Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – Condom Party!

by | Aug 3, 2022 | Daily Links | 255 comments

Youth of West Bengal’s Durgapur are ‘High’ on Condoms and Locals are Baffled

A handful of youth residing in Durgapur is under the grip of a strange addiction. To everyone’s shock, in the past few days sale of flavored condoms has drastically increased in various parts of Durgapur such as Durgapur City Center, Bidhannagar, Benachiti, and Muchipara, C Zone, A Zone. The rather bizarre occurrence has raised questions among all. Out of sheer curiosity, a local shopkeeper asked a young man, a regular customer at his shop. In response, the young man said, he regularly buys condoms to get intoxicated.

Understandably, the people of Durgapur are baffled after learning about this new “means” of addiction. Dheeman Mandal, who works at Durgapur Divisional Hospital, responded to the unusual fascination and said: “Condoms contain aromatic compounds. It breaks down to form alcohol. It is addictive. This aromatic compound is also found in dendrites glue. So many people use dendrite for addiction also.”

Analyzing this further, Durgapur RE College Model School Chemistry teacher Nurul Haque said, “The long-term soaking of condoms in hot water causes intoxication due to the breakdown of large organic molecules into alcoholic compounds.”

Shopkeepers of a medical shop in Durgapur say: “Earlier 3 to 4 packets of condoms were sold per shop per day. And now a pack of condoms are disappearing from a store.”


 

ARMSTRONG! (Ignore the warning; there is no NSFW content.)


Why Do Rich People Love Quiet?

New York in the summer is a noisy place, especially if you don’t have money. The rich run off to the Hamptons or Maine. The bourgeoisie are safely shielded by the hum of their central air, their petite cousins by the roar of their window units. But for the broke—the have-littles and have-nots—summer means an open window, through which the clatter of the city becomes the soundtrack to life: motorcycles revving, buses braking, couples squabbling, children summoning one another out to play, and music. Ceaseless music.

I guess she’s (?) never heard the phrase “so loud you can’t hear yourself think,” or maybe that’s just ever, uh, been an issue. But, in general, complaining about the character of a place where no one wants you to be is shitty and short-sighted. The self-assembling ghetto is a gift to everyone else.


 

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255 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “flavored condoms”

    What’s the point?

    • Count Potato

      “So many people use dendrite for addiction also.”

      The nerve of these people!

    • SDF-7

      The shortages they’re driving will increase the spread of monkeypox or something?

      Otherwise… I got nothin’. I care about this as little as I care about kids huffing paint or whatever other stupidity they do. Not my thing, think it is stupid — but I’m not their parent. Only time I care is when some poor retail clerk has to come “approve” of my gas treatment purchase because now *anything* that smells chemical just *has* to be guarded from the teens or something.

    • Rat on a train

      reservoir?

    • Gadfly

      Are you asking what is the point of flavored condoms in general, or in this specific Bengali application of them?

  2. Rebel Scum

    “The long-term soaking of condoms in hot water causes intoxication due to the breakdown of large organic molecules into alcoholic compounds.”

    Indian food is already hard enough on the stomach.

    • Nephilium

      Are flavored condoms cheaper then sugar?

      • C. Anacreon

        Naan shall pass!

      • juris imprudent

        You will curry no favor with Swiss.

      • Tres Cool

        Did you hear about the indian chef that didnt make traditional dishes?
        He was a naan-conformist.

      • UnCivilServant

        Wasn’t he the one who came into the hardware store looking for paint because he wanted his house to have a tan door?

      • Sean

        This resort is populated with Tres bait. You’d be losing your mind.

        Though I did have a rare hot lesbian couple sighting last night.

  3. Count Potato

    “(Ignore the warning; there is no NSFW content.)”

    Twitter has two kinds of warnings. “The following media includes potentially sensitive content” which they seemingly put on things at random, that just requires an extra click. Then there is “adult content” that asks you to sign in. I haven’t look into how to get around the second kind.

    • rhywun

      nsfwyoutube dot com works I think

      • Count Potato

        For Twitter?

      • rhywun

        Oh. Duh.

        *never mind*

        It’s 5 o’clock and my brain is fried

    • Fatty Bolger

      Can you turn those off? That first one especially is just annoying.

  4. Rat on a train

    I’d spent my high-school years sneaking out at night to drink 40s on the beach and scheming my way into clubs.

