Friday Afternoon Links of Crap

Today young Ted “Theodore” L had all his diapers thrown away and will henceforth wear underwear. And treat them like cloth diapers. Three times I tossed him on the shitter, and what does he do, he sneaks around behind a table, and as I come around (because I suspect he’s taking a dump) yells, “Go ‘way, Daddy! There no poop hewe!” You know who says that in my experience? Someone who just shit their pants. And, in fact, this was the case. Its like he’s more comfortable walking around with his own shit weighing him down than just doing what I asked. There’s a metaphor there, but it might be crap.

Former head of the CDC arrested for sexual abuse. Remember when they were just literal dog-fuckers. Maybe someone should take out a multi-billion dollar grant to study the epidemiological patterns of sexual deviancy in federal institutions.

Horse gone, Papa Johns CEO insists on closing barn door. To strain the metaphor, I’m rooting for a cow and lantern scenario.

This is pretty much how I see LA in my head.

When you look at the map of this dangerous “kissing bug”, it seems that the Jayne Cobb school of romance appears near universal in West Virginia and New Jersey. Anyone surprised?

 

For OMWC, safely back from Detroit, I thought I’d play something from the Motor City Madman’s finest musical days.

Comments

228 responses to “Friday Afternoon Links of Crap”

  1. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Oh poo

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      My eldest was notorious for hanging on to those turds until the nighttime diaper went on.

      Good times, good times

      1. So, so happy my kids are all adults now.

        Our second is potty-training her daughter. The daughter is being stubborn about it. Mrs. Animal and I just laugh and laugh and laugh. Grandkids are the revenge we get on our kids for our having been parents.

        1. mikey

          Yeah, when our son would complain about his stubborn as hell daughter (gee, I wonder where she got that) I’d just laugh and say “Payback time!.”

        2. Raven Nation

          “Grandkids are the revenge we get on our kids for our having been parents.”

          Also:

          “The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.”
          Clarence Darrow

      2. dorvinion

        My first took to doing #1 like a champ. Very few daytime or nighttime accidents.

        It was #2 that was the challenge. She was good at hanging on to them so she rarely had any accidents, but she adamantly refused to evacuate anywhere but a diaper.
        We had to get sneaky to break that one down.

  2. The Other Kevin

    I don’t miss those toilet training days. One of my kids was successfully toilet trained, then after a few months decided she was tired of it and reverted back. So we had to go through it all over again.

    My thoughts and prayers are with you.

    1. Florida Man

      *Adds another reason to not have kids to growing list.*

      1. Mad Scientist

        ^^^^ THIS!

        1. “Distaste for cleaning feces leads to extinction of otherwise intelligent species”

          1. Mad Scientist

            “Intelligent species” don’t crap their pants for years!

          2. Tonio

            Apparently it’s now a thing for hippie )or whatever they’re calling themselves these days) mothers to keep their kids in diapers to age five, or beyond. “He’ll self-train when he’s ready.”

            Kindergarten and some first grade teachers are now having to deal with diapers.

          3. Our daycare wouldn’t let our daughter go from the two-year-old room to the three-year-old room until she was potty trained.

    2. trshmnstr

      We’re not quite there yet, but I dread something like that happening.

      We’re in the run up to dad and say “poo poo” while grunting phase. I’m working on getting her to go stand by the toilet while pooping. The reward is getting to flush the toilet and watch the water.

      1. Certified Public Asshat

        My father-in-law bought a ton of Shopkins blind bags for my daughter when she was potty training. I was annoyed at first, but she would shit 20 times a day if it meant she got to see what dumb Shopkins was hiding in the box.

    3. J. Frank Parnell

      Both of mine, we started trying to train them a bit too early, so struggled through a couple months of wet and poopy underpants. Then they hit a point where they just started using the toilet on their own, and within about a week there were no more accidents.

  3. invisible finger

    Victim A: I parked my car ten minutes ago and now it’s gone!
    Police: Not much we can do about it. We might not get home safe.

    Victim B: Sometime last year some creep touched my ass.
    Police: Non-violence with nobody harmed? We’ll get right on it!!!

    1. Chafed

      That’s about right.

  4. Tonio

    Sounds like he’s on his way to being a prog, what with the pants-shitting, and all.

    Just kidding. Good luck, Brett.

