So I went out to fill up my gas tank, because I was on empty and have been gone all week, and got to wait in line for the privilege of buying premium at the third gas station that I went to. My wife went to the grocery store because she always shops on Friday and got to experience bread and water rationing. Why? Why you crazy fucking Florida people? I also engaged in a little pre-storm deforestation of my yard, but only because I hated those trees anyways and I told my boss I needed to have some flex in my schedule today to storm prep. Now I have a picture to send him. At least there was plenty of beer at the store.
Seriously, though. Anyone on the East side who wants to come West instead of getting all the way out the state can contact me at: brett_bolt -at- yahoo
Apologies if any of these links are repeats, I’ve been away
I’m really enjoying the UAW talking about “a few bad apples” — by which they mean both of the most recent organizational presidents. I was in Detroit this week, so there was more news than I can find in this article. I especially liked the one with the neighbor texting his wife about there being “stacks of cash” being taken out of his garage by the Feds. Of course, this is all Trump’s fault.
This space hotel has to be spun up under gravity, or they’ll never be able to get the sheets clean.
Linklater is really taking this thing about filming over time too far.
You know what the VA hospitals don’t need? Serial killers.
Oh, and happy Toolstice
Re: the space station interiors
You can’t fool me, that’s a Skyrim mod.
Nahh dude, that’s a VegaStrike screen cap
I’m sure they’ll have giant windows like the picture shows. Transparent aluminum was invented in the mid 80s, right?
You know what the VA hospitals don’t need? Serial killers.
How could they notice the difference between care and serial killers?
whut
I just makes them go up.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist.
I’m really enjoying the UAW talking about “a few bad apples”
Also talked about bad apples
Superior bad apple – https://youtu.be/pmEu-r1GUeo
Jack got hacked.
Nice job, Twitter.
LOLOLOL
*second tweet*
Yep, 13 yo 4Channer confirmed.
Well, either that or Jack’s Tourette’s is acting up.
We’re going to hear the lamest excuse: my twitter account was hacked.
Jesus, his feed is a dumpster-fire of woke.
LOL! I remember that. I played the shit out of CoH.
I think they can safely make those space station bedrooms about half the size. We all know the only reason anyone would want to spend the night up there is for space sex.
The Hundred-Mile High Club. But they talked about spinning the thing up for artificial gravity, so the only place to have zero-g sex would be the central hub, ie in the middle of the space dock. But just because there is gravity, doesn’t mean it has to be full earth normal — low g sex could be interesting.
TOK is right about the size – you’d want handholds all over the place.
And an hourly rate.
And no doubt a swing as well.
Floating space jizz.
*misses Agile*
*misses Agile*
Seconded.
“BREAKING NEWS: Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs, 27, suffocated on his own vomit after taking a fatal mix of fentanyl, oxycodone and alcohol – as coroner rules his death was an accident”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7412405/Tyler-Skaggs-died-deadly-mix-fentanyl-oxycodone-alcohol.html
And it took less than a second for someone to try to put the “blame” on someone else.
So did this person also force them down the kid’s throat? I’m sure it’s largely the grief speaking, but that’s just stupid.
Thinking it over, if it was laced with something he wasn’t expecting, I will cut them some slack.
“You got your fentanyl in my heroin!”
Thing is though – mixing alcohol and opiates on the same occasion?
Well, if there wasn’t a note it’s reasonable to assume he didn’t intend to od.
Jeffery Epstein didn’t leave a note….
I’d be more concerned if he choked on someone else’s vomit like a Spinal Tap drummer.
You cant dust for vomit.
The Gateway Foundation is designing the world’s first space hotel – the Von Braun Space Station – with the aim of making visiting space accessible to everyone.
A Pohl reference?
+1 Sigfrid von Shrink
I’m actually surprised not to see that in the linked article.
“D’OH my goodness that’s impressive! Swiss tourists visiting New Orleans recreate iconic scene from The Simpsons that shows Homer enjoying DOZENS of local dishes while on a food tour around the city”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7411699/Two-Swiss-tourists-recreate-Simpsons-New-Orleans-food-scene.html
The Swiss ministry of culture is not doing its job: defending the homeland from the American cultural invasion.
I have confusion. The link says “Daily Mail,” but there is no Demi Rose pic.
Homer Simpson is thicc.
Nerds.
That was not in seasons 1-12 and therefore does not exist.
^ This guy gets it.
Now I want fried chicken, red beans and rice, and an andouille po boy.
Fried oyster po boy or go hungry.
That reminds me, I need dinner.
That’s actually very clever and well done.
This space hotel has to be spun up under gravity, or they’ll never be able to get the sheets clean.
Docking is gonna be a pain in the ass unless you can only dock to the central hub. I thought i read they were targeting 3 rpm for simulated lunar gravity? Yeah, you’d be forced to dock to the central hub.
That’s where they’d put the lobby, I presume.
The mockup I saw had craft docked to the outer ring. Perhaps they were escape craft only.
Artist’s illo, bro. They don’t know jack about it, they’re just making it look pretty.
That’s where they put the docks on Babylon 5.
Tooooooooooooooooooooooooool!
I’ll never bad mouth you again out loud.
My take on the new TOOL: Maynard is financially stable, but the rest of them needed money so they decided to make something slightly less embarrassing than Laterallus. Let’s set a bar somewhere.
While better music, Tool is surpasses even Jimmy Buffet for having a ‘sound’, otherwise known as all their songs sound exactly the same.
I never got into Tool, but I loved the first two albums from A Perfect Circle.
“Has surpassed” not “is surpasses”.
That must be why I never dug deeper than Undertow and Ænima.
