SEA SMITH FRIDAY NIGHT LINKS OF POWER

by | Jan 24, 2020 | Daily Links | 314 comments

PLAY TIME WITH SHIP. BY PLAY TIME, MEAN…

SEA SMITH HAVE HADDOCK IN POCKET, AND HE GLAD TO SEE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMANS! SINCE FRIDAY NIGHT, SEA SMITH WANT GIVE GOOD LINKS. SO HE GO FIND SOME. LINKS. GOOD ONES. ABOUT POWER. AND NOW HE GIVE LINKS TO YOU!

  • SEA SMITH WONDER IF HAT WILL TELL HOST DONALD ABOUT NEW TITLE?
  • SEA SMITH WONDER WHYCOME RELATIVES SOCIALIST STRONGMEN ALWAYS RICH?
  • SEA SMITH WONDER IF HE GET BLAME FOR ALL SILLY SHIP THINGS HAPPEN. HE ONLY DO ONETWO, MAYBE THREE THEM! SHIP WEAR SEE THROUGH RIGGING. ASKING FOR IT. BY IT, MEAN RAPE.

COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE!

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314 Comments

  1. Spudalicious

    I got my power link hanging right here.

    • Spudalicious

      First two links are the same story.

      • Rhywun

        SEA SMITH HAVE SHORT ATTENTION SPAN

      • Spudalicious

        Rumor has it, you’re hung like a cashew.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        Click the link in my handle and find out why I’m always carrying around a trashcan to hide my junk. ?

  2. leon

    “UAE tanker abandoned, drifting in Arabian sea UPDATE Sank”

    The Flying Musliman?

    • Not Adahn

      Did you just assume the ship’s pronouns?

  3. Fourscore

    I read Capesize as capsize and didn’t understand how it was still under power. Reading comprehension skills need refreshing

  4. Sean

    Robbie making his rounds on Tucker this evening.

    Fruit Sushi!!!!!!

    • grrizzly

      I saw him, too. The TV was on mute though in the lounge. In any case, at least it wasn’t CNN at the airport.

    • Spudalicious

      Checkov was piloting the ship?

      • Rhywun

        Best timeline ever.

      • Sensei

        Absolutely!

      • Sean

        Epic. ?

    • Agent Cooper

      Horst timeline ever.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Cause of accident unknown.

      Global warming climate change climate emergency, obviously.

  5. Fourscore

    Looks like a lot of guns will be lost, SEA SMITH needs to check into this, make sure this isn’t some sort of scam

  6. gbob

    To pick things up.

    Makes me miss my days as a hobo. Knew plenty of chicks like this.

    Goodbye LuLu won’t be seein’ you again
    stole your pack and boots and bibs and left you on the tracks
    Goodbye lulu won’t be seein’ you again
    you left home on a freight train you ain’t never goin’ back

    Started hangin’ out at punk shows and you got it in your head
    to leave home on a freight train cause that’s what the cool kids did
    now you got some shitty stick and pokes and hepatitis c
    smell like an unwiped asshole and your socks stick to your feet

    • Fourscore

      Did you have your sleepin’ bag rolled up behind the couch or is that a drifter?

      My step father, from the 30s and the Depression talked about his hobo days and the difference between a hobo and a bum. Didn’t sound too romantic.

      • gbob

        I know it was less romantic than my memories of it were. Being a hobo in the 80s was a bit easier. There were temp places at every city where you could show up at four in the morning, be loaded on a bus with a bologna sandwich, and work in a factory for the day. They paid cash, as well, so it was ideal for a person of my lifestyle. Those six years had some good times, some bad times, some scary times, some times of the greatest freedom and joy of my life.

        Part of me feels like I want to hop a train every time I hear one go by.

      • Fourscore

        How does one get into hoboism? I mean the mindset? Like chronic unemployment? Adventurism?

      • Fourscore

        In the late ’50s, early ’60s some of us talked about Soldier of Fortuneism, Castro had just came to power and Africa was falling apart. Problem was we had a contract but it didn’t include the Fortune part.

      • gbob

        It was stupidity. I was in college. Day before I turned 18, the rain was beating down hard. I woke up to my fiance looking at me, full of tears. Told me she was leaving me for the bartender at the place she worked as a cocktail waitress. After a month or two of spending some time at the bottom of a bottle, I packed what I had (including a can of Dinty Moore beef stew which traveled with me a full year before I opened it! Best meal of my life, somehow.) and just started walking. Moved on to trying to catch a lift. Eventually cracked the “if you hold up a sign you get more rides” code. Moved on from there to trains. Every now and then I would find a new city and try to put down some roots, but it never lasted more than a few months.

        Only mindset I can say is that sometimes you start walking, and just don’t see any reason to stop, you know?

