Saturday night links of the week-end

Ziggy zoggy, ziggy zoggy, oy, oy, oy!

 

I hope my fellow Glibertarians are well and a shout out to Evan from Evansville. Get well, buddy.

 

I’ll try not to trigger like I did on Tuesday.

 

Okay, I lied.

 

Please don’t lop my head off with a machete.

 

What did socialists use for light before candles?

 

I thought she would be better at taking a fist.

 

Proggy on proggy violence.

 

Channeling his inner Florida man.

 

That’s it, Glibbies! Time to get your snark on.

 

Who did it better?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJs_L7yq5qE

Comments

480 responses to “Saturday night links of the week-end”

  1. banginglc1

    A porn star has been filmed being annihilated during her debut MMA fight for Bellator in a humiliating first-round TKO.

    She’s cute, but I wouldn’t call her a total knock out.

    1. Spudalicious

      I wouldn’t mind giving her a jab, or two.

      1. banginglc1

        Well . . Would, but she’s probably on the wrong side of the hot/crazy matrix.

        1. Spudalicious

          Sometimes, word pun threads just get knocked out.

          1. banginglc1

            They seem to be a real hit around here.

          2. Nephilium

            Maybe someone should do a submission for puns?

          3. egould310

            Bout time someone made sense round here.

          4. banginglc1

            You beat me to it.

          5. mexican sharpshooter

            Itttttttttttttttttttttttttt’s TIIIIME. For you all to cut it out.

      2. Chipping Pioneer

        I’d show her my standing 8.

        1. Jarflax

          I think that was a short count.

    2. Gustave Lytton

      Y’all can have her. She might be ok except for the ink, mutilations, and lousy makeup. In other words, would not.

      1. banginglc1

        Spoken like a man with standards . . .someday I’ll get there . . . ok probably not.

        1. Nephilium

          I’m apparently one of the few here who can appreciate tats and piercings… and yet I have none (mainly due to a fear of needles, otherwise I’m sure I’d have some regrettable decisions on both fronts).

          1. banginglc1

            I don’t like tattoo’s, but I seem to like the type of women who like them . . .most girls I’ve dated have had an above average amount. Good girls are too good for me, bad girls are too bad. I can’t seem to find the happy medium that would probably fit me best.

          2. banginglc1

            I’d also pine that the medium, well adjusted girls were probably mostly picked up during the years I made the mistake of dating my now ex-wife . . .who got covered in tattoo’s after we broke up.

          3. Nephilium

            How do you feel about rockabilly music and classic cars? Viva Las Vegas may have what you’re looking for. I’ll be going for my fifth year in April.

          4. banginglc1

            Indifferent to rockabilly, love cars, don’t care much for Vegas . . .although the event does look fun.

          5. Trigger Hippie

            Get out of my head, man.

          6. Trigger Hippie

            I’ve always had a thing for women with tattoos and weird colored hair. Sleeves are fine, as are tats around her feet, shoulders, and neck. However, large tats on her thighs or above or on her breasts just make things go sideways. Tramp Stamps aren’t a big deal but they don’t really do anything special for me.

          7. I got a tramp stamp before it was a thing.

          8. Spudalicious

            I stopped eating avocado toast before it was a thing.

          9. I stopped eating avocadoes before I was born.

          10. Trigger Hippie

            My first tattoo was a sixteenth birthday present from my mother. Back then, as long as a parent signed off on it, a kid could legally get a tat from a licensed parlor.

          11. Spudalicious

            “I stopped eating avocadoes before I was born.”

            Hater.

          12. A long-ago bestie let her son get a tattoo, on his forearm in an awkward place. He showed me and wanted my approval. I tried, but I just couldn’t. The artist was … not much of one.

            It was all I could do not to scream, “If you’re going to get a tattoo where everybody can see it, spend the money and hire a good artist!”

            To this day he probably thinks I don’t approve of tattoos.

          13. Spudalicious

            I paid for my oldest son to get the family crest tattooed on his bicep. It was obvious he was jonesing for a tattoo, and this way, I had some control over it.

            Yeah, during his failed attempt at college, he got a stupid black and white cartoon cat tattooed on the inside of his forearm.

          14. Nephilium

            Mojeaux:

            At one Viva, a girl was showing off her new tattoo. It was a pinup girl sitting on a six sided die, the two visible sides were a 6 and a 1. I damn near bit my tongue off to avoid pointing out that error. At least she should be able to get it fixed to a 6 and a 3.

            /I trust no one who doesn’t understand with seeing a 1 and a 6 on adjacent sides of a die

          15. Rhywun

            I have 4 ear piercings, some of which I did myself. Haven’t used ’em in a couple decades. My circle of old friends are a circus show of piercings and tatts – still! Totally over it.

          16. Count Potato

            So you pierced your own dick? Reshpekt.

          17. banginglc1

            Not very relate, but made the memory pop in my head.

            I was having sex once in college in the back of my full sized van. One of the captain’s chairs had been taken out to be fixed. At some point, I threw it in the back in the van on the bed. A wire was hanging out of the side of it. As I was climaxing, the wire sticking out of the side went about an inch deep into the fold of my elbow (where you’d put an IV). It was the most painful orgasm I’ve ever had. And the girls I was with was wondering why I was howling in pain. Just one of those interesting experiences of life.

        2. Gustave Lytton

          Married and not drinking at the moment. I can be choosy.

          1. This. Also, you can basically shop online for whatever look you want. I don’t get having low standards for eye candy.

    3. Would. Violent, crazy and experienced. Sounds perfect.

      1. Derpetologist

        Q Continuum: Klingon Love Machine
        by SugarFree

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITmnIY_H24o

    4. JaimeRoberto Delecto

      Stick and move. Stick and move.

  2. dbleagle

    Beautiful day here and finished working in the garden and chores. Now I have the afternoon to enjoy myself.

    Athlete of the week for finishing second? The dude in a skirt just nut punched a woman.

    1. Spudalicious

      Clear, cool and windy here, but a beautiful day, nonetheless.

      Trannies competing against women is just stupid.

      1. Trigger Hippie

        Hmmm…quit smoking, get in shape, shave my beard, start training, change my sex, become the women’s super-middleweight champion of the world…

        1. banginglc1

          Why shave? Aren’t women allowed to have beards in 2019?

          1. Nephilium

            I thought they were the beards.

          2. Trigger Hippie

            What would really throw them off is the shaved head and chest hair.

    2. egould310

      Ohio State trounced Wisconsin. Just spent the last two hours wailing away on guitar and sipping bourbon. Don’t give a fuck about tranny athletes.

      Gonna get some more bourbon, watch shitty horror movies, and restring the acoustic guitar. May wail on the acoustic for a couple hours.

      1. dbleagle

        Tonight will be some moose chops (thank you friend) cooked in a French style with home grown tomatoes and a nice Syrah.

        Tomorrow will be early NFL game (7am) followed by racing sailboats and drinking beer.

        1. egould310

          Leftover roast chicken, with leftover veggies (brussels, beets, carrots, onions, butter, bacon).

          1. banginglc1

            I like when butter and bacon are considered veggies.

          2. DEG

            Pretty good sandwich involving a lot of roast beef and chicken, chips, and a Victory Oktoberfest at a dumpy bar for dinner for me.

      2. Spudalicious

        LSU and Auburn has been a pretty good game.

