Since the editors were still unable to find a suitable replacement, I, Winston’s Mom will continue to provide valuable analysis of the economic questions of the day.
In your face Heritage Foundation!
Drake, dear. I left half a box of Summer’s Eve in the back of your car. If you can be a peach and can drop it off later. KThxBi!
Lets start here.
That’s a shameful line of argument. In fact, whenever you see someone invoking Venezuela as a reason not to consider progressive policy ideas, you know right away that the person in question is uninformed, dishonest, or both. It basically shows that the speaker or writer isn’t willing to engage in serious discussion, preferring to scare people with a boogeyman of which he or she knows nothing.
I was working in Jersey once when a group of sailors stopped by the brothel I was working at tha time. My Madam said not to reuse the condom, we’ll all get the clap that way. I didn’t believe that the first time. Let me tell you something, we all got the clap after that.
The next time soomebody says, thats how you get the clap…you might just get the clap.
But what, exactly, does any of this have to do with the policy ideas of Elizabeth Warren, or Kamala Harris, or even a genuine radical like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? Is anyone in U.S. politics, even those who call themselves socialists, proposing that we nationalize large parts of the private sector? Is there anything in the record of U.S. progressives suggesting that they are less fiscally responsible than the people who keep using voodoo economics to push massive tax cuts for the rich?
I wouldn’t trust any of these broads you mentioned to run a brothel. Everybody would get the clap.
Maybe you disagree with all these policy ideas. But if your first response, literally, is to scream “Venezuela,” you’re demonstrating both your unscrupulousness and your lack of any serious arguments for your position.
I don’t lack serious arguments. You lack serious arguments. VENEZUELA!!!! VENEZUELA!!! VENEZUELA!!!
But from now on, here’s my rule: anyone who tries to use Venezuela as a cudgel in U.S. political debate doesn’t deserve to be part of that debate.
Of course its relevant! I can’t even get a job in Venezuela you punk bitch. I hope Venezuela’s giant, wet snatch is rubbed in your face from now until the end of fucking time.
Mmm. Winston’s mom.
Has got it going on.
Did!
Apparently
https://www.tumblr.com/search/Tiah%20Eckhardt
Whoa.
Winston’s Mom crushes the Krug and Gulag Barbie.
Nicely done, ma’am!
I usually have to pay extra for a thrashing like that.
She pays me.
Does she crush STEVE SMITH?
STEVE SMITH CRUSH EVERYTHING. EVERYONE.
So he’s not a player?
/BigPun
Holy shit. I knew Krugman was an idiot, but I thought he was an intellectual idiot. You know right away that the person is uniformed? *Facepalm*
They think True Socialism ends in anything but starvation and misery?
To them that isn’t a bad outcome, as long as the starvation and misery is visited upon the great unworthy.
If it ends in starvation and misery, then by definition it’s not True Socialism.
True socialism requires removing people as people exist today.
Reinventing, not removing! It’s like a makeover, they’ll make you prettier and more confident, and obedient.
they’ll make you prettier and more confident, and obedient.
thinner only equals prettier up to a point.
It’s not even that. Someone makes a declarative statement and Krugnuts just *knows* that the guy is dishonest and uninformed. That is equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and shouting, “I can’t hear you!”.
He’s nothing but a shameless hack. He doesn’t even try.
“Higher intelligence does not provide the slightest protection against susceptibility to foolish beliefs.”
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1101094793176858624
I’m flashing back to Semi Tough and the description of a running dose of clap.
Is anyone in U.S. politics, even those who call themselves socialists, proposing that we nationalize large parts of the private sector?
If you still consider health care part of the private sector, then yes.
Bro- haven’t you ever heard of public health?
Government health.
Nice try. Health care is a human right.
Is being swole a human right?
Not only a right, but a requirement.
Warty: If you’re still around the coffee shop I mentioned in the morning thread would be one near your old stomping grounds. Right near Lincoln Park.
I’m sure there were shitlords who complained about the various nationalizations that have already taken place but let’s just forget those rubes.
Once we nationalize it, it’s not part of the private sector, so
we didn’t nationalize something part of the private sector.
“Voodoo economics”. Get with the current century, grandpa.
Funnily enough, voodoo ecomonics increased tax revenue.
If only they’d cut spending.
So did trumpalo economics. But I’m told that I’m a moron for believing that it’s possible to increase tax revenues while decreasing tax rates.
JFK says hello as well.
He’s too lazy. He’s paid to be a Republican basher, that’s all the effort he’s going to put in.
Just picture him like Archie Bunker going on about FDR.
Commie pinko faggot
The Old Grouch says:
“A Liberal. That’s someone who’s not quite pink enough to punch.”
By their own standards, that is clearly racist and I’m not joking.
This meme cracks me the hell up:)
Metoo. If I were Winston, I’d post one comment. “Hi, Mom!” Steer into the skid.
Also, Drake?? Really Winston’s mom?
What’s he got?
Cash.
