Saturday evening links from Spuds place

by | May 14, 2022 | Daily Links | 317 comments

Although Crescent City has it’s charm.

So after a delightful week, where I got to reconnect with my family after two years, Spud has arrived home. It looks like I’m just in time to plant the garden.

Links, anyone?

 

Uhh, it seems that they got the times backwards…

 

How dare you not pay more attention to my child than I do!!!

 

Not just the shoes, baby!

 

Last I checked, they still had a psych test?

 

What a crappy news day.

 

Okay, there are screwed up people that think this chick is hotter than a young Sally Field.

I was a child too, people!

 

 

 

About The Author

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…

317 Comments

  1. Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

    So, know we know that Spud has had a sex change.

    Yam to Potato?

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      Now, not know, though now we know.

  2. Yusef drives a Kia

    Well they were both California girls, Lita was a raging bitch when I knew her.

  3. dbleagle

    Putting in garden round two for 2022. The bean, snow peas and lettuce are done. I replanted the beans from beans I didn’t pick. Since I have grandkids coming in July I put in watermelons, zukes, spinach, as well. The Japanese cukes and tomatoes are still producing like champs. Most days I am harvesting almost a standard grocery box of cherry tomatoes. HELP!

  4. Rat on a train

    The new law limits a family to have 4 pets and only 2 of one type without approval from the city’s animal control agency. Ferret, rabbits, guinea pigs, and hamsters fall under the same rules.

    Someone needs to end the hamster scourge.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      Richard Gere, or Rod Stewart?

  5. LCDR_Fish

    Hate to complain…1st world problems – embedded videos in the post (vice links) cause reading in Edge (work computers) to auto-scroll to the top of the page every 20 seconds unless I keep the cursor hooked on the page scroll button.

    • Tonio

      I’ll have a talk with the lads. The lasses who link generally have better web-fu.

      • Sensei

        I checked using MS Edge. No issues for me, but I’ve running a fair amount of extensions that might be removing the issue.

        Maybe the LCDR is just an Edge case…

      • LCDR_Fish

        Possibly, I can’t install anything on my machines.

      • pistoffnick

        Maybe the LCDR is just an Edge case…

        Seen, and laughed

  6. Rat on a train

    According to that report, the victim’s mom said her daughter was very intelligent and spoke three languages.

    My wife is fluent in four languages. That’s as many as Einstein. She must be a genius.

    • Tonio

      Thanks.

    • db

      Uh, did I piss someone off?

      I can’t join the meeting and I get a message that says “the host has removed you from this meeting.”

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Take a hike, asshole! ??

        We’re all triaging the issue right now.

    • Tonio

      The zoom is being restarted, because reasons.

  7. Rat on a train

    The father, referred to as “Mr. A,” ran into the house and saw Dominguez facing out of the kitchen “with his erect penis in his left hand and his right hand on the counter.
    Don’t pull out your gun unless you are willing to use it.

  8. Grumbletarian

    Welp, Bruins are probably done.

  9. The Hyperbole

    Okay Glib Quordlers, fun time is over. I know everything has been peaches and gravy with MikeS running the show (may as well have left a Firster in charge) but it’s time to put away childish things and get serious. This is a serious competition people, and I have noticed a lot of you jerks have of late resorted to simply going through the motions. Thus I have unilaterally decided to start the Glibs Quordle Championship™©®. Not one to use the Glibs comment section as my personal blog I would direct you to click on my handle for further information and to see the tentative bracket (assuming no one else enters round one will be win-in round between Tulip and Grosspatzer), all players who posted every day last week are automatically entered (and seed based on last weeks results), if you aren’t included and wish to jump in leave a comment on that page, The Championship begins Tomorrow, Sunday 5/15/22. Daily Quordle Roundup will continue to impose itself here on the Glibs as normal so get those scores in.

    • MikeS

      4️⃣7️⃣
      6️⃣8️⃣

    • MikeS

      I am going to fucking crush Tundra.

      • Rat on a train

        I’m waiting for bookies to post odds so I can bet against myself and take a dive.

      • NoDakMat

        Confirmed: Rat on a train is Pete Rose

      • Sean

        Tallest midget and all.

      • Tundra

        Well, there’s that!

      • Tundra

        Juuuuust a bit outside!

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      I love that Tulip and Grospatzer lead to a rat, on a train.

      My god, what have you done.

    • rhywun

      Look out Ted’s

      …thank god this isn’t a Worldle tournament

    • Grumbletarian

      Love it.

    • SDF-7

      Nice how the one who made the brackets put themselves up against the Dictator For Life of Chumptown… Enjoy the bye round there, Hyperbole. 😉

      • MikeS

        DESTROY HIM!

    • pistoffnick

      …peaches and gravy…

      That’s a terrible combination!

      Beer n skittles is better.

  10. MikeS

    re: Aurora dog barking law. I wonder how many dogs get abused by angry owners desperate to not get a $100 fine. And I wonder how many Karen’s needlessly escalate tensions with neighbors but wielding this as a weapon.

    • hayeksplosives

      I just received two dog bark thingys that give off unpleasant deterrent sounds when the neighbors dogs bark.

      So far so good…

      • MikeS

        Well now that’s an interesting approach. What kind of sound it it?

      • R C Dean

        Gunshot?

      • Sean

        It plays Obama speeches.

      • rhywun

        lol

      • MikeS

        Speeches with or without TotUS?

      • DEG

        I think that’s against the Geneva Conventions.

