ZARDOZ FRIDAY NIGHT LINKS OF DISMAY

CINEMA CLASSIC

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. IT WAS NOT A GOOD DAY FOR ZARDOZ YESTERDAY. ZARDOZ HAD HEARD THERE WAS TO A GREAT CLEANSING OF TURKEY… ZARDOZ WAS PUZZLED WHY A SINGLE BRUTAL NATION-STATE WAS TO BE CLEANSED. BUT ZARDOZ WILL TAKE WHAT ZARDOZ CAN GET, CHOSEN ONES. HOWEVER, ZARDOZ SOON LEARNED, INSTEAD OF A GREAT CLEANSING OF BRUTALS, IT WAS A MASS CONSUMPTION OF BUMBLING SEMI-AVIAN  CREATURES.

THE CREATURES THAT WERE CLEANSED.

AS YOU CAN RIGHTLY IMAGINE, ZARDOZ WAS NOT AMUSED. BUT, THIS SHOULD NOT STOP THE CHOSEN ONES FROM ENJOYING THEIR NIGHT. FOR YOU HAVE GREATLY PLEASED ZARDOZ WITH YOUR SNARKING AT THE BRUTALS WHO PLAGUE THE EARTH. THEREFOR, RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE LINK! GO FORTH AND COMMENT!

  • ZARDOZ CAN ONLY ASSUME THIS WILL LEAD TO GREATER CLEANSING OF THE FILTH OF BRUTALS. “NEVER AGAIN” MEANT “WELL, NOT FOR A WHILE”…YES?
  • NOT IMPRESSED. REPEAT, ZARDOZ IS NOT IMPRESSED. FAR TOO FEW FATALITIES.
  • ZARDOZ IS DISAPPOINT. PUNISHED? HE SHOULD BE PROMOTED TO BRUTAL EXTERMINATOR, WITH GUTS LIKE THAT.

ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

Comments

178 responses to “ZARDOZ FRIDAY NIGHT LINKS OF DISMAY”

  1. Tres Cool

    I thought France didnt have high oil prices, since Hillary did them that solid in the mideast ?

    1. Tres Cool

      Hit that sweet mother-fkin’ THEME MUSIC !

    2. straffinrun

      Just filled up. ¥139 a liter. You figure out the dollar/gallon conversion.

      1. The Bearded Hobbit

        Our recent roadtrip to Montana-NW I recorded gas priced well over $3 per gallon.

        I filled up yesterday at $2109, a full $1.25 per gallon under what I was paying elsewhere.

        1. straffinrun

          Self service? Do you even have full service in the states anymore?

          1. I think it’s still mandatory full service in Jersey. I’ve never encountered it outside of there.

          2. DEG

            I think Oregon still requires full service in certain parts of the state.

            I remember reading that Oregon loosened its full service mandates, but not throughout the whole state if I remember the articles correctly.

          3. westernsloper

            I havn’t seen full service since the 70’s. I hear it is required in NJ? I have never driven through NJ so I can’t confirm. Actually that is not true. I drove through NJ during my short truck driving career but never fueled there.

          4. DEG

            Yes, NJ still requires full service.

            NJ gas prices are relatively low despite the full service mandate because of their low gas tax.

          5. westernsloper

            What’s low by NJ standards?

          6. Drake

            Full service for gasoline, not diesel.

          7. westernsloper

            Aaah, what the truck drivers have to pump their own fuel? Sounds like classism.

          8. whiz

            We have one full service station here. They’re old school — nobody else is.

          9. Luther Baldwin

            Exxon was full-service in NY last time I was there. Which was some time in the late 80s.

          10. westernsloper

            You live in the state and you have not been to an Exxon for damn near 30 years?

          11. Luther Baldwin

            And it wasn’t my car. I don’t have one.

        2. westernsloper

          We are all waiting to hear what you are driving that costs over two thousand dollars to fill up, Hobbit drives a space ship is what I am thinking.

          1. The Bearded Hobbit

            Apply decimal point as required.

      2. J. Frank Parnell

        I was told there would be no math.

      3. Luther Baldwin

        You figure out the dollar/gallon conversion.

        I can’t won’t even.

      4. Tejicano

        So, that’s about $4.77 a gallon.

  2. Sean

    I’m about half done with Xmas shopping. Thanks Amazon.

    1. Sean

      Oh, and “all hail Zardoz”

      ?

    2. Nephilium

      I ordered a couple of games for the nephews, picked up some clothes online with Black Friday sales, and picked up a nice selection of high ABV beer earlier today at a release.

