After Animal’s van story, I feel pretty good about the car repairs I affected this weekend. After struggling futilely with overtorqued lug nuts, me and the local mechanic at whose shop the lugs were welded to the car eventually triumphed. At the cost of fully half of the lug nuts. We reached a deal whereby he would give me the lug nuts, and I would bring my car back next time it needed service, as this was the first time I had any problems with anything they’ve done. Anyhow, I managed to change the front suspension, brake rotors, and pads. It would have gone a lot faster if I had realized the first video I watched on YouTube had an older model Expedition. Once I figured out why I had a lower ball joint and he didn’t, shit really started to move. Tonight and tomorrow, I’ll do the back end. And hey, I’ve already checked… the video is of a model that has the same setup as mine.
WaPo wonders if it is okay to make fun of Florida Man. Its kind of my bit, so I’m going with yes. If anyone feels bad, donations to the Glibs meth and moonshine fund can be made in the sidebar.
Well, we’ve finally found something that can get a cop fired in NJ. OD’ing IN your vehicle while on duty is embarrassing the badge.
St. Pete to Rays, “fuck you right back”. I love it. I mean, I also enjoy going to Rays games, but if they want to threaten to move, the city is absolutely right to plan for their departure.
Can you imagine having to deal with this shit from employees at work? Like, do I actually have to get involved with you taping a “kick me” sign to someone’s back?
Throwing back to the industrial (metal) era.
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Bring back the Devil Rays!
Rays of sunshine are so much more badass.
Also no James Bond is not a Black Woman. That is a bunch of clickbait. Surprise!
You quite tediously lectured everyone on that last post. No need to overdo it.
Cut him some slack. His mom has been on his case lately.
By the way, say hi for me!
His mom has been on his case lately.
Like hell I have. That son of a bitch never calls.
I palindrome I
Folks need to be schooled on rhetorical awareness though.
My awareness is completely rhetorical.
I see.
Do you even know what “rhetorical” means?
I am literally dying. Literally.
That was egregious…
How could you ask that? Of course I do! It’s… it’s…. it’s when light rays passe thru torus shaped lens.
Everything I see says she’s taking over the role of 007 in the next film.
She’s taking the code number 007. James Bond is still in the movie.
Bond retired at the end of SPECTRE and his number will apparently be given to a new character. The movie is about him coming out of retirement. He is still in the movie and the main character.
No, it’s not. It’s an allegory for our postmodern times where waifs kick ass and the media feeds us pablum. The Broccoli’s have been co-opted by the progressive left, and the reality that formed the basis of the 007 flicks has been compromised.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_25
What has been officialy released of the plot synopsis:
James Bond has left active service when his friend Felix Leiter enlists his help in the search for a missing scientist. When it becomes apparent that the scientist was abducted, Bond must confront a danger the likes of which the world has never seen.[1]
How big a role that Nomi (Lynch’s character) will play is unclear.
*slowly twirls mustache, cackles*
What I seen of the production suggest Daniel Craig is in quite a bit of this movie. If the point is that Lynch is the real hero I haven’t seen proof of that yet..
I’m beginning to think you are Daniel Craig.
All true, but also true is that James Bond is still a white male…for now.
I’m looking forward to “Bond 26 is the greatest and most woke thing EVAH and only those alt-right man-baby neo-Nazi white supremacist Trump supporters dislike it!”….Not.
I don’t know if it will be with 26, but it’ll happen at some point.
I wish they’d just kill him, and let someone start a new story line with his illegitimate daughter assuming his 007 number. But no, skin-suiting one of the pop culture definitions of masculinity is a far bigger victory.
Brocolli’s may have been leftists all along. I recall an anectode about how Goldfinger got a Production Code seal because Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman promised the head of the PCA to donate to Barry Goldwater’s campaign which they did not follow through on.
What happened to your mom promising the head?
That was Octopussy.
INT. Bond on summer deck enjoying retirement. Receives mail. Opens letter.
“Sir, your pension has been reduced by 64%. Fuck you kindly, the Gubmint.”
Crumples paper. Calls former boss.
Bond: M, I want back in.
M: What about your hernia? And hip…..and bad knees….and…
Bond: My pension is gone!
M: I think I’ve got something for you. But it’s not glamorous. So no women to bang.
Bond: It’s ok. With all this #metoo stuff I don’t want to get doxxed.
M: Go to Portland.
What are they gonna call her?
Latoya Bonds?
Ugh. Latoya Bond.
She isn’t playing Bond.
Well now I’m confused.
She’s playing Nomi apparently. Supposedly this character is the new 007.
Shouldn’t she be agent $0.70? Given what she is being paid to compared to Bond.
Ouch!
*pan to a high back chair. It slowly turns to reveal it’s occupant; Professor Patriarchy, petting a white cat that is relaxing in his lap*
Dr. No Means No!
That can be the reboot.
Great. Woke Bond.
Part of the plot is women bitching about not getting paid as much as Bond.
?
*uses ejection seat to break glass ceiling
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/15/james-bond-007-black-female-actor-lashana-lynch-daniel-craig
Looks like the SJWs will not be appeased at this move.
