Hey guys, I’m late getting on the road because I broke something at work Monday and it has taken me this long to unbreak it. If I ever run into Monday Morning Brett, he and I are going to have a chat. In the meantime, enjoy my on-the-road links, which are not nearly as good as road head.
Jimmy must have been the turkey God pardoned for Thanksgiving.
Climbing big rocks is dangerous.
Best timeline ever!
This is the kind of class I expect from Joisey. Or Florida. I could definitely see this happening at a Walmart in Florida.
Have a Thanksgiving song from a commie.
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Thanksgiving song…..dont forget to play ‘Alices Restaurant’ at some point tomorrow.
Fun fact (maybe I’ve mentioned this?): Back in the day, Mr. GT’s mom sent him a copy of the Alice’s Restaurant album while he was shut up in military school during the height of the Vietnam War.
My MIL was cool.
I don’t get it.
Alices Restaurant might be too spicy for you.
Our local rock station spins it once every year on Thanksgiving. They have been doing it for 20+ years. Kinda cool. The rest of their programming choices range from satisfying to infuriating, but this blind squirrel finds a nut once a year.
You like it? Why? I’m not trying to be snarky. I never liked it and don’t understand the attraction.
Thank you. It is horrible.
It’s a once a year tradition. Do I like it? I don’t know…I never listen to it on any other day than Thanksgiving, and I don’t feel disappointed if I don’t hear it.
Maybe you guys are reading a bit much into it. It’s a song some people like to listen to literally one time each year…or every other year.
Climbing big rocks is dangerous.
That’s why I don’t climb rocks. Or stairs.
What about bar stools? Too dangerous? Or worth it?
With or without a safety harness?
Is that like a sex swing?
Seat belts
……shakes my head thinking of the 6th floor walk I moved out of early this year…
lol I just got a message that I’m posting to quickly and to slow down. do you guys have me hooked up to a breathalyzer?
If this place used a breathalyzer it would be Mojeaux talking to herself.
Hey!
Your BAC must be this high to post at Glibertarians.com.
Or you just have to be this high. We’re not too hung up on legalities here.
Stay classy, Jersey. Stay classy.
I laughed ’cause it sounds familiar. A couple years ago my late ex’s nieces got into a fight in a bar parking lot, I’m not sure with each other or challenged some other folks. These two women may be the same ones, using their married/divorced names. NJ, of course. Sure glad I moved on from that family
Some of the crazy from the twitter randos over that Rocky pic a truly sad sight to see. “These people are nuts!”
I missed the bit where Trump pardoned Jack Johnson. Good on him.
Also, this is sheer genius on Trump’s part. Every unhinged person will still be venting about this to anyone within earshot at dinner tomorrow. The normies in the family will roll their eyes and make a mental note to vote twice for Trump next year.
Over/under on when Snopes fact checks this?
The Bee should beat them to it.
“Snopes Rates Presidential picture as Pants on Fire”
*snort*
That would be great. What is even funnier is that Snopes still wouldn’t be able to lay off the high heat and would still issue that judgement.
This is what is we in the industry call a “deep fake”.
I saw that earlier, laughed, thought “this is best time line ever”, then forgot about it. Then I get to the bar and everyone can’t even. He really is living on people’s heads.
It amazes me how worked up people get on the dumb shit.
My snarky hypothessis: people are stupid and so they can only relate with the dumb shit and so thats why the freak out over it and ignore the actual travesties.
Not just randos. The Washington Post tweeted:
Children seem oddly interested in the walk of a fowl that may have crossed a thoroughfare. No one is certain why.
Trump tweets doctored photo
Wait… What? This is outrageous. Trump doesn’t have those pecs and abs?! We need Schiff to take a look at this.
lol. I had no idea that they had upgraded the Trump wrassles CNN meme. The cameo by HRC made me laugh out loud. Good thing no one is in the office to figure out that I’m screwing around
That was great
I can’t stop watching that!
