Things to Come – Week of June 24th

Summer appears to be taking it toll on our authors. We are a bit light/unsure on content this week.  [INSERT SEMI-DIGNIFIED PLEADING BY SWISS FOR CONTENT TO BE SUBMITTED]. But imma gonna tell you about what we do have, by cracky!

Monday – Animal continues keeping us entertained and informed on Modays – but this one is not firearm related. Tune in. ’nuff said. SP will continue the Guide to Insufferable Politeness. This @#$%b lot could use some @#$%ing manners. I don’t know how it could insufferable? That means I will have to read the @#$&ing article, eh?

Tuesday – Yeah, about Tuesday… MLW is getting fried by “Woke Charmed”, so that may be a bit more periodic, rather than regularly scheduled. And I am going in for a lovely cortisone shot right between the C6 and C7 vertebrae. So, content is…not settled at this point.

Wednesday – Hat and Hair double feature. The Tale of Goode King Donald continues, and CPRM finishes our minds off in the evening. If that doesn’t spell entertainment, nothing does!

Thursday – RC Dean gets pessimistic. Well, in an article. Yes, just read it, will ya? Then we will hear from Sir Digby. Good to get some people contributin’ around here!

Friday – What are We Reading by our very own Glibs Staff. I will actually have an entry. Other than “raclette place menus” or “beer list” or “wine list” or “spirits list”. A cryptid to be named later will visit us in the evening.

Weekends continue to see OMWC, Not Adhan, Spudalicious and Mexican Sharpshooter lay it all out for us.

Weekday links should come from me, Banjos, OMWC, Brett and any substitutes we need to jam in at the last minute.

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389 responses to “Things to Come – Week of June 24th”

  1. Spudalicious

    I’ll see if I can pump out something at least half assed this week.

    1. westernsloper

      ^ Now that is how you euphemism!

      1. He’s just dicking around with us.

        1. Spudalicious

          Don’t want to go off half cocked.

          1. Gender Traitor

            The penis mightier than the sword? Is that how you do this?

          2. Tres Cool

            “The pen may be mightier than the sword, but Ive found that pussy trumps them both.”
            -Tucker Max (I think)

          3. Spudalicious

            From what I’ve heard, Brett Kavanaugh has a big taint.

          4. Spudalicious

            Nicely Brooks’d, Spud. Nicely done.

          5. Lackadaisical

            A big taint means you’re healthy. /IFLS

      2. juris imprudent

        So is half-assed, quarter tainted?

        1. Spudalicious

          Depends on how the taint is parceled out. If you have front taint, back taint, and neutral taint in the middle, then quarter taint would be appropriate.

          1. Tres Cool

            How much area does your taint occupy, anyhow?

          2. Lackadaisical

            If less than 9 square inches you may have infertility issues.

          3. Not Adahn

            ^ you may safely ignore this man’s self-reported length.

          4. Spudalicious

            That’s a lot of friggin’ taint.

        2. So is half-assed, quarter tainted?

          I believe the elementary school version was “half past the monkey’s ass, a quarter to his balls”.

          1. Sir Digby (PBUH)

            As long as it wasn’t the med school version, I’ll allow it.

  2. I have a SCOTUS term review about 2/3 of the way done. I hope to finish it tonight or maybe early next week.

  3. DEG

    And I am going in for a lovely cortisone shot right between the C6 and C7 vertebrae.

    Best wishes. I hope you heal up soon.

    1. mikey

      Had that once. Not any fun. Didn’t do any good. Ended up going under the knife whcih turned out great.

      1. Most of the people I know who have had cervical spine issues have eventually gone under the knife, and every single one has said they wish they did it years sooner.

        1. mikey

          Yeah. Having someone cut on my spine was not something I wanted, but two weeks later I was like new.

          1. OneOut

            My father had someone cut on his back after he came back from Korea. He suffered every day as a small holding farmer who had to work every day.

            I’m sure the technique a are better now.

          2. OneOut

            I member working along side him a a young child feeding 36K chickens by hand until they grew up a bit and him grunting from pain every so often

            I would cut off my left nut if I could sit and talk to my father for just a few minutes.

            He died when I was 22

          3. Don Escaped Texas

            ugh

            My dad had two back surgeries, performed by Fred Flintstone and a Hopi shaman, apparently. Maybe he’s better?

            He’s going around the bend, and I want to yell at some of his crazy shit, but I’m lucky to have him at all and just let it go. . . what does it matter.

          4. Sir Digby (PBUH)

            He died when I was 22

            Mine when I was three. So, yeah–I’ feel what you’re saying.

          5. CPRM

            Mine died when I was 31. When I had always feared I’d die at 32. He was crippled by MS and I derailed my whole life to care for him. When he died it was like losing a son, a father and a best friend in one day. This year will be 4 years. I can’t believe it. I’m just now coming out of the fog.

          6. Rhywun

            I never saw my father after the age of 3 but by all accounts that was a good thing.

          7. Sir Digby (PBUH)

            I can only add that I’m sorry for that in your life (and his). I trust you are doing better–you seem to be, from what I can tell.

          8. CPRM

            5 years. Damnit I can’t keep track of time anymore.

      2. blackjack

        I went in for that once. It was a series of three. The first one was great, made a huge difference. I was looking forward to the second one. They give you lidocaine before they do it. They gave me like twenty shots of lidocaine before starting, then they put the needle in and for some reason decided to give me some more lidocaine in the middle. After about the fourth of the second set, I got a strong spinning sensation and told him I was very dizzy. The fifth shot barely entered my skin when I passed out. I woke up on a gurney across the room with emergency procedures being performed. I’m pretty sure they got lidocaine into my bloodstream or something. Scared me straight I never went back for the third installment. Now, I just live with the pain. I was on Hydrocodone for a few years, but my present job tests me every so often and won’t let me work if they found that stuff.

    1. Timeloose

      My boss has a Porsche tractor that would definitely be slower.

    2. Count Potato

      ” imagine an embiggened Volkswagen Type 2 bus with Art Deco-like detailing and a Porsche 356 engine driving the, shockingly, front wheels”

      So it’s more cromulent than a hippy bus.

  4. Sean

    So Swiss is like the TV Guide of Glibs?

    *Sorry about your back Swissy

    1. That is actually quite apt. I had forgotten about ol’ TV Guide.

      1. Chafed

        I hope things go well for you Swiss.

  5. Rebel Scum

    Wednesday – Hat and Hair double feature.

    *Adds Pepto to grocery list*

    1. juris imprudent

      Ya’ll may not have seen the pic of Kellyanne and Pie that made the rounds on FB, both of them with resting bitch face; the caption was Worst Heart Tribute Band Ever.

  6. Spudalicious

    Good luck on the cortisone, Swiss. I get a shot in my left knee every 3-4 months. It works, but the first 24-48 hours can be painful.

  7. Sean

    So, in other news…My mom took a tumble this morning. Banged her head into her car, denting her car. She’ll be ok eventually, but for now she’s bruised up and in pain. ?

    1. DEG

      Sorry.

      1. Sean

        Thanks.

    2. Gender Traitor

      Owwwwww! 🙁 No other injuries, I hope?

      1. Sean

        She went to the hospital and they checked her out. Nothing broken, no concussion.

        1. straffinrun

          Smart mom. Rest up and be fine. *Knock on wood*

        2. Sir Digby (PBUH)

          Mine fell back in January, and hit her head on a car. Worse than that, she broke a knee. compared to her other shit, that was fairly tame, and she healed up rather quickly.

          /Sorry about yours.

    3. Spudalicious

      Glad she’s doing okay, Sean. Getting old sucks.

    4. Count Potato

      Sorry 🙁

    5. Tres Cool

      Go Mom! Her head is harder than an automobile!
      Seriously- I miss Mama Tres pretty much daily; hug your mum.

