SEA SMITH WANT JOLLY OLD SAINT ZARDOZ VISIT HE!
SEA SMITH PROUD PRESENT…CRYPTID CHRISTMASTIME LINKS! HE ASK COUSIN STEVE SMITH AND FRIEND ZARDOZ GIVE LINKS FOR FUNNY GIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMANS. SEA SMITH MORE “MC” THAN GIVE LINK. HE BUSY LATELY…JUST WANT TRY THAI FOODS.
SO HERE ARE COUSIN STEVE SMITH!
STEVE SMITH NO FORGET (((HOLIDAY)))
STEVE SMITH SAY MAKE SURE PUT ON GOOD MUSIC FOR CHRISTMASTIME!
STEVE SMITH MAKE SURE CHRISTMAS MERRY!
STEVE SMITH HOLD MISTLETOE OVER HEAD.
HIM NO RAPE SANTA!
THIS EASY LISTENING.
STEVE SMITH TRY GET “VISIT STEVE SMITH CAVE” IN LIST. THEM NO PUT IN. STEVE SMITH WONDER WHYCOME NOT?
THIS SILLY. STAY SCHOOL, LEARN! NO MAKE TRAFFIC BAD.
NOW YOU GET LINKS FROM FRIEND ZARDOZ!
FREE CASCADIA!
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. MERRY CLEANSEMAS…ER, CHRISTMAS, CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ HAS IT EASY, FOR SHOPPING. IT IS ALWAYS THE GIFT OF THE GUN! THE GUN IS GOOD – IT SHOOTS DEATH AND CLEANSES THE FILTH OF BRUTALS. HOWEVER, ZARDOZ HAS COME TO GIVE LINKS, NOT INSTRUCT. GO FORTH AND COMMENT!
- OUI, OUI. DEFY…VERY NICE. BUT WHY NO CLEANSING? THIS SITUATION CALLS FOR MADAME GUILLOTINE TO REAPPEAR!
- HMMM. A BIT TOO UNSTABLE FOR THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS.
- THIS APPEARS TO BE A GOOD INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY IN THE MAKING! … WHY ARE THE CHOSEN ONES LAUGHING? WHAT COULD GO WRONG WITH THEIR SOVEREIGN DEBT?
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
SEA SMITH SAY THANKS COME BY. ENJOY TIME HERE.
COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE!
Hail Zardoz!
You’re just sucking up for the gift of the gun.
I will suck…oh wait Zardoz doesn’t…nevermind…
I could use a gift of the gun.
We all could. *wistfull sigh*
Yeah, but I really really NEED one. The rest of you just WANT one.
Rusty can lids just don’t have much range, eh?
Can lid projector?
Not until you’re 18, young lady.
I had 2 .357s in my bedroom by 16. Just saying.
Prude. My great-grandfather gave me his 16ga double barrel when I was 11. My parents game me my first .22 at 12 and a .270 at 14. I say SP should get her first gift gun after she graduates from the Arizona Hunter Safety Course (registration permitted at the age of 10).
Speaking of needing a gun…
For Yusef:
I read that your wife needed a self-defense gun which was usable within reduced arm strength? Two recommendations.
1. The Smith & Wesson M&P 380EZ. It gets great reviews, and is readily available. Don’t know if it’s been approved for Cali.
2. The Standard Manufacturing S333 Thunderstruck, shown here It’ll be much harder to find, but as a revolver it will have fewer legal restrictions.
Now people can argue the merits of .380 vs 2 shots of .22WMR
Think they’re still planning on moving in the short term, so recommendations on the best low recoil affordable options regardless of CA legality is probably appreciated.
Can’t really recommend anything myself.
I would second the M&P EZ.
Come to Idaho and help me dredge a couple out of the lake.
What kind do you need?
Glib collection for SP’s
legalphysical defense fund.You need to dish. There’s clearly a story here.
She’s married to OMWC. Are you sure you want to know the story?
Those three kids don’t look so hard to me. Britain really is neutered.
Hoo boy that story has everything.
Except the cops shooting that bastard.
The Little Rascals would take over the country.
Yes and no – the gangs are emboldened (drink!) by the idiot state who flounders in the notion that banning things will make criminals not have the things (knives, guns, etc). Interestingly the Labour party won’t touch gangs at all, not in any real sense, because among that demographic are the yoof who will vote them into power. Dare I say they are also the yoof with the finely cultured brutality to effectively become the paramilitary wing of the socialists (watch it happen subtly – government “turning their lives around” etc) once they have been voted in. Socialism; you only have to vote for it once.
Gotta give the French props for having cool fire fighter outfits.
Nah. Murhican fire helmets have a bill in the back to prevent water and embers from going down the back of your neck. The Frenchies don’t. And besides that, they’re French.
Why can’t we be more like France? National strikes for everyone!
What do you mean we have to work?
I have a question.
I’m trying to look up information on the mechanism by which voluntary muscle movement is deactivated during sleep. I had looked under ‘Sleep Paralysis’, but only found information on when someone wakes up before the mechanism shuts off.
