FANBOI
STEVE SMITH SAY SORRY HIM THROW CHEESE PERSON. WHEN TRY TELL CHEESE PERSON, HE HOBBLE AWAY FROM STEVE SMITH IN HALL GLIBS HQ. IT OK. STEVE SMITH DO FAVOR AND DO LINKS TONIGHT, GIVE CHEESE PERSON TIME DRINK OR SLEEP. OR YODEL. MAYBE STEVE SMITH YODEL!
YO-DA-LAY-EE-HOO!
SO HERE LINKS FOR FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE. FROM STEVE SMITH. WHO DID THEM.
- STEVE SMITH SIDES HURT. FROM LAUGHING…”“The City of Portland affirms walking as a fundamental human right and the most fundamental means of transportation, and that PedPDX ensures walking is a safe, accessible, and attractive experience for everyone in Portland by putting pedestrians at the forefront of City policy, investments, and design.” STEVE SMITH LAUGH – HIM FASTER THAN ESCOOTER. AND WALKING. HIM CATCH ALL SILLY PORTLAND PEOPLE. BY CATCH, MEAN RAPE SCOOTER, THEN RIDER.
NICE SCOOTER
- DEAD PEOPLE ALREADY HAVE BAD TIME. THEM DEAD. WHY HOBOS MAKE WORSE FOR THEM? STEVE SMITH THINK HIM STAY AWAY SEATTLE FOR WHILE. IF RAPE HOBO, MIGHT HIT NEEDLE. OUCH.
- STEVE SMITH ASK “WHO GLIBERTARIAN THIS?” WAIT…”WHO GLIBERTARIAN GO THIS ‘NATUROPATH’?”
STEVE SMITH (((MUSIC))) LINK!
FREE CASCADIA!
Just go ahead…..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLjN44noFjw
Well, I was right, I did have an oak aged vanilla bean World Wide stout in my fridge. Note, the key word “did”. It is now gone, perhaps next is some rum.
Nice. Pairs well with the 4 24 oz Milwaukee’s Diet Beast in my gut.
I can’t believe you drink that swill!
*takes big swig of Buschhhhh Light*
Well, It’s no Old Milwaukee, bu its not that bad.
BARELY. RESTRAINING. JEALOUSY.
only because I have some darned fine Krombacher pils and some fine cheap shiraz.
If only I’ve ever found a shiraz I liked, about the only wine that I have yet to find a single one that I can go through more then a glass of.
#metoo
Charles Shaw (aka 2 Buck Chuck) is just fine. Past that, listen to OMWC or Spudalicious.
I’ve yet to find a shiraz that I enjoy, I’ll leave them all to you and those who enjoy them.
What? No music? Timely.
I watched that earlier. It’s excellent and damn catchy.
DID YOU NOT CLICK STEVE SMITH’S LINK?
Who?
What?
Look at the last picture in the post…note the word that is a LINK!!!!!
…wait a minute, why am I defending STEVE SMITH?!
You should remain neutral.
Just as I start responding to everything in the old links, STEVE has to fuck it all up. Goddamned Sasquatches.
Meh. I’m right there with you man.
Now I don’t get to wonder why that guy was clearing ice and spiders.
3.5 beers in?
By volume, correct. One of those was a 16% Imperial Stout though.
Phew, I like heavy beers, but that sounds like a wrecking ball. Had 4 beers yesterday, but the last one was a 10% and it fucked me right up, slight headache when my kid woke me up at 3 AM.
I swear I wasn’t always a lightweight.
I guess we’ll have to take your word for that.
I have to admit, I have a small collectors problem. I have so many high ABV stouts/barleywines/old ales/Belgian ales that it would probably kill me to even put a healthy dent in them in an evening. So, I need to rotate them into standard beer drinking nights (or make more friends who want to come over and drink my beer).
I’d be happy to help, but Im like 3 hours away
You’re more then welcome, I’ve got a couch, an air mattress, and a Sumo beanbag. And there’s hotels close by. Or I’ll be down in Buckeye Lake at the end of May, I can easily pack the cooler full of stronger items.
*furiously clicks Google Maps*
Swiss, it’s Cleveland. Same offer to you. If it would make you feel better, I can send a picture of my beer cellar first. 🙂
Neph, my problem is that I would come with an armload of boardgames and bottles of local favorite beers too. It would be a push….except for what we managed to consume and the games we played.
…
might be worth it!
Swiss, there is this near my place. Or there’s a good chance that I’ll be heading to PAX Unplugged this year.
Otherwise, there’s a chance that I may be heading to the Chicago area in the next year or two.
KNOW WHO ELSE IS RIGHT THERE “WITH” YOU
SWISS? AND BY SWISS MEAN STEVE. AND BY WITH MEAN…
Any @#$%ing 3/4 in the rugby line that claims you should pass him the ball to score?
Hey! >:(
Poor cheese person…
*sends Swiss a care package of Ricola, raclette & kirschwasser*
Here ya go Swissy.
https://www.pinterest.co.kr/pin/373798837808467503/
Wow. Almost uniformly better than 95% of the Chive chicks that Q posts and the ink cleans off.
You don’t like silicone and dead doll stares?
You’re just making up words.
*narrows gaze*
Sean and JB are my new favorites (other than SP).
Ooh…Tucker is bringing it tonight.
What’s he saying?
He was talking about the Mueller report.
I’m pretty sure based on the amount, we can’t assume this person was a Glib.
I can almost hear him telling the cops that it’s because he’s only got two hands, you dummies.
Another victim of blue laws. Who hasn’t done similar before?
