It’s Saturday, drinking is occurring, and the sound of dogs barking at workmen first thing in the morning is over.
*Dips toe into derp*
“Ewww, this is worse than stepping in cold dog shit.”
This is how you shitlord.
Time to start hoarding candles.
This whole gene editing thing is getting out of control.
Which one of you did this?
Alfred Hitchcock chuckles from the grave.
Tonight, a little Blues Traveler for your face. Time to get your snark on.
Second Diplomacy Game is created:
Glib Diplomats
invite: squatchcod
By the end of next week, I’m going to be in a half dozen Glib Diplomacy games… aren’t I?
Not unless people sign up for the game lol.
I can’t find the game. What am I missing?
I dunno, game is named Glib Diplomats, the invite code is squatchcod and Neph signed up. Here is a link
I see the link worked. Excellent, we have 3
And just noticed, you made that game a ranked game. Keep an eye on the terms of service for the site, you don’t want to break the rules there, or you’ll start with receiving an e-mail.
/ignore that I”m the only person with a score above 100
I just used the defaults all the way down. Is it a problem that it is ranked?
Not really. It means that the points will count towards the game, and it’s held to a higher adherence level to the rules of the site then a casual (unranked) game. For example, it would be possible to get banned from WebDip if you made a game related comment here instead of in press in the game.
This looks like something I might enjoy, but I’ve never done it before. Are noobs welcome, or should I sit this one out?
I’m welcoming to noobs. But you shouldn’t necessarily believe anything I say. It is Diplomacy after all.
If players aren’t willing to teach and mentor new players to the game, it will dwindle and eventually die. As it’s one of my favorite games, I’d prefer that didn’t happen.
How about rules and such. Is there a primer somewhere?
There may be some writings on the subject.
The basic rules are simple:
All units can move one space (or perform one support action per turn).
In order to push someone out of a space, you need to have more support then the unit there
Unit counts are balanced out based on Supply Centers controlled at the end of the Autumn turn (Moves are Spring 1901, Retreats, Autumn 1901, Retreats, Builds, Spring 1902, repeat).
To convoy a land unit, you need an unbroken line of fleets all doing a convoy movement with no disruption in it (a common tradition on a winning game is to do a random long distance convoy to rub it in).
Found it
Whatever you do, never trust the French. They always lie. Unless I’m playing France, then they are totally trustworthy.
This Diplomacy n00b would like to get in on the action when another game comes around. All my board game friends fled the bay area and/or have stupid work/family commitments.
The game in the first comment is not full yet,
Also a noob/lurker interested in the rhetoric, but temporarily constrained geographically. Can I sign up and beg for understanding?
Eric Ciaramella killed Juan Epstein.
In the Trump Tower on the 5th Ave. right now. It’s like a parallel universe.
It’s a pretty easy problem to fix. If they’re that aggressive, you don’t even need a shotgun. Just grab a machete.
Geese, though … the hate birds that hate.
I like goose. Better than turkey, actually.
I can’t say I’ve had goose.
My culinary experience hasn’t been very fowl.
Me = ~15
My dad’s work friend went hunting and brought a goose back for him all dressed out and whatnot. My mother dutifully roasted it. Note: My mother is an excellent cook.
Nobody liked it except me. It was like a thicker, richer version of turkey dark meat. Like, the whole thing was dark meat. I ate that entire bird by myself over a week or two. Roast goose sandwiches for breakfast and lunch.
Nom nom nom.
I have roasted a duck before. It wasn’t bad but not worth the work.
I turn goose breast into pastrami and leg/thighs get turned into taco meat. I was getting the freezer ready for the arrival of half a steer and found that I have about six pounds of duck breast in there. Time to make some sausage.
Which half of the steer did you get?
Q: If you the specific spices for any given sausage (e.g., kielbasa, Italian, gyro), does the animal really matter?
I think it does. You can taste the difference.
Don’t have it yet. Not sure if it’s the right, or left side.
You can definitely taste the difference, duck fat makes things amazing, sausage, fried foods.
We haven’t bought a half steer since our chest freezer died and I had to dispose of 200 pounds of meat that had been sitting there warm for who knew who long. I stuffed Mentholatum up my nose like crazy.
We just never got another chest freezer.
The duck adds a richness, but given that I cut it 50/50 with pork, you can’t tell it’s duck, other than the color.
I keep thinking of getting a chest freezer.
But I’m not sure where I’d put it.
UCS: I’ve got two chest freezers in the basement. One has been converted to the keezer (keg freezer) which hooks up to the taps. The second is usually a fermentation chamber, but gets shifted into a role as a fridge in the run-up to hosting Thanksgiving.
Farm raised goose and duck are better than wild which are often tough and gamey. The best part of both is the fat.
Be honest – you raise foie gras birds.
I would in a heartbeat. Murder is murder, but meat is tasty.
I remember that that goose was really lean, and I’m quite sure farm-raised birds are better.
If it was gamey, I wouldn’t know then and I certainly wouldn’t remember now. I just know I really liked it and I couldn’t understand why nobody else did.
MO >> NJ
*sage nod*
Thanksgiving is coming. Kill one or two and the rest move on. Take your kills and make some outstanding Thanksgiving dishes. Unless the birds have been eating at a golf course. Then kill one or two and pitch them.
My buddy would archery hunt them with a arrowhead that when launched snapped open to around 6 inches wide and decapitated them. I just used a shotgun. (In AZ you can use a .22mag but I never got drawn for a permit.)
That face does not look human. Fish with tortured soul face, Fish with demon face, ok, but not human.
You’d need to pay me at least 66% more, plus the difference in taxes to move abroad.
If I move, I want to move to a lower tax jurisdiction with first world infrastructure, not the second world shithole I’m in.
I’d settle for free speech rights equal to or better than ours.
Not going to find that outside the US.
(That’s the joke.)
I’m hearing you say that in Rainier Wolfcastle’s voice.
Probably not as robust as the US, but it is in the constitution at least.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Japan
I’m guessing we wrote it in there when we dictated the new constitution to them.
You’d be guessing right. Outside the US, I’d like to see another country that has better free speech rights than Japan. Might exist, but I haven’t seen one.
Fortunately, the shirt is still available for sale here.
Good evening, Glibs!
And a hearty Fuck Off to you!
If you don’t accuse it of being a Tulpa, they might get the wrong impression.
He’s a lurker who needs to speak more. He, OMWC, my husband, and I had dinner. In fact, he lives in my neighborhood!
I gave Yusef the benefit of the doubt that he was providing a traditional glibertarian greeting.
I was just excited to see Libertesian!
Aww… howdy neighbor!
Yes, we all know that OMWC is the real Tulpa.
And that Tulpa is older than dirt and twice as dusty.
Well, he cleaned up OK for dinner… Perhaps because a mythical Libertarian woman was present?
He must have walked through a car wash before he got ready for dinner.
Chasing a gradeschooler?
Are there or aren’t there Libertesians?
Do you think one will ever be found?
Oh, pour us another cold Oly my friend!
The question is worth one more round!
/popular old tv commercial song
Yusef, I’m reading old threads and saw your post a few days ago about your current situation. Sorry. I’m hoping for the best for you.
Class it up a bit. “Daddy’s Little Strumpet”
I’m waiting for “Daddy’s Little Catamite.”
Put it on a cat. Confuse people who know the word, and give those who don’t the wrong idea.
Bonus if you name the cat Ganymede.
I already have names picked out for my future cats once I get moved, Beowulf and Devil Anse. Ain’t no critter be fucking around on my lawn!
She’ll just smile, and give you a catamite sandwich.
BOOOOO!
As you wish.
Fuck off, Tulpa!
Of course it did.
Meanwhile in the land of not-make-believe.
Dammit. Why did I buy frozen chicken? Couldn’t I have spent a few dollars more for fresh? It’d be cooked by now.
You couldn’t start thawing it earlier?
I shopped late.
Spatchcock.
They’re already disarticulated wing pices. They’ve finished cooking and are now swimming in hot sauce.
Wing day is Sunday, where they’re on sale and cheap. There’s a reason I’m not dropping weight faster.
The latest Randstad Workmonitor Mobility Index found 66% of U.S. workers would move abroad for a substantially higher salary, a share that slightly edges out the 59% of workers around the world outside the U.S. who’d do the same. (The survey doesn’t define what constitutes a “substantially higher salary” in its questioning.)
If there is enough money involved after taxes and cost of living, I don’t blame them. Full disclosure: I had considered expatriating for a while. Australia was on the list.
A former coworker of mine used to live in Brussels. He convinced the company to move him to America and sponsor him for citizenship. The company simply adjusted his salary from Euros to USD. He and his family had more disposable income and a nicer house here in the US.
As if California doesn’t have enough problems with its electric service, now regulators warn the state may be short on power supplies by 2021 if utilities don’t start lining up new resources now.
What is that joke about Socialists and electricity?
The shirt, emblazoned with “Daddy’s Little Slut,” was being sold by third-party retailer Onlybabycare, which offers other children’s apparel on Amazon.
The vulgar shirt had been on the retail giant’s website since June 2019 and was recently on sale for half its original price, according to The Independent.
Yesterday’s mail included a catalog from Amazon. I haven’t thrown it out yet. I’ll bet this t-shirt isn’t in the catalog.
Carolina Amber isn’t that bad of a beer.