Does anyone know the correct term?
Hypnagogia.
I have had it on and off for a couple decades. Very rarely lately, knock on wood.
Not that one, I’m looking for the normal process and biological mechanism, not any disfunction or ailment.
Ah. I’ll see myself out now.
I believe we call that ‘Sleep’
No, sleep is a complex of states, I’m looking for a component thereof.
This article just calls it “switching off”.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120711131030.htm
Alcohol?
*Googles ASBO* According to Wiki, these can get you an ASBO:
abandoning cars
arson
begging
casteism
dangerous driving
defecating/urinating in public
disturbing the peace
dogging (exhibitionistic public sex)
drug dealing/consumption of controlled recreational drugs
drunken behaviour
fare evasion
intimidation
littering/fly tipping/dog fouling
loitering (with intent)
noise pollution
paedophilic activity
racism and xenophobia
rioting
rudeness
smoking in public places
spitting
stealing/mugging/shoplifting
urban exploration
vandalism/criminal damage/graffiti
Those things can get you banned from a geographical area within Britain?
LOL my neighborhood would be empty in a week.
Are you loitering? Yes, but I don’t mean to.
Racism is one thing, but I’m certainly not giving up casteism.
Hindus hardest hit?
There’s Glibertarians and then there’s everyone else.
WTF?
Probably squatting in abandoned homes or something like that.
Urban exploration is going into off limits areas to explore such as the tops of tall buildings, abandoned buildings, subway tunnels, construction sites, and other areas where you are trespassing. The thing is it is not for any malicious reasons, but purely to check out off-limits places in the urban environment, just for the thrill or to take a few photos. To put it in the same basket as kiddie diddling and arson is fucjking ridiculous.
Hey Straffinrun, I said it yesterday, but thanks for the challenge. I’m really enjoying it and drawing everyday. Even if I don’t get better, it’s good therapy for me – the time limit means I can’t over think it. I only have 5-10 minutes to do the sketch before I start using paint. I think the time limit means I have to focus on overall mood instead of a particular piece. Let me know if you’re posting more drawings. Thanks again
Glad to hear it. I’m not sure that what I’ve learned will be apparent in the final sketches, but that’s not what’s important. Hopefully, the glibs that are trying the challenge will at least come to understand the amount that they have left to learn. I’m realizing that I don’t know a lot about things that I didn’t even know existed.
Who else is doing it, I’d love to see the drawings
Capt Laputim, Cannoli, Sean (yes, I’m counting that), you and I. And anyone else that’s joining but hasn’t posted yet.
I stopped drawing in Jr High and haven’t tried since. This is about as good as anything I ever drew.
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/S11SuK4
“Zoinks! You’ve taken a wrong turn.”
Dammit.
https://i.imgur.com/etUjwBh.jpg
I feel you’re a bigger scooby doo fan than you let on, Rhy.
That counts, Pud. You’re in.
Have they posted? I must have missed it.
I posted my first try after the thread was long dead. I haven’t done any practice or study since, though, because life’s been pretty busy, so I’m not expecting much progress, unfortunately.
Nice! I posted mine on the dead thread as well
Aussies do AVOs.
HOUSOS HOUSOS HOUSOS
Fuuuck. The US really is the last bastion, isn’t it?
I don’t care. I never had kids. Best of luck to the niece and nephews. I’m scarpering off to the woods the first shots fired.
I like to think there’s a reason Greta’s not some DC or LA munchkin… it’d be too obvious. Too obvious, and too cynical. And I’d like to think that the only reason that Greta’s as lily white as they come is because even Europeans recognize how fucked they are. She’s the last gasp of the dying European welfare state. She’s it for their consensus. A pathetic mewling whine of their drowning human relevance overtaken by the oncoming tide.
Good night all. I am off to the airport and the lessor DC area. Snark well in my absence.
Safe travels! Hope you get to meet some mainland Glibs. If so, please report back!
Give me a call if you want to do something tomorrow as well as Sunday.
Is there a meet up planned?
We’re meeting for dinner Sunday. If you’d like to join, let me know. We’re going to Bastille
Anyone else who wants to join, let me know and I’ll change the reservation
Dang, I wish I could.
Since I missed morning links – Navy OCS was significantly more painful than Army Basic (maybe just because I was older – and it was winter in Newport). Definitely more mass punishment, absolute stupidity courtesy of the USMC DIs and the few nukes in our platoon. Gunny Stahl was seriously tweaked.
I only had to do fall in Cape May NJ. I noticed the lack of the t and the addition of CDR to the handle and meant to say congrats! I miss all morning links except some on weekends. Some of us have to work.
But it was totally worth it for Debra Winger, right?
*snort*
I don’t think I could go from Orange Man to Invisible Man. Can you imagine how lame his tweets will be? Boring.
Recommendations for a gift please. What’s a good $50 to $70 bourbon or rye?
