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Good morning beautiful people!
*sniffs for alcohol*
You do know you are at Glibertarians.com, yes?
At least I’m beautiful.
Beautiful on the outside, okay?
Mornin’ ‘stang
Ohayo.
Guten Abend.
RIP Dan Gurney
https://youtu.be/hOwmMLJhj-g
Ahh Crap!
Damn. There’s more Americans still alive who walked on the Moon than ever won a Grand Prix.
Formula 1 Grand Prix
I showed this one to my mom after finishing it. She noted that the white dog is hanging its head in shame. #WhiteDogPrivilege
LOL!
It is most excellent.
Oh yeah!
Another great cover!
I missed the white dog hanging its head in shame. That’s a nice touch.
I didn’t notice it either, and I’m the one who picked the stock photo, haha.
I always approach these like I approach an unknown object lying in the trail, with great caution until it is identified. Your work is great but you are parodying someone who cant be parodied. Is it real? Is it another spoof? I cant tell…
*pokes with a stick*
Ah, ok. Great one!
Awesome cover. Where can I subscribe?
As an aside, what’s the story with Groovus?
Still missing. Replied to your question too late.
Ah. I forgot to check back. I usually do.
Some of you might like to know I lurk late at night on a dead thread….in my underwear….and a mask….
Payton was frivolous with his challenges.
Yeap:)
Game has slowed down to a crawl. First 3 quarters went quick. I hate when there are more commercials than gameplay.
No kidding. Pittsburgh knows how to drag a game out.
And now the Vikings are trailing. :woohoo:
It is enjoyable. Now it is up to that future hall of famer Casey Keenum to save them 🙂
This is some game.
So many good catches today
You were saying there CPRM?
It only makes the tears saltier when they lose next week.
The NFC c’ship game will feature a 2nd string QB (Foles) and a 3rd stringer (Keenum).
I say 3rd b/c Bridgewater.
MLW. You weren’t around at the time but a week or two ago it was announced that Hillary was editing an issue of TV. It was suggested you do a cover of the Donald Trump edition. It would be yuge!
Another one?! I saw that she’d done the November issue, after I thought the cringey drama of my parody couldn’t be topped. They keep proving that they’re too ridiculous to be parodied.
So at this rate they’ll just make her editor-in-chief, right?
Poor thing does need something useful to do.
She could drop dead. That would be useful.
My best friend’s sister was on their masthead for a while. She was amazingly smoking hot back in the day. I remember having a long talk with her once, when I was about 14, and she was 21 or so, mainly because she was wearing a sweater with huge armholes, and no bra. I put some work into pacing and ruminating that night.
And no, I don’t really have much of a point here. Though looking at her LinkedIn just now I realize I should get in touch with her for purely professional reasons.
Sadly, I wasn’t sure that cover wasn’t real.
I had to DuckDuckGo it.
Which came first the story line or the picture?
I usually come up with the headlines first and look for a stock photo that goes with it. So far I’ve been able to find what I’m looking for every time, which says a lot about the state of stock photography in the age of Trump.
A WHITE dog? So racist!
So is there a real difference between parody covers and real covers?
I really, really, really need to keep a list of these things….
…but: the latest ‘stupid-but-popular rhetorical move’ you see from the left:
“Its really telling how X defends Y”
– Where X is “person who actually said something reasonable and sensible”, but which lefty idiot can’t actually directly rebut – in fact, which they’d rather not even acknowledge
– and Y is “assumed thing of hatred” – usually trump, but not always. Insert any “demonized” thing, really.
Its a super-flexible model which can be used in almost any situation.
Its sort of a combo fallacy which uses straw-manning…
(usually the thing they’re calling, “defending” isn’t even defending anything at all: its simply pointing out that the argument being made is flawed or has no evidence
e.g. pointing out that trump hasn’t really ever done or said anything “racist” isn’t an apologia for his comments about mexicans; he may have said offensive things, or said falsehoods, but he didn’t say, “latinos are genetically inferior”)
…and this cynical, ‘malicious insinuation’ via the term “telling”
(of what?: they never have to say. Its simply implied that someone is exposing their hidden racism or fascism or whatever by daring to go against the grain on any given topic)
Its reminiscent of cold-war soviet propaganda rhetoric which basically attempts to cast someone as an “enemy of the revolution” by suggesting ANYTHING has potential hidden motives. “Our comrade’s [X] is a telling example of where his sympathies lie”
Its a passive-aggressive attack on someone, which basically begs the question of guilt: its simply concluded in advance, sans any evidence.
i saw it like 3 times today.
*also: its used surprisingly often @TOS, often suggesting that Glibertarians.com is a hive of racism and misogyny (apparently Q’s professional appreciation of the female form struck someone there as inappropriate), because obviously there is no other reason to have abandoned that wonderful forum.
It’s up there with, “I think it’s cute that you think…”
That entire line of thought is what has caused broken relationships. They assume that because you are making a certain argument that you must therefore before whatever-ist. They assume this because they are brainwashed. I’ve lost a couple friends over immigration arguments because of it.
That is the hallmark of the useful idiot: They are programmed to only see things one way. Try to talk about the weather and bam! racisminequalitypatriarchy.
I’ve found it easiest to just stop having the conversations.
Two things.
Reminds me of those ‘murder investigation cop shows’ when a detective says something like ‘I know the evidence was flimsy and we coerced it but I know he committed the crime. I saw it in his….eyes!’
Ah-shaddap. You didn’t see shit.
A doctor friend of mine is like that. I saw Nixon….and then goes on and on about his mannerisms to *prove* he was way worse than Hillary. Dumb.
And pretty arrogant if you ask me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C_fVnE3xHY
Aannnnd, speaking of according one’s self max flexibility….check this chick out…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7FtjtF4gM0
“Look chief, i’m going with my gut on this one”
“you’re a loose cannon rufus!”
“Someone’s got to clean up this town, and goddammit the mayor’s tying our hands again”
“One more of these complaints, and i’ll have your gun and badge on my desk!”
Eerie
/makes jack off motion.
