Her Buttholiness WILL NOT be taking a year off of acting to save our Democracy. “Fuck your Democracy,” she says and spits.
Don’t worry, Jennifer Lawrence isn’t going anywhere!
On Friday, Entertainment Tonight reported that the Oscar winner was planning on taking a year off from acting to focus on activism. However, a representative for Lawrence exclusively tells EW that she will return to work when one of several projects in development is ready to go.
According to IMDB, Lawrence currently has seven projects in development, including an untitled film with Amy Schumer, Ron Howard’s Zelda Fitzgerald biopic Zelda, Adam McKay’s Bad Blood, Luca Guadagnino’s Burial Rites, and more.
‘Spin the bottle’ and a kegerator: #MeToo movement lawmaker faces new sexual misconduct allegations
In separate interviews, the former Garcia staffers said they left her office, in part, because of regular pressure to accompany their boss to alcohol-fueled evening events.
“It was a power imbalance,’’ one staffer said in an interview last week. “You’re telling me, ‘We’re going to go to a happy hour,’ and I don’t want to do that. It was something that was central — ‘We’re going to go out’ … and I was, ‘I don’t want to hang out with you, I want to go home.’”
The ex-staffer said employees worried about retribution from the boss if they didn’t go along, and that signing the public letter was “the opportunity to be heard” about an unhealthy workplace that often included “vulgar” conversations related to Garcia’s personal sexual experiences.
“It wasn’t a two-way street. It was usually just us listening,’’ she said. “I thought it was weird. It came off as sort of bragging.”
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The industry lobbyist said he was surprised last year when, during a late-morning policy meeting in Garcia’s Capitol office, the assemblywoman poured beer from a kegerator — a refrigerator with a beer tap on top — located in her office.
She offered the brew in red Solo cups to the group of lobbyists, even though it was “sometime between 11 a.m. and noon … a little early,’’ the lobbyist said.
Sometimes you have to derp like no one’s watching…
How Has Trump Changed America?
A year ago, a bunch of us made predictions for what this presidency might bring. Now, we’ve reassessed—and found many of them were surprisingly accurate.
I’d like to see Slate at the foreground of a new Millerite movement. “The Trumpocalypse happened like we said, dammit! It just happened in a plane of being beyond our understanding. So no one could see it happen. And it didn’t really change anything.” And then they all go to Guyana and poison themselves.
And, from the Gawker gift that keeps on giving…
We Need To Start Barking At White People Who Speak Out Of Turn
One thing, however, that we can and definitely should start doing is what M’Baku and his Que Dog Jabari Tribe did when encountering a problematic white dude who was speaking when there was no ask or need or purpose for the thoughts and opinions of problematic white dudes.
Bark.
Not a purposeless bark. This isn’t a shih tzu barking through the window at a squirrel. Instead this would be an intentional bark. A targeted bark. An overpowering bark. A drowning bark. A Wakandan bark. A bark meant to communicate “Um, who told you that you can speak? When it is time for your words, we will let you know. And maybe that time will never come. We’ll see. Now, just shut up and stand there. Maybe get on your phone and google ‘How not to be a colonizer.’ Whatever you do, I want to hear you not speaking.”
The bark doesn’t just have to be a counter for useless words, either. A wayward white hand reaches for your hair? WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! A group of white people huddled on a sidewalk refuse to step aside when you attempt to walk past them? WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! A purse is clutched when you walk on an elevator? WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! (If they’re going to act scared, you might as well give them a reason to be.)
I relish the prospect of a bunch of fuckwits attempting to drown me out by barking.
Surely the way to teach the white man that we are not animals is by acting like animals!
“Let’s fight racism by acting exactly the way a racist would expect us to act! That’ll show ’em!”
Well I saved whatever the cost of a movie ticket is.
“And then they all go to Guyana and poison themselves.”
That’s what I like about you SugarFree, you are an optimist.
Ah shit, threading fail.
Barking at people isn’t always the best idea
Good, but actually I was thinking – dude, you’re already black, you start barking like a dog and the cops brains will fuse on “kill, kill, kill”.
You know, even that bunch of lily-white English brats in Lord of the Flies understood, at least for a little while, the necessity of the conch.
Herbert, Herbert, Herbert!
DIdn’t They try that with the speaking stick in the Democratic leadership offices?
Laugh all you want, but don’t forget all those womyn who protested a boorish President by wearing vaginas on their heads. They brought down Trump and these barkers will bring down, oh, wait.
Bark?
Huh.
That is the Vanguard of the Revolution, hmmm?
No wonder the revolution won’t be televised.
Ruff times
Slammer, doggedly pursuing the pun.
What, did you expect him to just roll over and play dead?
These puns are quite fetching.
It’s an interesting strategy, Cotton. Let’s see how it plays out.
According to IMDB, Lawrence currently has seven projects in development,
Is one of them a porno? If not, I’m not interested in what Jennifer Lawrence is doing.
Its right there, cowboy.
It’s sounds like there’s a significant downside.
If by downside you mean backside, yes, hers is lumpy and huge, with cottage-cheese cellulite bags.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Please, who hasn’t seen Amy Schumer’s tits.
I’d watch it-they kind of balance each other out though and you could just fast forward through the Schumer close ups.
This is immediately what comes to mind whenver I hear Elastica.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/13890-the-second-amendment-was-ratified-to-preserve-slavery
Gun control, of course, was introduced to keep blacks disarmed.
Which totally explains why e.g. Vermont, which had abolished slavery in 1777, adopted a constitution in 1793 which read:
I’d like to see Slate at the foreground of a new Millerite movement.
Fuck no. I had relatives who were Seventh-Day Adventists. Fuck no.
Was that the whole “Less Filling, Tastes Great” that nearly tore this country apart 25-30 years ago?
clap clap clap.
WIN.
“The ex-staffer said employees worried about retribution from the boss if they didn’t go along, and that signing the public letter was “the opportunity to be heard” about an unhealthy workplace that often included “vulgar” conversations related to Garcia’s personal sexual experiences.”
If she was attractive we wouldn’t hear a word from ex-staffers.
Yet another facet of patriarchy.
And then they all go to Guyana and poison themselves.
What if their plane crashes into the mountains following a celebratory flyover and they simply eat themselves?
Bolivia is too far south.
There’ll years worth of food with all of those crashes.
Fatties = food
Also, good marbling.
We’ll just say it happened anyway, and change the subject when anyone asks us for proof.
So the idea of barking or hooting at people to get them to shut up as an imitation of the character Man-Ape is a good idea? That’s a bold strategy.
I smell a cross-continuity crossover with B’wana Beast!
Grodd disapproves.
Dude! Mega-cross-company crossover! Ultra-Humanite, Monsuier Mallah, Beppo the Super-Monkey…
Detective Chimp or GTFO!
The movie went out of its way not to refer to him as Man-Ape (I downloaded the piece of shit and watched it while drunk, so that is my recollection).
I can’t emphasize enough have we’re talking about a fictional black kingdom developed by two white guys who had never been to Africa. A fictional kingdom that is basically their own version of a utopia, only with black people and the flimsiest and most stereotypical notions of African culture thrown on top. To anyone with half a brain thinking clearly, the entire notion should actually be offensive.
Isn’t the reason given in the movie for the high level of technology for the fictional country a kind of magical space metal or some similar contrivance? It seems like that alone would be a bit offensive.
They were safe from Yakub and his evil machinations.
Yes, because given the lesson of the resource-richness of the Soviet Union and its satellites and its relative prosperity versus someplace like Singapore… it’s culture that would allow such things to actually be properly utilized. Pure idiocy.
But hey there was a white South African that called them a bunch of savages. (He, like most of the villains was far more interesting and likable than king cardboard cutout).
I thought you stormed out of here in a huff a while back.
I just didn’t want my behavior to make this place the sewer of the internet or anything. I mean, I was worried my assholish behavior would be off putting to the slew of new users dying to sign-up for a site full of obscure inside jokes about a sasquatch persona that rapes everything based on a hairy friend of Matt Welch’s. I mean, these people can take a bevy of rape jokes, but they’d probably draw the line at me. I wouldn’t want that on my conscience.
But then I realized how stupid that notion was.
Working with political royalty like Amy Schumer IS saving Democracy!
Black Panther’s Wakanda is a near-utopic vision of how a country could look; perhaps the best depiction of Afrofuturism ever captured on film. There were thriving and ideological-diverse cities surrounded by expansive and bucolic countrysides.
So they shot the Mugabes, Zumbas, Ramaphosas, Malemas, Amins, and all the rest? Instead took the Botswana route?
A near-utopic country with a wall around it, hmm…
A near-utopic, racially homogenous country with a wall around it.
FTFY.
Yeah, this was one of the many insane things I observed about the movie. And the contradictions…
To take over the crown you had to fight in a challenge, proving the society was clearly martial in nature. However, the country with all that tech and weaponry never showed any other sign of militarism and conquered their neighbors and avoided every major conflict of the 20th century. Yeah, sure.
It was the worst of the whole Marvel series so far except for that new Spiderman movie, and yet, it will gross the most. Go fucking figure.
So, not like here.
The reason African countries don’t have space flight is colonialism, you shit lords.
