STEVE SMITH ALWAYS COME LAST TOO….HIM ALPHA AND OMEGA!
Bob Boberson
Toilet!…..see, on topic, that’s how you do it
Troy
You’re not the boss of me.
Bob Boberson
I’m just giving you a friendly pointer, in fact “Toilet!” would probably be a legitimate first in many instances now that I think about it…..
Troy
Point taken
Rhywun
Looks perfectly cromulent to me.
straffinrun
The Nick Gillespie of toilets.
mikey
Is this actually a code violation?
Scruffy Nerfherder
Yep
DEG
A contortionist’s house?
Sean
Yeah that looks mildly uncomfortable.
egould310
You should see the kitchen. Oy gevalt!
Grumbletarian
Who says that’s not a picture of the kitchen?
Sean
I don’t get houses that have bathrooms right off the kitchen or dining room.
Tundra
Saves time, I guess.
Totally gross, though.
Rhywun
I had a bathroom off the living room for seven years. Shared that dump with a college buddy when we arrived in NYC. I suspect the bathroom was shoehorned into a space that used to be airspace in the vestibule. (Same apartment where the landlord demanded the rent in cash. The house is gone now.)
trshmnstr
Shared that dump with a college buddy when we arrived in NYC.
I’d imagine you shared every dump with the college buddy if the bathroom was right off the living room
Rhywun
He did his business with the faucet on. I didn’t bother.
Count Potato
Sharing a wall with the kitchen seems to make sense if they are the only two rooms with plumbing.
Rhywun
Yeah, my place is like that. But you have to walk thru 2 other rooms to get from one to the other so you almost wouldn’t know it.
Suthenboy
Yeah, but back to back. Having a view of the toilet from the kitchen table…not good.
I had a cat that I named Stinky. That little bastard would crawl over in the catbox and drop a huge stinker every damned time I sat down to eat. No point, just thought I would mention that.
Troy
Does anyone have The Searchers on Blu-Ray? If so , is it the transfers to Blu-Ray any good?
Warner Brothers has recently remastered The Searchers, and the result is extraordinary. This print looks absolutely beautiful and pristine. The film is presented in luscious, vibrant technicolor in 1080p high definition and in its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio.
Looks pretty damn narrow, guess you just gotta sit sideways?
Hyperion
Ain’t no THICC sitting on that shitter.
Raphael
An absolute travesty to be quite honest.
Tres Cool
That would never work in my house.
Hyperion
What, you prefer your women without splinters in one ass cheek?
Tres Cool
There was this one that broke a side-rail on my bed.
Hyperion
When you said that, it immediately made me think of an old friend of mine. The poor guy had taken a fucking wild man for a roommate. I honestly tried to talk him out of it, I mean that fucker was insane. But he needed the money. For about 6 months, every time I went over there, there would be something broken in his house. And I would say ‘What the hell happened to your TV, your stereo, your coffee table, whatever’. And every time he’d look all forlorn and say ‘Mark broke it’. One day I was over there and we went up to his bedroom to smoke some weed and I swear his bed was all broke down. And I’m like… ‘Dude, your bed’, and yeah he says ‘Mark broke it’, and I’m like ‘You know, NTTAWWT’, but if you guys are not in love, it may be time to throw his ass out. Didn’t matter, ‘Mark’ killed himself on a bike about a week after that. The world was not worse off.
Tres Cool
This was a 300-lb woman. Not to take anything away from Mark.
Hyperion
I’m not judging you for having a 300 lb woman in your bed. I did that once, but I never had sex with her. She managed to not break my bed though. At least that went well. Or well also.
Tres Cool
Ya gotta want it.
Hyperion
“Ya gotta want it.”
Yeah, so that wasn’t happening. NTTAWWT.
Hyperion
You know, I mean, if the 300 lb woman is like big boned and 6’10”, that might be all good, but a regular boned 5’6″ female that is 300 lbs? I mean I couldn’t even find her pussy in that foldage if I were sober.
Suthenboy
A lot of people cant think in three dimensions. I noticed this in technical drawing classes of all places.
straffinrun
Checked out your article this morning. You passed the test: Someone who has no interest in the topic going in finished the entire thing and learned something. Good job.
Count Potato
I’ve read all of it too. Although there are few slightly confusing paragraphs, the author does an excellent job in establishing that it is thorough knowledge gained through actual experience.
Suthenboy
Thank you Sirs.
I appreciate criticism as I am trying to improve my writing. I have a couple more articles lined up but not submitted. Do tell Count, which paragraphs?
Count Potato
I’d have to go back and look at it. Keep in mind I used to edit copy for things like sports, traffic, etc. where contradiction or ambiguity is a huge non-no. (Because you don’t want anyone to get the wrong idea from hearing part of something.) If I recall, you wrote that you should never handle primers because your hands could contaminate the chemicals, then you wrote about feeling if the primers were flush with your hand.
Count Potato
um, “no-no”
Suthenboy
Ah. What we have here is a failure to communicate. For me to communicate.
The primers are little brass cups. On the open end you dont want to touch them because the priming material is exposed. Once the open end of the primer is seated in the case just the flat bottom of the cup is all that is exposed. It is safe to touch that because the vulnerable part is all sealed inside the case.
I was a bit confused on that as well, and if I may constructively criticise, a diagram of all the parts and how they fit together would have been helpful for us complete gun idiots. pictures being thousands of words and what not.
straffinrun
Pics or it didn’t happen. Absolutely. That or hyperlinks, but pics are better.
Fourscore
I understood what you were referring to immediately, you had mentioned that in a previous post plus I always measure the primer seating too.
Count Potato
“Once the open end of the primer is seated in the case just the flat bottom of the cup is all that is exposed. It is safe to touch that because the vulnerable part is all sealed inside the case.”
You know that. I know that. But not to put too fine a point on it, if one is writing a primer about primers, don’t write as though the reader knows that.
This is a very common issue in any kind of how-to article. If you assume the reader knows less than they do, it can be tedious and boring. If you assume they know more than do, it can be confusing and difficult.
Tres Cool
I have trouble getting new guys to picture a pound of dry air. Or air as a fluid.
Hyperion
I think most people think in 4 dimension, unfortunately, being as time is a thing. It sort of sucks.
Chipping Pioneer
You know who else couldn’t think in three dimensions?
Spudalicious
Pretty much every single person who posts on Twitter?
Apparently, I have a good eye for square and 99% of construction guys don’t. JFC, $1.2MM condo next door didn’t have a single electrical outlet that was square – every single one was at some angle.
straffinrun
That wouldn’t bother me at all. Wait till you’re confronted with one of these.
