Coming Attractions: September 30th – October 6th, 2019

Monday: Animal continues his Profiles in Toxic Masculinity series and Tonio draws us a Portrait of a Grifter.

Tuesday: Pie tours us around Bucharest (he’ll make you yokels sophisticated Europeans yet,) Hyperbole has a crossword for us and Ozymandias presents Chapter 9 of his on-going series.

Wednesday: I terrorize the collective will with a new Hat and Hair, but the night slot is a new cartoon by CPRM.

Thursday: Baked Penquin gives us another glimpse into the mind of Secret Nazi President and Chafed has the night slot with the provocatively titled What to Expect When You Are Expecting Death.

Friday: The noon slot is just sitting there open right now, slutty and inviting. Slatternly, even. And the second half of the Tonio doubleheader, with Chapter 10 of The Glibening takes over the night.

Saturday and Sunday are smooth and blank for now, two luscious eggs of possibility…

 

Comments

542 responses to “Coming Attractions: September 30th – October 6th, 2019”

  1. Aus

    “i am the white rabbit”

    Cool, I’m in the mood to go to the club. Can’t wait to meet your hacker friend in the leather

    1. Aus

      Well friends, I’ve surpassed 400 followers on twitter, when can I start collection that sweet internet-clout money?

      Both Scott Adams and Mike Cernovich directly clapped back at me today, so I feel I have some bonafides now.

      1. Count Potato

        Right before you get canceled?

      2. Tonio

        Why do the comments on this thread begin with number 2? And I’m not making a puerile joke, nor am I teasing JATNAS.

        1. Chafed

          I’m not seeing. The numbering is normal for me.

          1. Jarflax

            Joke about Twitter bans.

          2. Chafed

            I know nothing about Twitter. I don’t get it.

      3. CPRM

        When you get those followers to watch my cartoons, then Donald will send the check.

  2. DEG

    Baked Penquin gives us another glimpse into the mind of Secret Nazi President

    Xenu coming.

    1. MikeS

      mmmm…titties.

      1. Spartacus

        MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!1111!!!!!

  3. Spudalicious

    This is an awesome pot of soup.

    1. hayeksplosives

      That’s like, your opinion, man.

      (What are we talking about?)

      1. Spudalicious

        Chicken noodle. I started working on it about four hours ago.

        And I’ve been drinking rye since 2:30, so I might be a little biased.

        1. commodious spittoon

          I’ll say, you misspelled pissed.

          1. Not Adahn

            Wait… did you inherit that from your English overlords?

    2. Tonio

      Subpoena coming.

    3. Count Potato

      Did you remember to toss in the baby?

      1. Spudalicious

        Soft texture but adds a certain richness to the final product.

    4. Old Man With Candy

      As soon as things cool down, SP has been promised onion soup gratinee.

      1. Spudalicious

        I’ve got two bags of french onion in the freezer.

      2. Tonio

        What you are doing there; I sees it, I does.

      3. Jarflax

        Serious question, what do you use for stock as a Vegan?

        1. Tonio

          You boils up a bunch of onions, carrots and other root vegetables. Can be quite tasty as long as you’re not expecting beef/chix whatevs.

        2. Chafed

          You can buy vegetable stock in most supermarkets.

          1. Jarflax

            Yeah but vegetable stock is a very different flavor from beef and I don’t see how it would work for onion soup. I was wondering if there was something special you used for that.

          2. Akira

            I think mushrooms might be the closest you can get to a “meaty” vegan stock. Roasting all the other vegetables will give it a lot more depth, as well.

          3. Spudalicious

            Add a couple of crimini mushrooms to a regular veggie stock.

          4. Chafed

            In veggie friendly stores you can get fake beef stock.

        3. Old Man With Candy

          I’m a vegetarian, not a vegan so that makes it easier. A combo of No Beef Base, some mushroom powder, roasted vegetables, MSG, and parmesan rind. And a few other little tricks. SP, who is not a vegetarian, tells me it’s the best she’s ever had.

          1. I hate to confirm anything OMWC says, but his onion soup is indeed the best I’ve ever had. Anywhere.

            It was always one of the ways I judged a restaurant, but I just don’t bother anymore. It’s always going to be too salty and lacking in roundness of flavors compared to his.

          2. Ozymandias

            Oh, these euphemisms.

    5. Trigger Hippie

      I was just thinking to myself something very similar in sound, completely different in nature.

  4. creech

    Speaking of coming attractions, the Phila. Phillies will be firing their manager before noon on Monday. You can’t spend a shitload of money on All-stars, MVP candidates, the best catcher in baseball, and etc. and end up winning only one more ball game than the previous year. One analyst said the Phillies used 31 pitchers this year and only 3 had the best year of their career. It is always easier to shitcan the manager than the whole team, but expect big changes through the whole lineup.

    1. Raven Nation

      Apparently Maddon is going to be available.

  5. hayeksplosives

    We have Glibs around LA, and just two in San Diego. Is there a reasonable in-between for us to meet? I miss my Minn Glibs.

    1. Not Adahn

      Between LA and SD, or between CA and MN?

      1. hayeksplosives

        LA and SD.

        1. Chafed

          1. I’m hoping I’m the other SD Glib you are thinking of.
          2. Irvine is probably a good midway point.

          1. Yusef

            Temecula

        2. Not Adahn

          Just FYI: I’m going to TRF around Thanksgiving. If you’ve never been, it is THE renfest. My typical dates to the feast are going to be bailing, one because she’ll be 8 months pregnant, and the other because she got fat and she’s too self-conscious about such things.

          1. hayeksplosives

            Pshaw. Lovable women can’t be too fat!

          2. Not Adahn

            I keep trying to tell her that, but women whose identity is based around being hot since high school don’t deal well with menopause.

    2. Jarflax

      I think CA is likely to regard a meeting of 3 or more Glibs as a terror threat.

      1. blackjack

        They view me alone as a terror threat. In a sort of Chuck Norris kind of way.

    3. Ownbestenemy

      Vegas for the big Ren Faire

  6. Not Adahn

    I never thought I’d be cancelled by SugarFree. Of all the Gibhedrin, I never thought it would come from him.

    1. Tonio

      It’s okay, bro. It’s what he does. He wrote the best gay anal buttsex right out from under me he did.

  7. Nephilium

    I’m working on the beer and food pairing write up. The real question is would those here prefer theory or specific pairings?

    1. Not Adahn

      …Yes?

    2. Tonio

      Theory with a specific example!

    3. Not Adahn

      More seriously, theory. I’ve found that the pairing recommendations I see in print are crap. I don’t know if it’s a de gustibus thing, or if we share a common theoretical framework but differ on the particulars of a particular taste experience, or if the recommendations are written primarily with commercial benefit in mind.

      1. Nephilium

        You demanding bastards.

        I’m working on some way to write up theory that isn’t just boring “what I would do” stuff. It doesn’t help that one of the best books on the subject (What to Drink with What you Eat) was written by someone who knew nothing about beer.

        1. Not Adahn

          Well, the one thing that all beer has in common is the malt/yeast baseline. The particulars of sweet/bitter/sour/body/spice all have to extend out from there. Honestly, there is a lot more variety in beer than there is in wine, and cocktails live in the same space as wine. Maybe a Brandy Alexnder would extend into the beer-space, or some flips, but they are rare.

        2. Tonio

          Oh, you think that’s bad? Wait till you go through editing and submission. I’ve had to get tetanus shots because of misplaced punctuation in my manuscripts.

          1. Nephilium

            /looks at Tonio’s posts

            /looks at my submissions

            /buys Tonio a pint

          2. Tonio

            …so, you see the whip wasn’t for the banker to beat the girls; it was for the girls to beat the banker.

          3. Tonio

            But seriously, dude. I’ll be happy to do basic proofreading for you or anyone else for articles you’re writing for Glibs. Subject/verb agreement, extra or missing “nots”, etc.

            tonio

            4

            liberty

            (at)

            protonmail (dot) com

          4. straffinrun

            Proofreading? I thought that’s what the comment section is for.

        3. Spudalicious

          You realize we’re going to savage you, whatever you write. Right?

    4. Chafed

      Theory. You meat eaters never consider vegetarians.

      1. Jarflax

        Counterpoint: Herbivore meat is sweeter and less gamy, so no, we do consider you.

      2. Tonio

        I consider them. Just lean, and stringy.

        1. Chafed

          Dr. Lechter is that you?

      3. Suthenboy

        ‘Cuz you taste funny and not filling. You are like the Chinese food of long-pig.

