Since we had great content by contributors, today, I decided to not enact your labor for you and make links. But I didn’t want to hear Rainman-style screeching when the afternoon links didn’t run on time, so here you are… talk and link amongst yourselves.
But hey, I got paid today.
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413 responses to “Friday Afternoon Open Post”
Well, now what am I supposed to snark at?!
Ask not what your Glibs can do for you, but what you can do for your Glibs.
Sounds suspiciously like collectivist claptrap.
How about a discussion of mutually agreeable exchange?
The snark, UCS,you sucked all the fun right out of it.
He’ll season the snark later so it’s not too bland.
-mutually agreeable
-glibertarians
Hmm….. not seeing it…
(I kid, because I love, and am also terrified of Warty)
And rightly so.
Rainman-style screeching
Where’s Wapner?
Isn’t he dead?
K-MART SUCKS!
I’m an excellent driver.
Lots of Queens
As a person who hates people and crowds, but will find myself in the general corner of the country where This will be happening, should I make the effort to attend?
Sure, if it’s OK with your mom, it’s OK with us.
Does that article say where the exposition is actually taking place?
Nope, but I was looking at the Grand Opening, which is in a suburb of Dallas by the airport. (Previous article mentioned the town, exact address has not been posted)
Absolutely, and take pics for me please
And I thought Soave was link-lazy.
to be sure, but Brett didn’t miss his timetable.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DsSzsOvojko
I miss Injun.
Sigh. Me, too.
Do you by chance know what happened to him? I haven’t seen either hide nor hair from him since the Exodus from TOS. A pity. He was a solid commenter.
No idea. Shortly before the exodus he said he’d be taking a break from posting, but he never resurfaced afaik.
Maybe you could contact him through YouTube. My account hot locked there.
I guess we’re back to doing euphemisms.
I’ll try. But I can’t make any promises.
Just got paid
I was expecting this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O8m0mMDpHw
My take :
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Ddb94lyKYOcg&ved=0ahUKEwjr_NCUwqbaAhXJ44MKHemdC3sQ3ywILDAB&usg=AOvVaw2hlB40pcf9lWRXlPbHTB_N
I was thinking he found some money in Mom’s Wallet https://youtu.be/Z9HFJNPVKkw
Wow. Indy’s finest.
http://5newsonline.com/2018/04/06/teen-buys-every-cupcake-from-bakery-after-getting-fat-shamed/
When she finally stepped up to the counter, she heard the customer behind her say to a friend, “Thank God, now let’s hope this fat Fuck doesn’t buy all the cupcakes.”
“And that’s exactly what Vega decided to do. She said she purchased every last cupcake out of spite.”
Way to prove them right.
Wouldn’t it be more effective to just deck whoever said that rather than spend hundreds of dollars on cupcakes that she’ll inevitably eat and get even fatter?
First of all, it was only $54. Second of all, the bakery brought her more cupcakes at work. Its almost as good as getting flowers.
Need pics to determine how serious of an infraction this is.
There were picks in a earlier post, and… John would.
Sarcasmic would not.
Good for her!
Hmm . . Valpo. As a Valparaiso University alum, I’m guessing she was from the University. They were the fattest college girls I’ve ever seen. We even charged them to drink at my fraternity
When was this? The ones I see walking around town aren’t bad.
2003-06.
That’s the problem with getting older.
When I was 20, there were a lot of women who were way over the “too fat” line for most of the guys. Most of those women are way over into the “would pay to see that naked” range once you get to a certain age. It is one of the “youth is wasted on the young” truisms.
15lbs overweight is pretty chunky for a 19 year old. And it is pretty skinny on a 45 year old.
That sounds suspiciously like something a Pike would do. We used to have pity parties and invite a few of the worst sororities over after drinking all day. Lots of girls who never get attention and a hundred drunk jackasses. Fun times.
We hosted a closed party between us and the chi Omega sorority, the blonde, hottest girls on campus ( maybe 6s on most campuses). We were really excited. They had about 60 members and we had 9. We thought the ratio would make it awesome. Nope, they put in the minimum required time they determined at a meeting and left. I guess we were the pitied on our campus
A friend was looking at Valpo and UCSB. She visited both schools, loved UCSB and then to Valpo.
I was super confused until she told me that in Santa Barbara she’d always be average or a bit above average. At Valpo she would blow away all competition. I visited once and she had made a valid point.
So she didn’t pick Valpo because of the nuclear physics program?
“Her post went viral and has been shared over 26,000 times”
26,000 is not viral. But the news HAS to claim it’s viral otherwise you might think they are just wasting your time on bullshit instead of reporting things that actually matter.
Hell, under that criteria I’ve gone rival five times over on Imgur for nothing more than posting a gif of Milana Vayntrub’s tits jiggling around.
My kind of thicc.
Indeed. Hugely underrated.
OMG this is where I live! Some thoughts.
1) The cupcakes there are pretty amazing.
2) She must have been there at the end of the day, because $54 might buy you about 10. Because they’re as expensive as they are good.
Brett at least makes the links run on time.
We will be grateful.
Happiness is mandatory
/Friend Computer
What links?
The Links will run on time, even if the cars are empty. THEY WILL BE ON TIME!
More like the trains will run on time even if there are no cars attached to the locomotive.
Indulgence in pet issues are the order of the day, eh? Okay then…
I was hired by a new remodeling company this morning. That means I’ll make about 25% more in taxable earnings this year and roughly 50% more in taxable earnings by year three at my new gig than I would have made under the financial conditions of my previous employer.
Life is good.
“I was hired by a new [modeling] company this morning”
Gonna share your latest photo spread?
Despite my quasi ‘boxer’s body’ I’m not much to look at. Being punched in the face several thousands of times tends to do that to a fella.
Sexy Ugly is about as polite as one can get to describe me. 😉
God Loves Ugly
Leviathan appreciates your increased income.
Congratulations.
Danka.
This:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahvSgFHzJIc
And this:
http://archive.is/gzmCt
Make for a good day.
My wife hasn’t figured out why I come home horny and ready to go. Thanks to the great product from Q Industries, I am always hankering for a spankering.
Helping marriages is why I do what I do.
My wife hasn’t figured out why I come home horny and ready to go.
“Well, that hot new chick in accounting turned me down again today, so I guess its up to you, honey!”
According to ENB, Backpage has been seized today:
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/982345435183439872
I’m guessing this must have just happened and is still replicating out, because the site is still loading normally for me. In any case, this is really fucked up.
The bill that set this in motion passed the Senate 97-2. Truly bipartisan legislation is always the most liberty killing.
The bill should have concluded with-
“back to the street corners you filthy whores”
Maybe bills should have a maximum number of votes in addition to a minimum, like a target window.
97-2?
Gonna guess…..Paul and Lee?
I’m curious how websites can’t just host overseas. Or is it a matter of the domain name getting seized. ?
Also wouldn’t the best way to get around this to host outside the US and just advertise the straight IP address on pornhub?
seems like an easy slam dunk win at SCOTUS. no?
guess i’m missing the part where the CDA’s section 230 was gutted by FOSTA. was it?
after reading EFF’s one-pager, yes it sounds like FOSTA guts Section 230.
i’m kind of shocked Twitter, et al. are not up in arms over this.
Meanwhile that cunt-pussy-diseased-vagina cunt Hilary the cunt roams around free like a cunt.
When all else fails, blame hookers and Jews.
Or Jewish hookers. The worst of the worst.
You know who else blamed Hasidic women of loose morals?…
John Harvey Kellogg?
Prophet Hosea?
They don’t swallow?
I read that as: Back page siezed the day.
