STEVE SMITH ANGRY LINKS!

STEVE SMITH NOT AT PEACE NOW. YESTERDAY, HIM TELL YOU ABOUT TEA CEREMONY AND HOW HAPPY WAS. NOW, ANGRY! WHEN STEVE SMITH GO TO ORDER MORE TEA, SEE THIS:

NOT ASK STEVE SMITH IF CAN USE IMAGE FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES

AND WHAT WITH “WENDIGO TEA” NAME? STEVE SMITH KNOW WENDIGO – HIM HATE TEA. STRICTLY COFFEE (TIM HORTON’S) FOR WENDIGO!

JUST WHEN STEVE SMITH CALM DOWN, HIM SEE THIS.

Now you’ll have the device to really mess with Bigfoot and you’ll have a scare tactic that will frighten your friends like never before!

OH, STEVE SMITH COME WHEN BLOW WHISTLE….AND RAPE WHISTLER! HOW YOU LIKE THAT? IT NOT KICKSTARTER, IT RAPESTARTER!

STEVE SMITH GOOD “FOREST LAWYER” (SHOULD SEE STEVE SMITH MAKE “MOTION”) BUT HAVE TO LOOK UP IP LAWYER. WONDER IF CAN GET OUTSIDE LAWYER AFTER RAPE LAST ONE? BUT THIS NOT FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE’S PROBLEM. SO STEVE SMITH GIVE YOU LINKS.

  1. MAYBE STEVE SMITH GO TRY THIS? PROBABLY BREAK THEM ALL.
  2. THAT SOME FINE POLICE WORK, SAY STEVE SMITH!
  3. STEVE SMITH SEE JAW-JAW BETTER THAN WAR-WAR.
  4. STEVE SMITH CRY FOR OPEC…NOT.

Comments

467 responses to “STEVE SMITH ANGRY LINKS!”

  1. F. Stupidity Jr.

    REPOST: So this guy’s videos are all about exposing celebrity trannies; here’s one about the ladies of Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

    It seems he thinks nearly every Hollywood actress is a tranny.

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      Listen, I’m not into skinny white bitches either, but I wouldn’t go that far.

    2. AlmightyJB

      What if my Princess Leia sex doll turns out to be a tranny?

      1. westernsloper

        Don’t be a quitter hit her in the shitter?

      2. God what are you, gay?

    3. Chafed

      Who in their right mind thinks about this, analyzes it, and then makes a video? Is there really nothing better for this guy to do?

    1. F. Stupidity Jr.

      I thought Steven Smith was STEVE’s refined, well-mannered, non-rapey cousin?

      1. Mythical Libertarian Woman

        That’s Smythe to you, uncultured nobody.

        Actually, the first place I saw it was at a coffee shop by my house and it definitely said STEVE Smith on the menu. So not sure if they’re trying to upscale themselves now or what.

        1. Mythical Libertarian Woman
          1. Heroic Mulatto

            “Flavored Steamer”

            *chortle*

          1. Gustave Lytton

            Not about your coffee shop, but Steven Smith Teamaker generally.

      2. Brett L

        I’m not sure that last adjective is true.

    2. trshmnstr

      And especially not this

      1. trshmnstr

        THIS!!

        (Clicked the wrong button, dammit!)

  2. Progress!

    In addition to having gotten more work (and a lot of priming) done, I’ve gotten to 6600 words on the Kitbash article.

    Lets hope it’s worth all the hype and I’m not just rambling at myself…

    1. Nephilium

      I’m sure it’ll be fine. You’re a published author already, and people here are still entertained by my scribblings about games.

      1. Tres Cool

        I was awarded “Best of Craigslist” once. Can I count that as “published author”?

        1. Nephilium

          Only if you can explain why V doesn’t mean Visitor.

          1. Tres Cool

            I loved that series. Even the re-boot, lacking the cheesy effects, was tolerable.
            Maybe it was seeing the lizard-woman deep-throat a rat. I dunno. YMMV.

          2. Nephilium

            I blame it on a local channel playing it once a year in a time when good sci-fi was rare. I watched the hell out of it as well, and even suffered through the reboot.

          3. Tres Cool

            Guinea Pig. Citation:

            https://youtu.be/2RqVOn-pJsY?t=149

          4. robc

            I own the miniseries on dvd. I made it 2 episodes into the reboot.

          5. totally_not_an_escaped_ai

            It’s an absolute shame what they did with that reboot. Such good source material!

            You basically have to try to screw something up that badly.

            The Anna character was awesome though.

      2. Maybe.

        The downside to having cleared off my workbench is now that when I’m painting, I can check Glib comments..

        1. *can’t check glib comments.

          1. I wish this guy had photographed better.

            Sometimes these pictures don’t resemble what they look like in person.

            Here is Ironspeaker Torvald, who I was painting while priming bits for the kitbash.

          2. Though with a photograph ten times the height of the mini, I can see mistakes more clearly.

            Like that splotch of silver on the backpack that shouldn’t be there and the corner of the holster I missed.

  3. juris imprudent

    Very pleasant afternoon sampling chili and drinking beer.

    1. Nephilium

      The $10 growler met expectations. It was a mediocre beer past its prime, hence why the brewery was selling it for $10 with a growler. Now it’s time to move on to better beers. The question is Dunkel or barrel aged stout (sorry, I’ve got four different ones in the fridge right now, and can’t link to all of them).

    2. Playa Manhattan

      One of those is a euphemism?

  4. Juvenile Bluster

    What STEVE SMITH do with no campers in parks because national parks closed due to government shutdown?

    1. Brett L

      BEARS LIKE 2ND COUSIN TO STEVE SMITH! STEVE SMITH GO ON APPALACHIAN STYLE RAPEPAGE!

  5. Mythical Libertarian Woman

    Have you ever wondered how to create an anti-capitalist business? Well, wonder no more!

    1. Brett L

      I mean, ‘capitalism’ is always capitalism, one economic model, and I’m not interested in rethinking that.
      I… feel like I have an fairly complex grasp of economics and I could not describe capitalism in any sense that that this person would recognize or vice-versa. I mean capitalism as an economic theory is primarily developed in opposition to mercantilism — which is much closer to what these people think they are against. I can only imagine the shock if you told them that some group of people who were primarily qualified by being cousins to some politician should tell them how much they must charge or pay.

      1. Mythical Libertarian Woman

        I felt like the way she was approaching capitalism was just bizarre to begin with? Like she thinks it’s some kind of law that all businesses have to be structured with the goal of ultimately becoming mega-corporations. Girl, if you want to run your tarot shop and blog with the sole purpose of earning enough to sustain yourself and not growing beyond that no one is going to stop you, and it’s not anti-capitalist to do so.

        1. Brett L

          I feel like the primary contention of Marxist Capitalism is that there’s no such thing as sweat equity. That labor and capital are forever inexchangeable quantities. Which, at least since the dawn of the power loom, or maybe the collar harness for horses, is laughably false. For everyone else, capitalism merely states that capital (and all other resources) will be most efficiently allocated in a market where individuals are free to set their own value of exchange. Some of the caveats are that efficient allocation of resources is often achieved by specialization, that minimizing force, theft, and fraud in a market are also important to efficient allocation of resources — and that efficiently sourced consumer goods can be produced (and thus sold by concerns that will continue to be in business next year) more cheaply.

          1. trshmnstr

            That labor and capital are forever inexchangeable quantities.

            As far as I can tell, it’s even worse than that. Not only aren’t they inexchangeable, but only labor can increase the value of something. Your machine may take in raw ingredients and spit out bottled sodas, but it’s the guy in the control room watching the bottles whiz by that makes that soda bottle worth more than the raw ingredients.

    2. AlmightyJB

      My conclusion from that article is that it’s excruciatingly difficult and confusing to be functionally retarded.

      1. Chafed

        Yeah. She’s not even putting the fun in functionally.

    3. westernsloper

      How can a business embody anticapitalist values? (Is this even possible?)

      Wut? Is she going to give her stuff away for free?

      1. Hyperion

        “Is this even possible?”

        No.

        1. Nephilium

          Yes it is, great authors have already anticipated it.

    4. westernsloper

      Capitalism is an intentionally-created structure that connects and relies on all forms of oppression – in its pursuit of greater profits and greater GDP, capitalism must necessarily exploit and reinforce hierarchies of privilege.

      Jesus. I am glad I am not that smart because it sounds exhausting. Trading goods and or services for an agreed upon fee sounds more my speed.

      1. SimonD

        I think you’d have to hit yourself in the head with a hammer 20 or 30 times to be that smart. Hell, I think Tony would have to hit himself in the head with said hammer a couple of times to be that smart.

        I don’t know if this is right, but in a Crichton book (that I read when I was young and stupid), he said there was a Japanese word for ‘willful stupidity’. I think that applies to this dingbat. You have to deliberately try to be THAT stupid and still have the intelligence to feed yourself.

        1. CPRM

          Having spent a decade to get my degree (for various reasons) I do think the kids coming in actually got dumber from 2001 to 2011. So I don’t know about this willful stuff, I think they are just dumb as a box of rocks and people always told them they were smart, and HS and college got dumbed down so much they had no reason to not agree that they were smart.

