A LITTLE SEEN VERSION OF THE ICONIC PHOTO…
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ IS AWARE THAT MANY OF THE CHOSEN ONES WILL BE ENTERING A THREE DAY WEEKEND….FOR THERE IS A HOLIDAY HONORING THE FALLEN U.S. ARMED BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS. WHAT? OH, FALLEN U.S. ARMED FORCES MEMBERS. VERY WELL… STILL, A WORTHY DAY. ZARDOZ WILL GIVE YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK TO START YOUR WEEKEND OFF RIGHT. ALSO, ZARDOZ WILL MAKE SURE YOU HAVE PLENTY OF BREAD FOR YOUR CHOSEN ONE GRILLING ACTIVITIES.
ZARDOZ COMMANDS HOT DOG BUNS TO BE DELIVERED TO SECTOR 7-18!
- ZARDOZ READ THIS WITH GREAT INTEREST. HOWEVER, DON’T EXPECT ZARDOZ TO SHARE THE SECRET OF HIS DRIVE WITH ANY BRUTAL SCIENTICIANS. THEY CAN SCIENCE IT FOR THEMSELVES!
- ZARDOZ INQUIRES – “YOU KNOW WHO ELSE WAS FROM AUSTRIA AND TURNED A HARD EYE TOWARD FOREIGNERS?”
- AN IMPRESSIVE FIGURE, TO BE SURE. NOW, COLLECTING IT… MIGHT GET A HUNDREDTH OF A PENNY ON THE DOLLAR. ZARDOZ IS AVAILABLE TO HELP “PERSUADE” ANY ASSET HOLDERS TO “COOPERATE”.
- THE OLDEST BRUTAL EXTERMINATOR? MAYBE ZARDOZ SHOULD RECONSIDER THE AGE LIMIT ON RECRUITING…
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Iim sick and in disbelief that I may be first. Now BRING ME SOME Q READHEADS
The readheads are still in the last post.
But here, for the effort.
Hmmmm. It will do for now
I could make that work.
Seconded.
You like redheads?
*grabs pants*
I GOT A RED HEAD FOR YOU, ESE
Not just redhead, but a petite redhead!
Another joke I got from my brother…
*pats crotch suggestively* It’s not very long… but it’s skinny.
“I don’t hit bottom, but I scrape the sides now and then.”
Short, but not too big around.
I just finished “Data & Goliath” as recommended by SP, and I’m working on “Unbroken” about the WWII…….
Oh, wrong link. My bad.
HAIL ZARDOZ!
Sup Tres! Maximus and Alien OG today, KFC tonight!
HEY YUFUS!
My Kroger had 6/16-oz Keystones for $4.99 again. They’re going down faster than a chubby intern in Bill C’s oval office.
(good thing I bought a case)
I still remember when I first heard about the unbroken guy, as a little kid watching the Nagano Winter Olympics, during a special report they made about his story. First most Americans had ever heard about him. Almost unbelievable that guy’s story, especially what he endured at the hands of the sadistic “Bird” Mutsuhiro Watanabe in prison camp. They spent a lot of time on The Bird, and what he did to him and others, just because he could. Then Zamperini’s final triumph, and a note about how The Bird melted away into thin air, so that everyone even his family assumed he was dead. Fade to black. “But he wasn’t…and, he isn’t.”
“This is Mutsuhiro Watanabe,” the piece said as it cut to a shot of him in the present, sitting there being interviewed. Of course now everyone knows he survived until dying peacefully in bed in 2003, but at the time no one did, and you felt your stomach drop five inches. It might have just been youth, maybe it wasn’t even a very good piece, but I remember it being some of the best television I have ever seen.
I’ve only watched a bit of the fictionalized movie (script by the Coen Brothers), but Angelina Jolie has really impressed me as someone who can make some very squirming movies between that and First They Killed My Father.
The only thing I remember about Angelina Jolie, career wise, is Gia. And really only then a few choice scenes.
Uh, Hackers…
Ahem, she was in Entrapment.
If you’re referring to the ’99 movie, IMDB doesn’t back you up.
You need to see her in Original Sin. Very nice.
What We Are Reading is a fun column. What We Are Masturbating To would be funner.
No, no it would not.
Aww, c’mon, UCS…Diff’rent Strokes was a comedy. Well, a sit-com.
“Watchoo wankin’ about, Willis??”
Zardoz, I asked my wife to peel me a grape and she refused. How can I make her do so?
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS PEELED GRAPELESS CHOSEN ONE. ZARDOZ SUSPECTS YOU ARE TRYING TO USE YOUR MASCULINITY TO COMPEL OBEDIENCE… THIS IS IN ERROR, FOR THE PENIS IS EVIL. THREATEN HER WITH FIREARMS, FOR THE GUN IS GOOD!
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Nothing keeps me on track like the wisdom of ZARDOZ.
weapons-grade derp
Why kids love ‘fascist’ cartoons like ‘Paw Patrol’ and ‘Thomas’
https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/22/health/thomas-tank-engine-paw-patrol-fascist-cartoon-strauss/index.html
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“Thomas,” the long-running television franchise about a group of working trains chugging away on the Island of Sodor, has been called a “premodern corporate-totalitarian dystopia” in the New Yorker, imperialist and sinister in Slate, and classist, sexist and anti-environmentalist in the Guardian. And yet people — presumably parents — spend $1 billion on “Thomas” merchandise every year.
“Paw Patrol” is equally polarizing. The show, about a group of rescue dogs led by a boy named Ryder, is a regular source of complaint among parents and of adoration among their kids.
Buzzfeed called the show “terrible” and pointed to instances of gender and social inequality that go unchecked on the show. In the Guardian, Ryder is described as a megalomaniac with an implied “unstoppable God complex.” Nevertheless, “Paw Patrol” is ubiquitous.
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Then there are the parents who are OK with the authoritarian elements in children’s media but wish the authorities didn’t always have to be white and male.
“I watched ‘Paw Patrol’ once with my daughter, and on that episode, Skye volunteered for a mission, but then Ryder picked two male pups,” said Rebekah Pajak, a mother of a 2-year-old and a 1-year-old in Chicago. Skye is the only female in the core team of six rescue pups on the show. “I remember thinking, ‘There’s a glass ceiling in this cartoon!’ ”
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Here’s an idea, gratis, for the creative team behind of “Paw Patrol” and “Thomas,” should they want to broaden their appeal to parents without alienating their fan base: Ryder and Sir Topham Hatt retire and are replaced by their equally domineering sisters. This, in turn, boosts the social status of all the non-male characters. Children would still get the satisfaction of immersing themselves in an orderly universe where rules are rules, and everyone is in his or her place. Just without the white guy on top.
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Kids are the real fascists for torturing their parents and guardians with that Thomas dreck.
If you’re raising your child to be a proper robber Barron and rail tycoon it is wise to start them with their eye toward the business early.
Don’t You dare be hatin’ on Thomas. When my youngest son was a toddler, we watched all of them. Not the crappy ones with George Carlin as the conductor but the earlier ones with Ringo Starr as the conductor as part of a drug possession plea deal.
Amen, brother.
Somewhere, there has to be an article on the most alt-right children’s cartoons and stories.
Top of the list has to be Batman: the Aminated Series. Rich white male goes around awash in white privilege during the day while committing violent assaults at night. And he’s cast as the hero.
Did she watch the entire episode? Because knowing how these things work, I would be very surprised if the female character didn’t show up at the end and save the day with whatever unique skills she has and make the male character regret not picking her in the first place.
Yeah. The general pattern in all the cartoons since about 1980 is that the males were dumb and impulsive and the females were smart and capable.
