Economic Working Paper Entitled ‘The Value of a Slender Spouse’ Is Exactly As Bad As You’d Think
In the year 2021, the National Bureau of Economic Research decided that, for some reason, it was both appropriate and necessary to provide a platform for a working paper that is literally entitled: “The Value of a Slender Spouse: Couples Agree that Keeping the Wife Svelte is more Valuable than Keeping the Husband Fit.” It’s hard to know where to begin with this title, but I can’t help but wonder how these authors managed to pluck their study topic directly from the mind of an early ‘00s sitcom creator!
Now I will not even pretend to have read this entire study, as I only have an hour to write this blog, and also I’m afraid if I start reading it I’ll actually lose brain cells—a belief that is further supported by just reading the abstract, which literally begins:
“According to the World Health Organization, obesity is one of the greatest public-health challenges of the 21st century. Body weight is also known to affect individuals’ self-esteem and interpersonal relationships, including romantic ones.”
….. So somehow the first two sentences of the abstract are even more wildly fatphobic than the title!
Oh, no. Did you stop fucking loving science? Is the WHO no longer the gold standard for health advice?
Let’s go, fat. Push-ups, right now!
(Article by Justice Namaste, which I hope is just her New Age stripper nom de pôle.)
How about the value of a slender wife now?
224-pound Russian woman reportedly killed husband with her buttocks
A 224-pound Russian woman faces some heavy-duty justice for sitting on her husband and strangling him to death with her massive buttocks during a boozy dispute, a report said.
Tatyana O. allegedly refused to let Aidar go even as he “begged forgiveness,” East2West News reported.
Aidar’s daughter saw him pinned face down on the bed and ran to seek help from neighbors in the Russian city Novokuznetsk, according to the news outlet, which cited evidence in the case.
A female neighbor who arrived reportedly decided the couple were in the midst of a domestic dispute and left.
Tatyana said she merely wanted to calm her hubby down after the couple had been drinking.
Aidar died from “asphyxia from blocking the respiratory system” as his face was wedged into the mattress, as Tatyana sat on his neck “using her legs so he could not lift it,” a medical examination found.
What a horrible way to go, smothered by your own economic failures.
Attention-Seeker Launches New Bid For Attention
Demi Lovato has finally stopped beefing with yogurt shops and is redirecting their energy to their personal and professional life. On the debut day of their new podcast, “4D with Demi Lovato,” the singer announced that they are non-binary in an Instagram post and as such would be changing their pronouns to they/them. Lovato, who has been allowing the public to see their journey with substance misuse and mental health nearly uncensored, told their audience that this “revelation” came as a result of “healing and self-reflecting work.” This announcement also included information about their new podcast, the first episode of which is dedicated to talking out this life update and exploring their feelings on the matter.
Lovato, who released Dancing with the Devil this year, a documentary that chronicled her substance use disorder and rehabilitation, wrote in the caption of her post that this podcast, specifically the first episode, was “another level of vulnerability.” It’s hard to fathom just how much more vulnerable Lovato can be considering they’ve been in the public eye for almost their entire life and have been subjected to the unwieldy scrutiny that comes with it. At this point in their life and career, Lovato certainly doesn’t owe anyone more than they’ve given and yet, they continue to offer up every facet of their life for fans and critics alike.
The comments will sound like an owl sanctuary, I’m sure.
“I’m afraid if I start reading it I’ll actually lose brain cells”
No need to be afraid there. You write for Jezebel. You have none to lose.
In other words, women experience significant pressure both from society and within their marital relationships with men to lose weight or remain thin, while the heteropatriarchy does not put the same fatphobic expectations on men within the structures of their marital relationships with women. That’s not to dismiss or even minimize the very real fatphobia experienced by men, especially Black men and other men of color, but rather to recognize the specific way these systems of oppression can function within heterosexual relationships.
It got dumber.
We appreciate your sacrifice.
I didn’t think it was possible but you’re right.
There is no discussion that can’t be made dumber by needlessly dragging “racism” into it.
She’s right that it’s a stupid paper for NBER to host.
I have no idea who these people are. But apparently it’s newsworthy.
Matt Siegel, ‘Matty in the Morning’ radio host, storms off the air after being warned about Demi Lovato comments
they continue to offer up every facet of their life for fans and critics alike
So, her career is flagging and she needed some easy publicity. Because non-binary means no surgery, hormones or commitment. Maybe just a few items of clothing from the boy’s department, and a pageboy haircut.
They’s already got the shitty haircut. Them’s gone full Moe.
I just love the way meticulously using them’s pronouns comes off as mockery.
Unless NPR or the Boston Globe do it and then it’s deeply respectful of xer stunning bravery.
Full Moe>>Full Larry
Not even that.
Someone has some sense if they told him to stop talking about. Who gives a fuck what a drug addled ex-Disney castoff says?
KISS FM listeners.
Who is non-binary? Siegel? Lovato? Both?
They is. Duh, try to keep up.
Since SugarFree asked for it so nicely….
“Whoooo…. whoooo… whooo… who?”
Well, that’s a fat-ass-trophe…
Having seen pictures of the couple earlier, Imma gonna guess there was a weight conversion error somewhere in that translation, because her cheeks look like they weigh 224, let alone the rest of her.
Tatyana O.? Does the ‘O’ stand for ‘Onatopp’?
If only she looked like Xenia.
“as Tatyana sat on his neck “using her legs so he could not lift it”
#FatLivesMatter?
If two “non-binaries” marry, is the collective pronoun they-they?
Insert Base 10 joke here.
They bipole is them known as a thar, as in “Thars them blows.”
Nope, just they.
They and they went to they’s house. They wasn’t feeling good so they gave they some medicine. They then played a game of euchre, and they won $20. They took they out for some ice cream, but they is lactose intolerant. They farted so bad that they left they in they’s car.
Couldn’t be more clear, really.
The correct pronoun is, ‘It.’
Oh, that really sends them ballistic. I’m not comfortable with that, as tempting as it is, because we use pronouns for higher animals.
Does Demi Lovato really count as a higher animal? I’ve relocated garter snakes that were more intelligent…
Two binaries that are married and into hentai are an octal?
Octet.