      • gbob

        Ass, grass or cash. Nobody rides for free in this life.

      • Fourscore

        Now we do need an article. 6 years is a long adventure.

      • Mojeaux

        ???

      • Mojeaux

        I. WANT. STORIES.

      • Fourscore

        I’m thinking GBOB owes us all an article about his exploints/adventures

      • gbob

        See, the problem is motivation. Sure, working at a carney, being kidnapped by nazis, finding myself on a plane with a horse all seem like good stories, but the motivation, one has to conclude, is that the protagonist is some kind of retard or something.

        They all have that “wait. Why were you there, doing that again?” kind of feel.

        Only one that really still has meaning for me was a cold March, stuck in Missouri. Worst couple of weeks of my life. My road dog was this chick named Cheryl. Jesus. I still love her. I was at my lowest point. No work to be found. Unfriendly cops, shaking us down for whatever we could make busking. I think I was doing my I Ching fortune telling routine back then. Anyways, we take our last tab of acid. We’re under an overpass, holding each other for warmth. I feel like I can’t go on any more. The trip begins, and she looks ta me with her green eyes. She says “One day you’re going to look at this night as the best day of your life. Bob, everything is going to be OK. O. K.”. Well, damned if the raindrops didn’t seem to turn to beautiful crystal prisms, reflecting the most beautiful god damned light I ever saw. You know what? I look back at that point, and sure as hell, that crazy lady was right. One of the best days of my life. When it’s late in the evening, and I feel down, I remember a cold night long ago where I realized that everything is going to be OK.

        Jesus. Now I’m navel gazing.

      • Spudalicious

        Just because you might be a retard doesn’t mean we’re not interested in your story. This is Glibertarians.com. We’re all retards on one way or another.

      • Agent Cooper

        May I steal this, verbatim, for a screenplay?

      • gbob

        May I steal this, verbatim, for a screenplay?

        Remaking Flowers for Algenon where the protaganist doesn’t get smarter? Sure. Just change the name of Cheryl. She must be in her fifties. She’s either dead, or some real kind of crazy. Either way, rather not remind her of the guy she ran away from when she proposed.

      • westernsloper

        What Spud said. Especially when one is in their late teens and early twenties. Christ I was an idiot but never had the balls to pack a bag and go on the road via my feet. I drove a sketchy car to FL and slept at rest stops.

      • Trigger Hippie

        #metoo

      • Festus

        No. You have a nascent gift.

      • Rhywun

        Right? That’s nuts. I thought that stuff died out decades earlier.

    • Chipping Pioneer

      This is not how I remember the lyrics of Runaway Train.

  7. westernsloper

    SEA SMITH WONDER WHYCOME RELATIVES SOCIALIST STRONGMEN ALWAYS RICH?

    Does it work any different here? The relatives part that is.

  8. Chipping Pioneer

    We have a “too local” situation going on here. I considered joining Twitter today to throw some shade at city councillors, staff, local media, etc. After browsing for 5 minutes, I was cured of that thought.

    • westernsloper

      Naaaaa, let them have it. The loudest twitter are idiots, make fun of them.

    • Chipping Pioneer

      Karma is a कुतिया.

    • gbob

      Having an angry cock always leads to mistakes.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Shut the fuck up and vote Trump! Now check out my fashion blog!

    • Chafed

      Fuck that guy. He had it coming.

  9. Juvenile Bluster

    I think I have a mutant version of the flu (which my daughter had, then my wife, but not me yet) combined with coronavirus. I’m beat.

    So I’m sitting back, being my weeb-y self and watching anime. Yay for cute animated girls.

    • Sensei

      I just spoke to Japan – does that count?

      What new series are you watching?

      • Juvenile Bluster

        I’m especially degenerate this month.

        To Aru Kagaku no Railgun T, Magia Record, BanG Dream Season 3 and Show By Rock Mashumairesh.

        Okay, only the last two are particularly degenerate.

      • Sensei

        I can’t tell the amount of time Aimi and Aina Aiba show up in my video feeds!

        My guilty pleasure this season is Runway de waratte.

      • Jarflax

        Dafuq?

      • Juvenile Bluster

        Pico is the greatest (short, 4 minute episode) horror anime of all time. They kill off characters left and right.

        They froze an entire band to death in this one! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBHMsFfHnqc

      • Sensei

        JB – I never got into BanG Dream – seemed like too much work with all the many bands. OTH, all the voice actresses are all over YouTube so I’ve become familiar with it.

      • Jarflax

        Sorry, anime is one of those things I just do not get. I like plenty of nerdy things, but I don’t see anything to like in anime. The plots are as formulaic as No theater, the animation generally isn’t. Sorry zooming in on a single cel isn’t animation, you have to actual make the drawings move…; I just do not see the appeal.