    I would be hanging out with my friends from orientation when one of our new roommates would start ostentatiously readying themselves for bed at a surprisingly early hour.

    Privileged kids sleep at night instead of hanging out on the streets.

    • Gadfly

      I wonder if there’s any causality there.

  5. Tonio

    Perhaps it’s not so much that rich people love quiet, but that only they can afford it. All those truly poor people out on the streets until midnight would probably prefer to be in air-conditioned slumber. And apparently that’s my last free Atlantic article. Womp, womp.

    • Sensei

      Delete all the cookies associated with the site.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        This. And then block the site from putting a cookie on in the first place.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, it’s like saying rich people love safe streets and good schools.

      “Good work, Nancy!”

  6. SDF-7

    They’ll be coming for the “petite rich” (aka the wreckers and kulacks) soon enough.

    • Rat on a train

      Spain has decided to move on a law that would ban most places from setting their air conditioning temperature below 72 degrees Celsius.
      umm

      • Count Potato

        Laws are stupid. Although mine is set to 80°F and it’s plenty chilly.

      • slumbrew

        Da fuq? You must be some sort of suthen type person.

        (I miss Suthen)

      • Chipwooder

        I’ve been an infrequent visitor lately – does he no longer post here?

      • slumbrew

        He stuck his head in a while back and mentioned he had some health issues; I haven’t seen him since, sadly.

      • Rat on a train

        My thermostat is 75 for cooling, 65 for heating. I would prefer 70.

      • Count Potato

        Mine is 69 for heating.

      • slumbrew

        Giggity.

      • slumbrew

        s/h//;

      • Rat on a train

        I don’t mind the cold as much. At 75 I need fans.

      • slumbrew

        74 cool, 72 heat.

        +/- 2 degrees either way.

        One of the few pluses of a small place is I can set the temp however I like, bills are never that high.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        We keep it at 77-78.

      • Tonio

        Me, too. Soul, disco, funk, Fleetwood Mac, Queen…

      • The Hyperbole

        Jesus, the top 100 songs of 1977 are 85 “Nope”s, 11 “Meh”s, and 4 “all right”s

        That said it’s probably like that every year… that ones Sci-fi guy’s law and all.

      • Rat on a train
      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Well I did meet my wife at a disco.

      • Zwak doesn't know what to ignite and what to extinguish

        Hey, look, a baked Potato!

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Potato is Taylor Lorenz.

      • Count Potato

        I’m gonna depreciate your asset.

      • slumbrew

        They mention ’27’ repeatedly in the quoted section, so that’s just lazy AF.

      • Rebel Scum

        Mine is at 74.

      • hayeksplosives

        Celsius??

      • Rebel Scum

        Didn’t see that is in degrees commie. 74 degrees freedom.

      • hayeksplosives

        74 C would be rather toasty indeed.

      • Tonio

        Today, the part of Hyperbole will be played by Rat.

      • Animal

        We have a huge air-conditioning system. It’s absolutely enormous.

        It’s called Alaska.

      • Rat on a train

        How can you survive a high of 72?

      • Animal

        Cold beer, and plenty of it.

      • rhywun

        I think they mean 27.

        But yeah… fuck that.

        Another reason to stay home where it supposedly doesn’t apply.

    • slumbrew

      *turns AC down to 72*

    • The Other Kevin

      I’m old enough to remember summers that were so hot, dozens of elderly people in Chicago were dying. So yes Klaus, let’s ban air conditioning. Assholes.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Maybe, just maybe, they are trying to kill us.

      • Gadfly

        I’m old enough to remember summers being so hot in Europe that the news talked about lots of old people dying. In the early 2000s. Still surprised more places over there don’t have AC.

      • Don escaped Texas

        It’s been interesting watching the “take rate” on AC in cars go up. I don’t remember the numbers, but seems like in western Europe it was maybe 10% in 1980 and is over 60% now.

      • Gadfly

        I didn’t even think about cars, can’t imagine one of those not having AC. Last car my family owned without AC was in the 90s.

  7. Count Potato

    “The bourgeoisie are safely shielded by the hum of their central air, their petite cousins by the roar of their window units.”

    You know what’s loud? Helicopters.

    • juris imprudent

      Only when you’re real close to them.

