I assume all you Glibertarian capitalist running-dog shitlords have the long weekend? I don’t. I have work that needs to be done Tuesday when the client gets back. Adding to the fun is that my company — because they are idiots — require that you take PTO on certain holidays, and furthermore my boss’s boss would have to approve me working on such a holiday. Labor Day being one. So I am not working Monday. At least I get one day off this long weekend. OTOH, college football is back! Tomorrow at noon I get to see if strip club fan Tom Herman — whose wife is totally cool with him going to strip clubs — can whip my beloved, benighted Longhorns into shape against a program that ran a player to death in conditioning drills. And then Monday night, the place I actually matriculated from is bring back the blackout uniforms to help the new (black) coach take on VaTech. Also, I will be rooting for Sloopy’s nemesis because fuck Notre Dame.
Never call the cops — celebrity edition. I love the writing: “Officers spoke to the woman for more than an hour and at one point she became combative.” Like, the point where they shot her?
I can’t wait to terrorize coworkers with a tele-presence robot. “Hey! Everyone else has coffee? Why don’t I get coffee?”
The Man is keeping an enterprising Florida Man down! “Police said the couple transformed a kitchen window into a drive-thru window because it didn’t want to draw attention by having customers regularly entering and exiting the home.” Genius!
Now that’s a good husband. “Metcalf later allegedly told authorities he had made the weapons over the course of four years because his wife was fearful of the government’s collapsing, according to KNXV.” 40 pipebombs. Outstanding, Marine!
Here’s a work song for the weekend.
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42 Pipe bombs. The answer to the ultimate question about life the universe and everything.
He was going to trade them for bottlecaps, kickstarting his career as an arms dealer.
Nice one.
It’s crazy to think the government will collapse. Also GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWNS ARE A DISASTER AND YOU SHOULD PANIC
Now hit my mother-f…….aw, dang.
I could hear the cowbell before I clicked the link.
So how’s her welfare?
Unquestionable at this point.
She had fallen on hard times?
Also, I don’t know how you go from talking for one hour to her becoming ‘combative’ to the point they feared for their lives.
Something smells like someone’s rotten toes.
I would have become combative much sooner – “Get off my lawn assholes”
Something smells like someone’s rotten toes.
Moses supposes his toeses are roses,
But Moses supposes erroneously
YES!!
You can say farewell to it.
“Officers spoke to the woman for more than an hour and d̵e̵c̵i̵d̵e̵d̵ ̵t̵h̵e̵y̵ ̵w̵e̵r̵e̵ ̵t̵i̵r̵e̵d̵ ̵o̵f̵ ̵h̵e̵r̵ ̵s̵h̵i̵t̵ at one point she became combative.”
“Spoke to?” Or did the menacing do-what-I-say-or-else cop thing?
‘Yo. Let’s cap this bitch.’
‘Lol. She talkin’ too much.’
‘Yo, I said let’s cap DIS bitch.’
‘Lol. She some screwy loony!’
‘I said, YO. CAP. DA. BITCH.’
‘Lol….She….’
‘I put a cap in dat bitch.’
‘Lol. Now we work on the narrative.’
‘C.A.P. da bitch.’
Unless she lives in the middle of a hedge maze, there’s no reason a wellfare check takes an hour.
The welfare check took 5 minutes, the rape took 50 and deciding to kill her so she couldn’t talk took the last 5.
/kidding… or am I?
Who the fuck in this day and age is going to wave a b.b. gun around in the face of cops?
People that are suicidal
Fat, White Shitlord pretends to care about foreigners because he’s paid to:
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) warned immigration officials Thursday that “When the worm turns you will not be safe.”
Usually they start caring about reversing policies that occurred under the previous Democrat administration a little earlier than this.
These ladies’ tits could easily shut down the government.
http://archive.is/TBjQG
Number 10 is not good for traffic safety. 24 follows the left-hand path. 30 is what I need this long weekend.
i Think bombs fall of the right to bear arms. I’m probably in the minority on that.
Claymores I’m cool with. Self defense and all that.
FRONT TOWARDS ENEMY!
Problematic for those with a lot of self-hatred.
Program: Your guns are useless against the government helicopters !
Me: fine, I’ll buy stinger missiles
Prof: *head explodes*
50 BMG works too
Driving over to the pilot’s house and shooting him the head works too.
Or tossing a bomb into the restaurant where they eat.*
*Note to Preet, I am not endorsing or planning on harming anyone, just making a reference to a tactic used against US Soldiers by another group that could not beat the US head to head on an open battlefield.
I love when they use that argument. For starters, it contradicts their other talking point about popular sporting rifles being “military-style” and therefore too dangerous for civilians to own.
Second, they have to explain the occasions where the US military has had a very hard time fighting an enemy who has little more than Soviet hand-me-down small arms and improvised explosives. And we’re not talking about populations that are highly educated, either.
Lefties like to think of gun owners as dumb rednecks named Bubba, but guess what? Bubba has been shooting guns his entire life and spends a great deal of his time and income researching how to become a proficient marksman.
Scottish Claymores?
Me too. And yes, probably,
I’m with you. I think private citizens, if they can afford them, should be able to have nukes.
That’s nuts.
I don’t see why not. You can either be principled about bearing arms, or not. As a practical matter, there are very few individuals that have the money to purchase one, and I fail to see how a government being in possession of one is any better than a private individual.
Because governments have foreign policy and individuals don’t. There is a difference, in principle, between discriminant and indiscriminant weapons. You have a right to self-defense, not unlimited offense.
“Because governments have foreign policy”
I have a foreign policy. I love pretty women from foreign countries.
Wow, I have the same foreign policy.
Where does one draw the line then? If it’s a geopolitical question, then the targeted assassination of a leader can be just as damaging (think Franz Ferdinand). Any weapon (or other object, like a bus) can be indiscriminate if the user desires.
I agree it’s an edge case and, in real life, it’s absurd to think about an individual having a nuke. But my interpretation of bearing arms doesn’t have any such lines because I think it’s a logical slippery slope that becomes consequentialist very rapidly.
“Where does one draw the line then?”
