Morning Saturday Links

by | May 7, 2022 | Daily Links | 157 comments

Happy Saturday e’rrybody. I hope everyone is having a wonderful start to their first Saturday of May. I’ve already thanked a heroic diaper for its service (nobody should have to take that much shit) and fought with the toddler over why he can’t just take fistfuls of oatmeal off his high chair on the run and eat/drip it around the house. He’s not winning, but he ain’t giving up either.

Georgia Man shoots naked trespasser who tackled wife off riding lawnmow… Goddammit Georgia Man, that’s Florida Man’s turf!

This kid is a real go-getter with upper management written all over him.

‘What use is a Doomsday Device if you don’t TELL ANYONE about it?’

Scientists discover effective flirting, baffled by sudden STD outbreak.

A horse song


A happy song

About The Author

Brett L

Brett L

Brett set out to find America, the real America, the America of strip malls and serial killers, of butthole waxing and kelp smoothies, of cocaine and maggots. He sought it in the most American part of America—Florida: swamp gas and fever dreams, where love arrives on a rickety boat and leaves when it doesn't have the money for its fourth abortion. Oh, where has Brett gone? He’s drinking at the neck of America’s wang, chewing its foreskin and working its shaft. Brett is becoming legend. Brett can never die. Brett can never die. Brett is America, facedown in his own patriotic puke: the red his blood, the white his stomach lining, and the cold, cold blue his gas station slushie, spiked with coconut rum and tetracycline.

157 Comments

  1. Lackadaisical

    ‘This kid is a real go-getter with upper management written all over him.’
    That’s a shitty start to your first week on the job. Sounds like a good shoot for real. Hate the ‘officer involved shooting’ thing still.

  2. Sean

    This is why you home carry.

    • Lackadaisical

      I feel like the involvement of exposed meat contributed to this shooting though.

      • Sean

        It’s all fun and games, until the naked intruder comes a callin’.

      • slumbrew

        Sounds like you’ve got your Saturday night plans all set.

  3. Lackadaisical

    “Let’s be honest, the results feel a little bit ‘icky’ – we’re not endorsing anyone try these kind of strategies at home. But from a scientific perspective there’s some interesting stuff to dig into. The results support a sexual strategies theory for flirtation, which arose in the 1990s.”

    Why would you feel icky about trying to be more attractive to the opposite sex? Speak for yourself you weirdo.

    • rhywun

      That was my exact thought. I tapped out there.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      The questionnaire given to participants measured responses to 40 flirtation tactics, including cues of sexual availability, like “moves closer” and “touches foot”, or cues of investment and commitment, like “gives you flowers”.

      Color me skeptical. Stated v. revealed preferences and all.

      • Lackadaisical

        I agree, all you can do with a study like that is confirm the wisdom of the day. It’s still stupid to say that modifying your behavior to be attractive is ‘icky’.

      • Grosspatzer

        They left out “sniffs hair”. Works for the big guy!

      • SandMan

        Yep, it’s well known that women clearly state what they want, lol.

    • Sean

      So…comedians get laid a lot?

      • Lackadaisical

        If you believe Patrice O’Neal.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They’re called chuckle-fuckers.

      • Not an Economist

        Ask Pete Davidson. He has had a lot of success.

      • Nephilium

        Not exactly laid…

        /Louis C. K.

    • The Last American Hero

      I learned everything I needed to from a guru known as Mystery. And the joking is not nearly as effective as peacocking, negging, and knowing how to execute a roll-off.

  4. Tundra

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    Not my normal route, but the line was achieved regardless.

    • Grumbletarian

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      24. Blech.

    • Rat on a train

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    • whiz

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      Yuck, my worst in over a week.

      I believe I was best overall last week (19.4 average), but there’s a lot of catching up to do this week.

      • MikeS

        I believe I was best overall last week

        Indeed you were. You were the only sub-20 average.