        1. Gender Traitor

          Navy gave up a big lead, and now it’s tied up with a minute to go. : (

          1. Gender Traitor

            Whew! Plebe kicker pulls it out! Go Navy!

    3. leon

      I also finished some garden work, and none too soon, as it seems we will get snow tonight

    4. banginglc1

      It rained heavily all day here. It rained out the halloween festival that was down the street from me. Which might be good. I was expecting to host several friends. But I was also expecting to host the family of the little girl I’ve talked about some who’s in the hospital currently.

  3. Gustave Lytton

    Got the grocery shopping done for the week, leaves off the deck and driveway, and a hanger put up for the string trimmer. Tomorrow will be cleaning up the rest of the leaves and planting bulbs.

    Very happy with the shovel and tool rack from Gemplers. Wish their closest store was closer.

  4. Derpetologist

    The high priestess of the Church of Progtology speaks to her flock:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMmyudwSCB4

    ***
    Rachel Maddow discusses her new book, the instant #1 New York Times bestseller BLOWOUT: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth (Crown, October 1, 2019), in conversation with W. Kamau Bell on the first night of her book tour at the Streicker Center in NYC.

    More info at MSNBC.com/Blowout

    Comments are turned off
    ***

    Of course they are.

    [anguished Zoidberg groan]

    1. Trigger Hippie

      Comment 6

    2. Rhywun

      More info at MSNBC.com/Blowout

      404 – PAGE NOT FOUND

      What a shame.

    3. Suthenboy

      Are Trump’s tax returns in there?

    1. Spudalicious

      That’s a pretty interesting hypothesis. It fits.

    2. Rhywun

      That was my suspicion after I had read more details about the case in Texas.

    3. Suthenboy

      Is water wet? So many questions

    4. I don’t think it explains all of them by any means, but I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to see a significant amount of overlap between parents suffering from Munchausen-by-proxy and parents pushing their kids to transition.

    5. one true athena

      Some almost certainly are, I’ve thought so for awhile. The rest are more mild, but a lot of it still reeks of narcissism – they get attention for transitioning their kid, both positive and negative. Sometimes it seems like the negative attention is what they want more, I’ve read blogs where people are ‘defiant against the evil transphobes!!!’ even when nobody even knows their kid’s cross-dressing yet. It’s performative wokeness as attention whoring.

      I don’t think that;s quite the same level of MBP, which can lead to mothers disfiguring and poisoning their kids. I think doctors are more aware of it now (or at least the possibility of abuse), so perhaps it was inevitable that the expression of the illness would morph to something more ‘acceptable.’

  5. Trigger Hippie

    I eagerly await Jimmy Dore’s review.

    1. Trigger Hippie

      Goddammit. I swear WordPress is glitching out beyond missing avatars.

  6. Silicone Saturday provides cavernous chasms of cleavage for your coc… errr… patriarchal male gaze.

    http://archive.li/IEwWv

  7. Derpetologist

    I went looking for MMA porn stars and found this:

    MMA Fighter War Machine LAUGHS In Court as PORN STAR Girlfriend Describes How He BEAT her
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeDNvazmMn8

    Youtube comment gold: Your honor, my client War Machine is not a violent person…

    I can imagine Lionel Hutz saying that.

    1. banginglc1

      I went looking for MMA porn stars and found this:

      I was thinking the link would be for mature midget amateurs.

  8. Who did it better?

    Nobody?

    1. Gustave Lytton
      1. Spudalicious

        Wow. That was more of a Te’dS link than his was.

        1. Rhywun

          Ted’S’s link is actually a good song. One of the classic Bond themes.

          1. As I’ve said several times, I pick music that fits in a Rorschach test sort of way. If you guys find it a horrible earworm, well, so much teh better.

            /rubs palms in evil glee

          2. Excellent choice. On the playlist for another of my books.

          3. Nobody does it half as good as me,
            Baby I’m the best.

            😉

          4. Gustave Lytton

            That would be Miss Irma Thomas. Sorry Ted’S.

            https://youtu.be/YOKKiCikVp0

          5. Nobody does it half as good as me,
            Baby I’m the best.

            That is definitely what the hero of that book would have been thinking if he didn’t have to concentrate on his job.

          6. MikeS

            Yeah, It’s one of my favorite Bond themes.

            Here’s another

          7. I think I have every Bond theme in my hard drive. I’ll have to check later.

          8. Rhywun

            If only because it’s “my” Bond movie – the one that I watched on HBO a zillion times when I was a kid.

          9. MikeS

            We didn’t have HBO, but my aunt and uncle did. We stayed there one weekend and I watched this movie a zillion times.

          10. “Eastbound and Down” is my go-to mood lifter.

            We watched that movie some months ago. The XX TD was seriously under-impressed. Mr. Mojeaux was like, “Whatever.” Meanwhile, I was cackling like crazy.

          11. MikeS

            +1 “You sounded taller on the radio.”

          12. MikeS

            I’d love to see a “directors cut” of Smokey’. Remove all the shitty dubbing over the cuss words that Jackie Gleason was dropping. At least I assume that’s what the bad dubbing is about. He said “fuck” but they dubbed in “damn” instead…?

          13. “Hooper” pisses on “Smokey and the Bandit” from a great height.

          14. dbleagle

            I thought you’d die for this one.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7aGAIWe3uE

    2. Spudalicious

      Well played, Mayan.

  9. Derpetologist

    some music to set the mood:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqIY3NfoYvw

    ALERT ALERT ALERT – STAGE 5 DERP INBOUND

    THIS IS NOT A DRILL

    1. leon

      Not enough Yakity Sax

    2. This music doesn’t help you get in the mood?

    3. Tonio

      I never new the title of the song. Wow, a whole new meaning.

      Also, “street organ,” for the win.

  10. egould310

    Here’s some modern psychedelia from the Oh See’s https://youtu.be/lMgGvv7Mzuo

    Plus [EPILEPSY WARNING]

  11. leon

    TCU crushes #15 Texas

    1. Trigger Hippie

      And Oklahoma did what Oklahoma does. They’re kinda like Georgia in that regard: always finding a way to make themselves a bubble playoff team.

      1. Don Escaped Texas

        Looks like Zero U was over-rated after all !

        Texas? Toldjall twiceth

        * returns to hate-watching Notre Dame *

        1. Trigger Hippie

          I’m still shaking my head over Mizzou shitting the bed last week. I’m not surprised, I expect it, in fact.

          1. Trigger Hippie

            *checks score*

            OFFS!!!

  12. MikeS

    Obviously Cheap Trick did it better than some douchey clown.

    1. Spudalicious

      Thank you for setting next Saturday’s theme.

      1. MikeS

        *sigh*

        Dammit

    2. Trigger Hippie

      I’m pro-Puddles. I don’t watch this show, or have any idea who’s song he’s covering, but I stumbled upon this a year or so ago and that clown fucking rocked it. Sang with the passion of a true lush:

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MNtR15afJZE&t=1s

      1. Spudalicious

        We saw him live last year. Awesome show.

        1. Trigger Hippie

          I heard that dude is somewhere around 6’7′ and 270 lbs. That had to be a surreal experience.

          1. Spudalicious

            We were in the second row. Along with the singing, he does some superb physical comedy.

    3. Chafed

      High five ✋

      1. MikeS

        ??

        1. Chafed

          ?

          1. MikeS

            ????