This stuff is real nice at the lower end of that range.
https://www.totalwine.com/spirits/american-whiskey/rye-whiskey/basil-haydens-two-by-two-rye/p/212898750
This one.
https://elijahcraig.com/barrel-proof
Ohh, looks good. On my shopping list.
Whistle Pig is a damn good rye.
Correct. Do not buy piggy back or any of the more expensive ones. Farmstock is acceptable, but the standard whistlepig is best.
Four Roses Single Barrel.
The good colonel’s small batch.
I’ve got that in my glass right now.
Mixed with ice and coke?
Negatory. A splash of water.
Just landed ay SEA. Waiting at the bat for my wife’s flight to land from SFO. Sitting at the bar, and the bartender finished of the bottle of Bulleit rye. I have a monster amount of booze.
Cheers Glibs!!
Yeah…I’m drunk and I’m out. Night yall .
C’mon, I’m just getting started. I’m having a martini.
Which gin?
Dirty vodka martini or gtfo
You get the fuck out! Martinis are made with gin, you savage!
Really
Too much?
Too much gin? never.
Nope, I’m agreeing with you. If it doesn’t have gin and vermouth, it isn’t a martini
Tanqueray
Noyce!
That’s my go to.
I’m really in to Roku gin right now. I also like empress and Hendricks.
I like Solveig from Far North Spirits. But, I can’t get it here. Thankfully, MikeS has helped me out
Let me know when you need your next fix. ??????
Mine is Gordon’s – cheap and juniper-forward. Surprisingly well-rated for the price. Plus it comes in a plastic bottle that’s easy to lug around 🙂
Cheers!!
It’s 7:15.
Maybe he lives in the Azores or something.
Not Xmas, but it did happen near the North Pole:
That time an Arctic explorer escaped from an avalanche by making a knife out his own poop:
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Freuchen wrote personal accounts of this journey (and others) in Vagrant Viking (1953) and I Sailed with Rasmussen (1958). He states in Vagrant Viking that only one other dogsled trip across Greenland was ever successful. When he got stuck under an avalanche, he used his own feces to fashion a dagger with which he freed himself.[15]
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He was also an anti-Nazi resistance fighter and escaped from prison despite having lost one leg to frostbite years before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIIO-GOjc20
Move over, To Build a Fire. Make room for To Poop a Knife.
That’s some serious fiber in the diet.
ackshually…
Protein is what makes it hard. The fiber just makes it easier to stick together.
In the Arctic, spit and piss will freeze almost as soon as hits the ground.
Mt Everest is covered in frozen shit, thus providing ample raw material for emergency poop daggers.
Worst band name evar.
“Poop daggers” I see a ska band name.
Skatknife!
Blades of Shit
Shit Sword
Kaka Katana
Feces Gladius
Poop Sabre
Probably covered while I was asleep, but this is fantastic.
https://www.google.co.jp/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/12/06/media/boris-johnson-channel-4-people-of-colour-ge19-gbr-intl-scli/index.html
Nope.
Man… the media can’t help themselves, can they.
Ask a Mortician.
https://youtu.be/WgSZeOWBF8M
She seems cool.
Relevant AND toe-tapping
Lol. Nice:)
Who is Larry Craig?
This is an ass kicking so far – and Utah is supplying the ass.
the ass
I remember your offering of links fairly well from the past, CJ, and the responses form those reducing numbers of individuals who clicked upon them.
It’s a photo of a lady with a nice hiney.
Hiney as in this description?
Asking for myself and remembering you fairly well at the same time.
Note that regardless of your response I will not look.
However… you may wonder why I presented this particular source for my response.
Hints: The number of countries on the original Risk game board, the answer to “Life, The Universe, and Everything”, et cetera.
There is also this: Nice to banter with you again over trivial matters.
You are very fun to interact with.
I didn’t know that was tonight. Guess that Oklahoma-Baylor game tomorrow just got much more interesting.
I figured the Big 12 champ would probably edge ahead of Utah (beating #6 or #7 is better than beating #14)… but the Utes are making life really easy for the committee right now.
The Pac 12 really really hates the thought of being in the playoffs don’t they?
Most definitely. Oregon might yet regret kicking three point blank figgies, though.
Looks like the PAC 8/10/12 won’t have anyone in the playoffs again.
Thank you for the Pacific-8.
What’s the most times you’ve had to flush the toilet after one poo sesh?
Stop flirting.
Are you counting floaters?
Anything flushable.
I never flush. The wife or daughter seem capable.
And probably willing even if not happy about it in the least.
How are you not divorced?
LOL I’ve wondered the same a couple times.
I don’t only pack the toilet.
One… Twooohoo.. A three
Flush? I thought the new thing was to crap on the street?
Swift’s ‘Christmas Tree Farm’ Video Is a VHS Wonderland
She’s so cool!
Swift can go to hell. None of these doped up pop stars write anything; their agents and producers do all the legwork and let them claim the glory because that equals profit.
