I actually managed to (somewhat) catch up on rest this weekend. It was great. And I only had to donate a little bit of blood to get the dryer back together. Angle brackets made for the inside of machines are still sharp. I knew this, but it still got me. There’s that second where you don’t take a deep breath and think and then you’re bleeding and you’ve got a good minute to think about how that wasn’t the smartest thing you ever did while you go look for a band-aid so you don’t bleed on the laundry room floor while you finish.
I also went to the zoo Saturday night for some Halloween themed thingy. The younger one took off running one point and was out of sight for more than a minute. Which, for a three-year old in a crowded place, was pretty traumatic — for his mother. Turns out that he couldn’t find a family of apes or humans who were better than the one he has already, so he came back. Completely oblivious to the fact that his mother was frantic. So she paid him back by taking him on the water-slide ride — telling himself the whole time “it not scawy”. Right on little man. Feel the fear and do it anyways.
Vlad Pootie-Poo promises more Russian military vapor-ware if US pulls out of missile treaty. Maybe a secret Doomsday device?
Pot-bellied pig (the 4 legged-kind) apprehended by local police. I guess professional courtesy is why they didn’t just shoot it like a dog.
Posted just so I could type “headless chicken monster”.
Who do you think got off more on this, her or him?
I don’t think “I dodge taxes just like Trump” is going to go far in 2020. This guy is going to get himself disbarred and start a referral business that will never be as big [reference to litigious Texas former lawyer removed by legal]
Sadly my wife has never been the short skirt, long jacket type, but she makes up for it in other ways.
I installed a dryer vent without gloves. I will not make that mistake again.
Gloves are your friend with any sheet metal work.
Yeah. So sharp, it sliced a chunk of my skin out and I didn’t even feel it for about 10 seconds.
My old mans favorite saying about working in gloves has kept me bare handed my whole life.
“Nice gloves. My sister has a pair just like them”
Fingerless gloves FTW, Sheat metal = bare hands,
/Old Scarred Tin knocker
or Sheet Metal
* lights the UCS warning lamp *
also don’t wear gloves while operating reciprocating equipment (drill presses, lathes, etc)
I worked at a hospital that was founded by a guy with an interesting life story. He got off the boat from Ireland at Corpus Christie (I think) with less than a dollar in his pocket. He went to West Texas and started putting up barbed wire fences, got the contract for the state university land grants, made a bunch of money, bought a bunch of his own land, died rich as can be. The punch line: they didn’t discover the oil under his thousands of acres of ranchland until after he died.
Relevance, you ask? He wouldn’t hire a man (to hang barbed wire fences, mind you) who owned a pair of work gloves. Figured if you wore work gloves, you were too soft.
He wouldn’t hire a man (to hang barbed wire fences, mind you) who owned a pair of work gloves
That’s what I keep saying about the cost of women’s low participation in engineering and construction: testosterone-laden commitments to silly old ideas means that we better systems seldom arise and almost never take hold. Probably a million fingers would have been saved if women had been significant players in the design of things and the design of their production. We just keep hammering hot rivets into steel beams.
I heard that it is still against the law in Texas to carry wire cutters.
“Sadly my wife has never been the short skirt, long jacket type, but she makes up for it in other ways.”
They all want CAKE….
Needs more cowbell.
This comment is really going the distance.
It should be going for speed.
But Did he get Federal Funding for it?
“. Completely oblivious to the fact that his mother was frantic. So she paid him back by taking him on the water-slide ride ”
The four year old was being a problem yesterday, and mom kept rewarding him. I was pretty mad at both of them by the end of the day. In the future, I’m going to make sure I have beer on hand. I never know when I’m going to need to protest drink.
My wife is very often the weak link in the discipline chain. We make a rule, our daughter follows it but doesn’t like it, she grouses to me, I tell her “no”, she grouses harder to my wife, wife buckles, I have to re-establish the rule but now in my role as bad cop. Shit, even our dogs pulled this shit. I don’t know what it is, but she’s got “easy mark” written all over her. The frustrating thing is that she knows it, but she still does it.
We had that issue with sleep training for a while. I’d just shut off the baby monitor and my wife would panic.
Finally wife was gone one night and I shut off the baby monitor. Whaddya know, besides some minor issues here and there, baby trshmnstr has been sleeping through the night for 9 months now.
Now we’re into the ham-fisted manipulation stage. “oh, you sent me to timeout? I’m gonna hug you and be sweet so you let me go” The hardest part is to hide our laughing while we discipline her.
I’ll probably be the softie in the future. Hopefully I’m disciplined enough to avoid undermining our authority too much.
Best way to do sleep training?
Give the wife a weekend getaway.
Hahaha, yeah, it took a couple of weekend-long business trips on my wife’s part for me to sleep train our kid, only for her to undo it all by letting her in the bed the night she got home. What finally broke her was our daughter getting big enough that when she spent the night kicking us every fifteen minutes in her sleep my wife couldn’t sleep through it, then had an all-day meeting on about two hours of sleep. That worked like a charm. At least for child #1 it’s as much training the weak link as it is training the kid.
In fairness, I’m the sucker about letting her use a pacifier and watching “questionable” television. Currently she’s a Bob’s Burgers fan, but she’s also a big Seinfeld girl.
At least her taste in TV isn’t bad. Anyway, little kids seldom get the jist of the more adult jokes on adult TV.
Hey, BP, I got back to the cooking thread yesterday too late to answer you. What I wanted to say was, “Remember where you are and who you’re talking to.”
Isn’t total immunity great?
Ha, you’re right of course, OMWC. Everyone already knows I’m a horrible bigot.
