Happy Friday, y’all. Football season starts for real this weekend. My wife is making about 5lbs of my favorite taco recipe, and I have some beer. Life is good.
Are Iowa women the locus of infection, or just eating too many pig ear dog treats?
“We have no faith in Boris Johnson to lead the UK to Brexit” and “we also don’t want to hold new elections until after Brexit”. I love politics.
What kind of corrupt administration would investigate companies who refuse to cooperate with Federal regulators? I’m going to go with “all of them”.
Is this the worst kind of science reporting?
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“Scientists caution that the study was done with a very limited number of participants: only nine people took the drug cocktail, and there was no control group. But if it is confirmed by further research it could have huge impacts on healthcare, the treatment of disease and how people think about ageing.”
So you are saying you want more money?
“In the study, participants were given a growth hormone and two diabetes medications.”
Which were? You can’t list the names of three things?
HGh, metformin, and some other longer named one. I looked it up. Also, drug cocktail sounds like something a TV preacher should be railing against.
It’s a term psychiatrists often use.
“drug cocktail”
Not just psychiatrists, it’s common across medicine. The pain relief combination, if I recall the specific name correctly, used in England for a pain free last few moments of life, was called the Brompton Cocktail. Among other ingredients, it included heroin and cocaine.
Well, I guess it’s never too late to take up speedball.
Anyway, there also was the Darvon Cocktail to commit suicide.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5943638/
drug cocktail
If that is how they administer the elixir of life then gay guys and chicks into anal live forever and everyone else chooses to die young with dignity. Also men swamp med school admissions office.
Hey, not all of us bend over, buddy.
I don’t think that it matters what position you are in….
Oh, wait. I think I see what you mean. Well yeah, you are gonna die too then. Which will create an interesting demographic skew. Too many catchers, not enough pitchers.
Too many catchers, not enough pitchers
That’s no way to win a world series!
Tell me about it.
– Nervous Twinkies Fan
IANAScientist, but I’m pretty sure that if this doesn’t reverse the shortening of telomeres it won’t help one to live longer.
I’d be happier just to regain more stamina, even at the cost of a shortened lifespan. Getting old sucks. And I’m one of the luckier, younger, healthier old people.
Me too. /knocks on wood
Sly Stalone is a good example of what this cocktail might do to a person. Healthy, but burning out.
Study n=9
*makes jerking off motion, wipes it on your face*
I approve of your choice of cover pic.
Dear Britian,
GET ON WITH IT
Signed,
America
I find the whole thing baffling. Didn’t we just see that Nigel’s wankers are ready to do a deal with Boris’s wankers?
Those brave labor are fighting to save their democracy
They are giddily proclaiming their contempt for the voters’ will. Will the voters let them get away with it?
Yes. I am so glad that my ancestors immigrated to America, even though the US isn’t far behind the UK in terms of socialist idiocy.
Baffling? Try exhausting. And insufferable.
They had a referendum. The people voted. Respect the result and follow through.
Instead, they’re ignoring a democratic result and claiming they’re ‘saving the democracy’.
We’re in clown world.
Speaking of clown world….Chris Hayes and AOC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XFIIVScvls
My God is this man ignorant to stupendous levels.
Pay close attention to his comment about land and votes. One of the most wtf moments you’ll ever see.
“We’re in clown world.”
Rufe, we’re all family here. Can you let us in on the clown vs muppet hierarchy? This is some super complicated thing like vampires vs werewolves, or Serbia, with decades of conflict, right?
Muppets are vastly superior. We’re principled, funny and moral. We read and have sex a lot!
Clowns are just nasty and petty. They do stupid things like put ketchup on hot dogs. And they kill!
This.
Check your muppet privilege
Canada.
Of course you have sex a lot. A hand is rammed up your bum daily.
Fris-keh!
We all float down here!
Nice vid!
Great vid.
Brexit doesn’t actually have any members in the UK Parliament; they are the largest British party in Brussels. The election the remainers are trying to delay would undoubtedly change that. Right now, though, it’s basically the Conservatives and UKIP MP’s with a few Labor dissenters. The majority of Labor, along with the LibDems, SNP, and Welsh Nationalists have a clear majority.
Oops. It looks like there aren’t any current UKIP MPs, either.
No. And UKIP is not as popular as the new Brexit Party which actually cost conservatives a seat in a recent by-election. Farage has offered to form a coalition with Johnson and he would be smart to do so
Farage has offered to form a coalition with Johnson and he would be smart to do so
I imagine Johnson will take that, as he seems to be committed to Brexit (and his party’s future). He demonstrated this when he expelled from his party every Tory who back-stabbed him by supporting that Remainer resolution, effectively ending their political careers. They were not expecting him to do that, as it was a rather unprecedented move. So far Johnson has also declared that he will not ask for an extension as the resolution demands, and if he sticks to that it will show beyond a doubt that he is serious. I don’t know if they can punish PMs in the UK for defying parliament, as the parliament certainly can’t vote no confidence in him without risking an election, which they’ve shown they don’t want.
Tittays, show us ’em tittays.
That’d change the D primary a lot. Tulsi would be getting more than 2%, I suspect.
Brexit is the largest party in the European Parliament. Period.
They’re only making plans for Nigel.
/XTC
Particularly the Generals and Majors
Uh huh.
And Sgt. Rock.
+1
They only want what’s best for him, after all!
Is this the worst kind of science reporting?
I have no idea, since the fargin’ linked page won’t let me read it without my bending over and letting it have its way with me (or at least my browser).
“Iowa has the most cases of salmonella in the United States right now.”
You can’t argue with science. The Democrats running for President fuck chickens.
Which one is the real SIV? My money is on Ryan.
Bill de Blasio
“New York has the second most cases with 16.”
Which one is the real SIV?
The one advocating legal cockfighting?
“Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump
My proposal to the politically correct Automobile Companies would lower the average price of a car to consumers by more than $3000, while at the same time making the cars substantially safer. Engines would run smoother. Very little impact on the environment! Foolish executives!”
Is this Donnie being Don or does he have a point? And….What do politicians know about cars?
“Even the Obama administration, which put in place rules requiring more fuel efficient cars, conceded the purchase price would be higher as a result. But it argued that the savings in fuel costs over the life of the car would make the more efficient cars less costly overall.”
Not sure I buy this argument. Price of gas fluctuates so who knows if a consumer gets a net benefit over the long-term? I think I’d rather take the savings up front.
Not sure I buy this argument. Price of gas fluctuates so who knows if a consumer gets a net benefit over the long-term? I think I’d rather take the savings up front.
Well, the number of miles you drive and just how much the MPG improves are probably more significant on the overall savings. But, the point generally stands.
A 20% improvement over 25 MPG in a car that’s driven 15k miles/year with an average price of $3/gal of gasoline will take 10 years to break even on a $3000 higher up-front price. Some people keep cars that long, but you’d have to factor in a depreciation and maintenance schedule to really determine whether it’s worth it to keep the car or trade-in periodically.
Well, if you live in a good climate you can keep the car long and maintain it.
Much harder in harsh climates like in the northern parts.
But I get the argument. It can work.
He’s just babbling. But there is truth buried in the gibberish – fucking regs make the cars way more expensive. Although if he’s really interested in smoother running engines, nuking the ethanol requirements would be a great start!
The old and tired engines in my fleet agree, purge the corn juice from fuel.
Ethanol sucks and I live in Illinois.
I don’t see what’s stopping the car companies from following the eco-warrior regs on all their vehicles and telling the other 60% of Americans to go fuck themselves.
One company catering to that 60%, and under selling its competition by $3000 or more on comparable models?
Ah, same old rent-seeking. At least the consumer is still fucked.
“I sure as shit ain’t jumping off this bridge myself.”
“What do politicians know about cars?”
Everything. Because they regulate them. They must know stuff.
CAFE gave us the SUV and the abomination that is the crossover/tall-car. Like the Nissan Juke. They couldn’t regulate the design of individual vehicles, but they could regulate the fuel efficiency of an automaker’s annual fleet output as a whole. Passenger vehicles like sedans, wagons and minivans are in one category. Many SUVs count as trucks. The net effect was to raise fuel consumption by forcing consumers to buy features they didn’t need (ground clearance, beefier suspension) in order to get features they wanted (seating and cargo capacity, AWD) without the automakers running afoul of the feds.
The should bring back the Chevy Vega….wagon.
CAFE is all about hiding the cost of the regulation. The simple answer to reducing gas consumption is to increase the gas tax. But that is a very visible change, and would have political consequences. Instead, the burden is shouldered on the manufacturers. Nobody ever has to take actual responsibility, and people sit around wondering why cars seem to keep getting bigger and fuel consumption never really seems to get better.