There’s a reason all pop music sounds the same…
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Karl Martin Sandberg (Swedish: [¹maʈːɪn ²san(d)bærj, – ²sambærj]; born 26 February 1971),[2][3] known professionally as Max Martin, is a Swedish singer, songwriter and record producer. He rose to prominence in the second half of the 1990s after making a string of major hits such as Britney Spears’s “…Baby One More Time” (1998), The Backstreet Boys’s “I Want It That Way” (1999), and NSYNC’s “It’s Gonna Be Me” (2000).
Martin has written or co-written 22 Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits, most of which he has also produced or co-produced, including Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” (2008), Maroon 5’s “One More Night” (2012), Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” (2014), and The Weeknd’s “Can’t Feel My Face” (2015). Martin is the songwriter with the third-most number-one singles on the chart, behind only Paul McCartney (32) and John Lennon (26).[4] In addition, he has had the second most Hot 100 number-one singles as a producer, 22, behind George Martin, who had achieved 23 by the time of his death.[4]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin
Country music is even more formulaic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8SwIvxj8o
Country music is even more formulaic:-
Duh. David Allen Coe wrote a song about it.
DIdnt say nuthin about momma, or trains, or rain…
If that’s the song in question, I gotta put on my pedant hat & give the writing props to Steve Goodman & John Prine.
Also: Dogs and Christmas
Fine DAC SANG a song about it. Happy?
Blissful! Thanks! : )
Country Christmas song – https://youtu.be/P37xPiRz1sg
Apropos link – https://youtu.be/nPXUctvVks8
I’m well aware. That is why I chose the words that I did.
It’s like folk then, or hip hop, or reggae, or punk, or any other genre. I’ve got a stick up my bonnet about the snark that clowns lay on country because it’s either total fantasy (see Key and Peele’s creepy skit about how country music is racist in which they tell people they’re okay with country music as long as it doesn’t include all the racist stuff they just made up), or it’s saying it’s shit because it’s all the same, whereas so many of those critics will go ahead and put on their favourite “R&B”, trap, whatever garbage genre the kids are into now and not see the godawful hypocrisy. Country music gets it hard because pickup trucks, dirt roads, white people, farming, etc is all “racist”. Case in point see the VP at CBS who dismissed the LV shooting victims as not deserving of sympathy because “Republican gun toters”.
In short, country is at it’s heart just a folk tradition, albeit now dressed up in shiny pop production values, and if you know anything about the folk scene, at it’s core it remains just as thematically and stylistically devoted to the standards and tropes as any country. Country is just a younger form, so it hasn’t established itself in the pantheon quite as well yet, but gets a lot more shit than other genres which have been watered down for the charts because white people! pickup trucks! God! Icky!!!
ps – I really enjoyed that mashup, unironically, and ditto the David Allen Coe comment. There’s an old fella that sings that in the pubs round here sometimes, and he’s an old commie by all accounts.
Tomorrow is my one day off this week and therefore this is my one night to get drunk!
December is a busy time of year for a chorister, I’ll be grateful when I’ve sang my last solo and gone to my last concert rehearsal later on this month.
For now: YEEEEHAWW!!!! VODKA!!!!!
Whatcha singin’? Wall-to-wall “Messiah”? Or something a bit more out of the ordinary?
I’ve done “Gabriel’s Message” as a solo and have “Cantique Divine” scheduled. Concert this year is a history of carols, so there are a songs from 700AD all the way up to “Somewhere In My Memory”!
700 AD! Cool! Plainsong?
A Capella women’s trio…it’s what became Veni Emmanuel. Title escapes me and I don’t have the program at my desk, not far from plainsong!
700AD. Cool.
You need to sing something to cleanse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yctXV3uHBs
If I want something hardcore I’ll throw on August Burns Red or A Day To Remember
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQmpjFmB9yg
I got the talking blues:
https://youtu.be/BBydsvJX8vM
I’m just gonna leave this here.
Fun! That got past me first time around – right around the beginning of my first marriage, and when we listened to radio, it was mostly geezer rock.
The 1st time I saw Lone Justice was on Letterman, and that was the song. Maria McKee is complete spaz.
I think I was 15.
Tres,
I have little doubt that I will have the full 22 minutes to watch this at some time in the near future. Currently I reached 5:53.
This is good too.
An interview with Maria post Lone Justice, and she comes across as batshit insane.
Only because she is. Didn’t she find Jesus shortly before the breakup?
How the Most Gruesome Western Ever Written Became an ‘Unfilmable’ Hollywood Legend
I hope it never happens.
I really liked the coen brothers, True Grit.
You could make Blood Meridian into a movie. It would be an awful one. Great book, will not make a good movie.
Would love to see how someone tries to film the “making black powder with piss” scene though, purely for the absurdity.
Atlas Shrugged was a horrible movie. Movies.
Upstate NY Police Say They Won’t Enforce Controversial New Law That Makes Annoying a Cop a Crime
The law is the law.
Yeah, that’s what’s wrong with it.
Like, you know, any other law…since enforcement is at the discretion of the enforcers. Just go ahead and say it: DEM COPS IS RAYCISS!
