I just wanted to take a moment this evening to point out some of the resources on Glibertarians.com which you may have forgotten exist, if you ever knew. I’d encourage bookmarking any you want to revisit, although they are all to be found in the various menus and the sidebar on the front page of the site.
The Untold Story of the DoD’s Anthrax Vaccine Program, Serialized
This page puts the excellent and rage-inducing tale from Ozymandias in regular book order, instead of the usual reverse order of blogs. Do check it out. But take your BP meds first.
Available downloads include books, as well as Defense Distributed’s plans. Thanks to Dbl Eagle for the latest batch of books on stoicism. If you have copyright free resources (or creative works of your own) you’d like to make available for fellow Glibs, just drop me a note.
The spot to easily find all the articles by an individual author. To see all the pieces by TPTB, go here.
Trashy’s enhancements to the regular, sadly-lacking, WordPress reading experience.
Loads of good, non-medical (!), advice, support, and interaction resides on these posts. Thanks to all those who have contributed content to keep this going. Currently helmed by Chafed.
Answers to some actual FAQS, along with the Iron Laws, links to books you might want to explore on Amazon, and the permanent link to Tonio’s “A Noob Guide to Glibertarians.com”
Thanks, as always, to everyone who makes Glibertarians.com the little outpost of sanity that it is.
Now, help yourself to a free Open Post!
Thanks, SP.
You People are the best.
What do you mean, ‘You People’?!
Ye we are.
Ok, but what about a collection of Q’s titty links?
The what? Never heard of it.
You will when you are older.
??
There are some times when your avatar just adds a little extra pizazz to your comment and/or a thread.
This is another one of those times.
Tom Baker rocks some (odd British) comedy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILgaOb7BW8o
Ok, but what about a collection of Q’s Little Tinks?
After a brief search, HM, I found this reference to a “Little Tinks”.
<a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g528858-d1699892-i184977900-The_Little_Cornish_B_B-Mevagissey_Cornwall_England.html" Here, is a picture of the, ahem, cat in question.
I hope this helps.
There is also this: One might do well to consider that Charles posted these links, and then decide whether or not such links are “safe” to click upon.
Little Twinks? Oh God, we’re gonna get that edit fairy dude picture, aren’t we?
Little twinks == narrow gays.
That’s a good looking cat, to be honest. You can see why the Egyptians felt that had a royal mien.
I think that’s a tonk(inese), not a tink…?
“Go back to the last visible reply, use that and it’ll post after the last of the comments”
Thank you, Fourscore.
Now we will determine if your advice works.
Thank you for this, SP! Hope you’re doing well during the house arrest. We really need to get together soon (I know, I KNOW, you’ve invited us multiple times). Love to come by and pet the fluffy dog and drink some of your beer. If OMWC ever decides to saddle up the conestoga wagon and come this way, we’d love to have you out to drink and lounge around the pool.
“…pet the fluffy dog…”
Euphemism?
I thought you had a pond .
Probably would be better for me.
Maybe put up my A/C article from a few years back, it’s always relevant
Wait..,
Here it is, Change your filter!
https://www.glibertarians.com/2018/01/yusef-explains-hvac/
I changed mine last month.
The techie stuff shoots on past me but I really don’t mind. I’m just happy to be a part of a great group of libertarians. TPTB have done a super job in minding the store, the constituents’ contributions are always enlightening, even as the music is usually way too modern for my tastes. Thanks to all for their efforts.
I like this,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04O9qpqaq9g
Enjoy!
For Frith’s sake, Y,
I was just thinking of that song earlier today, albeit the version from a Mel Brook’s movie.
Gene ha a great voice,
? PUTTIN” ON THE RIIIIIII!
I am glad that you appreciated the link/reference, Y.
I took a chance given that you seem to enjoy the song/performance.
The Sheriff is N—-!
Ah!, the Sheriff is near!
Mel Brooks!
That movie is a cinematic comedic masterpiece; Mel Brooks is one of the greatest ever. I watched it and laughed so hard I scared the dog.
Don’t forget, Ludicrous Speed!
Can’t, my brain went to plaid.
Yeah, but my schwartz is bigger than yours.
I think I was six or seven the first time I saw it.
Scared the shit out of me.
By ten, I could recite that and Blazing Saddles by heart.
“soopuh doopuh!”
One of the funniest goddamn scenes put to film.
PB was Classic, he played it perfect,
/Gene Hackman
My best friend was Boyle’s assistant (gofer) near the end. Sadly I didn’t get to meet him. From everything I heard, he sounded like a cool guy.
Boyle died from Multiple Myeloma, the same cancer I have. In his honor Ray Romano does an annual charity show to raise money for MM research. The advances in MM treatment in recent years has been incredible, and it’s a nice tribute that Boyles memory has played a substantial role in that effort.
I also liked Boyle as Hunter Thompson’s attorney pal in the Bill Murray “Where the Buffalo Roam”.
Thank you Fourscore.
Hello Y and all,
Some of you have responded to my original post to Y (and to Y himself), yet there is no “reply/post comment” link visible to me to continue commenting.
Do any of you have any advice?
Go back to the last visible reply, use that and it’ll post after the last of the comments
These young people and their jazz, eh, Fourscore? I don’t get it either.
Modern music
https://youtu.be/Y10aCLaf4Ok
I’d love to see you post some links to your favorite tunes, 4(20).
Damn Karen
Sorry it’s a facederp link.
Ahh damn they originally posted with a screen grab of a post the woman who called made.
Hehe. They could have upped the snark a lil bit more.
Twinkle, twinkle, little snitch, go fuck yourself, you Stasi bitch.
When even the cops think you’re a meddlesome ass, you might want to tone it down a bit.
