There was some confusion in the Sloopy/Banjos household as to links responsibilities combined with an alarm snafu that resulted in an open post incident this morning. But honestly, there was nothing of note that happened yesterday aside from flag happy officials ruining the Cowboys/Raiders game. So I leave for you an open post, do with it as you please.
What am I supposed to rage about with no direction?!
Since nothing new, rage against the usual.
Hope no one had turkey drama.
It was a little dry but not worth screaming at anyone over.
Put more gravy on it.
From a spray bottle.
*points to Twitter*
I’m sure you can find something.
Against a machine? Just pick an appliance or something… 😉
*shakes fist at can opener*
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Nice.
Leaving libertarians unguided is like teenagers/car keys/whisky. Something will happen and you shouldn’t be surprised. That’s why we need more laws and regulations!
Kamala’s 500 $ cookware is the old story of pigs and lipstick. It ain’t gonna do much.
“I’m done building settlements in Fallout 4.”
-me
*Starts build a new settlement in Nuka World*
building
building settlements – how very unlibertarian
Free guns for everyone!
Free trade. No business licenses. No building permits. No code enforcement. No taxes.
What could be more libertarian?
That’s when you shoot the neighbor dead for not trimming the branches on his tree.
“I am the HOA!”
Judge. Jury. Head of the Seasonal Decorations Committee.
The residents should be fined for not shoveling their driveway and sidewalk. Then you’ll have Libertopia.
/Nikki
Orphans doing the construction?
You need a vaccine mandate in that neighborhood.
-Cato
Yeah — I build less settlements and more turret farms than anything else. And try to figure out where to put *my* bed and *my* stuff in such a way that the settlers don’t “borrow” stuff all the time.
I left the lighthouse, the drive in, the boat house, and Croup major as “my places”. Most of the rest are built up.
On the plus side, I have more caps than I’ll ever use.
My name is Nuka,
I live on the second floor….
Since we’re talking gaming — I’ve been banging my head on https://store.steampowered.com/app/1194590/Star_Dynasties/ a bit this past week. Glimmers of fun covered in a bit of annoying — much more political than most strategy games I play, but the RNGesus is sometimes really out to get you and some of the game mechanics aren’t well explained (you go to attack a 0 strength outpost you’re at war with, and suddenly you can’t even call up all your vassals — while the enemy pulls in half the known galaxy.. I think it is maybe Action point related, but I’ve never really gotten it to make sense). That the player can craft their traits and try to get the perfect setup — then drop dead and have their idiot heir take over does amuse me, though.
That the player can craft their traits and try to get the perfect setup — then drop dead and have their idiot heir take over does amuse me, though.
Have you played any of the Crusader Kings games? Very much the same thing can happen. I had an heir I figured would be great when his turn came about, but it turns out I also had an evil ambitious uncle who had that heir and others killed, leaving a 4-year old girl as the ruler (my character then). She managed to survive a few more attempts on her life, had to cede a bunch of land to vassals who were not fond of the thought of bending the knee to a girl child, When she made it to adulthood I managed to find a decent matrilineal marriage, then she turned into Joan of Arc and started winning wars against all those disloyal vassals, while plotting against her wicked uncle until she finally was able to send him to prison and execute. Now in the twilight of her reign her empire is vast and prosperous. The land will not see her like again.
I think I looked at 2 at one point — but never really got into it. If I recall correctly, I got mentally tired just trying to read the manual + various guides to even start to have an idea of how to play. Maybe some day.
A “Sound the alarm! The Redcoats are coming!” alarm?
Morning all — no link to share, most of the news sites I scam have stories that are more stupid or “Duh!” than anything else (like Kamala spending $500 on some cookware in France… her money, who gives a crap?!?).
Legitimate query if Ozy happens to peruse — I read one article that implied *all* the vax mandate lawsuits are being lumped together in the 6th Circuit proceeding (it specifically mentioned the Medicare funding variant as opposed to the OSHA variant). I figured if anyone would know if that’s true, you would sir. Obvious reason for asking — it would explain why the contractor mandate ones are so unreported and would fit with the whole Procurement Act can’t be stretched any more than whatever-the-OSHA-act-was-I-can’t-remember logic. Just curious.
Hope everyone had a good Turkey Day — ours was uneventful as expected. Not expecting much out of the weekend either.
IANAL (but not in real life) but it seems to me that they want it that way so that every argument can be struck down by a single decision. Feeling cynical, today is Black Friday after all.
Now there is a meme – Black Pill Friday.
All the cases on appeal are being heard by the sixth circuit Court of Appeals. This happened by random assignment under an existing procedure.
Yeah — but I’ve never heard a peep about the contractor mandate ones even getting an initial decision, much less being on appeal — so that’s why I’m not sure if they’re lumped in. One would think the press might report on something that affects millions of US workers, but nah…. it’ll be fine apparently…
“her money”
Assumes facts not in evidence.
