Happy Tuesday, everybody. I’m thinking about asking my doctor when I see her next week if I can have their technology contract. Their “web portal” is always down, I got an email from them to confirm an appointment that just had a time of day, but no date. I know I can do better working on this as side hustle. And, it just pisses me off that I can’t do anything without calling their office. I just want to fix it for my own convenience, but I might as well make a little money off it, right?
Also, after much feedback yesterday, I’ve decided to change my title from “Lead Architect” to “Head Nerd in Charge” — so I am now the HNIC of this project.
The skeptic in me wonders how the Church of Scientology feels about his stance. And whether his prayers go to Xenu.
Oh sure, make me defend Bill Maher.
Oh shit, Sloopy and Banjos… run!
Women can’t be psychopaths, right? She’s certainly no criminal mastermind: “The attacker left a cellphone in a case that contained her driver’s license, as well as a wallet with documents that included her name”
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Would “Alpha Nerd” be too contradictory?
Somebody must lead the nerdpack.
Use whatever title you like. HNIC is teh awesome. I forget which one, but there was a tech startup which made it big and one of the titles was “speaker to bankers.”
HNIC means…. something else on a construction site.
Yeah, I know “Nerd” wasn’t what I expanded the N to at first.
I read that as Hihn at first.
I think I know why she wore a mask, Yeesh.
The victim fell asleep on the couch and later woke up to see a woman wearing a mask from the movie “Scream” and holding a knife, Assistant State’s Attorney Lorin Jenkins told the judge.
JFC. Probably a situation where having a gun in the house wouldn’t do you much good.
Maybe lock your doors?
Also, must be a lousy guard dog.
Most dogs are lousy guard dogs. They want to be liked too much.
My dog loves me, but it doesn’t stop her from barking at me every time I come into the house.
“Bark, Bark, Ba-… Oh it’s just you, never mind.”
Yo, Pengy. I had actually emailed you a heads-up and clue about today. You not get it? Protonmail return address, obvs me.
Thanks, I saw it in the last thread! (late) and replied. Also, check your inbox
I thought HNIC was Hockey Night In Canada.
Heating Nitrous and Internal Conditioning?
That sounds like something Yusef should know about.
As if the Canadians would ever have a night without hockey.
I’m thinking about asking my doctor when I see her next week if I can have their technology contract.
Generalizing here, but docs are (a) insanely demanding and (b) incredibly cheap. Tread carefully.
Plus their web portal and scheduling is probably part of their electronic medical record package. Which is probably a cheap piece of crap that isn’t really fixable.
And it gets you involved with HIPAA.
^This x 6.02E+23
That’s one ugly mole.
pretty normal, I would have said
I’d have it removed just in case
^This.
I’m sure the web portal was an expensive piece of crap that isn’t fixable.
Am doctor, can confirm
For a long time I’ve believed we are confusing kids by telling them there is an obesity epidemic and they eat too much sugar but also it’s wrong to fat shame and everyone is perfect exactly the way they are.
That second clause is just plan wrong. Peer pressure to improve is more valuable than all the PSAs about healthy eating ever made.
It’s not peer pressure. It’s good, sound advice.
Other people’s healthcare cost should be no concern of mine. Unfortunately, “we” chose to socialize healthcare making everyone’s healthcare everyone’s concern.
What do you mean “we”, Florida Man?
Exactly. “We” means most of our fellow Americans, but you and me get to pay the price.
From the article= Fat-shaming often leads to depression
From Bob= Exercise often leads away from depression
It’s your ship now, Brett. You’re in command. You’re in charge. You’re the boss, the head man, top dog, big cheese. You’re the head honcho!
Good luck. We’re all counting on you.
RIP Robert Stack
I didn’t get a response last thread, so I’m reposting.
Poll for people who’ve read “Beyond the Edge of the Map”, or anyone who feels like weighing in. Does Dug strike you as the kind of guy who’d come across a piece of weapons technology – say explosive rockets – and keep the secret to himself to give his ships the advantage on the seas?
I’m debating between him merely seizing a stockpile of them from the Strangling Depths Clan and when they’re used up they’re gone, or managing to get a hold of the secret of making them and keeping the secret for his own use. Neither really changes the plot of “On Unknown Shores” but it does make a difference for the setting over the long run.
I just went and bought it. I’ll read after slogging through Endymion.
I hope you enjoy it.
The question wasn’t meant to nag people into reading it.
recall the earlier exchange about marketing v talent? nag
I really need to start reading you and MoJo.
We write very different types of books.
But when you sell your rights to Hollywood, they’re going to want to add some of her scenes to the movie to spice things up.
Needz more cunte.
To me, this would seem consistent with his actions.
I’d say he’s more of the grab a bunch while he can, rather than the make them himself kinda guy.
Okay, Hyperbole says he’d loot and leave, Sean thinks he’d go into the business for himself.
Any other opinions?
I haven’t read it yet, but I think he should run into a sultry lass and slay her cunte with his cod.
I hope that was helpful.
To contrast styles, here’s an excerpt from “Beyond the Edge of the Map”
Needz moar cunte.
This is the proper way for male scifi to be done. I have no corrections or suggestions to make.
“Cod and cunte will come together, part them as ye may…”
There are more effective, not to mention more compassionate, ways to help those struggling with obesity. As British physician Stephen O’Rahilly has written, “The growing evidence that humans can be genetically hardwired to become severely obese should eventually lead to a more widespread realization that morbid obesity is a disease requiring further scientific research, rather than a failure of willpower requiring sanctimonious moral opprobrium.”
We always need more research.
“The growing evidence that humans can be genetically hardwired to become severely obese should eventually lead to a more widespread realization that morbid obesity is a disease requiring further scientific research, rather than a failure of willpower requiring sanctimonious moral opprobrium.”
It’s not an either/or. It is entirely likely that certain people are genetically predisposed to get fatter easier and that it is still within their willpower not to. It’s going to be harder for them, sure, but most people have some weakness that is harder for them to resist than others, and if we start making exceptions on this basis we really can’t but arbitrarily draw the line or else everything goes.
He argued that “fat shaming doesn’t need to end, it needs to make a comeback” to deter people from overeating.
There was a stretch of about 10 months or so in high school when I wasn’t fat. I walked or rode a bike everywhere I went, and I pretty much stopped eating. It wasn’t a sustainable lifestyle.
Bill Maher can go fuck himself.
Prog shaming > fat shaming
Shaming people for being progs? Sounds good to me.
MSNBC may not have thought this out.
