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So, it looks like TPTB dropped the ball yet again.

But we’ll blame Brett L because he’s apparently in Communicado, wherever that is.

Here’s an open post for you while you wait for CPRM’s new Animated H&H tonight!

 

 

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181 responses to “Um, is this where the links should be?”

  1. Pan Zagloba

    I think Deadly Murderstorm is a good enough reason to bail on links.

    As is reading SugarFree’s latest. Yeesh.

    1. Juvenile Bluster

      Deadly murderstorm doesn’t know where it wants to go. Two most reliable hurricane models are the ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) and the GFS (Global Forecast System, run by the US Navy). ECMWF has it hitting south Florida. GFS has it hitting Daytona Beach. Rest of the models are in between.

      When Irma hit here in 2017 we knew for a week that it was coming. We’re 4-5 days out from this storm hitting somewhere and still no clue. I’m supposed to be at a conference this weekend, not going to decide whether I’m going til Friday morning.

      1. Spartacus

        Locally, last-minute track changes that can make a big difference. Irma was forecast to go right up Charlotte Harbor and create massive storm surge along the Lee county waterways. The track shifted about 20 miles inland and…no storm surge.

        People on the east coast are going to have to pay attention. Being on the right side of the eye is way different from the left side, especially for surge. I’m hoping that Dorian is going to stay on a slower forward speed for a little longer, which will give it more time to turn north.

    2. R C Dean

      Deadly Murderstorm

      Totally using that.

      1. Winston

        Will that Swedish Girl stop that storm?

      2. Pan Zagloba

        I’m pretty sure I haven’t heard it before, but it’s such a useful term that it has to have existed.

        Duck-Duck-Go* can’t find the phrase, though.

        *I’m all hipstery and trying to go Google-free.

    3. Florida Man

      Evidently stores have already sold out of water. The panic has begun.

  2. JaimeRoberto: Gentleman, Scholar, French Tickler

    I blame Trump and Global Warming, er, Climate Crisis.

    1. Suthenboy

      Global warming, Global cooling, back to global warming, climate change, climate crisis….they are having to change the name at an increasing rate because fewer and fewer and buying their bullshit. What is next? I cant keep up they are changing so fast now.

      1. R C Dean

        What is next?

        Climate Collapse?

        1. Rhywun

          He left out Klimate Kaos.

  3. Winston

    I blame the dude wall.

  4. Count Potato

    “NEW VIDEO: Exposing a pedo drag queen who is allowed to read to children at “Drag Queen Story Hour”. This is sick.”

    https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1166394961845030912

    “”I’m A Predator, But It’s Okay Cuz I’m a Drag Queen” – Okay..”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbBrTc6Z770

    1. Count Potato

      “A proposal to background-check people for past sex offenses before they are allowed to make presentations at Wichita libraries was put on hold Tuesday, after a split in the board between those who want a complete ban on sex offenders and those who want staff to have some leeway.”

      https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article234193237.html

      1. R C Dean

        Watch. They’ll compromise by banning the guy who got busted pissing in an alley after closing time, and allowing the tranny with a rap sheet as long as xer . . . umm . . . arm. Yeah, that’s it, xer arm.

        1. Count Potato

          These are drag queens not trannies. Anyway, one of them was a convicted predator. Apparently, he didn’t give them his real name.

          1. R C Dean

            These are drag queens not trannies.

            WhatEVer.

            *eyeroll, talk-to-the-hand gesture, flounces out*

          2. Count Potato

            That’s retarded.

      2. Agent Cooper

        Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore.

  5. Count Potato

    “REVEALED: Bizarre mugshot of ‘mentally ill’ 18-year-old with bandages wrapped around his head who ‘murdered his mother, baby nephew and sister’ – who is the wife of Tampa Bay Rays pitching prospect – before being caught NUDE by cops”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7403061/Uncle-19-year-old-murdered-mother-nephew-sister-speaks-out.html

    1. R C Dean

      Is he technically nude if he’s wearing bandages on his head?