A little if A a little of B. Technology costs money and typically adds cost. Along with that cost, it adds complexity. Take for example the 2001 Chevy Tahoe with the 5.3 V8. I had one that got 14 mpg all day long but was reliable to the tune of logging 311,000 on the clock before I sold it in running condition without ever having so much as opening the engine up (rebuilt trans at 252,000). Fast forward to a 2007 Chevy Tahoe with similar 5.3 V8, but with “Active Fuel Management”. That same engine generally got about 1mpg better real world mileage, but is only good for about half the life due to AFM problems causing compression loss and ruined valves. I’d rather pay it at the pump and have a vehicle I can rely on. Instead of going to the newer body style, I found a 2001 Ford Expedition with 149k on the clock. I’ve put 75k on it and just had the first check engine light last week for a fuel pressure sensor.
Uffda. If there really is a way to extend lifespans by decades, what is the likelihood of the Feds having the spine to change the retirement age for Social Security or Medicaid?
Does the cocktail reverse physical damage from decades of aging as well? ’Cause if not, living longer may be more of a curse than a blessing.
Can one undrink several thousand beers?
Asking for a friend.
Only if you saved all your piss. Then you can use a catheter to pump it back in where a process of reverse osmosis will turn it back into beer that you have to spit the reconstituted beer back into a bottle.
I’m rich!
No reason.
None. But it’s not a problem because both programs will be bankrupt before the technology is practical.
Mojo around?
While digging through the carcass of the AM lynx, I heard her plaintive wail for a “diesel, preferably stick-shift”.
Have I recently bragged about my 6-speed Ram2500 CTD ?
https://postimg.cc/sMwLShmP
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‘sup ya’all ?
‘sup
‘sup.
Bah. I only have a 1500 gas job with a 5 speed. Oh well, new trucks are too expensive for me to care about upgrading anytime soon.
RUDE!
Very nice. I am green.
Pig’s ears? Can’t the Iowegian women spread the peanut butter on their lady parts with their fingers like a normal person?
The pig ear is good at getting the last bit of peanut butter out of the jar.
So I’m told. For a friend. BY a friend, I mean. *hastily slinks away*
You should go get that salmonella treated.
Don’t medsplain to me, shitlord.
Inexplicable. Baffling.
Environmentalists marveled at the administration’s escalation of the fight.
“I think this has now become a personal thing between Trump and California,” said Andrew Linhardt, deputy director of the Sierra Club’s clean transportation campaign. “I think there’s going to be a multi-pronged attack on the deal.”
If I were charge of the EPA, I’d say, “Okay if that’s the number you want, that’s the number you get. No fudging. No theoretical offsets. No ‘assume a
can openerhypothetical number’.And when we use less gas, the fucking pols raise the gas taxes to cover their “shortfalls”.
No matter what, we get screwed.
“EXCLUSIVE: Kylie Rae Harris had a history of drunk driving and a court-ordered breathalyzer attached to her car – as it’s revealed the fire fighter father of the 16-year-old killed in the alcohol-related crash was a first responder at the scene
Country singer Kylie Rae Harris had multiple citations for drunk driving and speeding and had a court-ordered breathalyzer installed in her car, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The 30-year-old was killed in a three-car collision that also claimed the life of 16-year-old high school student Maria Cruz in Taos, New Mexico Wednesday night.
Police revealed alcohol was a factor in the accident but have not disclosed which driver had been drinking.
Court records obtained by DailyMail.com show Harris was convicted in June 2017 of driving while intoxicated with a blood alcohol content (BAC) of more than 0.15, almost double the legal limit of 0.08.
The singer was fined $460.10 for the offense, and the judge ordered an Ignition Interlock Device be attached to her car that required her to take a breathalyzer test before getting behind the wheel.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7435307/Country-singer-Kylie-Rae-Harris-multiple-citations-drunk-driving-speeding.html
“Police said alcohol was a factor in the accident, which also killed high school student Maria Cruz, 16, but have not revealed which driver had been drinking ”
I’m going to go with the one who veered into oncoming traffic.
“as it’s revealed the fire fighter father of the 16-year-old killed in the alcohol-related crash was a first responder at the scene”
No words.
I can honestly say that if the singer was still alive if I came upon that as the father. She still would have died in the fatal accident.
I’d dedicate my life to revenge. Avenge? Whatever. I’d do it.
HGh, metformin, and some other longer named one. I looked it up. Also, drug cocktail sounds like something a TV preacher should be railing against.
It’s not a proper drug cocktail if it doesn’t have some ecstasy in it.
Poppers. Do you even party, bro?
What about the Weeeeeed, man?
Have you ever tried adding weed to a drug cocktail……ON WEEEEED, Man?
Democrats Propose Mandatory Free Speech Buyback For Dangerous Ideas. And the hits just keep on coming. The headline alone is almost enough by itself, but the last two paragraphs in the article have some gems, too.
“Vaping kills a THIRD person and has left 450 people sick because of a deadly ‘new lung disease’: Health crisis linked to e-cigarettes has now spread to 33 states and the CDC has urged all people to STOP the habit”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7436241/Vaping-related-illness-claims-life-Indiana-officials-report.html
FUCK OFF SLAVER
It’s not fucking linked to e-cigs. It’s linked to illicit cannaboid cartridges. The commercial stuff has no problems.
And how would one know if such cannaboid cartridges are elicit or not? Mere curiosity and a hypothetical, naturally
What I mean is, how would you know if the cartridge is some illicit version versus one produced in CO or the other states where it is legal? Are the legal ones more professionally packaged or something?
GMP.
Living in a prohibition state I wouldn’t know. Lot’s of the product I buy is represented to have been licitly produced in Colorado. But it could be cooked up down in Hopewell for all I know and and have a counterfeit label.
We don’t even know what kind of equipment they were using. They keep insinuating “e-cigarette” which implies Juul or one of the similar cartridge types but have offered no definitive proof. It could be a vaporizer system for all we know, the kind you pour your own liquid into.
Well, making it all illegal will certainly solve that problem. Just like how nobody uses potentially unsafe illegal drugs, because they are illegal.
Well a lot of the “illicit” discussion implies Chinese production – like a lot of their other toxic drug combos – but given the cannibinoid association, I’m not sure.
In 70 years people will be shaking their heads wondering how we could be so stupid to be panicked about this stuff.
E-fer Madness
In 70 years they’ll find new things to be panicked about. Or recycle some old ones.
Are your radioactive offspring worshipping the devil by playing D&D out in the ashes of civilization?!
More at 11, tonight on Cronenworld News
It won’t be Dungeons and Dragons then. It will be Suburbs and Soccer Moms
Roll a saving throw to see if you remembered to bring snacks for little Max’s soccer team.
Ah, ok, but that doesn’t sound like a saving throw to me, it should be more like “if the snacks are sufficiently hypoallergenic”
somebody at Woke*mart caught whiff of the price arbitrage on their Pelican short-barrelled rifle case that I PSA’d to the group yesterday. it jumped from $30 below MSRP to $43 over MSRP overnight. so a $73 adjustment on something that MSRPs for $149 everywhere else. oops!
Mugabe assumes room temperature.
My Mom always used to say, when someone dies, say something good about them. In Mugabe’s case, I can only say, “He’s dead. Good.”
He sure made Ian Smith look good.
Instapundit quoted a 2005 NYT story today in noting Mugabe’s death:
Damn Whites – oppressing them with prosperity.
There were a lot of nightsticks and jails involved, too. One should not excuse the crimes of the past just because there are worse crimines today.
Or crimes, even. The tragedy here is not that white rule was ousted, it’s that a far more oppressive rule was allowed to take its place in the name of being “genuine” and “African” and other bullshit.
Right. A government that explicitly made them second-class citizens still provided them with a better standard of living than Mugabe, and that’s what is particularly sad.
Yes. The Western powers pushed the end of white rule in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and South Africa in the name of justice and fairness, but then turned a blind eye to the greater injustice and unfairness that followed. It would have been better to have left well enough alone.
I mean, they had to labor to earn money to purchase all those cheap, available products, and that’s worse than Slavery. Worse than Nikki, even.
Damn wreckers and Kulaks, at it again!
Since parliament passed a “no hard Brexit” bill and the opposition won’t allow for elections, Johnson’s last hand to play is to ignore the law and move forward with a hard Brexit.
Who is going to stop him? The opposition could only stop him by holding elections and hoping that they win a majority, but polls suggest that will not happen. So just ignore them and go forward with the hard Brexit.
I predict this is what is going to happen come October and people are going to be losing their ever loving shit leading up to the 31st
The kicker is that it will be deemed an attempt to thwart democracy.
It ws not PM Johnson alone who suspended Parliament effective 10 September. Liz Two agreed to it. Liz Two could refuse Royal Assent to the no-no-deal bill. The last time a reigning monarch refused Royal Assent in what is now the UK was in 1707.
