October Dawn
Sunlight gives way to wind,
And Darkness stars,
Ladders to somewhere,
Unknown,
The drift removes clarity,
And furthers doubt of oneself,
Confidence and cheer are the bread and butter,
Of civilised Men,
never forget the evil dwellers,
In caves of power,
Ever looking and seeking,
Glory its own sake,
Roads turn to Highways,
And journeys to ends,
Which is the greater,
(sorry)It depends,
An old friend comes,
In search of things,
And the the answers that,
his question brings,
Who built the ‘verse and why?
As we gaze into the sky,
Creator, random,
Who can say,
What say you?
To gaze into yourself is fine,
Hope is good,
Gaze out to the stars,
For Serenity,
And if you find it,
let us all know,
we await your swift return,
Swft return, you bet!
I’m back.
I’ll need a little more time.
And them, too.
A Gibverse poem. Glad I’m still sober enough to read it. Allcans!
Glibverse. Well maybe not completely sober.
#AllCansMatter
Wake up Q, bring the cans!
*scrolls down*
Fuck me.
AllCansMatter!
I’m not proud of my work, but …
Yes! Both Boobs and Beer, right? I love cans. *mmm, cans*
Raises a Smirnoff with carrot and orange juice *cheers!*
Sounds health-licious!
Tall cans!
I’ve got one tall can of Rainier and an early alarm clock tomorrow morning.
Your alarm clock wears a Klan hood.
Wait a minute…you’re Sheriff Longmire?
Hah! Watching that show reawakened a desire for the beer. Sometimes i can it rayne yay to get an eye from the wife too.
Redhedz 4 Yusef.
http://archive.li/ufpGj
Lots of fakers (still would)… us gingers know our own.
I can smell a Ginger at 5 miles,,
#Bathing
My wife has not been a true redhead since was a child. I guessing it ended at maybe 15. Shes dyes her hair, and it works because she is so pale. Whatever makes her happy. I really don’t care. If I had to choose, I suppose I’d take a raven haired brunette on top. Down low, ginger all the way.
“Down low, ginger all the way”
TMI, it’s the only way i can prove I’m a Ginger anymore, Hey Ladies!
LOL.
Dayum. I think the redheads are consistently the best.
They don’t need silicone to stand out.
They call their cleavage a Silicone Valley.
Damn it! I feel creepy looking at these young girls!
Think I found a way to get Q to join the next sketching challenge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NXTZ7dYgbo
11 and 14.
It looks like a windy and stormy weekend here. Hurricane Douglas is on the express path to Hawaii. Hopefully it will lose power to a Tropical Storm before it arrives.
Luckily I have lots of TP and liquor (Thanks Kungflu!) and no great amount of mangoes on the tree.
You feel that earthquake yesterday? Everything cool?
7.4 just a scratch,
Wow, that was fast!
I should post more soccer drivel here, especially since you dont understand.
Barnsley over Brentford saved Barnsley, relegated Charlton, and forced Brentford into the playoffs, and promoted WBA.
Huge match.
Wigan was relegated due to a 12 pt penalty for entering ” adminstration” ( British for Bankruptcy).
12 pts was the difference between 13th and 23rd.
What does the Women’s Basketball Association have to do with Euroball?
Argle bargle.
I have been drinking Woodford Masters Collection…125.8 proof, so feel free to ignore me.
Review: I dont normally care for high proof Bourbons, but this one is sneaky smooth. It goes down easy and fucks you up quick.
We’re ignoring you because you’re talking about soccer.
And rightly so.
Thanks for the weird poetry, Yusef. It was weird 🙂
I thank you, there is an odd, but definite meter to it
I sent a message via post earlier to GT, since she’s my home-girl. Jugsy made an order from a local pizza chain, and specified “NO CONTACT” delivery. Well, the asshole rang the bell, waiting on me, so I had to put shorts on an open the door. Not only was it #FullHomo delivery, he didnt have a mask on, and breathed his filthy CoVID-19 all over my porch, and face. After he handed off the pizza, and my shock wore off, he was walking away. I yelled “STOP!” to him when he was nearly to his car. I gave him an extra $10 and said “be safe”.
I just now e-mailed you back with my eulogy for you.
Well, fuck him. He deserved to die. I’ll miss him *sniff*
I’ve got the Novella “Prince Errant” (which may also be the novel title if I can’t think of a better one) formatted for Glibs.
Now I have to click submit and ask for a paricular set of time slots…
So it will be serialized?
It’s almost 19,000 words, it has to be serialized for this format.
Any chance you’re requesting evening slots?
No. The evening slot doesn’t work well for me compared to the lunch slot.
#SerializeMeYouBigSTUD
/GooseYaBigStud
Too bad you weren’t on the zoom chat last week. Hyp didn’t think it was necessary to be overly focused on being dedicated to historical accuracy when writing fiction. I like historical accuracy, but curious your thoughts on that. (I know using “overly” in my summation is a bit sneaky).
I’m extremely zealous about maintaining accuracy.
Why do you think I write in alternate universes? I can’t meet my own standards and get the book done.
His point was that since you are creating the universe, you can have a horse run 400 miles in a day. No reason to limit yourself given it’s fiction anyways.
