Hey guys, what’s up? Happy Friday. I have a growler of beer calling my name, so, mailing it in again.
Fucking hell, Florida Man. If a giant flag at an elementary school annoys you, maybe planning to stab as many children as possible isn’t the answer.
This Indiana guy is crazy. I love him. Because I don’t live in Indiana City.
I mean, if it isn’t dirty…
Religious groups training paramilitary forces. Churches hosting and sponsoring… kinetic defense… drills and training.
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‘I mean, if it isn’t dirty…’
Was I not supposed to do that?
“I mean, if it isn’t dirty…”
Colored underwear hides the skid marks better than tighty-whities
Bannana splits: yellow in front, brown in back.
How else are you supposed to know which way to put them on?
There’s a tag, it goes in the back. Otherwise, guys would only put their clothes on right 50% of the time.
Fake news. Mine have no tag.
There’s always a tag, or it’s printed on. You aren’t wearing some of those fag clothes are you?
They’re comfortable, goddamnit!
Even my “fashion” undies (*cough* slutwear *cough*) have some sort of label, whether tag or printed.
And there’s nothing worse than doing a photo shoot then discovering your tag was out. So now I clip them before first wearing.
a photo shoot
Wait, you do photo shoots in your underwear?
“Wait, you do photo shoots in your underwear?”
Yes. I am a Bear underwear and pinup model.
Which is why it surprised me that you asked in an earlier thread why adults still wear underwear. I know why I like my wife wearing them, it’s visually stimulating, and you get the added bonus of the equivalent of a little kid unwrapping a Christmas present.
“Religious groups training paramilitary forces.”
The answer to gun violence has never ever been more guns/ ignoring mountains of evidence otherwise.
Guess that ‘turn the other cheek’ thing is out the window.
Do unto others before they do unto you.
Guess that ‘turn the other cheek’ thing is out the window.
Not sure that was intended to apply to attempted murder.
Yeah, I’ve heard it explained as “don’t hold grudges against small slights” not “don’t defend yourself”.
Watch out. Last time I heard about a religious group arming up there was an unfortunate fire…
My buddy’s church has had armed ushers for quite some time.
I think it’s a great idea.
Bet the collection plates got a little fuller after that change in policy!
The church I often attend has a “safety team” of EMS people, CPR-trained people, and concealed carry. They’re congregants.
“Andrew Ivan Aman”
“obnoxious pride in America”
I am not sure if we are talking Islamic or looney tune Lefty here. In any case we see a common thread in the vast majority of these incidents: socially isolated, under 40, resentment and feelings of helplessness. And of course, mental illness. The tough nut to crack is that none of those flags are sufficient reason to even investigate much less detain anyone.
It is a culture problem.
Malcolm Gladwell’s theory still holds up
Except mass shootings aren’t really on the rise and neither is violence.
Most of the modern world is so much less violent than it was even a hundred years ago that most people don’t even comprehend it. If you put the average person in a time machine to,say, Victorian England, they would be horrified.
Interesting follow up on the kid (LaDue) that’s the primary subject of the Gladwell thingy.
http://www.startribune.com/john-ladue-works-to-build-a-life-in-a-city-where-he-planned-to-kill/411587345/
I hit reply too fast. Another factor is the constant demonization of the groups these guys come from and the efforts to marginalize them.
I’m betting he is a serious loony. I noticed he planned to use a kitchen knife.
I think he was planning on running a red flag up the school’s pole.
In close quarters, a knife can be deadlier than a gun. Crowded school hallways and a butcher knife? *shudders*
What are you talking about? He planned on a knife not a gun. We only care about gun violence.
“I am not sure if we are talking Islamic or looney tune Lefty here.”
Yes
Looking at URL I was legit convinced he was upset about a large Pride flag, but stabbing kids still seemed something of an overreaction.
I’m in favor of prevention, if prevention means leaving people alone, no longer demonizing people for their basic traits etc. I’m not in favor of denying people access to guns, subjecting them to involuntary mental health treatment, or in any other way denying them their basic rights without due process. And due process does not mean a freaking ex parte hearing. Forfeiture of, or even suspension of, rights can only happen following a conviction for a crime, with the presumption of innocence, right to confront accusers, access to counsel, 4th amendment protections and all the other process rights guaranteed by the Constitution and common law principles.
Prevention of crime is never going to be 100%, nor should it be! Freedom means some people will do bad things. Justice means you cannot punish those people until they do a bad thing. Sorry, life has risks.
“TMI: Nearly half of Americans don’t change underwear daily, new survey says”
That’s not even remotely what the survey results showed. Glibs is pushing fake news.
Sad!
This is gonna become the next nutsack shooting ass druggie story.
“nutsack shooting ass druggie”
……….Screen name?
RC Dean
How do they determine this? By asking them?
The survey was given by a clothing company. So, grain of salt.
Informal poll. Which means they didn’t call people at random but soliciting responses. Even that calling people at random thing is suspect.
“Yeah, one time when I was camping I didn’t change my underwear the last day because I’d runout”
“Mark this guy down as ‘never changes his underwear;’ Bob.”
Well, chances are if you went to sleep wearing underwear, you wake up the next day still wearing them. 2 days in a row.
Who sleeps in underwear past age 12? Sure, understand if it’s really cold, but still…
I’m usually too drunk to take them off.
That’s typically the reason I was wearing them when I went to bed, but they’ve mysteriously vanished by morning.
Those of us with young children who frequently burst in on us early in the morning.
+1 morning wood
Bingo!
+1 Hey dad, what is that?
chicks and drunk people?
Who sleeps in underwear past age 12?
*raises hand*
Best way to keep some rather temperature-sensitive bits from flopping out from under the covers.
I used to sleep in the buff until I was pet sitting and my parents’ cairn terrier tried to lick my privates. Undies went on after that.
Never mind that half empty jar of peanut butter on the nightstand.
*after 15 minutes*
No, stop.
It was MY DOG!
And not even a proper survey.
The secret is not wearing any.
^This. Keeps everything aired out. We should talk about kilts.
But there are certain times when you have to for social or practical reasons. /biker
Clearly American men need to return to just the jock strap.
“I’m out there, Jerry, and I’m lovin’ every minute of it!”
Obviously America needs single underwear payer.
/flicks elastic at GL.
What’s with Canadians and their pride in government tan underwear? You’d think the waiting lists for a new pair of briefs would open eyes.
*new means new to you
Nobody needs more than 2 pairs of underwear!
Who needs 31 flavors of underwear when children are starving?
Yeah, “Nearly half have gone 2 or more days without changing” does not match the headline.
apparently, even walking is all about race
just stop
Lefties are mostly that annoying kid from school that you suspected was hyperactive and a tiny bit MR who would be as obnoxious as possible to get a rise out of you and then run away laughing when he did.
