Friday arrives, and with it, my friend Frigga. Here in Arizona, the gila monsters are happily chirping, the coyotes are contentedly munching on roadrunners, and Sheriff Joe is on the veranda of his estate, sipping Montrachet. And here I am putting links together before the crack of dawn. Where the fuck did I go wrong in life?
Happy Birthday today to an actor who had LDS; some guy you kids wouldn’t know; living proof that attitude is more important than actual talent; and of course, a brown frothy ooze.
And ooze rhymes with news, so let’s get to the brown, frothy news items.
Nice that you’ve suddenly figured this out.
“I’m fired up, can’t grammar no more!”
You have to admire someone who brings Jews and Muslims together.
Apparently, we don’t care about officer safety anymore.
Old Guy Music features someone I posted about last week, Popa Chubby, nee Ted Horowitz. It takes balls to cover a Hendrix cover, it takes talent to pull it off. Popa has talent.
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Theirs a bird outside that keeps yelling at me about cheeseburgers.
Chickadee I think. Morning cries sound like “Cheeseburger! Cheeseburger!” I’m probably wrong.
Are you certain it’s not a blue jay?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M0LcH7-ME0
No worries until he starts talking about Snaffaluffagus.
He’s not wrong. I have a cheeseburger in the fridge ready to be re-warmed.
Speaking of drunk: Upgrade on our flight from Newark to Grand Rapids tonight. Free booze!
Grats on getting out of Joisey.
I can’t imagine what flying is like these days. I feature being strapped down and made to watch the in-flight movie like a bad Droog.
The last time I flew, the movie was played on a monitor fitted to the back of the seat in front of you, and you could pick from a catalog of channels, including one that just showed the plane’s current position.
Now the seats are even smaller and they just stream the bad movies and TV shows to your device via wifi. I kind of like the map channel with the plane’s position so I know what I’m looking at out the window and when I can unfold my body.
I admit, I last flew in 2012/2013 sometime.
I flew back in Feb for the first time in 9 years. Delays forced me to miss my connection and I had to stay overnight in a hotel at my expense. Everything about the flights reaffirmed why I avoid flying like the plague.
Added Bonus, if you bring your battered felt hat to tip over your face while you nap, you can pretend you are Indiana Jones going on a swashbuckling adventure when instead you may be just flying to Indiana.
Way to kill my hyperbole stone-dead, UCS. Did you wear your “Ackshaully” gloves when you typed that little tidbit?
Actually… I thought “A Bad Droog” was the title of a film.
:golf clap:
+1 https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1191039-ackchyually
Awesome! you ackchyuallied my ackshually! Meta.
including one that just showed the plane’s current position
Did you watch that, and only that, for the duration of the flight?
No, at most half the flight.
I have. I’ve also watched Hot Fuzz multiple times on flights because nothing else is worth looking at.
I won’t fly anymore unless it’s an emergency. My 97 year old grandfather quit flying after he left the army back in 1962. He said he had too many flights in sardine cans and would never fly again. Imagine what he would think of modern flight…
My grandmother wouldn’t take long drives, so when they would visit my uncle in California my grandpa drove and she flew. Of course, they also slept in separate rooms… Make no mistake they loved each other immensely. Only time I saw my grandpa cry was when she died back in 2007.
Flying across the country in 5 hours with a ticket that cost one weeks pay at minimum wage? Terrible.
I didn’t use the word terrible, nor did I suggest others should view exactly as I do. But when you consider the whole process, it takes more than 5 hours. Then you need a ride to and from the airport. Probably need to rent a car when you get there, etc… Not to mention how poorly I feel for the next 24 hours due to the toll it takes. Throw in how uncomfortable sitting in those seats is for 5 hours and yes I’ll drive thanks.
My living pretty much requires me to fly, and to fly regularly at that. Having some status with the airline helps as you get better seats.
What about access to purdy young stewardesses?
You’re going to be in Grand Rapids? ::looks nervous::
But Grand Rapids is becoming a destination!
Well we do have the best beer in the world.
?
That would either be Belgium (Westvleteren), Santa Rosa CA (Russian River), or Kalamazoo MI (Bells). But Grand Rapids does have some very good beer.
I really have no idea if my statement is true but there are some good brew pubs here; I’ve enjoyed the beer here more than Asheville.
It’s never about the beer. Don’t blame your social awkwardness on the finest of God’s beverages.
Weihenstephan, Germany is also a finalist.
We just got a feeler and I may have a consulting gig in Grand Rapids soon. Should I be excited?
Did you like getting felt?
Excited might be the wrong word – but GR certainly is better than the 70s-80s when it was a ghost town during the weekend. Now there are a lots of brewpubs, bars, night life, concerts, a hockey team, etc – and Lake Michigan is less than an hour away.
Also a lot more foodie than the old days; always something new to try out.
Only to see a kid graduate college. I won’t have too much time to tear things up.
Sadly.
We are the richest nation on earth and our poor homeless have to use antiquated printed mags to jerk off? For shame!
People deserve a living page.
Library was closed.
““Pants pulled down to the ankles pleasuring himself like he was at an amusement park,” said Robert Ellis.”
That’s what people do at amusement parks?
/looks innocent
You may be innocent of an amusement park, but your van has been the scene of many an amusement drive and even an amusement reverse or two.
He puked on the Zipper.
I’m proud that NYC has installed free computer kiosks all over Manhattan. I have NEVER seen anyone but homeless folk using them and, despite the article’s claim of porn filters, I often see homeless men pleasuring themselves while watching pornography on them.
https://www.mcall.com/news/nation-world/mc-nyc-homeless-using-wi-fi-hotspots-20160823-story.html
” men pleasuring themselves while watching pornography on them”
….and Repubs watching Trump’s incoherent rants…
Pleasuring themselves?
Maybe they were looking at Glamour.
That Virginia Postrel IS irresistible.
Well the internet is a basic human right. It’s written in the Constitution.
They are just getting ready for a job interview and don’t want to appear nervous.
>>1 cop fired, 1 on leave after 76 gunshots fired at fleeing driver in busy Southern California neighborhood
>>DA investigators say officers weren’t criminally culpable in shooting, but sharply criticize their actions.
Oh no – they were criticized. I’m sure they’re feeling all bad ‘n’ stuff.
“OK, which of you is this?”
Here’s your song Rosie
I enjoyed Donovan a whole lot more than Bono.
“Season of the Witch” is a good tune. If I never hear “Hurdy-Gurdy Man” again I’ll die happy.
Superman and Green Lantern ain’t got nothing on you.
Gator needs his gat, you punk-ass bitch.
Convicted Child Rapist Vows To ‘Rape The First Woman He Sees’ After Release
On a somewhat OT note, I was walking in the woods and came upon a tied up, recently violated woman. That’s when I knew, I was going in circles.
GPS coordinates or it didn’t happen.
It’s fine bitch raping time!
*snort* .
STEVE SMITH WOULD LIKE TALK TO YOU ABOUT JOINING CASCADIA RAPESQUATCH ASSOCIATION. DUES NOT EXCESSIVE. MANY FUN OUTINGS.
That is a bald faced lie. You go into the woods with STEVE SMITH, expect only IN-INGS. And not fun.
STEVE SMITH SAY SHOULD EXPECT LITTLE HYPERBOLE IN ADVERTISING.
Let’s see, I’ve got my STEVE SMITH decoder cock ring right here.
Hmmm…. HYPERBOLE = RAPE
OK, next…. ADVERTISING = ASS
OK. Got your transmission and will make sure to drink my ovaltine.
more like: STEVE SMITH RAPE RAPE RAPE RAPE RAPE RAPE RAPE
“I’m fired up, can’t grammar no more!” – just burn the whole damn thing to the ground
“There is no hard and fast definition for constitutional crisis … but when you have the president of the United States deny Congress the opportunity to perform its lawful oversight duties and that involves him, then you’ve got a crisis,” Green said. – I think a clear definition would be sort of useful
They mean “constitutional crisis” as in “we keep shitting in our pants”.
I mean the colloquial use of “constitutional Crisis” would mean anytime Congress is upset that they pissed away all their authority to the president.
They don’t seem to realize that they are but one half of the Congress and it is starting to really grind my gears. What’s the Senate? Chopped liver? (Pace Preet)
Dammit, slept on my shoulder wrong and now I’m seized up. I need Valium.
is there another way to sleep? your shoulder usually is there
Veteran of shoulder surgeries feels your pain.
I dislocated my shoulder the Sunday before last. Happens every now and then. Had a total knee replacement a year ago, which is preferable to a shoulder dislocation as it hurts for weeks.
When I get seized up I usually need Barium
>>Activists, progressive lawmakers push Pelosi on Trump impeachment
Please please! ::grabs popcorn::
Sure fire way to get him reelected…
Booth was a Mormon?
Oh Lincoln Derangement Syndrome
*narrows gaze….slightly*
I had the same thought, after ruling out LAS
err, LSD.
For all you romantic Glibs looking for something to get your wife for Mother’s Day. A fun (and sexy!) present to show how much you appreciate her.
I think the fabric spells D-I-V-O-R-C-E
I don’t know. My wife is a Vikings fan too. If it only had horns printed on the sides.
At least you wouldn’t have to worry about any rings.
But my washer would probably stop working in January when the playoffs start.
At least it has an open ass-end?
That’s the useless thing I’ve ever seen.
Right? You can see right through that burka.
I think it is actually Demi Rose’s nightie
The sexiest part is when you take it off.
I believe impeachment is the solution to a constitutional crisis
Impeachment and lawsuits are always an option so it literally is not a “constitutional crisis”.
Constitutional crisis is when the military gets involved.
Home invasion gun fight captured on dramatic surveillance video
I shocking part of the story – a gang kicked in a door in a Kentucky trailer park and expected to not be shot.
Looks like that crew managed to get out without getting hit. What a shame.
