SATURDAY, SAAATURDAY, SATURDAY, SAAATURDAY, SATURDAY, SATURDAY LINKS ALL RIGHT

by | Nov 13, 2021 | Daily Links | 287 comments

I made these look good.

 

Well Glibbies, it’s Saturday evening, so let’s do some linkage!

 

I’m pretty sure there’s a Pornhub channel.

 

I mean, who are these people?

 

And sloopy smiles…

 

How about something vomit worthy?

 

He wasn’t even wearing a red tunic.

 

Hmmm. Problematic.

 

Oh, you know it.

 

 

 

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Spudalicious

Spudalicious

Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…

287 Comments

  1. commodious spittoon

    Who are all these brightly clothed weirdos, and why don’t they cut their hair?

    • Tonio
      • commodious spittoon

        One of my questions stands.

      • Chafed

        How the hell did a Scottish band get Bay City in its name?

      • MikeS

        More successful now, the Saxons moved out of the Longmuirs’ back room to practise in Hermiston at a church. They played a couple of contemporary Kinks numbers but favoured American songs, including a new one: “C.C. Rider” by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. Desiring a better name for the band, they settled on “Rollers”, but needed a more powerful American-sounding term in front of that. Derek Longmuir threw a dart at a map of the United States, landing first on Arkansas. This did not meet anyone’s approval, so a second dart was thrown. It landed near Bay City, Michigan. The band agreed on the name, the Bay City Rollers.

      • Chafed

        That’s stupid enough to be true. Thanks.

    • Aloysious

      The fashions were a Tragedy.

  2. Rat on a train

    I was feeding the cats. The best by date on the label is MAR1923.

    • LCDR_Fish

      vintage sardines?

    • whiz

      Mar 19, 2023?

      • Rat on a train

        Y2K+23?

      • Chafed

        That’s what I’m thinking.

  3. commodious spittoon

    He said they should be of “immense strength but with an underdeveloped brain”.

    And eating crayons?

    • rhywun

      Chris Cuomo?

      • Bobarian LMD

        They named him Fredo.

  4. commodious spittoon

    What I love second of most about Democrats entertaining 2024 contenders for office is that even the ride-or-die Democrats realize Biden isn’t making it to the final push.

    What I love most is that Harris doesn’t even rate consideration.

  5. Ghostpatzer

    The scientist wrote to the ruling Politburo: “The biggest problem is to catch living females.”

    Men everywhere nod in agreement. Especially Pie.

  6. commodious spittoon

    This bar bathroom floor is more piss than tile

    • Rat on a train

      So not piss-poor cleanliness?

      • commodious spittoon

        It was linoleum, but more piss than linoleum seemed

        actually that does sound funnier, damnit

  7. hayeksplosives

    Re: Human-Ape hybrid attempts. It’s a good thing we hadn’t figured out gene splicing back then, because, damn.

    Re: Thanksgiving bans on unvaxxed family members, and the “who are these people?” question. My guess is that many of them are virtue signaling to the pollsters but wouldn’t actually require proof or ban family. And the others pretend to ban them but in reality the people they’d be banning would never attend their parties if asked for vaxx status anyway.

    Re: Meghan Markle. She is waaaaay less popular here than she thinks. The woke left really want to make her “happen” but she’s super unlikeable. And going by “the Duchess of Sussex” is not going to get a lot of American patriot love.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Hayek, that uncle I referred to downthread did not want to get the jab but did so after being told he would not be permitted to see (some of) his great-grandkids unless he got vaxxed. I know it’s only a sample of one, but there are some really unhinged people out there who are absolutely willing to sever long-standing relationships over this.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        This sort of came up in my family recently – not really a ban on the unclean, but my 80yo unvaxxed uncle almost skipped a family gathering because he didn’t want to make anyone uncomfortable. I finally had to go outside the group chat we were using for planning and ping his daughter directly and tell her “hey, we’re cool with him being there, but check with [other cousin] because I think one of her kids might have some health condition.”

        Anyways, he went to the gathering. We were mostly in the backyard, I think he was supposed to wear a mask if he went inside the house but everyone forgot about that rule after an hour or so.

