It’s this, or put down the internet.
As a lifelong news junkie, I’m having a tough time these days. There is so much derp and outright lies, I can hardly stand it. My liver hates the main stream media. Oh well, we’ll find something to snark about.
I thought they were all documentaries?
SPACE SMITH has an idea.
When Trump was talking about third world shitholes, he should have included this place.
Watch the comments, shitlords.
Also in the third world shithole category…
Now that we’ve dispatched the hard hitting links, I think it’s time for an easy listening twofer.
When I used to sail San Francisco Bay, I could picture myself on deck whenever I heard this song.
Southern Cross, CSN. Excellent!
Yup. That song always sends me into a emotional swoon.
I’m not a blue water sailor but I am pretty salty and have spent much time on boats in salt water. Also I have read hundreds of non fiction books on the Age of Sail and The Age of Exploration.
The combination makes me fantasize that I’ve seen the Southern Cross.
Good excuse for you to go to Tahiti or New Zealand or Chile!
It is pretty cool to be in the Southern Hemisphere and see the Southern Cross. Also to see the toilet flush the opposite way.
Ya’ll might think I’m crazy, wife does. Well I am, but sometimes crazy smart.
I think I’m going to buy this. I need to go up and take someone with me to assess the structural integrity. But WTF? This thing is charming, more than 2000 sq ft, original Victorian home. I think I can get it for 70K. Wife thinks I’m nuts, I don’t think so. I think it’s one hell of an investment if there’s no serious problems.
Victorian Oddity
I’m seriously thinking about buying this thing this week, am I nuts?
You’re nuts. There’s no way that thing is insulated properly. You’ll lose $70k hust on heating and cooling the place.
Goofy as a pet duck, he is.
I don’t think so. I can spend 30-40K on that and get 200-300K for it.
You know better than to expect a serious answer from this group. From the outside, it looks to be in excellent shape. Make sure previous owners did a good update, so you don’t have to.
The deck is falling off it. Who the hell cares? I can spend a few thousand and fix that. The payments on the property is about 400 a month. Unless there is something seriously wrong with that neighborhood, I don’t get it.
That’s the part that sends up warning flares, yes.
Why has it been on the market for 52 days if it’s such a great deal ?
No other savy real estate investors saw it in that time period.?
I think it will take more than $30-40k. Some of those floors look wavy, like maybe water damage. That could mean lots of other issues that you won’t find until you get into it.
Sure. You got better internet eyes than me, I think. I’m going up to take a peek.
Better eyes
I’m not planning on living there. I’m looking at an investment. The place is charming as hell. People eat that shit up.
It is purty.
I would live there for a few months if I have to. I hope it’s not haunted and that’s why they ran away, my wife is scared of ghosts. A few years ago her and I stayed at the supposedly most haunted house in the USA east coast in Berlin, MD, and we got the most haunted sweet ever. It was super fucking creepy because everything was so authentic 19th century. But nothing happened except sex, bummer.
Are you crazy? Beats me.
Does the house look too good to be true? Yes.
Should you investigate further, ideally using knowledgeable resources? Absolutely.
Keep us posted. That’s nice eye candy!
Oh, and victorian era bedrooms were about the size of a modern bed, so you’re going to have some issues there.
The plumbing and electric need to be checked.
And if you get slapped with a historic classificiation, you’re fucked.
Of course. I have no plan to live there, I want to fix it up and sell it. It’s gorgeous, I know too many people who would pay a lot of money for that with everything in working order.
At least the kitchen has been done in recent memes and it has GFCI outlets near the kitchen sink.
Didn’t see many other outlets in other rooms but they appear to be three prong, so at least superficially the electrical system has been worked on.
Need an inspector who knows applicable house wiring codes.
“Recent memory “
Geez.
I know; that’s so ceiling cat.
Need an inspector who knows applicable house wiring codes.
and the least libertarian comment of the day goes to….
Uh, there are private home inspectors. I don’t think she was talking about the AHJ code inspector.
Do you know York? Do you work in the building trades? I have been practicing as a real estate attorney working pretty close to exclusively with small investors for 15 years, and I have seen a lot of amateur rehabbers try to flip a house. I have literally never seen one make money unless they were able to do the work personally. (that is not quite true, one made money because they lucked out, and the Zoo bought the house at a silly price to tear down for more parking). Rehabs go over budget, and if you don’t know the trades you will get bent over. If you do know the trades it is a different story, but even then you also need to know the area and trends there.
All remodels cost 2X as much and take 2X as long as anticipated. Fact
Yeah, insulation as noted above, but also furnace and duct work.
It has city natural gas and central air. Look at the kitchen.
Ah, went back and found the pictures. Really pretty impressive!.
You’re right, the kitchen, mm mmmm. Nice.
But it doesn’t really fit the rest of the house.
It’s about 2400 sq ft.
Do it. You’re right, as long as there’s no serious problems. Somebody’s just tired of their project and wants out.
Near York College? Turn it into apartments and gross couple of grand per month. Students probably won’t care if it is not insulated properly or decrepit as long as there’s a pizza/sub shop and beer distributor nearby.
Depends on the zoning and whether or not it’s in a historic district. This is very much like the home in which I grew up, and in the same sort of college town setting, which was affected by both zoning and the historic district very much limiting what can be done with it.
I love it.
How’s the neighborhood?
Does the slot machine come with the house?
Hope you like painting and working off a ladder. When something is too good to be true it isn’t (true).
Or good.
Is your name by any chance Jim Blandings?
Myrna Loy is Brazilian? Hot.
Well, she did play a lot of exotic ethnic characters early in her career.
I can’t see the pix on my iPad for some reason I don’t know. And my view might be colored by my current circumstance, but—
A 2400 ft2 Victorian in a college town for $80K
Run.
It’s probably haunted.