Timeloose
Squatting pan? I’m not opening the link
Timeloose
It is
straffinrun
what it is.
westernsloper
Oh ya. I hate squatters. At least they have paper. Many places just give you a shower head on a tube.
Timeloose
In others the give you TP but you’re expected to put in in a wate basket near the toilet.
Bob Boberson
Been there, done that. The US may have it’s problems but at least we don’t throw our shit paper in a waste basket or wash our asses with a communal show head. God Bless America.
Tres Cool
So you’ve been to Athens too?
Suthenboy
That is because the waste water plumbing is all 1-1/2″ to 2″ pipe. I dont get it.
Yusef drives a Kia
+4″
Scruffy Nerfherder
When I worked as an engineer in California, we had bi-weekly Western style toilet training sessions for our SE Asian employees. They kept breaking the toilet seats by standing on them.
Gustave Lytton
Should have put up those don’t stand on the toilet signs.
Growing up sitting in chairs really does a number on us. From day one, I was determined to not let that happen to my daughter. Fortunately, she’s taken dance since she was three and is really into it, so her natural flexibility and mobility hasn’t deteriorated.
Tundra
Yup. It’s not natural.
straffinrun
That’s a Yankee squat. You’d think I could do that.
Rhywun
Like so.
Yeah, not happening.
Count Potato
“Fortunately, she’s taken dance since she was three”
Is it the same height as a regular pole?
Heroic Mulatto
Of course not.
Don’t be silly.
Rhywun
Yeah, I came across a few of those in China. Not as clean, though. Luckily I could wait until I got back to the hotel and use a proper terlet.
Seriously though – I can’t use one of those things without taking off my pants – so that pretty much means I’m holding it till I get home.
Where we lived in Indonesia, my folks got permission from the landlords to put in “normal” toilets in both bathrooms – but you still had to flush them manually with a dipper from the bathing water tank next to them.
Count Potato
I want a toilet that projects an anime hologram that sings how great my shit was.
Scruffy Nerfherder
I like the way you think
Chafed
Aren’t those common in Japan?
DEG
I had half a bottle of ‘Nillionaire tonight. It’s OK; however, if I had to sit on that toilet the beer wouldn’t help me contort to do it.
westernsloper
You don’t have these problems with custom built cabinetry.
Tres Cool
What sort of ridiculous code says you have to have the toilet mounted to the vanity?
Tundra
Wax ring appears to be leaking as well. Nice touch.
This is an old hotel, they brag that JFK and Marilyn Monroe stayed there. Everything is deteriorating, as I was checking out a guy next to me was telling the staff that “The water is just pouring out of the ceiling, it’s over the tub so it’s not hurting anything but you may want to take a look at it.”
Tundra
Sounds like a start over. Use dynamite.
Yusef drives a Kia
I have a few restaurant Customers that need some Dynamited buildings, I’ve even told them as much
Timeloose
I once visited a, let’s call him a drunk red neck, that ha a toilet in his basement 4 feet of the floor. He needed / wanted a toilet in his basement and it had to be above the sewer line. So he built a rickety platform, put a toilet on it with 3 “walls” and a 2×4 ladder to access the comfort room.
He was very proud of his work and was the only one who used it at the gathering I attended. He informed me that he spent most of his time in his basement man cave along with his VCR and 25” tv.
westernsloper
I must admit I am not seeing a problem with this.
Hyperion
“I once visited a, let’s call him a drunk red neck, that ha a toilet in his basement”
He has plumbing in his house? You obviously have never met a real redneck.
Rhywun
Speaking of rednecks… watching Djoker v. Sandgren now – I’m amused that Sandgren shaved off this shortly after rising on the tennis circuit & having been outed as a Nazi.
Hyperion
If you’re right of Mao, you’re a Nazi, soo…
Rhywun
I suspect he has some beliefs I don’t share… and I don’t give a shit. I’m not gonna have drinks with the guy but a witch-hunt is a witch-hunt.
Hyperion
It’s just witch hunts all the way down.
Timeloose
I’ve met plenty. This one was a landowner and was the pride of his family because he had a house not made from old doors and pallets.
While that makes the probability of an RX-9 sound rather bleak, the company doesn’t want anyone to give up hope. Mazda still desires such a vehicle and the company’s European vice president of communications, Wojciech Halarewicz, has basically said it will be a done deal if they can find enough money in the budget for a flagship sports car.
“We know that electric cars will be important in 2020 to 2025, but also that EVs are not the answer for everything,” Halarewicz told Piston Heads. “Combustion engines will still play a part, and if you asked me if I want a rotary sports car at the top of the range, I’d say yes I’d love to have one. Many of my colleagues would too. So it’s a matter of keeping the sales growth going to make sure we can do one in the future.”
Get out there and buy some Mazdas, people! Tundra wants an RX-9!!!
Scruffy Nerfherder
I don’t know how they’ll meet emissions. The rotaries always burned oil.
Tres Cool
“Wojciech Halarewicz”
I just cant even….
Yusef drives a Kia
not OT for You Tundra….
Tundra
True.
Count Potato
Does Mazda still sell rotary engine cars?
Mad Scientist
Lamentably, no.
Atanarjuat
Huh. I actually bought a used Mazda 6 last year. And my genius plan is working, I make more on Uber after work each month than the car payment, so it’s kind of free. Puts a lot of miles on it though.
Thanks, Tundra, Also to Sean’s question I expected they would use this as a late night/open thread filler piece if they used at all, and that they did, so no offense taken.
Sean
I understand. I had kicked around some short submissions in my head. Just trying to gauge if I’d follow through.
Yusef drives a Kia
Go for it, My latest is around 489 words, but lots of pictures,
POST THAT SHIT!
Suthenboy
“he had a kick-ass series on homebuilding to tee this one up.”
I will second that.
Tres Cool
I cant build a decent fire, let alone a house. So just like looking @ pr0n, I find his articles entertaining but I know they’re out of my reach.
straffinrun
This post was a relief to me. The piece I submitted recently is unresearched, incoherent and filled with grammar mistakes. I don’t want the bar set too high.
Tres Cool
“unresearched, incoherent and filled with grammar mistakes”
So its like you took a 3am phone call from me.
I’m still trying to get a handle on the legal complexity of the family register in Japan. Specifically how were the kids really fucked over here?
On my way home from meeting some former coworkers who were in NYC. Korean barbecue in K-Town for the win! Happy times…
straffinrun
That stuff is way beyond anything I’d know about. The wife takes care of all that arcane shit we have to do.