Not *ALL* lawsuits against the vaccine are consolidated in the 6th. Just the govt v. govt ones is what it looks like to me. Private plaintiffs can’t be forced into that.
It has to do with the statutory mechanisms that the states are suing under. That’s also why they get to go direct to the circuit courts vice into a fed’l dist court first.
So the most direct answer is “Nope,” there are a whole slew of lawsuits not implicated by what the Media is reporting.
A federal judge has already found that the BioNTech and Comirnaty vaccines are *NOT* interchangeable – and yet nothing is reported and the beat goes on. It’s just being ignored as far as I can tell.
We are living through a lawless regime and I don’t think people have really caught on to it yet.
Joe Biden and his puppetmasters absolutely do not believe that they have to follow the law. From the CDC rent eviction moratorium that he openly admitted wasn’t constitutional, yet did it anyway, to the OSHA and Procurement Act mandates, they don’t give a flying fuck. I don’t think the judges have caught on yet, either.
The Judges are in on it.
Festus – My mind has already gone there. I’ll just say I don’t think it’s possible that *ALL* federal judges are “in” on it. But are there “team” loyalists among the federal judiciary? Oh, yeah. No question. Hence why litigants forum shop and politicians screech about The Trumpenstein Monster getting to appoint so many federal judges. The DC establishment absolutely hated that Trump was doing what they wanted to do to the federal judiciary.
Thanks for that Ozy! *stops batting moths away from head*
Anyone who followed the Flynn case cannot doubt this.
In the category things on old takes exposed I don;t understand but after a google this one is for sloopy
https://twitter.com/OldTakesExposed/status/1463905395244769283
Also what the fuck is an egg bowl?
A special New Years Day game played by Division II teams?
Division II – how many divisions are there?
When football became integral to college funding, it trended towards infinity.
Picard sees four divisions.
In Harold Lloyd’s 1925 silent The Freshman, one of the captions reads: a football stadium to which a university has been attached.
How many would you like, Sir? We have….
Go Banana Slugs!
Shit, they’re division III.
Did they actually field a football team? I thought they only played table-tennis and soccer. You know, acceptable communist sports.
From Wiki: ‘There are fifteen varsity sports – men’s and women’s basketball, tennis, soccer, volleyball, swimming and diving, cross country, and women’s golf. ‘
Huh, guess not. Also, I’m no math major but I think that’s a bit less than fifteen.
They’re showing the grouping poorly. It is 2 x 7 + 1 — (men + women’s) x (basketball + tennis + soccer + volleyball + swimming + diving) + (women’s) x (golf) if I read it right.
The best English grammar (teh debil!) parsing yields fifteen sports, “Men’s and women’s” modifies “basketball, tennis, soccer, volleyball, swimming and diving, cross country,” so seven sports in which they field both a men’s team and a women’s team, plus golf in which they only field a women’s team.
Damn your nimble fingers, SDF-7.
I was going to add that this is why I always bust my writers’ balls (looking at you, OBE) about precise use of modifiers.
smdh – I set up a joke about UCSC culture and get a response about actual sports, and grammar.
Yeah, I thought that might be what they meant. I just think of it as eight varsity sports spilt between the sexes.
When I was stationed at Ft. Ord in the ’80s/’90s, I played for a lacrosse team (sponsored by Bud’s Pub, Carmel By The Sea) comprised of officers from the Naval Postgraduate Institute, me, and one other enlisted soldier from Ord. The UCSC Banana Slugs fielded a team that was in our regular rotation. They may win the games, but we ALWAYS won the post-game parties.
Yo, the South African covid variant is the news of the day.
Everyone get another five pricks. That’ll help.
5?
Did you hear about the guy that had 5 dicks? His pants fit like a glove.
?
I think I saw something about that yesterday — and that it seems particularly prone to dodge the mRNA vaxes regarding the protein spike handling.
Which one would think would drive home just home much these “vaccines” are overblown flu shots — useful for what they can do, but not a panacea. And I’d be willing to bet that the normal human body reaction to the virus is better over variants (because that’s what we’ve been counter-evolving in wars with viruses to do since the beginning of biology and all…).
But yes — doubtless it will turn into an excuse to lockdown harder and jab more. Sigh.
I’ll say it again – my hypothesis (for which there is more than a little evidence is that the jabs cause these subsequent “cases” of Covid. That’s why the “vaccinated” start “catching” Covid. It’s nothing more than a long-term adverse affect of the shots showing up, but it gets shoveled in with “Covid.” This is how you get lockdowns forever – a vaccine that causes/has the same etiology as the disease it’s supposed to cure.
Would not explain pcr positive tests
Could those be explained by ADE or other proposed enhancement mechanisms that would cause relatively minor/unnoticeable infections to grow relatively unabated?
