ONCE AGAIN…
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. APPARENTLY MANY NEWSPAPERS AND ONLINE PUBLICATIONS HAVE FAILED TO LEARN THAT ZARDOZ GIVES BETTER ADVICE THAN THE BRUTAL “DEAR ABBY“. ZARDOZ WILL ONCE AGAIN DEMONSTRATE THIS.
Q: I have reached a crossroads with my career. I used to love my job. I play an important role at my company, and I’m good at what I do. Long term, it provides job security. However, the pay is subpar, and my recent request for a raise was denied. I haven’t received a raise in several years. I couldn’t get a straight answer about the denial. I was told it wasn’t my work performance.
I have started looking elsewhere, and I have several interviews scheduled. All of them will give me a $15,000-per-year salary increase over what I currently make for doing what I do. I wasn’t asking that much for a raise, not even close.
But what makes this difficult is my co-workers. They are devastated at the thought of me leaving. One of them, someone I’m fairly close to, was so angry he went to our boss himself without my knowledge. I don’t know what he said, but he got me a raise, albeit a very small one.
However, my heart is set on leaving. While I appreciate his going out on a limb for me, I now feel “obligated” to stay. Abby, I’m having a hard time with this. Can you help? — MOVING ON IN THE EAST
A: WELL, IF ZARDOZ ISN’T COMPLETELY SURPRISED BY A WEAK AND PULING BRUTAL. HAD YOU SIMPLY TAKEN COMMAND OF YOUR OWN SITUATION IN THE FIRST PLACE, YOU WOULD HAVE LEFT, AND BECOME SOMETHING…LIKE A BRUTAL ENFORCER, FOR EXAMPLE.
NOT SNIVELING FOR A “RAISE”
YOU HAVE TWO CHOICES, AS ZARDOZ SEES IT. SCORN THE WEAKLINGS THAT REMAIN BEHIND AT YOUR FORMER PLACE OF ENSLAVEMENT, AS YOU LEAVE…
EXIT INTERVIEW
OR YOU CAN REMAIN AND DEGENERATE INTO A GRAIN SLAVE.
RAISE DENIED.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Q: My wife and I know a couple whose daughter has been our daughter’s playmate since they were 3 months old. They are pleasant and welcoming. We all get along well and have gone to dinner, ball games and musicals together. However, when we go to their home for a gathering, the father will slip off with a few of his old friends and smoke pot on the back porch while the kids are playing inside. It’s their home, and marijuana is legal in our state.
Their daughter’s 4th birthday party took place last weekend, and once again, with numerous children running around, they slipped out for a toke before the cake was served. This may seem prudish, but I don’t want my daughter in a situation where she might be exposed to this, or think that we think smoking marijuana is perfectly normal.
I enjoy spending time with this family, but I don’t think I want to visit their home if this is what I can expect. What should we do? — MYSTIFIED IN MASSACHUSETTS
A: ZARDOZ HAS RESEARCHED THE ARCHIVES OF THE TABERNACLE. IT APPEARS YOU FEAR YOUR BRUTAL OFFSPRING WILL BECOME:
BRUTALS CANNOT RESIST IT!
ZARDOZ HAS A PLANT BASED SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM. YOU, YOUR OFFSPRING AND YOUR FRIENDS WILL BE COLLECTED TO CULTIVATE…GRAIN FOR THE VORTEX. THERE, YOU HAVE AVOIDED THE DREADED GANJA WEED! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Q: My husband and I are happily married, but have one serious problem. Our sleeping habits are incompatible. I am an extremely light sleeper; he is a horrendous snorer.
He sees a snoring specialist and tried several medical treatments, none of which worked. The only solution is a minor surgical procedure. He doesn’t want to have the surgery. He insists he “sleeps fine,” and says I’m the one with the problem.
I have tried earplugs, white noise machines, sleep medications and more, but I cannot get a decent sleep with the obnoxious snoring. He stays up much later than I do, and I enjoy sleeping in our master bedroom until he comes to bed. I usually get driven out of the room by the noise.
We agree we don’t want to sleep in separate rooms and lose the intimacy, but it’s the only option for me to sleep well. Neither of us wants to give up the master bedroom because it’s the only one with an attached bathroom.
Am I wrong for asking him to have surgery so we can share a bed? And if he won’t, who should get the master bedroom? — SLEEPLESS IN LOUISIANA
A: ZARDOZ WONDERS, BRUTAL, WHY YOU SIMPLY HAVEN’T TAKEN MATTERS INTO YOUR OWN MISERABLE HANDS? MINOR SURGERY IS MERELY A FEW CUTS, YES?
