Apparently so.
Good thing we have a closet full of towels.
This does not make for a relaxing weekend.
Onto, the links!
Adjust your tinfoil hat before clicking on this one.
They all belong in a wood chipper, but you have to admire the self destructive tenacity.
“Leprosy, all my skin is falling off of me! Now my mouth is where my nose should be. Oh leprosy, is bad for me.”
(Sung to “Yesterday”, by the Beatles)
I’ll just leave this here for your perusal.
When you’ve lost Ryan Leaf…
But when you have Robert Kraft.
Rusty chainsaws and all that. If this keeps up much longer, I’m going to be forced to go shopping.
I just want to go on record as having fully functional internet tonight.
Last weekend Cal won 27-13
Outstanding! What a fine, upstanding bunch of refined gentlemen. The leaders of tomorrow.
Is the second pic crown moulding? In other words, the entire wall is messed up?
Yep. Fortunately, it didn’t have time to really soak in, and it didn’t get to the ceiling.
My parents have had so many leaks that they ended up buying one of these.
They’ve used it several times.
The fuck? Roof leaks?
2 pinholes in the walls… and the really bad one – they had travertine installed when they landscaped the front yard. It raised the grade by about 9 inches. Apparently, that part of the wall isn’t very waterproof, because they had a band of water damage and wet carpet in all of the rooms at the front of the house.
And…. this one is on my mom – she pulled out the washing machine to clean behind it. She put it back without clipping the drain hose into the drain. As soon as it was pressurized, it lifted right out and drained on the floor. That happened not once, but twice.
Ah. That makes more sense.
It astounds me how landscaping “experts” fail to manage water.
Also, that’s why laundry rooms need drains!
Yes, if I were building a house, I would put floor drains in the kitchen and laundry rooms just in case. Oh, and garage too.
Kitchen? What the hell are you doing? Slaughtering?
Here, garage drains are verboten. Because reasons.
My buddy installed one just slightly shy of the slab, covered and skim-coated it until the inspection and then just knocked out the concrete.
It made me feel good to help him.
If you have a drain on the kitchen floor, you don’t need a high line or overflow into the sink for your dishwasher.
Theres a kitchen, and then there’s a KITCHEN. I’m talking about the latter. Stainless steel everything, commercial smoke hood, etc etc.
I’ve worked in commercial kitchens that had floor drains, but most of them didn’t.
I’ve got four of those running right now. I’m annoyed, but I can’t get too angry with my contractor. He called me back immediately, took ownership of the screw up, and showed within an hour to begin remediation. And covered the 8″ gap that runs along all three sides of the patio in plastic, like they should have in the first place. They start framing on Monday, so the problem is a one off.
The sign of a good contractor is not one who never has anything go wrong but one who always makes it right if anything does go wrong
Tell me about it.
(going on 8 months to get two interior doors (properly) installed)
Tuesdays with Derpy, part 6
***
The old man and the college kid slouched on the couch and drank Equality pale ale. They were watching NPR, because that was all there was.
The announcer spoke: And now, we proudly present a new documentary by Ken Burns- Heroes of Antifa.
Beautiful, dramatic music played over a slow-motion, sepia montage: Antifa guys pushing over a trashcan, a scrawny Antifa throwing an awkward punch, a mob of Antifa struggling to pull down a statue, Antifa knocking MAGA hats off eldery people…
Gee, I sure hope they don’t break their arms from patting themselves on the back too hard, said the old man.
The young man’s face contorted as he struggled to understand. Then he said: they…they really thought they were amazing heroes for *that*?!
Oh, you don’t know the half of it, said the old man. Back in the day, seemed like everyone of them thought they were storming the beaches of Normandy for
retweeting “orange man bad” stuff. You know where the name Antifa comes from, don’t you?
No, said the college kid.
It stands for anti-fascist, you know, like Nazis and such, said the old man.
I thought Nazi and fascist were just insults, like racist or moron or Republican, said the college kid.
The old man buried his face in his hands and sighed. No, all those are real things and they are not the same, said the old man.
So what’s the difference, asked the college kid.
The old man paused and said: I could spend hours explaining the differences, but the gist is Nazi, fascist, and racist refer to evil and false beliefs, moron means
not smart, and about half the people in this country are Republicans of some sort, even if they are reluctant to say so.
So how did those words turn into insults, asked the college kid.
Social media, said the old man. Our prog overlords had a monopoly on that, and anyone who said something they didn’t like was labeled racist, Nazi, etc.
That’s really stupid and sad, said the college kid.
Yeah, said the old man. Over time, all the dissenting voices were silenced. People became afraid to speak their minds, and so the vicious cycle began.
I’ve learned a lot since I met you, said the college kid. I should go home and work on our book. Have a nice night.
Half an hour later, the old man was relaxing on the roof of the cage motel. He took lazy puffs on a cigar and looked at the sky.
Ortega. Palmer. Kowalski. He didn’t know what hurt more- that they were gone or that he had trouble remembering their faces and names.
He crushed out the cigar and went to bed.
***
Man, that is…deeply sad and disturbingly easy to imagine
In the first episode, I said this was a vision of a *possible* future.
“No fate but what we make.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J92yhAjAeJY
All the folks here over 40 are lucky, in that they’ll probably be dead by the time things get really bad. Guys my age will have to put on the brakes now and salvage what we can later.
What? Cmon man they’re just going to convince themselves the only possible solution is mass suicide like any other cult.
Maybe but it seems to be an overly pessimistic take.
Well, dystopias by definition are horrible. As for what will really happen, I’m sure it won’t be as bad as WW2 or the Black Death.
And hey, even in my dystopia there is decent selection of beer.
Link to previous episodes- https://glibertarians.com/2019/08/straffinruns-glib-crossword-corner/#comment-1139452
comment 29 on that thread
Well done reminds me of Harrison Bergeron.
“NFL flameout compares own career with Antonio Brown’s after latest drama with Oakland Raiders”.
Johnny Manziel wasn’t available to weigh-in ?
I mentioned Manziel earlier when some bartenders were talking about the release earlier.
Leprosy Could Be The Next Public Health Crisis To Hit Los Angeles
Please oh please let San Diego county become its own state!!
So a literal biblical plague hits California. Can I be entertained by that?
G’ahead. Might as well get some yucks out of it.
So…regressing to the 19th century/3rd world. We had quite a few lepers in our city in SE Asia growing up. You’d recognize a lot of the same ones begging at the post office or outside church. Also remember the Hawaiian leper colonies – Molokai I think….
Not quite so rare that you couldn’t write an entire series around it – but good Lord – the point isn’t to *try* and get a public health crisis….
Hah. That was my first thought..
“Leper! Outcast unclean!”
Great minds…
And a great new avatar!
Cheers to you and the Madman!
At Dahlgren NAVSEA base, we had to go to an area that is certified for classified talk and computing. But we weren’t there for classified stuff, and when we entered the area to walk to the control room, they had to turn on a Kmart blue strobe and yell “UNCLEAR!! UNCLEAR!!” In front of my Aussie colleague who, while a US citizen, does not have secret clearance.
It always made me think of biblical epics with lepers crying out “Unclean!!” as a warning to others.
Where I work now, if folks visit with less than the minimum clearance, they just have to walk around carrying a flashing red light (while escorted) ;p
God I hated the Thomas Covenent books. I read three, maybe, out of hw many? Why did I read that many? Oh how I hated those books.
I couldn’t make it 100 pages into the first book. I can’t imagine what Donaldson was going through that compelled him to pen such an awful person onto paper.
OMG you’ve picked an even more zaftig avatar!
