Coming Attractions (oh, yes, and Saturday Night Open Post)

I’ve been unwell the past few days, so I’m going to keep this short and sweet, just like me. 😉

Next week on Glibertarians.com, you’ll get links. Mostly by Sloopy/Banjos, Brett L, and OMWC, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see mexicansharpshooter or Mad Scientist in the mix. Work happens. (Hi, Rufus!) Everyone’s favorite floating stone head and his pals from the SMITH family might turn up, as well. And by turn up, mean…give links.

In the Regular Features Department, Not Adahn not only gives you the IFLA forecast, but gives you a lesson for free! Web Dom has a vegan holiday recipe round up for you, and I’ll have a weekly poll. mexicansharpshooter will have something for you on Saturday, assuming he remembers to hit the Schedule button. And, oh, yes, there is a terrific, just the best, story from SugarFree in the usual Wacky Wednesday time slot.

What else? Nephilium has the next article in his Enslaving Yeast series, PieInTheSky spins some more Romanian tunes, CPRM has a new animated H&H for us, we have a Jewsday tradition, Sensei has some advice on learning a language when one is old, another member of the SMITH family drops by, and Animal continues your six gun education.

What a full week! As always, much heartfelt gratitude to the writers among the Glibs. We seriously could not do this without you!

And, we don’t say it often enough, thanks to all the donors who keep the server squirrels fed and the electrons humming to keep us online!

OK! On to the Saturday Night Open Post. Have a great rest of your weekend, kids.

 

 

Comments

266 responses to “Coming Attractions (oh, yes, and Saturday Night Open Post)”

  1. Tres Cool

    Feel better, SP.
    And go ahead….go and click that soulful motherfkin’ THEME MUSIC !

    May it put some glide in yo’ stride as you convalesce

      1. MikeS

        My theme music.

        Keep it real, kids.

          1. egould310

            Kids On The Street https://youtu.be/WpNDgExkPAg

          2. J. Frank Parnell

            I like this kid.

          3. Rhywun

            OK you win

          4. MikeS

            This one is for Mojeaux.

          5. Tundra

            Even though I already won, this should make a few of you smile.

            Especially you, EDG.

          6. MikeS

            Haha, yeah, no. You did not win.

            The kids ARE alright.

          7. Trigger Hippie
          8. MikeS

            Oh fuck. How’d I forget that one? Yeah, TH just won.

          9. CPRM

            Yeah, none of my favorite songs are about kids, I’m not a perv.

          10. MikeS

            I’m going to pretend you weren’t sending me a message and just say, that’s kind of a cool tune.

          11. Jarflax

            You boys need to keep your sexual experimentation for the ice fishing hut, that is the great white north way.

          12. BakedPenguin

            Tundra, that’s kind of an unusual song. Combines a semi-punk sensibility with disco elements.

            I hate to admit it, but I liked it since I first heard it.

          13. Tundra

            BP, the Suburbs are a local band that I have seen live more than any other band on the planet. They were/are geniuses of post-punk/new wave awesomeness.

            If you have Spotify, all their stuff is there.

          14. BakedPenguin

            Jesus. Husker Du, Prince, the Suburbs, the Replacements, Babes in Toyland …yadda yadda how many original, worthwhile acts does MN need? You have like maybe 1MM people there.

            If I liked Soul Asylum I could add them in there.

          15. Tundra

            3.6 million.

            I love Soul Asylum even though many don’t.

            Give Hang Time a try.

          16. MikeS

            Don’t forget Garrison Keillor

          17. MikeS

            In spring 1997 a major flood (and fires downtown) hit Grand Forks, ND very hard. Soul Asylum volunteered to play prom for the two high schools. They’ve always had my respect for that.

          18. Rhywun

            I really liked “Somebody to Shove” and really disliked “Runaway Train”. That’s all I’ve got.

          19. Tundra

            I really liked “Somebody to Shove” and really disliked “Runaway Train”. That’s all I’ve got.

            Yep I get it, but they were huge here before that.

            And they had one of the best album covers ever!

          20. MikeS

            Huh. Thanks Tundra. I didn’t know they recorded it. Cool.

          21. MikeS

            Rhy; how about Misery? That’s my favorite Soul Asylum song

          22. Tundra

            Mike, the band is completely different today but they are still touring. I saw them last summer and still dug the the lineup.

