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.
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.
Listen, I’m not into skinny white bitches either, but I wouldn’t go that far.
What if my Princess Leia sex doll turns out to be a tranny?
Don’t be a quitter hit her in the shitter?
God what are you, gay?
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?
Better not let STEVE SMITH see this, then…
I thought Steven Smith was STEVE’s refined, well-mannered, non-rapey cousin?
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.
The menu
“Flavored Steamer”
*chortle*
Your coffee shop is being lazy.
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2015/03/steven_smith_tea_tazo_stash_st.html
Also, been covered here
https://glibertarians.com/2017/12/steve-smith-reflects-on-the-past-evening-links/
Not about your coffee shop, but Steven Smith Teamaker generally.
I’m not sure that last adjective is true.
And especially not this
THIS!!
(Clicked the wrong button, dammit!)
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…
I’m sure it’ll be fine. You’re a published author already, and people here are still entertained by my scribblings about games.
I was awarded “Best of Craigslist” once. Can I count that as “published author”?
Only if you can explain why V doesn’t mean Visitor.
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.
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.
Guinea Pig. Citation:
https://youtu.be/2RqVOn-pJsY?t=149
I own the miniseries on dvd. I made it 2 episodes into the reboot.
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.
Maybe.
The downside to having cleared off my workbench is now that when I’m painting, I can check Glib comments..
*can’t check glib comments.
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.
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.
Very pleasant afternoon sampling chili and drinking beer.
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).
One of those is a euphemism?
What STEVE SMITH do with no campers in parks because national parks closed due to government shutdown?
BEARS LIKE 2ND COUSIN TO STEVE SMITH! STEVE SMITH GO ON APPALACHIAN STYLE RAPEPAGE!
Have you ever wondered how to create an anti-capitalist business? Well, wonder no more!
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.
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.
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.
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.
My conclusion from that article is that it’s excruciatingly difficult and confusing to be functionally retarded.
Yeah. She’s not even putting the fun in functionally.
How can a business embody anticapitalist values? (Is this even possible?)
Wut? Is she going to give her stuff away for free?
“Is this even possible?”
No.
Yes it is, great authors have already anticipated it.
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.
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.
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.
“Capitalism is an intentionally-created structure”
I’ll take “Can’t even get the 1st sentence right” for $500, Alex.
So…
Done. And thanks for not wasting any more of my time.
Except for the exchange of “exploitation” for “oppression” and the modern affectation, this could have been pulled from the Communist Manifesto.
Name a more iconic disco-funk track.
I’ll wait.
Ha!, says I. I will take that challenge!
(Views link)
(Bows before superior funk-fu)
… Hobbit
Who’s the Master?
How many potential children were wasted due posters of Vanity?
How many stars are in the heavens?
I mean, like, Jesus Christ!
Its not Vanity if you’re built like that.
Check out 52 Pick Up. Vanity is stunning in that (yes, there’s a nude scene).
Galt1138 posting on a live thread? This combined with the government shutdown must surely be a sign of the apocalypse.
Who is she and can I stand in line to fall in love
This.
And it’s got Canadian Content.
Alternatively, this, which also has Canadian content.
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.
I remember growing up believing the urban myth that KMFDM stood for “Kill Mother Fuckin’ Depeche Mode”.
It means something much better, “no pity for the majority”.
No, it’s totally Kill Mother Fuckin Depeche Mode.
lol
Kylie Minogue Fans Don’t Masturbate.
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
Why else are they listening to Kylie Minogue’s music?
It’s no secret why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHood00sNJU
I was thinking more along the lines of this
I remember hearing that too.
Juke Joint Jezebel rules
My submittal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0PLHZhvg4Y
Cowgirls, never anything wrong with that.
Still more faithful to the franchise than Episode 8.
SXM’s 70’s channel plays that from time to time.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nah – another Teen Vogue will make up for all.
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.
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.
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.
Make your YA characters eat cookie dough in a story about fat acceptance.
Margarine is very useful in several applications.
The taste that says “butter”
“Go get the butter”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-r9Q-YItnk
Definitely NSFW
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.
