“THIS IS THE SECOND TIME BRUTALCART HAS BEEN LATE! I AM SWITCHING TO VORTEXDASH!”
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. FRIEND STEVE SMITH HAS ASKED ZARDOZ TO FILL IN FOR HIM. FRANKLY, THIS IS GOOD. ZARDOZ’S VENTURE, “BRUTALCART” HAS BEEN HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME SERVING THE VORTEX. WHO COULD HAVE COGITATED THAT GREEN BREAD DELIVERY WAS SO CHRONOLOGICALLY CHALLENGING?
THEREFOR, ZARDOZ IS PLEASED TO GIVE HIS CHOSEN ONES THE GIFT OF THE LINK. GO FORTH AND COMMENT!
- IF ZARDOZ HAD TO GUESS THE NUMBER ONE GROUP WITH PTSD IN ALL THE EARTH, IT WOULD BE THIS GROUP OF BRUTALS.
- ZARDOZ IS PLEASED WITH THE NHS…A GREAT FORCE FOR MISERY AMONGST THE BRUTALS!
- ZARDOZ ADMIRES THIS BRUTAL’S DEDICATION TO HIS CRAFT.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
ALL HAIL ZARDOZ!!!
That’s an, uh, uplifting set of links there.
Hail Zardoz!
Also, can I get some gifts of the gun?
I could use a two tone P245…
I had a Der Freischuetz moment tonight with the P365. 98 on an AP-2 at 7 yards.
Damn it, I always reply after a new thread starts.
/looks for the new thread.
/doesn’t find it.
Wasn’t Dobbie a Harry Potter character?
Never heard of either. So probably not.
Lebanese veterans
I like girls as well.
Speaking of brutals, Tecumseh: The Native American Resistance
So if Tecumseh had prevailed, the Ohio State Univ. and Michigan – among others – would be lacrosse powers?
That poor woman
I may need to use that geoguesser to find my next vacation
I’m with Suthen. That’s a timesink right there.
Yeah, I’m not even going to sign up.
Haven’t used it for a while (goodbye, crack) and didn’t realize that there was a signup.
That was me but holyfuck that is a way to sucked into a 3-4 hour timehole.
Sorry good sir!
Is it a relatively new site? I’ve seen Twitch streamers use it while waiting for game loads/matches to begin. Looks interesting.
I’m not signing up. Holy crap, I’d never leave
“Old Bedford Village is a living history museum located in historic Bedford, Pennsylvania. We have nearly 40 structures including authentic 18th and 19th century buildings, moved from original locations throughout our region, representing trade shops and residences. The Village also includes some present-day construction designed to replicate the buildings found in a 18th – 19th century Village. Visit the general store, apothecary, jail, blacksmith, tinsmith, candlemaking and woodworking shops, and much more!”
As promised, here’s a 110 pics of Old Bedford Village. Submitted for you history nerds and voyeurs (and the rest of you Tulpas).
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/qHvRFbAWSEG5AgNkir4T8w.gU4bkwKa0UJnoKW5rhJ4kK
For the super nerds, we started at the bottom left and worked our way out ⏰wise around the map.
http://www.oldbedfordvillage.com/vMaps.php
I think we skipped 3 & 4 on the way out. Sorry, but fuck…it got old after a bit.
Thanks, Sean. I like looking at other people’s photgraphs.
Nice job.
That’s a cool place. I went to a similar one in Georgia at Stone Mountain ( which I dubbed “mount rebelmore.”) I gravitate towards this kinda stuff when I traveling.
The resorted we went to was chock full of history. Like, seriously…the Bedford Springs is a Rocky story about a Phoenix crisis from the ashes thing.
Yeah, if i was near there, I’d spend a day and read everything I could. Fascinating stuff.
Very nice, thank you!
Love these kinds of places. Just back from Williamsburg, where i sat in Bruton Parish church pew with TJ’s name on it.
Maybe it’s uncharitable, and probably reactionary, and it certainly isn’t libertarian, but every time I see a roadside panhandlers all I want to do is jump out of my car and steal his bag or backpack.
So, you’re an imaginary thief?
“ZARDOZ IS PLEASED WITH THE NHS…A GREAT FORCE FOR MISERY AMONGST THE BRUTALS!”
I read that link as 28 breasts. That’s like an entire Q post.
Only 28? That’s like a quarter of a Q post.
“Two days before the murder Flick purchased a pair of knives at a Walmart, prosecutors said.
He then attacked Dobbie in broad daylight in front of a laundromat, piercing her heart and lungs.
