Actually, I don’t know if I have enough Florida Man links to go around, but after yesterday’s enlaces, and the Rays’ mascot failing to come through on a promised connection, I’ll do my best.
I don’t really think you can get more Florida Man than this without eating someone’s face.
FSU to spin off athletics department into non-profit, merge with boosters. For all the hue-and-cry, UF has been organized such since 1929, and just because they’ve had a few bad apples along the way… well, this may actually be a terrible idea.
I love this guy. Oh, you need to access my computer? Here you go, and all your servers are belong to us!
Finally, fuck you cancer! We have lasers now!
This is the song I got mixed up on a couple nights ago. Dublin Blues, not London Homesick Blues. That’s bothered me for two days. I woke up 3 times last night trying to get the rest of the song in my head so I could get the song title. Teh Googles found it for me.
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FSU athletics and non-profit. One of these is not like the others.
Oh First and hit my theme music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmvuRJzads4
Needs more alligators.
Evenin’ Brett.
Hi Brett!
So. Fucking. Cool.
Although I wonder if Biden will try to take credit…
Trump will and tell everyone that he beat Biden to the punch.
I cured cancer bigly. Biden, that loser probably already has brain cancer. I mean look at the guy. Or maybe nose cancer from sniffing all that hair. Hey, Joe! Look at these hands! Cancer free. Grab the pussy, Joe. Grab the pussy.
I don’t care who gets credit for it as long as they tell the FDA to prioritize making it available ASAP.
“Pew, pew, pew…”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHA!
Re the guy who tried to fuck a handrail:
He looks pretty good for a sixty two year old drug addict (and probably meth at that).
Runnin’ away from all those handrail daddies in the middle of the night keeps him young.
Does Florida just have the bestest drugs or just the mostest ?
Inquiring minds want to know.
I was confused there. Then it hit me. “Journalism.”
Once you get a sweet piece of rail, you’ll never go back to park bench slats.
I suppose if you like em skinny. I’m no John, but I do prefer a ro-bust end table.
Hmmmm….chest. Drawers. Chest. Drawers. Chest of Drawers please!
Rails are for chubby chasers. Chain link fences are where it’s at.
Link party!
Just another Sunday for Florida Man.
“Did not heed the warning” – – If Florida Man has a motto, this is it.
I’d guess that motto would be found a good percentage of tombstones in the state.
The rest being “Hold my beer”
“Earlier in June, Florida man Peter Wagman, 37, from Pinellas Park, was charged with domestic battery for pouring tomato sauce all over his sleeping girlfriend following an argument about infidelity.”
You can have my Ragu when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Unless he was trying to smother her or hitting her with the can itself, I’m not seeing battery in that story. It’s tomato sauce.
“Your honor, in my defense it was late evening, dark, and I mistook the stench coming off her snatch as the result of a skunk invasion.”
I once got charged with battery for spilling coffee which ran across the table and dripped onto the “victim’s” lap. Multiple court dates later the judge threw it out against the wishes of the prosecutor. DA wanted me to attend 90 anger management classes and have a record for violent charges. I tried to get a jury trial.
Jesus.
Sounds like the DA is getting a kickback from the anger management folks.
Domestic violence laws are idiotic — where or who should be irrelevant.
Q hardest hit
That site is a national treasure.
Will FSU raise their prices or ask the state legislature for more money? At least FSU gets some non-tax money for research. Even if they spin off Osceola and Renegade, why should taxpayers subsidize the rest?
Because the coaches are employees of the State, they have a maximum salary set by statute. The Booster org pays the difference. This is a standard arrangement throughout the country. I believe the Boosters also maintain the stadium and practice facility. At least, they raised the money to pay for practice facility and the last couple of rounds of stadium improvement. In most D-I football schools, the money for the athletic department is basically self-funding. Ticket, merchandise, and broadcast revenues pay for all athletics* – including varsity teams that don’t generate enough revenue to support themselves. I’d be shocked if the money wasn’t flowing from athletics to academics.
*I’m sure there’s a per-hour fee in there somewhere, so that all students subsidize the student tickets.
I meant force or threat of force to extort money to pay for snowflakes to be indoctrinated by the rest of the university other than the athletics program even if said snowflakes are not family.
Will the change in legal status affect the flow of money from athletics to academics?
I’m wondering if it gets them out of Title IX regulations.
An interesting idea.
If that doesn’t, I bet the way trans-athlete movement will ultimately kill it.
I don’t really think you can get more Florida Man than this without eating someone’s face.
FTA:
Hobos gone wild.
Florida weirdness, ranked:
1. Panhandle
2. Southwest
3. Southeast
4. West-Central
5. East-Central
The Panhandle isn’t weird. It’s just redneck.
That’s what makes it weird.
Depends on your level of familiarity with rednecks, I guess.
*pinches a fat dip*
*grabs a chaw of Red Man*
I’ve known a few people from the panhandle and my ‘Bama family used to have a place in Panama City Beach, and that’s been my limited experience. The Tampa area, however, seems to be a nexus for weirdos.
While such differences may be material to an insider, to an outsider Florida Men are all the same.
For all the hue-and-cry, UF has been organized such since 1929, and just because they’ve had a few bad apples along the way
As if FSU hasn’t had any bad apples.
Hey, let he who has not shoplifted crab legs from Publix cast the first stone.
Jameis stealing crab legs still can never touch Free Shoes University.
I don’t think even in the Criminoles Era of the early 80s where several athletes were spending the night in jail during the week to serve sentences, they ever had two murderers on the same team.