Or they live in a bubble.
Or they’re incapable of thought.
The poll only let me vote once. So that 92% is even more impressive.
That is at least 3 years old, but still awesome.
The poll is still open… so clearly someone didn’t think it out.
They’re waiting for the “correct” results?
The third choice is stupid. Why have that?
It makes as much sense as, “Only to rob people.”
The skeptic in me wonders how the Church of Scientology feels about his stance. And whether his prayers go to Xenu.
I do wonder about people who support gun bans. I know a lot of them must be sincere, but I just can’t fathom how they think outlawing guns is going to stop mass murder, something that is itself already outlawed and punished harshly. If someone is already decided on committing a crime that in many jurisdictions is punishable by death, how is getting a few more years prison sentence in any way a deterrent? And if the intent is to really rid the country of guns, thereby making it impossible for the potential murderers to get a hold of them, how do they expect that to actually work? If they know anyone who has used illicit drugs, which most people do, they have no excuse expecting a ban on something to actually make it scarce. The “logic” on the whole thing is just so poor it’s frustrating.
I don’t wonder at all. They’re just fucking stupid and there’s nothing you can do about people who insist that prohibition works despite thousands of years of history that demonstrates that it has never worked.
There is no logic, it’s purely emotional. Not much different from the drug warriors, really.
I suspect most people who reach this conclusion are of the “we must do something and this is something” crowd. They haven’t put any real thought into how it would be implemented or whether it would promote the intended outcome. At. All.
It’s the same logic that says banning fruity Juul flavors will stop teens from smoking THC oils laced with unknown chemicals.
No other advanced country has guns readily available to its citizens. Yet, all of them have less gun violence and next to no mass shootings. Once America bans guns, gun violence in the U.S. will decrease to the levels observed in France or Germany. No one among the clerisy in civilized countries owns guns. In the most civilized countries even cops don’t have them. Self-defense is exercised by calling the police. If you manage to defend yourself by hurting the attacker/intruder, you’re going to prison for a long time.
*sigh*
That sounds like hell on earth
And no other country rocks like this one. Yeah!
“The skeptic in me wonders how the Church of Scientology feels about his stance.”
“God isn’t doing what I command him to do” says man who views God as a magical sky fairy that grants you wishes.
Guy: Please, God, make murder stop
God: Jesus Christ, dude, do you even understand how prayer works?
Guy: Some genie you are
Some NYC Small Businesses Sound Alarm, Say New Legislation Helping Workers Is Crushing Bottom Line
gtfo
Feature, not a bug.
“We need government handouts to fix the laws that are putting us out of business.”
JFC.
Not “Head nagger in charge”? You are a manager, after all.
Jeez, that stabber is 20 years old? Who says black doesn’t crack?
Serious RBF… Like terminal, even.
“The attacker left a cellphone in a case that contained her driver’s license, as well as a wallet with documents that included her name”
She was all out of death cards.
18-year-old arrested after allegedly making threats toward Oklahoma high school
Arrested wearing a The Anarchists Cookbook t-shirt, for some reason.
Titty Tuesday is going to spread smallpox and eradicate humanity.
http://archive.is/AFvTp
Semi-on topic…my manager is apparently a favorite to replace our former IT director. Last Friday he informed me that I was his likely replacement should that happen. I sure hope it comes with a nice pay raise!
They’ll find some way to pay you less than they currently pay him.
As long as it’s more than they currently pay me, why would I complain. Especially since my current company is of the old school “keep your mouth shut about your pay” type.
Oh, I never said you should complain or wouldn’t be making more.
I was just trying to be flippant.
A lot more work you know, long hours…not much more money.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KV-GJ9iNX8g
Jamie Lee Curtis slams rumored ‘Princess Bride’ remake
Thank you.
-1 Rat of Unusual Size
They should remake it with Ben Savage reading the story to a senile and bed ridden Mr. Feeney.
Amigo Montia will be played by Will Smith. Andre the Giant’s role by Uncle Phil (no one knows that guy’s real name). And the short ornery guy can be played by Carlton.
Just go full on late 80’s early 90’s nostalgia
Nah, just animate it. It needs more Rihanna and other hip-hop stars as voice actors. That will fix it.
And Seth Rogen, yeah that’s it, more Seth Rogen.
Scantily clad Rihanna as the princess bride would sell tickets.
Sorry but James Avery is dead. How about fatten The Rock up and give him Andre’s role?
You know what? If they cast Tyrus in Andre’s role, that increases my interest.
Otherwise, it’s a guaranteed pass.
He is a sexual assaulter.
Peter Dinklage
Remake it as porn.
As you wish….
That’s your answer to everything!
Imma say, without looking, that they already did, probably a number of times.
Rule 34. I’d be shocked if there wasn’t a porn version.
Wow. I was expecting woke bullshit, instead, she had a valid point. Respect to JLC.
She’s not just a great pair of tits.
Inconceivable!
“I’ve gone to church, I’ve prayed,” Cretekos said. “My prayers aren’t working.”
///SickBurn
“In the past, council and I have stayed away from national issues,” Cretekos said at Monday’s work session. “But I think this issue is something that we need to consider to let people know where we stand as a community to encourage safety.”
While we are at it we should ban heroine and crack because of the public health risk. If we had the courage to ban it no one would be able to get it because that’s how these things work.
From “pray the gay away” to “pray the guns away”.
I don’t know about banning heroines outright, but maybe a strict licensure and accreditation regime to make sure it’s not just some tart wanting to spandex up and flip off “fascists” from behind the safety of a wall of po-po.
we should ban heroine
Do you have something against Zena, or Super-Girl?
and crack
Or the Kardashians?
*snigger*
Meghan McCain Says If She “Weren’t Fat Shamed” by Laura Ingraham, She “Wouldn’t Have a Career”
Oh snap!
And here’s Meg responding to Trump!
Content warning: salty language.
I’m on The View and you’re not.
Is this supposed to be a brag?
Depends.
I could suffer through being on that… show if they paid me enough.
It’s called nepotism, baby, and she feels fine!
Yes, “fat shaming” is what gave her a career. She was just some struggling wannabe TV talk show host until she was plucked from obscurity.
So… from her perspective, wouldn’t fat shaming be a good thing?
C’mon, Meghan, we all know you could take her in a fair fight.
I don’t know, Ingraham is a about 8 foot tall.
I believe I’ve said it before: I appreciate her jugs.
Second.
True, but you can only titty fuck someone so many times before you have to be able to converse with them.