Lol
“Doctored”, lol.
I mean, like, what? I..I’ll just walk the other direction.
https://twitter.com/lauramhartman/status/1199739593463148544
Laura Hartman
@lauramhartman
4h4 hours ago
Yes. Indicative of his total lack of fitness (pun intended) for office.
Merrill
⭐️
@MerrillLynched
3h3 hours ago
Replying to @washingtonpost
The Emperor Here’s one thought: The President of the United States is MENTALLY ILL. He’s crying out for help, or at least removal from office but there are no responsible adults in the GOP willing to acknowledge the obvious.
The Emperor Has No Clothes!!!
Pé Resists
@4everNeverTrump
4h4 hours ago
Replying to @washingtonpost
Because somebody on his social media team is trying to kiss up to Dear Leader? (We all know he’s incapable of attaching a picture to a tweet.)
55 replies 28 retweets 501 likes
Carmen Ge
@c4rmenge
4h4 hours ago
Nope. Because at the rally he figured the governor or whoever was musxular, not overweight. So then he said look, I’m muscular too. He must feel bad about his looks.
9 replies 2 retweets 49 likes
New conversation
Carmen Ge
@c4rmenge
4h4 hours ago
Especially since Obama is fit
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ZookeeperJones
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@ZookeeperJones
3h3 hours ago
Fine..that’s the word, Obama is fine as hell.
Last one i promise
All of this just reinforces my belief that Twitter is a sewer and not worth 2 seconds of anyone’s time.
If she fell, how can she be “top” climber?
She got too high. ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeYsTmIzjkw
Humpty Dumpty took a dive too
Bounced off a glass ceiling.
That just means she has nice tits.
She still has her strap-on?
After Thanksgiving don’t forget to starve yourself for Holodomor Memorial Day which is held on the fourth Saturday of November. Where we remember the starvation caused by the selfishness of the Kulaks, wreckers, and saboteurs.
The fourth Saturday of November was last Saturday, the 23rd.
Derp.
“I could definitely see this happening at a Walmart in Florida.”
Is there anything that couldn’t happen at a Florida Walmart?
A formal dance for the wealthy?
Efficient shopping?
A wine and cheese tasting?
I can see someone opening up cans of Mad Dog 20/20 and Velveeta and downing them at a WalMart.
White Claw and string cheese.
The only time I didn’t like Swiss cheese was when I bought a package of sliced Swiss cheese at Walmart.
“This cheese has gone moldy”
“Repackage it as blue cheese.”
a woman buying something under a size 20 that fits?
What’s the point of being virtuous if you don’t brag about it?
This year Thom Hawkins is missing his fourth family Thanksgiving back home in Minnesota, by choice.
The 82-year-old lives in Glendale, Calif., and hasn’t visited his extended family of nieces, nephews and cousins since September 2016. That’s when he decided he couldn’t fly anymore because of environmental concerns. Ever since, he has missed weddings, birthdays and graduations, and he expects to miss funerals.
“On the last trip there I felt guilty, if you want to know the truth,” Hawkins says. “I [had] become very aware of climate change … probably hyper-aware, more than most people that I know.”
He’s even told his family to no longer fly to California to visit him, as he doesn’t want them to contribute to climate change on his behalf. Hawkins is part of a small but growing number of people who are choosing not to fly, or to fly less.
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Flight Free was founded in Sweden in 2018 under the name We Stay On The Ground. The country spawned the notion of flight shame — or flygskam in Swedish — and train brag, or tagskryt, as when someone posts photos of themselves taking the train to encourage others to do the same.
Sweden is also the home of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, who made headlines this summer when she avoided flying by sailing across the Atlantic to attend a U.N. climate conference.
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Even in the U.S., a recent study by Swiss bank UBS found that about 24% of respondents reported reducing their air travel by at least one flight in the past year because of environmental concerns, up from 19% in an earlier survey.
Peter Kalmus, founder of NoFlyClimateSci and a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., thinks that the airline industry should pay attention.