      1. Rhywun

        He wasn’t wearing any bandages when they nabbed him.

        I wonder what happened….

    2. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Shit, I know the manager of that AA team

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        Oops, nope, he was from Danville but played in Montgomery. Probably played for the Atlanta Braves feeder team at some point though.

    3. Agent Cooper

      I hate people. Not enough to kill them, though.

  6. Juvenile Bluster

    STEVE SMITH, congrats on your new endorsement deal!

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDEPMjZX4AAHCUC?format=jpg&name=900×900

    1. Count Potato

      LOLOLOL

    2. Mad Scientist

      STEVE SMITH NEW THING DROPPING SOAP AND WAGGLING FOREHEAD AT HIKER.

    3. Pan Zagloba

      STEVE SMITH HEAR ENOUGH ABOUT DR SQUATCH AT FAMILY REUNION, NO WANT ADS RUBBED INTO FACE TOO!

      1. R C Dean

        STEVE SMITH is Jewish?

  7. LT_Fish

    Ok – I am definitely attending the little VA Food Truck Battle in Fishersville on Sunday. I bought a ticket to sample/judge the “blue” group of trucks – no idea which 6 those are, but should be worthwhile either way. I will try and take a bunch of pics, etc and live post them on my twitter account for fun.

    1. Tulip

      Ooh, Lt. Fish, you should do an article!

      1. Pan Zagloba

        Or a YouTube video! Algorithm loves food, for some reason.

        1. LT_Fish

          Maybe an article. I’m too lazy to do much in the way of video editing these days (hence no new vids). I’ll see if I remember to get some good pics. I got one coworker from work also coming with his girlfriend and he’s committed to “judging” one of the other groups.

          Definitely my duty to downvote the IPAs and hasten their destruction.

  8. Count Potato

    I kept getting this error:

    “unused

    The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

    Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@glibertarians.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

    More information about this error may be available in the server error log.”

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Clear your cache, rub one out, and reload the page.

      1. Count Potato

        You must be good with computers, because that’s exactly how I did it.

    2. SP

      From the front page sidebar:

      A “418” or “unused” error is generally caused by “too many” login attempts “too fast” and will resolve on its own.

      Thanks for following the directions of the WP PTB, though. Very unglib of you!

      1. Count Potato

        Sorry, I didn’t see that. Although I wasn’t following any directions from WP either.

  9. Tulip

    The writer does a great job of skewering these people. I love the quotes about District plates and using parking they want for the lawn guys. I’m sure they would never vote for a racist like Trump.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/no-excessive-barking-a-chevy-chase-dog-park-divides-the-rich-and-powerful/2019/08/27/0b9fd242-c4e5-11e9-9986-1fb3e4397be4_story.html

    1. Pan Zagloba

      What’s with newspapers getting a boner against incognito mode? I can understand adblock, but fucking private browsing? is this ‘we use cookies to meter how many articles you read, because you’re too retarded to delete our cookie’?

      In conclusion, fuck WaPo, and also, let doggoss pee in peace.

    2. R C Dean

      I’d get annoyed at being blocked from the article, but, hey, WaPo.

      1. Rhywun

        I bailed about halfway through but it appears to be a hit-piece against Trump cleverly disguised as something about dogs barking.

        1. Tulip

          That’s an odd take

          1. Rhywun

            /sarc

            But they did insert a gratuitous dig on Trump – a habit I find very tiresome.

          2. Tulip

            Yes. Probably a contractual obligation.

        2. grrizzly

          #metoo

    3. Tulip

      Try this https://pastebin.com/LhGALek0

      1. Pan Zagloba

        Everyone knows there’s a problem with Chubbs.

        Dirt is smeared across his face. His tongue is rolling out of his mouth. He’s surrounded by signs that say “NO EXCESSIVE BARKING.”

        But the 5-month-old golden retriever does not know how to read. At a dog park in one of Maryland’s wealthiest suburbs, he spends this sunny August morning rolling on his back. He opens his mouth, and then, he does it.