Article by Justice Namaste, which I hope is just her New Age stripper nom de pôle.
Given that she’s very sensitive about weight, she must be stripping under the big top.
It’s called “burlesque” and it’s very artsy.
Years ago, in NYC.
Friend: We’re going to a burlesque show at Coney Island, want to come with us?
Brother-in-law: Burlesque? What’s that?
Me (cutting in): Fat strippers.
BiL: Pass.
Some of my friends were into the goth burlesque scene in the mid-aughts. A couple were zaftig but most of them were pretty hot if you’re into that sort of thing and didn’t mind a mess of tatts.
The sputtering around the table was hilarious. And then we looked up the girls that were performing that night on our phones and they shut the fuck up.
Two were of average weight.
Goth burlesque might be better. But tatts are meh.
My whole thing is that I’m not interested in going to a strip club, and an amateur strip club sounds even less appealing. The whole thing seems sad and when I feel sympathy for someone it physically hurts my shriveled little cock of a soul.
Wasn’t there also a Suicide Girls burlesque tour?
Know what scares me? SugarFree Links!
Know what restores my equanimity? That’s right, kids, the Midweek Glib Zoom of Schoolnight Misbehavior.
Join us at 8 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Glibtime, 6 p.m. Mountain, 5 p.m. AZ and Pacific, and assorted other times in assorted other places.
You all are in luck! No work tomorrow and I have been drinking since 10 AM!
Shut the fuck up, sloper.
That made me laugh cause all I hear in response is “you know what, fuck you guys”
And *that* makes me hear— “Screw you guys! I’m going home!”
Will that pizza finally be completed to show us?
I suspect he’ll be roasting chicken
What’s the password?
From the last thread:
It’s 2021, who the hell uses a speakerphone for work?
2/3 of the people I work with. It doesn’t annoy me nearly as much as the people using the apple earbuds where the microphone swings against their shirt making for all sorts of audio issues.
Headphones were standard fare before covid. Not sure what happened there.
I use my son’s gaming headphones on Google Meets for work, but I’m the only one.
I use speaker phone sometimes. But I’m nearly always muted
GF does, all the time. She told me it’s due to a bad microphone on her Iphone.
I think it’s because she actively tries to make the people that call in feel uncomfortable and get on to the point. Works sometimes. She also multitask a lot.
Also, in a house with 5 kids, you’d better lock those headphones in a bank safe when not using them.
Also, in a house with 5 kids, you’d better lock those headphones in a bank safe when not using them.
Straight up facts.
SF, do your Dark Works protect you from the stupid that emanates from Jezebel or are they fed by that stupid-energy?
A little of both, honestly. Like iocaine powder, I have built up an immunity to their stupid to the point I can just eat it now.
Clearly I cannot choose the link in front of you!
Inconceivable!
But only slightly less well-known is this: “Never go against a Diabetic when death is on the line”! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha..
Will Demi’s grandchild be Hemi Semi Demi Lovato?
Magna cum laude, summa cum laude, the radio’s too loudy
Post meridian. Ante-meridian. Uncle Meridian. All the little meridians.
De gustabus, you gustabus, we missed da bus. When’s the next bus?
Fun fact about Johnny Dangerously: the plot was loosely based on the 1934 Clark Gable film Manhattan Melodrama, which featured Gable as the gangster brother and William Powell as the DA brother. It was also the movie John Dillinger went to see when he was gunned down by the FBI.
Ted’S hardest hit.
They never got the chance to ask Dillinger, “other than that, how did you like the film?”
You shouldn’t gun me down, Johnny… my mother gunned me down once…. ONCE!
Are we gonna do dis or what?
You roll her around in arsenic and fire at the wet spot.
I quaver to think.
Please clap.
“I can only assume that you’ll enjoy educating your family about how the Coast Guard is, “the hard nucleus around the Navy formed in times of war,” Biden said to the graduates as he began his remarks at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut.
When no one erupted in applause, Biden continued, “Why you’re a real dull class. I mean, c’mon man is the sun getting to you? I would think you’d have an opportunity when I say that about the Navy to clap.”
The graduates obliged Biden, laughing at his remarks and applauding.
Next: They will bring aids to hold up big signs saying “clap,” at the appropriate moments. The lapdog press will not cover, photograph, or acknowledge these signs until they are shamed into doing so by Fox, non-accredited journalists, etc.
Like the executioner at Lord Farqua’s wedding holding signs on what to emote.
Thanks for that. I knew I had seen the gag, just couldn’t remember where.
I think it was “Farquad,” which was their way of smuggling in the word “f*ckwad” to give the dads something to laugh at.
It is and I was too lazy to spell it correctly. Stop pestering me!
Hey buddy…..
Never. You’re fun to pick on. And you fight back.
I figured with all your straps and swings you preferred the meek, as they will not be spared your rod.
Slings, dear. Swings are for sailor brothels in Singapore.
A nucleus doesn’t go around another thing. His speech writer is an idiot. Of course, Biden doesn’t know it.
I think it’s a botched attempt at telling an old joke or saying “The Coast Guard is the nucleus around which the Navy forms in time of war.”
Yeah — I assumed he dropped a “which” from the intended line.
But of course — I don’t think that’s really been accurate since, oh… World War flipping One or so at *best*. Certainly the interwar period had a corps of professional Navy folks who were the nucleus for the WW2 fleet. And I dare say given the Great White Fleet, probably the Spanish American to WW1 period wasn’t too dissimilar.
Was Joe thinking he was back fighting the Civil War or something?
The Monitor vs. The Merrimac
More monitors were sunk by virtue of their bad design than by enemy fire.
While resistant to the firepower of the day, it just wasn’t a seaworthy setup.
Apparently Dick Cheney made the same joke years ago, but didn’t fuck it up.
That and didn’t the Coast Guards just saw some action with some Iranian speedboats in the Strait of Hormuz?
Wouldn’t be surprise if some of the new graduates see their mission as a new Expeditionary Corpse of some sort.
Repeat from last thread: It’s not the first time. https://www.ccn.com/video-surfaces-joe-biden-calling-troops-dull-stupid-bastards/
I couldnt’ give a shit less about Demi Lovato (not entirely sure who she is other than some girl who used to be on a Disney show), but this “they” bullshit really annoys the grammar pedant in me.