Her 11-year-old twin sons witnessed the slaying. It was also caught on surveillance footage.”
He might be dedicated to his craft, but he doesn’t sound very good at it.
Clearly London has the right idea.
Just read the article. What a monster.
That dude just wanted back into prison. I could see how being that old and having spent that much time there would do that. What I don’t get, is why not just rob a fucking bank? People can be so fucking cruel.
I don’t know. I know some institutionalized assholes commit crimes for that reason but this guy sounds like a psychopath. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more dead women out there from him.
yeah, I’d have to agree with that. Killing the women in front of their children is some kind of pathology.
The 1854 Bombardment of Greytown
Heh. I subscribed to his channel. Nerd bonafides established!
You lost your bonafides by admitting you have a youtube account and watch logged-in.
Skinny Kevin Smith just looks weird, but I guess that’s better than heart failure.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7266377/Olivia-Munn-stuns-sheer-white-shorts-IMDboat-chat-San-Diego-Comic-Con.html
I find Munn to be overrated.
She was barely tolerable on AOTS.
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1152266381456314369
It’s official. You’re all gay.
Xe probably gets a lot more dick than I do.
And me, though mostly by choice as I assume for yw
Something to tide you over.
✌? I am not a homosexual! ✌?
It was seen, that which was done by Rhywun.
You know who else…
I’m not, but if Blair wanted to go do some guy stuff with me like hang out fishing in the sun getting drunk with our shirts off, I would be cool with that.
Idk. Friend stuff is fine. But My transdar picks that she is actually a he from a mile away.
Gay.
Hey Tulip.
Maybe you could try this.
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/hopeful-chicago-man-posts-billboard-dating-ad-20176025
Oddly enough, my aunt in Sausalito New the mother of a guy who tried that in the early 90s. It didn’t go well.
Sausalito. My parents lived on their boat there for a time. that would be the only thing that could get me back to the bay area.
Titties.
http://archive.li/brKvh
Well, I’ll be damned. Turns out I’m a Gryffindor.
28 gave me yellow fever. 29 will tie you down, take a dump on your chest, slaughter your pets in front of you, and fix herself a sammich before she walks out.
So…29 is an Australian?
/Flight of the Conchords viewer.
“Gotta go murder a Brown snake!”
/Prob the episode of the series, Big S
Interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxPdPpi5W4o
That took balls.
I’ve seen that before. Pretty interesting stuff.
Like ping long balls for sous vide!
Clever.
Or ping pong…
“I love your server long time.”
That video has been on my sidebar for weeks, finally watched.
“The CIA has attempted to collect us. We are at sea now and will report more soon. I will continue to be dark for the next few days.”
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1152240931015462914
“The Johnny Depp fan club certainly trashed my prior tweet. Good on ya! I have no control over the movie but I seriously wanted Morgan Freeman to play me.”
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1150767447701635072
Obviously, it has to be Christopher Walken.
So, it’s going to be a really hot, humid weekend. I’d like to hibernate in the basement. What should I watch?
I have prime and Netflix
We’re planning on going up into the mountains and spending most of the weekend outdoors… because we’re masochists. I knew I shouldn’t have done the non-refundable reservation.
Mai Tais in the pool. That’s my plan anyway.
If you like Asian food + street food I enjoyed this.
https://www.netflix.com/title/80244996
Man in the High Castle
The Expanse
Bosch
Babylon Berlin
Babylon 5
BSG
Ooh that was on my radar and now it’s on DVD yay
It’s definitely no holds barred
Grill the prime beef to your taste and then fire up the Netflix.
If there isn’t a guy of your choosing to be there with you it is their loss.
I went through a period of being alone when I didn’t want to be.
It will turn.
I’ve been happily married to a young woman who is dedicated to our marriage for 8 years now Tulip.
There we times when I thought it would never happen again for me.
It will happen for you Tulip. Don’t try and force it and don’t quit being open.
Give even the borderline cases a chance. Don’t make snap judgements.
“I guess he was a borderline case.” *sips whiskey*
“We’re all borderline cases, kid.” *narrows gaze*
The Patriot.
The Break
Shetland
Border town
Hinterland
I hope that’s the 1997 Stephen Rea movie there at the top. There’s something about the first part of the movie that’s just entraps me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Break_(TV_series)?wprov=sfti1
Jaws. Duh.
