I tried to get STEVE SMITH to fill in for me tonight…but he just promised HIM FILL SOMETHING IN! So, I sort of ran from having him substitute.
Here is the week to come:
Monday – Animal tells us of another Shitlord of Renown. Yusef writes from the road.
Tuesday – An RC Dean book review, Florida Man changes tack and moves to The Big Things. Later night, prepare to simmer at the further telling of the tale of the DoD Anthrax case.
Wednesday – Hat and Hair…’nuff said. A cross word for your evening.
Thursday – SNP! Mojeaux waltzes into a minefield…er, gives us Christianity 101. Football ranking savaging, late night.
Friday – We hear of the the making of a Libertarian. Cryptid(s) late on.
Weekend – Sir Digby, Mexican Sharpshooter, Not Adahn, OMWC, Spudalicious, et al keep us informed and entertained.
Weekday Links – Sloopy and Brett keep us in the know!
Comments
500 responses to “Things to Come – Week of October 7th.”
Lovely, sounds like a good week.
Seconded.
Oh no is Florida Man going to tell us we shouldn’t smile at babies, or help elderly women cross the street, or not run down a bicyclist who’s holding up traffic in his silly Lance Armstrong clothes?
Who would wear DOPESTRONG clothes?
What, no help for elderly men? When does senior citizen become elderly?
What do you think Viagra is for?
People who only get with ugly chicks?
+ hitting with a corked bat
I really have an issue with your analogy! Doctored equipment is cheating. PEDs are self improvement.
Pump up, and air out!
It’s cheating when you sign a contract stating you won’t use them.
Legally you are correct. Philosophically I disapprove of rules against training aids. I also think rules against card counting are wrong. Level the playing field, not the competitors.
Glib author and contributors special. Let’s make Halloween week at Glibs really special this year. Pull out all the stops. Horror, cultural appropriation, slutty costumes.
I’m working on a Hastur story…
Fuck, I inverse Brooks’d that.
Hadron doesn’t marry Sanoma Tora, she sells him out and he marries Tavia instead.
I shared last year’s “Subaru Horror Theater” with a couple friends. They dont talk to me so much any more.
I’m working on a Hastur story…
Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hasturt? I’m already scared if that’s coming for Halloween.
That was one creepy dude.
Jan: Marcia, can I borrow your powder blue sweater? I have a date with Tommy, he’s dreamy!
Marcia: Beat it, Jan, I’m busy preventing eldritch forces from invading our dimension. Distract me, and you’re gonna get your face eaten by Hastur or Nyarlathotep …
Jan: But what about Tommy? It’s always Elder Ones with you, always “Hastur, Hastur, Hastur!”
Marcia: GODAMIT JAN
Hastur: *sploorch*
Dear RainbowMan,
“Petticoats…”
Mojeaux, paging Mojeaux.
I did not bother to read through that drivel. I stopped at “I became really hard.”
But you should read it – it’s hilariously awful. Gosh.
GIRLS ARE RUINING EVERYTHING
It sounded almost Victorian, and I’ve read Victorian porn.
“Petticoats…”
Come ride the little train that is
Rolling down the track
To the Junction.
Petticoat Junction!
Lots of curves, you bet
Even more, when you get
To the Junction.
Petticoat Junction!
(whooot whoooooot!)
Dude, she’s married. You’re already off the hook. Bang the brakes off it raw-dog, skeet, den shoot up da club.
Also, WORSH your damn hands after you beat-off.
But if he did that, how could he use his fingers to clean the dandruff off his shoulders before his meeting with the professor?
When I see these millennial hipster dudes out in the world, This is exactly the way I imagine them thinking.
I’ve read more believable letters to Penthouse.
mmm free tuition.
SLAP!
lies you thought were true about your vagina – and why G-spot doesn’t exist
A-HA!
Obligatory
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CHyWf9hyIVY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGGziPQp07o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB51NCcvuMs
Related.
Also obligatory
https://youtu.be/2Vq5-dRYp-c
Aw, poor wee lamb.
It sure as hell does exist.
Oh indeedie it does and it is fabulous.
*preen*
HAH! The Grafenberg dude got a part of the pussy named after him, but the neckbeard/manbun types running around nowadays got named after the entire thing.
“I grew up in the 80s before women knew they could shave it. I used to have to blow on it just to find the seam. Women today are sittin on a peach.”
-Ralphie May
Did you cum, honey?
Yes dear.
Hey, where’s the toothpicks?
Emily Dickinson (ha!) nods sagely.
‘Basically, all pleasure roads lead to the clitoris.’
OK then, Mr. Science, explain how evolution would have chosen only to make pleasurable something outside the vagina, when the whole point of reproduction is to get PIV so gametes can connect? One might thus think that perhaps the clitoris and the interior of the vagina both go together to increase the willingness to engage in coitus.
Otherwise the species would have quickly died out, with a bunch of our female ancestors never doing more than just rubbing their crotches against rocks.
OK then, Mr. Science, explain how evolution would have chosen
How? By women with clits not dying out. Evolution doesn’t choose anything. You die or you don’t, you breed or you don’t, you mutate or you don’t evolution is our fancy way of saying some things are alive today, and other things aren’t.
Look at C.A., trying to understand women…lol.
“Mr. Science”
Wow. Just wow. You just othered a feminist hero and then tried to mansplain clitoris to vagina expert Dr. Jen Gunther.
Wow.
Related: from this point on refer to your anus as a “shit-toris.” It’s hilarious.
I dunno, it always seems like when I hear about such an opinion, the reading between the lines is “and that’s why we don’t need men and their disgusting shlongs”.
It’s reassuring to hear from a woman poster that there is belief in a G-spot or something positive down in the caverns measureless to man.
Dude, there are two things I think about almost exclusively: theology and sex.
Praise the Lord.
The Temple of Aphrodite at Acrocorinth may be hiring….
You don’t think of them inclusively?
Well actually yes. It’s my author schtick, in fact.
+1 Ancient Mariner
(Im the only one that got that?)
Right poet, Coleridge, wrong poem though.
Kubla Khan rather than the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
But you are the only one who got it anyway!
While I learned it in some English Lit class, the Frankie Goes To Hollywood version is ever scorched in my head.