THIS MAY STING A LITTLE…
GIVE YOUR BRUTAL HUSBAND A SHINY OBJECT TO DISTRACT HIM AND…CUT-CUT-STAB-STAB. IF YOUR SELF ADMINISTERED SURGERY FAILS AND YOUR BRUTAL HUSBAND PERISHES, JUST THINK…”NOW IT WILL BE QUIET EVERY NIGHT!” IT APPEARS ZARDOZ MUST DO ALL THE THINKING AROUND HERE…ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
My solution for sleep incompatibility?
Separate residences.
something something…..Theme Music !
Not bad theme music but the line up after it took a turn to suck.
Excellent advice.
Young charlotte rampling.
Yum.
If your coworker went to the boss behind your back, are you really that close?
It’s almost like they’re making this shit up
No, you aren’t.
Assuming this is a real situation, the person is best off taking the new job.
Now they know she wants to leave. So now she MUST leave.
ZARDOZ really hit his stride tonight.
How dare you assume ZARDOZ gender!
Quit your bitching, or move on already.
You don’t want your kid around people smoking dope, make a decision.
“He needs a Zyppah!!! That’s Happyz, spelled backwards!!!”
That one is also totally real.
That was me with an ex. He’d get his 8 hours of beauty sleep and wake me up after my 4 hours of snoring for morning sex. I’d say it worked out pretty well for both of us.
You can get by on four hours sleep?
Got by on all fours, eh.
Who cares at that point.
Because you had to get through the rest of the day?
Morning sex is the best and is why if ZARDOZ knew how to give good advice he would have told the woman that if she was sick of the snoring to sit on her husbands face. It either works out well for both of them, or if he is a heavy sleeper he dies. Win win.
That’s some out of the box thinking.
I’m thinking that’s in the box thinking, no?
Hi-yo!
I have to admit I’m a little jealous, both at being able to get by on 4 hours and the morning sex.
Except the exing.
Well, we didn’t live together so I generally got the afternoon to myself to sleep it off.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
But has he said anything?
Having read quite a bit of comments here, and after perusing the links at the bottom of the linked page, I am not sure DrNerdlove’s columns might not be more helpful to the Glibertariat. I am sure ZARDOZ would have fine advice for the nerd brutals such as this distressed young man who is most likely a commenter here.
Well, this is interesting.
The FBI announced Friday that it had arrested all five New Mexico compound suspects, days after multiple charges were dropped. The suspects were now being charged with violating federal firearms and conspiracy laws.
The announcement comes after local prosecutors dropped charges in the death of a 3-year-old boy at the compound site. Taos County District Attorney Donald Gallegos said Friday his office would now seek grand jury indictments involving the death. Gallegos said seeking indictments would allow more time to gather evidence.
“The defendants, Jany Leveille, 35, a Haitian national illegally present in the United States, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 40, Hujrah Wahhaj, 37, Subhanah Wahhaj, 35, and Lucas Morton, 40, are charged in a criminal complaint that was filed earlier today in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico,” the bureau said in a statement.
“The criminal complaint charges Jany Leveille with being an alien unlawfully in possession of firearms and ammunition in the District of New Mexico from Nov. 2017 through Aug. 2018,” the bureau said. “The criminal complaint charges the other four defendants with aiding and abetting Leveille in committing the offense, and with conspiring with Leveille to commit the offense.”
This is like getting a mobster on tax-evasion. Only with more fuck-up-ery.
Still, it’s a good development as terrorism and murder should be illegal. As opposed to the IRS getting Al Capone, when prohibition was bullshit.
Huh, those don’t sound like any Amish names I’ve heard around Lancaster County.
That looks like a preliminary charge they throw at them to have something to hold them on, while they get terrorism charges worked up.
It’s all weird though. I can see general incompetence getting the case dropped – NM’s law is pretty strict about that and the office rarely handles anything of that complexity, but that on top of the bulldozing of the site is super suspicious together.
You know who else… Ahhhh shit I’m too tired. Happy Friday you heathens!
Happy long weekend J and who are you calling a heathen?
So sorry, Western. You’re a right proper pagan.
Joe Biden uses words that mean something different to him than they do to the average person.
Former Vice President Joe Biden pegged the mid-’90s as the point when comity in Washington “began to go downhill” as he remembered late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) as someone who exemplified basic American values: “Fairness, honesty, dignity, respect, giving hate no safe harbor, leaving no one behind, and understanding that as Americans, we’re part of something much bigger than ourselves.”