Q has already pointed out, on this very page, that ball gags exist.
I guess I don’t really understand the inner workings of the Fat Shaming-to-The View Pipeline.
UGH! It’s not fucking ‘hardwired’ you liar!
Maher is a fuckwit, but he’s dead right on this. Diet-driven disease kills waaaaaay more people thank guns. It’s not even close.
Do you even bother to narrative bro?
Well…..yes and no. Anyone can keep their weight down, but it takes a helluva lot more work for some people than others.
No question. I weigh 10 more lbs than I did 30 years ago and I eat like shit and drink much more. I know plenty of people who are practically torturing themselves to just maintain a weight that’s much higher than mine.
My own view is informed by my years in the Marines, when I had to stay under my 176 pound weight limit. I worked out a goddamned lot in those days, and I still had to eat very, very carefully to stay under. Meanwhile, plenty of my buddies ate as if they were training for competitive eating.
Listen, there is no question that some people win the genetic lottery, but who fucking cares? Yes, if you draw the short straw, it’s gonna be harder for you, but nothing is hardwired. The diet advice most people follow is absolute shit and has little to do with genetics.
“But my geeeeeenes” becomes the reason to not even try.
I am pretty much on the sugar is poison bandwagon. Delicious, delicious poison.
I eat very little sugar and restrict beer to one or two a week. It definitely makes a huge difference.
And no soda.
Look, anything is poison if you ingest too much of it.
There is a great deal of info out there that your sources of fat are equally important. Short version, heavily refined seed oils (canola, safflower, palm, soy) do bad things to your body. Non refined and natural fats (olive oil, avocado, coconut, meat!) are a lot more appropriate.
I think one of the biggest problems is that the fucking medical world is still telling people to eat low fat, low sodium, high carb diet. I truly feel sorry for anyone trying to lose weight under the guidance of their doctor. It ain’t gonna work.
Another problem is that a low carb diet gets really, really expensive when you’re not using dirt cheap bread/pasta/rice/potatoes as filler.
If you do your own cooking I doubt it’s that bad. Ground beef, chicken and fresh vegetables are way less expensive than pre made shit.
Besides, higher fat, lower carb regulates your appetite better. Fat is way more satiating, so you end up consuming fewer calories without being hungry. You don’t have to buy grass-fed Wagyu and Foie gras to benefit from a better diet.
Shop at the edges of the grocery store. What is in the aisles (with the possible exception of spices) is almost all shite for humans.
It is also cheaper and quicker to get lunch from a grocery store; the food desert thing is complete horseshit.
It’s fructose that is killing us. Our bodies can handle it in only very small amounts and even then it produces runaway AMP production and a cavalcade of other bad biochemical reactions in the body.
If anyone wants the science read everything by Dr. Richard Johnson (yes, Dr. Dick Johnson, real name.) He is the guy on fructose’s impact on the body.
Shop at the edges of the grocery store
But the Cluasen’s hearty garlic sandwich slices are in an aisle, also mustard.
When you’ve got a family of 4 who ALL need to be low carb, yes, it does get that bad.
Not bad at all. My go to when I’m out is the McDonald’s double quarter pounder. Skip the ketchup and buns. I’ve goind that I end up eating much less than I did when I ate bread. My cost is about the same.
Buzzfeed interview with Lauren Duca goes off the rails
The good part is at the end. Apparently a bunch of students in her journalism class at NYU complained to the school about how shitty her class was. The interviewer started asking her about it…
My name is Duca,
I live on the second floor….
No. I have to stop you there.
I live upstairs from you
Yes I think you’ve seen me before
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZt7J0iaUD0
It is just as awful as I remember.
Dut dut Dut it…
I don’t think I’ve read her before.
Retarded idiot is retarded, film at 11
And now that I’ve read the article…..hoooooo boy
She is beloved by a certain set.
JFC. Also, would.
You like to live…. dangerously.
Yeah, WTF ever happened to Mythical Libertarian Woman, anyway? Loved her Teen Vogue parody covers. One of our finest Glib illustrators.
Woke Charmed caused her to go into hiding?
You know who else wrote an advice column for a teen magazine?
ZARDOZ?
Would, sure – anything to keep her from talking.
Ball gag.
Is she the one who wrote about how to have anal?
When even Buzzfeed is mocking you as a leftwing loon, you’ve definitely gone off the rails.
Part of what they’re mocking her for is that she isn’t lefty enough. She isn’t intersectional enough because she doesn’t talk about race enough to suit them.
…and I’m trying my goddamn best, okay?
No, it’s not OK. If you’re bad at your job, trying your best doesn’t cut it. Get better, or quit, but don’t whine about it. Not everyone can do everything, and there is no shame in trying something, giving it your best, failing, and moving on. But trying to justify your failure with “I tried my best” as an excuse not to exit gracefully is, or ought to be, extremely shameful.
Dude, it’s the patriarchy’s fault that she sucks. Leave her alone
Is Durca a shortening of “Durca-Durca-Mohammed-Jihad”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OwFeYlY9GU
Wow is she ever an empty husk of a person.
“I’m just fighting every inch for the same thing that I think that you want, which is public power”
How about no? You may not. Request denied, GTFO.
Yes, men who say ludicrous shit are never taken to task. Also, if a professor said the following to me:
“You so totally learned what I was trying to teach you.”
…I’d probably be complaining about the class too.
KFC Is Testing Out A Donut And Fried Chicken Sandwich
Thanks, President Trump!
Didnt they do this about 5 years ago?
That was a fried chicken sandwich with boneless fried chicken breasts as buns if I remember correctly.
Someone did the donut sandwich.
It was the Double Down – bacon and cheese between two chicken breasts.
This is more like a Luther Burger.
Desperate to go beak to beak with that fundie chicken sammich company.
More like desperate not to be forgotten. Popeyes has stepped into the ring as the contender to face Chik-fil-A for dominance in the chicken market, while KFC is fading. Deservedly so, IMO. They’re not as good as they once were (or at least, not as good as I remember, YMMV).
TRULY STRANGE!!!! says the moron who never heard of chicken and waffles?
KFC tried that a couple months ago.
It was good.
Yet nobody likes my idea of a bacon sandwich with waffle bread. I’m bitter.
Krasnovian national dish candidate!
With moving to Charleston next month and earlier trip down being delayed by Dorian, this has become my new go-to website: https://www.cyclocane.com/
What brings you to SC? I believe you will double the Glib population here.
New job.
I asked a while back if there were any others in the area and got crickets as a response.
