“The most delicious thing I have ever seen.” -Stupid Whale
Pilot Whale Dies in Thailand After Being Found With 17 Pounds of Plastic Bags in Its Stomach
A male pilot whale struggled for five days to stay alive in Thailand near the Malaysian border after rescuers found it with 17 pounds of plastic bags in its stomach, the Washington Post reported on Sunday, but it ultimately succumbed to its illnesses.
The whale died on Friday, the Post wrote, and an autopsy discovered what Thailand’s Department of Marine and Coastal Resources said were 80 plastic bags lodged in its stomach.
I keep seeing this story all over the place and every time, I think: Stupid fucking whale. 80 plastic bags, whale? Did they taste good or something, whale? 80?!? You couldn’t have stopped after, say, 50 plastic bags, you stupid fucking whale?
It’s far from the first time whales have turned up sick or dead from ingesting trash. Per the Post, experts say that the whale likely believed the bags were food:
Thai officials said they believe the whale mistook the floating plastic for food. Pilot whales primarily eat squid but are also known to hunt octopus, cuttlefish and small fish when squid prove elusive, the American Cetacean Society said.
That excuses eating the occasional bag, like “Oh, no! I accidentally ate one of those mysterious dark green potato chips that are sometimes in the bag!” but 80? 80 fucking bags, whale? You sure are one dumb fuck of a whale.
“What’s worse than Insane Clown Posse?” is supposed to be a rhetorical question, not a life goal.
Least surprising story or leastest surprising story?
A Second Woman, Then 17, Accuses Riff Raff of Sexual Misconduct
After a Melbourne woman named Eliza Stafford wrote on Facebook that Houston rapper Riff Raff drugged and raped her at a 2013 show, his Australian tour was swiftly canceled. Riff Raff has yet to respond to Stafford’s allegation, and now a second woman alleges that the rapper tried to coerce her into sex when she was a minor.
In a phone call with Jezebel, 20-year-old Kelsey Doucette, who shared her story on Facebook on Friday, says that she met Riff Raff when she was 17 years old at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin stop of Warped Tour in July 2015. Doucette attended the tour with four friends, two of whom confirmed the details of her story with Jezebel. Contacts for Riff Raff’s management and booking did not respond to requests for comment for this story. A press contact for Warped Tour also did not respond to a request for comment.
Look, ma’am. I’m not going to say you are as stupid as a plastic-bag eating whale, but you were at a Riff Raff “concert.” You have already made a questionable life choice on par with having your eyeballs tattooed. And then you go off alone with the guy who looks like the picture of a rapist in a children’s book about rapists? There’s no good time to be had here. None. There is only molestation.
tl;dr Buy the women in your life all the bear mace you can find.
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It sounds like all her friends were teenagers too so I know I should give some leeway here, but I can’t help wondering what her male friends’ thoughts were when they were told “Oh….he doesn’t want any guys coming in the van, only the girls”. Like, this feels like it could be a teachable moment about how being a good dude isn’t just not being a bad dude, it’s looking out for your girl friends and standing up to potentially sketchy behaviour from other dudes.
Really? I thought the lesson here was “don’t get in the van with a guy who looks like a rapist.”
But they are so cute!
What Is Nipah, the Virus Spread by Bats That’s Killing People in India?
A deadly viral disease spread by bats is once again infecting humans, but in this case, it isn’t Ebola. As of June 1, an outbreak of the Nipah virus has infected at least 18 people and killed 17 in Kerala, India, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported. The outbreak, which is the first to hit South India, raises fears of the disease becoming more far-reaching.
Nipah was discovered in 1998, when it sickened nearly 300 people and killed 100 in Malaysia (its name was taken from one of the villages where it first struck). Many of the victims had been farmers who contracted the virus through close contact with their pigs, which led to the euthanization of millions of pigs. But it turns out the pigs actually got the virus from another animal: It’s now known that fruit bats belonging to the genus Pteropus (otherwise called flying foxes) are the native carriers of Nipah.
Not everyone exposed to Nipah gets sick, but those who do develop flu-like symptoms of fever, cough, and headache within three to 14 days after being exposed. Often, the illness gets worse quickly, with sufferers developing pneumonia, acute respiratory distress, or neurological symptoms like seizures and coma within a day or two. There’s no cure or specific treatment for Nipah, and its mortality rate can range from 40 to 100 percent.
I can only assume that the bats were having sex with the pigs. Really, nothing else makes sense.
80 plastic bags weigh 17 pounds?
Maybe they were full of weed
+1 Square Grouper
Normally, they use use condoms and cocaine. Stupid whale isn’t even good at being a mule.
What do you think whales use as condoms?
That whale was a whore! He was the Rod Stewart of whales!
A blue whale has a 10 foot penis. That’s feet, not inches. I don’t know what they’d use for a condom, but a grocery bag ain’t cuttin’ it.
Pilot whales are much smaller. But still…. probably not in grocery bag territory.
A blue whale has a 10 foot penis.
On anything other than a SugarFree post, you might wonder how this could be worked into the conversation.
No
bodywhale needs 80 plastic bagsI’m speculating that plastic bags look like jellyfish to a pilot whale, and that pilot whales eat jellyfish.
Fuck You Dophin! Fuck You Whare!