      • one true athena

        But then they get much further away suddenly, so it’s fine

  8. Sensei

    “Why Do Rich People Love Quiet?”

    I read that yesterday and had similar thoughts to you.

  9. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    So no poor people live in the middle of nowhere? 🙄

    • slumbrew

      What, flyover country?

      Who cares about those people? This is the Atlantic, for sooper-smart people, who live in big, coastal cities.

      • Rat on a train

        They’re probably white and Republican anyway.

      • Nephilium

        Are they even really people if there’s not a Michelin starred restaurant nearby?

      • juris imprudent

        This is the Atlantic, for sooper-smart people, who live in big, coastal cities.

        But not people that have a place in the Hamptons.

      • slumbrew

        Those are rich people, who need to pay their fair share.

        Not like me, who is paying too much, despite having the correct opinions.

    • Animal

      Our second and her family live in a tiny little rented house in a tiny little town in eastern Iowa. They don’t make much for money, especially with three kids. But the one thing they do like: “It’s so quiet here.” That and that the kids can play outside.

  10. Rebel Scum

    I’m all about that Boebert yougurt.

    The Internal Revenue Service bought nearly $700K in ammunition earlier this year which begs the questions, why do their agents need guns to do their job and who are the IRS arming their agents against?

    This has been going on for awhile.

    • Rebel Scum

      yogurt*, even.

    • Count Potato

      “$700K in ammunition”

      That’s only a couple of cases.

    • Rat on a train

      Law enforcement and protective services are spread across agencies. The IRS has its own criminal investigation agency. It probably has its own protective service as well. Just more bureaucratic bloat and inefficiency.

      • Tonio

        And don’t forget the US Department of Education had (and may still) a SWAT team.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I think even the Department of Education has been buying ammo.

    • slumbrew

      Bleh. Really want those top two flipped.

      That said, WTF answers political polls any more?

      • Rat on a train

        I understand a Trump return would be a stick-it-to-the-ds event, but he is old and should step aside.

      • Plisade

        I believe he will.

      • hayeksplosives

        I hope so. And I hope he does so without casting shade at DeSantis.

      • Gadfly

        If he voluntarily steps aside, I doubt he’ll cast shade at DeSantis. He likes to be viewed as a winner, so if he’s not in the race he’ll want to attach his horse to the winning wagon, as long as it doesn’t throw shade at him. If he enters the primaries that’s a different story.

    • juris imprudent

      Trump and the seven dwarves, again?

    • Zwak doesn't know what to ignite and what to extinguish

      Most people have zero idea who any of those other people are in relation to the possibility of being president. They don’t know where they stand on most issues and a whole host of other things. But they do know exactly who Trump is, what he stands for, and how much he pisses off the right people.

      Of course they picked him first.

    • slumbrew

      Link totally appropriate for a SugarFree post.

    • Sensei

      Busted link…

    • Tonio

      Fixed. Thanks.

    • The Other Kevin

      Saw that, it was at lunch time today in Elkhart. Right by our own Evan. (I checked, he wasn’t involved in the crash thankfully).

      • Gender Traitor

        I thought EfE was (safely, we hope) down in PAY-roo?

      • The Other Kevin

        I thought he lived in Peru but worked in Elkhart?

    • slumbrew

      The video has been posted here once or twice.

      Everyone involved is an asshole.

      • Sensei

        Yes. I posted the first one. The death threats just add to the stupidity of the whole thing.

        I’d like her prosecuted for hit and run with an injury just like anybody else.

        I’d also like to see the bike messenger ticketed and prosecuted and have a good share of contributory negligence in the inevitable lawsuit. But for my last point I may as well believe in the Easter Bunny.

      • rhywun

        It is amazing that “death threats” are newsworthy anymore. Who the fuck hasn’t received death threats?!

      • Tres Cool

        Dead people ?

  11. Rebel Scum

    Meghan, you dishonest cunte.

    I see my initial predictions were right despite the initial excitement of Robson pulling ahead –

    Congratulations to my home state for full making the transition to full blown MAGA/conspiracy theory/fraudster.

    The voters have spoken – be careful what you wish for…

    Kari Lake seems to irritate all the correct people.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Shame and degradation

    Meghan McCain criticized Trump-endorsed candidate Kari Lake’s lead in the Arizona Republican gubernatorial primary on Wednesday, saying the state has gone “full blown MAGA.”