          23. Rhywun

            Not bad. I don’t remember it.

          24. MikeS

            If they get up this way I’ll have to check them out. Also, I forgot how many hits they had. (I mean, not a lot, but more than many bands)

        1. Damn, Homestarrunner. That’s a blast from the past.

        2. Tres Cool

          TROGDOR ill af

          “show for me your skills of the artist”

      2. Spudalicious

        You both need to go to your rooms.

  2. OPEN POST TITTIES!

    http://archive.is/VamEV

    5 and 34 have some serious globes of pleasure.

    1. Spudalicious

      14, 24, 28.

      1. Old Man With Candy

        Pi, e, and sqrt2.

          1. Count Potato

            The golden ratio of boobs and ass?

    2. Rebel Scum

      Lucky 13. (also 18 & 24).

    3. J. Frank Parnell

      I like 13.

      12’s the bunny boiler. That look on her face is the kind of look you wake up to and say “how the fuck did you get in my house?” And of course she responds, “You mean our house, honey…”

    4. prolefeed

      Lotta sexy women, but 57 was my fav.

  3. MikeS

    Hi

    1. *throws rotten vegetables*

      1. Count Potato

        Do they even have vegetables in the frozen wasteland of North Dakota? He’s probably just confused by the strange shapes and colors.

        1. MikeS

          You have no idea how much it hurts to get hit in the head with a frozen potato…wait, maybe you do?

    2. egould310

      Howdy, pardner!

  4. AlmightyJB

    I hope you feel better soon.

    1. Ditto. SP makes the Glibs go ’round.

      1. MikeS

        ^ Boob-man speaks truth ^

  5. Tres Cool

    I’m essentially done with football….its UD Flyers time!
    Currently on the live stream- UD v. Auburn

    1. westernsloper

      Maybe that should be “More school lunch in the news”. Fuck it, I too have been under the weather so I drank a gallon of Peach Mango Juice mixed with cheap box wine today. Try that SP. I am not sure I feel better but I no longer care I am sick.

    2. Rhywun

      Strange. We didn’t have the honor system in my day. No $$ == no eat.

      1. Why do you want the children to starve?

        1. MikeS

          Because they are ungrateful, selfish little pricks?

        2. Rhywun

          Geez, where do I begin.

      2. westernsloper

        Me either. Lunch ladies didn’t even take cash, you had to buy tickets before hand at the school office. No ticket no lunch.

