Brett fell victim to the old practical joke of Krazy Glue on the toilet seat, so I’ve been pressed into links service. My mission is to make him regret asking.
The Kavanaugh Kabuki kontinues.
“I am going to release the e-mail about racial profiling and I understand that the penalty comes with potential ousting from the Senate,” said Booker, a possible 2020 Democratic candidate for president. At another point, Booker said, “This is about the closest I’ll probably ever have in my life to an, ‘I am Spartacus’ moment.”
But it turns out, Booker didn’t actually break any rules. The Republicans on the Judiciary Committee said they worked with the George W. Bush library and the Justice Department overnight to clear the emails. The restrictions were waived early Thursday morning.
How brave! Let’s be honest, the only remaining purpose for these hearings is to get soundbite clips for campaign ads.
Who says that baseball isn’t a contact sport?
Multiple sources told The Athletic that neither Impemba nor Allen were part of Wednesday’s broadcast due to a physical altercation between the two television personalities following Tuesday’s game in Chicago against the White Sox. It is not immediately clear what prompted the incident.
According to the accounts of those sources, there has been simmering tension between both Impemba and Allen and the clash of personalities ultimately boiled over on Tuesday night. “They’re like an odd couple,” said one person familiar with the dynamics of the broadcast’s production.
I’m guessing Rod Allen came off better in this one.
My buddy Warty has been heavily involved in robotics. He’s usually pretty mum about what he’s working on, but I think you’ll all agree that this is something he should be proud of.
“Being in the adult entertainment industry and at the forefront of sex tech innovation, we wanted to put our XXX spin on robotics, which is why Cardi-Bot can not only mimic human-like behavior, but also get down and dirty, all with the quick click of a button.
“We’re very excited to make Cardi-Bot, the world first sex robot people can control over the Internet, available to the world and let people live out their wildest fantasies.”
I’d guess that a lap dance could be pretty hazardous.
One of the pioneers of pyramid schemes multilevel marketing has died.
DeVos had been president of Amway from its 1959 founding until he retired in 1993. His son Doug DeVos has served as president of Amway since 2002. He was also the father-in-law of Betsy DeVos, the US education secretary. His family still co-owns Amway with the family of co-founder Jay Van Andel. DeVos and his family has a combined fortune worth $5.5 billion, according to Forbes’ list of richest people.
Amway is still successful: It reported sales of $8.6 billion last year. It uses a network of 3 million sales people worldwide. The multi-level marketing industry as a whole posted global sales of about $190 billion, according to its industry trade group.
And here’s the great thing: if you can convince just three of your friends to die, and each of them can convince three of their friends to die…
The latest entry into the “When you don’t succeed, prog harder!” sweepstakes is a senate candidate from the beautiful state of New Jersey.
Harris is among a wave of young activist Democrats, emboldened by the 2016 presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. They have sent shock waves through the party establishment around the U.S., starting in June with a New York primary victory by 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over 10-term incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley. Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, 39, riding an insurgent wave, scored a stunning victory last week in Florida’s Democratic gubernatorial primary. And on Tuesday, Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley beat longtime Rep. Mike Capuano in a closely watched Democratic primary.
Now, it’s the 38-year-old Harris’ turn in the spotlight, a place she never expected to be.
This is clearly unkind of me, but the first thing that came to mind when I saw the photo was, “Here’s Pat!”
SP addition, at OMWC’s request, since he is working or driving or in a meeting or….
Sad to hear that Burt Reynolds has died. We recently saw him in a gem of a film, The Last Movie Star. We were both surprised by how much we liked this movie.
A good friend was his neighbor in Jupiter and had nothing but very nice things to say about him. RIP Burt.
Nope, you’re not escaping Old Guy Music just because it’s a weekday. A common topic of musical discussion is, “What covers were better than the originals?” My answer is always, “Anything by Dylan.” So on that theme, here’s The Nice doing a nice version of Country Pie.
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No, it’s not a Jinx unless two jews post links at once.
“This is about the closest I’ll probably ever have in my life to an, ‘I am Spartacus’ moment.”
Over something that, as far as I can tell, is completely inconsequential.
What a douche.
“Oh look, the candidate was opposed to racial profiling”
So Booker is pro-racial profiling?
We are living in a post-rational world.
He used the word race in an email. This is clearly a racist dogwhistle.
Plus, Booker is an oppressed minority. So telling him what to do is racist.
So much racism… so little time…
He likely knew that things were gonna get cleared up, so he jumped out in front to jazz up his ‘street cred’.
Now all the young turks will love him.
Ok, fine. Let Booker occupy a crucifix. Along with a bunch of the IC/deep state starting with Clapper & Brennan.
I am Spartacus
It is always about slavery isn’t it? When can we move on?
Let’s play the reverse the letter after his name bit from D to R, and see how the media would choose to cover this.
What is doubly funny about this is that Grassley told the Senators that they could request that any of the classified documents be released to the public. Klobuchar asked for (and got) 12 docs unclassified. No other Dem asked for any.
It is amusing that Booker thought he could grandstand on this.
I’m sure much of the media will abet it and ignore little facts like the ones in your comment.
Here’s the link to the statement from Grassley: https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/more-documents-released-following-klobuchar-s-targeted-request
You would think that any self-respecting reporter would start any presser with Booker by asking: “Why didn’t you request this document to be released back when Sen Grassley offered to expedite the process?”
My proggy timeline informs me Booker is the hero du jour, and a courageous face of the resistance. Totally serious.
It seems my prog friends cannot read. Or will not.
Booker is such a phony. I just don’t get the love for him.
He appeals to guilty-feeling white progs who so desperately want every black politician to be the second coming of Obama. They’re willing to overlook an enormous amount of flaws and missteps without even realizing it.
That is a great summary.
But… wouldn’t that make them more like Obama?
He’ not phony on sentencing reform. He’s legit there. Just ask Rand Paul.
Too bad he can’t duplicate his good-intentions and integrity on that issue to the rest of his duties. The Senate would be a better place for it.
The Spartacus reference is the tell. If you have to reference it then you know it isn’t true. He is obviously clamoring for attention.
I’m now confused. I’d thought he was already.
Burt will never die.
He’ll just drive his Trans Am into the sunset.
Ass Glibs rejoice!
http://archive.is/4Cq35
Heart shapes are to be found all over a woman’s body.
My entry
Food fight!
That’s some waist to hip ratio on #9. I have a suspicion Photoshop may be involved.
I was thinking 7 as well.
That set contain some of the worst photoshop jobs I have ever seen. Half of them literally look like their legs had not been amputated.