But dude, it was a dangerous sewing group. Next thing you know, they’ll be engaging in some illegal Bingo.
Or God forbid, a book club.
A snitch in time saves nine?
Boy, the Karens that decided to weigh-in in the replies really make me wonder what’s taking SMOD so long.
Peter Bradley: “Yeah, lets not pretend the police are the good guys here. You had one job, disperse the crowd. Every time you don’t do this, you are flat out culpable in every death that results from the spread of this contagion.
Why they are violating social distancing proceedures are irrevelant. There is nothing they are doing here they can’t do indoors and safely distant from each other.
If you can’t do your job properly, find another one.
What’s really needed here is a revew by a state attorney into police misconduct.”
Congrats Peter Bradley, you actually got me to side with the cops for the first time I can remember in years.
What an asshole…
Is it bad that my first instinct is to wish that he perishes in a particularly ironic way, like being swatted for not social distancing?
Um, not to out myself, but I just replied to this person in a matter that I think you would approve of.
I’m eagerly awaiting reading it. When I click ‘replies; I’m getting the spinning circle. I’ll just assume its a dick pic.
I just messaged the guy personally to let him know that I hope he dies of ball cancer.
I saw a not-so-great movie a while back where a dirty bomb goes off in a major city and some dude instantly seals off his house with plastic and duct tape. His girlfriend comes home but he won’t let her in because she’s be exposed to whatever contaminent was in the bomb. In the end she lives and he dies because he sealed-in and intensified the effects of whatever it was.
I kinda wish that would happen with that dude and COVID.
Ha! I think I saw it. Seems you ruffled his feathers, and apparently you can’t call him that until he kills six million people. Glad to know that is now the standard. Seems the Nazi label goal post has shifted in these trying times.
Linky please?
I’ll assume this is him. Looks like you’d expect.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10156752417110550&set=ecnf.584285549
She was protecting her neighbors from themselves!
Shout out to Cannoli.
You know what you did, young lady. Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
She finally sent nudes?
I waited long enough, too, dammit.
*happy dance*
So, is this anything public, or are we just going to speculate?
She pinpointed the problems with my problem scene and its alternative, and gave me clarity.
I prefer the scenario I had already come up with in my head. So Mojeaux and Cannoli hooked up.
Whatever helps you fap at night.
It’ll also help me during the day.
I feel so valued right now.
A second set of eyes can do wonders.
I did a beta read of Mo’s book
Good, additional perspectives help.
I was all excited because I’d gotten to a key scene in “Prince of the North Tower” that had been just out of reach for a long time.
I was going to brag about it. Then I checked how much I’d written and it was only fifteen hundred words.
But now I recall I only started at 6pm Eastern, so I just got 1500 words and a key scene done in two and a half hours.
I’d say I can be happy about that.
Thanks SP.
Loads of good, non-medical (!), advice…..
Which is too bad because I have this….well, this thing going on when I
coughpee.I have way too many things bookmarked and many of the worthwhile things are Glib’s contributions.
Well, ‘sloper, just turn around and put your hands on the edge of that table… you might feel a little pressure…
I can’t decide if knowing what that clip was going to be was a good thing or not.
You glorious bastard- I knew what that was before I even clicked it.
My first urologist’s nickname was Fat Fingered Al and the Furious Five.
Not kidding…
He would initiate the ritual with “This is going to bother you a lot more than it bothers me. “
One of my favorite movies.
“Stay home” orders/recommendations don’t take certain cycles into account. Single guys may not understand this point. *Sends SOS smoke signals*
Just hide in a closet until menopause comes and goes.
I’m waiting for the Russians.
Mix her up what I call the Cosby-Colada: 50/50 Nyquil & vodka. Hell, have a couple for yourself.
Not even touching that.
You aren’t beating her enough or you’re beating her too much. You need to find the sweet spot.
Beating something too much has become the primary concern.
Sausage patties, Huevos Rancheros con Queso, and Peanut butter toast, TASTY!!!!!
HEY YUFUS!
Sup Tres! 2 cans left, then forced sobriety, Yikes
Yummy! Widower’s Food,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/vjX27oL5m9UEqMQB7
Finally gave in and ordered a set of haircutting shears. Both my daughter and I badly need a trim. Amazon was pretty much sold out, so I had to go to ebay.
I figured that would happen. I got rid of my clippers a few years ago. I can do a decent fade haircut (I cut my buddies hair in our first years in the military when grooming standards were high and $10 was a lot of money to be spending every 2 weeks) and am really a chump for not foreseeing and capitalizing on the opportunity presenting itself here.
I’ve cut my own hair 4 times. Twice I was shitfaced, falling down, drunk. The other two I was sober.
Guess which ones turned out splendid ?
The drunk ones? I play pool better after 3-4 beers.
I cut mine for the first time in at least a decade. It turned out decent but took the better part of two hours. I’d gladly have paid someone $25 to come to my house and be done in less than half the time.
I can fade the sides of mine better when loaded cause I bet I dont think about it too much. Kinda like your pool theory.
Sober I want it to be perfect, and spend too much time (and cut too much away). Jugsy still has to clean up the back, tho.
Electric or manual?
Manual. The wife doesn’t want to do the trimmer (I’m not sure why). As long as it’s not lopsided, I don’t care how she does it.
If that’s the case I imagine any Wmart or crafts store has quality scissors. In these trying times I don’t think one needs purpose use skizzors. But then again my barber does back alley cuts. When I have cut my own hair it was the electric trimmer and a mirror. Didn’t go well.
“back alley cuts” – wire hangers!
“As long as it’s not lopsided, I don’t care how she does it.”
HEY NOW.
I swear I’ve had a cold on and off since this lockdown shit began, so for like a month. My wife has too.