First you get crickets, then you get squirrels, and the third time is tentacles and madness.
Cool, well, I’m here in Myrtle Beach.
One of my partners lives in Daniel Island (I say “in” and not “on” because it doesn’t appear to be an actual island). He went incommunicado during the hurricane, and I was worried. He sent me a pic of the “damage”.
“I’ve gone to church, I’ve prayed,” Cretekos said. “My prayers aren’t working.”
Nelson Muntz is God?
The New York Times has an article titled “Women Poop. At Work. Get Over It.”
I see the maggots riddling the old gray lady’s corpse are still putting out articles.
When I was a night time janitor the women’s rooms were routinely the most disgusting.
^This. Guys may dribble a little, but generally try to remediate anything else. And they never write on anything with lipstick or inappropriately dispose of menstrual product.
Guys menstruate too, shitlord.
I’ve heard that many times.
This is often true. Menstrual blood, sticky perfume or hair stuff on a mirror, and that all those giant clumps of toilet paper jamming a toilet or on the floor because they line the seat before they sit, or they hover like freaks and make a mess.
BAN WOMEN!
I’d forgotten about the perfume. And the hairspray.
And you wrote something purportedly set around 1980.
Sheesh.
The fact the Times thought this was newsworthy makes me concerned about the corporate culture they have at their office. Thinking that this is a necessary message to disseminate speaks of potential for great dysfunction and ignorance among the cubes at the NYT.
Tropical storm warnings issued for parts of Gulf Coast as Imelda forms
That’s a terrible name.
Everyone gather your shoes and hoof it out of there.
Neigh, find faster transportation.
Not if you’re a Filipino shoe store.
But it has great shoes.
The shit that I have endured to continue to sustain a voice where I’m just fighting every inch for the same thing that I think that you want, which is public power and equality, and I’m trying my goddamn best, okay?
Sure babe. You talk’um good.
Uh oh! I think Elizabeth Warren’s career is over….
Elizabeth Warren Admits To Wearing Paleface At College Costume Party
Joggers are the worst.
“Yeah, I like running around the neighborhood, just for fun,” said the psychopathic nutjob. “I get up in the morning and I run a few miles. It’s enjoyable. In no way is it weird that I enjoy jogging around the neighborhood, with no destination and no apparent purpose.”
Carter says he runs even though nobody is chasing him and despite the fact that he doesn’t have anywhere in particular to go.
“Oh yeah, I run in a big loop,” he said, apparently unaware of just how insane it is that he runs a certain distance from his house for no reason other than to run back. “I’ve been doing about five miles but I might add one or two more. There’s this nice new running path that I haven’t run down for no apparent reason yet.”
Mental health experts are concerned that millions of Americans may be afflicted by the same condition as Carter where they just get up in the morning and run. “It’s definitely some form of psychosis,” said Dr. Hank Quintana, psychiatric research chair at Lawrence University. “If you have a loved one who says things like, ‘Man, great run this morning!’ or ‘Just gonna head out to run for no reason at all!’ make sure to get them checked out by a health professional.”
“I believe it’s pronounced Yho-ogging.”
This is the best place to live in America right now
But all millennials drink tha Claw and hate humor!
I think it’s because it’s one of the few towns with both White Castle AND Krystal.
Bowling Green also has both.
pretty country
but it’s absolutely dominated culturally and economically by Camp Campbell, so you’d need to love that and hope that it doesn’t get declared redundant
That’s why the average age and so many young people buy houses there. Much like Ft Bragg, it’s also a good post to homestead.
Note to self – never, ever go anywhere near Clarksville TN.
That place is terrible. Stuck there for almost six years. They do however have Best Donut, absolutely the best apple fritters I’ve ever gotten fat on.
“Clarksville, Tennessee? Yeah, sure, right past that hill you can’t see over, make sure to go top speed for the best approaching-view.”
The town is fake, right, and there’s just a very steep canyon a quatermile past the Welcome sign? Otherwise what’s the point…
Take the train there. Someone will meet you at the station.
Don’t waste time showering beforehand, facilities are available at your destination!
Gilding the lily…
Mmmmm… Ellie Mae.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcXpKiY2MXE
Same Clarksville?
There’s a lot of chaos in the money markets. Between this and the ECB’s decision to go with negative rates, I expect we’ll see rates move down at the next Fed meeting.
***helicopters whirring***
Lots of rain recently. Not good with a dirt basement. Just set up a dehumidfier with a hose to a sump pump. Hopefully the sump pump actually kicks in when there is enough water; I don’t want to flood the basement again.
In other news my adapter to fix my monitor situation arrived today, I’ll swap out the monitor with the dying backlight with a tv I have after dinner.
Sweatshirts inspired by school shootings called ‘tasteless’ and ‘disgusting’
The Sandy Hook one is fire 100
They’re “transgressive” and “challenging”.
The bullet holes really sell it.
The 50 coolest neighbourhoods in the world for 2019 revealed: Arroios in Lisbon tops the list, while PECKHAM in London is ranked ELEVENTH for the second year in a row
Astoria is on the list, and while that part of the city is much cooler than it used to be it should not be on the top 50 anything list.
The 50 Eggiest Neighborhoods to be revealed next week.
“Cool” apparently means “lots of artist types”. Sorry, but no.
Who mistakes an artist type for cool?
The one thing I don’t want in my neighborhood is creativity.
Artist types do not correlate to actual creativity.
Who does correlate to actual creativity?
Schizophrenics?
Allowing your homeless to shit on the streets?
What do you have against artists????
I lived in Astoria for 7 years when it was very much not “cool”. The blocks around my old house (which burned down) are unrecognizable now.
I’ve been to 29 cities on this list. But I think the Waterfront in Hobart is the only “cool” neighborhood that I’ve visited. It is indeed nice.
Wendy Williams accuses Christie Brinkley of faking injury that forced her out of Dancing With The Stars: ‘That looked fake as hell’
Get on this, Congress!
“Just like my tits” she added.
“Miami swingers club is ordered to pay nearly $900,000 to 32 models – including Real Housewives star Joanna Krupa – for taking their photos without permission to advertise its sex-fueled parties
A jury in Florida federal court agreed Monday that Miami Velvet must pay a total of $892,500 to the 32 professional models whose images were used in the exclusive club’s fliers, social media accounts and on its website, according to the Miami Herald.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7472745/Miami-swingers-club-owes-models-892K-using-images.html
How did they twelve people in Florida that weren’t convicted felons?
“Jurors deliberated over two hours.”