You people don’t want to know what I’ve done after 2AM to get some more booze. I’m just glad that I can’t even remember half of it.
I just became friends with the staff at the bar. That usually worked to get me booze until around 4 AM on several nights.
You can buy until 4 AM here. *shrug*
Bars are allowed to serve until 2:00 AM here, with doors closed at 2:30 AM. I knew a couple of places that would lock the doors, and pour for the staff after 2:00 AM, with a local cop doing “protection”.
I WAS staff after 2am, near Chicago in the mid 1990s…
+2 pints before the Polish Cleaning Crew came in.
I had a buddy in college that would host the nightly after party for his friends at the bar he worked at. He got fired when one of the local businessman complained about drunk people walking out at 7am. Good times!
OUT at 7am? On Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago, you might see a 3rd shifter pounding on the door of the bar to get IN at 7am.
Friends? *throws hands up in disgust and walks away*
No one here will judge you for going gay for a carryout bottle. Although the time you paid the rent…. yeah judging
You really jarred something loose, tiger!
“I milked the cow.”
“We don’t have a cow son, but we do have a bull.”
Here in Indiana they can sell booze until 3am. But Liquor stores have to close at midnight. You can buy liquor and beer at any grocery or drug store so there isn’t any difference in product. The only difference is only liquor stores can sell cold beer. Is the state just trying to punish people by making them drink warm beer after midnight? If so, I don’t think they understand that the people buying beer at 2:45am probably don’t care if it’s warn or not.
i just remembered you can get cold carryout beer from the bar until 3 . . if you’re willing to pay the markup for buying a sixer at the bar.
I remember Indiana not allowing any beer sales on Sunday (except for growlers at breweries), did you guys finally change that?
We got Sunday sales last year . . it was mostly a compromise with the package store lobby. They agreed to Sunday sales, but kept the monopoly on cold beer. All of this was after a gas station owner named Jay Ricker skirted the cold beer laws by getting a carryout license for the “restaurant” in his gas station. The “highly conservative republican supermajority” legislature promptly passed a law specifically banning that and it ignited the great beer debates. So we got Sunday sales, but I’m still pissed about the cold beer thing and especially how they went out of their way to screw Jay Ricker.
I haven’t read this link, but it probably describes things fairly well https://www.wthr.com/article/ricker-bill-closing-cold-beer-loophole-targeted-us-in-particular
I remember stopping by the Upland taproom on a Sunday I had driven in. Getting a pint, and then asking for a growler to go. Then I learned they didn’t brew there, and their growlers and bottles were for the rest of the week. Continued on to Thr3e Wise Men, where they had a cute girl sitting out front with full growlers ready to go.
Is the state just trying to punish people by making them drink warm beer after midnight?
I remember a line from a song that doesn’t sound like punishment in this regard:
“barefoot girls sitting on the hood of a Dodge, drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain…”
+1 days of wine and roses
Carrying over the Jiffy Lube Horror Stories from the previous thread. . .
I went to a Jiffy Lube for a quick change several years ago for an oil change when I was in a hurry about something or other. They came in and told me that my turn signal light was out and it would be $40 to fix. I’d replaced the exact bulb they said was out less than three weeks earlier myself for about $2. So, being the gullible sap I am, I thought it was actually out again, but I knew they were charging way too much to replace it. So I told them I’d fix it later. They came back less than a minute later and told me not to worry about it, they went ahead and changed it as a courtesy. I finally figured out they were lying.
That’s fucked up. I’m surprised with all these tales, some enterprising outfit hasn’t come out with a business plan to attract customers by “being honest”.
*raises hand*
That’s pretty much me. I’m in a biz where there are plenty of shady operators. I have more customers than I can handle because I show up on time and don’t rip people off.
Out of curiosity… how do you “spread the word”? Is it mostly word-of-mouth?
At this point I don’t advertise. Yeah, mainly word of mouth. I targeted real estate agents and property management companies when I started and that along with a bunch of good reviews has me pretty much swamped all the time.
Nice. I find it interesting that after a couple decades of gee-whiz internet trying and spectacularly failing to provide a reliable way to find decent services, word-of-mouth is still your best bet.
I do most of my car maintenance myself, but luckily I have an honest shop nearby for things I can’t handle myself. They seem to recognize that it’s good to have repeat business and referrals.
Eh, could have been worse.
“I’m sorry sir, state regulations will not permit us to release the car back to you in anything other than street-legal condition.
Also, we just discovered we’re out of the correct bulb, so now it’s $60 because we need to special order it.”
Not that anyone thought Roberts ended up with his position because of any firmly held principles or anything…
And why, if not convicted of any felony come 2020, I may vote for the first time ever!*
*No I’m not voting
I’m calling bullshit. Swiss is shitfaced on Jagermeister and is passed out in a pool of his own puke.
Jagermeister?! What kind of peasant/savage do you think I am? Nay, I am getting crocked on a combo of Krombacher pils and 2 buck Chuck shiraz!
/sniffs haughtily
Uh, you got a little puke on your chin….
What are Krombacher pills? Is that German for oxy?
https://www.krombacher.com/en/german-beer/krombacher-pils
A good, clean, German pilsner.
I’m in the middle of listening to one of my regular podcasts: a one hour news summary from New Zealand. Essentially the whole episode is devoted to the mosque shooting (social media, gun control, intelligence failure). It is one of the most concentrated pieces of stupidity I’ve subjected myself to in recent memory. It’s one long stream of cliches, bad quotes, and misinformation.