        He woofs. Twice.

        “CHUBBS!” four humans around him yell, trying to stop him from doing what dogs do — just not in Chevy Chase Village this summer.

        Here in this community of the rich and powerful, where the average household income is $460,000, barking is the subject of a ferocious (fur-ocious?) debate — one that has divided the two-legged one-percenters for nearly a year.

        Dear The Onion, once you wrote satire of this caliber. Pls improve your efforts.

        1. Tulip

          Isn’t it great? They spent lots of money on epidemiologist (? Someone’s relative?) To see if there are really district people (you know, LaToya) using THEIR park and preventing their lawn guy (you know, Pedro) from parking. The whole thing is waaay better than the onion.

  10. Count Potato

    “The Washington Post Newsroom Has a Roach Problem

    A memo says it’s “a newsroom problem and not happening on other floors.” ”

    https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/08/28/the-washington-post-newsroom-has-a-roach-problem/

    1. R C Dean

      I’m surprised the WaPo doesn’t spell it kochroaches.

    2. Pan Zagloba

      “At least we don’t have bedbugs” may not be much, but they can still hold it over NY Times.

    3. R C Dean

      What’s the over/under on how long until we see someone protesting this discriminatory treatment of Vermin-Americans?

    4. Rhywun

      They put up signs telling the millennial stringers to “clean up after themselves” and they still won’t.

      I am shocked.

  11. Crusty Juggler

    Pete Davidson is ‘dating’ Andie MacDowell’s actress daughter, Margaret Qualley… after romancing Ariana Grande then Kate Beckinsale

    Legend

    1. R C Dean

      Dude’s kinda funny-looking. Must be hung like a glib.

      1. The Hyperbole

        It’s the comedy, chicks love us funny guys.

        1. Scruffy Nerfherder

          I thought it was chicks love guys who can name seven examples to support their arguments.

    2. Count Potato

      She can do much better.

      1. Crusty Juggler

        How to Not Cum So Fast

        “We actually diagnose ‘rapid’ ejaculation now, not premature,” says Nicole Prause, Ph.D, scientist at Liberos. “Many men who identify themselves as coming too quickly actually are not faster to orgasm than other men when tested, so the first thing to consider if you are concerned is whether your experiences might be normal.”

        SEE I’M NORMAL I TOLD YOU I WAS NORMAL I’M NORMAL!!

        And the most important thing? Do not blame yourself or feel inadequate in any way, as this can amplify the problem. If it helps, speak openly with your partner about it to otherwise avoid miscommunication

        IT’S NOT MY FAULT IT’S YOUR FAULT!

      2. Pan Zagloba

        If you endure to the end of the article, Davidson is an upgrade over previous guy!

        1. Crusty Juggler

          Pan persisted.

          1. Pan Zagloba

            Once you click an HM Link, you may as well click anything.

    3. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Give the guy credit for consistently playing out of his league.

  12. Count Potato

    “BREAKING: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ending her 2020 presidential bid.”

    https://twitter.com/evanmcmurry/status/1166829661281837057

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen-kirsten-gillibrand-drops-presidential-race/story?id=65252788

    1. R C Dean

      Who?

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        Senator Sorority Girl

    2. Rhywun

      Shit. That means she’s going back to her day job, doesn’t it.

    3. JaimeRoberto: Gentleman, Scholar, French Tickler

      Mattress Girl hardest hit.

  13. Crusty Juggler

    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB76Kb768v4"Great dancers come in all shapes and sizes.

    Legend.

  14. Hyperion

    Really, I’m just so tard, I’m really tard, I want my tuna on a plate with a sprig of dill

    Journalism, LOL. I’d hire a fucking baboon if it could scrawl some shit that looked like English in the dirt. /NYT

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Drama queen

  15. Count Potato

    “Beto O’Rourke Ejects Breitbart News Reporter from Event at Historically Black College”

    https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/08/27/beto-orourke-ejects-breitbart-news-reporter-from-event-at-historically-black-college/

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      War On Media!