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article235140612.html
Did they deliberate all at the same time, or did they take turns deliberating?
I think they deliberated together, then swapped.
Joanna Krupa could sell me most anything.
She’s sold you on the beauty of plastic
So smooth….
Plastic isn’t green.
#problematic
It’s the future.
Submitted without comment.
https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/09/16/pittsburgh-doctor-claims-antonio-brown-repeatedly-farted-in-his-face-owes-him-11500/
That bs appointment cost $11,500? And Brown was supposed to pay for it, not the team?
Brown is obviously crazy, but I find this hilarious
Not crazy enough to pay that hack $11k.
Of course, I picked to watch the only match today that went scoreless.
Nice set of results in the CL.
Feh. Maybe this is Liverpool’s clever ploy to wash out early and concentrate on the league.
I’m not saying it’s aliens…
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a29073804/navy-ufo-videos-real/
Woman complains about her heels hurting all night – only to discover she’d been wearing them on the wrong feet
lol chicks
How did this not happen in Poland?
How is this even News?
Because it is on a news website.
Poland or Portland?
Why did that headline not go to the Babylon Bee?
https://twitter.com/KeatonPatti/status/1173607337296375808
LOLOLOL
Oh shit that’s hilarious.
“The only wallet is the mind. A rainbow told me that in the future.” -Marianne Williamson
That’s gold, Jerry, gold!
The bot just output her lines unchanged.
oh good Lord…
“Harris’s second point was equally compelling: The charade not only damaged the integrity of the court but also played a cruel joke on the victims of sexual assault. Practically no one has made a point of returning to the real victims of the sham: Christine Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez and victims of sexual assault more generally. It is not a matter of believing every claimant, but it is a matter of taking every claim seriously, of investigating and laying out the facts. That this was never done sent a very public message to victims and perpetrators that the system can be manipulated to protect the latter and demean the former.”
Kampala Harris wants special prosecutor for Kavanaugh
“I saw my poll numbers and they’re not good. So, I’ve decided to default to my prior political instincts of scapegoating people on trumped up charges”
Yes, the woman who to this day has produced not one shred of evidence or corroboration is a “victim”.
Hey Jen, care to address Leyland Keyser’s statement that she doesn’t believe Doctor Ford at all, and that she was threatened by Ford’s friends because she wouldn’t lie for them?
That this was never done sent a very public message to victims and perpetrators that the system can be manipulated to protect the latter and demean the former.”
So she admits Kavanagh was the victim of unsubstantiated demeaning?
Day 3 of El Debarge’s “Who’s Johnny”. I thought I had it beaten with the Queen song this morning, but it’s baaaaack.
I’m never shopping at Giant again!
Here’s a catchy lil tune for ya.
Ugh…that fuckin song. Despite it being in every commercial in 2018, it never got stuck in my head.
Here is a movie and ear worm for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Wi3A3skb0
This is easily the worst song in the last decade, and briefly took over every outlet available…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y66j_BUCBMY
Oh, yeah….that fuckin thing sucks
OMG yes that is horrible make it stop
Shit! It won’t stop.
Wow. I made it 20 seconds. Tune your piano, assholes.
(yes, I know that was deliberate).
(BTW, to me it sounds like a speeded-up version of “Mr. Postman“)
Please Mr. Postman
OMG, is Giant still a thing in DC/Balt?
Definitely…it’s probably the best “normal” (non-Whole Foods) grocery store in the area!
I made a reference to this earlier in the comments. Does that help?
Kill it with Tom petty.
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1174012526998237184
OMWC hardest hit.
Free 1:200 scale diecast A346 models
“Free Van” was the best reply.
“Taxation is Theft”
Brothers charged in massive counterfeit ring that made THC vaping cartridges
Narcos: Wisconsin is going to be fire 100.
were they unpainted cartridges?
BREAKING: Progressive AZ Democrats to @kyrstensinema: “Support the platform or face party censure.”
Baby, you ain’t seen nothing yet. It’s going to be Chicago 68, Part Two – Tazer Boogaloo
DO. NOT. READ.
https://longreads.com/2019/09/16/mcdreamy-mcsteamy-and-mcconnell/
Surprised this wasn’t written in McSweeney’s
The self-delusion is never surprising.
jfc I went all Brooks style on that.
“An example is Pride of 2017: I ate pussy for the first time the night before, and I tweeted the next day, ‘Happy Pride to everyone because no one’s 100% straight.’ I was just, like, pumped. People, women, predominantly in New York media, framed it as if I was All Lives Mattering Pride.”
Upper income white liberals are beyond parody.
And no details about the pussy eating? What crock of shit is this!
“She should incorporate more fruit into her diet.”
Inorite? I want fragrant meat curtains, rubyfruit jungles, little men in rowboats…
Well apparently there was a strap-on involved as well.
Oh, whatever, cupcake. Totes brave, much woke. I sucked cock for the first time back in 1974, when it was totes illegal. And there was no Pride, at least not where I was, no support network, no nuffin except three years as the class queer.
But you go on and feel good about yourself for having done something that is at worst considered normal experimentation in 2019. And then virtue-signal and attention whore on social media. You go, gurl!
Are you pretending like you’re braver than Duca by actually defying societal and legal conventions by just being yourself rather than playing pretend like Duca with no threat of consequences?
You monster!
It just occurs to me that “playing gay” is the last acceptable form of black face
Damn. Good get, TGA.
Well, or “playing straight.”
Sorry getting your rocks off is not brave. Unless you are raping a Polar Bear, then it is brave.
Tonio, that almost cost me my laptop. Thanks for that laugh. I don’t know what it says about me, but the second read-through I heard in Sam Kinison’s ranting voice.
“And there was no Pride! No support network. No nuffin except three years as the CLASS QUEER!! Oh, OH! OOOOOhhhhhh!!!!”
I usually don’t like questioning the motives of others, but when she toots her horn in a public forum about eating pussy for the first time, it sounds like a chore she performed to elevate her street cred.
It sounds Biden-like. I was waiting for a mention of Corn Pop.
Ok. But I eat ass.
Hey it’s Halal.
Nice.
Get to my level.
I’ve eaten more ass than rectal cancer.
Oh God fuck off
NO YOU!
Not you, silly. Yet.
“An example is Pride of 2017: I ate pussy for the first time the night before, and I tweeted the next day
Uhm, ok… Poor Mrs Slocombe.
Have we not discussed the massive semen explosion in Australia yet?
You heard me.
You know who else had semen explosions?
