ZARDOZ THURSDAY EVENING ADVICE

 

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ RETURNS TO BRING THE BEST ADVICE TO HIS CHOSEN ONES. FAR BETTER THAN ANY BRUTAL ADVICE COLUMNIST. TAKE THIS ADVICE TO HEART, AND GO FORTH AND COMMENT!

Q: I’m originally from El Salvador. I have been living in the U.S. for five years, have been studying English for four years and I have my GED.

I want to join the U.S. Marine Corps because it is my dream. I want to do it because I think that service to this country is the best thing I can do. I want to protect this country, and I want my family to be proud of me.

Here is the problem: My mom and my wife don’t want me to do it because they say it is dangerous. I love them both, but I want to achieve my dream. What should I do? — DREAMING IN HOUSTON

A: ZARDOZ WILL RUN AN EXAMINATION TO SEE IF YOU TRULY WISH TO BECOME PART OF A MILITARY ORGANIZATION. TURN YOUR VOLUME UP.

PULLED FROM THE VORTEX’S ARCHIVES.

IF THAT APPEARS UNSUITABLE, THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE ORGANIZATION YOU COULD JOIN –

SEMPER ZARDOZ!

IF YOUR “WIFE” OBJECTS, THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS HAVE A WAY OF DEALING WITH THAT:

3 YEAR ENLISTMENT?

THE CHOICE IS YOURS. OR, ZARDOZ SUPPOSES YOU COULD BEND TO THE WISHES OF THE FEMALES, AND NOT JOIN EITHER. IF SO, PREPARE TO GO TO SECOND LEVEL WITH THE FEMALES, AT THEIR COMMAND.

YES, I GUESS I WILL GO TO SECOND LEVEL WITH YOU.

ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

 

Q: My husband and I separated last year and reconciled several months later. When we decided to get back together, he broke it off with his girlfriend. A month later she contacted him to inform him that she’s pregnant with his child. She’s due in a few months.

My husband and I disagree about how things should be handled when the child arrives. She says I’m not allowed to come to the hospital with him and meet the baby. I say that going without me is absurd, and any child that belongs to my husband is a part of my life, too. However, he says she is in charge of the situation. I’m worried that when the baby is born I’ll be at home alone with a broken heart. Where should I draw the line with my husband? — WORRIED WIFE IN THE SOUTH

A: ZARDOZ IS SEARCHING FOR A TERM…WHAT IS THE FEMALE EQUIVALENT TO “CUCK”? FOOLISH BRUTAL! WERE YOU NOT WARNED THAT THE PENIS IS EVIL? HOW MANY TIMES MUST ZARDOZ INSTRUCT THIS POINT?

EVIL. DOUBLE EVIL.

NEW LIFE HAS BEEN CREATED, TO PLAGUE THE EARTH! YOU MUST AVOID ALL CONTACT WITH THE NEW LIFE AND THE PENISER. ZARDOZ SUGGESTS TURNING TO ONE OF TWO PATHS. FIRST, GO CATATONIC AND LIVE IN A LARGE PLASTIC ENVELOP IN THE VORTEX.

FURTIVE MOVEMENT?

SECOND, IF THE CLOISTERED LIFE DOES NOT APPEAL, THEN STICK TO THE RUGGED OUTDOORS.

A PURPOSE WHIP DRIVEN LIFE.

ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

Comments

269 responses to “ZARDOZ THURSDAY EVENING ADVICE”

  1. Sean

    All hail Zardoz!

    1. Tres Cool

      What this guy said X2 !

      1. Sean

        Hmm…seems like a good time to cue some theme music …. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zfRNZucoCyw

        1. Bobarian LMD

          Fun-ky.

        2. Tres Cool

          Good ol’ Don Rickles- thy this on network TV now
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1r8pCVcmG4

          1. Spudalicious

            Screw you, I will NOT go deeper than two videos.

            I’ll be back in a bit.

          2. Count Potato

            No one could get away with that today.

          3. Rhywun

            Just watched – wow, a different era. One I sort of remember living through but it’s still a shock.

        3. slumbrew

          Nice! Always loved this song.

      2. Bobarian LMD

        All hail the giant head!

        1. Spudalicious

          Nothing better than a giant serving of head.

  2. Lackadaisical

    Sweet, sweet Zardoz advice. And on a Thursday at that. Hail Zardoz.

  3. AlmightyJB

    I can’t be a US Marine because my mommy and wife won’t let me. Lol. Maybe you should be a meter maid instead.

    1. Tres Cool

      I wanted to be a Marine, but my head wouldn’t fit in the jar.

      /hey-ohhhh

    2. Heroic Mulatto

      These letters are as real as House Hunters.