That was my thought – you could literally apply the same objection to ANY law. It’s completely meaningless.
Same tired old drivel. “X disproportionately effects women and minorities!”
Something to inspire us all…
I’ve been reading the autobiography of Nicholas Irving, an Army sniper with 33 confirmed kills in Afghanistan.
He wanted to be a Navy SEAL at first, but was rejected because he was color blind. The Army offered to take him as infantry. The vision screening worker fudged the results of his eye test. She traced the numbers with her finger so he could see them. It was the height of the Iraq war, so why turn away a motivated guy who wants to do combat arms?
Anyway, the color blindness was irrelevant to his sniper career because all his missions were at night.
Harry Truman cheated on the eye test to get into the Army. He memorized the chart.
He also said: Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
If he can tell dark tones from light tones, our racist, imperialist army says “No problem.”
More like: can you tell green from black while looking through night vision goggles?
*memories of stumbling through the woods at night with PVS-7’s*
Artificial trees more popular than real ones again this holiday season, Siena poll says
Wouldn’t.
Get it?
Get it?
Goodnight. See you misfit toys in two weeks. Try not to burn the joint down while I’m gone.
Remember to charter that boat.
*wink wink*
Have fun. Get laid!
Howdy Neighbors! That “Merry Rapey Christmas” album cover always makes me laugh and then feel pensive and then laugh some more.
Yay! You’re alive!
How are things Festus?
Delighted to see you! Hope you’re feeling better!
Indeed! My innards are apparently fine once more (at least that’s what the docca said a couple of weeks ago). Cracked my first beer in nearly two months tonight. Still waiting on the surgery.
Well, if you’re drinking beer, then must be all better. Surgery’s secondary.
Hey! Festus! Really good to see you here again.
Thanks, Man! It’s been a grind but I’m back, somewhat. I lost twenty pounds but I’ve gained most of them back and tightened my belt a notch. That’s my Glib-Fit story. Still tire easily, though. Wifey thinks its nutrition related but I don’t know about that. Shittin’ like a champ!
“Shittin’ like a champ!”
God bless ya
Heyyyooooo!!!! There he is! There he is!
Good to see you!
One of my sites decided to make me the target of their Xmas charity largess. They raised a thousand bucks for me gift basket-wise. I was pretty much Sally Field when they handed me the envelope. I’ve spent the entirety of my working life there being courteous and unassuming. STOP NOTICING ME!
Use it in the spirit it was given. Enjoy!
Beers and ciggies, gotcha!
FESTUS IS BACK! FESTUS IS BACK!
Drinking beer and everything, good news.
Glad you are better! not that I knew you were sick.
If that’s your version of negging then count me all in!
Naaaa, no negging. I am not here much after early bedtime and if I am I don’t remember much. I blame tequila. After I typed that I did remember you were not well so delayed remembrance. I blame tequila. The glad you are better! stands.
Merry season, Festface!
A literal translation from my favourite Gaijin!
A Babylon Bee knock-off by yours truly:
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AARP Warns Seniors That Stuff Costs More Than It Used To
MIAMI – AARP has introduced a new seminar for seniors. In the first workshop, seniors are introduced to the idea that $1 is now the smallest unit of useful currency and that coins are basically money crumbs. Later, seniors will learn that they will inevitably decline physically through a process called “aging” which ultimately leads to a state known as “death”.
This will be explained to them with the help of the classic cartoon Charlotte’s Web.
Although the idea that just as everyone is born, everyone dies might be shocking or even offensive to seniors, AARP leaders believe these truths should not be sugar-coated.
AARP hopes that the seminar will help seniors look past things such as the music they like isn’t played anymore and the clothes are different.
In the last segment, seniors are reminded that historically, few people made it past 70 years, as a large portion of humanity died young from famine, disease, and war. Doctors advise seniors to complain about “the kids these days” and make sure they wear onions on their belts.
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Heh, heh. Money crumbs, I like that. I had an elderly woman customer this week that needed that article. “$110!!? Wow, that’s really expensive!” “Ma’am, how much do you think that it costs to fill the gas tank on my truck out there?” “What, 30 or 40 dollars?”
I probably have a thousand dollars in useless coins sitting around my house in jars and coffee cans. Can’t stand the things.
Dude, you could buy like a block of houses in Detroit with that kind of scrill. Start wrapping them nickels up!
Or a down payment on my monthly rent ?
I used to collect those in coffee cans. Then once or twice a year, I go to Vegas where they would count it for free and give me cash. That was my spending money. If I came home with any left, I consider myself a winner.
Nice. Fuck CoinStar.
Before anyone thinks I’m clever, my bit is a rip-off of a Futurama joke:
[trying to wake up an unconscious professor Farnsworth]
Leela : Try shocking him.
Bender : Your social security check’s bounced. Stuff cost more than it used to. Young people use curse words.
Fry : Damn it.
“Mediocre artists imitate; great artists steal.” – Pablo Picasso
At least you’re stealing from the best.
That’s not what I would consider stealing material. That’s using the same theme. Not even close.
