Huh, what? Sloopy is what? AWOL? And, how is this MY problem? What? Morning links? Huh?
Oh, OK, OK, I’ll drag myself out of a nice cozy slumber to provide links for these purported humans.
In case anyone was wondering about Wonder Dog and her Ice Cube Tray after OMWC’s post yesterday, here is an Artist’s Rendering of WD and her Ice Cube Tray, with which she sometimes sleeps. (Which she also loved in the Midwest, where it most decidedly was not 95F in October. WTF AZ.)
Um. OK. Links. Lessee.
And I don’t want to hear a word about any repeat links. Just be glad you are getting something at which to snark!
A corrupt Justice Minister? Nah, unheard of!
This from my MIL’s former neighborhood. “During a 7:30 p.m. news conference 4 1/2 hours after shooting reports, Boca Raton Police Chief Dan Alexander told reporters one unidentified man experienced a trauma injury after hitting his head on a door at Town Center at Boca Raton, rather than being shot.” Um, not the same as being shot and causing a panic. Morons.
Oh, FFS. (I homeschooled.)
Oh, just stop it.
JFC. I’m done.
I’ve most likely posted this before, but it pretty much sums up my life today. Hope your day is better than mine is shaping up to be!
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474 responses to “Monday Morning Seriously-I-Have-To-Pinch-Hit-Again? Links”
A corrupt Justice Minister? Nah, unheard of! – and in Korea of all places. I never.
JFC. I’m done. -give it a couple of generations…
Honestly at 22 he can still go long way with his fathers influence. Lets see at 62 how things are. Also a couple of failed ventures does not make one an idiot.
Fortunes are usually squandered by the third generation. The top 10% is always churning and burning – the article is horseshit.
That’s my understanding too: Freakonomics did an interesting podcast on this.
Envy sells clicks.
Unless the money is stashed offshore and the idiot great-grandkids only get an allowance on the interest. (Kennedys)
Yep. “Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations,” as the saying goes.
I actually agree with some of the things in the article, I probably just drastically differ on what to do about it.
Hey SP, Imma’ deliver my SNP late, just wanted to let you know…
Huh, what? Sloopy is what? AWOL?
The Astros seem to have one and also there was NFL and the Jets beat the Patriots or something. In sporting news a football player seems to be duck call champion, but not knowing the sport I don’t see how this is relevant.
The Jets beat Dallas.
Potato tomato
Edible Nightshade
to paraphrase the old saying, all Nightshades are edible, some only once
Edible includes “does not kill you”.
Now what do you serve next to duck? Potatoes or tomatoes? Both? Neither? I say it works well with some spinach or asparagus. Although there are duck fat potatoes to consider.
I went duck hunting one time. By the time I bought the small game license, the wild fowl license, and the duck stamp, the chest waders, the duck decoys, the ghillie suit, the non-lead shotgun shells etc. ; it was the most expensive meat I think I’ve ever eaten. Probably $150 for 4 small breasts (maybe 16 ounces).
I corned the breasts, then smoked them. Served them with duck fat fried potatoes and a salad. It was good but not worth the money.
Yes, but a lot of that was sunk cost! Go a few more times and you can get the cost down to $75/lbs.
The walleyes I ate in Canada were $100 a lb, the camaraderie, priceless. After 20 plus trips I was worried the old guys would fall out of the boat…
Celebrating Wop Invasion day?
Golly, what a shame. However shall we move on?
Isn’t keeping Turkey out of Syria the Syrian government’s job anyway? Let the Turks, Russians and Syrians chew on each other if they simply must.
I don’t get it either, but I can’t be bothered to edumacate myself on it.
*shrug*
We were supposed to be upset because the sovereignty of Syria was being violated by an unwelcome foreign power.
Also did you all hear? Fortnite is down! Fortnite is down. Or was. I dunno. What is Fortnite?
The latest massive online video game craze.
It’s addictive! It’s ruining kids! They’ll never be functional!
/Tipper Gore off
My children (16 and 12) both hate Fortnite with a white-hot fury for some reason.
It’s a Battle Royal game that has taken in an obscene amount of money on cosmetic items which funded the Epic Game Store. The company behind it is the same that created the Unreal engine, and has sold a portion of itself to the Chinese company Tencent. It’s amazingly popular among the current youths, especially since you can play it on pretty much any device with a display and a modern processor.
It’s two weeks.
No – that’s fortnight.
I can spell-pedant, too. ::sticks out tongue::
Proof the world is doomed.
Helloooo. Where is everyone? Hungover? It is Monday. Rise and shine!
Gmornin. I’m cooking up breakfast and enjoying the 46* air blowing through my house.
Have you considered closing the windows?
Why? It feels great!
Mornin’, Pie! I’m here! Maybe for the whole morning! I work for a financial institution, and because the Federal Reserve is closed today for Columbus Day, no transactions will be processed. Ergo, even though I don’t even do transactions, I get the day off! One more day of indolence and sloth!
Ohh you people have a holiday going on. I see.
Meh – really only an excuse for a day off for Federal employees. Possibly the most minor holiday “observed.” No traditional festivities outside maybe a few large urban areas with sizable Italian-American populations.
And people who work at the airport.
“No traditional festivities outside maybe a few large urban areas with sizable Italian-American populations”
And a few protests with the rubric of “Indigenous Peoples Day.”
Don’t forget the day off for state employees.
Indian casinos closed?
It’s only government offices and banks that are closed. So really, ((those)) people have a holiday. The rest of us are at work.
be a good worker bee
I’m not.
Oooh yeah, Columbus Day, I was looking for an excuse to fuck off today, That will do nicely.
I have as much Native American blood in me as Warren, do I get to take the day off to protest the deplorable holiday?
No you have to beat yourself 1/1024th of the way to death, then rape yourself on a smallpox blanket!
We are not on Romanian time.
Well if it is past 6 AM Americanese time y’all should be up and at ’em
Depends on where in America you are. Here in the Eastern time zone, it’s already 08:30.
Just past 6 in the land of fruits and nuts.
Do not use slurs please.
I get to, I’m at least 90% Californian.
He didn’t slur. He articulated quite well
How bout the Nationals? I’m still uncomfortable but feeling pretty good. Astros vs Yankees has 6 or 7 game feel to it. Also that Trump/Kingsman meme was spicy. I found it hilarous and horryfing. I find it especially juicy that the people clutching their pearls the most will also be the ones hyping and broadcasting it the most hoping with fated breath that it truly does inspire some heinous acts. Also I expect this to be a story longer than the Hogkins baseball field attempt, so basically 72 hours.
I think The Nationals played a music festival in Bucharest this year
No wait, that was singular, The National. Never mind.
Better than The Internationale playing there again.
The tumpers sure can fucking meme. I also think I’d have the same reaction no matter who the politician was being portrayed. The part where Mitt Romney stabbed Trump in the back and Bernie got shot by the DNC had me rolling. There was so much shit going on in that Clip it was something.
And yet none of them will consider the original source material’s violence.
(which is not a big deal to me.)
The Nationals? Oh you mean the EXPOS?
Dave Martinez played for them. I remember him being a fast base running weak hitter.
Seriously, I’m not overly surprised what the Nationals are doing. The parity in the NL outside the Dodgers in the regular season was palpable. Classic case of where a hot team could easily roll and they did.
At least Houston didn’t waste Verlander’s start. But that Yankees line up. Jesus. The Astros HAVE to win Game 3 or else this can go five or six even more than six or seven.
Stanton is made of glass. But yeah the Yankees lineup is fearsome. Their SP is not good but jesus, that bp.
Their SP is not good
Ours is better.
IIRC, the Single-A Dayton Dragons outdrew the Expos in attendance during the Dragons’ first season in existence/(one of) the Expos’ last season(s) in Montreal.
This is most likely true. I went to the games in their last days because I was a real fan.
The city abandoned them blaming everyone under the sun except themselves.
