I second this. I will bring the flintlock case, tin of snuff, and velveteen hankies. A Wise man knows they are #6.
CPRM
diego
Gadfly
Cheetos.
Or knock-off cheetos, if you must settle.
juris imprudent
This is correct. Only time I eat them is on a road trip. Wife refers to them as “orange fingers” – which these days has unfortunate connotations. Sad.
Larry Joe
Cheetos-brand snack, while similarly colored (and thus, flavored), are much denser and crunchier.
Rhywun
Yeah, I remember those being slightly more tolerable than the poofier ones. Just barely.
Gustave Lytton
That would be Crunchy Cheetos. Cheetos Puffs are the ones above.
CPRM
diego
F. Stupidity Jr.
You’ve said it three times, but he’s already here.
DiegoF
Is it that Scarecrow dude? I am hoping so, because he and Groovus were the only two commenters who ever got openly pissed off at me, during the very end and very beginning respectively of my time on TOS; whereas both seem to be quite popular and beloved by everyone else so I presume it was me. This would be sweet vindication.
DiegoF
Damn it! Reposted below. Wanted that to be some sort of quip but now it’s ruined by my stupidity.
CPRM
He let slip he was using ctrl+f to know where to post, so I was throwing him off, and it worked!
DiegoF
Your game was not subtle! Your quarry was simply not clever. So I think Stupidity Jr. might have figured as much; he was just joking about the futility of your apparent attempt to summon me, like an urban legend.
CPRM
Meh, I was dividing my time between this, writing the next cartoon and talking to woman, so whatever.
DiegoF
You write them? I thought SF wrote them and you just animated them.
CPRM
I write them, based on characters create by SF.
Pope Jimbo
I’m late to the party, but yes the correct name for these is Cheetos.
Borsby4187
Cheese puffs.
Web Dominatrix
Thank you! The first correct answer.
Tulip
2 or 6 depending on what region of the U.S. you are in. If they call soda pop, pop, they are cheese puffs. If they call it soda, they are cheese doodles.
Rhywun
Hmmm. *taps index fingers together*
I am from pop territory and those are cheese puffs.
That should have been their tag line. They make great stuff in general. Love the Amish snack food capital of the world Hanover PA.
Web Dominatrix
Snyder chips from Hanover are one of my favourite brands. Never saw Bachman before.
DiegoF
They are probably the best mass-market pretzels I know of. And their selection is excellent. These are some of my very favorite though, but I don’t think they can be properly compared.
Heroic Mulatto
Apropos of nothing, I’m very happy. About 30 minutes ago, I learned that if you know what to look for, a fairly well-known website outs a former TOS and Glibs commenter as an enormous piece of shit.
Waterfall Insurance
I’m running through the list of know banned or deserters… ?
Tulip
I need a better hint.
Heroic Mulatto
I’m going to let folks find out on their own.
juris imprudent
Not worth it.
Juan-Baptiste Emmanuel Seguin
Former? So it’s not me this time….I’m thinking John
There’s a famous person with that name, although I’d doubt it was the commenter here.
Rhywun
Yeah, it came to me while I was making supper and yeah, all you get from a search is that dead rich guy.
Scruffy Nerfherder
His articles are still out there from March of 2016.
F. Stupidity Jr.
ArticleS? I only found the one.
Tulip
That’s my guess
Rhywun
Yeah, I can only think of one contender, and that person is still at TOS under a (slightly) different name.
Oh wait, I just thought of another contender. Still at TOS with the same name. And published a while back at a major site if memory serves.
Homple
Hitler?
Heroic Mulatto
Former.
As far as I know, sloopy still posts here.
Homple
Heh.
Florida Man
Why does well known need a hyphen? We need a new, simplified language. Number one on the chopping block is silent letters. I says nife, dang it!
I watched the video waiting for it to get weird or jump scare me, but all it did was educate me, you monster.
SP
Sure, you’re just trying to trick people into clicking to share the horror to which you were exposed.
Florida Man
*Smiles coyly*
DiegoF
Go for the Middle English to study that shit; it’s more enlightening. Post Norman, so it’s nearly comprehensible (more written than spoken, for the reason you give) if you take a bit of time. And lots of great literature, like Chaucer.
So what? Alfred the Great sometimes used a TelePrompTer. It doesn’t make him stupid–much less secretly born in Northumbria or a militant Adoptationist–whatever racist Mercian efforts to bring him down might be insinuating.
Florida Man
Don’t you get it. SOMEONE is feeding him the answers. He’s a puppet. WAKE UP, MAN!
DiegoF
Oh certainly it is; we’re talking not just true “native” ones but the Danish, which actually has a bigger portion of the vocabulary word for word. It’s just that when you once the Old French infusion in addition, you’ve basically got damn near the complete language so a layman can comfortably study smoothly through entire texts, rather than simply appreciating the phenomenon on a more abstract, word for word basis. Similar stuff relating to grammar, which is actually more important–it’s pretty damn near modern in Middle E. How cool to know you can actually start studying original medieval texts just with the knowledge you have!
Heroic Mulatto
In this case, I was referring more to phonology, which I find cooler than ME. ME just sounds like you’re from rural Lincolnshire and Amish.
I agree but I still don’t know “what to look for” ?
Gustave Lytton
He kind of outed himself as a giant douche in that Twitter exchange with popehat a couple weeks ago.
ruodberht
So I want to bookmark this to come back to it because it’s a mystery. John Kluge is already a known quantity and not an enormous piece of shit, so this couldn’t be the reference. Who, then? Bo? Hm.
gbob
Cheese puffs. What sort of monster would say otherwise?
Web Dominatrix
I knew I liked you.
Grumbletarian
I call them disgusting.
Tulip
I ate them as a kid and had an inexplicable craving for them about a year ago. I ate 3 and threw the rest away.
DiegoF
They are fucking gross. I never understood the appeal. When I was little there was actually a brand where the corn curls were available plain without the fake cheese. Still fucking gross. I’d literally rather eat the biodegrad corn packing peanuts; I tried one once as a kid and its faint popcorn taste was actually far less unappetizing than any of the other shit.
My kid says it’s cheese puffs. Who am I to disagree?
Heroic Mulatto
A parent who should raise their offspring in the light and not allow them to fall into darkness.
Web Dominatrix
Clearly a genius you are raising.
Waterfall Insurance
2. 6 is the only alternative that doesn’t receive a narrowed gaze.
Florida Man
2 or 6.
Timeloose
I remember these having more MSG than cheese on them. Especially the planters cheese balls in the tin.
Spudalicious
Cheese puffs. All other answers are wrong.
Heroic Mulatto
Pistols. At dawn.
SP
Oh…. bad weapon choice, HM.
Florida Man
Ugh…dawn? It’s so early. Can you just kill me now?
Scruffy Nerfherder
I’ve got an AR-15, my faster bullet guarantees a win for me.
Heroic Mulatto
That’s not cricket.
You are a scoundrel and a rogue.
Scruffy Nerfherder
*blushes*
Stop it, you’re embarrassing me.
Spudalicious
Sure. Pistols. I should’ve able to get the job done with 16 rounds. Or we settle this with pancakes and a side of ham, and an Irish Coffee.
Spudalicious
*Should be*
The lack of a editing feature…grrrr…
Old Man With Candy
All you need to do is call for the Edit Fairy.
Web Dominatrix
What is this “dawn” thing of which you speak?
SP
I called them cheese doodles, but puffs is also acceptable. My Mom, from Rochester NY, called them Cheezies, which is apparently a Canadian brand name.
We called soda pop, pop. When I went to university in the middle Mid-Atlantic, I learned to say soda.
Rhywun
Huh I’m from Rochester and I’ve never heard that. Then again we weren’t buying fancy schmantzy Canadian snacks.
SP
Well, you also aren’t in your 80s.
Or ARE you?
/peers intently at Rhywun looking for age spots and wrinkles
Rhywun
I turned 49 on tax day *sob*
Web Dominatrix
All this talk about Rochester is making me want some Abbott’s.
CPRM
And here I thought getting a reply from you was an accomplishment; and you go and dilute your equity.
SP
Happy birthday?
Suthenboy
Around here soda is called ‘coke’.
“I am going in the store. Do you want a coke?”
“Yes, please”
“What kind?”
“Seven-up, please.”
F. Stupidity Jr.
Same here, across the Sabine River.
Suthenboy
Where are you? Grant Parish here, half hour out of Colfax in the woods on the Darrow.
F. Stupidity Jr.
Oh, far from you. Two hours SW of Houston in Victoria. I just meant that here we also say coke as a catch-all.
Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
in Victoria
I envy you. Not because of Victoria (natch), but because of your proximity to Port A.
Web Dominatrix
Yes! I hear that a lot too.
Waitress: “What do you wanna drink?”
Me: “A coke, please.”
Waitress: “Sure, what kind?”
Me: “Coke.”
MikeS
We called soda pop, pop. When I went to university in the middle Mid-Atlantic, I learned was brainwashed to say soda.
Suthenboy
“What are these called?”
A shopping trip for larger clothes?
I refuse to allow those things in my house. I munch one of them and I turn into the cookie monster. They completely destroy my free will.
trshmnstr
I worked with cookie monster. I served with cookie monster. Cookie monster was my friend. You, sir, are no cookie monster.
DiegoF
That’s disgusting. Couldn’t you have a normal, less unhealthy, less trashy vice like bath salts?
Suthenboy
My wife, light of my life, has made me a changed man. We dont have carby food in the house. Ever. I am getting old and less active so if not for her I would blow up like a whale.
DiegoF
Good for her! Keep active though. It’s the most important additional thing you can do for every aspect of your life quality long term. Start lifting if you don’t already, for one thing–it’s actually safer, less intimidating, and more important and an all around better place to start than jogging or something like that.
Suthenboy
Hiking, tree planting, swinging a machete, axe, chainsaw. The trouble is I am old and slowing down.
DiegoF
Ah, I see. I thought what was going on was you were not fighting the fight, as most people who report “I am becoming less active” are actually suffering from. Keep it up! There’s never been a more worthwhile fight you are destined to lose.
Spudalicious
I’ve been fortunate to wean myself off processed crap like this. I do admit to the occasional bag of chips but they are few and far between. Very little processed food in our pantry.
Old Man With Candy
Spoofulated wine, though.
Web Dominatrix
I can’t remember the last time I had these.
I purposely do not buy junk food.
wchipperdove
Who, besides Eric Cartman, calls them Cheesy Poofs?
Rhywun
Probably every little kid who grew up watching South Park.
DiegoF
Does anyone know any person, not hospitalized, who actually consumes those weight gain powder milkshakes? I can’t believe they would be anywhere near as tasty as making a real milkshake yourself, which should be just as effective.
Rhywun
Lots of guys looking to “bulk up”. I’ve known a few.
Tundra
Bad carbs.
Scruffy Nerfherder
Cheeeeeeeeeeese puffs
Suthenboy
HM – “About 30 minutes ago, I learned that if you know what to look for, a fairly well-known website outs a former TOS and Glibs commenter as an enormous piece of shit.”
That doesnt really narrow things down very much. I cant think of anyone around here regularly now who would qualify but in the past there have been so many.