Having rules, being consistant with those rules, and doing interesting things within those rules are vital. If those rules are “This happens in X year/century/etc in an otherwise real world” you should be accurate to that. If your horses can run 400 miles in a day, you need to then account for the impact that is going to have on travel and commerce in the setting, which will be dramatic.
Can you just have a horse than can run 400 miles without explaining why it can do that?
I assume they gutted them and replaced the innards with a steam engine and clockwork.
But you really should explain why it can do that, which will feed into the impact it has, as the same mechanisms will be applied to other parts of life by the people in the setting.
“Should”. Agreed, but his point was that you don’t have to and if people like it, who cares?
Because the longer you go without explaining, the more the setting will come apart at the seams. You may not even make it to the end of a book.
And people generally like internally consistant settings better, it feels real and not full of abitrary nonsense.
I don’t mind alternative historic timelines as much as heavy magic and sorcery. It’s easy to believe that something significant could have been discovered or not discovered in a different sequence. Magic becomes something that gives the author power to just add stuff to get out of a poorly written story. I could stomach the Conan series (40-odd years ago) because at least will or brute strength could sometimes overpower magic.
I think Conan ran on the rule of fun.
Case in point about fickle history – Colt and his revolvers would not have been a thing if Texas hadn’t purchased a few dozen Paterson revolvers for the Texas Navy. The Navy didn’t know what to do with them and somehow the Texas Rangers found them in a warehouse and put them to good use. They liked them so much they hunted down Colt (who was bankrupt and trying his hand at other things) and the rest is known history.
You can argue that somebody else would have come up with a viable revolver but it could easily have taken another 30 or 40 years to get there.
Skin the wrong color, bitch. Up against the wall.
https://twitter.com/SomeBitchIKnow/status/1285977949020270592
So she’s an “evolutionary dead-end”, eh?
Your poetry inspired me.
A phailed phalynx
Of phlacid phalli
https://twitter.com/AWKWORDrap/status/1286108931450961927
“We have green berets…”
That washed out? That you bought at Forever 21? That you picked up at the Eiffel Tower?
Tranbo.
Hey, Mom–guess who’s gonna need many, many years of psychotherapy?
Damn, do I ever smell a blockbuster just begging for a screenplay.
I’m not sure it can be made today. It’s clearly pro-gun and Islamophobia.
If they could re-make Death Wish, I bet we could get a Blumhouse treatment, at least.
I found a Q link from 1988.
It took 14 hours to download!!
Well played CPRM.
Would.
On the lighter side of I Hate Everyone In This Video.
Hmm, well what would give me a whole bunch of gas? “Honey, can you make that soup that makes me fart my ass off? I totally want to stand in line and stink up the joint. When someone complains, I’ll say “You need a better mask!”
I am intrigued by this particular form of anti-social activism. If you have a newsletter, I’m in.
I don’t really hate the lady. Yeah, if the store rule is to wear a mask, she probably should. The guy filming, though is an unadulterated asshole. His certainty that he’s right shows how brainwashed he is.
I hate her for being the asshole who conflates “public accommodation” with “public building”, which is pretty much what she’s doing. If the store says no, you go. It’s that simple.
But, yes–that guy (and everyone who pushed his bullshit) is, at least, a brown-belt-level Karen.
There is some truth to this.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EdjyP1PXsA0vzvr?format=jpg&name=900×900
“That cartoon feller ain’t wrong…”
CWAA. It’s not like the employees have a choice.
No, and I guess I should amend the “everyone” part–the bread jockeys aren’t in control of store policy.
Also….Camas Washougal Aviation Association?
That’s some fine backacronyming there, Lou.
It’s what the goog found me.
Christ What An Asshole.
Ahhh…..no wonder the internet overlords didn’t know that one.
The potato nobility started acronyming after typing it out a lot.
I think i’ll go with BWAA. It even sounds funny.
Yep.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ediv0Y9XYAAzKbB?format=jpg&name=900×900
Just like those guards at Auschwitz, Treblinka, Dachau, right? No one has a choice. You can’t choose between right and wrong? I’m getting ready to go back to work at Woke Inc. My wife is terrified that I will shoot my mouth off and get fired. I told her I will quietly listen to their bullshit and say nothing. They will get the least of me. But, when/if they they compel my speech, then I’m fucked.
Go ahead and say something if you want to. Be polite, be truthful and listen to them. Whatever happens, you can sleep at night.
I work(ed) in Atlanta, polite and truthful may not work.
Please tell me you aren’t being serious when you compare an Auschwitz guard with a Panera bread jockey.
Not really. I get the extreme difference of consequences. I do. You said, “It’s not like the employees have a choice.” I disagree. They have a choice. We all do. I would make a suggestion per my bosses orders, and leave it at that. If they failed to comply, I would still serve them, and let it go. Fire me? Go ahead. It’s just a job. My comparison is completely hyperbolic, I’ll admit. Tyrants live on the fear of their servants. I have that right now.
I can’t even imagine being a young man told to kill, torture, and abuse people in a prison camp.
I just feel like Heath Ledger’s Joker these days. Just let the world burn. Maybe the dolphins can do better than we have.
Maybe the dolphins can do better than we have.
Nah, long before we try and hand the planet over to them, they’ll all leave, saying, “So Long, and thanks for all the fish.”
