Good morning my Glib and Gliberinas and what an absolutely beautiful day it is! I’m alive and healthy, my husband and children are all alive and healthy, I have a roof over my head, a kitchen full of food and live in a time period that is full of technological wonder. 2020 is nearly over and people strangely act as though tomorrow will be magically different. It will not, your problems will not magically disappear due to an arbitrary change in time, so get off your ass and conquer your own problems. It is a beautiful day to do so.
Senate deadlocks on $2k checks as GOP demands Section 230 repeal and an election review.
A witness claims he hacked into Georgia runoff election system.
Senator Hawley pledges to object to election certification on January 6th.
Trump campaign wants to air evidence to Americans before Congress certifies election.
Distilleries facing $14k FDA fees for helping with Covid effort by making hand sanitizer.
Man tased by park ranger for stepping off the walking trail at a national park.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
Screw the Repubs. Fund the goddam giveaway by cutting spending. The Romans tried circuses with their bread, and look how that turned out. Pointless kabuki is pointless.
They didn’t try cornbread though.
On topic; well done, mate!
People that don’t like cornbread are going to hell…
It’s the biggest area where the GOP sucks just as bad as the Dems… they both think that the debt will never catch up to them.
That’s the reason that we are here. Oblong pegs don’t fit well. Mornin’ Trash!
I identify as a dodecahedron.
Square pegs, square pegs, always never quite right ?
Hey T!
G’night, F! Courage and faith.
Man, oh man I’ve been hunting that show for years. It’s one of those White Elephants like Sam Waterson’s Q.E.D. or Bruce Boxleitner’s Frank Buck: Bring ‘Em Back Alive that nobody seems to have ripped yet (or perhaps have never been released on VHS/DVD). Sigh…
Square Pegs? or something else? There was a SP DVD released a dozen years ago; is it OOP?
Actually they believe that when the shit hits the fan they will be in charge and thus remain unaffected by fiat…
Best selling author and tentacle porn enthusiast, Kurt Eichenwald had the feels on Twitter last night:
https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/1344495022301917184
I have a comical image of Kurt Raining down blows on some guy while the guy giggles hysterically.
So sad that a statement of intent to kill might be taken that way, but that’s where we are.
Your terms are acceptable, Kurt.
Indeed. There’s not much funnier than a little bitch pretending to be a tough guy.
“impotence signalling.”
Limber-dicked cocksuckers.
I guess that sometimes you get desperate enough to try anything, even tentacles. NTTAWWT…
“Pillow Fight!”
Makes me think of a guy I went to high school with whose go-to fighting tactic was to back towards his opponent wildly flailing his arms behind him.
If they both turtle, who wins? My ancient cats do this.
Whoever starts laughing first loses.
In my home it’s usually the one that pees on the carpet but I like your version better.
The recommended tweets that came up when I pulled up this tweet included a tweet by another tuff gai, Don Widslow. “Who is that?” you ask. Well he seems to be an author of some sort, he is threatening to stop tweeting inane propaganda at Trump and to shift the focus of his scary red and white worded videos to Cocaine Mitch.
I am sure that the senate majority leader is very concerned that generic thriller author #45232 is tweeting mean things about him.
The inevitable happened and Twitter binned the Tweet. For those curious, Kurt threatened to “beat to death” anti-maskers. Apparently that sort of thing violates Twitter’s terms of service.
That is a bit of a surprise, Twitter has been known to let threats of violence slide if the threat originates from an individual with a particular political persuasion.
He blocked me long ago
Tweet deleted for disobeying Mommy Twitter.
Here’s the screencap:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eqi3l0mUYAEsORK?format=jpg&name=medium
535 likes when capped
Top of da mornin to ye misfits!
Am I late to the party regarding the Supreme Court overturning the lower courts trying to force including illegal aliens in congressional apportionment?
I thought they were already included and the courts shot down Orange on this. I can’t keep up.
Reading the per curiam decision, it looks like the court punted, but the result is that the original executive order resumes.
So… another census is coming…?!
It wasn’t the citizenship question case, a different one regarding apportionment based upon records of known illegal alien counts.
“looks like the court punted”
*insert shocked face*
“Blindly borrowing or printing another two-thirds of a trillion dollars so we can send $2,000 to children, the deceased, and tens of millions of workers who haven’t missed a paycheck, like federal and state employees, is not sound economic policy nor is it something I am willing to support,” Sen. Toomey (R-Pa.) said in a statement Wednesday.
Economics has nothing to do with it.
I think that guy is a complete asshoe, so it surprises me when he comes out with a statement like that.
It’s always amazing to see Republicans all of a sudden become fiscal hawks the second a Democrat is elected President. Fuck ’em.
Besides, I will never once complain that the government is giving me my own money back. It’s mine. They stole it from me.
Check was in the mail! What a surprise, to see the IRS remembers me. Just like downtown.
They must have thought I was already dead.
Mornin’ Banjos! Bears are very human-like. They do stupid shit just because it feels good in the moment. Sort of like the “Florida Man” of the animal kingdom.
I remember those late nights at the bar. Wake up in the morning, thinking I must have done that bear trick.
Much easier to balance with your face and knees giving you five points of balance. Or my face and knees.
You don’t come out here for the hunting, do you?
Good for you, Banjos, to remember the important things in life. Kids and family are the most important and good that there are no health issues.
Now all we have to worry about is our elected and the mischief they do every day.
Alfred E. Neuman. Why worry about it, it’s happening and your fretfulness will remain unrecorded in the Great Ledger. You know what I regret? Not telling my ex to fuck off and golfing and fishing more. There are many more regrets but they can be saved for a different tale. The End.
No one ever died wishing they’d fished less. The biggest regret for me was not solving the problem sooner or not making the mistake to start with.
I think that guy is a complete asshoe, so it surprises me when he comes out with a statement like that.
Purely a diversionary tactic.
Good Morning Banjos.
That was a great reminder it could be worse in so many ways.
Have a great day.
There are people out there expressing surprise that everybody in the country has not been given the magic pixie potion yet.
Must be Trump’s fault.
Speaking of the upcoming “Paper, please” regime…
I wonder who Cuomo knows in the ‘vid testing biz.
Alright, who’s gonna be making and selling the fake covid licenses?
Oo! OOOO! We could make them kind of cool liking and unique. Maybe a star? With six points?
I already linked this here last week, but in case you missed it…
Quantum Dots Encode Vaccine History in the Skin
https://www.google.com/amp/s/spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/imaging/quantum-dots-encode-vaccine-history-in-skin.amp.html
This seems like something this crowd would like. Look away Swiss.
https://mobile.twitter.com/punhubonline
Not groan-worthy enough. This place does them far better.
I don’t Twitter, so I will just go ahead and
*narrows gaze*
It’s grandstanding sociopaths, all the way down
“I simply want to get our great people $2000, rather than the measly $600 that is now in the bill,” Trump tweeted Saturday from Palm Beach, Florida, where he is spending the holiday. “Also, stop the billions of dollars in ‘pork.’”