The sad part – I know exactly what show you are talking about.
Why Sad,? Great show, one of the best
To be more specific, I knew the episode just from that one line. You are right the show itself is also great.
Marklar….
Titty sprinkles!
So because of retarded whales I have to pay a nickel for a plastic bag?
/Rufus plops down multiple items on conveyor belt at grocery check out.
Cashier: Will you need a bag?
Rufus: I’m not a hobo. Of course I need a fricken bag. How am I supposed to carry all these papayas?
No, because of retarded proggies.
Though, most of them are really fat, soooo….
Yep, retarded whales it is!
Retarded proggies who are saving the whales by re-using cloth grocery bags.
Although it’s getting quite common for people who use these cloth bags to get food poisoning from them, they’re in ERs all the time now.
You see, you need to wash those cloth bags after you use them to carry food.
Washing which, of course, uses more natural resources/energy than producing that little plastic bag would have. And people use those bags again for home trash liners, curbing their dogs, or many other things (apparently progs think you get a plastic bag from the supermarket and immediately throw it in the ocean).
*sigh* it’s ten cents in CA for a bag, and the little plastic ones are illegal now. Most places you can only get a paper bag for ten cents, which isn’t very good for carrying a cold six-pack, it will fall right through. Fortunately some markets and pharmacies now have super-duper thick ‘recyclable’ plastic bags, still ten cents, but at least you can carry cold or wet things in those.
That, plus the vast, vast majority of plastic in the ocean comes from other continents. Having the US stop using plastic bags will do pretty much zero to keep plastic out of the ocean.
Don’t get me started on the porn tax for pandas.
PigBat… the diseased offspring of a flying fox and a swine.
Hmmmm.
Probably not going to be seen on Cartoon Network (maybe “Adult Swim”?) any time soon.
PigBat rolls off the tongue easier than Rosie O’Donnell
Ocean Rosie = manatee is SF gold!
Her next live action role?!
Having Rosie roll onto your tongue would likely end in a fractured mandible.
I’m thinking PigBat could be the glib mascot, kind of like how BatBoy was for Weekly World News.
Back at TOS there was a story about a feral pig running around in Florida. I thought that was our mascot. Or did we leave him at TOS?
Brett L may be many things, but he’s not feral.
This summer… You will believe a pig can fly.
I can only assume that the bats were having sex with the pigs. Really, nothing else makes sense.-
What was that movie where the cheating wife brings a virus to America that spreads through the world and the big reveal was bats dropping their half eaten fruit into pig pens?
PigBat: The Quickening?
You guys are a fat load of help!
*storms off*
“That’ll do pig, that’ll do”
Babe: Fruit-Bat in the City
…those are pretty funny.
Pig’s bat
The Sixth Sense?
Contagion
Thank you.
The Crying Game?
From the descriptions on Twitter, imma guess the Star Wars: Solo movie?
Sick burn
Contagion?
Correct! Thanks
I thought the lesson here was “don’t get in the van with a guy who looks like a rapist.”
SHHHHHH!!!!!!
Sorry, bro.
Exceptions are made to the rule when the van has shag carpet on the dashboard.
And has painted far-out trippy scenes on the side of the van, including the ride’s name, “Van-tasy”
You looked like a non van type imo.
its mortality rate can range from 40 to 100 percent.
Range to 100%? WTF, either everyone who got it died or it has not ranged to 100%.
I’m guessing the real pig-fuckers may have written the article, and are worried.
Was the pig named “Flash” as well?
40% of the time, it kills every time.
17 pounds of plastic bags in its stomach
Charles Darwin strikes again?
Note that the whale was found near Thailand. I have friends in my life who think that denying themselves the occasional plastic bag is gonna save the whales and stop the Great Pacific Gyre from becoming the Earth’s Great Red Spot of plastic garbage visible from Alpha Centauri, but the sad fact is that a stupid amount of all the plastic in the oceans come from three rivers systems: the Yangtze, the Ganges and the Nile.
Nothing we do in North America makes a damn bit of difference.
Not true.
By discouraging plastic bag use in North America, it makes plastic bags even cheaper in the named parts of the world which makes them even more likely to wind up in the ocean.
But at least they won’t get stuck to my catalytic converter here in the good ol USofA
But…..with the right capital investment, you could probably power a city for a few months burning that mass of plastic!
another animal link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
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The Emu War, also known as the Great Emu War,[1] was a nuisance wildlife management military operation undertaken in Australia over the latter part of 1932 to address public concern over the number of emus said to be running amok in the Campion district of Western Australia. The unsuccessful attempts to curb the population of emus, a large flightless bird indigenous to Australia, employed soldiers armed with Lewis guns—leading the media to adopt the name “Emu War” when referring to the incident. While a number of the birds were killed, the emu population persisted and continued to cause crop destruction.
***
Maybe try to get the emus to eat the cane toads? And then the rabbits kill the emus? The Aussie win/loss record in the war on nature is not encouraging.
oh, how I laughed
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By 8 November, six days after the first engagement, 2,500 rounds of ammunition had been fired.[6] The number of birds killed is uncertain: one account estimates that it was 50 birds,[6] but other accounts range from 200 to 500—the latter figure being provided by the settlers. Meredith’s official report noted that his men had suffered no casualties.[2]
Summarising the culls, ornithologist Dominic Serventy commented:
The machine-gunners’ dreams of point blank fire into serried masses of Emus were soon dissipated. The Emu command had evidently ordered guerrilla tactics, and its unwieldy army soon split up into innumerable small units that made use of the military equipment uneconomic. A crestfallen field force therefore withdrew from the combat area after about a month.