Biden eulogized McCain at a memorial service at the North Phoenix Baptist Church, where Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” played and tributes were delivered by the senator’s family and friends, including Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald. “There are so many differences between the two of us and it didn’t matter,” Fitzgerald said. “It’s about just loving people for who they are and I think I’m going to do my best to convey that message.”
Um, ok…
What I’m taking away from this postmortem McCain analingus is: All you have to do to get on the Democrats’ good side is criticize Trump (or whoever their “big bad” is at the moment).
If fucking Hitler came to life and said mean things about Trump, the Democrats would praise him as a “man of principle who speaks truth to power”.
All you have to do to get on the Democrats’ good side is criticize Trump
No matter how hypocritical the criticism.
“Migrant accused of 542 crimes remains in Germany because authorities don’t know where to deport him”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGZofutZhFU
I’m thinking this is bullshit.
They can deport him to international waters via helicopter.
Of course it’s bullshit. Residency violations? Drugs? Driving without a license? OH MY GOD LOCK UP THE CHILDREN AND THE WOMEN
Former president ‘Pen-and-phone’ was reached for comment
Former President Obama will accept an award for ethics in government next week and deliver a speech detailing the “challenges and opportunities facing our country.”
Obama will receive the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government during a ceremony on Sept. 7, the school and Obama’s office announced Thursday.
“Next week, President Obama will offer new thoughts on this moment and what it requires from the American people. He will expand upon several of the themes from his summer address, including that America is at its best when our democracy is inclusive and our citizens are engaged,” Katie Hill, the communications director for Obama, said in a statement.
“He will echo his call to reject the rising strain of authoritarian politics and policies,” she continued. “And he will preview arguments he’ll make this fall, specifically that Americans must not fall victim to our own apathy by refusing to do the most fundamental thing demanded of us as citizens: vote.”
This grinds my gears. But I am not at all surprised.
Scandal free administration! Ya, an ethics award for the administration that literally spied on an opposing parties candidate during and election and whose party rigged a primary for Herself. What a joke
The Trump campaign ain’t special: the last two administrations spied on every American citizen, every visiting alien, most Europeans, and pretty much every third world person who could afford a phone or internet.
It just burns my ass that Obama talked and talked and talked and fucking talked some more about how terrible G. W. Bush was for this surveillance state bullshit (rightfully so) but then he did a total 180° the second he sat down in the big chair.
Obama’s statements in the immediate aftermath of the Snowden leaks are literally indistinguishable from Dubya’s remarks.
You do realize you have sent me down a hole looking at bow ties trying to figure out how someone could be strangled with one… right?
That’s the beauty of it!
In the first place, they’re hard to grab on to. And even if you did grab it, they have an adjustment mechanism in the back that would easily break if the bowtie were subject to strangulation-level tension.
Good point, but pulling out the surveillance state on political opponents is new territory as far as I know. Maybe they just never got caught before.
Obama must feel some slight twinge of guilt at this charade. Right?!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Speaking oral Douglas, I could watch The Solid Gold Cadillac again.
That was supposed to read “of Paul Douglas”, fucking auto-correct!
Yeah, sure.
NTTIAWWT
Are they cribbing notes from the Nobel committee? Surely there is someone in the US who actually deserves that award.
For once, I don’t weep for humanity after reading this article.1) He probably thought he was helping, but exposed his ineptitude in going to your boss. CLEANSE HIM.
2) It’s just a little pot. If you can’t explain to your kid that sometimes other people do things that you and your family don’t think is right, then you’re failures as parents. CLEANSE YOURSELVES AND DROP YOUR CHILD OFF AT TRASHY’S
SALT MINEORPHANARIUM.3) Y’know, you’re not going to go the rest of your life without sleeping. Spend one painful week retraining yourself to not be a light sleeper by only sleeping when he’s in the bed. If you can’t do that, GRAIN SLAVERY WILL WEAR YOU OUT ENOUGH THAT A BOAT HORN WOULDN’T WAKE YOU UP. TRASHY’S SALT MINE TAKES
A HAREMAN UNPAID INTERN IF YOU DON’T LIKE WORKING IN THE SUN.in re #3:
Are they in a studio apartment?
‘They are devastated at the thought of me leaving. One of them, someone I’m fairly close to, was so angry he went to our boss himself without my knowledge. I don’t know what he said, but he got me a raise, albeit a very small one.’
Translation: My spineless, pushover, underpaid ass has been shouldering the brunt of the load around here for years and my coworkers are terrified of the prospect of being forced to do some actual work
Move on and good riddance.
“Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world. Many of his employees are so poor, you’re paying their welfare benefits. And he’s not the only tech billionaire offloading his payroll costs onto taxpayers. This is an indefensible scam. Why is only Bernie talking about it?”