They are never going to stop.
I remember as a kid, my Dad took us camping and all we did was piss and moan. In hindsight it was shitty because he wasn’t around that much (my Mom and him divorced in the early 90’s) and he wanted to share with us something he enjoyed as a young kid in Northern Mississippi.
where from ?
Greenwood, MS
And sex.
Bullshit.
This
Yeah. Everyone knows it’s the Irish they wouldn’t take.
Complete.
I think she’s just a drama queen, and she was born with a skin-deep ticket to drama-on-demand.
Did you say Skin Deep?
What a great movie, regardless of “feasibility”.
Most of my hike was saying, this is a black body, and it belongs everywhere.
DRINK!
Ummm… okay, what barriers? At no point does she elaborate, it’s just taken for granted.
And I got a laugh out of this, she’s looking for something to be outraged about:
LOL
I’m not going to pretend that I can speak for all black but I’m going to be for real tho…….black folks as a community aren’t big into hiking and camping. It’s generally referred to as, “Shit that white folks do.”
Exactly. But somehow that’s whitey’s fault for making black people not want to do it or something like that.
I remember swim quals at Parris Island. First day, Sgt Freeman, who was black, walked around yelling, “Black people – the water will not hurt you!”
When I was nineteen or so, my girlfriend and I stayed in a low end motel in Hot Springs. We bought some weed from a black guy there and under up smoking a couple joints with him. We got to bullshitting about this and that, and I was telling him about a pretty wild canoe trip I went on a few weeks before hand.
His main takeaway was,
“You white people are fucking crazy.”
There’s an entire website, iirc.
https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/full-list-of-stuff-white-people-like/
Sounds about right
That’s a pretty racist website. I wonder what the SPLC has to say.
“Yeah, we don’t do that. We’re glad to sleep in places with real walls, floors and roofs.”
We have to address how we can get white audiences to acknowledge there are barriers and why that matters.
It’s because you can’t swim, isn’t it?
Seriously though, the only thing keeping somebody from going to the local state park to hike is $5.
In the Cleveland area, the parks are free. And there’s access all through the city. I’ve seen plenty of black people hiking, jogging, fishing, cycling, and having cookouts in the parks.
So the many resources for “hikers” is inadequate in what way, exactly, for black hikers? What exactly are these particular requirements that are so obscure to us whiteys?
She talked about running into a hiker with a Make American Great Again hat. His trail name was MAGA. I don’t know what I would have done.
ZOMG!!1!!!1 I can’t even…..
Obviously the only answer would be to beat him with your hiking pole until he gave up on the patriarchy.
SOMEBODY DISAGREES WITH ME! I’M SOOOOO OPPRESSED!!!
” I don’t know what I would have done.”
Sucked it up, Cupcake? Because, srsly, part of the outdoors experience is self-reliance. Taking yourself away from docs-in-the-box and allegedly safe spaces. Guess what? That t-storm doesn’t care how woke you are, or how much grievance deference you are owed.
If you search on Google, the first result for “black hiker” is a pair of Timberland boots.
The suggested autofill is black hiker boots. So if you search that, sure, you’ll get boots (although the first result is not for Timberland, which is actually the last result on the first page).
But if you actually search for “black hiker” there are zip, zero, nada results for boots on the first page, and neither of the boots on the second page are Timberland. Hell, one of them is a woman’s boot.
So, more bullshit.
This is what I get, if you count the for sale part it’s hiker boots although not Timberline but that’s a nit pick.
So yeah, might not be bullshit it’s just not racism
Pretty anti-climactic
I don’t get the top row “Shop for X” when I type in black hiker. Weird.
Even if you count the top row “Shop For X”, claiming that’s the first result is well within the realm of obvious bullshit, especially when you are using to claim that the world hates black people who hike, or whatever bullshit she is peddling,
I don’t use ad blockers as that is akin to theft so that’s probably why i get the “Shop for” thing.
Google does give you links based on search history, maybe she spent a lot of time looking at Timberlands.
Yeah, RC, you don’t understand the Google. Your results are not the same as my results. Google has tools for SEO to see what other people might get in their results. It is entirely possible that a google search for “black hikers” would, indeed, result in black hiking boots. But not for this lady. Oh no. I’m pretty sure google has her pegged as a racial grievance monger, and that her search would have actually given her a POC hiker, but where’s the outrage in that?
She’s not just a prickly, thin-skinned, whiner, she’s also a liar.
Well, see, black people have strange hair, and it can be really difficult to keep from going crazy if not properly cared for. On the trail, you don’t have access to showers and product. So, black people who want to hike need completely different gear than white people. The tents won’t work for POC, nor will the sleeping bags. Matches won’t light fires for POC, and the backpacks refuse to cooperate, because most backpacks are, indeed, racist. Also, what color socks are POC supposed to wear when hiking in short pants?
I truly did not understand the dearth of resources for black hikers.
“Most of those people still look like Shaffer—they’re white men.”
They all look alike.
“Although there is zero data concerning the racial makeup of these hikers, we’re just going to assume that they are all white people.”
So Trump wants to buy Greenland.
Is this random shit, or part of some clever plot?
Like I said this morning, I don’t think it’s that far-fetched and he’s not even the first president to suggest it.
Right. It is a completely believable thing that the US would have an interest in owning that chunk of land.
The question is whether Trump is serious about this, or it’s just another troll on the media.
Ah, gotcha.
The WaPo story I read said he’s been asking his aides to look into it for weeks, but that they are doing nothing until they figure out if he’s serious or not.
Sounds like some aides needs to be fired, yet WaPo was framing it as Orangeman crazy.
Trump has a trip to Denmark coming up.
This could be Trump trying to buy Greenland for strategic US interests. Or this could be Trump pushing Denmark off balance as he chases something he is actually interested in.
Or it could be hat and hair put a bug in his ear one night.
It could also be a precursor for working on expanding our military footprint on Greenland, give what Russia and China are currently doing in the arctic.
I hope we buy it. Listen, no one ever goes there. It’s our chance to create libertopia. It’s all ours, the whole thing and it’s really big. And they say it will be ice free any time now.
I’m telling you, Libertopia is sitting there for the taking. Nearly unlimited space, and no money needed to buy it.
My balls say no.
Yes, that might even be too aggressive for me.
We already have Alaska. It’s like 1/3 the size of the continental US and basically no one lives there.
Yeah, but it’s cold and dark for most of the year.
So Glibs, I’m heading to Columbia MD tomorrow for a concert at the Meriweather Post. Anyone have some recommendations for drinks and dinner in the area.
I would recommend a well aged scotch to drink, and maybe a nice steak to eat.
That’s not a half bad thought, the population’s actually low enough to make the Free State Project work. Get 60K libertarians to move there and you’ve got a majority.