True story – I was invited to join AARP at the ripe age of 20, because I apparently have the spending habits of an old miser.
Bah, humbug!
Store vows to ‘rethink’ red badges for workers on their period
I make my female employees wear a badge that says, “I smell like a rabbit’s cage.”
You think vodka goes in martinis.
SHUN!
Gin is nasty.
You’re wrong and you should feel bad.
I agree. Gin is good.
This gal gets it.
This is gin!
This is Whisky
Didn’t know they served whiskey in Bollywood.
Full disclosure, when I was 12 I was at a holiday party with my family at one of their friends houses. Everyone thought it was cute that I decided to bartend. I, on the other hand, thought it was awesome and I was drinking everything in sight. I enjoyed all of it until I poured myself 6 ounces of gin and drank it straight off.
I spent the rest of the evening vomiting juniper berries. 40 years later and the smell still makes me gag.
You developed a taste aversion. I have that problem with menthol cigarettes.
You employ rabbit handlers ?
Do they protest?
Hey straffin-san, what’s with Amazon.jp’s Cyber Monday starting on Friday and running over the weekend? Is it just Amazon or some Nippon thing?
I blame it on Japan for being a giant open air high school.
No idea what that means.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/b/ref=gwd_cm19_d1?node=3959621051
Oh. I never shop online, so I didn’t know.
Joe Biden’s Most ‘Courageous’ Moments
Facts are facts, people.
In the words of Dale Gribble, Biden is the feces that results when shame eats too much stupidity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsV4CBOGidg
Just the same, I would not mind him being elected, as it would force SNL and The Onion to make fun of Team Blue for once.
“as it would force SNL and The Onion to make fun of Team Blue for once”
I don’t know what you’re smoking, I would sure like to try some.
Agreed, I’m not sure that would happen.
But I do agree with Dave Smith – he said on a recent episode that the best part of a Biden candidacy would be watching the corporate media bend over backwards trying to portray his creepy-ass behavior as something completely normal.
Needz moar push ups.
Look, fat…
It doesn’t make sense in his sentence to say, “Fat”. Pretty sure he said, “Fag”.
OMG OMG OMG that would be epic
I’m too soft for politics. I feel very bad for Biden. The man is slipping deeper into dementia every day and his handlers trundle him out on stage just the same. The moment my dislike turned to sympathy was his wandering off toward back stage still speaking as if he was facing the audience. That’s not a ‘moment of confusion’ that is an old guy who really is not aware what is going on.
Fuck Joe Biden. I have zero sympathy for a corrupt old weirdo who has gone out of his way to enrich his problem child at the expense of American interest.
Sigh, you’re probably right.
He’s still a dick.
NO! NO! HE SAID “FACT!”
/CNN et al
So… at one time he was not a war-monger and he has hair challenges. Truly, a monster.
Music died with Donovan.
Most obnoxious opening narration?
There is only one Donovan song- https://youtu.be/h_kmIsmw2fc
^^THIS!!^^ Mr. GT & I used to pair this up with For What It’s Worth.
That’s going on the teevee that’s hooked to the stereo right now. Haven’t heard that in a little while.
Hurdy Gurdy Man > Season of the Witch
Lies! Double damn lies!
Seasons greetings.
https://i.imgur.com/08prfKc_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
The response I would have gotten as a child: “No shit. You gonna put it up, kid?”
In the mood tonight
I have decided to not pursue a PhD. I’m tired of homework and studying, and I don’t want to spend a few more years in school just to get a credential. I have finals next week, then a month break until spring semester.
Can’t blame you a bit. Any idea yet what you’ll do instead?
I had no interest in academics. The plan still is to find a job in finance or data science.
Oh well, hell! You don’t need to Pile it Higher & Deeper to find work in those fields!
I bid thee well. Four finals on the 11th for me.
Triggered! Just sorta joking. I had six mid-terms and five essays due at the same time when I was sixteen. We didn’t have semesters.
Since I pay for my own education failure is not an option.
I gave a presentation in a marketing class last week, and I was the only one who wore a decent outfit to do so.
I’m a little older than most of my classmates, but not by much. Isn’t the goal of going to school to get a job? At least try to look like you want one.
Not traditionally. Unless you mean a job in a school.
In the modern tradition it most certainly is the goal.
Did you have to write them uphill both ways, too?
Uphill both ways, ten miles in the snow?
Wearing frying pans tied on with twine because you couldn’t afford shoes?
And when you got in trouble you had to cut your own switch! If it didn’t last ten licks, you had to cut another!
Yes, I’ve cut a few switches in my time.
Remind me again, were you in a program already, or planning to?
I finish my Master’s in math in May. I’m deciding not to apply to the PhD program.
I be Strokin’.
“One of the great American songs.”
