Thoughts and prayers welcome as I prepare for a weekend alone with the kids. I’m trying to make the best of it, and taking them on a pirate ship tomorrow. Because Florida Man. And also, because it includes water gun fights for the kids and free beer for me. A two-hour tour…
Trans-Am Joe finds the libertarian position on occupational licensing? At an IBEW meeting? I’m not sure the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers necessarily wants to lower the barriers to entry in their field.
The Average American hasn’t made a new friend in 5 years. Luckily, I have new Glibs instead of new friends.
Anything we can do Europe does bigger. Including the measles. I wish the Lancet and the guy who fabricated the autism link would be sued into nothingness.
Look, if this was me making the sign, it would mean that all of my buddies watching had to take a punch in the nuts for getting circled on TV.
Hopefully, this is not my weekend.
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537 responses to “Friday Afternoon Links”
We’re friends here?
TURN IT TO 11 !!
I didn’t make that assumption, but I’ll drink in the same room with you anytime.
Good thing I got a couple 30 packs of Milwaukee’s Beast Diet in my garage. I wasnt expecting company.
But do you have anything to drink?
He said he has kidney cleaner.
He’s never had a stone!
I actually made a new friend Tuesday night on my current business trip. We drank several rounds in a bar and ended up having dinner together and then drank some more. And he confided in me that he’s a libertarian!
I hope I get to see my new friend again some day, but I don’t remember his name, or much of what he looked like. I do remember a hangover the next morning though.
Do you still have both your kidneys, or did you “loan” one to your new friend?
I learned that it’s not wise to drink to excess if you’re on gabapentin, the “forget” side effect medication.
Tulpa.
Not libertarian.
I thought I was special! But I guess you will just drink with anyone.
Oh, you’re special all right.
That’s is for sure.
*claps hands excitedly*
*looks around expectantly for my special bus*
Thinking it over, the only new friends that I’ve made in the past 5 years are the half-dozen glibertarians that I met IRL.
Friends. Partners in crime. In Cahoots. What is the difference, right?
Co-conspirators.
I am so boring you may have met me and not even noticed.
^^ false humility ^^
See, now people will pay attention when they meet me, Thanks, Uffda
I like that. Tundra is from here on in Brother Uffda.
Sweet!
I am so boring you may have met me and not even noticed.
That’s my line. Also what my brothers say about me.
@metoo
Yeah…’friends’.
I have no friends in real life. The only people in the world (outside of my wife) that I feel comfortable being myself around is y’all.
You’re a bunch of loveable assholes (NO NOT LIKE THAT JESSE)
*unzip*
oh.
*rezip*
(NO NOT LIKE THAT JESSE)
I wouldn’t know, I’ve only ever received dick pics from any of you,
Mine were fake. It’s amazing what you can find on the Web.
You’re just saying that because I pointed out the syphilis chancre
You’re either a doctor or much too familiar with syphilis.
Liberal Arts degree FTW!
I did (very light) coursework in epidemiology for some of my science reqs and did depth research on syphilis because there was a new book out digging in to the evidence of its spread based on archaeological and historical records and I wanted course credit for reading it.
“Chancre” sounds a lot cooler if you say it with an exaggerated French accent.
I pointed out the syphilis chancre
How dare you. I would never be caught dead with a case of the Syph’. Gonorrhea FTW!
Sorry! It’s hard to tell what’s going on with all of the HPV papules in the way.
Those are friction blisters, mang. You sure you work in a doctor’s office?
You say that, but the friction was rubbing your dick on the snout of a tasmanian devil.
Tasmanian devi . . . {takes notes}
Haven’t tried that one yet.
Jesse would recognize T19.4XXA every day!
Again with the dick pics. I want an article.
I don’t know how much of an article I could write on it. A decent number of guys like showing their dicks and getting feedback on them, even if they’re showing it to someone they wouldn’t necessarily sleep with. If you ever look at the camho websites there are a lot of guys who identify as straight and have no problem chatting with other dudes because the showing off is important and the to whom is secondary.
I have friends, real friends, in real life, but….two of them live in California, one lives in Hawaii, one lives in Washington state, and one in rural Texas. If I see any one of them in person five or more times in the rest of our lives, I’ll be amazed.
The sad thing is how many of the Glibs (and former HnR folk) are our real life friends.
Where did we go wrong?
If that’s wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
This x1000
I would be Glibfriends with some of you, but no one comes here *sniff* and Rebel Scum lives down southside and no one can be expected to cross the river into Chesterfield County!
When you stole that first bike?
The guy I sold it to only gave me $10. “Where did you steal THIS piece of shit? But I’ll offer you $200 if you throw in the dog.”
There is no way I was your first. You and SP ran such a smooth heist, that I have to believe that I wasn’t your cherry.
What’s this “we,” Pale Face?
Just think, if everyone on the planet was a shitlord just like We’uns, you’d never be lonely.
I’m home alone for 2 weeks because wifey went to visit Family in Brazil. I think I’ll hit the local tavern several times over the next week and see how many milfs offer to fuck my brains…. just kidding!
We’re friends here?
Sometimes.
All of us crackers are tight with each other.
I thought we were all just Russian bots.
Except for the FBI agents.
Don’t you mean the Congressional aides?
We are all friends in Tulpa….
Mammoth got 2 inches of snow yesterday.
*snert*
All the conservative men thank you.
Fine with me.
Artificial sex scarcity and heteroflexibility amongst conservative men, a study.
heteroflexibility
It’s not gay if it’s your own dick?
You could probably get funding for that, honestly.
As long as all conservative men want is a gay hookup, their political views won’t be held against them.
I see you’ve fired up Grindr at CPAC
[wild applause]
How far we have fallen from the halcyon days of “Shave your bush to protest Bush!” (courtesy salon.com)
Shave your rump to protest tRump!
Abort your baby bump to protest Trump!
What’s a B.O.B.?
Also, last time I checked, it’s largely liberal men getting outed as sexual predators in the #MeToo era. Either way this is what sexbots are for.
Vibrator (“battery operated boyfriend”)
Ok, so sexbots for women.
How much longer until people are banging robots more than other people?
The minute that sex robots become affordable and commercially available.
What if you are a cunt to the robot, and it decides to tell you no? Then what will you do?
Blacken her other eye?
Did you just assume the sexbot’s gender?
The Shit’s Gettin’ Real Doll.
…and now we know how Mad Scientist died on the drill press.
Yeah, I think I’ll pass on the coming sexbot fad.
Oh look someone
read Lysistrataheard someone talk drunkenly about Lysistrata at a wine bar recently.100% anecdotal, but the men who treated me with the least respect have always been lefties. Condescending twats, the lot of them.
Who the fuck are you anyway, girlie?
One tried to “teach” me poker (I’ve been playing for ~20 years) and then when I put the kibosh on making out with him, he said “Oh, you’re just not ready yet”. Motherfucker, I ain’t no virgin.