I would love it if she dissolved Parliament and ordered new elections.
On the other hand, this is the same royal family that is quite content to allow the government they head to both refuse to protect their subjects and to deprive them of the arms they need to defend themselves.
So I don’t really expect her to give much of a shit about this latest abuse of the welfare of the people under her rule.
I think her grandfather deserves more blame than she. He is the one who allowed the House of Lords to be stripped of its power. At this point, theirs is a caretaker monarchy more in line with the Japanese “emperor” than actual kings and queens.
What does the law actually require? Because in order to stop “hard Brexit” they have to get approval from the EU for an extension. If the EU declines to give it, then what?
The EU will give an extension, because it increases the chances of a “deal” that fucks over Britons.
Probably, yes. But it seems odd that a law could require the PM to do something that is not in his power to do.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom said California would go to court to protect its authority to enforce tougher pollution rules within its borders. Newsom added that the administration’s proposed rollbacks would make drivers pay more for gasoline and worsen air quality.
“The Trump Administration has been attempting and failing to bully car companies for months now,” Newsom said in a statement. “We remain undeterred. California stands up to bullies and will keep fighting for stronger clean car protections that protect the health and safety of our children and families.”
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Upping the ante even further, the top lawyers at EPA and DOT sent a letter Friday to Mary Nichols, chairperson of the California Air Resources Board, threatening “legal consequences” if the state does not move immediately to “disassociate” itself from the agreement with the automakers.
Nichols later issued a statement lashing back at EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler.
“The US Department of Justice brings its weight to bear against auto companies in an attempt to frighten them out of voluntarily making cleaner, more efficient cars and trucks than EPA wants,” she said. “Consumers might ask, who is Andy Wheeler protecting?”
If there’s any bullying to be done…
“Voluntarily”.
“Nice car company youse gots here. Be a shame if sumpthin wuz ta happens to it.”
Never took him for a states rights neo-confederate.
California stands up to bullies
“Gimme your fucking lunchmoney, Nebraska, or you’re eating a knucklesandwich.”
So brave, much noble.
The US Department of Justice brings its weight to bear against auto companies in an attempt to frighten them out of voluntarily making cleaner, more efficient cars and trucks than EPA wants
That would be bad, but I don’t think that’s what is actually happening.
Never took him for a states rights neo-confederate.
What with their sanctuary policies for illegals, you shouldn’t be surprised.
A pox on both their houses.
Minnesoda is revamping the way they hold primaries and the results have pissed off the DFL (what we call Dems around here). The sticking point is who gets access to voter lists. The DFL wants to make sure only the GOP and them get those lists. The Sec of State says other smaller parties (who got at least 5% of the vote) also get them.
A lot of it is inside baseball stuff, but the bottom line is that the two big parties agree that they don’t need any more competition. And that citizens don’t need any privacy at all.
It’d be hilarious if Marianne W won the Minnesota D primary thanks to a concerted effort.
Trump Holds Up Map Suggesting Hurricane May Hit Coast Of Middle-Earth
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-holds-up-map-suggesting-hurricane-may-hit-coast-of-middle-earth
Good. The only good hobbit is a dead hobbit
The bearded ones are ok.
Wait. Shouldn’t you of all people look down on closet cases who use a beard to hide behind? I thought it was supposed to be Loud and Proud?
Lol. I thought for sure you’d be a Dwarf guy.
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The shire was on the west coast, though, wasn’t it? I’m assuming hurricanes are still an east coast phenomenon on Middle Earth, since I don’t see bad weather originating from the elf lands.
“We have no faith in Boris Johnson to lead the UK to Brexit”
Already told you limeytards, Farage is the man. I’m not talking about what’s possible, but about what you need. Or maybe you guys just need to come back over here and let us kick the shit out of you again? Maybe that will get some courage back in you, or at least some humility and respect for the serfs.
ACLU Lodges Complaint Against Amash Challenger for Declining to Host Performance By Drag Queens With Down Syndrome
Not the Bee!
I’d say the odds are 70-30 that Amash goes full “host the down syndrome drag queens, bigot”. There’s also a 60-40 chance that Amash alleges that his opponent is propped up by Putin, too
Good fucking grief. I’ve just refused to take advantage of retards and sexually exploit them. The horror. I’m not sure what the L stands for in ACLU, but it sure as hell is not liberty. Replace it with a G for gulags.
Down Syndrome Drag Show reads like a lost John Waters script pitch.
To me it reads like ‘Hey, fellow pervs, those kids won’t even realize what’s going on when we diddle them!’. Fucking sickos.
“He declined to host them, as he was unsure that they were able to give their “full and informed consent.”
That’s why you need 2 of them to sign.
Uffda (SP knows which version I mean)
So, apparently, the diva Antonio Brown just issued a tearful apology to the Raiders staff, teammates, and general manager.
Sure, no crocodile tears there. Like I told one of my fellow Raider fans earlier today ‘I’d cry too if I thought I was about to lose 30 million dollars’, lol.
I’d cry too if I was a Raiders fan.
Go Chiefs.
*barf*
Go down Chiefs.
Likelihood Antonio Brown does something stupid again?
Man oh man the Raiders caved. But they were in an impossible position.
“Likelihood Antonio Brown does something stupid again?”
100%? Higher?
“100%?”
Brilliant minds think alike. We’re going to have to call in the line edit faery to break this tie.
“Likelihood Antonio Brown does something stupid again?”
100%. Get the popcorn if you enjoy a good clown show. He’d make a good alternative to the democrat debates if you get too bored.
Exactly the same likelihood the Raiders do something stupid again. They were made for each other.
I sort of like Mayock and Chucky. The bowl cut boy worries me though.
The guy looks like he eats crayons.
To be fair, being the son of a billionaire eccentric sports team owner and living a life entirely sheltered from reality probably could fuck with your head. I don’t remember even knowing the guy existed until Al was pretty much on his deathbed and apparently someone told him ‘hey dude, you’re going to have to manage the team, you’re going to be like, the owner soon’. I remember when I first saw him I was like who’s that retarded kids in the Raiders press box?’. I read a lengthy write up from a guy who knows him very well, has for a long time. Apparently he’s pretty normal and not too fucked up, but really weird.
How can you be pretty normal and weird at the same time?
I think Hyp means that he’s goofy-weird, not disturbing-weird.
They say it’s almost ensured if you’re a software engineer.
“think Hyp means that he’s goofy-weird, not disturbing-weird.”
Yes, that. I mean Mark is apparently an eccentric weird guy, but not retarded or deranged or dangerous to himself or anyone else.
That description makes me think of the christ child from Preacher.
The best part about that haircut is that Mark Davis drives hundreds of miles (in a fucking 1997 conversion minivan, no less) to get it.
Yeah, I know. See the reply to Rufus above. Weird dude, but apparently not retarded. He does have a huge man crush on Chucky though, so Raiders fans get 8 more years of that for better or worse.
Gruden calls the shots from what I read. Not the GM.
Yes, because of exactly what I just said. It’s Chucky’s team. I actually like Chucky, so I’m good with it. He reminds me a little of Belichick, you know, except for the part about winning multiple super bowls over a decade.
The refs did fuck him out of a Super Bowl that Belichek ended up winning.
Let’s not tuck… err I mean talk, about the tuck rule.
Gruden was given a ten year contract not to bolster the Oakland Raiders, he was hired to build a team for the Las Vegas Raiders.
You also have to wonder though, just how much would have been made of this before the age of social media. Likely we would have never heard about it unless it happened on air during a game.
More like Mike Maycuck, am I right?
I looked at the timeline after the discussion last night.
It’s quite possible that he has some serious brain damage, particularly after the Burfect hit.
He had one incident (the “face kicking”) in three years, and now, they’re almost non-stop.
Hey Tundra, I found your sweater
https://twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1169427440785141761
Oh, man. That’s pretty sharp!
Gay!
Bobby Hull automatically makes it not gay.
Americans. Pft.
All you need is a corncob pipe that blows bubbles.
My mom has made sweaters like that
I want it.
Fun fact: Bobby (and Dennis) Hull was born in Point Anne, Ontario. It’s now a ghost town.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Anne,_Ontario
Everybody fled when they saw them wearing those gay sweaters?
Here come dem Hull faggots and dem faggy sweaters!
Looks a bit like the Dude’s sweater
Deep thoughts
Walmart’s goal is to solve the wider national gun violence problem, not just protect its own territory. It takes courage to be among the first, but going first doesn’t mean going it alone. Allies are critical to creating lasting change. Walmart’s decision to ask customers in open carry states to not carry weapons openly in Walmart stores gave Kroger and CVS the impetus to do the same. McMillion also indicated willingness to work with the White House and Congress on legislation. Regardless of how powerful a giant corporation might be, it takes a cross-sector, multi-stakeholder coalition to tackle messy, recalcitrant problems.