  6. I don’t like ??? you, T-Series.., Nothing ? personal, kid ? But I must go all out ?? Just this ⬆ once… BOBS OR VEGANA, WHICHEVER WILL IT BE? SIT ??? THE FUCK ??? DOWN ⬇⬇ T-SERIES, I’M HERE ?? TO SPILL THE REAL TEA ?? (??UH??) YOU TRYNA DETHRONE ME FROM SPOT ON ??? NUMBER ONE 1️⃣1️⃣ BUT YOU INDIA ????, YOU LOSE, SO BEST ? THINK ?? YOU HAVEN’T WON WHEN ⏰ I’M THROUGH WITH YOU, WE’RE GONNA BE COMPLETELY FUCKIN’ DONE ‘CAUSE ?? WE ONLY JUST BEGUN I REVIEW YOU, ZERO 0️⃣, BYE, BITCH ???, GONE SO COME ON ?? T-SERIES, LOOKING HUNGRY FOR SOME DRAMA ??? HERE ??, LET ME SERVE YOU BITCH ??? LASAGNA BITCH ??? LASAGNA, BITCH ??? LASAGNA T-SERIES AIN’T NOTHING ?? BUT A BITCH ???, LASAGNA BITCH ??? LASAGNA, BITCH ??? LASAGNA LOOK ? AT T-SERIES, THEY JUST CRYING ? FOR THEIR MOMMA BITCH ??? LASAGNA, BITCH ??? LASAGNA T-SERIES AIN’T NOTHING ??? BUT A BITCH ???, LASAGNA BITCH ??? LASAGNA, BITCH ??? LASAGNA T-SERIES JUST WET ? THEMSELVES IN THEIR PAJAMA SO WHO ? THE HELL IS ? BOB, AND WHY ? YOU WANNA KISS ??? HIM? (EW) I’M A BLUE ?‍♂️?‍♂️ EYES ?? WHITE DRAGON ?, WHILE YOU’RE ? JUST DARK ? MAGICIAN (OOF) YOU GOT A FIFTH OF THE POPULATION IN YOUR ? NATION ??? BUT I GOT NINE 9️⃣-YEAR-OLDS OF WORLDS SO HOLD YOUR ? DEFECATION (OOPS ??) MOTU PATLU, WHAT ? THE FUCK ??? IS ? THAT EVEN SUPPOSED TO MEAN ???? YOUR ? LANGUAGE ? SOUNDS LIKE ??? IT CAME FROM A MUMBLE RAP COMMUNITY NO ?, PAPA, NO ??, PAPA, YES ?, PAPA, JOHNNY NOW DOWN ⬇⬇ ALL OF THIS ⬆ SUGAR AND LET’S THROW THIS ⬆ FUCKING ? PARTY ??? WITH SOME— BITCH ??? LASAGNA, BITCH ??? LASAGNA LOOK ??? AT T-SERIES THEY JUST CRYING ? FOR THEIR MOMMA BITCH ??? LASAGNA, BITCH ??? LASAGNA T-SERIES AIN’T NOTHING ??? BUT A BITCH ???, LASAGNA BITCH ??? LASAGNA, BITCH ??? LASAGNA LOOK ??? AT T-SERIES THEY JUST WETTING THEIR PAJAMA BITCH ??? LASAGNA, BITCH ??? LASAGNA T-SERIES AIN’T NOTHING ?? BUT A BITCH ???, LASAGNA YOU GOT A POPULATION OF ONE 1️⃣1️⃣1️⃣ POINT ??? THREE 3️⃣3️⃣-TWO ✌✌ BILLION BUT MOST YOUR ? VIDEOS CAN’T SEEM TO HIT ? EVEN A MILLION
    SUB-BOT ??!

    1. MikeS

      You know HM is only going to view this -best case- as a dare, or -worst case- as the beginning of an arms race.

      1. Jarflax

        Tittyman make me confused

        1. MikeS

          Just wait until HM drops some cummies up in here. I fear the worst is yet to come.

          1. Say “Bloody HM” three times in front of the mirror.

          2. Jarflax

            The Mantra is Frege Wittgenstein Chomsky

          3. Jarflax

            Semiotics of phat asses also works.

          4. Count Potato

            Virginia Madsen was a solid wood.

          5. MikeS

            The poor man’s Sharon Stone

      2. Gustave Lytton

        I figured HM just hacked his account.

    2. Tres Cool
    3. Spudalicious

      Looks like the acid just kicked in.

      1. Rebel Scum

        And the speed.

    4. Count Potato

      Q is PewDiePie?

    5. Rebel Scum

      Q is actually Agile Cyborg. And Agile Cyborg found some new drugs.

      1. Tres Cool

        Agile Cyborg is what drugs do when they want to get fucked up.

  7. Rebel Scum

    WTF is Hate Speech? College Students FAIL

    Hate Speech=”something that offends me”.

    Offense is taken, not given.

    1. straffinrun

      I can’t listen to that exact conversation anymore. How many times do you have to be explained the simple premise that if you support the silencing of speech, eventually your speech will be silenced? Never ends, does it?

  8. Count Potato

    Get well soon, SP.

    1. Old Man With Candy

      I made her a nice bowl of hot and sour soup, with emphasis on “hot.” Definitely helped the sinuses.

      Szechuan and white pepper FTW.

      1. Spudalicious

        BAM! It’s going to clear her sinuses or she’s going to stab you in your sleep. I’m ambivalent.

  9. Count Potato

    I’m still confused. Is this HM or OMWC?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U0SGLTDEfk

  10. Will Pie’s music thread include Dragostea Din Tei?

    1. Rhywun

      Pikers. I remember some snaggle-toothed monstrosity from a few years ago that looked like something prehistoric.

    2. whiz

      Chinese cresteds can be cute, but some are ugly as hell.

  11. straffinrun

    My team monitors our platform and the online presence of our creators to make sure that their content is within our Community Guidelines.

