Its a holiday for my kids, which means it has been no picnic for my wife and I today. I hope you had an excellent day and your employer did not expect you to labor.
It looks like the Cranberries are out a vocalist unless she comes back a zombie, but at least she didn’t linger.
I’m going to guess that Florida Man had something to do with this: Fire on a boat.
Falcon Heavy is supposed to static fire again today after a launch pad problem last week caused them to scrub after a full fueling. I’ve got the lube and tissues ready. (TW: Autoplay)
Huh, an app that tracks fertility for contraception is being blamed for a rise in pregnancy. Who could have seen this would be less effective than chemical/mechanical contraception?
I guess we’ll do an In Memorium song.
With Brett’s kind indulgence…Swiss Servator adds: Read this – see how far we have come, see how we have failed.
BOOO.
I made the same joke to a friend who’s a big fan of the woman for some reason. She was not amused.
If it were Q, that would have been BOOOB.
CORRECT!
I don’t get it
I’m lost with all these changes.
What changes?
The LAYOUT.
/shakes head into focus.
And I thought you were making a David Bowie reference.
I would have stuttered…CH-CH-CH-CHANGES.
I mean really people. Work with me!
I don’t see any layout changes. (Seriously, I don’t.)
His layout is in metric.
STAND FOR THIS WE SHALL NOT.
Looks like that floating arrow thing is gone.
I see it on the right-hand side. Everything else looks roughly the same.
Rufus was into la Fin du Monde early…
IT WENT BACK TO NORMAL.
The inner cabal at glibertarians are fucking with my mind.
And today it was a Belgian – Leffe.
Thank you very much.
Well, I’m no longer buzzed. Still annoyed with myself though.
Punish yourself with more booze!
I had planned to be productive today.
You’re a government worker. They don’t know what productive is. :-p
The state is closed today.
I am free to be as productive as I want in my personal life.
“The state is closed today.”
We need a lot more holidays.
I thought they were at their most productive when government was shut down? 🙂
Hmmm….seems like sound advice.
The liver is evil….
It must be punished
Hey, good to see you man. Hope all is getting better as much as is possible.
+1 What Swiss said.
I join in the sentiment.
Thanks Swiss. It was very very hard on her for the first few days. She finally started getting around ano being a little bit normal saturday evening. She went back to work thus morning. It still hard, but I think going back to work is helpful. staying holed up in the house for days at a time isn’t good for anybody. I appreciate all yalls kind words the other night.
I’m sorry you and your wife had to go through that. My wife had one in Nov… it just sucks and is especially hard on the wives. Going back to work and normal life is good, and I hope it keeps getting better for you guys.
Thanks spartan. It’s definitely harder on the misses. She’s a tough girl. She will make it.
You’re a bastard, L, but you’re our bastard.
Glad she’s feeling better. Boy cool?
The boy is fine. He never knew anything in the first place.
I’m glad y’all are doing a bit better. Hopefully the path back to normal is quick for y’all.
Getting back to normal helped us when we went through that. We took a couple of days off to have something like a wake and to just mourn, and then threw ourselves back into work and life outside the house. I think the hardest thing for my wife was that she felt this weird kind of shame, like it was something she was embarrassed about. Apparently that’s a very common reaction. Talking to other women who’d had miscarriages helped her a lot. Feeling like she wasn’t alone or weird or that she did something wrong was a big step towards coping with it.
Huh, an app that tracks fertility for contraception is being blamed for a rise in pregnancy.
Come again?
Basically, the “rhythm method” doesn’t work.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. THE PENIS IS EVIL! THE PENIS SHOOTS SEEDS, AND MAKES NEW LIFE TO POISON THE EARTH WITH A PLAGUE OF MEN, AS ONCE IT WAS. THIS BRUTAL APP IS NOT HELPING! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
worked OK back in 96
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlAaJchnvck
Unless you want nine kids who are all great drummers.
No, no! That was the problem in the first place!
*narrows gaze*
Enjoy milk day.
I was hoping for milf day.
Also, from the morning links… Mike Rowe is great. And classy.
That was splendid.
You can remove the dildo from your ass and mouth now Rebecca.
She doubled down in a reply. Oofa.
The New Red Guard will never admit they are wrong, and never stop pointing at anyone to the right of Mao, even if only by millimeters, and screaming at them. Fuck these people.
You have that?
She’s a winner.
And these are the people who claim to be the tolerant ones.
Found it. 282 likes.
Yikes!
“All I did was tweet your employer publicly demanding you be fired, how dare you have the gall to single me out like this!” LOL
Nevertheless, she persisted.
That’s a pretty pathetic response to someone responding to charged, and frankly unhinged invective you deployed against them, in a relativelly genteel manner. We all go a bit off the rails sometimes, I suppose. Rowe gave her the opportunity to rethink that and…
Rowe tends to be that way with his detractors. Even when he’s dropping a verbal beatdown, the language is generally civil, and there’s always an out offered to the attacker. Part of why it’s so much fun to read.
I agree that he spent far more time on her than she was worth.
Yeap, class versus ass.
If Mike Rowe told me to go to hell, I would do so and look forward to the journey.
I can’t stop reading it. It’s just perfect.
It’s extremely worrying to me that a lot of people these days think of science as a group of human beings, not a mode of thought. It’s even more worrying that they want their version of “science” to be the guidepost for all government policy.
/checks handle to see if it’s OMWC commenting
The dirtiest job is cleaning Mike Rowe’s laptop screen.
I didn’t labor, but I did deliver.
*high fives*
The weather report for today is “sunny”. Maybe above the clouds. Not here.
The temp has been dropping all day here. It’s supposed to be around 10 by midnight. I hate the cold.
Yeah, here too.
High 50s in Albuquerque. I even had my window down after work.
Zombie was a solid tune. I think she was bipolar. Wonder if it was a suicide.
I had to find a sitter for my boy today since school was out for MLK day. We didn’t get this day off school when I went. Considering that the school my boy goes to is 98% white kids that seems reasonable. I wonder what has changed in the past 15 years. Probably something to do with teachers unions.
Next year they’ll get Cesar Chavez’s birthday off.
Well, they did change the name of 1st St. here in Austin to Cesar Chavez some time ago. Still don’t get a day off though.
We didn’t get it off either when I was a kid. However, to placate the local black population and give the teachers a holiday in the middle of the winter, we had a variable day of called “Sojourner Truth Day” (she having been born in these parts). Funny how it suddenly went away when we got MLK Day.