For anyone curious, “B.O.B.” appears to mean Battery Operated Boyfriend, aka vibrator. Curious how those woke, sex-positive feminists can’t just up and say “vibrator” or “dildo.”
It’s meant to be demeaning to men. We’re replaceable by a $10 piece of plastic made in China.
I always got a kick back in the day of obvious dildo vibrators being advertised in Spencer’s Gifts, except the ad showed a woman using it to massage her chin.
Your husband will never know your secret! It’s to get rid of your double chin, right?
In many places it was no-shit illegal to sell dildos, so they had to go through that subterfuge.
The Hitachi Wand is merely a personal massager!
I’m consistently flabbergasted that so many folk present to the ER with weird, dangerous things inserted into themselves when there is a veritable smorgasbord of items specifically designed to be inserted safely. My mom was a radiologist on ER duty for decades and always had horror stories about the elderly men in Sarasota, FL who put light bulbs, or mayonnaise jars in themselves; or, the time a lady showed up with an entire peeled eggplant shoved up her bottom-smile.
Part of that is poor planning, ie the gotta-have-it-now moment. Another part of it is when you buy a dildo (or whatevs) there is no denying that you are a Slutty McSlut Slut.
I spent several years working at a Bourbon Street sex boutique – marital aides, poppers, leather gear, stripper clothes, and ladies shoes in sizes 5 – 15 (I loved my trans stripper customers). You meet a very interesting cross section of humanity. The worst were the Southern bridal parties – “Hey y’all, hey y’all, look at that; they don’t sell those in Chattanooga y’all” – clogging up the store and pointing/giggling at the merchandise but never buying anything.
She clearly has a very healthy and well-adjusted attitude towards sex
I’m disappointed y’all aren’t reacting to the part I bolded in the context of the tweet.
I found that part…curious.
Makes me wonder if she’s in high school.
Basic bitches never leave it.
She needs to get a grip.
[golf clap]
I think I can safely make some assumptions without even seeing a picture of her.
Ladies: STOP having sex w/conservative men
Well, that’s one way to get the GOP to endorse the legalization of prostitution.
“The “OK” hand gesture only recently emerged as a “white power” symbol.”
No, it has not emerged as a white power symbol. The whole thing is just stupid, and that NBC blurred out an OK sign just ridiculous.
4chan trolled someone good. First I thought it was journalists, then I thought it was the alt-right, and now I think it was us, the onlookers.
The best trolling is that which pulls in everyone.
Snopes claims 4chan stole it from the real White Power people.
It’s hard to know who’s gaslightin’ who any more.
You gotta love how the media refuses to admit they’ve been trolled and has to double down by saying that ‘while it may have been a prank at first, white power groups started using it as a white power symbol for realz, so we totes have to unperson anyone who does it’
We need more media trolling, but things they can’t turn against normals.
Ooh, that would explain why “learn to code” struck the nerve.
Or who’s EVER done it in any old picture.
“Sources familiar with the thinking of white power groups have stated the hand gesture is racist.”
That’s what passes for journalism lately, right?
It works on all their Trump related reporting, which is 85%-95% of all reporting these days, so why not apply it to everything else?
“Reporters secretly all desire to sodomize donkeys, according to sources familiar with the thinking of mainstream media journalists.”
Hey, the source was familiar with the thinking of all reporters, how can you question this claim?
What happens when people get so dumb you can’t even troll them anymore?
Taxes go up.
“The ADL cautions that because the sign once had only an innocuous meaning, “particular care must be taken not to jump to conclusions about the intent behind someone who has used the gesture.””
So the ADL is more restrained than NBC. Nice.
Eventually someone is going to sue the 4Chan crowd for making fun of retards.
You mean, like a swastika?
You don’t say….
Still slightly jarring to see in Asia.
Emerged.
Things that were always there but unknown ’emerge’ when they become known. Apparently the ‘OK’ sign was always secretly a symbol of white something or other unbeknownst to people. It has only recently revealed itself to us, so it has emerged.
I keep having the urge to submit an article on the simple mindedness of progressives, on the kinds of thinking they seem incapable of, on the kinds of distinctions they are unable to make. While I think it would be a very interesting article I dont think I am the one to write it. Someone else more qualified should tackle that. Their thinking all seems to be two-dimensional to me. IOW, they are morons.
You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
Obama embracing his white heritage:
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b0bc77fc47905362ecaaf43315e8551b.webp
4Chan should start the following rumors:
* Walking is an alt-right symbol
* Toilet paper is a white power symbol
If the OK sign actually means white power, I shudder to think what the shocker sign actually means.
Come to think of it, I don’t remember any black people in The Village.
Be seeing you!
LOVE IT! I was planning on binge watching that show tonight.
My God I hope this is satire.
You don’t like The Prisoner? Patrick McGoohan is hot AF.
Are black referees are going to change how they signal third down now?
Trans-Am Joe finds the libertarian position on occupational licensing? At an IBEW meeting?
See, it’s stuff like this that makes me buy into “he’s not a sex creep, he’s just a completely out of it moron” excuses about The Biden.
That, and my fervent desire I had since 2015 for Trump/Biden debates. GET YOUR HYPE, THE BOOMERBOWL IS BACK ON!
The article seems to be implying a correlation between the decline of unions and the rise of occupational licensing. Maybe ole Joe thinks this will help unions? Not seeing it, myself. But in any event you can bet the farm he’s not doing it out of any genuine principle.
GET YOUR HYPE, THE BOOMERBOWL IS BACK ON!
At the moment Biden is up over his Democratic rivals by +26 in the polls, so while it is not a sure thing it would not be unwise to invest in popcorn futures.
Anything we can do Europe does bigger. Including the measles. I wish the Lancet and the guy who fabricated the autism link would be sued into nothingness.
Wakefield? Part of the problem was that he was using an existing belief to bolster an unbundled version of the vaccine which he was pushing or something. The Lancet just gave the existing crazies and extra level of legitimacy.
Also I’m in the bracket that needs another MMR because LA is high on the list of places for the next big outbreak because of relatively low vaccination rate + high travel rates.
Yeah, I’m gonna ask my doc when I go next month. I am probably in the booster population, too.
You are. I think it’s born before 1986, but I’d have to check. I know I got the oral MMR, which had a lower efficacy rate anyway.
Well, I guess I’m happy to take that needle stick some asshat didn’t want their kid to get.
I was talking with a semi-anti-vax (more alternative schedule/fewer vaccines than outright anti) family member and she was shocked that I kept up to date on what was available and actively sought it out. She showed me the current list of children’s vaccinations to tell me how excessive it was and I looked and said “wait, they can vaccinate against X, gimme a minute I need to email my doctor.”
Right. How young can I be and not pay retail for Shingrix?
I asked my doc last week, since I turn 50 later this year. He said if my insurance will cover it, I should get it at 50, otherwise wait for 60.