Whether it can be used for individual self-defense.
I think then you risk getting into proportionalist-type arguments. You don’t really need a semi-auto rifle since you can defend yourself just fine with a bolt action and the semi-auto was a disproportionate response.
Etc.
Not really. You aren’t limited on effectiveness. You are limited on your ability to use it for legitimate purposes (defense of self, property, or other) on a NAP violator without externalize (ie killing uninvolved bystanders)
This becomes an abortion-type debate after a while. You have human being at fertilization vs. 9-month abortion is ok. Nukes vs. complete weapons prohibition. Things like “legitimate purposes” and “ability to use without externalities” are very squishy concepts that make me uncomfortable. Most people on this board think machine guns that can be shouldered are ok, most of the populace does not. What about vehicle mounted machine guns? Rocket launchers? You’d find varying levels of people on this board approving or disapproving depending on the specific example given.
Just like I say “when in irresolvable conflict about whether or not something is a human, it’s better not to kill it”, I also say “when in irresolvable conflict about whether a weapon is ‘legitimate’, it’s better not to ban it.” And I still don’t understand why it’s somehow preferable for a government (trustworthy as they are) to have one, but not an individual.
“I think then you risk getting into proportionalist-type arguments. You don’t really need a semi-auto rifle since you can defend yourself just fine with a bolt action and the semi-auto was a disproportionate response.”
It’s not based on what you need. Again, it is based on whether it can be used for individual self-defense. Nor is it based on an ability to use without externalities. There is simply no way to use a nuke to stop someone from attacking you without blowing yourself up in the process. If they are far away enough to use a nuke, they are too far away to be an immediate threat.
“You have a right to self-defense, not unlimited offense.”
Yeah, I dunno. I mean DC is just down the road there and I’m pretty sure I need self defense against them. A nuke may be necessary at this point.
They also cost a lot to
Maintain.
I want my own nuclear reactor for my house. Fuel it up once and I am free of the electrical company for years.
Mr. Fusion!
I believe Toshiba has a shed sized one…not sure how one gets its hands on one though.
It’s 2018. I have been assured that clean, limitless, cold fusion power will be widely available in just 20 years. That’s 2038! We’ll beat the deadline by 7 years!
Didn’t Hitachi or somebody have a semi truck sized one that was supposed to fuel a city, I remember that they were going to put one somewhere out west or maybe in Alaska for a test, this was like ten years ago and I can’t find anything about it.
In 2007-2009 I believe several (Japanese) companies were working on small/self-contained nuclear options. I was certain the one I was thinking about was Mitsubishi and they have a nuclear arm of their heavy industries branch, but the Toshiba one was supposed to be small enough to fit in a home basement. The one I was trying to find would’ve been appropriate for something more like a row of apartment buildings, but I didn’t see it.
I thought there was a pebble bed or molten salt micro-modular reactor design out there – I had some ideas about 20 years ago and downloaded some pdfs from princeton or somewhere…might be on one of my other hard drives. Maybe not container-sized, but definitely much smaller than the average current model.
That’s what you should tell the weapons inspectors when they show up.
I came across this video yesterday while researching striker engines. Pretty neat if like mechanical stuff.
https://youtu.be/c19kn3drdFU
Stroker not striker. Auto correct is a cruel mistress. Unfortunately I desperately need her because I don’t spell too good.
‘stroker’ just makes it funnier anyhow
Striker no stroking!
/Dora
You may get a kick outta this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZmd7k33JWE
I’ve seen that one. Don’t wear a necktie while checking for engine noise.
That’s enough spinning mass to create agyroscopic effect
Would
They say it has similar power to a 6 cylinder engine. Which one is my question. Still a neat concept.
Something of similar displacement I assume, but yes. Inline 6? V6? One tuned for a mini-van or a Mustang? And so on and so forth.
I’m inappropriately aroused.
I’m appropriately aroused!
STEVE SMITH SAY AROUSAL ALWAYS APPROPRIATE.
I was waiting in a physio office (my cock needed some work because it’s too powerful) and noticed an award on the wall thanking the place for ‘helping under privileged people’.
I hate the word ‘underprivileged’. It’s a commie phrase and a bit misleading. Success or not being poor isn’t acquired or achieved through ‘privilege’ for the vast majority of people. While people who are said or considered to be poor become so through many ways including poor decisions.
‘Hey. You’re poor because you quit a job you shouldn’t have quit? It’s okay. Vote for me and I’ll make sure Peter over there – who played his cards right – covers your ass’.
Uhhh. That one and ‘Giving Back’ infuriate me. Because when you say a person doing charity is ‘giving back’ it relieves the recipient of any need to feel gratitude and denigrates the fact that the person giving is making a sacrifice.
I quit giving people money. You want my money? Go ask the fedgov to peel you off a few bills from the stack I gave.
“I quit giving people money.”
Why? I used to work with homeless youth about 20 years ago. Without going into great detail. I still run into a women on the street who is about 40 now. I’ve run into her of and on and over time, she become the victim of schizophrenia. About a year and a half ago I ran into her and she was literally dressed in rags and clearly undernurished. I discreetly gave her a hundred bucks. In fact, I always keep a C-note in my wallet and every time I run into her I give her another. I don’t miss it and she’s still has enough grasp of reality that she knows what it is. She is not a druggie and she practically dances now when I walk up to her these days.
I think I’d be more sympathetic to the homeless plight in Minneapolis than California or Florida.
Back before I was married with kids, I tried to “rescue” a homeless guy, and I picked what I thought would be an easy case. No psych or substance problems. It didn’t work out so well.
Maybe I’ll tell the entire story sometime.
Do an article
That’s a great idea.
Agreed. Love to hear that story.
Get a load of Mr. Burns over there.
Just pulling your leg.
Why? Because my fellow voters decided I should pay more in taxes to send their children to school. I’m not going to give away money as long as people are stealing from me.
Which is exactly as progressives have planned it. Get government to do charity and you kill off real charity and breed entitlement.
“Giving back” really gets under my skin. It implies I took something that didn’t rightfully belong to me. Fuck off, slavers.