I thought ” that’s soon a coupla years ago…
I know some of you here like Razorfist, and he tweeted about this. He, didn’t seem to have the reaction you guys have. https://mobile.twitter.com/RAZ0RFIST/status/982345162767581186
I wish I could find a video where he chatted with couple other dudes while playing a ridiculous ragdoll game of secret service agent protecting Trump. He laid out a case for why fedgov was unfairly prosecuting Arpaio, including comparison of costs of settlement on his part vs costs feds incurred during the investigation.
Drudge linked a story on this. But the other major media sites have been slow to pick it up. I’m pretty surprised. You’d think the press would be all-in on an issue regarding free speech and advertisements. The even have the bonus “Trump is evil” to play with. But I suppose “trafficking” trumps those concerns so far.
The New Left are Puritans.
My new pet peeve: English speakers that pronounce the name Vladimir as Vla-DEE-mir.
Но “Владимир” произносится точно так.
Ои на хори, хуи. Ай эм гитинг шит он дик, плохо.
I’ve never heard that one. Who says that?
Russian people.
And NPR commentators.
Why? That’s how it’s pronounced in Russian. Spanish, German, French, Italian names are routinely pronounced as close to the original pronunciation as possible by Americans. Why should it be any different with Russian names? And given that Putin installed his man as the US President, shouldn’t his American vassals at least try to pronounce his name correctly?
Fuck that European non-Polish privilege.
Italian words/names are butchered on average. French too.
Take it from a guy who routinely butchers words in three languages.
For sure. But it often works in simple cases.
True. Simple rules.
Pronounce it as it’s spelled.
Words with CH is a k sound.
ETC.
Alex Trebek butchers pretty much everything non-English.
His French is decent though I think….MANGE LA MERDE for $200 mon ostie’d niaseux.
Qu’est que c’est <>?
Tabarnak!
English speakers must be forced to learn if Vladimir in question is a Serb, a Czech, a Russian etc, and pronounce the name correctly depending upon it.
That sounds like work. Screw that.
Between that and your attitude to wine, you might be a secret Slav…
I hereby call upon all speakers of American English, whilst speaking American English, to pronounce Mexico as “Meh-HEE-ko” at all possible opportunities.
You can start by pronouncing Jose with J as in Joseph and the rest should rhyme with HOSE.
Ho-o-saaay, can you seeee
By the dawn’s early light
What about Meh-HEY-ko?
Meh-Hi-ko
It really grinds my gears when people pretentiously pronounce foreign place names, in particular, with a foreign accent.
No, you are speaking English, with an American accent. To avoid sounding like a twat, you should pronounce foreign words with, wait for it, an American accent/pronunciation. You’re an American, you don’t say Meheeko, you say Mexico. You don’t say Neekarahwa, you say Nicaragua. I don’t expect foreigners to suddenly acquire American accents when they say American place names, and I expect you not to suddenly acquire foreign accents when saying foreign place names.*
/shakes cane, fills Depends
*Unless your mother tongue is the foreign language. If you speak American with a Mexican accent, go right ahead and give us the full Mexican pronunciation.
And how do you pronounce La Jolla, CA with an American accent? Does it rhyme with COLA and start with J as in James?
La Jolla, La Jolla, or La Jolla of course.
I’m not being a dick here, honest, but…
It doesn’t?
English alone is hard enough, people.
Most–but not all–names of Spanish origin are pronounced like in Spanish. It’s pronounced “la hoya” like RC Dean posted below. Every one will laugh at you if you pronounce it otherwise. So, I’m often amused when some people insist that certain names must be always pronounced like the furriners do it, but others–only with an “American” accent.
So, I shouldn’t be calling my gardener the English pronunciation of Jesus.
Every region has their own peculiar pronunciations.
Atlanta has Houston Mill Rd. : Pronounced “house-ton”.
And they have Ponce DeLeon Ave. Pronounced Ponce Dey Leon. Like Leon Spinks.
I don’t know whether House-ton or Hyooston is correct, but I’m pretty danged sure that Dey-Lee-own is the only way to pronounce that name without sounding a bit the twit.
Come to Ohio, a special breed of dumbfuckery:
Bellefontaine = Bell Fountain
Rio Grande = Ryo Gran-day
Lima = Lye-ma
Celina = Suh-line-uh
Russia = Roo-she
Versailles = Versales
Agent Cooper, you left out one of the best:
Mentor – Menner
Seriously. There’s a difference between the city of Mentor (Menner) and someone who helps guide you (a mentor).
Other ones that throw people off that are from further north are Ashtabula, Akron, Ravenna, and of course… Cuyahoga.
Its an American town, the American pronunciation is “la Hoya”. No prob.
Its people who flaunt their whatever by discarding the American pronunciation to look all multi-culti and shit that bother me.
Speak murkin, boy. And stop saying Warshington D.C. for Pete’s sake!
I’ve heard plenty of people say JOL-LA and HOYA.
I heard the Mexican ambassador to the United States pronounce it “Mecks-i-ko” the other day on English language radio. Methinks he spends a lot of time in the US.
He’s smart enough to know that his job isn’t to emphasize differences between America and Mexico, so he adopts American pronunciations.
lol. I couldn’t agree more.
I dunno- there is something a bit odd about switching accents in mid-sentence for something like a name or a foreign word. My French is pretty terrible at this point, but it’s what I spoke outside the house as a small child, during the critical window for acquiring a decent ability to pronounce a language. When I say a French name or loan-word as part of an English sentence I don’t drop into a full-on French accent though. And I find it kind of weird when people do switch accents like that, especially when they don’t really have a good accent in the second language to begin with.
My sister lived in Germany from 7-15 (and was a flight attendant for Lufthansa for a couple of years later on,j and her German is good enough that it generally takes Germans a while conversing with her to figure out that it’s not her first language- she’s just on the border between native and not. She -does- drop into a full-on correct accent when she uses a German word in the middle of an otherwise English sentence, and I have to admit it bothers me just a little bit.
To clarify, the heavy emphasis on the middle syllable made it sound far more awkward than just usage of the long-e и sound.
There’s a new movie coming out called Upgrade. It’s basically a Robocop ripoff, but with buddy cop comedy thing thrown in. The premise is a guy and his wife are attacked by some thugs. The gf dies and the guy is left a quadriplegic. He gets a microchip inserted into his spine the cures his paralysis but also enables him to do Bruce Lee stuff. The chip also talks to him.
The thing I don’t get is even with the ninja chip, his muscles would still get tired in the normal way. Maybe there’s a training montage which explains how he becomes fit again.
Anyway, here’s the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9fXbkiKfmY
Maybe a bit gory for me– but it could be fun.
the armor reveal scene in the 2014 Robocop reboot is spooky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXOhIJg4B7k
I’m in a good old-fashioned argument about abortion with one of my family members (because of the whole KW Atlantic thing), so there’s that. Abortion is such a wonderful debate to have.
I can’t even make up my own mind about it. That’s why I don’t argue the subject.
Its definitely a huge gray area and both sides have some really good liberty-based arguments – but I like to play devils advocate (in person anyway) and poke at people when I see someone being holier-than-thou about their viewpoint. Basically I’m just being an asshole today but I do lean pro-life.
I usually just tell people I’m pro-death and then they change the subject.
MANDATORY ABORTIONS
You know who ELSE was in favor of abortion?
Margaret Sanger?
Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others.
Damn it!
Tiny American flags for others!
That’s a great tactic. I may use it in the future, thank you.
The Regressive Party: against abortion; in favor of killing babies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOCf8sL0xgE
It’s a tough one. I don’t consider myself firmly in either camp, and I think some of the points people argue over sort of dumb. I mean, of course life begins (or better, continues) at conception. But that’s not really an important question, IMHO. Ants are alive, but no one with any sense wants to hang me for stepping on them.
The first sharp divide is religious. If I had to characterize my beliefs I suppose I’d say that I’m a New Mysterian with strong Materialist tendencies. Kevin Williamson is a Christian, and I think his views on abortion at least partially derive from that. If you believe in a God-given soul, and believe it is present from the moment of conception- well, I guess that settles that. And since I don’t believe that we’ll have little common ground. I might -understand- why, given that starting point, you feel as you do about abortion. But we have no real basis for further discussion.