That said I’ll take 28, 29, 40 or 45
Half of them literally look like their legs had not been amputated.
So you have an amputee fetish?
Maybe, maybe not…
Tip – don’t drive to the government office in a luxury automobile to pick up your welfare check. Particularly if you are a “refugee”.
That links doesn’t say what you think it says.
What UCS said. You tagged the wrong link.
That site you linked though….dude.
A common topic of musical discussion is, “What covers were better than the originals?”
Here’s one
Johnny has this easy.
That is so good. The man was amazing.
Anything written by Kris Kristoffersen.
Interestingly, this was not written by Kristoffersen.
Cover better than the original
Agreed.
Quickly coming to mind as much better:
Aerosmith – Come Together
Johnny Cash – Hurt
Joe Cocker – A Little Help
Correct about Aerosmith but wrong song. The correct answer is Train Kept A Rolling.
Hard to argue with you on that one. And this coming from a huge Yardbirds fan.
I’ll take The Yardbirds remake (or steal) of “Train” for the win.
Cash’s Hurt is the best. Here’s my list for contending for honorable mention (aka not the best, but I enjoyed them):
Lake of Fire
Got the Time
Powerslave
Cars
Another Numan cover and pretty good too.
Wow, thanks. I hadn’t heard this.
The Numan cover is too close to the original. Sorry, but nope.
The most overplayed movie theme in history.
Once was too many
+1
And this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP26UahQsLQ
The Cocker version of this song is amazing. The Starr version in the context of Sgt Pepper is still the best.
Speaking of cool covers by Cocker…
Jawbox covering Tori Amos’ Cornflake Girl
Manfred Mann covering Blinded By the Light – fuck Springsteen’s overrated ass
I’m sure someone will dispute this one, but a personal favorite: GWAR covering Carry On, My Wayward Son
Lemonheads covering Skulls
Best Cover Album?
Led Zepplin I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdpkw3YafwA
No love for Metallica?
He didn’t say worst cover ever. But if he did, that piece of shit song would win hands down.
I guessed correctly, based on your reaction.
Sorry. Not sorry.
::shakes fist in impotent rage::
Its not MY fault the only people that like that song are metal heads too young to know who Thin Lizzy is.
I just know it from the local Irish pubs.
Dafuq?!?!?!
HERE IT IS.
https://youtu.be/8eOIU9ekSMk
Thin Lizzy’s version. Supposedly, the song dates back to the 1700s.
Not the Baby I Love Your Way/Free Bird medley?
*Puts arm around Mexican Sharpshooter*
I’ll also say Metallica’s Turn the Page is better. Yes, yes I said it.
“I Fought The Law” was done better by The Clash.
https://youtu.be/AL8chWFuM-s
And then even better by Dead Kennedys.
https://youtu.be/9dB_ubVAnGw
Which leads to this!
Damn, I forgot about that. Thank you very much.
And not this?
I’ll also say almost anything done by Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies or Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine.
The Beach Boys took Sloop John B and made it awesome. And in a related note, The Kingston Trio are an abomination.
Love that song! I did not know it wasn’t a Beach Boys original. Learn something every day.
Any cover of a Dylan song, ever.
Here Comes the Sun
Wrong.
The Gourds covering Gin & Juice is fave of mine.
Ben Folds FTW.
That’s, uh, NSFW, BTW.
Unholy Trio covering Bring The Noise
Tesla did a 2-disc album of nothing but covers. They did a fantastic job on all of them. My favorite from that album is Led Zeppelin’s Thank You.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0U_dzYtWyE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBfFDTPPlaM
Yeah, this counts. Not the best, but one of the better ones.
Another one.
Winning should be a slam dunk for this guy, but if you’ve lost the Denver Post…
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/09/05/polis-is-wrong-about-what-would-increase-mortality-for-women/
The turning point for Gardner beating incumbent senator Udall was when the Post started calling him “Mark Uterus” because of his over the top war on women bullshit. Apparently Polis did not take note of that.
I love this reply:
“Yes, “Colorado women deserve better” but they are not going to get it from any Republican administration (state or federal). I love when Kamala Harris asked Kavanaugh if he can think of ANY federal law that is directed at the biology of men. Crickets.”
Yes, easy answer, HRT is 2x as expensive for men as it is for women. You know why? Because a bunch of dumbfucks led by Joe Biden got testosterone put on the schedule 2 drug list. It’s not even a goddamn drug you dumb fucks, it’s a damn hormone. Is estrogen on that list? Why no, no it’s not. If Kamala wasn’t such a retarded cunt she would know this. The author of that post also. If Kavanaugh were better informed, he would know it too, but apparently learning the secret FTTW clause of the Constitution is more important for a SCOTUS judge and all the candidates are well versed in that.
i wanted to name my son Quint but wife nixed it. i should’ve shown her this pic of Quint Asper:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Reynolds#/media/File:Burt_Reynolds_Gunsmoke_1962.JPG
Burt will never die.
He’ll just drive his
Trans AmCitroen SM into thesunsetharbor.He’s had his last shaky pudding.
I’ve never understood jailhouse suicide watch.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/05/chris-watts-under-suicide-watch-at-colorado-jail-reports-say.html
If someone, especially a confessed child murderer, wants to off himself and save everyone a lot of time and money, I’d hand him the noose.
Also: Would (have) the wife.
I think this case perfectly illustrates the old adage of “No matter how hot she is, somebody, somewhere is tired of her shit”
*starts packing bags for hell*
I don’t think that mackerel-eyed sociopath is in any danger of killing himself. I am guessing he is aiming for the mental illness angle.
Some day I’ll submit an article to this site on the cases of people, especially in jail, who pretended to be suicidal, but accidentally killed themselves, and the shitstorms that resulted.
As somebody that used to work at a jail….
1) You want to clean that up?
2) You want to do that paperwork?
3) You want to explain that to the inmate’s family? “Sure he hung himself, but think of the money the taxpayers just saved…”
4) Religious considerations. Once we had a lady keyster a plastic spoon, break it, and stabbed herself in the neck during shift change. She had it all planned out. We actually had to bring in a Medicine Man to do some kind of ceremony so that her soul wouldn’t be lingering in the rubber room. If they hadn’t done that, they could technically sue the county because they apparently thought she was still in there.
For those of you sad about Burt Reynolds, putting on a Lou Reed album might cheer you up.
putting on a Lou Reed album might cheer you up
I’d rather hang out with tumblr users.
wow, Scruffy has an extreme distaste for Lou Reed.
Too bad. I was gonna give hi my tickets to Lou’s next concert because that date no longer works for me. Your loss, Scruff.
He might be more into Prince or Tom Petty.