Ah. Noah.
“….white guys are reluctant to pass their legacies on to anyone else.”
Dick move.
If he cares sooo much maybe he can invent and write a new woke 007 franchise?
That sounds as if the white, male Bond is still considered the best of the best
Can’t help but think of this little exchange from Archer:
Also, didn’t Moneypenny nearly kill Bond a couple movies ago? And failed to complete their mission.
Maybe not. But they are replacing the character. James Bond as 007 is an archetype. I don’t see it working out with a chick.
You mean like killing off Luke Skywalker in a super-lame way and replacing him with a you go grrrrl Jedi who learned to be a master in 10 minutes?
Supposedly Danny Boyle wanted to kill off Bond and end the movie at his funeral with the 007 present. Apparently the producers objected to killing off Bond. So I doubt that will happen.
They just want a fallback position in case the movie bombs.
If that happens they might just reboot Bond…again.
007 is a code number not a character. The movie will still be about Bond. Whether or not the movie will end with him resuming the 007 designation I do not know.
Okay. I’ll bite on this nonsense. Sure, they’re not making James Bond a black woman and James Bond is still going to be featured as a character in this particular installment. If that’s you’re point, it’s accurate, but not terribly interesting. It’s clear that they’re phasing out the character of Bond in favor of this new character. Maybe that’ll prove a great strategy and make them lots of money. Honestly, I doubt it. The Bond series was successful because it was a known quantity. Bond gets chased in a fancy car, gets lots of beautiful tail, kills the bad guys and enjoys a nice martini, shaken not stirred, all for the glory of Queen and Country. That’s the escapism people shell out $15 and two hours of their time to go see. Can they pull that off with a black woman? Maybe. But, there’s a lot that gives me pause. Just the fact that they chose the most intersectional identity politics option they could tells me they’re looking to go woke. And, bluntly, there’s a lot of movie-going options for the chick beats up a dozen bouncers movie options out there already. Are you going to do Ms. 007 takes her share of beatings? My guess is probably not. Really, there’s not a huge audience for watching women get beat up out there.
Atomic Blonde was a thoroughly enjoyable movie, and Charlize Theron gets her ass kicked multiple times in that one.
They have to make a woke version of Die Hard and Lethal Weapon.
Are you sure about that? It could easily be one-shot character for this specific movie.
As long as the new 007 is still all about banging hot chicks I’m cool with it.
Bryan Hill has the right idea.
https://twitter.com/bryanedwardhill/status/1150432835284508673
“I’ve never understood why they don’t expand the Bond universe. MI6 has numerous agents. I understand the worries about dilution of the franchise, but it’s handmade to launch more franchises, more revenue streams.
Who plays Bond is less interesting to me than who else is a 00?”
006 already turn out to be a Lienz Cossack.
I thought about writing a Bond vs. Bond (since the name is even a code name one would assume) treatment.
I haven’t listened to this song in so long.
BLAAACCKK BOOOTS!!!
“WaPo wonders if it is okay to make fun of Florida Man. Its kind of my bit, so I’m going with yes.”
I’ve also embraced my role as the sole provider of guns and fireworks for the city of Chicago.
“for the city of Chicago”
You’re too modest; we all know Indiana supplies guns to the whole world!
Carry the California man’s cross for a while and get back to me.
“Well, we’ve finally found something that can get a cop fired in NJ”
Ironic that behavior which ostensibly only hurts the individual cop is punished more harshly than when a cop murders innocent people.
But less harshly than when they fail to murder innocent people.
Nice music choice Brett
I actually got into a lot of trouble for listening to them and kmfdm. Turns out some kids in Colorado liked those bands too.
You Kylie Minogue fans don’t masturbate, do you?
Not sure Kylie Minogue serves any purpose beyond fap material.
How DARE you say that about the greatest Australian actress and singer of all time??!!
Imma cut a bitch that disses ONJ.
Helen Reddy, singer and actress
Natalie Imbruglia haz sadz.
You should be so lucky.
My representative:
“We don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice. We don’t need black faces that don’t want to be a black voice. We don’t need Muslims that don’t want to be a Muslim voice. We don’t need queers that don’t want to be a queer voice”
Somehow, it’s not Trump who tells me to go back where I came from.
Stay on the plantation!
Barry White had a black voice.
Things that make you go “hhmmmm”
Relevant
Can’t get enough of your jokes Baby.
Barry White’s best live performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkXDTomO-k8
Must. March. In. Lock. Step.
“We want people who look different, but all think exactly the same!”
I don’t see any reference to “people” in that statement. I think they are saying they want fungible meat-based voice units synchronized by color or sexual preference.
this rhetoric isn’t divisive at all but when POTUS says that people who don’t love our country can GTFO, he’s parallel to genocide, the Holocaust, and the systemic murder of 6 million people.
“systematic”
You know who else wanted people who looked alike to march in lock step?
Busby Berkeley?
Margaret Sanger?
Radio City Music Hall?
Robert Palmer?
Why is the answer to all these questions always seems to be Hitler?
Example:
Know who else wanted to use a gas stove to cook?
Walter White?
