OK, it’s cold. It will get colder tomorrow. But I am not going to complain about it. Nosiree! In fact, these links will be nothing but sunshine!
- Consider visiting the warm and friendly islands!
- It is always nice to see a friend offer a helping hand!
- It is nice to see some friends get together for a fun time down at the pub.
- Citizens of a great metropolis should be naught but delighted at their choice of public servant to lead them to a shiny new future!
Isn’t it just a delightful day!
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578 responses to “Afternoon Links – No Cold Edition”
Q’s employment agency: Where the only bona fide occupational qualification is a bra size greater than or equal to 32D and a BMI less than or equal to 25.
https://archive.is/pHGy0
6, 9, 11, 18, 20, 37.
2,6,9,20,28
Number 13 shivers me timbers.
Aye
38!
For the girl or the setting (given the arctic you’re having up there)?
Yes.
So, you’re saying 38’s Special?
Yup!
Nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom
#34 is Imogen Thomas.
Orgy.
37 wins this round, 13 runner-up, honorable mentions for 1, 29, and 31
Be honest. You didn’t follow the link, you’re just listing prime numbers.
Garry McCarthy inches closer to challenging Rahm Emanuel,
Pot, meet kettle
“While Mayor Emanuel is focused on reducing violence, improving schools and bringing even more jobs to Chicago, Garry McCarthy’s agenda is as empty as his website,”
He doesn’t need anything on his website with how spectacularly ole’ Rahmmy’s doing with those priorities.
If only Emanuel had thought of doing that stuff his first few terms.
Mayoring is hard. Those cronies aren’t going to patronage themselves, are they?
UNU?
While Mayor Emanuel is focused on reducing violence,
Which has increased.
improving schools
Which have gotten worse.
and bringing even more jobs to Chicago
Which are fleeing Chicago.
My prediction? Rahm wins in a walk.
Knowing Chicago politics, you’re probably right.
I recall way back in junior high school in the Chicago suburbs in the mid-1970s, we read Mike Royko’s account of the Daley machine, “Boss”, for our social studies class. It’s amazing how much I still remember about that book’s details, about all the ward and precinct leaders who had cushy city union-protected jobs the rest of the year, and their main role was to ensure everybody in their district was registered and got to the polls on election day. How there’d always be a chauffeured ride available from some city lackey for anyone who needed to get to the voting booth location. How everyone knew to vote Democrat because if they did, someone might drop off a nice ham or turkey ready for roasting on their porch after the election, or perhaps someone at the city office would ‘help’ them get their business through a health or safety inspection. Or get junior’s charges dropped after that bar fight.
You are absolutely right, unless something unfathomable occurs (like a blizzard which paralyzes the city because they hadn’t paid off the snowplow drivers), in Chicago the machine candidate will always win in a landslide.
It isn’t about who votes – it is about who counts the votes.
Got the headlight bulb changed and didn’t lose any extremities to frost bite. I’d say that was a win for the day.
You deserve a reward! Have an(other) ice cold beer.
right after work, luckily it’s a short shift tonight.
Orange Sunshine? Hmmm
We can get you (and Mr. Lizard) a full spectrum lamp if needed.
Swiss, where’s the love? I’m bored as hell, I could use something to smile about…
*HOW ABOUT SOME BEES?*
Bored as Hell? If you wanna get ill go where your homeboys chill.
I’m here aren’t I?
Are the slimeball girls minors? Otherwise, what’s with the mosaicking? We can’t be expected to judge would-ness with trip like that?
*tripe though I’m trying to make sense of the original…. and no.
Dine and dash with a bum. Sounds pretty funny.
+1 Japanese penis
Yellow wind? That sounds really unpleasant.
It is. I’ve had it all morning.
Bad burrito mixed with pancreatic failure?
Chipotle again…
I never, ever eat Chipotle.
But yesterday’s ‘family style’ italian meal down in Queens has left me with over 24 hours of the most evil, voluminous and nauseating flatulence anyone could imagine.
Damn Italian cooking where the garlic is basically left raw, but floating in olive oil. Oughtta be a law.
*sits back, waits for Rufus*
He’s working.
If you’re eating raw garlic, it’s not going to smell much different on the way out.
Not for normal humans. For some reason, I can eat as-nature-makes-it raw garlic in small amounts, but slightly cooked, in olive oil is a totally different experience. I ought to learn and just say no, but it was the MIL’s post-funeral lunch, so I couldn’t make waves.
Interesting. I’m the opposite way. If I’m roasting a chicken or sautéing baby broccoli, I’ll throw in 15-20 cloves of roasted garlic, but I avoid the fresh, “just peeled” cloves. They have a bite similar to horseradish; especially when it’s California grown.
Fully roasted garlic isn’t something I enjoy, but I have no problems with it, and I eat a lot of indian food, which is loaded with garlic and ginger.
But that garlic and oil (like crushed garlic in oil you can buy at a store) turns me into a natural disaster. I guess it might be somewhat related to my gall bladder removal, but in all other respects, I have a digestion like a concrete-bottomed elephant.
ay, thassa my a mammas home a remedy for a everything
issa good for a you skin
Thassa my a home a remedy for a getting rid of encyclopedia salesmen, Jehova’s Witnesses, marauding dogs, Jesuits and anyone with a sense of da smell.
I love the way garlic smells, personally. raw or cooked.
i chew the things raw. i can breathe on things and disinfect them.
That sheds some light on being a kind of sex worker.
I’m not sure. The timing would suggest that there was something in my salad last night that wasn’t too fresh. That, or my body is rejecting too much salad.
The most likely explanation.
I’ll let my wife know that there’s a consensus.
Oh, before I forget, here is a story that both you and RA Heinlein might find interesting.
That’s… gross.
I’m actually wondering how much Trehalose you’d find in a standard hospital cafeteria meal.
Probably a shitload (pun intended).
Is the bacteria going to travel back in time and bang its mom?
How do you think it became a *super*bug?
It’s how you get yellow snow.
It’s blowing Huskies!
Hallelujah!
Asians farting. It’s one of HM’s fetishes.
….probably.
Oooh so smerry
Me dutch oven you long time?
Can we have some lollipops and rainbows too?
Ugh, forgot link…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQmBXEZEYtg
That’s what I feel when we’re together.
We need more pool cue control.
Was waiting for somebody to start swinging that bubble-gum machine.
“I’m here to chew bubblegum and kickass, and I’m all outt….oh, fuck, is that a gumball machine, GODDAMIT!!!”
Re London. Didn’t Al Gore say England was going to sink?
Just so long as it doesn’t tip over.
No, no! That is Guam.
/Hank Johnson
The stupid is miraculous.
At least Al Gore didn’t go full retard-Hillary after losing the way he did.
9/11 played a big role. Everyone got out of Bush’s way after that, especially Gore.
So he was mature and not a whack job like that wench.
And then he found his climate change niche.
He’s an even better scammer than the Clintons.
Once he had vanquished ManBearPig, Climate Change was the next logical target.
Did you feel the quake this morning?
1/4 mile from where I lived in Berkeley…
You would have thought we would, we only live a few miles from the epicenter, and we feel tremors all the time. But both my wife and I slept right through whatever happened at our house.
Our house is built on top of solid bedrock that goes down for at least a hundred feet, so quakes don’t affect us the way they do the houses on landfill/sand/soil, thank goodness.
Al Gore is a dope. He meant the SS LONDON Valour sinking, not the England
How not to warm up in this cold weather…
It’s Nature’s pocket!
+1 Marsupial
So before he started playing with her vagene, did he touch her bobs?
Man I wish I could sleep like that.
With fingers up you?
If it meant a good night’s sleep, I’d be cool with it.
/insomniac
STEVE SMITH PERKS UP.
Uh…buy a tempur-pedic…
Maybe he was reading a book, and wetting his fingers to turn the page?
He was obviously just trying to help her increase her social status, now she can join the highest ranks of #MeToo. She should send him monthly checks.
“brawl”?
i’d allow “slap fight”.
Yes, that is a good description of the “punches” being thrown in that one.
That place needs bigger bouncers.
Like these?
https://moneypennydd.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/carversmile.jpg?w=604
Precisely.
Seconded.
Yeah, I expect more out of Philly.
“No Cold Edition”
You mean SO cold edition? Glibs need another editor?
Wait, was I supposed to read the article? No one told me that.
*narrows gaze*
*icy glare*
That would make for a narrow glaze.
Man is Wendy’s Twitter account hilarious. Who would have thunk it?
“More
One year ago we roasted someone so badly they deleted their account.
Join us here Thursday, January 4th as we celebrate #NationalRoastDay”
Because of my work in digital marketing, I’ve been following their Twitter account for quite a while. It is indeed excellent.
The Last Blockbuster Store account is pretty funny.
If an employee starts crying during checkout you get a voucher for 25% off your next rental. That’s the Blockbuster guarantee.
Tweets & replies Media
The Last Blockbuster
@loneblockbuster
23h23 hours ago
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Goddammit, someone tricked Colleen into thinking Canadian coins were bitcoins and they strolled out with 4 boxes of Jujubes.
64 replies 954 retweets 6,515 likes
You’re not kidding.