    5. Playa Manhattan

      “Capitalism is an intentionally-created structure”

      I’ll take “Can’t even get the 1st sentence right” for $500, Alex.

    6. juris imprudent

      So…

      In this I am not suggesting that capitalism is a greater evil than, say, patriarchy, or white supremacy, or cisheteronormativity.

      Done. And thanks for not wasting any more of my time.

    7. trshmnstr

      Except for the exchange of “exploitation” for “oppression” and the modern affectation, this could have been pulled from the Communist Manifesto.

    1. Ha!, says I. I will take that challenge!

      (Views link)

      (Bows before superior funk-fu)

      … Hobbit

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        How many potential children were wasted due posters of Vanity?

        1. Brett L

          How many stars are in the heavens?

          1. Heroic Mulatto


            I mean, like, Jesus Christ!

          2. Brett L

            Its not Vanity if you’re built like that.

          3. Galt1138

            Check out 52 Pick Up. Vanity is stunning in that (yes, there’s a nude scene).

          4. CPRM

            Galt1138 posting on a live thread? This combined with the government shutdown must surely be a sign of the apocalypse.

          5. commodious spittoon

            Who is she and can I stand in line to fall in love

    2. This.

      And it’s got Canadian Content.

    3. Alternatively, this, which also has Canadian content.

    4. Hyperion

      Different genre but, as far as funky dance music is concerned, this is better, IMO.

      Juke Joint Jezebel

      The electro funk stuff they play at Rio Scenarium in Rio is also really good dance music.

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        I remember growing up believing the urban myth that KMFDM stood for “Kill Mother Fuckin’ Depeche Mode”.

        1. Nephilium

          It means something much better, “no pity for the majority”.

          1. J. Frank Parnell

            No, it’s totally Kill Mother Fuckin Depeche Mode.

        2. Hyperion

          lol

        3. Kylie Minogue Fans Don’t Masturbate.

          1. Just Say’n

            Of course they do. Why else are they listening to Kylie Minogue’s music? I’ll give you a hint: it’s not because her music is good

          2. Why else are they listening to Kylie Minogue’s music?

            It’s no secret why.

          3. Just Say’n

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHood00sNJU

            I was thinking more along the lines of this

        4. Gustave Lytton

          I remember hearing that too.

      2. Juke Joint Jezebel rules

      1. Hyperion

        Cowgirls, never anything wrong with that.

      2. Heroic Mulatto

        Still more faithful to the franchise than Episode 8.

      3. Gustave Lytton

        SXM’s 70’s channel plays that from time to time.

  6. mikey

    OK Glib foodies. What is it with salt these days. It used to be that recipes called for, well, salt. Nowadays that doesn’t seem to be good enough. Recipes demand either sea salt or kosher salt.
    WTF do I need to use kosher salt in chocolate chip cookies for?
    Is this just pretentiousness or is there a real reason for this?

    1. Mythical Libertarian Woman

      I’m assuming pretentiousness because I use regular salt and other unholy things like onion powder in lieu of fresh chopped onions (not in cookies obviously) and sometimes even OMG MARGARINE if I don’t have butter handy and it always tastes just fine.

      1. Nephilium

        Margarine vs. butter will make a difference if you’re baking instead of cooking. But I have a shelf full of dried shallots, garlic, and onions that are used regularly in my cooking.

      2. mikey

        Margarine?! Sorry, MLW but my opinion of you just dropped.
        But then maybe it’s just that I associate margarine with my childhood – we couldn’t afford butter and my mom was a lousy cook.

        1. Mythical Libertarian Woman

          I usually use butter but I can’t say I’ve ever noticed an appreciable difference in the way something cooked or baked with margarine vs. butter tastes. I understand if I am now banned from the Glibertarians.

          1. mikey

            Nah – another Teen Vogue will make up for all.

          2. Nephilium

            We’re open to all sorts of deviants. I mean Sugarfree is a founder after all.

            But if you really want to notice a difference, try something like a pound cake using margarine vs. butter vs. high fat butter.

          3. Mythical Libertarian Woman

            Maybe that’s the issue—I don’t like cake so I usually just bake cookies. Maybe it doesn’t matter as much for cookies? Actually, now that I think about it, half the time I just eat the dough and don’t even bake the cookies.

            I am realizing things about myself.

          4. Nephilium

            Depending on the cookies, it may make a difference in texture and size. Somewhere in the house I’ve got a recipe for no-cook chocolate chip cookie dough bites.

          5. Make your YA characters eat cookie dough in a story about fat acceptance.

          6. Playa Manhattan

            Margarine is very useful in several applications.

        2. The taste that says “butter”

          1. Galt1138

            “Go get the butter”
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-r9Q-YItnk
            Definitely NSFW

    2. Heroic Mulatto

      Is this just pretentiousness …?

      I used to think that until my chef wife schooled me. For cooking, different types of salt will give different mouthfeels and different levels of saltiness per same amount. For baking, it’s actually important to the process as the rate in which the salt dissolves can affect the end product.

      1. Just Say’n

        You and your book learning. You probably even know which spoon to use for soup and such

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          We mostly use sticky rice and eat with our right hands.

          1. Playa Manhattan

            Isn’t that your wiping hand?

          2. Heroic Mulatto

            Did you just call me a left-hander?

            I will not be besmirchified by being identified as a member of those people.

          3. Gustave Lytton

            F-ing handism. The last acceptable -ism.

            Let’s talk about societal oppression.

          4. Playa Manhattan

            ^^^Lefty

    3. CPRM

      crystal size and shape is the only difference.

      1. trshmnstr

        This is why breads usually call for kosher salt. The larger crystal size tears up the gluten strands more aggressively, making your kneading more effective. It’s also why you should use kosher salt when pinch seasoning something like eggs or a steak. The larger crystals are easier to control as you season, reducing the chances of accidental pockets of salt.

    4. Nephilium

      The only real reason is that kosher, sea salt, and iodized salt will measure differently.

      /refuses the foodie appellation

    5. Just Say’n

      Even their salt has to be kosher? (((Those))) people are never satisfied

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        It’s not that the salt is kosher, but that the salt is used to make meat kosher.

        1. OMWC already told us this in one of his (((Tuesday))) posts. At least, I think that’s where I learned that tidbit.

        2. Just Say’n

          You ruined a joke that I found amusing. Granted nobody else found it funny, I’m sure. But, I enjoyed it. Now it’s ruined

          1. Just Say’n

            Haha

          2. egould310

            ??

          3. Galt1138

            Nope. I enjoyed it.

    6. If you want to use treif salt, go ahead.

    7. Tres Cool

      Cause you’re making (((cookies))) ?

    8. Rhywun

      Kosher salt is for cooking because you can crush it in your fingers and it sticks to your food better than table salt.

      I don’t know what sea salt is supposed to be for.

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        Again, according to my wife, mouthfeel and different rate of dissolution. Also, sea salt may contain various minerals that may affect flavor as well.

    9. Sean

      Hickory smoked salt is your new best friend.

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        Viking salt.

      2. Nephilium

        I have close to a dozen different salts in my house, and there’s none that I love more then Vulcan’s Fire Salt.

        1. Rufus the Monocled

          Don’t tell Bloomberg.

        2. Rhywun

          Intriguing but probably too hot for me.

          1. Nephilium

            The girlfriend (who thinks pepperoni is spicy) likes it as a small addition. It does have a level of heat to it, but it’s not even close to an overpowering one.

          2. Rhywun

            I sometimes mix my own with cayenne, paprika etc. often with one of the McCormick mixes (like “steak”) as a base. I can tolerate medium heat but something like Sriracha is overkill for me.

        3. mikey

          Looks good – on the list.

    10. Playa Manhattan

      Morton’s salt is fine.

      Baleen Fleur De Sel doesn’t make your steak taste any better.

      1. Timeloose

        Organic sea salt. For those that never took chemistry.

        1. Playa Manhattan

          Mmmm…. salty tears.

        2. dbleagle

          I prefer salt with no chloride. I heard once that the free radicals in it can make poisonous gas.

          1. Timeloose

            I prefer my bath salt. Makes you want to eat brains

      2. RAHeinlein

        Thank you.

    11. J. Frank Parnell

      Make sure your sea salt is collected under a full moon.

  7. westernsloper

    Now you’ll have the device to really mess with Bigfoot and you’ll have a scare tactic that will frighten your friends like never before!

    Put a bowl on that thing and turn it into a duel use product and I am sold.

    1. AlmightyJB

      You want to get high and then call Steve Smith?

      1. Mr Lizard

        STEVE SMITH GLADLY EXCHANGE NOT-RAPE FOR GANJA

        1. Hyperion

          STEVE SMITH EXCHANGE NOT-RAPE FOR GANJA AND BY EXCHANGE MEAN RAPE.

      2. westernsloper

        Ok, admittedly maybe I did not think that through.

  8. Mr Lizard

    Good evening mammals. I have just returned from the Lakeland gun show. There were many deals to be had

    1. Sean

      What did you buy?