  13. Cheap Trick, hands down, and I dig the Clown, but c’mon, it’s a goddamn masterclass in pop rock. The clown does a great Roy Orbison impression but he may as well have sung ‘It’s Over’.

    1. egould310

      The magnetism of Robin Zander, the charisma of Rick Nielsen…

      https://youtu.be/U2oHY4RapDY

      1. My buddy from high school never went to college because he was certain he would become a rock star drummer. That never happened, but substance abuse did, and now he’s nearly blind and disabled. His small solace: he’s recently become good friends with former Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos. He recently sent me a nice photo of the two of them yukking it up together.

        Good for Bun E. Sounds like a great guy, and taking under his wing my unfortunate friend is a true kindness for someone in the RnR HOF.

    1. Rhywun

      The spin on that has been pretty epic. I can see frightened New Yorkers avoiding Fifth Avenue from now on.

    2. blackjack

      I commented.

      “Hey, do you know which president did, in fact murder a US citizen extra-judicially and while in office ( albiet, not on 5th ave.)? Hint, it wasn’t Trump.”

      Lesseee how the Maddow fans react to that.

  14. Nephilium

    As predicted in the last thread, I’ve cracked a World Wide Stout and am pairing it with some dark chocolate now.

    1. DEG

      I still have a few in the fridge but I’m on my last beer, so I won’t join you.

      1. Nephilium

        I’m going through the random horror films on Hulu/Netflix, and subjecting myself to how bad some of them are.

        You have to go through the terrible horror films to understand how to appreciate the good (bad) horror films.

        1. DEG

          Oh yes. A former roommate of mine got into making movies. I saw an early horror movie of his. It was on a compilation DVD. His wasn’t good, but was the most bearable of the bunch.

  15. banginglc1

    I’m a sucker for a cause . . . It’s Epidemolysis Bullosa (EB) awareness week. To learn more: http://www.debra.org/understanding

    1. EB is horrific.

      1. banginglc1

        Agreed . . one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve ever come across.

    1. banginglc1

      “I’m an idiot” should be the entire article. I’d date her though . . .mostly to use her for money and try to talk her into threesomes with her hot lesbian partners. I’d probably need to have a continuous antibiotic regiment though.

  16. Name-checked that song in a book. I ❤️ it.

    1. Gender Traitor

      Which one? Comment looks Brooksed, though lack of avatars makes it harder to track threading.

      1. “I want you to want me.” Cheap Trick. Spud’s musical selection for the evening. Giselle and Bryce on their first date. Well, okay, I didn’t NAME CHECK it, technically speaking.

        1. Gender Traitor

          Of course – my duh. (In my lame defense, there have been a lot of music links posted since.) I didn’t get my afternoon nap.

          1. I would never expect people to remember stupid details like that. Most of the details I put in were just me indulging myself.

        2. Spudalicious

          Cheap Trick “Live at Budokan” could be the soundtrack of my high school years.

          1. Trigger Hippie

            Hair-Metal was officially slain by Smells Like Teen Spirit just about the time puberty had completely dominated my mindset so anything grunge from the early to mid-nineties makes the soundtrack. Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pixies(who Nirvana ripped off), Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, ect, all made my regular playlist. I don’t really give most of those bands much of a listen anymore after I got a bit older and discovered the bands who inspired them. Pixies being the most notable exception.

          2. egould310

            Just to clarify, Cheap Trick is not hair metal.

          3. egould310

            It’s power pop. But I don’t have the next 8 hours of my life to post on the internet the history of power pop.

            Could be an article though….

            Here’s a nice example of some early American power pop, with psych and garage influences. https://youtu.be/IyfDH0HKLjs

          4. Trigger Hippie

            Oh, I wasn’t arguing that at all. Sorry if that was unclear. I was just commenting on the proverbial ‘Soundtrack of High School’.

          5. Trigger Hippie

            To put a very broad brush on my take on Cheap Trick’s genre I’d say ‘Late Era Classic Rock Station’.

          6. Rhywun

            Nice! Love me some power pop.

            I think I only knew the REM version before.

          7. egould310

            Th, I get it now. My high school soundtrack was The Clash, The Who, The Kinks, whatever punk band we went to see that week.

          8. Trigger Hippie

            Bookmarked links for later. And yeah, if you’ve got the time, I’d love to read an article on the subject.

          9. power pop

            I have never heard that term before. Love it.

            I have been tagging groups like that as “pop rock.”

          10. banginglc1

            i pretty much could copy your playlist to my teenage years (I’d be a couple years younger, but we were all still listening to those bands). I don’t listed to any of them much now, But I do like to hear a song here and there out of nostalgia. But, If I try to listen to a full album, I usually turn it off after 3-4 songs.

          11. Trigger Hippie

            ‘I usually turn it off after 3-4 songs.’

            Agreed. There are a few albums from that era I’ll listen to if in the proper mood. The Downward Spiral by NIN comes to mind. But that’s not really grunge.

          12. blackjack

            Last year of school was 1982, so my soundtrack contains pre ’82 music. I was a weird kid and I listened to a lot of southern rock and blues, and some hippy music on top of the basic rock and roll everyone else liked. I still have an ear for hard rock from that era, though.

          13. Nephilium

            Trigger Hippie, I was going to be upset until that last sentence.

            The Pixies are still in my regular rotation.

          14. banginglc1

            I saw Frank Black on one of his solo tours a few years back . . . .awful experience. One on the few concerts I’ve ever left early. When the Pixies came through a few years later, I decided not to go because of that concert. All of my friends continue to inform me of how I missed out because they were awesome.

          15. Rhywun

            I still love Smashing Pumpkins out of all those, esp. Siamese Dream.

          16. Trigger Hippie

            I give them another listen a small handful of times a year.

            And agreed, Siamese Dream over Melancholy and the….fuck it.

          17. Rhywun

            Yeah, there are selected tracks on later albums that are great but SD is almost consistently great.

      2. I think she was referring to the Cheap Trick song.

  17. Derpetologist

    We truly live in the best timeline.

    Donald Trump’s Greatest Hits
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzaxEZcsuSQ

    1. Suthenboy

      There are some real eye-rollers in there but I don’t hear him denigrating our country or its citizens. I don’t hear threats against American citizens.

      1. Just the shithole parts of it or the Human scum that dare disagree with him.

        1. Derpetologist

          SHUT THE FUCK UP LIBTARD!

          Anyway, yeah he certainly says some dumb things. I care a lot more about what he’s done.

          Besides, the memes!

          1. Agreed, I just get a kick out of the “Trump never dun nuttin wrong” crowd. It’s one thing to play whataboutism with Obama and Bush etc… but to hold Trump up as some paragon of virtue is laughable.

          2. Derpetologist

            All the Trump supporters I know openly acknowledge his faults. Perhaps there are some really nutty people who think he’s the messiah.

            Anyway, at least teachers are having kids sing praises to his name:
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ty7WU872Lk

          3. Derpetologist

            oops- at least teachers *aren’t* having kids sing praises to his name

            ‘Member this? I ‘member. Pepperidge Farms remembers.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqF19Phn0Og

          4. Derpetologist

            In retrospect, shit like this is how we got Trump:

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW9b0xr06qA

          5. Rhywun

            ?

  18. Derpetologist

    The real Colonel Landa

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Scharff

    ***
    Hanns-Joachim Gottlob Scharff (December 16, 1907 – September 10, 1992) was a German Luftwaffe interrogator during the Second World War. He has been called the “Master Interrogator” of the Luftwaffe, and possibly of all Nazi Germany; he has also been praised for his contribution in shaping U.S. interrogation techniques after the war.