Fun fact: With just a bit of tweaking, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” can be sung to the tune of “Wabash Cannonball.”
Now I got Roy Aicuff reading Samuel Taylor Coleridge in my head. And w/o laudanum.
I hate you.
You’re welcome! ***kiss, kiss!!***
Come on, we’re talking about music and Coleridge and nobody has posted this?
I am disappoint.
Also acceptable.
I will refrain from posting links to video clips from the ’80 movie Xanadu.
Once again, you’re welcome.
Thanks, GT, that movie is kryptonite to ELO fans.
ELO was the only redeeming part of that movie.
see also ‘cervical soaking’
I hate that I looked this up…..https://www.sheknows.com/health-and-wellness/articles/811826/the-cervical-dip-orgasms-trying-to-conceive/
She knows nothing. What? Cervical contractions last 1.6 seconds? She orgasms first, as is proper, then you deliver the baby batter. Cervix is still in Singer sewing machine mode. Semen devoured. Am I wrong?
You are not wrong.
I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter.
It’s more of a 3 x 5 card, written in crayon, to fill up the space. (No euphemism intended)
I would have thought you just traced the alphabet with a finger tip, until she tells you to stop?
Mr. Science
Ahem, that’s Dr. Science.
He knows more than you do.
” It sounds funny”
Elderly man wants to know if its funny like a clown? Amusing? Even the Letters to Penthouse were way better.
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg
She has multiple middle names.
And one of them is a comic book character.
Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho is not far off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOE6J8etu0E
[Kiff sigh]
I have multiple middle names. I am offend
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt?
That’s my name too.
+1 A Pimp Named Slickback
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7deVUJ_8DPY
I uh…never mind.
I just have one…danger.
+1 Johann Gambolputty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYMRjnM6j6w
Mine’s Milhouse.
J A R Flax, told you all I used my name.
Your name is Jarf Lax?
+1 Hoof Arted
Elizabeth Anne
TWO queens.
AND Elizabeth II has MY birthday!
Hey–I share a name and birthday with a famous history-type person, too!
Well, I’m named after a famous card game.
At ACL Fest. You know you’re in Austin when it’s cooled down to 92F, Third Eye Blind is playing at top volume in a crowd of 80K or so, and you’re located equidistant between two Come And Take It flags, a guy wearing a pink fishnet shirt doing backflips, and a gaggle of girls wearing “100% That Bitch” Tshirts.
A festival for the anterior cruciate ligament?
Yes, it’s important to keep a flexible schedule there.
We’re tendon to reach for the puns here.
Put a cap on it before Swiss notices.
Puns are his Achilles heel, aren’t they?
Tibia sure, the puns can get pretty bad around here.
He’ll forgive, just ask on a bended knee.
That’s not even medially funny.
It is cruciate that I medial this thread.
That’s it! I’m outta this joint! ::flips keyboard::
She has a tendoncy to do that, I hear.
*strongly narrows gaze at the lot of ye*
OK, look busy. Swiss is watching this shin-dig.
I think it’s fibulas that you’re making all these jokes.
Yes, it’s just what we kneeded.
Yes, it’s as if everyone likes to kiss and patella.
LOL That’s what I thought!
I’ll be there next weekend. How’s it been so far. I was considering bailing on Sunday nights shows.
Hot as fuck until the sun went down. Currently can’t get within several hundred yards of Lizzo without wedging into the madding crowds, so that’s a no go. Might as well listen on my cell phone.
Mumford and Sons or Cardi B to follow.
It’s a strong 4 hours of closing acts.
Going back next Saturday.
Cool. I’ll be there all weekend. I try to go every year. I’d be willing to meet up if you’re interested.
Is my son there? He’s a tall guy, easy to spot
Yep. He’s at the other endzone. Can see him from here!
We’ve been hanging out with him all day. 😉
I thought you went to have a good time.
Looks like his Dad
https://tracesoftexas.com/about/
The CIA’s New Liberator
Not sure why anyone would want to mess up a perfectly good old Winchester 97 by putting that damn knob on the end of the barrel.
Tanners are good people. They’ve taken a good amount of our money over the years.
Yeah, but they are almost certainly not the ones who installed that Poly-Choke.
Those things have their place and, in my experience, actually work reasonably well, but boy are they ugly. I notice that the original Poly-Choke has finally gone out of business, and as far as I know you can’t get a collet-type adjustable choke any more except as a screw-in to fit a barrel threaded for tubes.
I’m sure they didn’t install it. I was just shocked you linked to an auction from one of my favorite gun stores. They’re pretty local to me and they usually have great prices.
Sacklers reaped up to $13 billion from OxyContin maker, U.S. states say
lol that’s our money
Yea, because fuck people who are living with chronic pain!
It’s always our money.
When the utilities caused all those fire (that were blamed on global warming,) they got sued for big bucks. Then they went to public utilities commission and asked for rate increases to cover it. They were denied, because the suit was intended to be punitive and having us pay for it would negate that. Then, in response, they started the intentional temporary blackout thing to punish us, hoping the outrage over the outage will cause the PUC to allow the increases. It will work.
I’m sure you are right. In a year or two memories will fade but deliberate blackouts won’t. Then they’ll get the increase.
The money isn’t sitting around just waiting to be allocated for settlements. It’s going to come out of higher income (rate increases) or lower costs. Pick one.
In a private market, we could choose to stop buying. These people have a monopoly. Bill comes, pay it or it goes dark.
Grifters gonna grift.
When the Tobacco suits were happening I pointed out that the precedent of suing the manufacturer of a legal product for harms that were known to the users was going to have really dire consequences, Welcome to those dire consequences.
Yup.
Totally foreseeable. Foreseen, even.
And yet…. there’s a segment of the electorate that is entirely happy to see this happening. Funny that the supposedly pro- civil liberties, pro- drug choice crowd is perfectly happy to see access to pain medication destroyed in order to allow a cash grab by the government and to punish evil corporations.
It is as if they view this as being “all part of the plan”.
I’m curious as to how many people who died or destroyed their lives with OxyContin were using illegal supplies that they went out and bought themselves. It’s almost a parallel to the lawsuits against manufacturers of guns and e-cigs.