Examples:
Penny and Inspector Gadget
Lisa and any other male Simpsons character
Leela and any other male Futurama character
Sandy and any another Spongebob character
In older cartoons, there were few female characters. I guess animals getting crushed by anvils and blown up with dynamite does not appeal to girls, so they didn’t bother to try to appeal to them. And anyway, Disney got all the girls with their princess movies.
And note that it was the boy characters who got crushed. The girl characters didn’t get subjected to so much violence.
I blame the Patriarchy for that.
The general pattern in all the cartoons since about 1980 is that the males were dumb and impulsive and the females were smart and capable.
A lot longer ago than the 1980s. Flintstones, for example.
What they need to do is create a kids cartoon featuring an anthropomorphized cute super-team which features a black, an asian, a latinx, a pacific islander, a muslim, a gay, a lesbian, a transgender and a genderfluid, and a differently-abled, who go around the world teaching understanding, tolerance, inclusion, and killing every straight white male ever born.
That’s about 40% of what Captain Planet was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyOMYC6mlsY
Planet was an institution, man! There was one episode, where the Planeteers go to Northern Ireland, that briefly united that fractured land (at the height of the Troubles) in utter side-splitting hilarity at the simplemindedness of the show’s writing.
I found it interesting that the only country mentioned by name was the Soviet Union. They had to change that to Eastern Europe in 1992.
Yes. Also she was the smartest and Wheeler was the stupidest. And also that the pollution villains were not Communists–even to this day China is the one putting most of the plastics in the sea (North America puts in a fraction of a percent)–but corporate villains who did not seem to actually profit in any way out of pollution, but seemed to want to do so out of pure malice toward the Earth. I don’t know why they even wanted to fuck with Gaia in the first place, since she looked like she could have wiped the floor with both Wheeler and Planet’s muscle-queen ass in a wrestling match at the same time.
Wasn’t there a rule that “The American was always wrong” including when he changes his mind, after which everyone has suddenly swapped to his original position and continues to mock him?
In hatred of Captain Planet and his diversity club?
As if all the E/I shit that pushes the prog agenda is somehow any good.
Fun fact: In practice damn near everything gets to be E/I. Saved By the Bell is E/I.
Yes, I’ve seen that.
No mention of Blaze and The Monster Machines’ world of enslaved cars?!
I’m shocked that Minoriteam hasn’t been mentioned here.
Do any of you even satire, bruh?
Oh; I wasn’t going satire. Blaze and The Monster Machines does have sentient cars as slaves.
Well, I wasn’t targeting you-your post just seemed like a good opener for me.
It’s good to know that a billion dollars has become so commonplace that security companies can just hand it out hither and yon.
“Rape victim awarded $1 billion in historic jury verdict
A Georgia rape victim was awarded $1 billion in what’s believed to be the largest jury verdict ever handed down in an American assault case, according to reports Friday.”
STEVE SMITH SAY PFFFFT BRING CLASS ACTION AGAINST STEVE SMITH
I’d like to see a jury one day award a plaintiff or class of plaintiffs all the world’s money myself.
South Park did it.
Every time it’s sexual harassment training time at work, that song runs through my head.
I’ve even convinced a couple co-workers that it’s part of the training.
Who lives out East ‘neath the willow tree?
Sexual Harassment Panda.
Who explains sexual harassment to you and me?
Sexual Harassment Pan-da.
Let this be a lesson to all rapists; always make sure that your victims sign an arbitration agreement beforehand.
German Brutals underfunded
https://www.stripes.com/news/as-germany-prepares-for-nato-crisis-response-role-its-military-readiness-is-abysmal-1.527253
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Among the failures: none of Germany’s submarines is operational, only four of its 128 Eurofighter jets are combat-ready and the army is short dozens of tanks and armored vehicles needed for NATO missions.
In addition, troops are short on the basics: body armor, night vision gear and cold-weather clothing.
The situation is so dire that 19 helicopter pilots from Germany’s Bundeswehr were forced to turn in their flight licenses because of a lack of training time.
…
While Germany has slowly increased its defense spending in recent years, the $37 billion budget is only about 1.24 percent of its GDP.
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One obstacle to boosting defense spending could be Trump himself. The U.S. president is deeply unpopular in Germany and appearing to kowtow to Trump’s demands in the form of ramping up military investment could be politically damaging.
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I’ve got some good news and I’ve got some bad news.
The good news is we’re not going to improve our military to stick it to Trump. Wooo! The bad news is we need continued American military assistance.
That’s fine logic right there.
I can’t figure out Euro-logic anymore.
Yeah, let’s fuck ourselves by not appearing to appease evil Trump.
I lean more to ……..we need this money for migrants
Remind me why we’re indirectly funding Germany’s welfare state and social engineering experiments with our defense budget?
It probably less expensive then going to war with them for a third time. At least that was the short run thinking after the last war.
“A 95-year-old man believed to be battling dementia has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his carer.”
Is “carer” actually a word?
It is British English for “caregiver,” like they call canyoneering “canyoning.” So, no.
Eesh. My sister works with a dementia patient in his 60s. She says he’s the vacant, cooperative sort, not the grabby or violent sort.
While they may not be as strong as apes, don’t lock eyes with ’em, don’t do it. Puts ’em on edge. They might go into berzerker mode; come at you like a whirling dervish, all fists and elbows. You might be screaming “No, no, no” and all they hear is “Who wants cake?” Let me tell you something: They all do. They all want cake.
My mom was becoming the violent sort before she finally went into the nursing home.
Thankfully she died before becoming a complete vegetable. (And before Medicaid could get its grubby paws on anything.)
Car-er. My car is more car-er than yours.
“Kristen Stewart and Stella Maxwell enjoy low-key sushi date”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5772835/Kristen-Stewart-Stella-Maxwell-enjoy-low-key-sushi-date-LA-glamorous-Cannes-jaunt.html
*giggles*
Should we know who those people are?
My Thoughts as well……
Eminem is banging Nicki Minaj?
Lesbian couple made up of Hollywood actress and model…and my penis doesn’t even tingle.
I think that was a rhetorical question, Don’t you even Apathy?
Can’t be bothered to.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure there will be better looking women at the bar down the street tonight.
Last call brings out the hotties.
Best advice I ever got about trying to get laid – “When last call is sounded and you look around to see that none of the females meet your standards… …lower your standards.”
Yeah I know I’ve harped on this before, but they made an entire blockbuster YA novel adaptation and cast as their three “sexy” leads a guy who looks like a chipmunk, a guy who looks like an emaciated shovel, and a girl who makes a better man than either of them–not to mention that neither pairing has any chemistry. I think even Andy Dick’s cock wouldn’t move over these three.
And again, I also love the fact that there was a movie whose plot-driving premise was that Charlize Theron asked an omniscient oracle whether she was “the fairest one of all,” and the oracle replied, “Meh you’re okay and all that, but that Kirsten Stewart…”
That’s what happens when you don’t buy a straight mirror.
I liked Kirsten Stewart in that movie where she and the guy who played Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network worked summer jobs at an amusement park, before anyone had ever heard of either of them.
When Social Network came out that dude was so unknown, everyone was like, oh, this guy is just a better looking Michael Cera. And even though I’ve never seen the movie, for that alone I’m grateful because Cera was the big star at that point who looked like he was going to blow up, and if Eisenberg did anything to thwart that, if he as seems likely stole all the parts that were going to go to him, The Social Network has my gratitude for that alone. Cera’s appeal was going to be quite limited indeed. I think Arrested Development is a good candidate for greatest sitcom ever made, but I think even his George-Michael confused bunny rabbit thing was going to have limited appeal with the character as an adult. I haven’t seen the revived season, but I can’t imagine how it could be otherwise.
