Source: Wikipedia Image
For our second installment of learning Japanese through anime titles I’d like to suggest that some Japanese animation does, in fact, revolve around an unnatural attraction to one’s younger sister.
Japanese: 俺の妹がこんなに可愛いわけがない (Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai)
English: “My Little Sister Can’t Be This Cute”
俺 “ore” – pronoun for “I”. It’s masculine and casual. So we immediately assume the speaker is likely male.
の – “no” -equivalent to ” ‘s” in English.
妹 – “imouto” – my younger sister.
が – “ga” – grammar particle – marks the subject of a sentence.
こんな -“konna” – “like this”.
に – “ni” – grammar particle – turns the phrase above into an adverb.
可愛い – “kawaii” – word that encompasses “cute” and whole lot more in Japanese. (1) cute, adorable, charming, lovely, pretty, (2) dear, darling, pet, (3) little, tiny. Just to make things interesting this word is an i-adjective in Japanese and has the properties of a verb in English.
わけがない – “wakeganai” – we can break this phrase down into individual words and grammar, but it is much easier to think of it as set phrase “(there is) no reason”.
What I want to draw attention to is that Japanese makes distinctions between “in groups” and “out groups” and within the family based on birth order.
Here we have “imouto” all by itself so the inference would be that it is the speaker’s younger sentence. If someone says “imouto-san” we would assume he or she was speaking about someone else’s little sister. The “san” prefix works like “Mr, Ms, etc.” but can attach to first and last names as well as certain nouns.
However, not all family related words work like this. Let’s look the Japanese for “older sister”.
姉 (あね) – “ane”. This would refer to my older sister. However, that’s not what most siblings would call her. They most likely would use お姉さん (おねえさん) – “oneesan” when speaking directly to her. If he or she were speaking to a third party about his or her older sister, however, the speaker would use “ane”. For example, “ane is married” or “my older sister is married”.
An outsider will always use the “-san” form. “How is your imouto-san doing?” or “How is your onee-san doing?”.
Within the family names for the older sister things get interesting. Usually the older sister would refer to her younger sister by first name (without “san”) or by some nickname. However, in most families the younger sister will refer to her older sister with some variation of “oneesan” or possibly a nickname with some suffix showing respect such as “san”. For example, “oneesan, dinner is ready”.
Summary:
Kyosuke Kosaka, a normal 17-year-old high school student living in Chiba, has not gotten along with his younger sister Kirino in years. For longer than he can remember, Kirino has ignored his comings and goings and looked at him with spurning eyes. It seemed as if the relationship between Kyosuke and his sister, now fourteen, would continue this way forever. One day however, Kyosuke finds a DVD case of a magical girl anime which had fallen in his house’s entrance way. To Kyosuke’s surprise, he finds a hidden eroge inside the case and he soon learns that both the DVD and the game belong to Kirino. That night, Kirino brings Kyosuke to her room and reveals herself to be an otaku with an extensive collection of moe anime and younger sister-themed eroge she has been collecting in secret. Kyosuke quickly becomes Kirino’s confidant for her secret hobby. The series then follows Kyosuke’s efforts to help his sister to reconcile her personal life with her secret hobbies, while restoring their broken relationship and coming to terms with their true feelings for each other.
Source: Wikipedia
There are two ways to view this anime. One is that it is a meta criticism of all the current anime tropes that are so popular right now. It has absolutely mediocre animation, but an “A-list” cast of Japanese voice talent. I don’t think you could have more stereotypes in one series. It actually has different endings, similar to Japanese gal games, where the protagonist ends up with different heroines. The other, and sadly quite possible, viewpoint is that they threw as much stuff as they possibly could into one work and cynically knew that it would be a hit whatever they did.
Not recommended for anyone but hardcore anime otaku.
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251 responses to “Learn Japanese Through Anime Titles – 俺の妹がこんなに可愛いわけがない – “My Little Sister Can’t Be This Cute””
My wife discovered anime and loves the story lines……
I got nothin…
look at the last comment on the prior thread
Sweet! make sure and blow gently on those switches, they are pretty weak, ask how I know….
/ TALL CANS!
I don’t have a younger sister….
imouto ga imasen.
The verb for existence “to be” in English makes a distinction between animate and in animate objects.
They do it just make things difficult…
that should be inanimate.
LOL
You’re a cruel man.