“There were thriving and ideological-diverse cities surrounded by expansive and bucolic countrysides.
Paraphrase from Pravda?
Then how do you explain Zambia?
So they shot the Mugabes, Zumbas, Ramaphosas, Malemas, Amins, and all the rest?
Those are all names of white colonialists who destroyed their utopian kingdoms, right?
Where, exactly, was this ideological diversity? They are organized into tribes, and otherwise we don’t know shit about their ideological perspective.
Didn’t you hear when their national anthem was being sung?
Oh praise, our ideological diverse cities,
And praise Q Continuum for bringing us those titties.
Lawrence is slightly less intelligent than a jar of maple syrup and I seriously encourage her to rethink her decision to not take a year off. Her political opinions being out there for all to see would certainly be good for some LOLZ plus she’s a lackluster actress.
Most of Hollywood is good-looking people who can memorize shit
They aren’t even that great looking. They have blank faces that make artists can work with. Zoolander was on yesterday. That’s how I think of every actor.
I disagree. She was pretty good in Winter’s Bone.
Yeah I think she has some talent beyond just being super good looking but I am not sure she knows how to use it. I think she needs a good director to pull it out of her
What about that movie where she invented a mop?
“Why did they call it Joy?”
-Chris Pratt
Beer between 11am and noon is a bit early? WTF? That’s a normal lunch time. Truely, the denizens of Washington are out of touch with the rest of America.
It’s always happy hour somewhere.
A drop of alcohol before noon is a sign of alcoholism, polishing off a case after noon is fine though.
*turns all the clocks ahead 3 hours*
There’s nothing wrong with having beer with breakfast.
Cereal is made from grain, beer is made from grain, therefore beer is cereal and fully appropriate for breakfast
The science is settled.
Dude – cereal *in* beer instead of milk.
Sacramento I thought (state legislator?).
today was fun. went shooting with my girlfriend.
she did better than i did.
You should have her spend more time with your car door.
The truck must hate her.
My buddy is an instructor. He tells me that is extremely common. The MN high school state champ several years running was a girl.
Something that a girl can compete with a guy and win – you’d think the proggies would love it!
Girls might get the idea that they can take care of themselves. Which means they wouldn’t be dependent on Big Daddy Government.
it was close. i winged one can.
That’s why it’s so important that the 2A is protected. Women can *effectively* use them against men that are physically stronger and can overpower them. Not only is a gun a force equalizer, it’s a gender force equalizer.
Men used to be physically stronger than women. Now women go to Pilates and Tae Bo and “men” look like Pajama Boy and the cast of Big Bang theory.
I am pretty sure a fight between my old fat out of shape 400 lb ass and your average woman 130 lb who takes a Tae Bo class would go something like …
She hits me
I hit her
She hits the floor and does not get up
Sure Rhonda Rousey would probably kick my ass but being physically fit and knowing a little about fighting in theory is not going to be enough to make up for the difference in raw strength or ability to soak impacts without taking real damage
Not only is a gun a force equalizer, it’s a gender force equalizer.
The gun is truly the most egalitarian of all inventions. It levels the playing field across sex, age, and class. That the left despises the gun reveals that, despite their stated preference, they do not value equality.
They value equality. They want everyone to shut up and do what the fuck they’re told by their betters equally.
Yes – good shooting, particularly with a rifle, is driven by form not muscle. Women are often more flexible and can shoot very well if they listen to the coach. When I was in the Marines, the only perfect score shot on the rifle range by a recruit was a woman.
I took one of those burst photos with my phone while she shot. she doesn’t move the gun at all while on the trigger. with some practice I think she could be a hell of a shot.
Probably so. Since my grandmother died, I’m the best shot in my gun-happy family, including my five brothers and my Dad.
Second date with now wife. Ten-pin bowling. Festus man-splaining the intricacies of the game. Festus beat by forty pins. Soon-to-be-Wife’s parents owned a bowling alley. Festus kicks rosin bag and hangs head in shame…
“Oh, uh, Haha. It’s an exercise. To expand her range. She just wants to act like she cares.”
Are anyone else’s kids off school for the ENTIRE WEEK?
Fine. It’s not like I had anything important to do.
Apparently those kids that are standing on the bodies of their dead fellow classmates with gun grabbers hands shoved up their backsides are.
No. Just today. Mine do have certain (((holidays))) off.
*puts underwear on head and runs around the house*
That’s next week here. My kid did have President’s Day off, so she learned to ice skate on hockey skates today. Turns out she likes to watch high school hockey games too.
I own an Elastic album I may have even seen them live somewhere. I don’t remember.
Anyway.
Sports radio is unfuckenlistenable now. I just have to turn it off. The TDS is off the charts.
Now they’re all bent out of shape because Laura Ingraham told Lebron to shut up and they won’t tolerate all ‘this hidden racism’ blah, blah.
Fucken ridiculous.
They’re sexist because they don’t like a woman speaking her mind.
Shut up and dribble is proof of racism apparently.
Lebron is a drama queen.
I would think an elastic album would be difficult to play
ElasticA. Fucken auto-spell.
So… is Spin the Bottle what it was when I was a kid, or is it slang for something that I probably don’t want to know about?
In Germany, kids spin the bottle to determine whose birthday present to open next. It’s cute. Maybe it was just the congresscritter’s birthday.
It was something that was central — ‘We’re going to go out’ … and I was, ‘I don’t want to hang out with you, I want to go home.’”
No kidding.
“I have to put up with you idjits all the doo-dah day. Fuck that.”
I never go to work events. I already see you people 40 plus hours a week. I don’t need to add to that.
Inspired links and a terrific song. A solid day, SF.
BIG TITS 4EVAH
http://archive.is/wBaYd
Orgy, but 28 is the cream of the crop.
Nice choice. Resembles Natalie Portman but with boobs.
I agree. Easily wins in a pretty tough group.
1, 2, 20, 22
FLBP takes no break on the ladies, and so we shall not break for President’s Day either. Enjoy!
It could take a break on the ladies if those ladies just took me up on my offer to hold their breasts up. Free of charge because I’m a nice guy.
No. 3
#3 is the winner but keep Peter Cottontail away from #33.
i just can’t keep up with hollywood people.
Goat milk activist.
Yoga and yogurt.
This millennium’s whipped cream and other delights.
Oh wow. That got a LOT of play in my house growing up.
I liked this one.
Heh nice
Ahhh, that album cover was an item of extreme interest to me growing up.
When your life is devoid of actual meaning and most of the people you interact with are two-faced, vapid morons, you look for SOMETHING to make you feel alive inside.
That’s why we come here? *ugly cries, stumbles away*
Well as long as they stick with just a bark, I will leave them alone.
Very, very alone.
We have reached peak hipster
I can’t watch the whole thing. That house, that dude–all giving me a headache.
Electronicus…
That mis-used Latin, you mean!
“Here we replaced Rick Wakeman with a cactus.”
one of my favorite moments was when he was like, “uhm, yeah, so like, the plant is interfacing with our mixer, like here…”
(points to artisianal mixer: which is ‘holes drilled in metal screwed to a piece of wood“)
and of course even the single piece of sheet metal has the Moog logo on it.
its like a picture of a starving baby in somalia, only its wearing a limited-edition Bathing Ape t-shirt
I have no idea how that is even supposed to work. Nothing in a cactus changes fast enough to be a modulation source.
Oh, the whole “plants can be a source of random signal-response” has been done forever.
they’ve put lie-detectors on plants and gotten readings similar to people. “galvanic skin response (GSR) section of the polygraph measures the resistance of the skin to a small electrical current.” Plants vary their electrochemical reactions based on various stimuli (light, noise, humidity, etc)
you can hook piezoelectric sensors to plants, and they’ll pick up mild changes in their responsiveness which could basically be read as “random note generation” or even rhythmic patterns, depending on the gate you applied.
Huh, I figured cacti were so slow growing they must have a very slow metabolism. They’re mostly water storage. I’m sure they have a day/night cycle, but probably are the least responsive as far as plants go.
i think the kind of plant has little to do with the surface level electrical response variation. I have no idea, really; i’ve only read about similar experiments where people have hooked wires up to plants and used them as, basically, random noise generators (while creating the illusion that they in turn react to the output stimuli – e.g. light shows and music).
here’s a video where a person does it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYU18eiiFt4
really, its just taking arbitrary data inputs (change in temp/change in ph/change in GSR/change in pressure; some matrix of all of the above)
…and then using those random inputs to control filters and gates on a tone-generator…. which ends up spitting out sounds that we *feel* sounds appropriate for the thing (in this case, plants)
the fact is that the plant itself is more or less just a random prop. you could take any signal (like solar panel, or geiger counters or a richter-scale sensor or a volt-meter) and slap similar filters/gates on it to get relatively similar patterns of outputs.
The ‘ooh i touched the plant it and it made a sound’ is just a psychological trick. you could touch a wire and get the same effect. its just attaching any “measuring device” to something, then attaching that measuring device to a tone-generator.
That’s what I thought. Her claim that plants are “sentient” and the implication that they are somehow communicating or expressing themselves musically sounds like pretentious drivel. It’s just changes in electrical resistance due to electrolytes.