When I was in high school, I have a civics teacher that wanted to get a bunch of people to move to Alpine County, which is in the California Sierras. There were only 742 residents in the whole county. Made for a great civics lesson.
He just wants a new state and to have it renamed Trumpland. Probably not very serious but it’s not completely crazy either. It’s not like the US has never bought land before.
That’s just crazy talk. -Thos Jefferson
Tell me about it – William Seward
#metoo – James Gadsden
Aside from here I haven’t watched any news. Did he really suggest that, was he serious? Or is this just another ham-handed attempt by retards in the media to tar him?
Both Greenland and Denmark have felt the need to respond publicly (saying no). Forbes has an article explaining why the US wants Greenland. It seems to be somewhat serious.
Trump should pay them in Lego.
Three ships enter Copenhagen docks.
Danish PM: ‘What’s this?’
Trump: Payment for Greenland. Release ’em boys!
/Piles of Lego smother the port.
PM: This is an outrage!
Trump (wringing hands): Whatever pal. Where Greenland at?
I amuse myself.
Laugh away. We all know the real reason for acquiring Greenland is a strategic foundation for finally implementing War Plan Red. Remember when everyone was saying Trump hasn’t started a war? Well this is it boys.
I hope you can learn to speak ‘Murican after the Twink in the North is paraded before Trump4Eva in the victory parade in Ottawa.
He just wants those glaciers for all their….heady goodness.
I personally welcome the purchase.
WHAT HAVE THE DANES DONE FOR CANADA?
I saw the expected “Take that, Trump! say Greenlanders” article but didn’t read it. You know, because I had to clean out the cat boxes.
Well, then, you saw the same thing.
Apparently, the US tried to buy Greenland twice already. First around the time when Alaska was purchased. And then after WWII but Denmark refused the offer.
Also, that wouldn’t even be the first territory purchased by the U.S. from Denmark: the U.S. Virgin Islands used to belong to Denmark. Camille Pissarro was born on Saint Thomas. Some arts museums identify him as a Danish national.
Hmmm….need to find some clips of Trump talking real estate…
Hey, when global warming gets rid of the snow and ice cover, Trump’s decision to buy Trumpia is going to go down as an act of genius.
The article I read about it mentioned that China has been trying to set up bases there, so this may be part of some ploy to put pressure to shut that down. Or trolling, you never know with him.
Yikes. I would definitely want the US to nip that shit in the bud.
True story: there is no private ownership of land in Greenland. It is all controlled by 5 (?) communes. Of course, when the entire population is less than a million people, mostly living off fishing and grazing reindeer, fencing off land doesn’t really make much sense.
Incidentally, I once worked with a bitter divorcee who was from Iceland. He would eat canned herring for breakfast. Back then I was younger and always hung over. The smell of canned fish before noon should be a capital offense.
Jeebus Florida man. It’s a government school. Of course it’s going to have a government flag in front of it.
The latest drool-worthy auction at BAT!
I don’t know whether to applaud you or condemn you for that.
“powered by a 258ci straight-six mated to an optional four-speed manual gearbox”
I want to know how the manual gearbox is optional at this point.
When I was a little kid, and obsessed with cars, I legitimately thought Pacers were awesome. They looked so different!
I dated a girl in high school that had a Gremlin. She was cute, but a mutant. No eyelashes. Gave the best head I’ve ever had. Didn’t last though, she got knocked up by some other guy. Hunted me down on Myspace back in the early 20th century. Still cute, but crazy.
You were on MySpace circa 1901?
sooner or later, we all succumb to the dumb
Maybe the standard was 3?
This was the performance model, there were three-speed models both automatic and manual.
Party on, Garth!
^This.
Nice!
But this is gonna make Rufus cry.
Wood.
Schwing!!
I’ve always liked these cars. I had an 86 and an 87, both in blue.
But that one above is badass.
I forgot why arguing politics on FB is so pointless.
James: Do you see a role for government? Or are you an anarchist?
Me: I just see the state for what it is, not what I would like it be.
James: Not an answer.
Me: If there is any legitimate reason for a government to exist, then its sole responsibility should be to protect the rights of those in its charge.
How to get from what we have now to that, is anyone’s guess. In theory, it could happen, but I have never seen a single example of any government anywhere on earth at any time that does not prey on the people it is supposed to represent.
Anarchist? I dont know. A lot of the philosophy I have read and mostly agree with was written by AnCaps. I dont know if I go as far as they do. The distinction doesn’t really matter to me. Minarchism, AnCapism, and Libertarianism are all moot points when the current trajectory of the largest and most powerful state in human history is towards more expansion.
James: Drive on whatever side of the road you want. And blow through those oppressive red lights. That’s the jackbooted thugs trying to hold you down. And do you hold title to your car? Or your property? That’s just paper. If you want something, just take it, if you can. Rules are for fools. And don’t drink the city water. Fluoride is the government’s attempt to steal your precious bodily fluids. Oh, and don’t worry about that Kim Jung Un building nukes. Nukes don’t kill people; people kill people.
Me: that’s a pretty shallow understanding of what I believe.
At least he didn’t tell you to go to Somalia.
It always comes back to roadz with these people, one way or another.
And its impossible to explain to someone who has never thought deeply on the subject that just because the government currently is the owner of the roads, that is not the only way roads could possibly be built and maintained.
There is a ton of literature out there about private roads, but I sure as fuck can’t make anyone read it.
My takeaway:
James is an idiot with some kind of underlying issues that cause him to get angry when Big Daddy State is questioned.
James doesn’t want to think about it. It’s too hard and it might challenge his worldview which would make him admit he was wrong.
Somewhere in the middle there I would have just posted a link to Common Sense and then left it alone.
Answer my question so I can roll out my pre selected talking points I thought of in five min to disprove your argument.
^Winner.
And do you hold title to your car? Or your property? That’s just paper. If you want something, just take it, if you can.
He owned you so hard.
I love those.
“drive on whatever side of the road you want” — totally what would happen.
“blow through those oppressive stoplights” — you mean, like the people who already do that?
“do you hold title to your car?” — yes, but more importantly, I hold the car. No title for my TV set tho, bit worried.
“if you want something, just take it” — here’s an idea: why don’t you try that, and see how things work out for you.
“fluoride is the gov attempt to steal bod fluids” — yes, everyone who disagrees with you is effectively alex jones.
“kim jong un has nukes” — seems covered by the “to protect the rights of those in its charge” part.
“nukes don’t kill people, people kill people” — is this an argument for legalization of private nukes?
*looks at pitiful savings account* Man, I thought a new shotgun was too much, how the hell am I suppossed to afford a nuke?
So somehow I’m on the mailing list for a group called “Ban Assault Weapons Now”. I’m getting at least an e-mail a day from them today. Here, for your perusal, is today’s entry. They’re all pretty much the same, except the one last week that came from David Hogg.
