drop in fertility going?

      • Urthona

        Fine thank you for asking

  35. Urthona

    Somehow the expression “Know what I mean, Vern?” slipped out of my mouth today. Just out of the blue.

    Then I tried to explain the origin of that phrase to my puzzled kids and it did not go well.

    • Pat

      That’s a throwback. My cousin used to use that catchphrase constantly.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The best Ernest movie was the one Homer was watching in the Sideshow Bob Cape Fear spoof.
      “Hey Vern, help me get my head outta this terlot.” The real ones were pretty damn bad though.

      • Urthona

        I suspect they very much do not stand the test of time.

        I liked them as an 80s kid though.

  36. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    Now I like Carlson even more.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/draft-tucker-pac-shuts-down-following-legal-threat-carlson

    “Mr. Carlson will not run for President in 2024 under any circumstances, and therefore your misrepresentations are damaging to Mr. Carlson and defrauding his supporters,” Dhillon wrote in the letter obtained by The Hill. “If you do not immediately cease and desist your efforts to solicit money to ‘draft’ Mr. Carlson, we will use every legal means at our disposal to vindicate his rights and protect his supporters from these misrepresentations.”

    • Urthona

      Carlson should be hosting The Tonight Show with an obsequious sidekick named Ed Macmahlon.

      • Pat

        Heeeeeeeeeeere’s Tucker!

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I haven’t seen much of Jack Black lately, maybe he’d take the job.

      • Urthona

        He voices the villain in the most popular family movie of the past few months.

        I think he’s still managing to avoid poverty and obscurity these days.

    • Pat

      I had to use Google for some street view maps yesterday and saw that. First time I’ve actually visited Google proper in probably over a year. I was utterly unsurprised.