.
I’m honestly a little scared to listen to it. Tool was my favorite band for a long time and is still in my top 2 or 3. I really dont want it to be bad.
From the sidebar to the Tyler Skaggs story:
Bye, bye to his American Pie money! How singer Don McLean, 73, and his Playboy model girlfriend Paris Dylan, 25, are spending a hefty chunk of his $150 million fortune on lavish trips, first class travel, and designer duds
Huh. Wonder what she sees in him.
Don, buddy…it’s no longer the seventies. Shorter hair and longer shorts, bro. Maybe Paris won’t have quite so much contempt for you then.
Never cared for his music (you eventually get tired of the one song). But now all of a sudden he’s my hero.
Two songs
Three songs.
Dafuq? No Vincent?
https://youtu.be/4wrNFDxCRzU
too easy
I could think of worse things to blow my money on when I reach my 70s.
I can’t think of anything better to blow your money on, well, at any age.
I can.
Would.
Legit.
pay off the hospital
Stupid buffer. Meant: You make a compelling argument, sir.
“..90% on birds, booze and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”
Were any of those suspicious deaths victims of epilepsy?
+1
LOLOLOL
10/10
Would laugh again
Okay, that right there is a fucking great joke. ^^^^^
That, my friends, is how you humor.
German guy: My grandfather died in Auschwitz.
Me: (mumbled something sympathetic)
German guy: He fell out of a watch tower and broke his neck.
LOL
/b/ had a fantastic escalating riff on that joke. I’m sure someone ere has a screenshot of it.
“Epstein’s master bathroom contained a medical cart with a full set of powered dental tools.”
https://twitter.com/mooncult/status/1166871960812318720
“Full police footage of the inside of Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion from 2005”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG7gcV8kMbQ
Which is more likely.
1. Suicide
2. They murdered him.
3. They murdered some poor guy and he is free.
Dustin Hoffman call your office!
“just learned with horror that deleting any of the “family” emojis in google slides does not remove the emoji, but rather kills off each individual family member one by one, starting with the children”
https://twitter.com/brookLYNevery1/status/1167087999630434304
Don’t be evil.
She goes on to show how this proves that emojis are sexist, racist, and homophobic.
That Twitter thread is proof that these people do not have any real problems.
It’s just the plot of Fatal Vision.
Hi Brett,
Thanks for taking a break from hurricane prep to provide us with lynx!
Here’s a funny one for you:
Communism is about love. Love for humanity, your neighbours, your community. Without love, it’s impossible to be a Communist, or at least a good Communist.
The replies are gold!
Scrolling down, someone did a meme with the pic of the dude ogling the other chick while his girl looks on. It may be the best meme ever built on that pic.
Everyone’s complaining that the communists didn’t love those 100 million dead people. I say the communists loved those 100 million people being dead.
*shrugs*
Wrecker and kulaks, dude. Whatchagonnado?
So you can love omeone to death!
Or someone, not just Omeone.
“I’m sorry you had to experience all that (in Cuba). We know how loving Communism is, but we have these people who have never wondered where the next meal is coming from, trying to educate us.”
So, you’re not Venezuelan?
You learn something new and horrible every day:
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Anyone who has a wife less than nine years of age is not allowed to engage in sexual intercourse, whether she is his permanent or temporary wife. However, other forms of sexual pleasures are permitted, such as touching with lust, hugging, and rubbing penis between the buttocks and thighs; even if she is a nursing baby.
-Ayatollah Khomeini, former supreme leader of Iran
***
https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Women/WRGS/ForcedMarriage/NGO/JusticeForIran.pdf
Khomeini married a 16-year old and abolished the minimum age for marriage in Iran.
Sadly, I was already aware of this.
Legend
Nice guy. Real normie.
“If charged with racism, you must be guilty: That’s the left’s new rule”
https://nypost.com/2019/08/29/if-charged-with-racism-you-must-be-guilty-thats-the-lefts-new-rule/
It isn’t new.
Shouldn’t the author of the Washington Post article give up her job as a college professor because being white she obviously not only didn’t earn it but took the job from a more deserving minority.
Our Totally Unscientific Ranking of the Best Popsicles
Best popsicle
https://giphy.com/gifs/popsicle-mi4Y5a94xP7Mc
Dior ‘Sauvage’ perfume ad campaign with Johnny Depp criticized for appropriating Native American culture
Why do Native Americans hate snow?
It’s white and settles on their land!
Ha!
Dior should respond with an image of Depp with one tear streaming down his face.
???
Forget it, Jake. It’s fashion.
Isn’t he part Indian? At least more so than Elizabeth Warren.
Probably not. That came out when people were mad a white guy was playing tonto
I should really stop reading Jacobin:
A Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Under Socialism
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/08/popeyes-chicken-sandwich-fast-food-workers
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Popeyes’ new chicken sandwich is great. The fast food industry’s labor practices are not. Under democratic socialism, the entire working class would benefit from the spoils of such culinary delights.
…
Yet in the face of all this excitement stands a brutal reality: the profiteers of the Popeyes chicken sandwich craze are the bosses, while the workers bear the brunt. With orders exploding at locations nationwide, Popeyes’ employees are working harder under more grueling conditions and few benefits while corporate shareholders bask Scrooge McDuck–style in their riches.
***
The derp radiation safety officer hates me because I keep coming back with cooked badges.
Pay no attention to the starving hordes fleeing Venezuela.
last line of the article:
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This sandwich may have been created under capitalism — but under socialism, who knows where the frontiers of snack creation may lie?
***
[head desk to the center of the earth]
Oooh, oooh, I know – you’ll be in bread lines waiting for uniform government imitation breadstock if there is any available, because there is never enough made.
