Back when I was a wee-lad in college, answering the call for a fun-filled life in journalism, I did an internship at a local newspaper. “Sweet!” wee-JW said to himself. It turned out that the paper didn’t have too much oversight from the owner, and the 20-something dude they hired as the editor-in-chief wanted it to be a tabloid-style scandal rag, to separate it from the crush of the other local newspapers (I’m not sure if there actually were any.)
Baby Doc Duvalier had recently been deposed as the head criminal in charge of Haiti, so I was assigned to find Haitians who had been tortured by his goon squads. How hard can that be, you ask. The rub was that they had to live in Montgomery County, MD, since it was a paper that focused on the county and only on the county. So, after a not-insignificant amount of hard-bitten legwork and old fashioned gumption, I found my guy. (Part of this gumption was asking my former French professor (3 whole weeks in the class!) to call the residence of a former Haitian ambassador in Miami for me. I didn’t speak more than 4 words of French and the woman answering the phone didn’t speak any English and kept hanging up on me. He graciously made the call for me, but came back with bupkis from the ambassador.)
Was my guy grimly tortured by Baby Doc’s meat handlers? No. Someone in his family? No. His dog? No. He was a low-level flunky in a failed coup attempt on Papa Doc. In 1971. But he lived in Monkey County and was assigned a .45 revolver during the not-coup.
RUN THAT BABY!!!! I got the front page and 75 bucks for the story. And so endeth my illustrious career in journalism (which in hindsight, was a good fucking call).
In the spirit of my misspent yout’, I’ve revived the format of news of my stupid, stupid county for the links (it ain’t Florida, but we do what we can). Enjoy!
Slimy old pol to hopeful home buyers: Drop dead.
Group of slimy old pols to business owners: drop even deader.
Local man beats the rush to the next sure-fire strategy to beat the underwear gnomes at their own game. State gubmint only too happy to help.
I got this!
Smooooooth operator.
Who doesn’t like a little country dick heading into the weekend?
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‘sup ?
/sksksksksk
It turns out that “I oop” and “sksksksksk” were appropriated from the black and LGBTQetc communities. Heh.
Cool link.
It was reappropriated.
Dammit.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/laurenstrapagiel/this-is-why-vsco-girls-keep-saying-sksksksk
Well, no shit.
Where does all popular culture spring from?
The Velvet Underground.
Perfect,
Valley Girls say hi.
Arthur Conan Doyle, Japan, the 1930’s pulps, and Jewish NYC comic book authors. Can’t really think of anything else. Was there something you were thinking of?
I said popular culture, not dork culture, dork!
The Harvard Lampoon?
The Irish?
Popular Petri dishes?
Hitler?
Winner
Elvis? Eric Clapton? The Beastie Boys?
>.>
It’s been a long week.
A very, very long and awful week.
Agreed. But the weekend is here now.
But today is the final real day of work at my job.
On Monday I get to go in and sign the termination papers, then it is off to South Carolina to eventually start the new job.
Congrats!
Congratulations!
^this
very long and awful
weekmonthThat too.
Horrible.
Mom fell Monday night, late. Fractured skull, concussion, shattered elbow, broken femur.
I have been with my Dad, at the hospital with Mom. Trying to keep family and friends informed. Dealing with docs, nurses, hospital staff, etc.
I am very tired and not happy.
Geez man, that sucks.
I have to arrange rehab, long term care and help Mom and Dad get ready for life in assisted living. And then sell their house.
/self pity end.
Oh, I am soooo sorry.
That’s a load. My wife went through that with her mom in a ping pong between hospital/rehab/assisted living.
Give ’em narrowed gazes to anyone standing in your way.
Damn.
Sorry, Swiss.
Man, I hate when live does that to people. Sorry to hear about it.
Ugh.
Sorry Swissy.
Praying for you and the family.
You have my sympathy. Been there, done that. Except for the mom crashing and burning thing.
Sorry to hear that about your Mom and family. Seems inevitable but always a shock when reality sets in.
Good luck, Swiss.
Sorry Switzy. Had a taste of this myself last winter and it sucks. It brings home the cycle of life when you realize you are now the adult your parents look to to handle things beyond their abilities.
Went through something like this several years ago. It’s painful and frustrating, to say the least. You can say that events like this are part of life, but it doesn’t help much. All you can do is endure.
shite
being the glue is extra work when you’re upset yourself on top of it
I suspect they are lucky to have you
good luck
Oh, crap. I’m sorry, Switzy.
So sorry to hear. I hope everything works out.
Sorry to read…
Sorry to hear that Swiss. My families prayers are with yours.
Sorry 🙁
Oh damn, man. Very sorry to hear that.
I can only add my voice to the chorus — very sorry for your situation and extremely sorry for the precipitating situation.
Lord me.
Good luck.
I’m sorry.
I’m sure they couldn’t ask for anyone better to take over.
Sorry, I hope for the best.
Damn, Swiss. That’s rough. A lot to do. I have some experience, feel free to contact.
Sorry.
Yes it has. I’m having take out bbq and bourbon tonight to reward myself for making it to Friday.
Some men do air guitar. But not Florida man. Florida man does air sex. Not only that, Florida man competes for the air sex championship.
https://www.miamiherald.com/miami-com/things-to-do/article235435367.html
And here I thought I was special because I’ve actually been to the air guitar championships.
For the record, they do air sex at that one too, sort of… if you count skinny punker guys in Converse sneaks, tube socks, and nothing else.
Air fisting?
-_-
Not a true Florida Man.
FUCK YOU EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO MARCHED FOR THE CLIMATE IN MONTREAL CAUSING UNSPEAKABLE TRAFFIC AND DELAYS MAKING MY COMMUTE MISERABLE.
FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I HOPE YOU GET RAKED BY A HOE. FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FOR BEING USEFUL IDIOTS TO BULL SHIT PROPAGANDA.
Naturally shithead fucktoid champion of douche Justin met with Greta and promised to plant more trees.
FUCK EVERYONE.
/FIN. BOWS.
I think you need to clarify how you feel about this.
Take a deep breathe and tell us how you really feel, Rufus.
When you feel so mad, like you wanna roar.
Take a Deep Breath…. and count to four.
/BENDS OVER. PLACES HANDS ON ASS CHEEKS AND MOTIONS
FUCK YOU FAUX-VIRTUOUS ASSHOLES.
Congrats on both a spectacular rant and for your award-winning entry into the air sex championships.
I’m going to break from y’all to say I want Trump impeached. It would be fucking hilarious, and it would destroy the office of the Presidency forever.
(I also then want President Pence, President Pelosi (*projectile vomits*), President Grassley, President Pompeo (I think) impeached. I forget who’s next.)