To me, it’s just one more manifestation of the society-wide attack on personal responsibility (mostly from the Left). They see people as just a bunch of dumb lemmings who need to be prodded into making the “correct” decision.
Here’s a thought that will blow all of your minds (and I think I may do an article or podcast episode on this):
Opioids are a “controlled substance,” n’est-ce pas? What does that mean? WHO actually “controls” the “controlled substances”…?
Yes, kids, say it all together, “Uncle Sugar.” The US government (I believe it’s through the DEA) decides the quantity of opioids that may be produced annually.
(I’ll have to dig it up again, but there’s a document number. I think it’s buried in the CFR somewhere or some bulletin.)
Anyway, if people are dying in big numbers, who is legally responsible for allowing opioids into the marketplace? The US Govt is. They control it. Maybe they could, uhhhh, you know, like, lessen the amount or something? But they don’t and it never even gets talked about. I wonder why that is…? (Actually, I don’t wonder at all.)
The fines and settlements are just the vig to play the game, kids. You want to sell everything from oil to automobiles to securities, cigarettes or synthetic opioids, Uncle Sam will giveth and taketh away. And (((they))) will always want their cut, (((they))) being the Congress-grifters and their (((friends))).
If you dug in on any of those issues, from “The Big Short” to Big Pharma (see Marcia Angell’s book) to what Obama did with the IRS to GM’s bondholders… it’s all the same racket.
Fuck that. It’s just a substance. It makes you feel good, in small doses. It kills you in big doses. You pays your money and you takes your chances. All junkies know this. The fucking government assholes think they control it, but they don’t. You can get enough to O.D. in maximum security prisons, for dog’s sake. They have no control. They are intoxicated with power and I wish they’d O.D. on it and we could be done..
You’re missing my point, blackjack (I think). You and I agree. Govt controls much less than think: black markets are proof of that. But they can make lives miserable, and in large quantity, like nothing else of which man has conceived. Multinational mega-corporations can’t come close to causing the kind of misery and suffering that governments are capable of inflicting.
And so it is with opioids and the entire War on Drugs. If you dig enough you’ll find that govt ensures that it’s a company that will be left holding the bag for any harms that government’s own actions have caused. You’ll find plenty of BIPARTISAN AGREEMENT, even from different teams in different branches of government, on the fact that GOVT OFFICIALS should definitely be deciding how much of any given quantity of a controlled substance should be manufactured and distributed to the masses annually, and quarterly, and who will eat shit if people die as a result.
Notice: you will see lots of lawsuits, see lots of people get trotted out in public as evil over their “part” in selling a product that: (1) the government specifically approved for manufacture, (2) routinely monitors manufacture of and inspects, (3) IOT to ensure the “purity and quality” of these controlled substances, because the FDA does all of that, you know, right?
And the DEA ensures there is no competition.
That’s what I think is being missed in all of this.
And here’s the more cynical follow-on. I know the people in pharma companies know this. They’re not idiots and they sure as hell know what they had to go through to get licensed, inspected, and all of that shit by the FDA. And so I started thinking, “why wouldn’t someone in there point that out? Why wouldn’t someone leak something, smear the fedgov for their part in it?” And the only answer I come up with is because (1) they’re making BOATLOADS of money from this whole thing; (2) they do NOT want that fucking gravy train to stop; (3) they will shut their mouths and pay their fines/lawsuits/settlements, (4) as long as they don’t get put out of business!!
I would imagine what’s happening with the family is that they’ve decided they don’t want to play any more so they’re cashing out. Let the outrage begin.
Yeah, I see what you’re saying in terms of the pharma angle. I just know that ultimately, the same people would still seek it out and some south american will bring them some via fastboats. There were opium dens long before there was drug wars. Most dope fiends know damn well that they alone bear responsibility for their O.D.s. The lawsuits and official crackdown is just more kabuki theater.
COMMENT ANARCHY!
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1 & done
Hey Q, I picked up an AR pistol this weekend. You’re partly responsible. Your enthusiasm about yours kept bouncing around my brain.
I got mine in 7.62×39 though.
I got the opportunity to shoot a Sig MPX 9mm this weekend. It was sooo easy to shoot. 50 yards on steel all day and 100 yards with 6”of point of aim adjustments. It’s really expensive but a great shooter.
I love mine, have fun with it!
It’s not mine, but I can shoot it when I want. I have a Sub2000 that was about 1000 bucks cheaper. It’s far less refined but I can fold it up and put it in a backpack with little effort.
#4 is married to one of my in-laws.
Photo must have been from after the first baby and while she was off being single in her wild phase. The husband is a really good dude (redneck style good dude), but not that bright. She’s a whole mess o’ trouble.
Now at the loudest stadium im the NFL. Lower level on the corner of the endzone.
I ❤ football.
Only bad thing is I’m kinda sleepy. Might be the 63-mile hike from the parking lot and the Greek gyro I just had.
WE’LL COMMENT LOUDER.
If I weren’t so tired I’d be shakin’ my very generous booty to the music.
I commented much louder all night on Friday. My throat is still sore and my legs are, too, from all the bouncing. It’s tiring when you’re sorta old.
And you end up standing all the way through a football game…
Yeah, I shoulda just stood there with my phone trying to get footage.
GO PACK GO
Do you have dick joke signs for TV?
Blasphemy! I would NEVER post dick jokes from a Chiefs game!
Only church?
Only church.
Here we go again….
Yeah wait till Thursday. My post may burn this place down.
-1 Family Friendly®
Just think of them as Dick Vermeil jokes.
Go Chiefs!
^5
Oktoberfest 2019 is finished.
The round-up says there were 6.3 million visitors and 7.3 million liters of beer drunk. The lost and found report:
The Wiesn lost and found office counted around 3,800 finds by the end of the year, including 780 ID cards, 690 items of clothing, 660 purses, 465 bank cards, 420 smartphones and mobile phones, 300 keys, 155 glasses, 130 bags, backpacks and bags, 115 umbrellas, 55 pieces of jewellery and eight cameras.
As curiosities were delivered during the second Wiesn week: A set of teeth, a pram, a UN card game, a measuring cup, a kitchen sieve, a wedding ring, a flugelhorn, the book “Dalí – the picturesque work” (in its original packaging) and 635.60 euros in cash.
