Hey guys. How’s it goin’? I hope you guys end up here eventually instead of just reminiscing in Tonio’s (awesome!) piece below. I’ve just about got my n00bs working independently for a day or two at a time, so that’s awesome. It relieves me to know no one is surfing the internet because I’m not serving work fast enough. No, actually, I don’t care what they are doing. I hope the remote workers are smart enough to nap or fuck off to do something IRL.
Ripped directly from the H&H Universe!
Sometimes I read stories like this and wonder how my childhood would have been described by the 24×7 news cycle. I can’t tell you how many “improvised explosive devices” we created. A lot. The answer is, a lot.
I forget, is this Cuomo supposed to be Fredo or Sonny?
Florida Man, the cops can’t help you get your stolen dope back.
Time for some throwback tunes.
Present!
Protip: if you want to tell me someone died, you need to literally say “he/she died”. Don’t beat around the motherfucking bush. 24 hours later and I’m only 99% sure they guy I trained dogs with for a dozen years is actually dead. I can’t wrap my head around all this societal pussyfooting about death.
Fuck. Sorry. Did not mean to thread. Dammit. I’ll just bow out.
So you can say “wop”, but you can’t say that people used to be called “nigger wops”?
To the crowd that thinks Mark Twain was the most racisty racist ever, you bet.
In high school some of the Italian American kids called other kids of Italian ancestry “Mountain niggers”. No one else did though. Not sure of the connotation other than kids are kids. At this point in time that’s historical (hysterical now).
Everyone needs someone to look down on.
What about doo wops?
An improvised explosive device detonated on the playground of a Montana elementary school Tuesday, authorities said.
Somebody fucking loves science.
I remember the days when you could buy big cannisters of saltpeter and sulphur at the local pharmacy and, with the addition of some ground up charcoal briquettes, have some cheap fun. Why come the government has to ruin everything?
You can buy it on Amazon now and save yourself the trip.
Why do people have to go through all this effort when this was so easy when I was a kid? We’d just buy these explosives that were equal to about a quarter stick of dynamite, for cheap, and readily available. We used to have a blast with those things. You could throw one in the creek with a rock tied to it and get an epic explosion of water, would kill every fish within probably a 10-20 ft radius. We would put one under a tin barrel and it would send the thing 50 ft in the air and leave a crater in the ground. Stuff just blew up real good. What the fuck has happened with us as a species?
I lived in a fun-free state growing up. We were limited to sparklers and snakes.
That’s heinous!
That’s where the “I” in IED comes in.
You needed to find someone who was selling the good stuff.
Fuck Off Tulpa!
Thanks, Yusef. I feel the love!
“When I said “wop” is a derogatory comment, that’s when the Times Union told me, no you should look in Wikipedia. “Wop” really meant a dandy. I’m sure that’s what they were saying to me back in Queens. You’re a dandy, when they looked at me with scorn and gave me a hand gesture and called me a Wop. So that’s the New York Times.'”
I heard it was With Out Papers.
I thought it was that too.
That’s what it means.
They’re confusing it with “fop”.
What’s the sound pizza dough makes when you throw it against the wall? Wop!
Pascetti, as my kids called it.
Lol.
I’ve heard it said about Pirelli Tires, “Dago tru rain, dago tru snow, and when dago flat, dago ‘Wop! Wop! Wop.’’”
How can you tell when Pirelli tires go flat?
Dago wop wop.
I thought it was the sound that Pirelli tires make when they get a flat. Dago wop wop wop.
When I was 10 I went trick or treating in the east end of the city where my cousins lived – principally French-Canadian and Italian – and at one house a guy answered the door bell with a pack of cigarettes nestled under his t-shirt sleeve, decked with tattoos, and smoking while holding candy said in French, “Are you kids wops? I don’t give candy to wops’ and slammed the door.
We had no idea what he was saying. I told my BIL (a hardcore pugilist back in the day) about it and all he said, ‘do you remember the house?’ We told him and never asked what happened next.
I don’t believe you. Only Americans are racists.
Ugh — note to self —- read downthread….
Damn. Somehow I missed this and posted the same thing hours later.
Sorry, apologies
elicottero
(OMG, I love this word!)
WOP as meaning Without Papers is considered a backronym by most etymologists, meaning an explanation proffered later to falsely claim as word started as an acronym.
Fornication Under Consent of the King (FUCK) is also considered one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym
A little dry ice and a 2-liter bottle will blow up almost any mail box. I’ve heard.
In my line of work, we use dry ice to condense VOC that we’re sampling. There’ always some left over, and gatorade bottles….
Coke can, black powder, nuts and bolts, and a fuse combined and thrown down into the sewer yield a cratered city street.
Don’t ask me how I know.
M-80s were still readily available when I was a kid. We didn’t even need to be creative.
I’ve heard of M-80s in the toilet, flush quickly. Any truth in that?
Not sure. We did most of our demolition in the great outdoors.
I’ve never flushed one, but I can confirm that M-80 fuses burn underwater. They’re stunningly good at catching fish.
Somebody blew a toilet off the wall when I was in junior high.
The faculty was not amused.
I had a friend that did this too. They flushed it…nothing and then BOOM! they got both soaked and the hell out of there.