“Where has $850m gone? Bill de Blasio’s wife can’t account for staggering amount of taxpayer money that the NY Mayor gave her for mental health project
Bill de Blasio’s wife Chirlane McCray cannot explain where $850million given to the mental health program she champions has gone, according to reports.
In the three years it has been running, organizers at ThriveNYC have largely failed to keep records of the initiative’s achievements – and data that has been collected shows it lagging well behind targets.
Despite that, the program has been granted an even bigger budget going forward and is now on track to spend $1billion over five years.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6760503/Bill-Blasios-wife-account-850m-given-mental-health-project.html
Mental health eh, the Irony……
$850M closer to bankruptcy 🙂
Trump to City: Drop Dead
Is this getting any play in NYC media?
Zero. I only follow the Post so if it shows up anywhere, it’ll be there.
I saw a couple minutes of Tucker C on Fox tonight,seems like they are going to expand the programs as well, make it up in volume. It was explained how the money is farmed out to different non profits that are good voting Democratic support systems so it isn’t like the money is wasted.
“This Japanese Town Is Suffering a Ninja Shortage, Will Pay $85,000 to Anyone Who Wants to Be One”
https://www.maxim.com/news/ninja-shortage-town-japan-2018-7
Ninja performer?
Bah.
I visited “Ninja Tera” (Ninja Temple) a few years ago. Recommended if you get the chance. Problem is that ninjas were not 6’3. Felt like I was climbing around the playground set at McDonald’s.
https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e4205.html
“I just hope I live long enough to see a sex robot murder a client.”
https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy/status/1101376031179472897
So, how about an exploding Dildo?
Speaking of robots.
http://kutv.com/news/offbeat/entire-staffs-at-3-sonic-locations-quit-after-wages-cut-to-4hour-plus-tips
I’m really not understanding why people quitting a shit job to look for a better opportunity is newsworthy but what do I know.
Well, once the commies are in charge you won’t be able to quit your job. In Russia, your job quits you.
Don’t they realize by law they would still make at least minimum wage if their wages plus tips don’t equal at least minimum wage?
But then they’d still be working at Sonic.
But they were making minimum plus whatever tips they got and now they only make minimum until they hit almost $5 an hour in tips. It was potentially a $5/hr. pay cut to them. I suspect most of us would quit our jobs if we had a similar percentage cut out of the blue.
I wonder what kind of tips you get at Sonic? I am not familiar with them, other than I think it’s only drive-ins? I saw mention of car-hops?? (We have neither Sonic nor car-hops where I live.)
It isn’t a place I associate with tips. Mind you, I’ve never been to one.
Think McDonalds but they bring your order out to the parking lot.
They’re kind of in my neck of the woods. They’re a standard fast food place, and not one I would ever consider tipping at.
They probably weren’t claiming tips.
Scroll down for the gif from Westworld.
“On Tuesday, asked about Elizabeth Warren’s (very smart) proposal for a wealth tax”
I don’t even have nothing. I mean nothing.
She silenced you with science
backed up by AOC who by the way has an economics degree
And her major was in Foreign Affairs. You know that she never talks about?
Cutting spending?
She is in favor of cutting private spending heavily.
Just provide them a plant to convert the CO2 they make back into O2 for the rest of us.
I left your stuff on the porch of the brothel.
You’re a good man.
Is he lying or is he insane?
Yes.
But from now on, here’s my rule: anyone who tries to use Venezuela as a cudgel in U.S. political debate doesn’t deserve to be part of that debate.
Let’s unpack this for a second here.
This actually tells you everything you need to know. Venezuela is a great cudgel, because if it wasn’t, Krugabe would’ve put forth a laughable but all too serious defense of Venezuela or distancing from Venezuela. Instead, Krugabe knows he’s stuck. Venezuela was the shining city on the commie hill for 15 years, and he’d be eviscerated by his own past words if he threw Maduro under the bus to score points.
Here’s the Orwellian crap. See, it’s okay to be a net taker, or a lunatic, or an illegal immigrant and participate in the “US political debate,” but if you oppose homeopathic communism, you don’t deserve to have a voice. The mask is on the floor and we get to stare, agape, into the totalitarian abyss that consumed Krugabe’s soul like a reticulated python consumes the yorkie dog that snuck out while “mommy” and “daddy” were bringing groceries in from the Range Rover.
The sickest thing is that the script is exactly flipped. The people proposing to use force to steal and transform society should be the ones who get the side eye when they pull a chair up to the table for the debate. They’re violence personified, and if they didn’t play to the baser instincts of the average person, they’d be run out of town on a rail like they should be.
Good god, he was on the NYT Venezuela bandwagon, wasn’t he? Good point. What a fucking hack.
BTW… I cleared my glib cookies and everything works great now except the Mute option is still not persisting.
You don’t want to hear us?
What? I can’t hear you!
Actually, it’s on by default and I haven’t felt the need for it yet. I want to turn it off.
I could nuke it with Stylish but I want to help Trash fix the bug.
good to hear! I don’t know what screwed it up, but hopefully that issue with the H button doesn’t come back.