I’m going to break from y’all to say I’m a fucking moron who can’t thread a reply properly.
Impeachment doesn’t mean removal
Just give Rufus a torch and let him go all 1812 on the Capitol, it’ll be faster and we can toast marshmallows.
I feel like I can lead a revolution.
It helps the Eagles beat the Packers.
I don’t care about Trump, I just don’t want the Democrats to ever win at anything for any reason.
We have a winner.^
Clinton’s impeachment hasn’t destroyed the office somehow.
Bless your heart.
I hope Caesar wins the civil war. It will end the power of the consuls forever. / Roman Libertarian
And he was right!
Lol.
March for climate and keep vehicle idling for hours more than they would otherwise.
Watermelons FTW!
Exactly.
Morons.
‘I fucking love science’ my fucken ass.
1hr 6m.
It usually takes me 12m.
FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU. THE SECOND SOMEONE BRAGS TO ME THEY WERE THERE THEY’LL GET A STERN LOUIE DE PALMA GROWL AND STARE.
People didn’t get out of there cars and beat them to death?
There was some sort of similar protest on the George Washington Bridge and the cops had to rescue and haul away the protestors before they were killed.
The bulk of the jerk off walk was in the centre of Montreal but it seems to have impacted the greater Montreal area including where I am 30 min north because of closures.
These assholes have no regard for people’s lives. That much is evident because most of them are urban granolas.
I’m just glad my daughter stayed at school where she belongs. They had a free day but apparently a very educational one and she even discovered she can play soccer and was discovered by the school’s coach. She asked her if anyone played soccer in the family. Ahem.
‘Yes my father who played high level but tore both his ACL ligaments’ she told the coach.
Ouch.
Your stories of Montgomery county, Maryland, make me feel slightly better about living in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania.
Cut your hair, you damn hippy.
Nobody cares about your hair.
Who discriminates against natural hair styles? Employers? Schools? How? So much confused.
I’m also in Montco PA, certainly beats the MD version.
The fact that you don’t understand just underlines how racist you are.
Sigh, **Begins packing for MontCo, MD re-education camp**
And yet you still haven’t gotten drunk with the rest of the philly glibs.
Speaking of Philly, I’m going to be there come December 5th through the 8th for the PAX Unplugged board game convention. One night I’m planning on heading up to Monk’s for a pint (or more).
Let me know, I owe DEG a beer because he owed you a beer, so I can get you a beer and complete the circle.
Feel free to hit me up at my handle at the mail of the big bad Google. Although I kind of like the idea of the owed beer continuing to move through the Glibs.
Exactly, that’s why I need to buy you a beer to end the chain before it gets out of control.
I read that backwards; it’s Friday and I just got out of two hours of meetings.
NO! Let it get out of control.
School dress codes are retarded. It’s not rocket science.
For what it’s worth:
That’s pretty fucked up and beyond stupid,
Stupid, yes, but I can’t get terribly worked up over hair policies at private schools.
^^ This
Sue Book, the school administrator, said that school policy required all male students to have short hair.
And that policy was across the board (or is it across-the-board?), no discrimination there.
I can if the policies were not clearly laid out up front. I would like to think the child was taken to see the school, and if so why weren’t the potential future violations mentioned?
Is there any rule about hair length for wrestling?
Depends on the rules in use, but in general yes. The “had previously wrestled without incident with dreadlocks” part could indicate either that the ref ordering them cut was in the wrong or that the previous refs that had allowed them were wrong. Not enough information is provided to judge that case, but statistically it is more likely to be the latter.
Some high school wrestling rules mandate that the hair must be no lower than the eyes in the front and uniform in appearance, which sounds 50% ok and 50% illegal (assuming we are talking about public schools, and assuming “uniform” means straight/non-dreads) to my totally untrained eye. Length seems like there is a safety and competitive aspect to it. Appearance, not so much.
You forgot this one.
They passed that same stupidity here a while back. Now, I imagine you can sue if you get fired and claim it was your dreads.
When I hear “natural hair,” I think afros of varying lengths. The two most beautiful black women I have ever met were older and they had close-cropped afros. Now, it may be that they were just super happy and sweet women, but they caught my (artistic) eye (my eye does not get caught often) and didn’t let go.
I do not consider weaves and long cornrows all wound up on one’s head to be natural, and often, the hairstyle does not suit the facial structure or complement the color of their skin. That said, the creativity is endless.
I can see why it would be irritating to be expected to iron one’s hair every day to look like “white girl hair.”
Old Black Ladies are very elegant, and tend to dress well wherever they go, natural ‘Fros all,
Different times I’d say
+1 COGIC convention
See: millinery, awesome
Friday Funbags happens early. It can’t be helped.
http://archive.is/OE7Oq
#5 can be my personal ice girl….
Fifteenth!
Howdy!
HEY YUFUS!
Sup Tres!
Weekend yet?
/Natty Ice 15 pk. for 10$
RS Automotives, the local gas station, has been around since 1958, made the switch.
It’s sad to see such an established business go under.
Hiya JW!
Uh, yeah Chief, about that…
The best business advice comes from those who have never run, or even worked in a business.
It is known.
The station will feature four dispensers that connect to a high-powered, 200kW system. The system will allow four vehicles to charge simultaneously and reach 80% battery charge in 20 to 30 minutes. Drivers can go inside and sit in an automated convenience store with screens that allow drivers to track their vehicle’s charging progress.
The worst part of an oil change every time you need to charge your car.
What if eight show up?
It actually might work. The customers are going to be buying stuff while they’re there for much longer than a typical gas station.
Which is why Target, Kroger, and Costco are going to put him out of business.
And I don’t think gas stations actually make money off the gas they sell. They make money from stuff people buy in the convenience store.
Turn the normal 20 min shopping trip to an hour.
The system will allow four vehicles to charge simultaneously and reach 80% battery charge in 20 to 30 minutes.
I don’t see how that could be both affordable for the customer and profitable for the business. One of the benefits of the electric car is supposed to be that the electricity needed to move a mile is cheaper than the equivalent gas needed to move an ICE vehicle the same distance. So a full charge should cost the equivalent of a tank of gas, but take five times as long to dispense. I’m guessing they are really banking on the customers purchasing stuff while they wait. All four of them.
I’ve read that a Tesla uses about 250Wh to go 1 mile at highway speeds.
So 100 miles = 25kWh. At my local electric rate of $0.125 that is $3.12
This is of course the rate you would pay charging at home, though you do have to buy the 240v charging thing.
Supercharger use costs more than charging at home of course. Say its $0.35 per kWh, so that would be $8.75, but call it $9.50 because batteries don’t absorb 100% of what you feed them.