LOL, my wife and I are debating this right how and she thinks it’s haunted.
Good advice Mo.
It’s already been on the market for 52 days plus the 3 days the listing agent kept it in his/her pocket trying to sell it to their repeat investors trying to get bother sides of the commission.
Is our Glib buddy smarter than the other 10000 real estate investors who have already passed on the property ?
52 days? Really. This is York county PA, not exactly the hottest real estate market in the country. That house would sell for a million dollars in CA in about 2-3 days. Even here in MD, there are some beautiful homes I’m looking at that have been on the market for more than 100 days and I’m sure nothing is wrong with any of them.
52 days is nothing to be scared of with a house that needs significant work. Trying to do a retail flip with no experience is something to be scared of.
It is not my/our job to talk you into or out of this.
I would not even RENT a 4BR 1BR house.
Before you do anything else, hire your own inspector, a Mike Holmes type, super nitpicky, and have him do a thorough job. Pay him whatever. Real estate inspectors are notorious for doing the bare minimum, giving a passing glance over everything. There will be things a random inspector will miss and won’t care that he missed.
Hire him, tell him you want an inventory of every single thing wrong with the house that he can see and what MIGHT be wrong with the stuff you don’t see.
Find out how old the pipes are so you can figure out what they’re made of.
Find out how old the furnace and air conditioner are.
Find out if ther is mold, dry rot, and/or termites.
Find out if your siding is rotting from the underside.
Find out how badly the house has shifted and how many degrees off true and plumb it is.
Find out if your joists have been cut to accommodate ductwork and plumbing.
Find out if the foundation has been mudjacked or piered.
Find out if any additions have been built on patio pads (yes, really).
Find out when the roof was put on. Find out when you will need to put another one on.
Find out if there are raccoons (squirrels, bats) in the attic.
Find out if there is lead in the paint and asbestos in the popcorn ceiling or plaster or floor tiles (hint: if a floor tile is 9″ x 9″, it’s asbestos).
I could go on, but I don’t have time. I need to gather more paperwork for my lawyer.
Sometimes I just want to give you a big hug.
Quit perving on the women! This is why we don’t have any female libertarians…So how you doin baby? I white knighted the shit outta him, didn’t I!?
Man, you practically Grand Wizard’d him!
::high five::
@MikeS — Aw thanks! You’re a sweetheart. ?
@CPRM — ?
WTF is with the purple walls? Peeple be nuts. If the foundation is good buy it! I see stone though and that is a lot of house sitting on a small footprint. Foundation repair aint cheap.
The color schemes but modern kitchen make me think a 1990s renovation.
But they show before and after of some of the work…
Well, with paint so expensive, there’s nothing that can be done.
Rule of thumb -(learned the hard way) For restoring houses or cars. Every noticeable problem is hiding problems that are ten times worse.
Buy it.
Good luck selling a 4BR 1 BA house. No family that needs four bedrooms will want only one bathroom. And if you’re planning on fixing that by adding a bathroom, add about 40 grand to your estimate. Running a wet wall upstairs, framing, wiring, appliances, cabinetry, ductwork… Money pit. If you choose not to add a bathroom it will sit and sit and sit on the market.
Interior has the potential to be
Bathroom needs to be finished
Listen to your wife on this one buddy. Don’t buy based on emotions.
Xer gets it. The house is way too cute (I’d love it). You have to be dispassionale and the thicc factor (as it were) makes that hard.
Well, at least you would be living in a free state.
Oh, I looked at the pictures. NFW.
Buy it. Money pit, haunted; whatever. It speaks to you. Do it.
It’s just a house, what’s the worst that could happen?
*lights Mojeaux signal*
Chapter 7
The property tax seems off: 3k per year on $80k price, that’s ~3.8%. Even in Commieforna I’m paying 1.35%. Maybe you could get the assessed value reduced. Still seems like a lot.
You cannot tell anything about ARV (after repaired value) from Trulia or Zillow, or any of the online services. Literally all of them use either zipcode, or larger geographic area samples to compute average values. This is useless data as market values are far more local than a zipcode, urban housing can vary by factors of 3-5 withing a zipcode easily. (ie the same zipcode can contain areas with average sale prices of $50k and $250k simultaneously and often do). If this is meant as your residence, and you like the house and have driven the neighborhood at least 3 times (weekday, weeknight, weekend) and think you can live in the neighborhood comfortably, by all means buy it. But do NOT move in before you have finished the bathroom!
*grumble*
I’ve not managed anywhere near the rate I need to finish the book.
Only 2056 words today so far. Sure I took a nap or two because I woke up at 2am, and I spent a few hours catching up on what was written already, but that’;s no excuse to go running errands instead of writing.
Are you a spurt writer? Ora daily budget writer?
You don’t want to ask a glib about how much he spurts while writing, no keyboard can handle that…
Maybe he’s stuck on a page.
I just spewed all over my keyboard.
Oh, cum on!
Well I really blew one with that word choice.
Cum. On. Me. In A Day Or Two!
Here’s some helpful advice for that: https://tv.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/aaf0867a-f9f8-40d2-86fa-397d793ceb69
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Nice song. Seeing the Southern Cross at night from a sailboat is magical.
‘Twas a dream of mine.
There are stars in the southern sky
I thought you might be going here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDuQp_AfVJk
Over a great southern land.
Fun story; On my commute to work, I drive a short stretch of gravel that crosses a river 7 times in just over one mile. An actual seven bridges road. Kinda cool…for me.
Another Southern Cross song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyaPUYxoQGs
Terminator: Dark Fate Pitch Meeting
I really like these pitch meetings, I think I’ve watched all of them!
Wow
Me too! It was super easy; barely an inconvenience.
Yeah yeah yeah!