I don’t know when you grabbed the last update last night, but the current commit should be fully functioning. My mute toggle state and my muted users stay across refreshes.
I seem to have the latest already (3.04?) but I’ll try the reinstall option. Thanks
And… the reinstall seems to have fixed it. The mute toggle state is sticky now. You’ve got it goin’ on!
I don’t update the version number until it’s stable because it pushes the update to everybody when I change it.
sweet! I’m glad my foray into cookies has been successful.
Muchas gracias. It really makes the site even better. Oh, and the new preview functionality is helpful too.
If this is intended to replace Monocle, I wonder if TPTB would consider updating the help page to reflect that?
Oh bugger, I had one more tiny suggestion…
The Link button should pre-populate the “Hover” box with any selected text, the way Monocle does.
Fixed and committed. Also included now that the comments count at the top of the comments is updated when the new comments are inserted, as well as checking for a new article to update the next article button.
I think I should send my family away more often, because I’ve upgraded Eyepiece a lot over the past few days.
‘Tis working. Now the Link form needs a cancel button….. sorry, I should have remembered to mention that 🙂
(It’s fun being on the other side!)
Try clicking the link button again.
Clearly ^this opinion is problematic. But yeah, the entire movement towards deplatforming wrongthink is being done by those who know they’re full of it. They’ll go through a person’s social media history to find one thing they can use to get them booted, but you bring up something they said yesterday and it’s “No fair!”
Allow me to once again applaud Winston for taking shite like this. Well done good sir, I owe you several drinks if we ever meet.
Ditto.
Word
Tell you what, if Winston doesn’t like it, they can use my mom. Catholic teetotaler, but knock yourself out.
Pics?
Hawt
80 this year. You take a mammogram?
Hmmm…that’s a new kink to me. I’ll have to think on it.
Funny you should bring this up. I actually had a mammogram today. With me being a man, a few of the women in the waiting room gave me a puzzled look, but the radiology staff seemed used to it.
Because I have bone marrow cancer, when we recently found a lump on my chest that felt very much like a lipoma (fat cell connective tissue benign little tumors, I have several on my arms and a couple over ribs and have for years), my oncologist didn’t want to take any chances and sent me for the combined mammogram and ultrasound. He said he wasn’t concerned, but it makes sense to be on the safe side.
The results, straight from the radiologist’s mouth: “Yep, it’s a lipoma”.
Phew! One less thing to have to worry about.
*looks up lipoma*
Ah, not normally requiring treatment.
Do you watch Archer? Because (as terrible as it is), I can only think “rampage” in such a situation.
Rampage as in “survey says, cock-flavored spit? Pow!”
One of the absolute best episodes (both parts) in television history. (fight me)
Delaney. Did you see Regis this morning?
Let slip the hogs of war.
“Because I have bone marrow cancer”
Sorry 🙁
Thanks for that. I’ve had it for seven years and (knock on wood) have been in a good remission for the past six. Still get chemo four times a month, and the original problem that led to my diagnosis (my lumbar spine collapsed completely, having been eaten away by the cancer from the inside out, leaving me six inches shorter overall and in constant pain for life) are not fun, but we’re all dealing with something, and in many ways life is good.
At least I started at 6’4″ and am now 5’10”, so I had some room to give and still be OK. Plus I don’t hear people getting annoyed when I sit in front of them at the movies anymore!
I only occasionally bring my cancer up on Glibs, mostly when talking about the ‘opioid crisis’, because I’ve been on the same daily dose of opioids for seven years, which allows me to dull the pain enough to work full time and be a productive citizen. I get scared that the current craze is going to end up denying me the meds that allow me to have a full life although I’ve never shown any evidence of abusing them, and then I’ll be stuck in bed in agony instead, just so that politicians can feel like they ‘did something’ to prevent junkies overdosing.
Article? Love to read it.
Holy shit, C. I had no idea. You are really a fighter. I agree with Straff, an article about your fight would be extremely interesting.
Godspeed, man.
I think I remember back at TOS several years ago that the outlook was a bit bleaker. Very glad to see you here and doing as well as you are.
Dude…respect! *salutes C. Anacreon*
Dude loses six inches of height and is still 3 inches taller than me *stupid short irish genes*
Kidding aside, much respect and sincere hopes the prohibitionists don’t gain further traction.
God speed to you. A lot of “C” going around in my wife’s and my family lately. Makes you repriorize shit quickly.
Hawt !
ALOL
♫Straffy’s mom has got it goin’ on♫
My mom is a Presbyterian who promised to raise her children Catholic in order to marry my dad. She was then a gym teacher at my grade school, I went agnostic, and my sister got knocked up at 15.
And how are you a Catholic teetotaler? That doesn’t track with any cultural Catholics I’ve ever met.
She’s a drug treatment counselor at a rather famous facility in Minnesota. It’s not a religious reason she doesn’t drink.
Went to a large party not long ago hosted by a hospital executive.