A cop-show parody made by some canadian improv comedians:
Loose Cannons
I liked it and was sad that they didn’t do more.
Which led me to this….Trudeau’s wife hot for Trump?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXeLJiq-4pM
Every one of those Dirty Harry movies.
It is a plot device, not a prescription for law enforcement management.
Catherine Deneuve is the latest.
Françoise Dorléac died much too young. 🙁
jesus, 4 times today.
here’s a popular variant:
– person is publicly accused of some kind of sexual misconduct
– after looking @ the details of the claim, it appears everything was 100% consensual, nothing illegal occurred, but person is simply saying, “X is a creep/a shit”
– you saying, “well, that’s gross, but its not a crime”
– everyone accuses you of NORMALIZING ASSAULT
its similar because you’re not technically even ‘defending’ the person’s behavior. it can still be egregrious and awful without actually rising to the level of a criminal offense. But actually pointing out that something *wasn’t technically even assault* is somehow the equivilent of being Pro Rape, and demanding some sort of Sharia-law where wives and girlfriends can be abused at whim by males.
There’s little point in arguing with people who don’t argue in good faith. It took me a long time to really understand that, and it took me even longer to really recognize all the bad-faith tactics involved in modern American kulturkampf.
Look, by suggesting that the person consented by going along with whatever and never saying no, you’re, like, totally victim blaming.
I’ve had this type of argument used against me on more than one occasion, but I’m the kind of masochist that browses reddit until I see an argument so stupid I can’t help but point it out. They hate it when you point out how illogical their arguments are.
Addiction Myth, Dajjal, and the much loved Michael Hihn were masters of this crappy and dishonest technique.
Tony too?
Obviously Y is an object of hatred, the penis IS evil after all.
I see a lot of references that we’re all Trumpets followed by nodding of heads all around.
If he continues with the regulatory clear cutting he’s going to make a fan out of me yet.
I’m a Euphonium or a Theremin, thank you very much.
not a hive of scum and villainy?
which is odd, because if anything, the content here (if curation of links is any example) is largely “trump-free”
the main source of Trump-related stuff here is Hat and Hair.. which isn’t exactly laudatory.
Right but it’s the same phenomenon though, given that Trump comes up a lot in the comments – how could it not? – and I think it’s safe to say that we have rational discussion of his merits and fault. There it’s just so much fluff and feelz. And that includes several of the writers.
Point out bothe merits and faults is more than most people do, most people are usually so one sided it’s hard to wrap your head around their thought process. I’ve gotten into too many conversations with people who think he’s Ayn Rand and they don’t understand he’s only adopted the label of republican much less conservative or ancap. Those people tend to think that a centrist is a socialist though. Their frame of reference has been pushed so far to the left it’s terrifying.
How soon we forget the Secret Nazi President.
I do miss SNP. What happened to BP? Did the Secret Service track him down?
Nodding heads all around….what, all 14 of them?
Reason must be proud.
Well, I think in the “professional Libertarian” circles and even some other circles if you are not a full on open borders advocate it has to be because you are a racist and not that you have thought about it and see some downside to open borders given the current system. I think it is close to a 50/50 mix here so half of us are racists and the other half hasn’t catbutted the racists to oblivion so they are racists too for tolerating such wrong think. As to misogyny, well, that may be a fair criticism but whatever. It is not like we are grabbing pussies here. They are comments almost all of which are typed with humor as the goal and if a person can’t get past that well I got nothing but lighten up Francis.
Once you start recognizing the tactic, you see it everywhere. Its like the fucking matrix.
Everything not “anti” is “Pro” by default.
It is the ultimate us or them – all these folks need to be reminded how much they loved that when it was W saying so.
You are a funny guy Juris. I like you.
Did you know that socialism has never been tried? Not once, ever. State capitalism on the other hand…
Ironically, Keith Olbermann’s picture is in the dictionary next to “brainless meat puppet who can occasionally complete sentences.” (But only occasionally – you’ll note that he muffed *that very one*. Pro-tip, Keith – proof-read before insulting someone’s intelligence.)
MLW, if I remember correct you were one of the people interested in my fan edits? If so, did you see my article Friday night?
No, I missed it! Thanks for the heads up, I will go look now!
I feel really bad that it seems like I get a lot of “hey MLW you missed this” comments ? My Glib-checking ability is sporadic a lot of times so if you guys ever want me to see anything you can email me at my handle (all one word, no symbols or anything) @outlook.com!
ESPN’s win probability chart. It’s mesmerizing yet worthless.
Vikes are gonna lose this, aren’t they?
God I hope so.
Ugh. Oh well.
Let’s hope the Vikings can’t get into FG range in 20 seconds.
That was some pretty entertaining sportsball during the last quarter though. Nothing like blowing a 17 point lead.
3 scores in the 90 seconds and three lead changes. This was the game it was supposed to be.
Fucking horseshoe up their asses.
Go Eagles.
I am getting a lot of attention from the nurses because they know I have the game on. They poke their heads in and see if I need anything and just linger regardless of my response.
Even the very Russian Luda froze as she attempted to hang my antibiotic IV bag. She was a zombie for about 15 seconds.
I think you need to submit that to Penthouse Letters.
She is pretty cute. Blonde, but with those slightly slanted eyes.
Dang
Yep. But we’re used to it.
A pretty good article on ending police qualified immunity, link borrowed the conservative website Ace of Spades HQ.
https://slowfacts.wordpress.com/2018/01/11/unacceptable-police-procedure-the-deadly-game-of-simon-says/
It’d be nice to think we’ve turned a corner on this issue but I doubt the normie Republicans and Democrats are truly on board with this just yet.
I wrote something similar and submitted it. Should be posted Monday. I’d add something to the police simulator though. The person that is the “threat” should be a loved one. Sibling, parent, child, whatever, and they should be forced to confront them.
Fellow cop. They love those even more than their own family.
I look forward to seeing it.
Nice avatar. I think you just started using it. In memoriam for Fast Eddie Clark?
Yeah, they were a hell of a band and Clarke was a great guitarist.
