“I have … business to attend to. You take the Links.”
Don Brett has, er, requested that I resume the Monday Links. It appears he has, um…other activities in which to engage. I certainly was not going to say no. The several men brandishing various small, but powerful automatic weapons made his request even more persuasive.
So, it looks like you are stuck with me for the foreseeable future. Let me just get this out of the way…
You know you deserve this…for something you did.
I guess the links must be next;
- West Africa continues to be sad.
- “I wanted to create something that says, ‘This is Japan’.” I think you can say it was a success.
- Just remember that SW Asia still sucks.
- Reminder – this is the best, bitchy and gossipy Swiss business magazine. Just hit Translate in your browser if you don’t read German. Only problem is that the UBS-CS thing has sucked all the oxygen out of the room for the past year plus.
Bonus – witness the malice of Hate Birds, The Birds That Hate.
Celebratory Music.
“The several men brandishing various small, but powerful automatic weapons made his request even more persuasive.”
I see.
“Whatever they’re paying you, I’ll double it!”
“You know you deserve this…for something you did.”
That’s purrfect.
We’re going to give him paws about saying that in the future.
You’re going to get his dander up with comments like this, and then the fur is going to fly.
The whole kitten cabooble is gonna be in trouble
caboodle?
https://www.cabooble.com/csecure/cabooble/r/141/files/static/v523/home.html
Huh.
I don’t know about you, but after seeing that picture I’m not really feline okay.
Coming down with cat scratch fever?
Still waiting for Swiss to pounce with righteous angora.
angora is from rabbits. so, your pun is rejected.
Now now.. we don’t need to be splitting hares around here. (Unlike the Conservative Party of UK apparently).
Hare today, gone tomorrow
Your rejection is rejected
Thank you sir, I’d like another.
Are you trying to goat a reaction out of him.
I don’t think he’ll carrot all.
It’s hard to keep tabby on all these puns.
“Yoshida plans to build and sell five of the machines for the well-heeled robot fan, but hopes the robot could one day be used for disaster relief or in the space industry.”
There are five people who want that for $3M?? It’s not even a robot since it needs a pilot.
You know you deserve this…for something you did.
I certainly do deserve more pussy.
“Deservin’ ain’t got nuthin’ to do with it”
“Only problem is that the UBS-CS thing has sucked all the oxygen out of the room for the past year plus.”
It also uses a different connector.
*Narrows Gaze*
Nice one… I knew I wouldn’t be the only person that at first read that as USB-C.
Don’t you worry Swiss, we’ll all do our best to earn that narrow gaze.
Regarding the music link: W-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-would.
If you could only learn to yodel…
If I could wear earplugs, definitely would.
Although….
I wonder why the African story isn’t in the news? I have seen more stories explaining how confusing exit doors and fire alarms are than I have seen stories relaying the events in Africa.
No one gives a shit about Africa, including most Africans.
Black Lives Matter Not.
No one has made that more apparent than the BLM movement.
Betcha the CIA, USAID and Air Africa know something but they’re not saying.
Sounds like France decided not to intervene to save that vestige of their colonial empire. Maybe the Foreign Legion could have reversed the coup, maybe not. The media toadies rather ignore it than explain it.
Something something Gnomes of Zurich behind the curtain.
Step 1: Denigrate geese.
Step 2: Collect underpants of Nazis.
Step 3: ????????
Step 4: PROFIT!
Bonus – witness the malice of Hate Birds, The Birds That Hate.
Accurate.
Celebratory Music.
🙂
Those little assholes are all over our parking lot at work. They are generally not too mean in the fall, but absolutely vicious in the spring when they lay eggs.
A convoy left the northern city of Gao, which lies 300 kilometres (185 miles) southwest of Kidal, early Monday, the source added.
Another security official said the convoy was made up of 119 vehicles and was currently stopped on the road to the north of Gao.
Never before has such a large collection of Toyota Hiluxes been deployed with this kind of Mali-cious intent.
Howdy Swiss!
Grüezi!
Swiss, I’m disappointed in you.
https://www.catalannews.com/politics/item/pro-independence-protest-marks-anniversary-of-2017-referendum
Get back to me when they are serious – i.e. they take up arms.
*glances over at current Spanish bond yields*
Si si senor
Would NATO get involved?
If Catalan courted Russia, sure.
Right now, I think the better question is whether NATO has a future at all.
I guess I was just wondering if the obligations counted if it’s an armed secessionist movement. Catalan declares itself sovereign, picks the fight, etc.
Also, I wish they all could be Catalan girls!
