We, the Glibs staff, are really down with certain St. Valentine’s Day traditions. Like the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. I hope everyone is doing a little something special for that special something in your life. Robohos don’t come with a self-cleaning option yet.
Great news, there’s a cure for HPV. Not a vaccine, a cure. Condoms can be safely (less unsafely?) ignored by college students with access to birth control.
Is your sexbot spying on you? How many of you get turned on at the idea of a robot crushing your limbs during sex?
Great news for Q on this V-Day.
You know who else pulls out? Not Sloopy. Pretty sure my eldest was also conceived by that method, applied poorly.
For all you guys who got the VD put back in Valentines Day.
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Made up Hallmark Holidays suck.
I am pretty sure this one predates Hallmark.
I don’t know, I read on the internet that Saint Valentine was the first CEO of Hallmark. *adjusts tin foil*
Sweetest Day, on the other hand…
Is entirely a card n’ candy creation.
Simpsons did it!
Unaccompanied grifter Christmas. I will be heading out to the bars to pick me up some pretty sad thing that is feeling the need for love.
https://y.yarn.co/78abbb1e-157a-4697-a0ec-b2b10fff1476_text.gif
I love you all!!!!!!!!!!
BOOm
“Great news, there’s a cure for HPV. Not a vaccine, a cure. Condoms can be safely (less unsafely?) ignored by college students with access to birth control.“
With the HPV vaccine and RISUG, college men everywhere can safely ignore all forms of birth control and ho around till the sun burns out.
There is still HIV, hepatitis, etc.
And the worst one – pregnancy.
Covered by RISUG, bro. Do you even Vasalgel?
Yeah, but HPV is pernicious because it can be transmitted by skin-on-skin contact, ie contact sports.
They give out Z-packs like candy at campuses nowadays for the bacterial STIs. And Hep A/B have effective vaccines. For the others…YOLO
I believe PrEP actually has a better rate of HIV prevention than condoms, Hep has a vaccine for A and B and a not 100% but fairly reliable cure is available for Hep C (interferon is old news protease inhibitors for all!).
Hey! Jesse’s around….OK, 9 hours ago. But, still.
When’d he put up the new pic?
Pan-resistant gonorrhea.
Condoms are for hookers and sailors.
Same with sunscreen.
Tell that to my nose cancer
Been watching The Darling Buds of May. Would be totally worth the throat cancer.
What do you have against hats?
My sweat destroys hats, now I can wear one, only cause of rain
You should start wearing a rubber when you go to the beach…
You’re not supposed to put the sunscreen IN your nose, Yusef.
I thought this would have been the Glibs V day song…
I just got the text from the Amazon Treasure Truck. It’s a Valentines day “kit” that seems to be mostly comprised of “personal lubricant”.
I hear that can be had by the 55 gallon drum.
I don’t want to host an slip-n-slide orgy (aren’t they all?), just enjoy a good time with one special person.
Only 55 gallons?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FMLNVFF
Okay, see now I’m thinking of going out and spraying down about a mile’s worth of sidewalk.
It’s categorized under “safer sex”.
Technically, that would be true since skanks can’t even get up the sidewalk to your house.
…take video, post on Glibs, plz.
REMOVE METADATA before posting.
What are my shipping options?
I don’t see the “team lift” logo on the packaging.
It’s still a team sport, with lots of bending and grunting.
No Subscribe and Save option?
Jesse claims it’s for personal use, but I suspect he’s repackaging it in gatorade bottles and selling it at swap meets.
Right next to the guy with the “God, Guns and Guts – THESE made America!” T-Shirts?
Artisanal lube? Hurry, let’s get a truck and head to Brooklyn.
“Please do not get the artisanal mayo and artisanal lube mixed up!”
Both may cause anal leakage if ingested orally.
I always read the word “artisinal” as “ArtIsAnal”. In this instance, I think my warped reading skillz are more on the money than those of you normies…
Endorsed by NBA legend Artis Gilmore.
C!!!
Did you make an appearance last night, btw? In the small talk of who would be around for the night chat, your name came up, but I don’t think I saw you post.
If you’re not using Jesse Brand Lubricant(tm), “the lube that bears like,” then you might as well be using nothing.
Wouldn’t that be “interpersonal lubricant”?
Bear Grease™ brand
*a portion of our proceeds will be donated to the Save The Otters Fund
Throw in a free twinkie with each purchase.
Bear Grease™ brand
Endorsed by British adventuring legend Bear Grylls.
“the lube that bears like,”
Wouldn’t that be beeswax?
Skimmed article, but didn’t see if it’s gotten past the FDA yet.
I’ll assume not.
Take your tainted pal on a Mexican vacation. Go for the HPV cure, stay for the really dangerous drives from the resort to anywhere else!
No. 10-13 years and a billion or so dollars from now it will, and people will complain it’s too expensive.
(Noted that there was a successful test in Mexico. One of the pharma companies I once represented spent 8 figures on tests in Mexico, then brought it to the US to test and spent a bunch more, and the tests weren’t to the FDA’s satisfaction, and the drug never went to market)
“have found a way to kill human papillomavirus (HPV) (1) the
most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) using light.”
Um… what’s the most common STI that doesn’t use light.
Commas, what are they for?
I would, foolishly it seems, expect a journalist with a PhD
in organic chemistry to be able to write a sentence that
actually says what he’s trying to say.
“Phototaxic Gonorrhea”
Cum to the light, Maryann!
“The noisy killer!”
Commas, what are they for?
I just assumed they got lost among all the parentheses.
Thrush
You’re honing in on Ted S’ territory.
“Great news for Q on this V-Day.”
Yeehaw!
http://archive.is/XBvjn
I’m good with 1.
Though I soldiered through the rest (quite the can on 33)
Uffda.
44: “So, do you have any pet bunnies?”
Not a big fan of redheads — feels a lil incesty — but 26 was hot:
https://archive.is/XBvjn/6c88c675be93465ef191f0f0aa9c3a5ee0665734
“Obesity storm in a double-D cup: Average bra sizes rise from 34B to 36DD as experts blame women gaining weight”
What about implants? They seem way more popular now.
^This
Yeah, in Britain especially….and Q’s links.
I’d like to know more about these “experts”.
*raises hand*
*raises exaggeratedly cupped hand*
FTFY
Double nut punch time!
#1: Just because you’ve never been charged with a crime AND you paid the legally required 10% bond to contest the state’s
armed robberycivil asset forfeiture doesn’t mean the state has to give you an actual hearing.#2: Just because you’re in jail at the time a crime wasn’t committed doesn’t mean that a lazy police officer will be punished for not bothering to check on that before charging you with another crime. Seems with that one they didn’t even notice it until the news organization pointed it out to them.
I know I’m probably naïve, but I dream that someday soon that SCOTUS will deliver a nutpunch right back to those people. Amy Coney Barrett has Federalist Society cred, but then so do John “Penaltax” Roberts and Clarence “No Problem with Handcuffing A 12-yo for Chewing Gum on the Metro” Thomas.
But that wasn’t even Thomas at his worst – how about strip searching a minor girl for an aspirin?
Kinda reminds me of what was said about Churchill – when he was right, he was right and when he was wrong, oh my gawd.
Read the comment left on number 2… I think she she needs a roll of foil. Tonio, help her out?
That’s some class A nuttery right there.
Mad scientist has comment 900,000
Dude, you put way too much thought/effort into really odd things.
I wrote a spreadsheet to track the current cargo/funds/profits of a fictional voyage of exploration/trade that would dynamically update just by changing the name of the port on the front page.
This is nothing.
You seem pretty confident that SP paid for the Deluxe package that includes 7 figure comment counts.
What are you going to do, UCS, when you feverishly post what you think will be the millionth comment and it simply rolls over to 0?
Especially since then each new comment will erase an older comment. Will you feverishly write a program to repost all your old comments back to their original comment #?
She used her last roll making a meth pipe
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6703847/Demi-Rose-showcases-killer-curves-skimpy-purple-latex-bikini.html
I do NOT like the blonde hair. This gentleman prefers the dark-haired ladies. I make exceptions only for those born with blond hair like myself.
Thicc =/= Silicone Saddlebags.
I was really expecting some Jeffrey Osborne, for some reason.
I was expecting your link to be to this.
Sidebar lead to this classic.
Ah, yes, the governor of Texas. 😉
Hah, I will now never not make that connection.
Funny thing is, first time I saw the politician, I immediately thought of the song.
It also works on the level that politicians are shakedown artists par excellence.
Thought that would be a Kinky Friedman clip.
Alternatively, it could have been this.
FOS must have been breathing oxygen singlets.
Wanna hear something depressing?
Dude used to be a prosecutor.
I actually feel sick to my stomach thinking about it.
Actually or allegedly?
I’m the Queen of France!
Actually.
How do you guys know?
I think the whole story got told on a different channel of former TOS commenters. Those of you who know, please refrain from further identifying here. Dude is banned, no need to continue to run him down.
I’m never part of the in crowd! *pouts*
Some of TPTB had communications with him at one point…and did a little checking to see if the story added up. Imma leave it at that.
We have crebain of our own.
Actually
Depressing? Sounds sorta not-surprising.
But was he HM’s mystery bigot?
Who is FOS again?
If I’m reading the tea leaves right, he’s [REDACTED].
It’s plain as a pikestaff.
Bra size alone is nothing to celebrate if it’s just more fatties. I would be disappointed if Q did not have some sort of cup to waist size math worked out.
36 – 24 – 30….
…only if she’s 5’3″
Oh. My. God. Becky.
Well, the numeric portion is a good start. For example, in the headline, there’s 34 & 36. That right there tells me more fatties than big tits, since it’s based on circumference of the chest.
Not great news for all those who got or forced their kids to get the somewhat sketchy vaccine for HPV.
How was the vaccine sketchy?
At the time it was released, there were questions about the long term safety of the vaccine. Combined with the push to make the vaccine mandatory, I was put off. I would have to review the current status of the effects to be certain.
The sketchy part about that vaccine is that some states were requiring parents to get the vaccine in order to enroll in school, I think.
I mean it made sense, you wouldn’t want any of the students catching something from the teachers.
I applaud your wit
*tips hat*
We, the Glibs staff, are really down with certain St. Valentine’s Day traditions. Like the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
I hope none of you have to escape to Florida dressed as lady musicians.
I didn’t “have” to
You chose to marry Joe E. Brown? 😉
You know, some like it hot.
OK, guys, that was good.
I did that once, ended up in a ditch in ArkanSas with weird stuff comin…….
Nevermind
“Michael Avenatti says he has new video evidence of R. Kelly having sex with a 14-year-old girl and urinating on her as she calls him ‘daddy’
Avenatti said on Thursday that the 45-minute tape clearly depicts Kelly ‘engaging in multiple sexual assaults of a girl underage’. He said he has turned over the video to Chicago prosecutors.