    3. I’m all done, except for the wine I’m getting Dad for Christmas.

    4. grrizzly

      Well, I’m done with a gift for myself. I’ve been thinking about getting something in the .22lr caliber . So, today I bought an M&P 15-20.

  3. Spudalicious

    Han Chinese are probably the most racist people on the face of the earth.

    1. commodious spittoon

      So… they’re appropriating white culture? SO RACIST.

      1. LJW

        Wouldn’t that also make them Republicans?

    2. Luther Baldwin

      If only the Uighurs were Tibetan, Americans might give a shit about them.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        Uyghur women are hotter than Tibetans.

        1. The Uighur girls really knock me out,
          They leave the West behind.
          The Maoist girls make me scream and about,
          And Guangzhou’s always on my mi-mi-mi-mi-mind.

      2. Spudalicious

        The Han flooded the zone in Tibet too. Our “concern” didn’t make a bit of difference.

        1. Luther Baldwin

          True.

    3. Heroic Mulatto

      -1 Korea

    4. straffinrun

      The Han always shoot first.

      1. CPRM

        Nope, the Greedo, read ‘Greedy’ with the long snouts shoot first. Star Wars is totally PC.

  4. kinnath

    Been hitting the Black Friday deals at Williams Brewing online.

    Four more half-size kegs, plus mini-regulators and faucets. Everything you need to take the part with you.

  5. Not an Economist

    If you want to see how not to run a football play, watch this.

    Also, don’t watch any highlights from the UCF game or any pictures either. Just trust me.

    1. Sadly, it gives the powers that be another excuse to ignore UCF in discussing the playoffs.

    2. Lackadaisical

      Looks like people trying to play rugby for the first time.

  6. LJW

    We are all gonna die!

    “The White House on Friday released a federal report that found that the impacts of climate change are being felt across the country, and “extreme weather and climate-related events” are going to worsen in the years to come — with a significant impact on the economy.”

    1. leon

      Weather is NOT CLIMATE!!! oh wait, you’re talking about how the climate is changing? Cary on.

    2. Luther Baldwin

      The White House […] released

      A mandatory report drawn up by lifers in the civil service who totally don’t have an agenda. Looks like Trump missed a spot.

      1. hayeksplosives

        “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

        Upton Sinclair.

        These “scientists” are not impartial.

        1. Science studies funded by the state call for more state? Quelle surprise

  7. Lackadaisical

    RE: Impersonator

    He was jailed for 26 weeks

    WTF? 6 months in jail for basically trespassing?

    But he was released from Wandsworth Prison after just over a week, complaining his sentence was too harsh. His lawyer also said his client’s habit of wearing a dark blue suit at all times made him ‘stand out like a sore thumb’ in prison.

    That makes more sense.

    The court heard Cramp’s parents are divorced and he lives with his grandparents in Ruislip

    Boo hoo. He’s not a minor, is he? Looks like he’s 50.

    Judge Christopher Hehir reduced Cramp’s jail sentence to 12 weeks, suspended for two years, after a successful appeal.

    What does this even mean?

    1. Luther Baldwin

      Even the British criminal justice system got sick of his shit.

  8. westernsloper

    One former inmate claimed Muslim inmates were forced to eat pork and drink alcohol.

    It’s settled, I am moving to china and converting to Islam.

    1. Luther Baldwin

      I hear the struggle sessions are a blast!

      1. Tres Cool

        +1 weird trick

  9. Chafed

    “ZARDOZ CAN ONLY ASSUME THIS WILL LEAD TO GREATER CLEANSING OF THE FILTH OF BRUTALS. “NEVER AGAIN” MEANT “WELL, NOT FOR A WHILE”…YES?” Jesus, the ChiComs read Orwell as an instruction manual. I genuinely wonder if any of their neighbors cozying up to them realize this could be their future.

  10. westernsloper

    the second weekend of “yellow vest” protests

    So the French work on a different color scale because those are green vests. Or is that mistranslated?

  11. straffinrun

    China was also said to be trying to prevent people from fasting during Ramadan in Xinjiang last year.

    Prevent someone from not doing something. Sounds like Justice Roberts.

    1. westernsloper

      Don’t eat, pay the fine tax bitches!

  12. westernsloper

    Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Mine was very pleasant with great food and even though I was sober it was a great day.

  13. Luther Baldwin

    Guys, I’m starting to suspect that state AG’s are using their office for political purposes.

    1. Chafed

      I am so glad I was sitting when I read that.

  14. J. Frank Parnell

    the fluorescent yellow jackets that all motorists in France must have in their cars

    Wait what?

    1. westernsloper

      In case you run up on a random protest, duhh.

    2. Luther Baldwin

      Enh, it’s a good idea. There oughtta be a law!

