ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. DESPITE ZARDOZ’S SUPERIOR ADVICE, THE BRUTAL “DEAR ABBY” HAS NOT BEEN CLEANSED FROM HER COLUMN. THUS ZARDOZ RETURNS TO ADVISE HIS CHOSEN ONES IN A MANNER SUPERIOR TO THAT OF THE BRUTAL.
Q: DEAR ABBY: I’m 28 and have been dating my boyfriend, “Spencer,” for 2 1/2 years. We have talked a lot about getting married. We know where we want it to be, who will be in our wedding party and what the theme will be.
A year ago we discussed getting engaged. Spencer said he’d propose “sometime within the next year” and last spring it seemed like he was working up the courage to do it. (He was talking about how happy he was and what he was seeing for our future). Then his best friend got his girlfriend pregnant and told Spencer he was thinking about proposing to her. After that, the idea of us getting married went on the back burner. Spencer stopped talking about us, and I think the reason was he didn’t want to step on anyone’s toes. (It’s why he said he didn’t want to get engaged when his sister was getting married.)
How do I bring up the subject without coming off as pushy or selfish? A lot of our friends are in committed relationships. If we put our lives on hold every time one of them gets engaged, we’ll be waiting years before it’s our turn and we can start a family. I’d appreciate any advice you might have. — READY TO MOVE FORWARD
A: BRUTAL, YOU ARE GETTING PLAYED. MUST ZARDOZ REMIND YOU, ONCE AGAIN, THE PENIS IS EVIL! IF HE WILL NOT GO TO SECOND LEVEL WITH YOU, IT IS TIME TO DEPART. SINCE YOU APPEAR TO BE TOO INDECISIVE TO PUSH THINGS ALONG, YOU WILL BE PROVIDED WITH THE PROPER MOTIVATION…TO PUSH A STICK AS A GRAIN SLAVE TO THE VORTEX. NOW YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT YOUR FUTURE. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
NO WEDDING PLANNING NEEDED.
Q: DEAR ABBY: I am 28 and I’m disgusted with myself about how I talk to my mother when I’m stressed out. I know it’s not her. It’s me.
My other issue is road rage. When I’m behind the wheel and the cars ahead of me are going too slow or the drivers make stupid moves, I’m annoyed to the point that I sometimes take risky chances to get away from them. I know it puts my life and the lives of others at risk, and I don’t want to be like this.
I sometimes wonder why my parents didn’t teach me ways to tone down my anger when I was younger. I’m lucky they still love me, even when I snap at them. Do you have any tips on how to control my temper? — SIMMERING IN SUBURBIA
A: ZARDOZ KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO DO. KEEP THE RAGE, AND CHANNEL IT INTO A USEFUL PURPOSE. THE USEFUL PURPOSE IS BEING A BRUTAL EXTERMINATOR FOR ZARDOZ. ZED WILL SWING BY AND DROP OFF THE EMPLOYMENT FORMS AND OTHER HR PAPERWORK. WELCOME ABOARD. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
YOUR NEW CO-WORKERS
P.S. STOP GOING TO SECOND LEVEL MEDITATION WITH YOUR MOTHER – THAT WAY SHE WON’T BE EXPOSED TO YOUR ANGER. AND WOULD IT KILL YOU TO WRITE TO HER ONCE IN A WHILE? JUST SEND A CARD OR SOME FLOWERS?
Q: DEAR ABBY: My husband has a long, bushy, ugly beard, and although I don’t like it, I realize he’s entitled to wear his facial hair any way he likes it. The problem is, when he eats, his beard gets into his plate and in the food, which I find nauseating. — TOO MUCH HAIR IN TEXAS
A: ZARDOZ FORBIDS FACIAL HAIR, OTHER THAN ZED’S POWERFUL MUSTACHE.