+1 Thomas Covenant. Step back Unbeliever.
At least it’s not a loquacious vagina. ///whisperingeye
I saw Loquacious Vagina open for Flying Testicle back in ’93.
I suppose LA should designate the NRA terrorist organization. I mean, they have nothing better to do or worry about right now.
At least the Patriots were smart enough to limit the contract to 1 year.
This is what they’re dealing with:
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1170448141344223233?s=20
Andreescu wins! She is one tough customer.
Did she beat the Serena monster?
I have no idea why the Godzilla cry just went through my head.
I see that we will have a fresh face at the Brady/Belichick invitational in February.
Ugh. Those pics hurt me.
Although I will say that the ZipWall is an amazingly useful system. Highly recommended.
Good luck, Spud. I know it’s on the contractors but it still sucks.
Thanks. At least it’s not impacting the project schedule. I’ve had worse.
Yipe, if an assault weapons ban can happen in Florida it can happen anywhere. At least if it passes they’ll let you keep your assault weapon if you already own it and you register it which is still insane.
This is made possible by Trump acting receptive to any kind of gun grabbing. Once a prog senses a tiny vulnerability in the armor, they’ll immediately grab a crowbar and pry it open with all their might.
I don’t like what Trump’s doing with his vacillating on the issue but I don’t agree here. It looks like the gun control groups have adopted a smarter strategy of pursuing more local gun control every chance they get. They’ve upped their game.
Fucking Bloomberg.
May he get ass cancer.
Dude, you so mean, he’s trying to protect you from large sugary drinks, for your own good.
So cancer is too slow and not painful enough is what you are saying. Where STEVE SMITH?
It’s the same tactic gun rights groups used over the past 20-30 years to (re)gain those freedoms.
Meh, its FL. You know what else is illegal in FL?
Meth.
and you register it
Register what?
“People who lawfully have an assault weapon prior to the enactment of the provision would be exempt — but these individuals would be required to register the weapons.”
would be required to register the weapons
What weapons? Have you not been boating lately?
Sorry man, I’ve been eating Benadryl all day and my mind’s a little slow.
2 of those in the daytime turns me into a fucking zombie. I can’t take it at work, only at night before sleeping if I’m having a really bad allergy attack. It works, but fuck, it’s also a great sleep aid when you don’t need it.
At least five deaths in the Southeast have been blamed on Dorian. The others were men in Florida or North Carolina who died in falls or by electrocution while trimming trees, putting up storm shutters or otherwise getting ready for the hurricane.
So…. in other words, zero deaths in the US from Dorian, but they want to put a body count on global warming?
Just a few more for the billions that global warming has already slaughtered.
By this metric, anyone who dies of a heart attack putting up storm shutters or gets electrocuted trimming trees is a victim of global warming.
Heads I win, tails you lose.
Isn’t that what’s used for heat wave and blizzard deaths too?
Probably.
I know they included heart attacks in the Northridge earthquake death toll, even though it was no higher than average for that time period.
No idea when they do it, but it’s clearly dishonest. Federal emergency funds, maybe?
Yes, and global warming means when the weather is hotter, or colder, or wetter, or dryer, or anything. It’s all
global warmingclimate change.Don’t forget heat stroke.
Look what it did to FSU last week.
Global warming is destroying college football!
Heh heh heh.
I remember this happening before. They counted a death by someone who made a fatal error using a generator as a death caused by the storm. Disingenuous is as disingenuous does.
This is from the side panel of the first AB story.
The driver walked away but will be out for a while.
Those cars are safe. We should all be driving them.
Grilled cheese sandwich and coffee. Should start the corn soup but sleepy now.
Sleepy at 3 in the afternoon?
Are you part lion?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siesta#Biological_need_for_naps
Don’t nap shame me!
Playa is a bad libertarian for trying to violate the NAP 😉
Ha!
I have long thought that 8 or 9 hours, esp. sitting in a chair, is cruel and usual punishment without a nap in the middle.
Hobgoblin English Ruby Ale from Wychwood Brewery. English Brown Ale. Bottle. 5.2% ABV.
Pretty good. Sweet and Malty. Light and smooth enough for a session. Good flavor. Not my favorite rendition of a brown but unique and tasty. Would buy again.
If only someone had stopped them in time…
Leprosy
With Austin as Ground Zero, I’ll predict. Lots of armadillos.
still…I don’t recall it being contagious unless you had a LOT of extended physical contact (see leper colonies)…or sexual contact. Was there ever a recorded case of transmission to humans from armadillos?…
Never mind – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo
California doesn’t have armadillos?
I haven’t seen any yet. Tons of them in Oklahoma when I was growing up.
In good news today, I’ve learned that Deschutes is running a rebate offer here in Ohio. $4 rebates off a six-pack of their Fresh Squeezed IPA (and variants). Limit six per household, and expires at the end of November. I’ve got at least five more six packs in my future.
Spud, I’m not up to date on what happened chez vous but it doesn’t look good and certainly not happy. You have my sympathy, not that that will help. Are you on a slab? Roof leak?
My garages are on a slab but I went 2 blocks high to get above grade on one and 3 blocks up on another that’s in a shallow hill side. Have a little seepage on the second one but just a damp floor a little.
We’re having the patio redone. The front page picture cut off the culprit. The soffits got cut back to accommodate a roof, which resulted in an eight inch gap into the attic all the way around the patio. They forgot to cover it with plastic and we had some thunderstorms come through.
Thanks, Spud, now I understand. I’ve been trying to get my patio replaced for 3 years now, I have a slight low spot on the roof and the melting snow falls off and freezes right in front of the door we use. The low spot is not noticeable but you can’t fool gravity. Anyway, trying to keep the ice off in the spring a guest used pickling salt that ate through the top finish of the slab, causing the soft concrete to to be exposed. My friend and retired contractor said his son would like the job and I agreed.
Anyway, its been 3 summers now and with winter approaching may just as well wait ’til next spring, only then I’m going to get someone that actually wants to work. Dealing with friends’ kids is a pain in the ass. The kid is 60 years old, came by a couple weeks ago and we discussed it but he hasn’t been back.
Our back patio needs a couple of stairs built. The person who owned the house previously had something thrown up, but it wasn’t done with properly treated wood and they’re rotting a couple years in. I want to just go and set up stone steps (as there’s a Menard’s selling a kit for ~$350), but the contractor the girlfriend talked to said ~$700. I wouldn’t mind paying the bill if it would actually get fscking done.
One of the side benefits of this project is that I no longer have to shovel snow off the patio.
New Belgium 1554 Dark Ale. 6%. Very smooth. Malty. Quite lovely. Would put high on list of Dark Ales. Great beer.
Heineken. 5% lager. Still best beer ever in the world.
Lol.
I’d rather gargle miller high life than drink a Heineken.
Oh, puleease. Miller High Life is maybe the best American redneck swill, but Heineken is several classes better.
No that is not correct. Natural Lite with a splash of citrus is the best redneck swill and vastly superior to Heineken.
If you have to put citrus in it to drink it, it’s not better than Heineken.
They changed the caps on the bottles. I think it’s some sort of commie shit, but I’m not sure yet. Still, best beer ever in the history of da murl.
Becks>Heineken
Nope. But, I used to like to mix Becks lager with Becks dark. Until I could no longer find Becks dark. Do they still make that? You can’t buy it here and not for many years now.
I haven’t seen that in a long time. Some of the higher end grocery stores around here still carry St. Pauli Girl dark though.
Hamm’s?
The beer refreshing?
