Hi guys. Internet here depends on the vagaries of alligator migratory behavior, so I’m sneaking this in without many links.
Here’s an article the Glibs staff obviously needs.
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Well, there’s one link, and I used to have the MSDS for caffeine hanging above the coffee maker in one office I worked at.
Can one of science types convert that paper into a website so I can figure out how much caffeine to drink to get through the day? kthx
IIRC, the LD50 for caffeine based on the standard cup of drip coffee required me to drink 10 pots (12 cups each) of coffee in a day without going to the bathroom.
So… go for about half that?
I’m good for about 6 nespresso pods, plus a number of “decaf” pods per day, so it sounds like I’ve got some headroom.
Let’s start with some first class derp.
Response to the response – the Soviet Union avoided the great depression becuase they were too busy starving to death during the Holodomor at the time.
Shhhh….. he’s on a roll
Swiss is going to be pissed at you for going off topic so soon.
It’s Hot Topic, not Off Topic
I believe they’re actually called Hot Pockets
There appears to be no topic… *waves hand in vague benediction*
Go and Paste ye Links!
Here’s an article on caffeine dosing strategies I dug up somewhere.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
*Muffled profanity*
I’ve lost my phone.
Now I’m going to spend today tracing my path from yesterday and asking people if someone has found it.
I can call you if you like, maybe you hear it ringing.
No, I left it at one of the places I visited. Besides, I suspended service in case some unscrupulous soul found it and decided to keep it. (If I get it back I can restore service. If not, I’ve lost all the data on the phone and have to buy a replacement)
Your phone is currently in Saudi Arabia, parts of the shiek’s harem.
Shouldn’t be hard to find. Here’s what it looks like.
I would have guessed it looked like this.
I’d have to have misplaced the hose to lose that one – or the rotary phone.
You’d be shocked how hard they are to get a hold of these dyas.
It’s an old phone, but still cool.
But if you step in one puddle…
I remember the first time I called someone from a parking lot, when I had my first cell phone. It seemed so . . . revolutionary! Here I am in the middle of a paring lot, talking to you! *mind blown*
The place I worked for paid for my phone, we were supposed to get our own beepers, but then they gave us . . . nextel! So we could essentially use it as a walkie-talkie.
I found it.
Those nudes you took of yourself are really strange. You’re into some weird shit, UCS.
If it has a camera, it’s not mine. You should know that.
Two cups, one string?
Is that a porno title?
Q’s favorite wardrobe.
Harry had a premonition this was going to happen Well no shit it was going to happen
aack fail
Which makes the nudes even weirder… Polaroids taped to the side.
Luddite.
Were you trying to sneak it into prison?
That’s the shits anytime and especially on vacation. Good luck. Give me a call if you need help looking for it.
Hi, Brett!
Hi!
Is it okay to go off topic?
*waves hand in vague benedictory manner*
“Pax OTum”
Stay on topic!
I am always on that topic.
Moar derp
Best comment:
If it were up to me public accommodation would not be a things and you could simplify all the stupid arguments by saying I don’t want to see you shit please go away
Short answer: No.
Long answer: No, you idiot.
If I can force someone to bake me a cake, can I force someone to pick my cotton?
Only if you pay them in room and board.
I don’t understand the second comment.
It’s gibberish.
I think it’s pretty self-evident. Truth and facts are core values for Democrats. Therefore if a Democrat says it, it’s true, QED.
Emotionally true, the best kind of true.
It’s just a reminder that the true believers are out there. If they ever get power, watch out.
But to Dems, truth, facts, and authenticity are emotional core values.
Leftists DO rely on feeling over fact. To that extent I conclude that they identify feeling as “fact”.
As far as the cake case, right decision, wrong reason. “One’s labor and the product thereof belongs to one and can be contracted at one’s leisure.” => should have been the reasoning. But we wouldn’t want to overturn decades of unconstitutional civil “rights” law now would we?
Or how about freedom of association? I know that’s been a dead idea for 50 years, but still.
There are a lot of laws that make the world a better place that still might be best left beyond the scope of government authority. I’m specifically thinking of anti-smoking laws. I personally don’t smoke and really, really dislike cigarette smoke. So the restaurant and bar experience in places with smoking bans is better in a very meaningful way. I’m still not sure exactly how we got to the point where Americans think it is OK for the government to tell someone what they can and cannot allow in their own establishment.
What I see is two Dems equating murder with artistic expression.
Today I found out the number 1 kindle book on History > Ancient Civilizations > Greece on Amazon is written by the author Bronze Age Pervert.
https://www.amazon.com/Bronze-Age-Mindset-Pervert-ebook/dp/B07DJQ89TD/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
Vox tells me this :
Nobody knows who Bronze Age Pervert is. But among a subset of internet denizens, he’s something of a demigod: a Jordan Peterson in miniature.
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/1/17396182/jordan-peterson-alt-right-religion-catholicism
It is Fluffy, isn’t it?
He has added a new pen name.
Reading the reviews for that is probably a lot like what a person that stumbles across this site feels. There seems to be layers and layers of in-jokes and unknown referents that leaves you unable to be sure what is satire, black humor, serious discussion or simple insanity.
When in doubt, I always go with insanity.
Yeah, if you ever go crazy be sure to look me up when you get there!
Hey, Tejicano. Couldn’t find your email. New Phone for me. Mustang and I are scheduled to for a beer on Saturday. You free?
Couldn’t find your email. New Phone for me. – weird what is the link between one and the other?
I broke it. Fell of me bicycle. I should have said text message.
Staff’s in Dallas?
Give me back my phone!
I’m in uniform this weekend. Sorry.
Let me look for your e-mail address and shoot you a line.
Ok. Thanks.
Review — “Reading this book has doubled my deadlift PR and taught me to surf – now grils keep trying to grab my maximus; its been 72 hours and the sun hasn’t set, what means?”
Dunphy?
Agile Dunphy. The characters were merged during the last Crisis on Infinite Blogs.
Here’s a link.
https://youtu.be/hVbZId6BxWc
This is not as cool as it sounds:
Chicago leads US in underwater homes
Chicago gets that much rain?
So I can snorkle to work?
It has led the country for decades
Ummmm……
I think they’re talking geographically, though I’m not sure how either is bigger than Boswash.
I thought Houston was bigger geographically.
Houston’s not a real place.
Metro area includes the burbs…Chicago metro area has a lot more suburbs than City…
Per Census folks, Chicago are is #3, NYC and LA bigger.
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2018/popest-metro-county.html#popest-tab6
Bosyorkdelphimore, D.C.
Ed Wuncler must have drowned.