I dont see anything there that qualifies him as a piece of shit. I mostly agree with it, of course I just scanned it. John can definitely get on nerves but he is right more than he is wrong, or mostly right more than he is wrong. blow all of the vitriol away and the guy makes decent points. Am I missing something?
F. Stupidity Jr.
Well, that’s the only thing I’ve ever found, although someone linked to a Twitter spat he got into a couple months back. But HM’s got the goods, and he ain’t talkin’.
Heroic Mulatto
Am I missing something?
No. Ok, ok…I’ll just say it’s not John.
Rhywun
zOMG
Jarflax
wait have they discovered proof that Tulpa is Hitler?
Rhywun
I saw Tulpa at TOS earlier today.
Rhywun
You’re missing HM’s hint that some new piece somewhere casts someone (unspecified) in a sinister light.
DiegoF
Who is John Kluge that he gets to write essays in major American newspapers? Especially since his brand of red-blooded American conservatism (or at least former conservatism) is almost diametrically opposed, apart from Trump support, to the Post’s?
Also missed the part where he looked like a massive piece of shit. Might be there, but if so I did miss it.
Also half assed google searching only shows this John Kluge as a guest contributor to this site, not a commenter. Who is John Kluge?
Rhywun
I’m not sure the NYPost has a terribly consistent POV other than “not left”. That article is not out of place there at all.
DiegoF
Off the top of my head, it slams hawkishness, pro-life, bans on recreational drugs, and the ADA. The Post might be nobody’s idea of ideological, but they do a pretty damn good job of appealing to the sentiments of our special native breed of Joe Outer-Borough Republican. And this just seems like too damn many things destined to piss him off. Kluge might as well have slammed zoning laws while he was at it.
Floridaman
Who is John Kluge?
I believe he’s the guy who founded that hidden objectivist enclave in Rand Paul’s book Prometheus skipped.
Gilmore
“”Given this history, the conservative media’s claims that the Republican Party must reject Donald Trump because he is not a “conservative” are pathetic and ridiculous to those of us who are old enough to remember the last 25 years.””
Well, he’s not wrong on that.
“Conservatism has become a dog’s breakfast of Wilsonian internationalism brought over from the Democratic Party after the New Left took it over, coupled with fanatical libertarian economics and religiously driven positions on various culture war issues.””
meh, i think he’s wrong on that.
And (buffs knuckles on blazer) i think he only knows the expression “Wilsonian internationalism” from (barely) listening to me a few times. Because the way he uses it here… i don’t think he even knows what it means. I think i know what HE thinks it means.
“The [conservatism] I grew up with and thought was reflective of the movement….believed in the free market and capitalism but did not fetishize them the way so many libertarians do.
This strain understood that a situation where every country in the world but the US acts in its own interests on matters of international trade and engages in all kinds of skulduggery in support of their interests is not free trade by any rational definition. This strain understood that a government’s first loyalty was to its citizens and the national interest.”
he seems to be saying, “Yeah, free trade is nice, but no one really does it, so….its naive to blindly support it”. Not sure how that leads to Trumpian tariff-bluster making any fucking sense at all, but whatever.
I suppose its asking too much for him to be super-coherent. But he has some good moments in there.
DiegoF
What does “out” mean? Doxx? How does it expose him as a piece of shit? And how does it know about such a person? People who have been busting their ass making YouTube videos would kill for that kind of attention.
Heroic Mulatto
How does it expose him as a piece of shit?
A history of honest-to-goodness racial bigotry and antisemitism.
DiegoF
Wait, if this is the Post article we’ve just identified, how does it expose any such history of this “John Kluge”? And how would they allow such a person to contribute anyway? The Post‘s core readership is grumpy old Archie Bunker Jews in Sheepshead Bay.
Heroic Mulatto
It isn’t. John is not the droid you are looking for.
MikeS
Is there a reason we can’t just get the answer? I hate guessing games.
Heroic Mulatto
I really don’t want to hear the whining and apologia from those who “won’t believe it.” Let them find out on their own.
trshmnstr
Who has left but would still have a contingent of supporters? Not Eddie, not FS, not Tony.
That makes me think Eddie. While I won’t accept the term “apologist,” I did -and have- stuck up for him immediately pre-breakdown. A few other have as well.
trshmnstr
As far as I know, HM said nothing about being banned.
MikeS
Would Ken get any “whining and apologia?”
Jarflax
Yeah he just said ‘former’
trshmnstr
I doubt half the Admins would get whining and apologia if the record is as clear as HM makes it sound.
Rhywun
That makes me think Eddie.
I’ve gotten his nasty side before. And that is rare for me. I’m totally harmless.
And he’s posting at TOS under a different name now so I’m guessing he got under their skin too.
Not Adahn
I never saw racism or antisemitism from Eddie, if that makes me an apologist.
Homophobia on the other hand…
Old Man With Candy
Not Eddie.
Heroic Mulatto
if the record is as clear as HM makes it sound.
Ay, there’s the rub! Is anything clear in this age of internet super-meta-irony?
Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
Ay, there’s the rub!
This ain’t Thicc Thursday, dammit!
Suthenboy
First two that pop in my head are Tony and shreek.
Not Adahn
Has Tony ever ventured here?
trshmnstr
I didn’t think so. His identity is an open secret, so maybe he did flit over here at the beginning.
MikeS
Didn’t Tony stop over early on and get booted pretty quick? Maybe it was someone else.
I didn’t think he did, unless there was a handle change along the way. He disappeared pretty quick from TOS after Playa managed to wind him up, more or less, to saying whatever it was he said.
Playa Manhattan
Wait…. what did I do?
CPRM
apparently you made Irish racist.
trshmnstr
It essentially narrows it down to Eddie and John. I can’t think of any other “former” Glibs commenters.
I doubt Eddie has some expose written about him, so it’s John.
DiegoF
Wasn’t there the one, more popular among us plebs than even John who was more controversial (not “controversial” in the old school sense meaning gay although I certainly like the pun!), who got along with everyone and guest contributed a series of very high-quality historical posts that he never got to finish because he had a feud with you people whose nature was never clear to us but included an intellectual property side dispute, changed his handle a few times, and got banned? I don’t remember his name.
Rhywun
Wasn’t that Eddie?
trshmnstr
I didn’t think Eddie was actually banned. I thought he left on his own. His book on the Civil War was pretty good. It was dense, so I read it in spurts.
Heroic Mulatto
Yes, he left on his own.
Jarflax
Eddie committed what I believe used to be called a Rule 5 violation on Snopes. Basically griped and cried that he was leaving for about a day trying to get people to beg him to stay. But I believe he was eventually banned. I started out on his side thinking the site was over reacting, but after two or three rounds of increasingly strident and insulting tirades it became clear that he had lost it, and at the end of the day we are all here on sufferance.
The Buckeye The Alpenserf Pedobear and SP let us play in their pool (or in my case did till I coined those names), they can kick us out if we pee in it.
There was a lead-up to the whining and crying that wasn’t on him. But yes, he lost his mind and deserved to get banned.
Not Adahn
I honestly do think he had some kind of episode. Before the bruhaha he just went off on Trump in a completely not-Good-Lithuanian Catholic Boy way.
Jarflax
When I click HM links there is an implied contract!! I expect bouncing backsides, or at least utterly incomprehensible evidence that everything east of suez was settled by aliens.
I thought of him but didn’t realize he started over at Reason.
trshmnstr
I remember him from over there because his humor always rubbed me funny. It was always toeing the line between ribbing and actual malice. Reminded me of those bullies who would threaten a kid and then crack a smile and say they were just joking.
MikeS
Yeah. He and I got into a small skirmish earlier in the day he left. I (as a fig leaf for the “fight”) asked him to not leave and said he was an alright guy. After reading comments from “veterans” I apparently missed something and wish I hadn’t done that.
And I mean I honestly missed it…I’m not doubting anyone’s poor opinion of him.
Not Adahn
Why do I suddenly feel this is a trap? I have no idea howHM would use “who do the glibs think is an anti-semite?” against us, but he can.
Rhywun
Not it!
DiegoF
Is it Zenome Project? He is the only anti-Israel Glib commenter I know of.
Another refreshing surprise for me btw. Glibs is supposed to be a paleo schism, so this place is supposed to be a cesspool of racist foilhattery–maybe throw in some weird alternative medicine sympathy here and there or something. Essentially, the last frontier stop on the libertarian-to-alt-right pipeline. (Neoreactionarism is the border checkpoint.)
DiegoF
Bah! Reposted down below. Why does this keep happening?
I don’t believe Zenome was on TOS, and a) I never noticed him as anti-Israel, and b) anti-Israel is not necessarily antisemitism. Particularly in this case, when it is all focused around a “weird” preoccupation with Harvey Weinstein.
CPRM
a “weird” preoccupation with Harvey Weinstein.
I’m still here, so you can’t be talking about me.
Not Adahn
“weird” preoccupation with Harvey Weinstein.
SUGARFREE GOT BANNED!!!???!?!??!?
CPRM
Hey, I’m the one who wrote the weinstein story, sugarfree just posted it! Let me have my bigotry!
Not Adahn
Mea culpa.
Though to be completely honest, before you revealed who it was, I thought “Ted” was Ted Turner. It seemed to fit initially.
What does this offer over 40 grain frangible .223? And I’m skeptical of its penetration ability, given the low sectional density and high velocity.
Suthenboy
It offers +210 grains and a 1/4″ hollow point. It looks like it offers low penetration / high energy dump in the target. Devestation.
Spudalicious
Damn. I shoot “high velocity” duck loads that are 1625fps. 3,000 sounds very painful to my shoulder. And with arthritis, I wouldn’t be able to use my hand for a week if I was shooting from the hip.
Old Man With Candy
Arthritis? Wait, you got promoted from gout?
Spudalicious
Both. Heredity sucks.
Jarflax
You’ll be cleaning blood and bile off the rafters!
Suthenboy
It looks like a nylon slug with a metal insert of some kind designed for low penetration. 250 grains at 3000 fps with low penetration is 338 win mag energy. At close range that looks like a good way to make human soup.
Spudalicious
Blood is one thing but you’re looking at bowel stew with these things.
If they come out with 20ga, I’m all over it.
Gilmore
“Cheese Puffs” is a genus within the “totally no-cheese-involved cheese snack” phylum
(in which Cheetos, the dominant species in its family also resides)
“Cheeze doodles” is one species of Cheese Puff.
there are others in the Puff genus. some of which are ‘doodle’ shaped, and some of which are Ballified Ball-shaped puffs are a decidedly-inferior species for any purpose other than food fights.
7. Cheetos. It’s like “Kleenex”, it’s a brand that’s become generic.
Derpetologist
In the immortal words of Eric Cartman:
I love cheesy poofs, you love cheesy poofs, if we didn’t eat cheesy poofs, we’d be lame!
I always called them cheese puffs or cheese doodles.
In other news, I ran 2 miles in 14:06 today. A new personal best.
I’d to see the source implied by HM. The suspense is too much.
Derpetologist
I learned today that TOS has dispensed with the AM and PM links. The most comments I saw on a post was 160.
Sad.
On the other hand, the Heaton comedy videos are great. I may start donating again.
Stinky Wizzleteats
No more links? That is sad, I was rooting for them to pull their heads out of their asses and do better.