A sign at the front door stated: “Because of our respect for our many patients and colleagues who struggle with substance abuse issues, we will not be serving alcohol at this event.”
Cheap fucking bastards, what a lame way to cut your party costs to almost zero while acting like you are being holier-than-thou.
Surprise surprise, the party was boring as hell, and ended far earlier than expected as nearly everyone left after a few minutes.
You would think the best part of a party full of doctors would be the drugs.
My brother and his new wife are recovering “addicts” (they met in some sort of sobriety group). Their reception was dry. Not even a no host bar.
More curiosity then anything else. Cleveland is all Eastern European and Irish Catholics, Not drinking here is more likely to make you stand out then drinking.
Waverly?
Put it this way, she’s met Chris Farley and Tommy Kramer more than once.
Has it occurred to you that he may be the author?
That would be great.
?
Yep. He is a trooper and I would gladly buy him a beer.
“Allow me to once again applaud Winston for taking shite like this.”
Has anyone seen Winston since this shite started?
The last time was the day before the first one went live. Apparently it went live prematurely and was pulled, but he saw it. He asked if it was an actual article or what the deal was, HM (if memory serves) assured him it was legit. That’s the last I saw him.
I’m just gonna come out and say that making your username, and now nom de plume, “Winston’s Mom” is…I don’t know. I want to say childish, but shit, that would be the pot calling the kettle black so…
I’m assuming that if Winston made even one complaint about it, they’d stop it.
I have made the joke a couple of times in the past, when I still thought Winston was trolling. But once I came to think he was just a touch awkward in his phrasing sometimes, and was sincere in his postings it seemed harsh and not terribly funny. I have not seen him play along. I think he is/has just tried to ignore it in hopes it would stop. The rule of thumb for me is if someone plays along a running insult can be fine. If they don’t, it stops being teasing and becomes hostile.
I’m close to this line of thinking. One caveat: if the joke is just begging for a certain punchline, sorry, but I choose the joke over feelings.
Sure as a one off, but the running constant insider ones UCS=Bland, OMWC and pedo jokes, Swiss’s gaze, kind of depend on the person involved playing along.
That’s why I don’t make the vampire jokes to Pie. I get the tentacle stuff. Meh. I can scroll past boring jokes.
I thought you got the soy-sauce on rice jokes? Do you use kikkoman?
See, I can ignore that. Ah shit…
I have nominated Winston for “Most Tedious Commenter of the Year” more than once, I think.
His feelings….eh.
Yes, I know. That’s the day that some were saying that there was an article and it disappeared. Then Winston asked about it. Then people were saying the disappeared article was written by Winston’s mom. That’s the last time I saw him. Ya’ll triggered him.
I haven’t seen him post in any ‘Winston’s Mom” threads and after the first one I did notice he wasn’t around and was thinking maybe he took his “what’s the libertarian position on _____” ball and went home, however, I believe a few days later he was back at least once asking what “we” think about some nebulous topic. But he does seem to be posting much less lately, of course, lots of posters come and go as it were, hard to say why someone goes AWOL.
I thought somebody asked him and he basically shrugged it off as not being a big deal.
Yeah, he was a trooper and pretty much said let it come, part of the game
Yeah, I’m positive I saw him a few times after the first one and I’ve barely had time for most of the link threads.
If that be valor, I will eat my BSM.
I do believe I was the one that asked, then called him old, then he was making old man jokes.
There has to be a shitload of NYTIMES articles extolling the virtues of Venezuela a few years ago. Unless they deleted them from the record.
I definitely remember Sean Penn talking up what a paradise it was.
I hate the Metric System. We have a metric tape. It doesn’t lie flat, and for some reason, it’s disgustingly sticky. Gross.
Like Winston’s mom?
Exactly.
Alternate answer: I washed first her first eleven meters in a sink.
You know what I hate most about the metric system? It’s based on random numbers. The metrisexuals always say, “but it’s all decimal…easy”. Fine, but first, you have to convert it by either multiplying by 25.4, or dividing by .03937. I mean, come on, what a shitty measuring system. Dumb.
The difficulty comes from being hydrocentric instead of anthropocentric.
What?! Those stupid words sound metric, too.
Yeap. They’re gay, just like the metric system.
The best argument I’ve heard against the metric system was all based on construction. A third of a foot is easy, but a third of a meter is tough.
I gridded out stuff today at 37.5mm to the meter.
My dad was surprised at how easy the metric system was when he installed Pergo laminate flooring. He found it much easier to calculate how many planks he needed than if everything were in feet and inches.
Was this in beach house on Fire Island?
For practical uses measurement systems based on numbers with more low factors are better. Basing the prime unit on 60 of the next sub unit is probably best. The Sumerians may not have been idiots.
A tenth of a meter is easy, a tenth of a foot is tough.
This game is fun.
I do all of my woodworking in mm, since it makes the
various arithmetic easier. The metric system is
surprisingly easy to get used to. The country
could convert in probably 5-10 years for the most
part if there was some government leadership.