Electrolytes, it’s what plants crave.
Something is, uh, happening on Popehat: https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/965691921405390848
oh, John.
He’s losing his touch. That post is barely spittle-flecked.
I’d like your thoughts in the link I posted at the bottom of Pie’s article.
The Hat is pretty good. Ireally like the slight, spitting lisp. But the hat needs to be more put-upon/exasperated and frantic/shocked.
Those qualities will come about with the better writing you can provide, I’m just trying to hone in on the voices. I’m going to try and get an audition for the hair from a friend, see how that sounds. If you like the hat I can just work on honing that one.
I like The Hat.
Know anyone that does a good Trump impersonation?
John’s m.o. has always to run around to people and go, “Fight me!”
every now and then i post something on TOS. He’ll respond, and just go, “you’re wrong here’s why {Insert totally irrelevant thing}”
i go, “i don’t have an opinion on that.” and he’ll be like, “YOU ARE A MORAL COWARD”
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The scariest part of this is the idea that he could actually be a military judge. #punctuationmatters
No, he was JAG corps, but not a judge.
John says “I’m a certified military judge” in one of the emails Popehat screenshotted.
Beats me, man. I’m just rubbernecking.
“Certified” – heh. Serving…no. He was an SJA….Major at the time he separated, IIRC.
I bet he’s a blast a home.
Popehat is a fucking half-wit.
I thought he was smarter than this, but I guess we were wrong.
It’s as though millions of brain cells are exploding in terror.
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Jennifer is so uneducated. Working with her is so hard. She has the education of an 8th grader.”
Um.
I thought you said she was uneducated.
In any event, Jennifer Lawrence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
OK, I think I’ve found today’s winner in the “I can’t tell if this is serious or parody” contest.
~~~edit fairy helps out, bro!~~~
In case Facebook is a problem, here’s what I’m referring to.
My money’s on serious.
They aren’t wrong. I’ve had to deal with teens with cell phones and it’s a fucking nightmare.
They are going to crash their vehicles because of their phones. GOP motorists beware.
If my kids are any indication, they are going to disappear into their rooms for the night and tweet at each other.
Oh, yea? These fuckers are forgetting that the GOP and Trump have Russian troll farms. They’re the fucking Macgyvers of political sabotage.
“You think women with pink hats were a problem?”
No. I thought they were silly.
Let no teenager cry out in their moment of tweeting, “If only I had been educated in civics and why the amendments are there in the Constitution”.
Uber Now Delivers Lead.
But Uber does background checks how is this possible?!
Uber Eats, shoots and leaves
Background checks are magic! If we had them there’d be no shootings!
“Owners of business that sold gun to Nikolas Cruz shutter shop
The distraught owners of the Florida gun shop where school shooter Nikolas Cruz legally bought his AR-15 rifle last year closed their business indefinitely Friday. Michael and Lisa Morrison were “completely shocked and mortified that anything like this would happen,” their lawyer Douglas Rudman said in a statement.
One day earlier, FBI and ATF agents were spotted inside the 4-year-old business. Its displays of rifles and other weapons for sale were dismantled in the wake of the killings.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/owners-business-sold-gun-nikolas-cruz-shutter-shop-article-1.3825134
I’d probably close up shop for a week or two until the outage died down.
One day earlier, FBI and ATF agents were spotted inside the 4-year-old business.
… why?
I’m assuming they were going to crucify the shop owner if they found any irregularities in the sale. I’m sure they went to the shop to get the records he’s required to keep as an FFL to inspect them.
I’m variously seeing it reported that he might have bought at least one long gun at the age of 17 – which would be illegal under the GCA – but if he declared his age as 18 and misled the FFL with bogus ID, the ATF and FBI would certainly want tho see the primary documents.
less famous mass shootings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Unruh
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Howard Barton Unruh (January 21, 1921 – October 19, 2009) was an American mass murderer[2] (sometimes classified as a spree killer)[3] who shot and killed 13 people (including three children) during a 12-minute walk through his neighborhood on September 6, 1949, in Camden, New Jersey, when he was 28 years old.
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Always a reserved man, he had turned into a recluse in the three months before his spree. The World War II veteran was unemployed and lived with his mother. During the war, he was reportedly a brave tank soldier who served in the Battle of the Bulge and kept meticulous notes of every German killed, down to details of the corpse. He was honorably discharged in 1945, and returned home with a collection of medals and firearms. He decorated his bedroom with military items, and set up a target range in his basement. His mother supported him by working at a factory while Howard hung around the house and attended daily church services. He briefly attended a pharmacy course at Temple University in Philadelphia but dropped out after three months.[7]
He had trouble getting along with his neighbors, and his interactions with them deteriorated in the three months before his spree. He was considered a “mama’s boy” and the subject of teasing. Unruh was harassed by neighborhood teens, who thought he was homosexual and used to make fun of him.[8] He was reported to have been depressed about having had “homosexual liaisons” in a Philadelphia movie theater.[9]
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Unruh surrendered several minutes later. While Unruh was being arrested, a policeman reportedly asked, “What’s the matter with you? You a psycho?”[12] In response, he said, “I’m no psycho. I have a good mind.”[12]
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Charges were filed for 13 counts of “willful and malicious slayings with malice aforethought” and three counts of “atrocious assault and battery”. He was eventually diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia by psychologists, and found to be insane, making him immune to criminal prosecution. When he was able to leave Cooper Hospital, Unruh was sent to the New Jersey Hospital for the Insane (now Trenton Psychiatric Hospital), to be installed into a bed in a private cell in the maximum-security Vroom Building.[6] Unruh’s last public words, made during an interview with a psychologist, were, “I’d have killed a thousand if I had enough bullets.”[13]
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my own wild ass guess- there were few mass shootings between 1945 and 1980 because the shooty types went to Korea and Vietnam.
What about the brave hero veteran who shot up the Texas church last autumn?
The one who got kicked out of the Air Force for being a dirtbag? He’s more in the Charles Whitman category. Same deal for Unruh.
Yeah, that one. I just find myself getting irritated with the increasing conflation of “veteran” and “hero”, as though serving the state-sanctioned violence regime makes one automatically heroic, and that’s it’s the only way to become a hero.
It’s a fair point. I think the “hero” thing is a combo of never-served guilt, Vietnam guilt, and the recognition that little perks are what make an all-volunteer military feasible. The general reluctance to criticize the military is part of it too.
I think keeping meticulous notes of every German killed might, in retrospect, have been worth a little attention.
Wasn’t there a change in the law or something regarding placing people with certain mental conditions in asylums?
There were probably more of them, they just didn’t have 24/7, wall to wall news coverage and Facebook memes.
This page lists 20 in the US 1945-1980, but with widely varying casualty numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers_(Americas)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation
that makes more sense
– Don’t get me wrong: i think human rights have been much improved by deinstitutionalization.
as the family member of a mental patient, i thank god that he’s never had to be locked up and had his life stripped from him for no reason other than ‘he hears voices’.
but with freedom comes risk. and out of the millions of people who have been benefited by outpatient care and the development of psychotropics… there will be tiny a handful who one day decide to start plotting some horrible act. most can/will probably be dissuaded by the intercession of some loved one, but some are simply just unreachable/unrecognizable as a danger.
the most dangerous are the teen-young-adult, obviously, since its near impossible to diagnose the difference between ‘moody, sulky teen jerk’ and ‘pre-schizophrenic-break’
BIG TITS 4EVAH
The other day, I was driving past some parking lot, and there was a girl scampering around in a tight bright red shirt. I said to myself, “There’s a case of FLBP.” You bastards.
It’s really bad. Especially at the gym.
Pics?
Slow news day
“The Latest: Trump again attacks Obama on Twitter“
ISIS’ Parting Gift To Its Former Capital: Thousands Of Explosive Booby Traps
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/02/19/586582610/isis-parting-gift-to-its-former-capital-thousands-of-explosive-booby-traps
Black people barking. So it will be like a movie theater in a black neighborhood.
I had to change out a fuse thus afternoon.
Circuit breakers aren’t good enough for you? 😉
That is one hell of a fuse. How many amps is that supposed to withstand before blowing?
It’s just a 1 amp fuse. It goes on 35kv circuit and that’s why it’s so long. At that high a voltage, the conductors on either end have to be far away for the fuse to reliably open when the filament burns up.
That is so damn cool!
thats giant.
Imagine the size of the penny he replaced it with until the new fuse arrives
Trash can lid.
When do you start the new gig?
Probably Sunday. Part-time to start, but that’s overcome by busting ass to be valuable.
Oh good. I was hoping that you would have a few days to goof off.
I love seeing this stuff. How’s that article with MikeS coming along? 😉
“Principal at Florida high school where 17 were killed posts emotional video message: ‘I will hug each and every one of you as many times as you need’
‘We lost 17 lives on Valentine’s Day. That’s supposed to be the international day of love,’ he said.
‘We’re going to take the love that we got lost on Wednesday, and we’re going to spread that over the next days, weeks, months, and maybe even years.'”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5409577/Principal-Florida-high-school-posts-emotional-video.html
Relevant
We’ll stand on these bodies as long as we can!
