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How dare you post a crossword when I’ve been drinking.
What’s an 11 letter word for inconsiderate?
STEVE A SMITH
How I feel when I try crosswords:
https://twitter.com/PimpCrime/status/1165776373358587906
Gaily amphibious?
I got zero. Probably because that small blue font discouraged reading the clues.
I got 7 down and then gave up
Ha! I’m stumped on that one and the ones in that corner.
It doesn’t help that 11-across is misspelled.
It’s just a mere cat.
Hey, Ted, I found your mug.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EC5dv7zXsAAEr_V.jpg
Sorry, but ITS is Information Technology Services.
Don’t you mean
“Fucking Information Technology Services” ?
LOL!
Where can I get one of those?
Yes. Thats gold….
I feel that I need the reminders as the dementia sets in.
Found it.
My comment is awaiting moderation.
That looks like same one.
These are close:
https://www.amazon.com/Funny-Expletive-Grammar-BLACK13F39-Inspirational/dp/B00P5A2Q16/
https://www.amazon.com/Wampumtuk-Grammar-Police-Expletive-Ounces/dp/B079WDJQPN/
https://www.amazon.com/Grammar-Expletive-Inspirational-friends-sarcasm/dp/B07GXMXH1N/
https://www.amazon.com/Retreez-Funny-Mug-Motivational-Inspirational/dp/B073515TWS/
…and then misspells “possession”
Truly a mug that TedS’ could be proud of
Fuch. Oh, well.
17 across is my favorite.
I couldn’t figure out the first letter.
#MeEither
The first letter is . See, that was easy.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EC0yLF7WsAE_p12.jpg
Well, now I’m convinced.
That text was not in the original image
What text?
Amazing how the curves distort the letters to be perfectly straight.
You just lit the HM signal.
Absolutely beautiful.
Nice shape, but a little much.
Pretty close to perfection.
I take issue with his assertion that he’s the only one using all lower case letters.
I’m sure you are not the only two.
Meh, CamelCase is better.
kebab-case is my favorite.
The case where you can’t select the entire string by double-clicking?
No. Why would you do that.
Because it’s the easiest to type.
PS. double-click + drag is your friend.
I’m not putting on a dress just to make copypasting easier.
Heh. As I was typing that I recalled one of my old hangouts in my “industrial dance club” days named Click ‘n’ Drag.
metoo
You ate my bait for Hyperbole. *Throws blackjack and mikey back in the lake*
Baiting Hyperbole is kinda easy. Thought you had more dignity.
How dare you think that!
He just likes raining on parades. Sometimes it is good to just let go and crow at some (probably spun) story that highlights leftist stupidity and evil. And we are a long way from a place where the assholes to the right are even a fraction as dangerous as the ones to the left.
Counterpoint: He’s not wrong that confirmation bias, pareidolia, ignoring the beam in of your team’s eye while calling out the mote in the other’s, and rationalization trumping reason are universal.
Hah, you don’t need bait for Hyperbole. He does his thing without it.
Neither one of you has ever baited me into a reposns……oh shit!
No one can resist the…
*dum, dum, DUMMMMM!*
…Master Baiters!
“We should not nuke hurricanes.”
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1165995811806879750
I thought this was America.
“The federal government actually has a history of trying to change the weather by blowing stuff up in the sky.
On February 27, 1891, Robert Dyrenforth was appointed “Special Agent of the Department of Agriculture for Making Experiments in the Production of Rainfall.””
https://twitter.com/CrimeADay/status/1166118223043072000
What about sharknados?
But murdering potential whistleblowers is still cool?
Or droning preachers and their teenaged sons.
If we didn’t want nukes dropped on hurricanes why did we put a nuclear research lab in Oak Ridge, Tennessee? Rednecks like experimenting*, with explosives.
*Highfalutin word rednecks with degrees use the way their brethren say “Hold my beer and watch this”
What would actually happen if we set off a nuke inside a hurricane?
To the hurricane? Nothing.
Has anyone modelled the fallout patterns though?
WTF is wrong with people.
https://twitter.com/JonLionFineArt/status/1165996961977294849
“Reported and blocked”
That guy missed his calling. Well, one of them–I’m sure he’s enjoying being a pegging assistant for Hill-dog.
That’s an image I could have lived without. Blech.
Can’t print this right now but I wholly expect to do so and enjoy filling it in during my morning download tomorrow.
Thanks straff.
Thx to anyone that actually tries to complete this. It was fun to make anyways.
I haven’t watched The Simpsons in 15 years, but I applaud the decision.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/apu-will-stay-on-the-simpsons
I’m actually surprised.
#metoo
Even more surprised that Groening still has any input.
“Controversial”
He wasn’t.
Stephen Miller brought up this stupid device of the leftist media in the latest Conservatarians re: whichever Koch brother just died. Nobody can really work out what in particular was ever so damning about the Kochs, and if you dig much into it, it turns out leftist commenters were mostly just barking seals for Harry Reid when it comes to the Kochs. So what, now that he’s dead, do they run with about the guy? He was “a polarizing figure,” as if that says a damn thing.
The treatment of David Koch has been reprehensible. There’s a special place in hell for people like Maher.
Does it involve a pineapple being shoved up his ass?