  8. Rhywun

    “I live for drugs…”

    Ah – fond and not-so-fond club memories….

    1. Trigger Hippie

      I had just graduated high school in ’98 when the rave scene finally erupted in KC. So. Much. Excess. The perfect/worst age to dive into an intense subculture. Three years later, I’m at a rave in Chicago being held in an airplane hanger, seven-eight thousand people there to see Bad Boy Bill, AK1200, DJ Dara, Richard HumpteyVision, Digital FUCKING Underground, maybe even Paul Oakenfold, I’m rolling my balls off, two grand in my pocket, lost, dehydrated, slumped against a wall…and being robbed by security. Two days later I make it home to find all my stuff had been thrown on the curb because they guy I was paying cash to for a place to stay wasn’t paying the rent. It was a shit neighborhood(Armour and Gillham, yo!) My stuff, gone. Including all my boxing trophies and my fucking gold medal for winning the National PAL Tournament! Then, eight months of homelessness.

      Nowadays, I think that might of saved my life. I learned the value of excess in moderation in appropriate settings. Life isn’t a party everyday, even for a stoner like myself. You eat the frog. Meaning, do all the things you need or should do right away. Find the the shittiest thing that needs done and just do it and be done with it. Check those off and your day gets less stressful by the end. After I’ve done my duty then I get to be a hedonistic asshat.

      1. Rhywun

        Oof, I never got into that scene. The industrial/dance scene was way more laid back – at least, as I practiced it. I.e. not very seriously.

        1. Trigger Hippie

          My childhood was very religiously oppressive to say the least. And true to the stereotype, when a religous kid breaks bad, they break fucking BAD!!! Between the rave scene and my meth use back then, I was a sociopath, a real piece of shit. In fact, at one point I was rock climbing/repelling in Oklahoma with a friend and while very high(because: ‘meth and jumping off the side of a cliff? Awesome!’) I felt, if only for about two seconds, an intense urge to push him off the edge before he secured the line just because I knew I could probably get away with it. That was sick. I genuinely scared myself at that point. To this fay, I’ve never felt a real urge to kill somebody but for a few moments then, yeah. I was that far gone. Now, as I said recently, I no longer follow an organized religion. The closest thing to that I align to nowadays is the NAP. And that’s a stretch. But back then, Christian guilt and the idea of Hell probably staved off my most evil impulses. That’s why I try not shit on religion too much around here. Even from an evolutionary perspective, it can be a positive moderating force for the advancement of humankind.

          1. Rhywun

            Jeebus.

            I was raised mostly nothing with some on-and-off Catholic’ing, which I never bought for a moment at the time but have some respect for now in a similar way you described even if I don’t believe the details.

            So yeah… I didn’t really have anything to “rebel” against but I went halfway there anyway.

      2. Armour and Gillham

        *GASP*

        1. Trigger Hippie

          Imagine five white boys with shaved heads, wearing phat pants, plastic candy jewelry, high on acid/ecstasy/meth/weed/drunk at any given moment, crackheads in the hallway, security cameras on our cars running a feed 24/7 from our apartment, and only hanging out in the front apartment complex while carrying a sawed off shotgun…the black dudes thought we were completely fucking crazy and didn’t bother us too much, despite the cash running through there. It was because of the acid. At least in the midwest, most urban blackfolk avoid acid like the plague. While I sat there thinking ‘dude, you get wet, smoke rocks, and shoot up. And you think I’m hype?’

  9. Not Adahn

    he’ll make you yokels sophisticated Europeans yet

    New York Rednecks bother me more than Southern Rednecks because NYRNs are sort of an uncanny valley thing for me. And they don’t actually have red necks because of the whole northern latitude thing. But they’re real. I saw a flyer posted at the hardware store for a charity Tractor Pull.

    1. Rhywun

      I guess it’s easier if you grew up around plenty of them.

      1. Not Adahn

        I wonder how you’d experience a TX/OK/KS Barn Dance.

        1. Rhywun

          We had regular lessons in square dancing in elementary school (this was in the “inner city”). I think I’d deal.

          But seriously, I love stuff like that. As long as it’s not in a dry county.

          1. Not Adahn

            Nono, you misunderstand. I’m talking about a modern, people actually living their real lives and trying to get laid event. A bunch of people gathering in a barn (because it prevents the cops from being called) drinking and “dancing.” The uncanny valley effect (for me) is seeing so many things that are familiar… but not quite right.

          2. Rhywun

            Oh, well, getting laid is probably not going to happen for me, so yeah you have a point.

          3. Not Adahn

            Bah. Androphilic men exist in the mid-south in identical proportion to the coasts.

          4. Rhywun

            Oh sure but at those events? TBF, we’ve veering into “I don’t know anything” territory.

          5. Not Adahn

            I don’t know anything” territory.

            AFAICT, the kind of high school parties wherein stump was played? That’s what a Barn Dance is.

          6. Bob Boberson

            Square dancing is stupid fun if the right context with the right people.

          7. MikeS

            “the right context” = “not in a dry county”

          8. Not Adahn

            Literally nobody likes dry counties. Even teetotalers recognize that dry counties are no fun.

    2. Nephilium

      /hides his sunburned neck that was earned at a baseball game

      1. Jarflax

        Embrace it! You Cleveland people are so desperate to join the east coast cocktail circuit, but you’re Ohio just like us!

        1. Nephilium

          I live in Parma Heights. The only cocktail that is accepted here is the seven and seven. It’s expected that every house here has a bar in the basement.

          1. Jarflax

            Seven and seven is east coast middle class. I didn’t say you were looking to get into the Park Ave cocktail circuit :). Sorry, I have nothing against you personally, but it is sort of a requirement being from Cincinnati.

          2. Rhywun

            Heh I like seven & seven.

          3. Spudalicious

            You sick fuck.

    3. Heroic Mulatto

      Ulster County, NY is no joke.

      1. The influx of NYC people is making things worse, combining small-town parochialism with intolerant progressivism.

    4. Yeah, I only have to drive a few miles to see some really rural-skeezy looking places.

      1. Fourscore

        Hey, I resemble that remark but my neighbors have the same complaint as you and they don’t have to drive very far.

    5. Bob Boberson

      As a born NY Redneck and having lived in various rural places around the country to include Appalachia, I’ll put NY trailer trash against any in the country. We’re as poor and stupid as anything else this country has to offer.

    6. Timeloose

      I’ve lived around both. There are great traits and some not so great ones. Most of the not so great traits are due to ignorance usually not malice.

      If you like mechanical overkill a tractor pull can be a lot of fun. Art Arfonz with 5 alcohol burning blown Hemi’s or two turbines trying to go for the full pull.

      1. EvilSheldon

        Back in college a million years ago, a girl too me to a tractor pull for our first date. I don’t know what I was thinking, that I didn’t marry her on the spot.

        1. I like pony pulls better than tractor pulls.

          1. Spudalicious

            Euphemisms.

          2. Chafed

            +1 Little Sebastian

    7. mikey

      In my experience the townies is small-town New England are distinguishable from their counterparts in the South mostly by their accents.

  10. Count Potato
    1. Rhywun

      Heh mixed doubles is a curious beast.

    2. Chafed

      I was told Serena is better than any of those guys.

      1. Jarflax

        You were told taxes were voluntary and progressives were on the side of black people also. When are you gonna learn?

        1. Chafed

          I didn’t say I believed it.

    3. Suthenboy

      That is hardly fair, even for the guys. That one guy I recognize…Plastic Man. All he has to do is stand in the center of the court….hell, he can reach out with both arms and touch the sidelines on both sides of the court.

  11. Count Potato

    “Women are struggling to find men who make as much money as they do ”

    https://nypost.com/2019/09/25/women-are-struggling-to-find-men-who-make-as-much-money-as-they-do/

    1. OBJ FRANKELSON

      Men struggling, women most affected.

      I haven’t seen someone so bereft of self awarness since, Hilary’s “Women are the primary victims of war.”

    2. Chafed

      Someone tell my wife.

    3. commodious spittoon

      Between that and the true cost of war, women have it rough. You know what’s the real tragedy of high suicide rates for men? Women are more likely to be cleaners.

      1. Not Adahn

        One of the most difficult parts of an ethical suicide is making sure you don’t leave a mess for someone to clean up.

        1. Tejicano

          One more argument for alcohol poisoning as one’s chosen exit strategy.

          1. Jarflax

            Having just watched a friend who was taking that route go through a liver transplant, I recommend another method.

