“Ever since Uncle Max showed me that fun trick of cutting a hole in the pumpkin, this has been my favorite time of the year!”
Swiss often does these. But he’s pulling overtime at the cheese-drilling plant. SP often does these. But she is so bogged down with Mom, I couldn’t find it in me to make her sit in. So it’s up to me.
See, SP is the sort of organized person who has all of the week’s articles posted on a calendar. It’s easily accessible and usable through WordPress. Unless, that is, you’re something of a software tard. And by “you,” I mean “me.” So although there’s a bunch of great shit running this week, I only have a few vague recollections. I’m sure that Animal will destroy our feminist sides on Monday, and as for Ozymandias, If It’s Tuesday, It Must Be Anthrax. What with Halloween, expect an unusual (in all senses of the word) output from the love-child of Lovecraft and Bukowski, our own SugarFree. Tonio has a love letter to the Speech Police, there’s a Hyperbole crossword, CPRM will do his thing in the way only he can, and a Very Special (and sobering) contribution from dbleagle on Saturday. If I skipped something, it’s because I’m somewhat senile.
ADMIN NOTE: The old avatar plug-in is apparently not compatible with the latest WP updates, so SP has installed a new plug-in. Unfortunately, that means Glibs need to upload a new avatar image in their user profile dashboard. Sorry for the inconvenience. SP fixed the whole Gravatar deal.
Also, if you or someone you know has tried to register for the site in the last couple weeks or so, please submit another request as it may have gotten lost in all the updates to WP, themes, plug-ins, forms, etc.
Bills billed it up today against the Eagles. Should give the Patriots some more breathing room in the division.
Cleveland is being Cleveland.
You even upgraded your avatar. No puppies though
Aren’t they ever. ?
/sighs
The random OPI calls didn’t help. But sweet damned cheebus, the turnovers.
Hey, women like guns too.
Not all women are feminists, and not all feminists are women.
https://archive.li/OR4zy/4ac83194c5f4bc94a94f644ebe50b6572985482d.jpg
Nice holster!
https://archive.li/8fqUK/f70ccc603575950cc638dc132dd37421f768ffe0.jpg
Could be a problem on ejection. Oh my, hot brass is hot.
Do we ever!
There’s a reason Pam Poovey calls the mouth a cock “holster”
Do not tell them our secrets, or they will become complacent.
https://archive.li/GwMt0/4a122b54b28b7b6be62a0b212967131de47bd503.jpg
She wants me big time.
Hey, women like guns too.
Liberty Doll has a helpful 20 “facts” about guns and their owners. She likes guns.
4 Tonio, Rhywun and any Glibbroads.
https://archive.li/fXvou/5550d2cf8e9fde10b5180aa49cd6ca4b44966828
Truth. I was thinking what kind of carnage (to her credit cards) my gf would wrought in Not Adahn’s local gun&shoe store combo.
“cheese-drilling plant”
Anything I might have seen on PornHub?
It’s in the International section.
Is there anything on Pornhub you haven’t seen?
I try to stay away from anything with the word “prolapse” in the title.
That’s a good thing to avoid on Pornhub.
Maybe for you!
Prolapse … “Hi, Doc. It’s time for me to get spayed.”
TMI?
You decide.
When I went in for my first knee surgery, everybody including the janitor asked me what I was there for, for cya purposes. I got annoyed. I’ve got Sharpie drawings all over my right knee, FFS. So when the anesthesiologist came into the prep room, with the surgical team in attendance, I got the inevitable question. I looked him straight in the eye and said, “hysterectomy”. My surgeon snorted and muttered, “Jesus” under his breath. The anesthesia guy obviously didn’t have a sense of humor. He looked like I just farted, turned and stormed out of the room.
In retrospect, that was a risky move on my part.
That reminds me of one of my dad’s stories.
He went into the emergency room to get an abscess drained from a Crohn’s related fistula. He’s in shitloads of pain and a young doctor came into the room. After taking a look, the young doctors said “I’m not sure what we can do for you” to which my dad angrily replied, “I don’t know either, maybe we should call a doctor.”
Lol! How’s about you start with some morphine, dumbass?
After being a rare case at Rainbow Babies and Children, I’ve got a lot of disdain for doctors.
When Mom had her gall bladder removed, just before she and Dad left for the hospital I asked her if she was wearing clean underwear.
I LOLd.
“So you’re saying it was the patient’s fault for telling you he was in for a hysterectomy that you attempted to give him?”
“Yes, yes, it was his fault.”
“At no time did you or any staff thought perhaps he should not have had his uterus removed?”
“He SAID he needed a hysterectomy! I took him at his word!”
“I just assumed he identified as a male.”
I think that’s more of an amateur lapse.
My husband would’ve made that joke and I would have pretended it was funny.
Ooh,burn
My wife pretends I’m not funny. Sometimes, it’s a stretch. Sometimes.
And now: the only decent thing that Courtney Love has ever produced.
https://invidio.us/watch?v=IeALjs07CBA
I really though that was going to be a picture of Kurt Cobain with the shotgun next to his head.
Meh, Mono is a pretty good song.
Your avatar is a work of art.
Both of you weirdos are crushing it.
I was inspired by greatness.
Needs moar hyen….wait a minute, there it is.
10/10 would buy from again
Well, Imma stick with my “she’s never done anything decent” determination. I’ve always avoided digging too deep on her and this just proves that tactic correct.
Mmmm, warm pumpkin pie…
Oh damn. I should’ve made pies for the week. I totally forgot and now I’m ready to flop into a recliner for the evening.
Cue XX TD: “Mom, are you going to make pumpkin pies tonight?”
It’s time for the next generation to step up and make us some pies.
Teach her how to cook.
When my brothers and I did that, my Mom finally snapped and said “You yard apes are on your own from now on — get cookin’!”
In retrospect, it was probably the best thing she ever did for us.
Not a bad idea. She makes pumpkin bread and churritos whenever the hell she feels like it.
At least teach them to make ginger snap crusts.
“The worst thing I ever did — I fucked my own family’s dinner.” –Chronic Complainer Portnoy
“Well, we’ll just tell your mother we ate the pie.”
/Grand Rapids dad
Old joke.
After a harsh year with very little to eat, the thanks giving hunt yielded a small and meager turkey. The shot that took it wasn’t very good and the bird was riddled with shot. Food was so scarce, they cooked it anyway and just did their best. After dinner, Johnny came running up to Ma and dramatically explained that he was peeing and a BB popped out. She explained that this was OK, it was from the turkey. Then Suzy came running up to mom and she too told how she was going pee and a BB came out. She got the same explanation. Well, about an hour later, after all the kids had gone to bed, Jimmy came running down from up stairs all excitedly and started to tell his tale. Ma interrupted him and said ” I know, you were peeing and a BB came out.”
Jimmy said, ” No, I was jacking off and i think I shot the dog!”
ROFL!!!
Test.
My posts are being swallowed… I can only assume Glibs really loves me. Get it?
We love you long time, Q…
I call him…NSFW.
That’s a compliment BTW.
I see #3, 4, & 6… yer bit got spit out.
The latest update seems to have put steroids into the spam filter. I manually sprung them.
Thanx (((dood))).
Looks like they’re working now, so I assume you and Glibs got married.
Don’t forget the corn silk for the pumpkin. Oh wait, that’s watermelons.
On my iphone and my laptop running Firefox on Windows 10, I’ve not had any avatar issues.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but…
Your post is the only one so far in the thread that is sans avatar.
Huh. It just disappeared. It was there in the GlibFit article. I blame OMWC.
It’s because you touch yourself at night.
Bullshit. I touch myself in the morning.
I blame WP… maybe OMWC can spring the avatar from the hangry spam filter?
Nope. WP would work perfectly if OMWC wasn’t involved.
His problem is that he drew his avatar on his screen with a crayon and then got angry when it didn’t upload. Remember, you’re dealing with a guy who fell below the Firefigher IQ Line.
