Not a lot of news happens during this time of year, everyone who makes news is on vacation.
Except for Trump who took a surprise trip to Iraq. With timing of gold, while he was there, the usual suspects were caterwauling about him never vising the troops. Then proclaimed that he only went there due to pressure from them despite that is takes weeks to plan these trips, this elicited a nice bitch slap from Brit Hume.
In addition to Trump’s visit humiliating the TDS left, so did the stock market which had the largest one-day gain of 1,086 points.
Police have a video of Kevin Spacey sexually assaulting a teenager. Glibertarians has exclusive footage of the aftermath of another alleged assault.
Always good to wait for all the facts to come out before outraging.
Trump already planning for victory.
Thieves confronted by 6 good men with guns after attempting to steal tools.
New York City goes six days without a murder.
I actually want Kamala Harris to be the candidate solely to see her publicly ripped to shreds over her nasty prosecutorial record. This is a nice start.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along.
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Always good to wait for all the facts to come out before outraging.
The issue isn’t the issue, the revolution is the issue.
But will it be televised?
Get with the times Grandpa!
It will be streamed.
*Throws set of Nikes at His Holiness*
Thieves confronted by 6 good men with guns after attempting to steal tools.
Don’t worry, Washington is well on its way to making sure this type of thing never happens again. The gun owners intervening to stop a crime, that is. Not the theft.
LOL, they actually shot out the tires.
*pew pew pew*
+1 No such thing as a “Good Guy with a Gun”
Fantastic. Take care of the problem and then go away before you have a new set of problems.
I know i might get ragged for this but i was part of Jury Selection for a similarish case (wasn’t selected tho). I don’t know the facts of the case so i can’t determine how i would have voted, but knowing from what i looked up after, i probably would have voted to convict. The guy shot a burglar as he fled and shot at the car as it drove off. Being a gun owner means being responsible, and part of that responsibility is being conscious of what you are shooting at and what could happen if you miss a target. I don’t think it’s valid to shoot at a fleeing thief if there is no obvious evidence that someone is in danger.
Well, in this case, they did intentionally run into someone with a car in order to avoid a citizen’s arrest.
Fair enough, that would demonstrate some intent to hurt others, and putting them in danger.
“He was coming right at me” tends to work pretty good as a defense if you’re in a certain line of work.
Professional hunter?
Someone was in danger…of having $1600 of his property stolen. Plus the dude tried to run over someone.
Running a dude over (or attempting to) is worthy of being shot at and killed. Fleeing with $1600 is not.
I am sure if it was $1600 in meds that were critical, I could get a jury to acquit.
Of course, it is always dependent on the situation. $1600 in critical medicine vs $1600 in cash. My point is that even in the most free society, the ability to use deadly force is going to be looked by a jury of your peers and that in a lot of these cases you as the user are not in such a cut and dry position as we would like to think. But yes in such a case i could be convinced to acquit.
Is fleeing with $10k in goods? $50k? $500k?
Or are you saying one should be prohibited from stopping someone from stealing property once they pick it up and begin to flee?
As Swiss points out, it will depend on the context of the goods (critical medicine, critical to your livelihood, etc) but as a principle, yeah, you shouldn’t use deadly force against someone who is not immediately threatening you. A fleeing person poses little danger to you, so shooting them is disproportionate.
I disagree with this, although I understand your point.
I should be able to determine what’s vital/critical/etc, not an arbitrary group of bureaucrats. And I can assure you that crime would drop dramatically if normal people were able to stop a robbery in progress by whatever means necessary and proper to the best of their knowledge. It’s the thief who is depriving someone of their property. And they should realize that if they’re going to steal what someone has worked for, they run the risk of that person being able to stop them at any point in the process of the theft.
My feelings are only strengthened when I think about how seriously the police take robberies that are reported to them: by not giving a single fuck.
Sorry, but someone shouldn’t be able to get away with depriving me of what is mine merely because they are one step faster than I am.
Traditionally the rule was you could use deadly force to prevent a person who had committed a felony from fleeing. That whole Felony / Misdemeanor schema was based on degree of harm, but then our masters decided to make everything on earth a felony and really muddied the waters.
This is the policy at the Wal Mart my brother works at, especially during the late shift. People waltz out of the store with TVs. For Wal Mart, it’s a write-off and they don’t have to pay security forces to hang around the store.
Get used to it, Harris will be the next president. Yahweh help us.
Kamala might have the female minority thing going for her (thank you racist leftists obsessed with race). But like Hillary, she comes across as cold and calculating. Cold Kamala or Cruel Kamala would be her Trump nickname. She’d be torn apart.
Nah, it will be something about Willie’s willie. And it won’t work.
I look on the bright side- we survived Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump. She won’t be any worse. We’re not going to get President Amash, much as I’d love that.
hmmm. let me talk to some Russians for you…
Who knew Soledad O’Brien was such a bitch? Replying to Brit Hume:
It’s not the job of the media to shame people.
And if it were, they should have been shaming Obama.
Any person who uses the let me go more slowly so you’ll understand line in an argument is best avoided at all costs.
Uh… I work with kids, so I use this all the time.
See, lots of parents are really stupid, and I have to talks slow so they can catch up with the kids.
They shamed him in November for not taking the trip in December.
I’m really confused. The shaming was going on this week. So you admit that it could not have worked because… you know… he planned for it before you shamed him.
I don’t know how these trips go to an active theater, but I remember having some VIP visit Okinawa while I was there and it totally sucked.
We spent weeks cleaning, standing inspections for a potential parade and actually drilling a bit. All because the O’s wanted to kiss ass. Us poor enlisted pukes never even got to see the bastard (my memory is making me think it was VP Bush, but can’t remember for sure).
My gut tells me that it is the same now as it was back then and a bunch of non-rates spent weeks running floor buffers for Trump to spend a couple hours there. I bet they would have liked him more if he had just done a video conference instead.
You don’t have to get ready for white glove, but they do disrupt things a bit. I remember almost fiercely cursing out a CODEL (Congressional Delegation) for interrupting a..uh, developing situation.
Cheney came to Al-Asad in 2005 when I was there. Wasn’t a big deal as far as I can remember. I will say that the Secret Service agents protecting him were fucking MASSIVE. It was like they hired the Steelers’ defensive line.
The dog that didn’t bark was when GWB made a surprise visit on… Thanksgiving? Maybe Xmas? It was a huge story because it was only planned in like 3 days, and it was a genuine surprise.
So therefore, we know that a regular visit takes much more than 3 days.
That doesn’t sound right. Someone should explain more slowly to her how time works.
Regular time, or relativistic time?
Who is she calling an asshole? Hume or Trump?
One year of legal pot sales and California doesn’t have the bustling industry it expected. Here’s why.
Wait someone at the LA Times admits leftist policies don’t work?
Someone
who used to workat the LA Times admits it.Don’t read too much into it, they just want cheap weed.
You mean, Legalize and Tax the hell out of it maintains the same black markets as not legalizing it?
I bet its still profitable on the black market.
Even moreso, with the law enforcement pressure diminished.
Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
SwissWeed, LLC. We’ll hire a bunch of Mexicans landscapers as a front!
SwissWeed has holes in it?
The plan or the product?
“Your cannabis delivered precisely on time!”
Gold/silver coins accepted as payment!
Naturally….preferred, in fact.
Why a front? Hire them for landscaping. And growing. And harvesting. And processing. And running the cafeteria. And…
/lived in TX
Thanks to everyone who linked to or enjoyed my Christmas poem, esp. SP for running it again this year.
In other news, I just started using a CPAP last night for the first time. While not entirely successful (I wore it only probably about 40% of the night, if that), I do think I’ve already received some benefit from it. But it’s a full-face version, and when I breathed out while wearing it, I felt smothered, so I kind of cheated and wore it incorrectly so I could breathe out thru my mouth outside the mask.