LSU is in the process of squandering a 23 point lead.
Yes, it’s gotten interesting.
That’s more like it.
That was a clutch Bama TD on 4th down to make it 39-34 with 5:30 remaining in the 4th quarter.
And LSU takes down Alabama at home.
And it’s over.
Or maybe not.
Now it’s over.
Wild day. Somebody remind why USC fired Ed Orgeron. USC stumbled through a game they should have won by 40.
Not sure. He’s definitely more at home in the SEC though.
Also, Ohio State just annihilates everyone.
He had a real good run at SC. Then decided to hire Steve Sarkasian, super genius.
Good evening Glibs.
I think I might need this. It’s a semi-auto rifle with a detachable magazine. Do I lose shitlord points for it not being black and scary-looking?
You can but an AK-47 with wood stocks, so I don’t see a problem.
That looks good.
I found two gorgeous Schmidt-Rubins, a 00/11 and a K31, defaced with the modern import marks that you can read from the other side of the room. Barf.
I had a neat little M94 Swede carbine with one of those damned marks. I eventually sold it, but it was a sweet little thing, even with that stupid stamp.
I have some guns with import stamps, but I’ve passed on every one I’ve seen with those new billboard stamps.
I don’t have a M94 yet. I have a M96, M96/38, and a M38. The M96 and M38 are good rifles. I haven’t shot the M96/38. It’s a recent acquisition.
I’ve been looking high and low for a Molot Vepr in 30-06. Since the dipshits banned Russian imports, they’ve become impossible to find.
https://fimegroup.com/vepr-rifle/vepr-30-06/
That’s an interesting-looking piece.
The one I linked here isn’t a fixer-upper, but for some time I’ve been watching for a rough old Model 100 Winchester with worn bluing and maybe a messed-up stock, as long as the action and barrel are in good shape. Why? I want to see if I can make a bullpup version of this old gun. Not sure why, other than just to see if I can make it work.
First beer of the day, tastes like… beer.
On my 2nd — I can testify that it too tastes like… beer.
On my second as well. Founders Dirty Bastard. It has 8.5% abv,…I may not make it 9pm.
Good choice… You have inspired me to make my 3rd his Backwoods brother at 11.2% ABV.
Both are excellent beers.
First?
/comforts Hyperion
You are claiming to have just had your first? I say Fake News.
ZARDOZ APPROVES.
That was supposed to be in reply to Animal’s rifle interest.
Your going to fit right in here…
Am I insane or has Libertesian been here for a long time, just not posting frequently?
Can’t it be both?
It can, likely is.
I believe I’ve seen the handle and avatar previously. But he was welcomed above, so I felt I should keep up appearances.
Tulpa is still playing tricks on you guys, shameful!
Presented without comment: Greta Thunberg’s mom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUsErkT1OCk
bork bork bork fjord
We should have never invented the internet, I was wrong all along about that.
update
“michael bloomberg quotes” now gives me 6.3 million results vs 9.6 million from the screen cap that was posted by someone else in the previous thread.
Not sure why I get 3.3 million fewer results, but it’s way up from zero.
If you only had a minute to say goodbye to your family before your plane went down what would you say?
https://mobile.twitter.com/GizaDog/status/1193194263275687937
Tragic.
Damn man… Right in the feels
🙁
That makes me feel ill.
Was his mechanic named Killary Hinton?
He’s as good as dead, now.
I wonder if he drank this beer?
Some horrors are completely justifiable.
Nope. When I worked fast food there was a co-worker who dropped her engagement ring into the deep fryer and reached in after it.
Oh wow, how bad?
She made it elbow deep before the reaction hit.
We also had a former Marine who didn’t follow all the safety rules when draining the fryer, and had learned how to reach into the fryer while it was still hot and avoid burning himself. When he was training someone else, they didn’t follow the steps exactly, and they only made it knuckle deep before recoiling.
Up to the elbow?
Jesus
*quails*
Yup.
That’s a mistake you only make once.
The rin will survive the fryer temperature. The hand…
We had vapor phase reflow soldering stations set up on our assembly line. They create a heavy layer of gaseous long chain polymers at about 230 C. You can’t see the gas layer above the boiling fluid, but if you ever stuck your hand below the threshold, you can forget about retaining the skin on your fingers.
Worst thing I saw in fast food was when I was in high school while working at Hardee’s and some kid got most of the meat on his first two fingers caught in the slicer. Now I’m not too squeamish around blood, but I admit I got a little green around the gills for a few seconds after that happened.
Worst accident I ever had on the job was when some chick got her hair caught in a drill press. I didn’t actually see it, but I saw her a couple days later missing half her hair. That was ugly.
But, one time I had just turned 18 and wanted to make some more money, so I took a job at a foundry. They paid well, but they had open vats of molten metal and the foreman on my shift told me that some guy fell into one of those the day before. I felt sort of sick to say the least. I handed him my hard hat and walked home, just fuck that shit.
“Worst accident I ever had”
saw
I was on a construction site when a guy walked off the fifth floor and landed on a pile of bricks.
He was “not ok”
It’s sort of funny how I still remember this. But when I was 16/17 years old, working for a builder friend of my grandfather, we were doing something on the 3rd floor of a house and we’re rolling out some big tarp, I can’t even remember why. But one of my co-workers said something like ‘Hey, what is that bird, I never saw on of those before’. So I stopped what we were doing with my side of the tarp and looked out the window he was looking out. A moment later, I realized that my feet were half off an opening where the stairs were supposed to go. If I would have taken another step back, I would have fallen through that opening, all the way to the basement floor, 3 floors down, probably about 30 ft.
Ugh, I’m assuming they are either dead or crippled for life. I only know one person who died on the job outside of somebody from sports or during active duty. About seven years ago my aunt’s longterm boyfriend worked at a quarry and was crushed Final Destination Style when he walked under a couple ton crane just as it fell off a support beam.
The worst I’ve seen period was when a coworker of mine overfilled a trash bag with broken shards of ceramic tile and lifted it over his head to throw it in a dumpster. The ass fell out of it, of course, and pieces hit his forearm and cut open some veins. That was ghastly. I can’t remember how many stitches he needed but it was in the dozens.
I did that with broken glass one time. This was back before drawstring trashbags were as cheap as the twistie ties. I whipped the bag around to cinch it up, and a broken shard of glass caught me on the knee.
I distinctly remember my mom yelling at me from the other room to get the fucking trash out while I was trying to contain the bleeding.
That was one of the worst things I saw. Another incident that sticks in my head was during a remodel. The manager was in exhorting all of us to work harder for cleaning (we were getting paid ~$1/hour more). The contractors doing the remodel had pulled the flat tops out, and the manager was going to scrub the floors under it. Without checking, he took a scrub brush, dipped it into a bucket, and threw water all over the outlets and floor. The contractors’ jaws all dropped, as the manager asked, “Were these breakers flipped?”
“If they weren’t, you wouldn’t be asking us now.”
The worst I ever saw was a brilliant contractor who was working for me on the remodel of the nightclub I was opening. There were 6 foot high mirrors lining a wall that we were removing. He grabbed a prybar and levered the glass off the wall. Of course he stood UNDER it, and ended up with close to 300 stitches when 20 lbs of jagged glass laid him open from right wrist up the arm and across his entire chest. The room looked like someone had hacked a live cow to death. Arterial spray up to the ceiling.
Yikes! I just posted a story about something similar, but not that severe.
*burp*
Sorry, I’m tipsy, forgot to respond. Uh, yeah, I don’t do electrical, at least not anymore. I can install GFCI outlets, light switches, and the occasional ceiling fan, but I struggle with all of those and shocking myself at least once during the process is a near certainty if flipping the breakers isn’t an option. But yes, if you’re an adult and don’t know that water and electricity don’t mix then you deserve an honorary Darwin Award.
I saw some really nasty paper cuts during my office career. Oh, the humanity!
In the past, whenever you would see a sentence begin with “dipped metal tongs into hot grease and….” it would end up being “dipped metal tongs into hot grease and plucked out a steaming turd.”
Now the canon is expanding, I guess.
Nobody actually works in the UK.
Not true, Polish Plumbers do.
That makes some sense. Based on my experience, none of the Brits do a damn thing.
That’s what they tell the wife. Deep down they all hope for Bangkok.
Costa Rica/Panama
Too much crying game in Thailand, never mind the genuflecting to the King,
Fuck the King of Thailand.
Good gig, it apparently gets you two star General rank.
Until you stop
REANNOUNCED:
I’ve decided to host a Great Glib Debate Series that will consist of a point-counterpoint/support-dissent for various topics of interest. Since I would personally have logistical problems doing a before/after scoring, we’ll just have a survey monkey for who won the debate ex post facto. This will be held as a single elimination tournament and a topic will be randomly assigned to you and your opponent, so you may end up arguing something that you find stupid or irrelevant; keep that in mind if you decide to sign up (I know you can’t resist Hyperbole). Once I have a list of participants, I’ll post the list of topics and set the match ups in a random fashion. Once the match ups are set, I’ll email the participants the topic and their side. They’ll then have a week to write a short (let’s keep it to half a page) argument. They will then be posted simultaneously and the Survey Monkey to vote will be up for 24 hours. Rinse and repeat. I’d like to have a debate once a week (schedule permitting).
