Joohball.
As I’m typing this up, the Bills and Texans are about to kick off. Something tells me this is going to be a better game that the Patriots/Titans game. Next to me is a goblet of 2017 Goose Island Bourbon County stout. Very tasty stuff.
How’s about some links?
That’s an awfully big box for a hand.
Oh noes, a red flag.
As much as I hate having troops in the Middle East, and the Iraq War was one of the stupidest decisions ever made, I do relish Tehran getting a good bitch slapping. I just hope Trump knows when enough is enough.
So would Bermuda become the winter white house?
The ’70s called and wants their biker wars back.
A little Bowie for tonight.
“fears of World War 3 and destabilisation of the Middle East.”
*falls out of chair laughing*
GTFO of here with that shit.
I don’t get the WWIII hysteria. Exactly who is on the other side?
Pretend for a moment the US actually declares all out war on Iran (who has considered itself to be at war with the US since the 70’s)…. Who jumps in on Iran’s side to make it WWIII? China? Russia? I don’t think so.
War is stupid and sucky. But the US stomping the crap out of the Iranian military is hardly WWIII. Are we worried that they’ll lob a secret nuke at Israel?
Talking heads have gotten massively more stupid over the last 50 years.
Shit, I remember stories about how badass the Republican Guard was at the beginning of GWI, and warnings about how the draft would need to be reinstated in order to defeat the mighty, mighty Iraqi army, which was then completely destroyed within 7 months, with a total of 147 coalition casualties caused by enemy action. More troops were killed by accidents than by the super-scary Iraqi army.
Everything Trump does is automatically wrong.
That is one fine Beer, enjoy it!
It’s really damned good.
I’m glad to hear Wendy is on the mend. Fingers crossed.
Thanks Spud,
YIS, I think I might be able to exhale for the first time in about a fortnight.
Hey, just read the news. It is indeed good news!
Houston is doing well.
I though it was a touchdown. “common sense” my ass.
Agreed. By the rules, a touchdown.
/notabillsfan
It’s not just in sports. Are they rules or are they guidelines? People really seem to want rules to be optional and only enforced when they want. But that ambiguity leads to rule of man, not rule of law.
Selective enforcement FTW
I predict that Roger Goodell will be the LP candidate this fall.
Great start to the second half…
Police searching for criminal toe sucker who is a “bald male between the ages of 20 and 25 and stood about 5′ 11″ and weighed 160 pounds”. Guess which state.
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/01/03/florida-police-searching-for-criminal-toe-sucker/
The spin and/or take by some employees of Warren Buffett with offices local to where Donald J. Trump spoke kicking off Evangelicals for Trump at a megachurch that specializes in Hispanics. The head pastor promised that people would not be immigration-related grabbed for attending.
https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2020/01/03/as-2020-dawns-trump-looks-to-boost-evangelical-support/
While at that site, found this …
Road rage, Florida style
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/01/04/shooting-investigation-shuts-down-busy-stretch-of-i-95-for-hours/
Florida Man takes Corvette on test drive, doesn’t return
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/01/03/man-takes-corvette-on-test-drive-from-florida-dealership-doesnt-return/
Did he leave his wife as collateral?
No, so not peak Florida Man (like peak derp)
So he got a Corvette for his wife.
Florida Man drives truck into bar to get Dr. Pepper (in newsworthy way, not just using an intended drive thru)
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/01/02/florida-man-drives-truck-through-bar-to-get-dr-pepper/
I honestly have a physician colleague with the last name Pepper. He’s actually a really great guy and excellent doctor, and of course he hears all the jokes endlessly. I find it’s actually hard to call him Dr. Pepper, so I always just call him Dave.
Just call him Mr. Pibb 🙂
This IS the correct course of action.
Florida Woman uses her dog’s urine in attempt to pass drug test
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/01/02/woman-uses-her-dogs-urine-in-attempt-to-pass-drug-test/
+1 Onterrio Smith
Football player, not Florida Woman, tried to use
“ALS synthetic urine is proudly made to the highest standard at our labs in the United States and always insuring that our customers are 100% satisfied!”
https://www.thewhizzinator.com/synthetic-urine
Was Florida Woman too cheap, or into ‘natural is better’?
If you used ALS urine for a test, wouldn’t you be worried they’d diagnose you with Lou Gehrig’s Disease?
+1 Jean Martin Charcot
Florida Man drives himself to hospital after being shot, police say
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/01/04/man-drives-himself-to-hospital-after-being-shot-police-say/
weirdest animal mating rituals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNrieMwfpWQ
the bird at the beginning is a hoot
Leave me out of this.
I congratulate you on your victory over those cross fit punks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSymMbg2DpE
“She appears to be transfixed…”
Florida Men expelled from restaurant for fighting, put aside their differences to return to armed with gun and machete
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/01/03/men-return-to-business-armed-with-gun-machete-after-being-kicked-out/
Florida 2020 Python Bowl to offer prizes for eradicating invasive snakes
https://www.local10.com/features/2020/01/03/florida-2020-python-bowl-to-offer-prizes-for-eradicating-invasive-snakes/
Florida “driver accidentally backed into the pool” at a Holiday Inn Express. “Driver, passenger not injured” Police not releasing name or gender of driver.
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/01/03/car-crashes-into-hotel-swimming-pool-in-west-palm-beach/
So, are you being paid by Local 10 directly, or are you a Putin Puppet!…..
Went for local to event report on event, found trove. Any true Glib knows that Rufus is the puppet around here.
“true Glib” ? I wont be a member of any club that would have me….
+1 Groucho [redacted]
— Not a [redacted]ist
the world’s largest musical instrument is an organ rigged up to a cave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXnb6QKNMPE
In a sense, it is the cave. The Great Stalacpipe Organ uses the cave as a resonance chamber and mallets hit the stalactites.
Something something hot dog something hallway
The train has, according to https://www.curbed.com/2017/12/13/16771676/brightline-high-speed-rail-miami-orlando “a top speed of 120 miles per hour and expected operating average of 80 mph”.
“Witnesses say the driver or the car tried going around a downed warning bar as the train was nearing the intersection.”
The driver “was taken to the hospital as a precaution, but is expected to be OK.”
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/01/04/car-badly-damaged-after-being-struck-by-brightline-train-in-pompano-beach/
All that Florida Man and Florida Woman just for January 2, 3, and 4th of this year. 362 more days to go for 2020 Florida People!
Run For Your Life: Obese Man Running 5km Races To Shed The Pounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvA9jDKnTGk
My hat’s off to him. A brain tumor screwed up his metabolism. He was normal weight as a kid.
“The way to beat man to man coverage is to run away from it.”
Wisdom from Booger.
Someone told Houston the game has started.
You can’t run away from it
He does need to shut up. Holy crap.