“If I were one of the executives in the aviation industry, I would be taking this movement very seriously,” Kalmus says. “And that should be very frightening.”
Literally dozens of people. This will bring the airlines to their knees.
I’m flying more, just to take up the slack.
I’m looking forward to the pics of the angry group of Swedes flight-shaming that gal who flew from the top of El Capitan straight to the ground.
She’s carbon neutral now….
I’m guessing the family doesn’t want him around, and this is just how he’s rationalizing it.
Can’t hardly blame them. He sounds like an insufferable asshole.
“You know… they all mocked me when I decided to become a militant vegan. They all mocked me when I was calling the president a chimp (Bushhitler, not Obama). But this… they seem to be 100% behind me on.”
I concur.
If he was my kid I’d cook him dinner and livestream it. Which produces more CO2? Bonfire, gasoline field stove, or just cooking it from the engine heat from an old V8?
Why not all three?
Good idea!
that dude is hilarious
when she avoided flying by sailing across the Atlantic to attend a U.N. climate conference.
You know what…. I can get on board with this. If we stop people from flying, think about how much the US becomes isolated from the rest of the world again. No more need for wars for Europe and Foreign interventions.
I used to love flying.
Now I get the sudden urge to make cow or goat sounds as I am corralled toward the gate.
Or I glare at the overweight rent-a-cop with the AR and poor trigger discipline.
For Tundra: Waitress in the Sky – The Replacements https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMRUszqMVM8
“No problem.”
/every one of this relatives
A reduction in the number of apocalyptic lunatics hanging out at the skybar is going to be a real bummer.
Meanwhile China laughs as it brings twenty new coal-fired plants on-line.
That trump- what a caution.
“Chewy: The priciest version is the $119.95 Chewbacca Instant Pot, which holds eight quarts”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-7732505/Instant-Pot-debuted-new-Star-Wars-collection.html
Shit, this sucks! No matter how careful I am, no matter what I cook, I keep having to pull hair out of my food!
We just watched Solo Sunday. Was decent.
I had seen it before, but we just watched it together. I never thought it was a bad movie, one of the betters of the new era IMO (I liked Rouge One better), so it’s too bad that the rest of the crappy movies ended up causing this one to flop.
Yeah, I haven’t been a fan of the new series. At least this one had an original plot although I did see some similarities of Solo and Beckett to Star Lord and Yondu.
i mostly liked it, but I thought it was a terrible origin story for the character “Han Solo”.
I made the mistake of committing around a month ago to presenting a proof of concept for a solution to our database woes during my business trip to Ft Collins next Tuesday.
As of this morning, I had an empty database and a half-sketched schema. Add in that I was forced to commit to work video at church this Sunday (nobody else was available) and that I stupidly committed to bring from-scratch green bean casserole to my friend’s Thanksgiving meal tomorrow, and I’m a wee bit overcommitted.
If anybody sees me stirring some cream of mushroom soup with a keyboard, just poke me with a stick and hand me another energy drink.
May be the most Becky comment ever made anywhere.
I was going to make a snarky comment, but I was too busy sipping my pumpkin spice latte from my red Starbucks cup.
Listening to Taylor Swift?
Sick burn.
Ass Wednesday provides big, plump pieces of meat leading up to your Thanksgiving.
http://archive.is/BIWOt
You, sir, are (at least temporarily) my spirit animal.
Until the next SAWC (Skinny Ass White Chick) post.
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ThankQ!!!
MSM: “We haven’t been crtitical enough of this president.”
This week’s Liberal Media Scream features CNN’s promotion of host Jake Tapper’s special, “All the President’s Lies.”
On Sunday, CNN Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter wondered to Tapper: “Do you think journalists are going to look back years from now and regret not doing even more to speak out about this lying and deceit?”
Stelter added: “Clearly, this prime time special is a way to address how ridiculous it’s gotten.”
Tapper said, “I think some journalists will.”
