Thing To Come – Week of September 2, 2019

 

Our fine readers have stepped up and given us enough material to stagger along another week. Search your soul and your conscience (I know, this I say to a bunch of Glibs?!) have you written up that post you meant to get to? Isn’t there something you’d like to share with us? Plz.

OK, my weekly plea is done – here is what will be gracing our site this week:

Monday – Animal discusses are really, really good gun (ZARDOZ is pleased, I bet). Tulip makes a very dangerous choice…. ’nuff said!

Tuesday – Not Adahn takes a crack at Whiskies of Nippon. whiz gives us some of the early bookie thoughts on 2020 POTUS FEST. Get your dull anger on, with Ozymandias and the DoD Anthrax saga late night.

Wednesday – Double barrel blast to your mental wellbeing – SugarFree opens the assault with the Hat & the Hair, and finishes us off with a Subaru Horror Theater. I…I don’t know if I can manage both.

Thursday – SNP! Baked Penguin willing. Later on, a warning re: Kaliforneeyah. By Yusef.

Friday – Another Glib Crossword! Don Escaped Texas takes a turn in the barrel. Cryptid o’ the week links later on.

Weekend – Mexican Sharpshooter, Spudalicious, OMWC, Not Adahn….what is not to like?

Weekday links….I dunno. Maybe sloopy keeps going. It has been cool having him back in the mornings. Brett will get to some afternoons, if he doesn’t fall down due to exhaustion. So expect a pinch hitter every once in a while.

Comments

586 responses to “Thing To Come – Week of September 2, 2019”

  1. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

    No links to comment on?

    FIRST!

    1. Trigger Hippie
      1. Count Potato

        This almost sounds like Saint Etienne

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRSr0GprIIw

        1. Rhywun

          Heh it does. That was weird.

        2. Trigger Hippie

          Ahhhhhh, earworm!

          1. Count Potato

            Maybe some Neil Young might help?

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZAajrxvDs4

          2. DEG

            I prefer the original.

          3. Rhywun

            Proof that some bands really need an album or three under their belts in order to find their strengths.

          4. Trigger Hippie

            I hold the unpopular opinion that Niel Young is absolutely horrible with a voice that reminds me of nails on a chalkboard.

            Also, Rush sucks.

            *ducks*

          5. Gender Traitor

            Idle exercise: name the recording artists who would make the world’s worst vocal quartet (2 male, 2 female.) My picks: Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Yoko Ono, and Macy Gray. (I could be talked out of the last one, but I’ll get in trouble if I replace her with Iris DeMent.)

          6. Tundra

            Linda McCartney/ Yoko
            Vanilla Ice/ Bob Dylan

          7. Don Escaped Texas

            I listen to writers, so Young is in for me. I’m not recommending his voice, or Willie Nelson’s for example.

            I know a million people who can sing. I know two people with original ideas and the ability to frame those into passable songs.

          8. DEG

            name the recording artists who would make the world’s worst vocal quartet (2 male, 2 female.) My picks: Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Yoko Ono, and Macy Gray. (I could be talked out of the last one, but I’ll get in trouble if I replace her with Iris DeMent.)

            Hmm… I agree about Yoko Ono without any reservation.

            I’ve never liked anything I’ve heard of Leonard Cohen’s, so I agree with him too.

            Neil Young and Bob Dylan: I like work from both of them, but Dylan’s singing is far worse than Young’s. So despite me liking his songwriting, I’ll include Dylan instead of Young.

            I’ve only heard one Macy Gray song. I didn’t like her singing. So I’ll include her too.

          9. blackjack

            Young is cool, when he rocks out.

          10. Count Potato

            Tom Waits, Biz Markie, Yoko Ono, Jennifer Lopez

          11. Count Potato

            Dylan was a great singer when he was young.

          12. Trigger Hippie

            Don, I’ve never found him to be particularly memorable to me in regards to his musical creativity either, just my personal opinion. I thought he was decent in Crosby, Stills and Nash but outside of that I’m nonplussed by his song writing. Kinda like Springsteen.

            Now, as much as I hate Rush I do acknowledge the technical mastery of their instruments and musical creativity. It’s just something about the whole package that grates my nerves. I can’t explain it. Same thing with another artist from the classics: Chopin. I can hear the genius, but it just irritates me. Don’t know why.

          13. Trigger Hippie

            GT:

            Tiny Tim and the guy from Coheed and Cambria

            Cardi B and Morgan Lander from Kittie

          14. Tundra

            Jesus, TH.

            Are you trying to being about the End Times?

          15. DEG

            “Alabama” is not Niel Young’s greatest moment. Shame. The rest of the album is good.

          16. blackjack

            What? I can’t hear Heart of Gold or Old Man Take a Look at my Life, even one more time. I can hear Words or Alabama all day long.

          17. Rhywun

            I like Neil Young’s biggest fan more than Neil Young.

          18. Akira

            I can’t believe people are talking about the worst vocalists ever and nobody has mentioned Florence Foster Jenkins

          19. MikeS

            TH: I’m in the exact same place as you re: Rush. I can’t really explain it (well, Geddy Lee’s voice is a good start) but the parts are greater than the whole, in my mind.

          20. Threedoor

            You are correct. There may not be a word strong enough to express my loathing of the band Rush.

            PS. I love you.

          21. CPRM

            Just because you want to be ‘cool’ and ‘edgy’ isn’t a reason (DRINK) to lie.

  2. DEG

    Animal discusses are really, really good gun (ZARDOZ is pleased, I bet). Tulip makes a very dangerous choice…. ’nuff said!

    Looks like good reading for the holiday.

    1. DEG

      First loser I am.

    2. Trigger Hippie

      Tundra, I can’t tell if you’re referencing something I can’t figure out *shakes fist at Google* or saying my quartet pick should writing into a Subaru story.

      I prefer the second option, so….thank you? Yep, going with that, no backsies!!!

      1. Trigger Hippie

        Holy mispost, Batman!

        *burp*

        What, Dave? What are you looking at?

        1. DEG

          Let’s have another drink together.

          1. Trigger Hippie

            Cheers!

      2. Tundra

        LOL.

        It’s probably best if everyone just drinks.

        1. MikeS

          This is the wisest comment I’ve seen here in months.

  3. DEG

    Double barrel blast to your mental wellbeing – SugarFree opens the assault with the Hat & the Hair, and finishes us off with a Subaru Horror Theater. I…I don’t know if I can manage both.

    I suspect I’m at zero sanity because these don’t bother me like they do others.

    1. Nephilium

      There are advantages to being low sanity, it’s much harder to lose further.

    2. Tulip

      I love Subaru Horror Theatre. Yay!

    3. Spudalicious

      Nice. You’re first AND second loser.

      1. Well when BEAM’s photos wind up in Penthouse DEG will become the new first.

        1. Nephilium

          *thumbs up*

          The real question is what genre do you put SD into?

          1. DEG

            A cousin of mine’s husband and I had a chat about Social Distortion.

            When I first heard them, I didn’t like them. But over time, I heard more from them and grew to like them.

            He mentioned that they changed a bit over their career, they went from being heavily punk to being more heavily rockabilly.

            I think the reason I have grown to like them is a mix of two things. One, hearing how they changed and two my own changing tastes in music.

          2. Nephilium

            To me, I stick them as one of the original punk bands. I enjoy them, I get entertained as they get requested to be headliners for Viva Las Vegas every year.

          3. DEG

            Have they ever played at Viva?

          1. DEG

            I tapped out at 45 seconds.

          2. You should look up a list of songs he wrote. Surprisingly diverse, although you’re going to hate them all.

          3. MikeS

            21 seconds longer than me.

  4. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

    And I am, **HEAVY SIGH**, one of those who’s been drafted by SP to write something and haven’t finished it yet. I plead ignorance, overwork, being Canadian, the Fifth Amendment, the Fifth Estate, or pretty much anything else that gets me another couple of days’ grace.

    1. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

      Plus what I’ve written so far is wordy. REALLY wordy. Gonna need me an editor.  :-/

      1. Don Escaped Texas

        I’m glad to edit pretty much anything if more firepower is needed.

    2. Don Escaped Texas

      The worst part is finding a mistake in something you’ve already submitted. I left a whole cell out of my crossword, so I fixed it. Well, might as well add some things I’ve thought of in the meanwhile since I’m updating. Great, but now I’ve got to renumber the blocks (all this done in Excel). Oh, so that means some of the clues have the wrong references (as in: with 46 Across . . . . should now be with 56 Across). NewWife checks it: more errors, more corrections, more re-numbering . . . .

    3. “drafted by SP”

      Not how I remember it.

      But, now that you mention it, hmm, it is taking a while….

      (We can actually edit if necessary.)

      1. Count Potato

        Some traits are hereditary.

    4. Yusef drives a Kia

      How about the Fifth Element?

    5. MikeS

      One fifth of Windsor…after the other?

  5. Yusef drives a Kia

    Howdy Glibs! Back here in beautiful Bullhead city, and only 110 degrees, tall cans to all!

    1. Timeloose

      Hi Yusef!!

    2. blackjack

      What’s up? If you can, go check out Oatman. It’s a cool place. Well, not cool as in cool, but kinda cool, anyways. Prolly love getting their a/c fixed out there.

    3. DEG

      Howdy Yusef! I’m out of tall cans but I’ll make up for it by drinking more.

      I’m not drunk yet.

    4. Nephilium

      Sorry Yusef, no tall cans here. Just taps, standard cans, and bottles.

      /tosses Yusef a beer

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        Catches a four peaks hopknot,
        Thanks!