Weak coffee
Advice King: How to Catch Bigfoot
STEVE SMITH LIKE IT WHEN YOU GET ON ALL FOURS FOR HIM. MAKES EASIER RAPE.
STEVE SMITH NO LIKE COOPERATION!!! MUST STRUGGLE FOR BEST RAPE!!!
STEVE SMITH NOT WINDOW LICKER!!!
Sure. Whatever you say. But what about the carpets?
POSSIBLY.
No, no, no! These people do not understand STEVE SMITH at all!
Whatever you do around STEVE SMITH, do not get on all fours! That’s just an open invitation.
No actual lake measures up to the ideal lake for which I yearn
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jul/22/actual-lake-sea-top-of-the-lake-howard-jacobson
The lake did not fail, it was not a real lake. Only with the right custodians we will have a real lake
Uh….. Thanks?
That was like a freshman writing assignment. Holy crap, what a mess.
Not from The Onion? Hmm…
But to Dems, truth, facts, and authenticity are emotional core values.
SRSLY?
totes
Real
communismnon-patriarchy has never been tried.it’s not as if all sexism and misogyny has been eradicated overnight – how do we know when it has?
As a result, there is currently no control group of people raised in a truly non-patriarchal culture, – is this sort of like true socialism?
I also suspect that for many of Peterson’s readers, the sexism on display above is one tool among many to make forceful, domineering moves that are typical of misogyny. – based on what do you suspect this?
But feminists are not trying to police and control men’s behavior?
This entire argument revolves around power and control for the feminists. Peterson is arguing that natural preferences should be allowed to take their course with a normal respect for individual rights. The feminists want to subvert normal behavior and are perfectly willing to use the power of the State to do it.
What makes people think a Matriarchal Culture would be any different historically or for the future?
People are beautiful, and people are shits. I can’t imagine history or the future being any different.
I seem to recall there being three extant matriarchies. All three are trapped in abject poverty and have never created anything in their long histories.
Winston’s Mom is not a political or economic system, per se.
Are there any actual matriarchies today? There are at least a handful of matrilineal societies still, but my understanding is that men still wield political and/or spiritual power in all of them.
Fiji? I know they run through Queens?
“As a result, there is currently no control group of people raised in a truly non-patriarchal culture, which is what we’d need to investigate claims that men “naturally” prefer masculine-coded activities and women “naturally” prefer feminine-coded ones.”
If I understand the twisted knot quoted in the post properly, I’m pretty sure there’s literature on matriarchal societies.
patriarchy does not mean patriarchy no more – there’s not much of it left in the west – but a feminist concept that can mean anything you need it to mean.
Dene (Navajo) culture is a matriarchal society. The idea is based on the practical observation that only the mother of a child is certain. Traditionally the property stays with the mother of the children.
I’m pretty sure the Cherokee are the same.
There’s a distinct difference between matrilinear and matriarchy. One can be matrilinear and patriarchical without difficulty.
I don’t believe a strongly matriarchal society would last more than a generation. Where are you going to get enough men to procreate if they have to be willing to give up their traditional roles?
Dene (Navajo) culture
Dine, or at least that’s how I’ve seen it spelled.
Says someone who clearly does not have children. Anyone who has a few kids will know the truth of this in an instant. They come out how they come out. If you get a shy kid, you get a shy kid. Nobody can make an extrovert into a shy little flower.
The same goes for activities. Little boys have two kinds of toys. Balls and hammers. If they can pick it up, they are going to either hit something with it, or they are going to throw it. Or both. As they get older, these stereotypes widen, but they are no less true.
I have two daughters. One is a tomboy who is a force of nature – we call her the bulldozer. She’s amazing and confident and doesn’t take crap from anybody. She doesn’t do dolls and hates dresses. Wants her hair short like her brother because brushing it is a pain in the butt.
My other daughter is a princess – full stop. Dolls, dresses, makeup, the whole thing. She’s sweet and confident and giggly. Likes her hair in braids and curls. Even though she’s 2.5 years younger, she does her own hair and wouldn’t cut it for anything.
Only a dipshit who never had kids would think that gender preferences are foisted upon people by a patriarchic society. Sure, there are things like 1950’s USA shoehorning educated women into secretarial work… but most women still don’t want to be infantry or firefighters or coal miners. An most men don’t want to be nurses or lab techs or elementary school teachers. Some percentage of that might be due to societal pressures. But there are still clearly gender-based preferences that are just built in to people.
This morning I determined what my next submission is going to be…and it has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the SLT.
So there should be much rejoicing.
It is going to need a graphic to refer to, so I figure 30 mins to write the article and 6 months to put together the graphic.
The other day I learned that Sun Yat Sen was big Georgist SLT fan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Principles_of_the_People#M%C3%ADnshēng
Feminists have taken the “boy” out of “boyscout”. Feminists have taken the “beauty” out of “beauty pageant”. Now feminists have taken the “business” out of “business school”.
Feminists who yearn to become failed entrepreneurs may find guidance at a new summer program offered by the California-based Feminist Business School, which vows to help students shun “masculine” aspects of capitalism like “meritocracy” and “individualism.”
Starting in a few weeks, the “12 Principles Summer Camp” will be a six-week online discussion group for students who wish to learn about “feminist entrepreneurship” while “sloughing off patriarchal belief systems” and becoming more “embodied.”…
“Free yourself from the myth of meritocracy,” the guide preview tells aspiring business owners. “There is no earning. There’s no deserving. There’s no reward,” it says, adding that students should “let inner wisdom be your guide.”…
“If capitalism is an economy that values masculine traits, what could another economy look like?” asks Jennifer Armbrust, the Evergreen State College graduate who serves as the Feminist Business School’s only instructor.
Instead, a more “feminine economy” could value other traits, such as “generosity,” “empathy,” “gratitude,” “integrity,” and “intimacy,” Armbrust suggests.
Though these traits aren’t necessarily conducive to earning profit, it’s not clear that Armbrust even wants her business students to think about that, as she suggests that what’s most important is “revolution” and “new cultural values.”
“This is about redistributing power and resources, based on feminine principles. This is about radical social transformation. This is about making the world we want to live in,” the website explains.
Let me know how that works out.
Stupid is as stupid does.
“This is about redistributing power and resources, based on feminine principles. This is about radical social transformation. This is about making the world we want to live in,”
This is about bankruptcy, starvation, and ultimately, cannibalism.
“I need this pickle jar opened.”
“Get the manslave”
You can’t do that, it’d prove he was fit for the presidency
/Kimmel Test
“…Though these traits aren’t necessarily conducive to earning profit,”
How will they go to a bank and ask for a loan with this crap?
Bank: What’s your outlook?
SJW: That’s patriarchal and we refuse to answer that.