      1. J. Frank Parnell

        People will die if there’s not a law!

        1. [Works to repeal law]

          1. J. Frank Parnell

            OMG YOU’RE TRYING TO KILL PEOPLE!!!

  15. J. Frank Parnell

    Via ace, here’s a cute girl with Tourette’s.

    I figure this has got to be the fetish of somebody here.

    1. DEG

      “I only know how tall I am in cunt.”

      I was amused.

    2. Paging HM; HM to the white courtesy phone.

    3. Tres Cool

      Oh, that is just gold.

  16. Juvenile Bluster

    Worked most of the day Thursday, went to my mom’s for Thanksgiving dinner, went shopping this morning (it’s really not bad at 8 AM Friday) and then went back to the office and worked more, then came home and worked more after that.

    I “love” my job.

    1. I thought you were a lawyer.

      And I hope you got more than 24 billable hours yesterday.

  17. hayeksplosives

    Lackadaisical ,

    You asked in a long-dead thread about what the work was that required AEDs and PPE of various kinds. What we do is called Pulsed Power. Always high voltage, ridiculous high current released from a capacitor. Need arc flash gear, probes, AEDs, high voltage gloves, double (at least) protection for a “two links” from danger minimum, etc.

    Why it wasn’t done before, I don’t know. I think the engineers and techs were used to being flogged like rented mules. I Effing through the challenge flag within 3 weeks of starting (made a lot of friends there…).

    Now we are good to go, and I get called in to approve all kinds of safety stuff because they know I’m serious.

    I got the phone call about a fatality at a gun range with a system that included some of my equipment. You’re damned right, I’m serious.

    1. hayeksplosives

      Through–>>threw.

      Sigh.

    2. Lackadaisical

      How did you remember that question? I had damn near forgot until halfway through your post.

      So… rail guns?

      1. hayeksplosives

        Umm… maybe?

        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4_LZ8fL-Mc

        There are some other sweet things to do with pulsed power too.

        1. Lackadaisical

          Oooo. Purty.

          1. hayeksplosives

            Yup.

            Makes the long days in the desert work it.

            The one in the vid is “baby blitzer” . Now we’re on its big bro.

    3. Ownbestenemy

      We have to have CPR/AED, electrical safety and LOTO training annual. Normally we don’t work around greater than 110…but some of our transmistters and push 400+kg and 20+amps

      1. hayeksplosives

        Anybody exposed to the danger should at the very least be aware of it, have proper equipment , and feel comfortable raising concerns.

    4. The Bearded Hobbit

      Hayek,

      Pulsed Power rulez!

      Here’s my patent on the subject.

      … Hobbit

        1. The Bearded Hobbit

          I’ve actually figured out a cheap/easy way to implement it that I was going to pursue while retired but I find myself too busy.

          1. CPRM

            Sure, too busy to make money. Obviously THE ONE TRUE LIBERTARIAN. 96% OF LIBERTARIANS REJECT LIBERTARIANISM, THERE FOR ONLY I AM THE ONE TRUE LIBERTARIAN!

          2. hayeksplosives

            Dude, you should email me at hayeksplosices ProtonMail etc.

            Might be a. easy way to contract without big hassles and full time commitment.

  18. hayeksplosives

    Phil Mick beat Tiger Woods in their 1:1.

    Main outcome was probably some Tiger reputation rehab.

    1. And we’re supposed to care about an exhibition because?

      1. hayeksplosives

        9 Million to charity blah blah. I like the Goofyfoot. Play on!

        Matters as much or as little as any other game.

      2. MikeS

        The same reason any of us should care when you talk about soccer?

        1. I don’t care about the off-season soccer exhibitions, either.

          And I hate that tennis players domain about the length of the season, only to play big-m0ney exhibitions.

        2. Luther Baldwin

          Meow.

          1. MikeS

            That was a bit catty, wasnt it?

        3. You mean when he talk’s about soccer.

          1. MikeS

            Dang it, yes. I can’t believe I missed that. That is is correct.

          2. MikeS

            And as for you…I was reading through the Thanksgiving night open post. I owe you this.

    2. J. Frank Parnell

      Well, Tiger had already played 18 holes in the morning, so he was probably pretty tired by the time he started playing golf.

  19. The combined voyeurism and emotional circle jerking that has become so damned prevalent in our culture is spurring me to either write a damn article, or vent on here while drunk. I’m gonna do the latter with hopes of avoiding the former, at least for a while.

    1. Mustang

      Aren’t they basically the same thing?

      1. The only difference is that I don’t have image rights in the comments.

    1. Mustang

      Why should I care what some old hag says?

