Man, I stayed up until almost midnight to see if Greinke would get his no-hitter. Damn Mariners players spoiled it in the ninth. But the Astros still won and put a death grip on home field as the Yankees lost. The Brewers locked up the final NL playoff spot while the Indians hopes are on life support in the AL with just a few games to go.
ManUre avoided the same ignominious departure Spuds suffered the day before as they dumped mighty Rochdale on penalties. A handful of PL teams weren’t as lucky, falling to third and fourth-tier squads. There wasn’t much else going on, but hockey season is rapidly approaching. And the NFL gets back in gear tonight.
St Francis of Assisi was born on this day. So were: dog-torturer Ivan Pavlov, poet T.S. Eliot, Pope Paul VI, fitness guru Jack LaLanne, rocker Bryan Ferry, singer/”actress” Olivia Newton-John, Terminator-killer Linda Hamilton, dipshit Francis O’Rourke, and possible steroid-user Serena Williams.
OK, not as many lookers today as yesterday. Oh well, on to…the links!
A majority of the House now backs “some type of impeachment”. So gone are the days when you name a specific high crime or misdemeanor and lay out evidence. We’ve reached the point when the rule of law is dead as it relates to this process, folks.
The GM strike is starting to have a ripple effect on the Michigan economy. I sure hope those guys who make on average more than double what nurses make to push buttons can make it through these tough times. Actually, I don’t. I hope GM relocates all of those operations to plants in right-to-work states and tells them to fuck off.
Gee, who didn’t see this one coming? So. Stunning. And. Brave.
Just in case you’d forgotten, everything is a shitshow in the UK government as well.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ::catches breath:: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. That’s some good stuff there.
I know college kids can be smelly-ass slobs, but seriously? (Anything else here would give the story away, so that’s all you’re getting.)
Uh, next time maybe question why they’re serving guacamole with sushi, ok? Ugh, that could not have been a pleasant surprise.
This is for Tundra! And no, it’s not Joe Jackson. I wouldn’t do that to anybody.
Well, that’s all. Have a great day, friends!
Comments
424 responses to “Thursday Morning Links”
Uh, next time maybe question why they’re serving guacamole with sushi, ok? Ugh, that could not have been a pleasant surprise. – real wasabi or basic bitch painted horseradish ?
Wedding was in israel, so no clue.
Too much wasabi
I’ve read the dyed horseradish is even served in Japan.
Referred to as “western wasabi” there. The real stuff’s relatively scarce and thus pricey. Both contain isothiocyanates, so they’re actually pretty good substitutes for one another.
The house brand wasabi peas at my supermarket (Kr*ger) are flavored with tinted mustard powder; no horseradish of any sort.
“basic bitch painted horseradish”
That’s quite clever. Look at our own Joseph Conrad here.
Bingo!
I visited an actual wasabi farm – it’s really interesting how it is grown. Reminds me a bit of tobacco as they have the huge covers that they pull over the plants to partially shade them.
Real wasabi is hard to get in the US. Particularly for gaijin. The good chefs hold it back for the Japanese customers.
One of my college buddies mistook wasabi for avocado during his first trip to a sushi restaurant. It was quite entertaining.
I did that at a little spot in Vegas. It was NOT funny, the only beverage the staff was able to understand as I begged was sake. Apparently guzzling flask after flask of sake on top of wasabi makes you black out. Who knew?
Holy shit yesterday! Drama lama ding dong! https://youtu.be/KStsPPgeka4
I mean come on! 650 comments on a Wednesday night post?
Just remember: Yasir Arafat and Barack Obama were given Nobel Peace Prizes. That should tell you everything you need to know about it.
Greta’s parents’ hard work running that promotion is paying off in that sweet, sweet money.
The international award, widely known as the “alternative Nobel Prize,” was established in 1980 to “honor and support courageous people solving global problems.” – what the fuck did she solve again?
She said the right words to make their ideologues flutter.
^^^^THIS^^^^
She’s finally cracked the grifter code. Well, her parents have anyway.
They’ll be running a billion dollar foundation in less than a year. And they didn’t even have to get elected to do so.
Will be interesting to see them get shaken down by identity politics factions for being too wypipo, and eventually thrown under the bus because Sheedy’s daughter just can’t relate to those old white enviros.
Solving not solved. Completing the process is not a requirement. In fact, it’s kind of bad to actually solve problems because the people making a living off of solving it then have to find new professions.
The glorious thing about climate change as a problem is that since the Earth’s climate is always in flux, it inherently can’t be ‘solved’. There will always be some trend that could lead to crisis to RHEEEEEEE about.
How is it solved globally if the largest polluter – China – gets a pass?
I heard a rumor she’s going to China for her lecturing as well. Should be interesting
Something tells me her scowls will not go over well.
Narrowed gazes?
Nallowed gaze.
Does the left really believe that the unhinged, hysterical ranting of an autistic teenager is going to win converts to their cause? How would that work, exactly?
Marxism means engendering conflict and contradiction, not resolving it.
She looked righteously indignant and scolded the right people which somehow meets the criteria of ‘hero’ for the MSM in the 21st century.
A Nobel Peace Prize pales next to Sainthood
My kids are too old but the Grand kids are just about the right age. In fact the eldest is fifteen. Freedom 55, here I come!
Does she ever smile?
. The Brewers locked up the final NL playoff spot while the Indians hopes are on life support in the AL with just a few games to go.
Question: is this like the NBA where people complain that one conference is more difficult than the other so it is not fair for making the playoffs?
Not really. The leagues are fairly balanced lately.
I know this isn’t what you meant, but holy shit the AL in unbalanced this year. I have never seen that many that bad teams at the same time. Which puffs up the records of the good teams.
Miami is the only awful NL team, but the AL is littered with them.
Yeah, I was just talking about playoff teams. There’s balance at the top but certainly not league-wide parity.
I don’t really want to see league-wide parity, but the AL isn’t even trying to be Gaussian.
I bitch about the NBA playoffs because they let more than half the league in and it takes forever.
This. In baseball you better win your division or come really close.
And if you only “come really close”, you have a single game crap-shoot to overcome.
That needs to go too. MLB Commissioner CPA would do two or maybe just one division each in AL and NL. Play an AL and NL championship and then the world series. Interleague can stay, I don’t have strong opinions about it.
You apparently hate money.
It’s here to stay because of the Benjamins.
Less is more. I am also convinced MLB economics are screwed up.
Get rid of that abomination, the designated hitter.
I smuggled a musical link into work this morning. Now I’ll bury it here: X.
Yes, I should have taken a sick day today, why do you ask?