She offered the brew in red Solo cups to the group of lobbyists, even though it was “sometime between 11 a.m. and noon … a little early,’’ the lobbyist said.
Pussy.
Never broach the keg before the sun crosses the yardarm.
There is a bar in the town I work in called little dude’s that opens up every morning at 6am to specifically cater to the folks who work night shift around. I haven’t been in a long time, but it can be a pretty lively place some mornings.
All of you who don’t want to do the things I want to do don’t want to do them because you want children to die. Deal, haters. #whitemaletears #republicansworstnightmare
Also, WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF
God I hope the barking doesn’t catch on.
I really, really hope it does.
Oh, absolutely. I’m gonna start carrying some milk-bones just in case.
How about a leash? There’s no way that can be misinterpreted.
In the fall Cleveland will become the most woke city.
Related: There is only one possible solution to any problem, and that’s my solution. If you don’t like my solution, you must really like having the problem.
KEEP YOUR HATE SPEECH OFF MY GLIBERTARIANS KEEP YOUR HATE SPEECH OFF MY GLIBERTARIANS KEEP YOUR HATE SPEECH OFF MY GLIBERTARIANS KEEP YOUR HATE SPEECH OFF MY GLIBERTARIANS KEEP YOUR HATE SPEECH OFF MY GLIBERTARIANS KEEP YOUR HATE SPEECH OFF MY GLIBERTARIANS KEEP YOUR HATE SPEECH OFF MY GLIBERTARIANS KEEP YOUR HATE SPEECH OFF MY GLIBERTARIANS KEEP YOUR HATE SPEECH OFF MY GLIBERTARIANS KEEP YOUR HATE SPEECH OFF MY GLIBERTARIANS KEEP YOUR HATE SPEECH OFF MY GLIBERTARIANS KEEP YOUR HATE SPEECH OFF MY GLIBERTARIANS KEEP YOUR HATE SPEECH OFF MY GLIBERTARIANS KEEP YOUR HATE SPEECH OFF MY GLIBERTARIANS
*uptwinkles*
*jazz hands*
Totally OT: I practiced on my bass to some Ramones, Clash and Go-Go’s tunes, and now my index finger looks like I took a hammer to it. Fuck
THE WHEAT IS GROWING THIN
I live by the river…
Forget it brother, you can go it alone
Now you wanna sniff some glue?
Now I want somethin’ to do
…because I can;t fucking play bass for 3 or 4 days. Goddammit.
Relax, these minstrels should soothe your jangled nerves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlmfUXQkIgY
I’m pretty sure Dee Dee used a pick.
He also sold his ass for $10 a pop in a Queens alleyway for smack money. I’m not going to do that, either.
…..Ppppsh. A pick. Huh.
You proved that you’re no sissy
Do you got the beat?
Or will we have to beat the brat with a baseball bat?
BakedPenguin can’t fail.
What can you do?
If my last post wasn’t clear, Rufus, then lemme say: Hey ho, let’s go.
Not to brag or anything, but my guitar playing has gotten really good recently.
I can play along with any song that pops up on my Spotify. My improv/soloing abilities are top notch now. It’s pretty cool. I went to a guitar shop in LA Friday night. Pulled a guitar off the wall and started wailing away. For the first time ever, I was the guy in the shop who was shredding.
I’m gonna start open mics in the next couple weeks, and I’m putting a band together.
Can I be the tamborine girl?
You are the tambourine girl, will forever be the tambourine girl and have always been the tambourine girl.
Lemme know if you need a bassist for recording.
Did you play Stairway?
No. Played my own stuff. Husker Du/Dick Diver/Dinosaur Jr/Superchunk kind of sound.
Yeah, just trying to be funny. Failed.
You were denied
Can’t wait to hear it!
Are you on a mission from god?
Yes.
*holds up lighter*
I want to play the cow bell in your band.
I’ll join in the pool of people signing up for your band. If you need someone to gauge groupie quality, let me know.
I’ll handle groupie auditions.
Here is DEG’s pre-screening questionnaire:
1. Do you have big tits?
2. Do you enjoy orgies?
Deepthroat skills a plus.
Here’s some excellent proto-punk with a killer bass part:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSluwC6p_J4
Hey BP,
I’m currently learning the bass. I’ve got myself into lessons, but I not sure how that’s going. My instructor keeps looking at the clock and he seems to alternate between thinking I some sort of savant and some sort of half-wit.
I fucked around with a 6 string for about 10 years and probably learned some habits that I need to unlearn.
Any suggestions for a relative beginner (but not a complete idiot)?
If you haven’t already, learn the minor and major key structures, along with the relative majors and minors. (A minor = C major) I don’t know if you ever want write music, but that knowledge is necessary if you do. Even if you don’t, it’ll be helpful, figuring out tunes with a knowledge of music is MUCH easier if you have an understanding of basic music theory.
Sorry, I’m a bit hammered. But I love this song. It’s in E minor, the favored key of metalheads.
E minor on guitar:
E string 023
A string 023
D string 02
Great song.
FYI: this is also G major
Sorry CP, I realized that last post was a bit patronizing. Wasn’t trying for that.
No worries. I didn’t take it like that. Thanks for the guidance!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5409385/Luxury-life-billionaire-troll-chief-indicted-FBI.html
Polina Prigozhin? Would.
His “Cadillac” is a Lincoln. Nice move Daily Fail.
My Gramps had a Continental exactly like that one.
Fucking sweet.
A friend of mine had one back in high school. It had a cigar lighter and ashtray on each door. Also one of the script emblems was broken and simply read “Continent” which was totally apt considering the size of that car.
A friend of my older brother had a 70s Lincoln. My older brother’s friend said the back seat would comfortable sleep three. He knew, because he tried.
On the gun subject: What the fuck has happened to the C&R market? I’ve been looking to buy my Finnish Mosin a sister, and I can’t find a decent M39 for less than $500. All the other rifles I’ve been looking at have gotten similarly expensive. Why? Is it just because imports have dried up? But that doesn’t make sense as the only cause, because most milsurps cost half or a third as much a few years ago. Is there a popular WW2 video game driving up prices now?
Whatever’s causing it, stop. Daddy needs more boomsticks.
Dunno about Finnish Mosins but a year or so ago they were practically handing out Mosins for free there were so many flooding the market.
Must admit, I’d like to get my hands on a serviceable M39, but they’ve been snapped up – I presume the current enjoyment of WW2 nostalgia is partly to blame.
The online dealers can’t get them by the crateful anymore and that might be driving prices up for them. I’d check out some gun shows if I were you.
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/747701546
Watch, she’ll sell for at least $500. I paid $139 for my 1943 Sako maybe 17 years ago.
Still, I might not be able to resist. Such a pretty girl.
Yeah, there might be a spike at the end of the auction.
I call dibs.
I hear you. The local gun stores only have Schmidt-Rubin M1889s butchered with import marks and Mosin Nagants.
The weird thing is, when I bought my Lee-Enfield No. 5, No. 5s were more expensive than No. 4s. Now, according to the Blue Book of Gun Values judging by a few No. 5 auctions on GunBroker, No. 4s are going for more than No. 5s. Weird.
There’s a handful of rifles on GunBroker that catch my eye. Some I’ve bid on, some I’ve not. But the prices are crazy.
I also really want a 1917 Enfield. But good fucking luck finding a decent one in military configuration for less than $800.
I got mine from the CMP during the brief period they were selling M1917s. It looks good, but shoots like shit. I went on my shooting hiatus and never figured out what was wrong with it. As I come off my shooting hiatus, it’s on my list of things to do.
I keep an eye out for 1914s, but haven’t seen one I’m willing to spend money on.
I almost bought one when I went to the CMP store to buy Garands and 1903s, but I passed on all the 1917s I handled because they were all beat to shit, and I decided I’d rather get a 1903 with the Peterson device cut. Going over budget and getting them all wasn’t an option for me at the time, for some goddamned fool reason.
Check the throat and the crown. The CMP 1917s were all pretty well-used.
Ohhh… Pederson device cut? Nice!
I remember reading all the 1917s were beat. I was surprised, because mine didn’t look beat at all. Bore looked OK. Externals looked OK. But I never used any gauges on it. It’s on the list.
One thing that would be fun to do is find a garbage can 1917 or 1914 and rebarrel it in .280 Remington. Then you’d have something almost exactly up to the original Pattern 13 rifle spec.
I’m buddying up with a guy I know who is a big-time Lee Enfield collector, who recently had an operation to fix his back. He told me that maybe the recoil on the old girls are too much for him now.
I was – naturally – hugely sympathetic and made sure he has my cell #.
If you pass on any, let me know.
In your case, I’m unlikely to forget. I’m pretty sure that you and i have the same last name.
Six?
It’s actually S’ix, but I thought it was a bit pretentious …
My last name is pretty common. It’s also adopted via one of my paternal grandmother’s many marriages.
If it’s the “G” name, yeah. True. Although there’s only one other family in this fairly large town with the same name.
If it’s the “G” name, yeah
Göring? Göbbels?
😉
Gropeass, of the Vermont Gropeasses. Not those Maine Gropeass swine.