The two plausible* mechanisms I keep hearing as potential causes of the vaccine risks are 1) S1 spike subunit cleaving and getting into the cardiovascular system, causing damage to various organs, and 2) ADE based on certain mutations in the spike protein interacting cooperatively with the vaccine-generated antibodies to gain access to cells more easily.
*not an immunologist, no clue if theyre actually plausible or just taking advantage of my ignorance
Cool! Five pricks means five chicks at the same time! Right?
Five pricks means five guys trying to get with the one hot girl at the party who then just make asses of themselves before she leaves to go fuck her older boyfriend the next town over.
/small town teenage memories
Aww… You just brought up a painful memory. Well done!
The fucking EU considers the vaccine expired after 9 moths 🙁 . I don’t want a fucking booster
9 months? That’s like a lifetime.
^ This was noted, jotted down and sent up the chain of command.
You just made me check. Hasn’t been approved from what I read. But I guess that’s the expectation?
Yes.. I expected it to be the case based on the news
+1 Henny Penny
Everyone get another five pricks. That’ll help.
Only five? You must want people to die!!111!11
The Strange Career of Paul Krugman
How a trash-talking neoliberal economist harmed America by vilifying strategic trade and industrial policy
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/paul-krugman-michael-lind
Trying to summon Winston’s Mom? I thought that involved waving a $100 bill out your front door instead of invoking the Krug-Beast….
The $100 bill should be attached to some fishing line.
Articles like that one summon Winston.
And since it is an open post — Morning Sloopy and Banjos. In your honor.
And just because it might bring a smile to peoples faces.
Thanks! I needed that!
It’s never too early to panic
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Israel is “on the threshold of an emergency situation” on Friday after authorities detected the country’s first case of a new coronavirus variant in a traveler who returned from Malawi.
The Health Ministry said the traveler and two other suspected cases, all of whom had been vaccinated, were placed in isolation.
A new coronavirus variant has been detected in South Africa that scientists say is a concern because of its high number of mutations and rapid spread among young people in Gauteng, the country’s most populous province.
At a Cabinet meeting convened Friday to discuss the new variant, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said it is more contagious and spreads more rapidly than the delta variant. He said authorities were still gathering information on whether it evades vaccines or is deadlier.
“We are currently at the threshold of an emergency situation,” he said. “I ask everyone to be prepared and to fully join in the work around the clock.”
They know this, based on a handful of cases.
SCIENCE!
https://mobile.twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1464138256203886592
Banning flights from South Africa, while importing refugees non stop. Science!
*insert Picard “Not This Shit Again” pic*
Happy day to all. Has anyone been trampled to death in a mad rush to purchase the one discounted television set that the big box store had in stock?
I am still upset I missed the laptop I wanted to buy on Romanian Black Friday
You need a looting crew. California style.
No trampling, but I picked up a couple discs to replace ones I lost and an air fryer for my dad for Christmas. I did that all from the comfort of my bed.
what did you get? I need a fresh Sidewinder
A pair of “teabread” champion teebirds. I only have a clear one right now after throwing a yellow one into the swamp, so I picked up a pair of bright red ones from infinite. I’m sick of my clear, yellow, and green discs disappearing into the ether.
I was at the gym and the grocery store this morning. Both were delightfully empty.
A visionary Crying facePartying face (Enver Hoxha, “Imperialism and Revolution”)
https://twitter.com/kimilsung420/status/1463631458728394760
I’m pretty sure Albania’s greatest contribution to the world was John Belushi.
Rate My Plate
@ratemyplatenow
Breakfast butty by Jonathan O
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1464186427638493184
Rate My Plate
@ratemyplatenow
Tongue, Stock and Danish herring by Nicola B
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1463537959051960323
Delicious, except it looks there might be tomato catsup on there, so I would put it into the garbage.
What’s the Difference Between Ketchup and Catsup?
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29649/whats-difference-between-ketchup-and-catsup
Good question.
Carbs aside, I don’t do mushrooms.
why?
Mild allergic reactions when I was young. Avoided since.
what kind of mushrooms?
No idea. It’s been decades.
Picking at scabs, our new national pastime
More sobering still, the yarn often spun in the US doesn’t mention the fact that Indigenous people’s encounter with English colonists was marked by incalculable loss from everything from genocide to disease and theft of land.
“As a holiday, Thanksgiving began in 1637 when it was proclaimed by governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony to celebrate the safe return of the men who had gone to fight against the Pequot in Mystic, Connecticut,” the journalist Matt Juul noted in 2014.
Juul explained, “The fighting led to the enslavement and massacre of over 700 men, women and children from the New England-based tribe, a bloody precursor to what would be centuries of strife for Native peoples in the US.”