“Giving back,” and “fair share” are both socialist dogwhistles.
Gratitude would be nice, but I understand the need to preserve the appearance of dignity. What really bothers me, though, is progs telling people that they aren’t giving enough.
Tonio you said “Giving back,” and “fair share” are both socialist dogwhistles. The paternity test said You are Not the Father! Those terms both predate the rise of socialism.
But socialism predates “socialism”, so I call foul on your ruling. The government of the French Revolution was quite clearly socialist before the explosion of the word, the Diggers were proto-socialists who predate your graph, and the centralizing tendency in socialism stretches all the way back to the Palace Economies of the Bronze Age.
Hunter gatherers were socialists. Typically in groups of about 25. After you get much bigger than that you’ve reached the failing point of socialism. So socialism really did work once, but around 5-10 thousand years ago when farming and settling down started, socialism stopped working. THE END.
Now I understand why Burke thought the FR to be an affront to the civilized mind.
Paine bought into its romantic ideals a little too easily it looks like.
Or that they don’t “care” – that one pisses me off to no end.
Shitlord
So you’re saying that your cock doesn’t work?
No, it’s working too well and developed tennis elbow.
RSI of the glans.
Meh. “Underprivileged” was a polite euphemism for “lazy, stupid or poor” long before all the “white privilege” BS.
Charity remains a virtue.
Tonio, you said that “Underprivileged” was a polite euphemism for “lazy, stupid or poor” long before all the “white privilege” BS. The paternity test says that You are Correct.
Hm. If I read that right, it started around the 1920s – right around the time illiberal intellectuals were gathering steam in the political sphere.
Charity remains a virtue.-
That reminded me of fiddler on the roof when they give the young man dinner and say it’s a blessing, which reminded me about the other day when Gwen Stephani’s “Rich Girl” game on the radio and I realized it was a rip off of If I was a rich man from fiddler. I may have ADD.
I’m underprivileged – I’ve had to work for most of what I have!
It annoys me that “progressives” act like poverty is just a curse that is randomly bestowed on people by the cruel hand of capitalism, yet 9 out of 10 poor people I’ve met in my life demonstrate a horrible capacity for decision making. Many of them actually have decent jobs, but they blow their entire paychecks on cigarettes, lottery tickets, drinks at the bar, conspicuous luxury items, and children they can’t afford. They also have habits of quitting jobs with no notice, not paying their bills on time, and getting in trouble with the law.
It’s a lot of work to stay poor, but poor people work really hard at it.
There are only so many of those make work compliance officer jobs to go around. Many don’t won’t work for the government meaning there are fucking consequences. And all those jobs based on graft and corruption. Not everyone can be an Alice Walton, or fuck this way into being rich like Hillary Clinton. Really sometimes I think you guys live in very small bubbles
There are only so many of those make work compliance officer jobs to go around. Many don’t won’t work for the government meaning there are fucking consequences. And all those jobs based on graft and corruption. Not everyone can be an Alice Walton, or fuck this way into being rich like Hillary Clinton. Really sometimes I think you guys live in very small bubbles
Back before capitalism, everyone was poor except for the nobles. I guess they want to go back to that.
I’m shocked that some of you actually perform charitable works. I thought us libertarians were supposed to keep the orphans working at their monocle lathes even after they cut off a finger and begged to go get a bandaid? Some of you are aching to get kicked out of the cartel.
Scum’s Nazi tattoos have been removed from the game
Must censor all things Nazi to protect the children!
“apologizes unreservedly”
Fucking pussies should know that won’t save you. The complainers won’t accept the apology and the actual fans won’t like that they apologized so why bother?
Well, “1488” is neo-nazi. But I think iron crosses are merely German.
Prisoners with offensive tatts? I mean come on, let’s at least be a little realistic here.
My Lord is McCain under ground yet? The reporting on it is insufferable. Same with Aretha Franklin – they just can’t stop politicizing shit for a god damned second.
I think the coverage has outdone Reagan’s funeral.
If this hadn’t happened under Trump, I wonder if it would be this hyped up.
It wouldn’t.
^ This. If it had happened in December 2008, we would hear hardly a peep.
His killing the Ocare repeal also helped him in the eyes of the media scum.
It isn’t going to stop until Civil war 2, now cold, goes hot.
Fake news.
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2018/08/cnn-cant-retract-story-and-they-cant.html
I have this on my copy/paste list.
“Kyle Tackett bob • 31 minutes ago
MSNBC, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, The New York Times, and The Washington Post (which Trump & the right vilify on nearly a daily basis) aren’t “hate Trump fest(s)”. It might appear that way to republiCONS, but there is actually a simple explanation for why they might believe that ALL of these news outlets are engaged in some grand liberal conspiracy against the president. CONservatives only watch Fox “News” (which is actually licensed with the FCC as an entertainment network, NOT a news network), and they almost NEVER say a single negative word about Benedict Donald and his Cabinet of Criminals. Basically, Faux “News” is nothing more than state media and a propaganda outlet for the Trump Administration, so much so that any time all of the major media outlets (broadcast, print, and online) are reporting on a news story (which they have independently verified) that is bad for or about Trump, Fox either lies about the reporting of ALL the other mainstream media outlets or simply refuses to report on it at all. It’s no wonder that Trump has such high approval numbers from republiCONS. They are the most uninformed, misinformed, and gullible people in the country. Furthermore, based on the fact that Fuhrer Trump told us last month that the things we are reading and the things we are hearing are not actually what’s happening and he is now complaining that google is biased toward him, directing the search results for “Trump News” only to negative stories about Trump & his administration (is there honestly any other kind?), it is quite obvious that Trump knows some REALLY bad news about him is coming down the pike. He is obviously preparing his naive, brainwashed supporters to believe his denials about those stories, despite what they hear with their own ears and read with their own “lying eyes”.
Now that sounds like a Russian bot
Sounds like a slightly more sane Hihn, but only slightly.
BULLY!
All those people who voted for Obama and then flipped to vote for Trump went from enlightened to ignorant morons overnight.
That still cracks me up.
So who are you at Althouse? I’m Known Unknown.