I saw interviews with the production crew and they extolled Cera’s vacant, charmless personality.
Eisenberg is a meh actor at best, but he was in Zombieland, so I can’t hate him.
Unknown my ass. He was a smug little prick that I despised for years. I wish he had a Bruce Lee on the set of The Hunting Party.
I actually see him a lot, around in different places and at the gym sometimes. In person he’s a very short, scrawny, mousy guy with very curly hair. He seems very meek and I can’t picture him being at all some sort of cocky asshole.
The Fourth season is rough. It was Netflix’s first revival series, and they had scheduling issues with the cast. So you rarely had the pairings that made the original so great (and the recut version isn’t much better). I’ve heard they’ve fixed that for the upcoming fifth season, but all anyone wants to do is complain about Jeffrey Tambor being a dick. I’ll watch it when it drops next week.
Don’t know when they filmed it, but Tambor’s recent problems would seem to complete the pattern that pretty much everyone’s career is less promising now than when they filmed the first revival season. So I don’t doubt it helped. It really is nearly impossible to save or revive a live-action show once the initial cancellation notice has gone out. The flexibility of an Internet show helps a lot, but ultimately scheduling actors working on other projects so that you can find any time for enough to be on set at the same time to shoot a scene is going to be tough. (And an advanced, modern show like Arrested Development is too tight to even afford to lose a single character.) So I’m not surprised the first revival season was compromised in the way you describe, which seems like it would cut the heart out of the show and turn it at best into “a fun series of short films about your beloved Arrested Development characters.” I would be quite excited to see a proper new season though!
DiegoF: The most recent season was filmed after Tambor got kicked off of Transparent. The fourth season did have some good jokes (one of my favorites was Tobias getting a personalized license plate to symbolize his new start: ANUSTART). If you google Jessica Walter and Jeffrey Tambor, you should find all of the news stories about a fight they had on set, and how none of the rest of the cast wanted to address it on a press junket.
Christ; didn’t get to see much yet but looks pretty damn juicy so far.
Looks like that’s that for a Season Six; that’s one thing I got for sure. RIP Bluths; I damn well hope you went out with a bang.
I thought Eisenberg was fine in Zombieland. The Social Network ruined is career.
Adventureland is great.
They also made a good couple in American Ultra.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3316948/
I liked that movie. Eisenberg and Stewart make good stoners.
Yep. That’s a pretty good one. My wife was annoyed by them, probably because of all the pot. My stepson and I love it.
Made me think of “Sushi Delight” the KD Lang album.
Q mentioned Andrew Klavan earlier today. The guy has a wicked sense of humor:
Andrew Klavan: Liberal Fantasies vs. Reality, Can you Spot the Difference?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90SdmjuCAqw
His solution for peace in the Middle East is excellent.
I listen to Klavan’s podcast. In general, it’s pretty damn good. He’s a bit too easy to agree with foreign adventures, even as he understands Iraq was probably a mistake.
Still, Klavan’s understanding of the culture, particularly popular culture, and how the Left exploits it, is very good.
He’s a damn good crime fiction writer as well.
And Klavan’s dad Cliff was one of the most knowledgeable mailmen you will ever come across.
The Royal Arboreal Society Presents:
A History of Wood
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5768253/Hollywoods-timeless-stars-lounge-beach-series-vintage-photos.html
That was great! thanks
Hard to pick between Grace Kelly and Marylyn Monroe. Grace has the class, Marylyn the sexy.
The down low is that Marylyn also had horrific hygiene. That girl needed a bath.
Indeed. I never quite got why everyone was so ga ga over Marilyn Monroe until I was in my mid 20s. Then it just clicked. That woman just exuded sexy.
And yes, Grace Kelly is classically beautiful. Apparently, she also got around before marrying into royalty.
Not hard. Grace had it all. She could bring the sexy, too.
Oh my. She really was just about perfect in every way.
I still wish I could have married her character in Rear Window.
Thanks for that photo link, it’s a keeper.
Take one guess as to what “movement” this Guardian columnist is speaking off…
Bowel?
“Socialism is stubborn. After decades of dormancy verging on death, it is rising again in the west.”
You mean after decades of democide, or are you just a stupid asshole?
“The reasons for socialism’s revival are obvious enough. Workers in the west have seen their living standards collapse over the past few decades. Young people in particular are being proletarianized in droves. They struggle to find decent work, or an affordable place to live, or a minimum degree of material security. Meanwhile, elites gobble up a growing share of society’s wealth.”
Stupid asshole. Got it.
YOU RUINED IT! NOW EVERYONE KNOWS!
As long as there are lazy, power-hungry, and envious people, there will be socialists, even if they use a different name.
At work yesterday, they announced that they’re moving my department to another state, and we can interview for other positions in the facility or take a severance package. When we left the meeting and went back to our work area, this lazy bitch blurted out, “can we still collect unemployment if we take the severance package?” She spent the rest of the night literally dancing and snapping her fingers at the prospect of “sitting on my ass for a few months”. Fucking lazy bum.
People like her are the reason that socialism has any lingering popularity.
Sorry about the pending layoff.
If you interview and don’t get picked, do you still get severance?
Yes, we’d still get the severance. And the manager was nice enough to put a hiring freeze on other departments in anticipation of our department going away. They’re going to meet with each of us individually to determine which jobs might be a good fit.
I’m not worried about it – I have a reputation in that building as someone who gets shit done, so it shouldn’t be a problem to get some other department to take me. That manager even made some comments to me about coming to work in one of his areas, and it was one of those comments that seems like a joke on the surface but you can tell there’s some seriousness behind it.
It’s kind of a bummer because I liked that job, but honestly, there is more opportunity for advancement in other departments. It’s a great company to work for, so I’m sure whatever job I end up in will be fine (plus, it’s a 4 minute drive from home, so ya can’t beat that).
Ah. Good luck. I hope everything works out. I know uncertainty can be a bother from time to time.
What state is it moving to?
I have a reputation in that building as someone who gets shit done, so it shouldn’t be a problem to get some other department to take me.
Could go pear-shaped: they could promote you to management.
*shudder*
I work only nine minutes from home, and I thought I was lucky.
Sorry that happened to you. Have you decided your course?
Sorry to hear that.
Do you have an option of moving with the facility?
I’m sure I could, but it’s just an entry-level position – not really worth moving for.
When he said Bubbles can be beneficial I thought he might be talking about Trailer Park Boys.
#MeToo
It’s so precious that the Guardian views itself as a vanguard of the proletariat and not as part of the hated elites.
It’s all there is on the Left anymore–the process is more complete in some countries than others but is occurring in all of them. Spiked has been very insightful about pointing this out. Labour’s much-ballyhooed left-right inner struggle, while everyone hasn’t been looking, has become entirely a struggle between bougie centrist technocrats and fashionable bougie radicals. The extremely upper-middle-class Jeremy Corbyn now caters to a solidly upper-middle-class “left wing” of Labour. He addressed Glastonbury because that’s his base. He sits down for a puff interview and can’t even answer a question what’s his favorite cookie without lecturing that he disapproves of junk food. The most working class thing about him is that he is still rather obviously pro Brexit. Corbynistas are Guardianistas and that’s all there is.
This was one of the things that helped push me away, psychologically if not intellectually, into reconsidering the Left piece by piece, seeing what it had become. To this day (for that reason, and for its Unionism, no-compromises hatred of the IRA, and its social conservatism) the DUP is my favorite party in the UK, even though I disagree with them on a lot. It’s the only truly working-class party left, and I have to respect them for it.