President-elect Joe Biden called on Trump to sign the bill immediately as two federal programs providing unemployment aid were set to expire Saturday.
“It is the day after Christmas, and millions of families don’t know if they’ll be able to make ends meet because of President Donald Trump’s refusal to sign an economic relief bill approved by Congress with an overwhelming and bipartisan majority,” Biden said in a statement. He accused Trump of an “abdication of responsibility” that has “devastating consequences.”
“I’ve been talking to people who are scared they’re going to be kicked out from their homes, during the Christmas holidays, and still might be if we don’t sign this bill,” said Rep. Debbie Dingell, a Michigan Democrat.
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“All these folks and their families will suffer if Trump doesn’t sign the damn bill,” Heidi Shierholz, director of policy at the liberal Economic Policy Institute, tweeted Wednesday.
Another one of those AP sermons mislabeled as “news”.
One man’s pork is another man’s beef
/one man’s pork is another man’s wife
I’d really like to think if people thought about it honestly “Hey — would you like the government to steal $50000+ from your great-grandkids’ generation and kick back $2k to you (and a bunch of people that never missed a paycheck)?” they’d push back on the whole idea.
But I’m frankly deeply disappointed in humanity in general and America in particular this year. And while I do focus on family, part of that is really worrying what kind of world my son is going to have to deal with.
Someone start a good pun thread or something! 😉
Did you hear about the guy that had 5 dicks?
His pants fit like a glove.
I larfed… thanks!
*Mildly narrowed gaze*
High praise… high praise indeed!
That gaze seems just a bit flaccid.
He was also the father of your country! 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7iVsdRbhnc
(odd coincidence that I had watched that again just yesterday)
Most gloves don’t have seven fingers.
Yeah SDF, feeling the same way, my life has turned out great and i’ll be fine no matter what happens, its my thre young daughters that im worried about. Theyre healthy thank god but not sure what type of country they will be becoming adults in. Scary.
Novel idea: Let the economy open. Perhaps even let it open to a more free condition than it was in before.
It wouldn’t need a blue ribbon panel or a new federal office. Just rescind all COVID-19 orders, sit back, and watch.
I hate articles like this: https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/20-home-renovations-hurt-home-190000557.html
Always comes across as you shouldn’t make your home yours, because you’re just living there temporarily until the real owners show up. I had enough of that when renting. I love my raspberry pink bathroom and my purple dining room with the mirrors and everyone else can fuck off.
“raspberry pink bathroom and my purple dining room”
Combine then and you have a shade called “Pepto Dismal”
*golf clap*
“It’s the biggest investment you’ll ever make”
I’m with you, Tulip. Ain’t nobody’s business but my own. I’m made lots of bad “investments” but this one I can live in rent free.
I fucking hate this modern mis-definition of ‘investment’ as ‘something you spend a bunch of money on.’
My home isn’t an investment. Investments are rental properties that produce income. My home is where I live.
?
When I bought my house, the back bedroom had a hot pink wall. It took two coats of primer and one of paint to cover that up, but it had zero impact on my decision or bid.
In fact, from the looks of the two before that garbage site wants me to ‘click to continue story’, presumably to drive up view counts for ad rates, there is nothing listed that can’t be easily reversed.
You bought the aforementioned shag-carpet house?https://www.realtor.com/news/unique-homes/70s-time-capsule-fort-wayne-viral-sensation/
How the fuck would you keep that clean?
Also, capet in the kitchen and bathroom sounds like a recipe for mold.
My house in Tulsa had carpteing in every room. Mold was not an issue mainly because Oklahoma is not on the coast, but undoubtedly synthetic fiber played a part as well.
And having a neat-freak mother who was always making us vacuum everything too.
Agreed. When we repainted much of out downstairs, we picked colors we liked that would be different with zero thought given to how it affects resale.
Paint it the way you want to live in it, and repaint it for resale.
This is not hard.
I fight with my wife about this.
Me: “What’s the first thing we’ve done with every house we’ve owned?”
Her: “Paint the inside”
Me: “Exactly, so why would we worry about what color our walls are or how much paint it needs?”
Her: “But you have to paint it to get maximum value”
Which goes into an extended discussion about whether paint has ever closed a house sale fast enough or changed a buy price enough to be worth the time and money spent painting it for sale.
“Which goes into an extended discussion about whether paint has ever closed a house sale fast enough or changed a buy price enough to be worth the time and money spent painting it for sale.”
Yes. GOD YES.
People are REALLY fucking dumb. I’ve seen women, yes, I’m singling out a sex here, say ‘I don’t like the color’ and turn around and walk away from a house that checks all of the boxes they asked for. Just because you can see past the tip of your nose, doesn’t mean everyone else can.
I was skeptical of our real estate seller telling us we really needed to stage the house with furniture in order to sell it quickly at the best possible price.
I figured that people could envision their own furniture in the empty, repainted house.
I was wrong. I caved after a month, paid for the “staging”, and it was sold within a week.
People are in fact that unimaginative.
Betting on the average human being an NPC is usually profitable.
Relevant
Property tax rates are based on the value of the home, right? Seems like if you’re going to stay a while you might want it low, or at least to seem that way to appraisers.
She’s right. It’s amazing what a difference a clean coat of paint (and other such simple improvements) can do for a house sale, for several reasons.
First, like Cy said, many people are really dumb about this stuff, make snap decisions that they don’t like the house because of some tiny fixable thing, and that’s that.
Second, even if they aren’t prone to doing that, they still have a little calculator in their head that is adding a cost in both time and money for everything they see that looks wrong. It doesn’t matter if they’re going to do it anyway, the calculator ticks away regardless.
Third, people need to imagine themselves living in a place in order to desire it, and presenting a “clean canvas” allows them to more easily do this.
we have, in the past, kept the ugly paint colors and worked with them because the time frame didn’t allow us to paint before we moved in. By the time we were able to paint, we had so much stuff in the room that we didn’t bother to paint it.
Also, the clean canvas effect is real. People arent digging in the cabinets and looking at the model numbers of the appliances and stuff. Fresh bright paint in neutral colors, fresh flooring, newly painted cabinets, and freshly caulked bathtubs are cheap ways to make the house sell faster. The biggest improvement, though, is to rent a storage locker and jam 80% of your stuff in there.
When we rented our old house, my wife wanted to keep the bright orange-mustard paint in one room.
The realtor and I prevailed on painting it a pale grey, same as the rest of the house. Because we didn’t want the house to sit a week or two longer unrented.
Renting is a bit different from buying, paint-wise, because people can’t change it if they want to. And I personally am done with DIY, so I wouldn’t raise a finger to paint even if I hated it.
Aside: I’ve been looking for places to rent and the reno’d ones are all full of the latest trendy fashions, which I don’t like. The houses for sale that have been reno’d are even worse, and they are listed at astronomical prices. No, I don’t like barn doors.