Anyway, this is supposed to be one of things that will change my life for the better, but first I have to get used to using it correctly.
Any advice? Have any other Glibs used one before? Thanks.
Thank you for posting the poem. It was great and I had to struggle not to chuckle at work when it got published. I sadly have never used a CPAP so I got no idea.
No advice, my father uses a CPAP and it has done pretty well for helping him get restful sleep.
I can’t sleep without mine. I often have allergies sufficient to constrict my nasal passages, but the pressurized air can make it past them. I got used to exhaling against the pressure. Plus the forced air supply lets me pull covers over my head which helps darken the room, which keeps me asleep longer.
It’s not Christmas without that poem.
My advice: use it correctly. Get a different mask if you need to. Check the settings on your machine. But the purpose of the machine is to increase the air pressure in your, well, head, and if you wear it so it leaks, it’s not doing that.
I’ve had one for years. Once you get them sorted out, they are great.
Ditto to that advice.
WHYCOME YOU HAVE STEVE SMITH STEAL, NOT RAPE? OH, WAIT – IS FICTION! GOOD JOB!
Thanks for all the responses.
I started using one a few years ago, and it legit changed my life. I was having literally off-the-charts numbers of apnea events every night before I started using it. I use a mask that covers the nose and mouth because I am forever clogged in one of not two nostrils. Not sure if that’s what you have, or the really, really full face mask that covers over your eyes.
Yes, it absolutely changed my life.
In any case:
1) Make a goal of improving your compliance a little bit every night. You did 40% last night? Shoot for 50% tonight, etc.
2) Don’t be afraid of short-term pharmaceutical aids to sleep. I used Benedril for the first couple of nights.
3) My experience doing mindfulness meditation helped out a *lot.* One, it made me more mindful of my breathing, and able to focus on it even given the novel stimulus of the mask and pressure. Two, it made me more able to accept the stimulus without feeling the need to react to it. Please note that I’m marginally claustrophobic, and sometimes have trouble on airplanes etc.
4) Spend an hour a day “practicing.” Lay down, put on the mask, put on a podcast, and just focus on wearing it and breathing. If you fall asleep, that’s great, but even if not, that’s ok.
5) While you are practicing and falling asleep at night, focus on breathing steady, deep breaths. Part of it is just acclimating your lungs and muscles to operating under greater pressure, and you need to build them up. Just like in Dragonball Z when they train in the gravity chamber. /nerdz
I got it to work correctly for me when I started using a chin-strap to keep my mouth closed.
Fargo/Moorhead weatherman talks some real Global Warming
A bit of background on Lake Agassiz
Thank you for posting that.
10K plus years ago North Africa and much of the ME was not a desert. I always thought a change in ocean currents due to the ending of the most recent ice age was the cause of the transition to desert both in north africa and central west south america but I just had a fuzzy idea of how that may have come about. Now I have a better idea of that mechanism.
Not even 10K years ago, more like 3K is my understanding.
Texas also looked a lot different 400 years ago when the Spanish first showed up. Wetter and cooler. Shit changes. Natural causes.
Impossible the world has always been a cool 70 degrees.
The book “The Fate of Rome” examines the factors that were impacting Europe in the 5th and 6th centuries CE. There were an number of factors including disease, changes in rainfall, and the pressure from Asian invaders. Most relevant to Suthen’s point. The atmospheric cooling as the climate changed from the Roman Optimum toward the Little Ice Age impacted ocean currents which then impacted rain patterns throughout the Med Basin. Mankind had zero to do with changing the climate, it just had to adapt to forces beyond it.
The book has only a couple AGW references and they feel like editor driven additions and not the author’s thesis or warning. Good read.
Given the shenanigans that the Army Corps of Engineers gets up to to keep the mouth of the Mississippi exactly where it is now, I’m sure they would have gone absolutely bonkers trying to keep Lake Agassiz dammed up if they had been around back then.
Yep. “For the wildlife”.
Yeah, I remember that. Our lakeshore cabin became a little house on the prairie…
All that Global Warming that caused Lake Agassiz to form was because you refused to stop riding that giant grass guzzler of a mastodon Fourscore!
Hope you and yours have a great 2019 at your palatial compound out there on the prairie.
SJWednesday: Yeah, I know, I’m late
I mean, at least she’s willing to admit that she’s mentally retarded. So brave.
What a basket case.
She sounds fun. A real blast at parties I bet.
Christ, what an asshole.
Compare her to Dan Crenshaw or Tyler Trent or a million other people who look at their life as a blessing. She can go fuck right off.
How about we abandon you on a mountainside?
/Spartan
“Emotional labor” has become the new most tiresome phrase spouted by lefties.
It’s totes problematic.
Right up there with their “unpaid labor at home” bs. It’s called homemaking.
Or, you could reduce some of your exhaustion by not telling people what to do and think all them damn time.
constantly educating others about ableism
Maybe people don’t want to be lectured to about bullshit.
Did a Queens Podiatrist Help Donald Trump Avoid Vietnam?
The paper of record, everybody.
I mean by 2007 Trump was quite a well known figure, so it’s not impossible that the Dr would have bragged about having seen him. And it’s possible. But then again… Since no one knows who did it, and the guy is dead…
“Mr. Trump, center, during his senior year at the New York Military Academy. ”
I have no problem with the NYT calling Trump, “Mr. Trump”. It’s traditional to refer to the president in that manner, and i don’t like titles. But I do get annoyed that they will still print “President Obama” when the man is no longer president.
“President Obama” when the man is no longer president.
This. The title goes with the office, not the person.
So…a rich guy keeps his kid from being drafted? This is surprising behavior?
And a poor man has a kid and goes to college. /1968
If anything this is something that would have been arranged by Two Scoops dad. It shows that people with means will do what they can to keep their kids safe and out of a silly war.
Perhaps, Donald took that message to heart and is now doing that same thing by getting our military out of silly wars.
I crack myself up with that kind of talk.
Side topic on this subject…
In the same way that I feel I am merely a tourist in the abortion discussion – since it doesn’t affect me directly – I feel women’s opinions on the draft are similarly less relevant.
Yeah. I am calling bullshit. Shameless liars. If the guy did it for Trump he did it for a lot of others as well. He would not have remembered Trump specifically and his daughters would not have heard about it. This bullshit is on par with ‘Kavanaugh orchestrated gang rapes’.
“Daughter throws dead father under the bus to get Trump.”
Muhammad Ali is a hero to these same people for taking the stand he did.
There’s a difference. Ali refused induction and went to prison to make his point. While I have no problem with someone doing what they can to avoid being forcibly put in the military, someone willing to go to prison to make their point is most definitely higher on the hero scale, IMO.
That may be true, but these people aren’t putting Trump on the hero scale, they put him on the villain scale
They did the same when they tore into GWB for getting a National Guard post while Bill a Clinton was
sexually assaulting womenpartying at Oxford.Sloop has a good point. The people criticizing Trump, however… “How dare he not go to a place where we can accuse him of baby killing.”
“The department is asking those who shot at the car to come forward and provide statements.”
It’s a trap! Really, it is. Don’t do it fellas.
This. Referring to the guy i talk about above from my jury selection, if he had talked to a lawyer before talking to the cops, he probably would have been in a much better place.
I read the article. Nobody shot at the car. They shot at the tires. Nothing freaking semantic about this. This kind of thing should happen more often.
Something something think of the children who might have been hit by stray bullets (but weren’t).
I guess that my education and experience with firearms tells me that shooting through tires into asphalt pretty much drains all the energy out of any projectile. Probably the safest way to discharge a firearm anywhere.
