Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – Tender is the fur

by | Oct 18, 2023 | Daily Links | 177 comments

“Why don’t men approach women anymore? I just want a guy to ask me out.”

Literally shaking.


 

The Nihilistic Philosophies of Deformed Fish

The Problem of Horrible Teef: Either God will not fix my teef or He cannot fix my teef.

 

We are alone in a hostile universe. There is only the eternal night.

 

Not even love can save us. Love is not real. Nor is hate. Only indifference exists.

 

“Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls – while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.” Only Thomas Ligotti understands me.

 

To live is to suffer.

 

Am I a fish? Am I some sort of coral? Frozen in a scream, I persevere. Why? Why?


 

I just can’t even with this story.

Gross reaction to woman’s viral gym bra fail: ‘Wear clothes’

 

A woman whose zip-up sports bra burst open at the gym has copped wild criticism from men who claim she should “wear clothes” to avoid the situation.

While women everywhere empathized with Canadian influencer Kylie Thompson after she shared a video of her recent wardrobe malfunction while she was working out, there were others who claimed Thompson should “wear clothes instead of undergarments” in public spaces.

Her unfortunate experience sparked a war of words between men and women after Thompson shared the clip on TikTok.

In the video, Thompson can be seen wearing a pair of grey bike shorts with a khaki top that features a zip that goes through the middle.

Despite the clasp being fully closed, the top bursts open as Thompson gets ready to lift weight using a machine, prompting her to clasp her chest.

“New gym fear unlocked: wardrobe malfunctions,” the popular gym-user wrote across the footage.

She also praised the “clasp on the inside” for protecting her from being fully exposed, as it kept the top held together while the middle split apart.

Thompson’s video quickly blew up, but as women shared their own wardrobe mishaps at the gym, the opposite sex appeared to have little sympathy for her plight.

“Maybe wear clothes instead of undergarments. I wish I was born 2000 years ago,” one bloke lamented.

“That’s why there’s something called shirts for public,” another scoffed.

One particularly rude bloke even made a completely unacceptable remark about Thompson’s bust size, while another echoed a similar sentiment one woman labelled “gross.”

That mean old mansplaining has struck again! How dare men suggest a woman wear a shirt when she is worried about her sports bra busting open! Harrumph, harrumph.


 

 

Just look at this cool motherfucker.

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177 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    Oh noes! Not a man talking!

    • Common Tater

      “We help your favorite Democratic candidates communicate more effectively. We influence influencers to write like us. Biden 2020 Digital Alum.”

      LOL

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Men who talk to women they don’t know in real life should be summarily executed.

    • Common Tater

      “Texas woman Brandy Selim Roberson first shared the story in a viral Facebook post last year…

      The story and photo have gone viral again online after being shared on X, formerly known as Twitter, by the account Call to Activism.”

      She’s really milking it. If it ever happened at all.

      • WTF

        A man spoke to her in a public place.
        The horror, the horror.

        It’s as if men are a lower caste who dare not speak to their betters without invitation.

      • Nephilium

        So Islam is right about women?

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Well, what did it say about Jews?

    • Common Tater

      “Author Rachel Wilson wrote, “Feminism has created mass hysteria that men are nothing but violent assault machines, and that the only thing stopping them from enslaving the entire female sex is feminist activism and laws. It’s insanity and it must stop. Women’s studies departments should be shut down.””

      Where’s the money in that? The VAWA is up to what, around $6B a year?

    • Common Tater

      “But some said the negative reaction from “angry men” just proved the point.

      “Men in the quotes giving us great examples of why the employees stepped in,” one said. “Y’all are not entitled to speak to women simply because you think you can or perceive yourself as no harm.””

      Ah yes, the time honored “men in my mentions” technique.

      • rhywun

        Y’all are not entitled to speak

        Now do panhandlers.

      • EvilSheldon

        ‘Angry men.’

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      He probably violated Tom Brady’s Rules.

  2. Not Adahn

    Is khaki a different color in Commonwealth countries?

