Friday Afternoon Self Service Links

Well, this day has spiraled out of control for TPTB, so you get Self Service Links!

That means no penalties for being OT, since there is no topic.

OK, I’m back to my client meeting! Have fun!

 

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352 responses to “Friday Afternoon Self Service Links”

  1. Mad Scientist

    SP links are always the best links.

    1. ChipsnSalsa

      Lots of effort or little effort, they never disappoint.

    2. mexican sharpshooter

      No need to white knight for SP….

      1. Mad Scientist

        …she’s still not gonna fuck me?

        1. SP

          *eyes roll so far SP can see China*

          1. Lackadaisical

            Damn, Mad Scientist has some mad skills.

          2. ElspethFlashman

            +1 ?

  2. Endless Mike

    Turns out Short Angry Bagel Guy was just doing a bit.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdDBTzbfMnCRvwBv-ZaVsIg

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      So he’s neither short nor angry?

      1. Endless Mike

        I think the angry is fake, but the short is probably authentic. Could be mirrors.

    2. Chipwooder

      Strong Island REPRESENTIN’!

  3. mexican sharpshooter

    Buenas tardes. Todos los últimos glibertarios guardan silencio en torno a un “pozo”. Este “pozo” se llama “trabajo”.

    Lo sentimos

    1. ElspethFlashman

      Sorry to hear it. Trabajo sucks!

  4. Dr Mossy Lawn

    Anyone going to the New Hampshire brewers festival this weekend?.

    https://tickets.beerfests.com/event/nh-brewers-festival

    I’m flying into MHT around 11:00..

    1. Sean

      I’m flying into MHT around 11:00..

      And, boy, are your arms going to be tired!

      1. Dr Mossy Lawn

        No, I have an autopilot. I shall let ‘Otto’ handle the routine stuff.

    2. Enough About Palin

      I thought they played for Milwaukee.

  5. Scruffy Nerfherder

    NO PENALTIES! ANYTHING GOES!

    1. Mad Scientist

      That’s hilarious.

    2. ChipsnSalsa

      Holee shit. that’s some good wiring there.

      Could I get some electrical tape to wrap around that?

      1. Mad Scientist

        Nah, then you can’t switch it off.

      2. Fourscore

        Tape over the red with black tape, then it’ll work right.

    3. DrOtto

      This is just, I can’t even…this is just the exact opposite of the cable pr0n pics somebody posted not to long ago.

    4. Tejicano

      Maybe I should’ve posted photos from the Fiji job. The comms closets each had two or three server racks sitting at odd angles, hundreds of multi-color cables cascading down then up between the racks. One closet had 2 inches of standing water – with the obligatory dead cockroach floating in it. Oh, and all the equipment they had “certified” as installed and 100% functional? – still packed in boxes.

  6. COMMENT ANARCHY

    http://archive.is/brKvh

    All Hell has broken loose!

    1. Pope Jimbo

      I’m a little disappointed in all of you who posted before Q. I think proper Glib etiquette is to always allow Q to post his trademark links first on any free-for-all thread.

      1. Tundra

        Yeah? Who died me made you – uh-

        Aw fuck it!

        1. Tundra

          Ugh.

          1. ElspethFlashman

            Stop swearing in front of El Papa.

      2. Spudalicious

        Tulpa Swiss would like a word.

      3. YOU’RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!

    2. AlmightyJB

      1 and mf’n done. Good Lord.

    1. Tundra

      “Jason Holtz, who launched the petition, says that with the opioid crisis, the message should not be sent that tasty things come from syringes.”

      I hope there is a Bag ‘o Dicks booth so Jason can go choke on one.

      1. Pope Jimbo

        Has there ever been a Holtz in Minnesoda who didn’t deserve a horse whipping? Jason and Lou both needed one for their crimes against Minnesoda.

      2. B.P.

        Also, caulk guns send the wrong message.

        1. R C Dean

          Why, does the caulk taste good?

          1. Mmmmmph! Hmmmmmph.

          2. Scruffy Nerfherder

            It’s the silicone.

          3. slumbrew

            Would you say you enjoy the taste of caulk?

          4. Ask the guy sitting next to you on the bus that same question and see what happens

      3. one true athena

        But opioids also come in pills, so I guess all vitamins and Tylenol are next on the chopping block.

        And fuck all these people – my dad 87 years old, just got a hairline fracture in his shoulder from a fall and is in incredible pain, so of course he’s only “allowed” by our overlords five days worth of pills at a time, and lord help you if you take them a little too close together because then you don’t get any more.

        I hope all of these people end up in some single-payer dystopia in their old age where they lie on beds in the hall in terrible pain and the nurses can only pat their hands and say it’s against policy to give them any pain relief when they’re gonna die anyway.

        1. The Bearded Hobbit

          One of my best friends was dying in great pain. The doctors had to deny him pain meds because he tested positive for marijuana- which he took to help his pain.

          Madness.

      4. ElspethFlashman

        I almost used the “bag of dicks” phrase at work this week. I should have.

        1. referring to the Board of Directors?

    2. AlmightyJB

      Stupid is as…

    3. Cacciatore

      Guy must be a blast at parties.

    4. Was thinking Babylon Bee. Now what do I do?

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      “Micropenis is a very rare condition found in less than 0.6 percent of the population,”

      That’s not very rare.

      1. AlmightyJB

        It’s not me! Her vagina is HUGE.

        1. Mad Scientist
          1. AlmightyJB

            Don’t be so enthusiastic

            https://youtu.be/GfYbxNdnc-o

          2. Chipwooder

            Damn, I was gonna post that one.

            “Methinks the lady protests too much!”

    2. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Having clicked that, I’m certain my Google feed will adjust itself to advise me of advancements in this area of technology now.

      1. TARDIS

        4.5 inches wide

        That’s a whole lot of sloppy pussy right there.

        Geez, the intertoobz needs some serious editing.