It was always scheduled as a day off, but we almost never had it off in reality as it was used as a snow makeup day. One of many extra days off that are added to the schedule in northern districts.
I always had MLK off as a kid, but us Virginians also had Robert E Lee day on the preceding Friday to balance it out for a 4 day weekend. At some point VA combined it into a single Robert E Lee/MLK day. Now I think the SJWs won out and it’s become just MLK day.
And these days they get pissed off about a statue or a street name.
When I was in school, MLK hadn’t even been shot yet, so nobody thought of taking a day off on his birthday.
*
/Removes self from Homple’s lawn
I think the first time I had MLK Day off was when I worked for a defense contractor after I finished my undergrad. Then I switched to the private sector, and didn’t have it off again except for a brief time when I worked at a large computer company that no longer exists. I worked today.
On the plus side, I get President’s day as a holiday and my kids do not.
Which president?
Its a fair cop.
When I was a kid you got Washington and Lincoln’s Birthday but they then combined them to just Presidents Day.
Yep , we got 2 Presidents days for one!
The switch happened for my school when I was in second or third grade. And I was PISSED.
Coolidge.
The best president. ^^^
Trump could have learned a few things from Silent Cal.
“The best president. ^^^
Agree
Harrison was clearly the best President. We should have a holiday in his memory. The best part is it would be 30 days long.
Yes!
What about Elvis? Even Busey didnt work on The King’s birthday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=803cvniQ1t0
My company decided to do some re-org this weekend. Several Execs I was doing projects for are out. My boss didn’t like what they offered her so she’s leaving. Now I’m flying off to a Leadership Conference I wasn’t planning to attend to do something, even though I don’t know what my job is any more.
Yeah!
Life in the corporate world. I can’t even count all of the reorgs we’ve had over the last 22 years.
My company has been in constant reorg since my first contact with them in mid-2015. It accrues to my benefit in some ways, but It’d be nice to have a coherent strategic goal to pursue rather than flapping in the breeze like we have been.
My attitude is that you get -one- reorg, and it had better be a good one, before I lose faith. If you fucked it up that badly twice you will again.
But I tend to avoid working for companies large enough to survive being fuckups.
Most of ours especially early on were the result of mergers and acquisitions so they were expected.
It’s even more worrying that they think that Science is some sort of monolithic source of absolute truth. I think that the approach we think of as Science is, in the long run, the best way we can try to understand this very confusing world we find ourselves in, but it is a poor Oracle, and an even poorer God.
Err- some funny things about the reply function here led that to be posted as a reply to you. Memo to self: reply to one thing at a time.
We work in different sectors, at different scales, with different dynamics. I have to be able to see my effect on the bottom line to enjoy working for a firm. Given what I do that generally means getting out before mergers and acquisitions are in the cards.
Lol. Yeah, I was wondering:) Oh I definitely see how what I do impacts the bottom line which is always nice. This had been a high growth sector which has been advantageous given the stagnant economy. That growth is slowing to a crawl now so I’m counting down years to retirement. Goal is 7 but if I can make it 5, I’ll be very happy. I’d probably look elsewhere if I didn’t get so much vacation time.
I like to be able to move the needle. I get unmotivated otherwise. Frankly, I am just very bad at being rank-and- file. It bores me.
I decided to try taking a nice routine six-figure job about a year ago (though in a small firm where I affected the bottom line) because it had been a while. I -want- to be happy just sitting back, making a decent salary, and not worrying.
But I’m not happy, tbh. It turns out that I might be happier with the constant tumult and risk of running a firm, the hiring and firing, the years where I make half a million dollars and the years when I lose hopefully enough less than that that I can keep going next year, the 16 hour days… than I am just going in to work.
It turns out that having to report to people stresses me out almost as badly as having to hire and fire does- I wouldn’t have expected that.
Dunno- running a firm is a bit too much for me, tbh, but I don’t like working for them either. I suppose I will have to make up my mind at some point.
I wish I derived enjoyment from work. No matter the position or the industry, any enjoyment I get from working is fleeting and is usually paid for with a disproportionate helping of tedium. If it would pay the bills, I’d work 2 days a week for 4 hours a day. I’m a jack-of-all-trades and a creative, so doing the desk jockey thing day-in and day-out is not even remotely enjoyable.
It’s too bad, because I’m really good at it.
@tarshmntr Yeah, getting up to go to work is harder than we generally like to admit. I thought, when I was younger, that it would suck less once I’d advanced a bit, but… nope. It actually gets worse, in my experience, as you advance.
The only real antidote to this I’ve found is genuinely loving the people you work with, and looking forward to seeing them, even if you hate getting out of bed and going to work. But that’s not something you can easily control- I was lucky enough to work with people I came to love like family for a number of years, and then…. the business fell apart and we all went on to other things. And now I just sort of like my colleagues, I’m afraid, at best.
Don’t know what to tell you- yeah, working kind of sucks. I thought I might like just having a job, and not having to deal with the stress of running a company, but… that sucks too. I’m thinking about leaving this job and just trying to make a few million dollars in a few years running a company again and then “retiring.” It would be a sucky few years, but I’m not loving being an employee as much as I thought I was going to, so… I’d at least like to make some money in return for the suckiness instead of having to put up with the suck forever.
But- running a company has so much stress and risk involved too… honestly life is hard, and I feel like a bit of a baby complaining about a cushy six-figure job. But that’s the nature of being human- once we have something we want something more. I pretty much just want to stop having to deal with people I don’t want to deal with.
big company rule: beware the Ides of January
Except the ides of January is the 13th.
March, May, July, and October have their Ides on the 15th; every other month it falls on the 13th.
Funny – my boss called me with the news on Saturday.
Well, maybe Badolph is on to something.
Sitting in a terminal in Newark. Considering petty revenge by expending some really expensive terrible food.
My last large company job has decided to annually decimate its home office workforce. Working wonders for employee morale and retention.
Sounds like you work for the same conglomerate as OMWC! /not really, but spooky similarities to his recent worklife
I’m lost with all these changes.
Suddenly I’m getting some sort of weird warning screen when I refresh.
I BLAME YOU.
I’ve also lost the arrow that takes me to the bottom of the screen. I only have the one that goes to the top, and it’s back on the right.
I liked the Down Arrow, Can We have back Please?
Don’t taunt them. Then we’ll have sideways arrows.
Oh, HI YUSEF!
Explained further down in the comments. The update to the plugin that was providing it broke the site, so I had to disable it until it’s patched.
Apropos of nothing, Troegs Brewing Company’s Perpetual IPA is really, really tasty. So tasty, it might just join Sam Smith’s offering as Best IPA on Earth.