There’s a macabre and grotesque poetic horror in that sentence.
SugarFree’s Chicken & Soylent
who knows where the frontiers of snack creation may lie?
Cooking stones in boiling water for the flavor?
Don’t mock the wonderful, wonderful soup stone.
Venezuela isn’t real socialism. Real socialism has never been tried.
Also, all the problems in Venezuela are because of US Yanqui imperialists.
It’s too bad Real Socialism™ keeps getting subverted so easily by monsters. Why, it almost seems like the chances of a monster not taking over approach impossiblity.
You’re not fooling me – that’s satire from the Bee or somewhere.
Jeffrey Epstein Accuser Maria Farmer Says the New York Academy of Art Helped Enable the Disgraced Financier
Anyone really into art and science should never be trusted and would probably diddle your child imo
You’ve met OMWC, I see.
I HAVEN’T AND I HOPE MY CHILDREN AND I NEVER DO!
So their concern has nothing to do with one of their former students (Petrina Ryan-Kleid) finding out that Jeffrey Epstein got possession of one of her works from the ‘art school’ without her knowledge?
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/08/14/22/17289660-7353967-image-a-26_1565818437820.jpg
Who owned the painting? The school or the student?
NASCAR Denies Ads for America’s Most Popular Rifle
Will this affect NASCAR? Maybe?
Dunno.
Is NASCAR still a thing?
Not after this.
NASCAR pissed in their fan base’s face a while back to court the hip new viewers, now it is dying.
This. It sucks.
Even for Trump, this is impressive.
Twitter links don’t work from home, what was said?
Dammit, Tundra! If I hadn’t necroposted that on the previous thread . . . *shakes fist*
You gotta see the picture that goes with the tweet to get the full effect.
The pic in question.
Love the note “scorching and damage present only on the north side of the launch pad”. Apparently, the rest of it looks like shit on a good day.
Right?
I know launch sites need not be fancy, but that’s almost comical.
Cruise missile?
One of Iran’s “space” missiles blew up on the pad.
Ah, ok, thanks.
This is one of those things were I’m not sure if it’s the incompetence of the makers, or actual interference from (((them))). Israel has been known to meddle in Iranian ambitions. But so have we. And we can’t rule out screw-ups.
I’ve read about how “As Allah wills” impairs the combat effectiveness of Islamist fighters (why bother to aim – just spray and pray), I wonder of Islamist engineers have a similar problem (we haven’t tracked down that short, but if Allah wills, it will fly).
In a highly islamist state like Iran where it’s ruled by a theocracy, I wouldn’t be surprised if effective but less than fully devout engineers get overlooked. A lot of countries in the region appear to be reliant on hiring foreign technical staff, or even just running the plants in the US. *glances at Not Adahn*
So eventually they’ll be ComStar (Word of Blake depending on the timeline) or the Tech-Priests.
They’re not allowed to run the place. If you want to make chips for Uncle Sugar, you’ve got to be a “Trusted Foundry,” which means sneaky A-rabs, Rooskies, or Chinamen can’t have anything to do with anything, other than write or cash checks.
Well, they might as well shut Twitter down. I think we have reached the theoretical maximum for Twitter trolling. “Galactic-level trolling” is just . . . inadequate.
Jesus H tap-dancing Christ…
Meritocracy Is Killing High-School Sports
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/meritocracy-killing-high-school-sports/597121/
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Athletics are supposed to be great equalizers in American life. But they’re being hijacked by the wealthy.
If you want to understand how income inequality and opportunity-hoarding by the rich can combine in toxic ways to hurt the less fortunate, you could look in all the usual places—elite colleges, housing policy, internships.
Or you could look at high-school sports.
…
This past school year is the only period on record when high-school sports participation declined even as school attendance increased.
…
The deeper story is that the weed of American-style meritocracy is strangling the roots of youth sports. As parents have recognized that athletic success can burnish college applications, sports have come to resemble just another pre-professional program, with rising costs, hyper-specialization, and massive opportunity-hoarding among the privileged.
Before kids enter high school, they tend to participate in youth sports leagues, which have become one big pay-to-play machine. It’s now common for high-income parents to pull their kids out of the local soccer or baseball leagues and write thousand-dollar checks to join super-teams that travel to play similar kids several counties away. As I wrote last year, it’s not a crime for parents to spend money on their children. But as travel teams hoard talented (and, typically, high-income) kids, they leave behind desiccated local leagues with fewer resources and fewer players. As a result, many low-income children lose the sports habit (or never gain it to begin with), and simply stop playing altogether by the time they get to high school.
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[head desks through center of the earth and pops out near Tahiti]
bonus points for the ad featuring “The abuse that leaves no mark- for survivors to escape and recover from abusive relationships, they need more than just a place to go: they need financial empowerment”. Ad features festively plump woman staring wistfully into the distance.
Athletics are supposed to be great equalizers in American life.
Aaaaand I’m out
I think he meant that in the ‘on the field it doesn’t matter if you’re the mayors son or the son of the town drunk.’ way
+1
As I wrote last yearTo be sure, it’s not a crime for parents to spend money on their children. ButAs ever, the “but” negates what precedes it.
Yeah, horseshit. Every organization I know of has a scholarship fund for kids that can’t pay.
If you are a talented and driven athlete, the doors are open.
I, for one, am disgusted at how the NBA is just a trust-fund baby club.
It’s a disgrace that WNBA players are played less for doing the same work as their male peers.
Must be that alt-right white supremacy thing I keep hearing about.
Athletics are supposed to be great equalizers
I thought that was Colt.