Awesome 🙂
“I bet you’re a big fan of ‘The Force Awakens'”
“I’m a huge fan of it, why?”
“No reason”
LOL
“Screw it. OK!” – Hollywood
‘Allo gents and Nonexistent Libertarian Women (TM). Sipping on a nice glass of grappa after a goodly sized feast. Hope the weekend is treating you lot well.
Cheers, Cacciatore.
Same to you.
Hey! Where you been, holmes?? Missing out on the avatar reveal based completely on your idea.
They make money. I don’t see what the problem is.
Oh look, here’s the 15th Spiderman movie in a decade!!
I think Hollyweird is making a good chunk of their money in foreign markets these days
Yup. Methinks the author doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about and/or is confusing his personal taste with the movie-going public at large.
As I implied, I have zero interest in another damn Spiderman movie (or comic movies in general) but I don’t go around writing 2,000-word articles bitching about it.
“I don’t go around writing 2,000-word articles bitching about it.”
That made me chuckle!
Ya know…Spider-Man homecoming didn’t suck. Just saying.
I haven’t enjoyed a superhero movie since… I dunno… Superman 2?
Not my bag, baby.
You old. ?
Well, that and I have taste.
I liked Genysis. I wouldn’t pay to see another in a theater, but that one seemed a little more thoughtful.
Terminator was good because it was low budget cult fare with over the top violence and a character that turned Schwarzenegger’s lack of acting into an advantage, all the sequels have sucked because they all tried to take things seriously.
Terminator 2 was also great. After that it’s been a downhill slide.
Coincidentally, I saw Dark Fate with the Mrs. just a couple of hours ago.
We don’t go to a lot of movies anymore but the wife wanted to see this.
Pro: lotsa explosions and gunfire.
Con: a couple of plot holes you could navigate a carrier through plus the nagging thought while watching: “Didn’t I see this same thing about 1984 or so?”
Overall, worth an afternoon and a bag of popcorn. ** out of ****
Yeah, I heard it was sort of a reboot.
I’ll watch it on cable some day. I’m probably the only person who liked ‘3’ but even I won’t pay movie-theater prices.
I didn’t even like “2” because I hate “smart-ass kid” movies. I kept hoping for the terminator to win.
Heh. Fair enough.
If it helps, the kid went on to become a huge fuck-up IRL.
Sweet songs, Spud.
My favorite Lightfoot tune
And a fantastic cover by one of favorite bands.
Fabulous cover of a Gordon Lightfoot song
I think you failed. I kind of like it.
And would.
Except for the fact that she’s been dead 10 years.
That drops her a couple of points.
One could say she’s been let down one last time.
All of Lightfoot’s stuff are my favorites.
No snow, about 30 degrees, humid and feels cold. I brought all of our bees hive boxes down from my partner’s. Absolutely full of bees, I’m vacuuming them out with a shop vac. They are very docile in this weather, hunkered down. We’ll be ready for next spring.
Looks like a bit cool for deer season next week, still got space, only 2 of us here for the week end and then I’m alone. A couple nice bucks in the neighborhood but I’m leaning towards a doe or small buck, maybe 2. Got the long season.
It’s cold and dry here. Nosebleed dry.
I hope your granddaughter gets one. Is she excited?
She is excited but unable to come for opener, work business stuff. I’ll keep her motivated, after the first week end things get kind of quiet.
There is a big buck around, I’m going to pass on that if I see it, hoping that she could take a first and big for the bragging rights.
Nice.
She’s a good kid.I hope she gets the buck.
Could you shoot me one with spots on it ?
That’s the tender meat.
The spots are gone but I do see some little ones. They’re good eating, just takes more of ’em.
The first one has a John Denver vibe to it.
Watch the comments, shitlords.
But shit-slinging is what we do best. I mean, you can’t expect me to hang around all day and not engage in a little monkey-business.
We don’t cotton to monkeying around here.
SPACE SMITH SHOW YOU HIS SPACE JUNK!!!!
WTF? I thought that NASA’s goal was to send live astronauts into space? Oops, sorry, I forgot that their goal of sending any astronauts into space was replaced with climate change religion.
Everyone loves Lilly Singh
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/c3e78c3b-10df-4b1a-bbf8-8e4cf2b0c0ac
Southern Cross is a salty song………..Love me some salty songs
Another salty song
A salty salute.
Also Salty.
No Salty Dog – Procol Harum?
Oh, fuck yeah.
Nice choice, as usual!
That is one of my favorites.
Love that song.
Salty
lesser known history: Kurdish massacres of Christians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1843_and_1846_massacres_in_Hakkari
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A series of massacres in Hakkari in the years 1843 and 1846 of Assyrians were carried out by the Kurdish emirs of Bohtan and Hakkari, Bedr Khan Bey and Nurallah. The massacres resulted in the killing of more than 10,000 Assyrians and the captivity of thousands of others.[1]
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“The strong do what they want and they weak suffer what they must.” – Thucydides
“Big fish eat little fish.” – some old guy whittlin’ in a rocking chair
Two random thoughts on DblEagle’s post which I just read.
1. Heard Father DuBois speak last year. One of the things he said that really caught me by surprise was that the majority of the Jews were killed by firing squad not in the gas chambers (may be well known but I had not heard that before).
2. On memories of communism & Nazism: I was in Prague in 1993. The Czech Republic had decided to fast track moving to a market economy so there was a lot of short-term problems. While I was there I toured the church where John Hus preached. I got talking to one of the guides, a woman in her 70s and she was telling me about some of her memories of the Nazis and the communists. I asked her what she thought about things at the time, with all the economic upheaval etc. She smiled and said, “Now we are free and that’s the only thing that matters.” Still can’t share that story without getting emotional.
My neighbor is Laotian. She came here in the mid-70s. One night we were chatting and she told me how they had to run because the communists were killing everyone.