    5. Tulip

      Nope, no tall cans. Just martinis. Hot and muggy and I have tomorrow off, so martinis.

      1. Nephilium

        I’m sure you’re making them correctly, but I hope there’s at least some vermouth in those martinis. I am unfortunately out of tonic water, so no G&T’s for me tonight.

        1. Tulip

          It’s not a martini without dry vermouth. When my mom was here, she was aghast at how much vermouth I put in, but by the second sip, she was a concert. My Dad was not a vermouth fan and he made the martinis, while she made the whiskey sours

          1. Tulip

            Convert. Fucking autocorrect

          2. Nephilium

            /lifts glass up to Tulip

            Neither of my parents were cocktail fans, mom is a wine once in a while, and dad is a beer/whiskey/wine person. I generally lean towards the classic cocktails, with the oldest recipes I can find. Although there are some modern cocktails I can roll with.

        2. Tulip

          I will admit to being a margarita philistine in that I don’t like salt on the rim. Which is weird because I love, looove, salt.

          1. Tejicano

            Salt on the rim is for tourists who drink cheap Tequila. The reason for salt is to help you get by the nasty taste of cheap Tequila. Not necessary when you use a better grade.

          2. westernsloper

            Wrong! A salted rim adds to even the best Margarita made with top shelf ingredients.

          3. Spudalicious

            You’ve been in Japan a bit too long.

          4. Spartacus

            Tejicano is 100% correct.
            When I have good tequila, I leave off the salt. And the lime juice. And the Cointreau. And the ice. Sometimes even the glass.

      2. MikeS

        Gin-from-the-home-country martinis, I assume? ?

        1. Tulip

          Far North Spirits for the win. Better than Tanqueray, better than Hendricks in my opinion.

          1. MikeS

            I haven’t tried the gin, yet. I need to.

    6. Rhywun

      Once again mine will have to be a tall tumbler. Soon as I get around to pouring something into it.

    7. westernsloper

      I love that part of the country for some reason. Maybe too much reading of Edward Abby. I almost needed your help today. My Dad is convinced he needs a new thermostat. The thermostat is clicking but the geothermal unit is not coming on. Who knows. Went and got a new thermostat to swap, but not the same number of wire connection locations on the new one as the old one for the wires coming out of the wall. He will call someone who knows what they are doing or order a same thermostat from Amazon.

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        What color and how many? A heat pump needs 5 wires minimum, take a picture and mail it to me, I’ll take a look

        1. westernsloper

          His old one has six with the white then doing a jumper to another connection making seven connections on the board. The letters on the connectors were different on the new thermostat and not enough so we figured it was a no go. He is ordering the same one. My fear is it was not the thermostat but something in the AC unit. I don’t know much at all about geothermal units.

          Wire colors blue, red, yellow, white, green, and orange. I don’t have a pic of the new thermostat I bought.

  6. Timeloose

    Question for the Glibertariot.

    Would you be interested in an article on the state of autonomous cars? I’ve a tech talk that I can make into an article. It will require some anti doxing and filler on my part. Not deep but broad.

    1. blackjack

      Like the real housewives, not a deep broad?

      1. Timeloose

        Not that broad.

    2. totally_not_an_escaped_ai

      Yes! I’m probably one of the few here who actually want autonomous cars.

    3. Gustave Lytton

      A better question is are there any topics that Glibs would not be interested in? A short list most likely. And the comments would just snark away just like the rest.

      Tldr: yes, of course

      1. Best ways to prepare pineapple pizza?

        1. Gustave Lytton

          With Canadian Bacon.

          1. Tulip

            And onion

          2. Spudalicious

            And deep dish.

        2. Tundra would be interested in that. *sigh*

          1. BakedPenguin

            Anyone who has pineapple on a pizza should only be able to order white pizza. Vegan white pizza.

          2. Tundra

            You too?

            So disappointed, BP.

            So.

            Disappointed.

          3. BakedPenguin

            Funny, I feel the same way, Tundra. (turns away)

          4. Tundra

            Whatever. Me and Doom will be happy.

          5. Nephilium

            If that counts as happiness.

            If that counts…

          6. Spudalicious

            We all have our flaws but damn, Tundra, you’re pretty fucked up.

          7. Tundra

            Well, duh.

            I’m here.

        3. Tulip

          Hah! I’d be interested, but SP wouldn’t and that’s what really counts.

          1. Tundra

            I love you.

          2. Tulip

            I love you too. When are you leaving your wife?

          3. Tundra

            Lol. She’s probably wondering the same thing!

        4. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

          Best ways to prepare pineapple pizza?

          If it doesn’t start with “grill the pineapple rings until they’re partially caramelized, then chop up” throw the damn pizza away.

        5. MikeS

          At the barrel of a gun is the only way I’d do it.

          1. Tundra

            Pussy.

      2. RAHeinlein

        Gun and beer articles.

    4. Nephilium

      I’d be interested. Hell, people read about the brewing stuff I wrote.

      1. MikeS

        Yep, we did. Way back forever ago when you actually did it.

        *expectant stare*

        1. DEG

          Yeah. I think people even read the stuff I wrote.

    5. Don Escaped Texas

      I’m guessing it’s better than when my team’s demo autonomously wrecked itself in the parking lot, crashing into Kenworth’s head of advanced engineering.

      Sales for that day = €0.00

    6. Tulip

      I’m always interested in knowledgeable people writing stuff they are knowledgeable about. I’ve had two martinis so I hope that makes sense.

    7. westernsloper

      Of course!

    8. Spudalicious

      So, hung like a tuna can?

      I’d love to read about that.

      1. Spudalicious

        Hmmm. That doesn’t exactly read the way it was supposed to…

        1. Crusty Juggler

          long and thin gets it in…

      2. MikeS

        Carrying a Heavy Choad

    9. Suthenboy

      I would very much like that. totally_not_an_escaped_ai, you are wrong. I would love an autonomous car that is safe, reliable and private. I tell it where I want to go via voice or tapping a map and off I go. Caveats: It cannot be controlled by any third party and gives out zero information about my travels to third parties. Since that will never happen I am going to hang onto my Suthenboy piloted vehicles.

      1. DEG

        Seconded.

      2. Suthenboy

        Oh, and I can take over controls at will.

      3. Sean

        I *like* driving. A lot. It’s probably why I keep getting new cars instead of driving them into the ground.

    10. Timeloose

      Cool. Once things chill out I’ll start writing it.

    11. Tundra

      After all the fucking around – yes, I’d be very interested in the state of autonomous transportation.

      As I’m sure no one is surprised, I am reflexively opposed to the whole concept. Cars, to me, are as important to individual freedom as guns. I would love to read how this technology could be deployed without crushing the rights of drivers.

      Thanks, dude!

    12. violent_k

      Yes. I would love to read that. I don’t think they are any where near as close as the spin surrounding them would indicate.

      1. Rhywun

        Your avatar needs some work, Tulpa.

        1. Spudalicious

          Tulpa doesn’t even know how to properly Tulpa. I think he’s a Hyperbole creation.

  7. blackjack

    Just got back from Carpinteria. Little beach town by Santa Barbara. Very kid friendly beaches, tiny little 1 foot waves that break right up in the shallows. Kid went nuts. It was fun, but damn, I’m tired.

    1. Chafed

      So is the kid. Been there, done that. The good news is you both get to sleep tonight.

  8. Tulip

    I’m working on another rock-n-roll biography, but I suspect the choice of artist will be controversial. That should make the comments interesting.

    1. Chafed

      Are you telling me Lou Reed is dead?

      1. Tulip

        What?! Lou Reed died? /jk. No. Someone else

    2. Rick Astley?

      1. MikeS

        Thank gawd you didn’t link to it.

        I hope it somebody interesting like Michael Jackson.

        1. Tulip

          Michael Jackson – Ick!

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  10. Gustave Lytton

    Who likes watermelons?

    These guys!

    1. Rhywun

      LOL *shudder*

    2. Count Potato

      Hungly hungly hippos?

    3. Suthenboy

      They are slightly neater eaters than my giant Catahoula cur. Slightly.

      That critter has one hell of a set of jaws.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        Hate to have a hand or arm too close when those close.

  11. Crusty Juggler

    NYC bicyclists are killing pedestrians and the city won’t stop it

    Since 2011, bicyclists have injured more than 2,250 pedestrians — including at least seven who died — according to stats from the city Department of Transportation and published reports.

    Injuries are up 12 percent this year, rising to 127 through June 30 from 113 over the same period in 2018, the NYPD says.

    “People are mad,” said Adrienne Rivetti Jensen, an Upper West Side resident whose 5-year-old daughter, Mabel, suffered a gash on her forehead when a speeding biker clipped the girl in Riverside Park on April 8.

    Mabel, now with an inch-long scar, was at first afraid to return to the park after the accident, said the mother.

    “She got hit while we were just walking on the pathway — and a lot of cyclists were speeding past us, yelling at us to get out of the way,” the mother recalled. “In the Uber to the hospital, I started to feel really angry. He could have killed her. He was going really fast.”

    Is there a bigger asshole than a NYC bicyclist? The answer is no. No there isn’t.

    1. Nephilium

      Critical Mass Cyclists.

      /drops jersey.

    2. Rhywun

      Meh. People have accepted that cars kill pedestrians. Don’t see why this would be any different.

      Yes, there are a lot of assholes. Social pressure and maybe cops can help address that but dammit the Post has a crusade to pursue.