They want me to download an app to watch the hatebird thing 🙁
Works on my machine. Could be uBO doing its work though, I guess.
Accurate representation of how aggressive Canadian Geese are:
Um…”Canada Geese”
Hate Birds.
They’re just feeling put upon now that every other Basic College Girl is donning Canada Goose jackets as the weather cools.
They’re not down with that.
Poor person is taking a lot of flak for that jacket.
Doesn’t take much to ruffle their feathers, does it?
Was behind a farmer in an old pickup truck who had enough of their shit. He sped through a line of them crossing the road and ignoring cars. Hate feather and body parts flew in all directions while I laughed.
There has to be a Trudeau and India relations joke here somewhere.
It likely would be a real sikh burn.
It’s Asian relations not native so no ruffled feathers.
The Department of Turban Renewal will fix that right away.
Oh, Goa away with that cheap shot!
Just lightly Singh-ed.
“Taylor Swift’s $1,200 denim shorts SELL OUT after she wears them to watch beau Travis Kelce at latest Kansas City Chiefs game”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12584981/Taylor-Swift-denim-shorts-Kansas-City-Chiefs-Travis-Kelce.html
I’ve had enough Swelce.
I swear my kid got those at Target for $39 last year.
Bedazzled, though? ✨
Tayswazzled
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12583855/Taylor-Swift-shows-incredibly-toned-legs-tiny-denim-shorts-knee-high-boots-leaves-private-club-attending-Travis-Kelces-game-list-pals.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12582915/Taylor-Swifts-fashion-touch-Travis-Kelces-No-1-fan-wears-racy-645-Daisy-Dukes-high-heel-boots-cheer-Kansas-City-Chiefs-game-amid-new-romance.html
Maybe her shorts can get their own Netflix series.
I’m sure Warty has plenty of shorts like that. You don’t do all those squats to NOT show off.
I always figured Warty was a old school basketball shorts kinda guy.
You could have had your pick of high waisted jorts exactly like that for about $3 at Goodwill when they went out of style in 1998. Everything old is new again.
Also, how does one become sufficiently affluent to buy a $1,200 pair of jorts while possessing the sort of brain and intellect that would lead one to buy a $1,200 pair of jorts because a pop singer wore them to a football game?
Inheritance is the first thing that comes to mind. Sugar Daddy is the second. Onlyfans prostitution is the third.
“Onlyfans prostitution is the third.”
That rarely pays. Most people on OF make less than $200 month.
Thank you daddy! These will go great with my new BMW!
Marry rich
Even as someone who owns several Swift albums…
First commercial break on last night’s game was a T Swift concert tour commercial. 100% fake relationship
I’m sayin’.
So you think there is nothing going on between them?
Neh. I won’t be crushed or vindicated if I’m wrong or right, but they a) don’t “go” or b) act as if they’re lovers. Do I think they are friends? Yes. At most, they might be friends with benefits.
Herd animals. Human tendencies for revering certain other people kind of disgusts me.
Guess what? Those revered put their pants on one leg at a time and occasionally shart their pants just like everyone else.
If Taylor Swift shat her pants, half the Swifties would strive to emulate her.
I remain mystified how so many here are obsessed with a pop star and her boyfriend.
#GlibsTigerBeat
Why do you care?
She’s not even hot.
Sad.
Her face is pretty much perfect.
Whether you are into her depends if you are into that super model type look. To me she is like something that’s technically beautiful, but which I want nothing to do with. She seems like a cold person in general to me.
Wrong as usual. There’s something wrong with her eyes. Too narrow. Too far above her nose. Her mouth is kinda puckered, too.
Wait, she’s wearing Depends? Now you got me curiouser and curiouser. I can understand the interest now…
Got those beautiful 8X10s* you sent me! Thanks!
*wink wink, nudge nudge
Were they folded and spindled as requested?
No, they arrived perfectly flat. They must have had some new people deliver it.
MikeS!!!
I was just out weed whacking, and the gal next door called to me. She said she’d found STEVE SMITH on their patio, and at first she blamed her husband for getting it without telling her. He, of course, pleaded not guilty and guessed that it was TT & me who were the culprits.
She loves it! 😃
My reaction
Depends suck. Oops I Crapped My Pants are the bomb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ9qsXu34SM
She is hot but then every college and Jr. college in the country has girls that hot and hotter. They are poison mostly, but they are hot.
“I wanted to create something that says, ‘This is Japan’.” I think you can say it was a success.
James May: Giant Robots | Prime Video
https://youtu.be/cGrnqYi7J-I?si=mpvRWzkAbruu5SB9
Chicks dig giant robots. It is known.