APPROVED FACIAL HAIR
SHAVE YOUR BRUTAL HUSBAND’S BEARD OFF AND INK IN A SUBSTITUTE:
CLOSE ENOUGH FOR BRUTAL WORK
SHOULD HE OBJECT – CLEANSE HIM. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
I have a math question: If posts aren’t numbers, then no one can be first?
How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren’t real?
Dont tell your mind that every image your eye sends is upside-down.
You mean the sky is DOWN?
The Sky is a Neighborhood
https://youtu.be/TRqiFPpw2fY
We’re ALL #1!
Something funky is going on with the site. I have an arrow to scroll up but not down.
So much for a career in IT…
When I got home I had trouble opening menus, they’d always close as soon as I opened them. I keept trying to clean the mouse buttons to fix the click problem. I went so far as to get a screwdriver, open the mouse and clean the buttons. Nothing helped. Then I found the problem…
The first thing I’d done when I got home was toss my wallet on the desk – it was sitting on the ‘Esc’ key.
It’s a good job you don’t have a 38DD rack, it’d keep pressing the space bar for you.
Yes, that was a “technical” problem I had to explain to a client once because her “keyboard was bad”.
That’s not a bad problem to check-up on
How was she sitting? My keyboard is always at least 6-8 inches from my gut (which is still expansive, though getting better)
I pointed this out the other day. About a decade ago, my office had some surplus desktops, and someone in a branch office needed one. So in reinstalling the OS before I sent it out, I kept getting to 1 particular windows setup screen, and couldnt go further. I called the manufacturer, spent countless hours with tech support, replaced a h/d, and kept having the same problem. After nearly a week of messing with this machine (I had other responsibilities at the time), I sat down, started the re-install procedure, and instead of using a mouse, I used the keyboard. BOOM! Everything proceeded as normal.
I use a LEFT handed mouse. The default install is right handed. I kept trying to re-install the OS and clicked the wrong button.
What a sinister development.
“Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making…”
I saw that
/Left Handed/Ambidextrous
“We are so fond on one another, because our ailments are the same.”
-Johnathan Swift
Now you’re just being gauche.
Any port in a storm.
Her posture was good, but she had to reach way over her desk to get to the phone. Phone rings, she picks up, she’s distracted for the duration of the call, hangs up, has:
on the end of a sentence.
Ah. Okay.
PICS, PLZ.
Note that this was not a response to UCS.
This was 30 years ago. How about I just send you a picture of Bea Arthur and we can just leave it at that.
Or Betty White.
*projectile vomits*
Wouldn’t that qualify you for a job in IT management?
To be fiar, I did thoroughly rule out a problem with the mouse being dirty.
It’s always better to be fiar than fair!
Also, as an unintended consequence, I’d bet your mouse is clean now.
Probably needs a bigger mouse mat so he doesn’t run off the edge of his existing one.
In the land of Long Ago and Far Away Capt mikey sits at his radar control console and notices it’s not working. He calls Maintenance. Promptly Maintenance Sargent arrives. Maintenance Sargent reaches over and moves the master ON/OFF switch to the ON position. Maintenance Sargent turns and leaves without saying a word.
Zardoz, in my time among Silicon Valley liberals, I have many times been tempted to go on a cleansing binge. Should I resist the urge or give in? Animal rage can be an irresistible force, and I hesitate to unleash it on unsuspecting California pencil-necked girly-men.
Like this guy?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/16/waymo_anthony_levandowski_allegations/
Butt plugs, mock cocks, late pay and paranoia: The world of Waymo star Anthony Levandowski… by his kids’ nanny
Nobody needs more than 23 different butt-plugs.
Why even ask when you know the answer? It’s always correct to cleanse brutals.
Get out of California post-haste.
Sure, but what in the name of ZARODZ am I supposed to do if I am in Illinois?!
Seppuku is out, for the nonce.
Get out of Illinois, too.
Although, to be fair, nobody else wants the FIBs either.