Bank: Ok. When do you foresee profits?
SJW (laughs): No profits. Plenty of love and generosity though! That counts for something, right?
Bank: Do you have collateral?
SJW: What the fuck is that? No one taught us that?!
Bank: I’m afraid we can’t give you a commercial loan.
SJW: SMASH THE PATRIARCHY! TAKE OVER THIS BANK!
They barely lend as it is and I highly doubt they see potential in the feminine economy.
Plus, the more and more they get the way, the closer and closer we arrive at communism by other means. Sad.
Don’t give in and never apologize. It’s a simple premise really.
They don’t need a bank loan. This is where a government program comes into play.
Ah yes. WE have to pay for their stupidity.
NOW you’re getting it. Just like solar and wind energy, the feelz matter, and if the feelz conflict with economic reality, then it’s the government’s job to step in and “level the field” by providing someone else’s money.
I would not be surprised if that actually happened.
The feminine economy isn’t what she thinks it is. The feminine economy is paying $28 for a tiny little compact of powder from Estee Lauder. The feminine economy is “Keeping up with the Kardashians”. It is “Young and Restless”. It is “Jane the Virgin”. It is OMG that top is Sooooo cute! It is $72 for a bra at Victoria’s Secret.
The feminine economy is doing just fine, thank you.
Alphabet not buying it.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/06/06/google-shareholders-vote-proposal-tying-pay-diversity-goals/
Finally. Some signal sanity can prevail.
Damore is going to have a field day with that in court.
“Eileen Naughton, who leads Google’s HR operations, said the company remains committed to an internal goal to reach “market supply” representation of women and minorities by 2020, which could help bring hiring in line with the diversity of the candidate pool.”
It’s amazing how these people feel comfortable with weasel terms like ‘market supply’. What the fuck does that mean?
We’ve always said shareholders were going to get the last say. I wonder if more will follow because it has to hurt the bottom line. You can dick around some of the time, maybe most but not all the time. At some point, it’s gonna cost something to someone.
Sounds like the whole thing is set to blow up and go away with a whimper.
Enjoy your bankruptcy ladies.
Wait a minute, now these things ARE feminine traits? Which is it – are women no-nonsense hardasses who can tough it out with the men in corporate America, or are they the nurturers and caretakers by nature?
People have observed that women are, on average, not as good at things that require a dominant personality and putting emotions aside, and now this “feminist” has admitted it. I love it.
Look shitlord,
Men and women are exactly the same. Anything men can do a woman can do no problem. There is no genetic reason for the observed differences in men and women.
At the same time, men are toxic and evil while women are compassionate saints, and men need to be trained to be cucks for the good of humanity.
“There is no earning. There’s no deserving. There’s no reward,”
To be fair, that sounds like a pretty good description of that particular program’s outcomes.
Sounds to me like the feminist version of “You didn’t build that.”
Nope.
Earth to retards: women make the majority of both small and large purchasing decisions in families. both in terms of total $ spend, and % of transactions.
And this has been true basically forever. Men get money, they drink and gamble and blow money on impulse. Women *shop*; they compare products, they look at ingredients, they care how the packaging looks and smells and feels. Men go, “that seems gay”, and buys the one on sale.
Most advertisements are actually targeted at women because women spend more time watching adverts, and are more-engaged w/ the material. Even your “cowboy driving pickup truck” with “like a rock” being played in the background is on some level just appealing to men’s notions of what they think women want to see = “good provider” (hard dick is just a +). Consumer Capitalism is about chicks ALL THE WAY DOWN and always has been. There is nothing more feminine than status quo, mass-market consumer culture.
Purity of cocaine in Europe at highest level in decade, report finds
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/07/purity-of-cocaine-in-europe-at-highest-level-in-decade-report-finds
The market constantly works to bring better quality product to the consumer
OT: I took that kiddo out from his residential (boy’s home) placement, with his social worker. It was fun! We went out for lunch, then to Guitar Center (he’s big into drums, the staff lets him try out lots of drum sets, he’s pretty good), then the mall. I was really proud of him, as we weren’t sure it would happen: if he’d had behavior problems, the staff would have cancelled it. In other words, it was a carrot-and-stick: be good, get a trip out! Then he had the good manners to thank us multiple times about the trip out. Thanks for the thanks yesterday, Lord H and others.
Sounds like the poor kid had a good day.
Thanks for the update
Muh legacy!
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau continues to come under fire by the man running the watchdog agency — Mick Mulvaney, the interim director appointed by President Trump.
In his latest action, Mulvaney moved on Wednesday to effectively dismantle the agency’s consumer advisory council. “It’s quite clear that we’ve been fired,” said Kathleen Engel, a law professor at Suffolk University and a member of the CFPB’s Consumer Advisory Board.
The board is designed to help consumer groups work with the CFPB to identify problems facing Americans who are treated unfairly by financial firms.
———–
Consumer Advisory Board members said the move, along with previous steps, signal the “destruction from within” of the CFPB.
“Firing the current CAB members is another move indicating Acting Director Mick Mulvaney is only interested in obtaining views from his inner circle, and has no interest in hearing the perspectives of those who work with struggling American families,” Ann Baddour, who chairs the board, said in a statement.
That Mulvaney guy is the pawn of the predatory lenders. With his assistance, they’re going to make slaves of the poor people
The CFPB should be burnt to the ground. It was a slush fund for the Dems. Somebody should go to PMITA federal prison for the Bank of America settlement.
Ha, ha.
Gun saves the day.
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/nation-world/during-sleepover-teen-tries-to-rape-friends-mom-police-say
I cannot understand what these people are thinking. Beyond the whole don’t rape thing which is obvious for normal people, even rapists should have some understanding abput what increases likelihood of getting caught
I blame MILF porn…
for a lot of carpal tunnel.
That story smells a bit fishy to me.
So did his fingers.
That’s not a nice thing to say about the mother’s….wait, what do you mean?
Maybe the mom has got it going on.
Would.
“The victim told police there was no penetration, but she did receive a black eye when she jerked away and stuck herself in the face.”
Don’t jerk it so hard. The whole purpose for the head is to keep your hand from slipping off.
TW: Possible Nazis!!!
Psychedelic plus prog rock plus black metal plus occult
Black magick SS
can I force someone to pick my cotton?
I find this euphemism… unsettling.
I took that kiddo out from his residential (boy’s home) placement, with his social worker. It was fun!
Nice.
STEVE SAY KNOW WHAT BIG FEET MEAN
That German shoemaker can use the soles from the pile of shoes behind his shop.
DIY lynx! I like it!
Musical selection.