    1. trshmnstr

      *applause *

    2. On the contrary; he’s just redefining “shitlord.”

  5. Gustave Lytton

    Piece of Shit has discontinued cancer treatment, still won’t resign. Buried in the bipartisan cock fellating is that Sen. Absent hasn’t been in Washington since last Decemeber. AZ voters, and this country deserves better. The Senate should be expelling his vacant cancer ridden torture addled husk, and the AZ legislature should be replacing him already. Fuck everyone in this story.

    1. invisible finger

      Ho Chi Minh’s revenge.

    2. R C Dean

      I believe he’s hanging on because an absent Senator is effectively a “no” vote, and even as he contemplates death, he can’t quite get past his spite and hatred of Donald Trump.

    3. Nephilium

      Here’s hoping for good news about that asshole soon.

    4. Rufus the Monocled

      His Twitter account.

      https://twitter.com/cottonquotes

      1. Rebel Scum

        No, Cotton had morals.

    5. Creosote Achilles

      When the news report of this first started I hoped it was going to be “Sen. John McCain who has been fighting brain cancer died in agony last night.” Alas, it wasn’t.

      1. Mad Scientist

        I suspect the drug laws that cause others to die in agony magically won’t apply to this fuckstick.

  6. Scruffy Nerfherder

    “After the bugs feed on you, they tend to defecate.”

    Everything you didn’t want to know about the IRS

    1. mikey

      Henry N Manney, the Road and Track columnist, had one of those as his daily driver while he was living in Paris. He sold it when it got too clapped out to drive for like $2,500.

    2. Mad Scientist

      Would

    3. Tundra

      Pretty. The record for on of these is $70 million.

  7. Rufus the Monocled

    Am I out of line in wanting to pull for Papa John?

    1. Brochettaward

      No. He didn’t do anything wrong. We’ve hit the point where simply reading Huckleberry Finn out loud gets you ostracized for wrong think. The accusation isn’t that he’s racist, but that he used a bad word. Context be damned.

      Papa John’s Mandates Diversity Training as Founder Continues Push for Control

      And these are the people who want to oust him. The CEO said nigger on a phone call with investors. Someone snitched. How do we handle this? I know! Let’s make the pizza delivery boy take diversity training!

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        When I heard that I immediately thought what a bunch of lousy leeches.

      2. Subwoofer

        I read a good article the other day which outlines how this sort of behavior all makes sense when you think of social justice as an industry shilling a product (diversity/sensitivity training) though its professional class.

        1. The Other Kevin

          That’s an interesting take. I have never once seen someone peddling this shit mention longing for the day when microagressions are a thing of the past, for example. They just want the bitch fest to keep growing and expanding.

          1. Mad Scientist

            #MeThree

      3. Gustave Lytton

        Was it investors? I thought it was an internal call discussing an ad campaign or such and Papa John Prime was calling BS on it, wouldn’t greenlight it, and those pushing it inside and outside the company used it to remove him.

        1. Gustave Lytton

          Media training. Scratch much of what I remembered wrote above

          https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/16/papa-johns-founder-said-media-agency-tried-to-extort-him.html

      4. Rebel Scum

        Context be damned.

        That’s the worst part. As I recall, he said it while quoting someone else saying it.

    2. Tundra

      I’m just pissed that he didn’t simply tell everyone to fuck off.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        It sounds like he did, and was removed for it.

        1. Tundra

          He apologized.

          Never apologize.

      2. invisible finger

        I don’t see why he doesn’t just start another company and kick their ass. You don’t want government pension funds investing anyway.

        1. Gustave Lytton

          Non compete agreement? Intellectual property?

    3. RAHeinlein

      There is a website for that:

      https://savepapajohns.com/

  8. B.P.

    When referencing Detroit musically, always go with MC5…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XhQRFO4M7A

    1. Old Man With Candy

      For me, Detroit means Kenny Burrell, Roy Haynes, and Tommy Flanagan.

      1. Chafed

        You won’t support the Black Panthers houseband?!? Racist.

    2. Tundra

      Exactly. I linked them yesterday because awesome.

  9. Old Man With Candy

    Always love the Nuge.

    1. Private Chipperbot

      Thought he’d have gone with wang dang sweet poontang…

      1. Tundra

        Stranglehold.

        1. kinnath

          Damn straight

        2. Since it was dedicated to OMWC I thought ‘Jailbait’ but figured it’d be JTTCOYM

  10. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Re Papa John’s newfound wokeness (sort of): How’s Starbucks been doing since they went from woke to uberwoke? I haven’t heard much about them lately. Are they in the toilet or are they chugging along selling their charred coffee?