Spectacular!
I never liked the giant robot anime genre. However, the franchise always got top music talent to write and sing the opening and closing music for the franchise. It has lots of really good music that was quite popular outside the franchise.
I believe Chronotrigger’s OST had a Japanese composer.
Wrote much of Cods & Cuntes to this.
“Chicks dig giant robots”
Now see….I was expecting one of those mechanical eccentric wheel thingies with a giant dildo on it.
First.
So…. you’re going for intentional self parody at this point?
Every time an American says “this is Japan” they are just scratching the surface of Japanese weirdness.
Hence a good part of my curiosity.
I can also say that everyone I’ve met as part of my language adventure has been amazingly friendly and helpful.
Also you should don’t believe the unfailingly polite BS. My language class used to be right after the children’s after school language classes. The inattentive yapping moms there letting their children run wild had nothing on the moms in general in NYC.
Art
https://twitter.com/Culture_Crit/status/1708938529097593065
I mean, they should at least be naked. Lame.
Make a face, drop your pants… SOMETHING!
Watch Ryan Clark, Shannon Sharpe, and Steven A. Smith dance around attacking everyone on the Steelers but Mike Tomlin.
I don’t think anyone here really cares. Mike Tomlin signs off on everything this team does. He signs off on every play call and he’s kept Canada for three seasons. Mike Tomlin hasn’t hired a successful coordinator in a decade and a half. No great offensive mind wants to work for him because he’s too controlling of something he knows little about.
He’s a defensive guy who falls into the trap of building an offense that is the exact same type as he drools over playing.
Ryan Clark tries to pin Matt Canada on Ben Roethlisberger because they hired him as QB coach before making him offensive coordinator. Fuck you, Ryan.
And to be clear as to why media dances around criticizing mediocre Mike – IT’S BECAUSE HE’S BLACK.
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-leftist-journalist-who-downplayed-violent-crime-gunned-down-in-his-philly-home?utm_campaign=64470
No big deal.
Yeah he sounds like a real douchebag but shot in his home seven times at 1:30 in the morning? I’d bet good money on it being something domestic or drug deal related. His background hints strongly at it.
Yeah, domestic was my first thought.
Same thought. Seven times is a crime of some kind of passion.
Or a cop
7 rounds on target from a full mag dump would be wildly optimistic for a police shooting.
Wouldn’t know the guy from Adam, but if his twits are any indication, I could believe that his cause of death was, ‘Ran his mouth at the wrong guy.’
“Two days after mocking @ScottAdamsSays for predicting a violent crime surge in the U.S., a left-wing Philadelphia journalist was shot and killed.”
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1708929572446814392
Part of what makes EVs interesting to me is that packaging allows for handling and space in ways that ICE cars can’t be constructed. OTH, ICE construction allows for weight its benefit on handling along with better range and more interesting driving.
When you design a platform from the start for both ICE and EV you get the negatives of both. I’m shocked to say Jalopnik nailed it with the headline of its review.
The BMW i5 Is The Impossible Burger Of Electric Sedans
Either have hamburger or a veggie burger. But don’t have a veggie burger that poses as a hamburger. If I’m going to get shit range and heavy car I’d rather deal with slower acceleration and better handling with much more range and a lower price. ICE 5 series for me!
“veggie” + “burger” == vegan plant slab posing as a hamburger
Black bean burgers have survived for a while because they’re honest about it. They taste like black beans and don’t pretend otherwise.
The Real Canadian Superstore™ has a house-brand veggie (but not “vegan”) burger that I would willingly eat, particularly if grilled.
They are, of course, persistently back-ordered from the supplier and usually unavailable to buy. Primary ingredients are mushrooms and swiss cheese.
Everything else I’ve tried over the last thirty years or so has been heinous.
Also, ICE cars work.
“Wells Fargo bank investigators believed Hunter Biden was involved with ‘sex trafficking ring’ and falsified checks to pay prostitutes – and even claimed them as TAX DEDUCTIONS
DailyMail.com has previously reported documents, texts and video showing Hunter spent a staggering $30,000 on escorts in just five months”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12572883/Hunter-Biden-suspected-hiring-prostitutes-Eastern-European-sex-trafficking-ring-drug-binges-falsifying-checks-pay-women-Treasury-documents-reveal.html
That’s only $6K a month.
I’m fairly certain somewhere in his past he donated money to a Russian politician or oligarch who was into sex trafficking, as well.
Wonder if he knew Hunter or Joe?