      1. AlmightyJB

        My wife is a dental assistant and I’m a stay at home dad. Our budget is 750,000 and we would like to be on the beach.

        1. PART TIME dental assistant.

          1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

            If she’s hot enough, she could do something else part-time

      2. Tejicano

        Yeah. A guy wants to join the Marines but he’s worried what mommy thinks about it.

        Ah, dude. If you’re in the Marines with a few hot wars going on where they have Marines showing up to participate you should be concerned about things bigger than what your mommy thinks.

      3. Pope Jimbo

        Huh? Don’t you mean Penthouse Hunters?

  4. Gordilocks

    I want to join the U.S. Marine Corps Establishment Press Corps because it is my dream. I want to do it because I think that service to this country is the best thing I can do. I want to protect this country, and I want my family to be proud of me.

    1. straffinrun

      You gotta start at the bottom. Maybe grow a beard, put on a flannel shirt and drop truth bombs.

      1. AlmightyJB

        Gare Bear

        This narrow, ideologically possessed perspective brought to you by the unprecedented wealth and prosperity of comfortable people living in the most advanced, wealthy, healthy system to ever exist on planet earth.

      2. Rhywun

        +1 twittercancer

        No thanks

        1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

          “twittercancer”! That’s the phrase I was looking for!

          Thanks, Rhy. Hat tip to you.

      3. Tres Cool

        I honestly thought that was parody until they espouse the diff. flavors of collectivism.

      4. Pope Jimbo

        It would sort of be fun to see what they would think if we could magically transport them to a communist/socialist state.

        “What do you mean, I have to work at the factory everyday swamping out the toilets? I want to sit in the coffee shop with my friends and talk about justice!”

        “Comrade, as you well know communism requires each person to contribute according to their abilities. Frankly we aren’t sure you are up to cleaning toilets at the tractor factory, but we are taking a chance on you.”

        That is the problem with all these coffee shop philosophers. They all think the shitters clean themselves. Their utopias all have easy jobs that are fun to go to.

      5. “It’s 36% of your waking hours, assuming you’re getting a proper night’s rest. That’s not even taking into account your commute, which is also time stolen from you, or the reality of many people who are forced to work more than one job to survive.”

        Oh dear lord.

  5. Subwoofer

    A male is a cuckold. The female equivalent is a cuckquean. Thus, “cuck” applies in both cases.

    1. Bobarian LMD

      If it quacks like a cuck?

      1. Breet Pharara

        If it cucks like a quack?

        1. commodious spittoon

          I’d rather by a quack than a ducky cuck.

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            Why not both?

          2. Gordilocks

            I read that first frame as ‘Incel Scrooge’

          3. Tres Cool

            Why did that remind me of early Homestarrunner ?

          4. Tejicano

            “… and not even have the god-damned common curtesy to give him a reach-around…”

          5. straffinrun

            Something that has always puzzled me. Is it really a courtesy to give your rape victim a reach around?

          6. CPRM

            Only if they don’t milk the prostate.

          7. Tejicano

            Asking for a friend? (was he really a friend?)

          8. Tejicano

            But seriously, this is exactly the kind of fcuked up thing drill instructors say to try to get other recruits to laugh and present themselves as the next target of the DI’s ire. A significant part of getting through boot camp is not laughing at the crazy shyte the DI’s scream at the recruits.

          9. Gustave Lytton

            Every drill sergeant is a comedian.

  6. Rhywun

    THE PENISER

    ????

  7. Raphael

    Praise Zardoz. The penis is evil and the gun is GOOD.

  8. Raphael

    Also, with regards to that poor broken-hearted Southern wife, pics?

  9. Spudalicious

    The Marines are too dangerous for an immigrant from El Salvador?

  10. Raven Nation

    Don Escaped rule: Gonzaga will win

  11. CPRM

    Just to say it, no I’m not the Sconnie that won the lottery. Of of my shows separated from the soul while I was once again fighting the flood waters in my basement, that money would come in handy.

    1. Sounds like something a lottery winner would say…

      1. MikeS

        Right? This place is thick with lottery winners and Tulpas.

  12. straffinrun

    Q: I’ve got 3 ten year old girls at my house today. They keep drifting towards the partriarchal gender roles established by the penis. Dresses, dolls, giggling. Zardoz, do you have any activities which would steer them towards a future in a STEM field?

    1. Rhywun

      Have you at least shown them the movie?

      1. straffinrun

        Need one with subtitles.

    2. I think ZARDOZ would appreciate the cleansing part of the traditionally feminine gender role.

    3. commodious spittoon

      Have they considered ag tech? Grain production, for example?

    4. Raphael

      Teach the younglings the ART OF CODING.

