Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – Damn you, Facebook!

by | May 5, 2021 | Daily Links | 264 comments

Donald Trump Is Still Banned on Facebook (but Maybe Only for Six More Months)

On Wednesday, Facebook’s independent Oversight Board upheld the company’s Jan. 7 decision to block former President Donald Trump from posting content to his Facebook and Instagram pages. At the same time, the board said that Facebook’s move to “impose the indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension” was inappropriate and insisted that the company review the case to come up with a proportionate response. In effect, the board validated the initial decision to restrict Trump’s account but put the ball back into Facebook’s court for determining whether he should be permanently kept off the platform.

The board stated, “In applying a vague, standardless penalty and then referring this case to the Board to resolve, Facebook seeks to avoid its responsibilities. The Board declines Facebook’s request and insists that Facebook apply and justify a defined penalty.” It further demanded that Facebook come up with this clearer penalty within six months.

Why does Donald even want to get back on Facebook? Why hasn’t he taken over Rush Limbaugh’s radio show? How about a nightly news hour on Fox News where he yells at the headlines of the day? Fuck Facebook. Move on, Donald, move on.


 

All you had to say was “erotic nun thriller.”

NSFW

Based on an erotic true nun story of erotic nuns eroticizing each other nunnily: Benedetta Carlini


It’s time to just burn it all.

Although, an erotic puppet show with a Fauci doll and an RBG doll going to town on each other…


 

Federal judge vacates CDC’s eviction moratorium

A federal judge on Wednesday vacated a nationwide freeze on evictions that was put in place by federal health officials to help cash-strapped renters remain in their homes during the pandemic.

The ruling was a win for a coalition of property owners and realtors, who brought one of several challenges against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) eviction moratorium, which was first enacted under former President Trump and later extended through June.

In a 20-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich, who was appointed by Trump, ruled that the agency exceeded its authority with the temporary ban.

“The question for the Court is a narrow one: Does the Public Health Service Act grant the CDC the legal authority to impose a nationwide eviction moratorium? It does not,” Friedrich wrote.

It took this long to say the CDC doesn’t have the power to freeze evictions. Fucking idiot jerk-offs.

DEFUND THE CDC. Turn the building into a laser tag arena.


 

Something different musically. I don’t like many of the music breakdown videos on YouTube, but this guy is the least annoying. And I had no idea this song I had been listening to since I was a teen was so complex.

And if you are just in it for the song:

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264 Comments

  1. Shpip

    It’s time to just burn it all.

    It’s worse than you thought. The doll doubles as a dildo (although technically, anything can double as a dildo if you’re brave/stupid enough).

      • Chafed

        Lol. Yes it is. That reminds me of chapter in one of Howard Stern’s books in which he describes objects doctors have had to remove from rectum.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Damn near kilt ’em!

    • Tonio

      “The doll doubles as a dildo…”

      I have the strangest sense of deja vu…

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Just ask anyone that works in an ER for any length of time. My ex-wife would come home with horrendous stories about self-pleasure gone very, very wrong.

      • hayeksplosives

        I had a biology teacher who’d worked as an EMT and had some stories to tell.

        She said the best part was the high number of explanations beginning with “I slipped in the shower and…”

      • Shpip

        “It was a million to one shot, doc!”

      • Raven Nation

        “If you meet a proctologist at a party, don’t go anywhere. Plant yourself there, and you’ll hear the funniest stories you’ve ever heard!”

      • Tonio

        ^This. Bottles are the worst, BTW.

        “Vapor lock.” -Frank Zappa

  2. Sean

    DEFUND THE CDC. Turn the building into a laser tag arena.

    How about a rollerskating rink?

    • UnCivilServant

      That would take more construction work.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        ‘Any problem on Earth can be solved with the careful application of high explosives.’ -Colonel Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim

      • UnCivilServant

        We need more computing power.

        How are you going to bomb that into existence?

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Well, you can definitely impart some energy to your severs with some C4, for a little while at least. That, your you *ahem* reduce the system load, as it were.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        * or you

      • R C Dean

        Strap bombs to computer scientists?

      • Grummun

        The bombs don’t increase supply, they reduce demand.

      • hayeksplosives

        Shovel ready!

      • Gender Traitor

        My favorite quip after Ted Kennedy died was some wag saying Teddy was now a “shovel-ready project.”

