ZARDOZ MOST FAVORITE TIME OF THE YEAR – HARVEST!
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. AS THE YEAR END DRAWS NEAR, WE IN THE VORTEX REVIEW OUR PLANS FROM THE PAST YEAR. THE RESULTS ARE…MIXED. SOME FAILURES, AND ONE PROMISING FUTURE STRATEGY. GO FORTH AND ANALYZE!
NOT GOOD ENOUGH (LEADING TO THE AGING OF THE ETERNAL WHO PROPOSED IT):
FAIL.
- IF YOU ARE GOING TO USE REPTILES, AT LEAST MAKE SURE THEY ARE VENOMOUS. ALSO, NOT IN COLD CLIMATES. FAIL.
- FISH-BRUTAL HYBRIDS ARE INTRIGUING, BUT THIS IN NO WAY LEAD TO ANY CLEANSING OF THE BRUTALS WHO PLAGUE THE EARTH. FAIL.
ZARDOZ THINKS THAT DISRUPTING MEDICAL CARE FOR BRUTALS MAY BE A BETTER APPROACH (THIS EARNED EXTRA GREEN BREAD FOR THE ETERNALS WHO BACKED THIS)
DELIVER THESE BONUS LOAVES, BRUTAL!
ZARDOZ MUST GO AND SEND A GRAIN DONATION TO THE WIZENED CRONE, AND THE DISHEVELED COMMUNARD STANDING FOR SUPREME LEADER OF THE LARGE NORTH AMERICAN BRUTAL STATE. THEY WILL ADVANCE THE GREAT CLEANSING!
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
AND NOW ZARDOZ CONTINUES TO GIVE ADVICE ON BEHAVIORS.
Q: Upon being asked by my daughter’s future mother-in-law for my thoughts on a bridal shower, I texted my daughter before answering. The maid of honor is my 20-year-old, so I offered to pay for the bridal party to host a shower at a local, trendy brunch spot, inviting future MIL, daughter’s stepmother, and all grandmothers.
My daughter then let me know that she and her fiance preferred to ask her stepmother and father to host it at their house instead. I let her know that I wasn’t sure how I felt about that. When it wasn’t dropped, I was impolite and stated, “I love you, but I don’t love anyone enough to sit in Daddy’s house with his parents and family.”
I have always been a good co-parent. I made sure we all sat together at every school program and graduation since elementary school. We did college move-in days together. I made sure my girls’ sister from their stepmother’s first marriage was in every picture with my girls at these occasions.
However, this seemed a boundary I needed to draw, especially since the shower was not yet planned.
She asked her stepmother, and perhaps shared my response. Her stepmother then offered to host at a restaurant instead. I explained to my daughter that there was never any issue with coming together as a family, and an alternate location in the middle would have been fine from the start.
But she and her fiance are deeply hurt and feel as though I was not willing to “suck it up” to celebrate them, and that my issues “should not fall back on them because it’s not their fault.”
I certainly wasn’t refusing to see anybody, and had not expressed a negative opinion about having to see them at the wedding.
Besides the reactive, impolite way I set my boundary, have I demonstrated poor etiquette by preferring a more neutral location? I am struck by my daughter’s reaction and reminded her that she might need to take a step back and consider how I have always carried myself, and loved and supported her. On every other matter, I have told her that it’s her wedding and to do it her way. Please advise me on my missteps and what apologies I may owe.
A: WEAKLING! NEVER APOLOGIZE. ZARDOZ HAS SEEN FAR WORSE FOR WEDDING PROBLEMS…
WHAT IN LAWS? I AM IMMORTAL! THEY WERE NOT.
THE ONLY WAY TO SALVAGE THIS IS TO APPEAR TO HAVE CRAVENLY BEGGED FORGIVENESS, GO TO THE PARTY….AND POISON ALL FOOD AND DRINK.
ONE TWITCHED! *BLAMBLAMBLAM*
ZARDOZ WILL SEND THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS TO FINISH OFF ANYONE STILL MOVING. THINK OF THE SAVINGS ON WEDDING GIFTS TOO!
Q: Is there an ungendered term for “hostess gift”?
A: “TRIBUTE”. YOUR INABILITY TO COME UP WITH SIMPLE WORDS INDICATES TO ZARDOZ THAT YOU ARE SUITED FOR ONLY ONE ACTIVITY. ENJOY YOUR NEW FOUND LIFE AS A GRAIN SLAVE, IN SERVICE TO THE VORTEX.
PRESENT, “FOR YOU”, “HERE, I GOT YOU A LITTLE SOMETHING” WOULD ALSO HAVE SUFFICED.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
ALL HAIL ZARDOZ, BITCHES!
+1
Now, where is my gift of the gun?
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN GUN SEEKING ONE. SHIPMENTS HAVE BEEN DELAYED. DEMAND FOR THE GIFT OF THE GUN HAS SURGED IN THE BRUTAL STATE OF “VIRGINIA”. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Time was you would at least give him the GIF of the one. Alas, how soon our efforts are cast aside on the dustbin of Glibstory.
I do miss the plentiful gifs. Especially the #1 ass gif
Yep, and I ‘member when we’d get visits from the Edit Fairy and Cat butts too, now an occasional squinty Clint is the best we can hope for. Maybe someday, somewhere, someone will build us a libertarian chat room that won’t sink to suckiness within two or three years.
