Hey guys, how’s it going? I managed to be adult enough to get my hair cut today. Its been on my list for about 3 weeks. That’s about it. My eldest spawn turns five this Sunday. Hard to believe. Time flies when you’re sleep deprived.
Four Swedish pilots were given US Air Force medals for helping to prevent an international incident 30 years ago. And yes, this is just a shameless ploy to link to pictures of the sexiest airplane that ever flew. Looking at pictures of those guys makes me glad the Swedish Bikini team isn’t having their 30th reunion.
Couple looking to get married in DC is forced to prove that NEW Mexico is a state, not a foreign country.
Warty gifts us with a former Playboy model looking to become the first woman to win an F1 championship. I think flashing her headlights to pass would probably be pretty effective.
How does one get into the business of smuggling human remains?
They had the “Ancient Aliens” show on at the barbershop, so have some alien-inspired music.
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Couple looking to get married in DC is forced to prove that NEW Mexico is a state, not a foreign country. – i blame anchor babies
Also I am strangely present in the night links, that is because I ate way to much Korean food and feel to full to go to bed.
goddam jokbal
I had Korean a few days ago. Bulgogi and a giant sizzling bowl of bibimbap. I emptied about half a bottle of gochujang into the rice, and I was covered in sweat.
It was the fullest I’ve been in months, and that was before the 2 glasses of water to cool down.
I can eat gochu jang on almost anything. I love that stuff.
The labor pains, to pass an anchor, must be … impressive.
Just imagine if it were a breech delivery.
Having had the great misfortune of needing to deal with the clerk’s office in DC Superior Court, I am not remotely surprised by this.
It’s true everywhere. My friend from NM had this happen at a federal courthouse in Los Angeles.
#metoo. Boston Housing Court. All retards: from clerks to the judge in our case.
From that page (there’s a familiar name in the link as a bonus!)
Warty gifts us with a former Playboy model looking to become the first woman to win an F1 championship. I think flashing her headlights to pass would probably be pretty effective. – I think none of us should comment “would” cause it goes without saying
*nods vigorously*
these euphemisms
I’m not even going to complain about the duck lips picture.
y my pp hard?
Sophia Floersch is unimpressed.
She’s a real race car driver. Unfortunately, she sometimes flies.
I hope she comes back to racing.
Yeah, this seems like a publicity stunt to me.
This should be a sport that absolutely is immune to sexism. There is so much money at stake, and either you are fast or you are not fast. There is not a huge physical component, certainly not one that requires anything that favors male over female drivers. And there is a junior circuit route to get to the top level that includes karting up through various F levels. Win on a kart and get a ride at the next level…
So why the need for a women’s circuit, if not simply for an additional marketing opportunity?
Still, I don’t agree with Sophia… they don’t need to “take you seriously”. All you need to do is be fast. Win a bunch of races at F3 and someone is gonna notice, regardless of gender identity. In fact, I would imagine that being a hot young lady who wins a lot of races would be a decided advantage. These teams make money off of advertising. Advertisers like hot young ladies as spokesmodels. Two birds, one stone.
I had always heard that racing, particularly the open-wheel variety, had a rigorous physical component. I don’t know whether that was supposedly strength- or cardio-oriented.
Endurance, ability to suffer a hell of a lot of discomfort and a fair bit of strength.
Race-cars get hotter than hell, depending on the course can be very bumpy, and turns/braking can be up to 4-5 Gs
F1 allows power steering, but Indycar does not, so Indycar drivers need a bit more physical strength to deal with that.
All of which are things that women are actually better at than men.
I know people think racing is just driving fast, but it’s actually more of an athletic event than people realize. Physical strength and stamina is important in racing, which is something men tend to have more of. Everytime I’ve had a track day, I feel like I’ve just had a vigorous workout and carry the feeling into the next day in the form of sore arms/legs and that’s not even in a competitive race, just hot lapping. I’m not saying women couldn’t compete, but men are still going to have the physical advantage.
This.
Driving a race car is a physical beating (those shocks are rock hard), requires a lot of work, and is very mentally demanding.
Drag racing has a fair number of successful women, in the redneckiest of redneck sports. Its not the patriarchy holding women down. Women can compete in drag racing because it is simply not nearly as physically demanding as track or road racing. It requires a very particular skill set, but is more mental than physical.
Yep. I do upper body workouts just to keep up my stamina in the car. I can’t think of any reason women couldn’t cope with the mental demands.
Women are actually supposed to be better than men at endurance sports.
But I will say that from my stint in the hobby of Karting, my ribs took a serious beating. And that wasn’t even the shifter carts. I drove those once… they are nuts. They are supposed to have the same power/weight ratios as F1 cars. All I know is they were too fast for me at 40. The hairpin-double-S turns had me shifting every half second or so through the whole section… It was …. what was the term you used? mentally demanding.
Warty is so good to us.
How does one get into the business of smuggling human remains? – I know a guy, if you really are interested
There are ways, Dude, believe me – you don’t wanna know
And yes, this is just a shameless ploy to link to pictures of the sexiest airplane that ever flew.
Which one? They are both a solid wood.
“They had the “Ancient Aliens” show on at the barbershop”
To be ironic?
I mean have you see that guy’s hair?
Ancient astronaut theorists are awesome.
I read the Von Daniken books over and over again as a kid. And the one Charles Fort book I could find at the library.
It’s my guilty pleasure to watch the shows on TV. Whether it could be or not, I don’t know and don’t care, but as a thought experiment, ETs work for me.
I read em too. I wonder how much of the Chariots of the Gods stuff has been rationally explained by now? Like the crystal skull?