You misspelled Two Hearted Ale.
Badly.
I would have gone with “No Need to Argue” myself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_37AVnrqG0
As close to a cappella as you can get while having instrumental accompaniment
“Linger” was always my favorite.
I’ve also lost the arrow that takes me to the bottom of the screen. I only have the one that goes to the top, and it’s back on the right.
Same here. I never use ’em, so I hadn’t noticed.
“On Sunday, Daily Beast reporter Lizzie Crocker was forced to resign after she was outed for plagiarizing an article first posted on the Weekly Standard by Alice B. Lloyd.
Maybe she can plagiarize a WikiHow on how to get out of hot water.
The article in question, “How Katie Roiphe Became Feminism’s Nemesis-in-Chief,” lifted entire paragraphs from Lloyd’s article about the #MeToo movement and the ongoing witch hunt for male sex predators in the media.
Lloyd’s original January 11 article concerned Katie Roiphe, who planned to reveal the identity of the author of the “Shitty Media Men” list of male journalists accused of sexual harassment, assault, and rape. Most of the men on the list, which circulated privately before it was leaked on social media and Reddit, are employed by mainstream news publishers.
Moira Donnegan, the author of the list, identified herself on The Cut on Wednesday before she could be outed by anyone else.
Following the publication of Lloyd’s Weekly Standard article, Crocker penned her own article to weigh in on the situation, which lifted words line-by-line—and even entire paragraphs—from the Lloyd’s story.”
https://www.dangerous.com/40245/daily-beast-contributor-resigns-after-shes-caught-plagiarizing/
riting b hard.
Are media companies so passive-aggressive they can’t just fire people?
Media companies and sports teams.
ach. damn you.
that song is not as bad as i remember it. for many years one of my friends would mockingly sing “iddya hafftoo,iddya hafftoo, Lerrrrrt it laanger” because he thought it was the most-grating sound on earth (i suppose it was overplayed on radio for a while; it wasn’t “toad the wet sprocket”-bad, but it worse itself out). overtime i came to hear his version in my mind rather than the original.
*a different kind of narrow gaze*
Their first album (from 1989) was great but they had to go and release that popular crap.
Worse than the Spin Doctors?
Tie between the Spin Doctors and Presidents of the United States of America
See, i loved those guys.
and the ninja video was like the best thing on MTV for a while
Asshole. I’ll be signing that for the next 24 hours.
Oh man… well diff’rent strokes 🙂
+1 Lump
Somebody needs to write the music that plays during the credits of a shitty romcom, and the Spin Doctors stepped up to the plate.
“They sold out! toad used to be hardcore!”
i’m half kidding. i didn’t really even have anything specific by them in mind. the genre of music that haunts my memory was what i will dub “Whinecore”: navel-gazing alt-pop generation X music of the late 80s early-1990s, many bands which tried to echo REM ish-ness, and which all had a kind of jangly rhythm section and a nasally singer. “Toad” was just my symbolic reference for that whole ‘style’.
i never heard any of it until i went to college, and it was everywhere in 1992-1993. it wasn’t really my scene. my older brother really liked this band, which i’d say fit into that whole genre, but was probably among the least-bad of it.
Well, their sound changed quite dramatically after the first album I mentioned. That album was much darker and more interesting than their later Adult Contemporary sound.
is that what they called it? everything in those days seemed to fall into some amorphous “alternative” category
Nah I was being facetious. AC was like the blandest, most inoffensive music category I could think of.
I didn’t like 90s hipster-faux cynic music.
They were downers man.
These guys were going the be huge, but then disaster struck.
even though I don’t know what my job is any more.
At least they haven’t moved you to the basement, yet.
The nicest cube I had was buried in a hillside. The rest were smaller, had lower walls, and louder ambient noise.
Where is my stapler?
Here you go
My wife paid $8 for one hour delivery of printer ink from Amazon Prime yesterday so she didn’t have to drive 2 miles to the office max in the cold.
I don’t live in a one hour delivery zone.
I doubt I’d use it very often. I’m a cheap bastard, and I can wait the two days.
Internal LOL
I’ve been working out of my basement mostly lately.
Since we’re doing web site updates, I have a suggestion. Can we get rid of the Log out option under the comment and reply. I’ve inadvertantly logged off on my android phone a bunch of times due to sudden screen shifting which happens on all phones.
http://5newsonline.com/2018/01/15/arkansas-sees-influx-of-out-of-staters-in-2017/
The article is a bit interesting. Lots of people moving to yokel country. I noticed this in it though-
“Arkansas as a natural landing spot for startups and tech-oriented millennials, highly-skilled professional and military retirees, highlighted by passage of a new law during the 2017 session to exempt all military retirement pay from state income tax.”
WTF? I didn’t know about that. Talk about a special carve out that government employees make for themselves.
IL exempts all retirement pay.
So does Hawaii
Even white supremacists acknowledge Asian women are attractive, so NY Times looks for racial reasoning for this
Neoteny, not ideology.
Jesus Christ… the left’s obsession with this shit is so tedious and, yes, racist.
The second myth is that of the subservient, hypersexual Asian woman.
HM will be along shortly.
Holy shit, only one instance of the word “anime” and it’s in a paragraph about how it’s not just alt-right who fetishize.
Alt-right is full of weebos, of course they’ll have an Asian fetish!
Strike another blow against the meritocracy!
You know who else teamed up with some Asians?
von Ribbentrop?
Stephon Marbury?
dafuq? Make shit up much? Cool story.
I didn’t realize their rocket was that powerful – the article claims it is the most powerful rocket in current operation. That’s pretty cool. Although I wonder how many uses these “reusable” rockets are actually good for.
Even one reuse makes them way cheaper than ULA, or anyone else on earth for that matter
I looked it up, and the Falcon’s payload is only half of that of the Saturn V but nearly three times that of the Space Shuttle, so this would be a step in the right direction but we’re not entering the Space Age yet.
take a shot if: -they mention the wage gap -if they mention the pink tax -out of context rape stat -if they mention privilege -if they mention cultural appropriation -if they mention man____ing -self hating white person -if they state what year it is -they mention trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq3lC7XTImQ
Drink!
You hate my liver worse than the people upthread!
The second myth is that of the subservient, hypersexual Asian woman.
SRSLY? I was unaware of the “hypersexual” thing. I allus just thought they was purty.
More Asian women seem to be more lady like than your typical American woman. Just in their mannerisms.
$5 dollah! Suckee suckee
no boom boom soul brother
That hasn’t been my experience with Asian women here. Unfortunately.