Relevant
“As I wrote last year, it’s not a crime for parents to spend money on their children. But’……IT OUGHTA BE!
“DEREK THOMPSON is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he writes about economics, technology, and the media. He is the author of Hit Makers and the host of the podcast”
Economics huh.
If this is what he’s got for sports, I can’t wait to read his hot takes on economics!
Is it me or have these once proud journals just plain suck with predictable and mediocre writing?
Trump’s personal assistant fired after comments about Ivanka, Tiffany
When Trump goes low we go lower.
This was an off-the-record dinner
“You fucked up. You trusted us.”
Yeah, the whole having dinner and forgetting the Simon Say incantation if saying it’s off the record just lays bare how fucked up that culture is.
Thirty years ago I took a media relations course from the Canadian Federal government. Two hours of content, but the one part that always stuck with me was “There is no such thing as off-the-record with a member of the media.”
I still have the course summary booklet. About the only positive thing during my employ with CanFedGov.
OK, time for something fun and light-hearted: the Shaft them song, but with lyrics about President Taft instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ2Xpu5yvfM
theme song, that is
typos – I make them.
***************BREAKING**********************
Sending unsolicited sexual photos is illegal in Texas starting Sept. 1
Be smart out there, people.
*snort*
Looks like Texas is about to get more tentacle porn.
Chronic illness on TV: More nuanced and realistic portrayals are needed
Maybe then someone will start taking my adrenal fatigue seriously.
Oh, FFS.
*orders SMOD 2020 bumper sticker*
A chronic disease is the one that makes you cough a lot and occasionally spit blood into a handkerchief, right?
When you’ve lost Current Affairs…
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And even if he were, somehow, to defeat Trump, it remains to be explained why anyone would choose him when there are other candidates with better plans for addressing the serious crises urgently facing the country and the world. Does anyone have any confidence in Joe Biden to effectively tackle climate change? Can anyone, reading the soup of half-remembered healthcare talking points above, seriously believe he will push substantial improvements to the American medical system through the U.S. congress? Even if hatred for the current occupant of the White House manages to put Biden over the top, we are in for four years of fumbling inaction—followed, quite possibly, by a reactionary backlash superseding even the horrors of Trumpism.
There is simply no good or compelling case for a Joe Biden candidacy, let alone a Joe Biden presidency. In every sense imaginable, both represent a terrifying and irresponsible gamble with the future.
***
Ah, yes. The horrors of Trumpism- record low unemployment, negotiations with formerly implacable foes, more regulations being repealed than passed, troops coming home…
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/08/support-for-biden-is-an-irresponsible-gamble-with-our-future
I agree. That’s why Biden was my pick in the recent Glib poll.
Yeah, “four years of fumbling inaction” sounds pretty damn sweet to me.
Sounds like me on prom night!
The horrors of Trumpism. Horrors.
The so called elite have spent the last 50 years getting tens of thousands of our soldiers killed, sinking over a trillion dollars in pointless, fruitless wars. They have gummed up everything with regulation and pushed the tax burden to over 50% for much of the country. They are corrupt and incompetent beyond measure and it is long past time for them to go. The last administration was nothing more than a banana republic shit show.
But it is Trump that is perpetrating horrors. Horrors I tell you.
The ‘I hope a hurricane hits Mar El Lago’ (I hope we have extensive property destruction, human suffering and even the death of non-political people just working to feed their families) because Trump is indifferent to suffering’ sums up these so-called elite pieces of shit in one tweet.
There isn’t a ‘fuck off creeps’ big enough or loud enough for Luke, Nathan and their ilk in the media. They truly are despicable and I don’t think calling them the enemy of the American people is over the top.
Fuck. Them.
Wow. Three simple words sure pissed me off.
pushed the tax burden to over 50% for much of the country-
And reduced it to effectively less than zero for the other half. The half not paying but benefitting votes too. They have a pretty good scam going.
Not from Afghanistan they’re coming home apparently.
And there is the best example. What kind of fucking idiot would get into an extended war in Afghanistan? Don’t they teach history at those dumbfuck ivy league daycares? See, now I am getting more pissed off.
Remember the old Saturday Night Live sketch?
Bunch of Russian generals standing around a map studying it. “I know! Why don’t we invade Afghanistan? I mean, whoever heard of a Muslim holding a grudge?”
Heh. Jokes you would not see on TV today because we so woke.
We are never going to get to leave afghanistan.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/29/after-criticism-lindsey-graham-trump-says-us-will-keep-presence-afghanistan/?noredirect=on
A US soldier died in Afghanistan today, bringing the number to three deaths for the week. And we are supposedly bringing some troops home, and keeping a force of like 8,500 there.
I read that in the voice of a NY rabbi.
“What? You maybe never before see a yankee?!”
“This I like.”
“Piety, wisdom, charity- and of my great modesty you say nothing?!”
Well, it took long enough, but I finally got an answer this afternoon on my promotion. And it looks like I’m gonna be moving on up. The financial package actually looks a little better than I expected to, so I’m happy with that. I hope it works out.
Congrats! What new toy will you buy?
Probably pay off the hospital stay for the baby at the end of last year. That wasnt cheap.
You can do that anytime! Spend now, worry later, that’s what I say.
Pay down debt. Smart man.
Cuck move, bro.
Hey, I’d have bought a new boomstick at the very least.
pay off the hospital
*choir of angels sings Hallelujah*
Not your hospital.
Each hospital is but a local manifestation of the interdimensional Hospital.
So far, only our monitors and IV pumps can translate through the interdimension between local hospitals. This explains why we can never get the same count twice on the fucking things, and why we consistently turn up devices that aren’t in our inventory at all.