    2. Hyperion

      Beta has been informed that he is disqualified because of white privilege. /sadz

    3. Agent Cooper

      Guy has a South African (black) wife …

  16. Count Potato

    “Nearly one of every three dollars spent on Ilhan Omar’s campaign has gone to her alleged lover’s firm”

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/nearly-one-of-every-three-dollars-spent-on-ilhan-omars-campaign-have-gone-to-her-alleged-lovers-firm

    1. Pan Zagloba

      Not even one-in-three?

      That’s how you drain The Swamp, Mr So-Called President Trump!

    2. Hyperion

      This proves America’s institutionalized racism and why we would be so much better off if we were more like her homeland and only stone her to death instead of accusing her of stuff, which is way worse.

    3. Count Potato

      “Complaint Filed With FEC: Ilhan Omar Used Campaign Funds For Affair With Married Consultant”

      https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2019/08/28/complaint-filed-with-fec-ilhan-omar-used-campaign-funds-for-affair-with-married-consultant/

      1. Hyperion

        Racist.

    4. Heroic Mulatto

      BWC

      1. Sean

        Big white cock?

  17. Crusty Juggler

    Sharks Swim Near Humans a Lot More than You Think

    People tend to get a bit freaked out when they realize how close we can unwittingly come to some of nature’s most refined predators.

    STAY INSIDE

  18. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Straffinrun hardest hit

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/28/asia/anti-groping-stamps-intl-scli/index.html

    1. Count Potato

      Tastes like chikan?

    2. Rhywun

      Japan is ranked 110th out of 149 countries in the World Economic Forum’s index measuring gender equality.
      The country also ranks bottom among G7 countries for gender equality, despite Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s pledge to empower working women through a policy called “womenomics.”

      To be sure. ?

  19. Count Potato

    “.@ChrislHayes reviews President Trump’s history of aggressive handshakes and the defenses world leaders, like France’s Emmanuel Macron, employ to counter them (close ups included).”

    https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1166656186701271041

    https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-and-macron-face-off-in-another-handshake-tugging-contest-67605573846

    Oooh, close ups.

    1. Agent Cooper

      HARD HITTING JOURNALISM.

  20. Crusty Juggler

    PHOTOS: The Next Acela Trains’ Interiors

    Amtrak plans to introduce its next-generation Acela fleet in 2021. The new trains will have 378 seats with features like outlets, USB ports, and adjustable reading lights. Passengers will also enjoy “streamlined” luggage storage overhead, bigger windows, winged headrests, and features to make it easier to walk through the train like grab bars and handles on seatbacks.

    The railroad also plans an “advanced” new seat-reservation system and says the new cars will be accessible: The bathrooms, for instance, will allow a 60-inch turning radius. Amtrak plans to begin testing the trains next year. If you can’t wait till then to check out the cars, Amtrak provides these renderings

    Our Northeastern elite deserve the best.

    1. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

      So, your Acela is upgrading to become like every regional French commuter railway in existence?

      Progress!

      1. Florida Man

        I road Amtrak once…once.

  21. Crusty Juggler

    Girlfriend Tells Me Every Single Detail About Her Past Lovers
    While we’re having sex.

    Dear How to Do It,

    I have a pretty straightforward problem: My girlfriend only gets properly wet during sex when we talk about her having sex with other men. She talks about a lot of men from her past—stories that I assume are part fantasy, though I know she’s had a lot of partners. I didn’t take this personally at first, but it is literally every single time. After a long streak of this, I tried to say “Not this time, OK, babe?” She agreed, but then it became clear it needed to happen for her to be properly aroused. I go down on her and there is plenty of foreplay, but nothing else works. I suppose we could try lubing her up to help pave over her not being turned on enough, but that seems like it skirts the real problem. Is there any way to help her move on from her fixation on this kink? I nearly love the gal and other elements of our relationship tell me we’re attracted to each other, but I can’t spend the rest of my life listening to what other men have done to her every time we have sex.