There was an article about it several months ago in the WSJ. Apparently it’s run by a team that includes a stand-up comic, a traditional marketer, and I think a couple others. Wendy’s gives them a lot of flexibility but do have to get exec approval for any tweet deemed especially risky or potentially risking litigation. I was surprised they were given any lee-way at all in this day and age but it’s paid off for Wendy’s.
Man, I’m already plotting to take my kid there soon. It’s been a while but principles are principles.
Make me laugh and I support you.
Like those Old Spice commercials and products. If I could get Geico I’d do that do just to meet the lizard.
Not the lizard, but still funny
Lizard people act nice on TV, but meet them in person and they unhinge their jaw and eat your face.
We can be quite two-faced like that.
I’ve seen V. The y aren’t nice and they eat mice.
Also see @moonpie.
Isn’t it just a delightful day!
That’s the spirit, old man!
The trio have been named and shamed online
And yet the Mail decides to hide their identity, not only by not revealing their names, but hiding their pictures.
Honestly, this seems to be a pattern. No matter how atrocious a girl behaves, the press sees the need to protect her privacy to an extent they’d never do for anyone else, a boy, a grown man, or a grown woman.
IDK. They’re a British publication, so…. libel laws.
She fell asleep and woke up to discover a hand in her pants and noticed that her pants and shirt were unbuttoned.
She’s a sound sleeper.
That’s what I was thinking.
Maybe the guy was just lousy at what he was doing?
Maybe he was checking the 7th fetzer valve…
Or didn’t realize that she’d finished?
Talking point, twelve o’clock high
If there was mounting concern before the New Year about Trump’s mental state among Democrats on the Hill, the tide had been moving in the opposite direction among Republicans. In the final weeks of 2017, with a tax bill sailing toward passage and enough federal court judicial nominees pushed through to successfully reshape the judiciary, Republicans, in general, were moving toward a state of at least semi-acceptance of their unorthodox president. “The tendency was anti-alarmism among Republicans,” said Bill Kristol, editor at large of The Weekly Standard and one of Washington’s leading conservative voices.
That made Trump’s sudden fit of saber-rattling “more jolting,” according to Kristol — and it reopened the national conversation about the president’s mental stability. “I was focused on Iran, and talking to people in the administration about serious policy,” Kristol added, “and then to see in the middle of what might be a serious policymaking process, Trump’s just flipping out.”
On Wednesday, Kristol tweeted: “I trust @VP has asked his Counsel to prepare a draft document transferring power in accord with Sec. 4 of 25th Amendment in case it’s suddenly needed, & that he’s discussed this with COS Kelly.”
Palpable desperation.
Hah! As if Bill Kristol has ever cared about saber-rattling before.
Never met a war he didn’t like
Dissent into madness
Very nice. I’m stealing that.
he’s *EXTREMELY* stable. He’s Trump, and he never changes.
I am so looking forward to his press conference on the “Dishonest Media Awards”. I hope has some game-show girls to hand out prizes.
I have doctor in my pool who never stops telling me that Trump is not healthy (and has a personality disorder – which is the standard among people it seems) and will not run in 2020. I asked him how he knows and gave me one of those arrogant ‘I’m a doctor I know these things’ response. I like the guy but boy do I smack him around – and the pool loves it.
amazing. so, i assume next time you feel sick you can just phone him up and tell him to use his medical superpowers the way he does with Trump, and diagnose you telepathically.
Probably everyone who’s been President has Narcissistic Personality Disorder traits. Big Fucking Deal. Tell Dr. Expert that Personality Disorders only become an issue if they have led to serious functional incapacity and/or serious interpersonal problems and the individual wants help and wants to change. You can add if he’s so good at unsolicited psychiatric advice, he should go up to Transgender people and tell them what he thinks of their mental state, too.
It’s so unprofessional to diagnose patients who did not consent and are hundreds of miles away from you. And no, there’s no ‘duty to warn’ about someone you saw give a five-second, out of context quip on TV, there’s people much more qualified than you in the same building as the President who know exactly what his mental state is. There’s a difference between Trump being who he’s always been and danger — in fact, I think Trump always having things so out in the open actually reduces the danger that might percolate in more private people.
Diagnose me.
For fun.
To start, in your avatar picture, it looks you might have a hand up your ass.
OOOH OOOH *raises hand excitedly*
Pick me next!
…it looks you might have a hand up your ass.
Hockey stick, actually. He is a fellow Canuck, after all.
That better be a….SHER-WOOD.
Maybe it’s not a hockey stick, I mean he doesn’t look in pain. Maybe it’s a hockey puck?
If a “disorder” can make someone a billionaire, and then the president…. I’m wondering, is it really a disorder, or an adaptation?
is it really a disorder, or an adaptation?
Exactly. What all these armchair experts seem to miss is that symptoms are only relevant when they are causing dysfunction. And as you point out, anyone who can rise to Trump’s level, no matter what you think of him, is not (and could not be) functionally impaired.
And I’ve certainly not seen any evidence that he has psychosis or is delusional, either. Unique, even bizarre at times? Absolutely. But that is idiosyncratic behavior, not mental illness.
Psychopaths do all the time; whether that’s truly a disorder or just a disturbing personality constellation is debatable.
I have doctor in my pool
Maybe you should clean that thing every now and again. Maybe back-flush the filter and put some shock in.
/steals Swiss’s face. Narrows gaze.
Piranhas? Gators?
They tend to attract less attention if you use a dungeon and not the pool.
I keep hearing about Trump’s Iran tweets in the most dire possible terms. Here’s one that I’m supposed to be shitting my pants over:
The people of Iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt Iranian regime. All of the money that President Obama so foolishly gave them went into terrorism and into their ‘pockets.’ The people have little food, big inflation and no human rights. The U.S. is watching!
Is this it? He said their government sucked? Is that supposed to be some kind of news?
Still more insanity! Where will it all end!
Iran is failing at every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the Obama Administration. The great Iranian people have been repressed for many years. They are hungry for food & for freedom. Along with human rights, the wealth of Iran is being looted. TIME FOR CHANGE!
He’s exactly like the Russians, meddling in the Iranian election process!
/Impeachment Derp
And they bury the lede when they suggest that Iranian leadership is so tetchy that Trump’s tweets might incite them to war. Yet these are the people we’re permitting in good faith to continue operating their nuclear industry?! Good job, Barry.
Kristol is a grade A douche bag. He loves war. He’s probably jealous someone else is getting airtime for Saber rattling.
I hope some dissenters in the appropriate medical organization lampoon the shitbird doctor who briefed the Senators. She’s rendering a diagnosis for someone she hasn’t examined and for whom she doesn’t have medical records. That’s got to be some type of breach of medical ethics.
Remember that district in VA that was tied? The winner was declared by having his name drawn from a bowl.
They should save us all the headache and settle all elections by drawing lots.
I prefer a duel with a .460 Magnums.
Or pistols at 10 paces.
Swords. I want it up close and personal.
THUNDERDOME!
Fisticuffs. If you don’t want to back it up in the squared circle, then back off.
“Look! If you’re not mad enough to bare knuckle box then you’re not mad.”
Red Forman
Love that guy
I think Sugarfree’s vision of how the Hat and Hair determined Trump’s running mate is how we should do it.
Had to be Russians!
Anyone seen Doom lately?
Last post was on the 29th.
Hmmm. I hope he’s out getting laid.
Man, that was a rough day for him.
Forgot there was another USC fan. Most annoying part of that game were OS butt-licking announcers.
Hey, did you know today is the anniversary of that Vince Young run that lost the game for you guys in ’06?
So the media is allowed to report on this now?
That’s racist
Actually ABC seems to be the least insane of the big 3. Muir is about the only one I can somewhat tolerate.
“The lack of women among Germany’s refugee population is also seen as an aggravating factor.”
Wait… I was told by CNN, NYT, etc, for years that all of these migrants were women and children? Why are you Islamaphobes so afraid of women and children?
Ron Bailey told me they were doe-eyed women and children.
It pisses me off that those guys ‘fleeing’ a war zone left all of the women and children behind. Jesus Christ, what a bunch of shitbag cowards. I would have no problem if the Euros sacked up and drove them all out at the point of a bayonet.
Are they aware that people are actually aware of what they said, for years? And that nothing on the intertoobz ever goes away? Sure, they are, they just have no shame.
Who cares about the intertoobz when you’ve got a state of the art GO101 MemoryHole(tm).
The Sun King.
Better Sun King
Might as well have gone with Fire Woman if going that route.
Much better.
Rock on. I really dig the cult.
Praise the sun!
Sun King.
They should save us all the headache and settle all elections by drawing lots.
Duelling.
Drawing lots of blood.
10-12 pints, ideally.
With garden weasels, to the death
Successive rounds of Russian Roulette.
The primaries could be a single-elimination bracket.
Some of those dumb fuckers could probably go a couple times, being shot in a non-vital part of the body?
“Bernie won the primary, best 3 out of 5!”
Biblical
I liked that one 🙂
Due to my FIL’s death, the phone interview I was supposed to have was postponed until today. It went well… and then towards the end she let it be known that they already made an offer to someone for the EDI position, and would I be interested in locating to take the Business Analyst role?
Uh no.
*relocating
That sucks.
well I don’t “need” the job but I sure would like a change.
That’s the best time to look. Doesn’t hurt keeping up the interviewing skills either.