Each time I’m thinking ‘oh ones, I got the commie cough this time, I’m a goner’, only to be fine by the next day.
Now, this weather is quite bizarre, this is by far the coldest April I’ve seen in MD. Tonight there is a frost warning, lows could be in the mid 30s. So I either covered up my plants or brought my potted plants indoors for the night.
We typically put house plants outside the first or second week of March after all threat of frost is over.
Maybe that’s the reason for the lingering cold like symptoms?
Or, I think we used to call it Spring Fever or Cabin Fever back when I lived in the Midwest where apparently, they had snow yesterday according to two people I spoke with in Indiana.
IKR? Gaia is pleased with our efforts to stop polluting her.
I’m totally not pleased. Gas is cheap. I need to fill both my vehicles with gas and leave them running outside 24/7. Maybe that will help. Someone has to do something!
I only had 2.50$ to my name, put it in the tank, and did move the needle, amazing…
No spring this year. Who needs it anyways?
Farmers, and anyone who likes to eat.
Eating has been declared non-essential.
You can’t fool me, Eloi.
Still a month at least before its safe to put plants in the garden. I’ve got a bunch growing under lights but the tomatoes and peppers are already the size you buy at the plant store. I’m always anxious to get started and always too early.
I have two patio tomatoes blooming. Typically frost safe here is first or second week of March. Not this year. It might frost tonight. I have some seeds under grow lights too, I’m using LED panels, and going to start some more. Especially peppers. I want to try some I’ve never tried before. I’ve had some peppers that lived 5 years bringing them in and taking back out again. I hear they can go even longer. I had Jalapeno plants that were 4 ft tall doing that, just loaded with peppers.
I am being crushed in cherry tomatoes and Japanese cucumbers. I have been giving them away but falling behind. Time for garlic soup and German cucumber salad.
We never get much of a spring in NYC anyway. Summer is just delayed this year.
Me too, with the lingering cold. Pollen counts are increasing faster than covid deaths. Everything outside is getting coated. Work in the yard and coughing later from all the particulate.
Do you have a temperature?
Motherfuckin ,rat whore, bitches! After all the shit I talked about the bat soup flu, Joke after joke, (It won’t last, it’s made in china. etc.) night before last, I felt a molecule of disease alight upon the back of my throat. It’s been worsening ever since and now, I’m in pain. Gonna call Urgent care for advice tomorrow. Slight fever, glue factory in my throat huge pain when i swallow. It’s sorta corolla virus like, but not completely.
Peace be upon you. You are as good as dead. I hope you have a will. AND YOU DESERVED TO DIE YOU DEPLORABLE!
Get Well. Anxiety over small infections people would normally just ignore is probably causing more health problems than the actual disease.
OPEN POST ANARCHY
http://archive.is/IgPNm
#3 – speaking of huevos rancheros….
Jeebus, dude. I don’t know why I clicked that. But my wife was standing right behind me, or rather was just walking up to talk to me.
Miss Hyperion: Who’s that!?
Me: Ah fuck, I don’t know…
Nice ass though.
Liar. You knock exactly why you clicked that.
No, really I don’t. I wasn’t paying attention. It’s like clicking an HM link, you know it might be dangerous, but in a moment of absent mindedness…
My day keeps getting better. New TV stand gets delivered and now the wife insists on helping me assemble it.
Maybe her abenomask will arrive today as well?
I’m lucky my wife knows better than to “help” me with stuff like that.
Yep. She usually leaves me alone in the next room. All she hears is, “Where the fuck is the goddamned…oh, there it is.” It’s just how I roll and she normally understands.
#12, I’l be turning Japanese now……
Arms are a little long for Japanese. Southern Chinese?
I’m pretty good at telling the difference between the Asians, I’ll not arm length in the future
“Man, those Hainans are a surly bunch.”
“Don’t get me started about those uppity Uighurs!”
Subtle, awesome!
I just got into my seed vault and was looking through what I’ve collected over the years. I have some 20 year old tomato and pepper seeds, and other stuff of same vintage. They’re all in tiny little plastic baggies. I’m going to try to germinate some of them, I’m that bored.
“seeds” in Baggies? yeah right,
Party on….
I used to grow those from seed too. Long time ago. It will get you sent to the farm you don’t want to go to, here in the people’s liberal utopia of Murland.
Has your state banned those yet?
I tested mine back in Jan/Feb, throw out those that don’t test well. Its something to do in the depths of winter to remind me that one day things will be warmer and sunnier. Then I make a list of the few new things I want to try or replace those non-viable seeds. I’m ready now but need another 4-5 weeks to warm up. Called my black dirt guy a few minutes ago, he said he’d check to see if his dirt was thawed out yet and bring me a load when its good to go.
“Called my black dirt guy”
/tries to make joke about Governor of Virginia. Fails.
I’m kind of jealous. I don’t have any guys but Fourscore has a honey guy and a black dirt guy.
I have a dirt guy but he isn’t black.
So, one of those racist dirt guys?
And I’m guessing that Fourscore’s honey guy isn’t really his honey.
nttiawwt.
Pics, both of you guys. I need to live vicariously through you as I live in a rental for the next couple years and can only do container planting.
That said, my container blueberries and strawberries are looking pretty good, and the rosemary bush overwintered decently for me not bringing it inside.
The house sell?
Nope, not yet. Just some optimism. We’ve had all of 3 showings in 2 weeks, so it’s gonna take a while.
?I hope you get some takers. One thing you have going for you is VA will not see the depression the rest of the country is going to experience.