      1. Bonus points for lots of thicc on the side.

        But yeah, I figure Kobayashi-san is probably one of the most realistic STEM focused female characters I’ve seen in popular media – so of course, no analog stateside.

      1. straffinrun

        That’s irrational.

      2. Jarflax

        At that point is the universe even large enough that anything in it, including itself could conceivably be affected by that degree of exactitude?

      3. Pope Jimbo

        Uffda. Our Glib Pi just mostly loafs around Romania and posts nonsense here.

        1. Sean

          ???‍♂️?

      4. That’s a man, baby!

        1. Rhywun

          I was hesitant to posit that.

    5. AlmightyJB

      Why work in the STEM field when you can marry someone who works in the STEM field.

      1. Tejicano

        Duh, why do you think there are so few female engineering students? Somewhere between Calc 2 and Thermodynamics your question induces most of them to change majors.

        1. MikeS

          Math is hard!

        2. Lackadaisical

          While those two classes are difficult, I didn’t find that to be true (that more women dropped out because of them). It is really just preference, very few women are that interested in the topics.

    6. Pope Jimbo

      So this is Plan B? Now that Hooters in Japan has closed, you are going to get her into STEM?

  13. Rhywun

    OT: Holy shit. I just came across “Roseanne” being scheduled on my cable tomorrow.

    Country Music Channel – LOL. Someone hasn’t gotten the message.

    1. AlmightyJB

      As long as they don’t play the Dixie Chicks.

    2. Gustave Lytton

      They also air Last Man Standing.

  14. Jarflax

    You all finally got me to watch Zardoz. I now hate you all.

    1. straffinrun

      Proof that it worked.

      1. Jarflax

        It’s not even interestingly bad. I was expecting to get some campy movie laughs, but it’s like boring people on acid.

        1. straffinrun

          Never seen it myself. I just pretend I’ve seen it. *Sobs after confessing*

          1. Jarflax

            15 more minutes andI be watchen it awl. Mai brayn fel funi nao.

          2. Jarflax

            eye tipe on tipee thing say eye smart nao kan bee demokrat

          3. Bobarian LMD

            it’s like boring people on acid.

            STEVE SHOW YOU HOW TO BORE PEOPLE.

            USE BLUNT INSTRUMENT; NOT CORROSIVES.

    2. Tres Cool

      Like you weren’t damaged prior to viewing it.
      You hang out here, after all.

      1. Tejicano

        Yeah, everybody else here was framed and are innocent of all charges. And our lawyers were all in cahoots with the prosecutor’s office – every one of them. Just like you.

        1. R C Dean

          *uses toe of wingtips to slide brown paper bag behind desk*

    3. Pope Jimbo

      Full confession, I watched about 30 minutes of Zardoz while half in the bag. Fell asleep on the couch and felt no urge to watch the rest once I woke/sobered up.

      1. Rhywun

        I’ve done that maybe half a dozen times. Never seen the whole thing.

  15. Heroic Mulatto

    I met Nick Gillespie 5 days ago.

    I got roped into watching my girlfriend’s 3 month old daughter while my girlfriend got her hair cut. So there I am, sitting in the waiting area of a salon with her kid, and who walks in but Nick Fucking Gillespie himself. I was nervous as shit, and just kept looking at him as he was sitting there with his phone and waited, but was too scared to say anything to him.

    Pretty soon my girlfriend’s kid started crying, and I’m trying to quiet her down because I didn’t want her to bother Nick, but she wouldn’t stop. Pretty soon he gets up and walks over. He started running his hands through her hair and asked what was wrong. I replied that she was probably hungry or something. So Nick put down his phone, picked up my girlfriend’s daughter, unbuttoned the Jacket, and lifted his shirt.

    He breast fed her right there in the middle of the hair salon.

    Chill guy, really nice about it. Would let him breast feed my girlfriend’s daughter again.

    1. Jarflax

      So does the baby have TDS now?

    2. Did your girlfriend’s daughter later inform you that his milk was or was not precisely calibrated for her nutritional needs?

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        Somehow, he knew she was on a low-iron formula regimen.

        1. How considerate of him.

        2. Tres Cool

          She certainly wont fall victim to PCOD(S) from all the testosterone she ingested.

    3. Raphael

      HM, who hurt you?

      1. Spudalicious

        I think he’s been hurt so many times, that he’s come to crave the abuse.

        1. Bobarian LMD

          I suspect a lot of self-abuse…

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

          2. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

            Or, fucks you up for life. But, nobody likes talking about that part.

    4. straffinrun

      Alternative ending to The Grapes of Wrath.

    5. CPRM

      unbuttoned the Jacket

      I don’t think it buttons at all, that sir, was not Nick Gillespie! It was some rando Fonzi impersonator!