  8. mikey

    Good photos if you like ruin pron (I do).
    Also an ode the the wonders of socialism and railroads with some concentration camps thrown in. Beautiful and grusome at the same time.

    https://www.rferl.org/a/remains-of-stalins-gulag-railroad-lies-abandoned-in-the-forest/29523589.html

    1. Don Escaped Texas

      love that: Father Time bats 1.000

      But the biggest threat to survival, according to another former prisoner, came from the brutal winters, which frequently dropped below -40C.

      Fun fact for UCS: that’s -40°F as well !

      We had a road that ran through the bottoms and along a long island but the bridge washed away. There were trees growing in the middle of the old asphalt in ten years.

      1. mikey

        It is amazing how fast forest take back over. in pictures of the little Masshole town we lived in from the turn of the 19th century the place is unrecognizble. It’s all open fields. Now its all forest with cleared house lots.

        1. dbleagle

          The Appalachian Trail in PA and NY goes through dozens of towns from the 18th and 19th Centuries and hundreds of former farms. Except for some former pasture stone fences, an occasional stone forge/coke oven, or following a former RR right of way- it all is just forest.

    2. westernsloper

      Wow, that is far north.

    3. Spudalicious

      There’s a show on Discovery called “Mysteries of the Abandoned”. It covers stories like this and is really fascinating.

      1. Sean

        I dig that show. A lot.

      2. Don Escaped Texas

        It’s got a weird vibe, though: the experts talk in these animated tones about what might it be and why did they do it that don’t jive with their training. Engineers are nonplussed: that’s an X that was built like Y because of Z. Simple, no conspiracy or drama needed.

        That was my least favorite thing about Walter White: season 1 he’s so linear and then suddenly, four episodes into S2, he starts deferring to emo BS instead of staying on target. I want S1 Walter all the way through.

        1. Spudalicious

          My weirdist vibe is the tranny military historian.

          1. Gender Traitor

            S/He has a voice made for print media.

          2. Don Escaped Texas

            engineer them: oh my what could it be

            me: it’s a concrete bunker * sigh *

            CGI ribbon: engineer so and so went to Eton and then Sandhurst and majored in . . .

            me: * drinks *

            them: these might be windows

            me: it’s a turret, that’s the Norman coast right fucking there

            them: and who could have possible built this and when and for why?

          3. My wife and I are watching the Weird Things That Happen In Nature series from I believe Discovery, mostly because it’s brainless, animal-based light entertainment that we can half-watch with our kid, and there’s a really similar feel. A lot of those shows do that annoying “Gee whiz, folks, what could it be?” bit because they’re taking essentially 45 seconds of video footage that can be summed up as, for instance, “A badger ate that dead calf”, and stretching it out into a 15 minute segment.

          4. *That isn’t the actual title, but it’s something like that. It’s the newest incarnation of its type.

          5. Lackadaisical

            I love shows that replay the same footage 50 times and treat me like a mentally stunted third grader/not

            …not that I criticize you for what you watch to wind down and isn’t inappropriate for kids. Hard to find anything that meets that criteria in my experience.

          6. Spudalicious

            You mean like “Expedition Unknown”? Where the “star” Josh Gates, has a 100% record of not finding what he’s looking for?

          7. CPRM

            I am entertained by Expedition Unknown. I liked Gates’ show on Sci-Fi as well.

    4. Rhywun

      I love ruin pr0n too. Surprisingly, the Warsaw Pact countries are loaded with it…

      1. Lackadaisical

        I like prom where they. .. oh, wait, that’s not what you meant.

  9. straffinrun

    Monday mornings with a 10 year old girl. Sigh. Totally and completely unlike all other 5th graders, she really doesn’t want to go to school after the weekend. It’s sprinkling this morning and her protest was to walk to school without her umbrella. This act of defiance will not stand with the wife. “You let her go to school without her umbrella? It’s raining!”. “Yep. She’ll get wet. Oh, well.” [Insert silly 5 minute argument here]. And I end up chasing the kid down on the way to school and hand her an umbrella. “Iranai” or “I don’t need it.” “Take the fucking pink elephant!”

    End result? Angry wife. Angry kid. Wet me.

    1. Don Escaped Texas

      Letting kids fail in safe situations and then work through their consequences is the best parenting ever.

      1. straffinrun

        Pocahontas voter triggered.

    2. Spudalicious

      I would have told the wife that if she was so concerned that she can take her an umbrella. Have I mentioned I’ve been married several times?

      1. straffinrun

        Compromise means she gets what she wants and I get to be unhappy about doing it. Also, obligatory reference.

        1. *nods*

          Relatedly, I need to find where the wife hid the pressure sensor on the couch. My ass had hardly hit the cushion when I heard a passive aggressive little “when you get a chance, the trash needs taken out.” That ended up turning into a fight.

          1. Lackadaisical

            My wife has been leaving her bags around the house for the last year, finally got sick of cleaning up after her, or the resulting toddler messes, especially when he gets into the chemicals she leaves around. Insta bad guy.

          2. Where did you take yourself out to?

            I hope it was Applebee’s the have the most awesome mediocre food.

    3. Put her in a poncho.

      1. straffinrun

        And risk expulsion for cultural appropriation? Oh yeah, forgot I wasn’t in the states.

    4. Not Adahn

      Monday mornings with a 10 year old girl. Sigh.

      I think OMWC’s response would be SPROINNNG!

      1. Raphael

        もしもし、警察官?

        1. Not Adahn

          Question:

          Who in a phone call is supposed to say “moshi moshi?” If I call Japan to say “watashitachi no name wa Not Adahn desu, nihongo wa sukoshi wakarimasu. Eigo was wakarimasu ka?” How am I supposed to open the phone call?

          1. straffinrun

            Both people say it. Also, “Our name is Not Adahn desu”? You’d probably say, “Kochira wa” not “Watashi wa”.

          2. Not Adahn

            Yeah, don’t know why I went with the plural there.

            I learned all my Japanese from a nun who taught preschool. Apparently I don’t sound appropriately manly.

            Fortunately, both times I’ve had to cold-call Japan, (and I did open with moshi-moshi) I’ve heard “Yes” in response.

          3. straffinrun

            Let me give you an example from my not-quite-right-but-works-for-me telephone etiquette.

            *Ring, ring*

            “XYZ Company”

            “Ahhh, moshi moshi. Kochira wa straff run desu. (insert relevant job info here). Tanaka san wa irasshaiimasu ka?”

            “Ah, Tanaka san desu ka? Skoshi matte kudaisai”

            “Onegaishimasu.”

            Not technically correct but it’s worked out better than when I’ve tried following the text book manner.

          4. Don Escaped Texas

            I would open my calls to LeMans with my best French pleasantries and be answered, not in English, in American.

          5. Raphael

            ^^Pretty much what Straff said.

          6. Not Adahn

            Our dog is gray

            vs.

            Watashitachi no inu ga nezumi iro desu

            This is why we won the war.

          7. westernsloper

            Sup my ninja?

          8. Don Escaped Texas

            moshi moshi

            I worked for two Japanese firms, but nevermind

            This old navy vet would get on the factory intercom years ago and go
            ” now hear this
            ” whatever abc xyz
            ” that is all” click

            I don’t think he even knew he said it. I loved it every time.

      2. straffinrun

        We’d have a DOAOMWC in that case.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    I have a SCOTUS term review about 2/3 of the way done. I hope to finish it tonight or maybe early next week.

    I read a thing (NPR maybe) about how that private cemetery decision presages a wholesale demolition of precedent, because paranoid hysteria.

    But it got me thinking. New York made some technical modifications to their gun transport law, to cut the wheels out from under the attempts to get it in front of the SC, right? Could/would that decision be helpful in keeping the gun transport case on track?