Disneyland workers face ruthless exploitation. Their fight is our fight
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/07/disneyland-workers-living-wage-disney-inequality
In case you did not catch Bernie’s latest opinion piece in the Guardian, here it is.
That picture he chose of himself (or they chose) is perfect.
Nothing like The Grauniad for faux-sophisticated derp.
I beg your pardon, but what special skills must one acquire in order to perform such highly technical work? For such skills must be in short supply, if these workers deserve much higher wages.
For the last time, labor also follows the laws of supply and demand. Leftists never understand this.
They’re lucky they even get that.
Job description: Wear costume. Walk around for a few hours. Wave to kids and take pictures.
Job skills: Literally NONE.
Maybe it’s too much work for a lazy commie pinko like Grandpa Gulag.
Hey now, they do have to sign autographs. That can be difficult with giant cartoon gloves and a oversized pen.
Job skills: Literally NONE.
Have to disagree. Disney runs a highly structured operation. To work there, you need basic job skills like showing up on time, doing your work, interacting with the public, following policy and protocol, etc.
The whole point of being a prog is to reject the law of supply and demand.
*stifles derisive laughter*
Seriously, no, just- just hear me out, I- I know it’s crazy, but-
HAHAHAH-
Okay, really, though, maybe puppetry isn’t, uh, isn’t a fantastic way to make a living in an exceptionally expensive city. Did that never occur to this guy after nearly a decade and a half of working there?
Just following his dreams, TM. Why would you stomp on his dreams?
You know, I get that everyone has dreams they wanna follow. Me, personally? International Jewel Thief, followed maybe by Beekeeper.
But it should be apparent to anyone with a shred of common sense that it is really hard to make a living in the obscure career fields that occupy most everyone’s aforementioned dreams.
Exceptions could be made for people with rare talent or hustle, but if you think you’ve got that kind of talent or hustle, why stay in the exact same job at the exact same place for so long? If you honestly believe you’re underappreciated, fucking move, you dolt.
He may have a family he can’t relocate, he may really love where he lives, sure, but then he’s gotta make a choice – just like every single other person in the world.
I don’t know where this stubborn myth comes from, this idea of “having it all, all the time, forever,” but got damn, it grinds my gears.
/rant
Mike Rowe nailed it.
Don’t follow your passion.
He is a national treasure.
That triggered a memory of reading this years ago: Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief – nonfic. I remember enjoying it quite a bit and may need to see if I still have it or the library does.
I’m working on “Gentleman of Leisure” but in the meantime I have to actually make money, so web dev it is.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/9e/95/b8/9e95b8bf17160005061fd79e54e015fe.jpg
That’s it! My black tie game is a little weak ATM, however.
The funny thing is only capitalism affords him a world where he would be allowed to follow his dreams. In a socialist or even social democratic economy the only paid work for puppeteers would be through government grants and only highly connected individuals are getting those jobs regardless of skill. Capitalism creates the wealth necessary so that private entities run amusement parks and can afford to hire puppeteers to work in those parks and gives him the freedom to pursue his dream by entering that field. Sure there are trade offs, a life of poverty for one but the option is available to him. No such opportunity would be available in any other kind of economic system
So find other work that pays better, dumbass
How much do you want to bet he never tried to be anything more, never put in effort at anything but merely being there.
I suspect that “One of the top puppeteers” is a self-assessment rather than the view of management.
He doesn’t seem to understand that some jobs are just dead ends. They’re fine for filling a gap while you put yourself through school or look for something better. But you should always evaluate a new job to see if there’s any discernible path forward.
Plus, is there a “Senior Puppeteer”? A puppeteer supervisory position? In most fields I can think of, specialization will only get you so far. The real money is in management, and that requires developing new skills, taking on additional responsibility, etc.
I’m inclined to agree. Remember, this is a company that owns The Muppets. If this guy were some sort of puppetry rock star, my guess is that they’d have been quick enough to pull him out of the park and put him to work on a more lucrative line of business than entertaining kids a dozen or two at a time.
The funny thing of it is, there’s plenty about Disney’s treatment of park employees that is downright creepy (it was a case study in business school – real business school, not “feminist business school”). The problem is that Bernie really isn’t in a position to raise the issues because they largely mirror the sort of society Bernie would create (Disney running the private lives of the employees, spending all your life in a Disney environment, etc.).
Did he have a <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/audacity-occupy-wall-street/"masters?
TW: Old story
Bah:
https://www.thenation.com/article/audacity-occupy-wall-street/
This is what happens when you let us peons do our own links.
I remember that!
“MASTER OF PUPPETS, DEBT’S PULLING YOUR STRINGS”
Puppets are creepy.
He should’ve tried to create his own puppet show and pitched it internally, and if nothing worked out, externally.
Comfort is a relative prison.
It’s so sad that those people are forced into those jobs and have no other places they can possibly work.
Anaheim is a dystopian wasteland where bums are forced to live in the bus-stops or the Santa Ana River!
Anecdote alert: My cousin’s 2nd wife (Japanese by way of Brazil) loves Disney World and has been employed there for over 2 decades. Her dream was to be Minnie Mouse (whatever) but she seems to do okay. (They are no longer married because he’s basically an abusive drunk)
Unwanted house guest? Florida Man evicts with bomb…
why an acid bomb? and why two?
so many questions…
Florida Man is both the source of and answer to many questions
And why just two?
You know who else…
What lunacy is this??
Newly minted MBA lunacy
beer bobs or bitcoin
I have two answers:
1. Abject stupidity.
2. They are going to stop giving pancakes as sides with everything.
Although I think 2 is also 1, so nevermind.
International House of Beer? Bisexuals?
IHO;b
Breasts
Where? Oh, you meant…
The scariest films ever – ranked!
Occult chiller Hereditary is the latest in a proud line of big-screen blood-curdlers. Our critic picks his 25 most terrifying
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/07/peter-bradshaw-scariest-films-ever-hereditary
Whoever saw more then half is some sort of movie nerd or something. I saw 12 I think
Also I have friends who think the scariest horror movie was in fact playing the original Alien versus Predator alone at home at night, but we was yutes back then, scared easily.
Phantasm was scary as hell for 12yo me.
Seconded!
The first R rated movie I ever snuck into.
Heh… I still remember being in my early teens, and the (biking distance) cheap movie theater wouldn’t let me and my friend in to see Coming to America because it was rated R, but let us in to see A Fish Called Wanda (also rated R).
Dad took me to Quest For Fire on my twelfth birthday.
I still got a hankering for Rae Dawn Chong.
more like “Quest for Missionary Position” – my mom took me to see it when I was 10. Awkward!