How does he remember how to breathe? BTW, have I told you how much I make for not working?
*SNAP
When you were “working,” you were testing the compression set of easy chair cushions.
I shelled enough pecans this afternoon to fill 2 one gallon ziploc bags.
My hands are sore as hell. I need to invest in a nut cracked.
The euphemisms are strong with this one.
I don’t know whether to feel sorry for Mrs. Lachowsky or tell her to drink some Gatorade to rehydrate or both.
She is taking a nap on the couch right now.
Take that for what you will…
Isn’t it normally the husband who sleeps on the couch?
Gf is already asleep on the couch. She will sleep there tonight cuz she’s getting up much earlier than me.
So thoughtful. ??
How in the wide world of sports do you shell pecans without one?
Place two in one hand.
Squeeze until the weaker one cracks.
Remove shell
Repeat.
This method means that the last pecan you crack will be the hardest one you have.
That’s straight up masochism.
That’s how my ex used to do it… I just wish she’d done it with pecans… and literally would probably have been less painful than figuratively.
Tonio has a love letter to the Speech Police
I’m intrigued.
My fictive muse has been stingy with his furry rump, so I’m reduced to channeling Christopher Hitchens in bitter, pithy little essays.
I’m writing up another fight review this week: Fury vs Wilder.
I read that as “Furry vs Wilder”.
Wild and furry is no way to go through life, son.
I just finished my football article for the queue. It’s been running Thursdays at 11 where it doesn’t much get in the way.
posted on the Glibfit thingy, how to increase upper body strength,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/fJBx9VhUNsJsWLFv6
I re’d to you there. Is that a 2m kite? I have one but it has a bar. I have never flown one with two handles.
2 line bar with Brakes, much cool, more play than a Bar I find..
That’s craggy hands and white hair, my friend.
Transparent Hair thank you very much!
I used to have hair.
You can see my hair from space.
I work with some real jokers.
Jokers https://imgur.com/gallery/hsLawvK
Do you have the power supply for my Superconductors ready? Glibs are waiting………..
That thing looks 25% more likely to leak.
@Shirley Knott from previous thread:
It was 2 nights for me, but I have never been transfused although I have needed to be. I suspect it’s because my blood vessels are too small. I can’t give blood because those needles are too big. They just start pumping me full of iron.
@hayeksplosives:
I am so sorry to hear about your faceplant. That’s awful. I did that in Bryant Park in NYC and embarrassed the hell out of myself. You need to take it easy on yourself.
Yeah,I think the worst damage was to my dignity!
I will live.
Yeah, it really should have only been 2 nights, but they messed up. Nothing permitted orally, so cold turkey on all my meds, roughly half of which are “don’t go cold turkey.” Iatrogenic atrial fibrillation, which has saddled me with a cardiologist ever since.
The transfusions were great, but as I said, more might have been better.
I’ve heard that transfusions make you feel absolutely great. I can’t imagine an ulcer requiring one though. They just made me eat milquetoast mush for a few months (back in the eighties, before Tagamet.)
Especially when they come from a fresh orphan.
I’ve never had a bleeding ulcer, but I’ve had patients who did. Nasty stuff.
Yeah, I had a non-bleeding ulcer for most of 2018 and that was bad enough. I had to cut out all liquor, most acidic and spicy foods, and take Omeprazole for a few months before I finally got over it.
What the ladies experienced sounds like hell on earth.
“I had to cut out all liquor”
*faints*
Still drank beer, though that didn’t help things. But I did cut back quite a bit, ate like a rabbit because somedays eating was barley worth it, and lost over forty pounds, which was twenty pounds too many. I’m still a touch too skinny.
I’ve got a spare fifty or so I can give you.
A bleeding ulcer will bleed you out pretty fast if you aren’t paying attention or if you aren’t quite sure it’s worth going to the hospital for.
I had all the signs. I knew what was going on. But I had things to do, you know?! So here I am, getting ready to take my mom to the hospital for the entire purpose of pushing her wheelchair. I’m washing my hair and get short of breath and have to rest my arms, which feel weak. I’m dizzy and almost fall down getting out of the shower. I’m having to stop and take deep breaths while I’m getting dressed. I call the doc for an appointment for later in the day. Nurse says, “Go to the ER. Now.” I tell her what I’m doing. She says, “Do not drive.”
They had an EKG waiting for me when I got to the ER. Short of breath, dizzy, 50, and female. i get it. No, not a heart attack. “Sorry, this is the first thing we do for people like you.”
I begged for a transufion, but no. Not the first time I’ve been denied one when I should’ve had one.
It was a bleeder, so I was losing blood through my digestive tract.
I’d had duodenal ulcers, non-bleeders, when I was a kid, and this presented about as different from that as possible. I was telling my Dr. it couldn’t be an ulcer, it didn’t feel like an ulcer. Wrong.
I didn’t make it to great with the transfusions, but >75%.
-10 Coffee grounds emesis and dark, tarry stools.
-10 bright red emesis
Eesh. That’s usually esophageal, not the stomach.
At the anastomosis of my RNY.
Late to the party, but I had duadenal ulcers from ~13-21 yrs old. Hurt like hell, was always told it was “gastroenteritis.” Senior year in HS, I’m at Pathmark with a few beers in me, buying rice and bread to throw at the midnight Rocky Horror movie showing. Collapse in the store, cops and EMTs show up, they along with the hospital staff proceed to ask me what kind of drugs I’m on for the next few hours. The weird thing is, I was tired and dizzy for a few days before, but didn’t feel any pain. I even drove that night!
Going up once more, this time with #1 G son at the controls, BRB….
Slutty Sunday rocks da house with smokin’ redheads.
http://archive.li/hZF1x
12 degrees and still snowing. This will warm you up.
Snow hasn’t started here yet. Global warming held it off until late tonight. So they say.
#3 reminds me of a big mistake I made in the 80s
#22 leads me to suspect that I never truly learned my lesson
Oh my.
28.
Well, old man Vinatieri redeemed himself with a long field goal for the win.
Pork chops cooking, wine poured, life is good.
Early bird special?
I don’t want to talk about it. Nice look with the hat. Getting back to your Okie roots?
Yeah, I guess living in a conservative district (oasis) has helped!
Also, wide brimmed hats are very practical in such a sunny zone.
The damnable shame is that a full brim doesn’t gee-haw with a backpack. If you’re going out for more than three days, the pack’s too full/big/tall.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/snl-trump-isis-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi
***
Pete Davidson, in the latest episode of “Saturday Night Live,” played a member of the Islamic State who mockingly thanked President Trump for “bringing jobs” back to the terrorist group — but during the broadcast, it emerged that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was dead as U.S.-led forces closed in on his compound in northwestern Syria.
The ‘SNL’ sketch featured Alec Baldwin reprising the role of President Trump, as he addressed a crowd of supporters during a rally in New Mexico.
…
“Where are you from? New Mexico?” Trump asked.
“ISIS! Yeah, I was a prisoner in Syria until last week when you freed me,” Davidson says, referencing hundreds of ISIS affiliates who escaped prison in Syria after Turkish forces invaded the Kurdish-held town earlier this month.
“I just wanted to say, thank you for bringing jobs back to ISIS,” Davidson’s terrorist said, “and I promise that I will make ISIS great again!”
“Terrific. What a great guy. ISIS is back in a big, big way, folks,” Trump said as Davidson walked off the stage, “and we love that, don’t we?”
Unbeknownst to Baldwin, Davidson, and the rest of the “SNL” cast, U.S. Special Operations forces had raided a compound in Syria’s Idlib Province, where al-Baghdadi was thought to be hiding.
***
[Nelson laugh]
They must be thrilled to return to “incisive” “comedy” after eight long years of polishing Obama’s knob.
‘Member Obama Girl? I ‘member.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsoXHYICqU
I used to wonder how North Korea could exist until I saw that video.
I’d never seen that before. But I can imagine that a majority of the left wouldn’t think that was over the top.