Deep thoughts with Jackie Chan.
?️??㊙️??
I got nothing.
I especially have no idea what those emojis mean and I don’t watch anime. Sorry.
https://emojipedia.org/squared-cjk-unified-ideograph-6e80/
No idea why that one became an emoji!
……….butt stuff?
What the heck is up with pseudo-incest harem anime, anyways?
(though Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru is a good one)
(as are ones that laugh at the genre, like OniAi)
(yes I’m a degenerate)
I’m trying to remember if I ever watched OniAi. They all start to blend together. Which I also says something about the current state of anime.
32 Minutes of Soothing, Relaxing, Meditating World War 1 Sounds for Studying and Thinking
ASMR FTW.
No interest in anime but I love these for the language lessons. Thanks!
I’m more interested in the language part myself, but the anime bit keeps it interesting.
“Great news today: My Administration just secured a historic donation of HIV prevention drugs from Gilead to help expand access to PrEP for the uninsured and those at risk. Will help us achieve our goal of ending the HIV epidemic in America!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1126616468873936896
https://twitter.com/adasomg/status/1126617705136775171
LOLOLOLOLOL
Are Gantz: O and Harlock considered anime? I enjoyed both of those quite a bit, especially Gantz.
I also liked Attack on Titan but haven’t seen the latest season. The first Berserker was good but didn’t care much for the sequels.
Basically anything animated in Japan is usually defined as anime.’
Japan has a huge manga (comic book) market and many are turned into anime and live action. Gantz is once such property. Not familiar with Harlock.
Harlock is an old, old anime (late 1970s, though there was a remake about 5 years ago).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pirate_Captain_Harlock
Ah, thanks. That makes sense.
Harlock: Space Pirate (I think) is on Netflix. Similar animation style and pace as Gantz.
There was an anime miniseries about 10 years ago that continued the story from the 70s-80s “Arcadia of my Youth” / “Ring Cycle” / etc Harlock classic era. Leiji Matsumoto has a very distinctive style.
See also his Daft Punk collaborations – ie. the feature length concept album anime “Interstella 5555”.
I’m currently sitting in a bar in Bend Oregon with a Greyhound in front of me and an order of fish and chips on the way. Ahhh.
Man, Greyhound really does go everywhere.
And you don’t have to drive.
For free fish and chips any dog will go anywhere. They are nothing if not shameless freeloaders.
Dogs are Democrats?
?
I saw a post about a “guard” dog that a bear bribed with deer bones several times to keep it friendly, while the bear ransacked the garbage cans.
I can’t imagine too many dogs would go after a bear, anyway, but in this story, it didn’t even bark after the first visit. lol
My old golden retriever treed a bear once. I was taking her outside to pee late at night. The bear was digging through the garbage can. Neither the bear or I were paying attention to each other, but Daisy smelled him and leapt off the deck. The bear climbed the pine tree and onto the shed roof. I was amazed because Daisy was the laziest dog I have ever seen. Apparently she didn’t like the bear in her yard.
We have 2 bears in the neighborhood this spring.
Huh. I just left Bend about four hours ago after spending most of the week there.
Related to this post’s subject, there’s a lunch spot ran by two Japanese ladies that’s pretty good (Bend-o Bento). It has the right smell when first walking in that reminds me of Japan. Also liked Thai on the Fly downtown and Dang (Vietnamese restaurant). Coffee from the last was just right.
One of those Japanese ladies is the wife of one of my childhood friends. Small world.
Whoa. I work in Bend every couple of months and try to catch a meal when I’m there. Japanese food seems to taste better over the melodic background of Nihongo. And they always have a large number of regulars. I feel like the outlier being a drop in.
Anime Titties are the best teacher!
>Titles
Oh 🙁
I was tricked too.
Wasn’t there a good gif that goes with that idea?
Yes.
Ah the popular search engine Cooqle
Cmon HM, we want your curated content!!
> Lowers blast doors
Honk, honk, honk, honk, honk, … hey wait a minute.
This is the content I come for.
Not this?
Well if we want to stay on topic:
https://twitter.com/hissorioyasumi/status/420563933477363712
I know right?
Thank God for Google.
I made the same mistake.
Look, it’s this place. I don’t even care about anime tittles, and that’s what I thought it said!