      • hayeksplosives

        Ultrasonic, so above our range of hearing but apparently not in range of cat hearing.

        Cat seems unperturbed.

      • hayeksplosives

        They are disguised as bird houses.

        We had one in Minnesota for the neighbors’ schnauzer that was insane (rescue dog).

        He would bark at us if he saw u glimpse of us in our own house. C’mon, man.

        The neighbors never intervened in the barking. One day my husband said to the “wife” (they were a gay couple but one was quite clearly the wife) “Ya know, there is a low-risk surgery they can do to de-bark a dog.” Wifedude was shocked and didn’t speak to him for months. Too bad the dog didn’t get the message.

        So I got the ultrasonic bark deterrent. It looked like a birdhouse except that it had LEDs to show when it had heard a bark and was activating it’s ultrasonic deterrent. I put tape over the LEDs so that the neighbors wouldn’t catch on.

        Life was much better.

      • rhywun

        Devious. I like it.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I wonder sometimes about whether it’s wise to have large dogs in postage stamp subdivisions. Not that I’d narc on my neighbor, but her lab barks all day long and it’s about 10 feet from the window of my home office. Every car or person that goes by my (heavily trafficked, main neighborhood artery) street or down my alley results in 5 minutes of increasingly desperate barking. I never see them walking the dog or otherwise managing its energy needs, so I kinda feel bad for it. Still, it’s obnoxious that we can’t really open our windows and that entire side of the house is saturated with noise all day. Neighbor’s solution of telling me to issue a “no bark” command when the dog is going nuts is… a bit lacking.

      I may research hayek’s solution to the problem.

      • MikeS

        I hate seeing big/medium dogs without at least a small yard to get out in. And I 100% sympathize with folks in your predicament. I don’t know a good solution to making dog owners be good dog owners.

        Hay-ex’s solution does sound very intriguing. I don’t need it, but I’d be interested to see the product.

      • rhywun

        I would not own a dog in a city apartment at all but I’ve seen it several times.

      • The Hyperbole

        I don’t see why a dog is any different than someone revving their Harley or blasting shitty music all day and night long. If noise is a violation of others rights (and I’m not entirety certain it is) then keep your dog quiet or lose your right to own a dog.

      • MikeS

        Because Harley’s and boomboxes aren’t sentient beings.

      • The Hyperbole

        And that removes responsibility from the owner? Does that count for dogs that bite as well as bark?

      • MikeS

        I didn’t say it removes responsibility, but a dog barking due to some external stimulant is not the same thing as turning the music up to 11. Lie I said, I don’t know what the answer is. I feel for the neighbors, and I feel for the dog, and depending on the circumstances, I feel for the dog owner.

      • DEG

        I don’t know a good solution to making dog owners be good dog owners.

        If you find something, let me know. My one neighbor has a dog that will bark itself hoarse. It has gotten better, but still will bark itself hoarse.

      • slumbrew

        My pup is 60 lbs and we have no yard. It can suck to always have to accompany her outside (11pm in February, when it’s raining sideways is no fun), but it’s part of the deal.

        I can assure you she does not lack for anything. Indeed, I’m certain she interacts with more dogs and humans than a suburban dog does. That’s a big deal for social animals like dogs.

      • MikeS

        Right. So you are one of the good dog owners I was referring to. How’s this:

        I hate seeing big/medium dogs without at least a small yard to get out in, or preferably an owner who takes them for regular walks.

    • DEG

      I wonder how many dogs get abused by angry owners desperate to not get a $100 fine. And I wonder how many Karen’s needlessly escalate tensions with neighbors but wielding this as a weapon.

      Too many.

  11. rhywun

    Looks like the mass shooter in Buffalo was a white guy.

    Be prepared for wall-to-wall coverage for the next few weeks.

    • Not Adahn

      Sheriff says it was “absolutely” a racially motivated hate crime.

      Just think how much worse it would have been if it wasn’t for the vaccines SAFE act.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Sheriff says it was “absolutely” a racially motivated hate crime.

        Im gonna 48 hour rule this one.

      • rhywun

        Eleven of the people shot were Black and two were white, according to Mr. Gramaglia.

        ?

      • Sean

        He should have used a SUV. Would been out of the news in 12 hours.

      • Q Continuum

        It’ll be interesting to see how they balance the MUH RACIST GUN OWNERZ!! vs. MUH MISOGINUST ANTI-ABORSHUN!! narratives for the next couple of weeks.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        Yeah, you know they want to stay on MUH ABOTITION!!! But this is a chance to say GUNZ IZ THE DEBIL!!!

      • rhywun

        Sure guns but I think the racial angle will be pushed and hard.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Just like the Charleston thing, it’ll be trying to tie gun culture to white supremacy.

      • rhywun

        Drove in from Binghamton?!

        That’s… curious, when Syracuse and Rochester are much closer.

      • DEG

        Seriously?

        That’s…. a drive.

      • rhywun

        Rochester has some TOPS, if that was the motivation… Dunno about Syracuse.

      • Night Watchman

        There are several TOPS in the Syracuse area, mostly former P&C’s after they went bankrupt.

      • MikeS

        Side note, it’s neat you guys can read it. I don’t know if it’s on all stories, but many have a special link you can copy so non-subscribers can read the article.

  12. Aloysious

    The Tater returns.

    Just in time for nice weather.

  13. Not Adahn

    Summertime cocktail attempt:

    -Tall glass filled with ice
    -2 shots gin
    -1 shot clove elderberry (lol) syrup.
    -top with seltzer.