      • Sensei

        80% or more of it is formulaic trash. It makes it essentially TV comfort food.

        20% are the gems, but they are usually movies or a rare TV show.

  10. LJW

    I’m sure this was talked about already, but what’s up with Joe Rogan voting for Bernie Sanders? Is he trolling?

    • juris imprudent

      Joe’s displaying the depth of his intellect on the subject of politics.

    • Chipping Pioneer

      I think he’s serious.

      The funniest thing is all the shit this has caused for Bernie because Joe Rogan has said problematic things in the past and had respectful conversations with literally Hitlers like Milo and Jordan Peterson.

      • westernsloper

        This is why I wonder if it is a troll.

      • Juvenile Bluster

        That’s been my thinking on it today. Who knows, maybe he’s serious, but I’m pretty sure he knew exactly what would happen as a result.

    • westernsloper

      I have seen it mentioned but not really discussed. I am not a follower of his podcast or youtube but the last girlfriend (former lib extraordinaire but awakening yet still suffers hard core TDS) is a fan. My guess is either TDS, he is just an idiot or it is a big troll. Not sure where to put my money.

      • Social Justice is Neither

        I think it is a heartfelt if under thought through position on his part.

        Bernie is sincere and that means a lot to people especially if your message is “helping people”. Doesn’t matter the murderous, soul destroying pedigree of his philosophy, Bernie wants to help and he’s not personally evil.

      • Social Justice is Neither

        So, yeah. He’s an idiot in this regard.

      • westernsloper

        That depends on your definition of evil.

    • Rhywun

      I’m reminded of Camille Paglia laying out a thousand reasons why the Dems are so awful and then proclaiming what a Democrat she is. I really believe it’s a cultural thing for a lot of people.

    • Urthona

      Isn’t Bernie just basically like a more radical, dumber Trump?

  11. mikey

    Greta is right!
    Our town just cancelled the annual Perch Derby. The ice on the lake is too thin.
    The Perch Derby is almost as big a deal around here as the Waleye Festival in the summer. Probably have to cancel that too what with the lake boiling and all.

    • LJW

      I’ve never had boiled Waleye.

    • Spudalicious

      That’s some dark prose, right there.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Shit, somebody get this man some happy music, stat!

    • Tres Cool

      Ya know, I have SiriusXM on right now, on the “urban” channel (Shade45), and I honestly that was going to be more like-
      “I bet he was a n***er”

    • Drake

      They might produce knowledgeable graduates?

    • Mojeaux

      Wait, don’t tell me. Old white dead dudes and patriarchy.

      *now clicks link*

    • Urthona

      Because too many people want to learn math and science instead?

      • Jarflax

        no

      • Urthona

        Because there aren’t many jobs in art history that will make their loans worth it?

      • Jarflax

        It is the freshman history of art class not a major. A University graduate should at least know the basic outline of the culture, regardless of their major.

      • Q Continuum

        ^^^White supremacist Nazi confirmed.

    • Rhywun

      Whitey?

      Yep.

      • Festus

        Shame!

  12. Private Chipperbot

    I see the donks dug up McCain’s corpse to denounce orange man.

    • Festus

      When they rebury him they can lay him in there face-down and shove a pocket constitution up his ass as a parting gift.

      • Spudalicious

        ^^^^

  13. Q Continuum

    I saw a man with one arm shopping at the second hand store. I told him, “you’re not gonna find what you’re looking for.”

    • Juvenile Bluster

      Men with no kids shouldn’t tell dad jokes. Makes for a real faux pa.

      • gbob

        Dad joke. Why do scuba divers fall backwards in the water? Because if they fell forward, they would hit their heads on the deck. Thanks you. This grand dad will be here all week.

      • Festus

        Hey, if you can’t laugh at your own jokes how could we tell you are a Grandpa?

    • Q Continuum

      Me: “How do you find the G-Spot?”
      Interviewer: “I meant any questions about the job.”

      • Q Continuum

        Yesterday I spotted an albino dalmatian. It was the least I could do for the guy.

      • Q Continuum

        Six topless women sounds nice dozen tit?

      • Spudalicious

        Go to bed. I’m drunk.

      • Festus

        I’m not sure what expression Swiss would make for these.

      • Jarflax

        Is there a revised debate bracket? and a schedule? (Just want to make sure Google hasn’t decided to put anything in spam)

      • Q Continuum

        Still waiting on Biff’s entry. Though you’ll be going up against Ozy.

    • straffinrun

      I saw a man with one arm…

      Now he have no arms.

    • Spudalicious

      Many of them.

      • Festus

        All of them but this dog finally caught up with the car.

  14. Festus

    “Heare there be Cryptids”

  15. Festus

    Wifey’s away again. Looks like me and the doggo get sausages and eggs for dinner.