I Had A Bloody Good Time At House Harker hi – larious
Night Of The Living Deb not as funny, but cute
Netflix:
Umbrella Academy is fun
Prime:
Endeavour (PBS Masterpiece) — I think the first 5 seasons are Prime.
Without knowing your tastes
Amazon:
Thriller
Darling Buds of May
Blandings
A time to live and a time to die
Scouts guide to the zombie apocalypse.
David Koechner is treasure.
Mrs Boyle hired specialist medical negligence lawyers who have now secured an admission of liability from University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust.
Doesn’t she know she is supposed to take one for the team?
What can people do? Show political willingness to pay more tax: that comes first.
You’re already not getting your money’s worth, why not give more?
Sure the NHS is recklessly incompetent, but if they didn’t have to pay those claims, the NHS could get a raise.
Me: *blank stare* then shouldn’t the NHS work on not injuring people?
I did the math to see if the same trend applied to the UK as the US and sure enough it does.
Government spending in 1998 was a little over £9,800 per capita. In 2018, in an alleged period of “austerity”, government spending was a little over £12,700 per capita. It peaked at over £13,600 per capita in the interim, and averaged about £12,000 over the 20-year period.
The NHS’s woes, such as they may be, have nothing to do with not spending enough.
All figures in above comment are in constant 2018 pounds.
I don’t know about this beer. It’s tasty, but I am not sure if I’ll be able to finish it. The sour is a bit strong.
I couldn’t do it. I can’t handle wine as it is. Use the rest for a pot roast braise.
Does UK have the equivalent of US Seal Teams? Does UK have the balls to take back their tanker from Iran? Or will world’s policeman be expected to recover the stolen property?
SBS.
Maybe assisted by SAS.
But yeah, don’t fuck with SBS
They’re both badass as I understand it.
Team America will swoop in, save the sailors, kill all the Iranians, and spill the entire load of crude into the sea. At least that’s what I gather from the documentary on Team America.
“They’ll save the sailors, but not the British sailors…”
Damn, the Top Gun: Maverick trailer looks great – The Critical Drinker
I admit that I am kinda geeking out.
The first one is actually a fairly bad movie. However, if Tom Cruise is actually flying those jets, I’m in.
The first one is actually a fairly bad movie.
It has many issues, but it was fun and entertaining. Next you’ll be telling me that JAWS is a bad movie. . .
JAWS is a bad movie
Meant to say “good”, calling your tastes into question. I am sure Swiss will be along shortly to “correct” me.
“Backdraft”. That’s all I’m going to say.
Volcano.
I hate Backdraft with the same white hot heat that I’m sure fighter pilots feel about Top Gun.
Excuse you . Volcano is one of the THE BEST LA disaster movies OF ALL TIME.
The tar pits BOIL.
Some poor subway worker gets taken out BY LAVA in the tunnels.
LAVA GOES PAST MY OLD HOUSE IN CULVER CITY
They burn Beverly Center to the ground.
IT IS A MASTERPIECE.
(I will grant you that destroying the US Bank tower in Independence Day is slightly more satisfying for destroying the city all at once though)
I still remember the MAD parody of that and many other movies of that era.
Man, movies happen in the era that they happen in. That shit was bad assed back then. Same as Jaws. I lived at a beach, it might have had more weight for me…
In addition to fucking up last week wrt my ex, who has not, understandably, texted me since, despite plans to go out for drinks tonight, which, you understand, were made prior to my fuck up: I didn’t get a job offer this week. I expect it’s because things are hectic, but you know what, I’m going to assume the offer was rescinded behind my back, so I’m going to despair exactly how I celebrate, getting shitfaced and waking up in agony tomorrow.
Sounds like a plan.
I didn’t have to go out tonight, so that’s something to celebrate.
I had delicious fajitas…I can dedicate them to you, if you like. No booze for me, though.
Maybe consider it ‘saving best for last’?
How’s this? Come up to the cool, cool Jemez, to Los Ojos, and I’ll buy you a beer and perhaps the best green chile cheeseburger in the state?
For sure. The best, though. That’s a big claim.
Give it a try. I’ve had contenders throughout the state but it’s been a thin margin.
Oddly enough, we had Cowgirl cater our wedding
When was that?
2016. July 20, actually
I would blame Not Adahn since he controls all of our destinies.
Sorry.
No job, no girl. I’ve got both and kind of envy you.
Okay, I just got a text from her. Except it’s showing I got it yesterday? And she’s apologizing to me about her tone.
I am drunk as goddamn good god damn but this is why I’m happily alone, except unhappy but seriously happy, because I don’t know what any of this means.