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It was like that scene in Predator, where they empty their clips into the forest trying to hit an invisible foe, except with emu.
…empty their clips..
Uh oh.
*ducks*
I remember learning the difference on a Prodigy online forum. Good Lord the panty clutching over that…
Clips?!? Handover your gun but card!
Gun nut! Stupid phone!
Busted. But as I do not own, have never owned, have no need to own, have no desire to own, do not support regulation of, and do not endorse the regulation of firearms, it is a venal and not a mortal sin.
Sounds like we need to set up a go fund me to get you a gun.
^ Someone is dropping hints about wanting a gun. ^
Someone needs to take you out and shoot some sporting clays.
I respect that, with one caveat.
You do, in fact, need to own a gun. There is no substitute for a gun in managing certain low-probability but high-impact risks.
Well, they were using “military equipment” and it was 1932…. so perhaps they were using clips to load their magazine… in which case he’d be technically correct about emptying them. Which is the best kind of correct.
I take this as a lesson in a disarmed population. Can’t even beat a dumb, flightless bird. Good luck if China even decides to play empire.
To be fair, nature in Australia fights a dirty unlimited form of warfare.
Indeed, everything there is trying to kill you.
The Dollop covered this.
Unfortunately, I think cane toads are toxic to most potentially predatory species. …..couldn’t happen to a more useless species. #evolution?
“don’t get in the van with a guy who looks like a rapist.”
So what you are saying is that they were all as stupid as a plastic eating whale.
SugarFree is a national treasure (and my favorite). That is all.
“We don’t get the SugarFree we want, we get the SugarFree we need.”
We get the SugarFree we
needdeserve.I’ve lead a … colorful life, but I don’t think I’ve done anything to DESERVE sugarfree.
Fake news!
I just shake what my momma gave me.
There’s a cum licking fest for the Kennedys on Chris Russo.
Gross.
I guess I get the love affair with Jack and Bobby but Jesus….
One guy said ‘whenever rich people care about the poor that’s a good thing.’ As long as you care for the poor, it will excuse everything else.
As long as you care for the poor, it will excuse everything else.
And all the smart rich people have long since figured that out, which is why the rich will always be with us, despite the fever dreams of the Left.
The Rich Are Always With Us
“Caring about poor people” and “caring about poor people’s votes” are not the same thing.
They care about keeping poor people poor.
One guy said ‘whenever rich people care about the poor that’s a good thing.’
So, was that guy rich? Or just incredibly stupid?
Rich people like the Kennedys don’t give a fuck about the poor. Hell, the old man got his start working with local mill owners to get half-literate Irish immigrants to piss away their paychecks at his in-laws’ bar so that they wouldn’t be able to change jobs. Rich people like this pretend to care about the poor. Mostly because they use them to get power with the government to give them big contracts to provide free shit to the poor at a healthy mark-up to themselves.
Cum licking Kennedy’s
Not sure that would have been enough to save The Independents but it was better than anything Matt Welch came up with.
Donald Trump Is Getting Away With the Biggest Scandal in American History:
Anybody want to read about the otherside of the Russia Scandal I guess this is it, although no “rock-solid” evidence is ever presented in the entire piece that I can see.
Tom Clancy’s latest thriller sounds great so far!
*hovers over link*
MotherJones.com
Hell no.
This scandal is absurd from every angle. AIPAC manages to get Congress to pledge allegiance to Israel and Mueller are worried about FB adds. If you could add up the dollars of foreign interference I doubt Russia makes the top 50.
assisted a foreign adversary
We are at war with Russia?
We’ve always been at war with Eurasia!
What? I thought the biggest scandal for Trump now is that the ChiComs gave him $500M?
At least that is the new line Tom Steyer is trotting out to support impeachment.
In 2016, Vladimir Putin’s regime mounted information warfare against the United States, in part to help Trump become president.
If true, not a Trump scandal.
While this attack was underway, the Trump crew tried to collude covertly with Moscow,
Note the claim that they attempted, but by implication did not succeed, in colluding with Moscow. Which, if true, would be a scandal depending on specifics.
sought to set up a secret communications channel with Putin’s office,
I thought the secret channel to Moscow was post-election, as a (routine) part of the transition activities.
repeatedly denied in public that this assault was happening
I think they are confusing Trump with Obama, here. I recall Obama saying there was no foreign interference in the election, or something like that.
Trump and his lieutenants aligned themselves with and assisted a foreign adversary
Yet pulled a 180 after the election and began kicking the shit out of Russia with sanctions and military actions. If Trump did collude with the Russians to get elected, he was apparently totally scamming them.
Seeing David Bowie reminds me, does Ryan Reynolds hangout here? because he definitely used our Lou Reed joke in Deadpool 2.
Wouldn’t surprise me.
HOLLYWOOD NEEDS IDEARS!
What better place than here?
INT. Rufus in motel room….