Awesome!
“Maybe someday, somewhere, someone will build us a libertarian chat room that won’t sink to suckiness within two or three years.”
Maybe your whiny ass could try running a site for years.
Nothing like running quality and original content for years and having some cunte snivel that it isn’t to their liking. Really makes one feel appreciated.
If the joes ain’t complaining, they ain’t happy.
My apologies.
The #1 ass gif is #1.
It really does deserve its award.
My office mate is a 22year old blonde whom, as near as I can tell, could take the place of that gal in the gif. Uffda.
HAIL ZARDOZ!!!!!
Why the hell is Mike getting my first gif?!?
Prithee, looke ye upwards.
HA!
Mine’s better than yours, mine’s better than yours.
Better? I don’t know…I think it’s a tie.
I got nipple, and TWO gifs.
and what a nipple it was.
????
I don’t wanna sound like a queer or nothin’ but the Zardoz #1 gif is clearly the best. And Depeche Mode is a pretty sweet band.
Then why did you?
The best is the one where the Number one puffs out his chest and the pffts his hat off and there’s a cat under his hat and then the cat gives the ‘old brown eye wink’, but they hardly ever use that one, I have no idea why and I am not criticizing them for not using it, just sayin’.
Thank you for the gif(t) ZARDOZ!!!
@MikeS – I’ll have you know that I identify as masculine of center and use the he/him pronouns.
But you’re just gonna power on through it?
OneOut agrees.
What happened to my masthead of girls butts ?
It once showed with my every post?
There was a WordPress avatar shakeup. Everyone had to reload their avatars, which is why so many are different.
Go to edit your profile, scroll down and reload an avatar pic.
Amoskeag and Rock Island have auctions coming up.
I’m watching some Walther P1/P38s currently on GB.
I saw a beautiful Schmidt-Rubin 1911 private sale rifle on GunBroker. Then I saw the import mark. Fuck the Feds. That import mark can be seen from a mile away.
Just after I watched the first Candrsenal video on the Colt New Service Revolver, I saw one made for Canada in .455 on GunBroker. Still in the original caliber (most were shaved for .45 long colt) and looking good.
I decided to pass since I want to see how Amoskeag and Rock Island turn out. Plus I’ve spent a lot of money on guns this year and done not enough shooting.
I just stumbled on a Swiss Maxim on GunBroker.
I could sneak that on to a couple credit cards, but I think I’ll pass…
I think it’s time to end the NFA.
I still need 20 gauge versions of the Belgian Auto-5 and Model 12 Winchester. But man, are decent ones going for some bucks.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. HEED THE WISDOM OF THE TUBERLICIOUS ONE. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
I read that as “tuberculosis one”.
#metoo. For half a second I was all like, “Jeebus, that’s nothing to joke about!”
Dang….you coughing, man?
I went and took my temperature and spit on a kleenex to make sure.
Is the Magic Mountain in Idaho?
*bows deeply*
When I was young I read widely and well. Now I read here, light fiction, and that unutterable crap that is the bane of transactional law.
an example:
BUYER IS PURCHASING THE PROPERTY “AS IS WHERE IS” IN ITS PRESENT CONDITION. BUYER HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO INSPECT THE PROPERTY AND DOCUMENTATION IN SELLER’S POSSESSION AS PROVIDED HEREIN. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH ABOVE, SELLER MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO, HEREBY DISCLAIMS AND SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR: (A) THE CONDITION OF THE PROPERTY OR ANY BUILDINGS, STRUCTURE OR IMPROVEMENTS THEREON OR THE SUITABILITY OF THE PROPERTY FOR HABITATION OR FOR BUYER’S INTENDED USE; (B) ANY APPLICABLE BUILDING, ZONING OR FIRE LAWS OR REGULATIONS OR WITH RESPECT TO COMPLIANCE THEREWITH OR WITH RESPECT TO THE EXISTENCE OF OR COMPLIANCE WITH ANY REQUIRED PERMITS, IF ANY, OF ANY GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY; (C) THE AVAILABILITY OR EXISTENCE OF ANY WATER, SEWER OR UTILITIES, ANY RIGHTS THERETO, OR ANY WATER, SEWER OR UTILITY DISTRICTS; (D) ACCESS TO ANY PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SANITARY SEWER OR DRAINAGE SYSTEM; OR (E) THE PRESENCE OF ANY HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES AT THE PROPERTY OR IN ANY IMPROVEMENTS ON THE PROPERTY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ASBESTOS OR UREA-FORMALDEHYDE, OR THE PRESENCE OF ANY ENVIRONMENTALLY HAZARDOUS WASTES OR MATERIALS ON OR UNDER THE PROPERTY. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, SELLER SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO THE CONDITION OF THE PROPERTY UNDER COMMON LAW, OR ANY FEDERAL, STATE, OR LOCAL LAW OR REGULATION, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE, COMPENSATION AND LIABILITY ACT OF 1980 AS AMENDED, 42 U.S.C.A. SECTIONS 9601 ET SEQ., OR APPLICABLE OHIO LAW, AND BUYER HEREBY RELEASES AND WAIVES ANY AND ALL CLAIMS WHICH THE BUYER HAS OR MAY HAVE AGAINST THE SELLER WITH RESPECT TO THE CONDITION OF THE PROPERTY. BUYER ACKNOWLEDGES THAT BUYER IS GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY UNDER THIS AGREEMENT TO FULLY INSPECT THE PROPERTY AND BUYER ASSUMES THE RESPONSIBILITY AND RISKS OF ALL DEFECTS AND CONDITIONS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, SUCH DEFECTS AND CONDITIONS, IF ANY, THAT CANNOT BE OBSERVED BY CASUAL INSPECTION
all caps because bolding has only been around since the late 80s and lawyers aren’t sure about it yet.
