I’m stuck in documentation hell. After I finish the design overview, I can start mapping data fields. Or I can go on hunt to figure out where all my reference hyperlinks should go. Oh, and then I can do a what-if analysis on technical risk for the PM. I already checked, none of my appendages will fit into the shredder, but I think the fan is sturdy enough to hold this noose I fashioned from old network cable… One thing I like to do is give the systems Laundry Files style codenames in my original draft so that it looks like “CORROSION RED MONDAY will feature a bi-directional, multi-entity integration with HOLYSTONE UMBER BORON mediated by AZURE LOGIC APPS”. Just… don’t forget to run find and replace before you circulate it. Trust me.
Cancel exercise ROMERO ORANGE ZULU, Patient Zero has been located.
Subject POLLUTANT GREEN CLEARCUT is under attack again. Will there even BE an environment to protect by the time he’s destroyed?
Case RAILROAD BROWN TIDE appears to be stuck. That stinks.
Too good to check: Operation PURPLE HEAD HYPOCRITE it a go. We’ll see “live boy/dead girl” is still the stay/go standard for pols.
50 years ago today this came out– I’m low on ideas.
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“none of my appendages will fit into the shredder”
/humble brag
“PURPLE HEAD HYPOCRITE”
How did you know my nickname for my genitals?
It wasn’t difficult to guess. We knew your password is boobs.
For a while it was b00bs, but he was forced to change it when it expired.
REDHEDZ
http://archive.is/DVUFd
1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 18, 22, 26, 28, 34, 38, 40, 41, 44.
23 rules them all, however.
You can keep 17, I’m taking the rest.
Still wish they’d restrict it to natural reds.
They’re repeating themselves again too. 15 and 21 are both pics of the same chick.
I love you and hate you at the same time.
Orgy.
1,3,12,23
Mmmmmmmm gingers ….. I’ll be in my bunk.
Is 23 Tessa Fowler? Probably not but she kinda looks like her.
http://s5.postimg.org/w5z19czzb/Bra_Tryouts_Red_Bra1_05.jpg
She has some fantastic NSFW stuff.
13, 27, 35, 36, 42, 44.
Can’t help it, I loves me some freckles.
“The Weekly Standard‘s Bill Kristol, who this week tweeted his desire for Michelle Obama to run and defeat Donald Trump”
Really?
I currently follow a FB page call Michelle 2020.
It’s not a parody.
Press corps at candidacy announcement: “What did she just say?”
Spokesman: “We will fight the special interests, and institute common sense bowcaster control.”
Jesus Bill, that’s a new low, even for you.
Yes indeed he did. He always throws a Robbyesque “to be sure” qualifier in, but he’s said multiple times how strongly he’d prefers Obama or Hillary to Trump.
Should Kristol be called a neoprogressive?
Remember the definition of neoconservative was “a liberal who has been mugged by reality”. A neoprogressive is just a neocon who has been disappointed by conservative Top Men.
A neocon who loves koktail parteez.
How about just plain useful tool?
He’s a smarmy raging twat William Buckley wannabe.
I’m old-fashioned. “Dickhead” works for me.
Christ, what an asshole!
I don’t know what is so fucking useful about him…
Football bat?
50 years ago today this came out.
Better version.
Garfunkle gives me the creeps. I can’t believe that guy hasn’t been discovered to be a serial killer yet.
I guess he was too creepy for Paul, too.
Seriously. Paul is creepy too. But funny as hell on SNL.
Lol. I didn’t know he was married to Edie Brickell until he slapped her around a few years back.
Not suggesting that he was justified, but maybe she was singing that fucking What I Am song .
I always called that the Popeye theme song…
“I yam what I yam, and dats all dat I yam…”
ALL DAY FUCKING LONG. Sings, hums, whistles. While cutting tofu. In the shower. Watching TV. Reading the newspaper etc.
/Steam comes out of Paul’s ears.
‘IT (slap!) WAS (paf!) YOUR (wiff!) ONLY (whack!) HIT (falls on ass tired).
Oh Whaaa?
“I know what I know if you know what I m-” *Simon grabs her by the neck and starts throttling her*
Also a hit in early 1968 (should be safe for work).
I was expecting this
Is that normal ‘no signs of foul play’ or clinton level ‘no sign of foul play’?
NY & NJ can’t keep their own shit? I didn’t know this was a thing.
Well, they’re at the bottom of the drainage basin.
Apparently they generate too much (insert Jersey Shore reference here)
WE GOTTA SITUATION HERE!
*points at stomach
This will get interesting
Schoolmarm Kate Brown ain’t taking no orders from Trump.
This was all played out back in the Reagan Administration… idiot governors posture, oh look, a Federal call up order….not your National Guard anymore.
Exactly. I was thinking this about California (a state that actually borders Mexico) and how Moonbeam will preen around saying how he won’t work with big, bad Drumpf. California is already in a state of de facto secession (except for continuing to take massive amounts of money from the Feds) so I wouldn’t expect them to cooperate at all with this.
1) It’s just posturing – Oregon’s about a thousand miles from the border. No one’s sending the Oregon National Guard to the border.
2)Kind of funny how no Dem governors starting harrumphing when Obama did exactly this.
3)It’s pointless anyway because Trump could just federalize the Oregon National Guard like Ike did in Arkansas in 1957 to prevent Fabus from using the National Guard to enforce segregation.
So just to be clear, she’ll send troops to fight undeclared wars 5,000 miles from the borders of Oregon, but won’t send troops to Texas to ensure people don’t cross the Rio Grande and enter the country illegally?
The Weekly Standard‘s Bill Kristol, who this week tweeted his desire for Michelle Obama to run and defeat Donald Trump
I don’t ordinarily like to use this term, but-
Christ, what a cuck.
Pruitt is still one of my favorite appointees to Agency director status for this administration.
As far as I’m concerned anyone willing to call the watermelons on their shit and take the appropriate action is aces.
And doing it by enforcing the law as written makes it even better.
I like that he’s one of few political figures that seems to give a fuck about rule of law and process.
Which is why they are coming at him with everything.
The sewage sludge waste, shipped south from treatment plants in New York and New Jersey, is destined for a private landfill in Adamsville that has been accepting “biosolids” for more than a year.
They used to just dump it offshore, didn’t they?
They decided shitting on the south would be more satisfying to their egos.
*applause*
“Hey, why just metaphorically shit on the yokels?”
At least you have access to the systems you need. I’m coming up on the end of the fourth week with the new company, and I still have no credentials to do any actual work. I’m slowly going mad sitting in this cheap office chair with nothing to do.
Would it surprise you to find out I’m writing documentation because none of the environments have actually been provisioned?
Not at all. During my first week, I was given about 2,000 pages of documentation of the environment I’ll be supporting. Through conversations, I’ve learned that only about 25% of that is still accurate. I just hope the company I work for is billing the client who hasn’t given me credentials a sickening amount of money for this insanity.
And it’s your job to figure out which 25% is accurate.
No, but I will be building up my own documentation once I get into the systems. That I will update and hand off to the company when I leave.
Are you quitting already?
Not planning on it. It’s just good manners to leave good documentation behind when you leave a job. But I’m not seeing this as a long term position, more of a 2-4 year gig.
My main job right now is to make sure the main project I’m working on goes smoothly once the new people take over. Probably 90% of my work is going away if things go as planned.
For the record this is fairly normal for what I’m working on. The project is transitioning to a new phase and the new people are experts on that and I’m not. I’ll either assume new responsibilities in my present job or transition to another one inside my company. Don’t know which yet.
It wouldn’t surprise me. This is why I pretty much exclusively work for early-stage startups. I’m feeling a little itchy where I am currently, and our dev team is nine people. This has cost me some money in the past, but I just get uncomfortable in businesses where I can’t pretty quickly resolve things by collaring people, up to and including the CEO.
I also like having an impact. I worked close to 40 hours between Monday morning and early Wednesday afternoon this week (and spent another 5 or so hours commuting,) preparing things for a demo that really only I could prepare. It went very well and… well, fearsome NDAs, but we landed a pilot that if successful could lead to a deal that would instantly give us a nine figure valuation. I don’t usually take options very seriously, but I’m starting to wonder if I shouldn’t have pushed for more…
You could volunteer to re-engineer their on-boarding process.
Oh, I’ve been asked for my feedback on that as well. I got most of what I needed for the company I’m employed by (there were… issues… there as well). The problem is that my role is to be a local contact and support for a call center, and the company that call center is a part of hasn’t given me credentials to their systems, including the phone system I’m supposed to be supporting. So I can’t even do basic level shit like assign an extension to a phone, or tedious shit like help design reports.
There are always issues. The only businesses I’ve worked for where I liked the management style have been businesses where I was the sole owner. And, frankly, even then I had some pretty serious qualms about my own managerial style.
Maybe you are an unwitting participant in a psychology experiment.
Paul Nehlen got banned from Gab for doxxing Ricky Vaughn.
If you don’t know what any of that is, consider yourself lucky.
I thought Gab was built on the foundation that no one gets banned?
Nehlen is insane.
Doxxing’s the one exception to that rule.
Eh, I can see a “We don’t ban because of your content or political views” and a “We will ban if you dox”.
In fact, that would probably be my policy if I ran a site like that.
Wild Thing?
Right? I thought everyone already knew Ricky Vaughn was Charlie Sheen. It wasn’t some big secret; it’s right there in the credits.
“Forget about the curveball, Ricky, give em the heater!”
Lou Brown is one of my alltime favorite movie characters.
The entire movie is wonderful, really.
Hats for bats?
One of the best baseball movies of all time.
One of the best movies of all time.
Why did he dox Ricky Vaughn?
Who knows why white nationalists get into fights with each other?
Anyways, dude’s apparently a Middlebury College graduate. Which is… just so funny. So very funny.
(You may remember Middlebury as the college that had a collective freakout/violent response to Charles Murray)
Who knows why white nationalists get into fights with each other?
I always imagine there’s a lot of slapping and hair pulling.
And crying; don’t forget the crying.
Inadvertent ass grabbing, totally accidental
I’m sure a boob or two pooped out.
Anybody but you, I would think “pooped” was a typo.
Dude, you don’t know what those freaks are into.
I believe the Onion headline was “Why Do These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?”
https://www.theonion.com/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock-1819584210
From what I gather, Nehlen is a white supremacist, Vaughn is just white and a nationalist, not a white nationalist.
Nehlen also hates him some Joos.
