At first I found this David Frum article on gun control and thought David Frum just keeps getting more and more retarded. Them I found something else and thought is Frum that retarded? You decide, I just don’t have it today.
This is my Review of Coors in the Original Yellow Can:
What could possibly be more retarded than David Frum in the Atlantic appealing to statistics with limited context, meaningless comparisons to “other” countries, and underhanded infantilization of women and minorities?
A rock.
The University of Wisconsin removed a 70-ton boulder from their campus after minority students expressed their viewpoint the rock was a symbol of racism.
The University of Wisconsin has removed a 70-ton boulder from its Madison campus at the request of minority students who viewed the rock — which was referred to by a slur for blacks — as a symbol of racism.
Chamberlin Rock atop Observatory Hill — named after Thomas Crowder Chamberlin, a 19th-century geologist and former university president — was at least once referred to as a “n—–head” rock in a 1925 article in the Wisconsin State Journal.
A type of marine rope winch used for nautical applications invented by the Spanish and Portuguese in the 1300s. When full off rope it resembled a type of tree known as negro cabeca or darkhead or blackhead or literally niggerhead in English. Named 300 years before the word nigger was ever used to describe someone of African descent in any form of literature. Also known as a capstan, windlass, gypsy or a bollard with rope on it
That can’t be right, let’s continue the search.
In several English-speaking countries, niggerhead or nigger head is a former name for several things thought to resemble the head of a black person (cf. “nigger“).[1][2] The name is now taboo in normal usage.
The term was once widely used for all sorts of things, including nautical bollards[3][4] and consumer products including soap, chewing tobacco, stove polish, canned oysters and shrimp, golf tees, and toy cap pistols, among others. It was often used for geographic features such as hills and rocks and geological objects such as geodes.[5][6] The term appears in several US patents for mechanical devices prior to about 1950.[7][8] Languages other than English have used similar terms to describe chocolate-coated marshmallow treats.
So they referred to the rock with a racial slur once nearly a century ago when the slur wasn’t taboo, to describe the shape of a rock resembling a human head. This was only done once, and there is no other record. So surely it resembles a human head?
Nope. Its a giant rock. We’re living in a bad sitcom.
Didn’t I already review Coors? No…that was Coors light. I got it because of its history of be available only in the west and being the plot device for Smokey and the Bandit. On some level it occurred to me in the near future smuggling goods across state lines might become a lucrative and entertaining profession. Does that change its bland, watery taste? Not really, but it works great as a liquid to cook brats and it was a 2 for $5. Quite frankly they never claimed to be anything other than what they are so I can respect it. Coors in the Original Yellow Can: 2.0/5
OT already – not sure if anyone posted this earlier in the week (still behind reading up) – but ADV China dudes are on point most of the time. Good vid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xcvDMDg8TY
Sitcom? No, I think sitcon.
Shitcon
Hola Señor!
I had a Coors at the plant after a tour and it was quite good! 2 of 5 seems about right.
We’re living in a bad sitcom.
Word.
I bought a 6 pack of it a few weeks ago. I went to get Sapporo in the cans, but they were out, so I took the Coors, not bad. I mean better than Bud.
See? This is why I love you people.
Ah yes Coors, the original Pisswater, same color going in or comin’ out,
Howdy Kids!
It takes an especially thin skin to be triggered by something some dead person said a hundred years ago.
Job done, American education system.
It’s not real. None of it is from genuine concern about how blacks get treated.
It’s all performance art with enough feigned sincerity to justify what is, fundamentally, acting out their own race-anxiety.
Imagine if someone close to you seriously said, “OMG!! There’s a rock that was once – 100 hundred years ago – called… [whispering] ‘n-word head’ rock!”
You’d have to stifle the laugh or the yawn.
“Are you fucking kidding me?!” is the only serious response.
This is more of Havel’s point about how the ‘post-totalitarians’ make you swallow increasing absurdities. It’s another provocation – another test to see just how far they can go. How much bullshit can they make you swallow before it’s finally enough?
Apparently for a lot of people it is never enough.
Society is 15% deconstructionists, 10% traditionalists, 5% libertarians (small-L), and 70% mush heads who go along with what the TV tells them.
Never being enough is the point. If it’s ever enough, the whole thing runs out of momentum and comes crashing down. It’s about power, plain and simple, and the best way to maintain power is to be in a state of constant crisis.