In NOVA, they’ll know the depression has hit when only one in 4 cars on the street is a Ferrari or Rolls Royce, and the restaurants, bars, and malls are only half full on a Thursday night at 11PM. Oh wait, the 2nd part has already happened… maybe they should rethink this.
yup, as crass as this is, we hope that we get the best of both worlds…. sell at a high point now, buy at a low point in TX in 1.5- 2 years. I’m resigned to this craziness turning into either a deep recession or a full blown depression, so we’re just hoping that it doesn’t catch us particularly unfavorably (like crashing around us before we can sell this place).
“showings in 2 weeks”
That’s pretty good in the current environment.
Of course, it’s in Panem, so many aspiring elites in the market.
not surprisingly, the market is humming along in Loudoun county. Plenty of people buying $700k mcmansions on postage stamp lots. Our friends just bought a house pre-listing, because that’s the surest way to get them in Loudoun. The wife is a bit jealous of their ease of buying, and we fully expect that they’ll list weeks later and close weeks earlier than us because they’re on the rich side of the county line.
Down here in Prince William, it’s moving a bit slower. Median time on market is around 44 days, so we’re still early in the process. It’s also a 52 year old house on an acre out in the “rural crescent”, so most of the aspiring elites are going to ignore it. It’s still (supposedly) a very hot market out here, but the lockdown BS has just dumped the entire market in a vat of molasses. Prices haven’t changed much, but volume on both sides of the ledger is way down.
“not surprisingly, the market is humming along in Loudoun county.”
The joke is going to be on them when they get that damned pink mud on their new SUV tires and it takes 20 car washes to get it off.
Wait, what? Did your house sell?
I’d be totally up to starting a gardening group and sharing pics and techniques. Since I just now started wanting to get seriously back into it, I don’t have much to share, yet.
I want to try starting some blueberry and strawberries from store bought fruit. I know it can be done, I mean as long as the fruit is USA grown so it didn’t get irradiated.
Gardening is for queers.
You mean fags, right?
Brochettaward used precisely the pejorative term for homosexuals that Brochettaward meant to use, thank you very much. Unlike Hyperion whose shit is all retarded. And he talks like a fag.
I just assume if my seeds are fresh, I mean less than 2 years old, they’re going to germinate. So I use the paper towel method. I use the little plastic 2 oz condiment cups though, instead of plastic bags. I just put some paper towel in, dampen it, put the seeds in and put the lid on and wait. Works great.
For the old ones, well, I’ve never tried 20 year old seeds, but I have germinated 5-10 year old tomato seeds, I get a little more creative.
https://mises.org/wire/covid-19-lockdowns-are-what-twenty-first-century-mob-rule-looks
I know this is two weeks old it makes for depressing reading. Also I thought all those gay Mexican potheads who live in cities, use Twitter and Fucking Love Science would save us from the lockdowns because they hate Bad Orange Man?
Thus, we’re not witnessing a usurper regime imposing unpopular measures on a resistant but helpless citizenry. We’re more likely witnessing widespread mob rule, the central characteristic of which is rule by the majority with no regard for the rights of dissenting minorities. The government may now be ruling by decree, but it is in many places doing so with the hearty approval of the majority.
yup.
Lucas is probably demanding martial law right now. Ironic.
I think he’s been frozen in carbonite ever since he shat out those wretched prequels.
So, let’s see.
Population of USA, 2019: 328.2 million
Death rate, per 1,000 pop.: 8.782 (all causes)
Total deaths, U.S., 2019: 8.782 x (328,200,00/1,000) = 2,882,252
Deaths per day, U.S., 2019: 7,897 (to nearest whole number)
Number of deaths ascribed to COVID-19, U.S., to date: 45,039
So, 45,039/7,897 = 5.7 (approx.); the Commie Cough’s killed as many people to date as normally die in the U.S. from all other causes every 5.7 days.
Yeah, it’s a crisis, doncha know.
I hate the media now. No, I loathe the media now.
Ooooops. Missed the last zero in the “Total deaths” line.
But the deaths are doubling every day! Specially when they code ‘all causes’ as CoVID-19 cases (w/o testing) to bolster the numbers to meet the model’s projections.
Dude, its like you dont do New Math.
The NY Post headlined and then apparently removed (I can’t find it) an article trumpeting that the ‘vid has killed more people in a month than the flu does in a year! Panic!!
From the fine folks at the National Review
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-kills-more-americans-in-one-month-than-the-flu-kills-in-one-year/
Article doesn’t really support the headline
*snort* Maybe that’s what I saw.
They aren’t done counting deaths yet. Eventually they will recognize this has been here since Dec and count every death this winter as a Covid death. Just wait they will get there.
Everything that kills me, makes me feel alive.
https://www.aier.org/article/we-dont-need-a-cure/
Interesting remark about social media making things worse.
institutional trust is hovering right at zero. Nothing can be accomplished in such an environment. Nothing good can come from such an environment. I’m thisclose to writing the article I’ve been tossing around in my head. Provisional title: Journalists have blood on their hands from this coronavirus panic
More likely than the usual “Trump has blood on his hands”.
The notion of “institutional trust” is interesting. What does that mean? Should we blindly trust the institutions? Why would we reduce the power of institutions we trust? If we trust the institutions they why reform them? And are “trustworthy” institutions a libertarian one? And isn’t it rather hypocritical since classical liberals distrusted plenty of institutions such as the monarchy, aristocracy and the State Church?
I wrote an article on here long, long ago that took a reductio ad absurdum approach to this question. What if you didn’t trust anything that you learned secondhand?
The reality is that you have to trust to function as a human being. The level of trust afforded generally and where that trust is most focused is an interesting dynamic worth exploring. However, it’s 10:30pm local, and my pregnant wife is beckoning me to the bedroom, so I’ll not be the one to explore it.