The FDA has approved it for age 50, but the CDC still recommends 60, so some insurance won’t cover it at 50. But he expects the CDC to lower the age eventually.
I had to dicker with my doctor about the Hep A/B series. I work in a doctor’s office, am gay, travel internationally and am an indiscriminate eater of third world street food.
When I listed it off he was all “any one of those would’ve been sufficient. Lemme see what we have in stock and get you started today.”
Older guy I know recently went through shingles….on his eye. Cost him some vision in that eye. Yikes. I have eight years before I can get it covered.
My father-in-law had shingles and it paralyzed the side of his face, causing it to droop considerably. He had to wipe a goop of some sorts in his eye to keep it from drying out.
Having just watched my husband (who got it when he turned 59, though he’s older than I am) deal with shingles nerve damage still going on two years later, is definitely making me interested in getting it early. I got chicken pox quite late as an adult when I was traveling, so I’ve always worried it might be a more aggressive strain anyway. I definitely am not waiting until I’m 60, fuck that.
Wakefield is super-rich as he’s a hero in the anti-vaxx space, despite the fact that the UK yanked his medical license.
I’m also in that bracket. Going to ask my kid’s doctor about it next week when I take her in for her yearly checkup.
You give your doctor a yearly checkup ?
Kwel.
I am probably going to get one this weekend or next week.
Not a huge worry, I am outside the “must get one” range which is like 1963-67, but may need one.
My doc’s recommendation:
“You can either get tested to see if you have the antibodies and then get the shot if you need it or just get the shot. Its harmless if unnecessary and you dont have to get stuck twice that way.”
Yup, I had to redo my MMR when I started working at a healthcare company (even though I do not jwork in clinical settings). I still had my records, but they weren’t happy with the # of shots and the time frame. Instead of blindly sticking me, they drew blood and the test number was too low. So, I guess it’s all to the good.
A friend of our still hasn’t learned what you should and should not post on FB. He posted something out there about the “OK” sign and triggered a 100+ response argument. Mrs. TOK, who doesn’t follow this sort of thing too closely, asked if just one small group started using an existing symbol to promote racism, would that make all instances of the symbol racist? For example, if 10 racist guys started using a cross as their symbol, would that make all crosses racist symbols? Like it or not the answer is probably yes.
The Cross of St George (you know, the fucking flag of England) went through this transformation for a while in the UK.
The cross of St. George is not, itself, the UK flag. The UK flag is the Union Jack which is a combination of the flags of St. George (England), St. Andrew (Scotland) and St. Patrick (Ireland, which was part of the UK when the flag was adopted. No cross of St. David (suck it, Wales).
I did say Flag of England. It was identified with skinheads/white supremacists for a while. Cost a Labour lady her candidacy few years back because she didn’t realize tide of opinion is changing on it.
You know that’s coming.
Funnier if they claim that the star and crescent is a white power symbol.
Let’s watch Snopes and the ADL man up and accuse CAIR of being a white power group.
I mean, logically, no it wouldn’t.
But we’re in 2019, so yes of course.
However, in this case, I’m not really sure if there even are any real racists using the “ok” sign as their symbol. The whole thing was just a meme the entire time
That’s the dangerous part. All it takes is for one person to make up a story about racism, it goes viral on the Internet, the news reports it as if it’s the truth (if so many people are talking about it, it would HAVE to be true, right?), and then here we are.
Yeah good point, that’s basically what happened. I mean how could anyone doubt the information put out by our betters in the Ministry of Truth
Then I guess all y’all need to know that I just learned that the thumbs up sign is a male sexist hand signal. It represents a man’s erection for fuck’s sake!
I remember a chick in college tried to tell me that rockets are rocket shaped because they were designed by men to look like dicks. I asked, “So, it has nothing to do with aerodynamics, huh?” She said she’d look into it.
I read an actual, supposed scholarly article in college that posited this same idea for a women’s studies class.
Yeah, I took one such class. It was hilarious. Although the professor tried to keep an open mind in her weird way.
Obligatory
Sources familiar with the thinking of members of the White Power movement have informed me that the “peace sign” is actually racist. You see, it means V for Victory. As in victory over the jews and minorities.
Asian tourists hardest hit
I heard it is really a pro-rape sign: spread her legs and all
It’s the International Society of Transphobes recognition symbol — “there are only two genders!”
All the racists are on the left anyway.
Someone tell 4chan to start a campaign aimed at getting the donkey silhouette used by/associated with a white power group.
Or how about the hammer and sickle or Che image? This could be fun.
Hmm, would a GoFundMe to start fake white power groups that each adopt international symbols of socialism for their logos garner any funds?
It would from me.
Or how about the hammer and sickle or Che image?
That’s just silly – those aren’t secret racist symbols.
The Che image is a secret symbol of homophobia.
The hammer and sickle is a secret symbol of fat-shaming.
You’ll never get to join the club if you can’t keep your secret symbols straight.
They are working on the rainbow — “Each color is separate and beautiful, every race in it’s place!”
Oh, your comment to the powers that be to share your info didn’t get acted upon, so if you want to reduce the reliance on others, you can reach me at scribe at ev combine dot net.
sent
I assume news networks are now blurring images of the hand gesture because it will “normalize” white supremacy, people will fall under the spell of the talisman and white supremacy will sweep the land (to the extent it hasn’t already), or some similar bullshit.
They’d have to do something like set them on fire to get noticed.
Democratic
SlaverySocialism“Democratic socialism, to me, is about democratic control of every single facet of our life,” he said. “Government is led by the people, not by big corporations, not by multibillionaires, and working people actually have control over who we elect to be our politicians, over how elections work, and over how our government is structured. People have the power.”
Okere went on to say he believes socialism should guide a society’s entire course, not just its political structures:
Democratic socialism even extends to our relationships and how we treat each other. [It looks] at the world through a socialist-feminist lens, in how we treat people who are black, who are brown, who are femme, who are non-binary, who are gender-nonconforming, and who are working class.
To me, we’ll have achieved democratic socialism not when there is no conflict in the world, but when our societies are not governed based on power, but are governed based on the mutual understanding that everybody deserves a decent and quality life.
“One part of the Left wants to reform the existing society that we have now. They want to make changes that will make life easier, that will make life not so bad,” he said. “But there’s another side of the Left that wants to radically transform the way the world works — not simply say that we can make some changes here and there and that things will be alright.”
Full points for honesty. The goal of Socialism is to dominate and control all interactions between each and every human.
Fuck off, slaver.
Democratic socialism even extends to our relationships and how we treat each other. [It looks] at the world through a socialist-feminist lens, in how we treat people who are black, who are brown, who are femme, who are non-binary, who are gender-nonconforming, and who are working class.
I.e. all the things Marx denounced as the establishments way to fracture the working class and turn them against each other for the benefit of the employer.
These people are so worthless they wouldn’t even be sent to dig the White Sea canal.