PLAY ALONG.
Our (great-)grandmothers who were glad to not get up at zero dark thirty to lay a fire in the wood-burning cookstove?
Julia Childs?
My platoon sergeant?
Let me repost from the dead thread.
My representative, Ayanna Pressley, has finally reached the notoriety of being the target of Trump’s “openly racist statements.” Last summer in the democratic primary she defeated an incumbent congressman, whose fault was that he was white and a man. Seriously, there were no other reasons. The guy was a hardcore progressive through and through. Amazingly, there are Congresscritters in MA who are somewhat moderate, if not conservative. For example, not so long ago I lived in a district where the Democratic representative voted against Obamacare and attended the St. Patrick’s Day Parade when all the right-thinking people boycotted it. But the guy Pressley defeated was not like this, only his race and gender were objectionable.
She dwells on skin pigment and probably calls everyone she doesn’t like racist.
I learned something about the affects of altitude this weekend. Mrs. TOK has been doing Spartan races lately. This weekend she visited a friend in Denver, and decided to do a race there. In 90 degree heat. At 6000 feet elevation. After 6.5 hours of torture and a lot of encouragement from other racers, she crossed the finish line. She felt like hell all day Sunday, but now that she’s back around normal oxygen levels, she feels much better.
That’s impressive. Perhaps crazy, but still impressive.
Even better is the reverse. Move here and get in shape, then when you go back to the lowlands you’ll be superhuman!
Yes, Spawn was thrilled with how easy it was to run here when he got back. I’m going to the mountains shortly and it always takes a day or 2 before I don’t feel like I’m hauling a trailer.
There is a very fine line there. I’ll talk to her after I get home from work, but I’m curious to see if she still wants to do races like this. She proved she could do it, but it was in no way fun.
A New Jersey cop overdosed on heroin in a patrol car while on duty. He was fired
If only he had simply shot someone.
WaPo wonders if it is okay to make fun of Florida Man.
As much as it’s OK to make fun of Ghetto Man.
So, yeah, I’ve been busy. And the Squirrels are not happy with me.
But I hope to resume submitting things here “soon.”
And the Squirrels are not happy with me.
Enough with the euphemisms!
What’s this I’ve been hearing that Marvel is rebooting Squirrel Girl so that she has Down Syndrome? True or rumor?
IDK. Would be more funner if she had full-blown Tourette’s.
She doesn’t have Downs Syndrome. She’s just a bit nuts.
Well I’m not going to shell out money to see that.
Wait, I thought progs were circling back to eliminating the useless eaters? Surely it’s implicit pro-life propaganda to suggest that she isn’t miserable and better off having been aborted?
Reading things on the internet gives everyone Asperger’s.
Submitted without comment.
https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/2019/07/police-flushing-drugs-could-create-alabama-meth-gators.html
Oh, I’ve got your comment. “Bullshit.”
I can’t tell whether that’s rank fear mongering or a joke.
Somebody get me the ScyFy channel’s programming director, STAT!!
Last week we had the meth-head squirrel, now meth-head gators.
* Holds back ammo from shipment to Illinois *
meth gators
I think SciFi already did this one.
Lindsay Graham 2.0
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump’s strongest allies on Capitol Hill, declined on Monday to condemn the President over his racist tweets against several minority members of Congress, instead calling them a “bunch of communists.”
Graham’s comments, which were later tweeted out by Trump, are the latest example of congressional Republican alignment with Trump in the face of fierce controversy.
“Well, we all know that (New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) and this crowd are a bunch of communists, they hate Israel, they hate our own country,” Graham said during an appearance on “Fox and Friends.” “They’re calling the guards along our border, the border patrol agents, ‘concentration camp guards.’ They accuse people who support Israel of doing it for the Benjamins. They’re anti-Semitic. They’re anti-America.”
Asked by co-host Steve Doocy if he thinks Trump “went too far” with his comments, Graham, who represents South Carolina, said the President should “aim higher” than the personalities of the congresswomen and instead talk about their policies. “You don’t need to — they are American citizens. They won an election. Take on their policies,” he said.
Graham added that if the group of lawmakers are made “the face of the future” of their party, “You will destroy the Democratic Party.”
So butch.
Lindsey Graham’s pod person continues to impress.
Over his so-called racist tweets.
shocker: that CNN writer is a 2018 journalism grad from GW.
Devan Cole
Verified account @devancole1
3h3 hours ago
Today has been so off so to fix that I’m going to treat myself to a typical millennial treat: a new houseplant.
the joke that is CNN.
Wait, houseplants acquire and care for other houseplants?
Only after Harvey Wienstien finishes with them.
Here is the best thing ever written about Florida Man
No question about it. I’m sitting at my desk laughing like an idiot. This got me:
That is pure gold.
Good Read. Reminiscent of the prose of Carl Hiaasen (NTTAWWT).
Or Tim Dorsey. I could see Serge concocting something like this to punish someone.
“Daisy Chain for Satan” aka: Epstein’s Thursday night.
I’m going with “shit that didn’t happen” but it’s still an amusing and bias confirming story.
