It’s that time of the week again (eww), so let’s discuss just how awesome, or, awesomely messed up life is. To wit:
Considering the current state of things, I wanted to honor Neph’s request.
Waaaaa! Altight—I admit that I posted this simply because the look at the ass-hat’s face is priceless. Of course, this is growing, and, only happening due to a virus; otherwise, they crave politicians blathering.
The City of Brotherly Shove. This is sufficient evidence for CCH. Also—this happened five months ago. Say it with me: Violent hate has no freshness date.
The week’s “I hate everyone in this story” story.
The Critical Drinker talks Westerns, and, Unforgiven, specifically. Some good points, and a chance for discussion. Favorite Western? I think CPRM and I are both waiting for Outlaw Johnny Black.
STEVE SMITH has an enemy. Not that he cares…
Meet the man who helped bankroll the Star Wars sequel trilogy. Wait—this guy’s a year younger than me??
Harambe was seen lurking in the area. He did follow good attorney advice.
To round it out, a bit of inspired music. Too bad their actual views essentially are for moar authoitah.
So; are you sufficiently charged up for chatting, snarking, and self-linkage (eww)? Well, get to it, then. And, don’t give me any guff about needing to rest for work—we all know you ain’t going anywhere. Have a refreshing beverage, and chill.
First?
::looks around::
I think so!
It’s like I can hear you in my head.
That’s a scary thought (heh) for me–I can only imagine for anyone else.
I’m first loser.
MSNBC host Chris Hayes explained to his audience that President Donald Trump has become such a “threat to public health” that his show was refusing to air video of his comments about the coronavirus.
Go fuck yourself.
NextShark added that a Philadelphia police detective said cops are looking into the incident and that a police report has not been filed by the victim.
Philly has scaled back enforcement of certain crimes. I’m certain that will mean the detective will have more time to spend on this crime. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Oh wait…. this happened five months ago. Uhh… well… it’s Philly and I’m certain the detective will get to it any day now.
Don’t bother trying to find a loophole that would keep the streak alive. Reitz isn’t changing his mind. The streak is broken.
“The park is closing, but the calendar is not,” Reitz said on Friday. “A lot of people have asked if there’s any way I can continue. This is the last day of it.”
I like that he understands what consecutive means.
A man got naked from the waist down and made lewd gestures at an underage girl after he crashed into the car she was in, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies said 23-year-old Cody Hicks was driving erratically Friday and crashed into a car with two females inside.
After the crash, Hicks pulled down his pants and underwear while standing in the middle of the street and began touching his penis while sticking his tongue out at witnesses, records show.
Who’s missing?
I’m drunk, but I’m not missing, so it wasn’t me.
Aw, c’mon Diggy! I’m sure you don’t hate da Lute-erans or da yoots! ; )
Color me skeptical of her motives
On the plus side, public shaming/news coverage of hoarding works? Product ends up donated to a youth shelter instead of sold for twice the price off the back of a truck.
Yeah….she was kinda out of options at that point.
Womp womp.
Seeing all the photos of Costco signs indicating they wouldn’t take returns of toilet paper, lysol wipes, paper towels or rice warmed my cold little heart.
Mine too.
Y’all, there’s a Zoom here to join as well.
Of who? I, for one, generally don’t join by video even on company calls; no one needs to see how often I roll my eyes.
None of us have done video yet. Just audio.
Eh–it’s just audio, and, if you really want to keep it old skpp;, you can just text.
I will join old school for a while. I have headphones somewhere. No mic or camera on this computer.
What’s an Zoom?
Voice and video chat.
Just click it
All right, I’ll give it a try.
That’s the internet equivalent of “I’ll just put it in a little.”
Is it just me or do a lot of television advertisers go out of their way to deliberately annoy the fuck out of their viewers, to the point of making them want to hurl the thing out a window?
I’m looking at you, Amazon Music.
Rhy, you should hit up the Zoom link that Neph linked ^
It’s not just you. And the spybot ones are the worst.
It’s Night Shift time! Yeah! Thanks Digs. I’ll just drop this here instead of the dead thread.
https://youtu.be/xAZPX2NapII?t=116
Wow. This is why we can never, ever have nice things anymore since they killed net neutrality. Congrats on the morning links post! That poor feller…
Damn. I must be getting tired.
