Things to Come – Your Weekly Preview and Open Post

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Things to Come – the week of April 8, 2019

Monday will see Animal’s Lever Gun series reach Part 6. And later on, MLW takes us into an examination of Charmed.

Tuesday has Spudalicious going all Irish on us. And MLW dives into the Charmed mess, again.

Wednesday sees the Hat and the Hair continue their adventure below Washington, D.C. And maybe what that wacky USA Hat and the Donald are getting up to.

Thursday we get Pie returning to his pondering.

Friday is a bit unsettled yet – we shall see what comes about. However, you do know it will be a good time.

The Links will continue to anchor our morning and afternoon spots.

Your contributions are always welcome, and they are always needed.

Thanks, and have at it in the comments – it is open, so there is no “OT”!

We will provide a music link, to get things rolling.

Comments

319 responses to “Things to Come – Your Weekly Preview and Open Post”

  1. Spudalicious

    Ooooopen post!

    1. Spudalicious
      1. Not Adahn

        what did she do?

        1. Spudalicious

          She just resigned after meeting with Trump. I think she finally had enough.

      2. As I said in the dead thread, she must be low-rated.

        1. Spudalicious

          Trump’s been frustrated with her for some time. I think she was in a no win situation.

          1. Chafed

            That seems to be true for nearly his entire cabinet.

          2. Scruffy Nerfherder

            I think it takes a special kind of masochism for that set of jobs.

          3. JaimeRoberto: Gentleman, Scholar, French Tickler

            I’ve been pleasantly surprised by Trump overall, but I still think it would be terrible to work for him.

        2. Aus

          I groaned at that joke the first time 😉

          1. Did you groan that way over Leslie Nielsen’s jokes too?

        1. She can’t live, if living is without you.

          1. Tundra

            That’s a great song.

          2. Rhywun

            #metoo – I didn’t know we’d moved on

            Gone

          3. Fourscore

            I was looking for the Ferlin Husky version for the old folks but Joey is a lot more, shall we say, in keeping with the Glibs preference, so it would seem

          4. Don Escaped Texas

            I’m Gone fer Ferlin.

            Probably Floyd Cramer on the ivories to my ear, but I can’t prove it.

      3. Francisco d’Anconia

        Trump also announced that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan will replace Nielsen as acting secretary, tweeting: “I have confidence that Kevin will do a great job!”

        Um…can’t we just get rid of the entire abomination?

        1. DEG

          Um…can’t we just get rid of the entire abomination?

          Now you’re talkin’ crazy. The ratchet only goes one way.

  2. Tres Cool

    Have a heapin’ helpin’ of some Lucinda.

      1. Tres Cool

        You’re a monster.
        My counter.

        1. When it comes to music, I’m the monster.

          1. Tres Cool

            As long as you’re not the egg-man. Coo-coo cajoob.

          2. Sean

            Unfertilized.

          1. That’s not the only thing there’s none of.

  3. Count Potato

    Is it this Charmed:

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158552/

    or the reboot I’ve never seen?

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’m just hoping for stories of behind the scenes catfights that involve Jello.

        1. Scruffy Nerfherder

          Hawt

        2. Chafed

          You don’t hate us.

          1. Scroll up.

    2. Reboot. And it is woke af.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        A reboot of Charmed, they really are in a shortage of ideas

        1. Raven Nation

          There’s also a reboot of Roswell. Apparently it’s better than the original and we should all watch it because “the creative mind behind it is not only a woman, but a Muslim, and we get an ICE stop in the first 5 minutes.”

          1. Count Potato

            It probably won’t even have the diner uniforms because of the patriarchy or some shit.

          2. Rhywun

            I can’t believe I’m old enough that they’re rebooting shows that I was already too old to give a shit about the first time around.

          3. Don Escaped Texas

            We need a Dragnet podcast so it can hit for the cycle: radio, tv, movie, cyber

          4. MikeS

            That’s what I was thinking. A reboot of Charmed? Are you fucking kidding? I guess we’re overdue for a third run at 90210. (I think they did a second one, didn’t they?)

          5. Chafed

            Welcome to my world.

    3. Don Escaped Texas

      Shannen Doherty is from Memphis, but I was never into the skanky hillbilly look. Some are, I hear.

      1. Lackadaisical

        Still would, with no shame.

        1. Ditto. The years haven’t been terribly kind, but she’s still well within parameters.

          1. Lackadaisical

            Thought she’d be too skinny for your tastes.