MikeS
On the other hand, the Heaton comedy videos are great. I may start donating again.
Honestly? Just because they put some funny videos up, that’s enough to undo all the rest?
Disclosure; I haven’t watched the videos. Maybe they are the funniest thing ever.
Rhywun
I don’t do videos in general, unless it’s music I think I might like. Comedy bits? Nope, couldn’t care less.
Anyway they do a morning “Roundup” now with some medium-sized hot-takes plus some links. And it’s ENB every day.
Suthenboy
If I have money to donate it’s going to glibertarian degenerates.I am not going to donate so that fruit-sushi can learn to change a tire without breaking a nail.
Lachowsky
There has to be a market opportunity for the fruit sushi crowd.
“Honest lachowsky’s how to change a tire instructional program” has a nice ring to it.
Jarflax
1. You need enough arm strength to break a lug nut free.
2. I have never changed a tire without getting tire soot on my hands which would make fruit sushi so upset he couldn’t equivocate
3. Tires are changed out in the elements, which absolutely destroys his hairness.
Pro-tip: high impulse stomping of the wrench handle is much easier than loosening lug nuts by arm.
Jarflax
Do you know what that would do to his shoes?
CPRM
Pro-pro-tip:use an impact wrench on all of your plumbing supplies.
DiegoF
My impression is you are not a real man unless you can change a tire wearing a suit. Kind of like being a black man and eating barbecue. (Except in that case it needs to be a white suit. Also needless to say this works only in NYC; our provincial asses–of any color–continually and comically fail to appreciate that two-thirds of the things we consider “black” wouldn’t be considered racially coded at all in the South.)
DiegoF
Who would you keep if the Kochs installed you tomorrow? By my count: Tucille, Stossel, Volokh, Sullum, Skenazy (prog who’s better in her lane than most “libertarians”), Bagge’s cartoons, that dude who writes about food, the various video comedians. I think there was another guy who wrote a fairly long piece a couple weeks ago, i think after a bit of an absence, that was uniformly praised by the H&Rers.
Heroic Mulatto
No, Skenazy must be exiled.
DiegoF
What’s wrong with her? Doesn’t a normal magazine host an ideological “foreigner” or two as well? She’s an open prog; doesn’t ever pretend to be a libertarian which is rather rare nowadays and certainly better than a lot of Reason contributors. And unlike them, she doesn’t really write on anything beyond her narrow lane of “government interference into parenting, moral panics involving same, sex crime registries (I have enormous respect for her balls on that), etc.” And she doesn’t really express any heterodoxies on that topic. Leave Lenore Alone!
Heroic Mulatto
I find her click-bait-y, but more than that, what really gets my dander up is how in the comments to her articles, they are inevitably filled with people waxing poetic on how their unsupervised upbringings, where they were allowed to swing machetes around at the age of four in the family sharp glass and old rebar pile and could go anywhere they want because their parents were blackout drunk on the couch until 4 in the afternoon is some how desirable and superior to ensuring your child makes it to 18 with all 10 toes intact.
Jarflax
For me at least that reaction is more about the pendulum having swung so far the other way and less romanticism about the hallowed days of yore. The one part that really gets me upset is the fact that most kids today, even as late as young teens, never spend a full hour playing with their peers unsupervised. I think having an authority figure constantly available to settle disputes, suggest entertainments, and give instant solace for minor sorrows retards social development.
Heroic Mulatto
To be fair, I was raised by one immigrant tiger parent, and both my wife and I are crouching tiger, hidden dragon parents. What gets me upset is that most kids today never spend a full hour doing enrichment math, studying their 3rd or 4th language, or practicing their 2nd instrument of the day after working on their Stanford application essay.
Rhywun
Brother, is that you?
Sounds like my niece and nephew.
Gustave Lytton
马马虎虎
Heroic Mulatto
三人成虎! Or in my case, 3+ ethnicities in one.
Gustave Lytton
Funny, I was looking at that very chéngyǔ last night. But was thinking about our self referencing news media.
Not Adahn
Let’s be fair. The family broken glass and rebar pile was an awful lot of fun, and it came in handy when the packs of feral dogs came around.
Rufus the Monocled
HM is just sore his parents didn’t buy him Bag O’ Glass.
Rhywun
I find her click-bait-y
That’s been a running theme over there lately.
DiegoF
Unlike this Teutonic stud, who has it all down to a science!
Rufus the Monocled
You make it sound like it was a bad thing.
Lachowsky
Volokh did some serious mental gymnastics to justify the court’s decision on the gay cakes fiasco. I’m not sold on him.
2 chili is good.
Gustave Lytton
He’s a lawyer, which seems to be somewhat common for that, except for the very fine glib lawyers here.
DiegoF
Who is 2 chili? And Volokh wrote that amicus against the cake shop saying the 1A case was not good. As I recall I didn’t agree with his analysis, but I don’t recall it was not respectable–at some point the circumstances of a good’s production really are not going to be “creative” enough for the 1A shelter. As usual, a proper liberalism would avoid so many of the unsatisfying judgment calls our society faces, but as it is the hard “next-best” problems remain.
And I can’t quite condemn him for ignoring the political consequences of his legal opinion–in other words, saying if they won’t read the 9A as giving us freedom of association, at least stretch the 1A to give us some of it. There’s something to be said for being more straightforward than that.
Lachowsky
My problem was that he argued that taking pictures was expression covered by the 1st amendment but baking a cake wasnt.
380 will do the trick, just don’t bother with hollowpoints.
Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
Why is that?
(currently carrying hp ammo in my Bersa)
Gustave Lytton
P938 or P365?
RegicidalManiac
I have been very tempted by one of those in the past, it’s a discount PPK/s and I have an obvious love of those as it is.
Plus, Underwood sells a .380 load that looks very interesting – supposed to offer FMJ penetration with an almost JHP wound channel, which would make me reasonably confident in carrying a .380.
CPRM
Are you taking the UW Madison deal?
RegicidalManiac
I am! Orientation starts mid August.
Sean
A co-worker was talking about his Bersa .380. Another co-worker chimed in “where do you buy holsters for that? Victoria’s Secret?”
Was the second co-worker trying to say it was a sexy gun, or a feminine one?
Sean
Feminine.
Lachowsky
My wife is baby sitting a 3 year girl. I just got home from work. The little girl is wearing one of my son’s jackets from a few years ago. My wife asked the little girl if she liked her jacket.
The little girl said, “yes, but it’s not mine”
I said, “great, little girl understands property rights.”
Little girl said in cute 3 year old voice, “property rights?”
Start em young. #winning
Gilmore
All kids inherently understand property rights. (they are innately possessive and materialist)
they also understand sharing, and having a rational concern for the well-being of others (they have powerful sense of empathy)
Somehow the latter gets twisted to undermine the former by the teen years, where commie bullshit starts appealing to them.
Gilmore
*answering my own question
i think maybe why commie shit start appealing to teens in particular…. is because that’s the time they start really becoming obsessed w/ social-status
commie shit is a form of both “seizing status” as one of the morally-righteous, as well as undermining people you see having natural advantage over you.
Jarflax
Maybe, I suspect having a decade of teachers and entertainment parroting Pravda to them by their teens may have more to do with it.
I don’t know that you asked a question in the first place, but your follow-up thought makes a lot of sense.
Gilmore
“”I don’t know that you asked a question in the first place””
the ‘somehow the latter gets twisted’ observation was sort of “I don’t really know why?” admission.
then i realized, “oh, i might know why”
Lachowsky
Little kids want what is theirs.
Teenagers want want what is theirs and yours.
Teenagers feel that way because they are old enough to realize that there are other that have way more than them and young enough to not realize the consequences of wholesale redistribution.
Is it Zenome Project? He is the only anti-Israel Glib commenter I know of.
Another refreshing surprise for me btw. Glibs is supposed to be a paleo schism, so this place is supposed to be a cesspool of racist foilhattery–maybe throw in some weird alternative medicine sympathy here and there or something. Essentially, the last frontier stop on the libertarian-to-alt-right pipeline. (Neoreactionarism is the border checkpoint.)
Lachowsky
When buying olive oil today, there was virgin amd extra virgin at the store. I was trying be cheap, so I went looking for the used up old whore olive oil and I couldn’t find any.
That happens when you add the ingredients for puttanesca.
MikeS
I laughed and laughed…and will be stealing that.
Mr Lizard
STEVE SMITH NOT SO PICKY
Derpetologist
random thought
Applying the concept of Sabremetrics to football, what plays on average gain the most yards? I think that if you analyzed enough plays, you’d get a pretty good idea of what works and what doesn’t.
Festus
I’m thinking wide out cross-body. High risk, high reward.
Derpetologist
Another candidate for HM’s riddle: Francisco D’Anconia
I have a hard time seeing it though. He seemed OK.
Jarflax
He had moments of irrational anger, at least at TOS. (which may just mean he got pissed at me a couple times, so come to think of it probably not all that irrational)
trshmnstr
Frank was good people, even though he and I got into it a few tussles. He was very sensitive to being called a cosmo.
DiegoF
Did you draw your avatar yourself? It is very well done, very elegant.
trshmnstr
Lol I wish. I found it on the internet and stole it for my use.
F. Stupidity Jr.
He was very sensitive to being called a cosmo.
Yet, he was quick to play gatekeeper on who was libertarian and who wasn’t. At TOS, he invited me to fuck off when I made mention of it. I declined the invitation.
Jarflax
Niskanen isn’t. and no, I am not playing no true scotsman.
DiegoF
Neither libertarian nor “classical liberal,” no matter what the fuck they say (no Scotsman apologies needed):
Christina Hoff Sommers
Sargon of Akkad and pretty much anyone British
That gay Jew who interviews everyone who will agree to come on and agrees with them like an ass-sniffing puppy no matter what they say, grinning blandly like an overeager idiot; used to work for Young Turks
Niskanen
Brochettaward
You’re all cosmos compared to me.
Heroic Mulatto
LOL, no.
Old Man With Candy
Definitely not. He’s a dear friend of ours and gave us the seed money to start this place. Fine people.
Rufus the Monocled
I read that as ‘deaf friend of ours’.
Then I realized it was time to clean my screen.
trshmnstr
Another to the list that would be a bit heartbreaking: Groovus.
Gustave Lytton
Or HM is stirring the pot to see what comes out. Nah, HM would never do that…
Jarflax
Ukrainians have some history in the arena of antisemitism (wow look at my metaracism, I just racistly called an ethnicity racist, I should become a Democrat)
MikeS
That’s the name! I mean I don’t think it’s him (but I’m a relative newbie, what do I know) but whatever happened to him? He came over here, and was talking about writing an article IIRC, and then *poof*. All gone.
Heroic Mulatto
Groovus tends to disappear. He’s super, ultra, protective about his privacy, and well, he’s an ER surgeon, I assume he’s pretty busy.
But he’s good people, too good, imo. Unfortunately, chummy with said shitbag.
Not Adahn
Really, any time he spends on here is time he’s not banging his wife.
F. Stupidity Jr.
Well, I recall one poster Groovus used to yuk it up with a lot at TOS. I’d really like to see what you’re referencing.
Heroic Mulatto
I’ll share when it’s less…topical. But I think someone else will stumble upon it before that.