I’m not that big a drunkard. I go to work in the morning. I respond to texts in a timely matter. But somehow I received this text yesterday, and only now am seeing it. I’m the kind to drunkenly text shit to my ex, not the kind who receives texts and doesn’t drunkenly not acknowledge them.
I am fucking drunk tho.
Seriously, I get up at six in the morning to go to work at seven. I’m not that big a lush that I don’t make it to work. I suffer this shit. So I wouldn’t say I didn’t get this text until now if I’d gotten it before now except I got it just now.
I think I get it now. She’s manipulating me. She’s playing the provocateur, knowing I was the instigator. She’s playing like she was the offender, just the weasle her way back under my skin.
I don’t know hwy I’m just getting this text but I get it now, she’s playing me like always. Like I’m the fool.
Answer her tomorrow when you’re sober.
Too late. I apologized.
Then apparently, you’re not that drunk. ;P
I’m kinda used to the benadryl knocking me on the ass, so when I polish off a bottle of liquor it’s a surprise, but only because I’m not rat assed over the benadryl.
My apology to my dear beloved Molly explained that I’m a drunkard. I worry that she thinks I’m not marriagable due to my state as a drunkard. All I want is for her to recognize me as a good man, a provider. And here I am, a man in his thirties, who’s only just being offered a real job, and hasn’t actually been offered that.
Give her whiskey in the jar-o?
If you’re gonna give her Whisky in the Jarro, make it the Thin Lizzie version, at least! Fuggin Metallica!
Oh, Vox: Trump and the dead end of conservative nationalism
I’m only posting this because of this line:
(emphasis added)
You… you know who else wanted a socialist nationalism?
Bernie Sanders?
Ralph Nader?
Trump’s schtick is illegal immigration and arguable abuses of the refugee and asylum processes. The U.S. is still welcoming legal immigrants to the tune of over 1 million per year.
Well, Vox, with it’s attempted speech suppression and explicit support of violent mobs, is essentially in support of fascism.
No, no, no, they’re communists, you see. They have almost exactly the same ideas as the fascists, but they’re totally different.
Basically all of Europe for almost all of the 20th century.
The Sozis?
I knew eventually they would come completely out of the closet.
The Spirit Squad?
Ferdinand Magellan – First Circumnavigation of the Earth
Related. Because I think it’s funny.
Nice.
“To other countries, bringing up the fact that our Queen has never done ‘it’ seems a bit personal, don’t ya think?”
Classic.
MItchell and Webb is some good stuff all around.
Tuesdays with Derpy
part 1: comment 33 here
https://glibertarians.com/2019/07/apollo-missions/#comments
***
The old man left his room in the cage motel and walked downstairs. He preferred the stairs even though it made his legs ache because the stairwell was quiet. Almost no one used stairs anymore, so it was one of the few places in the urban world that wasn’t covered with ads and filled with noise.
If rats bought soylent, there’d be ads in the sewers, the old man thought to himself.
Out in the street, he made his way to the park. He was going to meet the college kid there to feed tofu to the ducks. He reminded himself to tell the college kid that people used to feed *bread* to ducks, but that was before the War on Gluten.
War on this, war on that. So many of them. He couldn’t remember a single time in his life when there hadn’t been a war.
Across the street, a group of protesters stood in front of a pharmacy. From their slogans and signs, he could tell they were Bacteria Rights protesters.
“Hey-hey! Ho-ho! Flu vaccines have got to go!”, they shouted in rhythm as they uptwinkled and danced.
The old man crossed the street to check things out. He overheard a man in a white lab coat trying to reason with a protester.
“Look, first of all, the flu is a virus, not bacteria. Please listen. I’m a pharmacist.”
The scrawny, pink-mohawked, nose-ringed protester was silent for a moment as her(?) face twisted into a grimace.
“Don’t man-splain to me, racist. Vaccines have *electrolytes*! The science is settled!”
“Do you even know what an electrolyte is?!” The pharmacist’s faced flushed and his voice shook.
The old man decided it was time to take one for the team. He cupped his hands to his mouth and shouted in rhythm:
Slogan, slogan, buzzword, rhyme! We are here to waste your time! We got bullshit, yes we do! We got bullshit how ’bout you?
There were a few stifled laughs from the protesters and a stony look of hate from Pink Mohawk. She(?) blew a whistle and shrieked: “Haaaate…speeeeeeeeech!” It was like the screech of a red-tailed hawk with a women’s studies degree.