          2. Count Potato

            She had cancer.

      2. Count Potato

        I never thought she looked skanky or hillbilly.

        1. Don Escaped Texas

          I’m an expert on hillbillies; I defer to you on skanks.

      3. blackjack

        She is pretty hot, all things considered. Pretty psycho, but in an attractive way.

        1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

          Pretty psycho, but in an attractive way.

          1) It is known

          2) This is a slogan, or, mantra, or, something…just needs the correct platform

          3) If you see this on a female-driven vehicle, run like hell

          1. Aus

            Hm… not sure if I like this or not. I’m leaning towards no, but still may have a place on a playlist somewhere for this summer.

          2. Tres Cool

            You make it sound like Sunday is every day.

          3. Tres Cool

            Down, down to hell! And say I sent thee thither!

            I hate that stupid song.

          4. Gustave Lytton

            Would have expected this from Ted S.:

            https://youtu.be/OHsOSySZOyo

          5. Nephilium

            Well every day is Sunday when you’re unemployed. Great band to see live, they usually come to town once a year or so.

          6. Rhywun

            Tell me about it.

            Have a Sunday Crisis.

      1. juris imprudent

        Sunday Morning? Coming Down.

        1. Tundra

          *trips*

    1. blackjack

      Sunday morning

      song kinda stings

  4. Chafed

    I choose to read this post as proof SP is alive having survived the Great Migration West.

    1. SP is very, very busy. You can tell when she is not at the helm… we tend to drift a bit.

      1. Tundra

        Only a bit?

      2. Sean

        Drift? Like a boat in a shark movie?

        1. Raven Nation

          Like Robert Redford in “All is Lost.”

        2. We’re gonna need a bigger boat.

        3. Fourscore

          Or Kon-tiki?

          1. Spudalicious

            Loved the book and the documentary.

          2. Fourscore

            I was delivering the Mpls paper when Kon-tiki ran as a morning serial, about ’51-’52. I could read the whole episode on my morning route. Ran in the spring so the mornings were light enough to read. I was mesmerized as a young teenager.

      3. Tres Cool

        We had direction ?

      4. juris imprudent

        Swirling down is not exactly drifting.

  5. Aus

    Shazam! is a great movie, I recommend it highly.

    1. Nephilium

      I couldn’t get to see it this weekend, but I’m hoping to see it next weekend.

    2. Tres Cool

      The cheesy 70s Saturday Morning TV show was better.

        1. Tres Cool

          You’re old if you remember this classic.

          1. Spudalicious

            Vaguely remember. Damn, I’m old.

      1. Tres Cool

        I knew it before I clicked….

        1. Yup, could only be Gomer.

          I still hear Gomer singing Xmas carols on the radio every Yuletide. The guy was a heck of a baritone.

  6. Walford

    So driving to work Wednesday morning I started having the same symptoms I had when I had a heart attack in 2016. I pulled into a hospital 10 minutes later where they kept me overnight and did everything they could do except a heart cath. They found nothing wrong. Even with all the cool scars on my chest I sometimes forget anything ever happened before. Definitely reset my life alarm clock.

    1. Spudalicious

      2006, I ended up with chest pain in the ER. When nitro made it go away, I thought to myself “fuck, cardiac”. Spent the night, went through a full battery of tests the next day. Clean as a whistle. After many years in EMS, I learned that nitro can relieve esophageal spasm because it’s a smooth muscle relaxer.

      Glad you’re okay.

      1. Tres Cool

        You know what else is a smooth muscle relaxer ?

        1. Walford

          Winston’s mom?

          1. Spudalicious

            That she is.

          2. Lackadaisical

            Well done tulpa.

        2. Don Escaped Texas

          formaldehyde?

          (well, anyway, it contains oxygen yet is combustible, so it answers an earlier thread)

          1. Not Adahn

            I mean, you weren’t wrong in that a completely oxidized substance can’t be burnt, but there are so many organic materials that include oxygen that the idea falls apart in a hurry.

            However, any of your group I and II meals that are bonded to oxygen probably can’t be burnt.

          2. Don Escaped Texas

            Yes, I was thinking about oxidized metals. Believe it or not, I spent half my career packaging organic chemicals and my son is a chemist, but another side of my brain was focused on social knowledge (that happens more the older I get).

        3. deadhead

          Long Slow Distance?