      1. Mr Lizard

        Meh, nothing. I did see an AMT hardballer for $450 which is worth the gamble at that price. I really need to bring some other creatures with me, because I am at the point of looking for obscure firearms. Meanwhile they are working on their first concealed gun.

  9. westernsloper

    Instead, the 26-year-old will soon be on his way to Chicago to face murder charges in the 2016 death of his former boss at a Southwest Side trucking company.
    After Payne applied to the New Orleans Police Department in October 2017, officials sent a reference request to his former employer, NOPD spokesman Beau Tidwell said.

    This is why you always check the “not ok to contact” box on applications.

    1. Playa Manhattan

      Sucker. He doesn’t get away with murder until AFTER he’s hired.

  10. Akira

    OT: A few years ago, I started reading poetry. I’ve enjoyed Tennyson and Coleridge most of all. I also have a Walt Whitman volume, but I never could get into any modern (post-1900) free verse. It just seems like it all turned to unstructured garbage after that – but that’s just my opinion.

    I was in the bookstore tonight buying a gift for a friend’s birthday, and I wandered into the poetry section. I decided to give some modern verse a try and picked up a random book. I saw some text (in all lowercase with no punctuation of course, as is the style at this time) and the lines “how can i verbalize consent if i was never taught to as a child” and “parts of my body still ache from the first times they were touched“. There was also a cartoonish drawing of a naked woman’s body with hands all over it.

    If anyone needs me, I’m crawling back under my rock with my non-modern literature.

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      Read Wallace Stevens.

      1. Playa Manhattan

        Bobcat Goldwaithe,

      2. Tres Cool

        Jonathon Swift

    2. Just Say’n

      Langston Hughes has some good modernist poetry

      1. Rhywun

        Rassistisch!!1!

    3. straffinrun

      Ode to government shutdown.

    4. westernsloper

      The only good poetry has a common theme and it all deals with some dude from Nantucket.

    5. RAHeinlein

      I’m a Colreridge fan – try ee cummings, and Elizabeth Bishop (specifically “One Art” – a Colridge-style intensity build).

      1. Akira

        I liked some of ee cummings’ very early poems, but I just don’t get any enjoyment out of verse that uses irregular grammar and syntax.

        Some people might call me a “neo-formalist” old fogey for that, but I guess it’s just where my tastes are aligned. I’m one of those people who is frequently asked if I was “born in the wrong time period”.

    6. Galt1138

      What about TS Eliot?

  11. straffinrun

    “‘TRY BEFORE YOU BUY’ Businessman hiring out SEX DOLLS to local punters for £50 a pop”

    I only need 10 pounds to pop.

    1. westernsloper

      10 pounds of what?

      1. straffinrun

        Torque.

        1. westernsloper

          Heh…I thought you might say margarine.

      2. Brett L

        Pressure on his larynx?

  12. Heroic Mulatto

    I love the clock CNN has up on its home page to show how long the federal government has been shut down.

    20 hours 19 minutes and 2 seconds….and nothing else happened.

    1. Just Say’n

      Whatever anyone’s opinions are on the president or his policies, we should all be able to agree that Jim Acosta is a bag of dicks

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1U3SUEMmhA

    2. westernsloper

      They should do that every weekend and holiday. It would be educational for their viewers.

    3. Viking1865

      My go to response for any ZOMG TEH SHUTDOWNZ people is to ask if they’ve stopped collecting taxes.

      If the government shutdown, my paycheck should be much better than it was last week, right?

    4. juris imprudent

      At least it isn’t running backwards down to the intergalactic reptile assault.

  13. Thymirus

    http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/national/hundreds-apply-to-carry-loaded-concealed-handguns-in-dc-20180119

    Hundreds apply to carry loaded, concealed handguns in D.C.

    WASHINGTON — More than 700 people have asked the D.C. police for licenses to carry loaded concealed handguns when they dine, shop and walk the streets of the nation’s capital. In the months since a court ordered city officials to scale back local gun-control laws, police department records show that more than half the applicants are not District of Columbia residents.

    The loosening of the law marks a cultural shift in a city where most residents could not legally keep handguns in their homes until a landmark Supreme Court decision a decade ago. City officials have long fought efforts to chip away at D.C.’s strict controls since the high court used a local case in 2008 to declare that an individual has a right to gun ownership.

    1. trshmnstr

      Fuck ’em. The fact that I can’t carry in the most dangerous part of the city (the district itself) is a complete trampling of my constitutional rights. Thankfully, I don’t go to the district very often.

  14. Ken Shultz

    Remember how Stack used to catalogue our comments on her website?

    That was weird as fuck.

    You know what’s weirder than that? Michael Hinh claims that he meets with the Koch brothers on a regular basis and discusses Sevo’s comments with them.

    https://reason.com/blog/2018/01/19/government-shutdown-if-it-happens#comment_7101206

    I was laughing my ass off at that one!

    I guess this is where I’m supposed to say there are a lot of really weird fothermuckers in this world, but . . .

    I get relationship advice from Zardoz.

    I sometimes converse with STEVE SMITH, who may not be sensitive to the plight of victimized women everywhere.

    I mean, for all I know, one of the Koch brothers is Zardoz, and the other one is STEVE SMITH.

    For all I know, Michael Hihn watches hockey with Zardoz and STEVE SMITH twice a week!

    I’m just sayin’.

    1. juris imprudent

      Yeah, well what if Hihn is really the sober state personality of Agile_Cyborg, huh? You NEVER saw them post in the same thread, did you?

      1. Mr Lizard

        I miss Agile….and that is the most sentimental you will ever see out of this reptile.

    2. Heroic Mulatto

      Christ, what a shithole!

      1. Rhywun

        The weekdays when I’m there at work are bad enough but holy hell the overnights and weekends are something else.

      2. Playa Manhattan

        Wow. It’s REALLY bad.

    3. Playa Manhattan

      Joke’s on Hihn.

      Sevo is one of the Koch Brothers.

      1. Galt1138

        Zing!

    4. Stinky Wizzleteats

      I feel genuinely sorry for Hihn’s relatives, the people that have no choice but to put up with him.

      1. There’s a reason some people live alone with no contact from their family.

        1. Are you saying that’s not normal?

    5. westernsloper

      No shit? Hihn is in the circle of Koch? Maybe he lives in Paonia. It is just up the road from me. Seems all my invites to the parties at the ranch were lost in the mail. I can old westerny town the shit out of stuff if’n I wanna do.

      1. Galt1138

        From the link:
        “This fall, a former executive of Kock’s Oxbox energy corporation who had been implicated in a scheme to defraud the company of $40 million accused Koch of kidnapping and keeping him imprisoned on the ranch for interrogation. It is one of 26 personal lawsuits Koch has faced.”
        Wow. What would Koch want to interrogate him about?
        Imagine the mountains of BS nonsense one has to deal with when one has that much money. Not that I’m crying for the Koch brothers, mind you. Still.

  15. Raven Nation

    And….Kansas escapes again.

  16. Anybody watch Black Mirror? I’m giving it a third try and I still can’t get into it. I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s because the technological dystopia schtick gets on my nerves. I’ve never found that a compelling theme, and that does seem to be the foundation of the series. For whatever reason I just find myself rolling my eyes at it a lot. Maybe I got into enough cyberpunk stuff as a teenager that none of the technophobia stuff really does anything for me. Or maybe I’ve already trodden this ground so often with The Twilight Zone, and The Outer Limits, and Night Gallery, and all that stuff that it’s just old hat to me.

    1. Thymirus

      Dystopian and post-apocalyptic drama is one of my favorite themes for entertainment. I’m one of those nerds who’s watched the ‘BSG’ remake five (or six) times. The only show that’s ever lost my interest is ’24’. Apart from with ’24’, I’ve never failed to finish the entirety of whatever I’m watching, even if it isn’t exactly Emmy-worthy television.

      1. Rhywun

        Me too. I’m in the middle of another binge-watch of BSG myself.

        As for Black Mirror, I enjoyed S01 and S02 well enough. Nothing groundbreaking but well done enough for me to keep on DVD.

        1. Thymirus

          Adama > Picard. *Ducks.*

          1. Nephilium

            John Sheridan > Adama > Picard

          2. Thymirus

            HERESY.

          3. Chafed

            Now I know why I like you Nephilium.

          4. Rhywun

            Adama > Picard

            You get no argument from me there.

            I can’t comment on Babylon 5, though.

      2. Raven Nation

        I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit I gave up on The Wire half-way through the first season. I know it’s supposed to be the best TV show evah…

        1. Nephilium

          Really? The first season? I suffered through the fifth season, but never disliked the first four seasons.

          1. Gilmore

            the season in that follows the kids through school is the epic-depressing one.

        2. Akira

          Deadwood was great, and it seems to touch on some libertarian-ish themes (how governments come about, whether or not they have a right to rule, etc.)

          Plus, I’m a total history dork, so I loved the set and meticulous detail put into the wardrobe.