As i said above, being responsible gun owner means you have to be responsible for the consequences of using that gun. Shooting a gun willy nilly shows negligent disregard to others. If you can demonstrate that you thought the perpetrator was endangering you or others then you would have a case that it wasn’t willy nilly, but if you are just trying to shoot someone fleeing, you are no better than the cops who shoot criminals in the back, or fire wildly.
(as it is, it looks like this criminal was using his car to ram other people.)
The two moron thieves would have been dead if it had been cops. Ever hear of cops shooting out tires? It would have been a 6 cop mag dump, two dead suspects and probably a couple of cops and bystanders hit in the circular firing squad.
Cops being dumb shits is not a good defense.
The reason why cops don’t shoot out tires is that guns are used for deadly force. If you are going to use them, you best be trying to kill something. The fact that they shot out the tires actually is detrimental to their case.
Detrimental in front of what jury? My guess – DA would put the screws to them to get them to plead out and lose their gun rights so the case never gets in front of a jury. They made the cops look bad.
I’m not going to argue a hypothetical. But the fact that they shot out the tires shows that they were not trying to kill anyone, which in turn demonstrates at least a little that they didn’t really fear for their life or the life of others. You don’t fire warning shots.
Anyway i think these guys would have a good case. Multiple witnesses show that the robbers had a weapon, that they threatened to run someone over.
Reading the article I see that the armed guys were surrounding the vehicle which the thieves were trying to flee in. So when they shot at the tires it wasn’t from some distance away but a couple feet away – basically downward into the tires.
I have been a Marine using firearms in dynamic situations, and I have a bachelors in Mechanical Engineering as well as having a lot of experience shooting at discarded vehicles in the US southwest where I grew up – so I understand a lot about how hypersonic projectiles perform while penetrating different media.
Really, shooting handgun ammunition downward into a tire with asphalt beyond that – the tire will get the bullet to expand and the asphalt will soak up the rest of any remaining energy. No ricochets. Nobody harmed.
I could convince a jury that they saw the car was trying to run someone over, so they shot the tires out to stop it. If they were depraved, indifferent monsters, they would have lit up the drivers.
/Prior trial lawyer off
@Swiss
I believe you could also convincingly argue killing the driver could cause the car to accelerate and harm others.
To be clear, I mean that killing the driver would be less preferable to disabling the car, thus removing a large potential for mayhem from the equation.
I also tend to think that using a gun only In a situation where you intend to kill something could be misguided. Though the situations are limited, I think this case is an example. A gun is a tool. Is using it to shoot tires ideal? No, but certainly can be effective in catching the thief or other evil doer. Who, as was said would likely get away with it if they weren’t caught right away.
I Fully understand the potential for idiots to cause problems, but I think most ccw holders are pretty good about understanding their gun and what it can do.
IOW, until I see evidence of good citizens causing harm, I’d rather see more of this than less.
If you know what’s behind your target and act accordingly, I have no problem with shooting a thief as he escapes with your property.
Sorry, but my right to defend my property doesn’t end simply because the thief has started to flee and has his back to me. A crime has taken place. A crime with a victim. And the victim has every right to stop the crime in progress to protect what he/she has worked to obtain.
And if you killed that guy i’d vote to convict you of murder.
So you don’t think someone should be able to stop a robbery in progress once the thief has turned to go?
Current state of the law differs, but most places you cannot use deadly force on a fleeing property crime perp. Disproportionate. Now, if it is a cop…. “I was in fear for my life” would work, no matter where the guy was facing….video evidence might stop that from working (Laquan McDonald).
How is this possible? You can’t have private people raising money to help school kids! The only acceptable way to pay for that milk is to have the govt impose a new tax and a new department to allocate the new revenue to the proper kids.
*I have a friend who says the reason I stopped growing in the 6th grade was because I missed out on the morning milk time because I was in “timeout” for some transgression.
Wouldn’t have sex with your teacher too?
HEAD Teacher. Head Teacher. I’m trying to have sex with her.
There’s no special reason for humans to drink milk after weaning. But it’s their money.
Dolly Parton haz a sad.
Anything that makes Dolly sad makes me sad.
Why do all of Dolly’s kids have mustaches?
To hide the stretch marks!
Ummm i’ve seen the cereal commercials. Milk is always a part of a complete breakfast.
Milk is gross and should only be used when cooking.
Unpopular, yet factually correct—-People who put milk in cereal are doing it wrong and should be publicly shamed for their bad decision.
Cereal is supposed to be eaten with the fingers as a snack. The crunch is a huge part of its appeal. People who purposefully drown perfectly good food, transforming it into soggy mush are bad people who should be treated badly.
Cereal=Finger food. Y’all mafuckas need
Jesusless liquid dairy, yo.Dude, you don’t like Korean food and now you are proudly spouting nonsense about milk?
Are you trying to out-UCS, UCS?
Why would any grown man ever need milk outside of a sauce or some drink with hooch in it?
Honest part of the “problem”–I find the taste of bland cornflakes to be a very subtle and pleasurable taste. I’m a supertaster. I can literally eat one flake at a time and relish it.
I’m much more food adventurous that UCS is, I reckon, but to me a lot of it is just about simplicity and enjoying what you have. Spicy is the only thing that I don’t really like. I have far, far more problems with texture in my food than with taste.
The wrong texture (chewy that doesn’t break down/cartilage) will make me gag immediately.
You’re a strange motherfucker, do you know that?
Milk is delicious.
I don’t have as visceral a hatred of it as I used to, true. My real quibble is that cereal shouldn’t be served in milk. It’s stoopid. Why deprive the cereal of its signature characteristic?
Of all the things that I’ve said or done, ‘not being a milk enthusiast’ is an odd one to break the camel’s back.
I’ve done…things.
I suppose cheese is right out too? *squints suspiciously*
Don’t know about you but I have between 0600 and 0615 to get some sustenance in my gut to tide me through to noon or so. I would so love to be able to sit and relish every morsel that passes my lips but time and tide wait for no man. Getting some protein in with all that carbo is about as close as I can get to balance in the time allowed.
This rind, this cheese– it’s a part of our past, Swiss. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh… people will come Swiss. People will most definitely come.
Cheese is life. Milk (largely) is unfinished cheese.
@Tejicano: Drink the milk in a glass. Eat the cereal using your fingers as shovels.
It’s the combining of the two that bothers me.
***Disclaimer: I have outed myself as a very slow eater before. I eat like a bird, nibbling at shit all day at work, pretty much never stopping.
I have an incredible oral fixation. My nails are a wreck. (Yes, yes. On the giving end of that as well. )
ITS NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK I NEED. WHAT PART OF SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND. OH ALSO WHEN YOU SAY NOONE NEEDS A GALLON OF MILK A DAY, LOOK WHAT THIS GUY DID WHEN FIVE GAINSGOBLINS BROKE INTO HIS HOUSE.
FUCK OFF SLAVER!!
As we speak, I, a “grown” man, am having a bowl of Fruity Pebbles with almond juice (milk) on it. Where does this lie on your gross food pyramid?
What do I drink with my cookies then? I’ve tried it with beer, you don’t want to be in the same room with me 15 minutes later.
Clark Griswold was working on a non-nutritive cereal varnish for the crunch issue.
Why would you ruin Fruity Pebbles by milking-down and adulterating an otherwise fine and delicious product?
Just put them in a ziplock and munch away at them all day. The milk goes in the glass.
Also a reality–the proper way to eat Reese’s is to eat the corrugated sides first, then shave off the top and bottom chocolate bits. Left with a solid ball of pure
cocaine, you put it in your cheek and let it slowly dissolve, filling your mouth with goodness for minutes.A similar tactic is useful when eating Oreos, but I highly recommend discipline: Take apart several of them and mash the filling together, leaving you with a lump of cream that can be stored in your cheek for a similar amount of time.
