I haven’t done the Links for a while, so I barged in and told Brett to take the afternoon off. Having exerted Swiss privilege, I will go outside my usual minimalist format…
Japan just lost any chance of getting the Kuriles or any of Sakhalin back…don’t beat Russia so badly in the Rugby World Cup if you want land back. Oh, and no noting that a few Japanese players look distinctly..un-Nipponese.
How will this be hand-waved away by statists? Of course one must notice the nationalist flavor of the announcement. As long as the shakedown from the state is reduced, I don’t care if Modi calls it Make India Great Again. Hmmm. Maybe The Donald could give Modi a MIGA hat? Just more fodder for SugarFree, perhaps.
I guess this means that Joe Biden won’t be plagiarizing from his speeches? But then, I don’t think Slow Joe even knows what is going to come out of his gob anymore.
Having spoken the name of SUGARFREE aloud….lookie what he has for us:
SugarFree’s Dem Deathwatch
Bill de Blasio’s baffling presidential run is finally over. He can go back to turning New York City into the set for The Warriors in peace.
Oh, and this:
The mayor’s bid never really caught fire, and in a recent poll of his own state, de Blasio received the support of one respondent. Not one percent, one person.
Disney cartoon witch Kamala Harris is down to 7% in national polling and a new California primary poll has her behind human dial-tone generator Andrew Yang in her home state. Recent grumbling on liberal sites is that she should drop out and be nominated to be Attorney General. Like putting the fox in charge of the prison rape industry.
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I’m having a Bean Flicker right now. Tasty.
And the Russian guy at the rugby link looks like he’s hiding a Toblerone in his shorts.
I just stunk up the rolling pin.
Euphemisms…
Celebrating the arrival of fall with Ayinger…..but it’s still 90° out…..oh well, beers always good
India cuts corporate taxes to boost manufacturing and revive growth
Trying to…curry favor with voters?
Hey! They’re be naan of that around here.
You’re Gandhi get a gazing acting like that.
Don’t be Hindi-ring him on his word play
Laasi of that!
When I Sikh out good puns I know to come here. You guys never Bengal a good opportunity.
Yup. Nehru a dull moment here when it comes to clever word play.
*narrows gaze*
Not a fan of a pun jobby?
*rapturous applause*
Into the Black Hole of Commentcutta.
They dream of a new deli on every corner.
Wouldn’t work, nobody would mumbai anything at most of them.
Where the girl at the register is a living dal.
You all are going to get a ban galore for these puns.
It’s all about the Dehlivery
“Lack of singing, dancing…and no hotties”
Which means no Poona.
Thank you, taxation is theft.
“human dial-tone generator”
Outright and prolonged laugh from me.
Me too. But it’s bad form to laugh at your own jokes, Swissy.
Did someone forget to log out? Is there someone is Swiss’s house? GET OUT OF THE HOUSE! THE COMMENT IS COMING FROM INSIDE!
Having spoken the name of SUGARFREE aloud….lookie what he has for us:
From this, I assumed that the second part of the links are SF links.
“He has already bowed to demands from senior figures including Keir Starmer, John McDonnell and Emily Thornberry for the party’s next manifesto to promise a second referendum on any deal with the EU.
But Mr Corbyn has so far resisted saying he would campaign for Remain in that national vote.”
What a bunch of fuckers. The left loves democracy until the people vote for shit they don’t like.
And then when it finally goes their way then DEMOCRACY HAS SPOKEN.
Exact same as them hand waving away cold snaps with “weather is not climate” and then immediately shouting “THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED” when a heat wave hits.
Dem Deathwatch: My money is on the next three dropping out being Klochb…Klaccbu…the lady that throws notebooks at her assistants, Tulsi Gabbard unfortunately, and the black guy that no one knows who the hell he is.
Klochb…Klaccbu…the lady that throws notebooks at her assistants
I thought she got a bump in the polls and was positioning as the electable “moderate” candidate when Joe finally strokes out.
Attempting to save the Democrats from themselves will be Hillary’s job when she jumps in at the last second.
if 51 % of the voters identify as ugly, Klobuchar is the serious candidate.
Castro’s dummy can’t be for long, either.
Eh, not his best troll job.
It’s the thought that counts.
I mean How bad would deBlasio feel if he dropped out and Trump didn’t even say anything? Trump is, if anything, considerate of his opponents feelings.
The “part time” jab is delightful.