Wells Fargo executive Greg Beckett jumped to his death from bank’s Delaware offices – as family say he’d been stressed about work and taking meetings as late as 11pm
Biden wanted to be FDR but is settling for Hoover?
Putin has a long reach
John has a long mustache.
The chair is against the wall.
https://archive.org/details/CIAAStudyOfAssassination1953/page/n7/mode/2up
Number 2.
LOL
https://twitter.com/magills_/status/1708863443799793866
Come for the derp, stay for the WTF
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/supreme-court-term-2023/
No. Elie Mystal can fuck right off.
LOL that is the author? Yeah, hard fucking pass. Not clicking that.
Fuck off, commies.
What do you want to bet me this self-same retard was sporting a LOVE WINS avatar on every social media profile for a solid year after Obergefell.
That is one of the things that kills me. Modern Progressivism is built on legal decisions, and to paraphrase, if you live by the legal decision, you die by the legal decision. And here they are, dying.
This is what you get with people who see hypocrisy as a spiritual virtue.
^This^
Ends justify means
Gotta break a few eggs
on and on
Morally bankrupt people are morally bankrupt
What do you want to bet me this self-same retard was sporting a LOVE WINS avatar
“I’m glad to see you support legalizing polygamy.”
Nice to see you posting links, Swiss.
Ja!
“New York student, 21, is jailed for A YEAR in Dubai after tapping airport security officer on the arm during strip search that left her half-naked as they checked her medical waist binder”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12585257/New-York-student-21-jailed-YEAR-Dubai-tapping-airport-security-officer-arm-strip-search-left-half-naked-checked-medical-waist-binder.html
Yikes!
I’m willing to bet there is more to it, but not that it isn’t outrageous on the part of Dubai.
My favorite so far…
Texas woman Tierra Allen, social media’s “Sassy Trucker,” trapped in Dubai after arrest for “shouting”
We already did the band or album when it first happened, but I can’t remember the conclusion. Failed sophomore album name?
I honestly don’t get why Westerners would want to party or vacation in Dubai or any other strict Muslim society. Seems like it is just asking for trouble.
They aren’t kidding folks. They aren’t hand-waving away parts of their religious texts with “Oh, God didn’t really mean that…” If you go with your eyes wide open, fine — I just don’t think girls in their 20s hoping to land a prince have their eyes open (in many ways).
This. I would not even visit Turkey or Malaysia or any of the so-called “moderate” Muslim countries. Most of them are rapidly backsliding to a previous century.
And how the fuck does a flight from Turkey to NYC go through the Middle East, anyway?!
The individual wanted the 10 hour layover there instead of Paris as they thought it would be more (from memory) interesting.
She got her wish!
I would take the Dubai layover just to go skiing
I wouldn’t be on a plane with a planned stop in Dubai. Or any port in that region.
And I have a lifestyle that’s separated from their recommended by the occassional glass of alcohol and five prayers a day.
I recall the flight duration to the Philippines was about the same going East or West. Dubai is a major hub going East. That was a nope.
Ah, Dubai. Home of the world’s largest fleet of poop trucks…
The Burj Khalifa cost $130 billion to build, but they never connected it to the sewage system. Most days, there is a traffic jam of poop trucks near it in the evening.
Huh…
You should replace Wikipedia with a 1-900 number.
At NSA, there was a scoreboard with a bunch of tally marks in my section. It was labeled with a sign that said “Did [Derpy] Know?”
I think Derp should rebrand to King Cliff Claven.
I think it has more to do with a seething resentment of ignorant Westerners who don’t understand recent history at all.
These people are pissed about decades of bombings and they can’t take it out on their own government. Of course they’re looking for an opportunity to get some payback on some dumb college student.
Western woman willingly goes to Dubai.
Oh well.
Isn’t Dubai the ME shithole that came a hair’s breadth from legalizing the enslavement of western women?
Idiot: Anyone that goes to ME country, Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea, Russia to spy, etc etc. Bye Bye dummies.
I had a good time in Egypt back in 2009. Now I sorta wish I had gone through Syria and Turkey as well on the same trip. The Army almost sent me to a language training course in Jordan, but I did not make the final cut. Oh well. The guys who went had never been outside the country before.
Part of what makes internal combustion engines special and appealing (to me) is is their nonlinear power delivery. I like a motor which stumbles a bit at low rpm before it gets up on the cam. I don’t even like variable cam timing. Give me a motor with a spike on the horsepower curve; one that wants to rev.
You can keep your electric motors with full torque at idle and traction control. Give me something which tries to jump out from under me now and then.