    Prety good. The clove elderberry syrup gives it the appearance of a cola based beverage. And it does an excessively good job of masking any ethanol flavor.

    • rhywun

      My liquor store has Tito’s vodka now. I’d heard it mentioned favorably several times here so I just picked up a bottle and will investigate tonight.

      • Sean

        It’s my go to for vodka martinis with a twist.

      • rhywun

        I didn’t think to pick up any dry vermouth.

        Highballs it is.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        Phrasing?

      • rhywun

        I’m just polishing off a bottle of Sobieski I found at my other liquor store. My usual liquor store has it but not in the big plastic jug that I prefer. It’s nice.

    • DEG

      Ye Olde Brewpub came up with a blueberry/lemon sour. It’s delicious. Too delicious.

  14. hayeksplosives

    There’s a car show here in Pahrump Nevada tomorrow. I registered my Tesla model Y and will be there at 8 am sharp. I’m prepared for all the ICE hate and want them to know that the reason I heart ❤️ Tesla is because the car is bad ass, not becuzz Gaia.

    Fuck Gaia. Did you see what that bitch was wearing?

    • Not Adahn

      I think I mentioned that the Tesla club had a car show here.

      Not gonna lie, it was kind of monotonous.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      They are badass to drive, oh Hell yes!

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      When I was living in the Bay Area, you would occasionally get a flight of Prii pulling a slow down on the freeways. They would space themselves across the four lane so they could block traffic, and then slow down to 55. Really fucking annoying.

      • rhywun

        offs

      • kinnath

        capital offense

    • Sensei

      Not cheap, but fun.

      https://enhauto.com/

      I may get a Y for my wife, but it still looks like a pregnant 3 to me and while I like the 3 there are prettier cars. However, the Y is amazing for interior volume versus size and practicality. It’s not much bigger than the 3, but holds much more.

      • hayeksplosives

        We got the Y primarily so the husband can get in and out more easily.

        The 3, the S, and the X are low to the ground. The Y is much more family or carpool friendly. Soooo much room too.

        I splurged and got the “performance” model so I can pretty much launch from anywhere, not that I will ever need to. But in Pahrump where a major pastime is off-roading craziness, oh yeah, it’s fun!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I saw this one today at a hot rod show.

      https://ibb.co/1LSTX4p

    • westernsloper

      A go fund me should be started.

    • Gender Traitor

      I think I see her problem – her boobs grew on her mouth instead of her chest.

      • hayeksplosives

        You ain’t kidding.

        Sheesh.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That facial surgery is more of an issue

  15. The Hyperbole

    DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©®
    (The ‘Are you ready for some Quordle!!)’ Edition)
    #101
    Champ
    The Hyperbole 18

    Grumbletarian 20
    kinnath 21
    Rat on a train 21
    rhywun 21
    Not Adahn 22
    SDF-7 22
    Sean 22
    whiz 22
    l0b0t 23
    trshmnstr the terrible 23
    Tundra 23
    Grosspatzer 24
    grrizzly 24
    Ted S. 24
    MikeS 25
    Tulip 25

    Chump
    Mojeaux 118

    First, a hearty welcome to Mojeaux, don’t sweat the chumping you can only improve from there, or you could MIkeS it but let’s be positive. Now for the rest of you, I get it, the weather has finally turned and it’s light outside until bedtime and you have gardens to plant and cars to wash and what not but this is just sad – only 18 players, 27.6666666666 Average, 9/9 Tundra Line. Let’s hope the GQC gets the blood flowing again, so to speak, elsewise we may as well be playing Waffle.

    • westernsloper

      What’s a Quordle?

      • The Hyperbole

        It’s what the cool kids are doing, you wouldn’t understand.

      • MikeS

        It’s what cool people do.

      • Sean

        It’s what people do with Cool Whip.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Let me see if I can find an analogy you’ll relate to. You know the sound it makes when your herpes flares up and you have to sort of open your throat and pour water down to avoid choking because it’s so sore? That’s a Quordle.

      • westernsloper

        Damn!

      • MikeS

        ?

      • rhywun

        Sorry, Trashy.

      • TARDis

        It’s a Queer word game. All the cool alphabet kids are doing it.

    • TARDis

      You just can’t share, can you? Bitch.

      • The Hyperbole

        What? did I miss your score?

      • TARDis

        Apparently not. Mea Culpa.

        I guess I’m gaslighting myself.

        I thought I posted under Kinnath(22) on the last thread. I did not. Can I blame squirrels?

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      • The Hyperbole

        Apology accepted.

        Don’t let it happen again.

      • TARDis
      • Raven Nation

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    • one true athena

      Got back late, but For Posterity:

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  16. kinnath

    Sally Field. I like her. I really like her.

  17. Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

    Tundra, if you show up, you might get a kick out of this:

    Before 1976 Revisited: How Punk Became Punk

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lyoAczdMSM

    • Tundra

      Sweet! Thanks, Zwak!

      Somewhere in my boxes I have a history of punk and hardcore. I’ll try to find it and post.

      It was such an interesting time in music.

  18. Tulip

    DB – I thought I was admitting you, but it said you had been removed – please try again.

  19. Tulip

    I have no idea how that happened – please try again.

    • db

      Yeah, it says “Unable to rejoin this meeting. The host removed you from the meeting.”

      • Tulip

        I don’t know what happened, I clearly fucked up in some way. I’m sorry. Is there any way to reset your IP address?

      • db

        Is it by IP or my account number, I wonder.

