Hey Glibs, what’s happening? Did everyone check out Yusef’s awesome hike? We have no sort of terrain (or Terrane) like that down here, although the beach is pretty. And (major bonus!) it doesn’t smell like dead fish anymore. We might actually go down and use it again. Anyhow, happy Thursday. I hope everyone is winding down their work week and settling in to fuck off. I’m starting to pregame for Saturday’s Red River Shootout rematch. OU does, in fact, suck. But the chances of Texas beating them twice in one season are about as good as me winning the lottery.
I know several Glibs who would love to get in on this… requesting naked selfies of attractive young women to use as collateral against loans.
Trump cancels meeting with Pootie-Poo until Ukraine’s ships and sailors are returned. Special concurrance by Bolton’s Mustache.
Scientist develop clock so accurate it could detect dark matter. But it won’t.
Paul Ryan passes torch of most milquetoast Republican to Mitt Romney.
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RE: Nekkid loan sharking.
I wonder if that’s covered under the whole “payday loan interest rate limit” bullshit?
Also:
“Others were reportedly given the option to do sex work in order to pay off their loan”
Holy euphemisms Batman! Just say they could prostitute themselves! Political correctness destroys language and meaning!
Everybody has that option.
Lean forward and avoid having to get a loan.
Not all sex work is prostitution.
Borrower: I’d like to take out a loan.
Q: Send nudes please.
Borrower: Here you go. Now do I get the money?
Q: (pauses) What were we talking about again?
The Internet is awash with nudes…. how would they know whose nudes they received?
“The Internet is awash with nudes”
Tell me more…
They are supposed to include their ID in the photo.
Yes, hold up the ID like they are in one of R. Kelly’s special videos.
In 2016 a total of 10 gigabits of nudes from 161 young women—all of who were holding their photo IDs—were leaked online by microlenders. Most of the victims were aged between 19 and 23, and typically borrowed sums of money between $1,000 and $2,000
Where’s the link, Vice? You lackwitted porchhumpers!
porchhumpers
I, uh… what?
It’s not like he can say porch monkeys.
It’s okay, he’s taking it back.
+1 PorchMonkey4Life
10 gigabits of nudes from 161 young women
Let’s see. Make it easy 1GB of pics from 161 = about 6MB per chick. So either one hi res photo per chick or just a handful of lower resolution ones. So really not much. Now HD video of the borrowers “making payments” or “paying off the loan”…
You know, I was never that much of an athlete, I didn’t play anything after Junior High. Maybe I don’t know anything.
But I don’t think any explanation would be good enough to tell me why shoving broomsticks up other kids’ asses is a fun, teamwork-building ritual. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maryland-damascus-high-school-football-players-accused-of-using-broomstick-in-sexual-assault/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=60333473
So the upperclassmen were NYPD and the lowerclassmen were criminals in this game of cops and robbers? They called that one “the Giuliani” for a while. It probably hasn’t been renamed.
Normally I’m all for being lenient when it comes to teen foolishness but not this time. They’re lucky one of the violatees didn’t take the law into his own hands.
Honestly, as far as I’m concerned, try them as adults. If they think things getting stuck up rectums is fun, let them have a few years of it.
I played competitive soccer for many years and never really had to deal with hazing. As a concept, whether it be in sports, fraternities, jobs or whatever, has always mystified me. Especially when it’s violent shit like this.
Related story but more psychologically abusive than physically abusive. My roommate in college was in a frat. One year, the sorority that his frat was paired with had all their pledges strip completely nude and stand on chairs. The frat guys were then given permanent markers and told to mark the parts of the girls’ bodies that were fat/unattractive/not good enough. I can’t imagine how much that would fuck up an 18 year old girl.
A friend of mine was part of pledge class “fun run”, where all of the pledges had to strip naked and run past the sororities. The entire group ran in a pack as fast as they could, with the exception of my friend who just strolled up the road talking to folks and making pleasantries. Intended to embarrass and traumatize, he used it as self marketing.
“Hi, my name is Peter Dragon… if that wasn’t self evident.”
If you got it flaunt it.
How else are you gonna get those girls to photoshop their images for the Chive?
Cost of entrance generates group cohesion. People value what they have to pay for, and they trial-by-fire aspect is part of the group-identity development. There is extensive psychological research on this. Hazing is pretty universal across cultures and time. I’ve been involved in it, not nearly this violent or sexual, but I understand the impulse.
Some level of hazing is really good for group dynamics and cohesion. As mrfamous points out below, some people always manage to go too far and become abusive.
Formalizing and institutionalizing your hazing can prevent that. Also, don’t call it ‘hazing’ because… connotations.
The EIB (Expert Infantry…person Badge) is a great example.
I assume you’re referring to the drunken parting the night before the 12 miler?
Both.