Ugh. Why not tell you that up front.
Jimmy Serrano reaction…
Erectile Dysfunction Inspector?
Prostitute?
We prefer… Uhhh, I mean, uh…
I hear they prefer to be called ‘sex surrogates’.
“Pleasure outsourcing agents”
Conslutants.
It sounds like you impressed her enough that she’s still interested. Shame it worked out that way.
What an asshole
Trump administration dramatically expands offshore drilling
The winning continues.
Considering we’re all going to be underwater soon, I don’t see where he has much of a choice.
the truth is that, if you ignored the spin put on all these stories, and stripped away all the ‘president x does ____’ horn-tooting….
….and you simply showed a chart of “number of operational rigs on federally managed land/coastal waters” alongside the plot of “annual change in price of oil”…
…what you’d see is that when operators see the price of oil rising? they increase the number of rigs. When the price of oil is falling? the number of rigs declines, and presidents “restrict” use.
basically, no president really does fuck all that isn’t going to get done anyway. they just advertise these changes as though they’re part of some very specific “plan” which makes it seem that the president is personally to be credited with either saving the environment, or saving the economy, or whatever seems convenient at the moment.
So this is where Europe’s balls have been hiding!
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/01/04/poland-hungary-unite-eurocrats-empire/
Yep – they definitely swung east.
the globalists of the “Soros Empire”
Like a good Bond Thriller
I would love to have an explanation as to why Soros is still drawing breath.
Did you ever see the episode of Star Trek TNG where the guy sucked Counselor Troi’s. . . youth away from her in order to stay young? Something like that.
This is all Trump’s fault.
“gonna be funny when Trump needs THC to slow the clumps of beta-amyloid proteins gucking up his brain”
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/948917831365783552
Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Neuroscientist
She beclowns herself more by the day.
I’m still waiting on that sandwich.
If she does finally make it, you should give it back to her out of pity. It would be like a starving Ethiopian giving you a sandwich and you not being good hearted enough to say ‘thank you, but this is for you’.
My brother said something interesting about this today. His theory was that Trump needs a popular outlet for which to fire Sessions over. He can’t do it for letting Muller run amok since that will stir the “impeach right meow” crowd. So letting Sessions take the bait for this is reason enough.
I shrugged and said, “fuck that guy.”
I hope that’s the case; anything to get rid of Sessions.
So do I. I have a few investments in companies benefitting from legalization. They didn’t do so hot today.
Not sure if true, but the source is not reliable to say the least. But over at DU, they are saying that Sessions is only doing this because Trump is forcing his hand. I really don’t think his hand needs forced. But Trump needs to reign this nutcase in. Didn’t he learn anything from the hobo? Trump worries me sometimes.
“Dad, why dont we get some good people in office?” – ten year old me
“Like who?” – My father
“Look at me, guys! I’m cool too!”
I mean look at her, it’s obvious she’s been starved of any nutrition for years. Shrinking brain is what happens, it is.
Good music for the lynx theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyXlJt4oe6A
Or this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URfE1iKgIhs
“There’s no such thing as a “nuclear button””
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/03/politics/trump-nuclear-button/index.html
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, Strategic Weapons Expert
This whole thing is beyond stupid. Does anyone, anywhere actually believe there is a suitcase with an actual button that would actually launch missiles. FFS.
It’s like when the media got after Trump for the wiretapping tweet, saying he literally meant that Obama was installing phone-tapping equipment himself at Trump Tower.
Anyone? My son probably does. You mean an adult. I’m sure there is someone immersed in derp. Besides it is a couple of keys that need to be turned simultaneously. Everyone knows that.
Or an Acme TNT demolition plunger
^This^
Every screenwriter in Hollywood?
I saw it on a movie.
It’s really more of large vibrating egg.
That you sit on until you explode?
I’ll be in my bunk.
+1 Gwyneth Paltrow.
“Democratic National Committee Deputy Chair Keith Ellison has endorsed the leftist movement recognized as a domestic terrorist group, Antifa, posing with a book that recommends violent confrontation against the state.
The DNC head posted a picture of himself on Twitter posing with Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, by Mark Bray. The book offers justifications for joining Antifa, and is widely regarded as a call to arms.
In his tweet, Ellison claimed to have “just found the book that strike fear in the heart of [Donald Trump].”
https://www.dangerous.com/39850/dnc-leader-keith-ellison-endorses-antifa-strike-fear-trump-video/
These morons aren’t going to stop until they incite a civil war. It’s not politics to them anymore, it’s a crusade.
That seems awfully foolish considering which side owns the weapons.
They’re not rational people. They assume that they have the government and the vast majority of the population on their side. A few leninist purees, and all the wrong thinkers are dead.
Purges*
purees works as well
You need to purge after you drink one of those.
Wood chipper reference?
Just about to make a similar comment.
Soylent Green
It’s people!
THAT’S NOT BORSCHT!
Ellison and his comrade superior, Perez, are both avowed communists. And oddly, antifa are also avowed communists. Coincidence I suppose, since the left deny they are communists. At least most of them.
Police in Pennsylvania released video of a bar fight at Big Heads Irish Pub on Dec. 20, hoping to track down the four suspects. The unidentified men allegedly used a beer bottle and a pool cue as weapons, sending one employee to the hospital with a head wound.
Drunk Irish fighting? Seriously?
I never understood how in every TV show or movie I’ve seen, people go the hospital after getting into a fight. I’ve always just went home and slept it off when that happened. Why spend the night in an Emergency room and pay thousands of dollars so you can get cleaned up and maybe wrapped up a bit and given some aspirin?
What tv and movies you watching? I always laugh about jaw punches and kicks to the head and the person gets up and wins the fight with maybe a little blood trickling from a cut eyebrow. Watch Rocky get his head hammered and you’d think concussions and lost teeth were just make-believe.
Depends on the fight.
A pool cue across the neck or the shin is not something you’d be able to just sleep off. Don’t ask me how I know this to be true.
Unless something is broken I don’t see the point, and even at that I’ve gone home with a broken nose. I’ve been hit in the face with a glass and a pool ball, been hit with a bat in the head, and have been strangled, and I didn’t go the hospital.
Oh, I also got stabbed a little when somebody tried to mug me one night in Buffalo, and I just ran to a friend’s house.
Just a flesh wound?
Jesus man, what kind of people are you hanging out with?
Us.
Sure, it’s not an automatic “off to the ER with you” but two cracked vertebrae ain’t something you can treat with a handful of grunt candy and a good night’s sleep.
When I was a young man, back when young men still had a detectable amount of testosterone in their body, I had to go the doctor twice after a fight, both times to get stitches. Wasn’t really a big deal back then, but if you didn’t think you needed stitches or nothing was broke, you just cleaned it up and laughed it off and did it again next week.
Random thought.
People testing silver bullets keep running into casting faults. It is their incessant complaint. Why do they never cast over-large and machine it down to shape?
Because they believe werewolves are real and therefore aren’t the brightest bulbs to begin with?
Why not just make silver buckshot?
Lone Ranger’s shotgun? Stop being such a fag.
~~~Inclusive and bigotry-free language, please~~~
You can’t catbutt me! I fucking work here!
I’m going to take a dump in the break room.
I’m going to take a break in the dump room.
*snicker*
BULLY!
I’ll CATBUTT EVERY LAST MOTHERFUCKING ONE OF YOU!
Easy friendo!
*WATCH YERSELF*
HEY?! NOT ME! WTF? Swiss Brown Cowbutting me?!
What is going on around here?!
I still say that breed needs more meat on their bones.
I HAVE EXISTED FROM THE MORNING OF THE WORLD AND SHALL EXIST UNTIL THE LAST STAR FALLS FROM THE NIGHT! ALTHOUGH I HAVE TAKEN THE FORM OF SUGARFREE, I AM ALL COMMENTERS AS I AM NO COMMENTER, THEREFORE, I AM A GOD!
Is it the letter E?
“I still say that breed needs more meat on their bones.”
Is it called the ENB breed?
~~~Inclusive and bigotry-free language, please~~~
What’s bigoted about calling someone a cigarette?
/deliberately obtuse
*narrows gaze*
Australian song lyric confuses Americans:
“when the attack was through
We took some prisoners to HQ
And shared a fag and a yarn or two”
And shared a fag and a yarn or two”
Not confusing at all to this American. The lyricist is clearly enamored of some creative activity that involves a gay guy and knitting material. I won’t judge.
If I gave her the wool, would she make me one too?
It’s the principle of the thing. Since I’m not trying to kil werewolves but solve a technical problem, I am trying to work out the best way to get proper ballistic performance out of a silver bullet. Silver shot doesn’t qualify under the spirit of the mental exercise.
*principal
no, it really is principle.
No, it’s the principal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh_vLKlz2Mc
Maybe that’s the answer. Have your characters encounter similar difficulties and then say “Fuck it, let’s go with buckshot”.
Silver jacketed lead – manufacture and balance just like any other FMJ bullet. I assume delivering the silver into the bloodstream is the goal. The whole bullet doesn’t need to be made of silver.
My first question would be how comparable are the co-efficients of expansion for lead and silver in the transition phase from liquid to solid. Then I’d look at things like solid-liquid phase behavior of silver and lead to the casting block material and any chemical reactions.