Yup. Was just thinking yesterday about all the suddenly-woke corporations, and how none of suits running them believe any of the stuff they’re going on about. And everyone has to play along or else get booted out of “polite society”. I dunno how much longer this can go on.
I think many of them are so weak minded they do believe.
Terrified.
It might be a difference without a distinction, but that is what it is. They are so scared of the generation gap that they relinquished control in a real sense.
All I can say is we’ve clearly wondered all other problems in the world, so good job guys, we did it.
Wondered equals solved. Somehow
It’s a demonstration of power. Nothing more or less. We are giving power to people who function at a junior high level.
Just when you think we have achieved peak stupid…
Coors is now hipster juice? Olmec heads and hipster juice for the win!
My daughter recently finished grad school at UW-Madison. I asked her about this rock and she had no clue what I was talking about. So thank goodness this “symbol of racism” that nobody knew anything about is gone now.
There’s some great amounts of stupid surrounding this thing, as well as (shocking) dishonest reporting:
McWhorter and the Black Student Union also made an unsuccessful push to have a statue of Abraham Lincoln removed.
I cannot take seriously anyone who uses the term “people of color” with a straight face, as if it’s better and more noble than “colored people”.
I grew up singing and believing this :
Amen!
#METOO
My 10 month old’s favorite song right now. She lights up when we sing it.
Glib Childrens Choir!
I’d sing it with y’all.
Bloom County covered this about 35 years ago.
Holy crap, I had no idea “people of color” was a thing in 1988.
Binkley’s dad went “fetal from liberal guilt” becasue he didn’t think Jesse Jackson would make a good president. Oliver’s parents had to give him absolution.
I grew up in hillbilly western NY. I never heard the term “African American” until a guy I was dating used it around 1992.
Heh.
I loved the Steve Dallas scrambled brain plot.
That Bloom county is awesome.
Fine. I’ll use black and brown bodies instead.
If they were truly offended by the rock they could’ve just got an artist to carve it into a statue or something. Probably cost the less than contracting out the heavy equipment to move a 70 ton boulder.
Busch is the best of the 30 rack gang.
It is known.
these days it’s Natty Ice,
Y’all are disgusting. Busch. Nasty ice?
Obviously Miller.
Too Sweet,
I’ll get the High Life when the line at the only beer dock that sells Strohs is too long.
“…David Frum just keeps getting more and more retarded.”
Gun grabbers lie. Every word they say is intended to deceive in some way.
No one ever wanted you to be unable to defend yourself for your own good. This retard has been a closet commie forever. I dont know who he thinks he is fooling.
Suthen i did see your post on relative real estate prices. But it really is a question of local cost of living. My house in San Diego is STOOPID expensive, and my salary is accordingly high.
I’ll be taking a pay cut when I move to Nevada, but it’s still more than I’d make in Louisiana as an electric power engineer.
As long as things are reasonably proportionate, it’s all good.
(Which is one of many reasons why a federal minimum wage is a bone headed idea)
You’re absolutely right, Hyex. The interesting thing to watch will be how much -if at all- this new found freedom to work from home is. I’ve seen a few stories in the local papers here about former NoDaks coming back home to raise their kids, but keeping their big city job (and big city salary).
Time will tell if it will happen in significant enough numbers to start screwing up local housing markets.
A lot of companies will cut your salary if you do that.
I don’t know about mine.
Hadn’t thought of that, but I’m sure you are right. And I don’t really see an issue with it.
In hindsight, I don’t recall any talk of compensation in the articles I’ve read, just that their employer agreed to let them work remote. I just made an assumption that their salaries stayed the same.
Many companies have pay scales based on geography.
Maybe some companies won’t cut salary, say if you are still inside the scale for your new work location or the company really wants to keep you, but moving offices always has the risk of a pay cut.
Some bigshots like Google have publicized it.
It matters to me, because I’m underpaid for my location as it is. It would be a big incentive to me if I could change that by moving.
I was going to comment to that effect but I can’t focus my thoughts….my little whippet dog is whining and barking and nagging the hell out of me. I think he just wants me to sit on the couch with him. He has had breakfast already, with gravy on it, so that cant be it. He just wants attention.
I was once bitching about the 2K property taxes I have to pay every year on 1000 acres of timberland. Needless to say the people I was bitching to laughed me out of the room.
I have been looking at N. Nevada real estate (as well as WY, etc) in part due to my buddy in S. Tahoe – some nice options – but I need to text him again and see about a fire/evacuation update.
You can’t deny the goodness of Dee Snyder’s Congressional testimony.