Who knows why white nationalists get into fights with each other?
Sometimes the motives are clear (TW: previously linked, SPLC, cucks)
The coveted Triple Trigger! This is an august occasion, indeed.
I spent much of my youth in Vermont, and I built the Middlebury landing page (what you initially saw if you went to middlebury.edu) in early 2000, along with some primitive 90s-style web apps like their “interactive” campus map. They were actually pretty cool apps for the time- I think they kept that campus map in place for eight years or so.
And yeah, from a cursory investigation, that is funny. It’s really hard for me to see how he managed to graduate from Middlebury
On Mrs. Phelps’ orders. She wasn’t going to let anything stop her from moving the Indians to Miami.
I’ve heard of Gab. I’m pretty sure I’m better off not otherwise having the slightest.
New York City: The year 2000. The most wasteful society in the history of the galaxy and it was running out of places to empty its never-ending output of garbage. [People throw black bags full of rubbish out of office windows and they are bulldozed away.] The landfills were full. New Jersey was full. And so, under cover of darkness, the city put its garbage out to sea on the world’s largest barge. [A man resembling Rudy Giuliani unties a barge filled with garbage and pushes it away from the pier.] The repulsive barge circled the oceans for 50 years but no country would accept it, not even that really filthy one. You know the one I mean. Finally, in 2052, the city used its mob connections to obtain a rocket and launch the garbage into outer space. Some experts claim the ball might return to Earth someday, but their concerns were dismissed as “depressing”.
I love Futurama
Wasnt that basically the plot of Sidney’s Comet?
Note: Don’t buy a novel because it was written by the son of a novelist you like.
I learned that lesson with Todd McCaffrey.
“After I finish the design overview, I can start mapping data fields. Or I can go on hunt to figure out where all my reference hyperlinks should go.”
That may as well be a foreign language to me. I honestly don’t understand how you can do that all week long.
This is my preferred office: https://postimg.org/image/6g7b3z2y7/
You do you, I think I’ll keep my four walls and a roof.
Its not all bad. Sometimes you do get a flat roof. And free heat:
https://postimg.org/image/apc164qrz/
I loved the year and a half that half of my job was to walk the construction site and report progress.
I prefer mine,Sup Tres!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/3F0xo8K5MSCLFxrb2
Hey YUSEF!
Any HVAC protips for an outside condensing unit, what has the aluminum fins corroded by dog urine? My GF’s boxer has done a number to the one at her house.
Toss it and get a Screen fence for the new one, you can’t really fix that
What I figured. Im guessing the lack of efficiency is proportional to the reduction in available area, and that’s gonna make the compressor work harder.
Tres, you wouldn’t happen to be a stack tester would you?
It’s Simon & The Other Guy!
Simon?
One of the best themes.
One of my faves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO0Vq4fj3ho
One of my faves
<— child of the 80s.
Fall Guy
Airwolf
Damn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8syGlAMTKA
Everybody knows Knight Rider, but how many remember Street Hawk?
Betterstar Galactica
Okay, done now.
Is it safe to say that TV now versus TV then is like the run of Star Trek: The Next Generation writ large? In other words, television itself has gotten much, much better over time, exploding into a golden age that is as a whole higher in quality than any time in the institution’s history before it–even as the quality of original television music has gotten much, much worse?
The TV shows of today don’t have time for theme music. (Seriously. There’s more advertising time than there used to be, especially in syndication.)
Mike Tyson Mysteries has a good intro theme, but it is short.
fuck yeah Dodge Power Wagon!
Cylon and Garfunkel.
That was one of the very best Futuramas, IMO
Lefty cannibalism continues apace.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/gender-madness-alienates-democratic-insider/
If even a quarter of that is true, the Democrat Party is fucked.
At least until the Republicans find a way to hand them power again.
“Republicans Support Common-Sense Gun Control”
“Republicans Pass Record Budget, Fully Fund Democrat Priorities, Incur $1TT Deficit”
You mean, like that?
Given how insane the Dems have gotten it’s kind of like the Lakers finding a way to lose to a Junior Varsity High School Girls’ Team.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1….
Speaking of insane people, what’s the latest on that Eichenwald guy? Has he been nabbed scaling the White House fence wearing nothing but a Sailor Moon mask, with a K-bar in his teeth, yet?
Haven’t seen anything today, sadly.
Too busy stalking kids to get his kiddie porn site relaunched.
Kiddie tentacles. A whole new genre.
Loli tentacle porn exists, and I’m sure he’s already a consumer.
Loli tentacle porn
*Adamantly refuses to Google*
Not at work, anyway, amirite?
*barf*
It’s all about Kevin Williamson today
Not his biggest fan but fuck the Atlantic for hiring him away from his old job just so they could fire him a week later.
I hope he can sue the shit out of them.
Where might someone find such a thing?
Also, I heard there’s a pro-gun rally here in town at the courthouse this Saturday. Thinking about going… Maybe.
SugarFree always delivers. Always.
That took care of the facial recognition.
I guess you should steal your neighbor’s car to drive there. The annoying one.
Which one? 😉
Just kidding. The guy to the west of us has a tree that overhangs our fence. We don’t have any trees, yet every fall we have to rake up a shit ton of leaves.
Have you considered arson?
Roundup is your friend
Spike the tree with tebuthirion herbicide. It’s taken up by the roots as opposed to being applied to the leaves, like Roundup.
Pole saw
Spray the tree with Roundup on a windless night. Problem solved.
At least until the neighbour figures out what you did.
Refresh before posting . . . refresh before posting . . . refresh before posting . . . **HEAVY SIGH**
I know what I’m having nightmares about tonight.
I can assure you that there will be undercover cops there recording license plates, taking photos, recording audio, and using RFID’s scanning for passports/driver license data to identify future troublemakers.
Is that worth being part of the spectacle?
I am sure you are right. I was thinking it might be nice to go to meet some like-minded people who actually live around me–not that y’all aren’t great… you’re just not here!
I had not considered the scenario you suggested, with the cops and what not. I did figure that there would likely be some spectacle–counter-protest or some such–and that’s a large part of the reason I’m still just thinking about going instead of committing to attend.
(1) Park outside the cordon where they may be scanning plates.
(2) Use your RFID proof wallet/purse (you have one, right?).
(3) Don’t worry about audio recording or video. Once you start saying “I won’t go to X because I might be recorded”, you really won’t ever leave the house again.
I already don’t really leave the house… Not for that reason, but I joke with Mr. Riven that if it wasn’t for him, my diet really would consist entirely of delivery food (pizza and chinese), scrambled eggs masquerading as nachos, ice cream, and booze.
Pizza AND Chinese?
At least its a balanced diet.
Someone who knows a proper “Food-Pyramid”.
There is no way that guy owns a k-bar.
Oh man, I hope the whores name names.
“All of them. The whole of DC”
John Kasich (Governor of Ohio) Interview with Dave Rubin
I stopped watching Dave Rubin almost a year ago when I started to realize he’s dumb as rocks, but still this is a very candid interview (at least the first half of it is, I didn’t watch the whole thing). I think Kasich is going to run again in the future.
Also, An accurate description of every Rubin Report ever
Kasich is already pushing for “commonsense” gun control.
That’s a shame. He used to be against gun control from what I remember. Either way, he was always kinda “meh” to me. I’m more interested in the fact that a Governor did a YouTube show. Things are shifting.
I never liked that sanctimonious sonofabitch.
Another “moderate” sellout.
How many times did he point out that his father was a mailman?
Well, since the 2020 General is going to come down neck and neck between his history-making independent candidacy and Joe Biden, he figures he’d better keep repeating that line enough times before it becomes Ol’ Joe’s inspiring backstory as well.
…he figures he’d better keep repeating that line enough times before it becomes Ol’ Joe’s inspiring backstory as well.
*golf clap*
I thought that was Weepy Boehner.
That sounds like a good name for gonorrhea?
Run for what? Mayor of Rino town?
That guy seems to embody every single thing I despise about the establishment GOP in one gigantic asshole.
The only good thing Kasich did as governor was to force all Ohio public 4 year colleges to accept credit from all community colleges in the state, and most private schools also followed suit.
He supports and if I recall correctly even expanded, a small business tax cut policy, because of which I haven’t owed a cent in state income tax for years, so there is that.
Spielberg is a moron.
As many people have pointed out, there was JUST another Lara Croft movie, so what’s the point?
Especially since Lara Croft was specifically created back in the day as a female Indiana Jones.
Her tits aren’t big enough.
The only point that matters.
2 points.
I’m sure he was joking.
He had to have been joking, since I don’t think even a USC man has trouble discerning the concept of first and last names. Nonetheless, the question remains: Will Indiana Joan face off against Palestinian terrorists and be portrayed as their moral equivalent when she shoots them?
Don’t be silly, she’d be shooting modern Nazis – anyone to the right of Stalin.
Modern sporting Nazis, is what we call them officially in the industry.
Are they anything like sporting clays? Like, Nazis charge straight at you at some stations, other stations you get a pair heading left & right?
I’d be cool with, like, Indy and Marion’s daughter taking on the story, BUT HER NAME WOULD STILL BE JONES
Did he say whether he preferred Angelina Jolie or Alicia Vikander to play the part?
I’ve never seen the Lara Crofts. Worth a look?
The Jolie ones are a hard pass. Haven’t seen the new one.
The first one was an entertaining popcorn movie. Don’t think I saw the second one (I think there was a second one); if I did, it apparently wasn’t memorable.
Haven’t seen the most recent one.
Are you into a young Daniel Craig before he was a megastar?
Don’t care one way or the other. I thought he was OK in Elizabeth.
I don’t watch movies for eye candy. If that were the case, I wouldn’t have walked out of Gladiator out of sheer boredom.
Layer Cake is an excellent British gangster flick.
Daniel Craig all day long and well into night.
He has such pretty eyes.
He has such pretty. LOL
The reboot of the game series is actually quite good. The Angelina Jolie one was fine, but I’m not sure how well it would’ve aged. I haven’t seen the new one, but it’s supposed to be more stylistically aligned with the game reboot.
I could watch Lara Croft die in horrifically graphic ways all day. … Which is what will happen to you if you don’t learn from your mistakes in the rebooted game series.
I could watch Lara Croft die in horrifically graphic ways all day.
*backs very slowly away from Riven*
But yeah. It’s not a go-to game style for me, and I thought it was VERY well executed. It’s one of the few adventure games I’ve played in years that I was excited to get all the way through.