      1. Pope Jimbo

        That is what I was going to say. Nick doesn’t unbutton The Jacket. The Jacket releases Nick.

        To paraphrase the old Willie Nelson joke:

        Q: What is the worst thing you can hear when Nick Gillespie is breast feeding your girlfriend’s kid?
        A: “I’m not Nick Gillespie”

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          You’re just jealous.

          1. Pope Jimbo

            Totes green.

            As green as the lips on your girlfriend’s kid

    6. AlmightyJB

      I knew as soon as I started reading that you wouldn’t fail to disappoint.

    7. Bobarian LMD

      And here I thought this was gonna turn into a “Dear Penthouse” situation…

      1. MikeS

        Just wait for the addendum.

    8. PudPaisley

      I heard a similar story about Elvis.

      While walking to his hotel after a show, Elvis seen a disheveled homeless women with a crying baby. When Elvis asked what was wrong with the baby, the mother exclaimed that he was hungry. So Elvis cradled the baby in his arms, opened his shirt, and let the baby suckle on his breast. That baby was Glenn Danzig.

      1. Chafed

        Greatest. Short. Story. Ever.

    9. commodious spittoon

      my girlfriend’s 3 month old daughter

      M-M-M-MONSTER CUCK (CUCK) (CUCK) (CUCK)

  16. KibbledKristen

    Hi all! Seems these days I can only get on late night-ish 🙁

    Anyhoo, I went to the range this evening. My instructor said she can’t teach me any more (until I go to holster) and I’m more than ready to shoot on my own.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC-O6z3rJVU

    1. straffinrun

      The student surpassing the master’s knowledge normally results in a death match.

      1. KibbledKristen

        I doubt I surpassed her, she just thinks I’m more than good to go.

        (she had an injury and hadn’t shot in a long time – when I asked her to shoot a couple rounds to check out the sites on my new weapon, she did 3 *bang* *bang* *bang* right in the X

        1. AlmightyJB

          Still digging the VP9?

          1. KibbledKristen

            So the last time I went to the range I shot a Ruger SR9 and it was perfect for me. So I went & bought one. And I shot a really great 100 rounds on it tonight. So definitely the right purchase.

          2. AlmightyJB

            Sweet. Haven’t shot the SR9 but the grip looks like it would be a good angle for me. Similar to a 1911 which is my jam.

          3. KibbledKristen

            The weight & grip are perfect for my hands. I don’t have giant man hands, but I don’t have little pixie hands either.

          4. AlmightyJB

            It’s nice when you find a gun that fits your hands just right:)

          5. R C Dean

            Yeah, finding a handgun that really fits is sweet.

    2. Tejicano

      “…she can’t teach me any more (until I go to holster) …”

      Phrasing!

    3. AlmightyJB

      Nice. I’m going to hit the range Sunday. Taking Beretta Storm to test some modifications I did and my 10/22 to sight in the new scope. Looking forward to it.

      1. mindyourbusiness

        JB, what kind of mods? I’ve got a Turkish knock-off of the Storm and I’d like to do some add-ons.

        1. AlmightyJB

          The main mod was replacing the safety/decocker with a Decocker only from Landon. It’s a lower profile which is a lot friendlier on your fingers when racking than the wings it came with. If you do this mod I would recommend that you have a proper pin punch tools. And that you put the pin in the freezer for a bit and oil it well before reinstalling. I would also suggest driving the pin back in from the bottom up. I jacked up the pin on my first attempt because it was soooo tight and I was improvising on tools so I had to buy another pin from Brownells along with the proper tools.

          https://www.langdontactical.com/px4-carry-lever-decocking-lever/

          https://www.brownells.com/gunsmith-tools-supplies/general-gunsmith-tools/punches/roll-pin-punches-prod38883.aspx

          I also installed a new Cougar D Hammer Spring to lighten the trigger and an extended large mag release button both of which came from Berretta. Unfortunately they make you buy a set of 3 mag releases. I also put on a Talon grip. It was slightly large but I made it work. I would order the Talon grip somewhere other than Beretta since they got the sizing wrong. Pretty happy with the changes.

          1. AlmightyJB

            This is the replacement pin I bought. If your careful reinstalling old one you shouldn’t need it, but just in case:). There are plenty of YouTube videos on how to do. The hammer spring and mag releases were easy swaps.

            https://www.brownells.com/handgun-parts/frame-parts/frame-hardware/frame-pins/pin-spring-2×10-hbk-prod28520.aspx

    4. CPRM

      You look pissed off, imagining an ex as the target?

      1. KibbledKristen

        I always look pissed. Resting bitch face was named after me.

        1. Pope Jimbo

          You are the Notorious RBF?