Indeed. Pretty weird about Fast Eddie’s death. Lemmy was no surprise and Phil also abused himself quite a bit. I read Eddie died of pneumonia. It seems hard to believe in this day and age. Though with the NHS… who knows.
Part of the calculus for purchasing a handgun and getting a permit to carry is the fact that my chances of being killed by a criminal go down, but my chances of being killed by a police officer go up. Not clear yet of the calculus is net positive or net negative.
After Castile got snuffed with no consequences that enters my thought process too.
Calling non-cops civilians irked me, but otherwise I liked the piece.
This is one of those areas that I would celebrate to no end if Trump gets squishy and switches his stance. Please let this be true:
“” buried under the deluge of porn star and “shithole” news:””
#2018
I’m hoping he finds a way to save face and basically leave NAFTA alone.
This has been the hallmark of the Trump administration so far, and I’m actually kind of pleased by it, despite being essentially a nevertrumper. What he says is terrible, but he doesn’t actually Follow through on it. I’m not sure there has ever before been this much of a disconnect between an administration’s stated aims and its actions, but I’m glad there is such now.
Ditto.
I’m one of the more pro-Trump members of this board, but trade was always one of my biggest fears about his presidency. I think that one thing that he’s been very good about so far that is quite unlike other modern presidencies is that he’s mostly been laissez-faire on policy and has allowed his people to do their jobs and set the agenda, which has mostly been to the libertarians’ benefit (with the major exception being any policy in the statist garden gnome’s sphere, I mean Sessions). Executive bureaucracy cuts and regulatory reform have been coordinated in part by his cabinet picks, particularly EPA Chief Pruitt.
Yep, trade was my biggest worry when he won. If he’d pursued policies in line with his rhetoric… I think he might have set off a trade-war and a global recession. “Not causing a global recession for the hell of it” is high on my list of desirable attributes in a President.
But it turns out that Trump likes to bluster more than he likes to policy, and the people he leaves the policy to seem to be doing a reasonable job, relative to other administrations and previous policy setters. The bar is not high…
The jury is still out on this administration, and will be for a while, but so far it is a lot better than I was worried it might be. That said, Trump’s behavior is well outside the bounds of what I think we should accept from a President.
Trump’s behavior is well outside the bounds of what I think we should accept from a President.
We live in the country where the previous President used the law enforcement and the intelligence services to spy on the Presidential candidate of the opposition party and later tried to overthrow the results of the democratic election. And yet somehow we are not discussing how that behavior was inappropriate and unAmerican.
Nothing that Trump has done is coming even close to the crimes committed by Obama, Deep State and the Democratic Party.
Well, to be fair, you really can’t argue that abuse of the Executive office to harm the opposition party is un-American.
Thanks, John Adams!
Who’s we ? Cause I certainly said the same of Obama’s, though for different reasons.
Trump’s “unPresidential” behavior is discussed ad nauseam by everyone from MSM to never-Trumpers to Trump supporters. However, Obama’s spying on the Presidential candidate of the opposition party–just like in any banana republic–is not anyone’s talking point. That Obama’s spying on Trump cannot elicit even a Watergate-level of outrage means that this behavior will be repeated. But, sure, Trump’s latest tweet was mean… Yeah, I have little respect for never-Trumpers.
Fixin to have a myocardial infarction.
Holy shit what an ending
OMG. WOW.
Defensive back blew it. Went for the guys legs and completely whiffed
The game is not over. They have to clear the field, bring the players back and kick the extra point.
Yeh this is a bit stupid and unprofessional.
Fuuuuck yeah!
That was a good game. I finally watched a good game this season. I am glad I got up from my nap, took a shower and poured a drink for that one.
So that Teen Vogue cover…please tell me it’s satire.
It’s 100% authentic.
The new Bullitt Mustang is gorgeous. 475 hp, 420 lb-ft of torque and a stunning Highland Green. I need it.
https://jalopnik.com/the-2018-ford-mustang-bullitt-is-real-and-it-looks-perf-1822071979
I liked the old style round headlights they brought back in the early 00s.
You’ll like mine then.
https://imgur.com/a/DKQu0
Nice. I’ve recently been converted to the blue oval.
I have three Fords. It just kind of happened, honestly. I love all different brand, I just stick with what I know. Motors and suspensions are so different I only have the brainpower to learn one brand’s methods.
I’m basically a Chevy/gmc light truck guy. 60-91s are my thing, they have basically the same frame and suspension over the years. I’ve acquired several jeeps and a few other rigs over the years. We bought our first modern rig this fall, a 14 Raptor. It makes driving fun again but the speed limit always seems so slow.
I have a 13 F150 with the Coyote motor as a daily driver and love it. Traded a great Ranger in for it, which I also loved. They both have the FX4 off road package. Wish I could have both.
It has a few quirks I don’t like, mostly ergonomics (I find the steering column terribly uncomfortable regardless of where I put it) and some engineer thinking that mounting the oil filter on its side is a smart move but it’s a about a dozen huge steps up from the wife’s last daily driver, the nearly immortal 1993 Suzuki Sidekick. I’m still rocking my Blazer and probably will until I get another project or two on the road.
Whoa. I like that.
“”the only watchable clip of the movie:””
Fuck you hipster idiot
the car chase in bullit is good, but will make anyone who likes cars cringe and go, “jesus those things had terrible suspension”. Bullit is actually a good film, even aside from the chase scene.
And the opening credits were really cool for their day.
Agreed on all counts. Watching that suspension also makes me envious of the huge balls it took to drive those things. Watching vintage Trans Am is similar.
that new car is pretty dope tho. i’d pass on it and buy a similarly spec’d one w/o the vintage green. not my thing.