If you remember it, you probably weren’t there.
When we went to Croatia a couple of weeks ago, returning last weekend, we changed planes in Germany both directions.
Each flight was packed with no empty seats, pretty impressive for a 787 from Europe to/from San Francisco well after the end of summer.
I sat next to an American guy on the way home who was wearing a felt green hat with a little red feather. Yes, he and his wife had just come from Oktoberfest, they’d been all week, and had a great time. He guessed a huge percentage of the people on both our flights had been doing the same.
I told my wife (who works in the wine industry) that the flights were likely so crowded because of Oktoberfest, and she acted like I’d just said the stupidest thing she’d ever heard. “No one would fly all the way to Germany just because they opened some beer tents,” she insisted.
I told my wife (who works in the wine industry) that the flights were likely so crowded because of Oktoberfest, and she acted like I’d just said the stupidest thing she’d ever heard. “No one would fly all the way to Germany just because they opened some beer tents,” she insisted.
She hasn’t met me.
I’ve been to two Oktoberfests and remember both.
There are some moments that are a bit hazy, but I remember both.
I remember dirndls. Lots and lots of dirndls.
Liters of beer? Who wrote that? Farva?
Oktoberfestbier in the beer tents is only available in liter mugs.
The ‘UN Card Game’ had to be missing it’s board. I know its just like Monopoly.
1.15 liters per person? I am disappoint.
Agreed. They’ve been using that 6 million people/7 million liters for years and years. The year I was privileged to attend, the Americans are my table drank 2 03 liters each and couldn’t come close to what the Germans (old and young, men and women) were putting away. But I guess the brewers know how much they dispense, so I might question the attendance figures (at least for # of adults).
“at my table drank 2 or 3 liters each”
I’ve never been (bucket list). Is there a lot of children there? Or teetotalers? Your experience is what I pictured, and I just can’t believe the average is barely over 1 liter.
Maher channels his inner Wade Richie.
No, his inner Blair Walsh.
Blair Warner?
Would
She’s available, but christian-y af.
All day long.
*not bragging
No; Blair Walsh.
Get to make fun of the Cowboys and the Minnesoda team in one comment.
I found the video Youtube hates the most:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FtKP4CqxN4
Send in the clowns!
Right now it has one upvote and no downvotes. I don’t know how it can be the video Youtube hates the most.
I’m surprised those models have the strength to carry another model.
WTF did I just watch?
You watched “Where muh civilization gone?”
Admit it. You laughed when you saw the Indians playing bagpipes in a swastika formation.
where mah county gone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeW2TCkuVV0
WE WUZ KANGZ!
One of the navy pilots from that UFO footage that came out in 2017 appeared on Joe Rogan yesterday and it was interesting stuff (~30 min):
https://youtu.be/CnIG-i2WCfg
I’m not a big UFO guy but the ex-pilot doesn’t seem like a bullshitter.
I just watched that this afternoon. Im not saying its aliens, but…..when someone like that says “we have no idea what it was”, it compelling.
I saw it too. I agree with your assessment. Neither of the guys Rogan had on seemed like crackpots. The military guy, if anything, seemed to downplay it in a calm manner, and the kind of hippy guy had some interesting points about materials science.
Got a freaking amateur play caller right behind me. OMG. And I can’t see over the tall people in front of me.
“SAVE IT FOR MONDAY MORNING MADDEN!”
RIGHT?!?!?!?!
The right call is always going to be to get the ball to Travis Kelce. That I have him on my fantasy team and am significantly behind has nothing whatsoever to do with this, I swear.
Nothing at all!
The right call is always going to be to get the ball to LeSean McCoy or Travis Kelce. That I have
himthem on my fantasy team and am significantly behind has nothing whatsoever to do with this, I swear.FIFY
Also, please don’t guard or tackle T.Y. Hilton for no reason whatsoever.
I THINK he’s on a date because his female companion is asking questions. Total n00b but he’s giving her way advanced explanations.
That’s how you guarantee somebody never understands or learns to love the game.
Reread your comment. He’s doing you a favor! 😉
Watching some ATF strumpet being interviewed about the Vegas shooting on FOX right now. She keeps using the term “assault rifle” in reference to AR-15s.
You work for the fucking ATF and you either don’t know the correct terminology or you have a political axe to grind and want to muddy the water. Fucking bitch.
Also, she keeps deflecting questions about the motive. Sure, it’s only the worst mass shooting in the country’s history; let’s sweep it under the rug.
You are being too kind. She deserves bad things. That’s all I will say.
Do you think there was a motive beside “Gabba hoo! THE WORMS! THE WORMS ARE INSIDE ME! BZZZZZZ fkhgoierhgerlancd?”
Vampire colony attacked the concert, the shooter was a member of the Van Helsing Brotherhood who had tracked them from their lair in Belize to Las Vegas. The only way to hide the truth was to disavow.
I see.
That’s probably more likely than not; but the way in which it was handled by the media and the “authorities” in comparison to, say, Parkland plans conspiracy theory seeds.
plants*
What are people thinking the motive might have been other than some sociopathic douchebag with an axe to grind shooting up a concert?
If that’s the theory, she should just say that. Not “my neighbors all wonder why” (what she actually said).
I think the idea that a sociopathic douchebag could acquire the resources over time and form a plan to do what he did scares people too much. It’s easier to swallow when a whackadoo steals his mom’s rifle and shoots a few people on a whim, more or less, because it’s easy to blame it on inadequate laws or people in authority screwing up. If you have someone who’s smart and well-heeled enough to circumvent all these safeguards in such a way that no proposed laws would likely stop him, it forces people to acknowledge that sometimes terrible things happen.
it forces people to acknowledge that sometimes terrible things happen.
Yeah right. Just go to step Z- “we tried it your way, but guns are too dangerous for anyone to be allowed to own”.
I don’t know, but they’re usually able to find it out. Right after the Pulse nightclub, they knew the shooter was inspired by Trump, after all.
Occam slit his own throat in a freak shaving accident.
Occam was found hung in his cell.
With no beard to speak of, I assume? Seems like the most simple thing to assume.
Occam was a shorn lone wolf.