I won’t deny that. I also recognize Dee Snyder is a cunt. Both can be true.
I rewatched it the other day. The Senators questioning him were pathetic. I think expected some drugged out zombie to appear. Dee was polite and coherent. He mopped the floor with them.
Two out of five?!?
Booooo!
Sorry, OT, but I saw this and thought it Glibworthy:
https://www.kshb.com/news/coronavirus/raes-cafe-closes-to-public-opens-as-private-club
Local cafe fined multiple times for not playing along with Corona-panic turns itself into a “private club”. You pay $1 at the door to join, you can suggest menu items, sign in, but no masks are welcome.
I’m going to go just to shake the owner’s hand.
I’m all for those of us who don’t want to play going Galt’s Gulch right out in the open. ALL ‘private clubs’ for the unvaxxed, no masks allowed, pay a nominal fee at the door, become a ‘member’ and check out of the bullshit.
I’m normally don’t frequent establishments which have a dress code, but I’d make an exception in this case.
That is glorious. God bless Rae
The return of the speakeasy
I like it, good on them.
Suggest menu items…can I cook too? I would cook. I would even spring for the ingredients.
Can one really ever OT here?
It’s works great for skirting blue laws too. Why not masks and the other coronaphobia?
I like this place.
That’s an old dodge in dry counties in TX. Pay a nominal fee at a restaurant to become a member and you could order booze. You even got a membership card.
That rock really got inside their heads, dinnit? Along with a few others.
“University of Wisconsin moves boulder seen as symbol of racism”
Geez, I thought for sure that was a satire link.
Back in the 1970s, my maternal grandparents would drive from California to Minnesota to visit for a month every other year. My grandpa would bring Coors for my dad because, at the time, it was better than a lot of other beers. My family found Smoky and the Bandit awesome for that reason.
Smokey and the Bandit is awesome for many, many reasons.
Big mistake. That rock was the only thing keeping the tigers away.
The one thing all activists have in common: “Me! Me! Look at me!”
That shit gets very tiresome after no time at all.
So how many kids complained? Really? There is no listing of complaints. 1 kid complained 4 times? Four kids complained? It can’t be much. Serious college students do not have the time to bitch about a rock they may not have even noticed.
Near as I can tell it was The Black Student Union that complained. And that’s it. My guess is President McWhorter is padding zer resume for a sweet gig in a school or corporation explaining to everyone how racist they are.
And you can bet that the BSU carries outsized power with the administration these days.
OMWC’s tales of the kitchen gave me flashbacks, Man. We spent our youth over the grill for a reason! A reason that I can’t explain…
Fall garden fully planted and ready to grow. Hopefully we get a good harvest this fall.
what did you plant?
Bush beans x3, lettuce x3, spinach x2, broccoli x2, Brussels sprouts x2, peas x3, and carrots from seed.
Butternut squash transplant.
From the spring (and earlier): 2x tomatoes that are pretty worse for the wear, a pepper plant that hardly grew over the summer, a potato plant that survived harvest, a blueberry bush the heat nearly killed, a happy basil plant, and a very happy rosemary bush.
Nice.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/poconos-coal/tamaqua-area-school-board-defies-state-mandate-leaves-masks-optional/article_68faf62e-0d13-11ec-8df4-eb5cf196ea41.html
Good for them.
Tamaqua is an odd place.
Having said that, good for them.
Not ours. In fact, they caved to local “health” providers who claimed they were concerned about being overwhelmed if kids didn’t wear masks. They were never overwhelmed to this point. It’s a small town (<5000 pop). Our school starts on Tuesday. They sent parents an email yesterday afternoon with the change.
Thankfully that was the final straw to get my wife to agree to pull our kids out. She’d been fighting me on it, but she realized they were going to keep making constant changes as the cases spiked, as they obviously will, once kids go back. Not to mention the rules about quarantine and such. Kids would be in and out of class constantly.
Biggest issue is our boys probably won’t be playing hockey this year either. The masks will come back for that as well. I let it go last year because after the first few weeks everyone relaxed and let the players drop their masks below their chins without saying anything.
I laugh at Deblasio claiming schools will be open as usual this year. I mean, plus all the horseshit theater.
I give it a week before it’s full remote again. And I bet that will be the same clusterfuck as last year.
Karol Markowitz (sp?) has been saying something similar since the spring. NYC school system is unprepared and schizophrenic. It’s going to get messy.
Coors would be the appropriate thing to start drinking right now, but q-ette is being so excessively whiny and annoying that I may need something stronger.
