Mr. Riven and I just finished watching Infinity War. If you’ve seen and enjoyed the movies leading up to this, you’ll probably enjoy this one well enough, too. If you haven’t, well…
Oh, yeah, I promised y’all links. Almost got dragged into a Twitter-hole, there.
- The concept of UBI doesn’t take human nature into account. This is my shocked face.
- A few days old (and I could do without the signaling), but damn. … Would?
- People called me foolish, but this is just another example of the harm that fruit and vegetables bring into our lives. (H/T OMWC)
- Speaking of foolish, these people wanted this spider to live to be fifty years old! Thankfully someone heard the prayers of sane people everywhere, and now we don’t have to worry about eight-legged overlords.
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126 responses to “Sunday Evening Links of Avenging”
“UBI Treats People, First and Foremost, as Charity Cases”
you Suck, We can………help?
People called me foolish, but this is just another example of the harm that fruit and vegetables bring into our lives.
The link mentions Australia. Everything is deadly down there.
Yeah, pretty much the entire continent is trying to kill humans 24/7/365.
Yeah, but the durian is probably from Malaysia.
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/durian-sign.html
Obligatory
http://nationalpost.com/news/world/australian-birds-have-weaponized-fire
Apropos of nothing, the spousal unit is presently disassembling a bunch of shelves in the kitchen — MY kitchen — for some bizarre reason, interfering with my cooking her a couple of pounds of mussels in white wine and shallots. One of her Orgasmatron dishes.
I just don’t get women sometimes.
I never have, just Give in to The Woman, and you’ll be Much Happier
Huh, that’s what they said to me at the last Hedonists Convention I went to.
Small world.
very similar story here:
We went to look at a house and are weighing whether to buy something that is too large and too weird but has so much cool stuff we both like, so it’s a bit confusing.
Solution, I came home and cleaned a pound of shrimp, opened a red, eased into a shot of Jack on ice, and now she’s doing something very Georgia to the shrimp. WestWorld caps the evening.
In the morning I kick off a 20,000 pound mixer I’ve been working on for the past month: tons of controls, material handling, chemical handling and safety stuff; I look forward to creating the six jobs directly attributable to this capital once I get it sorted out and humming.
The girlfriend brought up the idea of expanding the kitchen, which I don’t mind. The issue I had was that she wanted to take the exterior wall (which has the sink and dishwasher against it), and move it out 2 feet. After pointing out the extreme expense for doing something that minor, she backed down. I call that a win.
You can tell your buddy to get the f**k out of the way when you’re bleeding brake lines. For some reason, women find that offensive. Shrug.
Even as the two women voice their distress, customers can be seen eating in the background.
I’d have been doing something else in the background.
Palming salt shakers and sugar packets during the melee?
Looking for a lost shaker of salt?
Classy joint.
OT: Is it “Spork” or “Sfork”?
Spork. Which, oddly enough, was also the name of copycat Spam in Canada back in the day.
Spork
Who in the fuck would say “sfork”?
It sounds more vulgar, so, um, I would.
Spork. A foon is completely different, by which I mean exactly the same thing.
Spocksticks.
There’s a rap song which plays in the gym all the time — I’m sure the refrain goes:
“Everybody needs cooking utensils!” (bum-doo-bump-bump-dah-doo-doo)
Is that right? If not, who might guess what they are actually saying ?
Every time I hear about a new Avengers movie I wonder who will play Mrs. Peel.
That’s how out-of-touch I am.
… Hobbit
If you’re out of touch, I don’t want to be in touch.
in case the kids have no idea what we’re dreaming about
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/absolutelyjoannalumley/the-avengers-the-emma-peel-era-diana-rigg-talk-t502.html
Where’s all the color?
fair enough, not that color is remotely necessary (I’m not Q, ya know): http://www.silverscreensuppers.com/diana-rigg/diana-riggs-goulash
For those who participate in Braille and who have lost their sight sometime since the Nixon administration, imagine that Diane Lane and Mary Tyler Moore had a grandbaby together.
It all seems Rigged.
Me too.
It was Uma Thurman, but that was a terrible movie, of which I will not speak of again.