The only reason lead bullets are poured rather than turned is because it’s cheaper that way and it works. Clearly, there’s lots of evidence that casting silver doesn’t work. I’d certainly consider taking silver (or probably better, a silver alloy) and turning it.
Better waste recycling (hence $$$), better control over shape.
No danger of casting imperfections – particularly if you want cannulated projectiles
Better control of the projectile weight.
I’d place bets that ammo such as the Liberty Defense all-copper bullets are turned.
Oh, and from a production point of view? They can just go out and get ‘stock’ sterling silver rod, at 92.5+% Ag, which is going to be harder and therefore potentially better at barrier penetration, or go for Ag/Au/Pd alloys which are more ductile than pure silver, to make soft round nosed and unjacketed hollow points.
Put a 10ft long rod of material in your CNC metal lathe and 5 mins later you have 300 rounds of cannuled lycanthrope death, 110 grain +/- 2 grain.
To be fair to the people who’re doing these tests in real life, most can’t afford that much silver.
Well, that’s one of the benefits of sterling silver, it’s much cheaper than 92.5% of the price of silver bullion.
I thought this was some research for one of your literary projects.
If it’s just pondering about some guys on Youtube thinking they need to upgrade their ZombieMax ammo (NTTAWWT), their production facilities aren’t likely to stretch to anything more complex than a crucible and a MAPP gas blowtorch.
If you wanted to do this for real, then I’d machine the rounds. That way you can bore the tip out too, and insert raw garlic or wolfsbane, and still have the required precise bullet weight a true professional can appreciate.
Why a lathe rather than a Swiss screw machine?
I’ve never screwed a swiss, so I couldn’t be sure it would work, but a lathe? sure.
*narrows gaze*
As far as I know only a few all copper bullets are turned and they are ridiculously expensive. Most bullets with copper component are swaged.
It is not possible to make a silver bullet with decent ballistic performance. Silver is light as a feather. I used a silver/lead alloy to make mine and they were still too light to be of any use. A silver jacket or silver tip on a lead slug could be made to work, that’s about it.
What are the advantages of an all copper bullet?
It is even lighter than an all-silver bullet, duh.
Dense, soft enough to expand but stays open rather than folding over on itself like lead. Leaving a bigger, more jagged hole. It’s a bit of a gimmick.
Ah. So it’s kind of a home-brew Black Talon round since they were banned?
[edit: not banned, but removed for sale and replaced with the SXT round, making the all copper bullet even more of a gimmick, I guess.]
Not really home brew, https://www.cheaperthandirt.com/product/ammo-9mm-luger-p-cor-bon-dpx-115-grain-solid-copper-hollow-point-bullet-1250-fps-20-rounds-dpx09115-20-757750900905.do
OK. I mixed it up with the silver bullet discussion. Thanks.
A bullet of lead for a 9mm runs about 115-147 grains. An equivalent sized copper bullet is about 50 grains. So on the (simplistic) calculus, you need to drive it far faster for it to have the same kinetic energy, which is one of the most important factors in a good defensive round.
So, a simple lump of copper really offers no benefit at all over a lump of lead – negative really since the bullet doesn’t deform. In defensive rounds, by adopting different designs, you can obtain what the proponents of copper rounds consider to be similar to lead rounds. I’m unconvinced, but then I’ve still to do my own testing with.
The up-side is that copper is more environment friendly – of course, the assumption is that people who are complaining about lead ammo are sincere when they say what concerns them is the health of Gaia and not some other, unspoken complaint.
Me? if the ballistics and economics of plastic ammo was competitive, I’d use that for practice; but for defensive use? A reliable *lead* Jacketed hollow point at 1400fts would remain my choice, and I wouldn’t reconsider it until LEO use of non-lead ammo became commonplace.
So the proper propellant quantity could also be a factor? If the practical experiments were using too little propellant for the (slightly) lessened mass of the silver round, that would result in lower energy on impact.
Yep, in broad terms that’s exactly right – the propellant quantity and its composition are issues that will determine the velocity of the round. Ultimately, you want a round with the maximum kinetic energy that dumps all of that energy into its target (i.e. the bullet doesn’t pass thru’ the target). Once you get that, you start talking about wound cavities, hydraulic shock, fragmentation, etc. which are a complete subject in their own right, and that’s mostly dependent on the gun itself, the material you’re testing in and finally, the physical properties of the projectile itself.
Silver is only about 10% lower density than lead, so assuming you could increase the charge in the cartridge somewhat (15% more pressure?), you could impart the same kinetic energy to the bullet; but there is a finite limit on just how much pressure you can subject a given firearm to. If you don’t have a +P-rated firearm, you’re limited in what commercially available ammo is safe for it. A lot of defensive ammo is +P. You can go higher than that, with wildcat loads which people call +P+, but there’s no actual standard, and if you want to play games like that, you can be putting yourself and the reliability of your firearm at risk.
So the lump of mass of a certain cross-sectional area meets its objective with X lb/ft energy.
That 50 grain for copper is for the Liberty Defense ammo, which I haven’t actually got my hands on yet. The density of lead is about 20% greater than copper, so that bullet must be hollow or formed in some way.
less deformation upon impact and thus more penetration. Copper is lighter than lead so all-copper bullets retain their velocity inefficiently. They slow down faster and thus are suitable at shorter ranges than lead. There is no real advantage as lead bullets can be alloyed to be very hard and fitted with copper jackets.
The main advantage of a copper jacket is that copper has a higher melting point than lead. Lead bullets have a top velocity of about 2000 fps. After that they melt as they go down the barrel from the friction and fill your barrel up with lead adhesions. It is easy to make all lead bullets that are harder than jacketed bullets but your velocity is limited to >2000 fps.
The kind of thing you need high penetrating hard bullets for , large dangerous game trying to kill you back, is usually short range shooting anyway.
For combat purposes Armor piercing round usually have a steel core wrapped in lead and then jacketed with copper or soft steel.
My favorite bullets are all lead, flat nose and cast in hard alloys fitted with a copper cup on the base called a gas check. For higher velocity rounds anything with a copper jacket is acceptable. The cheapest bullets, Remington Core-bond, are copper jacketed with the nose just bare lead. I haven’t found anything to really improve on that. Ok, maybe the Sierra bullets are more consistent in size and weight and perform just as well but you pay a little more for them.
Oh, you can drive copper jacketed bullets up to around 4000 fps. Commonly closer to 3000, but upper limits are 4K.
That is one hell of a fast bullet.
Copper? Oh yeah. Put a cutter to a copper rod in a lathe and that sucker will work-harden faster than ENB can virtue signal.
You’d have to anneal the bullets multiple times and then they’d perform like shit. No way could you turn that into a price-competitive product as far as I can imagine (real metallurgists/production engineers please butt in here), not with something as simple as lead.
My take on silver is – how many would you need? 20? 40? Not price competitive, but when you have a lycanthrope to slay – who’s counting?
If you have money to burn…
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/868531/lehigh-defense-xtreme-penetrator-bullets-45-70-government-458-diameter-305-grain-solid-brass-fluid-transfer-monolithic-box-of-50
That’s what Underwood use for their defensive ammo (is Lehigh and Underwood the same firm? Wouldn’t surprise me). Brass, like copper – is gonna need to be heat treated and so on, so it will be expensive.
I have some of them (the Underwoods) for a couple of my guns, but the BHP and the CZ 75 SP01 don’t feed them very reliably. The BHP I wasn’t too disappointed about, but the CZ is a potential bedside anti-goblin gun, so I have HSTs in that, although once I get some of that Liberty Defense ammo I might retire the HSTs.
Check out interceptor ARX copper solid bullet. They use a screw like shape to enhance spin and create cavitation. The extra velocity enhances the effectiveness.
Silver bullets? *calling Pie to the courtesy phone*
That’s vampires, dude.
Also, did you register with us with a fake email address, bitch? I’ve trying to get ahold of you.
Nah, I just don’t check that email address very often, I’ll go check it.
Ok, what? Did I miss something, I don’t get it? I post drunk sometimes…
In the last What Are We Reading?, you were lamenting the fact you couldn’t find an ebook version of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. I was hooking you up, bruh.
I sent it along, so check again.
Thanks, SF, got it.
Romanians don’t discriminate against other mythical creatures!
What’s this?
I cast some silver bullets as a novelty. My wife loves sci-fi/fantasy stuff so I made some silver 38 spls for her. It is a novelty, that is all.
I test fired one just for fun. Silver is light, way too light to make a decent bullet. Also, it has no structural integrity. Very little pressure and it goes plastic. My silver bullets bounced right off of a piece of 3/4″ plywood. Barely made a dent.
I recall Larry Correia going into extreme detail over this in his first book.
Except that just doesn’t seem to be accurate.
Lead – Density 11.34 g/cm^3
Silver – Density 10.89 g/cm^3
Copper – Density 8.96 g/cm^3
It’s not the weight that would be a problem. And the ductility of lead was part of what makes it useful as a projectile. So the question is not whether it can be made suitable – it is what about the process people are using when casting it that causes problems – hense, remove the casting irregularities from the equation and see what a machined round will do.