    1. Lackadaisical

      I think the SC already accepted the case, no? I’m inclined to think so.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    A garage buddy for the 914

    Interesting, but I think I can quite happily live out my days without it.

  12. Suthenboy

    I see OMWC didn’t comment much today. Makes sense….there is a Jaws movie marathon on.

    1. Spudalicious

      You don’t even want to contemplate what’s going on in that house right now. Jaws, midget porn and fake, vegetarian seafood.

      1. Count Potato

        “fake, vegetarian seafood”

        That sounds awful.

        1. Akira

          Honestly, if a team of doctors told me that I had to become vegetarian or die, I could do it. There’s plenty of excellent food you can make that is originally vegetarian (and sometimes even vegan). But I will never understand the appeal of imitation animal products. It all tastes horrible to me.

      2. Rebel Scum

        vegetarian seafood

        Is that a thing?

        1. Count Potato

          I’m hoping it isn’t.

        2. DEG

          Seaweed?

        3. Spudalicious
  13. Timeloose

    I had a hell of a great afternoon on this beautiful day. I helped to button up the rumble of a 68 GTX, went on a test drive, then followed it up with some range time.

    1. straffinrun

      Enjoy the day off, TimeL. Back at it tomorrow, eh?

      1. Timeloose

        Yep. It’s been a hell of a week.

      1. Don Escaped Texas

        what did your father do to you ?

        1. commodious spittoon

          Not nearly enough beatings.

      2. Yes, but I thought the same thing for a second, so you’re not alone.

      3. The Last American Hero

        No, because once the GTX was tuned up, he started playing PGA Tour 2018.

    2. dontreadonme

      A high school buddy had one of those. We would open it up on back country roads…and busted a few engine mounts from time to time…..ah, the fun.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    When he saw that I was conscious, after the surgery on my neck, the first question the nurse asked was, “Can you move your fingers and toes for me?”

    I hope your neck isn’t a href=”https://www.spine-health.com/treatment/back-surgery/anterior-cervical-corpectomy-spine-surgery”>as fucked up as mine, Swiss.

    Just call me Mister Sunshine.

    Three years later, I am still making small gains in strength and function of my left arm. And yes, it should have been done sooner.

    1. commodious spittoon

      Crimony. That’s a scary question to have asked.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Still can’t type worth a damn.

    Stupid tags.

  16. Gustave Lytton

    Music for the Servator one

    https://youtu.be/Ik-1v2_SOoY

    1. Rhywun

      My adventures in Deutschland 1986 just flashed before my eyes.

    1. Winston

      Is one of them E. Jean Carroll?

    2. J. Frank Parnell
    3. You know what? I’m askin’ #17 out for a few drinks. Buxom brunettes are my wheelhouse, especially when they look like they’re just workin’ with what their mommas gave ’em.

      1. Sir Digby (PBUH)

        I like the cut of your jib, sir.

        /hopefully, you’d hear something at least as positive as that when you ask

  17. Gustave Lytton

    Saw update: got it tuned I think. Runs a lot better now imo and cuts nicely. Of course it’s just on the cusp of fire season so not as much opportunity to use it.

    Gassed the moles, knocked down of grass, weed, & blackberry vines, and seeded some bare patches in the lawn. Next up: make stir fry on crunchy chow mein noodles.

    1. Don Escaped Texas

      * salutes great American *

      brpthp . . . opens more beer

      1. Gustave Lytton

        *returns beer salute*

    2. Gustave Lytton

      And tore a little hole in the fuel line of the weed eater while putting on a new filter. #!@^*

      1. Spudalicious

        I spent several hours today replacing sprinklers and broken line. Tomorrow I get to go on a treasure hunt to find the valve control box for the one station that won’t come on. I may have to chop through two feet of juniper to find it.

    3. Not Adahn

      My moles had their tunnels opened up, probably by one or more of the four cats that patrols through my yard. The blackberry vines continue despite my efforts, though the strawberries are fading. I also seeded some bare patches, hopefully it will take.

      1. Lackadaisical

        Isn’t it late to be seeding? Spring is your friend.

  18. westernsloper

    Muh resycling!

    For years, Pai and her family generated almost no trash. She carefully washed, sorted and bagged hard-to-recycle items and drove them two towns over from her home in Berkeley, California, to the area’s best recycling center.

    But on a gray morning in late May, when she pulled up with a bag of flimsy plastic clamshell-style containers, yogurt tubs and meat trays, the sign informed her that, “due to poor market conditions”, these items would no longer be accepted for recycling.

    Um, all of that is still “trash” and has probably been going into a landfill there or somewhere else for years. Peoples need to virtue signal has always baffled me.

    1. Rhywun

      I’ve mentioned it before but anything that requires more than a rinse goes in the trash now. At least as long as I’m in a situation where I’m not subject to the Recycling Policy nosing through it.

      1. Rhywun

        “Police”

      2. straffinrun

        An old lady that lived next door would sneak over to our garbage pick up area and check to see if I was breaking the recycling rules. I caught her a couple times and she’d scamper back inside. Filled a plastic bag with used condoms and tied it shut. Now, I didn’t see her actually open the bag, but she did cool it on the garbage cop stuff after that.

        1. Rhywun

          Something like that never happening in a million years is a thing I like about NYC. OK, maybe it happens in Staten Island.

          1. straffinrun

            How about back in the day when the neighborhoods were more clearly delineated by ethnicity?

          2. Rhywun

            Um… I don’t know? What are you asking?

          3. straffinrun

            I’m thinking about how in places like Denver where there were a mix of people, nobody would try that shit. I’m wondering if having a homogenous society breeds more “involvement” in stranger’s business than a multi ethnic society does. Or maybe it’s just Japan.

          4. Rhywun

            Ah, OK. I’d have to ponder that some more.

            NYC has always been a crazy mix of people in the 20 years I’ve lived here, and I can’t speak for the before-times.

            In the US, the nosy neighbor seems (to me) to be restricted mostly to suburban areas. I’ve never encountered that type in my life, TBH.

          5. Not Adahn

            Interesting. There’s a stock character in TV/movies of the neighbor who opens their apartment door to monitor the comings/goings of the people on their floor. Is/was this a cali thing?

          6. Rhywun

            I think that’s a lazy sitcom trope that never existed IRL except in rare circumstances.

            Think Lucy and Ethel always barging in on each other.

          7. Not Adahn

            That’s true, but then again, Desilu was based out of CA (along with Mickey Rooney’s “Miss Golightly I MUST PROTEEEEST!”) The only instance I can think of that was definitely in NYC was Kramer in Seinfeld.

          8. Rhywun

            The first few seasons of I Love Lucy took place in NYC.

            PS. Seinfeld was filmed in California, too.

          9. straffinrun

            I tend to stick out here, so I understand that is part of why they keep an eye on me. However, they tend to keep an eye on each other, too. More so than I’ve seen even in pasty white rural Northern Wisconsin.

        2. I’m surprised you had enough condoms to fill the bag.

          1. straffinrun

            Did I forget to mention they were filled with tartar sauce?

          2. There was a real missed opportunity for a cold call from a local urologist on behalf of a “concerned neighbor” in Act 3.

    2. Spudalicious

      It goes overseas and ends up in the ocean. They stopped recycling glass around here several years ago because there was no market.

      1. westernsloper

        Seems the markets overseas have mostly dried up for plastic. Never saw that coming! It has always been more expensive to recycle a bottle than to make a new one. Now we can’t ship our trash to china.

      2. Rhywun

        One of Bloomberg’s first acts in office in NYC was to cut the failing parts of recycling. The green mob went apeshit and we were back to 3 bins within a year. I can see Deblasio adding another bin or two just to punish us.

    3. Suthenboy

      Huh.