(I know, I know, I’ll turn in my L card at the door.)
A tenth of a meter isn’t a useful measure.
“a tenth of a foot is tough.”
Flip over the 100ft tape to the yellow side.
*pulls out engineer’s scale tape measure*
To be fair .22, .38 and .45 are kind of odd fractions as well.
So how many hands tall are you?
Eighteen-three.
18 hands and 3 fingers?
Eighteen hands three inches.
It’s like you don’t even know the measurement system.
My head is 2 stones.
Are you sure? Or is that just an estimate?
I’m sure. I just counted them.
So more than half an Evan.
Evan is a measurement of time, not distance.
In your timeline, Shitlord.
Time and distance are the same thing. Don’t
you even Einstein?
That sounds… uncomfortable.
One hand is four inches. It’s most commonly used to measure the height of horses. I did way too much research on warhorses of late.
My wife’s horse is a 16.2, 1200lb warmblood. They’re descendants of warhorses.
It’s not hard, I’m 17.5 hands tall.
That’s the wrong notation.
Only one body part should be measured in hands.
Your feet?
Your mom’s ankles.
Since, you asked, eighteen. Are you hitting on me?
Hands? Don’t you use tatami mats for measurements?
No country who uses the metric system has put a man on the moon.
What? Liberia and Myanmar put men on the moon?
They got a discount since they could just re-use the set.
42-39-56 and 19 stone
She ain’t exactly pretty, ain’t exactly small….
It’s hard to believe the BBC was once useful.
Arizona State has a D1 hockey team now. It’s fucking genius.
Recruiting trip to Bumfuck, Saskatchewan:
Recruiter: Arizona
Prospect: Hockey?
Recruiter (showing co-ed pics) Arizona.
Prospect: Dad, where’s the pen?
As a northern traditionalist, I hate southern hockey, especially desert hockey. But, I totally get it, too.
#metoo
Toronto chicks are hot.
NOW you tell me. I just returned from four days in Toronto this week on business. Didn’t really get out much.
All I saw of the locals was a blizzard that left a foot and a half of snow, so any hot Toronto chicks were covered by parkas and mufflers.
And?
Part of the fun is the unwrapping.
Until you figure out all you got was socks.
Nah. Flat Toronto girls stuff their bras with toques.
*Applause*. Midwest humor FTW.
Until you figure out all you got was cocks.
FTFY
//Thailand memories
Hm… I’ve been to Toronto many times (love it) but now that I think of it, I’ve never been to Toronto in the winter.
One of my fondest memories was a group of us in Toronto running into a Russian girl double fisting in a bar while she’s cursing at the hockey game on TV. She then showed us the local bars, where we had to argue that we were Americans.
I can’t even
She was from Kamchatka, and was upset that we only knew where that was because of Risk.
“One of my fondest memories was a group of us in Toronto running into a Russian girl double fisting in a bar“
They allow that in Toronto?
Sounds like MAGA country to me.
Pffft… Frenchie Montreal chicks FTW.
Agreed. Was in Montreal in 97 and 98 for tournaments…lots of fun for an 18 year old hockey punk from SoCal
As discussed in a previous thread (and thanks again for all the input) I’m taking a(nother) stab at learning German. To try und create some immersion, I’ve been exploring Neue Deutsche Härte. Some thoughts:
1. I didn’t know Rammstein had so many good songs
2. There is a LOT of good hard rock out there in German (and by extension, I assume in other languages…especially the Nordics)
3. I love the internet
My current favorite “new” song and band. Hard rock fans should give them a listen:
Eisbrecher – Himmel,Arsch Und Zwirn
You know who else spoke German?
Kaiser Wilhelm?
Arminius?
Calling the language Arminius spoke German is a stretch. By that standard Livy spoke French.
So?
I am glad you see.
Abe Froman?
The sausage king?
Of Chicago.
Rhywun?
I wish I had to focus to try to learn a language.
I haven’t even learned English properly.
That is my big regret about my laziness. I have taken courses in Latin, Attic Greek, and Spanish, and other than a little ability to puzzle out simple text I am monolingual 🙁
My wife learned all her English from Hall and Oates songs. She’s a living cliche.
She’s a lich girl.
You are a lucky man.
Wait, a music link I actually like? Not possible.
Do you have previous knowledge of these guys? I am really liking them.
I am not a big music guy, but I like Rammstein and Pandora served me up Eisbrecher. My listening is eclectic and odd. I like Celtic stuff, but not the pop Celtic Women remixes of classic folk songs. I like some Industrial, Metal, and even some Goth. I don’t like much classic rock, pop, rap or really anything on the radio, except occasionally classical. I like some of HMs J or K pop links, but usually mute them 🙂
Learn with the Bavarians!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3VJ4AQHtpM
My brain for some reason chose to picture what Oktoberfest would be like with chav Mädels passed out in every gutter. *shudder*
I lived south of Munich for three years and went to THE fest in Munich only one. Overpriced bier and tourists. After that I visited numerous smaller town fests and had a great time at each. Late September is a great time of the year in southern Germany and even Berlin so a “gathering of the Glibs” could be great fun.