Please, dude – the Noles would have signed (and enabled) Hernandez without blinking an eyelash if they’d had the chance.
A few years back, a guy who was the FSU mascot as an undergrad was killed over a gumbo recipe, which was both Peak Florida Man and Peak FSU.
His assailant nearly got away with it, as prosecutors were initially unsure of what charges to filé.
Manslaughter?! Okra mon!
You’ll roux that once Swiss gets here.
I do need to keep him at bay; he’s cat-butted me once this week already.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will leave the job at the end of the month, President Donald Trump said Thursday.
Oh not, not PIE!!!! *sobs*
Hat and Hair on suicide watch.
If only she’d take Bolton with her.
Word. And I’m still an advocate of Milo Y. for press-sec.
nooooooooooo
I love the look of absolute disdain she managed. She reminded the press of their origin as barely respectable, ink-stained wretches.
Let’s check in on Alyssa Milano:
Still tweeting like a teenager.
That’s an insult to teenagers.
are asylum seekers being chopped up into smaller parts and vacu-sucked into a baggy?
To make the analogy work, their bodies would need to be sold.
What do you think bottom shelf organs are sourced from?
SCOTUS just enforced the fetal remains law in Indiana. now PP can’t sell the body parts.
It was federally illegal to do so before – but they did it anyway.
It sounds like you’ve identified a market.
Does she think they’re being gunned down at the border or something?
GIFs suck, dude.
_
How do you feel about blinking text?
Does she think
No.
“where the sun don’t shine”
Her rectum, for example.
She seems nice.
Nick Gillespie was the ghost-writer of Alyssa Milano’s advice column in Teen Machine magazine.
How do we know that he isn’t ghost-writing for her now?
That can’t be true.
Tell me this isn’t true
Why do you always doubt me?
Oh dear lord, that’s the funniest thing I’ve read all week.
They do it to me too. What’s the point of telling lies when the truth is so horrific?
What’s the point of telling lies when the truth is so horrific?
Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
Society always hates its truth-tellers.
For example, Bugs Bunny is not funny.
Sounds like you think its rabbit season.
/sighs… *wab*bit?
You’re just in denial you find him attractive dressed a girl bunny.
“We covered a lot of ground, ranging from drug policy to policing to my checkered past as a teen magazine scribe and ghostwriter of an Alyssa Milano advice column for the late, lamented Teen Machine.”
OFFS
But was he involved with Teen Steam?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U0SGLTDEfk
CRITICAL THINKING HOW DOES IT FUCKEN WORK?
Good Lord…
this story right here is not something you’ll read at WaPo or hear from the gun grabbers before the gun control special session in Richmond next month.
https://wtkr.com/2019/06/12/husband-of-kate-nixon-killed-in-building-two-shares-memories-her-final-phone-call-and-plea-for-open-investigation/
The night before Kate was murdered on May 30, she sat Jason down at the table and told him she wanted to take a gun to work because a disgruntled co-worker was being fired and was threatening.
“She said, ‘Jason, I have an eerie feeling. We are letting this guy go, and he is supposed to be police escorted out,” Jason recalled.
“He has made comments he wants to shoot up the place, and I said, ‘Well, you can take my gun and put it in your purse, and if nothing happens at least you will be a safe,” he said.
That coworker didn’t end up being the shooter that took the lives of Kate and 11 others, but Kate’s intuition of a fateful Friday rang true.
“I wish she had taken it. Maybe the outcome would be different… I don’t know,” he said.
I thought he quit?
apparently that office was chock full of crazy workplace shooter types.
What is particularly sickening the way Gov. Coonman jumped on this like a little kid under the Christmas tree as a convenient vehicle to make himself look like a brave crusader so people will forget his scandal.
it was the event and manufactured crisis he and Fairfax were praying for.
if the GOP wobbles and gives them anything, then they can kiss their asses goodbye. i can think of no more unified block of voters than 2A types. and no better way to kill their motivation and enthusiasm than to stab them in the back.
So what you’re saying is this can guarantee delivering concession speeches… go on…
/Stupid Party
I can already hear the reeeesponses when anyone points to this.
Never, ever trust anyone named “Jason.” It has never ended well.
Hey, now, I have a nephew named Jason, and he’s perfectly…
… well, I mean, he always meant to…
…uh…
…Never mind.
I trust you were the cool uncle, that buys him a chainsaw and hockey mask for his 6th birthday?
No comment.
One of my co-drivers at Daytona this year was named Jason. He bashed the left front corner up just before I got in. The car pulled hard to the left under acceleration and hard to the right under braking. Due to this, I lost the fast lap bet. I’ll never get that dollar back! Never, ever trust anyone named Jason!
See? Point proven.
Child abuse?
Warning: retch-inducing propaganda.
Hey, Robby Soave’s on Dave Smith’s show:
https://youtu.be/bfBDbIVt-5I
I thought it was Milo Yianapolous at first.
He was on Rubin yesterday. We should make fun of him in the comments.
Great idea. I went with this:
“Robby and flabby both end in bby. Coincidence?”
Now you do one.
“Who knew fruit sushi had so many calories?”
This is making me feel tired and deflated.
“Robby, what kind of scooter did you finally settle on?”
And endless appletinis. It’s hard out there for a cosmo.
And sign into Google?
he looks like a straight version of Milo from ten years ago.
Let it be know, other sites have stolen Brett’s schtick.