Prosecutors in Illinois are moving to indict the 52-year-old Kelly, and he may be arrested imminently, a senior law-enforcement official told the New Yorker’s Jim DeRogatis, who first anonymously received and exposed another tape in 2002 that allegedly depicted Kelly.
Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office tells DailyMail.com that it cannon confirm or deny that it has opened a fresh investigation into Kelly.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6706317/Michael-Avenatti-says-new-video-evidence-R-Kelly-having-sex-underage-girl.html
Not pictured…. Avenatti jacking it in the corner.
He had to review it several times to make sure.
LOL, literally.
So he was arrested for possessing kiddie porn?
Sounds like he was distributing it to known criminals.
HTF is that sleazebag involved w/ this now?
Pfft. We’ve had that video for years.
Drip-drip-drip!
Avenatti is truly the classiest attorney and runs in the best circles.
He got evicted from his million dollar office in Newport.
I suppose it would be R. Kelly that would make me root for Michael Avenatti.
Mrs. TOK supplements our income by watching kids during the day. Today one of the kids (her cousin’s son) woke up from his nap covered in vomit. Mrs. TOK had the mom pick him up, but she didn’t seem surprised he was sick. Mrs. TOK suspects the mom knew about it but sent him to our house anyway. (That wouldn’t be the first time she did this).
Now my 2 kids are home from school, one is vomiting and the other is nauseous. I’m thinking about taking a Lysol shower and sleeping in the car tonight.
not cool.
One of my employee’s daughters is sick with the flu for the second time in a month, two different strains.
Guess what? She was the only one in their family to get the flu shot.
And nobody else got sick.
It seems like there’s a lot of this every year. I’ve concluded that there’s plenty of selection bias and the flu shot is not to blame, but is a complete waste of time.
Id hazard a guess that the people who are most likely to get the flu shot are the people who are most likely to get the flu, and it sounds like the manufacturers missed on guessing the correct strain this year.
https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Flu-vaccine-doing-a-relatively-good-job-this-season-505841321.html
The flu vaccine is doing a relatively good job this season, protecting about half the people who got it, U.S. health officials said Thursday.
Preliminary figures suggest the vaccine is 47 percent effective in preventing flu illness severe enough to send someone to the doctor’s office. Health officials are generally pleased if a flu vaccine works in 40 to 60 percent of people.
“These are early estimates, but they are encouraging,” said Dr. Alicia Fry of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Somewhere between 10,000 and 16,000 people have died from flu and its complications so far this season, according to new estimates released Thursday.
Last winter was dominated by a nasty kind of flu, and the vaccine’s weakness against it was one reason it was the deadliest flu season in at least four decades. An estimated 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications.
She’s a healthy kid. It’s just that the flu shot is a waste.
Oh, I meant more like kids and medical professionals who have close contact with sick people all day. Not that sickly people tend to get flu shots.
According to my CMO, the flu shot doesn’t prevent you from catching the flu so much as help you survive the flu.
The years I’ve had the flu shot, I’ve also had the flu. I go without it now, and so far so good. Knock on wood.
I don’t really doubt that the shot is effective against the strains it’s designed for. It’s just difficult to predict what strains are going to be active any given year. I think the CDC data shows that even in good years it’s only 60% effective against the flu.
The wife and I have no patience for parents who disregard the health of my family, and the other kids she watches, just so they don’t have to use their vacation days taking care of their own kid.
I feel sorry for the kid. The parents don’t sound responsible.
That’d be an insta-ban in casa trashy. Significant fever, vomiting, or unabating yellow snot means take a rain check.
(not saying we’re also in the childcare business, only that as parents of a toddler who is friends with other toddlers, their parents quickly get unfriended and shunned if they show up to events legit sick)
I’m flying to the winter wonderland that is Columbus, Ohio to surprise the GF, who thinks I’m coming next weekend. Yeah, insert Ken Jeong “gayyyy” video here.
That sounds like the plot of the latest rom-com, starring Hugh Grant.
He would be visiting a transgender prostitute, though
I don’t discriminate.
I meant Hugh Grant. Does no one remember that story?
Why pay extra to have that mouth attached to a woman?
That was Eddie Murphy.
Divine Brown was all woman.
And she had a sack of quarters to prove it.
Are you othering Doyer’s “GF”?
Los Doyers is looking forward to finding some of those high-class Columbus hookers and getting a beej in an alley.
Isn’t that the opening scene of “Old School”?
Los Doyers and Vince Vaughn are going to start a frat later.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who was thinking that.
If my romantic endeavors don’t evoke opening scenes of various movies then I’ve failed as a Los Angeles native.
Wouldn’t you rather they evoked scenes from some vacant house in Laurel Canyon being used by a company who’s offices are a mail-drop on Wilshire?
What if she isn’t there?
Don’t worry, Ted, neither of us are Ohio State fans. Even though I’ll be moving there in a few weeks.
And undoubtedly snubbing us once again while you’re on the way.
You act like my reputation is well deserved or something
What if she is transgender?
That would be awkward for Los Doyers, but a great plot twist for our movie.
What if her boyfriend is?
::loads shotgun::
It is 50 today, so not so wonderland.
Thank Jeebus, because fuck driving in the devil’s white powder. /California driver
And I’m not talking about coke, Brett
I think there’s a Biz Markie song about that…
And a video!
https://youtu.be/9aofoBrFNdg
True confession, this is one of several dozen songs I only know from Saints Row games.
“A man from Florida has been arrested after he filmed himself sexually abusing a dog while he was dressed in a husky dog costume.
Twenty-one-year-old Christian Nichols posted photographs and footage of the act online, prompting a police investigation when a complaint was made.
He was arrested two and a half weeks later after detectives tracked the posts back to him and arrived at his address in Oldsmar, Pinellas County.
Mr Nichols admitted making the film and posting it online.
He was arrested and charged with one count of aggravated animal cruelty, according to Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/man-sex-dog-husky-costume-florida-police-christian-nichols-arrest-a8778671.html
Furries, man.
(are there furries among the Gliberati? ? I feel like there are)
There’s a big difference between consensual yiffing and fucking the dog.
Aye, that’s certainly true.
(insert “Road Trip” “but it’s your dog!” clip here)
Next Glibs poll: What’s your fursona?
You have the right to live your life as you see fit. I have the right to mock you.
That’s rough.
He said it was a misunderstanding and they were barking up the wrong tree.
And now he’s being hounded by the press.
*narrows gaze*
I think you mean, “ruff”.
“Ruff, just the way your mother likes it, Trebek!”
Collie, that’s a sick story.
Y’all better put a leash on this before Swiss hears about it.
He could always go with the Marion Barry response…
Would that make him a terrierist?
Just a bit of a poonhound.
Sounds like he was after houndpoon.
Valentine’s Day Music?
relevant
“who got the VD put back in Valentines Day?”
Vic Damone?
Damn, Hurley didn’t take the end of Lost well at all.
The times, they are a-changin’
I misread that the first time as “The dog in pornography: 1839-Today”.
Sounds like a Gender Studies PhD Thesis.
At least it sounds like they collared the right guy.
So apparently subzero 2 am Subway runs are just an Empire thing that we wouldn’t understand?
I thought they said the two on camera were like two homeless dudes?
Someone said that. I don’t know if the cops ever did.
Probably assuming. Who else would be out at 2 am in the freezing Chicago weather? Besides highly paid actors taking a stroll for a $5 sub, of course.
This is Chicago. Sure, the sub may be $5, but after sales tax, entertainment tax, breathing tax, fat tax, and all the other taxes, you’re probably looking at least at a $20 late-night dinner.
All they need is a tax on stupidity, and Chicago could afford it’s own space station.
Extras on TV shows are homeless people.
Hey now, I was a Baywatch extra once. Of course, it was when I was a college student, which is only a few degrees removed from hobo.
So you are saying you banged Pamela Anderson?
Hah, I don’t think she was in the scene. I only remember Gena Lee Nolin. I was one of the people they had walking back and forth on the boardwalk to make it look like a really crowded day at the beach.
http://fcbahistory.pbworks.com/f/Gena%20Lee%20Nolin%202.jpg
I would remember that too.
So you banged David Hasselhoff?
And both black.
And the company said it would abandon the search for a site for its new campus, dubbed HQ2.
“We do not intend to re-open the HQ2 search at this time. We will proceed as planned in Northern Virginia and Nashville, and we will continue to hire and grow across our 17 corporate offices and tech hubs in the US and Canada,” the statement said.
Parachuting in from space never made that much sense to me. Organic growth seems far more logical.
But what do I know?
There was some asshole New York politician on the news this morning, basically saying he (and his union overlords) should control staffing at Amazon’s HQ. I’m sure that went over like a lead balloon when Bezos heard it.
Amazon: “But we paid the politicians millions to not have union problems!”
Union: “Fuck you, pay me”
Someone here mentioned Amazon is/was already recruiting in NYC for the HQ2.5. If they’re any good, I’d wouldn’t be surprised if they just make the offer for another location or work from home.
But the liberal New York Communities for Change celebrated the news.
“Together, we did this. You marched with us, you petitioned with us, you supported our worker organizing, and in the end, we WON. Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone except Jeff Bezos!!!” they said in a statement.
No justice, no jobs!
It would appear that this immigration bill would basically just provide an “open southern border”, while doing nothing to liberalize immigration for people not residing south of the border.
I don’t really find the “open southern border, but everyone else can continue to wait seven to twelve years” to be a very defensible or logical position.
It should also be noted, that “open southern border” will only benefit Mexican residents, as Mexico is rather violent and vigilant about enforcing its own border laws. Maybe they should rename this bill the “Mexican-American Reparation Act”
And yet the caravans pass…
Mexicans enjoy good political theater too you know.
I don’t really find the “open southern border, but everyone else can continue to wait seven to twelve years” to be a very defensible or logical position.
It makes sense from a “maintain the status quo” position, which probably best serves the interested parties. Liberalize the system too much, and the next Trump will have a Spanish surname.
Agreed. Even open borders advocates, IMO, should see the problem with certain individuals getting preference by geographic accident.
Meh, it’ll just fuel a highly lucrative immigration interchange business in Mexico.
To paraphrase The Simpsons, “cheap under-the-table labor for some, ethnic voting blocs for others!”
re HPV vax: I am of the era when that first came out and there were health concerns associated with it. My pediatrician pushed it HARD, and I’m like, “Look, the medical community isn’t all kumbaya over it yet, so I’m not going to.” She shut up. She thought I was an antivaxxer in spite of the fact that my kid already had all her shots.
re Los Doyers surprising his girl one weekend ahead of time: I hope she’s good with surprises. I’d plan to spend my week cleaning my house so my boyfriend didn’t think I was a complete slob, only to have him find out I was a complete slob.
re Furry doing a dog: The dog was in the wrong for not wanting to do it with a transdog.
re flu shot: Agreed it is a waste of time and possibly money. My doc also told me the manufacturers did a bad job of guessing which strain(s) to cover for this year.
re catbutting: My cat butts me all the time.
re banhammer: I miss all the fun.