    He has been highly praised for the success of his techniques, in particular because he never used physical means to obtain the required information. Scharff’s interrogation techniques were so effective that he was occasionally called upon to assist other German interrogators in their questioning of bomber pilots and aircrews, including those crews and fighter pilots from countries other than the United States. Additionally, he was charged with questioning many more important prisoners who were funnelled through the interrogation center, such as senior officers and famous fighter aces.

    In 1948, Scharff was invited by the United States Air Force to give lectures on his interrogation techniques and first-hand experiences. The U.S. military later incorporated his methods into its curriculum at its interrogation schools. Many of his methods are still taught in US Army interrogation schools. Scharff was granted immigration status.

    Scharff described various experiences with new POWs (prisoners of war), outlining the procedure most of his fellow interrogators were instructed to use. Initially, the POWs fear and sense of disorientation, combined with isolation while not in interrogation, were exploited to gain as much initial biographical information as possible. A prisoner was frequently warned that, unless he could produce information beyond name, rank, and serial number, such as the name of his unit and airbase, the Luftwaffe would have no choice but to assume he was a spy and turn him over to the Gestapo for questioning. For Scharff, this technique apparently worked quite well. In addition to initially preying upon his prisoner’s fears of the infamous Gestapo, he portrayed himself as their closest ally in their predicament, telling them that while he would like nothing more than to see them safely deposited in a POW camp; his hands, he claimed, were tied unless the prisoner gave him the few details that he requested to help him properly identify the prisoner as a true POW.
    ***

    1. Pine_Tree

      There’s a really good book called “The Interrogator” about Scharff.

  19. Sean

    Holding down the recliner and watching the Ninth Gate. Almost time to switch to bourbon.

    ?? ? ?

    1. MikeS

      ? + ? = ??

  20. Chipping Pioneer

    The Omen: Good movie or bad movie?

    1. A quarter step below The Exorcist in terms of best horror movies ever made.

      1. Spudalicious

        ^^^^

      2. Drake

        Creepy yes. Saw the Exorcist as a kid and literally ran out of the room.

    2. Gregory Peck is always worth watching.

      And the movie has footage of a paternoster.

      1. That’s great. Fantastic user experience. Except for the whole risk of being cut in half or losing a limb bit.

      2. Gustave Lytton

        There’s still a few left.

      3. Rhywun

        LOL I’ll take the stairs.

      4. Why did the chicken cross the road?

        He wanted to see his friend Gregory peck.

    3. Trigger Hippie

      Certainly not bad.

    4. Nephilium

      The original? Classic. But not as cursed as the Exorcist.

    5. Count Potato

      I never liked the Omen movies.

  21. I just did my first ever one-armed push-up. This provides a stellar excuse for the rest of my evening, which will be spent drifting between the couch and my computer, drinking booze and eating candy while I alternate between horror movies and video games.

    1. Spudalicious

      I’m sorry to hear you lost an arm.

      1. Next step is to do one arm, one leg. I’m planning on riding that paternoster elevator Ted S. linked to above and I want to be ready just in case I get distracted before I get both legs in.

        1. Spudalicious

          When I was in the fire academy, we would get bored and drop, and do 40 pushups. On a typical day towards the end, we would do 600 pushups and 300 sit ups. On really stupid days, we would put our feet up on the bumper of the engine and see who was fastest doing 40 incline “arm blaster” push ups. These days, it takes effort to get down to the mat to do sit ups, and you can kiss my ass if you want me to do push ups.

          1. Akira

            I recently cut pushups out of my routine in favor of kettlebell flyes, and I’ve gotten more of the results I want (bigger chest and arms).

            Now, I could see doing one-armed pushups or overhead pushups sometime down the road.

      2. blackjack

        You know you have a right to keep and bear the other one, right?

        1. Spudalicious

          Only if it’s on fire.

    2. Tonio

      Whoa. That’s awesome.

    3. Trigger Hippie

      Nice! I think I did that a handful of times when I was in my late teens but if I tried that now I’d probably be bedridden for a couple days, and I’m pretty sure I’m a few years younger.

      1. Ironically, I was never able to do it when I was in my teens or twenties and 50 – 70 pounds lighter. Now I’m 41, weigh 250 lbs., and have trouble finding pants that fit, but damned if I’m not in better shape than when I was young and single.

        1. Trigger Hippie

          I had an abnormally strong upper body for my weight at that time. My biceps weren’t very big because I was always discouraged away from them because they would slow down my punches, but I had big back shoulder muscles and no body fat. I held my high schools record for chin ups for about five years. Now, I’d be surprised if I could do a third of that record. Probably pinch a nerve.

    4. Count Potato

      I used to be able to do those.

    5. Tejicano

      This year, now that I’ve retired from the Army Reserves, I have dropped the Army standards and am taking it one level higher. I’m working towards full range of motion on everything. Pull-ups/chin-ups only count when my chest contacts the bar. Push-ups are done on a stair landing or similar platform with hands on the stair edge and reps only count when my chest contacts the stair top on the down stroke. Sit-ups are done in a roman chair so I can get full extension on my abs.

      It was surprising how what seems to be a small increase is really more difficult than I had expected.

    1. Rhywun

      Oh my God.

    2. And he’s got a little baby stiffie. Awwww how precious.

    3. Derpetologist

      We truly live in the best timeline.

      [Muttley laugh]

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uSTOHa4Im4

      [dubs with sword]

      Arise *Sir* Mikey, Knight of the Derp Table.

      You are the 3rd winner of this prestigious award.

      1. Chafed

        That’s some fine meme work.

      2. Rhywun

        LOL!

  22. R C Dean

    This has been all over the news here: drunk guy runs red light in Phoenix, God says, “Nah, brah”:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6mUmZBh554

    1. Nephilium

      Much better ending then a recent wrong way police chase that’s been all over the news here in Cleveland.

    2. leon

      That Family shouldn’t have been crossing the street it seems. People were turning left.

      1. Rhywun

        Just read a story of a woman who got launched 12 feet across an intersection here in NYC.

        Apparently she was crossing against the light.

        I find that I don’t have the reflexes to confidently jaywalk like all the cool kids do anymore. And I’m quite all right with that.

    3. TARDIS

      Sweet Jesus! That was awesome.

  23. Derpetologist

    Herpa derpa wagga flagga gobba gobba hey

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEU4ESZ4OQY

    1. Hey, remember when there was an immigrant refugee crisis on the southern border and children were being forced to live in sheds separated from their mothers by the vile Border Patrol? I guess that’s over since all the media can talk about now is Schiff and Pelosi’s impeachment “investigation”.

    2. Suthenboy

      If you are against going to war with Russia you must be getting paid in PutinBucks. If you are against pointless, endless war in the Middle East you must be a Russian asset.

      I am starting to see a pattern here.

      1. Donald Trump is a Nazi. Also, simultaneously even, he is a Zionist stooge for Israel. The man must get up very early in the morning to be so many things to so many people.

      2. JaimeRoberto Delecto

        For Halloween I’m going to pin some rubles to my shirt and go as a Russian asset.