Day after tomorrow.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN POSSIBLE RAGING URSINE ONE. CLEANSE THE SILICON VALLEY FILTH OF BRUTALS! THE SILICON VALLEY BRUTALS ARE LEGION, AND MUST BE CLEANSED. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
P.S. IM ZED FOR FURTHER ASSIGNMENTS, IF YOU WISH TO REMAIN A FREELANCE BRUTAL EXTERMINATOR.
You’re Zed, too?
He’s using the Canukistani pronounciation of his Initial, Z
We’re all Zed. Or are we all Tulpa?
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN TULPA ONE. YOU ARE ALL TULPA, BUT AS LONG AS THE FILTH OF BRUTALS IS CLEANSED, ZARDOZ DOES NOT MIND A FEW SOCK ACCOUNTS. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN TED ONE. ZED IS A HIRING MANAGER, AMONGST THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS. WOULD YOU NOT TRUST THIS MAN TO GATHER THE FINEST BRUTAL CLEANSING EXTERMINATORS AROUND?
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
RIP: FONZIE WITH AIDS
Awwww…y’all already covered this
But what is the fate of The Jacket?
Poking around TOS, I found this lovely article on Volokh.
The United States Is Both a Republic and a Democracy
A Repocracy! A Demublic!
A democracy need not involve an elected legislature – in Athens, for example, everyone with the franchise was part of the Assembly. Ditto for Rome – the “democratic” element was the various assemblies to which all citizens belonged. (As opposed to the “aristocratic” Senate and “monarchical” consuls.)
Fuzzy language by the founders doesn’t excuse fuzzy language by us – the ancient political theorists were quite clear in what they meant by republic. (Sparta, Carthage and Rome counted; Athens was mostly a democracy but occasionally an oligarchy.)
Sorry but White stones in a jar doesn’t for me, Democracy is a Fools errand..
Isn’t a republic basically anything that isn’t a monarchy? Of course it can be both.
Well, by Plato, a republic was putting the men best suited to govern in charge; the method for choosing those men wasn’t as clear. But they were to be wise, and represent the people. So it was always rule by more than one, so any government not just monarchy, that ruled by more than one was tangentially a republic; however since Plato, we have added a few more things to the definition.
tech q:
how many people experience occasional “Total freezes” of Win 10?
its not a BSOD crash; its not app-related. it can happen in any circumstance, from high multitasking, to near idle conditions where you’ve got nothing open except notepad. the computer just locks up on the screen you were working on and responds to nothing except hard-reboot (power off)
when i first installed Win10 on top of Win7 (as upgrade install) it was semi frequent (few times a week). Then i wiped everything, installed Win10 on blank disk, and it was better (once a month). then i moved to SSD, and its smoother and has been running fine since. Just happened for the first time (just watching youtube vids)
i think i’ve done most of the basic recommended tweaks. I’m going through a checklist again. does anyone else have any perspective on it?
I think the only thing in my case that might be the thing is that i have like 9 USB connections at any given time (most of them powered off); they suggest ‘unplug everything’. fuck that. that sort of defeats the purpose of a computer.
I’ve had W10 go into a kind of frozen state with no applications responding, and the only evidence of operation being the drives thrashing the fuck out of themselves. Wait 20 seconds and the machine responds again. I put it down to th kernel spazzing out and deciding it has to flush everything to the paging file using as much CPU time as it needs to seize.
Mac at home, Win 7 at work. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Honestly, i liked Win7 more than anything since XP. it worked. it was simple. it was easily tweakable.
but they stopped supporting it in …2015? and many app updates now require win 10 for certain features.
i actually like win 10 if you strip most of the bullshit visual-menu features out (ClassicShell FTW), but this freeze thing is a fucking annoyance. it hasn’t hurt any work i’m doing, but its clearly a problem for lots of people. there are dozens of sites claiming “fixes” which all mix up various forms of tweaks. some of which make sense (update ur drivers!), some of which are snake oil.
WIN7 all day, every day. When they stop supporting it, Ill move back to some flavor of Linux.
yeah, the problem is this machine needs to be ‘current’.
i have other machine which i can run win7 on. but some of the corp intranets i sometimes need to access services from require that computers be running X in order to run their proprietary security/validation apps.