This is one of the best comments I’ve ever read.
When the time comes for the Electric Boogaloo, people will be hunting “journalists” for sport.
“Sport”? That would be about as sporting as those assholes who shoot bears in cages.
MSM: “We haven’t been crtitical enough of this president.”
This week’s Liberal Media Scream features CNN’s promotion of host Jake Tapper’s special, “All the President’s Lies.”
On Sunday, CNN Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter wondered to Tapper: “Do you think journalists are going to look back years from now and regret not doing even more to speak out about this lying and deceit?”
Stelter added: “Clearly, this prime time special is a way to address how ridiculous it’s gotten.”
Tapper said, “I think some journalists will.”
*sigh*
Don’t get down. You can show this to your kids as proof that you were doing twice as much as anyone else to expose the lies of Trump.
This is one of the stupidest comments I’ve ever read.
Do you believe in De Ja Vu?
It’s been known to exist
Prince was the shit, even when no one knew him.
Corvettes have back seats?
Vanity, for anyone wondering.
Can’t believe it wasn’t this one
I was thinking this one
“Some of our personal favorite Thanksgiving conversation starters:
? “My pronouns are…”
? “Firing people for being LGBTQ is illegal and Trump asked SCOTUS to change that”
? “Who loved Pose season 2?”
? “Please pass the pie, and the Equality Act””
https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1199725066302308354
How is this still a thing?
It really is almost a meme. I wouldn’t be suprised if the right had started memeing it.
“Remember this Thanksgiving to make sure your family is thankful for the fact that you’ve moved out of the house”
I had never heard of Pose before now. Was still too soon.
“Don’t care.”
“Freedom of association is a human right. So is freedom of disassociation.”
“Nobody, stuff it.”
“Get a job, snowflake.”
This is something I could never understand. My pronouns are I and me–not he and him. Your pronouns are you and you. I never address anybody as he/she/they. That’s a nice feature of English: no need to worry which pronoun to use.
It’s so insidious they want to control how people talk *about* you.
Literal LOL. It’s like they’re trolling us.
Wrong. You don’t like it, change the law.
Keep digging that hole, ACLU.
Turkeys in the brine.
Wait, Gorillas in the Mist was a cookbook?!@
My son made the brine this year.
*prays
I, on other hand, forgot to defrost the rest of things to be smoked.
Why the BIG 10 >>> than SEC
I like the fun stuff.
Do the numbers matter?
That is written as B1G! This conference fan stuff is silly. They aren’t the same conferences as the ones whose history they claim.
You can’t say you watched the video and got upset.
Sure I can that Great Lakes accent is triggering and a mustache like that screams “Try my wife’s Tatertot Hot Dish”
These euphemisms….
It’s really (beer + hotdish) vs ( pulled pork + shrimp&grits + bourbon)
that’s a fight I’m willing to eat my way to the bottom of
“Onision has been banned from Patreon.”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1199499864888885248
Although he’s taking it surprisingly well.
https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/1199530500370640898
No idea what’s going on. Carry on.
Dafuq? Who is that? and other than generally disapproving of companies refusing service to people based on the twitter mob why should I care?
I’mma sit here in my recliner, watch 10th Kingdom, and crochet. I’ll let you know how I like it.
2000?! 1 season? WHY am I doing this? Just to have my heart broken like DEAD LIKE ME broke it.
No wonder John Larroquette and Al Bundy look so young.
I was pretty sure that was a miniseries, so “one season” isn’t a fair criticism.
Correct. Google says it was a mini-series.
Yeah, miniseries not a regular program. It is one long story.
Yay!!!
Wow. Chick-fil-A has been donating money to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
So Chick-Fil-A has been donating to hate groups…
I wonder why?
Dane Geld.
I think that one might be a porno company.
Also, you gotta pay that extortion money or SPLC will put you on a list.
Yeah, I was thinking some sort of shakedown.
Good grief, what a waste.