Now that’s what I’m talking about.
The lady in the bath GIF rivals the #1 ass GIF, but I think the #1 ass GIF wins out.
Q: Is there an ungendered term for “hostess gift”?
A: “TRIBUTE”. YOUR INABILITY TO COME UP WITH SIMPLE WORDS INDICATES TO ZARDOZ THAT YOU ARE SUITED FOR ONLY ONE ACTIVITY. ENJOY YOUR NEW FOUND LIFE AS A GRAIN SLAVE, IN SERVICE TO THE VORTEX.
Excellent.
Yes, I plan to start using that.
That made me burst out laughing. Now I’m trying to figure out how to explain Zardoz to Mr. Cannoli.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ITALIAN DESSERT ONE. JUST REMIND THE “MR.” THE PENIS IS EVIL! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
And this is why we hail Zardoz…Charlotte Ramplng.
She was a smokeshow!
Absolutely. A beauty.
Hail Zardoz! Let there be a GREAT CLEANSING in the brutal city of Tuscaloosa tomorrow afternoon. A veritable crimson tide as tigers run rampant. The drunken ones in Baton Rouge will then self cleanse.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS JUDICIAL CHOSEN ONE. “self cleanse” … GO ON. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
That stick is red because it has spent so much time under water being rolled by the Crimson Tide.
Oooh…trash talk. Prithee…continue!
I have always been a good co-parent
Okay, sure. ?
I can commiserate with her, but it seems if she’s managed to stay cordial this long, having the shower at her Ex’s place shouldn’t be a big deal.
Conversely, if things haven’t truly been cordial, it seems odd that the couple would want to have it in step-mom’s house. Cut mom some slack and have it at a neutral location.
MikeS what happened to the bat?
I left him in the garage (kept at 50F) for a few days. I tried again to to coax him to fly in to the trees to find a new home, but he was in no mood to fly anywhere. He just wanted to cuddle into the towel in the bottom of his new shoe-box home. So, I put him (in his shoebox) on a high shelf in an old shed that we just use for junk storage. It’s tight enough to keep cats out, but has a couple holes here and there so he can get out when he wants…which likely won’t be for about 6 months.
So no SWAT visit?
No. In fact my multiple attempts to elicit advice from the “authorities” were less than fruitful.
Well, that’s not completely true; the one guy I got a hold of encouraged me to follow the “leave wildlife alone” rule. Which I have always* done. I was pissed at first , but came to realize he was right.
*until now
When I had the animal with the broken back the cops very quickly put me in touch with a wildlife rehabber.
And there is a giant exception to the “leave wildlife alone” rule, and that’s when it’s entered your domicile.
Absolutely. In his defense; he wasn’t referring to the fact that I removed it from the door, just that I then brought it home. He said I should have just placed it on the ground. I told him I could just as well find a cat’s bowl to place it in.
The little guy was in torpor, I couldn’t just leave him. I’m an asshole, but I do have a heart in there somewhere.
And I will admit to a small amount of selfishness, as well. I’m hoping he makes it, takes up residence in my yard, and repays my kindness by eating a metric shit ton of flying bugs this summer.
That is a fair trade.
I thought so.
Oh, and I named him, too: Earl. Earl Battey.
The bureaucracy is not about helping animals, it is about restricting humans.
When cardiology and proctology collide.
-1 Roy
I’ll say it again. You are a mensch.
Bat mensch, even
Bat Mensch…da da da da da da…Bat Mesnch!
? ?
Tune in next week. Same (((bat time))) same (((bat channel)))
It’s Seaman!
I hear the Innsmouth look is making a comeback.
“I am H.P. Lovecraft…and I approve this message.”
…Was he a Hapsburg?
Bowl full of roasted “crescent” potatoes, with butter and Tony Cachere’s. Damn that’s good.
Mmmmm.
Livestream of me listen to the first advice-seeker.
I’d like to buy an Oh
Vanna White is looking well for 217.
Sure.
Relevant
No….
So which doctors in Zimbabwe were on strike?
+1 Lime in the Coconut
Zimbabwe issued their own currency again? *sigh* How long until Zimbabweans are trillionaires again?
Both of them.
I’m eight o clock drunk at six something. I blame the time change.
Miss Manners was right that the parents shouldn’t be throwing bridal showers.
That’s the real problem.
I don’t know anything about all that stuff as it’s well above my paygrade, but I suspect this isn’t the first time the mother has been less than gracious. I mean, be an adult, for Chrissakes. One of my friend’s routinely goes to his ex-wife’s new husband’s house for his son’s birthday party, and he brings his girlfriend. It’s fine. Hell, my wife’s family, which is huge, routinely hosted major events for her and her siblings, and my father-in-law was welcomed with open arms on every occasion, along with his new wife who he cheated on my mother-in-law with. If they can get along, anybody can.