And on the mosque shooting, Erdogan gets involved: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-21/spokesman-recep-tayyip-erdogan-comments-taken-out-of-context/10923204
“In a campaign rally ahead of local elections on March 31, Mr Erdogan showed excerpts of a video taken during the mosque shootings and denounced what he said was rising hatred and prejudice against Islam. He criticised New Zealand and Australia for sending troops to Turkey in the World War I Gallipoli campaign, claiming their motive was anti-Islam.vYour grandparents came here … and they returned in caskets,” he said. “Have no doubt we will send you back like your grandfathers.”
+1 Defender of the faith.
I hope he declares war now that he’s got the casaus belli.
+1 Defender of the faith.
YEAH!!!
Oh, you meant something else. Nevermind.
?????
Time to rock out with my cock out.
OFFS
They remember Gallipoli, they are totally blank on Armenia though
Is that near Aleppo?
they returned in caskets
Uh, no. They’re still there
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_cemeteries_and_memorials_on_the_Gallipoli_Peninsula#Cemeteries_2
And although there’s doubt that Ataturk ever said this, it’s quite the just so story:
Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives … You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours … You, the mothers who sent their sons from faraway countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.
One of the arguments I’ve heard is that the comments I quoted were for domestic consumption.
Yeah, I’ve got Radio NZ in my podcast list and almost all the individual stories have been on the shootings. Haven’t bothered to include any of them in my listening,
From the Jim Jefferies post in the last thread… Fuck Jim Jefferies. He’s a lefty hack comedian. And I hate saying that because I loved Legit, and he’s had some great bits. But he is a scumbag hack lefty.
You hate the Boilermaker?
No, no, it’s three e’s. As my comment below makes clear.
[Imagines Myrna Loy ordering the ingredients in separate glasses in Airport ’75]
Myrna Loy IS my fetish.
Her corpse is now old enough that its car insurance got cheaper last year.
I can see why
For example. A good, funny bit, not a hack bit.
He talks about touring South Africa and sleeping with a fan, and wondering whether he’d contracted the AIDS. As his girlfriend is flying out to meet him, he freaks out and goes to a clinic to make sure he’s not infected. And while he’s there waiting for the test result, because apparently it’s a rapid turnaround thing in Africa, a caretaker, some young black chick, comes around to talk him down, explain that she has AIDS and life is fine, it’s not the end of the world. And he says he wanted to tell her to piss off, but, you know, depending on the outcome of the test, he might be hitting on her in a few minutes.
Legit had some good bits, but you’d think that considering the whole concept of the show was that he wasn’t a role model, that would mean he shouldn’t think he can tell us how to behave.
He’s a virtue signalling scumbag for the same reason most celebrities are virtue signalling scumbags: “Don’t look at me for my shit. Look over there at that guy!”
I found the complete Mueller report:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D2S4xz1UwAEmMRw.jpg
Nuh-uh: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/adam-schiff-rejects-reports-no-more-mueller-indictments-forthcoming-says-special-counsel-could-be-called-to-testify
TW: autoplay vid;
Obvs Putin has kompromat on Mueller. We must immediately begin an investigation to root out the collusion in the Special Counsel’s office!!!!!!
“So, you begin to see, my dear Feyd…wheels within wheels..”
The next week is going to be fun. Much proggy tears for my cocktails.
Especially if they are already posturing that they can subpoena Muller because it doesnt give them what they want.
I was okay with holding off that the whole circus was a witch hunt but when the report says nothing and you press on…well…then its a witch hunt
Add this to the pile of fun. Dreamy PM is called out as a fake feminist.
Redacted Version.
This is creepy
https://twitter.com/ChoiJeongSan/status/1108289445696946176
The fuck?
What am I supposed to be outraged about here?
I guess the ‘implication’ is that the conversion was so they could marry the tyke to some Saudi? I do find tarting your grade schooler up as a social media star creepy though. Not sure the Saudi adds much to it.
+1 Jon Benet Ramsey
What’s with the love for Andrew Yang among some corners of the “alt”-right? Is it ironic or have they fully dropped their mask of support for the free-market and admitted they’ve been socialists all along?
They think he will make bitcoin go up. It is as simple as that. Yang is a crypto fan.
He loves the cock?
https://twitter.com/LilithLovett/status/1109108346160734209
For any who may care, the early ticket sale prices for Viva Las Vegas ends tonight. Rockabilly, Burlesque, Classic Car Shows, Bowling, and Pinups.
Event sounds appealing but vegas just aint my scene. Kinda hate vegas tbh
*joins Aus in Vegas loathing*
But… I saw an actual three card monte scam being run in Vegas one year. On the fscking strip, and people were playing there!
The cops allowed that?
And no business owners call the cops ?
They were running it under an overpass, with at least three watchers that I saw, and two shills I picked out. I only took one surreptitious picture of the group (since I didn’t want to get shanked). It was well run, and the shills started it out by dropping $100 bills as bets.
Jeez. Eighties NYC called…
I’ve got a soft spot in my heart for cons. I’ve learned more about them then I should probably know, and have seen more then I ever wanted out in the wild (I saw a short change happening with lottery tickets at a gas station once). So seeing something as old as the three card monte scheme in the live was awesome for me.
Three-card monte is positively quaint at this point.
I… sort of get that – on an intellectual level – but hoo-boy there are few lower life-forms.
There’s a reason I love most of the old scams. With the exception of short changing, most of them require the mark to be greedy and looking to score. To me it’s amazing how far some people will go to chase a payday that they have to know at some point is not going to happen (look at the Nigerian 419 scammers).
Can’t cheat an honest man.
My favorite was the shell game. Even if you won they took your money lol
LOL just remembered The Price Is Right had their own Shell Game.
So what are the 3 Sea Shells for?