You and your book learning. You probably even know which spoon to use for soup and such
We mostly use sticky rice and eat with our right hands.
Isn’t that your wiping hand?
Did you just call me a left-hander?
I will not be besmirchified by being identified as a member of those people.
F-ing handism. The last acceptable -ism.
Let’s talk about societal oppression.
^^^Lefty
crystal size and shape is the only difference.
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.
The only real reason is that kosher, sea salt, and iodized salt will measure differently.
/refuses the foodie appellation
Even their salt has to be kosher? (((Those))) people are never satisfied
It’s not that the salt is kosher, but that the salt is used to make meat kosher.
OMWC already told us this in one of his (((Tuesday))) posts. At least, I think that’s where I learned that tidbit.
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
I made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgement, and I don’t expect to be forgiven. I’m simply here to apologize.
What I replied was obviously unplanned. The reactions you saw here were raw; they were unfiltered. None of us knew how to react or how to feel. I should have never posted the comment. I should have put the keyboard down and stopped typing.There’s a lot of things I should have done differently but I didn’t. And for that, from the bottom of my heart, I am sorry.
I want to apologize to the internet. I want to apologize to anyone who has seen the comment. I want to apologize to anyone who has been affected or touched by mental illness, or depression, or suicide. But most importantly I want to apologize to the victim and his family.For my fans who are defending my actions, please don’t. I don’t deserve to be defended. My goal with my content is always to entertain; to push the boundaries, to be all-inclusive. In the world live in, I share almost everything I do. The intent is never to be heartless, cruel, or malicious. Like I said I made a huge mistake. I don’t expect to be forgiven, I’m just here to apologize.
I’m ashamed of myself. I’m disappointed in myself. And I promise to be better. I will be better. Thank you.
Haha
??
Sorry.
Nope. I enjoyed it.
If you want to use treif salt, go ahead.
Cause you’re making (((cookies))) ?
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.
Again, according to my wife, mouthfeel and different rate of dissolution. Also, sea salt may contain various minerals that may affect flavor as well.
Hickory smoked salt is your new best friend.
Viking salt.
I have close to a dozen different salts in my house, and there’s none that I love more then Vulcan’s Fire Salt.
Don’t tell Bloomberg.
Intriguing but probably too hot for me.
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.
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.
Looks good – on the list.
Morton’s salt is fine.
Baleen Fleur De Sel doesn’t make your steak taste any better.
Organic sea salt. For those that never took chemistry.
Mmmm…. salty tears.
I prefer salt with no chloride. I heard once that the free radicals in it can make poisonous gas.
I prefer my bath salt. Makes you want to eat brains
Thank you.
Make sure your sea salt is collected under a full moon.
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.
You want to get high and then call Steve Smith?
STEVE SMITH GLADLY EXCHANGE NOT-RAPE FOR GANJA
STEVE SMITH EXCHANGE NOT-RAPE FOR GANJA AND BY EXCHANGE MEAN RAPE.
Ok, admittedly maybe I did not think that through.
Good evening mammals. I have just returned from the Lakeland gun show. There were many deals to be had
What did you buy?
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.
This is why you always check the “not ok to contact” box on applications.
Sucker. He doesn’t get away with murder until AFTER he’s hired.
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.
Read Wallace Stevens.
Bobcat Goldwaithe,
Jonathon Swift
Langston Hughes has some good modernist poetry
Lichtung
Rassistisch!!1!
Ode to government shutdown.
The only good poetry has a common theme and it all deals with some dude from Nantucket.
I’m a Colreridge fan – try ee cummings, and Elizabeth Bishop (specifically “One Art” – a Colridge-style intensity build).
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”.
What about TS Eliot?
“‘TRY BEFORE YOU BUY’ Businessman hiring out SEX DOLLS to local punters for £50 a pop”
I only need 10 pounds to pop.
10 pounds of what?
Torque.
Heh…I thought you might say margarine.
Pressure on his larynx?
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.
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
They should do that every weekend and holiday. It would be educational for their viewers.
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?