We have recently RFIDed them. I look forward to the time-lapse images showing the herds of monitors and pumps migrating across the hospital, stopping for temporary rest in Observation and Recovery, before continuing their seemingly endless journey.
Now I understand their pricing system.
An infinite improbability pump could have practical applications.
Hey, I am not even gonna tell you what my recent Ambulance, ER treatment, reconstructive surgery and follow ups cost, but the hospital and I are square now.
EXCELSIOR!
If they offer to put an oil painting of you in a prominent place, decline. There is a bit of a kerfuffle these days.
Congrats.
Way to go, Lach!
Get a babysitter and go drop too much money on dinner!
That might be fun. Babysitters are hard to come by though, tight labor market and all.
Yeah, but they’re cheap dinner dates. DQ will suffice. Plus, you can watch her eat ice cream.
Clearly you havent seen how many babysitters are on PornHub.
And congrats!
Ah, that’s the time to impose on family, kid!
Congratulations sir. That makes my day a bit brighter as well. You deserve it.
Would you say the financial package is “discernibly turgid”?
Seeing as it is denominated in U.S. dollars I would say that if inflated and turgid are synonymous, then yes.
Woohoo! Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Congrats! It’s always good to be recognized.
Congratulations Lachowsky!
Congrats!
Obviously it wasn’t a surprise, not after the card reading said you’d get it.
Thanks for that. You were spot on.
God I love my brothers.
http://imgur.com/a/Ic8m7CD
You made my day.
I wear flip flops, btw. Because fytw.
How glib of them.
ShitLord status confirmed, sir.
Pick up your monocle and free orphan from shipping.
To a deeeee-luxe apartment in the sky? 😉
Superb!
Congrats!
Congrats!
Lana Del Rey’s ‘Norman F*cking Rockwell’ Is A Sprawling California Masterpiece
I wish someone would write something this way about something I did. Holy moly.
Oh for fuck’s sake.
Turning off autoplay apparently makes the Amazon video player flake out when playing actual content – but not when playing the ads.
Mangled chicken bone dump leaves mass carnage on Brooklyn street
bloc
Why, oh why! did the chickens have to cross the road.
How Colonialism Shaped Body Shaming
Translation: the fats have been winning this battle for hundreds of years.
Did that article have a purpose?
I wanted to make my fats joke.
Noted. You’ll have more opportunities as the Demi Lovato posts continue here.
Demi Rose
Clearly pop culture is not my thing.
Yeah. Demi knocked out Jay Glazer’s tooth while sparring.
Demi Lovato will cut a bitch.
That’s not all she’ll do.
https://78.media.tumblr.com/fde9336295cbeb45933a7486adba37bb/tumblr_p6z8wy0hO41sm9eugo1_400.gif
She’s going to crush that poor woman’s spleen.
She was great in The Boys
Beating a dead horse some more…
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/30/755994591/president-trump-tweets-sensitive-surveillance-image-of-iran
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The image shows the aftermath of the accident, which experts believe took place while the rocket was being fueled. Clearly visible is the truck used to transport and erect the rocket, and the words “The product of national empowerment,” which have been written along the edge of the pad. The picture also shows extensive debris and charring around the pad.
***
Product of national empowerment? Make Iran Great Again?
Losers.
The Sometimes-Intense, Never-Boring Spirit About to Pop Up Everywhere
I can’t wait to out-snob people now
I love Rum. I had that Rhum J.M. on my list but didn’t know about the agricole aspect of it. I just saw it recommended somewhere. Interesting. I won’t get the opportunity to snob anyone as I typically only drink the hard stuff at home.
Sometimes I wonder if I’m living in an alternate universe from the media.
We do. We live in reality. They just make up whatever they want whenever they want and endlessly repeat it if need be.
Shawn Mendes Poses Shirtless While Eating An Avocado & Stars Are ‘Here For’ It
sploosh
“While avocados are totally delicious, they’re also considered a superfood due to their healthy fats and high levels of potassium.”
Avocados are clearly not brain food, or food for humans at all really. I am not gonna click on that link.
Gay.
I make some killer Guacamole.
You are one of my favorite people on this rock, but you are just so, so wrong on the avocado.
But hey, more for me!
Suthen – wrong on steak & avocados, but I’d still be his neighbor. ?
That’s the guy who shotgunned his parents but was found not guilty by reason of wearing a sweater, right?
That’s John Melendez.
Here Are 7 ‘Left Wing’ Ideas (Almost) All Americans Can Get Behind
I’m two out of seven.
I’m 1 for 7.
I’ll agree with one. The other 6 are bullshit.
Same here and I am betting it is the same two. 5 of those are pure collectivist evil. Of the two I agree with the left backs one for the wrong reason (fertile ground for corruption) and the other is just words…they have no intention whatsoever of implementing it.
I’m two for seven – legal pot, and restrictive covenants on government officials.
Same two.
All drugs should be legal. We should take all of the power, money, and corporatism out of Washington, so there won’t be any more lobbyist and it won’t matter what stock an ex-pol owns.
Agreed on both. I’m glad I’m not alone in Fantasyland.
Now do tobacco. Or nicotine.
LOL – not when see the bill.
2, 3, 6:. Feel free to start your own companies and implement these ideas.
5,7: Feel free to start your own charity organizations to fund these ideas.
If all Americans are truly behind these ideas then voluntary-based solutions should be no problem to implement.
Five, like Nikki, is the worst.