The original Gone in 60 Seconds only used one car for the chase scene.
my favorite classic driving/ chase scenes in movies
(no particular order)
– The French Connection (its a car chasing a subway, but it still counts; friedkin innovated 3-4 new ways to shoot car chases, which all became instant cliches)
– Vanishing Point (the entire movie is a fucking chase scene)
– Blues Brothers (one of the best examples of “chase as comedy” without resorting to the ‘driving under a semi-trailer and having the roof ripped off’ routine)
– The Great Escape (McQueen going offroad on a motorcycle going full speed and i think breaking his leg at one point)
– I feel i should include a bond film, so i will pick Live and Let Die for the “boat jumps over the cops” stunt
Honorable mentions:
– Ronin, just because friedkin wanted to see if he could up his own game
– The Naked Prey / Run Lola Run : entire movies that are basically extended foot-chases.
Dude – “Ronin” was Frankenheimer upping his game after “Grand Prix”
Need to go through my collection again, but a recent title that was a lot of fun includes Korean motorcycle flick “Quick” – quite a bit of effects work, but lots of great practical stunts too.
Also, I reviewed the Japanese 70s nuclear terror flick “Man Who Stole the Sun” which had a surprisingly decent chase scene – and my review this week will include some good bits too (but only parts from the trailer).
“Frankenheimer”
oh, my bad. I think i listened to the director commentaries and they both have nasally voices and i got them mixed up.
maybe i’m thinking of “To Live and Die in LA”. I recall listening to friedkin talk ‘car chases’ and he was basically like, “I need to do something new”.
Run Lola Run is a great one. Another foot chase movie that I love is Apocalypto.
Ronin is my favorite chase scene. I thought Dodge messed up by not doing a Vanishing Point commercial when they relaunched the Challenger, like that Mustang McQueen ad I posted.
AHEM
Road Warrior
That’s pretty badass
I can see myself in one of those.
I thought you people only liked ’65 Impalas? Or is that just what you drive to the barber shop. (that comment cracked me up)
Naturaly, it belonged to a much older hispanic gentleman in the barber’s chair, who missed the whole conversation. It was nice.
The old dudes can tweak some cars. Some years ago I was sitting at a light next to some grey haired fellows in a restored and shiny pickup that sounded tight. The thing purred with a soft throaty rumble that just made you smile.
How does it compare to the Roush?
I don’t keep up with Roush, honestly. My guess is that it depends on what stage Roush we are talking about. The Bullitt isn’t supercharged so it will be down on power compared to the Roush. I do road racing, so I prefer no forced induction as it gets hot really quickly. They haven’t released the details in the suspension in the Bullitt, but the recent changes in the GT350 and performance package 2 from the factory are extremely hard to beat, so the Roush is probably overpriced for what it is when you can get excellent handling right from the factory now.
I’ve never been a fan of Roush or Saleen or any of the other aftermarket brands anyways. Ford does a pretty good job right from the factory and Ford Performance has a lot of extra parts if you need more.
My Pa traded in his GT/CS for a Roush. I’m terrified to drive it, even though he wants me to. Been a bit since I drove a manual, and the most powerful car I have ever driven was a rental Camaro.
Nice. I think it’s difficult to compare them. It mostly comes down to what badge you want on the car.
You’d probably be much more at home in this one than a supercharged car, though either one will put you into the wall if you don’t respect it. I’m pretty happy with my meager 350 horses from my 10 year old car. It’s more than enough to get me in trouble.
Two back-up QBs in the NFC championship.
I know a lot of Saints fans. There facebook posts have changed dramatically in the past couple of minutes.
They wearing paper bags over their heads?
The divisional round was actually pretty entertaining. The wildcard wasn’t too bad, either (the offence against God, Man and Nature that was Jags-Bills excepted.)
Twitter sports:
Woke: Charles Cooke live-tweets football games.
Broke: Matt Welch talks baseball stuff all day long and its very boring.
I’m watching tennis and hockey.
/better luck next year, Bills
The Americans are getting slaughtered in Melbourne this year.
Aw boo hoo hoo.
I prefer to see coverage of tennis, not star-fucking and slobbering over the same few Americans.
I highly doubt it will happen, but I’m rooting for a Halep/Wozniacki final. I wouldn’t mind seeing Svitolina or Plišková there either.
Please Jags – just knock Brady on his ass a dozen or so times next week and keep those bastards out of the Super Bowl. That’s all I ask.
I can respect that.
Amen *does the holding dead chicken cross the chest to forehead thing
We need six! Go Pats! There are only cats and birds left before the sixth Superbowl.
I died
I didn’t expect to be watching the Vikes in the divisional round while high on vicodin, struggling for air, oxygen cannula up the schnozz, and antibiotic IV drip in the arm.
All by myself except for the nurses popping in and out.
I should have taken Vicodin for that 2nd half:) lol. Unbelievable finish. I thought it was over.
Are you feeling better?
Yeah, and I’ve been tracking the peak airflow on excel. I can see and feel it if I go too long between albuterol.
My guess is that I end up staying here tomorrow too. 🙁
But I can converse normally now and I don’t feel like hammered dog shit anymore.
Well not feeling like hammered dog shit is helpful:). Hope all is back to normal for you soon.
Look here ‘Splosives. You need to stop screwing around and get well.
Convincing yourself is no small part of that. Get mad. Ball up a fist…not the IV one, the other one. Take if from someone who does it on a daily basis, it makes a difference.
Yeah, I intend to crush it with my mind vise. And then get this new job for good pay and live in a sunny, dry place where my lungs can thrive.
Just the fact that I can now move freely around in my prison cell (I am in quarantine so I can’t just go for a walk even with a mask on) now that I am not tethered to the IV constantly and to the taped on blood oxygen meter is great. I just have the IV tap and short tube stuck in there for shorter term administration of meds, like right now.
Last night I even took a real shower and plan to do so again tonight. Every day I have put on my make up and fixed my hair. I feel better when I don’t look like I’ve given up.
I hope you’re out of there soon!!
Hang in there, Road. Trust me, nobody wants you out of the hospital more than the hospital.
Drunk Driving: Bad
Driving on Drugs: Bad Ass
How in the hell….?