The worst “hazing” I had to endure was as a freshman in college: making and carrying a shillelagh around for a week around St.Patricks day. It had to be shoulder-high, which for me meant over five feet tall. A lot of people got “showered” (as in thrown in the shower) or “ponded” (you can guess), but I was a good boy (with nice friends) and managed to avoid that.
Eh…..hazing was officially verboten in the Marines but some it still went on when I was in, specifically pinning (taking the backs off the pins of your chevrons on your collar and punching them in) and blood stripes (getting kneed on the outside of the thigh to make a bruise down your leg like the red “blood stripe” on dress blue trousers) when you got promoted to corporal or above. When not taken to extremes, I didn’t think it was a big deal. Some guys did go overboard though.
The main problem with hazing is that inevitably you run into a sociopath who uses it to scratch an itch he otherwise wouldn’t be able to get away with. And then when he does it, often, especially if they are young, his peers have trouble diagnosing it and assume this is just next level ‘hazing.’
I remember some tv show getting breathlessly upset about a pinning video being released some twenty years ago. I think it was blood wings.
Even with the clasps on the backs, those suckers can still sting if the guy doing the pinning should happen to hammer them with the underside of his fists after attaching them.
“I can find nothing to mark here.”
Just white knight that shit.
Yeah, in high school freshman had to carry the equipment to and from the fields. That was “hazing” at my school.
My first day at college in Baltimore was punctuated by a local news report of two 14 year old sodomizing a 12 year with a broomstick in the boy’s locker room.
So apparently it’s a tradition in Maryland.
Zero hazing at my HS but it was just the gay sports for me (soccer and tennis). No idea what the football or basketball jocks went through.
I’m sure it was more gay.
CNN has fired Marc Lamont Hill after his slip of the tongue about wanting Israel destroyed.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/exclusive-cnn-fires-marc-lamont-hill-following-israel-comments/
buh bye.
He’s been saying stupid shit for years so it was bound to catch up with him.
Apparently there are lines even CNN won’t cross… for now.
He was not punished for what he said, but because he said it on tape.
So much so this.
and
An “occupied people”? I see; those dirty Jews occupy Palestinian territory, so the murder of old Jews and and young babies is really akin to self-defense and slave revolts.
How exactly would American slaves have used tactics created by two historical figures who hadn’t been born?
Slave revolts were not high minded guerrilla warfare directed against men of fighting age. Turner’s rebellion, for example killed around 60 white people. 40 or more were women and children.
The one majorly successful slave revolt was in Haiti, although that one only really worked out in the short term.
What about the one in 2016 where they didn’t turn out for Hillary?
I guess that was more of a sit-in than a revolt, but still.
A friend had an intereting observation. Vegans probably shouldn’t eat most vegetables. They are raised with pesticides, after all.
All the vegans I know are organic freaks.
And, if I recall correctly, organic still uses pesticides. That they’re natural doesn’t change the whole kill factor.
But they tell me those are the good kind of pesticides!
Yeah, maybe. But if you’re vegan, and claiming any other food choice is cruel to those poor animals, how the hell is killing them with pesticide somehow exempt?
Outside of the PETA wackos, some vegans are vegan for alleged health reasons and don’t care about the animal cruelty thing that much.
My plant packages dried beans and rice. To maintain the integrity of any organics that we have in-house, in the event of an insect infestation, we can only either freeze or heat the product to kill the pests.
That being said, we’ve sent product out to labs to test for pesticide, fungicide and unapproved fertilizer residue. Rarely does it test positive, but I’d still only trust that something is organic if I personally knew the farmer and had visited the farm.
The operative element here being “to kill the insects”. If the vegan argument is “killing animals is wrong”, exempting those poor little insects sounds pretty much like a cop-out.
FWIW, my only interest in organic farming is when it produces better tasting produce, which in the right hands it can. I do have a chef friend who manages an organic farm and his main focus is flavor. The organic method is but a means to an end for him.
Agreed on the vegan principle, and I doubt many of them really get in the weeds, so to speak, of the reality of what goes into maintaining food identities. Reality has no place at cocktail parties.
Do you think the organics taste better, or is it better because it’s locally grown and/or picked when it’s fresh?
I’m a vegetarian, not a vegan, but…. killing animals, for me, is wrong EXCEPT when they are attacking or endangering my family or me or are competing with me directly for sustenance. Then fuck ’em, they’re dead.
Or when they taste good.
So you won’t kill a cow to eat it, but you’ll kill it if it tries to eat your salad?
If YHWH didn’t want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?
If they are “ethical” vegans, they shouldn’t eat anything they don’t grow themselves under carefully controlled conditions. Insects, rodents and birds are killed by the millions in agriculture of all kinds.
“I’m a stage 5 vegan. I don’t eat anything that casts a shadow.”
I exclusively photosynthesize.
https://youtu.be/tRd13bMWhsU
Millions of starlings are killed in Idaho every year to prevent crop depravation. I can guarantee you that many of those fields are “organic”.