      2. TARDIS

        And I need to include the related link….

        Average Junk Size

    1. AlmightyJB

      Not losing sleep

      1. Sean

        If that happened a little more often, do you think crime would go up or down?

        1. Chipwooder

          As Instapundit is fond of saying, law enforcement isn’t to protect people from crooks – it’s to protect the crooks from summary mob justice.

    2. leon

      As discussed in the last thread, with the given information I’d have a hard time voting to convict. That is entirely based on the emotions of a father of three young girls. I get the reasoning of the man fleeing no longer being an active threat and so it constitutes murder, but I have a hard time faulting the dad.

      1. leon

        The other guys however… I’m less sympathetic too

      2. R C Dean

        Just because its understandable doesn’t mean its not criminal.

      3. PBRstreetgang

        That’s how I feel. Pretty certain I could never convict the father The other guys….

        1. Fourscore

          Had a cop shot the fleeing suspect in the back while he was running away he’d been given a paid suspension for a few days, been the precinct hero and been the envious talk at the cop barbeque.

    1. Spudalicious

      Ain’t happenin’. There’s a new sheriff in town and his name is Bill Barr.

  7. Chipping Pioneer

    Self Service

    Euphemism?

    1. Cacciatore

      I hear you need to have a couple ribs removed unless you’re very thin.

      What were we talking about again?

  8. AlmightyJB

    Started with a Belhaven Scottish Ale. Working on Hofbrauhaus Hefeweizen. Vacation begins! Chicago next week:) Any restaurant/bar recommendations near abouts State and Rush where we’re staying?

    1. R C Dean

      I hear the Subway shop there is so good people will walk through a blizzard at 2 am to get one.

      1. B.P.

        Okay folks, that’s a wrap.

      2. *narrows gaze*

      3. ElspethFlashman

        *thundering applause *

      4. Count Potato

        Look like Swiss is going to have wrestle LH for the tie-breaker.

    2. State and Rush are parallel. What part of town? Since the city’s on a grid, even an address with direction and number will tell

      1. AlmightyJB

        Gold Coast. Viceroy Hotel.

  9. Cacciatore

    I am here to offer absolutely nothing of value!

    You’re welcome.

    1. Fuck off Tulpa.

      1. Cacciatore

        Speaking of useless twats, I wonder where Dunphy is these days. That was one entertaining copsucker.

        1. If by “entertaining” you mean enraging…

        2. DenverJ

          Wow I’d forgotten about that guy… Maybe the mall fired him and his internet got turned off ’cause he couldn’t pay his bill.

  10. Raston Bot

    AOC funny

    https://twitter.com/allahpundit/status/1149727067208126469

    Joe Crowley should be stripped of his citizenship and deported for not taking his primary more seriously

    1. The Other Kevin

      It’s all tweets and photo ops with that one.

    2. wdalasio

      My question is how long is it until she’s screaming “I’m out of order?! You’re out of order! This whole Congress is out of order!”

    3. The Other Kevin

      I expect her to passionately answer questions that were not asked, and then tweet the videos.

  11. Juvenile Bluster

    The Mesa, Arizona officer who shot and killed Daniel Shaver (you may remember him from such videos as him getting shot while on his hands and knees begging for his life) is going to get a $2500/month lifetime disability pension for the PTSD he suffered from having to kill that blatant threat to police safety. And he got to go home safely that night!

    https://reason.com/2019/07/11/this-cop-is-getting-2500-a-month-because-killing-an-unarmed-man-in-a-hotel-hallway-gave-him-ptsd/

    There’s a small part of humanity being restored on the Mesa PD’s Facederp page, on which every reply to whatever they post is either outrage about the shooting or links to Daniel Shaver’s widow’s GoFundMe.

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      The fact that that guy isn’t in prison right is proof that our justice system is broken when it comes to police misconduct. The guy’s a murderer, full stop.

      1. Fatty Bolger

        They tried him for murder and manslaughter, and the jury acquitted him. Dunphy was an ass, but he was right about one thing – it’s hard to get juries to convict police officers for something they did on the job.

    2. B.P.

      Is that the guy who was crawling while trying to comply with contradictory orders from an armed psychopath? That video was a real light-hearted romp.

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        That’s the one.

        Arizona has a law for public employees where you need to apply for disability within one year of leaving your position. The murdering cop left after the shooting in early 2016 … but he was re-hired in mid 2018 FOR THE SPECIFIC PURPOSE OF IMMEDIATELY RESIGNING SO THE CLOCK WOULD RESTART.

        1. B.P.

          I guess it’s a little much to hope for him to quietly tip-toe away after the state literally let him get away with murder.

        2. SP

          Everyone involved in that re-hiring should be fired and pensions stripped.

        3. {|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>

          You’d think there’d be some kind of private right of action here. Some kind of suit to prevent abuse of the taxpayer’s purse. Or, perhaps, abuse of office. I forget, are you an AZ lawyer?

      2. Fatty Bolger

        One of the cops kept giving him contradictory orders, which resulted in the victim crawling forward on the floor like worm, begging for his life. While doing that he moved his hand slightly to keep his pants from sliding off, and the other cop shot him five times with a rifle.

        And then they tried the shooting cop for murder and he was acquitted by a jury, even though there is a video showing the whole thing. Unbelievable.

        1. *Brace for Winston-esque comment*

          I thought living in Red States meant everyone is so liberty-friendly?

          1. mexican sharpshooter

            Cops are cops, regardless of the team in charge of the legislature.

        2. SP

          From what I understand, the video was not “available” until after a verdict had been rendered.

          Murdering coward got away with it, and is now being rewarded by the taxpayers of Mesa. And nothing else will happen.

          1. Fatty Bolger

            It was available for the trial. The fight was over whether it should be released before the trial, and if so, how much of it.

          2. Fatty Bolger

            Should say, released to the public and/or family members before the trial.