Not to mention I thought the case for Free Trade and Open Borders was that any barriers to trade or movement are violations of freedom not an expression of trust of institutions.
As the concept is used in sociology and related disciplines, institutional trust is analog, not digital. An individual can have 50% trust in an institution.
That having been said a strong distrust of institutions is healthy for liberty, in my opinion. This is one of the distinguishing criteria between conservatives and libertarians.
Someone hasn’t been reading their Nick Gillespie.
So in order to be free we must trust and strongly distrust institutions at the same time? How is that possible?
Yeah, this “high trust society” stuff struck me as rather “conservative”. Not to mention all the libertarians lately advocating that we must trust our betters to save us from Trump and Racist Internet Trolls.
It reminds me of a story in which a Zen Buddhist master told his disciple that one should only possess just enough ego to prevent one’s self from stepping in front of a bus.
Do you believe that we need “high-trust”? Because that appeared to be what your were saying and I was pointing out a seeming contradiction. Or was I misinterpreting you?
Or should distrust certain institutions like state for example?
Or do we need high trust in the sense that we trust our neighbors, co-workers, employers, people we trade with, etc. rather than POTUS and those in Congress?
Yeah, perhaps I wasn’t clear. I don’t believe we need a “high-trust” society. In dealing with our neighbors, we should operate with just enough trust that it’s a social lubricant, but not so much as to be utterly naive.
On the other hand, the state should ALWAYS but distrusted to a great amount.
Ha, some talk radio guy filed a sunshine law request in St. Louis County and got the names and email addresses of people who have been ratting out local businesses for being open:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/04/covid19_snitches_in_st_louis_were_in_for_a_surprise.html
Government can’t even protect their snitches worth a damn.
Heh. Turnabout is fair play, bitches.
Sometimes it pays to be grateful for the incompetence.
I read through some of those, and I loved the “please keep this anonymous, because……”
Fuckin Karens.
“My position, like many others at the business, is NOT essential”
Well ok then. Guess they can lay her off.
Just from the top stack, it appears to be 75% women.
https://youtu.be/e_LpxldL8h4
Read through quite a few and damn, this is depressing. I’m especially heartbroken by the businesses practically begging to stay open.
Most of these people sound like they are just trying to get a free vacation.
I’ve intentionally avoided social media since the outbreak of……well……social media. Perusing comments the FB post comments above might have been the final nudge to me declaring myself a full blown Anarcho-Capitalist (until now I’ve more or less considered myself a highly skeptical minarchist). As long as the ratchet exists, the Karens of the world will ensure its ever-tightening.
Do you think that The Squad should change their name to The Karens? I mean maybe it would sell them to white folk? They’d still be cuntes either way. Win/Win?
Eh, the Karens of the world will just be a part of whatever groundswell the Squad types ride to power. If it was 1950 the Karens would be calling the police because a colored boy walked down their street.
They still do. Don’t you remember the whole trend of BBQ Becky, Permit Patty, etc.?
They’ve evolved. That’s why we’re on our glorious path to Snitch Equality.
I was unaware of both of those but I could not be less shocked. In fact the BBQ Becky pic has been turned into a great meme of
“Hello Police? I’d like to report some people not cowering in fear”
Ha I remember that was a daily feature in the NY Post before the Troubles.
Well this has been my pet peeve for a while. We were supposed to be getting “tolerant” and what it but it turns out people still do hate people for doing inappropriate things but the reasons are different.
50 years ago it was good to be offensive since it pissed off a socon, a neocon or a WASP but today you must obey your betters you Nazi Redneck. And those in power were all corrupt criminals but today you must trust those in power (as long as it isn’t Bad Orange Man) since high-trust societies are good.
Refresh Life is the New Normal.
*ducks*
Been under a time crunch project, which wraps up tomorrow. I’ll have time to hang with the host’s tech support guys again later this week and see what they are going to try next.
Thanks! You will have the blessings of a grateful Glib nation. Sorry we’ve been bitching about it so much. Please just take it as a tribute to how important the site has become to our collective mental health (such as it is.)
Please make it stop!
This video is why G*d invented video editing.
https://youtu.be/vM3J9jDoaTA
Marketing folks aren’t very original.
God didn’t invent editing, DW Griffith did. And he was a racist. Ex Post Facto, editing is racist. (I have a liberal arts degree)
In its entirety, I found that troubling.
That somber piano music is my cue to pound on the mute button and scream “SHUT THE F&*(k UP!!!”
Mine is the couple-second silence – which is invariably followed by another smoking horror-commercial.
Well, in addition.
I haven’t seen any of them. I watch no TV. Given that I cancelled Fubo TV after all sports disappeared, I cannot even watch them.
help.
I had no reason to, and I just went and connected to work and started answering emails.
Bad civil servant! Bad! No cookie.
*smacks UCS’s hand*
Thank you.
I should probably put my laundry away so I can go to sleep. (Silly me dumping the clean clothes on my bed.)
Just moosh it up into a comfy little nest and curl up on top of it.
I don’t think that suits me.
Anyway, I sent you what I’ve added to the Prince of the North Tower. Except the footnotes.
Received – thank you! I’ll read it ASAP (though not tonight. It’s already past my bedtime.)
…I turn forty in less than a month. I’m no longer a Christian, but since I can’t think of a stronger oath off the top of my head…I swear to Christ, if my birthday comes to pass and my city/state is still under this form of quarantine, or any form for that matter, I’m going to have a midlife crisis and go out of my way to publicly make an ass of myself, get arrested for “endangering others” due to CommieCough, go on a tirade if media should happen to be present, sell off all my assets, skip bail, and fall off the face off the Earth.