Pants don’t stop farts……..she is not wrong.
http://archive.li/C0cNZ/346369366b8954bae8b2ce0406734e3082e5dcc3.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/5Lwfq/31a53344ae9ebb873f56fea8e59695258dfba362.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/aYPiT/802ce1f6e983317c13cbf6c56e8278a068b20b01.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/FPsLI/f9bb5db5e6885b048a845810c51f8c272cb2c911.jpg
NSFW.
Yowsa.
Holy Moly
Agreed. That’s a good’un.
Cancel Ike
https://youtu.be/mOrtOlU8f9Y
Also love his now quaint body language.
Good night, Glibs, I’ll see you in the morning.
See what tomorrow brings
https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status/1286124871877943296?s=21
How is Wheeler still popular in Portland?
a) he’s not really, but not because he’s too crazy. He’s up for re-election but failed to clinch it in the primary so is now in a runoff in Nov
b) he’s a rudderless, time server who was hoping, and probably still is, to climb to the governors mansion or higher elective office like so many other empty suits in the state. Unfortunately he’s there when the wheels are coming off the bus. He’s not ideological, he’s not iron willed, just weak and bendy and it shows.
He was the sane one on his time as head of the county commission, but since he’s became vanilla Jane politician first as state treasurer and now as mayor of Portland. Supposedly he’s going through a divorce right now and he lost his dad recently. And Hardesty is looking to shank him so she can take control.
c) the city council is the worst I’ve seen in my short lifetime. Used to be professional politicians and people in thrall to connected interests. Now it’s true believers (Hardesty, although she’s been happy to grift along the way) and idiots (Eudaly). Fritz is just marking time, trying not to harm any future political aspirations. Next year’s gaggle will be even worse.
Pretty mild for Florida woman.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/22/florida-walmart-65-inch-tv-shoplifting-mulberry/
“Huge bitch steals huge TV”
Well, Jugsy has to replace all the ones Tres falls into somehow.
You should have heard that laugh, C….seriously.
You could not pay me enough to be a car mechanic. Both forearms are bleeding and one thumb smashed. Seems my new to me beater had a screech I could only here with all the windows down and driving through trees. Dude I bought it from said they put on new front hubs and it looks like chuckles the mechanic put the dust shield on passenger side back wards and broke a brake pad somehow. Both were rubbing on the rotor causing the screech. Fuckknuckle. I figured since I had to search out the noise by removing tires and calipers may as well install new pads and a couple of rotors upfront. My kingdom for a lift. Working on brakes while sitting on a bucket is a young mans game. Hence the bleeding.
My freshman year of college I rotated my tires and changed my break pads one by one in the dorm parking lot using only the jack and donut. One by one. In the Vegas heat. Usually it doesn’t seem like that was 19 years ago when I started college, but thinking about doing that now would make it seem like more mileage on me than that.
Yes, I have replaced several clutches in a driveways in the FL heat back in the day. No fricken way I would do that now. Even now I have a shop I can pull in and a floor jack and air tools but damn a lift would be nice. I hate stooping over. But then again if I could afford a lift I would pay some dude with a lift to work on my car.
Take care WS! Coworker developed a hernia from positioning a tranny or the engine in one of his classics instead of used his hoist all the way. Ouch.
“Richard Stanley, who, hit the headlines when a reveller died in his pool at a James Bond-themed orgy, is hosting a ‘a voyeurs and monogamists alfresco sex party'”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/millionaire-host-britains-first-socially-22226002
There’s a headline I bet you never thought you’d read.
It’s never the people you hope to see….I guess that’s why it takes ‘parties’ for them. ?
I was pretty happy with the sidebar link. That’s someone you _do_ want to see.
Flossin’ and flyin’ that bitch all over!
Notice.
Crap. I hate you autocorrect. I meant noice.
Induced pain, this was Wendy’s song about me,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF60neguk
Dude, you gotta block that song. It always upsets you.
I’m good, I just don’t want to forget, and I still got Rhythm…………
Rhythm
Credit where credit is due. That he didn’t fuck it up once during the interview is impressive.
https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/1286106604513918981
Now there is a non-sequitur I could throw in the cartoon that I wouldn’t even need to edit. But that video had shit audio. If I remember I’ll look for one with clean audio.
Huh–I guess I could have been in the military, after all.
No; not due to the sentiment, but, the sediment.
In uniform… she’s in trouble.
This individual needs to be administratively separated immediately. Although, even money that she is on the way out for being a fatty.
Ya, I am not sure yelling fuck the commander in chief while in uniform is going to go over well.
What y’all are missing is that any disciplinary action taken against her is just gonna be used as leftist fodder, as Trump will. no doubt, be responsible for it. Or, they’ll go easy on her, and get more of this in the future.
I’m not so sure. The military has had these rules for decades, as I understand it. They get enforced regardless of who is in office because it is important the military be viewed as apolitical.
She broke discipline, engaged in partisian politics while in uniform, and disrespected the uniform.
You can keep it all military without even mentioning Trump.
Bust her down a rank, give her weeds and seeds duties and call it a day.
She is an E-5. Gotta bust her two pay grades to picking weeds status.
Her defense will be that old timers have MAGA posters up in their bunks or offices I bet.
This!
It doesn’t matter that the rules have been in place for eons. What matters is OrangeManBad, and, since he’s in charge, and cry-baby got (will get) punished…the Venn diagram is a single circle, folks.