Jebus…..
Who can forget those two nitwits singing a cringe song to him after he left office?
And they say MAGA’s are a cult?
Or when they taight the kids . . .
mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack Hussein Obama
“They”
Also had a crush
It’s hard for me to remember a time when SNL was funny at this point.
Yeah. They first hit the air when I was on Okinawa so I had no chance to see it then. After getting back to the US and starting school I couldn’t put money towards a TV until about 1982. By then it was “What’s the big deal?”
Samurai delicatessen?
Land shark?
Matt Foley, motivational speaker
Greg is not an alien?
“Jane, you rotten slut.”
Mid 90s? Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, that class was the last I remember watching on purpose. I checked in about five years ago and was not impressed.
I watched several years back when Mick Jagger came one for something. He was pretty good at poking fun of himself, probably funnier than the “comedians”
OK, just ’cause, I’m gonna put my actual face up here (but it’s a really old pic)
Oh, and a big “Arigato!” to SP. I really didn’t want to use this pic in too many places. Particularly with work
All these gun avatars are triggering me.
I had to build my 1919 as a semi-auto due to WA state unconstitutional laws and the lack of desire on my part to fill out a bunch of forms.
I built mine on a registered NFA side plate. All original GI parts in 30-’06 about the time this photo was taken. That was before semi-auto parts were available so the parts kits and accoutrements were dirt cheap. Even back then the side plate cost more than the rest of the build. I still have 3,000 rounds on links bought about the same time when those were cheap.
I picked up three Israeli .308 kits before the prices went up. I got some of the “80%” side plates before they were reclassified as receivers and a bunch of the South African .308 before it disappeared. I paid for all of it by making and selling a riveting fixture I designed for the receiver box.
I was lucky to find a guy who had built them in the Army back in the 60’s who (at the time I met him) owned his own machine shop. So I spent a couple days with him putting it together in his shop. I enjoyed every minute of it and it was the only way he could legally do the job.
https://twitter.com/mooncult/status/1188555845916745728
But does Kristin Fisher’s hair smell like?
Semen?
Jizz?
Joe would know, ask him.
He’s on 60 minutes right now. I just changed the channel to reruns of Supermarket Sweep from the early 90’s, I figure it’s more informative.
Test
copy
STD?
I failed one of those once.
Thanks SP
I was never much good at multiple choice.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EH5te1xXUAEihq7.jpg
OFFS!
Strict vegetarian, and dog lover, dies at 56?
The tongue-bathing is truly sickening.
I remember all the “Chocolate Jesus Killed Satan With His Bare Hands” articles after Bin Laden died.
“Strict vegetarian, and dog lover, dies at 56”
Don’t forget how he brought so many different people together under one cause! And even provided lifetime employment for those he said were not worthy.
“The death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State leader, happened largely in spite of President Trump’s actions, not because of them, according to military, intelligence and counterterrorism officials”
https://twitter.com/nytpolitics/status/1188513574458662913
OFFS
Meh, people said the same thing when we got bin Laden, too much credit/too much blame
Obama knew the location of bin Laden for months before he pulled the trigger on the operation. I wonder how long Trump waited.
Say it had failed, and American personnel had died. What would the reporting be then?
ORANGE MAN BAD
Democracy Dies in Darkness takes on a new meaning when you understand that it is an aspiration not a warning.
Does your vote count?
The eastern German state of Thuringia held an election for the state legislature today; it’s more or less proportional representation with a 5% threshold for getting seats in the legislature. The classical liberal (or as close to classical liberal as you’re going to get) FDP crossed the threshold… by 5 votes out of 1.1 million (the “Landesstimme” column being the important one here).
Can you say statewide vote recount to see if they really did get the five percent?
I shudder to think what the platform of »Die Linke« is.
It’s the former East German Communists plus people who left the Social Democrats for not being left enough.
Oh, and I was reading this commentary, and saw the disclaimer about reader comments:
For those who don’t speak German, they say they’re legally responsible for what the readers say in comments so you can only comment during extended business hours.
God forbid anybody ever gets the idea to do that to US sites.
Good grief. Why bother at all?
That’s where everybody is heading anyway.
From the last post. 506sports.com each Wed publishes the NFL broadcast map, which has resolution to county level. Know where you need to live to watch the one game you care about.
Avatar worked! Mahalo SP.
Thanks dbleagle. Will bookmark.
Why is that still a thing in the age of streaming?
“People are smoking cigarettes again amid vaping-related panic”
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1187831508071043072
https://nypost.com/2019/10/25/people-are-smoking-cigarettes-again-amid-vaping-related-panic/
42 deaths a day from smoking related lung cancer . . . .29 deaths ever from vaping . . .even if their own stats aren’t bullshit (which they are), they should still be pushing vaping.
Took a crack at home-made chile rellenos tonight. I obviously have to work on the egg-batter as I didn’t get a nice even coating, so they didn’t look that great but they did taste pretty good.
Sounds wonderful. I really miss those.
I wish I could give some tips on getting the batter to stick – I don’t get fresh chilis here so I haven’t made them in many moons.
Ozona is a bar/restaurant/patio near SMU that has the second-best relleno I ever had. I didn’t think I’d like it, but they spread a bit of diced shrimp in the stuffings.
My friend’s mom from elementary school made the best ones I’ve ever had. I’ve had decent one’s since, but nothing like those. Chasing the dragon, man.
A buddy of mine lived in Mexico for a few years and swears that he’s never had a chile relleno in the states that comes anywhere close. Too much batter, fried in oil that isn’t hot enough, typically.
Meanwhile, that reminds me of this, which might be my favorite Mexican thing. There’s a place in town that does these and it’s one of the few things I’ll miss about living in Annapolis when we move.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7618615/Demi-Rose-turns-heat-busty-mirrored-bodysuit-enjoys-Halloween-night-out.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7619455/Tallulah-Willis-pays-homage-father-Bruce-Willis-Halloween-revealing-Fifth-Element-costume.html
daddy issues?
Yeah, that’s not weird at all. ?
Ok, that is a bit creepy. And someone buy that girl a cheeseburger.
That’s one bored girl.
That outfit wouldn’t look good on anybody.
I can think of at least one person.
https://www.millaj.com/pics/maxim09045a.jpg
“Anybody” includes Milla too.
Now, that’s just the sugar talking.
Well, yeah, but it’s a costume not an outfit. From a kooky sci-fi adventure movie.
Yo, chicky…eat some onion rings and a sandwich.
Since when are those “toned” legs? Bless her heart, I hope she’s at a restaurant in those pictures.
That’s the Daily Mail’s thing. They show unflattering pictures, and then point out the biggest flaw, but with the opposite description.
Ah, how British. I’ll read with a new appreciation.
“It is with a broken heart that today I announce my resignation from Congress. This is the hardest thing I have ever had to do, but I believe it is the best thing for my constituents, my community, and our country.
See my official statement below.”
https://twitter.com/RepKatieHill/status/1188591520531779584
Yeah, sure.
That should give her more free time to get freaky.
The best thing she could’ve done would have been to pick hotter staffers and take more pictures.
I like your style.
^^^^
damn it, you beat me!
Based on the picture of one of the girls involved in the throuple…. I would 100% watch that sex tape. /shrug
#metoo
Am I doing this right?
Do not click. Twitter is a sewer.
/clicks anyway.
Do not read the comments. Twitter is a sewer.
/starts reading comments
And yet, male congressmen do this kind of thing all the time and it doesn’t even get reported on, so you know, whatever.
/taps out, feels stupid for not listening to himself
Lemme guess, this about sums up 1/3 of the comments:
“Really, she’s the victim, here. This is just another example of the patriarchal double-standard where powerful men are allowed to use women’s bodies but a woman’s personal choices are used against her.”
It is hard giving up all that power and those perks.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7620097/Congresswoman-Katie-Hill-resign-amid-allegations-inappropriate-relationships-staffers.html
I’m not really quite clear on what she did, but why didn’t she just say, “Fuck you” and get on with her job?