I did my bedroom in “Honorable Blue,”
Nice!
Thanks!
There’s only one room in the house that I’m not trilled with the color, but that’s the room I let the daughter of my most frequent visitor choose since she stays there more often than anyone else.
trilled with the color
Dude it is too early in the day to be doing any drug that lets you hear colors.
First rule in negotiations is never admit you like the product. Second rule is to remember the first. Use the cosmetics as a bargaining chip. If you are the seller leave room in the price to give a kick back for the carpeting, clean up, etc.
First rule in negotiations is never admit you like the product.
These days, it’s actually sometimes worth admitting you like the house. When they have 4 competing asking price offers, they need something to differentiate the offers, and admitting to liking the house increases the likelihood of the sale going through without any major adjustments.
https://tomwoods.com/ep-1802-jeff-deist-on-the-2020-fiasco-and-whether-theres-a-case-for-hope/
This interview is (insert multiple fire emojis here). The head of the Mises Institute with a hilariously incisive description of Biden and some economic predictions and whatnot.
I love my raspberry pink bathroom and my purple dining room with the mirrors and everyone else can fuck off.
*backs away*
And my fluffy hanging feather lamp.
*slowly backs away*
Do you own a Basket Chair?
Eww! No
I used to be fond of that tune but the Classic Rock station that they use at work has been playing it nightly for 8 fucking years. If I never hear it or ANY Bon Jovi or ACDC or Springsteen or BTO or Def Leppard or Bryan Adams or Colin James or Barenaked Ladies or Reo Speedwagon or Triumph or Heart or Journey I will die a subtly happy man. Don’t get me started on Can-Con.
Sorry for the negative vibes, Banjos. Last night and indeed the last month and year have been very trying, physically as well as psychologically. I’ll try to “Be Better”!
I beg your pardon?
It’s the big convention for Canadian Cosplayers and fandom. People dress up like mounties, serve radio bars, and the furry floor is infested with beavers and moose.
In Canada, we have something called ‘Canadian Content’ rules. That is, you need to play a certain percentage of Canadian music on air. Or broadcasting has to have an x-percentage of ‘Canadian content’. In the CFL, teams have to ensure spots for Canadians on their roster or else the majority of it goes to U.S. college players.
In other words, lame ass bull shit.
It only dilutes Canadian ‘content’ And with it, culture.
They claim Can-Con is what produced the greatest stars like Morrissette, Beiber, Twain, Adams, Dion, BNL, Buble etc. But it’s BS. They’d likely make it without Can-Con.
Rush, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and The Band didn’t need no Can-Con.
Thanks to the Ontario Arts Council which has subsidized many of my clients’ 26 book projects.
one of my client’s*
Is that good for you?
Quite. She couldn’t afford me without her grants.
But if she’s paying you in recycled loonies and toonies, where are you going to get real money?
Paypal is very good about exchanging fake money for real money.
Are we done?
Where do they find real money?
As soon as I hit post I realized what I’d said.
*sigh*
Nobody got it.
FWIW, Can-con gave me some of my favorite bands when I lived within earshot of CFNY.
Will you be here all week?
I got it, but I was working.
Me too. I was over in you tube and scrolled down to find Rhywun had already posted.
I had no idea Mark Twain was Canadian.
His sister Shania is.
“…or Bryan Adams or…”
America is still waiting on Canada to apologize for that mess.
“The Canadian government has apologized for Bryan Adams on several occasions.”
So you’re saying, It cuts like a knife…. but it feels so right?
Ditto on the chewed-gum rock, F. I liked this Bon Jovi song as a lass though. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s86K-p089R8
Antidote to crankiness: Gilbert Gottfried’s recentest podcast on A Charlie Brown Christmas with CMS’s son and biographer.
One of those is not classic rock…
(Actually a couple, but one is not even classic)
It’s democracy when we do it
From messaging potential voters on dating apps to helping pay for Uber rides to the polls, young people across the country are playing a role in the Georgia Senate runoff elections from afar, and they’re getting creative with digital techniques while doing so.
Youth turnout was high across the country on Election Day and national organizers are hoping to re-energize young voters ahead of the crucial Georgia elections that will determine which party controls the US Senate.
Students, influencers and celebrities got to work as soon as they realized both of Georgia’s Senate seats were heading to runoffs on January 5, as no candidate won more than 50% of the vote in November.
With just five days to go until the contests, young people across the country continue to contact voters in Georgia.
Dark money and out of state interlopers don’t seem to bother CNN as much as they used to.
City of Ottawa makes masks mandatory for non-skaters at municipal outdoor rinks
LOL. No.
So everyone gets to open carry?
fluffy hanging feather lamp.
Ooh.
those within 15 metres of the ice’s edge
I hear you can get the plague from handling frozen sea food packages.
Stay away from the Zamboni!
“Good morning my Glib and Gliberinas and what an absolutely beautiful day it is! I’m alive and healthy, my husband and children are all alive and healthy, I have a roof over my head, a kitchen full of food and live in a time period that is full of technological wonder.”
Lookit Miss Navajo over here, all Walking in Beauty.
NPR couldn’t help taking a shot at McConnell for killing the giveback. But they imediately followed it with a much longer story about how only Top Men should be entrusted with tax munnies since they know about multipliers and you peasants would just waste the government’s precious gift.
I tried to tune in NPR yesterday for the first time in weeks.
Unsurprisingly, they were taking a larger issue and making it all about race for the bazillionth time.
I immediately changed stations.
It’s been funny watching the media try to decide how to present the 2k checks. Pelosi and Biden support giving 2k so it’s good. But Trump supports it so it must be bad. They usually end up threading the needle by saying Pelosi and Biden support it for good and holy reasons while Trump is only supporting it to destroy the country. Talk about cognitive dissonance.
The WSJ main page… which has lurched to the left of the NYT… decided to just go all out on Trump and ran article about why giving Americans back more of their money would be bad. No, it’s not a fiscal responsibility argument. Similar to NPR, that money would be wasted on the proles and should be used to bailout blue states instead.
Well, at a glance- here’s my thoughts. As a nation we’re $20+ trillion in debt, all of the money the federal (and state) gov’t get is from taxes. Government doesnt create wealth; no- you DID build that. So giving $2K back to 230M americans, that you already took from them, is likely a bad fiscal policy since you misspent it all in the 1st place, and it doesnt exist. But it makes people feel good.
*rolls Franklin, snorts line*
Make it rain, bitches.
Brett’s Suggestion: Exempt an extra $2000 of 2021 income tax liability. Which according to my tax table would be no taxes on the first $18320 for individuals and $36640 for couples above the standard deduction. Add $2000 tax credit for each dependent. That would basically ensure that no one who made less than $50K/person — which would cover a lot of people on unemployment due to COVID would pay income taxes in 2020.
But the government would never let you just keep that money. You’d start thinking of it as yours.