Somehow they hired a leftist to be their head of “Corporate Social Responsibility”. This is what skinsuiting looks like.
Get ready for 4 more years of Trump.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2019/11/27/wall-street-just-hit-new-record-highs-heres-why/#49a8bb8f6991
Topline: Major stock market indexes hit fresh highs on Wednesday, as improved U.S. economic growth in the third quarter, solid consumer spending last month and renewed optimism on Wall Street over a trade deal with China have all dampened fears of a recession.
The S&P 500 was up 0.27% while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 0.19%, helping both indexes continue a record-setting run that has seen several new highs over the past month.
Much of the market optimism was due to stronger-than-forecast economic data, suggesting that the economy will continue its moderate pace of expansion in the fourth quarter.
The latest indicators showed that U.S. GDP grew by 2.1% in the third quarter—up from a previous reading of 1.9%—and also indicated that the slowdown in business investment could be stabilizing.
Economic prospects were further improved by a rise in U.S. consumer spending last month, while the number of Americans filing unemployment claims also fell, helping further diminish recession risks in the short term.
The robust economic data added to rising optimism on a trade deal with China, thanks to Trump’s comments on Tuesday that the U.S. was in the “final throes” of the important phase one agreement.
To add to the market’s recent rally, third-quarter corporate earnings have come in better than expected: Of the 484 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported earnings, 75% have beaten estimates, compared to 18% that have missed, according to Refinitiv data (in a typical quarter, only 65% of companies beat estimates and 20% miss expectations).
Rose by at least one today.
Don’t get too bummed. I have confidence you’ll figure out what you want to do and pursue it properly.
You’ll be fine, enjoy Thanksgiving then start hunting
Economic prospects were further improved by a rise in U.S. consumer spending
You can’t consume your way to prosperity.
It’s symbiotic. You can’t produce stuff and then throw it in a hole and claim you’re prosperous either.
No, you throw it in a bonfire. It is like you don’t even potlatch
Cash for Clunkers, Phase 2
So under Obama the forecasts were always weaker than expected and under Trump the forecasts are always stronger than expected. Got it.
There are days I sort of feel sorry for pols. Well some of them.
This story covers a dust up at the last county board meeting. Seems that we collected too many taxes dedicated to transit projects and the commissioners decided to spend it on roads and bridges. (the story covers this better than I can). The controversy is that a lot of people think that money should have been spent on clean energy projects only. Spending it on roads and bridges just enables our addition to shit that is killing Mother Gaia.
The nuts:
The sane*:
*Full disclosure: Johnson is a very good friend of mine. We grew up together and still grab the occasional beer. I have no idea how he could sit through that meeting and not pull out a bat and just start beating people.
“Apparently some people believe that crumbling roads are fine because roads are evil,”
IT’s the damned libertarians that run the country that are causing people to think this way.
Roads and Bridges should be the only thing the County should be concerned about. Not that I agree even with that much but it is what it is, at this point. All the other stuff is vote buying.
“I have no idea how he could sit through that meeting and not pull out a bat and just start beating people.”
Minnesoda nice?
From the Things I Never Dreamed of Department: The world’s first HIV+ Sperm Bank.
And…what happens if the current science is wrong?
I’d say no one would ever use this, but people are freaking stupid.
Looking at the amount of White Middle class women who are willing to throw their sons under the bus to be woke. I’m sure there will be some basic becky’s who do this to be super woke and considerate.
Woke Taking pride in being stupid.
Does Trashy want to weigh in here?
As long as it leaves a pine fresh scent, she don’t care what you put where she was rent.
Is there any interest in trying another Glibs Web Diplomacy match?
I don’t have the machine for that right now, but when I do, I’ll play, oh yeah
Shameless promotion Alert!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/v8pdm-getting-to-arizona?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1
Sent a twenty your way.
Have a good Thanksgiving!
Thanks! Enjoy Thanksgiving,
*Full disclosure: Johnson is a very good friend of mine. We grew up together and still grab the occasional beer. I have no idea how he could sit through that meeting and not pull out a bat and just start beating people.