    2. Luther Baldwin

      I dunno but Trump’s ghost-twitterer should have something amusing to say about this.

      1. CPRM

        You don’t think Orangeman is behind the account?

        1. Luther Baldwin

          Oh sure, but no way he writes the actual words.

          1. CPRM

            Of course not, the hat does.

  20. hayeksplosives

    Ding dang it, I get an error and can’t log in on my PC.

    So phone it is. Do hate.

    1. CPRM

      Splosives PC has been infected by malware, we are all compromised, BURN THE SITE DOWN AND MOVE TO A NEW LOCATION!

      1. hayeksplosives

        I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

        1. MikeS

          But I just bought some new fish for my aquarium!

          1. hayeksplosives

            I’ll try to just do San Diego.

            Remember when Lex Luthor sent a nuke to New Jersey ad a distraction from the one aimed at CA?

            I loved it when his girlfriend says to Lex , “but my mother lives in Hackensack!” Lex (Gene Hackman being awesome) looks at his watch and back at the girl and sharks his head no.

            No more Superman movies needed to be made after that one.

          2. CPRM

            Ms Tessmacher was not Lex’s girlfriend. Sheesh, it’s so obvious you’re a fake.

          3. hayeksplosives

            Well clearly I am fake since I claim to be a libertarian woman.

            Tess rescued Superman from the pool by taking off the Kryptonite on the condition that he’d save her mom. Then she kissed him before removing the kryptonite and he asked why. Not going to google it, but I think she answered that she didn’t know he’d let her kiss him otherwise.

          4. Luther Baldwin

            No more Superman movies needed to be made after that one.

            Unfortunately, they did anyway.

        2. CPRM

          It’s a skin suit! She should be RoadSplosives if she’s on her phone! Attack!

        3. Not an Economist

          Isn’t your computer the one that controls the nukes?

          1. Luther Baldwin

            “Oopsie!”

          2. hayeksplosives

            High five, bro

          3. Tres Cool

            I was doing a project for a university in eastern kentucky, to get their rickety coal-boiler into USEPA compliance. Id called in one of the company’s top combustion engineers, and shortly after he’d “made some adjustments” it was pouring total black out of the smoke-stack. He came out of the control room, and I (pointing up at the sky) mentioned that this really isnt the direction the EPA wanted us to go, he looked up and said, “whoops, I turned it the wrong way”.

  21. Akira

    Just Say’n on November 23, 2018 at 9:38 am
    Politics has become fashion. And having the “right politics” is a way to distinguish your class status

    This insightful comment was posted earlier today. I wanted to reply, but I was reading it on my phone at work, and commenting from a phone is a pain in the ass. Anyway, here’s what I wanted to say about it:

    It’s absolutely true that politics has become fashion. I’ve been reading a lot of advertising/marketing books lately in preparation for some copywriting work, and one thing that the ad men figured out decades ago is that people often buy things because of the brand image, not the product’s actual attributes. A great example is whiskey and cigarettes. People will insist that one brand is the best, yet they frequently cannot tell that brand apart from others in a blind test. It’s about the image. Think about every Jack Daniels or Marlboro ad you’ve seen. They do talk about the actual products a little bit, but it’s vastly overshadowed by the reinforcement of this rural, rugged, working-class image that they want you to associate with these products.

    I think it’s that way with politics as well. “Progressivism” has been the most successful at cultivating this hip, youthful image (even though it’s full of old fogies like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden). Libertarianism has some youth appeal as well, which is why “progressives” have worked so hard trying to portray it as some silly, naive ideology that could only be believed by some teenager with no real life experience.

    1. CPRM

      So what you’re saying is libertarianism needs a marketing man?

    2. Luther Baldwin

      I’m sure you’re on to something, but I dunno if the cigarette comparison holds. I always smoked Marlboros because (1) they tasted OK and (2) they were available absolutely everywhere. The iconography I always found a little silly. If I was going for that, I would have smoked Du Mauriers or something else that was not available anywhere.

      1. straffinrun

        Held between thumb and index finger, palm up?

        1. Luther Baldwin

          Shit, I’ve just outed myself as Roddy McDowell, haven’t I.

          1. MikeS

            You mean Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude Rhywun Luther “Roddy” McDowall? Yes, you have.

      2. Gustave Lytton

        Not Gauloises?

    3. Not an Economist

      “Progressivism” has been the most successful at cultivating this hip, youthful image

      Part of the lure for “Progressivism” is that at it’s core, it provides simple, somewhat beautiful answers to problems. You see two people fighting, figure out why they fighting, fix that, they stop, and everybody lives happily ever after. Simple and easy. But in reality the reason they were fighting is not logical and doesn’t lend itself to a solution. “Progressivism” is simple and beautiful. Reality is cold and messy.