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1035334044698009600
What?
Bernie is not the only one
talkingmaking shit up about it. Not by far.Yea, The Tuck cucked himself there. I haz disappoint.
This is such blatant prog misdirection I have to wonder what he’s on. Either that or he’s fully on-board with the free shit and “personal responsibility? what personal responsibility?” crowd.
I don’t watch his show, but his monologues show up on my youtube feed so I occasionally listen . Based on that level of exposure, I think this is abnormal for him. Idk what happened. Hopefully he gets over it.
How is it a misdirection? It is true.
It’s true insofar as Jeff Bezos is paying what the market, such as it is, allows him to pay. However, he isn’t holding a gun to anyone’s head and making them distort the market.
However, he isn’t holding a gun to anyone’s head
Voluntarism in employment is something I have yet to be able to get across to my leftist acquaintances.
There’s that but also he isn’t holding a gun to your head and collecting the taxes that supposedly allow him to hire on the cheap.
No he is not holding a gun, but he damn sure backs the politicians that are all for a more robust “safety net”. Food stamps is corporate welfare in many instances.
Aside from certain actual bad-luck cases, you don’t get food stamps without having kids you can’t afford. If you’re single, you don’t get them period if you have any sort of employment.
I get that, but what’s the solution? Limit his free speech?
No not limit his free speech at all. I am just saying these corporations fully know food stamps and housing assistance subsidizes their labor force and they promote its expansion and I think it is a good thing to point it out. As to a solution, get rid of welfare completely and people would realize there is no good path there and better their lives. Let charity and good will of others handle the truly hard luck cases just like it has been done throughout time before we needed gov to fix all our problems. Also, get rid of the stupid mandates that if you employ someone more than 30 hours you have to give them Health Care. That law cut millions of low wage workers incomes.
Well then we agree. I just don’t think that the argument should be framed from as Jeff Bezos is bad or Walmart is bad. They are just taking advantage of the market as it exists.
I totally agree but is that the argument Tucker is making? I don’t see it.
It is the argument I hope Tucker is making he just never got around to the end of it. (No I am not a huge fan or anything I don’t even watch TV) And ya, framing it against rich people is poor form. Frame it against lobbying for more welfare because that is what giant corporations that depend on low wage workers do.
It’s a misdirection because the only reason most of those people he’s talking about are on welfare is because of the personal choices they made.
No doubt. Where would they be if there was no welfare? You fucking go find a job where you can eat. Welfare distorts the labor market regardless of some of us being dumb asses.
I don’t think he’s going to pay more without welfare, if those jobs aren’t worth more. Especially not when there is already a sufficient supply of laborers who are willing to work for the same wage (and I’m not talking about migrants).
I don’t know. I think wages would go up.
I disagree. I think more of those jobs would instead go to teens or seniors who don’t need welfare. Those are the people most priced out of the market by welfare currently.
Yeah, I don’t know either. Something would happen. The market would evolve. How? If those jobs aren’t worth more they get automated? They get eliminated until the people still working are willing to work harder for the higher wage they receive?
Rhy, ya you might be right, but from what I see around here very few teens work anymore. Hell, I have had a job since I was 7 if you count paper routes and started flipping burgers at 13, but teens can’t work all shifts year round and I am not sure they want to work and or have parents who tell them to get a job these days. Maybe retirees but how deep is that labor pool? There is going to have to be people to fill all shifts and they would have to offer higher wages in some areas or cut shifts. Maybe it would all be a wash.
BNM ya, all of those would happen I am sure as well as prices going up.
But in the end is not a free market in all areas what we want and think would work best or are we just talking out our asses? The knee jerk reaction to anyone who bad mouths corporations for being rent seekers in the form of labor subsidies and to call them a prog looks past it. All corporations seek government protection and help. I don’t think pointing out they suck when they do is a bad thing and when we don’t we leave it up to Bernie and his Bro’s and we all know their solution is more gov not less.
Yah but TBF I was mostly thinking about older teens – HS grads and such. You know, folks at the beginning of their career. Their unemployment rates are ridiculous.
The problem is what side of the equation people blame this situation on. Hint: It isn’t the private citizen taking your money (at least not on his own).
Exactly, and he never makes that point directly.
It’s a team sport. It’s used as a weapon against republicans, so he’s doing the same thing.
It’s wrong on both accounts.
Never trust a man in a bow tie.
What about Rothbard??
All kidding aside, I like the look of a bowtie with dress clothes. The self-tie kind, not that clip-on nonsense. People are pretty impressed if you tied it yourself.
