STEVE SMITH FRIDAY RECOVERY LINKS…AND ADVICE!

STEVE SMITH GLAD HIM HAVE THESE.

 

[NOTE: OUR SENIOR CASCADIA CORRESPONDENT IS SITTING IN FOR BRETT L. BRETT HAD TO “SEE A MAN ABOUT A GATOR”]

STEVE SMITH GET BETTER AFTER FIGHT WITH COUSIN YETI. HIM GRATEFUL COUSIN SEA SMITH HELP OUT. MAYBE COUSIN YETI LEARN WISDOM WHILE GET DRAGGED ACROSS OCEAN? PROBABLY NO. HIM VERY MAD AT SMITH FAMILY. MAYBE STEVE SMITH GET BODYGUARD?

STEVE SMITH TAKE TWO WEEK RTO. HIM THINK HIM GO EUROPE. MAYBE RAPE DRUNK BRITISH TOURISTS MAJORCA? HIM MOSTLY RELAX. HIM STAY LOCAL R&B.

SO STEVE SMITH GIVE LINKS. NOW. TO FUNNY GLIBERTARIANS. HIM CALL FRIEND ZARDOZ – HIM TAKE OVER FOR NEXT TIME.

  • WHEN CASCADIA INDEPENDENT…STEVE SMITH WANT THIS BE EXILE OFFENSE. BY EXILE OFFENSE, MEAN RAPE AND THROW OUT FROM CASCADIA!
  • STEVE SMITH CONFUSE. ALL CEMETERY ECO-FRIENDLY. HOOMANS NO MORE DECOMPOSE?!
  • STEVE SMITH WILL SEND NEW BODYGUARD BEAR HELP PROTECT HOUSE. READ WHOLE THING.

SPECIAL BONUS ADVICE! SILLY HOMANS AT SLATE NOT SMART LIKE STEVE SMITH.

Q: I hate the sounds my boyfriend makes during sex. Sorry to be blunt, but that really is the problem. (Both in our late 20s/early 30s, been dating for four months or so.) He just kind of whimpers as things start to get hot, particularly if I kiss him on the neck or elsewhere on his body, and he legitimately sounds like a small animal in pain. The strange thing is, he seems to realize these noises are unusual and off-putting—he constantly apologizes for making them, even midsex, but says he can’t help it; that’s just how he sounds when he feels good. I’m really turned on by him otherwise, but I can’t go on forever hearing the cries of injured wildlife when we’re getting it on. Is it possible to manually adjust the sounds one makes during sex? Should I ask him to?

—Injured

A: STEVE SMITH NO SEE PROBLEM? HIM HEAR THAT KIND SOUND ALL TIME!  SOMETIMES IT MORE LIKE “OH GOD, IT’S BIGFOOT!!!” OR “AAAAH! RUN!” BUT IT ALL SAME. STEVE SMITH THINK YOU NEED PUT ON NOISE CANCEL EAR COVER THINGS…HEADPHONE! OR, YOU INVITE STEVE SMITH OVER. DUMP BOYFRIEND AND HEAR STEVE SMITH MAKE DIFFERENT SOUND! YOU MAKE DIFFERENT SOUND TOO.

FREE CASCADIA!

Comments

236 responses to “STEVE SMITH FRIDAY RECOVERY LINKS…AND ADVICE!”

  1. SO STEVE SMITH GIVE LINKS. NOW. TO FUNNY GLIBERTARIANS.

    What about the unfunny Glibertarians?

    1. I wouldn’t know. I’m not unfunny.

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        I’m very unfunny.

        1. MikeS

          hahahahahahaha!

      2. Spudalicious

        Don’t sell yourself, Ted.

        1. He’ll have difficulty finding buyer’s.

      3. leon

        Its funny that youd say that.

    2. Mad Scientist

      I don’t think STEVE SMITH means funny ha ha.

      1. So funny uh oh?

        1. Mad Scientist

          You’re in his eye and you’ll know why
          The more you live, the faster you will die

      2. PBRstreetgang

        STEVE SMITH NOT MEAN FUNNY ‘HA-HA’ STEVE SMITH MEAN FUNNY ‘ARRGHGH!!!!!’

  2. Tres Cool

    FREE CASCADIA!

    Sorry….the sweltering conditions here have me crazy from the heat

    1. Chafed

      Whew! That’s what I expected but I feared you would dip into your deep, rap catalog.

  3. STEVE SMITH CONFUSE. ALL CEMETERY ECO-FRIENDLY.

    But this one has been blessed by the new faith of warmism.

  4. The Late P Brooks

    The homeowner, who was still on the roof when officers arrived, continued to hold the burglar at gunpoint for at least an hour until police could coax her down.

    Once the woman with the rifle came down and it was safe for medics to come into the area, the suspect was taken to Harborview Medical Center with serious injuries.

    ??????