The second divide is over the question of when exactly we should recognize an organism as an individual human being, and accord it the rights we generally accord human beings. I don’t think there’s a bright line here, but I’m inclined to think this should have to do with the development of the nervous system, the brain, and ultimately the capacity for qualia (that last is not an easy question.)
I’m unwilling to consider a clump of a few cells a person so in terms of this divide I have no qualms about early abortifacents, etc. OTOH, I am not in favor of doing away with newborns, and I can see no reason to think a fetus a day away from birth any less worth protecting than a newborn. As I said, it’s hard to come up with a bright-line test here (viability is not a good one.) But if development is the crucial question it seems clear that there is a point between blastocyst and delivery at which we ought to start considering a fetus a person with rights.
The third divide is over potential, and how we should weigh it. I don’t consider a blastocyst a person, but I recognize that a blastocyst is already full of potential to become a person, and a fairly specific person at that. I don’t give much weight to this, for reasons it would take too long to go into in this comment, but some think it important.
There is then a fourth divide, that of bodily autonomy. Even if a fetus has developed to a point where it should be considered a human it is essentially a parasite on its host, and a demanding one at that. And of course your right to swing your umbilical cord ends at the beginning of my uterus.
There is some power to this argument, but I don’t find it ultimately persuasive. First, the fetus is rarely an entirely uninvited guest. Except in cases of actual rape the host had a great deal more agency in establishing the relationship than did the parasite. Birth control is a thing, and when used correctly it can be pretty damned reliable. And, if you take my position that early abortions should be allowed, well then, you kind of fucked by letting this get to this point.
So, pretty much, I have no problem at all with things like the morning-after pill, or very early abortions. But I am unable to distinguish very late abortions from infanticide. I am unsure where the lines should be drawn, but I think they should be.
It usually makes me wish the other party’s mother believed more stridently in in.
The thing that amazes me about the abortion issue is how it comes up in comments sections on stories about almost any other topic. You can have a story about Russia invading Ukraine, and someone will say “well, liberals don’t care about Putin’s invading his neighbors because in a country that allows you to abort unborn babies, what do you expect?”
Anti-abortion folks have this amazing capacity to do a lateral arabesque from almost any other topic into abortion. Like Lachowsky below, I’m of mixed mind on the topic, which makes the crusaders all the more annoying.,
1) Abortion is evil
2) I don’t want to make it illegal
2a) I don’t want to put doctors in jail for performing abortions
2b) I don’t want to put women in jail for getting abortions
3) I reserve the right to feel moral contempt for both vocal advocates of abortion and vocal opponents of abortion
4) Get off my fucking lawn
This seems appropriate.
^ I’d say this is pretty accurate to my true feelings. Abortion is murder but the government shouldn’t be involved.
I have a hard time saying murder is none of the government’s business.
In fact, government is my go-to when I need volume…
Me too, it’s not an ethical, moral or consistent position to hold. I still don’t want the government involved.
The only libertarian discussion to be had about abortion is when is it alive.
If it’s alive, killing it definitely cross the NAP.
If it ain’t; her body, her choice.
:.For me, late term is murder, because life starts somewhere in the 2nd trimester.
Pretty much where I am. Before viability, go right ahead. After viability, well, tough shit, you had your chance.
Viability is very stable right now at around 22 weeks, and has been for a very long time due primarily to lung development. Until we have true artificial wombs, I think that’s where it would stay, so I don’t think it would be a moving target.
There have been a few pre-22 week births, generally because the family lied. Pisses off the hospitals (I guess you would know) to find out they delivered a 19 week old.
I have a hard time with that rationale. It means that we’re granting rights (in this case a right to life) based on the level of medical technology of the time. It sort of strikes me as the opposite of “The Second Amendment only applies to 18th century technology” arguments.
Abortion debates are one of the stickiest of wickets.
It means that we’re granting rights (in this case a right to life) based on the level of medical technology of the time.
True enough, but if you are uncomfortable adopting either “extreme” position (no abortion of any kind ever v abortion until the umbilical cord is cut), you need to draw a line somewhere in the middle. That’s where I draw it because I think there is a good rationale for it and it will remain stable for good while longer. Viability is basically unchanged since, well, Roe v Wade, and about the only thing that will change it appreciably is artificial wombs, which aren’t even really on the horizon.
I agree. Although “alive” isn’t the standard I would use, as lots of stuff is alive.
I allows thought Thurgood Marshall asked the right question during the Roe v Wade case. He asked the Texas AG when the soul enters the body. The AG never answered.
“When in irresolvable doubt about whether something is or is not a human, it’s probably better not to kill it.”
-DFW
I missed the Walmart looter from the morning pinks but wanted to share a much harsher Walmart theft story.
Walmart Store 5 sits on the main highway from Little Rock to Branson. In the mid 90s, a man was caught shoplifting, ran from the store, through the parking lot, and into the highway. He was struck and killed by a Walmart truck driving to the store to make a delivery. The store had the newspaper story about the incident posted in the store for a decade.
It’s like a dog. In a manger.
Take Los Angeles. Housing advocates there have helped pass policies to increase affordable housing—policies they worry could be hamstrung by SB 827. Measure JJJ, enacted last year, includes a stipulation that only allows developers to build more densely by transit stops if they include a certain number of low-income units. Alliance for Community Transit-Los Angeles (ACT-LA), in a February letter signed by dozens of other organizing groups, said it opposed Wiener’s bill because it would override the local measure, among other policies, allowing developers to build higher within transit zones and charge market-rate rental costs—forcing low-income families to look for housing elsewhere. To avoid such situations, ACT-LA Campaign Director Laura Raymond explains, “we organize historically excluded low-income and communities of color to be a part of planning processes. The idea to have this [legislation] coming from Sacramento is very problematic as a principle for us.”
ACT-LA worries that SB 827 will propel gentrification and the displacement of low-income communities and those of color. In most cities across the state, there are weak or non-existent affordability requirements for new developments, according to Amy Schur, the campaign director for the social justice group Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE). “If 827 were to pass, it ushers in massive market rate and luxury housing development with no affordability requirements, leaving the majority of working-class folks out of the housing equation.”
“Fuck YOUR priorities, if I don’t get what I want, nobody gets anything.
I love stories like this because it shows that the stupid deserve to be homeless.
There’s only so many rich people. Build new houses for them and they have to sell the house they’re already in. And that buyer has to sell HIS house, etc. etc. THAT is how affordable housing gets created.
According to progs, gentrification is a tool of white supremacy. You see, that black guy who was murdered in Crown Heights by the NYPD was a victim of gentrification. Not the cops who actually shot him, but the racists who called the cops.
The guy who was brandishing the shower head…
For every neighborhood gentrifying there is at least one neighborhood plebifying. But the trashification of neighborhoods never seems to get any media attention until the process has reached its limit.
I like the racist assumption in the narrative that people of color are excluded from participating in gentrification.
“The mother of a second-grader at Hunter Magnet Elementary in Raleigh is upset about a sheet that explained white privilege was sent home with her child.
Amber Pabon said the two-sided sheet was in his folder when he came home last month.
On one side, it discusses white representation in government, the military, media, and education. On the other, it lists examples of white privilege in society.
“I think the message itself is inappropriate because yes there is racism out here, and they need to learn about it. But let the parents do that,” Pabon said. “Because like I said, if she’s teaching him the way she knows, it could be completely different from the way I know. And me being part of the black community, I know different from how the white community sees it.”
Pabon said she believes the content is also not proper for such a young child.
“He’s 8 years old. What does he need to know about racism or white privilege?” Pabon asked.