It’s worse than that, it’s forcing speech from people. But the one thing about “they” is that we should be able to use it universally for anyone of any sex (including the constantly-shifting).
I’m pretty meh about that. If you change your name, it’s polite to use that name. A pronoun is part of your name.
That being said, no one is forcing you to use the changed name if you find it obnoxious, or forcing you to talk about that person at all. If Jane Smith wants me to refer to her as “xer”, and use xer new name Gantrybooty Hardbody, I’ll likely tell her to fuck right off.
A pronoun is not part of a name – it is part of the language and outside of the control of the noun. By declaring yourself to have a nonstandard pronoun, you are trying to dictate language use by other people.
I don’t have any problem with name. Bruce become Caitlin, fine, whatever. Caitlin, however, is not a woman, no matter how sincerely he wants to be one. Using feminine pronouns denies reality and I’m not playing that game. Likewise, Demi Lovato is a person. Singular. I’m not using a plural pronoun for a single person.
I’ll go along with he or she. “They” is ungrammatical nonsense when referencing a definite person. It’s becoming acceptable when referencing an unknown person but this isn’t a case of that.
A pronoun is part of your name.
No, its not. It is not a proper noun or a name. It is, well, a pronoun, a word used to refer to a particular class of things.
At the point one wants to become a “they”, the other pronouns do, in fact, become part of who you are.
If someone referred to me as “he”, that is not me. “They” is not me. “It” is not me. “She” is me.
You and your cis-het privilege…
Yeah, it will piss me off when they start referring to me as “they,” which I know is coming.
-Tonio, proudly cisnormative and homopatriarchal
Gay white man? NO ADVANTAGE FOR YOU.
You’re the white man of white men.
“Bear, the other white meat.”
I agree about him/her. I try to accommodate transpeople whenever possible. I would have problems with “xer,” unless it was pronounced “her.”
I’ve been practicing speaking without using any pronouns in case I’m ever forced into an awkward situation. Fortunately, I’m retired so don’t have to worry about workplace BS.
But the way things are going, all pronouns will be replaced with they/them/theirs.
I work with two trans women and they both seem to prefer feminine pronouns, so I’m glad for that.
That’s my preferred approach too – I try to avoid pronouns as much as possible. Makes for some stilted writing/speech, but better than getting in some ridiculous fight over pronouns.
I’m just waiting for the day when we get told that we have to include our pronouns on our email signatures.
It’s coming. I’m starting to see it from other companies I interact with.
We’ll see how my plan to go with “that fucker” (and variants) as a one size fits all pronoun goes.
“Did you hear that fucker’s new album?”
“I can’t believe that fucker did that”?
“Where is that fucker?”
I would have problems with “xer,” unless it was pronounced “her.”
So is there actually a “xim” to match the “xer”? I haven’t really been paying attention and I actually I really don’t even care ab….
Prof. Plum does not get to tell Miss Scarlet how she talks with Col. Mustard about him.
Worse is that there are apparently people who will have a shit-fit if you refuse to state your preferred pronouns.
“You don’t know what kind of people they have at the UN – I might go up in their opinion….”
I, err, neglected to state my pronouns at our first D&I training session.
I lucked out and was on vacation for our second.
The third just got scheduled, and I don’t think I can get out of it. I won’t mention my pronouns at that one unless pressed. I’m not sure what I’ll say if pressed.
“Whatever you like. Doesn’t matter to me.” Would piss off my boss, but probably not get me fired.
“The usual. No surprises here.” See above.
“The royal we/us.” Would probably get me fired.
“I believe that in art and music, that once the artist releases a piece to the general public, they cease to have any control over the public’s perception and discussion of it. In life, I believe strongly in the same principle, so you are all free to refer to me by the pronouns of your own choosing.”
Oh, I like that. Nice rebuke of insistence on dictating my speech.
Probably too confusing to get fired over. By the time they figure it out, the moment will have passed.
Baffle ’em with brilliance, or baffle ’em with bullshit.
הוא, אותו
You’re an effeminate Roman emperor?
The “voluntary” self-identification survey we were forced to take said that if we refused to answer the questions, that management would make their best judgment for our race/sex based on our appearance, which seems fair.
I really get the feeling this was prompted by some BS in one of the “covid” spending bills, but I don’t know what.
I’m good with that. I’m happy to consider you whatever you look like to me,
If you look like a dude in a dress and lipstick, you still look like a dude. Clearly you’re not trying hard enough and/or you’re just really ugly as a woman.
That has always been the bottom line for me. I have a trans family member, and she/he can pass. Mostly. It’s the uncanny valley though.
“Clearly you’re not trying hard enough and/or you’re just really ugly as a woman.”
Doing something about the “AIRBORNE” tattoo on your forearm might help.
Dick/Balls……….use dick/balls
Dick Slashballs crouched at the ledge of the roof, gazing through the optic at the door his target would be exiting soon, one block and twenty stories below. A glance at the flag in front of the building a few doors down told him what he needed to know. Behind him, he could hear the faint whine of a turbine engine, slowly getting louder, confirming his extraction team was in position.
A single limousine pulled up to the curb, and Dick saw the doorman move to open the entrance, but on the wrong side this time. The intelligence had been that all the observed staff were right handed, but this guy was a southpaw. No real matter, but it did shorten the time Dick had to do the job. As a professional, Slashballs was prepared for these eventualities. Usually.
Bravo, db!
I look forward to future installments.
Niiiiiice.
?
Thank you all! I have some ideas.
Yes, this is the fiction we need.
No offense to all the other fine fiction writers.
“Your Grace”
OMG I am literally shaking right now it is so exhausting being forced to educate you about my pronouns and quite frankly makes me feel unsafe.
If a person changes his or her name, fine, I’ll use it. If a guy wants to be a woman, I’ll even play along and use feminine pronouns. I think it’s simply polite. What gets me is the idea that they can rewrite the language and cause everyone around them to have to play this little game asking them their pronouns, and remembering them, and using them flawlessly, otherwise it’s considered a grave insult.
It is profoundly self centered and pointless. Well, it’s not pointless. The point is to force others to your world view.