Flashing blue lights and tentacle-mounted cameras popped out of the sidewalk. Sirens blared. A robotic voice announced: Citizens, identify the thought criminal!
The protesters screamed and pointed at the old man. A camera tentacle came 6 inches away from the old man’s face. It spoke to him: Citizen, explain yourself.
The old man answered: Lo siento, no hablo ingles. Soy solamente un hombre viejo cansado. Que es la problema?
The camera tentacle withdrew and fixed its gaze on the protesters. It spoke to them: you are all in violation of section 62 of the Verbal Morality Statute: 1st degree othering a non-English speaker. You are hereby sentenced 10 hours of sensitivity re-education and your social media accounts will suspended for 1 hour. You have 20 seconds to comply. 19, 18, 17…”
The protesters kneeled and put their hands behind their backs. The camera tentacles roped them together and a security bot led them away like a very sad, patchouli-scented train.
The pharmacist thanked the old man and shook his hand. The pharmacist also said that if the old man ever needed certain things [cough] anti-gerisol [cough], come to his pharmacy.
The old man walked on. He passed Veterans of Antifa Post 1138. The wall had a mural of 6 Antifas throwing milkshakes at a guy wearing a MAGA hat.
Christ, what a bunch of assholes he thought. He decided to save that fight for another time.
It was late in the afternoon when he finally reached the park and found the college kid.
What took you so…you must have gotten in another fight, the college kid answered his own question.
Just gimme some tofu, said the old man as he put out his hand.
As he tossed a squishy cube into the pond, he mentioned that when he was a kid, people fed *bread* to ducks.
Oh really? That must have been before the War of Gluten, said the college kid.
The old man smiled. He was happy he remembered.
***
Some pulp reading for the commute. Thanks.
“Do you even know what an electrolyte is?!”
What plants crave?
I thought it was that they use to make Brawndo?
It was like the screech of a red-tailed hawk with a women’s studies degree.
Nice.
*Hands Derpy a golden pen on a trophy mount.*
There are too many lines to point them all out but this was my favorite: Bacteria Rights protesters
When I wrote that line, I got the feeling that someone else had thought of that already, so I googled it. Here is one of the results. It’s from 1989, written by a biochemistry professor.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-05-08-8904100877-story.html
You have talent, Derpy!
“There’s a new Top Gun movie coming out. And Maverick is wearing the same leather jacket – only this time it’s Communist Party of China-approved, so the Japanese and Taiwanese flag patches are gone (screenshot on right is from the new trailer)…”
https://twitter.com/markmackinnon/status/1152241649893945346
Chews control Hollywood!
Two Germans were in a Chinese restaurant in Argentina.
One of them said, “It’s the Jews. It’s always the Jews. They’re everywhere. The are Jews in America, there are still Jews in Europe, and now they even have their own country!”
The other German said, “Well, at least we tried our best.”
Looking around the restaurant, the first German pondered, “Maybe there are no Jews in China.”
The Chinese waiter came over, so he asked him, “Are there any Chinese Jews?”
“I don’t know, let me ask the chef.”
A few minutes later, the waiter came back, “Sorry, we have orange juice, grapefruit juice, and pineapple juice, but no Chinese juice!”
I have to admit Tom Cruise has aged really well.
A movie about a brown-gray pistol could be called Taupe Gun.
A movie about a gun that causes irresistible dancing could be called Tap Gun.
Top Gun, The Musical would be less gay than the original.
BTW Couch, any interest in proofreading another potential submission of mine?
Sure, send it to the same email, and let me know in the comments after you send it, because I rarely check that account.
Cool. I’ll try to finish the second draft by Monday.
A movie about Prohibition could be called Tub Gin.
A movie about a pistol that causes mellowness and munchies could be called Pot Gun.
A movie about a candy-making contest could be called Top Gum.
What’s the plot for Thot Gun?
Selling bathwater?
A young woman who transforms into a sparkly pink tank when struck by the male gaze.
Do I need to watch the first one first?
I liked the theme song more than the movie. My brother got married in a hangar. When they exchanged vows, he and his wife walked out to that tune. We threw paper airplanes instead of rice.
The air battle at the end is cool.
When a computer locks up on me, I pound the desk and say “Damnit, Maverick! Engage!”
I just have zero interest in that stuff. I saw plenty of blockbusters from the era against my will but somehow that one never slipped through.
Time for you to loggin.
Sadly, it was not possible to avoid that fucking song.
That’s no shit. So I am nt the only one.
C’mon man, ride into the danger zone.