Germany is the epicenter of a kind of electronic music I like – so much so that even American purveyors of the genre sometimes cater to them with lyrics and concerts or even relocate there.
One of these days I’m going to ask to pick your brain about Germany. First, I have a lot of basic learning to do.
“First, I have a lot of basic learning to do.”
We know, stamps and pee girls.
Nein! Münzen!
MikeS, if it helps, the girlfriend and I are planning on hitting up Oktoberfest in a couple of years. There may be other Glibs interested in showing up.
I’ve been toying with the idea of giving myself a “deadline” of a couple years from now. The possibility of meeting some Glibs in München is a little extra “carrot”
Glibfest ’21? I might be down for that, ja.
Salzburg and I’m in.
Do it!
If you’re willing to deal with assholes like me.
The current plant is to go there for Oktoberfest in 2022, when the girlfriend hits 45.
(She’s six months older then me, so I’ll probably get hit at some point).
’22 is even better. Maybe I’ll have a job by then 🙂
DEG: Where you at? We can do this!
Glibs at Oktoberfest!
Damn…’22 could be doable…
Let’s keep this thought alive.
Get your countries straight. “Pee girls” are a Bristish thing. Germany is more into soft serve.
Germany is more into soft serve.
now I have Soul Coughing stuck in my head
There are probably better brains to pick here. I haven’t been there in 30 years 🙁
Point taken. However, you’ve been there more recently than me. ?
Seeing KMFDM was a wonderful thing. The hardest thing is convincing the girlfriend that they’re worth seeing.
Heh here is a perfect example.
These guys are from Cleveland.
Hmm. Now I wish Madison had better (any really) industrial clubs.
I think we’ve aged out of it though, and the kids like some sort
of Laurence Welk crap.
Might be something at Crucible tonight though, so I guess
I should probably go check it out. Enjoying the Eisbrecher
though.
nw: One of the Dropkick Murphy shows I was at had parents try to warn me about going into the pit. I was quite entertained since I had been going to their shows since ’96.
I think they just played here, but we couldn’t or didn’t go
for some reason. Next time maybe.
I remember how my uncle and his wife were saying that the Inferno
(former goth/industrial club in Madison, for those keeping
track at home) was all scary and dangerous. Psh. Nicest people
you’ll find. Most of them anyway, there’s always a few.
Tell me about it. Some friends of mine kept the “scene” here in NYC going with monthly events at unpredictable locations, but it’s dead and gone now AFAIK. OTOH, it could revive itself in 10 years for all I know. I’ve seen it happen.
Forget twerking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFhcogOmFds
PS: Winston is a pretty good sport about these posts. I’m glad he’s a Glib.
lol I have the Eisbrecher mix above playing and it stayed on when I clicked that. It kind of works.
ha! It kinda does.
He used to occasionally get annoying though, because I remember one time me and another poster really laid into him. I was pissed, and it takes a lot to get me pissed in an internet thread, even if I was drunk. It was Tony level shit. Then Winston was pretty sore about it and complaining about down the thread how Hyperion and whoever else it was were getting all pissy for no reason. He’s been fine for a while though and I haven’t had any problems with him.
I mean yeah, Winston’s OK. But his mum is really OK! If you know what I mean … wink wink…. JK.
Excellent percussion!
TITS
http://archive.li/RgEk0
Only one ruined by ink and many quality images.
You dun good.
Scott Boras and Bryce Harper took the Phillies to the cleaners. $330 million for thirteen years ? I’m guessing in thirteen years we will see the first $1 billion contract (on some guy who hits .250, can’t field and platoons in right field). The real stars will be at $2 billion. No way I’m paying $150 to sit in a bleacher bloody nose seat and watch a guy whiff on some minor league callup’s slider.
No, you’ll just be paying $100 a month to watch it on ESPN.
Thankfully the Giants did not get him. That contract is going to be an albatross.
As far as MLB prices, I can get into most weeknite games for 20 bucks, and this at one of the best, if not the best yards in the country. And the Giants have a ridiculously large payroll. If I want fancy club level seats maybe 35 or 40 bucks. The concessions are outlandish, but it isn’t very hard to sneak in some booze.
Time for multiculti hard rock/metal night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axsM1q_B0EI
Mike dun had a good idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LquYdG4_QOY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIKqgE4BwAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2WAXAtXy8c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFynL3oxNPU
Miststueck
Rosenrot
Have some Mexican aggro/industrial (these guys are another big hit in Germany).
Nonpoint.
I am really liking Nonpoint. (They are nu to me)
They were Nu then as well.