        3. I’ve watched the whole shebang a few times now. Part of the appeal is because it’s local* for me; I live at the other end of 97 from Baltimore, lived in the city briefly, one of the characters goes to juvi in Upper Marlboro, where my dad spent a lot of time as a deputy, stuff like that. There are locations that I recognized well, and you can tell which actors are locals from the accent, which is actually a pretty tough one to do if you’re not used to it. Biased though I am, I’d say you should try to give it another go. The first few episodes can take a little while to get rolling, but I found it worth sticking with.

          *House of Cards was filmed in Maryland, and in the first episode the neighbors whose dog gets hit by a car have my last name. Since my last name isn’t common around here, I’ve often wondered if the producers ran into one of my aunts in the area, one of whom worked in tv for awhile, lives in Montgomery Village, and has a son who worked on the Call of Duty that Kevin Spacey did voice acting and mocap for…

          1. Raven Nation

            OK, I might try it again. I watched three episodes, gave up and someone I work with told me to stick with it. So I tried another 3 and gave up again. But, I may try again.

      3. I gave up on Looking for Mr. Goodbar.

        1. Jill Clayburgh hardest hit (literally?)

          1. Nope, Diane Keaton.

            Jill Clayburgh was in An Unmarried Woman, another movie that’s extremely difficult to get through if you’re not in the Lifetime Channel demographic.

        1. Raven Nation

          Threading fail – should be a new post.

        2. Its the same reasoning for why they shut down the parks.

        3. westernsloper

          Meh, seems reasonable. Are flying AF academy athletes around the country an essential function of the government/taxpayer?

          1. Raven Nation

            Oh yeah, good point – I hadn’t thought about that.

    2. Just Say’n

      I think Black Mirror can be hit or miss. The one with the girl who’s life was impacted by Facebook likes was pretty good.

      This one was my favorite show of that genre, because it was so cheesy

      https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=tales+from+the+dark+side+tv+show&view=detail&mid=AC99330C7A7466409914AC99330C7A7466409914&FORM=VIRE

    3. Stinky Wizzleteats

      How about Electric Dreams on Amazon? From what I’ve seen it has mixed reviews but I’ve been tempted to give it a look.

      1. Timeloose

        I watched a few. I read all of the PKD shorts they came from. It’s very twilight zone but with more schizophrenia.

      2. I took a look at it for a bit but was chasing my kid around the house at the time. Interesting premise, but I think I’d need to sit down and actually watch it. That said, I haven’t had a lot of luck with Amazon’s own stuff.

        1. Raven Nation

          Didn’t like “Man in the High Castle”?

          1. CPRM

            I liked the pilot for Jean Claude Van Johnson, was bored by the end of the first season of Man in the High Castle.

          2. trshmnstr

            Not to answer for Bill, but I liked the concept a lot more than the execution for Man in the High Castle. Granted, I’ve only watched Season 1. S1E1 was great, but then it went downhill. There was such a cool environment to explore, and I felt like I was watching a by-the-numbers drama.

    4. Nephilium

      I watched the full series. I’d say to skip the first episode and that the best episodes are:

      S01E02
      S01E03
      S02E03
      S03E01
      S03E03
      S04E01
      S04E04
      S04E06

      And I just get annoyed with people comparing Black Mirror to Twilight Zone when it’s obviously closer to Outer Limits.

      1. quincy

        S01E01 is not on your list. Your list is wrong, pigfucker.

        1. Nephilium

          Nope. I can appreciate S01E01, but I will never recommend it as an introduction to the show. Even now, I much prefer 15 Million Merits as an introduction to the series.

          1. Rhywun

            It is kind of off-putting.

            S02E03 really turned me off too. I might have to re-watch it (I have only watched S01 and S02 once).

          2. Nephilium

            I would recommend avoiding any write ups of S02E03 after Trump got elected. All of them compare Waldo to Trump.

          3. SimonD

            I agree. After slogging through S1E1, I didn’t watch any more of the episodes for over a year. Finally I watched Episode 2 (on the recommendation of you degenerates) and it’s quite good. I’m sure they actually lost a lot of potential viewers by starting out with that episode.

      2. quincy

        No Xmas special? Seriously?

        1. Nephilium

          The White Christmas episode was solid, but not one of my favorites.

          So, what’s your top 8-10 episodes?

          1. quincy

            I can’t rewatch White Bear, or Shut up and Dance. Too cruel.

            15 Million Merits: I hated it at first. But it’s so well done, I was crying the second time around.

            USS Callister is a rare thing in Black Mirror: funny, really funny..

            The Xmas episode— the best thing since the pig fucking.

          2. Rhywun

            White Bear was one of my favorites. 15 Million Merits too.

            I don’t recall White Christmas at all so I guess it didn’t have any effect on me. Will have to re-watch.

            I can’t speak to anything in the Netflix era.

          3. quincy

            “Nosedive” was brilliant and bang on point.

            It made me forget “The Entire History of you” and “Be right back”. They are both brilliant TV and exceptionally blackmirrorish TV.

          4. Nephilium

            Nosedive and The Entire History of You I loved. Be Right Back, I appreciated where they were going with the episode, but didn’t really enjoy it.

            White Christmas was the first holiday special that Black Mirror did. It had Jon Hamm as one of the main characters, and told a great story over the three vignettes it did, but I think Black Museum pulled it off better.

          5. quincy

            I saw no point to “Metalhead” or “Arkangel”.

            Also “The Waldo Moment” Is not television, but prophesy.

          6. Nephilium

            Arkangel I can see the point of, but thought they didn’t do enough to make the mother a sympathetic character. I was on the daughter’s side through the last half of the episode with no qualms.

            Metalhead was an episode that was a brilliantly filmed short story, but that’s not what I’m looking for with Black Mirror.

          7. quincy

            Metalhead was an episode that was a brilliantly filmed short story, but that’s not what I’m looking for with Black Mirror.

            Exactly. Well put.

          8. quincy

            San Junipero, also, makes me cry.

    5. Ken Shultz

      I don’t mean to give anything away, so . . . spoiler alert, I guess?

      But the episode where the PM fucks a pig on live TV is pretty good.

      Thought provoking even.

      Still, I’d avoid the rest and just watch Peaky Blinders or Dark instead.

      1. Ken Shultz

        You want the kind of PM who would fuck a pig on live TV to save someone’s life, don’t you?

        Or, how do you tell whether the PM is only fucking the pig because the polls say he’ll lose if he doesn’t save the girl’s life?

        In the end, all ethics is personal. The costs were personal–his wife would never see him the same way again. The benefits were personal, too. He gets to know he’s the kind of guy that would humiliate himself by fucking a pig on live television if it would save somebody’s life.

        It’s like Machiavelli turned upside down. Maybe the people can’t tell a lie from the truth, but they aren’t about to go right because he misled them.

        Sometimes, you just gotta fuck the pig.

        1. westernsloper

          A real pig, or just beer goggles and then turned sober kind of pig?

          1. Nephilium

            In the episode, it’s a real pig.

            There’s a reason it doesn’t work well as the introduction to the series.

          2. Ken Shultz

            Yeah, I’m not talking about one of HM’s thicc chicks.

            It’s a real pig.

            *oink*

            The Prime Minister, to make a long story short, has to fuck a pig on live television . . . or else.

          3. westernsloper

            What gender is the pig? Was lube used or did he just smash it dry?

          4. Ken Shultz

            Does that really make a difference to you?

            You don’t mind being called a pig-fucker, you just don’t want anyone to think you’re gay?

            That is soooooooooooooooooo not woke.

          5. westernsloper

            No not really. I was just wondering the hole story and specifics. I don’t think that is an unreasonable question when discussing fucking a pig. It is all in the details. That is how a good story is told. And don’t go making me out to be some kind of perv. You guys are the ones who watched the show not me.

          6. Ken Shultz

            westernsloper,

            My whole comment was meant to be read in sarcasm font.

            I should have put an indication somewhere.

            Not sure I could use the word “woke” in a serious way if I tried.

            ; )

      2. Nephilium

        I keep seeing people say good things about Dark, worth watching? I’m looking for series to put on my “only watch while on the trainer” list, and so far it’s only Stranger Things and Narcos, so some additions would be appreciated.

        1. Ken Shultz

          “Stranger Things” is vastly inferior to “Dark”.

          If you have to watch one or the other, watch “Dark”.

          If you’re gonna watch anything on Netflix, start with “Peaky Blinders” or “Penny Dreadful” is very good, too.

          1. Does ‘Peaky Blinders’ get better, the first season took about all the patience I could muster to get through. Yes it’s cool to juxtapose modern roots rock music with turn of the last century images but you can’t hang an entire series on that gimmick. Better Netflix shows –Longmire or Hap and Leonard.

          2. I like it, and I think it picks up a bit in the second season, but if you didn’t like the first the second isn’t going to turn it around for you. Part of it for me is the Who’s Who of Commonwealth Thespians that the show increasingly becomes.

          3. Ken Shultz

            Yeah, it took me a while to get through the first couple of episodes.

            The characters are great.

            The story is great. It’s like “The Godfather” meets “The Sting”.