      1. Raven Nation

        So, if I read that correctly, CNBC led with Starbucks earnings going up but then, way down in the story it looks like most of the growth is from overseas sales and that US sales are declining or flat?

      2. Rhywun

        And now we know the real reason behind all the re-education efforts.

    1. JaimeRoberto

      They are underperforming relative to the major indexes over the 6 and 12 months.

  11. I’ll have you know I haven’t needed diapers for *decades*!

    [runs away sobbing]

    1. Private Chipperbot

      ‘needed’…

      1. Certified Public Asshat

        Well, they help make his butt look bigger in jeans.

        1. Actually, I could stand to lose some weight….

          [runs off sobbing again]

          1. trshmnstr

            Be careful, if you cry too much, you lose bladder control.

    2. invisible finger

      I’ll have you know I probably won’t need diapers for years.

  12. Nephilium

    Alright all, I’m off to spend the weekend at a shareholders meeting. Of course, the company is a brewery, so they do it as a big beer fest. Hold down the fort.

    1. Tundra

      Happy trails!

    2. Drake

      5 drink minimum before the vote on executive compensation?

      1. Rebel Scum

        Do you know who else votes themselves more money?

  13. I’m off to go bag an antelope (these euphemisms…) so these tits will have to hold you over for the weekend.

    http://archive.is/nX5Z5

    Numero seis muy caliente!

    1. Count Potato

      Did you know pronghorn are short giraffes?

  14. Creosote Achilles

    I made a tragic error and sort of didn’t go to the dentist for 5 years. It was one of those ‘I’ll schedule that next week’ and never did. So this week I have spent 3 hours in the chair for a deep cleaning and have had first my right side and then the left side of my face be numb. The teeth look great and there are no long term negatives. But damn.

    On the upside, my Jim Ross impression is on point, “My gawdah, stop the dayum match!”

    1. Dr. Fronkensteen

      +1 beaten like a government mule.

      1. Dr. Fronkensteen

        Actually I made the same mistake as well. Like you said it’s one of those things the longer you put off the less you’ll be likely to do it.

        1. I have only been to the dentist three times in my adult life. I go when my teeth hurt, regular cleaning/checkups is a scam right up there with changing your oil every 3000 miles.

  15. Subwoofer

    Burning Man is next week, and the organization which runs it is really screwing themselves.

    They rely on free labor to run pretty much everything. In fact, people pay to work a 40 hour week at Burning Man by buying a ticket to the event, trucking it out there 90 miles north of Reno in the middle of nowhere, bringing everything they’ll need to survive (including power and water), and usually take a week off of their jobs to do so.

    The general deal is that if you work a 40 hour week at the event one year, the bmorg (or borg as many call it) will comp you a “staff credential” ticket next year when you sign up to work again.

    Just like the airlines, the bmorg has (in my mind) a despicable practice of overselling the event because their statistics predict a certain percentage of ticket holders won’t show up, or will arrive late/leave early so as to keep the total population under the BLM mandated cap and avoid the massive fines they face if they go over the limit. Well, this year they oversold the event so much that the staff who are already on their way to the event are being told their credentials have been pulled and to turn around.

    The organization has been pretty heavily mismanaged for a long time, which should be no surprised since its run by lifelong 70s hippies from San Francisco, and has relied almost entirely on the awesomeness of the attendees to keep it running smoothly. There have been some cracks forming recently that are turning into major fissures as they push those old timers to the slidelines in favor of what the community refers to as ‘tourists’ and ‘sparkle ponies’, which are basically anyone who is there to just watch and party without really participating.

    That, plus the ever growing police presence cracking down on anyone and everyone for everything under the sun, might kill it very soon.

    1. grrizzly

      What’s actually happening at Burning Man? Why is it popular? Drudge had a picture of some kind of sexual orgy next to a Burning Man link. So is it like a straight version of a gay bathhouse?

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        Why is Big Bang Theory so popular?

        1. Dr. Fronkensteen

          Are you Judge Napalitano?

      2. Subwoofer

        I’ve been 6 times and had a blast every year but one. The best way to describe it succinctly is a microcosm of all humanity has to offer, and about a year or more worth of life experiences crammed into a single week. It’s been transformational every time I’ve attended, in a different way each time. My life has always taken a major turn shortly after getting back often in very unexpected ways.