Some will say McMillon is not very courageous and not doing enough. After all, Walmart was already on this path by refusing to sell assault weapons, and the company will still sell hunting rifles. Others with an opposing view will call the actions cowardly — caving into temporary pressure from mass shootings.
But my experience with change on big issues shows that small steps can produce big impact. Now that the Business Roundtable has defined corporate purpose as encompassing social responsibility as well as shareholder value, Walmart’s courage serves as an example for other CEOs, whether their concerns are guns, health or sustainability.
Harvard Business School, ladies and germs.
“Legal? Nobody cares if what you’re doing is legal. We don’t like it, and we don’t like you. That’s what social responsibility means.”
“Walmart’s goal is to solve the wider national gun violence problem”
Sam Walton is rolling over in his grave. Because I’m pretty sure his vision was to make as much profit as possible running a retail business. Which also probably involved the common sense of not pissing off half your customers.
“Walmart’s goal is to play nice with social justice warriors and hope they go away” doesn’t have a nice enough ring to it.
I just checked the scores.
I may just have to watch this game. I PVR games but don’t always watch them.
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Euro 2020 qualis.
GER-HOL.
Ah. I flipped away near the end. You’ll find out why.
Walmart’s goal is to solve the wider national gun violence problem
Its not service to the customer anymore? That was all over the HR training room in big white on blue letters back in the day….
Look dude, we sell razors, but your toxic masculinity (you know that stuff that causes you to grow hair that needs shaving often?) is icky and offensive to us. The world has went completely crazy and we’re fucking doomed, wish I was joking.
You joke. Where are you going to shop to escape the woke BS, Target? Amazon?
Before anyone gets any ideas about Target being the “nice” big box, take a look at this story where Target tells its suppliers to give up their profits.
I’ve done several gigs for people who work with Target. Target is just as ruthless as Walmart will ever be. They are also fairly notorious for finding any reason to not pay suppliers on time.
Everyone is buying indulgences.
And getting my credit card info stolen.
Around here that was known as the Week of Long Pointless Meetings.
I know a ton of people over at Target IT and when that happened every team had to go to all sorts of CYA meetings. Every manager had to have nearly hourly meetings to see if there was anything that could still come out or be done.
The best? I sort of know one of the guys on the team that fucked up. I heard from a mutual friend that the security hole they exploited was brought up at one point during development and was ignored because of a combination of how hard it would be (they thought) to actually use it, the difficulty in closing it and impending deadlines.
I thought it was because their whiz kid statistician (the one who was able to predict pregnancies based on purchasing habits) wanted the raw data. I can’t remember where I read that, though.
I felt sorry for the checkers, especially when their bonuses were tied to getting customers to sign up for the Target credit card. Motherfuckers, you had one of the biggest data breaches ever. I’m not trusting you with my banking information.
Back when I had toddlers, I was there twice a week, and I had to tell them no twice a week.
Could be wrong, but did not think anyone around here was complaining about Amazon, Target, or Walmart/Wal*mart being ruthless when the ruthlessness is directed at other-than-customers towards the end of, to quote Mexican Sharpshooter’s recollection about Walmart/Wal*mart’s HR, “service to the customer.” The main complaint lately on this site about “Woke*mart” is about the virtue signaling to the ‘woke’ hopefuly-minority of the US that at the same time is alleged on this site to annoy, to quote Hyperion, “half your customers.”
In manufacturing, I’ve seen companies like CaseIH and Arctic Cat do the same thing. When you get big enough and successful enough, you get to call the shots.
The word “allies” now sets my teeth on edge like virtually nothing else.
I’m not an open carry guy, nor do I usually shop at Walmart, but now I want to strap on a gun belt like an old-time gunslinger and take a daily stroll around Walmart.
I bought my first rifle with a banana clip at Walmart way back in the day. No hassle, no background check. Amazing I haven’t shot up any public places yet.
“The word “allies” now sets my teeth on edge like virtually nothing else.”
Yeah, mine too. The Left owns this term.
“Gay Allies” = Non-Alphabet-Soup people who want to shut down businesses which won’t bake any cake that anyone wants.
It’s a proggy mind control tactic – “You must do this, or else you’re not a true ally. As we all know, if you’re not an ally, you’re a hateful bigot”
Same with “equity”
On a related note, some places have started restricted firearms sales to adults 18-20 years where this is not law. Serious question, how is this legal for a business to arbitrarily ban a portion of society from purchasing? Is this any different than a business announcing they will no longer sell guns to blacks?
I’m waiting for the NRA to fund a lawsuit of 18-20 year adults discriminated against. Potentially enough to get class action status. I’ll probably be waiting for a long time.
The only way any of us keep owning guns legally is to stick to the original ‘shall not infringed’. Because as soon as you say ‘OK, but not for these people, or not for those people, and not for that person’, we’re eventually all fucked. Been warning about that for years, people had better start listening to that reasoning or practically every firearm owner in the country will be a felon before too much longer.
Age is not a protected category in a public accommodation, at least not at the national level.
Ahh, gotcha. Seems like time to found a new religion focusing on the right to bear arms.
First they made me defend Trump, now they’re gonna make me defend dicks. For fucksake.
Social Distortion and Flogging Molly are playing a show together near me tonight. I somehow totally missed the info. Damn.
Is that the story of your life?
Maybe he’s stuck with the Ball and Chain
He’s in another state of mind
No response? Perhaps he’s busy whistling the wind.
They still have tickets available.
They were just here in Cleveland last night. Like Social Distortion, not a fan of Flogging Molly since Drunken Lullabies (when the lead singer gave up drinking).
Jeremy Renner’s App Developer: ‘This Is a Freak Situation’
I had no idea things like this existed, and I am glad I didn’t know, but I am also glad it was destroyed. People are so mean and creative
That fucking song of his has been shilling for Jeep every five minutes during the US Open and it needs to stop.
Walmart’s courage. What courageous thing will they do next? Stay tuned.
Social Distortion and Flogging Molly are playing a show together
I’d buy that for a dollar.
“(Almost) Everything You Know About GamerGate is Wrong”
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1170005139933007872
https://arcdigital.media/almost-everything-you-know-about-gamergate-is-wrong-c4a50a3515fb
If I remember correctly, Gamergate was a bunch of SJWs trying to ruin something else that used to be fun. Is there more?
All I know is it made my head hurt when it was fresh. I’m not diving into that madness again.
Clearly you are one of those uninformed rubes that doesn’t read the New York Times and the Washington Post.
The actual story is that a woman was unfairly attacked by a bunch of basement dwelling men who couldn’t stand seeing women being treated like human beings. They sent vile death threats to any woman who objected to women being objectified and then supported Donald Trump when they didn’t get their way.
“that doesn’t read the New York Times and the Washington Post.”
You’d be 100% correct there. You can add ‘not going to start’ to that.
After 45 Years With My Wife, I’d Like to Try Gay Sex
Hmmm…
How should approach this with my wife?
From behind with a rag soaked in ether? Oops, I meant that is how you should approach your new sex buddy.
Ask her to turn around and tape a picture of Antonio Banderas onto the back of her head?
lol you want to bang Banderas.
” I have become fascinated with same-sex encounters. Is this unusual, especially this late in life?”
Yes.
At 68 most people’s (men’s) sexual activity has declined. Its the lack of testosterone. Not a lack of desire but the frustration of poor performance.
“At 68 most people’s (men’s) sexual activity has declined. Its the lack of testosterone.”
You can actually legally buy that if you would like, despite Joe Biden’s (statist piece of shit) best effort. I mean if you need it. Not having sex sucks. Not having interest in sex sucks. Beer and pussy, what the hell else is there worth living for?
Lamentations of your enemies’ women?
I thought that involved sex and even maybe beer?
68? C’mon Fourscore, couldn’t you make it 69? Go for the cheap joke.
Who the fuck knows. She’s probably dreaming of some carpet munching at the same time. Honesty is almost always the best policy.
After 45 Years With My Wife, I’d Like to
Trytell her about the Gay Sex I’ve been surreptitiously having for the last 35 years.STEVE SMITH WILL DROP BY, SHOW YOU ROPES. AND BY SHOW YOU ROPES MEAN SHOW YOU RAPE. THIS NOT UNUSUAL. NOT WORRY ABOUT WIFE, STEVE SMITH APPROACH HER AFTER.
Chipotle can’t get customers to stop stealing the Tabasco, so it’s embracing it
Great food and excellent hot sauce go together well.
Yet another strike against Chipotle. A “Mexican” establishment serving hot sauce from Louisiana.
and not even the good stuff – real coonasses know that Crystal is the one
Sure…. if you were to restrict yourself to coonass hotsauces.