    From a letter sent to Sargon from Patreon. One of those guidelines being you can’t use a racial slur as an insult. So if you have ever typed the word f**, N*** or whatever anywhere online ever in your life, you can be booted from Patreon. This is getting a little too Jacobin for me.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ThPdCicEsg

    1. すべての女性がstraffinrunのコックを乗りたい

      1. straffinrun

        The entire woman or every woman? Use 皆の女性 and you get the latter.

          1. straffinrun

            Now that I think about it, you were probably correct. Context and all. I was wrong, though. 女性の皆さん would’ve been better. I want to mix my dirty talk with politeness.

          2. Well you never wanna offend the slootz.

    2. westernsloper

      Wait until they see CPRM deported that little Mexican kid.

      1. CPRM

        I didn’t do nuffin, it was all DRUMPF!

    3. Rebel Scum

      the word f**, N***

      Fucking Naggers?

    4. Count Potato

      Bottom line, these companies are not following their own rules. Alex Jones got kicked off Twitter for things he did not say on Twitter. He said them privately in person — not any platform.

      1. straffinrun

        Twitter is using that “Manifest Observable Behavior” standard, too. Right? They trying to dress up bias as sciency objectivity. Lying sacks of shit.

        1. Count Potato

          Twitter is even more arbitrary. They permanently suspend people for no reason given.

    5. Suthenboy

      They are excluding customers based on what those customers think. I wonder how that will turn out. Dick’s soon unavailable for comment.

      Morons.

      1. straffinrun

        Can you imagine MasterCard in the 1990’s saying they won’t give people credit cards if they said “I believe same sex marriage should be legal”? Well, that wasn’t the prevailing attitude among the populace at the time. Woke corporations are an abomination.

        1. Suthenboy

          And they have a short shelf life.

    1. Tundra

      Arguably the best car ever produced and I can’t give a flying fuck.

      It makes me sad.

  12. Evan from Evansville

    I promise to finish my Sri Lankan travelogue today. This is my making it official for myself.

    I got to play drums last night and was praised for my newfound discovery of dynamics. I’m used to playing in rock/punk/funk bands and am pretty well known for being a very good, but also very loud drummer.

    New projects have forced me to play much more quietly and I’m having fun playing more delicate and jazzy grooves. A show next Friday and should have another before I depart the city.

    I’ve been here longer than ~95% of people here, and it’s going to be weird to leave. I hope people remember me fondly. It’s interesting when people talk about Facebook here. I fully find it just as nefarious and unhealthy as the rest of ya, but it’s such an invaluable tool to keep in touch with all of my friends all over the place.

    Be well, SP, and to all out yonder.

    1. straffinrun

      Safe travels. As for FB, hell no. I finally quit it a month or so ago, and even though I was only using it to keep in touch with people, the invasion of privacy and nefarious crap that Zuck is doing makes it poison. It sucks that a tool that could be extremely useful has turned into a hammer to whack people over the head with.

      1. Rhywun

        Was it easY? I’ve seen guides to dropping it that were like pages long.

        1. straffinrun

          By quit, I just deleted every post I had up. The page is still there, but there is nothing on it. Pain in the ass, but easier than jumping through all their hoops to get it deactivated.

          1. Rhywun

            Hm. I guess that’s good enough if someone does a cursory check but I guarantee you your posts are still in their database, with a flag “Deleted” set to “true”.

          2. straffinrun

            I’m sure you’re right. Even if I jumped through their hoops, my stuff is still being stored somewhere. At least that’s what I assume.

          3. Rhywun

            I didn’t read deeply enough to find out whether you can truly delete your data. I would expect you can if you jump through enough hoops. Either that or they’re more evil than I thought.

          4. straffinrun

            Maybe tin foil hat thinking, but I don’t believe that they fully scrub your data once you deactivate. I’m supposed to trust them? My mistake was trusting them in the first place.

          5. Jarflax

            My data is a handful of jokes on other people threads, an announcement about my Mom’s death (which was my reason for joining), a link to an article of mine here, and 1 vacation pic (sunrise at the Golden Gate in Yellowstone). I debate quitting facebook by posting something horribly inflammatory, but it is my only point of contact with a family member who has more or less cut off all other contact.