She was having an affair with a subordinate. That’s in no-no in my book.
Bill Clinton kept his job …
Bill Clinton had enough juice to bang a corpse in the Rose Garden during a press conference.
Completely OT, but damn your new avatar looks strangely close to me. Grow the beard out, and let it gain some gray and I could use it as a pic of me.
Long lost brother/
That pic’s about two years old. I’m probably gonna replace it with a more recent one in a few minutes.
So, a friend of mine looks so much like me that we used to go as each other for Halloween and people wouldn’t realize it until they got close. Google Photos routinely shows pictures of him and suggests them as me, and vice versa.
Considering I’ve only got a sister, not likely.
If Bill’s last name has 3 consonants in a row it’s a possibility. It would also mean that I probably know him.
Two, and it’s very much like the name of a business school in Pennsylvania. No brothers, but all my cousins look alike. It’s hard to describe quite what it is specifically, but when people see two of us they’re like, “Oh, yeah, obviously they’re related.”
Naptown Bill:
Near Washington? I’ve got family out that way in PA, who would prefer I wasn’t related to them (most likely).
Yeah, the Maryland contingent started off in Bowie in the 60s. There are a couple aunts in the DC area: Annapolis, Columbia, and Montgomery Village. Nobody in PA, though, at least not in the immediate family that I know about. My grandfather wasn’t on speaking terms with his brother and sister for years, so even though there are distant and semi-distant cousins I’ve never met them.
NB: Feel free to hit me up at my handle at Gmail. I’m much more likely to share my past there then in public.
She was told to resign. There’s clearly stuff the Dem machine wants to keep from getting exposed, or they already know the investigation is going to be harsh and they want distance. Either way, she was told to do it.
“You should probably resign.”
“Fuck you, make me.”
“Hello, Mrs. Clint—”
“I’m gone.”
I wonder if she were to die unexpectedly (say to an illness), if the truth would come out to substantiate the suspicions of Clinton Inc.
Or if it’s just a big dud. Like Capone’s vault.
I don’t think it’s a dud but can it possibly be such that we have to write a horror movie?
THE CLINTONING.
Oh, I have no doubt that she could have just blown it off.
This tells me her position was weak – her district is 50/50, after all.
60 minutes is starting.
*shuts tv off and stares blankly at wall
Rep Katie Hill resigns, hot off the press:
Rep. Katie Hill
It is with a broken heart that today I announce my resignation from Congress. This is the hardest thing I have ever had to do, but I believe it is the best thing for my constituents, my community, and our country.
See my official statement below.
https://twitter.com/RepKatieHill/status/1188591520531779584
Missed it by *that* much.
Ugh… this is why I don’t even bother
/skulks away
Happens to everyone.
?
There ya go. ?
“Imma let you finish but In 2009, if I asked you which of these ppl would go on to release an album about The Gospel and which would go on to advocate for late-term abortion, you would’ve guessed wrong.”
https://twitter.com/MattsIdeaShop/status/1188175010873012226
I sure hope Julie Ann has a newsletter…
Here you go!
No endorsement of the views expressed implied – fun read, though. The Taylor stuff starts about 1/3rd down.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/WaPoDeathNotices?src=hash
LOLOLOL
That was fun.
@realPowerTie
Thanos, austere galactic titan and stone collector, dies at 1,543
#WaPoDeathNotices
lulz
https://www.latlmes.com/breaking/former-senator-ron-paul-announces-he-is-ready-to-enter-2020-presidential-race-1
Ron Paul was a senator?
You suck
No, you suck.
Knew it.
Takes me back!
That was an interesting read, for sure. Unexpected, really.
Parody site.
Well, shit. May as well tell everybody that Bruce Willis is a ghost and the chick in Crying Game is a dude.
“I see hung people.”
GET OUT OF MY SHOWER!!!
“U.S. Forces Kill Another Top ISIS Official
The United States military and Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have reportedly killed an ISIS spokesperson.
The Joint Special Operations Command raid took place shortly after the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed, Newsweek reported.
“Following the previous ops, a senior assistant for al- Baghdadi is called Abu Hesen al Mouhjir was targeted in a village named Ein al Baat near Jaraboul city, the mission was conducted via direct coordination of SDF Intel & US military apart the ongoing ops to hunt ISIS leaders,” said SDF Gen. Mazloum Kobani Abdi on Twitter.”
https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/27/another-top-isis-official-dead/
I hope someone at NYT is ready to tell us that this too happened largely in spite of President Trump’s actions.
If they do then it will come with the caveat Trump said ISIS was 100% defeated before this happened.
I’m just waiting for the “Actually Obama, not Trump, defeated ISIS” hot take.
Ok, I’m gonna say the most popular hot take will be that ISIS was already destroyed so this is just Trump running up the score to take attention away from impeachment. Second-most popular will be that they could’ve done this earlier but Trump ordered them to hold off so he could use this as a distraction or to score political points. Third-most will be that Trump didn’t even know it was going on and has nothing to do with it.
Somewhere at the very bottom of the list, four pundits will say something like, “Well, I wasn’t in favor of leaving, but now that ISIS is neutralized we should go.”
My take is that SOCOM knew they were burning a line of HumInt contact – they were using intel that would lead ISIS to know where the intel came from – so they are taking out as many targets as possible which were identified by that line before the intel goes cold. It could be that they recently captured a guy who knew where both (or more) of these guys were so they had to move fast before ISIS realized the guy was captured.
Makes you wonder if they had just refused to use that human intel earlier because a) in case it wasn’t 100% sure to work b) it was providing more valuable intel keeping the guy alive c) they liked having Baghdadi alive in order to justify US presence in Syria/Iraq. Probably a few more possibilities, but those are three off the top of my head.
HumInt has a short shelf life so unless you have turned an insider (and have any reason to believe he will stay alive much longer) you either act on the intel or pass on it – for any number of reasons including those you mention. The fact that they are acting and seemingly chose to take the higher level guy first tends to look like this was a one-time shot – solid intel from a single point which would be useless very soon.
Having zippo in terms of military experience means I’m only guessing in the dark. What I see is a shitton of treasure and resources being used up in the never ending Syria/Iraq debacle and so I’m assuming the US is using all these methods of surveillance (satellites, drones, bought informants etc) and must have had opportunities to take out Baghdadi before.
It wouldn’t surprise me if they had good intel on his location for some time now but didn’t move for any number of reasons. Why now? One possibility is that they stumbled across some solid intel which they knew ISIS was aware they had found and so SOCOM figured they had better take him out before he runs off and they lose his trail. Things might be getting too dynamic to be able to reliably track his movements.
Chopping heads off a hydra doesn’t work.
Yeah, #2 is up. I’m sure he’s thrilled.
Depends on how savage you wanna get. Worked (obviously temporarily) throughout history in one form or another. If you wanna be an empire, be a fucking empire or GTFO. I prefer GTFO.
The U.S. has the curious distinction of being the only empire in world history that has convinced its citizens that it is not an empire.
Is FedGov also unique in failing to profit from the affair?
The folks that work for the fedgov profit handsomely, just as it has been for every empire throughout history. Empire is good for the imperialists, not necessarily their domestic subjects.
The richest counties in the united states are all around Washington DC.
Eh, it’s more of a hegemony than an empire.
So can we GTFO now?
Never
“issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, “gotta hand it to them””
https://twitter.com/dril/status/831805955402776576
Unless you catch them stealing something….
So many new avatars…?
*Stimming abounds*
Oh, very well done with that version of #4!
So I should change?
Never!
Tiger Woods wins his 82nd tournament, tying Sam Snead.
People still care about Eldrick the Slut?
Yep. Contrition, redemption, and a return to glory is a superb story.
Wonderful story. Let’s view this through the proper perspective.
Nice Aaron to Aaron throw.
I’m looking forward to the Halloween content.