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/millennial-writer-cries-for-mother-at-work-when-editor-corrects-her-spelling/
What’s wrong with putting a your little p in a hamster?
Absolutely nothing as long as you remember to wrap the hamster in duct tape first.
You guys…?
If STEVE SMITH was involved . . . “You’re gonna need more duct tape.”
If STEVE SMITH is involved, you’re the one wrapped in duct tape.
I saw that yesterday, and I don’t know that THIS event happened, but I can confirm that I have seen millennial co-workers crying over minor things, and I’m aware of at least one incident where a co-worker’s mom called the boss to complain about the treatment of her snowflake. So I’m going to call this one “plausible.”
“You don’t work here, ma’am. Personnel matters are confidential. KTHXBAI.”
I don’t know – I clicked through on one of the commentators who claimed that the tweet was helpful, and something about PTSD, and I came across this poor bastard:
https://twitter.com/treemunity
Parody no longer has any meaning.
Finally watched Hell or High Water, and it was very good overall, but FFS, the plot has a hole you could drive an oil tanker through.
How about Hell and High Water?
Related (on plot holes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfUUGrSMmxI
The hero not affecting the ending, isn’t that kind of baked into deus ex machina endings?
Also relevant
Mammary Monday presents girls who deserve pearl necklaces as gifts.
http://archive.is/Zz5dx
This is going to be fun!
House Democrat to move forward on articles of impeachment against President Trump
“To tolerate bigotry when you can do something about bigotry is to perpetuate it,” Green said in an interview Monday. “I will not tolerate the level of bigotry emanating from the president, especially in policy.”
No, that’s not accurate. But anyway, *grabs popcorn*.
So it’s come to this. Tweets are now considered “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
“Tonight and tomorrow, I’ll do the back end.”
Boom chicka wow wow!
Well, he did say the model in the video has the same set-up as him.
Tomorrow’s newspaper: Florida Man Gets His Junk Stuck In His Junk
Florida Man, in his native, ersatz habitat. He climbs onto a corrugated metal rooftop about 12 feet above a shallow pool occupied by large American crocodiles. He leaps in and thrashes as he’s bit. But what most news videos missed is that Hatfield escaped, unscathed, after his first jump. Then he jumped back in, turning himself into literal clickbait. “The whole thing was, I dropped my phone inside the pit,” he says. “A brand-new iPhone. That’s whenever he death-rolled me. It de-sleeved the bottom of my foot, until it looked like a chicken breast; I’d wiggle my toes and you could see my tendons move.”
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
Evil Canadian corporations killing sweet innocent US kids
I cannot imagine the stench of a kid being stuck in a grease trap. The EMT who gave mouth to mouth to the kid deserves a medal.
That’s really horrible. Thanks a lot.
Cleaning the grease trap was my job at the YMCA Camp kitchen. I still remember the smell, and the intact spaghetti noodles.
and the intact
spaghetti noodlestapeworms.Mouth to mouth…gaaaccckkk!!! Even on a kid, it’s not fun. It’s a good thing that mouth to mouth is no longer a thing.
^^^This^^^
Anybody know what the deal is with this new 007?
From what I’ve heard, there’s a scene where he’s eating deep dish pineapple pizza, and you get a full shot of his uncircumcised penis.
In a Tommy Bahama shirt.
Bond needs a new identity after retirement, so the best surgeons at NHS turn him into a black woman and Q builds him a tricked out Subaru.
This is the best plot summary yet.
And when he shoots his uncircumcised penis a baggie of drugs falls out of his ass?
Dammit, I actually laughed out loud
Spoiler: The bolt-ons are *fantastic*.
It came after 006.
/nervous grin. Wipes eyebrow slowly with index finger.
Why is 006 afraid of 007?
Because 007 is black?
LOL
Have you tried turning it off, then turning it on again?
Upside down it spells “LOO”
Way, way overplayed. Bond’s retired, new person takes over the 007 code, Bond comes back out of retirement, takes back over as 007. The end.
SHUT THE FUCK UP, LIBTARD!
You are the worst for starting this up again
Today’s offering:
1963 Alfa Romeo Giulia 1600 Spider
So beautiful.
If I ever win the lottery, I’m going to go broke buying gems like that.
It’s an Alfa Romeo. You’ll go broke trying to maintain it.
Lol. They aren’t daily drivers, man!
And still way cheaper than a drug habit.
I totes see myself in that beaut.
Did you know the Bat-Mobile was designed by Ghia?
Just 25k?
Four days left. It will be a lot higher.
I helped a friend restore a similar-vintage Giulia Spider, BITD. Nowhere near that level of restore. We were going for “runs reliably, passes inspection.”
Inspections for vintage cars are an affront to God.
You should buy this one!
Apparently the US mint has made a bunch of commemorative coins for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, and one of the designs is absolutely terrible. Sometimes a creative idea deserves to remain in the realm of imagination.
I’m not saying you’re a fascist if you like to buy and sell at a farmers’ market, just that it’s damn likely, you fresh vegetable liking probably scumbag:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/farmers-markets-have-new-unwelcome-guests-fascists
I go to the Farmers market for the steaks ? not the vegetables ?