Race to the bottom!
But while freelance websites may have raised wages and broadened the number of potential employers for some people, they’ve forced every new worker who signs up into entering a global marketplace with endless competition, low wages, and little stability. Decades ago, the only companies that outsourced work overseas were multinational corporations with the resources to set up manufacturing shops elsewhere. Now, independent businesses and individuals are using the power of the internet to find the cheapest services in the world too, and it’s not just manufacturing workers who are seeing the downsides to globalization. All over the country, people like graphic designers and voice-over artists and writers and marketers have to keep lowering their rates to compete.
“There really is a race-to-the-bottom effect going on here, because there’s so much of an oversupply of workers,” Mark Graham, a professor of internet geography at the Oxford Internet Institute, told me. Graham and his colleagues have been conducting an extensive study of the digital economy, interviewing hundreds of digital workers and analyzing data about tens of thousands of projects. They found that most buyers are located in high-income countries like the United States, and most sellers are in countries such as India, Nigeria, and the Philippines. While digital-labor markets are intended to allow sellers to auction off their work to whoever will pay the highest price for it, Graham and his Oxford colleagues Isis Hjorth and Vili Lehdonvirta found that they also help buyers find the cheapest sellers.
Scriveners hardest hit. Unionize the gig economy, or something.
+1 reserve army of labor.
Now THAT is how you show your worth in the global economy.
Is that like a software archaeologist from a Fire Upon the Deep?
Um… sure (I’ve read that twice and don’t recall the reference.)
I just find it a bit rich for a dude with a job that almost certainly didn’t exist five years ago to lecture the world about the poors are stealing your jobs.
So where do I get one of these fucking make work jobs so I don’t have to listen to to libertarians virtue signal about how poverty is 100% just bad decisions
Yes, yes, people who make a decent living do so because someone gave them a make work job they don’t have to do shit to keep. They don’t actually work hard at their job or anything like that.
Gee, did they bother to ask these digital workers what type of job they’d have if not for a digital economy, or whether they think they’re underpaid?
A good wife lets you go to the strip club.
A better wife goes with you to the strip club.
Best wife works at the strip club.
I had a friend in Phoenix whose wife had a membership to the strip club there. I think it was hustler or something like that. Lucky dude.
I’m going to have to go ahead and disagree with you here.
Never marry crazy?
You don’t even give crazy your real name.
A sibling purchased out a pretty hefty loan I had with a bank – it was partly to help us out, but it was a mutually beneficial transaction for both of us. He gets a risk-free investment (short of me getting run over by a truck) at a rate better than the market will give him, and I get a lower interest than what the bank will give me. Every month I send him a few hundred bucks and 12 cents. We have a good relationship – we talk about once a week etc. We have a clear promissory note and spreadsheet where we track payments / balance etc. I can pay him every month without a it being a financial problem.
But there’s a little devil on my shoulder every month telling me to send him the few hundred bucks and 11 cents, just to see if he’ll say anything.
Funny, but I wouldn’t.
I know. That’s why the little devil tells me to put a penny in an envelop and mail it in the day before I send the XXX.11 with a note explaining what I did. Unfortunately, my devil is very tricksy.
I’ll laugh if the next installment of the story reads, he showed up with a bat saying “Where’s my money, bitch!”
Make it 13 cents instead
The problem with that is we already have a mechanism for early payoff, so if I overpay then there’s no need for him to comment. The point is to find the smallest deficiency that will make him contact me about it.
PS he’s a PhD economist with a really high time-value and he knows me too well, so part of the point is to force him into irrational behavior and then laugh at him for it because he’ll know what I’m doing as soon as he sees it.
How about sending a money order so that he has to go to the post office to cash it?
Yeah, he’s probably a PhD who also knows a couple guys named Rocco and Vinny.
Overpay by a penny every month. Tell him you’re proud of yourself for paying your debts off early.
I have several pieces of adjoining property. I would add the 4-5 items up on a Post-It note and over pay by a a penny/dime/dollar so it looked like an addition error on my part. They would keep the penny but a dime or dollar would be sent back in cash. I always knew when my chck had arrived without waiting for a bank statement. I was sticking it to the Man.
Once I sent the first check with condo fees, the treasurer of our condo association emailed me that our fee was $xxx.02 instead of $xxx.00. The second check was for $xxx.04.
Tell them that you only acknowledge communications via US Mail. If they want their 2 cents, they can send you a letter asking for it.
I thought at first about dropping two pennies in his mailbox.
When I paid off my student loans they sent me a notice saying I’d missed a payment for 37c of accrued interest and that I was in default.I attempted to pay for it and was told they couldn’t process payments under 5 dollars or something. Eventually I talked to someone who could write off the 37c of interest I’d accrued on a paid off loan, but it was annoying having to deal with Sallie Mae one last time after I thought I was free.
We no longer do business with a certain hardware/tool shop because they suspended our credit when Dad left the 42¢ off a check one month. This is a store we did 2 or 3 hundred a month with and would buy all our big ticket tools, table saw, miter saw, nail guns, etc from.
I had rented a car in France with National (Euro Branch) , somehow the credit card dollar euro exchange came out one euro cent short.
So, 3-4 weeks after we came back from vacation we were mailed a bill for .01€.
My wife called the rental agent in Lille (she is French) and said “really?”… they laughed and made it disappear. If they didn’t she has family in Lille and would have had them come over and give them the .01€.
I had and odd discrepancy with my aircraft maintenance shop, in 2015 I think. The annual inspection/repair bill was say $7956. I had written $7956 but spelled out seven thousand fifty six… so their accountant only deposited it for $7056… and called me about the typo. Checking my statements that matched, I sent them another check for $900.
Then last year when I was in Florida for an aircraft safety seminar their new accountant calls me and says that they were reconciling their records and I have a $900 credit in their system. They had switched accounting ledger systems between the original bill and when I sent in the $900 and therefore the new system didn’t have an expense to book the $900 against and listed it as a credit. Took me a bit to go back through the invoices to remember what had happened years earlier.