I admit being drunk, and deliberately falling for that for 50 Marks (for entertainment purposes) in Frankfurt in 1997.
Hey, soulmates!
It’s off strip, and other then the fact it’s in a casino, I feel sorry for the norms who are booked in the hotel that weekend.
There are some very nice hotels in Vegas if you got the $$$
I’m happy that I’ve got rooms at the Orleans this year (where Viva takes place every year). No fscking shuttles for me this year.
Looks like it could be fun some time in the future – a little late for planning anything this year.
I love this timeline.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/22/splc-richard-cohen-resigns/
The scam may be coming to an end?
The scam may be coming to an end?
half a billion dollars in assets, including $121 million in off-shore funds
nope not ending.
I’m in the wrong line of work… I may be morally flexible enough to earn $250 million selling out groups I don’t like.
Nah, the real money is in religion.
I’m already ordained. I’ve got the state of Ohio permission to solemnize marriages sitting on the bar in my basement. It’s a reminder that some bad decisions can be forever. 🙂
Me too. Filled out a free online form to be ordained by the Universal Life Church in Modesto, CA, an din due course received by certificate of ordination. Still have it around someplace.
You may all henceforth refer to me as Reverend Animal.
Seriously, I’d have started my own religion years ago if I thought I could keep a straight face through the process. Breaking out laughing in the middle of your sermon does not for effective evangelism make.
Fuck. Half my old gang are “ordained”. But it’s cool – I mean really, what more do you need than someone to say, “yep, I recognize your oath”.
*dour stare*
/actual observant Methodist off
What do you find with every four Methodists?
SPLC failing? The Mueller report (most likely) turning up nothing? The tears of the next week might approach 2016 election week levels.
Well, not those levels, but it will be entertaining.
Well it’s about time that the coasts were as underwater as Nebraska and Iowa.
Somebody needs to rub this in Google et al.’s faces.
You think they care? To the SJW crowd using the word niggardly is literal violence; by their standards Joe Lieberman is a Nazi.
I would like to think that the SPLC – whom they turn to for their censorship needs – finally being revealed as fraud would give them paus– oh who am I kidding.
Oh am I going to enjoy rubbing some noses in this!
“sexual harassment and racial discrimination within its own ranks”
So they’re a hate group then? We all knew that already though.
I hate this timeline.
*snicker*
And a floor wax.
Ted, it’s a dessert topping.
Less filling!
Tastes great?
Relevant
“My heart is with the vegan community and I want to reiterate that the plant-based diet is not what made me sick,” Ayres said in a statement to The Washington Post.
Well, in that case. Okay.
You don’t like finding out how many people are vapid morons?
Sometimes I feel like I’ve reached peak moron tolerance.
I know, it’s difficult. I have to stop and do a reset sometimes to keep sane.
“She claimed she suffered health problems, which required her to change her diet and incorporate more protein. A doctor reportedly diagnosed her with small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, which involves an abnormal amount of bacteria in the small intestine, according to medical journals.
“I wasn’t ovulating,” she said in the video. “I was basically anemic and my thyroid levels were low. It was really bad, but it was borderline.”
Ayres, however, said she still champions a vegan diet.”
OFFS
It totally wasn’t my veganism that caused this list of ailments linked to a low protein diet. Can you eat a healthy vegan diet? Sure you can, but it involves eating something other than starch and sugar.
It’s not veganism. She’s most likely bulimic. Kinda blaming/not blaming it on a vegan diet deflects scrutiny from the real issue; she’s bulimic.
Heya MoJo- got your ears on? This writing reminded me of you for some reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U66KlqJPGo
It is possible in this world at this time in history to make a living doing this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-g47vhry94
I know there’s some Bulliet fans here. I’m sipping the Bulliet Barrel Strength Bourbon. It’s a little hot and needs some water, but if you like a high rye bourbon, for $50 this is pretty nice.
I’ve got a bottle of that in the basement right now.
It’s a slow sipper. It needs water, so the bottle will last longer. Decent QPR.
Decent Queen’s Park Rangers?
Queen’s Park Raisins
They heard it through the grapevine
Expected you to give a link to whoever recorded it before CCR, given that CCR is too new for your tastes.
Yeah, but those don’t have raisins.
They need to be in the EPL again so I can chuckle at every hipster Londoner’s favorite team.
Yeah, that’s good stuff. I also like Redemption rye as well.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Wo! Have no fear for atomic energy
‘Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it’s just a part of it
We’ve got to fulfill the book
Won’t you have to sing
These songs of freedom?
‘Cause all I ever had
Redemption Rye.
Just finished off a bottle of the regular Bulleit tonight. I’m liking the Rittenhouse almost as much, but might have to try that. Have too much on the liquor already.
In that price range, I highly recommend Larceny bourbon.
YES.
Oops. Misread that as Bulleit Rye. Oh well, Larceny is still going on the buy list.
A lot of people have been exposed as epic assholes tonight. Because they were butt hurt over an election they made relations with a nuclear power more precarious.
No one should trust these people again, especially since a lot of these same people spread the WMD myth before the Iraq War too
Unfortunately, no one learns. The media is Lucy and the public is Charlie Brown.
I await the mass resignations of Cato experts. /sarc
and Liberty puts me in 2nd. And the last 5 minutes of that game are the first 5 minutes of basketball I have watch this year lol.
New strategy: take most libertarian sounding team in your pool
Murray St won too
Go Iona! That would bust a few brackets.
It can’t happen to me again. I had Virginia winning it all last year
It would bust a nut of any Duke fan
I’m still top 10?
Inconceivable!
Am I out of the cellar? I don’t wanna download the app on my phone.