CPRM
By then no one will care because Trump will have 16yrs ago had sex with someone who 15yrs later identifies as a muslim man of color. The news cycle moves too fast for the slow burn to keep interest anymore.
Brochettaward
I desperately want this to happen now. It ranks just below a Kim Jung-Un/Trump debate. Like a more retarded version of the NIxon-Krushchev meeting.
Jarflax
I lack the depth of Glib identity knowledge to be able to solve this riddle and it pains me. I think I’ll go back to assuming you all are actually your avatars. Well except for MikeS who I assume used to play 3rd for the Phillies, and Sloopy who I assume is Charles Woodson.
CPRM
Charles Woodson has a funnier mustache than Sloopy.
MikeS
Hmmm…Hall of Fame 3rd baseman, or 8-bit intergalactic traveler?
Jarflax
My brother, who may actually be more of a Buckeye Nut than Sloopy taught his children the Three Great American Traitors Benedict Arnold, Alger Hiss, and Charles Woodson. One day when his wife was out of town, he repainted his house grey with scarlet shutters and doors. (this is why I poke Sloopy about the team up north)
CPRM
Was Indian dot not Feather from the TOS? He was pimping his book here, then disappeared. I think HM is just looking for clicks. And by clicks mean….
trshmnstr
Not enough social currency to generate “whining and apologia”.
To summarize, we’re looking for somebody who used to comment at TOS, has commented here at least once, either uses the same username multiple places or whose identity is known in Glib circles, and is beloved enough by some to cause whining and apologia when his bigotry is exposed.
Heroic Mulatto
Pretty much.
MikeS
I’m too tired to dig through all the comments again. Was “former Glib” accurate?
Heroic Mulatto
Yes, very former.
Floridaman
I would say sugar-free, but his stories make him more feared than loved.
You know a site has a tight community when you can get away with a quadruple inside joke. I think I deserve a medal for that.
DiegoF
Bah, I was too newfaggy to get any of them. You guys are so mean!
Heroic Mulatto
LURK MOAR
DiegoF
By “looking for clicks” I presume you mean “seeking the copious thanks of all here for the fap material.”
More importantly, where the fuck did you find that footage of his family? Isn’t doxxing a bannable offense here?
Jarflax
*Reads thread, suddenly realizes he is the only one here using his name
*freaks out
*remembers he has been on every list out there since birth
*relaxes
Rufus the Monocled
Gross.
I call them gross.
Gustave Lytton
Alright, just throwing out names now of people who haven’t been around lately:
Cliche Bandit, invisible furry hand, sloopy, the guy who met & married someone from TOS (other than sloops & banjos)…
CPRM
Lord Humongous and Espith have been missing! Anti jewish radio refurbisher!
Chafed
I haven’t seen Hayeksplosives here since moved to the San Diego area.
DiegoF
Stop mentioning San Diego glibs! Y’all be fucking with my Find game.
I never seen these superlong YouTube vids before. Weird yellow bar and shit.
DiegoF
I was just going to say Titor then deleted it, because he is absolutely the last person you’d expect to fit the description. My heart would indeed be crushed if it turned out he did.
Rufus the Monocled
Is this riddle going to be solved before I go to bed? This migraine ravaged me today.
It’s not your laziness; it’s the Canadian healthcare taking so fucking long to get the test done.
Festus
^^^ THIS! It’s why I suffer rather than start the snowball rolling. Fucking healthcare in this country is a fucking joke. You guys whinge about the DMV? Hold my beer…
Meh, I’m guessing she’s the kinda girl that looks cute in an internet photo with a filter, but up close her face is pocked with cold sores and new kinds of chlamydia.
Meh, I bet that vid is not actually that funny. Now I’m ashamed I wasted an “Upstate” setup on it. I need to be more choosy.
Rhywun
Enh, I don’t have any country-cousins from that side of the state but I do have some PA folk that married into my family who might be right at home in that video.
Rufus the Monocled
French-Canadian ‘pitounes’ no less.
Rhywun
“It is a very sad indictment on her relative age group in society to seem to get self-worth relative to posts on Instagram,” Traill said while addressing a sometimes tearful Roberge.
I hate social media myself but WTF does this have to do with anything? Besides a judge wanting to get her name in the news.
Easily 20 here in Freedom Land. Although being a hot young female would probably knock a decade off here.
DiegoF
And yet it that same poundage would have made her so much more in Oz. Like everyone else in the world when they come here they suck up our coke like twitchy Hoovers, and can’t believe our quality and low low prices.
Meh, the only unforgivable sin here in THE Dairyland is skim milk with cereal.
Rhywun
I grew up on 2% because it was cheaper. Now I won’t go less than whole. I can afford it, and now we know the so-called health benefits of the watery stuff are fake news anyway. But skim… good God that’s evil.
CPRM
We had 2% growing up because my mom had problems with whole milk. Started on 1% when I was on a diet and didn’t mind. Stayed over at a friend’s and tried eating cereal with skim, it was like using water. (In my youth I had warm milk out of the bulk tank, tastes sweeter than the store stuff)
DiegoF
I think school districts are still pushing towards all-skim, no flavors. Because apparently it is most important that as many kids as possible throw the milk in the fucking trash and never take up the habit in the first place. Thing is, they keep pushing this junk dietetics long after it’s been considered laughable, long after it’s been established that it does absolutely nothing to prevent obesity and is almost certainly counterproductive. (NYC has.)
Rhywun
I was going to mention NYC’s commercials that push skim milk and water. I’m glad I don’t have kids because I can’t imagine having to deprogram them from all the crap They push.
AlmightyJB
I grew up on powdered milk because we was po. I didn’t know what real milk was until I was in school.
Festus
Holds up tremoring hand – Powdered milk and puffed wheat for a good portion of my grade school years. Sugar was rationed pretty closely because my Mom was evil like that.
Yusef drives a Kia
You guys are beginning to Frighten me, and i go to the Slabs, Just Sayn (which i saw as a license plate Yesterday)
trshmnstr
Alright, well I give up on the witch hunt. If it turns out to be me, well, it was the mirror universe me.
F. Stupidity Jr.
+1 goatee
CPRM
+2 Glibs now thinking about goatsee
DiegoF
Fun fact: The original Mirror Spock was supposed to have a recreationally distended rectum instead of a sinister Vandyke beard, but Standards and Practices changed it at the last minute. The Agony Booth was the sole surviving vestige, albeit in greatly altered form, of plot points associated with the earlier characterization.
Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
+2 Glibs now thinking about goatsee
Well…YEAH!
Also:
recreationally distended rectum
Total band name.
DiegoF
By “former” are we necessarily looking for someone who has either been publicly banned or publicly made his formal exit? Like before a month ago, would I have been considered “not former” even though I hadn’t commented here for the better part of the year prior? Because it could narrow it down considerably if that is what it means.
peachy rex
This is a good point. I have a couple of names in mind that haven’t been mentioned, but I don’t know whether they’re genuinely “former” or if I just haven’t seen them around in a bit because I’ve been too busy to drop by much recently.
CPRM
Who is this mysterious character? Find out it in the next exciting installment of The Hat and The Hair Superfuntime Cartoon Show!
DiegoF
Looks g mannish. Could there be legal trouble on the horizon?
CPRM
No. That’s a stupid idea. No imagination. Sad.
Rhywun
Oh God two mysteries is one mystery too many. Tschau.
Fuck his political bullshit, but he is one of the best coaches in any sport of the last decades. Sorry to hear of his wife dying. Even with that blow he has a far better chance of being at the game tomorrow than Kawhi.
Akira
Have we even figured out what exactly this mystery person did that makes them such a piece of shit? Did somebody get bamboozled by Chris Hansen or something?
CPRM
Ted Nugent kidnapped Harvey Weinstein under command of the Hat and Hair, who were hired by Zardoz who was a front man for STEVE SMITH, who was the alter-ego of…
CPRM
All I know is Webdominatrix hasn’t said she’s against polyandry…so what you’re saying is I have a shot!
DiegoF
Well, she is bisexual so maybe she is open minded about that too. Or is that someone else I am thinking about?
/ Webdom’s mother sends WD a question and raised eyebrow on Telegram
DiegoF
Is it that Scarecrow dude? I am hoping so, because he and Groovus were the only two commenters who ever got openly pissed off at me, during the very end and very beginning respectively of my time on TOS; whereas both seem to be quite popular and beloved by everyone else so I presume it was me. This would be sweet vindication.
DiegoF
Another distinction: HM said “commenter” but a few people mentioned here, Groovus and Sloopy and Titor at least, are editors/contributors. HM either brought such names up himself or did nothing to make such a distinction. HM should respond to this and other general inquiries with hints so that it becomes less of an “is it him? is it him” sort of guessing game!
In any case, if contributors are not to be ruled out, I am hereby guessing Vhyrus. Nobody has brought him up yet, and he’d fit the bill perfectly.
…that might make sense, though he hasn’t been gone all *that* long, but it’s probably a better guess than anything else I can some up with.
F. Stupidity Jr.
That’s why it’s frustrating that HM wouldn’t just drop the name. There’s about 5 people that fit the description and I hate to drop names without a shred of evidence. If it was that bad, why not just say so?
MikeS
Vyhrus and Titor and maybe others that disappeared from here hang out in the Glibs Discord chat. So I don’t know if that makes the “former” or not.
Gustave Lytton
391 comments so far on the late night post. Pretty good click-bait work by HM to get the numbers up on a traditionally slow part of the day/night. Advertisers will be happy.
I’m turning in. Let me know Stasi style if it was me all along.
Web Dominatrix
I was not expecting so many comments on this…
CPRM
The only comment that matters is #52.
DiegoF
Of all possible late night threads, you two pick one of the most active ones in Glibs history to carry on your little flirtations? Not some quiet little out-of-the-way thread where you have a bit of privacy?
CPRM
a right to privacy? what are you some kind of commie lib?
Not Adahn
Bah! Ever since GMSM and Kibby we have been lacking in smouldering sexual tension.
FM and Jesse don’t count — what they do is foreplay, not flirting.
nw
Late to the party, but “cheese puffs” or “cheese curls”.
The correct name differs by shape. For instance “cheese puffs/poofs” are spherical, regular Cheetos are a puffy arch and “cheese curls” are a helix. “Cheese Doodles” are just knockoff Cheetos.
Rebel Scum
“Helix” should be “corkscrew”. **gets moar coffee**
Structually speaking, a corkscrew is a helix. So there was nothing technically wrong with your statement from the standpoint of the argument you were making.
straffinrun
Not one “Donald’s Doodle” or “Beck’s Crack” this entire thread. You guys are slipping.
Comments
437 responses to “Help me settle a very important debate”
Either 2 or 6, but I haven’t eaten them in ages (and have no desire to).
First response is correct.
Cheesie Poofs of GTFO
diego
6. And I shall challenge any man who says otherwise to a duel to the death.
Eric Cartman wishes to rochambeau you for this. He goes first.
My newest fetish.
I second this. I will bring the flintlock case, tin of snuff, and velveteen hankies. A Wise man knows they are #6.
diego
Cheetos.
Or knock-off cheetos, if you must settle.
This is correct. Only time I eat them is on a road trip. Wife refers to them as “orange fingers” – which these days has unfortunate connotations. Sad.