I do. *Giggles*
The Kriegsmarine?
99% of Glibs?
Das Boot?
The Kursk?
Port Chicago?
Peter North?
Ancestry.com ?
Why don’t you skip all of the intermediate titles and go straight to “The One”.
Like freedom feels, where wild horses run?
Oh, you weren’t talking about a song for Kristen?
When I started dating my wife in ’89, she didn’t know who Elton John was. It almost ended there:) Beautiful song.
Well, so since Kristen needs ear cleansing, I present Pomplamoose, a cover band. Their schtick is they show all the tracks they layer and how. Kind of a Postmodern Jukebox with (usually) only 2 people.
Dafuq? That wasn’t supposed to go there.
I wanna say they did a commercial for Target or something a few Christmases ago?
Yes, but that was long after I found them.
Other weird stuff I like:
Levi’s commercial
Dead Like Me
LOL it was Hyundai…eek
OMWC LOVED that ad. He calls them the Happy Hyundai Holiday Singers. *gag*
This is a thing, and it’s glorious:
https://www.hillarybeattrump.org
Hat tip Warty.
OMG, that is the best.
Winner!
I am really looking forward to Amy Coney Barrett being nominated to the Supreme Court, if for no other reason than the hearing.
*Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing*
Sen. Feinstein: Mrs. Barrett, is it true that you once made unwanted advances toward your roommate in college?
Barrett: Senator, it was a long time ago, and she and I were just experimenting
Sen. Grassley: Hold on, your roommate was a female?
Barrett: Yes, Senator, again it was a….
Sen. Grassley: Hold up. Just shut-up for a second. Does the committee have a picture of your roommate, preferably a photograph from her time in college?
Sen. Feinstein: I fail to see the relevance in such a request
Sen. Graham: I agree, I don’t believe such evidence will be necessary
Sen. Tillis: We all know how you feel, “Lindsey”
Sen. Leahy: *chuckles*
Sen. Grassley: My aides have just informed me that there is video of this encounter, is this correct, Mrs. Barrett?
Barrett: Yes, senator, it was filmed for a film class that we were taking at the time. Again, though, I must st….
Sen. Grassley: We don’t need any qualifiers. Just answering the question will be fine. I am adjourning this committee to review the video
Sen. Durbin: Fuck yeah. This is hot
You’re holding out on us, Tulsi. Nobody likes a tease. We know that you have a lot more where that came from.
My fantasies about the shit show that would be that confirmation hearing are endless.
We all know your fantasy about the hearings have it somehow ending in some sort of degrading contest between Rep. Gabbard (somehow) and Judge Barrett. Probably strip poker or mud wrestling. Or exercising in yoga pants.
I just want to see them both topless. Is that too much to ask?
Hawt
They have to be kissing, too.
Girly stuff.
Not everybody wants thoughts and prayers after a disaster, according to a study of hurricane survivors
Take your prayers and shove it, God-lover!
These are the type of insufferable atheists who complain when someone says “God bless you” after you sneeze.
“Did you just express support and empathy for my situation? Eat shit, you evil person.”
Or maybe it’s just disgust at being roped into your superstition about evil spirits.
Maybe. But, I feel pretty confident in saying that if someone expressing “thoughts and prayers” and “God bless you” upsets you then the problem is on you and not the speaker. This is literally the reverse of people getting offended by others saying “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”.
Of course it’s different because atheism isn’t a religion. Or so we are supposed to pretend
This.
It’s a little like a guy who freaks out when another man compliments him. If you’re secure in your lack of belief, why do you care? If you’re not, well, you’ve just been given an opportunity to examine your beliefs. You’re welcome.
TGA, the people you are talking about are atheists the same way cosmos are libertarians
Agreed. And the agnostics who expressed dismay at “thoughts and prayers” are, by definition, not actually agnostic
I didn’t mean to lump in all atheists and agnostics. Just the hypersensitive ones who answered that survey
Own it! All Atheists, Animists, Agnostics, Pantheists and Theists are jerks! Solipsists too.
I’m definitely a jerk
FOR THE LAST TIME, I’M NOT SENSITIVE!
Antitheist is a better term for them.
Gesundheit.
NAZI!!!!
“But that is not what we find — atheists and agnostics are averse to prayers, to the extent that they are willing to abstain money in order to ensure not to get a prayer from a Christian stranger.
“Hence, it is important to think about who the target person is when sending thoughts and prayers in the wake of hardship.”
Huh. That’s not the conclusion I came to…
So praying for those who despitefully use you can be a form of revenge? Maybe these Christians are onto something.
Imprecatory prayer. Its status in The Church is … um … interesting
I think most Xian’s would also prefer to avoid disaster than have prayers
What’s the point?
This isn’t the Babylon Bee?
I sent money for relief for that SE Asian Tsunami that hit like 15 years ago, but no thoughts or prayers.
https://twitter.com/Halalcoholism/status/1173431983763939329
What do words even mean?
“Not gay enough”
The replies are top notch
https://twitter.com/ScopelBruno/status/1173465002323431424
He doesn’t use the fourth definition of the word they from Merriam-Webster.
OFFS
Shut it down. I want off.
All hail SMOD
Hail!
I miss John’s lectures about how gays are boring today.
“I miss John”
I’m going to stop you right there.
Fine, I’ll stop now before I embarrass myself any further.
Weird fetish, but ok.
I thought you were smarter than to say something like that.
When logic and proportion have fallen by the way,
And the White Queen is talking backwards,
And the Red Queen’s off her head,
Just remember what the dormouse said…
Feed your head!
But the scary thing is that there are people who believe that that word salad actually has meaning or relevance. “He’s a heteronormalized man who has sex with other men.”
IOW, he’s a normal guy who just happens to like other guys. Damn him for not being effeminate, swishy, nancy, queer. Damn him for not signaling that he takes it up the bum like a proper faggot.
A male friend of my daughter’s was over the other night trying on her dresses for homecoming. I have no idea if he’s gay, but he’s fucking hilarious.
I wonder how Mr. Fancywords PhD would describe him. I just call him Bill.
See, that’s just wrong. Treating people like individuals discounts their entire lived experience as a repressed minority. Only with proper classification can they be pigeon-holed into a demographic that be bought off at the next election.
You are on FIRE today, Tonio.
(Better get that looked at, though.)
I know a guy like that. Sometimes he tries to ham it up and act “gay”, and it just ends up being really awkward and unnatural.
He’s just acting. I’ve seen those guys before.
*wink*
I’m a lumberjack and I’m ok….