  24. Derpetologist

    Some music to set the mood:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ISBJc1wFk

    When there’s no more room in hell, the derp will walk the earth…

  25. Derpetologist

    Don’t look at it, Marion! Keep your eyes shut!

    https://nydems.org/what-we-stand-for/

    ***
    Defending New York from Republican Attacks

    Washington Republicans are waging war on New York, our people, and our values. With the support of New York Republicans like John Faso, Claudia Tenney, John Katko, and others, they have attacked women, workers, people of color, immigrants, LGBTQ people, and middle-class families by raising taxes on our families in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthy in other states. New York Republicans have taken a page straight out of the Trump playbook, sold out the people they represent, and obstructed the progress that New Yorkers demand. New York Democrats are holding Republicans accountable and continuing to build on our record as the nation’s progressive capitol!
    ***

    1. Tonio

      This is about the IRS disallowing deductions for state income taxes above a certain limit, isn’t it?

      1. Gustave Lytton

        And/or property/sales taxes too.

        On another non-politics board I follow, someone from CA was calling the SALT limit an attack on Blue Staters. GFY is what I felt. Blame your own politicians for raising taxes to astronomical rates and then expecting me to subsidize your state’s high rates.

        1. JaimeRoberto Delecto

          It definitely was aimed at the blue states, but they are the ones saying we should raise taxes. That said, I live in California with an income around the 90th percentile and my taxes went down slightly.

      2. Rhywun

        I think so. And that only affects you if your income is over about $125K. I.e. not quite double the mean here. Obvs. that doesn’t go as far as in flyover country but it’s still a nice chunk of change even here.

        1. Doesn’t SALT include property tax? That bites a lot more than you’d think.

          1. Rhywun

            No idea. What is this, “property”, of which you speak?

    2. Rhywun

      Governor Cuomo and New York Democrats are hitting back, taking bold action to ease the blow to our middle-class families by restructuring the tax code

      OFFS

      Will the last middle-class family turn off the lights on their way out?

      1. Gustave Lytton

        Note, none of that include lowering tax rates period. Fuck you, cut spending.

    3. Fuck you, cut spending.

  26. DEG

    The Big Sky Conference named University of Montana runner June Eastwood, a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman, the cross-country female athlete of the week.

    WTF?

    That’s the view of Aaron Jagdfeld, chief executive officer of Generac Holdings Inc., the Wisconsin-based maker of generators. Jagdfeld cited a comment by PG&E Corp’s CEO last week that it could take ten years to shore up its grid enough to ratchet down the blackouts.

    Fucking Socialists.

    Adult film actress Orion Starr – fighting under her real name Rebecca Bryggman – suffered defeat on her pro MMA debut as she took on the pounding fists of Elise Reed at Bellator 231.

    Judging by her Pascal’s Subsluts video, I wonder if that was intentional.

    1. Spudalicious

      You do have to admire Generac taking capitalist advantage of the California derp.

    1. MikeS

      That looks delicious.

      1. DEG

        It is.

  27. egould310

    Just started “Carrie” on Amazon Prime. My wife commented how all the girls have full bush. The ‘70’s… Brian DePalma is ruthless. Great director.

    1. Nephilium

      The showcasing of T&A is one of the reasons I have issues recommending some classic horror films to my nephew. I can’t exactly have him (at 11) watch the Friday the 13th series.

      1. Rhywun

        He’s probably seeing it anyway.

        1. Nephilium

          Probably, but he should work for it like the rest of us had to back in the day. And while I may be a scary uncle, I don’t want to be the creepy uncle.

          1. You mean you’re not already the creepy uncle?

    2. TARDIS

      My wife commented how all the girls have full bush.

      And? Good? Bad? Trim them? Shave them? Leave them as nature intended?

      It’s just hair, not genitalia. I never understood the big deal that Americans make over it. Prudes.

      1. egould310

        Leave them as nature intended.

        1. R C Dean

          I can’t object either way.

          1. TARDIS

            I can’t disagree. I guess if I were to be superficial, I would say trim it to to stay inside the undies/swim suit.

          2. TARDIS

            Larf!

          3. Gdragon

            I’m fine with whatever she likes/wants but my preference is smooth as a turtle shell.

        1. I loved that movie.

          The 90s were such a good era for film.

        2. Nephilium

          I was expecting this scene.

          /stands up that Scary Movie is the one good terrible mocking film.

          1. “That’s very 70s of you.” LOL

    3. Rhywun

      (Early) DePalma and his muse Hitch are my favorite directors.

      1. egould310

        Didn’t connect De Palma with Hitchcock, originally. But your comment, made me go “whoa”! It all makes sense now. Got to start watching his films with a new mind frame.

        1. Rhywun

          Check out “Raising Cain” sometime. It’s like an homage.

          1. egould310

            Thanks. Can’t believe i missed that. His Wikipedia page is blowing my mind.

    4. blackjack

      That’s the one where John Revolting wrecks a 1967 Chevelle.

      1. blackjack

        For reference, he wrecks a 1965 Chevelle in Pulp Fiction also.

  28. kinnath

    If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. — M Twain

    1. Suthenboy

      Sorry Sam but you are wrong.

      1. MikeS

        Sorry, Suthen’, but that comment made me laugh.

        Hope you’re getting back to normal.

      2. blackjack

        That’s called biting humor.

        1. Tejicano

          You seem to have a Pavlovian attraction to these puns

          1. blackjack

            Man, that’s ruff.

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      Well, if trucks have nuts, then I guess cars are female.

    2. pistoffnick

      Hawt!

  29. Rhywun

    Ugh I just spilled an entire double Negroni.

    So it’s going to be one of those kind of nights, is it?

    1. Count Potato

      Depends. How drunk are you already?

      1. Nephilium

        Well, he probably shouldn’t be sucking it out of the Depends.

        1. Spudalicious

          Daaamn.

      2. Rhywun

        Just a slight buzz.

        1. DEG

          So have another.

          1. Rhywun

            Way ahead of you.

    2. egould310

      Drunk and spilly it is!!

    3. MikeS

      Just think how good the next one will taste!

    4. Trigger Hippie

      These euphemisms are getting too obscure.

  30. Count Potato

    “Kanye West has banned North from wearing makeup and crop tops because he “feels differently” now he’s a Christian.”

    https://twitter.com/BuzzFeed/status/1187745618665586690

    OMWC hardest hit?

    1. I mean, had he been doing it a lot prior? Did it come up often as a topic?

      1. Ah, I see. North is a girl.

        1. Your assumption was telling, however.

          1. Right? These days you’re like, “Well, she’s dressing like a stripper, but at least it’s not my son wearing glass heels and going by ‘Loretta’.”

          2. Well, that sent me on a rabbit trail to find links to back up what I was going to say and then I was dismayed to realize that the sons of two fairly manly-man actors are … not. I am disappoint.

            *sigh*

    2. MikeS

      Most of the comments are supportive and are along the lines of, “Yeah. She’s SIX”.

      But then there’s a handful of these idiots:

      Twitchyb
      @Twitchyb3

      So he’s effectively shaming his daughter for wanting to dress like everyone else- including her mama.
      ???

      1. Rhywun

        Twitter is garbage evidence lot #65415

  31. So apparently War Machine not only did MMA, but also did porn.

    So… there you go.

    He also is serving life in prison for dozens of felonies related to beating the living shit and raping his ex, also a porn star.

    1. I snorted water out my nose.

    2. Heroic Mulatto

      Naming your dog “Klayvon” is the Blackest shit ever. After watching that video, I have to change my name to just “Heroic” now.