“The woman had been suffering from an eating disorder and was apparently suffering from a seizure when police arrived at the home, the station reported. Officers spoke to the woman for more than an hour and at one point she became combative. Police believed the weapon she waved was a semi-automatic handgun, authorities said.”
Why didn’t they call an ambulance? Were these the Postictal Police?
And when you think you have problems ….
Mike Hunt hardest hit
Taco Butt
https://www.insidenu.com/2013/11/15/5107488/name-of-the-week-michigan
My HS drafting teacher’s name was Dick Hunt, and his son was Mike Hunt. True story.
That’s evil.
A college roommate of mine had a boss named Dick Head at the local OfficeMax. The guy hated “Richard” for some reason and insisted people call him Dick.
You’ve got to own it.
One of the cardiologists in the practice I use is named Hymon. My cousin used to work there, and she told me his daughter’s name was Tara.
That isnt a joke.
Is his first name Buster?
That’s awful.
Worse than naming your son Sue.
I worked with an accountant named Dick Kuntz.
I knew a guy some years back whose last name was Butz. When his wife got pregnant and they found out they were having a boy, I tried to convince him to name the boy Seymour.
Some people just have no sense of humor.
Also, I went to high school with a guy named Duncan Hines.
YES. YES. YES!!!!!
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1035566822538571777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-28618712153644554634.ampproject.net%2F1535566825959%2Fframe.html
Willy’s just making a deposit in the spank bank.
Does his reanimated corpse run on 9 volts or D cells?
I can hear his thoughts in that Arkansas scratch voice he has.
Oh, the comments are rich.
No kidding. I’ve never seen this gem before:
http://www.jokelibrary.net/xOtherNtoZ/polit/clintonScdl1-portrait.gif
Rules never seem to apply to Bill Clinton. There’s a whole army of people slut shaming her.
I took the advice of some of you and (mostly) quit Facebook. I still check messenger because some people contact me that way. But I logged out of Facebook at my work computer, and now I check it maybe once a day on my phone (I hate checking Facebook on that tiny screen so it’s minimal). I have to say, I feel like I have less stress and more time during the day. The only drawback is my wife is constantly saying “Did you see that article…”, and of course I didn’t, because the article was all over Facebook.
Good. Good. Let the lack-of-hate flow through you.
I quit years ago. My wife just emails or texts me articles she thinks I may like. You wife will get the hang of it.
I love saying no when people ask if I’m on FB/SnatchChat/Insta/LinkedIn, etc. It makes me feel free.
This^
I also make a point of never sharing anything political with my wife so she doesn’t share her politics with me.
Just remind yourself that you’re not missing anything.
I’m really not. Once you get over the first couple of days you kind of forget about it.
Yeah, its like any other addition. Go a couple of days, get past the physical habits and the headaches, and you won’t care. Like giving up coffee. Or anonymous sex with homeless people.
Like giving up coffee. Or anonymous sex with homeless people.
I quit caffeine once to see if it’d improve my sleep (I’m already a no caffeine after lunch person). First day was fine. Second day I was sitting at my desk and it felt like someone walked up behind and socked the base of my skull. My sleep didn’t improve, but the cup of coffee I had after a few weeks of drinking coffee substitutes was glorious.
Caffeine cycling is its own reward.
I didn’t experience the pain, but it did jack shit for sleep. I try to limit it to a couple right away in the morning, anyway.
By the way, Did I get this article from you?
If so, did you ever try it?
Yeah, I have most of my caffeine in the morning and maybe a coke with lunch.
You might’ve gotten it from me, but I haven’t tried it. Heroic Mulatto did convince me to make a wild cherry syrup using bark, but I had to be careful not to make cyanide in the process and have been a little less urgent in my bark soaking games since.
I’ve never been on Facebook.
Me either. My wife is. I have yet to hear a compelling reason from her why I should join. “Your relatives want to keep in touch with you!” seems pretty hollow when they all have my phone number and don’t bother to call.
I lost interest in Facebook when it was still called The Facebook.
The novelty has worn off. I already know who got ugly or went to jail.
Movie recommendations? I’m in the mood for a big-budget sci-fi/action like Jaws or Apollo 13 or Men in Black.
I’ve probably seen most of ’em already, but that’s fine. Looking more for names of movies that I haven’t thought of or can’t remember.
Dark City
Man, the Nevermore-listening, Mage-playing, flannel-wearing Leap from 1999 loved that movie. Does it hold up? Maybe I’ll watch it again along with Gattaca.
Just don’t ever watch the remastered Dune on your HDTV. You can see every prop and the costuming looks horrible. It will ruin the movie for you
What? Remastered Lynch Dune looks amazing in HD – crazy details.
The movie is still garbage compared to the book, but it’s 10x better on HD-DVD/Blu vs old DVD/VHS.
Sons of Ether or get the fuck out.
Good call
13th Floor.
I enjoyed that but I would go for eXistenZ instead.
Directors Cut version!
Aliens is always a solid choice.
GAME OVER MAN GAME OVER
May he rest in peace
Beverly Hills Chihuahua.
The Thing
Always a solid choice
Agreed.
I kind of enjoyed the Deadpool movies.
I used to hate Tom Cruise movies but have liked the last few – Oblivion, Edge of Tomorrow, and Jack Reacher.
Cruise’s one-off science fiction movies are usually pretty good little flicks.
I like the MI movies as well.
Except the second one, that was painful.
Hated that one for a long time. I love John Woo, but I think Cruise really took creative control there (Tom Cruise: The Movie).
I think the Western studios really shafted Woo in general. Not that his recent HK work has achieved anything close to his 80s/90s HK work – Full Contact, The Killer, Hard Boiled, A Better Tomorrow 1/2, Bullet in the Head,
Europa Report.
Interstellar is on the IMDB Top 250.
No
Yes. It’s a great movie.
Don’t listen KK, it’s a trap. A Trap of boredom and sappy deus ex machina.
Agreed. The movie takes forever to get going, and once it does you wish it never had.
I just realized I haven’t seen the ending. NO SPOILERS
Anne Hathaway gets naked.
And it turns out she’s been a dude the whole time!