Public choice theory is white supremacist propaganda and all government employees are pure as the driven snow.
For real, though, any agency charged with the regulation of a thing will always act to expand its power by increasing the idea that more regulation is needed. Seriously, you’ve got a bunch of government employees sitting around in the knowledge that they’ve got to justify their existence come budget season. They’re there to regulate alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives, and by God they’re gonna find new and interesting ways to make that take longer and require at least as many people next year if not more.
This weekend at the gunshow…the GF said she needs another AR….And she has plans.
?
+1 thing that goes up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lso3KSEtI6E
this clip has the infamous quote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ospNRk2uM3U
R.I.P. Taylor
SHIT
That sucks. Funny, I didn’t know he was from DC.
Obligatory
Also
My Mother had a flamboyantly gay cousin, who was literally a live-action Rip Taylor/Big Gay Al hybrid. He was always “Uncle Steve”. That guy was a lot of fun to party with.
I had a friend who was a big guy named Al. That character really pissed him off.
This seems kind of pointless. Libertarians already know what everybody is going to say.
Well, I didn’t see THAT coming!
When I was young, I used to imagine that was how libertarian presidential debates would be. Kinda ” drugs should be legal,” and then everyone says “here, here!” Wars are to avoided if possible, same,same, etc.
I had no idea that an actual nominee would advocate forcing people to bake and his VP would enact a stealth campaign on behalf of Hillary fucking Clinton. I thought liberty was self explanatory. Guess not…
Im not saying its all about power and control, but…..
Just take me behind the barn and shoot me, Old Yeller style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmQ8er38XbI
Wow. That was pretty defeatist. Buck up, little buddy.
And Libertarians can’t read facial expressions. 😉
Ha!
I am not sober.
That is all
Neither am I.
/goes to look for shocked face
Me neither, but nowhere close to Friday night. Apparently, I was a little bit more obnoxious than usual…
Lucky! Some of have to work, and they demand sobriety.
Well, so does the general public. But, that is a different matter.
Goodnight Glibnation, 0330 comes early.
‘Night. That’s just uncivilized.
G’night, Tar. Go back and give yourself a few extra hours.
Chiefs needed that.
Sad face. I have had a crush on Adam Vinatieri since 1996.
Go Colts!
This is what you call hardball.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/10/05/boris-johnson-sabotage-eu-forced-delay-brexit/
He should anyway. However, I’m sure the Euro-fellators in the civil service and judiciary will undermine it.
Mumford and Sons, commenting on crowd: “That familiar smell of barbeque, B.O., and weed.”
I was surprised they headlined this year. I saw them there at the peak of the Americana fad but they only played in the afternoon.
Two random observations:
1. My cat is at the age where if I see him laying motionless with his head down I have to check to see if he’s still breathing, because it’s even money at this point. Which got me thinking…when our daughter was a baby we’d always stare at her until we saw her chest rise and fall and then breath a sigh of relief. Same with my great-grandfather towards the end of this life. Huh.
2. I wonder if we’re close to turning a corner on “wokeness”. Not social justice or PC, because that’ll be around forever, but like turning everything into an intersectionality minefield seems to be reaching its peak, and people are starting to have a hard time keeping up. Dave Chappelle seems to be over it and is calling cancel culture out, and he’s not the only comic to do it. Todd Phillips, who directed The Joker, has been pretty honest about his disdain for “cancel culture” and Joaquin Phoenix has even pushed back on it. It seems like as more people are affected by this stuff the peer pressure to cave to it isn’t strong enough to contain people who are sick of it. It isn’t hip like it was when it was “speaking truth to power”; now it’s the opposite. Now it’s the oppressive mainstream and the position of rebellion is to ignore social justice and throw the outrage back in the faces of the scolds.
Puritans had power in England for about 10 years. Then everyone wanted a king again.
Yeah, and they went from “No Christmas!” to “Show us your tits!” damn near overnight. Gotta be careful with that pendulum.
“Moral reforms and deteriorations are moved by large forces, and they are mostly caused by reactions from the habits of a preceding period. Backwards and forwards swings the great pendulum, and its alternations are not determined by a few distinguished folk clinging to the end of it.”
-Sir Charles Petrie
1: I’ve buried a few, it’s never any easier.
2: No one ever went broke under estimating the stupidity of Americans. E.G., the ” legalization” of weed. Here, in CA, they still raid pot shops and people still go to prison for dealing, the black market id thriving and the “Authorities” are baffled.
Can confirm.
My two are getting up there. *sigh*
His twin brother went the winter before last. It’s a little better because they’ve both had a good run–he’s 20–and I have a feeling he’s going to just kind of go to sleep one day and not wake up. He’s deaf as a post and he’s long since lost his spring, but other than that he’s in good shape. Still catches mice to play with and then lets them go, to my chagrin. It’ll be sad, but he’s Methuselah in cat years so it wouldn’t be a shock. The hard part will be explaining it to my daughter, who’s old enough now to know something’s up if the cat’s suddenly not moving.
Pet cemetery? Just spitballing here.
I had a pair of sisters live to 19 and 21. It was funny, because vet’s would guess their ages at 8-10, when they were 17-18. I spent a stack trying to keep them alive.
Heh. Mama Tres was in Hospice for a week or so, doing the endless cheyne-stokes breathing from day 1. When she finally breathed normally, and then not at all- thats when ya know.
Cant speak to cats tho.
Shit.
My husband gave me a special California cookie.
It is fucking interesting
First time for me
Don’t eat California cheeseburgers!
Dude , no interest in chessseburgers
Trying to figure out what is happening in my brain
You ain’t fixin’ to seize, are you?? Srsly.
Nope. In fact, CBD is widely acknowledged as an anti- epilepsy thing
Whew! Thanks! Guess I was thinking of the wrong kind of California cookie.
Um, can you tell me how you knew that? Asking for a friend.
I DuckDuckGo-ed it when HS mentioned it. No! Really! ::glances about furtively::
Wow. The things one learns on here. Um, thanks?
Disclaimer: NOT an endorsement.
I live here and never heard of that shit.
STEVE SMITH MAKE COOKIES IN ALL STATES, AND BY MAKE COOKIES MEAN RAPE AND BY ALL STATES MEAN ALL HOLES
@bj:
You dare doubt the veracity of Urban Dictionary???