It’s why a) I don’t think baseball would work here anymore because the mindset hasn’t changed and quite frankly I don’t think they deserve a team. Montrealers are lousy sports fans. Contrary to the belief MLB should come back because we’d support a team, I don’t think it would and b) hate fake fans who feel entitled to a team back. Every time I see someone in an Expos cap I want to ask, where were you when fans were needed the most? I remember Pedro Martinez pleading with fans to set aside their grievances and just come out to support the team.
They. Never. Did.
They’re all pretenders. Just like how everyone in France claims to have been part of ‘la resistance’ here, everyone claims they were a fan all along. Bull shit.
That’s why they lost the team and that’s why they don’t deserve one.
After a little research, it seems that it was AVERAGE attendance in 2001 where the Dragons beat the Expos: Dayton, ’01 – 8.325/game. Expos, ’01 – 7.935/game.
I’m sorry you don’t have a local team anymore, since you were a genuine fan. What were the “grievances” Martinez referenced?
Tell us how you really feel.
He’s obviously hot for the Nats.
A bold and centered one, too!
Ah yes this amount of hatred warms my cold dark heart.
Ancient Teeth Reveal Social Stratification Dates Back to Bronze Age Societies
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-teeth-reveal-social-stratification-dates-back-to-bronze-age-societies/
Makes sense. This was after the evil kurgans swept the peaceful egalitarian matriarchal societies of Old Europe bringing The Patriarchy and every evil since (all things bad derive from the patriarchy)
Make the Tuatha-de-Danann Great Again!
By analyzing the DNA of more than 100 ancient skeletons …, the researchers determined the sex … of individuals ….
They printed this ungoodthink in Scientific American?
Good morning, SP! And welcome to the working week, at least for my fellow assholes who don’t recognize this as some bullshit holiday. You know who you are!
Thanks for pinch hitting, SP, your pup is adorable. My late GSD loved ice cubes. If she heard the clink of ice from the kitchen, she would come running. It sure was an economical treat.
These fucking articles about parenting are tiresome. We’ve known for about a
Fucking Mondays…
We’ve known for about a hundred years that helicopter, bulldozer, lawnmower parenting is counterproductive (if not outright harmful), but because we are well-dressed apes, we can’t shake it. The best gift you can give your kids is a sense of responsibility and a little fucking HUMILITY! No, Johnny, you can’t change the fucking world, but you sure can make your small part of it better.
Argh. I think your mood has rubbed off, SP.
My contribution.
My God! They got Tundra!!!!!
*NOTE* I am not using my editorial powers to make sure my comment was timely. I will take my 2 minute miss and go sit in the box. And feel shame.
I blame the goddamn weather.
Well, how can we argue with that?
*makes room in penalty box for Animal*
The puppy is the greatest.
She thinks you’re delicious.
I get that a lot.
Cheer up, man, it’s La Cosa Nostra’s Birthday. Or, it would be if such a thing ever existed. We’re just patriotic immigrants, who meet regularly to share opportunities and help each other out. Unless you have a warrant, there will be no more questions.
Thank you for stepping up, SP. The music link was wonderful! I’ll have to share it with Mr. GT. In all his time as a gigging musician – starting from when he was an early teen whose mother was driving him to the seedy side of town – I bet he’s never played one in a menswear store.
was this covered?
Doctors warn women not to use toothpaste to ‘tighten their vaginas’
https://nypost.com/2019/10/11/doctors-warn-women-not-to-use-toothpaste-to-tighten-their-vaginas/
There’s a dentata joke in there somewhere.
As well as a minty fresh one.
?
I didn’t refresh before posting.
/kicks a rock
*whistle*
“Minor penalty, Neph. Two minutes, failure to refresh!”
Minty fresh!
https://twitter.com/HealthyVagoo
“Abandoned by U.S. in Syria, Kurds Find New Ally in American Foe”
The music never stops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6XbDol9Mlo
This would not have happened if only they gave Greta the Nobel Peace prize
Nice AND apropos! Can’t help but suspect, though, that it was trying to capitalize on popularity of previously-released “Tennessee Waltz.”
Sounds good to me. I honestly don’t know why we are supposed to hate Syria so much.
Because Aleppo?
/GayJay
Also inspired by the lynx.
Low-level lead exposure and mortality in US adults: a population-based cohort study
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(18)30025-2/fulltext
That’s all very nice, but what I want to know is whence all the dain bramage??
Facebook
Pro Tip: If your interior or exterior paint has begun to crack and peel off in little squares and rectangles, not thin irregular strips, it most likely has lead in it. Use thick plastic to tent in and isolate the area, cover your skin, put on a respirator, and use a spray bottle to mist down the area before scraping and sanding to keep the dust from spreading.
/Lead-Safe Certified Painter
Am I the only one who pretty much figures that the amount of information
gained from an article posted in the lancet is zero?
Plans for the day:
Trip to the liquor store
Trip to the gun range
Grill burgers for lunch & steaks for dinner.
Drink the liquor and then you can shoot the empty bottles !
Also red meat KILLS poor cows
Rich ones too.
Your MANNING is off the charts.
We already checked off that other thing this morning. ?
IYKWIMAITTYD.
You’re never too old for right-hand shame in the shower.
Doesn’t leave much time for doing a line of blow off a stripper’s ass.
Supernerds
https://twitter.com/Neveth/status/1183436178575503362
I went to a Renaissance Faire this weekend just so I could see people whiter than me.
LOL. I don’t think we’re going to get to the PA one this year. We try to go every couple years. It’s always enjoyable.
Is that even possible?
/very white dude.
Oh. The Kurds found new allies? Because the ever shifting schemes of alliance never happens in the Middle-East. /twirls hair chewing bubble gum. Blow bubble. Giggles.
It’s not that they find skies new allies. It’s with the arch foes Syria. Backed by the ROOSHANS!! You know the guys who have been destroying ISIL, so totally we will see a resurgence there.
Kurds inhabit four countries. If America was to get involved in that mess, it could potentially involve Iraq and/or Iran.
Kurdistan is not exactly a small territory and the ones fighting in Turkey are, from what I read, militia on Turkish land.
Ass seen on the web
Turkey is going on the offensive… Thanksgiving is cancelled.
As goddamnit. As.
Works either way.
Paging Q …
Muppets don’t chew gum.
I got this piano here playing this tune there. It goes something like….Happy Thanksgiving to me. Happy thanksgiving to…..me. Happy thanksgiving to……/looks up at glibs…..me. Happy thanksgiving to ME. /hits random key on piano. Gently closes piano, passes hand over caressing it. Looks back one more time.
What’s a Canadian got to be thankful for?
America.
Hockey.
Poutine. Tim Horton’s Timbits. Whisky.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Their dollar is still worth more than the peso?
Maple syrup?
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving. Be sure to remember how thankful you are for high taxes, black faced prime ministers, human rights commissions, and Canadian hockey teams finding it nearly impossible to win the Stanley Cup.
I felt bad for the browns yesterday, but even with the bad calls, you can’t throw 4 interceptions and expect to win.
They are close to being a bona fide good team, but their margin for error is still too slim.
Nope. The Landry blindside block call was BS, and broke up a drive. However, the turnovers are what cost the Browns the game (the time management near the end of the second half didn’t help either). I wasn’t expecting the Browns to win, but allowed myself hope after that first quarter. At least Baker’s got the bye week to recover from whatever he did to his hip/leg.
The Eagles played like hot garbage. Their drop ball specialist receivers and horrible backfield are putting too much pressure on Wentz’s shoulders. But they got jobbed on some PI non-calls.
In the Cowboys-Jets game, the Cowoverrated got PI calls that were just football plays. The refs handed them a shot for a tie game.
It’s hilarious to me and absolutely meaningless but the Redskins as terrible and bad as they are (they almost lost to the f’n dolphins and probably would have in ot if the Dolphins didn’t try to go for two at the end) only two games out of first in the NFC East.