I got my sleep (and feeding) training when I was in the naval hospital in San Diego as a wee bairn. The orderlies and nurses didn’t give a shit if you cried, you got fed on schedule, and you got put to bed on schedule.
I made a bargain. As long as she backs me to the hilt on discipline short of spanking, I won’t cross that line. Turns out, when mom is thinking about her kids getting spanked, she’s more willing to hold strong to the rules. Lo and behold, our oldest spent about 3 weeks in his room, and is now far better behaved without the spankings.
FOURTH’D !
“professional courtesy”
*slow clap*
“Sadly my wife has never been the short skirt, long jacket type, but she makes up for it in other ways.”
Maybe she just needs a black dress ?
This is really my only request of her.
not this ?
Lol. I already married her. That battle is lost.
If that last link is that Beto thing, I highly recommend not clicking it and retaining your sanity.
Avenetti.
The YMCA clip? Yeah, that one could put a man in a padded room.
Oh no, its even worse. I don’t have a link for it, and wouldn’t give one if I had it.
It takes the piss out of one of the Grease songs with a few girls, and is basically achieves the epoch level of awkwardness that is only possible in politics
Oh for crying out loud.
My wife is a big Grease fan. I should show her this and ruin her day.
Does anyone think Beto is still cool?
People think Justin Trudeau is cool.
I hope deep down inside these people realize how stupid this is.
Because, in this case, its recorded, these girls should be on suicide watch when they turn 30.
They’re both cool
they just shouldn’t be in charge of anything
Why are you assholes making me defend Mitch McConnell? The Senator and his wife were eating at a restaurant in Kentucky when a crazy man disturbed them. The rest of the crowd at the restaurant shouted down the nut and got him to leave.
They chucked his doggy bag out the front door. That’s a guaranteed ass kicking in my book.
Wait, you would bow up to a crowd of angry Kentuckians over your food hitting the curb? That’s… well, you’ll probably only do it once.
Yeah, I know Mitch can’t do anything because it wouldn’t exactly look good to break that dude’s jaw, but if somebody did that to me they’re gonna have to start talking pretty damn fast and be really, really convincing.
Mitch is old and has Polio, so I doubt he’s going to be kicking anyone’s ass.
On the other hand, he’s wearing the kind of vest my crazy CCW friends favor and keeping his hands very still.
I don’t think Mitch will be kicking anyone’s ass, but his wife might.
Not crazy; evil.
McConnell is a senior citizen. It must just be a remnant of my olden days, but to not get up and defend this guy, I don’t give a fuck his politics, would not be accepted in my days growing up. The guy doing the harassing needed taken outside and his ass kicked in public. Lean some manners.
How can you have civility in the face of enablers of actual fascism, Hyper?
Eating at a Cuban restaurant with his Chinese wife.
Fucking racist.
Well that means he has an Asian fetish which is racist but if he didn’t marry her that would have been racist as well.
A Cuban restaurant in freakin’ Kentucky. Now I have heard it all.
We got them here in Iowa too. And Chinese, and Mexican, and Italian, and Indian.
Italian? Egg noodles and ketchup don’t count.
Dude. I am offended. We got Olive Garden.
They consistently get good reviews in Grand Forks, ND
For good reason. All you can eat bread sticks? Sign me the fuck up!
Are you Henry Hill?
Havana Rumba is excellent.
The original owners are on like their 4th or 5th restaurant in Louisville. They open, get successful, sell, and move on.
I think only one of them failed. Which in the restaurant biz is batting way above average.
Actually I don’t know about that one
But this Cuban place in Louisville is AWESOME
http://www.havanarumbaonline.com/web/index_zb.php?pg=Our%20Story&for=text&user=HAVRUM
Since there are people who believe that it’s racist if you don’t “stay in your lane”, I’d imagine someone, somewhere, is typing that exact same comment unironically.
His white priviledge allows him to have yellow fever and appropriate whatever cultural cuisine he wants to.
Good for the patrons. It’s about time. Get the fuck outta here punk!
^This.
Even funnier since he was with his Asian wife… who looks racist now?
The patrons’ reactions need to happen more often with these crazies.
Speaking of chickens…
“CDC warns against dressing up pet chickens for Halloween
At least 92 people in 29 states have been infected with a strain of multidrug-resistant salmonella after coming into contact with raw chicken products. No deaths have been reported, but 21 of the sick patients have been hospitalized.
The CDC warned that people could be infected by handling live chickens. When dressing a chicken, whether in a Halloween costume or a sweater, it is easier for a person to come into contact with harmful bacteria that live on poultry, including salmonella.
The agency also warns, “Don’t kiss your birds or snuggle them and then touch your face or mouth.””
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cdc-warns-dressing-pet-chickens-halloween/story?id=58664699
TW: autoplay
Relevant
SIV hardest hit.
She was asking for it in that tiny French maid outfit, Gadfly.
SIV likes to undress his pet chickens, so he’s alright.
/CDC
I don’t think “I dodge taxes just like Trump” is going to go far in 2020. This guy is going to get himself disbarred and start a referral business that will never be as big [reference to litigious Texas former lawyer removed by legal]
More proof that he’s a Trump mole, sent to confuse his enemies.
Speaking of moles….
“In case you thought I wouldn’t enter my 30th birthday party in a casket via hearse being escorted by Jerry Only of Misfits #RIPKatTimpf”
https://twitter.com/KatTimpf/status/1054462077081960448
Well, at least she has good taste in music.
Those dumb punk kids will buy anything.
There’s a lot of things I’d like to do with her. And I do like that minidress she’s wearing.
“Other detectives in the stationhouse have “objected to her leaving her panties on the unisex shower knob and outside her locker for all to see. The lockers are unisex, too,” the source added.