        At Hyperbole’s suggestion I added a late update to the Roundup™©®. I’ll repost it here:

        Whiz is our Player of the Week with a 19.4 average. An under 20 average…very impressive.
        SDF-7 had Chump of the Week wrapped up with a 50.3 until db swooped in with a MikeS 216 and grabbed the the Dictator of Chumptown title with a 70.8.
        Surprisingly, the low score of the week was a 17 from our Chumper-up, SDF-7. Not surprisingly, the high game of the week was db’s 216.

      • TARDis

        At least you’re not camping outside the gates of Chumptown with me all week.

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    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      25. Yeeesh.

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  5. Sean

    Coffee kicked in.

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    Meh. Not enough though.

    • Lackadaisical

      I goofed on today’s worldle. I hate that region of the world.

  6. Ted S.

    Georgia Man shoots naked trespasser who tackled wife off riding lawnmow…

    Now imagine if Mrs. Rand Paul shot the man who attacked Rand allegedly over his lawn-mowing.

  7. Grosspatzer

    Mornin’, Brett.

    Goddammit Georgia Man, that’s Florida Man’s turf!

    Climate Change. If CO2 emissions are not reduced by 2030, the inexorable northward march of Florida Man will be unstoppable. Canada will undoubtedly need to build a wall.

    • juris imprudent

      I was thinking this incident may have taken place near the Florida-Georgia line.

  8. westernsloper

    Georgia Man shoots naked trespasser who tackled wife off riding lawnmow….

    It may be wrong, but my first thought was that man is a king for getting his wife to mow the lawn.

    • Tonio

      The advertisements I am served for zero-turn riding mowers assure me that women do indeed love to operate that equipment.

      • slumbrew

        “… women do indeed love to operate that equipment.“

        Often not as often as one would like…

      • Animal

        …women do indeed love to operate that equipment.

        Boy, howdy!

    • Tundra

      When we had a lawn my wife would usually mow. She dug it.

      • westernsloper

        You and Tonio can both fuck off for ruining my misogynistic joke. Did your wife then make you a sandwich after mowing the lawn?

      • Tundra

        Of course!

        One of the benefits of not marrying a libertarian woman.

      • westernsloper

        HA!

      • TARDis

        Well, since no one else is gonna do it:

        A man was driving by a woman mowing a lawn in the sweltering Summer sun. He saw a man sitting on the front porch enjoying an iced tea and watching the woman toil. Incensed, the driver pulled into the driveway, got out and stormed toward the relaxed man. “Is that your poor wife out there mowing the lawn in this blistering heat while you sit here in the shade with your cold drink?”, he yelled. The man just said, “Yup.” The incensed man said, “You should be hung!”

        “I am, that’s why she’s mowing the lawn.”

        You’re welcome.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      The old lady across the street from me mows. Almost everyday.

      Then again, her husband is Canadian.

      • westernsloper

        her husband is Canadian.

        *shudders* Poor woman

  9. westernsloper

    “At least it would be aggravated assault with a firearm on a law enforcement officer,”

    Don’t point a gun at the kings men. All animals are not equal.

  10. Grosspatzer

    Blech.

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  11. Gender Traitor

    Good morning, all! It’s gray, damp, and a little chilly (only 51° F) here at Tranquility Base, but I’m wearing my authentic Glibs flannel ‘jammie pants, a thermal top, and my hoodie from the OH state park on Lake Erie (where one needs a Hoodie of Substance,) and my fingertipless gloves, so I am undaunted.

    Not that I hate the singer/songwriter responsible for it, but I think I speak for many of us when I thank you for not featuring THAT horse song.

  12. Sean

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  13. westernsloper

    I decided today is a shop/work on boat day. Turning on the breaker for the compressor almost gave me a heart attack. I am too hung over for loud noises.

  14. rhywun

    Meh-tastic

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    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      Zwak did NOT approve.

  15. juris imprudent

    Curious that we aren’t learning about this from the Jan 6th commission.

    • Sean

      Fucking Chinese spies is still totes ok.