The proper term is “stump-fucker”.
I’m in the market for a 03A3 and haven’t been able to find a decent price one.
I got one of those from the CMP. Straight stock. Remington made. Shot beautifully.
My father had one that I shot quite a bit as a kid. Alas, it was stolen from him about 8 years ago. Sucks. He probably would have given it to me if he still had it.
What assholes.
Yes, agreed. They also got a browning 16 gauge, an SKS, model 700 30-06, and a few others I can’t remember right now. It still pisses me off when I get to thinking about it.
God fucking dammit.
Yeah, $500 is a lot to pay for a tent pole.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/19/wapo-trump-polling-mar-lago-guests-gun-control/
That’s the funniest thing about Trump. The guy is a 90’s style Democrat. An open book on most issues. The left was too busy making him out to be Hitler to ever really grasp how easily they could manipulate him and co-opt him. I think Trump has probably learned just how seriously many of his supporters take guns to where he won’t do anything too stupid. But if the left and establishment types weren’t so busy demonizing him over every time he pops off at the mouth, we’d be well and truly fucked.
He may be a 90s style Democrat but the party has pulled further left still. Soooo, Trump is Gargamel.
This is certainly true. Trump’s “accidental libertarianism” in certain areas is due to his dislike of regulation and the fact that the left hates him so he can’t make deals with them.
And a 90s style Democrat being so hated is nothing. The left didn’t like Clinton that much and the modern left hates any kind of budget cuts whatsoever.
If he caves on this we are fucked and the Republicans too. From what I saw he was just looking at background checks (the Dylan Roof “exemption”) and bumpstocks though.
I would hope Trump realizes that gun control would anger his supporters and not appease his opponents. Not even full gun confiscation would do that.
Then again maybe I am overestimating his faculties.
If you’re going to bark conversationally, at least have a sense of style.
I was thinking of Morton Downey Jr.’s audience myself.
Parkland students show why 16-year-olds should be able to vote
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/19/opinions/parkland-shooting-voting-age-opinion-douglas/index.html
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One of the most common arguments against lowering the voting age is that 16- and 17-year-olds are not mature enough to take on the responsibilities of choosing our elected officials. Studies of cognitive brain development prove otherwise, showing that brains are fully formed for “cold cognition,” or reasoned, deliberate decision making, by age 16, which is the kind of thinking needed for voting.
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And yet the same people making these arguments also support raising the tobacco age to 21 and the learner’s permit system for driving.
herp derp herpaderp
Fuck no, raise the eligible age to 26, 18 contingent on enlisting.
I think 18 year-olds should be able to drink, smoke, drive, serve in the military, etc. 18 should be the age of majority for everything. If private orgs want different restrictions (like car renters), that’s their choice.
Should have specified voting. Lower smoking to 12.
Wasn’t one of the big arguments for lowering the voting age was all the 18-20 year olds getting drafted?
+1 26th amendment
Absolutely. You get the vote when you leave school and have skin in the game.
Stupid students elected that jerk-sock boy Trudeau because they’re still driven by left-wing idealism at young age.
What have they got to lose right?
Is it a really good idea to let kids who are students of government employees to vote. Wait a minute what am I talking about…
CNN: our arguments work on children with no life experience! Give them the vote.
Also, have voting in schools, and let them get out of class to vote.
I larfed.
I think you should have to be paying taxes and not accepting any government assistance to vote. And when I say any, I mean any.
If you work in a subsidized industry, no vote. If you have a Federal student loan, no vote. Live in a rent controlled apartment, no vote.
Ah, but you drive on roads and use money! No vote for you, leech!
/prog
works for me. No one votes. All politicians terms expire and no elections are held to replace them. That’s a win in my books.
“Studies of cognitive brain development prove otherwise, showing that brains are fully formed for “cold cognition,” or reasoned, deliberate decision making, by age 16”
The highly paid actuaries underwriting insurance for rental car companies have reached a different conclusion. All of them.
I spent a couple weeks in Milwaukee at a crane school a month before my 25th birthday. My company would have paid for a rental car, but no one would rent me one. That kinda sucked.
I learned 25 was the age when cognitive function is fully formed, but I’m not trying to manipulate anyone to gain power, so…
Well, great. My cognitive function is fully formed twice, plus some. That’s how it works, right?
Right?
Yeah, that quote’s full of shit.
https://mentalhealthdaily.com/2015/02/18/at-what-age-is-the-brain-fully-developed/
I’m willing to accept the idea that cognition (the ability to acquire knowledge through sense and thought) is fully developed by 16. Self-control and judgement is a different story.
19-year olds don’t wreck their cars because they misunderstand physics or traffic laws.
The the ability to acquire knowledge and actually acquiring it are 2 very different things.
At my high school, they don’t even teach Civics and Government until senior year, and I imagine it’s similar elsewhere in the county.
Maybe in public school. In the Catholic grade school I went to, which wasn’t a good school, we covered government and civics in the 5th or 6th grade.
I’ll bet the article would be written differently if the students had been pro-2A.
The legacy media is just starting to bore me.
I expect mass firings. #Iwish
“Women’s March Youth EMPOWER is calling for students, teachers, school administrators, parents and allies to take part in a #NationalSchoolWalkout for 17 minutes at 10am across every time zone on March 14, 2018 to protest Congress’ inaction to do more than tweet thoughts and prayers in response to the gun violence plaguing our schools and neighborhoods,” says the announcement.
“Students and allies are organizing the national school walkout to demand Congress pass legislation to keep us safe from gun violence at our schools, on our streets and in our homes and places of worship,” it concludes.
Are there legal issues at-play if teachers/administrators encourage this (particularly given the overt anit-GOP tone)?
They misspelled repeal.
#HasRobGoldmanBeenFiredYet
problematic white dudes.
Band name.
Bark.
You think racist white people think you are an animal and your solution is to act like an animal…
The hate directed towards “thoughts and prayers” astounds me.
“I demand RAGE and immediate deconstruction of constitutional rights or you want dead children, comrades!”
/derp
today’s word salad brought to you by Chris Hedges
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Fascism offers the dispossessed a tangible enemy and a right to physically strike back. Those demonized for a nation’s decline—Jews and communists in Nazi Germany, the kulaks in the Soviet Union and the undocumented, African-Americans and Muslims in the United States—become social pariahs. The stigmatized, along with intellectuals, liberals, gays, feminists and dissidents, are attacked as the embodiment of the disease that has destroyed the nation and will be exorcised by the fascists.
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https://www.truthdig.com/articles/how-we-fight-fascism/
United States = Nazi Germany and Soviet Union…
I see what he/she did there…
Repealing regulations, deferring to the legislature, and supporting the right of citizens to be armed is textbook fascism. It is known.
Sarc aside, proggies will never stop projecting.
So the USSR is now defined as Fascist (and right wing)?
Only the parts they don’t like.
Well, at least they acknowledge that Nazism and Stalinist are very similar in practice
Fascism offers the dispossessed a tangible enemy and a right to physically strike back.
So punch a Nazi (because you are one)?
I have the perfect song for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AhGYo9TExU
Twitter thread on the build quality of the Tesla Model 3
tl;dr: It ain’t good.
The last I saw a large percentage of the fully assembled cars were needing major repairs before they leave the factory at a rate about 300 percent higher than you see in the rest of the industry.
“Hand-crafted”
Eric Peters passing on a video on Model S build quality. Note the date.
DID YOU HEAR? TRUMP WANTS TO GET RID OF FEBRUARY BECAUSE HE DOESN’T LIKE BLACK HISTORY MONTH!
Can we move black history month to August and ban that month? Because if so he has my vote in 2020.
August was named after a slaveowner after all.
I want to get rid of February because it can’t decide how many days it wants to have.
February is the only month with a day created by a slaveowner. And is so short thanks to a slaveowner.
Just watched the Black Panther movie yesterday and my immediate interpretation of the barking scene was that they were silencing the American character because they were discussing the future of their country and he, as a foreigner, has no say in the matter. (Reminiscent of the scene at the end of Green Zone) Apparently I was giving the writers too much credit, should’ve known after they called him a colonizer earlier in the film. Which didn’t make much sense considering in the lore their country had never been colonized.
If Wakanda is an African country with technical ability far beyond the West, wouldn’t they shoulder some blame for the colonization of Africa by declining to do anything to stop it?
Since when does the plot need to make sense. WE HAVE AN AGENDA/NARRATIVE TO PUSH.
The movie’s actually good. I liked it. I’m probably going to see it again in the theaters. The whole “FIRST BLACK SUPERHERO LEAD!” thing is ridiculous though, because it denies Blade and Blade 2, both of which are fantastic movies (especially Blade 2).
Don’t forget Spawn.
Or forget it. That movie sucked,
I’m choosing to believe the glowing lip tattoos were a Blade 2 shout out.
No, they didn’t help because they are extremely isolationist. During the colonial period, they really didn’t give a shit about the rest of Africa.
Your avatar is deliciously decadent.
*titters extravagantly*
There are so many bad lessons in that movie:
-The only way African nations can stay independent is if they have access to natural resources no one else has (that must come as a surprise to the Ethiopians).