At my first duty station right after boot camp – I went to see “Midway” but the girl selling tickets, after seeing from my military ID that I wasn’t 18 yet, told me she couldn’t sell me a ticket because the movie was rated “R” for violence and language. I told her “I’ll let you know if there are any words that I haven’t heard before”.
She sold me a ticket.
I think I’m an oddity in that I’ve never been scared by a work of fiction. I’m not trying to sound like a badass or anything – I’m actually a nervous wreck in general. I jump when the phone rings, search the entire house with my .357 at the slightest noise, and cannot sleep on the first floor since someone could theoretically walk up to the window and “get me”.
But I’ve never been genuinely freaked out by a movie or TV show. Startled, maybe, but not genuinely scared. Something that did scare me was watching “The Wyoming Incident” videos, but I was under the impression that they were real.
I’ve seen 8 of them.
10, but they left out Killer Klowns From Outer Space
John Vernon’s finest work
Ha! I forgot about that movie.
The Blair Witch Project? Oh come on….that thing was crap.
I’ve seen 11 of them.
4 – and they weren’t scary.
I’ve seen 23 of them, but then I am an avowed movie nerd. (Putting Hereditary on there is a bit of a cheat, since it isn’t in wide-release yet.)
I think the point is to advertise it. It is a usual Guardian MO similar to interviews with actors / authors etc when a new movie / book / play appears
I guess the one you didn’t see is Audition
No, I’ve seen an unhealthy number of Takashi Miike films. I even used to have a cat named after him.
I haven’t seen:
5 Dead of Night (Alberto Cavalcanti et al, 1945)
Low-key it may be compared with the jump-scare slashers, but this Ealing classic from 1945 is genuinely frightening: a portmanteau collection of five ghost stories, of which the most disturbing is probably the one directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, about a mad ventriloquist haunted by his dummy – a superb premonition of Psycho.
Usually not a huge fan of anthology films, but I might have to track this one down. Ventriloquist dummies are always creepy as hell.
Gabbo?
All the little kids at Glibarterians.com are SOBs.
Audition is probably my favorite on the list, although Dead of Night is one I come back to frequently.
Good film, Audition. Weird as hell with an excellent ending even if it starts slow. I watched it at a time when I was watching the weirdest films I could find, and it stuck out so I think that’s a plus.
Other recommended Miike: Ichi the Killer, 13 Assassins, and Gozu.
And The Happiness of the Katakuris, which is not great film-making, but so fucking odd and hilarious for being a zombie attack musical.
Seen Ichi and Gozu. Didn’t know they were the same director, but that makes sense. Gozu is hands down the weirdest film I’ve seen. That one wins.
Will add the other two to my list.
Two…too…to
fuck it, I’m still asleep. Need caffeine
The first two are faves, but I could never get into Gozu.
Scary depends a lot on circumstances. For some reason I remember finding this movie scary although I don’t remember much of it or why
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210070/
I remember that movie. I recall it being a little cheesy, but enjoyable.
I can’t believe Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park didn’t make the list!?!
*Yes, this is a real thing, and it is fantastically horrible.
That’s a bad list. I’ve seen 15.
‘American Psycho’ wasn’t scary (great movie). I fell asleep watching ‘The Addiction’. I thought ‘Susperia’ was mind-numbing and stupid. Much like ‘Rosemary’s Baby’.
This one scared me pretty good as a kid. Because of the inevitability.
“It Follows” is pretty good. The premise is entertaining and well-executed. It’s a low-budget movie but hides it well. I liked “Get Out” and thought it was really very good in parts, but I think it’s suffering a little bit from being An Important And Powerful Statement About Race and Privilege In Trump’s America when it’s really just The Wicker Man with WASPS. “The Babadook” was excellent, I thought.
Nonsense. Jaws.
Does no one remember the widespread fear of sharks following that movie? It made a hell of a difference in how many people were willing to get in the water. In real life. That movie wasn’t terrifying to watch, not really, but it sure made a difference in the amount of irrational but real life fear people felt.
A lot of the ones I saw of these just weren’t too scary at all.
Honestly, one of the scariest movies I ever saw was a made for TV movie – Salem’s lot. It was strange because the director, Tobe Hooper, had just come off of making Texas Chainsaw Massacre. As a television movie (in the 70s, no less), Salem’s Lot couldn’t have a lot of blood or gore. But, Hooper did an amazing job of compensating for that with incredibly suspenseful camera shots. I later learned that ABC, who aired it, got inundated with complaints about scaring the hell out of little kids by showing it.
Yes, Salem’s Lot was very well done. It looks pretty dated now (hi-def TVs really highlight the special effects flaws) but it was very effective.
A remake for Pet Sematary is in the works. If they can make a movie half as unsettling as the book, it would be hard to watch.
It looks pretty dated now…
Isn’t anything with David Soul in it going to look pretty dated now?
But, GOTDAMN, does his hair still look good.
Granted, that is some damned fine hair.
Magnum Force says no.
David Soul and Hal Holbrooke? Yeah, no getting around it that looks very, very, dated.
Just the other day I bought Salem’s Lot on Blu-Ray – and what SF said! – still one of the better horror films out there, especially given the “made for TV” status. It certainly scared the hell out of me when I was a kid.
Of course Burnt Offerings gave me nightmares for weeks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo_6Fb5k2lo
I remember that one. It was pretty scary. The chauffeur stuck in my mind for weeks.
Seen 17 of ’em – Don’t Look Now and The Innocents were scary the first time I saw them. Not so much the second…
And no The Changeling?
I saw 5 of them and parts of 3 others and I can objectively say that only 1 of the 5 I did see would make it into my top scary movies list
Instead, a more “feminine economy” could value other traits, such as “generosity,” “empathy,” “gratitude,” “integrity,” and “intimacy,” Armbrust suggests.
Marry a rich guy.
I think there’s a certain sector of this masculine economy that might appreciate those things – in fact I hear it’s a pretty good way to make a living!
STEVE SMITH ALWAYS SUPPORTS FEMININE ECONOMY WITH GENEROSITY, EMPATHY, GRATITUDE, INTEGRITY, AND INTIMACY
I’m allergic to caffeine, now I’m TRIGGERED!
*blank stare, shudders*
*sips coffee*
What Your Astrological Sign Can Tell You About Your Health
https://www.doctoroz.com/gallery/what-your-astrological-sign-can-tell-you-about-your-health
Obligatory.
“…Many Aquariuses take individuality seriously. The Aquarius sign is located at the ankle of the Vitruvian diagram. Astrologer Rebecca Gordon explains that “strong ankles are key in our ability to balance and stand up for what we believe in.” If your inner Aquarius is off, ankle tension may arise.”
Lol.
… Does this mean I have to turn in my libertarian card?