        FWIW, the other family members at the gathering are all hardcore Democrats who Love Science who were absolutely not going to take Trump’s dangerous untested vaccine but were first in line for the shot once Biden was in charge, and the cousin with the kid with a health condition works in public health and has kind of a skewed, hysterical view on the whole pandemic, and even she wasn’t in favor of banning anyone, so yeah, I don’t know who the hell these people are who actually ban family members from their gatherings.

      • Lackadaisical

        Thank God, wouldn’t want to make a decision on our own. Jesus.

      • Chafed

        Are these the same experts regularly caught not following their own rules?

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Hey now, they’re a sophisticated vaccinated crowd, not like the rest of us filthy peasants.

      • Chafed

        Their media cheerleaders never let us forget it.

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      My favourite studio model and her immediate family were informed by the extended family (both sets of in-laws) that they wouldn’t be welcome to Canadian Thanksgiving this year unless they got vaxxed post-haste. Her reply was a polite form of “shove it, you historically ignorant fascist asscracks.”

      Good for her.

      • Penguin

        Yeah, good for Demi Rose.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        Wut?

      • Chafed

        You’re thinking of Count Potato.

      • Chafed

        Good for her indeed. What’s opinion on dating middle aged American men?

  8. Ghostpatzer

    3 in 5 Americans BANNING unvaccinated relatives from family gatherings!

    Got a text from my cousin this afternoon, my favorite (and only surviving) uncle had another heart attack. He’s in the hospital, doing OK, but he’s 88 and who knows how long he’s got left? My next family gathering will probably be his funeral, and OMG that will be a proper shitshow. Large family (16 great-grandchildren at the base of the pyramid) equally divided between normal people and covidiots. If your goal is to implement a fascist state, dividing families is a feature, not a bug.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      As I have said…Democrats must destroy families, traditions, education, community, and the constitution to realize Communism.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Economy, individualism….

  9. westernsloper

    Oh, you know it.

    Nope, not listening to that.

      • Chafed

        Still terrible.

      • MikeS

        ?

    • Spudalicious

      Are you afraid of a little ear worm, sloper?

    • rhywun

      I’m groovin’ to it.

      For the youngsters here, one cannot overstate how massive that song was, in a way that is simply impossible any more.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I thought that song was tragic, because it made me despise the BeeGees for a very long time.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I hated it at the time.

        I have only grown to like it in the last ten years or so.

  10. Mojeaux

    Who’s zooming whom?

    • The Hyperbole

      I’ll start one give me a sec to make a fake link a Zoom meeting.

    • whiz

      Props to Mo for good grammar.

      • rhywun

        Aretha Franklin gives a cold stare.

      • Gender Traitor

        Well, she certainly does now.

        Too soon?

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        Nah, yer good.

    • Animal

      Who’s bein’ true?

    • KSuellington

      Take another look and tell me baby.

    • Tonio

      Thanks, Tulip!

  11. Toxteth O'Grady

    Rat, what do you mean? Who came by earlier for whose vote??

    • Chafed

      Big Vagina Syndrome?

      • MikeS

        Vulvascious

      • Spudalicious

        FLPA.

  12. Scruffy Nerfherder

    The parts shortage is killing heavy equipment manufacturing.

    I’ve put a ban on equipment sales out of our rental fleet because I can’t replace anything.

    • Q Continuum

      Bidenomics.

      • commodious spittoon

        Bidenflation leading to Bidenpression?

    • Sensei

      Smart move.

      How is the repair parts situation?

      RIght now GM has just started selling models with heated seats deleted, BMW has eliminated touch screens on many models, and Tesla no longer uses forward radar and a few days ago started shipping cars with no front USB ports. They are going to retrofit them later at their expense.

      • commodious spittoon

        Is it possible I could get a stripped-down current-year model that’s nothing but an engine and transmission and, you know, whatever else is dumb, inert, and just makes it drive? I don’t want a PC on wheels.

      • Sensei

        No.

        You, me and approximately 100 other Glibs are the only people interested in car that doesn’t have Bluetooth.