        I have a static IP but could try a vpn

      • db

        Nope, didn’t work.

      • Tulip

        There was a forced update. Tonio is googling for a fixed

    • db

      I’ll just sit outside the warm ring of friends, forever banished to the darkness, never more to listen to the dulcet tones of libertarian women expositing on all manner of reasons why men are pigs…

      • Tulip

        I changed some settings, please try again

      • db

        Sorry, same error

      • db

        I found another thing that said you should have a list of “removed participants” and you have to remove me from that list?

      • Tulip

        I found another spot to change that, so try again?

      • Tulip

        We restarted the meeting so please try again/

      • Mojeaux

        No such thing as a libertarian woman.

      • rhywun

        The rest of are waiting outside to entertain you here, you know.

      • db

        ah, so.

      • MikeS

        Right?

      • Brochettaward

        I sometimes join the Zoom, and while my presence in real time can be like being surrounded in warm apple pie, nothing will ever replace the Firsting I do right here on the site.

        DB is getting the real action right here.

      • The Hyperbole

        (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻ “ATTICA, ATTICA!!”

  20. Brochettaward

    I’ve been to a couple of Tops super markets in Buffalo. Had I been there, I can’t help but feel as thought this wouldn’t have happened. One thing I don’t often talk about is the healing power of Firsting. It is incredibly therapeutic. Creates incredible bonds in people of all races.

    • rhywun

      I’ve been to a couple of Tops super markets in Buffalo.

      I worked at one for a couple years. I try to block out the memories but they come back.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Probably just wanted to buy the out of stock formula with the WIC coupons he had.

        /first 48

      • rhywun

        Oh god benefits days were a fucking nightmare.

        My mom was on food stamps for awhile and I don’t remember us buying a fucking month’s worth of groceries at once because who the hell does that.

    • Mojeaux

      TOPS was a weight loss program my mom used to go to when I was young.

    • Brochettaward

      To be clear, I find that people bond in their sense of inferiority to the Firster. It creates a clear hierarchy that all immediately recognize and respect. It’s like being part of a cohesive community.

    • MikeS

      Did the Great Firster approve of my offering?

      • Brochettaward

        I posted the offering in The Great Firster’s Altar, hidden deep in the depths of the dark net away from all seconding eyes. He spoke and issued me three commands, the first two of which I cannot share with any mortal man. There was a third, however, in two parts. It was the first part of this third in which he commanded me to return to the land of the yokels, the Jews, and the gays. I was told to sup to sup with them and allow them to repent for their sins against The Firstarchy. The second portion I dare not speak allowed at this time.

      • Brochettaward

        Aloud.

      • MikeS

        Are you asking me out for supper?

      • Brochettaward

        The meaning of the supper will be explained in due time.

  21. Chai Girl

    I got to ride a slide today. 🙂 Best way to get out of a parking garage.

    • MikeS

      What was going on? A fire?

  22. Yusef drives a Kia

    Over a year of work and effort is paying off. We now have 3 Disc courses in town, and 3 more in planning stages. I built our club, ran tournaments last year and we are on the map.
    For a tiny town we are doing quite well, 31 club members, the City council loves the extra tourism, and we got our home course reworked with new baskets and a lot of volunteer mulching.
    and we have sponsors! Dunegrass weed store, Authentic weed store and Pizza hut to sponsor tournaments, not too bad for the backwoods of Michigan.

    • The Gunslinger

      You rock Yusef!

      • rhywun

        Yeah, that sounds neat. Nothing like a hermit like myself could come up with.

    • MikeS

      Dunegrass weed store, Authentic weed store and Pizza hut to sponsor tournaments

      Are you writing a Babylon Bee article?

      Seriously, good work, Bob. That’s really cool.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        They are real places, with smiling faces,
        Thanks Mike and everyone else

    • MikeS

      For reference, can you put a population number to “tiny town”? What I consider a tiny town, you couldn’t fit 6 courses in the city limits.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        6500, we are looking at buying a defunct Golf course south of town and create 24 hole Disc mecca,

      • MikeS

        OMG. That would be cool as hell! Does it have a clubhouse?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Yes, we want to recreate the entire Golf scene but with Discs, pro shop, dining, the whole 9 yards.

      • MikeS

        Cool, man. That would be really awesome. Keep us informed. If it happens, it would be cool to see some articles about the transformation.

      • hayeksplosives

        Ooh! Cool!

    • DEG

      Excellent

    • rhywun

      What is clear to any serious observer of EU politics is that they are not interested in what their people have to say or want.

      Sounds familiar.

    • Brochettaward

      I find one nugget in that article pretty interesting. The notion that while America is often times seen as leading the charge, our political class is largely beholden to ideas that come from Europe still. Trump was a short term disruption to their plans, the sort that occasionally happens, but they quickly recaptured control and things went off just about as they hoped. America and its people are the muscle, and the Eurocrats get to be the brains dictating things in the post-Soviet world.

      • Brochettaward

        What can’t be understated is that while the people behind all of this are getting their way, it cannot be understated that they are still grossly incompetent. They are twisted, horribly misguided souls who will kill the golden goose. Their ideal world will never come to fruition, and the only thing they will bring about is the utter ruin of the West and the sources of power they use to engage in their machinations.

      • rhywun

        I found that interesting too. Davos, Soros, that Palpatine guy – Kurt something? – all fucking Europe. All the most sinister UN organizations are there, too.

  23. hayeksplosives

    Saw my first ever sign-waving protest movement today.