    5. Raphael

      Excellent, glad you’re getting better at the gift of the gun.

  17. Tejicano

    I have been reading how a number of glibs here seem to be finding themselves in better working situations I figured I would update the commentariat on my situation.

    A few weeks back I had to quit my job – too much stress and not enough time away from the office to recover. During my last week there I was wrapping up a project with a vendor and on the last day when the conversation turned to follow-up I let them know that I was not going to be there the next week. My counterpart at this vendor all but offered me a job on-the-spot.

    Since then we have been discussing my role with them and next week they are flying me to Bangkok to meet their JV partner and make a pitch with them to the regional heads of one of their major clients. The week after that I will be in Fiji working on a project with them.

    I’ve always wanted a job with a significant hunk of travel but it never came together so much. I understand there are down sides to travel for work but I’m ready to test it out for myself.

    1. KibbledKristen

      Dooood Fiji??? Awesome!

      1. Tejicano

        Yeah. Their clients are high-end hotels and resorts around Asia-Pacific. On the job they are put up in rooms on the premises.

        1. KibbledKristen

          Ho lee shit

          Bora Bora in your future?

          1. Tejicano

            Nothing certain yet – but it wouldn’t be a surprise either.

          2. Gustave Lytton

            “I’m sorry. All we have left are rooms over the water,”

          3. Tejicano

            If you’ve ever working in a high-end hotel you know that the expensive suites are usually not occupied nor reserved – not that these establishments would often give them to a vendor.

          4. I took a work trip to Santa Monica not that long ago where they apparently never got my reservation. The place was packed, people all over, in and out. Of course, I ended up with a suite.

          5. Playa Manhattan

            Was that suite filled with bums?

    2. Rhywun

      Congrats. I am the opposite WRT travel. I am a homebody.

      1. Tejicano

        I’ve done a lot of travel on my own and a bunch of business travel too – I’m attracted to different cultures and locations. I tend to be adventurous that way.

        1. Rhywun

          To be fair, I’ve been “around the world” already. At least, enough to satisfy my minimal wanderlust. As I approach the big five-oh I just don’t feel the urge any more for some reason.

          1. Tejicano

            One of my backpacking trips was Paris-to-HongKong overland, unplanned route. At one point where we were waiting a few days before stepping off on the next leg half the people we met asked if we had a gun – and few of those offered to sell us one.

            And I’m a bit more than a decade older than you. But I still feel like seeing a bit more of the world.

          2. Rhywun

            Yeah, you win.

          3. Tejicano

            A number of scenes I remember from travels I chose to be on wouldn’t seem out of place in a Spielberg movie.

          4. CPRM

            I’ve learned that I don’t enjoy traveling alone anymore. No matter where I go, there I am alone. I can do that at home in my underwear.

          5. KibbledKristen

            This is me. My travel bug is in stasis. I will be going to Scandinavia for my 50th in 2022. I might do a quick trip to UK for some plane spotting at some point.

    3. CPRM

      Bring on the ladyboys?

      1. Tejicano

        …but I’m not adventurous that way.

        1. AlmightyJB

          Oh…late night Glibs. Lol.

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            I didn’t think my wedding videos would be something you’d laugh at.

          2. AlmightyJB

            I’m definitely not going to watch it later.

        2. straffinrun

          At least the screen grab loads immediately before you get the chance to close the window.

    4. deadhead

      Congratulations!

    5. straffinrun

      Getting out of a job you hate… Cheers to that!

      1. Tejicano

        I actually liked the job but the boss made it Hell.

    6. AlmightyJB

      Congrats. New adventure!

    7. Congratulations!!!

      If I were single, I’d love to travel for work.

      1. Tejicano

        My boys will not be happy so I hope it won’t be too constant. Much of the travel should be just in Japan (where I live) and some might even just be close enough to commute from home. A major reason why they want me is because I am already here and speak the language.

    8. Tres Cool

      One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble.

      1. The queens we use would not excite you.

        1. Tres Cool

          Get your kicks above the waistline, sunshine

      2. Tejicano

        Yeah, that song’s been running through my brain for a couple days now. I have been to Bangkok a number of times before but it has been a long time since my last trip there.

        1. Tres Cool

          Statute of Limitations has hopefully run out on you.

          1. Tejicano

            If I had left any “evidence” they would be old enough to be participating now.

            One of many reasons why I wouldn’t be engaging in that activity.

          2. Gustave Lytton

            See, and I was going to go with Miss Tiffany’s Universe contestant.

          3. Heroic Mulatto

            What the fuck was with that music?

    9. Bobarian LMD

      Excellent!