      • Sean

        Bluetooth is fine.

        My last loaner had wireless charging. That was nice too.

      • Sensei

        I will cop to 3D printing this for my rolling computer on wheels Model 3.

        https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3554915

        Let’s you use a cheap and well regarded Qi charger from amazon and fits perfectly in my old style center console.

      • Tonio

        Glibs could use an article on 3D printing…

      • Spudalicious

        Tonio! What a marvelous idea.

      • Sensei

        I’ve contemplated it. Do you think there is enough interest?

        The anime one’s I’ve done are while generally fairly light and fun still take over an hour or more to put together. I’m happy to do something more serious on 3D printing, but don’t want to sink tons of time into it for no reason.

        Part of the reason I respect everyone who goes to the trouble of putting content up here!

      • hayeksplosives

        This talk of 3D printing made me remember the GhostGunner tabletop mill that sells for $2500 and is made for taking 80% lower receivers through to 100% complete. Does a few other related things too.

        A group of friends, say, an online community, could theoretically pool resources to buy one and then finish up a lower for each co-owner.

        https://ghostgunner.net/product/ghost-gunner-3-deposit/

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        Smells like a GoFundMe campaign comin’ on.

      • MikeS

        I’ve contemplated it. Do you think there is enough interest?

        Yes

      • J. Frank Parnell

        I’d be interested.

      • db

        Be very careful with the 80%. While it is perfectly legal (federally, IANAL, YMMV) to build your own firearm, you cannot do it legally for another. In other words, the owner must do the work to take it to completion.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Depends on what it is. Hydraulics are next to impossible to get right now.

        Engines are worse.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Hoarder!

  13. LJW

    The VIPee experience

    Never heard of the band guess they got their name on the map.

  14. Sensei

    Some good news.

    Oklahoma National Guard rejects Pentagon’s coronavirus vaccine mandate

    The Oklahoma National Guard has rejected the Defense Department’s requirement for all service members to receive the coronavirus vaccine and will allow personnel to sidestep the policy with no repercussions, an order from the governor that could serve as a blueprint for other Republican-led states that have challenged Biden administration mandates.

    • Chafed

      Interesting. I didn’t know they had that flexibility. I wonder what happens if they get called up.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        States pay the national guard salaries not the DoD. Federal money might get funneled back to states for national guard but there is a difference between active duty Army and national guard activated.

    • hayeksplosives

      Much brave there, Turtle.

  15. Jerms

    I cook Thanksgiving dinner at my house every year. I think I’m going to ban anyone who did get the shot. Sorry ma.

    • Sensei

      That’s awesome! Loved this bit…

      One spring day in 1968, Toppy Topham climbed high up a hydro pole to check a power line in the Junction. It was an ordinary part of his job, nowhere near as risky as his death-defying feats on the banks of the Rhine.
      But on this day, something went terribly wrong.
      Four thousand volts of electricity were suddenly sent coursing through his body. He lost his grip and fell twenty-five feet onto the ground below.
      But *that’s* not how Toppy Topham died either.
      He was rushed to Toronto General Hospital and, incredibly, survived the shock and the fall.

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      Absolutely!

      GO TOPPY!

  16. Trigger Hippie

    ‘According to the results, two in three respondents feel they cannot go home for the holidays without getting vaccinated first. Of the 65 percent who are fully vaccinated, nearly six in 10 (58%) have reportedly cut off family members who refuse to get the vaccine.’

    Hasn’t the CDC(take anything they say with a grain of salt) already admitted that the recommended therapeutic shots do not decrease your ability to transmit the virus? So why the vitriol? Do those pricks Fucking Love Science or not?

    • prolefeed

      It ain’t about Science or science, it’s about hating those immoral wrongthinkers.

    • Lackadaisical

      All unvaxxed can now heave a sigh of relief.

    • Chafed

      That’s right TH. And prolefeed has your answer.

    • Urthona

      Not really. They’ve said it doesn’t stop the transmission, but are still heavily suggesting it reduces it.

      I personally think the data now suggests it doesn’t do that now either.