Guerra has groused about her male colleagues’ manhoods on Facebook, including on Sept. 11, a police source said.
“She has been on social media spouting man-hating rhetoric about fellow sergeants having ‘little d–ks,’ ”
When it comes to the deranged utterings of your female mammals the translation is always the same: Feed me good dick!
They’re cops. Of course they have small dicks.
I hear Steroids can cause that
Homos.
From the picture she looks like the sort who could quite credibly pull off that scene, and probably has.
“as she shoved a pair of her panties into Falcon’s mouth, a source said.”
Wow. Just…. wow.
She could get paid to do that and she’s just giving it away? Stupid cops.
I don’t see what the problem is.
Skid marks?
Some people pay extra for that.
Yesterday I shocked the snot out of myself with a powder coat gun. I had the same sentiment.
Once was fucking around with a circular saw trying to set the angle and hit the trigger while my had was close enough to the blade to chew up a glove. I put the saw down and walked around for a while until my asshole spit my underwear out.
I fed a part the wrong way through my router table. I shut it down, shut off the lights and went inside for the night. I even left the part embedded in the wall of the garage.
Power tools are awesome but sometimes they bite back.
left the part embedded in the wall
that is true wisdom
If you take it out right away, the wall will never learn.
You people with your irrational fear of minor industrial accidents never fail to entertain me. Missing the end of a few digits is the sign if a life well lived.
This weekend I was discing with my tractor. It’s kind a very old disk, and in place of a missing handle, I use a rope to actuate the pin that lock it in disc or transport. It’s kind of hard to explain in less than 500 thousand words, but the rope got looped around my thumb and I very nearly got it pulled off my hand. It was really close. I felt the noose tightening and pushed in the clutch while simultaneously pulling back on my hand as fast as I could. I got a rope burn/bruise on my thumb, but it’s still attached to my hand.
I’m not quite sure if this is the best or worst euphemism ever.
I felt the noose tightening and pushed in the clutch while simultaneously pulling back on my hand as fast as I could.
So you almost ended up like that Kung Fu guy?
Warty loves to tell me about degloving.
Go ahead, do a GIS, you’ll love it.
Second day of the academy after I got hired, I almost degloved my ring finger when I stepped off the engine and put my hand on top to steady myself. Ring caught on a bolt as I stepped down. I lucked out and it only resulted in multiple stitches. An engineer had degloved his ring finger on that same bolt a couple of years earlier. Yeah, a no ring policy came out a few days after my mishap.
As long as you guys want to tell these stories, I once saw a chick get her hair caught in a drill press. I know what had to hurt because she had this big ugly bald patch for a while.
I once gave my finger a love tap with the cut off wheel of an angle grinder that had just been heating up steel to light blue-grey (so around 650F or 700). Didn’t even feel it for like two days. Then a week of intermittent, uncontrollable pain. Then nothing. Healed up just fine – no scar.
I was using a 2.5 horse disk grinder to remove paint from my fascia. It jumped and slashed my wrist. Before I went to the ER (it was on a Saturday) I called the Dr. on-call at my doctor’s office and asked if going into the ER with a slashed wrist might risk being held for observation for three days. She said, “I don’t know.” I asked if that meant that I could be and she repeated, “I don’t know.” The ER doctor could tell instantly that I was telling the truth, given that I was covered in paint dust.
“…Other detectives in the stationhouse have “objected to her leaving her panties on the unisex shower knob and outside her locker for all to see. The lockers are unisex, too,” the source added.
Guerra has groused about her male colleagues’ manhoods on Facebook, including on Sept. 11, a police source said.
“She has been on social media spouting man-hating rhetoric about fellow sergeants having ‘little d–ks,’ ” the source said.”
Nice.
A diversity hire I’m sure.
Just when I thought that Saudi Arabia replaced Russia as the most evil foreign country…
How Russian Trolls Inflamed the NFL’s Anthem Controversy
Russia-linked Twitter accounts sent more than 12,000 tweets about the NFL or the anthem in their alleged efforts to sow discord
Because absolutely no one else had a problem with the protests except for Russian trolls. Without them, it’d just be kumbaya and road head for everyone!
What a glorious vision for the future you have.
And if you know anything about your average NFL fan, it’s that they’re hardcore Twitter users.
Well, won’t let me read the article – does it provide the total number of “tweets about the NFL or the anthem”?
12,000 tweets.
“The same accounts, and others connected to the IRA, continued to blast out tweets on the subject—predominantly criticizing the protests—with thousands of tweets in the days that followed.”
Now the Irish are trying to influence our elections?!? When will it stop?!
I mean, total number of Tweets on the topic? Including pro and con if it’s easier that way. Because there’s a bit of difference between “250,000 tweets” and “25,000,000 tweets” when it comes to percentages.
Unless they’ll claim most of the them were russian bots and there were like 13,000 total?
Everyone on the internet, or every ‘thing’ maybe, who or that does not agree 100% with leftists, is a Russian bot. You are obviously a Russian bot, easy peasy.
See, I only learned that couple weeks ago when Collective Left lost their shit over NPC meme. That they’ve been calling people they disagree with “Russian bot” because they don’t understand how to meme.
So the narrative is that Russians are capable of easily doing the one thing no one has ever done on the internet before: change someone else’s mind.
They have decades of KGB troll experience to draw on. No one can resist the Russkie troll.
Grown men making millions of dollars while whining and acting like aggrieved children is so cool. No one could possibly be annoyed by that except Russian bots.
There are plenty of reasonable objections to the NFL players protests, i.e. ‘Time and place’, respect for veterans, taking police abuse and making it all about race, etc….But, ‘they make millions for playing a game and should shut up!’ is a very stupid one.
