The madness is about to begin. All the food stocks have been laid in, bottles of wine are standing up, Champagne is chilling, and the TV is programmed for SP and me to have a Norman Rockwell-style traditional Thanksgiving on the couch, yelling at 22 guys on a grass field pounding the shit out of one another. Life is close to perfect, and (not to be smarmy) we are super thankful for all the wonderful friends from here and the old Reason days whom we’ve gotten to spend time with, both virtual and face-to-face.
Enough being sincere, time to light the Snark Signal.
From Germany, this delightful story.
Nothing lasts forever — and a German teenager has learned that lesson the hard way, by losing his driving license just 49 minutes after passing his test. The 18-year-old, who was apparently celebrating his achievement by driving four of his friends around, was clocked traveling at almost twice the speed limit less than an hour after his test, police said. They also speculated that the driver was trying to impress his fellow passengers.
Huh, you have to admire fine detective work like that.
We have a new party game- who can find the most hilarious quotes from this deep pile of bullshit?
Time after time, I run into scientists who claim, almost in the same breath, that they are committed to improving the lives of others but that they have no interest in listening to these people they are supposedly committing themselves to. This was brought home to me some years ago, when I was advising the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology on the safe and beneficial development of nanotechnology.
I might nominate that one, wondering, “Who advises the advisers?”
As I read this sludge, I wondered, “Is this someone who has even the slightest notion of how product development works, as opposed to tech research?” Then I found (unsurprisingly) that not only has he never worked outside of academia, he runs a FUD Ranch, raking in money from grant agencies, book sales, foundations, and companies in CYA mode. And I note that in the movie he uses as his frightening example (a great film, by the way, though the comedy escapes him), no one is actually harmed except the dignity of the inventor. Oh, wait, there’s the Milton Friedman spoon fallacy:
In Stratton’s scientist brain, his breakthrough is going to transform the world. He assumes that people are sick of washing, mending, and replacing their clothes, and that his invention will liberate them. He dreams of a future where you only need to buy one set of clothes—ever. In Stratton’s head, what’s good for him is also good for everyone, and a world without the messiness of buying, washing, and looking after clothes is definitely one that he’s excited about. But there’s a problem—several, as it turns out. And one of the biggest is that Sidney never thought to ask anyone else what they wanted or needed.
After he cracks the secret of his new fabric, word of the discovery leaks out, and everything begins to fall apart. Those in the textile industry realize that this is not going to end well: They need their products to wear out and need replacing if they’re to stay in business, and the very last thing they need is clothes that last forever. Mill owners and their investors aren’t the only ones who stand to lose from Sidney’s invention. If the industry collapsed because of his new textile, the workforce would be out on the streets. And so, in a Luddite-like wave of self-interest, they all set about challenging Sidney, not because they are anti-science, but because they are pro–having jobs that pay the bills. Even Sidney’s landlady plaintively asks, “Why can’t you scientists leave things alone? What about my bit of washing, when there’s no washing to do?”
Sheesh.
I know I shouldn’t find this funny, and I’m going to Hell for laughing.
This is the shocking moment a TV news presenter falls to the floor as he has a heart attack live on air.
And what’s worse, I thought, “We need more of this.”
Remember that last climate model? Well, forget it, we have a new climate model!
The UA-led team found that by the year 2100, sea level could rise as much as 10 inches more than the previous estimate of approximately 30 inches by 2100. To figure out whether the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet would affect global climate, the research team modified one of the most current climate computer models to include the ice melt.
Adding the melted ice into the team’s model indicated that the global temperature would increase by 2 degrees C (3.6 F) by the year 2065, rather than the year 2053, the team writes.
“Hey, that’s still plenty of grant time before our prediction is falsified!” GodDAMN, I love academic science.
San Francisco is a one-city source of the most hilarious links we post here.
High-priced San Francisco is known for launching trends, however, feces-laced graffiti may be the most peculiar and disgusting one yet.
While surveying parts of downtown San Francisco, the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit discovered graffiti that appeared to look as if it were made from feces. The markings were found along sidewalks on two different blocks: 700 block of Ellis Street, between Polk and Larkin Streets, and the 500 block of Larkin Street, between Eddy and Turk Streets. Piles of excrement were also found near each of the markings. However, NBC Bay Area did not test the graffiti to confirm the presence of feces.
Don’t worry, the mayor is on it!
In comparing [Mayor London] Breed’s first three months in office with the three months prior, San Francisco 311 data reflects an 8 percent increase in complaints regarding used needles, 3 percent increase concerning trash, and 30 percent increase regarding human feces. “I don’t think it’s because the city is actually dirtier,” Breed said. “I think it’s because more people are reporting the challenges that exist.”
While Breed acknowledges “there is still work to be done” in cleaning up San Francisco, she no longer appears willing to attach any type of time table to future progress. When asked when stepping over feces will no longer be the norm in San Francisco, she quipped, “soon rather than later.” When pressed for more specifics, Breed, with a smile, repeated herself, “sooner rather than later.”