Sensei
Glad I’m not the only guy confused. I enjoy learning about laws in other countries, but Japan mystifies me in many ways.
straffinrun
I’ve read the odd article or two about how a husband who proved the kid wasn’t his still had to pay child support. That automatic registry stuff cuts both ways, if I read your link correctly.
I cropped it out but reflected in the mirror there’s an old woman in a dingy nightgown holding a gallon of milk and a thick rope.
Heroic Mulatto
Nice.
Tres Cool
Oh, you sick fuckin’ monster.
Id nearly forgotten…
Rhywun
Ohhh I remember now. Ha good stuff.
Tres Cool
Trazadone! Take me away!
commodious spittoon
Fourth day of Revit: we’ve now managed to set down grid lines and levels, placed a mess of steel and concrete columns, and only just begun working with walls. It’s going to be a long term.
BUT the program is terribly nifty, super comprehensive, and while I enjoyed learning to draft in Autocad, it’s no wonder Revit took over the trade. You drop lines in Autocad; in Revit, you’re building a virtual mock-up of your structure using facsimile components. If you want to call out a wall section in Autocad, you drop guidelines for dimensions and add more lines for details, and throw down a section mark on the plan calling it out. In Revit, your section mark is your wall section: it generates the view you want, and you detail the view. Your elevations are generated simply by dint of building your plan view, rather than having to orthographically project lines in Autocad to build it yourself. And that’s not even touching all the MEP stuff we’ll get into next year.
Yusef drives a Kia
that sounds like a Bad ass Program, how much? Where?
Yusef, if you’re interested in a 3D modeling program checkout Sketchup, I haven’t used Autocad since college and am not familiar with Revit but from what CS says it sounds similar. If you’re not using it commercially, i.e. for mocking up your dioramas and whatnot there’s a free version, it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles but it’s still pretty powerful. and if you need the pro version it’s only about $750.
commodious spittoon
Can confirm; Sketchup Make is free, browser-based, and works reasonably well. It’s a bummer not having some of the advanced intersection and subtraction tools that Pro offers, but if you’re just mocking up a rough draft, Make works fine.
Timeloose
I used sketch up to design my deck. It was much easier than autocad or solidworks. I did need to draw a few guide lines which I imagine I wouldn’t need if I was more experienced with the program.
quincy
Done drawing and now cutting the thing designed by the guy who thinks measurements are optional. Want to send him a progress shot, and have him panic, “But it’s backwards!” “We are working on the back side of it, id**t.”
Suthenboy
Re: the squat pan upthread
I had a buddy that worked in Iran. The company built a shithouse for the workers. It had a concrete floor with a three inch hole in it. They would squat over it and, of course, miss. The next guy would come in and not want to stand over fresh shit so he would move over a bit, and so on. Before long there was a turd trail from the hole, out the door and down the walkway. In less than two days they were back shitting in the ditches on the side of the road as is their normal habit.
Buddy was fond of saying “Those people are not civilized.”
No. Shit. Oh…wait…
Tres Cool
Thats called a “monkey”.
In a utility boiler the ash forms slag but at the high temperatures of the firebox, its a liquid, and engineers design in ways to drain it. But when you get a cold spot, it becomes a solid. And then all the slag behind it cools, and builds until you have a literal stalagmite in your furnace. Ive seen places use dynamite to blast them out.
Sensei
Haven’t we determined that word can no longer be used?
trshmnstr
Stalagmite?
Tres Cool
I think stalagMITES come from the top down. StalagTITE is bottom up.
Tres Cool
Oh, nevermind.
Tres Cool
I already used the n-word anecdotally in the other thread. Im batting .1000 above John Schnatter.
Suthenboy
So, a shit bomb. That sounds fun.
Tres Cool
No, coal ash. However it could be used with the toilet he described.
Playa Manhattan
Your buddy might have a problem telling the truth.
Playa Manhattan
Is it supposed to be in the tub instead?
Count Potato
Crap. I missed that Better Call Saul started already. Now I have to catch up.
In other first world problems, I was drinking ale for a few days. And none of my vape juices paired well with hops. Any suggestions? I don’t often drink beer, but when I do it’s usually something strong, dark, and heavy.
Playa Manhattan
Vape beer.
Count Potato
Do you know you can “vape” alcohol with a blow dryer and a brandy snifter?
l0b0t
Not at all an ale but I’m really enjoying this Sweet Baby Jesus! chocolate peanut butter porter from DuClaw Brewing in Bal’mer, MD.
Timeloose
I don’t like it but the wife really digs it.
l0b0t
It’s not something I’ll drink more than 2 of at a sitting but it is dark and heavy and I’m finding that it pairs wonderfully with this Strawberry Kush.
Timeloose
Yea it’s pretty heavy. I do love a good porter. A few locals are pretty good. Steg porter is one of my favorites but it’s made only once a year. It’s more of a light in body but dark in color. Dark as a motor oil but relatively easy drinking.
Speaking of toilets, got the washlet seat installed. Not too difficult at all, aside from getting the metal threads not to crossthread with the cheap plastic crap of the existing toilet. Still might put in another outlet but need to scope the wall cavity to figure out where the upstream and downstream cables are running.
Expensive as fuck, especially when Amazon did their Prime Day bait & switch, but wifey has a heated seat and all. The only think this doesn’t do is flush automatically.
straffinrun
Living right. Confucius say, “Wife with warm bottom…”
Playa Manhattan
I had one I could have sold you.
Gustave Lytton
With your high protein diet, you’d probably like it over time. Personally, I still haven’t adjust to getting my rear sodomized by a water jet.
Playa Manhattan
The former owners of my house were Japanese. In addition to removing the wallpaper and raising the shower heads, I Americanized the toilets.
I removed one of those seats. Couldn’t fit it in the trash can, so I smashed it to pieces. And then I looked up how much they cost.
Lachowsky
Casa del lachowsky was built by a man measuring 5 foot 5 inches.
Lachowsky’s are all on the 6 foot+ range. I have spent many a dollar making sure my head doesn’t hit shit.
Playa Manhattan
And the handhelds don’t cut it. It’s tile smashing time.
one true athena
Our new house has a (hideous, hanging) dining room light that’s only maybe 5″4″ off the ground, over the table. All of us have hit our heads on it already.
Why the hell would anyone want a lamp that low?
slumbrew
How… how are you hitting your head on a light that’s over the table? What are you doing on that table?
A picture taken of my place on the way home from work this evening. Beauty is bountiful.
Hyperion
That’s a fucking awesome pic. I forget where you live now?
Lachowsky
Rural as fuck arkansas. South Franklin county. Just outside the city limits of the unincorporated community known as Peter pender.
I live in the middle of nowhere tundra and I make the most of it.