They are entertainers. Not very bright. Their protests confirmed it. They should shut up and play.
^this^
Or else people can stop watching and indeed are doing that. You are getting paid big money to play a game for 3 hours. Do it, and take your stupid elsewhere, you have plenty of time.
Granted but that’s a ‘time and place’ issue, the fact that they earn millions is irrelevant to whether they should be complaining or not. What’s the cut off for getting to bitch 1mil a year? 250k? and is it only sports and entertainment figures that this applies to? Should businessmen and frugal or savvy financial minded people shut up if they make a comfortable living?
Here’s the deal, oh contrary one. If you are ok with it, then watch it. If I’m not OK with it, I won’t. There’s only so many people in my camp before they close up shop. They have a long ways to go because of how historically popular NFL is, but it’s hurting them plenty and I personally hate it and will never be ok with them doing political stunts during playtime.
Dunno, how would a business react if an employee let a fart out every time they’re about to start a client meeting?
One last time and I’m going to spell it out because I am apparently shit at explaining my position
A. This is not about being OK with the protests.
B. There are many reasonable objections to the protests.
C. How much money the protestors earns is not one of those reasonable objections
D. That’s it. That’s all I’m trying to say.
But just in case…
E. Whether they should or shouldn’t protest in the way in which they are protesting in beyond the scope of my argument.
F. Whether you should or shouldn’t watch NFL games is likewise beyond the scope of my argument.
G. Telling someone to shut up because they make >$X is stupid.
H. Just watch hockey. No one cares what they think, so they just play.
I. Can’t do it, tried and failed. Love Slapshot but watching hockey just didn’t take. I loved Breaking Away but I’m not going to watch a bike race either.
G. Telling someone to shut up because they make >$X is stupid
Ehh, situational. My ivory tower cousin married into serious money. Penthouse on Park Street kind of money. Last year, she went on a long rant about how she wasn’t going to have a second kid because they just couldn’t afford it.
They fed the first one a steady diet of veal and truffles. She put her designer stroller up for sale with an asking price of a used car.
I wouldn’t tell her to shut-up, because she’s free to make a fool out of herself. Her words could be reasonable coming from a young couple doing their best to get by, perhaps while trying to care for an ailing parent of disabled child. The context of her wealth makes her rant sound beyond absurd.
Fair enough, “poor me’-ing when filthy rich is deserving of a STFU, pointing out perceived injustices even if you are not directly affected by them is not.
Or, protest outside the immediate context of the game. Or, pick any other facet of the three (four?) hour fucking even than one that brainwashes a multicultural crowd into thinking they belong together in a single state as one nation instead of murdering each other of exact shade of skin?! I mean, how hard is it to mention police brutality during post-game interview, or kneel in the huddle before the game and tell everyone why?
(I may have had to revisit growing up in the late 80s/early 90s so I’m very pro-civic nationalism today)
Because signaling requires maximum impact. If you’re a narcissist, you want as much exposure as possible. And that means doing it when everyone’s watching.
Five seconds after the anthem is done? Everyone is still watching and you are not unpatriotic?
Although honestly, right after touchdown is probably when everyone watches, but if you are Kaepernick…
Five seconds after the anthem is done? Everyone is still watching and you are not unpatriotic?
Yes, but then no one will care. Athletes protesting for/against a cause is just noise that fades into the background of the million other ridiculous activities that surrounds sports. In such a crowded field, the easiest way to get attention is to insult someone. Given that, to get maximum attention one must get as divisive as possible.
If I were in charge of the NFL, I would have at the start of the game before the national anthem, with a minute of silence, with instructions that anyone who wants to protest for whatever cause they feel is important can do so by taking a knee at that time. Give them that minute and no more. Anyone who pulls a protest stunt at any other point during the game will be immediately let go.
Or do the South Park way:
“And now, stand up, take a knee, or do whatever you like to honor America during our national anthem!”
That would be pretty hilarious.
Sorry, respect for Veterans is by far the dumbest one.
I hate to burst the right wing tribal talking point but any veteran worthy of the title respects the fact that what he/she fought for was those players rights to protest the actions of their own government whether that particular veteran agrees with the protest or not. A protest of the government during the national anthem is in no way shape or form a protest of veterans nor is it an attack on them or a way of disrespecting them.
The one thing I could see that would actually be a protest attacking veterans is if they were to protest during a moment of silence while Taps was being played for fallen soldiers
So what’s the Endgame with the whole “Russian Trolls” angle. I don’t doubt that russia employs some trolls to try to do “propoganda”, just as we do too. But the constant arguing that anyone who espouses an idea from the right must be a russian troll is crazy. Don’t forget that many of the adds the “Russians” were shown to have purchased argued for Hillary Clinton. it was about sowing disruption not about making one candidate or side look better.
So is this another 4chan prank that became real?
New Brunswick village removes ‘straight pride’ flag after backlash from residents
“…it’s 2018.”
Lol.
Liberal voter I’m sure.
Justin Fudge is gay and has lived in Chipman for more than eight years.
On Sunday, he felt personally attacked by the straight pride flag that was raised in the community.
“We’ve push so hard to get the Pride flag raised in this little village, with a very small LGBTQ community, and all of a sudden this atrocity is waving in the wind,” said the local hair stylist.
has to be satire.
As a sign of protest, he drove around the community with a giant Pride flag that he attached to the antenna of his car.
Now, he hopes council will apologize for putting the flag up in the first place.
“I want to make it known that I wasn’t putting up with that today,” he said.
so tolerant.
Justin Fudge?
Really?