I liked the “tremendous room for growth”.
ditto
The best was when Sen Sorority Sister was the first to drop out and Trump tweeted something like “Whew! She was the only one I was afraid to run against”
That tweet is why I will vote for trump in 2020. 😀
I’m getting our of here early, so sorry to step on Swiss’ toes, but Women charged with sexual assault after biting ear off another woman.
Michigan woman giving Florida and Ohio a run for the money.
WOLVERINES!!!
Mike Tyson transitioned?
She looks like a Chucky doll.
On this site that is ichigan or TTUN
Answering Jarflax from the last thread
Truth be told, I screwed up the abbreviation. It wasn’t an AK, it was an AR. I intended to spend two nights in Texarkana, but upon seeing the interior of the hotel, I noped the fuck out of there and continued on to Dallas. The $90 it cost me to not stay there was worth it.
The only hotel I paid to not stay at was a HoJo’s in Ybor City. What a shithole.
This was a Knight’s Inn. One of the exterior doors wasn’t attached, there were parts missing in the room, and the customers, staff, and random wanders by gave a seriously skeezy vibe.
Funniest Motel name i’ve seen is the “It’ll Do Motel” in Farmington, New Mexico. Also an establishment that i think is exaggerating their quality.
On tour: show in Chicago next one in Cleveland. We used to like to get a few hours post-show driving in and get a cheap motel. Got to South Bend and everyone was bushed. Paid for the room, opened the door and checked it out. Blood on the sheets and bugs everywhere. I don’t think it had been opened or cleaned since Notre Dame football season was over— six months prior. Guy at the desk was pissed we wanted our money back. God I miss touring!
I had that experience this Summer in Kalispell. The hotel was inside a trailer park, and asked me to initial a list of rules about guests in my room, leaving the building after 11pm etc. So I drove a couple hours down the road to Missoula.
Driving across the country I was looking for a place to camp for the night in AR. A guy at the gas station directed us to a campground that he claimed was real nice. “They have armed guards and everything.” We woke up in the morning to take a look at the mighty Mississippi to find out we’ve been camping next to a Superfund cleanup site. Next time I’ll know to stay away from West Memphis.
Based on my one night in Memphis, that may have been the cleanest and safest spot in the city.
Just some of that Southern Hospitality I’ve heard so much about.
I stayed at a place in Clinton, MA, that I wondered whether it had hourly rates. I had to screw the shower handle back on in the morning because it came off when I tried to turn the shower on. 😐
I once stayed in a doubletree and they were out of hot cookies. ?
I got a cookie the other day in a Doubletree in Istanbul. Talk about cultural appropriation.
But was it a delight?
Car plows through mall in Chicago!
Video here.
Chicago needs to implement Common Sense Mall control.
Alternative Joke – They knew it was a problem because no car drives out of Sears Auto.
If that had been any other video I’d have had to have advocated for your ban from that site.
I know this crowd!
I came here to say this.
It’s a Sears, so there was nobody shopping there to get injured.
I was impressed they found a Sears that was still open.
That’s what I do when I see a Forever 21 as well.
Sears just happy to have customers
LOL.
“Come back soon!”
“A video posted to Twitter shows a
blackSUV driving past a Forever 21, and people running away”RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“This mall has everything”
“Disco haircuts. And pants.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz81ZO0qfvI
It just never gets old.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7487571/Active-shooter-reported-Chicago-mall-SUV-seen-driving-erratically-INSIDE.html
He’s just looking for the food court’s drive thru.
It was on a mission from God.
The car must’ve been smuggled in from Indiana
Did the black suv at least get a fabulous blouse at forever 21?
Man undergoes surgery to alleviate erection that lasted for 36 hours: ‘They said my penis would die’
Happens to me every other week
“We were all just sat around and it just came on. I tried to get rid of it but couldn’t,”
Hey friends I’m sitting around with, I could use some help here! Wait, not you.
JUST NORMAL DAY FOR STEVE SMITH.
Is the dictionary sexist? Petition calls for Oxford English Dictionary to remove sexist terms for women
Maria Beatrice Giovanardi, a London-based communications and marketing expert, typed the word “woman” into a search engine earlier this summer while looking up information on women’s earnings.
She said she was bombarded with results for synonymous of woman that included words like bitch, piece, bit, mare, baggage, wench, petticoat, frail and biddy.
“I was like, ‘What’s going on? Why are these the synonyms?,” Giovanardi, 28, told “Good Morning America.” “I don’t see myself like this as a woman.
“My girlfriends don’t speak like this so it’s a man’s point of view,” she recalled thinking.