Now, a 30mpg car would use 3.3 gallons of gas to do the same distance. Figure $2.75 a gallon and your 100 mile road trip gas cost you $9.08
However, almost all your driving takes place at home, and even at $1 a gallon, the EV drives cheaper on your day to day drives.
I was super confused at first because i read:
Maryland, not Alabama.
Uh huh. I wonder how many “minimum lot size” regulations they have.
We did the solar panel thing last year. It’s really helped with our homeless problem, as you can see.
Good music choice, Jdub.
Note for those who don’t know the Beat Farmers: same band not the same song.
And I was expecting this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEZtII8rt_Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ized1XMRp_I
I was expecting this
I was expecting this.
BP, you brilliant bastard, that was the 2nd choice. That or Beat Generation.
Not first!
Hello, JW.
$20 says electric charging station dude makes more $ than he otherwise would selling gas. Profit margins on gas are minimal anyways. He’s getting a shitload of publicity, and even people without EVs will probably virtue signal by showing up at whatever convenience store he has attached to the gas station.
Maybe. There might be tax incentives too. But, if it doesn’t catch on (which is unlikely without government mandates which are sure to come) then he just looks like that asshole who has huge outdated solar panels on the roof of his house that he installed when the Carter administration was offering tax incentives.
A little more than just tax incentives. It was a direct grant for over 700k.
Also since it take 1/2 hour to charge up, he will sell more coffee and snacks.
Eh, if you have an electric car you probably already live close enough to work where you can get there and back home to charge overnight.
Correct. You only charge at a fast charge place like this when traveling. Usually you time them to a food and or bathroom break.
Hard to say if it will make him more, but if he doesn’t already have it, he needs to get some sort of restaurant in his convenience store because dining is gonna be why people don’t mind the charge wait.
My most recent road trip convinced me that electrics with a range of 300-350 miles, and a 30-45 minute recharge time would not alter my travel habits on vacation compared to a gas powered car.
300-350 miles takes about 5-7 hours or so. If you start your morning drive at 100% charge, by the time you’ve driven enough to recharge, you want food.
I’ve got kids which means every meal stop takes a minimum of 30 minutes, and another 5-10 for bathroom breaks. The fact that the car is parked and charging for 30-45 minutes doesn’t matter. If anything I may even get done faster because the car will be refueling while I eat. No need for the additional 5 minute stop at a gas station.
Part of the fun of a road trip is browsing the convenience store and gathering all sorts of crap to snack on.
I don’t know why, but this makes me about 20% confident that you are a vampire.
Heh.
I started writing a vampire story, where the newly turned is a frumpy middle-aged housewife. I stopped when I realized she’d be living paycheck to paycheck for the rest of eternity and got depressed.
I stopped when I realized she’d be living paycheck to paycheck for the rest of eternity and got depressed.
So she needs a sugar daddy. Sounds like you passed up an opportunity to make bank off of the 50-shades crowd.
50 Shades or 50-somethings?
Eh, she’s still frumpy after turning. There’s no magical transformation.
I kinda got the idea from this hilarious thing:
Fat Vampire: Tastes Like Chicken
Double bloodsucker?
50 Shades or 50-somethings?
50 Shades. I’ve never read or watched it (not in the target demo), but I heard that it was on the reader-avatar end of the fiction spectrum, in which case having a rather plain or even frumpy protagonist would not seem to be a detriment. But I could be totally wrong.
Ohhhhh I understand EXACTLY what you’re saying.
I wrote a blog post on that very topic.
I wrote a blog post on that very topic.
Interesting read. Those quotes from those Twilight fans were rather sad. I can see why you wouldn’t want to write a reader-avatar character, but on the other hand $20 is $20. 😀
Same as downtown.
I’m glad you liked it! I cross-posted to another (romance) blog, whose self-styled educated and sophisticated denizens didn’t actually get my point.
A buddy of mine drove his Tesla from San Diego to the Grand Canyon and said the same thing. By the time you need a charge you are ready to stop for food anyway.
Customer: I want to rent this piece of equipment over the weekend. I’m four hours away.
Me: Sure thing. It’s a relatively complicated process so we need to go through it when you get here. Otherwise you may have difficulties over the weekend.
Customer: OK
Customer’s wife shows up at 4:30 on Friday, a half hour before close.
Sleep with his wife. Problem solved
I like your style
“I’ve got the piece of equipment you rented…”
/while unzipping
That would be the alpha move.
I spent 25 years or so in equipment rental. I’ll bet you and me could drink ourselves into comas before we ran out of stupid customer stories.
I’ve repressed all my memories of years in customer service jobs. They come back at night, though.
As bad as it can be dealing with contractors, dealing with homeowners and the general public is far worse.
The flip side is, CSRs develop the attitude that all homeowners are flaky idiots. I’m reasonably handy, at least enough to know when I don’t know enough and need some instruction. To this little fucker at the local HD with a Napoleon complex, I’m just like all the other idiots.
I dress up to go to HD: jeans, steel-toed boots, leather gloves, and a red pinup bandanna.
Walk in like I own the place and get anything I want AND instruct the little boys in orange aprons playing Bob the Builder.
Hawt!
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2019/09/27/mike-bloomberg-china-isnt-dictatorship-leaders-listen-public/
“Mike Bloomberg: China Isn’t A Dictatorship And Its Leaders Listen To The Public”
Everything you ever needed to know about Mike Bloomberg summer up in one sentence.
There should be consequences for being such an unrepentant boot licker for the Chicoms. Maybe he should be sent to Hong Kong to let the protesters decide what to do with him.
Oh hey, looky here, a “human rights” activist pimping China now too. Chicom boot lickers must have gotten their marching orders.
https://twitter.com/PeterTatchell/status/1177592498144845824
Peter Tatchell
@PeterTatchell
Chinese communist revolution 1949 led to greatest emancipation of women in world history, ending foot binding, concubines & forced marriage & beginning the mass education of girls & opening up all-male occupations to women – decades ahead of the West. @CCriadoPerez @lynne_segal
China is so woke, guys
They’re just getting us prepped for the coming struggle sessions.
Also bullshit. Foot-binding became less common in the late 19th century. It began disappearing rapidly following the Chinese Revolution of 1912.
Next you’re going to claim, without evidence, that Western girls didn’t get schooling or take boy-jobs until the 1980s.
The Industrial Revolution emancipated far more women than the ChiCom one.
To be fair, 1949 is when China got around to industrializing.
Followed shortly thereafter by a one-child policy and forced abortions.
Somewhere, Tommie Friedman has a boner.
What a fucking piece of shit
Surreptitious eavesdropping is a form of listening
Nothing surreptitious about it.