            And using modern music in an historical setting doesn’t ruin anything.

          4. Akira

            Yes it’s cool to juxtapose modern roots rock music with turn of the last century images but you can’t hang an entire series on that gimmick.

            That’s what ruined it for me. That music was just a stark reminder that I’m watching a television show and none of this is real.

            The rock music intro of Boardwalk Empire was one thing, but yea, I didn’t get past the second episode of Peaky Blinders, and I had been super-psyched to watch it when my brother explained what it was about.

          5. Ken Shultz

            Thing about “Stranger Things” is . . . ?

            I didn’t like Goonies when I was . . . a bit older than that age, but still . . .

            Spielberg went by me. The stuff they’re trying to resurrect from the 80s in “Stranger Things” is the stuff I ignored back then.

          6. Nephilium

            I’m of the age (40) that everything Stranger Things is hitting on the nostalgia is directly in my wheelhouse. For me it’s more of finding things that I want to watch that require attention. I need reasons to climb back on the damned trainer.

        2. Lady Dynamite
          Mindhunter (good but flawed)
          Ozark (was last year but compelling)

      3. The pig episode just annoyed me. It just seemed…I don’t know…dumb.

        I really like Peaky Blinders, though. And Dark is awesome. I cannot wait until the second season of that comes out. I really, really like Narcos, and I’m impressed that they were able to keep it going into a third season.

    6. J. Frank Parnell

      Yeah, I saw a few episodes a while back. I remember thinking White Bear was pretty good, the pig episode was overrated, and Waldo Moment and Fifteen Million Merits were ok. I don’t know if that puts me in the ‘watch more episodes’ category or not.

  17. Kontaveit was up a set and 4-1 and blew the second set. Now she’s serving for the match at 5-4 in the third.

    1. I’m sure you all find Carla Suárez Navarro hawt.

      1. God I love that backhand.

      2. Rhywun

        You leave her alone!

        Yeah, one-handed too. I can’t play for shit but one-handed backhand always seems impossible to me.

        1. I like one-handed backhands.

          Suárez Navarro is just never going to be a candidate for the Thursday Thicc posts.

          1. Rhywun

            No… but I bet she has spunk.

          2. I will always respect a woman who is probably at least a hundred pounds lighter than I am and somehow has bigger quads.

          3. trshmnstr

            I have a ton of respect for one-handed backhands, especially from the women. It takes a ton of forearm strength.

          4. There’s an easy way for men to gain forearm strength….

          5. I like watching CSN play. Its more that I was also a big Justine Hénin fan, and always got annoyed with the amount of “Oh my God, she doesn’t make me want to masturbate” I had to put up with.

    2. Oh my, Kontaveit blew it badly.

      1. And Suárez Navarro wins 8-6 in the third.

    3. trshmnstr

      This reminds me, I need to get my rackets restrung for the spring.

  18. Gustave Lytton

    Moobs – Master Troller. Uh, yeah that’s believable.

    1. trshmnstr

      I may expose a bit of my biases and discrimination, but Schumer is exactly the stereotype of a typical NYC schmuck in my mind. I imagine NYC to be about 70% Chuck Schumers of various ages, genders, and races.

      1. Rhywun

        The Upper West Side is only a tiny part of NYC.

        1. trshmnstr

          I don’t doubt that his particular brand of asshole is localized to a subsection of NYC, and I don’t claim that my remark is anything but an irrational bias against the city as a whole, but it is what it is.

          1. Thymirus

            I imagine the District of Columbia is full of Nancy Pelosi types.

          2. Heroic Mulatto

            Fair enough. I was raised believing any place south or west of, say, New Jersey was filled with this:

          3. Rhywun

            Whelp, tonight’s nightmares are all set.

          4. Playa Manhattan

            Sexy nightmares.

          5. westernsloper

            Whoa there. How did you get me and my brothers twinsdate.com profile pic?

          6. Heroic Mulatto

            Because you also posted on Farmersonly.com.

          7. Rhywun

            I get it. That type does make up a substantial portion of the Ruling Class and other gasbags you are likely to hear from as an outsider.

          8. trshmnstr

            It’s mostly from growing up in the Midwest and not being used to the big city affectation. Everybody I met from NYC came off like an asshole to me, and that unconscious bias hasn’t worn off over time. Hell, I get an “asshole” vibe from a lot of people here in DC. Some of it is style of interaction and some of it is what people find important in big cities versus in the smaller cities of the midwest.

          9. I grew up in Bowie and moved to Annapolis when I was 12. It’s not you. People here are assholes. You notice it when you come back from lengthy vacations to almost anywhere else.

          10. trshmnstr

            People here are assholes. You notice it when you come back from lengthy vacations to almost anywhere else.

            I remember when I first picked up the asshole vibe here in DC. One of my coworkers was complaining about one of the new Lexus SUV models because it looked like a regular car. “If I’m gonna spend money on a Lexus, I want people to know I’m driving a Lexus.”

            That just not something you hear people say in flyover country.

          11. westernsloper

            People here are assholes. You notice it when you come back from lengthy vacations to almost anywhere else.

            Many people are assholes. The only time I have really experienced assholery on a vacation it was done by another vacationer. But I always tried to only vacation in happy places.

        2. Schumer’s district was parts of Brooklyn and Queens.

          1. Rhywun

            Yeah I had no idea, I just threw out UWS because that is what he reminds me of.

            I don’t find him as much a representative of NYers in general as I find him and his ilk a symptom of the one-party machine the Democrats have been so successful at engineering in the cities.

    2. Rhywun

      LOL at the schoolmarm pic

    3. Moobs is a grandstanding bully.

    4. westernsloper

      “Here we are on the first anniversary of his inauguration, we are mired in the Trump shutdown,”

      I read that, or similar phrasing a dozen times in just the few Twitter feeds linked earlier. They are good at messaging and organizing. I will give them that. They are better than the Russians that got Trump elected.

  19. creech

    Don’t know how crazy the fans up in Minnesota are getting right about now, but its been an Eagles frenzy all week in Philly. Hell, I’ll root for them to win but its not like the world will end if they lose. Some fans are going to need professional therapy just because some billionaire’s hired athletes, who you’ve never met, lose to some other city’s billionaire’s hired athletes?

    1. Fuck the Vikings, especially Anthony Barr.

      1. AlmightyJB

        I hear next year the NFL is putting in the Aaron Rodgers rule. No more tackling or contact of any kind allowed anymore.

  20. I thought about putting this in the board game thread, but I had this one as a child.

    1. mikey

      I’m looking at the picture on that box differently now than I would have back then. Or even a year ago

    2. Nephilium

      I’ve already got this one. And my nephews wanted to play it over Thanksgiving.

      1. AlmightyJB

        I couldn’t find the rape ratings on these games.

        1. CPRM

          ‘This game is rated SM for STEVE SMITH’

    3. Galt1138

      Get those poor kids away from STEVE SMITH!

  21. CPRM

    RAHeinlein, did you finish my Batman V Superman cut? If so I’d like to hear your thoughts.

    1. RAHeinlein

      We are watching end-to-end as a family tomorrow – I’ll send feedback.

      Thank you again for posting the links!

      1. CPRM

        I know 3hrs is a lot to ask, but hell that’s 2.5 hrs shorter than watching both the original movies.

    2. Heroic Mulatto

      Can you do an edit of the new Star Wars where it’s just this for 2 hours?

      1. CPRM

        Why’d that guy’s helmet just disappear? I’ll never understand anime. Unless it is Americanized anime.

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          Well, you should then, since it’s a trope straight outta Voltron/Go-Lion, Macross, and Space Battleship Yamato. Honestly, I prefer it to Hollywood’s insistence that stars may never wear a mask for more than like 1 minute in a film or else we’d be too stupid not to forget who is playing the character.

          1. CPRM

            Go-Lion may have played that shit, but Voltron never did. I’ve watched every episode. You can see their faces while they are in their helmets!….But yeah, I hate the whole ‘now spider-man has to take off his mask because we need to see the actors face’ shit. I didn’t pay to see Toby McGarfholland. I paid to see Spider-Man!

          2. Nephilium

            And that’s why the last Dredd movie was awesome.

          3. Heroic Mulatto

            Yes, I know the Voltron Force had open faced helmets with visors. I was referring more to the shots where like a lion flew by and you’d get a quick shot of who was flying the lion or like when you’d get those group shots when they were fighting a robeast.

          4. CPRM

            Yeah, but that is different than a guys helmet just disappearing for no reason .

          5. Heroic Mulatto

            It’s to establish who he is. You’ll notice @ 3:14, his helmet doesn’t disappear.

          6. CPRM

            Then have a damn establishing shot. Film grammar has been worked out over 100 years, I hate people who dispense with it willy nilly.

          7. Heroic Mulatto

            It’s the film grammar of a whole other “language”. The same language that allows people to have blue, purple, and pink hair for no reason and a Japanese girl named Usagi Tsukino to have blonde hair and blue eyes. Anime is a highly stylized genre with its own visual tropes that draw from a long history from the influence of Betty Boop to the aesthetics of classical Japanese painting, as well as anime and manga’s predecessor, kamishibai .