    3. blackjack

      LA bicyclists are close, but there far fewer. Fucking pricks block off whole lanes when they could just scoot their little toys over a few feet and let us big people drive our cars to our big people jobs, dammit.

    4. Yusef drives a Kia

      Interstate truckers?
      Trust me on this,

      1. Tulip

        So much this.

        1. westernsloper

          HEY, IF YOU BOUGHT SOMETHING TODAY THANK A TRUCKER!!!

          1. Tulip

            Pfft. That doesn’t excuse some of the behavior I’ve seen

          2. Yusef drives a Kia

            Correct, they aren’t Gods

      2. Threedoor

        Farmers driving trucks.

  12. Crusty Juggler

    Plants Have Something to Say?

    Plants have directly shaped her experiments and career path. In 2012, she says, an oak tree assured her that a risky grant application — proposing research on sound communication in plants — would be successful. “You are here to tell our stories,” the tree told her.

    “These experiences are not like, ‘Oh you’re a weirdo, this is happening just to you,’” Dr. Gagliano said. Learning from plants, she said, is a long-documented ceremonial practice (if not one typically endorsed by scientists).

    It’s just that she also believes the plants themselves can speak to this point.

    “I want people to realize that the world is full of magic, but not as something only some people can do, or something that is outside of this world,” she said. “No, it’s all here.”

    I’ve never been that high.

    1. BakedPenguin

      Marianne Williamson & Monica Gagliano: separated at birth?

      1. Gustave Lytton

        Ahem, Dr Gagliano.

  13. Count Potato

    “Two former New York detectives walk free after admitting to having sex with handcuffed 18-year-old female suspect”

    Eddie Martins and Richard Hall arrested the woman for possession of marijuana before having sex with her in the back of a van in exchange for her release.

    They will serve five years probation but escaped the prosecutor’s request for one to three years in prison.

    The men were initially accused of rape but the charges were later dropped.”

    https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1167461596135854081

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49522500

    1. the King’s men get special benefits

      1. Count Potato

        There seems to be complete silence among feminists about this.

    2. DEG

      Well… it’s better than “and nothing else happened.”

  14. DEG

    This is an interesting beer.

    If you haven’t perved my gun auction winnings, I’m going to take them down before I pass out tonight.

    Yeah, I’m drinking more than normal. I’m at home and I don’t have to worry about a) driving or b) embarrassing myself in front of good looking women bartenders.

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      That looks nice,

      1. DEG

        It’s tasty.

    2. Nephilium

      That is an interesting beer. I’ve still got the DVD they put out for one of the first releases of the beer.

      I’ve realized I don’t need to worry about embarrassing myself in front of the female bartenders. I’ve worn cycling gear into most of the bars I go to regularly.

      1. DEG

        When I toured the brewery, I saw the tanks they aged it in.

        Near the end of the tour, we were on a balcony at the entrance of a building which was next to the highest point in Milton, DE. The tour guide said the area, despite being a nice place to have some beers with your coworkers after a day of work, was intended to be the end of the tour.

        Calagione, according to the tour guide, intended that the tours would end here. The tour guide would strap each individual onto a zipline and the guest would zipline down to where the tour started. Dogfish Head’s legal team pointed out that the tour guides tend to drink all day and put their foot down because of the liability issues. Calagione didn’t get what he wanted, and instead the employees got a nice balcony to hang out on after a day’s work.

        As for the bartenders, well… one I kinda like.

        1. It’s Delaware, which has no high points. A zip line would be a straight, level walk.

          1. DEG

            You should trek on down to Delaware and take the tour. It’s not a straight, level walk. There’s no mountains by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s not straight and level.

          2. I’ve been to Delaware. We did a couple of vacations in the summer at Cape Henlopen. The drive through Delaware was exceedingly boring.

    3. Gustave Lytton

      I like that K31 and the one underneath it a lot.

  15. Crusty Juggler

    Frank Sinatra relaxing with his pet dog Ringo at home. Palm Springs, 1964

    My favorite thing about the photo: the big bowl of ciggies – ciggies are cool. What’s your favorite aspect of the photo?

    1. Spudalicious

      That stereo setup is awesome.

      1. DEG

        Seconded.

        1. Count Potato

          Third.

      2. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

        Looks kinda like Mission Control in Houston, doesn’t it?

      3. Count Potato

        It also looks like a three-channel system.

    2. Yusef drives a Kia

      The very expensive AC system he had, very expensive back then, not for commoners

      1. blackjack

        Yup. Even in the seventies, A/C was for rich people. Central was barely around at any price.

      2. Crusty Juggler

        Legend

    3. westernsloper

      A pack of smokes in 1964 cost 35 to fiddy cents according to https://www.answers.com/Q/What_was_the_price_of_cigarettes_in_1964 and is what a pack of cigarettes should cost today so we all could have giant bowls of them.

      1. blackjack

        They were around 50 cents in the early eighties.

        1. Fourscore

          I quit smoking when they went to 2.50 a carton in the PX, 1976.

          1. BakedPenguin

            My brother used to work at the Navy base, so he could go to the PX. He never smoked, but he got a lot of stuff for cheap, including booze as a 17 yo.

          2. MikeS

            A former coworker of mine was in the Navy in Vietnam. He said he could get smokes on the ship for IIRC…$1.00 a carton.

          3. Fourscore

            On ship going to Europe in the ’50s regulars were 80 cents a carton, filters 90 cents. I can’t remember what we paid in VN but I doubt it was more than 1.20. Couldn’t afford not to smoke. The more you smoke the more you save.

        2. westernsloper

          The last time I worked in Kurdistan (2013?) a carton of Gauloises was 5 bucks. Marlboro’s were 15-25 because you were cool if you smoked those. I smoked the cheap frenchies. That tells me they can make money selling them for 5 bucks a carton. Without mr tax man of course.

    4. Rhywun

      Heh I used to buy cartons from the reservation or online and empty them into a bowl just like that. Damn I was cool.

    5. mikey

      HF! That’s a much more expensive version of our 1964 living room.

    6. MikeS

      My favorite part aspect of the photo is he has his shoes on, on the coffee table. Fuck yeah bitches! That is LIVING!

      1. MikeS

        Oh, that and Ringo. Ringo looks like a good puppy…aren’t you a good boy…yes, you’re such a good boy.

    7. Gustave Lytton

      The normalcy (apart from things like the giant stereo). Looks like he could be any Joe Schmoe. Unlike most every entertainer now.

      Note the deadbolt on the door in the back. Is this a hotel/apartment? Or even more schmoe, his house doesn’t have a hallway or entryway.

  16. Crusty Juggler

    Kevin Hart suffers ‘major back injuries’ in Malibu Hills car crash: report

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    Kevin Hart suffers ‘major back injuries’ after overnight car crash

    Comedian Kevin Hart and his driver suffered “major back injuries” in a car crash in the Malibu Hills late Saturday night, a report said.

    Police sources told TMZ a Plymouth Barracuda belonging to Hart, 40, veered off the road on the Mulholland Highway.

    The vehicle turned up in a ditch about 10 feet off the side of the winding road after it smashed through a wooden fence.

    That’s no good.

    1. blackjack

      They used to have the “Love Ride” up at Calamigos ranch up there. It draws so many celebs that every bike in LA used to go, many ridden by people who only rode on that one day. Every time people would crash and go over the side en masse. It’s a windy road. They finally moved it to Castiac lake, so it’d be an easier ride for the rubes. Then it went to the fairgrounds in Pomona and died a quiet death.

  17. Crusty Juggler

    A fight over gifted education in New York is escalating a national debate over segregated schools

    The debate pits people who believe that children who are academically or intellectually advanced need special programs that challenge and engage them against those who are alarmed by evidence that such programs favor students whose parents have the resources to help them prepare for admissions tests, or who might benefit from the racial biases of teachers who make enrollment decisions.

    “It opens up a very important conversation that needs to be national,” said Sally Krisel, president of the National Association for Gifted Children, which advocates for gifted and talented programs. “It’s a great opportunity for educators and parents to reflect … Are we doing the best we can for all of our children?”

    Just what we needed – another national conversation.

    1. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

      Haven’t you folks already got several hundred billion “national conversations” going on already? No wonder you can’t ever make any progress — who the Hell can keep track of ’em all?

    2. Yes, the very important conversation is that the people who want to punish the smart kids are morally wicked.

    3. BakedPenguin

      Here ya go, problem solved.

    4. Rhywun

      might benefit from the racial biases of teachers who make enrollment decisions

      Complete bullshit.

      No, this is about identity politics. Move the markers around the board, pat yourself on the back, and proclaim “job done”. And by all means, ignore any evidence about what *actually* improves student performance.

    5. Gender Traitor

      I think one of the longstanding problems with “gifted” education is the attitude that many public school teachers have toward their smartest students – that, “Enh – they’ll be fine on their own. I can focus my minimal energy on little Tommy ‘Tard.” It’s probably gotten worse in recent years with the whole attitude that no student should be conscious of not being as smart/talented/whatever as any other student.

      I narrowly escaped becoming a public school teacher (by virtue of the fact that I never got hired as anything but an LD tutor. Whew!) I recall some words of semi-wisdom from some educator or another: when you have one student whose “capacity” is a gallon, and another whose “capacity” is a half-pint, how do you treat them both equally? Do you try to pour a gallon into the half-pint or pour only a half-pint into the gallon? Educator’s answer: Neither – you fill each of them full to their capacity. Sounds nice in theory. Now I’m pretty certain that the average American public school couldn’t even fill the half-pint to capacity with anything but shit. I’m so glad I never became a public school teacher – I’d probably have gone dead inside years ago.