You’re out!
Sort of.
27th.
Ahead of the two guys who fucked up their brackets, the Lurker and Bo.
So, no.
Thx. Journey of a thousand miles…
At the office, we once had a pool for the State high School Hockey Tournament. There were two hockey-obsessed guys in the office.
We finished last and second-to-last.
Knowledge means shit.
and yet, despite this being demonstrated every March, much of the population still thinks Top Men can predict the infinitely more complex system that is the economy.
Excellent point Jarflax. I’ll keep that one for future use.
It’s a Liberty moment!
Be careful when you’re using a drill
Also, don’t stick a drill down your pants.
Well, that’s part of being careful.
That depends which bit you prefer, I reckon.
Drill drill drill
What an idiot.
s
“Seattle homeless crisis”
Why is every thing a crisis? Is it not foreseeable? Reward more, get more?
A week or two ago MN was having a farmer suicide crisis. So how can we get the corn and soybeans planted?. China and Trump need tariff parity.
Heroin addicts have money for heroin without working but want to get clean? All these crisises need more social workers, need more money. Finally the Starbucks baristas get their opportunity.
Take this job and shove it! I’m a Soc major and I’m moving on up.
To a deeeeeeeluxe apartment in the sky?
Only on the East Side.
Look at the old man showing how to do PM posting. Bravo!
Seattle doesn’t have a homeless problem, it has a rich people problem. / Everyone on Seattle City Council.
Moar opportunities to grift and glean!
FINALLY catching up on Star Trek eps I missed during broadcast (yeah, yeah). Just watched The Magnificent Ferengi for the first time. Excellent.
Before I ever heard the word libertarian, Quark was my favorite Star Trek character, I doubt that was the message the writers were trying to send, but art only has meaning in the mind of the viewer.
I’m sure you’re right but sometimes I wonder…watched In The Cards the other night and Rom’s bitch slap of Jake was brilliant.
That’s a good one.
Then there’s the one where Rom stages a strike at the bar. Cue every tired stereotype on both sides.
I love DS9, but Rom going full in your face Commie was easily the worst part of that series.
The only thing that I recall with any veracity is Seven of Nine’s and Deanna Troi’s boobage. Not a nerd, sorry, not sorry.
I love Star Trek, but damn these people that can fire off episode names and numbers? If you describe it I’ll figure it out, but that’s a lot of brainspace used on useless shit. Like this one nerd, when I was at a con who asked James Doohan about why they could transport the whales in Star Trek 4 while they were moving if everyone else had to stand still to be transported. What a retard, it’s because the Heisenberg compensator on the Klingon vessel was calibrated by Scotty for this specific application, idiot!
There was that, plus about 90% of the portrayal of Quark from start to finish. Every once in a while they gave him some great material – usually between him and Odo – but soooo much of it was cartoonish stereotype.
I thought that the Ferengi(sp?) were just an unsubtle (((caricature)))
No idea – maybe? It’s not something I care to speculate about. I do know the name is derived from some near-east name that ultimately gave us the Franks.
Black and Zappa?
Sure, let’s go with that.
“The name Ferengi was coined based on the Persian term Ferenghi, used throughout Asia (compare older Feringhee), meaning “foreigners” or “Europeans”.
I;m just guessing, but one of the most libertarian people to be involved in film was John Millius (who John Goodman’s character in The Big Lebowski was based on, wrote the screenplay for Apocalypse Now, the script for Conan and wrote and directed Red Dawn) and his presence is reverberated throughout the 80s and 90s, I’m guessing most of the Ferenghi stuff was cribbed from stories people heard about him. I could be wrong, but hollywood is very incestuous.
Remember that the Ferngi were introduced as villains in TNG as terrible caricatures. They didn’t become the capitalist scum until DS9.
They didn’t become the
capitalistJEWISH CHARACTURES scum until DS9.No they weren’t! (((They)) have big noses. Ferengi have big ears. Totally different thingsQ
Trek has a very consistent anti-capitalist message that only gets more in-your-face as the years go by. By the time of ST:DS9 & Quark it was getting embarrassing.
As a kid this all went by me. I still won’t criticize the original series. As an adult, it struck me as unlikely that every human’s character had changed. Still later, it seemed to me that the writers on the later series just didn’t want to deal with economics.
This is one reason why Babylon 5 > Star Trek.
Can I get an amen Nephilium?
I remember thinking that many of the rules of acquisition were quite good.
Why is the biggestest, mostest importantist report EVAR being released on a Friday afternoon? Doesn’t Mueller know that no one will notice it if he reports it now? How stupid can you be? Given that it’s guaranteed to get Drumf out of office, shouldn’t he want as many eyes on it as he can get?
Mueller knew it was a shit show from the beginning. Now he can head to the Bahamas in peace.
But, but, but…impeachment…It’s her turn…most qualified…Putin…piss hookers… Was it all a dream? I haven’t been this let down since the Cleveland Browns were pallbearers at my funeral.
Forgive me for reading that as “moistest” and then having an involuntary dry heave. We are Gentlemen around here, Sir!
O.T. but this is pretty awesome. https://youtu.be/1Pwl4pvr300
Yeah, that’s good.
His Mad Lads series is very good.
Police fled when the gun fire started. Imagine that.
“Brave, brave Sir Robin…”
I love this site! I work alone and sometimes I catch myself snickering about some of the antics here (Mr. Kitteh! Nooooo!). Great job, founders and supplicants!
It’s got to be true!!!
https://imgur.com/gallery/vIcLK3v
Calm before the storm. Lol. TW: CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/22/opinions/mueller-report-calm-before-storm-honig/index.html
Their going to go after the angle that Barr stuffed Mueller from issuing indictments?