I had one once. It was unassuming and inoffensive. Something my grandfather gave me and recommends because it is inexpensive and adequate. I’d put it north of Miller/Bud Lite in quality while being cheaper.
Hyp: https://www.beermenus.com/beers/23883-beck-s-dark
Or what GT said below.
St. Pauli Girl posters are better than the beer.
I think I can get it around me, but it’s not something that I’m really looking for. Depending on which store you go to around here, Bass and Harp can be hard to find outside of March.
I looked for it for a long time. I love mixing it with Becks lager, or Grolsch, or even Heineken. But that is a thing of the past.
Beermenus dot com claims Becks Dark is available just up the street from Chez GT. You want I should look for it?
/whispers to GT
Don’t do it. His judgement on good beer is warped.
In that case, he needs something from here.
Of course, they have some good shit. I’ve been down there before. Much better then Carrilon Brewing.
Things don’t have to be sour just because it’s an old recipe!
Maybe, for historical accuracy, they make sure the ingredients are as old as the recipe.
GT: They make it a point of roasting the malts in front of you.
I didn’t have the heart to point out that they would have purged the barrels with boiling water before putting wort into it.
*Cracks Guinness and stares with disapproval*
Jk, I’m drinking cheap chardonnay right now. But if I want good beer, Guinness is my shit.
What I like about Heineken is how it comes preskunked so you don’t have to worry about it going bad.
What?
It literally smells like a skunk.
Comes out the other end smelling the same as it did before I drank it. 😀
Drink, Drank, Drunk
TW: No video.
/waves at Michigan people
It tastes terrible.
I remember reading once about Anheiser-Busch launching a beer that was exposed to UV light before bottling and so was, literally, pre-skunked, in order to compete with “exotic” tasting beers like Heineken and Beck’s and Corona. I don’t recall specific details, though.
I had a really good dark lager today at one of my stops (BottleHouse). I also had to make it a point to get at least a half pour of Piwo Grodziskie. The real fun is watching people try to pronounce it.
It’s not *that* difficult to pronounce, although Polish orthography is fucked up compared to the other Slavic languages.
Łódź* is my favorite example of that. Four simple letters. None of them even close to what an American would guess.
*(3rd largest city in Poland)
“Woots”? My grandpappy was first generation.
Yeah, something like “wooch” but where the “ch” is not a sound that English has.
I was going to guess “warsch”. Had a geography professor say it once…a long time ago.
It’s not like we’re lacking in Polish heritage here in Cleveland. But every time I order one, I hear someone else try to read the menu and slaughter the name.
That sounds up my alley. Will have to give it a go if I find it.
Bill Maher: “I know nothing about thermodynamics.”
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that Hurricane Dorian is a “souped-up” storm that is “inspired” by global warming.
Maher said, “The whole thing really with this storm just shows how the two parties are living in two completely different realities. While this definitely global warming-inspired, souped-up storm was wiping out yet another Caribbean island, Democrats, who are running for president, had a town hall about climate.”
Dorian put a turbo on his Honda because of global warming?
They’ve went completely fucking insane. Just sit back and watch the train wreck. Enjoy.
Maher is a fool and a lost cause.
Democrats had a “town hall”. Which is to say that the candidates know it’s all hokum and are treating it with all the seriousness it deserves.
Bill Maher is a pompous ass. He was even difficult to listen to on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Like, he seriously believes he is the smartest person in the room.
So final result from today. Just over 33 miles on the bike today, four breweries visited, several visitors chatted to, only a couple of wrong turns (that took me down to a beach and back through an evil climb), five and a half pints at breweries (highest ABV being 5.5%). This morning, I also managed to weigh in with a loss of ~15 pounds since I got serious about dropping weight again.
Overall, this was a good day.
For the film fans who don’t have an Alamo Drafthouse near them, looks like Fathom Events still has you covered.
Upcoming shows include Star Trek the Motion Picture (40th anniversary), Shawshank Redemption (25th anniversary), Ghostbusters (30th), Alien (40th), Godfather pt 2, etc. Definitely gonna try and catch a few of those.
Also upcoming:
Margaret Atwood: Live in Cinemas
Fer fucksake.
So she re-booted 1984?
“It’s a mash-up of 1984 and The Man in the High Castle, but dumber and woker! With no understanding of the subtext!”
“Sold!”
The Orange Man in the High Castle
**wins the Internet**
Once again, the straight man (comedy parlance, fuck off with your sex shit) serves up the softball and the person that holds out the bat for the bunt gets the points. I hate T-ball.
Here–have a beer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCOSejS1SSY
That is for Mike’s.
?
???
The “hard” lemonade? Or, MikeS? ‘Cause you can share, if need be.
/we’re not doing phrasing anymore, right?
Well, Mike’s got the joke, hence his emoji response, so I don’t care what you thin, DAD!
Hey; cut me some slack, ya whipper-snapper!
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When I post extra strength derp, I like to set the mood first.
Buckle up, buckaroos- we’re on a highway to Clown World.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0
Oh crap. Why do I have a feeling that this past week was absolutely chock-full of radioactive derp?
It’s derp all the way down.
::scans new avatar::
Ummm…it doesn’t appear to be so derp.
/just saying….
WILLIAMS: Criminologists Mislead Us
In 2012, the National Academy of Sciences commissioned a study on the growth of incarceration. It showed that from 1928 until 1960, crime rates rose slowly each year. After the 1960s, crime rates exploded to unprecedented levels of violence until the 1990s. Prior to 1980, only 40% of individuals arrested for murder were sentenced to prison and those that were served an average of five years. In 1981, less than 10% of those arrested for sexual assault were sentenced to prison. Those who were sentenced served an average of 3.4 years. Liberal criminologists probably believe that light sentencing for murderers and rapists is just.
If criminologists have the guts to even talk about a race-crime connection, it’s behind closed doors and in guarded language. Any discussion about race and crime sets one up for accusations of racism and that can mean the destruction of one’s professional career. Wright and DeLisi say that liberal criminologists avoid discussing even explicit racist examples of black-on-white crime such as flash-mob assaults, “polar bear hunting” and the “knockout game.” These are cases where black youth seek out white people to physically attack.
According to Wright and DeLisi: “Disproportionate black involvement in violent crime represents the elephant in the room amid the current controversy over policing in the United States. Homicide numbers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Supplementary Homicide Reports, 1976-2005 indicate that young African-American males account for homicide victims at levels that are ten to 20 times greater than their proportion of the population and account for homicide offenders at levels that are 15 to 35 times greater than their proportion of the population. The black-white gap in armed-robbery offending has historically ranged between ten to one and 15 to one. For all racial groups, violent crime is strongly intraracial, and the intraracial dynamic is most pronounced among blacks.” That means the primary victims of black crime are other black people. In more than 90% of homicides, for example, both the victim and the perpetrator are black.
Between 1991 and 2017, the nationwide violent crime rate fell from 758 cases to 382 cases per 100,000 people. Despite the evidence that higher incarceration reduces crime rates, many criminologists argue that “mass incarceration” has actually “took minority men out of their neighborhoods, stripped them of voting rights, destabilized families, and sapped already-paltry economic resources from struggling communities.” Wright and DeLisi say that “Such claims could seem plausible only if one believes — contrary to evidence and common sense — that career criminals contribute positively to their neighborhoods, enjoy stable and functional families, vote, and work. What they did, in reality, was to prey on their neighbors.”