          3. Motherfuckers. How could anyone see that video and NOT convict?

            I used to have many cop friends and they would have all (privately) been completely disgusted. Well, a couple of them got out and would have been publicly more than disgusted.

    3. Chipwooder

      Yeah, I posted this one late last night. It’s not enough that the sonofabitch got away with murder. No, he should get a pension for the rest of his life because he was so traumatized by….his own criminal act.

      1. Spudalicious

        Just to punch you in the nuts with the other fist, that disability pension is tax exempt.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Well, that was so much fun, I think I’ll share.

    I’m changing the power steering pump on my explorer.

    *waves to westernsloper (?)*

    Ford, in their infinite wisdom, decided it would be a better idea to sandwich the mount between the pump and the pulley, which means the pulley has to be removed in situ. Easier said than done. And did I mention the pulley is some sort of plasticky stuff bonded to a steel press-on hub.? After much fucking around, I ordered a new pulley from Amazon, and cut the fucking thing off. Six or eight radial cuts through the belt track, a hammer, a big screwdriver chisel/prybar, and viola! Pieces on the floor, and a pump which will now pass through the bracket. That shit smells horrible when you cut it with the death wheel, too.

    1. Mad Scientist

      If you have to take the pulley off to get to the mounts, how are you going to get to the mounts on the new pump?

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Clicked too soon. My real regret is that I didn’t film it and put it on youtube like all the cool kids are doing these days.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Holee shit. that’s some good wiring there.

    Shoulda used a stainless hose clamp.

    1. Fourscore

      And spliced like colors, in case the splicer forgets what he has done while busy explaining to his insurance company how the fire started.

  15. Raston Bot

    I’m drinking Vasen’s Norse double IPA out of a growler as soon as I get home, then off to the bars for my friend’s birthday celebration while my better half puts the kids to bed :)))))))))

    Norse Double IPA

    Complex, hazy DIPA brewed with traditional Norweigan farmhouse yeast.
    ABV 8.0% • IBU 25

    https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/50077/414457/

  16. Juvenile Bluster

    TS (maybe Hurricane) Barry’s strengthening it seems. @993 mb as of 2 PM and at 3 PM the recon plane caught a 73kt flight level wind (60-65kt at the surface).

    Oil price soaring, since this decided to take a route through pretty much all of the oil rigs in the Gulf.

    I blame global warming.

    1. Private Chipperbot

      They’ll be back to work in a day or two. This just a rain event. The highest winds were in the SE quad. I doubt they’ll record any TS winds five miles inland until the NHS miraculously upgrades it in six months.

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        They do like to upgrade ’em after the fact.

  17. Chipping Pioneer

    My firearms license expires next month. I sent off my renewal application months ago.

    Of course, the RCMP’s website where you can check on the status doesn’t work. So I call the phone number. The [nice lady] tells me that my renewal has been approved. However, there’s some problem with printing the cards, so they’re producing them with “limited capacity”. There’s no guarantee s to when I’ll get the card.

    What happens if I don’t get the card before the current one expires? No problem if I don’t use it transport my firearms.

    What happens if I don’t get the card before hunting session? Well, I’m taking the chance that any game warden I might encounter isn’t a dick about not carrying the card with me.

    Effectively, it’s like an administrative temporary confiscation.

    Fuck off, slavers.

    What happens if I d

    1. Raston Bot

      ^Virginia in six months

      sadly, i’m not joking.

      1. 61North

        Is there a rural/urban divide with cops/rangers/RCMP in Canada when it comes to firearms? I was pulled over in way northern BC with several firearms and told the Mountie that I had my guns in locked, hard-sided cases and he shrugged and didn’t ask for the paperwork I had to fill out at the border. I don’t think the TPS or Montreal police would have been so indifferent about things.

        1. Chipping Pioneer

          Probably. Long guns are pretty common in rural areas and, IMO, the cops there usually don’t fuss about them until there’s a problem.

          Problem is that the laws and regulations are written in Ottawa by people who are elected largely by urban voters.

          1. Chipping Pioneer

            Another problem is that the RCMP can administratively reclassify firearms as restricted or prohibited.

          2. Gustave Lytton

            -PE90

          3. 61North

            Ottawa: Where Fun Goes to Die. What a boring ass city.

          4. Chipping Pioneer

            Example: Food trucks.

            A few years ago, there was a lottery for food truck permits,wherein city staff chose the types and locations of permitted trucks.

      2. Chipwooder

        I weep for the future of my state.

    1. Private Chipperbot

      That, sir, was a Canadian Man! Here’s video of him picking up the beer.

      1. Chipping Pioneer

        True story: My dad got a free case of beer with that trick.

        The mouse wasn’t in the bottle to start with, but he left some empties in the garage for a while, and a mouse ended up in one of them.

        I guess the Brewers’ Retail clerk hadn’t seen the movie.

    2. I fail to see the problem. It does boost does it not?

    3. ElspethFlashman

      At least he was thinking of the kiddo!

    1. Raston Bot

      oh shit that’s good

    2. wdalasio

      Yeah, but my bet is that Pelosi will be making sure that, politically at least, their cement shoes has a whole different version of meaning.

    3. Cacciatore

      RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAACCCIIISSSSTTT!!!!!!!!!!!

    4. BakedPenguin

      Who’s the one in the lead?

      1. Chipping Pioneer

        Looks like Beavis.

      2. CPRM

        I believe it is Cinema.

        1. Talib. Synema has been quite moderate in her Senate career so far, outside of the stripper shoes.

          1. Dem tits doh.

  18. Pope Jimbo

    OK Minnesoda Glibs, it is time to start working on your woke costumes. I’m sure you will want to strut your stuff in them when the US Women’s National Soccer Team plays Ireland at Allianz Field on Sept. 3rd.

    It will be like a WNBA Lynx game on steroids!

    1. Tundra

      Classless clitflickers? Soccer?

      Hard pass.

      But I think a giant walking penis would be a perfect costume, though.