      1. Rhywun

        In my day, the answer was easy. Put them in separate classes.

        1. Spudalicious

          Racist.

          1. Rhywun

            Heh/Meh. My “gifted” classes were filled with pupils of color even in the early 80s. Did the percentages match the overall population? No. But I guess we hadn’t arrived at the woke solution of burning the whole thing to the ground yet.

          2. Gender Traitor

            The best my Dayton public elementary school could offer me in the mid-’70s was the “opportunity” to move up from sixth to seventh grade a few weeks into the school year (after a round of standardized testing.) I passed on the chance to be despised by everyone in TWO grade levels instead of just one.

          3. blackjack

            That happened to me. I got caught with some pot, two months into junior high school. They gave me an IQ test and determined I was under challenged and gave the rest of the year off and sent me to high school the next year. I had no choice, though.

          4. Gender Traitor

            You got the rest of the year off?? Now I’m jelly!

          5. blackjack

            I hadda ride a short bus!

      2. blackjack

        Either way, they make you ride a short bus.

    6. Suthenboy

      Remember, this idea came from noted genius Bill DeBlasio, the same guy that wants to ban hotdogs in NYC, tear down all of the skyscrapers and replace them with mud huts.
      *wink*. *thumbs up*

    7. Gustave Lytton

      a national debate over segregated schools

      What debate? There’s nothing to debate with a premise like that. Go fuck yourself. There haven’t been segregated schools for decades.

      1. Rhywun

        It’s called “de facto segregation” now. Keep up.

        The intent is to punish the parents for choosing disapproved living arrangements.

  18. Crusty Juggler

    Video Seems to Show Two Gay Lions Having Sex, Goes Viral

    A video is going viral on social media that seems to show two male lions having sex.

    Though the video is relatively short, there’s certainly a lot going on. It begins with a lion mounting what seems to be another male lion. Their manes intertwine and they even nuzzle a little for a second. The cat on the bottom yawns, nothing to see here.

    IT’S LEO AND ELSA, NOT LEO AND CECIL!

  19. Crusty Juggler

    NJ cop claims chief offered a promotion for sex with his wife or child

    A New Jersey police chief offered one of his officers a promotion if the underling let him sleep with his wife or underage daughter, according to a report.

    Beu made similar comments a few days later — and also referred to sex with the officer’s daughter, who was under 13, according to the report.

    “As I go out the door, he says ‘How about your daughter?’ and he starts laughing,” the officer claimed, saying his boss followed him outside and yelled at his children in his parked truck that their dad was getting a promotion.

    If he cared about his family he would have given the daughter away.

    1. westernsloper
    2. Suthenboy

      Uh huh. I am thinking this guy’s boss made him for a pussy and was seeing what it would take to get a rise out of him.

  20. Count Potato

    Hong Kong protest art:

    https://twitter.com/rachel_cheung1/status/1166532070086021123

    There were also protests in London regarding Tommy Robinson, and a straight pride thing in Boston.

    1. Hyperion

      The HK protestors are Trumptard plants. There is no way anyone would not love a dictator for life and a communist regime. I mean, no one, just ask any democrat presidential candidate.

  21. Crusty Juggler

    ‘Joker’ Review: Joaquin Phoenix Kills It In Dark, Timely DC Origin Movie That Is No Laughing Matter – Venice Film Festival

    n some ways this is a movie that is uncomfortable to watch, and though other films from comic book origins have gone to deep places that reflect the time in which they were made while staying true to their own origins, this one dealing with a very dark and unforgiving Gotham City in the 1980s could have been set in the present as it dives into a world of madness in the character of Arthur Fleck as he eventually morphs into Joker. In cinematic terms, he might be something of a cross between Travis Bickle and Rupert Pupkin, the roles played by Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and The King Of Comedy.

    “The King of Comedy” is such a good movie and is also very uncomfortable to watch.

      1. Timeloose

        Best scene in that movie.

  22. Don Escaped Texas

    If you send a resume to a job posted on a Sunday afternoon, you deserve what you get.

    1. Crusty Juggler

      Are you speaking directly to me? DID I DO SOMETHING WRONG?

      1. Don Escaped Texas

        I’m just tickled by some things I saw today: an unsolicited ejaculation.

        ZARDOZ might speak to you; I try to mind my own business.

        1. Crusty Juggler

          YOU BETTER NOT BE LAUGHING AT MY RESUME AND COVER LETTER AND ATTACHED HEADSHOTS

          1. Don Escaped Texas

            proposed: Glibs are seldom great HR types.

          2. Spudalicious

            The world would be a better place if they were.

    2. westernsloper

      They get the job?

    1. DEG

      PETA can go fuck themselves.

  23. Crusty Juggler

    The Goonies 2 Will Happen Someday Promises Main Cast

    Will The Goonies 2 ever happen? According to Sean Astin, Ke Huy Quan, and Corey Feldman, it will happen “someday.” This is a question that the main cast of the iconic movie have been answering for over 30 years now. Thankfully, Astin, Quan, and Feldman don’t seem to be sick of talking about the movie they all made together as kids. Fans of the original movie have been wondering about a sequel and hopes kicked up once again when Feldman revealed that he and Astin had written a treatment and presented it to Richard Donner. However, the story was reportedly “too expensive” to make.

    80s nostalgia sucks. Stranger Things sucks, and every single person who continues to root for the forced recreation of the 80s is a garbage person. Also, The Monster Squad > The Goonies.

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      The ‘Burbs, or GTFO, classic ensemble cast, great writing, fight me!

      1. Crusty Juggler

        I am a huge fan of The ‘Burbs so you will get no argument out of me. Peak Hanks, silly Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher looking foxy in her mom-do, and the invention of the sardine/pretzel treat.

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          You keep a horse in your basement?

    2. 80s nostalgia sucks.

      No more or less than Boomer nostalgia.

      1. Don Escaped Texas

        every generation thinks it discovered sex and invented nostaglia

        but making out in the back of a Bel Air is totes cooler than doing it in a Citation

        1. Eh, we had a 1978 Ford Econoline that Dad fitted out so that we could go to the campgrounds at the state parks. The two seats in the back would turn into a bed and Mom and Dad would sleep on that and us kids got the sleeping bags in tents.

        2. blackjack

          In the eighties, all those cars were still around. I miss the diversity of cars. Now, there’s jelly beans and suvs. Oh, and trucks. Boring blase sameness everywhere.

          1. Blame federal regulations.

          2. Count Potato

            I do.

          3. Tundra

            Fight back.

            Buy an old car.

          4. DEG

            #metoo

          5. blackjack

            In CA, 1976 and newer cars are subject to smog testing. Can’t change a thing, and the standards keep tightening. Try buying a stock exhaust system from a 1978 trans am. Ain’t gonna happen.

          6. Tundra

            That’s fucking horrible. no one is daily driving a 43 year old car.

            I have noticed that, though, on BaT that Cali residents lament de-smogged cars.

          7. blackjack

            Yeah, if it’s not completely OG, it’d better be pre 1975.

          8. Threedoor

            I daily drive a 44 year old car.

      2. Rhywun

        If I want 80s nostalgia I’ll just watch the original. Why on earth would I want some surely awful re-creation.

    3. Sean

      *throws a New Order CD at CJ in an effort to decapitate*

  24. Crusty Juggler

    When John Grisham Movies Were King

    In 1993, the country had just put the former Arkansas governor Bill Clinton in the White House, with the former Tennessee senator Al Gore as his vice president. The Atlanta hip-hop acts TLC, Kriss Kross and Arrested Development were all over the Billboard charts. The sitcom “Designing Women,” set in Georgia, was a staple in the Nielsen Top 10. And masses of readers were buying the legal thrillers written by the Mississippi lawyer John Grisham.

    The summer of 1993 was a particularly good time for Grisham. His fourth book, “The Client,” was still sitting high on the New York Times best-seller list, three months after reaching No. 1. And on the Wednesday before the Fourth of July, the movie adaptation of Grisham’s “The Firm” opened in multiplexes across the country, on its way to becoming the summer’s third biggest domestic box-office earner, right behind “Jurassic Park” and “The Fugitive.”

    These days, it’s hard to imagine that a legal thriller — even one led by a reliable draw like Cruise — could become a summer blockbuster. “The Firm” wasn’t a surprise hit, either. Paramount expected it to be a smash; that’s why it had the coveted holiday weekend release. That’s what a phenomenon Grisham was at the time.

    Judging by his books (and their movie adaptations), Grisham — like Clinton and Gore — seemed to believe in a newer, more middle-of-the-road kind of Southern leadership, which balanced progressive attitudes about social justice with more regressive ideas about reducing crime and maintaining order. The most telling moment in any Grisham movie comes in “A Time to Kill,” when a scrappy attorney played by Matthew McConaughey sits in a soul food restaurant and explains to a crusading liberal played by Sandra Bullock that while he leans left, he’s “not a card-carrying A.C.L.U. radical.” Among other things, he believes homicide can be justified.

    Ah, the halcyon days of yesteryear, when it was acceptable to have overlapping political viewpoints.

    1. Don Escaped Texas

      All the goobers ’round here lost their minds during filming; the Grisham stuff was a big windfall.

      I’ll take you to all the sights if you like: it will cost you a beer and a pulled pork sammich.

    2. Gustave Lytton

      When abortion was safe, legal, and rare.