      1. Count Potato

        I thought Kayvon was the lizard.

        1. yeah ‘Klayvon’ is the iguana ‘Jewel is the dog ad the cat is ‘gangsta’.

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            The point stands.

    3. TARDIS

      Holy crap. My daughter’s cat has been reincarnated.

    4. Spudalicious

      That was awesome.

  32. Cacciatore

    Tall cans locked and loaded (was given two free cases of Corona Premier and a bag of lime wedges from a barbecue).

    Massive joint rolled, I call it Big Chungus.

    Saturday.

    *puts on shades*

    Bring on the night shift.

      1. TARDIS

        Oy. I’m glad there’s not a Paypal account on that.

      2. Cacciatore

        Approved!

    1. Kinda closing the stable door after the horse has bolted eh?

    2. MikeS

      You know what other German gave a speech about non-Germans?

      1. R C Dean

        – 1 Austrian

        1. MikeS

          Technically correct is the best kind.

    3. Rhywun

      also telling Germans that they must accept that mosques have become part of their landscape

      OFFS Germany had been more or less successfully integrating millions of Muslims for decades. The main difference seems to be that, historically, all of them were from Turkey.

    4. Spudalicious

      Arrogant proggy cunte.

      1. TARDIS

        You’re too kind.

    5. straffinrun

      “Vee haff failed only becaws vee haven’t failed hard enuff!”

  33. Countdown:

    In 25 minutes we’re expected to begin 40 hours of no power.

    Thanks PG&E!

    Oh, and it’s supposedly because of “record high winds.” Outside right now there isn’t even a breeze.

    1. egould310

      Aren’t you in the city/county of SF? There’s never been a major fire there.

      1. No, we’re in Contra Costa County, and live in a very hilly area. We’re actually on top of a big hill, and we’re required to cut all our hillside weeds to less than an inch high every Spring. So we are in a fire risk area.

        San Francisco is not getting their power cut at all, neither is any dense residential or major commercial districts in our area, as I guess they’re too paved to be in danger.

        1. JaimeRoberto Delecto

          Just head on down to the Roundup and raise some hell while waiting for the power to come back on.

      1. Tejicano

        When I left Cali – the last time I lived there – I drove my pick-up with an AK I had bought at a San Jose gun show sitting in the gun rack with a pump shotgun. I drove that way down from the bay area south through LA and then out east to AZ. No problems.

        In the current reality that seems like something I couldn’t even believe if I saw it in a movie about that time period.

        1. TARDIS

          It’s been 2 decades. I want to go there, just to see. Is it really that bad? I want to see. Really, I WANT TO SEE.

          1. Rhywun

            I lived in SF two decades ago. I left for NYC largely because I couldn’t stand the people. Ponder that one.

          2. Tejicano

            It’s been a bit over three decades for me. I have been back a few times on business but haven’t spent much time.

            The last time I lived there it was probably close to the last time it would have been livable for normal people.

    2. Spudalicious

      Good luck. I’m so happy I got out.

    3. Derpetologist

      Look man, California is the only state that has trees and droughts. There’s just nothing to be done.

      On second thought, what if they built special structures for storing water; holding it in “reserve”, if you will. Hmm, yes, and with these “reserve” structures, in times of drought, the stored water could make up for the loss.

      [flips through microfilmed newspapers at library]

      By Jove, it appears California does have such structures- but they haven’t built a new one in 40 years despite the state’s population doubling over the same period.

      [lights pipe]

      Curiouser and curiouser indeed.

      1. Rhywun

        Why do you hate smelt?

        *runs out of room crying*

        1. egould310

          He who smelt it, dealt it.

      2. It’s also apparently the only place on Earth with mountains AND a beach.

        Which totally offsets the horrific cost of living, outrageously intrusive bureaucracy and absurd regulatory structure.

        1. You forgot warm sunny days and cool nights, no humidity, and almost no insects, so you can sit in your backyard whenever you want and never need bug spray.

          The bad stuff, yeah, you’re absolutely right.

          It’s tough to give up the former, but to be honest, we’re getting close to not being able to take it any more. Our son leaves for college next fall, perhaps it will be a good time to relocate then.

          1. straffinrun

            Given the human ability to adapt and get used to almost anything, it’s wild that people are fleeing California after years of being abused. Has the wokening speed up lately or is it just a final straw thing?

          2. BakedPenguin

            I think California is kind of like a suppurating wound, spilling pus on all those around. It’s not enough to provide incentive for those currently there to leave, those people then have to spray their infection on people in other states who refused to make the choices they did.

          3. Don Escaped Texas

            I understand you feel that way . . . but why are you here?

            / Texan

          4. Nephilium

            The insects have to be based on your heritage. The girlfriend gets pissed that random mosquito bites fade on me within the hour.

    4. blackjack

      So, the lights are off, and somebodies home?

        1. BakedPenguin

          I’m sensing a theme…

          1. westernsloper

            Some of Q’s best work.

          2. blackjack

            Is it this?

  34. Derpetologist

    I was a happier man before I knew about this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DL50WhLGyk

    1. Derpetologist

      On second thought, this person will help Trump get re-elected.

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

    2. CPRM

      Was the running mate Silent Bob?

  35. CPRM

    I still don’t see avitars. Is that because my parents never loved me?

    1. MikeS

      Don’t worry . It was very overrated.

      1. CPRM

        Who’s there? Is someone talking to me?! I can’t see!

        1. MikeS

          Take your sunglasses off.

          1. CPRM

            Without the sunglasses I’m just a white square! Wait, that’s what everyone’s avitars look like to me. Did we all take off our sunglasses?

          2. MikeS

            Peek-a-boo!

      2. So, CPRM’s parents love isn’t very different from that of a square?

    2. Rhywun

      No, because I have had zero problems with avatars.

      1. MikeS

        Really? Don’t mess around, this is serious shit. Can you see avatars? Because it’s really getting annoying. I didn’t realize how much I relied on them to follow threads and ID commenters.

        1. straffinrun

          Phone, yes. PC, no.

        2. CPRM

          Like determining direction on a cloudy day.

          1. MikeS

            Or rain on your wedding day?

          2. CPRM

            Only Ryan Reynolds thought it figured.

        3. Rhywun

          Really.

          I have no idea what y’all are talking about the last couple days.

          1. CPRM

            There you go, victim blaming!

        4. I have not had the missing avatars problem. I’m sorry. 🙁

          1. Spudalicious

            Same here. Obviously, these guys are losers.

        5. Jarflax

          I have to say I hardly notice that they are missing.

        6. egould310

          I only use my iPhone, and have never missed the avatars.

          1. straffinrun

            Wonder if it’s just Chrome that is having the problem. Maybe Firefox, too, but I haven’t checked.

          2. MikeS

            I’m on FF

          3. BakedPenguin

            The Brave browser is also omitting them.

        7. I can see them on my computer fine.

        8. MikeS

          So, I can see them on my Android phone using FF. But I can’t see them on my Windows 10 tablet on FF, Edge, or Chrome.

      2. One of my kindles shows avatars, the other one doesn’t. Also, there are avatars on my phone but not on the computer.

    3. Nephilium

      No, it’s because they didn’t beat you enough.

    4. Gustave Lytton

      Did you send your payment in on time?

      1. CPRM

        I sent the $10,000 to Nigeria on the 15th of the month, like we all do, right?