Always wanted to try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTFBXJ3Zd_4
Sodium in water
Magnesium is even better in this regard. Being a chemistry lab assistant responsible for such things as a jar of pure magnesium in heavy oil, I have no idea how a chunk of magnesium fell from the mall’s second floor railing into the fountain below, with very amusing results.
We got a hold of some m100 blasting caps and some bottle rockets that they would fit down almost perfectly.
We quickly realized that the combination was like firing anti-aircraft artillery and decided we should probably not do that in the middle of LA county.
The Sheriff’s Department were/are notorious assholes who most likely would have made our entire week a fucking nightmare.
Just setting one on the ground would pop a 6 inch crater in hard packed dirt.
We made black powder from scratch, packed it into a metal 35mm film canister and used a sparkler for a fuse. We lit it in front of some other kid that we hassled’s house.
Someone came out of the house and picked it up. Fortunately they tossed it because it made one hell of an explosion with shrapnel. Kids do stupid shit.
Firecrackers (birthday cake candle size) inserted into green walnut fruit, lit and thrown.
The kids and I made root beer once with dry ice and 2 liter bottles. The garage still smells like root beer on warm days over 3 years later.
The bottles that didn’t asplode were tasty.
One of the smarter people I knew in 5th grade was sent to counseling for making a remote control car that exploded (match head based) in school. He injured several of his friends who never teased him again and after that he also got into the gifted program.
I was a little afraid of him after hearing that story, but I still liked him. I think he works in IT today.
Just like prison, the best way to avoid being bullied in school is to mess someone up.
So I’ve heard.
The MRE Heater and a plastic bottle.
Soldiers being soldiers, someone at FT Irwin did it with multiple packets and a 2 liter bottle.
There were burns and shrapnel damages incurred, and a safety message sent out to the entire Army. Along with instructions for discipline.
We did that when we were building an encampment out in the desert in northern Kuwait. We did make sure there was sand between us and the water bottle.
“They used an expression that southern Italians were called, I believe they were saying southern Italians, Sicilians — I’m half Sicilian — were called, quote-unquote and pardon my language, but I’m just quoting the Times: ‘n—r wops.’ N-word wops, as a derogatory comment,” Cuomo said, slowly and clearly saying the whole inflammatory epithet.
IMPEACH!
It would be delicious.
Between hearing the n word and climate change, no one is left alive to impeach him.
That coward Trump keeps trying to get us out of conflict and doesn’t want to start any more.
/Bolton
Adam Schiff reads nursery rhymes.
that was just as creepy as the real Schiff.
Hey Glibs! Hope everyone is having a great week. I’m still lurking here but I’ve been pretty busy with the new job. It’s going pretty well. I find myself wanting to contribute instead of wanting to avoid work. Also we have *real* IT staff so keeping a tab with Glibs open all day is a no-go. I’m playing an A team hockey tournament in Denver this weekend in case any of you are in the area.
Go you!
Bar down, baby!
Don’t you work from home? I thought you mentioned that you could do your new job 100% remotely.
Yes, I work from home now. I’m still getting used to it. My old boss was a micro manager. I might see her every 15 minutes. Now I have one meeting a day that lasts 15 minutes tops.
But how can the IT check your internet browsing habits then?
Probably can’t, but for now I’m being good and keeping the work and personal stuff separate.
Good luck Kevin!
Bury a couple, eh?
Hope so. This is the first time I’ll play with and against Paralympic players. I’ve improved a lot this summer but we’ll see exactly how much.
Keep it simple. Good players are really good at getting you to show your weaknesses early.
Make them earn their space!
Excited for you, man. Sounds like a blast!
Miss you, TOK.
You can always work on a long-form rant on your word processor then print it out and mail it in to Glibs HQ.
I have plenty of non-work computers at home for that! I do have a few rants in the queue though…
There’s a Glib who actually works?
Commonly known as Tulpa.
Here is the Italian page of
my dictionarythe Racial Slur Database.I laughed pretty hard when Hulk Hogan kept calling Rocky “Meatball” in Rocky III.
“Believed that some Sicilians are part Black.”
Part eggplant?
I piss off my wife by accusing her of being Sicilian.
“My family’s from the boot!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3yon2GyoiM
Damn
Thanks, I was waiting for that.
I was too lazy to find it myself.
Not part black, but baptized Arabs.
I haven’t killed anybody *crosses himself* since 1984
Certainly one famous Venetian…
It’s funny how you learn words by context. I don’t associate
“goombah” with italians. And I thought I thought “dago” was
for spaniards, thought now I’m not sure what I thought.
And “wop” being an acronym for “without papers” sounds
like a just-so story. Miriam-Webster implies it’s from
“guappo”.
A dago is a fantastic open face Italian sammich. Take Italian bread, lay it on the plate, place a generous hamburger-patty sized sausage on the bread, put a piece of provolone on the sausage, then ladel generously with marinara.
They’re confusing it with “fop”.
I’m a Dapper Dan man.
My hair!
Balloon pops at a mall, starts “active shooter” panic
THIS IS WHY WE NEED GUN CONTROL PEOPLE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KhbJiNmdoQ
Damn
I’ll be in my bunk.
Forever.
Mother Cabrini!
Mad Scientist- the youtube channel on my roku spit up a Mercedes Petronas (maybe) link about Mercedes F1’s testing facility. Very cool, especially the unshrouded suspension on the seven post rig. I might have to go back and do some pausing so I can look more closely at those beautiful uprights.