Yet another Babylon Bee imitation
***
Chik-Fil-A Hopes to Boost Sales With New “Hail Satan” Slogan
ATLANTA – The fast food giant is retiring its trademark “my pleasure” slogan in a bold gambit to attract new customers. According to 31-year old director of marketing Joanna Gambolputty: “What consumers crave most is diversity and inclusion. By reaching out to a tiny, hated segment of the population which is also totally antithetical to our brand, we are sure to boost sales with new demographics while at the same time retaining our conservative, Christian, customer base.”
It’s a bold move, but business expert Scott Cotton thinks it might pay off: “Businesses stagnate for a variety of reasons, but often what happens is the consumers get tired of what is old and predictable and start craving something fresh and exciting. Witness how Coca-Cola reinvented itself in the 1980s. No one even remembers the old Coke.”
The familiar Chik-Fil-A cows who encouraged us to “EAT MORE CHIKIN” will be replaced with a trio of demons who will playfully “deface” billboards with statements like “HAIL SATAN” and “GOD IS DEAD”. Other changes include a new logo with a severed chicken head on a pitchfork paired with a pentagram and upside-down cross.
The new uniform will consist of a red jumpsuit, a head band with horns, and shoes designed to look like hooves.
***
It’s a bold move, but business expert Scott Cotton
Hah!
Your tone is pretty close. Maybe just a bit harsher than I’d expect from the real deal, but Id have believed itif you tried to pass it off as the real deal.
Now if we could get him to team up with CPRM to photoshop.
Keep em coming!!! I’m gasping for air!!!!!!!
The alt text was bitchin’. And by bitchin’, mean…
So, my daughter in the last week or so has “discovered” Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon. She’s playing “The Great Gig in the Sky” on Piano now and doing a good job with it. Brings a tear to my eye. Makes it all worth while spending all that $$$ on years of lessons. Did the same for my son, but music was never his thing and he never caught on.
Nice! Great gift to give your kids, glad you get to listen to the results of that. ?
Now: be depressed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ4OaOblgXk
That was a good video, dark but good.
So, I told my kids about their aunt dying today (my sister). My daughter being particular emotionally sensitive took it hard,even though it was expected (terminal cancer). Listening to her play, I looked up the meaning of the song via youtube, and discovered that some consider it to be the process of ongoing life coming to and end. Quite meaningful for today.
That video gutted me.
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2019/12/et-star-henry-thomas-fudged-sobriety-tests-threatened-officer-after-found-passed-out-in-car-records-show.html
Never would have guessed after the stories in the 80’s and 90’s that Drew Barrymore would be the functional one.
I have never seen one minute of ET.
*proud*
*hands pack of Reese’s Pieces to rhywun*
I wouldn’t touch those things because of that stupid movie. I think the first time was in the aughts – they’re actually pretty good 🙂
Phone home Rhy.
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2019/12/the-sea-is-rising-and-so-are-we-portland-students-walk-out-of-class-demand-action-on-climate.html
Getting destroyed in the comments. Maybe there is hope.
Aaaaah, the original writers of the Green New Deal.
Yup. This whole thing is a commie front. With full support from their teachers, no doubt.
Disgusting.
so many ugly girls
You really are feeling better.
Yep.
Here in Sf, we are getting pissed on with cold rain, that will move east and be snow in the Sierra Nevada soon after. Wonderful white skiable snow, I can’t wait to hit it. I was told it would be gone by now.
I thought everyone in SF liked getting pissed on.
I like getting pissed and listening to old recordings. I get pissed at the state of my city. I’ve never been pissed on, at least purposely. I have pissed into the wind.
DAFUQ? I live on an island and my home is maybe about 5 miles (horizontally, not vertically) from sea level. How come the sea isn’t rising on this side of the Pacific? Is climate change/disaster/crisis racist against yellow people?
Snowing. Do I clear it while it’s still coming down or do I wait. Wifey just said that she’s unhappy about my beerage. It’ll wait.
How old are you in beerage?
I feel wizened, with a long, flowing white beard in such.
55 next week my good man!
Check your beerage Festus. That’s just your white suds talking.
Nah, she just pissed in my corn flakes a little. The chore will be done.
I think you invented a word. It has been used before, but in a very different way. I like it.
52.
Why in the hell would you start before it’s done shitting on you?
And your wife, while a lovely person, is flat out wrong.
Tundra gets it.
Second Rhywun on this. Never saw it. Probably never will, certainly at this point.
Anyway, the Genesis music selection this morning got me to listen to what I consider their greatest song.
I too have never seen that flick. Proper Genesis are the albums predating Duke.
OK, boomer.
/80s child
Fuck that! You’re “babysitting age” to me. *humphs* Not that old!
I love that song.
You know there was kind of something weird about the distribution of that movie. It came out in the theatre in the early 80’s and I saw it then. I enjoyed it as a kid and liked the weird cute alien, but it wasn’t a favorite movie of mine then. It’s an odd early 80’s flick. There is a good libertarian message of the government being evil, incompetent fucks, that even at a very young age resonated. It seemed like it never made it to video when the VHS craze started. It’s an uneven movie overall. I have no plans to show it to my young kids.
Apologies for the poorly written first line: I will never watch ET unless I get grandchildren who want to see it, I guess is the way to put it.