    2. Chipwooder

      I want to see their rematch with the FC Dallas boys U-15 squad. I’ll bet those girls could give the eigth and ninth graders a real run for their money this time!

      1. Gustave Lytton

        They only lost because their good sports and didn’t want to show up a bunch of kids.

        /future Title IX narrative

        1. Future? They’re already saying that.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    If you have to take the pulley off to get to the mounts, how are you going to get to the mounts on the new pump?

    Pump comes with no pulley mounted. You install the pulley after you bolt the pump to the bracket, with the “special installation tool” (a 3/8 coarse bolt which screws into the pump shaft, and a nut on the bolt with which you force the pulley hub onto the shaft).

    1. Mad Scientist

      This is an Audi-level design flaw.

      1. Cacciatore

        The engine didn’t have to come out so not even close.

        1. 61North

          To change the oil on the new Ford Ranger you have take off one of the front wheels.

          1. Tundra

            That’s how you changed the battery in the old Chrysler 300.

          2. l0b0t

            Also required to replace the headlight in the PT Cruiser.

          3. Chipping Pioneer

            The whole unit, or even just to change the bulb?

  20. Hyperion

    I’m just waiting for wifey unit to get ready so we can go out and I can drink some beer, at a bar. Somehow it tastes better at a bar.

    1. Private Chipperbot

      We’re doing backyard drive in (not a euphemism, unfortunately). Going to grab a growler of something, start a fire, and get the movies going.

      1. Hyperion

        Growlers and setting stuff on fire… sounds American good time to me. I’m going to the bar where there’s no Eurofag ball on the screens.

        1. Spudalicious

          Watch out for the clitflickers.

  21. BakedPenguin

    Vermont has a reputation as a pretty granola state, but I was surprised by this.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Someone dropped some seeds in for fun. Probably laughing their ass off right now.

  22. Grumbletarian

    Michigan cops run a red light in an unmarked vehicle and get hit by another car, then they jump out and arrest the driver.

    http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/msp-crash-in-which-officer-ran-stop-sign-arrested-other-driver-under-investigation

    1. Grumbletarian

      And there’s security camera footage.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A_jLgTaRjQ

      1. Mad Scientist

        The Jeep absolutely takes out that fire hydrant. Why is there no geyser?

        1. Private Chipperbot

          Dude. It’s Detroit and it’s been 90 degrees for two days. Every other hydrant in the city is probably open for swimming.

        2. 61North

          I can’t load the video thanks to my garbage ass internet, but I *think* that hydrants can be shut off where they tap into the water main so there’s no water in them. That’s my understanding for cold weather places.

        3. Enough About Palin

          That only happens in movies. I hit a hydrant back in the 70’s knocking it off of it’s mount. They have some sort of mechanism that shuts off the water when that happens.

        4. Gadfly

          All fire hydrants in my area (and I assume many other places as well) are installed with a valve on the line leading to the hydrant. There is no water in the hydrant until the valve (which is flush with the ground and so cannot be unintentionally damaged) is turned to the “on” position.

        5. Spudalicious

          That’s a dry barrel hydrant. The valve is located below the frost line. On the west coast, they’re be a 40′ geyser of water, and from personal experience, the shutoff valve would be right where the geyser hits the street.

      2. Private Chipperbot

        I’m sure we’ll also find out the body cam malfunctioned in the accident. Thank goodness those people had a cam on their porch.

    2. Juvenile Bluster

      And they apparently still haven’t given back the dude’s drivers license and phone.

      Maria is still trying to get information from the police. She said MSP has Carlos’s license and his phone.

      “When I asked the cop to give me his supervisor’s number, so I could call and get my son’s items back, he didn’t want to give me no information.”

      It’s a good thing there was surveillance video from a third party, because you known damn well the dash cam on the police car wouldn’t have seen the light of day.

    3. Hyperion

      The driver they caused an accident with is lucky they didn’t jump out guns blazing.

    4. CPRM

      It does appear the other guy could be speeding, and with reaction time that slow he could never live in deer country.

      1. Hyperion

        It still amazes me how people don’t see them. I learned it when driving in Indiana, because if you don’t see them, you will soon have a smashed up car. I can’t even count the times I’ll see them at night when my wife and I are out and about and she’ll be like ‘what are you stopping for?’ and then I’ll point to the 3 deer standing right in the middle of the road. I’ve known people who have hit them multiple times and I’m thinking ‘What, are you blind or just stupid?’.

        1. Cacciatore

          Yes.

        2. B.P.

          I have a friend who hit a cow at 65 mph. It was a little rainy, though, so visibility factored in.

          1. Scruffy Nerfherder

            Sneaky bastards, those cows

          2. Gustave Lytton

            I did that. Though I didn’t hit at that speed due to braking.

            Dark cow, dark two lane highway and cow was angled so it blended into the same color pavement and didn’t break up the lines. By the time my headlights illuminated it, there wasn’t enough braking distance left.

          3. I’m Here To Help

            I nearly hit one driving from Birmingham down to Auburn. Only thing that saved me was the trucks going in the opposite direction flashing their lights at me. I thought there was a cop, but rounded a corner to see a big freaking bull standing in the middle of the road. Locked up the brakes and skidded to a halt inches from that thing – it’s head was over my hood. It just stood there staring at me.

            Drove up to the next gas station and called it in:

            “911, what’s your emergency?”

            “There’s a cow standing in the middle of 280. It’s going to cause a nasty accident.”

            “Can you describe it?”

            “…. It’s a ****ing cow standing in the middle of the ****ing road. I think that’s enough of a description.”

          4. Gustave Lytton

            Oh, forgot the best part. There were 911 calls and dispatch logs for loose cows on the highway prior to my accident.

            And the cow’s owner tried to recover damages because he met the minimal duty standard for livestock (something like making sure they have sufficient food and water, nothing about fencing and this wasn’t in an open range area)

          5. OneOut

            Big bull head over my hood or cow in the road.