    About 10 humans, maybe 6 gals, 4 dudes, waving signed about “My body, my choice” and “Mind your own uterus”. They were on the major road in town and jumping around to get attention. Nobody clapped, honked or anything.

    Later on I was at a little bar and heard someone else mention the pathetic protest saying “They lost all credibility about ‘’my body, my choice’ when they not only submitted to COVID vax, but actively helped coerce the rest of us to take it. Fuck them and their abortions. Nobody is going to knock them up anyway.”

    Lol. Good ol’ Pahrump.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Nice

    • DEG

      Later on I was at a little bar and heard someone else mention the pathetic protest saying “They lost all credibility about ‘’my body, my choice’ when they not only submitted to COVID vax, but actively helped coerce the rest of us to take it. Fuck them and their abortions. Nobody is going to knock them up anyway.”

      🙂

    • Q Continuum

      “They lost all credibility about ‘’my body, my choice’ when they not only submitted to COVID vax, but actively helped coerce the rest of us to take it”

      No fuckin’ lie.

    • creech

      I’ve already heard the reply to that; “Covid vax was different because you could infect others but getting an abortion doesn’t infect others.”

    • KSuellington

      That dude at the bar hit on the reason why the ditching of Roe v Wade has been largely greeted by a shrug by the majority in this country. Even here in lefty central the protests have been pretty small. It’s no coincidence that it is being ditched after the Vid hysteria.

      • Brochettaward

        I’d like to believe that a large enough portion of the population was able to notice the hypocrisy. I don’t even think this is a case where people largely said hey, you know what, fuck that idea of my body my choice after the vaccines because they decided to have consistent principles. I think most people have a complete hodge podge of ideas that they hold and really don’t bother worrying if they are contradictory in anyway. And a large majority of the population, particularly in blue states, is just fine taking away bodily autonomy in the case of forcing vaccines.

        This is, of course, why we need The First That Will Change Everythijng.

      • hayeksplosives

        Yeah, I think you’re right about the idea that the vast majority of voters aren’t actively concluding that full abortion rights (including tax subsidy) isn’t something the government should be involved in at all.

        But I do think on a visceral level, they kind of get the idea that passing more laws and ceding more power to the government is a bad idea.

  24. grrizzly

    The Maple Leafs failed again to win a series in the playoffs. I’ll take this as a consolation after the Bruins loss. Had the Bolts lost, I would have cherished it too.

    • hayeksplosives

      Sun is still up here on the west! We will only get a partial, if we are lucky! I see the moon though. Maybe…

    • hayeksplosives

      I thought it was tomorrow though?

      • MikeS

        Double check the date on your other link. ?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Ah shit!

      • MikeS

        I got all excited when I looked out and saw it was clear here. Then the wife told me to cool my jets for a day. Haha

    • Rat on a train

      Totality begins (moon engulfed in Earth’s shadow) at 3:29 UTC on May 16 (11:29 p.m. EDT on May 15).
      Totality ends at 4:53 UTC on May 16 (12:53 a.m. EDT).

      I guess I’m missing it.

      • TARDis

        #metoo.

  25. rhywun

    Ugh FML. Work calls.

    • MikeS

      That sucks. Get into the Tito’s yet?

      • rhywun

        Yeah, it’s nice.

        Work done.

      • rhywun

        In fact, it’s real nice. Smooth AF.

      • MikeS

        Yeah. I’m not a big vodka guy, but Tito’s is good. And not too badly priced.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I’ve had it on planes and used it as a mixer. Now I’m going to have to do a tasteoff with Monopolowa.

      • slumbrew

        Tito’s is the bomb, for the price (even after the price increases over the years).

        I’m drinking some now, in fact.

        Sláinte

      • rhywun

        Yeah, it’s a splurge for me. A sometimes-vodka.

  26. DEG

    Okay, there are screwed up people that think this chick is hotter than a young Sally Field.

    Sheesh.

    Threesome.

    A city in the Chicago suburbs is regulating how long a dog can bark.

    ?!?!?!?

    Anderson reportedly filed suit Thursday claiming TikTok’s “algorithm determined that the deadly Blackout Challenge was well-tailored and likely to be of interest to 10-year-old Nylah Anderson, and she died as a result.”

    Go fuck yourself. It’s not TikTok’s fault.

    San Jose Police Officer Matthew Dominguez, 32, was arrested Thursday on a misdemeanor indecent exposure charge in connection with the April 21 incident.

    Procedures weren’t followed.

    “It appears where she either a fell into a hole that was created from her septic tank caving in or her weight itself it caved in right as she was standing on it,” Taylor said.

    That is not a good way to go.

  27. The Hyperbole

    Zoom still going or did db ruin it for everybody?

    • db

      It’s on like Donkey Kong

  28. Brochettaward

    So, the Game of Thrones spin off comes in August. Not that I think it much matters to many at this point – the show runners basically pissed on their own legacy with how they handled the final two seasons of that show, but it should come as no surprise to anyone that they have now decided to cast black actors in roles that are white. In many cases, you could at least make a legitimate argument that the race change doesn’t really impact the story in anyway.

    But in this case, it will very much impact how the story is told because these characters who were obviously written as white are going to have children. The parentage of these children is supposed to be surrounded in rumor and innuendo. There’s supposed to be ambiguity in who the real father. You see, a white women is going to marry a now black man who is thought to be gay. She has children. It’s now no longer going to be in doubt that these aren’t his children, and it will be real interesting to see how they gloss over the fact that this is no longer just a rumor in the story but an obvious fucking fact that no one would be able to ignore.

