Friday Afternoon Links

Hey guys, I hope no one here is as hungover as my wife. She had an excellent 4th of July, and I suspect the first hour or so of the 5th were pretty fun, too, but now… Grumpy.

Slate grudgingly admits that the whole 4th of July thing was not quite the third act of The Wall.

Modern day slavery in the UK. Insert Polack joke… well, its really not funny.

Man, I knew teledildonics was going to be huge. Shoulda, woulda, coulda.

Good news, more armed good guys in school. Bad news, police training.

 

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208 responses to “Friday Afternoon Links”

  1. Modern day slavery in the UK. Insert Polack joke… well, its really not funny.

    Actually were Poles? Usually when you see these modern slavery in western countries stories, the perpretrators tend to be from lower lattitudes.

    1. Urthona

      And I bet they’re so relaxed and sipping Coronas they don’t even realize they’re enslaved.

  2. Donation Not Taxation

    OT: Brett L, according to http://laws.flrules.org/ there re 168 new laws in Florida, not 20. You may want to look at the list to see which ones a hypothetical Florida Man would want to break for fun. However, breaking laws is illegal, and I would never be an accessory before the fact in encouraging people to not be law abiding citizens.

    1. Not an Economist

      Speaking of Florida Man

      1. Donation Not Taxation

        There are the other 49 states and there is Florida. Imagine living in a state populated by Florida Men, Florida Women, Florida Children, Florida Nonbinaries, and Florida wildlife.

  3. Yusef drives a Kia

    Bad news, police training.
    At least they will get home safe at night………

    1. BLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAM?

  4. Gustave Lytton

    The Utah school psychologist weaved through a maze of dusty halls before spotting him in the corner of a classroom, holding a gun to a student’s head. She took a deep breath and fired three shots, the first time she’s ever used a gun.

    Maybe a shoot house isn’t the place to learn to operate and fire a firearm? Good on Utah though that they don’t need to affirmatively arm teachers, just stop prohibiting them and others from lawfully carrying if they choose.

    1. Donation Not Taxation

      It is not that simple. The risky places for mass murder by firearm are places that are declared but not properly enforced ‘gun free zones.’ The problem with declassifying schools from ‘gun free zone’ status is that because the gun laws in the US prohibit children from carrying concealed firearms, and because the people who work in government schools are predominantly of the persuasion that are of high risk of having hoplophobia, a hypothetical government school that is not a ‘gun free one’ would still be a target rich environment, or if you prefer, would have a weaker deterrent of opposing fire.

      1. Donation Not Taxation

        would have a weaker deterrent of opposing fire than most places of public gathering that are not ‘gun free.’

      2. leon

        In Utah it’s not too hard to find a teacher who likes to shoot.

  5. Cacciatore

    But we will ignore the sex slavery carried out in our country by the Religion of Peace ™ because reasons.

    1. Warty

      Who let a fucking guido in here?

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        is he Chicken?

      2. Los Doyers

        Being cuckolded by a virile Pakistani imam is a common kink in terrone culture.

      3. Cacciatore

        As it happens I’m Irish. I just thought it would make a decent handle. Posted as Jake W. on TOS.

      4. Tundra

        We prefer ‘dago’ or ‘wop’, schifoso.

    2. bacon-magic

      Cacciatore was my mother’s favorite Italian meal. Hey wait a minute…are you my dad? *puppy dog eyes and outstretched arms*

      1. Tundra

        My Grandmother made the most amazing Cacciatore. Over polenta.

        Damn.

        *misses Grandma*

      2. Cacciatore

        If I’m your dad you’re the youngest glib.

  6. invisible finger

    “Modern day slavery in the UK. ”

    Were they forced to vote for ‘Remain’, too?

  7. What sort of delivery guy doesn’t even bother to knock or push the doorbell before rushing off? The kind that leans a 90 pound box marked ‘fragile’ against the storm door that opens outward.

    1. Sean

      Is it something Italian?

      1. No, it’s an air conditioner.

        1. DenverJ

          Replacing the window unit or adding to it?

    2. Yusef drives a Kia

      those kind, you know, Morons…..

    3. I have some delivery apes that just stick the package in the middle of my driveway, right in the car’s path. Thankfully I haven’t run one over yet.