          6. J. Frank Parnell

            I don’t believe that they fully scrub your data once you deactivate.

            what, like with a sponge?

    2. Nephilium

      Well fuck Evan, I hope you can still stick around. How else will we measure age if you leave us?

      1. I think he means he’s finally leaving Korea.

        1. Jarflax

          Yeah that was how I read it until everyone started saying goodbye.

        2. You think Evan has been in Korea longer than 95% of the people there?

          1. straffinrun

            95% of foreign teachers is how I read that.

          2. Rhywun

            Koreans aren’t people, duh.

          3. straffinrun

            You guys. Ugh. “Here”. Intentionally Misreading Evan should be his new handle.

          4. Evan from Evansville

            ^^^^^^ THIS

            I’ve been in Korea longer than ~95% of foreigners who live in Korea. I see how my comment could have been misconstrued.

            I arrived in Daejeon in December of ’09 and have been here since (other than a 2 year foray into Singapore). My guess is that 60-75% of teachers don’t go past one year here. Most people who have been here as long as I are married (friend JUST had a baby with his Korean wife!)

            Where else would I go without glibs?! What am I supposed to do?! Make sarcastic political remarks to strangers?!

            /Seinfeld

          5. mikey

            How can we miss you if you won’t go away?

          6. You could always go back to TOS. :-p

          7. Nephilium

            I feel much better knowing that other people read it the same as I did first.

        3. Rhywun

          That’s how I read it but I was waiting for confirmation lest I stick my foot in my mouth.

      2. Evan from Evansville

        I ain’t leavin’ shit. States for two months and then Chiang Mai. I know egould is from IN but I forget who is in IN at the moment. That could be fun to meet up. Family is now based in Indy/Carmel.

        I’m intrigued that the Evan is uniquely worthless to me, for as I am always an Evan old, it is ever-changing and impossible for me to use without subdividing/multiplying with increasingly mathematical difficulty….particularly as my current age is a prime number…..

        1. Jarflax

          I’m guessing 97

        2. Spudalicious

          Since Evan is gone you’re obviously Tulpa.

        3. CPRM

          The Other Kevin is around Gary somewhere I think.

        4. It’s a Mersenne prime, too, if I’m not mistaken.

          1. Jarflax

            He’s 31?

          2. Evan from Evansville

            My age is indeed a Mersenne prime.

            I had to look up what that was.

            My eyes are now violently bleeding. I feel slightly vindicated that even pure mathematicians don’t understand it fully, but that made me feel real dumb.

            Like. Kinda really dumb.

          3. CPRM

            That’s what glibs is for, realizing that even shitfaced some people are smarter than 90% of the population.

          4. Sadly, I’m not shitfaced right now.

          5. J. Frank Parnell

            Sadly, I’m not shitfaced right now.

            Growth Mindset FTW

          6. Jarflax

            Is there a special term for Mersenne Primes that are themelves exponents leading to Mersenne Primes?

          7. Evan from Evansville

            You shut right the fuck up, right fucking now.

            The bleeding persists!

          8. Jarflax

            What is hard? it’s just two conditions

            Is x prime? Prime

            Is x 1 less than a power of 2? Mersenne

            If both are true then it is Mersenne and Prime or Mersenne Prime

          9. Evan from Evansville

            BAH!

            It is also not known whether infinitely many Mersenne numbers with prime exponents are composite, although this would follow from widely believed conjectures about prime numbers, for example, the infinitude of Sophie Germain primes congruent to 3 (mod 4). For these primes p, 2p + 1 (which is also prime) will divide Mp, e.g., 23 | M11, 47 | M23, 167 | M83, 263 | M131, 359 | M179, 383 | M191, 479 | M239, and 503 | M251 (sequence A002515 in the OEIS). Since for these primes p, 2p + 1 is congruent to 7 mod 8, so 2 is a quadratic residue mod 2p + 1, and the multiplicative order of 2 mod 2p + 1 must divide {\displaystyle {\frac {(2p+1)-1}{2}}} {\displaystyle {\frac {(2p+1)-1}{2}}} = p. Since p is a prime, it must be p or 1. However, it cannot be 1 since {\displaystyle \Phi _{1}(2)=1} {\displaystyle \Phi _{1}(2)=1} and 1 has no prime factors, so it must be p. Hence, 2p + 1 divides {\displaystyle \Phi _{p}(2)=2^{p}-1} {\displaystyle \Phi _{p}(2)=2^{p}-1} and 2p − 1 = Mp cannot be prime.