Cheetos-brand snack, while similarly colored (and thus, flavored), are much denser and crunchier.
Yeah, I remember those being slightly more tolerable than the poofier ones. Just barely.
That would be Crunchy Cheetos. Cheetos Puffs are the ones above.
diego
You’ve said it three times, but he’s already here.
Is it that Scarecrow dude? I am hoping so, because he and Groovus were the only two commenters who ever got openly pissed off at me, during the very end and very beginning respectively of my time on TOS; whereas both seem to be quite popular and beloved by everyone else so I presume it was me. This would be sweet vindication.
Damn it! Reposted below. Wanted that to be some sort of quip but now it’s ruined by my stupidity.
He let slip he was using ctrl+f to know where to post, so I was throwing him off, and it worked!
Your game was not subtle! Your quarry was simply not clever. So I think Stupidity Jr. might have figured as much; he was just joking about the futility of your apparent attempt to summon me, like an urban legend.
Meh, I was dividing my time between this, writing the next cartoon and talking to woman, so whatever.
You write them? I thought SF wrote them and you just animated them.
I write them, based on characters create by SF.
I’m late to the party, but yes the correct name for these is Cheetos.
Cheese puffs.
Thank you! The first correct answer.
2 or 6 depending on what region of the U.S. you are in. If they call soda pop, pop, they are cheese puffs. If they call it soda, they are cheese doodles.
Hmmm. *taps index fingers together*
I am from pop territory and those are cheese puffs.
Yeah, but you’re from a weird part of New York.
I am still tickled the line runs between Rochester and Syracuse. I knew there was a reason we rarely traveled east of Geneva in my youth.
I didn’t know that about the precise placement! You also pronounce a lot of words weird. And you wash down your white hot dogs with “cream ale.”
We called that “fancy dinner”.
“Fancy dinner” in my backwater rural part of NY is Kraft Mac & Cheese accompanied by Genny Cream.
I’m pretty sure you and I are from the same part of NY, Rhywun.
Soda is pop, and I thought these are cheese puffs. I spent my whole life calling them cheese puffs.
And then a couple days ago I found out everyone else where I’m from calls these cheezies.
But, is it a bubbler or water fountain?
Neither. Drinking fountain.
What if you call it coke like they do down south?
Those people are beyond help.
Interesting…you seem to be on to something.
Those are most certainly cheese doodles.
Cheese doodle sounds like what a suite of cruel freshman bullies would call their fat roommate’s ejaculate.
Those are Jax.
https://www.amazon.com/Bachman-Cheddar-Cheese-Puffed-Curls/dp/B00CVLCC8O
Bachman Cheddar Overdrive?
That should have been their tag line. They make great stuff in general. Love the Amish snack food capital of the world Hanover PA.
Snyder chips from Hanover are one of my favourite brands. Never saw Bachman before.
They are probably the best mass-market pretzels I know of. And their selection is excellent. These are some of my very favorite though, but I don’t think they can be properly compared.
Apropos of nothing, I’m very happy. About 30 minutes ago, I learned that if you know what to look for, a fairly well-known website outs a former TOS and Glibs commenter as an enormous piece of shit.
I’m running through the list of know banned or deserters… ?
I need a better hint.
I’m going to let folks find out on their own.
Not worth it.
Former? So it’s not me this time….I’m thinking John
So that eliminates the pool to basically 3 or 4 people with only 1 serious contender.
It’s gotta be John.
What was his last name? I can’t remember.
It’s on the tip of my tongue.
Ewww!
Brenda agrees
Don’t you even try moving in on that shit! Nothing can match the raw animal chemistry of the Jesse/John sexual tension!
You weren’t around for the days of John/MNG.
Those were entertaining in a sadomasochistic way.
His mannerisms are consistently Klugey if that’s what you’re after.
There’s a famous person with that name, although I’d doubt it was the commenter here.
Yeah, it came to me while I was making supper and yeah, all you get from a search is that dead rich guy.
His articles are still out there from March of 2016.
ArticleS? I only found the one.
That’s my guess
Yeah, I can only think of one contender, and that person is still at TOS under a (slightly) different name.
Oh wait, I just thought of another contender. Still at TOS with the same name. And published a while back at a major site if memory serves.
Hitler?
Former.
As far as I know, sloopy still posts here.
Heh.
Why does well known need a hyphen? We need a new, simplified language. Number one on the chopping block is silent letters. I says nife, dang it!
Or, we could do the right thing and pronounce those words in the original Old English.
I watched the video waiting for it to get weird or jump scare me, but all it did was educate me, you monster.
Sure, you’re just trying to trick people into clicking to share the horror to which you were exposed.
*Smiles coyly*
Go for the Middle English to study that shit; it’s more enlightening. Post Norman, so it’s nearly comprehensible (more written than spoken, for the reason you give) if you take a bit of time. And lots of great literature, like Chaucer.
But it is amazing to see how many Old English words still survive with their original connotations pretty much intact.
Or even better. What’s Old English for “Bed”? “Bed”.
I don’t trust him. He’s reading from a cue card.
So what? Alfred the Great sometimes used a TelePrompTer. It doesn’t make him stupid–much less secretly born in Northumbria or a militant Adoptationist–whatever racist Mercian efforts to bring him down might be insinuating.
Don’t you get it. SOMEONE is feeding him the answers. He’s a puppet. WAKE UP, MAN!
Oh certainly it is; we’re talking not just true “native” ones but the Danish, which actually has a bigger portion of the vocabulary word for word. It’s just that when you once the Old French infusion in addition, you’ve basically got damn near the complete language so a layman can comfortably study smoothly through entire texts, rather than simply appreciating the phenomenon on a more abstract, word for word basis. Similar stuff relating to grammar, which is actually more important–it’s pretty damn near modern in Middle E. How cool to know you can actually start studying original medieval texts just with the knowledge you have!
In this case, I was referring more to phonology, which I find cooler than ME. ME just sounds like you’re from rural Lincolnshire and Amish.
I clicked.
I was not disappointed.
In fact, I was rather amused.
I don’t think you’re an enormous piece of shit.
[hugs HM]
Thanks, Ted. I needed that.
Well that’s got to be Mr Kluge.
I agree but I still don’t know “what to look for” ?
He kind of outed himself as a giant douche in that Twitter exchange with popehat a couple weeks ago.
So I want to bookmark this to come back to it because it’s a mystery. John Kluge is already a known quantity and not an enormous piece of shit, so this couldn’t be the reference. Who, then? Bo? Hm.
Cheese puffs. What sort of monster would say otherwise?
I knew I liked you.
I call them disgusting.
I ate them as a kid and had an inexplicable craving for them about a year ago. I ate 3 and threw the rest away.
They are fucking gross. I never understood the appeal. When I was little there was actually a brand where the corn curls were available plain without the fake cheese. Still fucking gross. I’d literally rather eat the biodegrad corn packing peanuts; I tried one once as a kid and its faint popcorn taste was actually far less unappetizing than any of the other shit.
Yeah, I haven’t had ’em in years. #NotVegan
Cheese puffs. Agree they are disgusting.
LOL Puddy is at the Devils game.
Full paintjob?
Of course.
My kid says it’s cheese puffs. Who am I to disagree?
A parent who should raise their offspring in the light and not allow them to fall into darkness.
Clearly a genius you are raising.
2. 6 is the only alternative that doesn’t receive a narrowed gaze.
2 or 6.
I remember these having more MSG than cheese on them. Especially the planters cheese balls in the tin.
Cheese puffs. All other answers are wrong.
Pistols. At dawn.
Oh…. bad weapon choice, HM.
Ugh…dawn? It’s so early. Can you just kill me now?
I’ve got an AR-15, my faster bullet guarantees a win for me.
That’s not cricket.
You are a scoundrel and a rogue.
*blushes*
Stop it, you’re embarrassing me.
Sure. Pistols. I should’ve able to get the job done with 16 rounds. Or we settle this with pancakes and a side of ham, and an Irish Coffee.
*Should be*
The lack of a editing feature…grrrr…
All you need to do is call for the Edit Fairy.
What is this “dawn” thing of which you speak?
I called them cheese doodles, but puffs is also acceptable. My Mom, from Rochester NY, called them Cheezies, which is apparently a Canadian brand name.
We called soda pop, pop. When I went to university in the middle Mid-Atlantic, I learned to say soda.
Huh I’m from Rochester and I’ve never heard that. Then again we weren’t buying fancy schmantzy Canadian snacks.
Well, you also aren’t in your 80s.
Or ARE you?
/peers intently at Rhywun looking for age spots and wrinkles
I turned 49 on tax day *sob*
All this talk about Rochester is making me want some Abbott’s.
And here I thought getting a reply from you was an accomplishment; and you go and dilute your equity.
Happy birthday?
Around here soda is called ‘coke’.
“I am going in the store. Do you want a coke?”
“Yes, please”
“What kind?”
“Seven-up, please.”
Same here, across the Sabine River.
Where are you? Grant Parish here, half hour out of Colfax in the woods on the Darrow.
Oh, far from you. Two hours SW of Houston in Victoria. I just meant that here we also say coke as a catch-all.
I envy you. Not because of Victoria (natch), but because of your proximity to Port A.
Yes! I hear that a lot too.
Waitress: “What do you wanna drink?”
Me: “A coke, please.”
Waitress: “Sure, what kind?”
Me: “Coke.”
We called soda pop, pop. When I went to university in the middle Mid-Atlantic, I
learnedwas brainwashed to say soda.“What are these called?”
A shopping trip for larger clothes?
I refuse to allow those things in my house. I munch one of them and I turn into the cookie monster. They completely destroy my free will.
I worked with cookie monster. I served with cookie monster. Cookie monster was my friend. You, sir, are no cookie monster.
That’s disgusting. Couldn’t you have a normal, less unhealthy, less trashy vice like bath salts?
My wife, light of my life, has made me a changed man. We dont have carby food in the house. Ever. I am getting old and less active so if not for her I would blow up like a whale.
Good for her! Keep active though. It’s the most important additional thing you can do for every aspect of your life quality long term. Start lifting if you don’t already, for one thing–it’s actually safer, less intimidating, and more important and an all around better place to start than jogging or something like that.
Hiking, tree planting, swinging a machete, axe, chainsaw. The trouble is I am old and slowing down.
Ah, I see. I thought what was going on was you were not fighting the fight, as most people who report “I am becoming less active” are actually suffering from. Keep it up! There’s never been a more worthwhile fight you are destined to lose.
I’ve been fortunate to wean myself off processed crap like this. I do admit to the occasional bag of chips but they are few and far between. Very little processed food in our pantry.
Spoofulated wine, though.
I can’t remember the last time I had these.
I purposely do not buy junk food.
Who, besides Eric Cartman, calls them Cheesy Poofs?
Probably every little kid who grew up watching South Park.
Does anyone know any person, not hospitalized, who actually consumes those weight gain powder milkshakes? I can’t believe they would be anywhere near as tasty as making a real milkshake yourself, which should be just as effective.
Lots of guys looking to “bulk up”. I’ve known a few.
Bad carbs.