——-
Established in 1970, National Day of Mourning turns the fourth Thursday of November into something more honest. Many Indigenous people use the day not only to remember the suffering inflicted in the 1620s but also to point out the struggles that Indigenous people continue to face today in the form of, on top of so much else, violence against women and girls.
If we blame the Pilgrims for violence against women and girls on the Rez today, we don’t have to take a hard look at what is really going on.
Funny, my Cherokee tribe member friend was just bragging on Tuesday about the huge Thanksgiving feast he was going to be hosting for his family.
Everyone in America claims to be Cherokee. Hell, my American wife claims 1/32!
I’ve seen his tribal membership card. I knew his dad, too, who was nicknamed “Chief.”
Is he stoic and gruff?
Matter of fact he was. Don’t know if that came from being Indian or from his twenty years in Navy retiring as a Chief Petty Officer.
My part-Lakota friend and his family also enjoyed Thanksgiving Day together.
http://mayflowerhistory.com/letter-winslow-1621
Excerpt of Letter from Plymouth Colony back home to England, 1621:
This isnt even picking at scabs. It’s tearing open completely healed wounds that no one remembers or cares about.
I come from the melungeons. Do I get extra bonus points for having black AND Indian in me?
Whatever your kink. We’re not here to judge.
Do I get extra bonus points for having black AND Indian in me?
If it happens while you are bent over a pool table in a bar with sticky carpet then yes.
Hook set and reeled right in.
What’s the Difference Between Ketchup and Catsup?
Intellectual property law?
thanksgiving wine
https://twitter.com/jzux/status/1463910970825355274
Thanksgiving whine: P Brooks’ linked article in comment 13.
The real question is who is hungover this morning?
Also do people have to work the day after thanksgiving?
It’s usually optional for those of us in the construction trades.
I was supposed have four day weekend but it rained Wednesday so I was going to work today to make up for it but it’s too cold and windy to paint a house exterior today. Looks I’m working Saturday.
Careful, you’re horning in on Rufus’ turf there.
US financial markets are open.
People in retail.
By days end, we investors may wish the stock market was closed today.
Pie’s Krugabe link reads like Winston wrote it.
A few paragraphs in. Not entirely wrong; not even close, but annoyingly sweeping in its generalizations.
Winston is Krugabe! Krugabe is Winston!
Does explain why Winston’s Mom knows him so well….
https://ktla.com/news/customers-left-without-thanksgiving-meals-after-rancho-cucamonga-boston-market-sees-no-show-of-workers/
That’s worse than my Boston Market story yesterday.
Where was the manager, DM, RM etc.? Sounds like just having 1 person there to explain the situation, give out whatever orders could be filled and issue refunds would have gone a long way to alleviate the problem.
California, right? They should of just smashed the windows and grabbed their shit. BM has insurance. 😉
When my gf called our third Boston Market yesterday, it was the regional manager who answered the phone. The RM was very surprised to hear #2 store wasn’t doing in person ordering. Someone may have gotten in trouble…
“What are they gonna do, fire me?”
Maybe they were playing roof hockey since they weren’t even supposed to be there that day…
I hope they have more than one hockey ball…
vit had links here a piece on the history of the importation of the prussian educational model to the united states. i think its worth reading and basically agree with it although i think some arguments need more context
in his essay vit quotes a report from Michigan State University sponsored by the Department of Education
this seemed mildy insane to me so i did what any normal person would do and sat down and read the entire report
you can find it here
first, this report–published in 1969–feels like pure unadulterated peak 20th century managerialism
it’s full of Plans, Orders, Schemes from an order transitioning from industrial society to postindustrial society. the new order struggling to be born. a time of monsters
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1463840763029037057
long thread
Worth remembering that MSU was up to its armpits in Vietnam. Trained a lot of secret police in their law enforcement programs. Fully invested in the notion of ‘the best and the brightest,’ it’s no surprise this was going on in the Education Department. I arrived there in Fall of 69; the cracks were beginning to show. It was a very energized time, and much of the energy was directed against the old school leadership. Sadly, too much of that energy was directed at supplanting it rather than eliminating it.
Most revolutionaries don’t want to throw down the system, they want to climb atop it.
Strawberry Statement?
Isn’t It THE Michigan State University?
No, I think Ohio State is the only sports franchise with a university attached that is so far up its own ass to insist on that sort of preening.
Well they obviously spent many years being confused with Ohio University.
High Slit Dresses Haul Part 2 by Valentina Victoria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN7WizTAEMc
Beach Yoga with Melspirations + AllwaysAsia!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwmWBQKcrok
Comedy gold
At universities, the recent acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse should be an opportunity to study a divisive case that sparked complex debates about issues as varied as self-defense laws, guns, race, riots, the rights of defendants, prosecutorial missteps, media bias, and more. If administrators were doing their jobs, faculty and students would freely air a wide variety of viewpoints and have opportunities to better understand one another’s diverse perspectives. Instead, many administrators are preemptively imposing their preferred narratives.