My takeaway? Fuck people who take vertical video! I had to zoom the page out like 4x to get it to all fit on the damn screen.
Blame the phone makers.
Republicans are no different than Democrats
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-gop-white-house-reach-tentative-1-trillion-pact-break-n1234663?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&utm_content=algorithm
“In addition, $30 billion would be doled out to colleges and universities — not to be tied to reopening, a Senate aide confirmed.”
$30 billion to the biggest scammers in the country
My eyes may actually roll out of my head if things keep up.
From a developer mailing list I’m on:
The proposer and all (?) of the the core devs are Euros; the proposal was enthusiastically backed.
Senator: What about chimpanzees?
Scientist: Um, what about them?
Senator: Can we change their color?
Scientist: Uh, wh-why?
Senator: Their fur, it’s black.
Scientist: Um, yeah, I guess it is. But I’m not sure what…
Senator: That seems pretty racist to me. I think we should change their color.
Scientist: What?
Senator: Well, it’s racist to say that black people look like monkeys, so we can’t have monkeys being black, because that’s racist.
Scientist: Chimpanzees aren’t monkeys.
Senator: But, we can change their color?
…..
Did you suggest using fuschia and puice instead?
FFS Are accountants next? Is being in the black or in the red racist too? I think we should do away with all words that describe a color. You don’t drive a black car you drive an Angus car. Your light green Audi is now cucumber. Your white Lexus is now dandruff.
The biggest riots yet will happen on Black Friday this year.
Angus Friday you fucking racist.
Mmmmm…..Angus Friday
They’re already giving chess the hairy eyeball, what with the “black” vs. “white” motif.
My chess board is Angus and Dandruff. I am woke AF!
A show with everything but Yul Brynner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0JzBIUOfZ8
Just….you already hate me anyway, so, why not.
That… that’s something.
Apparently CBP were among the Feds sent to Portland, under the pretext of “within 100 miles of the border”. I see better now why Rand, Nap, Cato, et al have criticized that action.
Paywalled: https://www.wsj.com/articles/say-it-aint-so-trader-joes-11595460483?mod=opinion_lead_pos3 At least they’re not unionized. In fact I once heard a long-term employee (formerly employed at another grocery chain) say she was glad no longer to be in one. “They took dues from my paycheck but I got nothing for it.”
Its one of the few things ACLU has been consistent on, the 100mile thing.
Mayors and Guvs do nothing about rioting.
Trump steps on his mushroom head and sends in Feds, or says he will.
Mayors, Guvs and DAs all step in their own mushroom heads and threaten to sue.
Trump pulls back and the cities still burn.
Instant political ads on how they all wanted national leadership and when Trump gave it to them they all wanted it gone.
Wonder if it will play out like that.
As far as I can tell, these cities have the mayors they want. I don’t get it. It seems self-defeating. But there isn’t some large group calling for their resignations.
Well, maybe this is the 36DD chess that Trump is known for or so I heard.
Honestly if he did what I wrote, it turns it back around in his favor.
Yes we went inti Portland because we are protecting blah blah….turns out they dont want it protected.
I want all citizens, regardless id your state or city does not, to know the Fed will at least attempt to protect your rights.
Sorry folks, your cities and states don’t want to protect you and they tied our hands.
Thank God for small Towns,
I heard your 3rd graf theorized, that Dem mayors and governors are willing to let their constituencies be leveled just so that Trump isn’t re-elected. Sinister if true.
Because the population is largely apathetic or sympathetic (or rather, the mayors appear sympathetic to the populace). Institutions and organizations are subverted or controlled outright. The media won’t play up any opposition except if it works for their interests. And there’s punishment for sticking up.
https://multco.us/file/57504/download
67k people in a Multnomah Co voted for Trump. Another 12k voted for Johnson.
I take your point about the MSM.
If the local populace is apathetic about what’s going on then they have to live with the results.
Learning the alphabet in the 21st century, A is for Apathy.
A is for Antifa
B is for Black-Lives-Matter
Anybody who pretends there should be more is ray’s-cyst
Maybe apathetic is a bit hard. Perhaps, just living their own lives and focusing on the stuff that’s important.
I made the mistake or calling out the number 1 and 2 players in our League for play tomorrow, I’m number 6, yikes!, I will be crushed but maybe learn something….
Getting “Freyed”.
https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1286152301619503104
Guess I could’ve gone with “SchadenFreyed”.
(Lord, forgive me)–we need a Passover in the US.
*checks lintels*
You want them rabbeted?
Could I get refresher on what I’m supposed to do?
Dab the blood of
lambscustomer service workers on your door posts./Lord, I apologize…
https://babylonbee.com/news/coronavirus-passes-over-houses-with-cfa-sauce
Babs, you magnificent sons a bitches….!
Spread mustache wax above your door, and Bolton’s stache will know to spare you because you aren’t a Persian.
You’re both going to suffer.
I’ll be in the break room…on my head.
^Much better application.^
Wait….
Speaking of, C–Persians that Bolton may kinda like.
/Paging Chafed
John Korea!? Bolton would hit the nuke button just hearing that!
LOL! I guess it is a bit ‘Northerly”
Hey hey. First born here. Let’s not be hasty.