      2. Walford

        Thanks Spud. I’m still concerned because the 1st time they were not sure I had anything wrong and was doing the Cath as an investigation procedure. They packed up shop early because I needed a quad bypass, a valve replacement and a anersism graft. A couple of doctors were going to send me home before the Cath.

        1. Tres Cool

          I’m blessed with the gift of fucked-up shoulders, my left in particular. When I do something stupid, it reminds me with non-specific chest pain radiating down my arm, and numbness in my fingers. It took a cath to show that my coronary arteries are clean (were 15 years ago) before all my docs scratched their heads and decided I had shoulder pain radiating IN, not cardiac pain radiating OUT. However, given my family history with heart events, I see my cardiologist next month. I expect another cath.

          1. Walford

            Here’s to the nice fire feeling within that comes with the dye. Damn that shit makes you think you are pissing yourself.

          2. Tres Cool

            Right? Weirdest thing.

    2. Tundra

      Whoa.

      Glad you’re ok!

      1. Walford

        Thanks Tundra.

    3. DEG

      Good that you’re OK.

    4. Count Potato

      Glad you’re OK. Better go to a hospital, and find nothing, than ignore it, and drop dead.

    5. Pi Guy

      Hope all is well.

    6. Tejicano

      Glad to hear you are good to go.

  7. westernsloper
    1. DEG

      Better than the original.

      Did he sign a Garand in there?

  8. Rebel Scum

    it is open, so there is no “OT”!

    OT: Every post is an open post.

    1. *narrows gaze*

  9. Rebel Scum

    I just did pork tenderloin and mushrooms/onions on the grill. It was delicious. But one of my cats got into a piece of the meat on the counter* while the other one watched. He is on my shit-list for the foreseeable future.

    *Probably my fault for leaving it out and unattended while knowing that my cats are worse than dogs when it comes to food.

    1. Walford

      That is in my top five reasons I won’t have an indoor cat.
      Possible exception would be a Savannah cat if I ever come into some throw away money.

    2. Rhywun

      Heh that would be way out of character for mine. They come running when I open a can of tuna or a bag of cold cuts but that’s about it.

    3. Spudalicious

      Our cat is 12. She doesn’t make it onto counters anymore.

      1. blackjack

        When my cat hit 14, she got arthritis. I got her a heating pad and put it under the kitchen table. She lived on that thing for the last 3 years of her 9th life. Loved it. Now my friend’s 17 y/o cat has it and he’s the same way, round the clock.

        1. Not Adahn

          From what I’ve read, cats prefer a room temperature of 80 – 85 degrees.

          1. We had a couple of those plug-in oil-filled radiators over the winter and my cat (18) would sit in front of them for hours, like nose practically inside the radiator fins.

          2. Rhywun

            Mine are around 12. Really dreading the “senior” years.

  10. Pi Guy

    Slammer on April 7, 2019 at 8:01 am
    “It’s National Beer Day.”

    I did my part with 3 Loose Canons early because I always have beer on days that end with “y.”

    But saved room for a couple of shots of Makers 46 to go with the ribs and pig dip. Mmmm… Pork.

    1. Lackadaisical

      Just tried three different texas beers with my cousin in Houston. Good stuff, much better than what I found when I visited Austin 10 years ago.

      1. Don Escaped Texas

        St Arnold Brown Porter is solid, but I prefer 512 Pecan Porter (Austin).

        1. Lackadaisical

          I’ll look for those around there.

          1. Not Adahn

            It is yum.

    2. Spudalicious

      I had a barrel aged stout at a local brewery and bottled a batch of Bruxelles Blonde. On to whiskey.

  11. Lackadaisical

    Speaking of beers, is Unreconstructed around, or any other Galveston glibs? Just checked in, and looking for some dinner, but might go out for a brew or two later if anyone is interested?

    1. Not Adahn

      I hope to God you get to meet Unreconstructed.

      1. Lackadaisical

        Why’s that?

        1. Not Adahn

          He is my fraternity brother. Everyone who has met him has an opinion of him. No one has ever thought neutrally of him.

          On the more selfish side, I haven’t seen him in a decade, and he is one of those people that you can’t quite figure out how they are going to make their way through life but are certain it will generate good stories one way or another. I have so many stories that I will never tell (unlike Will) about him, and I am hind of hoping that he has continued to break his way through life.

          Then again, if I found out that his past caught up to him, I might pay more attention to karma.

          1. Lackadaisical

            His handle here certainly suggests a certain type of folk. Sounds like fun,though.