^This. Particularly your last paragraph.
Fully concur, I’ll add that there’s an absurdity factor attached to this. If you want to start going by your middle name or you want to change your name from Steve to John, whatever. A bit weird maybe, but hardly a blip on the radar. Change your name from Steve to Skullcrusher McMeterDick, and I think you insane and a source of chaos to be avoided.
Where does Steve showing up with blue hair in a sun dress and telling everybody that they’re now Jazz, xhe/xhem/xir fall? Somewhere in the middle, I guess. Am I gonna be an ass to Jazz? No. Am I gonna avoid unnecessary interaction? Yup.
In your example, I’d find Skullcrusher McMeterDick less odd than Jazz. It is less of change from where nature put Steve in the first place. From a “what I think is in their head” it sounds more juvenile than crazy.
IMO, Skullcrusher (who I’m imagining as as 45 year old pudgy balding guy in finance) has to be a certain type and amplitude of mentally ill to legitimately change his name to Skullcrusher. The social stigma is extreme.
Jazz, OTOH, has social celebration for transitioning and changing xer name. Jazz may only be moderately mentally ill, and the type of mental illness (at least in the abstract) feels less threatening.
Maybe that’s just the social conditioning talking. Jazz may have a red phone directly to HR and Skullcrusher may be a nice guy.
who I’m imagining as as 45 year old pudgy balding guy in
financeITIt’s like you’re looking at my future.
If you change your name, it’s polite to use that name. A pronoun is part of your name.
If you change your name, I’ll use whatever name you call yourself. But I reserve the right to use whatever pronouns I please. Pronouns are not a part of your name, they are a part of your identification. And while you may have one identity for yourself, you do not get to dictate how other people identify you. I don’t identify as an asshole, but that doesn’t mean you are forbidden from calling me an asshole if that’s how you identify me. And I consider pronouns in the same category as all other such identifiers (if I think you’re short, or stupid, or fat, or male, I will refer to you as such, if the situation merits, even if you identify as tall, smart, fit, and female). But if a transperson does a good job at passing, I will probably refer to them as their preferred pronouns, simply because that’s how my brain will see them and identify them.
What about Princess Consuela Bananahammock?
I’d prefer the nonbinary-types use “it” if only to stay on the proper side of the singular/plural divide.
While the whole thing bugs the shit out of me for all the reasons stated, I have no interest in picking a fight because I don’t like someone’s choices.
You want Ganymede Buttfucker3000? Ganymede Buttfucker3000, it is.
You want “they”? Fine, You’ve just lost your individuality and your identity is one of a collective.
I’m going to respect the names and pronouns because doing otherwise is not a hill I want to die on. It’s their life. I’m just passing through.
And lose all aspects of being. I agree, I too am just passing by in the night in this regard.
I also do not want to try to cultivate meaningful relationships with these people.
I think the use of “they” versus “it” is telling. One can hide behind “they”. “They” did it. “I” didn’t do it. “It” didn’t do it. “She” didn’t do it. “They” did it. Just some anonymous part of a collective. Distancing oneself from individuality, personal responsibility, and specific identity.
Seven of Nine had more autonomy,
^^^ This.
My youngest is biologically XX but has legally changed to a male name and wants to be referred to as “he”. My wife’s niece, same deal except pronoun is now “they”.
They’re both great people, so I’ll use whatever damn name and pronoun they prefer and like it, because the alternative is ostracism.
I have a friend that went that route. I slip up cause well, 30 years calling him, him, just happens. She doesn’t get pissed and knows I mean no other thing.
I agree with whoever said “nonbinary” and “they” means you don’t have to commit to anything.
I’m choosing to look at “nonbinary” and “they” as analogous to a Goth/DrakkarNoir or Madonna phase.
They’re both great people, so I’ll use whatever damn name and pronoun they prefer and like it, because the alternative is ostracism.
This brings up an interesting, tangential issue. I do wonder when in western culture it became the norm that the younger generation gets to define things rather than the older generation. In other, more traditional societies, it is expected that the younger people conform to the viewpoints of the older generation, but in much of what is considered western culture it is the reverse. And this has not always been the case, so I wonder when this assumption got reversed. I’d spitball 60s/70s, but that could be wrong.
Are you mocking my Zoom handle?
Who, me? *innocent look*
I only know of one transitioned person (a coworker, not in my team but in my organization).
If I address them, I’ll use what they prefer as I have no real reason to disrespect them.
In my heart of hearts, though — I remain convinced they are simply deluding themselves and in general will avoid interacting with them as they’ve effectively raised a big “I’m SENSITIVE!” flag above their heads. Who needs to walk willingly into a minefield at work for no good reason?
Those of you with friends and family in this state that you can’t avoid have my sympathy — I honestly don’t really know what I’d do in that scenario beyond again, just staying out of it as much as possible if feasible.
Preach it, sister! I agree wholeheartedly. My only beef comes from the compelled speech aspect, and that is universal regardless of the speech’s content.
Hey now, you can’t have Ganymede Buttfucker3000!
That one is mine, shitlady!
My work here is done.
It’s like the royal “we.” Is it a way to make her sound more important like a royal? Or should everyone around her be looking for signs of demonic possession, such as “we are legion?”
Legion said “My name is Legion”. The exact phrase of the “For we are many” varies by edition.
The legal theory, IIRC, is that the British sovereign owns the entire country and speaks for everyone, but has graciously delegated most everything to other people to run.
Turns out chopping off the head of one of your ancestors, for wretched overreach, makes doing nothing while pretending to be in charge seem like a good idea.
When in conversation with such an entity, are you supposed to specify whether “you” is male, female, “non-binary”, singular or plural? Or are you supposed to address them in the third person?
A pronoun should never come up in direct conversation with the noun it’s associated with.
Trying to dictate pronouns is a noun’s attempt to dictate how you speak with third parties.
Thus it’s not a matter of respect, they have already disrespected you by attempting to command your speech.
Ugh, I was at the hospital for a check-in today, and I noticed the receptionist had HER/SHE on her name tag. Mostly I just roll my eyes at this, but in a supposed institute of Science(!), it was particularly galling.