            I am an English teacher! Me talk good! This gibberish to I!

          10. Jarflax

            Read the guys I mentioned above in the HM summoning conversation if you prefer your confusion linguistically based

          11. BakedPenguin

            “States for two months and then Chiang Mai.”

            Thailand? That’d be a switch

    3. mikey

      We’ll miss you Evan.

    4. I’m going to remember you screaming in agony as they ripped out your hip bone, or whatever that horror story you told was. I’m a little confused why switching from punk to jazz drumming requires you to quit Glibs, but you do you, and godspeed and what not.

    5. Evan from Evansville

      ????

      I’m not leaving glibs. I’m leaving Korea.

      Don’t worry, Neph. We’ll have sex, yet.I promise to cuddle you after, as I am–indeed–a well-documented cuddle monster.

      1. Nephilium

        *blinks*

        Yeah, thanks Evan, but I’m pretty sure you’re not my type. But I appreciate the offer.

      2. Spudalicious

        That’s just what Evan’s Tulpa would say.

        Are you going to imagine fun adventures like the ones Evan actually went on and tell us about them? That would make his absence a little easier to bear.

    1. Rhywun

      Weight: 2383.4

      I… what?

    2. CPRM

      Well, if you read, that’s the price for a pallet:

      Purified Drinking Water, 16.9 Oz Bottle, 24/pack, 2016/pallet

      2,016 bottles; so roughly 19 cents a bottle.

      1. mikey

        Until you factor in the shipping of $1700 – to MT anyway.

      2. So how many should I put you down for?

        1. MikeS

          I’ll take 1/2016th of a pallet.

      3. egould310

        Goid price.

    1. whiz

      Nice.

  13. Looks like ATL is gonna win the Commieball championship.

    1. Rhywun

      There hasn’t been a team I give a shit about in the finals in the 9 years I’ve been paying attention. I have two hawkey games to toggle between.

      1. Rhywun

        Ugh I flipped over 4 times and every time they were slavering over that muppet in Atlanta that’s probably got a jet waiting to take him to Europe in five minutes. At this point I’m not so sure if being Europe’s farm league is any better than being their retirement league.

        1. If you want the USMNT to be good, you probably need the best players to play in Europe, not in MLS.

          1. Rhywun

            Other than Guzan, none of the players who get all the attention in Atlanta are Americans.

      2. BakedPenguin

        Sawx win! Sawx win! Heh, gonna get drunk! Oh wait, already am,

  14. Rebel Scum

    MARINES WANT MORE SECOND-HAND F-5 AGGRESSORS || WARTHOG 2018

    Personally I’d the updated F-16/18/15 route. But I am no expert.

    1. Rebel Scum

      And I am pretty sure that I have seen F-5’s get trounced by larger planes before.

    1. Jarflax

      He made his underage pussy download his kiddy porn? Evil bastard

    2. straffinrun

      Lovely use of the Monkey Writing Shakespeare defense.

    3. whiz

      Hey, if you can butt-dial someone, why isn’t cat-downloading something possible?

      The other day my wife butt-tweeted something (or at least something got onto her twitter account that she didn’t post on purpose — I kidded her about butt-tweeting it).

  15. Spudalicious

    Okay, Glibs. We need a determination. In light of the fact that Evan has left us for “ahem”, greener pastures, in honor of his memory, do we pin the definition of an “Evan” to this day, or do we index it.

    My vote is that we pin it because math is hard. Especially the Common Core stuff.

    1. Jarflax

      Are you guys trying to drive him away?

      1. Spudalicious

        Nah. He’s proven that his skin has the proper thickness. This is Saturday night fun at his expense.

        I still think we should pin an Evan to 31.

        1. Tundra

          I’m taking credit for establishing the measurement unit but for the life of me I can’t remember the song/album that I described as “one Evan old”.

          31 works.

          1. CPRM

            31 isn’t even the youngest glib, it should be tacked to that, unless you like age inflation.

          2. Rhywun

            *hmm… carry the one…*

            1987. That opens up some interesting possibilities.

            Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me?