      Also,

      Atlanta hip-hop acts TLC, Kriss Kross and Arrested Development

      One of these thing is not like the others…

  25. Count Potato

    “The Quick 10: 10 Pairs of Actors Oscar-Nominated for the Same Role”

    http://mentalfloss.com/article/24122/quick-10-10-pairs-actors-oscar-nominated-same-role

  26. Crusty Juggler

    For a Drink in the Park, Mix Red Wine With Coca-Cola. Seriously

    Everyone has heard of rum and coke. It’s right up there in the pantheon of simple cocktails you don’t need to be a trained bartender to pull off, and it can be surprisingly tasty with a few tweaks. Think of the Kalimotxo as a rum and coke having a semester abroad: It’s equal parts red wine and cola. That’s it. That’s the drink. And it’s exceptionally easy to tote to the park in a bag.
    relates to For a Drink in the Park, Mix Red Wine With Coca-Cola. Seriously

    “Some people look down on the drink, but putting on our bar-owner hats, it’s actually well-balanced,” says Brianna Volk, co-owner of Little Giant in Portland, Maine, which has a Kalimoxto on its menu made with Moxie, a gentian-flavored soda. “The tannins in the wine balance out the too-sweet Coca-Cola. It just makes a refreshing and incredibly accessible cocktail.”

    Plus, she continues, “It’s just a fun, but kind of weird drink. It makes us want to eat lots of seafood or grill steaks for a picnic. We know when we start making them, we are going to have a great night.”

    The Kalimotxo has been around since the 1920s, but it wasn’t until the first Coca-Cola factory opened in Spain in the 1950s that the drink started to gain popularity in Spain’s northern Basque region, where it originated as a way to drink not-so-great red wine.

    This is the real reason the Spanish told the Basque trash to hide in the mountains.

    1. BakedPenguin

      What? WHAT?!I can’t even. I want to pre-puke without having ever tried this.

    2. Sounds like those alcoholic seltzers they market to women.

      1. Crusty Juggler

        Ain’t no laws when you drinkin’ the Claws!

    3. Akira

      Interesting. I’ve heard of that before. I might try it with a Mexican Coke sometime. And maybe use port wine for a more high-octane version?

      I’ve also heard of people mixing dark beer with Coke in Germany – can anyone confirm or deny that?

      1. Rhywun

        I think mixing beer with lemon soda is more common. And refreshing AF.

  27. Tundra

    So, I was out grilling and listening to this.

    Goddamn album is old enough to legally drink.

    I’m old.

  28. Count Potato

    “‘I would put the son of a gun in jail’: Joe Biden calls for for raves to be criminalised in resurfaced footage”

    https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1141621457010774017

  29. Hyperion

    This beer is warm. *grapples with the meaning of comfortably numb*

    I got shit to do, I don’t want to do any of it. I mean, I want to do something, just not anything that I really need to do. Is that normal? Am I a bad person?

    1. DEG

      I got shit to do, I don’t want to do any of it. I mean, I want to do something, just not anything that I really need to do. Is that normal? Am I a bad person?

      It’s normal. Normally I push through it and get the shit done anyways.

      Lately that’s been a problem.

      My beer glass is empty. Time for another.

      1. Hyperion

        I’m using the ‘It’s a Holiday weekend’ excuse right now. So really, I better drink all the beer I want today, because tomorrow is a dreaded day before work, no matter how much they pretend it’s a holiday. Today is the real holiday.

    2. Yusef drives a Kia

      Its Sunday, do what you want, it only gets worse tomorrow,

      1. Hyperion

        Words of wisdom.

  30. Count Potato

    Speaking of people on acid

    “Dr. Monica Gagliano says that she has received Yoda-like advice from trees and shrubbery. In 2012, she says, an oak tree assured her that a risky grant application — proposing research on sound communication in plants — would be successful.”

    https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1167936857490853888

    1. Crusty Juggler

      I LINKED TO THE PIECE ABOVE PAY ATTENTION

    2. Hyperion

      I highly advise her to keep being a retard. Clean up the gene pool, thank you.

    3. blackjack

      Even one of the most successful movie producers used to interact with houseplants.

      1. Count Potato

        ewwwww

      2. Tres Cool

        Another Ficus.

        (If you remember the short-lived show “Quark”)

  31. It’s nauseating watching ESPN bitch about Daniil Medvedev while cutting away during his match to do a piece that was basically sucking Nick Kyrgios’ dick.

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      Who?

      1. Hyperion

        ESPN. So, irrelevant.

        1. US Open tennis. I wish it were on Tennis Channel, but unfortunately ESPN have the rights.

          1. Rhywun

            I wish someone would put Brad Gilbert out to pasture. Jesus, STFU already.

          2. And Pat McEnroe.

          3. Rhywun

            I’ve decided Jimmy Arias is my favorite, by far. Dry humor and doesn’t suck up to anyone.

            MIA this week but he’s on Tennis Channel now and then.

          4. Rhywun

            Both Mc’s could use a cup of coffee or something.

      2. Rhywun

        They are tennis players who bask in the glory of people’s hatred of them. And the sports networks eat that shit up for ratings.

    2. Rhywun

      Those two sure are trying to out-asshole each other. I’d say Daniil has the upper hand this week.

      Thing is, a lot of people like the heel.

      I don’t.

      1. Hyperion

        So, they are sort of like wide receivers in the NFL a decade ago?

        1. And still that way?

    3. BakedPenguin

      …sucking Nick Kyrgios’ dick.

      Did they mark off a spot? He’s all dick.

      1. westernsloper

        lol

        1. westernsloper

          oh. my. god.

          1. Spudalicious

            #metoo.

    1. Hyperion

      I’ll give you a +1 for that one.

      1. Hyperion

        The first link,that is.

  32. DEG

    Princess Jenny.

    I was present for her first win at Bockfest 2018. I didn’t attend Bockfest 2019 so I missed her second win. Her favorite food is the tears of young children.

    The beer is good.

    1. Um, it’s not Jenny Agutter.

      1. BakedPenguin

        +1 American Werewolf.

  33. Count Potato

    “A would-be robber was shot dead by an employee at a Philadelphia cell phone store. The tense encounter that lasted less than 12 seconds was captured on surveillance video. The store manager was legally allowed to carry a gun.”

    https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1167982344411549697

    1. Hyperion

      No, I’ve been assured by our good lefty friends that going for your firearm is always the worst thing you can ever do. Call the police and then cower down waiting for them to arrive is what you should do. Otherwise, you might shoot your eye out. /works every time

    2. Tundra

      Nice job.

    3. DEG

      I wouldn’t convict the store clerk.

      1. Tundra

        Convict? Why would you even arrest him?

        1. Hyperion

          Because guns R bad, Mmkay?

          1. Sean

            Not in PA. Finger guns? Maybe, but real guns? All good.

          2. Rhywun

            Even in Philly? I figured they would be more “common-sense”.

          3. DEG

            He’d be arrested in Philly.

          4. Rhywun

            Well, this was Philly – I guess we’ll see what happens.

          5. Can’t they just MOVE on?

          6. DEG

            Can’t they just MOVE on?

            I remember watching that go down on the news when I was a kid.

            The houses the city government built to replace the ones they destroyed were absolute shit.

    4. Rhywun

      The employee did not have to empty his gun into the man after he fell to the ground. The man still held on to the gun but did not fire back.

      OFFS.

      1. MikeS

        What? Cops always wait for the perp to shoot before firing. This cowboy should have, too!

      2. Tundra

        Lol. Idiots.

        You pull a gun, you have earned the whole magazine.

      3. Tundra

        More
        Stop grouping everyone; completely agree he had the right to empty his magazine because he didn’t know if threat was neutralized but also think that there needs to be reasonable gun laws restricting Assault rifles and high-capacity magazines. And yes I support the 2nd Amendment.

        Uh, no.

        “Gun grabbers lie.”

        /Suthen

        1. Suthenboy

          “And yes I support the 2nd Amendment.”

          No, you don’t. Liar.

    5. Suthenboy

      I love the armchair quarterbacking from people who have never had to fear for their life. I especially like the one claiming ‘see a pistol is all you need so AR-15’s aren’t needed.’

      Yeah? Get a load of this fuckhead: A reporter asked Beto in Charlottesville how he’d reassure people afraid the gov’t would take their assault weapons away.
      “I want to be really clear that that’s exactly what we are going to do,” he said. If you own an AK-47 or AR-15, “you’ll have to sell them to the government.”

      He also claims that there are more than 300 mass shootings per year. As I recall the Odessa shooter and a majority of other mass shooters used semi-auto pistols. You think he is going to stop with ARs and AKs? The goal is total confiscation, total disarmament of the American people.

      http://thoughtcrimeradio.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/WeWillProtectYou.jpg

      1. Rhywun

        I’ve been on the other side of a gun pointed at me. Twice. Once in France, and once on the job in America. Surprisingly, no government agents happened to be nearby when I needed them.

        1. Gender Traitor

          En France? Ce n’est pas possible! Seriously, though – pretty damn scary. Was that one a mugging? (What’s French for “mugging?”)

          1. Rhywun

            Yep – steps from the Eiffel Tower.