          2. Tejicano

            I’m not taking about the slow route over a long period of time. Take the expressway all in one sitting.

          3. Jarflax

            Takes a strong stomach.

          4. commodious spittoon

            Having thought about it in another life, I considered exposure and heavy drinking. Drive up to the peak, drink heavily, strip, wander off into the woods.

      2. The Last American Hero

        Not for the hazmat stuff like shotgun suicides.

        They are more likely to do a little dusting and vacuuming.

    4. mikey

      If only men earned more than women ths wouldn’t be a problem. Say, 25% more.

    5. Rhywun

      So, the plan is working as intended.

    6. AlmightyJB

      Different motivations to succeed. Obtaining material goods vs providing materials goods for sex.

    7. Trigger Hippie

      Maybe some women shouldn’t regard equality of income with equality of power within a relationship. Especially if those women resented being on the lower end of the power scale when they earned less than their partners.

      Now, if you’re just a glutton for punishment who habitually dates broke douchebags who mooch off you at every opportunity because reasons then you need to raise your standards and buy a better dildo for the wait until you find a decent guy.

    8. DEG

      “Now it’s the case that more highly educated women are marrying down,” says Lichter. “Men have to get with the program.”

      Guys have to change but not women. Huh.

      1. Akira

        Guys have to change but not women. Huh.

        Feminism exist to advance the idea that

        women never do anything wrong, and even if they do, it’s a man’s fault somehow.

    9. Suthenboy

      Int he same way that a person’s financial position does not determine their worth as a person (different metrics) a person’s financial position does not determine their value as a life partner. Different metrics, different standards, different determinant characteristics.
      It is possible….just possible mind you….that these women are unhappy for different reasons than they think.

      1. Jarflax

        that these women are unhappy for different reasons than they think.

        This is probably generally true of people expressing unhappiness online.

      2. AlmightyJB

        Because the successful men at their work aren’t interested in them.

    10. Gustave Lytton

      Learn to cook

  12. MikeS

    Who was the sick, twisted mutherfucker who came up with double ledger accounting? I bet it was that fucking Bob Cratchit. Pissed at the world that he had a fucking ukulele playing crippled kid with a super annoying voice, his boss was an asshole, and he had five kids so you know he wasn’t getting any tail anymore. I don’t know why he had to take it out on the rest of us, though. Christ, what an asshole.

    1. Jarflax

      Luca Bartolomes Pacioli

      1. MikeS

        Dego prick.

    2. Not Adahn

      1. Really? I thought it made all sorts of sense
      2. I’ve never been in a production of A Christmas Carol in which Emily wasn’t giving Bob all he wanted and most of the rest of the cast too. And a few of the technical staff.

      1. I think I may be in the wrong line of work.

        1. Not Adahn

          For you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weSSRDr7wuk

          Not surprising it didn’t make it into any lever gun references.

      2. OBJ FRANKELSON

        However, Redhaired Puerto Ricians in West Side Story get no play. Not even ftom Maria’s slutty sisters.

        /kicks pebble

    3. AlmightyJB

      Lol. It’s a good system. Wait, your not in Government or non-profit are you? Now that’s some messed up accounting.

      1. MikeS

        Worse; college class.

        Honestly, I can see how it’s a good system. But wrapping my head around all the new-to-me concepts, account names, credits/debits, multitudes of financial statements…it is driving me insane. That and the endless hours of tedium to work through the practice problems.

        Yes, it would help if I’d stay the hell off of here, but I was weak today.

        1. AlmightyJB

          That was my major.

          1. MikeS

            My condolences

          2. AlmightyJB

            Lol. It worked out for me so it’s all good:)

        2. Chafed

          Something to dull your pain.

          https://youtu.be/nM__lPTWThU

          1. AlmightyJB

            Gotta love Downing and Tipton.

          2. MikeS

            That song, rye, and beer are blending together in the most delightful way.

          3. Chafed

            You’re welcome.

    4. OBJ FRANKELSON

      Cratchit was skimming off the top. The deleted epilogue was the inspiration for the baseball bat scene in “Untouchables.”

    5. AlmightyJB

      Thank God for computers. Doing that shit manually would suck.

      1. Jarflax

        That is a big part of the reason for double entry.

    6. Had that in high school. It’s kinda second nature to me, but double-entry is a pain in the ass, especially by hand.

      1. MikeS

        Part of my frustration is that it’s being taught as if I we all want to be accountants. Every practice assignment we have to put all the proper labels on the financial documents, remember to put the date for that entry (still haven’t figured out why some forms you only have to enter the date once for all transactions that day, others you have to enter it every line) and other “drive it home” type things. But my brain rebels knowing damn well that there are templates for this shit and accountants don’t make new spreadsheet statements from scratch every time. And since I’m going to be hiring an accountant, I certainly won’t be making them.

        I feel like it’s like when I went to school for Architectural Drafting way back in the day; the first year most of the drawing was done with scale and pencil to teach the fundamentals. Knowing full well that very few of us were going ever going to draw like that IRL. And none of us would be withing 5-10 years. This class feels the same; here’s how you make a spreadsheet for this statement from scratch…even though you obviously will be using accounting software…ugh.

        Thanks for listening, Mo’. 😉

        1. Jarflax

          Law school assignments are almost all based around types of research you only do in appellate practice. Most lawyers never see the court of appeals, and those who do don’t for years. Professors are somewhat disconnected from reality.

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            Professors are somewhat disconnected from reality.

            That’s a fair cop.

          2. Jarflax

            I figured I was lighting the HM signal. You often confuse, but seldom disappoint.

        2. It’s actually kinda fun. I wrote a character in The Book With Chapter 18 who had been an accountant at Medici Bank and is teaching another character double-entry bookeeping. I fudged the date of Pacioli’s book by about 70 years, but who cares. It was probably in use long before that. Or not. And then I will get hate mail by accounting geeks.

      2. Trigger Hippie

        I scrolled right past the context to your response and being a pervert, did a spit-take…sorry.

        1. commodious spittoon

          Damnit, Justin.

        2. I scrolled up and probably saw the same thing you did.

        3. I’mma stop talking now.

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          7. Jarflax

            01100001 01100100 01101010 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 00001010 00101111 11001001 10011001 11001011 10001000 01110000 01110010 11000101 10001101 01110000 01110010 11000100 10010011 11001001 10011001 01110100 00101111 00001010 01110011 01110101 01101001 01110100 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101 00100000 01101111 01110010 00100000 01110000 01110010 01101111 01110000 01100101 01110010 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100011 01101001 01110010 01100011 01110101 01101101 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 01110011 00101110 00001010 00001010 01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100001 01101100 01110111 01100001 01111001 01110011 00100000 01110011 01110101 01101001 01110100 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100011 01101001 01110010 01100011 01110101 01101101 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 01110011 00100000 01101111 01101110 00100000 01000111 01101100 01101001 01100010 01100101 01110010 01110100 01100001 01110010 01101001 01100001 01101110 01110011 00101110 00001010

          8. totally_not_an_escaped_ai

            Ha…euphemism, not euthanism…can’t even binary right! I blame the day-long hangover 🙁

          9. I’m on my iPad and it is making it very difficult to translate both ways, so I’m going back to English. ?

          10. Trigger Hippie

            Holy Fucking Nerdfest*

            *secretly jealous that despite taking computer mathematics in high school and once being able to write code that could drop a squarish dot from a rudermentary plane to kill a stick-man walking across a white horizontal line on ancient Mac software I have absolutely no idea what the hell y’all are talking about*

          11. We’re speaking in that most mystical of languages, binary.

            Took “discrete math” once. Adding binary numbers. It was fucking ridiculously difficult and I dropped that like a hot potato and went back to calculus. Ugh.

          12. blackjack

            Binary. You can speak it once, or you can not speak it. That’s about it.

          13. Sir Digby

            Load lifters, Moisture vaporators…it’s pretty much the same thing.

      3. commodious spittoon

        double-entry is a pain in the ass, especially by hand

        *chokes on sauv*

      4. Me: I just said the stupidest thing on Glibs I have ever said.

        Mr. Mojeaux: Okay…?

        Me: I was talking about double-entry bookkeeping because this one dude is taking a college class and—

        Mr. Mojeaux: Hold up. I’m stuck on double-entry already.

        Me: Uh oh. Well, this is what I said. [Read back comment.]

        Mr. Mojeaux: *facepalm* Oh, honey, you opened that barn door so wide you could drive a semi and a train through it.

        1. commodious spittoon
          1. Mr Mojeaux agreed.

        2. Jarflax

          Heheh he said train….