        Yes, there are orgies that go for the entire time. “And Then There’s Only Love” is a camp known colloquially as the ‘orgy dome’ where you go to screw your brains out. There’s usually a line around the block, and the first time you go you have to get “consented”, which basically means you sit through a talk about what’s good behavior and what isn’t.

        There’s ‘sound camps’ which are basically week long raves. There’s a ‘Thunderdome’ where people get nerf mallets and pulverize each other while people watch from all directions (literally, cause you can climb on top and look down). There’s flaming ski-ball, where the more points you score the bigger the flames that shoot out of the skiball machine. There’s various art cars like one shaped like the death star, charlie the unicorn, various rocket ships, and more, usually blaring dubstep, adorned with lasers, or shooting fire.

        There’s lots of yoga, aerials, meditation, restaurants, bars, workshops, some Ted talks, random things like a ‘human car wash’ where you strip off your clothes and run through a soapy car wash while people wipe you down with their hands sticking in the sides, advice booths where anyone can plop down and give anyone who passes by and wants it some advice (good or bad…), and honestly more than I could possibly list here.

        It’s different every year though because literally the entire event is put on by the attendees. The only things the org provide are the place, the Man (which obviously burns and is accompanied by a most fantastic firework display), porta-potties, water trucks to keep the streets relatively ‘paved’, the streets themselves, medical facilities, and a few infrastructure camps where you can buy coffee, lemonade, or ice (but thats all you can buy, everything else is free).

        Sure, its a giant gathering of hippies partying in the desert, but its much much more than that, or at least it used to be.

        1. grrizzly

          Thanks. That was informative.

        2. Florida Man

          Waiting in a long line for an orgy……pass.

          1. Subwoofer

            There’s ways to skip the line…

            It’s always funny seeing single guys hanging around just outside it hitting on females passing by trying to get them to go in with them. So awkward.

          2. Bob Boberson

            How do they control the ratios at that event? My intuition tells he guys would outnumber women by a lot and that the demand for attractive women would far outpace supply….

            Do they have an central planning orgy committee?

          3. Subwoofer

            Simple – no single males. Single females are welcome, but all males must be accompanied by at least one female.

        3. Mojeaux

          That sounds like a helluva lot of fun, tbh.

          1. Subwoofer

            The Mormon girl who came with our group a few years back had a blast, probably more fun than the rest of us. It was funny watching her politely pass on caffeinated beverages in the morning then taking some Adderall later that night and not coming back to camp until noon the next day.

        4. Count Potato

          I never went because when I first heard about it in the early 90’s, people were saying it wasn’t as good as it used to be.

          1. Subwoofer

            It’s apparently been in decline since the early 90s when they moved from Baker Beach in SF to the Black Rock Desert, but most people still have a great time even if they wish it was like it used to be, with ‘used to be’ usually defined as the speaker’s first year.

          2. Gilmore

            “It’s apparently been in decline since the early 90s”

            My buddy glenn had been going every year for ~7 years (to help build for about a week) when he invited me in 2003 or so.

            He caveated it by saying, “its not as cool as it used to be”. I never went. still haven’t gone.

            I used to go to lots of outdoor festivals when i was a kid, and i followed bands on tour and spent week+ partying nonstop, etc. by my late-20s, i was already over it and found the idea of “Weekend in Amsterdam/Ibiza” far more appealing.

        5. Gilmore

          The best way to describe it succinctly is a microcosm of all humanity has to offer

          So, 90% idiots.

          1. Scruffy Nerfherder

            You must have worked in retail.

          2. Gilmore

            Its the little old ladies who you need to watch out for. they’re compulsive shoplifters.

          3. Bob Boberson

            Yeah, I’m certainly not one to take offense at someone else having a good time but far too much of a stoic (philosophy not descriptor) for that to sound even remotely appealing

          4. Subwoofer

            Yeah, tons of idiots and mindless jerks. They’ve generally been outweighed by makers and doers, but the balance has been noticeably shifting towards takers bit by bit every year.

    2. My best friend – who I haven’t seen in meatspace for 2-3 years now – was a big Burning Man guy, especially during the mid-to-late 90s. (??) Don’t know how involved he is in it now. Based on the photos he took, I wasn’t too keen on going. I really, really hate hippies. And lord knows I’m a weirdo myself, but I don’t get into people’s face about it.