::prays for first time in many a year:: (Please let it not be true. Let it not be a real thing. Please, oh please…)
There’s no reason why a male couldn’t, er, “self bake” a cookie like that. Wonder what that’s called?
Wonder what that’s called?
Debased oasis
-1 INO
Hope you’re not busy for the next few hours.
Yep. It’s exactly times like this that we need Agile Cyborg.
Are we doing euphemisms?
Just watching colts vs chiefs SNF .
Don’t really care about anything else
Hayek and Hubby in an alternative universe.
That’s a firm Nope
Granted, I may have been projecting a bit.
They usually take a bit to kick in, then lookout
I am learning
And, they take an extra long bit to wear off.
Holy crap. The Dodgers were looking dominated by the Nats. Then in the top of the 6th, they got 7 runs with two outs. No real dog in the fight, but whenever a DC team loses, I have to believe it makes Jesus smile.
Hopefully, Mojeaux Chiefs can come back so she won’t be arrested for punching amateur coach talkative guy.
*chuckles sensibly*
The author of Pippi Longstocking got mad about Swedish taxes:
***
“Pomperipossa in Monismania” (also called Pomperipossa in the World Of Money) is a satirical story written by the Swedish children’s book author Astrid Lindgren in response to the 102% marginal tax rate that she incurred in 1976. It was published starting on 3 March 1976 in the Stockholm evening tabloid Expressen and created a major debate about the Swedish tax system.
The marginal tax rate above 100%, dubbed the ‘Pomperipossa effect’, was due to tax legislation that required self-employed individuals to pay both regular income tax and employer’s fees.
The story, a satirical allegory about a writer of children’s books in a distant country, led to a stormy tax debate and is often attributed as a decisive factor in the defeat of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, for the first time in 40 years, in the elections later the same year. Lindgren, however, continued to support the party for all her life.
***
…but not enough to vote for another party.
[head desk]
They should name a syndrome after that…
This led me to look up Swedish Political Parties and I believe I have found the worst party ever.
HOUSTON ROCKETS GM DARYL MOREY ISSUES APOLOGY FOR CONTROVERSIAL* TWEET ABOUT HONG KONG, WILL NOT BE DISCIPLINED BY THE NBA
My partner is a college professor at a state university in California. Later this month he is attending a workshop in North Carolina. He cannot use his department/university funds to pay for his travel to NC.
However, the school would happily reimburse him for attending a conference in China.
Honk, honk.
Wait, what? No approval for the domestic trip he needs??
https://www.ucop.edu/central-travel-management/resources/ab-1887-travel-prohibition-to-certain-states-using-state-funding-source%E2%80%8B.html
He can travel. Not a problem. It’s just he will have to use other sources of funding: the NSF grant or own money.
He’s in the NBA, traveling is a foul.
Fucking pathetic.
Wow Ramona Shelburne is a real piece of crap.
So I a tend toward hyperverbosity in the best of circumstances
Now I need duct tape on mouth and maybe hands
Paging Creosote Achilles.. Creosote Achilles to the white courtesy phone…
Hawt.
I know, right?
That’s not enough information.
I just got off Skype with one of my friends in Japan. We were discussing that given the pride that many Japanese have with their local dialects there must be children’s picture books that feature dialect.
Which made me Jump to Google. What is the Japanese fascination with farting?
Here you go – in Kansai dialect naturally.
No.8★【おならまんざい】（長谷川義史）絵本 関西弁で読み聞かせ
Holy, fuck! we had the coolest Uber driver Friday night. He was about 65 and straight off the boat from Japan. He had hello kitty beanies on his head rests, so I asked him if he liked cats. He said he loved cats, so I asked if he had any. No! Then the wife starts talking about Journey and the karaoke singer they have now. He says ” I love Jonny and I love karaoke!” Meanwhile, he’s slamming on the brakes arbitrarily and driving 20 mph lower than the rest of the traffic. Fucking Hi-larious.
Yeah, I asked if he had kids, and he said no. They were his beanies, because he loves cats!
Aside from a Japanese specific business I don’t think I’ve ever interacted with a random first generation Japanese person in a business setting in NYC.
OTH, on the west coast it seems much more common. And, naturally, Hawaii is another story.
We don’t even have a Japantown that I know of.
I think in K-Town there are few Japanese owned restaurants, but most tend to be strewn about Manhattan.
Astoria is supposed to have the most Japanese.
Huh. I lived in Astoria for 7 years and never heard of that.
straight off the boat from Japan. He had hello kitty beanies on his head rests
I’m disappointed that there weren’t white antimacassars. I hope he was driving a Crown Comfort with hood mounted mirrors and driver operated power opening rear doors.
Is it wrong that I thought the same thing…?
Yeah, but then his passengers would be exciting his taxi right into traffic.
The new cabs are these mini versions of the British cabs. The Crowns are better.
I heard those were coming.
Who doesn’t find farts interesting?
People downwind?
My friend teaches Japanese to foreigners at the community center. The conversation we having tonight was how in the world one of her students learned exactly that – onara. In addition we were talking about if children’s books use dialect or standard Japanese.
It was simply serendipitous that when I Googled I managed to find both in one video!
Naturally I emailed her the video…
I dunno about the farting, but I broke down and order a おしりたんてい book yesterday.
I don’t remember if you were around, but when we were discussing that “work” on Glibs I made note that he actually speaks very polite Japanese.
So it’s not actually a bad thing to read.
I remember it’s come up here a couple of times. The samples I looked at seemed to have a fair amount of hiragana and furigana.
Since the target audience is grade school children I doubt it would be too heavy with Kanji – at least not without the pronunciation being added (Furigana)
I took a Business Japanese class back in grad school. When I found out that the instructor grew up in a village next to the village where my ex had grown up I would sometimes skip in terms from his mother dialect – just about knocked him out of his chair
Can these people not move a muscle without a flag?
It’s pretty bad. The Dallas game was even worse though. So. Many. Flags.
I see Dave Roberts does what Dave Roberts does best. Mismanage his pitchers. 70 pitches and he pulls Ryu?! With that bull pen? WTF?!?