I knew it was bullshit when I was little and my mom had that stupid book on the shelf. I don’t even know if she read it; seems like every family had a copy in the 70s.
It is fun. I pick up the occasional Ancient Aliens ep, but honestly they’ve run through the Grade A and Grade B material, from what I can tell.
There’s some weird shit on this planet, make no mistake. But you get enough bored monkeys with some kind of religious obsession, and they can do damn near anything.
The one that has stuck with me is the question about the tools used to build the Great Pyramids. As far as we know (I think), the Egyptians didn’t have much or any hard metal, and would have had to work with bronze, copper, etc. Assuming they used softer metals to shape the stone blocks, the number of chisels needed and the amount of metal it would have taken was truly staggering and seemed highly unlikely.
There is a whole lot that cannot be explained, and the questions raised interest me. I’m not too concerned about actually finding out the answers.
I also watch all those Mysteries of the Abandoned type shows too. And American Pickers.
From the in-situ obelisk they’ve discovered, they’re pretty sure that those, at least, were carved out not with metal tools but with harder rocks and later polished down with sand to a smooth surface. There’s a reason the Greeks thought they used slaves to build the pyramids – Egyptian construction was mind-numbing and back-breaking.
Think about the actual size of those Easter island heads – did they even have that much freestanding stone on that island originally? The scale is pretty nutty.
Also, like the Nazca plains carvings….did those guys actually have airships or just a good imagination of what something would look like from altitude?
They have done the Easter Island heads. There is a Nova episode that explains the whole thing. They know the source location. The interesting bit is how they got to their final locations. They “walked” them there. By rocking back and forth. They had special modifications for the purpose that were edited at the destination.
Really interesting episode.
Nazca was done in the 70’s. They have demonstrated how easy it is to make the lines. IIR, they think they were messages for the gods. The pictures were probably planned and scaled from those plans. These are modern humans after all, not ape-men. They were as intelligent as any of us alive today.
Yup. They know exactly where they quarries were, and have found half carved pieces and even the hammer stones.
Plus, there have been many modern archaeologists who have done recreations to demonstrate all the techniques. It is really cool. Much cooler than the argument-from-ignorance versions pedaled by conspiracy theorists.
I’ve seen it tried with fire. carve along a seam, add wood and light it.
People reacting to life sentences. I enjoyed that a little too much.
The woman cop running behind the other cops carrying the guy at 3:57m. Lol. Maybe they should put two woman cops to subdue a violent psycho and see it how it goes because equality, amirite?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp7eJAgQOP8
“REVEALED: Aaron Hernandez sang ‘I Need Your Love’ to his rumored gay lover and talked about them moving to California during a prison visit – while his fiancée waited in the lobby”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6446921/Aaron-Hernandez-sang-Need-Love-gay-lover-talked-moving-California.html
That guy’s brain was mush.
You’re saying he fucked his brains out?
The media is absolutely fascinated by Hernandez. The entire gay angle has basically washed away any sense of distaste in most of these stories for a guy who was a murderer.
He was but the autopsy report was grim. He had very serious brain injuries. He very well may not have been in control of himself.
Are we going to go down this rabbit hole? CTE hysteria is actually ten times worse than the bullshit put out by global warming alarmists. There’s nothing more than a set of symptoms that may be correlated with CTE. Key word – correlated. CTE at most increases risk factors for them. No one can even say CTE causes x because it fucking doesn’t. You could die and they could find evidence of severe CTE, yet absolutely no obvious signs of it while you were alive.
It’s a far safer bet that Aaron Hernandez was just an asshole than that he was some sort of extreme case of CTE at the age of 26 or whatever and couldn’t control himself. There sure as shit isn’t enough evidence on how CTE impacted his behavior for me to even view it as a legitimate mitigating factor let alone one that would evoke sympathy from me.
I agree.
Here’s why Aaron Hernandez is fucked up. After his dad died, his uncles became his male role models. His uncles who were gang-bangers. His uncles whom his dad had kept out of his life.
Then, after marinating in the gang-banger culture, he started following its dictates. He got in fights. He shot people. And because he was a star player, a bunch of assholes looked the other way and let him get away with it.
So he escalated.
Until, one day, he crossed line number n, and discovered that while lines 1 … n-1 had all been jokes that he could get away with, line n was the one where he was going to get punished. And not a little punishment, but one that effectively destroyed his life.
So, in a way, football contributed to his poor decision-making, but it wasn’t the physical injuries, but the utter lack of moral fiber that permeates the coaches and fans of that game.
For the life of me, I don’t know why the NFL doesn’t just ban anyone with a felony conviction from playing in the league. Full stop, no exceptions.
Violent misdemeanors might be more case-by-case, but c’mon, man. Felonies should be a no-brainer, even after several shots to the noggin.
Respectfully disagree because it seems everything is a damned felony these days.
Somehow when you rent a car abroad, car rental agencies can always figure out you’re from the US, even though the driver’s license has the state name only.
When I got pulled over in Poland the cops couldn’t figure out what my international drivers license was. I then showed them my California license, and they said “Hey, Baywatch!” I still had to pay a fine though.
Certain US states are world famous: California, Texas, New York, Florida. A random cop on the opposite side of the globe will recognize them as located in America. But what about Rhode Island or South Dakota? How can a cop in Mozambique verify a DL from those states?
By the US currency folded under the license?
No, they were more open than that.
Its been on my list for about 3 weeks.
Almost five months here. I hate everything about getting my hair cut.
I went without a haircut from early 20’s until 35. Now it’s just a run with the clippers about once a week.