Teaching students how to think and not what to think? That went out with Crazy Horse.
Maybe this exposes my cynicism, but I don’t think that such conversations would be productive for the average college student these days. There’s a level of maturity, humility, and understanding required to get results from open-ended discussions like this. If you don’t have the logical framework required to evaluate assertions and support or rebut them, then it’s all just an ornately ritualized pissing contest.
I knew I was old, didn’t think I was that old.
What “complex debates”? Everyone I’ve seen who’s mad about the verdict has no grasp at all of the facts of the case. They firmly believe he picked up an AR-15 – which right there proves his intent, because AR-15s are specifically made for mass shootings, that’s their only possible use – threw it in his car, drove a vast distance across muh state lines to some town he’d only seen on the news, and started random protesters that were just standing up for the rights of black people, and then he got let off by a good ol’ boy judge because he’s white. When you start pointing out that these “facts” are media-hype bullshit, they just get mad.
I didn’t know Boston Market was still around. The ones in Indianapolis all were shut down, last summer. I haven’t seen one in years.
The two closest to me are now defunct. ?
Both are now Wendy’s sites. Technically, one is a Wendy’s & Chipotle combo, with a third not yet inhabited store front.
Yeah, I knew of one in Indianapolis when I was in high school/college, but I went there maybe twice in a decade. Never really got the appeal.
They’re still around the KC metro area but I see less every year it seems. The one in Midtown was turned into a Raising Cane’s a few years ago.
The one in Liberty closed over a decade ago.
I do believe I’ll have a slice of pumpkin pie and coffee for breakfast.
╰(*°▽°*)╯
I promised my kids I’d make punkin pie today.
Diesel Worth $2 Million Stolen From US Base In Romania
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/diesel-worth-2-million-stolen-from-us-base-in-romania-2623940
Why in the ever living hell do we have a base on the Black Sea in Romania in the first place? Romania is in NATO — even if there’s some desire to keep an eye on the Russians, that should be their job not ours. Gorram globalists and interventionists over the last century…. (insert rehash of rant against Woodrow Wilson here….)
To protect your good friends the Romanians
Because it’s on the Black Sea is your answer.
Because it’s on the Black Sea – and America is racist
Good stuff from Friedersdorf:
The university, Kalven’s committee believed, should not compromise its neutrality even to pursue worthy goals, such as social justice:
It is a community which cannot take collective action on the issues of the day without endangering the conditions for its existence and effectiveness. There is no mechanism by which it can reach a collective position without inhibiting that full freedom of dissent on which it thrives … If it takes collective action … it does so at the price of censuring any minority who do not agree.
This inclusive neutrality “arises then not from a lack of courage nor out of indifference and insensitivity,” the report concluded. “It arises out of respect for free inquiry and the obligation to cherish a diversity of viewpoints.” Doing so offers “the fullest freedom for its faculty and students as individuals to participate in political action and social protest.”
Cancellation incoming.
Yeah, well that was way back in 1967 (might as well been 1767) – ancient history and the dude in charge was no doubt white and male, therefore patriarchy and white supremacy.
I’m contemplating a pan fried stuffing cake topped with a fried egg for breakfast. I’m going with a variant of scrapple and eggs
Sounds delicious!
Sounds like to much carb to protein
Try some excercise, that’s a tasty meal for us Hoomans…
Egg over easy, or egg over hard?
Because a molten yoke on that would be the awesome.
Mmmm… scrapple.
On the list of phrases I never thought I would read….
Quick, everybody! Look busy!
The European Union said Friday it is planning to stop air travel from southern Africa to counter the spread of a new COVID-19 variant as the 27-nation bloc is battling a massive spike in cases.
“The last thing we need is to bring in a new variant that will cause even more problems,” said German Health Minister Jens Spahn.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement that she “proposes, in close coordination with the member states, to activate the emergency brake to stop air travel from the southern African region.”
A new coronavirus variant has been detected in South Africa that scientists say is a concern because of its high number of mutations and rapid spread among young people in Gauteng, the country’s most populous province.
Germany said von der Leyen’s proposal could be enacted as soon as Friday night. Spahn said airlines coming back from South Africa will only be able to transport German citizens home, and travelers will need to go into quarantine for 14 days whether they are vaccinated or not.
At this point, it’s all theater, as far as I can tell.
Buried in the DailyMail story on this (Actual headline: WORST VARIANT EVER’) is this simple statement by a UK emergency committee:
So there’s no reason to think the new variant is terrible, but we are going to turn up the fear/mongering to eleven anyway.
But look at the chart! Everyone’s going to die!
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/091/351/849/original/425665219e00fc6a.jpeg
I think I saw CNN use that the other day
“At this point, it’s all theater, as far as I can tell.”