Sympathizing with the plight of the poor is human; and capitalism has proven itself as the most effective way to raise people out of poverty, thus, moral considerations aside, it makes sense to support it. If our leaders (left, right, up, down, whatever) were serious about raising people’s living standards, they’d drop the socialism and the crony corporatism and start advocating free markets.
Free markets don’t offer nearly as much chance for corruption and consolidation of power though.
ZARDOZ INQUIRES – “YOU KNOW WHO ELSE WAS FROM AUSTRIA AND TURNED A HARD EYE TOWARD FOREIGNERS?”
Emperor Ferdinand II?
Falco?
The luck dragon?
Maria Von Trapp?
Tommy Robinson got sentenced to 13 months in prison today for filming outside a courthouse. Hopefully he will not actually go to prison.
Moment English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson was arrested while filming outside grooming trial
The 35-year-old was held outside Leeds Crown Court on suspicion of breaching the peace and put in the back of a police van
Dude’s gonna get murdered in the pen. I rather think that’s the point.
The whole thing is such utter bullshit.
I do like how the Scottish Sun, appropriately enough, makes the regular Sun look like the Financial Times.
“If it’s not Scottish, it’s crap!”
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgzfxs
Just fucking shameful, England is done.
They really are. I hope Robinson survives.
Nice, ummm, ears!
I hate myself for noticing she only has 1 earbud inserted.
That bothered me too. Why isn’t she using a bluetooth headset? I use a bluetooth headset for my work and I don’t have big bouncy tits.
A second earbud would not work. Think about the logistics for a second, and its impact upon the aesthetics of the composition. There is no place for it.
She could run the cord behind her.
Do I have to think of everything?
Safe! nice titties too!
https://youtu.be/rRzxEiBLQCA
Not as hot, but a much better song.
Weirdos…………….
Over 182M views?
They’re big time.
I concur.
I dont even know how to respond to that. You dont comment as much as you used to but by God when you do….
Just experiencing a busy time in life right now. So I’m focusing on quality as opposed to…
I couldn’t finish that with a straight face.
Hypnotic.
Approved.
For some reason, every time I scroll through looking for new comments, I pause here. And the girlfriend hasn’t killed me yet.
Hail Zardoz! I’m thinking about adding a 224 Valkyrie upper to my collection for long range cleansing. What say you mighty one?
Do you shoot that much long range? I thought the whole point of 224 was super long ranges.
So how did it work out?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dd6SCdBUQAEy5Zt.jpg
Ultra long range:
6.5 Creedmoor
22-.250
.300 RUM
Or a .224 Valkyrie.
Or all of them.
I want a personal Thor system.
carer is a horribly british word.
Rob I think it was you asking about gesha coffee. I roasted this one yesterday and it is amazing.
https://www.sweetmarias.com/guatemala-acatenango-gesha-lot-227.html
i dont drink coffee, wasnt me.
Sorry.
Mmmm, geisha coffee….
It’s like they didn’t Carer less…
That sounds less like ZARDOZ than a sexist 1960s judge quipping at the plaintiff over his reading classes to a tittering press gallery as he reduces the jury verdict to $500.
*glasses. What an odd typo.
It’s not as easy to find an isolated 12 year old girl as you’d think. Beggers can’t be choosers.
whoa, where’d all the comments go?
Ya I crawled in here to an empty field. Did the old Mary Mammal role through?
Nothing says “legit” like a politically-motivated jury award that “sends a message”.
Eh, I don’t think she’s endangering her chances in appeal by saying that. I think sending a message is probably considered a perfectly legitimate function of a jury when deciding an award.
Well, the inevitable shitshow when the time comes to reduce it to something approaching reality ought to be interesting.
The internet:
https://twitter.com/jes8965/status/999739419815886848
So…is she Jewish?
So many things to make sure I don’t overlook. Just so I can get on the road and sit in traffic tomorrow.
Oh, and I’m officially on vacation now.
Yuck – sitting in traffic doesn’t sound like my idea of a vacation.
That’s why you’re not a bureaucrat, Rhywun.
I need to get out of the area, and everyone else will be on the road whenever I pick, so I’m resigned to being in traffic on the first day. Luckily, I should be good once I get some distance and make my way to Harrisburg.
I just have a love/hate thing with “travel”. Yeah, getting away is fun but the A-to-B almost universally sucks. I just took a two-day puddle jump from NY to CLE and the travel part sucked ass. It sounds like you’re doing a road trip though, which is not my cup of tea, but I hope the “travel” part works out for you.
My personality has been described as ‘Phlegmatic’. If I don’t have any special stressors (I have to be there by X or I miss Y), I can sit through the task of getting to B without getting perturbed. (It helps that I made sure I had 108 hours of audiobooks loaded on the USB stick to avoid complete boredom)
My boss convinced me to share an Uber with him to the airport when I still had something like 3 hours to wait instead of my original plan which was to cut out of work a couple hours early and wander around downtown, check out some sights, etc. An hour later I’m sitting in the airport bored out of my fucking mind and I get a text that my flight is delayed an hour and a half. GAAAAH
Why’d you let him talk you into it?
Because I’m an idiot.
Happy vacation. Hope you enjoy the road trip. I’ve got one planned with the girlfriend the first week of July.
Thank you. I should be poking in to the various threads from time to time when idle.
“RT if you wish to enlist in the meme war against hate and misinformation from the alt-right”
https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1000049577473568770
What could possibly go wrong?
I must have passed the age when I am capable of full adjustment to cultural changes, because I persistently read “RT” as “Russia Today.”
“Right turn?” “Right Trigger?” “Random Thought?”
Redolent Taint.
RedTube.
Put Hogg’s head on the guy in your previous comment.
These ladies are [REDACTED] and so [REDACTED] they’ll [REDACTED] your [REDACTED].
http://archive.is/VxPI0
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to [REDACTED] my [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] with a belt while staring at #56.
I stopped at 2. We’ll, not really, but there was no reason to go farther.
#3: GO STI? Uhhh… no thanks.
Seen on CNN: IS TRUMP’S WITHDRAW FROM IRAN DEAL CAUSING HIGHER GAS PRICES?
Yeah, because gas is never more expensive on summer holiday weekends.
There is absolutely nothing that CNN can’t use to try to make Trump look bad.
It’s like how everything proves Global Warming and nothing disproves it.
CNN is not a news organization.
“‘Not your f-ing country’: Fremont woman’s racist tirade against Asian-American veteran goes viral
The woman also makes a derogatory slant eyes gesture toward Ahn and says, “ugly Chinese,” even though Ahn is Korean.
Ahn said that he is planning to file a hate crime charge against the woman, but the Fremont Police Department has stated that no crime took place.”
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Fremont-racist-video-Facebook-Asian-American-rant-12942545.php
A rabbi and a Korean are sitting next to each other on an airplane. The rabbi turns to the Korean and says, “I’ll never forgive you Chinese for what you did at Pearl Harbor.”
The Korean is stunned for a moment and responds “First of all, it was the Japanese who bombed Pearl Harbor, not the Chinese. And anyway, I’m not Japanese or Chinese, I’m Korean.” The rabbi says “Chinese, Japanese, Korean, what’s the difference?” The Korean thinks for a moment and says “I’ll never forgive you Jews for what you did to the Titanic.” The rabbi says “What?! The Jews had nothing to do with that! It hit an Iceberg!” The Korean says “Iceberg, Greenberg, Goldberg, what’s the difference?”