I sat through a lot of county commission meetings in the course of shooting down somebody’s idiotic idea about how to *improve* things. I wouldn’t be a county commissioner for any amount of money.
Which is, of course the underlying flaw in any plan to “fix” government. Nobody sane wants the job, so you get people like the Clintons and the Obamas and the BOOOOSHES.
Explain Trump
Some crazy people are trolls.
It starts at even lower levels. Towns, townships, even HOAs. Those low level positions are stepping stones to county/state and on to the fed level where the big money is. Look at the line up on the Demo side, last time it was the Repubs.
Welcome to SoCal, a balmy 47 degrees with rain….
47 degree with rain and a chance of gulags.
We are making appointments to see some rentals next week, and then back to the sun, although AZ gets really cold in Winter, thanks again…
. . . AZ gets really cold in Winter . . .
You’re so cute. It’s -10° C (+14° F) and snowing here at the moment, and my little Shih-Tzu/Bichon Frise cross is all Honey Badger about it. Tough little dog.
Snow starts here on Friday.
Explain Trump
Nobody sane, I said.
I do not bother to delude myself that Trump isn’t his own variant of narcissistic sociopath. He just has some different, and slightly less reprehensible traits. On some days.
I like him, and think he wants fix what he can, in spite of the swamp
if he eliminates
* FISA courts
* Department of Energy
* Department of Education
and brings most of the boys home
I will gladly kiss his ass in Macy’s front window
Everybody has a laundry list, at least he cares about the nation, I truly believe that
I don’t think they are even ‘less reprehensible’ in the abstract. They are just aimed at people I despise so they amuse me.
Trump is to libertarianism what Kanye is to Christianity.
He may not be a doctrinaire, but he has a lot of people seeing the light.
Trump is exactly what conservatives have been asking for since Bob Dole first graced the debate stage. A populist firebrand who doesn’t apologize for his views. Now they need to find somebody with Trump’s level of DGAF along with an ideology further right than Bill Clinton.
McAfee
I definitely agree that years of cuck Republicans that constantly grovel and apologize to a media that will always hate them and never respect them has made Trump an all star. I’ve never liked him. I didn’t like him even before his reality TV gig back when Hollywood and Democrats loved him. I’ve always just thought he was just another egotistical asshole. But I’ll take take him over a f’king socialist any day.
Ditto. I find him grating and he is a caricature of every stereotype I hold about New Yorkers. However, he’s just the right kind of asshole to make the established players repeatedly embarrass themselves and give me schadenfreude by the drum full.
I agree. I’ve thought he was a buffoon for as long as I’ve known of him, but I’ll be damned if he isn’t doing some good things. By design or by accident…who knows…who cares?
Exactly
Same. In fact, I actually like Trump quite a bit now because he’s the closest thing to an accidentally some of the time libertarian president we’ve ever had. And he trolls the fuck out of the left, which is priceless.
Last week in the Thanksgiving recipe thread, some folks chimed in about getting food from Boston Market. Soon thereafter when I would visit other websites (I do it occasionally but it’s nothing serious, honest), web ads appeared for Boston Market. Now I’m getting a constant stream of web ads for clothing for plus-sized women and bras for women over 50. What the hell have you all been talking about around here?
Q posted an Ass link earlier?
Sorry.
I’ve been spamming THICC MILF over and over again in the comments.
Flipping the Teacher/Student roleplay around for a change?
I thought maybe the powers-that-be let John back on the board.
Do yourself a favor and spend 15 minutes shopping for sexy lingerie. Then click on ads here and there whenever they pop up. Will totally improve you web browsing experience. You’re welcome.
Until the algorithm puts that together with your data and decides you are a tranny. Incoming hormone and penis inversion ads.
Penis inversion? That sounds horrible!