I’m calling for a petition to bring back biddy.
I’ve been using barren and spinster a lot while watching political stuff lately.
Is hoe still good? We can use that right?
Sure, if you want to get raked through the coals.
I’m sure there are no insulting words for men in the dictionary.
[rolls eyes]
Their aren’t you stuipd brute. Maybe if you read the dictionary you wouldn’t be such a fucking lout.
Those are just accurate descriptors.
Don’t be a Dick,Ted
Regular prick with ears, he is.
How about shrew, harridan, witch, hag, grundy, and bitch?
“You see, gentlemen, behind every great man there is a woman urging him on. And so it was with my Stella. She urged me on into outer space. Not that she meant to, but with her continual, eternal, confounded nagging. Well, I think of her constantly, and every time I do, I go further out into space. ”
– Harcourt Fenton Mudd
Pornhub is not a search engine.
Meanwhile, Merriam Webster becomes the official dictionary of Tres Cool and Yusef.
Oh hell yeah!
TALL CANS!
Bullshit.
Yep. That is pure, unadulterated bullshit…
…from a cod-holster cunte.
Why do rugby and soccer players always walk out like they’ve in a team pedo competition?
How The Art Of Human Connection Turned Brian Grazer Into An Iconic Hollywood Film Producer
Smart.
“Make India Great Again”
Miga, please.
WRT the 4Chan troll from the am lynx, “Islam is right about Women”. Here’s the source:
http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/227100313
That news bit. “Is this Racist or Free Speach”, “Everyone is confused about what that even means”.
That’s cause it is a roscharch test. It means very little, but is designed specifically to provoke idiots like you guys to go on a moral crusade, even though you can’t identify what is wrong with it. (“Is this an Anit-Woman statment or Anti-Muslim?” Best to get a Muslim woman on to be safe).
It’s ? to be White.
That one was brilliant for a similar but distinct reason. The News media KNEW it was white-supremacist, even though the statement itself is innocuous.
I had a friend tie himself into knots all on his own trying to progsplain to everyone how while the phrase was technically innocuous, nobody should ever, ever utter or even think it. Because obvious reasons…
Here Are The Nominees For The 2019 National Book Awards
I read this after listening to his interview on the Fifth Column podcast and I thought it was great.
How did Michelle O not make the non-fiction list? According to NYT best seller list, “Becoming” has been on it since it was published. Wow, won’t the National Book Award officials be embarrassed when Michelle wins the next Nobel Prize in Literature.
E-cigarette panic is ruining “biggest public health opportunity” in 120 years, scientist says
Very yucky…
It’s all about that sweet tobacco cash.
But a few people have died horrible deaths. No one has ever died from smoking… Well not a horrible death… well they weren’t lied to about the effects of it… Oh fuck off.
Yet almost all of those deaths are linked to THC cartridge vapes…no one mentions that in the headlines.
If people are dying from black market products, the obvious solution is to eliminate the legitimate market. It’s like you don’t even have an economics degree from BU.
(yes, I know, I’m conflating things — just go with it.)
I’m contrasting the fact that this scare is about Vaping which is safer than smoking in the long run. But big pharma can’t loose out on all those sweet quit smoking drugs.
Nor can the government lose out on all that sweet tax revenue.
Somethings gonna kill ya. Might as well be something you enjoy.
Xenu commin’
The CIA and Mind Control on The Tom Woods Show
https://youtu.be/VxsfOEiESPM
I listened to it this morning and it was fascinating. For those of you who are unfamiliar this podcast outlines the CIA’s clandestine mind control program from the ‘50s and ‘60s that utilized LSD and other psychedelic drugs along with sensory deprivation, electroshock, and various other forms of abuse to tear down people’s minds.
That was a pretty cool discussion. Gottlieb is a really interesting character.
I never realized the program was as large as it was or that it ran that long. I’m definitely going to pick up that new book about the guy.
Tim Leary worked for the CIA!
As a test subject, yes.
Tom Steyer Met with Opposition at D.C. Climate Strike
Fight, fight, a child and a white!
“No rich folks who actually earned their money are welcome even if they agree with me.”
Assholes like Steyer thought they could create an army of superstitious, terrified people that they could use as footsoldiers.
In that respect he’s not unlike the industrialists who thought that they could control the Nazis.
Good analogy…
Two scoops still managing to not go to war.
How long will he hold out?
I’m pleasantly surprised. Hopefully he will keep it up.