It’s amazes me that they can take all that telemetry data from a race and essentially replay it through the chassis test rig. Every bump, every roll, every pitch. They do the same thing on an engine dyno with all the engine data. It’s fascinating.
And with that they can make more accurate amusement park rides, gaming chairs, etc.
Mercedes Petronas F1 link
For anyone interested.
Amazing how much work they put into making racing really really boring.
Wihr must have Herr Doctor X to run CFD to predict HVAC performance in the cab! That will be DM 8 Million, danke schoen.
also: Wihr must have Herr Doctor Y to test everything in the wind tunnel to see if Herr Doctor X has any idea what the fuck he’s talking about! That will be DM 80 Million, vielen dank.
Me (leaning over CAD jockey at his tube): Jesus, kid, you can’t leave a square edge in the evap housing there: too tough for the (injection molding) tool to pull, assembly needs a lead-in there anyway, and the separation would kill airflow. (50USD/h)
ugh: apparently kein “h” in we
/ lights another candle in small corner shrine to TedS
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7574283/Demi-Rose-seen-Las-Vegas-sharing-sizzling-bikini-selfies.html
Just chunky.
Chunky is okay with me, artificial plus chunky, not so much. Damn shame really. Fuckin’ internet, brings out the worst.
Like cottage cheese. Made from silicon.
“They used an expression that southern Italians were called, I believe they were saying southern Italians, Sicilians — I’m half Sicilian — were called, quote-unquote and pardon my language, but I’m just quoting the Times: ‘n—r wops.’ N-word wops, as a derogatory comment,” Cuomo said, slowly and clearly saying the whole inflammatory epithet.
Sicilians, the naggers of Europe.
Aww, thanks Brett.
Amazing how much work they put into making racing really really boring.
The engineers have pretty much disappeared up their own assholes, at this point.
And talk about a barrier to entry. MS and his racing partner have to troubleshoot their car between races. There is a certain purity to it.
Still a very cool video. Thanks for sharing.
Damn. I see I posted last night. Drunk as hell. I don’t even know what I was talking about.
I haven’t had time to keep up since I am the only functioning person in the house. I run around all day making sure Mrs. Suthenboy has everything she needs. The poor thing is going nuts…she can’t do anything. I am gonna toss her in the car and get her out in a bit. She won’t last long but at least she will see the outside world for a few minutes and talk to her friends (they have agreed to a meet-up).
I have been convinced before a number of times from things he has said that Tucker Carlson is a Glib. Last night he played a bit of something he wrote about Zuckerberg and it was a straight-up rip off of SF……
Y’all have fun. I try to get back later.
Sorry about your wife 🙁
Have Tucker Carlson and SugarFree ever been seen in the same place at the same time? And what kind of cover is “straight male librarian”? /tinfoil
Tucker Carlson can only wish he was as interesting as SugarFree.
Hope your Mrs feels better, Suthen.
Thanks for that tip. It’s not the first time MSM has come incredibly close to something Sug would write or has written.
Yeah, there was that weird “locker talk” story during the election. Liz Smith, maybe?
Liz Meriwether
https://www.thecut.com/2016/10/hillary-clintons-locker-room-talk.html
“If this is anyone but Steve Allen, you’re stealing my bit!”
Holy crap. You sure you didn’t submit that under a fake name, SF?
Paragraphs are way too long to be me.
That was… disturbing…
Ummm, wow.
If Carlson makes a guest appearance in H&H, I hope there’s a subplot with a disgruntled cast off bow tie.
Perhaps Mr. Nolan Brown has stumbled on the fact that leakers are feeding lies to the media so the “whistleblowers” can swoop in later and cite them as “evidence”.
but also on who, exactly, has been namelessly feeding intel to the press.
If Trump were declassifying information and releasing it willy-nilly, the press would be going apeshit.
*Taps side of nose with finger*
What I had an itch?!
Down and Out in Tysons Corner
You know, the more I think about it, the more I think someone here more talented than me could do a great satire of formerly wealthy DC/NoVa defense contractor swamp creatures reduced to hobos by noninterventionist foreign policy.
It’s Always Sunny In Tyson’s Corner
Be careful what you wish for you might have a Deal of the Century situation? “A little Touch Up for ya”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi0nMgQC25o
“So that Clown World meme? Yeah it’s hundreds of years old.”
https://twitter.com/mirthismight/status/1184179708252098561
Good for the Blues.
The only silver lining of the crushing Bruins loss in Game 7. Somebody would have boycotted or was forced to boycott in Boston.
Grrr. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1184198558007869440
Nice tweet.
Classy, even.
Notice no fuss or woke ass stupidity.
You shut up, respect and go.
NHL > NBA.
Wasn’t Tim Thomas pilloried for not going to the White House when the Bruins won during the Obama administration?
He was.
Personally, I think the whole thing is stupid and feeds into the whole cult of the Presidency thing. The post-game congratulatory phone call was enough.
Yes, he was. That’s why it would have been especially difficult for all the Bruins to go to the White House now.
The fact that he didn’t go would have made it difficult–not that he was pilloried.
Btw, the readers of the Athletic already started attacking the Blues’ reporter for writing yesterday about the upcoming WH visit and not mentioning OrangeManBad.