      1. Subwoofer

        There’s really 2 Burning Mans: the event during the day, and the event at night. The atmosphere and people are completely different.

        During the day, its a hippy trailer park with some interesting workshops and art. At night, its the biggest and most technologically advanced adult Chuck-E-Cheese in the world.

  16. Count Potato

    “An Indonesian court has sentenced a woman who complained about a noisy mosque to 18 months in prison for blasphemy.

    The ethnic Chinese woman, Meiliana, burst into tears as presiding Judge Wahyu Prasetyo Wibowo announced the sentence Tuesday. She was taken from the court in handcuffs.

    Prosecutors said the 44-year-old defendant violated the criminal code by committing blasphemy against Islam, the dominant faith in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation.

    Mobs burned and ransacked at least 14 Buddhist temples throughout Tanjung Balai, a port town on Sumatra, in a July 2016 riot following reports of Meiliana’s complaint about a mosque’s noisy loudspeakers.”

    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/indonesia-woman-irked-mosque-noise-convicted-blasphemy-57303218

    1. Akira

      It’s funny: I always hear that the majority of Muslims are peaceful, tolerant, and liberal, but I can’t seem to find any country that serves as an example of this…

      1. Stinky Wizzleteats

        Turks are about as tolerant as they get which says more about the rest of the Muslim world than it says about Turks.

        1. Gustave Lytton

          And that’s mostly due to Turkey’s formerly insistent division between religion and civil government.

      2. Rufus the Monocled

        Sweden?

      3. invisible finger

        Sorta like SJW’s

  17. Drake

    Matt Bracken has an epic rant and learnt about the Senior Executive Service (SES) and how seep state they are.

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      You mean Seep date?

    2. Gilmore

      “Senior Executive Service (SES)”

      Those are the Meals on Wheels people?

      1. Stinky Wizzleteats

        Good God…

      2. Count Potato

        They live?

        1. Rhywun

          OBEY!

          No thanks, I think I’ll go throw up over here…

      3. Scruffy Nerfherder

        Holy bejeesus

      4. AlmightyJB

        That hair is terrible.

    1. AlmightyJB

      Look we don’t have sex with dead people, that’s not to say we won’t try to financially benefit from that sort of situation. I mean, they don’t care.

  18. trshmnstr

    I got an Amazon gift card from a forum I help moderate, and used it to get a food grinder for my stand mixer.

    Anybody have a good hamburger recipe??

    1. Drake

      You’re looking for Hamburger … Helper?

      *Dons sunglasses*

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        /face palm.

        1. Drake

          It’s been a long week.

    2. Tundra

      Go to Serious Eats.

    3. AlmightyJB

      Bacon, pepper jack, jalapenos, mayo, mustard, hot sauce.

    4. Mojeaux

      Try doing steak tartare. (That said, I don’t have a recipe and you asked for recipes.)

      1. F. Stupidity Jr.

        Psssh. That’s easy. Hamburger meat and tarter sauce.

    5. Count Potato

      It mostly depends how much beef fat you want in your burgers.

      1. Timeloose

        This right here^

        Don’t think ground sirloin is going to be good without some additional fat. Chuck and brisket for fat and sirloin, round or eye for lean. Mix and match for the right combo, but 60 fatty cut to 40% lean cuts isn’t going to be bad.

        You can try pork shoulder for fat as well.

        1. Timeloose

          By the way the sausage stuffer adaptor tip for the grinder is nearly worthless. The grinder is not good at consistent feeding.

          1. Tundra

            Good to know. Neighbor has a hand crank one that works great. He said it belonged to his grandfather.

        2. Count Potato

          In my opinion, chuck has the most “beefy” taste. So if you hand trim a chuck roast into pieces to get all the big pieces of fat out, it will make great burgers. It’s not worth the labor cost for a restaurant. But it shouldn’t take too much time if you have decent knife skills to make a small batch at home that isn’t too fatty.

    6. AlmightyJB

      I have a good beef taco spice blend recipe. I’ll see if I can find it.

    7. AlmightyJB

      You should look into sausage making

    8. Going to piggyback on Trashy’s question, I’m retiring the Walmart special mixer I have and buy a big boy one, other than Kitchenaid any brands worth looking at, If Kitchenaid which model?

      1. Tundra

        We have the Artisan. It’s been heavily used for five or six years and looks new.

        1. Timeloose

          Do they have the variety of attachments that the kitchen aid has?