“Take a Walk on the Wild Side”
Marlon Brando on Burt Reynolds.
Sometimes I wonder what the point of hiring outside counsel is.
/rewriting entire patent application because the OC attorney didn’t have the humility to tell me he was in over his head
I’ve been thinking about gauging interest in an table-top RPG with some Glibs via video chat. I know that we’ve got a number of folks here that have mentioned playing RPGs in the past, and I’m kind of jonesing for a fix. And the recent posting in my knife-making article kicked me in the pants to remind me that I’m allowed to and should plan some activities for myself.
So what do you think? Are you interested? If there’s a critical mass, we can work out the fine details and logistics.
Newbies welcome, even if you’ve never played an RPG before. I’ve done a few RPGs via video chat, and its not that difficult to jump into.
I’d be interested. Depends on the time commitment. Can’t do more than a few hours a week.
I’m interested.
Video? Does it have to be video?
You want to do smell-o-vision?
Nothing is set in stone.
I can do audio. I can’t do video.
I don’t imagine that will be a problem.
Same here, audio only,bu I’m sure you can mixed mode alright
Just wear a furry costume as a disguise
He wears a furry costume as an identity.
Ok, three is enough for minimum viable game. in addition to posting here, please send a quick email to my user name (no spaces) at g mail so I can collect everyone contact info so we can work out the particulars once we know who all is interested.
but to clarify, if anyone else is interested, they should say so here and send me an email as well. 3 is not the limit, and who knows for sure if we can work out a schedule that fits everyone’s life.
the fuck is RPG? And don’t say rocket propelled grenade.
Reversed Phase Gain.
???
Well, there’s also the Rotating Pipe Gauger
Rancid Pubic Gunk
Orgy at Leap’s!
Rotating Pee-Pee Grabber
AKA Winston’s Mom.
Red-Periwinkle-Green
Role Playing Game. Dungeons and Dragons is the most well known. Its a game where a bunch of players assume a role of a character in a story, and they use dice to determine success or failure of whatever their character attempts as they collectively tell the story.
I’m in,
Rnerd Pnerding Gnerdingly
So, that means you’re in?
Only if we play Star Frontiers.
Traveller or GTFO.
(not really, though my buddy is a huge Traveller guy and had a regular game up until recently)
Roving Police Gang.
There’s always the boring Recall Product Group.
Haven’t played in decades, but for some reason I’ve broken out my dice again. I’m in!
Depends on the time, but I can be in. I’d be curious which system we’d be running in as well.
Can’t we just play WoW?
*ducks for cover*
You’re free to go off and do what you want.
If you want to find yourself collecting reptile gall bladders for 250 levels, go right ahead.
*sigh*
You’re not wrong. I cancelled my sub about 4 years ago.
I did enjoy it for many years, then it just got old.
I found myself at level 60 harvesting organs that didn’t regularly drop from beasts in a forest and went “isn’t this what I was doing at level 1?” and then asked myself “Am I actually having fun?” the answers were “yes” and “no”, respectively.
“I’ve been thinking about gauging interest in an table-top RPG</strong"
I'm gonna have to get on your lawn, grandpa. RPGs are for computers. I mean real computers, the ones they call PCs.
Well, at least I proved I’m old enough I can’t do a simple bold text half the time.
If you like your plot rails, you can keep your plot rails.
So, there’s going to be a plot rail shortage?
Not if you play computer RPGs.
Ignorance is bliss I guess. If it has killing, exploring, and looting, it’s good.
One more try:
“I’ve been thinking about gauging interest in a table-top RPG”
I’m gonna have to get on your lawn, grandpa. RPGs are for computers. I mean real computers, the ones they call PCs.
You mean games like Neverwinter Nights (original and 2, both on GoG, not the MMO), or Divinity Original Sin 2 (Definitive edition just released a couple of days ago).
NWN is too dated for me. DOS 1 is better than 2, I enjoyed that a lot. I know, that’s not an RPG, because something purism something. WHY CUM THEY AIN’T NO DRARF CLASS WITH THIS ATTRIBUTE!
Unfortunately, I no longer have my red box, blue box, green box, black box, and gold box set. They were lost years ago. And man, the FASA worlds may break your brain. They had one with Dwarves as the dominant race.
Yo.
Interesting because of Cyberpunk 2077 I was looking into what an RPG actually looks like.
I watched D&Diesel
Seems interesting count me in although I fully expect my schedule to prevent me from participating
Shoot. I was hoping music would be “Eastbound and Down.”
https://youtu.be/uHZJej98_T0
TY!
We gon’ do what they say can’t be done!
God, I love Smokey and the Bandit.
I have no idea how that Trans-Am with that weak engine was getting away from anything.
Truth, sadly. The T/A had been neutered by 1977.
Still looked great, though. And Sally Field had a great little body in her younger days.
200 bhp? I had though they had more going on than that.
Speaking of surprising horsepower (at least to me), a deuce and a half is only 135hp.
Old school diesel designed to burn multi-fuel.
Old diesels produced torque, but no HP. Redline was about 2500 rpm but it was producing almost 350 ft-lbs of torque at 1.5K.
’77s were choked by smog devices. The Pontiac 400 can be tuned and breathed upon to easily get more than twice that HP.
I think to GTO with blower was 400BHP
I wish W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings were available on DVD.
From a link earlier today:
Needless to say, I haven’t read the book, seen the movie, or whatever. But Wikipedia says that The Handmaid’s Tale describes a future in which “women are forbidden to read,” homosexuals are hanged, “women are forcibly assigned to produce children for the ruling class,” and much more. So the Democrats apparently want us to believe that judges like Brett Kavanaugh are just itching to ban reading by women, among many other things.
Kav is a harbinger for a Muslim theocracy?
If you are selling The Handmaid’s Tale bullshit, that means you wholeheartedly believe that the supposed avatar of the movement to create a theocracy like the one in the book is….Donald Trump, a thrice-married vulgarian who is currently under investigation for paying hush money to a porn star.
Checks out.
Hysteria is all they have.
The more hysterical you are, the more cred you get.
The whole notion of using the Handmaid’s Tale as a means of protest is just further proof of how far these people have their heads up their asses.Your method of protest should be something that immediately resonates with people. Most people don’t know or care about the show (most of the people using the dress as a means of protest have never read the book). But these people think it’s a hard hitting attack on their opponents.
And the shit is probably all Soros funded.
“And the shit is probably all Soros funded”
Almost certainly. That’s part of what I don’t get. Soros is supposed to be smart. Why throw your money away paying people to disrupt a Senate hearing? It’s simultaneously pointless, ineffective and annoying; much more likely to backfire than accomplish anything. It’s practically a Republican false flag.