It’s been theater for a year.
US financial markets are open.
They are? Has the NEW! IMPROVED! variant crashed them?
Germany has seen new record daily case numbers in recent days and passed the mark of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Thursday.
A fourth spike of the coronavirus is hitting the 27-nation EU especially badly, with governments scrambling to tighten restrictions in an attempt to contain spread. The flight ban proposal came in the wake of similar action from Britain on Thursday.
Those goddam South Africans!
Look at me!
Toward the end of Kendall Sanders’ first year at Hollins University, a historically women’s college in Roanoke, Va., the sociology major had a realization.
“My journey has been, ‘Girlhood does not define me,’ ” Sanders says. “My womanness, my femininity does not define me.”
Sanders, a senior now, is nonbinary and uses the pronouns they/them.
“I was like, I don’t think I care about being a girl,” they say. For someone who grew up in the Bible Belt region of Little Rock, Ark., that realization was a pretty big deal.
“I really just want to escape the binary in general, to do away with it,” Sanders says. “I don’t want to spend my life trying to prove that I am one gender. I want to wake up, put on some clothes, go out into my day. If you perceive me as one gender, that’s OK, too. But for me, it just is what it is.”
I think there’s one thing we can all agree on.
Attention whoring is gender-independent.
I don’t want to spend my life trying to prove that I am one gender. I want to wake up, put on some clothes, go out into my day
You know who’s really credible when saying such things? Somebody interviewing with NPR for an article on nonbinaryism.
I’m fine with her doing her thing. Just don’t get upset if I use the wrong pronouns.
*looks at her, shrugs, goes back to book*
Just another fad. Give it another ten or fifteen years and she’ll be raising 2.3 kids somewhere in the ‘burbs, complaining about property taxes and fucking the neighbor.
If only this were true.
Dress how you want and leave it to others to decide. See: Boy George, every hair band ever.
If you look like a girl, I’m going to assume you’re a girl because I don’t care enough about you to think about it. If you look like a boy, I’m going to assume you’re a boy, for the same reason.
Oh, wait, what’s that? You WANT me, a total stranger, to think long and hard about you? Someone I’ve run into at the grocery store?
No. You’re just an attention whore.
OPEN POST ANARCHY
https://archive.md/I3klx
Some pretty little girls there, too bad they are all children,
something something if there’s grass on the field something
Back to bed!
I’m different !
https://youtu.be/bPagzl4EQ4Q
Black Friday Tales small town edition: Went to Walmart to get the things I went for yesterday but they were closed. Today……….there were more employees than shoppers. In and out in fifteen minutes.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10242561/Demi-Rose-goes-topless-sizzles-skimpy-thong-bikini.html
When will her fifteen minutes be up?
When the cellulite on her ass becomes impervious to PhotoShop.
Lol.
“Tolkien ‘said no to Beatles musical’: Fab Four were blocked from making Lord Of The Rings show by author, Peter Jackson claims
The Beatles wanted to swap Abbey Road for the Shire in the Sixties, but JRR Tolkien blocked the Fab Four from making a Middle Earth musical.
Sir Paul McCartney has now admitted he is ‘glad’ the plans – which included him playing Frodo – never came to fruition.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10244475/The-Beatles-blocked-making-Lord-Rings-author-Peter-Jackson-claims.html
That would have been a very long album.
The Lord Of The Rings – The Basement Tapes. That would have been awful.
The school is well-known for its equestrian team, and some students bring their own horses with them to board at the campus stable.
The equine program was a big draw for first-year student Diana Combs of Bethesda, Md., who considers it a plus that Hollins is a historically women’s college.
“I just feel safer overall,” she says. “Especially [since] we have no frats here, which is a lot better. So, yeah, horses and all women – yeah!”
And the epic pillow fights…
Happy Black Friday!
I’m going to be responsible and get all my Christmas shopping done early this year. Watch me.
*adds 10mm ammo to wish list*
Need my address?
Sorry, I don’t promote that kind of deviant behaivor. 9mm or .40 only.
Special post Thanksgiving GlibFit for motivation.
https://archive.md/KKCTh
NSFW.
Oh my.
there’s one in there that looks very familiar,
Thanks Q!
wow, very NSFW.
And imitating.
almost “death by snu snu reddit”
Only a few come close to “death by snu snu reddit” standards.
I for one am thankful.
“Over 200,000 customers could lose power on Thanksgiving as largest utility in Southern California cuts service to tens of thousands between Los Angeles and San Diego areas as strong winds raised the risk of wildfire
Thousands in Southern California are without power on Thanksgiving for the second year running as the region’s largest utility cut off service amid risks of strong winds causing wildfires.
Edison International of Southern California halted power service to 63,835 homes and businesses across Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties.