It’s decades-old old hat to remark upon black “gangstas”‘ obsession with and emulation of Italian-American gangsters and their culture. The endless tendency of rappers to give themselves Italianesque stage names and the like has been one clearly manifested aspect of that. But was Iceberg Slim possibly going for some of that Jewish mobster aura when he chose his pimp name? This is a largely unexplored angle.
Nazi Titanic
Couldn’t be worse than the two unbelievably crappy low-budget feature animated films made about it. Or more insulting to the actual heroes of the disaster than the James Cameron flick.
And every one of these is national fucking news now.
That was hilarious.
Why are these things still “going viral”? Has it really become so rare to find some idiot doing this kind of thing? Wow, I’ve been stunned at the decline in racism even over my short lifetime but things must be even better than I thought.
No, silly, it’s evidence that America is more racist than evar.
And remember, there is a direct causal relationship between Trump’s presidency and that incident.
During the 8 years that Obama was in office, there were no racist incidents in America.
Not true–everyone who didn’t vote for him was doing so out of racism. Anyone opposing his righteous decrees was superultraracist.
Back when when working the night shift at a call centre you had to see the STUPIDITY that came out of our mouths. The trash talking between the Chinese guys and Italians was epic while everyone in between got their shots in. And then there was poor Linda stuck in the middle of it all. Quietly taking in the retardation. We were all friends and hung out always organizing dinners to Chinatown, Little Italy and elsewhere. A couple of times a few of them even went on vacation.
People today would want to throw us in prison or take sensitivity training.
And equally interesting that any video in the opposite direction will almost never go viral, or perhaps will even be blocked by YouTube.
That narrative’s not going to narrative itself.
Those black kids in Chicago who tortured a white retarded kid while calling him all sorts of racist names, is about the only one that got any attention, and they did that on Facebook Live! And then, even with actual video documentation of their behavior, they were deemed ‘not guilty’ or got minimal punishment (don’t remember exactly now, but it was just a slap on the wrist at best IIRC).
How about every time some girl says a white guy yanked off her hijab it makes national news, surely indicative of the thousands of times it’s happening daily, yet only this brave young woman was able to come forward? And every single time it has turned out to be a hoax (that later information never reported on most media outlets, of course).
I still really can’t fathom why major news types so desperately want to believe these myths about how horrible our country is. I just can’t believe they know what they are doing and it’s solely for ratings. My best guess is from the several TV anchors I’ve met through my life — each and every one was a competitor for the stupidest, most naive person I’ve ever met. Thus, they push this stuff because they actually think it’s the truth, as do their peers, so why dig deeper? Just read the teleprompter, then it’s off to be the paid MC at the charity event downtown.
So….they’re all like Anchorman be it Ferrel or Vaughn, eh?
I’ve never seen that movie except in bits and pieces (I can only take so much of Will Ferrell) but the parts I saw seemed almost like a documentary.
To give you an example — I chatted briefly with a TV anchorman at a cocktail party in San Francisco in 1989. The guy said “so, you’re a doctor, do you think this AIDS thing has legs, or it’s going to be a passing fad?” I am not making this up.
It has legs,
It knows how to use them.
Doesn’t like Asians, yet drives a Mazda.
O Canada.
https://youtu.be/Q8F51OIw8A0?t=69
We may not have a mighty military but we could have one but choose not too.
Canadians can be bad ass.
to
For you Rufus
https://youtu.be/kb3tfk8dxvU
John McWhorter piece on race-justice-fetish as “Atonement” (linked earlier by others) – very good, worth reading.
Midway through he touches on something that always drives me nuts about the sanctimonius fucks on the Twitter: when’s the last time you saw some pink haired SJW volunteering to teach in prisons, or working soup kitchens in winter?
its not about any actual hands-on engagement with the real problems that real people face; its about performing your moral *feels* in front of your peers, and expressing deep emotional concern about the ‘issue’ (divorced entirely from messy reality)
what i think would be hilarious would be a Reality-TV show which sent 6 very hip SJW types, ranging from your pipecleaner limbed Antifa marxist dudes, to the overweight purplehaired Tumblr girl, to some woke-BLM writer from Alternet (Chauncey DaVega!)… etc…. and sending them to one of America’s most persistently poor and disadvantaged communities, to spend a year “trying to fix shit”.
They could each have goals, like, “help drug dealer get his GED”, or “help welfare mom get a job”, or, “convince local preacher why communism is the REAL solution to poverty”, or try and unionize workers at a fast food franchise… The way you “win” the show is actually making the most progress in your task
Social Justice Challenge: Trenton, season 1… next year, we’ll send them to the the Gulf Coast, and then Detroit…
I need to call my film-producer friend and pitch this @ him.
I’ve dreamed of a Junkyard Wars meets Survivorman style show, but instead of building something, the goal would be to build a shelter and gather food. One conservative/libertarian team and one liberal/prog team.
Like The Colony with competing teams?
I thought the movie “Series 7: The Contenders” deserved more recognition
i think it was actually made by the guy who created MTV’s “real world”. you can tell he hated what reality-tv had become.
*and yes, the star was the girl in the hole from “Silence of the Lambs”
What is a so-called “liberal” (ahem), as opposed to a prog?
The conservative/libertarian partnership, though, does seem promising, since as everyone knows the key to a good partner-competition show is some amusing intrateam tension.
CONSERVATIVE: Yeah dude, done! (high five) Wow, those guys are still trying to work out how to sharpen a stick.
(CONSERVATIVE and LIBERTARIAN lean on shelter, catch their breath.)
LIBERTARIAN: (casually takes out J, lights it, puffs, nudges CONSERVATIVE to offer a hit)
CONSERVATIVE: (double take) Whoa, man, no! Jeez! I don’t do that stuff! Paul’s First Letter to the…
LIBERTARIAN: (sudden look of understanding) Oh, yeah. No worries. I get you, dude. (CONSERVATIVE relaxes a bit, smiles back to normal.) I catch your drift. (Takes out bottle of amyl nitrite; raises eyebrows, nudging CONSERVATIVE)
CONSERVATIVE: (wide-eyed, befuddled sputtering)
Have you checked your blood sugar?
No, why do you ask?
If I did I would definitely use LIBERTY MEDICAL SUPPLY. And eat some tasty Quaker Oats too.
I’ve got a theory that feminism is a cruel conspiracy of upper-crust women against their poorer sisters, a way to empower their own, already superior stations by robbing their lesser peers of whatever grace and inherent worth femininity possesses, but also by denigrating their poorer sisters’ fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons—men who are important and even vital for their wellbeing. When you’re a trust funder or have a lucrative sinecure pushing feminist theory in literature or academia or government, your horseshit patriarchy screeds don’t really touch you or even your woke soyboy husband. But it sure as shit is going to affect the women with sons in public schools.
I think Coates and his racialist ilk, even more than career race baiters, hatched a similar conspiracy with upper-crust whites: you extol my asinine prose as the Word of Black Jesus, and more importantly, shower me with cash money, and I’ll give you catharsis. I’ll let you revel in your guilt for the price of my book. And all it will cost you is any kinship you’d ever have felt with your poorer white cousins. All it will cost you is any possible rapprochement with the greater Black America.
Something just clicked for me about Hamas and its various mafia predecessors hatching a devil’s bargain with Gulf states to hold Palestinians hostage against Israel, even if it meant Palestinians are kept in a permanent state of immiseration and often used as unarmed foot soldiers for the cowards.
Sure. Palestine is the crazy cutter girl version of an almost nation. Any time you ignore them, the razor comes out.
Cheston won’t likely receive the full settlement — but the verdict sends a powerful message, Stewart said on Twitter.
“Want to know what a victim of rape is worth? 1 billion. Record 12 person jury verdict. Juries are saying no to sexual assault and holding companies accountable!” he wrote.