I will not downgrade to Windows 10.
Windows 9 would have been a good release, but they skipped the blessed odd number.
*psst…even though it doesn’t have a number in the elevator, there’s still 13 floors
Actually, there’s only 12, because it skipped 4 as well.
Your elevator skips 4?
Blame East Asia.
In fairness, a floor that sounds like death is less of a stretch than worrying about 13.
10 is… conflicted. Does it want to be a desktop OS or a mobile OS? Oh I know, let’s randomly assign half of everything you used to know how to do in Windows to each UI and call it done.
It wants to be a surveillance system, out of the box.
not really. its absurdly easy to turn everything about it off right at the point of install.
And turn them off again after every update that gets applied behind your back. It’s a real chore.
ermagod now ur makin me paranoid
yes. that is the problem.
they literally make no money serving desktop, home-users. they are the dominant operating system maker, yet the market they dominate is worth less than nothing to them.
Every Day, I’m a Windows Insider, and I thought it was Upgrading, etc. Kind of nice to know it isn’t me
Gilmore, is your Power supply built into your Computer adequate to the 9 USB devices you have plugged In? I have at least 600 watt supplies in my PCs, and out board as many power supplies as I can. You will destroy your system if it doesn’t have enough power
i’ve had one of these for the last 5 years
http://www.corsair.com/en-us/gs-series-gs800-80-plus-bronze-certified-power-supply-2013-edition
its absurd overkill. i can run 6 drives, 10 peripherals, 2 video cards (i don’t, but i could) and it wouldn’t even dent it.
Power!
So the thing i was watching when PC froze was the “Jordan Perterson vs. BBC lady” interview
may have been linked here earlier
the thing that strikes me the most about it is how often (as in, every single time she speaks) the phrase “So what you’re saying is…..” is used.
she simply can’t respond to what he says without trying to strip all the nuance he’s offering out.
its basically this struggle between a smart person, and a stupid person. and he really does struggle to make everything simpler and simpler and simpler. but she does to absurd lengths to pretend he said something completely different, over and over again.
its frustrating. but informative because its the nature of modern discourse.
(sigh)
gilmored
Embrace it.
Thank technique is also manipulative and control. I had a fellow student in grad school who would respond to your contribution by, “so what you mean is…” One day he pulled and I just said, “no I meant exactly what I just said.”
yeah, i’ve had it. i’ve pretty much stopped letting people do it. it started on TOS a while back, when i was like, “quote what i said, or stfu” Now its like i have to tell people in advance: don’t restate my position.
So what you are saying is that you don’t like dialog, amirite?
That technique is supposed to make sure that you understand the argument you are responding to — by restating the argument just given in other words, you guarantee that you understand what they are saying and are responding to the point they actually made. When used honestly it’s useful to keep the debate on track. In this case, though, it’s being used dishonestly to strip out the nuance, and make it sound like he’s saying something the opposite of what he’s saying. Every time she uses that phrase, you know she’s lying.
I got to 10:29 before I couldn’t keep watching.
Stupid and awfully combative. And with almost no social skills.
The only time she hears him speak, she’s assembling her next point. It’s like there’s 2 conversations going on. From a body language and behavioral standpoint, she’s on the ropes within about 30 seconds of the commencement of the interview.
She’s reading a prepared script in her head.
yeah, women are normally critiquing men all the time for “not listening”. they instantly recognize via body lingo and attitude when someone cares to hear what youre saying.
she’s trying to think of some rhetorical snipe-move to kill him w/o ever listening to a word he says. which is why she repeats the same shit over and over again.
There’s also a constant confusion about normative and objective claims.
he’s basically saying, “research says x” and she’s constantly going, “well why should that be the case!!”
its not like he recommended these things as his own ideas
OT: Is Jessie ok? I haven’t seen him post for a long while?
I 2as wondering the same thing.
Not dead.