Is a transdog a phony bitch?
I guess it depends who was catching and who was pitching.
Are you asserting some connection between genitalia and gender? Problematic!
Mo Problematic Jeaux.
Can’t follow all those re.
Don’t you work?
/Homer scream.
Jussie Smollet is so fucked:
https://www.cwbchicago.com/2019/02/smollett-two-others-in-active.html?spref=fb&fbclid=IwAR0OeQBfzpKSuXfs4-o1RNiDdcNpDyTukqV54_6Qjr4oeOrdYtM1QTi99hA
“A source familiar with the records provided by the Empire star states that Smollett downloaded his phone activity into a spreadsheet and then deleted certain phone calls before handing over the records. “He did the [detectives’] job for them because then they only had to focus on the numbers he deleted.””
Now that wasn’t a very good idea.
The entire point of this hoax was to make Trump and his supporters look bad.
What an epic backfire. This is absolutely win-win for Trump.
He could even take the high road and pardon Smollet.
The hilarious thing is that lefties keep trying to pull this shit. “Well, it didn’t work the first hundred or so times, but THIS time it’ll totally work!”
In such a horribly racist country, why would anyone have to fake such a thing? Doesn’t this happen for real like 5 times a day in Drumpf’s Amerikkka?
I don’t know. It’s another story where everyone draws conclusions they want and fuck the truth.
I want Trump to dress like Zod. That would be epic.
Three weeks from now, those who aren’t saying “Who’s Smollett,” will be saying “Yeah, remember that gay black actor that was attacked in Chicago by Trump’s thugs.” Unless the media gives as much attention to the eventual facts as they did to the accusations, then this falsehood is another win for the Left.
lulz
OK.
Here’s my take, FWIW.
There was an altercation. Maybe not a physical one, but a verbal one, and probably over the phone. So he calls his agent for reassurance, and makes up a story to explain his fear and his belief he is in peril. But he doesn’t want to tell the truth. Possibly the person on the phone is a lover. Or someone who is blackmailing him. Or someone whom he owes money to for contraband. Or maybe it’s the result of something really shameful he did.
So he lies to his agent and makes up a story that would justify the fear he is feeling if it were true. And the agent, wanting to save his friend and take a set of dangerous maniacs off the street insists that he go to the police. And now he is fucked, because now he has lied to his agent and if he admits what really happened to his agent he will look like an untrustworthy loser, So he goes to the cops. He hopes that the story he tells will not result in the cops getting anywhere, and he will come across as a victim. But he is stupid. He doesn’t realize we live under a panopticon that would make Beria cream his pants.
Every step he takes makes things worse. But he can’t stop, because each of those steps kicks the can of him being found out a little farther down the road.
him being found out
Not really gay, or not really black?
Well fucked that tag up.
Worse – a straight white woman.
My read is that, if the report about the two people spotted on surveillance video being an “Empire” extra and his friend is true, is that Smolett was actually attacked. Probably for a personal reason. For whatever reason, maybe he didn’t know who did it, maybe he’s being blackmailed, maybe he just wanted to make himself look sympathetic, he lied about not knowing who did it.
I think the fact that he tried to redact the phone records, and the redacted numbers led the detectives to the suspects indicates he was complicit. Why would he be calling them if they attacked him?
Yep. They are described as his friends.
Sounds like a film for Noir Alley!
By agent, I assume you mean his manager?
His manager is the one who claimed to hear “this is MAGA country!” over the phone.
It looks like one of the “attackers” was a lover:
https://twitter.com/Zigmanfreud/status/1096171004747931649
Wow!
If this is a hoax, I hope they make an example of Smollett. Asshole.
The charitable account above from tarran doesn’t make sense. I mean, Smollett didn’t get into a verbal confrontation and then just come across some rope to put around his own neck. That’s not really believable.
It was either a hoax or personal, and the deleted numbers indicate hoax.
Someone didn’t call Ray Donovan. Or Saul.
Performance art
Lol. And these people want to take Trump down?
I notice he has been active on Twitter.
He’s been active everywhere. He’s practically doing a national pity tour.
You know who else pulls out? Not Sloopy. Pretty sure my eldest was also conceived by that method, applied poorly.
So the photo on that article – is Bezos trying to become Lex Luthor, or does it come naturally?
Nice shiv on the way out, Amazon. Throw the fuckers to the wolves.
The fallout from this is going to be so delicious.
I wish they could create a Lyme Disease vaccine for humans. I know a few people who had it undiagnosed long enough to suffer serious long-term health problems.
^This. And yet they have it for dogs.
Sure. Got it for my dog after several neighbors had dogs (and humans) who got Lyme.
Had it a year ago and, luckily, had the “bullseye rash.” Promptly tested and 30 day treatment cleared it up. Doc said a pretty large minority of folks don’t get the rash and don’t discover they have lyme disease until it is real serious.
Ditto. Although we did a 15 day regimen instead of 30 days.
Several years ago there was a Lyme vaccine, a 3 part program. My wife and I each had 2 of the shots, then the medics decided they shots weren’t doing anything and stopped. We had paid $100 X 4. I then had Lyme disease a year or two or three later but it wasn’t very serious compared to what others have had. Got loaded up with antibiotics about 2 weeks after the first symptoms and immediately got relief and no after affects. Close to 20 years ago. A lot of my friends has also had Lyme Disease, mostly with a good recovery.
Good thread (from a legal perspective) on Trump’s plan to declare a National Emergency and build that wall.
https://twitter.com/PhilipWallach/status/1096153822517444608
tl;dr: It’s probably legal, but it goes against the spirit of the statute. And it’s moronic, but no more moronic than all the other times it’s been done.
Nothing annoys me more than executive presidencies. Fuck your pen and fuck your phone.
It’s moronic. The only non-moronic thing that Trump has done in office is withdrawing from Syria, reduce troop numbers in Afghanistan, and appoint some good judges. Trump is a certifiable moron.
If Team Blue wins in 2020 this is going to be the kind of shit they point to when they declare a national emergency to push the Green New Deal.
As if precedence matters to them.
Precedence matters more than anything to them; The get theirs first, always. Precedent not so much.
Are you mocking my spell-checker?
Nope. Spellchecker worked fine, just your dictionary failed you.
Also shrunk the federal register, rolled back a lot of dumb environmental rules, withdrew from the TPP and Paris climate accord.
You name some good things, but omit the two most important achievements.
1. Sent Hillary home to cry
2. Schadenfreud orgasms as the entire establishment’s heads exploded.
He may actually get us out of Afghanistan and the ME stupidity we have just the tip of our dick in.
If he does that, I will vote for the SOB.
+1 for tax cut.
-1 for not cutting budget to match.
+1 for forcing NYS to cut its budget
Unfortunately Congress seems hopelessly dysfunctional.
He tries that and there’ll be an injunction faster than you can say “Dead Iranian Grandma”.
Unfortunately, the majority of assholes in both parties would prefer to have a Monarch, as long as the Monarch is from their TEAM.
Separations of powers had a good run I guess.
Given the horse photo, this Valentine’s Day is the 1 year anniversary of the wife getting her Appaloosa, and the week and a half of me getting the bay.
Did somebody bet on it?
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H2W1lK7P-I
(trigger warning: Blazing Saddles, the most racist movie of all time. N-word is used.)
I miss all the good bannings. Could you ban people when I am not on an airplane with no internet?
The again this is a good time to test the limits because there will not be two banning in a row.
Hmmm… all cheese made in Switzerland is bad and not worth eating. The only drinkable Shiraz is made in Australia.
You may get a skinny cow butt!
Those poor underfed alpine bovines.
Wouldn’t that be a goat butt?
This guy? See, I always said this about this guy, despite the fact that he’s Romanian, I kind of like how he thinks.
The only thing worse than cheese is melted cheese
Pie’s just going right up to that line.
He passed it.
I’m hoping Swiss has a picture of cheese sculpture of a cat. That would be funny.
He had one butt it melted
It was a cat made of cheshire cheese and it just disappeared.
He had one butt it melted
*light-bulb goes on*
A butter sculpture of a cat.
A cat butter.
*sensible chuckle*
While on vacation I had a pork schnitzel, that was then formed into a ball and “stuffed” with gouda and ham.
I’m still having chest pains.
Heartburn or clogged arteries?
Clogged arteries.
In truth, it sat pretty well despite being way too much food (which, of course, I still ate).
Shiraz and no cheese. Completely lost all my respect. Completely.
THIS RIGHT HERE!
I call for more ban hammerings.
This guy gets it.
That’s… That’s not even “wrong”.
These are not planned events. They’re more like earthquakes.
Uhhh I got one the NBA dunk contest is a more important event than the superbowl
After this year I may be the only person here who likes the Superbowl. I hear they are adding Brady as the second definition of goat.
Ah-hem.
The Superbowl was excellent. I’m not even the world’s biggest football fan and I was on the edge of my seat, watching that defensive battle.
Yes, watching the grass grow was deeply engrossing.
De gustibus
When I was ten I loved the idea of each team just marching down the field trading touchdowns until time ran out and whoever had the ball last won on a last second field goal. Nowadays I’d rather see a chess match where two teams are stopping the other’s plans until one of them makes the correct adjustments and prevails.
Full disclosure, I’m a Patriots fan.
As a former defensive player I enjoyed watching the defensive battle. I did not like the outcome, but the game was fascinating from that perspective.
As a former defensive player
Three most fun things in sports
3. quarterback sack
2. wing crushed off the puck and into the halfboards
1. catcher throwing out baserunner attempting to steal second
The rush to contrive scoring ruins everything. Three worst things in sports
3. stage racing
2. you tackled him wrong rules
1. designated hitter
fight me
I was online about a half hour after morning links and missed it. In my pre-coffee haze I was wondering how that idiot managed to insert an image, and why people were reacting so strongly to the image.
Same thought!
HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! I thought the same thing.
Glad to know I wasn’t the only one confused.
Wart removed. It’s not really that interesting.
“A source familiar with the records provided by the Empire star states that Smollett downloaded his phone activity into a spreadsheet and then deleted certain phone calls before handing over the records. “He did the [detectives’] job for them because then they only had to focus on the numbers he deleted.””
That’s like when the cops put up “Drug Interdiction Checkpoint Ahead” signs on the highway and then search everybody who gets off at the next exit.
OT, Yuuuuuuuge thanks to CPRM for the lovely new avatar.
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I was going to ask what it is – at this resolution it looks like Wilford Brimley wearing The Hat.
It looks like that to me too.
It’s Sir (Pan) Yan Onfury Zagloba from 1999 Polish film With Fire and Sword (adaptation of the 19th century book about 1648 Cossack Revolt) wearing The Hat.
Sadly, every video I tried lacks English subtitles but I think the character still comes across.