      *goes out to back yard 55 gallon drum and lights trash on fire*

    4. Lackadaisical

      “and drove them two towns over from her home”

      She *drove* there? So. much. fail.

    5. mikey

      Some years ago the Boston Globe did some actual reporting. They put RFID devices in differnet types of trash in different cities within the beltway. Some of the trash actually went to a recycling facility, but most of it just went to a couple landfills. This was long enough ago that we still had a dead-tree newspaper subscription and even then it was a fraud.

  19. Count Potato

    “Deodorants were created to solve a fake problem and thrived thanks to the patriarchy.”

    https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1142520633613590530

    “Let It All Sweat Out
    Natural deodorants are on the rise, mostly thanks to completely unwarranted fears about antiperspirants. But sweating is fine.”

    https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/06/rise-of-all-natural-deodorants-not-necessary-sweating-antiperspirant.html

    I’m convinced without hate clicks, Slate, Salon, etc. would go out of business. Twitter bait doesn’t even match the article.

    1. Spoken like people who have never worked with Indians.

      1. Don Escaped Texas

        I don’t even do Europe during daylight savings

        1. Not Adahn

          The European fabs forbid deodorants due to fears of aluminum contamination (actually they fear aluminium contamination, but w/e). Whenever we get an EU based person onsite we can smell them before we see them.

          1. Don Escaped Texas

            jheri curl or something can make paint fish-eye

            30 years ago . . . might have been deodorant or toothpaste, tbh

          2. Timeloose

            Al contamination? That is strange. How is it expected to get out of the dirt bag?

            Human sweat is filled with Na why are they not afraid of that getting out.

            Also isn’t Al used in the factory elsewhere?

          3. Not Adahn

            Sodium is a problem, but I guess most people don’t sweat through their suits. However, we are constantly railing against people who think that safety glasses are there to protect their eyes as opposed to catching their blink jetsam.

            Al qua Al isn’t really used much, though obviously there are tool components/chambers where it is present which can lead to hilarity and hijinx.

            Two things are going on: first, there is a whole lot of superstition and myth going on in this business, as there is in any situation where random chance is an issue. Second, aluminum like tin and copper has issues with mobility and diffusion that sodium generally doesn’t.

            Though winter in the NE US is a solid reason why nobody builds fabs here. Sodium is a ridonkuldonk problem
            for half of the year and we spend ludicrous amounts om money slathering the walking spaces around the site with magnesium acetate.

    2. Tres Cool

      “From each according to his ability, to each according to his n̵e̵e̵d̵s̵ odor.”

      If we all earn the same, and stink the same, isnt that kinda socialism ?

    3. Not an Economist

      There is a reason why perfumes were invented. And it had nothing to do with patriarchy.

      1. Tres Cool

        I smell what you’re cookin….

    4. DesigNate

      Most of the replies are savaging the writer and Slate. Good times.

  20. Count Potato

    “The US & Canada resettled more refugees than any other country in 2018.

    But the UN says we need to take more. The UN says migrants have a “human right” to asylum in our countries. I have two words for the UN, and they’re not very nice ?”

    https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1142783341097312263

    “Immigration CRISIS: “Take MORE Migrants” Says U.N.”

    https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1142783341097312263

    1. Don Escaped Texas

      Name me one great country that does not at some point feature regular folks taking up whatever they had, flintlocks, pitchforks, kaiser blades, and storming the whatever until whomever was dead and no longer tyrant de jour.

      1. Tres Cool

        Some call it a kaiser blade, some folks call it a sling blade…

        1. Winston

          +100 Billy Bobs

          1. Tres Cool

            #mmmhmmm

          2. pistoffnick

            Ah like them french fried pertaders, mmmhmmm.

        2. Don Escaped Texas

          don’t make fun of my people

          and you got any dem mustard biscuits ?

          1. Isn’t the movie set in Arkansas? In that case, it should be Lach’s people.

          2. Don Escaped Texas

            Lachowsky’s a significant minority; indeed: Pulaski County (LIT) is still crawling with Poles. Is he local?

            I was just defending hillbillies in principle; it’s part of the Piedmont ScotsIrish Brotherhood International code * glances left and right for sign of English *

            And more to the point (and Tres’s avatar), Brother Cash was the greatest ArKansan * wipes tear *

            I now return to attending simply to my native Mississippi bullshit.

          3. There is no principled defense of Hillbillies, horrible people the entire lot of them, only marginally better than hippies.

          4. Don Escaped Texas

            nolo contendere

    2. Raphael

      I found her disdain of the UN to be most delightful to my ears. She goes off on them in the youtube video on this subject and my God, it made this former Model U.N. club member have fond memories.

      1. Count Potato

        You banged a half-asian chick?

        1. Raphael

          This one time back at U.N. Camp…

  21. Winston

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/23/free-speech-is-not-under-threat-it-suits-bigots-and-boors-to-suggest-so

    Most importantly, free speech defenders are muddled about what is happening. They see millennial snowflakes doing something dangerous: taking the first steps down a slope that begins with wanting to be warned when books include rape scenes and ends in communist Russia. But they forget that even in free countries speech has always been limited by social rules, not least the one about simple politeness.

    If you are rude to a lecturer, for example, you might expect to be thrown out of a classroom. If you are rude about a minority group, they might try to stop you being invited to speak at their university. If you say something people don’t like, they might say something you don’t like back. Countries without free speech tend to have it written into law or otherwise enforced by the state. We are not quite there yet.

    Free speech advocates also misunderstand the motivation of those who might want to shut down a debate: they see this as a surefire mark of intolerance. But some debates should be shut down. For public dialogue to make any progress, it is important to recognise when a particular debate has been won and leave it there.

    Even the most passionate free speech advocate might not wish to reopen the debate into whether women should be tried for witchcraft, or whether ethnic minorities should be allowed to go to university, or whether the Earth is flat. No-platformers are not scared – they simply think certain debates are over. You may disagree, but it does not mean they are against free speech.

    There is also the problem of self-awareness. The trouble with the free speech defence is that it works to shut down any argument against it. You want to say something boring, or irrelevant, or malicious? Claim someone is trying to ban you from saying it. Dissent isn’t merely dissent then, it’s censure. (And censorship should be banned.)

    Your opponents are against free discussion (and shouldn’t be allowed to engage in it). You can tack free speech on to any crackpot prejudice you have and suddenly you’re a lone truth-teller standing up to the hordes. It’s a clever rhetorical trick, the free speech defence. But it shouldn’t be taken much more seriously than that.

    1. Raphael

      If you believe that your debate/argument is settled, then there should be no problem letting the opinion that “lost” expose itself for you to then rebuttal it.

    2. Count Potato

      “Even the most passionate free speech advocate might not wish to reopen the debate into whether women should be tried for witchcraft, or whether ethnic minorities should be allowed to go to university, or whether the Earth is flat. No-platformers are not scared – they simply think certain debates are over.”

      That is some motte and bailey bullshit.

      1. That’s hilarious. I’ll attack the motte, though; the reason we aren’t having debates about trying women for witchcraft isn’t because the topic has been marked “closed” by some authority somewhere, it’s because nobody even bothers bringing it up because it’s such an incredibly weak case for any number of reasons. People still try to debate that the Earth is flat, apparently, but there’s a ton of evidence that suggests otherwise, and so the idea doesn’t get much traction. It’s worth emphasizing that by engaging the idea honestly it quickly loses any little momentum it might have. In contrast, ideas that are declared beyond the pale for discussion, for whatever reason, acquire the allure of the forbidden. Before long, people who wouldn’t think twice about topic X are wondering if there might be something to it if all these people are so threatened by it.

  22. Don Escaped Texas

    Am I a loser for thinking this is what you meant?