I found out that my boss literally has no idea what I do,* and have been keeping a low internet profile during normal hours.
*I’m the only one who can power on a computer without someone holding their hand, manage all technical contracts, and occasionally fix proprietary medical equipment across three physical locations of a medium-sized medical practice.
I’m gratified that my absence was noticed Timeloose and Chafed. If something serious is ever going on one of the staffers will know about it pretty quickly, and there’ll be a really nice in memoriam that’s 100% clips like this: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bd2yWuWjaNh/
I was expecting something hairier. But it’s good to see you back in the saddle.
Glad you’re good to go. I was worried they’d black-bagged you or something.
I’ll raise you one: Where the hell is Gojira? I haven’t seen anything from him in months, and it doesn’t help that I’m on overnights.
Was he the one who did the movie reviews with hilarious rating systems?
Yep…horror movies, mostly.
Then I’d also like to know. I would find myself laughing out loud at his reviews and always at the rating.
I was wondering as well. Glad you’re okay Jesse.
They won’t use a commercial Manned capsule because of a 1 in 200 risk, but the Shuttle was 1 in 75 at 20 times the cost, GOV can suck a Dick!
/This includes ULA for purposes of failure rates
crap, link!
https://www.space.com/39388-nasa-safety-panel-commercial-crew-concerns.html
These Zardoz posts have really improved my personal life. So much great advice!
PS, CPRM – Apologies for not replying to your Wednesday Open Post comment. I’m bad at commenting to active links, as I typically check out Glibs after work, when most of the quality commenting has already been done. Plus, the wife and I go to bed early (we’re both up before 5am). Serves me right for commenting and then going to straight to bed.
I’ll try to do better. Perhaps I’ll get the orphans working on it!
Hi!
/ Fuck Off!
//Standard greeting 🙂
Fuckin TULPA!
(am I doing this right?)
Good enough for Glib work
Oh, since I referenced UCS’s odd-numbered elevator above, this is where I conduct a lot of my work:
https://postimg.org/image/p4aqirfy7/
Do I reply by telling myself, “Fuck off, Tulpa!”?
I clicked on your link, and all the sidebar ads are “Find hot Asian in Canyon Country,” “Meet the most gorgeous Ukrainian women in the world,” “These Canyon Country Asian singles are downright breathtaking,” and my favorite, “Upgrade your life with a hot Asian girlfriend who adores you.”
I ALREADY have a hot Asian who adores me. I married her. Thanks anyway. Apart from Q’s Chive links, I can’t think of any site I’ve gone to that would make Chrome put those sidebar ads up.
Still, cool pic of the the switch rope!
Those two things don’t have to be mutually exclusive, you know.
Hah. True.
Alas, I’m faithful.
Office Manager Mohammed
takes a trip home
Father!, Mother! I have come Home from the Land of the INFIDEL!
Father: So they really have Big screen TVs?
Mother:Women can drive to the Mall and shop?
NO! NO! The INFIDELS are Evil! They use Capitalism to lure you in, then you are trapped by The Great SATAN!
Father: But I like to watch the Soccer games, and Mother watches cooking shows, notice my new fat belly?
Mother: And besides, Your Sister Fatima has been given the position of Pakistani affairs Officer for Diversity at Harvard, and You are Manager of what? A paper Supply distribution company?
Go Back To America!, Loser Son! And where are my Grand kids!! ALLOLLOLAAALOL
Aloha snack-bar! Dirka durka Muhammad jihad!!!
Fuck Off!
/Standard Greeting
Sometimes i wonder if all these Tulpas are actually escaped Orphans, and just mocking us. I have had to escapes in the last week, coincidence? i think Not
2 escapes
If I catch escape orphans, am I obligated to return them?
I mean, some northern states did nullify fugitive slave laws.
We appreciate the escapees as were too cheep to get first hand orphans for our factories.
Send me your CC number and I’ll send you as many Orphans as you need, I’m sure Tres will get them liquored up for transport..