            Are frats hothouses of libertarianism?

          2. Don Escaped Texas

            * starts to type something

            lets it go *

          3. Not Adahn

            …I don’t know. Politics was ever in the forefront of any of our lives. There were fights and hatreds, but they were never from political disagreements. Which should probably be a lesson — so many other things are more important.

            Our particular house was pretty atypical. Unreconstructed was the last class initiated before a hazing scandal that brought the national org down and resulted in an outreach to “non-traditional” pledges (which is what brought me in.) The leader of my pledge class tried to get me thrown out multiple times, but I stuck round out of sheer spite. This eventually lead to some of the wealthy alums developing a grudging respect for me (our house valued bitter endurance and shamelessness).

            There is a lesson here re: Swiss and Winston.

          4. Don Escaped Texas

            I spent a summer renting in a ΣN house: never inferred any guiding principles or even goals from the exposure.

            I paid my share of the long distance one month with a check drafted on Reelfoot Bank of Hornbeak TN: their treasurer promptly fell in the floor laughing and could not be returned to his feet for several minutes; I feared for his health, then for his sanity, but never for his liquidity.

          5. Not Adahn

            Almost all fraternities have lots of stuff encoded in their artwork, tough it’s a lot easier to see if you’re familiar with Freemasonry.

            Our house did not have non-ironic prejudice against Jews (as demonstrated by house leadership) but there was a tradition of renaming every treasurer with one of (((their))) names. When I was there, we had Brother Blankenstein and Brother Goldstein in that office. I was so amazingly boring that they never bothered to rename me. The Treasurer got one of the prime rooms in the house and that mofo was mine.

          6. Not Adahn

            Oh, and as to “a certain kind of folk…”

            I never got that impression while I lived with him. We had presidents of both racial and religious minorities. Rebel flags were not flown. And this was before the complete wokefication of campuses.

            He is very much a Texan however. I remember him saying “I have always read about crisp autumn days but I have never experienced one until now”

            The Texas gulf coast is pretty much shit, weather-wise.

          7. Lackadaisical

            I was thinking more along the lines of a states rights type, though that was the other option.

            Seems pretty nice right now, but I understand it often isn’t very comfortable.

          8. OneOut

            That of course is a matter of opinion.

            I sometimes enjoy going year round without having to wear a pair of long pants

  12. Don Escaped Texas

    https://www.c-span.org/video/?458498-1/depth-nomi-prins

    Nomi is reviewing the history of the Fed; she is NOT hard to look at.

  13. Fatty Bolger

    School district removes doors from bathroom stalls, girls allegedly forced to bring blankets from home for privacy

    One school in Illinois has shocked students, and parents alike, after they made the decision to remove the doors from bathroom stalls after a student allegedly wrote a note in the bathroom threatening a school shooting.

    Seems like an appropriate and effective response, if you’re a moron.

    1. Rhywun

      FFS.

      And are we to understand that no male students have a problem with this? I find that unlikely.

    2. Gustave Lytton

      Why have stalls? Make it barracks style.

      1. Not Adahn

        Question: are female barracks the same way?

      2. Tres Cool

        I called the latrine in basic training (with literally 20 open toilets on either side of the walls) the Halls Of Shit.

        1. Fourscore

          You kids. We didn’t have all that fancy running water stuff when me and the boys got called up. I spose you had showers instead of galvanized tubs to bathe in. Kids got it too easy today.

          1. Lackadaisical

            They probably even had electricity. Soft.

          2. Tres Cool

            Pfft…Ft. Bliss had incredibly ineffective swamp-coolers. Yet we still got handed wool blankets.

    3. Lackadaisical

      Sounds logical, just like when they strip search half the school because of rumors of drugs in someone’s locker.

      1. juris imprudent

        That opinion from Thomas could truly inspire violence in me toward him, and I don’t even have a daughter.

    4. Brett L

      I ran cross-country and track for 4 years in HS and probably took all my dumps in that locker room without a stall door. Just two crappers and a concrete block divider high enough you couldn’t see over sitting down. Of course, the one rule that was religiously enforced was: Don’t piss in the shitter. You never had to worry about sitting in piss.

  14. Don Escaped Texas

    Laws, or: how to create new and interesting ways to end-run regulations

    assessed value: $549,300 . . . sold to a wealthy Maryland businessman for close to a million dollars

    new bureaucracy required ASAP !