Just put a nipple on it.
Coors wasn’t sold here until the mid 80’s.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CK1VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mOEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6732%2C2367789
Something similar in Louisiana, whenever someone went to Texas in the 60’s and 70’s they were expected to bring back a case of Coors, seems crazy/funny now. I had heard something like it was prohibited in LA because of the way the alcohol content was measured (or something like that) but that never made sense. Best guess is that Coors didn’t bribe the right politician.
A late coworker of mine bought a suitcase the perfect size for 2 six-packs of Coors back when Coors was geographically limited.
Too local news. One of the business owners that Gretchen has been harassing during the pandemic.
https://www.woodtv.com/news/ottawa-county/holland-diner-owner-jailed-over-virus-rules-plans-to-reopen/amp/
The diner owner is an American hero.
And an immigrant too.
Just read Scruffys post from last thread about pharmacies not filling scripts for the ivermectin. This is getting so out of control right now. A harmless drug when taken as prescribed is unavailable so now people are going to be forced to figure out on their own how much apple flavored horse dewormer they have to take.
Mostly harmless when taken up to normally accepted limits.
Are they saying this drug is illegal now? Because I don’t how refusing a doctor’s presumably legal prescription is at all ethical.
But it’s a different world now, I guess.
ORANGE MAN BAD is the new FYTW
Just like with opioids, having a prescription doesn’t guarantee dispensing. And running a “practice” on a website advertising for X scripts kind of diminishes the presumed validity of the script. But it’s worked for medical marijuana for years.
There are grey areas around the edges, but pharmacists generally aren’t supposed to modify scrips. Outright refusal to dispense is outlawed in many states and others have additional requirements that pharmacists need to follow when refusing (such as locating a pharmacy that will dispense and directing the patient there to fill).
Of course, since the invermectin refusal is coordinated between the the big pharmacies and the government, there will not be any kind of pushback.
Of course, since the invermectin refusal is coordinated between the the big pharmacies and the government, there will not be any kind of pushback.
Il Duce would be proud.
They told me that if I voted for Trump we’d be ever closer to fascism, and they were right.
In other STEVE SMITH news….
Five of us decided a little drizzle won’t hurt so off we go to the course, 5 holes in, so far so good, then of course on hole #8 the sky opened up, and we finished in the driving rain, Yipppee!
rain golf sucks, but it’s very funny, slipping and sliding, discs all over the place, mud.
/Bring a towel
Was it the best game of your life?
I always assumed the original line was going to be “God damn it!” but they chickened out.
We see any lightning at all, we bail quickly, this place is Gnarly for the stuff,
Glad you didn’t slip a disc.
*raises Tequila*
So they referred to the rock with a racial slur once nearly a century ago when the slur wasn’t taboo, to describe the shape of a rock resembling a human head. This was only done once, and there is no other record. So surely it resembles a human head?
Stupid people follies.
All of a sudden the up/down arrows don’t work on the left side. back and forward are fine, I restarted Chrome, but same thing,
#metoo and that is Brave browser on iPhone.
Laptop Windows 10 Firefox no worky too.
Well you can’t drink all day if you don’t get started in the morning, so cheers, bitches! ???
Hey now! it’s Saturday, I started 3 hours ago, only 4 beers in, but I’ll get there,
Cheers!
What happened? Up/down arrows broken. Half the replies are single character column. Sidebar doesn’t appear to be on.
Notice the comments above? We have the same issue, it’s WP thing I’m sure.
Since everything is single columns except for the first reply, no.
My arrows work fine. I’m still having an issue with counting, though. The counter seems to reset itself randomly. I have to scroll though the whole thing to see what happened. It might be my newish laptop. It’s smaller and I keep making typing mistakes because of it.
Arrows working using Opera
And now they don’t , lol.
Note also that the link color in people’s handles has changed.
Has anyone got the J&J vax yet? I need some reference material for a project involving card stock and some photoshop, any help would be appreciated.
seen this?
That’s my template, I need the pattern of the J and J lot number, not a number, just the sequence,
3numbers, a letter, 2 numbers, a letter. Both the letters are “A”, on mine, I’m not sure if that’s always the case or what different letters they might use.
Thanks, I’ll figure a good random pattern, and some other things,
I found it! now for the next step, did you know I bought a very nice printer for my Photography business? I also bought a large amout of cardstock for my art business.
I have used Photoshop for 20 years now, I’m OK with it.