    Was she threatening to shoot the EMTs?

    1. I read that as the police were threatening to shoot her.

    2. She appeared to be unwilling to stop aiming at the wounded burglar…boys in blue exhortations aside.

    3. Fatty Bolger

      Cops were probably too cowardly to just go and put the burglar in handcuffs while she was holding a gun.

      1. Lackadaisical

        ^this.

  5. The Late P Brooks

    Is it possible to manually adjust the sounds one makes during sex? Should I ask him to?

    Get on top, and smother him with a pillow. Best sex ever.

    1. Juvenile Bluster

      Michael Hutchence approves?

      1. *thumbs up*

        /Ghost of Bob Crane

        1. Chipwooder

          Wait, wasn’t Bob Crane beaten to death?

          1. …as part of some kink thing, IIRC. I reckon he may have made a few animal sounds.

            Beaten…With a camera stand or such, yes?

          2. Chipwooder

            According to Wiki, yes

            On the afternoon of June 29, Crane’s co-star Victoria Ann Berry entered his apartment after he failed to show up for a lunch meeting and discovered his body.[20] Crane had been bludgeoned to death with a weapon that was never identified, though investigators believed it to be a camera tripod. An electrical cord had been tied around his neck.[21]

      2. PBRstreetgang

        David Carradine peaks out of closet, nods in agreement, slowly closes door

        1. Dammit. Beat me to that one!

  6. leon

    Between STEVE SMITH and ZARDOZ the sex l advice is all very confusing.

    1. ChipsnSalsa

      Each columnist gives his, hers, xir, tzir opinion. Not necessarily that of the editorial board of the Glibs.

      1. I ain’t gonna argue with them. Last time we had a…dispute, I was a wreck for a month.

        1. bacon-magic

          Dispute – euphemism?
          *widens gaze*

  7. Chipwooder

    Government is just another word for the things we do together. You know, things like threatening to put your kids in foster care if you’re deliquent on paying their school lunch bill.

    1. Certified Public Asshat

      The Wyoming Valley West School District says it will send out a second, softer letter to parents who are delinquent in paying their children’s lunch bills.

      Back to just starving your kid instead.

      1. Rhywun

        Maybe they should pretend to be illegal immigrants.

        1. Chafed

          On either coast that would work.

    2. Timeloose

      This is wayyyy to local.

      1. Timeloose

        Too not to

    3. Gustave Lytton

      Why are there lunch bills to begin with? If you didn’t buy a lunch ticket or pay cash, you didn’t eat. Why is that so hard?

      1. kbolino

        Something, something, anti-bullying, something, subsidized lunches, something, poor people are too stupid to solve their own problems.

  8. The Late P Brooks

    Whycome no Africans?

    I won’t even bother with quotes. Whiny article about no actual Africans were involved in making Beyonce’s Lion King soundtrack.

    Not ostentatiously political enough. How dare she?

    1. Hammercorps

      Did they confirm if she identified as African? Problem solved.

    2. PBRstreetgang

      OH snap! She’s done it now, coming for the Queen Bey.

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        The Beyhive will remove your soul from your body for speaking a single syllable against her.

        1. Enough About Palin

          I’ll risk it. In every video I have seen of hers, when she dances, it looks like calisthenics.

    3. Raston Bot

      it’s different when they do it.

    4. The Other Kevin

      Back in the old days of paper newspapers, there used to be a column where people could write in an complain about things. Now the whole news media is made up of that column.

      1. Rhywun

        Andy Rooney is spinning in his grave.

      2. ElspethFlashman

        Yep! I enjoyed reading those a lot, particularly the “bee in my bonnet letter,” which a lot of times lead me to say “get a grip.”

    5. Raston Bot

      the perpetually aggrieved were super aggrieved when the Black Panther soundtrack dropped and not a single musician was from Wakanda!

      1. Chafed

        Babylon Bee worthy that was.

    6. I listened to Beyonce. I have no desire to listen to Beytwice.

      1. leon

        Bravo!!!

      2. Plinker762

        +1 inflationary language

      3. Rebel Scum

        Well she said to leave the men at home anyway.

  9. leon

    I highly recommend listening to Michael Malice’s interview with Thaddeus Russell about Post Modernism. I’m not saying you’ll be convinced but it was interesting, funny and Malice did a a good job pushing theirs Thaddeus on some points.

    1. Vacuous Insight

      I was hoping for an interview about anarchism, agorism, and counter culture. I was disappointed when the entire interview was on post modernism.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    The Atlantic is on the pop culture beat

    This tonal muddle is appropriate to the state of the American psyche in 2019, when fury and rage are constant factors in every kind of discourse and seemingly empty threats can be hard to separate from real danger. The Art of Self-Defense, which follows Casey’s transformation from mild-mannered office drone to terrifying street vigilante, functions as an update of Fight Club, 20 years on. Whereas that earlier film saw its disaffected Generation X protagonists get in touch with their violent instincts as a form of catharsis, The Art of Self-Defense posits that these days, men do not have to dig deeply to find their inner brutes.