Crime is a major problem for the black community. But in addition to incarcerating those who prey on the black community, what can be done? The answer is easy, though implementation poses a challenge. We should re-adopt the values and practices of our ancestors. Black families of yesteryear were mainly two-parent and stable, even during slavery. Black people didn’t tolerate property destruction. There were few school fights. Disrespect and assaults on teachers were virtually unknown. These are now all too common. The strong character of black people is responsible for the great progress made from emancipation to today. Find a 70-, 80- or 90-year-old black person and ask him whether today’s conduct among black youth would have been tolerated yesteryear. I guarantee you that no will be their answer.
Black on black violence is a problem that we aren’t supposed to talk about.
Walter Williams and Tom Sowell not only talk about it, they write books about black family dysfunction. They are in that 80 age bracket that is mentioned.
OK, here we go.
A MTF transgender philosophy professor celebrated the recent death of David Koch. She is also a competitive cyclist, in the sense that “she” competes against women.
Here is “her” YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWDhU-tgxxU
The like/dislike ratio is a faint ray of hope in my dreary world.
Holy cow. Look, if you are an embittered, friendless, ugly man with no lips, cutting your dick off and wearing a dress does NOT make you a beautiful princess.
It makes you an embittered, friendless, ugly woman.
At least it’s not going to procreate, Pirate girl, so it’s a win for the rest of us.
Readjusts bifocals… I mean Pilgrim girl. I liked Pirate girl better, but…
Yeah that was a temporary mistake of an upload. Didn’t mean to use that previous edition…
Quiet, you! Even the trees have ears. Do you want Fenris Ulf of the Secret Police to hear?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqZmTfVH-G4
It makes you an embittered, friendless, ugly dude, with no dick.
^this.
In my experience, very few men make attractive women. Which, you know, makes sense.
I had a MTF patient in the ER yesterday. Under a list of past surgeries was two this year: breast implants and an orchiectomy, aka castration. Just reading about removal of the testes can make one a little queasy.
You’re still working in the ER in your condition?! Hell, makes me feel shitty complaining about pushing buttons with my bad knees.
South Park had an episode where they showed some IRL footage of a sex change. The ~5 seconds or so were pretty rough.
I had heard that the footage was from something else (I remember it being an animal castration), but some searching proves me wrong.
When someone is serious enough to have their genitals removed/surgically changed/whatever then I know they are serious. Everyone else is just a pretender.
Mick Jagger: “What is environmental science?”
“We are in a very difficult situation at the moment, especially in the U.S., where all the environmental controls that were put in place — that were just about adequate — have been rolled back by the current administration so much that they are being wiped out,” the 76-year-old rocker said, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“The U.S. should be the world leader in environmental control but now it has decided to go the other way,” Mick Jagger continued, adding that he is “absolutely behind” the recent efforts of climate change activists.
“I’m absolutely behind that,” Jagger said. “I’m glad they’re doing that because they’re the ones who are going to inherit the planet.”
Donald Sutherland, Jagger’s co-star, agreed, suggesting that the Trump administration is playing a part in “ruining the world.”
Whatever has been rolled back isn’t enough. In my industry I have figure a way to regulatorily meet something called “energy balance” (perhaps I’ll do a write-up someday) in stormwater calculations. It is quite retarded imho. I have a site now that with a simple 2/10/and even 100 year detention can be met but I have had to put countless hours into figuring out the EB bs.
You can’t always get what you want Mick so please shut up.
Yep, get off of my (exhaust) cloud, you silly pindick.
You can’t even get what you don’t understand that you think you want. So yeah, shut up gramps.
What’s the difference between Mick Jagger and a Scotsman?
Mick Jagger says “hey you, get off of my cloud” and the Scotsman says “hey McCloud, get off of my ewe!”
I’ll be here all week. Try the waitress and tip the veal.
Oh my. I feel guilty for appreciating that.
Sure, Jan.
Funny, I recall Jagger left his own country to avoid taxes once upon a time. The sort of thing he is now advocating for.
Why would anyone listen to Mick Jagger?
This is the most overpriced doomsday bunker I’ve ever seen.
https://www.trulia.com/p/nv/las-vegas/3970-spencer-st-las-vegas-nv-89119–1005329237
Also, it’s creepy, but I can’t quite put my finger on why it’s creeping me out so much.
All of the rooms in that hurt my eyes.
How many dinosaur killing asteroids or all out US/Russian nuclear wars it is certified to survive?
The strip club near the pool. That is creeping you out.
The stripper pole is probably the best entertainment you’re going to get after doomsday.
It looks like a Disney exhibit complete with what looks like a stripper pole.
Man, that is even tackier than I was expecting.
Hey dude, it was the 70s!!!
The 70s didn’t make that deer look like it should be painted on velvet. Also, what’s up with the people painted as if they’re leaning on the gate staring at you? I went a little crazy just now from seeing the picture, I can’t imagine lasting a week in that sucker during the nuclear zombie apocalypse.
You wouldn’t last a week because it’s in the middle of a city. If conditions were ever bad enough that you actually needed it you’d be a target and your surviving neighbors would eat you alive.
Not even going to mention the leopard print high-heeled shoe chair, eh?
“Las Vegas Underground House! Its not just a house, its an subterranean 15,000sqft concrete & steel rectangular shaped doomsday bunker. The 5000 sqft House is built Inside this huge bunker & is finished with pool,spa,waterfall,trees,guest house,BBQ,fountain & 500 linear feet of floor to ceiling illuminated murals of landscapes of wide open spaces simulating day,dusk,dawn & night modes.”
Wow
Is it the painting of the dark-skinned people watching you while leaning on the gate with the “no trespassing” sign?
So probably all the portraits of Jimmy Carter on the wall.
Watching FIU v. WKU. WKU scores and manages an onside kick while still in the first quarter, which is an interesting decision and somewhat lucky. Then they throw a pick-6. Much irony ‘n such.
I’m going to have to fire up RGO again and go back to the Texas system where it’s a little safer for peeps with garbage ships, grind out some easier missions to the best game soundtrack ever in history.
Redstar beer. I got it, I’m swillin it, I’m hauling it, I’m selling it. It’s Redstar beer, motherfuckers!
I’m feeling sorry for you niggahs cain’t hear this soundtrack. Gotta cut you loose.
How’s it compare to the original? If it was on GOG I’d probably buy it right now, but I’m not wild about getting hooked into another store. Plus, I’m working through a backlog of 95 games on Steam, so…
As a dog returns to its vomit, so I return to Current Affairs.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/09/the-scale-of-what-were-up-against
***
I’ve just written a book called Why You Should Be A Socialist, which I wrote with a sense of manic urgency, because I’m afraid that things that seem like basic moral truths (every person has an obligation to help make sure other people are okay) are treated as radical insanity, and I’m incredibly worried that Ayn Rand’s idea that “self-interest is good” is going to triumph and kill us all (as the Prisoner’s Dilemma predicts it will). I know that when my book comes out, if it does at all well, an army of Cato Institute types is probably going to descend on it, trying to root out every fallacy, discredit every sentence. Millions upon millions of dollars are spent by evil men on think tankers who promise to prove that black is white and day is night. I’m about to poke the nest, and I am not especially excited about it.
***
[dramatic pause]
Nathan, if this is the greatest moment of drama in your life, you are an extraordinarily pathetic man.
Gosh, this socialism thing sure sounds nice. If only somebody would try it out, so we could see how it works out in the real world.
Nathan sure has a firm grip on human nature.
I think the last thing Nathan has is a firm grip on anything.
I don’t feel to pedantic going over this. This is a terrible understanding of the prisoners dilemma (PD), and what we can take from it. The PD is a game with specific conditions. Such conditions produce a Nash Equilibrium where each is worse off than if they “could” be. But it defiantly does not say that “self-interest” always leads the the bad. It’s an incredibly naive or deliberatly obtuse usage of Game Theory to say that is what it “predicts”.