You don’t get the name “Booger” without having the reputation of going to the first knuckle.
You’d think after his playing days he might have wanted to try a better name out for size. Guess he wasn’t able to pick one out?
He snot the brightest guy.
Who’s Booger? Collinsworth?
McFarland. He makes Collinsworth look like a deep and analytical philosopher.
For those who saw my dilemma from the last thread. I took another 1.5 grams (2 less than I would normally take)) and am going to journal my journey through the night. Maybe I’ll make it a glibs article.
I feel good about this.
Word to the wise, stay away from uppers.
I like this plan.
Booze always seems to fuck up the others, but go for it.
Godspeed. Here’s some tunes.
oh, how I laughed:
Peanuts Gang Singing “Barracuda” by: Heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlqV3nm6Lrk
LOL
I like this one.
Oh wow. That’s my early favorite.
Derp, do you happen to have early access to my Night Shift posts?
/damn…
Great minds think alike, my friend.
Night shift?
The LGS has some Ruget 57s out — for rent only, they can’t sell any until 10 round magazines are available. It’s a surprisingly nice shooting gun.
I was there to buy a 9mm buffer, since my 9mm lower was equipped with a 5.56 one. Which might explain why the bolt catch kept breaking.
You are a CZ guy, no?
Have you ever shot the P-10?
I have not. They do have an excellent reputation.
I carry a Shield every day, but am thinking about more bullets. I have shot the CZ-75 variants, but thinking about something lighter.
The P-10 seems to be “like the Glock, only better.” If you’re looking for a DA option, the PCR is nifty. The P-01 has a rail.
I’m happy carrying my Sig P365.
Yep, my brother has a 365 that I have shot a couple times. I’m gonna borrow it for a few days and see how it carries.
I’ve just always liked the CZs. The PCR is awesome, but I’ve never had a DA (other than a revolver).
Thanks for the input!
Don’t forget the polymer framed P-07. 75 based with their Omega trigger.
Goddammit.
*goes back to the drawing board*
I have heard enough good things about this pistol that I might just forget my personal dislike for the 9mm (other than the Hi-Power) that I would probably purchase one if the chance presented itself.
Damn. I like both.
We took a trip to the LGS today too. It was crazy busy with people buying guns like Obama was back in office.
We both may have walked out of there a lil heavier…
It’s a lot easier to lift the merchandise when they’re busy, isn’t it.
You know what I meant!
Whale Protects Diver From Shark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTw8MR67xv8
Humpback whales will also protect seals from killer whales. They hide the seals under their big pectoral fins (@ 2:28 mark)
Hooray for whales!
That program of playing Star Trek IV underwater seems to be playing dividends.
Save the Whales!
Harpoon a Fat Chick!
/old humor from another era….
Nuke the whales
Hi Spud!
I will not bite you, but these are some excellent lynx!
For some reason, I’m watching Bills/Texans and it’s fun as hell.
I no longer give a fuck about the ME. Ready for Donny to finish taunting the inbreeders and bring the boys back home.
Excellent musical selection. This is still my fave Bowie, but how the hell do you go wrong with anything the dude recorded?
I hope all of you are having an excellent night. I put my kid on a plane to Scotland today and am missing him already.
Thanks, buddy.
I never much liked ‘Fame’
Definitely a departure, but it’s still solid.
Fame.
Fame.
Fame throwa.
Not quite a fame throwa
Fine, but Tin Machine was sub par. ‘Video Crime’ para ejemplo.
Tin Machine I was good. Tin Machine II was garbage.
After Fame played, YouTube took me to the Love Shack. I didn’t realize Rand Paul was lead singer of the B52s.
Heh, I think you’re right.
I laughed
Baylor’s a long way from UGA.
OT: worst attorney I ever had was a Baylor man.
#meeither
Also Fame.
(In case you don’t believe me)
Well, so. I have not been watching this game. I am agnostic, although Mr. Mojeaux is of the vague opinion we can beat the Bills easier than the Texans. But that last catch was quite lovely, indeed.
My son severely underbid himself on this leaf-clearing job and I’m not even making him pay for my time or gas.
Sigh. Here we fucking go.
A lot of time left.
Bills let them back up.
They’re letting me down again.
Relevant
Yes, here we go.
Silicone Saturday continues to smother you with pillowy goodness.
http://archive.li/fazfv
9.
Lucky 13
Guns cleaned, 13 mags loaded. Steel Challenge directly after breakfast tomorrow.
I’d invite you all to join me, but with the rain today, its going to be an awful sloppy mess in the pit.
Good luck!
If did competitive shooting, I’d do cowboy action shooting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTkbgqtauDE
I’d probably suck, but it looks fun. Same for mounted archery.
They have a Mounted Cowboy Shooting if buying a full set of Cowboy guns isn’t expensive enough for you.
Seems like any lever action or revolver with an external hammer should do…
My Rossi Ranch Hand is my favorite bang bang toy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z41_igEMexU
Can’t find a video where they spin and shoot. I know it’s out there though.
Unfortunately, no. There are rules.
I’ve liked all the practical shooting variants I’ve tried. IDPA is probably my least favorite. Steel Challenge has the potential to be really useful since it has identical conditions that I can use to track progress… or I might get completely bored shooting the same eight stages all the time.
One of the members of my club has offered to let me shoot his cowboy guns at their CAS event in March. I don’t want to spend $3k on guns and ancillary materials…
If I was living in the US I would probably get into SASS just for S’s&G’s. All I would need to complete the package would be the rifle. I already have four SAA types, a nice double barrel 12 gauge, and the holsters and wardrobe. I even have a nice little Derringer in 45ACP. I’m afraid my moniker has been taken already.
If you get your rifle in .44, you can use it in both Cowboy and “Wild Bunch” (WWI) shooting
S&Gs is the entire point of SASS.
I own exactly zero firearms allowed in SASS.
Do they allow 10 rounds per mag? (Serious question)
Yes.
Victory conditions for tomorrow:
Absolute failure: Last place and/or 1.7 shots/target or more
Failure: Bottom decile places, or 1.65 – 1.7 shots/target
Success: 2nd decile or higher, 1.5 -1.64 shots/target.
Great Success: Top half of rankings, <1.5 shots /target
May the force of Jerry Miculek be with you.
It is wrong that I want to make out with his daughter?
She seems fun.
I’d suggest not cheating on her.
Shit . . .I look up at the TV and the Texans are winning . . .I stopped paying attention a land WTF . . . .oh well, I’m in my own world.
Advice sought: do I, as a nonpartisan voter, request the Dem ballot mischievously or the Lib one more earnestly? Primary is in March and I have through Monday to decide.
Dem ballot, vote for Tulsi.
Do any legal thing you can to maximize liberty,
which to me usually means voting for clogging the works: a split congress or a congress that can fight the president or the reverse . . . whatever combo works (this is to say: doesn’t work).
