SEA SMITH MONDAY AFTERNOON LINKS OF LINKINGS

by | Jul 11, 2022 | Cryptids, Daily Links | 185 comments

SAY HI TO ISLANDS AND SHIP. BY SAY HI, MEAN…

SEA SMITH WANT HALP. HIM DO LINKS TODAY, GIVE CHEESE PERSON DAY OFF. BEFORE LINKS FOR FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMANS, SEA SMITH TELL JOKE.

WHAT OCEAN SAY TO SHORE? NOTHING, IT JUST WAVE!

HAHAHAHAHA! SEA SMITH TELL BEST JOKES. NOW HAVE LINKS. THEN YOU MAKE FUNNY COMMENT!

  1. SILLY ANIMAL LUCKY IT NOT IN BIG AMERICA CITY….”STOP!” *blamblamblamblam*
  2. SEA SMITH LAUGH. SILLY HOOMANS NEED PILL? SEA SMITH SAY “YO HO HO” AND DRINK ENTIRE CASK RUM!
  3. THIS VERY FUNNY. BEACH HOOMANS REACT SAME WAY, WHEN SEE SEA SMITH. SEA SMITH JUST WANT SAY HI. BY SAY HI, MEAN RAPE.
  4. WHYCOME NO ASK SEA SMITH HELP?

COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE!

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185 Comments

  1. Animal

    SILLY ANIMAL LUCKY IT NOT IN BIG AMERICA CITY.

    Leave me out of this.

    • UnCivilServant

      You’re still lucky you’re not in a big american city.

      • Animal

        That much is certain.

  2. The Late P Brooks

    That sinking feeling?

  3. db

    Dear SEA SMITH,

    Last week my friend told me he wanted to see me “say hi” to his wife. How can I break the news to him that I’m not interested in his wife that way? I don’t want to hurt his feelings.

    If you can, please answer as soon as possible. He invited me over for dinner tonight–he said his wife has a really good recipe for rotisserie pork, but they always make too much and need to share it with friends. I love pork, and hope to have a great dinner, but I need to handle this other issue first so we can avoid awkward silences.

    • Ownbestenemy

      *squints* I believe it

    • Sean

      Take a pineapple. Pineapple pairs well with pork.

    • Tonio

      “Rotisserie” indicates it’s a spitroast scene, not a cuck scene ending with “cleanup on aisle one.”

      Just say that you are really, really squeamish about seeing other men naked and couldn’t even contemplate the “wobbly H,” let alone the “pyramid.”

      • Sensei

        This is why I’m here.

      • Ownbestenemy

        That would imply she is pork? To be parked? Porkee?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Gah…autocorrect

        Porked

    • Q Continuum

      Is it a spitroast?

      • Tonio

        Too slow.

      • pistoffnick

        One might even say “sloppy seconds”!

      • juris imprudent

        or leftovers.

      • Ownbestenemy

        With some Alabama white sauce?

      • Compelled Speechless

        Is Alabama white sauce the same as other white sauces only you add extra chromosomes?

    • SEA SMITH

      SEA SMITH LIKE TO HALP… BUT HIM TOO FAR AWAY SWIM THERE, THEN HELP. BY HELP, MEAN RAPE.

      TELL OTHER HOOMANS, “HERE FOR DINNER. NOT BOOM BOOM.”

      • Ownbestenemy

        Wouldn’t you be more…slap slap or squish squish

      • Swiss Servator

        At sea, nobody can hear you squish?

  4. The Late P Brooks

    Off with his head

    Joe Biden has been heckled by the father of a mass shooting victim during a White House event celebrating the passage of a federal gun safety law.

    The US president was delivering a speech on the South Lawn on Monday when he was interrupted by Manuel Oliver, whose 17-year-old son, Joaquin, was among 14 students and three staff members killed at a high school in Parkland, Florida, in 2018.

    “We have to do more than that!” Oliver shouted, among other remarks, while standing up and wearing dark sunglasses, grey beard and purple jacket.

    At first Biden told him, “Sit down, you’ll hear what I have to say,” but then the president relented and said, “Let him talk, let him talk, OK?”