That brought me to this – the killjoys never rest:
https://twitter.com/FloridaMan__
I love this guy. Oh, you need to access my computer? Here you go, and all your servers are belong to us!
Sounds like the Nobel committee has a new candidate to consider.
Beyond the Edge of the Map should soon be available for pre-order, with a release date of June 30.
My wife wants to know how to buy your books
Ccb3 at protonmail dot com
I got them through Amazon.
Click on his handle.
Thanks
She reads that genre and will no doubt burn through the lot of then in short order
Have I mentioned I hate typing on a mobile device?
I must say, I got more of a jolt of schadenfreude than is healthy when I saw that the jurors hammered Oberlin for another $22 million in punitive damages, bringing their total bill to $33 million.
I was happy, though I can’t say I’m surprised, given what I’ve seen so far from the Defense.
And costs as well, which should add a few million more.
After appeals, contingency, and inevitable settlements, the plaintiffs will end up with $3MM or so.
There’s always a few, I suppose, but I’m not seeing a lot of appealable issues here. I’m not superfamiliar with the case, either. The actual jury decision is almost impossible to overturn on appeal. Oberlin will need to find legal issues to appeal, basically, shit the judge got wrong.
The appeals will definitely add delay, but with the award of costs, if the plaintiffs stick it out through the appeals, Oberlin will be paying for those also.
Yeah, but one has to pony up in the meantime. I was a defendant in a total bullshit IP lawsuit that got tossed on summary judgement (after we had spent over half a million in deps, expert witnesses, and discovery); we ended up having to settle because in order to go through the appeals process, we’d have to pony up several hundred thousand more for retainers.
It may be easier as a plaintiff than a defendant, though.
Yeah, but one has to pony up in the meantime.
Not the plaintiffs, as I assume this is a contingent fee case. You were a defendant; we always pay out of pocket.
The lawyers will be out of pocket for their time and overhead, but hey, that’s the deal.
I’d be interested to know what their percentage is. I believe the way the court awards costs is to the plaintiff, on the theory they paid the bill, but costs are awarded as if the lawyers were charging by the hour. The lawyers keep their contingency fee, and plaintiff gets (some of) it back from the defendants, who are losers. Losing losers. Who lost.
Bullshit. Their endowment is hundreds of millions. Their alumni might have a few questions, though.
And besides which, saving students from the Toxic Indoctrination at Oberlin is an added benefit.
I laughed way too much at the fact that the attorney for a supposedly elite liberal arts school used “less” incorrectly where she should have used “fewer”.
Or did she? Maybe she counts students as a uncountable mass of mush.
Exactly
I took a business writting course a couple years ago and the instructor said it’s now always “less” “fewer’ is out. Also, it’s always “between” – “among” is out. To hard I guess.
I disagreed as did most of the class. Lose the word and you lose the cocept.
He also said only one space after a period, so he really was full of shit.
Literally worse than Hitler.
I just got through losing an argument with our communications department on that. Apparently, modern typographers are in a pretty strong consensus that the double space is an antiquated artifact of monospace type.
I still think it helps readability. You can just about draw a line at age 40 or thereabouts – the older, wiser ones use double spaces, the younger ones do not.
I am under 40 and was taught 2 spaces following a period, it is even a default on Apple Pages. I guess I am a antiquated artifact.
I work in one platform where single space is the default, and it won’t let the use add another space. It drives me nuts.
They can take our whitespace, but they can never take our FREEDOOOOOM!
Over 40 here, and I use a single space. But then I was into computers long ago so my typographic sense is a bit off. The double quote on the outside of punctuation bothers me even though that also is more historically correct.
Does this site allow double spaces after a period. Many don’t.
Nope, it doesn’t.
There are ways.
ARE YOU A WIZARD?
Sadly, no.
Huh, I totally forgot about those.
This is only going to incentivize other local businesses to be racist.
*golf clap*
In more evidence that we live in the best (or at least, most entertaining/surreal) timeline: Boris Johnson (the second most entertaining British pol) has increased his odds of becoming Prime Minister of the UK.
And polls indicate he’d do best as far as leading his party in a general election, which makes it highly likely that the rank and file will back him. He can always wave the specter of a Corbyn victory to shore up support among those hesitant to back him.
Fuck FATCA and extraterritorial taxing.
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act does make it more difficult for non-Americans to do business with the United States.
Boris Johnson would still be an American if it wasn’t for that.
Why just extraterritorial taxing? Let’s get rid of intra-territorial taxing as well.
The thing is, as candidates start dropping, he might get crowded out by the more…”acceptable” candidates. This is what happened last time – Gove looked strong, but Leadsom convinced the Brexiteer MPs that she will totally be pro-Brexit, totally, and she will totally win and is 100% committed, and she has no baggage, unlike Gove. So, it was down to her and May and it was time for membership to vote…
…at which point she declared that this whole thing is too hard, and she is withdrawing and so there is no need to bother the rank and file and May became the party leader and Prime Minister.
While this is definitely a possibility, the fact is he already has enough votes to make it through to the final round, so he’d have to lose votes to not be one of the choices for the rank and file. Which, while possible, doesn’t seem highly likely. Even if the MPs rally around someone else as the field gets smaller, he only has to hang on to the support he’s already garnered to make it through.
Fricken laser beams!
Are they ill-tempered bass?
It’s a bit spendy, but if you’re a World War II buff, this sounds like a boot in the ass.
Going on my bucket list for sure.
That would be pretty awesome. One of my grandfathers was a B-17 waist gunner, so it would be rather cool to do the same thing. Well, without the German flak and all.