      • Agent Cooper

        TRUMP CAN GET IT DONE.

        (Rinks, that is)

    • Rat on a train

      Where is Terpsichore?

  3. OBJ FRANKELSON

    Although, an erotic puppet show with a Fauci doll and an RBG doll going to town on each other…

    Get Trey Parker and Matt Stone on the line, we have something to pitch them.

    (Although, the word was that they will never do another puppet movie. Team America was a colossal PITA.

    • zwak

      I think the whole point would be to create a pain in the ass.

    • Tonio

      I’ve thought about doing some photo diorama collages with those dolls. Several problems: First, I’d be financially supporting the proggie scum who make those dolls. Second, I don’t want the FBI knocking on either my door, or the door of Glib HQ. Third, these are barbie-scale figures and I’m having trouble finding other things at that scale that I’d want to include, ie heavy equipment.

      • Chafed

        Post it under Gilmore. You will have a built in excuse why it’s in the wrong place.

      • Count Potato

        I haven’t seen him here in forever.

      • slumbrew

        This is an under-appreciated comment.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        You could create your own monsterverse and have them rampage through the deplorables’ cities.

      • Tonio

        That’s actually a possibility which would allow me to use O-gauge scenery, etc. Thanks.

      • one true athena

        The Fauci one might be too new, but I bet you can find second-hand dolls for not much. I suspect many are gag gifts that then get dumped at Goodwill/etc.

    • Tonio

      Thank you.

      • Chafed

        How is that not a Russ Meyer’s flick?

    • Sean

      Awesome.

    • juris imprudent

      Filmed on location in Highland, CA. Yeah, that totally fits.

  4. Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

    Shouldn’t that Fauci doll be an inaction figure?

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Nah, it just has a string, that when pulled, repeats the last thing CNN said about masks.

  5. Chafed

    “Although, an erotic puppet show with a Fauci doll and an RBG doll going to town on each other…”

    No. Just no.

    • kinnath

      Throw in a Subaru, and you have a real winner there.

      • Tonio

        Find me a barbie-scale Subaru and we’ll talk.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Does that Barbie wear flannel?

      • Count Potato

        I doubt you’ll find 1:6 scale vehicle, besides what Barbie and GI Joe already drive. Maybe have UCS or Yusef make you one?

      • Tonio

        I could use different scale vehicles, but that would involve a lot of greenscreening, rotoscoping and stuff. That’s a lot of freaking work, and would require software I don’t have. This is more of an aspiration than an actual project.

      • Tonio

        Thanks.

        Looks like the doors are non-functioning, which limits certain possibilities; I suspect the dolls are loaded through the open top. But there are possibilities here. Definite possibilities.

      • kinnath

        You are welcome

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Would that make Fauci a lesbian?

    • Nephilium

      You want the full extended scene from Team America instead?

      • Chafed

        Team America is funny. SugarFree is disturbing.

      • Old Man With Candy

        These are not mutually exclusive.

      • Chafed

        I cannot read Subaru Horror Theater. One of them, I don’t remember which one, really left me unsettled. That was it. This isn’t a knock on SF. Nearly everyone here loves his writing. For me, it’s a step too far to enjoy.

      • TARDis

        Abuela weeps. But then there’s an explosion. So that’s good.

      • R C Dean

        It was the one with the dog, wasn’t it.

      • Not Adahn

        My mom hated stores about dogs, because “they always die in the end.”

        She preferred horse stories.

      • UnCivilServant

        Because shooting the horse at the end was less traumatic?

      • westernsloper

        The yeller horses make the best glue. Mom’s know this.

      • Not Adahn

        What horse stories end like that? Don’t they end with the horse winning some big race?

      • UnCivilServant

        I just figured any story starring an animal ended that way.

        I blame wishful thinking after having been forced to endure Johnathan Livingston Seagull.

      • UnCivilServant

        Wait, you mean “Seabiscuit” doesn’t end with the horse going rabid and having to be put down?

    • hayeksplosives

      I saw one of those RBG dolls at a swank but woke toy shoppe near where I work. I was gratified to see that toy shop go under in the ensuing couple of weeks.