It’s funny how it took less than a generation for the German socialists to flip on Marx and use that fragmentation to their benefit.
To be fair, there were socialists before, contemporaneous and after Marx who did not like his philosophy at all.
Marx was an anti-utopian socialist.
Seriously the Utopian socialists were nuts.
“based on the mutual understanding that everybody deserves a decent and quality life”
No. Now what?
And before that…
when our societies are not governed based on power
Government by vote is not power? I mean, the guy engages in all the logical fallacies in the book (like everyone I have known that thinks like him). It is the only way to hold such views.
They are very close to perfecting humanity. Just a few more tweaks and we’ll be there.
“democratic control of every single facet of our life”
That is just a truly terrifying sentence. How about no? and how about you fuck off, slaver
That’s fuck off, future councilperson to you.
He just means well. “Socialism” is nice and “democratic” makes it even nicer. You don’t hate nice, do you?
He means well you say? Well then it must be for my own good. Sign me up!
“[W]orking people actually have control over who we elect to be our politicians, over how elections work, and over how our government is structured.”
Bullshit. It never turns out that way.
Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
You’d hope people can see this as asking for the bad kind of communism (not the unicorn version people dream about) that we’ve seen so many times before.
So, the textbook definition of tyranny of the majority. Who do these dumb fuckers think they are fooling?
… unless you stupid hicks vote to keep men out of womens’ sports and boys out of the girls’ locker room, or to not force people to bake cakes for gay weddings, or to keep your AR-15’s with the thing that goes up. Those votes will need to be overruled by your betters, obviously.
everybody deserves a decent and quality life.
So this person is going to take their turn on the truck that sucks the shit out of port-o-potties in the very near future? All these utopians never think about who has to do the Charlie work.
“All these utopians never think about who has to do the Charlie work.”
WRONG. All of them think about it: The untermensch shall do all the dirty work.
Socialism sounds great to many until they realize they are the ones who are going to have to work harder and get less.
Trans-Am Joe
Someone please get this on Trump’s radar. I so want to see this in a tweet.
Its from an old Onion article, so I’m sure its out there in the public space.
Looks like he settled on SleepyCreepy Joe
“Looks to me like it’s going to be SleepyCreepy Joe over Crazy Bernie. Everyone else is fading fast!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1126839450330382346
I don’t want to set off a frenzy of frivolous commenting, but…
Sometime today or tomorrow, we’re going to hit a million comments.
Is it sad my first reaction was “yay, another database setup robustness check!”
Question was rhetorical, I’m aware of the answer, now I need a scotch.
What % are meaningful, deep and well intended?
110%
We go above and beyond here.
I analyze that in Morning Links tomorrow. Seriously.
Thanks.
We should have planned better for the first anniversary.
Science!
All of mine, for a start.
He said “meaningful, deep and well intended”, not grammar nazism.
‘ Ted
He said “meaningful, deep, and well intended”, not grammar Nazism
Oxford comma, yo.
Hateful.
I like Ted. But I’ve never made an “its/it’s” or “there/their” mistake in my life.
Are you sure thats the truth?
The non-native speaker privilege. Obviously, I make other mistakes. But not those.
No, you’re good. I was just using the opportunity to “accidentally” make an apostrophe “mistake”.
Will this play automatically when the comment hits?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFPwm0e_K98
It lookes like robc has comment number 1 million
Though apparently some were deleted, as comment 1 million occurs with less than a million comments in the history.
There have been a few deleted comments, but only a very few IIRC. Also not sure if any of those numbers get assigned without being used.
Well we’re only a few hundred off over one million, so that is rather small, and if the spam comments take their numbers with them when they’re removed, that would explain most of the difference.
Ah, I forgot about spam. I was wondering if numbers get assigned to draft comments.
I assume spam comments that get binned still get a number assigned.
So do we have a separate celebration of the one millionth non-deleted comment?
I’d say we just be happy that we lasted long enough to have a million comments. Suck it, TOS.
And just getting started. New names are popping on frequently so more are posting or changing their handles. The former, I believe.
^This. And the number and variety of articles is…amazing.
The Latter……..
Howdy 4×20!
It’s good to see new names, because, unfortunately, there are some old names that I haven’t see around for a while.
All those years and I only now realized that Fourscore’s name could be decoded that way. Thanks, Ciggy.
USA! USA! USA!
I demand a dancing 1,000,000 gif!
Have an audial commemoration.
I don’t have a gif, but this guy wrote a song for you.
Well, hooray for us. Seriously. We have survived and prospered beyond my wildest dreams.
And to think I almost didnt join because the previous diaspora had never hurt H&R, why would this one be different?
But it became quickly obvious this one was different.
And it was never about hurting TOS as a goal, but about refusing to support a site that had become increasingly hostile to our values.
I’m just here for the chicks.
That’s just Jesse in drag.
There’s a picture of me in a very large wedding dress *somewhere* but unless I’m planning on rolling out with the Sisters I can’t imagine me in drag.
This. If I wanted to give someone money to have them tell me how evil I am, I’d just go to church.
You could give it to me instead.
You suck, pay me.
My only true disappointment is no real honest anti-libertarians.
Fighting with you all is fun and all, but its not the same.
This is way better, arguing with fence posts is a losing battle.
How about we import “Open Borders Liberal-tarian” from TOS? He’s a bucket of laughs.
The trolls did keep us on our toes to a certain extent, but I don’t miss the dishonesty and repetition. And some of them, ie Mary Stack, didn’t even raise decent points.
White Indian had a point but a shallow one which he hadn’t thought through, and he refused to consider things like “who makes and distributes the smallpox vaccine?”
I was thinking more like Neu Mexican and elemenope.
Ha! I remember those two. I always thought the latter’s handle was clever.
I don’t even remember how I heard about this place on TOS, because I was only an occasional commenter over there. but I’m glad I did. Here’s to 10 million more!
Same: I forget who told me. I had loved TOS but only commented a little, then it suddenly went to shit and I finally realized: all the cool guys left.
This site is extremely impressive; congrats to all who built it and thanks for the giggles.
Tundra told me about this place. He was tired of being the dumbest commenter, hence his invite.
And everyone knows your wildest dreams are all wet ones.
Damnit. All my work has been for naught!
What did he win?
Official count is 999,641
Note, I phrased that as “Number 1 Million”.
If this doesn’t generate a reddit count up to 1,000,000 I will be very disappointed.
What does that even mean?
999,642
You saying I still have a chance?
How do you get the official count?
Number of records in The comments page
Which you hilariously SF’d.
Accident, but spectacular that way.
Is it top-secret?
He has dashboard access. I have no idea why we gave that to him, but it’s too late now.
I got it to keep submitting articles, that you guys publish for whatever reason.
At least no one reads them.
If I recall, it was one of his blackmail demands.
I, for one, will be celebrating with bourbon this evening. It’s what I do every evening…
Pull out the good stuff tonight, and drop some on the floor for JsubD and all the others who have died or didn’t come over.