If I’m absolutely sure my vote doesn’t matter (and that’s often the case), I’ll vote to send a signal: vote for a candidate with a novel idea, a minimalist approach, or the formal LP candidate just to register third-party mass and orientation.
Refresh your principles, set your goals, and then do any legal thing to pursue your goals.
Thanks, both of youse.
Does it really matter? The DNC will decide the nominee, not the primary voters, and whoever is the Libertarian nominee has the same chance of winning no matter who they are.
Probably not; this is why I put it to you cleverer game-theory types.
Huh. Then I would study the Kobayashi Maru.
The Bills just beat themselves.
Yup. They had a chance.
I’m having flashbacks.
It’s not over!
Yes, it’s not over
Wrap!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haip3nCsBkg
This just came on the ipod . . .and I’m feeling wonderful
That’s…
fucking awesome.
Thanks risk-taker!
Wait, which substance did you take more of?
shrooms.
Having anxiety, taking psychedelics seems like the last thing I would want/need. I personally don’t think I would react well.
I have never taken psychedelics. That does not mean I am unamenable to the idea.
Rather, I have my eye on modafinil when I get a couple of bucks.
They can exacerbate anxiety. That’s what microdosing did for me (it helps a lot of people, so don’t rule that out when Psilocybin become legal). But I think it usually helps. It didn’t for me last time, because it was the wrong setting and mindset. This should turn out better. I hope. I also took a smaller dose.
“When”?
I took Abilify for a while. It worked a treat. Except … I was flat. Nothing made me cry or anxious, but nothing made me laugh or be happy, either. I had ZERO imagination and less creativity. I was just an automaton.
I had my shit together, but I wasn’t myself and I needed to finish writing a book and I couldn’t.
I don’t see how modafinil would be that interesting.
Also, isn’t it illegal now?
Modafinil is not interesting at all. I want a stay-awake alternative to caffeine/pseudoephedrine. It is illegal except by rx. There are sources and they aren’t particularly quiet about it.
I’m looking for increased productivity, not psychedelica, but I am not averse to trying a psychedelic just to see what happens.
Well, there is MDMA. Not really a psychedelic, but almost impossible to have a bad time if you have someone there for you.
Despite its reputation, LSD is probably the safest of the common ones. But it does last a long time, and that can wear on your patience if you don’t find it entertaining or interesting. However, something like xanax or valium can end it. So if you aren’t used to tripping, just knowing you have a pill in your pocket just in case, can take a load off your mind.
I have had Xanax. Once. It put me out like a baseball bat to the head. Barely made it to the bed, dizzy all the way, and slept for 3 hours.
It was a good sleep, but that’s not quite what I need to jolt me out of an anxiety attack.
MDMA is something I would not mind trying, as I have heard it just kind of chills you out.
The guy who invented MDMA called it a “diet martini.”
It’s also known to enhance sexytimes.
MDMA doesn’t chill you out, unless you are used to rolling.
For most people, the first time is lit up like a kid on Christmas morning.
Depends what it was mixed with. The worst, and last hard drug experience I ever had was with MDMA that had been cut with heroin. That was a night I would do over if I could lol.
Not just the first time, according to a friend who has done it 3 or 4 times.
“Not just the first time, according to a friend who has done it 3 or 4 times.”
Sure, it depends on the person, and how often they do it.
“Depends what it was mixed with.”
Hopefully, not anything.
Okay, so in my Prohibition book, I had my heroine get drugged so the hero could get in her pants (disclaimer: he did not drug her and he did not know she had been drugged and when he found out, he felt violated too).
Anyway, it was only a little anachronistic and I took some authorial privilege to make the drug do what I wanted it to do (it had no name), but there WAS a drug back then whose effects were described that were similar to MDMA, but I was never able to find out what its name was. It was considered an aphrodisiac and used as such.
In the 20s people thought marijuana/hashish was an aphrodisiac. I suppose between placebo effects and some inhibition relaxing it might have worked.
“Bath salts”
OTOH, I’m also kind of scared a psychedelic will permanently break my brain, so I will probably never do it even if I got the chance.
I think for someone like you, it’d be better to try a microdose. Something subtle.
Also, I’m peaking right now. The lines on the hat of your avatar are popping!
That is my BRAIN, sir! I am a lab-super-enhanced monkey!
On the third hand, I’m the kind of person who fights the laughing gas.
True story . . . .I was reading your comment and Steely Dan song came on the ipod
Awww…the universe likes you!
NEED that for my work mix! Nice pull O banging one.
I am contemplating the contrast between the Hong Kong protestors waving the American flag and singing our national anthem, and the Iranian protestors burning the American flag and chanting that we are the Great Satan.
I have no conclusions. I am merely contemplating.
The Hong Kong protesters obviously deserve to be fucked because they’re agreeing with Trump’s America.
Funny how we’re starting to see a resurgence of the “anti war left” today…
ORANGE MAN BAD!
Unless he’s against war. Then they’re hawks.
It’s all so tedious.
It’s why I drink.
Which is why being sick sucks. I haven’t been drunk since last Friday. ?
Get drunk soon!
Tuesday.
Some sort of toddy may help recovery.
After the miserable week I had, I’m not chancing anything. My zpack is done on Monday night. Tuesday is D-day resuming.
“Azithromycin is generally a safe drug. Drinking moderate amounts of alcohol (three drinks or fewer per day) doesn’t seem to reduce the effectiveness of this drug. However, combining azithromycin with alcohol could intensify your side effects. Remember, treatment with this drug is not very long.”
https://www.healthline.com/health/azithromycin-and-alcohol-questions-answered
At least they admit we’re great.
suggested music: They’re Coming to Take Me Away Haha
actual headline from The Jewish Press: Antisemitism Only Counts From Whites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VQoM8IqDd8
Derpetologist’s most excellent post from last thread QFT:
Thoughts:
While noble, powerful, and wealthy families married for money, power, and land, most people could marry for love or convenience. But in the middle ages, you didn’t have to have a wedding or say vows to a priest or … anything. You could just say you were married in front of a couple of people and that was that.
Single motherhood, easy divorce, what happens to men in divorce, government subsidies—it’s all a toxic stew, the perfect storm.
I maintain that a strong black market is necessary for a healthy economy when overly burdensome regulation and prohibition weakens it. Less regulation/prohibition, weaker black market. More regulation/prohibition, stronger black market. Balance.
Derp, good luck on your date!
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Derpetologist’s most excellent post
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Aw yeah, here comes that sweet, sweet dopamine…
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Derp, good luck on your date!
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Pimpin’ ain’t easy. According to my log, this is woman #48.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p21ZN1MTIIw
In my last job here I got a glimpse of part of the problem facing Japan wrt its falling birth rate.