Otherwise, Cholula (arbol and pequín) or Búfalo (guajillo), depending on what you’re eating. Cholula is better for breakfast applications.
Just used Cholula today for lunch. Also recently found and like El Yucateco’s Habanero Sauce.
I can’t eat omelets or hash browns without it.
El Yucateco’s is good, but my favorite is Valentina, and it’s cheap as hell. I’m a man of cheap tastes.
That’s a poor man’s Tapatio. Without the garlic.
How poor do you have to be to not afford Tapatio?
I tried Valentina once. Didn’t like it.
I don’t care for Cholula either.
Simple old Red Hot is still my favorite.
Tapatio is a bit more acidic.
Correct. It is not watered down.
Tapatio, or GTFO.
I just meant among Louisiana hot sauces.
I like Bufalo quite a bit, and it’s only 99 cents at my local store. Win-win!
I’m getting ripped off!!
We’ve gone to piri piri sauce as our go-to hot sauce. Its just got a flavor I prefer over anything else.
Crystal, Louisiana Redhot, Franks, all the cayenne based pepper sauces are great. I keep that stuff in full stock all of the time.
Has anyone thought of merging Mexican and Louisiana cuisine? Lou-Mex!
Probably. People have thought of everything.
There’s already tex-mex, and it’s only one state over.
We got a place in town that serves ‘Mississippi Delta Tamales’.
Cajun tamales are de bomb.
In all seriousness, though, there probably is.
Mexican immigrants basically rebuilt NO after Katrina.
The first thing to change whenever immigrants arrive is food and cuisine.
Yes — tamales. Cook’s Country did an issue with the ‘tamale trail’ in Louisiana.
I wish I were a subscriber. Not enough to pay for it, obviously.
I just mooch off of the PBS episodes. This season: creates Brussels sprouts recipe ever.
They need to cross Mexican with Canadian – MexiCan.
Wait a minute…
Lol.
Poutine Burrito!
The drippiest meal on earf!
Maple syrup on tortillas.
You go sit in the corner and think about what you just did.
One of the local greasy spoons has a breakfast burrito that comes with eggs, potatoes, peppers, onions, cheese, sausage, bacon, salsa, and is then covered in country gravy. It is delicious.
What’s the point of a wrapper if you’re covering it in gravy?
Isn’t that more or less the point of an enchilada?
Poutine burrito? I’d eat the sh*t out of that. Especially if it was also stuffed with Chinese BBQ pulled pork.
I’m a man of many contradictions.
That was good. But cultural appropriation. We’re sorry, your existence has now been cancelled.
*sizzles out*
you jest, but in seriousness: Mexidian
It’s like none of you are even trying to Smoosh properly.
Mexeol or Cajican.
I love both Mexican and Cajun stuff or pretty much anything that is spicy. The spicier the better.
When I was growing up, there was a place in Richmond called the Texas-Wisconsin Border Cafe that was exactly what the name implied – a mix of Tex-Mex dishes and stuff like brats with red sauce.
I was a regular there when I lived in Richmond. As a Texan who later lived in Wisconsin, I’m still kicking myself for not getting one of their t-shirts.
It was a favorite of my mom’s, too. I can remember going several times. Sad day when it closed.
It closed?
What the Hell’s wrong with people in Richmond?
Hence the stealing. They don’t want to waste it on the food there.
Does the kit include Chipotl-Away?
Charlamagne tha God on Biden: “I look at Joe Biden, I look at the ’94 crime bill, I look at the ’88 crack laws, that’s not being in support of African Americans at all.”
He also scolded Biden for trying to send a “black male surrogate” to go on The Breakfast Club in his place.
Holding Biden accountable? Wtf, libs?
“I look at the ’94 crime bill, I look at the ’88 crack laws, that’s not being in support of African Americans at all.”
Biden is a statist piece of shit. And what you just listed above is not half the bullshit he’s supported and/or helped to get passed into law. And as soon as he’s given a chance, he’ll help strip more rights from more Americans. I wouldn’t piss on him to put it out if he were on fire.
I don’t remember much of anyone raising a stink about that stuff at the time.
Not much different from Harris re-writing history to pretend that everyone was in favor of bussing at the time.
Thicc?
Not thicc enough for my tastes, but still wood.
I like her, but most here will call her fat. She looks good to me.
This is thicc, bro.
No, that is gross. The chick Fatty posted is Thicc.
WOULD
As long as I didnt have to look @ those Steve Harvey teeth she got.
The 27-year-old said the image was “cellulit”
I wouldn’t assume competent spelling from people who spend their time posting bikini selfies.
New Study Suggests Vegetarians and Vegans Are at Higher Risk of Stroke. But Don’t Reach for That Steak Just Yet
Facts are facts.
Facts are also bullshit. I don’t care what people eat, but that study is pure fucking horseshit, like most of the so called ‘studies’ which get funded ‘by certain groups looking for a predetermined outcome’ today.
“Plus, both effects were fairly small.”
So do what you do, and don’t worry about it.
“So do what you do, and don’t worry about it.”
Last I checked no one is yet living forever regardless, so yeah.
I haven’t died yet.
FACT.
You’ll never die as long as you live. FACT.
CONSENSUS.
Living always results in death. So try to do as little living as possible.
Headlines are facts.
Dunno about anti-trust violations, but there’s Supremacy Clause and Dormant Commerce Clause jurisprudence that would support this argument, at least.
And the way this works is, if Congress regulates something and also allows states to regulate that same something, then the most restrictive standard is what governs. It cranks up the regulatory ratchet. I don’t see a libertarian upside in allowing states to enact additive regulations on top of what Congress does.
Look, Cali has to act now. We’re almost doomed. Did you miss the CNN Climate townhall? Try to keep up. Cali should immediately enact legislation to make sure buying a tiny 4 cylinder vehicle costs more than 100 thousand dollars. Make sure the price of gasoline is at least $8 a gallon…no wait, double that with a penny for penny fuel tax, so gas is $16 a gallon. Now install mileometer devices in all cars and tax them by the mile. $10 a mile sounds good to me. You wanna prog? You going to outprog me? I don’t think so, I’m a outprog all you niggahs, yo ain’t shit! Oh wait, I must have just watched another dem presidential candidate debate.
Oh yeah, where global warming blew up Joe Biden’s eye.
Wasn’t only climate change. He had just learned that his brother, Mugabe took the dirt nap. Yeah, I really hate that fuckstain that much.
What Hyperion just said…..but in broken Spanish!
This should help with that fat squid problem the Navy is having.
Drinking? In the Navy? SHOCKED!
Navy, Navy, where you at?
Tell me why your belly’s fat
Is it the whiskey, or is it the wine?
Or is it the lack of PT time?
We had a staff sergeant in the MATC schoolhouse who ran us around the Navy barracks at NAS Pensacola while calling that cadence once, which resulted in some master chief bitching to the command and all of MATC subsequently getting screamed at in the next formation.
Isn’t the Marines just the Navy without all of the boats?
I thought they were just the Army On The Navy’s Boats.
They were originally the ship-to-ship fighters in a navy as I understand it.
General Order #1 is still in effect. no alcohol in CENTCOM for DoD forces – exceptions like Bahrain and Qatar (special circumstances). Of course doesn’t apply to State, contractors, NATO, etc.
I don’t know what it’s like now, but in Desert Storm, things were supposedly “dry.”
But the engineers down the road had a still and were brewing passable applejack, and the Air Force was making channel flights to Germany every day – if you talked to the right crew chief, slipped him a few bucks, you’d have a bottle of Scotch when he got back.
There’s always a way.
“This framework agreement appears to be inconsistent with Federal law,” said the letter. “Congress has squarely vested the authority to set fuel economy standards for new motor vehicles and nationwide standards for vehicle emissions with the Federal government, not California or any other state.”
There was an article recently about how the EPA had DEFIED California regulators by not accepting the primacy of CARB’s regulations.
Army sets sights on new air-dropped fast-attack vehicle
The next Jeep or the next Bradley?
They’re describing the Batmobile I think.
Under rated movie – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144550/
Reminds me of the 9th Infantry’s experiments with dune buggies. Didn’t work out so well.
New York attorney general is investigating Facebook for possible antitrust violations
Thanks for keeping us safe, AG!
It’s amazing she has time what with bringing down Trump and shaking down Wall Street. That woman gets around!
I guarantee that her objective is two fold. A large settlement and a political review committee for hate speech as defined by her.
has killed FOUR people and left 450 sick because of a deadly ‘new lung disease’: Health crisis linked to e-cigarettes has now spread to 33 states and the CDC has urged all people to STOP the habit
We need more regulation!
“We’ll get around to finding out what they were actually vaping when we feel like it. Or maybe not.”