We wuz robbedc!
OK, that one was actually kind of funny.
As far as comments go, that’s a fairly appropriate one to represent this site at number 1 million. It’s both informative and off-kilter while focusing on a topic of great importance to the commentariat. I was afraid the 1-millionth comment might be “L”.
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What’s robc’s prize? A heaping helping of Qties?
Speaking of prizes, you’ve probably all seen the Publishers Clearing House ad where they are seeking to award someone $25,000 a month for life? I saw their mailing and buried in it are the odds of winning: 6.2 billion to 1! [Actually, that’s better odds that some of the Dem candidates’ chances to beat Trump in 2020.]
Nothing because he didn’t win.
Many moons ago, the Florida Lotto hit, at the time, its largest jackpot. I was working for some fellows who were heavily into sports gambling. The online place they used had a 15 game parlay (any sport, just pick 15 winners in a week) that paid off at 23,000 to 1. We crunched the numbers and found the odds of winning the Lotto were the same as winning the 15 game parlay every week for 2 1/2 years. I’ll always default to my grandfather’s advice – “Gambling is just a tax levied upon those who bad at math”.
Dogfish and Sam Adams announce a merger.
I eagerly await the conspiracy theories of changing recipes.
Discussed last night and this morning.
Was I here for either? No.
I dont count? Harrumph!
I can’t keep up with all your avatars man. I barely figured out what the dudes name is one cubicle over.
You used the same excuse with me… and I’ve been freakishly consistant.
That’s it. I’m deleting comments!
it would mean that all of my buddies watching had to take a punch in the nuts for getting circled on TV
*flashes ‘OK’ gesture*
“Thoughts and prayers welcome as I prepare for a weekend alone with the kids. ”
“Thoughts and prayers” are not enough. Desperate times demand action.
It’s a sign of our healthy, mature republic that offering thoughts and prayers after a shooting is now verboten. And of course the local douchebag Congressman obligingly parroted the required talking point right after the school shooting the other day. I guess I admire their messaging discipline.
Anyhow, enjoy the day with the youngsters. Stowing away on a themed, kid-chaotic boat with a bunch of beer actually sounds quite fun, provided one is not prone to seasickness.
My next article, if it can be called that (it cant), is schedule for next Thursday at 7 PM. For the late night folk who want an open thread, you are welcome.
Sorry to go OT so soon, but:
Caught On Camera: Dealer Employee Learns How to Drive Stick Using Customer’s Focus RS
You went OT before his article even hit. Savage!
*executes elaborate and unnecessary goal celebration*
Tiger Williams…
“Get on that stick you wicked witch and ride it out!”
A classic.
Ben Shapiro finally made front page of BBC News.
Irritated Ben Shapiro ends BBC interview.
It’s 16:03 of video, which is about 15:33 more of Shapiro than I can listen to at a sitting, but I gather he owned that old lefty lib from London Times, Daily Mail and The Spectator, Andrew Neil.
I don’t know what exactly it is about his voice that grates on me.
Yea. The weird thing is he does a decent Obama impression and that is easier to listen to.
He is what my grandfather would call a ‘fast talker’, or at least he has the demeanor and mannerisms of one. That, and his voice is a little high pitched and staccato, his delivery a bit wooden.
A shame really, he is mostly spot-on in his reasoning.
A voice for print.
That’s why I prefer the written word. Now get off my lawn.
Yeah… I’m not going to cast aspersions on someone else’s voice…
*clicks link*
OMG, that is grating.
He could probably change that with voice coaching.
IK,R?
When someone makes my voice sound like a smooth Barry White baritone, they need to work in print.
But as Titor pointed out on discord, could be that Freedom Toons ruined it forever.
He is a fast talker and he is a fast thinker.
It all boils down to weather or not you trust one of those.
Due to the combination of Southern speach patterns an carpet naghong during reconstruction mine and your ancestors imbued us with an inherent distrust of those people.
Shapiro has won over.
Carpet bagging
Shapiro might start giving diet advice. He might even suggest that when eating breakfast, you make sure any sausage is free of pork and sugar.
The Times of London, if you need to disambiguate it.
The top link – you SF’d it.
FFF
Let’s try again.
Aha, works!
I guess there were no takes for 16 minutes of Full Benny, since Tonio was the first to notice…
Trans-Am Joe finds the libertarian position on occupational licensing?
He is the least-worst of the D field. A low bar, indeed, but he clears it.
I’d argue that Gabbard is the least worst. Anti-intervention, anti-War on Drugs, anti-asset forfeiture, anti-domestic spying.
Unfortunately, her economic ideas are cringeworthy.
In my defense, I often forget she’s in the race because the field is so crowded and no one else in her party seems to like her. So I should rather amend my statement to least-worst viable candidate.
no one else in her party seems to like her
That’s a clue that she might actually have some good ideas.
Indeed it is, but it also means she gets short shrift int he news media, and out of sight out of mind, as it were.
she gets short shrift int he news media
…By design.
Presumably there is only so much she could do to the economy as president. Those other things she could do something about.
So Gabbard and Rand Paul could fuck on stage during either a Dem or GOP debate and no one would notice?
I was just “discussing” the Cubs ban with someone on Facebook – he was attempting (Using a Medium article no less) to make the case that 4Chan was just enforcing an already established White Supremacy secret symbol.
It’s the greeting sign for the 100 year old Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. If people need any more evidenc that it’s a troll than that, there is no way you are going to convince them.
http://ninerfans.com/photo-gallery-49ers-colin-kaepernick-stays-loyal-to-roots-with-kappa-alpha-psi/
People are wilfully stupid.
He’s totally trying to hide his hard drive.
https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1126618321539993601
I love her.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7015719/Melania-meets-Microsoft-chairman-Brad-Smith-group-battles-Trump-child-separation-policy.html
Take THAT, Trump’s wife!
Legs for days
Is it just me or is DuckDuckGo broken?
In what way? It seems normal to me.
Less broken in Chrome than either Opera or Firefox.
Who uses chrome?
I only fired it up to see if duckduckgo was as screwed up there as in Opera and Firefox.
So what is it doing oddly for you lot?
It seems to be coming back to normal.
It was going to some sort of page that looked like it had no CSS, and not giving any results.
It’s not just you. I was just about to ask that here myself.
Let me help you out: Demi Rose and friends recline on the beach.
*golf clap*
Perfection. Well played.
perfect
great. Now I’m hungry.
It’s working now.
Yeah, my DuckDuckGo just broke in the middle of a series of web searches.
I had to actually use Google *shudders*. I haven’t done that in months.
Overheated probably. Sometimes the thermostat sticks closed
Haha. Packers fans.
Rashan Gary may need ‘redshirt’ year with Packers.
Did Just Sayin’ leave? I don’t think I’ve seen him ot his apologist face for a while.