It doesn’t matter. They already sent the message loud and clear. If you are associated with a successful outsider in politics they will tear your life to shreds looking for crimes, will set you up for process crimes, and will throw you in jail. How many people are squeaky clean enough to chance that? Team politicians get to skate on blatant law breaking, outsiders get prison for trivial misstatements in interviews. Chilling effect indeed.
something something process something something punishment
And yet Trump still stands. You’re right about the chilling effect. A silver lining is that the public now has no faith in any of the bullshit being put out in the media. Even in the minds of the biggest Russian collusion fanboi, a twinge of doubt is emerging. At least that’s my hope.
Ah Hope, the last vestige of self before the 16 ton anvil crushes you flat. “Hope”
You’re an optimist. This all was the most transparent witch hunt you will ever see, even more obvious than the witch hunt against Kavanaugh and yet a huge chunk of people went along with it. The bureaucracy has been fully weaponized. Now it will slowly be used against more and more enemies.
I don’t fear revolution, I fear the incremental change. Bit by bit, sand grain upon sand grain it is coming and we probably won’t be alive to witness it.
I have wagered two buddies a fair amount that Trump will not be impeached. One of them just admitted that I am now likely winning the bet. The other one knows that I’ll win, he just hasn’t gotten around to admitting it yet.
I am an eternal optimist. The bureaucracy has always been a weapon, but not to this degree. “Know your enemy” and “call things by their proper names”- the two lessons that can be learned by this shitshow.
Unelected, completely unaccountable bureaucrats make most of our laws. They make so many that it is demonstrably impossible for any person to know more than a fraction of them, yet “ignorance of the law is no excuse” remains a principle, despite its origins in Rome, where the laws were written on tablets on public display. In many areas of the law, administrative tribunals, employed by the agencies that made the law being enforced, and which employ the very investigators who brought the charge, try your case, and the actual courts give deference to their findings.
It’s almost as if our choices will be some TeamStupidEvil insider, or a plutocrat that otherwise can’t be touched.
No way that ends badly.
@Donald Trump
Enjoying March Madness? Watch me dunk on Acosta! Sick!
Can’t tell if sarc or not.
https://mobile.twitter.com/chelseahandler/status/1109278691765321733
“At this point, what difference does it make?”
Isn’t there a video of some actor pissing on her face?
Yes.
That’s one classy broad.
Like you never had anyone piss on you?! Jelly much?!
Not at all.
Me either. *Price is Right Sad Trombone*
You’ve done Yoeman’s duty, HM! I award you three brown stars.
Eeew.
I’m clicking on that as soon as I’m done gargling Pelosi discharge.
Oh, now I know what I’m going to violently masturbate to tonight. Thanks.
Speaking of violent masturbation, why is it that every time there’s an incident of public masturbation, the adjective used is “furious?” I’ve never, not once in my life, read a story on public masturbation that didn’t include that descriptor. I’m highly skeptical that it’s always an accurate reflection of what actually happened. There’s different kinds of masturbation.
Just more evidence of fake news to me.
I tenderly masturbate.
Peed Skills.
Sometimes gingerly if the sores haven’t healed.
Candles, incense, smooth jazz, a warm tub and me. Romantic! Straff, you really are turning Japanese…
It’s really not that bad. Some chick without any sense of self control get’s pissed on by her buddy that doesn’t have boundaries. Y’know, even at my rankest youngling shithead moment I would not have thought to piss on a chick. We did, wrote and thought some pretty out there stuff but there are limits, Man. I don’t care how many grams of shrooms, that shit is unacceptable.
If I pissed on a female, that would pretty much be the end of any interactions with her. I would never be able to touch anything she touched without feeling as though I was putting my hand in piss. Even if it’s my own, the thought is highly unsettling to me.
I’m not *quite* that judgey but I do find the practice revolting. It’s a slippery slope, Dude. I knew a girl that peed on her boyfriend and after awhile he wanted her to shit in his mouth. She made the mistake of telling a co-worker and asking for advice – “Should I do it?” That became a catchphrase for a few dozen of us back in the late 80’s.
Who was the pisser? They all look alike to me.
#randomdrunkenasshole
Jason Biggs
American Pie Guy? Two claims to fame. Fucking a pie and pissing in Chelsea Handler’s face. He could have done worse.
I’m more shocked that Vine still exists.
Heh. Someone took my snark Twitter as serious:
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Like I said. No Collison. Bob Mueller, a friends of mine, great guy, has proved it. #MuellerReport
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Huh? You tweet that as if you’ve read the #MuellerReport. #FactsMatter
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We read it buttboy; get ready for some penetration! #Hat What I meant to say is we should respect the findings of this independent report #Hair Where the hell is my Big Mac!? #Donald
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These people are unhinged.
And Festus missed the joke as well…
How so? You don’t find someone replying #facts matter to you to be unhinged?
MY JOKE, that the idiot who replied missed.
and you would have to be unhinged to take your tweet as serious, so why do you say that Festus missed it as well?
Bah. See, that’s the thing about art. I meant it as a comment on Trump’s misspelled tweets, crazy dude took it as a STORMFRONT post, and yall just see the surface jokes. Nobody understands me! *runs off crying*
It’s a twitter joke, and you have enough spelling errors in your posts here that it might be hard to tell which ones are deliberate.
Twitter is hard to follow but Jarflax has it exactly right for the evidence shown.