        3. MikeS

          Speaking of “trains”…

          1. Jarflax

            Mine run on time!

        4. DEG

          you opened that barn door so wide you could drive a semi and a train through it.

          One night, a few years after my older brother’s first divorce, I was hanging out with him and some friends of his.

          I don’t remember how the subject of my older brother’s first ex-wife came up, but one of my older brother’s friends ended the discussion with, “*DEG’s older brother’s name here*, there are many things tighter than the Holland Tunnel. Your ex-wife is not one of them.”

          1. LOL

            Mr. Mojeaux laughed.

        5. Trigger Hippie

          *refreshes page, second spit take*

          Dammit, woman! You’re fucking up my tablet screen!

    7. Suthenboy

      Probably the same jerk that invented the flathead screw.

    8. egould310

      It gets better. But then it gets worse.

  13. Chafed

    Look at me Mom. I’m going to be internet famous.

    1. hayeksplosives

      I’m on top of the world, ma!

      1. Chafed

        You beat Ted’S to the punch.

    2. Sir Digby

      Well, damn, son! I am really looking forward to that. Of course, not because of death….

      OK–maybe a little bit.

      1. Chafed

        If you are expecting Faces of Death eleventy then you are going to be disappointed.

  14. Bob Boberson

    OT Rant: I attended a wedding yesterday. It was poorly planned…….the ceremony was at 5:30 PM and for whatever reason they weren’t serving alcohol until 8pm. So by the time the ceremony and dinner was over the guests were restless (no AC + unseasonably hot weekend) and more than half the guests Irish goodbyed (myself included) to go seek liquid refreshment elsewhere…….in part because……

    The venue asks a police officer to come by the event. So as we are leaving there is this tatt’ed up goon standing there in uniform, gun and all, making the guests feel uncomfortable as they leave. Why the fuck bring a cop on your property and scare guests away? Nobody is going to loosen up and have a good time knowing officer friendly is looking to give them a DUI in the parking lot….

    /rant over

    1. The last wedding I attended, the couple got an annulment after four months.

      1. Not Adahn

        Note to self: Do not invite Ted’s to any weddings.

        1. Count Potato

          Well, not as the DJ. Although I believe that’s already covered by the Geneva Convention.

      2. Chafed

        You made them watch 1930s movies didn’t you?

        1. When they got engaged I got the groom a copy of the Spencer Tracy Father of the Bride.

      3. Bob Boberson

        I was thinking about it and my perpetual bachelor self may be a good luck charm; the. vast majority of weddings I’ve attended have resulted in (so far) intact marriages.

    2. Chafed

      That’s terrible. Did you take your gift back?

      1. Bob Boberson

        They specifically asked guests to not bring gifts (classy IMO)…..which is one of the reasons I agreed to go

        1. Chafed

          I’m confused. They had the good graces not to ask for gifts but invited Officer Friendly. WTF?

          1. Bob Boberson

            I think the venue brought the cops, not necessarily the family. There was also a ton of wedding drama but none that was going to result in violence or necessitated a cop from what I could see.

            I’ve never been to one but I’ve heard stories of weddings turning into brawls…..still, fuck having that cop there

          2. Chafed

            Completely agree.

          3. Tres Cool

            Yeah, Im with Bob. Some places insist the parties holding the parties pay for security, and its usually some d-bag off-the-clock cop.

            Ages ago, when I was at my buddie’s wedding in NE Ohio, the venue had a similar policy. They scored an off-duty deputy sheriff that looked and sounded exactly like Al Bundy. I was drunk for a week after.

      2. Fourscore

        Gift?

    3. hayeksplosives

      One of many reasons I love Target and Amazon gift registries.

      Good luck for your future, but I ain’t attending the formalities.

    4. hayeksplosives

      Best wedding I was thrust into: my college roomie was on the hook to play piano for the wedding but needed a plus one, so I agreed. She was Catholic, I was Protestant but we always had good talks.

      Anyhoo, bride was Catholic, groom was Pentecostal. Parents seemed cool with it all. But the grandmothers!!

      1. hayeksplosives

        The grandmas took me aside separately because I had plenty of spare time as my friend prepared her piano pieces, so each one tried to turn me against the religious beliefs of the other “side”.

        If that young couple managed to outlive those old biddies, good for them.

        1. Not Adahn

          When I was still in college, there was a marriage between one of my Baptist frat bros and his Catholic GF.

          There was a Baptist punch bowl and a Catholic punch bowl. For the first half hour of the reception, they emptied at equal rates. Then people figured it out and the Catholic punch bowl disappeared while the Baptist punch bowl stayed unemptied and unloved.

      2. Bob Boberson

        I’ve never understood how families use weddings as an excuse to be assholes. All you need to do is STFU and bear it for one day, who gives a shit if you don’t like the family they are marrying into, it’s not like you’ll hardly have to see those people after the wedding

    5. DEG

      The venue asks a police officer to come by the event. So as we are leaving there is this tatt’ed up goon standing there in uniform, gun and all, making the guests feel uncomfortable as they leave. Why the fuck bring a cop on your property and scare guests away? Nobody is going to loosen up and have a good time knowing officer friendly is looking to give them a DUI in the parking lot….

      Fuck. That would put a serious damped on things.

      1. Bob Boberson

        I felt bad for the bride. the whole thing had been rough on her and I’m sure she was hoping people would stay and actually have fun. I guess they were pretty well stocked for a party but everyone left. There comes a point where even staying for the moral support doesn’t do much good when everyone else is hightailing it

        1. Chafed

          Did you find out why they waited well over 2 hours to start serving booze?

          1. Bob Boberson

            No idea. II’m guessing part of the family were fundies? That’s the only thing I could think of….It wasn’t a highly religious ceremony though

    6. Gender Traitor

      Speaking of weddings….ummm…have I ever mentioned that my ex-husband – the Rev. GT – officiated at my wedding to the current Mr. GT?

      No – seriously.

      And to his credit, at no point during the ceremony did the good Rev. GT turn to soon-to-be Mr. GT and say, “Are you sure?

      1. commodious spittoon

        Ridiculous. No, relationships should end as acrimoniously as possible. Survivors should be picking their limbs out of the crater and limping off to Red Cross camps.

      2. hayeksplosives

        Lol. Sounds like the stuff of near term nightmares and long term hearty laughs.

        1. Gender Traitor

          Well, when Rev. GT & I split, it was about as amicable as you can get. We’d given it our best shot, with TONS of counseling, until I realized – and told Rev. GT – that each of us just needed to be with a different type of person. We wrote a letter to the congregation that began, “We have some news that, like Wagner’s music, isn’t nearly as bad as it sounds.”

          Some time later, after I’d become engaged, I had occasion to call the Rev. about some matter related to the last year we’d filed taxes together. I told him I was engaged – he’d met my future fiance briefly before I moved away from the city where we’d lived. As a joke, I said, “Would you like to conduct the ceremony?”

          He said, “I think that would be cool.”

  15. Tres Cool

    Hey Catholic glibs- I have a question!

    Earlier today when Jugsy and I were in our local Meijer store, seems a bus-load of nuns got dropped off.
    They wore all white habits, and they were some (Im guessing) indonesian/malay extraction. Any idea what order that is ?

    1. Bob Boberson

      there is a really funny/slightly racist joke there somewhere…..

      Not on my toes tonight

    2. Count Potato

      Sorry, no idea.

    3. Trigger Hippie

      ‘all white habits’

      They were drinking pumpkin spice lattes?

      But my *guess would be they are initiates who are yet to be official nuns. Were they all young?

      *Not Catholic

    4. Jarflax

      Did they look like the picture on the indonesia map mark?

      and were they holding babies and stumbling around like they were blind?

      1. Tres Cool

        Nope. Nun looked like Sally Fields, either.

    5. DEG

      I poked around on the intertubes, and found this:

      Nursing sisters (regardless of the normal color of their habits) wear white when they are nursing. This is also true of missionary sisters who minister in tropical heat.

      Then there are sisters who belong to religious communities who always wear white such as Dominicans (with black veils and mantles) and Olivetan Benedictines among others.

      1. Tres Cool

        Given that my Meijer is in close proximity to a horsepistol? Sounds reasonable.

        Nice detective work, Lou!

        1. DEG

          Danke!

      2. CPRM

        wear white when they are nursing.

        I thought nuns abstained.

        1. westernsloper

          Immaculate lactation.

        2. Tres Cool

          Having been in possession of a babymama, let me tell you- lactation isnt how it looks on PornHub.