So does that mean that I’m actually going to have to talk about anime titties?
https://myanimelist.net/featured/1189/Top_15_Best_Anime_Boobs__Glorious_Oppai_Moments
Folks your magic keyword is “oppai”!
“India lost a $3 billion submarine because someone forgot to close the hatch.”
https://twitter.com/JeremyMcLellan/status/1126594143034253315
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-sink-3-billion-dollar-submarine-forgetting-close-hatch-55942
The Polish must be gloating.
Yes, no one will have to remember the ‘screen door on submarine’ bit ever again.
There’s a call-center joke in there somewhere.
Did you try opening and then re-closing the hatch?
Ho-lee shit. I would have thought modern subs have sensor warning a hatch isn’t secured before diving. This is just incredible.
Maybe not so “modern”.
I take your point. But they modified it. No one thought installing a warning light or two would be a good idea?
At what point in this video did the guy think “I made a mistake”?
http://imgur.com/gallery/GJvc9Dx
Of all the ways he could have landed, he got off easy. Course he might have a broken hip but that’s better than a broken neck or two broken arms or legs.
Oh goodie, here comes another viral social-media “challenge” slash moral panic.
Comment ON Topic.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gF-svHxZy2o
PSA:
The fish and chips at Brother Jon’s Alehouse are superb.
Beer batter?
Yes. Thin and crispy with fresh, not frozen fish.
I am very suspicious of anything called fish and chips. Every example I have had sucked.
Down here we call it fried fish with french fries…
You need to try it in Scotland or Australia.
I tried in Newcastle, England…is that close enough to be considered Scotland?
That’s the kind of question that gets you beat up in an alley in Glasgow.
In Newcastle as well.
I haven’t had fish and chips in Scotland, but I can say there is excellent fish and chips in Australia.
Well, you call crayfish mud bugs, so…
Claude says, “Damn right!!”
/Caude or Claude
Enjoy Bend and Welcome (?) to Oregon.
We’re passing through on the way to my sister’s place in Crescent City.
Wave hello to the big California State Prison as you drive by, Spud.
Proper fried fish:
Cut filets into strips about as wide as your thumb, length not that important.
Put strips in a large bowl and dowse generously with hot sauce (Tabasco, Louisiana, etc). I dont mean fucking around with a few drops per strip, I mean completely slather them in hot sauce.
Sprinkle with white all purpose flour and use hands to stir until the flour forms a thin sticky paste all over the fish.
Plop the now sticky strips into a bowl with flour/cornmeal mixture…or just use pre-mixed cornbread mix….it is perfect.
Shake off excess cornmeal mix and drop into peanut or safflower oil at 375F for five minutes.
Serve with Tabasco, Tartar sauce, ketchup and seasoned french fries and/or onion rings.
Try not to overeat.
Simple and fast, best fried fish in the world.
I find nothing objectionable with this formula.
I like to use the flour. Egg and hot sauce, followed by Panko bread crumbs.
I remember when it used to be difficult to find panko.
I remember when I didn’t know WTF panko was.
^ This.
P.S.: It wasn’t that long ago for me
Yeah, 4-5 years for me. Only when I started watching a lot of cooking shows, and magically it showed up on every store shelf.
I used to kill some fried drum and redfish in my day.
Not into porgies fried on the bone?
Have you ever taken the same fish a buried them in yellow mustard before the flour/cornmeal.
Surprisingly quite tasty.
On occasion I will mix a little cajun mustard in with the hot sauce step. That is fairly common around here.
Better than the Kilted Kod?
Different. Both have thin, crispy crust but different. And Kilted Kod uses potato starch on their fries, while the place we ate today uses Kennebec potatoes.
In case it wasn’t mentioned previously, Dogfishhead was bought by Sam Adams.
Sam used to say that DFH could be the 60 minute IPA brewery but he wanted to do more than just that.
I wonder if that is what it will be now.
Please, please, please don’t fuck up my beloved 120 Minute IPA and World Wide Stout.
Completely OT, but I need to write this down. Just read an academic review of Odd Arne Westad. The Cold War: A World History.
The reviewer includes the following statement: “He [Westad] provocatively argues that the US won the Cold War and interestingly that the Soviet Union “lost it big.”
I’ve read the statement half-a-dozen times and the entire paragraph 3 or 4 times, and it still doesn’t make sense.
I guess Bernie Sanders would find that provocative.
Is he implying that Westad is wrong?