“60+ activists in Barcelona went into a rabbit meat farm, rescued 16 ?s then were followed, chased & assaulted by the creepy farmers. Please find more footage, share & follow all of these amazing activists risking their lives for animals & for the truth. live-streams on Instagram”
https://twitter.com/AllieJMo/status/1168327477237821440
It takes 60 people to steal 16 rabbits?
“I’m 30. Future filmmaker, natural vegan, nerdy, writer, music loving, tomboy, animal activist queer that says fuck a lot. ?????????”
and getting roasted in the comments.
It’s unfortunate the farmers didn’t shoot them
That’s a brilliant and original take.
https://twitter.com/PlayaManhattan/status/1169473661163560960?s=20
They didn’t steal them! They RESCUED them!
Meghan McCain and Pamela Anderson clash Julian Assange in tense The View showdown: Animated chat show host calls Wikileaks founder a ‘cyber-terrorist’ while the Baywatch star insists her close friend is the victim of US propaganda
The Vidal/Buckley of our time.
Battle of the Boobs
Nice.
Sponsored by TD Bank.
Playmate > Politician’s Daughter
I don’t want to see either of them naked right now, so they’re irrelevant.
Is there really a White Claw shortage? Sort of. But not really.
Ain’t no law when we drinkin’ the Claw! (Do you really say that when around people drinking White Claw? Yes, yes I do. Does it annoy everyone? Yes, yes it does).
I must be old, I don’t know what White Claw is.
lol u a bof
Yeah, go to a Canton bar and you’ll find out. I wouldn’t call it hipster swill, but it’s hipster something.
I’m drinking a Chimay Premiere Red right now. I choose not to waste my excess calories on crap any more.
I used to be a fan of Blue. Not sure what happened.
Excuse me, tha Claw is only 100 calories AND is gluten-free!
It’s 5% alcohol. Nothing else matters. Beer tastes better, just man up and work it off.
I waste all my excess calories on Stella and Heineken. I just have to walk/run more that week to compensate. Totally worth it. Yeah, I know, all you IPA swill snobs…
Chimays are the bomb.
Hey! My sister-in-law isn’t a hipster! A self-righteous smug prog, but not a hipster sir!
Sure she is. Just admit it. I bet she shops at Wholefoods and doesn’t put her veggies in plastic bags before placing them on the belt, one at a time.
doesn’t put her veggies in plastic bags before placing them on the belt
And then into the unwashed reuseable bag, and Gaia doesn’t want you to waste water, so washing them before assembling into rawgan delicacies is right out.
Space Wolves offshoot Chapter.
Alcoholic seltzer water. No shit alcoholic seltzer water. Instead of buying vodka and seltzer, it’s premixed because people are fucking lazy.
Don’t get me started on the homebrew recipe kit I saw for making your own hard seltzer again.
I must be old, I don’t know what White Claw is.
Tune in tomorrow…
Every time we’re down in Canton, and we like going down there on weekends for the bars, there’s a lot of people drinking that stuff. I mean it’s OK, but I’m not actually paying for it or anything. But they seem to really love it down there. I just drink beer and no one seems to mind, so it’s all good.
Is CNN a Republican plant?
No, I’m being serious. Do CNN work for Trump of the Republicans? Because I can’t think of any other explanation.
At Texas, Matthew McConaughey has found the role he was born to play: ‘The M.O.C., baby!’
The man is a national treasure.
*barf*
“Except in this case he’s not acting.”
But, more accurately, yes he is.
Of course, someone should oversee this cultural intersection and nurture it
CANT LET PEOPLE JUST DO SHIT, NO SIR!
*TO BE SURE
It will be harder to find reasons to remove his shirt as MOC as it was when it was written into the script.
Matthew McConaugheeeyyyyyy
Alright, alright, alright.
Shit, I could do MoC stuff for the state… Not at UT. though–that place is a leper colony.
/not suggesting that I’m what people want to see–my box office take is substantially lower than his.
OK, it’s no limey shitbox, but I think I just fell in love:
Behold, the 1966 Daimler Ferret Mark 2/4!
Wood.
I would drive that around Edmonton. Especially in the winter.
Sweet!
A 4.2L that only puts out 130HP?
NLRB rules companies can bar nonemployee union activists from property
Hot dog!
A sane decision, amazing
Another horror of the Trumpian Age. Will someone please think of the giant inflatable rats??
How are they supposed to physically threaten anyone without overwhelming numbers?
National Review weighs in on the argument about dive bars.
Perfect.
And accurate.
Sounds like most of the small French towns I’ve visited in the Midi.
Dive bars. Yeah, I used to go into those sometimes. Typically inhabited by drunk rednecks who would like to fight you because you probably are setting in the place they sat last week and they can’t remember what day it is. Also “what beers do you have”? *in very flat and uninspired response* “BUD, BUD LITE, MILLER LITE”. I seriously do not want to go back to those days. Not sure why it is that now I have to be annoyed by bitter mop bucket swilling IPA people who think they are somehow superior to people who actually have a sense of taste.
“You call that article snobbery? Here, hold my non-Budweiser…”
I always had more people try to pick fights with me the few times I was dragged to the preppy clubs. Rarely at the dives, never at the neighborhood bars. But I think one key point was left out of the article. Dive bars are dark inside, to the point you can’t be sure what time it is outside, or if the sun is even out.
A couple around me have tried to branch out into craft beers, but the clientele don’t want them, and they languish until well past the best buy date printed on the label (one had Great Lakes Burning River Pale ale a month past it’s best by date, I drank it anyway). The staff are there for their looks, their smiles, and how quickly they can pour drinks (one tried to do a kegs and eggs one St. Patrick’s Day morning, I had to teach the poor girl behind the bar how to pour the canned Guinness). Depending on the time of year, certain outfits are frowned upon (black and gold in football season, and pinstripes in baseball season).
“I always had more people try to pick fights with me the few times I was dragged to the preppy clubs.”
I don’t think you ever lived in the midwest in the 80s. Serioulsy, I never had an issue at a preppy bar, it was all just a competition for chick attention, but never any fights. The redneck dives, people would just want to fight you for no reason at all.
If you go to dive bars and run into an asshole well you met an asshole, if you go to dive bars and only meet assholes…
I’m fairly certain Cleveland is considered part of the midwest. I was alive in the 80’s, but wasn’t going to bars yet (except with mom with her softball team).
I always scared all the preppy kids, but I never wanted to go in their bars anyway. I’ve almost gotten into two fights at bars; one was a strip club where some guido down from Jersey was trying to start shit with a not-at-all small friend of mine and didn’t realize that we were about seven deep and ready to fight. The bouncer saved him by throwing him out, because the guy we used to refer to as the Aryan Gorilla had just gotten into a fight with his girlfriend and was looking to blow off steam. The second time was at a local dive bar, and it was some young, drunk idiot who was bitching about one of us being in the way of the TV. Again, we all happened to be there for a birthday party, so we’re talking about twelve buzzed 20-something men in pretty decent shape and averaging around 6′ and 200 lbs. He backed down.
Cooke is great. Unfortunately the best dive bar close to me is a cop bar – it’s trouble waiting to happen. Sad.
My favorite dive bar was the Muni in beautiful Cook, MN.
Now they call it the “Old Muni” but it will always just be the Muni to me.
A safe place, for the most part. The people on the Range fucking hated those of us from the Cities (we were the “fucking 612ers). After being up there for awhile, they tended to accept that you were pretty much the same as them, except you had to drive a couple hundred miles to enjoy the ambiance.
The only time we had trouble was when me, my wife, my SIL and BIL went into town to drink and play pulltabs. We ended up clearing more than $500 and the damn girls were shrieking every time we won. My BIL and I decided to hustle them out before things got stupid.
I miss that place a lot.
I miss pull tabs. Mr Splosives was an outstanding judge of the odds based on the surroundings, the remaining winners, and the look/depth of the remaining pull tabs in the box.
He must have won thousands.
Lol. I don’t understand how people don’t get that. The damn bin is almost empty and there are still a bunch of high payoff tickets in it!
Where you play pull tabs they tell you what winners are remaining? or am I missing the joke here.
Huh. The neighborhood pub is sometimes referred to as a dive, but has good beer for cheap and good food. The rest is pretty much on point.
Inside the Therapists’ Office Where New York Couples Televise Their Sex, Money, and Relationship Woes
Cancel Showtime before your chick sees this exists. omgeezies.
Hurricane Dorian update. It sucked. The island has no water system no power and everything is covered in sewage. Probably hundreds of cars totalled. Water intrusion 1to3 and more feet in almost all homes and businesses. The second half of the storm was devastating.
I’m glad you made it.
I’m glad you re safe. How did the boat do?