Cheeeeeeeeeeese puffs
HM – “About 30 minutes ago, I learned that if you know what to look for, a fairly well-known website outs a former TOS and Glibs commenter as an enormous piece of shit.”
That doesnt really narrow things down very much. I cant think of anyone around here regularly now who would qualify but in the past there have been so many.
I think we’ve narrowed down the “who” above.
But you aren’t going to tell me?
John Kluge
I dont see anything there that qualifies him as a piece of shit. I mostly agree with it, of course I just scanned it. John can definitely get on nerves but he is right more than he is wrong, or mostly right more than he is wrong. blow all of the vitriol away and the guy makes decent points. Am I missing something?
Well, that’s the only thing I’ve ever found, although someone linked to a Twitter spat he got into a couple months back. But HM’s got the goods, and he ain’t talkin’.
No. Ok, ok…I’ll just say it’s not John.
zOMG
wait have they discovered proof that Tulpa is Hitler?
I saw Tulpa at TOS earlier today.
You’re missing HM’s hint that some new piece somewhere casts someone (unspecified) in a sinister light.
Who is John Kluge that he gets to write essays in major American newspapers? Especially since his brand of red-blooded American conservatism (or at least former conservatism) is almost diametrically opposed, apart from Trump support, to the Post’s?
Also missed the part where he looked like a massive piece of shit. Might be there, but if so I did miss it.
Also half assed google searching only shows this John Kluge as a guest contributor to this site, not a commenter. Who is John Kluge?
I’m not sure the NYPost has a terribly consistent POV other than “not left”. That article is not out of place there at all.
Off the top of my head, it slams hawkishness, pro-life, bans on recreational drugs, and the ADA. The Post might be nobody’s idea of ideological, but they do a pretty damn good job of appealing to the sentiments of our special native breed of Joe Outer-Borough Republican. And this just seems like too damn many things destined to piss him off. Kluge might as well have slammed zoning laws while he was at it.
Who is John Kluge?
I believe he’s the guy who founded that hidden objectivist enclave in Rand Paul’s book Prometheus skipped.
Well, he’s not wrong on that.
meh, i think he’s wrong on that.
And (buffs knuckles on blazer) i think he only knows the expression “Wilsonian internationalism” from (barely) listening to me a few times. Because the way he uses it here… i don’t think he even knows what it means. I think i know what HE thinks it means.
he seems to be saying, “Yeah, free trade is nice, but no one really does it, so….its naive to blindly support it”. Not sure how that leads to Trumpian tariff-bluster making any fucking sense at all, but whatever.
I suppose its asking too much for him to be super-coherent. But he has some good moments in there.
What does “out” mean? Doxx? How does it expose him as a piece of shit? And how does it know about such a person? People who have been busting their ass making YouTube videos would kill for that kind of attention.
A history of honest-to-goodness racial bigotry and antisemitism.
Wait, if this is the Post article we’ve just identified, how does it expose any such history of this “John Kluge”? And how would they allow such a person to contribute anyway? The Post‘s core readership is grumpy old Archie Bunker Jews in Sheepshead Bay.
It isn’t. John is not the droid you are looking for.
Is there a reason we can’t just get the answer? I hate guessing games.
I really don’t want to hear the whining and apologia from those who “won’t believe it.” Let them find out on their own.
Who has left but would still have a contingent of supporters? Not Eddie, not FS, not Tony.
Ken Schultz?
I didn’t think that dude was banned, nor a bigot.
That makes me think Eddie. While I won’t accept the term “apologist,” I did -and have- stuck up for him immediately pre-breakdown. A few other have as well.
As far as I know, HM said nothing about being banned.
Would Ken get any “whining and apologia?”
Yeah he just said ‘former’
I doubt half the Admins would get whining and apologia if the record is as clear as HM makes it sound.
I’ve gotten his nasty side before. And that is rare for me. I’m totally harmless.
And he’s posting at TOS under a different name now so I’m guessing he got under their skin too.
I never saw racism or antisemitism from Eddie, if that makes me an apologist.
Homophobia on the other hand…
Not Eddie.
Ay, there’s the rub! Is anything clear in this age of internet super-meta-irony?
This ain’t Thicc Thursday, dammit!
First two that pop in my head are Tony and shreek.
Has Tony ever ventured here?
I didn’t think so. His identity is an open secret, so maybe he did flit over here at the beginning.
Didn’t Tony stop over early on and get booted pretty quick? Maybe it was someone else.
Oh my. That person revealed their real identity?
Well I’m out of ideas. Done been stumped.
Irish?
Never made it over here.
I didn’t think he did, unless there was a handle change along the way. He disappeared pretty quick from TOS after Playa managed to wind him up, more or less, to saying whatever it was he said.
Wait…. what did I do?
apparently you made Irish racist.
It essentially narrows it down to Eddie and John. I can’t think of any other “former” Glibs commenters.
I doubt Eddie has some expose written about him, so it’s John.
Wasn’t there the one, more popular among us plebs than even John who was more controversial (not “controversial” in the old school sense meaning gay although I certainly like the pun!), who got along with everyone and guest contributed a series of very high-quality historical posts that he never got to finish because he had a feud with you people whose nature was never clear to us but included an intellectual property side dispute, changed his handle a few times, and got banned? I don’t remember his name.
Wasn’t that Eddie?
I didn’t think Eddie was actually banned. I thought he left on his own. His book on the Civil War was pretty good. It was dense, so I read it in spurts.
Yes, he left on his own.
Eddie committed what I believe used to be called a Rule 5 violation on Snopes. Basically griped and cried that he was leaving for about a day trying to get people to beg him to stay. But I believe he was eventually banned. I started out on his side thinking the site was over reacting, but after two or three rounds of increasingly strident and insulting tirades it became clear that he had lost it, and at the end of the day we are all here on sufferance.
The Buckeye The Alpenserf Pedobear and SP let us play in their pool (or in my case did till I coined those names), they can kick us out if we pee in it.
Yes, after the several emails to the editors that used the term “cocksucker” more times than the script to this fine film, he was banned.
There was a lead-up to the whining and crying that wasn’t on him. But yes, he lost his mind and deserved to get banned.
I honestly do think he had some kind of episode. Before the bruhaha he just went off on Trump in a completely not-Good-Lithuanian Catholic Boy way.
When I click HM links there is an implied contract!! I expect bouncing backsides, or at least utterly incomprehensible evidence that everything east of suez was settled by aliens.
Better?
Yes
Idk, but y’all talk IP while I’m busy at work writing patents. It’s depressing how predictable it is that IP will come up when I’m swamped at work.
High-quality?
Yeah, not ringing any bells.
And that guy who’s avatar was a fat guy in speedos
Who da fuq was that? I want to see that shit! (So does Jesse, I’d imagine, but that’s a different story.)
I think his name was Free Society.
Oh yeah, that was the other banishment I couldn’t think of
That was gonna be my suggestion.
FS was never banned. He just packed his tent in a huff and moved on.
It’s not me is it?? DEAR G-D IT’S NOT ME!?!
I WAS DRUNK! IT WAS JUST THAT ONE TIME! IT WAS COLLEGE AND I WAS BEING EXPERIMENTAL!!
Yes, it’s you, Q.
That picture is perfect.
I thought of him but didn’t realize he started over at Reason.
I remember him from over there because his humor always rubbed me funny. It was always toeing the line between ribbing and actual malice. Reminded me of those bullies who would threaten a kid and then crack a smile and say they were just joking.
Yeah. He and I got into a small skirmish earlier in the day he left. I (as a fig leaf for the “fight”) asked him to not leave and said he was an alright guy. After reading comments from “veterans” I apparently missed something and wish I hadn’t done that.
And I mean I honestly missed it…I’m not doubting anyone’s poor opinion of him.
Why do I suddenly feel this is a trap? I have no idea howHM would use “who do the glibs think is an anti-semite?” against us, but he can.
Not it!
Is it Zenome Project? He is the only anti-Israel Glib commenter I know of.
Another refreshing surprise for me btw. Glibs is supposed to be a paleo schism, so this place is supposed to be a cesspool of racist foilhattery–maybe throw in some weird alternative medicine sympathy here and there or something. Essentially, the last frontier stop on the libertarian-to-alt-right pipeline. (Neoreactionarism is the border checkpoint.)
Bah! Reposted down below. Why does this keep happening?
It’s you.
I don’t believe Zenome was on TOS, and a) I never noticed him as anti-Israel, and b) anti-Israel is not necessarily antisemitism. Particularly in this case, when it is all focused around a “weird” preoccupation with Harvey Weinstein.
I’m still here, so you can’t be talking about me.
SUGARFREE GOT BANNED!!!???!?!??!?
Hey, I’m the one who wrote the weinstein story, sugarfree just posted it! Let me have my bigotry!
Mea culpa.
Though to be completely honest, before you revealed who it was, I thought “Ted” was Ted Turner. It seemed to fit initially.
I’m still here, Not Adahn.
And what do you think the S stands for.
St. John-Smythe?
This was the avatar.
http://www.funnyordie.com/caption_contests/7aa4b0bd1c/no-mater-what-you-got-to-strut
I think the finest thing about that photo is the Guitar Hero controller.
So is that actually him? I always wondered.
I doubt it.
I do too, but it seemed to fit him so well.
2
Why am I just now finding out about this?
https://slapshotusa.com/products/12-gauge-personal-home-defense-phd-250-box-of-5
3000 fps? No shit?
Same.
Added to cart and ordered.
What does this offer over 40 grain frangible .223? And I’m skeptical of its penetration ability, given the low sectional density and high velocity.
It offers +210 grains and a 1/4″ hollow point. It looks like it offers low penetration / high energy dump in the target. Devestation.
Damn. I shoot “high velocity” duck loads that are 1625fps. 3,000 sounds very painful to my shoulder. And with arthritis, I wouldn’t be able to use my hand for a week if I was shooting from the hip.
Arthritis? Wait, you got promoted from gout?
Both. Heredity sucks.
You’ll be cleaning blood and bile off the rafters!
It looks like a nylon slug with a metal insert of some kind designed for low penetration. 250 grains at 3000 fps with low penetration is 338 win mag energy. At close range that looks like a good way to make human soup.
Blood is one thing but you’re looking at bowel stew with these things.
If they come out with 20ga, I’m all over it.
“Cheese Puffs” is a genus within the “totally no-cheese-involved cheese snack” phylum
(in which Cheetos, the dominant species in its family also resides)
“Cheeze doodles” is one species of Cheese Puff.
there are others in the Puff genus. some of which are ‘doodle’ shaped, and some of which are Ballified Ball-shaped puffs are a decidedly-inferior species for any purpose other than food fights.
Puff-type snacks are created through the Extrusion process
There is no final e in cheez doodles, by my recollection. Nor in cheez-it. I hate all fake cheez snacks so my memory might be fuzzy.
you are correct and i am in error.
(proceed to furiously lash myself with barbed wire)
7. Cheetos. It’s like “Kleenex”, it’s a brand that’s become generic.
In the immortal words of Eric Cartman:
I love cheesy poofs, you love cheesy poofs, if we didn’t eat cheesy poofs, we’d be lame!
I always called them cheese puffs or cheese doodles.
In other news, I ran 2 miles in 14:06 today. A new personal best.
I’d to see the source implied by HM. The suspense is too much.