If Sloopy or Banjos are looking in, you may want to check your kids’ whereabouts.
Old Guy Music! And this is short and fun, just like SP.
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Just want to get everyone’s opinions. I was designing some merch and ran into an issue. So would yall still want to buy some merch where MAGA Prime is a knockoff?
YES.
Why Not: “Make America GRRRRRREAT Again?”
Wouldn’t fit. And also it would just be mean to put a shout out to sugar crusted cereal on a SugarFree creation.
I vote for “Make ‘Murika Gyrate Again”
Maybe it’ll work as a good joke if I put a little ‘Made in China’ (or oohh, Russia) tag on him.
It should say Made in China. Chi-na.
China. Chi-na.
Yes.
Also: Grate, Gyrate, Greet
“Make America Gyrate Again”
Is a great slogan for my hula-hoop revival movement
I’m with you, I love my hula hoop. It’s a great ab work out.
Oh wait, you’re kidding. Never mind.
ROOOOOOOSHIANS
Lysenko is a Ukrainian name, although I don’t know about this one’s nationality.
I think I’m going with this slight change.
Gunter, hold mein bier.
So, I’m trying to work out the timeline for a fictional character to believably pick up languages while sailing around the world. There was a website that based its timeline on 25 hours a week, and I’m not sure if that carries over to “character is dropped into other land where there are few other options to get by”
Q would learn the language in 10 seconds if it meant seeing foreign tits.
“Maam, I speak jive.”
I can say from Experience that if one is dropped into a place, you can pick up the basics of the language pretty fast (maybe 3 months). Even better if you have a book outlining the grammar that you can study from. You won’t be great, but you will be able to get by and continue learning. Having someone who speaks the language who is willing to help also helps.
Columbus’ diaries probably would give an idea of how long it took them, he journaled a lot, but also kept fake records so might not be totally reliable.
The term of art for “dropped in and gotta use it” is “immersion.” That’s a quicker path to functionality but you end up speaking less grammatically if you don’t combine that with formal instruction.
I used the term Immersion when I asked in the earlier thread.
Waterboarding is even more effective.
I don’t pore over the threads like I used to.
Just enough to get your feet wet.
thanks for the old guy music.
Just remember, I’m still older than you.
I think fourscore has us all beat.
22 guys on a grass field pounding the shit out of one another
*Perk up, gets the joke, loses interest*
Sorry Jesse. Not a euphemism.
Leo Kottke lives in Minneapolis. *beams with flyover pride*
Also his live shows are hilarious. A voice like “geese farts on a muggy day”. (his own words)
SP used to hang out with him. She tells me that his stream-of-unconsciousness patter isn’t an act.
So, the current models didn’t account for ice melt, which is there big fear monger that all the ice will melt? Damn that’s some hard nose sciencing!
Remember the days when they were claiming that the northern ice sheet melting would flood the world?
They scienced the shit out of that.
Germany is good about one thing from a freedom-loving person point of view: there are no speed limits on Autobahnen. The kid could celebrate his license by driving fast on the road where it’s completely legal.
Sadly, on many sections of the Autobahnen, that’s no longer true. /sadface
Also, isn’t that a separate license?
Wow, i remember when the exchange rate was close to 1.5:1 than 1.1:1
To figure out whether the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet would affect global climate, the research team modified one of the most current climate computer models to include the ice melt.
Adding the melted ice into the team’s model indicated that the global temperature would increase by 2 degrees C (3.6 F) by the year 2065, rather than the year 2053, the team writes.
“According to my model, my model is correct.”
I wonder if their models have spherical cows…
Maybe it’ll work as a good joke if I put a little ‘Made in China’ (or oohh, Russia) tag on him.
“Hecho en Stalingrad”
Had to replace an automatic opener today. The motors died. Then we realized the wiring was never correct. More pulls. 6 and a bit hours later, and the four day weekend is here!!
Did you check the thermostat? 😉
It was the part that still worked.
?
It was a joke.
Hell, even UCS got that it was a joke!
Maybe Mr. Lizard’s people skin suited him.
Yeah, Yusef normally has more of a sense of humor.
Three day weekend for me. Stupid bank holiday means we can’t be closed more than three days in a row. So we’re off for every Thanksgiving and back at it the next morning. And again for Christmas this year.
Four day weekend? I get one day off and work friday.
Not sure why we get friday. The kids are gone, I guess they figure stuff won’t break if no one is there?
I’ve got about 1/2 hour before I get to start my 4 day weekend. Traffic looks like a headache though. It’s crawling ~ 5mph outside of our parking lot.
Did you try turning off and on again?
We had to for the new one for about an hour. The thing is supposed to teach itself what position is open and closed. It never seems to work.
I took today off because my mother arrived last night. FIVE DAY WEEKEND!!!! Woo Hop!
“Remember that last climate model? Well, forget it, we have a new climate model!”