This is a woman who came here with nothing, with her husband built two successful businesses, raised a family and retired two years ago.
Her quote:
“I was born there, but I will die here.”
I think more reminders are a good thing.
Meanwhile, safe spaces and triggering are a thing.
And we have presidential candidates openly advocating going down the same goddamn ruinous path.
I have a lecture in my World History class on Decolonization & the Global Cold war. This is the story I intro it with:
“This is Dr. Mai Na Lee an associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Lee is ethnically Hmong, a group of people who can be found in the borderlands of several nations in Southeast Asia. map
When she was about 6 years old, her family abandoned their village in Laos and spent two years living in a village in the jungle. Dr. Lee & her family were forced to flee because of one of the consequences of the Global Cold War. In the 1960s, the US slowly got entangled in what became known as the Vietnam War. US involvement was, in part, based on what was known as the domino theory: that if Vietnam fell to communism then all of SE Asia would. During the war, the communist North Vietnamese set up supply bases in Laos. In the 1960s, the US began recruiting the Hmong to fight in what became known as the Secret War in Laos.
This made the Hmong targets for communist reprisal. Between 1963 & 1965, at least 18k Hmong peoples were slaughtered by Laotian communists. When the US abandoned Vietnam, Laos, & Cambodia, in 1975, the Hmong (along with others) knew they would be targets for the communists who now made up a large part of the Lao government.
This was why Dr. Lee’s family moved to the jungle: not only were they Hmong, her father had served in the Hmong military for the US. Two years after moving to the jungle, the village was attacked by communists forcing them on the run for a year but eventually they ran out of food and were forced to surrender. They were moved to a camp under communist control, with Lee’s father put under strict watch and repeatedly questioned about his past. After a year of living in those conditions, a group of 700 people, including Lee and her family, managed to sneak away from the camps and embarked on a 28-day journey to Thailand. Their numbers quickly dwindled to a much smaller group. With nothing but the sun to guide them on their journey, the remaining travelers headed west toward the Mekong River, which borders the two countries.
Upon arriving in Thailand after their grueling trek, Lee’s family registered for settlement in the United States. After a year living in a Thai refugee camp, they arrived in Omro, Wisconsin. For the first time ever in her life, 11-year old Lee held a pencil in her hand. She was placed in a small public elementary school, where she was the only Asian student.”
For my lecture on the Cold War, I start with a brief bio of Conrad Schumann: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Schumann
You are awesome.
I grew up with a Cambodian kid whose family was murdered – his uncle (military) smuggled him out.
The fact that we keep talking about this infuriates me.
Every VN/Hmong over 50 has a story. After you hear the story it seems to get dusty for a while. Courage, perseverance. Every one I’ve met has been grateful for the opportunities here and can’t understand why some Americans kids can’t seem to get their act together.
We had the picture of Schuman jumping the wire hanging in our office at Ramstein AFB in Germany It served as the “this is why we’re here” photo.
“Don’t look at it, Marion! Keep your eyes shut!”
Towards a Marxist Halloween
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/10/nightmare-before-christmas-halloween-socialism
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Of course, some horror will be difficult to integrate, simply because it is so terrible. But dialectics is the art of seeing reason in the seemingly irrational, and it is no wonder that Hegel and Marx saw comedy as a higher form of reason than mere tragedy. And like the teeming masses of Halloweentown, we should celebrate Halloween as fun. If the elitist Jack doesn’t like that, then these ghoulish masses can run their own town without a skeleton king.
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[anguished Zoidberg groan]
Marxism *is* horror.
These people should be viewed the same way people view Neo-Nazis; pathetic morons clinging to an evil, failed ideology.
Me about to make a bad situation worse by injecting ill-timed humor.
That’s awesome.
Some junkies sure can sing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjZ-biRvTuc&t=5s
Another junkie who could sing
Now you are two for two.
Where is the real Ted’s?
God, I love her voice.
I’ve always said I pick songs on a sort of Rorschach basis, the first thing that comes to mind and fits as a reply. If it makes you all scream in horror, so much the better.
If you want another fabulous remake, try this, which may not be as much to your liking.
There you go.
Well done.
Dear Jeebus, she was talented.
dbl, do you happen to know from Over the Rhine? (Link’s to my personal favorite.) They toured with and, I believe, sat in on multiple occasions with the CJs – perhaps to the point of being “honorary Junkies.” They’re from Cincy and pretty legendary ’round these parts.
I had never heard of them. After listening to your link I been listening several of their efforts. They are good. Mahalo for the recommendation.
My pleasure. Haven’t heard their most recent, but of all their albums, I like “Good Dog, Bad Dog” (whence cometh the link,) “Ohio,” and “The Trumpet Child.” (Tune of the latter’s title track reminds me of “This Little Babe” from Britten’s “Ceremony of Carols,” which may be no accident.)
On the NASA story. I’m not sure what else you could do. That is, I’m assuming a mission with someone dying, and the idea that a later mission would retrieve the body. That seems a very complex & risky mission.
If I were an astronaut, I would want to be “buried” in space. just like a sailor being buried at sea.
Seems reasonable to me. See any number of movies, (Space Cowboys) or St. Heinlein’s “The Man Who Sold The Moon”.
Since nothing NASA does these days leave low orbit, that retrieval will be automatic and courtesy of gravity.
Lightfoot – Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is a brilliant song.
Also, BOC’s Don’t Fear the Reaper is also really great.
BOC
Saw them in concert early 80’s.
At that time they had a thing that they would do at concerts. At the finale they would come wind up with all of them on a single instrument. Sometimes drums, sometimes bass. The time that I saw them it was guitars.
The song was Hot Rails to Hell and it was all five on guitar. Most rockin’ moment that I think that I ever had.