    This isn’t just a black elf in Tolkien. It fundamentally changes the fucking story.

    • The Hyperbole

      who were obviously written as white

      Trump voters?

      • Brochettaward

        Quordle players.

      • MikeS

        MAQA!

    • rhywun

      Couldn’t they work around that by just making every character black…?

      And no, I couldn’t fucking care less. I tapped out of GoT in season 2. Which pissed me off a little because I really liked season 1.

      • Brochettaward

        The characters aren’t all black. Basically, that blond bitch from the show with the dragons? Her family, which has intermarried with this other family across generations, now has a bunch of negro mixed in throughout their bloodines. So you apparently have the dominant family being albino white despite having intermarried with the other family which remains dark as night. And then there’s the direct issue of this being a mixed marriage between a perfect representation of both. The show is in the can, trailer out. The bride is pale as fuck and the husband will almost certainly be black.

        SO, they are fucking with the much evoked lore of the story, but also a key element of the plot.

      • rhywun

        Plot schmot. There needs to be representation™.

      • Brochettaward

        Googling feedback on this, that was of course the first argument that came up from the standard NPC media type. Shut the fuck up because representation good and super important.

      • rhywun

        I can’t believe in a girl who raises magical dragons unless she “looks like me”.

      • MikeS

        And the thing is, the NPC types demand that all minority classes are represented with far more weight than their actual percentage of the population. I mean, blacks are about 13% of the US population. But when you look at popular media, it’s no wonder that most Americans guess they make up a far higher percentage.

      • The Hyperbole

        What is the actual percentage of POC in *checks notes* this completely fictional world?

      • slumbrew

        The UK is about 3% black. You wouldn’t know that if you watch the Beeb

      • Brochettaward

        Only thing I’d disagree with is that they don’t demand weighted representation of EVERY class. Hispanics, for instance, are grossly underrepresented in media compared to their actual proportion of the population.

        Lefties have a fetish for blacks. When they use that word, diversity, it mainly means black. They are the classical minority and seemingly never go out of style.

        I don’t particularly care what proportion of any group is represented. My complaint boils down to three things:
        1. Stop fucking changing already established shit to suit your political agenda. Make your own shit
        2. You simply aren’t allowed to have white spaces anymore. The pendulum, in typical lefty fashion, can’t just come to the middle but must swing back completely the opposite direction.
        3. This isn’t about representation of minorities or appealing to minorities to make them feel more included, but to appeal to the white progressive who feels a sense of shame in everything that is a part of the dominant white culture. They’re the ones who “diverse” characters, not minorities.

        Why do we need to take fantasy stories with established lore grounded in European culture and fill it with minorities? If black people love the Tolkien-style fantasy so much, they will in fact make their own versions of said shit where they can represent themselves. If that’s what they want. Or maybe black people can take parts of their own culture and develop their own brand of fantasy, again if that’s their interest (my hunch is that there isn’t much of a market).

        Black Panther did great with all audiences, but particularly blacks. And outside of eyerolling from people like me when white progs tried to pretend some dumb super hero movie was the most important film ever made, no one really gave a shit. No one was complaining that black people were being represented on film. Because that was a black character (albeit one made by white guys). Always was and always will be.

        It boils down to the fact that the left can’t make anything productive of their own. Like that one quote that gets passed around here about the institutions, they skinsuit everything and turn it into a mockery of what it originally was.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        now do pregnant Men!

      • Brochettaward

        Yusef is a fucking bigot.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Fuck off Bro!

      • Brochettaward

        And to The Hyperbole and to build on Slumbrew’s point – fuck off Hype. I’m tired of seeing shit that is part of Western culture bastardized by the left. Seeing The Iliad diversified was fucking retarded. Seeing Tolkien butchered is the same.

        IF these fictional worlds don’t matter, then there’s no reason for them to be fucking with them so much. But they do matter. They are a big part of culture, and where we’re going in the future.

      • MikeS

        What is the actual percentage of POC in *checks notes* this completely fictional world?

        You’ll have to clarify what it is your picking a fight with me over this time. To which completely fictional world are you referring?

      • MikeS

        Oh… GoT? I don’t give a fuck about GoT, other than agreeing with Bro’s point. I’m saying if you watch popular media, it’s easy to see why many Americans think blacks make up a far larger percentage of the population than they actually do. And yet it’s never enough. “Moar representation!!11” is all we ever hear. To the point we need Black Santa, and Black Jesus, and Black James Bond, and, and, and.

      • The Hyperbole

        I’m sorry Bro, It must be hard going through life as such a fragile flower. Oh no, some made up character in a book I like is being portrayed on film by a black person. The horror.

      • MikeS

        There’s contrarian, and then there’s intellectually dishonest.

      • rhywun

        I thought the point was that it messes with an established plot point but IDGAF about the source material to know for sure.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      God God, you make sense, Bravo!

  29. Evan from Evansville

    Folk around? I think I fucked up quite a bit last night. Seems to be a tendency. I got home on my own without too much injury.

    I’m a fucking idiot. A Useful (to my destruction) Idiot being reliably idiotically useful for the demons within.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Quit fucking around, stay sober and come home.
      The Glibs will take care of you.

      • rhywun

        Yeah I hesitate to weigh in on this but… yikes.

    • Evan from Evansville

      I’m incapable of being sober. I have failed every time. (That’s not actually true.) Constant escapism. The Real World is full of different hallucinations and I can’t tell what’s real. (I actually can. I’ve had to learn. It’s not easy.)