    As of Wednesday morning, Lake leads Karrin Taylor Robson, who was endorsed by former Vice President Mike Pence and current Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R), by about 1.7 percentage points, or about 11,300 raw votes, according to The Associated Press. The AP has not called the race and estimates about 20 percent of the votes have yet to be counted.

    “I see my initial predictions were right despite the initial excitement of Robson pulling ahead,” McCain wrote on Twitter.

    “Congratulations to my home state for full making the transition to full blown MAGA/conspiracy theory/fraudster,” she added. “The voters have spoken – be careful what you wish for.”

    Poor baby. You’ll have to move to California now.

    • The Other Kevin

      We need to prevent these MAGAs from upsetting the status quo. Because the status quo is so great right now.

      • rhywun

        It’s great for grifting swamp creatures who want approval from the left.

    • invisible finger

      I hear fentanyl is good for those suffering from TDS.

  13. Count Potato

    “OPEC tells Biden we won’t produce more oil in embarrassing blow: Saudi-led group only increases production by a ‘miniscule’ amount as White House scrambles to insist Biden didn’t meet MBS to ask for help with supplies”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11077937/OPEC-tells-Biden-wont-produce-oil-embarrassing-blow.html

    This is whole thing is so stupid and evil. Shut down domestic supplies because climate change, then buy more foreign oil.

    • Tonio

      The admin is pandering to their base which include the watermelons and their allies and supporters. Moving the production off-shore avoids offending them as does domestic oil exploration and production. It also accomplishes the secondary goal of making it more expensive to operate cars, leading to a decline in car ownership, increasing demand for “public” transportation, reducing freedom of movement. Electric vehicles are a bait-and-switch, just like cash for clunkers.

    • juris imprudent

      Shut down domestic supplies because climate change, then buy more foreign oil.

      Like lithium mining, refining and battery production? WCPGW?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Sure, they get things wrong, but it’s not like they knowingly lie.

      • juris imprudent

        I think my sarcasm detector is on the fritz, it shoulda been going off like a diving klaxon.

    • Sensei

      Me neither. Her Wiki entry makes me weep for humanity.

    • Tonio

      I liked it better when UK tabloids made no pretense that the “page three bird” was anything other than a gratuitous bikini pic.

      • kinnath

        She’s the kind of a girl that makes the “News of the World”

      • Tres Cool

        Freddie Mercury hardest hit.

    • MikeS

      Now wear one that says “Abu Bakr” and “Muhammad” on each tit and “Allah” on your coochie. See if you like the free publicity that gets you.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    jinx

  15. R C Dean

    Woohoo! As someone who displays the Gadsden flag, I am now an officially certified user of domestic terrorism symbology!

    • Animal

      What an enormous, steaming pile of horseshit that document is.

    • Rat on a train

      You come here so you are already flagged.

    • Nephilium

      My Whiskey Rebellion flag is still clear though!

      • Rat on a train

        Apparently so is the Confederate flag.

      • Tres Cool

        The DNC will insure it’s always kept safe.

    • rhywun

      They hate you and want you dead.

      • Rat on a train

        I believe it is one of the many flags flown on the Hoover building.

    • hayeksplosives

      I wear a Gadsden flag patch on my white lab coat at the DoE all the time. I sewed it on there too cover up a small stain that happened to be on a perfect spot for a patch.

      I suppose I’ll be reported..:

      • Gadfly

        I like that as a solution for dealing with an unwashable stain. Also has some extra symbolism in the act.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      The Ronald Reagan Building in DC, which is a Fed building, had a Gadsden on display. Arrest the whole place!

      • DEG

        Arrest the whole place?

        I like the way you think!

  16. Sensei

    Glad somebody in MSM was willing to point out exactly where this is going.

    In other words, the case can then be collapsed by triggering a smaller explosion. Rather than pursue wider conspiracies connected to the influence peddling, Hunter could be indicted on a few tax or lobbying counts. That would allow for a plea bargain that would allow the media to focus narrowly on those counts and not the broader influence peddling by the Biden family.

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/can-media-democrats-implode-hunter-biden-case-without-blowing-up-washington

    • The Other Kevin

      I predict it will be just like The Durham investigation and Ghislaine Maxwell. Just enough to put someone away for a while and say “case closed” without looking too deep. Shouldn’t be a problem for them at all.