They used to do concerts at the Fillmore in SF. They would go by their original name, Soft White Underbelly, so only their original fans would know who it was.
Really, for Crosby, Stills and Nash, should have used the official video.
Is that a Morgan?
Looks like a Morgan.
I always wanted a Morgan 41 after spending a day in the cockpit of one drinking beer in Biscayne Bay. Never sailed one but I know their reputation.
I’ve always wanted an 89 Morgan
I looked at them many years ago at the Alameda boat show. When I sailed on SF Bay, it was a 41′ full keel clipper ketch. Basically a Cadillac Eldarado on the ride.
random memory
My mom was a nurse in a VA hospital for a while. She talked about a patient who was a double amputee. When he slept, he held his arms like he was holding a rifle out of water. He had been a Marine on Guadalcanal.
That guy was on Guadalcanal every night for the rest of his life.
I have mentioned my great uncle here before. Purple heart on Korea (shot 5x). As dementia sets in, he’s living out more and more of his time in Korea. I can’t even comprehend that.
Jack G Hanson, MoH, Korea
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Was found dead with an empty pistol in his right hand, a bloody machete in his left hand and 22 dead enemy around him
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He went down swinging.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_G._Hanson
It’s not the winner’s job to make the loser feel better. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50274981
Don’t want them to run up the score?
Fucking stop them.
Meh, there’s a point where you stop kicking a downed opponent, If not you may end up losing the fight but winning the war ala Cool Hand Luke.
You mean by obviously playing below your skill level? Or running out of bounds instead of down the sideline? Or taking a knee on every kick instead of returning it? Because if saw my opponent doing shit like that, I’d be way more pissed than if they beat my 61-13.
How is playing the game kicking your opponent when he’s down?
Running out the clock is a legitimate strategy. I’m up three sportsgoals, I don’t need to beat them by twenty, slow your roll and take the win. When I play chess against my nephew I don’t let him win but at the same time I don’t set up elaborate traps to catch him in either, if you totally out match your competition there is nothing wrong with not rubbing their face in the dirt.
You’re making a huge assumption that they didn’t do that. How do you know the score couldn’t have been 120-0? Sometimes the mismatch is so bad that the better team can’t help but score points.
“I did it to teach the kids that the state hates people who are successful by dint of their own hard work. The kids learned an object lesson today.”
Another sign of a country swirling down the drain.
“lopsided scores policy”
Was called “slaughter rule” when I played soccer growing up. And coaches were not “suspended”. Instead the games were just stopped. This is retarded horseshit.
But along these lines, I was on good, bad and everything in between soccer teams. I never like being on either extreme. It isn’t fun if the competition is not comparable.
61-13 doesn’t seem that excessive, but I don’t really follow sports. Don’t top tier college teams like OSU spank teams like this from time to time?
Yes. Clemson beat Wofford 59-14 today.
In high school my JV was beating up on an opponent so badly the refs were threatening our coach. He was “I am not trying to run up the score. I have my center (me) playing quarterback and my punter as a running back.” After we were done at 77-0 a couple of the members of the other team told my teammates that they were tired of playing for their coach and figured this was way to get rid of him.
In high school soccer, we had a mercy rule that if you got up by 10 goals, the game was over.
Being “mercy ruled” was more humiliating than just getting your ass kicked by more than 10 in other leagues.
Former Florida linebacker James Bates has a story about the Head Ball Coach doing that to UGA the only chance he got.
1990s Spurrier was an asshole. But he was our asshole, and we loved him for it.
I’ve seen how some local high school leagues handle big scores. Every team seems to have a Downs Syndrome kid as water boy or manager or whatever. So, if one team is creaming another at half-time, the losing coach will tell the DS kid to suit up, then arrange at some point with the other team coach to put the kid into the game whereupon he will
run 90 yards for a meaningless touchdown untouched as players wink and nod and stay out of his way.
So you saw me score my 1 goal in HS soccer….
Florida just has the (common, from what I can tell) running clock. If the point differential is 35+ at halftime, or gets there any time in the second half, the clock doesn’t stop for running out of bounds, first downs, incomplete passes, etc. It keeps badly overmatched teams (i.e., any small-school squad of 160-lb white boys who had to go up against high school Derrick Henry) from getting completely humiliated.
Have some blood-boiling rage.
Eh, rubber rooms are cheaper than legal settlements for sexual assault.
In the Big Rock Derpy Mountains, there are no public schools
And if your kid acts like shit, he sleeps with the mules…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqowmHgxVJQ
The fact that this is “sensible” makes me even angrier.
You need more Enya and scented candles in your life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfYIMyS_dI
Goooooooooooos-frah-brah
/man constantly filled with homicidal rage
Joke’s on you. I like Enya.
#Solidarity, brah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrk4X9ACtw
I love her (friend’s) pipes.
How about the best of both worlds?
The intro was a bit long, but the final denouement was worth waiting for. Magnificent.
Gay.
Enya’s a woman.
Gays like guys.
:-p
Yeah, but we’ve got a new law in New York that did away with the statute of limitations for civil sex abuse claims. All of the fucking ambulance chasers are portraying Catholic priests as victims; none of them government school teachers.
“These sites are full of good people who just want to be left alone to do good work. The union is the last, best chance there is at creating a workplace where that’s possible, here and also everywhere else. So of course it’s @gmgunion forever.”
https://twitter.com/david_j_roth/status/1190408012785209344
Fuck off
Silicone Saturday supplies superb and sensuous Shielas.
http://archive.li/feCLG
1, 13, 15, 22, 28, 30, 34, 42. Not in any particular order. But I am gonna need a case of water and some snacks.
Just about all of them.
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace Pitch Meeting
Those sad pobrecitas at Deadspin…
http://archive.li/XCis3
What a bunch of pathetic losers.