A few years ago my ex-boss paid for his father, who was a B-17 pilot in WW2, to take a flight in a recently restored bomber.
My boss asked his dad – “how was the flight?”
His dad was excited but said, “I could hear that one of the engines wasn’t running quite right”.
Heh.
I did that for my Dad, who had been a USAAC navigator in the war. There was another guy in the flight who had been a co-pilot. They shared some stories, had a great time.
And yeah, Dad said later that it was as noisy as he remembered, but he didn’t remember how small the inside was.
Yeah, its kind of shocking how many men were at risk to deliver a relatively paltry load of bombs.
That does sound like fun, especially if you get to drop actual bombs.
I’ve been in those bombers. They are much smaller than you imagine.
A flawless B17 flew over me at the golf course some Saturdays. You hear the four beasts growling and the silhouette is unmistakable, but until it’s right on you you’re rubbing your eyes and wondering if you’re dreaming.
I love old mechanical shit. Sliderules forever!
My uncle piloted 32 B-17 missions over Germany. He said sitting up front was like being in your coffin, but you had a window. You wouldn’t believe how drunk and hell-raising the crews got when then knew their next mission wouldn’t be for a number of days.
>>Laser Destroys Cancer Cells Circulating in the Blood
pew! pew!
Upon further review I amend my comment from yesterday about the UWNT crushing Thailand 13-0.
A friend made a good point. He said GD is irrelevant because the US are beyond dominant. It won’t come to that.
Call the dogs off and be classy.
I humbly concede the point.
Let’s see how Thailand fares against Sweden first.
Thai and Swedish women going at it?
What channel?
Fox Sports 1.
Rufus, Rufus , Rufus….
Never admitting defeat. This is why America wins, 13-0.
I can’t ever win.
/gently spins propeller on beanie cap.
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1139274549671989254?s=19
I mean, that argument is wrong due to the 16th amendment. “Unconstitutional” and “bad idea” are two separate things, and you can’t claim unconstitutional when the constitution was explicitly amended to allow the income tax.
I’ve heard that “income tax is voluntary” thing before. I have never understood what it is supposed to mean.
The only thing I ever heard was that it wasn’t actually ratified. I have no idea??
I recall something about ‘Income’ only meaning profits from investments, rent, etc… Wages weren’t considered ‘income’
Well that seems interesting. I wonder how long that definition was in use.
Four of the anti-US income tax arguments are that the word choice used by the IRS implies that payment is voluntary; the 16th Amendment was not properly ratified; the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th, but the 16th Amendment did not repeal anything contradicting it; and that today’s US income tax violates the legislative history of the 16th Amendment.
A quick spin through etymology and some legal definitions indicates that the argument that “income” didn’t include earnings for labor is wrong.
Every amendment supersedes prior inconsistent provisions of the Constitution.
You only go to legislative history when a statute is ambiguous or unclear. I don’t see that in the 16th Amendment.
I don’t see how anyone could read “The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed” as repealing the 16th Amendment.
Don’t let the issue of constitutional or not lead to overlooking the “bad idea” part.
Wesley Snipes and Willie Nelson would like a word.
The persecution of burrito chain Illegal Pete’s continues. Apparently, “illegal” is a word you can no longer say in any context, because politics-obsessed lunatics hear it and immediately connect anything said adjacent to it with the term “illegal alien,” and that’s an F-5 no-no.
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/360/some-see-illegal-petes-name-as-offensive-but-others-just-see-burritos
“The Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition disagrees and would like to see the restaurant change its name. The group believes the use of the word is dehumanizing and damaging to the community.
“For us it’s really a question of tact and using a word that has really been weaponized to dehumanize the undocumented community in Colorado and across the nation,” said Raquel Lane-Arellano, a policy manager for the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition.
Lane-Arellano doesn’t believe the word “illegal” has any place in a restaurant’s name, no matter the meaning behind it.
“I think it doesn’t matter what your reasoning is. I think we have to be aware of the words we use and the impact they have,” said Lane-Arellano.”
Bring back “Sambo’s”!
Some years back we had breakfast at the last remaining Sambo’s. The kid on the menu had a turban, blue eyes, a pink complexion, and rosy cheeks.
Pussies, we had a real Sambo’s – little black savage, tigers turning into butter, etc….
There is still one here in Santa Barabara. Sambos in Santa Barbara
This is crazy.
Crazy is offensive to the mentally challenged any advertisements saying their crazy for offering such low prices are hereby banned.
Also should change the name to Cuban Pete. I don’t think that’s offensive.
Ugh They’re *edit fairy*
You sure about that? These days who knows? Here in Quebec, there was a journalist for a big paper who argued that if you’re name is English, you shouldn’t have a business sign displaying it. So if you’re name is ‘Smith’ don’t call your establishment ‘Smith’s’.
Evil cunt.
Most Quebecers would probably think this excessive.
At least I hope.
Who knows these days anymore?
your
Obviously “Smith’s” is illegal. Just like “Tim Horton’s” would be.
Raquel Lane-Arellano.
/narrows gaze.
Is she legal?
I’d make it a point to eat at his establishment should I find myself in Denver again, but Mexican food in Denver is just regular food covered in that green chilli.
It’s basically Chipotle, but better.
There’s also the part where I hate Denver. It’s like LA, except red lights are optional, especially on days without snow.
Denver has more left lane bandits than LA, which is really saying something.
…and more bikers.
Bikers can be easily hosed out of the radiator grill.