Also, I think lady like may not have been the term I was looking for anyways. More feminine maybe?
Oh, you’re probably right, i just felt compelled to quote Full Metal Jacket because I am juvenile
After 44 years of marriage to an Asian lady I concur, beautiful and feminine but the bedroom tiger has been tamed.
11-year-old Muslim girl attacked by guy to cut her hijab turns out to be a hoax
Community activists hardest hit
Emphasis mine.
“Fuck you, racists, why won’t you assault pre-teen girls? See what oppression we live under?!”
Holy Shit.
Fuck that woman.
No thanks.
Not elated to discover that, no, as a matter of fact, nobody is committing flagrant acts of violence against others. Saddened because you can’t make hay over bullshit.
Feminists react the same way when rape accusations are proved false.
I’m assuming that it was the girls parents who put the little girl up to telling the lie. People who use their kids to try and score cheap oppression points are the worst.
I weep for the children .
Dunno, I’d have guessed that parents would use a white devil as a villain, not Chinese Hitler:
You may be right specifically, but some one pumped SJW nonsense into this poor kids head ano her faking a hate crime was the result of it. poor kid.
Even if it wasn’t, initially, they are certainly to blame for failing to cross-examine her claims
but i agree w/ you. it was probably their idea.
Clock Boy 2.0.
So a liberal explains how the two parties switched platforms via this link on Realignment:
http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/BAIC/Historical-Essays/Temporary-Farewell/Party-Realignment/
It’s the best (and interesting) explanation yet but it doesn’t really prove much.
So basically the GOP were wishy washy and pleased no one. And the rest is history.
A good strategy, but one they didn’t seem to hold to for long.
I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned this already, but it’s relevant to the Hawaii pants shitting episode over the false alarm emergency broadcast. This is not the first time this has happened. For anyone here who was actually alive in the 70s, this happened. The national, not local, emergency broadcast system came on the air and announced an actual emergency, this is not a test. I was just a kid, but old enough to be aware of what was going on. I guess I was at least a tweener at the time. But all of the adults almost immediately assumed that it was nuclear war between the USA and Russia. Not some fat dumbo in one of them Koreas firing a missile that would just as likely wind up falling on his own head as anywhere near the USA, let alone actually work if it did make it, but an all out nuclear exchange between 2 countries armed to the teeth with enough nuclear firepower to probably end life on earth as we know it in a matter of minutes. So, suck it up, you fucking pussies in Hawaii, get over it already.
There was, however, a very serious attack on US soil during which the EBS was not used at all. That was on 9/11/2001.
she was saddened to learn that the girl’s story was not true
Well, don’t worry; another cut-and-paste outrage will come along. They’re just like streetcars.
Smiling ladies just for Tundra (and everyone else).
http://archive.is/k5G2R
No reason to go past #1.
9, 11, 14 good reasons!
There’s something really appealing about #47…and quite a few of the others. Sorry, #5 butterface.
*Tundra dies in bunk, smiling*
Nice one, Q! I declare all of them winners (but I really like 1, 2, 4, 13, 18 and 25)
3, 18, 19 and 44.
#21: “Land of Dreams”…. hmmm…..
Orgy.
“The Humiliation of Aziz Ansari
Allegations against the comedian are proof that women are angry, temporarily powerful—and very, very dangerous.
Was Grace frozen, terrified, stuck? No. She tells us that she wanted something from Ansari and that she was trying to figure out how to get it. She wanted affection, kindness, attention. Perhaps she hoped to maybe even become the famous man’s girlfriend. He wasn’t interested. What she felt afterward—rejected yet another time, by yet another man—was regret. And what she and the writer who told her story created was 3,000 words of revenge porn. The clinical detail in which the story is told is intended not to validate her account as much as it is to hurt and humiliate Ansari. Together, the two women may have destroyed Ansari’s career, which is now the punishment for every kind of male sexual misconduct, from the grotesque to the disappointing.
I thought it would take a little longer for the hit squad of privileged young white women to open fire on brown-skinned men. I had assumed that on the basis of intersectionality and all that, they’d stay laser focused on college-educated white men for another few months. But we’re at warp speed now, and the revolution—in many ways so good and so important—is starting to sweep up all sorts of people into its conflagration: the monstrous, the cruel, and the simply unlucky. Apparently there is a whole country full of young women who don’t know how to call a cab, and who have spent a lot of time picking out pretty outfits for dates they hoped would be nights to remember. They’re angry and temporarily powerful, and last night they destroyed a man who didn’t deserve it.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/the-humiliation-of-aziz-ansari/550541/
Ah yes…fuck “whitey”. I hate each and everyone of these people.
You know, i can take a bit of “Fuck Whitey” from people with legit reasons to be pissed off. I understand that at least- not saying I like it, or think it’s very productive, but I understand it.
What I have a very hard time with is all my neighbors with BLM signs in the yard who are the whitest motherfuckers I have ever seen, and who zone shit around here such that the only black people they interact with are grad students, and the two who live in the neighborhood are professors. Let’s say… curated black people, because everything around here has to be curated these days.
I can take and understand some “fuck whitey” from a poor black kid in Baltimore. But when I see my whiter than driven snow neighbors basing their identities on a “fuck whitey” platform I know what they’re up to. They mean whitey who isn’t in their camp and, ironically, whitey who lives with a lot more integration than they do. I think a certain amount of hypocrisy is a fine and normal thing, but past a certain point it becomes very ugly.
Let’s say… curated black people, because everything around here has to be curated these days.
*applause*
Good lord, really? I live in NYC and don’t see that much wokeness.
Almost every yard in my neighborhood has _more than one sign_. There is the obligatory BLM sign. Then there is the sign saying “Welcome” in several obscure scripts (with an addendum apologizing further for the intolerance of the rest of America in some cases.) There are actual flagpoles in my neighborhood erected just to fly various rainbow/immigrant flags. I’m a bit of an odd duck in that I don’t have a car, so I have time to walk through and savor this wonderland of performative wokeness every day. I avoid neighborhood potlucks.
The thing is- I know my neighbors. I live next to our very woke and very white high-school, and I know that my neighbors spent more than they could afford on some very modest but very expensive ranch-style houses in order to send their kids to a very white high-school. I imagine they know this as well, on some level, and feel a bit bad about it. Thus all the signs.
What ZIP code are you in, dude?
Asking for a friend who really really wants to avoid it.