Yeah, he and Gilmore have been scarce for a while
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7016469/Meet-Sports-Illustrated-Swimsuit-model-chosen-Christie-Brinkley.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7013595/Olivia-Culpo-shows-cleavage-plunging-orange-wrap-dress-S-Swimsuit-Kick-Party.html
Dang….from Baton Rouge, too, so she probably has an accent. Even hotter.
And is a financial planner. Libertarian dream girl.
Orange Man bad! Orange Woman spectacular!!
“A California principal and four teachers have been placed on administrative leave after an image circulated showing them smiling as they posed with a noose.
Linda Brandt, the principal of Summerwind Elementary School in Palmdale, reportedly shared a photograph of showed four teachers smiling as they posed with a rope tied into a noose.
After the photo leaked, another emerged of a noose hanging from a wall within the school.
While some suspect the photo may be have been a ‘back-to-school necklaces’ – an insider joke among educators that suggests they want to kill themselves just thinking about returning to their job after the school break – the picture has been slammed as insensitive or outright racist by others.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7015489/Principal-teachers-suspended-California-elementary-school-photo-posing-NOOSE.html
“an insider joke among educators that suggests they want to kill themselves just thinking about returning to their job after the school break ”
And yet they still complain and bitch about pay.
^This. Constantly.
Apparently Indiana passed some kind of additional licensing requirement for teachers this week. I only know this because every teacher on FB is posting about it incessantly.
…‘back-to-school necklaces’…
Lol. That there is some quality dark humor.
One of the study rooms at my kid’s school had a hanging stick figure drawn on the board with the title “just kill me now”.
Everyone laughed and nothing else happened.
Thats because your kid goes to the good school and not to St. Paul.
So I guess no one is allowed to play Hangman anymore?
Do First Shirts still say, “I’m gonna hang your ass” or have things changed since the Army became “All You Can Be”?
Thinking that a noose is an inherently racist symbol is just crazy. But then again if the OK sign is now considered racist, I guess it’s just par for the course in today’s world.
Guns make you kill people. Nooses make you lynch people. Commercials make you buy things. You can’t help it because you’re not enlightened!
The shrieks of ‘Racism!’ every time someone uses certain words of symbols far outside the context of racism is getting pretty damned tiresome. The only proper response is ‘Oh fuck off’, yet few have the stones to say it.
Fun fact with the okay/totes white power sign is that it means “take it in your ass” in Brazil. Not in a friendly sort of way, either.
El Grande Culo
I liked your last handle better.
Buckwheat hardest hit.
I’m still not sure which way is the “bad” way; holding your hand up and giving the “OK” or holding it below your waist for the “you looked” game. I mean, they have to pick one. It can’t be both.
The one where you try to justify physical violence against people is worse.
I mean, they have to pick one. It can’t be both.
Oh, ye of little faith. They most certainly can.
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glTOFPECNI
And still funny
Am I wrong for being sad that I’m worried that the Chicoms and Norks can over run South Korea (or at least the American bases) by attacking – not with tanks, planes and guns – with nothing more than flashing the OK symbol?
Well, one guy at a Cubs game used it to clog up the whole Internet.
The long knives on the Left are out for Rob O’Rourke now that that the Bootyman has usurped his position as the cool younger candidate who makes the white suburban gentry swoon.
It’s actually rather hilarious. Only 6 months ago the Dem media was blathering endlessly about how incredible this guy was, and now they suddenly all drop the act and admit what an empty mediocrity he actually is because he’s no longer of any use to them.
Womp, womp.
They could maybe try ranking the candidates based upon their policy proposals.
Yeah, that’s a silly idea. Sorry.
Their policy proposals are unpopular when thought through, or when carried out.
Beta is nothing more than the obligatory further left, clone of John Kerry. Trump is going to either win in a historic landslide in 2020, or the demtards are going to move slightly more old school centerwards and select the court jester, uncle Joe, in which case Trump will only win by a very similar margin in which he did against Hillary.
I think I would have to homeschool if I had young kids today.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/05/10/parents-sue-oregon-school-district-attempts-transgender-8-year-old/
“the kid’s guide to gender identity”
Wow.
And while these parents may be acceptably non-Neanderthal to the school, it is frustrating to the left that many of the people pushing back hardest against this indoctrination are black and latino parents.
It’s Woodburn. 80% chance that this family is Hispanic.
Think you would? If you are brave enough to have kids today in the USA, there is no think about sending them to public school. You either don’t have them in the first place, or you don’t. Period.
…or you could, you know, parent your kids and take an active role in their lives and find out what they are learning, and discuss it with them accordingly? I have three in a public school.
I did that: moved to a rich suburb. In Memphis tuition would have been $10k. In Texas, property taxes were $4k higher and deductible, so figure $2800 after taxes for essentially private school.
Open enrollment. I pay Phoenix property taxes and drive my kids to a school in Scottsdale. Older neighborhood, few kids and an average home value over 7 figures.
I have a ton of respect for folks who do that, but I personally don’t want to fight an institution built from the ground up to turn my kid into something very different from my beliefs/views/etc.
There are multiple ways to skin a cat, and the only universal wrong way to do it is to not give a shit about your kids’ education.
My mom gave a shit to the extent of getting me into the best public schools and then pretty much left the rest to me. Lucky for her sake that (1) I was down with that and (2) it was 3-4 decades ago.
“(1) I was down with that and (2) it was 3-4 decades ago.”
Well, this is huge, Rywun, and the reason you are here, hanging with the rest of us shitlords.
Were it my child that story would have a completely different headline.
Dad teaches kid now to snipe long distances?
Local School Board members have rough cut dowel rods shoved up their respective colons?
Alright, just finished the pulled pork that I started during the weekend. Not bad! Got it up to 165 on the grill, but ran out of time Monday night.
Today I put it in the oven until it hit 200 internal (i missed the biggest part of the roast somehow, so a small portion wasn’t fall apart tender)
It’s amazing how much can be accomplished with a dinky kettle grill, some lump charcoal, and some Applewood chips
This is very impressive. Exciting times. Elon has some real competition here.
Blue Origin Rocket Landing
That was lovely!
Yes it was, a thing of beauty!
As a guy who was brought up on images of space by the likes of Chesley Bonestell, SpaceX and Blue Origin’s land-able, re-usable rockets strike me as ever-so-cool. And the little kid in me is screaming “ABOUT TIME!”
That is so damn cool. What an exciting time to be alive!
“This was the fifth mission, launch and landing, for this New Shepard launch vehicle.”
The media has been fawning all over Elon and this is the first I am hearing about this crew? WTH?
I love this stuff, but Bezos’s penis rocket just seems wrong somehow. I mean… https://youtu.be/8mUemyE8bs4
Yeah, toxic masculinity, amirite? Let’s just put real technological progress on hold.
Dangit. https://youtu.be/8mUemyE8bs4?t=165
I found it hilarious that this obvious dick rocket was repeatedly referred to by the female commentator called it SHE as a normal ship is called.