At least it isn’t running backwards down to the intergalactic reptile assault.
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.
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.
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’.
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?
I miss Agile….and that is the most sentimental you will ever see out of this reptile.
Christ, what a shithole!
The weekdays when I’m there at work are bad enough but holy hell the overnights and weekends are something else.
Wow. It’s REALLY bad.
Joke’s on Hihn.
Sevo is one of the Koch Brothers.
Zing!
I feel genuinely sorry for Hihn’s relatives, the people that have no choice but to put up with him.
There’s a reason some people live alone with no contact from their family.
Are you saying that’s not normal?
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.
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.
lol Hihn
And….Kansas escapes again.
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.
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.
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.
Adama > Picard. *Ducks.*
John Sheridan > Adama > Picard
HERESY.
Now I know why I like you Nephilium.
You get no argument from me there.
I can’t comment on Babylon 5, though.
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…
Really? The first season? I suffered through the fifth season, but never disliked the first four seasons.
the season in that follows the kids through school is the epic-depressing one.
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.
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…
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.
I gave up on Looking for Mr. Goodbar.
Jill Clayburgh hardest hit (literally?)
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.
Does this seem reasonable, or bureaucratic BS: http://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/22159896/air-force-falcons-cancel-games-due-government-shutdown
Threading fail – should be a new post.
Its the same reasoning for why they shut down the parks.
Meh, seems reasonable. Are flying AF academy athletes around the country an essential function of the government/taxpayer?
Oh yeah, good point – I hadn’t thought about that.
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
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.
TOS had piece on it. TW Soave
http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/18/electric-dreams-safe-space-libertarian
I watched a few. I read all of the PKD shorts they came from. It’s very twilight zone but with more schizophrenia.
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.
Didn’t like “Man in the High Castle”?
I liked the pilot for Jean Claude Van Johnson, was bored by the end of the first season of Man in the High Castle.
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.
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.
S01E01 is not on your list. Your list is wrong, pigfucker.
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.
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).
I would recommend avoiding any write ups of S02E03 after Trump got elected. All of them compare Waldo to Trump.
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.
No Xmas special? Seriously?
The White Christmas episode was solid, but not one of my favorites.
So, what’s your top 8-10 episodes?
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.
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.
“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.
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.
I saw no point to “Metalhead” or “Arkangel”.
Also “The Waldo Moment” Is not television, but prophesy.
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.
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.
San Junipero, also, makes me cry.
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.
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.
A real pig, or just beer goggles and then turned sober kind of pig?
In the episode, it’s a real pig.
There’s a reason it doesn’t work well as the introduction to the series.
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.
What gender is the pig? Was lube used or did he just smash it dry?
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.
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.
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.
; )
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lady Dynamite
Mindhunter (good but flawed)
Ozark (was last year but compelling)
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.
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.
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.
I’m sure you all find Carla Suárez Navarro hawt.
God I love that backhand.
You leave her alone!
Yeah, one-handed too. I can’t play for shit but one-handed backhand always seems impossible to me.
I like one-handed backhands.
Suárez Navarro is just never going to be a candidate for the Thursday Thicc posts.
No… but I bet she has spunk.
I will always respect a woman who is probably at least a hundred pounds lighter than I am and somehow has bigger quads.
I have a ton of respect for one-handed backhands, especially from the women. It takes a ton of forearm strength.
There’s an easy way for men to gain forearm strength….
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.
Oh my, Kontaveit blew it badly.
And Suárez Navarro wins 8-6 in the third.
This reminds me, I need to get my rackets restrung for the spring.
Moobs – Master Troller. Uh, yeah that’s believable.
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.
The Upper West Side is only a tiny part of NYC.
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.
I imagine the District of Columbia is full of Nancy Pelosi types.
Fair enough. I was raised believing any place south or west of, say, New Jersey was filled with this:
Whelp, tonight’s nightmares are all set.
Sexy nightmares.
Whoa there. How did you get me and my brothers twinsdate.com profile pic?
Because you also posted on Farmersonly.com.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Schumer’s district was parts of Brooklyn and Queens.
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.