Careful. You don’t want to know where SugarFree will take that lede.
Muppet scat porn?
A frog was already in love with a pig. Gonzo was sexually obsessed with chickens. Animal was a bdsm slave.
Eating felt is supposed to be too far?
INT. Rufus in a fruit-bat costume…
MP:”Kermie just doesn’t satisfy my needs anymore”
If Hollywood hung out here the Hat and the Hair would be a regular segment on SNL, Warty would be selling workout videos instead of those P90X guys, and the History Channel would be doing specials on Steve Smith. OK, I realize that one of those things is actually happening, but it proves nothing.
Lol
Lou Reed, incidentally, has been awfully quiet on a number of issues.
He’s laying down on the job, you mean.
Give him a break, I hear he’s buried.
Maybe he’s just taking a walk…
Hey babe!
He’s feeling better.
He should probably take a vacation to Norway cause I heard he was pining for the Fjords
He was shot and killed during the FBI dancing incident. The Browns lowered his casket. Do try and keep up.
The Browns lowered his casket.
Only after they told him Trump had been impeached.
That is how you tow a lion.
He’s on the tour from hell.
being a good dude isn’t just not being a bad dude, it’s looking out for your girl friends and standing up to potentially sketchy behaviour from other dudes.
And have the same fucking imbecile who wrote that be the first person to scream in your face about being a cis-white-hetero-male oppressor for trying to impose your will on empowered wymyn who don’t need guidance from any fucking man.
The more relevant teachable moment for those young boys is “You can’t fix crazy. Run, do not walk, away from that bitch as quickly as you possibly can.”.
“she asked him what time it was and got up from the bed, saying that she had to leave, and Riff Raff opened the door for her”
So nothing happened. She asked to leave and he opened the door for her.
As far as I can tell, all the more evidence of crazy. Like I said, run, do not walk, away from that bitch as quickly as you possibly can!
If a guy makes a pass at you, you have not been sexually assaulted. Even if he gets a little handsy, if you turn him down and leave of your own free will, unimpeded, you have not been raped. However, if you then post all over social media about your supposedly traumatic experience, you are beyond a shadow of a doubt a Class A Thot.
I can think of two other villians named Riff Raff.
One in the Rocky Horror Picture Show and one in Underdog cartoons.
“Ratso” Rizzo was another good low life character name.
I can only assume that the bats were having sex with the pigs.
I can only assume they were foxy bats.
fruit bats belonging to the genus Pteropus (otherwise called flying foxes)
Nailed it.
NUKE THE WHALES
At least dynamite them.
Gotta nuke something.
Yea, fuck ’em.
They are not the hell your whales.
Already happening.
http://www.walesnuclearforum.com/2018/05/18/uk-govt-to-finance-wylfa-newydd-plant/
Paging Swiss
*pops lozenge*
Ted, I know you like old movies. What is your opinion of “Tokyo Story”?
I thought it was excellent until the mother got sick on the train trip back home, after which it went on interminably.
If you want a good movie about dealing with elderly parents, get a copy of Make Way for Tomorrow.
I’m half finished with Tokyo story. I’m not sure I’m going to finish it. I find the pace too slow for me. I’ll check out make way. Thanks.
Logan’s Run is also an interesting film that deals with solutions for handling the elderly.
I have been working my way through a list of must watch classics and other than Tokyo story the only movie I haven’t liked is “Touch of Evil”.
That is one fucked-up overview in the link.
I read it over and over and I thought I melted my brain.
I didn’t notice that; I was just looking for a link to the DVD. Here’s the IMDb link, although you could have found it for yourself.
Skip the movie, spend a week-end at my house. Hands on experience dealing with the elderly.
Pilot whales primarily eat squid but are also known to hunt octopus, cuttlefish and small fish when squid prove elusive
So wikipedia says that toothed whale hunt by echolocation. So it appears that a plastic bag floating in the ocean returns echos that look similar to a squid. So the whale eats the bag. More importantly, the whale can’t pass the bags, so they accumulate in the gut and the whale dies.
Thus the death of a single whale means that a billion people need to change the way the live. Just kidding.
Thus the death of a single whale means that a billion people need to change the way the live. Just kidding
Why not? The diets of an entire elementary school are now altered due to a single child with a peanut allergy.
If it keeps just one child from getting a rash or a scratchy throat, it was worth it.
So like I get that there are people allergic to peanuts, and in some cases it’s serious, and I’ll even stipulate that kids, particularly little kids, will share food and not be terribly careful about what they’re eating. But, first off, am I honestly expected to believe that there are people so allergic to peanuts that if they’re in a room a peanut was once in they’ll have a fuckin’ coronary? Bullshit. That person would have died before their first birthday. And, unless peanut allergies are some very new thing, I distinctly remember being surrounded by peanuts and peanut butter in public schools from elementary on up without anyone spontaneously exploding due to peanut exposure.
It depends.
My son is allergic to tree nuts. The last time he went into anaphylactic shock it was after ingesting a small amount a cashew powder that had been left as residue in a bow containing peanuts.
And yes, it would have killed him had we not got him to the hospital in time.
He rarely gets caught like that. Generally he doesn’t ingest food that he’s allergic because he starts to feel a tingling sensation in his nose from the aroma. When that happens, he refuses to eat anything.