Boggles the mind.
via instapundit
True story (and a weird one)
I lived on the ground floor of my building in brooklyn. we had a patio in front of the building, which was unusual (and nice: grill, patio furniture) which set it back from the street a bit, which kept the sidewalk traffic from irritating me.
one night i wake up in a start at like 3AM because i thought i heard a “bang”. There’s a moment of silence, then BAM-SCREEEEEEEECH right outside my window. I have no idea what the fuck it is. I run outside in my undies and there’s a car upside down, resting on its hood, smoking, just outside our front gate.
I run to the car and bend over and look inside. There’s no one in it. Fucking what? I stand up and look around and there’s a guy jogging down the street. I go, “hey!” and he looks back. and i go, “do you need help?” and he waves. I turn back towards my building, still wondering wtf is going on, and suddenly 4 cops come rushing by me on the sidewalk shouting “which way??” I get it, and point. they keep running. I stand there looking at the smoking car and wonder if its going to leak a big oily spot on our sidewalk.
i called the newspapers (the post) the next day to ask if they knew what the hell it was.
The person on the other end sighed, “did anyone die?” “I don’t know, that’s why i’m calling you. what the hell was it?” (they check cop blotter) “apparently there was a chase that ended up arrest”. “Yeah, i figured, but i mean, what was the chase *for*, and how did the car end upside down?” (silence) “Look man, no one died, there’s not anything else,”
Anyway,the next day i looked at the street and basically the guy clipped a parked car, jumped it, *hit the building across the street*, bounced off, and came to a halt in front of my door. It must have been pretty epic. There was actually piece of a headlight embedded in the brick wall.
that is my only cool car-crash story.
If you can only have one, that one is pretty good.
Many years ago I went up to Montreal with $100.00 and a backpack to hang out with this girl I knew… we argued on my first day there so I wound up in Montreal with $100.00 and a backpack (in the teeth of the 1990 recession- it kind of sucked, actually.)
I wound up doing some very sketchy sales and subletting an apartment on Des Pins for the summer. The apartment was nice- four girls rented it during the school-year, but that summer it was just me and one other guy. I had this _huge_ room, with a third-floor balcony I could step onto and… look down on Des Pins, or across at the McGill gym (which should tell you which building I was in, if you know Montreal.)
That bit of street is famous for accidents, and it was unnerving at first. It seemed like at least once a day I’d hear a screech followed by a bang, and eventually sirens. Mostly fender-benders, but sometimes more serious accidents. I could go out on the balcony and check them out, and at first I did. Once a student got run over trying to cross there (a bad idea.) Eventually the accidents became as much background noise as the traffic and I didn’t bother looking at them unless they sounded particularly bad.
Tried to recreate the chase scene from Bullitt.
That’s pretty impressive
That’s an album cover.
My new vocab word of the day is “embuggerance.”
We’re a couple of very happy Minnesotans
Oh, ya!
Skol!
Sorry to hear you’re still laid up! Hope you can breathe easy & get sprung from there soon!!
Thanks for the folks supporting my channel. Newest review is getting more views. Cracked a thousand views for the channel now.
This week is a sequel/prequel to a previous video (lots of fun and clips) and next week will be a DVD so obscure that I’ll be running a contest (prize $$$) for anyone who can find it online. Then I’ll be rolling into my two back to back theme months of reviews (although I may delay until after the 2 weeks I’m out of town in order to cut down on stress).
To you or Ted: Where can I go to watch The Seven Samurai?
I figure why not ask?
You can stream it on Amazon.
It’s 2.99 on youtube or DVD from Netflix.
Buy the Criterion Blu-Ray. You won’t regret a dime. Otherwise…what they said.
Day 4 of my long, lazy road trip. Yesterday I visited the USS Lexington in Corpus Christi and today I hit the Texas Forces military museum in Austin. I got a kick out of the “Duty, Honor, Texas” sign at the entrance. I bought a book there by Aleksei Myagkov, a KGB defector. It’s rad. He grew up in a town where once a year, all the men gather on a field a beat the shit out of each other. The young men beat the shit out of each other year round. As Adam Corolla said, Russians are the most fucked up white people to ever exist, hands down.
Elsewhere, check out this word salad:
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The Biopolitics of Feeling uncovers the foundational role of sex difference to biopower. It unearths how sex difference functioned as a key technology of biopower’s racializing structures, which operate to choose some members of the population for life and cast others into disposability and death. Sex difference helped qualify individuals for life. I reveal how the position of the feminine was carved out not only to exemplify social evolutionary achievement, but also to protect it. Scientists identified the key quality of the civilized body to be its impressibility, or the capacity to be affected over time. Receptivity to sensory impressions determined a body’s capacity for growth, mental development, and even, in this Lamarckian and pre-genetic era, the transmission of acquired characteristics to descendants. Impressibility thus served as the ontological basis of progress. Impressibility also, however, entailed a frightening vulnerability to influence and environment, rendering the civilized body in need of careful protection.
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https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/40950/
I shared that piece of possum nonsense with my son who is writing up his dissertation in bio-chem. When we talked today he said that he laughed that such nonsense could be considered PhD worthy and then admitted being a bit depressed that such a thing could be considered PhD worthy.
Peak derp for sure.
Ouch. To quote @robprovince “BAMF”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/stabbing-victim-pulls-knife-out-of-own-neck-kills-terrorist/
German school survey: 33% of Muslim students willing to fight and die for Islam
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/01/german-school-survey-33-of-muslim-students-willing-to-fight-and-die-for-islam
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Also among Muslim students in Germany:
Twenty-seven per cent said they agreed with the statement: “The Islamic laws of Sharia, according to which, for example, adultery or homosexuality are severely punished, are much better than the German laws
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But remember- conservative Christians and NRA members are the *real danger*.
UK: Army recruitment video features Muslim soldier praying
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/01/uk-army-recruitment-video-features-muslim-soldier-praying
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The new film, called Keeping My Faith, shows a soldier taking off his helmet and kneeling down in prayer while his comrades wait respectfully nearby.
It is the latest step in the Army’s ‘This is Belonging’ campaign, which has featured adverts telling recruits they are allowed to be emotional and reassuring gay people that they will be accepted if they sign up.
But the videos uploaded to YouTube came under fire last week when retired Major General Tim Cross said recruits needed to know that ‘we are not going to be soft and we are not going to be nice to people’.