      • Tonio

        And Hillary still walks free without so much as an ankle bracelet.

      • creech

        You mean “cankle bracelet.”

      • Zwak doesn't know what to ignite and what to extinguish

        Canklet.

      • Rat on a train

        no reasonable prosecutor … exists

    • Tonio

      I will take some wrangling to keep him from going to jail, but I’m sure they’ll find a way. I wonder if drug/alcohol rehab and testing will be part of his “supervised release.”

      I look forward to the comparisons between his sentence and those received by J6 participants.

  17. grrizzly

    Soon Germans will have to mask up again unless they get a booster every three months.

    Specifically, the federal states will receive the option to impose indoor mask mandates, with exceptions for those who can present negative tests, or who have recovered from infection or received vaccination within the past three months.

    • Sensei

      Wow…

      What could go wrong after repeated booster injections. Although I may have to buy more Pfizer…

      • Penguin

        Don’t forget put options on Life Insurance carriers.

      • Penguin

        In case my above comment seems weird.

    • rhywun

      They got a good thing going – why let it end… ever.

  18. Fatty Bolger

    That Stretch Armstrong video is like an episode of The Boys.

  19. Rat on a train

    New names for Lee and Lee-Jackson highways will sound familiar

    On Tuesday, the county’s Board of Supervisors directed county staff to draw up a resolution endorsing the changing of the roads’ names to their route numbers: routes 29 and 50, respectively.

    Other potential names for Lee Highway included Cardinal Highway, Langston Boulevard/Highway, Lincoln-Douglass Highway or Fairfax Boulevard/Highway. Other alternatives for Lee-Jackson included Unity Highway, Fairfax Boulevard and Blue and Gray Highway.

    You surprise me Fairfax.

    • Animal

      They should rename them the Bo Darville Highway and the Cletus Snow Highway.

      • Penguin

        “The Roscoe P. Coltraine Turnpike”

    • rhywun

      Sheila Jackson Lee Jr. Boulevard

    • Rebel Scum

      I wonder how much this pointless name change is going to cost the taxpayers.

    • creech

      “Blue and Gray Highway” isn’t bad. Both armies marched back and forth through the area until ’64-’65 when Gray found it could no longer go North.

      • Rat on a train

        I’m surprised Fredericksburg hasn’t renamed the Blue and Gray Parkway.

      • R.J.

        Texas taxes everything except groceries. Works well. But chances are you will pass that and not get rid of the older taxes, hence increasing your burden overall. That is why nothing has been done in Texas – nobody trusts the government to reduce or eliminate property taxes in favor of a larger sales tax.

      • R.J.

        Ok, my comments are going crazy tonight. I may just go lie down.

      • R.J.

        Ok, my comments are going crazy tonight. I may just go lie down.

  20. Rat on a train

    Virginia sales tax holiday 5-7 August

    During the sales tax holiday, you can buy qualifying school supplies, clothing, footwear, hurricane and emergency preparedness items, and Energy Star™ and WaterSense™ products without paying sales tax.

    School supplies, clothing, and footwear
    Qualified school supplies – $20 or less per item
    Qualified clothing and footwear – $100 or less per item
    Hurricane and emergency preparedness products
    Portable generators – $1,000 or less per item
    Gas-powered chainsaws – $350 or less per item
    Chainsaw accessories – $60 or less per item
    Other specified hurricane preparedness items – $60 or less per item
    Energy Star and WaterSense? products purchased for noncommercial home or personal use – $2,500 or less per item

      • Rat on a train

        You need more hurricanes. I can’t think of why appliances are included.

      • Nephilium

        If a hurricane makes it to Cleveland, I think we’re all proper fucked. Past couple of days have had several waterspout sightings on the lake though…

      • DEG

        Hurricanes in Cleveland.

        Superduperstorm Sandy is on the list but didn’t bring hurricane force winds to Cleveland.

        Dennis and Isabel were just the remnants of the hurricane. I guess close enough for whomever put together that list.

        I didn’t look at the others.

      • Rat on a train

        I remember Isabel. The hurricane lined up with the Chesapeake pushing a storm surge that flooded parts of Baltimore.

      • Nephilium

        By the time they got here, they were just another rain storm.

      • MikeS

        but didn’t bring hurricane force winds to Cleveland

        So then it was a “low pressure system”.