From what I remember the USSR collapsed, primarily because Reagan broke them in an arms race. They just didn’t have the money and productivity to keep up. Even if they collapsed primary from internal forces…they lost. Their govt collapsed and their empire dissolved. I am sure plenty of pinkos can spin a bullshit argument that that is actually winning but I doubt anyone but the most brainwashed useful idiots will buy it.
WTF brainwashed nonsense is that?
I
could squint and see the argument that the US didn’t “win” since the USSR collapsed because of their own decisions. IOW, tt wasn’t something the US affirmatively did TO them (like bomb it to force a surrender), but considering the USSR no longer exists, I’m finding it hard to come up with any argument for how they didn’t LOSE and lose big.
I guess they’re not saying the USSR “won” either, but ceasing to exist sure looks like losing big.
OH WAIT.
This is a recent article right?
bet I know what it is, it’s PUTIN. This whole thing flows back to RUSSSIAAAAAA and how PUtin is now smarter and more powerful than freaking Doctor Doom, So of course the USSR didn’t lose, they just changed names and now they have risen again to be more powerful than ever, having a puppet even in Trump!
So, applying an academese-translator, I think the argument here is that the current academic interpretation is that the US did not win the Cold War and (probably) that the USSR did not lose. So, Westad is being provocative and interesting by arguing both those points.
The, reviewer is, in my reading, neither agreeing nor disagreeing with Wistad but simply noting Wistad’s main arguments and where they sit within the current literature. That said, it still says something about most other historians of the CW that arguing for a US victory would be “provocative.”
anime tiddies
https://twitter.com/ZumiDraws
NSFW?
https://twitter.com/sankuro396 , who is incredibly obsessed with one character and pretty much only draws here.
Closer to NSFW.
https://twitter.com/Ely_eee/status/1095546031511547906
I have no idea what that is, but I want to stick my penis in it.
The responses are strange.
https://soranews24.com/2019/03/05/japans-number-one-cosplayer-appears-nude-on-cover-of-first-major-physical-photo-album/
Not my scene, but some of these woman make some serious yen. Hope they save up as I haven’t seen too many middle aged cosplayers.
I saw one woman in Shin Osaka station dressed up like an anime girl holding a parasol. Me and ever other dude in the waiting room took notice
https://twitter.com/enako_cos/status/1111190711884349440
For the right price you can.
Sleep well.
https://wgntv.com/2019/05/09/diabetes-drug-may-cause-infection-that-destroys-genitals-study-warns/
“The study’s authors advise doctors to be on alert for these signs in patients taking SGLT2 inhibitors and to have “a high index of suspicion to recognize it in its early stages.” (This man’s necrotizing fasciitis caused him to lose much of his penis.)”
“Man Left With 1.5-Inch Penis Warns of ‘Flesh-Eating Bug’
(Newser) – A UK cancer patient who lost all but an inch and a half of his penis to a flesh-eating infection, leaving him unable to have sex, is being compensated to the tune of six figures. The undisclosed sum was awarded to Andrew Lane, 63, who contracted necrotising fasciitis after his bowel was punctured during surgery to remove his prostate gland in March 2013, reports the Guardian. Undetected for six days, according to lawyers, the complication left Lane with an inch and a half of his penis and a bulging stomach, as affected muscle in that area had to be removed. “I can’t bear to look in the mirror” and “feel less of a man,” says Lane, who wed his longterm partner following the procedure, per the BBC.”
https://www.newser.com/story/264151/man-left-with-15-inch-penis-warns-of-flesh-eating-bug.html
“Did U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar Say ‘If Israel Is So Innocent, Then Why Do They Insist on Being Jews?’
A quote needn’t make sense for some people to believe it’s genuine.”
https://twitter.com/snopes/status/1126583894705414145
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/omar-if-israel-is-so-innocent/
OFFS
“Snopes Rates Babylon Bee World’s Most Accurate News Source
U.S.—As part of a detailed review of prominent online news outlets, a large team of fact-checkers at Snopes.com unanimously voted The Babylon Bee as the world’s most accurate news source, Snopes editors revealed Friday.
After reviewing over 1,200 of the Bee’s articles, opinion pieces, and exclusive news stories published over the site’s eighteen months of existence, the Snopes team all agreed that the Bee was “far more accurate” than competing news sources.