On the bright side, the
SavagesRedskins finally won a game. Now if only my alma mater could…Yeah it’s kind of good thing bad thing though. They just barely eked out a win against the worst team in the league and now the front office will claim victory and coaching is the problem the whole way to at best a 4-12 season.
The Browns offensive line was not good last year and they weakened it in the off season. Right now the pass plays they are using take a little time to develop, which means the offensive line has to pass block longer. Which they struggle at. So Baker can’t sit still in the pocket, which decreases his accuracy and can shrink the field the defense has to defend.
And I think the Browns bought into the pre-season hype big time.
I know a lot of the fans bought into the pre-season hype. There were people talking about going 16-0 and the like. All I want is a winning season (which we still have a chance for). At least the last half of the season looks a lot easier for the Browns, and hell, with the weakness in the division, we may still win it.
To a certain extent, It doesn’t matter if the fans buy into the hype, but the players and the coaches better not. They are playing sloppy football and committing far too many penalties.
Freddy Kitchens got a lot of credit for the run the Browns made in the second half of last year and not the actual head coach at the time, who is doing a pretty good job with the New York Jets defense.
I think Kitchens and OBJ bought into the hype. I thought that Williams deserved the chance to be head coach this year, but understand that there’s some backstory there that makes that unlikely in the league. Kitchens has made some glaring head coach mistakes (such as the challenge on the 1 yard line play with Chubb on Sunday).
I’m hoping a lot of this is the youth and inexperience of the team as a whole, and it cleans up over the rest of this year. I’ll be judging harshly the game against the Patriots after the bye, but I really don’t want to have to switch coaches (or QB’s) again.
I hadn’t realized before how many Green Bay back-ups had played or would go on to play for the Browns.
Hate to ruin an upbeat Monday, but yesterday Mom passed away in her sleep. She finally succumbed to cancer. When they sent her home to hospice in late August the docs told her she had a week to a month to live. Like the contrarian she always was, she managed to ignore them and make the most of the last few months. The only positive of this whole experience is that we were able to spend a lot of time with her and let her know how much we loved her.
She was doing pretty well up until this last week. The hospice care workers have been awesome about giving her as much pain medication as it took to keep her comfortable. This last week though, she finally couldn’t go anymore. Her passing was a blessing at the end.
*It wouldn’t be a Glib posting is something tasteless wasn’t said, so her goes: The last hours of her life were spent watching the Vikes beat the Eagles with all of us sitting around her. Afterwards we all made the joke about the shock of Cousins actually playing well was too much for her system and that is what finally did her in.
Sorry to hear, Jimbo. My condolences.
So sorry, your Holiness. Hospice nurses do God’s work. Glad you all could be near her at the end.
My condolences
Sorry for your loss PJ.
Sorry to hear that….but it is good you got plenty of time together.
So sorry 🙁
Sorry for your loss
Damn dude.
Very sorry to hear that.
Sorry to hear that Pope Jimbo.
My condolences.
Your family sounds exactly like mine.
Sorry for your loss, sounds like she died about as best as one can, good on you and yours for spending the time with her.
Shameless plug. If any of the Minnesoda or NoDak glibs are looking for a place to throw money at, The Hospice Care of the Red River would be a good place.
I have no idea how those fine people manage to do their jobs and stay sane, but they did a great job with our family over the last few months.
Sorry for your loss PJ. Sometimes those hospice workers help people survive. My sister’s mother-in-law lasted ten months in hospice. When my brother decided on hospice the workers were great but he had his mind made up and was determined to go quickly.
Sorry for your loss.
Sorry to hear that. I’m glad she got good care.
Sorry for your loss. Mama Tres went in Hospice, and I too wonder how they can do that job.
Condolences.
I echo what the others have said. My best to the rest of the family. You know the road to my house as necessary
Jimbo, really sorry to hear. Your family is in our prayers.
Nice that you could spend the time with her at the end, sorry for your loss.
Condolences, Pope. Hadn’t seen you around much and figured something was keeping you away the last few weeks. Take care of yourself.
Sorry to hear, Jimbo.
I’m so sorry. That’s rough, but better knowing that her passing was a blessing for her than not.
I’m so sorry for the loss of your Mom, Jimbo. *hugs*
Sorry to hear that
Sorry to hear that. Condolences.
Sorry for you loss. Fuck cancer.
Sorry to hear about your loss,
but hey Vikes won!
Belated condolences, your holiness. She is home now.
Condolences.
Did anyone watch El Camino over the weekend?
I thought it was…fine. Not the amazing cinematic experience a lot of people are claiming, but it was a nice night cap for Breaking Bad fans.
I watched and had the same reaction as you. Enjoyable, I liked seeing Jessie’s story play out fully.
I really wanted to know if Huell is still waiting in that apartment though.
Mammary Monday rides again!
https://tinyurl.com/y2ed2ktl
… too much ink ruining good skin.
Who?
Sunday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) weighed in on the impact of President Donald Trump withdrawing United States troops from northern Syria.
Klobuchar said on MSNBC’s “Kasie DC” that Trump’s decision to withdraw is “immoral,” and it will result in Israel wondering if the United States is truly their ally because he is not putting the United States or its allies first.
“[Trump] didn’t have to do this — just like he didn’t have to get out of the Iranian agreement or the climate change agreement or suck up to Vladimir Putin every single day,” Klobuchar stated. “He does not put our country first. He does not put our allies first. And my problem with all of this. If you’re sitting over there in Israel, you start to wonder, ‘Is America really our ally?’”
Democrats care about Israel now?
I am sure she explain how TEAM BLUE LUVS ((ISRAEL)). Any time now. Yep, in just a minute…
The Israelis probably appreciate Syria and Turkey going at it. It keeps the action away from them.
Putting America first means sticking it in crazy.
“suck up to Vladimir Putin every single day”
:Eyeroll:
That’s a mighty specious and spurious correlation there Amy. Here. Throw this binder at someone.
They’re still pissed about Nixon pulling out of Viet Nam.
They are still pissed about John pulling out of Becky.
Your avatar?
Oh, just stop it.
Does anyone even know why we are an enemy of Syria? (rhetorical question, I just wish the american public would be asking that)
Bullshit. Because between Turkey, Syria, and Russia, they can’t handle it? Our 50 troops were the only thing stopping the terrorists. Right.
Most Americans don’t know where Syria is, much less about their history as a Soviet/Russian client state.
Good point. I always loved geography as a kid, so it is hard to remember most people are geographic illiterates.
#metoo
I got an atlas for Christmas when I was like six.
Fun exercise. At a party, if you ask five Syrians or Lebanese ‘why America’ and you will get five different answers. And then those five will argue between each other.
True story.
And you want to go fight over there.
How many different factions exist in Lebanon and Syria? I’ve lost track.
It’s somewhere between (population / 2) and (population / 3).
Higher, there’s no limit to the number of factions any individual can join.
Rufus: Join my faction!
Glib: How many are you?
Rufus arms spread wide; smile wider.
Rufus: You’re looking at him!
Glib: Pass.
Rufus: Wait! There’s free deep dish in the fridge!
If it has black olives, you’ve got a deal.
litmus test: does it have pineapple on it?
My father in law (may he RIP) was Lebanese and President of his Church. He was convinced they gave him cancer they were so impossible to please and get to agree on anything. Hyper-rational, calm and Canadian-born, whenever he’d get one person or group to agree, another would oppose ‘just because’. Mostly because of ‘he’s Egyptian!’ so that means I have to go against it. That kind of tribal nonsense.
He told me, ‘and then you wonder why’.
The worst people were the ones who were being difficult to be difficult despite total agreement who tell him, ‘I wasn’t being difficult!’ after he’d ask them why they voted the way they did in private.
who’d tell him
I want to add. I think the USA probably gets this dynamic. It’s just that, and this is just me spit balling, they calculate war in perpetuity is good for military business (or some variation thereof), whereas a guy like Trump thinks it’s retarded.