Maher is scum. Koch tried his damnest to expand Bill Maher’s liberty along with the rest of ours. Yeah, he fell for the ” R’s are better for liberty” trope, and gave some help to fucked up repub causes, but on balance he helped freedom more than authoritrianism. Anyone celebrating his death is a lowlife and a maroon.
Between his take on Koch and his recession hopes, Maher’s been trying hard for the asshole of the year award.
Bigger than Lindsey Graham telling us that we have ” just got to accept the pain that comes with standing up to China”?
Yes.
I dunno. Maher’s won back some points by telling Tlaib to go fuck herself.
But Graham had a credit balance from the Kavanaugh hearings in my book.
It’s a tough call, it can’t be denied. I don’t envy this year’s judging committee.
Fair, he is also in the rankings.
And don’t forget the dark horse Mother who blogged about how horrible her sons were for not recognizing their privilege.
Went out to peek on the Halloween display spinning across the front porch. I counted a dozen widows before I quit.
fml
Well, would you want to break a streak like his?
That was fun, straff! You got me on a couple, but now I understand!
Put one in just for you. Thumbs up.
That one I got! 😉
Oooh, this one looks quite challenging, thanks Straff!
The difficulty level is something I couldn’t measure myself. Lesson learned.
It’s all right, I just have to apply my almond better.
Anyone else think they have both 3D and 8A but the intersection doesn’t agree ?
Weird trivia time: This song was originally written by Mark Knopfler for Dire Straits.
I imagine Knopfler’s arrangement would have been quite different.
Huh, never knew that. I can definitely hear Knopflers phrasings, seems more like his later solo stuff, I can see why he gave it away instead of doing it with Dire Straits.
Has Knopfler ever “covered” it? I just can’t listen to Tina…something about her voice is like fingernails on chalkboard to me. I vaguely remember hearing it back in the day, but I did my best to put it out of my mind.
I’m fairly certain I have every official release Mark has ever put out so unless he did an “In studio” one off type thing I don’t think so
OK, I’m a casual fan of Mark fan. Brothers In Arms was one of the first 12(?) cassette tapes I got from Columbia House for a penny. But then my tastes
changedexpanded. Point me to an album or two that makes me want to listen to all the rest.Dire Straits era Love Over Gold has one of the few over 14 minute song that is worth listening to in Telegraph Road, Solo era I’d go with Shangri-la. But If i’m not mistaken you’re a rocker, and even though Dire Staits have a handful of Classic Rock Radio Staples, most of Knopflers songs are slow burners or jaunty little ditties, for every Money for Nothing you get seven So far Away‘s
Ask OMWC what he thinks of Mark Knopfler. Add in a bunch of glowing superlatives about Knopflers work.
Meh, OMWC has some good musical takes but he’s too harsh of a critic, anyone who dismisses the work of Elvis Costello because he once called James Brown a nigger in a self described drunken ramble where he was trying to offend the people that were pestering him needs to lighten up. Even if he does dig Mingus. I can only imagine what his problem with MK is.
I like Dire Straits. I have several albums, er, CDs.
I identify as a rocker, but…
So Far Away has been my favorite off that album since day one. John Prine is one of my all-time favorites. I love the Highwaymen and the Traveling Willburys together and solo. R. L. Burnside is one of my most favorite shows I’ve been to. I’ll forever kick myself for not getting Buddy Guy’s sig when he was 10 feet away from me at his club one night a few years back.
There’s no accounting for taste. ?
Just saw Buddy a few weeks ago, at the Hollywood Bowl. He flat ripped the place up. Like ten times better than Clapton was last year. Charlie Musslewhite was great too, oddly not impressed with Stevie’s brother.
I love those too! Romeo and Juliet & The Man’s Too Strong are my fav Dire Straits. With Walk of Life a close third. Reminds me of California Sun.
Don’t forget “Heavy Fuel” and that classic for pissing off progs “My Parties”
Can’t speak for the whole album, but I’m particularly fond of the title track ballad.
“Crappy Australian Treat”?!?!?!
I’m not going to give away the answer but those cookies are fucking delicious.
Now I have ink all over my phone from trying to fill it out. Fuck you.
Just wipe it, like a computer drive, with a cloth.
Roof tar removes sharpie ink.
Removes or covers up?
Removes.
It’s like a magic eraser.
Carbide grinder. Trust me. Hexaflurosilicic acid is also recommended.
Can you nuke Sharpie ink?
So, I promised myself I wouldn’t touch a computer this month, but I figure I got close enough. I have journeyed across time and space.
My epic road trip was fabulous- 8,000 miles in 24 days. A few tidbits I learned:
-Michigan has great smoked fish.
-The USAF museum in Ohio is probably the best free museum in the country, if not the world. There I learned that Sputnik was stripped down from its original design so it could be launched sooner for the propaganda victory. Also dehydrated food cubes are a real thing NASA tried. I thought that was just a joke from the Jetsons.
-At Custer’s Land Stand, I learned that on the 50th anniversary of the battle, a US general who fight there shook hands with a relative of Sitting Bull in a peace ceremony. They literally buried a hatchet together.
-I survived my foray into the Forbidden Zone, AKA Detroit. There is a famous abandoned building on Michigan avenue that is finally being fixed up. It gave me hope to look at it.