Your post (and the Twitter post) and the various Glib replies could be one my favorite Glib threads.
Unreal…
In addition to the classroom, he brings 20 years of professional experience as a translator of both literary and non-literary texts. His research and academic interests lie in the intersection of gender/sexuality and translation, translation criticism, and translation theory, specifically the use of translation as a paradigm for transdisciplinarity.
I think the gobbledygook comes naturally to him.
Look, it is simple really
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K2NRpXhou30
Is this one of those deals where he’s not “really gay” because his politics aren’t SJW enough? Like Black people who aren’t socialist aren’t “really black”? It takes a lot of university to get that stupid.
No, it’s because he’s not faggy enough.
It really is the most petty of criticisms, like something you would hear from a gaggle of Southern belles about a rival.
That’s just as stupid. I would say the majority of gay guys Ive met are not “faggy”. Some are, but not most.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diFDBNNmnnU
Don’t be so suburban. ?
You motherfuckers can’t have my guns. You aren’t fooling me.
Random stranger: “you shouldn’t smoke, it’s bad for you”
Me: “no shit? Is really? How bad? I need to know. I mean if it’s really bad I should know. Really? My God why hasn’t anyone told me this before? “
Then go on for ten minutes with that shit
As for the storm…I need the rain
“It was her first arrest, and she told authorities she had “mental health concerns,” according to documents in her court file.”
Ya’ don’t say!
Your point on smoking reminds me of Denis Leary’s bit on the warnings required on cigarette packs. Something about making the whole pack a warning, calling them “Tumors”, etc….and it just encouraging the smokers.
I’ve got to use up ~20 lbs. of San Marzanos. Anyone got a go-to Instant Pot tomato sauce recipe?
SALSA
and pico de Gallo
I just made some chicken Cacciatore Stoup tonight with crushed and diced tomatoes.
Can’t help you. I’ve done a couple of gallons of San Marzano sauce, so far, but I use a pot and remove the skins when they loosen up.
I’m working at home for the foreseeable future because the fucking security office couldn’t process our badge paperwork before the contract expired (contract option will be exercised, but all contractors need to get a badge at the end of each contract year)
Say woohoo for No Pants Wednesday!
Wait, that’s only for working from home?
That’s normal for me – I already work at home very Wednesday & Friday.
Frankly, I can’t wait for Flannel Fridays. In DC, that’s, like, late November.
I work from home every Thursday. It’s nice. I can get my laundry done before the weekend.
If it weren’t for telework, I’d never get laundry or grocery shopping done
I’d like to do it a couple days a week. But one is all we get. Can’t be a Monday or Friday.
Can’t be Monday or Friday, also can’t be at your home, you can only telework from someone else’s office space, also hairshirts. And waterboarding.
You’ll be begging us to let you back in your cube come Friday.
Congrats on not having to commute!
LOL
https://twitter.com/i/status/1174079707379306502
Lol:)
Virgin is extending their A346 service by a couple weeks. But not long enough for me to catch them at Heathrow nextx March 🙁
I’ve only flown an A340 once. The newer ETOPS ratings killed it.
Speaking of which, I’m sure you saw this when it happened:
https://onemileatatime.com/oops-american-accidentally-flies-wrong-plane-to-hawaii/
For those of you not familiar, ETOPS stands for “extended-range twin-engine operational performance standards.”
Wrong. ETOPS= Engines turn or passengers swim.
I missed that one! THat will make a dispatcher shit his/her pants
I don’t think I’ll ever get to fly one. MAYBE if Lufthansa keeps theirs in service for a few years.
I see 3 of them at LAX from time to time.
Lufthansa, Swiss, and Iberian.
Air Tahiti Nui had 2 of them, but they’re phased out as of this month. 787s now.
I flew on the Mangareva years ago.
Oh, and Air Philippines. They run an A340 at LAX IIRC
Oh! oh! Big Jet TV is going to be at LAX in early October!
If it were anywhere east of the Mississippi, I would get my ass to their filming location. Sadly, their first stateside jaunt is to your neck of the woods.
If you happen to run into them filming (I’d imagine they’ll be at In n Out, but not sure), feel free to tell the host how utterly and devastatingly charming and delightful I am 😉
ATTN: Kristen!
Airplane Home in the Woods
Want.
Pretty cool.
My wife says we have to have it because it keeps bugs out.
Cool. If you’re in Costa Rica someone made an old jetliner into a super cool tree house. You can even rent it. Looks pretty darn sweet.
https://www.vrbo.com/577384
That’s pretty cool.
Nice!
As if the raptors can’t climb in there, puhleeze.
*drool*
Carson, CA moves to ban gun sales, limit gun possession within city limits
Nah, no one wants to take away your guns.
Liar.
I was wondering when McHugh was going to speak up. They’re going to be coming for him now. He’s very tenured and insulated from retaliation, so this could be interesting.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/johns-hopkins-professor-issues-dire-warning-against-allowing-children-to-change-genders
It’s a no brainer.
That’s really interesting. On the one hand, Baltimore is not exactly a hotbed of redpilled shitlords. On the other hand, Hopkins is a big dog in medical research and has a well-established reputation.
Ha, ha! Forgive me if it’s been linked already, but this is a seriously hilarious exchange today at the impeachment inquiry between Lewandowski and Swallowswell. Highlights include Lewdog referring to the congresscritter as “President Swalwell” and telling him he keeps his notes in a “large safe that has lots of guns in it.”
https://m.sfgate.com/politics/article/Corey-Lewandowski-Eric-Swalwell-hearing-impeach-14447206.php
KS: a few months back, did you post a comment about arranging for a relative (MIL perhaps) to move from Australia to live with you? (I know, weird question and I may have totally mis-remembered)
Yes that was likely me. My sister in law lives in Australia and for a while was considering a move here to the states. I was just commenting that when we looked into it that it was pretty difficult to do, even though she is a skilled worker with a long work history. It would be way easier to bring my mother in law over, even though she is in her mid 70’s and has had cancer. The only (somewhat) easy way to get the SIL over would be to have the MIL immigrate first and then do the process for her after.
Why do you ask? You thinking of importing some Aussies?
Hah! No, too many damn Australians here now.
Short version: my mom (in Australia) is in her 80s, just diagnosed with dementia. My sister & her husband take care of my mum. BUT, my sister’s health is not great (nothing terminal, just a lot of chronic issues). My wife and I were trying to figure out if moving my mum to the States was an option if it became necessary (it would really be a last option kind of thing b/c I don’t think my mum would want to live here). The problem is there is no way we can afford any kind of assisted living arrangement for her in the US and she has, essentially, no savings. She gets medical care in Australia under government health care, pension, etc.