    • prolefeed

      Dusty green / olive is part of the vast range of colors called khaki.

    • SDF-7

      Same color but different colour probably.

      • Rat on a train

        khaeki?

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Kek-i

      • groat scotum

        That’s cartoon frog green.

  3. SDF-7

    Gross reaction to woman’s viral gym bra fail: ‘Wear clothes’

    But if she wore clothes those mean old men wouldn’t want to talk to her and she couldn’t post TikToks complaining that they watch her so that she gets lots of attention!

    Narcissism is rampant.

    • SugarFree

      No, she could the get into the “Men don’t talk to women in the gym anymore. [sadface]” grift. (See the first story. It’s just a loop.)

      • juris imprudent

        Yep, aside from the fish, this set of links was worse than the noon post.

  4. Common Tater

    A zip up sports bra? There is only one “sport” for that.

    • SDF-7

      Motorboating?

      • groat scotum

        Spending way too much time on X, immediately went to like.

  5. rhywun

    That Ligotti fish had a segment on one of the Planet Earth shows. Females love the head bump. And they can hibernate for a couple months and turn into vicious males.

    • Ted S.

      That’s Fetterfish.

    • Chafed

      Alphabet people powers, activate!

  6. prolefeed

    “A man came up to her and started talking to her.”

    Clearly no need to go into any details of why this interaction caused concern.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      No need to because it didn’t happen and was contrived and written by whoever posted that silly Karen nonsense.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    ‘Do you want us to intervene?”

    God forbid that poor terrified little flower should experience human interaction.

  8. Ted S.

    Gross reaction to woman’s viral gym bra fail: ‘Wear clothes’

    Fucking influencer *wanted* it to happen for the attention.

    And imagine if a man had a wardrobe “malfunction” that showed off his large erection.

    • SDF-7

      He’d have to put his dress back on really quickly, that’s for sure.

    • The Other Kevin

      It was such a terrible embarrassment she had to post it for the world to see and comment on.

  9. DEG

    A barista handed her “an extra hot chocolate someone forgot to pick up.”

    How grateful I am for people who look out for other people!

    Side note: She felt safe and did not remove the lid, but let them know.

    Why do I smell bullshit?

    • prolefeed

      1) Name of account poster: CALL TO ACTIVISM

      2) “This gave me goosebumps.”

      3) Too fucking lazy to make up a single pertinent detail about why anyone would be concerned by a man talking to a woman.

      4) How is a Starbucks barista gonna “intervene”? Coffee more burnt tasting than usual?

      .

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Re 3, loud and animated, apparently, so possible creep or weirdo.

      • Common Tater

        Or maybe just too much coffee.

      • groat scotum

        Too much Starbucks coffee? He may be eligible for a compensation.

      • EvilSheldon

        Now I’m wondering how often Starbucks gets robbed. Lots of cash on site, plus lots of expensive laptops and phones. And zero possibility of effective resistance.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        I doubt they have much cash. It has moved to a mostly frictionless business model.

    • Ted S.

      Why do I smell bullshit?

      Because Starbucks coffee smells like bullshit?

  10. The Other Kevin

    I’m keeping our tradition of not linking directly to The Chive, but they had a gallery about “influencers” today. These people posting about how it’s amazing nobody in public knows who they are, or complaining because they’re in the middle of the street for a photo shoot and people want to use the street. Just as insufferable as bra girl.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Not even love can save us. Love is not real. Nor is hate. Only indifference exists.

    Whatever.

    • Nephilium

      Meh.

      • SDF-7

        I’d argue with you if I cared.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM

        Borrrrring.

  12. DEG

    Despite the clasp being fully closed, the top bursts open as Thompson gets ready to lift weight using a machine, prompting her to clasp her chest.

    Huh. It’s open at the beginning of the video. Staged.

    • The Other Kevin

      She zipped it up at the end. It did not “burst open”, it came unzipped. Or she unzipped it.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Mae Mordabito: [During the league’s publicity drive] What if at a key moment in the game my, my uniform bursts open and, uh, oops, my bosoms come flying out? That, that might draw a crowd, right?