    AFX
    BDU
    CP
    DWI
    ESP
    FUBAR
    GLC
    HX
    JHP
    L1011
    MRE
    8N
    OBS
    POTS
    QED
    RPG
    STD
    U2
    VD
    XO

    Things don’t mean what they meant, or at least they got new names.

    1. commodious spittoon

      STD
      U2
      VD

      Why, yes. Yes they are.

      1. Spudalicious

        If you date somebody with an STD, and you listen to U2, you end up with VD?

        1. westernsloper

          Now you tell me!

        2. blackjack

          That’s what you call a “sick burn.”

    2. whiz

      That almost looks like a stock portfolio.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Even the most passionate free speech advocate might not wish to reopen the debate into whether women should be tried for witchcraft, or whether ethnic minorities should be allowed to go to university, or whether the Earth is flat. No-platformers are not scared – they simply think certain debates are over. You may disagree, but it does not mean they are against free speech.

    That’s a relief. I thought it was because they were afraid their lucid and carefully considered opposition to witch-burning capitalism couldn’t survive an open and honest debate.

  24. Winston

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/306393/

    Go back to Zarathustra: ‘I do not advise you to compromise and make peace, but to conquer. Let your labor be fighting, and your peace victory…. What is good? All that increases the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power increases, that resistance is being overcome…. Not contentment, but more power! Not peace at any price, but war! Not virtue, but efficiency! … The weak and the botched must perish: that is the first principle of our humanity. And they should be helped to perish! … I am writing for the lords of the earth. You say that a good cause hallows even war? … I tell you that a good war hallows every cause!’

    Barbarous? Ruthless? Unchristian? No doubt. But so is life itself. So is all progress worthy the name. Here at least is honesty to match the barbarity, and, what is more, courage, the willingness to face great hazards, the acceptance of defeat as well as victory. ‘Ye shall have foes to be hated, but not foes to be despised. Ye must be proud of your foes… The new Empire has more need of foes than of friends. Nothing has grown more alien to us than that “peace of the soul” which is the aim of Christianity…. And should a great injustice befall you, then do quickly five small ones. A small revenge is better than none at all.’

  25. Winston

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/23/left-fighting-back-even-in-republican-states-as-it-bids-reshape-capitalism

    Extraordinarily, in the US, business is beginning to turn to the moderate left: capitalism has to be saved from capitalists and their political outriders. If the choice is between the wounding of their business by Trump or attending to the social woes that feed his electoral base, then the smart thing is to address the wrongs in US society.

    Getting a growing hearing, even in Republican heartlands and among Fox News commentators, are Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders with their calls for a wealth tax, an industrial policy targeted at the regionally disadvantaged, a new charter compelling responsible business, universal healthcare, a higher minimum wage and mobilisation of education and training.

    They have three great advantages. Their proposals are intellectually coherent, recognising a key role for the state compensating for capitalism’s dysfunctions. What they propose is feasible and addresses inequality. Crucially, they offer a vital narrative that the US’s problems are made at home and can be solved at home.

    ….

    Nor does this matter only to us. As David Miliband described in his Fulbright lecture, we live globally in what he calls the age of impunity. The weakening of the international order as the US and Britain turn inwards in the name of their national sovereignty has meant a new lack of accountability for those who would do bad anywhere in the world.

    Trade may be slowing as protectionism rises, but that is the tip of a dark iceberg. Since 2011, there has been a six-fold increase in annual battle deaths as weapons become more lethal. Numbers of murdered aid workers, incidents of ethnic cleansing, use of chemical weapons , flows of refugees, the internationalisation of proxy wars are all rising exponentially.

    1. Raphael

      Crucially, they offer a vital narrative that the US’s problems are made at home and can be solved at home.

      Why yes, a good number if not practically all of the US’s problems were made at home by the government itself.

      1. Rhywun

        I find myself wearying of the Guardian’s tired bullshit. Their articles are the ravings of Twitter morons gussied up with lipstick.

        1. Suthenboy

          ^This^

          Commie rag trots out same old tired shit endlessly.

          1. Winston

            Things have changed:

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian

            Founded by textile traders and merchants, in its early years The Guardian had a reputation as “an organ of the middle class”,[122] or in the words of C. P. Scott’s son Ted, “a paper that will remain bourgeois to the last”.[123] Associated at first with the Little Circle and hence with classical liberalism as expressed by the Whigs and later by the Liberal Party, its political orientation underwent a decisive change after World War II, leading to a gradual alignment with Labour and the political left in general.

      2. Not an Economist

        Therefore the solution is more government!!!

    2. creech

      “Their proposals are intellectually coherent, recognising a key role for the state compensating for capitalism’s dysfunctions. What they propose is “,,,even more fascism.,

    3. Count Potato

      “What they propose is feasible and addresses inequality.”

      It’s neither of those things.

      1. Not an Economist

        What they propose never seems to work. But its never their fault.

  26. Lackadaisical

    “he Tale of Goode King Donald continues”

    Nice!

    1. Fatty Bolger

      Yea, verily.

  27. Yusef drives a Kia

    OK then, I submitted my latest installment of WTF is Yusef doing now? now off to do time cards……

  28. Please consider sending something

    Since you asked nicely, consider it considered.

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      I’m not an ass, and submit very tame articles, I’m safe, for now……..

    1. Not Adahn

      Wouldn’t we all.

    2. Spudalicious

      I applaud the man that can make it through that monologue while being that stoned.

    3. Count Potato

      I wonder about those bitcoin drops.

      1. blackjack

        Fuckin Bitcoin. There’s an ATM at the gas station by work for Bitcoin. It was 2500.00 9 months ago when I transferred over there. Now, it just hit 12,000.00 Shoulda bought the damn stuff.

  29. Derpetologist

    Spot the Not: Cory Booker

    1. I always say: Don’t be a slave to you enemy’s thoughts, just find a way to forget them.

    2. My weakness in life is two men who seduce me all the time – named Ben & Jerry.

    3. My grandmother from Iowa, she is dancing in Heaven at the prospect that the next president of the United States is going to be Hillary Rodham Clinton.

    4. I’ve been wrong on everything about Trump; I’ve been wrong about everything on the Republican side of the ledger. But allow me – with that caveat – to made the prediction that Donald Trump will not be the president of the United States. It just will not happen.

    5. I don’t know what God has planned for me or you or anyone, but I do know that in darkness, you discover an indistinguishable light.

    6. The greatest natural resource our country has is not oil. It’s not gas. It’s not coal. It’s the genius of our children.

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      #3

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        And good to see you! One of my favorites…

    2. Spudalicious

      I actually felt myself get dumber as I read through that.

    3. CPRM

      1 is the Not, he’s obsessed with what other people think of him.

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        Projection…

    4. Raphael

      I want to say #5.

    5. Not Adahn

      4

    6. westernsloper

      3

    7. Derpetologist

      1 is the Not. Good job CPRM. Here’s your prize:

      Pixar hired a bunch of feminists to make a short film. Need I say more?
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6uuIHpFkuo

      1. Rhywun

        Et tu, Pixar?

        1. Winston

          Reparations for John Lassiter…

      2. CPRM

        Cuz da wiminz do tha sewin?

  30. Count Potato

    “Snipers Defend Drag Queen Story Hour From Mom-Led Protest

    A SWAT team of two snipers was stationed on the roof of a public library in Spokane, Washington June 15. Their mission, along with 30-40 police officers, was to defend Drag Queen Story Hour from 300 concerned mothers and allies protesting the event.

    The snipers, decked out in camouflage, were photographed on the roof of the library monitoring the protesting mothers with binoculars.

    “Was anyone else disturbed that the library had 30+ police officers and 2 snipers with rifles on the roof pointed at us to protect men in dresses from women defending their dignity and praying?” 500 Mom Strong, the organization protesting Drag Queen Story Hour, said on their Facebook page following the event.