    “we could try lubing her up”

    1. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

      Whoa, eh! SAY NO MORE!

    2. Florida Man

      I know cuck gets thrown around a lot, but…cuck.

    3. Hyperion

      “I have a pretty straightforward problem: My girlfriend only gets properly wet during sex when we talk about her having sex with other men. ”

      Cuck in training?

    4. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Run, run like the wind…

      1. Tulip

        Good advice

    5. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Actually, I know the correct answer as I dated a girl who liked to talk about her exes.

      Break up and then get back together again a couple of times. You’re officially an ex and she can talk about you.

      It didn’t work for me, but it did for my buddy who was the next guy she dated.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        Did I mention she also threatened to stab him?

        1. Hyperion

          Get the fuck away, immediately, now, not later, from anyone who displays bi-polar, psychotic like behavior. Thank me later.

  22. Crusty Juggler

    <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/08/28/college-orientation-includes-sexual-chocolate-sex-ed-event/&quot; College orientation includes ‘sexual chocolate’ sex-ed event

    he event was a “hot conversation about safer sex enjoyed with some tasty chocolate treats,” said guest speaker Stefanie Rhodes.

    During the event, Rhodes flipped through a PowerPoint presentation that discussed consent and preventing sexually transmitted diseases, as well as suggestions to pour chocolate syrup on a partner for some safe-sex fun, according to the outlet.

    “Always be careful about integrating food into sex play if you are actually going to have intercourse because oil and chocolate can break down latex,” Rhodes said. “You can save the chocolate for foreplay.”

    I would never send my sweet teen daughter to a university. No way.

    1. Hyperion

      “I would never send my sweet teen daughter to a university. No way.”

      Of course not, with 5 out of 4 women on campus being raped 8 of 7 days a week.

  23. Count Potato

    “A sad day for the Democrats, Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of the Presidential Primary. I’m glad they never found out that she was the one I was really afraid of!”

    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1166839524762296320

    TROLL LEVEL: OVER 9000

    1. Florida Man

      People say he should get off Twitter. Those people are wrong.

    2. Raphael

      Every day is another day we’re blessed with a Trump tweet.

  24. UnCivilServant

    How are ordinances which tell you what your property can or cannot look like are not an uncompensated taking?

    1. Hyperion

      HOAs are pure bullshit, baby Hitler wannabes. Wifey and I are looking to buy and we’ve completely eliminated anything that has HOA in the listing. It’s like this, I AM the fucking HOA, in other words, piss the fuck off.

      1. UnCivilServant

        While I agree, my complaint is with the city. I’m HOA-free.

        1. Hyperion

          Get out of that city. I mean I get it. I need to have my head examined for ever moving into Baltimore City. Those fucking 3rd world losers have summoned me 7 times in 6 years for jury duty. I got summoned once in my entire 50 years of living before that. I am not responsible for your 3rd world level of incompetence and crime. I’m out, done, it’s over, come spring I’m as far away as I can get and still commute into the city to see clients a couple of times a week.

      2. The Hyperbole

        Yeah people shouldn’t be able to join clubs with rules and shit. Fuck that.

        1. Hyperion

          You mean people should be FORCED to join clubs with rules and shit. Surely, that is what you mean?

          1. The Hyperbole

            Who is forcing you to buy a home in a HOA?

            The proper response was to point out that you never said people shouldn’t be allow just that HOAs aren’t your bag, also change your handle when you get a chance, okay. thanks in advance.

          2. Hyperion

            Someone has severe reading comprehension skills. But not my problem.

          3. The Hyperbole

            Sounds about right.

          4. hayeksplosives

            Hyper on hyper crime.

            Shame.

        2. UnCivilServant

          People shouldn’t be able to force others to join clubs with petty tyrants in order to conduct an otherwise routine transaction.

      3. Agent Cooper

        We have an HOA. It’s fairly tame – just no outbuildings or sheds. (Which sucks, because I could really use them.)