I considered it. I’m not all that vain, but I like having an inch or so to play with (HEYOOOOOOO)
FYI, my first brew articles is set to post tomorrow afternoon. Be sure to laugh it up. 😉
I’ll do my best to be around for it. I know I’ll feel more comfortable once I get to the beer articles. 🙂
“The sexiest aircraft that ever flew.” With respect, no. Blackbird is top ten for sure, probably top five. But this be my baby.
i dislike delta wing aircraft for dome reason
The curves, Pie, the lovely, sweeping curves.
Nice. A couple other contenders.
This baby takes the win
This time with the link
I’ll take the Corsair as prettiest, but damn if the Blackbird isn’t the sexiest.
*high five*
Baa baa, Blacksheep.
I like the corsair from black sheep Squadron
If you airplane nerd are ever able to make the trip, Airventure in Oshkosh is a must.
I got to sit in a MIG, comrades!
Oh yeah! I got to get Shot down by a MIG / John McCain.
Bullshit John. It was aa.
I got to sit in a Warthog, and fly the simulator. The planes are bigger than you think, but the cockpits are tiny and the seat is hard and uncomfortable as hell.
They started me in midair in the simulator. I circled Tucson, shot up my neighbor’s house (seriously, the simulators are crazy detailed), and levelled about half the air base. Fun stuff.
Amusing to hear you say that, because that’s what Chad Hennings, 6’6″ 290 defensive tackle, flew before he went to the NFL.
I can’t imagine how he fit into the cockpit. Seriously, I’m 5’10 and around 190 (honest!), and I could barely fit.
I’m also partial to this one.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6r3pPFzpzaw
The F-104 was a piece of crap, but it looked great.
The B-70 looked pretty awesome too.
I like the curves on this one.
Prop
Jet
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN AVIATION ADMIRING ONES. NOW THIS IS A SEXY FLYING BEAST…
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Hmm, not very aerodynamic…
My favorite aircraft this immortal machine. (TW: ugly)
Another favorite was Hughes’s XF-11
“Miley Cyrus flashes her behind as she plows through buildings and leads police on car chase in Nothing Breaks Like A Heart music video”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6444947/Miley-Cyrus-flashes-leads-police-chase-Breaks-Like-Heart-music-video.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9hcJgtnm6Q
This is a goofy picture, but even so, to me, her breasts are absolutely perfect
Ooops:
https://previamente.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/miley-cyrus-terry-richardson-candy-magazine-15.jpg
Tiny little flapjacks.
Little warning there, huh?
A very little warning.
I doubt you’d get in trouble for those little dumplings, anyway.
Apologies. I figured her breasts are absolutely perfect was sufficient. my bad.
She has some very nice parts which for whatever reason don’t stack up altogether. Great ass (at least in some shots), just about perfect tits, but there’s something janky about the whole package.
Agreed.
Don’t make me post the picture of the raw chicken.
Some nasty discountcounter chicken. Before seeing that there was a time I thought she was a would.
I figured they’d be covered, like in all of Q’s links
New Yorkers won’t give up the fight to stop Amazon colonising our city
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/30/new-yorkers-wont-give-up-the-fight-to-stop-amazon-colonising-our-city
the amazon ships are coming they must not land
“New York for the real New Yorkers, from the Hudson River to the sea!”
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN SLOGANEERING ONE. ZARDOZ LIKES THE WAY YOU THINK.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Strange, i thought the New Yorker tradition was to sell the island to colonists for a pittance
Why does NY give out massive tax credits to Hollywood to film shitty movies and TV shows there? I am tired of hearing that tax relief is a subsidy. Words have meanings, and by using that word to describe tax breaks they are literally saying that not giving is taking.
using that word to describe tax breaks they are literally saying that not
givingtaking istakinggiving.Look if you think of everything actually belonging to the Government and them just letting us have it, it all makes sense.
Why does NY give out massive tax credits to Hollywood to film shitty movies and TV shows there?
Because the baseline tax and regulatory structure is so atrocious that New York would be uncompetitive for the shitty movies and TV shows without them. Of course, the real answer is to fix the baseline business climate. But, that would involve recognizing that massive taxes and onerous regulation isn’t the key to prosperity.
If the tax break is so narrowly tailored so as to ensure there are only a handful of very specific companies that can take advantage of it, it starts to smell a bit more like corporate welfare.
The issue I’m addressing isn’t the ethics of special tax carve outs (especially when done by people who have told us for ages that taxes don’t hurt businesses). The point is that a subsidy requires actually giving money. Not not taking.
What’s e-commerce equivalent of Do You Have a Flag?
Wake me up when she applies the same logic to the hundreds or thousands of other enterprises that NYC has given a tax break over the years. Like the NY Times.
Maybe they should build a wall.
European engineering….amirite folks?
“Police: Drake student faked racist note, charges expected
DES MOINES, Iowa —
A Drake University student faces charges Friday after police said she faked a racist note found in a campus dorm.
Des Moines police Sgt. Paul Parizek told KCCI Friday that two female students reported receiving racist notes under their door at Herriott Hall on Nov. 13 and 15 and that the same students reported receiving an additional note Wednesday.
According to police, investigators later confirmed that one of the students, an 18-year-old Drake undergraduate, was responsible for a creating the racist note she claimed to have received on Wednesday.
“As painful as these recent events have been, they have sparked important discussions and reflection, and have brought us closer together as one Drake community,” Drake University preside Marty Martin said. “We all have work to do as we further our commitment to equity and inclusion, but can be proud of our response, our values, and our conviction.””
https://www.kcci.com/article/police-drake-student-faked-racist-note-charges-expected/25360042
No! Marty! We’ve already agreed that having information about the future can be extremely dangerous. Even if your intentions are good, it can backfire drastically!
“As painful as these recent events have been, they have sparked important discussions and reflection,…
AAAAAAAAAGHHHHH!!
SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP.
At this point, editors probably just pass around a Word template to fill in the different names and places every time this happens.
they have sparked important discussions and reflection
About how nearly all campus hate crimes turn out to be hoaxes, the need to not react to them until the facts are in, that kind of thing. Right?
“I don’t think the fact that it’s bogus is going to take the wind out of the sail of the people who want to do the right thing and want to have the unity in our community,” Parizek said.
what is a drake?
Male duck. In Iowa.
Drake University.
My buddy’s Spawn is a sophomore there. I just taunted him via text.
A mail duck or a college in Des Moines, Iowa
male duck
Mail duck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnMUvrspd7I
It’s another name for a thermostat.
The name of a dog I once owned.
Thermostat?
Honeywell?
One of the regulars here, upgraded his avatar to be True Badass recently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRS_PpOrUZ4
The champion rapist of the bird world. . Don’t, however, take that statement to mean that hens are simple victims that are helpless. Nope. They are hiding quite the clam trap under those feathers.
You gotta love the Drake.
Always with the “sparked important discussions” bit.
Well, here we are discussing it! It must be important!
LoL. It’s not even a joke anymore. The NPC meme is seriously on point, as we couln’t have predicted this better if we were looking at the script that programmed them.
I’m sure there’a story or two out there that didn’t turn out to be hoaxes, but it’s to the point where the far safer bet is always…false flag. THIS WAS A FALSE FLAG.
I’m gonna put $10 on this one being a false flag as well. How convenient that the grafitti missed the art on the wall.
Ok, so answer me this. Why in the report do they “Show the picture”, but simuletaneously blurr out the swasticka. Like are people that horrified that they can’t even see an image that they would know if they learned anything about WWII?
People will die
+1 Remey
Doesn’t matter who did it, this will be chalked up on the list of white supremacists/right wing hate crimes.
Have we ever had an actual event like this? The only ones I can think of are all false flags. Every damned one.
I thought it said Mary Martin, but then thought Mary was probably tougher than Marty Martin could ever hope to be.
HATE THE DRAKE!
“U.S. Air Force Major General John Williams speaks during the medal ceremony in Stockholm.”
I mean his music is great, but Major General? Kinda’ reinforcing the stereotype aren’t you, Air Force.
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCW6Kte2o1A
Women’s F1 championship?
Something tells me Bernie Ecclestone is muttering something about appliances.
As painful as these recent events have been, they have sparked important discussions and reflection
Any “discussion” other than, “What in the fuck is wrong with you?” is superfluous.
This.
Sixteen FBI Agents Raid Home of Clinton Foundation, Uranium One Whistleblower
Who says that these investigations only go one way? I mean, they investigate Republican wrong doing, and people who do wrong to Democrats. That’s two paths.
I like that they sent 16 FBI agents. They don’t send more than 4 to go pick up the guy who molested children across 3 states…. But the guy who found out about a political scandal…. well, that guy…. you can never be too careful…
Please say that fucker scanned them to some website where they will be automatically posted for public consumption if he doesn’t login every 48 hours.
Dallas police officer who shot man in his own apartment indicted for murder
What ever became of the Dallas cop who shot the guy in the apartment below hers?
She was indicted too
LOL
(Related
Good, although the prosecution will undoubtedly try to tank the case, as is so often the case when a cop gets indicted for murder.
I dunno this time. Dallas has a new DA coming in that seems like the type to actually try here.
“Google has a plan to eliminate mosquitoes around the world”
https://twitter.com/business/status/1068569461026766848
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-28/how-to-kill-mosquitoes-google-and-verily-have-a-plan
Something Something Fatal, Something Something Conceit.
Nah, this one is a no-brainer. Misleading headline aside, this is about eliminating the A. egyptai mosquito, a terrible disease carrier and non-native to these shores. NOT eliminating it would be the stupid play.
Which, of course, is the play that the environmentalist wackos and the government bureaucrats are taking. We had that Zika scare in the Caribbean and south Florida and this method was proposed, but ultimately blocked because we need to study what happens if you eliminate this species. This non-native, invasive species.
I swear, these ass-wipes would object if you found a way to get rid of kudzu.
Eliminating mosquitos will do Very Bad Things to the ecosystem. They are a major food source for birds, bats, and other insects.
Good thing Google will fail.
Not all mosquitos. Just one non-native species.
Bullshit.
We have had effective mosquito control for decades. The Gates foundation is sitting on it.
How many darkies die every year from mosquito bites? We cant put a stop to that.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3059127/what-happened-to-the-mosquito-zapping-laser-that-was-going-to-stop-malaria
We in the southern US know how to eliminate malaria and dengue carrying mosquitoes. I’m old enough to remember the fog trucks driving up and down the streets in town.
But we can’t let other people repeat our mistakes. Even though it worked perfectly and there is no more debilitating mosquito-born disease in the south. Because DDT is bad, m’kay…..
“Bloomberg will donate $50 million to battle opioid epidemic. He’s the real deal- a billionaire who was a great mayor of NYC – and i believe he’d be a great POTUS.”
https://twitter.com/MiaFarrow/status/1068509800177242115
How about no?
He’s probably made more than that from his opioid stocks.
Gosh! An endorsement from a psycho emotionally abusive bitch who is willing to fuck up children to hurt people she hates?
Well, I’m sold!
Man, you beat me to it.
She is a broken individual.
Anyone who would support that dipshit for any position of power is criminally insane. The guy banned large sodas! That’s all you need to know.