Plus, they’re a lot easier to wear. They don’t flip and flop around like a regular tie. Plus, somebody can’t strangle you with your own bowtie.
Plus, somebody can’t strangle you with your own bowtie.
A most important consideration when assembling an outfit. This is why I rarely wear my hemp rope belt.
I actually agree with him on part of that. Welfare distorts the free market and we do not have a free market when it comes to wages when you can hire someone for 20-30 hours a week and know they will get food stamps so the person takes the job. Would anybody here disagree? The problem with hucking out personal wealth of individuals who head these companies is an apples to oranges comparison imo though. Their personal wealth is largely in stock holdings. Tell me what their companies bottom line is. What is their profit margin, and then we can evaluate how much in fact the taxpayer is subsidizing their labor force. The rich man bad speech aint good whoever is doing it.
Get rid of welfare??? Nahh didn’t think so
In a twist he gets the surgery and dies during it.
She sleeps wonderfully thereafter.
Or, in the happy ending, she dies, and we don’t have to read any more of her letters.
Of course I thought it was the guy who got the happy ending.
Scratch the “of course”.
“Bank of America freezing accounts of suspected undocumented immigrants: report”
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/404523-bank-of-america-freezing-accounts-of-those-suspected-of-being
I don’t think there is much of a story here. BOFA would freeze accounts of suspicious citizens as well.
And it probably started under previous administrations but is convenient to report now…
Yeah, the IRS and the E-Verify people probably had something to say about this for ages.
My wife and I had a hard time opening accounts with them ~3 years ago even though she is here legally. Other banks were about the same because of anti-terrorism laws.
Are you sure she isn’t a terrorist? Maybe they know something you don’t.
Ahh… e-Verify.
A previous employer switched to e-Verify and we all had to go back through the I-9 bullshit.
After filling out the on-line form and having some drone check my passport, I received an e-mail that said I was not allowed to work in the United States. If I didn’t show proof that I was allowed to work in the United States, I would be fired within a week or some other deadline like that.
WTF? I was born in the United States. I’m a citizen.
I fired off an angry e-mail, CC-ing my boss. The e-Verify people replied with something along the lines of, “If you had entered your SSN correctly, you would be fine!” I’m near certain I correctly entered my SSN.
I had to go through the whole process again. I was allowed to keep that job.
I don’t remember how much longer I lasted there after that e-Verify incident. It couldn’t have been more than a year.
The ex wife was also a male landscaper in IN. for awhile.
Amazingly the IRS didn’t seem to care.
She waxed men’s pubic hair?
To my knowledge, she never worked in IN.
The ex gf DID take scissors to me while I was passed out.
Not a comfortable thought.
“I have no doubt that to poutine purists this represents a profound form of sacrilege that stabs at the heart of the True Spirit of Poutine, but this vegetarian version I had for my last meal in Montreal was miiiiiiiighty good.”
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1035599168562188291
How is veggies on top of french fries poutine? Not that peppers, onions and potatoes isn’t a good mix. But it’s like “vegan cheese”. If it’s vegan, it’s not cheese.
Needs pineapple
If it’s vegan, it’s not cheese.
If it’s vegan, it’s not food. And you can mix potatoes in various forms with various veggies, but the only things that belong on
frenchfries are cheese, bacon and ketchup.A raw apple is vegan, and food. Well,as long as there are no worms in the apple.
You with your technicalities not letting me rip on vegans…
I am pretty sure potatoes and veggies are vegan as well as food. But the last part reminds me I need to turn and massage my bacon.
Enough with the euphemisms!
Say what?!? Sorry, the Dutch are the masters of the fried potato with their syncretic delight patat oorlog (war chips).
You challenge Webdominatrix and yet you live? Truly the gods are smiling on you.
many beers are vegan. All beer is food.
Isn’t this some new reason writer?
He seemed relatively solid until now.
Heh.
Suddenly I like him.
“Lies, Damned Lies, And Campus Sexual Assault Statistics
A potential draft of new federal campus sexual assault policies was leaked this week, so expect a new round of false and misleading statistics to be shared by those who claim due process “protects rapists” and “hurts victims.”
Rape and sexual assault are serious offenses, and shouldn’t be watered down to create a narrative that America is somehow the rape capital of the world, nor should we pretend that non-offenses are offenses. That hurts real victims.
I’ve taken down every one of these statistics before — sometimes many, many times — but it’s time to debunk them all in one place. So here we go.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/35309/lies-damned-lies-and-campus-sexual-assault-ashe-schow
Nine year old boy says 500 million co-eds are sexually assaulted every day. National Park Service and National Geographic back him up.
“Seems legit. Let’s run with it!”