    This role is an ideal fit for Eisenberg, but also an interesting challenge—though he’s played many a deadpan weirdo in his career (in films as disparate as The Social Network and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice), they’re usually of the motormouthed variety. Casey, by contrast, is muted and robotic, given to skittishness and liable to fully shut down when threatened. After he’s attacked by a motorcycle gang, he considers buying a gun, but instead starts taking karate lessons with the mysterious Sensei (who provides no other name).

    Nivola is one of those actors with movie-star good looks who has found his calling playing bizarre characters, and The Art of Self-Defense finds him at his funniest and weirdest. Sensei presents himself as a cool and collected warrior, but speaks in meaningless platitudes, telling Casey to buy more heavy-metal CDs and learn a foreign language, such as German or Russian, that will make him sound “tough.” Silly as this advice for becoming more masculine is, karate provides Sensei with a simple method of ensnaring lonely men in his cultlike following: Have them learn to kick and punch, and reward them with special belts.

    ——–

    Stearns’s satire is mostly of the blunt-force variety. It’s hard to find much nuance in a film in which the characters bark out sentences such as “Everything should be as masculine as possible” and challenge one another to fights to the death. But that’s the world The Art of Self-Defense is describing: one where pure testosterone bubbles to the surface of every conversation and confrontation. It’s ostensibly a fantasy. But it looks a lot like home.

    Masculinity is a pathology. Men are pestilential vermin.

    OMG a spider! Haaaaalp!

    1. leon

      “when fury and rage are constant factors in every kind of discourse ”

      That’s strange. Wonder why.

    2. Chipwooder

      A much better Art of Self Defense

      Speaking of spiders……yours truly has one severe phobia, bugs in general and spiders in particular. So last night, I spot a spider scurrying across the floor while watching TV with the kids. Since I find them revolting, I go to find something to smush it with because no way in fucking hell am I letting that thing touch my skin. Before I can do so, however, my 9 year old daughter leaps up and crushes it her bare hand. So now I’ve been one upped by my 9 year old.

      1. I’ve got no problem with (most) spiders (save those species that are dangerous). But house centipedes poke the visceral “Killitkillitkillit” reaction.

        1. Rhywun

          For me it’s cockroaches. I’ll generally trap and toss other buggers out a window but roaches get the death-spray without hesitation.

          1. Chipwooder

            Got one of those motherfuckers recently too, massive sumbitch that looked like one of those palmetto bugs we had once in Florida, but they don’t live in VA. Saw it waltzing up the wall at 2 AM, looked to be the size of a Fiat.

        2. Enough About Palin

          I felt that way until I saw one in brilliant sunlight. It looked as if it were encrusted with priceless jewels. Plus, they kill bugs, so I leave them alone.

          1. When it scurries out from under the cabinet at thirty miles an hour without warning, it activites all the fight and flight reflexes, with the appearance making it “fight”

          2. “DAMMIT! WHERE ARE MY CENTIPEDE FIGHTING GLOVES??!?”

          3. Tulip

            Sorry UCS, but that’s funny. Do you have a bug assault gun?

            When I see one of those things, I yell for the cat. He thinks I am the best human ever!

          4. MikeS

            I have a Bug-A-Salt and they are Kick. Ass.

      2. Sean

        LOL

    3. Rebel Scum

      Fine. Don’t call me when you need something off of the top shelf or need a jar opened.

    1. Rhywun

      That is how you shitlord.

      1. Chafed

        I’ll just come out and say it. The man is a hero.

        1. Rhywun

          D-FENS

        2. Tonio

          ^This and this. Also, would – the shitlord.

    2. Count Potato

      ” A Florida man decided to stand near a busy intersection on Sunday to expose a panhandler who turned down a job offer.”

      LOL

  11. I believe this headline because it validates my biases.

    Even though I call bullshit on the reasons why social media causes depression.

    1. The Other Kevin

      I never liked that “envy” theory of social media. I think it causes depression, and even more often anxiety, due to the constant bickering and fighting and shaming.

  12. Tres Cool

    Flathead Valley, Montana Crime Update

    1. Chipwooder

      11:37 a.m. A child was running down the road. Someone thought that was pretty weird.

    2. PBRstreetgang

      New favorite page.

      From July 2: 4:32 p.m. A Kalispell man reported that he heard music from a “super creepy” ice cream truck in his neighborhood at about 1 a.m. that day. The man thought it was pretty strange for an ice cream truck to be making sounds at that hour.

      1. Tundra

        Watch Phantasm some time.

    3. 11:30 p.m. Someone called 911 to rave about the 1991 movie “Sleeping with the Enemy.”