Soros isn’t an idiot. He funds organizations that fund organizations. The thing is, he’s got a saturation approach. Fund enough projects and make progress with just a few, it’s still a win. So some of the sub organizations are idiots good at garnering attention. It distracts from those actually causing damage.
likely to backfire
These imbeciles make me want Kav confirmed with prejudice, and that is entirely out of spite because of their retarded antics.
I know one person who cares about the book and the TV series. I would not be surprised if she found it politically relevant. But she is a German math professor and lives in the Netherlands.
he only remaining purpose for these hearings is to get soundbite clips
And to morally grandstand on false premises to further propagandize the base.
All the US libs wish they could do this
“far-right”
Donnie is a lot of things, far right ain’t one of ’em.
Somehow, I doubt Bolsonaro is either.
“Far-right” appeared in the first statement. Bash the Fash.
And this is another thoroughly misleading headline.
Speaking of jerks and fights, anyone watch ‘Deadliest Catch’ around here?
I have to say Keith Colburn comes off as being a real jerk.
I’ve gone fishing in Alaska with a guy who used to go crabbing in the Bering Sea. He says those guys on the show have it easy. The boats are bigger than they used to be, and they all have hydraulics. He also adds that he knew it was time to get out when six of his buddies died in one year. He then told me to get off his lawn.
I’ve watched since the pilot. I really, really, really miss the Hillstrands, is all I can say.
(but I love Sean Dwyer – that guy is way, way, way more mature than his years)
Glibertarian tontine!
Well, now that I’ve heard this completely rational and compelling argument, I’ve been won over to the Stop Kavanaugh movement. That’s how you DEBATE!
Our intellectual betters, big and bold!
i read that. then i turn around and read this:
Ann Coulter
Verified account @AnnCoulter
Cory Booker & Kamala Harris competing for Most Hysterical Woman at the Kavanaugh hearings.
then decide whether to listen to people who are funny or people who are screeching scolds.
Sterling Archer hardest hit.
RIP Ryan Reynolds
?
Cardi-Bot
You couldn’t fuck with that if you wanted to.
“SP addition, at OMWC’s request, since he is working or driving or in a meeting or….
Maybe he went to a protest?
“America to ban ‘vile’ child sex robots that encourage paedophilia
Lawmakers say the robots ‘normalize sex between adults and minors’
US lawmakers have approved a bill to ban “vile” sex robots designed to look like children as young as three in an effort to fight paedophilia. The horrendous creations are being flogged online to customers in the US from sellers in China and Japan. They are labelled as mannequins or models to avoid detection, according to a US Congressman. Known as the CREEPER Act, the bill will now move to the Senate to be approved before being passed to the president to sign it into law.
‘CREEPER’ is an acronym for ‘Curbing Realistic Exploitative Electronic Pedophilic Robots Act.’”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/america-ban-vile-child-sex-12711652
It’s the lack of robots that encourages pedophilia.
^^^This.
Just like access to porn is associated with less rape, my guess is access to kiddie sexbots would be associated with less kiddie diddling.
WTF? How do you encourage paedophilia?
I wouldn’t hump a kid or anything that looked like a kid regardless of the circumstances. Non-paedophiles dont become paedophiles because…oh FFS. Moral panic assholes are gonna moral panic.
US lawmakers have approved a bill to ban “vile” sex robots designed to look like children as young as three in an effort to fight paedophilia.
Most politicians are vile; can we ban them?
The Political Overreach Lifetime Incarceration Targeting Idiots Controlling the State bill?
It might not be a cover, strictly speaking, but it’s a fairly novel treatment of an old classic.
They have sent shock waves through the party establishment
The aftershock when they lose spectacularly will be something as well.
ISTR that She Guevara will be running unopposed, she she’s already in. That’s certainly true for Pressley – there is no R on the ballot for the general (though possibly an L?).
Now, whether freshmen[1] reps will have any actual impact when they get to the House is another matter.
[1] that’s right, I used freshMEN. Shitlord status confirmed!
I thought the guy she beat in the primary was on the “Working” Families Party line.
(I hate the implication that families with people above a certain income aren’t doing work.)
Ah, right, he weaseled out and will still be on the ballot. It’d be hilarious if he ended up winning.
Pressley is in the derpiest of derpy Mass (i.e., Mass 7th district – my district), so she has effectively already won.
I’m in a district where the race is a toss-up, so i really get the crappy political ads.
Just saw the Cook Partisan Voting Index (which I was unfamiliar with).
Mass 7th is D+34. Second place is the 5th at D+18.
Ocasio-Cortez is NY 14th, at D+29.
And, holy smokes, NY 15th at D+44.
“NY 15th at D+44”
Obama got 97% in 2012. Incredible.
I used to live in FL 1, which is R+22, and quite frankly I’m surprised it’s not higher.
It’s interesting that the heaviest R district – TX 13 – is all alone at R+33 while there are 21 D+33 or higher districts.
As an aside, I imagine I’d be happier with my neighbors in some D+3 .. R+3 district – NH 1, I’m looking at you.
R+3 here… but only because Staten Island is nearby.
Pressley will run unopposed in November. The L primary ballot was essentially blank: only one auditor[?] candidate. I happened to be next to a polling station on Tuesday.
The challenge I see is: how does one maintain boundaries and take care of oneself, and still remain gainfully employed and with strong relationships with one’s intimates? Everyone’s answer to that will be different, but if one can’t even discuss it truthfully, one will automatically have one’s boundaries continually breached. That’s not healthy for anyone.
/pulled from the knife thread for further discussion, hopefully SP is cool with that.
It’s excessively hard to maintain that balance. Clock in clock out jobs are few and far between, and there’s always competitive pressure to do more. One thing a coworker pointed out about our company (and applies to many was that there’s no room for people who are satisfied with their current job. If you’re not striving for the next promotion, then you’re not trying hard enough.
Fuck that, I just want to trade 8 hours of my expertise for a nice paycheck. My self-worth isnt wrapped up in being the leader or the most well known or the most indispensable or the guy on the rocket ship career path.
That’s what being self-employed is for.
That just means you get to deice which eighty hours you want to work every week in my observation.
That’s why I lost my job
Eh, I work for that sort of clock in/clock out, ok to spend your entire career marking time, company. The grass isn’t any greener on the other side. Advantages and disadvantages to both.
The pay is lower, for one.