It looked remarkably like every no-knock raid video you’ve ever seen as well. Maybe kicking the door in and making a bunch of noise as you enter as a large cluster isn’t the best strategy for a late-night assault where you’d rather nobody got shot?
So when do the cops show up and execute the residents?
That’s what tornadoes are for.
Uber IPO today. Get your wallets out, suckers.
Yesterday, in one of the Limey rags, there was a story about how Uber is the vehicle(!) for a 21st century libertarian fantasy world of serfdom and exploitation.
I wish.
What’s the recommended time to buy once it reaches realistic levels?
you should buy just before it increases and sell before it drops would be my advice
Buy high and sell low has always been my modus operandi.
*shoots some heroin*
Alright, I’m ready to buy.
Same school of economics I went to
You never go broke making a profit, and profits help you make it rain at the nuddie bar…
Compare it to Lyft to see what you should expect.
Actually whether to buy or not should probably be determines on the odds of them developing a reasonable self-driving vehicle.
Whether they develop it themselves or not, that definitely seems to be the model for the future, and they are all-in. Even if their version isn’t the eventual winner, they can just buy it from the manufacturer.
The real question in that case would be, what is the “first mover” advantage? The barrier to entry would seem to be rather low – the app is good and everything, but it isn’t like a team of four good developers couldn’t whip something similar up in a few weeks.
That is why I think **THEY** need to develop it. If google creates it, google can put them out of business. Or sell it to them and Lyft and anyone else. Which doesn’t provide them any advantage.
True… if they develop the best version themselves and do it first, they stand a really good chance of becoming the largest transportation provider in the world, including car manufacturers and airlines. IF that happened, it doesn’t really matter what price you pay today… it is still going to be chump change.
(no, I don’t prognosticate this outcome)
Keep in mind that Alphabet (parent company of Google) has invested in both Lyft and Uber.
The local taxi cartel tried to organize a strike to protest this. It didn’t work out as expected.
Why protest the IPO? It’s not as if the company changed immediately in terms of practice.
And those jokers who thought Uber subsidized the rides to “Minimize their visibility” are laughable. It’s more likely Uber didn’t hear abut it until reporters started asking questions.
Still, they managed to get a lot of national coverage for their planned strike.
I wonder why that is?
You can order orphan palanquins?
For the agriculturally inclined Glibs – the Knotweed Crises.
I’ve seen the stuff around, did not realize it was an invasive plant. Since it is edible, I suppose it will come in handy during the apocalypse – and you could just stake your goats or orphans in a patch of it to control.
Sounds like they’ve gone full retard over it in the UK.
Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) said Thursday that she has not ruled out entering the crowded Democratic primary field, though she said she has not made a decision yet.
As if we need another harpy to lose by a convincing electoral margin and remain in denial about said loss.
Abrams is gunning for Tom Perez’s job.
I say she would bring something fresh go for it
The Democrat Party where the losers are really the winners. Just like every teen-aged doorknob fantasized about.
Another one running for VP and hoping that Biden or Beto gets the top slot.
I believe impeachment is the solution to a constitutional crisis
“An riot is an ugly thing. And I think it’s just about time we had one.”
A completely manufactured constitutional crisis. The Dems have lost their minds.
That happened on November 9th, 2016, when they realized their chosen harpy lost an election they thought they had rigged in her favor and was a given.
You could see it live on TV too… which was fascinating.
At the time I was truly amazed at both the coverage and the actions of the campaign and supporters.
After all the talk about Trump conceding the election and supporting Hillary after she won, they not only didn’t call her out for her post-loss behavior, the main story became how tough this was for her and her supporters. I remember several reporters and anchors saying things like “You really have to feel for her…”
Yeah, don’t remember that kind of coverage when Romney lost… or McCaine….. Gore, yeah, actually, a little bit. Lots of conspiracy coverage too…… Bush the Elder, no…. Carter, yes – so sad to see him headed back to Plains… Ford, no – don’t make me laugh… hmmm. seems to be a pattern….
I laughed a lot. The tears and the looks of terror or dejection were priceless to me. I never connected that to the insanity that followed because I figured that for all their faults, these people still had to keep making a living and deal with the real world. Man have I had t to eat crow for having assumed they would react to it all like adults and not like spoiled insane children.
So my morning news brief was talking about the China tariffs that Trump enacted, and mentioned that Trump said China would be paying them. Then (to my great surprise) the news report mentioned that economists point out that the costs of the taxes will ultimately be paid by the consumer. It’s a good thing it’s completely different when we raise taxes on US companies, otherwise we could have a reason to reduce corporate taxes.
Excellent point. Don’t ever remember hearing anything resembling that sort of coverage.
For a minute I thought I was going to bring good news to NY Glibs. Then I realized the free beer was Michelob Ultra so never mind.
Before the craft beer thing took off, I used to enjoy Michelob beer. Back when it came in those weird 1970s type bottles. Now I can’t think of the last time I had one.
Mich Golden is always on sale at the bar, so I drink a lot of that. And as a kid those silly Mich bottles were the fancy beer we drank at high school parties.
Do they still make regular Michelob? It’s passably OK for what it is, Michelob Ultra not so much.
Michelob Dark is rather yummy.
Mich lager is still made. It’s what my old man drank when we would go fishing, so I pick up a twelve pack once a year or so for nostalgia’s sake.
That’s how I developed a taste for it at well. It was dad’s go to beer.
Too high class for the Fourscores. My dad drank the Workingman’s Beer (whatever was the cheapest on that day)
Well, my maternal grandfather always had a dozen or so cases of Busch tall-cans in the shed. I liked it well enough when I was young. Particularly growing up in South Florida where Budweiser was seemingly the State Beverage, Busch was a more flavorful alternative. I drank a great deal of Schlitz through my 20s. then I got a job at Tallahassee’s largest (by volume) beer seller and my eyes were opened to the wonderful world of stouts and porters.
When I was a kid, my dad’s go to was Lowenbrau. It used to be very common but you never see it anymore.
Last time I saw Lowenbrau, it was nasty NA stuff.
Tonight, let it be low brow.
Also, I really miss beer commercials.
https://youtu.be/UGp_1MOeOjc
I like these.
YASSS! Also – From Coney to Connecticut and Flatbush Avenue. From Jersey scenes way out to Queens they sing as millions do.
Best beer commercials ever.
Champions League & Europa League: English clubs make history by taking four final places
Ted S hardest hit.
Spurs and Arsenal to win
I hope you are right.
Not necessarily about Arsenal, but if Spurs win CL I won’t care what Arsenal does.
“I did a triple take and that’s when I noticed an obscene act taking place in front of my eyes,” said Robert.
Triple?
What was the status of his pants by his third look?
The first one was shock, the second shy and the third lustful. I’ve read those books before, Mojeaux!
taut
turgid
tumescent
“The police treated the incident with great indifference and did not immediately arrest the attackers,” Gurfinkel said. “As you can see in the video. The police did not protect me immediately and it took more than 5 minutes to complete. I have been living in Berlin for four years and did not think that would happen to me. In any case, I will continue to support my country. The police must be more vigilant in such situations.”
But that would be racist.
James Comey – they didn’t spy. They just took the
huh
https://www.weaselzippers.us/420214-comey-reasonable-totally-normal-step-to-plant-undercover-sources-in-political-campaign/
The weaponized intelligence & DOJ apparatuses of the Obama administration actually tried, not once, not twice, not thrice, but at least 5 times that we know of now, to entrap members of the Trump team or Trump himself before the election, and after not only failing every time, but losing the election and realizing they had not just been outed as engaging in criminal activities, but looking at a whole slew of legal troubles, decided to double down and try to take down the Trump presidency to protect themselves. Remember the names Stefan Halper, joseph Mifsud, Alexandra Chalupa, Natalia Veselnitskaya, and look into Oleg Deripaska.
Mueller spent the last 2 1/2 years trying to get Trump or his inner circle to react to his stupid shit so they could charge him with obstruction and failed. Now the democrats in the house are taking over where he left off, in desperation, because if they don’t play the long game (and hopefully win the WH in the next election so they can stop the people from finding out how corrupt the Obama admin and then their whole charade about collusion that followed the loss of the rigged election was) they are all going to be in legal trouble. Or at least they should be after this attempted coup.
I know that we are dealing with a propaganda machine and not the 4th estate as envisioned… but I keep expecting that at some point this is going to break and the press is going to have the scales removed from their eyes and they’ll start covering this story.
Then I realize that this thinking is delusional. That’s never going to happen. They are so far in on this that they won’t ever admit they were wrong. Not even when indictments start coming down and evidence starts getting presented. In fact, they’ll undoubtedly double-down at that point, believing there are political points to be scored by demonizing the prosecution.
If there is ever to be justice on this matter, Trump had better win re-election. Otherwise, this whole thing get wiped away before any action can be taken.
“I know that we are dealing with a propaganda machine and not the 4th estate as envisioned… but I keep expecting that at some point this is going to break and the press is going to have the scales removed from their eyes and they’ll start covering this story.”
I abandoned that particular belief a long time ago. The majority of these people are more about protecting their team’s ideology than about doing the real news. If you doubt me, just look at their reaction every time they get a story wrong (and that is because they get it wrong on purpose).
You would have figured that any one of them that realized they were played because of their own biases would be furious that the perpetrators of the hoax not only lied to them, but used them to keep the hoax going. Instead, they chose to double down on it. Now you can say that is because their fragile egos won’t permit it, but it goes far beyond that IMO.
Fucking terrible person. You’re a terrible person. You – this is not okay. This is not okay. This is not okay. [Beigel interrupts] Shut the fuck up right now. This is wrong. This is triggering. You’re not an innocent human being. You’re a terrible person.
how is that chick able to beat up someone?
Beat up is a strong term. Hit, yes. Hit a dude who just backs away and tells her to calm down.
Actually, she’s lucky that she doesn’t know how to throw a punch. Because it becomes exponentially more difficult to maintain your cool and say “calm down” instead of swinging back when you are in pain.