I’ll be ending my week seeing UFO and Blue Oyster Cult before one or more members no longer fear the reaper.
Threading error on my part.
BOC is never a threading error. Enjoy the show.
+ more cowbell!
I saw them live something like 25 years ago. Good show.
Awesome!
Right on. I saw Black and Blue in 1981 at Ventura county fairgrounds. There’s a long and kinda funny story attached. I scammed up money for the tickets and I promised my brother that I’d buy him a ticket. My stepdad stole all of my money and I threw a fit. Finally he agreed to come up with enough to buy two tickets. I had like two hundred and now, I had like 60.00 of it back.
So, I am hitchiking to the Ticketmasters at the head shop, when I encounter The Single only blonde chick from elementary school. She was the hottest chick on the planet and everyone wanted to get with her. Two years later and here we are. She asked where I was going and I told her. Then she starts telling me how bad she wants to go and how she has noone to take her and man, she really wants to go…etc. I was sorely tempted to take her and blow off my brother, but I just couldn’t do it. I had given my word and besides, my brother was going to supply the dope.
So, I get the tickets and the day comes. My brother shows up and all he could scrounge up was 10 bucks for booze and about 4 crosstops. We each took 2 crosstops and then hitched up to Ventura. My brother went into the liquor store and I waited outside. They all would sell to us, despite us being underaged. So, he comes out with a quart of fucking milk! I was pissed. He says his stomach was messed up so he got some vodka and mixed it with the milk. That’s why he was broke, he drank up all his money the night before. Whatever, we drank up the milky vodka.
We got there early and there was a crowd partying at the gate. We smoked and drank for about two hours when the crowd got kinda crazy and started to rush the gates. It was a mini riot. All at once, the gate opened and we all spilled in. I got hit up for my ticked and let them punch it. I lost my brother and just watched the show and then hitched home. It was a fucking awesome show.
Next morning, we get a collect call from my brother. Yup, he got arrested. We drove up to Ventura and got him out of jail. In his plastic bag of personal property was the unused ticket. He never made it in. THEN, the radio says:
“Last night’s concert was a huge success. With just ONE arrest out of 8 thousand concertgoers. I was pissed on multiple levels. Never saw the only blonde in Port Hueneme again.
Sorry for the wall. Enjoy the show.
c
That one’s got to still sting a little.
Why were riots so common at their shows. They over sold BOC tickets at the local venue in 1980 and it caused a riot as well. 48 people arrested, fire hoses turned on the crowd, not surprisingly they had a ton of drunken disorderly arrests.
Sounds like you had a hard fought victory in the end just to make it to the show.
The internet lied (either last time, or this time) it was 7/80. I knew that and was surprised that they claimed B/B was in ’81.
People were way more rowdy back then. A concert meant lots of booze and drugs and serious craziness. I miss all that. Now they all stand perfectly still with their phones trying to get good videos. Lame.
The last concert I went to was Rush, Snakes and Arrows. Mr. Mojeaux and I were there with every other fat, middle-aged couple in town, dragging their teenagers along against their will. Very chill concert. Any serious shenanigans would have been punished by sprained backs.
I saw that tour at the Hollywood bowl. Didja get a load of the chickens? Got to take my wife’s brother and he’s as low rent as they come. He was so stoked, he still talks incessantly about it everytime I see him. It was cool.
Yes! I sooooo remember the chickens! That was the oddest thing I’ve ever seen at a concert.
I agree. Except for the occasional punk show the typical concert is pretty mild.
The age of fueling up in the parking lot for 4 hours before the show and rushing to the doors to get to the front of the stage seem to be over for the under 30 crowd.
I’ve become the old dude hanging back from the pit, but not the geezer who sticks to the edges of the venue.
Hi everybody. How’s Trix?
Trix are for kids.
Damn you nimble, treasonous fingers!
Ladies first. ; )
/confirms GT is a rabbit
No – just rabid.
/tries to avoid bites now
Just a nibble?
And kicks are for Trids.
And Kix are for kickin’ ass!
Well done sir ?
It was indeed! from the sidebar.
I wouldn’t know. They’re for kids.
She’s still dancing
^the only guy here old enough to get the reference. Other than me. Sad face emoji.
I’ve now read the article. My avatar is still fine.
I’m looking forward to the Halloween content.
I’ll be ending my week seeing UFO and Blue Oyster Cult before one or more members no longer fear the reaper.
Damn, that will be fun.
I can see how it could be bad. The venue is a wood lodge like amphitheater on top of a mountain in fall.
I’m real excited.
Sounds great. This is UFO’s final tour. I don’t know about BOC.
If anyone is interested in a great movie on a do it yourself icon I recommend the Rudy Ray More movie staring Eddy Murphy. Very interesting story that’s full of stars, is well acted, and close to the real man.
https://amp.wbur.org/artery/2019/10/24/dolemite-is-my-name-review
Keep hope alive, Mo!
I am now!!!!
(Just got home from a treats run to HyVee so I missed the first touchdown.)
Kelce finally got a TD!
/frustrated FF manager
So, I’ve caught up on shows and because we have one kid already and my wife’s very pregnant a typical Saturday night for me involves watching TV by myself until the wee hours I found myself buzzed and looking for something to watch. I made the mistake of choosing the new Watchmen series on HBO. I made it about thirty minutes in. As near as I can tell, the premise is that white supremacists now all have Rohrshach masks and hate “race traitors” and the police, who all wear masks, by the way, and the fact that the police are a.) secret, and b.) above the law is a good thing because racists. At one point the police have a meeting and the callback to “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” is, unironically it seems, “Ipsos custodes” or something to that effect. The guy behind the series is quoted as saying that he tried to imagine what the equivalent of the Russian nuclear threat in the 80s would be today and it’s, no shit, race and police, but specifically the fact that the police can’t arrest enough white supremacists to get rid of white supremacy as an idea.
Also, if you think this is missing the point of the original Watchmen, or if it just seems stupid or annoying or overly “woke” to you, this means…and I hope you’re sitting down…you’re a racist.
I loved the Watchmen, so I was thinking of watching it, but not if they turned it into woke Charmed.
I’ll put it like this. If you DuckDuckGo “Wokemen”, you see a lot of articles from people like The Daily Beast saying that people who don’t like it are pissed off incel fanboys and racists. And I mean like vehemently, like absolutely enraged that there are people who don’t like it. Polygon thinks it’s the best thing ever, if that gives you an idea. Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic have critics slavering over it and users shitting on it.
Watchmen was pretty nihilist on its own, I guess they had to update it to today’s flavor of leftism?
It kind of reminds me of those Hillary Clinton memes that were about her talking about some situation with an obvious moral message and turning it into something completely opposite. The comics had an obvious political bent but it’s almost as if the producers of the show looked at the comics and concluded that the takeaway was that the world needed more masked superheroes who were totally unaccountable to anyone.
Same here. We tried last week – not fair in and “nope, never again.”
All race, all the time.
Well everybody knows the greatest trick the Bull Connor ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.
That sounds horrible. I’m not going to check it out.
That’s very disappointing but unsurprising. The graphic novel was a complete work in itself. It’s a shame the creators are using its name for their dreck.
Has Alan Moore commented on the series?
He didn’t want his name associated with it. It’s tough to read anything into that, though, because he said the same thing with the movie, apparently.
Agreed. I don’t know why he didn’t like the movie. I thought it was a good adaptation and true to the story. I realize some subplots were left out but it would have been a 9 hour movie if it had everything in the graphic novel.
Finished reading “Hillbilly Elegy”
I rate 3.5/5. Started slow, then was good in the mid – end, the very last 1-2 chapters were bizarre, felt like those were written in order to appease the publisher & NYT audience.
I love You People®, so here you go:
Nice avatar. It’s cool that you and Pope Jimbo hang out so much.
Quite striking, isn’t he?
I love yours, btw.
Get a freakin’ room!
Don’t be catty, Jarflax!