He’s also ignoring that when you look at multiple iteration games where the number of rounds is unknown cooperation with retaliation becomes the most effective strategy. Instead of obsessing over Ayn Rand he should read a little bit of Elinor Ostrom’s work, which deals with real-world examples of PD situations where the players voluntarily cooperate when left to their own devices.
You are arguing the position on its merits. Rule of thumb (not infallible): Whatever the issue, the liberal position is not about the issue. It is whatever position leads to higher tax rates regardless of effect on tax revenue, to more money being redistributed from net tax payers to net tax recipients, to more government, and to the erosion of institutions of society and/or Western civilization such as the scientific method, the Enlightenment, Judaeo-Christianity, the family, even bowling leagues.
Revealed truth that life in his ideal world is a prison.
– things that seem like basic moral truths (every person has an obligation to help make sure other people are okay) –
Since when? To whom? Who the hell are you to decide what everyone else is obligated to do?
Also, what Fatty says above.
I’ve heard “my brother’s keeper”cited (Cain to God) as why this obligation is true. I’ve always thought Cain was just being a wise guy as it was obvious that we aren’t supposed to be our brother’s keeper.
Cain V Able was the first WWE DEATH CAGE match after all.
But, folding chairs and tables weren’t invented yet.
Rephrase that out of leftist language and that is close to a moral truth. There are people who need assistance through no fault of their own; those who need help because of bad choices, but they are ready to change; and those who need help because of bad choices and are continuing to do so. Some good people are in circumstances that they can offer to offer money, stuff, volunteer time, and/or so on to nongovernmental charities, nonprofit(s), not-for-profits, and so on without harming their own. Some good people are not. Seems that a lot of the good people who can do so volunteer goods, money, time, whatever to help at least some of others.
A hand up is different than a hand out.
That’s radically insane.
I was going to include “are treated as radical insanity” in the quote, but otherwise, you got it covered.
Hofbrau Here Weizen. 5.1%. As far as I’m concerned, this is the Standard for Here Weizens. Smooth, crisp, touch of yeast, totally drinkable. Yum.
Duly noted! I love a good wheat beer.
Relax, I have some local beer on hand.
*cracks open a White Claw*
Here we go again.
Going down the only road we’ve ever known.
*Punches MS in the throat*
Ain’t no law!
*gets punched in the throat by someone else*
Now where did I leave my .357 Magnum?
*mumbles ain’t no law between chambering rounds*
I think their regular (lager? ) is actually better, even thigh I trend to prefer Hefeweizen.
Apparently it’s a Helles.
Mmmm… I just poached a bunch of chicken thighs. Now time to figure out what I’m going to do with them.
Not to be too critical, but that’s a decision you should make before you go hunting illegally.
You’re not my
dadparole officerI’ve found that most of their beers seem to be overpriced, especially at their “brewery” locations. Still not the worst brewery I’ve been to though.
They were supposed to have opened one here in buffalo, but it’s been pushed back at least a year now.
Couldn’t say for price as coincidentally I’ve only purchased out of town.
Most of the liter pours are about $12 or so. I can get a damn good pint for $5 at a lot of local breweries. The days that seem worthwhile are when they’re doing a buffet (Sundays for a while), where they do schnitzel to order. I can eat a lot of fried pork.
Spud, sorry about the water problems.
Thanks, the hardest part is keeping the wife focused and in her routine.
Geeze. What a comeback by Colorado
Yeah, that was cray cray.
Hey Hayek! Long Time no talk. Hope you are feeling better.
Nursing another Blonde Betty. Love this one.
With apples and spice and everything nice. Looks interesting.
Woah, blonde Betty
Bambalam
Okay, I’m not the only one who had that song pop up in my mind.
I went to “Kung Pow, Enter the Fist”.
Damn right!
I read that as “ba mi ba”, had a flash back to the VN beer that was undrinkable. The French version, trente-trois, was not potable either but we still drank both in their respected geographical area. 33 is 33.
Young and stupid, naive?
A blonde ale, huh? I haven’t had one of those in a while. They’re tricky for me, I haven’t had many that I enjoyed, but I don’t see them around very often so my sample size is small.
Yeah, collab with a cider brand. I picked up 6 additional at the end of last year – still working through them. Not sure if they’ll come out again this year or not.
Since everyone is posting their beers, I’m having a hoegaarden. Had some homemade Indian samosa chaat for dinner.
Tend your gaarden well, and you’ll have a bumper crop of hoes.
Garten, surely.
I’m now working through a mead, Crafted This is a Barrel Aged Strawberry Mead. The girlfriend was not a fan due to the barrel aging, and to me it offsets the sweetness enough to make it a very quaffable beverage.
I’m on my seventh Strohs.
16th Red Dog myself. But I try not to hold others up to my high standard.
I figured you for a Schlitz man.
I thought it would be Slosh.
::laugh stifled::
ahem.
Beer is for beginners.
Yeah…if that proposed Florida assault weapons ban amendment makes it to the ballots next year, I’m voting hell fuckin’ no.
“Other studies have projected an initial $8 million loss in tax revenue, followed by a $120 million decline in related economic activity.”
This, regarding banning so-called ‘assault’ weapons.
Then this: “Proponents also argue that costs related to gun violence are much higher for the state.”
Almost none of which is committed with the guns they are proposing banning. Nice conflation you have there.
Dishonest SOBs are not interested in gun violence unless it is committed by people defending themselves from the state. The guns most effective for that purpose are the ones they want banned, not the ones being used in criminal activity. They put the lie to themselves every time.
Of course you know, when the assault rifle bannings don’t lead to drops in crime they’ll move on to pistols, then to pump shotguns, and then to whatever’s next.
knives, screwdrivers, sharp sticks etc.
That is where they have gone in the UK all while crime steadily increases.
I’m drinking my very first White Claw. Never even heard about it until yesterday.
*punches grizzly in the throat*
*gets torn into ribbons by grizzly*
*sips whiskey while watching neph get torn to shreds*
*feels the love/hate*
*sips rye, thinks “feels the love” is gay*
I’ve drank it a lot, but I think the advice here to just get some vodka and seltzer individually and save money is a good one.
Hmm… I think I have some White Claw around here somewhere. Maybe in the garage. I think my wife bought some a while back to try and her opinion was “meh”, and she made me try it and my opinion was “meh”, and we may have only opened the one can out of the 4- or 6- or whatever pack it came in.
HIgh Noon is better.
I can feel it. Someday I will be like the grandpa squirrel from Peace on Earth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F712yuXIv_k
Drinking one of my own — a sour golden strong ale finished with raspberries.
That’s sounds like you’re drinking your own piss after a hard day in the raspberry fields.
Yes, it’s lovely.
Computer BSODed yesterday from a display driver conflict, then did recognize my TV. Tried to upgrade the driver, said it couldn’t install the new driver due to a conflict. Today after work uninstalled all the video drivers, rebooted and attempted to re-install. There was some kind of conflict again. After 8hrs of fucking with the thing finally got my dual monitors back, but still doesn’t recognize my TV. CROM!
*didn’t
So….he listened to you. Maybe it was your simple prayer.
What OS? What driver? What errors?
Look at Neph over here–asking “relevant questions”.
Windows 7, drivers for my AMD R7 260x (all of them I’ve tried going back to the build from last feb) The exact errors, I don’t remember, been drinking after fucking with it.
I’ll allow it.