And my job is to make sure that never changes.
Dear Jeff Foster,
Go fuck yourself, repeatedly, with a rusty cleaver. Sideways.
Cordially,
Greg
Florida can ban all they want, they’ll just come right over the border from Indiana.
I get emails from people that are just as ingenuous as the gun grabbers. Here’s one from yesterday.
I am 23 YO. I’m bored to death and I am looking for a master. Maybe you want
to order me to hide in my ass anything you want? I love to realize every of
your wishes! Your wild fantasies are making me wet! I hope to hear your dark
wishes. Write me: my Twitter is in profile. You can be harsh with me! I’d
like to share your madness!
http://w67w.info/bpracyf/
Are you trying to get us to tell you it’s not fake and you should write her?
Any answer gets your guns confiscated. Man’s crazy, wants to hide guns/ammo in my ass. Red Flag! Red Flag!
Her?
What fucking universe does this guy live in???
Only the strangest of the strange kids have ever looked forward to summer break being over.
Fall has always been my favorite season.
It was sad to see summer end as a kid, but fall meant new TV shows and seeing friends that I hadn’t seen all summer. And I actually liked a lot of the classes that I took.
I liked fall well enough. Deer season and all that, but a kid me would have accepted 12 months of oppressive southern heat in exchange for never having to go to school.
Summer was my favorite season. I had way too much fun in the summer so I didn’t look forward to school.
My daughter is one. Love that girl, but she marches to her own beat, that’s for sure.
She’s also nine so there’s plenty of time for that to change.
Liking public school? That’s not marching to her own beat.
I never thought of myself as strange, but okay.
Asian kids that didn’t go to summer school?
Big. Fat. Lie.
What happened there was the result of the cops ignoring serious crimes and letting a criminally insane lunatic run free to make it look like they had lowered crime there so they could get grant monies. I don’t see that problem mentioned anywhere in that. He just goes straight to disarming law abiding citizens. What a lying sack of shit.
Fuck you Jeff Foster. Scumbag.
constitutionally ban assault weapons once and for all.
Wut?!? You mean craft an amendment?
“My kids are scared. I’m scared. And after the two latest mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, America is scared.”
THE UNIVERSE IS SCARED.
“America is scared”
This seems to be the messaging this go around. We’re scared, government needs to do something.
Reminds me of this Pink Floyd song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX3uCuFKlqw
One of my favorites on the album.
My kids are scared. I’m scared. And after the two latest mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, America is scared.
When did we get to the point where people viewed fear as a legitimate argument? He’s offering no evidence his proposed ban would do a damned thing other than take away the rights of a lot of innocent people. Instead, he demands we prioritize his emotions over their liberty. And, to top it off, just a few paragraphs later he derides politicians who disagree with him as “cowardly”.
“Let me see if I understand. You want to essentially gut an amendment. An amendment that follows the first amendment protecting free speech? As such an amendment that was placed second because it asks for the eternal vigilance of a free citizenry? An amendment so cherished and so naked in its sober realistic assessment of human nature and its tendency to slide into tyranny, that amendment you want to change? You want to do this at the expense of curbing the rights of millions of responsible individuals and without thought at other external forces at play here? Because you’re…..scared? Is that what you’re saying?”
“Yup. It’s what I’m saying.”
Yeah, you think you are scared now? Wait until the citizenry is disarmed.
I’m not scared.
/Pulls handle on Rock Chucker
“My kids are scared.”
This is an extension of the suburban hysteric whining about how her kids, or dogs, were awakened by fireworks, a permitted event, whatever.
Also, I think he just appropriated the entire AP Government enrollment at the school as “his” kids.
and I teach AP government
Fire him on the spot. Today.
No reason a piece of shit like him should be anywhere near children and supposedly teaching a subject which he proudly demonstrates his ignorance of.
a gunman with a military-grade assault weapon
Not really, no.
Jeff is either ignorant, a liar, or, most likely, both.
Also, JB’s name is Andrew. You just doxxed yourself, bro; we know who you are now.
Trump should offer to buy Canada.
‘Canada. What’s the point?’
Or.
‘Canada. Who you kidding, Wllis?’
Consider yourself lucky we haven’t dusted off War Plan Red and taught you hosers a lesson.
Operation human shield.
Operation Get Behind the Darkies?
Wait, never mind.
Operation Bring Back The Stanley Cup?
http://imgur.com/a/sz2dsZC
I want to be in charge of the scruffy bike messengers of Montreal.
Slut.
Whore.
“Hey boss, why do we have to wear bike shorts that are two sizes too small?”
These chaps chafe!
Why doesn’t my bike have a seat?
“Why doesn’t my bike have a seat?”
Because he’s a trials biker. Those lads have bodies like cross-fit fans.
But they often transport illicit drugs such as Marihuana. Much delinquent.
You guys…
Dead or Canadian. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference.
Canada. We’re not America. Please don’t hate us.
It’s ok, it’s not your fault.
Also, who are you trying to convince: us or yourself?
My life in sex: the widow disappointed by online dating
I’m not fat, lady!
“The love of my life was Kevin, a hockey champion”
– Yes
“with gentle brown eyes”
-Also yes
“and the wholesome smell of coal tar soap.”
-???
“With little exception, what emerged was a balding, arthritic, corpulent army of ageing “Kevins”. ”
-Them’s fightin’ words.
Um, someone posted that in the comments section of the AM Lynx.
SHUT UP!
AND SOMEONE COMPARED ME TO HER! I will find you!
What!?!? I didn’t see that.
I know, right. I’ve never complained about how the men look, just their behavior.
Maybe the author is a genuinely virtuous woman. But, plenty of women have ulterior motives of their own when it comes to dating. It’s clear her standards for men (“balding, arthritic, corpulent”) is less perfectly noble.
How is sex an ‘ulterior’ motive for dating? It’s kind of an open and obvious motive. This is like saying “Many people have an ulterior motive for working. They are just in it to get paid.”
Noice
McLaren CEO pissing his pants.
https://bald.tires/2019/08/16/mclaren-ceo-wakes-up-in-cold-sweat-after-third-c8-corvette-nightmare-this-week/
That’s great!
Every modern (let’s say C4 on) Corvette owner I know of laments how often the car is in the shop. There’s no reason to believe this one will be any different.
The Mustang is more reliable?
Is…
From what I understand it is.
Maybe. It will never be a vette, though. My van, 96 Dodge 2500 with 5.9 ltr (361cc!) has a leaf spring sticking through the bed. And its unibody. Fixable, but not easily and… I dunno.
I’m considering buying an 2008 Audi A4.
Not the same cargo capacity, but I got a government gig now, and only need to transpo smaller tools, usually, for the side jobs.