    10. Pope Jimbo

      Congrats on the new job! Especially since it had to be a nice ego stroke to have a person you worked with snap you up like that.

      My last job was 25% or so travel and it was tedious. It can be fun and a nice break, but it was always nice to be at home. The problem with traveling for work is the work. You will discover that hanging out in a new place isn’t so glamorous when you have to show up bright eyed and busy tailed the next morning.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        Or when work starts putting the squeeze on expenses. Why can’t you get a room at fleabag motel, like Roger does?

        1. Tejicano

          Accommodations are provided free of charge by the client. No expense issues there.

          And I am always up for the cheap route anyway. Business is business – not an excuse to pamper me.

          1. Rhywun

            I was on a business trip once and talking to a guy giving a presentation who was also visiting. Me and my boss were giving him suggestions for excellent restaurants we had discovered and he was like, “Oh, I’ll probably eat at Subway”. We couldn’t even.

          2. CPRM

            You met Jerrod?!

          3. Heroic Mulatto

            He said he’d eat at Subway, not the playground!

          4. Tejicano

            A guy from the US showed up for work at my office in Tokyo. When we were talking about going out for dinner we asked if he had any preferences – (seemingly with no understanding about it) “anything but fish or rice”….

          5. Rhywun

            LOL I don’t like sushi either, TBH.

          6. Gustave Lytton

            Years ago, before I ever went to Japan, I worked with someone that went to Japan for a month and ate nothing but egg sandwiches while she was there because she didn’t like the food, and she hates fish. We thought it was just downright insane to go there and just eat egg sandwiches.

            Then I finally went there, laughingly joked about them, and discovered that I really do like egg sandwiches in Japan. I do eat other things though. And still joke about our coworker. Haven’t been to a sushi-ya though.

        2. Pope Jimbo

          My favorite from the last job was we had to put in separate breakfast/lunch/dinner per diem entries. Couldn’t put in one per day.

          On the flip side, they weren’t usually too concerned about expenses. The German paymasters were far more concerned about you filling out the expense report than they were about the amount.

      2. Tejicano

        Yeah, I knew I would have to quit that job but had not had any time to prepare the next step. And then to get an offer like that – too sweet.

        If the pace is like the one they were working while they were here it will be a piece of cake. I was working 10 hours a day with them – with an hour or so before they showed up and another hour or so afterwards, then out with them for dinner/drinks, then commuting home before/after. Even that was less than my usual day on that job.

    11. Raphael

      Excellent, hope this next job goes much better for you! Enjoy it and have fun in Bangkok and Fiji.

    12. hayeksplosives

      Congratulations!

      It’s a great jobs market now. Enjoy the new adventure.

      1. Tejicano

        Thanks to all!

        Yeah, it seems (from stories I hear from peers) that us silverbacks are being valued for our experience more than we had been seeing over the past decade or so.

        1. Rhywun

          I hope so. I am currently “looking for my next opportunity” and hope that when I actually get serious about it, that that is the case. I work in IT and I haven’t interviewed in a couple decades so I dread them looking for a piece of paper I don’t have rather than the experience I do have.

          1. CPRM

            Put ‘Gay: Will not sexually harass female co-workers.’ on the resume. That checks both a diversity and pending lawsuit box. Double points.

          2. hayeksplosives

            Show up for the interview in a wheelchair and you’ll hit the Trifecta!

          3. Rhywun

            I’m not exactly “out” in public – maybe I should gay it up a little.

          4. CPRM

            In this day and age you don’t even have to be flamboyant. Just saying you are gets the box checked. Hell, you could walk in the door to the interview with a woman on an office chair sucking your dick and they won’t question how gay you are, you check a box, it’s a win for them.

          5. Rhywun

            It’s crazy. The industry I’m used to (insurance) is not woke. I’ve seen approximately zero evidence of either wokeness or the supposed cis-shitlord patriarchy that is claimed to lead to it. There is literally none of any of that.

            *Maybe* at the very largest corporations, but I’m going to be looking to downsize, not upsize.

          6. CPRM

            Fine, don’t take my advice. *crosses arms and pouts*

          7. hayeksplosives

            “*Crosses arms and pouts*”

            That checks out. 😉

          8. Tejicano

            ‘Gay: Will not sexually harass female co-workers.’ – This isn’t always a total positive. At a place I used to work there was a director in Hong Kong who was well known as a pederast with Yellow-Fever. The young, local guys made it clear that he didn’t have a lot of self control at the work place.

          9. CPRM

            So now you’re accusing Rhy of being a pederast?!

          10. Rhywun

            I must admit I suffer a little from that affliction myself but it’s strictly adults-only.

    13. Count Potato

      Congrats!

  18. straffinrun

    Guess who’s out of the cellar? Thanks Purdue.