      1. Nephilium

        Some of the delivery guys decide to hide the package by our side door… behind the bushes. It’s not a door we use frequently (attached garage), and the girlfriend has a habit of ordering things and then not following the tracking information. Some of our delivery guys have gone the extra mile, and dropped stuff off by the patio door, which means they carried it all the way around the house and the garage to drop it off.

        1. Spudalicious

          Does your girlfriend tend to sunbathe nude on the patio?

          1. Nephilium

            Negative, and there really isn’t much sun back there. Corner lot, so there’s a house next to it, combined with a huge old oak tree overhead provides lots of shade.

      2. Florida Man

        I had the delivery guy drop 3 French doors on a pallet in the middle of my driveway. I was waiting around all day for them and decided to just go run some errands and found it. They didn’t even ring the door bell. Scumbags

    4. DEG

      One who works for the USPS or UPS?

  8. Donation Not Taxation

    “Hey guys, I hope no one here is as hungover as my wife. She had an excellent 4th of July, and I suspect the first hour or so of the 5th were pretty fun, too, but now… Grumpy.”
    A not uncommon aftereffect of chemically induced Dopey. Let us all hope it does not take too long for her to get Happy. At least she did not partake enough to need Doc.

    “Slate grudgingly admits that the whole 4th of July thing was not quite the third act of The Wall.”
    I will take your word for it. It sounds like Mrs. Brett L had a more enjoyable way to melt her brain.

    “Modern day slavery in the UK. Insert Polack joke… well, its really not funny.”
    FTA: “false promises of well-paid work.” Lying for commercial gain = fraud.
    FTA: “In one instance, a man who complained about poor pay and living conditions HAD HIS ARM BROKEN [emphasis added], was given no medical care, then ejected from the lodgings. Another was forced to remove his clothes and threatened with the REMOVAL OF HIS KIDNEYS [emphasis added] if he did not keep quiet about the situation.” Even if you are in favor of no labor laws and in favor of open borders, this goes beyond civilized employer-employee labor relations.

    “Man, I knew teledildonics was going to be huge. Shoulda, woulda, coulda.”
    It is not too late. This news is about a conference involving speculation about.

    “Good news, more armed good guys in school. Bad news, police training.”
    Good summary. I read the article and I do not have anything to add right now to Brett L’s summary.

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      Fuck off Tulpa!

      1. Donation Not Taxation

        Hey, Yusef, are your tall cans up or down right now?

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          I’m having this,
          https://photos.app.goo.gl/gsRudChhhA2FGypW7
          a tasty IRA, not the Irish kind,

          1. Donation Not Taxation

            Non Irish whisky. Copy that.

    2. Rhywun

      Even if you are […] in favor of open borders

      I’m guessing there will be fewer of those in Britain now. The Remainers are probably huddled together wondering how long they’ll have to wait for this to blow over before they re-start yammering about another referendum.

      1. Donation Not Taxation

        IMHO, the Remainers’ bigger problems right now is how to keep the UK in the EU in November 2019 onward and not have an early election, and failing that, what to do so that an early election will not result in less political power for the Remainers.

    3. Donation Not Taxation

      The AP article Brett L linked to does not quote anyone saying that most law enforcement should be unarmed, reserving arming for the elite within law enforcement, like they do in fill-in-the-blank civilized country that is not the United States.

  9. bacon-magic

    I couldn’t find the Slate article through all the “Trump said airports hurr durr” articles on google news.

  10. ron73440

    The Utah school psychologist weaved through a maze of dusty halls before spotting him in the corner of a classroom, holding a gun to a student’s head. She took a deep breath and fired three shots, the first time she’s ever used a gun. One bullet pierced the shooter’s forehead.

    What the hell kind of half-assed training is it where the first time you shoot a gun is in scenario training?

    You should get familiarization training and range time before you do anything like that.

    1. ron73440

      Overall, it’s definitely a positive step.

      Much better than keeping the students and staff helpless.

    2. Scruffy Nerfherder

      It’s the kind where you blow your fingers off or drop the gun off after firing.

    3. Donation Not Taxation

      The scary question is whether or not in Utah the law enforcement cadets also are expected to discharge firearms for their first times in a shoothouse.

    4. R C Dean

      Where did the other two bullets go?

      1. ron73440

        That thought occurred to me as well, maybe the one in the forehead was a lucky hit?

      2. leon

        Why did you feel little Susie deserved to die?

        1. Florida Man

          Looks at those books!

  11. Tres Cool

    “..slavery in the UK”

    Of course I immediately thought of this.