“It’s not even close,” Snopes writer Kim LaCapria wrote as part of the announcement. “Whereas sites like CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC are constantly dropping the ball, The Babylon Bee has never gotten a single fact wrong.””
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1118672994505719808
https://babylonbee.com/news/snopes-rates-babylon-bee-worlds-accurate-news-source
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
One of many reasons why I love the Bee.
It is a fun rag. Appreciated by all sarcasm lovers, and particularly by the Christian ones who are tired of being assumed to be prudes.
Calvinist Dog Corrects Owner: ‘No One Is A Good Boy’
That’s one for the ages.
Oh, that’s good. Have to go look it up.
thanks
T.U.L.I.P.
Thanks for the write-up, Sensei. It took me quite a well to get used to all the ways of referring to my older sister.
Also, Kuroneko was best girl and should have won. *drops mic*
Really, after Astroboy, there was no need for anime.
And Spud, keep driving until you hit Phoenix. We’ll keep dinner warm.
Isn’t Astro Boy a bit recent for you?
I’d think you would remember the Golden Age of Anime.
I identify as Dr. Elefun.
Dammit, HM, Mamoru Oshii died for our sins!
Hey anyone want to see Sarah Silverman’s boobs? (NSFW: Contains aforementioned boobs)
https://twitter.com/SarahKSilverman/status/1126669012945948672
No. No I don’t.
https://youtu.be/eQLXYu6plhg
Boobpedia is your friend.
Ugh.
Those were…disappointing.
But did she find any swastikas?
Haha
Good evening, Glibs! I am guessing this is the default night thread?
Evenin! I believe you’re right.
I can’t wait to go back to second shift (which will happen by August 1st at the latest) and be part of the cadre of late night Glibs instead of having to go to bed at midnight.
Woo-hoo! Since moving to the west coast, I’ve usually come in only on the dead threads. So I like our other far-flung time zone posters, nightowls, and late shifters.
It’s not quite 11 in the One True Timezone, so you have, uh, HM to entertain you? And me, for a bit? And Grizzly. And Rhywun.
(we’re all going to bed soon, I suspect.)
(I mean, not like all of us together. I think. NTTIATWWT.)
HM after dark is not someone I acknowledge exits.
That’s probably for the best.
What am I, chopped li….Oh, you said “entertain”.
Yeah, no. I just post shitty links to silly vids and articles. With the occasional (c)nut-punch thread.
Hayek-if I’m here, you can pretty much bet the Tesla it’s the default late-niter. 🙂
/also, Howdy.
I was attempting to name EST-timezone glibs – ISTR you’re elsewhere?
I’m in the Lord’s own
JerusalemCST. But, nope–I didn’t pick up on that fact, until you mentioned it.Good time…zones?
Jeebus H. Christ. What do I have to do to get a little respect around here?!?
You have to know you were in my thoughts and prayers when I was typing up above.
I believe it. But Slumbrew… if he didn’t look exactly like Brock Samson why I would… *trails off*
I know, right? One of the finest US animated characters ever. Brock is bad, either.
BTW, did we run you off, hayeksplosives?
Start with a lot of respect?
I see you’ve invested in real estate.
Bruins in 3?
Ugh. That is getting ugly.
I’d vastly prefer the Hurricanes to do some course correction and win out.
Well, that went south at the end pretty quickly for the other side.
Oh, good, I hoped you were hate-watching – I think you bring the B’s luck 😉
Ha, I don’t really care. I was actually kind of rooting for Team Evil over the media-darling upstarts.
Yessss. Let the hate flow through you…
That’d be nice. Unlikely, but nice.
I know quite a few people on here are audiophiles. Even though I work in audio, I am not. I’m partially deaf in one ear and have tinnitus. Anyway, in radio we use 0db as the peak, in SD TV -6db is the peak and in HD TV -18db is the peak. Just wondering if anyone knows why the differences exist.
Im gonna need the Old Man to weigh in (heh) but in analog broadcasting, 0db is normal. Once you hit TV (and digital) compression plays a lot into the signal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_level
That clears things up between the radio end and HD TV, but why would a digitally produced SD video be at -6db and the HD one one at -18db? They use the same audio compression.
Evolution in people’s sound amplification systems (receivers and speakers)?
The specifications are still the same. HD -18db, SD -6db. Maybe the TV studios just don’t know what they’re doing? I don’t know. Small market, don’t know if this is the case nationwide. But after a local show I worked on went HD we switched, and other shows I sent out in SD I kept sending out at -6db and never had an engineer complain. This was the part I found most curious.