    2. Tulip

      I love my neighborhood. No hoa and so far nobody complains to county. There are people with wild veggie gardens, people with giant metal chickens, an art installation (written up in WaPo) a collection of hookahs, one guy made a concrete mushroom fairy land for his little girls to have tea parties. You should see it at Halloween and Christmas. Almost as great as a trailer park. Seriously, as kids, we wanted to trick or treat at the trailer park and they always have the best decorations

      1. Tulip

        For any holiday. Halloween, Christmas, Easter, fourth of July

      2. Hyperion

        “There are people with wild veggie gardens, people with giant metal chickens, an art installation (written up in WaPo) a collection of hookahs, one guy made a concrete mushroom fairy land for his little girls to have tea parties.”

        I love your hood. Smells like freedom.

        1. Pan Zagloba

          I love your hood. Smells like freedom.

          Just when she thought she could tiptoe back into online dating…

          1. Tulip

            Oh, I’m in the online dating world. I originally said I would give it six months. We’re coming up on three, and I’m definitely counting

        2. Tulip

          Every so often someone gets on Next Door and says we need an HOA. They are promptly shouted down. It also happens on Facebook I’m told. There are a lot of Gadsden flag license plates in my neighborhood.

          1. Hyperion

            Well, I know HOA fans and yeah you are right to shut it down. Because it means no more than little grey houses for you and me. No thanks.

      3. The Hyperbole

        as kids, we wanted to trick or treat at the trailer park and they always have the best decorations

        There is a reason for that – think OMWC.

      4. Heroic Mulatto

        Seriously, as kids, we wanted to trick or treat at the trailer park and they always have the best decorations

        100 percent undistilled truth!

        1. Tulip

          In grad school, I seriously thought about getting a trailer. More space than an apartment. But, I would have had to commute by car and I already had a hard time fitting in as the only western woman and being dear than other students. It would have cut me off even more. So, I didn’t.

          1. Tulip

            Being older

          2. Tulip

            Though I did have a wonderfully weird apartment. On bedroom with an enormous bathroom with double sinks, plus a sink in the bedroom and the sinks had brass roses as the hot and cold knobs (silver in the bedroom) plus saloon doors between the kitchen and dining room. It was awesome in its way.

    3. Tulip

      What are they asking for? I will say, not allowing grass above twelve inches is about keeping vermin down, but won’t help if there’s a hoarder near by.

      1. UnCivilServant

        I didn’t get the grass around the base of the telephone pole last time I mowed and hadn’t gotten back to it because of repeated rainstorms making it an issue to cut, and being busy. We are talking about at most a two by two patch of ground of which a quarter is filled with a wooden post. Of course they’re brandishing bad attitudes, threats of excessive fines, and very vague standards about what is or is not acceptable.

        These same folks did jack shit regarding my nighbors’ overgrown properties for ages.

        1. Tulip

          Cut it and salt it.

          1. Tulip

            Or plant protected plants and let the state fight the city.

          2. UnCivilServant

            Oh, no they won’t fight each other, I’ll get a catch 22 where the city will fine me, send dpw to cut it down, then the state will fine me for cutting it down.

          3. UnCivilServant

            I don’t have enough salt for my neighbors’ yards.

            /snark.

          4. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

            It’s cheap. Buy extra.

          5. UnCivilServant

            $1 per pound isn’t cheap. That’s a day’s labor in some countries!

          6. UnCivilServant

            *$0.10 per pound

          7. UnCivilServant

            Dammit, did I spend $5 for 25, 30 or 50 pounds?

            /joke is dead.

  25. Crusty Juggler

    Joel Schumacher estimates he’s had up to 20,000 sexual partners

    Double-digit thousands. You mean like 2,000 or 3,000?” Goldman responded. Schumacher corrected him by clarifying: “That’s not double digits, that’s single digits.”

    After Goldman corrected his estimation to “20,000 or 30,000,” Schumacher narrowed it down to “10, or 20.” (Again, that’s thousand.)