The sheet is titled “Step 3: (Begin to) Understand the Concept of White Privilege.” Pabon said she did not receive any previous steps or forms about the topic.
In a brief note at the top of the sheet, it notes that this is part of an initiative led by the school’s PTA Advocacy Team.
It states that the initiative is “focusing on generating awareness and empathy to create a safe and equitable Hunter Community.”
http://abc11.com/education/raleigh-parent-upset-about-white-privilege-paper-sent-home-with-student/3297299/
“11-Step Guide to Understanding Race, Racism, and White Privilege
Step 1: Understand the Importance of Confronting Race Despite the Taboo of Race
Step 2: Understand Foundational Concepts: Race and Ethnicity
Step 3: (Begin to) Understand the Concept of White Privilege
Step 4: Understand the Historical Foundations of White Privilege
Step 5: Understand the Concept of Racism
Step 6: Explore a Case Study of Racism: The Criminal Justice System
Step 7: Understand the Importance of Intersectionality
Step 8: Understand Manifestations of Racism
Step 9: Immerse Yourself in Racial Identities
Step 10: Explore Ways to Fight and Heal from Racism
Step 11: Repeat These Steps Until Anti-Racist Action Is an Integral Part of Your Life”
http://citizenshipandsocialjustice.com/2017/10/14/11-step-guide-to-understanding-race-racism-and-white-privilege/
Step 12: Admit that I’m powerless over my drinking after reading all that.
Thank you for braving that cesspit of derp for us, CP.
Step 13, become an actual no shit racist after being put through that mess.
That is sick.
Anyone else old enough to remember Hey Ho Hey Ho when it was shocking and inspired derision? One generation later and they are well on their way.
create a safe and equitable Hunter Community
Yup, nothing creates safe and equitable communities like singling out one race for abuse.
What step is RACE WAR 2020?
Honestly I am pretty pessimistic about our ability to avoid civil war, but I don’t think it will be a race war. I know a decent number of black and Hispanic folk who are all in on gun rights. I strongly suspect that if we end up at civil war it will be over a gun grab.
larf
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/06/georgia-sheriffs-concealed-carry-sign-goes-viral.html
***
A Georgia sheriff, whose politically incorrect welcome sign went viral in 2015, has a new, bold message for visitors to his county.
“Our citizens have concealed weapons,” the welcome sign reads in part. “If you kill someone, we might kill you back.”
But it doesn’t stop there.
“Enjoy your stay!” the sign added. “We have ONE jail and 356 cemeteries.”
***
“Some one tries to you kill you, you try to kill ’em right back.”
That sounds like something Mal would say.
According to ENB, Backpage has been seized today:
I presume this is a result of the legislation which caused craigslist to shut down their personal ads.
https://imgur.com/a/qD3cf
SCHWING!
The feds have seized backpage.com because … I dunno … trafficking? Maybe? FYTW?
Congresscritter virtue signaling.
They needed to conduct a thorough investigation of services on offer. You know, for consumer protection. And truth in advertising.
An elite Chad task force is being assembled to perform this hard, long, grueling work.
Hey, someone might be having unapproved communications! We need common sense information control.
I can’t even make up my own mind about it. That’s why I don’t argue the subject.
Yeah, I try to just keep my lip zipped.
I don’t discuss it because its a complete waste of time. Nobody’s gonna change their mind, so fuckit.
I disagree. My views have shifted pro-life as I have gotten older and honestly reevaluated my position.
I doubt you’ll ever witness the moment someone changes their mind on the subject, but many discussions over a period of time can have an impact.
New architectural trend I call it the methscraper
It looks like a gentle breeze would topple it.
Can’t be meth. There’s a proper amount of useless junk in the yard, but none of it is neatly stacked.
Slabby
Meth-Century Modern
Winner.
New architectural trend I call it the methscraper
Sweet.
The wind blows ‘way too hard around here for something like that to survive.
Tonight! The Series Finale of DS9! a 2 parter, Nachos, Alien OG and some of these,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/7chrKz0o3bNiGgKP2
Life is good,
Scrambled or poached?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S_mGdkqQsU
Wienie Wienie
Hoo boy, are the lefties pissed about the Chappaquiddick movie.
Um, because that’s exactly what happened.
FUCKEN ALT-RIGHT ARE RUNING OUR NARRATIVES!
Especially with them reading books and all. OF ALL THE NERVE.
HOW DARE YOU QUOTE BACK LEIBNIZ, JUNG, KANT, PARETO, BASTIAT, GALIANI, SPINOZA, PASCAL AND SMITH AT US?!?!
That’s a whole Nuremberg rally you got there, Rufus Bormann.
Good.
What does truth have to do with charges of character assassination?
Nothing. Narrative truth on the other hand…
i’d LOL but nothing funny bout that shit.
That disgusting piece of shit actually wore a neck brace to the press conference afterward.
https://fthmb.tqn.com/6tsYePok3kc3S_Jglf5fkvFS628=/768×0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/chappaquiddick-56a48c913df78cf77282ef11.jpg
Sorry, but I don’t see a whole lot of character there to assassinate.
Well for a probably more accurate review of what happened at Chappaquiddick. Here is a story from the New York Times back when it was something other than the propaganda arm of the DNC.
What could have been going on?
Wait til they see the screenplay for my next movie: JFK: RAPEMASTER
“SEOUL, April 6 (Yonhap) — Former President Park Geun-hye was sentenced to 24 years in prison and 18 billion won in fine on Friday in a massive corruption scandal that toppled her from power early last year.
In a live televised trial, the Seoul Central District Court meted out the guilty verdict for the 66-year-old former leader, about a year after her arrest in late March of 2017.
Park was convicted of 16 counts of corruption, including bribery, coercion and abuse of power. Prosecutors had demanded a 30-year jail term.
South Korea’s first female president, who took office in early 2013, became the nation’s first elected head of state to be ousted and now the third former leader to be convicted of corruption.”
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2018/04/06/0200000000AEN20180406006900315.html
24 year and a buck fifty fine?
We do a terrible job of prosecuting our government officials in the U.S. There aren’t near enough of them in prison.
On the other hand, we do a terrific job of protecting public officials from prosecution for criminal acts while in office.
Kinda one of those “glass half full / half empty” scenarios.
Former President _______________ was sentenced to 24 years in prison
A headline I would love to read many times, with many different names filling the blank.
I’ll take Bush and Obama for starters.
W or HW?
It doesn’t really matter.
“Judicial Watch: State Department Records Show Obama Administration Helped Fund George Soros’ Left-Wing Political Activities in Albania”
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-doj-records-show-obama-administration-helped-fund-george-soros-left-wing-political-activities-albania/
“Being a good doctor isn’t just about understanding science, it’s about understanding people”
http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-politicization-of-the-mcat/article/2012198
Fuck that noise. I don’t give a shit about my doctor’s bedside manner and/or race/ethnicity/orientation/shitlordism etc. I want the right diagnosis and treatment. Period.
Even if you are not interested in the kulturkampf the kulturkampf will be interested in you.
Q, you magnificent bastard!
I remember when I had to, erm, put a doctor in his place when my father was in ICU. He was being juuuusssst a tad rude and arrogant for my taste. So I took him into the office and explained him a thing or two. And even three or four.
I musta been effective because he was stunned and impressed asking what I did for a living. I told him I was a dancer.
Anyway. Long story short, he never busted balls again and things went smoothly afterward. Don’t take shit from anyone.
Especially Norwegians and Sicilians.
An arrogant doctor?? Never!
I don’t mind them but they can be annoying. A guy in my hockey pool is a doctor and argues as if logical fallacies don’t apply to him because he’s….a doctor. We’re always butting heads because I don’t take his emotional bull shit.