Please do sign up. As host, I will not be scoring, the Glibertariat will decide the winner. However, I reserve the right to DQ participants for personal attacks on the opponent (let’s keep this civil… as much as possible).
Sound good? Interested? Then reach out to TPTB and they’ll give you my email.
And this.
https://archive.li/HrzE2/2e868d88326c696a27c2bf4f33d5cd8eb488c665.jpg
NSFW.
And this is why I keep coming back here to lurk.
I’m in. TPTB have my email but it’s just my handle here at don’t be evil, unless the Chinese give you money for it .com
No ad hominems?
Fuck
As far as I’m concerned, from now on you can go fuck yourself.
?
Based on many of his posts, I’m sure he already does.
I’m in.
I’m in.
…Fuck off, Tulpa?
Sure, let’s go with that.
Fuck off, Tulpa!
(I know you can’t resist Hyperbole).
It will probably surprise many of you but I don’t argue just to argue, or to play devils advocate, or to be a contrarian just for fun. Every single position I argue here is one I truly and firmly believe in. While it may be an interesting logical game, arguing a point I don’t believe in just to practice arguing holds no interest for me. (he smugged contrarily) So I’ll just watch this one from the sidelines.
Every single position I argue here is one I truly and firmly believe in.
Truly I would buy, firmly? Come on, you seem to really value the role of poking us when our frequent lean toward the right ignores (or seems to ignore) some libertarian principle or is inconsistent with comments about figures on the other side that we have previously made. That may well be based in your firm belief in fairness, but I doubt the individual cases are all really firmly held beliefs.
Not a criticism.
Whatever, cunte snivel.
Oh, stop.
Sounds about right.
I suck at debate, so maybe I should try, eh? If someone makes a good point and their overall argument sounds better, why not just agree with them? If I didn’t think this way, I’d still be the reluctant democrat I was in the early 90’s.
I’m in.
Here’s an ethics question.
Background, I’ve been watching time team specials on Amazon, and they have mentioned that any new development since 1990 in the UK must allow for a full archeological survey at the builder’s expense. In the example dig, it adds another full million pounds to the cost of development.
What would be a better means of incentivizing surveys in archeologically dense regions without putting a gun to the heads of the people who own the land?
Eliminate the rule that any valuables found belong to the Crown?
Not sure what happened, but he last time I had a conversation with some British archaeologists, they were still laughing at Americans for taking months to dig up something they would dig up in a day.
If americans worked as fast, we’d run out of stuff to dig.
Well, we still haven’t found Atlantis, or that place in the Americas with all the gold, what was it. El Dorado?
So there’s still that, and of course it will all be under water again soon, because climate change.
incentivizing surveys in archeologically dense regions
Why is this something you want to incentivize?
Because I like filling in the gaps in the written record. Besides, we have the status quo “Pay for it or get beat up by the gov” and I’m looking for ideas.
Go the Ducks Unlimited route, find like-minded people and fund raise, pool resources, petition the gov’t for handouts, sucker rich old people into leaving your ‘charity’ all their wealth etc,etc…then buy up archeologically rich sites or offer to pay for the surveys.
Destroyed archeological sites are a bad thing, they are not as bad as depriving people of their property rights, but they are bad.
In the 1980s, our township supervisors allowed some developer to build over an historic graveyard. Two homes have bodies under their driveways and back yards.
They were pretty shocked when current supervisors put them on the Historic Resource List. Guess little Johnny and Suzie will have to do without that in-ground pool.
I saw that movie.
“Prosecutors say Smith, who is described as having a “mild cognitive impairment”
So… letting someone enslave you without pay and beat you for 5 years is a mild cognitive impairment? WTF?
RE: the modern day slave owner; first, talk about a punch-able face…what a prick. I hope he’s very popular in prison.
Second; fuck the co-workers of this poor guy. For five fucking years his coworkers just went along with this? They should all be arrested and/or sued as accomplices. Assholes.
“Second; fuck the co-workers of this poor guy. For five fucking years his coworkers just went along with this?”
Which is way I’m thinking the entire thing is made up.
Good point. I hope that you are right. The smug prick’s mugshot makes me worried, though.
I’ve never even heard of any shit like that before. I used to work for a mfg company that employed about 90% women and I can’t even count the cat fights and women crying that I saw, but never anything close to that.
I find it all a little unbelievable myself.
Now that I think about it, there was an L&O SVU episode much like this, IIRC…
Waitresses at the J&J Cafeteria were reluctant to come forward because they feared Bobby Paul Edwards.
MIL of a waitress finally reported Edwards.
That was my first reaction but he plead guilty. I think it’s real and his coworkers are stupid, cowards, unaware, uncaring, or some combination.
Yeah, that’s the only conclusion one can draw. At the very least, how does one continue to work there knowing that?!
If you’re desperate for a job.
My first thought: Illegal aliens being paid cash under the table.
You forgot “selfish”.
I see Facebook is getting in on the Tienanmen Square game:
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Facebook announced it would be erasing any reference to the alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella from its platform because it violates its terms of service. “Any mention of the potential whistleblower’s name violates our coordinating harm policy, which prohibits content ‘outing ..
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/facebook-scrubbing-any-and-all-mentions-of-alleged-whistleblowers-name-from-the-platform
JEHOVAH JEHOVAH JEHOVAH!
Everyone should link that article on their facebook. I just did
and it has been removed. No notification, just gone.
and reposted. I will probably be involuntarily leaving facebook soon lol.
and again lol.
Because you are dead naming. Nothing to do with trans; more Clinton.
Which means everyone at Facebook knows his name but doesn’t want you to know it.
What a world.
Don’t forget you’re also not allowed to mention Alex Jones except to denounce him:
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/2/18527357/facebook-bans-alex-jones-louis-farrakhan-infowars
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Any account that shares Infowars content will see it removed; unless the post is explicitly condemning Infowars. Facebook and Instagram will remove any content containing Infowars videos, radio segments, or articles, (unless the post is explicitly condemning the content) and Facebook will also remove any groups set up to share Infowars content and events promoting any of the banned extremist figures, according to a company spokesperson. (Twitter, YouTube, and Apple have also banned Jones and Infowars.)
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I for one, welcome our new insect overlords.
Introducing the new Apple iMemoryHole.
So tiresome. The good news is that social media is slowly but surely digging its own grave. Good riddance.
Facebook is on track to have 0 users in 50 years. It will be a digital graveyard. Like the Catacombs of Paris, but with more cat memes.
Odds are 90% of the top 100 internet businesses will have gone away in 50 years, not a commentary on those businesses, just the historical reality of the development of new industries over time.
I’d hope/expect it to be a damn sight quicker than that. The only question is, what new hell replaces it?
Yeah, I’d guess within 5 years. It’s already gone on far longer than one would expect.
@RBS you’ll need to get your moves in for diplomacy.
Well he doesn’t have to. But it’ll make for a better game. And It’ll help keep Germany and Italy honest.
/ignore that I’m England
You know who else couldn’t keep Germany and Italy honest?
Youtube made this video damn hard to find, but I win again:
Maddow Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xr6wHNRY9Q
LOL
Even if you search for “jimmy dore maddow russia”, that video is the 12th result!
The funniest thing is the mention of communism, which the left are just now getting around to mentioning, is themselves.
Whelp. I officially started Xmas shopping today. Hohoho. ?
Nope. I refuse until after Thanksgiving.
I don’t even know that to do anymore. I only buy for my wife these days and she already has it, whatever it is. Don’t buy me jewelry, I have too much, don’t buy me clothes, I like to shop for myself, don’t buy me anything for the house, that’s not romantic. I really feel uncomfortable shopping for the newest dildos, but I’m all out of ideas.
I’ve managed to set expectations that I don’t buy gifts every year, but when I give gives, they’re something I believe to be meaningful.
I refuse to give gift cards. I like to give something that either I put thought into or was on their Amazon wishlist.
No Amazon wishlist? You get a shake weight. I had to make an example of my sister one year…It did make for some good laughs (I still have her a real gift).
My sister and brother-in-law have been asking for consumables for the past previous years. I’ve gotten them subscriptions to spice sites, beer/wine, restaurant gift certificates (we’ve got a local group that sells certificates that are good for ~50 local places), and of course Kiva gift cards (if the recipient does nothing for a year, it converts to a donation).
+1 for consumables… My house has more than enough clutter, but that didn’t stop my wife from hauling a new dresser home today for my daughter’s bedroom.
We’re under a 100% buying freeze. Until we buy a bigger house. There’s no more room to put more stuff, it’s all over for now.
There’s quite a bit you can do in a make it yourself way on top of that. Last year I gave my niece and sister (and BIL) three bottles of simple syrup (a vanilla demerara, a ginger, and a rosemary).
Depending on your budget…
Gift cards for massages
A fun activity that you wouldn’t normally do (e.g., I bought my husband a day at the track driving race cars)
Vacation where you wouldn’t normally
My mom only wants consumables or experiences. We used to take her to plays, but her hearing is getting worse (she wears hearing aids) so now it’s the ballet or Circe de Soleil. A day of pampering (mani-pediatrics, facials, massage) works, but she likes if I go with so we’re spending time together
For relatives I see at Christmas, I buy booze. Shopping is easy.
I buy gifts for the kids in the family, booze is not really an appropriate choice for most of them.