I tend to forgive Elon’s many transgressions because of the ground he’s breaking with SpaceX.
Even when ignoring that huge credit applied to Elon’s account, I still hold Bezos in even lower regard than Musk.
If Bezos can really give Elon a run for his money on opening up the commercial viability of space and I have to start forgiving him for his many transgressions as well, I may have to start rethinking whether the cronyism these guys perpetuate is a net-evil.
In my book, opening up access to space is the single best thing you can do as it’s the only way that remains to create a new frontier and allow for the eventual escape from Earth’s tyrants. If the only way to make this happen is to cozy up to the tyrants of today, that’s gonna create some serious cognitive dissonance for me.
Hey Jesse if you’re still around, what’s your take on vaccination sequence schedules? I forgot to get my third HepB according to sequence and just got it after a couple years (I think it was 2.75 over). My minimal research (googling) is that the intervals are minimums to safely establish antibody resistance, not máximums between doses.
My minimal research (googling) is that the intervals are minimums to safely establish antibody resistance, not maximums between doses.
That’s my understanding (it actually came up with a coworker who was a few years out from her third shot appointment and we both dug in to the literature and agreed she should just go get the last shot in the series. My doctor confirmed it when I went in for my third shot and I was a few months late.
Thanks, appreciate it. Pharmacist (and her pharmacy student intern) was somewhat hesitant and suggested getting a titer in a bit and redoing the entire sequence if needed. My personal feeling is a titer wouldn’t be done if I did the sequence right on time so similar rolling the dice on whether it took if I skipped the titer.
I, of course, received the complete HBV series when I was working in fire/EMS. Last year, I had a titer done for the medical course I was considering, and I had zero antibodies. Zilch. Nada. Zippo.
I’m due for my third in the new series next week.
Wow.
Wait, really? The last I’d checked the hep b was one of the life-long-so-far ones.
Yes, that was SUPPOSED to be true. I had a follow-up titer (with a different lab) to make sure it wasn’t a lab error. Nope. No antibodies.
I was talking with a semi-anti-vax (more alternative schedule/fewer vaccines than outright anti)
That’s not really fair. It’s like saying someone without cancer who doesn’t want chemo is semi-anti-modern medicine. Vaccines are another medical tool, nothing more nothing less. Some people give the term this magical elevation like gun grabbers give firearms. In reality, each vaccine has its own risk/benefit ratio that should be reviewed. For example, the vaccine for Yellow Fever is available, but the vast majority of Americans do not see a benefit for it and choose not to get it.
MMR is a no brainer to give. My kids get DTaP the day they turn 60 days to protect from pertussis. It hardly makes me a semi-anti-vaxer because I delay my hours old newborn from getting jabbed with a Hep B vaccine that protects from a disease spread by sexual contact or intravenous drug use. The sky won’t fall if they get it in a couple months or couple years later. Hep B wasn’t on the older schedule because it was only recommended to be given to the babies of drug addicts. That changed in a recent vote that was in no way unanimous.
Doctors that vote on recommending new vaccines be added to the schedule can be paid consultants to the vaccine manufacturers. I’m not saying that’s the reason something absurd like Hep B was added as a mandatory for everyone, but it is something we would call crony capitalism for any other product.
I was perhaps not clear. She waffles along the line of being generally anti-vax (she explicitly attributes vague ailments to people in our family having been vaccinated, but dismisses the same ailments showing up in my younger siblings who were not vaccinated because my parents found anti-vax religion while I was in middle school), and thinking some vaccinations are important, but the kids should be on a delayed schedule.
I have no problem with the delayed schedule other than I don’t believe all parents who insist on it are going to follow up to make sure their kids get the sets of vaccines at a later date. If the doctor can give them safely and effectively before the child leaves the hospital they’re more likely to happen, full stop. It sounds like you have a track record of being diligent about that and I applaud you for being informed and active.
I’m sorry for coming off strong, Jesse. That’s unfortunate about your friend. Too many people unfortunately cite people like Jenna McCarthy, on both sides, instead of reading the primary literature directly.
No worries. I was unclear and it’s an issue that drives directly at how parents see themselves as caregivers, so it’ll illicit a lot of emotion regardless of one’s position.
Nice guy stops to help a lady work on her car, gets accused of rape, and then exonerated when she recants after camera footage disproves her narrative:
https://pressfrom.info/au/news/australia/-121378-good-samaritan-spends-two-weeks-in-a-maximum-security-prison-after-woman-whose-car-he-helped-fix-falsely-accused-him-of-indecent-assault.html
No good deed goes unpunished.
How the Hell did it manage to get to the point that they incarcerated the guy in a maximum security prison before anybody reviewed the copious video evidence?
That right there is demonstrable incompetence on the part of law enforcement/the justice system.
Likewise, if someone’s kid is lost and standing in the middle of a busy street, there’s no way in hell I’m rescuing it.
You should throw rocks at it until it leaves.
And fuck his wife for leaving him before the truth came out.
It’s getting to the point where I’m tempted to turn on the video recorder on my phone for all public interactions.
The punishment for falsely* accusing somebody of a crime should be doing the maximum punishment the person you accused could’ve gotten.
*knowingly falsely, not got off on a technicality or the cops built a case around the wrong guy “falsely”
The reporter didn’t ask why she did this. Way to miss the obvious question.
I realize a teenager doesn’t have a pot to piss in. I still hope he can find a lawyer who will represent him pro bono to sue her into the poor house. What she did is despicable.
She doesn’t have to have any money. All he needs is for her to have a future income stream that can be garnished, preferably at the rate of 50% before tax. For thirty years or so. Pour encourager les autres, doncha know.
Women and children must now be left to their own devices. Under no circumstances should adult males render aid to either unless you already know them personally. It’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.
It’s a dark world out there when your livelihood depends on adopting this default stance, but here we are. Surely its all Trump’s fault.
Dude lucked out with the divorce. If the wife was that ready and willing to believe that horseshit and toss him to the wolves, good riddance.
I was thinking the same thing. Unless there is more the divorce angle, the smartest thing he could do is get free of her.
This seems like a bunch of paranoid nonsense to me. But I’m curious if anybody here feels otherwise.
The Huelefant in the Parlor
I feel otherwise. The Chinese government has demonstrably engaged in widespread industrial espionage.
China’s theft of IP I don’ t know that 1 in 5 US companies has actually had their IP stolen by the Chinese but the perception is telling. You can’t name another country that even has a reputation for IP theft much less a large number of companies who say they are victims of it.
In addition, their legal regime requires foreign companies to transfer technology to Chinese “partner” companies. This is a big deal. I think Trump’s unfocused trade war with China is dumb and counterproductive. Had he focused on the theft and forced transfer of intellectual property I would applaud him.
I don’ t know that 1 in 5 US companies has actually had their IP stolen by the Chinese but the perception is telling.