Why not? I have no wife, no children, only a faint paper trail as to my whereabouts at any given time. Nobody has any real, verifiable, on state/county/city level of record of where the fuck I actually live. It would be easy for me to bone out and say to hell with the whole construct…
Fuck America. Sorry if that offends many of you here. I know there are many veterans and/or nationalists here and I’m not trying to Insult or trivialize your deeply held sentiments about the concept or Ideals that founded the nation. On the by and large I share those feelings, but I believe those ideals are dead at the administrative and philosophical level. Totally and utterly squashed under a mountain of political intrigue, propaganda, corruption, powerlust, and litigious constitutional case law that has deluded the principles of this nation to dust.
We are Britain now. It’s just going to take us about a decade or three to admit it.
As long as that sweet Patreon lucre keeps coming.
But on a serious note, keep on keepin on bra. ‘When you’re chewing on life’s gristle
Don’t grumble, give a whistle
And this’ll help things turn out for the best
And
Always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the light side of life’
I’m inching towards 40 and in the same boat, except for having a home I have to always worry is going to be stolen from me by my own family and relying on crazy internet people to pay me for making funny voices to help pay the bills.
It’s all good, TH! You are here among friends, Holmes. Even us formerly-blind-zealot-patriots know the Republic is just limping along at this point.
Where are you at? Meaning, which statist authoritarian governor has you under their thumb?
I don’t think most of them will last another month. Really, the proles will make enough noise that they’ll start easing up. You may not be able to go to a club or a bar and go full mid-life crisis mode, but I think you’ll be able to at least go out and enjoy yourself. Or it will be close enough that the cops will all be ignoring the orders at that point.
I keep getting texts and messages from my cop buddies going, “do you believe this fucking bullshit?!!” As bad as they are – and they are bad – the majority of the ones I know vote Team Red and they know this is horseshit. They’re doing enough to not look like they’re in open defiance and threaten their pensions, but they’re not enforcing with drug war against minorities and poors kind of zeal, for whatever that’s worth.
Hang tight, Brosef. Forty is the new thirty… or something. (Don’t ask me, I got married at 22).
I would give half my prostate to be 40 again.
IKR
Oh, I’m in Missouri. To be honest, the statewide rules haven’t been nearly as crazy as others but KC just extended its quarantine bullshit another two weeks. I’m fucking livid. I’m working again but just barely. At this point I’d make more money leaching the system but fuck that. I get they kinda owe me but I don’t need them to survive. I’m done giving the system even the thinnest veneer of being a law abiding citizen. owe it nothing outside the NAP.
…sorry for not responding to anyone else. I’m drunk, distracted, and I just like Ozy more than you. ;p
Ha!
We are Britain now. It’s just going to take us about a decade or three to admit it.
At least you retain optimism in these trying times.
I can’t do much, but I can chip in for a bail fund if you do, and I will. Right there with you, (although a little bit older) and every day the cower in place extends, my rage grows further. At this point, I count any 24 hour period where I haven’t gotten mad enough to leak a few tears a success.
Go full-on Killdozer.
I’m right with you…. IDGAF,
Fuck America. Sorry if that offends many of you here. I know there are many veterans and/or nationalists here and I’m not trying to Insult or trivialize your deeply held sentiments about the concept or Ideals that founded the nation. On the by and large I share those feelings, but I believe those ideals are dead at the administrative and philosophical level.
Speaking only for myself, and I’m not a real one but I do fly the flag on certain days outside the house, not offended at all and I understand the feeling.
Regarding Britain, I’ve long thought they’re just several years ahead and what happened there will happen here. Depressing to read their mid century history and see a foretelling of what would happen later.
Or…Canada!
And yes I think I agree with you alas. Hope that is just my cynicism talking though…
In case I’m not too late; I hope that my presence here – as a veteran/retired military – doesn’t ever influence anybody to hold back in speaking their mind about the current state of affairs in the US.
I would like to add that I have heard comments and discussions similar on a similar vein by other veterans, despairing how things are going. I can’t see arguing against people saying “fuck America” when the people running the nation are themselves doing just that.
I’ll second Tejicano. I joined to defend the Constitution and what it stands for. I’m not happy with our government officials but I’m getting more pissed at the voters who reward them and don’t understand the unique gift the founders fought for.
I squeaked my 40th in back in December. My wofe threw a big bash and would have ripped off heads if it occured during these lockdowns.
On the America thing…its a dream, an ideal, a way of life I hope for and get a small piece of but surely isn’t there and probably never will be.
GLIBERTARIANS BORN IN THA 90S THATS UNDER 25 CAN’T COOK CAN’T CLEAN THEY DON’T WANT TO WORK NOTHING. NIGGAZ THAT’S 31 & OVER GET IN ARTICLE POST COMMENTS WITH THEM & WONDER WHY SHIT AIN’T WORKING THAT’S BECAUSE ALL YOUNG GLIBS WANT TO DO IS POP PILLS, SMOKE WEED, GET DRUNK, LAY AROUND, SUCK DICK, EAT HOT CHEETOOS, CHARGE THEY PHONE, GET A SEW IN WEAVE, TWERK, BE BISEXUAL, EAT MCDONALD’S, WASH THEY PUSSY IN THA SINK, LIE, TAKE SELFIES, AND TALK SHIT THRU WIFI CUZ THEY PHONE NEVER ON.
Thanks, Sarah Hoyt.
lol
What counts as a micro penis?
perfect, I hate yelling,
I’ve read enough Roman history, in the original Latin, mind you, to not write ish like “Mediterranean cultures are not really good at organization in general”.
It’s better in the original Klingon.
I don’t twerk!
You guys mind if I put my full story here? It’s kind of long and kind of cringy.
You jacked on a ficus again?
There is masturbation in the story.