Not that kind of Passover–just one that deals with socialists.
Ooh! I like it. Especially if it takes the form of eerie green fog spreading close to the ground, Hollywood eric style, as it reap its socialist harvest.
I know, right?!?
Saying good night, is like hospice, the slow slide til………………
Lay off Clive James’s recent poetry too.
Tycho at Penny Arcade is way too impressed by his own writing but occasionally he really lays down some quality:
That’s evocative.
It’s what-the-ever-loving-fuck is he talking about?
Cat shit. He’s talking about cat shit.
The joys of pet ownership.
When the cat gets old, it will be all about cat puke.
*living the dream*
You do know the drill.
How’d you end up with a doglet you dislike? What breed? Don’t answer if you don’t care to.
I’ll just stick with owning Blade Runner.
*Pfft*, you and everyone else, with your “director’s cut”. Let me know when you have a copy of the theatrical release.
I want Deckard talking, and, Ridley is a dumb-ass for messing with the fundamental concept of the story.
No, not the directors cut, that was trash, if you want to be a snob you have to have The Final Cut.
I want to see the Rich Evans cut of Blade Runner 2049
What’s the “Workprint”? Inherited a 5-disc Blu-Ray but haven’t watched any of it.
Meant to be a reply to Slumbrew.
Not aware of that for BR…but this has something for everyone! https://youtu.be/m2iqoedUzYs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workprint
A Workprint is the intermediary between a rough-cut and a final edit, no idea what it means in the case of blade runner. I’d guess an extra hour of unfinished FX shots and some other stuff Ridley had to
jerk-off tostroke his ego before the studio stepped in.Heh…I mean, Yes–what C says.
I’ll probably get hated on for saying this, but Tony was the better Scott brother, only because he never styled himself an artist like brother, he knew he was just making movies, not creating works of art.
Hmmm….I don’t hate that take/you, although I disagree if I stick to their respective bodies of work. But, I don’t disagree that Ridley has bought into his own hype. His “talent” has waned quite a bit as time and his ego go on.
“We’re makin’ a movie, not a film!”
I would never say Tony made better movies, but they weren’t stylistically inferior to what his brother made either. Ridley has fashioned himself as the progenitor of Iconic Sci-Fi that he didn’t even write. James Cameron fucking wrote and directed Aliens and Terminator. Ridley told a gifted DP where to point the camera while gifted people acted out scripts gifted people wrote.
Hmmm….I shall have to contemplate this. Off of the Tree of Woe, mind you (the weekend is coming up).
Other than that….story checks out.
Pretty good run there for Tony….oddly IMDB has him listed as producing things after he died. He must have been a Democrat!
Oh, no doubt (on both counts). I give him props for True and Last Boyscout (a personal fave).
I know I saw Revenge in the theater, but, it was quickly pushed out of the memory banks. BHC 2 and Top Gun are cool, and definitely have that style of his,
Per box: WP 110 min, 117 all other versions.
Here is the explanation on this workprint.
Yeah, I have the middle one in the photo.
Dang! Say–if you don’t want it….
Is it worth anything? Seems all intact. I hear great things about BR but not specifically why one ought to watch it. Still have never heard of an origami unicorn after all these decades.
I am not as cinematically well-versed as I’d like…
Well, to some, I’m sure. Collector types. If it’s been opened, there’s that factor that would probably bring the price down. Then again, movie collecting/memorabilia stuff can be difficult to gauge. Ebay might help determine that by how many are for sale and the asking price.
As far as “ought to’s”…not really one, other than curiosity/you like the genre/like cinema. It’s a good story, and beautifully designed, for how bleak it is. That said, it’s not perfect.
Not worth anything at all. Just ship it to Digby at cost.
Opened (QED). Don’t care about price, just want it to go to a good home if it excites anyone.
And it’s all Blu-Ray in the set?
Is what they tell me. Do you want right of first refusal?
I am interested….would you:
Take $50 + shipping cost?
let me pay next Thursday (the 30th)?
Go though Paypal? I figure it’s safest/quickest (that I know of)
Also–gotta ask…is the spinner model (weird looking car thing) still in your set?
I’ve got the DVD edition of that case. Will probably still pick up the Final Cut on blu-ray eventually.
Mayor Wheeler tonight.
https://i.imgflip.com/4951h4.jpg
Man, this is a hip crowd tonight!
Why is this hip crowded encircling me? Man, I must be really popular.
Your rendition of the Ethopian Shim-sham, man! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj0ASwl0WQE
Yeah, not the same scene, but….you know.
White Boyz isn’t a comedy anymore.
That guy was in Blackhawk Down, and I cannot see him in it without knowing he did White Boyz. It just stands out so much for me, and I can’t help it.
Good evening, late nighters.
I took a nap earlier so I have no idea when I will be dropping out of the comments.
For now, I’ll scroll through and try to catch up.
Thanks, Yufus, for the verses.
Rise and shine,
slerpysleepy head.Howdy, Sir Digby!!
I won’t have to rise and shine for a few more hours.
Now I’m hoping to type and lurk until slerp comes.
I promise not to be too interesting, then. ?
Still hypoxic?
Yep. I just did a nebulizer treatment, so I’m up to 94.
I’m probably going to have to go in, just to be put on amoxicillin and prednisone. It’s so predictable (and effective) is like to dispense with the trip in.