    6. Fourscore

      12 people shot and killed in Chi-town this past week, 45 this past month. Open carry must be a thing

    7. I love a happy ending.

    8. Gustave Lytton

      legally allowed to carry a gun

      SMH

  34. westernsloper

    I have the radio on in the back ground for noise. Up comes a news story about the marine that got red flagged in Oregon. Reporter said with glee in her voice how successful the law is. So I had a look for more stories about it. Q posted https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/08/an-ex-marine-said-hed-slaughter-antifa-the-fbi-using-oregons-new-red-flag-law-took-his-guns-away.html this morning. And I found https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-uses-red-flag-law-to-seize-weapons-from-former-marine-who-threatened-to-slaughter-antifa which links to the other story. It bothers me that neither of these mention that the FBI could have went and detained this idiot without the new law. The fuckhead sent a letter to a member of congress stating if they didn’t do something he was going to start shooting antifa members back in March. WTF did he think would come of that statement? He was so sure that was the right thing to do he later went to the mayors house and started yelling in his front yard while openly packing. Ya the dude is fucking nuts and needed some help, but fuck me if they can use this as a justification for red flag laws when it isn’t. The FBI had a law on the books to deal with this guy and anyone like him but you know as well as I that the FBI is not going to argue that they don’t need another one.

    1. Fourscore

      I’m calling in Chicago, whole city needs red-flagging.

    2. Suthenboy

      What is remarkable to me is how incredibly ignorant about guns and gun laws the people are who think they should be making the rules about guns. We don’t tolerate that in any other realm of law, why would we in this one. Common sense screams that that is absurd.
      Almost all of the proposals for new laws they have come up with are already illegal. What they are doing is pushing for more and more redundant laws sneaking in little incremental advances towards total confiscation with each new one. Their efforts are motivated by malice and they are lying sacks of shit. Anyone who is a gun grabber is someone I would not trust in any sphere of life in any way. By being a gun grabber they are proving themselves a completely unprincipled, mendacious person who will say or do anything to get what they want and fuck you.

      The shiteaters can’t have my guns. The answer is no. There, we had a conversation about it.

      1. DEG

        The shiteaters can’t have my guns. The answer is no. There, we had a conversation about it.

        Seconded.

      2. Gustave Lytton

        ?

      3. The shiteaters can’t have my guns. The answer is no. There, we had a conversation about it.

        I generally find that when Suthen has spoken on this topic, I can find little or nothing to add to the conversation other than my agreement.

        1. Tundra

          I usually raise a glass, but yes, I agree.

    3. Gustave Lytton

      Don’t forget to red flag this asshole too

      we have had 13. states independant 11. years. there has been one rebellion. that comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state. what country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms. the remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. what signify a few lives lost in a century or two? the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it’s natural manure.

      1. westernsloper

        And to me, this is the conversation that should be taking place. Is saying you are going to stand up for your rights a threat? Or is an actual threat a threat and should that even be punishable. I know some here don’t think words should be punishable and is probably something I could be persuaded to.

    4. Fatty Bolger

      “It bothers me that neither of these mention that the FBI could have went and detained this idiot without the new law.”

      It’s gonna be the new “stand your ground.” I lost count of how many times reporters and others portrayed pure self-defense as examples of stand-your-ground.

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        Oops. Should not have been a reply.

      2. Rufus the Monocled

        Should read ‘hate it so far’.

      3. Don Escaped Texas

        Rufus is the first clue in Friday’s crossword

        1. Tundra

          Five letter word for awesome?

          1. No, that’s “pussy”.

          2. Or “titty”.

          3. MikeS

            “Vulva”

          4. Rufus the Monocled

            I’m called many five letter words.

            Almost none of them good or ‘awesome’.

      4. HE SAID THINGS THAT MADE ME FEEL LIKE CRYING TEARS OF SADNESS

        MEANIEHEAD!

        1. Rufus the Monocled

          I wonder if an under ground club scene for comedians who aren’t woke is gonna happen.

      5. BakedPenguin

        AUDIENCE SCORE
        Ratings: Not yet available

        Golly. What a shock.

  35. Tundra

    Beautiful night.

    Frogs and crickets are competing for vocal dominance. Temp is nice and the mosquitos appear to have taken the night off.

    Cheers, Glibs!

    1. Rhywun

      It is. Bit humid but bottoming out around 70 is making up for it.

    2. PudPaisley

      Hey Tundra, any interest in going to see a show at the Hook and Ladder Thursday, September 12th. It’s gonna be an Allman Brothers Tribute and Derek Trucks Tribute billed as the Great Minnesoda Slide Show. I’ll be making the trip up from La Crosse and doubt I’ll find anyone to go with me on a Thursday night. The main guitarist doing the Derek Trucks stuff in also in the Allman tribute band and he’s an incredible player. All the musicians are great. Here’s a sample of the Allman Brothers Tribute band.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqpDSbE53N8

      Here’s a guitar solo sample I recorded from a show in La Crosse. The guitar player Tom plays in the same style as Derek Trucks.

      https://youtu.be/bT8JzF7refo?t=333

      1. Tundra

        Hey Pud!

        I’d love to, but I’m gonna be at First Ave. watching the Descendents and pretending I’m not ancient that night!

        Too bad, because those guys look like a blast and that’s a great venue.

        Shoot me an email at minnetundra AT those assholes who know everything about you, so we can coordinate next time!

        1. MikeS

          I was going to make an NSA joke, but yeah, Google probably knows more about us than the NSA.

          …I mean until Google just hands it all over.

        2. PudPaisley

          Message sent from landscapeguy. Have fun at the Decendents show.

          1. Tundra

            Not there. Gmail?

          2. PudPaisley

            I resent it. I typed in the wrong address.

          3. Tundra

            Got it. Thanks, Pud!

    3. LJW

      Cheers! 73 here clear skies. It’s dark by 8:30 so it’s much easier to get our kids to sleep.

    4. Spudalicious

      Fall is here. We’ve just stepped into my favorite month of the year.

      1. MikeS

        #metoo

      2. DEG

        Except for leaf clean-up, I’d agree with you.

        Before I moved to New England, Spring was my favorite season.

        In New England, Spring sucks.

        And it doesn’t give change.

        1. Spudalicious

          Thanks for pissing on my corn flakes…

    5. Gustave Lytton

      Same here. High 70’s/80’s during the day, dropping to 60’s/50’s at night. 70F right now.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        And a breeze.

  36. westernsloper

    Political science BA in 2009 and then continuous schooling until the present and this is what you get.

    https://twitter.com/mirandayaver/status/1168267070946959360

    1. DEG

      Miranda Yaver can go fuck herself.

      WUT?

      1. Suthenboy

        Now that is funny.

        I wonder what other subject of conversation make her think of cock.

        1. westernsloper

          That is an excellent question, let’s ask her.

  37. Crusty Juggler

    A sapper of No. 1 Dog Platoon, 277th Field Park Company, Royal Engineers, with his dog ‘Nigger’, Normandy – 1944

    How many relatives did I have who had that same unfortunate nickname?

    One. The answer is one.

  38. We need common sense administrative nullification of the second amendment along with universal gun confisc… err buy back and criminalization of millions of law-abiding subje… err citizens.

    For the non-aborted, post-birth fetuses.

    1. Also, I’m drunk on Malbec and eating roasted Anaheims that are making me feel like the top of my head is detaching.

      1. Spudalicious

        Anaheims? Pussy.

        1. MikeS

          Good taste, though.

      2. westernsloper

        That reminds me I have to see the chili dealer tomorrow. Thanks.

        1. Tundra

          I found a decent Hispanic grocery really close to me that has all the good stuff. So nice!

    2. Suthenboy

      I never see them say outright what their intentions are. “With a stroke of my pen I want to turn millions of Americans that have never committed a crime into instant felons. I want to pass out prison terms and fines like they are confetti.”

      It is the same sentiment as the pro-gun grabber crowd that thinks NRA members should be executed by firing squad.

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        I wonder if the 2A has been so watered down this is inevitable.

        It feels as though eventually they’ll just exhaust people into giving up.

        1. Armed conflict or dystopian authoritarianism. Those are the only two long term outcomes.

        2. DEG

          I wonder if the 2A has been so watered down this is inevitable.

          See Heller. Scalia left enough holes to drive 18 wheelers through.

          1. Rufus the Monocled

            Soooo….fucked at some point down the road? Sounds as though the gun grabbers know this.

    1. l0b0t

      I had both the Little Sumpin Sumpin and the Little Sumpin Hazy from Lagunitas today. Quite enjoyable; the Hazy particularly so.

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        Yes, and then they made this,
        https://photos.app.goo.gl/K1KMjcS7A5vKyK4Q7

        1. DEG

          Yum. That looks good.

          1. Yusef drives a Kia

            This is good, Lagunitas always has new stuff to try, mostly good, so they are a fun brewery no matter what,

  39. Crusty Juggler
    1. Rhywun

      LOL

      I saw a whole series once of like Bowery Boys type kids smoking on street-corners. A most sophisticated age.

  40. straffinrun

    Caption contest? Madame Tussauds latest is a giant hit.

    https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iuvk6exKAJeM/v0/800x-1.jpg

    1. Rhywun

      “Who’s the nerd now, huh?”

    2. Tres Cool

      “Can they tell my butthole is itchy ?”

    3. Crusty Juggler

      “Yes, I farted.”

    4. Crusty Juggler

      “I was in the olive oil business with his father, that’s all.”

      1. MikeS

        ALOL

    5. MikeS

      I hope they don’t ask me about “Glibertarians”.

    6. “My penis is so small.”

    7. creech

      “I’m not now, and never have been, a member of the Communist Party.”

      1. DEG

        I remember a similar question from way back in the day when I had a security clearance.

    8. BakedPenguin

      “They can drag me in for questioning, but they can’t shtop my shtuyle.”

  41. Crusty Juggler

    Wallace Stevens was an alligator wrestler in his youth.

    America’s second greatest poet (Maya Angelou being the first) was a legend.