Benadryl?
No. I haven’t medicated anything and the symptoms are not those of allergies.
My brain is fuzzy though.
I’ve had the shits and a stuffed up nose for a day (silver lining?) so I know my body is telling me I’m sick but I don’t feel in no ways tairred. I almost never get laid low, just the annoying symptoms.
Thankfully I’ve got PTO today and tomorrow, which is why you’re seeing me in this thread early. 🙂
That was a good game.
I’m working at home today as well. Sick with a big headache and sneezing/coughing. I don’t want my team to get what I have, so i’m quarantining myself. The wife is immune as she is the source of the infection.
So, now unhinged hysterical ranting by an autistic teenager is worthy of a Nobel prize. Way to make Nobels meaningless, isiots.
It’s only the peace prize, it’s not a real Nobel anyway.
Its not even a Nobel, although she was nominated for that yesterday.
*looks groggily around* Oh, ok.
My guess is that they are going to give it to her…. Which is about the cruelest thing anyone can do, psychologically. In twenty years she will die of a self-inflicted drug overdose…. that’s my prediction.
Doesn’t matter, we’ve squandered her future anyway.
Her future will mirror Judy Garland’s.
I hope I live long enough to enjoy the pictures and the ‘scandal.’
She really is a victim of child abuse. She’s on the autistic spectrum with OCD and a compulsive, irrational fear of global warming (likely due to her lefty parents). So instead of addressing these issues, her parents and other assholes exacerbate these fears and exploit them in order to promote a political agenda.
What assholes.
I still question the autism thing, just because of the late diagnosis. I realize my daughters diagnosis was super-early (days after her 2nd birthday), but really, 11? This isn’t the 1970s.
This isn’t the 1970s.
Then again, Swedish medical care, so maybe it is.
Probably took that long for her parents to really mess her up.
Probably vape herself to death.
Perfect poetic justice would be where a new, inexpensive stem cell treatment is found to cure autism and she is cured – then, with a new-found ability to guide her own life and using her international political position denounces her parents, starting an organization to stamp out psychological abuse of children by parents for political purposes.
The international award, widely known as the “alternative Nobel Prize,” was established in 1980 to “honor and support courageous people solving global problems.”
Not that Nobels aren’t meaningless just that she hasn’t won one yet.
Do you seriously doubt she will “win”?
They gave one to Obama, and he did far less than she did.
He did the same thing as she did: flap the tongue and gums.
Greta hasn’t drone-bombed anybody to death.
^This^. While Greta has earned her two minutes of hate lets keep in perspective who the real monsters are.
Like Greta, he was only giving orders.
“How DARE you!!!!”
You know who else only gave orders?
Charlie Manson?
Restaurant patrons?
Me, at Darrell’s Fried Chicken drive through window?
Seriously, it’s the only place around that serves really good fried chicken livers.
fried chicken livers
Worse than Hitler.
These days even the prizes for scientific discoveries are marred by political nonsense, so yeah, they are meaningless shit used by grandstanding marxist to preach. Granted there is a paycheck that comes with it too.
It’s just one more weak and gullible heart filled with hatred by Antifa.
Say, what’s the bike in your avatar?
It’s a custom built FXRT.
Given they’ve given pries to Arafat, Gore and fricken Obama and now GreenGreta, I wonder what the back story is for many of those given one. Woodrow Wilson has one. Raving racist but hey, League of Nations!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_Peace_Prize_laureates
Didn’t the Manson family get one for ATWA thing? NO? They actually fought for mother earth and went to prison for it. Seems more committed to me.
No love for Rigoberta Menchu? Shame on you.
How does this make sense to anyone? Really? Anyone? This girl has zero experience and damn near no education. How can anyone not see through the facade that this is?
But she’s so stern! And serious! And Swedish! The Nobel is going to look like any random course that Tiger played in the 90’s.
Full of holes in awkward places?
Hookers everywhere!
They seem to be going out of their way to tarnish their brand.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ::catches breath:: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. That’s some good stuff there
But morally speaking, they caught the perp
Just in case you’d forgotten, everything is a shitshow in the UK government as well. – I would suggest putting some gunpowder barrels under the parliament and blow the whole thing up
Not until November 5.
I you could find some Guy to do it.
But Fawkes News will still call him Guido.
Guido > Fredo
He’s on the other network.
Excellent punning today. Thanks to all of you.
Gunpowder is illegal in the UK, for subjects to own anyway. They’ll have to resign themselves to having a parade with balloons of Boris.
So’s blowing up parliment.
They should just tear the roof off the sucker.
Nice.
Although it’s a bit early for me to get funky.
It’s never too early to get funky! ::spins satellite radio dial to Soul Town::
Seeing how it’s not Funk and Soul Friday™ yet you are obviously too early.
Fawkes was the last person to enter parliament with honest intentions
Bootsy Collins would like a word.
Funky.
Just give them more time, and they’ll cease to exist as a country.
Aw. I was hoping Joe Jackson for this https://youtu.be/XTIPCc1nKYQ
Or this https://youtu.be/PJwt2dxx9yg
And here I was holding out hope that I’d never see another Joe Jackson video or hear one of his songs again for the rest of my life.
He was the worst of that musical genre and generation. The absolute worst!
I like ‘Look Sharp’.
Look Sharp!
This is why none of the other kids want to play with you, Ted.
Oh, there’s a lot worse out there. I didn’t post Ace of Base, for example.
Tender Mercies…
You wound me, Sir! Not really, I was never a huge fan but I did like some of his music because it wasn’t as synth-driven as most of what was coming out at the time.
I’d hate to know what you think the best was.
Off the top of my head I can’t think of a “best”. But he was the worst.
But he was the worst.
You’re breaking us in two, Sloop.
That happened yesterday and the Bor… I mean Glibertariat came back stronger than ever.
I must have missed something. Don’t tell me though, I want to step in the dogshit all by myself.
Relevant
Didn’t even need to click. Good ‘un Ted!
I’m sure you can find something.
Same way I feel about The Beetles and The Stones.
Never a real fan of either band. Owned a few albums. Did I mention that I hate The Clash?
I can only take The Clash in small doses. Some great tunes, much crap.
Also has the time
Worst fucking beer ever.
Yeah, it’s awful. I tried it once.
Goddamn telcos all goddamn day. I don’t have to speak for most time, but still.
When I generally need to set a not very urgent meeting and I see a someone with 6 hours of meetings in their calendar in a day, I try not to squeeze another one in the only open spot. I look for the next day or something. People seem to put fake meeting in the calendar to prevent this, which I did not like to do because I wanted my calendar to be accurate, but I may have to go down that path.