-Near Glacier National Park, I saw a sign that told the story of a Salish boy. He was a poor orphan who left to seek his fortune. When winter came and he was cold and hungry, a kind beaver took him in and taught him magic songs and dances and gave him the sacred beaver bundle. He returned to his tribe and became a powerful chief. It was neat to see how it resembled so many other rags to riches stories.
-I stopped at a $5 dinosaur museum in 2 Medicine, Montana. $5 dino museums are the best. They had a whole Seismosaurus skeleton curled up inside.
-Mt Ranier National Park is one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen. It was like driving through a Bob Ross painting. Happy little trees as far as the eye can see.
-The badlands of North Dakota are quite a sight. I’ll take that over a crowded, noisy beach any time.
Road trips are the way to live. That, and abstaining from screens every once in awhile.
Sounds like you had a nice roadtrip. I’m jealous and hope I can do one myself soon enough. Glad to see ya around here again, Derp.
This place is my leper window:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagioscope
***
Where a squint was made in an external wall so that lepers and other non-desirables could see the service without coming into contact with the rest of the populace, they are termed leper windows or lychnoscopes.
***
I read that as “I promised I wouldn’t touch myself for a month”
Well, not having screen time means the same thing.
Did you eat at Custer’s Last Stand? (Restaurant across from the Park entrance) The fry bread is quite tasty.
No, but I had fry bread on a Navajo rez many years ago. I liked it.
They have a great dessert called Last Stand Custard.
gave him a sacred beaver bundle
euphemism?
Similar hatchet burying
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913_Gettysburg_reunion
https://www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article-View/Article/574412/oregon-national-guard-wraps-up-state-partnership-program-workshop-with-vietname/
Is there a place we can download a better resolution version??
Xhamster.com
I would like to think that the three minute time span between question and answer was spent trying to see which of the various sites yielded the best resolution.
That is what happened, right, Sean?
I plead the fif.
Sorry bout that. If I do another one, I’ll definitely change that up. Thought to myself, “Myself, how hard would it be to make a legit crossword?” and found out that it’s not that easy. Consider this one a test run.
I partook in your alpha test and really enjoyed it. Have too much going on tonight (read: drinking after a tough day) and will have to tackle this one tomorrow. I really enjoy crossword puzzles and appreciate the effort you have put into this.
*9 letters (two words): an effusive glib*
How did the interview go?
Really well, actually. I think I stumbled on a few questions, but nothing too bad. I know I hit a few out of the park by all the nodding and “mmm-hmms”. My would-be supervisor told me later that I did good.
Overall, I’m cautiously optimistic.
Thanks. Lemme know where to improve.
Stop your whiteness. Wake to your privilege.
Larf.
I got about half, which was more than the last one.
Good stuff! Only improvement I would recommend is do what you did with the 2nd version of the last one so it’s easier to read.
This one I made on a smaller sketchbook and then enlarged the pic. You’re right. I can make one in about an hour now, but the first one took a lot longer.
Try not to have unshared boxes, unless you’re going for one of them limey style puzzles and those suck, and they usually rely on anagrams and wordplay. An overall theme is nice but often you only need three of four themed answer to tie the puzzle together, which will allow you more freedom in the non themed clues and also in the themed clues as you can fit the rest of the puzzle around them more easily. For example if you simply crossed “Fuck off Slaver” and “Fuck You that’s why” and “Fuck you cut spending” and ‘Fuck the Beach Boys” you would have a solid theme and even if you had to fill some of the non themed clues with tired old crossword favorites like AIOLI or UTA the overall experience wouldn’t suffer.
Unshared boxes. Yep. Noticed I had done that on this one, but said, “screw it” and left it in. You’re supposed to be able to rotate the grid upside down and have the same pattern. Not symmetrical. Hard to do on a 10×10 and not have solo boxes. And I forgot the title. Shitposting.
Huge Bigot?
I hate crosswords.
What’s a five letter word for someone who should be told to fuck off?
Harris?
D’oh
Biden
Obama
Times eleventy
This.
If only he would.
Ooh! Ooh! I know!
(As all Tulpae know)
Help us end the debate. Fox, Coyote, or something else. I say it’s a coyote pup my wife says it’s a fox. We’re on the outskirts of our metro are where we mostly see coyotes and an occasional wildcat. The foxes have migrated more towards central suburbia because they found out people feed them. They’re practically domesticated. Anyways look towards the bottom left corner.
https://ring.com/share/6728947059626294752
Chupacabra
So that’s why our goats were found drained of blood
*looks around nervously*
*licks lips*
Yes! That’s why!
Look like a coyote to me. Foxes are more cutesy. Like 1980s girls.
I think fox
Fox.
Fox
That’s a chupacabra.
Fox
Looks kinda like the red foxes we have around here.
https://blogs.massaudubon.org/yourgreatoutdoors/fox-or-coyote/
red fox
Bushy tail.
Fox
Fox, unquestionably. Has not grown the winter hair, maybe a young kit.
I am pretty sure that is an adult Red Fox but without color it is difficult to tell. Juvenile coyotes look a little like that but coyotes snouts are not that long and thin.
Easy enough to find out. Start feeding the thing. After a week it will come to your door and demand food if y ou are late putting it out. Then you can get a good look at it.
We get coyotes down here in the valley, but no foxes. I’ve seen them up in the hills, but never in the populated areas. There more sly and less wily.
Fox.