        Doris Murphy: You think there are men in this country who ain’t seen your bosoms?

  13. Tundra

    Gym thots are tedious. I preferred the hot moms.

    And yes. That is one cool motherfucker.

    • Chafed

      👍

  14. DEG

    O’Keefe Media Group’s latest

    A school district in New Jersey has been socially transitioning students behind parent’s backs, according to email and video obtained exclusively by OMG.

    Kingsway Regional School District in Kingsway, New Jersey, has adopted a “tiered” policy for classifying students who want to transition without their parent’s knowledge.

    • Common Tater

      School to clinic pipeline.

    • Chafed

      These people need to be sued, then sued again.

      • Social Justice is Neither

        No, they need to be fired, preferably with a flamethrower after costing them in naplam.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    “Maybe wear clothes instead of undergarments. I wish I was born 2000 years ago,” one bloke lamented.

    We all wish you were born 2000 years ago, you maundering sissy.

    • SDF-7

      I’m sure he was crucified in the comments.

      • The Other Kevin

        I’m washing my hands of that guy.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        You nailed it.

  16. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Gym girl: Wake me up when she photographs herself blowing out the crotch of her tights.

    • The Other Kevin

      Only if she could figure out a way to make it look cute.

      • SDF-7

        She’ll sign up to do investigative journalism for James O’Queef.

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.
  17. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    If I was working out at the gym and my dick was sticking out of my shorts, the ladies would probably tell me to put some pants on, just like they do at Starbucks.

    • SugarFree

      Those burnt coffee bastards!

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      Oh, come on. They would just get you some fresh hot chocolate, and ask “you OK, bro?”

    • kinnath

      All these people will be held in solitary confinement in federal prison for three years before the finally plead guilty to horrible crimes.

      • SDF-7

        I’m sure Judge Whatsername will get right on that after scolding Trump for defending himself and not already being locked up.

      • prolefeed

        And they will give the longest sentences to the organizers of the rally who weren’t there.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Worst day since 1/6.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Why isn’t Hamas’s attack described as Israel’s 1/6?

  18. Shpip

    I feel bad for that goldfish. Someone should tell him that things are looking up.

    • R.J.

      I had one of those. The crawfish snapped it in half.

  19. Shpip

    Re: ugly fish.

    I was in St. Simons last week, hoping to catch some bull redfish as they came to the estuary to spawn. Alas, the reds were nowhere to be found, but I hooked an oyster toadfish. That’s one ugly sumbitch — though they’re supposedly delicious if you have the patience to filet one. The teeth on that thing (plus a venomous barb on its first dorsal fin) makes it a “just grab the hook with some pliers and shake the thing off” fish.

    • SDF-7

      That’s definitely in the “someone must have been damned hungry” category, yeah.

      Right up there with Nature’s penis joke that people somehow eat as well….

      • B.P.

        I’ve had geoduck. It’s okay.

    • SugarFree

      wtf kill it with fire

  20. Mojeaux

    @Trashy, belay that potential Glib meetup in Springfield. Scheduling went a bit south. Heh.

    • Common Tater

      Btw, Tommy Lee was on Club Random.

      • Mojeaux

        Tommy Lee is not my favorite Crue member and I have no idea what Club Random is.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Bill Maher’s podcast; not bad.

      • Ted S.

        It really should be Club Arbitrary.

      • Mojeaux

        Thanks! I’ll look it up. He’s insufferable, but when he’s right, he’s right.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Smokes weed throughout, but you probably couldn’t tell if he didn’t mention it so often.

      • Common Tater

        Your welcome?

    • Fatty Bolger

      The image shows a tattooed man wearing a beanie as he takes a large bite from what looks like a relish-covered hot dog.

      It’s Illinois, so it’s obviously a loose meat sandwich. Sheesh.

      These are terrible. Except for Michigan, that one’s pretty accurate.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Well, between Shpip and “the Bro”, Florida checks out.