Sadly, every video I tried lacks English subtitles but I think the character still comes across.
Indeed it does. He would definitely wear the hat.
He is basically a Falstaff/Odysseus mix, a blowhard drunkard, gourmand and (only in his wishes) womanizer who hides a sharp mind under all the bluster, tricks people who underestimate him all the time and on occasion performs feats of great courage.
I figured he would get along swimmingly in H&R and now Glibs area.
By the forehead!
I hope everyone is doing a little something special for that special something in your life.
I’m taking the girlfriend to dinner at the Club. They have a decent 3-course prix fixe dinner for two with sparkling wine and chocolate covered strawberries.
Fully clothed? The dinner.
Fully clothed?
I don’t know. I might take off my monocle.
Rosy Palm doesn’t eat.
My husband and I got each other a visit from the plumber.
Bow chicka wow wow
*whispers, “Umm Mojeaux, cleaning pipes is an euphemism.”
It was a gift to the Gliberatti.
Oh my.
Go on…
Pic, or it didn’t happen.
So you two are a pair of crackheads?
And $500 later…
That was not in the least bit enjoyable.
I mean for 500 bucks it should have at least been enjoyable.
Right?
My husband said, “Well, at least I kissed you.”
Nice. I bet that guy gets all the chicks.
He only needs me.
That I believe. Any woman who knows her way around a hardware store is a keeper.
These euphemisms.
Damn straight.
*fans self*
I just brought the wife to Aruba for 4 days, so she’s getting a card today.
Oh, and a X-thousand dollar dog surgery, though that was really more of a joint gift.
What’s the main course?
Just in case you thought share buybacks were a poor use of corporate funds
The ARĪV electric bicycles will be produced with performance that meets Europe’s strict electric bicycle regulations.
That means a top speed of 25 km/h (15.5 mph) and no hand throttle. These are pedal-assist e-bikes only, though GM says there will be four different levels of pedal-assist to choose from.
In the lowest power mode, the ARĪV battery should be sufficient for 64 km (40 mi) of range. GM claims it should take 3.5 hours to recharge on a standard household outlet.
The mid-drive motor developed in-house by GM is marketed as 250 W, though like most motors in this class, “250 W” is largely in name only.
The e-bikes have integrated LED lights that are powered by the main battery. Hydraulic disc brakes are also included for added stopping power.
That’s nice.
I ride faster than that. And I’m not electric!
We can fix that. (Either one – slow you down or electrify you)
/sticks branch in spokes. Pedals off.
Share buybacks are an excellent use of corporate cash in the right circumstances.
My amateur opinion is they’re usually a payoff to shareholders who don’t want to be shareholders. All things being equal, I’d prefer to see it returned as a dividend and not dilute the stock in the first place.
It does the opposite of diluting the stock.
Right, buy back stock that’s usually been diluted (because it’s free money for companies). I’d prefer they didn’t dilute the shares in the first place.
In 2009 SIRI was faced with diluting stock to give Direct TV majority ownership or going bankrupt. As a shareholder, I think they did what they had to to preserve shareholder capital. Since then, they have instituted a buy back. In some cases, it is good for the shareholder.
Capital gain timing versus income timing.
Buybacks can be timed to be executed when management wants.
Change a dividend amount or omit one and look out.
Your other option is a special dividend – but markets can freak out about those and they are also scheduled.
So it really depends.
Investors don’t like “dead money”. Companies sitting on hoards of cash are essentially getting risk free on the “excess” cash and whatever their expected ROE is on their operations. I’m investing in your company for its operating ROE and not it’s excess cash. As an investor I can invest at risk free myself. and blend, hypothetically, between a two investment portfolio of RF + and your stock. Depending on the allocation depends on the riskiness of my portfolio.
Mind you companies need capital for expansion and problems so on the real world you need undeployed capital. It just a question of how much.
MCabe admits that he and the DOJ attempted a coup. Rosenstein was practically begging to be a stool pigeon:
It’s a good day for Trump and MAGA enthusiasts all around.
Someone HAS to write a book about these assholes.
I mean…they’re kind of doing it themselves? The few honest, non-proggie historians a few decades from now are going to have a wealth of primary sources where these people proudly declare what scumbags they are.
Trump was in office for a period of a few months, and they were talking about removing him through some arcane measure that has never been used before all the while decrying what a threat to democracy he was.
It’s going to be interesting to see how they write up Obama and Trump.
Obama particularly when it’s safe.
I think this whole thing is one of the worst in 20th century American politics.
Technically, it’s not the 20th century.
since the 20th century.
Dude, don’t you understand. It’s like in Viet Nam – they had to subvert democracy to save democracy.
They had to do it, democracy was proving it couldn’t be trusted (which is what everyone since Plato has said but still seems to be a shocking revelation to prog-tards).
A comedy, presumably?
Even if McCabe is lying about all of it (most of it? some of it? wtf knows, except he’s already a proven liar), the entire top floor of the FBI needs to be fired. I’d prefer the entire org, but at least every executive needs to get out for a thorough housecleaning. It’s clear the whole thing is rotten to the core.
All the Intel agencies, too, but at least the FBI’s corruption is more public so hopefully there’s more hope Barr and Co can do something.
I saw on the subtitles something about “people crying when Comey was fired” – WTF? FBI agents crying over a change in upper management? They should be fired for that alone.
In my agency the response to a change in upper management is “How many have we gone through now?”
Shit, we were practically high-fiving when we found out our new CIO had “decided to pursue other opportunities” after 8 months.
They don’t have much influence on the day to day, so their passing is greeted with apathy.
We cheered when the previous head of our facility left. But then, he had to be escorted out of the office with police there.
That’s amazing.
I know one guy who was running a shadow ISP out of the ISP he worked for – servers hidden under the raised floor, etc. Since he had out of state clients, the feds got involved and he also went out in handcuffs.
We need to abolish the FBI. The whole point of the bureau was to be the incorruptible, above the fray, investigator of last resort, and that reputation is in tatters, of tatters, of rags. They were always a political tool, but even the mask is now gone.
Buh-bye FBI, NSA, DEA, ATF, DHS
And that’s just Day 1 of President Tundra’s term.
CIA has a sad.
Shit.
Oh well, there’s always Day 2! The can hang with FDA!
Oh so you’re pro public school.
Get a load of this guy!
DAY 1, motherfucker!!
Jeez, you people.
He’s also pro FDA. What an asshole!
Asshole
That’s… amazing. And terrible. Yet not surprising.
And then you realize those same people probably wanted him fired that week the Clinton letter came out and he was Public Enemy No. 1.
So the plane was late and besides that they switched bagage belts without announcing and we were a bunch of people sitting like asshole waiting… Goddamnit. And as it happened in winter when I am away a long time I found 6 cockroaches in my sink. They climb through the pipes when I don’t use the sink for a while. Also it seems my brand new water bottle which I bough to use at the gym broke during transport. I could not find a decent one in bucharest and was happy when i found one in Graz. Goddamit. I’m gonna pour myself a scotch
Scotch cures many ills. What label?
This calls for Ardbeg Corryvreckan
Ardbeg is too peaty or smoky or something for me. It always feels like I am drinking smoked salmon. Tasty, but oddly disconcerting.
Ardbeg was given to us by the same benevolent G-d who created cleavage.
Try Octomore. Some people perceive it as ashtray-ish but I found it quite flavorful enough to balance out the high peat
I’ll give it a try.
I love the Corryvreckan. If you can find it, pick up a bottle of Lagavulin 12yo. You won’t be disappointed.
I’m partial to Caol Ila; a few weeks ago I had the 15 y.o. cask strength, not quite realizing quite how strong it was. Holy smokes, that’s some rocket fuel.
I’m very partial to cask strength whiskies but I do break the with a little water.
I have not tried that, but Ardbeg’s Perpetuum is my all-time favorite.
Pie has inspired me, but I only have Ardbeg 10yr.
I had forgotten how pale this is. And how tasty. I haven’t been drinking Islay lately, I’ll need to be more conscientious about my rotation.
I like the Ardbeg 10. It’s a solid scotch.
I’m almost out of A’Bunadh.
Oban14 is my sharing whiskey.
Oban 14 is one of the scotches I cut my Single Malt teeth on in the mid ‘90s.
Do you eat them? The cockroaches.
Like the kids in a certain Muppet daycare?
Those are mobile protein supplements.
HEY!
That’s too expensive.
You mean Romania doesn’t have proper drain traps that keep the roaches out?
Well, it is Romania.
The Master gives him small lives
It appears you are doing the right thing, Pie.
And as it happened in winter when I am away a long time I found 6 cockroaches in my sink.
Have you tried plugging your drain with a stopper while you’re gone? Or is it easier to just flush them back down from whence they came?
Cockroaches gross me out.
i placed a plate in the sink on top hoping to stop them dunno how they got in
Is there access from behind the sink? That’s where I get them. They come up looking for water – they could get in your sink from anywhere.
Vampire cockroaches.
Those are called “bats”.
We had roaches and mice when we moved in. The cats made quick work of them. Now they’re working on the mole and squirrel population.
Shitty all around.
The Smollett thing is playing out like Tom Wolfe wrote it. Is there a Stoic philosophizing prison escapee lurking in his apartment?
ur gay lol
No u.
+1 A Man in Full
Another take on MUH BORDUR UHMURGENSEE
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6703509/Border-security-brawl-near-serene-resolution.html
“Pelosi warns GOP a future Democratic president could use the same tactic to impose gun control”
Translation: TEAM BLUE President will immediately ban guns by executive fiat. And it’ll actually stick since they have the courts on their side.
I understand her play here but there is a huge difference…that future president would be in gross violation (I know it doesnt matter to them) of an actual amendment to the Constitution. That move would more than likely lead to the wanted hot civil war they seem to desperately want.
I’m more expecting it to be used to force a Green New Deal (or something like it) by a future D Prez.
Pelosi actually threatened to suspend the U.S. Constitution?
I’m only surprised that it took this long.
Jesus. They aren’t even pretending.
I mean I don’t like how this is going, but it seems a lot closer to constitutional than that.
It also requires a fuckton less violence to achieve.
I thought this was legal as long as the president in question has a pen and a phone.
“Its not aganist the law when the president does it”
R. Nixon
What a bummer. Subway had the perfect advertising pitch, and now it’s gone.
“Our sandwich can take a beating”
“It would be a hate crime not to enjoy our subs.” Maybe they can run a Black History Month deal for the next two weeks.
“More than just a knuckle sandwich”
Meatloaf sandwiches are good.
“So good you’ll eat it off the sidewalk.”
I wonder if we can get the Subway twitter account to retweet these.
Nothing beats our footlongs.
So Trump is signing the budget, then funding the rest with emergency funds?
Huh.
And now we have the Nigerian Prince angle:
https://twitter.com/CharlieDeMar/status/1096181650390765570
So, two princes?
I’ll see myself out.
Lol.