      Seriously, before Ginsburg kicked it, how many of her present-day worshippers could have even told you who she was? She was a fairly unremarkable justice. And she dissed the US Constitution when visiting South Africa. How can you be expected to ensure constitutionality of a law when you are on record criticizing the constitution?

      I’ve even heard some young liberals say RBG was the first female SC justice.

      • creech

        Maybe Sandra Day O’Connor didn’t identify as a woman??

      • dbleagle

        Well Sandra Day O’Conner doesn’t qualify in their minds as a woman, just as Clarence Thomas isn’t truly a black. (See also Amy Coney Barrett.)

        Holding “wrong views” and having the wrong President nominating them strips them of whatever identity they had and recasts them as “white men”. It is science!

      • Tonio

        “Notional whiteness.”

      • Old Man With Candy

        I was talking with a Prog friend a few days ago. She had never heard of Kelo. I explained it to her.

        “But… that’s outrageous!”

        Yes, read Clarence Thomas’s wonderful dissent. “RBG joined the majority opinion.”

        “WHATTTTT? No fucking WAY.”

        “Way.”

        “I don’t believe you.”

        “Look it up.”

        She’s been very quiet since that conversation.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Apparently she’s a Spinal Tap fan.

      • slumbrew

        Could be even worse. You could have a mural of RBG made out of tampons staring at you.

      • DrOtto

        I always picture her tenting her fingers like Monty Burns.

  6. The Other Kevin

    I just had to watch that video. It was well worth my 15 minutes. Thank you.

  7. PBRstreetgang

    There’s no way to open the Fauci box. He stays in iso forever.

    • Tonio

      +1 Stinky Pete reference

  8. Stinky Wizzleteats

    The Fauci doll is a great gift for the single mom Karen of your choice, almost as guaranteed to get you laid by her as pretending to care about her kid. I’m ordering two.

    • hayeksplosives

      If I still had a farm where I could target practice, I’d definitely be taking the Fauci voodoo doll out there down range.

      • TARDis

        I.Like.You

        I would totally … buy you ammo.

        Pew…pew…pew.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      What are you expecting to happen to the first one?

      • slumbrew

        He knows a lot of single mom Karens.

      • Tonio

        I don’t think he’s looking for anything long-term with them.

    • Chafed

      When pharma is reluctant to get involved in the next pandemic will anyone remember this?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Pray we don’t alter the deal any further. I’m not the biggest fan of the current overprotective IP laws but they developed them under the current set of rules and we should abide by them in this instance. The outlay of time, money, and effort was tremendous regardless of what the feeling is about the ultimate product.

      • Gadfly

        I’m not the biggest fan of the current overprotective IP laws

        It’s only copyrights that have gotten out of hand (at least as far as duration), patents are still fairly reasonable. Copyrights are something like life of the author + 70 years (meaning you’ll never see anything made in your lifetime enter the common domain), but patents are only 20 years. Which is kind of crazy, that stories and songs are valued that much more than inventions.

        OK, so I just looked it up, and the original terms were 14 years for patents and 14 years once renewable (for 28 years total) for copyrights. Copyrights have indeed drifted far more from their original intent than patents have. I’d be fine returning to the original terms.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        And no software patents.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      In return for what?

      My guess is liability protection.

      • invisible finger

        Congress gave vaccine makers liability protection in 1986. Wiki “vaccine court”

  9. Tonio

    This was a favorite of mine during my formative years. Somewhere I still have a copy. And, it’s been anthologized.

  10. Ted S.

    Nuns on the Run is also fun, but it’s not an erotic nun thriller.

    • Ted S.

      Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison has suspense and lust, and two damn fine performances from Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr.

      • dbleagle

        “Nast Habits” is Watergate replayed inside a convent. The script included lines from the Nixon transcripts and you could easily recognize each of the nuns to known Watergate persons. Amusing at the time, but not much as an erotic thriller.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Rule 34?

    • slumbrew

      I wasn’t complaining, I was making an appreciative observation.

      • Chafed

        I’m with slumbrew.

      • Sean

        I’ve never had one.

      • westernsloper

        The only good one is Mango. The rest suck.

  11. Certified Public Asshat

    Looks like we have an all European Super League English champions league final.

    • grrizzly

      There’s still a chance to avoid an all English Europa League final. It was awful 2 years ago.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I always support Arsenal losing.