I don’t check my email if I’m not ‘in the office’ (be it the physical office building, or my home office with my work laptop open.) A few coworkers and clients know my cell number, and they know that they can bug me if there’s an emergency, but I decided a few years ago that I’m not going to be working 24/7 any more. For the most part, this has worked out for me. But I know I’m in a lucky spot (combination of rare skills and unique employment situation) and it wouldn’t be compatible with regular advancement, and I know in a few cases, its hurt me professionally. But I know the date when I made this choice, and looking at my life before and after, it was a really important change for me to make.
You should talk to your superiors to find out if they intended to make a working environment where “there’s no room for people who are satisfied with their current job.” There’s a pretty good chance that turn-over is a headache for them, if I remember what field you are in correctly. They might be happy to have a good employee that’s happy where they are at and not looking to jump ship in 9 months.
There’s a pretty good chance that turn-over is a headache for them, if I remember what field you are in correctly. They might be happy to have a good employee that’s happy where they are at and not looking to jump ship in 9 months.
50% turnover in my department since I started 18 months ago.
I’ll add that I’m not unhappy with my job, and that I’m actually quite cool with advancement. I’m ambitious enough to want a promotion or three. Its the expectation that gets me sometimes. The constant pressure that everything needs to be done yesterday and that some (arbitrary) deadline is constantly 2 days away and that we need to “show our value” to the company that eats at the work life balance.
How much of that is self imposed pressure? More than zero. I imagine that I’d join most of the senior attorneys in chuckling at the ridiculousness if I hadn’t dug myself a 6 figure student loan hole.
Ah, forgot you were an attorney. My impression is that sort of “up or out” attitude is more common than not in that field.
It’s not like that everywhere, in every field; there is (currently) no job for me to get promoted to as an individual contributor. In other places that would mean I was forced into a management position, but not here. They’re working on adding another layer for senior individual contributors and keep handing me money and RSUs. No complaints.
Work-life is solid – sometimes I screw off and semi-phone it in (like, I dunno, spend hours on some random site on the internet). Then there will be the 12+ hour days or the 03:00 phone calls. In balance, it works out nicely.
The constant pressure that everything needs to be done yesterday and that some (arbitrary) deadline is constantly 2 days away and that we need to “show our value” to the company that eats at the work life balance.
If that’s really coming from your bosses, your bosses suck at bossing. Both in how they manage their department, and in how they manage their department’s relationship with the rest of the organization. I would never tolerate that kind of attitude coming from my c suite, and I make sure that none of my people feel any kind of pressure like that.
If that’s really coming from your bosses, your bosses suck at bossing.
It’s coming from the GC. He’s an old biglaw lit attorney with workaholism and a penchant for micromanagement. It seems like everything is a compromise between what we know needs to be done and his need to meddle.
He’s an old biglaw lit attorney with workaholism and a penchant for micromanagement
Biglaw litigation attorneys very, very rarely have the tools to be a good general counsel, in my experience (as in, I think I know one who is pretty good as GC, and I can think of two or three that were flaming disasters). The skillsets and outlook are just too different.
He’s a very effective GC, but he isnt a great people manager. He hasn’t completely shaken the biglaw “work em till they drop” mentality. It makes for a department culture more akin to a law firm than to a tech company.
“You should talk to your superiors to find out if they intended to make a working environment where “there’s no room for people who are satisfied with their current job.”” I recommend not; one’s satisfaction level is need-to-know information, and the odds that an employer can do anything to improve your situation in his competitive posture versus the likelihood that he’ll merely resent you are long…..don’t do it.
Being satisfied with a job as merely a job is perfectly okay; that just needs to be an internal fact, not a billboard item. On the outside, you can looks as busy or involved or as extroverted as needs be; it’s an act, really: let them believe whatever is in your best interest. I also plan throw-away days to work later even though for the most part I’m a forty-and-bye kind of guy; be sure to be up front annoying as much management as possible with such displays: ask opinions, give options, follow up with a email summary, that kind of bullshit.
Don’t get me wrong: I’m an ace and wouldn’t waste a penny of someone’s money; work is not trivial to me. But there is an efficiency one can bring to the game.
If I had to do that, I’d be looking for a different position. My advice is probably better for someone who feels pressure they can’t or don’t want to live with, and would consider going somewhere else. I would say check before making that choice, because you might find out that you can get what you want where you are at.
For someone like you that clearly has different preferences than me, my advice is bad.
Puzo/Brando said it better than I ever could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtc4f7Ez7FA
I come from horse-traders; we don’t show our cards.
I don’t check my email if I’m not ‘in the office’ (be it the physical office building, or my home office with my work laptop open.) A few coworkers and clients know my cell number, and they know that they can bug me if there’s an emergency,
Same here. I took a four day weekend; replied to one (1) email (from my CEO). Nobody expects any different. They know that if they just hafta get aholt of me NOW NOW NOW outside office hours, they need to text me. Happens a couple times a week.
I don’t mind working after hours, as long as its not bullshit related. My boss does not work past 5 and has made it very clear that I’m never expected to.
I really enjoy what I do though, and my work benefits me individually in addition to the company. Plus working from home tends to blur the boundaries a bit.
I get butterflies when I read these discussions. At one time Mrs. Suthenboy and I had the same grief. We are now both retired empty nesters and life is so peaceful. It isnt exciting or glamorous but we have enough money to pay our bills without worry, saved enough to buy her a new car outright and I am still driving my 11 year old Jeep. All of our drama is on television. We eat well. This morning I ran the seedeater and she the mower. We do everything together all of the time and it is great. In 20 years we have never had a fight. Anytime she complains of boredom I casually mention “Well, we could go back to work” and the conversation is over.
I hate that some of y’all are having to deal with so much stress. I wish there was some golden advice I could give you aside from ‘stick it out, in the end it is worth it’, but I just dont. If there was, smarter people than me would have given it long ago.
Let’s talk about less infuriating things than what is in the news lately.
Let’s talk about the glories of affirmative action hiring!
There are also a lot of other goodies in the record now about Noor. Like how he pointed his weapon at the head of someone pulled over for a simple traffic stop.
While the MMPI showed no diagnoses of mental illness,
Is it really supposed to do that?
What’s strange about that?
I also liked this attempt by the defense to throw the charges out.
It is either cultural insensitivity or cultural appropriation isn’t it?
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
Let me guess, it uses questions about church socials and hotdish…
Those behaviors are making 100 red flags pop up for me. I have seen behavior like that before in third worlders. They all had IQ’s hovering around 60ish and less than robust mental health. Dangerous pieces of shit. Some one please shoot that worthless fuck in the face…and the cocksucker that hired him.