So this probably belongs in book thread but fuck it. Bad sex writing awards shorlist is up and includes the following:
I will use my one link to not go to the rest of the article, but to the originating work:
Scoundrels: The Hunt for Hansclapp by Major Victor Cornwall and Major Arthur St John Trevelyan
The only way that could be better is if it were set in 1830s like God intended.
OMWC is envious.
I don’t know. A vaginal ratchet sounds kind of unpleasant.
One of those S&M Sex Robots
The vaginal ratchet busts loose a stuck nut
*applause*
Dear Popular Mechanics forum, I never thought this would happen to me…
That was so poorly written it actually caused shrinkage.
It actually reminded me of “The 40 Year Old Virgin”….
They felt like…. uh…. bags of wet sand…
It seems that this writer is unfamiliar with sexual congress.
I was ruminating on finding the crudest way (without using profanity) to describe sexual congress.
I settled on “I’d like to jam my spunk rifle into your muscle tunnel”
“BDS activist falls in love with female soldier, becomes Zionist; they’ll marry
As her relationship with Ronnie Zidon deepened, Jess Belding did what she previously believed was unthinkable and moved to Israel; she also converted to Judaism”
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1068279100316532739
https://www.timesofisrael.com/bds-activist-falls-in-love-with-female-soldier-becomes-zionist-theyll-marry/
The IDF’s female troops are some of the most badass (and hottest) in the world, it is known. That’ll turn any man.
That’ll turn any man.
Or woman, in this case.
Or woman.
Gal Gadot is on my wife’s laminated list.
And even a woman. As in this case.
Yes. Those girls of the IDF lists are pretty awesome.
Jewish girls.
I was waiting for this. Thank you!
News from 2020:
Today, IDF unveiled the 1st Chad Brigade. Unit’s task is to bang the anti-Zionist activists onto the Zionist side. Only 1 in 20 volunteers was accepted for service.
Oh my God.
You go to the Culture War with the army you have.
That…..that can’t be real.
Maybe she just thinks that what makes her beautiful
Time-honored tactic. Ronnie took one for the team.
I’m going to guess her commitment to the Palestinians was paper-thin to begin with, which is fine and I wish more college students could have that realization.
I’m sure this marriage will last forever, Belding is clearly a very stable person.
A stable genius.
Incidentally, I’m going to spend 2.5 weeks in Israel in December/January. How can I get pork sausages there?
Look for Russian Jews’ areas?
Christian “quarter” of Jerusalem.
Use a wide stance at the airport restroom stalls?
We have a weiner!
*golf clap*
How many do you need?
According to Q, three.
“You just know from the picture which one is the BDS activist and which one is the Israeli soldier.”
So, so true.
I just saw the second picture. Oh no! God no! She looks like trigglypuff.
I saw the picture and thought “geez, someone should tell the hot soldier girl that she doesn’t have to settle for broken American girl.”
This could be an inspiration for the bad sex writing awards. She panted, “Land on my Gaza Strip! Occupy my West Bank. Manhandle me like I was going through a checkpoint!” Her carnal intifada left her shattered to pieces.
H+1
Let’s try that again.
+1 erotica award.
Today our Product Team announced that we would have to support some new functionality, because our sales team wrote it into a contract, and that we needed to brainstorm how to get it done. I have no problem with responding to customer needs and wants, it’s what keeps me employed. But just once it would be nice to know that the Sales team did some research on how much work what they promise to do will be.
Your management team is to blame. We’re working on a new product and have included sales, engineering AND production in the whole process. I’ve never understand why this is so fucking hard for companies to figure out.
Meh, including everyone in a project can cause just as many problems. I’ve seen too many projects blow up because jack asses in sales and engineering decide to have a scorched earth war about who’s dick is bigger.
I’d make the wild speculation that if you have successful projects it is because you have smart people, clear goals and decisive management. If you have that, you can choose any methodology that you want and be successful.
True. Being a small business helps a lot, too.
Still, I like having production in first thing. Saves a ton of time.
Yeah, not bringing the people who have to make it in to the negotiation before the contract is signed is just plain stupid. Sales guys are notorious for not understanding the implications. Heck, even non-tech C-level guys have bad misconceptions.
I had a President who was upset with us because we took months to finish a major document automation project that built legal documents from components to comply with multiple jurisdictions – down to the county and city level, nationwide – get all impressed because a company we were dealing with was able to fix a typo on their website in an hour. I tried explaining to him that fixing a spelling error on the website was like changing a word document, while simply gathering the requirements for thousands of jurisdictions required hundreds and hundreds of man-hours, let alone designing an engine that could build documents from potentially conflicting sets of rules across all those jurisdictions. He didn’t care. They got it done almost immediately, and we didn’t.
Doofus. So he gave them a contract to build a pricing engine. One that we had built in two weeks and had been waiting for his team to validate for about 45 days.
A year later they delivered the product. It did not produce the correct results. But he was happy, because it only took them a year. And we weren’t able to finish it in a month, even though it was done in two weeks and his team never bothered to validate it. Apparently they never bothered to evaluate the one he bought either, because it went into production with the wrong answers popping out. Also, it took about 17 clicks to get an answer with their version, vs two with ours. But they had some nice graphics… so it was lots better. Sigh….
So his people kept pricing in spreadsheets and didn’t tell him that the thing didn’t work. After about 6 months he looked at the metrics and realized what happened. Then we put in the engine we had built two years earlier.
Yeah….. I don’t miss working with that guy….
Uffda. I’m on a similar project. Sales team promised client we were super smart on a particular standard and sure we’d take all their data in that format. In fact, we’d help them put their data into the correct format.
Turns out the best sales team belongs to the organization peddling this standard. Classic vaporware. Thousands of pages of meaningless documentation, buggy software and no technical support from the standards org (they have support but it is very high level).