My curiosity is piqued about the Russian chick but I can’t be arsed to click through.
That was a dirty crack.
Butt kind of funny.
I’m split on both of your buns.
It’s a weighty subject.
I just hope the authorities get to the bottom of this.
There’s a good chance they can crack the case.
To the moon!
I think it’s time we put this discussion behind us.
It is the labor of Swissiphus to put a stop to these puns.
sorry, I didn’t click. Was she making an ass of herself?
In other words, can it?
She rectum, and then she killed him.
You know that at one point, Swiss will get tired to be the butt of our jokes.
Tardis wins!
Man, this discussion went down a black hole!
*mass narrowed gaze*
This is too on point to be true.
Following his speech, the declining septuagenarian was put in an electric vehicle where he pretended to be driving.
This was all a show by his handlers to make Joe Biden look like he’s in charge.
The model Joe Biden was “driving” has two steering wheels.
Pictured:
https://imgs.classicfm.com/images/41395?crop=16_9&width=660&relax=1&signature=BVKwCEG1j_oHB8RrBYE1hihO5fU=
Heh.
Toonces!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fvsItXYgzk
I mean, it’s only common sense – would YOU let Oatmeal Brains drive a vehicle??
I would. It would be hilarious.
“I’m a very good driver”.
I don’t recall any president driving.
In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for speeding on his horse-drawn carriage in Washington, DC.
The Secret Service won’t let them drive on public roads, although both Reagan and younger Bush drove themselves around their respective ranches.
If there’s a chance that he’ll run down some of his handlers and media fluffers? Not seeing much of a problem here.
There’s a video Sean linked in the prior thread that shows him turning the wheel to the right, to an inverted position, but as the truck moves forward and he holds the steering wheel steady, the front left wheel of the truck is tracking straight ahead.
I missed that the wheel was totally cranked over at that point – I was willing to say “eh, he’s just straightening it out, you didn’t see the starting position of the tires”.
Nope, that’s all the way over. JFC.
Yeah, at first that was my reaction, but I watched it 4 or 5 times and for sure, his steering wheel is turned upside down at that point.
That’s just how Fords handle.
I see we are backed to the carefully narrated optics. Like my boss Buttchug and his ‘bikes to work’ stint.
Only works if you have state media and that is already well known by true skeptics of government.
Biden golfs like he presidents.
I LLOLed.
Oh man, is that really him? He’s the real-life Mr Havenkamp from Caddyshack!
“That’s a peach, hon!”
Dolly, I’m hot today!
Demi………is that the one the Potato is always going on about?
Different Demi.
There is no mistaking theys pronoun.
Fined by who and what enforcement mechanism?
“A Capitol official said that Republican Reps. Brian Mast (Fla.), Beth Van Duyne (Texas) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (Iowa) will be fined $500 after ignoring previous warnings,” The Hill reported.
“Seven other Republicans will be issued formal warnings and would face $500 fines if they refuse to wear masks on the House floor again: Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Lauren Boebert (Colo.), Chip Roy (Texas), Bob Good (Va.), Mary Miller (Ill.), and Louie Gohmert (Texas).”
For the next offense, the three offenders will be fined $2,500.
So ignore this shit. Per the constitution State delegations must be seated.
Yep force the issue.
I’ll send Massive that $500 if he promises to make it rain on the House floor.
And an extra-special fuck you to autocorrect.
He’d probably be cool with that gangsta nickname – “Massive T in da House!”
Oh, that would be brilliant.
Massie: “Madam Speaker, here’s your fine.” [pulls out five hundred one-dollar bills, and leaf blower]
But, giving the federal government and extra five hundred for any reason is a bad idea.
Leaf blower?
Please
OMG. I want one.
Seriously, picture it:
Massie, up in the spectator’s gallery: “Madam Speaker, I have your fine right here” as he pulls out his Ca$h Cannon and proceeds to make it rain.
It would be glorious, treating the fine with all of the seriousness it demands.
I’d deduct it as a business expense.
Yeah, fining Congresspeople for not wearing masks seems a strange precedent. Is Congress allowed to make whatever arbitrary rules they want, and fine their members for violating? Could you be fined for not wearing an American flag lapel pin? Could MAGA hats be mandated? What is the limiting principle here, if any?
The limiting principle is the Rule Of 218 – if you can muster a majority, you can pass any gotdamn rule you want.
Enforcing it is trickier, since the minority is always seeking to seize the majority, and elections are at most 24 months away.
True. I guess that’s always, effectively, the limiting principle of government.
Let’s hope Jugsy doesn’t read about the Russian widow. Watch out Tres Cool!
She’s Jugsy, not Hammy.
We’re talking Tres, not Q. Tres loves larger women. I’m guessing Jugsy has ample size below the waist too.
The fat Russian story reminds me of the time I was in Moscow. I met a rather large American coworker at a cafe near the Kremlin. The doorman opened the door for her and said something like, “Mmm, you are so beautiful”. On the way out he did the same and urged her to come back. I told the story to one of my Russian coworkers and he said, “Jaime, let me tell you something. They did a poll and found that 90% of Russian men love fat women. The other 10% love really fat women.”
And yet there are a lot of hot, thin Russian women.
Indeed there are. Those Wendy’s commercials lied to us.
They all work in Dubai.
Or come here as mail-order brides, like the mother of one of my daughter’s best friends.
OK, OK, she’s Ukranian, but close enough.
Where can I place an order?
At a pop-up ad near you
Seems like those hot Russian gals are like our Native women, by 30 they are no longer young, hot or skinny.
I know at least two that have remained hawt. Both married restaurateurs.
I was once told of a Russian saying to the effect “bone is for dog, meat is for man”.
I was hoping for Weird Al.
“Are you on a diet? Is that what they teach you at that little sissy school of yours?“
“You ain’t fat you ain’t nothin!”
This country has a gun problem.
Damn.
He will never be accused of being all thumbs that’s for sure.
That guy is totally harmless.
(The h is silent)
*Stolen from an earlier tweet.
I can’t decide if that qualifies as armed or not.
Armed, but not dangerous?
I’m going to go out on a limb and say he’s not dangerous.
Gotta hand it to you.
Looks like he’s gearing up for an arms race.