      I don’t know how to effectively deal with it, here. But I’ve got my hotel room tonight. It’s safe and comfortable. I’ve got Netflix and wifi!

      Thank all of you. Trigger Hippie and I are ~ish in the same place. I’m fundamentally broken. Thankfully, I didn’t have (another) seizure last night. It’s just my time to go through (further) hardship. Onward, upward, always. The trek is hard, but it needs to be done. Right now, I’m just legit brain-damaged, homeless, unemployed, unemployable, under police/legal investigation, and I just have to (theoretically) wait on a court date. This too, shall pass.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I’m fucked right now as well, good Fortune and get Home!

      • Evan from Evansville

        Thank you. I know your troubles are far more extensive than mine. Home, soon. (I hope.)

        You do as well as you can. I will do the same. We’ll get through this. This too, shall pass.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Don’t be stupid, calm down and think, then,
        Get The Fuck Out!

      • Trigger Hippie

        Don’t beat yourself up, man. You at least have the excuse of suffering a severe, life altering head trauma that will forever affect your life; I’m just a self-absorbed, narcissist asshole. Sure, I’m positive I’ve had at least a dozen undiagnosed concussions…you had a significant portion of your skull removed. Worst comes to worst, I offer you the same opportunity I offered Uncle Bob: You’re always welcome to share my shit hole apartment if in truly dire straits. Just get your crazy ass back to the states ASAP.

      • MikeS

        Just get your crazy ass back to the states ASAP.

        Seconded.

      • Trigger Hippie

        You’re a good egg, dude. Thank you for always being a positive force not just for me but, for all of us.

      • MikeS

        That’s really nice of you to say. I hope I deserve it. I can be a fucking asshole, but I try to only be that way to people that deserve it, like Hyperbole.

        If you ever completely lose your mind and decide to come to North Dakota, you look me up.

      • Trigger Hippie

        If I ever completely lose my mind and come to ND the safe bet for you is to purchase extra ammo…ha!

      • pistoffnick

        I can be a fucking asshole.

        Can confirm. I mean what kind a man doesn’t like Rush or Steely Dan?

  30. Yusef drives a Kia

    Goodnight all you reprobates and micreants,
    Bob loves you all!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Miscreants, you Teds

    • hayeksplosives

      ??

  31. Yusef drives a Kia

    I like this,
    “Here’s the problem with public officials deciding to ignore the Constitution: If you’re the president, if you’re a member of Congress, if you are a TSA agent, the only reason why somebody should listen to what you say, instead of horsewhipping you out of town for your impertinence, is because you exercise power via the Constitution. If the Constitution doesn’t count, you don’t have any legitimate power. You’re a thief, a brigand, an officious busybody, somebody who should be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail for trying to exercise power you don’t possess. So if we’re going to start ignoring the Constitution, I’m fine with that. The first part I’m going to start ignoring is the part that says, I have to do whatever they say.”

    • rhywun

      That is a good point. Where is it from?

    • NoDakMat

      That’s great up until the end. There is no part that says “I have to do whatever they say.” That’s completely ass backward.

      • The Hyperbole

        You are half way there, the entire premise is BS. Fuck those people whether some moldy old piece of parchment says they have a power to exercise or no.

      • MikeS

        But we should listen to some brand-new piece of paper that says your dog can’t bark for more than 15 minutes.

      • The Hyperbole

        The piece of paper is irrelevant the fact that your dog is fucking with my nap time is the issue, and I will resolve it with a shovel.

      • MikeS

        Sounds about right.

      • Trigger Hippie

        This statement is approaching Nikki territory…

      • The Hyperbole

        I’m going to use my shovel to build noise dampening earthworks around my home so I can’t hear your dog anymore. If that’s Nikki-ish so be it.

      • Trigger Hippie

        The cheaper, more practical approach would be to dampen the exterior noises by hitting up Craigslist for used mattresses and using them to cover your interior walls. Esthetically unpleasing? Sure. But life is nothing but a series of trade offs.

      • NoDakMat

        Oh, half way, huh. Thanks. Ever tried not being an arrogant asshole?

      • MikeS

        Let’s give him the Quad Laser.

      • The Hyperbole

        Yeah, it didn’t take.

      • NoDakMat

        I’m not at all convinced you’ve ever tried.

      • MikeS

        meeee-ow

    • Chafed

      What’s it from?

  32. Mojeaux

    111
    3️⃣4️⃣
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    • The Hyperbole

      Now that’s how one Firsts.

    • rhywun

      Goodness… that might be a record early entry.

      • rhywun

        It makes me wonder if I could improve my average with drunken late-night quordling versus early-morning half asleep quordling.

      • Trigger Hippie

        How about 3:00AM spun out quordling?

      • MikeS

        Sounds fun. I mean, there’s lots of worse things you could do.

      • NoDakMat

        I don’t know what “quordling” is, but in my experience if it aint work related, drunken late-night always goes better than early-morning half asleep. LOL

      • rhywun

        Do yourself a favor and don’t find out. That way lies only madness.

      • MikeS

        I had the exact same thought. Picked up my phone; went to Quordle; wisely (maybe?) set my phone back down.

      • rhywun

        lolnope

        Daily Quordle 111
        4️⃣8️⃣
        6️⃣7️⃣

        You’re welcome, Ted’s.