  12. Yusef drives a Kia

    here’s a fun hybrid,
    Wreak havoc Imperial Red Ale, 8.5% Abv,
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/gsRudChhhA2FGypW7
    So far Bootstrap brewery has made the best types and styles I have had out here,
    Cheers!

    1. Tres Cool

      HEY YUFUS!
      I’m still working through my midsummer cold, so you can have my TALL CANS.

    2. DEG

      Looks good.

  13. Scruffy Nerfherder

    It is freaking hot.

    1. Florida Man

      It’s only 96 right now.

      1. Rhywun

        Down to 80 here but the humidity is oppressive.

        1. Florida Man

          Only 52 percent humidity. I was surprised it’s that low since it stormed yesterday.

        2. Raven Nation

          Hmm, 82, 18% humidity. Down to 52 tonight.

          1. Tundra

            Perfect.

            75, rainy, 86% humidity and 70 dewpoint. Down to 62 tonight.

            Bleh.

        3. Not Adahn

          91. Tomorrow is supposed to be worse, with “Florida-lik”e humidity and intermittent downpours.

  14. Donation Not Taxation

    OT: To what temperature do you freeze beer so that it can be breaded and deep fried without liquefying? Assuming that it works, how do you prepare he result so that someone can safely sample it? What beer do you recommend ruining by this preparation? “You know I like my chicken fried cold beer on a Friday night.”

    1. Nephilium

      First, you don’t freeze beer. It’s just a bad idea. Second, it’ll depend on the ABV of the beer. Third, breading would not be the appropriate thing unless you really like grease fires.

      The deep fried beer I’ve heard of was about a teaspoon wrapped and sealed in a pretzel like dough, which was then fried.

      1. ron73440

        I’ve frozen beer before.

        In my younger days I would drink through what was cold and get drunk, decide that if I put one in the freezer it’ll be cold quick enough.

        Next morning there is a frozen exploded beer up there.

        Never tried to deep fry it, however.

      2. Donation Not Taxation

        I did acknowledge that the beer would be ruined. You are correct about breading in a deep fryer.

  15. Stinky Wizzleteats

    John Cleese gives a sensible interview and talks sensible sense:

    https://youtu.be/Wfhv7scSBQE

    He also says something negative about female genital mutilation so he’s doomed.

    1. Rhywun

      TL;WW but that sounds better than some of the decidedly less sensible things he’s said in recent years.

      1. Stinky Wizzleteats

        He got brutalized in the press recently for saying London isn’t an English city anymore and he seems to have taken a lesson from it. He says if Jordan Peterson is being attacked by the same bunch that attacked me he must be a good chap and the like.

        1. Rhywun

          He got brutalized in the press recently for saying London isn’t an English city anymore

          Ah yes, I remember that now.

          I’m going back a few years. He blathered a bunch of bog-standard lefty claptrap about something or other – don’t remember the details. I remember thinking “Nooooo!!”

        2. Drake

          Let’s ask Mayor Khan…

          1. kbolino

            Despite what the outrage brigade insinuated, it wasn’t about race.

            I suspect I should apologize for my affection for the Englishness of my upbringing, but in some ways I found it calmer, more polite, more humorous, less tabloid, and less money oriented than the one that is replacing it.

    2. Yusef drives a Kia

      Very interesting, He’s one of the greatest,
      Thank!

    3. Suthenboy

      I don’t think he gives a shit

  16. Juvenile Bluster

    It’s new anime season time in Japan! Let’s see the fucked up stuff the Japanese minds have thought of this season. This isn’t really that bad compared to other seasons; could only find a couple to note.

    Kawaikereba Hentai demo Suki ni Natte Kuremasu ka/strong> (rough translation: Are you willing to fall in love with a pervert, as long as she’s a cutie?): Once upon a time, Cinderella left her panties in a boy’s locker…wait, what?! Keiki Kiryu receives a mysterious love letter, that has no name, but includes a pair of white undies. Curious to find this panty-leaving-Cinderella, his investigation leads him to discover that every candidate is…a total pervert! Surrounded by perversion he still has one important question to answer: who’s the perfect fit?

    Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo: The girls in a high school literature club do a little icebreaker to get to know each other: answering the question, “What’s one thing you want to do before you die?” One of the girls blurts out, “Sex.” Little do they know, the whirlwind unleashed by that word pushes each of these girls, with different backgrounds and personalities, onto their own clumsy, funny, painful, and emotional paths toward adulthood.