Infinity War was awesome, and exceeded expectations. I’m working really hard to avoid spoiling it for anyone.
The movie was terrible in many aspects, but I liked a lot of it I must admit. Sean Connery and the teddy bears for instance.
https://youtu.be/W1c-QSe7uU0
@ Riven
“2. often aims to misbehave”
Aim to Misbehave, always, my Google avatar tells me so,
and Belly says, ARF!
Couturier is loling at the Penguins right now.
DIRTY ROTTEN MOTHER… oh, you mean the hockey team.
Never mind.
“women and cats do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea”
-Heinlein
#mewtoo
And since I squandered my afternoon drinking tall cans of cut-rate beer, and griling salmon, ya’all need some funk in your trunk.
This Is Killer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHho3_ZRKZ0
I see your crappy parody, and raise you THIS.
you didn’t even watch, timeline Tres, WTF?
The answer is either “get off my lawn”, “fuck off, slaver”, “Hitler”, or “you’re Tulpa”
I’ll take get off my lawn for 200……
Back at Ya Bro!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jV8FWoaytM
And Max romeo,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpIAc9by5iU
Anyone else not seen a single movie on the list above?
I stopped reading at “movie”.
I haven’t seen a single movie on the list, there’s just two I haven’t seen though. Stupid early Thor movies.
I have only seen the two “Guardians of the Galaxy” and trans-Pacific flights. Kinda entertaining with fun 1970’s soundtracksm
*Raises hand*
Yes?
No. If it’s not a porno, they shouldn’t wear spandex.
I’ve seen a couple – when they’ve been on TV.
I think I saw a recent “Incredible Hulk” but I’m not sure if it’s the one in the list.
Otherwise, yeap. Not my bag at all.
Me, but most of my movie viewing is movies made before I was born.
Killer Reggae!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMThz7eQ6K0
OK so Will Farrell as at the LAFC-Seattle match at the new stadium in LA — with a falcon. The announcers say “Will said he’s going to release the falcon and that isn’t a euphemism” – I damn near laugh out a lung.
Nice stadium. I wonder how long NYCFC are going to be stuck in Yankee Stadium. OTOH my wallet says “I don’t want to pay for another goddamn stadium.”
You’re all talking about joke-league soccer again, aren’t you?
When MLS started up, I said I would start paying attention when they added relegation.
They apparently dont care about my attention.
Isn’t durian basically born rotten?
I’ll say it again. An old, black spider killed by a wasp is just proof that White Supremacy has entered the insect world.
That was my reaction- how could anyone tell?
Feds propose offering $1,000 to people who adopt wild horses
They will pay me to take 500lb of fresh meat? Sweet.
“inexplicable arrest of two black men in a Philadelphia Starbucks”
If in fact things went down as described in Alabama, it sounds pretty bad. However, this is The Root we’re talking about; they have, let’s say, a rather loose relationship with the truth.
But the incident in Philadelphia was anything but inexplicable. Two guys were hanging out, not buying anything, tried to use the bathroom and were refused because they weren’t customers. They were then asked to leave; wouldn’t, so the cops were called. Seems pretty straightforward to me. You can see why anything The Root says should be considered suspect.
The video of the lady getting arrested starts well after the initial confrontation. As usual, The Root gives the most sympathetic explanation for what happened until the video starts. My guess? Lady has a bit of an attitude gets shitty service. Staff doesn’t like it, but serves them anyways. Lady checks and sees no utensils. “Give me my fuckin’ fork and knife!”. Staff uses loophole on menu. “It’s fiddy cents.” Probably would’ve given them for free to a customer they liked, but not this chick.
“Everybody needs cooking utensils!”
/Popular Rap Refrain
I had a similar reaction. The writeup was “after only a couple of seconds” and “employees went to get manager’s card and while waiting the police show up”. That doesn’t ring true at all. Nobody goes from zero to call the cops over a polite “can I have the manager’s contact info”.
And then the cell phone video starts well in to the interaction with the police. He’s clearly already told them that they have to leave, and he’s already escalated that request to having his hand on her arm. They are already shouting, so this isn’t 10 seconds into the conversation. Maybe he’s only been there a minute, but more likely he’s been working on them for at least a few minutes before everyone becomes worked up enough to whip out the cell phone.