You make me click on that link twice.
Who is that giant bumblebee and why don’t people realize she is lip syncing?
I decided to rent Richard Jewell; a reminder of how truly awful the media and government can be right now is instructive. Hadn’t seen it so far, but impressed with what Eastwood has done with the tale.
Need to put that on the (movie) watch list.
That, and Sam Rockwell. I’ve been a fan of his work since ‘Safe Men’ and if I haven’t loved every movie he was ever in, I always loved his performances.
Yup–Sam is awesome.
In a weird synchronicity, was discussing Sam Rockwell’s work with a coworker, later saw him trending on twitter and about had a heart attack, thinking he was dead. Instead, everyone was talking about how Moon was the perfect movie for the coronapocalypse.
I’m really looking forward to seeing this Richard Jewell movie. The physical media (Blu-ray / DVD) version was released on March 17, 2020, but I didn’t order it until the 25th on Amazon. It’s currently trending toward an April 18th delivery. We live in crazy times.
Well, ya know, Amazon has devoted all their warehouses and stock employees to shipping toilet paper and lysol wipes; supply chains have gone nuts. And my husband is planning a 6am wakeup to hit the grocery store by the time it opens at 7am in the hope he can get *some* meat. We live in an area with all of 4 confirmed cases of pangolin panic, and this has been going on for weeks, even before we had a single case in the county. The whole country has gone crazy to the point where I genuinely wonder if the populace were drugged, or something weirder is going on behind the scenes. I’ve never seen so many people treat this like doomsday.
If the story of Richard Jewell taught us anything, it’s that we have a media that will happily destroy “the little people” of this country in order to achieve their own objectives. In that case, it was primarily one man who was the victim in their drive to get ratings.
With the coronavirus issue, I think we’re all victims of their drive to destroy Trump with doom-and-gloom reporting. Unfortunately, I don’t think they full thought through just how much havoc they would wreak, such as the hoarding and supply chain issues. They just new that dead bodies would hurt Trump.
I think that this is one time that the ratings are only a pleasant byproduct for them.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-03-25/tv-news-audiences-are-surging-thanks-to-coronavirus-pandemic
pangolin panic,
Nice!
Bawitdaba da bang da bang Digby Digby Digby!
It’s the Night Shift!
Needs link.
The bass player steals the show.
That version is a lot of fun. I always get distracted by the bare midriffs, so I barely noticed how that bass player is a show all on her own. Nice.
Pretty girls rocking tight jeans! I’m susceptible to one on the right.
We’re on the same wavelength, Festus. I was pretty sure that hottie on the right was looking right into my soul.
But, then I made the mistake of looking at her Twitter.
https://twitter.com/oopsgirl
Ugh…that poor
bitchlady.That’s what you get for cyberstalking
I have only myself to blame.
Jump in on the voice chat, if you can.
Thanks for the offer, Digby, but I can’t talk tonight. I’ll look forward to conversing with you miscreants and ne’er-do-wells some other time.
Wait there’s a voice chat? I’m probably not set up for it anyway.
Dance time.
https://www.facebook.com/CoffeeMomandRepeat/videos/237254840479771/UzpfSTEwMDAxMDkwNTAzMjk0ODoxMDMyMTgzOTkzODIxNzU5/?id=100010905032948
Outlaw Josey Wales is my favorite western.
I have relatively little experience with Eastwood westerns, tbh. I do like Pale Rider quite a bit.
I like Pale Rider too. There are many good scenes in OJW but the “Doing right ain’t got no end” line has always stuck with me.
If I had a restaurant, say, a sub shop or a pizza shop (like, the mom’n’pop kind or tiny franchise), I’d clear out half my store and put up grocery shelves. Then I’d start opening up all night, like around 9:00 p.m. I could list all the logistics, but you guys would run with it and then I’d have to sue you for using my idea without proper compensation.
All the ‘non-essential’ businesses that have been shut down across the country breaks my heart. The company I work for sent out a request for how they could help, and what local businesses were still offering services during the shutdown, and reading the responses that have been pouring in breaks my heart. So many children’s activities, hairdressers, massage therapists, real estate agents, even therapy services for Parkinson’s patients, shut down, wondering how they are going to pay their rent or avoid laying off employees. Everyone is talking about taking out meals from restaurants to keep them in business (which helps, some) but there are a lot of businesses that are just dying while we hide in our homes. I was content in my home before the government ordered me to stay there, and now I desperately want out and to maybe get a manicure and a haircut and a massage.