I live in one of the wokest neighborhoods in the US, I guess. Let’s just say that it’s an affluent neighborhood in a small New England town with a large University, and a tradition of progressivism. You can work out the zip code from that, I imagine. Hell, with that and other things I’ve said here you could probably find my house.
The wokest thing I’ve seen around here is “Bay Ridge ❤️ Immigrants” but that’s just a little sticker in a few windows and it only started this year due to the election of President Concentration Camp. I’ve seen a couple BLM stickers on light poles. That’s about it. I suppose it helps that most of the residences are multi-family or apartment buildings. My neighborhood is one of the least Democrat in the city FWIW.
Bay Ridge Love Immigrants!?! What the actual fuck is that about? The Bay Ridge I went through on a regular basis was part guido, part muslim and in no part lovey dovey. A mafia dude was shot in a restaurant just off of Ft Hamilton around the corner from a hospital. They paid the ambulance to have him taken to the Bronx so he could die enroute.
“I had assumed that on the basis of intersectionality and all that, they’d stay laser focused on college-educated white men for another few months.”
This shit is hilarious.
Left scores own goal
Film at 11.
“focused on college-educated white men”
She ought to look into the actual stats for accusations being hurled on college campuses. Oh, check it out! I guess Caitlin Flanagan doesn’t read the Atlantic, because this article delves into the issue: The Question of Race in Campus Sexual-Assault Cases.
Given that the generic term for that would is usually ‘foreplay’, that would indicate that there was some possibility of ‘play’ in the future.
I find it amusing that feminists will instantly go in the red over slut-shaming but expect men act like Victorian gentlemen at all times, even in the midst of sexual intercourse. If they didn’t have double-standards they wouldn’t have any at all
Whenever I hear feminists especially white ones do the, “Believe her no matter what,” sort of line or them ripping on due process with regards to rape accusations, I always point out that they sound like the people who used a twisted rationale for the murders of black folks like Emmitt Till.
I mean think about it, the rationale used to be that black men were sexual deviants who wanted to rape white women and that white women due to their pureness were incapable of lying. Now think about in today’s terms: Males especially the white ones are sexual deviants who use their patriarchal power to rape women.
Whenever I point this out to them, they lose their shit.
Talking about believing, and I hear this.
I take exception with this. Eating pussy is as honorable as it gets.
I at least expect a bit of gratitude for my efforts…
This caught my eye
She’s not quite of that age (I’ll impersonate a gentleman and act like a believe a lady about her age), but after Margaret Atwood and French signatories to “#metoo goes too far”, I’m beginning to wonder if young feminists are turning on their elders in a bid for status and/or power within movement.
When I read stuff like this, I think, ” Thank goodness that I am married!” If I was single now and was out in the dating pool, I would pull a Dave Chappelle and have the woman sign a consent form before and after sex. And just to be safe, I would tape record her saying that it was consensual.
It’s pretty scary how just on a pure accusation your life can be turned upside down.
You think any of that would matter – it would just serve as proof of your predatory intent, oh shitlord.
For the umpteenth time: you don’t get to control the monster that you helped create. Fuckin’ short-sighted morons.
“No cause of death was revealed. The Irish Times notes that the Cranberries were forced to cancel tour dates in 2017 due to O’Riordan’s ill health; the band cited “medical reasons associated with a back problem.” O’Riordan had also been diagnosed as bi-polar in 2014.”
Bi-polar. A back problem.
It was dope.
you’re probably right. or pills.
Relevant
Sounds like (allegedly) former anchor Peter Mansbridge is in the middle of a sex scandal. And he being, for some reason, anointed special status among Canadians led to the CBC paying hush money.
Little problem.
IT WAS TAXDOLLAR MONEY.
Defund the CBC.
http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/BAIC/Historical-Essays/Temporary-Farewell/Party-Realignment/
Thine link is bad.
Google is not helping but I’m lazy – link?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11eRKZCGy_Y
Ugh.
I just reat the mike Rowe Facebook post. There are very very few celebrities who are even semi coherent when it comes to politics and real life. Rowe may be the only one who I take the time to listen to. He’s great.
Whatcha talking’ ’bout, Flo?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/25843/psychic-warning-now-jim-carrey-lights-trump-over-emily-zanotti
“Although Hawaii’s Emergency Management Agency took full blame for the “human error” that led to a mobile alert, warning Hawaiians that they were in the path of an incoming ballistic missile, Carrey claimed, bizarrely, that the text message was actually a “psychic warning” about the danger Trump poses to the world order.”
Don’t quit your day job Jim. You’ll never make it as a geopolitical analyst.
Don’t quit your day job Jim. You’ll never make it as a geopolitical analyst.
I dunno, I think CNN might hire him.
Bidding war with MSNBC.
I thought the Democrats wanted to escalate the tension with Russia, and are critical of Trump’s preference for detente.
Also, didn’t Democrats tread lightly with respect to NORK’s nuclear weapons development? And, didn’t Obama’s bombing of Libya send a message to the NORKs that they better have nuclear weapons, or else?
Carrey is just addled on this matter. Probably severe TDS.
Maybe Carrey’s just an ill-informed and vapid dumbass who lives in an echo chamber of ass kissers like much of the Hwood elite.
He’s just out of his mind is all and mistakes what he feels as legit intellectualism.
Fun Story, Emily (the author of the piece) is a Friend of a Friend and I’ve talked to her in FB before. She’s smart as a whip and currently writing a book on WWII, focused on women’s roles with a special look at the resistance forces.
“We live in trying times. Times of fear, of suppression, hate. We don’t need more or better leaders, we need someone willing to fight. We need to stop expecting that our systems will somehow fix themselves, we need to actually take the reins of power from them. We need to challenge this at every level. We need to fix this. We don’t need them anymore, we can do better. You’re damn right we got this.”
https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/chelsea-manning-releases-first-campaign-ad/
Can we just shorten that to ‘We can all just say we changed our sex to get out of trouble, and it will work!’. Maryland really is not the place where this is going to work. I’d suggest ‘Chelsea’ try Cali or somewhere else on the left coast. Here in Murland, you have to talk free shit in a simple way that the locals understand it.
She is the hero of her own story.
She thinks what she did was right and she exposed wrong doing by the powers that be.
She is delusional.
She is an excuse for Cardin to distribute his war chest to The Right People in the primaries.
“‘The New York Times’ Releases A ‘Definitive List’ of Trump’s Racism. Here’s The Big Problem.