My anger stems mainly from my mother’s experience. About 8-9 years ago, my mom was a perfectly healthy 55 year old woman who suddenly was experiencing a severe shortness of breath. She couldn’t walk 100 feet without stopping to catch her breath. Her doctor examines her once and immediately decides she has some kind of heart problem. Gives her an EKG, nothing. Stress tests, nothing. A bunch of other tests, nothing.
Well, gee, I think, if her problem is breathing, shouldn’t he check her lungs? Oh, but I am not a doctor, thus I have the intelligence of tree bark and am not to be taken seriously. MORE HEART TESTS!
So this went on for several months. Finally, one day I convince my mom to get a second opinion from a different doctor. This guy actually pays attention to the fact that no test has indicated any heart condition, and he orders a chest x-ray. Within 5 minutes, an ambulance was speeding mom to the hospital because she was loaded with blood clots in her lungs. She could have easily died at any point along the way because her original doctor was an arrogant, pigheaded asshole who couldn’t fathom the possibility that his initial diagnosis was wrong.
I may not be a doctor, but I was a radar tech and I have a decent handle on how to diagnose problems. It’s simple fucking procedure – if your troubleshooting is finding measured outputs that are all correct, then check somewhere else because you’re looking in the wrong place. But hey, I’m just a drooling idiot who didn’t go to medical school so why listen to me?
I know not all doctors are like that, but I’ve come across a few who were.
I hear ya. This same guy was an asshole to the nurses who were saints.
After a couple of weeks I had enough of him.
I had a doctor who thought he was bulletproof because he believed the hospital couldn’t do anything about his relentless harassment and abuse of nurses without going through the medical staff, which is a long process of trying to get doctors to do something about their golf buddies.
Imagine the look of shock on his face when I told him I had the authority to ban him from setting foot in my hospital, and if he did try to come on our property after I banned him, I would have him arrested for trespass. Not only that, I was looking for a doctor to make an example of, and he would do just fine.
His behavior improved remarkably after our little chat.
Fucken-A.
Damn dude, well done. You run a hospital?
Nah, just lawyer for one.
When I started working here, I recall telling some of my colleagues that my approach to anyone causing us problems in the building was basically:
“You come into my hospital, you mess with my people, you answer to me.”
I wasn’t kidding.
You’re damn right about never taking shit from anyone. If you do, you are 100% guaranteed to take more shit. Put a stop to it immediately.
I have a simple, crazy idea. Get rid of the AAMC entirely. Let schools and hospitals and patients decide what kind of doctors they want rather than some philosophy major turned quack psychiatrist.
You’re only saying that because of your latent racism and false consciousness.
I think Dr. Kirch needs to prescribe you some ECT.
Look, letting people decide what they want is the same as murdering children in the streets.
Yea, and what sort of person would advocate that…
Via Insty, good news! Prospective medical students will now be screened for the correct politics on the new MCAT:
They have to know which future doctors are willing to be enslaved into serving the state.
What you call someone who graduated last from medical school but aced their grievance studies requirements?
A VA doctor?
Funny. But you would actually be surprised at how few VA doctors are part of the left wing zeitgeist.
The administrative/bureaucrat types on the other hand…
What you call someone who graduated last from medical school but aced their grievance studies requirements?
A payday for plaintiff’s lawyers.
The head of the AAMC quit beating his wife:
a) last week
b) last month
c) he hasn’t quit
d) after he killed her
Wow, where’s the exit from Earth? I’d like to leave now
Ahh yes. I went through this bullshit right before the MCAT switched over. Even then, affirmative action and the progs had infested the entire med school system and now they aren’t even trying to be discrete.
Once more with feeling for the afternoon crowd. This week’s review – “The Marathon Family”. Massive thanks to Pan Zagloba for the great background info and the recommendation. I’ve already ordered “Who’s That Singing Now” and will probably order the new US blu-ray of “Underground” pretty soon.
I only just realized this morning that my title page font is dicked up because my custom blambot fonts were lost when I switched machines – I’ll have to go download some new ones. May pay someone to build me a little intro bit too – the custom ones I’ve seen for D.I.C.K. and Comics and other channels are very nice.
Off to get a burger, beer, my weekly comic pull and watch “Isle of Dogs”.
Awesome review. The shoutout to gliberartrians.com was a pleasant surprise, too!
They had an interview with a writer and didn’t sub it? I’d like to say I was surprised but nope, that’s about what I’d expect.
And, from the bits you put up, my suspicions were confirmed – the translation of that thing is a bitch. Everything got the meaning across 100%, but man, it makes dialogue sound so workmanlike, when in the original it’s quite clever and takes some unexpected turns. I don’t know how it was translated, but the eulogy for 150 year old Pantelia was made up of nothing but cliches repeated in funerals speeches made for young people, but turned on their heads (“flower of youth” becomes “flower of dotage”, “died just before the beginning of his life” is “died just before the ending of his life” etc).
Your stuff’s always cool Fish, Good job!
Gracias for the feedback – I need all the tips you folks have got. The production, etc is a rewarding process even if the numbers are low.
FL man stuffs a gun in his son’s backpack. What happens next will blow your fucking mind.
Actually, it won’t.
Kafka would be proud of our society.
It was monumentally stupid of him to put his gun in the kid’s backpack (WHY?) in the first place, but the freakout over it is dumb as well.
In short, this is another story where I hate everybody involved.
It was stupider for him to not take the backpack to his car, and discreetly remove it from the backpack.
I don’t know about proud. He was simply a prophet.
“A terrified parent ”
Those are the worst kind.
The NHS is wonderful. I can’t wait for the lines once it comes over to the US!
I’m surprised the fuzz didn’t intercept them at the airport and imprison them for subverting the Glorious People’s Medical Service.
I’m always amused when someone like Sargon of Akkad defends the NHS. You aren’t paying for others healthcare, but your own! The notion is that everyone will use healthcare, and of course will use the same amount of it. You could wake up tomorrow and get hit by a bus, die instantly, and never once have used the crap socialized healthcare that you pay for.
These parents get the luxury of paying for everyone else’s and then having to scrounge up funds to travel to another country for their own.
I thought that getting hit by buses caused pregnancy.
You could wake up tomorrow and get hit by a bus, die instantly.
I thought that getting hit by buses caused pregnancy.
Well the little death can lead to pregnancy, so by the transitive property this checks out.
Bullshit, you’re paying for other people’s healthcare, not you own, even with Obamacare. I can afford concierge, so fuck them all. I hope all the dumbshits who voted for Democrats get the shitty care they voted for.
“I can’t wait for the lines once it comes over to the US!”
And the 50% income taxes and 20% VAT to pay for rationed shitty healthcare?
Leap for the wheel – I saw your comment in the Glibfit post. I changed my diet. Went on the keto train in January, and the pounds started falling off. The biggest change is the lack of sugar in my diet. I’ve finally found an artificial sweetener I can stand (stevia), and switched my Cokes (2 – 3 a day) for Xevia sodas.
Keto is pretty miraculous. I’ve been keto for almost 2 years now and I feel way better than before; more energy, better sleep and more clearheaded. Dropped from 210 and 19% body fat to 180 and 13%.
I’m still doing something very low carb, but not keto. You can’t keep that up forever, you’ll get all sorts of ill effects, like digestive problems, low energy, and gout. But for a few months, you can lose a lot of weight. My diet is more like paleo, basically lots of greens, seeds, nuts, veggies, a little fruit and a little meat. So low carb, but not ketosis level low carb. I actually prefer eating that way anyway. Never was a fan of sweets, would rather eat a big dill pickle than a pie.
would rather eat a big dill pickle than a pie
Here we go with the euphemisms again.
You perverts!
No matter how much you try, Swiss’s camel and his official ID are way better mascot for glibertarians.com
We have only one mascot:
I thought he was staff!
Family. Friendly. Website.