I’ll play devil’s advocate for affirmative action in one limited circumstance. If you are policing a town with a large black population (or any minority population that distrusts cops), it probably will improve your effectiveness if you have blacks on the force in order to build trust with the people in the community. That said, there still need to be standards for competency, and it looks like were waived in Noor’s case.
Then you don’t give preferential treatment by race but to people who live in the community – and maintain the basic standards.
Loads of entertainment from this joke of a hearing. Kammy really wants that spotlight.
“Can you think of any laws that give the government the power to make decisions about the male body?” Harris asked.
Why yes, Senator the laws concerning Selective Service come to mind…
Notice how those laws (selective service) also involve murdering people for the glory of the state. Statism is a death cult.
Please tell me he actually said that…
That was me who said that. I would have loved to have seen the look on her face if he did.
I would also add that the government can force a male to pay for a child for 18 years that he did not want.
She really, really wants the Dem nomination. I still don’t think they’ll be that stupid, but they are enstupidizing by the day.
“I would also add that the government can force a male to pay for a child for 18 years that he did not want”
Even if genetic testing proves he’s not the father.
Title IX.
Can you think of any laws that give the government the power to make decisions about the male body?
“Senator Harris, I believe the federal criminal code gives the government the power to put male bodies behind bars. Does that count?”
Alex Jones confronts Little Rubio.
Man this guy has a set of balls.
Priceless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH0WavrlPjw
‘Go back to your bath house!”
Jesus, lol.
How was Rubio ever considered a presidential contender? What has he ever done?
He’s like Klobuchar. I keep hearing people talk about them as presidential candidates and scratch my
headballs.Because a)Florida is a key state b)He’s Latin c)For a brief time, when no one knew much about him, he was able to successfully latch onto the Tea Party despite the fact that he’s a nondescript moderate Repub.
Related-Ales Jones and InfoWars permanently banned from Twitter.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/06/twitter-permanently-bans-alex-jones-and-infowars-accounts.html
Interesting that waited until the day after Dorsey testified to do this.
Alex Jones too…
It’s OK I didn’t notice til you Corrected 😉
I hope Dorsey ends up a hobo with a copy of Tropic of Capricorn as his only possession.
“”We took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy, in addition to the accounts’ past violations,” the company said in a series of tweets. “We wanted to be open about this action given the broad interest in this case.””
Bullshit.
Oh, Melania
“Unidentified sources have become the majority of voices people hear about in today’s news. People with no names are writing our nation’s history. Words are important, and accusations can lead to severe consequences,” she said. “If a person is bold enough to accuse people of negative actions, they have a responsibility to publicly stand by their words and people have the right to be able to defend themselves.”
Turning the dial to ten, Mrs. Trump concluded: “To the writer of the oped – you are not protecting this country; you are sabotaging it with your cowardly actions.”
I think I’m in the minority on this, but that OpEd was a genius move by the NYT.
Let me start off by saying that I think the whole thing was completely fabricated. I’d be stunned if there was even a single grain of truth in it.
What I admire about it is that this is going to cause Trump to go crazy looking for the made up person in his administration. For once I think they are the ones with the laser pointer and Trump is the one chasing. Usually it is the other way around.
My gut tells me that it was 50/50 on whether the NYT was smart enough to realize what a clever idea it was.
See, your last statement tells me your conspiracy can’t be true, because the NYT would have no clue.
It’s also a step in the right direction of the NYT utterly dropping its mask and coming straight out as a partisan rag. I don’t care about the bias, I care that they claim to be objective.
I’m betting the author was Stephen Glass.
“…this is going to cause Trump to go crazy looking for the made up person in his administration.”
That is the whole point, it was calculated to do so. If we can figure that out so can Trump. The move is predicated on the NYT actually believing the bullshit stories about chaos in the White House. I dont think there is any such thing so it probably wont work.
I agree with everything she said. God, but I hate, hate, hate anonymous accusations and sourcing.
I’d be honestly curious to know Donny Two-Scoop’s reaction to this. He’s been fighting with and bitching about Obama bitter-enders salted through the administration since day one; I don’t think this is a big surprise, or even much of a change, for him.
I hate, hate, hate anonymous accusations and sourcing
Along the lines of anonymous op-eds, is the phrase “according to a source familiar with the situation” a recent journalist invention?
I can’t stand this. I don’t think it used to be commonplace but see it everywhere now as standard in articles.
My favorite is the spokesman speaking on condition of anonymity because they aren’t authorized to speak about the subject. WTF? They’re whole job is to speak on behalf of an org. If they’re not supposed to talk about something, then they shouldn’t. Not explicitly leak with everyone except the reader knowing who they are.
Remember the snark from earlier today?
“Whenever you see ‘anonymous sources’ replace it with ‘an old gypsy woman’.”
Perfect.
Heh.
Burgess Everett
✔
@burgessev
There is a toddler running around a Senate Office building wearing anti Kavanaugh gear
The woke three year old has arrived.
I’d guess that a lap dance could be pretty hazardous.
I agree.
-Zach Smith
I’d guess that a lap dance could be pretty hazardous.
Not really.
-Tom Herman
Sometimes.
-Brett McMushmouth
In case it hasn’t made the news here.
Brazil candidate for president stabbed
Stabbed by commies no doubt. It’s what they do. Not sure what this guy was thinking by not having federal security. My wife said this will push him over the top and he’ll now be president for sure.
“Brazil candidate for president stabbed”
Thank God for gun control.
Aren’t they Broke again? Sounds like money issue to me….
Nothing to do with money. The guy is going to win and spoil all the labor’s party 10 years run of massive corruption, which also is the reason they are broke.
“Thank God for gun control.”
The stabbed candidate is against it. Just another reason the lefties are trying to off him.
Along the lines of anonymous op-eds, is the phrase “according to a source familiar with the situation” a recent journalist invention?
“The voices in my head tell me….”
Meh, off the record and anonymous sources have been around forever, there are many reasons someone might tell a reporter “you didn’t hear it from me but…” What has changed is that people used to take the track record of the publication into account, now it’s “Fake news” even if the reporter has no record of having fabricated sources. I’ll catch a ton of shit for this I’m sure, but when has the NYT been caught making up sources? Yes, they’ve been caught in lies and misleading reporting but have they ever been busted for making up a source out of whole cloth?
I am certainly not going to give you any shit but hey, let me show you this fantastic bridge I have for sale….
The NYT has been over the top mendacious for at least a century. Lie about A, lie about B. A lie is a lie.
over the top mendacious for at least a century.
I’ll swap my handle for that bridge of yours.
when has the NYT been caught making up sources
Leaving aside that its nearly impossible to confirm that an anonymous source never actually existed, they did once characterize a single intern as three different federal officials.