I was the director of a sector which is primarily staffed with lower paid males. Two of my higher paid supervisors were middle aged and never married (and not gay as far as I can tell).
It didn’t just seem like they didn’t have much of a chance to get married – they seemed to have lost all interest.
The entire gauntlet of finding a mate who would match their expectations and provide mutual respect – it really seemed like that was beyond reality.
I know three guys in my church for whom they simply aged past interest in … sex. Weren’t gay. Weren’t getting laid. But they WERE very tired of trying to get married. So they just stopped and went about their lives.
Now, I understand that 17 is about a male’s sexual peak. I guess I thought a man’s interest in sex would at least last past the age of 30.
So yes, I’ve seen the “just lost interest” phenomenon.
My interest in sex has lasted past 30 . . . .
They have the option to rent on a per use basis without much risk so purchasing doesn’t make much sense.
#metoo
In all seriousness, I’ve known a couple of guys like that. One is a good friend at work. He dated, had relationships in the past, but just didn’t work out for him long term. He dropped out in his 40’s and fills his life with other things.
In my entire department the only guys who were married had completed a career in a related government field and gone to the private sector after that.
You can be interested in, and even have, sex with women without getting married. The incentives have changed and there are some pretty compelling reasons not to get married these days.
That is true.
However, I knew these particular dudes were not getting laid because of church/religious restrictions.
Adhere to those restrictions long enough, eventually, your biology is going to catch up and chastity just becomes a habit.
Well ‘know’ is a bit strong 🙂 People sin.
NSFW
To tell you the truth, I would be very happy for any of them if I found out they had taken their, um, fate i to their own hands.
I feel bad for them . . . .because love is beautiful. There’s just something more to life with intimacy . . . physical, emotional . . .all of it.
*shrugs*
Some of the most fulfilled people I know have taken vows of chastity.
I’ve been in situations where I had to be celibate for a year or more and after about six months I can tell how I start to become strange. Not like I start becoming interested in things I wouldn’t usually think about. I just lose motivation for a lot of things I usually enjoy.
Their prospects were stolen by gaijin. 😉
Overtime?
I don’t think I can take more of these ESPN announcers.
This turned out to be a hell of a game.
It’s a WILDcard game!
WELL IT’S ABOUT FUCKING TIME THEY DID OT SENSIBLY!
Oh, I’m sorry, was I shouting?
D-FENS!
+1 “Fuck you, Captain.”
Did I miss the ref saying that both teams get an opportunity to possess the ball unless a TD is scored on the first possession?
Yes.
Never mind. I totally misunderstood what the dude said.
Interestingly, CAPS LOCK SHOUTING is a throwback to typing in typewriters. As a typewriter is a mechanical device, it would require an alternate set of type in order to italicize or bold the printed word. In order to emphasize, typists simply capitalized the entire word to emphasize when writing on a typewriter.
You are therefore not shouting, merely providing context to your written word.
…either that or you also forget to turn off the turns signals.
Huh. I was taught that underline was italics, and going over the same letters several times would make it bolder. Caps were for titles and subheadings.
Caps were used for emphasis in contracts. Some
idiotsstill do this despite the existence of much easier to read alternatives in the modern world.I don’t have a link, its just something I read on the internet and considered how much of a pain in the ass it would be for Remington-Rand to design and build a mechanical typewriter that could switch between italic, underline, bold, bold italic, bold italic underline, and switch back to normal…
I decided it was a plausible enough explanation and I wasn’t going to question it.
The ball on the IBM Selectric could be swapped out quickly, allowing multiple fonts.
It could, but it was a pain in the ass.
Hmm, lift the clip, pull off the old ball, insert the new one, close the clip.
All of about 15 seconds.
Am I missing something?
You’re missing how much of a pain it is when you want to italicise a single word, etc.
Sounds like enough time to lose your train of—
Squirrel!
The squirrel train was disturbing.
Yes.
That is the problem.
Oh, damn, look. I messed up and forgot to change the ball. Now I have to rip out that piece of paper and start over again.
Yes, definitely pain in the ass.
He’s rising in the polls. WTF?
Advertising works. But isn’t he rising to like 5%?
Hey, as long as he and Steyer are trying to buy their own doomed election rather than spend all that money meddling everywhere else…
I totally agree.
The article re Bloomberg says he’s risen to 3rd despite not being in a debate, I suspect he’s risen to 3rd because he hasn’t been in a debate yet.
The voters are looking for a midget with a Napoleon complex that will save them from the yoke of hated sodas.
They want multiple bossy old ladies to choose from.
Tiny turd is floating to the top!
*holds down the flush lever and counts to fifteen*
Oh no, not with a New York low flow you don’t!
Oh, how I laughed:
Fears of draft after Soleimani strike causes Selective Service website to crash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwZzv4KbUQU
I remember registering with Selective Service shortly after I turned 18. I filled out the form in the tiny post office of the podunk town I grew up in. I still have the slip in my wallet. A few months later, Operation Iraqi Freedom (not Operation Iraqi Liberation, because that spells OIL) began.
Souvenir means to remember in French. The first branch I played footsie with was Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children. At the time, E1 pay was $1,000 a month or so. I got a free ride to Bovine University so I took that instead. Seemed sensible to get paid to pick up an engineering degree. Along the way, I worked at Wal-Mart, in a vinyl siding factory, and on a loading dock. I don’t consider myself blue collar, but I am familiar with that world.
Welp, time for another beer…
https://babylonbee.com/news/people-who-tweet-in-support-of-foreign-wars-to-be-automatically-enlisted-in-armed-forces
For the purposes of humor, I will leave aside the fact that I think it’s wrong to force people into the military or even “national service”, whatever the hell that is.
OK, time for my headlines:
Democrats Warn That US Might Win War With Iran
Iranians Chanting ‘Death to America” Extra Loud This Time
CIA Excited That People Might Start Thinking They’re Cool Again
College Students Who Don’t Know Where Iran is Oppose War There
Neocons Who Don’t Know Where Iran is Support War There
John Bolton Sobs Softly While Watching Same Loop of CNN Footage
UK Leaves EU to Pursue Solo Projects
Flaming Pile of Garbage New Democratic Front-runner
Trump Tells Troops to Go Play Outside
AOC Trapped in Revolving Door Again
Bee is cool, but they left Russia off the list. For last three years, there were a ton of people seemingly urging a war with Russia.
I am of that sliver group who turned 18 after the draft was stopped but before registration was brought back. So I was never required to register.
Yeah, but I pissed away whatever advantage that may have given me and enlisted on my 17th birthday anyway.
Laughingly, I was required to register for the draft after my separation from the AF. I never did.