Also, if they could just do that before I have to write the check for my quarterlies on the 15th….
While i wholeheartedly endorse your idea ( I liked the idea of Forgiving the Income Tax completely this year, back in March when they started all this), I can see that if the point is to help the unemployed because of the governors mandates, exempting them from paying tax on income that they don’t have because they legally cannot work, is not going to help them.
And congress wouldn’t be able to add trillions in spending by exempting the income tax.
State unemployment benefits are taxable income to the IRS. If you don’t know that, my phrasing might make less sense.
I did not know that… That is some bullshit.
In other annals of Bullshit, Utah is one of the few states that will tax your SS Benefits
You forgot MN.
Ah, that’s a golden oldie. I remember hearing that shit from Bill Clinton when I was a youngster, talking about how the surplus really needed to stay with government because you dumb proles will just waste it.
Tommy Dorfman, an Atlanta native and 28-year-old actor who starred in “13 Reasons Why,” has encouraged their 1.4 million Instagram followers to get involved in and pay attention to the Georgia runoff elections.
“This election in particular feels extremely personal to me because I am a trans person from Georgia,” Dorfman, who went to the same K-12 school as Ossoff but now lives on the West Coast, told CNN.
Although Dorfman did not travel home to Georgia ahead of the elections because of the Covid-19 pandemic, they emphasized the role they continue to play from afar and encourage their followers — most of whom are between the ages of 12-25 — to do the same.
They is a modern day hero. Put they’s statue in the Capitol, in place of Robert E Lee.
Don’t joke about that… They’ll actually do it
They was many brave, such wise. Fuck. Can this year be over yet? It’s been Chinese water torture from beginning to end.
The answer is no, and there are a lot of people who are hoping beyond hope that things will be better starting tomorrow. It’s a recipe for another round of collective depression. Only, next year won’t be the worst ever because the media has their darling in office.
Encouraging people to vote for a specific half of the corrupt warmonger establishment is the cool, woke thing to do because, um, reasons.
Considering the inroads the DNC has made in the upper levels of the movie business I wonder if this stuff is just a cynical ploy to raise an actor’s profile to be noticed by the sort of person who is a bigshot producer / Obama bundler / serial rapist.
They usually end up threading the needle by saying Pelosi and Biden support it for good and holy reasons while Trump is only supporting it to destroy the country. Talk about cognitive dissonance.
He’s just doing it to make them look bad.
Not The Bee
I actually snapped off at a fast-food worker last night after waiting in line for 15 minutes and he fucked my order. Here is a representation of me now https://youtu.be/O50uMRsTd78 That ain’t me. That’s not how I roll. Fuck this year.
“he fucked my order”
How’d you know, did the mayo smell bleachy?
“Double baco cheeseburger. It’s for a cop.”
“That look like spit to you?”
+1 Falling Down
The customer is always right.
There was a brouhaha in the local news this week about some evil selfish malefactor fraudulently obtaining one of the vaccines and then giving it to unauthorized tax cattle.
Link is not directly related.
https://nypost.com/2020/12/28/addicts-in-rehab-next-to-get-covid-19-vaccine-cuomo-says/
“Dawn Wells dead”
Well God rest her soul. Few looked better than Mary Ann in a pair of short shorts back in the day. Gilligan really should have tapped that instead of knocking himself unconscious on a coconut tree every time she tried to kiss him.
I’m sure it will happen when HBO does the remake of Gilligan’s Island.
You’re kidding right (I can’t tell anymore)? They’ll have Gilligan banging the Skipper, played by Jack Black, if that’s ever done.
Gilligan will be played by Leslie jones.
You can’t cast a black woman as the idiot, that’s lacist.
Your bigotry against the neurodivergent is noted, citizen.
*deleted note from system, adds ‘traitor’ flag to Not Adahn’s record*
I have watched the first two episodes of Queen’s Gambit. I dont know of I am disappointed that they didnt even try KY accents or glad they didnt screw them up.
Also, did New Circle even exist in the 50s?
Glad they didn’t screw them up, easily. Is there a single Hollywood movie with a convincing Southern accent?
Any one featuring Matthew McConaughey playing a Southerner, not because he’s a great actor mind you but because he kind of is one.
Black Snake Moan?
Even Renee Zellweger, who’s from Texas, murders a Southern accent.
But Kevin Costner wins the prize.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BckPa2_A8gI&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=Movieclips
Reese Witherspoon can do it just fine, in multiple movies.
Oh, and Fred Gwynne of all people did a fine job in My Cousin Vinny.
His is very aristocratic.
Yes, he has that upper-crust southern accent down cold. When I was growing up, the aristocratic Old Virginia accent you’d hear older rich people speak with sounded almost English sometimes. It’s almost extinct today, I can’t remember the last time I heard someone who spoke like that.
In fact, now that I’m thinking about it, Gwynne’s job with the accent is the best since he was a native New Yorker. Pretty much everyone else we’ve been talking about are Southerners so it shouldn’t have been too difficult for them to sound authentic.
An oddball case is Andie MacDowell. I don’t think she’s ever played a southern character in a film but her native Georgia accent frequently bleeds into her movies anyway.
I have noticed this also.
What’s a yute?
Steel Magnolias got it right, to my ear.
Reese Witherspoon can do me just fine anytime.
Absolutely. The accent is just a nice bonus.
Joe Don Baker does a good one so “Walking Tall.”
I could watch Joe Don Baker fold laundry. If you haven’t seen it, he does a fantastic job as a hitman in Charlie Varrick
Yeah he’s good, he was also featured in my two fave Mystery Science Theater episodes (Mitchell and Final Justice).
YES! Two absolute classics, Mitchell in particular. Linda Evans, Martin Balsam of all people as the big villain, Merlin Olsen as his goony sidekick, John Saxon playing the usual evil John Saxon character in a sideplot which has nothing much to do with anything else in the movie.
“Mi…ttens?
“Joe Don Baker IS Mittens – he’s a cop!”
That is is the ultimate just above Drive-in Movie! Well played!
KY isnt a southern accent. Its redneck version of mid-atlantic
Part of the reason it is usually acrewed up.
I would say Justified did the whole accent well but then again I piss my wife off everytime I pronounce Louisville
There is the out in state way of pronouncing it and the locals way. My Mom has lived in the ville since 1962 and still says it the state way. I say looavul.
I try to pronounce places the way natives do, to be polite (N’awlins), butI have to be slow and deliberate about it.
I had asked HM one time if, when learning a foreign language, you pronounce things right, do you feel stupid? I do. He said yes IIRC because speaking correctly requires a bit of a personality change (at least that’s what I got out of it). You aren’t yourself when you’re speaking a foreign language without an accent.
Yes, that is an actual thing. One way to overcome it is to surround yourself by people who speak the target language.
Wouldn’t that be yinz?