Holy crap that sounds just like me. I’m going to tell everyone no from now on.
need to exchange it for a…. libratarian card.
What a quack.
I assure you “Dr.” this is not where expend pent-up energy.
Maybe covered, but…Woman says her breasts are ruining her life as she’s turned down for reduction
Nice. I deleted those excess links. Meh.
I’m going to guess that she was turned down because you are usually required to lose weight before they recommend reduction surgery (at least they do here based on a couple of women I know) and she either refused or didn’t bother to try.
I was all cised before I clicked the link, then I was…I won’t lie, a little bit disappointed but still on board. Really, there’s a lot to unpack, as the kids say, with that story. There’s some interesting NHS stuff there, such as the perils of depending on a public health system. Some of the comments were interesting in that regard. Plus, perhaps linked, there’s the fact that if she lost even a little bit of weight she’d ease her back problems, so to speak.
Did they at least recommend something like liposuction?
A couple commenters recommend hunger and taking the stairs, which I support.
breast reduction
Explains why Q is not around. He found this and had an aneurysm.
I accidentally posted multiple links in one comment and it’s under moderation. What happens if you comment on that link while it’s being moderated? Tell me now because I can’t wait three minutes.
“I worked for 14 years with the company and I was somebody who excelled at my job. I was one of the top puppeteers.”
Well, okay, then. Bye.
MGM’s marketing dept ain’t too bright. Seeing as they have a brand new casino/hotel right outside DC.
Whoa. I mean, MGM could’ve stayed above the fray and been like, “Yay! We love both teams! Come watch the game at one of our fine resorts and casinos!” That was a dippy move, especially if the thing that I can’t talk about for fear of layin’ the jinx actually happens.
Also, there’s a Caps viewing party tonight right next door to the MGM casino!
Lookit their Tweeter feed!
And their profile pic!
I don’t get it. Is this an intern gone rogue or something?
Rednecks in the Mist, architectural version
Another standard criticism of the suburbs is that they generate urban sprawl. Its detriments range from inefficient land use, to environmental damage from reliance on automobiles, to dull and repetitious housing stock. These objections have some legitimacy. But implied in this critique is that the suburbs are also soul-deadening, boring, and anonymous, unlike the vibrant city. The matter might not be that cut-and-dried.
Robert Bruegmann investigated the subject in his book, Sprawl: A Compact History. He shows that sprawl has a historical legacy going back centuries, that multinucleated cities have benefits, and, finally, that these are places people want to live in. Sprawl’s antithesis—the compressing of populations into increasingly dense urban cores—also has a host of problems. And that’s not just true of New York or San Francisco. In the downtown and central core of Austin, Texas, high property taxes, relentless high-rise development downtown, and gentrification have so eroded the opportunities for middle-class families that enrollment in the public school system is collapsing. In some gentrified areas of East Austin, dogs now outnumber children.
Suburbs are where people want to live. They’d rather have a mcmansion than an apartment.
If given a choice and required to pick between the two, I’d go for a McMansion in the suburbs over an apartment in the city hands down.
How is every suburban house a McMansion to these people?
If 1400sf qualifies as a mansion then, ok, I guess my suburban house is a McMansion.
Because they rent
Ditto. I live in a small house in the city. It has “character”. All of my in-laws live in McMansions in the ‘burbs nearby. They’ve all got, oh, 2000 sqft on us, about a 1/4 acre on average, maybe a little more, good schools, great water pressure, everything built to code, great insulation…I could go on.
unlike the vibrant city
Indeed
gentrification
White people leave=”white flight”=bad
White people move in=”gentrification”=bad
White people=bad
“Vibrant city”? Someone broke into my neighbor’s house two weeks ago and stole, among other things, the urn holding his dog’s ashes. This same poor guy–ironically a Boston expat with impeccably Progressive credentials–was mugged when he first moved to the neighborhood maybe six years ago while carrying his kayak down the street. Last summer we had something like a shooting a week for a three month stretch. Fuck vibrancy.
finally? That should be what you lead off with and then you can stop right there.
“People aren’t using their land in a way I see fit!”. Fuck off, slaver.
These people are never going to get over their love of public transit and realize that families with children, particularly small children, don’t want to have to schlep all their stuff around on buses and trains. I have no desire to be “liberated” from my car.
I totes want to live in a place with no decent grocery stores, hardware stores, Walmartses, Costcos, Home Goods, etc. The city is OK if you never cook or do any substantial home projects and you like to just plain old pay more for everything.
Not to mention watching the municipal budget progressively gobbled up by promises to city employees making more than you and enjoying lavish benefits at your expense.
Soul deadening, anonymous, boring. Or as I like to say: quiet, private and no one sticking their nose in my business.
Soul deadening, anonymous, and boring describes every progressive I ever met.
Another angel gunned down in the prime of life Surprisingly, the first of the year. (by a cop)
She described her brother as silly and playful, crazy about his kids and impossible to stay mad at.
True.
It is amazing how CPD and cops in general never seem to shoot thugs.
Need more info. On the one hand, shooting someone who’s running away from you is not only immoral, it’s also dangerous, because the odds of stray rounds are pretty good. On the other hand, if he was in effect an “active shooter”, that’s not someone you want traipsing around.
The new “Miss America”
Dangerous lunatic’s butt hurts
Google’s decision not to renew a contract to develop artificial intelligence for the Defense Department was a victory for the employees who had protested it. It was also a defeat for U.S. national security, patriotism, and the cause of limiting civilian casualties in war.
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Google’s leaders also seem to have forgotten the vital role the government, and especially the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, played in creating the internet and making their company possible in the first place. Yet, from Apple’s refusal to unlock the iPhone of a mass-murdering terrorist to Project Maven, tech firms have repeatedly snubbed law-enforcement, intelligence and defense agencies.
Michael Bloomberg lets his inner technocratic authoritarian out. Let’s nationalize google, and force them to design autonomous drones to keep America’s streets free from smokers.
Hot young women have breasts. We want to look at them.
http://archive.is/VnZhn
I can definitely get on board with #17.
I know I should be staring at the stonking great tits (and I am, I am), but so many bad lip jobs… Ladies, please stop that.
Yeah, the lips. Between duckface and plastic surgery, yeesh.
And the ink and body
piercingsmutilations.so many bad lip jobs
Is that like a blow job, but just the tip?
VDH is a NEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD.
Would we really lose much by indulging most Europeans’ wishes and withdrawing? Good luck with Islam and Putin, guys. Hopefully Russian encroachment and mass-wave immigration won’t grind you to grist.
They’ll be begging for Russian encroachment in less than 20 years.
The end is nigh! cuz SCIENCE!!