Of course, I live in an apartment with no garage, so the van is also where I store my tools…
But man, I’m really tempted to buy the Audi.
I’m sorry, what were we talking about?
Danny Masterson and Church of Scientology Sued Over Sex Assault ‘Cover-Up’
It’s not easy going toe-to-toe with Scientology’s law team.
Church of Scientology: ‘Leah Remini has blood on her hands’
I’m surprised she’s not in a body bag by now.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/9726971/wedding-shamers-slam-couple-who-tied-the-knot-wearing-swimwear-and-had-a-penis-on-their-cake/
Tacky AF. But their choice. I hope they had the good grace to let everyone know that it was an adult-themed wedding, for adults.
The ring bearer is going to have a lot of questions if they didn’t.
We’re working to bypass our cowardly politicians, give the people a voice at the ballot box and finally pass a constitutional ban on these military-grade assault weapons in Florida. Because we can’t bring our kids up in a world in which they go back to school wondering whether today is the day they’ll be caught in the crossfire of a mass shooting.
That “representative democracy” stuff was all well and good in the dark ages of the 20th century, but the mob grows restless.
DO SOMETHING
So what’s the over/under on the time till a GE bankruptcy?
6 weeks
National Labor Relations Board to Investigate Barstool Sports Founder’s Tweets
His response? Go fuck yourself.
He’s got some big balls, I’ll give him that.
The NLRB doesn’t play nice.
This guy is awesome.
Hopefully more and more will do the same.
We’re in dire need of a hard ‘go fuck yourself’.
I hope he survives this but to paraphrase Uncle Milt, “Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.”
Tell me about it. I’ve had to deal with my fair share over the years.
Nothing worse than being nice to an asshole bureaucrat because they hold waaayyyyy too much power.
True story: The city of Montreal charged my mother a 20k welcome tax on a building my parents owned since the 80s and as such had paid it already. They alleged because we rolled our properties into an estate freeze it’s like buying a building. Of course, that’s erroneous (and stupid) but there you go. So we had to pay the 20k, and then pay our lawyer $1500 to fix it. Why the lawyer? Because we realized the bureaucrat had gone rogue and was refusing to budge. A real piece of work. So it had to go to the lawyer. The city lawyer agreed with us and it was an error and ordered the reimbursement. Know what the b’crat did? Sent us a check for $1500 just to send some sort of message.
Our lawyer put his Scipio hat on and went straight for the jugular. The balance came the following week. We may sue for the lawyer fees.
Imagine how many people without means or muscle they trample on?
I think I told you guys a story of a former acquaintance who was a bureaucrat for the Illinois Department of Revenue and how he seemed to take joy in people calling him and begging him to not put liens on their homes or property. Some government bureaucrats I’ve dealt with were some of the nicest people who wanted to serve the public but a lot of them are just there to coast and throw their weight around because they know that the taxpayer i.e customer has no other options.
That’s infuriating. I’m glad your lawyer went after, but there’s no salvation from petty tyrants.
So what’s the over/under on the time till a GE bankruptcy?
What now? I saw something about a whistleblower.
It was a financial Rain Man working for a hedge fund shorting the stock.
I’m eager to see if he’s right. Should be interesting.
He was right about Bernie Madoff 10 years before he got caught.
Deadspin Editor Quits, Rails Against Bosses: ‘I’ve Been Repeatedly Lied To and Gaslit’
For those of you sadly busy with your lives, you may have forgotten that Megan Greenwell, once, without irony, bragged about living in the section of Williamsburg that contained Puerto Ricans.
Which inspired Dave Portnoy to go to Brooklyn to find out if that was racist.
Yeah, that happened.
Fucking Trump. Ruining everything.
God forbid they just focus on what they sell themselves as covering.
No different from lefties taking over organizations and skin-suiting them.
These guys really don’t get it. Univision sold the company to its current private equity owners at a loss. The existing way of doing business simply didn’t work Thinking you can call the shots after failure is a very special sort of arrogance.
She’s in the union, so she can safely criticize her boss, right?
They really don’t like it when they lose one of their podiums.
So Glibs, I’m heading to Columbia MD tomorrow for a concert at the Meriweather Post. Anyone have some recommendations for drinks and dinner in the area.
Chipolte.
What is this Chipotle you speak of. Do they have whiskey and hamburgers?
No, he means Chipolte. It’s a Mexican fast food place owned by Nick Nolte
Bring your own whiskey.
Pub Dog, The Ale House Columbia, Honey Pig (although I think it has multiple locations now). I have never been there, but my friends like Victoria Gastro Pub.
Seeing Smashing Pumpkins?
Royal Taj if you like Indian.
Thanks CPA.
Pretty good if you want to stay suburban.
Maryland natives wear bones in their noses, and drive badly. /NoVa Brat
Columbia is a giant suburb.
Yup Also one Noel Gallagher.
Jeffrey Epstein Autopsy Results Show He Hanged Himself in Suicide
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-autopsy-results.html
lol sure
Still doesn’t leave out the Pentangeli theory.
Of course.
Of course it did.
Guards didn’t make the rounds, cellmate removed, taken off suicide watch when no one else would have been, cameras malfunctioned, no suicides in the facility in 40 years, and the guy had dirt on many incredibly powerful and wealthy people. I wonder why people are cooking up conspiracy theories?
Because they put on the glasses?
OBEY
What is the theory? He was murdered, but the same cameras that caught the guards in their lie about making rounds didn’t catch the assassin that the Clintons sent? Nobody’s grassed on the DOJ hit squad that Barr ordered?
It just seems less likely than that a dude facing spending the rest of his life in prison for heinous crimes hangs himself.
They knew he’d off themself and they facilitated that occurring by taking him off suicide watch and removing his cellmate. No hit squad or assassin necessary.
off himself
I am shocked, shocked do you hear, that someone on this site would even raise that.
Quick question, is this being reported in a reputable news source, or is it merely in the we’re-slightly-less-inaccurate-than-the-weekly-world-news NY Times?
There are literally dozens of people who had dirt on/were going to testify against the Clintons that died under very questionable circumstances. The problem is that the details are murky on all of them. The fact that there are so many cant be coincidence. Consider: As soon as Epstien was arrested everyone joked about his impending ‘suicide’.
We are never going to find out if any of that is true about Epstein and my guess is no one will ever find out what happened on pedo island.
Time rule As in, wait at least 24 hours (more if event occurs outside of weekday news cycle hours).
Women Who Don’t Believe Israel Has Right To Exist Not Sure Why They Got Banned From Israel
Totally not covered in AM Lynx.
I’m providing a valuable service for those not able to participate in the morning.
THANK YOU.
Agreed. By the time I get to the morning links there are over 500 comments.
There’s just too many talkative and helpful people here.