    1. CPRM

      I’m out of the cellar, just came up after turning the pump off for the night. More flooding to deal with tomorrow.

    2. Jarflax

      I’m going to be dropping like a stone. I have lost half my final four and half my championship game on the two games so far. LOL, I guess my random picks winning streak had to come to an end,

  19. juris imprudent

    Tennessee and Purdue – now that is some madness.

  20. Francisco d’Anconia
  21. BakedPenguin

    (Fairly honest) lefty comedian Jimmy Dore calls out the Washington Post, including (a few minutes in) our old boy Davy Weigel.

    1. BakedPenguin

      Note: whatever his political beliefs, this is worth viewing.

  22. straffinrun

    Deep fry or pan fry the burgers for the kids lunch? I like the deep fried but it gets the oil all messy and I can’t reuse it.

    1. CPRM

      The answer is always deep fry…but for a reheat lunch? I’d say don’t expend the effort.

      1. straffinrun

        Not reheated. I’ll make the burgers fresh. I’d fire up the small grill, but I got two loads of laundry drying on the balcony.

        1. CPRM

          So, the kid isn’t in school?! *Calls CPS*

          1. straffinrun

            School year starts in April. It’s vacation time which is why the other parents dump their kids at my house while they’re working.

          2. CPRM

            I thought the Japs had year round school!? Lying media bastards! Also, haha, other parents leaving their kids with you, if only they knew…

    2. Count Potato

      Deep fried hamburgers?

      1. Rhywun

        Yeah, I’m scratching my head over this too.

        1. CPRM

          You deep fry the patty, not the bread, that leads to disaster.

        2. straffinrun

          Was new to me until a year ago when I saw a documentary on this place. Delicious.

          https://www.google.co.jp/amp/s/www.foodrepublic.com/2012/03/20/memphis-dyers-deep-fried-burger/amp/

          1. Rhywun

            Wow. They are definitely not looking for me, if that is actually real.

    3. Gustave Lytton

      Who’s doing the cleanup. I fried chicken two nights ago and it feels like I’m still cleaning splatter.

      1. CPRM

        Cleaning is for women folk!

      2. straffinrun

        Cut some vinegar and water. Wipes it up easy.

        1. Gustave Lytton

          I’ll have to give that a shot next time.

      3. DenverJ

        That’s why pans have lids.

    4. DenverJ

      Why can’t you reusethe oil? Sonic treats their fryer like an old jalopy with a leak: you don’t need to change the oil, just top it off once a week.

  23. CPRM

    The band Bush is coming around on tour this summer, some interest, but Our Lady Peace will be with them, debating if I’ll go to a concert for the first time in over decade.

    1. Rhywun

      Let’s do the time-warp again!

      1. MikeS

        Meatloaf is gonna be there?! I say go!

      2. Rhywun

        PS. I don’t care to know what Gavin Rossdale looks like now.

      3. CPRM

        In my concert days Our Lady Peace mostly toured their native Canada, never got to see them. Bush would be a decent band to see as well. I don’t go anywhere or do anything anymore.

    1. CPRM

      Tenacious D finally gets a steady gig.

      1. Bobarian LMD

        Time to have an Alice Bowie concert!

    2. straffinrun

      Sounds like a sting.

  24. Count Potato

    “Two black candidates for Savannah’s mayor attend meeting that bars white reporters

    Race was front and center on Wednesday night during a meeting coordinated to garner support for just one black candidate in Savannah’s mayoral election.

    With signs stating “Black press only” on the doors of the church where the meeting was held, white reporters were barred from entry, while black reporters for at least two television stations were permitted inside.

    The event was coordinated by the Rev. Clarence Teddy Williams, owner of the consulting firm, The Trigon Group, who declined to discuss the entry policy.”

    https://www.savannahnow.com/news/20190327/two-black-candidates-for-savannahs-mayor-attend-meeting-that-bars-white-reporters

    1. Rhywun

      Charming.

    2. Raphael

      What a swell meeting.

    3. Socially acceptable racism looks shitty whether viewing the photos or the negatives.

      1. R C Dean

        Nice.

    4. Gustave Lytton

      black reporters for at least two television stations were permitted inside

      but they refused to enter without their non-black colleagues because racism is wrong, right?

      1. Rhywun

        So it the one-drop rule in effect here?

        1. Gustave Lytton

          Or the Warren rule?

    5. Chafed

      That’s not very Christian of the Reverend.

    1. Uhm, okay. I kinda feel bad for the guy

      1. Bob Boberson

        $5000 bail for animal cruelty….$50000 bail for having an anatomically correct stuffed animal……that seems somewhat unjust.