If you haven’t seen this comic, you should. It’s very appropriate given your comment:
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/06/06/peril
(If an edit fairy wants to imbed the photo in the link, I’d be very grateful.)
I haven’t seen the new games but the new movie is OK. It isn’t great like a C. Nothing particularly good about it other than Vikander and that it could be worse.
“Too good to check: Operation PURPLE HEAD HYPOCRITE it a go. We’ll see “live boy/dead girl” is still the stay/go standard for pols.”
Even on Infowars, articles about prostitution have the best stock photos.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/04/roseannes-gender-nonconforming-character-seems-designed-to-appease-terfs.html
The fact that Barr’s TV show grandson, Mark, is depicted as gender nonconforming—and that Roseanne producer Sara Gilbert is a lesbian—has dulled criticism of the show within the LGBTQ community. But dig deeper into Barr’s beliefs, and it becomes apparent that Mark was likely designed to appease feminists who hate transgender people.
To be sure, there are gender expansive kids like Mark. Children who push the boundaries of gender expression have legitimate experiences worthy of celebration. This character wouldn’t be problematic if the show’s star didn’t have a virulently anti-transgender streak. But anti-trans feminists often use such children to argue against the validity of kids for whom full social and perhaps, eventually, medical transition is the best path. And that is very likely what Barr is trying to do.
The left is nuts
Barr has a strong following on Twitter among self-proclaimed “gender critical feminists,” also known as trans-exclusionary radical feminists, or TERFs.
You can’t be a feminist unless you believe a woman with a dick is a woman.
Men make the best women.
https://themuse.jezebel.com/sophie-is-an-immaterial-girl-in-a-material-world-1823883163
Children who push the boundaries of gender expression have legitimate experiences worthy of celebration.
The language of totalitarians. Its no longer sufficient that you tolerate (outwardly) other people. No, you must celebrate (inwardly) certain people.
Fuck that. I’m not celebrating any kind of non-conformity unless I personally think its exceptional and beneficial. Non-conformity per se isn’t necessarily worth celebrating, and I am sick to death of people demanding that I “celebrate” diversity. My personal, private judgments are what they are. My external actions are what I choose them to be, and I choose to be pretty tolerant of just about anyone as long as their behavior is acceptable to me. I refuse to either change my personal, private judgments because of social pressure, or pretend that they are different just to placate a mob of totalitarian morons.
It’s completely meaningless. If a straight guy were to “celebrate” his legitimate experience of gender expression these idiots would be screaming Nazi patriarchy from every rooftop.
It’s completely meaningless.
I don’t think it is. I think it is an expression of their desire to either (a) force you to change your beliefs or (b) demoralize you by forcing you to pretend you have changed your beliefs.
OK, let me rephrase that. The words themselves are meaningless. The intent is, as you said, malevolent.
IOW: fuck off slaver.
This goes back to the redefining of tolerance as “enthusiastic endorsement”. I’m a tolerant guy. No matter how idiotic I view the ways people want to live their lives, I don’t care what they do so long as it doesn’t harm others. However, I’m not about to be browbeaten into calling human being with a penis and testicles “women” just because that’s what they fervently want to be. They should be free to live however they want, but why exactly am I obligated to wave pom-poms for them?
Anything less than full-throated cheerleading for people’s mental issues is fascist.
why exactly am I obligated to wave pom-poms for them?
Because that’s how they know they’ve broken you.
Waving pom-poms is not good enough. We want real enthusiasm.
As a heterosexual man, you should want to have sex with her!
And there are people who believe exactly that – not wanting to have sex with a “woman” who has a dick and balls makes you a hateful bigot.
Hell, I don’t even want to have sex with most of the actual women.
What about a non-autistic 35-year old that identify as a 6-year old?
I will refer to trans gender people by their preferred pronouns, names, etc. Just as I call men named William Bill or Liam as they prefer. I won’t apologize for saying only women can get pregnant. I won’t sit through a lecture by a trans woman about what it means to be a woman, or listen to lectures about how we need to stock the men’s room with tampons because some men get their periods.
I used to think that those Celebrate Diversity bumper stickers where harmless platitudes. Now I realize they are written orders.
TERF’s are nuts.
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/981909090896138240
Lol. I know a few folks who agree with some of the trans-exclusionary points made by TERFs, but they’re cautious about saying so just because TERFs are so frequently nuttier than squirrel shit.
I think that mostly comes from the F part of the acronym.
Nope the R
I don’t think it’s radical to expect that the exclusively female space you’ve created stay clear of men wearing dresses wanting to invade it, who claim they know what it’s like to be a woman.
Like, if it’s got a dick, it ain’t a woman.
Burn her, she’s a TERF!
If I’ve accidentally read anything written by those PuA/game/alphahole poseurs, I go swim in radical feminist blogs to wash off the filth.
Well at least the RF portion of it. It’s a vocal subset of radical feminism…
I see the TERFs’ point and agree. That said, I’m cautious about saying so.
I’ll give that statement a slight upgrade to some next time. I can see (some) of their point(s), and I think they’re reasonable points. It’s just the loudest proponents are so often very special.
True.
Two things put me firmly on the TERFs’ side. 1) As a woman who’s been through childbirth, any trans who says he knows what it’s like to be a woman needs to be kicked in his inside-out vagina. 2) I have seen MtF trans threaten to violently rape TERFs with the penis they say they don’t want.
How any feminist screaming about rape culture can justify considering trans as real women, I just don’t know.
Yep. See my comment above.
Frankly, I think many of the TERFs and trans activists deserve each other.
“2) I have seen MtF trans threaten to violently rape TERFs with the penis they say they don’t want.”
Those are sockpuppets. Rapists are rare. Transsexuals are very rare. Do the math.
Hey, remember when the “Libertarian” Party of North Carolina viciously denounced the HB2 “bathroom bill”? Did you think things could be any more of a joke in any part of this august organization? Well, feast your eyes on the Libertarian Party of Palm Beach County, and their official list of “Worst Supreme Court Decisions”!
There’s Dred Scott, of course, and Plessy, and Korematsu, and…Hammer v. Dagenhart?
Good Lord, what the fuck is this?
Note that Bush v. Gore is on the list, but not a single New Deal case, nor anything else to do with economics (except, indeed, Hammer v. Dagenhart). Save us from these clowns, Vermin Supreme!
OK. While you are surveying the political platforms of irrelevant fringe political organizations, what’s the position of the Green Libertarian Nazi Party on the issue?
“Green Libertarian Nazi Party”
So… dankertarians?
The Green Libertarian Nazis support child labor, as long as the children are untermensch white males, are used only for environmental projects, and are disposed of properly afterwards.
Big supporters of composting.
Ahem. They are called the Libertarian National Socialist Green Party. Unless you are talking about some tiny lunatic offshoot of the mainstream LNSGP that I am unaware of.
Looks like Winston hacked Diego’s account.
What is the joke here? I’m a newfag, remember.
Shut up Tulpa!
Damn it! You all are a bunch of Christfags and Bushtards. Not really, but that’s the only reference I know how to make.
I’ve been around forever, and I don’t get it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Winston spent the last few days finding obscure un-libertarian things that some ‘Libertarians’ have said/written, Ted seems to think DiegoF is doing likewise.
Indeed, and many seem to concur with him. We spend every day on these boards sharing and lulzing over derp from Everyday Feminism, The Root, Twitter randos, antifa manifestos, and Marxist-dominated comment sections. But apparently the LP is going too far.
Well, you and your mouse might, I and mine are here to make bad jokes, worse puns and occasionally stir some shite or make off-handed references that usually fall flat, but I have yet to declare war with the union over any of it.
Oy, did that seem hostile or offended or angry in tone? I actually didn’t mean it; that would actually be rather ridiculous. I am rather puzzled, though, that’s all. There’s just so much extremely low-hanging derp shared all the time to widespread “get a load of this moron”s. And now it’s “Oh, come on; the LP? Really?” And I have to say I’m a little surprised. We actually have LP members and Johnson voters here; and I always thought I was actually one of the more anti-LP guys up in here. So yeah, just more puzzled than anything. I sometimes have trouble getting a read on things, unlocking their sociological mysteries.
I wouldn’t worry too much about any of it. Ted’s just flirting with you Kindergarten style by comparing your post to Winston’s.
I think its the spirit of the thing, really.
Posting bone-headed crap that soi-disant libertarians have said in order to point and laugh at them is all in good fun.
Posting it in order to discredit libertarianism more generally gets kind of a cranky reaction.
Some kids are just not popular: Winston is one of them.
Winston never gets the joke either. YOU MUST BE HIM!
Nah, there’s nothing about Murray Rothbard in that post.
Kind of funny……they just sent an email at work saying they’re cancelling the transit plan because of changes in the way fringe benefits are being taxed under the new tax plan.
Hilarity is currently ensuing wrt our Nazi fascist racist tax cuts for the rich Prez
“DNA tests for IQ are coming, but it might not be smart to take one
Scientists have linked hundreds of genes to intelligence. One psychologist says it’s time to test school kids.
A year ago, no gene had ever been tied to performance on an IQ test. Since then, more than 500 have, thanks to gene studies involving more than 200,000 test takers. Results from an experiment correlating one million people’s DNA with their academic success are due at any time.
As of now, the predictions are not highly accurate. The DNA variations that have been linked to test scores explain less than 10 percent of the intelligence differences between the people of European ancestry who’ve been studied.
Even so, MIT Technology Review found that aspects of Plomin’s testing scenario are already happening. At least three online services, including GenePlaza and DNA Land, have started offering to quantify anyone’s genetic IQ from a spit sample.
Others are holding back. The largest company offering direct-to-consumer DNA health reports, 23andMe, says it’s not telling people their brain rating out of concern the information would be poorly received.
Several educators contacted by MIT Technology Review reacted with alarm to the new developments, saying DNA tests should not be used to evaluate children’s academic prospects.”
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610339/dna-tests-for-iq-are-coming-but-it-might-not-be-smart-to-take-one/
While I agree with Plomin in that we will eventually uncover the genetic correlates to g, I do not share his confidence that we are there yet for several reasons.
Carryover from the last thread, set to music already:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b0W4PCeMUk
Honestly, looks like the pin placement is BS, but at a quick scan thru, I dont see anyone worse than a bogey, so this is just Sergio.
Also I said 3 or 4 shots in water in last thread. It was 5, He hit 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 into the water.