It wouldn’t shock me. We’ve had it done to us many times over by many different methods. There is literally nothing you can do, even with a Chinese patent. It’s you versus a state owned company, with a state representative deciding the outcome. Now, if you want to go fight another US or EU competitor in China, you’ll get a fairer shake. However, China isnt a big enough market* for global companies to fight over.
*taking market share into account.
I’m sure there is plenty of IP theft and all that. But this whole “imperial juggernaut” thing seems overly paranoid, and reminds me a lot of the Japanese takeover scare of the 80’s.
For all we know, it could all be a house of cards like the CCCP was. Or not.
Wow, she looks great for 69.
https://twitter.com/AlienAnthology/status/1111251596950810626
She looks great for 49
#giggity
Aborted foreskin smoothies… It’s all the rage
Contrary to popular belief, there are a LOT of great looking women in their 60s today. These are not you grandma’s 60 year olds.
Christine Brinkley, Jane Seymour, Cheryl Ladd, etc.
I just love the headline.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/05/10/number-of-dems-whove-eaten-fried-chicken-during-a-congressional-hearing-1-number-of-dems-whove-read-the-less-redacted-mueller-report-0/
“And so it continues! TRY NOT TO CRINGE: Woke males pt. 2 https://youtu.be/vatOfb7XJcI #ProJared #malefeminists #WokeAF”
https://twitter.com/Barbara4u2/status/1126925332336898048
Can Dave Weigel be more of a complete hack?
If the next President isn’t a foreign-born undocumented transgender minority, it will be clear that America is a racist misogynist patriarchy.
I’m okay with that. Racist misgynist patriarchies have a higher success rate than wokeness.
Thanks for the cancer.
So, what have I missed?
All of it.
Fuck. That’s what I was afraid of.
No worries. It’ll all come around again tomorrow morning.
Our country is over. The Russians have won.
*passes bottle of vodka*
I assume Texas won and the vodka is Deep Eddy or Tito’s?
It was Tito’s, yes, but the Trumputin has replaced all the labels with the Russian Standard labels. It’s too late.
Who’s the Tulpa?
Trick question. Tulpa is legion.
Sounds like a question Tulpa would ask.
Hey, you’re back!
Yusef changed his handle.
That should be his next handle.
I like it.
Nice
Again muhuhhaahaha!!!!!!
Brett gave us Anthrax for the music link *devil horns emoji*
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4chan should make that the next white supremacist symbol.
Then it’s time for me to organize the next Charlottesville march. *Puts on Black Sabbath concert t-shirt, books flight to Virginia*
It’s a symbol of the patriarchy because it’s a disguised form of “the shocker”, which is a way that men exert their toxic masculinity in women.
I’m saddened there is no “shocker” emoji.
I did find this, though: ??
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???? + ?? = ?
I’m sorry, I don’t speak jive.
Closing in on a million non-spam comments, passed the comment what got the number 1 million.
Welcome back!
Your wife does great music lynx, we’re all still assholes and the site is closing in on 1,000,000 comments.
I think that covers it.
We’re within 25 comments now!
Where have you been ?
Ride em’ cowgirl.
https://thechive.com/2019/05/10/bed/
I’d like to be the dog in 45.
That may be your best listing ever in terms of quality per quantity. A solid 1 for me.
Oh that’s what a pinned post is. I thought the site died and was sad.
– Not very bright
That’s okay, Random. You’ll get over it. Or forget about it. But either way it’ll be okay again.
But you made it here, so you’re still open to learning and growth!
Is this another syphilis reference?
Just take your mercury and stop complaining that you want antibiotics. They’re not covered by the Domestic Extended Allotment for Treatment of Heath panel.
Nah, but we could probably make it an HPV reference.
Hey! Thanks for joining us!
Thanks for that introvert TED talk link the other day. Hit all the proper points, though I found it a bit to “victimy”
Plus are they really making kids sit in groups all the time now in school? I fucking hated that, and we only had to do that occasionally.
Glad you mostly enjoyed it. I’ve wanted to read her book, but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
As to the kids; I don’t know, but I sure as hell hope it’s not wide spread.
In 6th grade our desks were arranged in groups of 4. I was fine with it because one was my best friend and the other 2 were friends too. The teacher always had to tell us to be quiet. /counterproductive
You had 3 friends? You’re no libertarian sir.
Well, not when I was 12, I guess.
I just switched jobs/cities within my company and went from my own office to the dreaded open space cubicle thing. It’s killing me.
Start job searching.
I spent a day navigating to the latest article with the help of the right side button.
I’ve been reading Reason comments all week in lieu of this so I have about 8 brain cells left
I’m so sorry. On the plus side, I think that automatically registered you to run in the Democrat Party Presidential Primary.
It’s the John and Tony show over there!
… *shakes head*
Don’t go back, that ground is barren.
*shudder*
Take out bbq for dinner. Life is good.
Bourbon is now being served. ?
Crappy weather means grilled cheese and tomato soup, yum….
I’m out of bread. *shrug*
I’m out of soup. *shrug*
I’m out of tomatos. *shrug*
I’M OUT OF CHEESE!!! OMG, I NEED TO GET TO THE GROCERY STORE!
^This guy’s got his priorities straight.
*Benny Hill salute*
One Million Good Comments?
“Good” is so subjective.
Okay, Non-Spam Comments….
Except the approved spam like attempts at wriging “Learn to code” etc.
For your priorities
I figured as much, but depending on the calculation, that “One Million Good Comments?” was the one millionth undeleted comment.
Either that or “R”
A million comments WE BAD, WE BAD!!!!!!
We have both a lot to say, and very little to say.
Jokes and Philosophizing, an interesting combination.
Hey, I like your new handle.
I thought it was a good idea
Do I get the credit, or does UCS?
You
Nice! UCS will be so jealous!
HARPIES
https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/09/dear-wives-publicly-criticizing-husband-makes-look-horrible/
Given the STD conversation upthread, I misread that as “Herpies” at first.
Ha. A female friend of mine is telling anybody who will listen that she is going to break up with her boyfriend because he has a small dick. Good thing for the poor guy she’s not a writer.
…and that is why we have free speech; to warn us of the assholes.
Did we hit a million yet?
Seven or eight to go
How about now?
Well past one million.
Yay us!
Now we have.
Holy crap, almost twenty-five thousand of those comments are mine…
I spend too much time here.
Do me!
I can’t. I don’t have the rights to filter the data that way. I’m not one of the powers that be, just a contributer.
?
Pretty chatty for a curmudgeon!
It’s late, and I’m at work.
Oh wait, did you mean the agregate? I guess, but I don’t actually have to speak, just type.
*sigh*
You know I meant the aggregate.
Why are you still at work? “Go home” – Tracey Ullman
They don’t like us rebooting servers during the workday.
You work for the U.S. Fedgov, so it’s okay. No-one expects you to do anything else.
I work for the State of New York, not the Feds.
That’s worse. WORSE, I TELL YOU!