New bullshit is still bullshit, but that is not even new. They really do sound like a broken record.
“by the year XXXX, sea level could rise as much as XXX more than the previous estimate of approximately XXX by XXXX.” After a while why bother even looking at the numbers? It is enough to know that the sky is falling, quick, write a check.
In spite of hearing that bullshit over and over for 50 years there is no appreciable rise in sea level. Who buys this shit?
Governments.
And too many of my prog friends, who all say this should be our #1 concern.
However, NBC Bay Area did not test the graffiti to confirm the presence of feces.
“Oh, come, it’s what interns do. Just lean down there and give it a sniff.”
Huh. I woulda told ’em to lick it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY7ZX6ngOSs
You Bastard!
eff both of you…I was about to post it too, then I thought “maybe I better look at that link in case….”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY7ZX6ngOSs
They’re very sustainable in their non-falsifiable hypotheses. From this one study alone they added 12 more years onto the careers of thousands of young climatologists.
Non-falsifiable claims are certainly all the rage with the Left.
The other one I was thinking about the other day was “dog whistle racism”. If you can make some tenuous connection between X and racism, you can say that anyone who criticizes X is actually criticizing a racial group (e.g. George Soros = Jews).
You can’t prove that people are actually disguising racist sentiment behind these words unless you have some wiretap evidence of a bunch of media figures saying, “OK guys, we’re going to criticize George Soros, but we actually mean the Jews – everyone got it??” By the same token, you can’t disprove such a thing either.
I love the ‘dog whistle’ theory.
“No one says racist stuff anymore*, so we’ll just pretend it is there.”
It’d have to go beyond that into the whole OK sign=white power thing, except you can’t hide what a ton of people are talking about. Of course, what you’re saying regarding media figures really does happen on the left.
*Not entirely true, but then, they don’t have to use the dog whistle theory on such people
“Black people don’t like white people because of that new type of racism: that shit I can’t prove.”
White progressives then decided to use that uncertainty to their advantage, because they don’t value truth, only power.
It’s always Alinskyite “accuse the enemy of that which you’re guilty” projection. OG gaslighters, hence their love of accusing others of gaslighting.
Unfortunately, I have to live with these psychos all my life, since progressivism is endemic to people my age. Be thankful most of you guys are older.
I still have no idea who this is:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6415531/Madison-Beer-proves-shes-excellent-shape-slips-string-bikini-Miami.html
THICC?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6406387/Demi-Rose-23-shows-perky-posterior-tiny-thong-gets-non-surgical-lipo.html
“Rachael Ostovich has broken her silence after her husband, boxer Arnold Berdon, was arrested for attempted murder in connection with her brutal beating in Hawaii on Sunday.
The 27-year-old UFC fighter took to Instagram on Wednesday morning to tell her 368K followers, ‘Spent time praying for people instead of talking about them.’ In the background were trees covered in fog. And the athlete added three prayer emojis.
The beauty was beaten so badly had her orbital bone – a socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated – was broken, as well as other injuries, and she had to stay in the hospital overnight.
It was added that Arnold ‘is seeking a lawyer and intends to defend himself against allegations he attacked his wife. He will argue he was attacked first and defended himself.’
Earlier on Monday, Ostovich filed a restraining order against Berdon, 27. She has allegedly ‘pointed the finger’ at her husband, which led her to file the restraining order, sources told TMZ.
The order was granted and set to stay in effect until May 18, 2019, which police have been investigating as a felony domestic violence case.
Her injuries have led Ostovich to cancel her January 19 fight with Paige VanZant in Brooklyn.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6414629/UFC-fighter-Rachael-Ostovich-breaks-silence-husband-arrested-attempted-murder.html
I don’t think fighters marrying each other is a good idea.
“She hit me first!” is the going thing, apparently.
I see nothing in the story about him getting injured. She has multiple injuries. Call me cynical but his claim of self-defense sounds like it might not be true.
Still, attempted murder? Wonder what their evidence will be.
I don’t believe it. I’ve been told those women fighters can beat up any man.
No one told you that.
Hollywood has.
Serve these ladies up for Thanksgiving dinner.
http://archive.is/nbGcN
22 is what I call THICC.
#7 is taking vegan proselytizing to another level, would still eat at her place.
10, 32, 50, nice set Q.
would still eat at her place.
I would eat out at her place. 😉
Looks like #2 is warming herself up. I’ll take her and #10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk
Great minds.
35 wants me.
“SpaceX and Boeing now facing review from NASA over workplace safety and ‘adherence to drug-free environment’ after Elon Musk was filmed smoking weed with Joe Rogan”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6412333/NASA-review-workplace-safety-culture-SpaceX-Boeing.html
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Lunch today- a bagel, with butter, and about a quarter of a pound of bacon. Take that, Center for Science in the Public Interest.
The teenager was caught driving at 95kmh in a 50kmh zone under an hour after passing his test.