  17. MikeS

    I clicked on every link, but no way I’m clicking on that music link. Here’s some good 70’s music.

    • rhywun

      There is room for both.

      • MikeS

        I went looking for a BeeGees/Led Zepplin mashup but couldn’t find one. I did find this toe tapper, though.

      • pistoffnick

        Nice!
        Thanks

      • Chafed

        It’s like when chocolate and peanut butter work together.

  18. Tundra

    Hi Spud!

    Nothing wrong with the 70s. Nothing wrong with that song.

    Everything wrong with that first link.

    And no, I won’t be banned from Thanksgiving. I’m hosting.

    • Trigger Hippie

      ‘Nothing wrong with the 70s.’

      Oh, come on. Between Nixon/Ford/Carter, the fashion, Disco, inflation, and the over abundance of pubic hair by both sexes, I’ll take the 90’s as at least their equal if not a clear superior.

      🙂

      • MikeS

        The 80s are the clearly superior decade.

      • Suthenboy

        Thank God the ’80s are in the rearview mirror with all of that superiority.

      • Tundra

        Wrong.

      • Chafed

        MikeS is correct.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I’m too young to have seen 80’s bush…. didn’t see my first one until ’95.

      • Chafed

        Playboy has back issues you know.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Archives are archives. It’s a completely different game when it’s up close and personal.

        Oh to be fifteen, excited, scared, and confused again…

  19. MikeS

    The used tractor business is quickly becoming a crucial marketplace that’s allowing farmers to keep harvesting corn, wheat and soy day and night at a time of insatiable demand from buyers in the U.S. and abroad.

    Nobody ate before the pandemic?

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      It was a different time, a simpler time.

      • MikeS

        Oh, my…

      • Chafed

        George Takei hardest hit.

    • Trigger Hippie

      It’s almost like the overall death rate per 100k population hasn’t really increased despite government manufactured market disruptions that reduce our access to food or something…

  20. J. Frank Parnell

    A friend of mine gave me a bottle of homebrew that a friend of his made, and I just opened it and started drinking it.

    I don’t know what to say about it other than “yep, it’s homebrew” – I can’t tell what style it is, but ABV seems higher than average.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      Might be an attempt at a strong Belgian ale, but the “Belgian” flavor isn’t very strong.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        Ah, I’m informed it’s a 10% scotch ale.

  21. prolefeed

    My brother and my youngest kid have cut me off over the COVID nonsense, my son seems to have recently silently done so … so, yeah, 6 out of 10 losing their damn minds over their quasi-religious beliefs about the unclean seems about right.

    • Lackadaisical

      Sorry to hear.

    • MikeS

      That really sucks. This nightmare can’t end soon enough. I just hope there’s an actual end.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Ouch. Sorry, brother.

    • Chafed

      Sorry prolefeed. That’s awful.

  22. Trigger Hippie

    …Am I coming across as overly aggressive today? I think I might be. I haven’t slept in over thirty hours, my toothache/jaw is killing me, I’m on pain killers and I’ve been drinking off and on since midnight yesterday…I’m sorry. I guess I’ve been a little surly. Throw anything I’ve said since yesterday afternoon out the window. Not completely in my right mind at the moment.

    • Lackadaisical

      I’m sure this will sound dumb, but maybe go to sleep?

      • Trigger Hippie

        I’ve tried, my friend. Between the pain and my natural tendency towards insomnia I can’t seem to manage it.

      • Lackadaisical

        Audiobook? Find a reader with a sonorous voice, always helps me sleep, regardless of topic.

      • rhywun

        I never got past page 1.

        Excellent choice book or audio.

      • Trigger Hippie

        The original audiobooks of the Wheel of Time series seems to calm my nerves. I’ve found the Winter’s Heart book particularly sleep inducing…Perrin is obsessed about his young, selfish, narcissistic, immature wife…yawn.

      • Threedoor

        NPR puts me to sleep.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I should probably try viewing a replay of the ’87 Masters tournament or something….

      • DrOtto

        I just heard some advice on this, just lay down. You don’t have to sleep, but do rest. Hopefully, the sleep comes with the rest, but even if it doesn’t, your body has rested and you should feel better.