    1. Gustave Lytton

      Wait, the guy hanging onto some girl’s panties and trying to find the owner isn’t the pervert?

    2. Sensei

      I just watched Araburu Kisetsu. Right now I can recommend. It seems to be an relatively honest look at how sexuality awakens in HS. Too many character and too compressed to be real, but it is actually thoughtful so far.

      Only first episode of course.

      That particular summary is really crappy in my opinion.

  17. Rhywun

    Trump did not […] attack Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, or Bette Midler

    Well I’m glad I didn’t waste my time watching it, in that case.

  18. Atanarjuat

    Holy Shit. Where is Pro Libertate? If he didn’t coin the term teledildonics, he was using it years before I saw it anywhere else. I hope he’s enjoying his stock returns.

  19. DEG

    From the sidebar of the sex robots story, Kevin Spacey lawsuit dropped:

    Kevin Spacey has had his lawsuit dropped against him by his accuser, who claimed the actor groped him in a Nantucket bar in 2016.

    The man’s attorney, Mitchell Garabedian, announced in an email today that the lawsuit, which was filed on June 26, had been voluntarily dismissed.

    No reason was provided either by Garabedian or the court, and the attorney added he would have no final comment.

    Spacey still faces a criminal charge.

    I expected more of this from the Utah teacher’s article. Only one paragraph of fear mongering about armed teachers? Sheesh.

    “Are police tasking teachers to perform a law enforcement responsibility by arming them to protect others? We have to be cautious of what we ask people to do in these traumatic, stressful situations,” said Ken Trump, a school safety expert with the National School Safety and Security Services consulting firm.

    1. ron73440

      “Are police tasking teachers to perform a law enforcement responsibility by arming them to protect others? We have to be cautious of what we ask people to do in these traumatic, stressful situations,” said Ken Trump, a school safety expert with the National School Safety and Security Services consulting firm.

      Because a building full of helpless people has a much better outcome.

      1. ron73440

        And since when is self defense a law enforcement task?

      2. Donation Not Taxation

        “Ken Trump, a school safety expert with the National School Safety and Security Services consulting firm.”
        What do you suppose is Trump’s preferred solution for dealing with an “active shooter” in a government school?

        1. Gustave Lytton

          I really don’t give a shit, because schools are a local matter, not a federal one.

          1. Tonio

            Thousands of bureaucrats at the US Dept of Ed would like a word, and to continue their phoney-baloney jobs.

          2. Tres Cool

            “give the governor harrumph!”

          3. DEG

            Sorry, I just tried to come up with something snarky about Reagan and the Department of Education, but I couldn’t. It’s just too sad.

          4. Rhywun

            “Hey, I tried.”

          5. Donation Not Taxation

            Not according to the clause in the Constitution of the United States of America authorizing the Congress to create and fund with taxes or borrowing a U.S. Department of Education.

          6. Gustave Lytton

            *bows to the hidden ink version of the Constitution*

      3. Don Escaped Texas

        Protecting others isn’t a price obligation

        Gonzalez v Castle Rock

    2. Gustave Lytton

      Ken Trump, a school safety expert with the National School Safety and Security Services consulting firmgrifter employed by a company of grifters that’s meal ticket is threatened by allowing teachers to carry

      1. ron73440

        Ken Trump, a school safety expert with the National School Safety and Security Services consulting firmgrifter employed by a company of grifters that’s meal ticket is threatened by allowing teachers to carry

        100% true.

      2. Tonio

        I suspect that the teachers have their back on this. Most teachers are progs, think guns are icky, don’t want to be around them, and shit themselves at the thought that they might have to undergo any sort of firearms training even if they are not required to be armed.

    3. Rhywun

      #believehim

      Well, I didn’t believe he plied that kid with liquor in front of his mom, if I remember the accusation correctly.

    4. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

      It may sound a little too pro-police to say this, but it always seems to me that the people who complain most about cops in schools went to schools where you didn’t need cops around. I use to volunteer with at-risk youths and the stories they told just about going to school on any given day was terrifying. The ideal solution would be vouchers, but white urban progressives hate that because they don’t want poor black kids attending their schools in their gated communities

      1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

        It should also be noted that these kids were the ones who demanded that the school district assign cops to schools. The district eventually relented.