That’s what, like, 60 in a 40mph zone? Tight-ass Germans. I thought they had an autobahn just for speeding.
More like 70 in a 35, I think.
It’s about 60 in a 30.
^^This
Closer to 20 in a 10.
Or 98,400 furlongs in a fortnight
I think he did it in 18 parsecs.
Das Kessel Farhten
Parsec is a measurement of distance and not speed. You could say he was traveling 0.317 light milliseconds/hour.
I know I know but it bothered me even the first time I saw Star Wars.
Apparently the original intention of that line was to show that Han is full of shit. Look at the reaction shot after all.
So he took the most direct route?
“This is the shocking moment a TV news presenter falls to the floor as he has a heart attack live on air.”
Every time I get any slight twinge in my chest I ask myself “Is this the big one?” I only hope its not while I’m driving and expose innocent people to any problem.
I’m reminded of the old joke: I wish I could die peacefully in my sleep like Grandpa, and not screaming like the passengers in his car.
This is good humor. It is irreverent. It leads you down one logical path then the punchline reveals that you aren’t where you thought you were going at all. Everything that makes a joke good is just an outrage to the outrage crowd. Same for art. I guess this is why we dont see very many comedians coming out of demoralized countries.
What about Yacob Smirnov?
In Soviet Russia Government makes jokes about you!
One..over seventy years from a country with twice the population of the US. Pretty poor track record.
Of course the Left used to love this since the outrage brigade was made up of people they hated. Now they are the ones being outraged all the time so behaving that way is bad.
Impressive, but still no Budd Dweyer.
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Hey Man, Nice Try.
To be fair, he did live in PA.
My cousin and his wife are doing Tryptophan Day this year instead of me (thank heavens!). All I have to do is show up with green beans.
I will still end up working tomorrow and throughout the weekend because that’s what I do. If it’s not on my business, it’ll be on my book.
I did everything Sunday so Jugsy could impress her rather provincial family (who I affectionately refer to as an ‘offensive brood of inbred peckerwoods’) with dinner.
Tres Sr. is handling business tomorrow, and being compassionate to my low-carb lifestyle, got me my own pint of oysters since I wont be partaking in the scalloped version.
Oh, that is very sweet.
There’s a story or two in that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUxZmen6G2U
So time to love Star Trek: The Motion Picture?
Let’s settle on “appreciate” it. Because there are interesting and cool things in it but it could have been trimmed by at least half hour.
Did you think that before this ReView?
Anyway the movie always struck me as an TV pilot literally stretched out another hour with mostly (good-looking) special effects shots. Because that is the truth essentially. The reveal of V’Ger and the ending and the wrapup reek of an actual TOS script.
Also for a guy who insisted that TNG have no conflict this movie has a lot of petty conflict between Kirk and Decker.
Yes, but like some people in comments, my first exposure was through a novel that tried hard to explain some more lore. Mike definitely likes it more than I do, but at he explains why and I can understand his reasons. And he’s right that it’s a refreshing oddity if seen today. Hell, even Wrath of Khan is less ACTION! DRAMA! than rebooted Trek.
And I always suspected the “no conflict” thing was somewhat inflated by subsequent writers to show how edgier they are. I mean, Kirk is a stranger who comes in and runs roughshod over the captain – exactly what Admiral Of The Week does to Picard whenever they turn up.
I do like the movie actually despite its flaws. I have always been amused by how the most film in history at the time takes place almost entirely in one set, the resolution being a guy pressing some buttons and the ending reeks of an actual TOS episode.
And I am not a Trekkie so I was never really exposed to the attacks on it by certain elements of the fanbase. Just ragging on groupthink since I don’t like it even if I agree with it.
One theory I read about the “no-conflict” rule was that it was Roddenberry’s way of trying to control TNG by putting in so many arbitrary rules so that only he could write the actual script.
That’s because Picard was beta, Kirk was Alpha prime, and neither would have stood a chance against Cisco and company.
I loved DS9. Didn’t care for the others.
When DS9’s final season hit the airwaves (and the writers were committed to it being the *final* season), the writing became stellar (no pun intended). When you don’t care about eyeballs you can write some pretty good stuff, even for TV.
You know who else thought that media needs to be from commercial aspects to be good?
I could forgive ST: The Motion Picture for being a TV pilot script, because that’s what happens sometimes when TV series make the jump to movies. What is unforgivable is that Star Trek: Insurrection strikes me the same way.
Doesn’t everyone like a VGER?
(but yea that sequence was wayyy too drawn out.)
It was 1979, no one went to the movies sober.
Smoke up and appreciate the sequence as it was intended.
/sigh
I knew I should have taken a half day.
On a normal pre-thanksgiving the boss man tells everyone to book it at 2 or so. Today it was go home at 1 and finish the day there. Except I work from home already.
I sure hope the baby sleeps in the car and more importantly, goes back to sleep when we get to where we’re going at midnight.