Chicago alderman Ed Burke’s offices were raided by the FBI this morning, and people are already triumphantly declaring that Mueller finally has Trump by the short and curlies. Why? Well, Burke’s tax firm has handled all of the tax appeals for the Trump Tower. Nevermind the fact that Burke’s shady aldermanic career has spanned fifty years or that he’s already been under federal investigation in the past. This is all about Trump, and they really got him this time!
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/the-donald-and-the-alderman-break-up-burke-no-longer-doing-tax-work-for-trump/
Oops, wrong link. Try here:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-chicago-alderman-ed-burke-offices-raided-fbi-20181129-story.html
Isn’t it more surprising when Chicago Aldermen *aren’t* being raided by the feds for some sort of fraud?
It should be. However, since this doesn’t happened on a daily basis and the aldermen get away with their crimes as long as they do I would say yes it is surprising.
How naiive can you get? Do they honestly think Burke ONLY handled this one tax appeal and it was his bestest friend from the opposing party???
I can’t help but wonder how many people seriously believe that the FBI has suspended all other investigations so they can focus all available resources on the whole Russia wild goose chase.
I forsee this as another Lucy pulling the football away episode for the fever swamp. They are SO sure every time that this is finally it – NOW Mueller has Trump!!!
And then nothing happens and they quietly sob.
If you think those people are unhinged now, wait until Mueller leaves them with the worst case of blue balls in human history.
The odds that Burke pulled strings for favored Democrats is more likely than him pulling strings for Trump.
This. He’s a Chicago alderman for God’s sake.
Which means every string he pulled was, first and foremost, for Burke.
BTW, Andy McCarthy, who is hardly a Trumper and has professed repeated that he’s worked with and respects Mueller, called the investigation a “clown show” today.
Thot Thursday continues with top-heavy babes dying to piss off Daddy.
http://archive.is/7yyNg
8 has a girl-next-door quality I could go for even though 34 is objectively better.
When it comes to attractiveness, nothing is objective.
https://imgur.com/a/oSbDJ#McPQcAs
Fuck, that’s depressing.
LOL, yes, but I’m sure there are people out there who would prefer the after in both cases. (Thankfully, for the people involved.)
Bilateral facial symmetry metrics are literally objective measures of beauty.
Just because a majority thinks so (even if overwhelmingly) doesn’t make it objective.
You are confounding objective with universal. Anyone can take the measurements and apply them to the metric’s rules and come up with the same results. Many people (but not everyone) will generally agree with the good metrics, because they are good but not universal.
I meant, of course, objective as a measure of beauty. Certainly they are objective as measurable numbers.
The measures are objective, but only in that they are measuring quantifiable things. Age is also an objective thing, but I can find 50 year olds that are hotter than 18 year olds.
No one has the exact same sexual tastes, because like in everything else in life, value is subjective.
For example, my top three picks here, in order: 13, 1, 11 — no overlap with Q’s choices.
For example, I like big booty black women. Someone else here likely prefers slim white twink boys. You can run facial symmetry measures on a sample mix of those two types of people, and the other person and I will likely have zero overlap in who we “would”.
This definitely turned into a serious discussion over what (I thought) was a joke.
FWIW: I’m aware that there are plenty of people who don’t like tits as large as I do. I’ll defend their right to their opinion no matter how wrong it is!
What you are talking about is called aliment with phenotypic variation. Alignment with phynotypic variation as compared to bilateral facial symmetry has been studied, and every time, symmetry is a stronger predictor of reported attraction than photogenic aliment.
Said another way, even people who prefer thicc ladies of color would be statistically more likely prefer a skinny Norwegian with good symmetry over a thicc lady of color with summer teeth and a butterface.
I enjoyed bilateral symmetry in a variety of shades and ages at the gym today.
They are all good.
That’s OK Q, I was not meaning to be totally serious, either, just pointing out the standard “To each their own.”
And their hate shall nourish and sustain them, in their time of trial
And Karen Beninato was inspired to write her own dark little poem:
Nestled beneath the trees are the boxes of thistles, and stockings stuffed with existential pain.
These people are completely deranged. Christmas decorations are now a crime against humanity.
That was stupid even for WaPo.
Reagan closed the asylums, and now we have mentally unstable people living on the streets. In 2007, Six Apart closed down LIVEJOURNAL, and now we have this.
Semi related. We toured this place a couple years ago. Fascinating bits of history surrounding it. I highly recommend checking it out if you’re in the area.
http://trans-alleghenylunaticasylum.com/
Oh yeah lets all just drive to rural West Virginia and check out this old abandoned asylum. I’ve played that Call of Cthulhu game already, thanks. Nice try.
*kicks pebble*
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Joking aside, I actually think the mental health of the posters and commenters is rather tenuous. That is pure, literal insanity.