        So, maybe this issue shouldn’t be viewed as so cut and dry. If there are public schools that everyone is forced to attend (unless you are lucky enough to afford private school or your parents have the luxury to homeschool) seems more than reasonable to insist that some amount of security be provided. Especially from other kids themselves

        1. kbolino

          If there are students whose mere presence requires a full time security staff to protect the rest, then it seems they should not be in the school in the first place. There may be a need for security to protect the students from outside threats (although that should probably be addressed in other ways too), but turning a school into a jail makes it a shitty school and a shitty jail.

      2. kbolino

        white urban progressives hate that because they don’t want poor black kids attending their schools in their gated communities

        I don’t think that’s it. White urban progressives are in the educated professionals tribe and that tribe’s most sacred vocation is teaching in a government school. Vouchers give students and their families the power of choice, which the sacred vocation’s high ministry has decreed heretical.

        1. Akira

          Vouchers give students and their families the power of choice, which the sacred vocation’s high ministry has decreed heretical.

          Not to mention the very explicit profit motive that “progressives” have in keeping kids in government schools…

          More kids in government schools means more staff allocated to that school. More staff means more people paying into the teacher’s union. More dues-paying members means more profits for the union, and more profits for the union means more money donated to the Democrat Party. More Democrats in office means more roadblocks to private schools. More roadblocks to private schools means more kids in government schools. Rinse and repeat.

          1. kbolino

            It’s worth noting that vouchers typically pay out less than the per-pupil spending of a school district. On paper, every student who takes a voucher is a net boon for the school system they’re leaving. But in reality, the spending distribution of a school district is Pareto, and the students who take the vouchers are usually the ones who don’t cost much to teach.

    5. kbolino

      Are police tasking teachers to perform a law enforcement responsibility by arming them to protect others?

      Peelian principle #7:

      To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

  20. Today I caught two creek chubs and a roll of mortified birch bark off the bottom of a pool.

    Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      YOU’RE STEALING OUR FISH!

      1. I threw them back, so they are technically still your fish.

    2. Yusef drives a Kia

      a bad day fishing is always a good day, good luck tomorrow,

    3. Tundra

      How’s the scenery?

      1. Wet and drippy. Otherwise, nice. We went through lots of pretty country today.

        1. Tundra

          That’s my new criteria. I may get skunked, but I need to see some cool shit.

          Good luck tomorrow!

          1. ME too – a lesson from my Dad and both grandfathers. Just being out is reward enough.

    4. Tonio

      Now you got me thinking about birch bark canoes.

      1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

        Really? He had me thinking about Birch Gold. That’s weird

      2. Tundra

        They only made those because they couldn’t make cedar strip ones.

      3. Tulip

        No, you want a Seliga if you can find and afford one.

        1. Tundra

          Yes. $4K buys you a pretty sweet canoe!

          1. I still have the 17′ aluminum canoe I bought when I was 14. The thing is about as heavy as a WWII Fletcher-class destroyer but will carry 2-3 people and enough gear to keep you in the woods for a couple of weeks.

            There’s enough history involving me and that canoe to produce two or three more Allamakee County Chronicles stories.

          2. Tundra

            Ugh. My first bunch of trips to the BWCA were in a stupid Grumman that seemed to weigh as much as me.

            Great memories, yes, but I’ll take the kevlar beauty I can lift and carry by myself!

            I’d read those stories, fwiw.

          3. I did the BWCA twice! First time with a group, probably 1975 or so, second time was solo, I was 16, so, probably 1978.

            When I was a kid I had the habit of disappearing into the woods for several days at a time. That second BWCA trip, it was two weeks. Mom fretted some about it, but Dad always took an even strain. “He’ll come home when he gets hungry,” he would tell Mom, and as usual, he was right.

          4. Tulip

            My brother put himself through college by working as a canoe guide in the BWCA

  21. AlmightyJB

    I don’t think you’ve missed the teledildonics train. Jump on now! Slavery not what it used to be. Who else was going to hire the louts?

  22. Lackadaisical

    “I knew teledildonics was going to be huge”
    Not everyone is a size queen, I’m sure some Tele dildonics will be moderately sized.

    1. AlmightyJB

      I’m happy to help with the trials.

  23. AlmightyJB

    Please don’t give the teachers Glocks. They’ll be just like the cops who can’t handle the trigger. DA only.

      1. Tres Cool

        I knew what it was before I clicked. And it just never gets old.