    • LJW

      Our local authorities have been kind enough to allow us to pay traffic fines with school supplies. Praise our overlords for showing grace.

      • Tonio

        Like, a nickel bag of stemmy, seedy, ditch weed?

    • EvilSheldon

      I could use a chainsaw…

      • Rat on a train

        How about a WaterSense urinal?

    • R C Dean

      emergency preparedness items

      So, ammo?

      • Sean

        👍

    • DEG

      Sales tax holiday?

      Move to state without a sales tax or abolish the one in your state.

      • Nephilium

        There’s been rumblings about Ohio getting rid of the individual income tax, I feel sales taxes are a better taxation system over income or property.

      • DEG

        It is easier to avoid.

      • TARDis

        Possibly, but should be no exceptions except for: condoms, ammo, bacon, steak, booze, bacon, and lingerie.

      • Rat on a train

        Those all get sin taxes.

      • TARDis

        If I were king, those sin taxes would get you a 3% discount.

      • R.J.

        Texas taxes everything except groceries. Works well.

      • Nephilium

        The issue is trying to define groceries. Same type of thing here, as an example, to-go food from a restaurant is tax free, except for sweetened beverages (as they aren’t exempt under the normal grocery definition).

      • Count Potato

        So they only tax coffee if there is sugar in it?

        In most states there is no tax on food, but here is a tax on food from a restaurant.

      • Nephilium

        I believe so on coffee. I know that’s the case for iced tea. Go to a fast food place, order a to-go meal with unsweetened tea versus sweet tea, and you should have two different total costs (by a couple of cents).

    • hayeksplosives

      OFFS.

    • juris imprudent

      OFFS! [apologies for stealing Rhy’s thunder]

      • hayeksplosives

        Pinch-poke!

      • Rat on a train

        That’s all for attempted thunder theft?

      • juris imprudent

        Misdemeanor tardiness.

      • Rat on a train

        You can pay in school supplies.

      • juris imprudent

        Tax free?

      • Animal

        Yeah. Keep it thunder your hat.

      • juris imprudent

        A wink’s as good as a nudge, eh?

      • Sean

        Say no more!

    • Sensei

      But not my non Real ID NJ driver’s license. Makes sense.

  21. DEG

    Why does the condom story sound like butt chugging rainbow parties?

    • juris imprudent

      If that doesn’t summon HM from the aether, nothing ever will.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        It’s like he’s been swallowed up by a black hole.

    • hayeksplosives

      I was trying to figure out why they’d go to that much trouble for a buzz. But if they are muslim, I guess it’s less scandalous to buy condoms than to buy alcohol outright? Or maybe it’s easier to transport? I dunno.

  22. Gadfly

    I guess she’s (?) never heard the phrase “so loud you can’t hear yourself think,” or maybe that’s just ever, uh, been an issue.

    I’m thinking you hit the nail on the head with that assessment.

  23. hayeksplosives

    Looks like the predicted solar flare for tonight didn’t pan out, so no auroras for the Northern Glibs. 🙁 Except maybe you Alaska guys.

    This is the absolute best website for news of geomagnetic storms. Lots of rabbitholes to tunnel into, and the users paste amazing photos of auroras when they do occur.

    https://www.spaceweather.com/

    • Rat on a train

      Except maybe you Alaska guys.
      Need darker skies.

  24. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Is there a scintilla of interest in a midweek zoom? If so I can do it.

    • hayeksplosives

      I have a secret plot to adopt a kitten from a friend of ours in Pahrump tonight. I am convinced that my 2 year old cat Felix wants a playmate, and our friend is rehoming the last kitten from her rescue cat’s litter (yes, rescue cat is getting spayed next week).

      My husband might kill me, so I can’t commit to a Zoom beyond 9 PM Pacific Daylight. But I’d be OK with it beforehand.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Does that count as a scintilla? I always enjoy conversing one-on-one, but I’m-a be cooking dinner as well as listening in.

      • hayeksplosives

        Yeah, that counts. I am expecting a grocery delivery in the next hour, and after that I am cooking stroganoff so I might do the Kitchen Zoom as well.

        I have this wonderful old (ancient?) Logitech accessory that helps prop up a laptop and act as a docking station w/ full keyboard. The Logitech Alto.