            Dude you confused them with your description.

          6. Reminds me of an event from my misspent youth that involved a 1970 Mustang convertible, a big maple tree, a really, really cute girl, a halter top, and an old billy-goat.

            I should probably save that for an Allamakee County Chronicles post.

          7. peachy rex

            So long as you don’t describe the billy goat as “really, really cute.”

        3. I had a deer run up to my car from an angle behind me and hit it. Good damage, but drivable. Deer died. It wasn’t a huge one.

          1. B.P.

            That sounds more like dog behavior.

          2. There were 2, the first one I saw, but it peeled away from the path of my car, the second it was too late — I had nowhere to go and it had committed to the path.

        4. SP

          Deer totaled two of my cars when I lived in very rural Finger Lakes area and worked nights. Both came barreling at full speed down forested hills and across the road as I was coming into a curve that blocked the road ahead.

          Pulled many people out of deer vs car MVAs there as well over the years. Almost all were in spots that made it unavoidable.

          I guess curvy, hilly roads aren’t such a problem in Indiana. ?

          1. Tundra

            Yikes!

            Btw, I saw your answer to my EMT question late. Thanks for the info.

          2. Worst one was a guy who just hit the deer completely wrong. Total freak occurrence. It bounced up and through his windshield, impaling him in the chest with the antlers as the deer’s neck broke. I suspect the driver never even knew what hit him…so to speak.

            When it’s your time, it’s your time.

          3. Only in Southern Indiana, but that doesn’t really count.

            When my wife hit a deer, it was in one of the more visible straight areas around here. However, the deer hit her rather than vice versa, the drivers side fender. I’m gonna end up nailing one eventually. Way too many blind curves and way too many deer.

      2. Appear? that guy was hauling ass. I’m no expert but can you T-bone helicopter a SUV at 35.

  23. Pan Zagloba

    So yesterday I found out that City of Vancouver practices Georgianism.

    Vancouver’s ‘boldest’ plan for property tax surges that are killing local businesses

    Properties are taxed not on their existing use, but based on “highest and best use,” meaning some local businesses have recently had property taxes double or triple in just a few years. Many family businesses operate in older one- and two-storey buildings sitting on increasingly expensive land. Their properties are assessed — and taxed — as though the property were developed to the highest use based on factors like area zoning. In many cases, that’s a new building with five storeys of condos above one floor of commercial space.

    Those businesses have been paying taxes on millions of dollars of unbuilt development potential in the air above their heads.

    1. Pan Zagloba

      Georgism, fuck you auto-correct, learn The Name Of True Autism!

      1. Fuck you Georgism too.

    2. BakedPenguin

      ‘Properties are taxed not on their existing use, but based on “highest and best use,”’

      Imminent Domain.

    3. PBRstreetgang

      Are all community art spaces taxed as though a hedge fund were there instead?

    4. Hyperion

      That sounds like cronyism to me. IOW, those grifters are squatting on the land of some of the King’s men.

      1. Pan Zagloba

        You people have some strange ideas about how Canadian property laws work.

        Hint – it’s all Queen’s land.

        1. 61North

          Wouldn’t it be Crown Land?

          1. Pan Zagloba

            Yes, that’d be the correct term but doesn’t have symmetry with ‘land of King’s men’.

    5. BEAM’s not a team player

      Man, I’m glad I moved away from that shithole.

    6. Tulip

      Alexandria has something similar

  24. Enough About Palin

    So I’m riding the 5-bus home from work a couple of days ago and this woman gets on who says she only has a ten dollar bill and asks if anyone has change, so she can pay the fare ($2.50) This is a common ghetto ploy, the hope being that no one will have change and the driver will just let them ride anyway. Well of course no one had change, but someone had a transfer and gave it to her, which she used to pay the fare. Well the bus drive told her that no, she still hadn’t paid her fare and this woman started yelling at the driver that yes, she’d paid. They argued for several block and after a while some guy sided with her and he began arguing with he driver too. She got off a few blocks later. How fucked up do you have to be to be willing to go through that much fucking drama just to scam the bus company out of $2.50? What a fucking bitch.

    /rant

    1. Hyperion

      “How fucked up do you have to be”

      About as fucked up as the guy I walk past every day on lunch break when I’m at my city office, and asks ‘can you spare a dime’. Really, a fucking dime? You could probably just look on the sidewalk and scrounge up more lost change than that in a few minutes, but I guess that is too much work.

    2. 61North

      Can of malt liquor > bus ticket.

    3. grrizzly

      The need for exact change is a drawback of using buses. Before Boston introduced the Charlie Card I was routinely unable to take a bus even when I was in a hurry and a bus was going to my destination.

    4. Rhywun

      In NYC the bus drivers don’t even bother – I bet they are instructed not to. What’s a couple hundred million dollars lost revenue to them?

      1. Fatty Bolger

        Isn’t it also official policy to ignore turnstile jumpers on the subway?

        1. Fatty Bolger

          Sorry, unofficial policy.

          1. Rhywun

            Sometimes there’ll be a cop down there watching, but otherwise there’s nobody to stop you.

    5. Penny wise and pound foolish, but without the penny wise part.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Properties are taxed not on their existing use, but based on “highest and best use,” meaning some local businesses have recently had property taxes double or triple in just a few years.

    If those people cannot maximize the return on their property, the state should give it to someone who can. That’s just good sense.

    1. +1 Susette Kelo

    2. Scruffy Nerfherder

      “Highest and best use”

      So…… brothels?

      1. SP

        With a “coffee shop” attached.

  26. SP

    What should have been a 5 minute conversation turned into nearly an hour long WOMBAT. *sigh* I try never to have meetings on Fridays. Or any other time.

    1. Tulip

      Similar meeting today. I’m drinking a martini. Tomorrow, I’m meeting a guy who says he is libertarian.