  36. straffinrun

    Morning, Spud and spudlettes. Edmund Fitzgerald playing at the coffee shop. The cook is an asshole in that song. Basically, he’s this guy.

    1. Gustave Lytton

      No way. Pvt Hudson was the best part of that movie.

      1. straffinrun

        Asshole and best part aren’t mutually exclusive.

    2. Spudalicious

      Really? I always thought the cookie knew they were dead.

  37. egould310

    Just started “Cannibal Farm” on Amazon Prime.

    Plenty of liquor. High spirits and High hopes.

  38. straffinrun

    Some people will abandon a microphone because they don’t like the person who touched it last.

    Cooties are real, Van.

  39. egould310

    Cooties are real. Be smart, bring your own mic.

  40. blackjack

    Cooties are all around you.

    1. egould310

      Love Is All Around https://youtu.be/Ks0to2QuJtM

        1. egould310

          Ha! Finally someone tells the truth.

          1. blackjack

            So, Mona Lisa wasn’t a man?

      1. Rhywun

        Coming from you I knew exactly what that was going to be.

        1. egould310

          I’m a cliché. 🙁

  41. TW: Wall o’ text.

    https://americanmind.org/essays/americas-delusional-elite-is-done/

    This place is chock full of looooooong form essays, but they are good shit.

    Read it when you have the time/energy.

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      Who knew that if you merely represent the thought of Nietzsche or Schopenhauer in a fun way it would find such an audience?

      I’ve read a shitload of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer and I don’t recall the parts where they festooned their works with fetishized pictures of Greco-Roman aesthetic bodybuilders while claiming they weren’t homosexual.

      Or is that the “fun” part?

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          Ok, that deserves the “My Name Is ‘Gay’” dog.

  42. Derpetologist

    There isn’t enough calliope on earth to play in this clown show:

    An Interview with the Editors of Transgender Studies Quarterly
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnjBTYohpDI

  43. Derpetologist

    For those having trouble sleeping:

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

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      That’s a classic!

      1. Derpetologist

        Yeah, I’ve found some real gems over the years. Sure, it’s a re-run, but a damn good one.

        ***
        Aloysious|5.26.14 @ 4:08PM|#

        You have nothing to apologize for, keep ’em coming. I admit I torture some of my prog family with what you post. They haz a sad.
        ***

        1. Derpetologist

          Ah, sweet memories…

          ***
          Breet Pharara on November 22, 2017 at 5:37 pm

          So you keep a collection of the cries of pain from your victims then huh? I think that qualifies you as a sociopath.
          ***

  44. Trigger Hippie

    TH getting sappy: As noted, I’m a fan of rocker girls. and for the first time in far too long, I have my eye set on another, just can’t do anything about that tonight. So, I’m shitposting some rocker girl songs that make me feel cheese-dick romantic. Fuck y’all 😉

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a2BUEzdjfpY

        1. blackjack

          I’m a fan of this one. The others just make me feel old. This is where I would normally link to a Samantha Fish song, but I’ll spare ya’ll, this time.

          1. I hate to admit it, but I just found Garbage a couple of months ago. I was in my country phase at that point in time and listening to the classic rock station.

          2. blackjack

            Shirley is a standout. Late nineties KROQ was played a lot around me, and she is one of the few that stuck in my mind.

      1. Trigger Hippie

        Sounds about right.

    1. MikeS

      If there was ever a time for the “My Name Is Gay” dog, this is it.

      1. Trigger Hippie

        Again, fuck y’all. 😉

    2. What, precisely is a cheese-dick romantic?

      Mozzarella?

      Extra sharp?

      Parmesan?

      Gorgonzola?

      Help me out here.

      1. Trigger Hippie

        Gonorrhea.

      2. Spudalicious

        Limp and smells like athlete’s foot.

        1. Trigger Hippie

          Not so! I manage to stay semi-hard in near-freezing temperatures.

    1. straffinrun

      Is the second person saying that because she studied it in a women’s studies class that it must be right?

      1. That’s what I thought she was saying.

        1. straffinrun

          Appeals to authority should be left to Cartman.

          1. Oh, well, that’s refreshing. Happy to be wrong.

          2. straffinrun

            Won’t load for some reason. I’ll assume she/he was being sarcastic.

  45. straffinrun

    The authoritays have banned drinking in public in Shibuya from 10/25~27 and 10/31 and 11/01. Bastards. I love my beer and the walk to the station after work. Suppose I could brown bag it. Still sucks.

    1. CPRM

      Try wearing on of those beer helmets.

    2. Rhywun

      LOL banned 365 days a year here and the brown bag draws attention from the NYC’s Finest too.

    3. Gustave Lytton

      I saw that in Rising Wasabi and thought “nah, straff does his drinking in bars”..

      Sounds like the festivities got out of control last year

      https://soranews24.com/2018/10/30/shibuya-halloween-event-turns-ugly-with-toppled-truck-perverts-and-upskirt-photography/

      1. straffinrun

        Apart from the overturned truck, normal Saturday in Shibuya.

  46. Cacciatore

    Time to fire up Big Chungus.

    1. egould310

      ???

      1. Cacciatore

        Operation Chungus was a big success.

  47. Did someone say Christmas?

    *runs and hides*

    1. CPRM

      Fuck you for reminding me we’re like a month away from switching to an all Christmas format. Worst fucking time of the year.

      1. Dude, there’s some gems in that playlist that NEVER get played. Seriously, get “Jingo Jango“. Awesomest Christmas song EVAR.

        1. CPRM

          I only get to play what they have.

          1. Oh, that does bite. Only so many times you can hear “All I Want for Christmas is You”.

          2. CPRM

            +5 Country versions of Slay Ride per shift

        2. egould310

          Jingle Jangle Jingle https://youtu.be/Lq7wO1qtQuM

          1. That has zero to do with Christmas. It’s all girls and spurs and westerns.

          2. egould310

            Well, yeah? It’s a great song.

            Here’s Christmas song from 1985.

            https://youtu.be/gGUy4T66BHk

        3. Derpetologist

          Patton Oswalt, on the song Christmas Shoes:

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq10bz3PxyY

          I was riding with my mom when I first heard that song, and I honestly thought it was a joke. There’s no way any sane person would listen to this crap.

          But I was wrong. So, so wrong.

          Another time, I heard her listening to Josh Groban. I thought he was a parody act too. There’s no way anyone would sing a song this sappy.

          But I was wrong again.

          Bottom line, when I need to laugh, I ask my mom what music she’s been listening too. Oh well. I’m sure she hates a lot of the stuff I like too.

          1. Rhywun

            I’m sure she hates a lot of the stuff I like too.

            I gave up criticizing other people’s musical mistakes a long, long time ago for exactly this reason.

          2. Well, okay, so I like sappy shit that makes me cry and underdog movies that make me cheer. Sue me.

          3. Derpetologist

            BOO! Everyone boo this person!

            *You* are the reason there *136* Hallmark Channel Xmas movies!

            136 fucking Xmas movies!

            You’re worse than Nancy Pelosi’s daughter:

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Th4a9QhGng

          4. MikeS

            I believe it has been established already that she is literally the worst.

          5. Derpetologist

            Oh, Mojo, I can’t stay mad at you.

            I’m a garbage person and I like garbage music:

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUUn88vmUnE

          6. egould310

            Derp is the Garbage Man https://youtu.be/AlvHRT372qw

          7. Derpetologist
    2. egould310

      It’s official; my Holiday Season has begun.

      https://youtu.be/pbTULjLtKP4

    3. Gustave Lytton

      Local home store is already in full Christmas mode.