I joined the Army at 17. Never bothered to register with Selective Service. For about a year and half after I turned 18, I received multiple angry letters every week demanding that I register or I would face prosecution. I thought the fact that these letters were being sent to my Ft. Ord barracks, using my name, rank, and SSN would have clued the SS dolts in but apparently not. I’ve never registered and at 48, I think I’m safe from IRR recall. Although, if I were to go back, my goldbricking powers would be overwhelming.
Holy shit . . .there’s still a football game on
Well there’s a late game too….
Well, that was exciting and I don’t even care!
The Bills fell asleep in the 2nd half. *spit*
Untouched on the blitz, open shot on Watson and… what the hell was that? Tough to lose like that.
That was terrible tackling.
Looked like the other Bill hit Watson at just the right time to counter the momentum and Watson got lucky. Still gotta wrap him up.
Just the bills being the bills.
Are the announcers going to suck Tom Brady’s balls for two hours?
They do it so you don’t have to!
Probably already posted before, but I’m doing it again anyway:
John Bolton Can’t Believe He Left White House Just Before War With Iran
Last seen playing Battlefield on a PS4 in his
living roomcommand center.John Bolton’s military career
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Bolton was a supporter of the Vietnam War, but purposely avoided military service in Vietnam.[29][35] During the 1969 Vietnam War draft lottery, Bolton drew number 185. (Draft numbers were assigned by birth date.)[36] As a result of the Johnson and Nixon administrations’ decisions to rely largely on the draft rather than on the reserve forces, joining a Guard or Reserve unit became a way to reduce the chances of service in the Vietnam War.[37] (although tens of thousands of National Guardsmen and Army reservists would serve in Vietnam with over 5000 being killed there)[38][39][40]Before graduating from Yale in 1970, Bolton enlisted in the Maryland Army National Guard rather than wait to find out if his draft number would be called.[41][42] The highest number called to military service was 195.[43] He saw active duty for 18 weeks of training at Fort Polk, Louisiana, from July to November 1970.[42] After serving in the National Guard for four years, he served in the United States Army Reserve until the end of his enlistment two years later.[5]
He wrote in his Yale 25th reunion book: “I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost.”[35] In a 2007 interview, Bolton explained his comment in the reunion book saying his decision to avoid service in Vietnam was because “by the time I was about to graduate in 1970, it was clear to me that opponents of the Vietnam War had made it certain we could not prevail, and that I had no great interest in going there to have Teddy Kennedy give it back to the people I might die to take it away from.”
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Surely many guys thought the same, but went anyway. I wonder if Bolton has ever considered that some of those in today’s military feel the same way about Iraq or Afghanistan.
I must confess that I “dodged” the draft.
In 1971 I graduated high school and was now prime fodder for the draft. My out was to enroll in college but after about 6 weeks I realized that, because I was working three jobs, I was flunking out.
I knew that I did not want to be a grunt on the ground in Viet Nam so I went down to the Air Force recruiter and signed up for four years.
I was in Basic when the draft numbers were posted so I never knew what mine was. A few years ago I looked it up on the Internet and found out that is was something like 320. I never would have gone.
I have an Uncle who was failing out of school. Decided to just go down and sign up for the army.. He got his report card back and found out his professor pass him
My dad turned 18 in 1970. He opposed the war, but felt that taking his chances with the draft was the honorable thing to do. He lucked out and got a high number. A few years later, he was a Mormon missionary in Germany.
The German he taught me as a wee lad was one of the ways I was introduced to foreign languages. The names in my dinosaur books came first.
When my brother and I were little, he decided we shouldn’t play with war toys and the only TV we could watch was PBS. That phase did not last long. Then, he decided he would make toys for us. He made a toy tank out of wood, and the craftsmanship was similar to Homer Simpson’s spice rack.
The last nail in the coffin was at an air show when I was 11 or so. They had a Huey you could sit in and a helmet you could wear. I was not a smiley kid, and when he saw me in the chopper and wearing the helmet with a big smile on my face, that was when he knew I was definitely joining the military.
I gave peace a chance. My brother joined before me in 2006, so I did the Peace Corps instead. In the end, it all worked out.
I was just thinking today how prescient the Robin Williams movie Toys is. The gist is the evil general wants to use video games to train children to remotely operate weapons. Kind of like drones.
“How many points do you get for blowin’ up people?”
“A million.”
I loved that movie as a kid.
I used to work with a guy who got his draft notice in about 1968. He threw it out and went about his life. He got a second one and threw that one out too.
After some time two men in suits came to the door and and told him they were taking him down to the recruiter’s office. He said “No problem, let’s go”. He didn’t have much problem with the idea of being drafted, he just wasn’t going to go down without them coming to get him.
He ended up serving in Vietnam as an EOD tunnel rat. He went down into Viet Cong tunnels and disarmed booby traps.
My cooking project this weekend is a garlic tart. So, I’m also making soup to bring for lunch, for obvious reasons
Bouillabaisse, to be heated in the microwave?
Chicken, I’m not a sadist
“Garlic Tart” was my nickname in college.
I believe you
i read it as “garlic fart”
That was my nickname in middle school.
I’m exceptionally tire for some reason . . . I mean I double I could sleep to save my life. I probably should put on a movie and relax . . .any suggestions?
Duh, Zardoz.
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Not with that crazy ending.
Seriously, though — I think that is the best use of special effects ever in cinema. Still amazing after 95? years.
Keaton did the famous shot in one take, because a second take would have killed him.
Spring Breakers?
Real Genius.
Behind the Green Door
To Catch a Thief
Coppola’s Dracula
Ad Astra. That is, if you really wanna sleep.
Relaxing movie….I got it.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386064/
Jaws
The Shining..
You knew better than to ask that question.
I had a perfectly good answer!
Spring Breakers was a helluva flick. James Franco’s finest work and plenty of gratuitous T&A. The Brittany Spears singalong with weapons on the piano was a classic scene.
Trying to sleep? Star Trek the Motionless Picture.
Fun fact: I actually did fall asleep in the middle of it, in the theater. To be fair, it was a midnight premiere and I was like 11 years old.
Fitzcarraldo
I “watch” a lot of C-SPAN. Often there’s a lecture, an author interview, some Civil War convention where I can close my eyes and listen to something intelligent. I’ll fade out. Sometimes I wake up to something captivating and listen in the middle of the night.
I don’t do the congressional stuff, campaign coverage, or partisan nanner-nanner bullshit of any flavor.
You should put on a movie you’ve seen many times. Either that or Citizen Kane. I fall asleep after about 30 minutes of that one.
“Grease” I went with a date to see it. Fell asleep early on and woke up at the end sans date. Win-Win
Netflix has Bob Ross.
We need to save him and the happy little trees!
Supposedly, Bob Ross was mean USAF master sergeant, and when he retired, he tried to turn over a new leaf and be extra nice and relaxed.