      Great comedy that needs one more bullet for a great ending.

    4. leon

      “11:25 p.m. A bachelor party near West Glacier included an excessive amount of guns and alcohol. Apparently, the party was making quite a bit of noise for much of the evening but then went quiet. A nearby resident decided to call police because that was suspicious.”

      1. “Oh great, you shot the stereo.”

        1. “But I did not shoot the deputy.”

    5. 11:25 p.m. A bachelor party near West Glacier included an excessive amount of guns and alcohol. Apparently, the party was making quite a bit of noise for much of the evening but then went quiet. A nearby resident decided to call police because that was suspicious.

      It was the sudden quiet that was suspicious.

      1. The Other Kevin

        That’s probably when the hookers got there.

        1. leon

          And no sounds like animals screaming?

    6. Tres Cool

      This could be Columbus, OH
      4:50 p.m. Someone driving through Kalispell yelled “Hey! Do you have heroin!?” out his car window.

    7. Juvenile Bluster

      12:22 p.m. A local man wanted to know if it was safe to go home.

      Is it safe?

    8. PBRstreetgang

      10:45 p.m. A dog was barking “nonstop.”
      How about that, a talking dog

      1. MikeS

        Is its name Harvey?

  13. Rufus the Monocled

    Riiiiight.

    Public education isn’t far left and progressive.

    Riiiiight.

    https://twitter.com/NEAToday

    My God, they can’t be anymore explicit where they lie politically.

    And that clip with Michelle establishing a ‘non-partisan’ entity to get young people to vote.

    I bet ‘non-partisan’.

      1. Count Potato

        “A video posted by the NEA shows the Human Rights Campaign’s Sarah McBride reading the book to a group of kindergarteners at Ashlawn Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia.”

        WTF?

        LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE.

        1. Rufus the Monocled

          Seriously. Despicable.

          And where are the parents in all this? They think it’s a good idea? Or at they to lethargic beaten down by public school propaganda to even care anymore? Indeed, what can parents do when their kids are treated this way?

          1. Rufus the Monocled

            too

          2. Chipwooder

            It’s Arlington, dude – proggy heaven.

          3. ChipsnSalsa

            Watched the Indoctrination documentary. There was a pastor on there who made a quality statement.

            The church disagrees about a lot of doctrinal items but we have agreed on this… to send our kids to government schools.

        2. Chipwooder

          “I have a girl brain, but a boy body. This is called transgender. I was born this way,” McBride read

          For the last fucking time – the left needs to pick a position and stay with it. Either men and women are completely, totally equal, and thus there is no such thing as a “girl brain with a boy body”, or you have to acknowledge innate differences between the sexes.

      2. Rhywun

        And the NEA is possibly the most powerful union in the US.

        1. Fatty Bolger

          That must explain why our public school systems are the envy of the world.

    1. Fatty Bolger

      #RedforEd? Feck’n commies.

  14. kinnath

    The dew point is 80 fucking degrees right now. I don’t remember seeing that before.

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      40c humidex here.

      And guess what?

      My AC system blew and the part I need won’t be in until next week.

      Typical.

      The house has an internal temp of 30c. right now.

      Ask me what I think. Ga’head.

      1. ChipsnSalsa

        30 is pretty chilly better put on an extra layer of felt.

    2. Rhywun

      75 here. Maybe it’s the wind pattern or something but it’s not actually that bad in my non-AC rooms, yet. It was far worse a few days ago.

      1. 94 here, with storms on the way.

        1. Rhywun

          I mean the dew point. Temp is 89. (Thanks, Atlantic Ocean!)

          1. Oh, well, the rest of the current numbers for the capital district are: Dew Point 72, 49% humidity. Heat index 102.

    3. Tundra

      Yeah, it’s been years. We’re gonna get pounded by storms. Lots of water in the air.

      Truck says 91. Fuck this.

      1. kinnath

        It’s 95 degrees. That I can deal with. Dew point of 80 means fucking miserable conditions.

        1. Yuck. It’s 99 here with dew point at 76. I knew we were gonna pay for the downright beautiful June we had.

      2. MikeS

        79F and dew point of 52F here.

        ?

    4. Sean

      It was so hot and humid today that we skipped going to shoot sporting clays. ?

      1. Suthenboy

        No shit. That is miserable…sweaty hands and sweat running in your eyes it is pointless to try and shoot. It is certainly not enjoyable.

        1. Sean

          Yup. I knew the course would be next to empty, but it would not be enjoyable at all.

    5. Chipwooder

      Our dew point isn’t quite that bad – 73. 97 and 104 heat index is bad enough. Supposed to be 101 tomorrow and 99 Sunday. I’m not leaving my house till Monday morning.