I had no problem casting them. First casting gave me acceptable bullets. The problem is that silver doesnt retain its hardness under pressure. I noticed when I pressed them into the cases that they had good resistance up to a certain point and then turned plastic very quickly and deformed. It felt really funny, not like anything else I have ever felt. They didn’t resist less as the pressure increased, they just caved suddenly and turned into play-doh.
I am guessing that when they are fired the bases deform from the gas hammer that is propelling them and that the outer skin on them gives way when they engage the rifling. They offer such little resistance going down the barrel that all of the gunpowder doesnt burn. Gunpowder required confinement and pressure to burn efficiently and a silver bullet just doesnt provide that.
that is my highly scientific, pulled straight out of my ass analysis.
This brings me to what I suspect will be the sticking-point of development of non-lead projectiles. To make optimal use of other materials, the physics of the firearm may simply need to be changed. Maybe the solution is a different propellant or propellant mix that is ill-suited to the current firearms. We have what we have today because of our need to fire a lump of dense, cheap metal downrange, and many firearm prototypes didn’t see the light of day because they couldn’t overcome the physics and chemistry they had to deal with.
If the issue of “some-other-metal” projectiles has to be resolved using a larger bore and a slower smokeless powder, there’s going to be some point where the physical characteristics of your 1911 stop it from working properly. There’s a reason we have different calibers, different smokeless powders, primers etc etc.
The 1911 is a case in point. Some 1911’s will only fire certain loads of otherwise identical ammo, if you change slide springs, because the load requires a different amount of powder, which affects the slide’s movement, which determines whether the action cycles properly, which determines the force applied to chamber the next round, etc.
Anyway, as Timeloose notes before, if you want a round that behaves like a lead round but with silver’s cleansing power a sintered or pressed composite round might be the answer.
oooo….. Silver-tipped gyrojet rounds.
Copper ammo for your pistol. https://www.inceptorammo.com
I’ll check ’em out.
I’m not totally ‘sold’ on frangible rounds, but I’m willing to be convinced.
They are meant to stay in one peice unless they hit a hard surface like armor.
I’m not sure the unsatisfactory characteristics are casting defects – or even defects at all.
As Suthen reports, it looks more like a limitation of the physical material – there’s more to a material’s response to external force than simply ductility and malleability.
I would go with a Ag and Pb powder mixed together and pressed in a die. Both are really ductile and should balance out the weight to wearewolf killing potential.
The Hillary house fire was on Seth Rich’s birthday. Kinda weird
Was Seth tied up in the house?
Good news!
The Trolls Royce is up for sale!
What did they do to it!?
If only there was a way to get another 1000 lbs out of that car.
Why?
Because you can pick those up for a couple grand. They’re notoriously difficult to get OEM parts for, so why not go crazy and throw a bunch of weird stuff into one and race it?
They could have at least not made it ugly!
UCS gets it.
What is it for?
Kicking ass and chewing bubble gum.
Just for fun, here’s the Silver Ghost AX201, the most valuable car in the world:
http://cloudlakes.com/data_images/models/rolls-royce-silver-ghost/rolls-royce-silver-ghost-12.jpg
That is a beautiful car.
Eh. Auto design for me didn’t really take off until they started getting aerodynamic.
That’s another nice one.
“Here’s a fan fiction cross over where Jojo from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure teams up with Paul Joseph Watson to do battle with anti-fa”
https://twitter.com/notwokieleaks/status/949014483829231616
(Reposting this because I missed the morning comments rush and now it’s in a dead thread)
OT: Is it possible for flames to come out of a chimney that is venting from a natural gas furnace?
There’s a pipe on my roof that vents gases from the natural gas furnace in the basement. The other night, my neighbor said she saw “fiery colors” coming from this pipe (I’m assuming she meant there was a reddish glow that could be seen on the spark arrestor).
I have an HVAC guy coming out tomorrow, but have you ever heard of such a thing happening? I looked at the furnace and couldn’t see anything abnormal (but I’m not a furnace expert) and there is some kind of white emission coming from the chimney, but it looks the same as what’s coming out of every other chimney on the block.
Any ideas what this might be?
If the Chimney ISN’T lined it could catch fire, but unlikely it’s unlined. Vent cap may have come off and some debris fell in, but Nat gas Products of Combustion don’t exceed 400 degrees at most, the White is fog/ Water vapor, normal.
Unless you have some issue with lack of air feeding the furnace and unburned gas is getting to the roof before it ignites (no oxygen), but that would likely mean your furnace would not be heating or is using an extraordinary amount of gas.
If it were lack of air feed the furnace burners would Roll Out , seeking air and tripping safety switches, not exhausts gas through the vent, it doesn’t work like you’re thinking
Electing a new Pope?
LOL!
OTOH, It sounds like the vent IS Not going into the Chimney, but is a separate system, as it should be, if flames are coming out of your vent, your house is already burnt to the ground, as in, the furnace would have shutdown on limits or rollout switches if it every git that hot.
/HVAC guy
Aliens?
Thanks for the tips, guys. I’m no HVAC expert, but I’m highly skeptical that there were actual flames coming out of the chimney (nevertheless, I called a heating guy to come out and look at it tomorrow; I’d rather pay up for an examination rather than have my house burn down).
Now that it’s dark, I’ve gone out there several times to look at it, and I haven’t seen any flames or glowing of any kind.
It might have been heat shimmer. How hot is the vented exhaust and compared to how cold it was on the day she saw it, for example?
No idea what the temperature of the exhaust. I think it was in the single-digit negatives the night that she says this happened.
I am an HVAC expert, and you are correct, the lady is seeing things, Modern Furnaces WILL NOT ALLOW such a thing, way too many safeties would have to fail, and your house would burn down. If you have Heat, you are safe, let your HVAC guy do the rest, don’t trust amateurs, I’ll always be around for a consult if need be,
Cheers!
If the furnace is plugged up in some way that you are getting explosive reactions when it kicks on (you would obviously hear this as it would make a loud boom and possibly shake the house), then yes. If that’s the case, shut it off and call someone immediately. Otherwise, I have no idea.
Dude just, no Don’t scare people, not cool
I wasn’t kidding you, I had that exact thing happen in a house I lived in, scared the fuck out of me.
not in the last 20 years, unless it was a shitty install
Well, I’d guess that furnace was more than 20 years old, and it was more than 20 years ago, so…
Do I need to write an Article? Bad advise gets people killed in my trade, maybe some good advise eh?
First, that wasn’t advice. 2nd, as I said, I don’t have any advice except that if your furnace is way past time to clean and kicking on really hard, stop now and fix it fore you blows yerself sky high.
If you need to clean a Nat Gas furnace that badly, it’s ruined and must be replaced,Backfiring is a thing of the past, and that wasn’t her Complaint anyway, stick to what you know, anecdotes are worthless here. No offence, I just see this crap every day, “oh my handyman fixed it!” then why did you call me?
Actually the guy I called cleaned it out and it was ok for a while and then I replaced the ancient beast.
Yusef, my friend, you should never change your avatar, it alters one, in mysterious ways. Go back to happy happy avatar.
OK/ slinks off to change………
there, Happy?
Fortunately, I haven’t heard any bangs.
The furnace kicked on about half an hour ago, and I’ve been going out there and looking at the chimney every few minutes. I haven’t seen anything out of the ordinary so far.
Good to hear. If you don’t hear it kick on, then it’s obviously not that it’s kicking on hard. Weird, maybe something, like a bird fell into the chimney and burned up, and that’s what your neighbor saw? If not, aliens, must be aliens.
I had a vent cap blow off and found 3 cooked birds trapped in the Draft motor assembly,
check this out,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/WPEy5iY1PnmOGT9B3
Dude, didn’t you know that aliens can change themselves into birds? Don’t be fooled!
I thought that was dinosaurs.
did you see it? that was a puzzle, everything worked and the pressure switch just wouldn’t stay closed,checked the vent all the way down and, BIRDS! it must have been a horrible death
“I thought that was dinosaurs.”
Yeah, but that took millions of years. Aliens do it instantly!
I didn’t take pictures, but last summer, we fired up our AC and nothing happened. Went outside, opened up the condenser’s electronics panel and about 50 toasted mice, plus bedding and about 10 live mice running for the hills. When stuff stopped moving (I loathe rodents) I pulled out all the shit, bedding etc and the whole lot was fried. We don’t isolate or power the unit down in winter, so one of the little buggers obviously got hungry and decided to snack on the insulation.
I never realized mouse urine was able to corrode its way thru’ an electrolytic condenser can, but I guess it did. I have to say though – shitty, shitty Carrier residential condenser unit. When I looked inside the electronics housing, no wire grommets – just wires going thru’ holes. Metalwork so shoddy there were gaps between the outside wall of the enclosure and the ‘floor’ that would have let the mice in.
I never realized mouse urine was able to corrode its way thru’ an electrolytic condenser can, but I guess it did.
Rodent urine can do just about anything.