That’s a pretty high degree of sensitivity. The aroma does trigger enough of an allergic reaction that he becomes aware of it.
unless peanut allergies are some very new thing
That’s the part that baffles me. Back in ye olden days, you never heard shit about peanut allergies at school or anywhere else, much less people going into anaphylactic shock if they were within a kilometer of a peanut. What changed?
I believe the prevailing theory is that fear of the allergy caused the epidemic. Apparently when peanuts are not introduced at a young age kids develop allergies. Now they say to give your kids peanuts young so they don’t develop the allergies.
History’s greatest monster! That is what changed.
Something I learned while searching for “whale vomit”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambergris
I bet your porn search history is epic
The first time I learned about Ambergris was on the original Batman series. A very educational show.
“so they accumulate in the gut and the whale dies.”
National Whale Health Service: So the bags could have been accumulating for 40 years and the whale could have been near the end of its lifespan anyway.
That statement did not necessarily imply that the first action caused the second action.
Googled.
Average life span for a pilot whale is 45 years.
I was expecting Uncle Lar.
Is the whale gonna be ok Uncle Lar?
Demolition started on my home remodel today, so if I go a little nuts over the next 2 to 3 months, I apologize.
Did you go with Nicole Curtis or the Property Brothers?
I like those property brothers, I don’t know who that woman is. Fun search. Put in google “Are the” and it will auto fill “the property brothers gay”.
Nicole’s got better guns than the PropBros.
(She’s also more manly.)
I like tough chicks. If you’re gonna scream grrl pwr!, have some power.
Just googled; she is cute.
She’s a hard wood.
And then she’ll help you install hardwood.
Amy Matthews is the only one for me.
http://amymatthews.com/photos/
Why would you pay to demolish your house? I thought that all you had to do was wait a few weeks for the next Global Climate Change Hurricane to knock it down.
I was expecting a meth lab explosion joke.
Have fun, Mr. Blandings.
I haven’t seen that one. I was trying to remember Tom Hanks’ name in the money pit and had to google Mr Blandings. I should have known better.
The movie’s 70 years old, but it’s still funny because it’s true.
Florida Man going crazy? Try not to eat too many faces. 🙂
Now I know the term for a female douche
Totally common Australian name.
Not sure if this story about Keith Ellison is too local or not.
In a nutshell, Minnesoda’s Attorney General has decided that she is going to run for Governor. If she does, Keith Ellison wants to run for AG. I have no idea why. He has a super secure seat in Congress, and I can’t think there is any way he wins a statewide race. (I’m not sure he can even win the nomination for AG statewide)
Maybe he has seen some numbers about the Blue Wave of 2018 and wants to not be vice chairman of the Dems?
Uffda. The comments in that story are amazingly level headed. A bunch of the DFL-ers are self aware enough to realize that Keith is going to be a drag on all the statewide races.
Or, maybe he sees how an AG (such as, gee, I dunno, Loretta Lynch) can be a very useful asset indeed to a political party involved in questionably legal activities, and sees this as a good post to advance himself in the party.
I’m sure he has also noted, from the criminally underreported Wisconsin “John Doe” investicution of Republicans, that an AG is well-positioned to do damage to the enemy party.
There is the Soros funded project to elect liberal state attorneys general who will join in multistate lawsuits against anything sensible the Federal Government might stumble into trying.
That John Doe story in Wisconsin should be one of the biggest scandals of the last 20 years or so. The fact that the people implicated in it are actually fighting back is amazing to me.
What’s wrong with a politically organized investigation that can randomly break into people’s homes and then give them a gag order? Sounds like solid gamesmanship to me. Just like running a fake investigation on a President to try and cut his party’s chances in the midterm, and if that doesn’t work continuing it until it affects his re-election. Justice must be preserved! Even if no crimes were committed.
Re: Hollywood originality.
They have never been all that original. Adapting plays, novels and short stories and they loved to remake their movies. The Maltese Falcon was the 3rd version in just 10 years for example.
What about “a scanner darkly”?
based on a book
Well sure, you have to write it down first…
You are aware that a literary adaptation is the opposite of originality?
Hell, Hitchcock even remade his OWN films.
The worst part must have been when he got into arguments with the previous creator…
Minnesoda nice:
‘This world is a better place without her’: A Minnesota family’s bitter final send-off to their mother
They talk about a few non-flattering obits. However, there was one funny confession-style obit at the end of the story:
I don’t know that obituary seems like it way too frontal to be a good Minnesoda one.
Instead of saying that she had she had abandoned her kids and wouldn’t be missed a true Minnesodan would have said something like “A few people have said she wasn’t the best mother ever, but her passing is still quite the deal.”
This is more Minnesoda Nice. A nice guy is happy to top off the water bottle for a gal even though she spurned his advances.
“rejected his romantic advances”
Hmmm. Yeah, I bet he was really romantic..
Now that’s a statement that raises more questions than it answers.
damn your quick and nimble fingers.
I’m not surprised by this.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/06/bodyguard_of_antigun_activist_father_pfleger_arrested_on_gun_charges.html
Chicago. Even the Priest are Mobsters.
And then there are the schools.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/06/04/chicago-public-schools/
No kidding.