    • Raven Nation

      I find it somewhat amusing (in a dry, English sense) that about ten years after Platini got rid of the old competitions, we’re essentially going to return to a European Cup, European Cup-Winner’s Cup, and UEFA Cup.

    • rhywun

      Can they both lose? ?

  12. slumbrew

    I predict future double-features of “Showgirls” and “Benedetta”.

    • grrizzly

      CDC Director:

      To reach these predicted good outcomes, we need to keep vaccinating people against #COVID19 and we all need to keep practicing prevention interventions like wearing masks and social distancing.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I guess Savannah Guthrie caught enough shit for forcing her kid to walk outside masked that she’s now asking real questions.

    • TARDis

      What? This crap again? Why is this still going on? I come here to learn things. Like new words and shit. Historical stuff, or science that I don’t understand. You want some pussy? Well, here! Have some!

      Best pussy ever.

      • Pope Jimbo

        How the heck is that the best pussy ever? It just lays there and does nothing!

      • TARDis

        It’s sensitive. You have to learn to pet it properly.

      • Gender Traitor

        SOOOO CUUUUUUTE!!!

        Wish we could turn ours off that easily. : /

  13. Nephilium

    Alright, who had chlorine in the next shortage pool?

    • slumbrew

      I had sugar as being the next thing that was lacking.

      • Count Potato

        LOL

    • Tonio

      Bro, there’s no url so I can’t fix it.

      I wouldn’t be surprised if this shortage was planned by Top Men because they know nobody will mask up at the pools. Those people just love to up the misery index.

      To put things in perspective, kids swam in pools, lakes and ponds even when the threat of polio was real, and with parental approval.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      When this shit started and it wasn’t known to be a bust dangerwise I bought a shit ton of bleach. Imma gonna be rich!

    • Agent Cooper

      I have a salt water pool. #winning.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      She looks just like your girl. Are you sure they aren’t the same person?

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Thicc.

    • Gadfly

      Seriously? Although if somehow managed to lose he would no longer be undefeated.

      Keep in mind that Logan Paul is a decent boxer who is almost twenty years younger than Mayweather. Mayweather may be one of the best in recent times, but age takes a toll on everyone.

      • The Hyperbole

        George Foreman was two years older than Floyd when he won his last title.

      • Gadfly

        And Foreman is also the oldest heavyweight champion in history, so that’s the high bar. Plus, Mayweather doesn’t have a successful grill line to fall back on.

      • The Hyperbole

        How many of his kids did he name Floyd?

      • Gadfly

        LOL. I forgot about that. George had like a half dozen kids all named George, didn’t he? And then he named the grill after himself, too.

  14. Count Potato

    “Incredible footage from inside a Moroccan maternity unit has captured the astonishing birth of nine babies to a single mother – as the premature newborns beat the odds to survive.

    Doctors today revealed how they delivered the five girls and four boys on Tuesday, and have confirmed that all nine newborns and their mother Halima Cisse, from Timbuktu in Mali, are currently ‘doing well’.

    Ms Cisse, 25, had expected to deliver seven babies following ultrasound scans in Mali and Morocco, but medics were shocked to find two more when they performed a caesarean section yesterday. ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9546349/Inside-Moroccan-maternity-ward-Malian-mother-gave-birth-record-breaking-NINE-babies.html

    Wow

    • Pope Jimbo

      Bet dad wishes they were living in Lessocco.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Admirably child-free women

      I’ll take celebrating this over celebrating single mothers, but I’m so over this constant barrage against tradfamily. Mother’s day is not oppressive against the childless. Fuck off.

      • Gadfly

        Mother’s day is not oppressive against the childless

        I understand these people. Every day that it’s someone else’s birthday and not mine is oppressive against me.

      • Gender Traitor

        Admirably child-free women

        As opposed to “contemptibly child-free women”? Am I supposed to submit my reasons for being child-free for review and judgment to determine whether they are “admirable,” “despicable,” or “pathetic”? I’m childless largely because we decided we couldn’t afford it. Does that reason pass muster with the self-appointed arbiters of “child-free virtue/vice”?

      • commodious spittoon

        Am I an admirable, conscientious, progressive-minded bachelor because I decided I don’t want kids or a contemptible incel MGTOW future active shooter because I also decided I don’t want to date?

        Wait, what do I care? I’m a man!