I guess there was a huge climate change protest in Downtown Chicago today. Anyway, a couple of my coworkers and I were returning from lunch and witnessed a young woman who looked to be around 20ish going into full hysterics towards an acquaintance about how no one cares about this Earth and potential damage we are doing.
It was kind of funny but sad at the same time. Here’s this woman who is in her 20’s which I think is the best time of your life, throwing a crazed fit about the Earth and climate change, because some dickhole professor or teacher has spooked her to the point of being scared.
No one gets that hysterical unless they WANT it to be true. If it wasn’t climate bullshit, she would be going off about some equally stupid thing.
That’s true but still fuck the people that are feeding this shit towards our nation’s youth….and shame on their parents for allowing this to happen.
I don’t know. I think they do it to be stylish. I’m willing to bet that, if you ask her what she’s personally sacrificing to Gaia, she’d scramble and grasp at straws.
Oh yeah. They all had their iPhones in hand and some even had a Starbucks cup in their hand.
The issue is that these kids don’t understand the concept of trade offs. In their minds if they and others stopped using oil, ban plastic straws, or cut down emissions, their lives will stay the same. They lack the understanding that their measures would increase poverty ten fold. The ones peddling this shit relies on their ignorance of this knowledge.
Ten fold?
The left is trying to get rid of everything that makes the modern world what it is. I would say it is closer to thousands fold.
STRAWS! WHY DO YOU HATE TURTLES YOU RACIST!?!?!?!
Antonio Brown released by Patriots in stunning twist
Unfair!
He needs mental health help STAT.
I have to believe there was something going on besides goldigger lawsuits.
He texted not-so-nice to the one accuser after her lawsuit became public – he’s an idiot.
Not so nice? He was outright threatening her. Even the Patriots couldn’t cover that up.
Gosh when you characterize it that way.
Bronx homeowner chases would-be intruder down, beats him to death: cops
Lazy, feminine gun owners: “if you break into my home I will shoot you with automatic rifles (as in AR-15)
Masculine New Yorkers: “if you break into my home I will beat your ass with a pipe.”
nyftw
And then go to jail for the rest of my life.
automatic rifles (as in AR-15)
Ecktshuallly
Sounds like he just chased him down and clocked him. Murder seems like a pretty heavy charge for that.
NY is a duty to retreat state. Murder is a slam-dunk.
And the “victim”‘s estate can sue for wrongful death, a la Bernie Goetz.
How physically unimpressive do you have to be to let a guy 25 years your senior run you down?
Tomorrow should be a good day. Our new couches are being delivered and then off to EPCOT for the food & wine festival.
Fuck yo couches. – Rick James
You don’t how to appreciate shit!
National brand couch or local? We had a 20 year old Laz Z Boy that was great. The new one isn’t quite as good.
Bassett, which we ordered through Hudson’s.
“2 million people said they would “storm Area 51″—but only 150 showed up”
https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1175126232918384641
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2019/09/20/2-million-people-said-they-would-storm-area-51but-only-150-showed-up/
What is the world coming to when you can’t trust 1,999,850 people to keep their word about stroming a secure government facility.
It’s called the ‘Signaling Syndrome’.
Or, how easy it so sit behind your keyboard, virtually incognito and type ‘Hell yes, I’ll be there, they better be afraid of me!’. And how easy is it dragging you lazy arse out of bed early to commute to some event, hoping that you don’t wind up in trouble, in jail, or dead, when you’d rather be doing pretty much everything else. Right there is your answer.
Nope.
Nobody took it seriously just because it obviously wasn’t.
Also everyone knew the whole time it was a joke/.
Why Was Mayonnaise Such A Staple Of The Groovy Era?
What in the bloody blazes was going on?
At a yard sale once, my wife found an early 60s recipe box filled with cards and was shocked by the sheer number of recipes involving gelatin
Im a fan of Hellman’s. I mean, like-like. Like more than a friend. But even those seem excessive.
Had mayo on my liverwurst sammich tonight. Tough to take the Depression out of the boy
GOP Senate candidate Jason Lewis said Republicans have ‘dual loyalties’ to Israel, ‘Jewish lobby’ controls the party
Ban Minnesota!
Minnesota: We hate the jews!
It’s really perversely a good sign that the people running for public office are such insane nutjobs.
The government has become such a horrible, corrupt, immoral & toxic enterprise that decent, smart people almost universally run away from it. So aside from a handful of brave souls, the candidates are people who are delusional, insane, or sociopathic. Naturally, they make the state an even more toxic enterprise heightening the repulsive effect.