      Age, certain fields — especially if you are successful, and backgrounds lend themselves to a belief that a simple, elegant solution exists which works for everybody. They rarely have to deal with the real world and believe if it works on paper it must work in reality. And if it doesn’t, then somebody must be working against it. Unfortunately a lot of these people are in charge of the government, the press, and the entertainment world.

  22. hayeksplosives

    Tres Cool? You still up?

    You are in California, no?

    1. straffinrun

      He was drinking Milwaukee’s Best. He might be dead.

      1. Tres Cool

        Arent you supposed to be glamping in some tiny sex-pod in Tokyo, with a hentai hologram ?

        1. Lackadaisical

          This is your best post to date. Take that how you will.

        2. totally_not_an_escaped_ai

          So jealous. My hologram ran away.

    2. Tres Cool

      Huh?

      1. CPRM

        She want’s you, play along. Ohio is close enough to California.

        1. Tres Cool

          If Kasich had remained governor, with his harebrained plots, it could be.

        2. hayeksplosives

          Well, he did say he kinda likes round women… I am a lady of substance myself, though i do my best to wear it well.

          1. CPRM

            Tres has a problem with knowing what ‘THICC’ is, so you got an in. *weirdos call this shipping, I just call it having fun!*

          2. Luther Baldwin

            Oh no, here comes another RenFaire pic.

          3. CPRM

            Luther has once again proven himself to be as he claims, gay.

          4. hayeksplosives

            Well, you don’t HAVE to click.

            https://i.imgur.com/murcxr3.jpg

          5. CPRM

            I clicked it and my semen is now 50% more fertile, you should warn people of these side affects.

          6. Luther Baldwin

            Zaftig!

          7. hayeksplosives

            Had to look up Zaftig. That’s actually pretty sweet. Thanks.

          8. hayeksplosives

            CPRM, I haven’t had to worry about fertility since getting “fixed”!years ago.

            But thanks for the graphically flattering comment.

  23. hayeksplosives

    I has a confuse. I thought since you were buds with Yusef you might be a California resident.

    My mistake.

    1. hayeksplosives

      Meant to be a reply to Tres

      1. CPRM

        See that dude, she’s all over your shit. Ask Jugsy for a Hallpass.

        1. hayeksplosives

          Hah! I respect my folks enough not to upset happy applecarts.

        2. Tres Cool

          I’ve been inside more fat women than SlimFast.

          1. Luther Baldwin

            Oh my God.

          2. hayeksplosives

            Oh, you gotta admit that’s hilarious.

          3. Luther Baldwin

            I have to admit no such thing *titter*.

          4. CPRM

            Wait, so are you saying you HAVE been in Slimfast? That’s something I don’t care to hear bout.

          5. Poor man’s fleshlight

          6. CPRM

            Ok, I get it now trashminister.

          7. Chafed

            *spit take* LOL.

          8. hayeksplosives

            I had to tee hee as well.

            Glibs are the best.

    2. Tres Cool

      But Ive done plenty of work for/with SCAQMD.
      Phew…thats a whole other world.

  24. Tres Cool

    The one benefit Milwaukee’s Best Light has for me, is tolerating this 4lb yappy puppy in my lap.
    https://postimg.cc/BtVZKypY

    1. CPRM

      Guessing by your beer goggles, that dog has to be at least 2o lbs.

    2. Gustave Lytton

      Yeah, right. It’s not the beer. Those little guys can melt even ZARDOZ’s heart.

      1. Luther Baldwin

        Awww all legs – I assume it will grow out

    3. hayeksplosives

      I’m ready for my closeup, mr DeMille.

      Nah, that pooch is way cuter than Norma ever was.

      Enjoy the adventure !!

    4. Chafed

      Your’s or Jugsy’s?

  25. straffinrun

    Last time I let the wife choose the campground. How’s that song go? They tore the tree and put up a parking lot? Middle of the mountains and the next tent is 10 feet away. At least I got this in my hand. *caress* She may be 15 years old, but I’ll Dewar’s.

          1. hayeksplosives

            Woah! Not safe for work!

            In other news, will you please email me at hayeksplosives @ ProtonMail?

          2. hayeksplosives

            Ok that works too.

    1. hayeksplosives

      Definitely my fave.

    2. straffinrun

      Q going rougue. Thanks。

    3. prolefeed

      Not usually a fan of blonds, but holy fuck, Holly Peers has a rockin bod.

      1. Lackadaisical

        Mornin’