Jeez threedoor, I ask for your C number and you get all quiet?
what about the Fun?
You take MasterCard right?
Anyone else using Monocle can’t read the text any more? Teeny tiny buttons?
I do not use monocle, but the buttons have gotten teeny tiny.
This, I have it turned off, but still get the tiny reply button
I can, however, read the test just fine
I still can’t type, but that’s me.
Texting texting 123, like that?
/sarc
His 38DDs are in the way.
Nevermind.
The theme’s being edited – but monocle is still working for me.
Ah OK, not a Monocle thing then.
The regular text is fine, just the button text is like 4pt now and that includes the Monocle menu at the bottom.
Refresh is your friend right now, the Overlords gave web control to the Grandkids, I’m sure
I have huge button.
OK, Trumputin
You should put that to good use. There are some hot Asians at Tres’ link above you use that on.
“My other issue is road rage. When I’m behind the wheel and the cars ahead of me are going too slow or the drivers make stupid moves, I’m annoyed to the point that I sometimes take risky chances to get away from them. I know it puts my life and the lives of others at risk, and I don’t want to be like this.”
Dynamite in the sack. I’m sure of it.
Just make sure your shots are up to date. Particularly tetanus.
Question, would you rather society be more polite but less friendly or the opposite?
Im not obligated to answer anything! Am I being detained?
That’s about as clear as you can get.
Polite, I don’t need any more friends, leave me the Fuck alone TY
This
Agreed. I mean, you Glibs are all cool. But, beyond that, no more friends.
Yusef, Im not like the others- Im your friend.
https://youtu.be/Rmoo4m7ZFXI?t=43
But which one of us is HST?
and Who said I don’t have friends here? you? Larf….
I’m not talking about friends. Being friendly doesn’t mean you’ll have many friends. Could be the opposite.
Friendly is Bullshit, it’s a false, shallow Lie, suitable for business, but not much else in the real world
Excessive fake friendliness is a major reason I left a small town for a big town, where I feel the people are more clued in to the difference between politeness and friendliness.
I found footage of the incident:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEDo5oQ-O8Y
On top of that, I’m not obligated to be polite either, I’m obligated to the Laws of the land, to a point, and in true Glib fashion,
Every one else can FUCK OFF!
The reason I ask is that I love the respect people automatically give others here. But try striking up a conversation with a stranger and they fucking hate it. #Metoo
Polite is not Respect, but We here assume that the others here have Clue, Polite is a norm, respect is still earned….
Good example of a cultural difference.
TY, that is a reply worth pondering Straff
That could be due to
A) Racism
or
B) Your ugly face
or both.
They can’t tell us apart. I may as well be Orlando Bloom.
so now your an Elf? Is your Wife the Beautiful Edit fairy?
Im the opposite. Ill talk to anyone in Kroger, droplift coupons, or help out someone I don’t know. The idea is that for someone you *dont* know, you have 0 expectations; consequently no fear of judgement.
What is droplifting coupons?
Is it some kind of sex game that’s so cutting edge that I won’t even know about it for 10 more years?
Droplifiting is when you have a coupon for something you’re not gonna buy before it expires (in my case the next week, generally), so you drop it in the store next to where that item is.
Alternatively, when Im in the checkout, Ill pass em back- “I saw you have ____, want my coupon for ______?”
I’m Big on helping out People in need, but sometimes it’s best to steer clear, even if it’s just to keep the scene clear for more competent peeps
Deeply ingrained respect for others until they break a certain rule is one way to organize society. Organic, too.
That’s where I jump ship. Respect is something I grant based on a positive character assessment I make, based on observation and experience. You can expect my polite interaction from the get-go.
Respect? That’ll be a while.
That’s it 6, Respect is EARNED
That’s why politeness is nice, but respect has significant value.
I guess that depends on how you define the word. I always say I give everyone a certain level of respect I think the average human deserves until they show me they deserve more or less.