Raphael
Very nice and pretty photo. It really is awesome how much beauty there is out there.
straffinrun
Cool picture. People don’t look up anymore. I was on the late afternoon train last spring on a rainy day. Look out the window of the train and the clouds had opened up a bit, leaving a giant rainbow arcing across the city. All the other passengers had their heads buried in their phones. Missed it.
Lachowsky
I drive west for 30 miles on my way home each day. There was a double rainbow in my windshield most of the way home. It was nice.
I got home about dark and my boy was in the living room. He asked me if i had seen the rainbow.
Life is good.
straffinrun
Atta boy moment, eh? I’m guilty of living too much in the digital world, but my kid and I go for walks and check out the sky every night.
Raphael
That’s a shame, but glad you got to see the rainbow at least.
slumbrew
I had read a thing about “sky awareness” years ago, talking about people who consciously look up at the sky from time to time throughout the day reported greater levels of happiness.
I’ve no idea if it’s bullshit, but if I do indeed feel better if I’m mopey or stressed and take a bit to look up at the sky. Not coincidentally, it also forces you to stand up straight.
straffinrun
Looking up is a submissive gesture. Sounds right that it would increase happiness by forcing you to confront the fact you’re not the center of the universe.
Lachowsky
To address your point, I guess it depends on your relationship with the sky and what its vagaries mean to you.
Lachowsky
Sounds like bullshit.
I spent my teens looking up into the sky while picking crops praying for a cloud to cover the sun that was burning my head and shoulders.
Seeing the sun gave me no happiness.
straffinrun
You may not be factoring into the equation what it’s like living in a concrete jungle. I love camping because I finally get to see stars.
slumbrew
That is a good point – ISTR, the original article I read focused on urban kids and how often they looked at the sky.
I remind myself to look up most often when I’m at the office an among the tall buildings. There’s no issue seeing the sky around home.
I do miss real stars – I spent hours just lying on the deck of the place we rented in Maine last year – hanging on the rocks at the mouth of the Damariscotta River near Boothbay, with not a light to be seen at night. I saw the Milky Way for the first time in forever.
It was also a depressing reminder of how bad my eyes are now, even with glasses – I have memories of looking at the sky and seeing the stars as bright pinpricks. Now they’re slightly fuzzy blobs.
slumbrew
… you’re not the center of the universe.
I will confidently say I never feel that way.
Sounds like bullshit.
Perhaps it is, perhaps it’s just situationally dependent.; I’m not staring at the sun, just reminding myself to look up from the sidewalk and look at the sky now and then. Maybe it’s just a placebo effect, but it does seem to calm me.
Raphael
Same here. When I look up at the vast open sky, I see possibility, freedom, and again just how damn pretty nature is.
Rhywun
I live somewhat higher than my neighbors (6th floor vs. 2 or 3) and I often get amazing sunset views over Brooklyn and New Jersey. I dunno if it calms me but sometimes you just have to take note.
straffinrun
I hesitated when I used the general “you” in that sentence. Shoulda listened to that voice in my head.
Rhywun
Seeing the sun gave me no happiness.
Same here during smoke breaks at work because the setup of my building (facing the Hudson River) and where they will let you smoke outside meant no shadows anywhere until after 4PM during the summer.
/i really don’t like the sun
Gustave Lytton
Nice fence! No sag from where I’m sitting.
Lachowsky
Spoken like a man who has built a fence or two…
Gustave Lytton
Only helped my dad fix a section or two as a kid. But I see a lot of sagging fences around here, so seeing taunt wire is impressive. The thought of getting a come along under that much tension scares the shit out of me a bit. Gotta trust that the wire will hold and not snap. *shudder*
Playa Manhattan
McCain’s remains are being flown to DC on Air Force 2?
I guess his dead body is more important than people who are still alive.
Gustave Lytton
Christ. I wish he had croaked ten years ago when he was Public Enemy #1.
Count Potato
It seems like the media is making a bigger deal out of his death than when Ford or Reagan died. I doubt we are going here this much shit when Carter dies.
Count Potato
um, “hear”
slumbrew
My policy of never watching the news on TV seems to be paying off.
Chafed
Amen brother.
Michael
The PM Lynx comment thread got me thinking – how many of our exalted betters in government are left that will get the McCain treatment when they eventually go tits up? Excluding SCOTUS, I can think of about enough to count on one hand. The last one in recent memory was Kennedy, now McCain and then who?
Lachowsky
If it was a just a world, ron paul would get the kennedy/mcain/Lincoln treatment.
straffinrun
My guess is he wouldn’t want that.
Lachowsky
Therein lies the problem.
Playa Manhattan
Obama, Clinton, and probably Biden and Liberman. Maybe Kerry.
There might be some “civil rights leaders” in there too, depending on what your source is.
BTW, Scalia didn’t get shit. For all I know, his body is still unclaimed at the coroner’s office.
straffinrun
I hope they all pass on the same day so we can get all the gushing in one, cringe worthy shot.
Lachowsky
Scalia was pretty statist, but not statist enough to get a state sponsored funeral.
You gotta be a hardcore statist to get one of those.
So it was linked that a freeze in Gov pay might be happening…as a Fedgov worker myself..good. Shit shouldn’t be automatic. Should be performance based and not handed out like candy.
Lachowsky
I hope that your pay is frozen. Nothing against you, but the absolute bullshit that has been peddled about the poor sorry federal workers who are losing their income during the past few “government shutdowns” makes me wish that all y’all experienced actual economic consequences for your business models.
Ownbestenemy
None taken. I completely agree. I have a technical job and dont push paper all day and would love a true privitation of my industry (not the shit peddled over the past few times).
Brochettaward
I hadn’t really paid much attention to the Florida governor crap. The race baiting. Then you assholes went and posted about it earlier. They’re really trying to get him for saying that his opponent was more articulate than his other opponents. That, to them, is a dog whistle.
No one brought up the easiest retort to perhaps what I’d consider the most blatant race baiting in quite a while. Harry fucking Reid:
WASHINGTON — Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader, apologized on Saturday for once predicting that Barack Obama could become the country’s first black president because he was “light-skinned” and had “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
Reid also said that Obama was clean and articulate. The first such African American to run for the office of the presidency.
slumbrew
That’s different, because shut up!
Brochettaward
It is different. Because Reid can’t even be accused of dog whistling. He was just blatantly racist.
“It felt like there were a lot of aggressive men in the audience and very quiet women. It’s the kind of vibe that doesn’t allow for a dissenting voice. You’re just expected to be a good audience member. You’re considered a bad sport if you speak out.”
Chafed
I was never an Andrew Dice Clay fan but I would really respect Louis CK if for one show he did his equivalent.