Just remember, the United States government is our biggest enemy, and the increasing number of delusional and imbecilic officers is doing us a favor. If you have to have a murderous enemy, one that struggles to tie its shoes without peeing its pants is much better than one that can think and execute effectively.
Just remember, the United States government is our biggest enemy
?????????
Representative Jerry Nadler
Somehow, this guy will be all Republicans, but don’t you dare say Ilhan Omar is all Democrats.
Had my first experience playing golf today. I can’t believe how difficult it is hitting a stationary ball with a stick. I enjoyed it, once I got over looking like a total putz.
I took golf lessons on a driving range once. I really liked it. I would like to learn to play for real, but I’m not sure my rotator cuffs would like it.
1 or 2 good shots per round is what keeps sucking you back in.
So true. Shot 59 last week for nine holes but one shot won the “closest to the pin” prize.
This new Children of the Corn reboot looks terrifying!
I blame all of you for this.
What are all those sheep like noises?
So being mildly retarded is the hip new thing with the kids? Is that the takeaway here.
Creepy as fuck, no doubt about it.
The article pic, is that Corn Pop?
Uffda. It is hard to brag about being from the Brainpower State when you see stories like this one in my home town paper:
Kids get help with reading from therapy dog at Detroit Lakes Public Library
What sad days are these when dogs are better at phonics than kids from NW Minnesoda.
That’s actually not uncommon, even in adult literacy classes. Seems to work for some people, so why not?
Given the horrible things I say to the Dean Beasts, I really hope they don’t understand much English, though.
Example (when Mrs. Dean was travelling on business recently): “That’s right, she’s gone because you’re a bad dog and she doesn’t like you any more. Maybe if you were a good dog, she’d come home. You should try harder.”
I don’t know how many times I’ve said the following: “Goddammit, Jack, if you didn’t do bad shit in the first place you wouldn’t have to sit there and look guilty, now would you?” Hasn’t taken yet, but it’s good practice for when my kids get older.
I call my pit bull Fattie. My wife doesn’t like it, but he doesn’t seem to care.
I refer to ours as the Little Fat One and the Big Dumb One.
I call my dog pinhead. I mean, have you seen a greyhound. It fits.
Sooo pointy!
Huh? I gotta think that dogs that can read are pretty uncommon.
Maybe I read it wrong? But to me, that headline makes it seem as if the dog is smarter than the kids and can read better than those offspring of flathead Norwegians.
I know what they meant. That therapy dogs help calm kids down so they can learn to read (from humans) better. But that is not what the (Columbia grad?) editor wrote.
That IS mean. You better hope they don’t understand, or you’ll have traumatized them. I feel bad when I call my dog fatty.
There goes Tulip, virtue signalling again.
In the past, before we’d go out of an evening, we’d tell the cat we were leaving him to die. And now he’s dead! ::sobs, runs from room::
“How will this be hand-waved away by statists?”
Well, it won’t be, because it won’t be spoken of. They got their shovels out now trying to see how fast they can bury it.
But if they did have to speak of it, it would go something like this: ‘Indians turning into deplorables thanks to Trumputin interference in their government. The NYT already have the proof, stay tuned’l.
Disney cartoon witch Kamala Harris is down to 7% in national polling and a new California primary poll has her behind human dial-tone generator Andrew Yang in her home state.
Oh, please, let Yang run against her and take her out of the Senate. I would probably donate to his campaign.
Well, I get it. Practically anyone is preferable to her, like, I dunno, Satan.
Clinton?
Satan vs Cthulhu? Tough choice
https://twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1174882812031328256
LOLOLOL
Brutal.
Is there any chance Canada can turn things around if they get rid of Zoolander, or are they just as far gone as Cali is? IOW, they’ll just vote in a clone who has not yet been caught wearing black face 20 years ago.
Well this is a wrinkle on the Omar enigma. In a story about a local Somali thug (Hashi) who has been accused of threatening anyone who speaks out about Omar, there was this tidbit:
Uffda. I’d hate to be the poor bastard who has to write up the Omar Christmas letter. It must be impossible to keep up with all the various “family” members.
My fave: Omar tweeted something to her father in 2013, who also happens to be her ex-husband’s father. She deleted the tweet, but screenshots are forever.
Wow. How in the hell did someone this corrupt and venal represent a part of the Twin Cities?
Somali privilege?
Did you miss the part about her fake brother threatening anyone who dared talk bad about Ilhan?