I saw them back in the ’90s with the Screaming Trees. Can’t remember if the show was any good.
65 million views. Goddamn!
I think I may have seen that tour as well – Soul Asylum too?
Not at the show I was at. But I’ve seen SA many, many, many times. They were initially known as Loud Fast Rules.
Hang Time is still among my favorite albums.
Screaming Trees were an underrated band. I haven’t thought about them in ages.
Yeah, they got overshadowed by the biggies from the PNW, but I still listen once in awhile.
They nearly lost you?
Another promise sworn and broken
I hope that’s sort of like how I “saw” Ready for the World open for the B-52’s. Because I would have to question your sanity if you saw the Spin Doctors willingly.
Oh, I have done worse. Besides, they had a couple catchy songs!
3 years ago they were the headlining Saturday night act at a Blues Music festival I go to. It was as horrible as you would think.
The promoter of that show should be jailed
It was odd, the guy usually a does really good job, It’s a smaller festival but he gets A-list blues guys, He even judges the International Blues Challenge thing in Memphis and always has the winners open the show Friday and Saturday, I don’t know if The Spin Doctors put out a blues album and he thought they would play that, but it was all the “hits”
Smollett is either cheering or crapping his pants right about now
Oh my God, the apocryphal stories about African immigrants being racist against American black people are true!!!!
Shit, if it turns out they did say “this is MAGA country”, well, violence sucks, but damn, Current Year is shaping up to be something special.
Caribbean immigrants too and it’s on vivid display in large parts of Brooklyn and Queens.
It was inevitable that Trump’s “shit hole” countries remark would intersect with a MAGA hate crime hoax.
The script writers are getting lazy
Landed in Charlotte ready for a 3 hour layover. I didn’t know they could delay a plane that early, but now I won’t be home till after midnight.
Yay! Air travel is so glamorous…
At least there’s wifi.
The outlet here that I found to charge my phone is all worn out. So my backpack is holding it in place. That’s not a fire hazard right?
I forgot headphones. And this phone doesn’t have a jack, so if I buy something here I’m out way too much for just a few hours of my time.
But Charlotte isn’t a bad little airport. We had a 3+ hour layover there in January and we killed it pretty efficiently. There is a local beer place that isn’t terrible. I think it’s in D.
There’s a bar here in the middle of E that I’ll be visiting soon.
First time I’ve been here. I think I will come through this place again if it’s an option.
Are the bathroom attendants still there?
Of course!
And the rocking chairs in the main atrium. Those are awesome!
Whisky River is in E and, ironically, has a very decent beer selection.
I find CLT via AA a much better deal than ATL via DL.
vaya con Dios
I was there last week and will be back twice next week.
I was seated in the burger restaurant and nobody waited on me for 5 minutes so I got up and left. Ended up eating dinner at the fast food bbq place.
We ate at the Mexican place. The waitress was terrific, the food was OK.
So you are saying you got high and stuck it in her ass?
Just the tip
I saw the job post. Congratulations!
Hey thanks!
It’s all moving very quickly.
Hey congrats on the new job!
Thank you. I was very happy they seemed to like me.
I had to take the physical tests this morning, but that was the final part of it all.
There’s a physical? Oh, so they can verify you have the strength to teach crowbar and sledgehammer lock-opening techniques.
Yeah the first half was “lift this box with a weight in it, walk around, put it on a shelf.”
The other half was measuring flexibility. And I don’t know what it’s called, but “I’m going to push on your arm/leg, push against me and don’t let it move”
It really wasnt too bad. I guess they wanted to know I’d be able to throw a shoulder at a door if I needed to.
I assume it’s to weed out anyone with pre-existing muscular-skeletal ailments that plan on “discovering” them once employed. We do it for all newbies at my job, too.
Yeah, UVM had the same thing because the custodial staff would suddenly be unable to mop or shovel snow.
Congrats!
Gracias.
I should probably learn Spanish now.
Not far from Cabela’s either
Oh man. This story gets better by the minute:
https://twitter.com/RobElgasABC7/status/1096197727782924288
“BREAKING: Multiple soucres tell @ABC7Chicago Eyewitness News Jussie Smollet and the 2 men who are being questioned by police staged the attack – allegedly because his character was being written out of the show Empire.”
This could go down as one of the greatest own-goals in history.
He wrote himself out of all future roles, Forever.
Can I get a Nelson Muntz laugh over here?
Big if true.
That’s fucking hilarious. He deserves it.
He staged the hoax in the wrong city. CPD are just like any other gang. They will hurt you if you cross them.
Just realized that if he’s losing his job he should probably……
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Code. (Disappointment, but I blame Tundra.)
We really should let it get farther. Like maybe L-E-A-R-N-T-O-C-O-O-K
Fuck this. I’m joining 4chan. As soon as I find out what that is and how one joins.
I can give you a P.O. Box number for you to send you membership dues to.
Welcome to Kekistan. Please don’t forget to donate $4.20 to feed a Pepe today.
He also crossed a gang called the FBI, and their penalty is much much steeper.
Sure has been for the Trump gang.
You’ve got to be kidding me.
Yeah, I’m sitting this development out until it’s “official”. This is just too crazy.
There’s a certain logic to it though, if you remember the silly-looking “death threat” letter he claimed to receive. If this thing WAS spurred by him being written off the show, then the letter was his first attempt at generating sympathy. When that didn’t really get him the attention he was shooting for, he took it up a level.
It’s changing quickly. CPD look to be trying to slow the speculation down.
https://twitter.com/AJGuglielmi/status/1096206043728789507
LOL what a shitshow
So, are the brass trying to deflect what the rank & file are leaking or are they supporting the rank & file’s leaking by keeping this in the news?
The former, most likely
My guess is they are simply denying they are the sources. Doesn’t mean the sources are lying. Just that they won’t confirm. It’s the age old problem with anonymous sources.
I’m not the least bit surprised. I said it was a hoax the first time I posted about it.
I figured it was likely to have been a hoax. This is far beyond what I could even have imagined though.
Same. It always sounded like horseshit, but more along the lines of what people here suggested – date gone wrong, attacked by a jealous boyfriend, something like that. To orchestrate the whole thing because he was losing his role? That’s nuts.
Innocent people could have been put in serious trouble because of his stupid, self-serving actions.
MAGA karma strikes again.
#JusticeforJussie has a different feel this morning.
The ship is going down.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/02/14/jussie-smollett-attack-empire-house-raid-persons-of-interest/
Wow, a no-show kick the door down raid? Just Sayn was right – do NOT cross the gang known as the Chicago Police Department
Why knock on the door when you can just smash the thing open?
How long until we get the first “Sure, Jussie Smollet lied, but he started an important conversation” article?
2 hours. Seriously, somebody is writing it right now.
I bet it was written days ago. Not all progs are complete morons. There had to be some sane ones who were hoping it was true, but just didn’t quite buy it.
Let’s update the “hoax vs real hate crime scoreboard”
Hate Crime Hoax
0 10000000000
Just for Steve Smith and HM.
https://twitter.com/itanimeirl/status/1096200865436893185
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No joke, I honestly think AOC might have a learning disability.
Her take on this Amazon shit isnt funny. It’s really frightening.
Did you sign the petition?
https://www.change.org/p/boston-university-full-refund-for-the-cost-of-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-s-economics-degree?recruiter=28430797&utm_medium=pet_copylink_1
Hahaha that’s hilarious.
I didn’t see that. The green deal was dumb, but the more she says the more I think she might actually be a retarded person.
She’s one of the “useful idiots” who has been elevated to the inner circle because she has the correct demographic checkboxes (e.g. brown skin + vagina).
She’s definitely not a deceitful, calculating, intelligent, charismatic type like Obama. I know we like to call Obama a dumbass, but I think he’s very smart. He knows exactly how to play to the emotions of his supporters – the desire to virtue signal, the hatred of the rich, the disgust for traditional Western values, etc. I think he carefully chooses every word, every photo op, and every apparent mistake (a lot of social psychology studies show that people will like a person more if they occasionally make a small mistake; being perfect all the time makes you too unreal and conjures up jealousy. Obama is great a playing “the average guy” while simultaneously signalling that he’s superior to everyone else).
And we saw right through his bull shit.
Average intelligence at best.
There’s a petition??
Ya can’t fix stupid.
But apparently you can elect it.
I will literally laugh out loud if the Dems redraw the district away from her in 2020.
She’d blame Republicans
Not a chance. The one or two lost districts will be upstate ones currently held by the GOP.
Dunno. Can’t remember where I saw it, but there was something about the DNC wanting to tweak her district.
Does she want Amazon to not get jobs in NYC because it’ll help with that “unwilling to work” thing?
Well… I know she and her ilk are framing their response in Marxist envy but they are accidentally correct that Amazon doesn’t deserve tax breaks that don’t go to anyone else.
It’s too bad that obvious conclusions will not be drawn from any of this.
That’s true. I don’t think targeted tax breaks should be considered constitutional, and really don’t understand how it’s possible.
But the stupidity of the arguments given and the lack of knowledge about how schools and roads are funded really scares me.
I never agreed with most libertarian thinkers (such as Rothbard) on targeted tax breaks. He stated that they are relief from taxation and should be promoted in as many places as possible, but I don’t agree. The fact that the government has the power to give out favors like that is why there’s so much lobbying by both voters and special interest groups. It contributes to people voting away basic rights because a certain candidate promises them some free shit (or relief from taxes that nobody else gets).
Taxes should be cut down to almost nothing, but insofar as they exist, they should be completely uniform.
FWIW, there’s a good chance that the special treatment for Amazon was largely overblown.
I hope Suthenboy doesn’t see this.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzYDhuhW0AAqzcN.jpg
My ring went in this.
Abalone?
Yeah. Don’t let the looks fool you. Yummy.
The shells make awesome knife scales too.
I dove for abalone along the California coast in my yute. Pound it out, light dredge in Italian breadcrumbs, 30 seconds a side in olive oil, eat it like a stack of pancakes.
Minimum shell diameter was 7”. Eating a stack of abalone that covered the plate was the height of decadence. And I could fuel a small forge the next day.
Petrified Klingon vagina.
Excellent band name, Spud.
“The Spinner* is a service that enables you to subconsciously influence a specific person, by controlling the content on the websites he or she usually visits.
The targeted person gets repetitively exposed to hundreds of items which are placed and disguised as editorial content.”
https://www.thespinner.net/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jReqVNsCE_I
Clear your cookies.
Huh. I have a different definition of “spinner”.
So that’s how Trump won.
Seriously–we aren’t doing ‘phrasing’ any more?
‘Cause these euphemisms…
I have a feeling NY pols are going to make Bezos pay. May be more expensive than his last separation.
I can see Cuomo and Deblasio being vindictive pricks but the entire slate of Dems below them is anti-Amazon so I don’t see it playing out that way TBH.
???