Well, you did just post a Duran Duran link, amirite?
You shouldn’t be allowed to change avatars, it screws everyone up.
What’s up with the koala bear in the corner? They don’t live in Africa.
Glad you finally took the cone of shame off your dog. It’s about time, animal abuser.
I had to teach to quit licking his balls…out of jealousy.
*teach him
He’d probably let you lick his balls. No reason to be jealous.
Sugarfree never said that Donald drew an accurate hyena..but yeah my hyena needs work, I’ll fix it tomorrow. jeesh!
This weekend will be forever known as the Great Avatar Refresh of 2019
I have to sign up for Youtube in order to watch a Duran Duran video?! GTFO.
Does this work?
Ooo, I like Rio.
And I am aware that I can bypass the earlier link with nsfwyoutube but enh.
Have you really made it this far without any google account? That’s impressive!
As much as I despise google, Youtube is still like 70% of my entertainment consumption.
No, I de-Googled a few months ago.
I’m getting ready to do that myself. The phone’s gonna be tough. I’m getting the download link to the archive of all the crap I’ve stored in Drive over the years, which should be interesting. Some of the photos are like straight from the wayback machine. The short version, “Goddamn I was young ten years ago.”
Well that was weird, but there were boobs so not a complete waste.
For you.
I was debt free for two months, then the transmission goes out. I was hoping my car would last another year or so but, the transmission has has been slipping for years and I have driven thousands of miles on hilly roads. I’m lucky the car lasted this long. After my small break from paying off my student loans, now I start again with a car loan.
Vacuum problem?
Yeah if it’s been slipping for years but still works… be worth checking.
That sucks, sorry to hear.
Still got 20k miles left on my warranty, trying not to do too much unnecessary driving so I can get that to last as long as possible.
Wrong. Try to blow up the engine and tranny before the warranty runs out so you start with new parts (which should have their own warranty)
This us how you do it.
I’m waiting for my powertrain warranty to end so I can chip it and gain 20% more HP.
How much for a new trans? It beats a car note.
Oh that’s rough.
My granny car’s transmission is stuck in 3rd gear. Driveable but I’d rather not. Now, this car is 23 years old and has a whopping 165,000 miles on it (piker). As soon as we get another, better car, we’re selling her for parts. I think her junk value is $140.
I just dropped almost $600 on my truck (361,000), but I must keep that truck. Besides the fact that we need it, I ❤️ it.
My Sonata with 160,000 needs a timing chain change (normal maintenance, I know). I’m hoping to get another 160,000 miles out of it.
Tulip! Whycome you got peonies steada tulips?!
I am enjoying everyone’s new avatars, but it will take me a while to get used to them all.
Is yours only through Halloween? I’ll probably change after that.
(Chick phone call: “What are you gonna wear?” “I don’t know. What are you gonna wear?”)
Yeah, I change to this for Halloween every year across all of social media. I’ll go back to Mojo Jojo November 1. Or I could put up my corset pic. I dunno.
Corset.
Did someone say “corset pic”? 8^>
What’s a good pic sharing platform?
Imgur annoys m by needing Internet WiFi
It just seems to me that a lot of people don’t stick to their (avatar) principles.
That’s why my porn name is “The Load-Star”.
I dropped my exursion into Gifs, and went back to the good and true.
I won’t tell you where my mind went, but I said “ouch” out loud.
My avatars have an anime “sensei” theme, but unless I wanted to start using female characters this is going to get increasingly difficult.
Madara
I posted about this last night, but I’m still ruminating over what my daughter told me, which is that there are furries at her high school. I asked her if this was a sexual pronouncement or if was cosplay/LARP. She wasn’t sure and she didn’t care. Here’s the part that really gets me:
What she cares about is that they don’t bathe. The “wolves” do not feel the need to bathe because wolves don’t and they “are” wolves.
I am so weirded out by what I’ve learned to tolerate and just SMDH over instead of popping a forehead vein.
Meh, I had friends in high school who believed that if they drank enough blood they’d sort of become vampires kind of. The biggest vampire of them all is married and living in I think NYC working as an editor for a magazine. Wears fitted gingham shirts tucked in.
Yeah, but does he bathe?
Oh, dude, this was old-school goth. There’s nothing dark or mysterious about smelling like armpits and farts. Camel Filters and patchouli, sure, but not b.o. Now I’d imagine he smells like high-end dryer sheets, possibly with a hint of cedar.
Patchouli … that is a special kind of stank.
For years I couldn’t unlink the smells of patchouli and marijuana. If I smelled one I thought of both.
Clove cigarets or GTFO.
The deadheads call it “shower in a vial.”
Apropos.
Tee hee… Many moons ago, I worked at a horror themed late-night bar in the French Quarter. We had a large contingent of those blood-sharing vampires who packed the place a couple times per week. They were great, if creepy, customers, and were always happy to ham it up for the tourists. They were led by an older fellow; a Thalidomide survivor with severely truncated arms. He was quite wealthy and seemed to enjoy supporting his coterie of Children of the Night. He wore the most decadent Edwardian foppery and it was very well made, not costume stuff.
It’s so funny thinking back. I was about halfway into the goth scene at the time–this would be the mid 90s–and it was like you could take Bauhaus, Anne Rice, and The Hunger, smoosh them together, and that was the bit. All black, but like nice, classy, antique, tailored…I wore black t-shirts but I got away with it because I listened to industrial and skated. Once Hot Topic started happening it was like, “Well, there goes the neighborhood.”
I like the elegant gothic aristocrat look. Like, a lot. I don’t have the body for it, but even if I had, I went to a Southern Baptist private school (before that was a thing anyway), so none of that was part of my awareness.
It was very dramatic, which was a perfect fit for high school. Later, replicating that at nightclubs in DC, it started to get a little threadbare when people started putting on weight, or showing up in like worn-out Honda Civics, that sort of thing. I knew people who were carrying on into their fifties, but I don’t know at this point in my life how you get there unless that is The Thing You Do. Like I don’t know how you have a regular job and a family and also are a mysterious Dark Prince of the Shadows.
Most of my old goth/industrial circle have morphed into different “looks”. “Rockabilly” and “burlesque” are common.
Some of them are dear friends but man, I just roll my eyes. I gave up trying to have a “look” in the early 90s because I looked ridiculous.
My thing is, I want to get into the hippie flower child look. Grow my hair a little longer, let it go a little whiter, drift around in floaty dresses and skirts like I don’t have a care in the world.
Heh my aesthetic is all about “don’t have a care in the world”.
When I was a kid, I wore scruffy jeans, tee shirts, vans and Pendeltons (which was generic for flannels). Now, I’m 53 and I wear the exact same thing. I’ve never stopped. It is fashionable sometimes, and not others, I don’t care.
some kids are stupid
some adults are stupid
walking around other people’s issues is a valuable life skill
I’m assuming your daughter is still bathing?
She re-labeled her perfume bottle “Thot Repellent.”
Those people need Jesus.
And to be stripped and hosed off outside.
Not necessarily in that order.
I’m pretty sure that Jesus didn’t bathe that often either.
You know, living in a desert and all.
I don’t think Jesus thought he was a wolf.
You need to read the Bible more often:
That is a beautiful picture, and you never fail to impress.
On the Internet, no one knows you’re a wolf.
’Grats. I LOLd, made Mr. Mojeaux pause the football game and read the thread.
“You’ve got weird friends.”
He needs to get some religion.
Disappointed this wasn’t the y’all need Jesus picture. Slipping.
I would say they need a parent to slap them upside the head.
This is just stupid AF.
If they had parents involved in their lives, they wouldn’t feel the need to call attention to themselves in this way.
The weird thing, unlike normal cosplay or goth/emo/EGA or even “I want to drink your blood,” this has a sexual component that the other teenage silliness doesn’t.
What I resent about the “marginalized orientations” is not that they have such feelings and practices. It’s that they announce it to everyone. All the time. Very loudly. And then scream that people won’t keep their minds off their genitalia.