    6. The Bearded Hobbit

      Temp: 83F
      Dew point: 37F
      Relative humidity: 16%

      1. The Bearded Hobbit

        I got to thinking about it a while back. I’ve lived in the high desert of NM most of my life and I have never lived in a house that had A/C.

  15. Enough About Palin

    50 years after the deadly crash, a mysterious letter claims Ted Kennedy had ANOTHER woman in his car and did not know a drunk Mary Jo Kopechne was asleep on the back seat when he crashed into a pond

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7263395/Letter-claims-Ted-Kennedy-didnt-realize-Mary-Jo-Kopechne-car-Chappaquiddick.html

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      Bullshit.

    2. Bob Boberson

      https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/19/business/dollar-general-opposition/index.html

      Tom Woods already covered this a while back but evidently Dollar stores hurt poor people by offering them cheaper alternatives.

      1. Bob Boberson

        Damn it. Reverse Brooks’ed

      2. kinnath

        As dollar stores sweep across America, they are facing growing scrutiny from opponents who argue that discount chains stifle local competition and limit poor communities’ access to healthy food.

        Fuck these people. Dollar General is not a grocery store. There is a limited amount of food, but its primary purpose is cheap household goods just 5 minutes from my house in the country side.

        Dollar General is awesome.

        1. Bob Boberson

          But those people should totes be buying artisanal mayonnaise from quaint little corner stores at triple the price. Because it makes rich progs feel good.

        2. Mad Scientist

          discount chains stifle local competition

          You poor people should pay more so I can live in the town I remember from my childhood!

        3. Chipwooder

          Yep. I get as much as I can from Dollar Tree – trash bags, ziplocs, paper towels, cleaning products,
          OTC medication, etc.

          1. Tulip

            Coffee filters

          2. Sean

            Dollar store paper towels and plates suck. I’ve tried them.

        4. Stinky Wizzleteats

          Screw the snobs that don’t like DG, they have great prices and they’re willing to set up shop in places where no other stores are. DG does more for the poor than the bitchers and whiners ever will.

      3. Fatty Bolger

        Advocates of tighter controls on dollar stores say the big chains intentionally cluster multiple stores in low-income areas. That strategy discourages supermarkets from opening

        How does that work? If anything, it might make a supermarket reconsider the viability of an area.

        and it threatens existing mom-and-pop grocers, critics say.

        So what?

        1. Bob Boberson

          Those mom and pop stores that buy there inventory at Walmart and sell it at an 80% mark up.

        2. Rhywun

          Yeah, it’s all about the mom-and-pops who have the ear of local pols. All that other mendacious crap is a distraction.

      4. Rhywun

        limit poor communities’ access to healthy food

        Bullshit. How many times does this need to be debunked?

        1. Tulip

          I looked up my address once. I supposedly live in a food desert. I can walk to a Best Way, a Super Wal-Mart, and two more Latino markets. A giant is about 3 miles away. Such bullshit. Must be paid f for by big chains

          1. Tulip

            I sent an email,identifying myself as a researcher and taking the attitude that of course they would want to correct such an error. Never heard back

          2. Akira

            The whole southwest quadrant of my town is classified as a “food desert” by the USDA (I used the food desert locator tool on their own website).

            Within this alleged food desert is:
            – A recently-expanded Kroger with a large fresh produce and health foods section
            – A family-run meat market that sells local produce
            – A bulk health foods store
            – A farmer’s market in the summer months

            Their criteria are pretty fucking hinky to say the least.

    3. kinnath

      Teddy fucked her then killed her through gross negligence.

      He should have rotted in prison.

      1. creech

        Facts (the fucking) not in evidence. I think he was heading to a secluded beach where he hoped to fuck her, but drunk and hyped up on testosterone, he went off the side of the bridge. The fact she left her purse behind in the cottage pretty much indicates they were just “going for a drive.”

    4. Fatty Bolger

      Seems legit.

      Mary Jo Kopechne was not available for comment.

    5. Rufus the Monocled

      I hope he’s being eaten alive by worms to infinity in hell along with anyone connected to this travesty.

      Mary Jo could still be alive today when you think of it.

    6. LJW

      Makes no sense. If that was the case why not just go with that story and exclude the fact that another woman was in the car?

    7. The Bearded Hobbit

      He should have been driving a VW.

    8. Suthenboy

      He didn’t know she was there…that’s why he called a lawyer. Now it all makes sense.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    And that clip with Michelle establishing a ‘non-partisan’ entity to get young people to vote.

    I bet ‘non-partisan’.

    “Go ahead and vote for the racist party, if that’s the sort of country you really want to live in.”

  17. Sensei

    As I have been actually working the last few days after coming back from vacation, have there been any comments from the Glibs on the new Corvette?

    https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/a29781/mid-engine-corvette-2018-rumors/

    Base price is $60k, but I imagine one at that price isn’t going to happen for a while. After a year or two for demand to taper and GM to work the bugs out it would seem like a very interesting proposition.