    • TARDis

      But part of my fascination with child-free women is that, aside from the fact I am a mother, I want to be just like them.

      I feel sorry for her child. What a dithering narcissist.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Celebrate Diversity! That’s an order!

  15. DEG

    “erotic nun thriller.”

    NSFW!

    Although, an erotic puppet show with a Fauci doll and an RBG doll going to town on each other…

    Barf.

    DEFUND THE CDC. Turn the building into a laser tag arena.

    YES

    That music video is trippy.

  16. Sensei

    All right, who the hell is this person and what is she doing as a sports writer no less for the WP?

    Japan should cut its losses and tell the IOC to take its Olympic pillage somewhere else

    In September, a report out of Oxford University’s business school found that the IOC has consistently “misled” countries about the risks and costs of hosting. Example: The IOC pretends that a contingency of about 9.1 percent is adequate to cover unforeseen expenses.

    The true average cost overrun on a Summer Games? It’s 213 percent.

    When Japan was selected I wished my Japanese friends the best of luck and told them to hold tight to their wallets as their pockets were about to be picked.

    • slumbrew

      There was a push to bring the Olympics to Boston a couple years back; thankfully, the population at large responded with a hearty, “fuck, no”.

      You’ll be shocked, shocked to learn one of the the primary backers was a large construction firm.

      • Sensei

        No… How surprising. I’m sure all the construction related unions we A-OK too.

      • grrizzly

        At the time I used to live in Andrew Square–a short walk from the place where the Olympic stadium was planned to be built. Some of my neighbors totally wanted the Olympics and dreamt how much they would charge to rent their “luxury condos”. Yes, they were willing to move out for 3 weeks.

      • slumbrew

        Were you around for the DNC? What a shitshow that was. The Olympics would have been that times 20.

        Boston is way too small for large events like that.

      • grrizzly

        I remember I-93 was supposed to be closed every night of the convention. I lived in Somerville then and even had a car but didn’t go anywhere close to downtown Boston that week.

      • slumbrew

        I lived on Beacon Hill at the time and had difficulty even _walking_ home.

        Plus my usual bars were chock full of assholes (moreso than usual).

    • Pope Jimbo

      Remember when Obama couldn’t bring home the Olympics to Chicago? I knew a lot of people there who were dreading the thought of having to deal with the games coming there.

    • Gadfly

      In September, a report out of Oxford University’s business school found that the IOC has consistently “misled” countries about the risks and costs of hosting.

      This is not a secret, nor is the corruption of the IOC a secret. No one is being “misled”, rather they are allowing themselves to be “misled”, or doing it for national prestige, damn the costs.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    applying a vague, standardless penalty

    What else would you expect, when dealing with vague, standardless “crime”

  18. Tonio

    So, there is normally a Wednesday night GlibZoom hosted by SP starting at 7:00 server time (8:00 Eastern). I know she’s on the road, and may not host. If anyone knows please post here.

    If nobody replies I’ll host and put up a linky here by 7:45.

    • kinnath

      She posted earlier today that she would host tonight.

      • Nephilium

        From the earlier post:

        Link

    • DEG

      She said she is hosting, check the last thread comment #44.

      Zoom link.

      8 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Glibtime, some other times for the rest of you.

    • The Hyperbole

      I hear she posted a link in the last thread.

    • slumbrew

      Word on the street is she posted a link in the last post.

    • Tonio

      Thanks, everyone.

    • Old Man With Candy

      There’s a rumor that she posted a link.

      • Gender Traitor

        Surely you don’t believe the crap people post on the Internet!

      • Old Man With Candy

        There’s no time for that now! And my name isn’t Shirley!

    • Tulip

      Was anyone able to get in? I can’t

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Although, an erotic puppet show with a Fauci doll and an RBG doll going to town on each other…

    On an altar, in a Holy Shrine of PROGRESS!

    • Pope Jimbo

      Worst porno ever!

      All I wanted was to see people get poked in the ass and instead Fauci keeps jabbing them in the arm.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      *hurk*

    • Pope Jimbo

      For those of us not into necrophilia, would it be possible to make a substitution?

  20. Pope Jimbo

    Wasn’t Big Nuns the large breasted wife of christ porno mag that Al Bundy (and Q I’m sure) liked?