Maybe we are getting too soft. None of her primary opponents (or media members) dared call Omar out for her BS because no one wanted to get stabbed. Same shit with muslims in general. Everyone treats them with kid gloves because no one wants to get stabbed/bombed/shot by those crazies just because they jokingly drew a pic of Big Mo.
I’m sure I’m just being a Islamophobe. Surely white pols hire people convicted of violent assaults all the time. I bet Biden has a guy on his payroll who was convicted of randomly shooting shotguns into the air.
Dude.
That’s some 19th Century Tammany Hall sort of shit.
Its gonna end up being Maryanne whatshername isnt it?
She is probably the best Dem candidate, as sad as that seems.
It would be pretty funny. She’s also a new age kook, which in itself probably makes her a bit less dangerous than the serious hardcore commies on the stage, like Bernie and Warren. Warren is probably the worst of them in that she would do just the opposite of what she says on corporations and engage in Cronyism at previously unheard levels while at the same time trying to push through the wettest dreams of far left progs. IOW, she’s the twat American version of Xi Jinping.
Warren is the fucking Ivy Stearns of DC.
“”She had pale eyes that looked fishy, cold, and dead. And if you ever want to see pure evil, you should have seen the way her eyes glinted when she watched some man who’d talked back to her once and who’d just heard his name on the list of those getting nothing above basic pittance.”
“Maryanne whatshername”
Wow. Just wow.
I almost spelled her first name right and go the first letter of her last name right.
I picked her in the Glib pole.
the Glib pole
Is there something nobody is telling me?
Son, I told you not to become a Firefighter. I did everything i could to keep you off the pole!
– Henry Spencer
Whoops. Poll.
https://glibertarians.com/2019/07/glibertarian-survey-results/
As long as the shakedown from the state is reduced, I don’t care if Modi calls it Make India Great Again. Hmmm. Maybe The Donald could give Modi a MIGA hat?
FTA:
Sounds to me like Modi is plotting to get his country to replace China – cutting costs at the same time the trade war makes Chinese goods more expensive. Smart move on his part.
Mmm. MIGAs.
What is it with Injuns and the goddamned cilantro?
Apologies if this has made the rounds already:
Her Own Toy Story: How A 6-Year-Old Girl’s Letter Launched ‘Plastic Army Women’
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759609407/her-own-toy-story-how-a-6-year-old-girls-letter-launched-plastic-army-women
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Among the stances that will hit store shelves next year: a female captain holding a handgun and binoculars and a kneeling female solider holding a bazooka, ready to launch.
“The bazooka is always a favorite,” Imel said.
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I liked the flamethrower guy the most.
I liked the flamethrower guy too, but only because of the irony when I set him aflame.
My only magnifying glass casualty was a wasp I blew up in a mason jar with a firecracker. I used the magnifying glass to light the fuse.
I had a huge plastic army and went to war with my cousin using rubber band guns. We’d set up a bunch and fight to the last man.
Kneeling female soldier holding a bazooka sounds like a euphemism.
For some reason my favorite was guy with Bayonet attached to rifle over his head.
Chicks dig big guns.
Competing grievances:
tiny toy soldiers who are all male versus glorifying guns
But then, I don’t think Slow Joe even knows what is going to come out of his gob anymore.
You better watch yourself, or Mighty Joe will come at you with a pool chain.
Mighty Joe Old?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nruRGYUEdQM
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Bawitdaba, da bang, da dang diggy diggy
Diggy, said the boogie, said up jump the boogie
My name is Cooooooooorrrrrn
Corn Pop!
I prefer this version of that song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-t3FXjHfsU
comment gold: music for fighting at a Waffle House at 3 AM
? Robyn
The mugging bassist chick also has quite a fan club.
“Denzel Washington is being rumoured to play Magneto in the MCU. How amazing would this be!”
https://twitter.com/ladbible/status/1174651737107398658
How about no?
Isn’t Magneto’s backstory that he was in a Nazi concentration camp? How are they going to retcon that?
Maybe Marvel is tipping its hat to these guys.
When did the X-Men come out? 1963.
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby have gone on record to state that the inspiration for the X-Men was in part, the then contemporary Civil Rights Movement, and The Magneto/Professor X dynamic was an allegory of Malcolm X and MLK. If anything, it’s going back to its roots.
The whole thing is retarded. The X-Men were already diverse.
Meh, Denzel will obviously be in white-face to fit the role. It’s called acting.