          3. Jarflax

            Get a room. This is a family friendly site

          4. Tundra

            Holy fuck, was that a good record.

            For you, Rhywun.

          5. Rhywun

            Another personal highlight from 1987.

        2. Seconded, although just to fuck with people I propose that half an Evan should be 15.

      2. CPRM

        Asians can’t drive.

        1. straffinrun

          That stereotype may be true in The States, but the drivers here are infinitely better and more courteous than American drivers in The States.

          1. CPRM

            Do they all sit at four way stops waving to each other to go first like sconnie drivers?

          2. Rhywun

            Maybe Japan, I dunno. That was definitely not my experience in China.

          3. straffinrun

            Definitely not in China. Japanese drivers are quite conscientious.

          4. Spudalicious

            Someday, I’ll have to expound on my revelation on Chinese drivers after watching traffic patterns in China. It works there, it’s chaos in the States.

          5. Rhywun

            I’d like to hear that if it involves something beyond “reckless disregard for life”.

        2. Rebel Scum

          Asians can’t drive.

          Oh really?

          1. MikeS

            Is that the guy from NCIS New Orleans?

          2. CPRM

            No, it’s the guy from Varsity Blues.

          3. MikeS

            You mean Friday Night Lights?

          4. CPRM

            Isn’t that the same movie?

          5. MikeS

            Friday Night Lights was the TV show based on Varsity Blues, the movie.

          6. CPRM

            Um, no Friday Night Lights was a totally different movie. Not to be confused with Friday Night Tykes.

          7. MikeS

            I stand corrected. I didn’t know they made a knock-off of Varsity Blues.

      3. Who’s Evan? Oh yeah, that guy who used to comment here?

        1. MikeS

          Yeah. He announced that he’s leaving. Someone will miss him, I’m sure.

          1. Akira

            What was his reason for leaving?

          2. MikeS

            He just announced he was leaving his real life location and through some misunderstanding it turned into a thing. He’s not leaving us.

        2. Tundra

          When you were at CSM, did they change the M to a countdown until the end of finals? I got a text the other day with a 9 instead of the M on the mountain.

          1. Yeah they do that.

        3. J. Frank Parnell

          He’s some guy that sells shoes.

  16. egould310

    Oh shit. Wife and I are pub crawling. Jaeger bombs at the first place. Jim Beam now. One more spot on the way to a haunted Christmas house. Then it looks like 3 more bars till we get to Alex’s Bar. Then punk rock n roll and uber it home.

    1. CPRM

      You’re married? All of your posts are about the hot girls you see while running/at the coffee shop/walking down the street…Ok, checks out.

    2. Spudalicious

      I do not envy your tomorrow.

      1. Tundra

        No kidding. He started pretty early.

        But he’s our Official Iron Man.

    3. straffinrun

      You had started drinking when I went to bed last night and you’re still at it? You da man.

  17. straffinrun

    I don’t know why, but this guy in the background takes a whooping in the background. Bizarro land in France.

    1. Rhywun

      Charming.

  18. Rebel Scum

    What’s an “Evan”?

    1. Jarflax

      31 years

  19. Winston

    It’s been 60 years since the Algiers putsch so the Fifth Republic is getting a little long in tooth. No Joke as the longest post-1789 French Regime was the 70-years of the Third Republic

    1. Jarflax

      That has been my thought as well. They have revolutions like most countries have world’s fairs.

      1. Winston

        The best was Portugal after the overthrow of the monarchy:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Portuguese_Republic

        The sixteen years of the First Republic saw nine presidents and 44 ministries, and have been described as consisting of “continual anarchy, government corruption, rioting and pillage, assassinations, arbitrary imprisonment and religious persecution”

    2. straffinrun

      Protests against taxation because the taxation is being levied on the wrong people. It just never ends.

  20. hayeksplosives

    This vid is so viral right now you all have probably already seen it. But if not, behold the Small Town Titans perform the Grinch song.

    https://g.co/kgs/SWyREW

    This guy’s vocal range is astounding.

  21. Winston

    Isn’t it darkly amusing that the great Neo-Liberal hope has caused the greatest backlash? But then again the French do have a history of protesting all the time… If only I thought a new regime would be an improvement.