Cuomo and Deblasio wanted the deal. Every other prominent Dem hated it and is cheering Amazon pulling out. I just can’t imagine Cuomo and Blas bucking party unity to get back at Bezos in some way.
I figured if the rest of the Dems are anti-Amazon, they’d try to screw Bezos over just because.
I meant anti-Amazon deal. Since the deal is toast, why would they fuck with him? They got what they wanted. But yeah, “just because” is probably a good enough reason too. We’ll see.
Extorting money from Amazon would increase party unity.
Now Twitter is saying the hoax account is false and the police still think it’s real.
I don’t know what’s going on
But they two guys who the served the search warrant on were black guys, right? Or is the search warrant story a hoax, too?
Fake News everywhere!
If so, Don Jr. fell for it.
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1096211292396892160
They didn’t say it’s false.
They said “unconfirmed” because they haven’t officially confirmed it.
They’ve been slow walking this to fuck him good and hard. They asked him for phone records when they had already gotten them via subpoena.
Blowing the lid off of this early might jeopardize the prosecution, as if this dude was ever going to get anything worse than probation.
See this is what I needed. I haven’t been following that closely.
This. Two possibilities: The sources are lying or the reporter is lying. The reporter would be toast if it turns out he made up the sources and would know that in advance.
Dammit. I’m too sleepy this morning. The sources are telling the truth or the the reporter is lying.
IANAL, but isn’t false reporting merely a misdemeanor?
He mailed himself some stuff too. The feds are involved.
I know what’s going on, the start of a conversation, that’s what’s going on.
It must be awesome to be truly rich.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1xtoUO5dug
“I have to be careful putting the dick in the butt.”
Need lot’s of gun oil.
* cringes *
here we go 🙂
I learned there is an Aesop’s Fable for that. Seriously.
You mean: Me today, you tomorrow?
That’s some derringer.
That’s pretty sweet
I love how SALTy Cuomo is getting. Side note, but thanks trshmnstr for the parable, I enjoyed it and wish for more.
The fuckstains in local news in Albany rant the story as Trump supposedly being amenable to raising the SALT limits.
If I had been in Trump’s place, I would have said “Fuck you, cut spending”, of course.
Man, that would’ve been golden. Ted S. for President 2020/2024.
*dream sequence*
/Inauguration Day, Jan. 2025 – President Theodore S. at lectern:
“My fellow Americans; learn the fuck how to use an apostrophe!”
/Inauguration Day, Jan. 2029 – President AOC at lectern:
“My fellow American’s: what the the fuck is the proper way to use an apostrophe?”
“My fellow American’s like what the fuck is the proper way to like, you know.. use an apostrophe, like for real?”
FIFY
“Like, too many people are concerned with being grammatically correct and stuff and not concerned with being morally correct, like, you know what I mean?”
Don, you don’t know how pissed I was at myself for missing that. About 5 seconds after it went up I swore myself out for being so daft.
Do you think America is ready for someone who doesn’t drink beer?
He’s not getting the presidency without Ohio anyways.
Neither Trump nor Bush the Lesser drink anything alcoholic.
Cheers Glibs.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/a0IQug-ISXaIXyHVK6Xy-Q.3b38kisF0yOuaEoAKmIoNO
Good choice!
Ooooh! How is it? I’ve been eyeing their bourbon and rye but haven’t pulled the trigger yet.
I think the Rye is a pretty solid drink.
The best distilled spirit I ever tasted was a rye whiskey called (ri)1. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen it in any liquor stores lately. Might have to drive out of town for it.
I can get that here but for some reason I’ve never bought a bottle. I’m sipping Pikesville rye right now and the final of the night will be the Knob Creek barrel strength rye.
I’ve been working entirely too much overtime lately at my stupid job, so I’m going to treat myself with a bottle of (ri)1 and a massage. Fuck it.
There you go. Get down with your own bad self.
It’s excellent. Do not miss out.
https://twitter.com/RennaW/status/1095496319051935744
wut
*deletes original comment*
I’m now officially brain dead .
Teen Vogue sez GUNZ R BAD
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/winter-breeanne-gun-violence-prevention-750000-postcards-congress-toms
How mistaken I was. Instead of looking to The Constitution and concepts of natural rights, I should have been listening to teenagers for all my political knowledge/advice.
“The 17-year-old activist was already doing grassroots work including being the youth lead for the Women’s March Youth Empower national team and as an organizer of the National School Walkout. She was able to bring the shoe brand into the fold with existing gun-violence-prevention organizations that could use the support.”
OFFS
You know who else’s movement had a youth wing?
Richard Epstein?
So, left wing French male journalists organized to harass women and minorities. Who’s surprised? Not me.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/lol-league-france-harassment-women-lgbt-journalists
Pepé Le Pew has sad
My eyes hurt from attempting to read that
TL:DR men who make a point of telling people that they are progressive and supportive of feminism turn out to be misogynistic assholes.
“Men who accused Gamergate of misogyny; where are they now? … (In jail)”
https://ageofshitlords.com/men-accused-gamergate-misogyny-now-jail
Uh huh. Seriously, women, any time a man says ” I’m a feminist”, RUN, RUN!
I don’t think the #metoo crowd has gotten that message quite yet.
Twitter; don’t care.
Except they tried and succeeded to make people miserable
I should elaborate. I get it. It’s unfortunate – but it’s becoming ever more obvious that social media is a fucking cancer. The correct response is to get the hell off social media.
Always relevant comic.
Do not click on ‘First’, ‘Prev’, ‘Random’ or ‘Next’. Sheesh – now I see why it’s always posted sans link.
I dunno. This was kinda funny.
http://stonetoss.com/comic/happily-never-after/
http://stonetoss.com/comic/wagging-the-dog/
Toxic Masculinity
Can only imagine the monsters that raised these kids.
Nicely done. I hope it paid off!
They were immediately friend zoned by every girl in town.
My all-boys Catholic High School used to buy chocolates and flowers for our sister all-girls Catholic school. I don’t regret any of that #toxicmasculinity
You are truly a gentleman. Did it work?
I never got a girlfriend in high school, but there were a few hugs in return from those events so that was cool. I was a lot shyer and reserved then.
The chocolates-flowers worked then as part of the learning process. Good.
Participation flowers. BS. I’m not giving the biggest cunt in class flowers just to be a nice guy.
“Summit Trail principal Dr. Sarah Guerrero said in today’s cruel world,”
Oh, fuck off, Sarah Guerrero. You know what was crueler than today’s world? Yesterday’s world. Like, living in 1200 AD or 65 BC.
I’m on my phone and haven’t scrolled through the thread to see if this update has been posted yet. Can this story possibly get any more amazing?
chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/02/14/jussie-smollett-attack-empire-house-raid-persons-of-interest/
Superintendent is disputing reports that this was staged. I think that means cops think it’s staged so they’re leaking to the press, but the superintendent is getting pressure to not go that route. I’m guessing this ends with an official conclusion that they can’t find the culprits, while cops leak that it was fake all along
My Valentine’s Day:
Wife bought me a bottle of Rye and a frog for my aquarium ( I bought her a live orchid). We are now having cocktails and I am DJ’ing her favorite songs for her. Simple is nice.
New Wife is working out and shall be home promptly.
I’m sipping the Sam Adams Winter Ale she buys for me by the case while supply lasts.
Exposition on the nuances of bra size:
Many people don’t realize that cup size and band size are intertwined. 32DD has the same breast volume as 34D has the same volume as 36C etc. etc. Clearly, a smaller band size indicates typically a more slight frame so a very large band size is indicative of a fatty (though not always). Contrary to my posts, however, there is more to consider than size alone. 45% of breast tissue should be above, 55% below. The nipple should point 10-15 degrees upward from the horizontal and be approximately 0.5-1 cm long. The diameter of the areola should be about 1/3 that of the entire breast.
Assuming all other dimensional requirements are met, the optimum size is 34F.
Is there a discount table for seconds? Asking for a friend
The diameter of the areola should be about 1/5* that of the entire breast.
Typo.
I was gonna say… That’s a shit ton of aereola
Hmmm……Song title. Definitely a great song title.
I’ve been plagued by boobs ever since discarding FirstWife, who was to her credit taut in those regards.
A boob that is so large as to be mostly free and therefore able to float away from planned attention is just annoying. Come back here.
*furiously takes notes*
Had to look up what .5 to 1cm was. Now I feel fortunate that one past gf had nipples like a baby bottle – about 1 1/2″ (4cm) when aroused.
On the Amazon debacle, this is one of those rare instances that instead of hating everybody involved, we can point and laugh at everybody involved. The last two weeks have been really hard on Team Blue and I’m reveling in it. Team Red is only slightly less shit stainy, but this has been fun.
Ya the Republicans should be licking their chops, but something tells me they’ll screw it all up.
Ever since Convington, the MSM and Social Media have been my Palmolive.
I decided this will be my next purchase.
https://youtu.be/VxyZvfKNhc4
I finally got the scope mounted on my Kimber 6.5 Creedmoor. I’m just waiting for the weather to dry up. I can’t wait to get to the point where I’m banging gongs at 1,000 yards.
the point where I’m banging gongs at 1,000 yards
With the rifle or your male gaze?
The former. I’ve already achieved the latter, which includes smoldering.
“Amy Klobuchar reportedly threw office supplies at employees during outbursts
WASHINGTON – In the latest allegations of staff mistreatment against Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a new report says she tried to exact revenge on employees who sought new jobs by calling their bosses to have their offers rescinded.
Three former staffers and another source told Yahoo News about the alleged employment practice, which they saw as “vindictive, mystifying and counterproductive,” the site said, and an indication of how far she would go.
The new claim comes after other bad headlines for Klobuchar in the last week where former staffers reported hellish conditions working for the Minnesota senator who has portrayed herself as “Midwestern nice.””
https://nypost.com/2019/02/13/amy-klobuchar-reportedly-threw-offices-supplies-at-employees-during-outbursts/
And she’s done before she starts
Bully for her !
Uffda. Klobberchar, amirite?
Every time I hear or read her name I think of Young Frankenstein.
I think of this.
Funny. A one-time crowd-favorite player for the Minnesota Twins was Chuck Knoblauch…until he went to free agency and sold his soul to the fucking Yankees…and shortly after turned to a shell of his former self. Karma.
“World’s sexiest soccer ref poses topless for Valentine’s Day
Stunning Italian referee Claudia Romani set pulses racing yet again after she bared all for Playboy Italy.
The brunette beauty took part in a steamy Valentine’s Day shoot to celebrate the sexy holiday.”
https://nypost.com/2019/02/14/worlds-sexiest-soccer-ref-poses-topless-for-valentines-day/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/football/76388/worlds-sexiest-referee-causes-quite-a-stir/
I…cannot open the links right now, but I wish to ask: THICC?
Not quite.