I’m going to finger you as the ringleader of today’s taunting of Swissy!
These euphemisms.
*narrows gaze*
Took me a second
That guy should definitely be wearing some of these pants
The effect would be so much better on him.
Noted white-supremacist and neo-nazi, Vernon Jones, wants to audit the most securest election evar.
Advocating election integrity is damaging our Democracy.
“…but I can’t help but wonder how these authors managed to pluck their study topic directly from the mind of an early ‘00s sitcom creator!”
You know, way back in history when men dragged women around by the hair.
“…and also I’m afraid if I start reading it I’ll actually lose brain cells…”
With a biting wit like that, she simply had to be a writer. There was no other way. It’s a calling.
Sad day, sad news in Minneapolis.
It is bad enough that the local thugs have shot another kid in one of their shootouts, but this girl was the granddaughter of one of the local activists I actually have some respect for. K.G. Wilson has been working to stop violence for a long time. I can’t even imagine how mad he must be.
Actually, the story tells me
I was thinking it was a nut punch free day.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a fist pummeling a human scrotum, forever.
That is very sad.
That is some kind of bullshit there.
“ Lovato certainly doesn’t owe anyone more than they’ve given and yet, they continue to offer up every facet of their life for fans and critics alike.”
I feel so blessed. She truly is Jesus on the Cross.
Sorry, sorry, sorry
They truly is Jesus on the Cross.
Upon they Cross did them Jesus hangle.
Let me just drop this right here.
So so wrong
I laughed
I laugh every time I revisit them. (I think her name is Karen. snicker)
My face looks just like your avatar right now.
*chuckles*
It’s sad that someone with multiple personalities can have malignant narcissism in every one of them.
Over achiever?
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1395076430573211652
LOLOL
It seems every Twitter account has dedicated trolls.
Thicc?
A sign of the end times.
Nearly twenty buildings in Philadelphia are dimming their lights this spring after thousands of birds perished in the city’s largest mass collision in recent history.
The voluntary measure has been coordinated by “Bird Safe Philly” and continues until May 30 with the purpose of sparing the lives of some of the 100 million birds passing over the City of Brotherly Love on their semiannual migrations.
To some, it might seem more intuitive to leave the lights on to help birds steer clear of buildings, but Robert Peck, a senior fellow at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, explains most migrating fowl navigate by light; the sun, the moon and the stars.
Oh, come on…
Fog and rain, which are quite common in spring and autumn, force birds to fly at lower altitudes. When they see the bright city lights, they are often dazzled, disoriented and confused.
“Suddenly they have all these lights coming at them from different directions. It’s overwhelming,” Peck said. “They get turned around and they will fly into buildings and walls.”
That’s nothing new. In the 90’s I had a friend who worked at the Field Museum in Chicago. I got a behind the scenes tour, and in the biology department they had a lot of bird specimens, and many were migrating birds that they’d find at the base of tall buildings because they’d get confused by the lights at night and run into the building.
No need to go hunting, just go downtown and pick up your limit.
And they say cats are bad for the bird popula— *sees dead bird in cat’s mouth* Oh, wait.
Meh. Here in Minnesoda we have the bird-o-nator otherwise known as the Vikings stadium according to the Audubon Society.
I don’t want to upset the nice Audubon lady, but I notice that she and her friends didn’t offer to give the Vikes that extra $1M from their own pockets, so I’m assuming they don’t care that much about the birds.
Also foreigners are no longer allowed to enter Taiwan.
Taiwan, long a COVID success story, sees record surge in cases
Yup
It’s not avoidable in the long term. The Aussies are going to get it eventually even though their government has turned the country into a gulag.
Not if they clamp down harder forever!
Pretty sure the COVID virus is already floating around Australia and New Zealand. The people feeling symptoms are prolly keeping mum about it, since narcing on yourself in a police state is a bad idea.
Singapore is seeing similar I believe.
Let’s be generous and say “triple digits” means more than “barely over 100”. For ease of calculation, let’s call it 240. 240 divided by 24 million people means 1 person out of every 100,000 has tested positive on any given day. Not necessarily sick or even symptomatic.
For this they’ve almost placed the entire nation under house arrest.
Why would the government of Mainland China even bother invading, when they’ve already succumbed to extreme authoritarianism?
Succumbed? The history of the KMT is extreme authoritarianism.
The KMT is currently the minority opposition party. But, the government of Taiwan has only seemed moderate in comparison to the Mainland commies.
Yes, I meant their history as a dictatorship then uniparty control. Taiwan isn’t too far from those days at all.
Succumbed? The history of the KMT is extreme authoritarianism.
Although, this could really just be said for the history of China in general. They had an Emperor (with interregnums of feuding warlords) for thousands of years, and when they overthrew their Emperor and established a Republic they almost immediately descended into civil war. Taiwan is actually doing fairly well, grading on the curve that is Chinese history.
The confirmed number is in the 200s, but they’ve also got a very large gap between suspected and excluded cases (however that is determined, it doesn’t look like it’s all by diagnostic test nor does it appear they have that large of a diagnostic capability). I’d guess their actual numbers are at least 10x (based on the long term difference in their stats) to 20x of that, and running flat after a quick increase.
The zero vision countries are in a much different place than elsewhere. It’s always in the beginning stages thanks to the draconian control, and none of them have immunization rates yet that would allow them to bypass the middle stages.
https://www.cdc.gov.tw/En
If you’re only gonna open up if you achieve the literally impossible…
Winner winner chicken dinner.
Not planning any trips to East Asian countries for next year. Maybe 2023…
Has anyone seen these crazy wheels people are putting their cars? A modern day chariot scythe….
Swangas and Slabs
I’d say the main area where being fat affects men differently from women in an economic sense is that job applicants who are fat men aren’t judged as harshly by potential new employers in the interview process as are far women.
No Fat Chicks,
And its more gentle cousin, “FOA,” Front Office Appearance.
Probably not. But I’d also venture that they still are judged harshly for it, and likely hurt their chances. It’s what we do as a species: we assume things about people based on superficial physical characteristics. There’s probably a good evolutionary reason why we do so, but undeniably we do so.
Not too many fat or short dudes in the C-suite.