US and Syria are natural enemies. Like brother and sisters. Or Japanese and Scots
Or libertarians and other libertarians! Damn libertarians ruined libertarianism!!!
Damascus ‘awrance!
Association of Neurocognitive and Physical Function With Gait Speed in Midlife
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2752818
TL:DR, Dumb people walk slow and need to get out of my way.
Sometimes I feel like ambling, sometimes I’m in a hurry. Guess I’ll die someday.
“Perspective: you’re probably an asshole if you don’t leave 20% tip, but you’re probably an asshole if you think you’re entitled to a 20% tip”
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1183716787973754880
Fuck off
‘You’ll tip me, and you will fucking like it!’
-Half of wait staff who post online
Er. No.
My mother didn’t care for a waiter not too long ago and she gave him 15%. Her sister did the same. They wanted to give 10% but social ‘stigma’ prevented it.
My wife is like that. She’d prefer to not make a scene and just pay the 20%. I’m more willing to not. It’s not like they’re going to remember you after they complain to their colleagues about how ‘cheap’ we were. How about you don’t act like an indifferent dick? Huh? Eh? Hm?
My father no tipped the waiter at Arnaud’s in New Orleans back in the 80’s on a several hundred dollar bill. The waiter actually followed us out of the restaurant to ask why, to which my father loudly replied “The service was slow, the food sucked, and you were paying attention to the drunks at the next table instead of taking care of us.”
I haven’t had really bad service since the early 00s at an Applebee’s.
“The service sucked, here’s a buck”. Written on the check.
Check the fucken poet here!
My mother didn’t care for a waiter not too long ago and she gave him 15%.
You are so Canadian.
I once gave a dime tip because the server brought the wrong food and told me to eat it anyway.
In Quebec, there’s a 15% sales tax. Add a 20% tip and you’re at 35% before you even sit down and fart on the chair.
It’s retarded.
15%? I wish / civilized European
But in a North America context it’s way out there. Highest on the continent (excluding failed, narco-state Mexico).
Well yes but there are 3 countries total on the continent. That makes you square in the middle
You forgot Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador, and Honduras.
You don’t count Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, etc?
I had gone with “The land mass” and left off the islands, yes.
But if you want to include the islands, there’s more than I can actually remember. Damn caribbean
Thus the “etc.”
I have difficulty remember which islands are their own countries or still colonies of someone (e.g. BVI), and where that places them on a list like this…
Well central America does not cont as North America
Why?
Seems silly to make it a third continent. Geographically it is well north of the equator, and most of it north of the narrowest point on panama, so makes sense to me to lump it with everything else which is ‘north’.
Count them as south america then
Those countries are technically North America but in social parlance grouped as a Central America (which officially isn’t a continent) region.
They’re also serve as a funnel to South America. Look at the map. Funnel.
Hm. Funnel cake*.
*Haven’t had one since I was a kid.
Where was I?
It is what I say it is. And I say all those countries are Kiosks.
Isn’t America *technically* in the middle?
On that theory, aren’t everything but Canada and Panama in the middle?
Depends. I find the practice of baristas and cashier’s at a fast food joint asking for a tip abhorrent. You haven’t done shit but make me hot chocolate.
They all make a living wage here in New York (will be 13.75* in December), so I feel much less inclined to dish out tips these days.
*It really rankles me that this is about twice what I made starting out as a kid, and almost as much as I made as an Engineering intern. Then I remember that my nieces are having a hard time finding jobs even in this economy because they’re under 18.
When I was in CA recently, the restaurants all seemed to have a surcharge to cover the minimum wage increase. I deducted it from my tip.
what if the baristas are female, hot and topless?
Just the tip then.
applause
^^^
local burger chain got new POS card reader. It demands that you choose a tip amount (including 0). Fuck you. This isn’t sit down service with a waiter.
I understand that you’re frustrated with the card reader, but that’s no reason to use profanity.
I read it as piece of shit as well!
Carman: I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding about tipping in America. Diners have been led to believe that tipping should be based on the quality of the service. But this is not the reason we tip. We tip because restaurateurs in America have shifted the burden of paying for some of their labor costs to diners. So when you don’t tip, it affects the wages of servers.
There is definitely a fundamental misunderstanding here.
“America have shifted the burden of paying for some of their labor costs to diners.”
As opposed to being paid by the magical emplyer money tree.
Why yes. The shift happened about 150 years ago.
Wet streets cause rain.
One of my favorite restaurants opened (https://northernwaterssmokehaus.com/) a satellite location in a tony neighborhood next to a college. They had an explicit no tipping policy because they paid their servers “a living wage”. The satellite location lasted less than a year. Even with their inflated food prices, they couldn’t make the economics work.
You mean Lefty economics don’t actually result in productive businesses? Color me shocked.
My friends went to a “co-op” restaurant on a trip to Nashville one time. The place was 75% empty, but it took about 20 minutes just to get seated and give their drink orders. They ordered their food, but they waited about 45 more minutes and it never came. There was a sort of window through which you could see the kitchen, and the cooks (in dreadlocks and tie-die shirts) were just standing around doing nothing. They told the waitress they were just going to leave; she was sympathetic and apologetic about the whole ordeal and comped their drinks.
Speaking of the service industry. I waited and bartended in college. Recently had a discussion with a lefty who enlightened me on the fact the places I worked at were stealing from me by not paying me a living wage and that the dated tip system was a way for the employer to shift employee pay onto the customer.
What happens to pay when there are no customers?
Sounds like libsplaining to me. Did you tell them to take there know-it-all-ness and shove it?
That and I advised him that I made $15-$30 an hour, which wouldn’t be possible if I were forced into a set minimum wage.
I hate that argument.
Yea, no shit – businesses shift costs of everything onto the customer. That’s the crux of the entire relationship between businesses and customers. Do they think that if tipping were abolished and servers were paid a regular wage, the payroll costs are somehow not paid by the customer??
Wages are paid out of the fatcat owner’s pockets.
This is such a joke. Servers at any high turnover type restaurant, or any high end restaurant are making MUCH more than $15/hr. Bartenders? If you have had a bar tending job you know what you made even if the IRS doesn’t, if not I’m not going to out you, but let’s just say that the only people in the 80’s who could afford to do more coke than bartenders worked on Wall Street.
I was a busboy at a fancy Mexican restaurant in the 80’s. I typically bussed for 2-3 waitrons per night. They were expected to share 10% of their tips with me. I KNOW most of them skimmed me, and I still made $150-200 a night.
I know that servers at a local Mexican restaurant (very casual place; not remotely upscale) can average $17 per hour during a dinner rush. That’s pretty damn good for a job that almost anyone can get. And it’s probably a great job for college students or people who just need a second job.
I’m pretty sure restaurateurs would be more choosy about their staff if they’re forced to pay $15 per hour, and this option will be crossed off the list. And all those people who need a flexible position with decent pay will be just the latest victims of the Leftist credo, “if it’s not perfect for everyone, it shouldn’t be permitted for anyone.”
I generally leave 18-20% if the service is adequate. 15 if it is less than. 10 if it sucks.
10 if it sucks.
And even then, $10 for an hour’s worth of work from one table seems pretty good.
%
Oh yeah, derp.
A friend who moved to Seattle a few years ago said that a byproduct of the $15 minimum wage is that there is zero concept of customer service now.
From the WaPo twit:
That’s nice. The US is not Japan, though. Eliminate tipping and you’re not going to get “top service and quality every time”.
Our discussion the other day convinced me that tipping is far superior to massive taxes or ‘service fees’.
Agree 100%.
We stayed at Hilton in Tokyo the very first time I traveled to Japan. A bellboy carried suitcases to our room and he definitely hoped to get some tips. Too bad I had read about no tipping in Japan and had no cash to give him. Probably too many American tourists.