The shutoff began around 10:36 a.m. local time Thursday, Thanksgiving”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10244523/Largest-utility-Southern-California-cuts-power-tens-thousands-near-Los-Angeles.html
How long is going to take them to fix this shit?
‘Fix’ implies that they think there’s a problem…
I see a fair amount of undergrounding around here; don’t know about other utilities. https://www.sdge.com/undergrounding-overhead-powerlines
“How long is going to take them to fix this shit?”
Ummmm… never? The system is working exactly as designed.
So tryptophan day is over, I have a half burnt pecan pie, and my back still hurts. That said, it was a good Tday dinner. No politics. Little vax talk, but I kept my mouth shut and it went away soon enough. I may or may not go to Walmart for Christmas lights since XY so badly wants to climb the ladder and put them up.
Hope everyone else had a good day. I’m grateful for you guys.
chaos is a ladder
A ladder, being orderly, is the antithesis of chaos.
see this is why Game of Thrones sold more book than you 🙂
Not wrong.
Very little political talk at our family gathering too.
Even from the college kids, which is surprising.
In an interview with NPR, the chair of Hollins’ board, Alexandra Trower responded: “I have a lot of compassion and empathy for those feelings. But we are a women’s institution.”
Not just a historically women’s college, Trower emphasized, but a present women’s college — which is important, she said, at a time when women have still not achieved equity.
“I very much appreciate that students may have a different definition or desire to have us be in a different place,” Trower said, “but we’re very clear and open about what our mission is. And people have a choice about where they go to university.”
“If you don’t like it, find another school.” WTF? That’s something a white cisgender patriarch would say!
Hell, start your own school, if you’re really serious and dedicated. You’ll have more applicants than you know what to do with. You’ll get stinking rich.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFDZu3XWYAgXDHg.jpg
Drugs, ass, but still ridiculous.
Those damned SUVs, acting autonomously to mow down unsuspecting people!!
Only after abducting innocent BIPOC whom to frame for their crimes!
https://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/2308751/84384026.gif
Question for you guys…
Why do you think there is so little interest in this story?
I get that the propaganda machine wants to kill it. But why is everyone else following? You would think local coverage would be intense and highly opinionated. And It should be a pretty hot topic. I mean, on video, kids, parade… Plus all of the social media stuff?
And not a lot of heat..
I seem to be way out at the extreme as far as thinking this is a big story. We had weeks of discussion on every talk show in the country after Kenosha. Opinion pieces everywhere. other incidents with a political or racial angle dominate the media and water cooler for weeks.
But this one? As soon as the suspect was identified, nobody cares any more.
Am I missing something? where is everyone here? Am I really that far from the mainstream?
It is a direct refutation of the Lefty “bail reform” program. Since Lefty billionaires/the CCP own the media (local and national) that accounts for their lack of interest.
As for social media, it’s a POC mowing down white people so it’s actually a good thing.
“#Waukesha massacre suspect Darrell Brooks had a previous conviction over threatening to bomb a casino in Nevada.”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1463629713818202114
I also read he made anti-white statements on social media. So it doesn’t fit the narrative that domestic terrorism is a bunch of white supremacists.
That is precisely the mystery for me. We just had the DOJ declare parents who don’t want their kids indoctrinated with a dose of racism “domestic terrorists”. Anyone disagreeing was labeled a kook. They have been beating the drum about domestic terrorism for years..
Yet every time we have a real incident, it turns out to be something that hurts their side so it gets dropped. I get why the left doesn’t want to talk about it… But I don’t get everyone going along.
This is a huge story, and a huge indictment of their years-long push to foment racial hatred. I have probably written 50 screeds about that very topic. And now… Someone actually takes them up on it and acts on their rhetoric. Clearly the intended result. And nobody is running with that ball?
It makes my brain hurt.
“I get why the left doesn’t want to talk about it… But I don’t get everyone going along.”
Because big tech and the corporate media are a huge part of the Left.
Just like the LV shooting.
a) it was a real incident, not a fed orchestrated or at least condoned, one
b) the person who took them up on the crafted narrative wasn’t the right person
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘The old white ppl…knock dem TF out!’ Waukesha suspect shared social media posts promoting violence towards white people and claiming black people were the ‘true Hebrews'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10235869/Waukesha-suspect-shared-social-media-posts-promoting-violence-white-people.html
Hmmm what other national news story involved the black Hebrews? It seems that national news story also involved dishonesty by the press and suppression of any mention of black nationalism or the black Hebrews.
Nothing to see here, move along…
Right-wing social media was still on it last I saw. The mainstream isn’t on it because there’s no drama, which they thrive on. The perpetrator is caught, and no one is going to defend his actions, so no drama.
that’s fucking it turned off the work laptop. 5 day weekend
The Cassoeula: Braised Pork and Cabbage – Winter Milanese Recipe by Cesare Battisti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7tWF8ao6AU
romanians oven roast pork and cabbage. this is just boiled. bleah
Ravioli: the original recipe of Tuscan tordelli from Locanda da Sesto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8wE-33d2nU
Another one bites the (((dust))).