Don’t put in a fake meeting, make an appointment on your calendar to do work.
A threesome with 70’s Olivia Newton John and 80’s Linda Hamilton. Yes please.
+2 hot women
I am assuming you mean the way they looked in a decade, not that you are into granny fucking?
Yes, that is what I meant. Although…there’s a reason there’s lube and light switches.
Linda Hamilton did absolutely nothing for me. She always looked “rough”.
I’m a sucker for that feathered (Farrah) hair.
https://www.theplace2.ru/cache/archive/linda_Hamilton/img/kgrhqz_jqe_jkvgtkzbp-gthumb-gwdata1200-ghdata1200-gfitdatamax.jpg
I did like that look.
She looks like a dude.
Yeah, the hot chick’s friend that you have to make time with so your buddy can seal the deal. She’s fine but she’s not the hot chick (whom you’ve secretly been pining over for weeks). Shut up! I’m not crying! You’re crying!
Yeah, she’s not my first choice, but out of the birthday list available, she definitely beats out Serena.
Which of the Tuscadero sisters did you like?
Well, Suzi Quatro, DUH!
Could use some make-up but sure.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMDczYTVlMTAtZmJhMy00YTBkLTk2OTUtMjJhNTk4N2ViYzM1XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjUyNDk2ODc@._V1_UY317_CR51,0,214,317_AL_.jpg
Linda Hamilton wasn’t hot and couldn’t act. She had the great good fortune to have been the cheap actress chosen for a role in a throwaway movie that hit the jackpot.
STOP NOT LIKING THINGS ON THE INTERNET THAT I LIKE. Literally shaking rn.
80’s Kelly Lebrock and Jane Seymour
Bernadette Peters and Madelaine Khan.
Bernadette… I’ll be in my 13-year-old self’s bunk.
People are searching for the kind of love that you possess?
You astound and amaze me, Ted. I have a pretty fair knowledge of all that 60’s and 70’s music but you are encyclopedic. It’s really quite something.
For better and worse, I’ve always had a good memory. That and a copy of Joel Whitburn’s “Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits” goes a long way.
I also had a warped childhood that saw me read a lot of our set of the World Book Encyclopedia and the back issues of Reader’s Digest that Mom hoarded.
We had An Art Linkletter set but I did read almost the the entire set of Encyclopedia Americana later. We were missing one volume.
The first time I had Wasabi, I used way too much. It was not pleasant. I do like it now that I know to use sparingly. Kind of like Chinese hot mustard. Or barbiturates.
Something like this?
Pretty much;)
I love horseradish, but there is a very fine line between not enough and too much.
The Maxum casino had a steamship round on their breakfast menu, with a little ice cream scoop for applying a dollop of horseradish.
The chef told me “Careful, it’s a little strong…”
A little.
I went blind for several seconds and had six inch flames shoot out my nose.
Thot Thursday provides the titties missing from your life.
https://tinyurl.com/yyfcejmz
“I wouldn’t do that to anybody.”
Because you’re the man?
Fuck all y’all today. This is Joe Jackson overload. And it’s triggering me.
I still use “Looks sharp!” as a descriptive whenever some shows me a project that they’ve been working on. I also use the the term “swell” un-ironically.
And you really do me well
“Breathtaking.”
No, usually I’m being sincere in my praise. Usually.
But what about Shatner and Joe Jackson covering Common People? C’mon, Sloopy; its awesome. https://youtu.be/ainyK6fXku0
So bad it’s good.
OT: New Zealand: How dare you use speeches in Parliament in political ads!
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7507053/Demi-Rose-poses-NAKED-sizzling-bathtime-snap.html
picc
Putting the icc in thicc.
She’s a bit fat, but is that really a warcrime?
There’s enough strange inorganic substance there to declare her a superfund site.
fitness guru Jack LaLanne
But was he a real guru? i think not
A Florida fitness guru who “wreaked havoc” on her competitors’ lives was sentenced to prison for using 369 dummy Instagram accounts to harass rivals and stage a kidnapping, officials said.
https://nypost.com/2019/09/25/fitness-guru-created-369-fake-instagram-accounts-to-harass-rivals-stage-kidnapping/
+369 Lori Drews.
Fit to be tied?
Just linking because of the hair.
Reminds me, what became of Gilmore?
Sloopy and other college football fans. This discussion on the Paul Finebaum show was very interesting. He discusses the disruption that legislation from certain states is going to cause
I do dislike Paaaaawl. But I may listen to that.
Jerry Nadler talks about impeachment (in 1998). I forgot what a fat fuck he was.
Yep. Once a toad always a toad. Nancy should pucker up and give him an alum kiss on his forehead. He’d turn into Beto!
Rep. Collins letting Nadler have it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY4QguXHrcI
That was truly awesome.
Nancy Pelosi on the politicization of impeachment. This is such a fun game.
Shoutout to Mojeaux – I didn’t get an email from you, but probs because I was being too clever in obscuring the address against ‘bots.
tonio 4 liberty (at) protonmail (dot) com
No spaces and substitute at-symbol and period for parentheticals.
Huh. I actually did have the right address. Spam block? My emails get blocked and sent to spam all the time with everybody. I don’t know why.
I just emailed you from my main addy.
Stop using “Herbal cure for________” as the subject line?
“This one weird trick will cure your cod and cunte!”
strapon time
https://twitter.com/wspieler/status/1176298364033482760
Ouch!
Wow. A no hitter! And then I forget about it 10 minutes later. 60+ points in an NBA game, 200+ rushing in an NFL game, nailing a chick that hates you. All these are more impressive than a no hitter.
New Zealand actress Robyn Malcolm, who played Morwen in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, called for a female Gandalf in the upcoming Amazon’s Lord of the Rings TV series.
In an interview with Stuff, Malcolm tells them, “Those old legends, those old mystical stories, they’re so based within a patriarchal landscape. Why not look at the magic of a matrilineal world where the magical powerhouses are women?” She adds, “I reckon the idea of Gandalf being a kuia covered in beautiful moko and tattoos would be incredible.” A kuia is a female elder.
https://boundingintocomics.com/2019/09/24/actress-robyn-malcolm-wants-a-female-gandalf-for-amazons-lord-of-the-rings-tv-series/
I fully support this for the upcoming porno parody
Something telss me these people do not know how to tell a good story, or what makes a good story.
Tell a good story and you can work in whatever rambling fever dream nonsense you have.
Tell a bad story and it doesn’t matter how goodthinkfull you were.
“Tell a bad story and it doesn’t matter how goodthinkfull you were.”