Too much tail for coyote.
Fox. Too small and the tail’s too fluffy to be a coyote.
I spent a lot of time listening to the radio on the road. Man, the classic rock stations have a pretty limited rotation. I heard Crazy Train 3 times in 2 states over an afternoon.
My road trip playlist, based on overplayed songs.
Heading out – King of the Road
Looking for a place to spend the night – Roadhouse Blues
Coming home – I’ve Been Everywhere
AL – Sweet Home Alabama
AK – Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog
AZ – Fat-bottomed Girls
AR – Folsom Prison Blues
CA – Hotel California
CO – Big Rock Candy Mountains
CT – Layla
DE – 21 Guns
GA – The Devil Went Down to Georgia
FL – Land Down Under
HI – Radar Love
ID – Blinded by the Light
IL – Bad Leroy Brown
IN – Crazy Train
IA – I Wanna Be Sedated
KA – Carry On Wayward Son
KY – Renegades
LA – House of the Rising Sun
MA – Highway to Hell
ME – Come Sail Away
MA – More Than a Feeling
MI – Don’t Stop Believin’
MS – Born On a Bayou
MO – Dream On
MN – Africa
MO – Don’t Fear the Reaper
MT – Ghost Riders in the Sky
NJ – White Wedding
NM – Wherever I May Roam
NY – Welcome to the Jungle
NC – Freebird
ND – Piano Man
NV – The Gambler
OK – When the Man Comes Around
OH – The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
OR – Summer of Your Love
PA – Black Betty
RI – Summertime
SC – Barracuda
SD – All Along the Watchtower
TN – Proud Mary
TX – Wanted Dead Or Alive
UT – Stairway to Heaven
VT – Imagine
VA – Stop in the Name of Love
WA – Incense and Peppermints
WI – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
WY – My Life
AK – Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog
Joy to the World.
All the boys and girls now.
Supposedly, the band’s come from the idea that in Alaska, you let the dogs sleep in the bed for warmth. A really cold night is a 3 dog night.
What’s the Ohio nexus for The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?
Don’t the lyrics talk about taking ore to Cleveland?
For future reference the next time you visit the Buckeye State.
There’s not a shortage of Ohio related rock. That’s why I was confused. We have as many bad rock songs as losing sports teams and abandoned factories.
I went back to Ohio and there were four dead?
I guess “4 Dead in Ohio” is too literal.
♫Thin soldiers for Clinton’s army, 4 dead in Benghazi…
Now do Steely Dan.
Based on my cursory research, it appears to be the Voynich Manuscript of band names.
A lot of the classic rock comes from a syndicated program, maybe Connecticut, they have about 14 hours of programming, so what you hear at noon today you’ll hear at 3 PM tomorrow, if you are still in the same time zone.
Read that somewhere when oldies were from the 60s/70s/80s
What are Oldies now, 2000/2010?
I think what radio calls “classic rock” is still the same classic rock I heard 30 years ago on the “classic rock” station – i.e. most of Derp’s list above.
Yep and I have heard that stuff so many times over the last 50 years I wore out on it. Great stuff but you can only listen to it so many times before it gets old.
Not the local one here. They’re owned by one of the chains (was Cumulus) and they’ve changed their playlist over the last twenty years. There’s a lot of classic rock they never play anymore in favor of more famous stuff and mixing in more modern ones. I don’t listen anymore.
Classic Vinyl and Classic Rewind on SXM are much better when I’m in the mood for that era of music. A lot deeper setlist.
Remember the episode in WKRP when Andy (or was it Venus or Johnny? I forget) was hired for more money as a program director except it was all automated?
Details are sketchy but if they did a show about this in the early 80s shows how long ago radio – or at least the DJ – died.
I like Little Steven’s Underground Garage on Sirius. It’s got the classic music vibe.
LSUG is my go-to channel with Outlaw Country on Hillbilly Humpday, and Soul Town on Funk and Soul Friday, and of course Real Jazz on Sunday. But other than that it’s LSUG, Kid Leo plays too much Beach Boys but nobody’s perfect and you gotta give a little if you want to hear Baby Woodrose and The Novaks every once in a while.
Yeah, we have a show by Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols and he plays some great old stuff. Otherwise, we’re a music desert.
I spun records in college for a few weeks – couple times with some mook and a couple times with my first luv…. Especially with the latter, we were *really* bad at it, but the recordings we made of it were hilarious. Like skipping records, records falling behind the machinery, etc.
Even Tom Petty’s channel is pretty good. I jump around including the New Wave, Sinatra and Real Jazz.
I’ll deny it, but truth be told i’ll sometimes tune into The Bridge until they play a Dan Fogelberg song or Ozzy’s Boneyard until I hear three Ozzy/Sabbath songs.
I. Can’t. Even. Right. Now.
Come on now, show a guy some sympathy. Fogelberg’s “Twin Sons of Different Mothers” album Side A was a high school romantic sex standard.
Cats run about 10 degrees hotter. They will roast you if they sleep on you.
My cat sleeps on me all the time. I didn’t notice that.
That’s ’cause it’s always freezing in Canadia. Between that and the goofy measurement system, It’s a wonder any of you stay.
This is true. It is true.
Playing Kansas in Kansas…
Shoulda brought some guns!
I tried to match up the songs with the states. Turns out many famous songs and bands are named after places.