    By then, however, security had already stepped in to take Oliver away.

    Far be it from me to chastise anyone for heckling politicians, but that guy can fuck right off.

    No. You can’t have my guns.

    • Ownbestenemy

      These people don’t realize that when this something is done but refuse to look at the rot that has already set in.

      Guns are just the tool. Instead of a gun shot wound we are going to have people with bashed in faces

      • Sean

        🙁

  5. Mojeaux

    With regard to @rebel scum’s link this morning: Terrible twos, I’ve been thinking about this. I’m mulling over an article about free will. Anybody interested?

    • Tonio

      I’m always interested in what you have to say.

    • kinnath

      yes

      But, I don’t really have a choice in the matter.

      • The Other Kevin

        YES YOU DO! Oh wait…

      • Sensei

        You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
        If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice

      • juris imprudent

        Take your time, no need to rush things.

    • The Last American Hero

      Free will is solid but Natural Science is a better song.

      • db

        +1

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        +1+1

    • The Other Kevin

      Last week Scott Adams turned some heads by saying there’s nothing you can do to prevent “problem” young males. He said having a father in the home did nothing to help. You might want to look that up if you’re doing research.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        He said having a father in the home did nothing to help

        That surprised me at first, but then started making sense if you think of this as being a symptom rather than the cause.

      • Tundra

        James Lindsey does that to me all the time. Starts with “WTF!” Ends with “Huh. That’s an interesting point.”

      • Compelled Speechless

        Has anyone considered that there might not be any pattern or correlation of any note between mass shooters? What if they’re all individuals with disparate motivations ranging from extremist ideologies to mental illness to simply being bored sociopaths? What if *gasp* collectivist thinking and trying to force people into boxes they don’t belong simply isn’t going to do anything to solve this problem? The only commonality I can see is that they all grow up exposed to a government and media apparatus that does everything in it’s power to make every individual feel anxious, unsafe, paranoid, distrustful, jealous, hateful, fearful and confused every second of everyday.

      • juris imprudent

        What is sorta amusing about this is the desperate need to explain, and thus control this. Idiots think it is all about ideology. Morons lean toward mental health. Very few really want to look at culture/society and a multitude of factors. All but none, even the most devoutly religious, are willing to concede to the metaphysics of evil.

      • Q Continuum

        And the fact that despite media messaging that “these are getting SOOPER common!!!” these events are very, very rare. You are several thousand times more likely to die in a car crash than a mass shooting on any given day, yet few people outside of a few cranks would recommend banning cars completely.

        But even that argument is ceding the premise to tyrants. The main point that matters is that self-defense and weapon ownership are natural rights and debating about safety is utterly irrelevant to the discussion.

      • Compelled Speechless

        It’s quite simple really. Could be literal evil in one case and pure mental illness in another. Yet another it could be a combination of both of those plus they have the sads because their dog died. There’s no correlation. They are all completely isolated incidents and there is nothing you can do to profile, predict or present a coherent through line. Considering it accounts for 99.99999% of all of existence, our species has still never been able to cope with uncertainty. We have to stare at clouds and insist that they are faces telling us what to do with righteous certitude.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I think Scott Adams was referring more to the overall group of young “problem” males and not limited to the very narrow pool of mass murderers. I’m with you on evil being sufficient for mass murderers, but there are some sort of wider factors that encourage hardcore drug addiction, gang banging, etc.

      • Fatty Bolger

        True, they can’t all be lumped together into a single group. There are different motivations, obviously. That said, it sure seems like the biggest commonality among mass shooters in the “Columbine era” is a desire for fame.

      • Compelled Speechless

        How would we know what their motivations are. In a very small number there is some kind of manifesto or public statement that may explicitly say its for fame, but even in those cases, is usually an implication or extrapolation at best. Most of them either die without ever leaving so much as a hint about their motivations and the ones that get captured are immediately locked up as tight as possible never to be heard from again. The idea that we know “fame seeking” is a commonality is largely a media creation. It makes sense as a probability, but that doesn’t make it a known fact.