TW: Link goes to WaPo article, but using archive to avoid giving them clicks.
I’m also enjoying Barstool kicking them while they’re down.
https://www.barstoolsports.com/boston/ex-boston-globe-columnist-laments-deadspins-demise-rips-barstool-for-wanting-to-be-successful
Ungrateful shits. Why is anybody paying any attention to them?!
Because they’re goodthinkful, at least in the eyes of the chattering classes.
fun fact: the guy who does the voice of Scruffy the Janitor on Futurama was also Michael Bolton in Office Space
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Herman
LOL bad-ass
https://twitter.com/GilvianP/status/1190274824733626368
LOL
SOSHULIZM WURKZ
Holy shit
Something something rookie numbers.
Running up the score!
LMAO!
LOL Awesome!
I love this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q9_ZEtuTR8
The song actually doesn’t start until ~ 1:00 in.
Dang. Haven’t listened to them in a long time.
One I always liked.
Thanks, Sean!
The Drinker Reviews Watchmen
This seems to be less “Watchmen” and more “Wokemen” and written by racist people that want racial strife.
I watched episode 1. A wildly exaggerated version of the Tulsa race riot, then a black lady who hunts white guys for sport. I don’t think I’ll being watching any more.
Covfefe.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/breeders-cup-covfefe-wins-donald-trump
Bye Felicia
https://quillette.com/2019/10/26/its-time-for-lgb-and-t-to-go-their-separate-ways/
It was always a marriage of convenience.
Or a progression?
More like a shotgun wedding, if we’re being honest.
Could maybe last a little longer if the sjw gender mob weren’t such bullying insufferable pricks. It sucks for the T’s that aren’t that way.
From what I can tell most of them aren’t that way. The transtrenders even have a slur for people who are actually trans, calling them “truscum”
http://www.sjwiki.org/wiki/Truscum
Blaire White, who’s trans, gets a lot of grief for calling bullshit on the bullying tactics.
I’m not woke enough to make head or tails of that.
sjwki is gibberish, as one would expect
I really have no idea WTF “T” actually is, and the media aren’t helping.
At least they give a trigger warning at the top of the page
Wait, Felicia had a penis?
“After the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage nationwide in the landmark 2015 decision Obergefell v. Hodges, many believed the fight for gay rights would begin to wind down. Yet that didn’t happen. Instead, the LGBT-advocacy sector simply redirected its available staff, fundraising and rhetoric to other projects. I know this because I saw this happen, both as a university student, gay man and equal-rights advocate.
In a relatively short period of time, the gay-rights movement fused with more radical campus-based gender and identity-politics movements, to become the compound movement now known as “LGBTQ+”—lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, “queer” and more. Even many people within the movement now have trouble keeping up with all the new subcategories contained within that plus sign. One version of the rainbow flag unveiled last year has 11 different colors on it. The creator, Daniel Quasar, identifies as a “queer non-binary demiguy” whose pronouns are “xe/xem/xyr.” None of these bizarre neologisms have any resonance to those of us who joined the gay-rights movement simply to affirm and protect the basic rights of people to be who they are and love who they choose without stigma or legal sanction. We’ve been forced to watch the simple moral logic of non-discrimination be transformed into a self-parodic alphabet soup of invented identities.”
That’s the same shit with everything. Look at feminism. Or Mothers Against Drunk Driving. You’re legally drunk if you eat a banana.
Since someone mentioned Heart the other day-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UkLVTdg7Og
That’s a dandy one, Tres!
FES!!!! How’s Trix?
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1190031984661282816
woah
Holy Crap.
I remember watching the footage live. Total devastation.
Water is powerful and to be respected.
A Tsunami is better understood as a temporary rise in the local sea level rather than as a wave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYAT4sB6phI
Wow. They made a Richard Jewell movie. I hope it makes the FBI and media look like the shitbags they are.
Not “they”. Clint Eastwood.
The NCAA is out of control with the Targeting calls.
/Tinfoil hat
So I’ve been watching pro and college football pretty much my whole life, and I’ve made some observations in the last couple of seasons that really turn me off. Bear with me here….
Anyone who watches this sport knows what a “momentum swing” is. Team A is rolling, scoring at will, generally controlling the game. Then something bad happens for them. A fumble. A missed FG. Anything at all can go bad really, and it can lead to the afore mentioned momentum swing. So Team B feels this swing, and all of the sudden the game becomes competitive.
Now I dont think theres anything super obvious going on with the refs, but here’s what I’ve noticed:
The refs seem to understand this phenomenon, and I think in some cases, they engineer a momentum swing. I saw it today when they essentially gifted Florida a scoring drive to get them within a TD of Georgia. Another recent example was the Packers-Lions game where 2 “illegal hands to the face” penalties gifted the Pack an opportunity to score (and this observation is coming from a lifelong Packer fan).
TL/DR: I dont think the refs are throwing games, but it sure looks like they’re trying to cover the spread using penalties to cause momentum swings.
/Tinfoil hat off
The call I’m bitching about totally shifted momentum from USC to Oregon.
Oregon just scored a touchdown on a 92 yard drive that was almost exclusively weird penalties.
I dunno about football but in soccer the refs very obviously bias their calls based on the situation at hand & everybody knows it. The rules that distinguish the severity of an offense are so subjective that e.g. a yellow-card offense can become a red-card offense if the ref feels the need to make up for a call they totally blew earlier in the game.
Let’s just pussify the game and get it over with. Defenders can’t touch receivers at all. If you do, automatic touchdown. Quarterback has two flags hanging off his jersey – grab one and he’s down. Touch him and you’re suspended for rest of season.
The pussification of the QB position is the one that really pisses me off. A couple weeks back, the refs threw a flag for ” roughing the passer” on a defensive back who swatted his hand across Dak Prescott’s face mask.