Take, for example, Leonhardt’s and Philbrick’s list of Trump’s “definitive” racism. It contains instances that are clearly racist — stating that a judge of Mexican descent would be unable to adjudicate his Trump University fraud case fairly because of his ethnicity; Trump refusing to condemn the KKK on live television in the middle of the primaries; Trump stating that there were “good people” marching in an anti-Semitic, racist torchlight parade in Charlottesville.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/25867/new-york-times-releases-definitive-list-trumps-ben-shapiro
People keep repeating that, when it was obvious that Trump was talking about the events on Saturday, not Friday night.
“The New York Times List of Donald Trump’s “Racist” Quotes Is Garbage”
https://www.redstate.com/patterico/2018/01/15/new-york-times-list-donald-trumps-racist-quotes-garbage/
The old worn out race card is all that Democrats have left. Have you seen them present any solutions for the economy? Anything else that actually matters to typical middle class working people? Neither have I.
The go-to solution was to imitate Venezuela, but that hasn’t worked out so well lately.
Somehow it’s not racist when someone thinks the SC needs a “wise Latina”, but it’s tote’s racist for suggesting that a “wise Latino” may let his personal biases interfere with his professionalism as a judge. Which is it?
I prefer a curvy feminine Latina. Wise? Well, I’m not saying there aren’t plenty of wise Latinas, it’s just not important and I’ve yet to see any Latin countries that are not Trump’s proverbial shithole. Why aren’t the wise Latinas fixing this?
The “anti-racist” left have fully embraced the idea that your race affects what kind of person you are.
The guy lives in the public eye for decades and manages to hide his virulent racism the entire time. Only when he gets elected president does he let his racist freak flag fly.
Nah, he was totes racist all along, he just donated to the right politicians back then.
/Progderp
A funny for you all:
A woman goes into the husband store to pick out her mate. She steps onto the elevator, each floor having a different type of man. The first floor says “These men are unemployed with no prospects.” Screw that, she thinks and heads to the second floor. Second floor says “These men have high paying jobs.” That’s ok, but I think I can do better she says. Third floor says “These men have high paying jobs, love kids and are extremely good-looking.” Wow! She thinks, what’s up next. Fourth floor says “These men have high paying jobs, love kids, are extremely good looking and are unbelievable in bed.” Holy moly, what now? She heads up to the fifth floor and finds it empty except for a sign that says “This floor only exists to prove that women are impossible to please.”
That would be good, Q, if I hadn’t posted it 6 years ago over at TOS. Still a classic.
FAKE NEWS.
Key part you forgot: rule is that they can pick any husband on the floor, but are not allowed to go back to a previous floor.
I thought for sure the 4th floor dudes would turn out to be gay.
Oh, they were.
this should have been, “they will be”
“The adult actress who claimed that Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump invited her to their hotel room in 2006 believes that the story is now being used to run distraction after the husband of August Ames accused Jessica Drake of causing his wife’s suicide.”
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/952321792911212544
“Masturbation is “telepathic rape”.”
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/952919266654937089
*spits drink on monitor*
Ha. I must have telepathically raped a ton of women during my high school and college years.
^ Ed here is an admitted serial telerapist.
At least he isnt a therapist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHxW4lztFTg
Sort of OT: I remember in college when I said that I’ve watched porn from time to time and this prissy ass feminist called me a misogynist. I responded that since I wasn’t suave and at the time lacked any confidence, getting laid was difficult. So since I saw rape as something terrible, I had to find someway to deal with the horniness that a 18-20 something has and for better or worst porn provided that outlet. I told that if she wanted to, she or one of her friends could help in that area if she found my porn watching that disgusting.
Everyone in the room laughed and saw how ridiculous her statement was.
I guess I understand why these people live in an echo chamber; it’s the only place where people don’t immediately start laughing at them when they open their mouths.
STEVE SMITH PARTICLE CONFIRMED
There was an article the other day about how millennials find FRIENDS offensive. Maybe it was all the telepathic rape.
Our Sister of the Unmerciful Glare agrees.
Like so many other words, the definition of rape is going to be being watered down until it’s essentially meaningless. Is the rapist a douchebag who brutally forced a woman into sex or is he a guy who jerked it in the shower while thinking about his Chemistry 101 lab partner?
It wasn’t 101. It was qualitative analysis lab.
No, it was Rhetoric and it was the TA.
“If it lowers her energy, Scarlett Johanssen would be dead” – my wife, after showing that to her
When is this shothole country going to have it’s damn glorious socialist revolution? I want to get paid to nap and drink, not work.
Patience, comrade! We soon will soon see the glories of bread lines, only one type of deodorant (if you can get it), one refrigerator per block, and seasonal grubbing for roots to survive in support of the glorious revolution.
Remember that Planet of the Apes movie, where the Skipper was the head of a weirdo nuclear missile cult?
This North Korean propaganda concert to celebrate the second test firing of their ICBM gets kinda like that, right around the 45 minute mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2715&v=uu1h0tBgxpc
It’s pretty phallic, like we’re all here to celebrate Kim Jong-un’s nuclear dick.
Incidentally, when the North Koran delegation arrived to negotiate for participation in South Korea’s Olympic games today, one of the negotiators was the lead singer from the girl band performing in that missile celebration. They’re insisting that the band be able to perform if North Korea gets to participate.
I bet North Korea doesn’t have a #MeToo movement.
I’m as big a fan of the Olympics as the next guy, especially since i can remember when going up against the Soviets mattered so much–and our self funded, amateur athletes would kick the shit out of the state funded Soviet programs anyway. I’m starting to find the propaganda aspect pretty disgraceful.
They had Greece squander a ton of money they didn’t have, made themselves a prop for Putin’s propaganda in Sochi, do the same for Beijing, and now they’re letting themselves become a stage for North Korean propaganda?
That being said, the opening and closing celebrations are usually cheesy as hell, but North Korea does a really god job with that kind of show. They’re the best thing for halftime shows since Up With People. The NFL should hire them to do the Superbowl, but, you know, not so much about ICBMs. Maybe they could do something with BLM, you know, where the police show up with Confederate and Gadsen flags and beat a bunch of peaceful protesters, but then Kim Jong-un leads the people to rise up and chase the police away, and then no one will stand up for the American flag, because it’s racist, but then a sea of children dance around in perfect syncopation with, I don’t know, the North Korean flag and some gay guys show up and offer the children fruit sushi, and then there’s a documentary on the big screen about how every time an American buys an SUV, another Micronesian baby disappears into the sea . . . and then, you know, they can start the second half.
But we’re at warp speed now, and the revolution—in many ways so good and so important—is starting to sweep up all sorts of people into its conflagration: the monstrous, the cruel, and the simply unlucky.