    But the director remained nonchalant about a record that puts Wilt Chamberlain or Gene Simmons to shame: “It’s available,” he said simply.

    “Now, a lot of gay people are getting married, they’re adopting, or they’re having children,” Schumacher said later in the interview. “There wasn’t any of that when I was young. If you went into a gay bar and there were 200 men in there, and you said, ‘Okay, who wants to have a little house with a white picket fence, and a dog, and a child, raise your hands,’ or ‘Who wants to get laid tonight?’ The concept of a lovely suburban life or raising children was not a high concept.”

    Legend.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      That’s a lot of penis.

    2. Hyperion

      Good for him. He’s looking a little rough around the edges there. Maybe he needs to rest.

    3. Rhywun

      “but that is not unusual”

      Yes, it is.

    4. Ted S.

      Wilt Chamberlain claimed to have slept with 20,000 women.

      1. UnCivilServant

        One a night, no breaks, would require almost 55 years. I’m going to assume he didn’t start until puberty.

        What year did he make the claim? It’s required to estimate the number of unique partners per night required to meet that number.

        1. Crusty Juggler

          You’re the first to have tackled this! Please research and report back on your findings.

    5. Not Adahn

      I imagine you can rack up a lot of partners at the right bathhouses.

      Plus if you get the same guy twice, but never see their face, that really should count as two separate partners.

  26. Crusty Juggler

    Juventus ‘irritated’ by Maurizio Sarri’s ‘refusal to cut out cigarettes’ while recovering from pneumonia

    Legend

  27. Crusty Juggler

    3 of 4 vaping-related illnesses in Iowa tied to THC, prompting more questions about e-cigarette use among youth

    Three of the four young Iowans who experienced respiratory illnesses after using e-cigarettes said they used vaping products containing tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, a chemical in marijuana, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health.

    Health officials reported more than 190 cases of severe respiratory illness among American teenagers and young adults who had vaped, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Their symptoms, reported over the summer, include cough, fatigue, dizziness, headache, vomiting and diarrhea, chest pain and difficulty breathing.

    CDC officials said they are investigating similarities in the growing number of the reports, “many” of which involved THC. Experts say the practice of vaping cannabis oil is riskier than vaping nicotine.

    With the number of vaping-related illnesses on the rise nationally and in Iowa, teens and young adults are being warned of the potentially harmful effects of battery-powered e-cigarettes.

    Ban everything to save the childrens! KEEP THEM SAFE!

    1. Rhywun

      Sounds like the original narrative of blaming all this on Juul is falling apart. Imagine that.

      1. LT_Fish

        https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/cdcs-bias-against-e-cigarettes-is-putting-kids-lives-at-risk/

        Yep, looks like counterfeit street stuff – not the legal stuff bought in stores. Feel free to mix your own stuff – just buy from a reliable vendor.

        1. Rhywun

          This should be a fucking scandal.

  28. Crusty Juggler

    Womanspreading Is the Ultimate Fashion Power Move

    There is a scene in Knock Down the House, the award-winning documentary that tracks four women running for Congress in 2018, in which Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is sitting on the couch in her living room, breathing deeply. In only a few hours, the then 28-year-old bartender from the Bronx—and complete newcomer to politics—must go on live TV and debate 10-term Democratic congressman Joe Crowley in an attempt to unseat him from his position. It will not be an easy or necessarily pleasant task. She closes her eyes, extends her arms above her head, and exhales. “I need to take up space, I need to take up space,” she says, waving her arms around her. “I am here.”

    Women from all walks of life, and in every industry and profession, have been fighting for their right to take up space since long before the 2018 primary races, and will continue to do so long after. Whether in the institutions that barred us, the sports that said we weren’t worthy, the voting booth, the workplace, or the White House, every day and everywhere, women are asserting their right to be in the room, at the table, and directing the conversation. The fight extends to the quotidian as well: We resist manspreading on our commutes, mansplaining in our offices, and taking on the lion’s share of emotional labor in our homes. And when words are simply not enough, what we wear can convey silent but impactful protest.