So collison and collusion are the same word now? Like I said, my joke was a Trump misspelling joke, but idiots response was too funny.
by the way, I mispelled my own mispelling joke, it was so supposed to ‘collision’
We got it. How many levels are you aiming for? I laughed at the absurdity of the original comment and laughed even harder at the response from the ass-hat. What do you want from me, a white wedding and a mind-meld?
Sorry, very insecure. Sensative. I’m out.
Paging Mad Scientist!
Looks to be not too fucked up!
Not bad for $777
It’s a fun site. I watched an old VW Beetle Cabriolet sell for over $30K .’
The RX-7 will bring obscene money I will report back in a week.
He’s on his way home. Had dinner down here with some of the glibs.
I’ll make sure he sees it.
Thanks for the invite…
Yeah! i would have flown down for such a momentous event!
Man… I never get invited to the meet ups.
Friday night fun!
“Someone’s” new fetish?
I’ve spoken of my love of polishing shoes before. I also like how 3 of the dudes are dressed like butlers, but ol’ 岡嶋翔太 is dressed like some hobo. I notice that he is the only one not using Saphir polish as well.
I haven’t used Saphir yet. Still using Lincoln Stain Wax.
I do find polishing cathartic. One mistake the Army of One did was ditching starch and boot polishing. It’s good for young snuffies and builds character.
Gustave likes to polish his knob! *Nelson Laugh*
My Dad used to pay us a quarter to polish his shoes when I was a wee feller. Used to joke and call me “Boy”. Mother was unamused…
Japan is unusual.
Right? They actually take pride even in supposedly menial tasks.
I remember from my first German textbook (published circa 1978) that “street sweeper” was still a job, and great emphasis was placed on the beauty of streets, flowers in window sills, etc.
Then I look around the typical American city today.
Oh, the street sweepers are still employed, it’s just against union rules to make them do anything.
Yeah, today our street sweepers drive a truck and look like this guy.
I’m pretty sure the only reason we still have street sweepers is to generate parking ticket revenue.
How dare you “other” the fine employees of Canada Post? Some of them have vaginas I’ll have you know! (shudders uncontrollably)
Thx. It’s like making fun of people by saying, “I seen a fag like you speaking gud English and I done fuct him up!”
Whoa, I was commenting on having a televised competition for it, not polishing shoes being somehow humorous. And unusual is a pretty mild term to equate with “I seen a fag like you speaking gud English and I done fuct him up!”
Sorry, Jarflax. Didn’t mean to infer you had meant that. I just went of on a tangent.
Salty!
https://youtu.be/7lOUZaEB6so
What about the three ks?
Kiken, Kitanai and kimochiwarui?
Kimochiwarui? I thought it was Kitsui? Anyway I was questioning the taking pride in menial tasks statement, since as I understand it those working in the 3k jobs are socially outcast.
Like me.
Ok this is a little weird
https://youtu.be/EIlsS5gD25A
Couldn’t understand a word said, that was some bad audio.
In Korea the guys living in the barracks could leave their gear out in the foyer and the old Adashi – apparently a stack of them had base access in Seoul and “assigned themselves” to different buildings – would take your stuff and make it look great over the weekend or a couple days depending on schedules – and drop it back by your room. You just paid someone once a month or something – don’t remember the format. (I didn’t live in the barracks, but I took advantage of a similar format when I was in WLC at Camp Jackson up the road for a month).
And this was 2007-2008ish.
I am slightly aroused.
(I like good shoes)
That video is why the Japanese aren’t reproducing.
What’s the problem? I get the wanking reference, but I love that attention to detail that exists here. A big insult is to say someone did something “chutohanpa” or “half assed”. I’ve ran across too many chutohanpa employees in the States.
And the winner
https://youtu.be/SO8Rtt0xNUo
That lead me to this: How to make a Savile Row Suit (Part 1)
Good lord, I would like a bespoke suit.
(note, the series ends with Part 2, sadly – you don’t see the finished product)
I do give Mueller a bit of credit for not stretching this shit out to 2020. I thought for sure that was gonna be the play. Maybe Barr really did tell him to put up or shut up?
That’s a silver-lining, I suppose.
Shit spreads thin over a larger surface.
From “liberaltarian” to “neocon” the endless embarrassment of the cosmo is on display now. Their need for respectability lead them to endorse an apeshit crazy conspiracy that would make John Birchers blush.
I’d take Tulsi, Glenn Greenwald, Michael Tracey, and half of the writers at the Nation over half the foreign policy analysts at CATO. At least the former has some semblance of principle beyond conforming with status quo opinion
Like them Furners say. Viva La Fiesta. I gotta sleep. For Gustave. (Imagine every period says STOP and it’s an old telegraph joke)
Thank you sir! Twenty years. Where did it all go?
When my girls were tweens or teens they used to watch that. I’d always sub out the lyrics of the theme song in my head – “Triple xxx Club…”
Had a bomber of 3 Floyds Permanent Funeral.
It was nice.
Spud’s drunk. Night, Glibbies.
Spud’s a fine ole baked pertater!
‘night, John Boy
Tootles! *hic*
I made myself – for the first time ever – a half-assed “martini” with the assistance of the little “bar” I’m building in my dining room. I think it was a double.
Good man. Up your cocktail game.
Fun fact – the “three martini lunch” was a thing back when martinis were 4 oz. Current martinis tend to be 8-12 oz – I don’t think I’d make it back to work after 3 12 oz. martinis.
I think mine was around 8oz. I’m used to the classic size so it felt like a double to me. The only glassware I have is a few tumblers or old fashioned size – they do hold a fair amount of liquor.
PS. I can’t count how many business lunches I’ve been to where it was obvious that everyone wanted to order liquor but was afraid to.