Too easy…
I used to eat the hell out of salads with protein (tuna or chicken mostly) and vegetables when I kept my weight down in the Marines and afterwards. I tried to go back to that recently now that I’m a fat bastard, and it gives me the shits something fierce. Anytime I eat a salad now, I’m on the pot for half the day.
You’ll get used to it and it really works.
I’ve read to be careful with powder forms as they can contain other ingredients which can interfere with ketosis. I prefer xylitol, but it can give some people some serious gas/cramps.
Thanks for the warning. I’ll keep an eye on it.
Any of the sugar alcohols (anything ending in “-ol” or “-tol,” basically) can give you cramps, gas and (explosive) diarrhea. Xylitol, sorbitol, mannitol, maltitol, you name it. Take it from someone who’s got well-controlled IBS — sugar alcohols are just bad news. On the other hand, if you suffer from constipation, they can open you up somethin’ fierce, but the results still aren’t pretty (though they can be a relief).
“That’s the shits, man.”
Babylon Bee (greater than sign) Onion
Nice.
It’s all good, he just identifies as a woman for as long as it takes to drop a load then goes back to being a man.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/male-colorado-democrat-has-penchant-for-ladies-bathroom/
Covered this morning, but not an official link.
So the opposite of a no-shit transsexual?
Come as you are, as you were
As I want you to be
As a friend, as a friend
As an known enemy
I like how they cut to the aerial shot so we can see there are only 20 teachers taking part of this. Arizona teachers planning walk-ins as they call for higher pay
West Virginia, Oklahoma, now Arizona.
If that, I counted 10 in the aerial shot.
In sportsball news, the national disabled hockey festival is underway in Chicago. An estimated 1800 players will participate. The first weekend is blind, deaf, special, and warrior hockey. Next weekend is all all sled hockey. We’re the home team this year so I’m super stoked to get out there.
Local Story
Wait. We’re talking NAKED sled hockey, right?
You will have to wait for our annual calendar to see naked sled hockey players.
I think I might have just found the worst person on Twitter. He cusses out teenagers…
https://twitter.com/BartHubbuch/status/982333589646954499
…dislikes the Jews that live in his neighborhood…
https://twitter.com/BartHubbuch/status/982308220176863232
…and…this…
https://twitter.com/BartHubbuch/status/981992493804933122
CdnPatsFan
First link doesn’t work. PHRASING!
Is he one of those pompous NYC progs or something?
Some of those responses are hilarious.
@CdnPatsFan12
3h3 hours ago
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Hopefully people can stomach your food better than they could your writing. #Goodluck?
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Screen grab of the deleted tweet:
https://twitter.com/slominskam/status/982348589341880320
Even that guy’s name screams douchebag.
Seems like no one likes that guy. I wonder why?
On top of everything else, as a Giants fan I can assure you he was a shitty beat writer, too.
No one – and I mean no one – was shittier than Montreal’s Jack Todd. What a waste of pompous space that douchebag was.
How that clown got a sports writing gig is beyond me.
http://5newsonline.com/2018/04/06/oklahoma-senate-approves-to-put-millions-into-classrooms/
Cowards in Oklahoma senate bow to demands from teacher’s union.
Throwing more money at a failing system always works, why stop now?
Teacher’s unions, like many awful things in our society, derive their power from children. This is why is the duty of any true libertarian to be anti-child. A child free world is a freer world.
That’s quite the hot take
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Your avatar goes perfectly with this comment
Children are inefficient. Any society that needs refreshment of labor pool should import adults instead.
Luckily, we still live in a world that appreciates a freshly mined orphan now and then. Orphan Miner Association of America stands strong (*insert eagle crying*)
I would like to subscribe to your fan club.
The twist is that Brochettaward has been Nicole this whole time.
Millions for classrooms diverted to administrators for offices that would make robber barons blush.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/us/politics/bernie-sanders-obama-mississippi.html
Black people all think alike and share a hive mind. When it comes to political diversity, even the gooks disagree more. It’s ok if I say it because that’s what Jeffrey Wright Tweeted and the NYT’s says he’s black.
Sanders: I really thought they DID all love me, watermelon and fried chicken!
“Black people all think alike and share a hive mind.”
According to Democrats, yes.
“Still, the same unvarnished bluntness, lack of polish and unwavering devotion to his tried-and-true message”
Tried amd true my white ass. Tried and failed over and over again.
https://twitter.com/HashtagGriswold/status/982359664112349185
FYI- the NYT opinion page is hot garbage that peddles in libel on a daily basis (unless your name is ‘Kennedy’ or you’re woke af).
The NYT has no more integrity these days than Salon.
Did we discuss here Glen Greenwald’s article about that Pulse club shooting in Orlando? According to all the available evidence, the shooter picked a gay club completely accidentally: it just had less security than other venues. And he was definitely straight.
Don’t think he wrote his own. Just linked to the Huffington Post article.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/noor-salman-pulse-massacre-wrong_us_5ac29ebae4b04646b6454dc2
Everyone’s narrative here was wrong.
I mean, not really. I don’t recall the WSJ or most not exclusively left-wing publications blaming anyone besides ISIS. The NYT and the Huffington Post decided to invent a narrative to blame conservatives without any basis in reality.
There’s a difference between being fair and covering for libel. What this article is doing is trying to rewrite what happened
And this is a pattern for the NYT, which also blamed Palin for the Giffords shooting with no basis in reality.
But, both sides or something
I meant this article.
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/05/as-the-trial-of-omar-mateens-wife-begins-new-evidence-undermines-beliefs-about-the-pulse-massacre-including-motive/
YOU’RE BACK!
For you:
https://handbra-central.tumblr.com/image/168408823858
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ed/fa/59/edfa59047fa808df43503b7b98efec32.jpg
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/bikini_beach_babes_in_animated_gifs_04.gif?w=360&h=243
How long do I have to leave before I get one of those?
This made my day. Thank you, sir
Do any of y’all follow HumanProgress.org on the Tweeters? Their info is fascinating.
yes. I enjoy it.
its part of Cato. but less annoying than the Cato.org tweets, which i finally stopped following because of their endlessly recycling this same article about “Anti-racism”
anyone vigorously asserting their anti-racist bona fides every 3 months is probably a closet-racist
“One of our attorneys is a Jew,”
Spot the Not: David Hogg
1. Love and voting are the only two things that will solve this.
2. If you listen real close you hear the people in power shaking.
3. Sadly, that’s what we have to do with our government; our parents don’t know how to use a fucking democracy, so we have to.
4. When they give us that inch, that bump stock ban, we will take a mile.
5. In a world full of hate and anger the one thing I think we all need is love and a good hug.
6. What if we taxed guns, made a gun registration process for them and had licensing for owners just like cars? We could use that money to help harden soft targets like schools and many other places with bulletproof windows and doors.
I think he looks like a young Mr Mackey. Guns are bad, m’kay.
6, because it would require him thinking people should have guns in the first place.
#4. Too obvious.
It was definitely said, though I can’t remember if he’s the one who said it.
Probably Pelosi
It is 4. One of the other gun-control muppet babies said it.
4.
6.
“Harden soft targets” is classic Nazi, alt-right, Drumpf talk.
Ima say 5 is the not. He’s a vicious, bitter, angry, hateful little person; I just can’t see him saying that.
And its Gauleiter Hogg, comrade.
Hmm. I was wrong. One of his handlers must have fed it to him to try to take some of the nasty petty authoritarian edge off of his presentation.
Guess what? It failed.
#2.
The kid isn’t that introspective.
Keep in mind he’s being fed these lines, not coming up with them himself.
Ah, fair point.
Four’s the not, it was said by one of the girls at a speech during their recent big march.
Which means he must have actually said #5, what a wuss.
4 is the Not. As Q so aptly put it, that is from one of the other gun control muppet babies:
***
Delaney Tarr, a student from Stoneman Douglas High School, said in her speech that everything the marchers were doing was in support of their goal of achieving new gun-control measures.