Yeah, I was going to say “short” is probably worse for a man than “fat”.
Yes, of the two, being significantly below average would hold you back more than carrying extra weight.
I worked for a guy who we all agreed, “say what you will about Gary’s skills as a manager, he’s very tall.”
Lol
“Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Chicago recently stopped several shipments containing counterfeit currencies totaling $685,000 from China, the agency announced on May 18.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/border-officials-seize-685000-in-counterfeit-currency-from-china_3821566.html
What makes me think they seized way more than that?
Fake news!?
They were able to determine its counterfeit because it lacks the high rubber content that current federal reserve notes have.
Why would China even bother counterfeiting American currency? The US is already destabilizing their own currency faster than anyone else possibly could, and it’s not like China is some poor country hurting for cash.
ISTR that North Korea has been accused of doing some high-quality counterfeiting of greenbacks as a way of getting some much needed funds.
That makes much more sense.
Biden may be senile, but he still remembers how to plagiarize
Nice juxtaposition
New squirrel obstacle course https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DTvS9lvRxZ8&feature=emb_imp_woyt
If that guy makes his living building squirrel mazes I really need to re-think my life choices. In the sidebar was this. I don’t go for that feel good artsy shit at all and it is just a bit dusty here this time of year.
He also glitter bombs package thieves.
Kevin Roche at the Healthy Skeptic has an epic rant about King Walz (Roche calls Walz the IB – Incompetent Blowhard)
“Solidarity with Palestinians from the river to the sea who went on a 24-hour strike yesterday for dignity and liberation.”
https://twitter.com/newyorkerunion/status/1395097125990580224
Totes not antisemitic.
Unavailable.
Guess they deleted it.
Here you go.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/05/19/the-new-yorker-union-expresses-solidarity-with-palestinians-from-the-river-to-the-sea/
“Look, I didn’t mean blood and soil in any racist sense, and my Indian religious symbol is thousands of years old, you bigot!”
I have no idea what “The New Yorker Union” is but a lot of the replies seem to think it’s related to the magazine which seems odd because wouldn’t they just say “The New Yorker”…?
Didn’t the New Yorker‘s workers unionize?
They’ll claim they didn’t know what “from the river to the sea” implies, and that the OK sign is totally racist.
Because why the fuck would you? Instead you go on your Jezebelly site and and flex your Jezebelly monkey spooge muscles and say your Jezebelly things about a topic 1) you couldn’t understand if it smacked your ugly obese face and mussed your blue hair and 2) you made no attempt to educate yourself on? Not when there’s rage clicks to be had!!!!
Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!
Masks or no masks? Northeast Ohio businesses must decide protocols after mandates lift
“Look mommy, it’s one of those free people!” “Dont go near them, they have ideas and are dirty”
https://twitter.com/Slatzism/status/1394029054735626240
This shit is insane.
Best reply
I know this is not the point, but those are crocheted, not knitted.
I’m wondering what the threshold is for when normies start actually pushing back. Because I see a lot of complaining, but who’s going to put an end to what is child abuse in the name of transgenderism?
Well good, that means the only children to be victimized by this are the wards of mentally ill screw-wads, and they’ll be taken away and put in safe homes, right?
Right?
Right?
Stories like this really REALLY test my N.A.P. bona-fides….
A bullshit article about how Canada is “running out of land” is just normal stupid. (They really aren’t running out of land. Just land close to big cities where people can build single family homes. aka density=good).
The only reason I bring it up is because of this photo. I think it is a photo of a French immigrant who says that Canucks should get used to living in apartments like she did back in Old France. But have you ever seen such an abject cuck of a husband?
Uffda. She’s gonna have him in a burka by next week.
I also can’t tell if she is pregnant or just really weird looking.
Which of you bastards (other than Tres) is going to go to bat for her and rate her a would?
Low T is a treatable condition, but like everything else, the first step is admitting that you have a problem.
She has man hands.
Not sure if that’s a gut or if she’s pregnant.
You have arms for a reason, buddy. At that age/size, even the weakest of men should be able to hold that baby for 20 minutes plus before it gets uncomfortable.
If he didn’t clasp his hands behind his back, he might accidently touch her without permission. Do you know the punishment he’d be in for if that happened?
From the looks of those two I’d say a painful pegging would likely be inflicted.
Ewwww.
*unzips*
Go on…
really weird looking
I love how he’s the one toting the baby while she’s the strong provider staring at the camera. Did that dude every have hair?
She made him shave it off.
Nope.
Would
Hit her with a bat
I don’t want anyone to panic but…
I am out of sweet vermouth. I repeat: I am out of sweet vermouth.
I just need everybody to remain calm and we’ll get through this, together.
Oh noes!!!!
Send the kid to the store.
Unless you know something I don’t, not an option.
In truth, I can see the liquor store out the window.
I will improvise, adapt and overcome and have a martini instead of manhattan (after I finish this glass of rye with bitters).
Is it decent rye? If so, on the rocks with bitters is just fine. Wait, you bounce back and forth between Martinis and Manhattans like me? What are you, my evil twin?
*slurps Martini* Out of rye and bourbon.
Sazerac Straight Rye, which is perfectly acceptable by itself (and a good buy).
I will confess it’s a vodka martini and I’m apparently quite low on dry vermouth as well.
I will rectify this situation tomorrow, when I find my BIL some rum and restock my own supplies.
low on dry vermouth
Have a Churchill Martini then.
I have vodka Martinis during the week. Gin is just too strong, alcohol wise.
My spiced rum of choice is Sailor Jerry’s. Most are just too sweet.
*cracks fresh bottle of Mt. Defiance*
Thoughts & prayers.
Aye, ye matey.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk3WLRZyydQ
Flexible.
Oh my.
Glib-fit ?
Though those bolt-ons look positively painful.
For god’s sake, I can’t effectively pleasure myself with music like that playing.
There was music?
Fun fact: when I was a kid one of the school trustees was actual no shit actual card carrying Communist. Got elected after the fall of the USSR even!
My college has? had? a loyalty oath.
Where do you get that card?
Also Canada’s first hate speech laws were heavily promoted by actual Stalinists. One Commie MPP was married to the aunt of Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine
Since I’m on the subject of booze:
Any rum drinkers?