Playa Manhattan
Hmm… paying customers don’t want to hear from some idiot in the crowd?
straffinrun
Some idiot? How dare you! She deserves to be heard. You’re denying her existence and I find that highly problematic.
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242 responses to “The Hyperbole’s Homebuilding Hurly-burly Part Addendum.”
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STEVE SMITH ALWAYS COME FIRST!
STEVE SMITH ALWAYS COME LAST TOO….HIM ALPHA AND OMEGA!
Toilet!…..see, on topic, that’s how you do it
You’re not the boss of me.
I’m just giving you a friendly pointer, in fact “Toilet!” would probably be a legitimate first in many instances now that I think about it…..
Point taken
Looks perfectly cromulent to me.
The Nick Gillespie of toilets.
Is this actually a code violation?
Yep
A contortionist’s house?
Yeah that looks mildly uncomfortable.
You should see the kitchen. Oy gevalt!
Who says that’s not a picture of the kitchen?
I don’t get houses that have bathrooms right off the kitchen or dining room.
Saves time, I guess.
Totally gross, though.
I had a bathroom off the living room for seven years. Shared that dump with a college buddy when we arrived in NYC. I suspect the bathroom was shoehorned into a space that used to be airspace in the vestibule. (Same apartment where the landlord demanded the rent in cash. The house is gone now.)
Shared that dump with a college buddy when we arrived in NYC.
I’d imagine you shared every dump with the college buddy if the bathroom was right off the living room
He did his business with the faucet on. I didn’t bother.
Sharing a wall with the kitchen seems to make sense if they are the only two rooms with plumbing.
Yeah, my place is like that. But you have to walk thru 2 other rooms to get from one to the other so you almost wouldn’t know it.
Yeah, but back to back. Having a view of the toilet from the kitchen table…not good.
I had a cat that I named Stinky. That little bastard would crawl over in the catbox and drop a huge stinker every damned time I sat down to eat. No point, just thought I would mention that.
Does anyone have The Searchers on Blu-Ray? If so , is it the transfers to Blu-Ray any good?
I only have it on HD-DVD (Yes…I’m helping!).
But yeah, unless they rereleased/re-remastered it, I think it’s roughly the same as the HD-DVD release: https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/25409/searchers-the/
The Searchers
Same 2006 release I linked.
Looks pretty damn narrow, guess you just gotta sit sideways?
Ain’t no THICC sitting on that shitter.
An absolute travesty to be quite honest.
That would never work in my house.
What, you prefer your women without splinters in one ass cheek?
There was this one that broke a side-rail on my bed.
When you said that, it immediately made me think of an old friend of mine. The poor guy had taken a fucking wild man for a roommate. I honestly tried to talk him out of it, I mean that fucker was insane. But he needed the money. For about 6 months, every time I went over there, there would be something broken in his house. And I would say ‘What the hell happened to your TV, your stereo, your coffee table, whatever’. And every time he’d look all forlorn and say ‘Mark broke it’. One day I was over there and we went up to his bedroom to smoke some weed and I swear his bed was all broke down. And I’m like… ‘Dude, your bed’, and yeah he says ‘Mark broke it’, and I’m like ‘You know, NTTAWWT’, but if you guys are not in love, it may be time to throw his ass out. Didn’t matter, ‘Mark’ killed himself on a bike about a week after that. The world was not worse off.
This was a 300-lb woman. Not to take anything away from Mark.
I’m not judging you for having a 300 lb woman in your bed. I did that once, but I never had sex with her. She managed to not break my bed though. At least that went well. Or well also.
Ya gotta want it.
“Ya gotta want it.”
Yeah, so that wasn’t happening. NTTAWWT.
You know, I mean, if the 300 lb woman is like big boned and 6’10”, that might be all good, but a regular boned 5’6″ female that is 300 lbs? I mean I couldn’t even find her pussy in that foldage if I were sober.
A lot of people cant think in three dimensions. I noticed this in technical drawing classes of all places.
Checked out your article this morning. You passed the test: Someone who has no interest in the topic going in finished the entire thing and learned something. Good job.
I’ve read all of it too. Although there are few slightly confusing paragraphs, the author does an excellent job in establishing that it is thorough knowledge gained through actual experience.
Thank you Sirs.
I appreciate criticism as I am trying to improve my writing. I have a couple more articles lined up but not submitted. Do tell Count, which paragraphs?
I’d have to go back and look at it. Keep in mind I used to edit copy for things like sports, traffic, etc. where contradiction or ambiguity is a huge non-no. (Because you don’t want anyone to get the wrong idea from hearing part of something.) If I recall, you wrote that you should never handle primers because your hands could contaminate the chemicals, then you wrote about feeling if the primers were flush with your hand.
um, “no-no”
Ah. What we have here is a failure to communicate. For me to communicate.
The primers are little brass cups. On the open end you dont want to touch them because the priming material is exposed. Once the open end of the primer is seated in the case just the flat bottom of the cup is all that is exposed. It is safe to touch that because the vulnerable part is all sealed inside the case.
I could have done better with that.
I was a bit confused on that as well, and if I may constructively criticise, a diagram of all the parts and how they fit together would have been helpful for us complete gun idiots. pictures being thousands of words and what not.
Pics or it didn’t happen. Absolutely. That or hyperlinks, but pics are better.
I understood what you were referring to immediately, you had mentioned that in a previous post plus I always measure the primer seating too.
“Once the open end of the primer is seated in the case just the flat bottom of the cup is all that is exposed. It is safe to touch that because the vulnerable part is all sealed inside the case.”
You know that. I know that. But not to put too fine a point on it, if one is writing a primer about primers, don’t write as though the reader knows that.
This is a very common issue in any kind of how-to article. If you assume the reader knows less than they do, it can be tedious and boring. If you assume they know more than do, it can be confusing and difficult.
I have trouble getting new guys to picture a pound of dry air. Or air as a fluid.
I think most people think in 4 dimension, unfortunately, being as time is a thing. It sort of sucks.
You know who else couldn’t think in three dimensions?
Pretty much every single person who posts on Twitter?
I have to admit I laughed.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/08/data-vandal-changes-name-of-new-york-city-to-jewtropolis-across-multiple-apps/
Not Hymietown?
Been done already
But only Al Sharpton can actually incite murder.
(((JOOTROPOLIS)))
Did I do that right? I’m just learning.
The toilet isn’t even set square.
I know, right? That jumped out at me too.
Apparently, I have a good eye for square and 99% of construction guys don’t. JFC, $1.2MM condo next door didn’t have a single electrical outlet that was square – every single one was at some angle.
That wouldn’t bother me at all. Wait till you’re confronted with one of these.