        You can’t experience how awesome it is without using it in person. It’s $160 at Amazon but $35 at eBay. I can’t live without it. The Amazon listing shows several photos to help you see what it’s about. I got it as a gift from a PC tinkerer years ago and will never let it go. Using it right now!!

        https://www.amazon.com/LOGITECH-Portable-Notebook-Keyboard-967684-0403/dp/B000LVKNN2

        Logitech alto on Ebay:
        https://www.ebay.com/itm/325240001470?chn=ps&_trkparms

    • The Hyperbole

      What happened to tulip? Did she go full Cartman? I mean I can’t blame her you people can be major dicks, but she will be missed.

      • Zwak doesn't know what to ignite and what to extinguish

        I think she was around this AM. But, yes, she would be a loss.

    • db

      yes, but I’ll be late. late dinner tonight

    • Rat on a train

      404 = false

      • hayeksplosives

        Didn’t work??

      • hayeksplosives

        I tried to use Google photos but I guess it didn’t work. I know some of you can’t get Imgur unless your on WiFi.

        https://imgur.com/a/tBItQMr

        The Google photo app for iPhone insists on access to all of my photos, and they can kiss my ass.

      • rhywun

        LOL!

      • Penguin

        That reminded me of this.

      • hayeksplosives

        That’s both hilarious and cruel.

      • Penguin

        Agreed, on both counts.

      • rhywun

        LOL a classic

      • MikeS

        The first time I read that I was crying I was laughing so hard.

      • db

        That’s pretty awesome. The cat he just picked up has to be completely confused.

      • hayeksplosives

        Hey, they look pretty happy together! So that’s cool.

        In 2 hours, I am picking up a kitten to add to my household.

        Husband doesn’t know yet.

        If I disappear, it’s because he killed me when I brought home an unannounced kitten.

      • Homple

        Erwin Schrödinger has a confusal.

  25. Gadfly

    Babylon Bee does pickup lines for Libertarians. Some of them are actually good. My favorite: “Are you made of gold? Cause you’re the standard by which women should be measured.”

    • hayeksplosives

      Larf. Yeah, that was the best one. Others sounded like Krugman being serious; the sarcasm works only if you know the pick up artist is libertarian.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      Are those drugs coming out of your ass, or are you just happy to see me?

      • Gadfly

        LOL. If it’s not in the same post, I go for it. Can’t be bothered to search every comment thread to avoid a repeat. Shoulda known this would’ve been posted before, but some people may have missed it (like me).

  26. The Late P Brooks

    You still don’t get it, do you, Kinzinger?

    Meijer’s race was among a number of primaries in which the Democratic campaign arms spent money on Trump-backed candidates, a strategy seemingly aiming to make it easier for Democrats to win general elections.

    “I mean, the DCCC needs to be ashamed of themselves,” Kinzinger said.

    “If Peter’s opponent wins and goes on in November to win, the Democrats own that. Congratulations,” he continued. “Here’s the thing, don’t keep coming to me asking where are all the good Republicans that defend democracy and then take your donors’ money to spend half a million dollars promoting one of the worst election deniers that’s out there.”

    Although some Democrats have spoken out against the DCCC’s strategy, top Democratic officials such as Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) have come out in favor of the tactic.

    “The political decisions that are made out there are made in furtherance of our winning the election,” Pelosi said last week, “because we think the contrast between Democrats and Republicans — as they are now — is so drastic that we have to win.”

    They couldn’t give a fuck less about unity and healing, or “working across the aisle” you dupe. They will toss you out like a crusty sock as soon as you have outlasted your usefulness.

    • juris imprudent

      Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) have come out in favor of the tactic.

      The thought of her being frog-marched out of Congress by these horrid extremists amuses me.

    • Gadfly

      It’s amazing to me that there could be such naifs in politics as would be unable to see the Democrats’ “democracy” posturing as nothing more than craven propagandizing. The Democrats freaked out about Dobbs (which increased democratic accountability) and have been consistently anti-democratic whenever things don’t go their way. The last thing they believe in is democracy, so if you find yourself siding with them when the issue is “democracy” you must know you’re being played.

    • one true athena

      Since they gerrymandered him out of a district, they basically already did toss him out, but I guess he’s just teeing up for those guest spots on MSNBC and op-eds as the Principled Conservative Against Current Republican.

  27. Count Potato

    “Case Study: Mom begins socially transitioning her 4-month-old ‘theyby’

    For this mom, 4 months old isn’t too young to start priming her child for a trans identity….