Dodgers won’t win the WS because of this nonsense.
Cardinals “closer” gave the game away today, as he often does or threatens to do. ***SIGH!***
Yeh read about that. Yeesh. The only team with a stable, reliable bullpen is the NYY. Or at least one fans of a team can trust.
I am duty bound to repeat – Fuck the Yankees.
I’ve had onychomycosis on my right hallux since I was 2 years old. I have been on fluconazole for exactly one year and it’s almost completely cured.
This feels almost as good as when I scored with Jocelyn M. back in 2005.
So, you’re only three? I mean, it explains the titty thing, I guess…
That sounds like a Dr. Seuss quote.
Thank you guys for helping me through mmy involuntary chemistry experience
On a scale from a STEVE SMITH conducted tax audit to the Colts actually winning this game, how was it? (or some other scale)
Obviously, groovy, man!
“I woulda gotten away, if it wasnt for you meddling kids!”
Lolz alll over that!!
Was there alcohol already on board? That’s not the way you want to try it for the first time. A body high is different from smoking it. A friend told me that.
What, am I late to the party again?!
I gotta get a new gig… Or, move, or something…
May as well describe them as “Kulaks and Wreckers”.
https://twitter.com/ChinaDaily/status/1181018805675446275
Just saw my first Trump campaign ad of the impending election cycle. And so it begins…
Not an expert in these things at all, but it seemed effective – pro US, pro economy, anti swamp, bad pics of Pelosi & Sen. Moobs (have no idea what his real name is).
Yeah, saw it twice during SNF so far. Seems a bit early?
As bad as the Chiefs have played, it’s amazing they’re only down by 3.
The people around me are losing their dogdamned minds.
Oh, man 3d and 28 and they get 27…
And then call THAT play for one yard?
I am surrounded by drunken men who think they are alpha af.
Narrator: They’re not.
Babe, Im so alpha I have to shave my truck.
These euphemisms.
Don’t tell me you’ve got a scrotum hanging from the hitch…
and naked lady mudflaps.
I really hate those things.
MeToo
They feel they are, That’s all that matters. To them.
Sweetie, I’m so alpha the first letter of the Greek alphabet is now called “Mike”.
Football is best watched at home. Or in the case of people from Cincinnati, not at all.
You are not wrong.
Maybe my dyslexia is a problem.
https://i.imgflip.com/3ckich.jpg
Not even a *narrowed gaze*?
Tough fucking room.
We love those rascals…. ::sniff::
Well, you know I liked it.
I do now!
The Chiefs play worse with each successive game.
I’m seeing Trump ads during the football games here in the Bay Area. I wonder if this is a local ad buy or if it’s nationwide.
Nope. Dayton, OH sighting confirmed.
Same in NYC.
In NYC? Well, that’s just trolling.
They ain’t got none here in CA. It’s like they know how the vote’s gonna go.
I saw one.
KC as well. That was irritating.
is that not hate speech? report it
The officiating this year just sucks dick.
Why do they change it year to year?? For the sake of change aa a principle rather than consistency?
Fuck off.
They’re trying to keep up with NASCAR, the Calvinball of motor sports.
NASCAR 2020: a whole bunch of green white checkers on a figure 8 track
*throws hands up*
Ok ok. Technically still conscious
Try eating a whole box of breakfast cereal, that’s what I used to do.
I’m in bed now. I’ll makw it
About time to raid the fridge?
Technically conscious is the best kind…or, so I’ve heard.
Go Colts!
They’re moving again?
If Indiana tries to steal the franchise.
I’ have one and only one real celebrity crush, and that’s Adam Vinatieri ❤️
Just saw Mahomes give the ok sign. Didn’t know he’s a white supremacist.
Probably the OK sign is the epic troll of the decade
I caught that too!
Well, he WAS wearing a read hat. Guilty! //SJW
Darn it, red, red hat.
Oh, that is all sorts of a broken leg
It looked awful
Yikes! Who? I was hanging up laundry.
Haven’t seen Joker yet, but this review makes me want to go. Interesting because he tackles some of the same criticisms of the movie I’ve read here and explains why those criticisms are wrong. Can’t say if he’s right or not given I haven’t seen it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viQXE1QMfVg
Pretty accurate.
Joaquin Phoenix is great in this and it’s a shame he’s not going to win any awards for it.
Saw that you had seen it. It’s not really a superhero/super villain movie, is it?
Not at all. No superheroes and Joker’s not a supervillian, just a crazy crazy guy going crazier.
Weird fucking dreams last night…
Good morning glibs.
Were we in them?
Good morning, Pie!
well one was my work computer was full of porn and I was trying to delete it and new stuff just appeared
A second one was going down to a subway but the escalator was like a kilometer long and was going horizontal for some parts then it would go down suddenly.
A third one was just to weird to describe in words but it involved some weird demonic images
A forth one was less weird, I was trying to get somewhere and just did not find the proper tram
The fifth was the longest and most complex but memory is a bit fuzzy of it… should have written down right after waking up
#LucidDreaming
Sound more like #wet dreaming
So….. you watch a lot of porn on your work computer?
Morning!
It wasn’t morning yet when you posted.
Now it is.
Good morning Pie! ‘S-up?
https://tinyurl.com/yykjaxvk
NSFW.
https://tinyurl.com/yxbey5oe
NSFW.
https://tinyurl.com/y4m9ogyp
NSFW.
We need another category. NSFCS. Coffee shop. Dotour staff just gave me the stink eye.
Their just jealous. Give them the URL and everyone goes home happy.
Their = They’re
WordPress reacts the same as my wife when I type “Wanna try anal?” as my password.
not long enough?
You’re the type of person that treats all retarded people like they’re faking it.
Oh, and good morning, Pie!
WordPress has a strap-on?
*Log out*
And good afternoon, TJ!
Good afternoon Straff!
I just read this to Mr Mojeaux. He thinks y’all are weird.
But he married me, so…
Has he read chapter 18?
He reads the WHOLE book, not just the dirty parts.
Only because that’s his actual password.
I didn’t know a program could smack you upside the head…
She only does that when I ask if she wants an apleasealotofme.
I don’t know why I’m shitting up this entire thread. ?♂️
Circle of life….And we are the mushrooms
Someone has too.