It has issues, but it is a quintessential 80s movie that deserves to be remembered.
///The(Movie)HistoryGuy
Oh no doubt.
I just mean it has no interest to me. I know enough about it to play along.
*Rhywun watches Top Gun*
“Well, I have sex with other men, but that was fucking gay!”
I’m pretty sure this is peak gay: a guy named Randy Rainbow singing showtunes about Trump.
Thanks for eroding my will to live, NPR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv4207c9M74
I was thinking about you earlier today Derpy and about a few others around these parts. This has to be the most interesting group of people on the planet.
We still talking about gay?
I thought I was the straightest straight guy that ever came out of straight town.
*scratches head*
Is there something I am not telling myself?
No, suthen—Renaissance man. You may attempt many things, though. You need not remember them all, but, you’ll be “victorious” in most, f not all.
Wait, he wasn’t court-martialled and dishonorably discharged for the shit he pulled in the first movie?
No thanks.
Because
I’m a backslider.
Thank you. Great stuff.
That tune always puts me in a good mood and I first heard it on an intro to an NPR piece on the radio years ago. They are not evil promotion of liberty thieving shit bags all the time.
Nice one! I never heard this song before and it hooked me right away. Added to my favorites and bought a longer version. Been listening now on repeat for an hour.
I saw YMSB open for Gov’t Mule about 9 or 10 years ago. It was one of those great unexpected surprises. I knew nothing of the band at the time going into the show, but they rocked the house. Warren Haynes came out and did a couple songs with them, and their mandolin player / singer came out and did a nice version of Wild Horses with Gov’t Mule.
Jesus Zardoz, those are some brutal links.
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because muh dick is hard.”
— John F. Kennedy
♫ He was the hyper-charismatic telepathical knight!
oopsy- forgot the song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7y2xPucnAo
Awesome!
MAGA hat? No thanks. Gimme this.
https://mobile.twitter.com/yashar/status/1152036339283443712
That’s some hardcore trolling, right there.
Scarface would use one.
He just stuck his whole face in a pile of coke.
Grandmaster level.
He pro ably had the straws panted into the coke, so tat, when he slammed his face in, the straws just instantly inserted into his nostrils.
LOL and they take the bait, as usual
The straw banners could only drool at charging $1.50 as a straw fee.
Troll master of the universe. Hilarious.
I love the whining. They still haven’t figured out why they lost. It will be the same finger pointing and excuses in 2020.
Dammit Wasabi! Stop getting in my head!
I tried the JLPT for the first time 17 years ago. “I’m pretty good so I may as well take level 1.” Just walked out after seeing the test questions. Took another 5 years of study to pass it.
日本語は上手ですね !
There’s a funny book called Hokkaido Highway Blues about a Canadian guy hitchhiking through Japan.
No matter how bad his Japanese is, they always say Jozu desu ne!
That means something like “you are so talented” but a better translation would be “not bad for a moron”.
日本語は上手ですね
Is the Japanese version of a kindergarten teacher praising a kids finger painting.
heart-ga no you blessu
*commits seppuku*
Never the wrong choice.
Bernie Sanders Staff Demand $15 Minimum Wage, Some Quit Over Low Wages
Sorry, but this is funny.
Burn of Omar or Trump? Nice. Which of the squad is gonna crack first? They gotta be feeling some high school girl jealousy at Omar getting all the press.
Note that Pressley is out of the equation. I think the CBC pulled her aside and gave her a little “advice”.
Hadn’t even heard of her until last week. I have a feeling she’s a failed beta test.
I bet the rest wish they had been born in Somalia because that has serious street cred in the victim hierarchy. The rest would just have to go back to whatever lame not really a shithole place they were born in. Omar comes from an actual shithole. Plus she has the benefit of being an actual bigot and terrorist sympathizer. Hard to top that.
There’s something hinky about Omar. She graduates HS in 2000 or 2001, her first job is a nutrition educator in 2006, and she doesn’t graduate college until 2011. Then she successively moves immediately from position to position. Manages a successful city council campaign on her first attempt. Single term as a state legislator. Immediately moves on to Congress. Hardly the sort of thing for someone who took 10 years to graduate.
She is as dirty as the day is long.
I get that. But what is she dirty at? She hasn’t even really had time to develop her graft, either as a giver or a taker. It just doesn’t add up.
She’s a finger puppet for more powerful individuals. That’s what the “Justice Democrats” do.