Oh they listen all right,
all the day,
and all the night,
Ask the Uighurs
“Monkey County” takes me back.
Was that Berk Breathed’s first and less successful comic strip?
“[Mimes profile bio.]”
True confession: I’m a recovering mime. My high school had a troupe for four years, and I was in it for three of those years. I hasten to add that this was in the late ’70s, the Golden Age of Mime, before the Great Anti-Mime Backlash of the ’80s. When Dustin Hoffman shoved the street mime in “Tootsie” and the audience in the theater cheered, I knew it was all over.
I pray all of you can forgive me – or at least not shun me. ::hangs head::
We’ll forgive, but we’ll never forget. The internet is forever.
*places invisible box over GT*
Very nice, Scruff. I think that should about cover it.
[Mimes being a judge at the Salem
MimeWitch Trials]Another Bloom County:
http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1936364294?profile=original
* mimes pedaling in offensive shorts *
/ worst person ever, I suppose
“I hasten to add that this was in the late ’70s, the Golden Age of Mime, before the Great Anti-Mime Backlash of the ’80s. When Dustin Hoffman shoved the street mime in “Tootsie” and the audience in the theater cheered, I knew it was all over.”
You have the best comments. I was legitimately laughing while reading this.
But, also, never let Dustin Hoffman ever tell you what to do. Ever.
/looks to the earlier book thread.
Oh, I can’t wait to hear what you think of Vetinari.
Just a guess – a mime animal doctor?
Nope. The Patrician, the ruler of Ankh-Morpork.
And Carrot.
English authors to the mid-20th century could write phrases and phrases in French
so why are we now starting a third generation of F1 commentators who can’t pronounce “Renault”
for that matter, why would anyone have trouble pronouncing Renault??11!!?
I’m having trouble with Agincourt, myself.
Terrible American pronounces it the way it looks.
por que ?
John Keegan argues (implies? maybe I made this up) that Agincourt, Yorktown, and San Jacinto are essentially the same battle
but I don’t think there was a river or bay in play at Agincourt
I am writing a book wherein the hero fought at Agincourt (1415) and I feel like a stupid idiot American every time I say it, plodding over an elegant language like French.
My G mother had a REN-ALT, until I got into F1, and went, OHHHH….
Because silent letters are obnoxious French orthography is ridiculous. Yes, English is worse, but expecting someone that isn’t familiar with French pronunciation to be able to guess what consonants are and aren’t silent, which vowels are monopthongs next to another vowel and which are dipthongs, is rather presumptuous.
Years (okay, decades) ago my French teacher told me the orthography is god-awful because scribes were paid by the letter. No idea if it’s true, but it makes a certain amount of sense.
Yeah! Hey guy running the Spencer’s at the Richland Mall in the early 80’s, Fuck you, you smug asshole! I only ever say “Tarot” in the Piers Anthony books, how was a thirteen year old kid to know the last T is silent.
I unironically agree with you completely.
Fucker actually called his buddy up from back, “Hey Bob, check this out ..Okay kid what are you looking for again” Oh they got a big laugh out of that. Now that I look back that’s probably where my crippling social anxiety started.
I was in my twenties before I found out how “Tucson” was pronounced. Note to self: NOT tuck-sun.
When I was kid there were TV commercials for Renault all the time.
But yeah, you’re right about French.
The one to watch
(Now if I could find the 80s Perrier jingle calling itself the earth’s first soft drink…. There’s this commercial, but it doesn’t have the earworm jingle.
But at least someone who is familiar with French pronunciation will have an easy time reading French. It’s actually quite logical–unlike English.
As for for vowels next to each other, the French use the umlaut.
Surprisingly metal for France.
It’s actually quite logical–unlike English.
English is actually quite logical. It just uses the logic of three separate and contradictory language systems at the same time, depending on the root of the word. It’s what happens when the conquered becomes the conqueror. Very logical, indeed.
;-P
Go, Angles and Saxons!
If only one could figure out whuch system is in play to pronounce bow/mow/plow/row.
There was a question to TSR about how to pronounce the monster “flind.”
The official answer was “it rhymes with ‘wind.’”
If only one could figure out whuch system is in play to pronounce bow/mow/plow/row.
LOL. You’re not going to even figure out how to pronounce “bow” and “row” without context, as they each have (at least) two different meanings with two different pronunciations, so the words rhyme and don’t rhyme with each other at the same time. Embrace the chaos.
My strategy for pronouncing French is to speak through my nose and drop the last two or three letters.
Works for me too, or did back in the days when Chirac and I lived in the same country.
“Monophthong” should be pronounced with the Daffy Duck voice.
On the one hand, I know that each person has their own unique and individual dignity, and that breaking ties with someone is the worst way to evangelize.
On the other hand… a mime? Really? This is harder to process than when that nice robc boy came out as a Georgist.
I am only a Georgist on 1 specific issue.
There is lots of other crap that goes into Georgism.
I have asked to be debunked by someone giving me a legitimate natural law claim to private land ownership, but I have yet to hear one I accept.
Uh…. is
“SHUT THE FUCK UP GEORGETARD!”
at all compelling?
I don’t know about anyone else, but I find it compelling.
That seems to be about all I get from you folk.
At least that is how I interpret it.
If you have to continue to pay money for something, you don’t own it. If you disagree, stop paying your property tax and see what happens.
Let he who has read “Progress and Poverty” cast the first stone
Your use of the word “legitimate” is doing more work than James Brown. I know for a fact you know about the labor theory of property, you just call it legitimate or say you aren’t persuaded then say no one has a good theory of it. If you are steeling bases like that, you should at least strip naked, flex in front of a mirror and say “Rickey’s the best” over and over again.
the labor theory of property is BS. There are so many issues with it that it is obviously not real.
Mises agrees with me that property is historically might makes right (or I agree with Mises, I guess).
Property rights works great, but it is purely functional, not based on natural law.
“If you can’t reach your primary objective, your secondary targets are here and here”
This is great. I’m actually speechless.
I spent a couple of summers at an arts cap as a youth. One of the disciplines they had there was mime, Taught by Tony Montanaro. He was 70 years old, could do fingertip (singular) pushups and one-handed presses into a handstand. It really was impressive.
“Golden Age of Mime”
Is that anything like “Military Intelligence”?
You don’t say…
https://nypost.com/2019/09/26/joker-producer-defends-movie-for-holding-mirror-to-our-society/
Fucking idiots.
https://nypost.com/2019/09/27/naked-couple-fall-to-deaths-during-balcony-sex-romp/
(get it?)
Uh huh.
They died doing what they loved.
Skydiving?
I’m guessing the earth didn’t move for them.
It moved towards them at a rather high rate of speed.
“Slimy old pol to hopeful home buyers: Drop dead.” Climate change.