    1. Tres Cool

      “A roiling nationwide college admissions scandal has resulted in federal criminal charges…”

      As a complete dipshit with no legal training outside of People’s Court, explain why this is a federal crime (other than the school accepts funding from the gov’t)

      1. Don Escaped Texas

        I certainly don’t care, but, then again, I don’t use the federal mails or telephony to send lies to misrepresent my kid’s qualifications. As to private schools, it’s their job to show damages if there are any (not a criminal issue at all); as to public schools, they should not exist.

        1. Tres Cool

          Wire fraud?
          Interesting angle.

          1. Don Escaped Texas

            No idea, just pulling crap out of me arse. I was a bureaucrat for 14 months once 30 years ago, so I’m not without experience.

          2. Tres Cool

            It’s a fair cop, I suppose. If the feds wanted to get involved. But barring direct offense to the FedGov, I dont know how they can legit stick their noses in it.

          3. Lackadaisical

            I think I heard that the max time was 2o years. Sounds about right. *eye roll*

    2. Fourscore

      20-30 years ago pols were selling biographies by the 100s to a donor, wasn’t it some old Texan that got booted/resigned over that scam?

      1. Tres Cool

        Ann Richards ?

      2. Raven Nation

        Wright?

        1. Fourscore

          Yeah, that’s the one. Couldn’t remember his name. Oh, oh….

      3. Don Escaped Texas

        Jim Wright over Reflections of a Public Man

        He was from Fort Worth, Speaker, WW2 B24 bombardier, and is buried at Greenwood in Weatherford not far from the grave of the cowboy who died from falling into a cottonmouth boil and was later borrowed as a character in Lonesome Dove.

  15. Getting a real Subaru vibe from the current Rav4 commercials. Paging #Sugarfree!

    1. Count Potato

      “Rave” is just too 90’s.

        1. Count Potato

          I was expecting techno.

          1. Rhywun

            Right? Instead you got much better.

          2. Count Potato

            There is plenty of good techno, and plenty of awful techno. I used to make techno, then chillout. Never made any money at it, but I played a bunch of parties, and got on the guest lists.

          3. Rhywun

            I was just being tongue in cheek. I’m a huge fan of EBM and its various offshoots so you get no argument from me.

          4. blackjack

            Some of us just don’t like Techno. It’s OK, variety makes the world go round. You do you.

    2. Heroic Mulatto

      So, I take it their demographic is “assholes”?

      1. AlmightyJB

        That’s the number 1 demographic these days.

    3. Count Potato

      https://www.instagram.com/danielledonn/

      I also can’t believe that thing is $30K.

      Cars are just getting too bloated and expensive. I saw an old Subaru Outback parked next to a new one. It looked three times as big.

  16. Heroic Mulatto
    1. Spudalicious

      That was meant to lull us into a false sense of security with your links, wasn’t it?

      1. blackjack

        He just links to cat videos. Seen it a hundred times. No biggie.

    2. Rhywun

      OMG Gangsta Party Line was a classic

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        Indeed.

    3. Count Potato

      Did you know Henry Purcell died after his wife locked him out of the house on a cold night? Then she posthumously published his works for a substantial amount of money. Now I ain’t saying was she a gold digger, but she wasn’t messing with no Baroque niggas.

    4. straffinrun

      Broke niggas got a lol.

    1. Breet Pharara

      I see the Count’s thicc girl is in there not once but twice.

    2. AlmightyJB

      I love sexy girls in sexy lingerie.

      1. Chafed

        Then you’ve come to the right place.

        1. CPRM

          It’s a Honey trap! Run JB! *is shot by FBI agents*

      2. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

        What about non-sexy lingerie? ‘Cause I’m starting to think Shitlord confirmed….

        1. CPRM

          or even, non-sexy girls in sexy lengerie. I think you need both sides to make the equation work, it’s like algebra.

    3. Spudalicious

      8 and 17. Somebody punched poor 45 right in the mouth.

      1. Chafed

        Wow. That is some really bad plastic surgery.

    4. Chafed

      Is 31 supposed to be a sexy nun? That is really confusing. I can’t hold those two concepts in my mind at the same time.

  17. straffinrun

    Times have changed and I GET it. Over the years I’ve sniffed your wive’s panties and children’s undies. Sometimes I’ve even sniffed your boxers while you were at work. My kid had cancer BTW. Oh, and I only pressed those undergarments to my face and inhaled deeply to give encouragement and support to cancer patients and their families. In 2019, this manner of detecting cancer markers can make some people uncomfortable, and I understand and GET it. If you mistook my hands on approach for violating personal boundaries, I GET it and will LISTEN to your concerns.