Damn, I’d quit
Yup. I’d take my last ball and go home. And get very, very drunk.
(Not that anything like that has ever played out in Festus’ real life adventures!) *whistles a bit, looks up the sky*
i saw that movie. Cheech was his caddie.
So he puts five in the water. I assume the first was going for the green in 2. The next four are from the drop zone. Just a wee bit too much back spin there.
Good on ya kids.
http://www.kktv.com/content/news/Local-students-organize-event-in-support-of-Second-Amendment-478819103.html
Okayl Glibs – what does This shirt say?
Penis, it always says penis
“Caviar is fish bukkake.”
That is soft roe, not caviar. Get it right, philistine.
“From Hell’s heart I stab at thee!”
KHHHHHAAAANNNNN
“White hooker”
After years of lurking at the other site and here you finally flushed me out.
It says “Suitable Japanese”. In the context of “fit for a purpose” and the Japanese language. It is also written as a full sentence and in a polite form.
I was hoping straffinrun would stop me from blowing my cover…
Hah! Welcome to the party. 🙂 Thanks for the translation!
Welcome to the party-
Should I throw a body onto the hood of a police car? You know, as a welcome.
Should I throw a body onto the hood of a police car?
I thought I was going to make it through the afternoon links without an awkward erection, thanks for fucking that up, dude.
YOU’RE WELCOME!
HO HO HO Now I have a machine gun.
Break the wrist; walk away.
Ouch! Thanks all.
Fuck off Tulpa
And welcome!
“6 Mothers on What It’s Like to Eat Their Placenta
While the idea of eating something that just came out of your body might squick you out, the fact is, consuming your placenta (also called placentophagy) has become more and more popular over the years. While some believe that eating placenta (either raw or in pill format) has certain health benefits like improved mood and milk production, evidence remains anecdotal. And while benefits may be hard to prove, there’s potentially some reason to be wary. In June of 2017, the CDC published a report that a baby had contracted Group B Streptococcus twice through breastmilk, after the mother had consumed contaminated placenta pills. Benefits or claims aside, here are six women’s experiences consuming their placenta.”
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a19621707/eating-placenta/
become more and more popular over the years
There’s dozens of us!
EAT THE BABY TOO
Who do I look like, the Bishop of Bath and Wells?
Mrs Gordilocks will be having her placenta dried out and put in capsules for later consumption.
/whatchoo lookin At?
Cows eat their placenta after birth.
One of our local TV stations in calling the 5.3 CA earthquake “massive”.
This is why people hate the media.
Massive? I think I’ve been through a 5.3 quake. Come to think of it, if that quake was 5 points, so were you, since it was closer to the DC area than me.
http://bestdemotivationalposters.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Virginia-Earthquake-2011-Best-Demotivational-Posters.jpg
I remember that day.
It was hard to get up and go home from my fully-intact office over roads that were undamaged and bridges that still spanned the highways.
The horror.
I was hoping for that image and I was not disappointed.
Some of the jars on my spice rack were askew when I got home that day!
I remember that day. I was on the Facebook when it happened, and my status of “Wow baby, did the Earth move for you too” got many many likes.
I can’t wait for the local news takes tonight.
It was noticeable, but yeah, not massive. Especially since the epicenter was offshore, not many people even felt the strongest part of it.
When des the tsunami hit?
*swims*
*clings to side of office building*
TOO LATE — *pants* — already— here—
*swept beneath the 405*
*gurgles*
*washes ashore in front of Trader Joe’s*
“Damn it, the tsunami swept away my reusable bags!”
Where? I felt nothing. 5.3? unless your right on top of it,Pahh..
Right off the Channel Islands.
Just south of the Channel Islands. I felt here here, about 40 miles away. Barely. My wife works about 15 miles closer and says she felt it rolling for 15 or 20 seconds. But it was not massive by any stretch.
Hmmm.
My brother and nephew are out on Catalina for spring break.
*clicks on MS link*
Meh, never mind.
Thanks for the Slab City post. That was cool.
Lesson: don’t base your income on lefty Silicon Valley corporations.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/04/05/libertarian-comedian-owen-benjamin-permanently-suspended-from-twitter/
Owen came up with a howler – pardon the paraphrasing –
why poundmetoo?
(For you youngjns who may not get it, # used to mean ‘pound’ before Twitter came along)
“poundmetoo”
New genre on PornHub.
That’s where all of the banned and demonetized YouTubers are going …. pounding or not.
Who in their right mind could object to that?!?!!!!
They’re not in their right minds.
I was being sarcastic as in “who could object to the therapy”, but I failed.
*looks around for tanto*
It’s all good. My sarc meter is always in need of readjustment.
why is Gab not massive by now? serious question. has the Left purge not reached critical mass yet?
I think it’s getting there. Get a viable YouTube alternative up and running and we’re golden.
Hey guys! Do you want to read something absolutely evil?
As long as they’re not taking them devil medications! It might make them feel good and WE CAN’T HAVE THAT NOW CAN WE!?
I think one is entirely justified in wishing crippling pain on such a person just so they can be told “Hey, suck it up, buttercup!”
Yep. Up there with “Oh, war with ________? Your son is in what unit again? Oh he’s at Yale. Well then you can go in his stead Senator. Socrates marched to Delium at the age of 60. Surely you can handle your responsibilities as a citizen of the republic.”
Socrates was such a boss.
***
One of the Athenian hoplites in the battle was the philosopher Socrates. Plato has Alcibiades give the following account of the retreat of the Athenians at Delium, and Socrates’ own actions then:
“Furthermore, men, it was worthwhile to behold Socrates when the army retreated in flight from Delium; for I happened to be there on horseback and he was a hoplite. The soldiers were then in rout, and while he and Laches were retreating together, I came upon them by chance. And as soon as I saw them, I at once urged the two of them to take heart, and I said I would not leave them behind. I had an even finer opportunity to observe Socrates there than I had had at Potidaea, for I was less in fear because I was on horseback. First of all, how much more sensible he was than Laches; and secondly, it was my opinion, Aristophanes (and this point is yours); that walking there just as he does here in Athens, ‘stalking like a pelican, his eyes darting from side to side,’ quietly on the lookout for friends and foes, he made it plain to everyone even at a great distance that if one touches this real man, he will defend himself vigorously. Consequently, he went away safely, both he and his comrade; for when you behave in war as he did, then they just about do not even touch you; instead they pursue those who turn in headlong flight.” (Plato, Symposium, 220d–221c)
***
“No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training…what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
-S dawg
Shorter version – “Suck it up, you pussies”
You’re posting Thicc Thursday again?
You have a migraine? Oh. You can still give the presentation right?
These are probably the same people who scream about needing to do something about concussions in sports.
I guarantee it.
Hey Yusef, I was late for your post on Slab City. Nice work, man, I’m looking forward to the report from your next visit. Have fun, and see if you can find out more about the sort of alternative, Mad Max-ier Burning Man that they throw there. I’ve been to B Man six times, and methinks my next trip to the west coast will hopefully coincide with whatever those cats at Slab are up to, if it’s still happening whenever that trip may be.
Also, I know (some of) you were joking, but the people here who poo-poohed the residents and installations of Slab City should eat a bag of dicks.
Thanks Gordi, Saturday is Open Mic night, which can get wild, all the Zombies come out!
There’s a lot more to the place, that’s why I’m doing it in parts, too much for one day or one article
I missed it, too. Ill go back and read it.
…this place is like a homework assignment
The idea that pain acceptance might serve as an effective alternative to opioids is an emerging area of research and not something that has been definitively established.
Research brought to you by the same people claiming opioid pain relievers barely outscore the placebo, who showed up not long ago?
Eh. I have a lot of joint pain and can’t take NSAIDs. I have done a lot of reading about pain and managing it drug free. This is why I have a hot tub and get regular massages, but you can do a lot mentally with self hypnosis. When I have time, I can make the pain go away. It does take time and doesn’t fit well with having a job. But, I come from a family background of that sort of thing. My mother used self hypnosis for child birth and the dentist. She’s had root canals with no anesthetic and had very little swelling later. It didn’t work for me at the dentist and didn’t work for my sister for child birth. My mom did it thAt way because of bad reactions to anesthetics and pain relievers.
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5ac66563e4b09d0a1191532b/amp
Well that didn’t take long.
Gab. goddamnit. why don’t people just move to Gab instead of Twitter.
and i’m going to predict Kevin’s Atlantic hiring/firing was a bet he took with Charles Cooke. that Cooke said he would get fired at article 10+ while Kevin took the under at 0-9… and Kevin won.
I’m not on Gab for the same reason I’m not on Twitter.
Too salty?
Nothing to say, and a tendency to use too many words to say it.
My issue is it’s all headlines and no substance because of the character caps. But a lot of it does seem to be ragey fluff so even a few words are too much?
I wonder if he can go back to NR.
I’m pro-choice and all, but if you’re pro-life, isn’t believing that the women involved should be charged with murder the only possible consistent position?
The Atlantic’s founding manifesto states, “of no party or clique.”
Just make sure and stay on the plantation.
Regarding last night’s thread on yacht rock and white soul, I don’t think anybody mentioned this fantastically WTF song.
Who has the better hair?
This one is more serious.
Michael McDonald is a creature of hell who was sent to this plane to torment me with his voice.
40 years later and my father still hasn’t forgiven Michael McDonald for ruining the Doobie Brothers.
Your father is correct.
Aaaand, Scruffy lights the Gilmore beacon.
Robby
TDS strikes again.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2018/04/05/misdemeanor-charge-filed-against-texas-councilwoman-and-momsdemand-volunteer-for-berating-teen-girl-in-a-trump-shirt/
I only wish one of the girls had slugged her.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/0fa86441-7831-4c48-b987-c49a8a7fc653
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/0fa86441-7831-4c48-b987-c49a8a7fc653
Fighting squirrels, attempt the second
Alert! Alert!
We have reached Peak Cherry Blossom!!
(P.S. my newish job is in one of the most touristy neighborhoods in the District. I didn’t see it until March, when the school groups started coming. My building has a food court that caters to busloads of tourists. It’s horrific.)
My son will be there (DC, at least) in May with the rest of his eighth grade. I apologize in advance!
Just tell him “Stand Right, Walk Left” and by god please try not to have lunch at the Reagan Building*
*I realize he may not have much choice about this
Do you hate Connor MacGregor? You’re going to love this.