-No African nation could have resisted colonialism without sci-fi technology (that must also come as a surprise to Ethiopians)
-Colonialism is the source of all of Africa’s woes (Ethiopians would like a word)
-Black people are a monolithic group who would have banded together for self-improvement if not for the white man’s tricknology
-Black people could have developed advanced technology on their own without ever interacting with any other civilization
-the ideal society is racially pure, strictly isolationist, and led by an all-powerful leader (aka the North Korea model)
-Different subgroups of black people will always get along through the power of melanin magic (Haiti and Rwanda would like a word)
I’m there are others, but those are the ones that came first.
It’s so stupid. Maybe it’s a great movie, but people are legitimately claiming that Wakanda or whatever it’s called is what Africa would look like if not for white people. The fact that you have to point out the fictional elements that make this world impossible is sad.
Let’s not forget the cleansing rain in Zimbabwe.
You forgot the whole ”The biggest threat to a black dude in Africa is a black dude from America”. And yes, with all the subplot of being oppressed by wypipo and all, it still ends up being black people being responsible for most of other black people’s death.
Why Yoga Pants Are Bad for Women
Lol. So much butthurt.
Pantsuits are now a symbol of incompetence and failure.
This has all happened before
—–But wouldn’t it be easier to do so in pants that don’t threaten to show every dimple and roll in every woman over 30?—–
Sure, it was patriarchy forcing these ‘plus-sized’ over 30 women into EXTREMELY form-fitting garments. We cis-shitlords just luuuuuv the vision of land whales in spandex.
*sigh*.
Hey lady, there is this thing called freedom (I know it’s a foreign concept to a feminist, so look it up). The beauty of freedom is that, if you don’t want to wear yoga pants, don’t wear yoga pants.
I didn’t think it was that difficult
But they were JUDGING her with their EYES.
Maybe.
My wife was meeting a friend of hers for something. Expected her friend to pull up in her regular car (an Escalade). Instead the woman pulls up in a nice, new, Lamborghini Aventador S Roadster. Half million dollar price tag.
Same woman lives in a gigantic house on the water and just paid around $50k to have her dead dog cloned. Not sure where she gets all her money from, but damn.
She single? asking for a friend.
Seconded. How does she feel about poor, cishetlord highschool teachers?
Not single, and would never be interested in a libertarian, because there are no libertarian women.
South Florida, right?
I have a good guess.
Does she look good in yoga pants?
We’ll need pictures to judge of course.
” the woman” + ” Aventador S Roadster”
does. not. compute.
They are auto transmissions now.
Which is a bummer.
Sam Elliot had a line in that Netscape show something like “are you the kind of asshole who would buy a Ferrari with an automatic?” Then somebody told him they all are now.
The old Ferraris shifted like trucks. It was wonderful.
Sam Elliot’s the kind of guy to go to the home improvement store in a two seater sports car.
(actual he is. The wife spotted him, but I was too slow and only saw his taillights as he drove off)
i don’t mean to be so terribly sexist, but i am on this subject.
i just can’t imagine a woman WANTING to be inside something with 700+ horsepower, which you can’t really see the corners of, needs hydraulic-lift systems to get over a speedbump, and takes the skills of a fighter-pilot simply to back out of a parking space.
provided you drive it exclusively from country-club valet to restaurant valet, i guess i could make sense.
^^^sexist pig
That car does nothing for me. Looks like the fucking batmobile.
If you are gonna go nuts on an exotic, I’d get one of these and bank $300K.
there’s also that. the Aventador utterly hideous to everyone except guidos. The Huracan is actually “cute” by contrast.
i think a jag or aston is far more ‘Feminine’ an overpriced sportscar
The new Jags are perfect n that regard. Easy to drive and beautiful to look at.
even a lotus.
Yes, another excellent choice. True sports car.
I’d go with the Aston Martin DB11. You save a quarter million dollars, get an absolutely beautiful car and you get to feel like James Bond.
But hey, it ain’t my place to say where this woman should spend her money, so if she wanted the Lambo, more power to her.
Fuck that. F350 Diesel, baby. Fully loaded, with duallies.
I have one of those. Absolutely love it! It pulls my trailer up grades loaded with a car and tool boxes and fuel drums and spare parts and what seems like a pallet of beer without even slowing down. And it gets better mileage pulling the trailer than my old gas V-10 truck did empty. It’s just an amazing vehicle.
We’re planning our semi-retirement with one of those, a slide-in camper and a boat, spending our summers wandering Alaska.
My wife drives our race car with zero creature comforts and several inconveniences and absolutely loves it. There are all kinds of interesting women out there.
i think we’re talking about different things.
you’re talking about a woman who lives to drive race cars. which is like saying, “some girls like to play sports”. of course they do. and more power to them.
i’m talking about someone who drives an Aventator as a daily cruiser. which is more like “wearing the hope diamond as a nose-stud”. Its a brutal, obnoxious, absurdly ostentatious accessory, which is something i think only the most-retarded and gauche of men even want to endure. I’d think a woman would have *better taste* that.
“lives” = meant “likes”, but either works.
Fox news is now pretending that there’s “breaking new information” about Russian hacking. OMG FBI HAS LEARNED THAT RUSSIA HAS A HISTORY OF HACKING BEFORE THE 2016 ELECTION
which is something anyone could have simply googled at any point in the last 10 years.
https://www.f-secure.com/documents/996508/1030745/dukes_whitepaper.pdf
the narrative about Russian cyber-snoopery relies partly on the idea that its ‘unique’ and different.
the fact is that its boring, normal, constant, and isn’t really all that different than shit almost every country on earth does to one another *simply because they can*
The details of russian fuckery are interesting mainly in the “how” they typically do stuff, which as many note: isn’t to influence results of elections, but rather just to maximize potential discord
I expect the MSM to latch onto this and spin it as, “OMG ITS EVEN WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT” rather than “gee this is shit everyone knew 5 years ago?”
It’s the most disturbing bout of mass hysteria I’ve seen during my lifetime. I think a lot of people in this nation would gladly put people of Russian extraction in internment camps if that was an option. It’s really disgusting.
I think a lot of people in this nation would gladly put people of Russian extraction in internment camps if that was an option.
Nah, not Russians. Just Trump voters. The Russian thing is something tangible to latch onto, and I’m sure it’s not so fun if you’re Russian, but it’s not the point.
Gutfeld was great over the weekend – they are the Earth’s trolls.
Jordan Peterson has been everywhere lately. I mean, he’s ubiquitous. He should take a breather because the more he gives interviews, the more he gets tired leaving him vulnerable to misspeaking. Every left-wing interviewer tries to catch him in a fib and one of these days they’re going to succeed.
The conversation with Iain McGilchrist was a good one.
Over the years there have been plenty of libertarian critiques of populism and anti-intellectualism. But I have to ask: Who are the elites and intellectuals that we should be listening to?
Your mom?
Sugarfree
Intellectual? Bushwah! I might not know a bunch’a fancy words and I may not have a big city law degree, but I like to think that a man knows when he sees right and when he sees wrong. And that a man’s word still means something. And that lemonade should be made the old fashion way: lemons, suga and the cold, clean wata right out of a man’s own well. His OWN well. A man would never sully the water of his well with the mangled corpse of a hooka, a common street walka. He’d throw it in someone else’s well. Like my client’s. My client, ladies and gentlemen, has a been FRAMED!
Your favorite Preminger movie is Skidoo right?
Hitle…Nope, not going there
Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Nick Sarwark, Shikha Dalmia…you know, the intellectual giants of the libertarian movement.
I am always amused by this. Anti-intellectualism is bad but the intellectuals do stink.
I’m afraid almost all the libertarian greats are currently pushing up daisies. We have a pretty shallow bench.
Mike Rowe
Now we are getting somewhere…
Thomas Sowell
OK. Just one more Ozzy Man. (maybe)
Ozzy Man Reviews: Dodgy Dolphin
I’m waiting on him to commentate on January 2018.
Put Florida Man up north, and you get Canada Man.
“I’m not a drunk. I’m just Canadian.”
I commented on this last night in real time in the Zardoz thread. They panned to him during the match against Japan.
A day in the life bro.
Is Heroic Mulatto around? Who are the “natural elites” in America? And how should they be left alone?
While we’re impeaching Trump (I’m sure that’s happening any day now), let’s get good ole Clarence while we’re at it.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/the-case-for-impeaching-clarence-thomas.html
To answer the article’s question – no, I don’t believe her now.
Is “impeach” the proper word for prying someone off the SCOTUS bench?
/needlessly pedantic
It is the only way to remove them so yes?
yes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Chase
“The subpeona’d Anita!–Nymph, in thy Coke can
be all my pubes remand’d.”
Mencken was all about “natural elites”. The big reason I bring up his WWI articles are that they reveal that he thought Imperial Germany was being run by “natural elites”. And what he liked about Bismarck and Ludendorff were that they were TOP MEN Who Got Things Done and were unapologetic about it. No attempts to appeal to yokels and moral reformers like FDR and Wilson.
If those are the criteria I’d think Putin would qualify, maybe Xi Jinping.
I had the visit of one of the King’s Man this afternoon.
Turns out it’s a 5’2” old lady with gray hair and glasses, along with a small laptop.