“Mark Harrington, president of Created Equal, told Fox News this is part of a bigger trend on college campuses.
“Students being groomed on college campuses to be leaders, writers, and thinkers of the Left are increasing in censorship and violence against those with whom they disagree,” Harrington said.
Last year, Thomas Metcalf, 21, a member of the Young Democratic Socialists of America at IU and Black Lives Matter, was charged with disorderly conduct, vandalism, and larceny-theft on Oct. 4 attacking Created Equal’s protest.
Harrington pointed out Pennsylvania state representative Brian Sims’ recent harassment on camera of pro-life women and teens is indicative of what it looks like when students like Ward come to power.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/liberal-student-arrested-punching-pro-lifer
Jillian Ward, 19, a pro-choice feminist and aspiring journalist, said she was triggered by graphic photographs depicting aborted children put up by Created Equal.
Of course she’s an aspiring journalist. Also, why is she triggered by a clumps of cells?
She doesn’t have to aspire to be a violent asshole, so she’s got that going for her,
“Also, why is she triggered by a clumps of cells?”
^This (sorta).
“Triggered” means that a traumatic memory is involuntarily brought to the front, along with a host of associated emotions.
So she was saying that she has had an abortion and she feels terrible guilt over it. The violence was a way of directing that pain outward.
When people get it into their heads that speech can be violence this is an unsurprising result.
I had an Ex that used to come at me like that. It was gratifying to bat those little lady punches away until she gave up and went to her sister’s for the night.
Heh, I hadn’t watched the video. The headline should be specify she “attempted” to beat up the pro-life activist.
If this is the standard they want then I consider their calls for socialism, speech restriction and mass disarmament to be literal violence against me and it shall be treated as such.
Something tells me you’d be labeled a far right psycho and wouldn’t be treated the same.
This, plus an inflated sense of being on the morally “right” side of an existential struggle. To them it’s perfectly acceptable to break the law in order to stop a horrific evil from happening. Unfortunately they seem to see a lot more horrific evil than the rest of us do.
They also seem to be in favor of a lot more evil than the rest of us.
In fairness there have been violent actors on the other side with similar beliefs. Once you buy in to the “abortion is murder” argument, violence isn’t really all that irrational.
While distasteful, I get the point that the photos provide elucidation of what an abortion actually is.
^This (again, sorta) in that the anti-abortion people deliberately choose pictures of late term abortions with identifiable body parts.
I don’t like those tactics but she went over the line. I’m pretty agnostic about the issue so I think we can call both sides of this particular kerfuffle assholes.
I’d say if you initiated the violence, you’re wrong. But I was raised with 4 brothers, so I have a different ethos on that stuff.
When you talk to the pro-abortion people, they always claim the elective late-term abortions are super rare. But they absolutely refuse to prohibit or limit them even when the baby is well past the viable stage. So the pictures are appropriate.
The do not claim that they are super rare, it is an objective verifiable fact that they are super rare. While it is true that some do not want them banned for ideological reasons it is rather irrelevant because in the super rare cases where late term abortions occur there is effectively always a good reason for it.
I have yet to see any evidence of healthy fetuses being aborted in the 3rd trimester having ever occurred forget their being common and to the extent that they do occur we are talking it happening in the low tens of times a year but you want to pass a law making it illegal for the thousands of women a year who get late term abortions for very good medical reasons
I don’t believe in hitting a woman but I’m not so sure I’d have been able to show as much restraint as that dude did….thats a pretty textbook violation of the NAP and he had every right to proportionally defend himself
The woke textbooks says the NAP only applies to males because patriarchy.
*Moldilocks haz a sad*
“A secret ‘Ninja’ missile that shreds targets with six swords has been secretly developed by the CIA.
The weapon called the R9X, or the ‘flying Ginsu’, is designed to crush targets by dropping through buildings and cars with the help of a large blades that deploy seconds before impact.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7012355/US-government-developed-secret-missile-six-BLADES-kill-terrorists-not-civilians.html
Is it able to julienne vegetables to?
Popeil Defense Systems
Did you hear that? One billion gamers just came in their pants!
I’m Poppy
damn those guys are idiots.
We have the tech to build a Predator deployed quadcopter with a high powered rifle and a few dozen rounds of ammo slaved to an optical system that would allow headshots with 90% accuracy from 500 yards all while being controled from an office in Ft Meade.
It is literally just assembling the off the shelf tech into a single device no R&D required but they are wasting money building moronic devices like this
Constitutional crisis is when the military gets involved.
Seriously. Wake me up when the Capitol Police and the Secret Service are exchanging fire on the grounds of the White House.
With s crowd and chanting: Fight! Fight! Fight!
Nah, they would be cowering from all the poorly aimed shots.
Somebody’d be sure to shoot the nose off the Lincoln Memorial ala the Sphinx.
Maybe if Straff wasn’t sucking down so much of the domestic supply, Japan wouldn’t have to worry so much.
Free market failure government intervention required
I’ve never been to a bar here that ran out of beer despite my heroic efforts.
How does one stockpile enough beer to sate the World’s Rugby fans? Is there anywhere near enough time for that?
No.
*cracks knuckles, looks for beer*
You should look up the dispatches that Dave Barry sent in from the Olympics when they were in Salt Lake City for an idea of the horror that Japan is trying to prevent here.
You should look up what the American and Canadian hockey teams did to the hotels when they were here for the Nagano Olympics. That should’ve started a new pacific war.
The US and Canadian curling teams rented a bus and drove to Nevada to watch the closing ceremonies on TV with beer instead of attending them.
Wyoming seems a lot closer.
Thank Russia for Winning World War II
And remember how they liberated all those Poles and Finns.
Yup, nothing imperial about Soviet motives and actions…
Don’t forget the Romanians (to pander to our own) and the Germans. I even read articles pining for the days where you stuffed three generations (or more) of people into a tine concrete apartment where they created the illusion of privacy by hanging up sheets, and the women were able to enjoy some of the best sex ever while everyone cheered them on or something…
“They beat the Nazis, were first to Berlin, and stopped the Holocaust”
I mean it would be more meaningful if they weren’t doing there own purges and cleanses too.
Fucking tankies. That is all.
When it comes to the Germans they did do the majority of the heavy lifting and it’s a good thing we didn’t try to push into Russia after we were through with the Germans because we may very well have lost.
Logistics were not in our favour. Everything would have to be shipped and although the Russian fleet was negligible, time would have been of the essence.
Logistics were not in our favour.
Considering that the US not only supplied itself but also sizeable portions of both the UK and the Russian military forces, I’d say that despite the distances the logistics actually favored the US. At the end of the war, about 1/3rd of support trucks in Russia were US-made. Russia had the bodies, the US had the supply.
Thank the US for supplying the entire allied effort.
^ This.
Yeah, the Soviets couldn’t have done it without US and Canadian supplies. But we created our own enemy.
“Russians have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army.”
Sure. But don’t forget the raping, pillaging, and plundering of the civilian population. Oh, and everything between 1945 and 1990.
But it was intended mostly for ethnic German civilians. Collective punishment isn’t evil if you believe in collective punishment.
It’s not racist if you have a reason for hating them.
Ha ha ha. Ask the Jews escaping the camps if they wanted to head East or West …
I’ve got some great photos of the shining success that was the liberated Eastern Bloc.
Imagine being “liberated” by the Soviets. Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
I tapped out on the line about how D-Day was done just to counter the Russians. Nothing about how Stalin had been screaming for a second front for years, nothing about the whole Italian campaign being done in 1943 to help the pressure on the Soviets, nothing about the bloody logistics of getting D-Day in place… nah, it was all just because the West were a bunch of jerks towards the Russians. Ugh. And of course, I’m sure he’d say that in August 1945, noble Stalin was just looking to step in and do the hard work we couldn’t on the way to Tokyo — not opportunistically trying to swipe some territory before the Japanese could surrender to us… yeah, that’s the ticket….
The whole article was just Soviet apologia. Hard to find the maximum derp; there was just too much.
Speaking of D-Day, I recently watch a documentary about the Phoenix Caissons.
Fascinating stuff: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/footage-of-arromanches-harbor.html
Floating/sinkable concrete breakwaters used to secure the beaches.
https://www.historynet.com/did-russia-really-go-it-alone-how-lend-lease-helped-the-soviets-defeat-the-germans.htm
So it’s been a hell of a past 6 weeks for me. My surgery went badly and an expected 3-5 days in the hospital turned into 28 days. I went into abdominal septic shock, lost consciousness, and was placed on a ventilator in the ICU. Single digit survival chance, and one of the docs called my wife at 2 am to come so she had a chance to say goodbye. Fuck that, I’m not leaving my wife a widow at 33 with 3 young kids.
After pulling through that, the infection attacked my heart, my heartrate went above 200, and I got a code blue called. I sat up conscious and aware while a room full of ~20 doctors and nurses stopped my heart in an effort to reset it. It’s impossible to describe what an unpleasant experience having your heart intentionally stopped is while fully conscious. You just have to ride it out. Then they stopped it a second time. Neither attempt was successful. Back to the ICU. Eventually my heartrate returned to normal over 12 hours with different medication.
I’ve been home for a couple weeks now and am doing much better. I think I’ll be about fully recovered in another couple weeks besides just building my strength back. Along this, can anyone recommend a flavorless protein powder brand that doesn’t taste bad I can add to foods? Fortunately, I had negotiated an early June start date on my new job, which is remote from home, so I think that will be okay. I didn’t comment in the hospital but enjoyed reading Glibs when I was conscious/aware enough to do so. Thank you guys for providing a break from the walls of my room, even if just virtually. They started to close in hard after a while.
Holy crap. Hope you stay on the road to full recovery!
^^^THIS^^^
Wow. That’s an awful experience. Glad you pulled through it. Give those tykes an extra tight squeeze.