“All for that assault weapons ban, to keep these weapons of war out of the hands of civilians who do not need them,” she said. “All for the prohibition of high-capacity magazines because no hunter will ever need access to a magazine that can kill 17 in mere minutes.”
Tarr said the activists would take both the big and the small.
“When they give us that inch, that bump-stock ban, we will take a mile,” she said.
Cameron Kasky, another Stoneman Douglas student, reiterated the goal of the protesters: “The people demand a law banning the sale of assault weapons. The people demand we prohibit the sale of high-capacity magazines. The people demand universal background checks. Stand for us or beware the voters are coming.”
***
Friday Night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfZOQPYSSCM
this week’s worst political cartoons
honorable mention
3rd place
2nd place
1st place
This one legit needs labels.
Also, Knight America fighting with a sword instead of M16 or a colt is unacceptable!
And not even a man’s sword. That looks like one of those faggy French swords.
There’s kind of sword designed so that you grip it with your index finger extended. It allows for fine control of the blade.
Well, the very idea of using a foil or rapier with a heater shield is preposterous on its face.
Is that Uncle Sam fighting off the Kochtopus?
Can’t be. There’s no Mexican or ass sex tentacle.
Hm, Mexican Ass Sex Tentacle. Great band name.
I can’t help but ask if you are offended by the Millennial stereotype of snorting condoms and eating laundry detergent?
It’s depressing that so many cartoonists drew the exact same cartoon. Creativity- what’s that?
I don’t know. Was it killed in a mass shooting?
I wonder how much of the stereotyping of millenials as ignorant, woke socialists is correct. I’m a millenial. I’ll admit, I live in a pretty unwoke part of the country, but I don’t see any of this nonsense among my peers. It may just be that I don’t see it because of the company I keep, but I really don’t think think there is much of it. At least not here.
Speaking as a person of color……
Okay, enough of that. Best way to not be treated like a stereotype is to simply not act like one.
I find people who are walking stereotypes interesting. I mean, are they not self aware or are they actively cultivating that image? I’d ask, but I’m socially awkward.
I am aware that I possess a larger than average penis.
HM weighing in for an MMA fight.
https://www.bdaradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/David-Allen-David-Howe-Penis-Weigh-in.jpg
Dude looks like the Kool-Aid Man with a human torso coming out of his head.
That’s a myth. I had gym with a
blackHM guy.I thought you were white-hispanic and thus not of color.
I would guess that most of the woke socialists are isolated but extremely pervasive in places like academia, the media and Hollywood. Since those groups can make quite a racket you hear about them all the time, but I don’t think the average person is THAT concerned with it.
It’s a grand tradition for older folks to trash the yoots. I was stereotyped as a nihilistic, cynical, Kurt Cobain wannabe, flannel-wearing slacker.
I think it’s a case of a very visible minority and media doing what media loves to do. I’ve met some stereotypical millenials, but most I know are about the same as anyone else. Same with hipsters, if I’m being honest. I love to talk shit but most of the hipsters I interact with are very nice people who just happen to like thick glasses they may not need.
It’s this years’ “Kids these days.” I once saw a list of quotes about how stupid the young were, and not just stupid like kids always are, this time it’s different! It starting with a recent one and ending with Plato, they all said the same thing. I wish I had saved a copy of it.
I think its regional and/or class related. I suspect millenials from flyover country and/or from families that aren’t in the professional class are less likely to be woke idiots.
I find it depressing when I go by the U of A campus and see how many young men present as feminized, though (feminine gestures, skinny jeans, etc.). To me, that’s the look of a young man who has been beaten into submission by a system that hates men and does everything it can to de-masculinize them and make them submissive to women.
I blame all the Pink Pirates they drink.
Low blow, HM. And not the good kind, either.
My theory is that traditional masculinity is associated with the right, so leftwing men make a show of hating things like sports, cars, guns, meat, etc.
http://5newsonline.com/2018/04/05/one-of-the-worst-dui-offenders-in-the-country-arrested-again-police-say/
We’ve got a real winner here.
“When officers arrived, they saw an open bottle of Crown Royal in the front passenger seat.”
Canuckistani ‘whiskey’?
She’s a monster.
Kentucky > Canada > Scotland
Don’t @ me.
Kentucky = Ireland > Canada > Scotland.
I’m a redbreast guy for Irish, but Jameson black barrel is pretty darn good.
You people hating on Scotch are Philistines.
Not a big fan of drinking dirt.
It really grinds my gears when people pretentiously pronounce foreign place names, in particular, with a foreign accent.
I was of course immediately reminded of the scene in Kelly’s Heroes where Carroll O’Connor yells at his attache (or whoever it was) about the pronunciation of “Clermont”.
-and-
“Well, get the ionosphere the hell off the air.”
I love the song in that movie. I’ve burned a lot of bridges and pissed in the ashes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgeIINs1TrQ
“When officers arrived, they saw an open bottle of Crown Royal in the front passenger seat.”
Was it securely buckled in?
When I fill the growler at the local brewpub, I actually do buckle it into the front seat.
It’s this years’ “Kids these days.” I once saw a list of quotes about how stupid the young were, and not just stupid like kids always are, this time it’s different! It starting with a recent one and ending with Plato, they all said the same thing. I wish I had saved a copy of it.
Don’t forget Mark Twain; his (covering the obverse side of the coin) goes, more or less:
“When I was fifteen, I thought my old man was just about the dumbest thing on Earth. It’s amazing how much smarter he’s gotten in the last fifteen years.”
Anyone younger than me is incompetent; anyone older than me is stupid. This is equally true no matter who says it at any age.
“It’s awful being a kid, no one listens to you.” – Lisa Simpson
“It’s rotten being old, no one listens to you.” – Abe “Grampa” Simpson
“I’m a white male, age 18-49, everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.” – Homer Simpson.
So, probably the worst place to ask for this, but I’m anti-social, so I don’t have anyone else to turn to for life advice. I’ve been thinking recently about what am I doing with my life. I know I’ve let myself get too comfortable in my current job and have been trying to think about what I should do. Recently, my brother decided he’s going to go into the National Guard. I just had a little chat with him, and he was recommending that if I want to go down that kind of route, I should try the Air National Guard. Any advice from former/current military people here on that one? Would that be a good choice for potentially getting skills that translate to the private sector, or maybe even as a lifelong career?
The army’s worked out pretty well for me so far. Check out the jobs that are available and talk with people who’ve done them. The info you find online is generally legit.
There many jobs with large bonuses. Plus there’s a kickass song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT2nkaBrgsc
+1 Nuts and Gum
Totally Gilmored.
More kickass.
Fun fact: US Navy pants have 14 buttons. They really don’t want the sailors to take off their pants for some reason.
Ain’t Ready to be Marines Yet
Seriously, though, the Marine Corps is awful if you don’t want to make it the end all/be all of your life. For half of my enlistment, it was and I loved it. For the other half, it wasn’t and I couldn’t wait to get the hell out.
What are your interests? What are you looking to get out of this? Also, maybe it’s just me but I wouldn’t want to be Guard/reserves. When you get deployed from active duty, it’s your life so it’s no big deal. When you’re in the Guard, you’re leaving the rest of your “real” life behind. In Uzbekistan, our detachment was the only active-duty unit on base and we all seemed much happier then the reservists around us.
If you have a college degree, you can come into the Army as an E4. The other branches don’t allow that. If you do the OCS route, you’ll be an officer within 6 months of joining (note: getting into OCS is hard).
Interests? Well, that’s part of my problem. I don’t really have any. I’m looking to get a job/career that I can support myself from. As for leaving my real life behind, I’ve got no problem with that, since I don’t really have one.