Squatting pan? I’m not opening the link
It is
what it is.
Oh ya. I hate squatters. At least they have paper. Many places just give you a shower head on a tube.
In others the give you TP but you’re expected to put in in a wate basket near the toilet.
Been there, done that. The US may have it’s problems but at least we don’t throw our shit paper in a waste basket or wash our asses with a communal show head. God Bless America.
So you’ve been to Athens too?
That is because the waste water plumbing is all 1-1/2″ to 2″ pipe. I dont get it.
+4″
When I worked as an engineer in California, we had bi-weekly Western style toilet training sessions for our SE Asian employees. They kept breaking the toilet seats by standing on them.
Should have put up those don’t stand on the toilet signs.
https://imgur.com/a/mys0Tdu
Although the pictogram looks more like don’t screw the toilet lid.
Oh lord, I hate those squatter toilets. Their bidets are out-of-this-world on the other hand.
Christ, why?!?
Seriously, just put in real goddam toilets.
Center of gravity works for them. I can’t squat and keep my heels flat on the ground without falling over backwards. Longer torsos mean they can.
I can and still don’t want that.
They’re becoming less and less prominent, so don’t let that stop you from leaving the Tundra and coming here.
Yeah, there is almost zero chance I could negotiate that thing.
It’s not the torsos, it’s the leg tendons, dude.
Really? Just assumed it was the torsos.
Nope. I can squat with any Asian now, but it took a ton of work. Ankle and hip mobility, core, quads,hammies, glutes.
It all has to work together.
I squat corrected.
Like so.
Ciggie optional.
Growing up sitting in chairs really does a number on us. From day one, I was determined to not let that happen to my daughter. Fortunately, she’s taken dance since she was three and is really into it, so her natural flexibility and mobility hasn’t deteriorated.
Yup. It’s not natural.
That’s a Yankee squat. You’d think I could do that.
Yeah, not happening.
“Fortunately, she’s taken dance since she was three”
Is it the same height as a regular pole?
Of course not.
Don’t be silly.
Yeah, I came across a few of those in China. Not as clean, though. Luckily I could wait until I got back to the hotel and use a proper terlet.
Seriously though – I can’t use one of those things without taking off my pants – so that pretty much means I’m holding it till I get home.
Where we lived in Indonesia, my folks got permission from the landlords to put in “normal” toilets in both bathrooms – but you still had to flush them manually with a dipper from the bathing water tank next to them.
I want a toilet that projects an anime hologram that sings how great my shit was.
I like the way you think
Aren’t those common in Japan?
I had half a bottle of ‘Nillionaire tonight. It’s OK; however, if I had to sit on that toilet the beer wouldn’t help me contort to do it.
You don’t have these problems with custom built cabinetry.
What sort of ridiculous code says you have to have the toilet mounted to the vanity?
Wax ring appears to be leaking as well. Nice touch.
This is an old hotel, they brag that JFK and Marilyn Monroe stayed there. Everything is deteriorating, as I was checking out a guy next to me was telling the staff that “The water is just pouring out of the ceiling, it’s over the tub so it’s not hurting anything but you may want to take a look at it.”
Sounds like a start over. Use dynamite.
I have a few restaurant Customers that need some Dynamited buildings, I’ve even told them as much
I once visited a, let’s call him a drunk red neck, that ha a toilet in his basement 4 feet of the floor. He needed / wanted a toilet in his basement and it had to be above the sewer line. So he built a rickety platform, put a toilet on it with 3 “walls” and a 2×4 ladder to access the comfort room.
He was very proud of his work and was the only one who used it at the gathering I attended. He informed me that he spent most of his time in his basement man cave along with his VCR and 25” tv.
I must admit I am not seeing a problem with this.
“I once visited a, let’s call him a drunk red neck, that ha a toilet in his basement”
He has plumbing in his house? You obviously have never met a real redneck.
Speaking of rednecks… watching Djoker v. Sandgren now – I’m amused that Sandgren shaved off this shortly after rising on the tennis circuit & having been outed as a Nazi.
If you’re right of Mao, you’re a Nazi, soo…
I suspect he has some beliefs I don’t share… and I don’t give a shit. I’m not gonna have drinks with the guy but a witch-hunt is a witch-hunt.
It’s just witch hunts all the way down.
I’ve met plenty. This one was a landowner and was the pride of his family because he had a house not made from old doors and pallets.
Don’t out me, dude.
Sorry I’ll be more discreet next time.
Going OT:
Spinning in Circles: Mazda’s Rotary Ambitions Still Very Much Alive
Get out there and buy some Mazdas, people! Tundra wants an RX-9!!!
I don’t know how they’ll meet emissions. The rotaries always burned oil.
“Wojciech Halarewicz”
I just cant even….
not OT for You Tundra….
True.
Does Mazda still sell rotary engine cars?
Lamentably, no.
Huh. I actually bought a used Mazda 6 last year. And my genius plan is working, I make more on Uber after work each month than the car payment, so it’s kind of free. Puts a lot of miles on it though.
That is Code! in Somalia or Russia…………..
Or West Pennsyltucky.
Also, is this where the bar is set for articles?
No offense to the author, just asking on how much content is expected.
Well, he had a kick-ass series on homebuilding to tee this one up. Highly recommended.
Thanks, Tundra, Also to Sean’s question I expected they would use this as a late night/open thread filler piece if they used at all, and that they did, so no offense taken.
I understand. I had kicked around some short submissions in my head. Just trying to gauge if I’d follow through.
Go for it, My latest is around 489 words, but lots of pictures,
POST THAT SHIT!
“he had a kick-ass series on homebuilding to tee this one up.”
I will second that.
I cant build a decent fire, let alone a house. So just like looking @ pr0n, I find his articles entertaining but I know they’re out of my reach.
This post was a relief to me. The piece I submitted recently is unresearched, incoherent and filled with grammar mistakes. I don’t want the bar set too high.
“unresearched, incoherent and filled with grammar mistakes”
So its like you took a 3am phone call from me.
So you proofread my articles eh?
straffinrun, help me out with this:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/08/30/national/crime-legal/osaka-high-court-upholds-male-right-deny-legal-fatherhood-status/#.W4iTdt8pChA
I’m still trying to get a handle on the legal complexity of the family register in Japan. Specifically how were the kids really fucked over here?
On my way home from meeting some former coworkers who were in NYC. Korean barbecue in K-Town for the win! Happy times…
That stuff is way beyond anything I’d know about. The wife takes care of all that arcane shit we have to do.
Glad I’m not the only guy confused. I enjoy learning about laws in other countries, but Japan mystifies me in many ways.