On a play where Dak ran for 10 or so yards.
In what universe is he a “passer” in that situation?
I am a lawyer that doesn’t understand the Constitution, law, and/or American history and I can prove it.
I know I am a simpleton by comparison a trained, esteemed lawyer, but I can identify too many failures of logic to detail.
Also, I searched “Bill Whittle 2nd amendment” as a sortof test of Youtube’s algorithm which brought me to the above video. The video above listed first above this video and it has far fewer views with a very negative like/dislike ratio. I wonder how that happened. . .
Didn’t watch it but I can only imagine. Love that ratio.
The extremists who fought and won a violent revolution sparked by a government gun grab wrote a highly restrictive rule about gun ownership?
And it was artillery that they were coming to confiscate
Militia arms stores, artillery included.
Yes, arms and powder, but most people only think of the small arms portion. I like to use the presence of cannon as a counterpoint to the argument that the founders never envisioned the people having such deadly weapons as an AR-15 when artillery was possessed by citizens.
One think I like about growing up in New Hampshire in the 70s and 80s was a lot of exposure to the early Revolutionary War events. There were a lot of active militia reenactors then.
For some reason I find it far easier to read stupid shit than to watch stupid shit. It must be the air of smugness that often comes across along with the clapping seal applause.
I’m just a knuckle dragging caveman, but this article frightens and confuses me.
Hey guys, you all need to stop shaming women over their sanity pads. I’m super serial.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50254560
You know the patriarchy is out of control when you’re in the Women’s Restroom trying to pretty much do sorcery to quietly open the obnoxiously loud packaging pads come in
Because the other women in the women’s restroom are not familiar with their own menstruation* and products that help it to be a more manageable natural bodily function? Or because you believe that men presenting as women should be allowed into the women’s restroom?
*MENstration?!?!?!?!
That person has a law degree.
And she votes.
I don’t care if other women hear me opening a tampon. If she feels shame or whatever, maybe she should consider therapy.
I’ve got nuthin’.
Because the patriarchy is in the restroom listening to you?
The women’s restroom is where we go to bitch about our periods. And menopause. And men.
Any chick who’s paranoid about another chick hearing her unwrap her nap has issues. Or maybe a lifetime subscription.
Women don’t need to go anywhere to bitch about things.
Well, sure – all the other stuff we WANT you to hear! ; )
“She responded to Shaibu’s tweet saying how awkward she would feel buying pads – especially when the person at the till was male. She would buy additional items so as to draw away attention from the fact she was on her period.”
Is that like buying condoms?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ2X9SANsME
“Pssst! The problem is in your head.
Nobody cares about this stuff.”
I wonder how much money one could make writing woke “news” articles in their spare time?
Doesn’t really require any effort, facts, logic, or basis in reality so don’t even need to do research. Just type some derp.
Apparently, not much.
Ask the people who quit Deadspin.
Yeah, but they’re all lazy commies.
So you are saying it’s madness?
I have no problem buying nothing but tampons. Hell, I’ve had boyfriends that would go buy nothing but tampons for me. She needs therapy.
The sound of opening menstrual products is my fetish.
I thought it was eating ass?
Funny, wife and I was just in a conversation about eating pussy vs not eating pussy. We got distracted. But I don’t get it, how is not eating pussy an argument?
No, no–leads to one, not ‘is an argument’.
Did it involve your new bartender?
Stanky pussy. Been there.
Does it sound like a popping open a bag of Doritos or opening a fresh can of tennis balls?
It sounds like this
Buying them used? Eeeeew.
There’s nothing shameful about sanitary pads unless you make your man buy them for you.
Did that for my wife way back when we were dating. Nbd, I was near the store and she was out.
If she asked, I might do it. No way she would ever ask me to do it, though.
Well, she probably would want a specific brand, not whatever’s easiest to grab off the shelf.
😉
Ah–the DTJ strategy!
You guys never had to do the family shopping before your mom went through the change, huh? It’s not like the checkout girl is going to think it’s for you…at least that’s the way it was before…I guess now men can menstruate (by force of law in some places now)
Are you sure?
That was the fucking joke I was making, GAIJIN SO STOOPID!!
Who you callin’ gaijin, gaijin?
But, I’m not a foreigner. I’ve never left the country. I don’t even own a foreigner belt.
Sorry CPRM. Even in Wisconsin without a passport, you’re still gaijin.
I heartily approve of that link.
That’s not how “gaijin” works. You’re outside 外 “gai” the people 人 “jin”. You’re thinking 外国人 or “gaikokujin”.
I miss my old avatar.
Which one lets me pilot a giant transforming robot?
This one.
What’s that transform into? A cum dumpster? Japs are pervs!
Sexy!
Dude, my husband got over getting period supplies long long ago.
I see men in line with women stuff all the time.
Different culture. to be sure.
My bad. ?
To be sure.
I get your point. Have spent a total of two weeks in the states over the past 20+ years. I’m sure it’s changed.
Didn’t we already solve this back in ancient times? I mean you send these unclean wiminz outside the camp for a couple of weeks? Did I miss something?
Bone in New York’s were on sale at 5.99 at the market. Got a sweet ass chimichurri made up and some baked potatoes in the oven. They’re getting plenty of sour cream, green onion and bacon. Red wine is popped. God bless the USA.
???
I’m sure you got something equally delicious whipped up EDGreppinSEA. I’ve become a huge fan of this great buy whenever I go to Costco. Covers all my bacon needs when I need a quick flavor addition to spuds, eggs, and veg.
https://www.costco.com/kirkland-signature-bacon-crumbles%2C-20-oz.product.100334421.html
I really want you to cook for me someday. It always sounds great.
If you’re ever in the Sunset it will happen!
Everything is better with a little Santana
Counterpoint: Rob Thomas. You have been proven wronger than a wrong wrong in wrongstown.