From the comments:
“Melania does things that are so bizarre, one wonders if it isn’t a desperate cry for help. Though no one suspects her of having much intelligence, her situation on the face of it is pretty awful. She is married to an old, fat, stupid and cowardly man who has cheated on her and hates women in general. Wearing inappropriate clothing and putting up bizarre Christmas decorations may be her way of acting out.”
Ahem. No one suspects her of having much intelligence? Is that so? The woman speaks 5 languages and because her English is accented, she must be stupid? Now that, my friends, is misogyny.
No, no, you got it wrong. The fact that she’s attractive is what makes her stupid.
WaPo’s commenter average IQ seems to be a notch or two below the commenter average on Zero Hedge, quite a feat.
Well the Zero Hedge commentator has to keep track of a number of conspiracy theories.
But those are simple – the international Jew financier is to blame, always.
The WaPo keeps track of the conspiracies for their posters.
“Moving into nonfiction horror, The Washington Post’s Rick Noack reports that there’s a real “red forest” around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. That one was caused by lethal radioactivity, rather than festive berries.”
I knew it, Melania’s pro-nuclear meltdown. That bitch!
Leave the existential pain for teenagers.
Who cares? She’s smokin’.
And- speaking of derangement
With most of the votes from the midterm election tallied, we now have a better sense of the scale of the Democratic victory. It is historic. Thus far, Democrats have earned more than 8.8 million more votes than Republicans, flipped 39 seats, and are poised to win a 40th as election officials continue counting ballots in California. In terms of their House margin, this makes 2018 the Democratic Party’s strongest midterm performance since Watergate. The popular vote margin is also a record high for Democrats, representing a decisive repudiation of the president and his party.
This should make concrete a still underappreciated fact of the political landscape. Despite endless profiles and analysis of his most outspoken backers, Donald Trump is deeply unpopular.
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. Donald Trump and his party suffered substantial losses in the midterm elections, including significant erosion in traditionally Republican areas of the country. Indeed, if one took the Democrats’ popular vote performance and mapped it onto the Electoral College, you would have a solid Democratic win, underscoring the president’s electoral vulnerability.
Democrats in California got more votes than Republicans in Wyoming, but the Republicans won anyway. NOT FAIR!
Democrats (especially Chuck Shumer) should fight tooth and nail to bring Trump’s Amerikkka to screeching halt.
My G-d, if they’re so fucking in love with the popular vote why don’t they marry it already!
Funny how they don’t mention that in the House races for California the GOP candidates got roughly 35-40% of the votes, but only ended up with 13% of the state’s 53 seats. Seems California gerrymandering cost republicans 10-12 seats.
As my dad would say, what the hell does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
How many elections in California only had democrats on them?
According to my handy dandy spreadsheet, there were 8 congressional races with no Republican. 3 of those had a Green Party candidate, 2 had a candidate with no affiliation listed, and 3 had 2 Democrat candidates.
Indeed, if one took the Democrats’ popular vote performance and mapped it onto the Electoral College, you would have a solid Democratic win, underscoring the president’s electoral vulnerability.
Cool – now do 2010!
Need to get these people into a poker game and take all their money from them.
I’d almost feel guilty. Almost.
In terms of their House margin, this makes 2018 the Democratic Party’s strongest midterm performance since Watergate. The popular vote margin is also a record high for Democrats, representing a decisive repudiation of the president and his party.
The Democrats did have a really good year, and they can indeed count it as a wave election. However, to rain on their parade, they should consider how concentrated their base is and realize that, unless this country is actually going through a political realignment, they are not in a very strong position. Despite such a record showing, they are still not as strong after the election as the Republicans were before it (in House seats, state legislatures, and governors), meaning that it is possible that their position will be harder to defend. If they win the Pres. in 2020 they’ll need someone with good coattails, or else 2022 will be a repeat of 2010.
Unfortunately, they have demographics on their side – both who is here and where they are moving to.
“Father might lose son if he doesn’t raise him as a girl”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWuhZkP2WVk
Mom needs heroic doses of Haldol and to be locked in a padded cell with a drain in the floor for the rest of her life.
I wouldn’t be so forgiving
I’m LOLing here at the comments.
https://twitter.com/ABC7Veronica/status/1067923437446778881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1067923437446778881&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fabc7.com%2Ftravel%2Foc-southwest-gate-agent-mocks-5-year-old-girls-name%2F4784236%2F
She named her daughter ABCDE?
Wtf?
“I’m gonna name my kid Penisnose and then complain when people make fun of him.”
LOL
Also, Mom is clearly crazy but still… Would.
Veronica Miracle? Would harder.
Huh? You like fish eyes?
Or possibly you didn’t notice them?
Meet her brother Qwerty – or some variation thereof – was hysterical.