      1. Mad Scientist

        Try to verify that your date isn’t our resident FOREST LAWYER first.

        1. Pope Jimbo

          A FOREST LAWYER is more likely to show up to a date than a libertarian woman.

      2. Spudalicious

        When he says, “Hello, my name is so and so”, you should respond with, “Fuck off Tulpa!”. His response will answer the libertarian question.

        1. leon

          Lol, as long as his name isn’t Stephen Smythe

      3. I wanted a black Russian but no Kahlua in the house. Perusing my options now.

        Before you even sit down tomorrow, say, “Complete this sentence: Fuck off, ….”

        If he has one of the two acceptable answers, then you can proceed.

  27. Chipwooder

    I don’t usually collide my worlds, but I have to share this one because I can’t believe people such as these exist. So, over on my Giants board, a discussion of the baby girl whose idiot grandfather put her on a railing in front of an open window from the 11th deck of a cruise ship and accidentally dropped her…….and here is the kind of idiocy I’m dealing with when I and a few other sensible souls comment how the responsibility for the tragedy is entirely on the grandfather:

    Eh…
    trueblueinpw : 12:58 pm : link : reply
    I’m not sure what the argument is here? The family shouldn’t be allowed to bring suit? And this is determined by a standard of personal responsibility? The delta between posters is exactly what a court would consider.

    If you operate a business that serves toddlers and old people, you have a responsibility to make the environment safe. I argue a standard of safety similar to that of a hotel or apartment building. Here, a toddler died, the grampa wasn’t try to kill the kid, so, I don’t think the level of safety was adequate.

    Regarding “personal responsibility” the other side of that argument would be, I guess, business or corporate responsibility. Does the company have no culpability here? Should they be allowed to operate under any conditions? Should they be allowed to leave, for instance, booze unattended and claim that parents and guardians are solely responsible for keeping their wards safe? Should the company be free to sell tickets to old people and toddlers and leave random windows open in all areas? Probably not, and I think the courts will help establish reasonable standards for safety and personal responsibility.

    to which I reply

    RE: Eh…
    Greg from LI : 1:03 pm : link : reply

    In comment 14497403 trueblueinpw said:
    Quote:
    Does the company have no culpability here?

    Nope. Where does this nonsense end? If a kid jams a fork in an outlet, is that the cruise line’s fault? If a parent leaves a baby unattended in a full bath tub and the child drowns, does the cruise line bear responsibility if there weren’t warning signs plastered all over everything?

    I just want to get you on record here – your argument is that a mature, ostensibly functional adult has to be warned against holding a one year old at (or possible even outside of) a window overlooking a hundred foot drop?

    which draws this reply

    RE: RE: RE: RE: Eh…
    trueblueinpw : 3:24 pm : link : reply
    In comment 14497601 Bill L said:
    Quote:
    and the fork question?

    The fork question is also a straw man, likely with no serious intention of debate, but I’ll bite b/c I’m in SFO with two hours to kill.

    The fork in electric socket question requires context and subsequent deliberation. Is the toddler in a day care? A school? A lab or an office complex? Perhaps on an airplane or a train? From where did the fork come and by whom was the fork given to the toddler?

    Does personal responsibility completely exonerated and exempt all companies and persons from any and all liability and responsibility for everything? Of course that’s a ridiculous position I’m certain you don’t take. But, to me at least, it’s the other side of the “personal responsibility” argument.

    As usual, the answer is somewhere in between. I don’t think taking a toddler to sea makes any sense whatsoever. Less so, to hoist said toddler atop a guard rail in front of an open window. But, the cruise line markets to families and sells tickets to toddlers and old people and so has a responsibility to provide a reasonably safe environment. I think. And as previously said, a window large enough to pass through a small child above more 100 feet of concrete (and open ocean!) doesn’t satisfy my notion of reasonably safe.

    I FEEL LIKE I’M TAKING CRAZY PILLS!

    1. Rhywun

      I can’t stand hotels with their windows bolted shut now. I imagine I would feel the same way about a cruise ship.

      1. Chipwooder

        Those windows are in a semi-enclosed area near the pool area. We went on cruise on a very similar Royal Carribean ship last summer. It’s shaded, but it can get pretty damned hot anyway. That’s why the windows are there, so you can get a nice breeze sitting at your table. Because of dipshits like this, they’ll close the windows permanently and make people sweat.

    2. Scruffy Nerfherder

      FYI. You are taking crazy pills.

      But that guy is a moron.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        He is also a strong argument for the return of true patriarchal standards, under which he would have been drummed out of society for being a massive pussy.

    3. Old Man With Candy

      I FEEL LIKE I’M TAKING CRAZY PILLS!

      Well, you’re a Giants fan, so naturally.

      1. Chipwooder

        Nah, that’s not crazy – been shitty lately but I’ve seen them play in five Super Bowls and win four of them.

        The fact that I still bother with the Knicks, now THAT’S crazy.

        1. Old Man With Candy

          I greatly enjoyed their Super Bowl against the Ravens.

    4. B.P.

      So a “reasonably safe environment” means putting in place safeguards for those who don’t know windows that open to high places might subject one to the dangers of gravity? This guy needs to live in a nursing home; the world is much too chaotic and unsafe for him.

    5. I thought the issue was that they were goofing around in the room, the grandpa tripped and fell into the window, causing the toddler to crash through and fall 11 stories.

      Thats a horrible situation, but a situation where grandpa is the negligent one AND one of the victims. I HATE the hunt for the biggest pockets that happens every time there’s a tragedy.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        There is a strong presumption that the deepest pockets should pay in American culture now. I find it disgusting.

    6. Gustave Lytton

      I’m sorry. I was talking with my brother the other day about the rental fees his city is levying to “improve rental housing quality”. He replied that the worst part is the city is just pocketing the money instead of hiring enforcement officials or educating tenants about their rights. I just sort of dropped it at that point.