*flashes back to shoveling 50 lbs of dessicated squirrel shit out of the attic a few months ago*
Caps fail due to heat, the holes are for drainage and a Well Maintained Carrier is the best unit on the market, time for an article I guess….
if you don’t have one, get a CO detector, 10$ worth it
In one house I owned, I had 3 of them, two on the first floor and one on the 2nd. I was awaken one night by all 3 of them going off. I got up and I couldn’t smell any gas but I felt sort of weird and my x was complaining of a headache. So I called the gas company to come out and went outside to wait. Dude comes down there, it’s like 11PM and it’s apparent he’s in a bad mood, I guess because he got woke up. So he takes his ultra sophisticated detector and says it’s all clear. So I said ‘don’t you think it’s odd that all of my detectors went off at the same time?’. So he says in a gruff tone ‘What are you going to believe, your puny devices or my mega trillion zillion dollar god like detector?’. That was sort of weird. Not sure what happened.
smoke detectors are wired together one goes off all do, your CO detectors might’ve been done up similarly.
His detector wasn’t measuring carbon monoxide? Or he wasn’t using it properly?
Headache, weird feeling, and multiple independent CO detectors firing at the same time are pretty goddam good indicators of increased carbon monoxide levels.
Also, call your fire department not the gas company unless you’re smelling sulfurous odors. All the gas company guy cares about is natural gas leaks.
There obviously was no fire or even smoke. The detectors were dual purpose and as far as I know, they were not wired together, one would not have been aware of the other. That’s the really weird part. Must have been aliens, that’s always the best answer.
Bingo! That was CO not nat gas, and typically CO detectors are NOT wired together so you can Isolate the source easier
Required: http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/158/329/9189283.jpg
I reset all of them and they never went off again. Not sure what would cause a sudden spike in CO and then nothing, just a one time thing. Any ideas, Yusef?
Well, if you’re still here, it must have self cleared or (multiple) one time faulty detectors. Unless they were older detectors, I’d guess concentrations built up in an enclosed/semi enclosed space then dissipated. Partially blockage of an exhaust vent causing overpressure, and into the living space? Multiple CO producing sources all operating at the same time- dryer, oven, furnace, etc?
I was once given a CO detector. For Valentine’s Day.
You looked a little pink and they were worried?
I had an apartment that went over garages. He worried.
“‘Penis whitening’ service where men have their groins blasted with a laser becomes a huge hit with men in Thailand”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5234645/Thai-penis-whitening-fad-drives-social-media-nuts.html
[black voice] “that don’t make no sense to me. they already smaller”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhvqED3Ud48
Yes, but black is slimming.
Yellow ones are considered smaller than white ones.
But black ones aren’t as big as the plaid ones.
/Old joke: Sex toy salesman … “and I got $75 for my thermos”
ENB’S TOY BOY HARDEST LASED.
(jesus christ is he an insufferable asshole. you ever see his twitter account?)
He’s a human Buzzfeed quiz.
WHAT IF I WANTED IT BLACKENED? LIKE CAJUN FOOD.
Then you just put the sausage on the grill for a while after buttering and seasoning it.
It’s just men turning into women. You know, the age old thing with wiminz where if they have straight hair, they curl it, if it’s curly, they straighten it, etc? Now it’s. I have a yellow dick, I want a white one! Does my ass look fat in these jeans? Can you see a bulge? No? Ok, off to the dick fattener!
I’ve never heard this euphemism for ladyboy prostitutes before.
I ummm… wut?
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/01/04/ashley-madison-information-request-denied/
We be crazy.
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/01/02/colorado-police-paired-with-behavioral-health-clinicians-mental-illness-drug-addiction/
College student argues in favor of infanticide- because 2 year-olds can’t talk and thus aren’t sentient.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10332
Dogs can’t talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsrW7bkQ1dE
I’m pretty sure that most 2 year olds are more sentient than that guy. And this is not a new idea, not even close. The left have been going on with this non-sense for many years.
Philip K Dick ridiculed it by suggesting algebra proved sentience.
I just say that if sentience is the measure, why stop at 2?, we can just get rid of 99% of the left right now. I in no way advocate any such totalitarian non-sense, just saying.
clearly hasnt been around many 2 year olds.
If a child isn’t talking A LOT at two years old, there’s likely a serious medical issue.
Also, my brain isn’t letting me believe this guy wasn’t trolling them.
It seems like either a troll or a set-up to me as well.
This guy had better watch getting around a mother or grandmother and going on with this shit, when he gets his eyeballs clawed out of his stupid head, I’m going to laugh.
Just a quick repost of my review for this week: https://youtu.be/iCEWyNwOOx8 – ‘Undead’ isn’t a perfect flick but worth a quick rental to get some background on the Spierig Bros. If you can see how they got from this to ‘Predestination’, you’ve got me beat….but then the guy behind ‘Dead Alive’ and ‘Bad Taste’ made “The Lord of the Rings”. Looking forward to ‘Winchester’ and the other new projects they’ve got in the works.
The new mic sounded better. I would still advise doing some audio editing where you stumble over words and such. As for going from something like this to better productions, the people you surround yourself with and hire can make a world of difference. That’s why when a director finds a DP, editor or AD they like they usually end up doing a lot of projects with them
Good points. I need to comment on the creative teams a little more in future vids – where relevant. Most of the ones I’ve covered so far are kinda one-offs with a few exceptions.
Proving once again she’s the dumbest politician in a country that features PM Zoolander, Elizabeth May and multiple Commie provincial leaders, Premier of Ontario provides Derpetologist fodder over minimum wage.
Ontario premier calls Tim Hortons heir ‘a bully’ over wage actions
She’s beefing with two people who run a doughnut shop. Fucking hell, Ontario. Fucking. Hell.
Tim Horton’s should fire an employee each time she speaks in public or to a reporter until she stops.
They only run one store, so they’d have to set up a revolving door if they go ahead with that threat. That’s what makes it so retarded – this is not Timmy corporate HQ, or Ontario-wide or anything. Just, one goddamn store.
Will Tim Horton’s make you a Lutherburger? Is it on the menu? Could you special order?
(I’ve been to one but years ago.)
Spot the Not: Kathleen Wynne
1. Social justice is what drives me; it’s why I’m here.
2. We want to ensure a multilateral development of society, the thriving of all sides of social life, economy, science and culture.
3. I’ve been driving since I was 19 years old.
4. My plan is to govern as long as I can.
5. It has always been a challenge to raise a family on a minimum wage job, but in recent years it has become almost impossible.
6. At its core, this is a plan to change behaviours and challenge social norms.
#5 sounds like Hillary or any one a huge number of the left.
#3
2 is the not. That is from Ceaucescu.
Since it’s been decided that people can identify as whatever sex they want, therefore rendering terms like “man” and “woman” bigoted, let’s see what else we can come up with.
Humans are not bipedal because that’s discriminatory against amputees and people in wheelchairs.
Humans are not sentient because that’s discriminatory against those that are comatose.
Humans don’t breathe because that’s discriminatory against those in iron lungs.
Humans’ body temperature isn’t 98.6F because that’s discriminatory against those with fevers.
Man, line me up with a tenured position in Harvard’s biology department right now. I can see all the federal grant money rolling in for these studies right now.
I identify as a 4000 year old Consiglier for a Tauran Crime family, with a Gay Brother who Loves toast but Hates Toasters and the Man who built them, Daniel Graystone
I identify as Tom Brady, but hateful Gisele others me by not sleeping with me.
My “normal” body temperature, when I’m not sick, is 97.3. It’s been that way all my life.
A 98.6 body temperature is outrageously discriminatory towards me.
New documentary about Giannni Agnelli and Fiat.
I’m looking forward to seeing this one.
Thanks! It looks really cool!
Tasty trailer.
that does look interesting.
sucks that the company sort of turned into plastic shitboxes. the stuff they’re selling in the US now seem to be attempts by Chrysler at selling ‘upscale’ cars
only vaguely/sort of related, i really enjoyed the doco made about Paul Newman’s racing career.
The rebooted Dodge Dart is a Fiat and a piece of shit. But I repeat myself (twice?)
I think Doug DeMuro pointed out “Fiats best car is a Miata with a Abarth badge slapped on it”
I just got a refurb LG 32″ monitor for my home office for under $200. Now I have no guilt about working from home. I can have 4 documents open on that thing and read every one of them.
Jelly as Fuck, I’m stuck a pair of 21″ Acers
/first world problems
I re-purposed our 32″ TV for use as a monitor when working form home. Very nice! Mapping/GIS is much better as well.
Mapping/GIS
Code for porn… blink twice if someone is watching.
I have a 65″ 4K TV I just realized I could use with my new Apple TV with airplay.
STEVE SMITH FALL IN LOVE
World’s hairiest teen girl reveals shock transformation after first shave
Day-um!
JackInmanz4h
The world’s hairiest teen girl is anywhere in Mexico.
Wow, she turned into a thicc blonde milf in one shave… oh, sorry, I guess I need to scroll down more.
So this is reminding me of a little song we used to sing about a hirsute, incompetent woman physician who had a very short tenure in an ER I was working in.
Her actual name, including middle initial “D”, fit perfectly the cadence of “Frosty D. Snowman”, which thus naturally became the tune for her little song.
Since I obviously can’t use her real name, let’s call her “Frosty D. Snowmiss”. Here’s the song:
Frosty D. Snowmiss
Was a really lousy doc.
Well she killed two patients with ill-timed meds
And a third she put in shock.
Frosty D. Snowmiss
Was a hairy male they say,
But she said “taint so!”
“I’m a girl you know,”
“But it’s true I need a shave.”