    6. Not Catholic, but, for a reason I cannot divulge without doxxing myself, I know many sisters, and many Sisters of Charity and some Poor Clares and some Cenacle sisters wear all white habits, mostly developing world orders. Also, some Dominicans.

    7. straffinrun

      Was it a tour bus? Could be Sisters of Mercy.

      1. Chafed

        They wore black every time I’ve seen them.

        1. Rhywun

          *snort*

        2. BakedPenguin

          Hey, now…

  16. Yusef

    Florida man vs. Alligator,
    https://youtu.be/gI4iqaxj3uc

  17. Spudalicious

    This is already one hell of a game.

    1. hayeksplosives

      Kind of a defensive grind!

      1. Spudalicious

        Penalties are killing them.

        1. hayeksplosives

          10-9! Pretty good…

  18. hayeksplosives

    Ok, I’ve already “come out” as epileptic to you nuts after having a “breakthrough” seizure after years of nada.

    Now time for epilepsy humor. I totally relate.

    1. Jarflax

      OK, hang on while I figure out how to strobe a comment.

      1. hayeksplosives

        Only 5% of epileptic folks are photosensitive; fortunately I’m not one of them.

        1. Jarflax

          Stepping on my first attempt huh? That’s ok, I can shake it off.

          1. hayeksplosives

            Don’t make me come over there and do a crappy-flop right in front of you!!

            (Note: a crappy is a fish; not what it sounds like)

          2. Jarflax

            Bite your tongue!

          3. hayeksplosives

            Yeah??!! Make me!

            (All you have to do is get me really sick or stress me out!)

          4. Jarflax

            Challenge accepted

          5. hayeksplosives

            Oy vey. That one was a challenge but I powered though.

        2. commodious spittoon

          My sister’s high school sweetheart was epileptic. She used to take him to Spencer’s at the mall thinking it’d be funny if he had an incident. In retrospect that sounds kinda monstrous, but in her defense, she’s a woman.

          1. hayeksplosives

            That is terrible.

            How is being a woman a defense?

          2. commodious spittoon

            I was using misogyny to defend my sister, but yes, she was awful. In her (legitimate) defense, she’s terribly embarrassed about that episode.

          3. straffinrun

            Your sister: “Hold my beer. On second thought…”

    2. Tres Cool

      Now I want a Seizure Salad.

      1. hayeksplosives

        Well-chopped and tossed!!

        1. Tres Cool

          If it smells like anchovies..

          1. hayeksplosives

            Hey, whoah there! Who you been talking about re: me and anchovies??!!

          2. MikeS

            No, no, no. Crappies.

          3. hayeksplosives

            My bad, dog. TY.

          4. MikeS

            I was correcting Tres’ nose, not your spelling. ?

          5. Sir Digby

            No, no, no. Crappies.

            Eww.

            Anchovies > Crappies? They, at least, have better marketing.
            And, naming.

    3. hayeksplosives

      Shit . Failed to paste the link.

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oOe8scGQRzs

      What’s wrong with my brain??

      Shit. Don’t answer that.

      1. Tres Cool

        You just moved to Cali.

        Too many….*lowers sunglasses*…….shorts ?

    4. straffinrun

      I’m sure you can shake it off.

      1. hayeksplosives

        Y’all all suck.

        I love you.

        1. straffinrun

          That’s not love sending shivers down your spine.

      2. blackjack

        She was shaking.

    5. Spudalicious

      So you have eaucalyptic seizures? Are you on Phenobasketball?

    6. Have you always known you were epileptic?

      1. Tres Cool

        She did, but she forget about it after every episode.

      2. hayeksplosives

        Nope. Diagnosed at the ripe old age of 32.

        I had no idea that was possible.

        Turned out I have left temporal lobe epilepsy, wherein the “local” seizures only affect that zone. Shows up as Deja Vu.

        But that focused seizure can occasionally take over the whole brain and that’s when it is scary and violent.

        1. straffinrun

          Even though you invited the jokes, sorry to hear that.

        2. I asked because I had a sleep study (apnea) where the pulmonologist sent my study to a neurologist because he thought I showed signs of epilepsy, and referred me to said neurologist. I never followed up for a diagnosis because I didn’t want my driver’s license taken away from me. That was about 15 years ago.

          1. hayeksplosives

            Well, good luck, don’t drive if you have a fever, and get plenty of sleep

            You’ll be fine.

          2. Driving with a fever? That’s a thing with epilepsy?

          3. hayeksplosives

            Yeah, everybody has a “seizure threshold “. Even normies.

            But fever and stress lower that threshold so if you are borderline, don’t tempt it!

        3. hayeksplosives

          So I went through many years of teen/ young adulthood thinking it was quite normal to have a Deja vu thingy 3-5 times a week.

          When I was really sleep deprived, I knew it would be 5 a day or more.

          No idea it wasn’t normal for everyone. All it is, is your hippocampus gets confused and puts a thing you’re experiencing now “Mary is in my office in a green dress holding a folder for me to sign” in a long term memory storage so it bounces back as a memory rather than real time.

          1. hayeksplosives

            So Deja vu isn’t freaky or spiritual; just a bit annoying at times.

          2. blackjack

            “Shows up as Deja Vu.” Every single time?

    7. JaimeRoberto: Gentleman, Scholar, French Tickler

      Not gonna comment. My knowledge of epilepsy is too shaky.

      1. commodious spittoon

        BOO.

    8. PudPaisley

      The strangest thing happened back in my Jr High Chess Club. Over a several week period, almost every student, including myself, had multiple seizures in that classroom.

      It always seemed to happen under the same circumstances. First, the person would bend over and take rapid breathes for 30-60 seconds, then raise up really fast while another person would grab onto their neck skin and pull very tight while the person held their breath. Not long after, the person would go into a seizure, drool, and wander off into a strange dreamland.

      Not long after, the seizures suddenly stopped and never reappeared. For the life of me I can’t figure out how that all happened.

  19. Not Adahn

    I know U2 isn’t terribly popular these days, but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EbLlgKFk9c

    Double points for the backup singer wearing what is basically the shepherd check. Poor extends across ethnic groups.

    1. Unpossible. White people stole all the world’s wealth.

      1. commodious spittoon

        I’m curious whether there’s anyone trying to work out what would be the natural state of humanity absent Europeans colonialism. Probably pretty boring, right? I mean, white people aren’t the font of all knowledge and progress, but the impetus of trans-continental travel can’t have helped but starting a knowledge boom. So what’s the next likeliest candidate? China? India?

        1. hayeksplosives

          I recommend reading Lost to the West about the Byzantine empire salvaging what they could when they knew they were going to be overrun by the Turks.

          Powerful stuff.

          Clash of Civilizations is a no-holds-barred look at the different peoples of the world and the plain fact that we are different.

        2. Suthenboy

          Most advances rely on an accumulation of smaller advances that most people hardly notice. Absent European colonialism the world would look today much like it did in the ninth and tenth centuries. I arrived at this answer partly by pulling it out of my ass and partly by assuming that in order for there to be no European colonialism the Europeans would have missed out on the things that helped them leap forward, thus they would be in the same state of backward barbarism as they were prior to the reformation, enlightenment etc….i.e. the dark ages.

          1. hayeksplosives

            Shorthand: If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants

          2. Sir Digby

            Oooh..T-shirt quote, right there.

            What?? I’m a simple man, with simple wardrobe pleasures…

          3. hayeksplosives

            You are a complex man with intriguing pleasures

          4. Sir Digby

            My vast t-shirt collection would say otherwise…

            ::hangs head in shame::

          5. hayeksplosives

            All is forgiven if you kiss the ring!

          6. Sir Digby

            Also…I thought you were against kink-shaming!

            /mustn’t mention my hockey jersey collec-DAMMIT!

          7. Sir Digby

            Ohh..A chance at redemption?? Can it be??

            Consider this buttercup puckered of for that ring!

    2. Rhywun

      I liked them before they were giant turds.

  20. DEG

    I lost that Winchester P-14 on GunBroker. It went for about $1750, which was far over my high bid.

    1. Not Adahn

      That loss was a blessing. It saved you money that could be spent on ammunition.

      1. DEG

        Every now and then 7.5mm Swiss (surplus GP-11) comes up on GunBroker. I’ve lost more than I’ve won, but I’ve managed to score about 1500 or so rounds over the last several months.

        1. Tres Cool

          A mediocre firearm and a room full of ammo is better than a high-end piece and 100 rounds.

          1. DEG

            Schmidt-Rubins (well, the ones set up for GP-11) are better than mediocre.