My son strolled downstairs a bit ago and immediately started watching TV. Which normally would annoy me, but he’s watching a Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie, and Alicia Silverstone as a milfalicious mom with the sexy librarian glasses……oh mah gawd. Could watch that all day.
**takes note**
Behold!
Diary of a Wimpy Kid? I take it The Lone Ranger is not a thing anymore.
Yeah, I know, but it gets the boy to actually read something. I can’t keep my daughter from reading, which she does constantly rather than other things she is supposed to be doing, and then I can’t get the boy to pick up a book most of the time.
Are there any non-woke boys’ adventure books produced anymore?
Well excuse me shitlord but what exactly is a “boys’ adventure book”?!?!?! 😉
“I never thought this would happen to me…”
“Choose Your Own Gender”, all of the endings are happy and acceptable ?
It’s like a girl doctor.
I should have known someone would post that, kills me every time ?
Was she Batgirl or Batwoman?
Batgirl, in that really awful Clooney Batman.
She has always jiggled my handle.
Those Aerosmith videos she was in were out when I was a teenager.
So, yeah.
Her and Liv…..yep when MTV played music videos
Liv has not aged well. See: 911 Lone Star.
I will not tarnish my stored image of her thank you very much!
Definitely don’t. I looked it up and….yeah, Mo ain’t kidding.
She and I are almost exactly the same age, so I can totally lust after the young Alicia of my memory without feeling like a perv.
I tell myself this when I think about the “Married… With Children” episode in which Milla Jovovich’s foreign exchange student character was stealing all of Kelly’s boyfriends while the actress was just 13 years old. I don’t think I’ve seen it as an adult, thank god.
*googles*
I’ll be in my bunk, begging forgiveness.
Good morning!
I bet those distilleries have learned their lesson. Except that 2020 has demonstrated that most people aren’t really capable of learning.
And now the Rose Bowl, America’s most-attended football game, played continuously since 1916, moved to Texas—it was that or be shut down because California’s politicians, enacting increasingly draconian and apparently ineffective COVID-19 rules, wouldn’t allow a few friends and family attend a football game in a giant outdoor stadium capable of holding more than 92,500 people.
If anything can push that “Impeach Newsom” thing over the goal line(!), this might be it.
#MakeTarAndFeathersGreatAgain
Funny, but that was pretty much what my brother (in CA) said last night – about hoping to see Newsom hanging from a rail, tarred and feathered.
The 49’ers have been playing their “home” games in Phoenix for most of the season already.
I almost pulled the trigger on some tix, but $175 each (plus fees and parking) for a pair was too rich for my blood. Maybe if it were teams I actually cared about.
I saw Amazon’s “El Cid” series and started watching the first epsiode. As a note you have to watch it dubbed into English, unless you know spanish well enough that you feel like watching it in spanish. The Intro is pretty crappy, and almost had me turn it off, but the production value is much better after that. I’ve seen some claims that it is “trying to be historically acurate” though, i don’t know how that can be at this point since not much is known about El Cid’s younger life. Lots of set up for court intrigue. I’d have to watch a few more episodes to see if it gets less confusing. My wife was watching it with me and was very confused, and i only could follow, because i know a little about the History of Spain at the time.
2/5 Stars, but it does fill drama itch without having to watch a Cop Procedural, or CIA fanfic.
There is only one El Seed.
The wife and I watched ‘Good Lord Bird’ on Netflix. We quite enjoyed it. It is a show about John Brown from Bleeding Kansas to Harper’s Ferry raid with kind of a Cohen Brothers black humor feel to it. It also handled the race/slavery issue really well, it portrayed slaves as people trying to get by in the world that they found themselves in, some of them making entirely pragmatic, selfish decisions to get by and some of them standing on principle and facing the ire of their peers and the slave owners. They managed to do it all from a reasonably amoral perspective and without creating too many cartoon villains and heroes.
4.7/5
Wait. How can it be historically accurate if it’s not in Old Spanish?!
Hahah, and Urraca (the younger) is the conniving independent woman behind Alfonso, mad that . There are a few tropes that get overlooked by modern critics, one who i read praising the new set because it doesn’t fall into the same anti-communist propoganda that Hestons “El Cid” fell into (Christendom vs the evil barbarian). No this one is historically accurate.
I might try it. Even though I have not been to Soain,I consider myself a bit of an espanophile. Is that a word?
Maybe? Hispanaphile?
Anyway, i’ve enjoyed it, because i’m easy to please, and the tropes i mentioned above are more nitpics with critics than the show.
I watched the first episode of El Cid and liked it. I watch with subtitles.
Be AFRAID
And the outlook is grim for January. More than 80,000 Americans could die of Covid-19 over the next three weeks, a new US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ensemble forecast projects — offering a stark reminder the nation is still facing challenging times.
Fuck you and the model you rode in on.
I’d like to see a chart showing Predictions made like this and then the actual numbers. What was publicised and pushed by the media vs what actually happened, each time they pushed a “XX K” people will die in the next week, Month ,etc.
That would be interesting, shouldn’t be too hard to do either.
After Russiagate, Obamagate & the laptop from hell….
At this point, what difference does it make?
Would be interesting. Didn’t we have a frequent commenter here who said Chicomvirus would be about like the Flu and he doubted there would be more than 20,000 deaths from it?
My shocked face: https://www.kusi.com/newsom-more-contagious-variant-of-covid-19-detected-in-socal/ Includes Fauxci.
(The only news channel I can stand.)
How do people continue to want to believe the same bullshit recycled news story over and over and over?
I’d like to see a chart showing Predictions made like this and then the actual numbers. What was publicised and pushed by the media vs what actually happened, each time they pushed a “XX K” people will die in the next week, Month ,etc.
“See what an awesome job we did, protecting you?”
A serious and interesting read.
I’d think this would be obvious. This game doesn’t have a clock. You don’t go into prevent defense and victory formation. You go for the kill.
That article missed the punchline, IMO.
The nuclear family was the target the entire time. The nuclear family, as the core unit of society, is the biggest threat to the growth and expansion of the state. Thus why the commies and other totalitarians make it a priority to chip away at familial bonds and to create a culture of people who are not amenable to family relationships.
They’ve been damn successful here in the US. Remember all the “me generation” stuff from 50 years ago? Now it’s fully entrenched to the point that people can’t imagine anything different.
The US is basically Russia 100 years ago at this point so you can see what happens after the violence and hate achieve victory. Hot anger changes to cold misanthropy and contempt. Demographic collapse, widespread despair and substance abuse.
The silver lining: in spite of their comprehensive efforts, the Soviets were never able to completely dismantle the Orthodox Church or the family. Over time, the angry people that didn’t have children, didn’t have children and died off. Hence: demographic collapse. I’m not saying it’s good or preferable, but 2+2 always =4 no matter how much you don’t want it to.