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16823079/sex-has-been-painful-since-my-circumcision/
: I WAS circumcised three months ago because I was having a few problems. – wait there are actual problems a circumcision solves?
Fucking American women?
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01614576.1988.11074930
“most American women prefer circumcision for sexual reasons[…]71–83 % preferred circumcised penises for each sexual activity listed.”
well fuck american women my dick stays intact
Matriarchy?
Medical circumcision
Special post Thanksgiving GlibFit for motivation.
Yowza!
Now that’s the look I like
I have discovered that if you grate a block of Parm and a block of Asiago and then spread a thin layer on a sheet pan with parchment you can make cheese “chips”. Where have these been all my life? I am going to make a collard green and crab dip later to eat with the “chips”.
Add everything seasoning and the chips stand on their own.
https://www.traderjoesgroceryreviews.com/trader-joes-everything-but-the-bagel/
Oh ya, that would do it. It would be easy to get over 20 carbs with these. I figure they are about 1g each.
Look for Whisps (though small) in the deli section or at Costco.
Or Costco grated parm by the pound (no anticaking agents added) for DIY.
Parm – the actual Parmigiano Reggiano or some cheap american knockoff
Unknown wether a filthy wop made it or not.
Our cheap American knockoffs are good, and not jacked up in price by snobby European regulations.
Nah, grana padano at least.
Sliced Havarti works quite well for this. You can put in on a non-stick skillet until it starts to get crispy, then form it into a bowl shape while warm and fill with all sorts of yummy things.
OMG my next project
GAH!
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/mum-sex-boy-15-sent-25514710
The real crime is the hair color.
There are no winners in the story.
Morning Shopping report.
0800 Sam’s Club deserted.
0815 Lowes pretty empty
0830 Atwood’s (smallish farm type) crowded. Line for AR-shotgun type long.
Drive by Walmart. Packed full.
The only place I went was the clinic, they had a can’t miss doorbuster sale on a shot I need to get once a month.
+ 12 Fauci?
“Here’s @0rf’s video report on the Rittenhouse case that Google decreed outside the bounds of permissible discourse, and thus deleted it from YouTube. You can and, I hope, will, watch the banned video on Rumble, where you can also follow his great work:”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1463990213567553545
Why is he one of only a single digit cadre of journalists who are talking about freedom of the press honestly?
Well… the Nephilium house has tested positive in 33% of all tests for Covid in the past week. The girlfriend has been told to quarantine for 2 weeks. She is not happy about this.
Ah feck… Sorry dude.
Sorry 🙁
“This is how
Tyler and I wereNeph was able to haveFight ClubGlibzoom every night of the week. Now, the center ofFight ClubGlibzoom became thetwo men fightingdrinking daily.”The center of glibzoom isn’t drinking?
Quite a bit of weed is smoked as well.
Sorry.
Oh, shit shit shit. I’m so sorry.
Oh no! I hope she recovers quickly.
I gathered she’s not sick, just tested positive.
At this point, I’d class it as a bad cold. She was the one who tested positive, She’s just coughing and has a stuffy nose.
I should get my response for my PCR test today or tomorrow.
Goodness. Wishing her well!
Knowing the state of “science” on COVID what are the odds you are both sick with similar symptoms and yet she will be the only positive test?
Sorry Neph. I hope things go well for both of you.
Feel better.
Ya, you two looked near death last night. I hope you both recover.
get your vitamins ans some basic bitch aspirin and get well soon
Didn’t get a chance to read any comments yet. It’s 2am here and I’m having my own blast with music and The Wire.
Had a thought that Id love to get into. I have so many memories that I know perfectly. Where I scored my first hockey goal. Could show it to anyone withint three feet of where Keeney passsed and where I one-timed it in. We won that championship game 4-3 against Memorial.
I feel like I am in the process of making those new memories now. Just need time to give them the justification that that goal and other events etched into my brain forever. I have a memory problem. The things that stay, stay for a reason. This time is one of them. I’m happy to be a part of it all. Life is so funny. So many stories to tell. I love them all. Even the nasty ones I take pride in. Lonesome creature in a lonesome world. Thank you all for bringing solvency to it all.
Article that I want to write tomorrow is either: Why My Korea is Good Enough, or Cambodia. I’ve got better art on the latter but a more well-formed structure for the former. Curious as to thoughts. And also very curious about many other things. I suppose I can discuss that later. I hope everyone is full-to-the-brim with happiness with themselves, family and loved ones. Y’all are a unique inspiration. Thank you, all.
The Gunbroker Pay Wallet setup is a complete clusterfuck of circular failure.
That is all. Carry on.