Gin and small ale are the traditional drinks for children. Real ale isn’t made anymore, so lite beer can be substituted.
There are kids in the family, but none that I see when I go visiting.
Anal beads.
I only have my mom left, all other presents ready to be wrapped. I like to be done by Thanksgiving.
I’ve done most of mine, by shopping at Amazon.
Virginia teacher fired for refusing to call transgender student male pronouns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUgefqClT5Q
[Hank Hill BWAA]
comment gold:
I could stand in a garage and call myself a Cadillac but it doesn’t make it true.
Virginia is totally fucked. One of my co-workers who lives in NOVA came in the day after the 2016 election all upset because his kids had came home terrified because their teacher told them they’re going to be deported by Trump. They’re US citizens. I told him that if I were him I’d be in jail that day for beating the shit out of a teacher.
This is not going to end well for xem.
Just forgive them. Communism doesn’t work and they have nothing else.
They have shrieking harridans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zusbxCfxHqE
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This occured December 1st during a lecture hosted by the New England Objectivist Society and the UMass Republicans. Titled: “Global Capitalism: The Cure for World Oppression and Poverty” given by Professor Andrew Bernstein of SUNY Purchase about how a system of capitalism and property rights, underpinned by Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism, is the solution to the conditions of poverty seen throughout much of the world. The protest, which no group on UMass took responsibility for, shows just how weak the norms of free discourse and open thought are among those who desire to force their own vision of society upon other people.
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But the rich are extremely rich. No shit, you fucking genius. So are you compared to pretty much everyone a few hundred years ago. Otherwise, you’d be struggling to survive instead of screaming non-sense in a video. And guess how that happened? Capitalism, you idiot.
I couldn’t sit through that video but just the bits I did see with every adult in the room going along with the totalitarian madness was chilling. They are setting that kid up for disaster as soon as he/she/it enters the real world.
From a reply to something I said on Tom Kratman’s Facebook:
San Augusto de Puma, we entreat thee to look down upon us with favor;
“Bestow upon us thy blessings, that we may continue thy good works;
“Raise us up that we may cast the Communist down from on high.”
‘the real world.’
When does that stop being a truism? I mean, don’t get me wrong, it still applies. I just essentially said the same thing recently(side-note: I also recently pulled the ‘as a ___’ card a few days ago, which was douchey of me, especially since it added no weight to anything I was saying, even from an identity politics angle, I apologize to everyone), but sooner or later that WILL be the real world. What then, say fuck all and invest in woodchiper futures? It’s kinda depressing if you think too deeply about it.
Believe it or not, I’m still an optimist at heart. I believe most people are basically good people. I like to believe that as people see the consequences of some of their decisions they’ll choose a better path forward.
I want to believe that, I truly do, and I think I do, but the most vile of the cream rises to the top most often, and that cream tends to infect everything beneath as it rises, leaving enough of a taint to concentrate the rest to its will at the worst possible moments.
Being a misanthropic humanist is frustrating.
Trigger Hippie: I’ve dabbled in the burn it all down feelings in the past. It still comes up on a semi-regular basis. Then I think back to the random meetings I’ve had with the current youts. I’ve met a couple who were homeless and managed to get themselves an apartment through drug dealing in MA (which led to an interesting conversation about the effects of legalization). I’ve met youths who are working their way through bartending, and realize that the government isn’t their friend. I keep meeting youngens (early-late 20’s) who want to work, but realize that they can’t because the state is keeping them down.
Of course, it may just be that I’m happy for any young girl to be walking up to me to start a conversation.
Nihilism is very self destructive. I find it tempting sometimes as well, but it doesn’t take you anywhere good.
TH:
If I may suggest something. Give this a listen. The song is less then five years old, and seems like it fits the concept of most of us here.
/I really don’t want to hear that this band has a commie bend, it would hurt.
Nothing last forever! Nothing is worth fighting for!
I like the tune, Neph. Her voice reminds of Brody Dalle’s from the Distillers.
But to comment on the lyrics, I don’t want to lead or follow, I just want to be left in peace. Unfortunately, when the shit hits the fan, that option isn’t always left for an average schlub.
TH:
To me, it sings about the choice that there are only two options. You lead people by the way you act, or you follow. My niece was on the Bernie side last election, but she couldn’t call me a sexist or a racist because she knew me too well. She’s even given me shit when I offered to help pay for her to complete her 4-year degree (I’m a dropout), but only if it was a STEM one.
The fact there are still songs coming from the younger generations talking about fighting gives me hope. Being called out by my niece gives me hope.
I really need to hope the world is going to get better, and seeing signs that it’s possible help me believe that.
The making at the “men get periods too” commercial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djfIeCSzIf8
[anguished Zoidberg groan]
It’s almost as bad as the Gillette “dad teaches tranny spawn to shave” ad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FR2N7bvSf0
Sure we do. I just don’t remember bleeding out of my dick before. And sure, girls can play in the NFL, it’ just that we won’t let them.
Interesting article about the culture shock of moving from LA to a small town.
https://www.businessinsider.com/small-town-america-culture-shock-2019-8
The only thing that really bothers me.
Rural life involves planning ahead. I wonder if that is connected to the political difference between urbanites and rural folk.
I think it’s because weekdays are for working, and weekends are when grocery shopping goes on, so I see that as the loss of half the options.
Wow that must be a relief. I enjoyed my 2 years in LA but I’ll never live there again.
I lived there, well, Simi Valley for 5 years, but I was a kid. I doubt I’d even recognize it today.
Unless you run into this guy.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/uc-berkeley-instructor-calls-rural-americans-bad-people-who-have-made-bad-life-decisions
Let me guess, he’s never even driven past the city limits.
Sigh. What happened to just leaving people alone? I have no interest in small-town life but it would never cross my mind to write something like that. Something something silent majority something internet magnifies the voice of assholes
Well, there’s no need to worry, you can still vote for commies to turn the place into the one you just fled.
All painfully obvious stuff. *shrugs*
But, is it?
Welcome to America.
One of the biggest issues we voted on in the last cycle was a tax increase to build a new elementary school. Since there’s only one in my town, and only a few thousand voters in my county, my vote impacted my life and the lives of those around me in a very palpable way.
Yeah, and I bet the Califuctard didn’t vote against raising taxes.
My wife and I have been pulled out of snowbanks, drifts, and ditches at least half a dozen times by people just driving by.
Learn to drive fuck nuts.
Get an appropriate vehicle.
Get appropriate tires.
Learn to put on chains.
Stay home when conditions warrant.
I bet the asshole hasn’t even bought a tow strap yet.
According to the US Census Bureau, my county is just 0.4% black. Our largest nearby urban center, Salt Lake City (about 4 hours away) barely fares better, at 2.02%.
Does this asshole fly into [insert random southern city], look around, and say ‘there’s too many darkies here. There should only 13%’?
And no mention of the Hispanic or Indian population. I guess they aren’t dark enough for him.
Still, it was orders of magnitude better than most of these articles are.
No idea what such a person considers the optimum number of blacks. Is there a point of diminishing returns on smug superiority?
Yeah that was a really stupid statement. “BETTER”? Like a place is better because there are more minorities there? Who cares?
Poured some wine and am heading for the hot tub. Ahhh!
You filled your hot tub with wine?
I just want to know if it’s box wine or the real stuff that comes in bottles.
Boxed wine will actually keep better then bottled wine, same as canned beer holds up better then bottled beer.
Ass’s milk is more traditional
But not easy to get hold of these days.
Does Ass Milk have alcohol in it? Because I’m pretty sure wine doesn’t. I can get a buzz off a couple of beers, but 2 bottles of wine will do nothing at all for me.
Interesting… Is your wine of choice something like this?
Enjoy, Tulip.
The last of my Oktoberfest beer, and in my Oktoberfest 2016 souvenir Maß. Yum.
NJR’s last book didn’t sell very well, so he’s giving it away for free. That’s a bold move Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off.
https://images.currentaffairs.org/2019/11/bloopsfinalhardbackagust.pdf
It’s really, really bad. As in “guy who thinks he’s smart and hilarious but isn’t bad”.
a sample
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Yet several reforms would nevertheless benefit the university. Professors ought to be banned from writing articles, or should at the very least be strongly discouraged from doing so. Practical education must be given central priority, not only the lasso-based arts, but also the care and taming of pachyderms, fundamentals of boatbuilding, and experimental embroidery. Instead of functioning as intellectu-al penitentiaries, warehousing the young cerebellum for two to four years so that it cannot make a ruckus, the University must craft the immature human into a rounded-off General rather than a specialized Major. The being leaving its walls must be able to tailor a suit, design a water park, pilot a microlight, plan an invasion, defend an indefensible proposition, woo a barista, locate a tumor, tastefully augment a bouquet, criticize a PowerPoint, toast a retiree, roast a toastmaster, banter with a court reporter, burglarize a film studio, untie a hostage, impersonate a monarch, photograph a pageant, remove a leech, skil-fully massage a loved one, file a journalistic dispatch, conduct amateur torso surgery, infuriate a priest, tickle a bellboy, argue with a shipping company, select a tasteful gift, clean a bloodstain, compose a sonata, narrate a funeral, fabricate a telegram, and pen a book of utopian suggestions, among a thousand other abilities.
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[head desk]
Who?