“Bikers”
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVKsd8z6scw
Green chile is awesome. I don’t think Illegal Pete’s serves it though. The one in downtown Denver has a punk rock thing going.
The Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition can fuck right off.
New venture: “Wetback’s Bar & Grill” Motto: “You made it this far, enjoy the good life!”
Would Non-Documented Pete’s work?
1984 is a procedures manual not a work of dystopian fiction. Who knew?
(SLD) name your business anything you want but this Turner said his dad was a smart guy with a rebellious streak, so that’s how he decided on the name Illegal Pete’s. isn’t really much of an explanation.
I object to the name “immigrant rights center” for that advocacy group. I also object to immigrant being used for illegal aliens, along with undocumented. I am willing to forgo illegal in favor of undeported criminals. How about them apples?
But if you are guilty of just unlawful presence (via an overstay), you haven’t committed a crime. Unlawful presence is a civil penalty, unless we want to start calling everyone who has ever gotten a parking ticket a criminal.
everyone who has ever gotten a parking ticket a criminal
I’m ok with the bad boy image.
Unlawful Presence Pete’s is a mouthful.
Just like their burritos!
We are marketing geniuses. Let’s start a business! MulattoFree Industries.
Unlawful presence is a civil penalty,
Which does two things:
It means you can’t be jailed for it. Being deported isn’t being jailed, so it can be a civil offense.
The feds don’t have to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.
Is Legal Seafood still ok?
I support words which make purveyors of identity politics word-salad blow a gasket.
Well, I think it doesn’t matter what your reasoning is, Ms. Lane-Arellano. How do you like them apples?
SP and I have been binge-watching old episodes of Green Acres. “Wetback” is pretty commonly used. Expect that show to be memory-holed any day now.
Appropriate for binge watching Green Acres: chocolate chips, raisins, sardines, sour cream, sliced pickles, and cherries on cheese pizza.
We had hotscakes.
Hotscakes should not be taken internally.
How did Oliver Wendell Douglas make money as a lawyer? His ability is down here with such TV lawyers as Pamela Hinkley nee Davidson of Greatest American Hero and Lionel Hutz of The Simpsons. How long until the spending in excess of his farm income leads to burning through his money?
Don’t like the name, don’t eat there. Easy.
Weird day for me. As a long-suffering Blues fan, this is one of the greatest days of my life.
But I’ve got family (by marriage) in Hong Kong. My wife and I cried last night over watching the freedom of people being slowly ground out. One of, if not the, first time in post-WWII history of an almost completely free people becoming enslaved. Communism advanced before, but it usually took over from a shitty tin-pot dictatorship. This is a completely westernized, rule-of-law, rights-respecting, free-market city of 7.5 million people being dragged kicking and screaming into darkness…and there isn’t a single blessed thing anyone can really do to stop it. Over the years Hong Kong has made itself a beautiful, completely distinct identity separate from that of the mainland, and now that is going to be snuffed out forever, crushed by a nation too powerful to be forced to back down by anything we could do. I’m quite seriously sick to my stomach over it. I’m glad I’ve gotten to visit our family there the times that I have. I got to see it before the end.
I knew this was coming the day the brits let it go
I don’t know how anyone could not see it coming
Yup. I never thought it would end any other way. The Chi-Coms were never going to tolerate Hong Kong being different beyond the minimal amount necessary for it to be a cash cow.
But… 50 years of freedom – they pinky-sweared!
Oh we all knew it would happen, even if they made it all the way to the 50-year deadline in 2047 when legally all bets are off and the communists are allowed to roll the tanks in. Doesn’t make it any less painful for me to watch my wife & her family being visibly torn apart by it.
Same. I’m actually surprised that it took this long.
I’m pleased and somewhat surprised by the push-back. I agree it won’t change a thing, though. Can your folks get out of there?
Those discussions are starting. This is by far the most serious “push” by the communists since the hand-over; I think a lot of them were hoping before now that it would just be a lot of tough talk with no actual follow-through.
I have to agree it is a nightmare come to life
What a weird season for the Blues.
They should make a movie about it.
Serious.
There’s nothing but salt coming out of Boston. Comments on their fan sites are running 5-1 in favor of conspiracy theories about how much everyone outside of Boston is jealous of their greatness in all sports, and this was all a set-up narrative. The Blues are the dirtiest team ever, they should have been forced to forfeit for lack of players because every one of their checks was an illegal headshot that Toronto was instructing the refs to let go, every Boston check was clean as a whistle, and Brad Marchand is a saint. It’s nauseating.
I’ve even seen comments stating that wins by inferior teams “don’t count” because they just got lucky & got hot at the right time.
I’m drinking it all in like after the 2016 election.
If you’re a non-Boston hockey fan, this is the greatest thing ever:
https://twitter.com/JeffVeillette/status/1139000707829379072
Heh. I’m more anti-Marchand than anti-Boston.
That said, I changed the channel when the buzzer sounded and won’t give a second thought to hockey until next season.
Yeh, I was hard on Boston but I think it’s more that. Marchand made me hate them more than I should. Mcavoy, Pastrnak, Krug, Rask – just solid, likeable players. But as you can see, my formative years was in the hey day of the 70s, 80s and 90s when the Habs-Bruins rivalry was just about the best in pro sports. I miss it and maybe I’m just trying to subconsciously spark it here. I know Drake is a Bruins guy and don’t want to piss him off. Lol.