        Not too mention that they got a good portrait of Spud in Idaho.

    • The Other Kevin

      Indiana is the Utah of the midwest. That one’s way off, where are the guns and fireworks?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      First of all, Europeans think we have 52 states.

      • Tres Cool

        Didn’t Obama think we had 54?

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        57. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt on that one because he was talking about primaries, which might number 57 when you include Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, DC, Samoa, superdelegates, etc.

    • R.J.

      I’ve seen this set of photos before. I think we discussed it a month ago. It was not pitched as having a European outlook.

    • Not Adahn

      Iowa has the most cornfields in the US, and AI believes Europeans see these Americans as ‘corn huskers.’

      WTF Ican’teven.

      Do they not even know the N stands for “Nolege?”

    • Not Adahn

      The AI created what appears to be a courthouse scene with a man yelling from the crowd.

      Note to Glibs: That pic is obviously a Charismatic/Pentacostal church service. Daily Mail person has never seen the inside of a church.

    • Not Adahn

      Oklahoma and Rhode Island are amazingly accurate.

    • Grumbletarian

      They blurred the gun in the Texas picture. JFC.

      • Grumbletarian

        And a joint in the Vermont one. Double JFC

    • Suthenboy

      The only one they got right is Oregon.

    • Fatty Bolger

      As I understand it, it’s always Reagan’s fault.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        They need to blame whoever invented Thorazine (seriously).

    • B.P.

      I’ve noted it before on this forum, but back in August two hotels down the street from me that the city was contracting with to house homeless were suddenly repopulated with illegal immigrants. Most of the homeless I see on a daily basis seem nonviolent, exhibiting herky-jerky movements (fentanyl I assume) accompanied by a thousand-yard stare. Some are actively harming themselves (punching pavement, etc.).

      • SugarFree

        Probably Tranq, aka The Zombie Drug. It’s a horse tranquilizer, like a turbo version of ketamine.

    • The Other Kevin

      It’s been interesting to watch the division in the Democratic party over this.

      • Tres Cool

        “key ally”?
        Assumes.

  21. one true athena

    love the fish! lol

    The Starbucks cup thing is similar to the “write hateful things on a receipt pretending it’s the waiter and profit” thing from a few years ago. I think covid killed it off, so it’s not a good sign these bozos are trying to bring it back.

  22. Common Tater

    “BREAKING: Twitter user Douglass Mackey sentenced to 7 months in prison after being found guilty of election interference for making memes disparaging Hillary Clinton

    There was no evidence to suggest that any voter attempted to cast their ballot via text in response to Mackey’s meme.

    “Tomorrow at 1130am,” said one supporter, “Doug Mackey will be sentenced in an NYC courtroom on a sham “conspiracy” conviction for sharing an anti-Hillary meme, all thanks to a bunch of lies and half-truths spewed by a morbidly obese fed informant who goes by the name Microchip.”

    The meme that Mackey was convicted of disseminating was directed at Hillary Clinton voters, but other memes, also instructing people to vote for president via text, were distributed by social media users telling people to cast their vote for Trump via text. Mackey was convicted while no one else was even charged.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-twitter-user-douglass-mackey-sentenced-to-7-months-in-prison-after-being-found-guilty-of-election-interference-for-making-memes-disparaging-hillary-clinton

    Where’s my banana farm?

    • rhywun

      Where are the prison sentences for the 51 former spooks slash Dem operatives who knowingly and falsely claimed that Hunter’s laptop was Russian “disinformation” just before the 2020 election?

    • grrizzly

      Frank Zappa:

      “The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

      We’re already there.

      • Tundra

        Yeah. We’re cool as long as the lights work and the shelves are full.

        Gonna get interesting when that isn’t the case.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    The ever-present threat of neo-Nazi terror

    Groups linked to Al Qaeda and American neo-Nazis have been seeking to exploit the ongoing war to encourage attacks, according to two separate intelligence products obtained by NBC News.