1 – Yes
4 – Sort of. I propose we nuke K Street from orbit.
random though on dude walls-
Most women in the US grow up watching shows where men are portrayed as bumbling, violent morons and/or losers. The women are portrayed as feisty underdogs who nobly struggle to gain respect. Then they grow up, go to college and are confronted with the fact that a lot of science, technology, art, literature, philosophy, and medicine came from men.
I guess that cognitive dissonance can be a bit much.
It would be better to showcase the achievements of women than to put down men as a group.
In the Aztec religion, the only people who went to heaven were warriors who died in battle and women who died in childbirth. Even the worst barbarians were smart enough to recognize the importance of women.
I forget who said it, but the quote was that tolerance and apathy are the virtues of a dying civilization.
“…the fact that a lot of science, technology, art, literature, philosophy, and medicine came from men.”
I have heard this ridiculous ad hominem before.
It would be better to showcase the achievements of women
*bites tongue, closes browser*
Do any of these achievements involve chrome trailer hitches or garden hoses and softballs?
Get your mind out of the gutter!
This gal made some sweet battle paintings:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Thompson
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Elizabeth Southerden Thompson, Lady Butler (3 November 1846 – 2 October 1933) was a British painter,[1] and specialised in painting scenes from British military campaigns and battles, including the Crimean War and the Battle of Waterloo. The Roll Call (purchased by Queen Victoria), The Defence of Rorke’s Drift, and Scotland Forever!, showing the Scots Greys at the Battle of Waterloo, (Leeds Art Gallery) are among her notable works. She wrote about her military paintings in an autobiography published in 1922: “I never painted for the glory of war, but to portray its pathos and heroism”.[2][3][4] She married Lieutenant General Sir William Butler, becoming Lady Butler.
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What do you have against Hedy Lamaar?
That’s Hedley!
where men are portrayed as bumbling, violent morons and/or losers.
Possibly true if one only counts comedies, but looking at a list of popular shows from the 2000’s there are plenty of shows with competent smart male leads, while there are plenty that are anti-heroes (Walt and Vic) in the dramas women are also often portrayed as manipulative and petty. It’s not so black and white as men bad /women good.
SHUT THE FUCK UP, LIBTARD!
Uh..I mean, The Left won the culture war and they are implementing the destruction of the fabric of society!
OWNED
[examines avatar]
I see a green football with the “no” sign on it.
Little Green Footballs was a sports blog that went off the deep end into the SJW abyss.
Coincidence?
Just say no to big Bay Leaf™
Good point. I was mostly thinking about shows like Simpsons and Futurama. I forgot about all the action movies I’ve watched and liked. I figure women don’t watch things like Robocop and Full Metal Jacket.
All the Real Housewives shows do not portray women well. Entertainment in general involves people behaving in ways that do not happen often.
I guess my point is that the push for strong female characters is not so much about equality as it is about feminist shrieking and jealousy.
Need more Xena, less Bachelorette.
I didn’t know 4channers were into soccer.
OFFS
I saw it live on TV. It didn’t strike me as particularly homophobic. Now, I don’t live in France and don’t get the full context… but perhaps point to a more clearly anti-gay banner next time. In the first period, when the incident happened, only two minutes were added despite the teams being sent off the pitch for awhile.
That cant be right. America, unlike the civilized, tolerant Europeans we should be more like, is the capital of racism, homophobia, misogyny and bigotry of all flavors.
Europe is the Big Rock Candy Mountains of leftism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqowmHgxVJQ
“In the state of California, there’s a land that’s fair and bright…..”
Huh. I was expecting this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPONTneuaF4
My reading of this is that they are trolling the bigwigs.
That is not “homophobic” – it’s trolling. But the article makes it sound like the second coming of Jerry Fallwell.
“Hate speech”. It’s ridiculous fear-mongering.
I probably don’t get it but I do remember fans throwing bananas at black players. I get that.
This is France, not Italy. ?
I get it – that is awful. People suck. Heavy-handed re-education campaigns do not seem to be working.
OT, a bit of begging for info:
I’ve got a budget that hovers around $500 USD (but I could push it to a thou if something really ++awse comes up), and I’m thinking of buying a reasonably-full-featured digital oscilloscope for hobby work of all kinds (I’ve already got an old, used, 15MHz two-channel analogue oscilloscope using a CRT for display). Anybody got any ideas or opinions about what the best bang-for-the-buck selection might be?
Quit being a nerd and buy a table saw?
^ This.
Or a gun.
Or a decent pair of skates.
Aw, c’mon, boys. Oscilloscopes have buttons and knobs and blinky lights. They’re plenty cool.
+1
I ? this place.
Had a table saw, may get another one. Gots me a gun (KelTec Sub2K), may get another one. Gots me an oscilloscope, may get another one.
Had several pairs of skates. No longer interested.
No longer interested.
*head explodes*
What the hell do you want a sillyscope for?
Depends on what you’re trying to do with it. I have analog scopes (15 MHz is pretty inadequate, just saying, mine are 100 and 500 MHz models) from Tektronix, which are pretty much gold standard. Most digital scopes in that price range (like Rigol) are OK for simple things, but have meh bandwidth and resolution.
Want to do spectrum analysis of audio? Use a soundcard and an interface box. Want to do signal tracing or RF stuff? Get a used Tek.
Whelp, the restoration contractor just left. The good news is that we have no apparent mold issues, the bad news is that we are going to lose the use of half of our house for the duration. Timeline unknown but actual rehab covered by insurance. Now what to do with the contents of half of my household and when and where do I sleep while this is happening? I work nights and they’ll be showing up bright and early. If we need to rent a storage unit that’s $ out of pocket until a maybe sorta reimbursement. Fuck me dead.