Ooff. Ours is that our clients want to export/view their data in a less flexible format for analysis (CSV file) into a more rigid format, because the rigid format has a perception of being “Faster”. Note that that perception is false, but neither sales nor the product team did anything to try to squash that idea.
If that is all it is, why are they in the middle of it? Why not let your tech people talk with their tech people and “work it out”.
I usually insisted on that approach. “Just let me talk to the guy who built this” was kind of a mantra. You’d often find out that they built the stupid fixed-field format because of some weird VAX system 30 years ago, but they can export to XML with a push of a button. Bank formats are the worst. We had some that were like “look in the first 20 characters and it will tell you the length for the next field”…. and on and on like that. And getting data to validate your parser was almost impossible…. so 6 months down the road you’d find a weird case that “never comes up” that wasn’t included in the specifications.
Doctors backed by the state are tasked with policing other doctors, and surprisingly, it doesn’t always work that well.
I really just wanted to link this to point out that it’s far easier for a consumer to get quality feedback on professions that aren’t licensed by the government. I know, for instance, that for some odd reason here in Florida you aren’t allowed to track the results of lawyers cases. So, if some asshole defense attorney is always accepting shitty plea deals, you have no way of knowing. Probably because lawyers write the rules governing other lawyers. And people go along because they trust that the government is regulating it all.
what is a drake?
Drake
A bad ass from England
Maker of delicious pastries
The bad guy from Darkman.
Things that won’t happen: Minneapolis Mayor vows to fire some cop over racist Christmas tree.
I’m sure the new grandstander in the Mayor’s office realizes that even if he figures out who did this any termination will be temporary. After the show, the union will get the cop his job back with pay after a cooling off period.
I don’t even know what a Takis bag is or why that is racist. I think this is another case of projection.
Behold!
Well I looked it up too, but why is that racist? I must be hanging out with self hating black guys because none of them has ever shown up anywhere with that stuff.
I was the only fucking white guy in my apartment complex back in Memphis and never ever heard of this.
Is it new?
I thought it was a Takimag reference until I saw the picture.
I’ve seen those in bodegas and assumed it was some Latino thing.
So would I be able to use those Takis instead of flamin hot cheetos in this recipe for the ultimate racist snack?
No clue how that could be racist. My son loves Takis, and he’s so blond and white that some random lesbian chick in line at Downtown Disney told her partner that she wanted to punch him in the face (this in the aftermath of Trump 2016) , apparently not noticing that the 10 year old boy’s dad was standing about 3 feet away. But you know…. those progressives are all about tolerance…
Bonus stupid points for the fact that dad is a raving libertarian and the boy had a triggering buzz cut because he’d spent the prior year growing his hair out and had just donated it that week for some random kid with cancer to have a wig. But you know, probably a Nazi because blond with short hair.
Yeah, I didn’t smack her upside the head, in case you were wondering.
“Yeah, I didn’t smack her upside the head, in case you were wondering.”
Darn.
Takis, like the cheapo tortilla chips at Walmart?
I know several guys there. It’s always fun to get the inside scoop.
Most violent and fucked up precinct in the city, BTW.
Who doesn’t like chips and booze?
Also, would the reporter. ///titties
Interesting. From a cursory glance of the literature, it seems it is still a bit of an open question as to who has quicker reflexes. On the one hand, men seem to have faster average reaction times to auditory and visual stimuli, (which is important in racing), but whereas women begin a muscle movement slightly behind men, they make up for it by moving more quickly as they have less mass to move before reaching peak speed (noting of course that men have a higher mean peak speed than women). Nevertheless, I fear a “Formula W” will end up like many women’s sports in that the talent pool will never catch up to their male peers. Currently, FIA racers move up through a farm system that has them starting as young as 7 or 8. It will take a generation of female racers for the talent pool to reach where it is for men now.
I’m starting to think Ocasio-Cortez is a legit retard.
Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
.@Ocasio2018: Me winning in 2018 was kind of like when America landed on the moon.
I mean, if she were a retard, that would be a tremendous accomplishment for the retarded kind.
One giant leap?
Keep in mind, O-C jokes are blonde jokes of 2018. So assume everything you see about her is a joke, unless you have video of her saying it. Then it’s only 20% likely to be fake.
The new twist this time is that lefties are posting her brain-farts like they’re some sort of profound wisdom.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Too late.
The ‘insert foot in mouth’ disease can’t be cured at this point. I saw it with Trudeau. Fool was staying stupid shit before he became elected and Canadians still voted him in. So never say never with Ocasio-Cortez because the electorate is a strange animal.
I wonder who the real fools are sometimes.
saying
You thought the ‘crazy eyes’ comments were a joke?
Only starting to think? She’s a box of rocks.
Nevertheless, I fear a “Formula W” will end up like many women’s sports in that the talent pool will never catch up to their male peers.
This will become painfully obvious when their lap times are compared with men’s times on the same track.
But… but. .. men and women are the same!
This is a raisin:
“Patagonia got $10 million in GOP tax cuts. The company’s donating it for climate change awareness”
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/29/business/patagonia-10-million-tax-climate-change-trnd/index.html
Good for them!
I love it when fools throw their money away!
I’m going to guess that if we look at their demographics, it’s not real outdoorsman but fucking hipsters. So, it’s sort of an investment.
My boss, who has marched in the protests organized by the Hitler-supporting Sansour and covered his cubicle with Fairey’s plagiarized art of women, all in the name of hating trump, loves their gear.
God. I live in a crazy world.
They’re the kind of people that go fishing and then put the fish back.
Whatever. No way I’m eating fish out of the Mississippi.
But I don’t wear Patagonia.