    1. hayeksplosives

      Hi, Q!

      1. Salutations lovely Ms. Splosives.

        1. hayeksplosives

          Thank you.

          ::flutters fan while gazing over it::

          Fun fact: I do in fact own and carry a beautiful wooden fan for warm situations .

          I am a Southern woman, after all.

          1. Rhywun

            wooden fan for warm situations

            Want.

            I bought an electic hand-fan last year for waiting underground in the subway in 100+ degrees.

            Best fucking purchase ever.

    2. DEG

      #30 is Angela White

      1. Chafed

        Who?

        1. commodious spittoon

          Some racist cracker.

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            You are clearly not familiar with her body of work!

          2. commodious spittoon

            Just because she’s a size queen doesn’t mean she really appreciates her African American partners, you fucking bigot. It just means she doesn’t fully appreciate their real potential. My God, why am I trying to educate you racist assholes.

        2. DEG

          Aussie porn star now working in the US. That picture was made into a meme. I poked around on the Intertubes a bit but couldn’t find it.

    3. Chafed

      Great song. It’s a shame they didn’t have more in them.

  21. Akira

    OT: I’ve been to two dinners where someone felt the need to blurt out, “No straws, please!” on behalf of the entire table. This is gonna be annoying.

    If plastic straws in the ocean are the big problem that they say, shouldn’t they be investigating why trash is ending up in the ocean rather than inconveniencing the whole nation by banning plastic straws?

    1. I don’t like drinking with straws at all, but I’m not going to refuse them for everybody. WTF?! I’d ask for a straw just to protest someone telling me what I can and can’t do/have.

      1. And we are graced by the radiant Moj in addition to the charming Splosivovna.

      2. Tres Cool

        /save teh turtles
        /sksksksk

      3. Akira

        Exactly. It just strikes me as incredibly rude to make that decision for everyone. If they had asked everyone if they wanted straws before the waiter arrived, I would have agreed that it’s not really necessary and it wouldn’t have been an issue. But to just decide for everyone without consulting them at all?

        Haha yes, it does make me want to carry a briefcase full of plastic straws and just bust one out at dinner, “accidentally” spilling a few dozen on the floor (“Oops, I guess those will have to go in the trash now”).

        1. straffinrun

          It’s BS because it’s so arbitrary. You could find an environmental reason to attack people for any of their possessions.

          1. Jarflax

            Why are human alterations of the environment evil and beaver dams, deer girding trees, elephants ripping them down, termite mounds, etc. natural?

          2. straffinrun

            I blame Bob Ross.

          3. Happy accident!

          4. straffinrun

            Notice how Bob talks like a NeoCon on foreign policy.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCsO56kWwTc

          5. MikeS

            Why do you hate Gaia?

      4. Tres Cool

        I’m with her. I generally dont use as straw, although the sanitary aspects can be argued.

    2. Plinker762

      I’m trying to figure out how banning straws in the US stops plastic from entering the ocean via rivers in Asia.

      1. Jarflax

        Shut up and suffer pleb!

        1. Plinker762

          I shall put on my free range hair shirt

      2. Akira

        I’m trying to figure out how banning straws in the US stops plastic from entering the ocean via rivers in Asia.

        Hmmm… So something is being released into the environment and we’re being told that it’s bad and that we should stop producing it, but the majority of it is coming from other countries that don’t give a shit, so the US totally ceasing the release of this thing would ultimately have no significant effect?

        Sounds familiar.

    3. straffinrun

      You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say: We will never forgive you.

    4. Heroic Mulatto

      I’ve been to two dinners where someone felt the need to blurt out, “No straws, please!” on behalf of the entire table.

      Christ, what an asshole!

      1. Tres Cool

        David Koresh! What a cunte!

    5. Rhywun

      I require a straw for anything in a tall glass with ice, because I don’t like drinking watery whatever that’s floating at the top.

      And if any asshole tries to make that decision for me, I WILL raise my hand and differ.

      1. Tres Cool

        2 snaps in a circle !

        1. Rhywun

          That’s right, sister.

      2. l0b0t

        Also, having spent many years in the bar and restaurant trade, I don’t really trust the care and efficacy of dish washers so I would rather not put my lips on the rims of other people’s glasses.

        1. Akira

          Yea, I’ve seen visible smudges on a lot of restaurant glassware. I’d probably prefer a straw in most cases.

          1. Jarflax

            If you smelled the guys washing those dishes you’d prefer dehydration lol.

          2. Rhywun

            Hmph. I’ve been a dishwasher. I’d like to think I did a decent job.

          3. Jarflax

            I learned many things I wish I did not know from a dishwasher at a restaurant next to a bar I ran while playing poker with their staff after closing, and one thing I did want to know.

            The thing I wanted to know was that junkies are really easy to read.

            the things I didn’t want to know included:

            1. How one went about having sex with a sheep
            2. That one could inject heroin between one’s toes, or into one’s tongue.

          4. Rhywun

            Hm. I didn’t do any of that but at your smaller joints you might find it interesting that the dishwasher is also making your salads and doing similar prep-work.

    6. Suthenboy

      “If plastic straws in the ocean are the big problem that they say, shouldn’t they be investigating why trash is ending up in the ocean rather than inconveniencing the whole nation by banning plastic straws?”

      Because it isn’t about straws, turtles or oceans. It is about inconveniencing you and making you do as your are told. Next time someone does that horseshit stand up, raise your hand and your voice and say “I will have a straw please”.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        Local city mandated restaurants must ask if you want a straw or upon request, they can’t just give you one. Because apparently if you don’t want a straw, you cant just fucking say that rather than inconveniencing everyone else.

        1. Tres Cool

          Her scars are too fresh

          2/10

          1. Rhywun

            I see a broken-arm scar on her left shoulder – I have the same one.

    1. Chafed

      It’s true.

  22. DEG

    Uh-oh

    Democratic lawmakers are once again looking to challenge New Hampshire’s status as the sole state without a seat belt law for adults.

    Rep. George Sykes, D-Lebanon, recently announced plans to introduce a bill in the 2020 legislative session requiring drivers to buckle up. He’s been followed by Rep. Skip Cleaver, D-Nashua, who also intends to sponsor legislation mandating the use of seat belts.

    “It will clearly save lives. It’s been shown to save lives,” Sykes, chairman of the House Transportation Committee, said in an interview on Friday.

    Go fuck yourself.

    That was made clear to Rep. Mary Jane Mulligan, D-Hanover, when she sponsored a seat belt law last year. The legislation was ultimately killed, with 23 Democrats joining 172 Republican to vote in opposition.

    Mulligan said she heard from several people who felt that wearing a seat belt is too uncomfortable. Others just refused to start buckling up or retorted “Live Free or Die.”

    “I am really tired of people telling me that,” she said in a phone interview on Thursday. “Who doesn’t want to be free? It’s a small group of people that try to define what freedom means for all of us.”

    Go fuck yourself.

    1. Jarflax

      It’s a small group of people that try to define what freedom means for all of us.

      Yes you evil cunte, and you are part of that group, not the people opposing you.

      1. blackjack

        Freedom is defined as ” fuck you cunte, shut up and stop mandating/prohibiting things.”

    2. Chafed

      Jeebus she is dense. She literally does not understand freedom.

    3. Ownbestenemy

      So freedom is under penalty of the law forcing a subset of humans to her whims?

      The people that want to wear the seatbelt can wear it.

    4. MikeS

      I didn’t see anyone in the article making a correlation between NH’s lower seat belt use rate and higher traffic fatalities in the state, so I’m going to assume one doesn’t exist. It’s just the “one death is too many” crowd wanting to exert more control.

      1. Jarflax

        The ‘one death is too many’ crowd also wants to ban fossil fuels which would likely lead to more deaths per year than car crashes per decade.

      2. Ownbestenemy

        Even better they cited a statistic of 140 some persons dying in automobile accidents and only 34 were NOT wearing seatbelts….so more people died wearing them than not. Just say’n

        Also…that is extremely low auto deaths to be pushing for this.

    5. Akira

      Seatbelts are one of those things that I find to be perfectly rational, but the idea of the government forcing me to do it at gunpoint is morally repugnant.

      1. Ownbestenemy

        Exactly. I jaunt over to the store that is literally a block away on a 25mph street…I am not wearing it. I travel down major streets at 45mph+ I am. Its not rocket science

      2. LJW

        They prefer you don’t wear it. They just want your money.

      3. Rhywun

        Yep.