CA has the most: Hotel California, California Girls, California Dreamin’, Californication…
Buncha rock stars live here. There’s even more that reference places here.
Like This!
Or this
With Visuals.
There’s literally hundreds. Some are actually good, too. Occasionally, the references are subtle enough that you have to live here.
There’s so many they don’t even bother to name them differently.
So MN gets Africa? What’s up with that? Is there no song with Somalia in the title/lyrics?
This guy gets it. I guess I could have used Gortoz A Ran from Blackhawk Down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7i_EZO5Hzc
Lookin’ California, but feelin Minnesota
So now you know.
CA, anything by the police, U2 or GnR every other song, and you’ll like it!
LA is music central, but we have some shitty fucking radio here. I only listen to the blues shows on the college stations Sat and Sun.
NDak deserves to be put in radio silence corner.
I should have given it 99 Red Balloons. Lots of nukes in that state. I saw a map showing how many nukes were targeted at each state during the height of the Cold War. ND was a sheet of flame.
The word while I was growing up was that if NoDak were to secede, we’d be the third most powerful (nuke-wise) country in the world.
The airbase I’ve spent most of my life within 50 miles of was one of the first targets wiped out in War Games.
It’s one of those things that we always took for granted, but on any country road booze-cruise, you’d drive by multiple sites with two men and a nuclear-tipped Minuteman missile deep below ground. You didn’t even think twice about it. Around my home town I could probably take you to 6-12 old missile sites in an afternoon.
99 Luftballons > 99 Red Balloons
I remember when Casey Kasem asked America’s opinion of that.
https://youtu.be/eUKuuotR1J8
*ahem*
Igendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann
I have that album – she redid all her hits. It’s awesome.
I remember when that was a hit singing along to my then-girlfriend Georgia:
“99 Luftballoons,
Georgia is a big baboon!”.
I’m surprised we didn’t stay together longer.
Doc, I’m diggin’ the bedside manner!
They’ve opened some silos there as museums to the public. Not well traveled, so when you get there and it’s just your family, it’s great fun.
I went to the Titan silo near Tuscon. They filmed some scenes from one of the Star Trek movies there.
And in true local fashion, I have yet to visit one. SMDH
Pfft, it’s not like they let you take home a MIRV
Titan’s weren’t MIRV’ed, they were city busters.
When I was young in Tucson during the Cold War every single road out of the city had multiple Titan silos, most within 150 yards of the road.
Plus the base had B-52’s before the conversion to A-10’s in the 1970’s.
There was no escape.
Wait until hockey season starts up again.
I like the Tuba version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sx4FWOjpH8
LOL
Like anyone has to imagine there’s no money!
I hate that song so. much. Every time I hear it, I want to go into the nearest Whole Foods and trash the place while cursing like a skid row drunk.
Imagine men in Red crossed white tabards crying out “Deus Vult”
♫ Wights in white satin, never reaching the end…of the series.
You have MA listed twice, and when did NH and Nebraska secede?
Yeah, I’ll blame the beer for that.
NH should be Don’t Fear the Reaper. For NE, I’m tempted to give the jingle from the Beef: It’s What’s For Dinner ads.
But the Edmund Fitzgerald never left Lake Superior, it sank nowhere near Ohio.
They’re still waiting in Cleveland… Plus, it’s Gord.
GORD’S GOLD!!!
How about: DC – Cult of Personality
Maybe NH should be Free Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhKxsalzHiM
Nice rack, but she needs a mic stand.
Oh, excellent. I follow her on twitter so I’m glad she’s doing this show now.
She looks waaaaaaay too much like my daughter-in-law so I am not going there, it’s a little creepy to me.
Went on vacation with the in-laws last week. Never noticed that my brother-in-law’s wife was hot. Known her 20 years and it’s never entered my mind. *Waits to be gay dog gif’d*
My wife and I both have ridiculously good looking boys and they attracted ridiculously attractive young women for wives. It was always my goal in life to end up a dirty old man but not that dirty. Geeesh. I will wait until I get tot he nursing home before I start pinching young girl’s bottoms.
It sucks being old enough for reality to ruin your fantasies, but not so old that dementia causes you not to care.
That was deep, straff. Deep. And spot on.
Schizophrenia runs in Dad’s family
Alzheimer’s runs in Mom’s
I’m hoping I simply forget to go crazy
Schizophrenia is a younger man’s disease — you’re safe.
So, I just signed up for Instagram. The list of recommended “follows” looks suspiciously similar to my Facebook “likes”.
Continued…
W.T.F.?!
[sotto voce]* – they’re owned by the same company.
*in the voice of Homer saying “when the race starts, run really, really fast”.
Well, shit.
I fucking hate social media. Only doing it for business. Fucking hate it.
Fucking hate it.
Don’t be shy, Mike, tell us how you realy feel.
I find it displeasing.
For a minute there I thought you were gonna keep sugarcoating it.
I would totally give this sentiment likes, if I could.
Using Instagram for business?
Remember, if you talk to the johns about money, use something like WhatsApp because it’s untraceable.
*cue rainbow*
*furiously
takes notesmasturbates*My favorite sci-fi action scene is old enough to join AARP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5H4yK_tiGI
Love that old school army look. Olive Drab is God’s favorite color.
It’s way better than the remake.