The only thing that would have been more awesome is if the dolly was not there at the time but Charles Barkley happened to be.
Though MacGregor is a pretty scrawny dude and he’d have to be strong as fuck to pull that off nowadays.
Throwing Barkley? You’d be hard pressed to find somebody willing to throw a 300lbs black man.
What about Michelle Obama? I consider that a positive quality in our next president.
I’m still not convinced this wasn’t a WWE-style skit by Dana White for attention.
beagle wanders off, fights with porcupine, and returns with a face full of quills and a 1,000 yard stare.
***Flashback*** NOT cool, Derp, not cool at all. I had to hold down my daughter’s dog to remove quills with some pliers and it was excruciating for me so I can only imagine what that poor dog went through. Who knew a forty pound dog could be so strong and bendy? Amazing that I didn’t get bitten.
that time Da Vinci designed a crank-powered tank
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%27s_fighting_vehicle
***
The machine was designed while Leonardo da Vinci was under the patronage of Ludovico Sforza in 1487.[2] Sometimes described as a prototype of modern tanks, da Vinci’s armored vehicle represented a conical cover inspired by a turtle’s shell. The covering was to be made of wood and reinforced with metal plates that add to thickness. Slanting angles would deflect enemy fire. The machine was powered by two large inside cranks operated by four strong men. The vehicle was equipped with an array of light cannons, placed around the perimeter.[3]
The gears of the design were located in a reversed order, making the vehicle unworkable. This is thought by some sources to have been a deliberate mistake by Da Vinci as a form of security, in case his design was stolen and used irresponsibly.[4]
***
If they could design a modern crank-powered tank, Red America and Gay America could combine forces to easily overpower the government that has long oppressed them both.
I remember seeing that on a history channel. My thoughts is that it wasn’t meant to be a tank, but a continuous firing cannon, like a Gatling gun. By the time the first canon completes a revolution, it’s reloaded and ready to fire.
The internal mechanism didn’t facilitate any of that. People have built from the plans (don’t recall if they reversed that gear or not). you’d have to both manually rotate the vehicle on the spot and reload a half dozen cannon at the same time. The ring of firepower was likely a means of compensating for lack of maneuverability.
You only have to reload one canon at a time. Obviously I don’t know, but I doubt Leo would make such a simple mistake. It also doesn’t seem like a very good deterrent from someone stealing his design.
that’s a spicy meat-a-ball
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPG-29
***
On August 25, 2007 a PG-29V hit a passing M1 Abrams in the hull rear wounding 3 crew members.[14] On September 5, 2007, a PG-29V hit the side turret of an M1 Abrams in Baghdad, killing 2 of the crew and wounding 1, and the tank was seriously damaged.
…
The US Army ranks the RPG-29 threat to armor so high that they refused to allow the newly formed Iraqi army to buy it, fearing that it would fall into insurgent hands.[17]
***
Hmmmm. The cost of the defense is orders of magnitude less than the cost of the offense. Doesn’t bode well for the offense.
Killing tanks isn’t hard with the right weapons. The next generation of tanks will have active defenses and, of course, cost dramatically more.
Anti-Tank Warfare: “Crack That Tank” 1943 US Army Training Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PL2HFLRMI0
“If you don’t mind, I think I’ll have another beer.”
Oh, how I wish more Army training briefs ended this way.
wiki sez on main battle tanks
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In asymmetric warfare, threats such as improvised explosive devices and mines have proven effective against MBTs. In response, nations that face asymmetric warfare, such as Israel, are reducing the size of their tank fleet and procuring more advanced models.[25][26]
The United States Army used 1,100 M1 Abrams in the course of the Iraq War. They proved to have an unexpectedly high vulnerability to improvised explosive devices.[27] A relatively new type of remotely detonated mine, the explosively formed penetrator, was used with some success against American armoured vehicles. However, with upgrades to their rear armour, M1s proved to be valuable in urban combat; at the Second Battle of Fallujah the United States Marines brought in two extra companies of M1s.[28] Britain deployed its Challenger 2 tanks to support its operations in southern Iraq.
Advanced armour has not improved vehicle survivability, but has reduced crew fatalities.[29] Small unmanned turrets on top of the cupolas called remote weapon stations armed with machine guns or mortars provide improved defence and enhance crew survivability. Experimental tanks with unmanned turrets locate crew members in the heavily armoured hull, improving survivability and reducing the vehicle’s profile.[30] A British military document from 2001 indicated that the British Army would not procure a replacement for the Challenger 2 because of a lack of conventional warfare threats in the foreseeable future. The obsolescence of the tank has been asserted, but the history of the late 20th and early 21st century suggested that MBTs were still necessary.[31]
Main battle tanks remain a useful tool for internal security. Nations (such as Japan, Bangladesh and Indonesia) lacking expeditionary ambitions, or even credible land-based threats from abroad, are bolstering their ground forces with MBTs for the express purpose of maintaining internal security.[25]
***
When a man can carry a weapon powerful enough to destroy a tank, there is not much point in having tanks.
Same thing in air defense. The Stinger is the analogue to the RPG. Two guys and few $K can take down anything that gets within range. The real defense is staying out of range.
This woman thinks that 4 months is a good timeframe from first doctor visit to cancer surgery.
For my Ma, it was a couple days. After that, she went to the Mayo Clinic and had the Neobladder installed within a month.
Wow.
Right like that’s the shit that drives me nuts about these people in the US who want MUH NATIONAL HEALTHCARE.
“National Healthcare” means giving fucking cancer a 4 month head start.
It’s a form of Stockholm Syndrome for the ‘progressive countries’.
They’ve gotten so used to mediocrity and time delays that’s considered a success.
More like ‘phew!” She got lucky is all.
Hey Derpy, you like the history of odd ball weapons. Are you familiar with the Mule Gun’
“”This experimental saddle gun or mule gun, was made to be fired from the
back of a mule. According to tradition, when the piece was tested, the mule broke loose, began to whirl
around, scattering the alarmed witnesses, then the mule stepped on the lanyard and fired the piece
itself. The force of the recoil is said to have knocked the mule ‘ass over teakettle’ into a nearby river.
Some versions say this incident took place at Aberdeen Proving Ground. In any event, the mule gun
concept was precipitately abandoned. Scattered accounts in the literature may be found to other such
‘Mule guns’, including use by Mexicans during the Mexican War. Invariably it seems that the recoil
knocked the mules down and frequently broke their legs.”
PDF Alert: http://www.maultier.info/Artikel/Experimental_saddle_gun.pdf
Don’t even get me contemplating the scale of the devastation wrought in the Chaco War by the brutally effective alpaca gun.
Wouldn’t it be better if they used something, I don’t know, round, call it a… A Wheel, NO, 2 wheels and maybe a straight thing between them, call it an Axle….
that one is news to me
my favorite weird weapon is the killer frisbee:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakram
***
The people of the kingdom … are very good fighting men and good knights, armed with many kinds of weapons; they are great bowmen, and very strong men; they have very good lances, swords, daggers, steel maces, and battle-axes, with which they fight; and they have some steel wheels, which they call chakarani, two fingers broad, sharp outside like knives, and without edge inside; and the surface of these is of the size of a small plate. And they carry seven or eight of these each, put on the left arm; and they take one and put it on the finger of the right hand, and make it spin round many times, and so they hurl it at their enemies, and if they hit anyone on the arm or leg or neck, it cuts through all. And with these they carry on much fighting, and are very dexterous with them.
***
That was one of the challenges on Forged in Fire.
Looks like a punt gun.
A very early version of the M40 106mm recoilless.
Ah, technicals- the poor man’s tank.
Woot, Sox walk-off in the 12th for the home opener win.
Huzzah!
Fucking hell, Bill Kristol fucking sucks. Does anyone even like that guy?
He was good in City Slickers…
*Cathy Young raises her hand*
Welcome back. I’m pleased to see that you haven’t pulled an Eduard van Haalen.
You mean I didn’t replace my David Lee Roth with Sammy Haggar?
The guy that painted ‘The Scream’?
I mostly think about him as the guy who loves war and has been wrong so much in his predictions and analysis of all types that no one listens to him or takes him seriously anymore and the only reason he has any cultural prominence left is because of who his dad was and the fact that he still publishes a magazine.
I am actually surprised to hear this because if anything I’d imagined the right wing of his old crowd was coming closer to mainstream conservatism–assimilating over time to the ideological culture of ones’ fellow travellers, as is the tendency, especially when neoconservatism is not exactly an intellectual cultural flag that can fly and thrive openly these days. And as I’d remarked before, I feel like it’s certainly been true of his magazine. About 80% of the pieces in the National Review, the Weekly Standard, and the Federalist look to me nowadays like they could have appeared in any one of those publications (even if the Standard is the furthest from the other two).
Neocons are ex-Trotskyites who will fellate whichever party that supports Pax Americana via global warfare.
Cristina Hoff Summers retweets him sometimes for anti-Trump things, and I’m always “oh honey no, not him, how can you not see what he is?” whenever I see it.
Retweets =/= endorsements! Not even of the sentiment expressed by the specific tweet (you might just want your followers to see it), let alone of the person who wrote it! I’d retweet Obama if he said something I agreed with. (Probably. Who knows what I’d do in the counterfactual where I actually had a Twitter account?)
Besides, what makes you think she doesn’t see him for what he is? Their opinions are quite similar in general, and they are probably personal acquaintances.
Is it true that Kevin Williamson was fired for cracking a joke about Methodists?
(I’m just kidding- relax)
Zinga!
Any religion that’s OK with Heddie Lamar is OK with me.
It’s Hedley!
What the hell are you worried about? This is 1874. You’ll be able to sue her!
..that’s HEDley
I stand against botanical misogyny!!!
https://www.mnn.com/health/allergies/stories/botanical-sexism-making-allergies-worse
Tree sperm makes my eyes water.
Just say no to male tree money shots!!!
Keep them closed
I don’t care for this government-imposed affirmative action that Vegas and Tuscon have instituted! I guess this is an example of a potential externality to be resolved, but surely voluntary measures can be tried more seriously first before a government ban on the man-plants.
Stamens out for freedom!
Planting all-(self-identified)-male trees leads to less hassle over bathrooms. Also: ‘and that makes males “cleaner” by comparison.’ Gonna be quoting this one for a while.
True of the human species as well, according to those who clean nightclub bathrooms.
*raises hand* Yup.