Nathan Robinson, I think? Noted commie derp.
I’ve seen enough on pp. 147-8:
Take away my secret ballot over my dead, naked body!
From another article
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/11/qa-with-a-conservative-student-on-socialism
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The economic “free rider” problem is generally actually an argument for the public provision of goods and services, in the places where it happens. The classic example is lighthouses: if someone builds a lighthouse privately and tries to charge people to use it, it’s easy to “free ride” by not paying. That’s why lighthouses should be paid for with taxes or with a government-imposed fee on all boats entering a harbor. We want people to have free rides. A hiking trail should be publicly owned, because if it’s privately owned then you have to build a gatehouse and police it to make sure nobody’s entering without paying. You have to develop a whole massively inefficient and unnecessary exclusion and payment collection system, and of course people have to think about whether they have enough money to hike. The commons is beautiful because we can use it without having to go through all of that hassle.
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Dear god…
Wouldn’t a lighthouse be funded by a harbor operator that also dredges the channel and provisions tugs and longshoremen? The ships going in and out would be paying for the whole suite of harbor services.
Isolated random rocks in the middle of nowhere? *shrug* Maybe within the purview of the ports the shipping lane connects.
Wait until the ship is near the reef and turn the light off if they won’t pay?
And steal the cargo when the ships founder on the rocks.
The easier to identify and punish the wrongthinkers.
‘The being leaving its walls must be…’
A member of a family of extraordinary wealth, living on an allowance or trust fund that reflects that wealth, and have a nearly unlimited amount of spare time on your hands to achieve a third of those skills with any proficiency within one lifetime.
Heinlein has a similar if slightly less pretentious quote that I also ridicule for the same reason.
“Specialization is for insects.” That really annoyed me. Specialization let us go from wandering around starving and naked to flying to the Moon. It is a vital element in our development of complex technologies and systems.
Yep
Without pulling up the full quote, I seem to remember the it having a better ratio of practical applications to every day life than the drivel that broached the subject. But yeah, there was some pure bullshit sprinkled in.
And Robert Anton Wilson in a book later commented on the RAH quote, with the addition that an adult should be able to at least do 50% of the items (based on my memories of reading RAW).
1. diaper, yes but it has been years
2. plan an invasion, strategy or logistics? Because the strategy part is relatively easy, logistics not so much
3. design a building, maybe, if you don’t want heat and plumbing
4. sonnet, yes
5, balance accounts yes
6, build a wall, sure but not as well as a mason
7. set a bone, no but if needed I’d try
8. comfort the dying, yes
9. take orders, yes
10. give orders, yes
11. cooperate, sometimes
12. act alone, sure
13. solve equations, up through ordinary algebra sure
14. analyse a new problem, yes
15. pitch manure, yes but I don’t wanna
16 program a computer, when the quote was fresh I could, but adv basic was the last language I could in
17. cook a tasty meal, yes and quite well
18. fight efficiently, I’ll try
19. die gallantly, unknown
Specialization means even idiots like me can get a job. It’d take a genius a few months to be able to do what I do and so they’d be wasting their time instead of doing something more useful.
This has to be one of the best songs ever.
Played by Carlos Santana
And this:
This
Wellll….
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvkzoqQ5Oak"?And this
Good enough. I don’t know if I ever said this here, but I have a fascination with Latino/south American culture. It’s the women, from the tip of Cape Horn until the border of Texas, the best women on this planet. And I’ll never change my mind. I haven’t even dated a woman who is not from Central or South America in the last 20 years, and I have no interest in doing so. And I’ve been married to one of them for 9 years, no regrets. Yeah, I’m an elitist asshole, and I don’t care.
I think the whole album is pretty superb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Hchh6tqj0
It is, he managed to put out an entire album without a thirty minute one riff drone fest. When he keeps his shit under twelve minutes it’s usually pretty good.
That reminds me of several wonderful nights in Havana.
I love it when they eat each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLYjZD9brtg
comment gold: My mate identified as Yellow 1973 Austin Allegro when I asked him why, he just broke down.
Sandy Stone. Transgender Feminism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Z1QAA-vdI
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Allucquére Rosanne Sandy Stone, performance artist, researcher in neurology and anthropologist of the virtual world, antichrist, and transsexual talking about transgender, feminist, gay, lesbian, legal and social issues, vagina monologues, sex, coming out and giving a sneak preview of her most recent theater project . Public open video philosophy lecture for the faculty and students of the European Graduate School, Media and Communication Studies Department Program, EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2006.
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[Hank Hill BWAA!]
*Checks to see if it was Maurice*
Not Maurice
This is Maurice, or at least was. While I was stationed in SC they sternly suggested I not eat there.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/24/americas-most-political-food
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO2tEr0cJCg
Playin music in the sun again, Spud?
“If I ever saw a child wearing this t-shirt, I’d call the police,” tweeted one person.
*Puts “I don’t know this ===> cunt” t-shirt on daughter and tells her to stand next to that lady.*
I wish to thank all of those who helped with the gas money, I am humbled. Wendy was released from the hospital this afternoon and we are ok for now, camping in a safe spot, well semi camping
That’s good to hear things are no longer as bad.
Superb. We’re here if you need us, Yusef.
Glad to hear the missus is out.
I’m happy to hear you two are OK.
Hang in there, buddy. I hope Wendy keeps getting stronger.
Glad to hear it man. If there’s anything that a midwest guy can do to help, let me know.
I am glad things are better. Big Crust is here if you need a little help.
Good. I hope things get better. Light the glib signal when you need to.
Miller High LIfe is the best cheap beer.
King Cobra 25 oz for 1.25$
Tall Cans!!!!!!!
And that^, too. Cheap beers have the best names. Some of these premium/micro brews have names that make me think I’m drinking gender fluid.
Good stuff, ain’t it. My friends make fun of me for drinking Happoshu (a low malt beer) that is about half the price of normal Asahi or Kirin. Taste is fine, but not as good. If I drank Asahi or Kirin everyday, what would I drink when I go out? Then I’d drink Premium Malts or Yebisu which is more expensive. IOW, setting your baseline as low as possible without going so low as to be drinking bad stuff is the key.
Yeah, I had my wife pick me up a 18 pack, $12. It tastes exactly like the Brazilian beer, Skol. Nice pilsner for cheap.
Yuengling
YES!
Though I have a confession: I’ve been to Pottsville more than a few times but never toured the brewery.
^This^
Never been to Pottsville, but I’m not interested in touring another brewery at this point (unless there’s free samples/exclusive beers/rare trivia provided).
I intend to tour the brewery on some trip back to PA.
When I first moved to MD, I would buy a case of it for $14. I just got burnt out on it.
As long as you don’t mind shitting thorough a screen door the next day.
Buschhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Light FTW!
+1 plastic champagne flute
Huh, When I was in waffle house, I was the only customer for three employees.
There has to be liability issues there. Always are when people want to help strangers.
Covered already?
How a New Meme Exposes the Far-Right Roots of #NoNutNovember
David Ley, PhD, a clinical psychologist and sex therapist who studies pornography and mental health, saw the meme after he tweeted his criticism of No Nut November, referring to it as “a creepy little smorgasbord of insecurity-driven hate with anti-Semitism, misogyny, and homophobia all rolled up in one,” he tells Rolling Stone.
No. Just… no. Enough of this shit already.
Hey, “creepy” is a legit term for a clinical psychologist to use.
Ok Boomer.
(is that how this works?)
Every time someone says “ok, Boomer”, I think they are making some bad Battle Star Galactica (reboot) reference to Grace Park.
I thought it was sksksksksksksksk.
What is that? I keep seeing it in comments.
and I oop.
Save the turtles!
Google VSCO girls.
Something about scrunchies, hydro flasks and tumblr. Shocking that I didn’t know what it is.
It has become a meme here. Probably because we like annoying each other.
I still giggle at it. It’s funny as hell.
Guess I’m back to my default position of just joining the group and using a phrase to get laughs even though I don’t get the joke. Alllllllrighty then.
I think that is what everyone using it is doing.
Man uses battle axe to fend off home invader
Don’t fuck with a LARPer.
I almost added that one to the links.
Why wouldn’t you?
I mean c’mon.
Oh. From the title I assumed that meant he shoved his wife at the invader.
Well done.
#metoo
/too many B&W sitcoms in my youth
My neighbor has an awesome Masai spear. He put it on his Amazon wish list as a joke and his father-in-law bought it as a joke. His friends joke that he just has to hold off a home invader long enough for his wife to show up and shoot the invader. She’s into guns and he’s not.
He might want to sharpen his home defense axe.
Crusty’s Saturday Night Beer Review
Heineken Original
Old reliable is still reliable. 7/10.
+1 Indica flavored beer
I’ve got some Sweetwater 420 strain in the fridge.
I like those
I drink those now and then. A good first beer after a day doing something strenuous.
Crusty, you probably get this a lot. There is something off, not wrong, but definitely off about you.
Yeah, it’s called being awesome.
But also yes and yes that is true.
If it were true you’d have an avatar.
And I fucked your mom.
And there’s something wrong about me.
Man oh man.
She told me you weren’t very good. Small penis, came way too soon.
That’s saying more about CJ’s mom than it is MikeS.
*slips Straff a sawbuck*
LOL!
Nothing wrong with any of the green bottle beers excepting Rolling Rock of course.