    • straffinrun

      That’s the time to clean. No wife to tell you you’re doing it wrong.

      • Festus

        It’s not a matter of cleaning. It’s the clutter and I dare not throw shit out without knowing its purpose. Fuck. I have a truck parked right out there in the driveway. I could fill that bed three times over and make nary a dint.

      • Festus

        I miss that freedom. From about 15 to 25 I could load all of my belongings in the bed of my pick-up and just go. Wherever.

  16. mikey

    On the “gouging” front I have an anecdatum. I agree a businessman should be able to respond to a crisis with price increases. But, going along with Spud, maybe they shouldn’t always. Reputation is worth something.

    Our little town has one grocery store ( market area maybe 4k folks). It used to have two. We’re at the end of every supply chain, so shortages show up here first. The day after Sunday is kown as “Milkless Monday”. Anyway, some years ago there was a particulary bad winter and even larger MT cities had supply problems, nevermind out little backwater which suffered them a lot. One store raised their prices accordingly and the other one didn’t. Bob’s (there really was a Bob) kept their prices the same, but limited quantities (IOW rationing). There was a lot of resentment about the “gouging” and when things got back to normal everyone shopped a Bob’s and the other place went under. Small town. Repeat busines crucial. Reputation has value.
    The store that raised theri prices wasn’t “wrong”, just not very smart.

    • straffinrun

      As long as there is a sense of community and “we are all in this together, so be a douche and hoard” attitude among the people, yeah, the merchants shouldn’t gouge. After the big earthquake a few years back, the store shelves were near empty, but I saw very few Japanese people hoarding. Nobody gouged either. If you have a community that DGAF about others, you’d be better gouging them deeply.

      • straffinrun

        *don’t be a douche

      • mikey

        The “were’re in this together” thing was definitley a big part of it.

    • Rhywun

      The raised prices should have convinced distributors to hustle more milk over there and maybe lower the price.

      Instead, some people get milk and some don’t. Yay.

    • Spudalicious

      There you go. The market at work the way it should be.

    • Festus

      Yep. Cooked in a greasy spoon in a tiny town. The competition raised their prices and we didn’t. The other place got Amish shunned.

    • mikey

      After I moved here it took me awhile to chill out and slow down. Now at the grocery checkout I just wait patiently while the clerk and the cusomer in from of me finish their conversation. I no longer silently fume “STFU and move on so I can checkout – jeessh!”

      • CPRM

        I hate chatty checkouts, nut just when I’m behind someone who is slowing things down by partaking, but also when I get there and they try to talk my ear off about something. Even worse when they bring up something political, let me give you money so I can fucking go!

      • Festus

        Glib bonafides check out.

  17. Winston

    https://selfishactivist.com/why-white-people-cant-dance-theyre-traumatized/

    My exploration of race and racism started when I picked up street dancing as a serious hobby.

    ….

    How I understand white-ness now is that it is an energetic imbalance caused by a loss of spinal fluidity and awareness of the lower body. Emotional energy becomes concentrated in the upper body, particularly gathering in the mind. To live in a world dominated by white-ness is to live in an environment that denies and protects white-ness as embodied trauma.

    When you look at it this way, white-ness is traumatization itself. The white body is in freeze: a state of disconnection between mind and body. It is ungrounded and cannot feel the earth. We see this pained energy of white-ness play out in our society through violence towards sexuality, emotional vulnerability, and ecology, amongst other things.

    This is why, when a white ally asks me about how they can best ally with POCs, my best advice is to come dance with us. I don’t mean this just in the literal sense (although it’s a lot of fun). What I mean is that white bodies need to actively experience the discomfort of their body not being dominant in a space to really understand how much pain they are in – to feel and heal the white-ness that has been fortified by living in a colonized world.

    • Bob, Builder of things

      I’m 1/16th Black….
      /I got rhythm,

      • Winston

        GOTTA DANCE!

    • Festus

      Dancin’ is like pool, golf and darts. You need to find that happy median between tearing your clothes off and a stately waltz. Man, when you get in the zone it is spectacular! Editor’s note Festus don’t dance nomo.

      • Festus

        The last time I danced was at my 30 year reunion. I cut an impressive rug but Wifey was deeply unimpressed because she was left off the dance card. And I oop. They just kept coming and I didn’t realize until the drive home. Man, talk about fat, balding people… the men were in worse shape!

      • CPRM

        The last HS reunion my dad went to he was very proud that he was the only one with a full head of hair. I didn’t seem to get that gene from him. My hair is thinner at 36 than was when he died at 59, and I’ve been fatter than he was after 12 years of crippleness and immobility since I was 20.

        But, I’ve not had a HS reunion either, or maybe I have and just haven’t been invited. (for some reason that last bit was read in my head by Stephen Fry).