:slow clap:
Probably old news, but here goes:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/13/20864336/joe-biden-record-player-nurse-home-visit
He said:
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Social workers help parents deal with how to raise their children. It’s not that they don’t want to help, they don’t know what to play the radio, make sure the television — excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night, the — make sure that kids hear words, a kid coming from a very poor school — a very poor background will hear 4 million words fewer spoken by the time we get there.
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I’m not sure he knows what decade it is. Someone at the next debate should ask him who was President in 1999. That would require him to know the current year, correctly subtract 20 from it, and remember who was President in 1999.
Someone, children learned to speak and read long before record players, radios, or TVs existed.
geez, “somehow children….” is what I meant.
My brain suggests and my fingers act.
Just like Gropey Joe
[polite applause]
SNL needs a dozen guys like you.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/09/ban-private-jets-climate-change-green-new-deal
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Ban Private Jets
By
Aaron Eisenberg
We know who’s responsible for the climate crisis: rich people. Nowhere is this clearer than in aviation, with billionaires’ private jets ravaging the planet. We need to ban them now.
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[hysterical Cartman laughter]
Watches all the celebrity climate activists staring awkwardly at their shoes, trying to pretend they didn’t hear that.
That’s not very ambitious. I thought we were already at banning all flight?
“We know who’s responsible for the climate crisis: rich people. ”
Sometimes I wonder if they know how stupid their constant blaming of the
Jewsrich is, or if they are true believers.325,000 U.S. students did “semester abroad” in 2016. That’s like 3,000 extra jet trips. And how many more went somewhere by plane for string break? We need to ban excess student travel now.
Uffda. I rode on a bus to Daytona for spring break in 1986. Trip there was ok. Lots of drinking and carrying on.
Ride back was brutal. My liver was shot.
The planet was asking for it.
Hah! We were talking about it being climate strike day and how we planned to strike against the climate by opening Windows and running the air conditioning and spraying aerosols out the window. Then we were all, wait what side are we supposed to be on. Then we talked about using poop emojis to illustrate the data they’ve given us. It was late Friday afternoon, we were a little punch drunk.
I’m not sure what the climate is supposed to do in response to a strike. Higher wages? Better benefits? Shorter hours? What?
Did you see how she was dressed?
Slut.
+1 Jodie Foster
+ Smoky Mountains
Time for the earth to put on a burqa, lest we be tempted by its sumptuous assets of fossil fuels.
Also sprach Zara-Coulter-stra
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The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man’s dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use. God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet — it’s yours. That’s our job: drilling, mining and stripping. Sweaters are the anti-Biblical view. Big gas-guzzling cars with phones and CD players and wet bars — that’s the Biblical view.
“Oil Good; Democrats bad”, Townhall, 12 October 2000.
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The average Jacobin writer and reader is almost certainly wealthier than most of the people living now and vastly richer than most of the people who have ever lived. And that standard of living did not come from socialism or voluntary poverty.
There are 7.5 billion people alive and only about 1.5 billion of them lead lives similar to a typical American. That’s 20%. Only about 1 billion people have a car.
And those 1 billion rich people live in a cleaner, better environment than nearly anyone in history.
Epstein’s emissions were hurting the planet.
Dammit, I’ve been waiting six hours to get the Cal score. Good thing Spectrum finally got their act together before tonight’s hawkey or I’d, well, I’d be upset or something.
A song that lifts my mood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0IX0srz0w8
Thinking of Mother Gaia up-thread, a song that lifts my mood.
Please. Make. The. Hurting. Stop.
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Why Is American Classical Music So White?
Early American composers could have shaken off their European sound and mined the rich trove of African American music. They didn’t. And one historian believes we’re worse off because of it.
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https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2019/09/20/762514169/why-is-american-classical-music-so-white
I love music and art where some other culture has taken it and made it their own. For example, the Hu Band. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v4xZUr0BEfE. I have tickets next week. What this author should be encouraging, is African artists to do that to classical. I would probably listen and buy. If they don’t want to, well, that should tell the author something, like maybe the world has moved on.
It’s like he never watched the green book.
Bleh
The Kronos Quartet sucks.
They have no balls.
I believe they have six, but I can’t be sure.
So now NPR is promoting cultural appropriation?
Word
If it’s of ‘white’ western culture, yes.