111A11A
Yeah, I’m not going that route. But I don’t have to make that decision yet so it’s easy to say now.
The only deciding factor will be work. And I can’t see them going evil on this.
For everything else – restaurants, theaters, travel, etc. – I will happily remove myself from society in protest.
It’s just for work, only if I need it, otherwise, Fuck Off!
/not you
I never thought things would get this bad, but to Hell with it, I’m already outcast, may as well have fun and be a, TMI!
Be careful Yusef, the cards are themselves are meaningless theater. Every serial number is recorded and can easily be cross referenced against your name at any time.
I suspect employers are beginning to collaborate with the government on this and serial numbers are being run through the government’s database just like a social security number.
I don’t need it, yet, but practice makes perfect, and I’m already an outcast, may as well go pirate, I have nothing to lose except my freedom, fuck my life, it’s forfeit anyway.
This does not mean I have given up, on the Contrary, I feel like fighting, to Hell with this Bullshit!
JFC, that FBI warning. Reminds me of the video piracy bullshit.
You wouldn’t steal a car.
I did, but I threw away the card as soon as I got home.
Silicone Saturday may or may not be responsible for the Ford Pinto.
https://archive.is/8sVzW
I tapped out at the face diaper picture.
But, at least Yay4Cosplay’s picture was before that abomination. Yay4Cosplay looked really good in her picture.
She is my absolute favorite as well.
I’ve been getting her calendar every year for a few years. Love her looks.
She has pretty eyes but not nearly top-heavy enough for me.
Who gives a fuck. What about opera?
More than the population of Belgium.
Quote heard today from a DHS agent: “we’ve just hit our goal of 1M illegals this year. We give them some paperwork to keep them from being deported and buy them a bus ticket to whichever city they want.”
Does each agent who processes 1K illegals get a free toaster oven?
Plus discount lawn care and maid service.
And a set of Lee Press On nails.
And some Turtlewax.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16051142/no-sex-four-years-wife/
“Gently tell her
how low you feel about the lack of intimacythat you want a divorce.”FIFY.
Maybe she is BBW cowgirling someone who isn’t such a simp.
After 4 years? I’m not sure you are truly anything, but a simp.
It’s normal for sexy times to be reduced over time, but if it’s always been that way, you’re a simp.
Jeez, Wendy couldn’t do the pill, so it was condoms for years after the kids were born, a big hassle. after her Hysterectomy, it was Bunnies ahoy!
that guys a Worthless Beta,
“Maybe she is BBW cowgirling someone who isn’t such a simp.”
*lights Tres signal*
WordPress sucks. That is all.
Well, you know, it could also be that I was doing about 10 upgrades in the middle of the afternoon….
Anyone seen Suthen?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/search-continues-louisiana-man-arm-torn-alligator
An alligator was found with a missing arm? Good Job Suthen!
College footbaw is back, and Alabama is looking like the defending national champions. Miami, on the other hand, is playing like a typical ACC team that’s not named Clemson.
27-3 Crimson Tide at the half.
Flipping between football and tennis and it’s really annoying dodging all the vaccine propaganda on each channel.
Ronald McDonald has died.
RIP
Rest in piece, Willard.
I think the name Willard is due a comeback.
I prefer Ben.
I work with a Willard, but he goes by his middle name.
Amen.
From Wiki:
Seriously?
*pours out a jar of smuckers*
I have the AC off, windows open. So gorgeous this weekend.
*curses under breath after coming in sweaty just from taking the trash out to the curb*
Yup and right on schedule.
Tried one of my chocolate bhutlah peppers tonight for the first time.
Yowza, that’s got some heat.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/sGvs9N_7TXeJjazPTVYasA.LpK43Kno_hh7wgoCEN1EAi
Pretty big pod size too. Here’s one next to a normal sized ghost.
Gorgeous!
KDW lets out his inner authoritarian.
CWAA.
Working with an accomplice and connecting with buyers through Instagram, Clifford sold fake vaccination certificates bearing the imprimatur of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For an extra $250, she arranged for those buying the fake cards to be registered in the New York State Immunization Information System.
I like her.
I don’t like KDW.
It’s a fucking piece of paper not a certificate nor does a printed logo equate to an affixed/raised/embossed seal.
Here’s an idea:
Get the fuck off social media.
It’s easier than wallowing in depression. Ask Naomi– oh, never mind.
Social media isn’t the enemy. Social media is a sewer. SMIAS.
so is there a zoom now or not?