      • Gustave Lytton

        *flashbacks to memorizing the various criminal causitory theories in CJ class*

      • rhywun

        I think he was talking about a very specific kind of “problem child”. Mass murderers and such.

        The kids you see in that video are a different story. That stats around crime and family structure would seem to argue the opposite of Adams… I think.

      • Mojeaux

        Pfft research. I just let the feelings flow.

      • juris imprudent

        Psst – this ain’t Salon.

      • Fatty Bolger

        I think he’s mostly wrong, because he’s applying his own personal experience with his one kid, and trying to make it universal. For many young men, having a father around, or even a strong father figure, can make a huge difference. It can easily be the difference between an ultimately successful adulthood vs. a life of crime and misery. For some it won’t be enough. But that doesn’t mean it makes no difference.

        He’s partly right in that obviously some young males ultimately can’t be helped, regardless of circumstances, and that there’s not much you can do about it. Especially if they have committed no crimes before doing something terrible.

      • kinnath

        I got the impression Adams was limiting the discussion to kids with broken minds. There is no way to fix some kids.

    • R.J.

      Yes, very interested. Seems like the time is right to discuss behavior over abuse of tools (guns, knives and hammers, etc…).

      • Sean

        Red SUVs…

      • R.J.

        Jackboots. All those poor abused jackboots. They could be dancing instead of standing on someone’s face.

      • Tundra

        Traffic cones.

        Sick little fucks.

      • Tundra

        And if the old man would have clipped them, the fucking DA would go after him with everything.

      • Sean

        Eh….there are legitimate self defense shootings in Philly, and they usually properly identify the victim. “Victim had a license to carry” is the phrase they use when it goes the right way.

    • Animal

      Yes please.

    • Grosspatzer

      Would read, write it! If you choose to do so, of course.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    I’m mulling over an article about free will. Anybody interested?

    Sure.

    Nature vs nurture?

    • Mojeaux

      Yeah, just a re-tread, but in my inimitable style.

    • Sean

      Of course there was a Waffle House.

    • Sensei

      “Siri, I’d like to kill my husband.”

    • ZARDOZ

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Guns are just the tool. Instead of a gun shot wound we are going to have people with bashed in faces

    Exactly. They”l be marching for common sense frying pan and rolling pin control before long.

    • R.J.

      And you have n ow described Britain in a nutshell. Lock up the tool abusers, don’t take the tools away from responsible people.

    • Timeloose

      I was informed by a man named Ice Cube that an AK47 is the tool, also that I shouldn’t act the MFn fool.

    • Compelled Speechless

      Turns out rogue red SUVs can be incredibly efficient killing machines. Can you imagine what would happen if an angry person decided to take control of one and run it through a massive crowd? It could be more than twice as deadly than it would have been on it’s own! Ban red SUVs now!!!

    • robc

      So we are safe from natural causes?

      • Ownbestenemy

        If they would just codify that death is illegal…

  8. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    That kangaroo was just trying to get back to Austria.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Pfft research. I just let the feelings flow.

    Thar’s the ticket. We’ll make a journalist out of you yet.

    • Mojeaux

      *glances at creative writing and journalism BA*

  10. The Late P Brooks

    *glances at creative writing and journalism BA*

    From The Columbia School Of Journalisming?

    Well? HUH?

    • Mojeaux

      *hangs head in shame*

      No. University of Missouri.

      • juris imprudent

        That is in Columbia, no?

      • Mojeaux

        Well, yes. But it’s not the Columbia School of Journalism in NYC.

        However, and this is where I was a bit of a deceitful cunte… I graduated from the UM at Kansas City, which is not in Columbia. UMKC has a medical school, dental school, law school, and pharmacy school, but it’s more of a jack of all trades commuter school with an older population and a large international population. It’s not prestigious in the least bit.

      • Penguin

        Juris is right. It’s A Columbia School of Journalism. Now just hold on a bit until someone thinks of something really good to say about KC.

      • pistoffnick

        …something really good to say about KC.

        I like their BBQ

      • Q Continuum

        It’s not St. Louis?

      • Mojeaux

        Four unis in the UM system. There is one in St Louis (UMSL) and there is one in Rolla (Missouri S&T), KC, and Columbia.