Speaking from experience (unfortunately) it’s not always so easy.
“IF YOU ARE GOING TO USE REPTILES, AT LEAST MAKE SURE THEY ARE VENOMOUS. ALSO, NOT IN COLD CLIMATES. FAIL.”
That thing is at least as real as Nesse.
Don’t tell me vhat’s nesse!
Just a reminder for glibs: It’s only legal for Chris Cuomo to say the word “Ciaramella”.
“YES. YES! FIRE THEM ALL. THIS “PUBLIC SECTOR” IS A GREAT HELP. WIN.”
But, wait… weren’t they fighting global warming when the cut off the chicken’s hear before dancing around the patient?
I don’t know why they’re claiming it’s Florida Man when the terrain is obviously central Texas and the guy is drinking a Shiner.
The only think I don’t understand is, I thought SIV was a Canadian.
Had to ban and block a tweener from my middle school daughters phone and computer today because the tweener sent some hentai to my niece using an iPad.
Modern problems
…wait, what?
I’m stuck on how he knows what tech the little
bastardreprobate used to accomplish the feat.…well, dang. Now that, too.
Going to the symphony tonite with the missus. Got 45 buck each box tickets from subscribing to their email list, damn fine deal. Good thing about that is that you can have drinks in the box and it’s only four seats. First date nite in a couple months. Babysitter arriving in a few. A couple cocktails at the bar down the street and then it’s some Bach and Haydn for an hour and a half or so.
Nice. Which theater?
That sounds fun as hell. Enjoy!
If by “symphony” you mean dive bar with really cool blues bands, I’m doing the same. There’s an 8 dollar cover, but not if you’re there before the bouncers (who very much remind me of Jay and silent Bob) Plus they give markers for happy hour drinks, so we buy two of those and get out of there cheap.
Please explain. I’m not familiar with the practice.
If you close out your tab before happy hour is over, you can order your later drinks on it. They bring tiny solo cups and you trade them for drinks later. It’s just a way to extend happy hour further out.
Ahhh…gotcha. I guess I have seen that, although very rarely. That’s cool.
Heh, heh. The vast majority of time I am going out to see music it is more on that type of nite. But I can clean up and be all sophisticated and stuff. Enjoy the blues! Here is one of my all time favorite bluesman in very fine form.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K_DOnKJ232M
Cheers guys. Davies.
Music of the Baroque – nice.
Bach is so my jam. The organ stuff gives me chills.
Seconded!!!
Paging CPRM. CPRM, you have joke on line 1.
Enjoy watching Bach from the Magic Music Machine Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOWi8tOf5FA
That is awesome!
Oh bravo!! Love the animation.
Nice.
I have always found drinks in the box cost extra or she was just that kinky.
$20$50–same as downtown.Damn fine pot of chili. It’s now bourbon and rye time.
I learned today that I like Irish Whiskey…or at least the version that Jameson makes. I don’t like it more than rye, but I think I like it as much as bourbon. It will take more research to say for sure.
Jameson is not bad for when you can’t have scotch. I can drink it.
I just poured a Glencairn of Macallan 12.
Think I’ll grab a bottle of Jameson for the whiskey cabinet…just to expand my horizons. Unless someone has a better recommendation for Irish?
Michael Collins single malt is pretty good, as is Knappogue Castle. Tullamore Dew is a blended that’s nice. I like Jameson, but since that’s for filthy papists I drink Bushmills, which is the version for protty scum.
I can’t get into Tullamore Dew.
I didn’t know Jameson’s was for papists. I will definitely try Bushmills.
https://www.liquor.com/articles/biggest-irish-whiskey-myths/
It seems like everything written after that point probably doesn’t change the facts of the first sentence.
“Michael Collins single malt is pretty good”
I hope the bottle is shaped like a command/service module
I think that whisky has troubles
My preferred Irish is Black Bush.
Lacists !!11!1!!1
It turns out I greatly prefer scotch and rye to Jameson myself. Live and learn.
Look for Redbreast 12 yo. It will hurt your pocketbook, but is damn fine stuff.
+1
Try Teeling’s.
You gonna have some good ol’ Kentucky mash farts.
Knowing what’s coming my way, I used Anasazi beans. I’m hoping that will help minimize the damage.
CORRECT!
Since I’ve heard good things about the Four Roses, I brought a bottle home. Store have regular, small batch, and single barrel. Took the small batch. Will try later tonight. Also brought home a bourbon cream (from Buffalo Trace) after the review of a similar one here the other day.
You have chosen…wisely.
You are positively jaunty tonight. How’s your mom?
Wish I could drink more than 2 beers. It’s just not compatible with my gastrointestinal system. I think I do have some sort of gluten sensitivity.
Kill yourself. No, dude, I’m just kidding! Drink bourbon instead. I have a sort of weird reaction to beer sometimes. I think it’s an allergy, because I’ll just have a sneezing fit. Not sure what is up with that, but I drank a lot of beer this evening and no problem. It only happens sometimes, and I’ve never had that with any other alcohol.
I do drink bourbon but I feel like I am missing out on some great beers.
Isn’t gluten unique to wheat?
Nope.
If wikipedia is to be believed, it’s in
Obviously, you should cultivate a taste for sake. Or failing that, wine.