    Thank you.

    1. PS: Your wife’s vagina smells like pickled goldfish.

      1. Count Potato

        You (((people))) eat some weird food.

        1. 100% kosher.

    2. Breet Pharara

      I give you 2 HM’s out of 5.

      1. straffinrun

        That’s a passing grade, right? *skates through like high school*

        1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

          Dude, I would have easily gone 3, 3.5

    3. Spudalicious

      Did HM hack Straff’s account?

        1. Count Potato

          I was going to go with that, but decide to pick the other one.

        1. straffinrun

          Tough room..

          1. CPRM

            Dominatrix walks in and cracks whip ‘Oh honey, you haven’t even seen the tough room yet.’

          2. Rhywun

            The dominatrix sleeps tonight.

        2. Rhywun

          I never saw that show. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

          1. CPRM

            I watched the Celebrity Apprentice when Penn Jillette was on, my only exposure.

  18. Run through beautiful downtown Pyongyang.

    https://whtc.com/news/articles/2019/apr/07/athletics-surreal-pyongyang-marathon-in-spotlight-as-tensions-ease/

    Refreshments provided by enslaved political prisoners.

    1. Spudalicious

      How many passed out on the route from malnutrition?

      1. Not to worry; they had barbecued forced aborted fetuses for snacks.

        1. straffinrun

          The Javelin competition sounds like must watch TV.

          1. Javelin. Firing squad. Potato-potahto.

        2. Spudalicious

          Kalbi, or Gochujang?

          1. Fermented cat feces.

  19. CPRM

    Losers. Also New cartoon! but the overlords havn’t scheduled it yet.

    1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

      Sounds like we’re winners…OK, will be winners when posted. Therefore, NOT losers. Just in a holding pattern, is all.

      1. CPRM

        #new character!

        1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

          YES!!! I knew I could contribute! I mean, I’ll wait to see if I can say “positively”, or not.

          1. CPRM

            Not.

          2. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

            Harsh, bruh.

          3. CPRM

            The truth can be.

          4. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption
          5. CPRM

            No, the new character was in the works before you were kind enough to help me, if it were a che hat I’d give you credit. I’m not a monster.

          6. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

            Ah, OK…I think I get it now. Your #new character comment was a statement on the upcoming vid, not a “Eureka!” moment based on what I had just written above it.

            I’ll get there…..eventually.

          7. CPRM

            Yes, you got 1/2 the ep I wasn’t sure about, the other half has the new character.

    2. straffinrun

      In the meantime…

      My Single Daughter Cleaning Kitchen Tools in Morning Routine Cleaning work easy at field.

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q3GnrwZZFF8

      1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

        A smile and a polishing….won’t be single for long.

        1. straffinrun

          1.7m views. Asians are pragmatic.

      2. CPRM

        Oh, until I clicked I thought you were putting your daughter on the Glibs auction block.

  20. CPRM

    Yay! Sir Digby is here! (waits 3hrs for him to see this when I’m asleep)

  21. grrizzly

    Grrrrr. I haven’t benefited from the tax cut. I pay too much in interest and property taxes. It’s time to think more creatively.

    1. CPRM

      Until the SALT thing came up, I’d never even heard that some high tax places got to write off their property tax. (for me nothing changed, I made under $15,000 and had to work to not have to owe, I know that makes me super rich)

    2. totally_not_an_escaped_ai

      The elimination of SALT deductions was a killer for my left coast dumb ass. Is there really anything one can do without being mega wealthy, i.e. costs of “creative” structures outweighing benefits?

      It’s not like I can just up and move to a cheaper area. At least the weather is good and the humans are entertaining.

    1. CPRM

      Diversity is worth breaking some eggs, or something like that.

    2. straffinrun

      Please note we are working on organizing a short (3 – 4 hour) anti-racism training for the creative team and ensemble…

      “Short”.

      1. CPRM

        Only half a work day, where you’re paid SLAVE WAGES! This is time well spent.

        1. Rhywun

          Unless you’re a POC.

        2. straffinrun

          Struggle sessions should be kept under 2 hours. The dunce cap can cause neck problems longer than that.

      2. I can shorten it – “It is Racist to be paying people different amounts based on their skin color.”

        Now make the producers repeat that until they realize I’m talking about them.