“Nordic Nazis make organic eating a cornerstone of their ideology.”
OFFS
I wonder if the pearl clutchers at the Daily Beast check under their bed for Nazis before they go to sleep at night. They’re everywhere you know.
Well, Hitler was a vegetarian who didn’t drink, so the only options for a true American are to eat processed meat and drink booze.
Just when you think crunchy Lefties couldn’t get any more insufferable, they raise the bar.
Furthermore: are there any solid stats on exactly how many actual Neo-Nazi/White Supremacists there are in the US? My guess is that it’s an order of magnitude (or two) smaller than those who identify as Antifa.
Lets see if we can get THAT on the census.
Hell, I’m surprised the 9th Circuit hasn’t already ordered it.
You have to remember to count everyone who isn’t a Marxist.
It only takes one example to crap out a trend article on the Daily Beast. And when that one example disappears upon further examination, tough luck — it’s a trend.
Imaginary Nazis are the best Nazis.
Please tell me this is a 4chan plot. It’s too funny not to be
Check in completed.
Not bad looking.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/D_NCmvcfSki4fM-9PJfvAQ.B3F001nLG5m8XU1pVvTRML
Swanky digs.
A couple more grounds pics.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/uK3HNaW7QGGwwfvexvRT9A.DjaxSPB3cJFphRcZ8zVSru
Dinner was delightful and going back to the bar for drink ?
Nice, where you at?
Bedford Springs Omni resort
Sweet.
So, I just started getting white hairs in my beard. But something else strange is going on, I’m finding some black hairs in there too. I don’t have black hair, blond to reddish is what it’s always been. Where the hell is black coming from?
One drop, dude. You’re gonna get reparations!!
*drops gloves*
*holds hand out for gimmedats*
Reparations for all smoked and cured pork products!
Dunno, but his beard’s never going back.
Stop standing in front of the microwave
Too much masturbation.
Or not enough.
I have light brown hair but the hair in my beard is either black or white. Also, it looks like for many guys the beard goes gray first.
It’s probably lupus.
Thanks Dr. House, but I will wait for your third diagnosis, because that’s always the right one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpkzhvZ_CFM
L
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TO CODE
Aargh! We were so close to getting one right
Have you been attacked by any wolves under the light of the full moon recently?
Where the hell is black coming from?
I’d start with “Who am I blowing that has black pubic hair?”
America’s pastime.
https://www.askmen.com/top_10/dating/7-masturbation-techniques-to-try.html
Also: why is this under the “dating” category? I thought you dated so you wouldn’t have to jack off anymore?
The absolute best rings are metal and seamless and do not vibrate. That article is kinda timid.
My issue with metal rings: if something goes wrong, how the hell do you get it off? Maybe I’m timid, but the idea of a (semi)-irremovable device choking my dick into gangrene kinda takes the spice out of the moment.
I’ve had good luck with plastic/silicone though.
“This one time, in the ER . . . .”
Shush, you. We all know about the special scrapbook. HIPAA? What HIPAA?
You will eventually go down, Q. “Go down,” as in de-tumescence. And it will just slip right off, perhaps as you sleep or have a cold shower [sfx: ting, ting, ting…wukka wukka on shower floor tiles]
Plastic/silicone always grabs pubes. Owiee!
Here’s a song for this. It’s a little slow, but builds to a climax.
So this guy I worked with, who wasn’t as smart as he thought he was, said that his method was to sit on his hand until it was numb, and then turn it around. It felt like someone else was doing the work. My initial response to this supposedly hetero firefighter was, “why would you want it to feel like some strange dude was jacking you off?”.
https://youtu.be/mJYtJs_PkKE
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/15/populism-boris-johnson-brexit-trump
When was this era of truth and shame?
Pretty much this. I see no indication that Trump lies any more or less than a garden variety politician.
“According to Washington Post factcheckers”
And I’m done…
12 a day?
4 times the felonies, sounds about right.
wut
https://freebeacon.com/politics/biden-repeats-obama-pledge-if-you-like-your-health-care-plan-you-can-keep-it/
The guy has to have brain damage. This would be like if Trump said “Read my lips; no new taxes.”
They brought back Pelosi so do people really care?
The most obvious way to tell if someone is batshit crazy is if they think the Republicans want to scrap Obamacare. They spent two years proving that was a lie.
Well, we’ve finally found something that can get a cop fired in NJ.
But will he get rehired for a day so he can still collect a pension?
Via Huffpost, apparently there has recently been an uptick in women becoming nuns:
Q hardest hit. In all seriousness, this is actually kind of an interesting trend, and the article explores what may be behind this as well as a concurrent trend of more “hardcore” religiosity among the dwindling ranks of the religious among the younger generations. A lot of it seems to be reactive, as illustrated by this one interviewee:
In the end, though, it seems to be driven by the same ancient forces that have driven people towards religion for all of history: a search for meaning, certainty, and purpose. Plus ça change…
“Q hardest hit”
They’re probably going that route because they’re all uggos and no one will fuck them.