This makes me a bit sad, but understandable.
https://www.instagram.com/claudia_romani/
Still looks like she covered her nipples:
http://www.playboy.it/girls/buon-san-valentino-con-claudia-romani/2019/02/201924546/
A topless woman and soccer. The only thing that would make this Italian stereotype more complete would be if she were eating a bowl of spaghetti while topless
AC Milan fan – pass.
Inter?
Of the Milan teams? Sure.
But my main teams are Napoli and Sampdoria.
That’s an interesting geographic mix.
Parma Calcio 1913! They lost their team due to corruption and restarted in Serie D.They’re now topside but not a real threat to the Juventuses of the league.
I just pretend that Juventus doesn’t exist. The league is a lot more interesting that way.
And not a single mention of Wendy’s. I can’t even…
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/people-are-upset-over-papers-ranking-of-best-fries-in-america
I think I’ve spoiled myself on fried potato products since I developed my roasted potato recipe:
Cut potatoes (in any shape you want, really) and toss in a bowl with olive oil, kosher salt, pepper, rosemary, and garlic powder. Place the pieces on cast iron and put into a 450° oven for about 20 minutes (varies depending on the size you’ve cut them into) and towards the end of cooking, turn on the broiler to get the top sides golden brown.
It’s not unique by any means, but it has totally ruined my taste for restaurant French fries.
I did the twice-fried thing on my stovetop a couple times – even though I don’t really have the right equipment – and they were amazing.
But yeah, I love roasting potato wedges too. But that’s not French fries.
The fries I do at home are oven fries and come out like you describe.
Being in the land of the potato, I can’t forgive any restaurant that can’t turn out a superior product, which cuts out pretty much all fast food joints.
What truly ruined me was when I walked out to the garden, shoved my hand into a mound of dirt and pulled out a Yukon Gold that weighed well over a pound. THOSE were oven fries.
One of the things that kind of surprised me when I moved up here was the high baseline level of deep-fryer skill.
Crinkle, waffle, and steak cut are not fries.
BK is rated far too high on that chart. They have a horrible aftertaste.
You have a terrible typo there, I’m sure you meant to say that steak cut are the BEST fries.
I clicked the link to test a hypothesis. Whenever an article refers to “people” having some reaction, it means that the journo put zero effort into an article and copypasta’d some Twitter thread with some editorializing.
Wendy’s fries are not bad, but you have to eat them in the restaurant. IN and out are complete trash fries.
I still like a good Kringle cut.
Wendy’s fries are most definitely the best fries, period.
Why In N Out serves those garbage fries with arguably the best fast food burger in the nation is a fucking mystery.
And they’re fresh cut. No excuse. Increase to oil temp a few degrees or the cooking time by a minute. That’s all they would have to do.
You can ask for them well done, and they’re still trash.
The burger itself is good for what it is, but I can think of at least 2 that I prefer over it.
I always hated Steak & Shake fries. They’re tiny as fuck, so they just don’t have the size to be very satisfying. Plus, the increased surface area means that you get little else but grease flavor. A good French fry needs to be large enough so that you can experience the taste and texture of the fluffy cooked potato inside; there’s virtually none of that with Steak & Shake fries.
That is what I hate about McD’s, BK, and Wendy’s fries – they’re all flavorless shoestrings.
I like crinkle fries.
“Sources: Weld expected to announce exploratory committee for possible GOP primary challenge of Trump”
https://www.wmur.com/article/sources-weld-to-announce-substantial-move-toward-gop-primary-challenge-of-trump/26328715
*shakes head in embarrassment*
YES!
Weld recently changed his party registration in Canton, Massachusetts back to Republican, according to The Associated Press.
*walkaway explosion gif*
Like this?
Maybe. I can’t open that.
Weld feels safe now that LaRouche is (or soon will be) six feet under.
Libertarian moment?
So, cultural appropriation got brought up unironically in a meeting today. I was genuinely surprised by the reaction. I put on my “I need this job more than I need to be right” gaze, but there were some genuinely perplexed and confused people in the room. “why would anybody be offended because I wore a Sombrero on Cinco de mayo?”
The media pays much attention to the .1% at the extreme left on college campuses; people in general haven’t completely lost their minds yet.
I used to work with a Spaniard who spent every Cinco de Mayo pissed off because all of us dumb Mericans didn’t realize there was a difference between Spain and Mexico. He would rant every year about how people would tell him he was lucky because he could wear a sombrero on Cinco de Mayo and not get shit for it.
After the first year of his bitching about this, another buddy of mine and I spent all day every May 5th tormenting him. He knew we were fucking with him, but he didn’t have it in him to lay off the high heat and would end up ranting anyhow.
Can we celebrate Costco de Artisanal?
One of these days Trader Joe’s is gonna take flack for their sub brands.
Are you thinking of the Trader José cookies, or do they have something like slave plantation brown rice?
The first. I know they’re owned by Germans, but I don’t think I’ve seen anything like the latter so far.
Letting cultures mingle and be used by anyone is racist and marginalizes vulnerable groups. All culture should be kept only within their original groups and should be left alone by filthy outsiders. This will keep this country a “melting pot”. /s
Imagine if they took this tack with western civ. “sorry, you can’t travel by car, that’s white American cultural appropriation.” “sorry, it’s offensive when you wear a suit, you’re dressing in a white European costume” “stop appropriating white vaccine culture!”
B-but Americans and especially Wypipo have no culture so it’s totes okay!
I would laugh if only people didn’t seriously argue that.
“Melting pot” is a dirty word(s) now
Oh yeah, I forgot assimilation is verboten.
Just like “imitation is the most sincere form of flattery” cultural appropriation should be taken as a confirmation that something good was happening in that place/time.
You could make the argument that Japan is/was one of the most successful Asian countries because they were voracious assimilators of other cultures. They did the same thing as Americans did. If they saw a good idea, they adopted it wholeheartedly after giving it a whitewash to make it seem as if it was their idea all along.
Smart people should always be open to other good ideas.
I will post this here because the ban hammer thread is dead.
The discussion about the N-word actually taught me something. Up until now, I always thought the N-word was a polite way of saying NoDak. (Shout out to Mike – what up my NoDa?)
In truth, now that I know what the N-word really is, all those stories about people getting bent out of shape about people using it make a lot more sense.
The ¥ word?
When that goes on the no go list, switch to the 円 word?
Is that the new emoji for the HPV treatment?
Waaaasss-uuuuuuuuup?!
*polite way of saying NoDak*
Hey…wait a minute…
Shit! You are onto me. What are the odds that the only literate NoDak would post on the same blog as me?
BTW, found the vid of you planning the last Minn-NoDak Glibs meetup
Me, you, Tundra and fourscore, you mean.
(I’m the good looking one)
Why is Tully’s offering me honey with my iced coffee?
Did you get a plastic stir stick at least? Or is Tully’s the place that’s shaving the turtles?
Got a straw. Denny’s more woke than Tully’s. Go figure.
If you get the chance, try hoto. Flat udon noodles, but with a thicker texture. Had some last weekend in Yamanashi. Delicious.
https://imgur.com/a/dBENb5m
Very nice, I like udon already but with more thicc? Hell yes.
Tempura Udon is my favorite. Someday I’ll make to Aomori just to try the fresh maguro.
Isn’t udon a winter food?
Sorry that’s soba I’m thinking of.
I love the brown buckwheat soba. I buy it in 14-packs from the Japanese store and make soup out of it. Not sure if that’s traditional, but it’s tasty and nutritious.
The wife uses soba in a noodle salad with chicken, a Thai peanut sauce, and shredded carrots and cabbage.
They serve it year round, but I prefer it in winter. Same as nabe.
I highly recommend it. The hotate is also really really nice too, really goes great in the soups.
Grilled in the open shell with butter and soy sauce. Now I’m getting hungry for Hotate.
Exactly the way I make it. Beer isn’t optional.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BNnfmbJKm6M
You mean scallops? In ‘Muhrica, those are known as scallops.
Don’t make me come back there. I’ll have to eat and drink my way across Tokyo this time.
OMFG. There’s actually a Twitter account dedicated solely to the people that write this steaming piece of shit.
https://twitter.com/EmpireWriters/status/1096239089613922305
Who says that western civilization is in decline? Nonsense, I say!
Wait… WTF? Someone was banned and I missed it? I always miss the fun stuff! This really is the worst chat room ever.
The troll is probably having a laugh right now. “Took them that long to boot me even though I had been a racist pos for months.”
It took me a while to figure out why a cool pic of heads on pikes was banable. I’ve been very busy this week so I have to catch up on the goings on well after the fact.
OK. Someone was banned over a pic of heads on pikes? Things really are getting mysterious now.
No, that pic replaced the last post by the idiot that got banned
What the hell did he do? It took shreek half a day to get banned and I knew who he was on the 2nd post.
Back up one post and all will be explained.
Reminds me of this one chick/troll? who would go on tinder and say crap like racist bile and “Hitler did nothing wrong” to see how far dudes would go for her as a shit-test.
A troll is just a sociopath with a keyboard. Their brains are broken. You almost have to pity them.
I feel you. My employer has been getting their money’s worth out of me this week, so I am way behind too.
Of course the Glibbening happened while I was on an extended business trip, so I was totally at sea over at TOS as to what had happened. In one of the few times I have ever known him to slip up, Tundra got in touch with me and helpfully explained what had happened.
I got confused too, as I had been away from HyR for a while. It took me a few days tomfigure out a lot of people left, then someone else said something about The Other Place (here). Someone else asked who and Ken Shultz helpfully supplied the link.
My brother, who turned me libertarian, told me one day that everyone had moved to this site about 2 months after we did.
I said, yeah I know and have been there from the start. You gonna post or just keep lurking?
He lurks.
Make him post!!!
So, Glibs…
It’s V-Day. Is everyone doing well? Anyone get a nice box of chockies? Or, sex?
Anything interesting happen?
One box of chocolates. Got lucky this year that v day didn’t fall during the “cycle”. Last year it did and she hurled the box at me with a “here ya go, fucko”.
Yeeesh! Sorry for last year, straff. But, you appear to be the forgiving type, I see.
I should probably try to read through this omnibus thread; see what I’ve missed.
Exaggeration a bit. When we went to Shikoku to meet her grandma for the first time after we were married, we had a big dinner with the family. I made a stupid pun on the eggplant (not worth explaining) and she smacked me on the arm. Her grandma saw that and slammed her fist on the table. “In the next room with me!” She dragged my poor wife into the room, closed the door and lectured her on why you never, ever hit your husband. We all could hear the lecture a exchanged nervous smiles in silence. Finally, they emerged from the room and my stood right next to me and gave me a deep bow. “Gomennasai!”.
Thinking I’d lighten the mood, I joked, “Are the beatings going to stop at home too?” and cradled myself. Joke didn’t fly. Grandma was dead serious.
Well, I’m not in any way fluent in Japanese etiquette/culture–I think I’ve picked up about as much from you and the other Japan-based glibs, as I have in my whole life prior. Of course, I hesitate on filling in too much of the blank spaces, mentally. That all said, your first description is pretty damn funny, in light of the story.