Hmm… if the settlement is reduced, which I think is likely (disclosure: I am not a lawyer), then she’s not worth a billion dollars. Even if it isn’t reduced, isn’t her lawyer going to get a cut, which would mean she is worth less than a billion.
She’s actually worth $738 million. My math is exact on this.
Christ, what an asshole
Yeah, because Bioware needs more bad “press. I wonder what EA thinks of this…
They think you SFed the link.
*sigh*
https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/mass-effect-andromeda-review/1900-6416638/
I prefer This review.
That’s been going on all day on Twitter.
And? Who uses Twitter?
I saw “GamerGate” and backed out toot-sweet. The day isn’t long enough to waste time going down that rabbit hole again.
The short of it is “Game Dev mocked dead critic an hour after critic passed”. The source of the acrimony is irrelevent to my reaction (summed up above)
The politics of personal destruction. Fuck me, what a cancerous way to live.
So he’s finally gone. RIP; I know him most from his Secret Hitler Let’s Play, which I watched to get a handle on the game.
Too bad he had to go out in a particular fashion, which you might have heard about. Some prankster asked the Trap Question at a panel he was co-hosting at a friend’s con. And apparently one of his friends who is trans told him to drop the hammer, and he self-righteously went on Twitter and declared the question “transphobic” (in reality it is not even trapphobic, and the only thing transphobic is suggesting that it had anything to do with trans at all) and demanded the offender’s name so he could be kicked out and lifetime banned. And when he got the inevitable pushback he started abusing and impugning the morality of anyone who even disagreed with him on that point, saying they were “transphobic” and not welcome at the con either. And just generally behaving like an abusive, authoritarian asshole in various other ways I don’t remember, causing a lot of people to notice previous such occasions and even his own past “transphobic” tweets. He was always solid prog GamerGate, but a lot of people were quite a bit disappointed. Many people, even most (I think KiA remained solidly on his side) still felt a lot of gratitude for his crucial early, courageous support of GamerGate and figured he was dying besides, so they’d give him the benefit of the doubt. But some people acknowledged that, and really let him have it. Eventually he and the trans friend broke up, with him kind of looking the bigger man over the matter.
Man do I know a lot about this for a non gamer.
I used to watch his reviews. Found them very good and his tastes and mine lined up well. I’d give him a pass on the transphobic things. He got an incredible amount of flack during GamerGate, and with him dying, i think he just lost the will to engage with SJWs and went full appeasement. Regardless, how miserable do you have to be to celebrate them death of man leaving behind a wife and kid. Fuck all these people.
RIP TB. May your frame rates forever be high.
The girlfriend did something nice for me, and bought me beer at the grocery store. Unfortunately, she didn’t check the freshness dates on the bottles. So I now have a six pack of IPA that expires today. I don’t know if I’ll make it through, but I’ll do my best.
Hurry up!
BTW, any updates on BIF? i’ll be ready to ship Tomorrow/Tuesday
I’m planning on sending out the assignments tomorrow. Then comes the fun of picking out what I’m sending to people, and I can guarantee that there will be at least one crowler (32 oz can, filled at the tap), from a brewery that doesn’t distribute.
I have one, maybe two left to buy, I’m looking at it from a,”here’s what I like, I hope you do too” perspective, Emphasizing local beers
Don’t worry, when I send out the shipping assignment, I also pass along the likes/don’t likes from the person who you’ll be shipping to. Interestingly enough, all of our participant’s states are on the border of the country in one way or another. And the only way I’ll be fixing the draws is so that I don’t ship to someone I shipped to before (hello Mikes and Mexican Sharpshooter!), nor to the other Ohio participant (considering it would be cheaper for us to drive to each other’s city, and we could get all the same beers for the most part).
You’re sending out the BIF assignments tomorrow? Maybe I should have joined up this round. Oh well. Next time maybe.
I’m sure you’ll do a good job on that IPA. The IPA might last a bit past the expiration date. Good on your girlfriend for buying you beer!
If you want, I can still fit you in.
It’s a tough decision, but I think I should sit this one out. Thanks! I’ve got a lot to do around the house and at work. I’ve been procrastinating and I need to stop that.
To clarify: Procrastinating on stuff around the house… stuff at work… no procrastination there.
What are the logistics for shipping beer?
Pack well, no glass touching, box in a box, the usual, but no restrictions via UPS
Here’s a good guide. Just remember to avoid USPS, shipping alcohol with them is a felony. I’d also add cans ship better then bottles (they’re lighter and less likely to break).
I’ll join up next round. Guess I have some researching to do.
That’s why I have to drink all the vodka. You know it goes bad once it’s open.
Andrew Heaton stole my idea:
Minimum Wage: Bad for Humans, Good for Robots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgDk50dHbjM
See my article posted here:
Raise the Minimum Wage & End Robot Unemployment
Publix caves and Boss Hogg claims another scalp:
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/david-hogg-publix-parkland-florida-school-shooting/
You might say Publix chicken? OMWC’s mother approves.
That’s where I heard that name from!
/Cali
Well, looks like we were wrong about everything. This isn’t dying; Mike Bloomberg et al. know what they’re doing with Hoggy, it isn’t a mistake; he’s as powerful as ever and isn’t just desperately and cluelessly hanging on, he’s in the driver’s seat.
This is a hell of a strong revision of the way I’m seeing the world, but this does call for it. This move by Hogg was so ridiculous, so over the top, coming so far after his apparent peak, etc. I thought this was some sort of power-drunk fever fantasy of his, but if he can pull this off, then his enemies are the fools not him.
We have a similar issue in the patent field. Some cave to the trolls and embolden them. Some give the trolls no quarter, and the trolls avoid them. Some go on the offensive. Those are the ones the trolls are truly afraid of.
Wanna undercut the gun grabbers? Use every play in the play book to put the on the defensive. The picture we should be painting is of boot-licking, woman hating, head in the sand sissies who can’t bear the thought of having to ensure their own safety.
It wouldn’t hurt to hammer home an understanding of the various motivations behind gun control in this and other countries, either.
I agree of course, and like I’m always saying I’ve been getting extremely frustrated at the standard post-mass shooting strategy of crumpling into a corner hoping no one would notice you, trying just to thwart as much gun control pushes as possible, until the heat dies down. This does “seem to have worked so far”; the gun control poll numbers have indeed receded to normal. But I continue to think this is foolish. This time things indeed were different in many respects, and we shouldn’t hide our heads in the sand about it. We cannot, indeed, do this forever, for mass shooting after mass shooting. Our time will indeed run out, and things are already different in many ways. We need to actively, aggressively, defiantly, unapologetically push back against this narrative–and indeed, push back even in the wake of a mass shooting. What are they going to do, impugn our integrity super-duper hard if we do? I don’t know what the fuck we are so scared of.
I don’t agree with the conflation of “disparate impact” with deliberate racism, but I think it would be helpful to point out that by the Left’s own logic, gun control is racist and unacceptable. They say voter ID is tantamount to excluding non-whites from the voting process. Eric Holder even floated the idea that background checks for employment is racist. So how can they possibly be OK with ID checks and background checks (plus a whole lot more) just to exercise a Constitutional right?
I think the pro-gun side would do well to start calling them out on this inconsistency.
Amen. That is an angle rarely brought up. But they would hand wave it away that nobody needs to own a gun unlike voting which is a right for even the dead, as well as guaranteed employment with a living wage what them CEO’s make.
So who’s the Newegg on the gun control side?
/There’s a reason that I buy most of my computer equipment from Newegg.
Forget Newegg. We need a gun control version of Unified Patents
Damn, I never heard of them. I’ll need to add them to my list of groups to support.