    • slumbrew

      You should be ashamed of yourself for that one, your holiness.

      • Pope Jimbo

        If I was capable of shame, I wouldn’t be here with you guys.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    I find myself more drawn than ever to women who decided against having children.

    #METOO

  22. The Late P Brooks

    DEFUND THE CDC. Turn the building into a laser tag arena.

    Fuck that. Burn it to the ground with everyone locked inside.

    • Pope Jimbo

      1) Set CDC on fire
      2) Tell Fauci that a class of third graders on a field trip is trapped inside
      3) He does nothing
      4) Tell Fauci that a CNN news crew with an operating camera is trapped inside
      5) Watch him race into the building

      • Tonio

        [Furiously scribbles notes.]

    • Rat on a train

      I hear there are people willing to do that for free. They only need transportation from Portland.

  23. Pope Jimbo

    One for all you car guys – with a Minnesoda connection

    So for all of you folks out there in your underground bunkers staring at pinned-up pages of old car show brochures, decoding books to try to solve this mystery: It’s over. Go back out into the world and re-acclimatize to society knowing that indeed, the manual Ford Aerostar exists, and it is glorious.

    Correction: I previously described the extended model as the “long wheelbase” variant. Turns out, all of the additional length was behind the rear axle. The wheelbase on all Aerostars is the same!

    • Sensei

      Please. Nothing can beat the first generation Pontiac Aztek, before GM tried to tame it’s looks down a litte.

      If I could find one in decent shape I’d be so tempted. It makes Ford’s Edsel look awesome.

      • The Gunslinger

        I owned a 2001 Aztek. The one with all the plastic cladding on the sides. I liked it and would buy an Aztek again.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Did it rip your heart out to sell that Aztek?

      • The Gunslinger

        I wish now we had not gotten rid of it. It had some mechanical problem and we sold it to the mechanic for like $500. I don’t even remember what needed fixing.

      • Gender Traitor

        Resolved: The Pontiac Aztek was the Demi Rose of automobiles.

        (Or alternately, Demi Rose is the Pontiac Aztek of models….or whatever the heck she is.)

        Discuss….if you so choose. I’m not your supervisor. Nor are you being detained.

      • The Gunslinger

        Both are functional yet flawed.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        She’s the Bondomobile of models. Not the worst looking thing but most of what you see is sculpted filler.

      • The Gunslinger

        Biggest flaw becoming apparent when viewed from the rear for both.

      • TARDis

        @Gunslinger
        I don’t care for most photos of either.

      • Ted S.

        Do we at least get a smile?

      • Gender Traitor

        Sure, Ted’S! You always get a ‘smile! 🙂

      • UnCivilServant

        Aww, you’re too nice. I was trying to think of a suitable simile

      • Ted S.

        I don’t care for most photos of either.

        How do you take photos of ether?

      • UnCivilServant

        very carefully.

        Or bottled.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      An Aerostar with a manual isn’t glorious, it’s an Aerostar with a manual. Back in the ‘90s I drove one a fair amount as a work truck and it was decent enough but the last thing I desired then was a third pedal. Not fun to drive at all and shifting yourself would only make it more tedious.

    • Grumbletarian

      This was the only car my parents bought new off the showroom floor. Blue coupe with a white vinyl roof.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkc8jEX378

      If I could find one and restore it, I totally would.

    • Sensei

      They keep redesigning it is is too big and when they shrink it the proportions don’t work out right.

      Regardless it will never fit in my garage so it would be relegate outside. On the plus side the stainless body would end the Tesla paint quality issues. People criticize the blocky shape, but it was done because of the steel selected and ease of manufacture.

      That said – give it at least two years so you aren’t among Tesla’s usual beta testers.

    • hayeksplosives

      I put in my deposit the first day.

      Who knows if I’ll ever pull the trigger on the final purchase?

      • robodruid

        I agree, it could be interesting

      • robodruid

        I agree, it could be interesting

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      It looks like it was designed in MS Paint.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    the manual Ford Aerostar exists

    Wait, what?

    I want a mid engine one, with a five liter Coyote and a five speed manual transaxle.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      When I was driving through Annapolis on my way to Delaware, I saw an Aerostar body perched on top of a monster truck frame. It was glorious.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    The only surprising thing about that Aerostar is that it doesn’t feature the 4 liter V-6 from the Ranger pickup.