Oh, give me a fucking break. How much do you want to bet that the analysis went no further than “civilizations that use up all the resources die; civilizations that make more resources live”?
Nobody is arguing that you can use up all the resources and survive. What they’re disputing is that humans are actually in danger of using up all of the planet’s resources or that we won’t find ways to utilize resources that were previously useless.
And you can’t make definite conclusions from a simulation if YOU get to design the simulation with all of your biases. That’s like taking political science lessons from SimCity. Those “mathematical models” aren’t proving anything other than the beliefs of the researchers. I could just as easily design some model of civilization where more government results in a slide into totalitarianism, but that wouldn’t be accepted at face value, would it?
What they’re disputing is that humans are actually in danger of using up all of the planet’s resources or that we won’t find ways to utilize resources that were previously useless.
I honestly believe that, if we ever encounter an advanced interstellar species, they’ll turn out to be capitalist for roughly this reason. Markets are very good at ensuring that resources that are getting used up require a premium for additional use. A species that is able to get to the point of interstellar travel without using up their resources is going to probably be one that’s figured this out.
And I, for one, welcome our new Ferengi overlords.
Only if its pre season 7 Ferengi. The way the writers raped that culture at a he end was criminal.
This scam has mostly run its course. I guess this guy didn’t get the memo.
I have no desire to be “liberated” from my car.
Ve haff vays off liberating you, Citizen.
https://baijiuamerica.passionspirits.com/baijiu-america/kweichow-moutai.html
J7st tasted this. Very bad taste but they compensate by being massively overpriced
The hell Commie crap am I looking at here?
Chinese moonshine.
Have fun the next morning.
Good Read
https://quillette.com/2018/06/05/high-price-stale-grievances/
Brilliant. A perfect example why “intellectuals” like Coates and Dyson fall back on dispirited anecdotes and poetic license and historical animism to make their case for “nursing stale grievances”. The facts are inconvenient, their grasp of reality tenuous, and their pat explanations so one-trick that they could only appeal to readers who want to be coddled, and their political minders who want to coddle them.
And the comments, too. No wonder lefties hate Quillette.
Please check your gmail, Commodious. If you don’t have anything from me, I screwed up and will need another way to contact you.
Rec’d; will respond in a bit
Seems like I’ve been seeing quite a few Quillette links lately, and several of them have been pretty sane. Have to put them on my list to check out more often.
One of the side links on the page linked above is “Explaining monogamy to vox”. OK quillette, you have my attention.
Brutal thrashing, like what you might imagine the red-headed stepchild would get in a polygynous relationship. Money shot (after many paragraphs fisking the video with reference to actual literature on the subject):
Voxsplainers, written for dunces by dunces.
Aside from the Chestertonian point to be made here–don’t try to fix a problem you don’t yet understand–there’s that Stephenson quote I’m so fond of re: hypocrisy, and the modern obsession with it. Here we have the most obvious application of a “flesh is weak but spirit is willing” failure to abide by the strictures of a moral code. But writing off the stricture–indeed, the whole code–as hypocrisy because its aspirants often stumble is as stupid as writing off monogamy in favor of polyamory because the latter is “liberating” while the former is “stifling.” Liberating from what? Stifling what?
Sloopyinca gets pisedd in 3, 2, 1…..
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/06/07/trump-stuns-controversial-claim-praising-coast-guard/
Damn Texan Boaters!
See CPRM, I didn’t do nothing. Besides, I’m still showing my package is in transit.
I’m just being Glib Neph, nothing abnormal
/Gambols off to make more coffee
G—–?
WI identified.
Ouch. That is a big ‘foot in mouth’ moment.
This was posted in the PM links a couple of days ago:
Hollywood was always Red
Don’t do that
A Texan required 26 doses of anti-venom after he was bitten by the severed head of a rattlesnake he had killed.
Jennifer Sutcliffe told local station KIII-TV that her husband was working in the garden when he saw the four-foot (1.25m) rattlesnake and decapitated it.
When he picked up the snake’s remains to dispose of them, the head bit him.
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Leslie Boyer, an anti-venom doctor at the University of Arizona VIPER Institute, warned against attempting to kill snakes, particularly by cutting them.
“It’s cruel to the animal and it leaves you with a smaller piece that’s venomous to pick up,” she told the Gizmodo news site.
That guy is a dumbass. “I’ll just pick this poisonous snake’s head up with my bare hand.” Really?
Call me a bigot, but who gives a fuck about “cruelty to snakes”?
Someone was lecturing me about cruelty to houseflies one time.
I’m generally nice to animals (besides eating them) but flies are not on the list of organisms that I give a fuck about.
ONce in college I was waiting for a class to start sitting on the steps outside the building idly burning fire ants that strayed within my reach with my cigarette. When the class before mine let out a girl came out and saw what I was doing. The look of horror on her face…you would have thought I was strangling puppies.
What an idiot.
Oh, hell, if there was a switch I could flick that would kill all the fire ants within ten miles of human habitation I’d flick that sucker before you even got done telling me about it.
I exterminate houseflies with extreme prejudice.
See rattlesnake, kill rattlesnake. I’ve seen them move after being cut in two, so I always pitch them over the fence with a shovel or rake. Wearing gloves would do you no good.
Antivenin runs about $2500/dose. Usually takes at least 10 doses. 26 doses isn’t that unusual, but the bill for this is probably north of $70K.
I blame the FDA.
Pet Lion Viciously Attacks Man At Home – Lioness Attack
A clickbaity title, no doubt; you could throw this man’s remains in a dog dish if that lion had “viciously attacked”. No, what struck me was the comments; not the garden-variety stupid YT comments that you get in most videos. No, seemingly every fifth comment or so is a variation of”THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!”
To prove my point, I’m just gonna scroll down a bit and copy a random section of comments. I’ll bet I land on at least three saying MAKE A LAW:
Okay, two. On the plus side, having an apex predator for a pet is a great way to keep potential visitors away.
What about running a rescue for them? I was friends with one of the people involved in the great Ohio tiger search of 2000.
I also remember going to a paintball course that had a property line they shared with people who owned several exotic big cats. We were specifically told if we saw a lion on the field, calmly walk away from it. Do not run, and do not try to shoot it with a paintball gun. You’ll just piss it off, and it’s faster then you. I did not go back to that paintball course.
What kind of fence did they have? Nobody should have big cats without 360 degrees of big cat proof fencing.
Fence? No fence. From memory (this was well over 15 years ago), the county in questions laws for exotic animals were (and still may be) fairly loose. Animals had to be 200 feet away from the property line, and dangerous animals needed to be double caged. But the inspectors weren’t going to come unless someone complained.
+1 That tiger went tiger!