I hear he really packs it in
A gay hairdresser named Fudge? Cmon, that’s not real.
OK, I’m willing to accept that this is viral marketing for a new sitcom – but CBC is just not that good anymore. They couldn’t do it if they tried.
(BTW, Trailer Park Boys, Red Green Show and even Corner Gas are not CBC shows)
This has to be a joke website, right? There’s not a real gay guy named Just In Fudge, right?
and he’s a Packers fan.
The bad thing is, it’s impossible these days to actually tell parody from real life. If anything, the real life scenarios are typically more bizarre. But that name, yeah, that’s probably the give away.
I’m not believing there is such a thing as a “straight pride flag” either.
There’s a picture. It’s black and white and sort of Nazi looking, I mean really sinister. No wonder folks are scared.
Sing it loud,
I’m straight and proud!
We’re here,
We’re queer,
We want to drink
Free beer!
You are so totes not woke.
I’m sure I could cobble something together and call it a “straight pride flag” too. A sort of… false flag, if you will.
The closest I could come to associating it with something, is an old Blue Oyster Cult album cover.
It curves slightly to the right?
It has a black thing that goes up.
I will have you not refer to our Beloved State Broadcaster that way! PM Zoolander will just have to throw another $150 million at them if you keep it up!
Hey, do you know who else was once in Canadian radio broadcast? It was Pa. You know Pa, the one with Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe.
“almost”
I’m disappointed, but not surprised, that the “straight pride” flag is so dull.
I’m thinking if it was a 4chan prank, it would have been more obviously a false flag.
I mean, if each colour of the rainbow in the Pride flag stands for sexual orientation, then Straight Pride flag should be monochromatic…
Ebony and Ivory
Live together in perfect harmony!
That’s an interesting theory. But the rainbow flag came out long before all those other letters in the acronym glommed onto the gay-rights movement.
I did say “If”.
And adding a brown stripe is The ? Most? Important ? Issue ? Of ? Our ? Time.
If they add a brown stripe it will no longer be a rainbow flag, and will probably be as aesthetically unappealing as that straight flag from the article.
Also, why?
You be the judge.
So, it’s because the left turns everything to shit.
You be the judge.
A brown and a black stripe, both at the top of the flag so it’s the first thing that catches your eye and provides no color balance to the palette? It’s worse than I was imagining.
And surprisingly, no one has ever even mentioned there’s no white stripe on the flag either, nor a pink or peach one if you want to be true to the flesh, and I don’t think the ‘yellow’ stripe is very reflective of Asians either, so the flag was never meant to represent skin colors. It’s the colors of a frickin rainbow caused by the diffraction of light, and it doesn’t have a brown, sorry. And black is the absence of light.
Something like this?
I did this once on my parents’ old machine. My dad warned me, but I did it anyway, pressed in real good and hard and pulled my finger along for good measure. That is the sharpest man made thing that didn’t even try to be sharp. Shit.
There’s that second where you don’t take a deep breath and think and then you’re bleeding and you’ve got a good minute to think about how that wasn’t the smartest thing you ever did
This was me with a big-ass pipe wrench that slipped from its perch atop a bag of tools I was carrying. I was wearing steel-toed boots, so of course it landed on the arch of the foot I injured months ago.
I removed a furnace and to get it out, I needed to cut the last bit of plenum away, knowing is was going to cut me good. Cut, Bang, Partner lifts away plenum, i remove my arm, ans we wait for the blood to flow. Paper towels and Ductape beat stitches,
The End
“I needed to cut the last bit of plenum away”
See here, folks, this is how dudes like Yusef fool you into paying big money. Plenum isn’t something that actually exists, I mean have you ever heard of it? Of course not! It’s scary sounding. So Yusef goes in and says ‘Oh no, there’s plenum, we’re going to have to deal with it’, and of course folks are scared. I can just see granpa and granny writing a check for their life savings to get rid of this plenum.
Plenum is one of my favorite patent application words. Does a ton of heavy lifting without having to write a bunch of words.
Ah, this here wire is only riser rated, we’re going to need to run in plenum rated stuff. Please bend over for the price diff.
^This guy gets it!
Plenum Rated is real. also A Plenum is a Manifold in the Kings English, makes sense……
And here I thought the other name for a plenum was the taint.
Oh wait, that’s perineum.
It sounds like the plenum wrecked him.
Avennatti sounds like a real peach.
Uh oh, sounds like he’s going to have his check posted on the “DO NOT ACCEPT” wall!
For an attorney’s office? WTF
Being a Whorettorney sure pays the big bucks.
Newport fucking Beach.
I think being in contempt like he is, should go along way to getting him disbarred. He’s a truly horrible person.
“Sarah Silverman reveals she gave Louis CK permission to masturbate in front of her and says ‘it was amazing'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6304445/Sarah-Silverman-reveals-gave-Louis-CK-permission-masturbate-her.html
Now i’m not sure who is the creepier person, the guy who asks for permission, or the girl who thinks it’s amazing.
One thing is certain: they were made for each other.
If he could finish while looking at her, I agree. Amazing!
She does have a nice rack though.
But she got to recite her rant from The Way of the Gun.
“You like to fuck baby heads? You like to fuck bbboys??”
lol
Something that’s kinda funny about all this… years ago, Esther Ku talked on-air about her practice after a date of going back to her place or his and agreeing to masturbate for one another, but no touching. That way they’d both get off but she wouldn’t commit to fucking every guy she goes out with.
To my mind, CK’s real crime is being an aging ginger dude and not a sexy Korean chick.
I never heard of her, but she looks to good to be funny.
She’s not very, tbh. But she did (supposedly) masturbate on mic for the O&J show, which was pretty hot.