To be sure, Robespierre’s methods were controversial, but he meant well.
The problem with this is that even if they win, it’s tax money that gets paid out. These kinds of suits need to end with people losing their jobs and or being held criminally liable. When public officials know they will just get to pay out of the community chest, they have no incentive to change.
http://freebeacon.com/culture/berkeley-sued-failure-protect-protesters/
It needs to be paid out of the department budget, or even better, the department’s pension fund.
When is this shothole country going to have it’s damn glorious socialist revolution? I want to get paid to nap and drink, not work.
They’ve raised the Victory Gin ration from 1 liter to 700ml!
I didn’t have a chance to post this in this morning’s scrum, so here it is instead. One of Sloopy’s links gave me a chuckle because it referred to J.B. Pritzker as the Democrat front runner in the Illinois gubernatorial election. Check out this ad he’s been running:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzz9Ne5d3Z8
Is he seriously presenting his protest march attendance as a qualification? Also, check out the quarter-century gap in the time line for a bonus laugh.
The plugin for the floating up/down arrow links caused an issue when it upgraded this afternoon. It will be back as soon as it stops breaking the site.
Thanks for your hard work, SP!
Damn. Now I can’t complain about it.
I think you should make it do nothing, like the placebo “close door” buttons in elevators.
Or cross-walks.
Oh man, better yet, have each click trigger a random number, and only do anything if the number falls within a certain range. Oooh, or even better, make each click have a random effect, so maybe three clicks in a row and nothing happens, then on the fourth click it scrolls up 200px, then down 600px, then opens a new tab, then nothing!
One day I’m going to make the most frustrating website conceivable. It will be my magnum opus.
Ooooooh! /cracks knuckles and gets to work
Your work is most definitely appreciated.
Thanks SP!
Hey Yusef!
re: your Teufelhund
https://postimg.org/image/vhztltpxb/
Why yes I know, very pretty Pups, they look innocent, but they aren’t, are they?
I feel your pain of wordpress and plugins updates.
Hopefully none of the plugins have glib custom code in them (or at least, they are decent enough to let customization reside in theme directory)…
“Centrist Dems Launch Smear Campaign Against Young Trans Woman, All to Keep an Old Straight White Man in Power
Democrats wasted no time in mocking and denouncing Manning’s bid to become the first ever trans woman in the Senate, instead quickly lining up in support behind the straight white male who has wielded power for decades. To demean Manning, many of these establishment Democrats invoked the primary tactic they now reflexively use against anyone they view as a political adversary: they depicted her as a tool of the Kremlin, whose candidacy is really just a disguised plot engineered by Moscow.
Leading the way in spreading this obviously deranged but acceptable-in-DC conspiracy theory was Neera Tanden, the president of the largest Democratic Party think tank in Washington. Last night, Tanden spread a viral tweet that strongly implied – without even pretending to have a shred of evidence – that the Kremlin had engineered Manning’s candidacy as punishment for Cardin’s hard-line position on Russia:”
https://theintercept.com/2018/01/15/centrist-dems-launch-smear-campaign-against-young-trans-woman-all-to-keep-an-old-straight-white-man-in-power/
I don’t agree with Greenwald’s take here. Yes, identity politics and Russia hysteria are bullshit. But there are plenty of reasons for Democrats to oppose Manning that have nothing to do with her being trans. She an inexperienced kook, a convicted criminal, and likely to lose.
Manning is a nut job who unlike Snowden, considered nothing when releasing secret documents. He was just trying to get even.
He was horrible mistreated at the hands of the government, but that in no way excuses him or qualifies him for office, or position of trust and authority.
I have a Lefty friend who hates Snowden and Greenwald with a passion of a thousand fiery suns. His reasoning is that they are both lap dogs for the Russians.
I may have lost a potential friend today. She brought up Brad’s run and referred to him as Chelsea. I corrected her with “You mean Brad”.
“No, he changed to Chelsea. He is a she now.”
“No, it’s just Brad running around in a dress with lipstick. He is still Brad.”
The conversation ended abruptly right there. Oh well.
When I worked at the university, a new hire for the GIS lab was trans-gendered (male to female) and I guess we got into a discussion of how to make her feel comfortable. I sort of got tired of the conversation and responded with, “I’ll call he/her whatever she/he wants to call her.”
Even if you don’t agree with calling Manning “she”. I don’t see how you can disagree with someone changing their name.
It’s Sutenboy, I’m pretty sure he
couldwill find disagreement with any choice anyone makes.I will put my life on the line to defend your right to choose as you see fit Hyp. If you want to call reality something it isnt, fine, but dont expect me to agree with you. His name is Brad, he was born with a dick and a Y gene. He is male no matter how much he wishes or imagines he isnt. The world isnt what people wish it is, it is what it is.
Its a name Suthen, people change them all the time. I can see you not wanting to go along with the sex change he/she weirdness but insisting on calling him Brad just makes you look childish.
Never go to a strip club with Suthen!
I tease, I’m sure he’s a good tipper and keeps conversation within bounds (i.e. yelling “WOOOO” as appropriate).
A rose by any other name….
I’m perfectly fine with men who want to present as women. Just don’t start inventing fanciful new genders or demand I speak a new form of the English language.
My relationship with any of my friends would be immediately re-considered if they said, regarding Brad, “did you hear what Chelsea Manning is doing now?”
I just call it ,That Thing
Disgraced former Private Manning
greenwald can be infuriating, because he’s 80% spot-on about most stuff, but then the 20% he’s wrong about? he’s not like, “slightly in left field”, he’s completely-batshit-super-wrong.
The video showing the killing of the journalists always pissed me off because Wikileaks released and edited (and captioned) version of a video the Army had released a few months earlier.
And when you see armed men (the journalist had bodyguards with them, don’t blame them for that) rushing toward a firefight what do you do? Things like this happen in war time.
If he’d stick to US domestic policies 100% of the time, he’d be bearable. It’s just that he’s a committed lefty, who can’t abide the idea that US might be in the right on, say, Chavez or Ukraine.
Or that his buddies Lula and Dilma are not mini-Chavezes who got stopped.
Certainly has a lopsided view, but at least he’s on attack mode regardless of who’s in the White House.
His list of war crimes Manning exposed are stretches at best, if not wishful thinking.