Thanks, the kids couldn’t visit me so it was a long time without seeing them. There were lots of squeezes when I got back.
Jeebus! Glad you’re still on the right side of the ground!
Gosh Damm, your a fighter. Glad to hear you are out of the worst of it.
Holy fuck, don’t do that again.
You’re a fighter mr. Spartan
Jesus Christ on a cracker! Get better, Friend!
Yikes!
Sorry 🙁
“can anyone recommend a flavorless protein powder brand that doesn’t taste bad I can add to foods?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al9WmowJ3bQ
Try here:
https://www.canadianprotein.com/
Yeah, it’s a Canuckistani company, but it’s the best protein I’ve ever found (and you can get concentrations all the way up to 93% protein!). All of their offerings are available unflavoured or flavoured as well. I use the New Zealand Whey Isolate myself.
Uffda. Glad to hear you are back on the road to recovery.
<dark-humor>If you own a dehydrator, you could always dry your own cum and grind it up for a cheap, healthy protein powder. </dark-humor>
errr, good thought but I’ll have to pass on that one.
Wife called dibs?
That’s all very heroic, but… have you developed a taste for brains since all of that?
Not brains, but I did walk around the hospital with some blood transfusions on my IV pole. The nurse said I was ghoulish but I needed to exercise.
I had a central line inserted a few times in my neck. This scarred up in a perfect set of vampire bite marks. My wife got a big kick out of that combined with the blood.
I love it. Great job not dying!
DAMN! If you were a cat you’d only have eight left. Grats on pulling through.
Wow, coming back from both sepsis and cardiac issues like that is truly against all odds. You are a hell of a fighter. Congratulations on staying with the living and welcome back to posting!
I know what you mean about reading the board getting you through your hospital stay. When my lower spine collapsed from bone marrow cancer in 2012, reading the TOS comments was a great way to pass time in the hospital and forget about the pain a bit. Thanks to all who post, you probably don’t always realize the impact you clever and funny people can have on others.
But….avoid SugarFree posts, right?
Thanks, it’s good to be back.
When my lower spine collapsed from bone marrow cancer in 2012, reading the TOS comments was a great way to pass time in the hospital and forget about the pain a bit. Thanks to all who post, you probably don’t always realize the impact you clever and funny people can have on others.
Absolutely. It really does help quite a bit.
Jesus Christ man.
I’m glad you’re out of there but what an ordeal.
This is the protein powder brand I use. I use the vanilla but the unflavored is OK. Plus, it’s not whey, soy, or god-awful pea protein.
That looks great and is on sale too. I’ve heard good things about bone broth. Thanks for the link.
Thanks everyone. It’s good to be back home and on my feet. I went back and forth on sharing this but you guys are a good community for a bunch of dark-humored misanthropes.
I think I speak for everybody when I say that you’ve earned the upgrade to full spartan.
I’m glad you’re still with us!
Thanks!
We need you, SSD, you da man! A real inspiration for all of us.
Yikes! I guess I’ll offer up another thank you prayer to the list.
Thanks Swiss, that’s nice of you.
Glad you’re still with us, bro.
Just reading that scared the shit out of me, can’t imagine having to actually go through it.
Glad to hear you recovered, good luck with the strength building and new job.
Ouch. Glad to hear you pulled through.
JHC… Glad you’re well enough to write here!
Stay well.
Jesus, SSD, that’s incredible. Glad you made it and are back with us.
Goddamn, man, that sounds terrifying. I’m glad you’re getting back to normal.
Holy Hell!
Glad to hear you’re getting better.
Spartans are notoriously difficult to kill.
Thanks guys. Fortunately I was out cold for the worst part, though that was very hard on my wife. She had to make some tough decisions that proved right in the end.
The tough decision you didn’t see…
Glad you’re better! Hug that lady!
Glad you – and your lady – came through okay. Good to have you back!
Damn. I think you can take the “semi-” off your username now. Glad to see you still here.
Seems like a lot of work to get a sympathy BJ from the wife, but a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.
Isopure unflavored. Its literally just whey protein and an anticlumping agent. ProTip – add it to mac and cheese.
Glad you pulled through, that’s some scary shit! Welcome back
Holy shit!
Glad to see you are on the mend!
Damn! What an ordeal. You are one tough son of a bitch. Glad you are home and getting better.
Thanks everyone, I appreciate it. Leap, thanks for the Isopure recommendation.
Clooney engages in projection:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90346515/george-clooney-releases-psa-against-climate-change-dumbfkery
Also. Isn’t air flight more to do with engineering than science?
I’m super fucking cereal here, you can tell how fucking much so because of how many fucking times I say fuck.
In a video released on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday night, “actor, director, and two-time sexiest man alive” Clooney noted that science has given “unprecedented knowledge of the natural world from subatomic particles to the majesty of space.” Tragically, though, that knowledge is threatened by “an epidemic of dumbf**ing idiots” saying “dumbf**king things.”
I agree. Most of them ///fuckinglovescience.
We should listen to that dude, he could get any chick he wanted back in the nineties.
Yes, objecting to the climate change hoaxers’ desire to send us back to the stone age is just like not believing in dinosaurs.
STEVE SMITH BELIEVE IN DINOSAURS. RAPED A FEW BACK IN THE DAYS.
Do his boats on Lake Como run on farts?
I Live in California and Don’t Want to Be Basic! What Car Should I Buy?
Help, I’ve become Basic. I drive a white luxury SUV and live in Orange County… and I’m blonde.
After a life spent wandering the globe and moving every few years living as an artist and yogi, I came home to California and looked for a place to put down some roots. My husband and I found this quiet, clean and beautiful beach town and bought a home by the beach after growing tired of LA.
It’s a long story how I ended up in a white Range Rover but I’m selling it and looking for something less pretentious that is smaller and less expensive.
You still basic.
Tesla model 3, I’d wager.
get a harley
Toyota. Corolla.
She sounds insufferable. I recommend a Corvair with bald tires.
A 1993 Toyota Tercel should help her stand out from her peers.
She still wants new, because eww used.
Really any manual hatchback should do, assuming she understands cars are more fun to drive than a crossover.
*Sighs* What is “basic”? That should be a good thing.
It’s short for basic bitch.
See, instead of being the free spirit yogi she imagines she is, she’s just another well to do suburban housewife with a nice SUV.
Adding up the years traveling as an artist and yogi and the beachfront house in CA, this woman has a lot of someone else’s money to spend. She’s high cost/high maintenance.
She likes brunch, and watching Game of Thrones, and wearing yoga pants to Starbucks, etc etc etc. Its the feminine for “normie.”
Convertible PT Cruiser.
Electric green Dodge Challenger Hemi. Not Basic at all.
The most disgusting, disheartening thing you will read today:
I didn’t click through. I have no interest in anything further that person has to say. Those people clearly love piles of dead children. Anyone who contradicts the narrative in any way must be pushed back against and the narrative says that it is impossible for anyone except agents of the state to stop or impede a killer. And you are willing to trash the heroism of a dead child to support the narrative. Fuck you.
It’s not bad enough to stand on the body of a dead child. Gotta take a piss on them while you’re up there?
Progressivism is a death cult and crime syndicate.
Don’t forget it also is a fanatical religious movement and a mental disorder.
Most heros are victims. Not mutually exclusive you sick bastard. Not enough dead kids. The other thing that no one is mentioning is why is it all these kids? None of the teachers who supposedly love the students so much?
Good points, all.
I read something the other day that the best thing we could do is laud these kids who fought back. Give them ALL the attention. Fame is what most of these asshole shooters want and what better way to deny them that than to make their victims famous as heroes.
That would do more to stop shootings than any stupid “common sense” gun control laws.
I’m hoping those Stem kids walking out might signal a turning point but I wouldn’t bet the farm on it. A little push back is always a good thing.
^This.
How the fuck does doing this help the gun grabbers push their agenda your holiness?
3 18 year olds. You know, the kind who were heroes in wars all the way back into antiquity. Sixteen year olds should be able to vote, but eighteen year olds can’t be heroes.
Indeed! Audie Murphy has a sad.
Audie Murphy was a teenager when he earned his wheelbarrowful of medals.
What diseased piece of shit wrote that insidious garbage?
I watch To Hell And Back a few times per year. I love that movie and often tear up when the Pole dies because his stove is caught on the barbed wire.
I believe it’s just some random woman on the FB. A friend reposted this and I blocked her and him.
It’s rare but I’ve blocked people when they’ve posted terrible shit like your friend posted or reposted above.
I read this yesterday:
https://taskandpurpose.com/tag/colorado-shooting
I like the cut of this kids jib.
Fucking heartbreaking. Good on the three boys (of course).
Publicize the hell out of them. Don’t ever show the fuckhead shooters again.
This shooting ought to be the blueprint everyone follows from now on (short of, ya know, free people shooting back, exercising their natural right to self defense). These kids attacked their attackers and kept the body count to a fraction of what it otherwise would have been….
Waiting for the Gov’t do drop the “Fight” from “Run, hide, fight” in 3,2,1…..
I told our security people during our active shooter training that run, hide, fight sounds like how to set an ambush. Which is exactly what I would hope to do.
Fuck that cowering somewhere listening to people get executed.
They should name the damned school for Kendrick Castillo.
Local news stations played this interview. The kid is incredibly composed.
Being a hero is admirable; being a victim is not. It may in some circumstances not be an actively shameful thing to be victimized, but it is never praiseworthy.
^So much this. I blame the news media for moving the overton window to the point where everyone who experiences the least bit of tragedy (or even discomfort) is now a “hero”.
You spoke out against some injustice with no tangible consequences…sorry not a hero
You put on a government uniform to get a paycheck and educational benefit…..sorry not a hero
You died in the line of duty but didn’t do anything in particular to ensure the survival of others….sorry STILL not a hero.
If everyone is a “hero” nobody is.