Happy bird day, glibs. I am several in already including a Juicy Tree and Bell’s Christmas Ale. Heading out for drinks with this sexy blond I met 20 years ago.
Caution, she may have, well, aged a bit. Don’t believe the Facebook photos.
Oh my god, CBC is becoming stupider by the day.
Greater fool theory comes back to haunt bitcoin and tech stocks: Don Pittis
Agh! HOW?!
If stock has price X, that means someone paid X money for it. To someone else. Who then has that money. And does stuff with it. Even if it’s to put it into a savings account (fat chance).
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
-1 Trillion Dollar Coin?
How do they have a business writer who doesn’t understand the difference between valuation and cash? If you don’t sell your bitcoin, you still have the same amount of bitcoin. Looked at another way, this writer has never held foreign currency.
Um, It is the CBC?
I know they’ve become really terrible of late, but it is shocking their business section went the same way. Also, all government owned/operated news is evil.
Worked out as well as government owned schools…
Bitcoin has no intrinsic value…so, it is a fiat currency.
As for gold, its value does not fluctuate – the value of the dollars used to measure it fluctuates.
As for gold, its value does not fluctuate
I think Spain might disagree.
They foolishly borrowed against future gold shipments. Most of their new world gold never saw spain, it went straight to London. They turned their country into welfare leaches and thus collapsed their own industries. They shot themselves in the dick.
I appreciate the durable value of precious metals, but they have no real inherent value besides the fact that everyone agrees they’re valuable (unless you’re making electronics goods in which case they’re pretty handy). If you flood the market with one, it’s going to change how people value that item by making it less scarce. I wouldn’t tag the entirety of the failure of Colonial Spain’s economy on inflationary pressures, but it seems odd to dismiss those pressures entirely. Why would gold prices be a fixed value in the universe like the speed of light, but not silver or platinum?
I didn’t know you were Bi, jesse.
What would Mencken say?
They are relatively fixed because of the cost of production. You are correct that flooding the market was a factor, but primarily because the Spaniards did not have to produce that gold. The cost of production didn’t figure in because all they had to do was walk in and take a huge store of gold. It was a unique even in history. That effect didn’t last very long though. The Spanish foolhardy behavior on the other hand….Jeebus, talk about squandering the opportunity of forever.
It was more silver which caused problems in Spain – and inflation in China.
Was going to start on my new bench, but power tools and alcohol isn’t a great mix.
Buffalo very clearly isn’t in Florida.
We have our own unique charms that don’t include the abuse of methamphetamines and power tools at the same time.
Mostly losing at football and then drinking too much, not necessarily in that order.
There’s always the Sabres. And drink.
Hey, we’re on a winning streak. Haven’t watched a game in 20 years, and haven’t really missed much, sadly.
I’m watching it now. Or I will be, during the 1st intermission of the Rangers/Islanders game, in one minute.
I don’t even know how I would watch it. Football is relatively easy, at least lately (antenna).
I don’t think an antenna will cut it.
Sabres/Flyers is on NBC Sports now – leading 3:0 already!
I think there’s Buffalo version of MSG that shows the games when it’s not on nationwide.
Pardon the off-topic, but one of my friends recently went to a “white wedding” where they even had the garter toss and he was shocked and disgusted. He considered it to be a weird and pointless custom equivalent to human sacrifice traditions by the Aztecs. I’ve personally been to about 6-7 weddings back in the States, but not one had that (they only had the bouqet toss). Have you fellow glibs been subjected to this ritual?
I didn’t realize there were people who didn’t have it.
The wife and I did it at our wedding, though somewhat modified. I do think it is a bit distasteful, not sure it quite equals the Aztec sacrifices.
I think your friend was at a Billy Idol concert.
*narrows gaze*
What, did it land in his drink?
Yes. I am not sure why your friend found this so inappropriate.
I will grant it to him that it was his cousin’s wedding. Still, in that case I’d just not partake in it and shrug it off.
Yes. I can see why your friend would compare it to tearing into the sternum of a prisoner with an obsidian knife and ripping out the still beating heart and then tossing the body down the steps to the roaring crowds below. They are quite similar.
I’m not sure I’ve ever been to one that didn’t do a garter toss. Or are “white wedding” and “garter toss” in your post euphemisms, unbeknownst to me?
It was the striptease that preceded it. Spoiler: the garter was the last thing to come off.
No euphemisms, I apologize for any ambiguities. What I meant to convey was that he went to a wedding filled with wypipo and they had a garter toss.
I wouldn’t clutch pearls, like your friend, but I do admit that I find it a tad déclassé for my tastes.
A white wedding implies a bukkake, at least.
Another questionable link.
Now that’s a tradition that we can all get behind.
Don’t you mean “circle around”?
I’m just upset you put the timestamp wrong, or maybe it was for the benefit of all the gaijin that are on now (I sure as hell didn’t follow the dialog).
It’s all about the build up.
You’re absolutely right. We need a group huddle.