So, I was wondering in your investigations if you’d found out if your MIL could use Australian pensions (or whatever) and healthcare to support her in the US? I assume the answer is probably no, but thought it worth asking. Was there a particular resource you used to track down info?
The MIL is in England and wasn’t very interested in moving here so we never investigated much. I do know that at least getting the green card was very easy . I was under the impression that she could sign up immediately for Medicaid , but HM had later posted a link that said she not allowed onMedicaid (at least until she waited a few years to get the citizenship). I’m not sure if that is strictly the case or not.
I get the feeling that the restriction is not strictly enforced.
I also do. I know of people that have brought elderly parents over and I am pretty sure they were taking advantage of those benefits.
I’d imagine her pension could be used here though. I wish you luck with your mom. Dementia is a rough thing. I lived with my grandmother for a year while she was going through the middle stages of that.
Is there a problem if the MIL keeps living in England but travels occasionally to the US with the green card? How long does she have to stay in America without losing the green card?
I could probably get the green card for my mother, but I don’t think she would like to move here.
You can’t stay out of the country for over a year I believe with a green card.
OK, thanks, I appreciate it.
If you bring your mother in law over would she be eligible for some sweet government benefits right away?
Yeah, that was gold. I’ve got to hand it to the guy, he’s a natural smartass and was fearless.
Cool. My son may be auditioning there.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/music/bs-fe-thomas-dolby-hopkins-peabody-20190917-jqb4vzxlkjc4bjsz4uajy5baqm-story.html
What’s he play?
Pipe organ
Wow jealous
Cool!!
Back to Pomplamoose, since we’ve been chatting about music and writing and making money as an author lately. This Band Just Finished A 28 Day Tour And Made How Much?!. But the dude half of Pomplamoose is also the co-founder and CEO of Patreon.
I hope he’s cashing out soon, because Facebook and Youtube now have their own subscriber systems. My aviation group just switched over from Patreon to FB & YT subs.
Like, how? Do you have a channel or what?
Not MY channel, but a channel I belong to…aviation livestreaming.
Not hate crimes. Well that’s a relief.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/minneapolis-robberies-police-chief-unacceptable
Hold on. We don’t know the race of the people.
Towards the end of the article they let it slip out: black on white. Therefore not a hate thingy.
Barf.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Kate_H_Taylor/status/1173950116291653633
Ugh. I was expecting two donut halves, and not glazed. This… gross.
Yeah. Even I, our resident stoner of middling intelligence and poorer taste wouldn’t eat that at my most faded.
Yeah, and even then…glazed? On the outside? Right off the bat you’ve missed the point of the bread part of a sandwich. It’s like the “Double Down” they rolled out for some reason.
Dunno. This is surprisingly good.
https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/main-course/beef/bacon-donut-burger.html
Even better with a sausage patty
I dunno, man. I mean, I’ve had bacon cupcakes before but a burger just strikes me as a bit much.
Oh, this also exists apparently:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Oregonian/status/1174084656976863232
Jesus. This is all just fodder for Pie’s rants.
Is it proper irony that a guy named Pie complains about excessive sugar?
I just read that George Henson, PhD tweet about Mayor Pete not being gay. You know what I conclude from that thread?
If you have more than 9,000 tweets, you likely have a mental disorder. Go ahead, I dare someone to do some kind of social science-ing on that hypothesis.
The number of tweets is a limit function that approaches gibbering insanity. Some of you math nerds write that up.
Using Twitter or Facebook AT ALL is evidence of mental instability.
I have 105,000. Can confirm.
Everyone I’ve known has a mental disorder. That’s just life. Just ask the voices in my head, and my imaginary friends.
Also, I have zero tweets.
Absence of evidence, etc.
😉
I bet Trump’s #1 fan Dr. Gu has more than that.
I have 5100 in a year and 1/2
No immunity for this cop
Ever want to watch a solid work crew destroy themselves and unit cohesion? Unionize.
We are in the middle of our watch schedule negotiations and im watching best friends tear each other apart for nothing. Fucking hell
Govt is bad for the environment
Ugh this one in the sidebar makes me even angrier.
TL;DR: GENTRIFUHCATION!
Yeah, because a run-down, empty waterfront was so much better than the hundreds of new businesses that are there now. I never see any brown people when I shop or dine there.
Fucking racists.
There was a lot of that kind of shit when DC pretty much totally rebuilt the Anacostia waterfront. We used to go to a few clubs there, and it was an utter shithole. You’d park as close to the club as you could, because it’s southeast DC and you don’t want to get shot, stabbed, or mugged. A random dude would try to charge you for parking (on the street) or say he’d “watch your car” for $10. You’d make your way to the club, breath a sigh of relief, and then get nice and drunk so that when you went out to your car (which was hopefully still there) you didn’t mind fending off the beggars and the crackheads.
Now, it’s completely redone, there’s a ton of stuff there, and it brings a load of money into the city. So what was the complaint? They drove out economically vulnerable historically black communities in order to attract corporate investors and white people with money. It was all race and class, and if it happened to clear out crumbling shithole public housing in exchange for a commercial and retail space that generates jobs and wealth where you’re much, much less likely to get stabbed for $20, well, fuck whitey anyway.
God damn this makes me so angry I’m replying twice.
There’s been a ton of “hurr durr gentrification bad” for the entire time I’ve lived in Annapolis (which has a stunning amount of public housing) and it’s always the same shit. It boils down to people who don’t live in the run-down, impoverished, dangerous part of the city preferring to see black people living in squalor rather than see one non-black person make a profit. It’s disgusting. In my immediate neighborhood a guy who’s mom used to own a house here when it was pretty much block after block of ghetto described it as, “white people coming in and buying black people’s houses for too much money”. He was all for it, and so was his mom, who sold a $50k ramshackle 2BR for $450k because it was a block from the water and all the yuppies got priced out of the historic district. So she got to buy a nice house outside of a crappy part of town and some young couple got a fixer-upper by the creek. Everybody wins.
Then the same people turn around and bitch about “segregation”.
It’s exhausting.
Lots of that sort of stuff in Philly but the argument is that the poor folks there are usually renters and while a few owners, who are probably black, get rich, the majority who are black renters get forced out to find lodgings in even dodgier neighborhoods. Of course, the black entrepreneurial and landlord class supports the Democrats anyway.