LOL at the schoolmarm pic
Moobs is a grandstanding bully.
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.
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?
Fuck the Vikings, especially Anthony Barr.
I hear next year the NFL is putting in the Aaron Rodgers rule. No more tackling or contact of any kind allowed anymore.
I thought about putting this in the board game thread, but I had this one as a child.
I’m looking at the picture on that box differently now than I would have back then. Or even a year ago
I’ve already got this one. And my nephews wanted to play it over Thanksgiving.
I couldn’t find the rape ratings on these games.
‘This game is rated SM for STEVE SMITH’
Get those poor kids away from STEVE SMITH!
RAHeinlein, did you finish my Batman V Superman cut? If so I’d like to hear your thoughts.
We are watching end-to-end as a family tomorrow – I’ll send feedback.
Thank you again for posting the links!
I know 3hrs is a lot to ask, but hell that’s 2.5 hrs shorter than watching both the original movies.
Can you do an edit of the new Star Wars where it’s just this for 2 hours?
Why’d that guy’s helmet just disappear? I’ll never understand anime. Unless it is Americanized anime.
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.
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!
And that’s why the last Dredd movie was awesome.
SO GOOD.
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.
Yeah, but that is different than a guys helmet just disappearing for no reason .
It’s to establish who he is. You’ll notice @ 3:14, his helmet doesn’t disappear.
Then have a damn establishing shot. Film grammar has been worked out over 100 years, I hate people who dispense with it willy nilly.
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 .
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.
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.
Or this?
Absolutely zero hot large breasted anime girls, thicc and mutherfukers needing jesus there. Disappoint.
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.
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.
naaa, it was in one of the posts today. The last time I saw you comment today.
first not last
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.
I meant two hours a movie. I did feel that way after watching the original episode 1.
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.
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.
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.
So are you doing smaller snacks as well or just eating twice a day?
He has the Bird Flu.
That’s why it’s never a good idea to have sex with birds.
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.
I don’t have a sweet tooth at all. Salt on the other hand.
Women are super cool, we’re totally not male feminists trying to march our way into sex or anything
I like that guy’s channel. First time I’ve seen him go after low hanging fruit. But, still funny.
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?
Wife made snert-style split pea soup last night. Eating leftovers tonight.
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.
I haven’t. Quick googling of recipes turns up some very tasty sounding ones, particularly with barley.
I had Banquet Chick Tenders. Yeah I had Ox tail soup in the fridge I made yesterday, but I just ate that yesterday.
Is Ox Tail soup like a regional thing none of you know about? Like boiled dinner?
No, my mom makes a mean west indian oxtail soup/stew.
but do you have boiled dinner?
You mean like New England boiled dinner? Corned beef, cabbage, turnip, potatoes, etc.?
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.
Yeah, it’s a classic, like lobster rolls and seafood pie.
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.
Probably because everyone eventually has contact with the Irish.
My wife and I make oxtail stew all the time. Cuban spices, carrots, onions, potatoes, and oxtail
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.
Yeah, that’s my wife’s new favorite thing as well. She’s made yogurt in it a couple of times.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rinse it at least 3 times before cooking or you’re going to get a gooey starch ball.
Thanks for the tip. I’ll try that.
Garlic.
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.
I had naan and tandoori for lunch. It’s always a pleasure to find myself near the airport at lunchtime. So many options.
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.
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.
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.
http://www.grubstreet.com/2016/12/chris-kimball-americas-test-kitchen-legal-battle.html
Wow. I had not heard that. Thanks.
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.
I’m gonna try that. I’ll report back next week with the results!
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.
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.
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.
Do you use it all at once?
Slow proofing in the fridge overnight is where the real flavor comes from….
all those mold spores from the uneaten leftovers ad so much flavor.
If you’re curious:
https://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php?topic=19201.0
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.
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.
Trader Joe’s frozen pizza crust + pesto + italian cheese blend + goat cheese + parmesan + sun dried tomatoes in oil.
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.
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.
Hey, if pizza is on a bagel you can have pizza anytime. I get it.
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.