Disney Is Finally Taking On Account Sharers
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everyone had to know that was coming. Disney is the most aggressive copyright pursuer out there.
Even the street DVD vendors in Shanghai are scared of them.
Good Luck with that.
How is sharing a username and password pirating?
I have an acquaintance who is a cord cutter (doesn’t watch a lot of TV he says) but then “borrows” his parents log-in for everything he watches. I’m okay with him being shut down.
How is it even possible? They don’t or choose not to notice that devices from completely different IPs are logged into the same service?
You’re supposed to be able to watch the service from anywhere; hotel, friend’s house, the cabin, dentist’s office…locking it to an IP would be kind of defeating the purpose of it.
^This.
But I’m torn between applauding people taking full advantage of the accounts for which they have paid vs condemning the freeloaders.
No, but they can lock it to a number of simultaneous streams. Some of the streaming providers do that, and you can pay more to get additional streams.
It seems like the cell phone contract should have been the no-brainer model to start with.
How is sharing a username and password pirating?
I dunno about pirating, but its definitely a violation of your agreement with them.
Its like giving the cleaning service a key to your house. You don’t think you’d be pissed if they made a bunch of copies and gave them to all their friends?
So instead of punishing pirating companies they are going to punish their customer base.
Pride comes before a fall.
Stopping people from gaming the system equals punishing customers?
Yes. The only way to do that is to allow only one computer id to log on (what? I have to have a dedicated computer? I cant log on at my friends house and watch together?) or allow only one computer to log on at a time. It is going to create inconvenience and people are going to drop their accounts.
Disney thinks they are a permanent fixture. Sears and Roebuck agree.
Yeah. Steam used to do exactly that – and with the exact results you would expect. They don’t do it any more.
Netflix did (maybe still does) have a tier that allows only one device at a time. So everyone not on that tier is expressly paying to let other people watch at the same time.
Meh, you pay for/agree to one screen at a time that’s what you get. I believe most steamers offer different tiers of subscription. If you want to be able to watch six different shows on six different computers there is probably a rate for that. Sure they have to weigh customer sanctification against these policies but they also can’t give away their product just because it might inconvenience those who would rather not pay for it.
It’s interesting to see what comes. The streaming wars are about to kick off as the major players move in. Disney releases Disney+ in November at half the price of Netflix. We’ll be replacing our Netflix subscription with this. HBO is following with HBOMax, which offers HBO, Warner Bros, and Turner content for the same current price as HBO alone. AT&T is following in 2020 or 2021, but I don’t know the details of their service.
Netflix is going to be up against the wall as their most watched content is pulled. They have some good original programming, but it’s not going to compete on that alone at double the price of the major studios. We’ll see what happens.
I should add that cable subscriptions are currently in freefall. This includes cable and satellite, even after accounting for switches to the lighter streaming versions. Cable execs are finally starting to freak out.
Maybe they wouldn’t be if they didn’t do things like tack several dollars onto everyone’s bill for a “regional sports fee.” Here, they want me to pay for the Lakers, the Kings, the Angels, the Ducks, and the Clippers, whether I watch any of them or not.
ESPN is the elephant in that room. It’s the most expensive channel by far and almost every cable subscription has it.
Note that the Disney/Hulu streaming service ($12/month) includes ESPN+ as well.
Will they finally get cable guys who will fix the cable?
All I know is I can’t wait to get a decent competitor to Spectrum internet so I can drop them. I won’t drop just the TV package because I know, as a long-time customer, they will absolutely rape me if I attempt that.
5G may be a viable alternative.
I recently dropped the cable TV completely (now get only internet from a cable company) and signed up for Fubo.tv. It should cost less than what I paid before.
I was looking at them. 50 bucks a month for their most basic plan seems a tad pricey IMHO.
There needs to be more aggressive a la carte’ing.
It’s more like a replacement of the full TV package that I had before. I can watch La Liga, the EPL, the Bruins (on NESN and NBCSN) and so on. ABC and ESPN are missing but that’s about it.
I pay 5 bucks a month for ESPN+. Totally worth it.
But you’re probably right that I would save money with Fubo plus some other internet plan. If not as much as I had hoped.
Well, they did do *something* about people exploiting the handicapped by allowing them to sell their cut-in-line privileges.
Jeffrey Epstein Autopsy Results Show He Hanged Himself in Suicide
Well, duh.
He was strangled. Obviously.
That explains the broken neck, I’m sure.
A good, ie quick and relatively humane, hanging does involve a good drop so it severs your spinal cord at the neck on your initial fall.
Where the hell did he secure the sheet (or whatever)? I thought there was nothing in the cell that could be used for that?
“He, um, wove it out of cobwebs. Whatever, man. They said suicide or else, so it’s suicide.”
He was in a cell with a roommate (til his roommate was mysteriously removed (Duh-du-duhhh!)) thus based on every prison movie I’ve seen not involving lesbian, there is a bunk bed, sure no ‘drop’ but tied tight enough to the top most bed rail after he gives up the ghost 90% of his weight will be on that thin bit of sheet around his neck for hours, broken/crushed 66 year old bones seem plausible.
There are no rails on prison beds.
Unless the upper bunk is attached to the wall, and not to the lower bunk, it would be easy to tie off on a corner, with the upright keeping the sheet from sliding down.
I have been in a few jail cells. There is no way to do a hanging “the correct way” in one.
I dont give a fuck what the corporate media or the STATE medical examiner has to say about this dude’s death. Until video of him killing himself is provided, I am going to believe he was murdered.
The video would be fake, and you know it.
Trump is FDR
“Roosevelt used his fireside chats to unite the nation.”
That and throwing the Japanese into camps.
Netflix Orders Elvis Animated Action Comedy Series ‘Agent King’ (EXCLUSIVE)
I’ll just watch Elvis in Hawaii instead.
Yeah, I think they don’t understand. Elvis’ appeal was the bikini action movies, risqué music and gyrating hips. It was all about sex. Somehow I don’t think an animated jet pack is gonna cut it.
At least Priscilla hasn’t jumped on the #metoo train.
Hasn’t she? I thought she had talked about how she didn’t get to be a teen
Don’t forget Fredo-Americans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Italian_Americans
Dude, that’s like the n word.
/Homer scream.
Yeah, that’s bullshit. FDR created the fireside chat to try to steer public support towards his programs and put pressure on Congress.
Oh yeah, when he demonized business owners who resisted his attempt to replicate Mussolini’s ‘successes’ here at home, it was in a totally non-toxic way. 🙄
Sure FDR wasn’t engaging in self-serving behavior.
Yeah, well, fireside chats aside, anybody that smokes cigarettes with that little stick thingy like FDR did is a frigging douchebag.