I learned today that TOS has dispensed with the AM and PM links. The most comments I saw on a post was 160.
Sad.
On the other hand, the Heaton comedy videos are great. I may start donating again.
No more links? That is sad, I was rooting for them to pull their heads out of their asses and do better.
Honestly? Just because they put some funny videos up, that’s enough to undo all the rest?
Disclosure; I haven’t watched the videos. Maybe they are the funniest thing ever.
I don’t do videos in general, unless it’s music I think I might like. Comedy bits? Nope, couldn’t care less.
Anyway they do a morning “Roundup” now with some medium-sized hot-takes plus some links. And it’s ENB every day.
If I have money to donate it’s going to glibertarian degenerates.I am not going to donate so that fruit-sushi can learn to change a tire without breaking a nail.
There has to be a market opportunity for the fruit sushi crowd.
“Honest lachowsky’s how to change a tire instructional program” has a nice ring to it.
1. You need enough arm strength to break a lug nut free.
2. I have never changed a tire without getting tire soot on my hands which would make fruit sushi so upset he couldn’t equivocate
3. Tires are changed out in the elements, which absolutely destroys his hairness.
Pro-tip: high impulse stomping of the wrench handle is much easier than loosening lug nuts by arm.
Do you know what that would do to his shoes?
Pro-pro-tip:use an impact wrench on all of your plumbing supplies.
My impression is you are not a real man unless you can change a tire wearing a suit. Kind of like being a black man and eating barbecue. (Except in that case it needs to be a white suit. Also needless to say this works only in NYC; our provincial asses–of any color–continually and comically fail to appreciate that two-thirds of the things we consider “black” wouldn’t be considered racially coded at all in the South.)
Who would you keep if the Kochs installed you tomorrow? By my count: Tucille, Stossel, Volokh, Sullum, Skenazy (prog who’s better in her lane than most “libertarians”), Bagge’s cartoons, that dude who writes about food, the various video comedians. I think there was another guy who wrote a fairly long piece a couple weeks ago, i think after a bit of an absence, that was uniformly praised by the H&Rers.
No, Skenazy must be exiled.
What’s wrong with her? Doesn’t a normal magazine host an ideological “foreigner” or two as well? She’s an open prog; doesn’t ever pretend to be a libertarian which is rather rare nowadays and certainly better than a lot of Reason contributors. And unlike them, she doesn’t really write on anything beyond her narrow lane of “government interference into parenting, moral panics involving same, sex crime registries (I have enormous respect for her balls on that), etc.” And she doesn’t really express any heterodoxies on that topic. Leave Lenore Alone!
I find her click-bait-y, but more than that, what really gets my dander up is how in the comments to her articles, they are inevitably filled with people waxing poetic on how their unsupervised upbringings, where they were allowed to swing machetes around at the age of four in the family sharp glass and old rebar pile and could go anywhere they want because their parents were blackout drunk on the couch until 4 in the afternoon is some how desirable and superior to ensuring your child makes it to 18 with all 10 toes intact.
For me at least that reaction is more about the pendulum having swung so far the other way and less romanticism about the hallowed days of yore. The one part that really gets me upset is the fact that most kids today, even as late as young teens, never spend a full hour playing with their peers unsupervised. I think having an authority figure constantly available to settle disputes, suggest entertainments, and give instant solace for minor sorrows retards social development.
To be fair, I was raised by one immigrant tiger parent, and both my wife and I are crouching tiger, hidden dragon parents. What gets me upset is that most kids today never spend a full hour doing enrichment math, studying their 3rd or 4th language, or practicing their 2nd instrument of the day after working on their Stanford application essay.
Brother, is that you?
Sounds like my niece and nephew.
马马虎虎
三人成虎! Or in my case, 3+ ethnicities in one.
Funny, I was looking at that very chéngyǔ last night. But was thinking about our self referencing news media.
Let’s be fair. The family broken glass and rebar pile was an awful lot of fun, and it came in handy when the packs of feral dogs came around.
HM is just sore his parents didn’t buy him Bag O’ Glass.
That’s been a running theme over there lately.
Unlike this Teutonic stud, who has it all down to a science!
You make it sound like it was a bad thing.
Volokh did some serious mental gymnastics to justify the court’s decision on the gay cakes fiasco. I’m not sold on him.
2 chili is good.
He’s a lawyer, which seems to be somewhat common for that, except for the very fine glib lawyers here.
Who is 2 chili? And Volokh wrote that amicus against the cake shop saying the 1A case was not good. As I recall I didn’t agree with his analysis, but I don’t recall it was not respectable–at some point the circumstances of a good’s production really are not going to be “creative” enough for the 1A shelter. As usual, a proper liberalism would avoid so many of the unsatisfying judgment calls our society faces, but as it is the hard “next-best” problems remain.
And I can’t quite condemn him for ignoring the political consequences of his legal opinion–in other words, saying if they won’t read the 9A as giving us freedom of association, at least stretch the 1A to give us some of it. There’s something to be said for being more straightforward than that.
My problem was that he argued that taking pictures was expression covered by the 1st amendment but baking a cake wasnt.
That’s pretty logically inconsistent to me.
JD Tuccille at Reason.
Jesse Walker. I think that was him.
You are all wrong; they are called Hoagies!
Narrow gays
Watching a Space race video, I notice that Laika looks a lot like Bella, kind of creepy, poor puppy, but SPACE!
Apropos of nothing, I bought this today as a new car piece.
https://bersa.eagleimportsinc.com/bersa/lifestyle/concealed-carry/thunder-395
My buddy has one and I tried it out and really dug it. Inexpensive too.
380 (9mm kurtz) 90 grains <1000 fps
https://www.sigsauer.com/products/firearms/pistols/p938/
9mm Luger 147 grain at ~1000fps.
No contest.
380 will do the trick, just don’t bother with hollowpoints.
Why is that?
(currently carrying hp ammo in my Bersa)
P938 or P365?
I have been very tempted by one of those in the past, it’s a discount PPK/s and I have an obvious love of those as it is.
Plus, Underwood sells a .380 load that looks very interesting – supposed to offer FMJ penetration with an almost JHP wound channel, which would make me reasonably confident in carrying a .380.
Are you taking the UW Madison deal?
I am! Orientation starts mid August.
A co-worker was talking about his Bersa .380. Another co-worker chimed in “where do you buy holsters for that? Victoria’s Secret?”
Was the second co-worker trying to say it was a sexy gun, or a feminine one?
Feminine.
My wife is baby sitting a 3 year girl. I just got home from work. The little girl is wearing one of my son’s jackets from a few years ago. My wife asked the little girl if she liked her jacket.
The little girl said, “yes, but it’s not mine”
I said, “great, little girl understands property rights.”
Little girl said in cute 3 year old voice, “property rights?”
Start em young. #winning
All kids inherently understand property rights. (they are innately possessive and materialist)
they also understand sharing, and having a rational concern for the well-being of others (they have powerful sense of empathy)
Somehow the latter gets twisted to undermine the former by the teen years, where commie bullshit starts appealing to them.
*answering my own question
i think maybe why commie shit start appealing to teens in particular…. is because that’s the time they start really becoming obsessed w/ social-status
commie shit is a form of both “seizing status” as one of the morally-righteous, as well as undermining people you see having natural advantage over you.
Maybe, I suspect having a decade of teachers and entertainment parroting Pravda to them by their teens may have more to do with it.
I don’t know that you asked a question in the first place, but your follow-up thought makes a lot of sense.
“”I don’t know that you asked a question in the first place””
the ‘somehow the latter gets twisted’ observation was sort of “I don’t really know why?” admission.
then i realized, “oh, i might know why”
Little kids want what is theirs.
Teenagers want want what is theirs and yours.
Teenagers feel that way because they are old enough to realize that there are other that have way more than them and young enough to not realize the consequences of wholesale redistribution.
Fried puffed corn with dextrose enhanced cheese product replacement. Now that that’s taken care of.
Is it Zenome Project? He is the only anti-Israel Glib commenter I know of.
Another refreshing surprise for me btw. Glibs is supposed to be a paleo schism, so this place is supposed to be a cesspool of racist foilhattery–maybe throw in some weird alternative medicine sympathy here and there or something. Essentially, the last frontier stop on the libertarian-to-alt-right pipeline. (Neoreactionarism is the border checkpoint.)
When buying olive oil today, there was virgin amd extra virgin at the store. I was trying be cheap, so I went looking for the used up old whore olive oil and I couldn’t find any.
It was in the condom wedged between the shelves.
That happens when you add the ingredients for puttanesca.
I laughed and laughed…and will be stealing that.
STEVE SMITH NOT SO PICKY
random thought
Applying the concept of Sabremetrics to football, what plays on average gain the most yards? I think that if you analyzed enough plays, you’d get a pretty good idea of what works and what doesn’t.
I’m thinking wide out cross-body. High risk, high reward.
Another candidate for HM’s riddle: Francisco D’Anconia
I have a hard time seeing it though. He seemed OK.
He had moments of irrational anger, at least at TOS. (which may just mean he got pissed at me a couple times, so come to think of it probably not all that irrational)
Frank was good people, even though he and I got into it a few tussles. He was very sensitive to being called a cosmo.
Did you draw your avatar yourself? It is very well done, very elegant.
Lol I wish. I found it on the internet and stole it for my use.
Yet, he was quick to play gatekeeper on who was libertarian and who wasn’t. At TOS, he invited me to fuck off when I made mention of it. I declined the invitation.
Niskanen isn’t. and no, I am not playing no true scotsman.
Neither libertarian nor “classical liberal,” no matter what the fuck they say (no Scotsman apologies needed):
Christina Hoff Sommers
Sargon of Akkad and pretty much anyone British
That gay Jew who interviews everyone who will agree to come on and agrees with them like an ass-sniffing puppy no matter what they say, grinning blandly like an overeager idiot; used to work for Young Turks
Niskanen
You’re all cosmos compared to me.
LOL, no.
Definitely not. He’s a dear friend of ours and gave us the seed money to start this place. Fine people.
I read that as ‘deaf friend of ours’.
Then I realized it was time to clean my screen.
Another to the list that would be a bit heartbreaking: Groovus.
Or HM is stirring the pot to see what comes out. Nah, HM would never do that…
Ukrainians have some history in the arena of antisemitism (wow look at my metaracism, I just racistly called an ethnicity racist, I should become a Democrat)
That’s the name! I mean I don’t think it’s him (but I’m a relative newbie, what do I know) but whatever happened to him? He came over here, and was talking about writing an article IIRC, and then *poof*. All gone.
Groovus tends to disappear. He’s super, ultra, protective about his privacy, and well, he’s an ER surgeon, I assume he’s pretty busy.
But he’s good people, too good, imo. Unfortunately, chummy with said shitbag.
Really, any time he spends on here is time he’s not banging his wife.
Well, I recall one poster Groovus used to yuk it up with a lot at TOS. I’d really like to see what you’re referencing.
I’ll share when it’s less…topical. But I think someone else will stumble upon it before that.
By then no one will care because Trump will have 16yrs ago had sex with someone who 15yrs later identifies as a muslim man of color. The news cycle moves too fast for the slow burn to keep interest anymore.