    7. Grumbletarian

      Here, a toddler died, the grampa wasn’t try to kill the kid, so, I don’t think the level of safety was adequate.

      “Accommodations must be accident-proof!”

      Sheesh, what an idiot.

  28. BEAM’s not a team player

    Huh.

    Whilst driving back from the Toyota dealership (I needed a new front windshield for the RAV4), I got behind a baby blue 1968 Type 54 Lotus Europa.

    That’s something you don’t see every day. It seemed incongruous to my mind that the guy was pulling into a Home Depot.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      That is a weird looking car.

      1. BEAM’s not a team player

        I certainly did a double-take. Amazingly low to the ground, too.

    2. blighted_non_millenial

      Thicc.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    A Lotus Europa, you say. Nice. There’s no way I could contort myself into (or out of) one, these days. They sure are cute, though.

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      He’s screwed: Too male, too white, and too old to be taken seriously for a national Dem nomination. Also, I’m fairly certain he must have had a mild stroke or something similar in the past.

    2. That’s a disaster.

      1. I’m with Stinky; I think he’s got a neurological problem. He looks and sounds absolutely terrible.

  30. Chipwooder

    Brooke Singman

    @brookefoxnews
    NEW: on @justicedems plans to primary members, a senior Democratic source said: ”
    “No one is afraid of those nerds. They don’t have the ability to primary anyone.”

    584
    3:06 PM – Jul 12, 2019 · Manhattan, NY

    *snickering*

  31. Stinky Wizzleteats

    A good (and long) article on the Mueller report and the Russia nonsense by an actual principled leftist (Aaron Mate). For anyone who isn’t sick of the story it’s a must read:

    https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/07/05/crowdstrikeout_muellers_own_report_undercuts_its_core_russia-meddling_claims.html

  32. The Late P Brooks

    I’d rather have a Lotus Seven (replica).

    1. I am not a number, I am a free man!

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Let’s see then do that at 40 at that weight.

  33. The Bearded Hobbit

    Spent some time on the phone with the IRS today. They sent me a notice that I had made a mistake on my taxes. I figured out what I was doing wrong but there was still a discrepancy between what they claimed for my AGI and my records. I finally had the lady walk through my return line by line. Imagine my embarrassment when I discovered that I had transposed some numbers when copying from my spreadsheet to the paper form. The first was a legitimate mistake on my part for understanding the tax code. The second was simply a bonehead mistake.

    Before everyone says “electronic filing”, electronic would cost me money for the software and I hate to pay to be robbed.

    1. SP

      Which costs more, the penalty or the software?

    2. DenverJ

      It’s free from several places. They hope you will pay them to e-file state taxes, but you don’t have to. The federal return is free. FREE

      1. The Bearded Hobbit

        My state has an online system that has no cost. The free filing software for Federal is for a simple return, 1040 only. I have to file Schedule E and (up until last year) Schedules C and A. You have to pay for those.

        1. Yeah, I had to pay last year because I got a 1099.

      2. BakedPenguin

        ‘The federal return is free.’

        An especially good deal if you live in FL or NH, or any other state with no state income tax

  34. The Bearded Hobbit

    Which costs more, the penalty or the software?

    The extra money paid would have been required either way. My penalty cost $5.17. Software is $50 or so. Plus, this is the first time in, well, forever that I’ve made this bonehead mistake. Software would have cost me $50 or so for every year in the past so I’m still well ahead.

    1. SP

      Yep, then you’re ahead. I don’t chance it with my complicated business structures.

    2. Scruffy Nerfherder

      I spend very large sums on tax compliance every year. Part of owning a business.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        To be clear, I’m incapable and unwilling to do it anymore. I pay someone else for the insurance.

      2. My CPA is very reasonable only a couple hundred a year, but all the time consuming shit is annoying. I spend a couple hours every Sunday on bullshit paperwork, Receipts and mileage and checks in and out, photocopy this, print out that…. all I want to do is make sawdust and drink beer, is that too much to ask?

        1. Scruffy Nerfherder

          Yes, yes it is

    1. Rhywun

      America’s sweetheart.

    2. Yusef drives a Kia

      We can’t live with fish on earth either, they dry out and shit

    3. I’m Here To Help

      *tries to calculate how much bleach it would take to depopulate the world’s oceans*

    4. Pope Jimbo

      I’m sure her kid will pop out smelling plenty fishy.

  35. Yusef drives a Kia

    Good afternoon Glibs! I’m finally done for the week, enjoying a pineapple milkshake…IP
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/sKDCtKoPqxLGbVEf6
    Cheers!

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      A

      1. How’s the motel?

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          Room sucks, atmosphere excellent

    2. Tulip

      Here I was hoping for an actual pineapple milkshake. When my parents were snowbirds, my mom and I used to get a date shake once a year. It was awesome, but once a year was enough. I had pineapple ice cream on Oahu once and it was fantastic.

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        It tasted just like that, except beer, that’s why I tried it, pretty good

        1. Tulip

          Wow! Want!

  36. Ownbestenemy

    I have spent the better part of the week reviewing interview packages and resumes. People just cannot write to the job they want or write in general.

    I need a beer

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Lol, I totes get what you mean dude.

      1. Ownbestenemy

        We move from technical to analytical to management. People get stuck writing their technical skills for the analytical position and don’t actually convey how they are qualified.

        Thats great you are awesome at your job, but the job you want isnt technical. Beers are helping

    1. Lemme guess, teacher is a chick.

      1. leon

        Lesbian too.

    2. Gustave Lytton

      After meeting with the prosecutor and Walsh’s attorney in her chambers for 15 minutes, she delayed the sentencing saying ‘I just need…more time.’

      *cue porn montage music*

    1. Always Krugnuts.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        Always

    2. I’m Here To Help

      Backpfeifengesichter all of them…

    3. mexican sharpshooter

      I’d say Reich, but they say you shouldn’t punch a midget.

      1. Spudalicious

        I think he’s a clown. And as we all know, punching the clown is totes okay.