      • whiz

        Yay MUST! (My undergrad alma mater.)

      • The Gunslinger

        The Royals beat the Tigers in game #1 of a twin bill today.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Thank god we have brave souls like her around to stand in the face of rising fascism and yell…….hold my beer?

      • Mojeaux

        Not that campus.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I feel like nowadays, Columbia is that one that should make people hang their heads in shame.

  11. kinnath

    Power Corrupts. V2.0

    Biden administration says federal law preempts state abortion bans when emergency care is needed

    In new clarifying guidance announced Monday, the Biden administration said that federal law preempts state abortion bans when emergency care is needed and that the federal government can penalize institutions or providers that fail to provide abortions as needed to treat medical emergencies.

    “Under the law, no matter where you live, women have the right to emergency care – including abortion care,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a news release Monday. “Today, in no uncertain terms, we are reinforcing that we expect providers to continue offering these services, and that federal law preempts state abortion bans when needed for emergency care.”

    • Compelled Speechless

      Just so I can be a little more certain, what does he mean by “in no uncertain terms? That doesn’t inspire certainty at all.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      So everyone who wants an abortion is experiencing a “medical emergency”?

      Good God.

      • The Other Kevin

        Correct. We’ve already seen what constitutes an “emergency” in the past few years.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yep, very loose standards for a medical state of emergency.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        AFAIK, states that have banned abortion do have exceptions for when the mother’s life is at risk (also ectopic pregnancy, which isn’t of course technically an abortion).

    • Q Continuum

      L’état, c’est moi.

      -Biden

      • SEA SMITH

        L’eau viol, c’est SEA SMITH.

    • Tonio

      This is going to be fun.

    • rhywun

      So… what is that? Maybe one half of one percent of all abortions?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Let’s see states start arresting federal officials for conspiracy.

    • Lord Humungus

      Well that will be uh unenforceable.

    • Sensei

      Discussed earlier. Reminded me of “duck and cover”. Equally useless.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        I’m not so much concerned with the advice contained in the video, so much as with the existence of the video itself

      • Sensei

        For panicky NYC libs seems perfectly cromulent.

        For anybody else, WTF.

      • Tulip

        Yeah, makes you wonder, why now?

      • Grosspatzer

        Duck and cover, as taught to young Patzer.

        1. Bend over.
        2. Put your head between your legs.
        3. Kiss your ass good bye.

    • The Other Kevin

      Pedo Peter seems a bit *too* on the nose. But then it IS Hunter Biden, and there have been at least a dozen times I’ve said “no way” and yet, there it was.

      • Penguin

        Pedo Peter is Hunter? That explains a lot, actually.

      • SEA SMITH

        NO…IT “BIG GUY”. IT HOW HIM KEEP IN PHONE.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Considering he texted his dad his homemade pron videos…

    • Fatty Bolger

      Gotta waste that taxpayer money somehow. Just ask Pedo Peter, he knows all about it.

    • R.J.

      Mosquito bites on your nethers is a distinct possibility.

    • Compelled Speechless

      Use NSFW warnings please. Also use NSFPWAT (Not safe for people who aren’t Tres) warnings.

    • Lord Humungus

      Part of me just died – and not in a good way.

      • SEA SMITH

        NEED SEA SMITH HALP? BY HALP, MEAN…

    • rhywun

      She took to Instagram to share a snap of herself in a thong after the US supreme court’s decided to wind back women’s abortion rights across the country.

      Because of course she did.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Once upon a time, the rudderless disaffected autistic/sociopathic thrillseeker could be directed into the loving crushing embrace of the Army or the Marines. That energy could be channeled and focused. Or they’d ship him off to Fort Leavenworth, or some other repository for the criminally insane.

    Not anymore, apparently. And running off into the frontier is no longer an option.

    • Compelled Speechless

      In that they’re both entirely fiction?

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Well democracy dies in the darkness, so they are just trying to illuminate The Insurrection for us. They are doing God’s work.