    There was also a counter-protest in support of the story hour that numbered in the hundreds. The counter-protesters “yelled and screamed” at 500 Mom Strong, Anna Bohach, who organized the protest against Drag Queen Story Hour, told the Daily Caller.”

    https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/22/mom-protest-drag-queen-story-hour-sniper/

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      Remember Rome? This is how you get Rome, by a bye Westren Civilisation

    2. Rhywun

      Stop the world, I want off.

    3. Raphael

      Gotta watch out for those assault prayers.

    4. straffinrun

      The story ends with “Little pig, little pig. Lemme come inside.”

    5. Meh, cops were getting their “Rambo” on, they would have done it to stop the Drag Queens if that was the way the winds blew. This entire Drag Queen Story Hour bit puts me in mind of the KKK rallies in the late 80’s, not that drag queens are Nazi’s, but in the “ignore it and it will go away” sense.

      Here’s this obscure local event that no one cares about I, let’s protest it and hopefully our bitching gets national attention, fucks sake, people grow up.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        One wee bit of difference, the village of Skokie wasn’t hiring Nazis to come march…

        1. Are these libraries hiring the Drag queens? our library has shit going on every day, hippie music, art shows, some group or another pushing their spiel. I’d be very surprised if these are paid gigs.

          1. Gustave Lytton

            The library’s spokesperson, Amanda Donovan, said that when she booked Drag Queen Story Hour, she researched to see how other cities reacted to similar events.

            “The level of support always exceeded the level of dissent,” she said about seeing similar events. “We definitely expected this reaction.”

            The Spokane Public Library filled up the room for the story reading within hours after security guards used metal detector wands on the entering kids and their families. Staff had to turn away dozens of children, but a second Drag Queen Story Hour, at the Spokane Public Library in downtown next Saturday at 2 p.m., will have more room.

            I took as the library was doing the booking, but maybe you’re right and they are just using the meeting rooms or whatnot as any other community group.

          2. J. Frank Parnell

            Humphries, who has four children, said she is raising them heterosexual: “If you’re a boy, you don’t wear a dress,” she said.

            Wow. Much reactionary. Such bigot.

          3. Rhywun

            security guards used metal detector wands on the entering kids and their families

            Edgy and transgressive!

    6. This shit is out of hand. Not believing that a public library children’s story hour is an appropriate venue for a drag show is not bigotry.

  31. Count Potato

    “Now just ask yourself why I found these documents within 48 hours of landing in Minnesota while Ilhan Omar has been feted by the national news media for years as these questions how lingered. Why didn’t other firefighting journalists find this 3 years ago?”

    https://twitter.com/TianaTheFirst/status/1142908105119821824

    “Dozens of documents indicate Ilhan Omar lived with Ahmed Hirsi while claiming to be married to Ahmed Elmi”

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dozens-of-documents-indicate-ilhan-omar-lived-with-ahmed-hirsi-while-claiming-to-be-married-to-ahmed-elmi

  32. Spudalicious

    So for reasons beyond my control, today was a low energy day in the Spud household. Dinner was what I could scrounge out of the refer and deep freeze.

    I grilled German style, duck and pork Bockwurst, with mustard on the side, Spanish croquetta’s with Tiger sauce from Louisiana, and a Mexican style coleslaw leftover from last night. It worked out amazingly well. It was the friggin’ UN of dinner.

    Murhican whiskey is now on the menu.

    1. salted earth

      You might be being too hard on yourself. If that is a low energy day dinner for you I’m not sure what my microwaved burrito says about me.

      1. Spudalicious

        I’ve had many microwaved burritos in my day. Nothing wrong with that at all. Just avoid the ones from the freezer case at the convenience store at 2am…

  33. Derpetologist

    OK, last one today, I promise.

    Spot the Not: Kirsten Gillibrand

    1. As we all know, there is no harder or more rewarding job than being a mom.

    2. Like all Americans, I will never forget where I was the morning of the 9/11 attacks.

    3. When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.

    4. And to the man in the White House, I say this: the fact that you are in denial does not make you strong.

    5. The horrific damage of 9/11 did not end when those buildings came down.

    6. I look at each nominee. If they suck, I vote against them. If they’re worthy, I vote for them.

    1. Count Potato

      6?

    2. straffinrun

      Dude, I couldn’t even spot a Kirsten Gillibrand in a line up.

      1. Derpetologist

        Look, there are 24(?) of them, and by gum, I owe each them a Spot the Not.

    3. Spudalicious

      6. She’d never be that direct. The wind might change.

    4. DEG

      #1.

    5. Raphael

      I’m thinking 6 for this one. Sounds pretty mild coming from her.

    6. I’m calling Bullshit! 1,2, and 5 are boiler plate bromides that any asshole could spout. if you’re gonna do this at least give us distinctive statements from the derper (derppier? derppist?) in question.

      1. Gillibrand is the most forgettable senator. Despite knowing New York has two, I keep forgetting that she exists.

      2. Derpetologist

        For some politicians, “boiler plate bromides that any asshole could spout” is about all they can say.

      3. Rhywun

        Maybe that’s part of the joke. She is a complete non-entity even in her own state, after all.

        1. Joke? From what I understand, If you get four out of five “Spot the Not’s correct you get 50% off your Glibertarian subscription for one year!

    7. Derpetologist

      4 is the Not. That is a hybrid of Inspirobot and me.

      1. Raphael

        I love Inspirobot. It’s given me some nice dank memes.

  34. Count Potato

    “The knitting community takes a hard stand against Trump. How brave.”

    https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1142882309927886849

    “Support of the Trump administration is undeniably support for white supremacy”

    1. Ok, fine. I’ll support the part of white supremacy that involves not electing a Progressive lunatic or a Socialist to office. And you know what else? If white supremacy winds up being minarchy, because it seems like I’ve heard in more than a few places that the idea that wanting a smaller, less powerful, less intrusive government is typical of white privilege and patriarchy, then I guess send me my hood.

      1. Winston

        Individualism is white supremacy you know.

      2. Akira

        I just think it’s funny that most of the Left literally believes that minorities will end up in poverty and waste away if the government doesn’t give them special handouts, yet YOU’RE the racist if you disagree with that.

        As I understand it, a common pro-slavery argument was that blacks will naturally fall into destitution and barbarism, and it’s better for them to be given regular employment, food, and housing.

        1. Yeah, there was definitely an argument made among pro-slavery people in the 19th century that black people were simple, child-like creatures who needed supervision. Basically, big dumb brutes who needed the guidance of western European whites. Even then, they’d be, at best, very clever pets. And then 100 years later you swap out Colonel Sanders for the government and it’s pretty much the same thing.

    2. Sensei

      This was my wife’s favorite site for knitting stuff.

      She’s pissed as there are few other places with the resources, but doesn’t want to have anything to do with it now. They also sell patterns so now she has to look to alternative sites to get the same pattern.

      Once again politics is like religion for these assholes. I make it a point to never mix politics with my non-political hobby internet reading.

      1. Rhywun

        #metoo

        That shit is toxic.

  35. gbob

    Almost a breakthrough with my wonderful, those so.etimes, wrong gal. She’s typical lefty on many things. We’re playing trivial pursuit question was “By 2015, this Tanzania’s mountains ice pack is expected to be melted”

    After showing her the current ice on the mountain, she finally conceded the possibility that Climate Change models might be wrong.

    Progress.

    1. salted earth

      Nice to see you back here and glad to see the podcast is back.

      1. gbob

        Thanks. Every few years I enter one of those “shut myself away from the internet” phases.

        1. Rhywun

          I could use one of those.

  36. Count Potato

    “‘I tried free bleeding on my period for 6 days. No pads, tampons or menstrual cup.’

    https://www.mamamia.com.au/free-bleeding/

    I’m not going to wipe my ass for week, and win a Pulitzer.