Still, I’m not sure why he felt the need to take her down like that at that point. There’s a jump cut in the video, so probably there’s a few moments of an attempt to get her to walk out with a bit of physical encouragement after the attempt to get her to voluntarily leave fails.
The law is pretty simple on this one. Once she’s been asked to leave and refuses, she can be arrested for trespass. Even if she’s right in the original dispute over the service she received. Once the police say you have to go, the fight over a plastic fork has to wait for another day.
Separately, the only obvious racism I see here is on the part of “The Root” and their commentariate. Everyone on the video could be flaming racists, but you don’t see any evidence of that. Literally everything that happens could have happened just as it did if there was two Asian cops and a couple of white dudes refusing to leave an Indian restaurant. Well, except for the tube top part. The white dudes wouldn’t have been wearing a tube top.
Welcome to Obama’s Post-Racial America™, where it’s automatically a big racist conspiracy every time an ethnic minority has a negative experience.
Lordosis signaling sexual availability is so much better than virtue signaling.
http://archive.is/B1TNp
29 looks ready.
1,3,4, 8 I’m still”contemplating”
29.31.32 and more
“Lord! Oh, sis!” should be reserved for the incest channel from now on, thanks.
You, sir, are a national treasure.
So… how entertained should I be that old company has posted my ex-position online, and it’s been sitting there for several weeks? I’m already seeing the recruiters grabbing the position and posting about it.
And in beer news, Laura Bell is stepping down as CEO of Bell’s Brewing. I will always remember the stories I heard of her drinking other brewers under the table (including Adam Avery).
I’m vaguely in the marker for a new jointer, the infeed table my Jet suffers from a subtle lack of flatness. I see this on Craigslist:
https://dayton.craigslist.org/tls/d/frank-clement-jointer-planer/6574057516.html
Well.
Cons: 1) There’s almost no way it would fit in my shop, I’d have move all sorts of heavy shit to make room. 2) There’s no way a 16″ cutterhead runs on 20A, I’d have to put in a new run of #10 (or heavier) wire. 3) It probably weighs literally a fucking ton, I’d kill myself trying to move it. 4) Honestly, I could get by with a 6″, what the hell do I need with 10 more inches?
Pros: Holy shit, do you see all that cast iron? F15s could take off on the outfeed table. It’s like I’m on the shores of Lake Heavy Fucking Duty, and the water is glassy smooth. I’d be like “oh, yeah, you’ve got an 8″ Powermatic? That’s nice, here’s a nickel, kid.”
Although I do wonder why there’s a comealong supporting the infeed table in the one picture.
What does this mean in English?
Hm. s/marker/market, and s/table my/table on my/. I even looked it over before I posted.
If you’re asking about the table, mine is twisted such that the front right corner runs downhill just a little, but enough that jointing a board flat is pretty much impossible.
Just ribbing on the shop jargon. But yeah, I often have trouble proofreading myself.
You need this!! No matter what you have to do. If you pass this by you will regret it for the rest of your now miserable, worthless life,
Agreed
Yep. Get it!!
Buy it. That thing is seeet.
Sweet. Old iron is always better when you can find it. It’s survived the test of time.
From Ro-chah-chah – nice. How old is that thing?!
It could keep my Northfield shaper company.
My junior high shop class had one of these. A dofus in class tried to run a, maybe, 2×2 in piece through it and lost a finger down to the first joint.
I think he’s using the comealong to ballance it on the car hoist.
That make sense, thanks.
Im in the (937). Let me know if I can help out. The site deities have my contact info.
I may take you up on that, thanks. Dayton is a long stretch from my place.
I’m willing to work for weed, coke, ass-sex, messicans, or a case of Coor’s light. Ideally, a combo of all of them.
I’d hold out for some finished woodwork off that machine.
Shhh…Im the seller!
4) Honestly, I could get by with a 6″, what the hell do I need with 10 more inches?
Enough with the euphemisms.
Woman claims American Airlines called the cops on her for “flying fat and black”
“Stewardess, do you speak SJW?”