Penile inversion
Inversion of the penile skin is the method most often selected to create a neovagina by surgeons performing sex reassignment surgery. The inverted penile skin uses inferior pedicle skin or abdominal skin for the lining of the neovagina. The skin is cut to form an appropriate-sized flap. The skin flap is sometimes combined with a scrotal or urethral flap.[4]
The penile inversion technique was pioneered by Dr. Georges Burou in his Morocco clinic in the 1950s.[20] By the 1970s he had performed hundreds of them, and gave his first public presentation of his technique to a conference at Stanford in 1973,[21] after which it gradually became the predominant technique worldwide.
Other methods
If increased depth is necessary, segments from the large intestine or small intestine may be used. In addition, penile-scrotal skin flaps are also used. Nongenital full-thickness graft (FTG) or split-thickness skin grafts from other parts of the body have been used.
Totally not mutilation.
That is not a vagina.
Holey fuck…
Twat you did there, Yusef…I saw it.
I cunt even
It’s not snatural.
Dramatization of this pussy.
That is a Pink Taco that I will not eat.
Music to go with that
https://youtu.be/QlwlDB5swdQ
I’m on board
but at some point SkyNet figures out that DonEscapedTexas is the same as DonMakingBank and then I’m getting a trip to HR ?
Pelican Brewing “Bad Santa” is tasty.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1304/40377/
You’ll get nothing and like it.
https://youtu.be/-3Z9K-s0KUM
Arm teachers?
From the Water is Wet Department: Workers prefer offices
Having an office encourages independent thought, can’t have that…
Wut?
I can’t make head or tails of that article at all
My current situation is beginning to grow on me. Open office, but liberal work from home policy, which translates to going to the office only when I have meetings.
(in case it’s not apparent, my comment is dripping in sarcasm)
Yours is The best way, I enjoy my overnight projects, no one around, very peaceful
I don’t want an office. They’re stuffy and confining.
I hate the disappearance of tall cubicles, though.
My favorite office is a rooftop in the afternoon breeze, quiet and fresh air does wonders for the soul
Hard to balance a workstation up there, though 🙁
On flat roofs and large projects we use folding tables and EZ ups, you can setup an office if need be
I’m lucky – I have to work in a private office because I process payroll, and I was in a windowless office for a while. Then the office across from mine – with nice big windows looking out onto a courtyard with a tree – was vacated. I waited, certain that some high muckity-muck would move in, but no one did. So I asked if I could, and the head honchos said yes.
I put a bird feeder in the tree and keep it filled as much as I can.
That’s a good thing, the birds are pleasant to look at
Yeah, I miss the tall cubicle walls as well. Especially with my new boss who sits right next to me and evidently thinks I have nothing to do but chat with her all day. The work I do is very analytical which does not blend well with constant interruptions.
“I’m sorry, my job requires thought, now please, Fuck Off”
80% of what I do is rote. Fill in the blanks in a template, check the same couple sources to confirm everything is correct and I’m done. 20% is actually drafting something new or figuring out a way to make a transaction work. I can do the first 80% with distractions and do it quickly, so I have plenty of free time to post or chat. When I am dealing with the 20%, I turn into a hermit and try to bite anyone who comes by my office to chat.
“But you were just sitting there looking off into space”
Yeah, that is called thinking, now go away and leave me be!
“But yesterday you were typing away chatting with me!”
Yeah, that didn’t involve thinking.
I get that from customers, ” why aren’t you working?”
I am, I’m thinking
I fucking hate cubicles. I was only in one, one time for a few months and I swore I’d never be in one again. I actually prefer my little home office. It’s quiet and comfy and there’s no commute. But the open floor workspace at my main client is OK, I’ll take it over a cube any day.
They don’t really have offices at my biggest client. Except for the upper management. All of the devs share one large open space. I sort of like it except for when a couple of the crazies get started and you have to tell them shut the fuck up because you’re on the phone or just need to hear yourself think.
You literally cannot design a space more destructive to productivity than that shit.