“when has the NYT been caught making up sources?”
That’s why you use the term ‘anonymous source’, so you can’t be caught making it up. It makes no difference if I say ‘My source is inside the Whitehouse, it’s a guy, it’s a senior member, he’s black, she’s Asian, it’s a woman, it’s a xe’, it’s still anonymous. I’ll just say this ‘The NYT are unabashed liars’. Now there was a fact.
Haven’t many stories been ‘broke’ by anonymous sources, and then end up accurate?. Flat out dismissing stories you don’t like because the reporter only got off the record statements is lazy. The Lanny Davis thing comes to mind, when it broke I remember plenty people saying ‘never happened’ or ‘CNN made the whole thing up’ then Lanny comes out and says ‘oh I was the source, I lied but I was the source.’
If the source provides evidence, that’s one thing, the evidence can be evaluated. Unsubstantiated statements pretty much mean nothing until substantiated.
The problem with the Lanny Davis example is after he admitted he lied, they stuck with the story.
Yes he lied to them but he did talk to them, It might prove that anonymous source can lie, but so can known sources, what it does disprove is the ‘sources are always complete fabrications’ theory. Whether CNN should have walked back the story is a matter totally unrelated to the question of if they had an actual source or not.
Mother of the year candidate here.
I’m against cruel and unusual punishment, but I kind of wish the cops had sealed up the broken window, turned the heat on higher, and let her die in the front seat after rescuing the kid.
Speaking of passed out with a needle in her arm, we’ve found two (2) patients that way this week in my hospital.
In the hospital?
You bet. If we get one more this week, we’ll set a new record.
Good grief. That isnt the town I remember.
Duran Duran sexily covering Dylan.
I’ll be in my bunk.
(P.S. he will be 60 in a little over a month. Rawr. I’ll be in my bunk, part deux.)
He looks like an MP.
Looks like he has a concierge doctor.
My (probably) final decision on my 50th birthday trip extravaganza spectacular.
You are the polar opposite of my wife. If it gets down below 77 in the house she is putting on sweaters and on the couch under a blanket. We have a running war of the thermostat. I sneak it down, she sneaks it up.
If it gets up to 77, I’m checking on why the heater or AC is broken. That’s bad enough outside, inside that’s too warm to sleep temperatures.
It’s been over 90 F here for probably 10 out of the last 15 days, and probably 5 days straight. In the house, it’s 74.
Same here and my living room is set to 72 although that’s more wishful thinking than reality. (One of the things my wonderful landlords refused to disclose before I moved in was a law against installing a proper AC in a window facing a fire escape. “But I’m on the top floor and it’s not blocking my egress through the other pane.” – “Doesn’t matter.”)
We have AC, I think it’s pretty accurate at least in some of the rooms. We keep it on 69 at night (Not a euphemism) and 74 in the day.
I’m left with using a portable unit in the LR which is difficult as it faces south where there’s pretty much a constant gust of hot air blowing in all summer.
But at least in my BR I have a proper window unit, also set to 72 and it’s bliss.
I don’t know what I would do without my portable ACs (one of which is broken and is only good as a fan at this point)
Rhywun needs an indoor portable unit. We have one and when we have had to use it it was remarkably efficient.
I do use one of those in the living room. It just doesn’t work as well as I would like. The thing is already pretty large – 11000 BTU which should be more than enough. I’d say it gets the room down to around 75 which is certainly better than nothing, so I can’t complain too much.
I should qualify that with “it gets the part of the room directly in front of it down to around 75”.
All in all I would never use one of these things again if I didn’t have to.
That sounds like you have an insulation problem. Wife and I used one down here one summer and it kept a 20×16 room very frosty when we closed everything up. I cant remember the btu’s but it sounds about like the one you have.
No doubt. There’s the six-foot wide entrance into the next room currently covered by a curtain, for starters.
Where in the country do you live?
NYC.
Ouch.
Most of La and Tx – lots of space and privacy. Low taxes. Low cost of living. Wanna build a house? Go buy lumber, a hammer and a saw and get started. Put your air conditioner where you want.
I’d rather have an expert build my house. I wouldn’t want to subject anyone to the deathtrap that my craftsmanship would cobble together.
Not in the least 🙂
I keep my thermostat at 40 all year. In the summer, it’ll get my condo down to about 85 when it’s, say, 100 degrees outside. In the winter, the heat just never turns on. In fact, I actively work to make it colder in here (keep windows open sometimes, etc.), since I’m on the 3rd floor and I get everyone else’s heat.
“I keep my thermostat at 40 all year.”
Iceman, meet Icegirl.
“In the summer, it’ll get my condo down to about 85 when it’s, say, 100 degrees outside.”
Ohh, paging Yusef!
Start parading around naked in front of her and when she tells you to cover up, say, “It’s too damn hot. Turn the heat down and we can both cover up.”
Nice! Can’t wait to hear how it goes.
Looks like an artic blast.
You can’t fool me! Like anyone would believe a place called ‘Svalbard’ is real. Please.
What time of year?
My parents went a while back.
If you get far enough North, you aren’t allowed to leave city limits without an armed escort. Polar bears everywhere.
Yeah, they mention polar bear sightings as part of the tours. I imagine there will be rifles. I imagine they won’t let me shoot them 🙁
I was thinking March, for this tour. I think I could probably still see auroras then, but they would also have a normal amount of daylight to see the glaciers & stuff.
No one ever predicted this, but I’m laughing my ass off.
The Socialists are Taking our Jerbz!
Fraud
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/06/report-dem-socialist-candidate-julia-salazar-was-arrested-in-2011-on-suspicion-fraud.html
“Not lying is hard!”
/DemSoc Barbie
I mean ‘Lying is necessary!’.
/Honest DemSoc Barbie
Well, if true, that makes her the perfect socialist candidate, because she’s been getting warmed up for the big fraud she’s going to pull on her constituents.
I was behind a Balmer City bus this afternoon after leaving work and there was an ad on the back, something about a local college and their offerings. It featured the face of a young lady and the resemblance to She Guevara was striking. All of I could think of was:
Featuring courses in:
Lying
Cheating
Stealing
Spreading the misery around
Mass murder
Socialists are grifters and thugs. News at 11
Forgot to post this last week. Don’t think anyone else here has listed it but I’ve been a little busy the last few days….picked up a cheap copy of Destiny for my Xbox 360.
https://www.navytimes.com/pay-benefits/2018/08/27/military-scientists-have-discovered-a-new-malaria-drug-that-could-help-eradicate-the-disease-and-its-hitting-shelves-soon/
Not sure why they completely avoided mentioning the Afghan massacre in this context – considering “Military Crimes” normally goes out of their way to make the associations.