Looper
No
Scorpion King. Ever seen it? Make sure your low expectations have on two pairs of socks, because it is going to blow one pair off. It is everything you could ever hope for in a movie with the main character is the Rock, the supporting actor is his sword, and third billing goes to “the baby oil on the Rock’s chest.”
Dredd. The one with Karl Urban and Lena Headey. Its just.. its Dredd. And you can say “Damn it Jim, I’m Judge, Jury, and Executioner, not a Doctor!” if you get bored. But you won’t, because its full off cool stuff and not Rob Schneider
Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior – Plot, who needs plot when you have Prachya Pinkaew directing Tony Jaa
and
Chocolate – a 2008 movie also directed by Prachya Pinkaew. IMDB says its is a movie where “An autistic girl with powerful martial art skills looks to settle her ailing mother’s debts by seeking out the ruthless gangs that owe her family money.” Pinkaew also plays out his fanboy urges. There’s a Kill-Bill scene. There’s a Beat-Em-Up level straight out of Streets of Rage or Final Fight… Hm, there might have been an Enter the Dragon scene, can’t remember.
Good ones. Also “The Protector” aka Tom Yun Goong has an amazing single take fight scene. US cut/dub of the movie is garbage compared to the Thai original, but has it’s moments.
I was shocked at how entertaining the most recent Planet of the Apes moves were.
Demolition Man
YES!
+3 Shells
+1 Taco Bell
Esta carne es de rata!
Probably the worst movie ever: The Wild Women of Wonga. Yes, a real movie. Really.
Outland
Nice
Or you could same era and more camp with Saturn 3. Just drink heavily beforehand.
Arjen Anthony Lucassen approves.
Alright, you guys talked me into talking myself into watching it tonight. The only decision left it to rent or buy?
Terminator, LOTR, Star Wars, Starship Troopers, Stargate, Cowboys and Aliens, Independence Day.
The Notebook.
You’re dead to me.
Ok, fine.
Beaches?
*looks for shotgun*
Space Nuts.
I asked for movie recs back in December. The List
(Incidentally, that is linked in the drop down menus under Entertainment, called Movie List.)
Armageddon.
“like Jaws”
Like you’re not doing this on purpose.
DREDD.
“”We were seeing some overdose incidents that were happening in this particular area, specifically at this particular location,” Ocala police Capt. Steven Cuppy said. “There (were) some heroin sales that were going on there. Subsequently, through the investigation, we were able to determine that product was laced with fentanyl.””
You know what would stop fentanyl? Legalizing drugs.
No, no, no, we just need to prohibition MORE and HARDER.
/a depressingly large percentage of the populace
Yet another thing to make Baltimore suck.
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2018/08/30/new-study-baltimore-drivers-are-the-worst/
Bad driving is the least of Baltimore’s worries.
-1 rough ride
PS he’s a PhD economist with a really high time-value and he knows me too well, so part of the point is to force him into irrational behavior and then laugh at him for it because he’ll know what I’m doing as soon as he sees it.
Send him randomized amounts averaging out to the stated payment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5o_WDBbAPU
“Here’s a work song for the weekend.”
It needs more cowbell!
California Bans Nightime
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-lawmakers-vote-on-bill-to-go-emissions-free-by-2045/
I’ll be out of here before then.
I’m thinking of buying a diesel generator and making my own electricity.
That’s a bulletproof idea. They definitely won’t tax the shit out of diesel.
This is true. Damn it. I LOVE it here. Why are these assholes ruining it?
2045? Apparently they hate mother Gaia. What about now? It’s almost too late!
Great. What happens when the world runs out of unicorns?
I read that URL as: “California residents will be banned from farting.”
Also: “the fifth largest economy in the world” – I get so sick of this canard, it’s like the “77 cents on the dollar” bullshit. This is true only if you ignore the coming pension apocalypse and the fact that its economic stupidity is propped up by the FedGov. If Cali were its own country it would be Venezuela within 10 years.
It doesn’t even matter if that was once true and isn’t any longer. Once the progs get a talking point they never let it go, ever. You don’t even know what socialism is! But Sweden!
Won’t California be underwater due to glaciers melting by 2045 anyway? Seems like a wasted effort.
It might tip over. And that would be totes OK.
“What Happened In Australia? With Lauren Southern”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8EkdouvVuo
I’m sure they didn’t let her into the country. ISIS, OK, but Lauren Southern? And that little girl that hangs out with her. They’re scary.
Unlike the UK, Australia allowed Southern in.
They’re not as far down the rabbit hole.
In fact, if you ignore their shitty gun policy, Oz isn’t all that terrible for liberty… yet.
Unless you think you should be able to play violent video games. They’ve banned most of those.
There are more guns in private hands in Australia now then before the crackdown, but gun ownership per capita has dropped.
Australians now own more guns in total than they did before the 1996 crackdown, according to figures from 2016 – the last time they were comprehensively studied.
That amounts to more than three million firearms, according to separate government statistics.
But gun ownership per capita has dropped by 23% during the same time, said Associate Prof Philip Alpers from the University of Sydney.
“Far fewer people now have a gun in their home but some people have a lot more guns,” Associate Prof Philip Alpers told the BBC.
Shouldn’t you have a gun when just walking around? I mean everything there is out to kill you.
I was hiking in Australia in the Sydney area, and I heard some rustling in the brush near the trail just ahead of me. I stopped, and I saw a snake poke its head out of the brush. It was watching me. I kept going, but gave it a wide berth. It didn’t strike. I’m still alive.
Also, note how this video opens.
I told the kids there are only 4 animals in Australia that won’t try to kill you – platypus, koala, wallaby and kangaroo. They told this to the Australian kid in their class. He said that actually, the kangaroos can be quite dangerous – people swerving their cars to avoid them or getting kicked and mauled when they get too close.
So the total is actually 3.
Imagine what Aussieland was like when humans first arrived. Among other things there was a reptile called Megalnania that grew to 25 ft long or more and was venomous. Of course it was venomous, like it mattered if you got chased down by a 25 ft lizard weighing more than a thousand lbs and razor sharp teeth.