      2. AlmightyJB

        Glock 22 .40 is my nightstand gun:) Taking it to the range tomorrow.

  24. Drake

    Anyone here seriously considering going to DC tomorrow?

    ANTIFA plans acid attacks on D.C. Free Speech Rally, saying goal is to blind attendees

    I’ll wager the DC police do as little as possible to deal with them. One of these days, this shit is going to turn lethal.

    1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

      If you’re attending this and you’re not armed then I have no idea what you’re thinking

      1. Why would you attend it armed?

        1. DEG

          Given it is in DC, attending armed is a good way to get arrested.

          Unless you are Antifa that is.

        2. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

          Was that a serious question?

          1. Yes, why attend something that requires you to be armed? Safest bet – stay home.

          2. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

            I’m not going. I’m saying if someone is going they should be armed. And I think the talking point “don’t exercise your right to free speech because some thugs are going to start trouble” is cancerous bullshit. The heckler’s veto is the mark of a totalitarian society. Exercise your right to free speech, but be aware that you’ll need to exercise your right to defend yourself as well.

          3. Fair enough, I was going to post that I don’t think freedom of speech is threatened enough to justify wasting a fool but that’s the point isn’t it? As soon as we won’t defend it it’s lost. I rescind my snark and endorse the policy of attending free speech rallies with the means and wherewithal to punish (lethally if one must) anyone willing to violently interfere with the rally.

          4. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

            From my own standpoint, I’m not going to attend, because I don’t know the people and I’m not interested in associating with them. But, I would never tell someone that their protest is bad or wrong or they shouldn’t do it, because criminals will assault them. That fact just instinctually makes me more defensive of a person’s right to speak.

            A movie that I watched when I was younger that had a profound impact on me was “Skokie”. That really was the high water mark for liberalism which is essentially a dead philosophy now, if we’re being honest

          5. Again agreed, I made a quick and ill thought out point above.

          6. leon

            So more, why go somewhere you feel the need to be armed at.

            I get it, though I think people attending a free speech rally might bristle at an attempt to intimidate them from not expressing support for free speech.

          7. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

            The argument doesn’t make sense. It’s an attempt to drape the heckler’s veto as just sensible. I’m certain it would not be said if the principles were different

      2. Drake

        I’m imagining putting on a helmet, goggles. gas mask, vest, illegal concealed weapons… and somewhere in the process asking “what the hell am I doing?” Then sitting by the pool the rest of the day.

    2. Tonio

      Could be the DC Police (MPD), National Park Police (jurisdiction over National Mall and the various monuments and memorials, IIRC), etc. The important distinction is that NPP are federal cops and not under the command of the mayor.

    3. Anyone here seriously considering going to DC tomorrow?

      Not for that shit. I have some in laws in town for the regular touristy stuff. Hopefully they won’t be inconvenienced.

      If antifa wants to come out here, I have it on good authority that, besides the hippy next door neighbor, I’m likely the least prepared for armed conflict.

    4. Sean

      I wouldn’t go even if I could legally take a rifle.

      “Don’t do stupid things, don’t go to stupid events, and stay away from stupid people.”. Something to that effect.

  25. Lackadaisical

    “Hey guys, I hope no one here is as hungover as my wife. She had an excellent 4th of July, and I suspect the first hour or so of the 5th were pretty fun, too, but now… Grumpy.”

    I had a nice fourth, everyone will be coming to my place tomorrow for grilled meats, fire and fireworks. I may subject them to that Adams quote before the fireworks. Any local glibs are invited, though i don’t know any. ..

  26. Rufus the Monocled

    The things I learn….there’s an Ear Pulling Championships. The Inuit dominate apparently.

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

    1. Rhywun

      WTF

      1. Tundra

        Isn’t the world a fantastic place?

        *starts training*

  27. Rufus the Monocled

    I’ll just leave this here….to go along with the EPC we have Russian Slapping championships.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wifQPD5eok4

    1. DEG

      The fat bearded guy cleaned house.

      1. Rhywun

        Yeah I didn’t watch the whole thing but the moment he appeared I thought “I do not want to be put through a wall by him”.

  28. commodious spittoon

    Sex should be kept inside the home. It’s a private affair between a man and his hand towel.

    1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

      *toilet paper

      Only aristocrats have their own designated jerk off towel. Is it monogrammed too?