  22. Not an Economist

    Goddam it my dryer just broke. Now I need to figure out if I fix it or buy a new dryer and maybe a washer too. I still have a load to dry.

    1. CPRM

      Bide your time air drying your clothes, embrace the Fuck It.

      1. straffinrun

        I air dry my clothes despite having a drum type dryer that cost me a small fortune. It’s amazing how much longer your clothes hold together if you don’t use a dryer.

        1. CPRM

          I air dry my clothes because my dryer broke and I can’t afford a new one. Since all my clothes are black they all look lint covered now.

        2. True. I air-dry all my decent shirts and sweaters, and everything else I put on the lowest heat and most delicate cycle. Our neighbor, who knows about these things, only owns a washing machine and air-drys everything. In fact, he took the agitator out of his washing machine because he believes it’s bad for his clothes. Who knows, he might be right.

    2. Spudalicious

      Growing up, we didn’t have a dryer. I remember helping my dad install a four sided outdoor rotary line dryer in the back yard. Mom had a pillow case full of wooden clothes pins and couple of laundry baskets.

      1. CPRM

        And my oldest aunt didn’t realize she was the only one in town with an indoor toilet in the 1950s until she turned 78, life moves fast, don’t mean the past is better.

        1. Spudalicious

          Oh, the past was definitely not better. At no time in the history of man were things better than they are right now. But it also wasn’t as fragile if something went wrong.

          1. CPRM

            This is something I’ve thought about since the 90s, is there any one person who could make any of our electronics from scratch?

          2. Gustave Lytton

            My HE washing machine, antiscald lukewarm shower, overly elaborate and deliberately derated outdoor power equipment, and gas can safety death trap partially disagree with you.

      1. Tundra

        *sad*

      1. MikeS

        I’m going to bed pretty quick. You guys stay frosty.

      2. Spudalicious

        Bruce?

  23. BakedPenguin

    Note: slightly embarrassing personal story – yesterday, I was waiting for the cable guy. I was playing my bass and dancing to Rock the Casbah when the cable guy showed up an hour early. Since I was playing well, how embarrassed should I be?

    1. BakedPenguin

      Note: I’d opened my doors for airflow at that point.

      1. Tundra

        Were you naked?

        1. BakedPenguin

          Nope. Not gonna do that with open doors.

          I’ve learned some lessons from the past.

          1. BakedPenguin

            Also, basses are heavy. You lift one up, and it falls on your dick, that’ll hurt.

          2. CPRM

            And you’re say that’s bad? *Just clarifying, not that I’m into that…Look over there!

    2. creech

      Gosh, I’ll bet we all have stories somewhat like that. Anyone with kids has probably had them walk in on you doing the nasty with mom.
      Or, once the maid walked in my hotel room when wifey and I were pretty heavily involved in 69. I guess that was one reason door
      locks were invented.

      1. CPRM

        I don’t like being naked, but I walk around the house naked sometimes hoping a porno will happen, but it never does…

        1. BakedPenguin

          You gotta make it happen, bro! Make it happen!

          1. CPRM

            Is it weird I read that in Carl’s voice from Aquateen Whatzahoozit?

          2. BakedPenguin

            Well, it’s not very complementary.

          3. CPRM

            But it sounds so perfect in that voice.

          1. Tundra

            Yep.

            You win tonight.

          2. CPRM

            I won’t fight for my two dollars tonight. We both win.

  24. DenverJ

    Just discovered wild Turkey American honey sting. With ghost pepper. Yummy

    1. CPRM

      Bought some Jardin’s Ghost Pepper salsa; big let down, bland and less spice than some Medium salsas from the big companies who make Extra Mild salsa for folks like Tundra and Pope Jimbo.

      1. DenverJ

        But this is whiskey. I don’t want my whiskey hot

      2. Sean

        I’ll buy store made fresh salsa and add my own hot pepper. The last one was with a scorpion pepper mixed in. That one had some heat!

  25. Hmmm.. Finishing up drill today. Will have to drive from Williamsburg back to Cville at some point today (not sure if it’ll be early release with this weather or not). Will have to see if I-64 is a safe bet or better to drive up and around….

  26. Sean

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PxzMGcy_pyg

    Adorable. 7 year old singing the national anthem.