Yeah, he swore he’d never raise his voice ever again. According to sources
familiar with the White Housewho knew him; he succeeded.This is well documented AF lore. Also part of AF lore: Sinbad began to hit it big as a comedian while in the AF. So he impersonated being a general to get kicked out.
He filmed some direct to video stuff at one of my dad’s friends studios
I already suggested Bob Ross.
And a big steak.
No big steak on shrooms. Eat light. The steak is for breakfast.
To be fair . . .shew suggested a big steak before the shrooms.
Stay up for the Night Shift post, dammit!
“Look at Dr. Phil’s house.”
https://twitter.com/DanielNMiller/status/1212867036411392000
I believe that is actually his kid’s house.
Mr. Phil.
https://twitter.com/mooncult/status/1213615495401725954
wow
“How old are you? Oh, four?”
“No. I was just motioning for you to back off.”
What is wrong with him?
Challenge him to a push up contest.
Leave him alone, he just really, really likes the smell of Johnson & Johnson’s baby shampoo.
Why do people bring kids to political events? Seems like a form of abuse.
No baby sitter?
Seriously, after long as they’re not forcing the kid to hold a sign and chant I have no problem at all. As a parent youre practically chained to your kids so I don’t think it should be a bar to attending political events.
Dean Martin on the Carson Show, holy shit, drunk, belligerent and more!
https://youtu.be/vwA8hBIjjMo
and Bob Hope!
Look at those jackets!
Italian Restaurant Tablecloth! Go Dino!
And the cigarettes! And drinks other than coffee mugs!
Sometimes I miss the 70s.
Sometimes Dean would do a ‘drunk schtick’ and act drunk when his glass was full of apple juice.
A friend of mine was a roadie back in the day. Most of the Jack Daniels bottles were filled with ice tea.
TOS is upset that we droned a terrorist, and Sqrsy is being his usual spammy idiot self. You guys should rely invite him to join.
Every one of Trump’s sins were Obama’s first.
Bush was an evil villain for sending 100k troops to Iraq. Obama was a brilliant commander by sending 100k troops to Afghanistan.
Yes, I have actually heard people say this, more or less.
From CNN:
Diversity of opinion? That’s crazy talk!
LOL, for CNN it is crazy talk. If it happened on their airwaves it would mean someone had gone off the reservation or had a psychotic break. So when it happens on FOX it must mean the same. What would the world look like if people were able to discuss their differing views without feeling forced to either conform, reach a compromise, or get angry? Imagine arguing with someone, possibly even heatedly, and then walking away without anger EVEN though they were still WRONG!
There I grooved it for you.
I should not have tried to finish caulking the bathroom tonight
caulked it up?
Euphemism?
Not even, I just wanted it done and dried so I could shower in that bathroom tomorrow . . . .I wasn’t in the right state of mind to do it correctly . . .now I’m covered in white goo.
That’s no euphemism…
Tobias, is that you?
“I’m afraid I prematurely shot my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run, if you will. So now I’m afraid I have something of a mess on my hands.”
+1 Leather Daddy
Caulking is easy. Most people should not attempt it whilst tripping, although I bet I’d do just fine.
It’s scraping the mold that I didn’t pay attention to last year that’s the pain
I remember the guy who taught me. Then latex came out and pretty much any moron can do it now.
Latex will keep the white goo off your hands.
Self inflicted derp. You should be parked in front of the tv watching something inane and enjoying the buzz.
Or participating in Straf’s art challenge.
Like I’m gonna do that again. Only Tulip had the balls to step up. Y’all got outmanned by libertarian woman. Again.
I thought GT did, too? I mean, the point still stands…
This happened before. Cannoli submitted her first pic, but not her second. GT lent emotional support, though unlike you killjoys.
I thought about it. Does that count?
Wait, there was a late entry, as well. Wasn’t it Sean?
Sure. For you, thought is a big enough challenge. 😉
Oh, SNAP!
And, I looked a few of the submissions….one, maybe two.
So, I got that in my favor.
Does that make me an emotional support animal?
Oooh! What animal do you pick??
A support duck?
Shetland pony?
Sugar glider?
M’cock
It is my fondest wish to reincarnate as an otter.
Dude, my efforts would make Sean look like Rembrandt. No aptitude and little interest in drawing.
As much as I am enjoying your foibles, Please stay safe.
Derp, re the last thread.
I had my first date with the now mrsc just after my 44th bday. At 50, I have a 4 year old (tomorrow).
I appreciate you sharing this with me. I hope it’s sooner rather than later, but it’s nice to know that I still have time.
In the meantime, I will enjoy beer and loud music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnLAC5AJPuM
10 years into my first marriage I was getting divorced. (With no kids)
10 years into my second marriage I started having kids – just before turning 50.
You never know how it’s going to turn out.
Meh, 35 is right about when I threw in the towel. It isn’t so bad, giving up is very liberating, at this point I don’t know why I ever worried about ‘finding’ someone, all it means is that someone is going to fuck up your shit, both figuratively and literally. Autonomy is vastly underrated.
I can see that. Charles Darwin was a sickly whiner and he managed to marry and have kids. Which is fitting, since his whole work revolved the processes by which living things survive and reproduce.
Wikipedia has a whole article on his health problems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_of_Charles_Darwin
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For much of his adult life, Charles Darwin’s health was repeatedly compromised by an uncommon combination of symptoms, leaving him severely debilitated for long periods of time. However, in some ways this may have helped his work, and Charles Darwin wrote “Even ill-health, though it has annihilated several years of my life, has saved me from the distractions of society and amusement.”[1]
He consulted numerous doctors, but, with the medical science of the time, the cause remained undiagnosed. He tried all available treatments, but, at best, they had only temporary success. More recently, there has been much speculation as to the nature of his illness.
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Word Hyperbole
I wonder why I can’t get a job in the NFL…
Colin Kaepernick tweets about ‘American terrorist attacks against black and brown people’ and ‘US imperialism’ in the wake of Soleimani’s death
Take away the race angle and he has a starting point for a debate.
And the “American terrorist attacks” bit.
Yeah, that too.
And I might substitute interventionism for imperialism.
Although, as a freeloading Canadian, I’m glad that you’re our neighbours.
As long as you keep sending us poutine and Letterkenny, we’ll stay on good terms.
And Timbits.
^^^^
That’s a Texas-sized 10-4, good buddy.