    Our female commenters can weigh in as to whether or not they will be…spreading themselves?…in that style of clothing.

    1. Tulip

      Yeah, I’m not following fads from AOC.

      1. Crusty Juggler

        I couldn’t imagine a professional woman wearing anything close to resembling those dresses, which is why I shared.

    2. Rhywun

      Nothing says “I am here” like a $10,000 dress from Fashion Week.

  29. Crusty Juggler

    Inspired by an above discussion, I present an article from 1972 about Wilt Chamberlain’s home: SUPERSTAR’S $1.5‐MILLION SUPERPAD

    There is, naturally, a water bed. But this water bed—set in a chamber of the guest wing called the playroom—is’ round, 8 feet in diameter, and covered in French black rabbit fur. It is surrounded with wedge‐shaped sofas covered in the same purple velvet as the partly mirrored walls that are illumined with psychedelic colors and the chrome light bulbs glow like small stars.

    And of course, there is mirrored ceiling in the master bedroom, which takes up the entire second floor. But this mirror is a massive triangle set in a recessed redwood enclosure and placed, predictably, over the 72square‐foot bed, which is covered in the fur from the noses of Arctic wolves. At the touch of a switch, the mirror glides silently away to expose the sky above, while heavy brown draperies, over the glass walls, and rosewood panels shut off all outside light.

    Back when men were men, women were women, sex was free, drugs were cheap, and we were a happy nation, devoid of any and all political strife.

    1. Crusty Juggler

      Legend

    2. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

      What? No Barry White blaring out of the quadrophonic system?

    3. Tulip

      I don’t find water beds that fun for sex. Jus’ sayin’

      1. UnCivilServant

        Motion sickness during coitus isn’t your thing?

      2. Crusty Juggler

        I don’t find water beds fun for anything, but that house is has every wonderful trope from that area, and wolf nose hair.

        1. grrizzly

          wolf nose hair

          What is this? Is it real?

    4. Ted S.

      while heavy brown draperies, over the glass walls, and rosewood panels shut off all outside light.

      A Rollladen would have been cheaper.

  30. Not an Economist

    A badass woman passed away yesterday trying to drive over 400 MPH. RIP Jesse Combs.

    1. Rhywun

      Now I vaguely remember her from MythBusters. RIP

    2. Not Adahn

      🙁

      Of all the Mythbusters to die…

    3. BEAM’s not normal, y’all

      Well, that totally blows. Loved her brief stints on Mythbusters.

  31. LT_Fish

    Re: Ozymandias last article about Feres.

    I’ve heard some murmurs about modification the last year or so. Don’t recall the specifics now, but one court allowed servicemember participation in a class action suit against some element a few months ago….just can’t remember what. Might have been associated with the high fatality rate at the neonatal unit in the Norfolk area…or something like that.

    1. Ozymandias

      It comes and goes. When the anthrax thing was really going there was a decent movement in Congress to roll it back, but I’ve come to believe that’s all bullshit. I have to do an article about why that is, but that’s my considered opinion.

  32. Count Potato

    https://twitter.com/Jomboy_/status/1166815802303090689

    LOL

    1. Ted S.

      Goodnight, Jomboy.

  33. The Hyperbole

    Damn straight.

    1. Rhywun

      Why would Boris be getting me down? I mean, it’s not like he’s Trump or anything.

    2. Not Adahn

      I think if I had a professional crew to do the actual sailing, and a chase ship to rescue me if anything went wrong, a trans-Atlantic sail would be pretty darn relaxing. .

      1. Sean

        Well, shitting in a bucket isn’t exactly high class living.

        1. Not Adahn

          Why would you do that? Just hang it over the side, or if it’s a really classy boat, have a “seat of ease.”

          1. Sean

            https://www.france24.com/en/20190813-cramped-and-basic-greta-thunberg-s-voyage-to-new-york

            I’m not making it up.

          2. UnCivilServant

            Sheesh, traditionally, it was over the side as Not Adahn mentioned.

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