I would wager the signal to noise ratio is at play here…along with analog and digital signaling
One important point- dB is relative to something. Is that reference the same for both? IOW, dBu is not dBV is not dBFS is not… all the reference voltages are different.
I just get the specs and make them comply within my end of the production chain with the equipment I’m working in.
Also, on the radio end our production work flow is terrible. We’re working with 16yr old software that is not connected directly to our production computer to supposedly air gap it from internet malware but the those computers feed through central hub that is connected to the internet. So we record into software that has one measure, dub it in real time through a board that has another measure onto a second computer with another measure. It is insane, it can be peaking on the origin computer, the bored pot maxed out, second computer reading decent levels and be underdriven when it reaches the computer that sends it out over the air. It’s a mess. But I’m not paid to worry about things like that.
Ore no hanashi wo kikke. Chotto dake demo iiiiii.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vRE3f-qQkQA
Okotowari itashimasu
Owa Tana Siam
Domo arigato?
OK, I clicked it. You really are Oyaji, aren’t you…
Psy looks different in Japan.
Saw a funny meme “Your face when trying to figure out what to get your father for Mother’s Day.” with a picture of Kim Kardashian looking perplexed.
Excellent.
Seconded. On that Wheatie’s box of Bruce throwing the javelin, I want to photoshop a giant penis.
Straff, you’re an amazing, evil bastard.
You know this, right?
He knows. He just let’s us bask in his glory.
I can’t keep up with all those people.
First week on the new job. This is going to be fun, but man, it is weird how a bank has their IT security on lock down. No glibs from work other than Discord via my phone.
It is a big change from doing dev work to taking ownership of this process and the application that determines incentive payments for employees.
Yeah, bank IT is a no-fun-zone.
Congrats on the new gig.
Yeah, I’m not even in IT. I had to request having Chrome installed.
I have built packages for calculating incentives like that… getting requirements can be quite an adventure. They often times have not fully thought the details through – like do I take the percentage for the manager before paying out the staff incentives, or after?
The really big difference maker was building in all the SOX compliance approvals. This meant that we could have managers sign off and have everything post directly to payroll and to the GL without ever touching the ground in accounting. With a few hundred affected employees and complex calculations twice per month, it made a huge difference. Saved 2 full time accounting positions and a big chunk of a senior staff accountant time, plus maybe 15% of one of the controller’s time.
The same system integrated with several banks. That was both simple and a pain at the same time. The simple part was that they already had data exchange built, so we just had to conform and implement their version. The pain was their crappy format that needed to be parsed and the work-arounds needed to deal with exceptions that didn’t fit in their format. (but being a bank, it was just way easier to do it on our end than to request a different data exchange).
Fortunately I have two devs for the application, and two different data teams. The system is built mostly, but it needs improvement and expansion, taking over manual spreadsheet practices, and focusing on improving the data inputs. There’s also a big component of working through the plan with executives to make sure the sort of questions you mention are answered before we make changes to the programming and mathy parts.
The scary part is one of my objectives is to lay the groundwork for considering replacing the whole shebang. Part of that is improving the data feeds and consolidating and standardizing that. Fortunately the new data team assigned to that is on the stick and raring to go. The vendor sucks, but I’ve dealt with that before; either turning around the relationship or firing and replacing them and their system.
A movie for Alan Rickman fans and wine fans.
Oh, man. I have to track that down. Thx
It’s a solid flick, based on a real event.
Also, a movie for fans of ridiculous wigs.
Seriously, what is that thing on Chris Pine’s head?
I never even heard of it. Looks good. And Dennis Farina is a plus.
Never more truer words. I watch Snatch just for his scenes.
/WHAT??? I do…
He was great in Crime Story. I think that’s the right name. I really enjoyed that show.
I believe he was an actual Chicago cop, too.
Available streaming on Amazon Prime.
“Bottle Shock” is a great movie and Rickman is hilarious while he chews the scenery of California’s wine country. “I’m not an asshole, I’m just… British.”
Rickman pretty much stole every scene he was ever in.
Oh, an exceptional thief, he was
So true.
What a small world. I am a son of the Mayflower via John and Priscilla Alden. Friends we made 4 years ago, are also from that lineage. Good friends become blood….weird
I don’t know if anyone is still stalking the board, but I think something is up.