Because it’s a good song.
https://youtu.be/AJRvpXglB30
Also, I’m in love with Skeeter Davis right now. And Buddy Holly.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xHa6a3FtPJg
Skeeter sings Buddy Holly. Well Alright https://youtu.be/7CKXm4sNaWw
If you ever find yourself in Lubbock, spare some time for the Buddy Holly museum.
Great place. My favorite parts were his drawings and other items from his childhood.
I absolutely hope to find myself in Lubbock someday. I want to go to that museum.
Something that no one in Lubbock ever thought they’d hear. 😉
Texas Tech does some sweet engineering, so there’s that.
I could try to say something nice about their sports teams (The Red Raiders) but all I can come up with is that they are one of two Big 12 teams featuring a gun toting mascot.
Oh, yeah…. Love that fact about the mascot.
Their morale gesture is officially called “Guns up!”
Its clear that his hometown loved him.
He was taken far too soon.
Too Young to Die https://youtu.be/K6bPYE2oMtg
Too Young to Burn https://youtu.be/Un2xYzvAqhw
Too Young To Die.
Juicy with fruit today.
https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1286131226080927745
Fruits https://youtu.be/c-pQXW4nUBY
Yawn. She apparently thinks wealth is different in racially different hands. I’m sure that’ll work out well for her.
This whiney nitwits need to be educated about The Invisible Hans and the free market.
Employers aren’t going to eliminate women or people of color from the potential hiring pool. It’s just not In the employer’s interest.
Unless the groups who suffer under meritocracy make such a nuisance of themselves that they just aren’t worth the hassle.
And, she thinks giving power to people with guns and the backing of courts could, and would, only be pointed at people she doesn’t like. Cannot fathom it happening to people she likes.
That evil wypipo tricknology.
So let’s say the SJW Employment Fairness cops force every company to hire a woman and a transgender and a representative of each minority group.
That won’t breed awkwardness and resentment in the workplace, right?
Only in people who deserve it, and/or need to be taught a lesson.
A very big, bullshit lesson.
“Freedom of association is a myth perpetuated by raycis wypipo. You don’t have a right to be raycis”
I might have no right to be rayciss (a quibble for another time) but I can call people out on baseless assumptions and dishonesty.
I have the right to call a spade a spade.
What was done there was seen.
Spade-speaking of things that would be Cancelled now-a-days.
Citizen journalists…that phrase will take on new meaning as the media becomes even less about truth than it is now.
We will believe only what we see ourselves or hear from a personally trusted individual.
I don’t not trust Fleccas….
I was just passively watching…then John Lajoy with Cuomo’s face shittily pasted…..LOLOLOLOL
Right??
Hamm’s doesn’t delivery as good a drunk as my Red Dog. I blame ‘Clear Blue Waters’, clearly racist as fuck.
Define “as good”…not quickly enough? Hangover? cost/drunk ratio?
It just doesn’t feel fun. You know, it’s just different. Like how whiskey makes you horny but limps your dick, or vodka makes you wake up in strange places, or wine makes you hit on your cousin. It’s just not as fun.
I dunno….I would probably have fun hitting on your cousin. She’s hot, right?
A couple of them are, but people look at me weird when I tell them that.
Well, I can’t see you, so, you’re safe here. 😉
Wait…save that wink for the hot cousins.
Since you’re my bestest friend you shouldn’t care about them, but I got a gal cousin who looks like me in drag, she’s the one you’d really get hard for.
This the greatest phrase ever uttered/written on this site, and that includes all animation, SF stories, and, YT linkage.
Haha!
One of our little gang in high school had a younger sister who looked exactly like him only with boobs and long hair. We used to joke about how it would be really weird to bang her because she has a really nice figure but a face exactly like her brother.
And wouldn’t ya know it, someone ended up banging her anyway (not me – I couldn’t get past the resemblance).
Beer https://youtu.be/3FJ7g8O7kww
I have to wear a stupid fucking mask at work. I brought it in so I could wash it. Did my load my of laundry and got pissed off the mask wasn’t in there. Look over and I guess I thought to throw it in the wash. Another week of breathing in whatever shit was in there. Such health, such brave.
Need to wash my Bane mask. And, maybe order a glibs mask….gotta ponder that.
Pic: http://imgur.com/a/mJrvlew
That’s the stupid Nolan Scottish Bane doing a German guy doing a Scottish accent Bane. Lame. Bane was from the Caribbean. KKKKKKKKKKKKKKultural Appropriation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111
Wait….is Tom originally from Scotland?? In any event, I kinda like that version. I get it’s not even close to canon, but I can still dig it. Plus, it wouldn’t be difficult to re-dub him. And, it can be fun to do the voice, from time to time.
No, he’s not. He’s from London. That’s what makes it even worse that his Bane sounded like he was translating it like Sean Connery doing a German doing a Scottish accent. It just made no sense.
Ah! Sort of like Connery in Highlander…Egyptian, but with a Spanish name, and Scottish accent.
Exactly!
I have a washable mask for the usual public space requirements here. I’ve had it, what?, 3 or 4 weeks? I may have worn it a total of a few hours.
But since I don’t cough, sneeze, or blow my nose into it I don’t really see the reason to wash it yet. It’s not like underwear or socks – I don’t think of my mouth and nose as particularly dirty.