The nuclear family is, almost by definition, not the end-all, be-all of family. It is the nucleus around which most kinds of family are formed. The problem with progressives is that they want to remove any impediment to their grand vision. The problem with conservatives is that they’re happy to go along with whatever wasn’t being gored by progressives as of yesterday. Overemphasizing the nuclear family is, to my mind, almost as dangerous as overemphasizing the individual, in terms of social organization.
It’s good to be da King Cuomo
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1344406440237277185
When the Other team doesn’t give a shit about your protest
Mark this down in, always take any advantage the other team will give you.
Linky no worky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn7eaL7DanU
Me, after checking bank account: We have not received our sick money.
Mr. Mojeaux: We have not been stimulated.
Welcome to your 50s, Mr. Jeaux
You ain’t whistlin’ Dixie.
I turn 50 in a couple of weeks. Is there something I should know?
THINGS start slowing down, although there are other factors in our case. The first problem is menopause.
I think you might have meant mynopause?
I’m gonna submit this for my “ally” badge so I may need you to verify my statement 😉
There is a price to pay for killing your period, or living to your fifties. In my case, I hit it immediately upon getting all my plumbing yanked. OH FRABJOUS DAY!!!!
The Beasties also wrote a song about this 😉
“The Wifely Duty” new film starring the Mojeauxs.
Cumming this Spring.
Like most thing involving government, you just need more lube.
If you have a YouTube account with a linked Gmail account and a history of spicy comments you might want to go in and start deleting or back up your Gmail somehow, it looks like Google is yanking accounts for “abusive” comments:
https://youtu.be/3s7eqca2mvg
Also, I wonder if this is what Pie sounds like.
Youtube comments are the worst on the internet. They will literally give you cancer.
Slate, NYT, CNN and WaPo would all like a word…
YT is way, way worse.
Got rid of gmail over 2 years ago for protonmail. Best decision ever.
Styxy has been making the clarion call for about a month. Free speech on the big platforms is ded ded ded.
Pie has articles with him speaking in the archives.
I have always read Pie’s comments in V’s voice.
Are there any non-woke boys’ adventure books produced anymore?
You might find yourself under the CPS microscope if you just handed your kid a stack of Hardy Boys books.
Especially the old ones from the ’30s and ’40s which featured some genuinely racist bits.
Uh, Joe! I just got a Clue! Me too, Frank! I’ve got a raging Clue!
Lol
Mad Scientist’s Club FTW! They even used lead paint!.
Holy shit, I remember those! Seemed totally believable at the time that a group of kids built their own functional submarine.
Ditto. Those books deserve a lot of blame for how I ended up.
The Smugglers of Pirate’s Cove
“‘You’re being detained because you refused to identify yourself,’ the ranger says.”
Papiere bitte.
Rangers can be little authoritarian bitches. Usually, the more non-significant the park, the bitchier they are.
Not this guy
Good ‘ol Ranger Gord.
When I first got back to the states in 1999 and moved to Minneapolis for my job, I watched a bunch of Red Green. I didn’t know it was Canadian so I thought all the references were about Minnesota.
It turns out to have been a pretty good intro to Minnesota. culture too.
2020 is not the Year of the Rat; it is the year of We Need More Government Power to Solve this Problem the Government Created. However, if there’s one constant in this world, it’s instathots.
https://archive.li/ScE54
Thot Thursday.
I’m trying to figure out their algorithm for Best of 2020, since it looked like they randomly grabbed one pic each out of 80 posts, including some fairly ugly women.
Re: selling my “house”
If I’m not going to get a better-than-dollar-for-dollar return, fuck it.
We’re not talking about a move-in-ready home for a clutch of normies, anyway.
Want a slice of the Big Sky? Here’s a running start.
There are so many factors that go into selling your house and which strategies you should employ in doing so.
If you’re looking for somewhere to start, getting everything clean and tidy is tried and true. Tree trimming is a fairly simple one I often see overlooked. Make sure you don’t have grass grown over sidewalks and stepping stones is another easy one.
My house is full of color. The wife and I refer to rooms by color. Brown room, Blue room, purple room, yellow room, etc.
My dining room is a dark burgundy the only neutral color is the living room.
The house is paid off so one of us (wife) will be paying someone to paint the house white before liquidation.
[chuckling] The blue room is what we call the porto-potties at Burning Man (as they are usually blue). Something to keep in mind if you ever have a house full of Burners.
Good to know. I would have thought they were the brown room.
Speaking of accents. I was bored and watched Midway the other night and wholly hell their accents were all terrible
were they tellibre lacist?
Lol the Japanese were actualy Japanese I beleive. The tortured various American accents were the cringy.
The mid-70’s extravaganza? I remember that one because it was the first movie that I was allowed to go to alone. I would have been about Ten or so. It was disappointing to me. Even as a little kid, I knew that the footage they used was bullshit. Who knew that Corsairs were flying in early 1942? Shit, at best they had Wildcats. Being a war geek can break a little boy’s heart.
The recent one, I imagine.
That is correct. The messy new one.
Ack! That was a horrible movie. It missed key points (like when Station Hypo tricked the IJN into revealing Midway was the target) when less than two minutes of screen time would key you into that vital part of history. Total lack of realism like the character on the Arizona who saw the bomb pierce the deck but survived the resulting annihilation of the ship. BS love story parts and an extreme love of CGI scenes. Except for the accent and being too tall, Woody Harrelson actually played a decent Nimitz.
English soccer is moving into punishing players who post things that MIGHT be offensive: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/55500909
It’s hard to know exactly what is going on here because I can’t find the actual tweet. But, Cavani deleted the post as soon as he was told, “when the meaning that could be attached was pointed out.” Apparently whatever he tweeted in Spanish, “is offensive in some contexts.”
Fuck the EPL. Sincerely.
Somebody filed a complaint against the FA with Kick it Out (UEFA’s anti-racism body) saying that the FA was being culturally biased against Cavani.
Hah! That’s great.
I see some sports sites are getting excited because when Popovich got ejected last night, Becky Hammon became the first woman to “lead an NBA team.” Didn’t watch but curious, was this a Gene Hackman/Hoosiers ejection?
Fuck the NBA. Sincerely.
Have to check the video to see if the Picket Fence was run.
Don’t let the paint dry.
Hammon is probably going to be a head coach in the NBA one day. Not because someone’s virtue signaling, but she’s a really good coach and gets a lot of respect from her players.
Anyways, it was a standard NBA ejection. Refs make a predictably biased call in favor of the Lakers, coach gets pissed, coach gets ejected.
Yeah, I have no opinion on Hammon because I don’t follow the NBA. I was just curious with Popovich involved.
Watched Operation Odessa yesterday. (Netflix). Arms dealing, drug dealing, Russians, Colombians,, and Miami.
It’s a documentary, but the story itself is so fantastic and the players such “central casting” stereotypes, it makes the thing almost a comedy.
It’s slickly produced too. I highly recommend it.
Those sound like three groups to fuxx with. The only group missing is the Yakuza.