But then again, I can’t escape the Bruins I grew up with. And a few buddies who were die hard Bruins fans. Wanted to punch them. Lol. But they were way above my pay grade in terms of fighting skills. Sort of guys who would fight even if the odds were against them and knew they would lose.
I just want to mention I’ve been listening to NHL network and the guys who were covering the game, knowing full well the passion of Boston fans, said they observed Bruins fans congratulating Blues fans.
Kypreos also noticed one incident where he saw a group of fans converging but it ended well.
They’re ridiculous. They were the same way when the Habs were beating their asses from the 50s through to the 90s. Milbury, Linseman, Jonathan, O’Reilly etc. just a bunch of hot heads. No disrespect to Bourque, Orr, Espo and Ratelle! They thought they could push the Habs around and never did. Robinson, Gainey, Nilan, McPhee, Skrudland, Savard, Lapointe, Ferguson, Chelios etc. They took shit from no one including the Flyers. They played more finesse but when pushed in the corner, they came out swinging.
Big Bad Bruins always complaining. Still remember Sinden on Hockey Night in Canada talking about how the NHL wanted the Habs to win.
And that continued when that galloop almost killed Zednick and Chara purposely riding Pacioretty’s face into the side polls claiming those were ‘hockey plays’. Get the fuck out of here with that shit.
And for a team that has Brad Marchand claiming the high road here is rich beyond belief. I’ve watched him since juniors to junior Canada to the pros. Low class shit disturber of the worst kind. That guy would knee on knee, slew foot, cross check, spit, spear – anything. So much so people wondered if he should be on Team Canada’s junior team. But he’s a great talent so he was in.
The Bruins are good. A fantastic organization. They deserve respect. Always did even when they used to lose. But I could do without their holier than thou chirping and whining.
I met Stan Jonathan at a golf tournament my Dad played in. Shorter than me, but a very scary man and an excellent center. He wasn’t a hothead, but a certain Montreal thug should not have messed with him.
That was awesome. Pure rivalry. God bless linesman John D’Amico. That had to break so many of those up.
I know guys who have met Bruins alumni. All great guys I’m told. If Cherry vouches for them, then who am I to disagree?
Reading the comments I’m reminded about how loved Jonathan is/was. Memories of him (and Jay Miller) just flooded back. I may have been wrong about him being a hot head. Just a pure enforcer.
Miller was rough. Not go into the stands to fight fans crazy like O’Reilly and Cashman.
The Blues weren’t dirty. In fact, I think the Bruins behaved for the most part – even Chara the bully was alright.
It was good all round hockey and the Blues emerged victorious because, damn, they’re one physical team that exhausts you with their find and cycling game. Plus they have just the right amount of skill and finesse to bury you.
The Bruins will be back. Bergeron is just about as classy and perfect a hockey player as they come, Cassidy is a good coach and management is solid. i won’t miss Neely’s hissy fits though. I hate them but won’t mind if they win because well run organizations deserve to win.
I really liked the Blues make up. Plus I have Tarasenko and Pieterangelo in my pool.
I’d like to add, in the interest of fairness, Montreal hockey fans have become every bit as absurd and ridiculous.
I don’t know what happened but man something got lost in the last decade or so.
The Blues had their dirty moments.
The game last night was pretty solid, though. Damn few whistles, a great pace and a cool result.
Barbashev is a bit borderline but Bruins faithful seem to think special teams should settle this series.
I didn’t particularly find them nasty. Rough sure but meh.
Whatever they could dish out, the Bruins can take and give back.
Krug’s run down without his helmet was fantastic. Could have ended ugly but fun nonetheless. I don’t think I ever saw a defence man skate from one end without his helmet to go hunt down a player at the other end.
God I’m obnoxious. Lol.
how much everyone outside of Boston is jealous of their greatness in all sports
Are you really telling me that’s not true? To a great extent, non-Boston sports fans hate Boston teams because of so many championships this century. Of course. Nobody hides it. Sure, Boston fans are more than happy to bring this up. It’s understandable that others won’t like it.
I am happy for the Blues, but am sad for HK.
There have been a bunch of articles today about the risk to everyone there, even non residents.
Fuck China.
I’ve been to forty-odd countries etc (with a decade-plus living in “human resource rich countries”) – and old Hong Kong was one of my favourites. Fuck the ChiComs.
MArk levin ripping uncle Bernie now
Reading Soviet constitution to show sanders platform is identical
Sorry mark you aren’t the first to notice I called it months ago
It’ll work this time.
Which version is he reading?
He probably just cut and pasted it into his platform statement. Why tamper with perfection?
There’s no fool like an old fool.
This oppo research stuff is hilarious. CNN is actually crying on the radio right now
Getting them all on record denying Clinton did it will come on handy for future popcorn-sessions.
I wonder if Trump is just setting up a “Hell, Hillary actually commissioned oppo research by foreign governments, and you’re complaining that I might accept it for free? Would you feel better if I paid for it like she did?”
Without a doubt. And he’s sitting on all the details waiting for the right time to lob that bomb. Probably sometime during impeachment proceedings.
He is a master baiter.
Oh boy:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oil-tanker-attack-fire-gulf-of-oman-likely-iran-us-official-says-today-2019-06-13-live-updates/
War with Iran anyone (Pompeo is saying they did it)?
My gut feeling is it’s a false flag but who knows. Too early, if ever to tell.
The Iranian regime are fanatics but they aren’t suicidal. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if this is cooked up BS.
I’d say they did it. They are fanatics and they’ve been making all sorts of shit threats because their Obamacare got cut off.