    • Spudalicious

      Earbuds and Miles Davis, “Kind of Blue”.

  23. commodious spittoon

    I went grocery shopping again, maskless.

    Nobody fucking cares.

    There’s three points of sale there. One for alcohol, one for groceries, one for cosmetic sundries. I tried all three. Nobody fucking cares.

    I’m not confrontational. I am a very shy man. I availed myself of these plausible confrontations, and nobody fucking cares. They mask up, they put their masks on their children, but nobody thinks to confront the crazy motherfucker who doesn’t.

    I can only conclude that I am a superhero. I am… the Maskless Man.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      That’s every day up here, wanna wear a clown mask? go ahead, most of us never did and never will.
      / I will not Comply

      • commodious spittoon

        The Maskless Man recognizes Willnot Comply…

    • Ted S.

      Why a separate point of sale for cosmetics? Are you at the duty-free shop or something?

      • commodious spittoon

        Cosmetics are a big shoplifter loss, I guess.

        I wouldn’t know, I’m too pretty for compound.

    • ttyrant

      My wife and I have spent the past ten days in Florida for our honeymoon. The contrasts in employee enforcement of customer masking has been interesting. At Universal, you’re supposed to wear masks inside the shops and for rides, but as far as I can tell the employees weren’t enforcing it much.

      Disney was the complete opposite. The employees at all the parks badgered me for not wearing a mask, and a good chunk of them would also call me out on not having it up over my nose. One Karen working at a store in Disney Springs was particularly vigilant.

      Lastly, there are several bars and restaurants down in Key Largo with “masks required” signs on their doors, but I haven’t encountered any actual enforcement down here.

      • Tundra

        Congrats, again!

        How’s mama doing?

      • Chafed

        Congratulations on your wedding.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Congrats!!!

      • UnCivilServant

        For some reason I was expecting the scene from Robin Hood Men in Tights. I know they were referencing the Godfather in that scene, but it was the one that came to my mind first.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Dom DeLuise was the best part of that flick.

      • MikeS

        Dom DeLuise was a giggly goofball who seemed like he would have been a bunch of fun to hang out with.

      • Trigger Hippie

        That’s good stuff.

      • DrOtto

        I was in Las Vegas last week, and that was my experience there as well. Walked all the way from my car to the front desk at the Strat, up to my room and down to a table. Played through half a shoe of BJ before being asked to mask up. Then my drink came and everytime the pit boss would come my way, I’d just take a pull. A couple of tables the dealer would enforce the over the nose shit, no clearer sign to move tables than that. As a side note, a group of about 20 people came marching through the Flamingo chanting “Let’s go Brandon!”

    • rhywun

      Nobody fucking cares.

      They sure do here but I’m seeing signs that some people are over it. Even some maskless cashiers. I live in a part of NYC with few Karens, FWIW.

      I supposedly can’t enter a bar, restaurant, theater, stadium, museum, or club but I have not witnessed any of the theater around that – I have looked through the windows of all kinds of restaurants around here and seen full faces. The papers are full of reports of theater but I suspect it is only being enforced in the trendier parts of town, and at major establishments.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      You poor Americans.

      Ive been shopping/going out almost weekly for 18 months without a mask. Georgia has been a been a great testing ground for no mask mandates nor lockdowns. We have one of lowest death while infected death rates in the USA for most months in the last 1.5 year.

      The media ignores Georgia because we are proof that lockdowns and mask mandates are worse than just letting Kungflu run its course.

  24. Yusef drives a Kia

    I’m texting with a friend right now, in German, quite the challenge for me,

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      It’s almost as bad as speaking Canadian! Sup Festus!

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        Such effrontery.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        You guys sound like Mexicans with weird accent,
        /Cali boy

      • Gustave Lytton

        Dutch is the Canadian dialect of German.

    • Brochettaward

      I can only imagine. You barely know English.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I never said where I’m from or what my native language is, so kindly,
        Fuck Off!

      • MikeS

        ALOL

      • Ted S.

        At least he has a First language.