Pathetic.
I can’t escape those fuckwits anywhere.
Won’t be long before The Athletic falls and goes woke.
I refuse to pay for sports writing. They’re all progs.
I listen to Clay Travis and a couple of others and that’s it.
The rest can screw off.
The Athletic has been terrific. I think this may be a one-off.
Hope you’re right.
The NHL Athletic reporters are fine about staying away from politics–it’s the (some) subscribers who goad them there.
On the other hand, their MLS reporters are totally woke: whitewashing Antifa in several articles. How can someone be against Antifa–they are anti-fascists?
I am not surprised. The supporters groups are loaded with Antifa members.
I’d like to see MLS supporters go up against Millwall supporters.
Yup and I specifically remember all the lefty sports writers pissing on him for it.
Yup.
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1037288-tim-thomas-the-ugly-truth-behind-his-white-house-refusal
“Tim Thomas: The Ugly Truth Behind His Refusal to Meet the President”
https://thehockeywriters.com/yes-tim-thomas-should-be-criticized-for-skipping-white-house-visit/
“Yes, Tim Thomas Should Be Criticized for Skipping White House Visit”
Notice that there was no criticism for athletes that have skipped the White House visit during the Trump administration, which is much brave now.
To be fair, though, the real reason why ‘journalists’ hated Thomas for skipping the White House visit was because he did it due to his opposition to abortion. That offends the religious beliefs of most people in the journo class.
Now it’s ‘truth to power’.
/eats cookie like Cookie Monster.
Mum, mum, mum.
I know this has prob been discussed to death this past week, but I’ve been lurking less than usual lately and feel like a debate…
Why leave the Syrian Kurds high and dry? I know in Libertopia our troops aren’t anywhere near that area, but if we’re gonna have a presence there (as still looks likely), wtf are we abandoning our most reliable partner in the area for? To please the Turks? Not to mention we brokered a deal that saw the Kurds pull out of their defensive positions because they were in some new buffer zone, only for that buffer zone to be rolled over by Turkey when we decide to pull back our forces and say, essentially, go for it. I’m sure the Kurds aren’t saints but Jesus, could this thinking be any more short term?
Kurds? That stuff you sprinkle on a salad?
It’s admittedly haphazard, however a couple of observations:
1) The Kurds are partners of convenience, not allies
2) Turkey is a 70 year ally, even if they’re assholes. If they invoked Article 5 of NATO against the Kurds where would we be?
3) Turkey has soaked up an inordinate number of refugees from Syria and are not disinterested bystanders in this conflict, even if their goals and ours do not necessarily completely overlap.
4) Our presence in Syria was supposedly legal under the AUMF of 2001. I’ll leave it to the lawyers to smash the meanings of those words into something that could justify it.
5) What was our end goal in Syria? Getting rid of Assad? Getting rid of ISIS? Maybe it was ponies and democracy for everyone.
Turkey is the best example of the argument “NATO has long since outlived its purpose and necessity”
It does serve the purpose of illustrating hypocrisy among the DC elite.
Also, the Kurds are not some monolithic group. It’s my understanding that the ones we are abandoning are the commies who have been waging war on Turkey for decades and are listed by the US government as a terrorist group.
“Why leave the Syrian Kurds high and dry?”
Why do we have to rewrite history?
We first got involved in Syria in 2011 specifically to oust Assad via an illegal war created by the Obama administration, because he could not get authorization from Congress. We were funding ISIS (or as we called them “the moderate opposition”) to help topple Assad (https://www.thenation.com/article/why-does-the-us-continue-to-arm-terrorists-in-syria/). When ISIS spilled into Iraq and there was more news about their caliphate, the US teamed up with the Kurds (who were fighting ISIS for survival) to push back the ISIS invasion into Iraq. We only stopped funding ISIS in 2017.
The Kurds were allied with us out of necessity, but now they’ve rightly brokered a deal with Assad and the Russians to preserve their position in Syria against the Turks (https://news.antiwar.com/2019/10/14/syrian-troops-enter-northeast-syria-to-try-to-resist-turkish-invasion/).
The question is: why did the Kurds ally with a country that was funding its tormentors (ISIS) and that is closely allied with their hated enemy (the Turks)? The answer is, of course, because our interests intersected at that point.
The ever shifting reasons for us to stay in Syria:
2012: Ermahgawd…Assad!
2014: Oh no, ISIS!
2017: Muh..Kurds
2019: Muh..Kurds again
2020: *insert new lie*
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/abc-issued-no-on-air-corrections-for-its-massive-syria-kentucky-mix-up
FYI- the corporate press (which is certainly not propaganda- they just are extremely similar to Pravda) is already working on the new lie for why we need to reengage in Syria. This time they got caught fabricating visuals of a Turkish assault on the Kurds.
True they are not officially allies, maybe because they’ve been officially fuckered out of any position where they could formally ally with anyone (as they are no sort of state). I suppose it’s not fair to expect US foreign policy to follow my gut, but to me they seem the only partner of convenience that when we send money or arms to it, we can have a decent expectation that it won’t end up in terrorist hands (well, anti-American terrorists anyway). Thats a hell of a better track record than the Turks and Iraqis can claim.
Well aware that we should really just wash our hands of all these warring factions, but this being spun (by those like Massie, for instance) as some sort of broadly anti-Syrian war troop pullout is disingenuous in the extreme.