I have many fond memories of nights quaffing Rolling Rock. Well.. if you can call them memories.
#metoo
It was go-to swill for cheap nights out in Buffalo.
Little Kings was a staple of my high school years.
I literally laughed out loud at a local Giant Eagle when they had a 12 pack of Little Kings on the shelf with the shelf talker saying “New in the store!”
Summer between junior & senior year at Miami, living in a house just off campus.
Little Kings – it’s what’s for dinner.
Tried the Heineken at the brewery in Holland years ago. It didn’t have the skunky aftertaste. Tasted much better than the bottled stuff in America.
One of the worst things ever written, published in the Paris Review
Hey writers, what’s it like knowing you can put a lot of effort into being creative an original and the Paris Review will publish vapid nonsense from a garbage person?
lol High Life.
‘Would Teddy Roosevelt be a feminist? Would he like me or think I am a wimp?’
No. And asking yourself the second question was just a segue for self-aggrandizement. You already knew the answer, you pretentious ass-hat.
Well…not sure why it took me so long to get into the *new* gog.com …but I finally bit the bullet after seeing the email ad this week (Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and 3 for $2.49 each….). Wow. Playing these really takes me back to high school ;p. I guess I have the original CDs somewhere, but this is so much more userfriendly and DRM-free and optimized for Win7+. I picked up HOMM 2, 3 and 4 full versions, Deus Ex GOTY (I know I bought a remastered CD version of that one – probably from the old GOG about 10 years ago), Fallout Tactics (came with Daggerfall and ES: Arena for free) and the first Crusader Kings…for a grand total of something like $35. More than worth it for nostalgia factor alone, but the fact that these actually play smoothly with minimal work from me is a major thumbs up. Will probably pick up Caesar III/IV in the if I see them drop below $10.
I don’t normally do much game playing at all on my laptop, but for games like these, why not?
I have played approximately 3000 hours of HOMM3.
https://time.com/5717676/asthma-inhalers-and-climate/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=health_environment&linkId=76518556
Asthma inhalers are destroying the planet.
Fuck these people with a red hot poker. The Montreal Accord already banned CFC inhalers. When that happened my inhaler doubled in price. If they ban HFA’s is it going to double again? Christ, what assholes!
https://amp.inkstonenews.com/opinion/mainland-chinese-who-oppose-hong-kongs-protests-arent-brainwashed/article/3034526
Racial slurs toward whom? They are the same race as those they are opposing.
Is Hong Kong populated by Hans? They are about as racist as you can get. Just ask Tibet.
Yes. They are 92% of the population of both HK and the mainland.
Are they calling the mainlanders a bunch of deplorables?
They all look alike?
HKers call mainlander locusts, and mainlanders call HKers dogs. HKers are increasing identifying as Hong Kong people first, not Chinese.
Immigration is helping to liberate Hong Kong and Tibet, right?
I dunno about that. I think it’s more about forging a new identity post handover. I think they’re finding they don’t identify all that much with Chinese Chinese.
70 years (and continuing) of Communist dictatorship is not something to easily get over with.
香港人 vs 中人
Still not a separate race.
Not as we think about it now in the modern sense. Consider though how “races” used to be used for ethnicities/nationalities.
But they are the same ethnicity. That is my point. Ethnicity doesn’t change just because your national allegiance changes.
I don’t think the regime that’s trying to (metaphorically and sometimes literally) rape the Tibetans and Uighurs out of existence gets to lecture anybody about “hate speech” and “racist slurs”.
It’s a PR move to try and undermine support in the west. They don’t actually care about hypocrisy.
It’s a classic communist play (though the PRC is more fascist than communist). The Soviets loved to call attention to racial strife in the U.S. Meanwhile, Jews were second-class citizens in the USSR and despite a 50-50 split in population between Russians and non-Russians, the government and prestigious institutions were heavily dominated by Russians.
Fascism with Chinese characteristics, I like it.
Plenty of American, British and Canadians Jews were Commies because they felt that Communists must be pro-Jewish since they oppose Nazis. Hence why the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and the Doctors Plot were huge shocks to Jewish Communists.
and a fair number of Industrialists were Nazi sympathizers because they felt the Nazis must be pro Industry because they opposed the Communists. People are often stupid and short sighted.
And libertarians thought universities and Urbanites must be libertarian since they oppose conservatives.
Locally, the (((Russians))) I knew had a very distinct line in what they thought about Communism. Under 17, they were on the pro side. Over 18, they hated Commies more then most random Glibs. The real fun came when you knew them when they made that transition. I had one girl call me from college to apologize, and rant about how much she hated the very idea of Communism/Socialism once she got a job.
I considered that a small win.
What time period are you referring to? Today? 1990?
The age gap? This was mid to late 90’s, there were several Russian Jewish families who fled and landed in the Cleveland area. If you’re looking for more modern, I’ll point upthread at the video I recommended for Trigger Hippy. I still believe there’s hope.
/wanders off to pour a glass of whiskey after another thread here.
In grad school, in the early 2000s, I took a poly sci course. There were about 6 of us. Me, another American and 4 east European students. The first meeting, the professor, an American, starts going on and on about the virtues of socialism. At one point he paused and a Ukrainian woman said “if a time machine is ever invented I will do whatever it takes to steal it and strangle Marx and Engels in their cribs.”
I dropped the class and later heard that so had everyone else except the second American. A grad class needed 3 to run, so the professor lost out on what most professors consider a fun course to teach – small, grad students.
Absolutely. And that’s not even including the group they treat worse than all: Falun Gong.
Pfft, Falun Gong, bunch of one kidney, one lung, no liver freaks. They are all in prison anyway, must be criminals.
The piece is blatant propaganda. Are there “bad guys” in the mix? Probably. But the bit about “anti-democracy, anti-liberty, anti-human rights” is classic agitprop.
And who knows how much of the instigators are working for the Chinese security forces.
PS. One of the things that a lot of the West is unaware of is how hard the commies ramped up the propaganda on their own youth after Tiananmen Square. The point, obviously, was to make sure nothing like that would ever happen again. And in the current environment, it won’t. Because it worked.
The Chicoms turned nationalism up to 11. Criticism of the regime or any critique of the very real problems in China is an attack on the Chinese people.
Yes, and the quoted piece is nothing more or less than what the average educated mainlander thinks.
The author is a Harvard Grad, how is that possible? I thought elite university grads are inherently libertarian?
Why? I don’t know who you’re mocking. Reason writers?
I posted some FEE articles about how cities and universities are hotbeds of liberty. And there are a lot of jibes even here about the rednecks and non-university grads and how they are driving Trump and populism. And libertarians are also supposed to be cosmopolitan yet this guy is a Commie despite his foreign education.
Naptown Bill isn’t usually around in the evening, but I’d like to thank him for his Bushmill’s recommendation. As a Lutheran, I’m happy there is a nice Protty alternative to that Papist swill, Jameson’s.
Sorry, still heretical whisky for you. Presbyterians are a Calvinist sect, not Lutheran.
Who said anything about the damned Presbyterians?
Who do you think the Protestant Irish are?
Not Catholics.
They’re Scots!
Can confirm. They speak extra-funky in Belfast.
Limeys.
Or Anglicans if you want to be PC.
/slams down a bottle of Tullamore in front of MikeS.
Fuck the protties!
So, I’ve now had Jameson and Bushmill. How does Tullamore DEW compare?
Here, Tullamore is the same pricepoint as Bushmill *spits* and Jameson. I’ll take Tully over the other two every day, and twice on Sunday. To my tastes, it’s a smoother whiskey for the same price. If you can get Teeling, it’s another great one, but here it’s a step up price wise.
I saw Tullamore, but wasn’t sure about it. Maybe that’ll be my next one. Is it peated? Because I really don’t care for peated Scotch.
/taps MikeS on the shoulder.
Tullamore is an Irish Whiskey. No peat. The main point of Irish whiskey is slightly sweet and easy drinking.
Yeah, I understand it isn’t Scotch. But that doesn’t mean none of them are peated. An article I read earlier made me think that it was more common than it apparently is.
Yeah. It’s pretty rare for peat to be there in an entry level Irish whiskey. Honestly, Tully is my go to on the entry level Irish side. If I’m spending cash at the bar, it’s Redbreast. If I’m showing off (or at home) it’s Midleton’s.
For name alone though, I have to love Writers Tears.
Excellent. You just wrote my Irish shopping list. Thanks, buddy!
Unrelated; I have a slightly abused but (I’m pretty sure) still complete Keht board game for sale. Interested? Or know someone who would be?
Khet? What is now known as Laser Chess? I’ve got a set already. You can always look at BoardGameGeek for current prices and the market if you really want to sell it.
For Midletons, keep in mind I’ve gone through three bottles in my life. I pour some on rare occasions.
And Spud, no Middle Eastern in me at all, so no Philistine involved at all.
/hides the picture of his whisk(e)y collection.
As long as it’s in a jar.
Also in a jar.
A 12 year Jameson is a thing of beauty, you fucking Monstar!
It’s nothing compared to a 12 year old Tully. But I’ll nay turn down a dram of 12 year Jamies,
If you’re buying.
/lifts his dram of Writers Tears
Since it’s really Ireland vs Northern Ireland, and neither one is used for church services, a more accurate version would be “I’d rather lick QEII’s taint than be a free man”.