If only the entertainment industry could learn this lesson. Sadly they continue to make huge profits off crap because evidently their consumer base will lap up whatever drivel they spew out.
There are some indications that may not be the case. I want to see what happens over the next few years to see if my current prognostications bear fruit, or if your despair is warrented.
The movie industry is the corporate equivalent of an actual human centipede. What goes in the front end may be palatable but by the time it gets to the end it’s just a disgusting mess.
Write your own goddamned story instead of retconning everyone else’s work.
Oh, so much this.
Oh fuck off
Seriously. Maybe Amazon should make sure to cast all black lesbian dwarfs in the new series to appease the assholes.
Besides which, Galadriel is one of the most powerful characters in the stories. Why not make Sauron female?
all black lesbian dwarfs
But playing elves, not… you know.
There already was a porno about this: Lord of the Cock Rings. Dildo Teabaggins fed it all to Gaggalf the female cock gobbling wizard.
Who the fuck is Morwen? I’ve read those books over a dozen times and it just don’t feature. Fuck off and don’t touch my Legos when I go to the bathroom you cunte!
Their fanfic character I guess.
The Silmarilion and other lesser works. Touch those Legos and you are dead!
The Silmarilion is not part of the series, JRR never intended those notes for publication.
*Kif Sigh*
There’s all kinds of “matrilineal world[s] where the magical powerhouses are women” fantasy out there. Why not find one and film that? Oh, because Hollywood is lazy?
They exist but the people who write them tend not to be good at writing or telling stories.
That sounds great. Go write it. Don’t fuck up something someone else built. People have already demonstrated that they’d be happy to watch a female, magic using, brown skinned protagonist with tats.
Be the change you want to see in the world. I know its harder than shitting on someone’s accomplishment, but I have faith in you, people really want to hear about your intellectual contributions.
Narrator: he did not have faith in her.
These are cool. Picking my Christmas present now. The link in the comments is the actual site selling them
Are those 100% certified non-problematic?
But they’re just printed hoodies. You lose out on the tactile novelty of odd clothes, and you’re stuck wearing an uncomfortable hoodie.
Have you ever actually worn a hoodie?
Once upon a time, when I was a child.
Looks like something Johnny Depp would wear.
That’s awesome.
Those are neat, but I’m at a point in my life where I’ve had either too much, or too little, sex to wear them.
Filed under nobody needs an AR to protect themselves.
Color me suspicious.
MUZZLE DISCIPLINE!
Or… don’t run in front the guy with a rifle!
Jacques Chirac, French President Who Opposed U.S. Iraq War, Is Dead At 86
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/26/764561501/jacques-chirac-french-president-who-opposed-u-s-iraq-war-is-dead-at-86
The only news right now in France.
I hated that weasel.
Black Jaques Chirac? He was a pretty good foil for Bugs Bunny.
Both of them? To make a romanian joke no one will undestand
The Tesla Cop car thing- I have an idea for a new strategy. As libertarians we should start advocating for the GND and gun confiscation contingent on the government doing it first as a proof of concept. Make government facilities and military bases green/ carbon neutral immediately regardless of it’s impact on the ability to perform their stated function. Collect and destroy all automatic/ semi-automatic weapons from the military and police departments and then we’ll talk about giving up our guns. If these ideas are so great, by all means please demonstrate them for us….
+100
So you’re calling for increased taxes??
Naw, that can all be funded by auctioning off the old equipment to the general public.
Nah. The AOC solution is that the government will buy back all the stuff. How? What a silly question, you just buy it, right?
Maybe in the short run
/hint, my endgame is to watch it all implode in on itself if you couldn’t tell 😉
Not for nothing, but the Army played around with electric tanks.
You think an M1 is expensive?
There was a petition submitted to Change.org to “eliminate the Secret Service and establish a gun-free zone around the president”.
Boy do the ‘elitist class’ hate Rebel Media.
They’re doing the muckraking no one does! I especially like that they’re at least trying to get to the bottom of Trudeau, Grey Point Academy and the girl in the picture. They’ve tracked her down at her home in Greenville, SC.
They also went after the Minister of Science to get her opinion of Trudeau in blackface.
Obviously, they refuse to answer questions but what caught my attention is their outright hostility and arrogance towards RM.
It’s like the expect the media to be nice to them.
Well they do bribe most of the journo class.
Rebel is like that crazy Uncle that everyone ignores at the family reunion. He’s so over the top that it’s easy to laugh him off as a crank but when you dig deeper there might be something there that makes a little sense. They’ve been moving from “wild-eyed iconoclast” to more “presentable” reporters lately so that might be of help.
You pay the whore for her time, not her emotions.
BioWare’s new move could help rehabilitate crippling team issues BioWare moves to a new spacious office to give developers room to breathe
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/67781/biowares-new-move-help-rehabilitate-crippling-team-issues/index.html
I note that does not say the move was “Out of Electronic Arts”, so they’re still doomed.
More room won’t help a broken culture. Hell, what’s the last good game that came out of BioWare?
Good by whose standard?
By any standards. I’ve pretty much written them off after Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 2.
DA2 was good though! but yeah, ME3 was trash and DA:I was just boring
I hated the constantly reused maps, terrible inventory system, and lack of involvement of the choices from the first game.
fair cops, I don’t mind map re-use or the inventory system, I was a little annoyed about the lack of persistence from DA:O though, that’s true.
I still enjoyed the game though, enough to want to give DA:I a chance.
Inquisition wasn’t bad, it just followed the whole add in 30000 different collectibles and sidetracks for completion model, which I found made the story drag. 30 hours in, oh yeah I am supposed to be saving the world, oooooh look a gatherable item over there.
I had a problem in that I couldn’t see the bad guy as a threat. That lowered the stakes a lot.
So… remember the other day when a couple of us were talking about breweries overexpanding, and then going under. I’d like to make a prediction here… White Claw Maker Investing $250 Million to Increase Production and Meet Demand.
Yeah, don’t bet the farm on the fads of college kids.
I disagree, I think whiteclaw is grabbing a very large market share of low calorie sweet drinks that didn’t exist before. I can walk into any beer/wine store and have a massive assortment of beers and even sub groups of those beers, not so much with the category white claw is filling.
There’s a still alcoholic water on the market in my neck of the woods. There’s also quite a bit of competition coming into the market, with AB-InBev and MillerCoors both releasing a hard seltzer, there’s even some craft brewers that have jumped into the hard seltzer market as well. Off the top of my head, there’s at least five brands of hard seltzer available in my local store. It’s also not a hard market for an existing alcohol producing company to jump into.