You can tip the cabbies. “Keep the change.” Didn’t realize you could do that until last year.
Around here, the card payment includes tip options that start at either zero or 15%. It’s the same for take out and delivered food. they think we should tip the same as service at a sit down for handing me the food across a counter? fuck that. I tip drivers, but not 15%. If it’s a big order, I might give 10%, but most of them are bringing my one bag of food, one time and if it’s cold or incomplete, que sera. How is tipping going to improve or reward good service? If it has no point other than to increase the wage of the server, it’s meaningless. Just pay them what you want and charge accordingly.
Don’t get me wrong, When I eat in, I’ll leave 20% (or more, sometimes) for decent service and at worse 10 for weak service. I just don’t see that same standard applying to take out or delivery.
Take out I agree. Delivery? Nope, they deserve as much as the wait staff.
Take out I agree, and I don’t tip as much for delivery, but I always tip.
“Hmm… it’s ten below zero, and I’ve got two hot orders to deliver…
who should I deliver to first?”
‘You don’t have to settle’: the joy of living (and dying) alone
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/13/you-dont-have-to-settle-the-joy-of-living-and-dying-alone
I approve of all lefties living and dying alone with their cats, as far from me as possible.
Damn his charity, we’ll have the cheese for naught! Nottingham’s great cheese riot and other 1766 food riots – Valentine Yarnspinner
https://libcom.org/history/damn-his-charity-well-have-cheese-naught-nottinghams-great-cheese-riot-other-1766-food-r
Maybe she caught a ride back on Greta’s boat?
OFFS.
She *has* to be an act.
Make America Denmark
Then why don’t you stay there?
It occurs to me that a response like this is just playing into her hands. She didn’t “enjoy” any of that, because she’s a fucking tourist not a citizen of Denmark. She’s not staying there, she’s just visiting. She really is the Trump of the left.
On top of that, she gave herself a purple heart.
She is definitely the Trump of the Left. What’s amazing to me is there aren’t more Trumps of the left given how much oxygen there is in the media for the the utter buffoonery and retardation.
I think a case could be made that most/all of the Dem candidate wannabes are vying for this title.
But they all are terrible at it. Also it’s not how you beat Trump imho.
While I think they’ll take it if they get it, I don’t think beating Trump is the actual plan (or, at least, it’s like a dog chasing a car). This is about what comes after. Trump with a pliant, sycophantic media is a lot scarier than what we’ve got. And that’s what they’re aiming for, just with Trump replaced by one of their own.
Be sure to ask about their immigration policy while you’re there, Sandy.
The US does all of that, in some cases spending more money per capita than Denmark.
Well, the U.S. EPA is heading towards zero-pollution as priority. They just haven’t been fully coopted by the carbon cult yet.
So she is using a frozen heart emoji in the land of the Snow Queen…. Sorry Greta, Kai is gone now, AOC stole your man.
Her constituents have to hate her.
Kiss My Bloody Arse: Swearing in Victorian Cardiff
https://upsetvictorians.blogspot.com/2017/11/kiss-my-bloody-arse-swearing-in.html
This is it girls and boys, I am goin’ home
She might want to sit this one out.
sit this one out
Indian style.
*sigh*
/looks upthread
/looks at Sean
I take back my comment, without reservation.
[golf clap]
Don’t sweat it, no one will lodge a complaint.
If they wanted to, they wouldn’t know…how.
I’m sure Swiss has some reservations about this thread.
Yeah, you guys are gonna get scalped.
What’s with that guy? He’s always on the warpath.
Could it be the firewater?
Casino cleaned out his wallet.
If you guys don’t stop crowing like this, someone’s going to be going up the creek without a paddle.
wow, that takes some stones to write. Or complete lack of self awareness.
I’ll go with the latter.
She really doesn’t think the fiasco was that bad. She’s been pushing for Native American hobby horses to try to cover it up.
Like sit down Indian style?
Liz Warren tweeting about Indigenous People’s Day is like Rachael Dolezal tweeting about Juneteenth.
The story of America’s mistreatment of indigenous peoples is long and painful. And yet, … we must honor our government’s commitments and promises to them.
The U.S. government has been the primary engine of that mistreatment. Even if you start after they were all corralled into reservations and the open wars ended, you’ve still got a dismal history of failure, oppression, corruption, and now malign neglect. It would be far better to honor their independence and leave them alone than to continue to perpetuate the fraud that is the BIA upon them.
Then again, this is Elizabeth Warren. Her entire platform is the government abusing people.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7570461/Demi-Rose-shows-ex-boyfriend-Chris-Martinez-hes-missing-poses-busty-pink-bikini.html
“K-pop star Sulli has been found dead at her home a month after she sparked controversy in conservative South Korea by accidentally revealing a nipple on Instagram.
Sulli, 25, had previously suffered a huge amount of online abuse in what became known as the ‘no-bra’ scandal after she repeatedly showed her nipples on social media
It is reported that the pop singer then suspended her music career due to the abuse she had received
Sulli was found by her manager at her home in Seongnam, south of the capital, Seoul at around 3.20pm local time (7.20am UK time).
Korean police said that they are working on the assumption that she may have committed suicide.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7570861/K-pop-star-Sulli-dead-home-aged-25.html
What did she have on Hillary?
Hopefully not a nipple.
accidentally revealing a nipple on Instagram.
:Thinks about the position of the nipple on the body:
How does that accidentally get revealed?
Repeatedly, no less.
Sad, but I have to wonder if she didn’t just die from generally poor health. She looks ill in all of those photos.
I may be unrealistic here, but just like how athletes who claimed to not read the papers back in the day, can’t modern celebrities ignore social media?
Then they wouldn’t be celebrities anymore.
That having been said, there are degrees of this. They can ignore some of social media while still using it to promote themselves.
Seinfeld did it first.
“the News, as you know it, has died… and from its ashes rises “TRUTHPOINT”
streaming LIVE, wednesday at midnight (EST) , on http://adultswim.com”
https://twitter.com/dril/status/1183222206043549696
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This phony “anti-war” president vetoed our bill to get American troops out of the illegal war in Yemen. He has ignored Congress’s power to declare war. He’s spent years intensifying Middle East conflicts without giving a damn about the Constitution.
Trump is a liar and a fraud.
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President Trump long ago could (and should) have withdrawn from Syria and worked to keep out Turkey. Instead, he pulled back a few troops (no withdrawal) and green lighted Turkey’s attack. His sudden concern about endless wars is just cover for his having facilitated a disaster.
Orange Man Bad.
Is that true about Yemen?
For sure, and Trump is a Phony “Anti-War” president. He isn’t anti-war, he’s just anti stick around and dick around, which compared with the rest of the field (barring perhaps Tulsi) is as anti-war as we are gonna get.
In otherwords, Bernie is mad that the anti-war movement has seen the left as the shallow hangers on, that don’t actually give a shit about perpetual war as long as their party is the one in charge, and want’s to make sure they get back on the reservation. I would belive the sky was pink before i believed that Bernie wouldn’t cave into the War Party day one.
I do remember him attempting to get out of Afghanistan, and his warhawk advisors convincing him that would be disaster and “give me a few more years”.
I would really love him for to finally decide enough is enough there.
https://tomwoods.com/ep-1510-syria-trump-and-the-kurds-scott-horton-tells-the-story/
Tom and Scott write out the script for Trump to use to tell America, we are done in other countries.
And he already tried to leave Syria once, and they said, “Bit Isis!’, then he said ok, we’ll stay to finish off Isis. And we did that.
Which part? There was a bill passed this year that pretty cleanly* called for ending the conflict in Yemen (here’s a link to one version of it which links to the others). Trump did veto it.
* = Last year’s attempt rolled in a bunch of unrelated stuff about Jamal Khashoggi
Ah, of course.
He’s probably just continuing the longstanding policy of Presidents to oppose the War Powers Act altogether. But if so, that means that he’s not so different at all from his predecessors on the matter of war.