I’ve read the odd article or two about how a husband who proved the kid wasn’t his still had to pay child support. That automatic registry stuff cuts both ways, if I read your link correctly.
That happens in some states in the US.
It’s no worse than HM’s fetish posts.
But it’s no better, either.
The guy in bed with the carp…..you’ve wounded me, sir.
The carp and not the dude fucking a snake video I linked to at TOS?
The dude in bed with a carp on top….from here.
WHY MUST YOU MAKE ME RE-LIVE THE HORROR?
NEVER. FORGET.
Ok.
I’ll make it up to you.
Part of me wants to click on that link, but a greater part of me tells me to remember my training and not do that at work.
But Alex Jones got banned….
audentis Fortuna iuvat
I played that game / visual novel. Highly recommended.
I cropped it out but reflected in the mirror there’s an old woman in a dingy nightgown holding a gallon of milk and a thick rope.
Nice.
Oh, you sick fuckin’ monster.
Id nearly forgotten…
Ohhh I remember now. Ha good stuff.
Trazadone! Take me away!
Fourth day of Revit: we’ve now managed to set down grid lines and levels, placed a mess of steel and concrete columns, and only just begun working with walls. It’s going to be a long term.
BUT the program is terribly nifty, super comprehensive, and while I enjoyed learning to draft in Autocad, it’s no wonder Revit took over the trade. You drop lines in Autocad; in Revit, you’re building a virtual mock-up of your structure using facsimile components. If you want to call out a wall section in Autocad, you drop guidelines for dimensions and add more lines for details, and throw down a section mark on the plan calling it out. In Revit, your section mark is your wall section: it generates the view you want, and you detail the view. Your elevations are generated simply by dint of building your plan view, rather than having to orthographically project lines in Autocad to build it yourself. And that’s not even touching all the MEP stuff we’ll get into next year.
that sounds like a Bad ass Program, how much? Where?
Two grand a year 😛 Free as a student, though.
Yusef, if you’re interested in a 3D modeling program checkout Sketchup, I haven’t used Autocad since college and am not familiar with Revit but from what CS says it sounds similar. If you’re not using it commercially, i.e. for mocking up your dioramas and whatnot there’s a free version, it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles but it’s still pretty powerful. and if you need the pro version it’s only about $750.
Can confirm; Sketchup Make is free, browser-based, and works reasonably well. It’s a bummer not having some of the advanced intersection and subtraction tools that Pro offers, but if you’re just mocking up a rough draft, Make works fine.
I used sketch up to design my deck. It was much easier than autocad or solidworks. I did need to draw a few guide lines which I imagine I wouldn’t need if I was more experienced with the program.
Done drawing and now cutting the thing designed by the guy who thinks measurements are optional. Want to send him a progress shot, and have him panic, “But it’s backwards!” “We are working on the back side of it, id**t.”
Re: the squat pan upthread
I had a buddy that worked in Iran. The company built a shithouse for the workers. It had a concrete floor with a three inch hole in it. They would squat over it and, of course, miss. The next guy would come in and not want to stand over fresh shit so he would move over a bit, and so on. Before long there was a turd trail from the hole, out the door and down the walkway. In less than two days they were back shitting in the ditches on the side of the road as is their normal habit.
Buddy was fond of saying “Those people are not civilized.”
No. Shit. Oh…wait…
Thats called a “monkey”.
In a utility boiler the ash forms slag but at the high temperatures of the firebox, its a liquid, and engineers design in ways to drain it. But when you get a cold spot, it becomes a solid. And then all the slag behind it cools, and builds until you have a literal stalagmite in your furnace. Ive seen places use dynamite to blast them out.
Haven’t we determined that word can no longer be used?
Stalagmite?
I think stalagMITES come from the top down. StalagTITE is bottom up.
Oh, nevermind.
I already used the n-word anecdotally in the other thread. Im batting .1000 above John Schnatter.
So, a shit bomb. That sounds fun.
No, coal ash. However it could be used with the toilet he described.
Your buddy might have a problem telling the truth.
Is it supposed to be in the tub instead?
Crap. I missed that Better Call Saul started already. Now I have to catch up.
In other first world problems, I was drinking ale for a few days. And none of my vape juices paired well with hops. Any suggestions? I don’t often drink beer, but when I do it’s usually something strong, dark, and heavy.
Vape beer.
Do you know you can “vape” alcohol with a blow dryer and a brandy snifter?
Not at all an ale but I’m really enjoying this Sweet Baby Jesus! chocolate peanut butter porter from DuClaw Brewing in Bal’mer, MD.
I don’t like it but the wife really digs it.
It’s not something I’ll drink more than 2 of at a sitting but it is dark and heavy and I’m finding that it pairs wonderfully with this Strawberry Kush.
Yea it’s pretty heavy. I do love a good porter. A few locals are pretty good. Steg porter is one of my favorites but it’s made only once a year. It’s more of a light in body but dark in color. Dark as a motor oil but relatively easy drinking.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/150/1495/?ba=elsinore
Speaking of toilets, got the washlet seat installed. Not too difficult at all, aside from getting the metal threads not to crossthread with the cheap plastic crap of the existing toilet. Still might put in another outlet but need to scope the wall cavity to figure out where the upstream and downstream cables are running.
Expensive as fuck, especially when Amazon did their Prime Day bait & switch, but wifey has a heated seat and all. The only think this doesn’t do is flush automatically.
Living right. Confucius say, “Wife with warm bottom…”
I had one I could have sold you.
With your high protein diet, you’d probably like it over time. Personally, I still haven’t adjust to getting my rear sodomized by a water jet.
The former owners of my house were Japanese. In addition to removing the wallpaper and raising the shower heads, I Americanized the toilets.
I removed one of those seats. Couldn’t fit it in the trash can, so I smashed it to pieces. And then I looked up how much they cost.
Casa del lachowsky was built by a man measuring 5 foot 5 inches.
Lachowsky’s are all on the 6 foot+ range. I have spent many a dollar making sure my head doesn’t hit shit.
And the handhelds don’t cut it. It’s tile smashing time.
Our new house has a (hideous, hanging) dining room light that’s only maybe 5″4″ off the ground, over the table. All of us have hit our heads on it already.
Why the hell would anyone want a lamp that low?
How… how are you hitting your head on a light that’s over the table? What are you doing on that table?
New house? Do tell.
https://imgur.com/G5LyVTB
A picture taken of my place on the way home from work this evening. Beauty is bountiful.
That’s a fucking awesome pic. I forget where you live now?
Rural as fuck arkansas. South Franklin county. Just outside the city limits of the unincorporated community known as Peter pender.