Exactly, not a real barrier to entry if you are already in the booze biz.
Valid point. I think they’ve already won the marketing war, we’ll see if they under/over expand on the production/sales side of things.
High Noon is so much better. As is Truly.
The new Zima.
So probably big in Charlottesville.
White Claw is for slutty college girls. Ergo, I approve of it.
Kids today
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFUC2xFXoAIGQxJ.jpg
LOL
So now that GreenGreta has an ‘alt peace’ ribbon.
How long before an Ivy league school give her an honorary degree?
How long before she’s Czar of the EU?
Don’t get carried away. She’s not autistic enough to qualify.
Those people aren’t autistic. They’re retarded. BIG difference.
You mean people running the EU, right?
Who else?
Just wait until she holds a press conference to show off her shiny new abortion. She’ll be the God-emperess of the woke crowd
She holds the aborted fetus up before heads of the G8 and screams “Look at what you’ve! I had to do this because it would be a crime to bring a child into this hellish nightmare you’ve created! There will be many more and you will have killed them all and you should bow your head’s in shame!’
Nah, acknowledging a fetus’s personhood wouldn’t fly (although it might if it fit the narrative at the moment). I’m thinking more:
“See, I have sacrificed to wounded Gaia and her light shines upon me! She is roused to anger and requires the BLOOD of atonement!!! Look upon me and tremble!!!”
Trudeau just pulled that stunt blaming a ‘radicalized Canada’ for his blackface.
A bigger shitstained worm than him they don’t come.
And the Liberals are neck and neck with the Conservatives.
smh.
Today I learned
Nazi leader were IQ tested following their capture after WW2. As far as I know, this is the only IQ testing of a broad section of leaders of a country.
https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1177043200642412544
My, my. I have a higher IQ….and I’m a muppet!
What does that say?
You’re too qualified to be a Nazi?
Streicher, Julius 106
ouch.
That’s half a standard deviation above the average.
‘Julius! Turn that knob slower!’
‘Ok boss!’
Well, technically, they all had IQs above the average, so I guess they qualified as Top. Men.
Interesting. On the one hand, psychometric testing in the 30’s and 40’s was pretty bad. On the other hand, if you asked me to guess what the results would be before hand, it would probably look like that.
What in the world were Americans thinking when they gave the House back to the Democrats? It’s on the level of Albertans voting for the anti-oil and gas NDP.
Baffling. Humans can be such losers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSgQyiLRir0
The Dems hammered marginal districts with candidates who looked moderate.
At least we get to revote after only two years. And 2020 is looking like a high turnout election.
High turn out meaning? For Trump? Someone else?
High turn out meaning unpredictable because these people are not normally engaged in voting and overlooked by prognosticators.
Expect much wailing, nashing of teeth, and rending of garments.
If Trump is reelected I’m not sure what we are going to do with the gigantic surplus of salty prog tears. I’m also thinking Antifa will lay low from now through election season but we’ll see a huge rise in civil rights LARPing and violence after the election is determined in his favor. Possible on a larger scale than we saw in 2017.
They redistricted NJ to defectively eliminate Republicans and used creative voting in the one competitive district.
Same,same out here . Ballot harvesting for the win. All the r’s had wins until the harvested votes were counted
Eh, considering how hard the media was pushing for a blue wave it wasn’t that impressive a showing. In select places the TDS was strong enough to get out the Team Blue vote but overall I think it says more about how your average American isn’t as outraged as Don Lemon would like to believe…………….
Compare Pelosi’s voice then with her voice today. She’s clearly slipped many cogs.
I think the next year is going to be exciting.
The Dems are dead men walking as the incredible systematic corruption of the Obama Administration becomes more obvious.
The Bidens were absolutely bought and it’s been known for a long time.
All the hatred and craziness focused against Trump is the reaction of a thoroughly corrupt organization defending itself against exposure. The corrupt deep-state is a cornered animal.
Don’t mock, Muppet. Trudi is going to win the election with at least a minority.
**HEAVY SIGH** I fear you are correct, Festus. I guess then we’ll have to call him “Teflon Trudy.”
I honestly don’t see how calling the entire country “racist” won’t backfire. At least in the US they generally restrict their hatred to half the country.
In lukewarm defense of my fellow Albertans, the vote on the right side of the spectrum was split between two parties, which allowed the NDs to gain the plurality needed. Then they proceeded to spray economic insecticide all over the province, something which we’re still trying to recover from (and probably won’t for a very long time — the NDs are nothing if not thorough in their antipathy towards capitalism . . . ).
Today, in everyone is literally Hitler
“It appears that my event with @MaximeBernier on September 29th has been cancelled due to threats from Antifa and this insane piece in the local paper. The school is now demanding 10 times the original security costs and could demand more before showtime”
https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1177056801105371136
They can’t sue for breach of contract?
Bleed them dry by demanding extra security. Gross.
solution to Antefa: private armed security
Like at Altamont?
On the drive in today, Hate Radio was blaring Schiff’s speech about why ORANGEMANBAD ORANGEMANIMPEACH.
Look, I’m not a Trumptard (or try not to be) and as much as this might “demonarchize” the presidency; but I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. I read the fucking transcript. Nothing he claims is in there actually is. Are they so confident that their media mouthpieces are capable of fooling the electorate on that scale? If they move forward with impeachment, all of their claims are going to go up in smoke. Schiff is an idiot, but Pelosi is not and I have a very hard time understanding why she is letting this proceed; it’s going to backfire spectacularly.
As I said above, they are freaking out because Trump is exposing their corruption.
More importantly, I think their research has shown Trump winning another term now being a highly probable event, so they are switching back from their new tactic of just winning the 2020 election – so they can then just derail all the investigations Trump has been encouraging but the deep state has wanted to kill, effectively ending any and all efforts to derail the weaponized deepstate created by the Obama administration – to the the the old and failed tactic of “must kick Trump out of office at all costs”.
Many here will say that she’s not letting anything proceed. But i think that is a little misguided. Things might not have changed yet, but she’s signaled at least a little that she’s willing to take this to impeachment. If she wasn’t then the whole charade two days ago would have been extremely short sighted. The Dems are letting the media tout and proclaim impeachment, which if they had/have no intention of doing they would squash, because it would only serve to hurt them when they didn’t follow through.
Exactly. Regardless of the political winds in her party, Pelosi ultimately holds the power and without her tacit permission, none of this would be happening. Their strategy was always to foam at the mouth and threaten impeachment; now that they’re taking concrete steps toward it, they’re fucked. They either look like cowards and hypocrites by backing off, or they actually go balls deep and all the lies and absurdity are exposed. Didn’t they learn anything from the Muller debacle?