…. the euphemisms ’round these parts….
Sounds like something STEVE SMITH would say.
For a daily and my use EV is perfectly usable.
For something to enjoy – I completely agree. Part of the reason the emissions compliant ubiquitous 2.0 liter turbo 4 cylinder with a tabletop diesel like torque curve is completely uninteresting to me. May as well have an electric motor.
Having ridden hopped up 2-strokes, being able to stay on the power band during shifts is a skill that pays big dividends across the motorsports world.
I still don’t like vacuum cleaners.
That’s why I loved 2-stroke dirt bikes. Power spikes at higher RPM were like HOLY CRAP!! HANG ON!! Third gear wheelies were fun.
First full day in the office in three and a half years. Yuck.
What got you to show up?
Not ready to retire yet
I paid my first visit to the office in 4 years last week.
We had an IT happy-hour – they know what it takes to get us there.
During said visit I found out my manager is getting bumped to CTO but will be keeping me and my co-worker as direct-reports. Which is good? I think?
First commercial break on last night’s game was a T Swift concert tour commercial. 100% fake relationship
It’s not cross-marketing! It’s LOVE!
Narrator: “Specifically, they love the money this is making them…”
“Dayjia Blackwell shared videos and photos on her Instagram Stories that gleefully documented the mass plunder of several businesses, including an Apple store, a Foot Locker, a Lululemon and a liquor store.
The content creator with close to 650,000 followers across Instagram and TikTok could be seen laughing, clapping and shouting “Let’s go!” as she witnessed suspected looters fleeing the scene while she was driven across the city.
Blackwell was even seen taunting the local police — encouraging them to arrest her hours before she was charged with six felonies.
But in an open letter to the media, Jessica Mann, a lawyer representing Blackwell, said the media portrayal of the 21-year-old influencer is “unjust.”
“It sickens me to witness the media’s compliance in what can only be described as an all-out assault on black and brown people, as their character and actions are mercilessly vilified,” she wrote in the letter posted to her Instagram.”
https://nypost.com/2023/10/02/lawyer-for-influencer-meatball-claims-reports-on-her-arrest-are-racist/
Oh, fuck off.
I mean, who doesn’t livestream their crime sprees these days?
I know when I’m feeling “the raw reality of public outrage”, it’s eased with a new iPhone and some kicks.
You know, I’ve been to countries where petty criminals get executed in the street. These dipshits don’t understand what they’re playing with.
The POS was on the local news; said she “regretted” the video, then grinned and giggled. What is shocking is this bint has 650,000 followers.
That’s the least shocking part of all of this. It’s sick out there these days.
I should probably save this for one of the stoicism posts, but there is no time like the present.
Reflecting on the life of Teddy Roosevelt helps me keep things in perspective. Yeah, a lot of bad stuff has happened to me, but nothing like him.
He struggled with asthma as a child. He was 24 when his mom and wife died on the same day. He was almost 40 when he went into battle for the first time and was one of the lucky few to avoid tropical illness. A few years later, he survived an assassination attempt. When he was 55, he died nearly died during a months-long expedition through the jungles of South America, and when his honesty about it was challenged, he insisted on going on a speaking tour rather than rest. He died less than 5 years after that.
And during all that time, he wrote a best-selling history book, got elected president, and got one of the first Nobel Peace Prizes for brokering a truce which ended a war between Japan and Russia.
Good ol’ TR. Even death could not erase him.
Bully!
Michael Hihn, is that you?
– Theodore Roosevelt
I respect TR for a lot of things. Being the figurehead for the start of the Progressive Era is not gorram one of them. (Yeah yeah… it was the fashion of the times… someone else would have done it… Still set the stage for thrice-damned Wilson.)
If TR had not split the Team Red vote by running as an independent, the arch-paleoconservative Taft would have been elected. Later, Taft opposed entry into Nato.
And his imperialism set the stage for America as the world’s policeman. His great white fleet ended up as scrap before it ever fired a shot in battle.
America’s first dictator. Lucky for us, a reasonably benevolent one.
Reputed story of. that assassination attempt: Dude Jumps out of the bushes while TR is preparing to leave for a stump speech. Bullet is stopped by a whiskey flask in his jacket pocket. He orders minions to go back into the house and retrieve a small bible. TD tosses the book on the ground and shoots the Bible.
At said speech he relates to the crowd how he was nearly assassinated (he was still bleeding) then displays the Bible trumpeting loudly how the Bible saved his life.
I love that one, true or not.