Did my 22 and left at 39. Went the OCS route. Been out now 41 years. I don’t think I’d enjoy today’s army, the seemingly endless Middle East tours. The skills I picked up as an EM (Electronics) were lost by the time I retired. Overcome by technology. I spent a lot of time overseas, mostly in Europe. Couple tours in Viet Nam. I was glad to leave, my kids were young teenagers and I wanted to give them some stability. The Army had become a social experiment with Project 100K and the beginning attempts at female integration. It was a challenge for old NCOs and officers. I must say, though, I had a lot of good times, made a lot of friends that I still am in communication with on a daily basis. Unfortunately, the calendar has caught to many of them.
Your tax dollars at work.
Open the pod bay door, HAL.
The film features technology experts such as Google Brain founder Andrew Ng, Affectiva chief executive Rana el Kaliouby, Osaka University professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, OpenAI director Shivon Zilis and “Westworld” co-creator Jonathan Nolan. Artificial intelligence already helps us live longer and enhance efficiency in numerous industries, but these experts argue that humans are already losing their grip on the technology, giving it power and abilities that humanity may never be able to reclaim.
“The pattern here is that AI might take a little while to wrap its tentacles around a new skill, but when it does it is unstoppable,” the film’s trailer warns.
In recent years, Musk’s warnings about the risks posed by AI have grown increasingly strident — drawing pushback last year from Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, who called Musk’s dark predictions “pretty irresponsible.” Responding to Zuckerberg, Musk said his fellow tech billionaire’s understanding of the threat posed by artificial intelligence “is limited.”
This is about as dumb as that thing in Teen Vogue about how AI is racist and misogynist oppression.
Anybody who is worried about computers taking over has clearly never used Windows.
First pitch in 45 minutes
Blaine Knight vs. Casey Mize. Two of the best in the country.
If they were that good they’d be in the majors.
On this day in History
I’m actually off by a day, but I missed my chance yesterday, so what the hell.
larf!
Trump deploys National Guard on US-Mexico border to masturbate, eat MREs
https://www.duffelblog.com/2018/04/trump-deploys-national-guard-us-mexico-border-masturbate-eat-mres/
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At press time, a number of first sergeants were seen telling their younger troops about the days “back in ’06” when they had to eat older MREs and weren’t allowed to masturbate unless they had a battle buddy.
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I thought Duffel Blog was satire. Looks like up a straight up news article, except for failing to mention the forthcoming service awards for said MRE eating and masturbating.
http://www.mreinfo.com/mres/mre-menus/mre-menus-2016/
Menu 23
Chicken Pesto Pasta
Filled Bakery Item
Patriotic Sugar Cookies, Trans Fat Free
Cheddar Cheese Spread
Snack Bread, Trans Fat Free
Carbohydrate Electrolyte Beverage Powder
Hmm. My favorite was the tuna one.
Menu 21
Lemon Pepper Tuna
Pound Cake, Trans Fat Free
Chocolate Peanut Butter
Tortillas, Trans Fat Free
Snack Food
Carbohydrate Fortified Beverage Powder
Fat Free Mayo
If tuna is the chicken of the sea, then surely shrimp is the bacon of the sea.
No more jambalaya? Sacrilege.
Whatever happened to Ham and Lima Beans? Oh yeah, that was C-Rats. The menu looks a little different today.
Loved the B-1 and B-3 rations with the John Wayne Silver Dollars or Chocolate with Toffee. Plus both had my favorite of “green eggs with spam”. B-2s sucked except for the beanie wienies. I spent time as a company XO and still have a container full of P-38’s.
I had the same P-38 on my dog tags for over thirty years. (Still there in fact.) The younger troops wondered what the hell it was while I was in Iraq.
I’d forgotten about those little tools. Everyone had their own. I’m guessing MREs don’t require anything other than water and heat if necessary or desired?
The Stryker combat vehicle is named after this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_S._Stryker
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Stryker’s official Medal of Honor citation reads:
He was a platoon runner, when the unit assembled near Wesel, Germany after a descent east of the Rhine. Attacking along a railroad, Company E reached a point about 250 yards from a large building used as an enemy headquarters and manned by a powerful force of Germans with rifles, machineguns, and 4 field pieces. One platoon made a frontal assault but was pinned down by intense fire from the house after advancing only 50 yards. So badly stricken that it could not return the raking fire, the platoon was at the mercy of German machine gunners when PFC. Stryker voluntarily left a place of comparative safety, and, armed with a carbine, ran to the head of the unit. In full view of the enemy and under constant fire, he exhorted the men to get to their feet and follow him. Inspired by his fearlessness, they rushed after him in a desperate charge through an increased hail of bullets. Twenty-five yards from the objective the heroic soldier was killed by the enemy fusillades. His gallant and wholly voluntary action in the face of overwhelming firepower, however, so encouraged his comrades and diverted the enemy’s attention that other elements of the company were able to surround the house, capturing more than 200 hostile soldiers and much equipment, besides freeing 3 members of an American bomber crew held prisoner there. The intrepidity and unhesitating self-sacrifice of PFC. Stryker were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service.
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Huh. There appears to be some testosterone leaking out of my eyes.
Not Ted Striker?
Shirley you can’t be serious.
News from the “things which should be totally obvious to the most casual observer” desk
In recent years, Joe Frost, Sweeney’s old partner in the safety crusade, has become concerned that maybe we have gone too far. In a 2006 paper, he gives the example of two parents who sued when their child fell over a stump in a small redwood forest that was part of a playground. They had a basis for the lawsuit. After all, the latest safety handbook advises designers to “look out for tripping hazards, like exposed concrete footings, tree stumps, and rocks.” But adults have come to the mistaken view “that children must somehow be sheltered from all risks of injury,” Frost writes. “In the real world, life is filled with risks—financial, physical, emotional, social—and reasonable risks are essential for children’s healthy development.”
At the core of the safety obsession is a view of children that is the exact opposite of Lady Allen’s, “an idea that children are too fragile or unintelligent to assess the risk of any given situation,” argues Tim Gill, the author of No Fear, a critique of our risk-averse society. “Now our working assumption is that children cannot be trusted to find their way around tricky physical or social and emotional situations.”
What’s lost amid all this protection? In the mid-1990s, Norway passed a law that required playgrounds to meet certain safety standards. Ellen Sandseter, a professor of early-childhood education at Queen Maud University College in Trondheim, had just had her first child, and she watched as one by one the playgrounds in her neighborhood were transformed into sterile, boring places. Sandseter had written her master’s dissertation on young teens and their need for sensation and risk; she’d noticed that if they couldn’t feed that desire in some socially acceptable way, some would turn to more-reckless behavior. She wondered whether a similar dynamic might take hold among younger kids as playgrounds started to become safer and less interesting.
Children NEED stimulation? NEED to experience risk and adventure? Modern coddling and helicoptering has an adverse effect on development?
The world is filled with surprises.
Risk and managing risk is a vital part of growing into adulthood. I learned how to rock climb as a teen and was going to Yosemite for a month with only a single friend while still in high school. (24 hour bus ride from AZ) When you literally are responsible for saving your friend’s life with your hands, and he yours, you tend to get to a point where BS coddling does not sit well with you.
I’d say OT but since there isn’t really a T…
Glibs who’ve bought Far Cry 5 for PC: I got paid and did the budget, so now I’ve got some money responsibly allocated to spend on gewgaws and nonsense. I’ve got that feeling I get where I know I’m going to buy a game even though I’ve got new games I haven’t even played yet and am playing games that I’m not sick of yet, but I’d like to justify my lack of impulse control. Is Far Cry 5 worth buying at full or near-full price?
A thoroughly under-rated action movie featuring Kurt Russell AND Gary Busey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU99J6VRwgE
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Kurt Russell spoke only 104 words in the entire movie despite being in 85% of the scenes.
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It’s the ultimate dumb shoot em up movie.
It’s the ultimate dumb shoot em up movie.
I liked it. Every time I watched it.