Company that sells cold weather clothing concerned about warming weather. News at 11.
See Pelosi was right! Employees won’t see any of that Tax Cut Money
re: the SR-71 story.
I wonder if the Swedish air force heard this on the radio ?
John MacAfee proves (as if he needed to) that he’s the greatest american politician in 50 years at least.
A 20-Year-Old Is Helping John McAfee’s 2020 Campaign Team By Teaching Him How To Shitpost About Anime
Jeez, first thing I’ve read about McAfee that makes me dislike him.
Would you feel better if he’s just angling to bang her somehow?
Fuck you, Spike Spiegel is an awesome character.
Anime? WTF, McAfee? That’s a Gay Jay move
Isn’t Cowboy Bebop pretty much tourist’s anime? And I say that as someone who likes Cowboy Bebop and dislikes much of the rest.
It’s anime that was more popular in the West than in Japan, yes. Because it had action and story and characters and wasn’t a poorly concealed pedophile masturbation fantasy that is mostly produced these days.
Don’t you talk shit about Kill la Kill, that lead to some great sex with the ex.
“She said that she doesn’t have the same politics as McAfee — she identifies as a communist — but is excited about the work.”
Wait, what?
Sounds like she hasn’t thought this “communist” thing through very carefully.
Alien inspired music – Crobot sounds an awful lot like Wolfmother.
The Trump Organization Planned To Give Vladimir Putin The $50 Million Penthouse In Trump Tower Moscow
“The $50 Million Penthouse”
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“THE”
So, who ended up getting THE penthouse instead?
Not clicking because Buzzfeed, but when, why, how? I know it’s fun to call Trump a Putin Puppet, even though it is at odds with all of reality.
Did Trump know Cohen was proposing this?
Is Cohen telling the truth?
Was it a serious offer and was there a quid pro quo of some kind?
Is it illegal to give stuff to Putin if the story actually is true?
Nobody. The project never got past negotiations.
It’s right there in the headline. THE penthouse exists, and it’s worth $50 million.
They wouldn’t lie, would they?
Isn’t it ridiculous that you have to get halfway through the fourth paragraph before they acknowledge the truth?
Details, details.
How this is supposed to be bad for Trump, I haven’t a clue. An “associate” of a representative had a sketchy idea for a real estate deal that fizzled. Not only that, they aren’t even claiming there was a quid pro quo, but that this was intended to drive up the value on the rest of the building by more than what they would give Putin.
Those fever dreams are getting flimsier
Cohen makes me wish Trump was as bad as he is portrayed. Orange Man Bad would definitely arrange for Cohen to get shanked in prison, and I would not shed a single tear. What a dirtball, and a disgrace to the profession.
He’s a real world Saul Goodman minus the likable charisma.
Bullshit.
Everything about Trump and Russia is pure bullshit.
This legal argument strikes me as just a bit stupid:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-transgender-woman-bea-sullivan-knoff-20181129-story.html
“She argues, as does the “Free the Nipple” movement, that laws barring women but not men from exposing their chests are unconstitutionally discriminatory and based on little more than society’s sexualization of women.”
And they are. She should have stopped right there and left off the insane gibberish about people who identify as garden hoses or yaks.
“I’m a woman, and this law is discriminatory against me! But I’m also not really a woman, so this obviously discriminatory law doesn’t even apply!”
Yup. I agree with this assessment. Its been legal in new York for half a century. I’ll let you guess how many women take advantage of their legal equality.
I have no problem at all if women want to walk around naked.
Of course, that will also require that men be allowed to walk around naked, and I’m pretty sure that feminists would try to enforce some kind of double standard because penis = evil.
Also, I’m 100 percent positive that they would also complain about men looking at women’s bare tits.
I never really had any objection to people being naked in public until I read about restaurants in SF requiring nudies to bring their own towels to put in their chairs. Then I thought…Oooooh. Yeah, there’s that. I really am not interested in seeing some hairy middle aged guy’s dingleberries.
Snake & Jake’s Christmas Club, one of NOLA’s best weirdo dive bars (it was in a detached garage at a fellow’s house and was decorated entirely in Christmas stuff) had the If you’re naked, you’re drinking for free rule. One was always required to place one’s shirt down on one’s barstool before remounting it in a pantsless manner.
This all boils down to them being anti-sex.
Whistleblower Who Found Information Showing Feds Ignored Hillary’s Dealings With Russians Has Home Raided By FBI
In a stunning display, a man who is a recognized government watchdog and had given Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz documents showing federal officials ignored the relationship among Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, and Rosatom, the Russian company that purchased Uranium One, had his home raided by the FBI, despite the fact that his status was protected by law.
As Richard Pollock of The Daily Caller reports, “The delivered documents also show that then-FBI Director Robert Mueller failed to investigate allegations of criminal misconduct pertaining to Rosatom and to other Russian government entities attached to Uranium One, the document reviewed by TheDCNF alleges.”
Dennis Nathan Cain, a former FBI contractor, was confronted at his home in Maryland the morning of November 19, according to his attorney, Michael Socarras. Socarras charged, “The bureau raided my client to seize what he legally gave Congress about the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One.” He told The Daily Caller the FBI’s raid was an “outrageous disregard” of whistleblower protections.
The FBI agents conducted the raid after gaining permission from federal magistrate Stephanie A. Gallagher in the U.S. District Court for Baltimore. FBI spokesman Dave Fitz confirmed to The Daily Caller, “On Nov. 19, the FBI conducted court authorized law enforcement activity in the Union Bridge, Maryland area. At this time, we have no further comment.”
Well, that settles it. Move along, people.
What the fuck is it with that witch? At this point what is it she has that keeps her felonious ass bulletproof?