“Adams headed to Mexico to discourage migrants from coming to NYC — as Gotham braces for potential record-breaking crush
Mayor Eric Adams is heading to Central and South America this week to convince migrants not to come to the Big Apple — as the city preps for a possible record-breaking surge in new asylum seekers, well-placed sources say.”
https://nypost.com/2023/10/02/adams-headed-to-mexico-to-discourage-migrants-from-coming-to-nyc-as-gotham-braces-for-potential-record-breaking-crush/
Don’t come to our sanctuary city!
They already have all the Democratic voters they need in NY.
It’s telling that he traveled all the way to Mexico when he could have just gone to DC to talk to good ol’ workin’ class Joe, the only person who could really do something about it.
He’d have more impact talking to his NGO buddies who are encouraging this shit south of the border. He could do that quietly behind closed doors.
I don’t know what he would actually hope to accomplish. This strikes me as purely a PR move. Even New Yorkers are getting fed up with this shit, though certainly not enough to realize why its such a hot button issue for southerners who are stuck dealing with this influx for years and years with a fraction of the resources at their disposal as NYC.
First full day in the office in three and a half years. Yuck.
The donuts were stale?
Ponder this headline people…
CDC proposes antibiotic as morning-after STI treatment for gay, bisexual men and transgender women
Live without consequences through chemistry!
Not really, but…
And what ever happened to constraining antibiotic usage in order to slow the development of bacterial resistance?
“The CDC is proposing that health providers offer a single 200-milligram dose of doxycycline to gay and bisexual men who have sex with men, as well as transgender women, within 72 hours after having unprotected sex.”
Why not non-trans women who have sex with men?
Because its male on male sodomy that has the highest venerial disease risk, combined with the number of participants who engage in a “high risk lifestyle”
There is plenty of male on female sodomy.
Which is significantly lower risk, though probably still elevated. The girl who lets you stick it in her ass on the first date probably isn’t the one you want to marry and probably more likely to have STD’s of her own.
Specifically unprotected male-on-male anal intercourse. Sodomy covers a broad spectrum of unsanitary activities…
Those women deserve their cis-infections and the VD might cause a spontaneous abortion. Why would they want to stop that?
Antibiotic-resistant VDs for the win!
And that Cringeiest Sketch Ever by Carson Daly on the pregame show last night. WTF
Cringier than Stephen Colbert with the dancing syringes?
I know 2 songs by Taylor Swift and one of them, she doesn’t perform.
What I have heard leads me to believe that she is one extremely sharp cookie and her dealings with record companies about her copyrights are no less than wise and unforgiving. She writes most of her own (and other people’s stuff), she keeps control of it, she donates a lot of money to food banks everywhere she tours, and she seems like a genuinely nice person. So I’mma give her a lot of judgmental leeway. The girl is not stupid or vacuous.
Her fans are a little passed about the Carson Daly sketch I mentioned up there ^^
It was extremely condescending tbh
*pissed you fucking autocorrect prude
I think she’s intelligent as far as pop stars go.
I also think she sold out the people back from where she came from in 2020 during the summer of love.
Expound?
She started as apolitical and as a country music star who crossed into pop for a bigger audience. She stayed apolitical until she decided to endorse Democrats (though that started in 2018) in Tennessee and in general post-Trump. Then she jumped on the BLM bandwagon.
She claims she was following her moral compass. I think she just caved to the constant demands that she support current day causes.
Oh, I forgot all about that, which just goes to show how much attention I am paying to her.
I’m paying a lot of attention now because I think it’s hilarious celebrities just now heard about this little magical place called “Kansas City.” I’m also highly amused that suddenly, our quarterback’s name is “Mawho?”
I was basically ignoring the entire thing until yesterday when that piece of shit Kelce’s commercial for Pfizer dropped.
I don’t care how good the player is or how much entertainment they’ve given me – if a Steeler made that commercial, I’d be hoping for him to literally break a fucking leg every play.
Being a bog-standard pop culture NPC, she did the bog-standard pop culture NPC thing.
“Better Man”
Yeah, I do like sappy formulaic music, but, like formulaic pulp fiction,* it’s harder to write than you might think.
*I spent my 20s trying to hit that Harlequin bullseye and never quite did.
My impression of her songwriting is that she’s really, really good at evoking an emotion or a scene. It doesn’t need to be more than that — not a saga, just a short story or less. And that lets her fans connect with her — because what she writes is often / invariably something true to the human experience, especially for younger women. “She really gets me” as has been said of many artists through time.
I mean take this one — she sets the scene, gives compressed character background and even is a bit self deprecating (“She would have made such a lovely bride / such a shame she’s fucked in the head, they said”). Connection made and seems humble enough to not be above her fans.