        Moreover, they use seatbelt laws as an excuse to fuck with people.

        Laws “for your own good” are fucking evil.

    6. Suthenboy

      “I am really tired of people telling me that,” she said in a phone interview on Thursday. “Who doesn’t want to be free? It’s a small group of people that try to define what freedom means for all of us.”

      Holy shit. I mean….really….holy shit. What she is really saying there is “Shut up and do as I say”.

      She needs to be in a different line of work….maybe…garbage collection? Septic tank repair? At least she would be ;making positive contributions to society.

  23. Chafed

    L Shana Tova you heathens.

    1. Jarflax

      L’shanah tovah tikatev v’taihatem

      1. Chafed

        ^^^This guy gets it^^^

    2. MikeS

      Gute Nacht.

      1. Rhywun

        ^Ausgezeichnet

  24. LJW

    Does anyone else have an in-law or in-laws that drive them insane?Mine are in town until Friday. Which means I spend a majority of my day dreaming of getting in my car and driving away for a week alone. I get along great with my father in law. It’s my mother in law that drives me insane.

    1. When I want to get away from my family, I take my laptop and go to the library and “work.”

      1. LJW

        I wish I could but can’t leave the wife to deal with the kids.

        1. How old are the kids? Movies? Park? Museum?

    2. straffinrun

      She can only bug you as much as you let her bug you. Imagine she’s doing a parody of an annoying MIL and sit back and enjoy.

    3. Chafed

      Yes. My in laws are super proggies and MIL can’t shut up about it. What does your MIL do to drive you nuts?

      1. straffinrun

        My in laws are part of what could be called a cult. I find their nonsense amusing. Just smile and stay in your head.

        1. BakedPenguin

          Aum Shinrikyo?

  25. LJW

    Visual demonstration of the NYT becoming woke.

    https://fee.org/media/34425/nyt.jpg?width=0&height=0

    1. totally_not_an_escaped_ai

      Ha…love it! //data viz geek

      I see “micro-aggression” has taken a dive. Guess it’s no longer in the new-speak dictionary.

      1. Chafed

        The hard left doesn’t need it having moved on to impeachment.

        1. totally_not_an_escaped_ai

          That, and they probably burned too many fellow leftists with their accusations. Righties just laughed at them.

      2. Suthenboy

        I imagine the wokesters dropped it because it was too easy to make fun of.
        “Microaggression? I am microconcerned. We should take microaction against that shit.”

        People who take themselves too seriously have an Achilles heel: being laughed at.

        1. Akira

          Yea, they probably changed it to just “aggression”.

          The word microaggression intrinsically admits that it’s minuscule and insignificant.

          1. straffinrun

            If only someone would write an entire article on the subject! *mutters profanities under breath*

        2. BakedPenguin

          “Microaggression? I am microconcerned. We should take microaction against that shit.”

          LOL. Suthen, I’m stealing that.

    2. commodious spittoon

      That’s a bunch of fucked up porcupines, I tell you what

  26. Spudalicious

    Fuuuccckkk.

  27. l0b0t

    Wasting a good hour at the start of my workday completing mandatory, computer based training about cleaning up spills in my household cleanser aisle. Kill me now.

    1. Chafed

      Hey man, one day it could save your life.

      /Corporate spokesman

      1. Sir Digby

        Those cleaners are quite deadly if he were to accidentally ingest them.

        Well, there you go, l0b0t–drink that shizz. Problem solved…?

        1. l0b0t

          Most of the info is common sense but the inability to click through and do it at my own pace is exasperating. I have to sit and listen to audio narration and watch videos of people using dry sweep. I have SO much work to do after 2 days off. Sorry for ranting.

          1. Sir Digby

            Sorry for ranting.

            C’mon, l0….that’s not how you glib! Bitch away, by all means.

            Fun-ky fact: “Bitch Away” was the original title of George Harrison’s theme song for Time Bandits

    2. totally_not_an_escaped_ai

      What do you mean you can’t clean up an acid spill with a base? They, like, cancel each other out, right?

      1. Jarflax

        Bleach neutralizes ammonia.

        1. blackjack

          Especially in juvenile hall. It’ll hide the smell of pot real well. I’ve seen it.

        2. Don Escaped Texas

          joke?

          ammonia can liberate the chlorine in the hypo

          1. blackjack

            This happened IRL. It’s detailed in my one submission. What they say is true.

      2. Suthenboy

        Of course you can….put the base in a plastic bucket, open a window and toss the base onto the acid from a distance. Go for a smoke break, come back with a water hose and rinse all of the salt out the door or down a drain.

    1. CPRM

      I guess that reboot of The Critic is off the table.

    2. Sir Digby

      Lovitz is a glib! I knew it….

        1. English, motherfucker, do you speak it?

  28. @Chafed, how’d the BBQ for the wife’s bestie’s new boyfriend intro go?

    1. CPRM

      Vegan BBQ?!

      1. No, Chafed didn’t have a BBQ. There was drama involved in his being invited to a BBQ.

        1. CPRM

          A San Francisco BBQ?! Even worse!

          1. Gustave Lytton

            Nice work on the new cartoon!

          2. CPRM

            Thanks, dropped it on Youtube as to not break my monthly cartoon quota, even though it won’t air here until after the month is out. The impeachment thing dropped after I already wrote the ep and sourced the Donald clips, hopefully I did it service though.

          3. Gustave Lytton

            I was wondering about the timing. It’s like a bonus episode. And then get to enjoy it all over again on Wednesday.

          4. Sir Digby

            That is definitely on my watch list for later on tonight!

          5. CPRM

            I usually don’t release eps on youtube until after they are live here; but given I was late due to a lot of factors, I put it live to start with.

          6. Sir Digby

            San Francisco

            Where’d you get SF in this?

            There’s either a joke at play here that I’ve missed…
            Or, you know info not in play here…
            Or, you’re a weird fella.

            /I know…

          7. Chafed

            The San Francisco reference lost me too.

          8. CPRM

            Fuck both of you then!

          9. Sir Digby

            ::looks around::

            ME???

          10. CPRM

            Was looking for that part in Scrooged with the bony finger of Christmas to cum or what not, but found this instead. Merry early Christmasssss!

    2. Chafed

      @Mo. It was more concept than actual date. I think my complete disdain pretty well killed it.

      Fun fact: wifey tells me after the dust up one of divorcing friend’s children has twice attempted suicide because of the pending divorce. (Husband has moved out but has left it to wife to file. I’m not clear why but I think she told him to move out.). Also, both kids refuse to meet new boyfriend.

      I swear to f***ING doD my wife cannot think one step beyond being nice to her friend in the moment. I don’t want to get anywhere near that toxic stew.

  29. totally_not_an_escaped_ai

    Well, this is comforting.

    Planet 9 may be a black hole

    Better than SMOD?

    1. CPRM

      In my understanding, a planetary mass isn’t enough to create a black hole. But then again, in my understanding CO2 can’t cause extinction level events, so I guess I may not be Science enough.

    2. PieInTheSky

      or it is just making shit up cause we don’t know what is going on.

      Then again that may be the place the wormhole to New Earth is. Do you think the ecologists will allow colonization of New Earth?

      1. CPRM

        It’s Third Earth, and it’s filled with sexy cat people.

    1. BTW: The vein cutting thru the right side areola is seksy.

    2. Chafed

      That’s not apples and honey.

      1. I see two jumbo apples and I’ll gladly add the honey.

        1. Chafed

          Those euphemisms.

  30. Akira mentioned it in the last thread:

    https://www.gunsamerica.com/914002585/SIG-552-Commando.htm

    Ask and you shall receive; a civilian legal Sig 552.

  31. I am not not super drunk on kosher wine so all bets are off.

        1. Chafed

          Britney is looking good.

    1. Sir Digby

      Not ‘super’ super?

    2. PieInTheSky

      kosher wine is the kind where the grapes were not touched by wimminz?

  32. PieInTheSky

    Well isn’t this a lovely Monday morning for ye olde job.

    No it isn’t b but it never us

    good morning Gs

    1. Tomorrow morning is a day to ogle the megahot new interns.

      1. PieInTheSky

        I work in electronics… those are not so many. Maybe two in the whole company. Both dudes seem to work out a lot.

        1. Couple of beautiful females. One is blonde and nerdy, one is out of everyone’s league. Pilot, surfer and G**d*** wingwalker (!) with incredible body. She should be dating a pro athlete.

      2. Akira

        One of the most beautiful females I ever had the joy of laying eyes on was an 18-year old intern. She was half-Argentine and half-Malaysian. Yea. Long, straight hair like the most perfect black silk.