        I mean, fuck people who abandon their dog for days on end but it sounds like he’s getting it good and hard

        1. ZARDOZ, MINISTERIAL JUDGE!!

          ZARDOZ: WHAT HAS THIS BRUTAL DONE?

          Legal grain slave: he has abandoned his quadriped slave creature to dookie on the carpet.

          ZARDOZ: THIS IS MILDLY DISPLEASING. $5000 BAIL

          legal grain slave: wait, he has also created a stuffed tree creature with an erect penis.

          ZARDOZ: THE PENIS IS EVIL! CLEANSE THE BRUTAL’S BANK ACCOUNT!

    2. CPRM

      fer fuck sake. Hand me the drill, I want to lobotomize now.

    3. straffinrun

      “The monkey was described in the criminal complaint as having male genitals exposed and was wearing a blue cowboy hat.”

      An organ grinder monkey?

      1. You know who else had a monkey strapped to their phallic thing?

  25. CPRM

    Dropping this for the late nighters, because I want some feed back. My new series ‘The Trial of CPRM’ is going to post next Thursday,but I’d like to get some feedback before then, to see if this idea is entertaining enough to go forward and make more before this one is ‘officially’ released, because they are quick and if they are liked I can do a lot fast. So, leaked to the late night glibs a week earlier: The Trial of CPRM Tape 1. Thoughts?

    1. Serious question: Do you do professional voice work?

      1. CPRM

        I’m a part-time radio DJ. Trying to horn in on production work. But my voice talent goes mostly unnoticed.

        1. Rhywun

          I will be brutally honest. I like the voice-work – always have on your bits. I didn’t really pay attention to the story.

          1. CPRM

            Sounds like I have a fan boi! I’ve been told I have a make panties sweat type of voice glad to know it works both ways 😉

          2. Rhywun

            Ha let’s not get carried away with ourselves.

          3. CPRM

            Speaking of, I just imagine a bunch of old women creaming their jeans when I play this, and it makes an this celibate thing seems that much easier.

    2. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

      You already got my semi-reply.

      Just, not my semi….

      /yeah, I went there

      1. CPRM

        And, I don’t own that reel to reel, it’s stock footage I downloaded, so stop rich shaming me!

        1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

          OOOHHH…’stock footage’, is it?? Let someone else do the work…”Poor me, I’m just too important to take regular picture!”.

          /Yeah, I figured ‘stock’.,..

    3. Aplut Ton

      It reminds me a lot of Firesign Theater, and in my mind, that’s a good thing. I would like to hear more.

  26. MikeS

    Trashy:

    Loving Eyepiece. I mentioned this once and didn’t see if you replied; can we please see the comment numbers? It’s kind of nice to break up the threads. They kind of run together without them…IMHO

    Also, Could the Unread Comment count (and Next New Comment button) go up in between the Read and Hide buttons?

    If not, tell me to fuck off. Either way, I still really appreciate the work you’ve put into it.

    1. Chafed

      You will take your government cheese the way it is given to you and you will like it.

  27. Gustave Lytton

    Walked into the living room and felt a bit warm so I turned the thermostat down without even looking at the temperature first. Go back 30 minutes later, it’s even warmer and up to 79F. Notice the thermostat won’t trip on/off. Replace the batteries. Working now.

    1. Rhywun

      ‘Thermostat’ LOL

      My… ‘thermostat’ is me opening and closing windows all day and night.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        It wasn’t cooling off with the windows open either!

  28. Gustave Lytton

    Why does Reagan have an RPG strapped to his back in the dinosaur picture? He should be carrying a Viper.

    1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

      Viper? I must say, I am ignorant of this weapon…

      1. hayeksplosives

        It’s the US equivalent of the most common RPGs, the “seven-m)

        1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

          Well! That is news to me. Is it a fairly recent creation? I know about Javelins, and what-not…

      2. Gustave Lytton

        Successor to the LAW, but was canned. Seems like an appropriate Reagan era weapon to be wielding.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGR-17_Viper

        There was a simulator version for MILES that lived on long after the actual weapon was cancelled.

        1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

          Thank you–my Google Fu didn’t find it (or, I missed it completely).

  29. hayeksplosives

    I can’t remember which you guys enjoyed my oversharing pics, but if you want a good night shot, email me at my handle at ProtonMail dot com and I’ll send the link.

    1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

      ::slowly raises hand::

      Me, I think…. What the heck-I’m in.

      1. hayeksplosives

        Did you email me? Do so pls.

        1. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

          BTW, was everything you mentioned yesterday resolved in an acceptable fashion?

          1. hayeksplosives

            Yeah, itjink so. He just needed to vent I think.

          2. Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption

            Oh….I was thinking of your ren faire attire!

            heh…