    And that concludes “Crusty goes on the Twitters” for this evening.

    1. MikeS

      Maya Angelou being the first

      I don’t usually enjoy poetry, but when I do, it’s Poe.

      Is she really ‘Murica’s greatest?

      1. Crusty Juggler

        No, she is most certainly not.

        1. MikeS

          She was also most certainly not a doctor of anything.

      2. Rhywun

        I don’t usually enjoy poetry, but when I do, it’s Poe.

        This, evermore.

      3. straffinrun

        ^White people question.

  42. LJW

    The Stones are Inside Me

    For those fans of The Fifth Element out there.

    1. Rhywun

      Holy shit!

    2. straffinrun

      Weird. She’s stealing my sex sounds.

      1. So you fake orgasms?

        1. straffinrun

          I fake not having orgasms.

          1. Tundra

            Careful. You can pull a muscle that way.

          2. If you try to hold it in, it’ll come out your nostril.

          3. Sean

            I think I’ve seen that video.

  43. Hyperion

    Rebel Galaxy Evil Ways

    One song from the original game. Outlaw, the new game has the best soundtrack of any game, ever. Hundreds of hours of great music you have never heard. Not much on Youtube yet, I guess because the game is just so new.

    1. Hyperion

      This is definitely on there.

      Rebel Galaxy Outlaw

  44. DEG

    1997 Toyota Tercel

    Should I have another beer?

    1. Hyperion

      No, you’re totally cut off.

      When I think of older Toyotas I like, I always think about the later model Celicas.

      1. Tundra

        Supra or GTFO

        1. Hyperion

          No, I can’t think of the one I’m talking about. I think they were making them in the 90s, and I still see some of them around. Very aerodyamic ahead of their time. I think it’s one of the first cars I ever saw in that burnt orange color.

          1. Hyperion

            Heh, I just remembered the error of my way. The car I was thinking of is actually a Mitsubishi Eclipse, oops.

          2. straffinrun

            Eclipse Cross is on my next car list. Gotta convince the missus, though. She wants a Stepwagon (Van).

          3. Hyperion

            But I do love the 90s model Celicas.

          4. Hyperion

            “clipse Cross is on my next car list. Gotta convince the missus, though. She wants a Stepwagon (Van).”

            I want a Alfa Romeo C4 Spider. Wife doesn’t have a problem with it, she has a beautiful SUV while I’m driving my beater, but we want a new house too, so puts a damper on my evil plans.

          5. Gustave Lytton

            I love the late 90’s Eclipse. And Supra/Celica/MR2 with the rounded body style.

          6. Hyperion

            “I want a Alfa Romeo C4 Spider.”

            heh, I think that is 4C. Might help when going to the dealership. Or not.

          7. Gustave Lytton

            Yes, I would like to feel her.

          8. Hyperion

            “I love the late 90’s Eclipse. And Supra/Celica/MR2 with the rounded body style.”

            #MeToo

          9. Gustave Lytton

            Wow. That new Supra is something.

          10. Hyperion

            It’s sort of like this. Midlife crisis is a right. That’s what they told me. Wife can stop this if we buy a new home. Otherwise, buying the car, nothing more to say.

      2. DEG

        No, you’re totally cut off.

        Fuck.

        1. Hyperion

          I was just kidding, drink up bro!

          1. DEG

            Alright! Brawler is next.

            As a bonus, hickok45 shooting a Swede m38.

          2. Hyperion

            I’m planning on getting all exotic this fall when the temps finally fall from 80-90s avg. For now, it’s just all my Heineken/Stella norm.

  45. The Late P Brooks

    America’s second greatest poet (Maya Angelou being the first)

    Ogden Nash was a better poet than Maya Angelou. James Thurber, too.

  46. The Late P Brooks

    Seriously- Langston Hughes.

    1. Tundra

      Not E.E. Cummings?

      1. mikey

        you mispelled e.e.

        1. Tundra

          Yeah, he was a freak.

          But then there’s this:

          10

          maggie and milly and molly and may
          went down to the beach(to play one day)

          and maggie discovered a shell that sang
          so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and

          milly befriended a stranded star
          whose rays five languid fingers were;

          and molly was chased by a horrible thing
          which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

          may came home with a smooth round stone
          as small as a world and as large as alone.

          For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
          it’s always ourselves we find in the sea

          1. MikeS

            Sounds like Geisel

      2. westernsloper

        Seymore Butts?

          1. Tundra

            Haywood Jablomie

          2. Tundra

            American hero.

          3. westernsloper

            lol

          4. Tundra

            The only thing better would have been Haywood and his pal Richard Kazinia.

        1. Tres Cool

          Bang Bros.

          1. DEG

            Not bad.

          2. Hyperion

            BTW, Tres, happy b day. Now that you know what it’s like to be old, live like you don’t have 4 more decades to ponder it.

          3. Tres Cool

            Thanks.
            And if I took your advice, Id be dead by the end of the week!

            #SkylineChili4Eva

          4. DEG

            Happy birthday!

    2. MikeS

      Muhammad Ali.

      1. Hyperion

        I’m purty.

    3. MikeS

      Seriously: Theodor Geisel

      Fight me.

      1. DEG

        The Springfield Museum has his father’s guns.

  47. Rhywun

    Joker looking frazzled here.

    I don’t get the squeals of joy over “Stan the Man” – what a narcissist.

    Whatevz, I just hope either of them beats Middle-Finger Daniil and then Fed-Fed.

    1. straffinrun

      Love the way Medvedev handled the boos he got the other day.

      1. Rhywun

        Nah. I don’t like assholes.

        And… Joker is done. Huh.

        1. straffinrun

          NY Crowd gets panties all twisted over what wasn’t that big of deal and Med tells them to GFT. Sure, he’s an asshole, but I loved that.

          1. Rhywun

            He dissed a ball-boy and then give the finger to the crowd.

            Fuck him. Hard.

            This is not a NY thing. Any audience would have reacted the same to what he did.

          2. straffinrun

            I like the heel act. No one was actually hurt.

          3. Rhywun

            Heh, it’s not an act. This isn’t wrestling.

          4. straffinrun

            He’s a dick. No question.

    2. CPRM

      Joker looking frazzled here.

      Yeah, I’m not excited for the Jauquin Phoenix Joker movie either.

      1. Rhywun

        Get your mind out of the comic book.

        1. CPRM

          If I do the alternative certainly isn’t going to be tennis.

  48. The Late P Brooks

    Seriously: Theodor Geisel

    Better than Maya Angelou.

  49. l0b0t

    Rudyard Kipling. The answer to the question – Who is America’s best poet? is Rudyard Kipling. Kipling is simply the best poet. He is the Ur-poet and therefore the best American poet.

    1. l0b0t

      Hakim Bey is a very close second.

    2. CPRM

      Rick Springfield is America’s best poet, hands down.

        1. Gustave Lytton

          Was going to link to that very song if you had gone with Jesse’s Girl.

      1. Crusty Juggler

        Everyone in the Yacht Rock series, except for that dead weight of a nothing zero Messina, (meaning Loggins, Frey, et al), > Rupert Holmes > Richard Marx > Springfield.

    3. Tres Cool

      Point of order- Kipling was British

      1. l0b0t

        While heathen Bombay in Her Majesty’s Raj was where the Ur-Poet first sprang into existence, he is universal. He is therefore, the greatest American poet.

        If we are loose with the definition of poet, I would also put forward that M&M fellow. His lyrics are quite clever and a few steps ahead of his contemporaries.

    4. westernsloper

      The man from Nantucket.

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        aww Fuck it,,

        1. Spudalicious

          And then tuck it.

  50. Hyperion

    So, I guess the Afd far right shitlords came up just short of trouncing Merkel’s destroy German whatever the cost Party. Anyone have an opinion on this?

    1. CPRM

      Everyone sucks.

          1. CPRM

            Soggy biscuit (also called limp biscuit, crispy cookie, ookie cookie, or jizzcuit) is a masturbation game played mostly by teenage groups in which the participants stand around a biscuit masturbating until ejaculating onto it; the last person to do so must eat the biscuit.

            That biscuit is their ‘music’.

          2. Tulip

            This sounds like a grosser version of rainbow parties.

          3. Crusty Juggler

            Except that biscuit parties actually exist.

            Trust me.

        1. BakedPenguin

          Go to college, Milo.

    2. Rhywun

      I don’t really know enough to judge whether they’re the Nazis everyone is making them out to be. It’s not easy to find objective reporting on this stuff.

      1. Hyperion

        I’m just making a guess here. Left of Mao? Nazis.

        1. Hyperion

          Err, I mean right of Mao.

          1. Hyperion

            Or probably both.

          2. Rhywun

            Meh, they “oppose immigration”. And because they are the only party that advocates anything other than wide-open arms, that means they attract a let’s-say wide variety of opinion on that topic.

            We’ve seen this phenomenon before.

            I have no idea about any other plank of theirs, because nobody wants to talk about it.

      2. CPRM

        NAZIS ARE NotT ObJECtive!!11!!!

      3. Gustave Lytton

        Don’t read Wikipedia. AfD are Nazi lovers who are also pro-Israel. Just like Hitler!

        1. CPRM

          Just like Hitler!

          That sneaky shylok bastard!

  51. Crusty Juggler

    Emperors, ranked:

    Ice-Cream
    Norton
    Palpatine

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      The Pope is a Rabbit, and…..?