*Hunter S. Thompson flies into a drug fueled rage*
One of the sure-fire ways to get my easy-going American grandfather ranting was to ask him about FDR. I think it killed him to see his kids lionizing a man who basically mired the entire country in nearly a decade and a half of stagnation and poverty. Part of it was watching his father die of heartbreak after a series of misfortunes and missteps bankrupted his father, and thanks to FDR’s agricultural quotas, price & wage controls, my great-grandpa was unable to make the changes needed to get his farm back in the black.
Part of it was also listening to his kids lionize the man, courtesy of the brainwashing they received in school.
And the sad thing is public school indoctrination is more ‘truth’ than family facts and reality.
Education is pure power. And the left has control of it. The only way out of this nightmare is to wrestle it out of their hands.
Would we be comfortable if Walmart ran the schools, and each day our children pledged allegiance to Walmart. On the wall there were photos of past Walmart CEOs and our children learned about what great men they were and were taught mythologies about them. (The first Wal-Mart CEO never told a lie) Wouldn’t this be a little creepy?
YEH BUT THE LOW PRICES!
I’d be more comfortable with what you describe than what we now have.
In a finding that did not surprise the company, Tommy John said men were 2.5 times as likely as women to wear unwashed undies for a week or more. That’s 20% of men versus 8% of women.
Strange. The used men’s underwear market probably isn’t as big as the used women’s underwear market.
The simulated gunfight at the church in Haslet was part of a niche industry that trains civilians to protect their churches using the techniques and equipment of law enforcement.
ARRRGHHH!!! COPS ARE CIVILIANS TOO!
World Wide Stout.
Also, I won some ammo on GunBroker.
Jesus Christ, DEG! 18%?!?
By the way, did you watch this one?
No, I didn’t watch that one. I haven’t been paying attention to Bring a Trailer. In addition to GunBroker, Amoskeag just posted their upcoming auction catalog and Rock Island has an auction in September that I’m watching. I know, I should switch gears.
It’s a good one, but it’s a sipper. I’ve got some sitting in the cellar, including the oak barrel vanilla aged variant.
It’s a sipper. In fact, I’m still sipping it.
One of my friends had scored a bottle of 120 minute IPA back before it was available in Ohio. He had some friends over (their beer of choice was Bud Lite). One of the friends grabbed the 120 minute without looking and damn near made it through half the bottle before the flavor caught up to him. At least he didn’t spit the beer out, but he bitched about how foul it was.
Wow.
I had some 120 Minute IPA at the Dogfish Head brewery last June. I sipped that.
Do-something-ism, Beta style
Beto O’Rourke called Friday for gun licensing and a mandatory buyback program for assault weapons, expanding on a controversial gun control platform he advanced in his return to the presidential campaign the previous day.
Part of a proposal to address gun violence and white nationalism, O’Rourke said that, if enacted, anyone who failed to forfeit a banned assault weapon would be fined.
The mandatory buyback proposal goes further than most Democrats in the 2020 presidential field, though Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has suggested she supports such a program.
In addition to banning assault weapons and requiring their forfeiture, O’Rourke said he would work to implement a voluntary buyback program for handguns. He proposed increasing the excise tax on gun manufacturers and fines on gun traffickers to fund buybacks.
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“The terrorist attack on El Paso, fueled by the racist rhetoric of Donald Trump, was not only an attack on America, but an attack on the aspirational ideals of this nation,” O’Rourke said in a prepared statement. “Congress’ failure to act has resulted in a democracy that is unwilling to confront an epidemic of gun violence. It’s time for those in positions of public trust to stand up, tell the truth and offer bold solutions without fear of political ramifications so we can finally start making progress and saving lives.”
Wave that magic wand, dude.
Beta, you’re barely pulling a single digit, if that. (Too laze to check.) You’re a tiny turd in a clogged toilet bowl. Better candidates with more credible standing have beaten you to every position you’ve tried to wedge yourself into. Pack up your Latina routine and go home, gringo.
He won two elections.
He lost to the least likeable man in politics not named de Blasio.
Cruz? he woulda had Trumps job if there hadn’t been thirty other candidates diluting the never Trump vote.
In a deep blue Congressional district. Proves that he is as viable a national candidate as Maxine Waters.
and fines on gun traffickers
He is going to fine the Obama administration?
He is going to use the money from gun sales to buy back guns. That is literally as stupid as homer’s plan of buying bacon and selling grease.
Are you implying my plan to get rich by drinking beer just to sell the aluminum cans isn’t a sound business plan!!??
That plan is actually better, because at least you get the enjoyment of the beer and recoup some cost.
homer’s plan of buying bacon and selling grease.
Not seeing the problem with a plan that involves lots of bacon with some cost recoupment on the back end.
The problem is Homer’s only income is from selling the bacon grease.
Rolling gun control up with imaginary white nationalism (deplorables!) and sprinkling threats on top seems like a smart strategy move.
I really don’t understand the appeal of that guy, other than the fact that he isn’t Ted Cruz.
He does look like a chromosome deficient Kennedy so he’s got that going for him.
I was at a dinner party last night where one woman in her sixties stated flat out that she makes her political decisions based on her emotions which come from the way a candidate looks and present themselves rather than on policy or fact.
Turn off the sound the next time the guy is speaking so you don’t hear the unadulterated bullshit and watch how earnest he looks. I am endlessly amazed at how many morons are out there. They say they hate lying politicians yet they fall for it. every time.
Oh, and when I asked her why Trump was so evil she said “I don’t want to talk about it anymore”
That’s just human nature. Also works for preachers, con artists, and salespeople.
Hairless monkeys.
a democracy that is unwilling to confront an epidemic of gun violence. It’s time for those in positions of public trust to stand up, tell the truth and offer bold solutions without fear of political ramifications
Is this from Beta’s forthcoming book Mi Lucha?
I thought it was going to be titled ‘What happened?’
Those political ramifications you mention will happen because the people you represent in your democracy dont want your bold solutions, you anti-democratic asshat.
*Opera Applause*
Epstein’s jailers.
https://nypost.com/2019/08/16/ai-trained-to-detect-hate-speech-online-found-to-be-biased-against-black-people/
“They need to fix this racist AI, because it will not let me post the same racist thing that my racist friends are allowed to post.”
Great googly moogly what a pile of horseshit.
Wait…so the AI knew she was black because of her facebook photo which means AI looks at photos and skin color is in the algorithm as a factor in determining content of character?
*facepalm*
It probably does. There was a whole scandal about Google and Facebook identifying gorillas as black people. In which case, this seems like a legitimate complaint to me.
Shouldn’t we be marveling that an AI spontaneously developed a sense of humor?
If I were black, I would not have found it funny. They should not have released it.
Wouldn’t this mean the system was working as advertised? I fail to see how this is “bias against black people”.
Eddie Murphy as Rudy Ray Moore as Dolemite.