The platypus may no try to kill you but,
“The platypus is one of the few living mammals to produce venom. Males have a pair of spurs on their hind limbs that secrete venom that is only seasonally active to breeding season, supporting the theory that the use of venom is for competition of mates only, not protection. While the spur remains available for defense outside of breeding season, the platypus’s venom gland lacks secretion. While the after effects are described as excruciatingly painful, this venom is not lethal to humans.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus_venom?wprov=sfla1
Kangaroos are dangerous.
I hope it involved lots of Jello and or body oil.
How the heck does this guy not know who these two Canucks are?
Brittany Pettibone is American.
The video shows Southern and Molyneux.
I don’t see no Pettibone.
You’re watching a different video than the one Count Potato linked. The one he linked is Southern and Pettibone.
Wow. Weird. It brought me to this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2co68CYn6bU
And I’m glad! That was awesome.
Really strange. I clicked again and brought me to the two cuties.
I’m watching this video and I’m reminded that Bill O’Reilly would cut people’s mics. This reporter fucked up and didn’t cut the mic.
“Never call the cops — celebrity edition. I love the writing: “Officers spoke to the woman for more than an hour and at one point she became combative.” Like, the point where they shot her?”
Well, just look at her. She’s scary looking. I’m sure the officers feared for their lives.
She’s not THAT ugly.
I also like the Clooney dig at the end. I’m sure it’s true. He just looks like someone who would do that and claim he didn’t.
Just my hunch – which is notoriously badly hunched.
Sh’e not ugly at all, and she certainly does not look like someone who a couple of cops should be afraid of. A BB gun? Really? But you know I bet it was one of those automatic BB guns that spray BBs like 100 times per second. Anyone know where I can get one of those? The squirrels shall live in mortal terror from this day on.
NEVER call the cops is exactly right. I can’t remember how many times now I’ve read about officers showing up for a ‘welfare check’ and the person’s welfare goes from whatever to dead.
I was ball busting. I’ve been busting balls all day.
DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK!?
I just got done work.
It’s a long weekend, everyone just sort of disappeared around 3PM.
She could shoot an eye out.
I’ll volunteer any one of those dicks to lose an eye over her being dead. I’ve been shot by BB guns several times, unless you are hit in the eye, you won’t be dead at least, and probably not even then.
Marquez allegedly brandished a “BB-type” gun causing an officer to open fire, police said. A source identified the woman as Marquez to the South Pasadenan. Police identified the woman as a 49-year-old Hispanic woman, but didn’t immediately confirm her name.
Any video of this alleged brandishing?
Oh, dang. It looks like every single body cam was turned off!
I’m shocked. I wonder what she did? Called one of them fat? Maybe she was actually really slapping at them or something and they feared for their lives. Pussies.
Or alternative story. Cams recovered and turns out they were actually on. ‘That sure looked like a gun. That’s one scary looking cell phone case!’.
Outland
[insert thumbs-up]
Hit “post” too soon.
High Noon in Space.
Shattering your perverted fantasies.
https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a22876804/surprisingly-unsexy-things-about-shooting-porn/
None of these are the least bit surprising.
“I once had a director call “freeze” while someone’s entire hand was inside my body. During which my scene partner and I had to awkwardly talk about the exorbitant San Francisco housing market while the crew adjusted their lenses and lights. For 15 minutes.”
…ya know I thought about this one for a second and yes I would probably discuss real estate as well…seems a neutral yet interesting topic
I hoped they filmed that, because that is definitely someone’s fetish.
I mean, I guess if you don’t know the person, music would be helpful, I wouldn’t have thought this would make the list though.
Amazon now takes delivery photos. I can see a picture of two packages sitting on my porch. It’s time to go home.
Is one of them the size of a 55-gallon drum?
No one needs that much lubricant jelly, amirite?
DON’T TELL ME WHAT I NEED GODDAMIT
6 shooter at the side, Animal, 6 shooter at the side. You can have all the lubricant you want.
Tomorrow at noon I get to see if strip club fan Tom Herman — whose wife is totally cool with him going to strip clubs — can whip my beloved, benighted Longhorns into shape against a program that ran a player to death in conditioning drills.
We’ll be out there rooting for the longhorns. Screw maryland, the second worst B1G acquisition. /half kidding
Trumphitler strikes again!
The Trump Administration’s new policies on college sexual misconduct, spearheaded by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, could drastically change how administrators handle sexual assault on campus. Under a draft version of the proposed rules, published on Wednesday by The New York Times, colleges and universities would be held responsible for far fewer incidents, legally exempt from investigating, for example, any assaults not reported to the school official designated to deal with these cases, and any that take place outside of school grounds. The alleged victim could also have to prove their case by the “clear and convincing” standard of evidence, as opposed to the lower “preponderance of the evidence” standard required by the Obama Administration.
Plenty of schools will probably maintain the same, more stringent Title IX policies they had under Obama, at least at first. Wary of the optics of appearing soft on sexual assault, they’ll likely keep investigating off-campus incidents, and assume broad responsibility for Title IX violations, says Erin Buzuvis, a law professor at Case Western University who specializes in Title IX. But eventually, Buzuvis expects schools to loosen up—if not in their written policies, at least in how they enforce them. “Now a university could, without fear of liability from the courts or the government, drastically decrease its overall attention to sexual misconduct.”
The proposed rules, once officially released, will have to go through a lengthy process before they’re approved, but if they hew closely to the interim guidance the administration introduced last fall and the proposed regulation reported by the Times, they could dramatically change the landscape of campus sexual-assault investigations.
He’s going to turn college campuses into rape camps so alt-right frat boys can sire a shitlord master race.
” they could dramatically change the landscape of campus sexual-assault investigations.” Oh, HORROR.
“He’s going to turn college campuses into rape camps”
STEVE SMITH TURN EVERYWHERE INTO CAMP
STEVE SMITH THINK “RAPE CAMP” IS REDUNDANT
“He’s going to turn college campuses into rape camps”
5 out of 4 women are already raped, how much worse can it get?
I should refresh before posting.
Damn, great minds think alike!