Alright, Win7, AMD vid card, I’d just need the errors to be able to start troubleshooting.
/tries to avoid putting CPRM into the “user” bucket
Error 1603 was the one the AMD driver update gave me. Uninstalled all C++ per the link, re-installed newest C++, downloaded and ran an independent windows updater (because the DISM command prompt only applies to 8+)
Error 1603? Most of the causes seem to be Windows related, did you reboot and try the installation again?
And do you actually still need help, or am I just going through my trained responses?
Like I said, I’ve been at it for 8hrs, going through all the the protocols. Yes I turned it off and on again. Yes I followed the instructions. Yes I know what I’m doing. Thanks for offering Neph, but yeah, you’re sounding like the tech support guy reading off his card.
Note the second line.
But yeah, most of tech support is going step by step to see what finally fixes the issue. It’s slow, draining, terrible, and pays well.
Yeah, it can pay well when you’re actual IT, when you’re the only guy in the small company that understands computers, you can be a part-time employee who gets texts about shit without getting paid.
Is that where deplorables go, or
One of my Software nerds wrote on his office door whiteboard “The hardware said it requires Windows 10 or better. So I installed Linux”
Silly computer bros.
Oh great and all powerful Hayek. That joke is nearly as old as I am. And it was originally Windows 95 or better.
We’re not all terrible people, we just have a very specific skill set. For which we get paid quite well for.
You’ve outdone yourself with the avatar, miss.
Hawt.
Thanks dude!
Agreed. Nice…
^And, this guy knows nice!
LOL
OK, time for something light-hearted and fun:
Derpy gets his first Army haircut- a dramatic re-encactment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrMpRtCLeAM
RIP to your hair.
Don’t worry, Raph; it returns full force.
*pats widow’s peak and thinning male pattern baldness*
Really…?
Well, In the book(s), yes
For Gustave: https://external-preview.redd.it/h6rP7Z9O5VdVH4iO_Psn1My6k9Eh_ccOKLwrxHtLGaY.jpg?auto=webp&s=24271315c4c27f868c52b6449d098d3e51d4dcc7
I was SO WRONG about Captain Marvel – She’s great and we really need her
I chuckled (sensibly).
That was excellent.
Punching down.
https://twitter.com/CarpeDonktum/status/1170431541157277699
From the comments:
“I’m convinced that Beto is an unclaimed Kennedy love child.”
*spit take*
Damn.
SICK BEATS, YO
What’s happening Funky Party People?
Oh, you know–chat, shit, and shit
What’s with the succinct title?
Sir Digby’s Golden Age of Ballooning is still my personal favorite!
Kinda a simplifying measure, I guess.
Also, not the “NOT a Naked Sir Digby”, huh?
Sir Digby’s Woodchipper Emporium and Ice Cream Parlor
::furiously
masturbatestakes notes::::OK–maybe both::
Seriously, though; fantastic. Mind if I use it some day?
I’d be honored!
the woodchippers double as passable milkshake machines.
I’ve found some possible pics, but, I have no photoshop-fu. Or, photoshop.
need video to get the full impact of people getting blasted in the face by the ShakeChipper (TM)
Fuck off slaver! (looks around for high-five, sees no one is offering, pretends to comb hair)
Hi Tulpa!
^ this
Tulpaguy is fitting in well ^That’s what Tulpa would say. Fuck off, Tulpa.
I started posting on TOS about a year before registration was required to comment. Totally missed the the initial diaspora. Figured mentions of the word “glibertarians” was snark.
TOS went from OK, to shit, to flaming dumpster full of raw sewage.
Googled glibertarians.
wowthisisathing.jpg
Saw most of the good people made it here.
Lurked for around six months.
Finally made an account and started posting, albeit rarely.
*pours one out for our fallen brothers who didn’t make it*
Welcome to this wretched hive of scum and villainy, good sir.
I have the death sentence on twelve systems!
There used to be funny things on TV.
Buddy, you ain’t kidding.
We need a drinking game.
I remember the ‘ol “Drink every time someone uses the word r***** in a comment” challenge.
Hell, TOS posted my real name once.
/pours one out for J Sub D
How did that happen??
Enquiring minds want to know!!
I chose Hayeksplosives for TOS and then brought it here. I think Tonio was my “invitation” to Glibs.
Since then I have Googled the name hayeksplosives, and alarmingly, there are many hayeksplosives, all dudes, on various sites saying all kinds of shit.
I don’t want anyone to think that is me!!!
I…think you’re safe. I mean, as safe as can be expected with these
hooligansfine, upstanding ne’er-do-wells.I’ve seen my handle in use a couple times when I tried to sign up for something in almost 20 years. Not a bad return since I specifically chose it to avoid that.
I sent them a tip from my real (unobfuscated) e-mail address with my name attached. It was then put up in a H&R post. My last name is rare, as in if you have the same one, we’re related. That how many are there site that was put up, I was the only one with my full name, and it only showed a handful of people with my last name. There’s a reason I try to hide that.
That was the last time I ever sent them something from that e-mail address.
Those who have been here since the beginning, and have good memories, will recall that my handle used to be self-doxxing.
My handle on TOS was self doxxing:
Jake W.
/saving My Betters at the NSA some time
Anyone could have doxxed me up until a year or so ago when I noticed that the anonymizer-service option thingie on my website was OFF when it should have been ON.
Rhy: you have a website?
I do. I only use it for the mail server any more. Long ago lost any interest in creating “content”.
Fist of Etiquette is holding out. He’s going down with the ship.
Poor, poor man.
aside:
Is it wrong that I want Dunphy here so I can LOL at his Babylon Bee level copsucking?
I genuinely miss him.
And Agile Cyborg.
Do you really think this town is big enough for both AC and SF?
It’s too bad he disappeared. Maybe he coulda come here and we’d find out!
Oh, dude–never go full Dunphy.
AC stopped by for a couple days and didn’t find it to his liking.
Didn’t like it…. ?
Right IN the feels, man.
Sounds like AC is no true Scotsman.
Some derp is so bad, I gotta give you fair warning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b756FPiLlp8
Nice. That and the one with the dinosaurs were my favorite when I was a kid.
I can’t believe I haven’t seen the movie. But I know this piece of music well. Watched Pt. 2 for the full effect.
I’m still geeking out about this.
The AF wouldn’t let a man that old fly, but the navy, I guess they’re cool with it as long as he’s cute.
man that old
Viper (callsign…) could not be reached for comment.
LSU just lost four people on the defense in the span of about ten minutes.
LSD: not just for people with an attention span of about ten minutes.
That was wild. This game is killing me, man. I laid the points, so I need LSU to win by a touchdown. This back-and-forth stuff is driving me nuts!
Are you sure you want to open the box?
Do you want to explore the furthest reaches of experience?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0utsyWNoupM
Ummm….yes, actually.
After more than a year of collaborating with SF, Cenobites are like the toys of children to me.
https://archive.li/oxrwG/50daf0567b618a0fb53011c75899c18846f53153.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/7QRlA/31bf026b9990d0ec4c4e69e635e6614de5e919fe.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/spmu6/7a6749e22c80264e631951d68223f32f5f880c04.jpg
NSFW.
Absolutely yes.
Winner
This one. Everything about this one.
I saw her first!
Oh yeah. I remember her.
Reminds me of a girl I used to fool around with a couple years ago. Doesn’t seem as clingy, though.
I was a bit of a playboy in my 20s. I hooked up with a married chick I’d known back in high school. I thought she’d leave her husband for me. I started hooking up with her friend (the girl I’m reminded of), I guess to encourage her to pull the plug on her marriage. Well, her husband found out about us and eventually they divorced. Years later, I find out he and the friend are getting married.