You never disappoint. Be quick about it, I’m running out of beer and might eventually fall asleep at some point.
Go for it. I need to make some pulled pork tacos and go to bed but I will read it in the morning.
Yeah sure. Go ahead and give us your slant.
If it’s kinda cringy, late at night in an open post thread seems the perfect place for it.
Stop being cunty and get on with it.
Alright.
A Brave New Rat
Chapter 1:
Guy sucked on the tube and a wad of water dislodged, sliding down his throat. His mother’s teet now hard metal. Some of the rats in the lab were exhausting themselves on their running wheels, but most of them were either gnawing on their doubled chocolate rations or dutifully watching the screen of Dr. Reddenpecker giving updates on the contagion.
“A reminder that the cost of stability is freedom. It is not oppression if you follow the protocols out of love” the smooth voice of the female British announcer assured the rats over the speaker. Guy had become skilled at timing his self-pleasuring sessions to reach climax when she said “love”, but today the announcement was a few minutes early. He worked furiously to catch up. Too late. Today was shot and the one the one thing that added structure to his life was taken away.
“Psst, Julia” he hissed to his next cage neighbor. “You ever think we could take down O’Brien if we all rushed him at once? One cat against 100 rats. Possible?”
Julia’s red eyes darted back and forth, searching for snitches who might be within earshot. “Yes, Guy, that is what I’ve thought since the day they convinced us to climb into these cages.” She buried her head into the sawdust and nibbled on the contraband coffee bean Guy had smuggled in for her. “Make that one last” Guy warned, “Getting harder and harder to come by.”
*Bahooga! Bahooga!*
The lab door opened with a metal click and Dr. Covid Reddenpecker strode in, his fur free body feline, yet fleshy. O’Brien jumped to attention and saluted the Doctor. Identifying as a cat was a power move for O’Brien. Going from rat to cat was a point mutation of evolutionary genius. Some of the rats looked at Dr. Reddenpecker as a savior, while others ignored his presence. Julia and Guy felt the ancient hatred of his species well up and it added a tinge of crimson to their already bloodshot eyes. This hatred was no where near the level of hatred they had towards the other rats in the lab that rolled over and exposed their bellies to the doctor. Guy poked his nose through the bars of his cage. “That’s it. I’m making a break for it tonight. You in?” Julia didn’t hesitate. “Of course.”
Chapter 2:
The landscapers worked from midnight as part of the social distancing guidelines. Guy and Julia would wait until their machines started buzzing until they made their break for it. “I’m scared, but I trust you, Guy” Julia admitted and thrust her paw into his through the bars. “Once we’re free, the first thing we’ll do is gorge ourselves on a bum’s vomit. I promise. No more celery or broccoli for the rest of our lives.” The main lights were out, the other rats asleep when the whirring of the machines started.
Guy licked the hinges on his cage door to swallow the creaking sound and slowly inched it open. A rat three cages down scratched itself, but the lab remained asleep. Bathed in red light cast from the lab door’s warning bulb, the room felt warm and cold at the same time. One paw out of the cage at a time, Guy made his way until his his tail was free. Julia watched with bated breath as Guy scurried to her. He made a “V” shaped gesture with his paws and thrust his tongue out, waggling it up and down. Julia laid on her back and spread her legs wide. “No” he whispered. “Lick the hinges, you horny bitch.”
One paw at a time; Julia was doing well until it came to her tail. A snag in the metal bars tore a slit down the side of it and she let out the faintest of screeches. The itchy rat three cages down rolled over and saw the two disobediently outside their bars. “Murderers! Murderers!” he blurted out and started yanking back and forth on his bars. Instantly, the other rats sprang from sleep and joined in the cacophony. “Murderers!” the refrain. Guy and Julia abandoned stealth for speed, bounded to the floor and made it to the lab door. “Guy, they hate us!” Julia cried. “Fuck them. They’re lab rats” Guy reassured her and they made their way out of the lab and tasted stolen freedom for the first time in months.
——
Chapter 3
The whir of the landscaper’s machinery kept causing Dr. Reddenpecker to lose concentration. O’Brien curled asleep on his lap, Dr. Reddenpecker lowered his head onto his keyboard. He’d be able to concentrate on the data after a short nap. High pitched wails from the lab room snapped the doctor’s head out of dreamland. “What the hell is that! O’Brien!” he yelled and sank a claw into O’Brien’s shoulder. “Go find out what in God’s name is going on in there!”
The buzzing sound of the landscaper’s machinery was getting louder; freedom was near. Guy and Julia scampered though the research facility without grace thanks to the freshly waxed floors, but made it to the main doors.
“Where do you think you’re going?” a voice behind them hissed. O’Brien grinned as they pivoted to find the source of the voice. The three rats (or two rats and a cat, depending on your wokeness) waiting for someone to make the first move. “I’ve got two splitters here, Doc!” bellowed O’Brien, breaking the standoff. Guy and Julia’s only escape route was into the stairwell and O’Brien knew it. He tried to cut them off like a free safety playing nickel defense, but Guy and Julia made it there a few meters before him and disappeared up the stairs.
“Nice job, genius. You led us to the roof. We’re trapped.” Julia bitched. Guy muttered something about how if she thought she could do any fucking better than maybe she should fucking lead and get off his goddamn back. Behind them, Dr. Reddenpecker and O’Brien closed in. *BUZZZZZZ, *BUZZZZZ* the machinery below filling the airwaves. Julia lifted her rat nose up and sniffed. “Run!” she screamed.
The rooftop was slick from an evening shower. Guy and Julia flew towards the ledge, with Julia losing her footing and sliding on her back past Guy. He reached out with one paw, grabbed her tail and the pair slid across the rooftop towards the edge. The Doctor and O’Brien experienced the exact same phenomenon, with O’Brien latched onto the Doctor’s tail. *BUZZZ, BUZZZ* First Guy and Julia disappeared off the roof with the Doctor and O’Brien in involuntary hot pursuit.