At this point, I wouldn’t even go more than 50% that either side did it. Total coin toss. They are all stupid enough to do it, and can all think of ways that it might be to their advantage.
Sure, it’s to their advantage, because of oil price speculation. Oil prices spiked right after that, when they had been poised to fall. Also, Iran’s Mullahs are suicidal assholes.
Assholes, certainly, but I have to disagree with the suicidal part. In my estimation the very fact they use proxies to engage in shenanigans proves that to be incorrect. If they weren’t rational actors they’d have directly attacked Israeli interests years ago.
Proxies have a weakness – they are harder to control. Could have been Quds, could have been Iranian proxies, could have been Saudi or their pals. Hell it could have been the CIA, trying to get out from under a possible shitstorm from the post-Mueller investigation and do a little empire building. The CIA would love them a war with Iran, just for the budget and career advancement opportunities.
It does some particularly stupid for Iran to attack Japanese vessels while hosting the Japanese PM for diplomatic talks. On other hand, it could be that they mined things well ahead of time, and just had some really bad luck. Or good luck, if they end up getting away it precisely because it seems more plausible as a false flag than an actual attack.
What? It’s not like we’ve ever gone to war over a fake naval attack before.
Remember the Maine!
What the hell did BlackPigeon do to get deplatformed? IMHO his stuff was as inoffensive as one could be, even when addressing potentially controversial topics.
Disagree with the the Red Guards?
He’s hardly alone.
“Today is National Pigeon Day. It honors Cher Ami, a carrier pigeon that valiantly completed its World War I mission to deliver military intelligence to the U.S. Army in France, even after being shot and suffering a partially severed limb. It succumbed to its injuries several months later on June 13, 1919.”
https://www.worldwideweirdholidays.com/national-pigeon-day/
I’ve always liked this story, but the pessimist in me thinks it’s mostly war propaganda.
The story claims the bird saved the soldiers from the Germans but in reality it saved them from friendly fire.
“We are along the road paralell to 276.4. Our own artillery is dropping a barrage directly on us. For heavens sake stop it.”
He liked using footage of POCs overrunning border checkpoints as a backdrop for his anti mass immigration in Europe videos. That probably triggered some people and they found a way to get him booted. Or maybe it was because he used Morrissey for his intro music.
I think I’ll just stop here for the night. Three bourbons in. My daughter is in exams and i’m pretending to stress along with her.
Did you tell her school isn’t a place for smart people?
But she has to go. We have no choice.
I don’t like the racist card she pulled though the other day. She’s being fed some SJW BS so I have to monitor this.
She knows better with me.
Serves you right for adopting a black girl.
But she has to go. We have no choice.-
2 words. Mountain. Shanty.
McAfee uses six
Shallow Thoughts by Trigger Handy
*Imagine if you will, a minority that identifies as [redacted] lives in a community that is overwhelmingly not [redacted]. This person peacefully and voluntarily makes weekly purchases at a local store. Unbeknownst to that person, the store owner secretly hates, for whatever reason, [redacted] people like that person.
Now imagine if you will, a store owner who is very successful and hates people who are [redacted] but isn’t legally allowed to refuse them service. So instead, the store owner, being in a stable financial situation, earmarks all money gained from people who are [redacted] and funnels it to groups, politicians, media outlets, and other fellow travelers with the sole purpose of causing a person or people who are [redacted] as much harm as possible, by legal means or not.
Welcome to the dark underbelly of public accommodation laws.
*I recently stumbled upon a real life example of this in my peer group
Do The Not Right Thing?
I don’t know what to do, seeing as how I can’t prove the illegal aspect. It’s really just hearsay so far. Regardless, it bugs me that bigots can’t legally let their freak flag fly. Call me old fashioned but, I’d like to know when a business owner hates my guts for whatever arbitrary reason so I can spend my money elsewhere.
Certain inner city barber shops will tell you to your face.
I don’t see anything illegal anywhere in that, except for the part where the store owner may be funding illegal activities. And that’s illegal regardless of his/her/its motivation/bigotry, or the source of the funds.
Oh, I’m not suggesting that most of those activities are or should be illegal. My point was that public accommodation laws make people unwitting dupes who help finance the people who quietly undermined their rights.
My 1st BIF review – Lake Placid Craft Brewing Co. Ubu Ale – If you like big roasted malty beer this is the beer for you. For the big wallop of malt up front it finishes relatively clean with a little hop bitterness. Nicely done.
re: brussel sprouts, I did in fact have them last night, halved and tossed in oil. But I forgot to trim them first. It’s like delicious morsels of tender steak shot through with inedible chunks of gristle.
“Virginia Public High School Bans Students From Picking A White Male Scientist For Biography Project
Yorktown High School, a public school in Arlington, Virginia, handed out a physics assignment instructing students to pick a famous scientist, engineer, or inventor to focus on for a biographical project. But the assignment came with a catch: Students are not allowed to choose a “white, non-Hispanic male.”
The assignment states: “Your inventor should share at least one marker of identity with you. However, they cannot be a white, non-Hispanic male. Reason: Our textbooks and schooling is filled with famous while male scientists & engineers. It gives the impression that nobody else (female, persons of color) has contributed to science. This Eurocentric view is false…””
https://twitter.com/Mark_J_Perry/status/1139234836063895553
Are Jews white?
Shrodinger’s Wypipo.
I gave up after Hispanics are white if a huge black guy is trying to kill them.
Well, if I were assigned that, I might have hand in nothing.