I have to wear it for all 8hrs (except when I leave the building on break) WHILE social distancing from the other person I’m working with in a sealed room.
Damn! I just have to wear it entering and leaving the building. I probably am supposed to wear it when trekking to the bathroom, but…eh.
But, I don’t have to wear it inside the PD. Your bosses are
playing the charadetough!And you know , I’m supposed to enforce all the rules on erbody else. I give everyone a 5 minute window. So far I havn’t had to make a call regarding this stupidity using that rule.
Given the nature of the business, it’s ironic they don’t want customers taking chances.
Ha! We haven’t been given a clear directive on which of these rules we’re supposed to enforce or on whom, so I use the broadest brush. Others in my dept and other depts are writing up all kinds of people for not wearing masks, even while I see they themselves aren’t wearing them properly according to ‘the rules’. some people just love to power trip.
Damn if that isn’t true. Either that, or, they’re doing to Golden Path thing where they think ratcheting down hard will spur an uprising and/or a realization in management.
“You wanted these rules, deal with the consequences.”
No hidden agenda as far as I can see. Security writing up other staff for not wearing they mask when they come in the building while those same security folks will sit in the same room with 3-4 other security folks with their mask down. Their the brave heroes, enforcing the rules, donchaknow.
I find it fun to watch the rather high number of people who wear their masks, in stores, with it pulled under their nose. I have no idea if ignorant, defiant, uncomfortable, or what….but, funny, nonetheless.
In general I agree. But when it’s my job weather or not to sic security on you, just don’t do it too long, or I might get in trouble for not being an ass.
“We have an anti-ass policy. See, we cannot have security people being anti-ass, so we had to develop a policy with some teeth, you know. Show were serious about our security. If you don’t get in line, we’ll have to sicc security on y-….Wait.”
Speaking of security asses, there was another cute security girl who I thought about hitting, but turns out she’s not even 20…I’ll put this here.
You shouldn’t be hitting women regardless of their age.
Mine is just for when I’m in public spaces – shopping or riding the train. I have one gig where I am at their office for an hour or two once or twice a week. The main guy there basically never wears a mask (he lives close enough to his office to walk, never rides the train anywhere) so they don’t care if I don’t wear it in their office.
WildC.A.T.S!
So, I finished off the Hamms, now drinking some more High Life. Fuck Carona for messing with my Red Dog fix!
Is it a brewery problem, a shipping problem, or, did someone just forget to order it…?
Asked at my local store and they said it wasn’t discontinued, but since it’s not a high volume seller production has been halted from covid. Third hand information at best.
You can see a million miles, but you can’t get very far…sounds like you’ll have to up your expenditure on RD. Either that, or get whatever bullshit license the state requires to sell alcohol, and get the distributor to ship directly to you.
That’s what I said!
? Skål!!
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/man-discharged-from-hospital-after-battling-covid-19-for-nearly-100-days/article_818e8f7e-cc6a-11ea-9195-23b40cd29f54.html
I didn’t know the Lakers health plan was so bad.
Hrumph! Faggy poems. I’m sashaying away!
Prance! you’re prancing!
Mincing.
^^^ !
*pliés & relevés*
En pointe. With a little kick at the end.
Hawt
I know my audience.
Morning Glibs.
Morning, UCS.
Mornin’ USC, GT.
Mornin’, TH.
This is like a Reverse Walton.
Heh. My mind drifted to this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0xsLXuUEqbI
Considering the state of things, I believe it’s more apt.
Nice. We may need to round out our Looney Tunes collection on disc before they all get canceled. Already have all of Rocky & Bullwinkle and Flying Circus. #CulturalPrepping
Is that like “I’m gonna kill you in your sleep, John-Boy and burn this shack to the ground”?
A Reverse Walton sounds like a 90s wrestling move.
No, a Reverse Walton is “The Aristocrats”!
Mornin’ y’all.
Mornin, Sean.
Apparently no live ammo last night like Wheeler’s baseless tweet, but the idiot has waded further into the tar pit.
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/07/portland-protest-momentum-continues-wednesday-for-56th-day-live-updates.html
He’s so brave to get tear gassed. And with his security detail too. Tonight he can get arrested as his next stunt.
Good morning, GL.
Those poor innocent protestors haven’t done ANYTHING. Whyforcome those nasty Feds be such big ol’ meanies??
Good morning!
Mornin’….I’m off to work. Have fun, all.
Off to work… sounds wonderful.
I walked from the bedroom to the computer room. Does that count?
No. At the very least detour past the bathroom and kitchen.
That would make for a very strange commute. The computer room and bedroom are right next to each other.
Besides I had to be online early due to a change I made last night to fix a very critical problem. I asked the group to confirm there were no issues with the change when they started at 07:00 Eastern. No e-mails or calls yet. They weren’t going to be able to test the fix until a second person came on shift… which should be any minute now. I figure I give them another 5 minutes or so before firing off an e-mail.
It’s not my fault you didn’t wake up in time to go throguh a proper morning routine of hygene and breakfast before you needed to be at work for my normal start time.
/still waiting on other meeting participants to arrive
UCS: I generally skip breakfast. I was hoping for an all clear message so I could go jump in the shower real quick.