Reminds me of a euphemism my grandfather used – “X…is harder than a preacher’s dick at a wedding.”
Isn’t the garter toss standard for single men, along with a bouquet toss for the single ladies??
Yes, and the important unwritten rule that you don’t catch your female relative’s garter.
Marriages are about property. To ensure property passed to legitimate heirs the community would police the consummation of the marriage. Apparently newly weds got tired of having people barge into their bedroom to make sure the bride had lost her undies so grooms started tossing them out.
Traditionally marriages were not about rainbows and puppies. It was serious business that everyone in the community had a stake in. It is always a mistake to judge the past by today’s standards.
I see this in movies, and the whole bloody bed sheet thing in some cultures, but was it ever true that people really barged in on the happy couple?
While true I think this understates things a bit. It provided for social harmony. We all know marriages broken up by infidelity, so marriage isn’t a magic spell, but the ideas behind it are good ones which address real human failings, imo. Also, it gets the man to work harder. If you’re sure little Jimmy is yours, you’re going to do your best by him. If he looks like the milkman, you might beat the little shit for his mother’s sins.
“was it ever true that people really barged in on the happy couple?”
in the after part of the day, I went unto John Bards; Peter Bowne with me, it being Wedding times there at Evening as the young folks was a Shoeing tricks, in the outward room, the Groom and Brid Luckeyly slipt into bed, and fastened the doore. Some notice was given of the matter before the groom was gott to bed, some indeavoured to peep but the females hindred us with a seeming desire to have all to themselves & that while the groom was undressing. Some said that they would opne the doore and se if the Brid was rightly put to bed and would throwe the Stocken. After some time the wind rose or something, that drew the window Shett opne & a person jumped in & opened the doore then all hands in for seeking for the brides stocking which after a while I found in my hand & another I found under the bed, nere where the good order Dogg lay. Then to throwing the stocking after some threw I threw and hit the brids nose which made a Lafter, and after we had done I saluted the bride and bidt the couple not to forgett fulfilling the first commandment and so shut the window…
Diary of Jonathan Holmes, 1737, Freehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey
but was it ever true that people really barged in on the happy couple?
I thought your mom caught you masturbating once.
More than once. But I’m not quite sure me and mini-me quite count as a happy couple.
*takes notes on all of this*
Glibs are a treasure trove. It’s always a learning experience.
Marriage was also about the equitable distribution of women. For most of history, a few men got most of the desirable women.
I forgot this one. Very important way to unlock the economic and social potential of males.
Bouquet tossed to the girls, garter tossed to the guys. Not seeing the issue here. It’s their wedding.
I caught the garter at one of my close friend’s wedding. We did not do such a thing at my wedding. Wasn’t even something that came up.
We did the garter toss. I have a great pic of my wife’s reaction to me getting the garter.
was clocked traveling at almost twice the speed limit less than an hour after his test, police said.
Freaking speed Nazi’s.
But what part of Germany? They have a highway for fast cruising.
Even on the AB they have speed limits near cities. Outside of that go for it. I was there last month and enjoyed cruising at 110 MPH in the middle lane when I was passed by three ‘race cars’ like I was parked. You don’t suck around in the left lane there. That’s for you, you Ohio’ drivers!
Drive like a professional or get the fuck off the road.
How do socialists celebrate thanksgiving?
Listening to their stomachs rumble?
I imagine they take all their fixin’s down to the shelter and spend the day ministering to the homeless.
Holding their fellow man at gunpoint, demanding their property/labor to subsidize their existence.Sharing what they have with their fellow man?Like this.
Expropriate the Turkey an kill it
Pink-Haired Crazy Attacks Portland #HimToo Demonstrators | For Once, Justice Is Served
Matt has a kind of even keeled, expository way of speaking, but his ‘white guilt uma thurmon’ comment cracked me up. Perfect with the music.
Unless they actually go through with the charges, I wouldn’t say justice has been done though. Chances she gets out of it are 90%, I’d say.
If you’ve read Ryu Murakami’s Coin Locker Baby…
https://japantoday.com/category/crime/mother-who-left-dead-baby-in-train-station-locker-gets-suspended-sentence
Japanese are too polite. Here in SW Ohio, moms microwave babies.
Test run for the new Hot Pockets flavor?
Please tell me they have executions in Ohio.
I’m not clicking that. Too early to despise humanity. *Munches on onigiri*
I’m forever cursed as reading that as Coin Locker Babies in the Miso Soup.
Once again, CNN records the rantings of a schizophrenic bag lady in Central Park and prints the transcript as an Op-Ed.
That headline induced an abortion in my cranium.
“Cranial abortion”. I’m gonna use that.
That is a hard 32. Lay off the drugs lady.
“Me, me, me.”