  29. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

    So far the NYT, HuffPo, a spokesman for the Human Rights Fund, and a writer at ThinkProgress have justified the attack on Andy Ngo. Didn’t someone say the other day that no one was defending the attack?

    Consider that your betters are not good people and that conforming with the NYT editorial page should not be your highest ideal in life

    1. Count Potato

      Dozens of bluechecks defended the attack.

      1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

        That’s Twitter nonsense. I’m referring to actual articles (except for the Human Rights Fund)

        1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

          Where someone actually wrote a piece defending violence and then signed their name to it believing that what they wrote was a smart take

        2. Count Potato

          Twitter or not, it’s still professional journalists publishing “what they wrote was a smart take” with their real names.

        1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

          Articles?

          1. People that have defended the attack, and by name I mean rattle off their names. Chances are even if you can nobody here (or anywhere else) will have heard of any of them, if that.

          2. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

            I can’t link to the articles but these are not minor publications. Even Vox wrote a piece that I forgot to mention.

            Does the notoriety of the author matter if it is appearing in supposed “respectable” publications? The NYT, Vox, HuffPo.

            Are you suggesting that doesn’t prove anything?

        2. Suthenboy

          *facepalm*

          No. Go look ’em up.

    2. Suthenboy

      Oh, there were umpteen shitloads of evil morons defending that thuggery. The claim that no one was defending it is laughable. It takes 20 seconds looking at the comment section of any publication discussing it that has a comment section to see them.

      1. And any publication with a comment section has umpteen shitloads of skinheads making stupid ass statement s as well, It’s the twitterization of opinion – “I can find dozens of anonymous blowhards acting the fool thus america is (insert your preferred grievance here)” My point the other day and above is that both the “Everybody is saying” and the “nobody is saying” thing is 99% bullshit. Stop with the “They” “Everyone” “the Libs” “The Nazi’s” “the Establishment” etc and list names, who is actually saying these things? most of the time you’ll have one or two published screeds by some far left/right lunatic and then nothing but a bunch of nobodies howling at the storm.

        1. Not Adahn

          Ken White? It took him less that two days to go from “Attacking A Journalist is wrong and if you disagree I will block you” to literally retweeting “Andy Ngo deserved worse.”

          1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

            Ken White suffers from a severe case of TDS. Anyone who still takes that guy seriously has problems. The mere fact that he was ever championed as a defender of free speech (when he is writing articles defending the state’s right to force others to post information within their business because Ken’s highest ideal is to virtue signal) shows how shitty today’s civil libertarians are in comparison to years past.

            Again, it’s the self-described liberal who has discredited liberalism. And no one else

          2. Link, my twitter-foo is no good and my attempts at finding @Popehat tweets about Ngo turned up empty.

          3. kbolino

            It’s not there.

            Either he deleted it, or Not Adahn confused a reply for a retweet. There’s a lot of replies to this tweet to the effect of “Ngo is not a journalist”, “he deserved it”, etc. but White isn’t endorsing those replies and seems to have blocked anyone who says anything remotely like justifying the attack.

        2. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

          That’s true. Comment sections don’t mean anything. And I’d even say that social media posts don’t mean anything. The good part about social media is that it’s exposed a lot of terrible people who consider themselves to be our betters. But, Tweets are verbal diareah. But, it’s the articles that shock me. Someone actually thought through writing such an argument and then assigning their name to it.

          Like I said, liberalism is an essentially dead philosophy.

          1. Suthenboy

            I disagree. The people in the comment sections are the ones most likely to engage in the same behavior and there are lots of them. It is unlikely that ‘people who matter’ will do more than just turn a blind eye or tacitly encourage this kind of thing.
            It should be soundly condemned. How about this? Find 7 lefties* condemning it in no uncertain terms.

            *there may be but I haven’t seen them.

        3. Suthenboy

          Fair point. The problem is that there are lots of idiots out there defending the attack, not just one or two lunatics. Lunacy abounds.

  30. Oh no – hangover imminent tomorrow with our neighbors coming over tonight. They can drink ‘n’ toke ‘n’ drink until the wee hours of the morning.

    1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

      Your life sounds rough.

      1. Tundra

        Impressive humblebrag.

      2. Yusef drives a Kia

        Animal gets to fishing tomorrow, LHhas a hangover on the way, it’s tough alright,
        Kayaking anyone?