    This is the current end to the ongoing saga of an “agender” mom and her three austistic children she seems intent on guiding into transgender identities.”

    https://buttonslives.substack.com/p/case-study-mom-begins-socially-transitioning

    https://twitter.com/SwipeWright/status/1554878872562405376

    There are way too many parents like this.

    • Drake

      No father in that story.

      • Count Potato

        “She says her “husband wasn’t thrilled about it,” but that she knew she was “making the right decision” after conferring with the group. So, full steam ahead on her autistic 5-year-old daughter’s social transition.”

    • Rat on a train

      My infant didn’t resist when I dressed him in girls clothes. TRANSGENDER!

      • Count Potato

        It’s totally ridiculous.

    • hayeksplosives

      My sister is 2 years older than I. Our friend and walking-distance neighbor was a girl right between our ages, so we became besties and hung out at one of our two houses all the time.

      Neighbor girl had a little brother, like 3-4 years younger, and his dad was sadly bedridden, so brother just wanted to be included (this is the late 70s, early 80s, BTW). So we had to let brother play with us sometimes. And that could entail playing with Barbies, paperdolls, and other feminine things. He went right along with it just to be included!!

      What would happen to such a kid today if his teacher found out he liked to play Barbies with his sister and her girl friends?

      (He’s fine and happily married to a female human and has kids.)

  28. Sean

    I may have gotten a lil too much sun today. 😕

    • DEG

      🙂

  29. Count Potato

    “Banning the word ‘groomer’ is a sinister sign

    A number of social media platforms, including Reddit, have banned the word “groomer” when used as an insult, considering it hate speech.

    Although the term, as popularized by author James Lindsay on his New Discourses podcast, is being used to combat both sexual abuse and leftist indoctrination, the argument has been misrepresented by mainstream news outlets as a slur against gay and transgender people.

    Sexual and gender minorities have certainly faced false stereotypes of being sexual abusers, and contrary to what some would have you believe, many of these minorities are horrified at the cultural push to expose children to sexually inappropriate material. If anything, this activism is what is doing a disservice to gay people. The average person isn’t aware of the disconnect between LGBT+ activism and the gay community and doesn’t realize that activists are pushing their own agenda while operating under the guise of caring about gay people.

    Parents have the right to oppose gender ideology and queer theory in K-12 education. It also isn’t “hate speech” to call someone a groomer when what they are doing is grooming. A similar theme has been evident in the obsession with incorporating drag queens in schools and child-centric events. Claims of supporting diversity and offering care to young people are Trojan horses for gaslighting the public into believing that sexualizing children is normal…”

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/banning-the-word-groomer-is-a-sinister-sign

    • Sensei

      Epsteining?

      • MikeS

        From their About page:

        There are millions of gays within the community that want nothing to do with this Alphabet religion and join the fight with parents and concerned people everywhere to protect children. We also aim to return sanity and reclaim the community we once called our own.

        The gay community is not a monolith. Those pushing this agenda do not represent or speak for us all, nor do we want to be associated with them in any way. What we are witnessing is mass scale child abuse being perpetrated on an entire generation, and we will no longer sit by and watch it happen.

        It is going to take those of us from within the community to finally put an end to this insanity, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      8pm Eastern. Godammit.

      I got a lot of problems with you people.

      • Ted S.

        Hey, I wasn’t pestering you for a zoom link, or anything for that matter.

    • db

      yay! I’ll be late

    • Sean

      Hey rv lady…

      We were at a winery the other day, doing some wine tasting. Overheard the owners talking with a dude who pulled in right before us in his rv. Turns out the winery welcomes campers. Maybe something to consider in your travels. I don’t know how common it is, but something to think about.

    • hayeksplosives

      Uh, that didn’t work for me. What to i have to do???

      • hayeksplosives

        “Invalid meeting”

        it’s 5 oclock here in PDT, so it’s 8 EDT, right?

      • Grosspatzer

        Oof, what’s up with that link?

    • Mojeaux

      The Zoom. She is not.

    • slumbrew

      Get in here, yo.

    • Mojeaux

      KK, dear. Somethink is wronk with the link.

    • Tres Cool

      Jugsy has a friend over, so I dont know how the noise of 2 cackling women will fit in with the call.