    • westernsloper

      The USA is a third world country. Get used to it.

      though no evidence has emerged to support this claim.

      They admitted to it for fucks sake. This is why I checked out for months now. JFC one can only take so much dishonesty.

    • Ozymandias

      Speaking of the jan. 6th commission – NOTHING TO SEE HERE!
      Video of one of the “insurrectionists” who’s already inside – one of those ones who hasn’t been arrested – instructing someone who controls the doors to disengage the magnetic locks in order to let people in.
      I’m sure the Disinformation Board will let us know that Jan. 6 was TOTALLY NOT a government setup. And that guy totally IS NOT A FED.

      • juris imprudent

        Actually it said Tenney was arrested, but the other guy (with the backpack) was not; the bigger question of who was at the door lock controls is also unanswered. How likely is it that someone completely unfamiliar with the building would have a clue as to where those controls would be?

  16. Ozymandias

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  17. LJW

    We’re building a house and code requires a storm shelter, when the basement is 50% daylight. The builder put in a massive 6×10 shelter. Naturally I’m converting this to a gun safe/storm shelter… Gotta protect the important things during a tornado. Family and guns. Anyone have any recommendations for a quick access safe room door?

  18. Grumbletarian

    ‘What use is a Doomsday Device if you don’t TELL ANYONE about it?’

    Prof. Farnsworth approves.

  19. Q Continuum

    “women looking for short-term relationships are the most effective at flirting when they make their sexual availability known”

    Your tax dollars at work.

    https://archive.ph/c4wf3

    Silicone Saturday making its sexual availability known.

    • Grumbletarian

      It could have just been a giant misconception that a woman telling people she’s DTF will find herself the object of male sexual attention.

    • Tulip

      Couldn’t they just read Cosmo? Or is that what they did? Cause that sure sounds like a Cosmo article.

      • juris imprudent

        Peer reviewed!

    • Raven Nation

      Sent you an email couple of days ago

      • Tundra

        Just responded!

    • The Other Kevin

      That is so Benny Hill. I love it.

  20. The Late P Brooks
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    • Sean

      Viva la waffle!

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        OFFS.

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      • Raven Nation

        Yesterday’s was obscure and annoying.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    “We discarded the idea for reasons which at the moment must be all too clear.”

  23. The Late P Brooks

    “It is not only effective to be funny, but for women it is very important that you show your potential partner that you think they are funny,” says evolutionary psychologist Rebecca Burch from the State University of New York at Oswego.

    Now when you say “funny”….

    • juris imprudent
  24. Sean

    https://www.tbs.com/shows/the-big-d

    “The Big D” is an explosive dating competition series that takes on the relationship space with a twist, following recent divorcees as they search for romance in paradise with one catch – their exes will be along for the journey.

    Phrasing done right. Still won’t watch.

      • Timeloose

        Boogie woogie.

        Dam you spell check.

      • R.J.

        I clicked just because I wanted to see what a biggie woggie was. Am dissapoint!

    • Nephilium

      Are they going to ink a sponsorship deal with The D in Vegas?

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Over the years, studies on this underlying theory suggest that women looking for short-term relationships are the most effective at flirting when they make their sexual availability known.

    I’m telling you. If she’s wearing red shoes, that means she’s feeling frisky.

    • Sean

      Do you have a newsletter?

    • pistoffnick

      *remembers “The Red Shoe Diaries”*

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Using a set of common flirtation tactics, put together in 2016, researchers in the US and Norway have now tried to reproduce that underlying theory.

    Negging?

    “Ordinarily, I’d say fat girls shouldn’t wear yoga pants, but you don’t look too awful today.”

  27. The Late P Brooks

    From Juris’ link:

    “While FBI employees may not participate in partisan political campaigns, [they] do not give up their rights to engage in political speech activity,” wrote Jordan. “We have serious concerns that the FBI appears to be retaliating against employees for engaging in political speech disfavored by FBI leadership,” he added.