More likely they just don’t want to screw the Betas.
they’re all uggos
No pictures were provided, so this cannot be ruled out.
no one will fuck them
This can, however, be ruled out. At 24 there can always be found a willing partner.
“William Krug
Grandiose delusions to help you feel morally superior to others, while avoiding the adjustments required of adult life.”
…aaaaaand *that’s* the kind of insightful, nuanced dialogue I expect form HuffPo readers.
Is he talking about college students?
I have a colleague who is seriously considering becoming a nun
Honestly, not a bad thing for people who seek the cloistered, contemplative life.
She’s mid forties. I wouldn’t be shocked if she entered a convent at 50. She has a boyfriend.
I have a friend who’s around 25, and is taking Final Vows on August 10th. After the vows will be a banquet. I was not brought up Catholic (and certainly not Ukrainian Catholic), but I’ll be there with bells on and wishing her all the best. She’s an amazing young woman.
And for Q Continuum, just to drive the knife home, she’s cute as a button, what she’s got are real, and they’re spectacular.
Since a nun takes a vow of poverty she won’t have any cash to pay off that General Studies major degree loan. Maybe the church will pick it up?
Picked my first tomato of the season today. Yum!
Definitely a euphemism
You did remember to mix in tobacco seeds and plutonium when you planted them, right?
BTW, had meant to comment earlier — there’s a lot of “really nice, just not my type” men out there. You know, houseplants. Unfortunately, the dating apps are top-heavy (LOL) with these guys, once you weed out the guys who send you dick pics.
I expected that. Lots of no personality types too. One or two word profiles, nothing to say beyond “hi”
The three I’ve met are perfectly nice, just not for me. That’s the point of meeting – to find out
So men who are literate and know how to use technology aren’t your type?
Some are, just not the ones I’ve met so far
How DARE you respond seriously to my trolling.
First fruit appeared on my tomatoes. And something ate 2/3 of my beet greens. 3 pots in a row, middle pot untouched, side pots full of truncated red stems.
I wonder if I shouldn’t just be farming rabbits.
My maternal grandparents used to visit for 1-2 months every other summer. Grandpa was ethnic German immigrant and we would raise a few rabbits for eating the summers he visited. A kitten once got into the rabbit enclosure and they stomped it to death. I never felt bad eating rabbit.
I’m too cityfied to eat unpackaged animal products. Maybe when the economy collapses.
If you’ve never had a good braised rabbit, you are missing out, my friend!
We also raised our own chickens and cows. We bought pork from a neighbor. My dad occasionally hunted for venison. And we fished. Nothing like Minnesota walleye from Lake of the Woods
Wuss
Lol. No point in knowing what you’re talking about.
https://twitter.com/JackFIetch/status/1150731136743727105
He doesn’t seem to have been ratioed?
As I wrote earlier, everyone on the internet has Asperger’s.
Adults should be able to do whatever they want to their bodies as long as they’re paying for it. Don’t think it’s going to make them happy though.
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/07/15/oh-great-now-people-microdosing-hormones-nonbinary/
Worthy of your awareness.
https://www.spinquark.com/welcome-to-social-government/
Beware of meth gators
https://www.foxnews.com/us/tennessee-police-drugs-meth-gators-toilet
A couple of weeks ago, I linked to a story where alligators were found feeding on a human body. I remarked that the gators should be tested for meth. There was mocking, and now it’s in the news. Spud. Vindicated.
Lol
“Pinellas County deputies suspended after taping mean signs to inmates’ backs”
One of the funniest things Ive ever seen- while working for Delphi as a contractor, walking down the line on my way somewhere, and seeing one of the guys with a sign taped to his back:
“I AM OMNIPOTENT”
…not what you’d expect from a bunch of blue-collar briars
Haha, nice. Sometimes I miss factory humor.
I remember some people taking a blank shipping label, drawing a rainbow and the words “it’s raining men”, and slapping it on the back of a forklift. The dude drove around with it all day.
And the girls got in on it too; this woman walked through the crowded cafeteria with a sticker on her back that said “My crotch smells like tuna” (put there by other girls).
I took my wife to get her hair cut today. It’s 45 seconds from the hair place to one of our favorite bar and grills. It took 23 minutes for her to get her hair done, it took me 22 minutes to drive round trip and drink a pint at the bar.
From now on, her hair appointments will be in the afternoon.
“I know you just got a cut yesterday, but it looks stupid, let’s go.”
What I love about twitter.
Alyssa Milano and other hacks tweet out a picture comparing ICE to concentration camps. Here;
https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1150123543515955201
ICE guard lady who is also in the picture doesn’t take too kindly to that, or decides this is her moment to become an e-thot. Either way… /swoon
https://twitter.com/kiarace24/status/1150666418532302848
I’d climb her fence.
Ok, but when do we see the dick pics of the guy in the center?
ICE ICE baby
Picked my first tomato of the season today. Yum!
Wish I could say that.
*kicks pebble, pouts*
You’re welcome to come admire my vegetable garden
my Euphemetric2000 just broke.
LOL
Also picked tangerines peppers and jalapenos. Squee!
You’re welcome to come admire my vegetable garden
Draw me a map.