    1. The Bearded Hobbit

      One of my Thursday poker buddies just bought one. Not the 750HP model, the one with “only” 650HP.

      He bought it online and had it delivered from New Jersey. Says he saved about $18k doing it that way.

      1. Sean

        Ewwww….NJ….
        He may never get the stink out.
        ?

      2. Spudalicious

        I know of two people that bought the 750hp models and they were back on the showroom floor within a couple of days. They decided they didn’t have a death wish.

    2. Suthenboy

      I don’t remember what year it was but I saw the corvette ranked as the no.1 most unreliable car on the road. Average miles before a breakdown was 500 miles.
      I never thought about the corvette again.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    have there been any comments from the Glibs on the new Corvette?

    Autopaddleshifty only. Hard pass.

    *As if I would ever buy a Corvette, new or otherwise.

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      No manual? That’s just sad.

    2. kinnath

      Buy a lovely little 370Z with a 5-speed manual transmission at half the price.

      1. Sensei

        The 370 is ancient! At this point a new one is going to have huge depreciation.

    3. Sensei

      Sadly the way of Ferrari as well. Porsche gets it and charges you more for the slower car on their top models. And BMW is now mostly manual free.

      I don’t think we will have them that much longer, but we are a dying breed. Miata May be one of the few exceptions as it isn’t actually an ultimate performance car.

  19. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Razorfist on Cicero and the current state of our educational system (~11 min):

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OLmbiX5RGmo

  20. The Late P Brooks

    From Bob Boberson’s Gilmored (?) link:

    As dollar stores sweep across America, they are facing growing scrutiny from opponents who argue that discount chains stifle local competition and limit poor communities’ access to healthy food.
    Dollar stores have never been more popular. Yet a wave of cities and towns have passed laws curbing the expansion of Dollar General (DG) and Dollar Tree (DLTR), which bought Family Dollar in 2015. The companies are the two largest dollar store operators in the country, combining for more than 30,000 stores throughout the United States, up from under 20,000 a decade ago. By comparison, Walmart (WMT), America’s largest retailer, has 4,700 US stores.
    Advocates of tighter controls on dollar stores say the big chains intentionally cluster multiple stores in low-income areas. That strategy discourages supermarkets from opening and it threatens existing mom-and-pop grocers, critics say.

    Store opens in poor neighborhood, poor people hardest hit.

    Good grief.

    1. Rebel Scum

      Leftists really hate poor people.

      1. Akira

        What are you talking about? Leftist LOVE the poor.

        It’s why they’re always trying to make people poor and keep them that way.

    2. topnotchtoledo

      Any good company knows to cluster multiple stores to maximize profit. Especially in rural areas.

    3. Akira

      discount chains stifle local competition provide goods at lower prices which consumers choose to buy instead of the higher priced options.

      Have you guys noticed that Lefties don’t really believe in human will or volition at all? In this example, they believe that if a store opens, people MUST shop there. It’s like SimCity. A business opens, and it’s assumed that people will just start patronizing it like automatons.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    But those people should totes be buying artisanal mayonnaise from quaint little corner stores at triple the price. Because it makes rich progs feel good.

    Farmers’ market. Produce from a wholesaler, repackaged (and repriced) as “home grown”.

    1. Bob Boberson

      It was grown on someone’s property, ipso facto; home grown. Where it was grown ultimately doesn’t matter what matters is the virtue signaling.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    From July 2: 4:32 p.m. A Kalispell man reported that he heard music from a “super creepy” ice cream truck in his neighborhood at about 1 a.m. that day. The man thought it was pretty strange for an ice cream truck to be making sounds at that hour.

    Killer Klowns From Outer Space?

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Time to go test drive the Tar Baby. See how the new steering pump does.

  24. Rufus the Monocled
    1. Bob Boberson

      All those racist republicans!!! Oh wait, to a man they were all Democrats? Unpossible?!?!

      1. mock-star

        Morley and Jackson were Rs. Still “The parties switched” thing is pants-on-head retarded.

    2. leon

      “While one source claims Warren G. Harding, a Republican, was a Ku Klux Klan member while President, that claim is based on a third-hand account of a second-hand recollection in 1985 of a deathbed statement made sometime in the late 1940s concerning an incident in the early 1920s. Independent investigations have turned up many contradictions and no supporting evidence. Historians reject the claim and note that Harding in fact publicly fought and spoke against the Klan.”

      This is Wikipedia.

  25. LJW

    The comeback state of 2019: Kansas economy rebounds from tax-cutting disaster

    Bullshit, the Kansas economy was fine during the tax cuts. It was the state budget that was in the red and that was because they refused to cut spending.

    1. Fatty Bolger

      Shows you what bullshit those rankings are, when the state government’s budget somehow affects the supposed health of the economy.