The Kate Spade has made me sad. Lots of designers these days eschew color. She did not. Anyhoo, I liked her work.
my wife too.
Same, KK, same.
” I liked her work.”
Before she came along, bags just carried things.
She hung herself with a Kate Spade scarf, so at least you know the scarfs are high quality.
(genteel clapping)
The Isadora Duncan line is rather fetching.
Is fetching the right word?
Why yes, it is.
Herr Hogg is an ass but can he be this big of one?
TW: Twitchy
Well funny it took place when everyone was out of town.
That’s Gauleiter Hogg.
And he pretty much has to minimize it, for a couple reasons.
(1) Odds are not small it was one of his co-religionists trying to drum up attention sympathy for him.
(2) He would be hard-pressed to complain about something happening to him, when he is trying to get the same thing done to millions of Americans.
Yeah…I’m still thinking this was “self inflicted” either by himself or his one of his Bloomberg buddies.
The caller reported the suspect having an AR-15. Hmm… that’s oddly specific.
Hard to say. Anyone calling in who doesn’t know anything about guns may well assume any rifle is an AR-15 nowadays.
Yet, they knew enough about guns to know it wasn’t an AK-47.
A to tha K?
A to tha muthafuckin’ Z!
“When you absolutely, positively have to kill every last motherfucker in the room. Accept no substitutes.”
I can think of retarded reasons for either Gauleiter Hogg’s supporters or enemies to call in a complaint about an AR-15 at his house.
I’m leaning towards supporters. His enemies would have waited until he was home.
Harsh, but fair
Yep.
Thank you for posting this. I never would have heard about it if you hadn’t posted that link!
Buy the women in your life all the
bear macefirearms you canfindafford.Well, those too. I just find bear mace funny.
For dinner tonight.
Only mine isn’t going to be well done.
Nice. I just pounded a medium rare prime NY Strip steak.
Those euphamisms.
I was just sent an email which had this version of the QWERTY world of lgbt +++, can anyone explain what this new twist ending means?
LGBTQQI2-S Youth
I wouldn’t even want to guess. I’d walk, no, run away. It’s probably something that will land you in jail.
Questioning, Intersex, 2 Spirit.
Translation: Young people who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Intersex, and Two-Spirit.
So fucking crazy pants, is what the last one means. Or schizo.
No, it’s term for a “third gender” but with a fake Native American twist. The term didn’t exist until 1990. Sort of an Indian Hair Tampon way of saying “non-binary” as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-spirit
Like Kwanza?
Not really, there really was a tradition of men fulfilling traditional female roles in certain tribes, but the only anthropological term for it, berdache, was considered offensive since it was basically the French word for catamite (younger receptive gay male partner.)
I don’t really see how “two-spirit” is any better to the new thought police, honestly. Saying someone is both male and female seems to deny the trendy “non-binary” none-of-the-above option.
I have at least 5 spirts, but they’re all men.
Gin, vodka, bourbon, tequila and brandy?
Tequila is for WOOO girls.
But I wouldn’t kick it out of bed.
brandy is a girl but it’s ok because she’s a carpet licker.
Wrong. Just . . . wrong. Tequila is the nectar of Huitzilopochtli.
My memory is a little fuzzy, but I think I’ve seen RC Dean in booty shorts and handcuffs at the Stagecoach festival.
Couldn’t have been me.
If it was me, your recollection would be crystal clear, seared onto your cortex, and you would currently be in a padded room, a broken man begging for the sweet release death.I never wear booty shorts with handcuffs.Brandy is a girl but it’s ok because she’s a carpet licker.
But a fine girl, what a good wife she would be!
Our thought leaders are attempting to retcon new genders into the last. The latest fad is to say that noble savages knew about all these other genders since they were one with the Gaia force. Oddly they still managed to screw the right gender to make babies. Apparently that category of person that birthed never struck them as categorically different than the ones with dicks that didn’t birth babies.
It looks like what other cultures actually had derogatory terms for effeminate men and masculine women as subcategories. Which makes them like everyone else.
So does this mean that I can scream “CULTURAL APPROPRIATOR!!!!” at any of these dipsticks who pretend that they are some strange flavor of trans? Sweeeeet.
Ok, I’ll enact your labor. I came across this.
“The Child, Adolescent and Family Branch (CAFB) in the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), initiated the National Workgroup to address the needs of children and youth who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex, or two-spirit (LGBTQI2-S) in systems of care (SOC) and their families.”
I know what all the individual words mean,but I have no idea what this says.
Hopelessly confused.
mikey, you’re absolutely on target. This is indeed a derivative of a CMHS/SAMHSA program. The actual event is this:
Clutching Our Pearls: LGBTQQI2-S Youth Shaping the Future
A progressive look at the stories and successes of our LGBTQQI2-S Youth.
I think I is “Intersex”? The 2-S is, I believe, two-spirit, some American Indian sexual thing.
It’s not cultural appropriation when the gender cult does it.
Razorfist, the Historian.
on, “Why Hollywood was always Red”
good stuff.
Definitely a few new things – hadn’t really given much thought even to the house/senate breakdown on that. I’m embarrassed. Will also look up more flicks by Kazan. I like reviewers like cinemasavant.com – but he gets really political depending on the period flick, etc.