Skeleton Beam. That movie scared the shit out of me as a kid.
Because boom, and I love you guys.
http://imgur.com/gallery/iDfiH0o
Kick. Ass.
Did you get the Sup job?
Still fucking waiting. I have heard that a decision is coming down every week for the past 3.
Decisions move at the pace of snails.
Ugh. That’s the fucking worst. If you don’t want me, just tell me. Don’t keep me hanging. If you do want me, let’s get this shit going. Quit dragging your feet.
In their defense…
12 people applied for 1 position, so hell I dont know
No shite. Memo sent out today at work about a reorg to have more details announced a month from now at a prescheduled meeting. Why? If it’s something that should be done, do it now. Pull the bandaid off all at once.
Way cool.
Was that supposed to happen? I know for nothing about such places.
Not at all…
Hi everybody
s’up
Hey…uh…guy!
I’m sorry, what’s your name again?
https://youtu.be/WGr7w8ak4IE
Good news, everyone!
I hear what you did there.
I mean “first”! Nah, i’m low energy right now. Recovered from illness just in time to not yake the Monday off. Was weird. Im thinking might have not been cold, but severe hayfever.
Oh well. Done now, just tired.
You know who else
Ug just don’t have the energy.
Hi Dr Nick!
Wasnt that a great character? Phil Hartman?
The series of tubes says Hank Azaria, also the voice of the soon to be memory holed Apu.
Ah thats right. Thanks
Apu’s not going anywhere – see upthread.
Reports of his death blah blah blah Samuel Clemens etc…
Hello, good robutt.
Nice- the Zeiberg
#DoubleYeti
I’m flipping through the TV, and the MTV Music Awards are on at least seven different channels.
Are you waiting with baited breath for Miley to win super-dooper-bestest ever?
(I am aware that that was unnecessarily snarky)
I’m not actually watching it, and I severely doubt she’s going to make some surprise appearance.
Huh.
“Miley Cyrus Performs ‘Slide Away’ at 2019 MTV VMAs
Following the last-minute announcement that she would take the stage at the 2019 MTV VMAs, the 26-year-old singer delighted the crowd with an intense performance of “Slide Away.””
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/miley-cyrus-performs-slide-away-at-2019-mtv-vmas/ar-AAGmWfH
?
Why mad?
It’s a link. Maybe it doesn’t show.
Oh
Breaking news: Attention whore attention whores.
Like…’snail trail’?
bated !!!1!!
where the hell is Ted’S?
baited, have you smelled his breath?
Au contraire. It was necessarily snarky.
Now with 25% MORE snark!
They still do music? I thought they went full-on super wokester and only played wokiest wokester reality competition shows and SJW propaganda these days.
Any of the music I heard was crap. I presume they are still doing the woke thing.
Harper struck out in the bottom of the 9th with the bases loaded.
Aren’t you supposed to like, you know, come through for all that money?
At least don’t strike out.
The Redbirds are kicking the Brewers’ butts in THE ONLY DIVISION THAT MATTERS! /rant
Stopped watching at 8-1. The Cards always seem to heat up at the right time.
Depends on who’s pitching. Great pitching>great hitting.
I think it was Rodriquez. Meh.
He hasn’t thrown well since Sugarman.
Tuesdays with Derpy, part 5
part 4 here at comment 39: https://glibertarians.com/2019/08/motel-living-random-thoughts/#comment-1114347
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The hovercar trundled down the dusty path.
Keep your eyes peeled for the sign, said the old man in the passenger seat.
What’s it say again, asked the college kid.
Whizzing Cheese Republican Reservation, said the old man.
The last of the Republicans, he added.
Well, we got another hour at least on the road. Any pearls of wisdom to share, asked the college kid.
The old man leaned back and rubbed his chin thoughtfully. After a few moments, he spoke:
There are basically 2 types of people in the world. Nobody is all the way one or the other, but everybody is closer to one side.
The first kind, I’ll call him the Hank Hill type. These guys are great: honest, polite, hard-working, careful.
They are the reason toilets flush, lights turn on, and planes don’t fall out of the sky. Without them, we’d all be living in caves.
The other kind, I’ll call him the Keith Richards type. These guys are great too: wild, creative, fun, passionate.
Every song, book, or movie you’ve ever liked, it came from the Keith Richards tribe. And a lot of great, new ideas too.
So we need both, but there has to be a balance. When too many Hank Hill types are in charge, life can get really boring.
And when too many Keith Richards types are in charge, everything goes to hell so fast it makes a dumpster fire look like Swan Lake.
Somewhere along the line, too many Keith Richards types got in charge. And not the smart ones either. Things started to get bad.
The Hank Hill types knew something was wrong and they tried to fix things. They went about it the only way they knew how.
They wrote long-winded letters to the editor. They went to protests dressed up like Ben Franklin. They went to school board meetings.
While they were doing that, the Keith Richards types were making songs, movies, TV shows, and college classes for their side.
Somewhere along the line, the Hank Hill types forgot how to tell a good story, and that is why they lost.
It’s like what I read in an old book: Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!
***
Boredom is highly under-rated.
No offense, but that’s what Islamic fundamentalists say: the Koran has all the answers, new ideas are haram. Let us continue with our 1,400 year old traditions.
Ditto for medieval Japanese and the Soviets.