Good point. Apart from some folks I run into in the entertainment biz, a fair amount of the strangers I run across, even here in the southern part of the people’s republic of CA, can be really cool. Granted, I haven’t lived in LA proper for years. I guess being 30-40 miles away, one runs into either a better class of folks, or just a smaller percentage of out an out assholes.
Maybe you can take lessons from my wife. She’s talking to random everyone when we visit, much to my annoyance. Try carrying around a suitcase. That seems to be a conversation starter.
It is.
I knew it: Playa is Mr. Boyd
Polite how?
Do I have to hold my farts in?
Fecal leakage is serious stuff.
Depends….
/Double entendre
I’m trying to help you learn how to start a real conversation.
You fart (preferably on a train), wait 30 seconds, and then ask people to guess what you had for dinner. It’s a game for all ages, and a real crowdpleaser.
You’re welcome.
Huh. Wouldn’t have guessed Playa is a member of Aum Shinrikyo.
I thought He was a member of the Cali Shithole, Like me..
It might seem like it’s doomsday at first, but that’s part of the game.
Can’t tell if this is the before or after Playa’s “game”.
https://imgur.com/a/Q5veE
It’s taco Monday on this side of the date line.
Holy Shit! Larfed hard!
Holy Shit! L̶a̶r̶f̶e̶d̶ sharted hard!
FTFY.
Only in the Morning, if i forget and Fart
I can’t believe this is the same place I come to for intellectual stimulation.
Time to put my nose back in a book for tonight, methinks.
Heh.
Heh, fuck Off!
Where are you? I’m in Upland
Canyon Country. Work in Century City.
80 miles, Socal is big, eh?
Yep. We moved closer to LA for both the neighborhood and my sanity (previous commute was 70 miles). Of course, the 405 still sucks.
My wife works on the other side of downtown. It’s brutal.
I haven’t had much adult interaction this week, and this is what happens.
I would like some, but it seems to be too late for the Sleeping Glibs, so I joke, sorry Sister
Well, at least you’re free, and not incarcerated in the horse-pistol.
Welcome home!
Easier to complain about humor
Damned skippy!
Better to put your nose in abook than in Playa’s game.
Sound advice.
I got a little stir crazy since I’m not drinking lately, so I went to the grocery store and bought what I needed to make a small cheesecake in the instant pot. Total experiment.
It will be ready to take out and cool in a few minutes. Meanwhile, I am drinking chamomile tea. Yummy! Makes me realize how much drinking “a beverage” at night was just a routine. Doesn’t really matter that it’s herbal tea instead of a Rum N Diet, except that I will feel better tomorrow.
This could work for me.
intellectual stimulation,
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/01/18/stormy-daniels-told-political-operative-trump-made-watch-shark-week-three-hours/
This is like the fourth or fifth letter from Dear Abby that has some chick saying “Am I selfish?” Why can’t Abby just say “Yes, congratulations?”
I remember when Dr. laura got sick of her shtick, She sounded jaded by Her own BS
It seems that Hayek doesn’t agree with the Left coast Glibs, That is a hame, She seems cool
Yep.
Still, sometimes it’s okay to just be silly.
I get pissed enough, let Humor reign!
Oh, I said it with a smile and the required shake of the head.
It’s pretty much the reaction expected of women by you yahoos.
Love you all, you bunch of miscreants.
Smootches.
Are you religious?
I’d like to introduce you to my religion:
Who won?
That’s definitely 2 dudes.
Yup.
It’s both stimulating and disturbing, all at the same time.
I’ve had all I can take.
Goodnight, Missus Calabash. Wherever you are.
i ‘member when I was Younger, My lead man listened to KFI 640, right at the beginning of Conservative Talk radio, it helped that we only had AM radio in the work vehicle.
Dr. Laura was a local phenomena, and Rush Was still in limited markets. My Lead man said, “listen to what they have to say” and I became a Conservative. Then I saw My Son potentially being killed in stupid Wars,My future being Squandered and my rights being Trampled upon, combined with some Ayn Rand, I became a Libertarian
/Ganja!!!