“(by those like Massie, for instance) as some sort of broadly anti-Syrian war troop pullout is disingenuous in the extreme.”
It really isn’t disingenuous in the slightest. If you want to reinvent history and pretend like we just entered Syria because “oh my God, where did ISIS come from? I’m really just shocked.” then that’s fine, but it’s not reality.
We had troops in Syria and were funding ISIS to topple Assad. Trump has decided to end that mission. I’m sorry for the Kurds, but they are way better off with Assad and Russia.
There’s always newly pro-war congressman Amash. He always has a good reason why ending wars now is problematic that usually revolves around the notion that orange man bad.
Amash has super smart thoughts about how negotiating an end to the Afghan War is problematic mainly because of symbolism which makes absolutely no sense because the Taliban had nothing to do with 9/11, nor advance knowledge and most of the people who were in charge of the Taliban during 9/11 are gone now.
But, hey, the Kurds. Am I right?
Er, I just checked Amash’s recent tweets and they all seem very anti-war. Also very orange man bad, but still anti-war.
I’m specifically referring to his argument that negotiating an end to the War in Afghanistan with the Taliban on the eve of 9/11 is problematic and that moving troops out of Syria is not actually moving troops out of Syria because they’re going to a base in Saudi Arabia (no one tell him where troop reductions in Iraq went to).
Amash is fashionably anti-war now and his recent voting record and bizarre statements show it.
The weirdest thing is that congress never authorized military action initially – but now that we’re pulling out, they’re telling Trump to unilaterally go back in – while he’s telling them to vote for it.
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1182511944017874945
Yup. I’m old enough to remember when illegal wars were bad.
You mean like the ones in Laos and Cambodia?
Just another reason why Trump really is orangebadman and must be impeached.
It was always inevitable that the Kurds would be fucked over; it was just a matter of when, exactly. They want and independent country of Kurdistan. Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria not happy at the prospect of giving up territory for an independent Kurdistan. This is one of those sticky trap situations that Foggy Bottom and CFR love to pretend that there is a way out of if only we pour so many gazillion US dollars into it.
And I am really, really sorry for the Kurdish people. We are damned if we do, and damned if we don’t.
This. It was going to happen immediately after the invasion of Iraq or never.
Commies
Poland’s Law and Justice party just dominated that country’s elections (again) and white Western liberals are apoplectic about it.
I am so looking forward for the first Democratic presidential candidate to propose sanctions against Poland for democratically electing a government that opposes abortion and gender theory, but ending the trade war with China.
Life can no longer be parodied.
I hope Salvini gets back power in Italy.
Just to watch the fake-liberals cry and cry again.
There will never be elections in Italy again, if Salvini is still leading in the polls. The ‘Liberal Order’ is opposed to democracy when people don’t vote ‘the right way’. Same reason why they refuse to hold elections in the UK.
There might be widespread strikes in protest then, but since it’s Italy, who would be able to tell?
Truth!
We have to undermine democracy to save it.
I for one am richly enjoying the high esteem in which congressional Donks suddenly hold John Bolton.
Bolton has seen the light that Orangemanbad.
Oh, they’ll give him a table at the Chestnut Tree Café for a few months before they disappear him.
Whenever I hear John Bolton’s name mentioned, I immediately picture Michael Bolton with an amazing brushtache. Is that weird?
“And I-uh-I will always bomb you-oo-oo…”
“When a maaaaaaaaaaaan loves a weapon…..”
Trump Suspects a Spiteful John Bolton Is Behind Some of the Ukraine Leaks
Captain Warstache will not be stopped.
And now all I can picture is a tranny Kathleen Turner in V.I. Warstacheski.
And here I thought Sad Beard was the retarded one at Vox
Well since MSNBC calls it down the middle. Kind of like WWE refs.
They’re not all retarded at Vox?
Why, yes, yes they are. But some are more retarded than others.
True, and we haven’t even mentioned Zach “the bridge connecting Gaza to the West Bank” Beauchamp yet.
It’s a different spectrum. There is assholery and mendaciousness mixed in with the Rhhheeeee.*
*Apparently, none of those are actual words…don’t care ’cause they fit.
Lol.
Didn’t they try that with Air America during the Bush years?
Indeed they did, smashing success that it was.
Totes success.
Even Al Franken was there!
I thought One America News was the conservative competitor to Fox News.
There is no right leaning media, it is one homogeneous mass of leftist propaganda.
Rush Limbaugh wants a word.
Has anyone ever thought of just, you know, reporting the news with no spin and letting viewers have their own opinion? Yeah, I know, so old fashioned, not many brave, not much woke.
Who’s going to watch that?
I was talking with my kids about that. Just news, no “it seems…”, “it appears…” etc. Just state what the fuck happened and let us decide.
I know. Pipedreams and no one would watch or read.
If they don’t tell you what to think, how are you supposed to know who to be outraged at?
Not sure that ever happened.
Also Vox: I’m just going to toss this out there, but maybe someone should consider….shutting down conservative radio?
Ian is absolutely right. How has no liberal capitalized on all this yet?
Pixel 4 seems…underwhelming.
Anyone else paralyzed when making a simple decision like picking a new cell phone?
yes
The second stringers have most of the horsepower with half the cost: A50 and 3A.
ps: Pie still gets to pay full price, though.