    “You must attack them in their homes, shops, posts and places of amusement … Tear their bodies apart, let their blood flow and take revenge for your martyrs,” said one Al Qaeda post quoted in an intelligence bulletin by the New York Police Department, which has maintained a global intelligence network since 9/11.

    The Al Qaeda branch in the Indian subcontinent, known as AQIS, is calling for attacks on Americans, British and French nationals, the bulletin said, while another Al Qaeda-aligned propagandist issued an online call for attacks using silencers, explosives and knives.

    A Homeland Security official told NBC News that the DHS is monitoring a “heightened threat environment” in the United States and is concerned about attacks on Jewish-Americans, as well as Arab-Americans and Muslim-Americans.

    “The intensity has gotten worse,” the official said, noting that DHS, the FBI and the National Counterterrorism Center are “constantly monitoring the threat environment,” including online chatter.

    ——-

    The Institute for Strategic Dialogue also found that U.S.-based neo-Nazis had appropriated the language of Hamas and have been using the conflict in an effort to inspire attacks in the U.S. and on Jewish communities globally. The neo-Nazi accounts are spreading official terrorist content linked to the Qassem Brigades on Telegram, while also linking to “Resistance Axis” groups on the platform.

    Several members of extremist groups in the United States and Canada — including members of the Proud Boys — have posted on Telegram expressing a desire to kill or harm Jewish people, according to Advance Democracy, which studies far-right rhetoric online.

    Never miss an opportunity to vilify your political enemies.

      • rhywun

        I hope that bitch rots in hell for all the damage she has done to this country.

    • Suthenboy

      I know zero about the Proud Boys outside of a general impression that they are anti-progressive. It seems unlikely to me that they are jew haters. I am guessing false flag or outright fabrication.

    • Not Adahn

      Al Qaeda-aligned propagandist issued an online call for attacks using silencers, explosives and knives.

      Hey, free can!

  24. UnCivilServant

    People who can actually grow plants without killing them –

    Today when I watered the pot where my lavendar seeds are germinating and something gray on the surface puffed out a cloud that looked like smoke but which was most likely spores. I can’t help but suspect I have a mold/fungus that has taken root in the peat meant to grow the lavender in.

    I don’t know what type of invasive fungi it is, but I am looking for advice on how to get rid of it and not hurt my lavender seeds/seedlings.

    • Common Tater

      First off, you are over-watering your seedlings. There is no wind indoors.

      If they already have true leaves, I would transplant them into new soil, and put them in a different room.

      Back in the old room, throw away the old soil, wash down everything with something that kills mold, and set up an air filter.

      • UnCivilServant

        Nothing green has broken the surface.

        I don’t have the option of alternate rooms, It’s at the office in my cube.

        And there is no way I’m over-watering given that it’s once a week and maybe half a shot glass of liquid.

      • Common Tater

        It was wet enough to grow mold. If they haven’t germinated, then I would just start over. I would use peat moss or jiffy pots.

    • UnCivilServant

      So, is there a fungicide that won’t kill lavender?

      • Common Tater

        You don’t have lavender yet. Although you might have seeds that are already dead. There are fungicides that won’t kill green plants, but this isn’t a fungus on a plant. It’s a mycelium in the peat. That’s very hard to kill.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    something gray on the surface puffed out a cloud that looked like smoke but which was most likely spores.

    It’s been nice knowing you.

    • R.J.

      A week from now, he will climb the tallest building he can find, lie down in top in the sun, and his stomach will burst and release a puff of grey smoke.

  26. Derpetologist

    It’s hard for me to pick my favorite weird fish. I’m tempted to go with something prehistoric, like the mighty Dunkleosteus. There’s also the blobfish, the anglerfish, the psychedelic frogfish, and the pacu, which has humanlike teeth.

    https://www.newsweek.com/weirdest-looking-fish-planet-earth-1660015

    This weird fish has the best name: sarcastic fringehead

    Its mouth is like that of Predator, the sci-fi monster. They defend themselves via “mouth wrestling”.

    https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-sarcastic-fringehead-an-oddly-named-fish-who-5911216

    • Common Tater

      The sexual dimorphism of angler fish is bizarre.