The machine was hungry. It’s all fiber diet had made it especially ornery on this day. *BZZZZZZ! BZZZZZT* It’s feeding bucket wide open to accept the gift of cat and rat falling from the sky. O’Brien entered the feeding bucket cleanly, but the Doctors head bounced off the side before being devoured. The great machine digested it’s dinner in a split second, creating a stretch of red sludge on the lawn.
Guy’s paw clung to the edge of the rooftop with Julia clutching his tail and dangling over the scene. “Did you see that, Julia? That was awesome!”
“Yes, Guy. It looked like an Ebola patient taking a shit after a Taco Bell feast.”
I’ve hated rats since Monterey Jack raped Gadget. #BelieveAllTalkingMiceInTightSexyJumpsuits
+1 Coo-Coo Cola
Gustave gets me.
For everyone else
https://youtu.be/Y3Ek9VjGcgY
It’s like you pulled a fantasy I had for what happens to Coonman straight out of my head.
Nothing makes me happier than this comment.
Straffinrun = fury confirmed.
Why does everybody think I’m an angry person? *Self-reflects*
I think he meant Furry, not Fury. But Mad Max Furry Road where Mel runs down furries would have been a better movie.
I tried to watch MadMax Fury Road once. I turned it off at the beginning after seeing Max getting curb stomped by a chick with one arm. Schwarzenegger in his prime couldn’t suspend that much disbelief.
Looking into parts for a new PC build. Quick look it seems like you can’t get a full ATX case without glass and fans in all the wrong positions anymore. Retards have ruined functionality once again it seems.BUT IT HAZ LIGHTZ!
Yep it sucks. You have to really search for a basic case
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
New Glib theme song
https://youtu.be/3RSy-K7nHco
Is that intentional? Hilarious.
I’m at a loss as to how it could be otherwise, but maybe it was serious.
Moar subtitle fun.
https://www.kapwing.com/videos/5e9fca91eec9e80015d4f6bc
Brilliant.
That was awesome – especially the shout out to certain Glibs near the end. ::wild applause::
“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
Who uttered that piece of human effluent onto the world? I found it on a selection of quotes on liberty. It seems to be the fervor of the day we live in.
It’s the mantra of the progressive left; “by any means necessary”. There will always be an “end” that justifies all means, no matter how dirty, dishonest etc. Each of those means are the paving stones of the proverbial road to hell, along with the “unintended consequences”.
I know I’m preaching to a grandmother and teaching the choir to suck something.
Morning Glibs.
I really wanted to sleep in today. But I’m not burning precious PTO while under house arrest.
Morning, UCS. I’d just love to take a day of vacation, but what would I do? Besides, while my coworker who does most of our accounting is working from home, she can’t print reports to her home printer. Therefore, every time she prints a report from our general ledger, it gets spit out of MY printer, and I have to scan & e-mail it to her.
That’s how essential I am.
Unless there’s some need to keep the printouts, it might be worth it to investigate if the reports can be created directly to digital format. Most systems should support that by now.
This is the very first thing that comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99aySA6ZarA
I remember that one. : )
I’m the kind of chick who will actually suggest possible solutions to my (few) female friends when they talk about their problems.
There are some areas in which I don’t chick very well.
You know we just suggest solutions because our instinct on hearing of a problem is to try to fix it. It’s just the way we are.
No doubt. I did learn to stifle that instinct in certain situations many years ago.
Yes, and I appreciate it.
The instinct or Sean’s self-censorship?
The instinct to help (which sometimes I also have.)
Reports from at least one part of our core data system are saved somewhere in CSV format, but the drive to which they’re saved is accessible only to VPs and above, I believe. I generate one such report monthly, then have to ask my boss (CFO) to send it to me so I can convert it to Excel and fiddle around with it.
Security or regulatory reasons?
Probably security. As you can imagine, a financial institution has to be pretty anal about who has access to certain types of information and about who can perform certain functions within the system.
One favorite example of financial institution security: we are required by policy to take at least one full week of vacation each year. Rationale: someone who NEVER takes more than a day or two off at a time might well be engaged in some financial hanky-panky that could be discovered during an extended absence.
I’d heard it was two weeks, but that might just be some firms.
On those rare occasions when I’ve taken two full weeks (or close to it,) my boss has had to post payroll in my absence. He doesn’t really mind doing so, but he’d just as soon not. I try to time my vacation to avoid that necessity, depending on whether we have extended travel plans (which has only happened a couple of times in recent years.)
*raises cup of coffee*
I had some chicken wings for breakfast. It’s a very strange apocalypse we’re having…
I have four packages of wings in the freezer. I think it adds up to five pounds or so. They’re weekend-only food for one simple reason – trash day is monday and I don’t want the packaging sitting in the garbage can all week stinking up the place.
So I had cream of tortellini soup and some canned fruit for breakfast.
*salivates thinking about the wings we’re having tonight*
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/865772735
*sigh*
*puts credit card away*
No more impulse buys for right now. Maybe if my employer pays up that bonus I’m owed…
*drool*
https://www.wfmz.com/news/ap/ap-politics/as-deaths-spike-some-areas-could-see-robust-reopening/article_5a7ce55f-01fc-509c-beaf-cce2119fbb65.html
“As deaths spike..”. Fuck you. Open this state back up.
“The health department has been revising its numbers upward because it is now including probable deaths in the tally. ”
Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you.
???
Anyone using unconfirmed deaths needs to be fired, and locked in a Wuhan virus ward without PPE.
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