We all saw that Comey decided to come out and take a swipe at Trump and Barr and anyone else he could think of, saying that Trump might be indicted after he leaves office and he thinks he definitely committed obstruction of justice..
CNN has the full court press on this. Their top 6 news stories online are all about Comey’s claims. 6 separate stories about a single interview. All hit pieces on Trump.
And then we go to column 2. 5 out of 9 stories are hit pieces on Trump. Of the remainder, one is a puff piece on Warren, one is a scare piece on Iran and Pompeo, and then you have the China trade story and the North Korean freighter seizure. So you have to dig 13 stories in before you get past the anti-Trump propaganda and on to the top news stories of the day.
That’s pretty strong for this moment in time. Which makes me wonder… what do they know?
Comey is definitely terrified. He is putting on quite the show, pandering to anyone who will listen to his tales of the evil Trump and his terrible, impeachable offenses. And he’s trashing Barr at every opportunity as well. I think it can only mean one thing… he’s come to suspect that the IG report is not going to look good for him and he needs to get out in front of it to try and stave off a full criminal investigation of his actions.
To stay on topic, Comey is committing 逆ギレ.
Meh, he could #believe what he’s saying too. People a dumb.
^What C said.
The Storm is Coming!
AWGOSGWA (or whatever it is)
Q is real and not just ti-tays!
Comey is going to be indicted and he knows it. CNN is helping him get his case out in public as much as possible before that happens.
There’s some media activity happening in Australia as well.
I’m trying not to get my hopes up, but I’m seeing signs of a massive pile of elephant shit about to hit a wind turbine on an international scale.
I don’t think I’ve ever visited CNN’s home page before. Wow.
One of the top 6. Good grief.
RIght? I mean, if that’s your top 6 stories, you just completely gave up on being “journalists”, didn’t you? I’m just flabbergasted that nobody in the great middle seems to have noticed. Everyone likes to hate on Fox for having a right-bias, but they are nowhere near that level. Can you imagine a landing page with that many hit pieces in a row? You’d have to go to someplace like Alex Jones or Stormfront or whatever. Even Brietbart isn’t that in-your-face about it.
It is called prepping the battle space. If anybody from Obama’s team -and I’m including Comey in that– is prosecuted then the Democrats and the MSM will say the prosecution is political. No matter how damming the evidence.
Anyone who is a horror/comedy fan that hasn’t seen “Tucker and Dale VS Evil” yet is an apostate to me.
I think it’s up there with Cockneys vs Zombies or Shaun of the Dead, if you’re into that sort of thing
Points for having Brick Top in a lead role.
@Otter_News
Water sausage pebble juggling: Advanced Level.
https://twitter.com/Otter_News/status/1126427916601049088
I approve of this cuteness.
Have you heard the noises those things make?
Believe it or not, I actually find it cute. Then again, I don’t have to deal with it IRL.
Also, prefer the Pacific sea otters. Not that there’s that much sound difference.
So, redbubble.com is doing one of their fairly regular 25% off sales (clothes for the current one), and I just had to see what libertarian/freedom style shirts they had.
Just had to buy this.
If you’re up late and want to score some non glib-stuff*, give them a look-see. Plenty of great designs for whatever your pleasure.
*apologies to the Glib-set sellers. it’s just….’Cafe Press’
“Ethically sourced”
So, no orphans. Fucka redbubble.
You have your orphans create the designs that you then get paid for.
Do you even art, bruh?
After about two weeks the ringing in my left ear(probably early onset tinnitus) has finally stopped!!!
Jesus Tap Dancing Christ on Rubber Fucking Crutches!!!
I’m not exactly the most mentally stable peanut in the turd to begin with. Add on a constant rrriiiiiiiiiiiinnnggging inside my head every waking moment and it should come as no surprise that I was on the road to becoming a hypochondriac…
It’s not a tuuuumor!!!
ARGLH!!!
I’ve had tinnitus as long as I can remember have learned to live with it. But one of my meds, damn if I miss a dose it creates a horrifying cacophony of that ringing that is enough to drive me mad. So even though I’ve learned to live with it, I still get where you’re coming from.
How long have you delt with it? This just started a few weeks ago for me and it was already ruining my life. It was a constant point of irritation everytime I wasn’t surrounded by ambient noise to drown it out.