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Pound. head. on. desk.
Britain’s dying from the inside – and I never thought the Conservative gov’t would be as bad or worse than Blair’s Labor. It blows my mind after everything I read (and contributed) on Gates of Vienna and Jihadwatch back in 07-09. Assumed things would turn around after the Rotherham scandal was unearthed, etc…but just getting worse – even after BREXIT (which should mean the EU human rights court rulings are irrelevant to the UK). I have no freaking idea what’s going on over there.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/13/british-cops-hunt-facebook-users-who-posted-offensive-comments-about-grooming-gangs/
Yes, there is no pretense of freedom. It is only a matter of time before Britain’s complete collapse because they will at some point no longer be able to support the bureaucracy and the whole thing will tumble over. There will be no motivation for the Brits themselves to even try and save it. Perhaps they can rediscover freedom in the aftermath.
Europe’s finished; except for maybe some of the Eastern states.
Yeah, that’s so much better.
Yep. Stick a fork in ’em. They’re done.
Jesus.
American progressives drool.
Some of the constabularies are (or were) worse than others.
The Met, for example, have been paper-shufflers and useless cunts for decades. Manchester – let’s just say that you don’t want to even think about resisting arrest there – or rather – that was the case 20 years ago. They’re probably substantially more PC now than then, but they almost certainly still have a somewhat more pragmatic policing policy.
Of course, on the other hand, you can’t blame them, when they bring a case to court and you get a ruling like the one cited above.
I saw some of this kind of thing in action when I was in, 04-10. When infantry guys at a bar b q call up and invite their jihadi buddy to rub in your face because you have been talking about the virtues of different cultures and religions you know the war is lost.
I’ve been trying to explore new music lately. Tell me your favorite song or artist.
36 Crazyfists, Taproot, Hed(PE), Death From Above 1979, Incubus
Flaw, Chevelle, Deftones
Led Zeppelin, FooFighters, anything with Chris Cornell in it, Monster Magnet, The Offspring, Mastadon, KMFDM, and Q’s list.
” new music “
I just turned 40. I’m too old for NEW music. That’s fur them damned kids.
dude, i’m right there with you.
i was mr hipster on top of it up until ~2008, at which point my interest in new shit dropped off the edge of a cliff. I still dig for old records. (mostly jazz/funk/soul/reggae/disco etc.) but its not the way it used to be.
I love old Motown
yeah. I have a lot of narrow sub-sub-genres i dig on especially.
Ive recommended to others: if you dig motown, and want some stuff thats’ a little rawer and less-polished, the “Invictus” and “Hot Wax” labels were basically a spin-off from motown and have tons of lesser-known, but hot-as-shit material (you probably know songs like “Give me just a little more time” or “Everything good is bad”
( the key writers for motown, Holland/Dozier/Holland basically said “fuck you barry” and went and started their own thing. there’s a reason the songwriting fell off real quick in the early 70s)
anyway, i have shelves and shelves full of that sort of shit. “Best of the slightly-less-successful labels”
I think the newest album in my collection is Ellie Goulding. And it’s from 2015
i sort of skipped the second half of his question.
i just glanced from “new music” to the suggestions people made. lol. i skim too much.
My new music is 20 years old. I gave up on new, new music.
Josquin des Prez.
I’m a classic rock guy so I’m sure you know my favorites. A few lesser known bands I think are cool are Godsmack, Social Distortion, Reverend Horton Heat, Volbeat, Papa Roach. Some older rock you probably know UFO and Rainbow.
I can dig Social D and RHH when in the mood.
I saw Social D a couple years ago. It was a great show.
The last band I saw live…they kind of give off a hipster douchebag vibe at first glance but they’re actually a simple, solid little rock band. Nothing pretentious about them.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6yCIDkFI7ew
I like The Black Keys
Seether, Thousand Foot Crutch
Nickelback
Nickleback, the Canadian AC/DC
Creed, the American Nickelback
How dare you insult AC/DC like that. Shut your dirty whore mouth!
Staind
A joke I told in my stand up days:
I think drinking should require a license like driving. Before the written test, you must listen to the song “It’s been a while.”
For the practical test:
wake up with a fat chick: -1 point
wake up with 2 fat chicks: 1 point
a threesome is a threesome
Not my favorite album or artist but yesterday’s lengthy thread on the many sub genre of techno/house/edm got be thinking about, then listening to this for the first time in years.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fsI8DYzI-RM
Not my favourite, but I did groove to this dude’s music recently. Southern gothic whatever
http://www.rodmelancon.com/music
That looks like something I would like.
im pretty sure any recommendations i’d make would be too weird, or too-thug for you.
In non-dance music (Hi Gilmore), may I present, Electric Wizard
that’a a great album cover.
i like them. I like most of the things that get labeled “stoner/doom”. I think Orange Goblin is the only one i listen to (i have some of their records on my phone, so they get re-played a bunch)
Feast your ears on Egypt.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BfryizBctss
I basically like metal-ish stuff based on “How close are they to early Sabbath?”
these guys won the prize
also good was that band Warty linked a doco to…. Pentagram? one of their records was great.
There is no music but this
Favorite song of the new millennium. Pretty song with a killer guitar solo at the end that still gives me goosebumps after 100’s of listens. I’ve seen this guitar player do stuff that I’ve never seen anyone else do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wVWjl9Kq6U
he seems to have taken the “do Greg Allman” thing pretty seriously.
Do you mean Duane Allman? His slide playing is pretty similar, but with more Indian musical influences.
yeah, duane, sorry.
He’s good. Idiosyncratic though. I’ve always wondered why more electric guitarists don’t play with their fingers- you can do some remarkable things with an electric guitar and classical technique. This guy looks like he picked it up on his own though, between the pinky anchoring and the really big movements. But whatever works.
He can do a lot of crazy stuff with that style. Sometimes it sounds like he’s playing 3 different notes at the same time. He gets a lot of sounds out of the guitar basically just using reverb as far as I can tell. Never seen him use any pedals or effects, or a pick.