I mean Trump is not really good so… yeah?
President Trump long ago could (and should) have withdrawn from Syria and worked to keep out Turkey.
Keep Turkey out with what deterrent? It seems like you want to eat your cake and have it too.
Instead, he pulled back a few troops (no withdrawal) and green lighted Turkey’s attack
He’s not the C-in-C of Turkey’s armed forces. Are we going to expel Turkey from NATO over this?
His sudden concern about endless wars is just cover for his having facilitated a disaster.
Maybe. He certainly seems inconsistent about ending war. However, lots of people get suddenly concerned when one of their hobby horses is challenged, like say when somebody calls out the endless wars.
However, lots of people get suddenly concerned when one of their hobby horses is challenged, like say when somebody calls out the endless wars.
Remember that one time Amash criticized trump for meeting with the Taliban for peace talks on the week of September 11th? Amash can go eat a bag of dicks, I can get him being opposed to trump, it’s the opposition to Trump at the cost of all principles that peeves me off.
I liked Amash. A lot. But man does he hate Trump.
Same here. I’m over him. I don’t know if I’m ready to say that he’s unprincipled yet, but I think his first principle is OrangeManBad. I mean, he’s seriously bitching about Trump withdrawing troops from Syria now because he didn’t do it earlier. This is like when my daughter pitches a fit because I started to let the dog in when she wanted to, and even though I stopped so that she could do it she’s still upset because she wanted me to not have started to do it in the first place. Based on this, I surmise that Justin Amash really needs a nap.
Turkey should have been expelled from NATO ages ago.
Everything else in the statement aside, how would have pulling out sooner prevented the Turks from invading? He should have pulled out a long time ago, but every interest in DC objected loudly.
Yeah, Obama sucked…. oh wait, that’s not who we’re talking about?
and green lighted Turkey’s attack
“We’ll decimate your economy” counts as “green lighted.”
He has ignored Congress’s power to declare war.
I can think of about 535 other people, more or less, that have also ignored that.
Amash is confirmation of something any Ohioan knows.
Nothing good comes from Michigan
Objection! Bells and Founder’s are both from Michigan and produce some exceptional beers.
Cali continues to be a leader in
tyrannysafety.Newsom also signed AB 893, which bans gun shows from taking place at the state-owned Del Mar Fairgrounds and will almost certainly prompt a legal challenge by 2nd Amendment groups in the state. Another measure, AB 1297, eliminates the cap on fees that counties can charge for processing concealed carry applications, which gives anti-carry sheriffs another tool to discriminate against those who want to carry a firearm for self-defense.
One other bill that’s going to cause huge problems for gun owners is AB 879, which requires all “precursor parts” sold in the state be sold through a licensed “precursor parts dealer”, which in turn means background checks (and fees) on every purchase of a “precursor part”, be it a trigger, a barrel, or an 80% lower. Basically anything other than an a finished firearm, frame, or finished receiver. This is modeled after California’s new ammunition background check law, which has had thousands of false denials and delays since it went into effect earlier this year. And just like California’s ammunition background check law, which makes it illegal for California residents to bring ammunition purchased out of state back home, this bill creates a new misdemeanor offense for anyone who brings “a firearm precursor part into the state without first having the part delivered to a licensed firearm precursor part vendor.”
So a bunch of useless and constitutionally illegal bs that won’t stop crime.
I look forward to having my own minority reports.
I think it’s pretty cool to go out shopping and see all the open carry going on, I don’t even notice half the time, and people are polite!
/AZ! Fuck yeah!
How they pretend to connect actual convicted felons, gang-bangers, and crime-of-passion murderers to people who build a gun from a box of parts as a hobby is a stretch that no sane person could follow. But, well, we’re talking about the People’s Republic of Kalifornia, so…
Precursor parts, like chunks of metal or are we backing up to ore?
And it seems most of us have gotten the message; the percentage of students whose parents report attending meetings, conferences and school events reached an all-time high in 2016.
Hey morons. Going to meetings and being involved in your children’s education are not the same thing, not even kind of the same thing.
I think parents are extremely involved these days though. Possibly because everyone has only one kid.
My involvement in my kids’ education at this point consists of me screaming at my kid about her grades and pushing her to pick a trade before she graduates next year.
These people were not the problem to begin with. There wasn’t a crisis of parental involvement across the board. To the extent there was a lack of parental involvement, it was from the same sort of parents who still aren’t attending “meetings, conferences, [and] school events”. Now you a problem of over-involvement concomitantly with a problem of under-involvement.
Not sure why I thought there wasn’t an “and” in the original.
I blame the education system.
IMO, the level of involvement is socio-economic-driven. If you can afford the kind of time it takes to be a helicopter (short of locking them in the house), then you need a different hobby.
As for plowing their path, the only thing I do is strenuously recount the mistakes we as their parents make and Don’t Do That. They’ll find a way to make different ones.
My parents had a tough time with me and with my brother. For me, they saw me as smarter than they were (which isn’t really accurate, my parents weren’t book smart but they are still intelligent) and so were baffled when I got bored/lazy in school and just didn’t do the work (they found a way to motivate me, although I never really got great at doing all the work until late in college). My mistakes were largely different than their mistakes (or, at least, that’s how they saw it). For my brother, they saw themselves in him a little too much I think, but they struggled with imparting on him not to make the same mistakes they did.
My son is very high maintenace, but he’s actually quite self-motivated and gets good grades without even thinking about it. I have pushed both my kids to a trade and my son is building his own little lawnmowing business I hope will explode once he gets to driving and can buy a truck.
But now he’s started talking about college for a degree in horticulture and/or landscape design.
My daughter … *sigh*
My point is that if you want to help your kids academically you do not do that by working with the school, the school is indoctrinating not educating. You do it one on one with your kid. Tutoring is not helicopter parenting. It may coexist with helicopter parenting, but you aren’t preventing your kid from being free range by giving them math problems and reading them the Constitution. Helicopter parenting is hovering. Quality interaction is not the same thing at all.
I think there is a big difference between involved parenting and helicopter parenting. They can overlap, but they are not the same thing.
Sorta related as regards too-involved parenting and college students: The amount of bureaucracy that students and parents have to deal with today is exponentially higher than when I went off 30 years ago. It’s of course tied to the explosions in higher ed in general, and the babying of students who would have been treated as adults before. Examples:
– it’s extra work to refuse student loans
– the payment process is built for student loans, not “here’s the bill so send in a check”
– mandatory fees (yeah, it was bad 30 years ago, but worse now)
– mandatory attendance at various events
– mandatory advisory sessions before you can register
I find myself sticking my nose in too much, even when I’d rather not, as a combination of:
– being surprised and ticked-off at the bureaucracy that keeps popping up
– examples of thing where I’d told my kids it would probably work one way, and they say it’ something else now.
mandatory advisory sessions before you can register
God I hated these. They were around 10 years ago when I went to college, too. At least for the new student orientation it made some sense. But after that, I still had to go talk to my advisor every semester before I could register. The first “real” advisor I had was terrible and had the worst suggestions*. I managed to navigate the system a bit, and find less-bad advisors (adding a second major helped, as you didn’t need approval from both major departments, only one). Thankfully, my last semester, my old bad advisor from my primary major had left the school, and when I presented my “I’m almost done and know exactly what I need to do” plan to the new advisor he was helpful instead of obstructive.
* = One of her suggestions was to take a class that amounted to “let’s read a transcript of one of John Dewey’s speeches and then take 2-question quizzes every week on what he said.” Fuck John Dewey and fuck 2-question quizzes (miss one answer? auto-fail!).
I am so, so sorry.
That’s like Turpin-family level mass young adult abuse.
And fuck John Dewey.
Cannot be said enough. The man was evil.
What do you have against the Dewey Decimal System?
It’s book slavery.
But did great things for library organization!