Excellent news
Good News! Water! on the board and looking sharp after the first pour, no more spoilers for You!
/Very happy I didn’t wreck the whole thing
And I just lost 20% to leaks i just noticed, damn!
But you’ve still got 80% fake water, right?
yep, and another pour to go, so It will still work great, the contours helped
Maybe my favorite one of these.
Now that is some funny shit.
“The Colin Kaepernick and Nike Controversy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFJEzyqfS08
“which is why Cardi-Bot can not only mimic human-like behavior, but also get down and dirty, all with the quick click of a button”
You who else got down at the push of a button?…
Penis?
Damn it. I suck at this game
Go on…
Depends on who you ask… apparently
The ‘Don’t taze me bro!’ guy?
The Beastie Boys?
Maj. Kong?
“Wait… so does this mean Twitter banned him for something he did OUTSIDE of Twitter?”
https://www.chicksonright.com/blog/2018/09/06/twitter-permanently-bans-alex-jones-and-infowars/
It sure looks like it.
We have to tackle wrong think, bro.
Hey techy glibs, I have a bit of an interesting bug related to Monocle Eyepiece that I can’t track down. So, I dynamically update the comments by running a 45 second timer and doing an ajax request for the comment section of the page every time the timer pops. Then I filter by comments tagged as new, and insert where appropriate.
I’m getting duplicate comments only on mobile Firefox and only when the browser is closed. Originally, I thought that it was simply not updating on the server side for some reason, but I put in a duplicate check and it still happens. Any suggestions?
Code is here. Relevant portions around line 375.
Techy, but JS isn’t my jam. Sorry.
JS makes my eyes bleed – sorry.
I’ll take a look. I’m kind of living in Angular land lately, but I’ll give it a whirl.
Well, tomorrow is going to be a slow day at work for me, so I’ll take a crack at it in the morning when I’m less football-focused and see what I can find. Off the top of my head it kind of sounds like the AJAX response is being cached or something. When you say you’re getting dupes, you mean the same comments are being flagged as new each time and inserted again? I’ve had that happen in Chrome a while back. I forget the solution, but IIRC I was using jQuery’s AJAX method and there’s a setting you can set to force it to get a new response each time.
Yep, I see N>1 copies of every new message. I’ll look into the ajax caching issue. That sounds promising
From a source more reliable than 99.9% of mainstream media:
Nike is sacrificing nothing.
Surprise surprise.
Of course not. They wouldn’t do it otherwise.
I suspected that they were doing it as an excuse because they’re expecting poor sales. It appears that they think they can actually make money on this.
The comments are a mess.
5 Ugly Truths About Women That
YoungMen Need to Recognize1. Beauty fades
2. After your relationship ends, you may be surprised at the ruthless treatment you get
3. Women are much more status-oriented than men
4. Women are not as stable as men
5. Women may come to hate you for your weakness
That’s just a given. Kinda leads back to #2. Something something a woman scorned.
(4) is bogus.
The crazy girlfriend is a real thing, but it’s a tiny fraction of what’s going on.
Women are generally more mature, take disappointment and pain better, are less violent, are more reliable and cordial roommates, and smell better than men.
A huge fraction of men are either unemployed, live with their mother, have extreme debt, are power-crazed, or are addicted to something. There is no amount of crazy gf or wife bs that can come close to equaling the pile of basic incompetence and unsuitability that men rack up on this ledger.
I heard it explained that men are bimodal and women cluster in the middle. If you compare women to the half of men that have it together, they’re less stable. If you compare them to the half that are a shitshow, they’re more stable.
No doubt men are bimodal.
It’s just that the shitshow of incompetence encompasses 40% of them as far as I can tell. There’s no way enough of the female distribution tails over to match that.
Every man I’ve had a relationship has been more emotionally-driven than I am. Even the one that worshipped logic & reason. Maybe I’m just a cyborg, though.
I read “stable” to include a range of defects other than the occasional outburst in a restaurant.
I know this: as a flabby, bald, distracted 45 year old bachelor with the interpersonal skills of a Commodore 64, I owned Dallas for years. It became crystal-clear to men that my competition for womenflesh were shit-boys; all I heard were horror stories. All the good guys are married, I’m fairly certain, and, even there, more than should be.
Similarly, I found almost all the women I ran into reasonable. Now, I wasn’t sniffing around the trailerparks, so my sampling is far from descriptive. I just know that in my demographic, decent women outnumber decent men roughly 4:1.
Similarly, I found almost all the women I ran into reasonable. Now, I wasn’t sniffing around the trailerparks, so my sampling is far from descriptive. I just know that in my demographic, decent women outnumber decent men roughly 4:1.
I’m not disagreeing with your point, but I’ve found that women can temporarily hide their crazy much better than men can. I wonder how many of those 4 were actually lunatics who could hold the crazy off long enough to make a decent first impression.
^This^
I went through a hundred moonbats before I found Mrs. Suthenboy. They seemed ok at first but as soon as they felt comfortable the crazy would come out. I married the Mrs. precisely because she was sane and stable. By the second date she seemed like the one but I had seen the mask come off so many times I waited 4 years to finally accept that there was no mask. 20 years later I wouldn’t change a thing. She is still sane and the same person from that second date.
Fuckin-a! I have to go through ~95 more men before I find someone compatiblbe & reasonable?!??
That’s it – I’m out.
Women tend to express emotions more freely and be more open than men, and sometimes that reads as unstable or emotional. It’s not, it just seems that way because men are typically expected to not demonstrate strong emotions in public, particularly emotions that might make them seem vulnerable or weak, and openness in men is often viewed as a negative trait.
I’ve seen a man go through #5 but that’s his choice for some reason.
I find that there is no shortage of crazy on either side.
I detest weakness. Well, not weakness per se, but lack of will, laziness, and fear of struggle. I don’t expect everyone I see to be able to run five miles, but if you’re morbidly obese and can’t cross the room don’t tell me that you can’t do it, tell me that you can’t do it yet. Same with people who make stupid mistakes more than twice. Once is a mistake, maybe twice is a mistake, but three times means you can’t be bothered to do it right.
I need a character moment for Grandmaster Carolus Straub of the Knights of Gefrah… but the narrator is suspicious of him for being too helpful. It’s also way too soon for Lorenz to smack the narrator upside the head and call him an idiot. So if they have a one-on-one conversation, it would have to be one where the participants think they’re having two entirely different conversations. And I hate that trope.
Ah, the Three’s Company school of writing. I like it.
That “trope” probably covers at least a third of conversations IRL to some degree.