        Oh, wait, that’s going to take forever.

    3. Chafed

      It is.

  22. dbleagle

    Sunday night music from Gilbert.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ7z57qrZU8

    1. Jarflax

      Did Sullivan take the night off?

  23. https://apnews.com/79fefc13c5a54b089da12c7007e98ac8?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP_Politics

    That bridge has been burned, nuked, the Earth salted and swallowed into a sinkhole to Hades.

    1. Rhywun

      Ohhhh please make Dems openly courting white males a thing that actually happens. Epic lulz.

      1. totally_not_an_escaped_ai

        Watching the cognitive dissonance in action required to pull that off would be delightful. Best timeline by far.

    2. straffinrun

      The Democrats’ 2020 presidential primary may feature a historically diverse field of women and minoritie

      Top three in polling are all white men.

      1. CPRM

        But one is white man pretending to be a minority, so there!

        1. Just start calling yourself El CPRM; instant POC.

          1. CPRM

            If I were going to appropriate Hispanic heritage I’d go with Don Juan De La Vega.

    3. PieInTheSky

      They should use the strategy: You owe it to minorities to vote for us and step aside to check your privilege. It will totes work

  24. CPRM

    When I was a kid, I knew who politicians were because I was actually interested in politics. I stopped to see my niece and nephew today and not only did I see just how their parents are totally unable to control them, but my sister was making McDonald Trump jokes, which could be funny, but seeing how the kids were being indoctrinated ruined the jokes. Politics is one thing I never broach with children unless they ask, this is why we’re losing. INDOCTERNATE! I can’t even.

    1. Jarflax

      I saw ‘broach’ and ‘children’ and though OMWC was up late.

      1. CPRM

        Broach actually makes me think of old ladies. You’re sick!

        1. Jarflax

          If the old lady still needs to be broached she probably isn’t giving it up to you.

          1. CPRM

            No, old ladies have broaches, that you can steal from them when you have the state commit them to a nursing home. Totally wrong idea broheim.

    2. PieInTheSky

      This is why the Internet is such a threat to the left. All those years of indoctrination ruined by a dank meme.

  25. PieInTheSky

    Goddamnit Lakers decided to start winning when they should be a tankin. Fuckin Caruso and KCP.

    1. PieInTheSky

      Good morning glibs

      1. Akira

        Mornin’.

        I think I need to find some place to go on late Sunday nights… I always get bored and lonely. I don’t think any bars around here are open that late on Sundays. Maybe I can just go sit in Tim Horton’s and try to strike up conversations with the characters who show up late at night.

        1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

          Never having been even remotely close to a Tim’s, is the coffee really all that? Or, is it covfefe?

          1. Akira

            Dunno; I’ve never had it. My friends and I used to just hang out in there late at night since that and the Waffle House were the only places open.

          2. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

            Mmmmmmmm…Pecan waffle

            Oh, sorry about that. So, does Horton’s not care about only hanging out? Or, did you order other things?

            /the internet wants to know

          3. Akira

            I recall that we often spent time in there without buying anything.

          4. But Enough About Me

            The coffee used to be very, very solid; unfortunately, their recipes have changed and they’re now trying to compete with coffee-shop coffee, which was never their target audience. McDo’s is doing a better job with their McCafe line (which they test-marketed in France first). Many TimmyHo’s are open 24/7 and they’ve got a reasonably varied set of food and drink offerings, so they’ve got that going for them.

          5. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

            Is the McCafe stuff truly that good? I tend to stay away from McD’s, so I haven’t been tempted to try it-even the store line they put out.

            I kinda figured that TH wasn’t going anywhere, per se. It’s just that the coffee is what I see/hear about the most.

        2. CPRM

          THIS is the place to get drunk, best virtual bar ever.

      2. CPRM

        Basketball sucks, pussy.

        1. PieInTheSky

          At least it is not fucking baseball, so not completly and totally worthless

          1. CPRM

            Yes, baseball sucks.

          2. CPRM

            BUT, baseball has at least one play, a runner coming into home plate, that can allow some physicality, in basketball you cry for the ref if someone touches your hand when you shoot.

      3. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

        Uh…howdy, non-Lakers fan.

        /no dog in that fight

    2. straffinrun

      I’d love to see Dallas win the Zion lottery. They could be a contender in just one year after sucking balls.

      1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

        Is that something that gets more (((players))) on the team?