There must have been some fungus
On that stethoscope she found
Because whenever she took a pulse
The chest would then turn brown…..oh!
*applauds*
Instapundit is Lurking, this isn’t the first time I have seen him post the SAME thing as one of the Glibs, shortly after we did, like this
http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/buying-maintenance/a14546274/trolls-royce-corbin-goodwin-for-sale/
this was posted AFTER Tundra’s link, coincidence, I think Not!
The Blogfather – Not-So-Secret Almost-libertarian.
I am Instapundit’s muse.
instapundit often cites car blogs
He also links to TOS.
I grant that this is a funny tweet
although, the “dude aren’t hands like totally weird?” thing is really more of an LSD-stereotype
Looks like Motel 6 can join the Hilton and Disney as lodging to stay away from.
Washington Attorney General Sues Motel 6 for Sharing Guest Info With Feds
https://www.wsj.com/articles/washington-attorney-general-sues-motel-6-for-sharing-guest-info-with-feds-1515016334
lol. I know it’s a thing, it still tickles me for some reason.
Why no Disney? Measles?
(Disney takes so very much of my money. I am but a slave to a gigantic mouse.)
They announced a new policy of removing ‘do not disturb’ signs and sending staff into all guest’s rooms at least once every day. Hilton announced the same policy.
Ah.
Being a Floridian means a lot of Disney, but I tend to stay at off-property hotels (either a Marriott of some sort or the Gaylord Palms). Their on-property hotels are expensive as fuck.
Sorry Tundra.
Michelle Bachmann says she’s considering running for Al Franken’s Senate seat.
It is an improvement.
Yeah, at least we can make milf comments about her.
Oh, goody.
We’ll be treated to her standard creative ideas about minimal governance.
Can’t wait.
Reason number 10,947 that I love my dog: we have the same reaction to snow.
OMG SNOW! THIS IS AWESOME! SNOW!!!
When we moved here from Texas, our pup experienced her first snow. It was hilarious. She bounded outside joyfully, ran in a big circle, then squatted to pee… and squealed in shock and jumped about 5 feet in the air.
Yeah, dogs love snow. I’ve had some cats that love it too. One big barn Tabby I had would go to the door and meow if it was snowing a lot, he somehow knew it. I remember one time I opened the door for him and he just pounced out the door and the snow was over his head, lol. He disappeared for a moment, resurfaced and then ran off pouncing through it. He came back about an hour later meowing on the steps. I opened the door and the fucker looked like the abominable snow cat. I was like ‘no way fucker you’re not…’. That’s when he flew past me tracking snow all over the house before I caught him in a towel and took him to the kitchen to dry him off with him fussing all the way.
Yep, first deep snow we had, all was great until she squatted. Never seen such an outraged dog. I had to shovel a poop path in the back yard because we were not going for a walk every time she had to pee. She’s a retired racer from Florida, but loves the cold weather and snow.
Hah! I have a mini-aussie, low to the ground. I have to clear or beat down a space for her when it snows. Otherwise she poops in the tracks she just made and then steps in it.
One of my neighbors just got a hurricane rescue from the British Virgin islands. That dog’s attitude is “holy crap! Stop rescuing me! It’s cold!”. They have to carry her out of the house.
Today in men say weird things to me:
Him: I like your outfit, you like something out of Shakespeare, like a fairy
Me: …… thanks?
Ugh ” you look like..”
So what you’re saying is that the guy wasn’t black.
College aged Hispanic guy. But it is too bad I’m not a cougar because lately it’s 20 something black guys that hit on me. Like enough that my friends comment on it.
So dumpy definitely means thicc. So that’s cleared up.
So you look like an Edit Faerie?
There are a few I may resemble. Not the ones you want to get, sadly.
Yer purtier than speckled hen under a red wagon.
… smothered in frogwash.
– Billy-Carl WIlliams
It’s OK, Puck will make amends.
I have just one thing to say to you – Macbeth!
That’s just, like, your opinion, man.
You: “They prefer to be called homosexuals.”
Are you female?
Because this would be funnier if you were male.
I am a pissed off, dumpy, middle aged woman. I don’t look like a Shakespearean fairy.
Maybe it’s the wings.
“Dammit, these are supposed to be BAT wings”
By dumpy, you mean thicc, amirite?
20 years ago.
You’re pretty self-deprecating.
That’s hawt.
Because I have been drinking this evening, no. I’m not. I’ve never been pretty, but I have always dated up. How do I know? I introduce my new guy to friends and as soon as he goes to buy drinks my friends would say “he’s gorgeous!” And you could see them thinking ” whAt! You! How!”. And of course a few (former) friends saying, when drunk, ” I don’t get it, I’m so much prettier than you”. Yeah, well, you’re also a bitch, soo…
So, no, not self deprecating, realistic, but it has never mattered. I find handsome companionship when I want it.
Good for you. I mean that. Both the realistic part, and the getting what you want part.
Uhh, PUA Course, Unit 101.
‘Light’ neg to start a conversation. Make a comparison to something or someone that is ambiguous and might make you respond in a hostile manner to measure how open you are into getting into a conversation.
I know, but not a cougar. I just walked away.
I just found it a particularly funny line.
In a shock decision The Second Circuit upholds free expression
Trump empowering racists.
Similar to Drake’s post earlier, I read about this the other day. Trump reversed an Obama decision to not renew exploratory mining leases. The legal is complicated, as usual with land rights issues, but basically the Obama administration said they had no obligation to renew the leases. Mining industry says otherwise. I don’t want any administration to block the environmental review process, which doesn’t occur until they propose an actual mining plan. But I’d be lying if I said I thought the mine was a good idea. Most mines like this end up polluting, and with the vast water system of the area, it’s a tough sell for me. I do think they should renew the leases though. Let the environmental review process work (as broken as it is…)
http://www.fox21online.com/2017/12/22/feds-keep-proposed-minnesota-copper-mine-plan-alive/
a) Aren’t we talking about “Federal” land? I think most on this site would agree that the USG has no constitutional authority to hold land except for post offices and military armories. So this land should belong to the highest bidder, and he should dispose of it however he wishes.
b) However, I sympathize with your idea that mining has been a pollution-intensive industry. I see it this way: 20 million folks might be damaged by this mine: the crap in their water causes cancer or shortens life 0.281 years on average or some such, damage worth, say, $50k a throw. That’s a trillion bucks of likely damage, but no one has the resources to prove the damage or to sue to recover. This is one of those situations where markets are not efficient enough to hang the costs of pollution on the purveyor and purchasers of this mine’s ore; some sort of regulation at some jurisdiction is indicated….otherwise everyone is allowed to poison his neighbor a little….and eventually twenty of your neighbors’ accumulated aggression would outright kill you, no single iota of which can be rectified.
I hate most regulation, but I hate being killed by in dribs and drabs by my evil neighbors even more; some sort of inefficient bureaucracy is probably justifiable.
They can also have courthouses and statehouses, plus the Constitution grants the authority to establish “post roads” so I’d even allow interstates. But the vast majority of Federal landholdings are none of the above. That includes National Parks. I’d support a Constitution amendment allowing them that power, but as it stands the parks are basically held by the authority of FYTW.
Alright I sent in a request to do an HVAC article, we’ll see how it goes,
Mayor tells reporter ‘I’ll kill you’ to fend off questions
I blame Trump
Sounds like Macron to me.
Honesty coming from a politician. Strange.
No kidding. Isn’t killing people part of being a politician?
I spent a good deal of time with a tractor, a chain, and a shovel destroying a beaver dam on my place. The water is now draining off my land. When the water starts flowing, the beavers will come back to rebuild their dam. my boy and I are heading out to the location of the dam with a spotlight and an FAL. The beavers are gonna get it tonight. Wish us luck.
I wish you and your boy success in tag teaming the beavers.
Good luck! Get rid of those damned damming beavers.
“The following day, the bodies were found surrounded by empty shell casings, a masque of terror still present on their dead faces, pockmarked by hundreds of unusually large bite-marks. A nearby tree included a crudely carved, inscrutable message, “U Fuvk w Damm U Pay”
I laughed, good one glimore.
“with an FAL”
isn’t vaporizing beavers illegal ?!
it might be, but I’m not so concerned with legality.
What’s wrong with trapping?
Then you can make some stylish hats!
I’d say some gamey soup too but our friends north-of-the-border prefer mock beaver-tail recipes
trapping ain’t as fun. Plus I don’t have any traps.
we were there for less than 5 minutes. my boy is shining the light and I have shot two. The rest scurried off. I’ll let them calm down and go back for more here in about a half hour. Fuck the beavers.
Watch out for toxic waste: https://youtu.be/L6I5hl1w0eg.
“I spent a good deal of time with a tractor, a chain, and a shovel destroying a beaver dam on my place”
Euphemistically?
I wish. The beavers damn up the culvert that goes under my road. This impedes the drainage of my property. I end up with standing water on my place. That’s bad for my livestock. Standing water causes shit like hoof rot on ungulates. I hate my native beaver population.
I grew up on a farm and my dad was always at war with the beavers.
then you understand. Fuck those bucktooth little critters.
Damn!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ghr4oq-_6BI&feature=youtu.be
The creek that runs through my property is frozen harder than it has been since I bought the place. The little one and I played on the ice today. It was fun.
That is quite frozen.