I am going to be pilloried for this. But thus it is so.
I have no problem with people having distinct and individual tastes. I do not suffer them pontificating to others in defense of them. I HATE fish. I flatly don’t eat it. I would never insinuate that anyone else should follow my lead.
@Blackjack
It should be patently clear that I don’t give a damn how other people eat their food or have their own tastes. I hate Korean food but don’t care if you love it. You do you.
I just think that they are patently wrong and that they should know so. 🙂
Then they should tell me that I’m wrong and we all have a laugh about it and go on our merry way.
And then have sex.
Hahaha…well, that was fun Evan. I’ll be merrily going now.
No, Evan. There will be no sex.
Good thing, Jimbo, if in fact you did stop growing physically in 6th grade. At least your sense of humor/brilliance continues on to this day, for which we are all enriched. Happy New Year.
I went from being the biggest kid in my class (there were 3 guys taller but they were bean poles) at 5′ 10″ to maybe the 30th or so. One of the “achievements” I am proud of is that no one ever came looking to beat my ass later because I bullied them when I was the big kid.
You were a bully?
*begins search effort*
**looks for brass knuckles**
No. I was trying to say that I wasn’t a bully (the proof of which is that no ex-victim ever tried to get some back later when they grew up).
So Pope Jimbo is Gary Coleman?
Pet Peeves: Holiday cards with glitter on them. That shit gets all over my desk.
*proceeds to order and send a glitter bomb to Scruffy*
*submits Raphael to ICC for violations of the Geneva Convention*
I’ve always wanted to be hunted down by the ICC.
Genf is overrated. And really, expensive.
Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.
I send my nieces cards with glitter on them. They always ask, “Who’s Gary?”
*tapers stare*
*fiercely narrows gaze*
Thank you.
Engineer designs glitter bomb with fart spray for package thieves.
(turns out some of the thieves were hired actors, but it’s still a cool vidya)
Here is the thing that pisses me off about him hiring actors. He has another video about how someone faked creating a hover device for their phone. He calls that other Youtuber a fraud because he links to parts on amazon to make it which are affiliate links. He also has videos calling out carnival games as fraudulent. But it’s okay when he does it I guess.
If you expand the video description he explains what happened and has cut the video that had actors in it. Seems pretty decent.
Agree with you Leon though, that he went after a dude making a fake video and he ends up with something suspect, it leaves a bad feeling.
I’m sure if Sloopy was doing the morning links he would for sure have added some sportsball links. Especially ones that talk about the dominating performance of THE U of M Golden Rodents
Ski-U-Mah!
I would definitely have.
I would have also brought up the fact that TTUN hasn’t beaten The Ohio State Iniversity in football in 2588 days.
One. More. Day. Left. Seven more classes.
The 6-month+ endless panic attack is about to end.
I wonder just how awkward it will be when I just take the stairs at the end of the day (instead of the elevator) with the other teachers and just bounce. I’m not even sure I want to shake hands with the boss. I guess I should extend that tiny courtesy. They still have my bonus to pay me.
I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that I will not be banging my head teacher. I’m not gonna need quite the Christmas Miracle for that to transpire.
Good luck on your last day, man.
Is this your head teacher? If so, we’re all pulling for you.
I’m “Pulling” it to that gif later
I’ll be in my bunk.
Hrm. I’d rather fuck my head teacher.
Certainly isn’t that hot, but there’s the personal component to it now. It’s serious.
Now we must have pics.
I might have been unclear.
My boss, while being very cute, is not nearly as hot as that fine specimen. However, because of personal issues, she has become my White Whale, and I honestly would rather fuck her than said red-dressed bombshell.
Wait, Amy Schumer works at your school? I’m confused.
Now I got beer all over my monitor. Thanks, good sir!
My Korean head teacher isn’t white.
You are being silly, sir!
NOR IS SHE A WHALE!
DAMMIT!
But she teaches head, or how to do it… because she’s a head teacher… please explain
She’s the top-ranked teacher at the school. There’s the Boss and the Boss’ wife, who run the business end, and she runs the teaching end.
Think of her as the bench coach to the manager in the dugout.
I’m saying that I’d be glad to give her a performance review concerning her head-giving abilities.
You silly goose.
Doesn’t matter. We must judge.
Ready your harpoon Cap’n Ahab.
Euphemism ahoy!
Fucking kids today! Head teacher? In my day we had to learn all about that shit on our own in the back seat of a car.
What, was it different diddling them back in the day, old man?
Sex is best learned in the gutter, through misinformation. If it was good enough for us, by golly, its good enough for the rest of humanity. Car? you had a car? Try a bike with balloon tires and no fenders. Kids today, anyway.
There’s no special reason for humans to drink milk after weaning.
It’s delicious. That’s reason enough for me.
I will always defend with my dying breath your right to say outrageous things.
Now, if you turn it into cheese…
My sinus object strenuously to milk, as do my innards. However, it IS delicious.
As a kid we used to get our milk directly from our neighbor. We’d bring our 3 gallon container to his house and get it right out of the pasteurizer. After it sat over night, Mom would skim the cream off the top.
To my ever lasting shame, I was so happy when we moved to town and started buying milk from the store because it was like the milk all my friends had at their house and didn’t have all those cream clots like our old “country” milk had.
The tragedy of our times is how hard it is to get whole milk now. Fucking choices are usually 2% or skim (aka chalk water).
It isnt hard to get whole milk around here. Also, pretty rural area and you can buy raw milk without too much trouble. I dont bother, I just buy whole. I am also fond of putting a couple of scoops of ice cream in a big glass and filling it with milk.
Where are you that you cant get whole milk?
You can get whole milk at the store pretty easily. But if you are traveling for work, I can guarantee that your options at the hotel will be skim or 2%. Same at most restaurants.
The food crazies who spent decades terrorizing us with tales of horror when it comes to fat have pushed whole milk into the fringes.
This is true. We were just in a hotel for several days while visiting my wife’s family for Christmas, and skim and 2% was all they had at the complimentary breakfast.
I used to enjoy mint and chip shakes from Baskin Robbins, but about 15 years ago they switched to low/non fat milk and now they suck. They don’t even have whole milk on the premises. It’s a fucking shake. Nobody is drinking it hoping to lose weight.
But if you are traveling for work
Unless you are in Switzerland.
Next you’ll be telling me I shouldn’t be playing with a woman’s mammaries after I’ve been weaned.
FIX BAYONETS!!!
Off topic, I now have joined the masses who have a sous vide stick. Today will be the first test run of it on a pork tenderloin for dinner.
I love my sous vide cooker. It simplifies the cooking so much.
The best thing about it though is the impact it has had on my marriage. In the olden days I would ask my wife how long she needed to throw together a salad and cook the veggies. Then I would start grilling the meat at the appropriate time. When the grilling was done I would come in and find that my wife hadn’t started her cooking yet, or had gotten distracted. So there would be friction as we ate cold food.
With sous vide, you only have to sear it when you are about 10 minutes from eating and you can’t overcook it. So now I can start when I see with my own eyes that the rest of the food is ready to go.
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Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
On the one hand that’s great, you will make many delicious meals with it. On the other hand, you have to be careful with how much you talk it up. You don’t want your GF realizing how much simpler her life has become because she’s replaced your careful exertions with a simple electric-powered cylinder that’s the length of her forearm and just about one hand’s grip in diameter.
What you did there…
Always good to wait for all the facts to come out before outraging.