Since it’s really Ireland vs Northern Ireland, and neither one is used for church services, a more accurate version would be “I’d rather lick
QEII’Brussel’s taint than be a free man”.Fixed that
True.
well, I know more about The Troubles than I did before…which was -obviously- about zero.
I’ll buy a bottle of Jameson’s tomorrow.
Drink what tastes good, politicizing whisky is just plain wrong.
Dude. It was a joke.
Also, it’s spelled “whiskey”.
Ok, you are correct. I apologize. The Irish use the corrupt spelling like we do here in the States.
Are you saying you favour spelling it without the “e”?
Damn, man. I didn’t know you were a Scotsman living here. How do you survive with cinnamon chili and no haggis?
/hides his shelves of Whisk(e)y.
Yes, I like scotch more than bourbon or Irish. I do not like Canadian which also use the Whisky spelling.
My favo(u)rite whisk(e)y list from best to worst:
Rye
Bourbon
Wheat (based on one example)
Irish
Scotch
…
Canadian
MikeS:
I see at least two glaring misses in your list (unless they exist in the ellipses), hopped whiskey and maple whiskey.
No, that is the extent of my whiskey experience. I know I have more tasting to do. Including Japanese whisky.
The ellipses were meant to take the place of as-of-yet untasted whiskey that I knew had to taste better than Canadian.
I didn’t realize Neph was a Philistine.
Depends on which country and what time period.
Spelled it whiskey for Revolutionary War and whisky for Prohibition.
This country and this time period.
Scots and Canadian distillers call it whisky, Irish and Kentuckian distillers call it whiskey. At this point it is not about national spelling differences, a bottle of bourbon in London is whiskey, and a bottle of scotch in Lexington is whisky.
I know, I was just backing off because I had played devil’s advocate too hard and didn’t want anyone to think I actually care about the Troubles. Fighting because your Grampa killed my Grampa is silly.
I’ll drink to that…and just about anything else.
/pours Jarflax and MikeS some Redbreast and some Midleton.
I still remember me and a friend winning a bet when some dumbass tending bar said all Irish whiskey tasted the same when we specified Tully when we ordered an Irish coffee. We got a total of 12 free drinks that night.
https://mises.org/wire/4-reasons-why-socialism-becoming-more-popular
I do find it interesting that urbanization, universities and prosperity are all things libertarians support yet are being used decisvely against them.
I don’t think the paradox that people who have and distrust big government nevertheless want more of it is a particularly remarkable observation among libertarians. The let’s learn to love big government “libertarians” are hardly upset at this turn of events so one can hardly many people got bitten by their own beliefs.
Man, that paragraph is kind of a mess. My point is that there’s not a lot of overlap between people who believe “urbanization and universities = progress” and people who believe in personal liberty and free markets.
Winston is a tad stuck in a mode that made more sense on TOS than here. Over there fighting against the proglite nonsense of the cosmos was an important service, and his sarcastic tone developed there, and continues here. It does sometimes sound odd, when you factor in the strongly yokel bent on this site. Our sins are not the Sarwark/Jacket sins of defining liberty as pot, ass sex, and Mexicans, our sins are in the other direction.
“our sins are in the other direction”
We define liberty as cocaine, Spanish sex and Canadians?
Guns, gold, and gambling.
Or, you know, lawyers, guns, and money.
DMT vape pins, Filipinos with blonde highlights, and Estonians.
Do try to keep up.
Ok, but I still don’t get why it’s necessary to piss on “urbanization, universities and prosperity” Is Winston arguing that liberty is strongest among the rural uneducated poor?
I don’t, and wouldn’t care to speak for Winston, but I’ve not met many people who went a university and actually received an education; they seem to be barely connected data points.
That’s because since the end of WW 2 higher education has been debased into glorified vocational training.
Well, there are some pretty significant indications that Urban dwellers are more likely to vote for big government candidates. The Universities humanities departments have been dominated by the Marxists for decades. Prosperity not so much but 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.
As I’ve observed before, I’ve never heard of a New York Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, but I have heard of one in Minnesota. That country mice are some how more virtuous when it comes to the pork-barrel than city mice is a myth as pernicious as Jewish blood libel or the existence of the G-Spot. Rural Americans are just as venal and myopic as their urban counterparts, they just wish to use the state in different ways.
And, as I’ve asked before, what are you going to do about it? I don’t get why some constantly belly-ache about losses in the War of Ideas while simultaneously retreating from the battlefield.
Contra Winston’s vision of a nation of “ungentlemanly farmers,” if one wishes to see a more libertarian society, then one needs to provide the acculturation to civic republicanism found in the classical liberal arts curriculum. The kind of education that was disdained as “elitist”, because it was intended to produce elites. However, our society is prosperous enough to provide an elite education to many, thus preparing them with the skills to meaningfully participate in a republican form of government which is bound by a culture of individual liberty. However, this means that engineering students would have to take gen eds, thus it is a terrible idea and no true Glib would support it.
I do not think having Marxist professors makes anyone a Marxist. At best, it’s a temporary infatuation. We expect and want young people at university to be temporarily infatuated by ideas. That’s the point of university.
Who will provide that? The universities and the public schools were supposed to do this but they failed. And elitism only works if the elites agree with you
As I’ve observed before, I’ve never heard of a New York Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, but I have heard of one in Minnesota. That country mice are some how more virtuous when it comes to the pork-barrel than city mice is a myth as pernicious as Jewish blood libel or the existence of the G-Spot. Rural Americans are just as venal and myopic as their urban counterparts, they just wish to use the state in different ways.
No doubt there is abuse on both sides, but I think it is increasingly clear that the greater threat to liberty comes from the left and the left’s strongholds are the cities. It is possible that the right would become as authoritarian if they had the power base and cover the left has from academe and media, but I am not convinced. The US was more free, albeit unfairly excluding some groups, when the ‘right’ had the reins.
As to the academy, I agree with you that nothing is going to get better unless conservative and libertarian scholars work from within, but there is at least a strong impression that open conservatism will deny you jobs. When I was debating between continuing in Philosophy and law school a professor I respected a great deal despite our very different political beliefs warned me that I would have a very uphill battle finding any position, and indications are it has gotten worse.
I adamantly support a real broad education for B school and STEM types. You should not receive a baccalaureate without a grounding in history, literature,and philosophy, but by that I mean an actual grounding, not 40 credits of Frankfort School agitprop. How do we get there?
I will explain myself. It isn’t so much that I think that the “rural uneducated poor” are libertarians but that I think classical liberals and modern libertarians made (and make) some rather simplistic arguments that betray a rather collectivist, elitist and deterministic mindset.
For example: higher education. Why did it get “debased into glorified vocational training” and “humanities departments [become] dominated by the Marxists”? Classical liberals and libertarians assumed that these things could not happen because the Forces of Progress were on their side and they are university grads so are all university grads must therefore be libertarians. And the elites go to universities and libertarians are smart so therefore university educated elites must be libertarians.
And classical liberals made the same mistake with public schools by assuming that the public schools would be forever dominated by classical liberals.
And the warning signs have been their for decades but what did the libertarians do? Dismiss all concerns as reactionary Socon culture warring and babbling about the internet and Iphones.
Yes.
Every time a slippery slope argument got pulled out, someone was there pooh-poohing it that “Oh, that would never happen!”
As for prosperity it is well known that socialism didn’t take off until after rising prosperity. If we are so rich then why are there still poor people? And if there is so much wealth then why can’t the TOP MEN redistribute.
And in 1914 many people assumed that war and socialism and communism could not happen thanks to prosperity but guess what happened…
And I can’t help but wonder if modern consumerism and internet commerce is ironically making central planning look plausible. If a store and Amazon can provide so many things so easily then why can’t some TOP MAN order the economy around so easily? And there is so much crap that I don’t care about or possibly hate so why do I care if this stuff gets banned? And so many choices, maybe I should let my betters narrow my choices or even give me one choice. After all climate change and Nazis mean we need TOP MEN to settle the acceptable parameters of choice.
I think you are assigning beliefs and motivations to large collective groups based on the comments of a few. In many cases the actual motivation was that Classical Liberals believed that barring Marxists from academe and media was counter to the basic principle of Classical Liberalism, which is that it is evil to silence your opponents and that Truth will eventually triumph in the marketplace of ideas.
Classical Liberals were the original culture warriors. Their real motivation was to stamp out Catholicism using the Universities and Public Schools. Hence why their feared certain immigrant groups and certain rural people because they were Catholic. The term Kulturkampf was coined by a classical liberal who supported what Bismarck was doing and that was one of the few things that the classical liberals agreed with Bismarck on.
I’ve read several editorials from the Toronto Globe, the organ of the Clear Grits which became Canada’s Liberals which even in the 1840s was talking about the need for Public Schools to save Canadians from the Catholic and French Menace.