      • grrizzly

        The hair gene comes from the mother’s side. At least that’s what I got from watching Canadian movies.

    • Tejicano

      When I was in high school a girl I’d known since 6th grade pointed out that the school was holding after school dance lessons in Mexican folk dance – somewhat insinuating that I might find myself getting invited to Quinceaneras if I knew how to dance to Mexican music. I showed up and learned all the dances – but never got invited to a Quinceanera anyway.

      • Festus

        https://youtu.be/yJxCdh1Ps48 I remember joining a few clubs at that age for pretty much the same reason. Teen-aged girls be flighty. At least you learned some sweet moves, Amigo.

      • Festus

        I pursued a pretty JW girl for about six months at that age to no prevail. (Yes, that misspell was intentional) Her Dad was having none of that. Don’t much blame him but did he really have to leave a hand-shaped bruise around my arm? I was leaving already…

      • Festus

        Just dumb luck that I didn’t get a sensible shoe planted in my fundament.

    • Spudalicious

      ???

      • straffinrun

        Don’t ask me. Judging from their faces, they should be singing about their assholes.

    • Jarflax

      You lied. You said it wouldn’t hurt!

      • Festus

        My ears! No wait! My eyes! Don’t know which to cover… Must grow new appendages.

      • Festus

        Fuck off Tulpa! And welcome!

      • Festus

        Your Bobby Bittman avatar is strong medicine.

      • CPRM

        Psst: He’s been here a while, just infrequent and a new avitar.

      • Festus

        Yeah? Fuck you too, Tulpa!

      • Festus

        Damn, db! R. Crumb is a sorta, kinda demi-god to me! Good ‘un!

  18. Lachowsky

    A late reply from the last thread.

    There is no such thing as price gouging.

    Prices are what the market dictates them to be. If gasoline is sold for 15 dollars a gallon during a natural disaster then gasoline is worth 15 dollars a gallon to the buyer.

    All prices are subjective, and always have been. Prices determine where scarce resources go, natural disaster or not. Prices are niether moral nor immoral. They are just prices.

    Prices are set by the buyer, not the seller. If prices were set by the seller, then all things would be too expensive to buy. If the seller asks more than the value of the item, then he will find no buyers.

    The ” price gouger” who sells his product during a natural disaster at a price that is higher than it was previous to the disaster is simply adjusting for market conditions. No more, no less. The supplier of the product has his own hurdles to face post natural disaster, that his windfall during the disaster will help him over come.

    • straffinrun

      Let’s say you live in a small community and the butcher let you slide a a week or so when you were laid off. You repay that kindness with selling him a cheap generator after a hurricane. Sure, he could’ve made more if he sold it to someone else. Just saying there are many factors involved.

      • Lachowsky

        Indeed. Many factors being involved is why prices are what they are.

      • straffinrun

        The community better step up or muh democracy! will step in and you’ll get that government “help”.

      • Jarflax

        Existing merchant trying to parlay a foregone windfall into good will is fine. But in an Uber situation, or a parallel situation where the increased price actually can immediately, or very speedily increase supply, I’m sticking to my guns. Not surge pricing it literally impedes the very outcome charity demands. This concept needs to be fought back against. It kills people because it is based on a zero sum world and there ain’t no such critter.

      • mikey

        The Uber thing is great. A price increase can have an almost immediate effect on supply. Everyone wins. In my little town there wasn’t any more milk, bread or eggs waiting to rush into town in response to a price rise. And we all have to face each other again the next day.
        Like all things – free people make free choices and live with the results. Good or bad.

      • Rhywun

        There are multiple effects of human nature at play here. One of them is that a lot of humans believe in that “zero sum world” to the point where they get pissed at “price gouging” even if it results in more people being helped in the end.

        *shrug*

      • Gustave Lytton

        The flip side of it is that there’s social pressure to get a modest cut of meat from the butcher and only what you actually need. Or maybe less.

        When there’s not social pressure, you get food stamps recipients buying junk food and snacks with their benefits cards.

        Or to use the disaster situation, in a strong trust society, if you really don’t need gas, you don’t fill up. But if the trust is lower, you’re going to try and keep the tank full, particularly if the price rise is limited. There’s no signal to dissuade you from doing so. Part of the reason the 70’s oil shocks caused problems was price fixing and rationing. Prices spiked more ten years ago and nothing like that happened. There was a reason for that.

        http://inflationdata.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Inflation-Adjusted-Gasoline-Jan-2016.jpg

    • CPRM

      In many places it is illegal to do the opposite for some products, like gasoline. Say the disaster put out power and the local banks don’t have enough cash on hand for everyone and debit cards don’t work, if you sell your gasoline below the ‘minimum markup’ you’re just as much a criminal in the eyes of the state as ‘gouger’ (where that is illegal).