      • MikeS

        ALOL

      • Trigger Hippie

        [golf clap]

      • Chafed

        ?

    • Ted S.

      Ich finde es gar nicht schwierig.

      • MikeS

        Angeber

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Oh well, try another language,

      • Ted S.

        Почему бы и нет?

      • hayeksplosives

        Grunt like a Neanderthal!

      • UnCivilServant

        As a Neanderthal, I have to say that our language is not simple grunts.

        It’s complicated grunts.

      • Threedoor

        I Second this.

      • rhywun

        Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache

      • Grumbletarian

        Your accent is terrible.

    • MikeS

      ^ hacked by Ted S ^

  25. hayeksplosives

    I’m enjoying watching my Alma mater, OK State, play Texas Christian U. Especially since OU lost to Baylor today.

    The OK State Cowboys might overtake the Sooners in the Big 12 title chase, at least until Bedlam.

    • rhywun

      Every state I am not familiar with seems to have a “State” and a “U” and I can’t tell any of them apart.

      • hayeksplosives

        Most of the “State” ones in Flyover Country started as humble Land Grant universities to try to keep high-potential native students from moving away for college. (Oklahoma State used to be Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical, for ex). So they are heavy in technical majors, architecture, and ag, and not traditionally preoccupied with athletics.

        Vs the “U of Blank” universities, which tried to emulate East coast Uni’s and have always had Humanities, Law, etc. and did emphasize athletics. Many of them weren’t even originally part of their respective states’ Regents programs.

        Over time, even the land-grant schools got good athletic programs too, but they still don’t spend as much on it as the “U of” schools.

        To this day, OU has a better football program, law, arts, humanities, medicine (respect); while OK State has better engineering, architecture, applied science, veterinary medicine, etc. For random reasons that elude me, OK State is dominant nationwide in wrestling.

      • Rat on a train

        Some “State” universities, such as California State University, started as “normal” schools to train teachers.

      • rhywun

        My state has 4 public U’s and a bunch of State’s. The U’s are big, comprehensive research schools while the State’s are more like big community colleges. None of them have athletics worth mentioning although to my surprise my alma mater (one of the U’s) seems to be doing well in football recently.

        Notable athletics are almost exclusively confined to private schools.

      • UnCivilServant

        Given the blurry lines, what counts as a public, private, or state U?

        And does CUNY fall under the state even though it’s not SUNY?

      • rhywun

        Yeah, it is blurry.

        I wasn’t considering CUNY. I don’t know much about it. I think the original “City University” is a flagship of sorts, but it is a shadow of its formal self because of decades of lowered expectations. And there are a bunch of minor branches.

      • rhywun

        formal former

      • Trigger Hippie

        ‘I wasn’t considering CUNY’

        I’m sure you didn’t.

        *Chuckles like twelve year old*

      • hayeksplosives

        It’s probably a historical/regional thing too. Oklahoma loves football but has no NFL team, so college ball is king there.

        I would reckon the east coast had enough other cultural activities and diversions established long ago so that athletics didn’t dominate so much.

      • Rat on a train

        I believe the University of California has 10 campuses and California State University has 23, including the California State University Maritime Academy.

      • Not Adahn

        Loyal Knights of Old Trusty scowl at you from under their hoods.

        And the department of Meteorology is too busy controlling the weather to pay any attention to the pokes.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Okie State will never reach the pinnacle of Big12 football until Mike Gundy forgoes the mullet completely… he’s the Anti-Samson.

      • hayeksplosives

        He’s got it pretty trimmed up today.

      • Trigger Hippie

        *He’s close, yet still sports a vestige of mullet. Until he gives it up completely the Cowpokes will never reach the College Playoffs

        *My completely irrational yet still to be disproven hypothesis*

    • whiz

      Good luck to OSU, let’s humiliate Oklahoma on their way out of the Big 12.

      BTW, did you happen to run across physicists Satya Nandi or Kaladi Babu at OSU? I’ve collaborated with them, and have known Babu since grad school.