    • R.J.

      Nice. Once they can launch a shaped charge in that steel projectile they can knock a hole in anything afloat. All kinds of possibilities.

  27. Derpetologist

    The latest mewling from Thom Hartmann is amusing if predictable:

    Why it’s impossible for right-wing governments to handle a crisis

    ***
    President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said, “Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference” and Democratic administrations have taken it to heart ever since that 1933 speech.

    When Democrats have control of Congress and the White House they pass all sorts of legislation to advance the public good, aid workers, care for the poor and disabled, strengthen public education, and provide for the needs of ordinary people. Occasionally they overreach or their programs don’t work or even backfire; they then fix them or try something different.

    When rightwingers run our government, though, they pass laws like Taft-Hartley that gutted union rights, rip up voting rights, make it easier for fossil fuel companies to pollute and timber companies to clear-cut, and dial back people’s access to welfare and healthcare programs. And, of course, start wars (Grenada, Iraq/Kuwait, Afghanistan, Iraq) and pass tax cuts for their billionaire patrons.

    Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Clinton, Obama, and Biden all proposed and put into law sweeping programs to build America and enhance the public good ranging from Social Security, the right to unionize, the minimum wage, Medicare, food stamps, Medicaid and greater funding for education.

    Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Bush, and Trump all went for tax cuts for billionaires and worked to gut or privatize the agencies, infrastructure, and programs Democrats had set up.

    There’s a reason for this.
    — Leftwing governments believe in democracy, and so try to accomplish what’s best for the majority of people while protecting the rights of the minority; rightwing governments practice autocracy on behalf of the morbidly rich. Sometimes, like the old USSR or modern Venezuela, repressive and authoritarian rightwing governments pretend to be left-wing, but the police state aspects of their governance give the game away.

    — Rightwingers don’t see democracy as a benefit or even an ideal; they see it as an impediment to further comforting the already-comfortable while enriching themselves in the process. Instead of building up disaster preparedness through strengthening, for example, FEMA, they work to redirect those government dollars back to their friends through things like $600 billion a year in oil industry subsidies and over $20 trillion (cumulatively) in Republican tax cuts to billionaires since 1981.

    Rightwing governments rarely put the good of the people of a nation first; instead, it’s axiomatic that they achieve and wield power by scapegoating minority groups — usually racial or religious — and suppressing both voting rights and the rights of women to full participation in society.

    While there have been a few self-declared left-wing authoritarian kleptocracies in history (most notably the USSR), the vast majority have been rightwing in their origin and nature. And, over time as their corruption becomes evident, their citizens grow to hate them.
    ***

    Cool story, bro.

    Dead I am the knife, break into the skin!
    Knuckle crack the bone, 21 to win!

    • Sensei

      Rightwing governments rarely put the good of the people of a nation first; instead, it’s axiomatic that they achieve and wield power by scapegoating minority groups — usually racial or religious — and suppressing both voting rights and the rights of women to full participation in society.

      Has this dude looked in a mirror?

      • R.J.

        I thought DeSantis has handled many crises perfectly. Lockdowns, hurricanes, border incursions, and now evacuating Americans from Israel.

      • Derpetologist

        No, you don’t get it. It’s those people bitterly clinging to guns and religion. *Those* people are the problem. And the millionaires and billionaires who aren’t paying their fair share. And…

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      “Sometimes, like the old USSR or modern Venezuela, repressive and authoritarian rightwing governments pretend to be left wing”

      Just redefine left wing baddies as right wingers. Problem solved.

      • Rat on a train

        It certainly wasn’t real socialism.

      • B.P.

        I remember all of those right wingers passionately voicing their support for both the USSR and Venezuela.

    • Derpetologist

      Oh, fiddlesticks. I bungled another hyperlink tag.

      Here’s a Japanese beekeeper who uses glue traps to kill murder hornets:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onq9ixC7OEg

      His lack of fear or protective gear is impressive.

      • R.J.