Furthermore, assuming this actually gets investigated and exposed, Biden’s campaign will get sodomized with a rusty farm implement. It will come out that everything they’re accusing Trump of was actually pulled off by Biden; there’s a video of him admitting it for Christ’s sake!
I know the DemOpMedia Complex has a lot of power and can be very convincing, but I don’t think they’re capable of papering over this; the claims are just too fantastic and impeachment is too big of a deal.
They have to create an alternate reality, because if people stop to look around at actual reality, they’ll realize that things are pretty damn good right now.
Hey, it worked for the climate catastrophists, why wouldn’t it work here?
Although it hasn’t. No one gives a shit about climate change, despite non-stop hysteria for decades.
Schiff is not an idiot. He’s a partisan hack that knows how to do the wet work that others in the party may shy away from.
Bob Murphy is one of my favorite Libertarian Comentators. He put out a show a few days ago on his podcast that was fantastic. I highly recommend it. linke
Same here. He actually gave a legit defense of pacifism. I didn’t become one, but he makes good points.
Hellllooooooo!
Sorry to have disappeared again. I have been working from home for over a week now, due a fuckup with my security clearance and badge.
Send halp.
KK: Welcome back. After three weeks, my badge is now working at the office again. Thankfully I work from home 3 days a week.
It is looking like I get to join the group getting an annual background check though.
I’m apparently now deemed in the “lowest risk” security category and don’t have to do any additional paperwork.
I don’t know whether to be pleased or insulted.
Grey man is best man.
Leave SF’s post open on your work computer and see if you can get your status higher!
Multipass?
I figured you were skiing somewhere.
^THIS. Or ogling aviation tech. ;-)
Chocolate? Wine?
Crumbling empire
Brexit has illustrated a United Kingdom divided about much more than the European Union, and has fuelled soul-searching about everything from secession and immigration to capitalism, empire and Britishness itself.
The rage and ferocity of the Brexit debate has shocked allies of a country that has prided itself as a confident – and mostly tolerant – pillar of Western economic and political stability.
Cox was clear that the language across the Brexit schism was troubling and that the United Kingdom needed to come together rather than tear itself apart.
Some on both sides of the debate are now using the politics of contrived outrage to argue their point. Johnson says parliament is betraying the will of the people over Brexit, while opponents cast him a dictator who has ridden roughshod over democracy to take the United Kingdom to the brink of ruin.
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In the 2016 referendum, 17.4 million voters, or 52 percent, backed Brexit while 16.1 million, or 48 percent, voted to remain.
But after more than three years of crisis since then, it remains unclear how, when or even whether the country will leave the bloc it joined in 1973.
Nicholas Soames, grandson of Britain’s World War Two leader Winston Churchill, said the atmosphere in the chamber was the most poisonous he could remember in 37 years in parliament. “I despair, to be frank,” Soames, 71, said.
Those nice EU people took them in and gave them shelter and sustenance. It’s not fair to turn on them like this. Sovereignty is overrated.
Being a slave is so much easier than self-determination.
Free shit is a lot more important than free will or freedom…
In the 2016 referendum, 17.4 million voters, or 52 percent, backed Brexit while 16.1 million, or 48 percent, voted to remain.
Anyone who talks about Hillary Clinton loosing because of the electoral college, but doesn’t share a similar concern about Brexit being stopped, has no credibility.
I’m sure old Winston would be happy to put a cigar out on his grandson’s forehead if he could.
Of course it’s “divided” – the elites have been pulling every trick in the book to make it so, just like here.
My internet was down, earlier, and I turned on the teevee looking for local weather news (
ZenuBig Blizzard comin’!).The network teases were all about “How far will Republicans go to protect Public Enemy Number One?”
Guilty Orange Man is Guilty!
Also, from that Brexit/Boris story:
But some were still furious over his Wednesday response to a questions about Jo Cox.
Labour’s Paula Sherriff told the House she had received death threats, some of which echoed the prime minister’s own rhetoric, Johnson replied: “I have never heard so much humbug in my life”, sparking uproar.
“Humbug” is a word which ought to be in more widespread use.
I like Folderall
But throwing milkshakes at Nigel Farage was totes OK.
Anyone who talks about Hillary Clinton loosing because of the electoral college, but doesn’t share a similar concern about Brexit being stopped, has no credibility.
Voter suppression!
Consequences.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/267047/americans-trust-mass-media-edges-down.aspx
Clearly this lack of trust is Trump and the right wings fault for spreading fake news about the Corporate press
I really like the term “corporate press” because it forces Lefties to acknowledge what these organizations really are.
It’s funny to see them twist themselves into a pretzel trying to explain why every for-profit corporation is evil and only cares about money, but this particular group of them is the paragon of virtue with integrity beyond reproach.
Hobgoblin watch
Equipment needed to create homemade “ghost guns” will be illegal in New York City under legislation passed by the Council on Wednesday.
Legislation from Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal would make possessing or disposing of the metallic unfinished frames and lower receivers a misdemeanor.
The state already outlawed selling, transporting or possessing 3-D-printed “ghost guns” earlier this year, but the Council’s legislation bans the metal available from online receivers that can be used to create firearms at home. Both kinds of weapons are called “ghost guns” because they don’t have serial numbers.
“Purchasing an unfinished receiver – which is essentially 80% of a gun – is a common method of creating a ‘ghost gun,’” Rosenthal (D-Manhattan) said before the measure passed. “From there, all it takes is a quick trip to a local hardware store or a one-minute Google search to find what you need to compete the firearm. These guns have no serial numbers, they are virtually untraceable by law enforcement.”
Yup- one quick tripp to the hardware store later, and you’re a mass murdering fool.
They need to ban machinists and machine shops.
Of all of the bullshit gun laws, I think this may be one of the more egregious. This is openly stating that citizens can’t even make their own weapons. How flagrant of a 2nd amendment violation do you need? Not only can you not carry or bear arms, we won’t even let you make your own.
We need common sense sharpened stick control.
It’s crazy if you really think about how far gone the 2A is for people in these Democrat-controlled cities.
What if any other Constitutional right required a license (like Illinois FOID cards)? And what if to exercise this right outside the home, you had to go through an even more in-depth licensing procedure, and permission could be denied by some unelected bureaucrat just declaring “you don’t have sufficient need”?
Wonder if they are going to come after 3D printers next, now that you can 3D print a Glock lower and a 30 round mag with a $200 off-the-shelf printer…
They need to ban machinists and machine shops.
And steel.