“Federal Courthouse”. Sorry, Wheeler, you have no power to stop them protecting that property.
‘C’mon fellow kids! The mayor sucks, let’s egg his house! I know where it is! Which is no where near mine!’
So we had a little security theater with HR this week. Had to watch some safety videos about the Yellow Peril. It was VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION that has been circulating in meat-space since March. The HR guy lost my Email so panicked texts began last week, culminating in me sitting stone-faced for about five minutes and then having to confirm that yes, I have been fully indoctrinated and now you can leave me the fuck alone for another three months. Fucking multi-national, one size fits all bullshit. It wasn’t the banal content that pissed me off so much as being ordered to watch it. I felt like responding “Or what?”
By the same token we haven’t gotten any instruction on “How to be Woke” yet so it’s a mixed blessing. I’d imagine that the Company knowing that the bulk of its employees hail from Third World shit-holes won’t have any truck with that nonsense…
Fortunately, way back in March during the one and only week that almost everyone worked from home – including me – all I could really do was finish plowing through my required online training courses, hardly any of which have anything to do with my day-to-day activities. I hope this training module vendor doesn’t come up with any “woke” crap I’ll have to suffer through next year.
To be vague about my job, part of it is making sure other departments follow all the rules. First shift and second shift got an in person briefing. We on third shift got a powerpoint that said nothing more than all the bullshit we heard third hand the whole time we were shut down.
Yellow peril? And Morning all!
I named Covid that some months ago but it never caught on. I blame the dearth of “white slavers” since the 1930’s and not my ham-handed attempt at humor. Mornin’ all!
Good… ::consults online time zone map::…evening, straff.
It’s so fun to log in and find that the batch server fell off the network last night, so none of the jobs ran overnight.
It’s this stupid software firewall product the state bought because of a long gone political appointee.
There’s a reason the saying ‘Good enough for government work’ exists.
It’s not good enough for that.
The fact that it is the state of of things suggests otherwise.
It’s not good enough.
No one left wants it.
Again, the fact that it is the way it is suggests otherwise.
Here’s where you’re wrong, still.
Something can be in place, not good enough, reviled by everyone, and still take years to remove because of inertia.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
No you haven’t.
Now put the bag of fortune cookies away.
That was Canadian, not Chinese.
And yes you have, you have decided the problem isnt a high enough priority to deal with yet.
Wrong.
We’ve discovered that we’re not in a position to beat the crap out of the accountants who are penny wise and pound foolish.
Still my favorite Rush album for sentimental reasons. Saw the tour in 1980!
The collective you includes the accountants.
So far, my “favorite” Ohio state government scandal has been “Coingate,” wherein a big chunk of the state’s workers’ comp fund was invested in rare coins…some of which turned up missing. Of course, now we’ll have to see if the latest and greatest kerfuffle, which so far has had our statehouse Speaker busted by the Feds, turns out to be even more “interesting.”
Never let politicians handle money, any kind of money.
As oft said, that’s like giving beer and car keys to teenage boys.
If we stopped doing that we wouldn’t have the Allamakee County Chronicles and Festus’ Yarns. We can’t have that!
We’re a living, breathing banana republic up here. The federal finance minister who agreed to let a private “non-profit” administer Covid relief funds to students just now paid back $40 thousand in travel expenses to the same outfit that was vying for the contract on the same day that he was set to testify before a Commons hearing. The contract is worth upward of a Billion. The charity would have netted 43 Million. His daughter works for said charity in an administrative role. The same outfit that has paid our Prime Minister’s family members hundreds of thousands of dollars for speaking engagements.
Up here in CLE on top of the rename the Indians push is now a big push to rename the Browns stadium from FirstEnergy Stadium to something else. Never mind that most people still call it the Muni, and that Progressive Field is still referred to as the Jake.
All of that renaming shit is happening up here with blinding speed and anyone that nay says is being labelled “racist”.
“Disappear” anyone who accuses people of being racist for not wanting to change names of things over bullshit made up reasons.
Is FirstEnergy somehow offensive?
It’s clearly a relic of capitalism.
They’re the company that was involved in the bribery scandal that got the Never-Trumper/Head of the OH Republicans arrested the other day.
Juicy! I’ll put on the kettle.
I’m watching those Portland & Seattle riot videos. Tell me again how deadly this virus is and why we’ve shutdown legitimate businesses.
You’re only almost guaranteed to survive unless you’re a walking comorbidity.
he virus only kills Republicans, because they don’t wear talismasks and pr don’t have woke shields to protect them.
It’s all so transparent. A charade. “We have to burn civilization to the ground in order to save it!” It is the most diabolical plot that I’ve witnessed in my fifty-odd years on this planet.
Wow. Sometimes I joke about it, but we’ve actually hit 100% humidity here.
We’re at 90% here, with expected rain today.
I got lucky yesterday. Had some guys installing a new furnace, and it was mild enough the lack of A/C wasn’t too much of a burden. Likewise the brief time testing the new furnace. On a conference call yesterday (discussing a fairly large change that’s starting tonight) I apologized for the noise as they were doing duct work. Several of the people were asking why I was getting my furnace replaced in July.
“Because I don’t need it now, and would rather replace it before it becomes a critical issue in the winter.”
How are your swimming skills?
We hit 100% in SC almost every morning, until the temp gets above the dew point.