    ——-

    Jordan noted that the FBI’s actions could result in the administrative termination of the individuals’ employment, because the Bureau requires top-secret security clearances of most of its employees. He has asked the FBI to brief the committee on the matter by May 20

    Just don’t call it a political purge. That sort of thing doesn’t happen in a DEMOCRACY!

    • westernsloper

      If I were looking for a house I would. Big downfall there is there is neighbors.

      • MikeS

        If other houses are at all visible in the pics, it’s a definite “no” for me.

    • Mojeaux

      That is a very cute house, but their color choices are sus.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        This. The paint is enough to make to think there is real damage being hidden. Because the current owners are Cra-Cra.

    • Threedoor

      Similar houses in Lewiston are priced at $350,000. Or more. It’s gotten crazy in Idaho.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Big downfall there is there is neighbors.

    Exactly.

    There was a nice little brick house about half a block from the Idaho State campus. I drove by it, just for laughs. It’s a really great neighborhood, if you’re a college professor.

    That one lasted a day, maybe,

  29. The Late P Brooks

    but their color choices are sus.

    Seriously. I notice a lot of houses with really weird bright colors. Kids’ rooms?

    Nothing a little paint can’t cure.

    • Mojeaux

      I really like the blonde Danish modern-esque kitchen.

  30. juris imprudent

    Well smack me upside the head and call me Jethro – Appalachian Studies?

    • R.J.

      That interview was crap.

      • juris imprudent

        What can you expect out of a chair in Appalachian Studies?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        More Mountain Dew endorsements

      • Fatty Bolger

        I stopped at dog whistles. This guy is full of shit.

    • Ted S.

      Note that they use an unflattering “angry” photo of Vance.

    • KSuellington

      One thing I learned from studying under lefties is that you can never use generalizations, unless it’s a generalization that supports a lefty shibboleth. I notice that the first thing the distinguished Chair of Appalachian Studies at that college I’ve never heard of before complains about Vance is that he makes ungoodthinful generalizations. .

      • Ted S.

        “Don’t question my lived experience”, until someone like Vance has the wrong lived experience.

      • juris imprudent

        To borrow from Men in Black: You’re everything we’ve come to expect from many years of academic life.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      “One of the most troubling things to me about the book is that it talks a lot about unemployment and poverty, domestic violence, the opioid crisis, but it never gives you context for why those things exist the way they do in Appalachia.”

      I’m pretty sure he explained a lot of it by the lack of jobs because they’ve been shipped overseas. But who are you going to believe? The people who live there, or a professor?

  31. juris imprudent

    Yeah, about that free world – it always included a lot of countries that were far more anti-communist than pro-liberty/democracy.

    • Ted S.

      The article that should be below the photo doesn’t load for me. I just get a spinning circle saying “Loading….”

      • R.J.

        Me too. It’s a trap!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Look man, the MIC can’t justify itself without an existential struggle between good and evil.

      So get off your high horse and get with the program.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    DEMOCRACY! dies in plain view

    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the conspiracy theory-peddling Georgia Republican, shouldn’t be disqualified over her role in the January 6 insurrection, a judge said Friday in a significant legal blow to the voters and advocacy groups who tried to throw her off the ballot.

    State Judge Charles Beaudrot said in a 19-page recommendation that even if it is assumed that the US Capitol riot was an insurrection, “challengers have produced insufficient evidence to show that Rep. Greene ‘engaged’ in that insurrection after she took the oath of office on January 3, 2021.”

    The recommendation was submitted to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, who accepted the decision later on Friday night and formally ruled that Greene will stay on the ballot. The anti-Greene challengers said in a statement that they’ll appeal Raffensperger’s decision in state courts.

    But what if she gets re-elected? This is too important for the people to be allowed to decide!