This is kind of like Noam Chomsky. Great (or at least, pioneering) linguist, terrible at other things. Although, nobody has put Chomsky in charge of anything yet.
*raps joke generator on counter*
Goddammit. I hope it’s still under warranty.
Wow, ok. I totally thought John Dewey was the inventor of the Dewey decimal system. Well, shit. Fuck that guy even more, he didn’t even do that.
@Tundra. I larfed.
kbo, I had to look it up.
Yeah. I didn’t even know much about him at the time (and I hated the class so much I learned nothing of him from it before I dropped it). Now, it’d probably be worthwhile to go back and read that transcript some to learn his mind, although I might have gotten rid of the book out of pique.
All you need to know about him is that he called “individualism” a “mental illness”.
That is doctrine in the teachings of the Party Comrade, are you a wrecker? That Dewey can burn in hell. I don’t hate the failed Presidential Candidate, the Admiral, or the library guy. (Not all Deweys are the same people, you have to judge the Dewey on his own merits not some other Dewey’s)
I’m not sure where I am on this – now that I have two kids in grade school.
Both my parents were post-grad/PhD degrees and tries to push me. I enlisted but ended up paying my own way through a STEM undergrad + International-MBA course with GI Bill+savings+academic scholarships.
My wife is your average college educated, Asian academic tiger-mom.
Both kids are more than holding their own where it counts – math, both languages (that says a lot), and social abilities.
I tend to take to “hold back and let them grow” approach but the wife wants to push harder.
You already know the answer. Your wife is Asian. If you desire to remain married, you need to take a “hold back and let her be crazy” approach on this as well.
Mornin’, all. Had a weird dream about Soviet rockets and goats.
I picture Slim Pickens falling from a jet riding a goat,
WHEEEE HAAAA!
That’s not a dream. That’s Afghanistan in the 80’s.
I was thinking about this the other day. We’ve been there almost twice as long as the Soviets now.
Mojeaux confirmed CIA sleeper agent ^^
Goose the Corolla and you’ll see a goat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqR1V3DN8hM
Were these “rockets” made out of porcelain with a tasteful blue pattern? Did the goats have horns?
Sadly, no. It was black and dropped butt first into the basement of a house, tearing a huge hole in the roof (not unlike the hbig hole im our roof that the squirrels are coming in) sitting there just waiting to be deployed. I was running around doing something. There were goats somewhere else.
I’m losing the dream now.
Beto Proposes Renaming First Ten Amendments ‘The Bill Of Wrongs’
“See, this is the problem with this country,” he said. “You propose taking away guns, curbing free speech, and taxing people for their religious beliefs, and people immediately jump to that old, archaic, so-called ‘Bill of Rights.’” At this moment, he used finger quotes. “That’s why, when I am president [this got some chuckles], my first action in office will be to rename the Bill of Rights the Bill of Wrongs.”
O’Rourke pointed out that the Bill of Rights actually has a bunch of injustices and wrongs: for one, it doesn’t allow O’Rourke to take everybody’s private property. For another thing, it doesn’t force everyone to believe the same things O’Rourke does. Finally, it allows people to say things that O’Rourke does not like.
“The so-called ‘Bill of Rights’ is actually a long list of roadblocks to progress,” he said. The audience cheered wildly. One transgender black woman started rolling around on the floor as though she were in a Pentecostal church service. Don Lemon fainted of joy.
“…the escape of hundreds of women and children linked to the Islamic State from a detention camp.” So the Kurds are white supremacists like Drunpf!
My burning puppy is back.
Unrelated: I lost the key to my gun safe. Fortunately for my, my guns aren’t in it. They were lost in a tragic boating accident.
Fortunately it is relatively easy to break in to a gun safe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-9vWa-C44I
Alternatively, I can look at the back of the safe, get the number and send for a new key. However, that requires quite an effort because it’s in an odd place and blocked. I have to get Mr. Mojeaux to help me.
slide your phone back there and take a photo?
HEY NOW.
You’re asking for an ass selfie?
did anyone ever actually lose guns in a boating accident?
“Fuckin’ right we did!”
/Crew of the USS Indianapolis
Just ‘cuz I feel like posting a music link, and this is the kind of day I’m having.
Apologies to all y’all who have to be working. Hope it makes you feel a bit better anyway.
On this day in 1947:
Chuck Yeager’s giant titanium balls broke the sound barrier.
With broken ribs, no less.
Then he disintegrated, as was the scientific consensus, which is never wrong.
The Right Stuff
Drinkin
Drivin
Flying
Drinking
Driving
Let me out of this fookin’ box!
I’m taking notes for my own funeral.
I imagine that every Glibs meetup occurs this naturally.
One of the parties is female, so…. unlikely.
I’m pretty sure she has a penis.
I’d love to hack that dictionary.
“My hovercraft is full of eels.”
“Do you wahhhnt to come back to my place? Bouncy, bouncy??
“My nipples explode with delight!”
Why did they stick the kids in a featureless white room, with no furniture?
Sorry for this post . . .but
My anxiety is levels are going off the charts today . . . I’m 35, divorced, and childless. My only real goal in life was to have a family. I guess I’m just terrible with women. I didn’t have a single date for over two years. In the last month, I’ve now dated two women, obviously neither working out.
An even bigger source of the anxiety is three different people in my office have announced pregnancies in the last week, all much younger folk than me. There really isn’t anything to do or say. I just wanted to bitch about my anxiety.
I should probably try to get some work done now.
“Family” isn’t always what we expect in life, being a relative guarantees nothing, and Kids can turn out, not what we hoped for,
my 2c.
I don’t necessarily need bio kids. But it would be nice to have someone to say hello to occasionally . . especially since I recently lost the dog. The house is far too quiet
Hope you can adopt another critter as soon as you’re ready. We lost our beloved cat suddenly in June. Mr. GT’s been dragging his feet, but I want another before winter to prevent/combat SAD.
I mean I feel you though I am probably worse as in never have been married / in a long term relationship. Alcohol helps, but I would not recommend it.
I’m so sorry. But, this is what I have to say:
I got married at 34. My husband was 36. I stayed in one place, underemployed, just sitting around waiting to find Mr. Right and get married because that was the only thing I wanted to do.
Looking back, this is my regret: If I had been more proactive about MYSELF, before I got married, I would have traveled the world finding jobs to support myself the way Evan from Evansville has.
If you believe it is hopeless (I don’t know if you do or not, or if this is temporary anxiety), go on an adventure far away from home. See things. Do things. Spend your money and time on experiences. Document it all, down to the last detail. You may or may not find love somewhere in there, but if you do, you can settle down without needing to have a midlife crisis.
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pimpfindescortswomen.Don’t worry about it. I was divorced at 34 or so (thought we’d agreed when I left and she was determined to follow up – fixed it later). Now I have two kids in grade school. Know who you are and find your partner – even if you have to look outside the society you were raised in.
I’m very sorry about your anxiety, and yes – seeing other getting what you want so much can be very disheartening. All I can say is that it’s nowhere near too late for you. As a guy, you obviously don’t have the “bio clock” issue a woman would have in the same position. Do you have “after hours” activities you enjoy that would put you around like-minded women? At worst, you’d have an enjoyable pastime, even if it’s not a guaranteed “matchmaking” opportunity.
I’m certainly not an advice goddess, but been there/done that, even if I didn’t want the kids. Best wishes.
I like hunting and bowling . . .for some reason I haven’t found many women through those hobbies.
Advice I heard years ago, that seemed to make sense — what are the kinds of things a woman you could love would like to do? Where are places they’d hang out?
Try doing some of those things / hang out in those kinds of places.
My own experience suggests, nay, requires, that this not be your workplace, nor involved directly with your work or colleagues.
Your mileage will vary.
If you are into reading, go to a bookstore regularly. You might see a girl. Offer to buy her a book she’s looked at and put down 3 times and a coffee (if they have that).