          1. Tundra

            Sorry, I wasn’t clear.

            It is a KitchenAid.

          2. Artisan is a KitchenAid model.

    1. Grumbletarian

      Horrible. I want one.

      1. Tundra

        #metoo

  19. Count Potato

    “One of Obama’s biggest scandals was wearing a tan suit”

    https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1032105831318339584

    1. Rhywun

      That from the people who think they’re “reality-based”, right?

  20. Count Potato

    “Poor men love big breasts, the rich prefer them smaller –Study

    Rich men love women with small breasts, the poor love those with big bust, study says.

    There has always been the wonder of whether men prefer bigger breasted women, or women with a smaller chest. And as it turns out, it all comes down to how much money they earn!

    Two studies dating back several years have finally shed some light on the question, pointing out some surprising factors.”

    https://punchng.com/poor-men-love-big-breasts-the-rich-prefer-them-smaller-study/

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Or is it the other way around? Men who love big boobs go broke.

      1. Creosote Achilles

        That’s the kind of incite filled commentary that is the reason I come here.

        1. Whom is he trying to incite?

    2. Spudalicious

      So Q is pretty much homeless?

        1. Spudalicious

          The backup singer is hawt.

        2. That is the best worst fake guitar playing ever.

        3. Gustave Lytton

          That’s a lot of coke.

    3. JaimeRoberto

      Or rich guys go for thinner ladies and poor guys are left with the fatties.

      1. Tundra

        ^^ this ^^

      2. Spudalicious

        Chasing the chubby?

  21. Scruffy Nerfherder

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/opinion/sunday/stormy-daniels-michael-cohen-feminist-hero.html

    You’re going to have to read it to believe it.

    “Which is why there is so much power in the fact that Ms. Daniels does not believe her job or her involvement with Mr. Trump or the payoff is her shame to carry. She wants him held accountable, and the justice system is actually stepping in. She is refusing to slink away, despite being paid to do exactly that in a pattern we’ve seen too many times from influential men seeking to maintain their dominance and avoid responsibility.”

    1. Bob Boberson

      The only thing Trump is guilty of is choosing the wrong tart to screw? WTF is he being held accountable to?

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        THE RUSSIAN PATRIARCHY

        Get with the times dude

      2. Like SLick Willy’s case it isn’t the blow job or the pay off it’s the cover-up. If he simply paid her off there would be no issue (there would, but it’d have even shorter legs than this one) but he had his fixer pay her off then tried to hide the repayment through various shells and that got him caught up in finance laws (which may be bullshit, but you could say the perjury trap Willy got caught in was bullshit as well) Basically hoisted on his own petard, play big boy financial games win big boy financial prizes.

    2. Rhywun

      I wonder if they really want people to go to the tape and remember what they thought about Monica Lewinsky.

    3. Suthenboy

      Didn’t she recently get busted for hooking?

    4. J. Frank Parnell

      By Jill Filipovic

      Nope.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      I guess I should have saved some

  22. Mojeaux

    A thread on Mollie Tibbetts and running alone as a woman.

    I’mma just leave this right here. *irritated sigh*

    1. Tundra

      Ben Allain
      Ben Allain
      @BenAllain
      ·
      3h
      Replying to
      @lannadelgrey
      I have an honest question, because it blows my fucking mind that a few disgusting men cause all women to have to reshape their entire experience with running. But what – if anything – can those of us who are honest, mindful male runners do to help female runners?

      *barf*

      I bought Spawn 2 pepper spray and a knife until she’s old enough for a gun.

      German Shepherds are also great running partners.

      1. Mojeaux

        I really really really wish women would not see themselves as victims-in-embryo. Carrying yourself with confidence when you’re alone is half the battle. Carrying yourself like a victim makes you easy pickin’s.

        Of course pointing out all the things you can do to protect yourself gets you called out as victim-blaming.

        Well, sure, you can split lanes when you’re driving a motorcycle, but there’s always going to be one car driver who has to be a dick about it.

        1. Tundra

          Of course pointing out all the things you can do to protect yourself gets you called out as victim-blaming.

          Huh? My brother is a badass ninja black belt something or other, and has taught tons of chicks (including Spawn 2) to at least make it difficult for the piece of shit predator.

          1. Mojeaux

            I will assume he is not an SJW who has a vested interest in keeping women from leaving the crab bucket.

          2. Tundra

            Lol. No.