But then I can’t blame Drumpf for all ills in the world. Also, I did find it particularly mendacious when some in the media were trying to pin what is a decision for doctors on the Border Patrol agents with regard to this kid that died.
No shyte. Having grown up and lived much of my life while in the US right on the border I know that few people grasp what a wasteland much of the border is – and it is that way for hundreds of miles approaching from north or south. Any purported parent who would bring a child under the age of 15 through that stretch of desert has to own whatever outcome happens. The Border Patrol has no responsibility in that outcome.
Maybe covered, but…‘Having a penis and competing as a woman is not fair’: Navratilova inflames transgender fury
Following an avalanche of criticism the former tennis great apologized for her tweet promising to “educate herself on this issue.”
Following an avalanche of criticism the former tennis great apologized for her tweet promising to “educate herself on this issue.”
I hope she comes back about a week from now and tweets something along the lines of “Yeah, so I purchased a high school biology textbook and it turns out I was right. Get fucked”
It’s more likely her sponsors called.
NEVER APOLOGIZE. Again, one day, just one day, somebody will learn.
I certainly would love to watch Martina educating herself about penises.
#metoo
Oh FFS. When will people learn. NEVER APOLOGIZE.
What is really funny about this story are all the jokes going back forever about Navratilova.
“What does Martina and tennis have in common?”
A- “Fuzzy balls”
The side bar contained a link to some twitter uproar about this.
I’ll be in my bunker.
Ahem
I don’t know about “always”, but I believe it started well before the “T” latched itself onto that collection of identities.
‘Having a penis and competing as a woman is not fair’
Correct.
avalanche of criticism
Get bent.
UPS Settles Religious Discrimination Suit With EEOC for $4.9 Million
“(The company) is proud of the diversity of its workforce and does not tolerate discrimination of any kind.”
Really? No discrimination of any kind?
They hire serial killers and rapists all the time.
The EEOC is going to distribute that money to the “victims” right…?
If by “victims” you mean Democratic crony organizations like the SPLC and Common Dreams, then yes.
My religion dictates that I do nothing but surf Glibs from 8am to 4:30pm.
I didn’t know you were a civil servant.
Piker. My religion has 52 venerated saints that require followers to take off each Monday to celebrate (provided they are up to date on their tithing).
I also have a very open approach to adding new religious duties (like taking a nap after lunch), although the religious research for special dispensations like that does cost extra.
What does 3 pieces of lefse, 1 krumkake, and a half drank pint of HotDamn get me?
I’ll absolve you of one venal sin for that.
It would be more, except I’m going to have to waste a bunch of time wiping all that NoDak snuse drool off the HotDamn.
If you want absolution for a mortal sin you are going to have to pony up some lutefisk.
I thought lutefisk was the penance, like wearing a hair shirt
CnS at family gathering.
Government Shutdown, Day Six
“Got to the entrance of Yellowstone this morning, and there was nobody there at the booth to take my money. The animals have all escaped their cages and are wandering around loose. There is some sort of massive plumbing leak which shoots water a hundred feet into the air. The roads have not been plowed. It’s horrific.”
It’s missing all the dead and/or starving children on the streets and buildings aflame.
I saw some story yesterday that I hate read that was nothing but govt workers and contractors wailing about how hard their lives were because they had no cash reserves.
Don’t know about the rest of the country, but the story had the reverse effect on me. I went from not caring to hoping that they all died of starvation before they were able to go back to work and get their back pay.
Sounds like the government moochers could spend some of their time off attending a Dave Ramsey seminar on personal finance.
Maybe you shouldn’t buy the 600,000 house huh?
The worst were the stories about them having to work extra shifts at a bookstore! Imagine the horrors of standing in a quiet store for hours on end.
So instead of getting a completely free vacation, these cash poor fucks have to work shifts at odd jobs. I’m sure they will learn from this and when that back pay comes in they will put it into a savings account or pay off some debt.
” having to work extra shifts at a bookstore!”
Outrageous ! having to work. extra. shifts. in a bookstore.
You don’t know what its like having to deal with smart, educated people that want to talk about literature and stuff. So there.
they had no cash reserves.
That’s their own fault. And I find it unlikely that none of these people have credit cards. They are going to be paid for this time off eventually.
They did this back in 93 as well. It was a formative moment in my politics when I listened to a 17 year veteran of the IRS claim he couldn’t go two weeks with deferred pay. The media outlets didn’t seem to get how unsympathetic the stories were then either.
California’s Background Check Law Had No Impact on Gun Deaths, Johns Hopkins Study Finds
Settled science is settled, yo.
Yet, the Hopkins School of Public Health will continue to agitate for gun control. For such a great organization, my alma mater can be quite the bag of assholes.
And i thought the Leftisist “Fucking Loved” Science.
Linked all fooked oops.
An old commentary from my Facebook feed holds up pretty well
Gold.
PWNED!
Acclaimed CBS News anchor Dan Rather invoked a recent presidential faux pas to criticize President Donald Trump’s stance on climate change.
Trump spoke with a 7-year-old on Christmas Eve, asking the young child, “Are you still a believer in Santa? ’Cause at 7, it’s marginal, right?”
Rather repeated Trump’s language when lashing out at the U.S. leader on Twitter on Tuesday.
“Just a thought: Which should be considered more ‘marginal’ – believing in Santa at age 7 or not believing in climate change at age 72?” the journalist wrote on Tuesday.
That’s “notorious liar” Dan Rather, if you don’t mind.
I’m surprised he didn’t bring up der Drumpfenfuhrer’s draft deferment.
Hey, just a thought Dan: Which should be considered more ‘marginal’ – not believing in climate change at age 72 or believing in the Killian documents at age 73?
As attorney general of California, Harris challenged the release of a man who had been exonerated by the Innocence Project and had his conviction overturned. Harris argued that Daniel Larsen, who spent 13 years in prison for the crime of possessing a concealed knife, had not produced evidence of his innocence fast enough.
Two things:
1) How the fuck is that a crime? And why the fuck is the sentence that long?
2) What an evil cunt.
had not produced evidence of his innocence fast enough
I’m not sure how anyone can possibly use that as a justification for the continuation of an unwarranted prison term. It’s fairly mind boggling.
The story said (I know I am such a sissy for reading it) that the knife violation was his third strike. So they teed him up for a 27 year bit in the joint as a habitual offender.
From the same article:
1. Holy shit, Cali; late 3 times all year is truant? Authoritarian much?
2. Yes, missing first period 3 times is up their with robbery and assault. Assholes.
I was a super truant according to those rules. At least I learned how to cover my tracks and get away with it.
A friend of ours went on a long vacation to the South Pacific and Hawaii (some was work related, but mostly vacation). They had to split it out over the new year so their kids would only miss so much school in a given year. Just hearing his story about it made my blood boil. How the school thinks that your kids belong to them makes me crazy.
“A child going without an education is tantamount to a crime.”
Tantamount mean it is not. And if it is then you better lock up everyone associated with CA public education.
Jokes aside, this is authoritarian as fuck.
Are Most Men Sexist? The Data Says Yes Even if They Say No.
Spoiler: even under the most generous interpretation they found that a minority of men held what they considered to be sexist viewpoints belying their own headline.
fatherly.com?
Googling the first author I see, it’s this guy. Yeah, I’m getting my parenting advice from a tatted hipster with a hedgehog.
As we all know the people who give the best parenting advice are the ones not qualified to raise themselves.
WOW.
That picture….really checks all of the boxes, doesn’t it?
looks a lot like DoomCo
It’s like asking for tire changing tips from…nevermind.
Hipster Bob Saget!
“believe that women are better suited for nurturing roles”
Here’s the problem with “Femenisim” these days They are totally in the Nurture camp when it comes to this but then when we talk about gender identity they are in the Nature camp. You can’t have it both ways.