A lot of lefty thought in recent decades revolves specifically around claiming victim-status and earning praise for it. This person probably doesn’t even recognize that his brain is broken.
As Brooks already pointed out; Freedom is Slavery. Heroism is borne out in no small part from self-sufficiency. As Southen is fond of saying, the left hates self sufficiency. A nation of victims is manageable and goes quietly to slaughter if the powers that be decide it’s time. So of course victimhood is virtuous in their eyes.
Got a question for everyone: Has anybody seen anything at all on either national or local news about the walkout at the memorial service for Castillo? I haven’t.
Students walk out of Colorado school shooting vigil, saying their trauma was being politicized
Mike, I might start taking USA Today. Thanks.
Walk the line between certainty & doubt. Choose to grapple with order & chaos. Alone they produce excuses to stagnate. Together, consciously engaged in battle, they sculpt a path towards The Better. This is the meaning of an entrepreneur
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1126305899897704448
LOL
I scrolled through the first 10 post on the existential comics twitter and did not find one crazy enough to post… strange
Be the ball.
nanananananananananananananananananana
One Anaheim police officer has been fired and a second placed on leave after they fired 76 gunshots during a 2018 car chase through a busy residential neighborhood on a Saturday morning, killing a fleeing driver.
Did I just see that fucker shoot through his own windshield while driving through a neighborhood?
“The District Attorney’s conclusion that all of the available evidence is insufficient to warrant the filing of criminal charges against the two officers should not in any way diminish the fact that the District Attorney is alarmed by this conduct, and, along with the public, is relying on (Anaheim) PD to fairly take any and all appropriate administrative actions and remedies,” Deputy District Attorney Scott Woolridge wrote.
Oh, well that’s comforting.
“We highly discourage shooting through a window,” the chief said. “But, our policy does not state that you cannot. There could be incidents or actions at times where that would be permissible.”…
According to the report, the bulk of the gunshots were fired by Pedersen, as the chase continued through alleys and surface streets. DA investigators wrote that Pedersen “believed he was always aware of his surroundings and fired only after considering the safety of the nearby citizens.”
Uh huh…
Why music sounds like crap
Only one orifice of mine is allowed near fecal matter…
Whatever, shit breath…
Shorter Leon – “I Eat Ass!”
boom
Whoa. I didn’t mean to go nuclear on Leo. He’s a cool cat. I just wanted to give him a good natured tweak. Can I tone it down by changing my answer to
“whatever minty shit breath”
Is that more acceptable?
Too late. :Initiates doomsday device:
😉
Edges away from strange toolbox that leon left
No love for my call-back?
I’ve got enough Doom to go around.
I made a comment last night on Sam Adams buying Dogfish Head. Longer one here:
SA has always been good at what they do, their flagship is a fine Vienna Lager. But they have never pushed the envelope well.
DFH always said they didnt want to be the 60 minute IPA company, even though there was demand for them doing more of it. They wanted to do the crazy stuff.
I think with this buyout, SA will expand the production of 60 and 90 minute. Probably move its production to Ohio. SA has never had a really good IPA, now they do. It allows them to expand their beer business, which has been struggling, which is why they have been pushing Cider so hard. At the same time, the DE brewery can still be used for weird stuff. Maybe. They will be interesting to see how that works. I doubt we will see any more spit beers.
With SA being publicly traded, they might not be able to do the questionably profitable beers anymore.
Also, exit plan. Every business owner needs one, I guess this was Caglione’s exit strategy. Good for him.
Yeah, that news came as a bit of a shock. Good for Sam (Caglione) though. From my understanding the Sam Adams location in Cincy is currently used for a large amount of Angry Orchard and other non-beer products (Traveler Shandy, Twisted Tea, etc.). I’m more concerned about what this means for the future of 120 minute and World Wide Stout.
I think it is a reasonable worry. I see 60 and 90 production going up and less of everything else.
I actually see more production of SeaQuench and the new Slighty Mighty (assuming sales are good for it). The current big sellers (and newest trend) is the sessionable, low ABV beers (especially with some sour in there). I was entertained by one news story I read on the merger including a bit about how this increased production would not remove Boston Beer Company from the ranks of Independent Craft Brewers. I doubt the BA would want to kick them out, and then need to explain why craft beer production dropped by a huge amount from the year before.
They have bumped that threshhold every time they have got near it, between that and adding Yuengling to the list, they aren’t going away without a merger with someone not now craft.
#metoo
Please don’t take away those 2 favorites of mine.
Say what you want about Al Green, but “Let’s stay together” is a great song.
“Love and Happiness” is better.
It’s a long story how I ended up in a white Range Rover but I’m selling it and looking for something less pretentious that is smaller and less expensive.
Get a ’64 El Camino.
She’s trading her Range Rover for a white Chrysler Lebaron.
Changing her name from Kitty to Karen?
As mentioned above – “I want a girl with a short fuse and a looooong memory”.
Would a 69 El Camino be acceptable?
Sorry boys, she still “needs” Apple auto.
Although I did recently buy an old Ranger for around the house/going to the dump to fix up this place. No aux port (or even a cassette deck) has been tough. Just a single CD player.
We’ve seen Carl Benjamin’s rank misogyny before – remember Gamergate?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/09/gamergate-carl-benjamin-ukip-mep
not really a fan but damn this one youtuber triggers a lotta leftists
What people such as Benjamin want, with his disgusting speculation about whether female politicians are rape-worthy, is to bring the rank misogyny of the worst online spaces into public life. It is Trumpian trolling transferred into British politics. People such as Benjamin believe in a form of free speech with impunity that dictates that if women wish to exist publicly, create things or have an opinion, they should expect all the harassment, degrading commentary and ceaseless mean-spirited scrutiny that will inevitably follow.
They really still hit the Gamergate points hard
Because he’s a journalist, and there’s nothing they hate more than people who want to force them to be ethical.
There is nothing feminists hate more than calm and reasonable.
He knows what buttons to push, that’s for sure.
#nother
How DARE he expect women in the public eye to face the same level of scrutiny and even abuse that men face?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIlq85dL0C4
8th Place: A High School Girl’s Life After Transgender Students Joined Her Sport
sober 8-minute documentary on trans girls *cough* boys *cough* stomping the competition in girls’ sports. one of the female track athletes is heavily featured. i suspect she’s receiving threats and slandered as a TERF* by now.
*Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist
It is a sport. Competition. Let the best man win
*clap clap clap*
Pie wins the internet today. Congrats.
Okay, everyone else shut down, we can go home.
I don’t think there is any fair way to have trans people compete in sexed competitions.
The Count is correct.
Be careful… Next they will have a title XI case demanding everyone now provide male, female, and trans sports….
I think this is true. I also think that at some point the trans population may have to make accommodations of their own for the cisgendered. In all seriousness, I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings or exclude anyone unnecessarily, but everyone should have the humility to accept that there are some things other people have or do that they cannot have or do.
This is what I don’t get about “gender doesn’t equal sex” people out there. Why are you making the distinction? We used male and female to describe two classes of humans. If all the sudden we started saying that the thing we sit on is now to be called a “table”, wouldn’t a normal person ask why? Go ahead and live your life as long as it doesn’t prevent someone else from doing their thing. It looks like they are trying to force a new social code on society and that will ultimately end up in law. It’s the same thing the SoCons were doing in the past. Maybe I’m missing something, but I’ve never heard them address this directly.
Most people used to have to worry about where/what their next meal would be or if marauding raiders were going to attack there town. They don’t have those things to worry about anymore.
We call this phenomenon first world problems…
“Why are you making the distinction?”
Because there are people whose gender doesn’t match their sex.
There is a language problem. The term used to be “transsexual” but that wasn’t accurate because there is no way to change a person’s reproductive function at the current level of technology. Then is was changed to “transgender” which is too inclusive, and helped sell the nonsense that a person’s gender is whatever they identify as.
Yeah, that’s the point I’m getting at. You want to have gender include all these different ideas then you’re going to have to rewrite all these rules and norms that have been established over thousands of years. That takes some hubris to think anyone can do that in a single generation. They are the ones pushing gender into what are sex separated activities like sports and even changing rooms. I see the conflation of gender and sex being done by that side more than the traditionalists.
“You want to have gender include all these different ideas then you’re going to have to rewrite all these rules and norms that have been established over thousands of years.”
I don’t see that. People who are transgender are conforming to those norms.
“Norms” being “people with a penis go here and people with a vagina go here”. Especially here in Japan. The social norms in regards to male and female are everywhere. Maybe that’s gender, but it clearly came about due to biological differences. That could be oppressive to some people who fall between the categories and so I’m legitimately trying to figure this stuff out. I’m no where near letting some guy take a shower with my teenage daughter, so I’m stuck trying to be open minded about a lifestyle I don’t understand without doing harm to others.
There are “new half” (from what I understand that’s what Japanese call MTF) that look more feminine and pretty than most XX Japanese women. I’m pretty sure they could go where “people with a vagina go” and no one would notice.
My guess is that they can’t go to the women’s hot spring. I’ve never heard of that happening. I’ve talked with many Japanese people about this “identifying” trend in the West and they have all been like “WTF?” Nobody would call Matsuko Deluxe (a cross dressing guy on TV) a “woman”. They just don’t need to use pronouns, so the issue doesn’t come to the forefront.
I don’t know about hot springs, but MTF Japanese don’t seem to be something new.
straff – what personal pronoun does Mastuko use?
If it is who I’m thinking its “atashi”.
I asked my wife exactly that because I saw you guys talking about it here. She looked confused for a while and then said, “I don’t know. Never noticed.” She did say that others don’t ever refer to her as “kanojo” or even “kare” for that matter. They will refer to female actresses as “kanojo” from time to time.
Yeah, I can see that.
That’s a handy feature of the language. “Matsuko-san” and you’re done if you want to reference errr, “that person” and no need to mangle the grammar and everyone understands.