      2. J. Frank Parnell

        But what – if anything – can those of us who are honest, mindful male runners do to help female runners?

        For starters, stop “not all men”ing, shitlord!

      3. Pope Jimbo

        Could you maybe buy something heavier for Spawn 2 to run with Tundra?

        That pepper spray and knife aren’t slowing her down enough to where an old creepy fat dude like myself can catch up to her.

    2. Count Potato

      Twitter, she’s doing it wrong.

    3. Brett L

      My wife’s strategy is to ignore them until she gets annoyed and then give them the double bird and then scream at them, “What the fuck do you want? Are you gonna raise my two kids, too?! Fuck off!” I keep sending the guys from the jail past her route, they keep not wanting anything to do with her after that.

  23. Count Potato

    https://twitter.com/JuliaCarmel__/status/1032856893801328640

    “You did not just use the word “ashkenormativity.” I refuse to believe it.”

    1. Rhywun

      @ZephyrTeachout
      Aug 23
      Julia has big bold ideas, compassion, and nerves of steel. I can’t wait to see her beat the machine.

      Ugh… talk about kiss of death.

    2. Heroic Mulatto

      Ugh, don’t get OMWC and/or Vhyrus started!

      1. Tundra

        What happened to Vhyrus? Did he finally succumb to some exotic STD?

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          I believe he pops up on Discord from time to time.

          1. Tundra

            He needs to come back.

          2. Gustave Lytton

            There’s a couple that escaped to Discord, or returned to TOS.

    1. Raven Nation

      Aaand, another topic in which I hate everyone involved…

      1. Mojeaux

        Ditto.

        1. Heroic Mulatto

          Whenever someone links to Zerohedge, I play a game where I scroll down the comments to see how long it takes before some drooling moron screeches “JOOOOZZZ!!!”

          This time it was the 23rd comment.

          1. Tundra

            Is that higher or lower than normal?

          2. Heroic Mulatto

            About average these days.

          3. Subwoofer

            The Jew hate in ZH always baffles me. It usually comes out of nowhere; people shoehorn it in to whatever discussion is taking place. It’s hard to read their comments.

            There might be a drinking game in there somewhere though…

          4. Heroic Mulatto

            A drinking game you play with Manischewitz?

          5. Tundra

            I love the (((people))), but that stuff is awful.

          6. Count Potato

            You should take all those numbers, correspond them to the Hebrew alphabet, and see what they mean.

          7. grrizzly

            I cannot recall the last time when I had to read even three comments when (((they))) were not mentioned.

  24. Back from Ann Arbor – ~4 hours of total driving so I can be there for ~4.5-5 hours. Why? Uh to get out of town.

    Big traffic slowdown on the way back… because a semi broke down on the shoulder and needed a tow. Somehow this made traffic slow down to a 5mph crawl for 2-3 miles. So we can all rubberneck at the pretty blue-n-red flashing lights.

    Record shopping was a meh – not too many records left in my want list and they’re getting rare enough that finding something without shopping online is getting near impossible.

    One of the art galleries was actually really good – I saw three pieces that I would be happy to own but $2400 is a bit steep for a mid-sized painting, considering the most I ever spend was $250 for a mid-century artist.

    Mustang returned 24.8 mpg average. Would have been better if the first quarter tank was all local driving that I’ve done the past few days (where I got 15mpg – lol).

    1. Tundra

      That’s actually pretty good!

    2. RAHeinlein

      If your upper limit is $250…yeah, lots of original art available…if $2400 is steep perhaps a new pastime?

    1. Count Potato

      They could pick better pictures of her. Just like the left could have picked better pictures of Michele Bachmann.

      1. Rhywun

        She could stop advocating pain and misery for her constituency.

  25. commodious spittoon

    Drivers line up for food truck while stuck in traffic after fatal crash

    Has the owner been arrested yet for unauthorized entrepreneurial activity?

    1. MikeS

      Ponch and John went there to write him up, but they found him helping deliver a baby for a women who went into labor. They took over for him and let him off for being such a groovy guy. Then Ponch made a joke that John didn’t get and everyone laughed, then froze in place, then laughed, then froze in place, then John got it and laughed, then he froze in place, then everyone laughed harder, then froze in place…

      1. Gustave Lytton

        And Sgt Getraer shook his head and walked away.

  26. SoberPhobic

    Legal Remedy Brewing‎

    Legal Remedy Beerthday Celebration!