    4. Rhywun

      The street decorations are already up in my neighborhood.

  48. Derpetologist

    [raucous wheezing laughter]

    Why Arts Graduates Are Under-Employed
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D0fLisyjBY

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      The video is correct in its assertion that a lot of societal ennui and angst stem from the fact that our culture, particularly in recent years, has been reduced to the lowest common denominator of tits, beer, and Southern Rock. Where the video errs is in suggesting that a profitable industry that employs many could be made from leading our fellow citizens into what Socrates termed the “the examined life.” However, as Socrates learned, not many people are interested in that. In fact, most are outright hostile to it. Thus, the essential and universal truths that can be found through study of the fine arts and humanities are, by their nature, restricted to the certain segment of the population with the motivation and aptitude to pursue these truths. Catering to “the Talented Tenth” (so to speak) is always going to be a niche industry with few job openings by virtue of the laws of supply and demand.

      1. Derpetologist

        I read a book called 1000 Books to Read Before You Die. It was disappointing to see how many famous and classic works boiled down to adultery and/or love triangles.

        “The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts.

        I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

        Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.”

        -some fucking white male

      2. kinnath

        I like tits, beer, and southern rock.

        I also have four posters from Salvador Dali on the walls of my office.

      3. straffinrun

        Bend that demand curve through subsidies in order to produce state propaganda. War and oppression inspire great art. The perfect feedback loop.

      4. Don Escaped Texas

        the essential and universal truths that can be found through study of the fine arts and humanities

        It took so long to change my mind
        I thought that love was a game
        I played around enough to find
        No two are ever the same

  49. westernsloper

    I thought she would be better at taking a fist.

    That story required some research. Never saw a fist, but I did determine she should be the Roadzzzczar. She has no problem filling several holes at once.

    1. That story required some research.

      “required”

      1. MikeS

        His dedication to science is commendable.

        1. CPRM

          Anyone who doesn’t agree is a denier.

          1. straffinrun

            Tautologies are inherently true.

          2. Rhywun

            Indubitably.

  50. straffinrun

    Fuji san was rocking it yesterday morning.

    https://m.imgur.com/a/Tt0Uml1

    1. Does Godzilla say “Fuck that mountain”?

      1. straffinrun

        Anyone can move mountains. That’s biblical.

      2. BakedPenguin

        No, but with a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound, he pulls that spitting high-tension wire down.

  51. MikeS

    A MUCH better rendition of “Ziggy zoggy, ziggy zoggy, oy, oy, oy!”

      1. Rhywun

        Jeebus. I sure can’t do that.

      2. Imagine the possibilities…

      3. kinnath

        I’m in love.

        1. westernsloper

          Jinx!

      4. westernsloper

        I’m in love.

      5. blackjack

        Seen it a hundred times!

        1. westernsloper

          Those are the most righteous side burns and mustache ever.

        2. egould310

          Nice guitar. ?

  52. straffinrun

    New Zealand lost to England in the Rugby World Cup semis yesterday. Good. The Haka is an inspirational expression of culture or a dickish way to insult your opponents under the guise of “culture”? I’m torn, TBH.

    1. Rhywun

      I lean towards “dickish”, myself. Just play the fucking game already.

      1. straffinrun

        True. Also, let the teams mock the all blacks while they’re do it. If they do anything other than just standing there, the press jumps all over them for disrespect!

        1. Rhywun

          The England team should do a Monty Python routine with lots of miming of sipping tea and showing their knickers.

      2. westernsloper

        I vote dickish too. I know quite a few kiwis. Dicks the lot of them. Some I would call friends but they relish in being dicks.

  53. Rhywun

    Have some moral panic.

    Many of the Twitter replies included a reference, one way or another, to manliness, as if manliness in sports is even a thing in this era of the USWNT, the 2019 IIHF Women’s World Championship Gold Medal-winning Team USA, Bianca Andreescu and Simone Biles.

    This is not about manliness. It is about evolution. We are nearing the 2020s and fisticuffs are still sanctioned and sold as part of the pro hockey entertainment experience. Enough. Enough, already.

    The newer, kinder Soviet man is just around the corner.

    1. Derpetologist

      here ya go

      https://www.npr.org/2019/10/12/769783742/book-major-miscounduct

      ***
      NPR’s Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with author Jeremy Allingham about his new book Major Misconduct, which covers the painful cost of fighting in hockey.

      ALLINGHAM: Yeah. I think it’s just – I think it’s a resistance to change. That’s really what it comes down to. But yeah, when I – I tweeted out about this in response to Don Cherry, who’s a big pro-fighting guy here in Canada. And I got a lot of vitriol. It was ugly. I mean, it ranged from respectful disagreement to homophobia, sexism, misogyny. And that was kind of when I realized this truly is a cultural stigma, a cultural touchpoint and powder keg issue that needs to be investigated and discussed further.
      ***

      [head desk]

      On a side note, if you think you’re big and bad, go spend 3 minutes in the ring with someone about your size who’s trying to punch you in the head as hard as he can.

      1. MikeS

        It was ugly. I mean, it ranged from respectful disagreement to homophobia, sexism, misogyny.

        What a faggy pussy bitch.

        1. Derpetologist

          You are fined 1…You are fined…You are fined 3 credits for violation of the Verbal Morality Statute

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rVQGT01Kzg

          1. MikeS

            +1 Taco Bell

          2. blackjack

            Um, bitch will get you jail time in MASS, I believe. That’ll teach you to cuss.

          3. Derpetologist

            You can be fined for not calling people ‘ze’ or ‘hir,’ if that’s the pronoun they demand that you use

            https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/05/17/you-can-be-fined-for-not-calling-people-ze-or-hir-if-thats-the-pronoun-they-demand-that-you-use/

            Welcome to Clown World!

            HONK HONK!

          4. Gustave Lytton

            preferred name, pronoun and title

            Oh great, all those asshole MDs who insist on being called Dr Asshole outside of the clinic or hospital are going to have a field day.

          5. Tejicano

            “…preferred name, pronoun and title”

            If I ever get into some social situation where I’m being required to call them by their preferred pronoun all them MoFo’s be callin’ me “Retired Sergeant Tejicano”.

          6. BakedPenguin

            What do they expect people to say once they’re arrested?

          7. blackjack

            That…young woman set me up!

    2. Finland was robbed.

  54. I am the worst.

    I am in the middle of working (I do some work for some people on a schedule, 8 to midnight). I have taken my daughter to a party that took me an hour to get there because fucking Google maps. My husband goes to bed early, but he’s willing to pick her up. Okay, but…she wants to stay longer. Till midnight. I’m cool with that because I can go get her after I’m finished working. XX TD texts me and says the party’s over an hour early.

    Sooooo I go get her. But I ended up on the interstate (which I did not want to do), so…another hour.

    Thus, I have missed replying in real time to those who would BOO me for liking sappy shit. But it’s true. I do. And I am. The worst. At least, today I am.

    *sniffle* I love you guys, too. *sniffle*

    /that’s the sugar talking

    1. Oh! And I had to get gas.

    2. Derpetologist

      Excuses, excuses.

      Shaking my damn head…

  55. egould310

    Watching “Metalface” on Amazon Prime. Terrible horror movie. But nice set of tits at the beginning.