    • Ozymandias

      After a couple of Tundra’s links this past week to her interviews, I’m pretty sure I know why they want her gone. And it has nothing – zero, zip, nada, zilch – to do with Jan. 6.
      It has to do with her crazy conspiracy theory that Congress is run by a bunch of grifting moronic crooks who steal the taxpayer’s money and direct it to their own pet projects and ends.
      I’ve come to believe the ONLY possible way to save the Republic is to repeal the income tax. Just flat out starve that fucking beast.

      I used to believe that there were a series of things that needed fixing – like term limits, expiration dates on laws, balanced budget amendment, etc., but now I’m fairly in the camp of “defund the government.” Period.
      Get the government out from between employers and workers, force Congress to make actual hard choices about what can actually stay open if they have to run it on fumes, and compel the roaches out into the light when they try to come together to pass some workaround taxes in the “spirit of bipartisanship.”
      The worst thing of all is that we’re paying for these people to abuse us and steal our Freedom.
      Fuck them, fuck it all, let DC burn to the fucking ground. Nothing changes until those rat-fucks are disconnected from the money-spigot – they’re worse than the worst drug addicts, who at least have a legitimate explanation for their criminal actions: they’re brains are chemically imbalanced by the drugs they’re on.
      Congresscuntes are imbalanced by their lack of character, and their love of power and other people’s money.

      /Kicks Over Soapbox and strolls off

      • Tundra

        10/10

        Solid rant. Would read again.

      • TARDis

        Indeed I did. ??

      • juris imprudent

        I hope you realize you just put yourself into a smaller faction than the Democratic-Socialists of America. Not sayin’ your wrong – just that you are staking out a position way, way out of the mainstream. There won’t be much traction out there.

      • KSuellington

        What do you think the percentage of true believer proggies is in this country? Here in SF I don’t think they are even 20% of the population, but they certainly punch far, far above their actual numbers.

      • rhywun

        Here in NYC I would estimate maybe 5% true believers, 10% grifters, and 20% I-want-free-shit (though there is some overlap between the last two).

        Most people just go along to get along. That can go on for a very long time before they snap.

      • KSuellington

        Hear, hear. Absolutely we need a repeal of the 16th Amendment. Unfortunately as of right now I see no real effort to doing so, but it would go a long way to righting the ship, as you said, more than any other change that could be passed.

      • Aloysious

        This. All of this.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Something something drown it in a bathtub….

      • Animal

        <— Standing ovation

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Appalachian Studies:

    House, the Appalachian Studies chair at Berea College in Kentucky, one of the premier thinkers in and about the South and a bestselling writer in his own right, considers Hillbilly Elegy offensive and inauthentic. He sees it, and saw it from the start, as not a memoir but a treatise that traffics in ugly stereotypes and tropes

    That’s it, then. (Our preferred) Authority has spoken.

    I know nothing about Vance’s book. I guess it was a sequel to “What’s the Matter With Kansas” or something.

    When I was in elementary school my dad was still working for GE, and we lived in Owensboro, Kentucky for a few years (mid-late ’60s). Holy shit, I hated that place and The South in general; still do. But the idea that southern hillbilly life at the time was some sort of cultural petri dish isolated from the rest of America is just plain stupid. Just about every one of those run down trailers had a shiny new pickup truck and a teevee antenna. There were newspapers and radios. The schools had electricity and running water.

    • Pine_Tree

      Kentucky. Is. Not. Part. Of. The. South.

      It. Is. A. Border. State.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        They all look the same from Harvard Square, silly!

      • Threedoor

        If you order iced tee and you get served syrup it’s the south.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    “Her public statements and heated rhetoric may well have contributed to the environment that ultimately led to the Invasion,” Beaudrot concluded. “But expressing constitutionally-protected political views, no matter how aberrant they may be, prior to being sworn in as a Representative is not engaging in insurrection under the 14th Amendment” and therefore isn’t disqualifying.

    That’s just… like… your opinion, man.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    “We Hate Mothers” day

    A week-long women’s labor strike set to begin Sunday, on Mother’s Day, in support of a proposed federal abortion rights bill is gaining traction online but also criticism from people who say the strike is poorly planned and not inclusive enough.