Seeing my BIL in over a year this weekend – missed his 40th and I’d like to get him a nice bottle of rum. I was looking for Dos Maderas 5+3 Double Aged Rum, but I can’t find that in stock around here.
What’s a good, fancy rum? Let’s keep it under $100.
Flor de Caña?
I forget where you are and :. local liquor laws / stores.
Flor de Cana.
https://www.thebarreltap.com/products/flor-de-cana-18-year-old-rum-750ml?
And forgot to ask your minimum.
Rum isn’t really my department but I was looking at it yesterday, even bought a little.
Dark, I assume?
I’m in MA.
Price point should be in the “good rum” territory but doesn’t have to be crazy.
I think maybe not dark – he liked this a lot: https://shortpathdistillery.com/spirit/gold-rum-bird/
I can find the Dos Maderas 5+5, but I shied away from it because reviews say it’s positively wine-like, which is more than he’d like, I think.
I’ll give Flor de Caña a look – that looks promising.
And thanks!
? ¡No sé, yo!, but willing to try. Hope someone more knowledgeable comes along.
Several different ages IIRC. Most common one I see is about $30.
Yes, but I drink white bacardi like a normal person.
Kraken is good if you want spiced dark rum, and the bottle is distinctive.
Heh, that was very tempting yesterday. Just went Bacardi too, for my girl-drink purposes.
How’s your A1C, sis? 🙂
Heh.
Honestly, probably won’t get around to dusting off the blender anytime soon.
@#%&^@ Daiquiris ruined my life. I could be in jail now. But nooooo, I’ve been married forever instead. ?
What you did there is seen 😀
and classic daiquiris are amazing (no blender required).
Meet ya in Key West with the polydactyl kitties.
Would link to KITH “girl-drink drunk” but you all already know where to find it.
I may have been overserved classic daiquiris a time or two.
Sadly, when I was in Key West it was before I accepted daiquiris into my heart.
Going to bed now, ladies and germs. Or glibs and globs, whatever.
PS. Glad you’ve recovered and are covid-negative, spud.
Thanks 🙂
I like 10 Cane, although not sure if that would quality as fancy enough.
It’s somewhere between dark and light, sort of a light straw color. It’s not harsh and vodka-like as light rum, nor is it sweet and syrupy like dark. In terms of strength and body, it’s like a good whiskey.
That may be up his alley – thanks!
This stuff is pretty fricking awesome.
https://www.totalwine.com/spirits/rum/aged-rum/ron-zacapa-23-centenario-rum/p/15593750?glia=true&s=1401&&pid=cpc:Head+Terms+-+Shopping%2BUS%2BCALI%2BENG%2BSPART::bing::&msclkid=b3edc3d0a35316332788a37503ea422e&gclid=b3edc3d0a35316332788a37503ea422e&gclsrc=3p.ds
Ugh. That is one ugly ass link.
Ron Zacapa Solera 23. Great stuff.
I’ll keep an eye out for it, thanks!
Two words
Ron Zacapa
Found this line about a prominent Canadian commie who served on City Council who bolted after the invasion of Hungary rather interesting:
After leaving the party, Smith found success as an entrepreneur in the pharmaceutical industry. He built a chain of discount drugstores, selling his business to Shoppers Drug Mart in 1978.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Smith_(politician)
Not at all racist.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/19/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-interviewing-journalists-of-color-white-black-twitter/
If you are a white journalist, you just have to say her name three times.
Sorry to vent, but why are there so many ugly politicians of both sexes? Don’t they see themselves on camera? Dermatology is mostly non-invasive. Gaah.
“Hollywood for ugly people”
I know, but…
So many nearly painless easily fixable things! Probably tax deductible too. Not asking anyone to undergo a face lift or anything. More like, ever consider having that nevus removed?
Possibly some misguided “keeping it real” signalling.
Their dentists aren’t poor, I see. But anyway, I’ll shut up about it.
Today, in nature – bugs.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SQwS6CG-HYU
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-05-19/covid-lockdowns-worked?_amp=true&__twitter_impression=true
The evidence is clear — COVID lockdowns saved lives without harming economies
…..
But they’re inexcusably coercive against those businesses’ workers. Ending government-imposed restrictions also ends protections for workers — sometimes depriving them of the right to collect unemployment benefits by staying safe at home or reducing their access to publicly funded healthcare.
Red-state governors around the country have recently lined up to show how little they care about the working class’s welfare by unilaterally refusing federally sponsored enhanced unemployment benefits, which Congress funded through the first week of September.
The governors are taking these steps in recognition of the idea that the unemployment enhancement is the cause of a purported labor shortage. There’s no evidence that this is the case, but bar, restaurant and fast-food operators claim it’s so, and they play the tune the governors march to.
That excerpt is impressively stupid. I don’t think I can handle clicking through.
It is a sad day when LA Times can rival Jezebel.
There are so many provably false statements in there I don’t know where to begin.
That article may as well have been written by Gavin’s PR team. You will see plenty more like it as the recall vote gets closer this fall.
I disconnected from the LP after the Johnson/Weld shitshow.
So much so that I wasn’t even aware of the Mises Caucus making a run at a takeover of the party. Seems they got very close and were only prevented by the party trotting out a never used rule on eligible voters.
I just sent them my info. We’ll see what happens.
https://movieboozer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/lucy-football.jpg
Not that I’m bitter.
Johnson/Weld shitshow
Understatement of the decade. Sweet Jesus in a manger, what an embarrassment.
Wait wut? There was a vote?
Check out Dave Smith’s latest podcast with Joshua Smith. He goes into detail.
I don’t think the woketarians will be able to hold them off at the next convention. I intend to help.
Oh that is the one I checked out of last night. Now I feel like a dick. I am used to that though so all good.
Guess I need a password for SP’s zoom.
Ya, it is “check your watch”.
Am I early? Just biked 20Km for my morning commute and am a bit hazy.
6 minutes.
Demi has been looking like theys been trying to impress Tres lately. Maybe that explains the need to go beyond singular.
Password for zoom if needed: VDF1YXJWdTh1VmJoUkZlei9YU0xXdz09