Just research and research and after a week or so of obsessive nonsense get drunk and do an impulse order from Amazon. Except for that damn LG phone I got a few years ago that method’s served me well.
My son chose one for me, he was paralyzed until he got a twofer. I’m now tethered to my computer, got rid of DISH internet, better service and a few bucks cheaper. Also DISH then gave me an intro offer on the TV stuff and knocked 25 a month off for 2 years.
I can’t figure out much on my new phone but at least its a start.
Funeral prank by deceased grandfather talking from beyond the grave leaves mourners in stitches
I think it would be funny to have them play some random song at my funeral, with the instructions to say “Those who were closest to him know the special meaning behind this song.” And then everyone would pretend to know what the song meant, while thinking “wtf”?
“I mean, who knew Kevin even liked ‘Barbie Girl’?”
This guy gets it.
That would be the Redgrin Grumble of practical jokes.
For the soccer fans, Finland need only beat Liechtenstein next month to qualify for Euro 2020, which I think would be the Finns’ first qualification for a major tournament.
Good on them.
Double the number of teams participating in the next Euro championship again and even Liechtenstein will qualify.
The right number of teams is 8, like in the good old days.
Why not have San Marino qualify too? Then we can have all the countries that no one gives a damn about in Europe in the tournament?
No France and Germany are already in, you mean all the countries anyone does care about.
Fair enough. But Leichtenstein is the excrement of the now defunct Holy Roman Empire
You take that back! *holds out hand for extra bucks from the royal family*
Wow. I’d like to see that, but since I work (indirectly) for the royal family of Liechtenstein, I should probably not cheer against the boss’ team. Oh, the struggles!
My apologies for my flippant remark about Leichtenstein up above
*returns pike to wall rack* well, OK.
I was in Indianapolis last week, visiting my parents. I got home last night. You have time to think plenty of thoughts, deep and otherwise, when you’re driving all day (virtually) nonstop, by yourself.
I have previously expressed my sentiments regarding the latest iteration of the Corvette. Whirring across South Dakota in my old beater Honda (I try to keep it under 85), I thought this:
If I were
Jay Lenome (but with Jay Leno’s money), I would buy one of those new Corvettes, and bring it straight home and rip the back end out from under it, so I could put a Ford Coyote flat-crank 302 in it, with an AP multiplate clutch and an Xtrac five speed manual gearbox in it.Then I’d take it to Detroit and do doughnuts in the parking lot of General Motors’ world headquarters until I was escorted from the premises.
I was driving on the highway saturday, and passed a late model Ford truck with the ‘Coyote 5.0’ badge.
that’s a lot of trouble just to lose a few dozen horsepower
The new Corvette is 490/495, and the flat crank ford is not a Coyote, but a Voodoo at 520 hp. It’s also not a 302, but more like a 316.
Depends on which one Brooks is really talking about.
DO IT!!!!!
This is why.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UOm8S_rE7rY
I’m just going to toss this out there, but maybe someone should consider launching a liberal cable news station during a period when there’s an unpopular Republican president and a highly engaged opposition to that president.
*slaps forehead*
Genius!
Maybe they could even get their station a monopoly on all airport TVs and trash that unpopular president 24/7? Just saying, you never know when something has never been tried.
24 hour CBS News? Is Dan Rather free?
I just got back from a service call, what did I miss?
/yes I checked the thermostat…
I guess you’re going to miss the dem derp circle jerk if you don’t tune in. Let us know how that goes. Is there anything they haven’t covered banning or taxing yet?
The V stands for VICTORY !
Titty Tuesday. Fill in your clever euphemism here.
http://archive.is/M8wiL
I’ll fill in your clever euphemism.
Wait…
Muh GQ!
Finger on the pulse of the American man.
“the new masculinity”
The new masculinity is they ain’t no masculinity.
My favorite female soccer player is a biological male. It’s that one kid from the movie “Lady Bugs”.
OMG how did I miss that cinematic masterpiece?
I really don’t know. One of Rodney Dangerfield’s last roles
Jackee is in it too, right? I remember kinda liking it
It takes a man to make a great woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk4PtzSsreA
LOL Okay, I busted a gut.
I don’t think he’s still hanging around…
Man, did no one here get my insensitive Jonathan Brandis suicide joke? If I don’t get a “fuck off and don’t tell me what to laugh at” response now I’m really gonna wonder what happened to this place… 😉
Well, shouldn’t GENTLEMAN’S Quarterly be RHEEE’d out of existence just for the name anyway?
Hey, John Waters is awesome but an archetype of masculinity he’s not.
Yes, he is great. And I of all people can accept “different masculinities”.
But “a lesbian comedian ‘who’s taking on toxic masculinity'”? That’s just gobbledygook.
Have you read Carsick? The final 1/3, aka the real trip, is really quite a touching and heartfelt paean to America.
I wasn’t aware of that but it sounds fun from the description at Amazon. *wishlisted*
Well that’s faggy.
So, who’s the brave glib who’s going to watch the dem debate tonight and report in on it?
Oh good Lord not I
I’ll check in every half-hour or so as usual just a comedic break.
My news bureau’s on top of it, Hyp.
Zenu coming? Tits, let’s see em?
Allow me to commune with the spirit of prophecy.