What the fuck does race have to do with this? You’re a fat fucking slob and your blubber slid into the seat of the person next to you, knocking her over, and she was pissed. Lose some weight, and if someone bitches again, then you might have something to complain about.
Jesus, I HATE HATE HATE flying so much.
Welcome to America in the 21st century.
“Excuse me, but the content of your character is sweating all over my armrest.”
I don’t think it’s just me saying we have backslid a great deal in a relatively short time. It’s sad if the GW Bush years were the highlight of race relations in this nation.
Also, if you’re fat, please consider Business Class at least.
Very much so.
I’m not sure what they expect is going to happen here. I really don’t see anything beyond more stories like this.
*drinks booze, sighs wearily, puts Mazzy Star on repeat, stares out at stars*.
Mazzy Star? I think I might have played them when I was DJing on my college radio station a quarter century ago.
Get off my lawn.
Kinda the point, Ted. Like listening to Coldplay
Arm rests usually don’t go up in First or Business. Book an extra seat under the airline’s POS policy.
I don’t blame her as much as I blame the reporter(s) who picked up the story. Someone with a blog complaining about something is nothing new. Covering it as if it is news is another matter. And then coloring it as if it is a serious story of racial discrimination and using the “context” of other “incidents of racism” that have been reported recently borders on slander.
Her own version of her story points out that she comes into the plane looking for a conflict over her weight and seeing her seatmate only based on her race. If you wanted to write a story, there is one smacking you in the face. Our blogist boldly states that she’s already decided that the woman next to her is a racist based solely on her appearance the moment she arrives at her row – but the reporter chooses to color the whole thing as if the person with the blog is a victim of rampant corporate racism. Heck, there isn’t even an allegation that the company has anything to do with this other than passing along a call for the police from a passenger and providing seats that are too small to share comfortable with someone who is morbidly obese and has a chip on her shoulder.
Go outside. Look at the moon. Listen to this:
https://youtu.be/aXnfhnCoOyo
Have a great night!
Love that song so much. Thanks Tundra. I’m off to work.
Ill up the ante with THIS.
Love the Marvel movies. Saw Infinity War last night and can’t say I loved it because that would be really fucked up, but…yeah. I don’t want to give away any spoilers. It’s been 24 hours and I’m still trying to process it.
While driving earlier today, I heard a portion of an NPR piece on this:
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/13/us/laughter-at-film-brings-spielberg-visit.html
Having lived under a rock for most of my life, I had never actually heard of this incident until now. That trademark earnestly concerned passive voice that public radio is so known for was cranked up to eleven, and it had me in fucking stitches. It also made me realize that people just really don’t do quality grievance mongering like they used to in the nineties. Step up your intersectional game, slackers!
Should have shown reruns of Hogans Heroes to get them up to speed.
Kind of connected. This debate was played on Dave Smith’s podcast the other day. “Their violent imagery against women was uncalled for!”
Some vegans are cool about it. They do it for their own reasons, but they’re not going to harass you for not doing it.
Some get annoying and evangelical about it.
Then there’s this guy. https://twitter.com/7AnthonyDagher7
If Wes Anderson directed The X-Men Films
I like it
I think Michelle Wolf’s comic timing is even worse than Samantha Bee’s. And these jokes are as lazy as SNL’s political jokes. It’s like you’re taking news headlines and the “jokes” are just the most common analysis of those stories—i.e. not jokes, not funny, not even good analysis.
My friends are forcing me to watch this. I just needed to vent.
Pop this on when they aren’t watching.
Comedy is all about calling your political rivals sub human. I prefer Meana Wolf.
Won’t see Infinity War till Tuesday, because the local theater will only have a 2D screening then, and I already had to drive all the way to GB to see Super Troopers 2 last week because the local theater didn’t carry it.
Funny shit you see in the grocery store:
A short, homely, prematurely aged woman with pale, veiny legs wearing a t-shirt that says on the front “I have the pussy, I make the rules“.
An interesting quote from Max Planck about science but I think it may apply to other circumstances with just a little tweaking.
This is how you get a carbon tax. Also, if you are a good Marxist you help with your opponents “eventual death”.