I love Newegg for never backing down on patents.
They are a party to the suit that will decide if states can levy internet sales taxes too, so they’ve got that going for them.
He only has as much power as wussified corporate America grants him which, as it turns out, is a hell of a lot.
Die In. Do they really want to have a body count contest? Oppressive govts vs Less Oppressive govts. Not going to look good for them.
The #1 cause of unnatural death in the previous century is government. Democide, death by government, has been more deadly than any amount of anything.
Publix will lose more customers than they gain. Contrary to what one hears in the news, Americans love their guns.
Never give in. Never apologize. You will regret it.
Never give up! Never surrender!
Die with honor. Never yield.
Any attempt to arrest a senior officer of OCP results in shutdown.
Nah. This is Publix. There’s no alternative in most places in Florida.
And for the rest of the state… it’s still Publix.
Wal-Mart is king where I live. Of Wal-Mart took an anti-gun stance, they would lose business. Maybe not a lot, but some. Americans love their guns.
Funny how Hillary didn’t push anti-gun stuff on Wal*Mart while she was making bank on the board of directors.
They already have taken an antigun stance, try buying an AR-15 at a Wal-Mart.
I’ll bet they have suffered for that decision. Also, not all wal-marts. There were ARs on the shelf last week at the Ozark Arkansas walmart.
Which makes the move even more baffling. Why give in if you won’t lose anything? Until people on the other side get just as vocal as these idiots, companies will keep caving just to avoid even the appearance of bad PR.
Sigh… Here I am after a good day of sweat equity on the yard, a good meal at a local pizzeria, enjoying a nice glass of rye, neat, while I mindlessly watch reruns of Diners, Drive In’s and Dives, and I read that a company that I never expected to cave gave into that androgenous twerp, David Hogg. There is no justice.
I think it may be time to purchase another firearm out of spite. I’ve had my eye on. 20ga Browning 725 Feather O/U. It has a pistol grip, so it counts as an “Assault Weapon”.
And I really hate auto correct and the inability to edit my posts…
Well the Germans called shotguns inhumane so they have to be evil.
I made the mistake of stopping by a local gun store and they have a Vepr 12 on the rack. They are overpriced for what they are but since they are no longer importable and piss the correct people wrong, I might just have to get it.
“But, that Zyklon is outta sight, man!”
Oh, and if you can afford it, grow the economy a little.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaXigSu72A4
I can afford it, so planning on grabbing it tomorrow.
I truly hope that, when you complete the purchase, you say, ‘Hey Hogg-come grab THIS gun!”
I’m petty like that.
I’m old school, I do it to stick my finger in Schumer’s eye, but yeah, this one is for Hogg. Also, I built my second AR-15 parts gun when Billary was elected.
Speaking of Arrested Development, did anyone else see this?
Yeah, it’s still not that good. I just watched it to get ready for Season 5… and it’s still meh. Perhaps it’s time for ANUSTART.
“Where’s my little girl? Daddy has to get his rocks off.”
“I’m here to show her daddy’s thing.”
Beard: “Oh, so she’s you’re daughter?”
Tobias: “Yes… Maeby.”
One of the best sequences in the whole series. I haven’t even watched season four, but I saw that part on YouTube and have it memorized now.
Oops… “daddy’s Thing.”
James is lighting it up. Not really a good sign. He’s gonna get gassed by the fourth.
Oof I’m glad I got out of dodge before that madness. But I’ll root for them anyway. Even though I’m actually watching NYCFC in Houston.
I don’t have a dog in this fight. Just wanna see the drama involved. Really looking forward to the World Cup next month.
Well, NYCFC are playing like garbage. Over to b-ball.
Woo Pig Sooie
Hunter Wilson has been part of every Arkansas home run this season.
Wilson, the charismatic reserve infielder with the nickname “Cowboy,” took the responsibility upon himself to place a plastic Hog hat on each home run hitter when they returned to the dugout 82 times this season, including once when he was a base runner.
On the 83rd homer, Wilson wore the crown.
His stunning two-out grand slam in the ninth inning gave No. 7 Arkansas some breathing room in its 8-2 win over No. 3 Florida at the SEC Tournament on Friday.
These are #OmaHawgs
Check out this twit thread to an NPR story: https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1000137201122856960
From the actual article that was obviously written by an intern:
I am not sure how that does not fall under the new definition, but I am not Swedish.
Do you know what else has been on the rise over the past several years in Sweden?
Fans of History’s Vikings coming to visit?
It ain’t testosterone levels, at least among the natives.
I think some ladies are getting testosterone injections against their will; if you know what I mean….I’m talking about Olympic athletes, it’s an epidemic, there aoughta be a law!
I know who can pull us good folks at ESPN out of our partially politically induced tailspin, Keith Olbermann. Joe Sixpack will just love it!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2018/05/25/keith-olbermann-back-sportscenter-expanded-espn-role/644277002/
ESPN lost me about 7 years ago because of their bullshit. 7 years ago I didn’t even have a political preference. I just saw bullshit and recognized it as such.
They went for personalities over analysis. Steven A Smith makes money because he’s loud not insightful. Olbermann is a personality and, apparently, they just don’t learn. People want sports, not to be lectured to by people making millions a year.
Do people really watch sports shows on top of just sports? I don’t.
Many people do. Good analysis of a trade, or draft or why a team is doing well. People like that stuff. Combine that with highlights you might have missed and you have an audience. The problem is that good stuff doesn’t come near 24 hours a day so you end up with a stupid amount of filler.
Highlights OK but I find that I get enough of that other shit for me from the commentators during the game.
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Watching Zlatan-free LA Galaxy and the commentators dancing around the idea without coming out and saying that he is an asshole is comical.
I used to, when it only told me news related to the game. (only NFL, don’t care about other sports) But it jumped off the deep end into salacious pop talk long ago.
I watch Men in Blazers which is more of a comedy act than a sports show. Other than that, meh.
The more serious sports journalism you read/watch to learn more about the sports you enjoy. The talk radio type stuff isn’t really about informing yourself, it’s about the personalities and the loudmouthed silliness. I can’t believe anyone listens to their favorite call in show, or reads their favorite column in the Post, or watches Wilbon and Kornheiser or whatever, to actually hear anything intelligent.
Sports is an escape. It’s a whole little world you can retreat to, where the highest of stakes–the fiercest battles, the kinds of things that make you tear your hair out in anger, or cry with joy, or whatever, are actually the most utterly insignificant things imaginable when you step back into the real world. It’s a little playpen world, a diorama world. And your friends on the inside are your enemies on the outside and vice versa, and you have “issues” that people debate passionately about that have nothing to do with the issues that divide us and so forth.
I think when you bring real-life politics into that sacred space you betray others, you pervert its sanctity as an escape from life’s travails. That is why everyone is so angry at people who have been doing that. Life is heavy enough; let us have somewhere else to go for a little bit once in a while.
When he did straight up sports many years ago I thought he was pretty good. If ESPN can confine him to that he should be fine. If not then this is commercial suicide.
JFC I’m back in NJ to go to my cousin’s kid’s bat mitzvah. Finding a diner open at 11 PM so I can grab dinner is nice but the drive from the hotel from the airport reminded very quickly why I love left in the first place.
Because it’s New Jersey?
Jug handles?
10 Fascinating Examples of Unintended Consequences. Unintended consequences aren’t necessarily unforeseen.
Oh, and I hope I wasn’t the only one carrying the lilac towel today.
So I don’t get to watch many NFL games while drinking so I think I might enjoy some CFL games this summer. I knew a guy who played in the CFL. Their preseason starts Sunday. If I can find a way to watch the game I think I will.