    2. Nephilium

      On call this week, so no real fun. And this, while all the All Star festivities are happening around town.

  31. Count Potato

    Remember that White Woman Missing story? Then it tuned out she was a sugar baby?

    “Recovery of remains of missing student Mackenzie Lueck, 23, from a canyon leaves police chief ‘relieved and grief-stricken’ – a week after IT specialist was arrested for her murder”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7217813/Body-University-Utah-student-Mackenzie-Lueck-found.html

    When they’re dead, they’re just hookers.

  32. Count Potato

    “Florida man ‘impersonating a police officer’ is arrested after pulling over a real cop and warning him to ‘slow down’”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7218259/Florida-man-posing-police-officer-arrested-accidentally-pulling-real-cop.html

    1. AlmightyJB

      He looks the cop wannebe part.

    2. Gustave Lytton

      He was discovered when he wouldn’t extend professional courtesy to the speeding cop?

    3. Gustave Lytton

      His car also contained a dispatch radio

      Cobra brand? Bet that’s just a CB radio, not a police dispatch one.

      1. I have a Cobra CB in my pickup, but as far as I know they don’t make a police-band unit. At least they don’t sell them on Amazon.

    4. Suthenboy

      It takes a special kind of nuts to do that.

    5. DEG

      Oops.

  33. Count Potato

    “Marianne Williamson photoshops herself into the Vogue photo of female presidential candidates that excluded her”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7218187/Marianne-Williamson-photoshops-Vogue-photo-female-candidates-excluded-her.html

    LOLOLOLOL

    1. AlmightyJB

      Awesome:) I’d vote for her for entertainment purposes. It’s not like the space cadet would ever accomplish anything.

    2. Rhywun

      That is great. Perfect response to MSM elitism.

  34. AlmightyJB

    Elevator Heiferweizen is quite yummy.

    1. Nephilium

      It’s quite good, and it’s a nice callback to one of the best shows for getting things past the radar ever.

      1. AlmightyJB

        Nice:) on to Negro Modelo. Always solid.

  35. Tundra

    By some quirk of fate, neither Spawn has anything going on tonight. I’m not holding my breath, but I may actually get some QT with both of them together!

    Those of you wishing that their Spawn would grow up already – you’re wrong.

    But hey, no worries.

    Let’s listen to some Elvis.

    Happy Friday, weirdos!

    1. “Tulsi Gabbard Apologist”

      Congrats and thanks for the perspective

    2. DEG

      Better Elvis.

      1. Tundra

        No. No. No. No. No.

        No.

          1. DEG

            Ted wins.

          2. Tundra

            Agreed.

            Ted links are the most painful links.

          3. NOT AS PAINFUL AS STEVE SMITH LINKS.

          4. DinosaurNeil

            He’s no Velvet Elvis imitator

  36. Tundra

    Not my normal, but this came up on YT:

    Gentle on my My MInd

    When I was a small yeti, my parents had a ton of GC records, so I know every damn word to this song. We had one of those console stereos where you could load a bunch of LPs and I have some great memories GC, Beatles, CCR, Kingston Trio…

    Get off my lawn, punks!

    1. Suthenboy

      I can never listen to Campbell on youtube. He reminds me of Roy Clark and I immediately go listen to Clark.

      1. Tundra

        You could listen to BOTH!

        How’s the arm?

        1. Suthenboy

          I am a fanatic about killing bugs. That is the key to swift recovery. It’s starting to ache a bit which means time to disinfect and rebandage. That fucker chewed me up pretty good. A dozen punctures all the way through the skin.

          1. Tonio

            Peroxide, buddy. But you know that already.

          2. Suthenboy

            Peroxide. Hibecleanse. Rinse with sterile saline. Iodine. Rinse with sterile saline. Gobs of triple antibiotic salve. Nonstick pad and then wrap.

          3. Stinky Wizzleteats

            You might want to see a neurologist if you’ve still got numbness, sooner is better if you need to have something done about it.

          4. Suthenboy

            The numbness seems to have gone away, thank God. After a fresh bandage per above I have no sensation of pain which tells me I disinfected adequately. I am pretty sure one tooth hit the bone on the inside of my right forearm.

            Next stray I see with sad eyes gets a rock thrown at it.

  37. AlmightyJB

    Must have been a Paula Zahn investigation. 33,000 years later…

    https://www.foxnews.com/science/prehistoric-murder-skull-violent-death