I’ve mentioned him before but about 17 years ago I used to live next door to a couple with a little boy the same age as my oldest so they played together fairly often. The father was Puerto Rican and the mother white of Irish descent, she wanted the kid to have an irish name but that was the only limit. The dad didn’t like any of the typical Irish names but then he heard the name for the Irish language and liked it so they went with that. Only thing is the mom was a fan of screwing up the spelling so she went with an alternate phoenitic spelling for it. The end result was that they named their son…
Gaylic
The saddest part is they did not seem to grasp that there was anything wrong with his name
“Girlfriend ‘butchered her lover, cooked his remains and served them to workers with rice’ after he dumped her for another woman in the UAE”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6410279/Girlfriend-butchered-lover-cooked-remains-served-workers-rice.html
She seems nice.
I particularly like the stock photos of rice dishes. It’s a nice touch.
Um were there any leftovers?
She one of yours?
Well, isn’t that special
Most Americans will live under Democratic governors come next year.
In the 2018 midterms, Democrats picked up seven governorships, to bring their nationwide total to 23. Republicans picked up one from an independent in Alaska, giving them control of 27 governorships.
But those numbers don’t tell the whole story. Democrats won where a lot of people live.
Before the election, just 42% of Americans were represented by Democratic governors. Come January, it will be 53%. That 11-point jump is greater than the 9-point increase Democrats saw in the percentage of House seats they controlled pre- and post-midterm.
And….?
Misery loves company.
…and CNN is the propaganda arm of the DNC.
They are getting obsessed with meaningless numbers.
Did someone change the narrative again? I thought most Americans were rubes and hicks.
How is it people look at Dem-heavy states and thing What we need is a big slice of that lunacy?
Look like Emma Roberts for only $1435
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6443497/Emma-Roberts-dons-bold-red-suit-MOCA-fourth-annual-dinner-bash-Los-Angeles.html
“‘I will get that $25K back you F****TS’: Gay partners who run Stormy Daniels online store file police report against porn star and her estranged husband after flurry of homophobic threats”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6443067/Gay-partners-run-Stormy-Daniels-online-store-file-police-report-against-porn-star.html
She’s just mad because they wouldn’t work with her on camera.
When I think stable personalities, I think of porn stars and fame-seeking attornies.
I can’t believe my 76 year-old MIL wants to buy her book.
Why not direct her to some of her movies as a primer?
Maybe this just to dip her toes in the water:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1037151/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_99
Are there VHS cassettes?
She started in 2000, so maybe.
I’m going to a fancy steak house, is wagyu beg worth while?
Also, is wagyu beef worthwhile as well ?
I don’t think it’s worth the extra premium.
Wagyu and Kobe are different animals, literally. Kobe is the region in Japan, Wagyu is the breed of cattle. American Wagyu is a hybrid cross between Wagyu and Angus.
I’ve had both and with the exception of certain cuts like Coulotte and Hanger steak, Wagyu is too marbled for me. A dry aged prime cut would be my choice.
I’m probably in the minority here, but Imma say no.
I’ll take Prime grade Angus over Wagyu.
May as well give it a wag, yu know?
The two times I’ve had it, I thought it was 1) very good 2) not worth the price. If I was paying, I would have felt like I should have just gotten an aged ribeye. But it was on a corporate card both times, so no problems.
The one exception might be if it was in a raw preparation. The marbling is just different on wagyu. I don’t know if its because of genetics (probably) or the other stuff (probably not), but I’ve seen wagyu sashimi once and I wished I would have ordered that because it looked phenomenal.
The one time I thought it was truly fantastic was at a shabu shabu place in Japan. Sliced that thin with the marbling you speak of, it was divine. However, to me, that flavor just doesn’t translate into an actual steak.
Only had it once, but otherwise same. Nice to eat once on an expense account, but not worth the extra $$$.
Congressman Nukem ladies and germs!
https://freebeacon.com/politics/swalwell-will-let-government-shut-down-if-congress-wont-protect-mueller/
Sounds like a win-win to me.
So if congress doesn’t safe guard Mueller, he will shut Mueller down. .. someone didn’t think this through.
The guy is not exactly the sharpest crayon.
Congressman Retard: “ME WANT NUKE GUN DEPLORABLES”
Everyone: “wtf?”
Congressman Retard: “ME ONLY JOKE HAHA”
Well, he did already admit that Mueller is “100X smarter than me”
STEVE SMITH has never advocated nuking anybody. Just a little rape. Why you gotta go and make him sound like STEVE SMITH?
In a “government shutdown”, only 13% of the government actually shuts down. And Muellers funds are already secured.
I hadn’t heard of this dude before he threatened to nuke America if we didn’t turn in our guns.
Something something Party of Reason and Logic.
Don’t forget Science!
I suppose nuking Flyover is reasonable and logical to the coastal base…
Why not? Nobody goes there anyway.
These are “the adults”.
Bahahahahahahaha!