“EXCLUSIVE: Facebook, Amazon, Google And Twitter All Work With Left-Wing SPLC
The Southern Poverty Law Center helps Facebook, Amazon, Google and Twitter determine what organizations are “hate groups”
Amazon gave the SPLC the most direct authority while pretending to remain unbiased
The SPLC has been plagued by inaccuracies”
http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/06/splc-partner-google-facebook-amazon/
Oof. Well, I get most of my stuff from Jet these days, and I order clothes from retailers or manufacturers when I don’t buy them in person, but I do have a bunch of movies and stuff via Amazon Video and Amazon Prime…
…but then again I do the Smile program and picked Gun Owners Foundation as my charity, so maybe it’s a wash.
RUSSIA!!!
https://twitter.com/BrittPettibone/status/1004517041838030848
WOOD.
Fear is the mindkiller
American students have become leading gun-control activists in the wake of several high-profile school shootings, including in Parkland, Fla., and Santa Fe, Texas.
Modjarrad, who is also an activist, told the commission that students are using their voices to speak out for change.
“I would ask to please consider the possibilities that guns are the most important aspect of the purview of this commission,” she said.
The event comes one day after DeVos told lawmakers at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing that the commission will not focus on the role of firearms in gun violence at American schools.
If anybody has “failed” these goddam hysterical brats, it is the people who have managed to convince them they are in dire and constant jeopardy from a murderous gun toting classmate.
students are using their voices to speak out for change
Uhh, what else would they use to speak out?
guns are the most important aspect of the purview of this [high school safety] commission
I wonder what most students who are killed or injured in high school are killed or injured by? Might be guns, but without checking, I couldn’t say guns are the most important aspect.
At least xe used “purview” correctly.
My guess is that automobile-related injuries (getting hit in the parking lot, etc.), assault, and probably regular ol’ slip and falls are the leaders there by far.
Most youngsters that die in Chicago are on the Honor Roll. coincidence? I think not. COMMONSENSE HONOR ROLL CONTROL
“We’re actually [studying] student school safety and how we can ensure our students are safe at school,” DeVos said.
During the commission session on Wednesday, Modjarrad called on DeVos to reconsider its “current complicit stance on the role of guns in school safety,” CNN reported.
Maybe I’m crazy, but maybe they should define school safety in such a way that it allows them to do some sort of comprehensive statistical analysis of what the real threats are, and how to prioritize and defend against them. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out showering after athletic practice is a bigger “school safety” issue than guns. Or shop class.
And none of this is an issue for the federal government.
I’ll bet more kids get injured in PE or playing sports by orders of magnitude more than anything else. I’ll also bet that gun-related injuries are a fart in a high wind, statistically speaking.
I was looking up school related deaths somewhere a few weeks ago and came across a stat that on average 19 students a year are killed on school busses not related to motor vehicle accidents. That is there is no collision, they died from some other cause such as a slip and fall getting on or off the bus. For comparisons sake we average about 10 students per year killed by firearms on school property.
None of those people give two shits about school shootings except as a tool to further their agenda. This is about disarming the population. Plain. And. Simple.
Do not run, and do not try to shoot it with a paintball gun. You’ll just piss it off, and it’s faster then you.
When the tiger climbed out of its enclosure in San Francisco (I think) and ate the kid who was shooting at it with a slingshot, there was a picture of the enclosure. It had rough stone walls. I had a cat who would routinely run straight up my neighbor’s six foot cedar fence. I looked at the wall of that enclosure and thought to myself, “That tiger could have gotten out of there any time he felt like it. He just wasn’t motivated enough until that moment.”
I remember one summer taking a trip to the National Zoo and for whatever reason this one male lion was giving me the stinkeye like you wouldn’t believe. Now, I’m not saying I was afraid or worried or whatever, but I’ll freely admit that I gave him the polite indifference afterwards. Obviously I reminded him of someone he didn’t like, and I didn’t want to press the issue. I’m pretty confident that I can handle myself in general, but that’s a lion, son.
You could put the biggest, toughest man on the planet in a sack with a 40 lb bobcat and I guarantee you the cat is going to be the one walking away. In a straight up fight most critters can whip a man. Hell, a damned armadillo can hold two tons on its back. Humans are pretty feeble creatures as creatures go.
A lion is a lot bigger than 40lbs.
“Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him.” – Blaise Pascal
The SPLC has been plagued by inaccuracies
Bullshit. “Inaccuracy” implies that those are unintentional errors. The SPLC deals in slander.
The SPLC is a for-profit corporation. Not in a legal sense, but in reality, this is the case.
They manufacture heterosexual white male guilt and collect donations, just like religious authorities telling people that they have sinned merely by existing and they have to make cash donations in order to escape this.
See rattlesnake, kill rattlesnake. I’ve seen them move after being cut in two, so I always pitch them over the fence with a shovel or rake. Wearing gloves would do you no good.
My rattlesnake encounter involved beating it ferociously with an eight foot long 2 x 6 (the nearest weapon to hand), and then picking it up with a shovel (holding the shovel by the two inches of handle farthest from the snake) and dumping its bent and broken body into a metal trash can. I put a piece of plywood on top so it couldn’t jump out. I was taking no chances. The fucking thing was nearly four feet long and about as thick as my forearm. At one point, when I thought it was good and dead, I tried to give it the head-crush coup de gracey, and it reared up and struck the board as it came down. It felt just like somebody had hit the board with a hammer, hard.
Out west are you? We have eastern diamondbacks. The biggest one I have killed was about 7 feet. When I was very young my grandfather brought me to a local store where someone had killed a 9 footer. Imagine being about 5 years old and seeing something like that.
Here is a decent sized one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXR6yM1Twd4
They are intimidating, but it is the copperheads and cotton mouths that you have to watch out for. Dang water moccasins are mean and don’t always like to give a warning, like a big rattler will.
When I was a kid I caught a huge black snake (like 7 feet). I decided it would make a cool skin, so I decapitated it and proceeded to skin it. That’s when I found out that they bear live young and this one was almost ready to give birth.
I tell you that story to explain this one… see, I was probably about 8 at the time. And the neighbor kids got all worked up about the wriggling baby snakes. So a couple of days later they came around with a mason jar full of baby snakes to show off. I took one look and went from “cool” to “put it down and don’t touch it! Somehow they managed to get a whole den of baby copperheads into a mason jar without getting killed. Pretty impressive. They found them in the storm drain in front of their house. Apparently their mom was pretty adamant that they needed to sell the house immediately and move….
It felt just like somebody had hit the board with a hammer, hard.
Pater Dean had a smallish one strike the heel of his boot. That’s exactly how he described it.