Ill watch that.
https://5newsonline.com/2019/08/16/south-carolina-man-sues-walmart-after-gas-can-explosion/
Couple of things here.
1. Dont ever use gasoline as an accelerant to light fires with. If you burn the shit out of yourself, that is entirely foreseeable and nobody owes you any money for own stupidity.
2. Fuck the federal government for making gas cans unusable without modifications.
But Grubbs had no way of knowing he could get hurt pouring gasoline on an already burning fire. Fuck that guy.
Kerosene, people! Use kerosene and an old tire to get your bonfires going, it’s like they don’t teach basic survival skills anymore.
It’s like you don’t even care about Mother Gaia
Winnie Mandela approves.
Keeps me warm.
“Don’t ever use gasoline as an accelerant.”
You could have stopped right there. Using gas as an accelerant guarantees burn scars.
This dude is just looking to win the lottery. He is the only one responsible for what happened. Let me guess…he tried to use the can to pour more gas on the fire, the fire ran up the stream and in alarm he drew the can back and upright draining the spout back into the can.
My favorite dummies are the ones who pour a bunch of gas on the pile before lighting it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f4lPzxSm5A
Best line is when dummy no.2 says “Oh, he will be alright!”
My brother & his friends used to go out camping and 4-wheeling in the country. Some amount of beer being involved, they somehow managed, one night, to get a little tongue of flame going on the nozzle of the gas can. As my brother and one guy were trying to figure how to put it out, the third up and hops on his 4-wheeler .. and proceeds to drive over the can. Your guess is as good as any, what he was thinking. Guess it wasn’t pretty, but the guy — and I think, both of his brain cells — survived.
This guy I know once used a little sprinkle of black powder as a fire starter. He ended up in blackface and losing his eyebrows. It did work…reportedly.
Couple of high school buddies used to feed black powder, grain-by-grain, into spent CO2 cartridges, and blast little craters in the football field.
My partner here at work was dumb enough to pour some gas on a fire a few months ago. It didnt end well.
http://imgur.com/a/p5nqoDp
I blame Exxon. Someone should sue for making it so flammable.
Relevant
Yikes
Now that is a pretty nasty burn. Very painful and difficult to heal. He is gonna be a while with that. That might even require a graft.
There’s a couple black widows took up residence around the front door and it’s starting to look like a Halloween display two months early.
But OTOH they’ve caught so many dead insects…
I mean they weren’t dead when they were caught, I’m guessing.
I like spiders. Most of em. Black widows and brown recluse are on the ‘kill on sight’ list.
I tend to kill more spiders, mostly because the fuckers spin their webs right across the walking trails. The dog can walk under the webs, but they’re at human head hight. I even had one that kept re-spinning its web across the outside stairs leading down to the garage door.
That’s the worst part of walking the dog in the morning. The spiders will spin webs between a parked car and a street sign.
When I am in the woods I carry a machete. In spider season I look like some strange priest walking along waving that knife up and down in front of myself. Some kind of walking stick would serve the same purpose but people might look at you funny.
Yep. I found a giant black widow floating in the pool right next to my daughter. They usually prefer dark, cramped spaces so not sure how it ended up there.
Same with snakes. I just put a 4′ black rat snake over the fence that my dogs had cornered. Beautiful snake and it’ll do its share of keeping the rodent population down. Racers, bullsnakes, and kings get the same treatment. I’d leave them in the yard if the dogs wouldn’t kill them. A copperhead showed up last year and got decapitated with a shovel before being put over the fence.
“I like spiders.”
I truly fucking hate that vile life form. A little over a month ago, one of them bit my wife near her eye, which caused a dr. office visit. Fast forward to yesterday. One of the little bitches bit me right on the tip of my left thumb, resulting in a bee like stinging pain and my entire right hand going half numb for several hours. It still fucking hurts. If I could wipe out every one of them from the face of the earth right now, I would do it.
“my entire right hand”
left hand. It still fucking hurts tonight.
I just realized that Swalwell is probably kicking himself in the ass for not sticking till the El Paso and Dayton shootings.
This is. the worst field of candidates in my lifetime by a long shot. Every one of the D’s are evil, craven and the worst of the lot in their own way.
They had literally one job this cycle and they couldn’t even accomplish that.
It is pretty bad. They all scream about how bad Trump is and then they said “Here Donny Two Scoops, hold my beer”
They think they can threaten and insult their way into office. At least Trump insults the right people. They insult voters.
Trump to voters: “I am on your side”
Swalwell to voters: “I am gonna nuke your ass if you don’t do as I say”
It is incredible.
At least Trump insults the right people.
Cripples
Gold star families
War heroes
And six to eight weeks later – everyone he has praised/appointed/hired.
Cripples
I don’t follow. They’re crippled. What are they going to do, fight you?
“Gold star families”
I really fucking hate that term. With the passion of a thousand burning suns. I thought we got over getting gold stars in Kindergarten, but here we are adults and still craving the same childish attention? I sometimes really hate my species.
You’d rather them be called “My Kid Is Dead” families?
Yeah, that’s at least some improvement.
As long as they are focusing on hurting each other instead of me, I’ll take it.
LOL
There is no God but Gaia and Xer Prophet is Greta.
I don’t get it.
Ted is a incredibly cruel, vicious and ignorant asshole, what’s not to get.
So, you’re saying he totally belongs here and is an accepted member of our community?
At least he know how to use an Oxford comma…unlike some people.
There should have been a comma after vicious, a period after asshole. and a question mark after get. But to each his own.
Is anyone interested in more rock-n-roll biographies?
Yes, Please.
Do any of you work? Oh wait, it’s Friday night, I am now drunk. Never mind. Got my grill fired up for the first time this summer. Started up right away, but need to rebuild most of it, the burners and the cast iron grill especially, but it’s solid. Used one of my wife’s copper pans to put on top the rusty grid, told her she will get pissed at me if I toast it, but she was OK with it. Worked really well. I need more beer…
I really need a guy who will cook me dinner.
I just cooked my wife dinner and as usual, she didn’t eat anything. Women, can’t live with them, can’t live without them. And now on to ruthlessly killing pixels and drinking more beer for the rest of the evening. BTW, that shrimp I just grilled is to fucking die for.
Somehow I have a feeling I shouldn’t respond….
Tonight was salmon croquettes and roasted cauliflower and potatoes with chili and garlic. The garlic turned into candy.
I bought a whole casserole’s worth of ingredients for a big cheesy squash meal.
And corn dogs, ‘cuz tonight I’m going to get too drunk to handle a knife.
What We Do in the Shadows is so far a reliable, uh, TV sequel. It’s amusing, but mostly not, like, laugh out loud funny. It’s like when you show friends a video you found funny and they just sort of chuckle charitably, and so you try not to make a big deal about the fact that you brought it to their attention.