C’s not wrong…
That video is excellent for Santanas guitar (in spite of Rob Thomas) and the chic in the window. If you don’t like that you are the biggest commie of comtaria.
That song is the equivalent on Che fucking your ear hole while some dude who had one good song jacks on your face to show you how how multicultural he is. It’s one of the most disgusting things ever recorded; but you do you. Just clean that Che cum out of your ears before you go to sleep or you might get an infection.
So……..seen any good movies lately?
I did see a movie that had me stuck to my seat…(what I did there, did you see it?)
HELL NAW!!
I won’t go quite that far, but I will say that I think Santana is overrated. And I don’t know if there was some payolla or what the hell happened in 2000, but the Grammy people lost their fucking minds giving that album 8 awards.
I think that was the same year Fleetwood Mac got back together; baby boomers were ready to right the injustices of the past; reality be damned.
I don’t even know who Rob Thomas is, never heard of him, so I am unencumbered by such emotion with a song. The girl in the window on the other hand.
Rob Thomas was a bad guy on Game of Thrones.
Hah!
Never seen it.
He’ll Push you!
Sign of the Southern Cross
For Chafed, if he is around this early
Dio!
*Holds up Devil horns*
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Mike–Charlie said you forgot the ??
Apparently I have communist emoji, because I don’t have a USA!!! flag. ?
Those bastards!
Commoji?
There ought to be a law.
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Testing…
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Oh ? yeah!
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Ted S may have a nit to pick, but, I, for one, am kinda happy that it’s the correct “you’re”.
Other than the fact that it’s missing the apostrophe.
But thanks for the vote of confidence, Mr. Digby.
Well, to tell a family secret, I almost mentioned the apostrophe myself. But, far be it from me to step on the toes of my fellow glibs.
Also: Why so formal? It’s Diggy, or, SD, or, you know, El Diggorino (If you’re not into the whole ‘brevity’ thing).
I can’t even get past reading all those icons.
Doesn’t everybody just scroll past HM’s walls of text?
?????
I didn’t even know they were dating!
??? Out of ?????
Hoevember and No shave November are gonna collide in a very unpleasant way.
You might even say they will become entangled.
You mean “Movember”? I hate that ?.
Come back when you’re past the stubble stage.
?
It wasn’t the guy not shaving I was talking about.
Who let Cher have an account here?
HM is a comment villain.
“We will beef-up our Mind-Reading Division.”
???
California has the answer to everything, that’s why nothing bad happens there anymore.
A party house will attract millennials to the project…oh, they didn’t mean that as a job perk…hard pass; my mom says I can stay at home until I find the right fit.
The renter reportedly lied to the homeowner about their intent, claiming they needed the space as a fresh-air refuge from the California wildfire for their asthmatic family members.
Huh? The ban wouldn’t have mattered if the dude lied.
The gig economy’s libertarian moment was pretty short…
Bill Kristol praises Trump.
https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1190258768560435200
Bill Kristol can suck my dick. Christ, what an asshole.
The sycophants in the comments. Twitter must require a brain cell count of <140.
I don’t understand 90% of the comments. Twitter is a cesspool of incoherent ramblings.
I would understand that joke, but I use twitter, so I have many smarts.
Only if someone breaks his teeth out with a pipe first.
Any of you gamers playing The Outer Worlds yet? I finally had my fill of Skyrim & moved on to GTA V. That’s a funny game. OWs is next in the queue if it turns out to be ok.
Does watching other gamers play it count? I can say that the consensus seems very positive, and an apparently low amount of bugs in the game.
I didn’t care for Fallout 4 and worried it might be like it.
FO:NV, actually (Obsidian did NV) Not sure how it compares to 4.
Also, gotta do a meet-up some time.
Got a buddy who played it, and he says it’s pretty good with some humor and decent gun play. It’s getting compared to the Fallout series without the V.A.T.S system.
That is a hell of a gap in new game buying.
Sigh, I was playing around on a couple of custom build computer sites today and now literally every youtube link starts with a cyberpowerpc ad.
This may be a broken record around here, but, no ad blocker?
Ghostery.
It is sad that the Ferenghi of internet trolls are so pro-adblocker, not because we hate ads, but because they so often break websites.
Ad blockers break websites, and can they actually block the Youtube, ad within the video ads and still let the video play?
Youtube has ads?! (yeah, they can)
You use an ad blocker while complaining about how little money you make creating media…
*snort*
He’s OK, he has patrons like me who give him $2/month.
I don’t have the right mix for YT to monetize me. When I was approaching that point on my non-glibs channel, they just happened to re-do the rules; and my glibs channel is no where near being YT Partner monetized, so if you see ads on any of my vids, it ain’t doing me any good. And like I said, I don’t mind ads, but the way sites do them usually break the sites.
I don’t think I’ve had my ad blocker break a website. But I do know that I haven’t seen a YouTube ad in years.
I’ve had to disable my ad-blocker maybe once in the last couple years. Youtube is probably the top site they deal with – so they are *very* effective at making it work with zero ads.
Before this goes away, which Glib was using the pic at the top of this post as their avatar in the before times?
Pat IIRC.
What happened to Pat?
And Lafe Long?
And some others I’m to buzzed to remember at the moment?
Pat was around the other day. Lafe I haven’t seen in forever.
Yeah, Pat even re-did the avitar after the great WPFU. But Lafe, might be around a year since a saw xim.
It’s Pat!
So this just happened at UFC 244. Ouch. NFL is making their QB’s wear Tutus and this other sport is exploding in popularity. Makes you wonder what’s going on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikebcrsyZ-0
Oh, wow…look at the time.
That reminds me…extra hour of drinking tonight! ?
Mike’s is a man who Fucking Loves Science! *RAISES RED DOG*