Obviously not discounting the Florida Glibs trials and tribulations here. Stay safe and dry if you can! Just venting about my own shitstances.
I had the whole house tiled. We slept in the living room on the floor in sleeping bags for a month. I just piled shit up in the rooms they weren’t working in and moved it around as they moved from room to room.
Oh I know. It’s gonna be disruptive as hell but we’ll find a way. Problem being that our house is tiny and a lot of that shit is bulky stuff like spare fish tanks and the like. I foresee a few trips to the landfill in my immediate future.
Suthen’s home
That’s why we have HOAs.
That is cool but what I have always wanted is to build a bottle house as a guest house.
http://spacesarchives.org/explore/collection/environment/friel-dalton-doc-hopes-bottle-house/
Ooh, a Klein bottle house!
I don’t mind that because it’s not terribly done.
Time for another hero janitor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbie_E._Brown
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Robert “Bobbie” Evan Brown Jr. (September 2, 1903 – November 8, 1971) was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Crucifix Hill, near Aachen, Germany, on October 8, 1944. He left home and joined the army in 1918, lying about his age. At the start of World War II, he was the first sergeant of the Headquarters Company of the 2nd Armored Division. He received a battlefield commission to second lieutenant and was transferred to the 1st Infantry Division in 1943. Following the death of his company commander on D-Day he assumed command of his company, Company C. Brown left the army with the rank of captain in 1952.
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At the Army recruiter’s office in Columbus, he told the Sergeant he was eighteen. Because he filled out his first enlistment papers with his nickname “Bobbie,” that was how the Army knew him for the next three decades.
He qualified as an expert with every weapon in the Army’s arsenal, and took up boxing and American football. He scored 38 victories in the ring and made the all-Army team for football in 1927. Three universities offered him scholarships to play football for them before they learned he had only completed the seventh grade.
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He turned to his platoon Sergeant, “Get me a couple of flamethrowers, some pole and satchel charges.” Once armed with these, he had his riflemen lay down a base of fire, then started crawling alone toward the pillbox. A bomb had earlier blown a crater near the pillbox, which he jumped into, and dropped a satchel charge through an aperture by a door. The pillbox erupted, clouds of smoke billowing from its rifle ports.
He crawled his way back to his men to pick up more charges and went back uphill 35 yards (32 m) past the still-smoking bunker and toward pillbox 19 while under heavy machine-gun fire. Several mortar rounds fell nearby, slamming his body to the ground. Once in range, he dropped a pole charge through a 12-inch (300 mm) opening, blowing a hole in the pillbox, followed with a satchel charge. On his way back downhill for more charges, he noticed blood covering one knee. Then his Sergeant told him, “Sir, there’s bullet holes in your canteen.” He had no idea when he’d been hit.
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After the war ended, Brown spent the next two years in and out of hospitals, as Army doctors tried to repair the physical damage inflicted by 13 war wounds. He completed 34 years of service to his country in 1952.
Like so many men who had experienced intense combat, Brown was tormented by traumatic memories of his experiences during the war. Unable to find a good civilian job, he became a janitor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Haunted by unhappy memories of combat and in constant pain from war-related injuries, he committed suicide, by a self-inflicted gunshot to his chest, on November 8, 1971.[3] He was subsequently buried in section 46, site 1021-17 of Arlington National Cemetery.[4]
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A sad end to an extraordinary man.
Scruffy’s on a well-deserved break.
Man, too many end like that.
When we were at TBS, our tactics instructor started every single class with a reading from a Navy Cross or MoH citation. It was a helluva way to honor those who came before. It was also – (and I say this with genuine love) – a helluva way to indoctrinate young men and women. Maybe that’s too heavy a word because we were all there voluntarily, but it occurs to me that it depends upon one’s view. And maybe it can just be both for some important underlying reasons.
Anyway, there a TON of war heroes – well-documented historically, or that I’ve known personally – who come back and really struggle. And a number wind up ending their lives.
Apparently I missed your calamity. We’re still working through ours (failed toilet tank flooded around one-quarter of the house). Sorry to hear you’re going through some of the same sh*t we’re going through.
Five residences since we’ve been married, five sets of costly water problems. Plumbing sucks.
Oh Christ, that sucks. Was it the supply valve?
Either that or the tank to bowl seal. I change fill valves about as often as I change windshield wiper blades.
Holy shit! How hard is the water there?
Naturally? Or after it is treated?
It takes about a month and a half before my shower head is spraying crazy all over.
The water coming out of the wells here is some of the best in the country. After treating….well you should see the guys who do that, you would understand.
No. Crane toilet (“V” series) made between 1980 – 1991. Known to have the tank spontaneously crack (Crane was basically sued out of existence around the turn of the century because of thousands of such failures, which cost the North American insurance industry hundreds of millions of dollars). The supply line kept trying to fill the tank, of course — and ended up partially filling our basement instead.
In a house which, at the time, we’d been living in for four weeks.
We’re becoming seasoned, grizzled veterans in dealing with residential water problems.
Plumbing sucks because it is made of cheap, Mickey Mouse, chickenshit parts. I am having trouble with my sink. Look at the average residential kitchen sink. What am I supposed to do with that, wash thimbles? You cant do a decent job without splashing water everywhere and the cabinet tops and wall behind the sink re made of water soluble materials. What genius came up with that?
Yeah, plumbing sucks but it doesn’t have to.
I hate it. But, are you saying that PVC is inferior to the rustable metal we have before?
Pex is great. Valves should all be decent ball valves. Fucking wax rings are archaic tech and should never be used. Faucet valves should be easily cleaned and replaced, Water softeners should have built in water analysis.
And that’s only the beginning.