If she’s faking it, she’s a hell of a lot smarter than people give her credit for — it is a great formula.
I think most of her shitty politics stems from wanting to / moving to NYC and getting into that bubble of “artists” there. But it could all be bullshit performance from day one. See above for how many more fucks I have to give on the topic…
She’s been working with a team of at least 3 producers, one of whom is Max fucking Martin, ever since she crossed over from country ~15 years ago now. She gets writing credits because she puts asses in the seats and checks in the bank, not for actually writing songs. NTTAWWT, that’s how being a pop star works, just don’t fall for her “I’m still just a down-home girl with a guitar and a dream” shtick.
I don’t know how much of her stuff she writes, but I do know that’s the image she and her team of people (they all have a team these days) want to cultivate.
Dafuq? The girl writes music. And so she has a team behind her. Natch. And?
If she’s contributed more than 5% to any song she’s released in the last 10 years I would eat my hat. And again, that’s standard for pop stars, so it’s not an insult, it’s just mildly annoying that she’s still treated like a songwriter instead of a performer. Nobody pretends that Ariana Grande or Beyonce are writing their hits when they’re working with the same team of producers.
I know 2 songs by Taylor Swift and one of them, she doesn’t perform.
I don’t listen to tweenie-pop radio, so as far as I am aware, I have never heard a Taylor Swift song. As for the rest of it, there is no shame in being a smart savvy business person. Watching the game last night, and the one before, the “relationship” all seemed completely scripted. Maybe the NFL thinks the Swifties(?) are their future.
Like every corporation that sells male-oriented products, they are and have been obsessed with building up their female viewership/customer base. The NFL hasn’t suffered the sort of consequences as say Lucas Films or Marvel, but the product sure has suffered for it.
I should just say that all marketing corporate types seem obsessed with selling to women and they convince themselves it’s smart because women supposedly control household spending. They are willing to do this even if it means fucking over men who built the brand.
I figured it was because they’re trying really hard to turn young men into women (and fuck them over in more ways than one). Hence win-win marketing to women… they’ll be like 90% of the population if they have anything to say about it!
I remain mystified how so many here are obsessed with a pop star and her boyfriend.
#GlibsTigerBeat
An excellent point. I just find it weird. I also don’t think the story gets the traction it does without the active complicity of the NFL and the networks.
panem et circenses
Yes. With the price of bread going up, they need to up their game in the deliverance of circuses.
Just balancing out the obsession with a certain prince and his arm candy.
Elizabeth is dead, dude.
It’s easier to keep up with who Prince is dating now that he’s dead.
lol
I have been working on a secret project. One that has the potential to tilt the entire battle against seconding once and for all.
It is a process I call Firstception, and it requires great skill to carry out. The goal is to implant a First within the mind of another, even a seconder. They will have no idea where this First came form, but the truth is it will be from my Third Eye the entire time. I have been inserting Firsts into Firsts, but I need to go deeper. A First within a First within a First.
I can turn the biggest seconder into a Firster with this. Albeit only temporarily. But as a tool to amplify the First, it is unstoppable.
*giggles that Bro doesn’t know I implanted this into his mind.
Ever time you wake up with a boner, that’s Firstception.
It’s been me your entire life, MikeS.
When you get caught doing something jaw-droppingly stupid, first thing to do is go full Godwin on your political opponents.
“I believe Congressman Bowman when he says this was an accident,” a memo drafted by Bowman’s office and obtained by Politico read. “Republicans need to instead focus their energy on the Nazi members of their party before anything else.”
Classy.
LOL
Didn’t Godwin get a severe case of TDS and give people a pass on comparing Trump to Hitler?
What a pussy.
Lindsey Graham is a traitor. I mean that quite literally.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/lindsay-graham-suggests-if-conservatives-want-border-security-they-will-have-support
To be fair, that’s been Republican SOP since Reagan.
I think demanding WW3 is a bit of an escalation.
Lady G was good during judicial confirmations, but the bad Lindsay is back.
In the election of 1980, Carter proposed building a barrier on the border. Reagan’s response was that friendly nations don’t put on 9 foot tall fence on their border. And then he granted amnesty. That was supposed to be a one-time thing.
Human migration is hard to stop, but it can be managed. Charge an entry fee and then charge more for a green card and more for full citizenship. No green card or no citizenship, back across the border you go.
Friendly nations don’t walk in uninvited by the millions and demand free everything.
This is 10 years old, but it has a relevant lesson for the present.