  26. Winded

    Somewhat obscure human achievment in history – 22 years ago today (and exactly 40 years after Derek Ibbotson broke the world record in the one mile), Daniel Komen became the first (and still only) person to run the 2 mile in under 8 minutes.

    1. Suthenboy

      Jesus.

      I could never run the 4 minute mile but I got close. I don’t remember the actual time but it was 4:15 or some such. No matter how hard I tried I just couldn’t do it.
      2 miles in 8? I cant imagine that.

      1. Akira

        One of the few times I actually timed myself on a one-mile run, I did it in 6:30 or something, and it fucking killed me… But at a jogging pace, I can go a little over 5 miles nonstop at 260 pounds, so I’m not going to beat myself up over it.

  27. Chipwooder

    Comrade Bernie’s staffers agitate to be paid at least $15/hr, and he makes it happen…..by cutting their hours.

    Brianne Pfannenstiel

    @brianneDMR
    Bernie Sanders says his campaign will limit the hours staffers work so they are paid the equivalent of $15 an hour. “I’m very proud to be the first presidential candidate to recognize a union and negotiate a union contract,” he told me. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2019/07/19/bernie-sanders-campaign-staff-wage-15-hour-union-elizabeth-warren-campaign-wages/1781159001/

    Bernie Sanders defends staff compensation after complaints his campaign isn’t paying $15 an hour
    “It does bother me that people are going outside of the process and going to the media,” Bernie Sanders told the Des Moines Register. “That is really not acceptable.

    desmoinesregister.com
    30
    4:25 PM – Jul 19, 2019

    1. leon

      “It does bother me that people are going outside of the process and going to the media,” Bernie Sanders told the Des Moines Register. “That is really not acceptable.

      Did they bring the inflatable Rat?

  28. Rebel Scum

    He just kind of whimpers as things start to get hot

    Hm. I don’t really make any sounds, just heavy breathing.

    1. Bob Boberson

      WOOD.

  29. grrizzly

    The Next Democratic Debate Lineup:

    July 30
    Sen. Bernie Sanders
    Sen. Elizabeth Warren
    Mayor Pete Buttigieg
    Sen. Amy Klobuchar
    Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke
    Gov. Steve Bullock
    Former Rep. John Delaney
    Former Gov. John Hickenlooper
    Rep. Tim Ryan
    Author Marianne Williamson

    July 31
    Former Vice President Joe Biden
    Sen. Kamala Harris
    Sen. Cory Booker
    Former HUD Secretary Julian Castro
    Entrepreneur Andrew Yang
    Rep. Tulsi Gabbard
    Mayor Bill de Blasio
    Sen. Michael Bennet
    Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
    Gov. Jay Inslee

    1. Rhywun

      They haven’t made any cuts?!

    2. creech

      If those are the choices, vote “None of the Above.” What happened to the center of the “center left” Democratic Party? Is the GOP still “center right” or have they moved toward the left too? If Libertarians picked the best of each party (that is, ideas that support most individual liberty) would the LP then occupy the center? A Ross Perot-type guy, running an independent campaign, might do quite well in 2020.

      1. They said the same thing about 2016. How much did GayJay get? 1.5%?

        1. MikeS

          3.3%

    3. leon

      I fucking hate that Former shit. Stop titling everyone.

    4. Rebel Scum

      Marianne Williamson

      I do hope Reparations Gilf get more airtime.

    5. Scruffy Nerfherder

      They forgot Pinto Colvig.

  30. commodious spittoon

    After several hours using these over the last couple days, I find I don’t hate them after all. They connect speedily and reliably to one another and to my phone. They stay in place at least while I’m sitting at my desk or doing housework, though I imagine they’d be an issue if I were working out. I thought the case would be a hokey, extraneous piece of hardware, something else to clutter my life that I’ll probably forget somewhere, but in practice it makes perfect sense. When I put away the buds they go into the case, where they charge and are less likely to be lost. At least so far it feels like a solid purchase. Of course, if they’re anything like the Bluetooth headsets I’ve bought in the last couple years, they’ll last a month and a half before crapping out.

  31. Rhywun

    Today in stupid:

    People are furious ‘Cats’ star Francesca Hayward has white fur

    https://nypost.com/2019/07/19/people-are-furious-cats-star-francesca-hayward-has-white-fur/

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      People want to show how much more offended they are than everybody else.

    2. Stinky Wizzleteats

      “People are furious”
      Are they though? Are they really?

      1. Rhywun

        I am sure there are at least 2 tweets proving it!

      2. commodious spittoon

        If you click through the Twitter link it’s literally one person whose comment received three uptwinkles and two replies, neither in support.

    3. AlmightyJB

      I’m curious that she’s not nude in those pictures.

    4. Heroic Mulatto

      I didn’t fuck my cat. I didn’t cum on my cat. I didn’t put my dick anywhere near my cat. I’ve never done anything weird with my cats. I promised myself I wasn’t going to make apology comments after last year’s thing so I’m just trying to be as short and honest with this as possible.