What the hell does that mean? Is this like implicit racism where it’s pretty much BS pseudo-psychological level stuff?
It means you are irredeemable. Original sin stains you forever. Now, do as you are told.
Anyone who has been around dogs knows that the overriding motive for everything they do is about pecking order. Who tells who what to do. The primitive human is exactly the same. None of these issues are what they purport to be. Not feminism, gun control, racism, equality, religion, whatever. The issue is control. This is the fundamental difference with liberty minded people. If every person has inalienable rights then there is no pecking order. This is where we run afoul of the rest of humanity. They dont understand us and we cant stomach their constant attempts to control.
I have started day drinking so I am not sure if that makes any sense. I cant even leave here and watch TV because the weather knocked it out.
I agree with your point about dogs
RE: weather
We had a downpour that is worthy of spring proportions come in about 10 last night that lasted about 6 hours. On my way home from work this morning, the creeks were up at spring time level highs and the low water bridges were underwater.
Also, the lighting that accompanied this rain knocked out the main 161kv power feed into my plant last night. In the pouring rain at about eleven o’clock last night, I was in the switchyard replacing a 250kv rated MOV so that I could reset the breaker that fed power to my plant.
After that, I got to go relight 3 heat furnaces, 1 billet reheat furnace, 7 cooling water systems, cycle off 4 diesel generators and throw the transfer switches back into plant feed power mode, replace two uninterrupted power supply modules that failed to supply uninterrupted power, and find and reset 3 MCC feeders that tripped when too many motors came back online upon power restoration for the feeder to feed.
Probably mostly jibberish above, it I swear I ain’t described the half of it. Power outages in large industrial facilities are a bad deal.
We have some kind of ungodly large UPS here consisting of one of those flywheels that causes mysterious illnesses to everyone within 3 miles to keep things running until the generators are up to full.
They were doing a switch changeover, and managed to bring the whole UPS down, while keeping normal power unaffected.
Back up generators that store momentary energy in a flywheel are cool as fuck.
The idea is-
We want uninterepted power. When the electricity from the grid quits, it takes a few seconds for a diesel generator to start up and begin supplying power. However, if the diesel generator is already turning and has an amount of stores energy stored on the flywheel, then when the transfer switch flips over to the generator power, then you dont lose any power while the engine starts.
Flywheels are cool as fuck.
Ask me about how a 1952 model john deer square baler generates enough energy to cut a 18in×12in block of compacted hay without slowing down the packing and feeding mechanism at all.
So then there’s a small electric motor to keep the flywheel turning at all times? I get how/why it works, just unclear on what it looks like. I don’t recall ever seeing a system with a flywheel on it.
Should be on the end of the crankshaft, I believe.
Yes. A small electric motor with a softstart system is used to get the fly wheel going. If the main generator ever kicks on, then the power is. It to that motor.
Ankther benefit to having the flywheel running the engine all the time is that it keeps the engine healthy. An internal combustion engine that sits for long periods of time will developed problems.
No oil on the piston seals, is the big one.
If that engine sits there running all the time without combusting any fuel in its pistons, then it will remain lubricated without putting any stress on the engine.
This makes for a more reliable engine that is only needed every once in a great while.
It also keeps rust off the valves and pumps fuel through the system and through the filter, mitigating problems associated with particulate condensation in fuel tanks.
I haven’t actually seen mine, just the huge concrete building it’s kept in. And all the berms, walls and sand pits that are supposed to prevent nearby residents from complaining.
Yes. Another benefit is that flywheels smooth the power pulses, whether it’s accelerating or decelerating. A rapid start with power applied early can overcome the oil film in the bearings and damage them.
We have a problem here. The river is up. The bayou consequently is up pretty high and now we are getting drowned in rain. I mean the bottom is really falling out. It is supposed to go all day. The Suthen house is on a high hill but not all of my neighbors are so lucky. I half expect to be buying and hauling cases of Dinty Moore beef stew to the local shelter soon.
There’s some massive weather that stretches from you all the way up to me. We’re getting a blizzard out of it up here. Be safe down there.
Hi Mike, about 5 inches of snow, another 4-5 predicted. No wind, not a blizzard type, just that slow, methodical small flaked stuff that accumulates over time. Medium weight, temps in the 20s. I shoveled off the patio and a spot to feed the critters, I’ll wait ’til it finishes to run the snow blower and clear the yard.
That doesn’t sound too bad.
We got the sloppy, 50lb-per-shovelfull shit overnight. Now it’s raining.
Yuck.
I’d say we got around 4″. Tough to say for sure since we had some wind with it overnight so there is some drifting. There’s a 3 footer in front of the garage. Wind is starting to pick up; about 20 mph right now. Supposed to see gusts up to 50mph this afternoon, but not much new snow. If the forecast holds up, it’ll be a ground blizzard as light as this snow is.
I said the hell with it and stayed home today. (I have an hour drive in good weather). Tomorrow once the winds subsides a bit I’ll start digging out.
Stay warm!
Good luck to both of you!
Thanks Tundra. Hopefully the rain washes all the snow away, and it stays warm enough to not turn to ice.
I am praying that is rains enough that I don’t have to shove anything by the time I get home from work.
*fingers crossed*
All perfect sense.
Humans and canines are symbiotic species. We evolved together and share some traits. One of the problems is that a number of humans want to look on other humans as canines.
Winter Storm “Eboni”?
SRSLY?
Yea, should be spelled with a ‘y’.
Efghi
Hey don, look upthread a bit an critique my opinion of flywheel maintained industrial generators.
I know that you know about stuff like that, probably better than I do.
Abcde’s brother?
Watch out for the black ice, or as I like to call it, Ivoree.
Got to watch out for that dangerous Black Ice
That’s a great bit. One of their best.
My wife’s gay friend liked to say his car smelled like “black guys”
He just had an air freshener that was called “Black Ice” and that’s the way he pronounced it.
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*poorly muffled laughter*
Saudi Arabia reshuffles Council of Ministers
Sultan bin Salman has been moved from the presidency of the Tourism Authority and appointed as Chairman of the Space Authority, which was established under the name of Saudi Space Authority. The Authority shall have a Board of Directors appointed by Royal Order.
#governmentmakework
Shit, they subscribe to the theory that another group in my company subscribes to. It’s not that we have the wrong people in management positions it’s that they don’t have the correct title after their. When we shift the engineering manager to the manufacturing manager and the manufacturing to the general and the general to the engineering everything will be smooth sailing.
had not produced evidence of his innocence fast enough
By all means, let’s put Kamala “PROVE YOUR INNOCENCE” Harris in the White House, where she will be charged with a Presidential duty to “preserve protect, and defend the Constitution”.
As long as you do it quickly enough, what’s the problem?
So he got drunk, chatted up Spacey all night, and then had the presence of mind to stretch his arm twelve feet away in order to capture the “rape”. I can’t be the only one that finds this story a tad unbelievable.
And then his mother (Would, MA), a retired news anchor who is now in the documentary business, runs point on the story.
Looked up the mother given your comment, and yeah, also would
The camera explains why he couldn’t just push Spacey’s hands away, like a normal person. I guess the show must go on…
Look ma, I’m getting molested by a celebrity!
Eek
A Georgia man who worked as a Walmart Santa Claus was arrested after the remains of his teen children were found buried in his backyard, authorities revealed.
Maybe John Wayne Gacy was his role model.
No, no! That is for clowns, not Santa!
Oldest running annual joke between lachowsky and his brothers. It’s a question we all ask one another only on Christmas day.
Q. Why do the cops have to work on Christmas?
A. Because their families hate them.
Year after year, it never gets old.