^This with a double side order of lack of self-awareness^
My cousins daughter just had her 1st child, at age 16. While that is not good, and I would have preferred she use some damn sense and birth control, the father and his family are heavily involved, and his step mom insists that they both must get their GED, then pursue continued education to keep living with her and the paternal grandfather. However, my cousins daughter is not the brightest girl in the world, and had relatively low motivation to take advantage of the educational opportunities she had before her pregnancy, and the few times we’ve talked since she became pregnant, she seems much more serious about education and creating a career. I’m personally glad she did not get an abortion, since her older brother, mother, and grandmother (my aunt) we’re each conceived out of wedlock, and I would know one of them if any one if 4 generations of my female relatives had taken what I consider, in most cases, to be the easy way out.
It’s too early for me to start taking drinks, HM. Give me at least until noon here.
You gonna celebrate thanksgiving? Chicken macaroni for me.
I think I’m just going to go buy some conbini fried chicken and a hamburger for Thanksgiving. It’ll be America Day in my house. Enjoy the chicken macaroni, that sounds great right about now.
Lawson has the best. Gobble, gobble.
All I have is a Daily within an hour’s distance. Lawson does have some divine fried chikin though.
What is the symbol on Lawson supposed to represent? Is it a traditional lunch pail?
It’s a milk can. Lawson’s back in the day was a dairy milk store. We learned today, good friend.
I answered my own question. Lawson was originally an Ohio dairy so they are milk vessels.
Oh, I didn’t know it was originally from Ohio, well damn.
We have a lot of places making Korean fried chicken now. Great stuff. https://mykoreankitchen.com/korean-fried-chicken/
That is some damn fine looking KFC.
“I have a life in New York City, a 3-year-old son, a current, wanted, planned pregnancy, a rewarding relationship and my mental health.”
Mental health. That seems an odd thing to mention.
You saw the author’s picture. You know, the one she submitted herself? The one in which she looks completely bat shit insane?
yes I did.
Incidentally UnCivil was looking for your advice earlier today.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/study-shows-tech-elites-are-less-liberal-than-they-think.html
So Big Tech are progs except in the area that affects them directly. What a surorise.
The past is truly another country:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Remarkable_Andrew
Also I would like to point out that leftist Hollywood propaganda has a long history…
This sounds awesome. Please tell me the book ends with Old Hickory whipping some people with his cane.
For your consideration, Obama being Obama.
“James Woods thinks the video makes it pretty clear how the “world’s smartest man” therefore managed to rack up so few accomplishments; everyone else failed him.”
It must be a virus. Hillary has it ten times over.
Hollywood failed Barry as well.
I must have blocked that super creepy shit out. I forgot about it.
Do you know who else thought the people failed him?
Obama?
Wherein #Obama dismisses the value of every political figure he’s dealt with in the entire world in one minute and nineteen seconds. Amazing therefore that the “world’s smartest man” accomplished absolutely nothing in eight of the longest years in history.
Noted “Bitter Clinger”, James Woods, strikes again.
Obama isn’t wrong, the only thing he didn’t figure out is that he is also one of those ‘Jemokes'(?).
Chilling.
Holy shit. And what he says about the legislature.
Obama: “Everyone around me is an idiot. I need power to make them do the right thing.” (w/e that is…) – *crickets*
Trump: “My legal team says I can take this action. I might get sued. Maybe. Probably. But whatever, we’ll let the courts figure it out.” – *everyone loses their minds*
Also, and this may be my bias talking (given that I have grown to despise Barry and the hypocrisy of his supporters), but he seems to still be all about the “me me me”, while Trump (agree or disagree with his approach/position on any given issue) seems to be about the “we we we”, as in more of a “we’re in this together” kind of thing. For what it’s worth (however little it may be), Trump seems to actually care about his country.
Ask Arizona’s new senator how much that matters any more.
This is the main (or most important) difference between the two, in my opinion.
The abundance of Trump-hate is completely irrational.
Porn for Monks tonight. It’s good.
Great name, surprisingly rare. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen something with only 2 reviews on BA.
My first thought was that it should be a Belgian Abbey ale style… why is it a Bock?
Thsu to wiki and “Bocks have a long history of being brewed and consumed by Bavarian monks as a source of nutrition during times of fasting.”
Stickman’s beer list shows it as a Bock. It tastes to me like a Bock was the base and they went from there.
There probably aren’t a lot of reviews because there aren’t many places you can get it and I think they tapped it only recently. Stickman isn’t in Philly, they’re outside Philly, far enough that the city folk tend not to go there.
In Bavaria Double Bock beer is known as “bread in a glass” and is always available during lent.
Bookmarked that site for future research. Thanks, DEG!
Ah, my good friend bourbon. How nice to see you today.
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Hello, old friend….
Both times I saw Leo Kottke was at Popejoy (the Carnige Hall of New Mexico). If you closed your eyes you could hear three guitarists up there but open up and it’s just him.
Also, re: the German kid. Daughter #2 was popped for DWI#2 on the day she got her license back after DWI#1. She still hasn’t gotten it back after 5 years of clean and sober living.