Since Q did big tits for the pm links, here are some mostly slim booties for variety:
thesexier.com/sexy-girls-show-off-booty-cheeks-short-shorts-50-pics/
15, 8, and what is likely to be a fav of just me and HM cause thicc, 22
20 is the “closest to girl next door just waiting to be sullied look” honorable mention pick
If I had to choose something non-tit related, asses hanging out of short shorts would be it.
22 is FAT. Or will be after a few more tacos.
I don’t think I’d vote to convict.
https://nypost.com/2018/11/15/gypsy-blanchard-testifies-about-moms-murder-in-mommy-dead-and-dearest-trial/
What a bizarre fucking story.
Why bother killing her? Mom looked like she was a ham sandwich away from a dirt nap.
I notice she got a 10 year sentence, while hes looking at a lot longer.
To my way of thinking, if this poor fucking loser stabbed this crazy abusive lady on the urging of the victim of the abuse, then either they should both walk on the “shee needed killing” defense or they should both serve the same time.
Like, do mob bosses do ten years while the actual trigger man gets life? I don’t think so.
So…who was the last person the feds charged with lying to Congress?
I’ll enact my own labor:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/23/lying-to-congress_n_3323691.html
But there’s ol’Mueller. I’m reminded once again of the stark contrast between Comey’s argument for not charging Hillary (no reasonable prosecutor, precedent) and the approach taken by Mueller (rack up as many charges as you can, mostly ones based on process bullshit, stretch the meaning of laws in new and innovative ways to railroad people and force them to flip up the latter). You know, the latter seems to be way the feds conduct justice most of the time, from what I’ve seen. Where as the latter was highly unusual and deferential.
I’m in a grim mood after listening to this on my way to work this morning:
https://tomwoods.com/ep-1294-should-the-authorities-have-killed-this-man-new-ballad-tells-his-story/
Anytime I look deeper in Ruby Ridge, Waco, Balko-style nut punches, and the Malheur Wildlife Refuge debacle, I have hard time maintaining glib humor and detachment about our overlords. The government assassinates it’s own citizens and from the trigger men up to the bureaucrats and or politicians that order the hit , nobody is ever held culpable. The media happily covers up the facts to make sure the public only hears the “official” story. When the roles are reversed and a citizen defends themselves against the agents of the state, they are either murdered outright or jailed for years, their eventual exoneration notwithstanding. Our FF threw off and oppressive government for much less. Yet there is a decided apathy if not outright hostility from John Q. Public when someone dares get out of line. Pretty tough on days like today to tell myself we are “free.”
The glibness is to cover up the depression at the knowledge that, at core, we’re all slaves. We may have a pretty and prosperous prison, but it’s a prison nonetheless. Cross your slave master and the full force of its violence will come down on you.
I guess it’s better to try and laugh than cry.
Well said. My mood is not being lightened by putting on “Waco: The Rules of Engagement” for background noise. I’m currently listening to Moobs slander and spit vitriol at the surviving Branch Davidian witnesses. Fuck that guy, what a douche.
I’ll drink to that!
I’d point squarely at democracy as a core element that allows these abuses to occur so quietly. We have a government that does things unprecedented in human history. Monarchs claimed supremacy based on divine will, but in reality most knew to keep themselves in check. A 50% tax rate or higher? Incarcerating people for years and years of their lives for petty, victimless crimes? Just going on in and massacring civilians? I mean, yea, there were a lot of atrocities in history. But under democracy, the government has legitimized shit that even a century ago was damn near unthinkable.
And there is a contingent on its way to being a majority that is clamoring for more. Ponder that on the Tree of Woe.
I see it as the double-edged sword of universal wealth: most people are so comfortable, who cares what evil the government does to a few individuals now and then?
We talk frequently of the left’s long march through the institutions (especially education), but sometimes I think we could talk more about law n’ order ‘conservatives’. These fuckers have been just as culpable for creating this ridiculous environment. How many times do we hear, “well, if you’ve done nothing wrong..?”
Q is right. We’re really in a comfy, titty-filled prison.
Yeah, I’ve had a few conversations with people that claim conservatism whom are frightening bloodthirsty as long as the government was killing the right people. I cannot, for th life of me, get my SoCon dad to see how cops killing “druggies” is just as big a crime as the FBI shooting Randy Weavers wife. They are killing a class he disapproves of, so it’s fine.
Damn. I guess I need to get myself transferred to the MN block.
Bring smokes.
“Nooses Found Near Mississippi State Capitol Turn Out To Be Democrat ‘Protest’
A group of nooses discovered hanging off trees near the Mississippi state Capitol were not a warning from a white supremacist group, but rather a “protest” by leftists against Mississippi Republican Senate candidate Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Signs placed near the nooses but reported only as “hate” messages by the Associated Press and others, had plenty of information about who hung the nooses and why. But weirdly, the signs didn’t appear on anyone’s Twitter feed until late Monday evening, nearly 12 hours after news of the display went viral.