*EDIT FAIRY BLESSES YOU*
How does one go about ‘hatting’ another?
Tis such a strange place, I’ve stumbled upon.
*EDIT FAIRY PUNKS YOU*
Was supposed to say hate. Fucking typos ruin everything.
*BUT IT DOES, THANKS TO EDIT FAIRY*
I am confused. You said that is a joke?
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Police-domestic-violence-nearly-twice-average-rate-2536928.php
All good jokes have a basis in truth
My brother-in-law is a firefighter, and he enjoys telling the story of when some cops stopped by the firehouse for something, and were surprised they were eating cookies given to them by the public. My BIL responded, “When we deal with the public, they’re usually happy we were there.”
My cub scouts sell popcorn as a fundraiser. One option is for people to pay for their popcorn* and have it donated to “Hometown Heroes,” which are firefighters, cops, and military. Each pack decides how to distribute it themselves. I always wonder what the mix of donations are, especially broken by political tribe…
*at like $20 a bag, everyone knows its more of a $20 donation with a $3 bag of thank you in exchange.
I bought some microwave popcorn from my nephew. I don’t mind overpaying, like you said, I know it’s a donation with a thank you gift. However, the frustrating part was that when I got it, the bags are only about 2/3 the size of normal microwave popcorn. Just make them the proper size and charge more, or put less in the box. Making something smaller than the expected size is only a good way to irritate people.
/steps off soap box
Yeah, I’m really not a fan of the popcorn set up. But we do very, very well with it and it doesn’t seem to be doing anything bad to our goodwill, so I’m loathe to change.
And I never noticed this problem because we either get the whole kernels and pop it in a pot, or we get the flavored stuff. But good to know.
Yeah, it didn’t bother me near as much as my comment would suggest. It’s for a good cause and I’ll do it a gain next year. I’ll just need to remember the proper amount of time in the microwave. *anger rises*
It’s nice having 1st World problems, isn’t it?
Should only be families of those killed – firefighters first, military second…no cops who get in traffic accidents.
In reality keep in mind that the vast majority of people the cops interact with are not having their best day. That will jade the best of people. Couple that with that the kinds of people attracted to police work and you have a recipe for trouble.
I have worked in a police dept. and I grew up with a lot of guys who became cops. You get two kinds: solid gold and psychopaths.
Like any group of people it isnt fair to generalize.
I disagree.
The vast majority of people cops interact with are committing traffic violations.
And I have always hear of the myth of the solid gold cop.
I’m not convinced. A solid gold cop would spend all his time rooting out and exposing the shittiness of the others in his department.
Since this type of solid gold cop doesn’t exist, I paint them all with a broad brush.
Given your experiences I am not going to ask you to believe me instead of your lying eyes. I remember the video of you getting hassled and your story about your friend being shot.
I know some good ones. I know a lot of bad ones. The ones in between dont last long as cops. I might be biased based on the area I live in. Everyone knows everyone. Deputies here in LA work at the pleasure of the Sheriff. Our constitution reads “The Sheriff is the chief law enforcement officer and chief tax collector.” <—notice the period. No exception is made for municipal cops or the state police or the Feds. There is no union and the Sheriff is elected. Deputies tend to tow the line here because their job is to campaign for the Sheriff all of the time every day. In a parish with 15K people every vote counts. Hell, most of the elections here are won by double digits. Our officials are accountable and they know it.
A while back they had a Sheriff over in Lasalle parish that was a real law and order type. No tolerance. Two years in he had given traffic tickets to everyone in the parish and arrested their dogs too. He was catching a lot of shit over it. One day he walked into a police jury meeting and threw his badge at the board. “You can all go to hell!” he screamed at them. They all sat there with poker faces and said –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVrEwCa8nSA
Getting out of customer service was the smartest move I ever made (a couple decades ago). Dealing with one asshole after the other every day was turning me into a pretty unpleasant person.
Same thing for the firefighters and EMT folks. The difference is more people deal with the cops when they get a ticket or some other bullshit. I’ve only known a handful of people who got pissed at the fire inspector.
I’ve only known a handful of people who got pissed at the fire inspector.
Add me to your handful.
Police https://imgur.com/gallery/vdT7NUz
That’s how it goes.
Thanks for the edit, Swiss I presume
Are you The Big Lachowsky?
So my website has a Contact Us submission form and I’ve been agitating for my provider to put a recaptcha on the page so I don’t get bombarded with spambots, but I got the strangest one yet today.
“Hello and Bye” Who spends the time and effort to run a spambot that doesn’t even offer me hot juicy Russian women in my town that are ready to get nasty?
I would be careful…it is probably a scout of some sort!
*flicks safety off of M-4*
RAPE UP 25% IN TRUMP’S AMERICA!
/the hot take I expected
Thot Thursday brining joy to those (like myself) stuck working when 95% of everyone else is still sleeping off their hangover.
http://archive.is/DW2vj
30 seems like she has a nice personality.
34’s shirt is an affront to all that is good in the world and I demand that she remove it immediately
32 needs to clean the bathtub. And that’s not a euphemism.
I don’t think they’re planning on finding a
matefinancier by virtue of their housekeeping skills.This perfectly illustrates something I mentioned a few days ago. Intimate life with a woman means seeing her shave her armpits in the shower, on her knees cleaning the bathtub, blow drying her hair just out of that shower naked, cooking in a t-shirt and panties, rubbing her feet in front of the TV at the end of the day and her drooling on you while she sleeps on your chest. There are a lot of men out there that for whatever reason dont have that so there is a whole niche of ‘porn’ that just involves that. It isnt even sexual. It is just about intimacy.
“cooking in a t-shirt and panties”
Is she cooking bacon in this fantasy?
That’s all well and good, but that tub is gross.
Google approves app to report incidents of Islamic blasphemy
Google has officially approved an app for use in Indonesia enabling blasphemy, including about homoseuxality, to be reported:
A new Android app has launched with the focus of allowing Muslims to report individuals who commit blasphemy, or insult Islam.
No, this is not a joke. The app, “Smart Pakem”, which launched in Indonesia last month at the request of the Indonesian government, will allow users and government officials to uphold Sharia law and target and report people who hold “misguided” beliefs in violation of Islamic law, which forbids insults of Islam, insults against the Prophet Mohammed, or the recognition of any other religion besides Islam.
“Don’t be evil.”
queue angry mob to toss a homosexual off a roof in 3….2….1….
I thought they changed it to “Don’t get caught.”
So Google Collaborates with China to put down Muslim descent and Collaborates with Muslims in Indonesia to murder “blasphemers”. Seems like the one consistent principle is to stand with the people in power.
They’re going to get people killed with this one. Really a stupid move.
I wish I knew a good class action plaintiff lawyer – I would get the referral…
I have no doubt this is just a trial run for implementation in the US when the great revolution is upon us.
Anyone have any knowledge of Metro Cnet? It’s a freelance writing/editing thing. Some people are saying it’s a scam and some saying that they just have really stringent standards and will reject pretty quickly. I have taken some side gigs with another content management company (did get paid and even interviewed with them, but I couldn’t start on time) and can confirm how stringent they are, so the comments this guy made seem in form for a business of this kind.
Just checking. Thanks if anyone has any info.
Trump: ‘Most of the people not getting paid’ in shutdown are Democrats
“Have the Democrats finally realized that we desperately need Border Security and a Wall on the Southern Border. Need to stop Drugs, Human Trafficking, Gang Members & Criminals from coming into our Country,” he tweeted.
“Do the Dems realize that most of the people not getting paid are Democrats?” he added.
Troll master of the universe.
“Need to stop Drugs… from coming into our Country”
Do you want GayJay to run for president? This is how you get GayJay to run again!