… Hobbit
Sorry for saying, but that is just dumb.
She’s walking 2 miles each way to get to work in winter in Michigan. I think she’s learning her lesson.
I consume a fair amount of alcohol….well, too much. There is one thing I will not do, ever, and that is get behind a steering wheel if I have had so much as a drop of the stuff. I also dont go out if I have been drinking. That’s just asking for trouble.
As a long time dried out drunk I consider myself so lucky as to never having an accident or getting stopped by the authorities . For a number of years in my 30s-40s I was flirting with serious trouble but somehow managed to avoid it. When I finally grew up I found that my kids actually were pretty nice. Been nearly 40 years now and I’d be afraid to have a drink.
Some of us are better off not drinking, all the advertising for sensible drinking never made much sense to me.
Some people have that on or off switch. Others have a dial. Glad you know yourself well enough to recognize your limits.
I think part of my problem is that I dont have those red flags. When I drink my temperament doesnt change. My judgement doesnt really change. I dont have marital problems, work problems, legal problems…so while I am being confident that my drinking isnt a problem that shit sneaks up on me. Pain and red flags serve a purpose.
Sounds like fun, snow can be very beautiful and I don’t get out enough. I sometimes miss not having a working car, made life more interesting. It isn’t at all feasible now that I have a family though.
That’s the spirit.
/victim of a few Buffalo blizzards myself
My wife is from India and went to school here. Her first winter here she had shit boots and had to walk through the snow to get to campus from her apartment. I think it was one of the snowiest winters we’d had in a long time. I think something in her broke during that winter because she wanted to move back here after we’d already escaped once.
Will There Be A Muslim President?
I thought we just had one. ///I keed, I keed
This is my titty post for the day. I think my shtick will be hot girls doing commentary. I like it because it is more subtle. I don’t know how consistent I’ll be so bear with me. Anyway, she is thicc in the best way.
To the content: Personally I care not of the religion of the rep so long as the rep does not let their religion guide their decisions and actions as a rep. The US gov’t is defined at all levels to be secular. So stick to the dammed Federal and State Constitutions and the principles therein (but mostly just leave me alone) and we’ll get along famously.
Is that guy looking off to the side in a desperate attempt not to look at her Bazooms?
In Texas for the holiday. All the people are bundled up against the 60 degree weather. Dinner reminded me about the great things here: two tacos, two enchiladas, a chalupa, chips, salsa, queso and escabeche for $9.50.
Looking at single digits in the northeast the next few nights.
Taco Bell is awesome but we have them here too. They are not just in Texas.
Wtf are you doing going to taco bell in TX?? Taco Bueno!!
So my boss tells me that company Xmas bonuses are going to smaller this year. I see the numbers and understand. He wants me to prep the workforce. I have no idea how to do that.
“Here are the numbers, read them and weep. Time to stop dragging ass if you want a better bonus next year.”
It’s a good thing you have bourbon.
Sorry, I have no advice to give here.
Start by explaining what ‘Bonuses’ are. As in “If you were counting on your ‘bonus’ you done fucked up.”
Drop the mic and walk out with a fart
I ? you guys.
At least consider the fart angle
Just do what my company used to do: say nothing about it at all.
I’m inclined to go this route. It’s certainly not my fault.
“you’re in management so it sure the fuck is your fault!”
/the people you are supposed to prep
I’m not the one calling out and resulting in jobsites being cancelled. Our workers are “sicker” than aids patients.
I understand your point though.
Hey, I know those guys.
1) don’t sugarcoat things. Nothing’s more annoying than getting bad news with a cherry on top.
2) explain the numbers
3) explain how things are going to change so that next year doesnt end up the same way as this year.
/works in a group who got a bonus for the first time in 3 years this year
This morning I had to go to a new special needs school to help develop their curriculum. I was walking around looking for the principal for a couple minutes when a teacher pops out of a classroom and yanks me inside. The lights are out and curtains drawn, so I’m like WTF? Then the lights are flicked on, I’m surrounded by 15 kids with Down’s Syndrome. Somebody hits this song on the stereo. Evidently I was supposed to lead them in the morning calisthenics. I do my best. Finally, some young white dude comes in. “Sorry I’m late”. The teacher who yanked me in the room finds this very funny. “I thought you were the teacher. Ha, ha. Berry, berry sorry.”
Worst Penthouse letter ever.
When in the story did you get disappointed?
“When in the story did you get disappointed?”
When the lights came on. Yes I know. That’s what she said.
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Lacist
RMAO. Such is the life of us gaijin entertainers.
My job is to write the textbooks, but sometimes you gotta roll with things.
That’s actually pretty cool. Y’all probably have gotten extra busy since they pushed for new/more textbooks in the elementary schools too.
Steyn filling in for Tucker Carlson tonight. Love his snark.
+1
I like Steyn a lot, the guy’s a natural smartass and he’s well spoken to boot.
^ This. A smartass with actual smarts.