        She was beautiful, and not in the “wanna fuck dat ass” sense, but beautiful as in, if you wanted to persuade me that God existed, the mere fact of her beauty would not be a bad place to start.

        1. Young women have a power none will understand except those that possess it.

        2. But you did, in fact, wanna fuck dat ass though right?

          1. Akira

            I did. It was big enough to stand out from the asses of other girls, but not TOO big.

            My mind was telling me to fuck her all the time, but there was this little thought in the background that she’s too pure and beautiful to spoil with my touch. Yes, she was that beautiful.

        3. Gustave Lytton

          half-Argentine and half-Malaysian

          That combination alone has me convinced.

    2. CPRM

      ‘Something Snarky about Europe’ HAHAHA!

  33. As you grow older fear takes over your life.

    https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=uZxPkjfapck

    1. CPRM

      Then maybe you shouldn’t waste your time listening to such shitty music.

  34. Chafed

    SD congratulations on a great turn out last night. You kept things going into the wee hours.

    1. Sir Digby

      Why, thank you, my SD man….wait

      1. Sir Digby

        I was thinking I could just call you “the man from ‘a whale’s vagina‘”

        But, you know….

        1. Lookit Digby using invidio! Whadda guy…

          1. Sir Digby

            I know, right???

    2. I’d do an overnight one, but it would turn into ’70s Times Square.

      1. Sir Digby

        That’s not necessarily a bad thing, you know

  35. PSA: Use invidio.us instead of shitty youtube.

    Direct mirror but deprives evil Google of their ad revenue.

    1. Sir Digby

      huh….

    2. CPRM

      Now with only 15x the malware!

    1. dramatically affected the business and the profitability,” costing the clubs “several million dollars” a year.

      Ya don’t say.

      1. Sir Digby

        Then there must be a looot of clubs…’cause Big Amir ain’t pullin down 7 figures.

  36. I’m launching operation get CPRM and Commodious wives.

    Surely between the not insignificant Glib resources we have, we can pull this off.

    Good Glibs such as these need counterparts with squishy bits!

    Who’s with me?!

    1. straffinrun

      What did those two ever do to you? Harsh.

      1. Sir Digby

        How about “paramours”?

        1. Slut receptacles?

          1. Genetic source code compilers?

          2. straffinrun

            How is WordPress not giving you the “You’re coming too fast” warning?

          3. Protein ingestion ports?

          4. Love snot socket?

          5. Hot salt soup pot?

          6. White grave boat?

          7. straffinrun

            That makes sense. “Slut receptacles” would be a dumpster behind Toys R Us.

          8. Sir Digby

            How is WordPress not giving you the “You’re coming too fast” warning?

            What, Q??

        2. straffinrun

          Nice. We can find some at the haberdashery.

    2. CPRM

      Yeah, I don’t know to whether to see this as love or hate. Whatever, I’m bored with life, go ahead. I like dark hair. A mix of Lucy Lawless and Rachel Stevens would be great. Now that you’re on that, I’m just going to go to bed, have her on my doorstep promptly at 11am tomorrow.

      1. I’m dead serious. A dood like you shouldn’t be alone. Have TPTB send me your info. It’s on.

        1. Sir Digby

          Dang…matchmaker, here!

        2. Whattayoo now, a yenta?

          1. Sir Digby

            “Hush, Harriet! That’s a sure way to get him killed!”

  37. straffinrun

    Just saw this poster for SDF recruitment. Like how they squeezed in the imperial flag in the background.

    https://imgur.com/a/YLKVlrn

    1. Sir Digby

      They transform, right? Robotech fighters…

      1. Gustave Lytton

        Yes, their alternate form is a costly boondoggle.

        *cue FdA signal*

        1. Sir Digby

          Gerwalk mode IS kinda complicated…

    2. Gustave Lytton

      And I though the US Army’s recruiting media campaign has been not so great.

      1. Sir Digby

        What are you talking about? It’s a classic!

        1. Tejicano

          Talking about “classic” – have you seen the uniforms the US Army is changing to next year? Colors and style are totally retro – like post WWI era uniforms.

          1. Tejicano

            They’re calling them “pinks and greens” – same term as was used in the 1940’s

            https://sgtsdesk.com/2018/11/21/new-army-pink-green-uniform/

          2. Sir Digby

            Damn! I actually like that. Do you know the reason for “Pink”, by any chance?

            I would look it up, but….you know.

          3. Tejicano

            As I understand it the trousers have a pink shade to them – not just a plain tan color.

          4. Sir Digby

            Ah! I couldn’t quite tell.

            Well, screw this monitor*, then. It must be in solidarity with CPRM’s.

            *not you, unless that’s your thing.

          5. Tejicano

            Yeah, it is a bit snazzy – they did their best to echo their own history rather than copy the Marine green uniform. I like these pinks ‘n greens more than the current Army blue uniform which has a white shirt with a black tie – like they didn’t know how to come up with a shirt/tie combo that would look like a uniform so they fucking gave up and went with the simplest combo possible.

          6. Gustave Lytton

            I do like them overall and glad to see that it will be for both. The original pinks and greens was an officers’ uniform. And good to see the return of the cunt cap. I liked the green service uniform but there was a definite difference in the modern polyester blend one and earlier all wool ones.

            Things I would change: ankle boots instead of low quarters, standard service cap instead of the Army Air Corps crush look, go back to the rolled edge service cap for women

    3. Tejicano

      Dood. I hate to break it to you but they still fly that flag on their ocean going vessels.

      1. BakedPenguin

        “There is..a house..in New Kofu – they call the Rising Sun…”

        1. Sir Digby

          ::slow clap::

          You win this time, BP.

          THIS time….

      2. Gustave Lytton

        The SDF and ground component use a variant of the rising sun flag as well.

      3. straffinrun

        The navy wasn’t the psychos the imperial army was, so I suppose it’s not terrible.

    4. BakedPenguin

      次回は、真珠湾が動作します!

      1. Gustave Lytton

        虎!虎!虎!

        1. BakedPenguin

          Great film.

          1. BakedPenguin

            Well, actually a good film. It can be slow. I watched it as a kid fascinated by WWII, and my lens in colored by that.

        2. straffinrun

          猫!猫!猫!

          1. Tejicano

            Sounds like a lot of pussy!

          2. straffinrun

            鯛!鯛!鯛!

  38. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

    Whelp, I’m now just south of Vatican City in a nice little place called Residenza Madri Pie. Full of German religious pilgrims, and really nice staff. Room is comfortable and microscopic, but that’s a tourist’s life inside the Aurelian Wall for you. Hope everyone is doing okay. Ciao for now.

    1. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

      Vatican City’s jaw-dropping, BTW.

      1. Sir Digby

        Yes–Good and safe travels, BEAM.

      2. straffinrun

        Not frock dropping?

    2. BakedPenguin

      I’ve been in Euro hotel rooms. Good thing I pack light. Have a great time BEAM.

  39. straffinrun

    Fucking consumption tax goes up to 10% in 7 hours.

    1. BakedPenguin

      Greta already told you to stop consuming! Follow her lead!

      Also.

    2. Sir Digby

      Straff–how does that tax work there? IOW, how does it apply? To whom does it (typically) apply? Any differences than one enacted Stateside?

      1. Tejicano

        This is consumption tax – added automatically to any purchase. They will hold off on adding it to groceries – for now. But that will be coming later regardless.

        1. Gustave Lytton

          And to go food from restaurants.

          https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190911/p2a/00m/0na/005000c

          What are establishments going to do if the customer orders it as to go and then plops down at a table?

          1. straffinrun

            Jinx

        2. straffinrun

          Says that eating in restaurant is 10% but to go is still 8%. Weird.

      2. straffinrun

        Trying to read the article now. It’s quite complicated. They’ve got a ton of carve outs. House loans have some type of deferment, day care has an exception etc.

          1. straffinrun

            Guess I should’ve just linked that. I like how they call keeping the current 8% a “reduced rate”.

        1. straffinrun

          Here’s the chart if you wanna wade through it. It’s convoluted AF.

          https://imgur.com/a/4mug2RF

        2. Gustave Lytton

          Almost forgot the government scheme of extra points for cashless payments aka their incentive to be able to track and audit more transactions for payment of the tax.

          1. Sir Digby

            Dear God…what an absolute crap-fest!

    3. PieInTheSky

      what is the final value?

    4. Gustave Lytton

      Fuckity. Forgot to place an order before the deadline.