  26. Yusef drives a Kia

    I run a monthy phone plan, no contract, and it has served me well fot ten years or so. Today I went renew service and a big ad stuck itself in my face,
    Free phone service if you are on the dole, i am so i got approved. Check this out, I only pay for minimal service, just what I use, 22$ a month, but the GOV plan is unlimited everything, a 5 gig Hotspot, all the bells and whistles, all free! reading the Boilerplate I notice that the Gov pays up to 75$ a month for your phone, so Net10 is taking full advantage, charging the Gov the maximum, when I don’t even need it,
    Screw You Taxpayers!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWEnqC1uPu0

    • MikeS

      Whoa! What a viewpoint!

      alol! Thanks Yusef. Funny clip.

    • rhywun

      Party at Yusef’s house!

    • hayeksplosives

      Awesome!! About time these programs help serving people instead of entitled folks who plan on NEVER getting off the dole!

  27. The Late P Brooks

    The tax code incentivizes farmers who’ve turned an annual profit to use some of that money to upgrade their machinery before the year is out.

    *tears hair out*

  28. MikeS

    Just alol’d at an old joke and thought I’d share

    Man & woman sitting at a bar, man turns to the woman and says “would you like to go to my place and have some fun?”
    Woman says, “not on your life, I don’t even know you”
    Man says, “if I gave you a million dollars would you come over and have some fun?”
    Woman says, “well, for a million dollars maybe”
    Man says, “how about $100 then?”
    Woman says, “what kind of woman do you think I am?”
    Man says, “we’ve already established that, now we’re just settling on a price”

    • Chafed

      That guy needs help.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Archive papers say the Kremlin chief demanded these mutant warriors be “resilient and resistant to hunger”.

    Not necessary if they are perfectly happy to cannibalize their dead comrades.

    • Threedoor

      The army wants everyone to be an emaciated waif. My 1SG was getting on me about my weight when we were in Iraq and I told him that the skinny guys would
      Fall out in a real war and guys like me would eat them. He removed himself from the conversation.

      No doubt one of the many reasons I never got to go to the board.

  30. dbleagle

    Good day sailing but the Kina (aka south) winds brought up the volcano fumes and particulates. Tomorrow the low coming from the north will bring rain and maybe lightning.

    Tonight’s dinner will be grilled ahi steak with pesto and a salad. The wine will be a Sardinian red.

    • UnCivilServant

      Made from real sardines?

      /jk

    • Brochettaward

      Fish isn’t a steak.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Subway begs to differ. In fact, according to Subway, chicken, beef and pork is tuna.

      • Sean

        ?

    • slumbrew

      A Hawaiian minus – no wineries. I mean, we went to a “winery” on the the Big Island but… blech. I’ll cop to being snobby about fruit wines.

      ( Yeah, yeah, grapes are fruit – you know what I mean)

  31. Gustave Lytton

    Takeaways from the Clinton American crime story:

    Hillary is the victim.

    Brett Cavenaugh is a despicable person.

    (from the slant of the show)

    • Gender Traitor

      Is she claiming he assaulted her in high school too?

    • MikeS

      What does Brett Cavenaugh have to do with it?

      • Gustave Lytton

        He was one of the staff attorneys working for Starr.

      • MikeS

        Ah. Not Watergate, but still.

    • Chafed

      What channel is this on?

  32. Chafed

    I’m watching Machete Kills. Charlie Sheen is credited as Carlos Estevez. I love it.

    • UnCivilServant

      Well, that is his name.

      • rhywun

        Huh. I had no idea.

      • slumbrew

        Like his brother, Emillo, and his father, Ramon.

      • rhywun

        I was never interested enough to puzzle that out.

      • MikeS

        I always assumed Charlie and Emilio had different fathers. Today my trivia prowess has improved a tish.

      • slumbrew

        Imagine a guy named “Martin Sheen” calling himself “Ramón Estévez” these days – so much howling would ensue. He’d be the next Rachel Dolezal.

      • rhywun

        I’d think the reverse. Ramon would be woke-shamed for changing his name to Martin.

      • MikeS

        ^ this ^

        I’m surprised Ramon and Carlos haven’t been canceled for White-washing.