I suppose this is a reason why we still need feminism. If I had a daughter that wrote this claptrap, especially one of college age, I’d…I don’t even fucking know. This level of boy craziness is not part of my personal zeitgeist.
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/you-may-have-worn-the-prom-dress-but-get-the-wedding-dress
I LOLed
https://twitter.com/associatesmind/status/981882414543892480
Truth. Jesus, woman.
A less…dark reason we need feminism is all those young men who fill the obligatory “life wisdom” panels of their Instagrams with talk about how men may turn their heads at girls who show it all off in the street (and on social media), but that the woman for them, the kind of woman they’re into, they kind they respect, are the ones who have the class and self-respect to not show it all off to strangers. Then they fill the obligatory “life photograph” panels with shirtless selfies. Bunch of faggots if you ask me.
Anyway, there are a number of instagrams and (ugh, yes) tumblrs last I remember dedicated to showcasing this obnoxiousness. I like it because contempt for these asshats is something that unites me with a crowd that is likely to be my bitterest archenemies on most everything else. It’s actually rather remarkable that in this woker-than-thou, absurd generation something so antedeluvian (in a way even I can acknowledge is bad) is still alive and well.
WTF? Unless you’re actively being stalked by your boyfriend’s ex, and want to stomp a rhetorical mudhole in a bitch, what is the point?
And if that’s the case, make it a somewhat private response.
Wut wuz dat?
A red flag being raised… nay, rocket propelled to the skies.
I don’t really get jealousy. You want to bang some other dude? Go ahead. just don’t expect me to be devastated over it or be here when you get back.
That was painful.
Again, I hope no one is paying her for writing that. The Jerry Springer generation.
(over/under on fiance dumping her tomorrow?)
And then HS girlfriend writes an article titled Guess who I f’d last night.
LOLYES!!
You can tell the author is insane from sentence one: “High school seems like the best time of your life when you are in it.”
Right??
I mean, it was a lot easier to score acid, but that about it.
Pretty sad when you peak in high school.
You have opened my eyes to a new, exciting kind of derp.
Thank you!
There’s a country song by some country singing chick that is basically from the perspective of prom dress girl that is sort of this wistful ‘I got the boy and the first kiss, but you get the man and the last’ that I think the author may be riffing on.
I Got The Boy
She’s hot in a Natalie Zea kinda way
Indeed.
My IQ dropped about fifty points after watching two minutes of that vidaer. Grab a bahr? Grunt, snort lookit that thar purty!
Yandere girls give me an uppercase penis.
This girl will lay awake at night, tossing and turning wondering if her gem of a man ever gave the oldun better ‘gasms. If this be parody then I salute the author but if meant in all seriousness, I fear the Bobbit Shears.
This dude’s been trying to own Matt Welch for an hour and it’s completely hilarious.
https://twitter.com/TheAngryLiberal/with_replies
KOCH!!!!!!
Just another prog bitch.
(1) any way to locate this without the “with replies” business? Requires a login and I’d wager not too many of us have a Twitter account.
(2) TheAngryLiberal is respectably angry but not very obviously liberal. Not even by the pathetically low bar of nowadays, where Christina Hoff Sommers, Dave Rubin, and every hard-prog professor who’s ever been shouted down for not affirming that objective truth is an instrument of ableist white cishet Islamophobic oppression calls himself the heir to Thomas Paine.
Did you try removing the “with replies” from the URL to see what happens?
I did; that is how I knew the real deal on Mr. “Liberal” in general. I was looking for help locating the kind of things I might have been being directed to by the “with replies” path; I’ve never seen any such thing, so I don’t know what would be there.
PBS and the NEA are suspect too, no doubt.
Skynet getting drones.
https://defensesystems.com/articles/2017/01/20/f35.aspx?m=1
From Rhywun’s neck of the woods:
After not working 213 of 214 days, Judge Astacio receives pay raise
Yet she hasn’t been removed from the bench or disbarred for ethics violations, so far as I can tell.
I have clearly made terrible career decisions.
Good work if you can get it.
Christ, even for New York that’s outrageous.
From a link off that page:
http://13wham.com/news/local/heavy-police-presence-on-northwood-drive-in-greece
“That’s some fine police work there, Lou.”
I think it’s hilarious to see your judge wearing a lojack under her robes. At least she’s better than that Cook County IL judge who was repeatedly re-elected over and over, with full machine support, despite being literally an insane person and running her courtroom as such.
Oh, and Her Dishonor has gone on a Facebook rant.
Can’t really deny her that tho. She really does look like shit there. Maybe if you get the balances right she looks like Kelly Rowland.
To be fair, local TV stations always show mug shots to embarrass arrestees. (Well, unless it’s a cop arrestee.)
A book y’all might like: The Finest Judges Money Can Buy
‘One of the worst DUI offenders in the US’ arrested with liquor bottle in passenger seat: cops
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/05/cops-one-worst-dui-offenders-in-us-arrested-with-liquor-bottle-in-passenger-seat.html
***
A woman police described as “one of the worst DUI offenders in the United States” was arrested again in Illinois on Monday and found with a liquor bottle in the passenger seat.
Tasha L. Schleicher, 41, was arrested after police received a 911 call of a woman passed out behind the wheel at a gas station in Riverside, WLS-TV reported on Wednesday. Officers found the Minnesota native alert and conscious, but highly intoxicated with a strong smell of alcohol in her breath, police said.
…
The mother of 11 — who was arrested for driving under the influence at least six other times — was taken into custody when she refused to take a sobriety test, according to WLS-TV.
She had told police she was looking for her children, but witnesses told officers that Schleicher was by herself at the gas station, the station reported.
Schleicher then told officers she was dropping off her 15-year-old son at an unidentified place so he could “party in Indiana over spring break,” Riverside police Chief Thomas Weitzel told WLS-TV.
…
Schleicher has DUI arrests in Kentucky, Wisconsin, Indiana, California, Oregon and Minnesota, along with three outstanding warrants because she wouldn’t show up to scheduled court dates, police said. She was once arrested in Minnesota while children were in the car, and was also allegedly breastfeeding one of her children while driving intoxicated, Weitzel said.
***
[head desk]
ginger bar fly, ewwwwww………
She was once arrested in Minnesota while children were in the car,
Minnesota nice!
dropping off her 15-year-old son at an unidentified place so he could “party in Indiana over spring break,”
Welp, that acorn isn’t going to fall far from the tree.
Who goes to Indiana for spring break?
The same people that go there for a Glock?
Damn your nimble fingers!
Chicagoans who want to replenish their gun supply?
I go there for summer vacation, so no stones cast here…
People looking for meth?
Finally an answer that makes sense.
The mother of 11… I think I see the problem.
I really couldn’t care less about where or who Kevin D Williams writes for
–
(i can’t recall ever reading him on purpose, or being incredibly smitten when i did read him)
but boy oh boy are people bending over backwords trying to insist that he’s a neonazi kook that makes Milo Y sound like a rational and sane political-commentator. And as far as i can tell, their only evidence to that charge are the same few cherry-picked paragraphs from a single article where he made some purposely fanciful and hyperbolic claim that “what if we hanged women who had abortions?” or something like that.
and , along with this claim – that he’s SO out in right-field that he obviously shouldn’t be allowed in the pages of any ‘respectable’ (read: liberal) publication – are associated rationales that “this in no way suggests that the Atlantic is too-narrowly partisan!” Why – and this is a verbatim quote i just saw elsewhere – “they publish David Frum!” Clearly this proves that they are accurately reflecting the total sum of Valid Political Spectrum!
Because So Right Wing He Came Out the Other Side a Progressive David Frum is totally what it means to be “ideologically diverse”
“He was a speechwriter for Bush! Do you realize how tolerant we’re being for allowing him to write in respectable journals??”
this is the sort of language they use; that “certain views are simply not ALLOWED to be printed. And they only determine what views are “beyond the pale*” after the fact, en masse, via twitter-mob
(*a term robby used frequently w/ Milo, and which provoked the exact same frustration from me – as in, who decides where ‘the pale’ begins and ends, Robby? – You?)
and again – i don’t know KDW from a hole in the ground, and don’t know or care whether his opinions are good, bad, or nothing at all. What bothers me are these endless public “Denunciations” like we live in Soviet Russia, and people are routinely branded Un-People, Enemies of the State, by mobs of illiterate indignant people who pretend moral superiority for ‘hating all the right people’.
Frum has become so proggy he turned your text blue!
(sigh)
i had an example of frum at his most-Frummy. he’s got many examples of his deep-levels-of-retard, its so hard to pick only 1
a lot of his frothing in the past year has basically been in defense of his fellow Progressives Getting Paid to Pretend to Be Principled Conservatives (e.g. Jennifer Rubin, Max Boot, et al)
But this tweet-storm from him was probably a better example than what i had before. shorter reading as well.
i mean, all you need is Frum, and you’re considered to have an “acceptable degree of intellectual diversity”. Because really, there’s only so much diversity people can be expected to stand.
I think this was the OG link
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/conservatism-is-what-conservatives-think-say-and-do/548738/
I do. He’s one of best conservative writers.
Since Milo is both a verified alt-right enabler and a verified Jew, would he be allowed beyond the pale or not?
*Pale
Uh, you wanna communicate your objection a bit better, HuffPo? Maybe a different choice of words? My understanding is that a large portion of your readership Fucking Loves Science, so they may be a bit finicky.
Yeah, hang on a tic. Did they just go Inherit the Wind on us?
I’m inclined to think that as a matter of pure logic it would be more objectionable to claim the boy wasn’t a primate.
That said, I understand why peeps find that bit of Williamson unfortunate. I think it a bit unfortunate. It shouldn’t be considered really objectionable. Sheesh,, give primates an inch…
I think i know what it is that drives me up the wall about this shit
Ben Shapiro made a comment today which basically echoed it; and it was basically “The Intentional Narrowing of the Overton Window”
i don’t think he articulated it well (many people seemed to over-react that his comment granted too-much to the lefties, but i can’t tell wtf their point is)…. my take on it is basically
“There are too many Right-Thinking Asshole Journalists (a la Robby) who base their ideas of what “acceptable public discourse” is supposed to be based on ‘What i can say to my progressive friends without getting shouted down”
Its this spineless concession to the “you can’t say that!” people. And those people are ENDLESSLY increasing their definiton of what you can’t say.
e.g. Just like how jordan peterson’s “Hey maybe coding speech-laws which obligates people to use completely arbitrary pronouns is a bad idea”… has been twisted into “He’s openly misogynist and advocates violence against trans people!”