I’ve been doing it a couple of day a week for 10 years. Don’t mind it, except for like I said, when I need to tell someone to STFU because I’m on the damn phone.
I believe this may be a big reason for that.
But it supports the collective.
“This is the kind of class I expect from Joisey.”
Today, the wife were driving over to get our other car from the shop and we were on Northern Parkway, which is 3 or 2 lanes depending on where you are and this guy in a black sedan is just cutting in and out of lanes missing people by literally inches and my wife said ‘OMG, what the hell, look at that!’. And I said ‘He’s going to get stuck in that lane in just a couple of minutes and when we drive by him, check the plates, I bet you $50 to 1, it’s New Jersey plates. A couple of minutes later, the idiot is stuck in traffic and as I drove by him, guess what?
I hate traffic, I HATE TRAFFIC! And people in general. Did I say I hate traffic? And people? We went to the local market and stocked up on enough stuff for the holiday weekend. I am so not leaving this house until at least Saturday, maybe not until Monday.
Just another reason we are gone from this pit,
People here seem to be stressed a lot.
When we were at the market, we were coming out with our cart of groceries, and a guy comes around the corner and slams on his brakes. I think he was just driving too fast in a parking lot and a young woman was walking in front of him and I looked and the guy was just going ballistic you could tell. Then the dude gets out of his car, he actually gets out of his fucking car and starts yelling at the girl and starts walking towards her. He was an older guy, probably late 60s or early 70s and my wife is just staring and the young lady is just standing there, so I just walked between them and held out my palm and said ‘no, no, just stop’. Dude just glared at me, he was purple faced and literally shaking. He went and got back in his car and drove off and then started driving like a maniac around the parking lot, which was full of people. Dude was just full of holiday cheer I guess. I guess I’m lucky he didn’t try to run me over or all of us. What the fuck is even wrong with people?
That’ll get you two in the chest in FL.
Some one nailed it earlier today or yesterday in the comments here. Lack of dueling culture. If he got his teeth kicked in a few times, he’d be a little more polite.
I suggested that dueling would improve Congress.
https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1199795766816104455
OFFS!!
Too easy.
“This cannabis-infused turkey gravy will subdue your family so you can enjoy Thanksgiving
Each package of Kiva Confection’s gravy contains 10 mg of THC”
https://adage.com/creativity/work/kiva-baked-perfection/2218686
https://twitter.com/adage/status/1199780177988898816
It’s just when the Pilgrims roofied the Indians.
I’m a pot head and that’s just stupid, I want Turkey flavored turkey, and pot flavored pot, WTF?
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/11/gordon-sondland-alleged-to-have-made-unwanted-advances-on-several-women.html
This is what happens when you won’t help deliver Orangemanbad. I’d find it all a little more believable if it had come out before the impeachment testimony. Like when he was first nominated. Or was a successful high profile hotel owner.
But… wait… I guess I’m not able to keep up with the news any longer. I thought that WAS the dude who delivered bad orange man… err, no that was some dude named Mueller… umm, I mean some chick named Stormy Ho… no wait, it was the dude who used to be the husband of that Rosanne chick and he had pee tapes… no, no, that’s not it, it was John McCain who finally got orange bad man, no… well shit, it was … goddamit, I can’t keep up!
#metoo
“New information not reported before: ICE has arrested 90 more foreign students since March, mostly from India, at fake university in metro Detroit set up by the Dept. of Homeland Security, bringing total to 250 students it has detained.”
https://twitter.com/nwarikoo/status/1199691739847708673
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/11/27/ice-arrested-250-foreign-students-fake-university-metro-detroit/4277686002/
WTF??
But, why would muh chocolate jesus forsake me??? ?
Sigh. They were going after the “traffickers”. The only “punishment” the students got was a trip home.
Living in America is a human right! Xenophobe!
I just love headlines like this:
Obama Is Wrong: Dems Are Not #TooFarLeft David Love, CNN
Yeah, I guess people are right, Obama was just not woke enough for today’s left.