Barley, Rye, and Oats, are not ‘wheat’.
Shit, I forgot to buy wifey chocolate. I’m a bad person. I need one more beer. It’s really cold outside. I think it was 41 when I got back from the market, heading for a low of 30. Fuck that shit, it’s not fit for human habitation. God I love heated seats and steering wheel. I had to bring our houseplants in. Fuck that shit too. Although I do have one Cattleya orchid I’ve had for 5 years that has never bloomed and it’s full of huge blooms, or whatever they call those orchid things, Inflorescence I think. Also, the not-cactus plant they call Christmas Cactus, which we have several of in various shades. We have one that we bought 10 years ago when we first move in together that is about 3 ft. across that is blooming now. I need more beer.
Also, picked that last green maters from my patio tomatoes, they won’t survive tonight. Green fried maters, yummy.
It’s all relative. If it were 20 most of the time you’d be grateful for a 41 day. Was trying to explain the concept to the kid last night. “No, I’m not going to give you unlimited minutes for your phone. Be grateful you have one at all.” Then I started with the “When I was your age…” and saw part of her soul die of boredom.
I’d do this more often just to poke at my kids, if I didn’t hear my parents’ and grandparents’ voices in my head.
“But the other kids…!” It becomes impossible not to sound like a geezer when responding to that.
How much does unlimited cost versus the current plan?
Not the point. She’s 10 and doesn’t need to be drooling over her phone all day.
(IOW I dunno)
Moved to a house on 3 acres, entirely so the little one could have a place to play. The move was inconvenient, expensive, and a massive hassle involving things like fencing in a 3 acre lot by hand over the course of 3 days to get it ready for the dogs.
I’m bored, can we watch TV.
Okay.
I’m not going to advocate you change your phone policy, I was just wondering, because I have to try to find a phone plan with limited minutes these days. I think the pay as you go phones are the only ones I’ve seen.
Don’t know the reference, Jarf.
I know that our family plan gives the wife and I unlimited at almost the same price. Docomo if that helps.
I use “Ting”. Great bargain over the big guys.
The reference is my life lol. We even set up a 100 foot zipline between trees, all she wants to do is watch tv or play video games
Thought it was from Mice and Men.
The damn clouds are blocking the sun and get off my lawn!
Bridal shower at a trendy brunch spot. *Shudders*
Authorities Horrified At Woman Who Killed Baby With Meth Instead Of Traditional Brain-Sucking Device
Nice.
Dayum – harsh. I like it.
“Helborn.”
I see what they did there.
And you’ll do it three times before the cock crows.
https://mobile.twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1192977586135195648
LOL we’re supposed to believe the NYT doesn’t know who it is?
They seem willing to believe I care.
The local rag is reporting about purported whistleblower being named on Fox News (because of the local connection), but goes out of their way not to do so. These are the same assholes who won’t name the state police sniper who killed the old guy after the Malhuer standoff, despite that state police officer testifying in open court at a public trial AND has a questionable track record of shootings that should be out in the open.
I remember how all of the media refused to name Deep Throat too. Since we’re honoring whistleblowers, I’m sure the media will call for Scooter Libby to be pardoned.
The whole anonymous thing comes of as a stunt. “Look at me i’m so Brave!” but i don’t want to loose my cushy government postion, so i wont stake my name to it.
The Founders wrote a declaration of “Fuck You”, signed it with their names and sent it to the King. This guy writes a book guarenteed to make tons of money (yes i know that the claim is that the proceeds will be donated to some “Media” charity), and wants to be called brave because he’s afraid that he’ll be fired for writing it.
It is a stunt. Cunning stunt for stunning …..
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
I can’t believe people are buying this bullshit. The Resistance® has so much legitimate material with which to work. Instead they keep relying on anonymous sources hoping for The Big Reveal. Idiots. We know Trump is petty, venal, and mercurial. Telling us again isn’t changing any minds.
Friday night tunes.
Japanese version of strip poker.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vn-bQlqYULg
If nothing else, I have at least finally sanded and finished a butcher block cutting board I’ve had sitting around for (2) years. Now, I need to let it dry fully for three days and it’ll be ready to use.
Three days? How did you finish it?
It’s what the instructions on the cutting board oil and finish says.
Interesting. My guess is they want a good saturation for the first cure.
I could have lent you some oil.
I… may have bought more than I need.
“give”, really. I don’t think you can lend oil.
Holy cow. That’s a lifetime supply.
Too bad my husband didn’t know about this two weeks ago when he went out and bought I think it’s a quart at least, maybe two, but of course he only needs an ounce or so, too.
I was hoping for the 55 gallon barrel of lube.
#metoo
#MeToo
Dammit–I knew I shoulda gone with #MomsDemandAction
0 unamerican degrees
brr
24 American Degrees here.
*looks at map*
Cold everywhere!
Warm here. T shirt weather.
PS. Check out Ting if you missed my earlier comment. I pay < 20 bucks a month.
I’m not looking to change.
Curiousity is an independant beast.
What a troglodyte.
27 here.
A balmy 35 here.
79 here.
yeah, it’s a bit warm out here. It was 78 at the peak, still about 65 at night.
26 patriotic ‘Murican degrees in Dayton. Local news & weather heavyweight station’s site says “Feels like 30.” Someone ‘splain to a science illiterate (product of Dayton Public Schools) how that works? I get wind chill, but what would make it feel warmer on a clear night?