I desperately want this to happen now. It ranks just below a Kim Jung-Un/Trump debate. Like a more retarded version of the NIxon-Krushchev meeting.
I lack the depth of Glib identity knowledge to be able to solve this riddle and it pains me. I think I’ll go back to assuming you all are actually your avatars. Well except for MikeS who I assume used to play 3rd for the Phillies, and Sloopy who I assume is Charles Woodson.
Charles Woodson has a funnier mustache than Sloopy.
Hmmm…Hall of Fame 3rd baseman, or 8-bit intergalactic traveler?
My brother, who may actually be more of a Buckeye Nut than Sloopy taught his children the Three Great American Traitors Benedict Arnold, Alger Hiss, and Charles Woodson. One day when his wife was out of town, he repainted his house grey with scarlet shutters and doors. (this is why I poke Sloopy about the team up north)
Was Indian dot not Feather from the TOS? He was pimping his book here, then disappeared. I think HM is just looking for clicks. And by clicks mean….
Not enough social currency to generate “whining and apologia”.
To summarize, we’re looking for somebody who used to comment at TOS, has commented here at least once, either uses the same username multiple places or whose identity is known in Glib circles, and is beloved enough by some to cause whining and apologia when his bigotry is exposed.
Pretty much.
I’m too tired to dig through all the comments again. Was “former Glib” accurate?
Yes, very former.
I would say sugar-free, but his stories make him more feared than loved.
I have just seen the face of God.
Also known as my avatar.
I see what you did there.
You know a site has a tight community when you can get away with a quadruple inside joke. I think I deserve a medal for that.
Bah, I was too newfaggy to get any of them. You guys are so mean!
LURK MOAR
By “looking for clicks” I presume you mean “seeking the copious thanks of all here for the fap material.”
More importantly, where the fuck did you find that footage of his family? Isn’t doxxing a bannable offense here?
*Reads thread, suddenly realizes he is the only one here using his name
*freaks out
*remembers he has been on every list out there since birth
*relaxes
Gross.
I call them gross.
Alright, just throwing out names now of people who haven’t been around lately:
Cliche Bandit, invisible furry hand, sloopy, the guy who met & married someone from TOS (other than sloops & banjos)…
Lord Humongous and Espith have been missing! Anti jewish radio refurbisher!
I haven’t seen Hayeksplosives here since moved to the San Diego area.
Stop mentioning San Diego glibs! Y’all be fucking with my Find game.
Now you’re just being silly.
No, and I’ll just add not Titor either. And that’s as much as I’ll say.
Don’t worry Glibs, I’ll break him.
I never seen these superlong YouTube vids before. Weird yellow bar and shit.
I was just going to say Titor then deleted it, because he is absolutely the last person you’d expect to fit the description. My heart would indeed be crushed if it turned out he did.
Is this riddle going to be solved before I go to bed? This migraine ravaged me today.
Sounds like you could use a marihuana cigarette or some Laudanum.
Tell me about it.
I never met a dude who got migraines. I know they’re out there, just not many of them. Like female autists.
We’re out there. But I’m functional unless it’s vertigo.
I also have Meniere’s Disease. I just have one last battery of tests to confirm it but I’m soooo fucken lazy to get around to it.
Re MD, like Huey Lewis apparently.
I want a new drug.
It’s not your laziness; it’s the Canadian healthcare taking so fucking long to get the test done.
^^^ THIS! It’s why I suffer rather than start the snowball rolling. Fucking healthcare in this country is a fucking joke. You guys whinge about the DMV? Hold my beer…
The War on Drugs is so very very wrong.
https://nypost.com/2018/04/18/cocaine-babe-weeps-as-shes-sentenced-to-8-years-in-prison/
Oddly her new cellmate disagrees
Meh, I’m guessing she’s the kinda girl that looks cute in an internet photo with a filter, but up close her face is pocked with cold sores and new kinds of chlamydia.
From the sidebar: Rhywun’s cousins from the fancy-schmancy side of the family.
Meh, I bet that vid is not actually that funny. Now I’m ashamed I wasted an “Upstate” setup on it. I need to be more choosy.
Enh, I don’t have any country-cousins from that side of the state but I do have some PA folk that married into my family who might be right at home in that video.
French-Canadian ‘pitounes’ no less.
I hate social media myself but WTF does this have to do with anything? Besides a judge wanting to get her name in the news.
Especially since she broadcast it from…Instagram.
I make up.
Shame.
” 209 pounds of cocaine ”
and she’s getting 4.5-8 years.
In the US, i think that would be 20.
Easily 20 here in Freedom Land. Although being a hot young female would probably knock a decade off here.
And yet it that same poundage would have made her so much more in Oz. Like everyone else in the world when they come here they suck up our coke like twitchy Hoovers, and can’t believe our quality and low low prices.
She was only gonna make 100 grand off of that? What a moron.
HM at breakfast this morning. Pretty sure he poured 1% milk on his cornflakes.
Meh, the only unforgivable sin here in THE Dairyland is skim milk with cereal.
I grew up on 2% because it was cheaper. Now I won’t go less than whole. I can afford it, and now we know the so-called health benefits of the watery stuff are fake news anyway. But skim… good God that’s evil.
We had 2% growing up because my mom had problems with whole milk. Started on 1% when I was on a diet and didn’t mind. Stayed over at a friend’s and tried eating cereal with skim, it was like using water. (In my youth I had warm milk out of the bulk tank, tastes sweeter than the store stuff)
I think school districts are still pushing towards all-skim, no flavors. Because apparently it is most important that as many kids as possible throw the milk in the fucking trash and never take up the habit in the first place. Thing is, they keep pushing this junk dietetics long after it’s been considered laughable, long after it’s been established that it does absolutely nothing to prevent obesity and is almost certainly counterproductive. (NYC has.)
I was going to mention NYC’s commercials that push skim milk and water. I’m glad I don’t have kids because I can’t imagine having to deprogram them from all the crap They push.
I grew up on powdered milk because we was po. I didn’t know what real milk was until I was in school.
Holds up tremoring hand – Powdered milk and puffed wheat for a good portion of my grade school years. Sugar was rationed pretty closely because my Mom was evil like that.
You guys are beginning to Frighten me, and i go to the Slabs, Just Sayn (which i saw as a license plate Yesterday)
Alright, well I give up on the witch hunt. If it turns out to be me, well, it was the mirror universe me.
+1 goatee
+2 Glibs now thinking about goatsee
Fun fact: The original Mirror Spock was supposed to have a recreationally distended rectum instead of a sinister Vandyke beard, but Standards and Practices changed it at the last minute. The Agony Booth was the sole surviving vestige, albeit in greatly altered form, of plot points associated with the earlier characterization.
Well…YEAH!
Also:
Total band name.
By “former” are we necessarily looking for someone who has either been publicly banned or publicly made his formal exit? Like before a month ago, would I have been considered “not former” even though I hadn’t commented here for the better part of the year prior? Because it could narrow it down considerably if that is what it means.
This is a good point. I have a couple of names in mind that haven’t been mentioned, but I don’t know whether they’re genuinely “former” or if I just haven’t seen them around in a bit because I’ve been too busy to drop by much recently.
Who is this mysterious character? Find out it in the next exciting installment of The Hat and The Hair Superfuntime Cartoon Show!
Looks g mannish. Could there be legal trouble on the horizon?
No. That’s a stupid idea. No imagination. Sad.
Oh God two mysteries is one mystery too many. Tschau.
It’s not Jus Say’n?!?
Say it ain’t so!
I don’t recall Groovus being buds with Jus Say’n.
HM said ‘very former’ meaning long gone glib. Is Just Sayin’ actually gone? Or just on walkabout?
He still pops in from time to time.
Well, Gregg Popovich might have be pissing me off these last couple of years, but even I can’t help but feel for the man right now.
Fuck his political bullshit, but he is one of the best coaches in any sport of the last decades. Sorry to hear of his wife dying. Even with that blow he has a far better chance of being at the game tomorrow than Kawhi.
Have we even figured out what exactly this mystery person did that makes them such a piece of shit? Did somebody get bamboozled by Chris Hansen or something?
Ted Nugent kidnapped Harvey Weinstein under command of the Hat and Hair, who were hired by Zardoz who was a front man for STEVE SMITH, who was the alter-ego of…
All I know is Webdominatrix hasn’t said she’s against polyandry…so what you’re saying is I have a shot!
Well, she is bisexual so maybe she is open minded about that too. Or is that someone else I am thinking about?
That’s MLW.
/ Webdom’s mother sends WD a question and raised eyebrow on Telegram
Is it that Scarecrow dude? I am hoping so, because he and Groovus were the only two commenters who ever got openly pissed off at me, during the very end and very beginning respectively of my time on TOS; whereas both seem to be quite popular and beloved by everyone else so I presume it was me. This would be sweet vindication.
Another distinction: HM said “commenter” but a few people mentioned here, Groovus and Sloopy and Titor at least, are editors/contributors. HM either brought such names up himself or did nothing to make such a distinction. HM should respond to this and other general inquiries with hints so that it becomes less of an “is it him? is it him” sort of guessing game!
In any case, if contributors are not to be ruled out, I am hereby guessing Vhyrus. Nobody has brought him up yet, and he’d fit the bill perfectly.
…that might make sense, though he hasn’t been gone all *that* long, but it’s probably a better guess than anything else I can some up with.
That’s why it’s frustrating that HM wouldn’t just drop the name. There’s about 5 people that fit the description and I hate to drop names without a shred of evidence. If it was that bad, why not just say so?
Vyhrus and Titor and maybe others that disappeared from here hang out in the Glibs Discord chat. So I don’t know if that makes the “former” or not.
391 comments so far on the late night post. Pretty good click-bait work by HM to get the numbers up on a traditionally slow part of the day/night. Advertisers will be happy.
I’m turning in. Let me know Stasi style if it was me all along.
I was not expecting so many comments on this…
The only comment that matters is #52.
Of all possible late night threads, you two pick one of the most active ones in Glibs history to carry on your little flirtations? Not some quiet little out-of-the-way thread where you have a bit of privacy?
a right to privacy? what are you some kind of commie lib?
Bah! Ever since GMSM and Kibby we have been lacking in smouldering sexual tension.
FM and Jesse don’t count — what they do is foreplay, not flirting.
Late to the party, but “cheese puffs” or “cheese curls”.
Correct
What’s with the orange styrafoam?
The correct name differs by shape. For instance “cheese puffs/poofs” are spherical, regular Cheetos are a puffy arch and “cheese curls” are a helix. “Cheese Doodles” are just knockoff Cheetos.
“Helix” should be “corkscrew”. **gets moar coffee**
Structually speaking, a corkscrew is a helix. So there was nothing technically wrong with your statement from the standpoint of the argument you were making.
Not one “Donald’s Doodle” or “Beck’s Crack” this entire thread. You guys are slipping.
Even later to the party than nw, but they are indeed cheese puffs, or, preferably, cheese curls.
Also, I hate mysteries, and now I can’t stop thinking about who the mystery person could be.
The name for them in 1971 was “Cheetos Baked”.
The other kind were “Cheetos Quick-Fried”
Quick-fried to a crackly crunch, or baked to a delicate crunch. Cheese that goes “crunch”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8agYCXVojY