I live in the middle of nowhere tundra and I make the most of it.
Very nice and pretty photo. It really is awesome how much beauty there is out there.
Cool picture. People don’t look up anymore. I was on the late afternoon train last spring on a rainy day. Look out the window of the train and the clouds had opened up a bit, leaving a giant rainbow arcing across the city. All the other passengers had their heads buried in their phones. Missed it.
I drive west for 30 miles on my way home each day. There was a double rainbow in my windshield most of the way home. It was nice.
I got home about dark and my boy was in the living room. He asked me if i had seen the rainbow.
Life is good.
Atta boy moment, eh? I’m guilty of living too much in the digital world, but my kid and I go for walks and check out the sky every night.
That’s a shame, but glad you got to see the rainbow at least.
I had read a thing about “sky awareness” years ago, talking about people who consciously look up at the sky from time to time throughout the day reported greater levels of happiness.
I’ve no idea if it’s bullshit, but if I do indeed feel better if I’m mopey or stressed and take a bit to look up at the sky. Not coincidentally, it also forces you to stand up straight.
Looking up is a submissive gesture. Sounds right that it would increase happiness by forcing you to confront the fact you’re not the center of the universe.
To address your point, I guess it depends on your relationship with the sky and what its vagaries mean to you.
Sounds like bullshit.
I spent my teens looking up into the sky while picking crops praying for a cloud to cover the sun that was burning my head and shoulders.
Seeing the sun gave me no happiness.
You may not be factoring into the equation what it’s like living in a concrete jungle. I love camping because I finally get to see stars.
That is a good point – ISTR, the original article I read focused on urban kids and how often they looked at the sky.
I remind myself to look up most often when I’m at the office an among the tall buildings. There’s no issue seeing the sky around home.
I do miss real stars – I spent hours just lying on the deck of the place we rented in Maine last year – hanging on the rocks at the mouth of the Damariscotta River near Boothbay, with not a light to be seen at night. I saw the Milky Way for the first time in forever.
It was also a depressing reminder of how bad my eyes are now, even with glasses – I have memories of looking at the sky and seeing the stars as bright pinpricks. Now they’re slightly fuzzy blobs.
I will confidently say I never feel that way.
Perhaps it is, perhaps it’s just situationally dependent.; I’m not staring at the sun, just reminding myself to look up from the sidewalk and look at the sky now and then. Maybe it’s just a placebo effect, but it does seem to calm me.
Same here. When I look up at the vast open sky, I see possibility, freedom, and again just how damn pretty nature is.
I live somewhat higher than my neighbors (6th floor vs. 2 or 3) and I often get amazing sunset views over Brooklyn and New Jersey. I dunno if it calms me but sometimes you just have to take note.
I hesitated when I used the general “you” in that sentence. Shoulda listened to that voice in my head.
Same here during smoke breaks at work because the setup of my building (facing the Hudson River) and where they will let you smoke outside meant no shadows anywhere until after 4PM during the summer.
/i really don’t like the sun
Nice fence! No sag from where I’m sitting.
Spoken like a man who has built a fence or two…
Only helped my dad fix a section or two as a kid. But I see a lot of sagging fences around here, so seeing taunt wire is impressive. The thought of getting a come along under that much tension scares the shit out of me a bit. Gotta trust that the wire will hold and not snap. *shudder*
McCain’s remains are being flown to DC on Air Force 2?
I guess his dead body is more important than people who are still alive.
Christ. I wish he had croaked ten years ago when he was Public Enemy #1.
It seems like the media is making a bigger deal out of his death than when Ford or Reagan died. I doubt we are going here this much shit when Carter dies.
um, “hear”
My policy of never watching the news on TV seems to be paying off.
Amen brother.
The PM Lynx comment thread got me thinking – how many of our exalted betters in government are left that will get the McCain treatment when they eventually go tits up? Excluding SCOTUS, I can think of about enough to count on one hand. The last one in recent memory was Kennedy, now McCain and then who?
If it was a just a world, ron paul would get the kennedy/mcain/Lincoln treatment.
My guess is he wouldn’t want that.
Therein lies the problem.
Obama, Clinton, and probably Biden and Liberman. Maybe Kerry.
There might be some “civil rights leaders” in there too, depending on what your source is.
BTW, Scalia didn’t get shit. For all I know, his body is still unclaimed at the coroner’s office.
I hope they all pass on the same day so we can get all the gushing in one, cringe worthy shot.
Scalia was pretty statist, but not statist enough to get a state sponsored funeral.
You gotta be a hardcore statist to get one of those.
RBG’s gonna be epic.
The tone of your post isn’t very patriotic, Playa. Why do you hate America?
You know what’s patriotic? Flying coach. Or, if you’re dead, flying in the cargo hold.
Sounds like something I’d expect a Russian but to say.
BOT.
Aeroflot flies A320s because of me.
So it was linked that a freeze in Gov pay might be happening…as a Fedgov worker myself..good. Shit shouldn’t be automatic. Should be performance based and not handed out like candy.
I hope that your pay is frozen. Nothing against you, but the absolute bullshit that has been peddled about the poor sorry federal workers who are losing their income during the past few “government shutdowns” makes me wish that all y’all experienced actual economic consequences for your business models.
None taken. I completely agree. I have a technical job and dont push paper all day and would love a true privitation of my industry (not the shit peddled over the past few times).
I hadn’t really paid much attention to the Florida governor crap. The race baiting. Then you assholes went and posted about it earlier. They’re really trying to get him for saying that his opponent was more articulate than his other opponents. That, to them, is a dog whistle.
No one brought up the easiest retort to perhaps what I’d consider the most blatant race baiting in quite a while. Harry fucking Reid:
Reid also said that Obama was clean and articulate. The first such African American to run for the office of the presidency.
That’s different, because shut up!
It is different. Because Reid can’t even be accused of dog whistling. He was just blatantly racist.
Stop monkeying up the narrative.
Women say Louis C.K.’s “comeback” comedy set featured a joke about rape whistles
“It felt like there were a lot of aggressive men in the audience and very quiet women. It’s the kind of vibe that doesn’t allow for a dissenting voice. You’re just expected to be a good audience member. You’re considered a bad sport if you speak out.”
I was never an Andrew Dice Clay fan but I would really respect Louis CK if for one show he did his equivalent.
Hmm… paying customers don’t want to hear from some idiot in the crowd?
Some idiot? How dare you! She deserves to be heard. You’re denying her existence and I find that highly problematic.
+1 Joe Wilson
?? And another one gone, and another one gone ??
http://www.mcall.com/news/police/mc-nws-reading-mayor-vaughn-spencer-verdict-20180830-story.html