“Group of slimy old pols to business owners: drop even deader.” Climate change.
“Local man beats the rush to the next sure-fire strategy to beat the underwear gnomes at their own game. State gubmint only too happy to help.” Opposing this means being for discrimination, which is a hard sell. But yeah, more victimless punishable offense.
“I got this!” Not Florida Man?
“Gilligan!” What was the cause of the fire: Climate change or President Donald J. Trump?
“Smooooooth operator.” No comment.
“Who doesn’t like a little country [redacted] heading into the weekend?” In 1986, were you listening to “Big Ugly Wheels” by Beat Farmers or “That’s What Friends Are For” by Dionne and Friends and “Walk Like an Egyptian” by The Bangles?
WTF? Copypasta much?
Would you prefer the replies without what is being commented upon?
Humble brag?
https://nypost.com/2019/09/26/well-hung-brit-claims-his-bulge-was-mistaken-for-shoplifted-goods/
That guy was a dick.
Obvious lie. There are no well hung Brits. Or am I confusing them with the Irish?
Hey!
He should claim the (NSFW site) $10,000 prize.
https://twitter.com/quill18/status/1177649294981115906?s=21
LOL
Alright, we’ve got the comeback to really threaten White Claw now:
Bartles & Jaymes Disappeared After the ’80s. Now, It’s Making Wine Coolers…Cool Again.
Zima needs to come back. That was the only way to tell the difference between a gay man (Zima), a married man (Old Style), and a sad man (Old Style and tears).
It was brought back recently.
I had no idea
Zima did come back, two years ago.
What about slutty, drunk skanks that are DTF? Those are the ones I’m looking for.
Mike’s Hard Lemonade
Skyy Blue, Bacardi Silver
Miller brought it back temporarily in 2017, it sold out immediately, so they brought it back in 2018. I have no idea about this year. Or if it seasonal only.
Malt beverages seem to go thru this weird 10 year cycle. Over and over again.
About the only part I didn’t know was about the huge bump to the wine taxes that converted it from a wine based alcoholic drink to an early malt based beverage.
Naturally its original demise was hastened by tax changes.
$20/hour?
https://www.askmen.com/news/dating/six-flags-offering-cash-to-last-30-hours-in-a-casket-with-your-partner.html
How many times can you have sex in 30 hours?
I saw somewhere I guy did 30 in 15 hours, back in NYC in the ’70s
By myself or with my partner?
47.
60 man hours, so 10 bucks an hour.
I’ll be visiting Halloween horror nights in Hollywood & Orlando this year. Is anyone interested in an article comparing the 2 or would it be too much like looking at someone else’s vacation photos? Definitely not offended if no one is interested.
I Love Halloween, Do it!
Will you be wearing yoga pants or meggings?
Prolly a wife beater and cut off jeans here and I assume a parka in Hollywood.
Then yes I want to see.
First time out here? I don’t even have a thick coat, much less a parka. Be warned however, even when it’s hot during the day, it’s kinda chilly at night. Oh, and if you have a spare Friday night, go to Bob’s big boy in toluca lake. Very impressive cruise night about a mile from universal. Very impressive.
My wife’s 2 brothers live in LA so we go every couple years. I’m just clowning about the weather, but I’m sure it will be colder than I’m use to.
Used.
Something something lie half way around the world something truth putting on shoes
https://retractionwatch.com/2019/09/25/nature-paper-on-ocean-warming-retracted/
We all go to the same websites, like RCS, I read that this morning
Sheedy selling Impreach the motherfucker t-shirts.
We need to impeach Trump because because he’s a callous oaf who’s violating the norms of public life!!! Didn’t you hear him say “pussy” in a private conversation that was surreptitiously recorded?!? And when he chose to be the second president in a row that publicly asserted that a Hispanic judge will rule based on their Hispanic identity instead of the law?!?!
Did she sell out of her “KILL VAPERS!” shirts too?
Professor: Tom Brady’s popularity is result of white supremacy
See, this guy gets it! Sunday afternoon, the undefeated Buffalo Bills, will storm the Patriots offensive and defensive lines, much like the allied forces stormed Normandy beach, because white supremacy must be defeated!
LOLOLOLOLOL ?
Couldn’t possibly be the six titles. Naaaaaah.
Crap, this guy is going to make me root for the Patriots.
Think maybe his wife might get mad if he spends a lot of time with the women of color?
“Everywhere I look I see what I’m looking for.”
What a blessed life.
Pol Pot might have had the right idea about the intelligentsia after all.
The view from inside TreasonNN headquarters.
U.S. lawmakers propose $1 billion fund to replace Huawei equipment
Lobbyists for the win!
Not this time, Huawei is a real immediate threat,
To whom? The NSA can’t stand a little competition in the “spying on the American people” market?
You can’t do that to our tax cattle! Only WE can do that to our tax cattle!!
No, our people don’t need the whole goddam world spying on them. Uncle Sam, Google and Zoroaster knows who else are in our stuff 24/7. I know, percentage wise anyway, the Chinese don’t add that much to the snooping load but, JFC is there no limit?
Why else get a self-driving car if you can’t have sex in it?
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/bmw-self-driving-sex-ad-autonomous-car/
99.9% OT, but I saw Phil Collins last night. He looks like a less able version of Hans Moleman. His 18 year old son was playing drums while he sat in a chair downstage. Pretty good show nonetheless. The whole phenomenon was before my time, really.
Sex in an ad? (This had to be made by a Glib)
Trump considers delisting Chinese firms from U.S. markets: sources
Smart.
Idiotic is what it is. Not sure what it accomplishes.
(Though the Securities and Exchange Commission has been dicking me around for a week and I likely won’t be able to make a Monday filing deadline for something (which will of course be my fault), so anything that makes more work for them makes me happy right now.)
Owning the Chinks?
I think the chicoms have that market locked up.
I’m sure that won’t have any ill effects on the markets. None whatsoever.
Already did. UVXY popped at 11:30 this morning.
You mean around the time literally everything else dropped?
Yes. UVXY tracks VIX leveraged at 1.5
Yeah. I’m sure the comment occurred in a vacuum and has nothing to do with trade negotiations.
An island was on fire for a week?
If only they had a reliable source of water.
Two guys with a boat and couple of buckets could have handled it.
21-inch stone penis that may have been used for sacrificial ceremonies 3,000 years ago is discovered in Sweden
I mean it looks like a dick, lady – how much of a discussion did you need?
It’s always “fertility rituals”, which I don’t think we really have in this time period. Couldn’t they just be gay?
We don’t?
Warty Hugeman artifact?
Fossilized dick?
Where does all popular culture spring from?