Alexandria VA
We’ll all chip in on a plane ticket, just for the entertainment factor.
And by “entertainment”, we mean amateur porn posted on the Glibs Pornhub channel.
You never disappoint, though I was expecting it earlier in the thread
We encouraged Brooks to send you dick pix in advance, just so you’ll recognize him.
I dunno. That could kill any potential before the first date even happens.
/micropenis article
I know I never disappoint. The question is….will he?
Brooks can disappoint, but you’ll never know because it’s halfway down the page.
True.
Make a left turn at Albuquerque. . .
Imagine my surprise
Should the District of Columbia be its own state? A new Gallup poll finds that 64 percent of Americans say no.
In a survey, more than half of participants across every category — gender, race, age group, education level, political party and ideology — said they would oppose the move to grant statehood to nation’s capital city.
I’m flummoxed.
Zounds!
Trust us
Strict firearm legislation could be the answer to a disturbing increase in gun deaths among young people, according to a new study.
In a paper published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, researchers found that firearm-related deaths among young people are 35% lower in states where mandatory background checks have been required for at least five years.
It’s evidence that measures like universal background checks for firearm and ammunition purchases and identification requirements can significantly reduce the pediatric mortality rate, researchers said.
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The team evaluated the strength of a state’s gun laws using scorecards from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, a nonprofit that ranks the strictness of laws on a 100-point scale. Higher scores indicate stricter legislation.
Sounds legit.
Ending to Of Mice and Men
I’m starting to wonder if this really is the best timeline ever.
You are here ?
I do often feel like I’m stuck in the middle of a pale green inedible mush.
Guys, I am SO PISSED right now. 8 AM this morning I scheduled a flight to Washington DC to meet with President Trump about acquiring a position at the White House. At 7:45 he called me to tell me that the meeting is cancelled because he is busy with “Presidential duties”. Later he FaceTimed me by accident, and I could clearly see he was golfing before he hung up. So, I am never fucking communicating with him again, he values golf over his job as president and is also racist.
What was the position?
Lotus.
Weird. I expected something from the Kama Sutra…
Ewwwwww
He doesn’t respect you or your family.
It was your Ted Talk wasn’t it
Actually, the golf came later. When he told you he was busy with “Presidential duties”, he was sitting on the Presidential shitter. He canceled your meeting with a shext.
He would.
Shit. Did I show up in the FaceTime? My golf outing was supposed to be on the DL….
We’ll all chip in on a plane ticket, just for the entertainment factor.
I’ll be glad to pick her up at the Bozeman airport when she arrives. Or Billings.
I assume that’s what you meant.
Oooh. I hope we haven’t reached an impasse already.
A room quotes a beard asking a question only a bag of dicks could answer.
https://mobile.twitter.com/CNNSitRoom/status/1150893532493701120
It’s like a bureaucratic holocaust
An overwhelming number of US Department of Agriculture employees who have been reassigned from Washington, DC, to the greater Kansas City area may instead leave the department, according to surveys conducted by the union representing them.
Such losses among the more than 540 USDA research employees affected by the reassignment could result in a drain of institutional knowledge and talent at two agencies that either fund agricultural research across the nation or produce crucial reports, including data on agricultural markets, as well as 10-year projections for the farm sector and estimates of US and international agricultural productivity.
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“We are currently being forced to relocate, quit or be fired,” Kevin Hunt, acting vice president for the ERS union, told CNN. “This is devastating the current science the Economic Research Service produces and puts into question if any current research sees the light of day. The secretary must reverse course immediately and come to the bargaining table now or the American farmer will lose their voices in Washington and American taxpayers will be billed to fix what the secretary broke.”
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But Wesley Dean, acting vice president for the NIFA union, is concerned that moving NIFA could affect the agency’s ability to allocate grant funding. NIFA funds agricultural, climate and economic research across the nation — including the Bee Informed Partnership, which is now the only national survey to keep track of honeybee loss after USDA decided to suspend its own annual bee colony survey earlier this month. Honeybees pollinate one in three crops and play a crucial role in the agricultural system, but their populations have plummeted in recent years.
“Moving a granting agency at the end of the fiscal year will have a detrimental impact on getting grant money out the door to our stakeholders,” Dean said. “Our staff, with all their years of experience, are leaving for other agencies. We should be focused on this, rather than hastily moving the agency.”
Former USDA officials and scientific and agricultural associations have come out against the plan, arguing that it may push trained staff out the door and pose a risk to the agency’s independent and objective analysis.
How will humanity survive?
Huh. Moving agencies out of DC causes an exodus of employees, thereby shrinking the size of the agency. Based on that, Trump needs to turn DC into a ghost town.
I am 100% behind moving every agency the feds have to the north slope of Alaska.
I have an idea for an article.
acting vice president
They already lost a president and vice-president to the quitoffs.
The sad paste eaters at the USDA can all sit on a bag of corn fed dildos. They fuck up every single report released for agriculture.
The new Middle Ages?
https://quillette.com/2019/07/15/age-of-amnesia/
So, “elites” are trying to turn Europe into America? Quelle horreur!
I read that, but I can’t remember what it was about.