Ok done.
Stupid people propose unconstitutional and evil laws designed to destroy all decency and prosperity as a step along the road to the killing fields.
Also orangemanbad
You’re ruining it, it was supposed to be a surprise!
Not true. Harris is going to drag Tulsi Gabbard for having Kurdish blood on her hands (the myth of our intervention beginning in 2014 is strong despite numerous articles and statements by Obama proving that to be untrue) for meeting with Assad.
The fact that Assad and Russia are allied with the Kurds will be ignored. “Journalists” will applaud and the audience will hoot and holler because opposing war is racist or something
“because opposing war is racist or something”
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Have you learned nothing?
Opposing war is racist or something only when a democrat is not in office. Otherwise it’s great, because bombing the fuck out of poor brown people is the same as saving them, for the children.
Do you also have tomorrow night’s winning powerball numbers?
I can’t change who I am. I’ll make it as long as I can.
That’s what he said!
Hey…that…hey…..
Thoughts and prayers go to you poor bastards who sit through it.
Tulsi better look damn fine or else I’m turning off.
Artist’s rendering of tonight’s debate.
Not sure if anyone here has posted this yet – probably the most succinct, logical breakdown of the revised Syrian situation that I’ve seen so far. Still not sure Trump’s playing with a full deck or that this was his specific intention – but this version certainly makes sense.
https://twitter.com/BryanDeanWright/status/1183875052443525123
Here’s hoping it works.
(probably easier to read here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1183875052443525123.html)
It’s always best to begin a discussion about our Syria intervention circa 2014. Let’s just ignore the failed effort in Congress to authorize intervention to oust Assad in 2011. Or our clandestine funding and support for ISIS. Sunshine and lollipops are the only ramifications when we intervene in an area where we have no business being
I’m old enough to remember when Pelosi traveled to Syria to make nice with Assad.
It might be Turkey’s Vietnam if they get stupid but it won’t be Iran’s or Russia’s. Assad seems to actually have the support of the Syrian people and Iran and Russia were invited in. If it increases their stature and pull in the region so be it but I don’t see the withdrawal as some kind of grand strategy.
It’s not a “grand strategy”, as if Trump is even capable of formulating one. He decided that we were no longer going to illegally wage war to oust Assad (which was the entirety of our mission from the get go and was explicitly stated multiple times until it became convenient to say “muh..Kurds”).
Further, this guy’s assumption is that Turkey, Russia, and Iran share the same interests in the region which is far from true. Russia and Iran want to prop-up their ally, Syria, but Turkey could give two shits about that and it’s dubious to suspect that Turkey wants to fight ISIS. We know that ISIS was not being opposed by the Turks way back in 2014.
The Turks were providing Islamic militants an avenue into northern Syria for years from what I understand. This latest move is just a continuation of the low grade war Turkey and the Kurds have been waging since forever and forever’s how long we’d have to stay there to keep them apart. Best to let Turkey handle the Maoists they’re concerned with and then Syria and Russia can roll in to maintain the peace.
What bugs me is that Turkey is getting mad at Germany/NATO for refusing weapons sales, etc…but they’ve already been buying the S-400 from Russia (we don’t have a lot of options with that since they’ve already started taking deliveries). (I think some NATO nations in the Balkans have continued buying Russian small arms or used aviation assets, but nothing else on the scale of the S-400).
Frankly, I think that should be enough of an excuse to kick them out of NATO (not counting their threats to greater Europe in terms of terrorists, refugees, etc) – but I’m not really sure what the complaint process is with them.
Turkey does not belong in NATO. But, they’re there because of the Cold War and the usefulness that they provided.
This is the problem with Trump: he’s dumb. His problem with NATO is that countries don’t pay. Fair enough, but the last three presidents have said that and nothing has changed. The real problem with NATO is that it’s an alliance that increasingly makes no sense, because there is no more USSR to unite all these countries with overlapping interests
Trump did get NATO countries to pony up another $100 billion. That’s more than what the last three Presidents accomplished.
Fair enough. I’m just saying that Germany could quadruple its payments to NATO and it’s still an illogical alliance in the 21st Century.
Germany buys gas from Russia and is friendlier with Russia than they are Poland, while Poland pays its full dues to NATO and wants Trump to build a base in their country. Turkey doesn’t get along with Greece and buys arms from Russia (which is supposed to be the country that NATO is meant to contain). Italy isn’t really quite sure what their role is in NATO and everyone seems to agree, but no one understands if France is or isn’t in NATO (they got their own separate nuclear deterrent and DeGaul played coy during the Cold War).
Don’t get me wrong, I would be just fine if NATO went away. Europe would be forced to defend itself, and we would save a lot of blood and treasure. But I have no doubt that the EU would end up being commie cucks, just like Lebron, so that they could keep their socialist programs going, instead putting money into self defense.
Erdogan deserves it, fuck that guy. Anyway, we actually did the right thing by pulling out, for once. Fuck Erdogan and all our own neocon wartards.
I think the debate over who is better, Jordan or LeBron, is pretty much over.
Besides the fact that Jordan was playing when basketball was a more physical sport, he also never did PR for a murderous regime while pretending to be a great moral arbiter.
Lebron James = commie cuck.