Just paused that exact video. “Let’s see what’s happening at Glibs.” This morning, I check out styxhexenhammer and he starts out by explaining the “narrow ruling” in re to the cake case. The singularity is near.
Thanks for posting that.
Ditto
Several commenters are trying to blame it all on the Jews ignoring how many of the Jewish Hollywood moguls were anti-communist.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/390740-georgia-cop-fired-for-hitting-fleeing-suspect-with-car-gets
Georgia cop who was fired 3 DAYS AGO for trying to run over a suspect with his car has already gotten a job in an adjoining county.
Usually they wait a month or two for this shit so people forget.
Can’t decide if I should be outraged.
What race was the suspect?
About time us Animals got some damn recognition.
Paging Mr. Lizard.
Would you care to explain yourself ?
Geez, the guy finally gets shore leave and you have to creepshot him?!
Claim: Carl Stalling (of Looney Tunes music fame) is the most influential classical composer of the 20th century. Discuss.
Not the first time I’ve heard the claim. Actually, I remember reading something similar in the liner notes to an album of Stalling’s music, including my favorite piece, “Powerhouse”.
Bugs Bunny still sucks though.
What’s wrong with Bugs Bunny?
He’s a villain treated as hero.
He never strikes first. He retaliates.
I seem to recall Fudd as a wildlife photographer being tormented into madness without provocation, after which he attempted to rid himself of the source of his suffering.
And there were more than a few instances when he initated on top of that, including a number of his most famous appearances.
Chuck Jones has a word.
I’m guessing Bugs dressed as a girl wasn’t thicc enough.
I does not appear that any pineapples were harmed.
https://www.elitedaily.com/p/a-pizza-wedding-bouquet-is-a-real-thing-the-photos-will-give-you-the-meat-sweats-9287177
Imagine if you would, A motel in shambles, filth-stained and falling to pieces, even while an oversized crew of probably undocumented laborers slothfully reassembles segments of it. A place where the first thought that comes to mind for most of the guests is “is this person most likely to rob me, murder me, rape me, or merely break into my car in the dead of night?” Where the staff is even less reputable than the clients and a motorist who has already driven six hours takes two looks at the place and goes “I’d rather drive four more hours and lose an additional two hundred dollars than stay in this place.”
That was Texarkana.
I am now in Dallas.
Did they have hourly rates?
I stayed at a place two years ago where I was wondering that. CRT TVs with fuzzy cable, a shower handle that fell off, and horrendous 70s paneling.
I survived.
While I probably could have survived, I didn’t want to subject myself to that.
We stayed in a place in Chatanooga like that. Someone was having a domestic all night in the parking lot outside our room. It helped that we had two large pit bulls with us, but I still slept in my clothes with a knife in either hand. “Slept” being more a figure of speech, mind you.
Eat at Babe’s!
With fewer days in my original plan, I’d let the old link collection fall away. Could you provide additional information?
http://www.babeschicken.com
It’s a DFW-area chain, specializing in chicken dinners. Very simple menu. You choose a protein, and then ever-refilling bowls of sides are brought out for the table. The food is quite good, and the staff is redneckeriffic!
Speaking of plastic bags
https://nairobinews.nation.co.ke/news/visitors-stripped-plastic-bags-jkia-ban-bites/
No surprise that the UN is involved in pushing this crap.
I’m sure environazi Erik would have had a same reaction at the reception station for an sS camp. So inspiring to be received like this! Proud of Germany’s gold recycling program!
Take charge during a group project: “Fuck me, I sound like an idiot. Am I being presumptuous? Do they all think I’m unqualified? Are they going to undermine me?”
Backseat during group project: “Fuck, fuck, fuck, why is nothing being done? Should I say something? Should I take charge? Too late for that now, they’ll think I’m an idiot.”
Group projects are evil.
Just take over (without being a dick). Otherwise you will fail. If there are any other capable folks on the team they’re likely have the same thoughts. the other others will never do anything unless led. Just do it. It hard the first time, but just think, you could end up in management!
You might have people problems.
You know else had problems with uncooperative peoples?
Stalin and Ukrainians?
Oliver Cromwell?
Jeff Bezos?
Billy Mumy?
Virginia State Police
I didn’t do it.
*whistles innocently*
I like the term “tank like”. Is that the next version of “assault car” ?
A problem with people, or a problem interacting with people? Yes.
Try to middle-man during a group project: “TAKE THE REINS, YOU FUCK.”
the bane of my existence has more to say
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/06/better-does-not-mean-good
fun fact: bane comes from an old Germanic word for “curse, poison”. The word ban has the same root.
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If I say that sweatshops are “good,” and my evidence is that when sweatshops were introduced into a country, the wages of those who went to work in the sweatshops were higher than the country’s average wages, I may sound persuasive. But if the factories I am talking about are crowded, unsafe, abusive places in which people exhaust themselves, destroy their bodies, and have little control over their work, it’s perverse to describe this situation as good merely because it is marginally better than what came before.
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[head desk]
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The difference between “better” and “good” is why I consider utopian visions valuable. If we merely look at whether things have gotten “better,” we might be congratulating ourselves for progress despite still being far away from a tolerable situation. On the left, we often talk about the need to create “a better world.” But this is slightly misleading; in fact, we should want to create an excellent world.