/MSM
“Just a reminder that the use of law enforcement as the primary or front-line actors to address human #trafficking is a massive failure which causes more harm than good. (From a study by the National Survivor Network/@CASTLA)”
https://twitter.com/KateDAdamo/status/1035519624740327424
https://nationalsurvivornetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/VacateSurveyFinal.pdf
Saw something I’d never seen before today: inland border patrol roadblock … inland from the Canadian border.
In sure that I’d have been well within my rights to politely decline to answer their questions. But I figured that since I’m the foreigner here and these guys could probably cause me a bunch of hassle, I’d just answer their dumb questions and be on my way.
Not too long ago CBP set them up in northern NH.
Article on them.
What is it? 100 mile constitution free zone at the border or something like that.
I am pretty sure we are constitution free coast to coast now.
Welcome to the joy southern California has experienced for decades.
Six-Day War (1967) – Third Arab–Israeli War DOCUMENTARY
I emailed this article to my wife who regularly complains about the airplanes taking off and landing in our bedroom. I told her I am just trying to scare off the angry mama bear. If I disappear, she did it.
It’s really your own fault isn’t it.
I guess it is. I’ll just lock myself in my man-cave then.
1. This is why you don’t tell your cow-orkers or anyone at your current employer about job searching until you accepted a formal job offer & have a start date.
2. Four years to figure out your kid’s friend’s parents aren’t people you want your kid around?
3. https://youtu.be/MAwrmh6LVDw
I present:
http://archive.is/zmHmn
TITS!
If 31’s eyes are real, I’d stock up some pots and bunnies.
Describe the tits in text for me? Can’t click right now.
( . )( . )
( V )
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There’s a corollary in there somewhere.
You supposed to do the feet. *SMDH*. Millennials.
Ah, I get it now.
lol
You guys are the best.
15
GAAAH! Jesus help me, I felt part of my soul leave.
Don’t trust soy boys.
https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/08/29/testosterone-may-make-men-more-honest-13369
Maya Star War: Tikal – Calakmul War
I guess this is what happens when all the hookers start advertising online.
https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/31/media/the-village-voice-shuts-down/index.html
Battle of Kursk 1943 – World War II DOCUMENTARY
Not gonna lie, this is kewl.
Defense Ministry requests record budget of ¥5.3 trillion
Japan has pushed harder to upgrade and bolster its missile and strike-back capability, citing North Korea’s nuclear and missile threat. The Defense Ministry, in an annual military review released this week, emphasized the need to further strengthen missile defenses because North Korea hasn’t taken concrete steps to denuclearize despite its pledge to do so.
The comments are a mixture of “But I want that stolen money to pay for shit I like” and “Japan should buy moar expensive shit from Japanese weapons manufacturers.”
I’m not gay no more. Metal edition.
^Supposed to be response to Q’s soy boy link.
LOL
Nobody is going to believe that with _that_ outfit.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45332710
So I know this was a link earlier in the day, but my niece is fighting juvenile ovarian cancer and something like this is helping her attend class when she has been laid up from surgery and chemo. It’s pretty f’n cool and she’s an f’n badass.
Aw, that’s sweet. Technology rocks.
That is indeed a sweet story – tech doing good.
Also: “No Isolation founder Karen Dolva” – totally Would.
Best wishes to your niece. How terribly difficult for her and your family.
Labor day is a communist holiday. In. Celebration, I will ne working a 12 hour shift making holiday pay at 75 bucks an hour.
Also, old crow medicine show singing wagon wheel is far superior to what the fuck ever Darius Rucker did with it.
Correct. I am heartened by the fact I almost never hear the Rucker version played around here.
Interesting tidbits: had some Brits in town last week and they were totally unfamiliar with the tune. Also: they had never heard ‘Brandy’ (and loved it) – never got higher than 51 on the UK charts.
FUKCING EH YES GLAD THAT SHIT GETS PLAY OUTSIDE MY HOME
Aw, made myself sad. My drinking brother and his wife, my other drinking friend, are moving away. We’re all about the old crow.
Fuck. I’m all alone in a sad world now.
You still have us.
Although, I am not sure if that is a feature or a bug.
Bug for sure. I’ll bug y’all till you ban me.
*narrator voice*
And he was never heard from again
You ain’t alone commodious. Yoi got the glibs.
Also, I’m a huge counting crows fan. Just not when they sing wagon wheel.
They ain’t Johnny cash singing hurt.
Johnny Cash singing “Hurt” – great cover or greatest cover?
Musical glibs will now provide a list of covers that were far superior to the originals:
There was a long subthread on that already a few days ago.