Like I said, as long as I can remember. I always have to have a fan or something going, silence is painful to me.
Jesus, that sounds maddening. Glad you have some relief.
I recently heard a game streamer claim to have it, and, described the sound as akin to the the almost-inaudible hum that older CRT TV’s used to make when not actually showing a broadcast picture. I know the sound, so wondering if it’s anything like that for you?
It is kind of like that, it’s pretty much this without the digital sounds anytime there is silence.
Do you find it that loud? IOW, is the video’s audio pitch/tone comparable?
If CPRM is suffering from I just went through, the pitch isn’t quite that high but audible enough to ruining pretty much ruin any waking moment of any hoped upon ‘quiet time’s.
I don’t really know, as I’ve got a fan going to to drown out my own tinnitus and not sure what audio level that video is mastered at. But that is close to the sound i hear in silence. I suppose to understand you’d have to have a fan on in the room and lower your computer volume until the fan drowns out the sound, then turn the fan off, and that would be about what it is like regularly. But like I said above, when I miss a dose of one of my meds (not taken for anything to do with the tinnitus) nothing can drown it out and it is terrible.
As weird as this sounds (and, I’m not trying to take away from anyone’s discussion regarding health issues), but my neuropathy kinda feels like that sounds. The unstopping tingling kinda seems like the physical sensation of that sound…only, in my feet.
I’m bringing this up more as a realization to myself. I had kinda settled on describing the sensation as a ‘hollowness’–almost like a bell’s reverberation if I put too much stress on my feet (running, coming down from a height with any force beyond that of a normal footstep).
Yeah, I have some nueropothy as well, and that is a good way to describe it, a ringing in your nerves…
I will remember that phrase. Thank you.
/Who says us glibs are dumb-shits??
Oh, God! I’m never clicking that link again!*
*on point*
https://archive.li/b1Ocm/8f23d573ac1ab37bacd1a67957e6081654d743b5.jpg
NSFW.
Oh, bravo.
Q, do you lounge around in a smoking jacket when posting these, a la Hefner?
‘Cause, that’s the mental pic I’m starting to develop for you.
Actually, can we get a little smoking jacket on ol’ Inky here? Q, would you accept an avatar like that?
I’ll be disappointed if he doesn’t.
The more I think about it, the more I hope to see it happen.
After rewatching Jack of All Trades, now I know what inspired the Bruce Campbell Old Spice ads.
Twas a good show. And his hottie co-star was Jango’s squeeze for six years.
Wonder what’s become of her recently…
Are we sure she wasn’t boinking a clone?
It says she became a personal assistance in the UK.
I….completely skipped that part.
Thanks, Chafed!
OK, so we have the truism of, “Don’t judge a book by its cover”.
And yet, peoples’ behaviors will easily disabuse you of that notion.
Because, of course, she is a violent twat.
Sometimes, you can tell just by looking.
That intern should have watched Karate Kid. Wax on, wax off. Sweep the leg. Anything would have helped him.
Exactly. Anything to “lock her up” when she starts swinging.
My jailer training was meant to contain people to gt them in cuffs. It also has the benefit of gaining someone’s limb(s) for pain compliance and breakage.
I know who I’m sitting next to at the Glibs compound.
You just have to know the secret of surviving inside.
Nay, thriving.
But, you’re an attorney, correct? You know this stuff.
19? That picture would would have looked the same in 1970 with some minor color changes to adjust to film stock.
I saw the CNN discussion upthread. I didn’t know they gave James Comey a townhall.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2019/05/09/james-comey-tries-to-explain-peter-strzok-lisa-pages-anti-trump-texts-but-only-makes-himself-look-worse/
My oldest kid’s politics are a little left of center. Can she get one too?
alright after midnight here, you know what this means, I gotta sleep some time. But here’s a song for all the ladies, all of them apparently. /I sleep now.
Why did I read that album font as Bitch Worker?
/neuropathy in my eyes, now.
This is why we can’t have more female libertarians.
Hey, where did HS go?
Into another dimension
Love these articles but they make me feel old. I cut my teeth on Galaxy Express 999, Captain Harlock, Round Vernian Vifam, Dougram, Heavy Metal L Gaim, Lupin III, Gundam, Space Battleship Yamato, etc. The new stuff frightens and confuses me.
Does Jack and the Witch count? “Into the machine! Into the Machine!”