      • mikey

        That happened in NY with Sandy. People with tanker trucks of gas had to turn back. Better we all suffer together like good serfs

  19. straffinrun

    There is always something there to remind me…

    EARWORM

    • mikey

      FUCK YOU, straffinrunsa!!

    • Rhywun

      My favorite Punk! cover.

      • Winston

        You Know Who Else liked German Music?

      • Festus

        Me?

      • CPRM

        Ze Germans?

      • Rhywun

        It’s an outstanding pop song.

      • Festus

        Yes. Yes it is. They cover all the bases in about three and a half minutes. Catchy songs like that happen about every five years.

      • Festus

        Think “My Sharona” or “Song#2”

      • Rhywun

        She’s got about a half dozen of them but yeah only one caught on in the US.

      • Festus

        Actual guilty pleasure tune. When it first came out my buddies would have burned me at the stake for saying that.

      • MikeS

        Attention Chafed and Digby:

        Better version

      • Festus

        That was a Ramm-roll! You go be ashamed in the box now!

      • CPRM

        That synch is terrble.

      • Chafed

        That was new to me. Thanks MikeS.

      • MikeS
      • Festus

        It’s well established that white people can’t dance because of internalized shame or some suchwith.

      • Winston

        Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly have a sad.

      • Festus

        Ginger Rogers too except she did it backwards and in heels.

      • Spudalicious

        Lili Von Shtupp?

      • MikeS

        It’s twu! It’s twu!

      • Gustave Lytton

        ZDF-Fernsehgarten?

      • MikeS

        Verdammt! Das war sehr gut!

      • CPRM

        Now I want some saurkraut.

      • CPRM

        Metal lyrics are hard enough to decipher in english, I refuse to add a language barrier. For all I know they could be quoting Mein Kompf.

      • Festus

        Mein Kek! Get with the program!

      • MikeS

        Then you will miss out on some excellent music, you piece of crap.

      • Rhywun

        “Piece of Crap” LOL

        I’m deutsching out to this.

      • MikeS

        Not bad. A little more “electric” than I care for, but I don’t hate it. But nothing is black and white.

      • Rhywun

        “Electric” is my jam.

        I could go way deeper but I’ll spare everyone.

      • Festus

        I just wanted to start digging a ditch. To each their own.

  20. Winston

    https://www.thepostmillennial.com/sobeys-and-5-other-grocery-store-chains-to-remove-plastic-bags-by-end-of-january/

    I thought we were supposed to have unlimited choice and the “community” was to make rational decisions based on proper science after a long process of proper deliberation.

    Empire President and CEO, Michael Medline said, “This is a first step, and we plan to make meaningful progress every year to take plastic out of our stores and our products. We decided to act now instead of taking years to study and only make long-term commitments.”

    Well we got pot but lose plastics and guns and a carbon tax. Fair tradeoff?

    https://www.thepostmillennial.com/petition-against-liberal-gun-ban-signed-by-over-100000-upset-canadians/

    • 61North

      Are you Canadian?

      • Winston

        Yes. Are you? Your name seems to imply it.

      • 61North

        Nope, I live in the Great Land.

      • Winston

        I’m afraid I have not heard of that term.

      • 61North

        Alaska

      • Winston

        Does this mean you live in or around Anchorage?

      • 61North

        yes

      • MikeS

        America’s coolest state.

      • 61North

        -15 to -20 tonight. My buddy is looking at -30 out in a rural part of the state, so I’m not complaining.

      • MikeS

        We were there a few days ago. We are currently entering a forecasted warm stretch of mid-high 20’s. Living the dream!

      • 61North

        Whereabouts?

        Been cold here since NYE but it’s shutting up all the old timers complaining about how winter used to be.

      • MikeS

        North Dakota. It’s been a hell of a nice winter, overall. I’m appreciating global warming right now.

    • Winston

      *And now have a carbon tax*

    • CPRM

      I’ve never heard of this Soyboy’s chain, and I don’t think anyone else will soon.

      • 61North

        They own the Canadian Safeway and IGA franchises.

      • Chafed

        There’s your problem.

    • 61North

      Also, I got a kick of Quebec making weed 21+ while the SAAQ will sell to 18+ and the deps selling to anyone who looks old enough who has cash in hand.

      • Winston

        Well dealing with driving while high will make that easy.

      • 61North

        Gotta be high or drunk to put up with the awful roads in QC and the constant construction. But I guess the employees at SNC-Lavalin gotta eat, too.

      • CPRM

        SNC-Lavalin

        I don’t have any idea what that means, but it sounds like a CBS show.

      • 61North

        The AECOM/Haliburton of Quebec, but somehow more corrupt with more pull in the provincial and federal Tories.

      • 61North

        Shoot, Liberals. Not Tories.