The signs indicated that the nooses were part of a protest by Democrats, warning against re-electing Hyde-Smith.
“We’re hanging nooses to remind people that times haven’t changed,” read one sign.
“We need someone who respects the lives of lynch victims,” read another.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/38761/nooses-found-near-mississippi-state-capitol-turn-emily-zanotti
This is my surprised face.
@ChipWooder, I was at Memphis State from 91 to 94. I graduated a semester too late though and have a diploma from U of Memphis instead of MSU.
No kidding…..you could have taken his class then (poli sci).
I only took one poli-sci class while I was there. The best thing about that class was watching the prof try to avoid looking at one elderly lady in the class so he wouldn’t have to let her talk.
Memphis State allowed any senior citizen to audit classes for free. My class had an old hippie woman who had taken two trips to Europe and visited Eastern Europe before the wall came down.
She would attempt to get called on so she could blurt out how great those Soviet bloc countries were before. She would rant on and on about the glories of communism.
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You ended up feeling sorry for the prof for having to deal with her.
We had a guy in his 80s in our graduation ceremony. He was one semester away from graduation at the time of Pearl Harbor, left school to join the Navy, and never went back to finish. Decided one day that he should finish school before he died, so he went back for that one semester and got his diploma.
All the 20-something hotties probably didn’t hurt, either…
It was UVA – 20something warmies is more like it
At 80??
Don’t be absurd. They were all hotties.
The mind is willing but the flesh is old & weak!
“Captain Jan Jordan froze during the Parkland shooting. Officers said she was in over her head. Now Sheriff Israel admits Captain Jordan was recommended based on “diversity” NOT qualifications. Her lack of leadership led to kids dying, all because they wanted diversity!”
https://twitter.com/AndrewPollackFL/status/1067935135495004160
Political correctness kills.
Wait until we send our first wymn special forces troops into a firefight.
You know what? Let it happen. I hate to say this, but maybe we need to lose a war to sort shit out. Both our leadership and a large swath of the public think the world is a television show where facts don’t really much matter. Just feelings and intentions. And, honestly, it’s only because we’re so rich and so powerful that we can afford to treat reality as optional. Maybe a bloodied nose will wake some people up.
The Soviet Union was a thing one generation ago. And they’ve already been forgotten/forgiven by the next generation. Losing a war would solve zippo.
Hah, you sound like one of my old drill instructors,who used to rant about “mothers of America” – “This is serious business. We train hard because people die in this business, but no, goddamn mothers of America go crying because someone smacked their precious son once, or their baby boy got smoked on the quarterdeck too much. And they write their congressman and then Congress goes after the Marines to make recruit training more pussyish. And one day, America’s going to be in a real war again (note: this was before 9/11) and then the mothers of America are all going to be crying over their sons’ coffins about why did this happen…..IT WAS FUCKIN’ BECAUSE OF YOU BITCHES THAT WE AREN’T ALLOWED TO TRAIN PROPERLY!”
I have a great uncle who was killed at a recycling plant years ago when he was hit by a forklift. Complete tragedy, but I like to let people know that recycling kills.
By “diversity” they mean everyone across the competence spectrum.
You know Israel must have been a very good little soldier for the politicians around there to still have his job.
He’s still pushing everyone he can under the bus that’s aimed at him.
Yep, have to take anything he says with a grain of salt, because he’s neck deep in the shitty response and blame gaming afterward.
He’s an elected official. Broward County isn’t going to go through the political circus that would be required to remove one of their own.
Broward County = banana republic
Outrage found in St. Paul City Council chambers.
The hysterical brigade has decided that a mural in the St. Paul City Council is chock full of outrage. It has black people AND indians, but they are all too subservient to be tolerated in today’s climate.
$35K of emergency funds will be used to create murals that can be temporarily placed over the bad ones. Why not permanently delete them? Because the mural and the chambers are on the Historic Register. I’m getting popcorn to see who’s got more pull. The SJW’s or the pricks that think they should be in charge of what the owners of old buildings can do to them.
Perfect. NPCs.
What are you doing here today? I thought you’d be out drinking with your fancy friends on the Met Council
You just do this to spike my blood pressure.
Asshole.
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Please take a pic of your blood pressure after watching this Choo Choo Bob show where they explain how we are going to spend hundreds of millions more on the new light rail line because we won’t move a bike trail.
Not really related, but this reminded me that the other day TOS lamented that Elon Musks fantastic monorail boondoggle was quashed by supposed NIMBY’s. I mean, who doesn’t want a fraudulent hack like Musk digging under their homes for god knows how long and for no real benefit to anyone?
I’m sure Musk would benefit.
Is it normal for blood to shoot out of your eyes?
i.e., other people who won’t enjoy the benefit get to pay for it. Something, something, Bastiat, something something, government…
I was at a small breakfast with Wheelock Whitney (a big mover and shaker in Minneapolis) when we were building our first light rail line. He was gloating about how the feds were giving us $2 for every $1 spent on the line. He was pretty open that the rail line was way more about urban revitalization than transportation and how the rest of the country was paying for it.