US destroyer Captain demoted for cruelty. She called her sailors poopyheads when they messed up and got in a drag race with another cruiser. I’m not sure how that’s possible given the acceleration of cruisers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNttICM6qo
The point I have here is that she suffered a much greater consequence than any officer of similar or higher rank who planned and led the withdrawal from Afghanistan. That’s the real scandal.
I rolled my own for the first time in ~25 years. I’d give it a B-. Points deducted because it’s a bit loose. I think the amount I used was spot-on.
These euphemisms.
One hitters are more efficient, but a good, tight one is excellent once in awhile.
A. they make machines for that https://www.amazon.com/s?k=cigarette+roller+machine&crid=1ZCE1JCGBJAD0&sprefix=cigarette+roller+machine+%2Caps%2C554&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
B. Get some Bali Shag, it hand rolls very nicely.
C. So much better than poot
D. God, I wish I never quit
BREAKING: Live footage of Biden and Zelensky
Make it rain on them Ho…lodomor survivor descendants…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fls8VU7XClU
Trevor Bauer speaks.
Chick lied, career died.
I assume there will be teams that will take him back, but this shit is ridiculous.
And, to continue a theme, she isn’t even hot.
There isn’t a young female in their 20’s who I would trust to be part of any conspiracy. They’ll be texting, photographing, and video taping shit every step of the way. I’m surprised she didn’t document her plans on social media directly.
That the MLB “investigated” and suspended him is fucking atrocious. A lot of conservatives ae guilty of supporting this shit, though. hey were the ones cheering when Roger Goodell started marketing himself as the sheriff who was going to clean up the NFL and other sports commissioners followed his lead.
The good old days where guys like Tagliabue swept shit under the rug were far more preferable to me than what we get now. It’s kangaroo justice at its fines where it doesn’t matter what you did, but how much media backlash is anticipated.
And no, that one aint hot.
I used to think it was odd how many big hitters married their HS girlfriends. I don’t anymore.
A lot of conservatives ae guilty of supporting this shit, though. hey were the ones cheering when Roger Goodell started marketing himself as the sheriff who was going to clean up the NFL and other sports commissioners followed his lead.
The players should sue the league, too.
In the case of the NFL it all ends up in internal arbitration because of the union which has already basically given the commissioner a blank check. And from there it goes back to the commissioner.
There is little recourse for a player who gets screwed. Once upon a time, I though the backlash after the Ray Rice tape had taught Goodell what a fool’s errand he was on. He made himself the bullseye for every questionable decision, but he refuses to give up his power in the end. The lure is too great even in the private sector.
The owners should have forced it down his throat, but as long as they are making money they’ll seemingly tolerate the figurehead of their entire league being despised.
I can’t take anyone seriously who has his hat on backwards.
Obligatory?
Big In Japan
Klassisch.
I had no idea who he was, but Tundra’s Twitter link had his name in katakana.
After that and a quick Wiki it was easy enough to figure he was playing in Japan.
Other option…
Also Big in Japan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM60iVDu79Y
Believe all women, you misogynist!
Team Perry
Our green future awaits!
Energy company ‘doubling down on costly, dirty coal’ to power massive EV battery plant
Evergy’s my provider. Missouri residents are getting hit over this, too.
ConEd is doing the same in downstate NY, asking for something like 30% hikes. Sooner or later it’s going to dawn on the average ratepayer that the green fantasy of “cheaper energy” was a lie.
But wind and solar are free!*
*I’ve actually heard this argument from prog friends.
The average ratepayer has no power. It doesn’t matter whether we wake up or not.
KS has a dem governor and she snagged the Panasonic plant and everybody was so happy. They never count the costs. It’s not reallyEvergy, either. They’ve got to cover that cost somehow.
Sidebar: Our museum commissioned a new, very ugly addition that lights up at night. It’s kind of pretty at night, but it looks like a collection of construction trailers during the day. Anyway, nobody ever did a study about the light bill. They had to close one more day a week to be able to pay the light bill. (Google Nelson-Atkins Bloch addition.)
OFFS
You could win Progressive Buzzword Bingo from that statement from the Sierra Club spokeshole.
Not sure if this was staged, but it is amusing.
A French boy asks his grandpa to get him Minecraft for xmas. Take a moment to ponder how the grandpa might have misinterpreted that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6-XeyNMCJw
To be fair, the other thing on the kids list was a LePen t shirt.
I LOVE LePens!
I don’t have any because clutter I don’t need, but I love them.
A guru from India shares a funny animal story set in Michigan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhIkLozpN6o