1. These are the same people who’d be screaming “cultural appropriation.”
2. The Chinese are taking over classical music!!1!111eleven
3. Jazz. Soul. Funk. Blues. Are these not as valuable? I say yes.
blah blah blah. ‘African American Music’ grew out of the music the captured slaves heard from their captors…Arabs and African slave trading tribes. The blues weren’t born in the Mississippi Delta, they were born in the Sahara desert.
I thought this was a very interesting perspective on where all music comes from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVPLIuBy9CY
You know, it’s funny. I watched the Sticks and Stones Chappelle standup again today and I was struck again by him talking about getting called up to Standards and Practices for using the word “faggot” in a skit when he said “nigger” all the time without a problem. “White” gets the same treatment. It’s at least as meaningless as “black” when it comes to referring to culture or ethnic background, and when it’s used as it often is to refer to Anglo-Saxons in the US it goes a step further and belittles the cultures of those people. It’s a synonym for “bland” or “soulless”. And yet, you can say it with impunity no matter who you are and get no push-back.
SHUT THE FUCK UP, WHITEY!
“How come white people don’t get to complain about being stereotyped” He complained.
SHUT THE FUCK UP, LIBTARD!
Claim:
Human life does not have intrinsic value.
Debate.
It doesn’t, there is no debate.
Then why did the devil go down to Georgia? It’s worth at least a fiddle of gold.
So now we look to invariant gamblers for our morality?
Morality is for losers
COFFEE IS FOR CLOSERS!
Correct answer. Go to the head of the class.
Middle class morality.
Before that he had to go to the Crossroads and meet Robert Johnson.
Well, I think I read somewhere we’re each worth a few bucks in raw materials.
He said human life, not human bodies.
Don’t make light of my lived experiences in my white body.
Yeah, not seeing the opposition side there.
Damn, I thought I was taking the controversial side. Fine, all human life is worth a buck-o-five.
Dr. McCoy agrees.
Intrinsic? Nah.
Fungible? Yeah.
Claim:
Human life does not have intrinsic value.
Debate.
I’m not your bitch.
Q.E.D
I heard a report on NPRavda about scientists who were experimenting with collections of human neurons. They were worried that the clumps of neurons might be suffering, because the cells were giving off brain waves similar to an adult. Gee, if only there was some other situation this might apply to…
Intrinsic comes from a word that means inward. So the question is: do the thoughts and feelings of people matter? Short answer: yes.
Maggie Simpson is worth $243.26.
If you mean intrinsic value in the sense that the mere existence of human life is inherently valuable, I’d argue that your claim is correct because nothing is intrinsically valuable. For one thing, value is a function of perception, which is to say that a thing cannot be valuable or worthless absent a person perceiving it to be so. Value is like beauty or convenience, not like color or shape. For another thing, value is a relative quality–a thing is more valuable or less valuable in relation to other things or to its absence–and a relative quality logically cannot be intrinsic as it requires comparison with another thing to have meaning. So human life considered as a discrete thing is no different than any other things in that it cannot be intrinsically valuable *or* worthless.
If, however, you’re really asking whether or not human life has value absent other considerations, or whether some lives are more valuable than others type of thing, I’d argue that *all* life is valuable first and foremost to the thing having it. And of course if you’re a person of faith then you’ve likely been taught that all life is at least in some sense sacred as it springs from a divine creator of some kind, which is partly why murder is forbidden by all religions that last more than, say, a week. Of course, certain conditions usually apply, but every system of belief has some sort of taboo that forbids its adherents randomly killing each other for no reason.
Personally, I believe that life is valuable because it’s rare, because it is given to us in such a way that we cannot create it ourselves, and because life imparts the ability to act. The latter is especially valuable because it’s what allows people to do good and to try to redeem themselves when they do wrong.
Intrinsic value to whom?
Well, it appears the lawyers have been able to convince juries that a human life is worth multi-millions if the person powdered her cunte with baby powder.
“My boys are so awesome.
A few months ago I was getting ready for a date and Oliver said, “Does he know you have big sexual energy?”
My reply, “I think he is counting on it””
https://twitter.com/DrJenGunter/status/1174732105005162497
Divorced twice, you say…
Unless he was rolling his eyes and said it snarkily I’m going to bet a billion dollars that this never happened.
Also, twice divorced, eh? I’m shocked that the woman who discusses her sexual relationships with her children has a hard time maintaining a committed relationship. Shocked, I tell you.
Rekt.
Foreshadowing. Oedipus Rekt is the name of my next submission. Really.
This is the strangest porn intro I have ever seen.
So that’s what she did in band camp.
No, it isn’t.
You got me.
Keep trying.