*Homer Voice* Mmmmmm, Tim-Bits and and Katy…
OK, nobody tell him that the last major slavery center on earth was run by Arabs and dismantled by British imperialism:
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The British explorer Dr. David Livingstone when living in Stone Town in 1866 wrote in his diary: “The stench arising from a mile and a half or two square miles of exposed sea beach, which is the general depository of the filth of the town is quite horrible…It might be called Stinkabar rather than Zanzibar”.[8] Besides for the pervasive foul odor of Stone Town, accounts by visitors described a city full of slaves on the brink of starvation and a place where cholera, malaria and venereal diseases all flourished.[6]
Of all the forms of economic activity on Zanzibar, slavery was the most profitable and the vast majority of the blacks living on the island were either slaves taken from East Africa or the descendants of slaves from East Africa.[9] The slaves were brought to Zanzibar in dhows, where many as possible were packed in with no regard for comfort or safety.[10] Many did not survive the journey to Zanzibar.[10] Upon reaching Zanzibar, the slaves were stripped completely naked, cleaned, had their bodies covered with coconut oil, and forced to wear gold and silver bracelets bearing the name of the slave trader.
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I went Zanzibar in 2008. The street seafood near the old fort was great.
There is a town on the mainland (Tanganyika) called Bagamoyo. The name in Swahili means “crush heart”. Here, slaves were loaded onto ships and there was no hope of escape.
Tanzania is a mash-up of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. Tanganyika means “sail [in the] wilderness” (a reference to the fishing boats on Lake Victoria) and Zanzibar is garbled Farsi for “land of black people”.
Iranians are not Black or Brown or black or brown.
Aswad means black in Arabic. The female form of that word is suda’. Sudan means “land of black people”.
Now ask yourself – if Arabs considered themselves the same race as black people, why do they have a different word for them?
The famous Arab traveler Ibn Battuta said this about Africans: “Most of them dwell in caves and thickets, live in savage isolation, and eat each other.”
Solidarity forever!
Iranians aren’t Arabs, either.
Neither is this guy.
Some of them are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_separatism_in_Khuzestan
Some are also Kurds.
Persians are about 60% of Iran’s population.
Olive green?
You know who else besieged Black and Brown bodies?
Me?
Wilt Chamberlain?
There was an In Living Color Skit where a mother and a daughter both find their names on his wall, which looked like the Vietnam Memorial.
Elephants?
How does one besiege a body? Is this a very fat walled body? Does this body sit on a height? Why can’t our vaunted military simply storm this body?
Joke’s on that shit-head: Soleimani was more an “olive” color.
Huh. Shakira is in the Super Bowl halftime show.
I guess I’ll be in my bunk for the second half.
!Que chevere! A mi me gusta mucho della.
Here ya go:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C7ssrLSheg4
¡Ay Caramba!
Double your pleasure
https://youtu.be/o3mP3mJDL2k
For whatever reason, Rhianna doesn’t do it for me.
It’s the “five head”, isn’t it? I liked her before she got thicc – https://youtu.be/up7pvPqNkuU
Thanks!
Still watching football – kind of. TV is muted.
Bowie isn’t.
Favourite Bowie
Yeah, that’s solid.
I love that one.
My fave.
We could be roommates.
Let me know.
Gay!
Don’t be jealous. Yours was excellent, too.
Mine
https://youtu.be/HSH–SJKVQQ
David Bowie is/was the best live act I’ve seen. Unfortunately, the first show I sawed of his turned out to also be his last tour.
Let’s Dance
I think I understand Bowie’s brilliance some now, but I was entirely too conservative to be an early fan and was listening to Southern rock and outlaw country on AM while he started to chart. I worked on my truck instead of buying music, but I heard a few things, and Let’s Dance resonated.
I was hiding from disco, and after that faded things weren’t much better in my two-station town. But the girls liked Let’s Dance which is 92.7% of all I care about; it was in rotation, and between shattered rocker-arms and hunting trips I slowed down a moment to listen.
It was so tasteful with a quirk or two, but who picked that guitarist? Where did it come from? Who tossed those tasty moves in there? That guy GETS it.
So I always gave Bowie the benefit of the doubt after that, and now I think he’s terribly important.
Almost immediately I was reading about SRV in the guitar rags, but I failed to put it together. There’s this gunslinger from Texas you gotta hear, and I hadn’t heard him to speak of before a roommate gave me tickets, fall of 85 or so. Vaughn was the shit, the most important thing to happen to me in pop music in the 80s (although the entire list is purty damned short).
What a combo. RIP, boys.
No shit!
I had never made that connection. Thanks for that tidbit, Don.
here it is isolated
I had never been to Texas, but the Albert King bends were something I had been stealing since kindergarten. In my Fort Worth days I figured out that the rest of it is big brother Jimmie. Bends, space, and restraint. I can listen to the worst, poppiest SRV and not be bothered: all I hear are his respect for his heroes.
I may have said this here before, but Phil Sims is an idiot.
/broncosfan
NBA fans chanting “Deee fense!”. Might as well be chanting “Niiiineteen Seventy Fiiiive.” Love the game, but c’mon guys. About five guys on the planet that man up on D anymore.
You can’t really play defense in the NBA anymore. No hand checking, travels and carries are barely called, hard fouls get you ejected, and the offensive man can run into you and you get the foul call. Seriously, watch James Harden. He flings his arms into the hands of the defender, holds the defensive man then flops, and when he drives he runs right into the helpside man. And he gets calls. He’s leading the league in free throw attempts as a guy who spends most of his time chucking up three pointers.
The league began to change the rules in the early 90s because the Pistons were beating the crap out of Michael Jordan and they were worried their cash cow would get seriously injured. Then the game became defense oriented and boring for the casual fan, who wanted to see highlights. In response, the NBA started changing the rules until you got what the game is now, which is basically three point shots and dunks/layups.
Now they’re talking about shortening the season and putting in mid-year tournaments because the fair weather fans they spent so much time recruiting are going elsewhere. At some point they’re going to be out of gimmicks. Threes and dunks get tiresome.
The Palmer Raids were 100 years ago today. Fuck Woodrow Wilson with a rusty spoon.
https://fee.org/articles/the-palmer-raids-america-s-forgotten-reign-of-terror/
Rusty spoon?
Too gentle. I’m just hoping there are rusty chainsaws in hell.
With a 36″ bar.
Rusty cage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBZs_Py-1_0
Needs nickel plating, make it a Nickel Cage
But just on one side so it’s a Nickel, Back…
*drops gloves*
Spoonman
Something a little lighter…
Something a little better…
Better than what?
Almost everything.
It’s comparative.
I chuckled at this in the comments “And what is that reference you make to “my motives”? An ad hominem against an anonymous opponent? Do you realize how senseless it is?
Regarding Trump, he is obviously a right-wing collectivist. They used to be called fascists.”
I imagine that was written with no sense of irony.
Of course not.
Tulpa 😉
I knew some generalizations of some things Wilson did, but I had never read an article detailing some of the abuses. What a fucking monster. And it also included an unexpected, but not surprising, cameo by J. Edgar Hoover. It’s raining
menassholes!Hyper religious left wingers are the worst. *Know this from first hand experience.
Add in Anslinger and you’ve got a real Devil’s Triangle.
I hope they are all burning.