What do
Jim Henson
Darth Vader
TCB
look under your seat !
have in common?
They all escaped the same place.
‘Spider-Man’ Shocker: Disney, Sony Striking a Deal for One More Movie
omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg
I don’t know how they did it but boy am I glad they did. YASSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Utterly predictable. Sony didn’t really want to make a movie, and Disney wants Spider-Man as part of a multi-billion dollar franchise. A deal was going to be made.
Happy Friday ya’ll.
It’s been a good day to end a long week. I took the afternoon off to ride my motorcycle and enjoy one of the last beautiful summer like days of the year.
I hit a bee going 50mph that subsequently was stunned and dropped inside my leathers. She woke up and proceeded to sting me in the solar plexus mid corner. I punched it dead and was able to safely stop and pull out the stinger.
I now feel like I got punched in the gut. I guess I did some of that, but I’m still smiling.
I’m home and contemplating my next move. It will certainly involve booze.
Ouch! Benadryl lotion helps,
Thant’s my second move. Thanks.
That’s terrifying.
I initially thought it was the “big one”. I channeled Fred G.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RnfflRNpwKA
I don’t blame you. I once had a small bat fly into through the drivers side window while I was driving, but I was in a car so it was easier to deal with/panic about.
You shouldn’t slow down in bat country.
Yea I had the combination of surprise pain and fear of death by guard rail. To date i’ve hit a bat, Owl, squirrel, and bunny on the bike.
The owl I saw coming and swerved just as it turned into me. It screeched as it hit me.
Something bit both my dogs. I’m guessing bees or wasp. They each have a little bald spot where the bite pussed out. Poor little bears.
Puss? Spiders are a good guess. What kind do you have in FL?
All of the kinds. They like to wander through the hedges chasing lizards so who knows what they’ve flushed out.
My dogs eat wasps and bees right out of the air.
That’s fucked up. I once had a bee fly around my windshield and sting me inside of my nostril. That dogs I was out in the desert with no other traffic. Everything went white and I couldn’t see. I slowed to a stop and just sat there with water pouring out of my eyes for about 3 or 4 minutes. It HURT!
I have not had anything like that happen to me on a motorcycle, but the last time a wasp stung me I killed him right there on my arm and watched him die writhing.
My sting itched for a little while.
Oh, and I am the designated wasp killer around my house. Husband’s deathly allergic, daughter might be too, son got attacked by a swarm when he was little so it’s panic attack time.
Me…come at me, bro.
I was rolling down the interstate on my Suzuki, to meet (then) girlfriend for lunch. I had on shorts and Chuck Taylors (I know….not appropriate) and some stingy-thing went down said shoe at 70 mph. It felt like a lit cigarette was in there. It was tough to keep my composure until I got to the exit.
It’s good to see I’m not alone. Bees and I have a long history of mutual hate. They are still up in the win column.
I tend to catch them in the throat. I’ve had that happen twice now, most recent was a week ago. I had one bee stick to a pair of jeans and repeatedly sting me. I think we were both panicked and just doing what we do, but he got squished and slapped away and I got a decent sting in my quad.
The slightly-bigger-than-small-rock kicking up and hitting me in the shin is a recurring fear on the bike, but so far, only once and nothing too bad.
Love the alien movie? How about watching someone crap all over it?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8974964/
Critical Drinker, Quartering, Red Letter Media, and Razorfist videos impending.
<a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2019/09/the-irishman-first-reviews-scorsese-1202177022/:<‘The Irishman’ First Reactions Praise Martin Scorsese’s ‘Instant Classic’ and ‘Masterpiece’
Not that I thought it would suck, but I am glad that it doesn’t suck.
A working link!
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/27/intel-community-secretly-gutted-requirement-of-first-hand-whistleblower-knowledge/
I mean, of fucking course they did. Who can be bothered with actual knowledge of a situation when you can rely on rumor and innuendo?
Charles Schumer is a goat fucker, according to people familiar with him.
CIA whistleblower
That is one hell of a coincide! Then an even bigger coincidence, a CIA spook happened to be in the White House a couple weeks later and heard a bunch of incriminating shit, called up a Clinton lawyer, and reported it!
Fuck you Sean!!!! *runs off*
?
Well now, this is rather interesting – it seems that the form used by whistleblowers used to require the individual filing the complaint to have firsthand knowledge of the subject of the complaint. That was the policy stated on the May 2018 revision of the form, which was the most recent until……August 2019, when a checkbox was added saying “I heard about it from others”.
That is one helluva coincidence that the form changed to allow secondhand information the same damned month that a secondhand complaint was made that is fueling more impeachment blather. I try to avoid conspiratorial thinking but cmon.
What’s proper, non-eyebrow-raising amount of time between a rule changing and someone acting on that rule change?
More than a couple of weeks, probably.
A couple days to be honest.
I don’t know about that, but I think the idea that there aren’t people in the Intel community working to undermine the president is a little naive.
Look, just because the inspector general recommended an indictment for the former FBI director and his lieutenant for leaking classified information to the press in order to boost the prospect of a special counsel investigation and just because nearly the entirety of the foreign policy establishment openly declared their hostility to a Trump presidency in multiple newspaper articles does not mean that the intelligence community is hostile to Trump.
Trust the CIA and FBI, because small government or something
Yeah, just a little naive.
Cool link, bro!
Heard it from a friend who, heard it from a friend, who heard it from another you’ve been messing around.
‘Jesus Rolls’ First Footage: John Turturro’s ‘Big Lebowski’ Sequel Is One Wild Trip
I’m all in for the Lebowski expanded universe.
Sounds like fun
Eh…..it’s just not the Jesus without Liam.
I think “The Big Lebowski” is overrated.
Punction’s overrated!
OOOOK
Punctuation’s.
STOOPID PHONE!
Shut the fuck up, Donnie.
I am that fat, middle-aged white guy with a crewcut FWIW. Hoping to do Sobchak for Lebowskifest this year; I theoretically have a Maude lined up.
Bea Arthur has been dead for years.
I figured the same thing.
Not my first tour of purgatory. I got out alive the last couple of times, but I don’t know if all my clicking and “approving” did it, or if someone fixed it for real while I was just spinning the twiddle knobs I got for writing about riding your bike in the gutter a year ago.
¡ gracias, Playa !
goddammit!
And here I was hoping you were agreeing with me about “The Big Lebowski”.
[runs sobbing from room]
Right after UCF
I don’t get Raising Arizona either, but then: I can’t stand the sight of Nic Cage
Maybe you should watch is masterpiece “Con Air”.
I ended a 20 year marriage over Con Air.
I did take Leaving Las Vegas quite well because Elisabeth Shue . . . and I could fantasize that Cage was going down for real.
ended a 20 year marriage over Con Air.-
Harsh, but fair.