One of the interesting (and painful parts) of speaking natural Japanese is constructing sentences that usually avoid pronoun usage. It’s about 180 degrees from English where you need a subject for a natural sentence.
What about people that are try-sexual (will try any sex act) or quarter-sexual (will have sex for a quarter)?
– Stephen Hicks
In Romania we do not yet make the distinction
I do not see the point of gender outside of nouns really
If “gender” morphs into meaning “how you feel about yourself”, I don’t really care. Seems pointless, but ultimately that alone would be harmless. It’s making it a crime to be forced participate in the silliness that rankles me. Basically, Jordan Peterson’s point and they haven’t even come close to addressing that argument for the past 2 years when he started making it.
When I was a youngster my next-door neighbor was a pretty butch chick. She always had the best looking girls in the class over to her house so naturally we’d hound dog. Turns out decades later she transitioned from Jodi to Dan, skraggly beard and all. She/he was my first underbra boobie feel. Yeah, I’m pretty woke.
Maybe men’s sports should just be open to everyone who can compete at that level including women and transgenders and women’s sports should be reserved for those persons that lack a Y chromosome.
Then what about XX people who are jacked up on testosterone? Even if they went of their hormones in time to test negative before a completion, they would still have a huge advantage.
This is going to end with private schools forming their own leagues which have traditional gender definitions. The better non-trans athletes will migrate to those schools on scholarships leaving the mediocre female athletes stuck competing with trans athletes. Progs’ heads will asplode.
Here’s a question: Would they be satisfied having a category for athletes based solely on chromosomes or would they insist that that category is oppressive? I’m sounding dense here, but I honestly don’t get what their point is.
The people who enable “trans” cheating will never be satisfied. With anything. Don’t try to make them happy, just laugh in their faces and call them mean names.
Spicy!
^This
You can’t argue with the mentally ill.
There is an activist class for whom the whole point is that society must pretend they are actual, real women – so I would say no.
Certainly seems that way which is why I’m saying that they are the ones conflating gender and sex. The reason why I’m harping on this is that I think it would be a good way to introduce people to the libertarian way of viewing the world.
The activists want to tear down every societal norm and they are succeeding beyond their wildest delirium tremens dreams. As Freddy sang, “Don’t Stop Me Now!”
“Progs’ heads will asplode.”
Nah, they’ll get state legislation passed making such leagues illegal.
All right, so where are homeless guys supposed to jerk off?
Arby’s?
The secret sauce?
WE HAVE THE MEATS!
Isn’t Arby’s the roast beef place? That seems more like the place homeless gals would masturbate in.
I came in Wendy’s.
Thinking about hot and juicy Cousin Lucy?
Starbucks bathroom. They’re even giving out free needles in some of them now, so you can kill two birds with one stone.
Do you shoot up before you shoot off, or vice-versa?
After. That way Becky gets to find your corpse, limp blue dick in hand when she has to clean the washroom.
Death boner FTW!
All the Deep State’s secrets keep leaking out. When stuff like this is hitting the main stream, you wonder what is still hidden.
I was not at work those days she dropped in your honor….
Speaking of the Deep State (seriously this time), somebody is going to go to jail over this shit.
I was doubtful that anyone would pay any price for spying and other shenanigans, but stories like this coming out really are making me think otherwise.
somebody is going to go to jail over this shit.
Bless your heart.
But, yes, in a just world many people would be going to jail.
If the Dems had just let shit drop after the Mueller report came out, I agree that everything would have been swept under the rug. But the way they are escalating things with the contempt charge and tax bs makes me think that the gloves are off and some bodies might start to drop.
The architects won’t go down. Shame? No. Oppubrium? Maybe.
True. They should know by now that Trump is not one to just sit there and take it. They are playing with fire (I hope,…) and it may blow up in their faces.
They are waiting for the IG report to drop to go on a full offensive. I suspect Trump will be declassifying a lot of shit too closer to the election so this stuff is clear in the mind of voters.
They will have to sacrifice some people, and those people probably know who they are and are preparing testimony that will implicate people higher up the food chain. We may not get charges, or at least not as many or severe as are actually deserved, but hopefully at least a good housecleaning.
There will be a sudden up-tick of suicides among Clinton surrogates.
I thought that graph showed a steady rate.
Many will commit suicide by a double tap to the back of the head?
Inherently flawed, socialism will persist
Look just because you messed up your first 1000 attempts to make a cake it does not mean you stop trying. You keep going until it succeeds or all the ingredients are dead
The flour is infested with weevils.
Sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two weevils.
You know that’s gonna bug Swiss.
Well, I made my cake, now I’ll have to lie in it.
What is the definition of insanity again?
“Mirror, mirror, on the wall” – DNC
I don’t support the notion of the child hero. A child who dies saving their classmates is a victim. Let’s not encourage children…[see more]
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Let’s not encourage children
To be free-thinking, functioning and competent individuals, I presume.
^This.
Yup. If you really wanted to handicap kids and make their chance to fail at life high, you would do the sort of shit they are peddling now.
Fuck these people.
I read something the other day that the best thing we could do is laud these kids who fought back.
Something something better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
STEVE SMITH LIKE DARK HUMOR. HIM LAUGH WHEN HIKERS GET LOST IN WOODS AFTER SUN SET.
Russians turn to sex coaches to overcome Soviet-era taboos
waitiminnit – I thought sex was best-evah for commies
Well the NYTY cannot be wrong so this article must be
Forbidden sex is always better.
Hold the fuck up, are you implying the NYT might print something that wasn’t perfectly true?
“develop sex culture in Russia”
Trust me lady, people are gonna do it no matter what. That’s like saying you want to develop a breathing culture or an eating food culture.
So all the Russian IG models, hot mail order brides, and escorts are products of my lying eyes?
Elon Musk responds after porn star posts video of sex encounter while riding in Tesla on Autopilot
Shoulda seen it coming
That’s what she said.
Would.
(The chick, not Musk)
She looks anorexic, and I am NOT a fan of thicc.
Someone at the SEC jizzed his pants.
“It was mainly a straight road, but it had a lot of traffic,”
These euphemisms.
Also, surely the California Highway Patrol will find the vehicle and riddle it with bullets for seatbelt violations.
Her economic illiteracy knows no bounds.
“We should have a not-for-profit public option for basic banking services, and we should be piloting these projects through the U.S. Postal Service,” Ocasio-Cortez said, apparently with no irony.
It seems AOC has heard that 34 million American households are “unbanked” and she thinks the best solution is government — of course! But she also wants to phrase it like the government-takeover of health care: Let’s provide a “public option,” which will eventually become the only option. Oh, and let’s make it sound nice and caring, like the Salvation Army — it’s a non-profit!
She got the idea from the Swiss (I banked with the PO when I lived there).
My banking consisted entirely of getting paid. On payday, I went to the post office and they gave me a bid wad o cash.
UK also has PO basic banking.
People who are unbanked are so because they cannot manage an account, ie constantly bounce checks and get socked with cascading overdraft fees. IOW, she wants us to subsidize these people and reward them. These people seem to have no trouble paying their utility bills at the supermarket, have access to money orders, prepaid VISA/MC cards, etc.
I was gonna say this. People don’t use banks either out of suspicion, or they are so poor with their money that banks aren’t willing to hold on to it for them.
Wow, just….. wow
What are basic banking services? Check cashing? Cash storage? Loans? Investments?
Only thing better than bailing out but banks is having one that is perpetually bailed out.
Check-cashing and simple deposit accounts. I’m not sure if European PO banks offer checking.
AOC probably envisions loans. I’d love to see her economic new deal on paper.
Last time I checked that’s basically what a credit union is…
It is. But credit unions don’t like it when customers bounce checks. These people like to write checks on Friday hoping they won’t be deposited until Monday.
This already exists. A bunch of different places offer check cashing for a nominal fee. You can also cash the check at the bank from which it’s drawn, although some scumbag banks will charge you a fee if you don’t have an account (looking at you, M&T). As for checking, nobody uses those anymore. There is, however, such a thing as a prepaid check card, and many check cashing places will waive or reduce their fees if you opt to receive payment with one of their branded prepaid cards because the processing company, typically Visa, makes money by charging the payees a transaction processing fee.
Of course, dipshit wouldn’t know about this because she’s never actually been poor.
Of course not. She just wants rich people to feel good about helping the poor while the poor get additionally fucked over.
The union up here is pushing bigly to have Canada Post enter the low wage banking scheme. Lets let a bunch of Government shills run the shyster Savings and Loan business. What could go wrong? I work with these people. They are almost to a person the most unmotivated, surly and lazy specimens that I have ever encountered in the four decades of my working life. If you wanted a an example of Sisyphus pushing his boulder up the mountain, just talk to one of them come some sunny morn. I hear terrible things about your DMV. Think about twice as bad.
So Gin and Mello Yellow?
Mello Yellow – is that a euphemism?
It’s soda. Think of it as off brand Mountain Dew.
I think it is a Coke product, so not very off brand.
And it is Mello Yello.
From wikipedia:
Mello Yello was featured in the 1990 NASCAR-based movie Days of Thunder, in which Tom Cruise’s character, Cole Trickle, drove a Mello Yello-sponsored car to victory in the Daytona 500
Quite right!
“Cole Trickle” is Tom’s secret porn name.
Ah, yes. I had forgotten about that. I guess I consider off brand due to not seeing it very often in my neck of the woods. Or maybe I just haven’t been paying attention.
It’s also a Donovan song
I love when Morning Links has a sense of closure.
“Pants pulled down to the ankles pleasuring himself like he was at an amusement park”
So it’s ok to jack off at an amusement park then?
Was never an issue when I was a kid visiting Neverland Ranch.
One of Michael’s boys, then. Solid.
Only if you’re the one in the Mickey costume.
Friday Funbags may offer relief from the horror of the void, but it’s only temporary…
https://thechive.com/2019/05/10/sexy-chivers-are-the-perfect-friday-treat/
Didn’t even make it past #1. Well played, sir.