Nice. I was driving a lot for work around 1990ish, so listened to KFI all day. Rush, then … some other female radio psychologist who had Dr. Laura filling in for her from time to time …. then I think an hour of Dr. Dean Edell, then Tom Leykis when he was doing his left-libertarian schtick, before he decided he wanted to be Howard Stern.
Dave Brubeck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veX9dotK_do
Well, tomorrow’s a weight lifting day. So, earlier bedtime for me. Goodnight, Glibs!
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I am Hihn! I am Tulpa! I am out! Good night Glibs
You folks sure go to bed at grandpa times. Might as well call this oldertarians, or something.
I’m awake, just being Polite….
whatever grandpa. You’re just up because your enlarged prostate woke you up to piss.
I’ve got ask… is your handle some clever acronym I’ve never encountered or something else?
Constitutional Property Rights Minarchist. The name I gave to my own political philosophy.
Thanks.
Not sure if it is clever, but yes it is an acronym.
Thank god My prostate is fine, Thanks
I own 2 Kias, and the Meme cam over from TOS
/Fuck Off!
granpa doesn’t know what a meme is. /drunk
So, apparently this is a popular thing
Joe Rogan and Billy Corgan
it involves the fact that BC actually runs some pro wrestling company
Billy is a good songwriter, and a little crazy (as any good songwriter should be) but he’s absurdly sober about some shit that regular people are retarded about
Are there rats in a cage in this wrestling endeavor? If not, lost opportunity.
its pretty intense.
people dismiss rogan as an interviewer but he actually gets people to open up about shit that almost no one talks about publicly because he’s such a stereotypical ‘dude’
whats surprising to anyone who is a Corgan/Smashing Pumpkins fan is that corgan is pretty much a ‘dude’ himself, and he likes the fakery of pro wrestling and always has, and also has some really interesting guitar-stories vs. his dad.
i always liked the guy’s music. i like it more now
I seen the Pumpkins a few times in 91(?) at some small clubs right after Gish came out. Gish is one of my favorite albums. I had a beer with Billy and D’Arcy before one the shows in Milwaukee and they both seemed really weird. I’m guessing they were tripping or on some other drugs. It was cool at the time because you just knew they were gonna blow up. At that Milwaukee show they played under a different name because they were getting pretty popular locally and the place only held about 150 – 200 people. I still consider that show one of my 3 favorite concerts. They were just raw and rocking and doing a lot of what I refer to as organized distortion. They did Drown that night, before it came out on the Singles album, and it sounded incredible.
I really enjoyed the Rogan interview too. Being a Chicago sports fan, I enjoyed some of the stories about the Bulls and Rodman. He’s also done several interviews with Alex Jones on Infowars, which are on youtube. He seems kind of libertarianish from the interviews, and avoids getting tangled up in some of Alex Jones’ crazy conspiracy tangents. I think they are worth a listen.
This is a pretty good early concert from the Pumpkins if you haven’t seen it. The Metro in Chicago is a cool place to see a show. I think it’s their first show after Siamese Dream came out. They played the second show of the tour in Madison, which I was lucky enough to attend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHrabsv1JSg&t=425s
There are not despite all his rage.
How did Corgan wind up running a wrestling company?
watch the interview.
I just spent half an hour watching the Jordan Peterson interview you posted. That was excellent. I need to go to sleep. I guess I’ll live with the mystery.
He is good, I had no idea, on my list for sure
I wasn’t a fan of the up/down arrows as they obscured key bits of posts or worse while typing in the box, but goshdarnit I miss the buggers.
Yeah, they went away just as soon as I got used to using them. Story of my life/
I hate change. And that often includes the change of a change (which I hated when it first changed).
Old man yells at clouds?
Sometimes the clouds yell back.
Glad you’re out of the hospital and on the mend ‘splosives.
Night all! Time to pass out and do it all over again tomorrow.
FUCKA YOU SQWRLS