What matters is that my wife loved her roses and card that were waiting when she got home from the barn.
Dinner was seared scallops on a bed of morel and asparagus risotto, with a nice glass of wine on the side.
She was very happy with they day when she went to bed, and that is all that matters to me.
Happy wife, happy life.
That’s why you were so patriotic about the hota…I mean scallops.
Lol!
Hat’s off to Spud-Content/Happy is a fine way to end the day.
Also, is everyone finished talking about Ban Hammer ’19? (Yeah, yeah-the year is still young…) I think most have said what I would have said–glad they informed us; it’s totally appropriate; et all.
Still seems like there was some residual sensitivity in the thread…could just be me, I s’pose.
Someday, I will explain my current life.
Not on my account, I hope. (as if)
By that, I’m showing my introvert/keep-personal-life-personal side.
I will cop to buying my wife a Vet Ranch t-shirt, as we had previously talked of donating to them. And, a Koala cuddly.
I have no idea what any of this means. Sometimes it is best to be busy I guess.
So I sent my wife an email with the someecards.com that said “The street isn’t the only thing getting plowed today”.
At lunch I went and got her a dozen roses, a box of candy and a card. Brought it home and she was …. gone. Running errands.
Not sure where she was, I figured I’d shovel the 4″ of snow off our deck and see if she showed up. She didn’t so I went back to work.
This is the text exchange after I was back at work
This is now one of my favorite VD stories.
The e-card/email alone puts it at the top.
*raucous applause*
Didn’t really think much about Valentine’s Day. Hubs said this morning, “Happy Fake Holiday!”
It was pouring rain and I had quite the commute ahead (Californians don’t know how to drive in rain) and a super busy schedule, so hubs volunteered to drive me to work. This allowed me to keep emailing and texting on the way in.
So he picked me up this evening at 6 and we went impromptu to a restaurant and had a Valentines dinner after all.
Good time.
Happy Valentimes Day to you and your dude!
I’m sitting in a bar next to John Wayne airport waiting to pick up my wife. If her plane ever fucking lands.
Thanks!
Happy reunion to you and the wifey— hope the travel wasn’t too rough.
Take President’s day off for a 3 day weekend. 🙂
We’re flying to Seattle tomorrow to scout starting up a regional office. There will be much eating and drinking and punk rock barring.
Got the wife chocolate and roses. She got me a t shirt I doubt I’ll wear.
::sad face::
Not your style?
Valentine https://youtu.be/qIyxiuWNSRU
I REALLY dug that! *untucks and re-furls cape*
We are thinking of buying another home for cash. Long story involving a literal rich dead uncle the wife didn’t know she had as to why this is a good idea. We like our neighborhood but want a bigger home because of a bunch of reasons. One just came on the market.
My wife thinks we need a buyer’s agent. Nevermind that the last 4 times we’ve made a real estate transaction I’ve handled the negotiation and my wife has handled the searching. And since we are buying, the seller’s agent has to handle the paperwork. The only value I see in a buyer’s agent is in helping us find a home inspector, and since those are mostly useless, I think we can find one on our own.
Thoughts and worthless opinions?
Costs with and without an agent? If there’s a significant difference in costs, and you know the legal aspects of real estate transactions, I would strongly consider skipping the buyers agent.
You and your wife do the same thing. Make the seller agent do all the work. Negotiate a favorable (to you) agent conmission. The seller should pay commission, so get the “buyer agent” commission amount as a rebate to you at closing. Get it written into the contract. Written.
That’s my thought. I was thinking we could get that as a rebate, the buyer’s agent part of the commision. I’m comfortable with the escrow piece, and with lining up someone to do an inspection, then getting any repairs that need done, done., interacting with the title company. etc. And since there’s no loan it massively streamlines things. This may be one of those happy wife, happy life things though.
I don’t know if you’ve done all cash transactions before, but it’s amazingly easier. And escrow costs are about 10% of what they would be if you’re doing a mortgage.
I don’t know what is customary in Oregon, but in Los Angeles agents split a 6% commission. So, if an agent double ends a deal, they get to keep all 6%. But they’ll be hapoy with 4% or 4.5% if you let them double end the deal. So negotiate that 1-1.5% as a cash payment to you at close of escrow. Make the agent work for it to. Make them do title, inspection, escrow and all that bullshit.
2%-2.5%.
I fucking do this accounting math bullshit all day every day and I can’t fucking subtract properly. I’m a little buzzed too.
I fucked the math up again. Wrong number. https://youtu.be/0TgYM45jCSc
I’m tracking you. It’s been 4-5% the last couple of transactions total, split between the agents. Partly that’s due to how high home prices are here in the PDX area. Either way, I can negotiate that piece of it.
How did the rope performance go?
Really well. We had a helluva good crowd reaction and several folks including other performers congratulated us on how well it went. From a technical standpoint, it’s probably the best rope I’ve ever done. And I have had about a half-dozen requests from some attractive women to tie them up based on what they saw. Thanks for asking.
Cool, man.
I don’t guess you video those. I am curious.
50 Shades of Glibs.
Srsly.
We did in this case video it. It’s being edited. Let me think about it. Since it was a performance it’s actually fairly safe for work as all the clothes are on.
Maybe for a Glibs at Night article.
Nice! Can’t wait.
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You’ve obviously talked about this, but I have no idea what this means. And, the Valentines day talk is giving me…well, let’s just call it “odd” ideas.
Would you mind re-elaborating?
Your “odd” idea is probably 95% on target.
I don’t mind.
I’m pretty open about being involved in the kink scene. So your Valentines day ideas probably aren’t too far off the mark.
One of my kinks is rope bondage, somewhat influenced by Japanese style Shibari/Kinbaku. The last year I’ve been part of a 12 month intensive and Sunday we had our final meeting and performance in front of our peers, some invited attendees and next years group.
I…………………………..OK.
Good talk!
BTW, I think I would like to participate in the beta read, if that’s OK. If so, just let me know what you need.
Yay!
When I finish it, I’ll just need your email address and what format you want it in (PDF, Kindle, EPUB).
Mojeaux knows.
Sir Digby, I’ll take that as you got more of an answer than you expected.
Ah, I (kinda sorta) get it. And, I do think I remember you saying something, but it seems like it’s been a couple of months ago. Working nights and all messes with that sorta thing.
Anyways, congrats on good performance! I hope I didn’t come across shitty-I was genuinely thinking it was a more conventional (?) topic, and just thought the original phrasing sounded wink-wink, nudge-nudge.
I mention it periodically. And I wrote an article like 6+ months back about the big Kink Convention I go to. So yeah.
And your response didn’t come across as shitty at all.
Mojeaux:
Being the worrier that I am in regards to missing stuff, my email:
crenshaw_pete @ protonmail.com
I will probably need it in .pdf.
I look forward to it!
Got it, thanks! Will likely be another week or two.
We have bought one house with an agent and one without one. The one with the agent was my buddy. I found the house and he did the negotiating and got us a good deal and took very little. The one without I was working on it and asked the lady if she would like to sell it and she was amenable and we made a deal. If you are negotiating directly with the seller’s realtor then you can often make a deal on commission split. If you are comfortable with the process I would say go for it.
Wow weatherman says 3 to 6 inches tomorrow starting at 9AM and every school cancels. Back in my day it would take a foot of snow to get us out of school.
And for some reason that post was a reply. Ah fuck it all I’m going to bed.
@LJW, Liberty School District was already out for the 15th.
Valentine Card https://youtu.be/seR31OUIYiM
I am trying to finalize the rough draft of my book. I think one more strategically written and placed chapter will do it. If anybody wants to beta read a Prohibition era romance when it’s done (really not a whole lot of actual romance in it), holler at me.
I would be honored.
Goodness, I would be honored to have you do so! Thank you! I’ll let you know when it’s ready.
#Metoo I assume a beta reader provides feedback?
Thank you! And yes, feedback is always welcome.
Try brushing Limeyboy.
https://nypost.com/2019/02/13/energy-drinks-completely-ruined-my-life/
Uffda.
I’m a chick and I still prefer your photos below by a long shot.
So just every other Brit.
https://archive.li/K1oCN/0f67a3647c05fc98b94aa26ff91f6995a71f8166.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/dtYZS/5442af0078289bdd1ed3b09bf8c1009ac31423c7
NSFW.
https://archive.li/WbWF4/e2b6504ea5d437e9e5dd2644d73bc5779cb4f1fa.jpg
NSFW.
That’s how you celebrate VD.
Finally home.
Girlfriend’s tire blew out on the way to pick me up.
Had to get an Uber down to there.
No tow truck open. Can’t get the spare out because the shop cross threaded the thing on. Got a ride back home. Going to bring a big wrench or two tomorrow and hope I can get the spare off. Gf sick.
Geez, Doom–you need a vacation.
At this point sleep would be close enough
Geat! So I can hate my fat Russian-Jewish bitch ex a little less, now!
Um… I mean… good news.
“Great” not ‘Geat’
I was too excited.
I just thought you were happy about a group of Swedes….
There was already one banning today…
I actually had a Russian Jewish ex. And she was a bitch. Not because she was a Russian Jew, because she was a bitch. Я не понимаю суки.
If you honestly think I’m in the same category as FOS, feel free to let them know what I posted.
суки be crazy, yo!
And, I’ll vouch for Chafed that he was joking.
Maybe.
Yeah, I should’ve known that. I’ll go tune my guitar (per eGould below) and mellow out.
Into Dust by Mazzy Star.
Lullaby by Low.
No, I’m not depressed. Why do you ask?
Also, for the guitarists out there, Fade Into You by Mazzy Star is just G sharp – F sharp – C sharp, with requisite embellishments. Still a good song.
Fade Into You is A E A Bm
Change your strings!
A E Bm
Over and over again
I got the melody from the guitar overlay at beginning o the song, and I am apparently out of tune.
Also, my mistake.
Here’s a good song that is basically Fade Into You, but with the other stuff that is good too.
https://youtu.be/sZdbNMDH8hc
Pretty jangly, actually. Maybe could be part of my epic Spotify playlist Jangle Noise? 11 hours of guitar based indie, jAngly, noisy, psyche, surf, punk, noise, powerpop, glam, c86, rocknroll. From the 60’s threw today, Jangle Noise delivers the guitar strummin’ that’ll keep you hummin’ all day. Check it out, and follow Jangle Noise. https://open.spotify.com/user/egould310/playlist/20QahoaMym4xptW1UNzNpk?si=-hHFsrvmTp2WnJ0jUOypSg
Good song (DD Girls), I’ll check your Jangle Noise out later.
Also, yeah, same guitar pattern, although it’s not exactly an esoteric or exotic one
Also, last!?
Well….sorta.
Ahh, what the heck–it’s yours!
Thanks!
Oh snap. Smollett staged it with some coworkers.
Is anyone here surprised?