I’d totally dig a guy who came up to me and said, “That’s a really good book. Can I get it for you? I’d loan you mine but I don’t have it on me.”
It can be done non-creepily.
It can be done non-creepily.
I suggest wearing pants for a start.
I’ve known dudes who didn’t start families until they were in their sixties and love every second of it. I agree with Mo and Tejicano that you need a change of scenery.
My great grandfather had his first in his mid 40s, further down the line ggg grandpa had his last at 71.
Well, being a dude means that your horizon for having a kid is much, much longer than if you were a woman. I was 37 when my daughter was born. My son is on the way and I’m 41. Now, I’ve been married for nearly ten years, but I have friends who didn’t start a family until marriage #2 when they were in their late 30s. I’m not saying this to minimize your anxiety, because I’ve had my own long, dark nights of the soul from time to time. What helps me is to focus on the things you can control and then evaluate my life in a calm, even-handed way. When you set goals, set goals that you can achieve on your own. So, for instance, rather than setting “having a family” as a goal, change it to “making yourself ready for a healthy relationship”. Like I say, focus on the things you can control and put yourself in a position to respond to the things you can’t.
One other thing. In 1995, when I was getting rejection letter after rejection letter of my writing, my mom said this:
“Why do you base your goals on decisions someone else has to make?”
I have never forgotten that and I reordered my thinking around that question.
Measuring yourself against others is absolutely fruitless. When I have those times when I feel I’m slogging through shit, I try to focus on fixing one thing about myself that bugs me. It can literally be anything: body, sleep, organization – it doesn’t matter (although health is hugely helpful). The better you see yourself, the better you will come across to others and problems get smaller.
You aren’t competing, man, you are preparing.
I wish nothing but the best for you.
Agreed. Penis enhancement doesn’t work….. yet.
Judge Smails: Ty, what did you shoot today?
Ty: Oh, Judge, I don’t keep score.
Judge Smails: Then how do you measure yourself with other golfers?
Ty: By height.
OK – had a couple of beers tonight (3 liters of Asahi and 500 ml of a nice German brew) so I wasn’t sure if I remembered correctly.
So you are male.
My first born came into this world just before I turned 50. My second came 2 years later. I buddy of mine was single until 58 and has 3 kids now.
As long as you can get it up it isn’t too late and there’s stuff to do if that’s a problem. You are nowhere near a lost cause.
You are just hung up on the social circumstance which you grew up in and need to know that there is so much more out there.
My 2 cents – if you can only imagine yourself with a blonde start studying Russian seriously. (no not half-assed, but SERIOUSLY) If you find yourself turned on by brunettes start studying Spanish like your soul depended on it.
What I got out of your comment is that life’s too short to study Gaelic.
DAFUQ?
Do a search on Hispanic and/or Russian/Slavic porn vs. Welsh porn….
Why do I even have to connect these dots?
Who is Sophie Dee, chopped liver?
someone not particularly attractive?
See, your inability to detect evolutionary-fitness to breed is what got you in this situation.
I can’t even.
You honestly think it’s better to understand them?
It’s not about what you understand. It’s about what they think they understand.
*Raises finger, lowers finger* Lemme ponder on that.
You can never be sure which girls dig you until you give it a shot. Keep at it and something will turn up.
that works as long a you have the ability to talk to people you don’t know
Open that PieInTheSky hole and makes sounds. It’s not hard.
Extroversion and communicative competence traits are selected for by evolution.
I guess that means I am an evolutionary dead end? I could donate sperm and hope for the best
Get red-pilled, bro.
getting red pilled only makes things worse
Yes, I’m jumping right to the black-pill.
Guessing when you’re insulted makes it funnier.
I commiserate with pie here . . .being awkward and introverted can really suck sometimes.
You know how many gals like THAT guy? I had an extroverted friend that would pretend to be that guy at every party. Worked like a charm.
I appreciate all the comments, however, anxiety doesn’t work off of the rational part of my brain. So it’s not going anywhere . . . especially with all the congrats emails flying around. Hopefully tonight I can do a few things to distract myself. Don’t worry, I’m fairly used to it at this point.
bunnahabhain moine 🙂
If you haven’t started it yet – put all that anxiety energy to work in the gym. It will give results far more useful than talking/thinking about it.
That’s what I did with my divorce . . .lost a bunch of weight,.looked good . . .still sucked with the ladies.
I’m pretty good once I’m in a relationship, just terrible at getting to that point
Respectfully, you are looking too far ahead. Being too invested in the outcome creates stress that others can sense.
When you reach that state where you can honestly say wtf and just be in the moment, I think your results will change.
Now go Grasshopper. Make us proud.
Yeah. BTDT. One of the most zen things about starting relationships is that being too objective oriented kills the entire process.
Forget how you think it’s going to turn out. Go with what is happening here and now.
It’s one of the reasons I encourage going outside one’s culture. It is an unknown zone where you stop expecting what you know. You have to focus on basic human stuff rather than all the minor bullshit details that your experience fools you into relying on.
If you want a no-BS answer – you’re a human.
What I mean is that, as a human being, you suffer from certain cognitive biases that have been hard-wired into your thinking by 100,000s of years of evolution. In particular, your bias towards risk aversion and loss aversion is hampering your performance on the mating market. Human beings naturally seek to lower uncertainty, thus when presented with two options, your brain will try to pull your cognition to the option with a more predictable outcome. Likewise, your brain pulls your cognition to the avoidance of loss over the acquisition of gain. For example, losing money hurts more than gaining an equivalent amount of money feels good.
Romantic interactions are situations with high uncertainty and ambiguity, and are high-stakes. Your cognitive biases are dragging you, kicking and screaming, away from this situation. Fortunately, as a human being, while you can never eliminate your cognitive biases, you can use your reason to account for their systematic error in your thinking and correct for it. This sounds easier than it is, but you can correct for it through the formation of habits that counter these biases in a particular domain. This will involve some pain as you need to mindfully place yourself in situations in which the potential for risk and loss are high, but as you build these habits of mind, you will find and build upon your successes.
Worst Libertarians in the world here. Not one mention of illegal drugs or hookers. #FreeRoss.
hookers don’t help…
Iay or may not be taking a microdose of a certain fungi when I get home
Shitake.
Ahem.
Oooh. I thought you were talking about “ladies”.
I’ve never married and have no kids of my own. I am effectively a step parent to a good friend’s 11 year old daughter (long story, moved in as roommates to save cash during a rough patch, roughly coincident with the kid being born. It isn’t at all what I expected my life to look like, but it is enough.
Oops,
https://www.bisnow.com/san-francisco/news/commercial-real-estate/norcal-cre-on-top-concerns-during-widespread-power-shut-offs-101259#ath
When the poontag was that good.
Great. I get a few minutes to check in and less than half way through the links I want to throttle someone.
How about this….my families property has been in our family for five generations and it will be for ten more…long after the huffpuff is out of print and forgotten and all of their pinko shitweasel writers are dead and turned to dust.
tell us how you really feel Suthen. Also property is theft 🙂
Morning links are slowing down. I should probably get back to work.
Yeah, you didn’t even click the link I provided above, huh
The misunderstood Soviet national anthem lyrics? I did, but I’ve already seen it three times.
OK. Sorry.. my two grade school boys really appreciated that. I was just happy they could read/understand the English words well enough to find it extremely funny.
But I thought the connection in your dream was unusual.
The weird connection for me was how (for the last few weeks) I have been searching for a few last parts to resurrect an old SKS barreled receiver I picked up years ago to standard ComBlok issue level.
LOL No problem. I saw that you had shown it to your kids and were delighted at their English skills. It made me smile.
Did not want to drink today but poured a scotch… bunnahabhain moine not bad
PSA:
Palmetto is advertising a $50 rebate on the Shield 9.
$199 after rebate!
No thanks, I’m just now getting out of the dog house after my last trip to the gun store.