Well, you see–when a mommy weather and a daddy weather love each other very much, they will sometimes…
Wait; no, I messed up.
Go on… Something about a high pressure front…?
It ends up occluded, this isn’t weather porn after all, just a tasteful weather love story.
Damn! ::shoulders droop. Sips more wine::
Just click the link…
Well, I can attest that I don’t go in for high pressure tactics, and it’s never a front, and….here, just watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWVvH31LyTM
Beautiful! That gesture at 23 seconds…
He knows how to work it, apparently.
#BiggerInTexas
Also, it would have been grand if snow had appeared over Mexico at about the 25 second mark.
True dat!
I’ve got “32 feels like 21”.
Maybe you have no wind and high humidity? But yeah I’ve only seen your situation during the summer.
I know a chick like that. She’s 24 but she feels like 35.
Oh, and she’s stormy.
When everything reminds you of a song…
When your song reminds me.
I don’t see how.
It wasn’t a song about Indians, racist!
That’s some Ted’S level trolling.
Ahem! the only acceptable stormy song.
No love for Lena?
I’m an agent of chaos.
I’ll see your stormy and raise you angry.
Here is stormy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6iRNVwslM4
Woke up to a nipply nineteen degrees this morning. ?
16 here. I thought about doing yard work today then taking Sunday and Monday easy. Nope.
I gotta say I sympathize with the mother being being booted from her daughter’s wedding prep. That said just elope and short circuit all the drama.
No shit. Very happy to have gone that route rather than the big weddings that my other two siblings did.
Son did wedding in Denmark (The Vegas of the EU). Seven minutes start to finish was on the water after a nice wedding lunch that afternoon.
Ours was pickup license from clerk & pay fee, go upstairs to courtroom, pay judge’s clerk, say vows, shake hands, take pictures, go back downstairs with signed license and walk out with completed paperwork with seals. Then go out to dinner.
I’d replace all that a with a priest, government paperwork is useless. And you guy a priest for two Snickers bars. (One for the priest and one to for the priest to lure an altar boy! HYO! I can make that joke, I was an altar boy)
And you can buy
guya priest for two Snickers bars.Fucking typos ruining jokes!
Shoulda held out for a Mars. Or, Reese’s. Or, Heath…
I agree with the latter. My sister did the full on church wedding. Got a blessing for our dog afterwards so win-win.
We did ours at bass lake. It was t-giving and all our friends were there. they had no idea. We (she) pretended we were buying them brunch and led them to a pasture lakeside. The pastor lady was waiting and while they were all in shock, we gave our vows. cost us a hundred buck and our guests zero. No stress at all, also.
That’s how you do it.
Make it special, without the fluff or the feeling you’re visiting the DMV.
That was my first thought. I never got the whole “big wedding” crap. What a waste of money.
Yep. We told our kids “We will give you $X for your marriage. Spend it on the wedding, honeymoon or starting life. But that is all you will get.” No big weddings to suffer through.
Is there an ungendered term for “hostess gift”?
VOTE SMOD 2020 it is time. Long live the cockroaches post SMOD.
+1 “The Man Who Awoke”.
Well, I’m outta wine, and I need to go renew my plates AND my driver’s license at the BMV in the morning, so I’m going to bed. All hail Zardoz ‘n shit. Nighty night!
Night.
I would say ‘stay frosty’, but, after the weather porn…
Kudos on finding that weather porn. At first I thought it was a prank. Then I realized it was real. Fantastic.
Why, thank you… 😉
Well, only THE best for our make-believe ladies here.
I identify as male. My pronouns are he/him/your lordship.
he/him/your lordship
Wait….that’s MY shtick!
*checks current handle*
Doesn’t look like it.
Hey–I earned that “Sir”
I had to send in a shit-tonne of cereal box UPCs.
A knighthood is not a title or rank of nobility.
…….It didn’t preclude nobility. Just sayin’.
/man, y’all want to crap all over my dreams
First of all, BMV? Second of all, um tomorrow is Saturday, no BMV.
Sat. 8 – 2
Ohio is fuckin weird! Or maybe I’m just too rural. Our local DMV is only open like 6 days a month.
Night, GT!
Welp, I was having a pretty good day until I got into the gummy worms. Then everything went to shit. It’s only 11:15 and I’m already sleepy and I still took my Tylenol PM, which is kicking in fast, so I’m goong to bed.
Night!
I hope ‘gummy worms’ isn’t a euphemism.
/hmmm…maybe I do
It is a euphemism, but she only likes the lime ones. Figure that shit out.
She like “them” tart and tangy?
/”Baby, I’m sweet enough already!”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/04F41A6E-024F-11EA-B519-6E1D28626D43
George Soros on the fall of the Berlin Wall.
I’m always intrigued when some of the little known artists I like show up in pop culture. Last week’s ‘The Rookie’ on ABC (Starring Firefly’s Nathan Fillion) ended the show with a Butch Walker song. It was cool that Butch got the recognition, but as an editor it didn’t fit the scene and they left the lyrics in, which made it difficult to understand all the dialogue in the scene.
Um, closed captioning, you illiterate shitlord!!!
I liked the few episodes of Castle I’ve watched. Or maybe it’s Stana Katic.