The fact that he started it and she didn’t finish it tells me he was doing it wrong.
“Alyssa Milano was hounded on Sunday over her friendship with controversial Muslim women’s rights activist Linda Sarsour who has been accused of advocating antisemitism and Sharia law.
Milano was speaking at Politicon in Los Angeles on a panel with several other #MeToo figures when Laura Loomer, a former Project Veritas operative and conservative freelance journalist, confronted her.
She asked Milano to publicly condemn Sarsour, saying: ‘I want to ask you right now to disavow Linda Sarsour because she is a supporter of Sharia law and under Sharia law, women are oppressed, forced to wear a hijab.’
Loomer was escorted out of the room as she tried to finish her questions while Milano and others yelled back at her in defense of Sarsour: ‘No she doesn’t.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6302929/Alyssa-Milano-hounded-friendship-controversial-Muslim-womens-rights-activist.html
‘No she doesn’t.’
Oh well if you say so then…
Maybe you should double check with her.
Damn is Milano stupid. Oh well, I always preferred Christina Applegate anyway.
She should limo out to my part of Brooklyn sometime and join one of the pro-Palestine mini-rallies that woman holds across the street from me all the time. I assume it’s her because I heard she lives around here.
Answer and account for your actions Alyssa.
Or are you a hypocrite and a coward?
Hm.
Nick:
“…I have written a lot about “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (TDS), which leads sufferers to talk about premature impeachment, invoking the 25th Amendment, doing away with the Electoral College, and more. What Gelernter’s column drives home for me is that TDS is not simply a left-wing or #NeverTrump phenomenon. It pushes Trump fans—who as often as not will claim to not really, you know, support the guy except insofar as he’s not Hillary or Bernie or Kamala or whomever—into their brand of lunacy and to demonize opposing points of view. If you’re not for Trump, you’re against him and you hate America. Wuh?”
TDS infects conservatives too.
Is it me or is Reason stuck in ‘false equivalencies’ mode?
https://reason.com/blog/2018/10/22/i-dont-hate-trump-because-he-is-the-aver
Well, to the extent you accept his assertion to be one. I’m leaning it is.
People defend Trump because the criticisms are often unreasonable and over the top, not necessarily because they love the guy. There’s plenty to criticize him for but much of it is just ridiculous.
Just like every other public controversy, 98% of people are uncapable of the nuance necessary to understand anything except “he’s a witch” or “he’s the second coming of Jesus”
I read Gelernter’s column and I don’t see it as Trump fanboi-ing. He seems to offer a pretty cohesive explanation of why elite coastal liberals hate him so much; it’s more a matter of taste and culture than policy or results. He didn’t seem over the top to me. But I guess that just means I have TDS.
it’s more a matter of taste and culture
That’s always been my take. He’s basically Bill Clinton with bad manners.
Bill Clinton is Bill Clinton with bad manners
But I understand what you’re saying.
If you don’t think the seething hatred of Trump has been, in significant part, cultural snobbery, you simply haven’t been paying attention. Hell, large parts of the criticism are little more than thinly warmed over rehashes of jokes made in Spy in the 1980sn (little hands, for example). And because so much of the criticism is substanceless, the place of substance is taken by absurd generic filler (Nazi, white supremacist). when there’s little or no evidence to support the claims. I’m not saying there isn’t legitimate grounds to criticize President Trump on. There are. But, his most vociferous critics aren’t focusing on those issues because it’s not those issues that drive their visceral hatred.
The TDS folks have no reason to even care about the legitimate gripes against Trump. They hate him, and those legit complaints would seem petty in comparison to the hate they truly feel. He’s a white-supremacist, misogynist, Nazi-loving, rich motherfucker! There’s no social signaling value in calling him out on policy, as that only signals the speaker doesn’t truly hate him enough.
The worst one is the myth that he’s some kind of anti-gay monster. Yes, the man who beamed ear to ear as he held up a rainbow flag with “LGBTs for Trump” is going to ship the gays to death camps.
I mean, when they call him a racist or misogynist, I don’t agree, but I see the reasoning process of how they got there. I don’t even know what the anti-gay stuff is based on at all. It’s just another smear to throw in the pile, I guess.
I don’t even know what the anti-gay stuff is based on at all.
There’s a twisted logic there. Not one that is at all accurate. It goes something like this. Donald Trump is a Republican. Republicans are “those people”. Everyone knows that those people hate women, minorities and gay people. Ergo, of course Donald Trump hates gay people.
It really is that shallow, that non-evidence based. It doesn’t matter if Donald Trump proudly waved the “LGBTs for Trump” banner. That was obviously a campaign stunt to try to provide cover for the fact that he’s a homophobe. It doesn’t matter that he sued his country club to let in black people. That must have been some sort of stunt to gyp money off of the rest of te membership. The facts of his behavior are much less important to them than who he is. He’s one of “those people”.
And, to my thinking, that is key. Unlike most Republican politicians e’s always been one of “those people”. Although he comes from inherited wealth, he’s always displayed the gaudiness, extravagance and bravado of “new money”. He’s always been the poor man’s (or, at least, the lower middle class man’s) version of a rich man. No matter how much he’s worth he’ll always be in the “those people” camp.
And unlike other Republican politicians, Trump embraces being one of “those people”. Generally, “those people”, although the Republicans’ base pf support, are supposed to be a source of embarrassment. They go to them every so often to get their votes, but they certainly don’t want to be confused for one in the halls of Congress or the salons of Georgetown. It means they’re grubby, uncouth, uncultured, and the kind of oaf who eats his steak well done and looks like he bought his suits from J.C. Penny’s. And Trump’s embracing of his “those people” status denies them even the opportunity to withhold their approval from him. And that, to them, is unforgivable.