      • slumbrew

        “Something, something, proof that minorities have to deny their heritage in order to get by…”

        Give me a few more minutes and I’ll have a complete New Yorker article.

      • slumbrew

        (hint: it’s always Whitey’s fault)

      • MikeS

        I smell a Pulitzer.

        (hint: it smells like shit)

    • Chafed

      OK. This movie had Mel Gibson playing the villain and a cameo by Elon Musk at the end. It was completely, deliberately over the top. Recommended.

  33. Tundra

    I just flipped on the WIld/Kraken game.

    Seattle’s arena is called Climate Pledge Arena.

    *sighs*

    • Brochettaward

      Climate Pledge Arena is the most progressive, responsible, and sustainable arena in the world.

      In partnership with Amazon, Climate Pledge Arena will serve as a long-lasting reminder of the urgent need for climate action. It might sound ambitious—but that’s the point.

      We’re all going to be dead in 20 years when the entire continent is taken back by the rising seas. So how long lasting will it really be?

      • MikeS

        It’s ambitious!!11!!! How did you miss the point?!

    • rhywun

      Can you imagine trying to maintain a straight face approving that?

      Sigh… I just tuned in Pluto TV and I had forgotten that every single commercial is NYC vaccine propaganda. I really need to stop watching television.

      • Sean

        Watch more porn.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Gets boring after five minutes.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Heh. If the arena was truly worried about the climate it would close itself.

      • rhywun

        That’s what the indulgences are for.

        The funny part is the woke/left will never stop hating Amazon no matter how hard they virtue signal.

      • Chafed

        Nor will stop trying to exact a tribute.

  34. MikeS

    @Chafed

    Am I imagining things, or have you said before that you are diabetic?

    • Chafed

      You are imagining things.

  35. commodious spittoon

    Anyone else think Michael Malice looks like Ed Norton?

      • commodious spittoon

        Be honest, he’s a dead fucking ringer.

      • limey

        MALICE SMASH

  36. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam
    whats goody

    • Suthenboy

      Good morning Sir. What’s good? Life.

      It is Sunday…lay-about day…well, aside from washing cars, fluid and tire pressure check up. I am going to wait until it warms up for that.
      In the mean time I am going to toss some stuff in a pot. Basmati rice cooked in chicken stock: 1 lb ground beef with garlic, kitchen bouquet, cayenne pepper: 1 lb Savoie’s dressing mix: chopped sweet bell: chopped sweet onion: lots of chopped green onion: a few other embellishments like coriander, chopped pickled jalapeño, and sweet basil.
      Simple dirty rice. Yum

      • westernsloper

        +1 cap full of…….?

  37. UnCivilServant

    Morning, Glibs.

    At least I finally stopped waking up to clean more and just woke up for the day.

    • Suthenboy

      Ugh. I know what you mean. I let things get away from me recently and now I am playing catch up. I am nearly caught up but I saved the worst for last: the garage. *sigh*
      At least I put a dent in it already, tomorrow more hammering at it.

      • UnCivilServant

        There’s always more to do. I’m focusing on one area right now with the one rule that I can’t make it cleaner at the expense of any other area.

        So far it’s been working.

    • Sean

      Mornin y’all.

      • UnCivilServant

        How goes things in your neck of the woods?

      • Sean

        Everything is good. I have 9+ lbs of meat to grill today – split between pork and beef.

        We might have too much food this week.

        #NoRice

        How about you? Cold enough up there?

      • UnCivilServant

        Cold? No, it’s 39 degrees out.

      • Sean

        Huh. Couple degrees cooler down this way.

        Which is “cold” enough for me.

        Time to dig out the fingerless gloves. ?

    • limey

      As I understand it, there would seem to be the strong possibility that this makes them dependent on boosters for life, i.e. get ’em young. Of course I must be a far right conspiracy nut for even attempting to articulate such a thought. You mustn’t believe such extremist nonsense!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I thought it was my cat.

      • Gender Traitor

        ^This.^ Every time I walk down the hall. I’m just lucky he hasn’t tried it when I’m going down the basement stairs.