Castle was great television. It was very self-aware, and there are Firefly props hidden all around the sets for the careful viewer to spot.
Also, I agree–that’s a crappy production decision.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/11/east-germany-egon-krenz-berlin-wall
Oh the Jacobin interviewing an East German Communist leader!
*snort* I’ll bet.
Look, I gave it a good college try but there’s no way I can read all of that tripe.
Instead, I’ll offer a guy who was more consequential in the downfall of the DDR than that old fart Krenz.
Good lord that was awful. I’m just going to assume he was on the eastern side of the wall.
Fortunately, the west had the better Udo.
https://youtu.be/B_3TlrZLpQ0
I’m assuming MikeS is asleep but Sir Digby missing this makes me sad.
Nonsense, this is the best Udo!
The best Udo.
I remember that from HS
By “that”, I mean accept
Udo’s still touring under his name. He played a local theater last winter, but I couldn’t make it for some reason.
Not too long ago he toured saying it was the last time he was playing any Accept material. I don’t get the anger. He’s the one who left.
Fans suck? Resentment that the crowd wants that material…
Not a very smart move, considering many people like myself only know him because of Accept.
And you would be wrong. The song is about his attempts to play in the East, actually. And mocking Honecker.
Sorry it’s not metal enough.
Help me out here because my German is almost nonexistent. He’s dressed like a rocker but singing what I assume is Chattanooga Choo-Choo. How is this about playing in the east?
Also it’s sort of worth noting that black market rock/metal music did help to bring down the law. It was banned but the kids loved it. It’s dissemination helped to undermine respect for the eastern governments. When the wall fell there were some huge metal concerts in Russia. It would have been unthinkable the year before.
Yep, it’s Chattanooga Choo-Choo. The background is he was a super-popular artist from the West and the East refused to allow him to play there despite demand. (Eventually, they relented.) The title refers to the commuter train to a neighborhood in East Berlin called Pankow where all the big-wigs lived.
I get it but it seems very mild. I must be missing some important cultural context.
PS. only the melody is Chattanooga Choo-Choo. The lyrics are changed.
I inferred as much from your earlier comment. It just seems mild. Did he have other music that confronted the comments or was deemed decadent by them?
Merely being a popular westerner was a threat.
That is the cultural context.
Comments = Communists. Thanks autocorrect.
IOW – the “mildness” was part of the joke. He was a pop star, not “threatening” in any way. The mere fact that Ossis liked him was a threat that could not be overlooked by the Party.
That is how fucked up the commies were.
Oooohhh…you’re gonna get ‘re-educated’ now!!
#SummerCamp
That makes more sense. Thanks.
Apropos of nothing, here’s one for Rhywun and Ted S., and to a lesser extent, anyone who was a young teen in the early 80’s.
Ah, fuck you, HTML::https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoW4Vw4XGAs
I loved the irony of a car commercial using a song about a transportation accident when Lincoln used it a few years ago.
Gus L, help us out? I don’t remember that one.
Found it
https://youtu.be/r_gXXv0M2fE
Huh. Never saw that.
I like my music less uplifting.
Better car commercial
Reagan stole the link.
Psst. He was asleep at his desk. It was Caspar Weinberger.
That’s just what he wanted you to think
https://youtu.be/b5wfPlgKFh8
Ah, and we see the duel fool yet genius playing out again today. This sir, is no comidia del arte.
Rip Phil Hartman. Fuck Andy dick.
Much like my teens, that’s a whole bunch of uh-uh.
I bought the album when it came out. In German.
Possibly my first, now that I think of it.
My first was the Ramones: Rocket to Russia. My cousin played it to me to warp my mind, and he basically succeeded. Not that there was much to warp.
Funny thing was, I liked the Ramones on the same level they presented themselves: as a rock band. I never got why they were viewed as a bunch of psychos. They always saw themselves as just another rock band, and that’s pretty much how I saw them. Dear Jeebus, my friends did not agree.
I always thought of them as a sort-of novelty band. Psychos? Never.
Definitely not psychos. Oddballs maybe.
Rhywun / Chafed:not trying to slag anyone, but a lot of people had issues. When I told people I listened to The Ramones (in 1978-84), it was serial. I’d get some bad looks. Now, their music is in commercials. I once played a friend that album, and he seemed horrified. I moved away, and came back to visit a few years later, and he was listening to Minor Threat. “Yeah – “Sheena is a Punk Rocker” isn’t so bad now, huh, Donny?”
Sheena is a Punk Rocker
Where did you grow up BP?
The Ramones were billed as punk though I never quite got that. Though at least in their early years they did seem embraced by an odd combo of outcasts and people making the scene.
Chafed: I grew up in NH, so yeah, admittedly far from large urban centers.
That helps to explain it.
Yeah, to be fair, I didn’t notice them until my mid-to-late teens, so… mid-to-late 80s.
I’m getting tired of sending emails to the local rags’ “editors” and “reporters”. The level of writing and editing has drop precipitously. Apparently J schools teach kids to write as if an article is a Facebook post. Then there’s the stupidly obvious factual mistakes. At least the scribblers of days gone by could block and tackle.
They probably can’t make heads or tails of the emails, themselves.
Ah, assuming people working for news media care about the news. How quaint.
This assumes that news media was ever anything but political propaganda.