Seems to me that we’ve read plenty of stories about various power brokers getting behind candidates and winning/losing. She seems to be an example of just such a candidate whose ‘propping up’ story has been told. At least, not told loudly.
There are all kinds of things that don’t add up about her. The Pope Jimbo was posting stuff a year ago(?) about her. She is crooked as fuck. But seriously, anybody who thinks siding with Hezbollah, Hamas and be an Al Quida sympathizer and still live under the delusion that she is some how going to be popular in this nation has a way different agenda. It brings almost normal people to go to conspiracy theories. It makes no sense.
Look at the district she represents. She may be the best on offer.
not really a shithole place in the United States.
Because I am in a mood: Danger Zone (metal cover by Leo Moracchioli feat. Erock)
Poor Gavin. He fought the mob and they won.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMh6Sh3Qwa8
This is how the world of Tuesdays with Derpy came to be.
I’m still not so sure that he’s lost. Politics is downstream from culture. We will know in November, 2020.
In the big scheme of things, it’s a nothing burger. I’m sure there are plenty of employers that don’t give a fart in a high wind about anything Gavin’s said or done.
Just the same, as far as influence goes, he’s toast, unless he starts writing books, gets a radio show, or a job on Fox News.
Leftists will ruthlessly purge non-leftists on any platform they control. The only reason Limbuagh is still on the air is because leftists don’t control radio.
Tuesdays with Derpy takes these trends and others and extrapolates them. My basic premise is: what would happen if everything I think is stupid and wrong (in a word, leftism) became so dominant that it was no longer openly challenged or opposed?
I suspect that in such a world, people would pay lip service to get out of trouble and do what they wanted on the down low. Governments based on stupid ideas usually have a hard time enforcing their edicts. It helps to remember that.
“Yes, Mx. HR, I am very concerned about sexual harassment and microagressions.”
“Like, when do I get mine?!?
Hey, Sir Digby! Enjoyed your article the other day. Sorry that you had to experience that but was even more pissed about the aftermath. Good thoughts beaming to Texas from here.
Thankee, Festus! Happy to put all that down, and glad it was well-received. Odd that it’s been 3 years, and I am doing quite well, when considering the families of the officers killed.
I hear ya. I’ve been through some shit and just shrugged it off but sometimes those memories come back at the most inopportune times. Glad to know that you’re doing well.
There is a story from ancient China about a powerful and cruel emperor who wanted to test the loyalty of his courtiers.
He brought in a deer, pointed at it, and called it a horse. He then asked each of the courtiers what it was.
The ones who said it was a deer were executed.
In Chinese, the phrase “point [at a] deer [and] call [it a] horse” (指鹿為馬) means to bend to the will of a powerful person rather than do what’s right.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Direct translation: Finger Deer To Do Horse.
Hopefully there is equine safe lube involved.
Ya gotta go through the deer to get a shot at the horse? Better work on that stamina…
“There are FOUR fingers.”
Lights. Here we reference Star Trek, not the thing their lazy writers plagiarized.
The “minivan”: Two in the front four in the back?
Odd-toed ungulates good, even-toed ungulates better.
I almost went there, but decided to keep it old school.
Also, I didn’t remember which one was which.
I’d like to thank Gary Larson for committing the term “ungulates” to my memory.
I saw a list once of the Far Side comics with the most obscure jokes. I think the winner was one where 2 guys were stuck on an island. One guy was looking up a cliff and the caption was something like: Don’t worry Douglas, we won’t starve! Look all those mussels!
The joke was that mussels only live in tidal zones and so that place would be underwater at high tide.
I love Gary Larson, except for when I hate him for quitting so early. Which is constantly.
I think my favorite is the one where all the cavemen are fleeing the “Fire Research Academy” which is in flames.
I had the “smoking killed the dinosaurs” one pinned up in my cube for ~20 years.
Well, we’ll always have the TV special…
https://youtu.be/FIYLKh2wLdk
I forgot that those existed. Nice pull!
I’ve never understood wanting toadies over accurate information. You’ve got a great big empire to control, and if the people closest to you only say what they think you want to hear, you’ll never be able to handle anything, since you’ll be ignorant of it until the palace walls come crashing down.
“I’ve never understood wanting toadies over accurate information.”
Dictators are megalomaniacs. They want toadies for the same reason they want statues and parades.
It’s the reason why totalitarian govts usually don’t outlast the dictators that founded them.
In the long run, totalitarian govts end up as clients for more practical ones. See Venezuela and North Korea for example.
I think it’s more about wanting unquestioning loyalty. The fear of being shanked by someone close to you over external threats.