I did received some letter from Statistic Canada but didn’t bothered as I assumed it was some survey to fill on the web again. Turns out I was randomly chosen for a special visit to be part of the employment survey. Now as a good libertarian I first thought to tell her to fuck off when she told me it was obligatory, but you know, just 5 minutes, and she seemed like a nice old lady, not the kind you want to push down the stairs. And in this tax season, I didn’t really mind telling her the information they already have on me anyway in the building next door in Ottawa : yes I am a chronic masturbater (celibate and live alone). No, old lady Rufus, I don’t work. Of course I am poor (have you looked at the place ?), yes I pay too much for my rent (seriously, have you looked at the place?), I have only 1 room with a closed door (nope, you didn’t looked at the place at all) and all that.
All fun and games and indeed pretty much done by 5 minutes. And then she told me that I was part of a study group that they are gonna follow for 6 months…. they’ll send me surveys by email every months. And it’s obligatory, by law. She told me about some fine if I refused. Apparently it’s ok to fine unemployed people if they don’t fill your survey about employment in Canada.
Part of me wants to just go along with it, but part of me want to go Fuck Off! Slaver! and see what will happen if I refuse to comply.
I’m curious…
MOAR DATA
MOARRRRRRR….
Yeah the worst is it’s not like in this day and age they don’t realize my employment situation when they don’t receive any more magic money taken away from my paycheck. No. Let’s just not use that data we already have in other guberment ministries, let’s pay an old lady to go around 50K$ a year to get that same fucking data again!
If you already have a law on the books to force my employer to give it to you on the first time (along with the money), why make a freaking law to force me to repeat it to you you dumb &*?*!
Huh. The Root manages to publish something sensible.
https://www.theroot.com/killmonger-was-wrong-and-ya-ll-know-it-1823134207
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Killmonger’s desire to free black people from oppression was noble, but his methods were ridiculous and his motives were questionable. Wakandans didn’t resist Killmonger because of his ideas, they didn’t agree with his methods, which were, again, ridiculous. black revolution in America hasn’t failed because we don’t have enough guns, it fails because white folks outnumber us 10 to 1, and that’s in some major metropolitan areas. Weapons for self-defense or chasing the cops and the Klan out of your neighborhood are one thing, but going to war against the United States would mean the extermination of black people no matter how many Vibranium shielded rhinos you shipped to Ferguson. Now if Killmonger had wanted to turn Wakanda into a refuge for oppressed blacks across the globe, or bankrupt the imperialist powers in Europe and America by creating a single African currency based on Vibranium I’m pretty sure T’Challa would have at least been willing to check out a Powerpoint.
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I’m beginning to think Black Panther is just Birth of Nation with the races reversed.
You Have to See Black Panther In a Black Movie Theater to Really Understand It
https://www.theroot.com/you-have-to-see-black-panther-in-a-black-movie-theater-1823133466
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Like a lot of people across the world, I saw Marvel’s Black Panther multiple times this weekend because I wanted to pore deeply over the film’s narrative layers and drink in the visual richness that is Wakanda. But while hopping around from theater to theater, something else—something beautiful about the movie became clear for me: the only way to really appreciate how powerful Black Panther is is to see it in a black movie theater with a predominantly black audience.
…
Wakanda itself may not be a real place, but the magic and wonder that Black Panther presents itself is. It’s the magic and wonder that all black people know we’re more than capable of creating in the world when we come together and rally behind a cause and it’s something that can never be celebrated enough That power and sense of connected is the narrative foundation upon which Black Panther is built and it’s something that’s best experienced in the company of other black people.
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Kind of like the way I saw Mississippi Burning.
Yeah, no….
tee hee
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWbrJ2fVMAAjQXW.jpg
nice
The children killed in drone strikes don’t count.
Obama’s drones never existed.
Just submitted something along this line. It may be the first piece solely dedicated to anal rape.
YOU NO READ STEVE SMITH?
“If you want to kill a bunch of kids without causing a controversy, use drones.”
-popular meme after the Sandy Hook shooting
Hey Y’all! So my doctor didn’t think it necessary for me to monitor my blood glucose daily, but since I have been on the Metformin/diet and exercise thing for two months I was curious to see if I’ve made any headway. Went down to the local CVS and got the glucose monitoring gear. Not as accurate and useful as an A1C test from the lab– next one is in April. Anyway, pricked my finger and the meter read… 100 (mg/dl)! Down from a whopping 243 (mg/dl). Tested again 10 minutes later and got the same result. Kind of cautiously optimistic. As Chun would say, perhaps I’ve earned “…a teaspoon of honey in your rice.”
Nice!
Excellent news!
Congrats! I checked mine 1st thing this morning…….187
/opens another beer
Congrats, LHoR!
How’s the rest of the plan going?
It’s sad that a D-list comedian is the voice of reason on gun control:
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Greg Gutfeld said one of the biggest takeaways from the tragic mass murder at a Florida high school is that soft targets like it should be “hardened.”
Gutfeld said numerous businesses and government buildings have armed guards protecting them.
“We need to harden soft targets,” he said, adding that we need to “slash the media footprint of killers.”
Gutfeld said people like suspect Nikolas Cruz “obsess over the fame of previous creeps.”
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http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/02/19/greg-gutfeld-monologue-school-shootings-harden-soft-targets-dont-cast-wide-net-gun
Indulging pubescent fantasy is the only way we can get things done.
Preach it, lady.
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I can vouch for this as the mother of a 15-year-old son, who would not be the exceptional young man he is if not for his father. The truth is, I take very little credit for who my son has become. He needed me the most when he was little, but once he became aware of his male identity, it was his father—not me—he looked to for guidance and direction. His father was, and remains, his model for manhood.
When boys don’t have this model, they suffer. And when they suffer, society suffers. A majority of school shooters come from fatherless homes; and a study of older male shooters (think Steven Paddock of the Las Vegas massacre) produces similar results. Indeed, the consequences of fatherlessness are simply staggering.
…
When boys don’t have this model, they suffer. And when they suffer, society suffers. A majority of school shooters come from fatherless homes; and a study of older male shooters (think Steven Paddock of the Las Vegas massacre) produces similar results. Indeed, the consequences of fatherlessness are simply staggering.
And the saddest part is most absent fathers aren’t absent by choice. The “deadbeat dad” exists, but not in spades. In many instances, women are divorcing perfectly good husbands in their search for what they believe will be a better match—which is a natural outgrowth of no-fault divorce. Certainly, women who are married to abusive or dangerous men must file for divorce. But such husbands and fathers cannot account for the 70 percent female-led divorce rate.
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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/02/19/missing-fathers-and-americas-broken-boys-vast-majority-mass-shooters-come-from-broken-homes.html
One of the troubling things about the Left is that under this obsession of being progressive, they are destroying the traditions that has made our society a strong and prosperous one. Not all traditions are good but on the flip side, not all traditions and gender constructs are bad either. I was raised by a single mother until I was fourteen, and she did a great job but I would have killed to have my father be there for me when I reached puberty. My stepdad tried his best but since he didn’t really raise any children, he didn’t know how to deal with a teenager, so whenever he did try to teach me how to be masculine, it came off as awkward and domineering.
You go to the hood and you clearly see the devastating effects of not having two parents at home but yet the Left would rather them suffer simply because they want to remake society in their own image no matter the cost.
An apocryphal story I read once: a warden decides all the prisoners should write to their moms for Mothers’ Day. It’s a great success and the prisoners are happy. When Father’s day rolls around, the warden tries the same thing, but hits a snag. Most of the prisoners don’t know who their fathers are and the ones that do hate their guts.
I can’t remember the name, but there was a famous blues singer who abandoned his son. Years later, he heard songs on the radio that sounded like his, and figured his son must have become a blues musician too. He finally tracks down the musician who turns out to be his son, but the son wants nothing to do with the father.
A poster a saw once: a forlorn man sits in a jail cell; the caption says “it’s easier to build boys than to mend men”.
But nevermind. The real problem is the lack of female protagonists in children’s books:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/may/06/gender-imbalance-children-s-literature
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From The Very Hungry Caterpillar to the Cat in the Hat, Peter Rabbit to Babar, children’s books are dominated by male central characters, new research has found, with the gender disparity sending children a message that “women and girls occupy a less important role in society than men or boys”.
Looking at almost 6,000 children’s books published between 1900 and 2000, the study, led by Janice McCabe, a professor of sociology at Florida State University, found that males are central characters in 57% of children’s books published each year, with just 31% having female central characters. Male animals are central characters in 23% of books per year, the study found, while female animals star in only 7.5%.
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“published between 1900 and 2000”
Let me guess…their study didn’t include mapping change over time and/or trends?
The central characters of the cat in the hat are a brother and sister.
My father’s parenting skills came straight from Red Foreman’s book. His basic premise was “Don’t be a dumbass”.
Also.
Cigarettes and sporting events.
Rinse and repeat.
It worked.
That’s an interesting nugget to throw in the face of the next person who shrugs their shoulders when I say that maybe it’s good to have 2 parents.