That’s what I get for not checking in every day. Well, that, and wildly increased work productivity.
It’s ok. I missed it too.
Reba McIntyre’s Night the lights went out in Georgia
Not the best, but still better than the Crickets https://youtu.be/LeWRqBsm0zY
I think I have ear cancer now. Granted, the source material is largely to blame.
Greatest cover. Its johnny, but not hurt.
https://youtu.be/-OVHnWyDmdw
Love that Cash cover. Might sound sappy, but Jeff Buckley’s Hallelujah gets me every time.
Sappy but beautiful.
Agreed.
Cranking Hurt now.
Counting Crows or Old Crow Medicine Show?
I put Johnny Cash Hurt behind me… My pain is wrapped up in Trampled by Turtles, “Wait so Long.” It’s clearly an old boy mourning the fact that his girlfriend turns tricks, and dealing with the fact that he can’t scrape out life enough to convince her not to.
I don’t know it – that’s a tougher story than Ruby, I think.
Happens to all of us when we reach late 20’s or early 30’s. Friends leave.
I’m 31. I have my 4 brothers, the guys I work with, about 2 friends who have survived childhood intact, and my family.
It is what it is. I’m happy.
Lucky! I’m 53 and haven’t got a single friend in the world. I’ve got my sainted wife and my animals and aside from missing golf partners I’m alright with that. Burn them bridges I always say…
I got my brothers, too. When I moved here, I basically lost all my friends. It’s taken two decades to build up a circle of friends again. Not going to do that again.
This. I’m 30, and besides family friendships nearly entirely maintained by my wife and a couple of childhood friendships that would survive even if we didn’t talk for 20 years, y’all are all I got. I’d be a shitty friend. Too many responsibilities. Too little free time.
Overheard at work the other night: Person One – “I hate turning on my TV and watching Trump all the time.” Person Two – “I can’t wait till he is gone and Hillary gets elected!” Granted, these are hard-core Canadian public unionists but Whoa Nelly! That was derp from the deepest delve of the derpiest dim that ever dumbed. She actually believes that if the bad man goes away then Clinton gets to be Prez. I snort laughed and kept my head down. I know these people are literate because they sort the mail all the live-long day but how can they be so ignorant about the world that they live in?
Jeebus help us.
The places that I toil are virulently anti-management, so much so that two of the supervisors died last December. One had some brain-wasting disease and the other keeled over from a stroke. The guy that stroked out remarked to a friend “This place is making my head hurt.” He was dead a week later. I’ve never seen such a passively-aggressive hostile work environment. Most of the management have no people skills and the layabouts on the floor are mostly useless.
Sounds like pretty much every unionized workplace. Shit is poisonous.
Was reading a local’s newsletter of their various gripes and beefs with represented employers. One bargaining group was the unionized employees of another union. Their whining about “management” was exactly the same as every other.
See below comment. I work in a unionized plant
The higher-ups keep trying to bring in fire-brands and them lazy fucks will have none of that. I get paid a day-rate and the workers look at my hustle like I’m an exotic creature or a double fucking rainbow.
Jeebus. Comm. Earlier this week a good friend an a manager where I work was killed in a motorcycle wreck. Thursday was his funeral. More than 100 people who worked for him were at the funeral.
Sad times.
Sorry about that, Lach. Managers are people too.
https://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-president-trump-russia-probe-lawrence-lessig-784081
She is next in line, dummkoph!
I’ll have what he’s having.
I doubt that the girl uttering those inanities ever read a single issue of Newsweek. It’s a faith issue at this point , Lach. You know what happens to zealots?
They get jealous?
They are the ones that jump into the cattle-cars and then lend a hand to the others trying to board.
Haven’t seen Derpetologist here in quite some time. Thanks for taking one for the team Festus.
: Doffs feathered chapeau, places one hoof forward and then bows from the waist:
Do y’all think this is trolling or genuinely stupid?
Years ago, a local college guy went back home and slaughtered his family. I was of a mind to look at the case again, so I came across this link
called: Personal connections to violent crimes?
This is the response in question:
So – troll or idiot? I’m going with “idiot”.
You are distinguishing between troll and idiot? Generous.
Some people have a very, very dark sense of ho-ho.
Dark ho ho’s are my favorite kind of ho ho’s.
“Now I have a machine gun, Ho-ho-ho,” is the best kind of ho ho’s.
Fuckin’ A right, it is.
Although, I would love to see someone riff on that in another movie-
“It’s a SUB-machine gun, you fucking yob!”
I dunno…I’m weird.
“Milwaukee was the highlight of the trip.”
We really like Milwaukee. So, obviously not an idiot.