By the same token, the Democrats turned the midterms into a referendum on their handling of the Kavanaugh nomination. I’m voting straight GOP just to deliver a message, not because the GOP candidate is necessarily the best choice.
We either back down from the cliff or it gets worse. Right now, rewarding the Democrats will only reinforce their choice of tactics.
That’s how I’d vote in this case.
Canadian bot telling us how to vote! Must…resist…
Ray Carruth out of prison:
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/rae-carruth-ex-nfl-player-who-planned-murder-of-pregnant-girlfriend-released-from-prison
“The child she was carrying, Chancellor Lee Adams, was delivered by emergency cesarean section. However, the child suffers from permanent brain damage and cerebral palsy.”
Way, way too soon.
He should marry Fred Lane’s widow.
I forgot about that. People associated with the Panthers had quite a murder run going didn’t they?
‘I was present during a murder and the police arrested me! That’s why I kneel!’
That was the original Panthers. The current group are the New Panthers and are a benevolent bunch.
They’re declawed.
/weak Sylvester swipe.
And she only served half as much time as Carruth.
Somehow she managed to get convicted of involuntary manslaughter even though Lane was shot twice with one of those being in the back of the frigging head. Good lawyer I guess…
Pussy privilege.
No kidding. I remember that story. Fricken tragic. He should rot in prison.
The idea he wants to reconnect with his son must make the girl’s family sick to their stomachs.
If the kid was OK maybe but someone’s still suffering, severely, from his actions.
Exactly.
All because he didn’t want to pay alimony.
Talk about low, miserable character.
“I have to exist out there and it just seems like there is so much hate and negativity toward me”
Yeah, because you’re a murderous piece of shit that should have gotten life.
“Now I’m stuck with a desk jockey partner and everybody calls me the Yankee Clipper!”
“BECAUSE YOU SHOT DEREK JETER!”
Yeah, what was up with that sentence? It happened in the South too. They usually seem to hand out stiffer sentences for shit like that.
This guy is complaining about having someone murdered and no one likes him now? In an age where people are having their life ruined over 40 year old sexual accusations with no proof? I’m failing to feel much empathy here.
No he should have gotten death.
Life prison sentences with no possibility of parole are the one thing worse than a death penalty.
Re the caravan up from Mexico…..
“Napalm sticks to kids “
Shut up Tulpa.
Don’t worry. He won’t be around much longer.
Is that his best material these days? I don’t remember Tulpa being that bad back then.
It’s Troy Muy Grande Boner. He’s been angry since Labor Day, and I don’t really care why.
E.D possibly?
A true identity crisis.
“It’s Troy Muy Grande Boner. He’s been angry since Labor Day, and I don’t really care why.”
I guess I don’t even know who that is.
Nutjob from the HnR days.
I sure remember plenty of those. Tony, Shreek and his 3 socks, Tulpa, Botard, even all the way back to crayon. Fuck, that was back in the days pre-registration. I don’t remember this particular one though.
What next, Hihn?
SP has “shoot on sight” instructions for Hihn.
BULLY!
And unruly commenters
Mammary Monday continues with bountiful boobs and bums from beautiful broads.
http://archive.is/nBg5s
I stopped at 23.
Stopped, or finished?
Here you are Q.
https://www.stripersonline.com/surftalk/gallery/album/16743-just-racks-thread/
I’d like to get my licks on number 66.
I stopped at 1…okay, I didn’t but she’s still hot.
29, 32, 36, 37, 68, 89
What Gelernter’s column drives home for me is that TDS is not simply a left-wing or #NeverTrump phenomenon. It pushes Trump fans—who as often as not will claim to not really, you know, support the guy except insofar as he’s not Hillary or Bernie or Kamala or whomever—into their brand of lunacy and to demonize opposing points of view. If you’re not for Trump, you’re against him and you hate America. Wuh?
Or maybe you, you know, find egregious lies and baseless accusations of literal Hitlerism offensive. Especially when the majority of the “liberal commentary” consists of 1 billion candlepower projection.
This.
The Left seems to have fully embraced the “any means necessary” line of reasoning when it comes to Trump. I honestly think that they find it acceptable to promote outright falsehoods if it will harm Trump or his administration.
I’m probably going to break protocol here and re-post from last thread. But it was the last thread in the article.
Good news, folks, from our friendly democrats.
WE GOTS ALL YO MONEY!
There’s now almost no limit to how much of your money democrats have to give away, as they constantly try to outbid the others for rights to redistribute most of your stuff.
Don’t worry, we’re all going to broke together.
Holy shit, Vox has a by-race breakdown of the benefits.
I mean, I know and you know and Booker knows who the program is targeted at, but holy shit, they went out and said it.
I love that the account is managed by Treasury in a low-risk account with annual 3% return. Up next, legislating the tides!
I say he’s smart – he needs to get past a primary before he needs to get past a general election, and a Noble Defeat As a Champion of the Oppressed, Undone By Old White Men (and women) is probably better for his career than Guy What Got Trounced By Trumpaloo.
“I mean, I know and you know and Booker knows who the program is targeted at, but holy shit, they went out and said it.”
This is why these people are so dangerous. They don’t even try to pretend anymore. They are flat out telling the middle class, we will tax you until you are all equally poor. Don’t worry about us betters up here, we’ll be just as well off as everyone in the ruling class has been in every shithole, ever. Look at Maduro, working for him! Him and his family are chowing down on steak and lobtser while the idiots grub for garbage! Eat cake, fools!