Wow! Popa can play.
Band isn’t too bad, either.
I worry about his health, though.
Yeah, the other vid of him I posted, he never stood up. That’s worrisome.
Very.
He’s already outlived Roy Buchanan.
24 dimensional chess to destroy TEH GHEYZ.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1126616468873936896
The guy is an evil mastermind!
Check out the comments if you want proof that politics has completely broken our country.
Yea, that’s a cesspool.
It’s exactly how Trump would want his detractors to act. That they keep falling for it is amazing.
Holy shit. The guy has consistently supported gay marriage and has never been anything but supportive of the gay community (I’m not using that stupid goddamn acronym). He lined up over a decade of donated HIV treatment for HIV patients who can’t afford to pay. Shaniquatops still hates him because he doesn’t support transgender people serving in the military. And some other idiot offered Mike Pence and Brett Kavanaugh’s FUCKING NAMES ALONE as proof of his anti-gay stance. Christ’s sake, all the wrong people get terminal illnesses.
If I was wheeled into a hospital and Eugene Gu was there, I’d pull the plug. Also, did he just argue for forcibly reducing his own salary to minimum wage?
Yes, yes he did.
They discounted his gesture to take a swipe at the evil Kkkapitalists that make the drug. I swear, these people can’t help themselves.
Gilead? Isn’t that the place in handmaiden’s tail? Week Trump really must hate women!!!
You joke, but one of the responses actually said this unironically.
I believe the company is named after the biblical quote “is there no balm in Gilead?”
They’ve only read Harry Potter.
I thought this was the best response:
https://twitter.com/adasomg/status/1126617705136775171
So much this. They really hate when he does something that their hero and savior could have done with his pen and phone, but was somehow too busy to do.
Now this is what (((I’m))) talkin’ ’bout!
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-chabad-security-after-poway-20190510-story.html
I was expecting an IDF woman with huge boobs, and now I’m disappointed.
(((Would!)))
“Tactical Rabbis”
Dibs on the band name
Which one of you Glibs is hardest hit by this scientific study? Or should I be asking which one of you Glib’s partner(s) are the hardest hit?
Ineffective and risky is my move!
Except for these!
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2010.09647.x
Just to “penile traction method”. Not many people are willing to wear a torture device on their junk for 8-12 hours a day for months/years though.
Just get a PA and work up to a fairly thick gauge.
Shouldn’t it be which partners aren’t hardest hit? : Snickers:
Booya! [high fives leon]
Obviously this is the only product that works.
OK, which of you is this?
I didn’t choose the tug life. The tug life chose me.
[golf fap]
(Laugh that startled the doggo)
Apropos of nothing- I watched an interesting little film yesterday. Produced by the Oak Ridge nuclear lab, it was about the experimental liquid salt reactor they built in the sixties.
It wasn’t clear to me why they abandoned the research.
I only read 2 paragraphs. Did he try roundup? Is there anything it doesnt kill (other than bioengineered roundup resistant plants?)
If he hasn’t burned down the lot and salted the Earth, he hasn’t tried everything yet.
Crossbow.
Hell, white vinegar will do a pretty decent job in a pinch.
Knotweed was not on my radar before this article. I’m pretty sure from some of the pics that I have some of it around. Should find out pretty soon if Roundup works on it.
One of the articles mentioned injecting it to save the surrounding grass, but my non-herbologically-informed opinion is that glyphosate really really really needs to be a leaf-based attack. And preferably in warm weather. And I hate grass anyway. And that for things like greenbriar/smilax, wild raspberry, or kudzu, you really need to do it at least 2x, several weeks apart.
We’re fixing to find out.
Bullshit detector calibration test
Phasing out nuclear, coal and gas is an ambitious undertaking for a heavily industrialized country such as Germany. The government has set a deadline to shutter all the country’s nuclear plants by 2022 and stop burning coal for electricity by 2038; gas will be a stop-gap technology until a way is found to rely wholly on renewable technology sometime around the middle of the century.
The plan, known as the Energiewende, or energy transition, is being closely watched by other countries trying to figure out how to curb greenhouse gas emissions and meet the Paris climate accord that aims to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit).
A good star might be to stop putting the temp stations in parking lots.
Scammers gonna scam.
Natural gas as a “stopgap?” This article is nothing but Vladimir Putin fap material.
Take a wild guess who’s benefiting from Cuomo’s denial of a natgas pipeline into New England.
a stop-gap technology until a way is found to rely wholly on renewable technology
Funny. They’re counting on, basically, magic to solve their energy needs. And these are the people who sneer at the rubes.
Utter bullshit. Unless you enjoy sky-high prices and rolling blackouts.
There isn’t enough extractable lithium in the world for batteries to backup a renewable energy grid.
If they are concerned about warming then why are they shuttering all the nuclear power plants?
That’s a question I’ve asked a few times. The best I can figure is that, at least on some level, preventing warming really isn’t the point. The ultimate goal of all this seems to be reduced consumption. Not for the leadership, of course. They’ll still have all of the amenities that limitless energy can provide. But, the peasants? Well, they’re just going to have to learn to live without. For anyone old enough to remember, reduced consumption was the rallying cry of the left during the energy crisis of the 1970s. It was just politically disastrous for them. It turns out that giving up comfort, opportunity, and their hopes and dreams isn’t all that popular with the masses, even if that world would be just the pretext the leaders would need to acquire still greater control. Warming seems just another variant of the same ploy. It’s just they know that they can’t come right out and call for reduced consumption. At least not yet.
Dude, get with it. You’re not going to get anyone on board with “reduced consumption.” It’s “demand-side management.”
It’s a scam. They’re simply moving energy production out of their own country and into surrounding countries.
No nukes, no coal. They’ll be totally reliant on natural gas. From Russia.
The reproducibility crisis in science
Sounds about right to me.
Empirical evidence is a tool of colonial, white male oppression.
If I feel the experiment proved my hypothesis then it must be so.
Live your (silicone) truth, dude.
Fuck you! I identify as a female glacier! Xir/Xim/Xut
“Yet many researchers persist in working in a way almost guaranteed not to deliver meaningful results. ”
A feature not a bug: “The results show blah blah etc…further study (ie funding) is warranted.”
They do it because they get paid (mostly by Uncle Sugar) to keep doing it. Pournelle’s Law at its highest. Delivering anything with any truth or value to it is irrelevant; keeping the slop flowing is the whole goal.
I like the idea of having masters thesis be reproducing other work.
It provides a check AND it teaches masters level students important statistical tools. And what tools are a problem.
Also, no one wants to waste time reproducing studies, and that is perfect for having masters students do.
That’s actually a damn good idea.
It isnt mine, unfortunately.
Did you get that from me? I had a long and detailed description of how that could work, but I don’t remember talking about it here (or anywhere public)
“how much time and money has been wasted”
I hate to break it to him, but I’d guess 99% of people doing science are primarily doing it for the money that goes into their pockets and only secondarily for meaningful results.
But don’t take my word for it: set up a scientific study to ask 3,000 professional scientists in the US if they want government money taken out of science and you’ll definitely find out how much they average scientist cares about money as opposed to meaningful results. Just don’t ask me to fund this study for you.
Men (generally) like to fuck women. A certain percentage of women will fulfill that market demand. It’s not that difficult.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/cannes-has-a-sex-trafficking-problem-metoo-era-1208261
So, the casting couch is now “sex trafficking”. And they wonder why people don’t give a shit.
If the casting couch is evil and disgusting, why didn’t those chicks just go back to Kansas?
Or, you know, simply say no and not avail themselves of it as a tool for career advancement.
“Every VC funded online publication became a woke clickbait mill for a simple reason: the metrics told them this was the best performing type of content.”
https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1126457775469596674
Interesting thread worth reading.
Pretty good thread, with a special guest appearance:
Nick Gillespie
Verified account @nickgillespie
14h14 hours ago
But it’s not reader demand. It’s an imagined demand of an elite audience.
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Also, I enjoyed the epilepsy-inducing gif.
Gillespie is only correct about reader-dollar-dominant publications. But 98% of content providers are advertiser-dollar-dependent; that percentage is likely declining but it is a huge change in operations for something like a daily newspaper. Instead of being mass appeal, they have to identify they demographic most likely to buy their news product which may not match up with the demographic their larger advertisers are looking to reach.
Eventually advertisers see the data and go “I asked for 100k impressions fed to 18–39 y.o. females. You fed 100,000 impressions to females 18-24 – the ones without money. Shame on me, I guess. Now I want 100K impressions sent to females 32-39 and I’m not paying for any impressions sent to anyone outside that demographic.”
Ironically the ability to get that data-specific works completely against any actual “diversity” in content. Ad sellers like Google, Facebook, etc. that try to feed advertisers macro data when they want micro data eventually get ignored by the ad buyers. If radio is any indication – and I think it is – Google is more likely to just stop contacting certain advertisers rather than make any mass appeal efforts.
The funny thing is there are few types of content for which there is no one who will want adspace there. But Alphabet goes out of its way to avoid letting wrongthinkful content get connected with the advertisers who would even be willing to pay a premium for that slot because it goes against their ideological persuasion. This insistance on conformity over profit will lead to their collapse.
Another part of the SJW-appeal is that the people who like that shit are the ones least likely to understand how to install an ad-blocker, a javascript blocker, etc. And that is bi-directional: if you don’t know how to block the garbage, you are going to be fed a constant stream of dummy-appeal articles. Then there are the people who know how to use an ad blocker but are naiive enough to turn it off because of a sob story.
Buenos dias from Tejas: ammo for those who haven’t made fun of me lately. A cold front has rendered hill country lately. Friendly waitress, black coffee.
And some bastard with a stinking badge imposed a spontaneous overhead anomaly on me for doing 83 in the fucking desert. And who are these poky folk in muh left lane?
Rendered livable
I haven’t earned a speeding ticket since 1991. Us drinkers are wont to be careful of the law.