(Also on Amazon Prime. It’s not “exclusive” to one platform)
Back to normal
A mob in northwestern Pakistan attacked and set ablaze a century-old Hindu temple on Wednesday, officials said, prompting condemnations from the Muslim-majority country’s Hindu community.
Hindus are the largest non-Muslim religious group in Pakistan, which gained independence from British rule in 1947, when the subcontinent was partitioned into Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India.
Videos made by locals at the scene and shared with Reuters showed a crowd breaking apart blocks of the temple structure’s walls using stones and sledgehammers, as dark smoke from a large fire billowed into the sky.
Local Muslim clerics had organized what they told police would be a peaceful protest against the alleged expansion of the temple, located in a town in Karak district, in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Rahmatullah Wazir, a police officer in the town, told Reuters.
He added that clerics leading the protest started “provocative speeches,” following which the crowd attacked the temple.
“It was a mob and then nobody was there to stop them from damaging the temple,” Wazir said, adding that most of the structure had been damaged.
Someone from the Office of the President Elect will be along shortly, to blame President Cartoon Villain, and offer up a promise to provide a few pallets of cash to make things better.
They didn’t partition hard enough, if the last 73 years are any indication.
One of my fave Twitter accounts:
https://twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1344456896099586049
So that journo from yesterday who criticized and called Pence a liar for saying “Millions” of people had gotten the Vaccine, when only “2.1 Million” had gotten the vaccine made a response to her comment. And of course the answer is that it is all you’re fault for making her feel stupid, and you are really the stupid one.
Pence said something True, but using my feelings that he is a bad man, i think he said something True to convey something false. And that is wrong. So i’m justified in saying something false to combat the true, but probably in bad intentions, thing he said.
“I’m a pedantic cunte, and I’m sticking to my guns.”
An INCORRECT oedantic cunte, which is the worst type of pedant.
Just hand her a flag so she can die on that hill.
People still think they can negotiate with these commies. When basic reality is open to their interpretation, what can you do?
Mercilessly mock them and then cut those lunatics out of your daily life.
At this point they’re not really even pretending anymore, are they? Basically, her argument is that the narrative is correct, even if the facts are wrong. And, yet, these are the same people who will decry the spread of “disinformation” and “fake news”. Journalism is dead. The only question left is whether we’ll be relying on official propaganda versus chaotic feeds from external sources.
I would wager she has justified her favorite team politicians when they do so also. It fits in the big empty space in her head where there used to be a brain.
It’s still millions you deadbeat pedantic fool.
^^^ For all we know Pence, like all politicians (and the media) was being factually correct, while hoping to make it sound more than just 2 million. But you can’t justify telling a lie (There weren’t millions) to combat that.
This gets to the conversation someone brought up yesterday. Fauci has admitted on several occasions to lying about his policy prescriptions, because he believed it would get people to do what he thought they needed to do. (Don’t wear masks, for example, so that people wouldn’t exacerbate the mask shortage). So he has admited to this, yet we are supposed to 1) Believe anything he says, rather than try to figure out what he wants us to do, 2) believe that he is a moral person. I’m sorry but someone who has adopted “Ends justify the Means” makes me question their moral judgment, and the morality of their ends. Fauci is a bad man.
He’s morally and ethically broken inside.
And people who still listen to him are also broken.
Twitter wants you to know that a magnitude 3.6!!! Earthquake hit San Francisco.
Can californians even notice a shake that small? Or did they witness the jiggling poop needles?
Typically we could…I couldn’t anymore since I haven’t lived there in years but they are noticeable depending on the type.
The one 3.5 ish one that I was home for was more remarkable for the eerie sound it made rather than for the shaking.
Biggest one I’ve been in is still that Washington DC 5 point something oddity a few years back.
You get some where it is close to how an pending super cell about to turn tornado sounds.
I remember on in Cali that was probably a 3.5-4 and you can here it coming. Then…jolt! Up and down and done.
That fits the description of the one I felt at home in San Diego North Coubty.
Some people probably felt it and their friends called them crazy.
we had a 5.7 earlier this year, and the house shook, but we didn’t have any damage.
COVID strikes again.
earthcough
Stealing that.
2020 brought us a near-earthquake in Miami. That’s when I should’ve known it would be a weird year.
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/01/28/massive-73-magnitude-earthquake-centered-between-cuba-jamaica/
Another official caught on vacation. So the government is begging people stay home. Everything is ‘non-essential’ now.
But people are digging up Tweets of anyone who is calling travellers ‘criminals’ to show hypocrisy. Happened with a Quebec journalist who claimed she hated ‘resorts’ and that people going to them are classless idiots. She was at a resort a few months back.
And then comes Rod Russell in Ontario who faked his tweets to make it look like he was eating pancakes and maple syrup to hide the fact he was in St. Bart’s and Premier fat head Barney Rubble (aka Doug Ford) knew.
ALL PSYCHOPATHIS CRIMIMAL RATS.
The whole damn stinking lot of politicians AND medical bureaucrats (they’re the worst) on the continent. RATS.
Hey!
Don’t compare us to politicians!
Are you a medical bureaucrat?
Rod Phillips (not Russell). But yeah, everything else you said is bang on. These people are scum.
Yeh meant that. Not sure where I got Russell.
OH. Happy New Year!
We’ll see.
McMaster University set to publish largest study on travellers.
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/mcmaster-healthlabs-releases-interim-report-on-covid-19-study-of-arriving-international-travellers-827406033.html
So they opened a Gypsy Studies department?
Happy New Years!
Happy New Year
Go home, Straff, you’re drunk.
And not because of the time zone difference, but just a guess based upon past evidence.
2021 still sucks, doesn’t it.
Looks about the same. I’ve had COVID like 8 times in the past hour.
Interesting name for a stripper
You named your waifu pillow Covid?
Harsh
I approve.
I named my wife’s butt The Echo Chamber.
It’s all that rice and soy in the diet.
It would stun me if someone hasn’t animated a cute “Covid-chan” mascot.
Does COVID go away when you cross the threshold?
Happy New Year, you international Date Line snob!
Same to you gaijin.
*Raises a glass*
Reiwa 3 starts now? Not in May?
Happy new year! Is the future as bleak as they say?
At this point they’re not really even pretending anymore, are they? Basically, her argument is that the narrative is correct, even if the facts are wrong. And, yet, these are the same people who will decry the spread of “disinformation” and “fake news”. Journalism is dead. The only question left is whether we’ll be relying on official propaganda versus chaotic feeds from external sources.
And, I suspect, she happily flaps her flippers like the trained seal she is when Ballgag Joe announces he will vaccinate 100 million people in the first 100 days of his Presidency. Because that is completely reasonable and believable.
I have no doubt. The worse part of it, for me at least, is that, even when the fact that they’re full of shite is presented on a silver platter in front of them, they still won’t come to terms with it. They’ll act as if the facts are somehow “disinformation” (like here) or they’ll just ignore them.