Soldering copper pipe. So many burns.
We still use copper for low point drains, and… well, that’s about it.
Pex is the schnizzle. I can’t imagine ever plumbing house with anything else again.
My Dad had a bachelor buddy that built his own house. He designed it so that there was a tiled floor drain in the kitchen and bathroom. Anytime he wanted it cleanish he’d just hose it down. We’re talking a one plate, one fork kinda bachelor.
My x-neighbor Mennonite built his house from the ground up, everything in the house, including a geothermal system. I have a lot of respect for people who can prove they know what they are doing.
When we were going to build I was going to put a drain in every room. No wood frame…brick only. No plumbing under a slab. All plumbing, ducts and wiring easily accessible. Copper roofing. Drains through removable plates in the slab leading to a crawlspace.
Minimal maintenance needed but when it is easy to do. No tearing things apart, cursing or throwing tools.
Suthen, I hear ya. My kingdom for a great big ol’ farmhouse sink. Wide and deep.
Yep. This is the second roof failure in successive houses. The last time I replaced it myself on my off time and on my own dime. Tore the roof off and then it rained for three weeks. Good times…
I’m seeing all sorts of this here in MD with my comrades who have bought homes between 300K and 2 million dollars. Seriously, WTF? Before I sold my house in IN, I got tired of the asphalt shingles blowing off and replaced it with a metal roof. Really, you just paid more than half a million dollars for a house with asphalt shingles, LOL, you fucking idiot.
We’re going to refinance and item #1 is a metal roof.
Yeah, I get it. We have our eye on several homes that the roof is going to be replaced, ASAP, asphalt shingles are garbage.
I put metal on mine last year. I did it myself and it only cost me about 5 grand. That’s the way to go.
Yes. ^this^
Five years ago, sure. I’ve got vertigo now and the only reason that I can still clear my roof is that I have firm footing in thigh-deep snow. Even step-ladders are an iffy proposition.
Metal is waaaay more expensive. A good quality asphalt works fine, if the dudes installing it know what the fuck they are doing.
It’s WAY more better.
Sure, but dude, I live in snow land and I can get 20+ years easily from asphalt. Last time I priced it out, it was 3-4 times asphalt. Just not worth it for a stay of less than 20 years.
As long as it’s not really windy, you’re probably OK. Also, WTF is it with people who think they need to live in a forest? Keep large trees far away from your house, duh.
Here, it’s hail. We usually have a storm every few years that gets the roofing guys all hot and bothered. In my last house we had one that required a re-roof. I offered to go halfsies with the insurance company for metal and they were not interested.
When I drove into Quebec and saw how metal roofs were dominating, even in poorer areas, I figured it must be a pretty good option for winter weather.
Unfortunately, my builder wouldn’t do one. I’ll do it in a few decades.
Never climb up there if it is even the tiniest bit wet.
I’ve been in Qubec City in the winter once, during a thaw. There are all those signs warning you about falling ice, but I’m not sure why — by the time you’ve heard the initial crack, there’s no time to do anything before it slams into the sidewalk. And that shit falls hard.
It’s the snow load and the wildly variable temps that get us here. It can go from -30 to +15C in a week. Ice dams form on even well-pitched shingled roofs and water backs up under the eaves. With a metal roof you just need to keep the edges clear and the rest slides off.
This week was thoroughly meh at work. I hope next week gets better.
In the mean time, I intend to thoroughly exercise my liver.
Cheers Glibs. ?
Party on, Garth!
Shwing!
Way!
*looks around for Cassandra*
Hey, Tundra: only slightly off topic, but I just got back from 1.5 hrs of pickup! There’s some decent players there, most older (40+) but some young guys who played juniors, a couple of guys who played pretty high-level college, and for a few weeks we had a guy from the ECHL. Damn, it was amazing to skate with that guy. Fortunately, he was kind because he could go around almost everyone at will, but holy shit, it was awesome to just watch him skate.
I used to scrimmage with a guy when I was in high school who made pro briefly. He could hit the crossbar from the opposite blueline. I can’t imagine getting in front of a booming blast like that and I played catcher all through my baseball years.
Excellent! I love those kind of games. There is a Tuesday noon skate at a rink near me that I like to hit. Like you described, mostly older but a nice range of age and talent. One game I ended up playing D with your normal middle-aged, not quite lean anymore guy (like me). He was fucking amazing. Always in the right spot, always responsible and an incredible passer. On one rush I pressed on the left side after sliding it across to him. I skated straight to the net, he threaded a pass through a bunch of guys and all I had to do was tap it in.
On the bench, I asked him where he played. Of course he told me his youth and high school teams. I pressed and finally got this:
“Well, I played Juniors up in Canada and had a cup of coffee with the Jets.”
No shit.
I finally got to play with the guy from the ECHL. He’s a big boy, too. Like 6’5 in skates, anyway, and not beanpole. BIG.
Anyway, I play with a Sherwood 5030 – yep, I’m a wood stick guy. After I score over the goalie’s shoulder, I get back to the bench and he’s having a laugh!
“Whoa! Look at real wooden stick guy!” I sit down next to him and smile and I say: “You know why I use wood sticks?” He spits and looks at me and nods.
“Because when I slash a guy, I want to be certain of what he’s gonna feel and I don’t trust all of you guys and your faggot carbon fiber s†icks not to shatter.”
He started laughing and thought that was pretty good. Good, good dude. Like you said, just get to the right spot and the guy can find you with a pass from anywhere on the ice. And his quick pass is harder than my hardest wrist shot. Not even close.
Greeting fellow Sherwood Brother!
!! Hail !!
? Right back atcha ?