Do you like Phil Collins? I’ve been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn’t understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where, uh, Phil Collins’ presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group’s undisputed masterpiece. It’s an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums. Christy, take off your robe. Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument. Sabrina, remove your dress. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship, the sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Sabrina, why don’t you, uh, dance a little. Take the lyrics to Land of Confusion. In this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority. In Too Deep is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affirmative as, uh, anything I’ve heard in rock. Christy, get down on your knees so Sabrina can see your ass. Phil Collins’ solo career seems to be more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way. Especially songs like In the Air Tonight and, uh, Against All Odds. Sabrina, don’t just stare at it, eat it. But I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group, than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist. This is Sussudio, a great, great song, a personal favorite.
But of Phil Collins’ solo songs In The Air Tonight is the best.
holy shit. I hope that was copypasta.
Anyway, I do kinda like the Nonpoint cover…as much as possible considering I’ve hated everything Phil Collins has done for about 30 years now.
Nope, totally me…
I remember that scene well from American Psycho, how can you forget him commanding the two hookers to the ridiculous praise of Phil Collins!
Well done…
Fun Fact – I liked every Genesis album until “Duke”. Fight me.
Fuck Phil Collins.
That is all.
^^^That.
Cannot stand his voice.
Yes, that’s why…never mind.
And lets put a Velvet Elvis on the wall.
Dude. Click one of the other links. C’mon,
I did, they bored me.
I know the feeling
If you don’t like a song you can always just say Fuck It and move on.
And if you want some new style vocals with 80s style metal, there is always Silent Civilian.
Hayekexplosives, how do you deal with mansplaining assholes?
Way to other 99% of the glibs.
I can mansplain it to you if you want.
Fine, this particular asshole was insisting on explaining to me that, you know, different companies can have different business models. When I try to say that I understand that, he talks over me. I think I deserve a medal for not stabbing him in the eye with my pen. This is not the first time he has done something similar. Advice?
Does your company have intranet anonymous messaging?
I know a guy like that, but he talks over everyone and uses his outdoor voice on conference calls. I usually pull my earpiece or headset off because the volume doesn’t go low enough. My usual approach is avoidance. He’s not a bad guy overall, just can be frustrating to interact with.
There’s a guy I work around that does the same thing. Nice feller and we get along fine but he is poison on the floor. *Note – I’m just observing, I don’t really work with these people* I think some of the vets here would call him a “shit-bird”. He’s ironclad because union.
Me personally, if I ask a person to stop doing something it usually stops, but I’m a big bearded guy that looks intimidating enough that I’ve carried a ‘purse’ during the summer for the last decade and have not heard anyone but my female relatives make a crack about it (they know they’re safe).
I’d make sport of your purse and run then run slightly faster than you for a block or two.
Well, I’ve worn it while guys were willing to actually stand and suckerpunch (not fight) me. And they haven’t even had the balls to say anything. I wouldn’t doubt a Glib may be the first to have the balls, but how confident are you that your bad knees would outlast my bad knees?
All kidding aside, I am a Glib so my motto is “You be you, Mary!”
This is a situation where I couldn’t choose my own team, so I’m stuck with him. Note that he is convinced that I am not considering many issues. The client is happy, our boss of is happy. This is a situation where I was brought in to take over because I have different skills and the project had changed, I also have issues with two other guys, but not as serious. As in, former project leader didn’t sleep, he says, for a week before presenting to client, so, obviously, I am not taking this seriously enough. I sent emails saying I need X and Y by Zero time and they are in my office saying we need to know what you need. Me: I need X and Y, what wasn’t clear? Then the whole thing about how worried they are. It is just exhausting. Thank God there are 3 other people not playing these bullshit games.
This explanation seems more like a ‘I have a shitty cow orker’ than mansplaining. suggest this thread be moved to the appropriate forum.
This doesn’t sound like mansplaining unless he only dies this with female coworkers. I’ve worked similar jackasses including a couple of women who did something similar. I think this was an effort to gain sympathy for their supposed devotion to the project while also attempting to deflect blame if it went wrong. They are oblivious to the time sucks they are.
It is a shitty situation in that I was brought in to fix something, but my boss has not been willing to make that clear to the involved parties. But it definitely is complaining. He doesn’t treat men, even on th project, that way, and we have had other incidents. It is a problem at the company level, as in I have had men saying that needs a corporate complaint. Mostly IT issues. Too long and too revealing to get into here. I may be looking for a new job soon.
Mansplaining not complaining.
If you were brought in to fix it, then fix it. My company is horrid at communication, even though that’s the business we are in. If I were given the power, I’d go all Ghengis Kahn in that bitch, even though I don’t really like confrontation (I always feel like Lenny petting the rabbit too hard) but if that’s what I was paid to do that’s what I’d do.
I have fixed it with the client, (this guy will never get near the client) which is what I was asked to do.
But, if he was the problem, fix him. By fix MEAN…fire. Or did you not get that authority? kind of hamstrings you if not.
I have found that in situations like that, a small smile combined with, “are you done?”, works wonders.
Winning answer.
Serious question: Is speaking to him contemptuously an option?
*bitch cemented*
Nothin’ but love for you, Festus.
It really seems to be a no-win situation in some settings. Demure or Harpy. There are still a lot of men (and women) that have that attitude and it sucks balls for everyone.