*googles Mexican Scientists*
Heh. Maybe not.
Finally, someone you can identify with!
Jajaja, I hope some shitlord in the class goes for it. Nice find.
“Are Jews white?”
Well, all of the ones around here are some shade of white. Just maybe not the wrong shade. But according to ‘liberals’, JOOS, so probably one of the bad shades of white.
Pick a not-famous white male who isn’t in the textbook. Take the F. Sue.
We are witnessing the death of higher education, right before our very eyes. The enlightenment is over, the new dark ages is nigh.
Your use of the present tense is misguided. The past tense is appropriate here.
What’s a “marker of identity”?
You know, a yellow six point star, a pink triangle, that kind of stuff.
I thought those were just pieces of flair?
Any Nazi woman scientists?
Uh, shouldn’t they be learning about physics in physics? Not saying that learning about physicists is bad or anything (except as executed here), but it’s more of a historical subject that has implications for physics, not physics itself. The truth is the truth, regardless who discovers it. But then again, maybe that’s what bothers them.
“Finally, fuck you cancer! We have lasers now!”
Unfortunately, we also have the FDA. So, it’s not happening no matter how well it works.
Revolutionary scientists are now working on “laser FDA removal.”
God speed to them. And I know many researchers who will agree.
Whatever happened to Mr. Lizard, anyway?
Sure it will! It’ll just be dragged through a byzantine set of rules and regulations that forbid test studies on terminal cancer patients with nothing to lose and be scrutinized and second guessed for years on end before being approved; thus killing thousands of people unnecessarily.
“thus killing thousands of people unnecessarily.”
Or millions.
*pours glass of bourbon*
*starts chanting “one more day, one more day”*
I finished book three of the Cthulhu casebooks by James Lovegrove tonight, the series was a fun read. I’m kind of sad it’s over.
“Vox Writer Confused After Trump’s Tractor, Internet Claims. Iowa Senator Sets The Record Straight.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/48364/vox-writer-confused-after-trumps-tractor-internet-ashe-schow
A confused Vox writer? Unpossible.
Who’s this “we” you’re talking about? Maybe farmers can secure their own damn broadband.
Midwestern farmers are some of this country’s most successful tax leeches. Some people here in flyover country take offense when I say this but I hold to it.
I remember this shit with land-lines when I was a kid. And of course it goes way back.
I used to give Pater Dean’s farmer/rancher buddies shit for being welfare queens. They couldn’t really deny it.
Vox readers even more confused after reading that headline.
“Genetically-enhanced fungus kills mosquitoes with spider venom”
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1138960450832539650
https://nypost.com/2019/06/11/genetically-enhanced-fungus-kills-mosquitoes-with-spider-venom
What could possibly go wrong?
Zombie apocalypse?
I sorta look forward to one…
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
On one hand I hate those blood suckers, on the other hand that is a bit creepy.
THEM!
So if a mosquito eats the mushroom, then bites me before it dies, I’ll grow fangs?
Cool.
“Sweden what the fuck
“The use of explosives in the Nordic country is now at a level that is unique in the world for a state not at war, according to police.””
https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1138959829941313537
“It’s Time for Sweden to Admit Explosions Are a National Emergency”
https://quillette.com/2019/06/11/its-time-for-sweden-to-admit-explosions-are-a-national-emergency/
Doesn’t sound to me like Sweden isn’t at war. Just that that they won’t admit it.
Andy why are we calling these “explosions”? Aren’t they more precisely (and thus accurately) called “bombings”?
They are apparently attributed to “gang” violence, which is in a mysterious upswing. Do I smell a euphemism (and not the good kind)?
Doesn’t most gang violence involve the use of explosions? I mean, generally the explosion is used to propel a small projectile…
If I remember right (and I could be wrong) powders used in modern ammunition are technically incendiary, not explosive. Of course, they both create a lot of hot gas very quickly which forces the bullet out of the barrel, so it’s kind of a distinction without a difference.
Depends. If you pour a small pile of smokeless powder on, say, an ant bed, and light it, it just burns really quickly.
Don’t ask me how I know that.
I learn so much here.
They just need common sense “explosives” control.
That’s just cultural enrichment. They should be grateful.
Article about a guy trying to get out of his timeshares that portrays him as someone who won’t let companies rip him off
The guy is a “certified fraud examiner”, yet he fell for the timeshare pitch three times (at least). He then hired a company to unload the timeshares. If there’s any company that might be as sleazy as a timeshare company, it’s the ones that claim they can get you out from a timeshare (for a fee, of course).
So, he’s upset with the timeshare-exit company because it only got him out of two of the three timeshares so far. Frankly, I’m amazed that they got him out of any timeshares.
And it looks like he signed up for a new “timeshare” in the process: The expense included signing up for the no-title Florida Vacation Villas Club, which the couple plans to use and has minimal annual fees. Dumbass, that’s basically a timeshare by another name. I got one of those pitches once. It’s not a timeshare. Sure sounds like one. Oh no, this is different. Sure. No thanks.
This article is so full of stupid it made my head hurt.
Dammit! Looks like the link didn’t work. Here it is:
https://www.freep.com/story/money/personal-finance/susan-tompor/2019/06/13/get-out-timeshare-exit-companies/1380140001/
Heh, sounds like an Always Sunny episode:
https://youtu.be/YB1NCuvYPpM
LOL. I’ve ever watched Always Sunny. Maybe I need to.
Remind me of the MCSE I knew who got his account hacked via a simple phishing email. Twice.