You can’t even *honestly disagree* with people, because your honest disagreement will be converted into “hate speech” in about 5 seconds, and the next thing you know, you’re being blacklisted
I mean, I watched those fucking Milo “Dangerous Faggot” speeches, and if anything, my take-away was that *he was far less offensive than i had been led to believe*.
– Meanwhile Robby’s articles about him – which were being published at exactly the same time Milo was doing the rounds of universities – kept ramping up his own claims about Who/What Milo “Was”. He went from being “Controversial speaker, Milo” …. to “Alt-Right Leader” in about 3 articles.
And the only reason that shitheel decided that these characterizations needed to be amplified was because THAT WAS WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IN THE MEDIA WAS DOING
it was basically ‘media consensus’ which declared overnight that this dude was no longer merely ‘someone who disagreed’; he was “Beyond the pale”.
And this wasn’t some democratic process of “unpersoning” – it was the conscious decision to simply narrow the overton window, and declare ‘that kind of talk’ unacceptable.
Its insidious enough on its own. What makes it worse, in my opinion, is that the people who’ve declared themselves the Referees of the Overton Window boundaries? Are complete assholes to boot.
Write a fucking blog, Ben.
Worst thing about these multi-post twitter rants: I scrolled down too far and read some of the comments and now I have cancer.
It was a twitter response to someone saying (paraphrased) “if anti-abortion people think abortion is murder shouldn’t they want women who have abortions get life in prison”.
The left, with their usual devotion to intellectual honesty and good faith arguments, are saying that he wants women who have had abortions to be lynched by angry mobs.
“”exercise ROMERO ORANGE ZULU””
Is this a really obscure reference to the movie “Outbreak”, where the govt was going to Napalm-burn an entire town to prevent a disease from spreading?
Fix that fucking link you fucking Northside hipster!
No. Just mashing up Charlie Stross and trying to find a 2 nouns and a color for zombies. Orange seemed better than red or black. Didn’t World War Z — the book — call them Zulus? Maybe it was Zeds.
Zeds!?! They are sure to invoke the wrath of ZARDOZ!
Wait so Williamson got fired? Already? What did he do?
He outlived his usefulness. His one story was surely dear to your own heart.
That article was great too. So sad and… correct.
Tallest midget.
Doubtful. They are doing well enough already. Libertarian offer more harm than good to Democrats.
Said women who get abortions and the abortion providers should be hanged. In at least one tweet and one podcast. I like KDW’s writing style, but to take such a provocative stance invites retribution. While I hope he lands on his feet, I hope he learns how to dial it back from 11 to 9.
A long time ago. People who don’t like him dug it up.
He actually isn’t even in favor of capital punishment. Rhetorical hyperbole I imagine.
Sure, let’s pretend like this is the real reason he got fired and not just because like Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss at the NYT it wasn’t just because he was a dissenting boice
^^
this
They already knew they wanted him gone, they went looking for the reasons why after the fact. 99% of the people who were furious about him were furious about him before ever finding his past comments. Once they found them, they engaged in marketing the material all over the place and ensuring every other media outlet highlighted them as tho they were the full range of his thoughts.
Michelle Goldberg’s editorial in the NYT was a case-study in this fake “I’m just expressing ‘concerns’ about our national dialogue”-rhetoric,
….which was actually saying, “We can’t let any actual conservatives into our liberal media: my god, we can barely stand the Rubins and the Brookses and the Frums and the Boots! AND THEY AGREE WITH US!? If we let real people who disagree with us into our publications… why…. what if our readers start Agreeing with THEM?”
she’s the perfect case-example of how these Overton Window-police work.
I enjoyed the infamous, rather contrarian, perspective he brought to the piece about the “white underclass” that is one of the pieces Goldberg cites contemptuously. If you recall reading the piece, he knows that world from a rather unique background–he was deprived to the point of temporary homelessness but not per se poor; his family was actually not at all economically disadvantaged in any traditional sense, but were a bunch of thoroughgoing fuckups in countless ways and so gave him an unusually insecure upbringing. He experienced almost the pure opposite of the salt-of-the-earth, hardworking but hard-luck poor family that people like to think about. So he comes at it from that perspective. Rather than seeing the underclass “warts and all,” with e.g. the bad habits that tend to be correlated (for one reason or another) with being in that situation, rather than a romanticized view of its more sympathetic qualities, he basically experienced only the warts. So he appreciates them rather acutely.
…it gave him an incomplete perspective on the underclass, as everyone’s necessarily is (even those more comprehensively and conventionally a part of it), but probably a generally useful supplement to the usual, more sympathetic ones.
Is it this?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/10/white-working-class-populism-underclass-anti-elitism-acting-white-incompatible-conservativism/
That’s the one!
He nearly lost me with the first line. I genuinely liked New Jack City.
this sounds strangely familiar, but i can’t quite place where i’ve come across this before…
Yeah of course I don’t really endorse the gist of the piece per se; like I said I think it’s mostly a partial perspective, and the business it opens with is just a bunch of old-fashioned SoCon fuddy-duddy silliness.
I thought he had some serious misses with the “politically homeless” piece too. The last two paragraphs, in particular, are just bizarre.
I like the piece as well.
i am not 100% on board with the idea that right-populism requires ALL the sort of psychological baggage he describes. but its a well-made point.
this, for instance, is excellent:
Look, maybe I just like contrarianism. But there’s a reason; I think it’s healthy. I don’t want the people Democrats have been sneering at (and the politicians and pundits who address them) to get up their own ass about salt-of-the-earth Real America either. People need to keep some perspective and balance and reject whatever rose-colored nearsighted glasses it may be tempting to put on.
Yeah that was probably the tightest passage in the whole thing.
I don’t think it’s either that article nor this one I’m thinking of, but they all hit similar points. In particular, I’m thinking of his response to “why don’t people just leave those terrible areas?” – from the latter article:
That’s a fantastic point.
I really need to not do twitter.
There are hordes of people there screeching that he’s a “deranged bigot”.
And the 1 piece of his that i just read? Was pretty much the most opportunity for racially-charged bigotry possible, and yet its all about saying, “white people are stupid and when they’re poor its not because anyone made them that way, its often because they make stupid choices”.
**speaking of which:
i’m endlessly trying to remind people =
“Bigotry” specifically isn’t “having bad opinions of X”
Bigotry is INTOLERANCE of X.
You can be racist as fuck and not be a bigot. You can believe X people are inferior, but if you treat them the same, share space with them, watch them on TV and listen to their music, then you’re not actually bigoted.
This point seems never to register with the people screaming that someone shouldn’t be employed because they think they have “bad beliefs”
Williamson has many fantastic points, and they are of a sort. For instance, from his one Atlantic article:
“But as the memory of the USSR came to be replaced by the reality of nafta, eWTO, asean, etc., the fruits of globalism—everyday low prices at Walmart—turned out to be uninspiring to great masses of voters to whom those benefits are invisible for the same reason that water is invisible to fish.”
What he’s getting at here is something I just _know_, but that surprisingly few people understand. It is reality, stripped of what Tyler Cowen would call “mood affiliation.” It is a simple truth that is rarely recognized.
Williamson is at his best when he is writing about simple truths like this, simple truths that for one reason or another most people do not. and would rather not, acknowledge. He has a talent for putting these truths so bluntly that people have to at least take notice.
Like nearly all extreme pro-lifers in this country, my goal scheme is severe punishment for abortion providers and none for mothers. But I don’t exactly see why he should be banned from his magazine for this opinion, if this is indeed his opinion. However outrageous, is it even supposed to have rendered him a hateful person, like a white supremacist or something? Would I ask for Mike Bloomberg to be fired from a writing gig he might have because I find nearly all of his political positions deeply objectionable? This shit is just weird.
I understand and agree with that position, but are you surprised that happened?
No. But I think I buy this theory that the whole thing was a bit of a fig leaf.
I disagree with Williamson on the subject of abortion. But I’ll give him this- if you think abortion murder, and many people do think it that, it’s hard to see why you wouldn’t apply the same penalties we apply to other murderers to women who have abortions. If abortion is murder they are guilty of the worst sort of premeditated murder. As I said, I do not agree with kwd on this subject, but he is at least consistent.
Fucked up the quoting. Damn it.
Who said that?
I was referring to something RC Dean said earlier in this thread (about posting things to discredit libertarianism) . The rest was me I screwed up the post.
Are you sure cause RC Dean hasn’t posted at all in this thread.
Nevermind, I was searching for RC not R C
Since I heard that Kevin Williamson was fired I thought “people are stupid to believe this will just end with conservatives . Any opinion that isn’t inherently Left will inevitably be silenced by a left-wing campaign”. Then I thought about it and realized that no this will probably only ever be directed toward conservatives until they are thoroughly banished from the public arena. I can’t imagine any mainstream libertarian ever being subjected to such a concerted campaign. Obviously, none mainstream libertarian voices would (and have been) subjected to such a campaign. But no one is going to stop Will Wilkinson, Gillespie, Welch, or just about any writer within the Koch orbit from writing for the Atlantic or NYT.
I have an opinion about why that is, but basically I think it’s fair to say that as much as the public face of libertarianism tries to pretend like they’re the radicals, for the most part they’ve watered down the philosophy so much that it’s actually the public face of conservatism that are the real radicals.
So you think the Kochs will end up being prog fellow travelers and the LP a powerless blocparty like the German Liberals in East Germany?
Also read up on the salami strategy.
Frightening that you might be correct here.
Personally I think the future will belong to what is rapidly evolving into the right wing of the Democratic Party. The centrist, globalist technocrats. The Bloombergs. Theirs are the values of the new, prosperous, young upper class in the politically powerful private sector and in the ever-expanding government itself. It is socially “progressive” but not at all liberal, pro-business but not pro-market. It is market-socialist, and increasingly comfortable thinking of itself as so, but also comfortable thinking of itself as mixed-economy or state-managed capitalist. It will not give the hard left enough power to fuck up the economy to endanger its bottom line; its will be a partial socialism that above all protects its own position and prosperity. It will confine its “social consciousness,” whatever its rhetoric, to gestures that it finds fulfilling but will not endanger its own bottom line, importing enough of the seemingly (and indeed truly) radical collegiate insanity but having it pose no real threat–and, indeed, bolster its elite position. America will not be as fortunate as it could have been, and certainly not as widely so, but it may yet hold itself together enough to serve this interest. (Or they could be playing with fire more than they realize. This is all assuming they manage to pull it off.)