He’s not saying be lazy and be a commie.
Just take it easy and be content about it.
At least that’s how I interpreted it hence my comment below.
May you live in interesting times
I think it is. People are conditioned to believe if they’re doing nothing they’re wasting life. ‘Idle hands are the devil’s workshop’ taking way too literally.
I have friends who don’t seem to have any down time. Always go, go, go. The Quebecois like to say ‘il faut en profiter’ (we have to take advantage) but it always seems like it’s for its own sake.
We’re more chill and don’t feel the need to always be doing something.
One of the governors of Hong Kong back when the Brits were in charge banned the collection of statistics, because they would always be used to push for “doing something” and the something was usually a bad idea. The term “benign neglect” started with him.
***
He arrived in Hong Kong in 1945 and was assigned to the Department of Supplies, Trade and Industry.[2] He was asked to find ways in which the government could boost post-war economic outlook but found the economy was recovering swiftly without any government intervention.[3] He took the lesson to heart and positive non-interventionism became the focus of his economic policy as Financial Secretary.[3] Cowperthwaite built on the economic policies of his predecessors, Arthur Clark and Geoffrey Follows, promoting free trade, low taxation, budget surpluses, limited state intervention in the economy, a distrust of industrial planning, and sound money.[2] It was a policy mix that drew more on Adam Smith and Gladstone than on Keynes and Attlee. However, Cowperthwaite was a pragmatic civil servant rather than a theoretician and he based his policies on his experience, empirical data and what he believed would work in practice.[4]
He refused to compile GDP statistics arguing that such data was not useful to managing an economy and would lead to officials meddling in the economy.[5] He was once asked what the key thing that poor countries could do to improve their growth. He replied: “They should abolish the office of national statistics.”
***
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_Cowperthwaite
“Do little and do it slowly.” – advice given to a new Spanish governor in colonial Mexico.
Truer words have never been spoken. And we see this madness in the flesh when it comes to gun control and climate change.
I think there is a bit of an over-reliance (fetish?) for statistics. In the wrong hands and it could lead to questionable outcomes. It’s a new discipline onto itself in sports now. My nephew (who is on the spectrum) got a job for a sports stats company the owner of the Dallas Stars invests in.
I know in baseball the old school guys are hating all this new wave of statistical analysis. It can be helpful but you gotta be able to understand what the stats are telling you or not saying.
Went out to peek on the Halloween display spinning across the front porch. I counted a dozen widows before I quit.
It makes no more sense here than it did in you Gilmored original.
I hate ’em, but they’re pretty chill spiders. It’s a little unsettling when the first thing you see in the flashlight you sweep across their web is that unmistakable silhouette.
Almost a year ago I rousted bunches of them out of my nephew’s sandbox playthings when we cleaned up before my brother moved. That was freaky.
I hate spiders.i have the arachnophobia. But. I’m 5’8/9 and weigh 190 pounds, only some of which is beer belly. You deal.
I’m also afraid of heights, but gimme a harness and x bucks per hr, well, I’ll roof a three story with 4/12 pitch.
I hate them too. I’m a little less skeeved out watching them chill while I count them up, but they are creepy little fucks.
They do catch a ton of bugs, though.
Thanks for the new crossword puzzle! Gonna start on it after dinner.
Meanwhile, 4 months to go!
Also coming out, but a bit much. I already have a suitcase and a jacket.
Sweet. Gonna have to buy a 50th anniversary 腹巻き since it lands on my own 50th birthday.
So that’s what that belly band is.
Belly band.
I watched some MSLSD during my trip. As much as I could stand anyway.
Well, I watched a show called Saturday Night Politics. And on it, the host was brainstorming how to tie Team Red with the word assault. Team Red favors assault weapons, sexual assault, etc. But Team Blue, they favor protection- for women, for gays, etc.
This clip isn’t it, but it shows the spirit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooqjzvkUbtc
It’s all so tiresome.
An MS LSD trip?
https://twitter.com/PhilipinDC/status/1166160047547854849
I want to move to Brazil so I can vote for Bolsonaro next time.
That’s quite the burn.
The comments… LOL
When I was in 6th grade, the teacher said we would have a debate about cutting down the rain forest. I was the only guy on the pro-logging side.
My argument was basically that the US cut down plenty of trees and it was hypocritical to tell other countries not to. I said that people don’t cut down trees for fun. They’re doing it to make money so they can take care of their families. Aren’t people more important than trees?
The consensus was I won the debate.
From 1947 to 2015, forested area remained flat in Europe, increased in Asia, North and South America, and decreased in Africa. Total worldwide forests remained essentially flat overall. Deforestation is pretty much a local phenomenon that is balanced out acreagewise.
Some day an actual, not political, no BS environmental crisis will occur (probably an ice age) I’d say these people are being the boy who cried wolf, except we don’t actually have anything like the technology or power it would take to do a damn thing to stop it. Fortunately are good at adapting to changes.
The main cause of deforestation is the need for firewood. That is why satellite pics show a green Dominican Republican and a brown Haiti.