There was a hare-lipped kid at my high school that was a teacher’s pet but was a bully to the littler ones. He used to get teased pretty unmercifully because he was such a cunt. About three years after Grad he murdered his parents and burned their house down. They were wealthy farmers and refused him access to his trust fund. Also, rumor had it, caught fucking a pig when he was 13-14. He was a jerk.
I once knew a kid named landy doyle. He was a shit. His dad had made a fortune by inventing a drill head that is standard in the oil fields now. When his dad told him that he wasnt entitled to shut, he built a bomb and wired it to the ignition of his dads truck. He blew his dad up, but not well enough to kill him.
As I understand, his dad forgave him after he did 8 years in the pen.
Kudos to the father for finding a way to forgive. I don’t know if I could.
Seems like both of us have some mournful Bluegrass tunes to write! Landy Doyle beats the fuck outta Carson Kowalewski, though. How the heck can I rhyme that?
Speaking of friends, if I’ve met a glib in meatspace who has met another glib who has met another glib in meatspace, I consider that to have met them all. It’s six degrees of bacon magic.
The immaculate bacon.
Which Glib are you happiest to have practically met?
ANSWER CAREFULLY!
I need to see the flow chart first.
Mojeaux’s avatar for sinful things and Suthen just because I admire his lifestyle. HM but I’d probably need to wear a has-mat suit and some 3-D glasses for the full effect. OMWC cause I wanna see that van in person. Sloop to golf with. Ah fuck it! I love everyone here… (dissolves into a puddle of tears and empties)
but Jeff Buckley’s Hallelujah gets me every time.
Holly Holy https://g.co/kgs/RLJ1BZ
I dont know why, but this one of my absolute favorite songs. I’m mostly an alternative rock guy, but this is where at.
Not judging you, but I’ll leave that one all to you. My hatred of Sweet Caroline is on a molecular level. I can’t listen to any of his music. It’d be like saying, “But this painting by Hitler is pretty good.”
If the painting is good is it not good no matter the artist?
Yes. Art stands alone. Theoretically. I human and not a theory.
IOW, I believe that art exists to remind us of virtue and beauty exists. It’s hard to do that when images of gas chambers are floating in your head.
You know who else stuck up for Hitler?
Goebbels?
As a Red Sox fan, I _loath_ Sweet Caroline. It’s a love song to a pre-pubescent Kennedy for fuck’s sake.
My hated of that song colors everything Neil Diamond.
I liked living in MA but moving away meant I never had to hear another excuse for that inbred clan.
When we were teenagers we’d always scorn the oldsters for their love of Neil. They’d to a man say that “He puts on a helluva show!” It was Borg-like. I never got him and by now, probably never will.
I took mom to Tulsa 3 years ago for her 65th birthday to one of niel’s final shows. I regret nothing.
Also, America https://g.co/kgs/q1YUq5,
Ain’t you an American or something
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Fine. I don’t hate _everything_ Neil.
/watches The Jazz Singer to renew hate
And I am, of course, American.
My (now) wife’s first birthday gift for me? Tickets to see Neil.
I do like Neil quote a lot, but I don’t really dig live music. And the stadium seats hurt my big ass.
Lachowsky, it’s interesting you mention that, because one of my wife’s fondest memories is taking her mom to see Neil I-don’t-know-how-many years ago (well before we ever met).
Of course, the best part for her: singing “Sweet Caroline along with mom.
I dig this one, sounds like it could have been in a number of television action sequences of the day, ahhh, the 1970’s.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6uC26Z-VgNw
Brazil produced some incredible stuff in the 70’s also. Here’s a lovely one by Jorge Ben.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T8VPn_h7ApI
4:24 for the good stuff. I think I found a new ringtone.
And speaking of covers
https://youtu.be/WY-Z6wm6TMQ
It’s hard for me not to mentally add Sugar Hill Gang’s lyrics on top.
So much this.
Of course it always leads to this scene
Beastie Boys, Massive Attack, Leftfield, Saint Etienne and many others agree. (Didn’t know that was the ‘Angel’ sample).
Also 70’s action
https://youtu.be/xpNmmUDHokw
That could be a porn soundtrack.
When I was a shaver, my Aunt and Uncle used to take us to the drive-in for trash fests. Corman flicks, American International stuff. I’ve always wondered why. Ah, shouldn’t worry much about it, they farmed us off as soon as we we got bored with Kerplunk. They liked little kids, not autonomous creatures.
Such as
Well, that didn’t work. Fuck it, I’m going to bed.
Nukalar war, it’s a muthafucka!https://youtu.be/_Gsx7UVt-y4