    1. It’s more expensive to keep replacing all the clothes and furnature.

    2. Rhywun

      Not clicking.

      1. Count Potato

        Well, at least Instagram took down the pictures.

      2. Chafed

        Right behind you R.

    3. commodious spittoon

      No Oxford commas.

  37. Count Potato

    “Latest social justice rage: In San Francisco, activist group @TheCoalitionSF sicced a mob on a sushi restaurant in the Castro after claiming the rock was part of “anti-homeless architecture.” The owner denies it was placed there to keep homeless away.”

    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1142537378650656768

    “Rainbow rock outside San Francisco restaurant sparking controversy

    SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — A rainbow rock in an alcove of a sushi restaurant in San Francisco’s Castro District is sparking controversy, with some saying it was meant to prevent homeless people from seeking shelter there.

    The Coalition on Homelessness shared a photo of the rock on Twitter, along with a message: “When you wanna look inclusive but hate homeless people.”

    A manager at the restaurant said they put out for their Japanese Zen garden and there is a safe space in the entryway of the restaurant that homeless people can use.

    The Coalition on Homelessness has since deleted the tweet, and posted the message: “Ya’ll, we made a mistake! While rocks r a common prt of anti-homeless architecture, this particular rock is NOT. It’s a Japanese garden. Izakaya Sushi is a valued member of the commnity & is supportive of its homeless neighbors. We apologize & offer deep appreciation to the staff.””

    https://abc7news.com/society/rainbow-rock-outside-sf-restaurant-sparking-controversy/5357320/

    1. Rhywun

      Nothing says “Come on in!” like having to step over a bum to get into your restaurant.

    2. Yesssss…. let the hate flow through you….

    3. mikey

      From a link in one of the comments. From Venice Beach:

      “Even the homeless woman at the Frederick camp says the city’s housing plans aren’t a viable long-term solution. “I’m not going to rub my tummy and jump through hoops just to live inside,” she says, “I shouldn’t have to go through that much of an act just to get housing. People should be allowed to live how they want.”

      The cost of housing isn’t this broad’s problem. In Maynard G. Krebs immortal word: “WORK???”

      1. Rhywun

        The homeless lobby’s shameful conflating of derelicts with actual people in need ought to condemned instead of used as a bludgeon to bash wrong-thinkers over the head with.

        1. Don Escaped Texas

          * subscribes to newsletter *

    4. Gustave Lytton

      there is a safe space in the entryway of the restaurant that homeless people can use

      Smh

    5. Akira

      So I live in a town of about 25k, and I think we have maybe 10 actual homeless people here at any given time, so someone’s gonna have to fill me in… Is there actually an expectation in areas with large homeless populations that local businesses “provide” spaces for homeless people to “use”?

      1. Don Escaped Texas

        In Memphis, the shelter and the soup kitchens are all downtown. The vagrants stay under bridges or in industrial zones or in a park.

        No one cares because none of this impinges on the nice spots or impacts tourism. Few of the vagrants are white, so I suspect the entire issue is invisible to most natives: they just see pedestrian traffic and don’t think what fraction comes from where.

      2. Rhywun

        I think it depends on the wokeness quotient of the region. California? Probably. New York? Not so much – there’s a noisy activist class but people are getting tired of their shit.

        1. Yoou’re right, the people of California aren’t getting tired of the homeless folks shit . . . they’re just stepping in it.

      3. Gustave Lytton

        There are homeless activists pushing to normalize sleeping on the streets, along with demands for free shit without strings. They bully and badger any wrong thinkers until they back down like this case.

      4. Spudalicious

        Same here. I think we may have you beat on the number of homeless.

        1. Gustave Lytton

          Are people still bitching because the only shelter is a private religious one?

      5. In Annapolis there are a couple of alcoves of public buildings downtown where you sometimes will see a homeless guy set up some blankets at night, but I’ve never seen it at private establishments. I can think of a few woke places that might go for it, but the clientele would evaporate and they’d be out of business by the end of the month.

  38. Derpetologist

    This quite possibly the greatest red pill ever:
    https://youtu.be/TWjxTneb3SI?t=151

    1. commodious spittoon

      Holy hell, 3:00 looks like the NPC meme brought to life.

      1. commodious spittoon

        And wasn’t Sinclair Media w/e some Orwellian hellworld Goebbels outfit for doing a stunt like this? Whatever happened to that?

    2. Sir Digby (PBUH)

      Wait….DEPR’S BACK????

      When did this happen?

      Am I missing something?

  39. Count Potato

    I think I found the worst person on twitter:

    https://twitter.com/truestboi

    “?tweet?? | she/he | aspiring game dev | leftist | vegan | PoC | poly pan necro inclusive ζoosexual | deal w/it or gtfo | ? button = self care ♥️”

    “I’m a necro, so I’m attracted to corpses & the dead There are several classifications of necros: … I am an opportunistic necro w/romantic tendencies

    Basically I only condone roadkill in practice”

    1. Count Potato

      “imagine being the dude who makes a thread this long in order to justify fucking his dog”

      https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1142968642897928193

    2. Raphael

      Further evidence twitter is an absolute shit hole.

    3. Spudalicious

      So eating dead meat is totes, not okay, but having sex with dead meat is just the opposite.

      *let’s that wash up against bourbon haze, shakes head and takes another sip*

    4. I don’t think there should be a law against being a useless, pathetic POS, and I’m definitely not advocating that there be a series of bloody pogroms to rid the world of people like this. I’m just sayin’ if there was a jar at a cashier’s counter to fund cancer treatment for people like this guy I might put a gum wrapper in it.

  40. Don Escaped Texas

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/turkeys-president-suffers-stinging-defeat-in-istanbul-election-redo/ar-AADiZAB?li=BBnbfcL

    ISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey suffered the biggest defeat of his political career on Sunday as his candidate for Istanbul mayor conceded defeat in a repeat election. The result wrests control over Turkey’s largest city from Mr. Erdogan and ends his party’s 25-year dominance there. Opponents say such a loss cracks the president’s aura of invincibility, showing that his grip on power after 16 years is weakening.

    A regime is finished if they can’t fix an election, especially when you get a second bite at the apple.

    1. Rhywun

      Third time’s the charm.

      1. Chafed

        Probably not this time. He had quite a time getting the redo. He won’t get a third chance.

    1. J. Frank Parnell
      1. It’s funny that the other two look sheepishly apologetic. Like they’re saying, “I don’t know, man, she kinda cornered me at Starbucks and I needed the money…” with their eyes.

  41. Count Potato

    “9-year-old Austin drag queen spreading message of love ”

    https://twitter.com/abc13houston/status/1142213290782810113

    https://abc13.com/5356269/

    This shit needs to stop.

    1. Rhywun

      It’s getting so over-the-top ridiculous I can’t imagine it going on like this much longer.

    2. Raphael

      It is too damn early in the day for me to be drinking.

      1. CPRM

        Hahahaha, you made a funny! Too early for drinking, hahahaha!

        1. “you can drink all day if you don’t start in the morning” – My best friend from college.

    3. Heroic Mulatto

      This shit needs to stop.

      Without violating the NAP, how?

    4. Rhywun

      Drag is camp for adults, burlesque for gays. There’s a reason RuPaul’s Drag Race is rated TV-MA.

      I don’t get this push to make it a kiddie thing.

      1. If I were trying to generate some sort of socon backlash against gay people I would start by confirming the worst fever-dreams of every person who peddled the idea that there’s a gay conspiracy to recruit children. What kills me about this is that they’re conflating something that isn’t a choice–homosexuality–with something that is the very definition of a lifestyle choice–drag. It’s like saying, “If you really want to support white people, you’re going to have to start putting mayonnaise on french fries and listening to Texas swing.”