Academics, artists and journalists can prove to be the most vociferous conformists and enforcers of orthodoxy.
Purity vs heterodoxy. Shitlords, choose carefully.
The move could also be blocked by Congress. A provision in the Financial Services and General Government spending bill that passed last month included an amendment from Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton that would block the General Services Administration from using its funds to relocate ERS and NIFA.
The USDA’s inspector general is also investigating whether Perdue has the legal authority to move the agencies.
There is no such thing as the Deep State. Just dedicated hard working men and women trying to keep Trump from destroying everything that makes government jobs great.
“You’ve been relocated, unfortunately you’ll now have to work from home in Kansas as the funds to relocate your office were not available.”
Someone I know was just appointed to an OSD leadership position. A friend has to work with that office and we were cheering because we know he will make them actually work. We had great fun this morning imagining those assholes (and they really are assholes) shitting bricks over this.
That’s the thing I hate the most – the idea that the government exists as a benevolent society for government workers.
The USDA’s inspector general is also investigating whether Perdue has the legal authority to move the agencies.
So someone is seriously arguing that the head of an agency can’t reassign personnel to a different office?
We had great fun this morning imagining those assholes (and they really are assholes) shitting bricks over this.
Nice.
Wait- does gloating over the “misfortunes” of government functionaries make me come across as a bad person?
Only to government functionaries, but they already despised you anyway.
No
Phew!
Random follow-up question to my Guy Buying experience this weekend. If I want to get a concealed carry permit in the next few months….would it be reasonable to do it with a Sig 220 (and fitted holster) and then look at buying a smaller weapon in the future once more funds free up. Or should I just take my time, practice, save a little and then get a more suitably sized weapon first? Will probably be staying in VA for the next 5 years or so.
Also…didn’t someone put together an article on Building an AR? I didn’t see anything under the “Guns” tag. Thanks.
“Gun buying experience”
My Sig P228 is my favorite handgun and I shoot it often to keep in practice. My carry piece is a S&W M&P which is not as comfortable to shoot (light weight = more kickback).
Answer: buy both.
Wise. 228 is my fave and the m&p daily carry is a compact.
I got both my CCWs with a hog of a Para-Ordnance P14 – 45. Not familiar with your training, but neither of my classes required the use of a holster. Its gun safety, legal requirements etc., and a (minimal) show of proficiency with the gun at a range.
Get your license sooner rather than later, would be my advice.
I’ll see. This place (not sure if there’s a better place closer than Richmond): https://colonialshooting.com/course-offerings/ – has a variety – will probably aim to knock it out over the next few months. Either way, getting a holster for my Sig isn’t a bad idea either for down the road.
Some people carry full-size guns. All the better if you can. Have to dress for it obviously. Not quite as easy in the summer. I say go for it.
I carry a CZ-75 Compact, which in my opinion barely qualifies as compact. I usually wear a camp shirt and dress slacks. The shirts are loose enough to 1) be comfortable in the hottest Ohio weather, and 2) reliably conceal my full-size pistol that self-identifies as compact.
Is a 220 a decent EDC?
I should say so. FWIW, mine is a G30, so: same caliber, almost as big with an extra two rounds.
My son carries a G26: it’s small is ways but bulky in others. I’d say there is no point in going smaller than your 220 unless you take an epic step and go down to some single-stack 9mm; otherwise you’re taking on lots of compromises with little improvement in size.
If their pay was tied to financial results, they’d be living in their cars
Uber’s workforce may still be mostly white men, but the company says it is taking new measures to diversify its staff, especially managerial roles.
The newly public ride-hailing company released on Monday its latest diversity report, which included a breakdown of its US workforce by race or ethnicity and gender. White men still make up most of its staff (30.1%), a pattern that is even more evident in leadership, tech, and leadership in tech roles. Black women make up 5.3% of its overall workforce in the US, black men 4%, Hispanic women 3.7% and Hispanic men 4.6%.
For the first time, Uber is setting some diversity and inclusion goals for 2022 that will be tied to the compensation of several of its senior executives — CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, chief financial officer Nelson Chai, chief legal officer Tony West, and chief people officer Nikki Krishnamurthy.
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While adding thousands of new employees, Uber has shown some diversity gains. The percentage of women in leadership roles grew from 20.9% to 28% in the past year. The largest percentage of women in US leadership roles, though, are white. The amount women in tech leadership roles fell from 15.6% to 13.8%.
What a heaping helping of utterly meaningless gibberish.
Who gives a shit if the company makes money, as long as they can virtue signal their way to more cash for the furnace?
“Uber will tie executive compensation to meeting diversity goals”
Translation: we’ve found a way to cut executive salaries
No way that this will lead to perverse incentives, and then millions of dollars of law suits.
The company said it also plans to dig into more granular data in the coming months about its global workforce. It is collecting the information through a global self-ID survey where employees can voluntarily share information about their gender identity, veteran status, disabilities and caregiving status, in addition to answering questions about race, sexuality and socioeconomic status.
Job performance, what’s that? What do we even do here, anyway? I’m juyst here for the yogurt bar and the nap space.