He’s going to turn college campuses into rape camps so alt-right frat boys can sire a shitlord master race.
I thought they already were rape camps where five out of four women are raped?
That’s exactly how I remember college in the bad old days!
Speaking of movies, I watched A Perfect World the other night. What an excellent movie.
I highly recommend.
That is a good movie.
Another reason I’d love having another four inches in height: that much less chance of locking eyes with the degenerates and mutants who shop at Walmart.
Meh – working Monday so I can bank some PTO for a vacation when it cools off – this weather sucks so much.
I posted some garbage news about the Charlottesville local government. Things work a little differently in Albemarle county proper.
http://www.nbc29.com/story/38999402/arrests-made-violence-erupts-outside-albemarle-school-board-meeting
Comments are actually fun.
As someone points out on the newest article – 4 of the protesters were from Cville, not the county.
http://www.nbc29.com/story/39002322/albemarle-county-school-board-arrests-08-31-2018
Dude, how much money can we all scrape together? Monticello is awesome and I’m pretty sure with our base camp up there, we can cleanse the area of the walking woke.
assume all you Glibertarian capitalist running-dog shitlords have the long weekend?
HAHahAhahahahhahahah
Breath
Hahahahahajajahaja
No. Ever hear of retail?
Retail’s tough cause you gotta work when everyone else is playing. Depending on where you work you can sick discounts though.
Still, I’ll take retail over food service. I’d be a janitor before I work in a kitchen again.
Any job away from the public > any job dealing with the public.
This.
Fuck retail. Work every weekend. And that’s when I was the owner. Although I did sort of enjoy my weekends in the middle of the week. You go places and no one else is there.
When I worked retail, I was paid more for working on Sundays and after I had been there a year, more for working on holidays.
I volunteered to work every Sunday and holiday that I could.
That sounds blissful.
Also, this kind of comment happens right before the twilight zone starts getting weird.
And cheap. My wife and I used to have Tue-Wed off before we had kids.
One weekend vacation costs the same as 4 weekday vacations.
Not sure what to tell you, man.
I worked weekends and holidays for 20 years. I never asked for a pity party.
“Wil Wheaton on quitting social media: “I don’t deserve to be treated so terribly””
https://twitter.com/TheAVClub/status/1035559110073376770
Yes, you do.
Wil Wheaton DESERVES your respect, mister! He’s your better!
Goddamn Wesley is wrong about everything.
He looks different when not holding up a crepe…
Shut up, Wesley.
“BREAKING NEWS: Woody Allen’s movie “A Rainy Day in New York” has been shelved by Amazon & may never be released. It wrapped filming last fall before the #MeToo movement refocused attention on the sexual abuse allegations Allen’s adopted daughter Dylan Farrow has made against him.”
https://twitter.com/DaveVescio/status/1034988841726169088
Woody Allen set a film in New York? Weird.
These pretzels are making me thirsty.
See you later losers. Off to catch “2001” at the local Alamo Drafthouse with a buddy from work.
Not sure I’ve ever seen it all the way through in one sitting before – and it’s not the 70mm remaster either, just a 4K HD version, but should still be fun.
Will probably order coffee though.
Get there 30 minutes late.
You’re welcome.
Better to leave 30 minutes before the end.
Well, more like 45 because the end credits go on forever.
JOOOOOOOOOOOOZ!!
https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/1035634290581745664
I have one opening on the J sub D Memorial Fantasy Football League.
First one to reply can have it.
I’ll take it what I have to do?
Damnit.
I’ll send you the link to your email and change the last team our email.
Invite sent from yahoo. Check your email. Let me know if it didn’t get there.
Got it, think I’m all set.
I’d like back in.
-Leroy
Were you kicked out?
I was in the B league for a year or two when it first started.
What’s it worth to you.
J sub D
RIP
RIP.
Check out this pic. I mean NTTAWWT. Just sayin.
Little Willy Willy won’t go home
What a perv!, also, Would perv,
Meh, now he’s old enough to get a pass.
That euphemism is almost as good as ‘a bullet exited the gun’ and the like.
“kinetic officer action”
“Dear cosmo: this isn’t body positive..”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orzK-yPDK_M
WTF is with those eyebrows?
Its like Brooke Shields and Groucho Marx had a baby.
“Makeup provided by Sharpie”
She sounds slightly retarded. Even for a youtuber.
What are those eyebrows though.
“Black is slimming”
I just ordered a Tesla, 2-4 month lead time. They are sending a guy over to evaluate how to wire my solar panels to a Powerwall or 2 in the garage.
I don’t think i’m doing the shitlord thing right…
I hope you enjoy it, but I expect their breathtakingly shoddy support to only get worse.
I dunno, you’re helping destroy the environment, so theres that?
I just hope you actually get it and they don’t go bankrupt before then.
They can make the targets; I will make the weapons.
Somehow it all evens out,
How did you get a Powerwall? I’ve been on the waitlist for 6 months? Motherfuckers.
I’m quite charming and a newly minted director at my monocle polishing factory.
Networking matters, biches.
Meh. My long weekend started December 10, 2011.
We have house guests, so I haven’t paid a lot of attention to the news. Other that McCain being the greatest human being that ever lived, it all seemed to be variations on a theme.
“We all have a little John McCain in us.”
– Lyndsey Graham
Speak for yourself Lyndsey, speak for yourself.
Jesus, really? I avoid the news like the plague, thank God.
“We all have a little John McCain in us.”
Umm, I’m sure you’ve had more than a little of it in you, Lyndsey poo, but no, no we do not. Now go put on your army man onesies and pretend like you and the maverick are invading Syria while invading each other, you little shit weasel.
He also took Cindy McCain to Johnny’s desk in the Senate so she could sit at it.
“This is where you will sit next week sweetie.”
“We all have a little John McCain in us.”
That’s as much as you can get, right?
I’m still waiting for just one fearless, intrepid journalist to ask a slurping Democrat: “So who is your party’s maverick?”
Pre-weekend rage
Civilian canines were seized.
Pass.
http://dcist.com/2018/08/the_road_rage_incident_to_end_all_r.php