Festus, good to hear things seem to be better. But progressive music (e.g., early Genesis) deserves as much attention as progressive politics. If you disagree, I’ll see if I can dig up my old Yes and ELP albums. You can have them. (I will keep the Jethro Tull ones though; they actually had some good songs.)
Rhywun, you generally have good taste, but that’s known. Even if you’re wrong about your EPL/AFL choices.
Tundra, you dropped gloves last night. Not gonna forget that, even if you did post a GBV song I’d never heard before. I’m originally from New England, bro. We can figure a peaceful way out, or one of us will wind up looking like a 1970’s Red Wing player.
I love early Yes. Never got into early Genesis for some reason. *shrug*
Ahem.
I believe the gloves were dropped reluctantly.
And besides, we hijacked the living shit out of that post!
So that counts for something!
Ok, you’re right, it’s past overtime. Also, that GBV song (Everywhere by Helicopter) is great. Can’t believe I hadn’t heard it previously (or didn’t remember). I sent it to my brother,and his reply was similar to a Glib: ‘Good song, Pinochet was right.’
or close to that.
And yeah, we hijacked the post.
Shit. I thought I had a point when I started writing…
I saw ET, at my aunt’s insistence.
I thought it was gross and awful and ugly.
You are my kind of woman.
I miss the yeti.
Hey Tundra, I plan to catch a couple bands at The Cabooze on Wednesday, December 18th. One is blues / soul / Americana and the other is rocked up outlaw country. Any interest in meeting up that night? Only thing that might stop me from coming is snow, meaning I’ll have to work.
Shoot me an email at minnetundra at the geemail.
Sure thing. Probably be later this weekend or early next week. Heading to bed right now.
Roger that.
Hey Tundra, I know that you dig April Wine (I do too) but they are headlining next year’s Dino-fest. The local big brew does a Can-con circle jerk every summer. Last year it was Loverboy.
In the mood tonight.
For MikeS https://youtu.be/ZcfnGaX-BdQ
Troll level +1
Gah! It’s like being Rick Rolled!
Xmas music
https://youtu.be/jZ-xfh75cMM
This was in my sidebar (not Christmas): https://youtu.be/4zRwze8_SGk
Here you go Mo, listen to it now or later, it’s a 30 minute show of some of the best Brazilian 70’s music that I know. This is the good stuff.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bcj_FRQdbAE
Very nice, thanks!
So, this was in that sidebar: https://youtu.be/ckmcdcQ2mEg
I just now cleared my work for the day and everybody here seems to have cleared out.
What am I, chopped liver?
I’m about to pass out FWIW.
I’m waiting for the dryer to finish.
Eh, fuck it… it’s late – have some Riot
80’s metal, but good 80’s metal.
Good 60’s soul.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gudKCKEWOUc
A Holland/Dozier/Holland song isn’t surprising as a soul song (although I have little to complain about considering the basic nature of the song I linked.)
Here’s a compromise.
Classics IV always seems to me to be an album, not a group.
It’s not a surprise until you add Frank DeVol.
Mulling over my middle-aged frumpy housewife vampire story. Still a cool concept; still don’t know what I want to do with it. Like, she can’t go out in the sunlight. She’s fucking DISABLED!
ADA provisions for vampires?
Housewife by day, bloodsucker by night.
The Transylvanian version of this
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/Angelmovie1984.png
She manages okay while her kids are growing and she has her husband, but then he dies (as mortals are wont to do) and then her children do. Everything was manageable that way. Husband dies, kids die, she has no friends … Even if she did, she would be at their funerals too.
I was going along great guns until she says, “I found my purpose. Dammit.” That was where I stopped to go do vaguely Mom-type activities and now I can’t remember what it was.
I CAN’T REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS!
Her purpose is to turn Alex Trebek into a vampire so he can host Jeopardy! in perpetuity.
I’m down for that. I honestly can’t imagine it being hosted by anyone else and I’m worried they’ll one day give the job to one of the late night snarkies or, more likely, a failed stand up comedian who has built a young career on “ORANGE MAN BAD! YOU LAUGH NOW!”, which would suck.
Monday starts Vanna White’s stint hosting Wheel of Fortune while Pat is recovering from emergency intestinal surgery.
Dan Patrick hosted Sports Jeopardy, but I don’t know that he’s interested in doing the regular show.
What is her family situation? I assume they know?
If she was a Japanese housewife with a husband whose commute was 2 or 3 hours he might never be home during the daytime and not notice that she never goes out. Husband could be one of those who only gets Sunday off – and spends most of that sleeping.
No, she has to tell him and the kids to make sure the kids get to their activities. She had to prove it by going out into the sun and bursting into flames.
She went to a doctor to get labeled as disabled, but she pretended to be poor so no doctors would want to mess with her more than absolutely necessary.
She also apologizes profusely for not dying so he could collect the life insurance. She did beg her maker to kill her, but she didn’t.
(I’ve written MAYBE 5,000 words on this, so I am thinking out loud here.)