Gavin can still afford Makers? OOOhhhhh spare the sob story. I CAN’T AFFORD MAKERS.
Serious note: what is going on with organized attacks on wrong speech is a bit chilling.
Last of the Seven Great Singing Stars died.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Great_Singing_Stars
https://youtu.be/2XgOiTiM4Mc
Not my favorite of the 7, but amazing that she was still around to see one of her songs used for a soundtrack 80+ years after she first started singing.
Ah 2012. It’s great to remember a time when even CNN made fun of protesters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRGns6LaJgA
That can’t be real; I was told quite recently that CNN has been exactly the same for 20+ years.
I saw your Van Halen riposte earlier. Hadn’t heard that song before. Meh.
What was the song?
Stay Frosty
I think I said 30, and stand by it.
You said “same as 15 years ago as 30 years ago.”
“same today, as 15….”
Fun times. I see my old office building there.
So, to bring everyone down: https://5newsonline.com/2019/07/18/oklahoma-man-arrested-after-allegedly-raping-4-year-old-at-mcdonalds-in-midwest-city/
A) this happened near the in-laws, and, so caught my attention
2) sometimes, the book’s cover is pretty damned accurate. Just an observation….
J. F. C.
I do’t mean to be flippant about this, but that mugshot LOOKS like a pedo. Mugshots being what they are, and I’ve snapped many of them in my career, he straight up sets off that internal alarm.
More I think of it, he has similar features to the guy that played the pedo in Gone Baby Gone.
Maybe they saw who else is speaking:
https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/07/19/2020-democrats-muslim-caucus-conference/
Tone deaf idiot.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2019/07/19/really-bill-de-blasio-demands-answers-from-those-in-charge-of-nyc-infrastructure-after-major-subway-problems-during-heatwave/
Damn, they about buried that fact.
Gah! Wrong comment reply. Chafed, that was meant for the one above.
That looks like hell on earth to me.
My favorite Slovenian – https://youtu.be/5NG-XnUizRc
This girl is talented https://youtu.be/6og2sSEbfb0
I would take her as a more-than-acceptable substitute. She’s a better Zooey than Zooey!
NHS girl looks eerily similar to a girl I dated in summer of 1990. Who was also British (her family moved from London to the US when she was like 2, so she was British with a KY accent). I wonder if she ever got her citizenship?
Asking for a friend?
So, Derpy has really been bringing it (yeah—when does he NOT?). I’m very inspired by his JFK song link upthread. So, I’m dedicating this to Festus, and all us late-niters:
https://youtu.be/ez90azx4LKk
When I set up the hose to drain the condensate from the portable air conditioner, I was wondering if there was even anything dripping out of the end.
Well, I have my answer.
I just swapped bucket and dumped five gallons down the drain.
……Is that normal? I mean, for a portable?
Well it is a dozen days since I set up the hose, and it has been very humid.
Ah. Yes, it is in my area, so I would think THAT is probably in range.
I’m not a huge fan of Razorfist, but his video on Cicero (the Roman thinker) is quite good.
He’s bombastic, but I enjoy him/his wordsmithing. What is your
‘Critique” of him?
If I actively disliked him, I wouldn’t ever watch. It’s mostly the bombast and 140 words per minute thing that get me.
But he is intelligent, and I don’t hate metal, so I still tune in. Also, I don’t hate alliteration.
Yeah, the speed things can require rewinding, sometimes (for me). He certainly seems to know/research his material.
He wears the shades for a reason. He doesn’t fly off the seat of his pants like Styx but I find his political commentary amusing and sometimes enlightening. The gamer/dweeby stuff I’m not interested in.
As of yet, I haven’t gotten into Styx. I’ve seen vids here and there, but nothing that brings me back.
Watched that earlier. He’s right, you know. Happy to see my doppleganger back, BP! Ummmm titties…..
I think that’s, “Mmmmm, titties…..”, Festus.
I stand chastened and will correct my behavior forthwith.
Just channel your Inner Homer.
/(points to mouth) Food goes in here !
RDA can teach us all. *sniff*
I grooved on this last night. https://youtu.be/-7JOa3dISg0 Were I a younger man I would do everything to the lead singer.
Funny, I thought the same about a much mellower song.
No disagreement here. That tune was right up my alley (so to speak).
No disagreement here. That tune was right up my alley (so to speak).
The comment so nice that he posted it twice!
Harcourt Festus Mudd, you’ve been drinking again!
Guiiiiiltyyyyy!