        1. I have known a lot of white people*, and have yet to see someone put mayo on french fries.

          *in addition to being one.

  42. commodious spittoon

    AW CHRIST I HAVE TO GO BACK TO WORK TOMORROW AND PRETEND I KNOW WHAT THE FUCK I’M DOING. And the rest of my life depends on it. I used to get Sunday evening panic attacks because I was going back to a job I hated. Now I’m getting them because I like the job and I don’t want to lose it.

    1. Don Escaped Texas

      When I was a kid, the 60 Minutes watch was my alarm that happy time was pretty much over.

      1. Akira

        For me, that was the Malcolm in the Middle ending credits.

      2. straffinrun

        Me too. Ended up with Andy Rooney crashing my wet dreams.

      3. Rhywun

        The Wonderful World of Disney

        1. Chafed

          There was nothing wonderful about it.

          1. Sir Digby (PBUH)

            Oh, it was fine, Chafed. Better than what they offer now.

            I’m with Rhy, straff, and Don on this topic. Uuuugggghhh….childhood bed-time.

    2. Gustave Lytton

      Pssst, everybody else is faking too.

      1. I’m not. I know exactly how much shit I’m full of.

        1. I openly tell everyone else too… they think I’m joking.

          I don’t get it.

        2. straffinrun

          Sometimes, but not always. 😉

      2. CPRM

        Not much to fake at my job, either you can talk coherently or you can’t. Then again, when you have the voice of late night sex song DJ people tend to miss the mistakes. Now this is for all the lovers out there, a little something from Tencious E. ( not a typo, mimicking messing up an artists name, which I tend to do because I get massive brain farts)

      3. So much for the euphemisms.

      4. commodious spittoon

        One of the principals sat in on my interview. I was asked that hackneyed question about my biggest weakness, and I said I’m often insecure about my work and need guidance because I worry about screwing up. It’s maybe the only honest thing I said. He said everyone feels that way. I thought he was humoring me, but maybe not.

        1. Gustave Lytton

          My gut feeling is the world is made up people either suffering from imposter syndrome or Dunning–Kruger.

          1. Yeah, that’s fair. I’m largely the former, although I suspect I may be the latter, which may itself be a symptom of the former.

    3. straffinrun

      You like a job where you pretend to know what you’re doing?

      1. That’s the best kind!

        1. straffinrun
          1. commodious spittoon

            HI SUPERNINTENDO CHALMERS

    4. Akira

      Job stress fucking sucks. I have about a month left before my transfer to a far more desirable department, so at least there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.

      I’ve been popping Tums like crazy since I get a churning in my stomach every time I think about work.

      1. straffinrun

        Fuck that. I’d rather be at work. My boss doesn’t scream from the next room about something I did that I don’t even remember.

        1. Chafed

          That’s because you’re not drunk at work.

    5. Raphael

      It’ll be okay, CS. Keep calm and stay glib. Hang in there, dude.

      https://youtu.be/KxGRhd_iWuE

      I would’ve done the html tags, but I’m not at my home pc with muh monocle and top hat.

  43. Sir Digby (PBUH)

    Paging CPRM: You are needed for article duty.

    Please type into the white courtesy phone Reply field.

    1. CPRM

      Sup?

      1. Sir Digby (PBUH)

        Gonna need some help with this build. emails?

        1. CPRM

          *Does Secret Handshake, checks email*

    2. Chafed

      Look who is back after 2 days in meat space.

  44. straffinrun

    How do you deplatform a drag queen?

    Hide her shoes.

    #Notunproudofthat

    1. Raphael

      *narrows gayze*

  45. CPRM

    Tried recording audio for the new ep twice and nothing was recorded, I’m going to try a different program me thinks.

    1. CPRM

      Ok, second program recorded the audio, gonna have to work out why the first one didn’t, but not tonight.

        1. CPRM

          Depeche Mode is one of those bands that I know existed, but couldn’t ever tell you any songs they did.

          1. Gustave Lytton

            ?

          2. Rhywun

            It’s like I don’t even know you.

          3. J. Frank Parnell

            Depeche Mode is French for “we’re wussies”

            – Beavis & Butthead

          4. Rhywun

            LOL

            I love both Depeche Mode and Beavis & Butthead
            80s and 90s FTW

          5. J. Frank Parnell

            I don’t know why, but I just can’t get into Depeche Mode. It’s weird because I like a lot of stuff that’s heavily influenced by them, and I know a lot of people who are really into them, and I can’t point out anything that’s wrong with them, and it really seems like I should like them, but… none of their songs do it for me.

          6. Rhywun

            We all have blind spots.

            I should add that I have zero interest in the considerable output they released after 1990.

            But for a while there in the 80s they were new-wave superstars.

      1. Chafed

        Tina Fey put on some weight.

        1. Sir Digby (PBUH)

          I’d be happy to re-teach her all about the political spectrum.

          I’m presuming with her new-found weight and sluttiness, she’s changed in other ways, as well.

    1. CPRM

      You know based on Hollywood stereotypes, it would be hard pressed to for anyone to guess I’m the 36 year old virgin here and you’re not. Yay for not being stereotypes?

      1. P5000 was highly underrated IMO.

        1. CPRM

          Was? They’re still around. Also, Collective soul released a new album Friday. Some beautiful things still live in this desert of humanity.

          1. CPRM

            Glib fact: Collective Soul was named after a phrase from The Fountain Head, though they never said anything one way or the other if they chose it because they like Ayn Rand or not, just saying it sounded cool.

          2. “Some beautiful things still live in this desert of humanity.”

            You have to look hard.

    1. Rhywun

      Hey, sailors.

  46. This ?? is money snek. ???? Upsnek ⬆⬆?? in 7.123 7⃣ 1⃣2⃣3⃣ snekonds ?? or you ✋✋ will NEVER ❌❌❌❌ get monies ?? again Beware!! ✋✋❌❌You?? don’t ❌❌ have much time!!??????? You ?? may never ❌❌get monies ????? again!!

    1. Raphael

      Well, it’s not totally wrong. I found out a few minutes ago my paycheck is getting slashed to hell for my last month on the job.

    1. CPRM

      I dunno. Why can’t a sister-in-law help clean without throwing out family heirlooms? These are the mysteries of the universe.

    2. Sir Digby (PBUH)

      I hate to say this, as it shouldn’t be necessary…but, a blood test should confirm whether or not she uses. If she doesn’t, no judge will bite on that.

      Well, maybe in Louisi-SONOFABITCH.

    3. Chafed

      Pretty hard when you’re high.

      1. Rhywun

        Ha fair enough.

  47. Sir Digby (PBUH)

    Well, not for nothing in this thread, but, I just submitted my article for the H&H merch I bought. Didn’t all format the way I wanted, so I left a note at the bottom of the article (hint to any editors reading)

    1. CPRM

      I look forward to others getting pleasured by you the way I have…er…

      1. Sir Digby (PBUH)

        Well…you may be the only one.

    2. Raphael

      Nice, looking forward to its debut!

      1. Sir Digby (PBUH)

        OK, make that 2 of you, C.

        Thank you, Raph. C proof-read it, and he seemed to like it. Although, he has a strange relationship with compliments, so…

    1. Rhywun

      Cool – maybe I can find a cheaper rent.

      1. Sir Digby (PBUH)

        I think you meant to say DERP’S BACK!! Or, maybe not, but, still….

      2. Sorry Rhywun, unless you move out of the city, the new renter’s tax will be levied to help bouy the flagging municipal finances and augment the property taxes your current rent is already covering.

        1. /sarc for now, but all too real sounding

  48. CPRM

    Altright, congrats to Digby for finally contributing to society Glibs I’m out.

    1. Sir Digby (PBUH)

      Pfffttt….your “need to sleep”, but, whatevs.