All the dirt she had previously, a media that is more than willing to push anything she says, and followers who would happily burn themselves alive if it meant she could advance to a higher state of being?
My guess is that, like the mob, once anyone goes into the same room with her they find themselves guilty of a felony. She is like a giant pile of shit, go anywhere near her and it gets on you. Then the more you try to wipe it off the more it gets spread around. If she goes down half of DC goes with her.
^This. There will be a large pile of bodies to climb over before the law ever reaches her.
Well, it would be a good start…
No shit. I dont know how that trash can be more transparently corrupt.
All agents and the judge involved were then arrested.
Lol, jk.
All agents and the judge involved were then arrested.
I think I just nutted.
What? JK? Damn you!
I’m confused, sounds like the FBI is raiding homes of people who have info on the Hillary U1 thing, isn’t this what the ‘lock her up!’ people want?
They are destroying the life of the man who outted her for treasonously selling her office to the highest bidder.
Ah, that makes more sense, although ‘destroying the life of’ seems a bit harsh for searching his home.
Oh, they are just getting started.
That man’s going to end up dead within the year.
Something process something punishment….
sexiest airplane that ever flew.
Umm…
Also.
I’ve thought the XL variant would have been useful.
Yea, kind of like with the F/A-18 upgrade. Square off the intake for better airflow, 2 seater, etc.
Nice rack.
Overcompensating for lack of stand off range.
I yield to the gentleman from South Carolina.
With all the talk about sexy airplanes. … where do you aero sexuals put it?
I think flashing her headlights to pass would probably be pretty effective.
She’s not Q-worthy. But she is sexy, fit and doesn’t look like a troll like Danica Patrick. *ducks*
Women are a danger on the track Milka Duno? Danica Patrick Pippa Mann ? Besides, if youarent in F1 by 22 or so, you’re too old anyway
OK… Costco had a special today on wild caught U-15 shrimp. I got 2 lbs.
Let’s hear some ideas.
I’m leaning towards Hawaiian food truck style.
Start an F1 team for shrimp?
No clue. Mama is deathly allergic to those.
She did come home with some gorgeous prime ribeyes, though. I love Costco.
They roll out a butcher counter on Fridays and Saturdays… the short ribs are 9″ long, and the tomahawks…. my god.
They also have rib eye cap (spinalis, the best part) steaks. That’s almost too much for me. I feel like it’s cheating to only eat part of the ribeye.
The Prime only counter at Costco today.
I’m cheating with zero guilt.
I’m partial to a marinade of garlic, basil, lemon and olive oil and then on the grill. With two pounds, you can go more than one direction.
Shell off, U15, how long would you grill?
Good hot grill, no more than 2-3 minutes a side.
THIS gem has gotten me laid more than once.
If you need the cajun spice recipe she used before she sold-out to Bezos, hmu
I’m fine with everything but the noodles. I can eat whatever I want and stay jacked because I don’t like carbs. Beer excepted.
Wife and I used to canoe a lot. A good snack for canoeing was cooked shrimp, shell off, and marinading in Italian dressing. I think she would put a splash of Zataran’s in there too.
You might want to experiment with that grilling one bug at a time. Shrimp cook pretty fast.
Canadian Costco is but a pale imitation of the goodies youse folks can get at your U.S. Costcos.
I hate you all. 8^<
The Wishbone Italian dressing recipe has been around for a long time. It even made the White House cook book in the ’90s.
I’ve never tried it on shrimp, though.
Host an orgy.
Question for the gun glibs:
Any recommendations/warning about particular pieces of hearing protection? Currently I’m just regular earmuffs, and they’re fine. Any reason to go to electronic ones, and if so which?
I just use basic ear muffs on the range and the foam plugs for sporting clays.
I find the silicon ribbed ones to be pretty useless.
Double up. Plugs and muffs. As someone who’s hearing is nearly gone, trust me on this.
30 years of sirens and diesel engines and my hearing is still pretty good. Dave Clark headsets made a big difference.
I’ve been looking at some of the moldable, electronic models. Damned expensive though.
Dave Clark headsets made a big difference.
They make you glad all over?
I use both as well. When some d00d beside you decides to fire off the .50 cal in an indoor range, your ears will thank you.
I use the 3M “yellow” plugs — bought a box of 200 pair, because they’re getting increasingly hard to find in single bags anymore. I find the off-brand “shaped” ones don’t do nearly as good a job of sealing my ear canals against noise.
I don’t shoot indoors anymore for a couple of reasons.
I did learn the hard way not to forget my earplugs in the duck blind. Nothing like getting ear blasted from five feet away.
Wielding the nail gun right next to my head this afternoon and thinking… why am I not wearing protection? Dad is famously hard of hearing because of decades working without protection, yet I’m doing the same damn thing.
I nag my kids about this all the time.
I have significant hearing loss in one ear, but amazingly, almost none in the other. My doc thinks it was medical, not environmental. I’ve got a long history of rock n roll, power tools, guns, etc.
Nail guns give me a massive headache if I don’t wear hearing protection, though.
huh?
Shhh
I have these.
I like them a lot. I have another pair of regular muffs and like the electronic ones better, as you can have conversations without taking them off.
I will sometimes double up, depending on where and what I’m shooting.
I’ve got 2 sets of sportsmansguide electronic. Makes a huge difference when
taking newbs out.
Mine are older, no stereo.
I have standard protection. My wife has the electronic. The electronic filters so you can hear conversation well, but shot get filtered almost completely out. My wife had an issue with flinching with standard protection that went away with the electronic protection.
I second the active protection. I use 3M Peltor noise canceling ones at the big gun ranges (155mm guns I mean).
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