    The idea for the strike, meant to pressure the government to enact the Women’s Health Protection Act, came to Allison Kolarik, of Asbury Park, New Jersey, after learning the Supreme Court planned to strike down Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion nationwide.

    “My gut reaction was one of, ‘Of course they did’ … and then rage,” said Kolarik, 38, an apparel company owner who uses gender-neutral pronouns.

    Kolarik took to TikTok, where they have more than 62,000 followers, and made a video reacting to the news.

    “It’s May 2nd, and it’s a dark day,” Kolarik said in the video, “and there are going to be darker days ahead.”

    Winning friends and influencing people.

    • R.J.

      Let me guess… Not a mother.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      I will be honest, as a father I fucking hate fathers day. And mothers day. I have since I was a kid and saw them for the Hallmark bullshit card-selling days that they were. I ask my son to not call me that day (he still does), I don’t call my mother that day, nor my dad’s widow. My wife doesn’t have kids, I am not calling my ex, and they are both used to my rants on the topic at this point, so nothing there to worry about.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Now get off Zwak’s lawn!

      • TARDis

        I hate them too. Why do I have to pay for a Mother’s Day dinner with the kids? They have jobs and she is not MY mother. People sometimes respond with “But she is the mother of your children.” GTFOH with that BS. It’s one thing when the kids are little and they need guidance, but not when they become teenagers. Now I remind them one time, a week in advance. After that, I’m out.

        Also, to hell with Christmas cards and Hallmark.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, Mother’s Day is between you and your mom. At the office it’s like “Let’s celebrate all mothers!” and I’m like “No one here is my mother.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      an apparel company owner who uses gender-neutral pronouns

      We don’t care.

    • rhywun

      “Rage”. Because some birthing person who does not live in your state might have to suffer the indignity of having to travel to get the unwanted thing out of there.

    • Ted S.

      How do people like this wind up at the top of journalists’ rolodexes?

      • rhywun

        Because journalists spend all day on TikTok now.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Other protests are planned across the U.S. on Mother’s Day. The abortion rights group Ruth Sent Us has called for people to protest at Catholic churches because of the faith’s anti-abortion doctrine, even though more than half of U.S. Catholics say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to Pew Research.

    But Kolarik and supporters say a large-scale economic action could be particularly effective.

    “We’re a capitalistic nation — hit ‘em where it hurts, in their coin purses,” said Tamara Strzelecki, 37, a mother of two and small-business owner in Fenton, Michigan, who plans to strike. “I’m hoping that makes a big enough impact that they’re like, ‘We screwed with the wrong people.’”

    “Screwed”

    I get it.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      hit ‘em where it hurts, in their coin purses

      How? Who are you going to boycott on this? Big Diaper?

    • rhywun

      I can’t think of a better way to convince more Catholics to follow their faith’s doctrine in this matter than to park a bunch of screaming, blue-haired harpies in their way.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ??

        I encourage this behavior.

      • Chafed

        Exactly

    • The Last American Hero

      Do these fuckers know what Ginsberg’s opinion on Roe was? Because newsflash – while she believed in abortion rights she thought it was a poor decision.

      The woman just died, and you would have thought that her thoughts on Roe would be better known.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Eh, whatever her opinion was of Roe, she would never have voted to overturn it. She could talk a good game, but when it came down to it she was just another lockstep liberal.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      “A mother of two and small business owner

      I wonder how she would react to this happening the other way and her getting boycotted?

  37. kinnath

    Daily Quordle 103
    8️⃣?
    6️⃣5️⃣

    BOOM!

    The streak is dead.

    • UnCivilServant

      BOOM!

      The streak is dead.

      Why did you shoot them? Their only crime was public indency.

      • kinnath

        Are we back to the naked trespasser?

    • kinnath

      Three words with 50/50 chances to guess the right word, and I guessed wrong on all three. That’s how you chump folks.