      • rhywun

        (Not sure if Round 1 of the tourney is tomorrow or Monday)

      • The Hyperbole

        You don’t face Ted’s until round 2. Round one is the win-in match between Tulip and Grosspatzer.

      • rhywun

        I’m happy I can take tomorrow off. Limber up my brain for this shit.

      • The Hyperbole

        Unless Tulip and Grosspatzer tie Monday will be the start of round two. so stay sharp.

      • rhywun

        LOL this smooth vodka just put me to sleep in front of the TV, in a chair.

        Yeah I’m totally ready, bring it on

      • one true athena

        I don’t know – I tried it once when I was up late and the results were… not great. so YMMV quite a lot.

    • Rat on a train

      Daily Quordle 111
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      Practicing for round 2.

      • Grumbletarian

        Daily Quordle 111
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        23. Two wrong guesses that gave me 4 of 5 letters in the right place along the way. Hmph.

    • Sean

      Daily Quordle 111
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    • pistoffnick

      Yes, good music,
      /sorry you are a UND Hockey fan.

      • NoDakMat

        Hey, Nick! How are you? (Other than pistoff)

      • pistoffnick

        Flying high my friend. I can almost touch the clouds.

  33. NoDakMat

    From the wetlands all the way to the Apollo
    If your broke she spits, if your rich she might swollow
    for theends

      • NoDakMat

        Shit! Thanks for finishing the labor I attempted to do… or something.

  34. pistoffnick

    It was supposed to be just a first lunch date. We ended up going to the dam and then to another dam and then to dinner too. And then to a bar…and another bar…and another bar.

    Iron Range girls seem to know everybody.

    definite chemistry. I had forgotten how wonderful kissing can be. Old Enos the Penis was at full attention.

    • rhywun

      Way TMI

    • NoDakMat

      That’s awesome, brother!

      Do you here this playing every where you go?

      • NoDakMat
      • pistoffnick

        We did hold hands pretty much everywhere we went. Unfortunately, her divorce isn’t final, and homey don’t play dat game.
        I ain’t skeert of her ex, I’m skeert of having to defend myself against her ex. Rangers can be craaaaazy

      • pistoffnick

        Kinda like those NoDak boys.

      • NoDakMat

        Yeah, and there’s plenty of good body hiding places in the range. Be careful friend. I’m happy for you, despite you being a bulldog fan (you know Sandelin is a UND alum, right?).

      • pistoffnick

        I don’t want to have to kill anyone in self defense.

      • NoDakMat

        No one does (except for cops). Just play it smart. Let the divorce play out before you get too involved. I gotta hit the rack. Have a good one, man! See ya soon.

      • pistoffnick

        Night-night.

        I hope you dream interesting dreams.

        //U of Norf Dakoda is never gonna have what I takes to win it all. Just nip that dream in the bud.

  35. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam
    yo whats goody yo

    TALL SABBATH CANS!

    • Grosspatzer

      Mornin, Tres! Tall Covfefe coming shortly.

      Booked a great room with an oceanfront view 1/2 block from the beach. And then…

      Fog. Fucking fog. Fog, so thick that you could not see the boardwalk.

      Did not know the local HS would be having their annual prom IN THIS HOTEL. Thumping bass is not a sleep aid.

      • Rat on a train

        Thumping bass is not a sleep aid.
        Just covering up the real thumping.

      • Fourscore

        At least it isn’t your neighbor’s dog barking. The Prom will close down at some point.

        You were probably one of those kids in an earlier life. I know I was, maybe still am.

      • Grosspatzer

        You were probably one of those kids in an earlier lifehe

        Nah, I was the geeky kid with no friends and no dates. If I go to hell it will be an endless loop of high school, god how I hated that place. OTOH, Mrs. Patzer delights in telling me about the 5 proms she attended. Miss Popularity.

      • Rat on a train

        Nah, I was the geeky kid with no friends and no dates.
        Testify! Real geeks don’t go to the prom.

      • Gender Traitor

        Look at it this way: you got the girl who’d attended 5 proms.

        ::attended no proms. Sniffles and kicks rock::

      • Fourscore

        I went to one, a year after I graduated. One of the locals couldn’t get a date either. Y’all didn’t miss much.

  36. Tulip

    Daily Quordle 111
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    • Grosspatzer

      Dodged Chumptown by the skin of my teeth after wasting 4 guesses on top left.

      Daily Quordle 111
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      • Grosspatzer

        Bottom left, that is.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Another day of “nah, couldn’t be” that turns out to be the word. Lots of points left on the table.

        Daily Quordle 111
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    • TARDis

      Daily Quordle 111
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  37. Fourscore

    Mornin’ TC and Tulip,

    It’s so good to see green grass and the leaves regenerating again. I’ve been up an hour already but trying to catch up with last night’s activity. I put in 6 baby apple trees yesterday, I’ll do another 3 today and that’ll be enough. I’m just starting them inside the garden fence and then move them when they get to be 4-5 feet high. I realize it probably is for naught but isn’t that what the long game of life is?

    • Tres Cool

      When I got home this morning I noticed my grass, which was just cut Wednesday. I could do it again today.
      Growing season in Ohio.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, 4(20), Sean, TARDy, trashy, ‘patzie, Tulip, RoaT, and homey!

      4(20), could you please make sure some of your baby apple trees are of the “transparent” variety so that I can make applesauce just the way my mother did? ‘Round these parts, you have to get on a waiting list to get the “trannie” apples!

      Also, for you.

    • rhywun

      I see Joe already chimed in. This is the story the usual suspects have been waiting for. Buckle up.