Well, there’s a reason I work for myself. My mouth has gotten me in a lot of hot water in my time.
It’s one reason I love the internet. I can step back a second or two to reflect about what I want to say, and they don’t see my facial features.
Huh, I feel the opposite. In meat space I’m the one who can’t read other’s emotions, on the internet, well I can’t read them either, so not not opposite but level playing ground.
I’m the opposite as I’ve always been super-sensitive to social cues, much to my detriment. The anti-autist, if you will..
I did, basically, but it will probably cause me later problems
It must suck to not have the “punch yer lights out” card in the deck. I’m not being flippant, either. I feel for you, Tulip.
Never, ever get the reputation of being good at working with difficult people. Seriously, there is not enough money in the world.
That’s what burned me out of social work in two years flat. I was really good at it but the pressure got too much and I had to go a different route.
You are a better man than me. I wouldn’t last two weeks as a social worker.
Do you have the authority to fire this guy or otherwise sideline him?
The most pathetic lyrics I’ve ever heard. How the hell did this become a hit?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn-enjcgV1o
It’s all about that bass, or so I’ve heard.
No amount of bass makes me want to listen to guy whimpering for his girl back. “I was wrong and…well, I was wrong. So what?”
I don’t listen to lyrics until at least the third time I’ve heard a song. Otherwise I wouldn’t be able to play any of the country songs my job makes me play.
That tune was not targeted at you unless you identify as a 15 year old girl from 1980.
I was the target audience for that song and I STILL love it.
Point awarded!
75 fucking million views of that video on YouTube. Man-o-Man.
youtube trash always makes me feel sad.
To be fair, I’ve only ever heard it in ads where a company is bringing back an old product. I wasn’t even a sperm in my daddy’s eye when it was popular.
My God, talk about the projection. Anybody who mentions Venezuela is so bad that you should be even worse to them, because the best way to prove that you’re interested in “serious” debate is to stamp your feet and act like a child no matter what.
So I’ve started binging Umbrella Academy on Netflix, just finished the fourth episode. I’m really enjoying it, and I don’t usually get past the first half of a second episode when I try a new series.
If you’ve watched the TV series version of Fargo it’s got a lot of similar feel to it, with bizarre family politics, strange multilayered characters, and plenty of entertaining violence, gunfire, fistfights and explosions. Throw in a group of now-adult orphans with super-powers, several of which are still not clear, and this is the best series I’ve watched for over a year. I hope it keeps up to the end of the season.
It’s based on a Dark Horse comics series that I was unaware of, but it’s definitely got that funky macabre off-brand comix flavor to it, which I like. A little reminiscent of Kick-Ass, Legion, and Mystery Men, too.
By the way, does anyone know if there’s ever going to be a fourth season of TV Fargo? It’s almost two years since the end of season three. What an amazing show.
I watched a few episodes of the first season but got bored, got anything else?
I don’t know anything about the TV shows you’re talking about, but Preacher is a trip.
Preacher has been ok.
Wifey has been binging it for the last two nights. From what little I can gather it seems pretty good. Shame I can’t sit still long enough to watch because I start getting all fidgety and bored. Middle-aged onset ADHD?
That’s not even a euphemism. But it is odd.
Ha! Super-cereal can’t sit in front of the tube unless I’m going to documentary myself to sleep. Reading is a chore now. I’ve seen your plots and tropes thousands of times so just cut to the chase.
Hey C, if you are still up and reading, you are a great man. I have very much enjoyed your comments over the years and it was a pleasure to meet you. I missed the last one, we should do another.
He alluded to the cancer before but I had no idea. So many quality people on this board I feel shame about my own ankle-turns and missteps.
Alright Glibs, I have to be playing shitty music for people who don’t care in 5 1/2 hrs. Honky Tonk Budonkadonk. So I’ma go pass out.
In a way he’s right though. They just want the mass confiscation of the wealth of undesirables and the economy directed by the state, not owned by the state. You know, fascism. (Personally I consider it a subset of socialism, but I’d be open to the idea it’s a different brand of authoritarianism)
em>Is there anything in the record of U.S. progressives suggesting that they are less fiscally responsible than the people who keep using voodoo economics to push massive tax cuts for the rich?
I mean some people would say a plan that needs 91 trillion dollars over 10 years would be in that category.
You have to remember that Krugman is the gibberish generator for the left. They and he dont believe a word of that shit. It is a purity test. All authoritarians do it – spew gibberish and then watch to see who nods in agreement. That is how they know who to purge, who goes to the firing squad and who gets rewarded.
I don’t recall seeing Winston since the first Winston’s Mom post. I seem to recall a kinda rough round of Winson’s Mom jokes around that same time. Winston’s a little odd, but I hope we haven’t run him off.
I’m assuming most here have heard of the Bob Murphy/Tom Woods ContraKrugman podcast. Here’s a good recent episode:
https://contrakrugman.com/ep-176-trump-vs-socialism/