But oh no. Morons like this guy say we need to shut down fossil fuel agriculture and give subsidies to lazy hippies pretending to farm:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/08/lifecycle-of-a-leaf
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But there is one thing we can be doing now in spite of these local complexities and global uncertainties. There is one policy that we can standardize and begin applying at a federal scale, possibly contained within the boundaries of the Green New Deal or a similar policy. And that is federally subsidizing small-scale, low fossil fuel-input agricultural projects and dismantling the large fossil fuel ones. (We can break up the big banks and the big farms at the same time.) But doing this, decarbonizing the food system, will almost certainly mean changing the way in which people work and live in the world; if we’re going to get the political buy-in necessary to dramatically change how food is produced, and fast, then we must discuss the big patterns in lifestyle change that might accompany a managed decarbonization of the food supply and how that can make life better.
***
[Martian war machine charging up sound-effect]
decarbonization of the food supply
Once again, they’re completely honest. Stone soup will feed the world.
Totally radical. These types sure are big on “dramatic change!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2pZSvq9bto
“This is the moment…when the rise of the oceans began to slow and the planet began to heal.”
Veal farms for the win!
Baby seals or GTFO
“We can”
You got a mouse in your pocket, shit-stain?
What do you mean “we”, kemosabe?
I almost went with that.
Also, emailed ya last week. You settling in well enough?
Oh shoot, I haven’t been on my protonmail in a while, thanks for reminding me.
Doing all right though, been catching up with old friends and family so it’s been a good time so far.
Things all right with y’all?
Yeah–good enough, I suppose. Start of the Fall semester at work, so, not really looking forward to the first few weeks. If you wanna see just how frightening the future is, spend the first month of a semester hanging around a community college.
Yeah, no thanks. I’ll be content to just read/hear about it. Glad you’re doing all right though.
Aww, c’mon–hangin’ out with the probably of-age girls? No?
how about–clueless staff members who most likely can’t find their assholes with funnels?
Raph?? Raph, where ya goin’?!?
There were a few I couldn’t get.
I watched The Return of Swamp Thing for the first time in probably 20 years. I decided to see if that fat kid ever did anything else, turns out he made a movie with porn star cum actress Bree Olsen that some glibs might have been in.
Isn’t a porn star and a cum actress the same thing?
Is that what Bree was known for? I heard they fake a lot of it.
Bree Olsen, not Bree Larson. The latter can’t seem to fake anything other than being mildly perturbed.
Oh, I gotta clap back for that one… ?
‘clapping back’ is a bad thing, are starting fight essay!?
Right?! Totally triggered now.
Only when you judo my joke with a Bree Larson joke.
https://archive.li/nvBPe/848989fe6d07cbdc8e719d4210752b43f9620d4f.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/pJpEf/cc7a64fed260ec142bfc737f44ecbba6cba251d8.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/IDNEm/4bbeb2daee5195ce1c8646bf1e8e1bf37f9d4799.jpg
NSFW.
I could find one, or two in this group.
Ooooh, yay, I can finally catch Late Night Glibs in the actual night time.
Also, *honk honk*
Trying to put something like that together for consideration (for weekends).
[somewhere out west]
♫ Derpy’s comin’ round the mountain when he comes!
HONK! HONK!
He’ll be comin’ round the mountain when he comes!
HONK! HONK!
He’ll be getting super hammered, he’ll be getting super hammered when he comes!
HONK! HONK!
OT:
Vanity Fair that takes a hard look at Elon Musk and his business practices.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/how-elon-musk-gambled-tesla-to-save-solarcity
Solyndra 2.0. Who could have seen that coming?!
I would imagine every Glib, ever. 😀
Why does Vanity Fair hate the Earth?
I’m pretty angry at this whole thing, as a former resident of that city which I still love/hate.
Re: My reply to Raphael in #35–
I would like to do some kind of weekend, deep night article series for the site. That said, I could use some input/help with the composition, and would love to have this be collaborative.
I have a Protonmail account. I can be reached at Sir.Digby.71 should anyone be willing to share ideas. Maybe some link/comment recaps; discussion questions for when we’re tired that, maybe, you want to see i an article, but aren’t ready or willing to write yourself; weird
shitstuff from around the internet–you get the idea. Or, maybe you have better ideas you can share.I’ve been thinking of changing ‘As Seen on TV’ from covering groundbreaking stuff to just revisiting little known old TV shows. I’m sure that’s something that multiple people here could riff on. Just a thought.
You know I live for help on these matters, so, email me with your vision. In words, preferably.
*quickly deletes dick pic attachment*
No need for an email; it’s a simple idea. I’ve watched lots of TV shows no I ever talk to has ever seen. And I’m sure many others have that same experience. Like, Swamp Thing had a TV show. Remember the Superboy TV show? That time when Chuck Norris had a cartoon? shit like that just talking about a short lived show.
If you wanna write up a paragraph or so (with a video or wiki link), I will
fit it input it inadd it, with the appropriate attribution.Unless you want to do this up as your own article…?
I already did it as an article, twice. Just saying, changing the focus from groundbreaking little known stuff to just little known shows and letting others write articles under the same banner, that’s all my idea is.
I could add a bit of that…
Nice idea and I’ll see what this pea brain noggin of mine can think of.
Suck it DeBlasio.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/08/26/photo-of-a-grilled-cheese-sandwich-beating-bill-de-blasios-fundraising-video-by-a-factor-of-1321/
Good night Glibs.
What are you, out already? Pfft…you and your “sleep”.
bukakke udon
*snicker*
Is that from Bree Olsen’s catalog?