  26. Pope Jimbo

    I bet those two nuns were just going to go down on each other once when they were super horny.

    But then they were addicted because they didn’t know oral sex was habit forming.

    • R C Dean

      *tries to come up with a wimple pun, fails, wanders off*

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh, so you’re going to let this go with a bang and not a wimple?

      • R C Dean

        He shoots, he scores!

      • The Hyperbole

        Don’t feel bad nun-related puns aren’t really that conventional around here.

      • UnCivilServant

        We’ve been too cloistered in our punning.

      • Gender Traitor

        Will Swissy find it abbey-smal?

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh yess, absolutely Abbess-mal. We haven’t got a prayer. Time to seek sanctuary.

      • Gender Traitor

        ::looks around:: Luckily for us, he of the narrowed gaze seems to be abbessent.

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, castigating us doesn’t seem to be a priory.

      • Agent Cooper

        Pope Jimbo goes out not with a bang, but a wimple?

      • Agent Cooper

        I swear Uncivil’s comment wasn’t showing when I made this one. But great minds think alike.

      • Gender Traitor

        Oh, it gets much worse. 😉

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Ford Cologne V6

    It worked pretty well in the Capri.

    • Sensei

      We had one in our 2007 “poverty spec” Land Rover LR3.

    • whahappan

      Yep. Had a ’76 with the 2.8.

  28. LCDR_Fish

    What up? So, I’d like to mix up my cardio a bit – and hopefully lowish impact on my knees. There’s a heavy bag in one corner of the base gym and I don’t think it’s gotten a lot of use. Is it something I could try messing around with without any prior boxing experience? I watched this video, which seems to have some decent suggestions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnbZet58HOc&t=247s

    I don’t have boxing gloves, but I do have weight lifting gloves – normal fingerless ones as well as the type that have the long wrist strap. Would it be advisable to wear either of those or just bare knuckle it?

    Any other exercise tips or suggestions for things I might be able to do with a heavy bag?

    • B.P.

      Yes. Box. Learn the moves on youtube. It’s good cardio if you do two-minute high-impact intervals. Don’t go punching it bare-knuckled or with weighlifting gloves. Get some boxing gloves and wraps. They’re not that expensive. The wraps were essential for me as I was negatively impacting my wrists.

    • Ozymandias

      A – Get a set of bag gloves and wrist wraps.
      B – Wrap wrists if you’re actually going to punch a heavy bag with intent
      C – Rounds of one minute on the heavy bag, one minute rest. Try 5 to start. No standing there staring at the bag, either; punch for the whole minute.

      (If you don’t know how to actually jab, cross, hook, then spend some time learning and start easy on the bag. Learn how to use your hips to generate punching power. All human effort at generating power begin in the hips and radiate outward, from a golf swing to a punch or throwing a pitch).

  29. Agent Cooper

    Peter Hook is amazing, but I’ve got to give it up for the underappreciated Gillian Gilbert.

    • Gender Traitor

      Why not both?

      • Agent Cooper

        Well, duh. It’s just that Hook gets a lot of love. Maybe I didn’t need the ‘but’

      • Gender Traitor

        I was thinking of “give it up” in too literal a fashion. 🙂

  30. limey

    Blue Wednesday

    • Gender Traitor

      “…but Thursday’s also (or oh so?) sad.”

    • westernsloper

      The fuckers have no idea what they have done with supply lines and the labor pool over the past year for even ordinary products. At least we don’t have inflation though. That would totally screw us.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        There are two lumber mills near Mom’s house in Montana. Both of them have bunks and bunks of lumber wrapped up and ready to go. So much on hand that I’m told that they are temporarily not buying any more trees. Also there are at least two dozen trains going thru town every day with scores of cars carrying lumber, yet prices have soared, supposedly because of supply shortages. I’m not sure where the bottleneck is but it sure isn’t at the production end.

      • UnCivilServant

        Sounds like someone downstream isn’t buying.

        People not being allowed to work? Worker capacity limits preventing full production?