The way Democrats are talking, USA turning into Brazil North (with shittier weather and uglier women) is gonna end up being one of the better outcomes…
The American left are way more aggressive about the redistribution stuff than any politician in Latin American. It’s just a matter of time until they catch up on corruption.
That may be who it is initially targeting for the purposes of getting votes, the real impact and goal of a program like this however is different.
So what will rapidly happen with this is the threshold for these opportunity accounts will grow because the reality is the only kids who actually reach adulthood are those with parents whose incomes are already well into the top 10%.
As the number of kids covered by these accounts the sheer volume of assets being managed by the treasury will grow to the point where they will become one of the two or three largest players in financial markets and their investments will be politically driven. No, not just to maintain an average rate of return of 3%, but rather to reward the “good” companies and punish the bad ones and enact partial or even total government takeovers of market sectors.
Buying votes isn’t cheap.
Lol @ “break protocol”.
As if that’s a thing here.
“It would be a dramatic change in our country to have low-income people break out of generational poverty,” Booker said in an interview with Vox.
Yes, it would. However, your preferred policies have only increased and encouraged said generational poverty, fucktard.
Did someone say War On Poverty?!
Without looking…LBJ?
In a strange coincidence, I had his State of the Union address in my search cache, that’s an excerpt.
“It would be a dramatic change in our country to have low-income people break out of generational poverty”
That would be a total disaster for the democrat’s current platform if that were to occur to any significant degree. Their policies depend on more people being in poverty and staying there.
Whew, what a terrible idea. Fuck off Booker.
I worked with a female paramedic that got hired by a local fire department because they were running scared from the outcry over the lack of gender “diversity”. Yeah, she was a slob and left her underwear laying around. Needless to say, it got to the point that a pair of her dirty underwear ended up being pinned to the message board in the station.
Yep, you guessed right. She filed a harassment complaint and got a six figure payout for a three year career.
#BelieveHer
The brave soul that pinned them up should have sued for PTSD.
First glyphosate and now this:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181010132343.htm
High levels of fluoride exposure linked to ADHD in a new peer reviewed study. Next thing you know they’ll be telling us that salt isn’t bad for us.
They’re already back-pedaling on cholesterol and statin drugs. And they dialed back that EIGHT GLASSES OF WATER PER DAY shit, too.
Soon enough, cigs will be healthy.
A pack a day keeps the doctor away.
Everything old is new again:
I’ve never been a giant fan of Lewis Black and his grumpy-old-man-screaming schtick. But I did find this bit funny.
The water thing was a study comissioned by a bottled water company and didn’t take into account what water might be contained in your food.
“The study, “Prenatal Fluoride Exposure and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Symptoms in Children at 6-12 Years of Age in Mexico City,”
They don’t add fluoride to the water supply in Mexico City. But…. there is some other interesting stuff in the water….
Yup, my innards are still recovering from my last trip down there and that was 25 years ago. What a miserable week that was.
A cool story from BBC
Kenyan crypto-currency pioneer: ‘I make my money from Bitcoin and tasty roast meat’
That line is straight-up poetry.
“Betty’s Place specialises in “nyama choma”, a lip-smacking goat meat barbeque that is a firm favourite amongst Kenyans.”
Ive never had that, but now I want some.
She sounds like a Farengi villain when ST:DS9 occasionally goes on one of its particularly brain-dead anti-capitalist tirades.
https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1054144758916861952
LOL
I don’t get it, why is that dude wearing a Handmaid Tale outfit?
Because It’s Current Year.
I got you this.
“I’m the Program Manager @TLDEF, the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund.” pretty much sums it up for me.
The answer is to elect Democrats.
Why are these people so obsessed about talking about themselves? These are my pro-nouns, please tell me yours! Umm, no, fuck off.
My preferred gender pronoun is…
“My lord and master to whom I swear eternal and non revokable obedience”
Failing to address me as such is violence against me. Oh it is also a legally binding contract as well
Sic Semper Tyrannis!
*shoots Rasilio*
But, why?
Because she wanted us to suffer too?
This is an excerpt from a thread of stupid. It’s amazing all the bullshit words and terms they have created. And apparently also a new moral code.
That last comment, it burns my brain.
Cissy.
I was thinking about it more; it’s kind of interesting that she throws out the psych term dysphoric. Is that a subconscious acknowledgement that these people actually need psychological help and not surgery?
“Biological essentialism is violence.
As is any silence from any cisgender allies during this time, in the USA, in the world.”
If it’s violence, then violence is acceptable as a defense. I wonder where they’re going with that?
Anybody watch Mark Dice on YT? I have been the past few days and have been enjoying his comedic commentary. His impression of CNN’s Brian Stelter is quite funny imo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRMMVB9n3uQ
I didn’t know that being funny was allowed any longer. I mean unless it’s something about fuck Trump. And none of that has been funny for about 16 months.
Oh yeah, I remember this guy. He’s the one who gets dumbies on the street to sign a petition to repeal the bill of rights? Is he banned yet? Or is Youtube slipping.
OK. Hedge in place.
I’m waiting for Saudi Arabia and the Dems to tank the market.
If they could hurry up, it would be much appreciated.
Is a hedge like a short?
Or is it a literal hedge you’re hiding behind in case SHTF?
It’s a short proportional to the risk. Or… in this case, disproportional. I have a hunch.
Emerging markets are well and truly fucked. I think China is going to lead this shitshow.
But I guess we’ll see
I’m going to think good and hard about this for the next week.
It might be time to swing for the back fence.
There’s supposed to be some remarkable record of the stock market doing well after every mid-term election, no matter who wins.
Also, many market “experts” seem to think a divided, thus gridlocked, government is good for the market because businesses can feel safer that nothing will change in the legislation risks they always factor in.