From now on, we have to let woke game officials decide games the fair way, based on how woke you are, not on points or anything, that’s racist. This Lebron dude is obviously racist and if he wants to win, he should get woke so the officials can fairly award him a gold star and the game.
I’d say they are #1 and #2 on the list of reasons I lost all interest in the NBA.
Why Jordan?
Because his awesomeness was blinding, clearly
Because the NBA changed the rules so he could showboat.
This.
They stopped calling travelling, carries, and offensive fouls so we could watch Jordan dunk. Screw that arrogant prick.
And neither are anywhere near as good as Chamberlain.
Did this get covered in the Lebron comments this afternoon? https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27852132/protesters-trample-burn-lebron-james-jerseys-hong-kong
FTA:
I WANT TO KNOW, DAMMIT!!!
me so horny?
shitty lebron?
ain’t no nigger ever called me a viet cong?
can’t believe ESPN reported that. Someone’s in for a paddlin’
what he said.
“Dayton, Ohio family outraged their sibling was shot dead by a store clerk while attempting an armed robbery”
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1183153740972359680
OFFS
Look, deplorable, that wouldn’t have happened if no one was armed except the criminals! Get woke! Anyway, that evil capitalist merchant got his stuff from privilege and deserved to be robbed, cuz he stoled all that stuff from poor people. Get woke!
Look, let’s not bicker about who tried to rob who…
Obviously need to shoot the family too.
Did drugs fall out of the guys ass when the clerk shot him?
Today in the Hemgouse at work full of soccer moms, I let my cop hating freak flag fly when the conversation turned to the woman getting murdered in her own house by cops. To my surprise they all agreed with me when I said never call the cops, etc ……
possible libertarian moment?
lol. hen house.
Wow.
I saw the story (too local) and passed over it, cause I know that part of town.
But to hear the feigned outrage from the family……
That’s not feigned outrage, which is worse.
Ninja, puhleeze. They already have a couple dozen lawyers calling them wanting to file a ‘wrongful death’ suit in hopes of a settlement.
Who’s watching the Democr’ats debate tonight?
did I do that right? 😉
Not without copiou’s amount’s of alcohol, and I have to work to’morrow.
Look upthread. I just asked for volunteers. You volunteering? You gotta prove your toughness around here, take one for team you know.
Shit sorry I missed it. Yeah I’ll prolly at least start it.
I live in a SJW enclave and I bet the bar nextdoor will have it on. If I really wanted to punish myself, I go to people-watch all these lunatics. But I doubt I’d be able to keep from laughing / scoffing and probably be banned forever sooooo I should stay home.
Free shit. Impeach. More troops something Syria. Russian puppet. that’s not who we are
Does that cover everything?
All Americans want (what we want), All Americans agree (with us), that should fill in the blanks.
I wonder if Anderson Cooper will grill Bern over his promises which now add up to almost $100T. ?
Of course not, math is racist.
I’m at the point where I’m pretty convinced that they want Trump to win..Great for fundraising and virtue signaling with no responsibility backed up by the media, academia and Hollywood.
Why bother winning? where’s the percentage in that? they know their crazy fantasies won’t get through Congress or the courts.
NBA These Days
Really, Cap’n Woke? You could just go hang out with lil Kim in Norkland, I head that worked out really well for Rodman.
“Ocasio-Cortez is getting her own action figure”
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1184117489187409922
OFFS, we don’t even live in reality anymore, this must be a simulation. I think I just found the proof, awaiting my Nobel Prize.
Not a bobble-head?
That’s nothing.
You haven’t made it until you have your own sex doll.
“No! Get the teeth right! I’m not scared at all to put my dick in her mouth yet!”
Once you go horse…
Jennifer Grey ?
That is…unfortunate.
Political Action Figure? More like Political Over-reaction Figure. And it’s made of plastic, manufactured in China. Is that irony?
It has it’s own social credit score.
Maybe Amazon will sneak a couple microphones into them.
Meh… Ron Paul had one.
https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1183931298538242056
“LeBron to Adam Silver: “Don’t worry, I’m about to end this China mess.””
That first video is how I imagine all this PC stuff blowing the fuck up in their faces, because it’s coming, and it’s coming hard.
Phrasing!
I think he meant to say it that way. 😉
Somewhere there’s a meme of Lebron and tank man. And if there isn’t one, there should be.
I can give it a shot.
Nice
Last para in a BBC story on this mess (but, they did print it): “Mr James has significant financial interests in China, through his lifetime endorsement deal with Nike and via millions of fans.”
Yeah, that one really made me blink.
I’m the biggest sports nut you’ll ever see. I watch the games. I go to the games. I play fantasy sports. I buy replica Jerseys.
I am the NBA’s demographic.
I am completely ignoring the NBA now. This was the last camel on the straw.
I can’t be alone.
Nope, once you get woke, then you’ll suddenly realize that sports were never that great, that they’re racist, and that sports are not supposed to be fun, but all about social justice. The new soviet you awaits you, comrade.
I cant help but think that LeBron is dumb/self-absorbed enough to think that what Dennis Rodman turned into positive PR with NK, was something he could pull off with China.
I wish I watched baseketball and bought their crap, so I could stop in protest.
New thread is up!
thanks!
You always ruing stuff, HK, you’re not sposed to tell us!
Or, I mean ruining. Edit faeries these days, they won’t work and you can’t fire them.