No, no. You misunderstand. No imported drugs. We will make all our drugs in the USA. The best drugs! Classy drugs!
Will be watching They Shall Not Grow Old today with the wife today / night. Driving to the Dells (about an hour away) to watch it. It will be in 3D (neither of us have been) so we’ll see how that goes.
Do I remember correctly of someone saying to stay till the credits are done as there is extra stuff at the end?
Yes, (i haven’t seen it but i do remember others saying that there is extra stuff)
Blooper reel? Maybe the Kaiser falling down the stairs after getting of Luftwaffe Ein?
That had me laughing more than is probably appropriate.
YES! Stay after the credits it is more than worth the 30 minutes of extra film. First off, they describe how they put together what you just watched which is fascinating in it’s own right. Second, almost off handily they show some of the most haunting images of the entire film.
I’ve been watching Hamilton’s Pharmacopoeia on Vice this morning. So far, South African Quaaludes, PCP, and Mushrooms. Fairly interesting show, even though it’s been years since I did drugs.
So you’re not actually a baked penguin? Much disappoint.
Oh. You could be a dish of some kind. I wonder what penguin tastes like.
Jeremy Clarkson on QI on eating puffin. I love Clarkson and QI.
When I chose the handle at TOS in 2005 or so, I was very much a baked penguin.
I’m sitting here at the auto shop waiting for work to be done. Weather channel is on. Currently there is a guy “out in the field”, explaining snow drifts.Now he is explaining how snow plows plow snow. I wonder how much he gets paid?
Time and a half, friendo!
You think he’d might try to get in a little better shape if this is his hobby.
https://nypost.com/2018/12/26/prolific-streaker-has-stripped-down-at-more-than-500-sporting-events/
That’s part of the thrill.
“New York City goes six days without a murder.”
That they know of…
This strikes me a bit like a pro-life abortion clinic.
https://freebeacon.com/culture/my-time-shooting-with-the-liberal-gun-club/
I don’t get it. At my club meeting, the Legislative Officer gets up and talks about various ways Democrats are currently trying to infringe on our rights. Do these people cheer during that part of the meeting? Or make really pathetic excuses?
That is when the smoke starts coming out their ears as they try to square that circle. Government involvement bad, in this one specific instance. All other times it’s great!
Maybe they just don’t talk about it and hope the conservative gun groups take care of the icky defending your rights stuff.
Progressivism isn’t always permanent. My guess is that there are at least a few of those people who will eventually join us on the other side.
You three just don’t realize that common sense gun control necessarily means that good thinkers like them won’t be affected (too much). It’s just the wrong sort that shouldn’t have guns. Icky deplorables and mino… low income people who can’t afford all the taxes, permits and regulations.
East California.
https://freebeacon.com/issues/denver-officials-considering-ban-plastic-bags/
I’ve been trying to watch Nightflyers. It doesn’t make any sense. A bunch of crazy people on the most poorly lit space ship ever with a captain who inherited his job from his crazy Mom who uploaded her crazy self into the ship’s computer. I think I’m supposed to be frightened but I just roll my eyes a lot.
It doesn’t get any better. By the end, I was watching it purely for the “WTF that’s stupid”.
And I have always hear of the myth of the solid gold cop.
I’m not convinced. A solid gold cop would spend all his time rooting out and exposing the shittiness of the others in his department.
Since this type of solid gold cop doesn’t exist, I paint them all with a broad brush.
That is my position, also. If the so-called good cops won’t expose and remove the bad cops, they’re all just bad cops.
I would agree with exception of some small-town departments where there really isn’t much shittiness to root out.
Or they have given up tilting at windmills.
And decided to become another brick in the fat blue donut filled wall of silence?
There is one other thing I would add: creating a financial incentive for the police to enforce the law is the worst idea I can imagine. Here in LA we made a huge difference by partially taking that away – local depts get to keep $2 from each traffic ticket they write if the offense is under 10mph over the limit, the rest is supposed to go to the state. It is impossible to overstate the change that has made. All of those local speed traps disappeared. A few bucked it to their peril. We have had a few chiefs and mayors go to jail over that. Yeah, I am looking at you Deridder and Washington. Good riddance.
Ankther benefit to having the flywheel running the engine all the time is that it keeps the engine healthy. An internal combustion engine that sits for long periods of time will developed problems.
No oil on the piston seals, is the big one.
If that engine sits there running all the time without combusting any fuel in its pistons, then it will remain lubricated without putting any stress on the engine.
This makes for a more reliable engine that is only needed every once in a great while.
It also keeps rust off the valves and pumps fuel through the system and through the filter, mitigating problems associated with particulate condensation in fuel tanks.
Interesting. I did not know those motors are kept rotating. So it’s an air pump. Do/can you do anything with the air?
I just got back from the big girl’s toy store also known as Harbor Freight, having escaped with spending only $12. I am superhuman.
Color me impressed!
The only logical way that makes any sense is that you shoplifted twice that amount.
Nope, I really did it. I wanted two specific things (big) and needed to see if the store had them or if I would have to order them. They had them, but since I can’t use them until after my pipe is fixed and my garage is cleared out, I decided to wait to get them.
I commend you on your self control. You are a stronger woman than I…um…am a man…
It is … POSSIBLE … that my husband MIGHT have given me the side-eye.
This is why I try to never go there with my wife.
My funny (or pathetic, depending on your point of view) story is that my local Harbor Freight opened up on my birthday this year. I was pumped that it was opening, and on my bday no less, and my dad and I went there to check it out and then had lunch afterwards. (He’s a big HF fan, too.) We spent an hour just walking around the store and talking. We’d already seen everything in there… we’ve been online as well as in another (bigger) HF in Fargo multiple times. The workers were giving us funny looks by the time we finally left. Haha.
Good times.
12 bucks at Harbor Freight? Now you are just telling stories.
That’s only like 6 clamps. Doesn’t make any sense.
Twelve bucks at Harbor freight? What did you buy, nails for the nail gun?
Blades for my oscillating tool.
Did you use the 20% off coupon?
Natch. But forgot my free stuff.
I have more tape measures, screw drivers, flashlights, volt meters, and magnetic parts trays than I need thanks to those coupons.
My son loses or breaks all my stuff. Since I’ve been laid up with my shoulder issues and other things, he’s had free run of my garage and now that I’m relatively healthy, I have to put it all back together again.
This is what I want to get: https://www.harborfreight.com/74-Bin-Mobile-Double-Sided-Floor-Rack-62269.html
I’ve been eying something like that, too.
I got this for Christmas. ???
Sweeeeeeeet!
Speaking of Harbor Freight, if this thread isn’t as dead as the Dodo: I got a little vise with a two way adjustable rotating head from them.
This one. The thing is awesome. It’s clamped to the edge of my fab table. I use it constantly. Buy yourself one for xmas.
Want.
It’s on life support. ?
If I didn’t already have a vise (my grandfather’s from the 1950s) I would probably buy one from them. I don’t think I have any thing from them that wasn’t a good value. Their $15 paint gun is great. I have several power and pneumatic tools that haven’t broke down with the occasional light use I give them.
Adds to Harbor Freight “my list”
While we are making suggestions; these mechanics gloves are absolutely unbeatable for the price. They last as long, if not longer, than all of the “good” brands I’ve tried, and they can be had for 50-75% less. If $5 is too much, watch for sales and coupons…they go as low as $3 IIRC.
The cool kids are here talking about Harbor Freight. The nerds are in the other thread talking lawyer shit.
Fuckin nerds.
Also, there isn’t a shop worth its salt that isn’t stacked to the gills with those blue and grey clamps from HF.
Oh, hey, Leap! Didn’t think you’d be back over here…
*nervously looks away*
I resemble that remark.