I agree with nearly everything he says insofar as it pertains to using Russian boogeymen against political enemies, his characterization of Cardin, and the Dem power structure’s…agility when it comes to supporting its stated principles. And honestly, Manning’s inexperience and likely psychological problems don’t bother me enough to make me prefer that Cardin retain his seat. What gives me pause is that Manning wasn’t a real whistleblower in the same way as Snowden. Manning released secrets into the wild with no consideration for fallout to people in the field in order to get some payback for what was admittedly shitty treatment, like Scruffy says. What happens when Manning feels disrespected as a senator?
Couldn’t be trusted with any behind closed door meetings or committees, that’s for sure.
Actually, that’s the first pro-Manning argument I’ve heard.
The whole thing may as well become a second high-school of bitchy drama queens run to 11. At least nothing would get done.
In honor of the great stone floating head:
https://youtu.be/cfsOgarSc-Q
It is NSFW with the sound on, and quite worth it
“mine isn’t,” Blam!
I have to admit, I laughed at that.
Are people rioting in the streets now?
Holy shit! Ving Rhames is a rent-a-cop?
Damn
Manning’s bid to become the first ever trans woman in the Senate
What the fuck does this “trans” bullshit have to do with the actual duties and responsibilities of a Senator? Tell me why Manning is in some functional way a better candidate.
Penis?
Excellent, I’m using that on someone I know
I think we should elect her with the understanding that no future candidate gets to play the race/gender/queer/whatever category ever again.
Not likely.
But seriously, if she won… how do you top that? I don’t think the average American is going to fall for the inevitable intersectionality BS. You get one card to play – that is it.
Trans-aboriginal (American black who identifies as an aboriginal Australian) F to Nonbinary TransGenderFluid Skyscraperkin.
Seriously, you’re never going to outmaneuver their idiocy. If you’ve ever talked to a legit delusional person, you’ll know that the delusion morphs faster than you can knock down its inconsistencies.
Sigh… I know.
i feel like Ice T would make a good white house spokesman.
HE CARES NOW. YOU MADE HIM CARE MORE.
I have to admit that I would probably really enjoy some joint T-Trump press conferences. But Trump would probably just water the whole idea down with ice- cube instead…
*applause*
I’m tellin ya…Gary Busey as press secretary. How could that NOT be funny?
I would like to see him just not answer stupid questions and just stare down the reporter instead.
i feel like
IceMr. T would make a good white house spokesman.FTFY
I pity da fool
@Swiss, nice link you added to Brett’s post up top. Thanks!
+1
That man knew how to deliver a message.
Indeed. Similar to the Founding Fathers, a flawed man (as all men are), who nevertheless was a great man.
As long as your flaws are restricted to killing kulaks, the modern left will forgive you.
No love for the killers of wreckers and hoarders?
More stuff to read? Its almost like a homework assignment around here.
Agreed. The man with the dream wasn’t woke.
My mama was birthing me while he was giving that speech.
I was 3 days old,,
Old man. Lol
You both are. I was -4.
Cold huh?
Well, his name is Tundra.
With those words he claimed and dominated the high ground.
Now…
S. M. Lockridge had some thoughts on “King” too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzqTFNfeDnE
TW: churchy stuff, and cheesey music
OK, this is funny, and probably a true Story, Granma’s a WereWolf!
https://ricochet.com/486325/the-best-radio-conversation-ever-or-grandma-is-a-werewolf/
But, wait! There’s more!
Coming Attraction! (Get your minds out of the gutter.)
Great article by Mustang going live in just about 52 minutes.
*prepares for nut punch*
Going live like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUFY8Zw0Bag
In other shithole news, seems that (((they))) are behind it, once again:
http://freebeacon.com/issues/top-puerto-rican-newspaper-blames-the-jew-for-disaster-relief-failures/
“Rodriquez says she is “sorry her writing is being interpreted as anti-Semitic,” ”
Lol
as opposed to…..
“Wilda Rodriguez, a columnist for San Juan’s El Nuevo Dia, writes in the piece “What does ‘the Jew’ want with the colony?” that “the Jews” are the “secret structure that rules the United States … behind closed doors.”
So….she’s is or isnt a Bernie supporter?
Is it OK to say they run Hollywood?
+1 Zionist Conspiracy
Look up her picture, her name should be Wilda Beast
+1 Lena Hyena
If she switches to using ((())), she can double her exposure by submitting to alt-right sites. Particularly if she’s a PR separatist.
PM Zoolander haz much sadz:
http://freebeacon.com/issues/toronto-anti-muslim-attack-condemned-trudeau-turns-out-fake/
Vegas should start taking odds on these things. 99.99% of them are fake.
I saw the original story on YouTube and it was fake as hell on its face. At least it started a national conversation that those bigoted Canadians really needed to have.
“Rodriquez says she is “sorry her writing is being interpreted as anti-Semitic,” ”
Just because you’re paranoid…
I spent the day at the Museum of Natural Science in Houston. Things I learned:
The arms of the T Rex weren’t for hunting or combat. They were for caressing mates.
Ammonites could unroll.
Megalodon sharks ate Mastodons. There are bones with bite marks to prove it.
Ancient starfish often formed symbiotic relationships with another invertebrate with an extended anal tube. The other creature shat directly into the mouth of the starfish, which fed off of it. It made me think of SugarFree.
Also, I saw reconstructions of several creatures that may have been STEVE SMITH.
Not Steve Smith…those were refugees from Katrina
/too soon?
Sounds awesome! But…
> The arms of the T Rex weren’t for hunting or combat. They were for caressing mates.
Filthy, filthy lie! Maybe. T. rex’s silly-looking arms were built for slashing
Also also wik
There is some debate about the what killed off the dinosaurs. It’s true that a large asteroid did strike about that time. However, the global cooling caused by the strike would have been deadlier to smaller animals than larger animals.
On the other hand, bigger animals need more food, which would have been scarce.
There is a theory that the dinos were the victim of their own success. They were so good at eating that after a while there was nothing left.
101 extinction theories
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Communication/Couch/possible.html
***
Flowering plants are very efficient at producing oxygen, which will increase the rate of metabolism in animal tissue. If this rate is too high, especially in large animals, they may not be able to eat sufficient food to survive. As Schatz proposed, ‘The dinosaurs may have well burnt themselves up, or out!’ With increasing oxygen the atmospheric pressure may have changed such that the dinosaurs could not survive.
***
We can pool our money and then draw straws for who gets to cash in.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/5345920/model-18-is-auctioning-off-her-virginity-to-buy-her-parents-a-house-and-claims-bidding-has-started-at-890k/
I’m afraid I’m nodding in agreement with Burt Burt:
Burt Burt 6 hours ago
Is that 8 pound 90 pence u mean and she needs a good steak and chips
I labored.