    • Tonio

      Paywalled for me, unfortunately.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I’m surprised they didn’t have the gallows on the one pane where Trump was angrily glaring out the window

    • Fourscore

      Answers the question of why I had no class. After Ed classes, student teaching and observing the admin I knew that was not my calling.

      • Swiss Servator

        I have a BA and MA in History, and a Juris Doctorate, with 28 years experience as a prosecutor, a civil defense lawyer, contract counsel for DCFS in front of various ALJs, and in house counsel for the BIG SWISS MACHINE…I have been an enlisted soldier, NCO and Officer (to O-5). Thrice deployed (1 peacekeeping, 2 wars). I have substitute taught everything from AP Chemistry to Shop to 6th grade through 12th, and even taught one semester long course for Central Texas College (Ethics in Criminal Justice, a 3 hour course credit). I am quite conversant in German, somewhat in Arabic and Dari. I have lived in the EU and Central Asia. I have made more than one visit to Central America and Eastern Europe (including the dreaded USSR) and the Balkans.

        I am not “qualified” to teach high school civics in IL, full time.

      • Raven Nation

        Yeah, I’m not qualified to teach HS history either where I live now or where I got my PhD.

        We had a part-time instructor in our department a few years back who’d been a HS teacher for years. He once told me public education could be improved in this country overnight if every School of Education was shut down.

      • Mustang

        My dad and brother (one a professor and one a public school teacher) have both tried to nudge me into teaching. I was honestly surprised by my brother because he’s a borderline Marxist (we’ve managed to talk him back from the ledge). I can’t say I’m not intrigued, but the pay is awful. Well, the pay, their stories of dealing with the bureaucracy, and the fact that my leftist bro is tired of the wokeness he’s forced to learn about for his high school science classes.

      • Zwak, who swallowed your pain, and is asking for more.

        Fourscore, you have more class than most of the jokers I see out there.

    • Tulip

      When i was in grad school, the econ grad students shared the floor with the ed department. The ed department put flyers on the doors to the stairs. The Chinese grad students made a game of correcting the grammar and spelling in red pen. The ed department complained to the econ department. The econ department told them to do better. I’ll be the first to say the economists can be assholes – me included – but sometimes it’s awesome.

      • Swiss Servator

        HAHAHAHAHAHA!

        /stolen (well, not so much stolen as I am going to eagerly tell my Econ professor friend this story in about 30 minutes….)

      • Tulip

        L shaped building. We were in one wing, ed department in the other. Note: ed department ranked third in nation by US News at the time. Sad.

      • Swiss Servator

        “Note: ed department ranked third in nation by US News at the time. ”

        Good Lord…

      • Tulip

        Even better, the chair of the department was Japanese. So he had no sympathy for ed department and lots for Chinese grad students. He thought it was a good game, taught them lots. I was his grad assistant at the time.

      • Swiss Servator

        My Buddy laughed and laughed.

    • rhywun

      *shrug* All the GOP has to do to counter this is remind parents of what they saw during their kids’ Zoom classes the previous two years.

    • Compelled Speechless

      WEF never takes L’s. The people that implement their ideas take the L’s for them.

    • JasonAZ

      Just wasn’t the right Top Men. They get it right the next time. 100% guaranteed.

  13. Q Continuum

    “There’s the church I mentioned in Omaha. When they saw that I was speaking to some of the members of the church, a man in full tactical gear, armed, came out with a church usher, and the church usher says, ‘You’re not allowed to talk to our members.'[…]I was the enemy and I was in trouble”

    Seem like sensible people considering that you are, indeed, the enemy.

    https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/07/jeff-sharlet-on-the-martyrdom-of-ashli-babbitt-and-whats-to-come

    • rhywun

      Another episode of Wingnuts in the Mist – where do I sign up?!

  14. Hyperion

    I’ve been hearing on the internets that this is the worst chat room on all the interweb.

    • SEA SMITH

      INTERNETS IZ WRONG!

    • Tundra

      LOL!

      “Hello, brother!”

    • Ownbestenemy

      And the asshat interjected politics into it

      • Ownbestenemy

        What a fucking letdown. And also…they claimed only a 100 years ago we believed there was only one galaxy….