        1. CPRM

          No, it’s how the Bucks sucked for 30 years.

          1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

            …………..Too many (((players)))?

        2. straffinrun

          If Zion is a black Hebrew Israelite, let’s pray his postgame interviews are live.

          1. PieInTheSky

            what is his skill does not carry over to the NBS and he is a bust? Who, will interview him then?

          2. straffinrun

            Who knows? Built like Lebron and good skills.

      2. PieInTheSky

        Lakers still have a 2% shot. But the entire league would scream about it being rigged if that happened.

  26. CPRM

    Acoustic Metal is something that is always awesome, It’s So Clear.

  27. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

    So, if you decide to give this vid a whirl, You will probably come to the same conclusions I did:

    1) Russian cops > Russian lawyers [wait for it]

    2) Apparently, Dermatology isn’t a subject taught widely in the former USSR.

    1. CPRM

      Poor pacing. Lost interest.

      1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

        Dude: hot cop alert.

      2. CPRM

        Youtube has RUINED dramatic reading. Many of his peers…saw him as a quiet… THAT IS NOT HOW IT SHOULD BE READ!

        1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

          Ehh–I cut the guy some slack on account of his good voice.

          1. CPRM

            I mean, what do I know, he has more views than me. Must mean I don’t don’t know what I’m doing and have shit voice (it’s not just him, this a common thing, even in actual TV shows now.) Makes me not even want to try to do the audiobook version of SF’s hat and hair where I pay a Trump impersonator and get a Morgan Freeman impersonator to read the action.

          2. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

            You know I was agreeing with your point…right?

          3. CPRM

            Yeah, but I needed to vent.

          4. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

            Oh. Well, vent on, dude!

          5. CPRM

            Before I launched the CPRM merch store I asked everyone if they wanted to it, and they said yes, so I worked to make it happen. As far as I know, I’m the only person who has bought anything. I bought this mug just so I knew it worked,

          6. CPRM

            My problem is, I’m a creative cannon, I just need someone to point me in the right direction, and all my life I was told know your weaknesses and surround yourself with people who are good at what you’re not. But, when I try to surround myself with people who are good at what I’m not, they instead think that then makes them good at what I’m good at, by some transitive property, and then everyone else says, just be better at the things you’re not good at!

          7. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

            You know weird people, it would seem.

            See, what you oughta do, is….Well, that’s enough for today.

    2. Rhywun

      Linguist interested in Celtic history… *backs slowly out of the room, whistling quietly*

      1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

        Yeah, but, I hear that’s the sign of a cultured person in Russian society.

    1. CPRM

      Well, the two oldest known surgeries as carteracts and abortion, and only one ca survive.

    2. Akira

      Leftists have gotten away with fervently denying that universal healthcare would include any type of rationing, much less a government panel deciding that someone can’t have a life-saving or life-improving procedure. Yet that’s exactly what goes on, and almost nobody is aware of it. It’s a testament to the dishonesty of American media and the phoniness of the Left’s self-proclaimed loyalty to empirical facts.

      1. BakedPenguin

        …the Left’s self-proclaimed loyalty to empirical facts.

        Bruh, that train left station a long time ago. Hasn’t been seen in a while.

        1. Akira

          I know it’s not true, but they still say it. They do indeed engage in heavily distorted and biased science (“climate change”) and frequently disregard entire bodies of evidence (gender) but if you ask them, they will claim that they base all their positions on hard science and verifiable facts.

    3. Suthenboy

      What seems to be lost in this conversation is that rationing isnt the unintended result of socialized medicine…it’s the point.

      1. leon

        People don’t realize that in any system resources will be rationed. You might think it’s wrong to ration by willingness to pay, but at least we don’t take the choice and hand it to a third party.

    1. MikeS

      I love Cracker

      1. MikeS

        A great new-ish song from Cracker

  28. l0b0t

    So we have a regular shoplifter at my store. Every couple weeks, I find a large (105 oz.) container of Downey Fabric Softener and a large (105 oz.) container of Tide Liquid Detergent emptied on the shelf. Someone is coming in and siphoning off 2+ gallons of heavy liquid into some sort of container from home.

    1. leon

      Just take one of the empty ones and fill it with sulfuric acid.

      1. In addition to the shoplifter, they do have regular customers too. I don’t know about you, but acid washing is not something I subject my clothes to.

    2. Suthenboy

      WTF? I never got the laundry product theft. They are willing to go to jail over soap? What is that?