I like reading all these tidbits of opinion. You know, given I actually work in media, and was taught the same things as the those darned millennials that work in media.
these days good writing is white supremacy, so one needs write differently
Lakers won. Ugly game. good defense though. kuzma needs to find that 3 pointer again
Life lesson: I’m much better at all things drunk. I’d be famous if I was drunk all day!
This is not good side boob…
It was the best I could do on short notice!
::runs away sobbing::
If you look like that picture, I don’t think “running away” is really an option.
Waddling, rolling, or sliming perhaps…
I can attest that i do not.
Heheheheh…sliming
…cries himself to sleep while
waddlingrollingsliming away…Boy–tough crowd tonight!
I’m like the opposite of an anorexic, in my head I look like this, In reality.
Dude–I told you to quit spying on me!!
Peak Brad… my God.
PS. that’s one of my favorite bits – “you wanna take care of her?” or whatever he said there. LOL.
Inorite?!? Words…
?
“You wanna finish her off?” Giving the Narrator a chance to embrace reality, but he cedes it away to Tyler.
“I look like you wanna look, I fuck how you wanna fuck” perfect casting, and that they all were in on the joke, it’s just perfect.
Lol.
Speaking of which, where’s Q tonight?
Research?
Sorry–“research”
This is going to be a case study in confirmation bias.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/11/08/project-veritas-posts-letter-from-abc-insider-explaining-why-i-alone-released-the-amy-robach-epstein-tape/
Everyone on the right will uncritically accept it as true. Compare that with the book by Anonymous about the Trump White House.
The left will condemn the former and defend the latter. Neither will realize, much less admit, this is all tribal and has no underlying principle.
some will realize and not care . underlying principle is not the point. winning is.
Is this where I say SHUT THE FUCK UP LIBTARD? I’m still not sure. I don’t meme no good.
ok boomer always works
That has a completely different meaning in my house.
You’re Boomer Esiason’s ‘roommate’?
I’m sure he has his own room.
Wait…
Let’s split the difference, ok shut up?
Interesting thread on the Pitesti experiment. Whaddaya think, Pie?
https://mobile.twitter.com/vallachian/status/1192541150495698944
What can i think? It is the reason this country is fucked still in 2020 and sometimes i want to smash the face of people saying it was better in communism
Been watching a documentary on it. Go ahead and smack those people.
Ceacescu (sp?) got off easy.
Ceaușescu was not yet in power then but yes
Jesus.
Jeebus H. Christ. I hadn’t even heard of this. One more reason I will never give up my gun.
Watching reruns of The Office, and they have an episode where Centerfold plays. Gotta admit, I loved that song when it first came out. Gen Xers and Boomers will remember that MTV VJ Martha Quinn was in the original video, which was definitely worth watching in 1983. You know, or now.
When some of the other guys in my 8th grade class discovered this song, it suddenly got blared out of the jambox.
When did they discover this?
https://youtu.be/FiWZkXkfgKw
Yeah, you know what it is.
Never…don’t know of anyone who rocked to anything that hard.
Remember: small parochial school
Did not know that.
Also, the more I remember, there were older kids who listened to some harder stuff. I was thinking about the guys in my grade level, and what I can recall. Almost 40 years is difficult to remember, especially when you weren’t really paying attention to them very much.
Going blind and centerfold… what’s the connection?
None. It’s my way of rickrolling Sir Digby.
A barony.
I keed! It’s just Chafed and I having fun with my music history
Or, what Chafed said.
Sheesh.. I try roll one slow over the place…
?
J Geils Band was awesome. Just a hell of a lot of fun.
They were actually a good blues band throughout the 70’s (and off and on later). Then they had their one-album wonder (not derogatory, I hope they made bank and never worked more than they wanted).
But yeah, Freeze Frame was their shining moment.
And, like you said, a lot of fun.
Did you get WBCN where you were in NH? For obvious reasons the station loved them.
The Lone Star State, folks….
It’s not just Texas and the article is heartbreaking. The same is true in other states and the federal government.
Oh, I have no doubt. I just continue to be disappointed. As much as I sense a narrative in media of Texas being “wild West”, shit like this puts that lie to rest.
See also: Republicans love them some tort reform. I’m sure we’ll have a better country when thoughtless limits on liability protect the right people.
{Didn’t mean to make it sound like I thought it was unique}
Access Denied
Hmmm…I have no idea why that would be. Region lock, I guess.
I don’t know how to find a mirror site for it.
This isn’t the article but will give an idea of how Sir Digby feels.
https://youtu.be/9pfTQ3FsjvA
I wonder when this will come up in the presidential race.
Where this = https://dailycaller.com/2019/11/08/americans-oppose-transgender-athletes-girls-sports/
How to burn the credibility of an entire profession in one easy step.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/psychiatrists-who-called-trump-dangerous-seek-to-testify-in-impeachment-hearings
Where’s that ancient aliens guy…?
“I’m not saying it’s a diagnosis, but we’ve diagnosed him.”
These people are starting to make L. Ron’s anti-psychiatry shtick look legit.
Yup. Broken click syndrome FTW.
This is the sort of thing that gives cross-examination a good name. During the hearing he/she/they will get lit up if Team Red uses someone competent.
I’d want Ted Cruz. I’ve seen him work over witnesses. He’s good.