Catholicism is an autocratic hierarchical Christianity, and yes Classical Liberalism and the enlightenment philosophers partly developed out of Protestant notions that the individual’s relationship with his God was not dependent on mediation by clergy. But to argue that this history has a significant influence on the present situation with the progressive left, seems a stretch. The progressives in part descend from the Puritans in Boston. (They also descend in part from the Fabians, who included Anglicans and Unitarian Universalists, and even a Baptist or two). The Classical Liberals and the Progressives were allies early on because the enemies of Liberty in the 18th Century were predominantly the Monarchies and Aristocracies, and the Church. The Liberals of the American Revolution and the Progressives of the French believed they had common cause, but once the Kings were gone and the Church had lost sway it became clearer and clearer that the Liberals wanted liberty and human rights, and the Progressives wanted an egalitarian tyranny. The Kings are gone now, and the fight is between the Liberal Tradition which is upheld by libertarians and some conservatives, and progressives and their openly socialist kin.
Well that is the problem isn’t it? The arguments for urbanization, universities, public schools and prosperity may have made sense then but today we know that things are lot more complicated and trying to grabble with it is very difficult without becoming another brand of statist like Modern Liberals.
Libertarians have realized the errors of the public school system and are increasingly critical of modern universities but the other two are more difficult. Poverty won’t make people more libertarian and I’m not sure that agrianism is the answer.
Can’t spell Agrarianism. Drat.
As for urbanization well many classical liberals (as opposed to the agarians) and modern libertarians were pretty big on urbanization. Rothbard was complaining in the 1960s that conservatives were all hidebound advocates of vanishing small-town WASP America that was to be replaced by a presumably more libertarian non-WASP urban America.
And I did post some articles from FEE about how “urban air makes us free” and such. Rather simplistic. I mean what is the air in NYC that gave us Bloomberg, AOC and DeBlasio?
I could also say that City Air gave us Trump but I think pointing out urban politicians is more applicable than pointing out that “there are libertarian urbanites and statist country people”.
And a bring problem with modern urbanism is that they heavily depend of government utilities which does not bring about the libertarianism of the city.
It’s inevitable. Might as well stop stressing about it.
Never! By the way, can you spare a stent?
Libertarians don’t “support” any of that. They support the freedom to do what you fucking want. If you wanna urbanize, or go stare at your navel in a university and you wanna prosper, great, go do that. If not, then fine too. Liberty means do what you want, good or bad. I support your right to slam a bunch of dope and OD in an alley, live out in the woods and be a poor assed fuck with no wooden nickles to rub together.
This is the big misconception I run into. People think libertarianism means that everyone should go live in a shack in the middle of the woods and never trade/interact with anyone. And that’s not it at all.
If you want to buy some land and have a socialist commune with like-minded people, that’s totally libertarian. Hell, you don’t even have to localize it on any land – you can have some kind of nationwide socialist aid society where you all turn over your paychecks to some central planning committee and they redistribute it as they see fit. Nothing stops you from doing that under libertarianism. You can do all that shit. You just can’t force other people to go along with it.
SP, if I start your fruitcake now, will it be ok? Or, am I too late?
These euphemisms are peaking my interest.
It’s a question I’ve asked of women a few times, myself.
Always make sure she gets her fruitcake first. It’s only gentlemanly.
Q speaks the truth.
In fact, it seems that he and I share a point of view/creed: Ladies come first.
*rolls over so her back faces you, tucks sheets between you and her neithers, sighs with disappointment*
Go for it! (Just don’t serve it for Thanksgiving.)
In fact, I haven’t started any yet, either. And may not. Time for large baking projects is at a premium, as well as the fact that anything left on a counter is mysteriously refrigerated or thrown out. *sigh*
wait, she wasn’t talking about OMWC?
+1 nuttier than
Thanks.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/skeptics/why-china-afraid-few-free-market-academics-80626
Cato institute Senior Fellow and former Reagan advisor is shocker that a totalitarian Communist regime is a totalitarian Communist regime.
If you can’t see the difference between our last president and the new one…
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheFirstonTV/status/1192857359430901760
Our? I got a monkey in my pocket?
#Notmypresident
Not so honest Abe
Anyone heard from Festus lately?
Still lurking, Diggy. Going through some dark times and don’t want to get any “Sad old bastard” stank on you fine folk. I’ll come around, never fear just not right now.
Hope things get better for you!
Take care, Festus.
Get well soon, buddy.
Oi!
Hope everything is going alright for you man. Feel free, I almost went all old sad bastard downthread anyways.
My network debut.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C0y06n2hj2w
You’re Jay Leno?!
Straff took that one on the chin.
Those interested in the Great Glib Debate Series, please send an email to TPTB (submit (at) glibertarians.com) to get my email.
Email me and we’ll get the ball rolling.
HUZZAH!
https://archive.li/AK7yq/60a93959cffc0de2a88bf1bb5f26a896c0924ee7
NSFW.
I like the brunette better.
That is always the correct answer.
Tall, darkharied, pale skin, light eyes. If a woman has those features, all other physical attributes are negotiable.
The “one who got away” had that, plus she was/is cool as all get out.
If I could time travel, the only thing I’d do is go back eleven years ago, kick myself in the dick without explanation, then return home.
Jet black, shoulder length. If done correctly, no can defeat.
/Miyagi senses.
Alabaster skin, red head, liked puns and sci-fi.
It’s a story I tell rarely, and only after drinking heavily. I comfort myself that she’s happy now, which is the important thing.
Winner.
High fives for the both of you.
/taps his glass
Nope. Not ready to tell the whole story tonight.
Hold on tight to it, Neph. I’ll not ask you for details.
Sorely tempted to post a (tasteful) picture of an ex.
Slumbrew, man to man, I can only give you this sincere advice:
Do it.
Sir Digby:
There have been mistakes in my life. There are some I will always remember, she is one of those. Hell, the current girlfriend only knows bits about the story, and we’ve been together for almost 10 years.
slumbrew:
Have you seen L.A. Confidential? Think the red head from that.
Neph–solidarity, brother.
I was about to ask why no one was going to bat for the creamy red-heads…
Kudos, Neph.
Grew up around too many greasy dishwater blond females. Even if she has beautiful, blond hair, I still visualize blond chicks that way.
Redheads are a close second. A beautiful redhead is a rare sight, so when you seen one, she’s even more striking.
I’m a sucker for that combo too.
I had a dream the other night my ‘one I never even had’ smiled at me. That’s it. Enough to put a smile on my face for a day.
MUSIC!
I wanted to sleep next to plastic!
/feels a twinge of guilt posting this.
You should.
/sleeps next to plastic for Mojeaux
‘Feels a twinge of guilt…’
You damn well should.
Camper Van Beethoven or GTFO! 😉
Platinum blonde and big jugs.
Easy peasy.
Due to a loss on the family, I don’t think I’ll get around to doing the bonus cartoon I wanted to make. So I’ll just put this here:
INT: OVAL OFFICE-DAY
The Hat sits alone on the desk reading ‘The Best 50 Meth Recipes Grandma Ever Made’ By Brett L. Another book, ‘Anesthesia and Rape, A How To Manual’ By Florida Man sits beside him, as well as ‘How to Wrastle Gators’ by Floridaman.
The Hat takes a drag from his meth pipe.
The Hat: If Donald wanth to be a Florida Man, I’m thure ath thit going to make thure he’th the betht damn Florida Man evar!
Slow dolly in as The Hat puffs on the meth pipe.
Roll credits.
Damn man. Hope you’re doing OK.
Yeah. The cartoon can wait. Life first.
Yeah, I’m good for now. He had a bad couple of weeks health wise, so we saw it coming, but still gotta hold down the fort as it were, to make sure everything goes right. It’s a family member I’ve been caring for the last 4 years or so, but he would have been 90 in a few weeks, so not a surprise. But still things that have to be done.
Best wishes, bud. Don’t worry about us.
Best wishes CPRM. Handle family stuff
Sorry for your loss, CPRM.
Sorry to hear that as well. Take your time, man.
My condolences.
I’m so sorry. Was that your uncle?
Yes. And I thank this place for giving me the respite I need to keep doing what I do for family. Strength in Togetherness, like a bundle of sticks…
Fag
What you did there was noticed.
Take care, C.
Sorry man.
Hope you feel better soon, Cartoon Man.
For the 41st time, this is not a myth. Tulip agrees. Of course, she and I are also myths, so take that for what it’s worth.
Well, it’s a subject that requires lots of research and experimentation. Alas, myths don’t really allow for part of that.
Can confirm.
We were talking about this the other night.
Look, we can talk G-spots all night long. But, if so, there’s a nice new
virginpost that’sjust aching for that kind of actiongot plenty of space.WELL SORRY!!!
C’mon over to my
housepost!It’s real. I’ve been there.
With a girl from Canada. You wouldn’t know her.
Met her at camp huh?
Band camp.
Well Mojeaux, we’re women, so if we say something it’s automatically discounted.
Listen. IT. EXISTS. You not being able to find it is not our fault, or evidence that it doesn’t exist. Do better guys.
Srsly.
Agreed. It isn’t rocket science.
/SWIPES LEFT/
I heard it’s back, and to the left.
Did….did we hit a sore spot?
It ain’t gonna get sore if nobody ever finds it!
Pretty sure it is mostly your fault if the guy can’t find it. 😉
Men shouldn’t have to ‘find’ it. The woman should want to guide him to it like a sherpa.
Based on the covers of romance novels, I suspect the probability of finding the g-spot is a strong function of money, height, and/or being a vampire.
The volume of a gas is a strong function of pressure. The heat capacity of a liquid is a weak function of temperature.
Fugacity? No one really understands what that is.
My husband is 5’10”, broke, and a daywalker. He found it.