This
Hey Diggy! It’s snowing here again so no guff about the need for rest. I’ve still got a few beers left so I’ll hold out as long as the bevvies do. It’s for a good cause.
WTF? Isn’t this the organization that’s supposed to have some expertise in collecting the data?
https://fee.org/articles/oxford-based-group-stops-using-who-data-for-coronavirus-reporting-citing-errors/
Check out Neph’s Zoom link above
I’m not falling for that. I’m sure it’s an HM cyber attack that will fill my phone with thicc photos and cummies.
like that’s a bad thing. click. It.
If anyone is lurking, or, waiting for more comments, we’re all in Neph’s voice chat.
Dammit, still watching Richard Jewell or I would. Hope you guys are enjoying yourselves as much as I imagine you are.
I can’t see Chris Hayes without thinking of this.
Ha!
Hey all! Hope all you meat bags are handling the WuFlu ok. More appropriately, I hope everyone is handling the economics of the WuFlu. I’m blessed, but still wondering how long I will be.
For those of you who have lost everything, I’m not sure what to say. I don’t have much, but I’m willing to share.
We need to get back to work.
Being a cheap loner has served me well. I had been hoarding cash to buy equipment and possibly property for my business. It can survive a couple of months of low sales. I may have to move to a smaller facility but I think I can keep my two workers employed.
I’ve got 4 full time employees and 1 part time. I’m good for about another month. After that I have some decisions to make.
Let’s hope we rediscover sanity
Me and the Wifey are deemed “essential” for now but I’ll echo your sentiments.
Me too.
Most businesses operating are going to see either revenue drops, increased costs for this, or both. 1Q ends Tuesday. Reconciling the books shortly afterwards and things are probably going to get tightened when the numbers crystallize.
What a couple of fucking weeks there. Jesus, I didn’t want to live in such interesting times. I consider myself essential and I consider commerce essential, dammit.
Crazy times.
I don’t want to look in Disney guy’s basement. There are going to be bodies.
Click. The. Link.
Got to sleep. You are drunk (or should be)
Alright, Pie–time to jump into the voice chat.
what video chat?
I can’t jump in no video chat i aint got makeup on and the barber is closed so my hair is a mess.
oh voice chat.
Join us. you know you want to.
I am lurking
Good morning, Pie.
Thanks for the new article.
Another slice of Pie?
Oh hey GL.
Not for much longer. Sleep is coming.
Are people still on here or did I join after everyone has crashed?
I’m here! Just ate a badass homemade pizza with 2-day old refrigerator dough, bacon, portabella mushrooms, and spinach. One of the best I’ve ever made.
Okie dokie. Have fun on Zoom, kids.
SP do you have a link?
Someplace above in Neph’s comments.
Edited to add: Comment #4.
Voice chat was f’n awesome, Neph! Thanks for hosting, and, here’s to future chats. Also, I highly enjoyed being able to meet everyone who got in–much thanks to you, too.
Apologies to everyone who came by Night Shift looking for comments. I hope you can get in on future chat, ’cause it’s a trip.
Agreed. It was like Discord, but I could keep up and understand what was going on. It was nice being able to participate while at work.
Also, HOLY MACKEREL, Pie’s English fluency is better than mine.
Well, I have nothing bad to say about your grammar, but, agreed on thoroughly enjoying having Pie in with us. And, it’s awesome you could participate while multitasking.
I may not be able to talk tomorrow, simply due to the security factor of the job. Having anything beyond a 1-on-1 personal phone call gets into thorny issues when it comes to LE info access. So, I may have to lurk and text, if anything.
Still, it’s a great set-up.
For Neph – https://youtu.be/2gcz0RVSG-E
Trump: “I’d hope to have the country open and running again by Easter.”
Media: “TRUMP IS A RECKLESS THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH!”
Trump: “I’m thinking of putting NJ, NY, and CT under quarantine.”
Media: “TRUMP IS A MONSTROUS TYRANT!”