        Or hell, probably the Cons, too.

      • Festus

        I bought a 24-pack of Labatt’s Blue while we were waiting to get into a Supertramp concert at Jarry park. I was 14. 14!

      • CPRM

        I started drinking, well whenever was the first time my dad let me have a drink; but I didn’t get drunk until I was 18. I was a teatotler for about 5 months there after, until missing out on a gal because I wouldn’t drink with her. Is that irony?

      • Festus

        There was a lot of chaff mixed with the wheat. You didn’t really miss much, friend C.

  21. Winston

    So he is still a colonizer then?

    https://anthropology.washington.edu/news/2019/10/18/following-a-statement-dr-holly-barker-principal-lecturer-uw-department-anthropology

    My article does not say that the character of SpongeBob is violent or racist. Instead, it asks readers to consider the way that the show’s creation of a fictional world in the non-fictional homelands of the Bikinians removes the U.S. history of violence on that atoll and the Marshallese people from our gaze.

    ……

    There is absolutely an element of racism involved in the ways that popular and dominant culture removes Indigenous peoples from their own lands so others can use the lands for their own interests, but that is very different from saying that the character of SpongeBob is racist or violent.

    • 61North

      Uh… bless her heart.

    • CPRM

      When are the Anglo-Saxon-Normans going to pay reparations to the Britons that became the Welsh? And when are the Italians going to pay reparations to the Celts and Picts they drove north to Scotland and to Ireland? And when are the wolves going to pay reparations to the Etruscans that Romulus drove from their land!?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Why is she assuming that Bikini Bottom is near the Bikini Atoll? Maybe it’s just a cute play on the words?

      • CPRM

        Why is she assuming that Bikini Bottom is near the Bikini Atoll?

        I assumed that was canon, as so many idiots on the internet mention those two together. I don’t know, the cartoon came after I stopped watching cartoons wasn’t any good.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Heretic!

      • CPRM

        Having to watch that tripe with my oldest niece made me so happy when the next one liked The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Transformers and Thundercats.

    • Festus

      I saw “gaze” and started to stare off into the distance.

  22. banginglc1

    I’m at a bar, drunk with two different women… O still know I’m not going to get laid . ..but what great night . .and country and shit

    • 61North

      Steve Smith believes in you.

    • MikeS

      Godspeed, good sir.

    • Chafed

      It ain’t over til it’s over.

      • Festus

        What Chafed said. How wide are your shame-shoulders? Mine are Schiffish.

    • CPRM

      You’re like a dog humping a chair leg, aren’t you.

      • Chafed

        If you mean Q is man’s best friend, then yes.

      • Festus

        That one is his fave.

      • CPRM

        Much prefer yours. Maybe you should take over the tittay posts.

      • MikeS
      • CPRM

        I hope she’s sitting on doily to keep that table clean.

      • Chafed

        Lol.

      • Festus

        Imma pretend that’s a slice of pineapple.

      • Festus

        All buttons punctured. Damn you Mike…

      • MikeS

        She’ll steal your soul, but you’ll love every minute of it.

      • Festus

        I would heave a heavy sigh but she would snarf that too, ask for seconds and I would blissfully comply.

      • Festus

        Hey! Song lyric!

      • gbob

        Damn.

        You beat Q at his own game.

        The power of red heads.

      • Festus

        Being married to a photographer for 24 years, I was ready to pick that apart but ya know what? It’s outstanding. Even the bare little tree has a leaf or three that really compliment her and the juxtaposition of red against green makes it pop. Four and half fingers out of five.

      • Festus

        And I want to go skinny-dipping with that Elven creature…

  23. CPRM

    Got one of my bigger recurring client events tomorrow. Then interviews monday and tuesday. I hope monday goes good, because I really only applied for tuesday’s job because unemployment mandates I apply for 4 jobs a week, and some weeks the pickings are scarce.

    • Chafed

      I’m confused. Seriously. What recurring clients?

      • CPRM

        I work freelance video production; but I got sick of dealing with new clients, had a hard split with business partners; now I have a few clients that I work with. One is year round, low pay regular work that can add up, the others are a few times a year ‘chunk’ clients. Tomorrow is a ‘chunk’ client, I’ll net about $800 for what will add up to less than 8 hrs of work, that except for tomorrow I can work at whenever I want, as long I deliver it within a month.

      • Chafed

        Very good. Carry on.

      • gbob

        CPRM blows sailors for money. Lots of repeat clients.

      • CPRM

        I’ll not allow my last post for the night to be one not only defending my virginity, but also my gay virginity! O well, I guess I will, carry on.

      • Chafed

        It’s OK. Gbob is talking about lady sailors with their lady penises.

    • Festus

      Bon Chance, you cunte!