Sorry to hear that. I thought it might be down to TS strength by the time it hit the Outer Banks, and it’d just be a big rainstorm.
Hope your boat is in good shape.
Soe
Sorry. Don’t know what happened. Stay safe
Jeebus, glad you’re okay but damn, dude.
Sorry 🙁
Good to hear you are safe.
‘Drunk’ raccoons seen stumbling around Stittsville
Someone is drugging Canada’s ‘coons!
So racist.
“Someone is drugging Canada’s ‘coons!”
Shut up, you racist, them is niggahs… I mean colored folk… no, I mean people of color. You racist.
Do yourselves a favor, and make it FULL SIZE.
Ex-CIA spy readies to publish book about undercover exploits without agency approval
Bitch was a NOC!
Why would she think she can get away with this?
Ah. Royals!
lol
The Meuller School of Writing.
It’s truthy?
Just because it’s not true doesn’t not mean that isn’t not true.
Burn in hell.
YOU BURN IN HELL!
I remember how this ends
Flathead Valley, Montana crime update!
Favorite one aside from the shower curtain cold case:
Ted Danson & Steve Guttenburg did not respond to a request for comment.
I liked the detail about the cooler. I kinda love small town police bloggers, but my mom always hated that everyone knew she’d gotten a speeding ticket.
Someone had to be the designated driver.
Here’s Who Owns the Most Land in America
I had no idea about Maine.
Not listed: United States Federal Government
They’re technically the only land owner in America.
If you count taxes on land you ‘own’, then yes.
That’s the point, you wouldn’t pay taxes on land held in allodial title as you would be the supreme landowner. Thanks to the 5th Amendment the highest title you can have is fee simple.
As I noted earlier, that all this stems from feudal law is no accident.
It would be terrible if you didn’t owe taxes for life on something you already paid off. It might put to question such magical government programs as medicare and social security. Image if old folk who were no longer were paying taxes could survive without government largesse? The horror, frogs leaving the water, rain of bloods.
Dayenu.
My WAG is whenever the General Land Office stopped selling land was the high water mark for private ownership of land.
“which are open to the public for camping and hiking.”
So, proponents of killing the planet? I see.
Iggy Pop has a new album out. I listened to it so you don’t have to. Don’t listen to it. Oh, how the mighty have fallen, It’s a little sad actually.
Remember when he posed nude?
*drools*
Oh noes, how will we ever get the real news now?
I can’t believe it. NO ONE wants to see Sleater-kinney next month. They are either “who” or not my thing.
I’ll go alone if I have to
You should go alone – you don’t need anyone to poo on what you enjoy. I don’t know how anyone wouldn’t enjoy City Girl or Monday Monday Monday, and some of the more depressing songs, like Wrists and Floorplan, are songs even I can identify with.
I believe the group is called “City Girls“.
I was clearly referencing Tegan and Sara, another all-lady band held in high esteem by those of a certain sexual persuasion.
I haven’t heard the new stuff but Sleater Kinney was the bomb diggity in the early oughts.
(White people ruin everything)
I may just buy two tickets and invite one of my online dudes. The accountant really likes me and would go. But I think he likes me more than I like him and that makes me feel mean and manipulative. Even though I’m trying to get to know him better because I often become more attracted to men when I know them better
Count me in the second. I wish I was in the first.
Really? I love the new album, especially Bad Dance and Reach Out
Who?
One half of Portlandia is in it, for one.
Ok. I’m out.
They were never all that popular, but we’re influential. Kinda like the Ramones, though not to that level. I blame the patriarchy.
I know they were big in circles I hung out with.
I do sort of like the one track in my library but… apparently not enough to have investigated any further 🙂
*googles*
She attended Evergreen.
*snort*
I enjoyed her autobiography and she comes across as very self aware of Evergreen and having her dad support her as she tries to become a rock star.
I am, of course, not allowed to have a celebrity waiver list. But if theoretically I did, Carrie would be right at the top. But of course I don’t.
Still thinking of a voyage here for Enslavement of Indigenous People’s Day?
I don’t know. I was sick for a day and a half. Actually, that’s the work I missed. I was sick over a weekend, but it wasn’t strep. I hate the new system of pot. We used to have sick leave that wasn’t accrued. So probably, no trip at all
Well, that sucks. But when it gets cold there and you can break away, SP and I would be delighted to host you.
And I would love to come. And I would enjoy Mom if I can get her to tell me stories. I am generally good with elderly, dementia relatives because I really want to hear about the old days and it distracts them from asking questions over and over. Though I’m fine with that too
I want to meet you IRL. I think we would have a blast
If you like a band a meet someone who doesn’t, well you met someone with questionable musical tastes. If you like a band and everyone you meet doesn’t…
Tundra likes them
They’re sold out in Minneapolis
Tundra likes everything, he doesn’t count, even if he didn’t like them he’d tell you he did*. He’s like a mother telling her ugly kid how handsome her little man is.
*don’t take this as a jab at Tundra, we should all be more like Tundra and less like a certain other Glib.
You are just a PIECE OF A GARBAGE.
Perfect.
S-K is a great band. They are smart, funny and have been known to rock.
I’m quite excited, however, to see Manhattan Beach’s finest next week!
Go to the show, Tulip!
I will, even if alone
That band formed 2 years before I was born. Pennywise, on the other hand….
Oh my god you’re young. Go away! You make me feel old.
I like them. I’d go with you Tulip, but it’s a bit of a trip from southern California.
SEE! The lyrics are smart and often funny
I have a spare room if you want to make a weekend of it
I don’t have to send you any photos of me wearing a ball cap backwards first?
Please don’t. Spare room.
She won’t see your face in the gimp mask anyway.
You know, Bruce Dickinson once wore a gimp mask. Pants
Skeeter and Kenny? I don’t like pop country.
Party on America!
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/feds-powell-says-he-doesnt-foresee-a-us-recession
NO! But they promised us a recession! How can it be? This is all part of orange bad man planet destroying plan, isn’t it?
Theyve been selling it hard.
“Soon”
SELL!
Oh, yeah, “soon”, I know “soon”. That’s when I’m going to clean out the shed. That’s usually when I tell my wife I’m heading home from the bar.
So generous with OPM.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/06/politics/sanders-proposal-cancel-medical-debt/index.html
Fuck that guy.
Can they cancel tax debt?
Friday Funbags judge you and make you feel bad about yourself.
http://archive.li/NO8qP
I read your reification article, I enjoyed it a lot. Probably the best argument you could make against immigration controls, at least to some. Also, 20 comments or so, interesting.
Thank you.
So, a fun bit of trivia, when I first posted that article, SP had a mini-heart attack as she thought Chinese spammers managed to hack our new site.
There’s a new article? The side arrows don’t show one? WHAT DID YOU DO TO SP?
It’s from 2017. I just reminded people of when we were young and fancy-free.
It wasn’t one of your emoji things, was it? Because those give me a seizure.
No, it’s an article on common law.
Is there a “wannafud” emoji?
Fuck sakes, man give her a link already.
He, that gave me seizures
I don’t miss having to scroll side-to-side to read the comments 🙂
Help me guys! I want to try to summon energy together that causes more gfs to exist on earth. There are not enough gfs. We need to expand our gf energy as a species to create more gfs.
At 8 PM Central time I want you all to channel your conscious energy. If you have a weed take it. If you have a LSD eat it.
All of the Glibs will unite in one conscious energy ball and create positive gf energy on earth to make gfs come into reality.
Reserve your psychic energy until 8 PM on the 6th of September, 2019.
Thank you.
Girl friends?
Gefilte fish?
Giant fists?
Eat a weed and find out.
But kickoff for BSU is at 8pm Central…
I read the picture on the front page as “It’s Friday Night, Just Got Laid.”
The cute little dogs? TMI, dude, TMI
I didn’t get laid.
Days not over
Volunteers who were given a cocktail of drugs for a year actually “aged backwards”, losing an average of 2.5 years from their biological ages, according to the new study. The research showed that the marks on their genomes that represent their “epigenetic clock”, as well as their immune systems, actually improved despite the passing of time.
Why do I get the feeling this study will turn out to be horseshit?
Because n=9?
There was also 33.3% experimental attrition.
“ThinkProgress statement: We are very 2 to announce that after more than two months of searching, we have been unable to identify a new publisher for ThinkProgress, & we are left with no choice but to close ThinkProgress as an independent enterprise focused on original reporting.””
https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1170034158183362560
HA HA
There’s a definite Derp Bubble. How much Derp can the world financially support?
OT: Day 4: Dorian Scmorian
Started today at the Mystic Seaport Museum. Very interesting. Toured the oldest extant wooden merchant ship in the US. Learned about the whaling industry. Saw the Mayflower II, which will be relaunched tomorrow. Helped to furl a topsail on a square rigger. Well worth the price of admission.