NIGGA I BEEN WITH BOTH YA BITCHES
Aren’t you still in your 20s?
Nah, bouta turn 33.
Dude’s been married twice and has a kid. He’s still on good terms with the woman I thought I loved. I’m drinking rye out of a coffee mug.
Oh man, she’s my fave. I heard a rumor somewhere that she stopped doing porn and became a born-again Christian or something, but that’s a really common rumor for any porn star who stops working. I think it might have risen to the level of euphemism at this point, like when your dad takes the dog to go live on a farm type of thing.
You mean this farm?
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1278766/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
“A devout born-again Christian as well as a dedicated animal rights activist, Erica announced her retirement from the adult entertainment industry on May 11, 2008.”
Warren and Clinton each slam a whole bottle of laxatives then engage in twisted, sapphic sex.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/warren-clinton-talk-behind-scenes-2020-race-intensifies-n1049701
Just watched Curse of the Black Swan. Gotta say Keira Knightley is hawt.
Keira Knightley is hawt
She’s aight in the first ‘Pirates’ movie, but she was unconvincing* in the other ones.
*By “unconvincing” I mean someone forgot to stuff her brah.
Ok, then you won’t mind if I take her.
Apparently there is a Central Connecticut U. I thought ALL of Connecticut was central Connecticut.
I thought all Connecticut was Lefty Connecticut.
It’s like when a British person talks about a ‘nation-wide’ thing, that shit is smaller some farms around here.
News you can use.
https://www.askmen.com/dating/dzimmer_100/130_love_answers.html
https://imgur.com/HprCu1l
Last chance: turn away now or be destroyed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuWLThMuf7k
You’ve been warned…
Such a darn tease.
Apparently there’s this whole cult around restoring your foreskin by stretching your cock skin.
Who knew?
Saw it in action on Bullsh!t.
#metoo.
Things I wish I could unsee.
What is it supposed to accomplish? Seems like the people stretching their earlobes in Africa.
*Can not find relevant clip from Pen and Teller BS on googletoob, so gives the battle to Q*
But this did come up. WOMEN DON’T LIKE SEX.
https://invidio.us/watch?v=k1BTpjDjcVA
Er, WOMEN DON’T LIKE SEX.
That guy definitely knows a lot about not satisfying women.
You’re doing it wrong.
Well, I’m not doing it at all, so I don’t think I’m doing right or wrong. Just not doing it. The third way, not in the kinky way.
Thank goodness. I thought it’s just me.
I’ll just stick to trimming the hedges. I don’t go all the way down. It is pretty much what I can grab and nip with the trimmer. Kindof like a buzzcut on my junk.
excellent book/song title.
Mat Best – Thank You for My Service: Not Your Typical Military Book
Yech…too much ink.
/…..What?? That gets said here at least once a week, but make it a joke…smdh
I warned you and you did nothing. Fine. Now taste the wrath of your curiosity:
https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/06/science-doesnt-support-sex-binary/
They live in an alternative universe.
*Decides to play Russian Roulette, clicks link*
Whew! Close one.
I’ll get you Parnell…next time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fk-vSUaI14
I’ll play
https://youtu.be/ZQ2nCGawrSY
I wonder if you can transition to that.
Evidently not woke science
https://youtu.be/6BZ19-RR5MU
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It was a good game.
Nephilium most hurt.
As I’ve explained to other locals, you don’t get to hate teams like the Twins or the Cubs doing better then us. They’re doing the right stuff and earning their wins. Save the hatred for teams that deserve it… like the Yankees, Steelers, and Broncos.
/looks at last nights game hopefully
I wasn’t expecting my team to be scratching for a wild card spot, but it’s better then I grew up with.
???
The Raiders….
They used to be hatred-worthy. Now they’re just pitiful.
All of my hatred for the Raiders is based on fewer than half a dozen fans who’d raise a goddamn Uncle Ruckus at a bar I used to go to to watch the Packers play. Those fuckers were the most obnoxious.
Old enough to bleed
If there’s grass on the field…
Purple shirt guy up above ensures me that when the 5 out of 4 women on college campuses get raped they don’t have an orgasm from penetration alone.
Back in 2007, a book by David Harsanyi (The Blaze, Denver Post, The Federalist, TOS) came out called Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and Other Boneheaded Bureaucrats Are Turning America into a Nation of Children. Two pillars of right-stream media are beginning to attempt to alarm (or at least clickbait) about “America” has become “a Nation of Children:”
Americans have become children — demanding, dependent and needy -Maureen Callahan
https://nypost.com/2019/09/05/american-adults-are-on-the-verge-of-extinction/
Adult Recess Is Booming, Because Being a Grown-Up Is Hard
https://www.wsj.com/articles/adult-recess-booms-because-being-a-grown-up-is-hard-11566226699
More like a nation of women. I blame third wave feminists and the media pushing their agenda for this, 100%.
Demonizing masculinity, personal responsibility, monogamy, traditional gender rolls when raising children (which, mind you, were established before the spoken word) has done nothing for the modern adolescent male. I feel bad for the children of my prog friends. I know a man nine years my senior who doesn’t know which end of a screwdriver to hold, his wife just birthed a beautiful little boy… who has no future…
If you are right, then that makes this irony:
Why Are Marriage Rates Down? Study Blames Lack Of ‘Economically-Attractive’ Men
https://www.studyfinds.org/why-are-marriage-rates-down-study-blames-lack-of-economically-attractive-men/
L E A R N T O CO O K
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1170364028536967168
I’m getting close to step 3.
When is the “making amends” step?
Kidding! I’m kidding!
I’M NOT AN ALCOHOLIC, I’M A DRUNK! *passes out*
Alcoholics are just a bunch of quitters.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/09/07/serena-williams-us-open-finals-bianca-andreescu/
Much happy. Such smile.
Fuck you Melanin Tarzan. May your career die in a ditch and rot.
Did she take a dump on the court then smack the umpire with her dick?
Don’t give SF any ideas…
She’s a man, man.
/Austin Powers grin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgOIEGz7o_s
All these years later and still gets a chuckle or many.
Congrats to Serena Williams for not melting down and shifting attention onto herself. Though something tells me she had to fight it. Too many eyeballs on her this time around including some faux-Royalty and racist directors.
Kudos to the 19 year-old Canuck. Couldn’t have been easy after she blew a 5-1 lead with Hulkette on the move and the crowd behind her including a fake Royal and a racist director.
Hoo-kay. Let’s rework that.
Congrats to Serena Williams for not melting down and shifting attention onto herself. Though something tells me she had to fight it. Too many eyeballs on her this time around.
Kudos to the 19 year-old Canuck. Couldn’t have been easy after she blew a 5-1 lead with Hulkette on the move and the crowd behind her including a fake Royal and a racist director
It was pretty sweet and that Romanian girl is quite charming.
She apologized for winning on U.S. soil because the crowd wanted Serena to win one more time.
Which made it all the more gratifying.
ESPN now needs some viagra to keep their hard on for Serena.
Sad that Williams will get more attention for being the lovable loser in this situation. She’s like the GOP during the Obama years.
Kudos to Bianca indeed.
Also: would
Sloopy is gonna be happy.
Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on
Sloopy spawn #4 coming up in May.
Popped up in my news feed when I got up today. Many rejoicing, much happy!
Brady to Brown.
/drops mic.
Brown to himself ‘Fuck them slave-masters! I’m jus be-in me!’ *dies penniless screaming about lizard people*
He gave up 30 million to make 15; 9 guaranteed.