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[Kiff sigh]
I saw that yesterday, was going to link to it but said “fuck it” and went back to watching Expanse.
The fucktard doesn’t understand that “better” is actually better and things keep getting better and better and because were human we’ll always be striving to make thing better still.
My great great grandfather worked in a sweatshop (woolen mill in England). Because he (and his brother and his sister) were able to do that the family was able buy passage to America and make their lives better.
My view of an excellent world would be one in which blowhard pinheads are lawn-ornaments in the Wallachian fashion.
I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
https://www.geek.com/tech/mit-creates-an-ai-psychopath-because-someone-had-to-eventually-1741948/
Lock it in a room with Windows Vista for 5 minutes and it will be begging for mercy.
Or turn it into Jeffrey Dahmer.
[insert ex wife joke here]
today I learned
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Though the political leadership of the United States remained decidedly against the use of chemical weapons, there were those within the military command structure who advocated the use of such weapons. Following the Battle of Tarawa, during which the U.S. forces suffered more than 3,400 casualties in three days, CWS chief Major General William N. Porter pushed superiors to approve the use of poison gas against Japan. “We have an overwhelming advantage in the use of gas. Properly used gas could shorten the war in the Pacific and prevent loss of many American lives,” Porter said.
Popular support was not completely lacking. Some newspaper editorials supported the use of chemical weapons in the Pacific theater. The New York Daily News proclaimed in 1943, “We Should Gas Japan”, and the Washington Times Herald wrote in 1944, “We Should Have Used Gas at Tarawa because “You Can Cook ’Em Better with Gas”.[18][19] Despite rising between 1944 and 1945, popular public opinion never rose above 40 percent in favor of the use of gas weapons.[19]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_Corps
You can cook them better with nuclear fission.
It’s hard to imagine how any of this is worse than the ordinary bombing.
Arbitrary moral distinctions.
https://ladailymirror.com/2018/04/25/mary-mallory-hollywood-heights-none-shall-escape-is-a-powerful-look-at-justice/
Wonder who she is memoryholing? Dmytryk?
Fun fact: Adrian Scott was dumped by Anne Shirley when he fled to Europe since she didn’t want to leave LA.
Razorfist should have mentioned Dr. Seuss’ racist anti-Japanese cartoons. Though considering the cartoons he did before June 1941 he doesn’t appear to have been a commie.
And considering he mentioned John Howard Lawson and Ben Mankiewicz I am disappointed he didn’t mention the whole DGA loyalty oath affair between Joe Mankiewicz (Ben’s great-uncle) and Cecil B, DeMille (who employed Lawson as a screenwriter and made a pro-Bolshevik silent film). DeMille was smeared for making xenophobic remarks and after this he won a Best Picture Oscar over High Noon.
Fun fact: The Fountainhead movie was made by King Vidor who back in the 1930s made an ode to collective agriculture with Karen Morley (commie). Oh and Gary Cooper was anti-Commie and starred in High Noon.
I find Ernst Lubitsch and Paul Lukas interesting figures for being European Jews who were anti-Communist. Lukas even appeared in a Lillian Hellman anti-Nazi play though it opened before the Nazi invasion of the USSR.
A bunch of you are probably into this:
Bikini noodling.
Impressive.
I’d heard of canoedling but now I’ve seen everything.
She didn’t want to stop riding that fin.
The way she straddled it, you know that they are never going to get the stink off that fish…
Wait, are you saying that fish didn’t smell like fish before?
Also the left like to trash Robert Montgomery for appearing before HUAC while ignoring this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Montgomery_(actor)
Move over, Mr Lizard. Puny humans figured out orbital bombardment long ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_Bombardment_System
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The Fractional Orbital Bombardment System[1] (FOBS) was a Soviet ICBM program in the 1960s that after launch would go into a low Earth orbit and would then de-orbit for an attack. The development of the FOBS was one of the first steps taken by the Soviet Union to utilize space for the delivery of nuclear warheads.[2] The primary objective of the FOBS was to bypass the weapon detection systems in the United States.[2] In order to accomplish this, the FOBS was designed to briefly place nuclear warheads into the Earth’s orbit. After orbiting for a short period of time, the bombs would deploy and fall to their targets from space.[2] The system shares many similarities with the concept of kinetic bombardment systems, with the exception of the use of a nuclear warhead as opposed to an inert projectile. This weapon system also had no range limit and the orbital flight path would not reveal the target location. This would allow a path to North America over the South Pole, hitting targets from the south, which is the opposite direction from which NORAD early warning systems are oriented.
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Gotta figure we’d considered something similar. Which, for all we know, is still up there… knocking about all that space debris.
A little look behind the curtain. I found 8 USDA choice cuts of Trump audio, now I just have to take these crazy statements (some of which I have edited to make crazier) and write a script around them. Then I get drunk and make cartoon voices. Add all the clips into the cartoon program, edit if I chose different shots. Then render, upload and submit the article to the overlords. Then it will appear at their whim.
I don’t use the word hero lightly, but you are the greatest hero in American history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2dmfnSarDI
“Hey fatboy, you here four hour!”
oops: https://youtu.be/51rHWly7sHA
Script is written!
Real cultural appropriation.