What have we become as a society.
All it takes is one rebel to break that ice, then everyone will say, “on second thought, I’ll have a glass of wine too…”
I still chuckle at my co-worker’s story of going out to lunch in London while she was over for work – she was with two other ladies, she passed on booze. They had two bottles of wine between the two of them.
Related: I love and identify with this scene from Tampopo
Baby, you know that I’m a rebel
Oh yeah. Everyone with a shaky hand nursing a diet coke. I don’t miss the collar.
PS. I can’t count how many business lunches I’ve been to where it was obvious that everyone wanted to order liquor but was afraid to.
Remember not too long ago a Sam Adams beer commercial made fun of that, and showed people relieved when the boss ordered a beer at lunch, so they did too? Seems like that ad didn’t last very long.
I like business lunches in Europe and the European-ish South American countries (at least Argentina and Chile, I’ve never been to Brazil). They always last three hours and ordering beer or wine is expected. And then, everyone goes and takes a nap before returning to the job. The civilized way to work.
In all seriousness, I think expecting a straight 8 to 10 hours out of anyone is sadistic. Those “Five Hour Energy” commercials that depict what happens every day at 2:30 aren’t kidding.
I can’t remember if I’ve ever told you, but when I see your screen name Rhywun I always hear it to the old Bobby Rydell song “Wild One“.
Replacing “Rhywun” for when he sings “wild one,” as in “Oh Rhywun, I’m gonna tame you down.”
Yeah, I know, I’m weird. I tend to hear a lot of things and turn them into lyrics from songs in my head.
Yeah OK, old man.
/everything reminds me of a song too
*whispers* Shut up ,Ry! I think he likes you!
Enh, tone-deaf is why I’m still single.
That’s why the goal is to work 7-3, eat at your desk and get out of the building as soon as possible. Can’t wait to get out of this office job.
It’s late nite and my brother just left after a few beers, wife is asleep and an old John Wayne movie is on the tube. It’s pissing rain. It was a tough couple weeks. I’m in a boozy mood’ but I might have to pitch at 9 am across town if they dont cancel the little league game for my kid. So far it is “unlikely”.
+1 buttermaker
Safety first
https://imgur.com/a/EeJ3zLA
You laugh, but the wind power that sign generates can move that bike at 20 km/hr with no need for planet-choking fossil fuels.
#climatechange #themoreyouknow
Go the extra bit for climate change
https://imgur.com/gallery/6Etd2vo
That’s cool! I hope the coach lets kids try for different positions. When I played minor ball the coaches’ boy always played pitcher or shortstop. I bullshitted my way into playing catcher when I moved to a different zone and was good enough to get scouted by some colleges.
I’m the coach. The kids are pitching until four balls and then I’m in for six pitches and they get back with the next batter. One kid pitching per inning. They actually managed to pitch most of the game. I rotate them in different positions. 7-8 years olds. Just keep it moving and have fun.
Aw, that’s cool. I assumed the chilluns was older. We used to take baseball pretty seriously when I was a pup. Remember the woman antagonist from the Bad News Bears? Yeah, that was about it. Nice that you are involved, I don’t think that my Mother ever saw one of my games over all of those years. Dad would drop me off for games and sometimes pick me up. Or not.
I coached my son’s t-ball and minors teams ten years ago. Wouldn’t trade those memories for anything. Enjoy!
Baseball is the toughest sport to coach for young kids I think. But it has been pretty darn fun as well. Thanks, I am. Hope you guys are well.
Dad would pay my entry fee but I bought all of my own kit. Shit, we were ghosts in our own home. One year when we won the Championship I couldn’t even wake mom up to tell her the news.
Ha ha, no colloooshun! This is delicious!
Drink deeply Festus
Her cunty ooze sustains me.
Tennessee fishing trip.
Huh.
Noodling carp!
She’s living the stereotype. One of them anyway.
Crying about Drumph and noodling carp?
For once she can explain that dead fish smell in the studio.
I always wondered about that wry smirk on her face. Turns out she was sitting on 50 pound mudder all along!
Man, her smirk is really insufferable, isn’t it? I don’t know how people can watch her make that face for a full hour.
I see these two-minute clips and I can’t wait till they’re over.
I think a lot of her fandom is people who pretend to watch her or only just catch a few minutes, but tell everyone they regularly watch her show (social signaling the same way some people brag they always listen to NPR in the car). I think these types believe “ooh, she’s a lesbian and a Rhodes Scholar! She knows how we should think! Aren’t I one of the cognoscenti!”
Twenty years ago I could see the appeal. Now she’s become the epitome of every jumped-up HR middle manager in every corporate boardroom everywhere.
Oh my God.
As long as she doesn’t mention the size of her pole.
“I think it moved.”
We’re wriggling into SF territory. Best put your chest waders on.
It’s bad and getting worse. Maduro tells Mugabe to hold my beer
It’s never been tried the right way before, shitlord.
Some awful comments buried in there, both from Venezuelans living under that and deniers denying.
Not old enough for Ted. Not bearish enough for Jesse. Hercules in New York
Ahnuld shows his acting chops. He never did get much better…
Is trump indicted yet?
No. Sorry.
I hate when I want to get to sleep but for whatever reason can’t.
2 hrs laying in bed and no z’s
In 4 hours got a friend coming over to help me with some work around the house and I’m gonna feel like a real jerk if I’m dragging ass from lack of sleep.
Sounds familiar. When I worked 9-5 Sunday nights were terrible. The itch would start around 6 PM and build from there. I’d be wide awake at the witching hour even though my Monday would usually be like any other day. Some of us are just wired to be that way.