  52. LJW

    Proud father moment today. Took my four year old to the gun section at Scheels. She was very respectful of the guns on display and seemed somewhat interested in them. I don’t think she’s quite old enough to understand fully, but she seems to understand you don’t touch. Now I’m wondering, what’s a good age to take them out and teach them to shoot? Also I need to start shopping for her first .22.

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      My Son started at 4, YMMV

      1. LJW

        We’re definitely teaching the safety portion at 4, but she’s not ready to pick up a rifle. I’m guessing the best policy is wait and see based on maturity and interest.

    2. DEG

      That’s excellent.

      I started a bit late… teens.

    3. Crusty Juggler

      At a time when stray dogs were killed (which contributed to the current coyote explosion we are currently poorly fighting), some dogs became local heroes.

      San Francisco – cool until they celebrated people pooing on the street. Do I harbor a strict hatred for San Fransisco because I, the useless 3 (maybe a 5 or 6 but if personality is included, and it is, I suffer), turned down a chance to go to Sannie Frannie (yes, Sannie Frannie – trust me, people will go nuts) with a tall and beautiful blond woman with large breasts because I am so very dumb and will root for that horrible city to crumble until the day either I or it crumbles?

      Yes. Yes I do. Crumble under the weight of human feces. CRUMBLE!

      1. Don Escaped Texas

        Sannie Frannie

        Sacred San Jacinto (sahn ha SIN TOE) is Santy Sinny to at least a few Texans

        1. Crusty Juggler

          I respect that. That state had to do something to avenge their embarrassing defeat to a bunch of browns, and I’m glad that battle has not been forgotten.

      2. Spudalicious

        Or call it, “Frisco”.

    4. Threedoor

      I made my first kill at six. Ruger MKII. I wasent strong enough to charge it. My dad has it stuffed. Just a marmot but it was a great shot. In one ear out the other.

  53. Hyperion

    Is this one of the greatest videos of all time, or is there something wrong with me? Wife asked that I put on my headphones.

    White Noise

    1. CPRM

      Is the video good? No. Is the song good? Yes.

      1. MikeS

        As creative a guy as Rob is, this video is surprisingly lame-ass.

        1. CPRM

          This was only a few years after he was an intern on Pewee’s Playhouse, he still had some learnin’ to do on film making.

    2. BakedPenguin

      It’s a decent song, but it’s definitely also one that’s improved by copious alcohol consumption.

        1. CPRM

          This was my shit when I was straight edge, what’s that say about my drunk choice in music?

          1. MikeS

            Oh, I’m not saying it’s a bad song. Quite the opposite. Add alcohol and it takes on a little more energy. Same for this one.

          2. DEG

            I tapped out for all of these. I’d rather fly high.

          3. DEG

            Best Ozzy song. Ever.

            Oh yes.

          4. CPRM

            Now it just feels like you’re hitting on me.

          5. CPRM

            Posted before that Saliva link, ew.

          6. MikeS

            The fuck is wrong with Saliva?

            As a child of 80’s hair metal, Click Click Boom really “spoke to me” with this stanza:

            What the hell is wrong with me?
            My mom and dad weren’t perfect
            But still you don’t hear no cryin’ ass bitchin’ from me
            Like there seems to be on everybody’s CD.

            It was a real nice change to hearing rock-stars sing (whine) about their 1st world problems.

          7. CPRM

            The fuck is wrong with Saliva?

            They sucked at both rock and rap, and somehow combined the two and made it all worse.

          8. MikeS

            Not bad. I think you’ve linked Soil before? They’re OK.

          9. CPRM

            I think I’ve linked Soil’s song Halo before. Not to be confused with Oleander’s song Halo, two completely different songs.

          10. CPRM

            Oops, here’s the Oleander song, like I said, completely different, this is definitely not metal, but good if you’re in the mood.

          11. MikeS

            Yes! That SOiL song kicks ass. I dig it.

            The Oleander was OK. Not in the mood. However, I do wonder Why I’m Here.

          12. CPRM

            “Why I’m Here” is a masterpiece, it’s a shame the song wasn’t bigger.

          13. CPRM

            I think meaning wise, this song is probably SOiL’s most on point for glibs, I think I’ve linked it here before as well.

          14. MikeS

            Wow. They can really sound like these guys. Or these –mostly same- guys.

          15. CPRM

            Heh, I surely do have a preferred vocal style for music. I called ‘The Voice’ Butch Walker calls it the Pickle in Mouth technique. Either way, Days of the New II sucked.

          16. MikeS

            Ha! Excellent.

            I’m reminded of another one of my favorite singers who probably falls under that category.

            RIP Gord.

        1. CPRM

          If I wanted to hear a song that slow I’d listen to a ballad.

    3. Chafed

      Nothing is wrong with you. Your wife is missing out.

    4. Chafed

      I was expecting this.

      https://youtu.be/ZWSPItDCOkI

  54. Crusty Juggler

    If Marc Benioff and his horrible company went away would we survive? You prepper gun nuts would, but I mean the rest of us, those of us who refuse to plan ahead, those of us who #yolo and such, would we survive?

    Would we?

    1. westernsloper

      God I hope so. I have a friend who works for them. Serious TDS that girl has and her employer doesn’t help.

    2. Gustave Lytton

      I think the sales divisions of half the companies in this country would fall apart if they didn’t have SF’ “tools”.

      1. Crusty Juggler

        Exactly!

        1. Gustave Lytton

          Most sales practices seem to be based on the principles of sympathetic magic.

    3. Salesforce is a bullshit company that does nothing for anyone.

  55. Gustave Lytton

    I saw a retard with a bumper sticker of “Let the Youth Be Heard” this evening. As if they had anything worthwhile to say other than STFU.

    Being stupidly curious, I wondered what it for. Turns out to be slogan for the org behind the sham sock puppet “childrens’” climate change lawsuit against fedgov.

    https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/board-of-directors

    Yeah, real youth driven group there. What a fucking joke. Yet none of that will be publicized or even mentioned in the many articles about the lawsuits.

    1. CPRM

      Well, you can’t let kids just tell you how to run a charity, they’re idiots! They can only come to a logical conclusion of scientific data where the methods aren’t released to the general public, and create a comprehensive plan to save the entire world using only socialist means; they’re just kids!

      1. Rhywun

        I fucking love child science.

        1. CPRM

          That’s just stepping into OMWC territory.

        2. MikeS

          I agree.

          /Jeffrey Epstein

          1. I love fucking child science?

            I love science fucking child?

            I fuck science love child?

          2. CPRM

            I fuck science love child?

            Seen here. (NSFW, like Q likes)

          3. Chafed

            Why? What inspired someone to draw that?

          4. Rhywun

            I love fucking child science?

            OK, now you’re just making it weird.

            Sicko.

      1. CPRM

        I’d vote for her over everyone else, at least she has an excuse, from her milf.

      2. Akira

        “Why can’t we just give everyone everything they want for free?”

        As an aside: I do find it to be a major logical inconsistency that Lefties want the government to take over healthcare but claim to believe in the free market for other things. If it’s possible to just provide something as complex as healthcare for free, why not provide every single product/service under that model as well? If the government can be trusted to provide things free of charge with no injury to supply or quality, why wouldn’t you want them to also manufacture cars, coffee mugs, computers, food, houses, and cell phones? If private industry is just an outmoded system that leads to greedy capitalists cutting corners, screwing over consumers, and ripping off workers, why would you not advocate full communism?

        1. MikeS

          To paraphrase a wise a man from Suthen Glibertopia; They lie.

    1. DEG

      Fuck.

  56. Tres Cool

    Since I had a birthday, and Im now gilded at 50, I think Im entitled to a midlife crisis.

    1. DEG

      You’re getting an extra girlfriend or two right?

    2. Spudalicious

      Congrats, dude! It only gets worse.

    3. Crusty Juggler

      50? Start smoking ciggies – that’s what I’m going to do.

    1. Gustave Lytton

      That is one of the ugliest guns. Yet I find it strangely appealing. And repelling.

      1. CPRM

        I would buy a Dragonov to hang it on the wall like a painting, that I wouldn’t take home at last call.

    2. straffinrun

      Looks like a squirt gun.

    3. Spudalicious

      Help, needs you.

  57. CPRM

    A song dedicated to all the 2020 Presidential candidates.

    1. Chafed

      Bingo

  58. MikeS

    The heck? Doesn’t anyone get tomorrow off? Did CPRM scare everyone away?

    1. CPRM

      Thanks for reminding me I have to work tomorrow! *Falls asleep and Glibertarians.com becomes the place where all the hot chicks are as soon as leave*

    2. Akira

      I can be off tomorrow if I want, but I think I’m going to go in for some of dat sweet-ass holiday pay. Plus, it’s always dead on holidays, so I’ll just be sitting there most of the day. The biggest challenge will be staying awake.

      PS: I work second shift, so my bedtime is 4 AM anyway.

      1. straffinrun

        BTW, don’t try the squid the way I posted yesterday. Showed the pics to a chef today for feed back and he laughed audibly. He gave me some tips which I’ll try next week. I’ll post again when I get it right.

    3. Chafed

      I do. That’s why I’m sitting in a parking lot at midnight to pick up my youngest when she returns from a day at Disneyland.

      1. straffinrun

        Need some ideas to pass the time?

        1. Chafed

          I’m game.

    1. Gustave Lytton

      So porn and Bataan?

      1. Chafed

        Where are the night owls? No Sir Digby. No Festus. No SP. I’m starting to think this isn’t a 24 hour a day operation.

        1. Festus

          I’m lurking but exhausted and I have a double shift tomorrow. Poor Digby probably needs a day or two to recuperate and recharge.