Jesus food is expensive here. 20 bucks for a lobster roll? At the seafood truck near where I work, I got 2 lobster rolls that were nearly as good, plus chips and coleslaw for 20 loonies. Yes I paid on loonies.
RI drivers are as bad as CT drivers. But they don’t have road rage like MA drivers.
There’s a tropical storm warning here. It’s sprinkling rain and there are light winds.
Blame the East Asians for buying up all our lobster.
Why didn’t you just sell them your robster instead?
Because he’s shellfish.
https://shop.donaldjtrump.com/products/official-donald-trump-fine-point-marker
LOLOLOL
“Exclusive: Feds Demand Apple And Google Hand Over Names Of 10,000+ Users Of A Gun Scope App
According to an application for a court order filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on September 5, investigators want information on users of Obsidian 4, a tool used to control rifle scopes made by night-vision specialist American Technologies Network Corp. The app allows gun owners to get a live stream, take video and calibrate their gun scope from an Android or iPhone device. According to the Google Play page for Obsidian 4, it has more than 10,000 downloads. Apple doesn’t provide download numbers, so it’s unclear how many iPhone owners could be swept up in this latest government data grab.
If the court approves the demand, and Apple and Google decide to hand over the information, it could include data on thousands of people who have nothing to do with the crimes being investigated, privacy activists warned. Edin Omanovic, lead on Privacy International’s State Surveillance program, said it would set a dangerous precedent and scoop up “huge amounts of innocent people’s personal data.” ”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/09/06/exclusive-feds-demand-apple-and-google-hand-over-names-of-10000-users-of-a-gun-scope-app/#6a88bd3e2423
Looking forward to this one. From the writer/director of “What We Do in the Shadows” (and Thor: Ragnarok): earlier trailer may have been posted previously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkKaDXapi1o
I mean, I guess it makes sense that Taika would take the lead role…..
Dude, you’re supposed to do it the other way around!
Should just stick with Korg.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1170089069105340416
LOLOL
Paul Harrell horning on Ian McCollum’s turf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD6niXoUvwM
Not quite how grandma put it, but the same sentiment.
Truth
https://youtu.be/4jf6U8BXty8
First I’ve heard of her. She talks dirty, but not filthy like other female comics. It’s amazing how the “look at my pussy!” comics haven’t figured out that the juxtaposition between a sweet girl talking dirty is more effective than a slut talking filthy. Give that lady a thumbs up.
Hitchen’s used to talk about how all female stand up comedians just do men’s routines because women just don’t talk like that.
You know what? Thank you!!! I needed that laugh.
Amber Heard shares nipple shot
https://comicbook.com/dc/2019/09/06/aquaman-movie-mera-amber-heard-interview-magazine-2019/
Something is missing there.
To the writer of this article decrying Amazon’s use of contract companies to carry their packages, claiming that this allows them to escape responsibility if one of those drivers gets in an accident:
https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/the-human-cost-of-amazon-s-fast-free-shipping/article_db85d2ee-d01c-11e9-bee8-ffe991bffa45.html
You are right! Every time you send a letter via USPS and the USPS truck, plane or train injures someone, you should be held personally liable. The same goes for when you mail a package via FedEx. If the plane carrying your package crashes, you should be held personally liable. The pilot’s families and anyone who is harmed on the ground – either in their person or their property – should be able to come after you directly. They should be able to sift through every address on every package and collect from the responsible parties.
This type of responsibility shirking must stop!
In fact, when you decide to outsource your transportation, you should be liable for any accidents that happen. If you pay an uber driver, a taxi, an airline or light rail company to take you somewhere, you should be held responsible for anyone who is harmed in the course of their business operations.
People need to stop escaping their responsibilities in this way. When they drive themselves, they are fully responsible. They shouldn’t be able to escape that responsibility by outsourcing their transportation.
2.5 deaths a year doesn’t seem like the killing fields they’re making this out to be.
I really feel sorry for that half a dead person.
He’s just the living guy who envies the dead.
Way to other the Zombie community.
That’s statistical noise within the road fatalities statistics.
I suspect they’re annoyed that the deep pockets are insulated from lucrative lawsuits by the people assuming the risk of delivering the boxes.
Oh of course. That’s why Amazon has that clause in their contracts – they’re not stupid.
IANAL, but I don’t believe they are. I was a pizza deliverer when Dominos dropped their 30min or less guarantee, the reason was that while if I fucked up, even if driving for them it was on me….unless there was pressure from Domino’s for me to break laws – speed,drive carelessly, etc. If Amazon is pressuring their sub contractors to break laws in order to ensure next day service they are still on the hook. The other side is even if Amazon hired drivers directly, Amazon isn’t responsible for if those driver do stupid shit on their own.
Kind of like suing Wal-Mart because a maniac shot you there.
Let’s not stop there.
Hey, do you own stock in Amazon? Is your retirement in a mutual fund that holds Amazon?
What is a reasonable price to expect for the installation of 415 linear feet of chain link fence? We expect to need to enforce a property line in the near future where the guy on the other side likes to just start using more and more land outside his actual plot.
$5,935.93
How did you find/derive that number?
I recently bid 80′ of a solid vinyl privacy fence, I did some quick research and with out crunching too many numbers figured a chain link fence should be about five sixteenths of the cost of the fancy vinyl one. I then did some division and multiplication. I did not consider cost of living, as I live in a fairly cheap place and you (I believe) don’t you may want to factor that in.
Understood, thank you.
The property where the fence is needed is nowhere near my house. So it’s not in the Albany CoL zone.
I put up vinyl fencing around by back yard. I’m hoping I don’t Have to donate another kidney.
It has taken me a while to adjust to how much shit costs anymore, 20 years ago I’d look at 80′ foot of fence, figure a couple hundred bucks in material, a few days work call in 800$, now one 8′ section of fence cost 300$ and that doesn’t include the post or the post caps? and it seems to change (always up) every few months. I can’t give ballpark estimates anymore, “let me go crunch some numbers, I’ll get back to you” is my new catch phrase.
Is it to make a point or to be useful? You could get temporary fencing put up cheaper.
https://www.rentnational.com/temporary-fence/chain-link-fencing
No one will be living on-site to monitor things, and we don’t want to risk loss due to adverse possession. So we’re looking at indefinite need for the clear, obvious marker.
A 2 ft deep trench filled with broken bottles and bloody razor blades.
I’ll sell you 415 square feet.
A one-foot tall fence would be insufficient.
You are too picky.
Also, too late, I already have an easement by prescription
We had 80′ of vinyl coated fence installed last year. The materials were $15/foot and the installation was $13/foot.
Cheers, y’all!
Cheers!
The hell? How does that happen?
Probably a glass with a hairline crack (visible or not) that was then dipped in water and put in the freezer. Fill with beer, the frost will melt, and tap it just right…
I think I’ve seen it happen twice in my life.
Media gets a whiff of a story, steps in shit.
He’s standing for what he believes in, just like Colin Kaepernick.
The difference, of course, being that Brees did his standing on his own time, and Kap did his kneeling on the football field.
The only sane option in today’s America is to keep your fucking trap shut.
What the fuck happened to sports news? Fucking betas.
Caption under a video (I refuse to watch) at the bottom of the page:
I’m willing to be proved wrong on this, but that is bullshit. I mean, yes, there are assholes out there, but you could replace LGBTQ with damn near any other sub-group and make the same specious claim. Even “Irish” or “Catholic”.
And what the hell does threats in the form of legalization mean?
I hate all fractions beneath a quarter.
Why?
Stencils. They Irk me.
*eyes fifth of rye*
I don’t.
More of a 3/5ths man?
You won’t pay for parking tickets with rolls of pennies?
The framing of the comments on android chrome is off. Because of this glitch, I hereby renounce my Glibercitizionship. Not really. Oh, and Hitler’s on first, or something.
I think using Chrome should be grounds for being expelled from Glibertopia.
Hey! I at least have duck duck go as my default search engine!
And it’s on this article, not the others I have checked.
Somebody posted a giant image above that threw everything off.
“Somebody”
SHUT THE FUCK UP, LIBTARD!
I had a six pack of Sly Fox Helles this week. Good German lager with a funky pull top can. The pull tab takes the entire top off.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1853/24283/?view=beer&start=25
Love the style. Will have to look for that..
It’s great and easy drinking. Very German in flavor.
Those Bastards!
They don’t distribute to Ohio to my knowledge. Sly Fox is based out near Philadelphia, good beers.
Man this US Open is a snooze-fest compared to last year.
If tennis is too boring, I can help you out, darling.
Hey assholes! I’m in the room next door.
Get ready for me baby. I’m coming over.
She’s plugged the card reader into her phone and set the timer for 3 minutes.