The important thing is; what is the humidity?
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Libertarian case for Joe Biden
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/05/09/biden_echoes_libertarians_call_on_occupational_licensing_140280.html
Waiting for TOS to jump all over this……”no more hair braiding licenses, open boarders and the end of Drumpf !!1!1″
Nothing says libertarian moment like one step forward, two steps back. Or a candidate who describes taking one step forward while sprinting backward.
Reason was championing Jared Polis back in the day. Now he’s my governor. Colorado is now Libertopia.
Can’t wait for the Reason Staff to make the case for Biden who has been on the authoritarian end of every policy in every case throughout his career.
Oh, it’ll happen.
“This story is hilarious. Guy wears a MAGA hat to an uber liberal cafe, doesn’t get harassed or assaulted, and concludes that this proves that white supremacy has become normalized even in SJW circles.”
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1126830674940497920
“LA Writer Wore A MAGA Hat Into An Ultra-Liberal Vegan Restaurant. Here’s What Happened.
“I didn’t want to give $25 to Trump’s re-election campaign, so I bought a knockoff hat made in China for $8 on Amazon,” Stein writes. “The hate is so strong in me that I thought it was more ethical to support the Chinese government than Trump.”
Stein admits to being terrified upon his journey to the restaurant, fearing the absolute worst could happen, recalling the incident at Dodger Stadium where a guy ended up in a nine-month coma for wearing a San Francisco Giants hat. When he arrived at Café Gratitude, however, his expectations were surprisingly disproven. In fact, Stein learned some interesting insight about people on his own side — they don’t hate Trump or his supporters nearly as much as they profess.
“The far right has become so normalized that no one said anything to a guy in a MAGA hat at Café Gratitude,” Stein concludes. “I Am Not Sure How Great That Is.””
https://www.dailywire.com/news/47004/la-writer-brought-maga-hat-vegan-restaurant-heres-paul-bois
Now he needs to do a follow up article where he drives around flyover country with an Obama/Hillary/insert-2020 clown and “Coexist” bumpersticker and see how long it is before he gets lynched…..
That’s refreshingly honest.
And that is just fine. But anyone who opposed Obama’s policies was an unhinged, racist, gun-clinging, bible-thumping mouth-breather.
No, you buffoon. The truth you need to get to is that not everyone who wears a MAGA hat is “far” right.
Another possibility is that they do hate them that much, their are just too weak to act on that hate when given the opportunity.
Twitter cretin leaves Twitter briefly, surprised to find world isn’t like Twitter.
Stein’s implicit assumption is that his own side is comprised of such emotionally infantile buffoons that their refraining from assaulting a guy over a hat must mean that they agree with the message.
This.
“The hate is so strong in me” was the curlicue on the ice cream cone.
“The hate is so strong in me that I thought it was more ethical to support the Chinese government than Trump.”
Says more about you than the president.
“The far right has become so normalized that no one said anything to a guy in a MAGA hat at Café Gratitude,”
Other problems with this statement aside, does the author think that the norm should be to beat people for their choice of attire, political in nature or not? ///rhetorical
Before I left, I asked the black waiter, Darick Thomas, how he felt about my hat
Validate my feelings, black person!
Literal Uncle Thomas.
I didn’t make it that far – holy shit what a bag of dicks.
It’s TIME’s humorist, so I guess take it with a pinch of salt, but still.
“How do you like my hat? Hurry up, my column is on a deadline!”
Woman Wearing MAGA Hat Makes It Home From Store Alive
In the comments for the original article:
I’m not ruling out”shit that never happened”.
That’s one weird looking condom.
Happy birthday to Donovan. Two of my favorite songs:
Season Of The Witch it has such a great grove.
Atlantis it’s just so…60’s, man. Ya dig?
Sunshine Superman
And a fun homage.
Fun. Husker Du had on big hit didn’t they? I remember hearing the name years ago, but I can’t remember the song. Were they MSP boys?
Yes they started here. They never had a top ten hit, but were extremely influential. Just about every punk/alternative band from the ’90s made a lot of money trading on what they started. Six albums albums released between 1983-87.
One of my top five favorite bands of all time. I still listen to them all the time.
Because of stuff like this.
And this
And this.
Make sure to watch all the way to the end for a delightful surprise.
Good stuff. I kept waiting for a shot of the three of them on Nicollet Avenue, throwing their hats in the air.
Barely on topic; Husker Du was my absolute favorite game for a while when I was a kid.
I can’t ever hear Atlantis without thinking of Jimmy and Tommy beating and kicking Billy Batts into a bloody pulp.
Now go get your fucking shinebox! Greatest scene ever…
I can’t argue with that.
“No more shines, Billy.” Holy hell that cracked me and my buddies up for year.
“years”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/09/britains-equivalent-to-tutankhamun-found-in-southend-on-sea
So do the Egyptians get to take it all and put it in the museum of Cairo?
When their army’s in control of the place, yes.
Give ’em some time.
Look at all those artifacts appropriated from other cultures. Damn Anglo-saxons and their tricknology.
If it’s equal to Tutankamun, then he should have an equivalent resting place – back in the tomb.
(Seriously the mummy was put back there)
I toured the Crown Jewels exhibit at the Tower of London behind an Indian couple. As we passed by a display, I made an offhand comment along the lines of “Oh, look, those ones are yours.”
Any of our jarhead Glibs have any information on our woke Marine Corp?
Crackdown at Lejeune: Inside the 2nd Marine Division commander’s controversial call for discipline
The general walked by them, he recounted. And when the junior Marines didn’t acknowledge him, he greeted them.
One Marine totally blew him off — didn’t get up or acknowledge him, he said.
“The other one looks up, and, while sitting, salutes with an iPhone in his ear.”
The general asked them: Were you ever taught to do that in boot camp?
“No sir.”
“Why did you try to do it?”
“I was on the phone.”
“Why are you on the phone here?”
“I don’t know.”
We are ripe for a barbarian invasion to wipe us out. Are biggest issues right now are arguing over what bathroom use is acceptable for a population of people less than .5%< of the total pop. It's not a stretch to say we are soft.
If true, pathetic. I’ve never been a member but that shit is downfall of Rome-worthy.
A call for discipline in the Marine Corps is controversial? We really are screwed.
While I try not to both
A) Reveal too much specific info about my profession/personal life on here
and
B) Generalize about millenials and post-millenials in a grandpa Simpsonesque way:
I was a military instructor in the mid-late 2000’s while the millenial/igeneration were coming into the military. It very difficulkt to not feel that their was a distinct difference you saw in the collective mentality. The saluting while talking on a phone is a prime example but it went much deeper than customs and courtesies and deference to authority.
I was shocked that a military recruit, already through basic training, seemed to be baffled if they were criticized or told to work harder. Their default emotions seemed to be quiet insolence or self pity when confronted with something difficult or distasteful. While there were definitely good, hard working, glib, funny and generally dark-humored men mixed into the bunch, I was and still remain shocked at what little bitches most of them could behave like.
*winces from lack of proof reading
It is sad that people feel compelled to hide their libertarian beliefs. You don’t see that with extreme progressives. Even neocons are relatively safe. Greens… no problem. But libertarians? we seem to be the Rorschach test of “the enemy” for everyone…. Somehow the people in favor of “anyone can live their life however they please, wherever they please, love whomever they please and take whatever they please” become racist, homophobic, Nazi-loving misogynists in the minds of the mainstream commentariate.
So I too maintain a distance from identifiable details.
This, despite the fact that everyone who knows me knows that I’m a libertarian. (Who describes this status as “I’m way, way more liberal than you” to liberals and “I’m way, way more conservative than you” to conservatives)
In my case I’m still in the employ of the government. I’m not overly worried about “the man” spying on me (seen too much apathy in gov’t to think it’s all-powerful) but I think it’s just wise to have a little plausible deniability, especially when 90% of my rants on here are about how the institution that employs me shouldn’t exist.
My understanding is at chow you don’t have to stand to, but I’m assuming if an officer comes over and addresses you that’s different.
Each service has it’s own customs and courtesies, many of which I myself am contemptuous of (they are by and large designed to remind you of where you fall in the hierarchy). It’s just telling that a young recruit thinks his phone call is more important than being respectful to his bosses, bosses, bosses, boss.
I’m surprised the phone didn’t end up on the other side of the room.
In the story, the boots were sitting on a bench near the general’s parking space, not at chow. If it were at chow, there would be no saluting because Marines don’t salute without a cover, and you don’t wear your cover indoors.
It doesn’t surprise me. I got out in 2006 and things were still pretty much the same when I went in, but friends of mine who were instructors at our old school in Pensacola around 2008-11 said shit had gotten very, very slack compared to when we were students.
That was my exact era of being a military instructor as well
STEVE SMITH ALWAYS SALUTING
Mad dogs should be put down.
What the hell do you have to do to get on Level 4?
What the hell do you have to do to get on Level 4?
Actually be in the process of raping someone?
Level 4 is reserved for one man:
Joe Biden
You might think it would be STEVE SMITH, but he’s actually Level Divide by Zero.
Sugar Free could come up with something I suppose.
I like being on Level 42
It’s noonish here, does that work? Let me see…. wife on way to Miami… beautiful day out… 15 sampler pack Breckenridge Brewery all chilled in fridge… yes, why yes, noonish works. Ah fuck, work, well shit, my plans have been foiled once again, until that 5pm stuff. Damnit!
I’m a lazy cook today. Took a can of black beans, a can of corn, some salsa, diced up fresh avacado, sliced up bell peppers in various colors, a little olive oil, all in a small cooker and turned the heat on. Not sure what you call that. I’d call it lazy food in a hurry and I’m starved.
If you called it “lazy Mexican”, would that be racist?
To stay on good terms with the local Mexican landscaping crew, I’ll have to call it ‘Lazy Guatemalan Soup’. Then they’ll all start making it and calling it that too.