New album out from a favorite artist of mine. This may be the first of I’m sure many to come #resist anthems I will hear. But it’s cool af.
Hier is a representative example of another German EBM band I dig a lot. There is some debate over whether they’re “right wing”… I think their stuff is tongue-in-cheek myself.
My tastes vary with the season, but lately, besides a short stint in Christmas music, I’ve been listening to Clinic, Son Lux, a slew of Russian romantic composers, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, some Motorhead (due to recent events), and some gagaku.
Damn link didn’t take: gagaku.
That is not a Japanese porn sub-genre.
Not new, but… <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U6aNnMqmgc"Big Sugar FTW
Huh. I half-golmored that. It looks like nonsense, but acutally works. SMDH
Greta Van Fleet lead singer makes them sound like Zeppelin.
New[er] stuff – FEMM, Band-Maid, Carpenter Brut, Gin Wigmore, Brendon Small (Dethklok/Galaktikon), Dorothy
Other stuff – Coheed & Cambria, Muse, Clutch, M-Flo, Kitty in a Casket, the Creepshow, Volbeat
These parody covers really need to get to a larger audience, they are so perfect.
Just missing teen anal
Nickelback; Creed
I saw them together with Sevendust. It was an epic show.
I’d probably leave after Sevendust finished if they were opening.
They did open. Bothe Nickelback and Creed were much better live than recorded.
Damn my huge thumbs. Both.
Much like Celine Dion.
I saw Sevendust with Nonpoint, open for Filter, non of my metal head friends thought Filter would play Take a Picture after that opening act, but I knew they would, because it was their big hit. I took a nap during Filter.
Rufus linked to a clip of Milo, above
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7FtjtF4gM0
I just watched it.
i honestly don’t see why the fuck anyone like Robby takes such umbrage with the guy. He’s calm and respectful, whereas his interlocutor is getting shrill and raising their voice; and he apparently knows more about Islam than an islamic-advocate. He has to explain basic concepts to her.
oh, i suppose its the part where he says, “muslims should return to (islamic countries) if they don’t like the West”
one toke over the line, i suppose. (he says, ‘the middle east’, which i think is a bit odd, since there’s a billion of them not even from there)
(he says, ‘the middle east’, which i think is a bit odd, since there’s a billion of them not even from there)
Ya, that is the thing with Milo. I am not a Milo hater or fanbuoy, and he makes a bunch of good points for the evil that is Sharia but I know Muslim people/Indonesians who are golden souls. They are just down right good people. You can’t generalize that many people. He is wrong there.
One of the points he’s often made is analogous to the one we often make here about police.
If the vast majority of a specific group are good people, shouldn’t they be denouncing the minority of the same group that are not good people? It’s not a totally persuasive argument, but I think it’s somewhat valid.
Views on ISIS seems overwhelmingly negative. Except in Pakistan who seem lost at 62% ‘don’t know’. LOL.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/08/09/muslims-and-islam-key-findings-in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world/
Robby is the kind of guy who apologizes to the identity facists for being a white male. Milo is the kind of guy who says to them Fuck you you’re all assholes and you can suck my dick. There’s the difference.
She was getting more and more ditzy as it went on. And she kept going off on tangents.
Milo dresses like Michael Jackson.
I played Settlers of Catan for the first time today. LOVED it. Seems a little like Go – easy to learn, hard to master. My favorite games all seem to involve an element of chance and an element of strategery. Anyhoo, I won my first game, lost the 3 subsequent games.
My geek friends have table top game night on Saturday. I know Catan one is in rotation but I generally work weekends so I’ve missed it. One I’ve played a couple of times is Colt Express and it’s prety fun.
Well, difficult to master comes in part from using the randomized board set-up so things can wind up completely different before the game even starts every single round.
HAHAHAHA!
Settlers is the gateway
druggame to boardgame geekdom!random memory
I was struggling with an organic chemistry exam question. I had to write a reaction pathway and time was running out. A flash of insight came and I scribbled it down. As I left after turning in my paper, I realized that my clever pathway included a molecule in which a carbon atom made 5 bonds, which is a Romper Room no-no.
Turns out that carbon can make more than 4 bonds:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/carbon-can-exceed-four-bond-limit
Cool.
NOOOOOOOO!!!
South Korea credits Trump for talks.
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/09/asia/south-korea-north-korea-talks-moon-intl/index.html
I finished Dark, the German answer to Stranger Things. It was far better than the first or second season of Stranger Things. It was pretty awesome.
Now I got nothin’ to watch. The cupboard is bare. No room in the inn.
No Vikings
No Preacher
No Legion
No Mr. Robot
No GoT
No Man in the High Castle
No The Expanse
No Westworld
No Rick and Morty
No Handmaiden’s Tale
No Longmire
The worst thing about the golden age of TV (which we’re in) is that when there isn’t something great on, it feels like there isn’t anything on at all.
There’s gotta be something I’m missing.
MacGyver? They brought back MacGyver?!
Why not Space: 1999 or BJ and the Bear?
The History Channel is outdoing themselves. Not satisfied with making people retarded with Ancient Aliens, they’ve bring a real series to TV that proves Hitler survived World War II–and is in a nursing home in Poughkeepsie after spending his life as house painter or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN0_vaBWXVE
Okay, I made up the last part about him being a house painter in Poughkeepsie, but in my defense, they made up the first part about Hitler surviving World War II.
Bosch?
I’ll check it out.
Thanks!
I assume from the list you’ve watched all the available seasons of the shows you list?
I’ve never liked cop dramas and absolutely love Bosch.
I’ll second Bosch. Maybe Travelers on Netflix?
Travelers is a mess, and unfortunately a kind of boring mess. It has its moments, and there’s something compelling about the blonde girl, but… like a lot of sf shows it fails to live up to its promise.
I’m watching Ep 3 of S2. It’s keeping me entertained but certainly not The Expanse.
To be fair, Poughkeepsie has more than its fair share of weirdos and proto-eugenicists.
The NetFlix series Last Kingdom, which I thought would be little more than a Vikings knockoff, was surprisingly well done in my opinion.