LOL
This seems like a press related suit. The movie is directed by Jim Henson’s son; so, um, who else can claim to be “The creators of “Sesame Street” “?
Dayum, I thought I was cynical but I’m probably not cynical enough.
It was done under an arm of the Henson Company, by the guy that runs the company. Excuse me for being cynical.
That doesn’t necessarily mean it has any association with whoever’s doing SS these days.
Well, I’ll be. Without knowing all the structuring you may be correct in being a tad less skeptical.
Although, I still think it’s a PR move. Sesame Street stays pure, the movie gets press.
I used to know the whole story about the breakup of the Henson empire (which actually was delayed by his death) but I may be too tired to recount it.
But yeah, I can’t believe that, as you said, Children’s Television Workshop (ahem, Sesame Workshop) cannot afford an attorney smart enough to tell them they are going to have this laughed so hard out of court they’ll hear it in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
Also, Disney owns them.
Disney owns all the muppets except those on Sesame Street (now owned by Sesame) and Bear in Whatever, I don’t remember. They also own the name “Muppet,” although Sesame can use that name to refer to the Henson puppets on their own show. Henson makes new Muppets on a regular basis for Sesame, and I suppose they make the Muppets for Disney as well though I haven’t heard about that. They themselves can make Muppetlike puppets all they want (they have always made plenty of puppets that were not Muppets) for their own and other productions; they just can’t call them Muppets.
Once the divorce was final there was no new footage of Kermit, who obviously used to be one of their most prominent, or other non-native Muppets on Sesame Street. They could continue to use the old footage but eventually phased it out for their newer, ever more shitty material.
Too bad. Kermit as the reporter and other things was one of my favs as a kid.
Come to think of it, playing the first twenty years or so of Sesame Street up until around the death of Mr Hooper would probably be superior than just about any episode now being shown.
Honestly, I had never heard of the film until the trailer before Deadpool 2. I think the defense just has to use Avenue Q as a defense.
The outrage! just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it.
Damnit; I really need to get to sleep or passout; I have to be back at work in 6hrs!
Damn, that sucks. I have to be back at work in… *grabs calculator* …103 hours!
/asshole
As in…that’s where you have to be back in 103 hours? Is that a fed rule: Gotta have 103 hours of down-time before hitting the highway again?
#TruckersandFuckers
Ha-ha.
Also, no.
Oh, well. We can all dream.
Of course, that could get messy….
And dangerous
So true.
From someone who’s at work now, enjoy your 103 hours.
I will. Sorry you have to be at work. Of course, it’s better than the alternative.
Oh, I’ll get my 103 (or so) hours soon enough. This is just part of working graveyard.
But, thanks still.
There was a pretty funny Twitter comment about narrating Andy Dufresne’s rape scene… I can’t remember it, though.
Well, that was Gilmored to hell.
Excellent post, Eddie. I learned a lot about Tammany Hall.
Wow! Two days and nary a mention of Morgan Freeman’s #thatguydidmetoo… I personally want to believe that every one of his weird negro freckles is like a bed-post notch.
If God himself is a misogynist abuser it can’t be wrong.
If he can turn five fingers into seven just think of the implications.
This has been a very strange month indeed.
The train is going to be late. No problem. Better safe than sorry and all that. Just don’t say, “It will be only a few more minutes” when you don’t really know how long it’s gonna be. Wasted an hour and a half waiting for Godot, mean depot.
Your train?
After seeing Tres Cool’s avatar all evening…
We agreed to some latenight/international chat recently. I’m up.
“(ESPN) went for personalities over analysis. Steven A Smith makes money because he’s loud not insightful. Olbermann is a personality and, apparently, they just don’t learn. People want sports, not to be lectured to by people making millions a year.”
ESPN packages perspectives that run the gammut, and you pick your poison or opt out. You can watch all the sports you want on ESPN and completely opt out of the yappy analysis…..or skip the whole network…whatever. I like PTI: Kornheiser and Wilbon are a fun sort of old married couple picking at each other….they’re funny, and sometimes they’re edgy. I record them every day and fast forward through fully half their presentation. I don’t care about men’s basketball or the personality/drama stuff, but I do like their takes on baseball and college football…..maybe 10 minutes a day.
Bomani Jones could be one of us: sharp, keen, glib. He takes what’s there, doesn’t need to exaggerate or mischaracterize to make a point. Slate and the NYT could learn from him.
Dan LaBatard is funny; so’s his dad. But I just don’t care. His logic can be sound, but I’m already full up from my 10 minutes of PTI.
Smith isn’t my cup of tea: I’m not heavily invested in contrived and contorted perspectives that are thinly veneered rationalizations for underclass failure and rude, racial aggression; he’s the well-paid onscreen personification of the trashed out Monte Carlo next to you at the traffic light: loud, distorted, broken begging for attention and control; if he were a $300 car with $1200 rims about to be repossessed, my analogy would be perfect. BUT: lots of guys drive trashed out Monte Carlos, wear their pants half way down their thighs, and think Smith is da man…..shrug: takes all kinds. They want to act out, not be accepted, not fit in; Smith’s their guy; go in peace. Frankly, Smith reminds me a lot of Trump: loud, unprincipled, and unhinged…..ranting has worked so far; I’m surprise more Trump apologist here don’t defend Smith as well: it’s the same pose.
I don’t believe in big government, so Olbermann is not my boy, but he is in a class by himself. Few on television in any market, sports or otherwise, are as well-read or as well-travelled. He writes and presents as gracefully as anyone; his essays during his father’s death were deeply open and vulnerable, profoundly moving. He could write op ed pieces for any paper on nearly any topic; we libertarians would seldom agree with him because his truth is about top men making good decisions about how they spend our money. But that doesn’t make him an island: a lot more folk believe what he’s selling than our philosophy or the SASmith tripe. I always liked Buckley because he could illustrate any point by a comparison in history, mythology, or art; KO is cut from the same sort of serious cloth.
I score Trump and Smith assholes: I wouldn’t loan either one of them my weedeater or invite him across the fence for the barbecue Monday.
I score LeBatard a frat boy: I don’t have the energy for that anymore.
Kornheiser and Wilbon can come for brats, but after a few beers if they get pushy, I’ll call them a cab. Wilbon will get tossed early because I probably have a “plantation mentality.”
KO and I will stay up until 2am tippling by the fire, telling stories, comparing world views, and politely agreeing to disagree.
Hyperventilating, hysterical and hyena like howling is what Olbermann sounds like to me. He’s able to express emotional experiences so well because he’s ruled by them.
Before he revealed his insufferable uber-lefty side, and just did the evening sports report, he formed a pretty entertaining pair with Dan Patrick.
Back then, he did a good job of just being funny. I remember being shocked at what an asshole he was when he got away from sports.
Disgust vs Pure, venal hatred. Right vs left. It’s why I can have conversations with Righties I disagree with and not lefties I disagree with.
I put up with Wilbon more than I should because he’s a fellow Northwestern alum and I like the fact he’s a homer for us, even having that NU football helmet and the little Willy the Wildcat bobblehead behind him on the PTI show.
Weekend Smoking Menu
Saturday – Smoked BBQ Chicken Quarters
Sunday – Smoked Pork Belly Tacos
Monday – Pulled Pork and Brisket
Awesome. I’m having friends over for BBQ ribs tomorrow (KC-style BBQ sauce) and I’ll smoke some of my home-cured Canadian bacon over the residual coals.
I’m also going to make a champagne punch with grapefruit juice, raspberries, sliced lemons, a healthy splash of Cointreau, and obviously a bottle of champagne.