          8. CPRM

            Yeah, I know, that’s why I don’t get it. Even though their film uses the same film grammar, somehow their animation doesn’t feel the need to, and to my western sensibilities it just looks like a clusterfuck to me.

          9. Heroic Mulatto

            You’ll find that as a rule of thumb, the more serious the subject matter, the more “film-like” the animation will be. Or in the case of Initial D, the increased verisimilitude was to hammer home the point that the plot could be playing itself out tonight in real life on any nearby mountain road.

      2. westernsloper

        Absolutely zero hot large breasted anime girls, thicc and mutherfukers needing jesus there. Disappoint.

    3. westernsloper

      I made a comment earlier about your other fan edits. Did you see that? If not, in short, nice work. I enjoyed them much more than I remember enjoying the originals. I have not gotten to BVS cut yet.

      1. CPRM

        Did you make it in the article? Because I am checking back there for responses. I plan to do like a software update after I get enough responses and cut and release newer versions.

        1. westernsloper

          naaa, it was in one of the posts today. The last time I saw you comment today.

          1. westernsloper

            first not last

          2. CPRM

            Just read it, thanks. And it wasn’t just wasting 2hrs, it was almost six! and you didn’t want to shoot yourself in the head, I’d say I did a good job then.

          3. westernsloper

            I meant two hours a movie. I did feel that way after watching the original episode 1.

  22. Playa Manhattan

    Food tip, since I’m eating almost 2 full meals a day now.

    I came across a “marinated, rolled flank steak” at Trader Joes, and I gave it a shot. Flank steak marinated in a parsley/vinegar/garlic pesto, and then rolled up in a net.

    The quality of the beef is cafeteria at best, which was fully expected based on the price.

    The marinade? GOOD. I’m going to make it the right way, with good beef, especially since my aerogarden is full of parsley right now.

    1. trshmnstr

      I’ve been eyeing the aerogarden every time I’m in Target. How is it? I balk at the price, but it may be worth it if you get pain-free herbs from it.

      1. Playa Manhattan

        I got it half off on Cyber Monday. The Wi-fi enabled model is silly.

        Herbs are great; I use them all the time. 2 pieces of advice:

        1) Only grow the herbs you are going to use. That means buying the seed pods you want individually. The stock one comes with 2 kinds of basil, and they grow like weeds. There’s NO WAY I can possibly use that much basil, and it crowds out the stuff I do use, like thyme, chives, and parsley. I have to trim the basil and throw it away at least twice a week. I tried to do an oregano transplant, and the roots from the basil killed it.
        2) The light is BRIGHT. I wrap the entire thing in aluminum foil during the sprouting process. I can see the glow in my kitchen from the street when I’m driving by. The light is not something that you want to look at first thing in the morning, but it makes things grow fast.

    2. AlmightyJB

      So are you doing smaller snacks as well or just eating twice a day?

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        He has the Bird Flu.

        1. AlmightyJB

          That’s why it’s never a good idea to have sex with birds.

      2. Playa Manhattan

        Sugar. I went into starvation mode after day 5.

        Jelly Beans, skittles, sweet tarts…

        I found the kids’ halloween stash in the back of the cupboard, and it’s almost gone.

        1. AlmightyJB

          I don’t have a sweet tooth at all. Salt on the other hand.

    1. straffinrun

      I like that guy’s channel. First time I’ve seen him go after low hanging fruit. But, still funny.

  23. Akira

    What are you shitlords cooking tonight?

    I’m making keema aloo (Indian ground beef and potatoes with peppers, tomatoes, and sometimes peas).

    Here’s a picture of what mine typically looks like.

    I’m also making homemade naan, although I haven’t yet decided if I want to make it garlic naan or onion naan… Maybe both?

    1. Gustave Lytton

      Wife made snert-style split pea soup last night. Eating leftovers tonight.

      1. Akira

        There’s nothing quite like a split pea soup with lots of lovely pig fat in there.

        Have you ever tried split pea soup with beef? It’s an extraordinarily hearty dish. I was inspired to try it by this video.

        1. Gustave Lytton

          I haven’t. Quick googling of recipes turns up some very tasty sounding ones, particularly with barley.

    2. CPRM

      I had Banquet Chick Tenders. Yeah I had Ox tail soup in the fridge I made yesterday, but I just ate that yesterday.

      1. CPRM

        Is Ox Tail soup like a regional thing none of you know about? Like boiled dinner?

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          No, my mom makes a mean west indian oxtail soup/stew.

          1. CPRM

            but do you have boiled dinner?

          2. Heroic Mulatto

            You mean like New England boiled dinner? Corned beef, cabbage, turnip, potatoes, etc.?

          3. CPRM

            Yeah, everything except the corned beef, we use regular old beef. Funny, only other person from out of the area who knew what I was talking about was a black girl I knew from San Francisco, and she was originally from Chicago, where her grandmother made it. Didn’t know it was a New England thing too.

          4. Heroic Mulatto

            Yeah, it’s a classic, like lobster rolls and seafood pie.

          5. CPRM

            Hmm, wonder how it migrated to a black family in Chicago and a white German family in Wisconsin. As far as I know, we had no contact with new england.

          6. Heroic Mulatto

            Probably because everyone eventually has contact with the Irish.

        2. Timeloose

          My wife and I make oxtail stew all the time. Cuban spices, carrots, onions, potatoes, and oxtail

    3. Nephilium

      I’ve gone all trendy and fallen in love with an Instant Pot. My new favorite thing to make in it is Greek Yogurt, as long as you can leave the Instant Pot plugged in overnight, you’re good.

      1. AlmightyJB

        Yeah, that’s my wife’s new favorite thing as well. She’s made yogurt in it a couple of times.

      2. Playa Manhattan

        The instant pot fixed my rice problem. Basmati in a 1-1 ratio on pressure mode. After it’s done cooking, add lime juice, salt, cilantro, garlic, and oil.

        1. trshmnstr

          You’re solving all of my kitchen problems tonight, Playa! My wife has been interested in an Instant Pot, and I’m tempted to acquiesce especially after she burnt last week’s attempt at rice to the bottom of the pot.

          1. Playa Manhattan

            I openly shared my rice problems here and got made fun of for it. A lot.

            I used to do Mexican rice one a week, and for years, I never had a problem. I’m not sure what went wrong, but things definitely did. I almost stopped cooking rice altogether.

        2. AlmightyJB

          I’m not a fan of Basmati. I don’t care for the texture. Maybe I should give that a shot and see if it makes a difference.

          1. Playa Manhattan

            Rinse it at least 3 times before cooking or you’re going to get a gooey starch ball.

          2. AlmightyJB

            Thanks for the tip. I’ll try that.

    4. Heroic Mulatto

      Garlic.

    5. AlmightyJB

      I love naan . Our plan A of fried chicken from a local restaurant got shot down since they wouldn’t answer Amazon Prime’s phone calls after 3 tries. We did get a $10 credit from Amazon though but no food delivered:(. So I just made some gravy from left over pot roast braising stock and tossed in some potato and onion perogies with some selected spices. Frozen ones not homemade but decent anyways.

      1. Playa Manhattan

        I had naan and tandoori for lunch. It’s always a pleasure to find myself near the airport at lunchtime. So many options.

    6. trshmnstr

      Pizza night. Pepperoni, artichoke, banana pepper, garlic and onions.

      I’ve got the crust and the bake almost down to a science now. Any issues come from me being impatient with the stone. Next week I’m gonna try switching to bread flour. I eventually want to get away from canned pasta sauce and make my own pizza sauce.

      1. Playa Manhattan

        Crushed tomatoes, garlic, and dried oregano. Better than any can of sauce.

        Don’t thank me; thank that guy with the bowtie from America’s Test Kitchen.

        1. AlmightyJB

          We watched Cooks Country today and it looked like they changed their format. Mr. Bowtie wasnt on. The two main lady chefs were running the whole show.

          1. AlmightyJB

            Wow. I had not heard that. Thanks.

          2. Playa Manhattan

            I get that he was a founder, but he really didn’t have a lot of leverage. All he did was stand there and make dad jokes.

        2. trshmnstr

          I’m gonna try that. I’ll report back next week with the results!

      2. CPRM

        I made from scratch pizza dough once, it was good, but I used a bottled sauce and tried to improve it and it ended up too salty.

        1. trshmnstr

          With a stand mixer, from scratch dough is a breeze. 15 minutes, tops. It’s also the change that resulted in the single biggest leap in quality of pizza for us. Using premade crusts, or even premade doughballs ended with a mediocre pizza.

          I measure out 21 oz of flour by weight, 1 tsp sugar, 2 tsp kosher salt, and 2.25 tsp bread yeast and dump them in the mixer. I turn the mixer on low with the dough hook to combine the dry ingredients and drizzle in 2 tbsp olive oil and 1.5 cup 110* water. Then I slowly turn up the mixer as the ingredients combine. Once it forms into a ball, I turn the mixer up to a mid-range and let it knead the dough for 5 minutes. Then I put it in an oiled pyrex bowl to rise. If it rises 2 or 3 hours it tastes like normal pizza dough. If it goes 6 hours or more, it usually starts getting some sourdough notes.