Wilson made his black chauffeur hide his face with a weird looking hood. And the there was the whole Birth of Nation thing. I guess advocating for the League of Nations and “making the world safe for democracy” cover a multitude of sins.
Democracy being something you’re quite proud of and hopeful for when you think demography is on your side. Thankfully progressives gave up their eugenic aspirations in favor of unqualified will to power.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-trump-warns-iran-we-have-targeted-52-iranian-sites
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“Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD,” Trump said Saturday, explicitly laying out that the U.S. will act if Iran retaliates.
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The gauntlet has been thrown down.
& the Iranian culture
Oh ffs, if for nothing else than optics (ugh), leave the Iranians out of it. Make it about the mullahs.
I’m hoping things like this don’t get explodinated:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Cyrus
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Passer-by, I am Cyrus, who founded the Persian Empire, and was king of Asia.
Grudge me not therefore this monument.
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Kyoto was the first target of the atomic bomb. Henry Stimson, the secretary of war at the time, had spent his honeymoon in Kyoto and begged that another city be bombed instead.
Dan Carlin had a great massive podcast about Cyrus II a couple years ago.
His podcasts are great. I listen with my ear buds and his sultry whispering gives me a woody.
Fun fact: Koresh is the Hebrew version of Cyrus. That means young or far-seeing in old Persian. David means beloved in Hebrew.
As for Messiah, that comes from massiach, meaning anointed. Cyrus was called massiach by the Jews because he let them go back to Jerusalem. In ancient times, when a new king took the throne, they’d rub oil on his head as a blessing.
In modern Arabic, masah means to rub. Masihi means Christian, because they believe in the messaiah.
Patriots may lose this.
Dammit.
CDs arrived
https://youtu.be/nc2TTM_h2j4
It’s like Herbie Hancock went to Japan to record a sequel to Future Shock.
2nd one
https://youtu.be/Xwm6PWgCFBA
Sunset was the same color as the album cover day before yesterday. 61F on Jan 3. I guess global warming is real.
Columbia House?
Yeah, I still haven’t purchased my 6th album.
(Actually Amazon)
Patriots may lose this.
What a great ending.
Ryan should have taken a knee.
Daaaaamnn.
Right? What a twist!
The must feel deflated right now.
The thing you did . . . .
Man, that sucks. All that effort to cheat and you still get beat.
Lol.
Love it Bye, fuckers!
Be nice and remember who’s gonna shit the bed tomorrow. He’s named Cousins because that’s who his parents are.
I helped the missus with her FF picks earlier today. The Purple were nowhere to be found.
/realist
SKOL!
No fucking Patriots, either.
Footage of the average glib commenter.
The part about wearing a suit and tie to comment is accurate, although I thought the official Glib drink was rye?
It is.
*sips rye*
Agreed.
We need Glibs-branded rye
Dude, I don’t have a tie that color!
Bullshit. I don’t use a glass, ever.
The Titans/Patriots game was basically two hours of the announcers sucking off Tom Brady. Until the very end. Then they’re like “maybe this is good for him”?? So even when he throws no touchdown passes, can’t move the ball in the second half, and blows the game he’s still totes awesome?
Pro football is damn near unwatchable for me at this point. Between the constant stoppage of play to review every down and the elimination of defensive play through constant penalty calls it was hard enough. But then I get to listen to announce crews who seem to be more interested in propagandizing from the booth than calling the damn game.
Seriously, if I hadn’t been watching I would have thought the Patriots were up 52-0 instead of getting shut out on offense and run the hell over by Derrick Henry on defense.
And this is the single biggest reason I am happy they lost.
The Terrell Davis of our times.
Pats game was followed by an advertisement for an alcohol rehab center – timely.
I’ll one up all the hate for Tom Brady and the Pats. IDGAF either way.
And yet you gave enough fucks to let us know you don’t give any fucks.
It’s very important to signal your disinterest.
You all seem very interested in my disinterest. Interesting.
Where will it end‽”
Kept watching, but never got to the ?.
That don’t impress me much.
Would.
(with the sound down)
I don’t care (he don’t care)
I don’t care.
I don’t either.
But you might like this.
That was actually supposed to be the final, quiet “I don’t care”. Kick ass tune.
Thanks for the albino-rock. Good stuff.
This was next.
I may not make it to bed for awhile…
I’m still trying to figure out what the living hell all of you are going on about.
Me too, I don’t follow sportsball
“Me too, I don’t follow sportsball”
I liked you already, and now, even more.
A gift just for you:
Freed lab beagle walks outside for first time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p__eLTL6n4
Aww, echo is cute.
I want to see a single word to testify that these dogs were ever being tested on, much less held in Chinese laboratories. One word. Because this fake sentimentalist activism crap seems like the biggest scam to me.
I’m more than happy to service the legions of sex-starved Japanese hotties.
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2020/01/in-japan-this-new-generation-of-sexless.html
They love the herb!
They aren’t the demo for marrying for green cards, so I’m out.
*moves to Japan*
In Japan, there’s something called a Narita divorce. Narita is the big airport, and when couples come back from their honeymoon, a lot of women decide their husbands are incompetent after having traveled overseas with them.
Another random Japanese idiom: barcode head. This what they think a comb-over looks like from above.
…….dammit!
And the later journalist fad, new Narita divorce for a post retirement vacation divorce
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/02/21/national/devotion-to-job-a-recipe-for-retiree-divorce/#.XhFtmMqIahA
Q’s travels: https://www.therisingwasabi.com/white-man-arrives-in-japan-eager-to-help-with-declining-birthrate/
The Kantofication of Japan is the bigger problem. All the chicks are working. Young guys look at married guys their age and think, “No thanks. I gotta do the housework, help with kids, work full time and still have to put up with the traditional stigma of not making more than my wife? Rubbing one out and playing games sounds more fun.”
Never mind that shit–the first Night Shift post for 2020 is up now!!!
I’m not dressed yet!
Breaking news: when marriage becomes a miserable marathon, men don’t want to get married
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylxeJYRCq4w
Honestly I see the same thing in America’s very near future. Women are now more educated and earn more than men and don’t want children and sure don’t want a guy beneath them.
I recall a story from the NYT or some other in which a woman employed as a corporate lawyer had to suffer the indignity of marrying an electrician.
The problem is that a woman will want to live a lifestyle her income can support. If the guy isn’t making more, she feels he’s costing her life’s little pleasures. Guys will go without if it means the family is supported. Something has to give: either women’s attitude towards money or they get a dwindling pool to choose from.
this old news?
On the most recent Fifth Column the Soleimani news hits while they’re recording – I was pretty happy to hear Moynihan’s take: the fallout may be terrible, but Soleimani was a horrible piece of shit and Moynihan was glad he was dead.
It was refreshing to hear such a straight-forward reaction from a journalist.
Such is the world we’ve come to.