Elisabeth Shue
Now I have to watch Palmetto again.
I enjoyed “Trapped in Paradise”.
I like “Peggy Sue Got Married”. He was perfectly cast.
Bella Thorne to receive Pornhub award
Good for her! It’s a well deserved award.
“‘We’ve become too loud for people to handle’: Greta Thunberg hits out at ‘those who want to silence us’ and tells Justin Trudeau he needs to ‘listen to the science and act’ as 500,000 join her at Montreal rally ending global protest day”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7513303/Greta-Thunberg-hits-people-want-silence-us.html
RHEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Sticky Trap, Activate!
Push back against her and you want to silence her.
Ignore her and you are censoring her, and cede the debate to her team.
Imply that she is being exploited and manipulated by adults, then you’re a shitlord.
Kafka-trapping
I am sure we all know this, but I feel compelled to post it anyway.
I liked it, thanks
Canadian counter-play
Autumn Peltier, 15, to address United Nations about water issues in First Nations communities across Canada
Scowling Ethnic trumps Scowling Becky. Kamala, pay attention.
Maybe Greta has a point. Climate change is an extinction level threat that will kill us in 11 years. We must act now. The cause of climate change is not all carbon dioxide, but human-caused carbon dioxide, not all human-caused carbon dioxide, but just that made by the First World. Frack, baby, frack. Convert more of the electric grids to nuclear. And find a detective to investigate who stole her childhood. For Gaia. / end green mode
Ask the Ukrainians?
Hot pics of a senior citizen in the hospital:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7513273/Christie-Brinkley-documents-hospital-stay-breaking-wrist-DWTS-hits-haters.html
Too bad she had her lips done. Didn’t have to.
Agreed.
Still has great stems, though.
Nicole Kidman did bad things to her face too.
She’s turned into the joker.
Age gracefully ladies. Your not 25 anymore but you still can look hot without ruining your face. You don’t look younger you look like you had reconstructive surgery.
My first look at Nichole.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX0qF1YHQ4U
She did it for you, Rufus. She wanted to be able to please you like no woman has ever pleased a muppet before.
can anyone release my comment
I went in to try to “approve” it, but self abuse might not be allowed
Any time I embed more than one link, my comment goes to jail 🙁
More than 2 links.
Done. Because of the timestamp, it got assigned #34.
I am afraid to try to use that power. I assume I have it because its part of the standard admin rights you get to be able to submit articles.
I figured the same thing.
Not my first tour of purgatory. I got out alive the last couple of times, but I don’t know if all my clicking and “approving” did it, or if someone fixed it for real while I was just spinning the twiddle knobs I got for writing about riding your bike in the gutter a year ago.
¡ gracias, Playa !
Alright, which one of you was this?
https://reason.com/2019/09/27/prosecution-for-rifle-uc-rifle-gun-control-sticker/
Too local.
Check out the date created and date modified timestamps:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFebMKUW4AAgikw?format=jpg&name=large
Olathe schools poised to sue e-cigarette maker JUUL
In it, the district notes the “serious difficulties with students using JUUL devices,” saying the use has caused disruptions and has forced schools to “divert resources to curb and prevent student JUUL usage.”
In other words we saw an opportunity to rob this company so we are taking it.
Oh, O-lath
Yup I’m in the district, my kids aren’t school age yet but I’m still not happy.
I’m in Liberty.
My kids both complain incessantly about kids vaping in the restroom, so I do understand why schools would want to ban it off the campus. Shit, I’ll take cigarette smoke over vape smoke (from what I’ve smelled).
But I still don’t like the witchhunt.
No idea why it would bother your kids, there is no “second-hand smoke”.
Because it stinks. Get a whole bunch of flavors mingling and…ugh.
Mine has no odor at all.
But who knows what crap kids like.
Kids are stupid. They probably smoke clove e-cigarettes or something just that will seem just as embarrassing to them in hindsight ten years from now
Well, any smell doesn’t linger because glycerine.
How much is that going to be in legal fees as they pursue a case that is guaranteed to lose?
Olathe has a healthy financial position and you can never underestimate the “much braves” they’ll receive from clapping seals. You can’t put a price on “much brave”
Does anyone know about sizing a HVAC unit for 1630 sq. ft.? Should I get a 2.5 or 3 ton?
where are you?
I go with 400sq. ft. per ton, in Socal
and age of house, insulation, you’re looking at no less than 3.5 tons and 80k furnace
What do you mean by 80K furnace? Heat and A/C is same unit. All electric. No way to do gas, oil, etc.
BTU
OK if it’s a Heat Pump, you still need at least 3.5 tons for the size of your house,
Playa gets it, go a bit over, but what do I know……….
The outdoor unit (a Carrier) I have now is 2.5 ton. A/C seems adequate, but heat doesn’t cycle when it’s cold.
Is it an AC unit, or a reversible heat pump?
Both.
Get 3 ton. Better to have too much rather than not enough.
I got a 3 ton, now wishing I got a 4 ton.
True, but the bigger they are the more they cost.
and the less they run, ROI My man, it’s what I do
OK, I’ll compare prices, but 3.5 is a 1 ton bigger than the outdoor unit I have now.
at the end of this, yes just replace your system with the same size, Cooling abilities haven’t changed, just equipment
what about heating abilities?
We have a 1795sqft house with igloo insulation in the attic crawl space….in Las Vegas
We get good use out of 3ton HVAC unit.
I’m in a 1K SQ. ft. duplex in Bullhead AZ, with a 3 ton on it, is Vegas that much cooler? I doubt your system is 3 tons, or you have a clean room for a house
Maybe the efficient doors and windows? We can keep temp no problem.
Did you check the thermostat?
Believe it or not, sometimes SNL is funny.
That was from almost ten years back
So they’re almost due for another?
“i respond to that cursed Buzzfeed-tier wannabe ted talk video that you so graciously sent me.
it is very bad.
and if you happen to find the fabled mysterious ‘point’, please do tell me.”
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1177549606923788294
Reprogram Your Mind, Sexist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0zEFsWKGBw
Circling back to my earlier self-“outting”/doxxing of my chequered past as a mime – As part of my personal healing and reconciliation process, I submit for your collective horror and derision incriminating evidence of my shame. Herein, a very young Gender Traitor (long before I betrayed my…sistren?) portrays the “beamish boy” in a pantomime of “The Jabberwocky,” complete with vorpal sword. I am loath to speculate as to why I was tapped for that role.
There. I feel cleansed, with nary a neti pot nor bidet needed.
We now return you to your regular programming.