Smh.
Towel boy must have looked at him funny.
Antonio Brown was ‘this’ close from becoming an Eskimo.
to.
I think I’m the poster boy for an edit button.
I think we all wish for an edit button, Muppet. I’m afraid we’re the little match girl when it comes to that ever being granted.
I could fix it. But I’m an asshole.
Good night you magnificent bastards, time to get some sleep before I head out to hope the Browns and the Indians win tomorrow.
It may be a long day.
G’night Neph.
Fine–don’t stick around for late-night goodness!
FINE!
Browns? Indians?
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRACIST!!!!1!!ONE!!!
Does this count as being cucked?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/well/family/transgender-spouse-transition.html
“Seeing the man who used to be my wife[…]”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIlL0T2yTss
Never been happier to see a paywall.
Here you go: Guy gets married, guy gets divorced, guy gets married again and has kid, guy learns his wife transformed and meets him over coffee, guy writes an article about it for the NYT which they print for some reason.
-The End
Did he suck her dick?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXz0KgNjK-0
/places marshmallow* on stick and over fire.
*I hate marshmallows. So if I ever come to any of your homes just know I hate marshmallows.
Doesn’t say but I’m just going to assume the answer’s yes.
Or.
He watched another man suck her dick and he sucked another man’s dick.
is that 3 dudes or 4?
THERE ARE FOUR DUDES!
Learn to count.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA
learn to compose less ambiguous word problems. You’re not even really from Sesame Street, are you.
I AM!
Submitted without comment.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2017/06/02/dont-put-wasp-nests-in-your-vagina/#2a6961f66622
“[…]the risks of douches greatly outweigh the benefits. Yes, douches of any kind don’t belong in your vagina.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIlL0T2yTss
Two in a row. Thanks, Q.
I live to serve.
100% of Doctors recommend that women put AlmightyJB in their Vagina.
For Almighty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqXi8WmQ_WM
The tucked in shirt really makes that look POP!
Taco knows how to fashion.
Cooking
Cleaning
Vaginas
The
threetwo C’s. And, a V.I get constipated once a month, motherfucker.
Two in the feeder, one in the bleeder…
Taco? Fashion?
https://youtu.be/OG3PnQ3tgzY
Dammit, Gustave! We need that kind of brilliance next door…
“100% of Doctors recommend that women put AlmightyJB in their Vagina.”
So as long as there are women with “blind vaginas” AJB is someone they can still have sex with?
I’ll admit, that was my favorite MCU porn parody.
Minimum 30 minute lightning delay with the score tied 0-0.
This is the best possible outcome for Cal.
Looks like Seattle airport is closed. This is going to take a while.
Corn soup turned out ok. Was a bit thin and too watered down, even adding corn starch to thicken it. I wouldn’t strain all of the kernels next time either.
Related to lots of random news stories these days.
Pretty sure I am nowhere near drunk enough for the last 8 to 10 posts.
There’s still time.
And, always room for Jello.
Jello shots!
/amirite?? high five…
*stops…what he was doing…high fives Sir Digby*
Yeah!
So what?! So let’s dance!!
Everybody dance!
I’m pretty sure I drank a 40 or two and watched that every weekend from January to April of 2001.
You’re watching the Family Learning Channel.
https://youtu.be/AjPau5QYtYs
Not that anyone gives a shit, but the Rapids somehow won a fucking game.
And my internet works.
https://giphy.com/gifs/dump-pics-MPOzNJaaZUuUE
“If I tried to masturbate right now, you know what would come out? A little flag with the word “bang” on it.”
-Quagmire
*looks at username*
“Q”
…
Are…
Are you… Glenn Quagmire?
Giggity.
Wait…
Quiggity.
So round! So firm! So fully packed! https://youtu.be/FgqW_hgpuEI
Not a good night to be a UT fan…
When is?
Tequila was my shot a decade ago, when I still mostly drank beer. I stopped shooting it because, well, tequila. The GF bought tequila tonight. I am shooting 1800 silver and chasing with spiced rum and diet cherry soda…
What could go wrong?
Alternate: Don’t be jealous.
I have a blanket ban for spirits that seems to have served me well for the last few years. I stick to beer and don’t have the burning down the neighbor’s shed problem, anymore but you do you.
DenverJ 3AM Central: “I didn’t mean to stab her!!!, Any Glibs know how to hide a knife?!”
“Knife? I lost all of my knives in a tragic boating accident.”
Please. I know how to hide a knife.
He sure does.
Qaddafi style?
To set the mood.
Heh.
Jose Cuervo is the best bad tequila one can purchase. 1800 is probably one of the cheapest good tequilas. Aged 100% Blue Agave is not the same as mostly mescal, bottled as soon as it is done fermenting.
Nothing wrong with a couple three shots of tequila. Fuckin fight me.
*has six* “You’re on!”
Grappling isn’t gay. Just cuz I cupped your balls doesn’t make me gay. If anything, you’re gay for getting upset about it. Faggot.
cs and Festus: Goin’
GreekRomanWhich one is Oliver–raise your hand.
/your HAND!
Hat’s off to you, Buddy! Even gayer than this classic scene – https://youtu.be/oZEC7IT1HhU
Is it just me or are comments loading extra slow tonight? I see Rufus be-squirreled himself just north of here.
https://militaryhumor.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/military-humor-canadian-sniper-rifle.jpg
More like beclowned.
As customary.
I replied to this and my comment didn’t appear. Tried to repost and was told it was a duplicate. Squirrels are afoot.
Stomp them little seed-stealing miscreants! j/k We put feed out in the winter for them.
*hides 10/22*
Yeeeeaaaaaaa….. uhhh… squirrels are my friends too!
The battle royale every winter morning is a sight to behold. They get food just for the yuks.
Try and not get angry.
https://twitter.com/dodo/status/1170366116935294976
Hopefully someone puts who ever did this in a box….or worse.
Sickening degenerate.
What sweet kitties!
Kind angry about the bad teeth lady opening boxes with a butter knife. You’ve never heard of a box cutter?
The cats seem too well groomed and behaved for alleged abuse.
I doubt everything about this story, except the woman with meth teeth.
It did strike me as odd. Same here about the knife.
I have no idea if DoDo vets any of the videos they get.
The cats weren’t in perfect condition though.
Dude, it’s the UK: kitties are lucky they had a table knife!
If it’s the UK why aren’t they speaking UKinian? Or English?
Did England go full cuck?
Speak white! /slaps on pillow over head.
Geez, who shit in your corn flakes?
/I thought the same thing, but who knows
She has such bad teeth. WTF even is that, it’s 2019.
It’s getting dusty in here.
Urge to kill rising…rising…
Hey, are you all familiar with Daryl Davis? He’s the black guy who goes out and talks to KKK members, befriends them, and convinces them to leave the KKK and stop being racist.
Anyways, Anti(sic)Fa got in his face and told him he’s a white supremacist.
Heard of him and the story.
He’s right. You can but laugh. And ignore.
I know it’s hard to ignore those losers because they seek trouble and get in your face but the best thing is to not give them oxygen.
In other words, you have to treat them like how society marginalized the KKK.
Same crap, different clothes.
Alright alright alright…next door, ya derelicts.
OK Go is my happy place. Look at people having fun.
The girls exemplifying conservation of momentum are merely a courtesy.
Where are my boys? Fucking hell, pretend airline stewerdesses doing head of heels cartwheels with one another, you’d think that’s us all over. Where are my boys?
New thread
I am drunk and eating lunchables pizza.
Pure bliss.