Don’t shove your genitalia in my face and you won’t cross my mind at all, ever.
But that’s the problem, isn’t it? Attention whores.
My mom was pretty hands-off but thank goodness I was naturally the opposite of “call attention to myself” anyway.
There is a difference between a hands-off approach and this. If your child isn’t bathing and you allow them to live so hygienically, that would meet the legal definition of neglect in many jurisdictions.
Yeah, my dad rolled his eyes at my dyed hair and shit like that, but not bathing because “I’m a wolf and wolves don’t bathe” would have resulted in a serious heart-to-heart about how much I needed to quit fucking around, resulting in what today would be termed enhanced interrogation if need be.
Fair enough. Yeah, my mom wasn’t THAT hands-off.
Not bathing violates the NAP.
But in many cases, so does perfume.
Yeah, I could tell you about the employee forum, but then I’d have to re-live it.
I think, “what the hell is wrong with you?” would suffice in my family.
That’s weird. Gosh dang that’s weird. When i was in High School the kids who didn’t shower would be counseled.
Counseled?
Christ, in my HS, they would’ve been shunned.
There was one dude at my high school who had hygiene issues, but he’d failed so often that he was 21 in his senior year and he could deadlift a horse, so nobody really said shit about the pit stains or general miasma.
We had a couple of those in my HS. I was friends with both of them, more or less reluctantly. One was a pretty cool guy whose mom was a hoarder – I felt bad for him. The other one was a grind with a nasty father and I could barely tolerate him.
This dude was a mess. I don’t know if he had some sort of a mental issue or not. I think he just might not have been that bright, frankly. He wasn’t a bad guy, per se, but he was quick to bully people. I think for him it was just a function of him having one thing going for him and playing to it, and I say that because he didn’t do it maliciously, if that makes sense. You just sort of said, “Yes, Lonzie, you’re a big tough guy,” and everything was fine.
Have bullies been wiped out in this age of woke? Can’t imagine them not being mercilessly mocked/beaten up for their lack of hygiene.
No, but the label “bully” has been weaponized.
Exactly what
Tulpaa bully would say.^This. “Bully” now means “accused of instigating conflict”.
And the SJWs are the bullies.
My senior student body VP murdered someone.
Furries are NBD.
While in school, or later?
In school.
Was he re-elected?
It was close to graduation, which he missed because of his trial.
I don’t actually know what ultimately happened to him.
on Fifth Avenue ?
Wait… Did he murder someone in highschool or did he murder someone after you guys had graduated?
Wait a minute… how do we know the senior student body VP wasn’t you?
Wolves are also shot when their numbers get too large.
I’m not sure if it has been covered yet but, Cody Wilson ,now a registered sex offender, is back at Defence Distributed.
“She remembers the gun you put in her hands and the feeling of your skin.”
Phrasing?
Interesting.
36th horse dies at famed Santa Anita park as it prepares to host Breeders’ Cup
On the one hand, horses die where they live, and there could be a lot of horses living there. On the other hand, 36 dead horses since December seems like a lot.
Preceded in death by So Long, Sucker!
Imminently Glue.
Would Break A Leg be the worst horse name ever?
Not if it’s doing a high dive twice nightly on a Carnival cruise.
Nope. It’s very normal for racing horses to die. They’re like hot rod cars, they breakdown a lot. Many of the “deaths” are more like “broke a leg so we shot him” secnarios.
Relevant Far Side
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4d/ca/1c/4dca1ce93db819647f2f87fb92769561.jpg
Ouch.
https://tinyurl.com/y5kgmtvq
NSFW.
https://tinyurl.com/y22953hf
NSFW.
https://tinyurl.com/yy3sljr2
NSFW.
https://i.redd.it/jru0tc60a2sz.gif
NSFW.
https://tinyurl.com/y4wp3nbj
NSFW.
All of this is great. Honestly, times like these, I feel a sense of regret? sadness? that I can only live one life, and there are so many attractive women from the past, present, and future, that I won’t be able to bang. Time and space being the sole limitations, of course, as I’m devilishly handsome and charming as all get-out and the idea of a woman not immediately handing over the drawers is totally inconceivable.
*raised eyebrow*
I had no idea Amanda Knox was on twitter.
She’s got some zingers.
Always thought it was bizarre that so many people (especially in England) continued to think she was guilty, when they caught the actual killer with mountains of evidence.
I thought she was guilty until now. *Shrugs*. Not that I even remotely followed the case.
They did? Seriously? I completely missed that.
Shows how dumb a lot of the reporting was. He was actually convicted before they were. He tried to pin it on Knox and her Italian boyfriend, but told friends that he’d done it and that they weren’t actually involved. He left fingerprints, bloody palm prints, and shoe prints all over the crime scene, DNA on and in the victim, and also in the bag (mixed with Kercher’s blood) that held the money and credit cards that were stolen. He left the country shortly after the murder, but was arrested doing something illegal and sent back to Italy.
That is terrible reporting. I didn’t hear or read any of that.
That’s gold. Also, Amanda Knox is kind of a smoker. I would see her at a bar if I were single and think to myself, “Oh shit, hey Amanda Knox, let me buy you a classy drink for a classy lady…”
I’m disappointed that she isn’t @FoxyKnoxy.
Wait, it’s “drunken disorderly” and not “drunk and disorderly”? I guess for all intensive purposes it doesn’t matter.
I have a cousin named Duncan who got in trouble as a yute for beating up some kid who kept fucking with him on the school bus, his nickname ever sense has been Duncan Disorderly.
How do you name a baby “Duncan”?
I didn’t have a say in the matter, maybe his parents are big Paul Simon fans? I’ll ask come turkeyday.
Sorry, I thought you were your cousin’s father.
I like the name. Many, many women do. It’s strong, manly, masculine.
Really? I’d assume a hard “k” as in “Kirk” or something like “Steve” where you bare your teeth when say it.
Que?
It’s a K sound.
Duncan is a hot name. Highland Scotland romances. The Highlander TV series. Me, personally, I had an adolescent crush on a very minor celebrity named Duncan. But never underestimate the hawtness of a Scot. We exoticize Scots, and Duncan is a very strong Scots name.
One of my grandmas was from Scotland. We never saw her sober. My other grandmas was from Germany. We never saw her smile.
Well, stereotypes exist for a reason, I spose.
FWIW, my Scots heroine character is a lush. Walking around doing countess duties day-drinking. LOL
Not to put too fine of a point on it, but the name “Duncan” is damn near an aphrodisiac.
Based on the honeys D&D brings around I’d have to say you have a point Mojo.
I usually do. *haughty sniff*
Also, Lady MacBeth disagrees.
Like a donut.
Yeah, not like Brent.
I just had a flashback.
I think I had this album ~25 years ago.
https://swordxp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Duncan-MacLeod-at-Ease.jpg
*woof*
Dude, we would have to duke it out to get him.
There can be only one.
I loved that show.
And that’s exactly where my brain went when I read the Duncan name discussion!!
Duncan
Nice of Wonda Coffee to offer ethnic selections. Had to try one. Kind of bland.
https://imgur.com/a/JsGtBuK
Next time try Wakanda coffee.
*Applause*
Thank you. You’ve been a great audience. Goid night.
Totally OT:
Have any of you had any experience with Duluth Trading Co cold weather gear?
I keep hearing good things and I’m looking at those and Carhartt. A buddy tells DTC is the way to go, but I know his wife, so….
OT? On this thread? I don’t think so.
No but I like their oversized (fat people) T-shirts.
I like that they acknowledge that fatties need extra length, not just extra girth. So they have long shirt tails, long T shirts, etc.
So much this.
“fatties need extra length, not just extra girth.”
Phrasing? Are we not doing “phrasing” anymore?
Sheesh.
I like Carhartt.
My husband swears by their Armachillo underwear, and I use the Bashful Billionaire briefcase and matching purse.