    • Festus

      Ugh. Hannity. I hate that Irish whelp!

    • CPRM

      Westwood One, the radio company that has exclusive rights to cover the Super Bowl, brought Trump on for an interview during halftime in 2017. It was terrble. I don’t even know if they’re ‘right wing’; that was the first year I had to broadcast the Super Bowl, no idea if they had done that with Obama or not.

      • Festus

        I’d wager that Trump could throw a spiralish pass. Obama, not so much. I feature an end-over-ender that drops somewhere in the backfield.

      • gbob

        Trump is the Eli Manning of presidents. Sure, he sucks, but somehow he wins when it matters.

      • Festus

        Trump is the Pierre Trudeau of Presidents. Imagine flipping off half the country and winning reelection.

      • CPRM

        I picture both trying to negotiate out of sack.

        Obama: I, uh, don’t, uh, have the ball, uh, anymore. No reason to, uh, hit me. Uh. *sacked*

        Trump: I got the biggest most bestest ball! Oops. No, the running back has the ball! No I got the ball! *sacked* (but the ball was in china the whole time)

      • Festus

        Yours works too except the ball should have been in Ukraine.

      • Jarflax

        Politifact is rating Trump’s claim as 5 Pinocchios because he called a football a ball and clearly it is not round.

      • Festus

        I liked the”oval’ commercial linked by Agent Cooper the other day. Dude has serious chops. I’d kill for talent like that. Well maybe not “murder-kill” but you get my drift.

    • Festus

      Nope. Late-era Deep Purple don’t cut it. Your blade will not keeeel.

      • MikeS

        Fine. Here’s some older Deep Purple.

        NoDaks RULE!

      • Festus

        Ahhhh! That’s the ticket.

    • Chafed

      I love that song. ?

  24. Ownbestenemy

    My next project is to build a smokehouse to cold smoke meat. I just done have the funds…thanks Government.

    • Festus

      The clarion call of my empty truck bed and cluttered house is singing out to me but I have a split belly and no permission to do what needs to be done. The land-fill is a mere five miles away and yet I must refrain… Imma be Ulysses and stuff wax in my ears.

    • Jarflax

      Our betters need a safe space where the plebes won’t expose them to the ‘literal’ violence of logically disputing their idiotic positions.

    • Festus

      Hollywood types enter a decency collective. This really is cloud cuckoo land isn’t it?

      • Festus

        You guys can mainline the truth to me. I promise that I won’t jitter-bug. Much.

    • Rhywun

      So gassed tonight

      Me too.

      *passes out*

  25. Mojeaux

    Well! *I* have had a productive evening and now I am tired.

    • Festus

      Thought I read somewhere that Mormons only fart in their sleep. Watch out Mr. Mojo, the quilt be levitating tonight!

  26. Festus

    Judi’s away this weekend so I’m gonna live large! The heat will be turned down, all unnecessary lights will be extinguished and best of all the toilet seats will remain in the fully upright position! My cats don’t drink from there and the Doggo is too small to reach. Freedom 55!

  27. straffinrun

    This is called a Yukitsuri. It protects the branches from snapping during heavy snowfalls. No snow, so I could have lunch next to it at the park. Preparation allows you to enjoy nice things.

    https://imgur.com/a/ORbMO4w

    • 61North

      How bad is the lack of snow? I know the resorts are Sapporo are hurting for snow.

      • straffinrun

        Find out next week when we go skiing in Nagano. I’ve heard it about normal there. That pic was taken in Tokyo and we only get snow a couple times a year. You probably get more in a weekend than we get all year.

      • 61North

        Going to Japan to ski is on my bucket list. Which resort?

      • straffinrun

        Ha. Good question. It’s being planned by one of the ladies in our kid’s circle. It’s not much different really. Shorter runs than Colorado, obviously.

      • 61North

        The hero shots of people ripping through the power look amazing.

        My local hill is about 1100 ft vertical and two old lifts and t-bar. Not much, but it’s close, cheap and you can’t beat the views. It’s a throwback place where you can leave your bag in the lodge and come back to find it how you left it.

      • 61North

        bah, powder. not power.

      • Tejicano

        I was just on a project in Niseko – they had good snow for the week I was there. Sapporo had snow but not nearly as much.

      • Festus

        See my reply above about virginal, unobtainable girls, Tej. We’re all of us wearing the same skin-suit.

      • Tejicano

        One aspect of Niseko which might be useful knowledge to people who haven’t been – English is pretty much the lingua franca up there. The few Japanese I ran into were freaked out to hear a foreigner speak Japanese. So it’s easy to get around without knowing the local language. The snow is powder and really nice.

        It is a ways away from Sapporo – 2.5 hours by bus.

    • Festus

      Yow. I thought Victoria was over-regimented. How can you stand it Straffin-san?