  37. Tundra

    The 1963 AH 3000 we were admiring the other day sold today.

    $62K!

    Great back and forth bidding until one dude blinked. I love auctions!

    1. DenverJ

      Buddy of mine had a 74 AH for a minute, till he blew up the engine. It was a pretty cool car, and I seriously doubt that it wasn’t hot.

      1. Tundra

        mikey is restoring a 3000 tri-carb. It’s insanely beautiful.

        1. DenverJ

          74 had tubular frame. Cassette player. Rack and pinion steering. All very advanced for the day. Oh, and positive ground.

      2. mikey

        74 with a tube frame was a replica. I think they were built in NoDAk

  38. ElspethFlashman

    The favored local bar of LH and I (we could stagger home if we had to) was unexpectedly closed about 10 days ago. . . because the owner stopped paying rent to the building owners. Sigh. Which has lead us to branch out, which is OK, except I am out of my comfort zone! Baby steps, I know, baby steps.

    1. Tundra

      Hang in there, kid.

      It’s gonna be alright.

  39. commodious spittoon

    An afternoon Winston’s Mom article? What are we, French*?

    *or some other European stereotype I don’t really understand

  40. commodious spittoon

    So: my team lead tells me I have a job offer. They’re putting together a packet and I’ll see it next week. It’s full time and he mentioned salary (???) but I don’t know whether he meant the word generically. I’ve never been on salary. But he said benefits, and he hopes to keep me on for a long time. Well, shine me on all you like as long as there’s a paycheck every other Thursday. Tonight I’m buying myself the most expensive bottle of scotch Smith’s sells in a plastic container, and I’m going to celebrate the only way I know how: with tremendous regret tomorrow morning.

    1. Tulip

      Congrats!

      1. commodious spittoon

        Thanks!

    2. Spudalicious

      Woohoo!

    3. Yusef drives a Kia

      Good dealio!

    4. straffinrun

      How The Call of the Wild begins.

      1. commodious spittoon

        I’ve never read it. I read the companion piece, White Fang, because it came free with an ebook app. That was fun.

        1. straffinrun

          One of the few books that I still remember even though it has been decades since I read it.

    5. Semi-Spartan Dad

      Nice, congrats!!

    6. Way to go man. Go get laid.

      1. Pope Jimbo

        Make sure you pick out your lucky partner though before you finish that plastic bottle of scotch.

        *Congratulations by the way!

  41. Sean

    I am officially on vacation.

    Fuck yeah!

    *fist pumps, Billy Idol style*

    1. Tulip

      Where are you headed?

      1. Pope Jimbo

        Into the Danger Zone!

        1. Spudalicious

          I like the cut of your jib.

        2. Tulip

          Looks lovely

        3. Sean

          We head out Monday. I’m looking forward to it.

        4. mock-star

          I literally live 20 minutes from there.

  42. DenverJ

    You go

    1. straffinrun

      Fuck Yerself?

      1. straffinrun

        That came off rude. Morning, DJ.

    2. Yusef drives a Kia

      Are you in Denver? I’m in Castle rock, what to do besides drink?

      1. Tulip

        Read Stephen King novels?

    3. Aus

      Covfefe

    1. commodious spittoon

      hired by Jeremy Corbyn to build bridges

      She’s beavering away at it.

    2. BakedPenguin

      “A Labour activist who claimed anti-Semitism is being ‘weaponised against the Left’”

      Well, if they’re anything like our own left, they’re the ones engaging in it.

      1. commodious spittoon

        Oh goodness, yes. Their campus lefties make ours look like Baptist pastor’s daughter ingenues.

  43. Stinky Wizzleteats
  44. straffinrun

    So, this article is giving Stelter and the rest of the goobers in the MSM a severe case of the vapors. They really need them some SF.

    https://newrepublic.com/article/154457/mayor-pete-problem?utm_content=bufferd1591&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

    1. leon

      I only skimmed but I got to the part where he called Buttigieg a gay Uncle Tom. This person sounds like a terrible person. The whole part where he brings up a grudge he’s held for years is telling of his chars

    2. grrizzly

      Thanks. That was entertaining.

    3. Chafed

      It’s been taken down.

  45. Sensei

    Evangelion coming to Netflix has brought me great joy. But I’m pretty sure not the way Netflix intended.

    https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neap3g/neon-genesis-evangelion-feels-more-explicitly-queer-thanks-to-this-trans-voice-actor-netflix

    Also enjoying how folks are focused on “suki” in Japanese which means “to like” or “to love”. One of the key characteristics of Japanese and especially this word and concept IS the ambiguous meaning of this word.

    Note:

    Content Warning: Transphobia and gender dysphoria.

    Spoilers for Neon Genesis Evangelion follow.

    1. straffinrun

      I find it disgusting that 好きmeans you love little girls.

      1. Does that translate to “OMWC”?

        1. straffinrun

          女 means “woman”. 子 means “child”. Put them together and it means “like”. So, yes.

          1. straffinrun

            Put three women together and you get .

          2. Sensei

            Put a roof over one and they get cheap!

            https://jisho.org/search/%23kanji%20%E5%AE%89

          3. commodious spittoon


            wicked
            mischief
            seduce
            rape
            noisy

            Um. I’ve seen those videos too, but I figured the lesbian seduction was consensual.

      2. Sensei

        Well we’ve got “koi” and “ai” for good measure.

        Honestly it’s a bit Greek like with eros, agape, philia.

        1. Sensei

          Oh heck – that whooshed right by.

          To decode the joke that character’s components are female and child.

    1. commodious spittoon

      But how do I keep my breasts juicy and succulent? I knew I should have bought thighs.

      1. Sean

        Butter. Rub them with butter. (Kerrygold) ?

  46. Chafed

    For those who saw my Vidcon post last night, Poppy isn’t here but has a merch booth. If you want your t-shirt, record, or poster let me know.