        Japanese Billy Badass!
        Very smart tip. I’ll remember that.

    • Brochettaward

      No one has ever made the grift sound so noble.

  28. R.J.

    Trashy will be in the DFW area this weekend. We are meeting up at Whiskey Cake in Plano, Friday after 5:00.

    Address: 3601 Dallas Pkwy, Plano Tx, 75093

    Menu: https://whiskeycake.com/menu/tx/plano-tx/

    • Tundra

      Spectacular.

      “Insurrection! Insurrection!” Nancy Pelosi shrieked as she ran down the corridors of the Capitol building before being stopped by one of her aides. “What? Oh, it’s pro-Palestine people? Oh, ok, then. Totally not an insurrection at all. Where’s my wine?”

      I sincerely hope she secretly reads these and seethes.

  29. R.J.

    Dinner was delicious. Had meatloaf, then an Alec Bradley Lineage cigar and a vodka martini with a garlic stuffed olive. Now back to folding laundry.

    • rhywun

      When I gained a washer & dryer recently, I forgot I had to fold the clothes myself. Ugh.

      • R.J.

        IT NEVER STOPS…

      • Mojeaux

        Dafuq folding clothes.

        Have giant drawers you throw your all-matching socks and your underwear into. Fuck folding panties and bras and socks, man. Nope.

      • hayeksplosives

        I threw away all of my socks except for one style, which I then bought plenty of. I don’t tie or fold them in pairs. I lay them on top of each other in a couple of piles in the drawer and just peel 2 off the stack each day.

        For undies, I fold in half and stack. Same for bras.

        Getting rid of every article of clothing that irked me in some way or another was very liberating.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Racist

    A reporter of Chinese descent is speaking out, weeks after Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen dismissed her article on his company, Pillen Family Farms, because “the author is from Communist China.”

    Yanqi Xu, 27, who is an immigrant from China and reports for the independent outlet Flatwater Free Press, told NBC News that Pillen’s comments were a form of “bias.” Pillen, a Republican, had made the remarks on Omaha radio station KFAB in September, after he was asked to respond to her article that found high levels of nitrate on his hog farms.

    “Number 1, I didn’t read it. And I won’t,” Pillen said on the air about Xu’s article. “Number 2, all you got to do is look at the author. The author is from Communist China. What more do you need to know?”

    This week — with Xu’s blessing and after consulting with immigration lawyers to ensure her visa status wouldn’t be compromised — Matt Wynn, executive director of the Nebraska Journalism Trust, which launched the Flatwater Free Press, published a column in her defense.

    “Yanqi has been in the United States since 2017. … This, she said, is the first time anyone has written her off based on her origin. And it was broadcast, over the air, by the governor of Nebraska,” Wynn wrote. “As an employer, that infuriates me. As a believer in democracy and a free press, it saddens me. As a Nebraskan, it embarrasses me.”

    Shocking.

    What does it have to do with “democracy”?

    • Brochettaward

      Democracy is a synonym for all the good things right-thinking people believe in. Diversity is one of those things.

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      A Yanqi from China? What will they think of next?

    • Brochettaward

      And Youtube blocked me from viewing this. Every day their anti-ad-blocker software gets more aggressive. For this video, it wasn’t a pop-up but the video itself which was telling me to turn off ad blocker.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Great album

      • rhywun

        Epic and nearly flawless.

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      Yep, ’88, Good stuff, not too old

      /class of ’89

      • rhywun

        /class of 88 but I didn’t discover it until college

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Me neither, heard Goo first and then got it.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        One of the few befits of growing up in a small college town; good radio.

    • Sean

      😂😂

    • hayeksplosives

      He probably bet a shiny object on the outcome.

  31. hayeksplosives

    My 11 year old cat is doing her best impression of a toddler who doesn’t want to go to bed. She’s in cat load formation but is fighting sleep.

    She blinks longer and longer, Her head slowly sinks down toward the blanket until it drops and she bonks her nose on the chair, then snaps up with her eyes open and repeats the pattern.

    Silly gato.