    We’re tapping into a couple of NEW Barrel Aged beers tomorrow…a sneak preview before these are released in limited bottles next week! Look for these on tap back in the brewery:

    Volume 6: Maple Syrup Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
    ABV 10.2%
    This Imperial Stout was brewed with pure maple syrup and then put into maple syrup bourbon barrels where it aged on cocoa nibs. Huge on chocolate notes with a pleasant bourbon finish.

    Volume 7: Apple Brandy Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
    ABV 10.2%
    Imperial Stout aged in Apple Brandy Barrels. Notes of apple, coffee, and chocolate, rounded of with a warm finish.

  27. Count Potato

    “The Problem With ‘Hey Guys’

    A broad coalition of English speakers—teachers, retail workers, ice-cream scoopers, and plenty of others—is grasping for a more inclusive greeting.”

    https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/08/guys-gender-neutral/568231/

    The Atlantic, covering the tough stories.

    1. Don Escaped Texas

      Is there a problem with “howdy?”

      1. Count Potato

        Probably.

    2. Suthenboy

      Hey y’all.

      That is all.

      1. Tundra

        Am I allowed to use that?

        1. Don Escaped Texas

          reckon so

    3. Rhywun

      The recent campaign to ban “ladies and gentleman” demonstrates that there’s no end to this.

      1. Count Potato

        Micheal Buffer hardest hit.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6eQ78HCGEA

  28. MikeS

    Ponch and John went there to write him up, but they found him helping deliver a baby for a women who went into labor. They took over for him and let him off for being such a groovy guy. Then Ponch made a joke that John didn’t get and everyone laughed, then froze in place, then laughed, then froze in place, then John got it and laughed, then he froze in place, then everyone laughed harder, then froze in place…

    1. MikeS

      Dammit. Brooks’d it

      1. Tundra

        No, it’s good. I was trying to calculate how many and what brand of beers you were on.

        I guessed 4 wood chippers.

        1. MikeS

          Haha. One Moose Drool and a half a shot of Buffalo Trace. Had to work today or I’d be in a little deeper by now.

          Getting geared up for fantasy football draft in…shit…12 minutes. I’m out

          1. Tundra

            Good luck!

            Take Adam Theilen. He’s gonna have a great year.

          2. MikeS

            I was one pick from getting him, but my brother was picking before me. He wasn’t going to pick him but he did because my 6 year old nephew was begging him. And I’m supposed to be his favorite uncle!

  29. Gilmore

    Probably already been circulated…. but this is sort of interesting

    In the week before the election, the FBI claimed it has super-speed-reviewed the entirety of the Weiner-Laptop emails that Comey said were required to be reviewed re: the Clinton investigation

    They did it in 3 days, and declared ‘nothing to see here’.

    I thought it was hugely implausible, given that it had taken over a year to go through all of clinton’s server-accounts.

    However, media assured the public it was able to be done so quickly because all they needed to do was cross-check the meta-data on the email tags (to, from, date/time) with those they had already reviewed? and presto, 90% of them had already been given the once-over. The few ‘new’ ones were quickly and easily dismissed.

    This sounded technologically plausible (if less so from a legal standpoint, where due diligence would normally requires more) at least.

    It turns out, that’s not what actually happened.

    In fact, a technical glitch prevented FBI technicians from accurately comparing the new emails with the old emails. Only 3,077 of the 694,000 emails were directly reviewed for classified or incriminating information. Three FBI officials completed that work in a single 12-hour spurt the day before Comey again cleared Clinton of criminal charges.

    “Most of the emails were never examined, even though they made up potentially 10 times the evidence” of what was reviewed in the original year-long case that Comey closed in July 2016, said a law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation.

    1. R C Dean

      And the FBI immediately gave them back.

      No, seriously, they did.

      1. Gilmore

        Far from investigating and clearing Abedin and Weiner, the FBI did not interview them, according to other FBI sources who say Comey closed the case prematurely. The machine was not authorized for classified material, and Weiner did not have classified security clearance to receive such information, which he did on at least two occasions through his Yahoo! email account – which he also used to email snapshots of his penis

        Honestly, Watergate was such a dull story compared to this shit.

  30. Don Escaped Texas

    Founders’s Dirty Bastard
    ~ Scottish Ale
    I give it a 78 on a scale from 0 to Guinness

    So I’m only having two more, and that’s it, tonight