Awwwwww. I have no issue with mimes, as I don’t with clowns. If that’s their jam, so be it. I especially admire the ones who can stand still as statues for long periods of time.
Another fun fact: my mime career and fairly extensive art education stood me in good stead in my later brief career as a model for art classes. Yup, THAT kind of model. I briefly considered doing it full-time after college until I realized it would probably involve telling my mother what I was doing for a living.
You are the second person I’ve met who’ve been models for art classes. That is SOOOO cool!
charcoal sketches or it didn’t happen
I may actually still have one that my art major roommate did. I’ll dig in the archives after dinner.
It’s not pornography, it’s artistic.
That is more horrifying than Jake Tapper’s Dilbert art style.
.
@GT, I would take this as high praise.
(OK. – Edit Faerie)
*sigh* Edit fairy, please close my tags.
Um.
Thank you?
Larf!
You must be careful when you call on dark powers.
Ooh, GT in tights!
I remember when I was in third or fourth grade, our class did a production of the Pied Piper, and I being the one student who could memorize his lines, I got to play the lead role. I had to wear a costume with a tunic and white tights. [blushes]
Pics or it didn’t happen. C’mon now – I put myself out there!
I don’t think I have pics.
I do have a couple pics of the painted Econoline that we went camping in. Dad converted the rear bench seats to fold down into a bed, while us kids slept in tents.
? GAY ?
“I will never forget the first time one of my daughters asked me why her hair wasn’t straight like the girls on television,” Jawando said. “I told her she was beautiful the way she was created, and that I would fight to ensure that no one would force her, or her hair, to be otherwise. That is why I’m introducing the CROWN Act with my colleague Nancy Navarro, to prohibit discrimination based on natural hairstyles in Montgomery County.”
That is one big ol’ pile of steaming bullshit from one end to the other.
“First gas station in America to ditch oil for 100% electric vehicle charging opens in Maryland”
So, floating the business on subsidies. That’s my bet.
Lemme guess….the stabbers names were “some guys”.
The cult books that lost their cool
What?
Cool link, bro.
Here – Self-involved 30-something upper-class White woman complains that not every novel written ever, since the beginning of time, has been explicitly targeted towards the self-involved 30-something upper-class White woman demographic.
Thanks!
Self-involved 30-something upper-class White woman
Is there any other kind?
Not cool anymore?! I can’t even.
LOL. Everyone agrees Trump is the most libertarian president.
Objection. Hemingway didn’t actually do any bullfighting. He was just friends with a whole bunch of bullfighters and Picasso.
/pet interest off
And note the assumption that “chick lit” is great, but “bro lit” is a scourge that needs to be purged.
Received a jury summons. Second time in one year, third in four. WTF.
Just use those magic get out of jury duty words, “Jury Nullification”
Here in New York, once you’ve done your service (one week or one trial), you’re exempt for six years.
Repeat after me “ I don’t like cops”, “ im a engineer”, i’m a libertarian”, and or “drugs should be legal”.
No jury duty for the last 10 years.
“I work in the insurance industry” works too, at least for certain kinds of cases.
I recently got a summons for a three week stint, and the entire pool was dismissed every single week. What’s the % of cases that actually go to trial these days? Must be tiny.
Well my choice drinking establishment for the evening meal turned out great. Open air front with good micros on tap, great food, good looking patrons, and a car show out front.
Now there playing Creedence. I might not be going home for a while.
See, that would get me out of the place.
I dig a lot of stuff when it comes to music. Creedence always reminds me of my dad and his friends drinking and having fun.
Try listening to this.
Is that Bayerischer Rundfunk?
Ja.
Gawd I listened to a lot of Bayern 3 in 1985/6.
Natürlich!
I tried, but it’s too loud in here for me to hear.
Strike the last four letters and it’d be worse. Look at the bright side.
“Yesterday, people brought assault weapons to our rally at Kent State—where 4 students were shot dead in 1970.
I told them nobody should show up with an AK-47 or an AR-15 to seek to intimidate us in our own democracy.
We need to buy back every single one of them.”
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1177274132674883584
Four students were shot at Kent State, so only the National Guard should have assault weapons.
And Nixon personally ordered it,
/some Fucking Canadian Hippie
I put it 50:50 that he’s doing it for attention (because he has none, otherwise) or he really is that stupid.
Why not both?
In the first case I mean he knows and doesn’t care. But I can equally see him being dumb enough to not realize the irony.
Well, government using lethal force to carry out their policies on citizens. Yes, quite fitting for Beta to celebrate that.
Today, in everyone is literally Hitler
“Remember the bowl cut, elementary school’s most embarrassing look? It’s now become a symbol of white supremacy”
https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1177306388164423680
*snort*
I thought they got sued out of existence.
so an Acronym says it’s a NAZI symbol makes it so? what a sad world……
WRT brit shoplifter with a 10 incher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgG_c21NW0c&
Great band.
Seconded. Nice choice, Tres.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DcRt7kkzcxM
https://twitter.com/RinAldrin/status/1176010178681921536
I’m not racist because I just see boobs.
Yum.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/193/86545/
Today, in literally everyone is a soup nazi?
“Thousands of kids are being burned by instant #ChickenNoodleSoup each year”
https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/1177690279568138240
Seems legit.
It’s done. Articles of Impeachment of Donald Trump
They forgot “Orange Man Bad”
Holding it in reserve in case he skates the first time.
Totes legit.
Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich said he is prioritizing “actions and strategies” to meet a greenhouse gas emission reduction goal of 80% by 2027 and 100% by 2035.
According to The Washington Post, one of those actions will be introducing a bill next year requiring all new single-family houses to have solar panels installed on them starting in 2022.
Go fuck yourself.
“You notice there are not too many electric vehicles on the road,” he said. “So it’s not something that I expect to become rich overnight or something like that, but it’s a good cause [and] good for the environment.”
You’ll be competing with places like my office. The property manager for the building my office is in installed some EV charging stations. There is always lots of jockeying from the EV/plug in hybrid owners for the spots. The property manager recently added more because of the demand. None of these guys charge the car at home, they wait until they get into the office where they can charge for “free”.
Sly Fox Oktoberfest to start the night. It tasted better at the brewery, and I’d say that even if the good looking redhead wouldn’t have been working when I was last there. Eins, Zwei, G’suffa!
Speaking of charging for free– i wonder where the payoff would be for filling a vehicle with batteries, charging them at public spots, and then discharging them at home for electric needs.
Use the charging stations for bit coin miners. Who’s with me. Electric van with the back full of inverters and bitcoin miners.
Sly Fox Oktoberfest to start the night.
Does it go all the way?
Those goals are so laughably ridiculous that you know they’re not serious.
Hear ye, Hear ye, All rise, The President of The United States
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