  15. Gustave Lytton

    I didn’t think Concur could suck anymore, but SAP proved me wrong. Good work everyone!

  16. The Late P Brooks

    I just threw out six or seven dozen jars of “home canned” fruit. “Plumb” and peach. The ones which were marked said “08”. I wouldn’t even open something like that, let alone try eating it.

    • JasonAZ

      Pussy! 😉

    • Swiss Servator

      It might have fermented!!!

    • Lackadaisical

      I’ve actually eaten older preserves.. no issues at all. 20 years old, home canned.

  17. Evan from Evansville

    I am one step away from getting a new (used) car.

    Boss called and confirmed: I start work as a copy editor in exactlynone month. This gives me plenty of time to get an apartment, settle, and make sure I’ve got everything in its right place.

    Very strange, this feeling. My reintroduction to America is going pretty well. It helps that I am monstrously lucky and well-cared for by my loved ones. Plenty of things have happened to me, but I ain’t got nothing to complain about. My angels have made sure I always find my way home. I make sure that I ruffle some of my own feathers or worse.

    • Sean

      What kind of car?

    • Swiss Servator

      Just say a word of thanks once in a while, and treat people as well as you have been treated – you will be fine!

  18. Sean

    Yo, I cut up that big Kraken pepper to put in my salsa. Having eaten two runty ones, I didn’t expect the big one to be so much hotter. I’m no longer mildly disappointed.

    • Swiss Servator

      Help, help! Sean is on fire!!!!!!!!

      • Sean

        That first bite of raw pepper really caught me off guard.

    • Mustang

      What is the attraction to hellishly hot foods? I can’t really tolerate anything past a mild chili pepper, so it’s a little foreign to me. I find the idea of something so spicy it overwhelms every other flavor odd. Not trying to discount your choice, it’s just very foreign to me.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Idea is to add spicy in balance so it doesn’t overtake. Some just like it hot though.

      • Mustang

        I do enjoy a balance of flavor, including spicy stuff, I just have a low tolerance for it so it quickly overpowers other flavors for me. I can’t even smell some things that others consider mild because it overwhelms my senses.

      • Tulip

        I tap out at anything hotter than habanero. I love the fruitiness. But I want flavor in addition to heat.

      • Sean

        Endorphins/dopamine hits. Spicy food is good.

        Capsaicin purportedly has health benefits too.

        Nibbling on the raw pepper just to get a feel for the taste. It’s not like I snack on them raw.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Pussy!

    Yup.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    I am not “qualified” to teach high school civics in IL, full time.,/em>

    Obviously not. Your lived experience would clash with the perfect theoretical DEMOCRACY! they want you to indoctrinate the students with. You probably don’t even worship at the altar of the New Deal.

  21. Gustave Lytton

    I want to put holes in walls. Stupid broken in house tool is broken. Support has been passed to the usual heavily accented group. Dipshit wants me to share my screen and doesn’t understand what he’s looking at. His “solution” for a missing option is for me to dump all of my other work and restart my pc.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Windows Key + R.
      Enter: cmd
      In terminal window enter: cd /
      In terminal window enter: del *.* /F

      • Gustave Lytton

        That worked! Thank you! Come again soon!

    • Ted S.

      It sounds like your problem is that you’re trying to use your computer to put holes in walls. Get a drill.

      /ducking

      • Zwak, who swallowed your pain, and is asking for more.

        It sounds like he is getting a Chinese fire drill.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I know its a moment in time, but that looks intimate beyond familia

    • Tundra

      Eww.

      • rhywun

        On the lips.

        WhoTF does that?

        I doubt my mom kissed me on the lips past the age of five or so.

  22. Timeloose

    I had a rotten day at work today. I came home and noticed my bottom front step to my porch had popped it’s screws. Turns out the stringers rotted and the deck screws rusted.

    I sistered the stringers using the remaining good wood with new pressure treated 2×4 scrap and removed all of the rusty screws. Bolted the decking to the new 2x4s and fixed the rickety and potentially dangerous stair. Good until I have the time to replace the entire staircase.

    It’s amazing what accomplishing a small task can do for your mood. I’m now singing “Solid…solid as a rock” in my head.