Well, most of these 80% receivers are aluminum alloy so…
..or polycarbonate…
Good morning Sloopy and the rest of you homo…sapiens!
I was braced for the worst, but that was a pleasant surprise!
Pete also wrote one of the best love songs ever. RIP, dude.
Twins are AL Central champs! Now the seasoned Minne sports fans are going to gradually ratchet back their happiness and hopes, preparing for the inevitable Browns-like letdown.
It is our way.
Make it a fantastic day, people!
? Right on! ?
Already girded for the Vikings’ eventual collapse, either in the playoffs, or just prior.
“Millennials Continue to Leave Big Cities[…]many still leaving for cheaper housing, better schools”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/millennials-continue-to-leave-big-cities-11569470460
UN. POSSIBLE. I was told repeatedly by TOS et. al. that Millennials were the “creative class” that was going to revitalize American urban life and save us from our bland, pointless and culture-free existence in sterile suburbs; suburbs in which the only recourse to this meaninglessness is to anesthetize oneself with wife-swapping and prescription pharmaceuticals.
And the circle of life continues. What, you don’t want to settle down with an apartment above a dive bar?
Already had a condo the master bedroom of which was directly above a coffee shop. Thursday night was “Open Mike Night.” I learned to loathe that condo, and its seemingly-nice neighbourhood surroundings.
Lol. I had lunch yesterday with a Millennial who is putting his condo (in a very fashionable Minneapolis area) up for sale and moving to the suburbs. He and his wife are expecting their first and want “more room and better schools”.
Just like we did 25 years ago…
Winston…?
DESTROYED by FACTS and LOGIC
Meh, there was a noticeable trend after 2000 or so of most cities reversing or at least slowing down the exodus. Inevitably, the backlash (“gentrification!”) and government policies (“the rent is too damn high!”) were gonna end it.
Really? That’s so weird that they are moving out of cities right whey they start having kids. What a weird and unforseen development! (PS please gentrify my surrounding neighborhoods, a homeless man slept at my bus stop again)
BREAKING: Gay Men Are Attracted To Men
https://twitter.com/Halalcoholism/status/1177214854089728002
Changes his pic to look more sane, gets more right swipes. Totes homophobic.
I love watching the Left’s alkali metal and water coalition crack up.
LOL
Wanna read something stupid? Course you do course you do.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/21/best-books-of-the-21st-century
Is this a fiction list?
But of fucking course….
OFFS!
Skimming that list and I see 70% crap I’ve never heard of and 100% crap I’d not even pick up to read the blurb from.
Speaking of books, I’m saving my review for tomorrow, but let’s put it this way: I’m buying the sequel. Nice job.
Thank you.
I’m looking forward to seeing the more detailed feedback.
Ooh, The Pratchett fan boys are gonna be so mad at you.
They are directly responsible for my reaction to seeing his work.
Pratchett was a very talented writer. You are depriving yourself of a pleasure.
^^This
While Night Watch is one of my favorite, I think it wouldn’t be nearly as good if you didn’t have the backstory of the characters from at least a couple of the previous books.
“I believe the term is ‘eminent domain.’
Ah, yes. That means ‘theft by the government,”
― Terry Pratchett, Thud!
Night Watch is excellent. I also really enjoyed The Road.
I’ve read a handful of the others, but most I’ve never heard of.
To be honest I didn’t even see it when I skimmed the list.
The picture they posted just below drew attention away from text.
I wouldn’t have skimmed the list if Hyp hadn’t commented. One of my favorite quotes from Pratchett (by way of Vimes):
“If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn’t as cynical as real life.”
Seems about right.
Books worth a read:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (not my thing, but not bad if you like this genre, or are a fervent Swedish patriot like my one friend that loved it.)
Coraline (see above, but replace “fervent Swedish patriot” with dumpy 14 year old girl with bangs)
Thinking Fast and Slow (is good)
Night Watch (you may dislike it, but you are objectively wrong)
Books with the same name that I thought were on the list, but no they picked a book that sucks with the same name:
Bad Blood (read the one about Elizabeth Holmes / Theranos)
I haven’t read The Road, so I can’t say, but might be worth a read.
I want some rye.
Grain? Bread? Alcohol? Ergot-infested for hallucinogenic tripping?
it is obviously a metaphor for a new book by Naomi Klein
No Zork fans here? I am disappoint.
Zork doesn’t have graphics. You are doing it wrong.
>TAKE RYE
>DRINK RYE
>G
>G
>G
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Aren’t they about eighty years too early to be publishing such a list?
Full disclosure: the spousal unit loved The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night‑Time and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but most of the other fiction entries in this list left her cold, and she’s read quite a few of them (belonged to a book club for many years). Since I’m biased towards non-fiction, I don’t really care. Mostly. ;-)
Naturally nothing important will be written from here on out – and they’ll make sure of it.
I don’t remember much about that, but I do remember I liked it.
I found a book I read and liked, “Nothing To Envy”. Maybe there’s a second one, I’ll keep looking.
https://twitter.com/chiIIum/status/930829331261280256
I give up trying to follow all this. It’s crooks and spooks all the way down.
I had lunch yesterday with a Millennial who is putting his condo (in a very fashionable Minneapolis area) up for sale and moving to the suburbs. He and his wife are expecting their first and want “more room and better schools”.
Before you know it, he’ll be telling you a wealth tax is stupid.
In fairness, he appears to be a really terrible Millennial. Works hard, is extremely well spoken and actually listens to people and asks excellent follow up questions.
I’m worried about him.
No, they’ll be thinking it silently while occasionally mouthing protestations about how it should only apply to whatever level of wealth they could never see themselves attaining.
@UCS, bringing over from last thread:
Dude, what? I’m looking at a computer screen, not actual paper paper.
use you imagination?
*monotone*that’s the joke*/monotone*
I don’t expect anyone to change their preferred workflow to match my preferred workflow.
And that’s how we know you aren’t a unix admin.
I got removed from the role when ITS siloed people into tiny, uselessly small boxes of responsibility.
I’m primarily a troubleshooter and solutions architect in peoplesoft land now.
I hate peoplesoft and miss unix admin work.
Dear god man, we’ve spent the last two months on the same piece of paperwork because the CTO’s office is [REDACTED] about [REDACTED].
Does a solutions architect start with a perfectly functional design for a solution and then turn it into an unusable, uncomfortable abomination in the name of ‘artistry’ like an architect architect does with a building?
No, we take a nonfunctional, unstable abomination upon which a decade of business processes have been built and try to make it stay standing and transition to proper security patching without having the users screeching night and day at us for “breaking” that which already didn’t really work.