          It’s fairly easy to see if your proportions are off. If the dough ball is having a hard time forming and leaving flaky parts on the bottom of the bowl, you need more water a tsp at a time. If the dough ball is having a hard time forming because it’s flowing or sticking to the bottom of the bowl, you need more flour a tbsp at a time.

          1. CPRM

            I’ll tell you one thing you don’t try to make with a one speed mixer; chicken nuggets. That mixer sends raw chicken flying every damn where.

          2. Playa Manhattan

            Do you use it all at once?

            Slow proofing in the fridge overnight is where the real flavor comes from….

          3. CPRM

            all those mold spores from the uneaten leftovers ad so much flavor.

          4. trshmnstr

            Usually I make it 6-8 hours in advance, not out of any reason except for that being when I remember to do it. I’ll try making it the night before and see what happens.

          5. westernsloper

            I try to leave mine in the fridge for at least a day and have cooked pizzas with dough up to probably four days old. I do a small recipe (two crusts) in the bread maker, split the dough and put them in ziplocks while trying to remove all the air. If you leave it in the fridge for awhile the air in the bag will dry out one side of the dough.

    7. J. Frank Parnell

      Trader Joe’s frozen pizza crust + pesto + italian cheese blend + goat cheese + parmesan + sun dried tomatoes in oil.

      1. AlmightyJB

        My BIL who is a pizza fanatic is big on trader joes pizza dough. He made some focaccia with it last time he was up and I have to say it had a really good flavor.

    8. westernsloper

      I am doing a Totinos Three Meat Party Pizza and left over pasta. No apologies. Sometimes you just need a party pizza with additional cheese.

      1. CPRM

        Hey, if pizza is on a bagel you can have pizza anytime. I get it.

    9. westernsloper

      Do you put Greek yogurt in your naan dough? I found a recipe with that ingredient which I would not have guessed and it is some really good bread.

      1. Akira

        I do use Greek yogurt. And plenty of butter.

    10. Necro thread check-in. Did an eye round roast with the high-heat coast to done method. Turned out better than I expected, actually. I was gonna steam some asparagus but I figured that would be a bridge to far for my kid, so I’m saving that for a roast chicken dinner I’ll do tomorrow.

      1. Playa Manhattan

        There’s nothing wrong with some late night beef.

    1. AlmightyJB

      She has no idea what’s coming next.

  24. Not an Economist

    Jamie Foxx just bought one. I want one.

    1. CPRM

      looks like a short ugly useless batmobile.

    2. AlmightyJB

      Looks like a cute toy.

      1. Galt1138

        “Starts at $155,000.” A very expensive toy.

        1. AlmightyJB

          I’d rather put that money towards retirement.

    3. Galt1138

      Looks bit like the last few years of the Toyota FJ.

    4. J. Frank Parnell

      Holy shit. I used to work with the guy that started that company.

      1. Playa Manhattan

        It sounds like he has some questionable business in his past.

        1. J. Frank Parnell

          If by questionable you mean sysadmin at an ISP, I can confirm.

    5. Playa Manhattan

      Do they have a version that’s less…. ethnic sounding?

  25. Gustave Lytton

    https://nypost.com/2018/01/20/bronx-teacher-allegedly-performed-oral-sex-on-teen-student/

    I’m torn. The first pic doesn’t really look like the other two and pic #3 doesn’t look like 29 at all.

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      “Ms. You’re like, real pretty, but, no offense, you got a big forehead,” the now-deleted tweet read.

      Perhaps that’s why she was giving some head away?

      1. AlmightyJB

        Why are fat girls good at head. Cause they have to be.

      2. straffinrun

        What happened to that “lowest form of humor” you’re always going on about?

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          That’s homophonic puns. Homographic puns are ok.

          1. straffinrun

            Not what I expected after googling homograghic.

          2. trshmnstr

            I’d expect lemon party

          3. straffinrun

            Not googling that.

          4. J. Frank Parnell

            “When life gives you lemons …”

          5. trshmnstr

            Not googling that.

            You got me, but you should really check out where I got my pepperoni pizza recipe, just search for “meat spin”.

          6. CPRM

            I found this ice cream recipe for two, just google two girls one cup.

          7. trshmnstr

            If you want to see one girl eat an entire tub of ice cream, check out tubgirl.

    2. totally_not_an_escaped_ai

      Cops got word of the incident after the boy, believed to be Myers’ student, told a classmate. The classmate then notified a school administrator, according to police.

      NARC! Had to go and ruin it.

    3. AlmightyJB

      Husband’s a Sheriff’s Deputy. That kid is f’d.

      1. Playa Manhattan

        Nah. In NYC, deputies are prison guards.

    4. straffinrun

      Her social media history is quite tame compared to other 29 year olds. Love how the Post tries to make them sound like ominous indicators of a child predator.

    5. CPRM

      Looking back I had at least one chance to nail a teacher, but was too aspie to realize it.

      1. trshmnstr

        I never got the “nail a teacher” thing. I was always too distracted by the 16-18 year old girls wearing skimpy clothes to notice the 28 year old cat lady with a stretched out ankle tattoo and a 94 Corolla.

        1. CPRM

          I never got it either, until I didn’t get to nail all those highschool girls, and looking back I was like ‘oh, yeah that one teacher that was like 4yrs older than me who was pretty good looking, she always made me sit in the front of the class when anyone else did something wrong, and made sure to cross her legs showing off her panties’

      2. westernsloper

        Too bad. The aspie teachers are the best ones to tag.

        #lowestformofhumor

  26. AlmightyJB

    At the top of CNN.com

    Government has been shut down for
    0 days 23 hours 7 minutes

    1. CPRM

      Do they have a kill count?

      1. AlmightyJB

        Lol

        1. CPRM

          Someone send that to Andrew Heaton, I just wrote the next mostly weekly for him and I expect a check in the mail.

  27. trshmnstr

    Worst effect of the shutdown? We won’t see SMOD coming!

    1. CPRM

      Also, the lizard people will attack. We haven’t seen Mr. Lizard all day. My Jedi senses tell me that means they are planning attack.

    2. Festus

      SMOD blasted through the roof of my house last night. I am both flu-ridden and hungover. Fever dreams are not for the normies, this I aver.

  28. trshmnstr

    Wanna facepalm? Click here.

    This social change, she says, needs to inform policy, such as by extending youth support services until the age of 25.

    “Age definitions are always arbitrary”, she writes, but “our current definition of adolescence is overly restricted”.

    “The ages of 10-24 years are a better fit with the development of adolescents nowadays.”

    Prof Russell Viner, president-elect of the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health, said: “In the UK, the average age for leaving home is now around 25 years for both men and women.”

    He supports extending the definition to cover adolescence up until the age of 24 and says a number of UK services already take this into account.

    He said: “Statutory provision in England in terms of social care for care leavers and children with special educational needs now goes up to 24 years,” as does provision of services for people with cystic fibrosis.

    1. CPRM

      Only if we are allowed to abort a child up until 25, is that a concession they will make?

      1. straffinrun

        Or don’t let them vote until they reach 25.

        1. CPRM

          How about we let fetuses vote, stop it at 18, then abort them at 25…I see no flaws in this drunk logic.

        2. Playa Manhattan

          Or take out loans. Make mom and mom cosign for that theater degree.

          1. CPRM

            HEy, Theatre was my minor!

    2. Festus

      Jesus Christ on a popsicle stick cross! I was fifteen, working and going to high school when my parents gave me the boot. I maintained my grades, kept my job and threw a giant middle finger at Mom and Dad because I was obviously capable of doing so. Fuck this shit!

      1. Gustave Lytton

        I had a “job” at 15 but didn’t leave home until much later. Had a place lined up and moved out the morning I turned 18.

        I did move back in a couple times on either ends of in and out of the service. Max was about a month. My youngest sibling lived at home to mid-20’s. Depressing.

        1. Festus

          Obviously I had help (Buddie’s Parents) and I could swallow my pride and go back home if I needed to but it was a learning experience, just the same. I paid my bills, showed up for work and school and eked by like a lot of the older kids were doing. Six months of being a “grown-up” at 15 changed my perceptions about a lot of things. It’s probably why I am here.

        2. trshmnstr

          I had a “job” at 15, too, but was at home until I went away to college barely after I turned 18. I moved back home on-and-off through college, because I was doing a 5 semester co-op at the company my dad worked at, so it made sense that I stay at home for those semesters. Once I graduated at 22, I stayed at home for ~1 month as I got everything prepped for a cross-country move for my entry-level job. All in, I probably lived at home a combined 1.5 years after turning 18.

          My brothers are taking similar tracks, but minus the co-op. My middle brother is 22 and has his own place and is doing well for himself. My youngest brother is 21 and still has a year and a half of college before he graduates, but he’s maybe lived at home for 3 or 4 weeks since he started college. He spent last summer in Cleveland on an internship.