      • westernsloper

        I was initially blaming it on delayed reaction from Trumps tariff fight with Canada. But then remembered we now have the “bestest ever” free trade agreement with the frozen ones as well as Mexico. Now I don’t know. I read some story I didn’t believe stating the price rise was due to lack of labor at mills and reduced production. My best guess is it is the supply lines are just still fucked from being fucked with for over a year. I assume that is not a switch you can just turn back on. The things that were are not there, the things that will be there are not there yet. It’s like a distributor cap twisted a quarter turn.

      • whahappan

        Mills?

      • whahappan

        OK, that was stupid. I was thinking unfinished lumber, but you said lumber mills.

    • limey

      If there is a chicken wing shortage, is there not a shortage in all other chicken parts?

      • westernsloper

        My guess would be into the grinder for dog food. Dog food is big bizness and takes less time. And word on the street is there is a labor shortage for some unforeseen reason.

  31. LCDR_Fish

    Oh yeah, re: the military medical discussion from earlier this afternoon: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2021/05/03/supreme-court-justice-castigates-feres-doctrine-over-cadets-rape-lawsuit/

    We almost got a chance at getting Feres thrown out.

    Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas strongly dissented to a decision filed Monday not to hear the case of a former United States Military Academy cadet who alleges the government failed to adequately prevent and respond to her rape on campus.

    As the lower courts did, the majority deferred to the Feres Doctrine, a 1950 decision that ruled service members cannot sue the federal government for injuries sustained while serving. That includes not only combat or training injuries, but preventable damage caused by fellow troops or government employees ― to include, until last year, medical malpractice.

    “Under our precedent, if two Pentagon employees — one civilian and one a servicemember — are hit by a bus in the Pentagon parking lot and sue, it may be that only the civilian would have a chance to litigate his claim on the merits,” Thomas wrote in his dissent.

    Legal experts have debated for decades whether the original Feres decision was meant to cover only injuries incidental to combat, and perhaps inherently dangerous military training, or whether it should apply to any accident or assault endured while in uniform.

    “Nothing in the text of the Act requires this disparate treatment,” Thomas wrote of the Federal Tort Claims Act, which governs liability lawsuits against the federal government. “Nor is there any background rule that federal bus drivers owe a greater duty of care toward workers who are civilian than those who are military.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      So only Thomas was interested in governmental accountability?

      I’m so shocked.

  32. Aloysious

    re: Benedetta

    I see Lambert Wilson is in it. He makes a good bad guy.

  33. westernsloper

    It’s time to just burn it all.

    How many Fauci dolls would it take to make a fire seen from space?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Can we just nuke the original?

  34. The Hyperbole

    Good god. New wave, synth-pop, electronica music may be the second worst musical genre ever.

    • westernsloper

      The music isn’t all that horrible, the video is horrible.

    • limey

      What’s the worst?

      • Ted S.

        Metal.

      • Count Potato

        Oh, come on.

    • Count Potato

      Those are three different genre.

      • rhywun

        My iTunes library agrees. (Except I don’t use “electronica” – I don’t even know WTF that is really. I do have multiple other flavors of electronic-adjacent music, though.)

  35. Plinker762

    Are they left handed midget nuns?

    • UnCivilServant

      Sinister Shortstacked Saints?

      • Gender Traitor

        Sinister stunted sisters.

      • UnCivilServant

        Antidexter Achondroplasic Abbesses

      • limey

        Small southpaw seminarians

      • Gender Traitor

        ::lowers sword and bows to worthy and superior opponent::

    • Chafed

      Rhywun happiest?

      • rhywun

        It’s a start, I guess. ?‍♂️

        Build back better – this time it’s for real™.

  36. ignoreLander

    Based on the RSS stinger, I thought THIS would be the song.

  37. ignoreLander

    Why does Donald even want to get back on Facebook? Why hasn’t he taken over Rush Limbaugh’s radio show? How about a nightly news hour on Fox News where he yells at the headlines of the day? Fuck Facebook. Move on, Donald, move on.

    I’m not a fan of Donald; he’s screwed up a lot of shit. He has a golden opportunity here. The strongest thing he could do would be publicly state “I don’t know what’s going on at Facebook but I really don’t care. I have no intention of being on the platform regardless of what they say. Join me on __________ [fill in alt-tech platform of choice]”

    For all his and his fans’ bloviating about how smart he is, I doubt this will happen. His response to being challenged is more “petulant third grader will call you names” than “Cartman killing your parents and making you eat them in chili”.

    But time will tell.