At this point, I don’t see where I can say with a straight face that the legacy media are really any more reliable than, say OANN or the Epoch Times. The only difference is that they have a more coordinated narrative.
And can afford good production value
Vaxxing 100 million people in 100 days should be achievable. It’s 7 million people a week, which we could do if we did it right.
There’s absolutely nothing that the President would have to do with that.
We need to follow the UK right now. They approved the AstraZeneca vaccine (which we won’t until probably April) and with the Pfizer/Moderna vaccines, except for certain populations, they’re going to give everyone one dose (which will be pretty effective) before giving people the second dose.
It seems like it’s going the places it needs to go but people are slow to actually get it. Fine by me.
Is Astra Zeneca the one that has a lower effectiveness – or something?
I’m a bit skeptical on not getting that second dose on schedule and I’d take the Pfizer/Moderna vaccines over the AstraZeneca one.
Happy New Years!
Eek. It’s bad enough when they come at you one at a time.
*waves coffee cup in vaguely western direction*
*waves empty sake cup back*
KONBANWA!
And to you. Oyasuminasai. *passes out*.
Happy new year Straff!
You Minnesoda Glibs, is Minneapolis being burned down and wide spreading looting going on already?
Dude, the election is over.
Agh! It snowed again yesterday and I’m expected to clear it. I might just sleep the clock around instead. Heh, who am I kidding? The snow will fly and I’ll be at work on Friday. So very tired, though. Pray for Festus. Happy New Year to One and All!
Sleep some and start the new year refreshed and ready for the next ream job due us all!
I mentioned my friend getting a job as a curator at the Smithsonian. I’m just amazed at how happy her success has made me. I feel like I would if it were I that got the job. Maybe I’ll just ride my friends’ coattails for all of 2021.
What’s really weird is when the exhibits come alive at night.
That’s how a good person feels when others do well. “Wow so and so is killing it, I want to do better as well”
There are others who look at those people with envy and ill will. These others are grown up children.
The look of Envy and ill will is a sign of pride. You cannot value yourself without it being at the expense of others.
I was actually asked this: Why do you mentor young techs on how to advance? They will be your competition!
Ugh.
Good lord. That thought never even occurred to me. People suck.
I never understood that attitude. “Good for them!” hasn’t always been my go-to but it has been that way for about twenty years.
Usually, my envy is wistful. “Aw, I could never do that.”
More toe-scuffing than anger. Sounds about right. Who knew that an atheist and a Mormon could find such common cause. I love you, Mojo!
You’re drunk Festus. Go home. ?
I LOVE YOU TOO!!! ❣️❣️❣️
There are others who look at those people with envy and ill will. These others are
grown upchildren in adult’s bodies.FTFY.
And the Catholics are right. Envy really is one of the seven deadly sins.
Small beer but I actually talked “Yoga Pants Girl” into quitting her side gig so she could spend more time with her kidlet. That’s a positive! Negative being that I don’t get the ogles no more. It’s a small price to pay. Do nice shit, it ain’t that hard.
So, when do they turn off the alarm on the Hope diamond?
Chapter 2 – In which l0b0t is found in the museum, drunkenly ranting while wearing Fonzie’s jacket and sitting in Archie’s chair.
https://twitter.com/PaterHumor/status/1344320874720055297
When the wrong TEAM believes bad think, it is because they are evil and the worst of the worst. When my TEAM does so, it is out of the best of intentions? why do you insist on attacking these well intentioned people all the time?
“I’m on the side of the righteous.”
/what these idiots believe
Even after all the movies and television shows where the villain says pretty much that…
The idiots have learned the verbal trick of asking “Why do you want {insert cruel outcome}?” once they’ve gotten into a debate that they’re losing.
If engaged in a rational debate, rational people listen to the other side’s points and addresses or concedes them on their merits.
So when the other side comes at us with “why do you want…?” we are caught flat footed because we listen to the question as if it’s been asked in good faith. We sound discombobulated because we are forced to respond to an irrelevant statement that in itself is a trick question.
“When did you stop beating your wife?”
Truth.
For a New Year’s celebration, the company I work for set up a barbeque pit next to our lab, and the Tech Service group is roasting pigs for everyone. Company owner admitted that it might possibly not be a wonderful thing for the vegetarian Jew who runs the R&D group…
Personally, I’m annoyed by the noisy roosters that the neighbors keep (the company is in the barrio), so I suggested that roast chicken might be a good accompaniment to the pig.
Try not not to slaughter the rooster that is the Savior of all chicken-kind. That shit can lead to all kinds of misunderstandings.
You should nibble on the ear of the cutest research assistant and say “I don’t eat meat but I happen to be a Vagitarian!’ Hilarity ensues.
I have no cute research assistants. All male except one, and she looks like a shorter and squatter version of Amy Schumer.
For that matter, there really aren’t any cute females at this place, and the guys are not particularly prizes either.
Has Pie ever mentioned the 1980s Romanian cop/buddy TV series called (in English) Comrade Detective?
It has been remastered, dubbed with Channing Tatum, Joesph Gordon-Levitt, and Nick Offerman and released on Amazon Prime.
It appears to have been a no-shit propaganda attempt, proving that communism is right and capitalism is teh evil.
I can only assume that it’s either unintentionally funny or kitschy in some way to be worth the trouble.
That was entirely a US spoof… funny but not vintage.
I see. (Hides disappoint.)
The Romanian show is an invention of the Comrade Detective show.
It’s from 2017, so I doubt it was a propaganda attempt from back in the day.
Correct, it is a modern day propaganda piece.
Yeah, that sounds delightful. I love stuff from or about that time and region and this is a new spin I haven’t encountered.
It’s actually pretty funny.
I e hated the park service since I was nine or ten and a ranger yelled at me for leaving a trail to go look at some flowers around my Rainier.
Fuck them. It’s sad this guy didn’t put that brown boot bitch in a hole.
This came up on the local, admittedly squishy, conservative AM station. None of the callers sided with the rangers. It’d be nice to think Republicans are turning on the jackboots since convid.
I agree with you about the “Tree Fuzz” since many are assholes. The guy is equally an ass as well. He is a Navajo and the ruins are Anasazi (aka Old Puebloan) and far predate the arrival of his tribe. So honoring his ancestors is pure bullshit. The fact he is a feather indian doesn’t give him any more right than me to go scurry about the ruins.
The NPS at these sites are in a conflicted area. The NPS organic act calls for the NPS to both help US citizens to enjoy their common heritage and to protect the sites for future generations.
But in this story I want both actors to get kicked in the balls.
I’d say that it is sad that in New Mexico it is a criminal act to refuse to identify yourself to a law enforcement officer or sad that we have national part land at all. After having viewed the tape, what do you believe the officer should have done differently once the offender stated his refusal to identify himself? After the officer told the offender that he was being detained until he could be identified, what options were available to the officer when the offender chose to break away from detention?
Fraudulent elections have consequences.