          My dad made it very clear that he was going to be supportive as long as we were pointed in the right direction, and the right direction is self-sufficiency.

    3. J. Frank Parnell

      Shit, when my grandfather was 24, he was married, had 3 kids, and had punched actual Nazis.

      And by punched I mean shot, and the Nazis were shooting back.

      1. CPRM

        ‘And by punched I mean shot, and by Nazis I meant Trump supporters.’ Grandpa in 60yrs.

        1. J. Frank Parnell

          Did you just assume Grandxa’s gender, shitlord?

          1. CPRM

            Yeah I suppose if things follow down this path it will be Granxir and Granxir; Grandxa is other, now YOUR’RE THE SHITLORD!

          2. Festus

            *Keels over out of office chair, flails around on the floor, composes himself and starts clapping, still supine*

    4. straffinrun

      “THOMPSON: “I have a child and I want to make sure she eats and I want to eat. It is important that this gets done.”

      #Parasitelivesmatter

    5. Akira

      The Tom Woods Show had a very interesting guest a few weeks ago who was talking about how the current treatment of adolescents is actually very unnatural and counterproductive. He argued that the teenage years are when a person should be around adults in a sort of apprentice role rather than sequestered with other teenagers. He mentioned a program for at-risk youths in Scotland where they are actually removed from school and apprenticed to a tradesman of some kind, and that program had very good results.

      1. CPRM

        That will just lead to rape by patriarchs. GAH!

      2. trshmnstr

        Hell, I’d argue that even smaller children should be primarily around adults.

      3. Festus

        OMWC’s spidey sense just activated. All kidding aside, I learned more from my friends’ tradesmen Dads then I ever did from mine.

  29. CPRM

    Serious point here. My Niece, who I was most like a father to after her father left before she was born, has started posting this gender crap on Facebook. After my dad died a few years ago I took a step back from from being the head of all family matters, and my mom who this niece lives with, has a new boyfriend they both live with. And my niece has taken a nosedive in academic performance and personal development. She was actually diagnosed aspie (unlike me who after my mom worked with autistic kids years later we realized I was). Her mom has two younger kids with a different guy. All too much for me to deal with, but it is so heartbreaking to see this girl with so much potential getting slogged down by this PC shit. I don’t know what to do. Time for another beer I guess.

    1. trshmnstr

      All too much for me to deal with, but it is so heartbreaking to see this girl with so much potential getting slogged down by this PC shit. I don’t know what to do. Time for another beer I guess.

      My cousin is the same way. She’s in high school and has gone all in on the SJW bandwagon. I’m not as close to her as it sounds like you are to your niece, but it’s hard to watch somebody who, despite coming from a shit family situation, had positive family influences in her life decide to immerse herself in that shit.

      1. CPRM

        Yeah, and all this has happened in the last few years while I tried to take a step back from being the head of the family. She still idolizes me, so I know I could save her, but I just don’t know if I have the energy right now for that. I’m just now getting my own life back on track after my dads death.

    2. Festus

      Life is too short to engage with that nonsense. Step away and let her be her. Time will cure all manner of maladies and if you’re lucky there won’t be any visible scars. Best of luck,CPRM. Alternatively you might consider CLEANSING THE BRUTAL! Just my two pennies’ worth.

    3. straffinrun

      Back in my dummy days, an older friend of the family explained to me why capitalism was the best was to organize society. Of course I ignored him. Years pass and I changed. A couple years ago, I saw him pop up on a FB thread. I sent him a message thanking him for the seed he had planted in my head decades earlier. Plant the seed and wait.

      1. CPRM

        I had taught her how to read before she was in school, she knew the theory of relativity before 1st grade. Now she’s sixteen and posting on facebook and posting she wants to be be called they less than four years since I took a step back in parenting her. I’m working 2 jobs, taking care of my uncle who is 88 and am broke and mostly crippled. I just don’t know how much effort to put into saving everyone else anymore.

        1. Festus

          You can’t save everyone and you can’t save people from themselves, friend. You need to take a step back, look at some clouds and resist the urge to start yelling at them. You are being drawn into a rabbit-hole and you need to stop allowing that, tout suite.

        2. straffinrun

          Don’t know what to tell you. My niece married a fuckstick with a hammer and sickle neck tat last year. She’s literally borderline retarded. Waddayagunnado?

          1. CPRM

            Yeah. Just the way things are going in my life, she’s the closest thing I’ll ever have to a kid, and to see her life fucked up because I didn’t do enough, even though I did too much by most accounts, I don’t know if I’ll have another chance.

          2. Festus

            The situation is not your’s to control. She’s an autonomous human making some poor decisions. For Heaven’s sake, man go collect some butterflies or learn how to fly-fish. I’m not a fount of wisdom but I am an older chap and have seen some shit.

    4. Akira

      I don’t have much advice since I’m childless and I’m not in regular contact with any younger relatives, but yea, that sounds rough.

      The only similar thing I can remember happened at a previous job: I was talking to an 18-year old college intern – who was one of the sweetest human beings I have ever met – and she was talking about some recent terrorist attack over in Europe, and she said, “someone on TV was saying that the French government knew about that… But the government wouldn’t just let people die like that, right?” It was a really weird moment for me. She was obviously still in that innocent phase of life before she realized how fucking sick the world can be. I just wanted to protect her from all the negative shit that she will undoubtedly encounter in life.

      If it’s any comfort at all, just remember that people often believe some stupid shit as teenagers (I used to be a literal card-carrying communist) but wise up once they get a job, start paying bills, and realizing some hard realities of life.

  30. Gustave Lytton

    Drinking time! Mars Iwai Tradition is much better than Mars Iwai whisky, and that Bulleit Rye is very sweet. Darn good.

    1. Akira

      For me, Bulleit Rye is the perfect balance between cheap and good.

      Of course, if you’re into rye whiskeys, there are a lot of great options out there. One of the most delicious spirits I have ever consumed was called (ri)1. Smooth as fucking water.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        Not much before, but I think I slide right into them.

    2. straffinrun

      祝い? Celebratory? Govt shutdown, Wohoo!

      1. Gustave Lytton

        There’s a shutdown? Huh, I suppose that explains the roving rape packs. I thought I was just stuck in a Genesis song.

        *goes to pour another*

          1. Festus

            And to head that one off, “zat’s der Joke!”

  31. straffinrun

    Anybody up for a bet on the Vikes/Philly game? We guess the score and whoever gets closest gets to chose to loser’s avatar for a week.

    My guess: Vikes 23, Philly 14.

    1. CPRM

      Philly 28, Vikes 25.

      1. CPRM

        I’ve never changed my avatar on here before; I think the way it is nobody knows who I am.

        1. straffinrun

          You probably won’t have to. It’s the Vikings FFS.

          1. CPRM

            Yep. How sweet that was when vikes fans were jealous of Favre all those years, even though that’s what Favre did to us so many times.

          2. hayeksplosives

            I’m not even a Vikings fan but I cringed on behalf of my Minnesodan friends and neighbors when that happened.

            FAVRED!

    2. Juvenile Bluster

      I am not making a prediction on this gam. Never been more nervous about a sporting event in my life.

      1. CPRM

        Not even when the iggles were actually in the Superbowl?

    3. hayeksplosives

      Try reposting in the morning links.

      I want to bet on the Vikes just because I want Fran Tarkenton to get to see one SB win before he shuffles off this mortal coil.

      Vikes 24, Philly 17.

    4. wdalasio

      I really want to see the Vikings beat Philly. My older brother is sort of your standard Philly fan, starting crap on other people’s DerpBook posts on other topics and even taking pride in being obnoxious. His precious Eagles getting knocked out will be enough to shut him up for a few months.

  32. trshmnstr

    Random relativity musing. Based on my limited understanding, if you have 2 identical planets in identical and synchronous orbit around a star, one at distance d and the other at distance 2d, they will both start and complete a revolution around the star at the same times. However, an observer in planet 2d will have spent less time orbiting the star than an observer on planet d.

    1. CPRM

      Relativity as applied to time is one of my detractions, as how can we ever know if our instruments for time telling aren’t being affected by the other forces at play?

    2. CPRM

      Just because gravity may stretch a one foot ruler past a foot, that doesn’t mean a foot has changed size. So if gravity changes the vibration of a quartz crystal or the decay rate of of an atom does that mean time it self has changed?

      1. J. Frank Parnell

        Dude you’re like one bong hit away from a Neil DeGrasse Tyson tweet.

        1. CPRM

          No bong hits for me, and I’ll lame you down with this

      2. This Machine

        “What is truth?”

    3. I blew off most of my math classes and never bothered with physics. I was pretty good at pool, though, and I’ve done a lot of acid. Let me call my boy real quick and I’ll get back to you in about an hour. I should have an answer. It might not make sense, but I think, in a sense, it will be correct.

  33. J. Frank Parnell

    Thread needs more music.

    https://youtu.be/4VJ7zPoCyCA

    1. Festus

      Get out of my brain this instant Mr. J. Frank Parnell! Get Out! Get Out!