I thought so, but I wasn’t quite sure.
I’ve got all of 182 words written on the story set near the early 18th century.
That sounds within the timeframe. It’s good.
This may or may not be your author’s voice and/or in line with the genre, so I can’t particularly comment, but I will do so anyway:
I tend to be caught by phrases wherein a first-person narrator describes something only an observer would notice. For example, I would not say “made my expression sour.” I would either describe how I felt or have another character remark on my expression.
“…my mood soured…”
“Eh, guvna, what’s that look for?”
The other thing I’d do (again, this is not my editor hat, this is me as a reader), is actually say you walked into a dark tavern. Took me a tidge to realize where you were, which is not as good for immediate mood setting.
Otherwise, and just generally, to make it sound like you’re in a different time you can do little things like change “on” to “upon” and “perhaps” to “mayhap” and “maybe” to “mayhap” and “okay” or “all right” to “very well.” Those teeny tiny changes are what sets the time period.
What? No love for “lest haply perchance”? ;-)
*stealing*
When I say “caught,” I mean, taken out of the story.
Meybe it’s because I have more conscious attention on my facial expressions, but I don’t get taken out of the story by the narrator describing movements part of their body is making. Just from mental review, the same sort of line is something I’ve used more than a few times before. Not sure if it counts as part of a writer’s voice.
Okay, then make it active instead of passive. I don’t have a problem with “I scowled” because I’m doing that thing. On purpose.
However…”soured” is a hard thing for people to visualize (I’m a visual reader). So choose a word like “scowled” or “glowered” or whatever best verb you can.
This is why I’m looking to have someone review the language usage when it’s done.
Yes, I know, 182 words is far from done.
Took me a tidge to realize where you were
Likewise, I think its the ‘Rain cascaded’ made me assume the narrator was outside in the rain, Once inside it’s rain water but it’s not really ‘rain.’
Maybe the roof leaks.
Just in case that’s NOT the joke…
Don’t make the reader make such leaps. That is not logical.
Disregard if that WAS the joke. Taking even odds on that.
It was a joke.
My actual response was “Maybe I should start with him standing just outside the door and have him enter so as to better establish the scene and not have to change the first five words.”
Revised opening para:
Much better.
And it’s still a dark and stormy night.
Admittedly, the narrator is a riding officer, and smugglers preferred inclement weather to hide their activities.
/UCS pulls out writing gloves to explain…
Repost for anyone who didn’t see yesterday’s afternoon links:
Some of you might have seen me mention “the mistake” I’m making in my personal life currently. That actually seems like it might be fizzling out. However, she does have a daughter named Lilah, who had a rough life.
About Lilah: “Lilah has a life threatening incurable disease known as recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa. Her skin is missing the anchor that keeps it attached to her body. This condition also affects mucus membranes such as mouth throat nose and eyes. This disease requires constant bandage changes, expensive medical equipment, specialized clothing, blankets, and materials. Lilah can no longer eat by mouth and is fed and medicated soley through a tube inserted through the belly in to the stomach.”
Her mother is struggling with some things right now. I’d like to invite anyone to check out and “like” Lilah’s facebook page (for those that still have facebook) and if so inclined you can visit her go fund me page as well.
Her mom is currently finishing school to become a teacher, has just signed a book deal to put out a children’s book raising awareness about this disease. I’m hoping in another 6 months or so the family will be fully back on its feet.
Like I said, I think my personal relationship with her mother is fading, but these are good people in a shitty situation. Please don’t mention that I sent you her way, I’m not in this for the accolades.
Links are in yesterday’s post or can be found through Lilah’s FB page
https://m.facebook.com/fightebwithlilah/
I’ll stop shilling for her now
“And no, it’s not Joe Jackson. I wouldn’t do that to anybody.”
Well I certainly would.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bpo6yvrke4
Not from bring a trailer, but just think of all the strange you’d pull down driving this bad boy around.
Nice.
The door handles were shaved and I can’t figure out how to trigger them. So windows down….or crawl through the back currently.
You can’t make it up. I love CL.
Why not use the force?
I can only muster van der waals force, and that’s too weak to do the needful.
“Hokey door handles and stupid work-arounds are no match for a real fucking handle on the side, kid.”
I might have to explain why I just laughed to my coworkers as they walked by the shop.
why would you shave the door handles?
I wrote a Craigslist ad that got me a lot of mail along the lines of “I don’t want the bunny, but your ad made my day.”
Yes. I got an email from someone saying how much they liked my ads. Particularly my ‘Man Sale’.
FREE to good home: 1 bunny with supplies (Liberty)
Exasperated parents of a 13-year-old Girl Child are offering
1 black male dwarf rabbit, apx 2-3 years old, very sweet disposition
1 large cage/playground with wheels and toys
1 large water bottle
1 large package of pine bedding
1-1/4 large bags of feed
2 salt licks
miscellaneous supplies
Here’s the story:
Girl Child’s bestie moved cross-country and couldn’t find a home for the bunny on short notice. Girl Child (GC) pleaded with Maternal Parental Unit (MPU) to take the bunny, promising all sorts of outlandish things such as doing her chores without complaint or ‘tude forever and ever, amen.
We will now pause for experienced parental units to groan.
So did Paternal Parental Unit. He even went so far as to accuse MPU of being a “touch”! WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS?!
*ahem* Anyway, it has been 2 months. We, the PUs (PPU more so than MPU) are fed up with GC’s inability to clean the kitchen to PPU’s satisfaction (to say nothing of MPU’s!) without suddenly coming down with a litany of illnesses that come with free tears, much contention, and a half-arsed job. MPU has argued for the bunny’s continued residence many times, but last night, PPU put his foot down.
Furthermore, MPU barely convinced PPU not to make GC sit in the back of our pickup at Walmart with a sign that informs the world of her ‘tude, instead convincing him to allow MPU to place this ad. “We can’t afford that therapy bill” were the magic words. Marginally.
Note: We like the bunny. He is a sweet bunny. He is also very fuzzy, which we also like. We don’t like GC’s attitude, which will not improve with the giving-away-of-the-bunny, but she made a promise, and we gave her plenty of chances to hold up her end of the bargain. She did not. C’est la vie.
Please contact the Maternal Parental Unit via Craigslist email. May you be blessed with more conscientious spawn.
keywords: free rabbit bunny dwarf pet gullible needlessly indulgent
Great ad.
If you were really good parents, you’d get a friend to dress up in a chef’s apron and carrying a knife roll to pick up the bunny.
That might be true if she thought giving it away was LESS traumatic than killing it to eat. I’ve reared a monster.