Who was it saying trolling couldn’t get you points? (I know it sure as hell wasn’t anyone here).
https://twitter.com/AP/status/949096288854867968
Sounds like RSOI/UFL is also being delayed a little while but as far as Olympics logistics, it’s probably for the best.
Scott Adam’s updated take is solid too:
http://blog.dilbert.com/2018/01/03/president-trumps-nuclear-button-tweet-sign-insanity/
Scott Adams’ take on it is pretty much along the lines that I’ve been thinking — when people are talking out loud about something, it’s much less likely that unexpected and bad things will happen. But the folks on CNN yesterday were in meltdown (as usual) over the Trump tweet about ‘having a big button’. Some asshole ‘expert’ (where do they find these people?) said something like ‘in the context of Trump’s severe inferiority complexes, especially his fear of women and intelligent people, this shows how severely mentally ill he is, and how he should be immediately be physically removed from the White House and put into a mental ward.” Some other pundit tweeted that he hoped VP Pence had all the 25th amendment paperwork ready to remove Trump from office.
Again, our so-called intelligentsia all are freaking out over a frigging tweet, saying Trump must go immediately. Meanwhile, Trump trounces them all once again, as a mellowed North Korea actually reaches out for negotiations — something that none of his Oval Office predecessors were ever able to pull off. It’s going to be funny if these successes continue, and historians will struggle to find fault with these events, and will certainly be frustrated about not having anything more to criticize beyond how horrible it was that the President sent out tweets.
RSOI/UFL? Smells like Team Spirit. My favorite Korean 80’s/90’s album.
This gag (or *gag*) is just the fresh approach that Sugarfree needs for his next installment:
https://twitter.com/pixelatedboat/status/949100087350710272
Question for the mods: would you be interested in technique style recipes? Like this is how you can make a meal, and it could be done using chicken, pork or beef, just follow these rules of thumb?
Yep! Sure would.
Found out why Comey didn’t indict Hillary. He was planning on doing the same thing.
Ridiculous. Comey should have been dragged out of the hearing room right after that and impaled on a semi-sharpened stake as a lesson to others. Private citizen my ass. Lying sack of worthless partisan establishment shit.
Everything about this article fills me with white hot rage.
“Correct,” Comey answered. “I understood this to be my recollection recorded of my conversation with the president. As a private citizen, I thought it important to get it out.”
And these are the people who put Americans in rape cages for being less than 100% honest to them.
““Correct,” Comey answered. “I understood this to be my recollection recorded of my conversation with the president. As a private citizen, I thought it important to get it out.”
Comey insisted in his testimony he believed his personal memos were unclassified, though he hinted one or two documents he created might have been contained classified information.”
Shorter Come: I do not understand how aggregation works even though every low-level peon in every branch of government knows what it is.
Jesus fuck, it’s like Christmas every day with this administration…only derpier.
Dammit, that was in response to Not an Economist.
Damn those NON Economists!
I sent in my post on Hvac, i hope it gets out, it will clear up some confusion, (while causing more?)
Office Manager Mohammed: KEEP YOUR FILTERS CLEAN! FILTHY INFIDELS!
I work in the hottest most dusty enviroment you can image. We have a contract crew of HVAC guys that take care of our ACs. There are 4 guys who spend 40 hours a week doing nothing but changing filters. There are about 150 units and each one needs it’s filter changed about every 24 hours.
Basically, it a full time job and more just changing filters out there
And it’s still cheaper than shutting down to replace them, Be glad your shop gives a shit about HVAC. i know in some sense it’s obvious, but sometimes mgmt are Fucking idiots
Just made it back from trip #2 to the beaver damn. 2 more dead beavers.
I want a pelt, how can that happen?
Lachowsky is The Beaver Slayer. He penetrates beaver with his hot lead ejections.
.308 hot lead. Gimme about 30 minutes to warm back up and I’m going to kill some more.
So much for nature’s engineers. All that push for more inclusiveness in STEM, and revanchists like Lachowsky are doing their damnedest to keep beavers out of the field.
Nature’s engineers are at adverse purpose to me. There is a reason man is the dominant species on this planet.
What is an FAL?
An FN built cold war battle rifle. Used by a lot of NATO counties then and next lower tier counties now.
fusil automatique leger.
That’s french for self loading rifle.
What it is, is the right arm of the free world. Between the end of ww2 and the start of the Vietnam war, every free country on earth (besides the U.S.) carried the FAL as their primary infantry weapons. The U.S. carried the m14 at the same time every other NATO country the FAL. During this time, the commie countries carried the AK-47. The only NATO country to not carry the FAL, besides the U.S. wast west Germany. The reason for that was that the rifle was manufactured by FN Herstal. FN is a Belgian company and the belgians were still pissed at Germany. They refused to sell the rifle to Germany out of principle. Because of that the Germans developed the G3.
I’d found that article when I googled the term, but I’m ignorant and am curious why Don suggested you’re vaporizing them.
FWIW I modded my rifles to use .308 receivers… In Fallout 4. They’re pretty powerful, especially with my sniper perks, and the .50 mod is usually overkill. That should tell you how deep my knowledge of firearms runs.
.308 on a beaver is way overkill. I use it because my FAL is the rifle I’m the most confident with. I have spent many hours with it and have no doubt that I can make accurate shots in mostly darkness over aperture sights. I have better rifles, but the one that fits this situation the best is my fusil automatique leger.
Also FWIW the last time I shot at animals it was with a 22, against prairie dogs. My sister was reduced to sobbing because we couldn’t put the one dog we confirmed hitting out of its tiny misery. I think about that violent tableau all the time… me, trying to muster the fatal shot, my sister crying in empathic grief, the poor varmint breathing its terrified last… and I wish I’d had gun enough to blow the dumb thing in two.
Next time, use a .204 Ruger.
That’s more like it!
Seriously, I think back on my childhood… mind you, I’m at the upper bound for millennials, by some metrics… and I think my folks may have been the last sane parents of my generation. Turn the kids loose on a field with a rifle, tell them to shoot downrange, and if you turn that thing around on anyone, I’m beating you with it. Now go kill some prairie dogs.
We walked to school, and to and from friends’ homes, across busy streets. And ran around barefoot in old horse pastures. Mom was a conscientious objector to vaccinations, so I have none. Maybe it wasn’t all brilliant ideas, but we enjoyed so much freedom. I couldn’t imagine bringing up a kid now.
I chatted with my sister earlier today. She has two kids, both under ten. I told her about Lenore Skenazy and the Free Range Kid project. She sounded dubious, but said she’d look her up. I hope she does, but it’s California, so I hope she doesn’t act on it. Sad to say.
My father, onetime infantryman who didn’t finish high school after escaping poverty/sharecropping, would never spend more than $0.02 to do any job that a .22 could handle; his son inherited a similar notion: make every bullet and every penny count.
7.62NATO cooks around 2400 foot-pounds; beaver redline around 70 pounds. Compare at .357Mag at 600 foot-pounds cancelling a 200 pound threat. One of these ratios is an order of magnitude larger than the other; ergo “vaporize.”
Nothing wrong with turning rodents inside out, of course.
Lots of jokes fail. Bear in mind that I can’t read this site sober. Cheers
It’s the second from the left-
http://imgur.com/dHVUDWM
Jeez, I have that many Guitars! Armageddon? or a Concert? How about both?
/Clings to New England Firearms Single shot
Because it is his right. No other reason needed.
you get it mike. Because FYTW
I didn’t say anything about too many, I have at least 7 or 8 guitars, is that too many?
MORE IS GOOD
I didn’t ask Why did I ? This ain’t TOS, I’m a proud Gun Guy, just making some fun
Question marks are generally a sign of a question being asked. Just sayin’.
I just assumed your locale trumped your brain for a bit there and you had a momentary lapse of reason. No worries!
i see what you did there, How could I ever get those pretty pieces Here?in Cali? but i have some Guitars, my only possible comparison, regarding value, and BTW, I am a hard core Libertariancap, so Rhetorically,
FUCK OFF SLAVER!
That’s more like it. You know, Yusef…for a vacuum salesman, you’re a pretty good guy!
OOOH, fuck you Mike, that’s oldest most insulting thing you can say about the trade,
/ Good Call, I larfed!
😉
Assistant Yusef: Aggh I broke phone screen!
Office Manager Mohammed: Just buy a new one, Stupid INFIDEL!
Assistant Yusef: No, I found a new glass on E bay for 5$ and ordered 2, just in case….
Office Manager Mohammed In case of what?
Assistant Yusef: in case I destroy the fir… OH FUCK!
After 6 weeks of using a Good, but dumb Phone
Assistant Yusef: Hooray! I got my new Smart phone! Google Maps! E mail! Glibs! (Glibs?)
Office Manager Mohammed: NOW? I told you before the New HEATHEN year to buy a new Phone but NOOOOO, I am a jihadi so my word counts for nothing! Fuck you INFIDEL! HR will hear about YOU! For once..
I am the Alpha and Omega, Good Evening
good night yusef. I like you
and You! Industry! FTW!
Wow, this place is in a sorry state when I don’t do late night posting.
Well, you are the Conan to our Houston convenience store.
Meth addiction is never funny.
one more… drunk but stil….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s
Swedish Chicks…..
‘.v