Nothing they make is cheap, but it’s all top notch.
That is a beautiful bag. I saw this today. Check out the price though.
Wow.
Right?!
If I had money, that would be mine just because it’s gorgeous and I like gorgeous things.
That is a very nice satchel, but Holy Crap on the price!!!
Was it made from sacred cows or what??!??
I don’t know, but this makes perfect sense.
SF’d. https://www.theleathershop.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/l/e/leather-bag-expedition-black-biking-01e_1.jpg
Ha! Awesome.
That dude looks a hella lot like Mr Splosives.
Heh it looks like a bigger version of the chunky bags all the goth chicks used to carry around.
As long as we are gushing over specially leather products, let me introduce you to the wonderful world of Overland Sheepskin Trading Co.
They make the best mittens and slippers known to man. And awfully nice coats and hats.
https://www.overland.com/
Love them. I’ve been a fan for a long, long time. When I lived in NM, the Taos store was my go-to.
It’s a beautiful bag, but the opposite of what I’m looking for, which is, I dunno, a “city bag”? Like most NYers I don’t have a car so I lug a bag everywhere I go. It needs to be small and it doesn’t need a lot of gewgaws.
I have a small collection of everyday bags none of which is exactly what I want (that’s why I have a collection).
Behold the Duluth Trading Co Bashful Billionaire
https://www.duluthtrading.com/leather-bashful-billionaires-bag-2.0-97309.html?&srccode=GPSHPMN&chnl=ps_prospect_pla_mn®ion=out_region&gclid=Cj0KCQjwgNXtBRC6ARIsAIPP7Rs28zk_ltTveRJe3tCmqjbj39rMSyP30Cr1Z1KXouvXRp9lRzhnRUoaAhFnEALw_wcB
I already googled it – yeah, it’s not for me 🙂
I can’t imagine lugging that thing around on the subway etc.
My current bag is a sort-of narrow messenger bag (except I tuck the flap in because I hate the flap).
‘Splosive’s Bashful Billionaire bag.
Thanks, much more diligent linker!!
I have a number of different bags also, but this is my daily driver
https://www.tombihn.com/products/synapse-25?variant=19611983431
This one is very close to my current daily.
What a want is a zipper across the top instead of the flappy thing.
The bashful billionaire flappy things look like buckles but are actually snap fit.
Have you considered a sling bag? I have a leather one that I got on Amazon. It’s easily big enough for wallet, phone, keys, multi-tool, and many other small items. Might even be able to fit a water bottle in there if it’s flask-shaped.
Nah. It needs to fit a (small) laptop on those occasions when I have to take my work home with me.
Check out Maxpedition. They have slings big enough for laptops.
Some of those do look relevant. Tks
I would second Maxpedition gear. I’ve been using their equipment for many years. Even the single shoulder bags are so well designed they feel like they balance like a regular backpack.
It’s interesting because I have never bought a bag online; I don’t shop at whatever fancy-pants store might sell nice bags. I shop at discount department stores and the like. Which might explain why I haven’t found the right bag.
Having been a grunt for 4 years I learned to live out of a backpack. So I appreciate well designed gear. I have at least a half dozen of their bags.
My Maxpedition bags have been my go-to equipment for daily commute and weekends with toddlers. I once had to walk 30 miles with one of their single shoulder bags – no problems.
Sigh… always late to the party. Rhy, have you checked out Timbuk2.com ? They started making bike bags but have expanded quite a bit. Their ‘Bag Builder’ web page is fantastic; customize your creation and they hand make it and ship it in a week or so when it’s ready.
I have this
https://www.carhartt.com/products/carhartt-men-outerwear/Extremes-Coat-Arctic-Quilt-Lined-C55
and it’s too warm for all but the coldest days. I haven’t worn enough to get rid of the stiffness yet. Of course, the weather around here is nothing like Minniesoda. Cold day is usually around 30, rarely in the 20’s during the day just overnight. I don’t spend a whole lot of time outside in those temps and it usually doing something active.
Tldr: I like layers more than one warm thick coat.
My go to is a Carhartt quilt lined barn coat.
I wear that coat in the winter up here in eastern WA. it was recommended to me when I was working in the arctic.
Also, check out WinterSilks for undergarments that turn ANYTHING into cold weather gear.
I love love love them.
Not their cold weather gear (Tucson, donchaknow), but everything I’ve gotten from them has been good.
https://archive.li/ApjXi/ed7c606fb0ef4c765e53296f925871624a7063cd.jpg
Real or spoof? With CNN it is always hard to tell.
His slave wives hardest hit.
BW, thanks to those of you who volunteered to be my swimming partner.
I hadn’t realized I could still blush.
Well lets try this avatar thing. No gravatar needed. I re-googled my avatar although sometimes I think I somehow make something original.
Seems to have worked for you.
It looks like you found a kid on the street somewhere to re-draw your old avatar.
I will search for the actual old one but did not remember how I found it
Hey Pie, (if you are still checking this thread) check the media library I found your old avatar.
Oh geeze. I just got your new Avatar. Perfect.
Thanks, but as Spud so nicely pointed out the hyena needs works, Imma play hooky and work on it today.
Does not look like a hyena to me. More like a koala bear or something
Thanks
https://www.wfmz.com/news/masterpiece-found-in-french-woman-s-kitchen-sells-for-m/article_57e5d2db-0c4c-57b0-becc-e6539996643a.html
?s
“An old painting found in the kitchen of an elderly French woman, who considered it an icon of little importance, has made her a multimillionaire.
The work, a masterpiece attributed to the 13th-century Italian painter Cimabue that was discovered earlier this year, sold for 24 million euros ($26.6 million) Sunday.”
I LOVE stories like this.
50.0000000001%? Still, not a bad haul.
Gonna have to look up this guy. I’d heard of Giotto way back in the day when I studied that sort of thing, but I’m sure I only got the “big names.”
It’s all greek to me.
Here ya go.
Not a Q link, so don’t get your hopes – or anything else – up.
At least the painting appears to be actual art, if in need of some repair.
That reminds me, I should see if I can’t find that channel from that professional art restorer and see if he has any new videos up.
Post a link if you find it, pls? Thx!
Also: Utar Fen.
It was easier to find than I expected. I was thinking of this guy
Wow! Lotsa vids! Thanks!
Some are repeats without the narration.
Just watched the restoration of the Emma Gaggiotti portrait. Pretty amazing process.
There’s a reason I remembered the channel, despite not having watched it in a long time.
Good thing I checked in before leaving for work, I only keep that file at home.
Time to clean up for another action-packed week of work. Hope all goes as you would have it go, gentlemen (including any lurkers – “Don’t any of you people lurk???”)
I lurk all the time! Trying to do so less now.
Have a wonderful day. I just finished my shift after 3 consecutive days off (I’ve been working here for 3 years and have never even had 2 consecutive days outside of vacation) and it was overwhelming. I was greeted with, basically, 3 days of untouched tasks plus my usual nightly load. Hopefully, after tonight’s shift, I’ll be fully caught up.
What do you do?
UGH… just went to my favorite media sharing location only to be greeted with this message – “Disabling the forum for the time being. Can take a day or two till we’re back.“.
Venting to cope with feelings of sadness and impotent rage. Wifey has a student, a 12 year old girl, who is, well, to put it bluntly, she’s a shithead. She is a whole bunch of foul-mouthed, truant, shoplifting, lying, smoking trouble. Her adopted mother died a couple of weeks ago. NOBODY in the family is willing to take the girl; she’s burned many bridges with her behavior. There are rumors that a member of adopted mom’s church might take her but the reality is that she is almost certain to placed into the loving arms of NYC’s foster care system. I can’t see that outcome being any good for anyone. I get it, she’s a real shithead. But… she’s only 12. IDK…
Well in the movies there is always the kind hearted family which takes her in and changes her for the better while stoically accepting misbehavior until the happy ending.
Either way probably better off than in the Romanian foster system.