You calling me paranoid?!
The farts advanced to sharts?
+1 bodega and georgism.
Oh boy
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/turkey-announces-incursion-of-northeast-syria-us-backed-kurds-have-vowed-all-out-war
It’s going to be ugly.
FFS
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/brennan-us-no-longer-a-democracy-under-autocrat-trump
As the excellent Dave Smith quipped on a recent episode: “Yea, because if there’s one thing the CIA is known for, it’s always telling the truth to the American people. They may be spies and killers, but they always give it to you straight.”
A kernel of truth. But the death of democracy is more due to his own actions and others like hi
::peeks in to catch up… slowly backs out of room::
Watch out–never know who’s behind ya.
I apologized. Geez.
You know who else was First!?
The Vorlons?
Pfft…Lorien laughs at you, son.
tick tock
Plink!!
Oh , be still my nerd heart!! You’re all invited
Yay!!
::elbows to front of line, remembers his title, relents:
Did you know the Lorien actor Is the same guy who tortured Delenn in “Comes the Inquisitor”?
And turns out to be Jack the Ripper.
Well played, Strazinski. Well played.
B5 had such great talent, often in multiple roles.
Back from three days of racing. Friday was short but yesterday and today was all day. After two days all hoisting and dropping sails I am pretty well beat.
Having a touch of Glenmorengie and checking out the Glibnation.
If Hayek is still around I was wondering about the Fackers score. I saw the Packers won though.
See upthread. Her husband slipped her devil weed.
I think I’m normal again
But, but, but…Hayek? “Normal”?
Well, in engineering terms, we hand wave and say “Ya know—for low levels of normal”
/actual engineer wiggle room quote
Heh…she said “wiggle”.
The wisdom of crowds
https://www.foxnews.com/media/kamala-harris-asks-audience-if-america-is-ready-for-her-presidency-crowd-shouts-no
Do you eat pieces of shit for breakfast?
For breakfast…?
No!
See my grin?
Duck!
I can’t believe I used to like these guys…
I think I know why so many glibs love Autumn….you’re all hibernating!
When I thing of Flock of Seagulls, I think hair
https://youtu.be/GNmppnfgBB0
Yeah, you are right….yeeesh!
/Thinking of Pulp Fiction….and, hair.
And I’m out
https://youtu.be/fnupOCP5y-M
Man, this has been one strange weekend for me on glibs…feels like I missed more than I saw/participated in.
I know, I know–you all missed me very much… I don’t blame you, to be sure.
We were pining for you, Diggy!
For your Halloween pleasure. Zombie Angelina Jolie.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/zombie-angelina-jolie-reportedly-arrested-for-blasphemy-in-iran
Geez! I thought I was still asleep and having a nightmare!
Good morning, Suki! (thinks fondly back to his early TOS days.)
Good morning! Not Suki….unless you rilly rilly want me to be (for a while.) Don’t recall Suki from my TOS mostly-lurking days. Refresh my alleged memory?
From what I recollect (I’m sure others here know the tale better than I), Suki always had the very first comment in Mourning Lynx but was eventually outed as some other user.
I never saw that user, by the time I came around it was always Fist of Etiquette.
Ah! Somebody’s (every cishetero shitlord’s?) Hot Asian Babe fantasy.
Using a freshly made bagel to sop up the fond left in the sheet pan after making bacon is yummy.
Oooh! Freshly made! Still warm? At home or handy nearby bakery?
One of the few really nice things about NYC, there is a superb bagel/deli/coffee shop a couple miles away in Broad Chanel. We get them most mornings.
Why am I thinking that bagel cost more than my breakfast?
They actually went up $1 each a couple years ago (from $0.80) and I thought there was going to be a riot. Silly fact about NYC law – if the store slices the bagel, it becomes ‘prepared food’ and is subject to sales tax.
When I was at Miami U, there was a bagel & deli place that delivered to campus. If you ordered a bagel with cream cheese, you got a quarter-inch (at least) slice off a big food service brick of the stuff. Fond memories. Sadly, that place also confirmed to me that I can NOT eat pastrami without dire consequences.
it becomes ‘prepared food’ and is subject to sales tax.
Fuck. That.
To your point about prices. I’ve found it somewhat interesting that competition keeps prices down on deli items, far lower than the same item out on Lawn Guyland. But then, there is new bistro here in The Rockaways that wants $17 for a cheeseburger. The burger at Peter Luger Steakhouse (the burger against which I judge all others) is only $11 (up from $9 in 2008).
$1 is not terrible for a bagel.
But there’s no way in hell I’m paying $17 for a cheeseburger. (I’m going to assume without evidence that is for the burger alone, without side dishes, despite that not being how most restaurants operate.)
But yes, baked at 5am, picked up at 5:30. Had to leave the bag open on the drive home to let the steam escape. Good stuff.
Granpa Tres was a fan of frying bread in bacon grease. He called it ‘poor man’s french toast’.
Nice. My grandmother always saved lard and tallow; I’ve started and I find it quite useful. French fries made in tallow are the best French fries of all.
Oh, I have a quart jar of bacon grease in the fridge.
Decadent deliciousness for the day – use bacon fat as the cooking medium for 2 egg-in-the-holes (one-eyed-jacks, egg-in-a-baskets, etc.), slightly undercooking (don’t let the yolks set). Top with cheese and broil until cheese melts. top with bacon and smash together for a damn fine grilled cheese sammich.
I just had an orgasm reading that.
I probably shouldn’t tell you that, should I?
The egg-in-the-hole makes a perfect sammich: patty melt, sausage & egg, meatloaf, turkey, etc.. If done right, you’ll have to use a fork.
Toasted whole wheat, bacon, spam fried in bacon grease, AIG fried medium, cheese. Damn fine breakfast sammich (back when I ate such things)
I added mayo & mustard.
I LOVE Spam but I’m the only one in the house who does.
I used to be a fan of spam, but then they cut the salt and it doesn’t taste right anymore.
You can always add salt.
At that point, I might as well use edible parts of the pig.
Time to clean up for the day job. Have the day of your choosing, gentlemen!
#metoo but my day job is taking the kids to and from school and getting my household chores done so I can go to sleep (back to work at 10pm).