I wasn’t raised with a father either – abusive dad got the boot when I was a toddler – but I did have a bunch of older brothers to help me not become a school shooter…. Oh and there was eventually a stable boyfriend in my middle school years, who disappeared during high school, only to marry my mom while I was in college. I thank him for leaving me completely to my own devices.
Who was he the boyfriend of?
*sighs at the simplicity of it all*
Your mom.
Heh not me. Though his son – who I had to share a room with – was kind of hot at the time. “At the time” being the operative words.
Don’t underestimate the effect of Big Daddy FedGov taking the place of the father.
No fault divorce is bullshit. The contract you can break without penalty is rare to nonexistent.
The contract you can break without penalty is not a contract at all.
In the days of yore, a husband’s duties were reasonable:
-work so as to provide your wife and children with food, clothing, and shelter
-don’t beat your wife or kids
-don’t sleep with other women
That was about it and most women were thankful to have it.
And now?
-agree with your wife on everything
-give up your hobbies if your wife doesn’t like them
-change your clothes and hair style if your wife doesn’t like them
-if you displease your wife in any way, she will divorce and take you to the cleaners
Meanwhile, women expect that:
-men will pay off their debts
-act as a therapist for their emotional problems
-deal diplomatically with their pinhead in-laws
-men will pay for their hobbies and habits while nagging the men to give up theirs
It’s too hot; it’s too cold, something smells bad; can you open this jar of pickles for me?
It never ends.
Food supply woes on Airstrip One.
Good news, the number of open outlets have been increased to nearly half.
Has the chocolate ration been increased?
Of course!
So its a literal food desert now?
Everyone knows Col. Sanders puts an addicitve chemical into the chicken which makes you crave it fortnightly!
https://youtu.be/YKRFlNryaWw?t=63
I was expecting a Boondocks clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTHL3_-O2V8
Ah, the Pentaverate, they are an evil bunch.
Have you ever thought it was weird that Charlie’s brother (“Heed!”) in that movie was so young? His mother didn’t look like the type to be pushing one out late in life.
My project manager has been so blatantly neglectful of his duties in writing a 95 page report, which I finished (first draft due today) but he had to be listed as primary author on, that under the final subheading “Lessons Learned” I put:
That’s been there since Thursday and he claims to have read the draft, but still it remains. I can’t wait for him to post it to the Navy with that. He’s been going home early for days, talking to his HOA loudly in his office, talking about Norway’s olympic haul so far, blah blah blah. Not too inspiring.
Is this the old job you’re leaving?
Yup. That is, if I get a decent offer. Still waiting.
ha! So much for “reading it all”.
If it makes it to the final version, I will be ever-so-pleased.
I must admit, I would have put something far more hilarious in there, given your current employment circumstances.
Eh, until I get and accept an offer, i have to be respectful.
But if i dont leave, I am still going to move within the company. Working for someone you dont respect just sucks.
My gig was specifying, designing and running a team of programmers who would write software. Oddly enough, almost all the stuff developed had names that – if you were OCD and wanted to reduce them all to acronyms – would always end up oddly close to scatological abbreviations.
They’re just going over the codebase now as they figure out what products I worked on need to be phased out. I think TITS will be on the chopping block, but some of the others will be harder to eliminate because – well, dammit – they work.
I once submitted a test report to USEPA, that was signed/reviewed by our Ph.D “quality control officer” where the title was misspelled. We were testing for monochlorobenenze (MCB) emissions, and it was typed up as monoKLORAbeneze. Nobody at EPA noticed, either.
How did you resist mitochlorianbeneze?
*swoons*
“Experts” continue to diminish their value. Not that I’ve ever held much stock in most of them.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/19/survey-presidential-politics-experts-trump-worst-president-ever-obama-top-10/
One of the trolls at TOS was crowing about this today. Yeah, “experts” LOL.
The part I like best is that all of the other Presidents’ ranking changed. That alone invalidates the conclusions. There is no way that Warren Harding became a better president a hundred years after he left office.
The RDS is starting to bore me (Republican Derangement Syndrome) It’s not just Pres. Trump. They were just as bad with W. Bush, and Reagan, and not much better with H.W. Bush.
White Conservative Loses It Over Black Joy Over Black Panther Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbzghvJqrzM
I knew it was Ben Shapiro before I clicked.
Thought you all might appreciate a post on the neighborhood online community known as “NextDoor”:
Chicago, the city has more gun murders than other large cities like New York and Los Angeles, in large part due to its proximity to Indiana. However, Chicago’s murder rate still lags far behind the nation’s leaders, many of which are in states with loose gun restrictions.
America’s capital of gun violence is in Louisiana. New Orleans suffers from four times the rate of gun murders as Chicago. Kansas City, Memphis and Atlanta all rack up much higher rates of gun violence than Chicago. Expand the inquiry beyond crime, to include accidental gun deaths and suicide, and Chicago simply recedes from the frame. The obvious conclusion also happens to be an empirical fact: states with high levels of gun ownership have higher levels of gun death. With its supposedly restrictive gun regulations, why should Chicago even show up on the list? Only through a determination to avoid the obvious can one struggle with this question.
A Chicagoan can walk across a street into Indiana and purchase firearms from an unlicensed seller with no tracking of that transaction. That person can then walk back across the street into Chicago and commit a crime. This is a common practice. Most of the guns used in a crime in Chicago are originally purchased in Indiana or Mississippi. And of course, Indiana’s rate of gun deaths is roughly a third higher than in Illinois. In a strictly technical sense, most of those untracked transactions are illegal. However, our gun laws have been crafted to make enforcement virtually impossible.
Also, Ronald Reagan bears some of the responsibility. He shut down many of the nation’s mental health hospitals, turning the mentally ill out onto the streets to become homeless.
This person will not be happy to learn the factor which has the strongest correlation with homicide rates. Hint: what do Chicago and New Orleans have in common?
WaPo
Zero correlation between state homicide rate and state gun laws
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/10/06/zero-correlation-between-state-homicide-rate-and-state-gun-laws/?utm_term=.94d5de6978d9
It would be interesting, just as a thought experiment, to try and find out exactly what progs hate so much about guns. It’s been proven 100 different ways that gun laws don’t actually make anyone safer. If anything there’s a slightly negative correlation between gun laws and safety. I wish for one beautiful second they’d quit dissembling and just admit they want to abolish 2A. That would at least be honest. I’d then like to hear the honest truth about why they can’t stand private firearm ownership. It seems to come from a place of purely illogical fanaticism. I’d love to hear in their own words, calmly, the real reasons why.
It’s simple. Progs hate anything that allow people to live independently from the collective: guns, cars, home schooling, being self-employed, etc.
They’re like the Borg except they whine a lot more. At least the Borg don’t whine when they lose.
I think it’s kind of like the ancient days when a conqueror would burn the vanquished’s temples and smash their idols. They hate guns in large part because they stand as a totemic representation of people they hate.
It’s not that tough to figure out:
Their political enemies like guns. They want to punish their enemies by taking away something they like.
ooh! finally!
” I mentioned I think they are minute compared to guns getting in the wrong hands.”
Does he realize this is simply not possible logistically? How can you possibly guard against guns getting in the ‘wrong hands’? The only way is to confiscate and move to amend the 2A.
“I care not for the right to bare arms for certain individuals, it’s literally the only right I’ve talked of amending.”
And already that’s too much. Does anyone actually believe they’d stop at that? Next up 1A.
Bare arms are a little weird but to each his own.
he linked to Australia!
“I understand the risks, I mentioned I think they are minute compared to guns getting in the wrong hands.”
Deaths by firearms has been falling every year for ~3 decades.
http://i2.wp.com/wmbriggs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/fbi.homicide.1.jpg
forcing people suffering from early symptoms of mental illness into hiding their condition out of fear of becoming part of an insta-govt-database which strips their rights?
that’s basically taking 3-4 million people and saying, “sorry, my paranoia outweighs your civil liberties” Its only “minute” because he’s not someone facing second-class citizen status.
He’s effectively the same sort of person who said, “Yes, well sorry Japanese people: i know you’re good citizens, but you’re going to have to live in a prison camp now because you make me nervous” during WWII
Well, they are progressive. That is, nauseatingly evil.
What’s the source for that chart?
http://i2.wp.com/wmbriggs.com/
Bitch be error.
sorry wrong link
http://wmbriggs.com/post/17703/
I tried that and he got really huffy.
Didn’t like me comparing it to voting rights or no fly stuff. “this is totally different. How dare you”
I did enjoy listing the fallacies for him
No it’s exactly that. He doesn’t get to say ‘this is different’ when it suits him.
He’s mental (excuse the pun) if he doesn’t think there will be abuse.
All it takes is one Nurse Ratchet.
Lobotomies for all!
Yeah I told him that and we went in circles.
Take a shit dead center on the hood of his car. He’ll learn.
I’ll get rickety cricket on it.
If you’re not catching flak, you’re not over the target.
I’m stealing this.
Stolen by me. But true nevertheless.
About Fergie singing the anthem badly:
“bitchpudding6669 !
bitchpudding6669 !
1 hour ago
I didn’t know Fergie spoke whale”
lol.
Bitch Pudding is awesome…..(totes NSFW)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Y3lwCr66Q