It will be more and more exclusively, and more and more openly, centered around the white upper class and contemptuous of the white lower class. It will include as allies nearly all minorities of all kinds by encouraging identity politics and grievance culture, and will attempt to import racial minorities in large numbers in order to bolster its demographic future. America’s politics, in short, will seem much more “European” in the future, even as these erstwhile “Europeanish” developments have a bit of a rougher time advancing in Europe itself, because they have shot their wad and created a backlash and awareness–especially around the immigration issue.
…All this is obviously a lot more speculative than most stuff. Who can read the tea leaves really?
Nice to see you back here, JS.
There is WAY too much money to be made in America catering to non-progs for some commie purge to be permanently successful. I’m really hoping we get some real competition for Youtube soon. You have to think it’s coming. Most Americans may be tards but most are not progtards. The separate media entities may well continue down the road to single ideological purity but given how cannibalistic that can be, that very well could be self-correcting.
Whoah, they fired him already? I figured his time there would be limited, but that was quick.
I pretty strongly disagree with kdw on a number of subjects, and he’s the epitome of “ain’t good looking but [he’s] not shy.” It would not be unfair to call him an incendiary polemicist. But he is a very smart incendiary polemicist, one worth reading (and he is a very good writer, perhaps the finest in the polemical style we have these days.) The Atlantic impoverishes itself, its readers, and the culture by firing him. It’s not as if the Atlantic isn’t full of stupid incendiary polemics, written by hacks who wouldn’t know a decent turn of phrase if it bit them on the ass. The Atlantic would be improved by smart polemical writing from someone with ideas that are not completely like the rather uniform ideas of their regular contributors.
The Atlantic knew that this was true,, and firing Williamson was an act of cowardice. They knew what he had written, and knew who he was, well before they made him an offer.
It’s not as if the Atlantic isn’t full of stupid incendiary polemics
^This. The Overton window is shifting with publications like The Atlantic and we’re all worse off for it.
Guess I could’ve just read what Gilmore said upthread, but I swipe from the bottom up.
Some things bear repeating.
Mark Steyn wrote for the Atlantic for years. Could you imagine that now?
No, not at all. It’s crazy.
I love Mark Steyn. Sure, he sometimes uses hyperbole, but he is funny and not vicious to his adversaries. Kind of civilized in the way he slays them in public.
Way late, but my next review will be up tomorrow morning. Just finishing upload stuff. Hope everyone enjoys the shoutouts.
Spell my name right!
Well Pan Z is the guy who gave me all these great tips – but he doesn’t post under that name on youtube…so no names given. Marathon Family is a great flick – https://youtu.be/RAdngB1J3r0
Bagel question. I’m at the coffee shop, eating a cream cheese bagel. The few coffee shops here that sell bagels throw the thing in the toaster oven unsplit. Also, the never, ever toast the bagel until it’s slightly brown. Is that really the right way to eat a bagel?
WTF? Unsplit? What is wrong with those drug-addled hipsters? Of course you split them before toasting and of course you want them actually _toasted_ i.e., they should be browned. Then add cream cheese/salmon/whateverthefuckyouwant
Bona fides: Long Island kid who grew up eating bagels every Sunday after church, now married to a member of the tribe.
Quite simple. The right way to eat a bagel is not to toast it at all if it is fresh and good. Otherwise, you may toast a bit to make the most of it. Not splitting beforehand just seems kind of silly; I’ve never even heard of it before.
If it’s fresh out of the oven, toasting is not required, but he’s getting cold bagels at a coffee shop. Toast it.
Also, I am now hungry
Not fresh from the oven. Cream cheese is unpopular here, so I think they really don’t know how to use it. Tossing an unsplit bagel into the toaster oven helps me understand why they were part of the Axis powers.
In general, I think you’re going to be somewhat disappointed with bagels produced in areas with no bagel tradition (Northeast, Montreal, etc.). The ones I have travelling are always to bread-y
The bready bagels are invading New York with the transplants!
It’s perverse!
Ah yes, “coffee shop”; didn’t consider that. Well, that likely falls under “not ‘fresh and good,’” easily properly guided by my advice.
We don’t disagree.
Too many carbs. Eat something else.
Also, do more squats. We got it.
Where’s the donation you said you’d give for the cartoon? Where’s my two dollars!?
Google FATCA and you’ll see the problem I have donating small amounts to stuff like that. You have my moral support.
Google FAT COW and you’ll see what slumbrew will look like if he keeps eating bagels and slacks on his exercise.
That applies to $10 on paypal?
Tell you what, you wade through the Japanese tax laws and American tax laws, figure out what goddamn forms I need to declare the donation on. Also, I believe that they can legally probe into your personal finances if you receive overseas funding.
Wow, you’re paranoid. I’ll just go not by you anymore…
Seriously, I’ll ask my American lawyer buddy what the deal is. If it’s not a big deal, I’ll step up.
Stop looking at me through your hidden cameras!
See… the problem here is that… my little brother, this morning, got his arm caught in the microwave, and uh… my grandmother dropped acid and she freaked out, and hijacked a school bus full of… penguins, so it’s kind of a family crisis… so come back later? Great.
I know you’re little brother, sir.
Those weren’t penguins; they were mixed-race children. Your grandma sure is racist when she trips.
OK, so how do I donate?
Watch this video, use the email at the end here.
Done.
How close are you to the goal?
reached the goal!
The correct way to eat a bagel is right after it comes out of a wood-fired oven in Outremont. I’m afraid that if you are not in Montreal you are already doing it wrong, so have at it.
I haven’t actually had a bagel in Montreal, but I dig the Montreal-style bagels, e.g., Bagelsaurus in this neck of the woods. Their ‘classic jumbo’ is just crack.
I’ve only ever had bagel bytes. Not a bread guy.
I can’t wait to try your weird ass French bagels so I can have an opinion on them. They do sound promising.
Smaller than NY-style bagels, a bit more dense and slightly sour, like a sourdough base. Tasty.
I’m not sure I’d agree with your characterization of Montreal bagels.
Smaller? Yes, and this is part of their charm.
More dense? No- the ideal Montreal bagel has an almost cakey interior that is lighter than the bread torus that is the American bagel. It does have a very chewy exterior because it is still boiled, as all bagels once were. The American bagel is generally briefly steamed instead. And because it is smaller it has a higher proportion of exterior to interior than the American bagel.
Sour? Hmm- the Montreal bagel is complex, and I suppose there is a sour note to it. But its crumb is sweeter than the American bagel- as I said it is almost cakey. The Montreal bagel is cooked in a very hot wood-fired oven (if it is not, it is not really a Montreal bagel,) and the smoke imparts a great deal of flavor to the bagel. Some of that flavor could be described as sour, but I would simply call it smoky.
Order the pancake and hot dog instead.
ホットドック. Hot doc. Don’t know why they do that even though the animal “dog” is ドッグ or “dog” with a “g”.
https://imgur.com/ek2XVLA
JAL gets it right then.
What’s the nihongo equivalent of jingrish?
Good for JAL. Then again, JAL is serving hot dogs on international flights? Ugh.
I thought it was pretty good, better than many on the ground. I’d eat one again but I get that many wouldn’t.
“What’s the nihongo equivalent of jingrish?”
Nihongo
“Two hours before landing, we will be serving hot dogs and yogurt.” Think I’d be able to hold out until arrival.
JItsu ha nihonjin ni totte eigo to ui koto ha chotto kowaiindesukara…
Define “Kawaii”. Doesn’t mean “cute” to me. It’s a high pitched moan to annoy people.
It’s funny you should say that. I noticed that co-worker had googled it today, and that Google translates it as “Tiny.”
I think I might have misunderstood the original question, but… I’d say the Japanese version of Jinglish is… well, I once knew a guy who had learned a surprising amount of Japanese from anime and his Japanese girlfriend. Unfortunately, he’d learned a surprising amount of Japanese from anime and his Japanese girlfriend.
It was super-incongruous, He was a pretty athletic 6’1″, but his Japanese was often a weird caricature of a 12-year old girl’s. Plus, he’d randomly slip some kind of rough Osaka-ben into his girly speech and… kind of weird. I think he might even once have referred to himself as ‘uchi.’
Could be worse. If he starts referring to himself with his own name, you have society’s permission to light him on fire.
are we talking Jew bagel or like a Shinto one?
The Fox god is going to punish you for that.
the reference, in case you missed it
Oh, I thought it might be a reference to the Zero. UnCiv struck a nerve, I see. *Makes mental note on Gil’s button*
“” UnCiv struck a nerve, I see.””
99.9% of the time i just let the stuff slide. then i have my little moment where i briefly get on my hind legs, and then i let it go for another year or so.
some people are city people, and some people aren’t.
I told R Heinlein to “GFY” when I was in a pissy mood. Regretted it, especially since she didn’t have it coming. That being said, sometimes it is called for. The shit people say about Japan on this board ranges from amusing to sheer ignorance. Unless it’s alt righty racist, meh.
I’m not being paranoid.
Frozen Four Update:
Tundra is 100%. Sloopy is bummed.
UMD beat TOHSU
Notre Dame beat Michigan,
I’m still going ‘dawgs.
Yesterday I sat at a San Diego bar after work watching a baseball game. Once in a while, the hockey scores flashed across the bottom of the screen. I might be the only person in a 100 mile radius who gives a shit.
🙁
Sloopy’s half bummed. THE Ohio State University lost, but that team in Ann Arbor also lost.
Go BULLDOGS!
I went and read the defense (sort of) of KDW by KMW over @ TOS
i also read the comments, and why am i not surprised that John hates KDW just as much as the proggies for daring to slander his beloved Yokel Real Americans
How could you be so stupid as to think that?
“50 years ago today this came out– I’m low on ideas.”
My parents liked Simon and Garfunkel, but I remember when this concert aired endlessly over and over on “new” cable TV, my Dad groused about how between the two of them, they only had one suit. Jacket here, vest there, slacks there, crisp white shirt, then jeans.
To this day I remember that, and also the old recliner he sat in when he made his sartorial comments. I will go cry in my G&T now…
It’s amazing that we remember seemingly flippant remarks someone made decades ago, but more important things just vaporize in our heads.
Connor McGregor has a warrant out for him in NY. What a fucking POS.
Already in custody.