      1. Tulip

        Ok. I really don’t want to kno

      2. Spudalicious

        Typically, people that put up excuses like that are guilty as hell.

  32. BakedPenguin

    OT: Thanks for all the kind words (on the last thread), glad to bring SNP back. Also, sorry I got here only after the previous thread started dying.

    Back to Steve Smith… but if you are, considering turning around.

    1. commodious spittoon

      Didn’t have a chance to reply earlier, but I was happy to see it return.

    2. Grummun

      I was overjoyed to see SNP return. Random Drunken Asshole is a philosopher, a beacon of wisdom in these dark times.

      Dem titties.

      Truer words were never spoken.

  33. Tulip

    OMG! I’m so excited. My colleague got us tickets to see the Mongolian throat singing metal band! Squee

    1. The Bearded Hobbit

      One night I was driving home listening to the local college radio station and they had a group in the studio doing Gregorian Chants. It was weirdly wonderful.

      1. Tulip

        I love things like that. Madrigal dinners, choral music. It’s fun. The first time I went to Paris, I went to a recital at St John the Poor (12th century church) that was apparently the master’s performance of a music student. It was variations on Ave Maria. Very weird but wonderful.

        1. AlmightyJB

          Pretty cool.

      2. Tulip

        I just read,before going, Amy Kelly’s Eleanor of Acqitaine and the Four Kings. Which is a scholarly book, but reads like an adventure novel. That church is mentioned. I was beside myself with excitement. They used candelabras to light the church. So cool to me.

        1. The Bearded Hobbit

          Not a big fan of Katherine Hepburn but loved her portrayal of Eleanor in The Lion in Winter.

      1. MikeS

        Uh-oh. The fret board on the one dude’s morin khuur has swastikas on it. Enjoy their music before they get banned form YouTube!

        1. Tulip

          Wrong orientation, I think. Internationals are now recognizing the difference

  34. Gustave Lytton
    1. MikeS

      What you did. Saw it.

  35. AlmightyJB

    Let’s just pop off some random shots in the hood. What could happen? Dumbasses.

    http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/shotspotter-investigation-leads-to-weapons-drug-bust-federal-charges-for-columbus-man

  36. MikeS

    ‘I just want to die’: Police release camera footage of stolen police car that crashed into semitrailer

    Watch the bottom video. I got the chills watching the end of the dash-cam part of it.

    I sympathize with him for whatever was going on that he wanted to die. But fuck him for involving other people in it. Thank goodness the semi driver was unhurt…at least physically.

  37. Spudalicious

    “Mongolian throat singing metal band!”

    Umm…uh…okay.

    1. Rhywun

      Tulip posted a video some time ago. It’s pretty damn cool, actually.

      1. Suthenboy

        I had often wondered what happened to the big, bad, world-conquering Mongolians. When I saw that video my first thought was “holy shit, they haven’t changed one bit.”

        1. Suthenboy

          I used to like panramio on google earth. I could spend hours looking at photos from all over the world. Some of my favorites were in Mongolia. For the four or five days when it isn’t frozen the place is unbelievably beautiful.

          1. The Bearded Hobbit

            Try this. It is a strangely compelling way to spend an afternoon looking for foreign places. Haven’t tried for a while but I got pretty good after a while.

          2. Tulip

            Ooh, that’s a rabbit hole

          3. Suthenboy

            Thanks a lot dude. *facepalm*

            Now y’all wont hear from me for six months.

        2. Tulip

          There is (likely apocryphal) story about experimental economists trying to work with Mongolian shepherds. They basically patted the guy on the head and said “we are rich shepherds, you are a poor grad student, keep your money”

          Experimental economists pay people to play games (prisoner’s dilemma, etc).
          They weren’t interested. Keep your money, you need it more

  38. MikeS

    I love the big ore boats: YMMV

    Historic ore boat nears return to service following long layoff

    Wearing a new coat of paint, Arthur M. Anderson, the last ore boat to hear from the Edmund Fitzgerald before it sank in 1975, will load ore and return to work sometime next week following a two-year layoff.

    The Anderson had been famously trailing the Fitzgerald through the Nov. 10, 1975 storm and received Capt. Ernest McSorley’s final radio call before he and 28 others went down with the Fitzgerald: “We are holding our own,” McSorley reported to the Anderson.

    1. ChipsnSalsa

      They couldn’t start up until the song was done.

    2. BakedPenguin

      “The legend lives on, from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake they call Gitchee Gumee….”

  39. These ladies will make you whimper like a small animal in pain.

    http://archive.li/OjFL7

  40. Heroic Mulatto

    1. Sorry Buddha, you have been unenlightened.

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        This is why you were reincarnated as a hungry ghost.