I do use Greek yogurt. And plenty of butter.
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.
There’s nothing wrong with some late night beef.
STEVE SMITH HELP OPEN MORTGAGE, AND BY OPEN MEAN RAPE?
Senor Mortgage?
She has no idea what’s coming next.
Jamie Foxx just bought one. I want one.
looks like a short ugly useless batmobile.
Looks like a cute toy.
“Starts at $155,000.” A very expensive toy.
I’d rather put that money towards retirement.
Looks bit like the last few years of the Toyota FJ.
Holy shit. I used to work with the guy that started that company.
It sounds like he has some questionable business in his past.
If by questionable you mean sysadmin at an ISP, I can confirm.
Do they have a version that’s less…. ethnic sounding?
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.
Perhaps that’s why she was giving some head away?
Why are fat girls good at head. Cause they have to be.
What happened to that “lowest form of humor” you’re always going on about?
That’s homophonic puns. Homographic puns are ok.
http://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/egghead.jpg
Not what I expected after googling homograghic.
I’d expect lemon party
Not googling that.
“When life gives you lemons …”
Not googling that.
You got me, but you should really check out where I got my pepperoni pizza recipe, just search for “meat spin”.
I found this ice cream recipe for two, just google two girls one cup.
If you want to see one girl eat an entire tub of ice cream, check out tubgirl.
NARC! Had to go and ruin it.
Husband’s a Sheriff’s Deputy. That kid is f’d.
Nah. In NYC, deputies are prison guards.
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.
Looking back I had at least one chance to nail a teacher, but was too aspie to realize it.
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.
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’
Too bad. The aspie teachers are the best ones to tag.
#lowestformofhumor
At the top of CNN.com
Government has been shut down for
0 days 23 hours 7 minutes
Do they have a kill count?
Lol
Someone send that to Andrew Heaton, I just wrote the next mostly weekly for him and I expect a check in the mail.
Why?
Worst effect of the shutdown? We won’t see SMOD coming!
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.
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.
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.
Only if we are allowed to abort a child up until 25, is that a concession they will make?
Or don’t let them vote until they reach 25.
How about we let fetuses vote, stop it at 18, then abort them at 25…I see no flaws in this drunk logic.
Or take out loans. Make mom and mom cosign for that theater degree.
HEy, Theatre was my minor!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
‘And by punched I mean shot, and by Nazis I meant Trump supporters.’ Grandpa in 60yrs.
Did you just assume Grandxa’s gender, shitlord?
Yeah I suppose if things follow down this path it will be Granxir and Granxir; Grandxa is other, now YOUR’RE THE SHITLORD!
*Keels over out of office chair, flails around on the floor, composes himself and starts clapping, still supine*
“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
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.
That will just lead to rape by patriarchs. GAH!
Hell, I’d argue that even smaller children should be primarily around adults.
OMWC’s spidey sense just activated. All kidding aside, I learned more from my friends’ tradesmen Dads then I ever did from mine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Drinking time! Mars Iwai Tradition is much better than Mars Iwai whisky, and that Bulleit Rye is very sweet. Darn good.
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.
Not much before, but I think I slide right into them.
祝い? Celebratory? Govt shutdown, Wohoo!
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*
Was it this one?https://youtu.be/CnVf1ZoCJSo
And to head that one off, “zat’s der Joke!”
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.
Philly 28, Vikes 25.
I’ve never changed my avatar on here before; I think the way it is nobody knows who I am.
You probably won’t have to. It’s the Vikings FFS.
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.
I’m not even a Vikings fan but I cringed on behalf of my Minnesodan friends and neighbors when that happened.
FAVRED!
I am not making a prediction on this gam. Never been more nervous about a sporting event in my life.
Not even when the iggles were actually in the Superbowl?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
Dude you’re like one bong hit away from a Neil DeGrasse Tyson tweet.
No bong hits for me, and I’ll lame you down with this
“What is truth?”
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.
Thread needs more music.
https://youtu.be/4VJ7zPoCyCA
Get out of my brain this instant Mr. J. Frank Parnell! Get Out! Get Out!