I enjoyed it. It’s trash, but enjoyable trash. Much better than Vikings, IMHO. I found that unwatchable.
Around season three of Vikings I lost interest. Too many cliches and deus de machina.
Was ist das?? Always looking for German TV to watch.
Don’t know what your tastes are but Trapped (Amazon), The Break (Netflix), Orphan Black (Amazon), The Americans (Amazon).
I like what I’ve seen on your list so you might like these: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, The Gifted, Colony and Ash vs. Evil Dead.
Ash VS Evil Dead is great, Dirk Gently I was intrigued by but don’t get that channel, and I heard it is cancelled; The Gifted looked like Fox ripping off Heroes, even though Heroes was basically ripping off X-men, colony never interested me.
Colony is quite good actually – much better than I expected. At least the 1st season. I haven’t caught up yet.
What about Colony is interesting? Real question. Every ad I’ve seen for it, it just looks like a generic syfy show. What is the hook?
It focuses on the reaction of the humans to an alien invasion. There’s a #resistance fighting the toadies who help the aliens. The aliens are a complete mystery – we don’t even see them. I’d say it’s more thriller than sci-fi. It’s clearly going for a ‘Lost’ vibe – who knows it may go tits-up too
Oh, I did watch the first season, DVR’d the second. I forgot, got sick of it after the second episode of season 2. I think it’s still on my DVR. It just felt too stale and rehashed. I’d rather rewatch both versions of V, yep even the cancelled one. The show was just uninteresting. I didn’t like any of the main characters, and the messages they were propagating seemed too muddled.
It really explored the idea of going along with an invading force to save yourself/family vs resistance against an overwhelmingly superior force.
The Gifted looks terrible from the commercials. Like really juvenile.
I heard it is cancelled;
Oh, damn. I hadn’t seen that yet. That’s too bad.
The Gifted is set in the X-men universe, so there’s that. I watched a few seasons of Heroes, but that show never lived up to its promise. I find the Gifted to be less cartoony and better than any other Marvel Universe show I’ve seen, save Legion. Alphas was probably the best mutant super power show, but I liked it too much so it got canceled after two seasons, and right after a cliffhanger.
Yeah, that really burned.
The ‘X-Men universe’ had like 1.5 good movies; and is totally fucked up now. I could claim Garfield is in the ‘X-men universe’ and have as much validity. Heroes was plagued by the writer’s strike at the height of its popularity, so yes it turned to shit. I’ll just post this for how Fox has treated the X-men universe.
I’m not sure what you mean by that. I mean it’s a Marvel based series where there are mutants fighting Sentinel Services and the characters refer to the X-Men (they’ve disappeared in this time line, or something). So it’s not so much a rip-off as much a continuation of a story. I didn’t know Jim Davis wrote for Marvel.
Marvel only got back movie and TV rights back for X-Men a few months ago when they bought Fox. Jim Davis had more of a right to mention those movies in a satirical sense than Marvel studios did in a serious sense.
Also, Heroes turned to shit when they phoned in the last episode of the first season, and that was before one of their resets or complete reversal of story arcs. I’m not sure when the writer’s strike lined up with the series or what toll it had exactly.
Yes. Their big mistake was not killing off Sylar at the end of S01 and coming up with a new baddie for S02. That’s like genre TV 101.
Punisher. Smarter than it looks, good anti/reluctant hero, no magic superpowers, good action.
Trouble Man on TCM midnight tonight (that’s the midnight between Monday and Tuesday ET).
Out of pure curiosity, I popped back over to TOS, and yeah, it’s bad – the comments section has taken a huge, huge nosedive into the shitter.
Does anyone know why some of the better regulars didn’t make it over here, and where, if anywhere, they may have gone? Sarcasmic? Zeb? Agile Cyborg?
If i remember correctly, Sarc disappeared from TOS for legal reasons, Crusty went all White Knight for the staff on all occasions, Fist is allegedly connected to the website, and AC is currently exploring the outer cosmos via hallucinations and may never reappear.
Given the journeys down memory lane I took last night in trying to describe Psytrance to Gilmore, it strikes me that surely, somewhere along the way, I have crossed paths with AC in meatspace, either at a party, or maybe somewhere in the outer rim.
Sarcasmic had legal reasons to leave? Huh, wonder what that could be about.
I see him there every weekday.
Unless someone mentions a good article over there, I don’t pay it much attention.
The podcast is better than the website, even though it’s mostly just Gillespie. I guess that’s saying something, isn’t it?
Do they have an RSS feed for the podcast?
I thought he disappeared for a good long while then popped up to say he was in the midst of a divorce and custody dispute and his lawyer suggested that he should stay away from the site for some reason. Very possible I have that story either misremembered or it belongs to another.
I haven’t payed TOS much attention over the last few months and didn’t see him.
*shrugs*
I followed TOS for the comment section. I have learned a lot from you guys. I have a bit of a lady-Boy crush on HM.
you it’s a good jihad song when it’s all gunshots and aloha snackbars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr8I3FOF-NU
Kill it with a JDAM!
I just watched that Viking play: to me, it looks that DB was trying to make the highlight reel instead of making a sure play.
I wish this would be broadcast on US tv. It would make it clear what is going on.
https://vimeo.com/231610462
Youtube banned it. It’s not hard to figure out why.
youtube allowed the metal version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdfsklQ1kJM
go figure
Damn. That was pretty fuckin’ metal. No wonder they recruited so well.
today I learned
There was a grass-roots version of the Marshall Plan before it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_Train
And a response.
I love the Grassroots!
So MLW missed my Friday night article; so any other Glibs interested in fan edits of the Star Wars prequels or a Batman V Superman mash-up or the Star Wars fan film I made when I was like 14, please to enjoy it, yes. Also, RH Heinlein was also interested in the fan cuts, so if anybody runs into her in the threads, I would be for to you to be directing her there.
Im drunk and stuffed with the ribs I displayed earlier.
Goodnight, Missus Calabash. Wherever you are.
Dogs with the not gays.