Fucking fat cats lining their pockets with public money.
Fucking fat cats lining their pockets with public money.
When voters can’t feel the burden, they think all that money is free, and even when they realize it isn’t, their avarice causes them to rationalize the theft.
Isn’t it like a bond issue so its free? Doesn’t cost the taxpayers a thing? What? Taxes are going to go up? No one said anything about that.
“Police say Twitter isn’t pressing charges against Laura Loomer, so she can stay as long as she wants. The protest continues! If Laura wants to leave, the police say they’ll cut the handcuff whenever she wants.”
https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1068266677736009728
I don’t even know who this Laura Loomer is or why she’s popping up everywhere on the intertubes.
She’s your standard vapid “political commentator”.
She once went on and on about how “they” slashed her tire as revenge for her political views when anybody with a brain and eyes noted that the tire was dry rotted to hell and falling apart. It was funny. Guess you had to be there.
Is she a “conservative” or something (I put conservative in quotes because I’m not sure how precise political labels are anymore)? I’m guessing she is if Twitter banned her.
She’s pretty far right. I can’t tell how much of what she says she actually believes and how much is just looking for attention. I’m guessing the latter because I’m not sure her IQ is high enough to actually form coherent opinions.
She’s a self-proclaimed conservative of the dopey Trumpist type, Charlie Kirk style. JB’s description is accurate – she breathlessly reported how she was being intimidated by having her tires slashed when the picture showed that she was obviously making that up.
Here is the tire in question
Lol.
The nitrogen thing isn’t necessarily Costco, though.
Yeah, but the vast majority probably are Costco. None of the other local places near me do nitrogen.
Anyways, can’t stand her, she shouldn’t have been banned, and I find this all hilarious.
Wow, I mean, you can tell that tire was balding like crazy. What an idiot.
Don’t be Dick’s
Whoops.
Eh…that place is fucked, anyway. It’s a pretty terrible place to go to buy actual sporting goods. Now, if you want to buy some overpriced Under Armor gear and some running shoes, they’ve got you covered. It’s like 75% of their floor space.
It’s convenient enough for kid’s soccer and baseball/softball gear. Or at least it was before they went woke and I decided to never shop there again.
Same. Used to grab some North Face stuff when they would close it out each year, but there are other places.
Ditto. I’d stop in a couple times a year for sweatpants or random sports stuff. No more.
I think they were going into the toilet and the gun stuff was a desperate gamble to get people to shop there. Whether that move accelerated their slide or it’s just a continuation of a trend, who knows? It’s good to see them struggling though.
Don’t forget Yeti coolers.
I’ve heard good things about them, but for the life of me I don’t get how they can charge those prices.
They are great but, honestly, how often do I need a cooler that is effective for more than 5 or 6 hours? Answer – almost never.
Yeah, and there are plenty of knock offs that probably come from the same factory.
They’re like quite a few expensive outdoor things: actually great for people who use them for their intended purpose, but a status symbol for those who don’t push that envelope.
Like, a Yeti will keep the salmon you fished from an Alaskan river perfectly fresh as you ride your ATV 8 miles back upstream to the lake where the bush pilot is meeting you.
Like dudes who own big four wheel drives or pickup trucks but never take them off road and don’t own a trailer or a boat.
They are very good at keeping bears and Steve Smith out of your food at night. But crazy overpriced.
I highly recommend the overpriced mug. That sucker keeps the coffee hot way longer than any commuter mug I’ve ever owned.
Yep, this was my thing when they did this. It’s not just the gun money, it’s the other stuff Gun Guy buys.
Gun Guy is, demographically speaking, a white middle age male with above average net worth. Gun Guy is exactly the kind of guy you want coming into your store. Gun Guy might not have ever bought a gun or ammo at Dicks, because Gun Guy probably has a Local Gun Store he frequents. But Gun Guy used to drop about 1500 bucks at Dicks every December. He was gonna buy his son those Under Armor hoodies he likes, along with new basketball shoes and a hoop to go over the driveway, was gonna buy his wife new yoga pants and running shoes, was gonna buy his daughter a bunch of new clothes and a new softball bat. Was gonna pick up new golf clubs for himself too.
Any idea why MN sporting goods stores check ID cards for ammo sales? Fleet and Dick’s do, at least. I looked for signs to tell me I had to show ID so I could ask management about it. Couldn’t find anything other than 21 for handgun ammo, whatever that is. I know that I look a lot younger with my glasses but I offered to take them off . I didn’t get a satisfactory answer and can find no rule/law requiring this. Is it like an insurance rule, maybe?
I walked out, not showing ID at the liquor store either.
Fleet just looks, they don’t scan. I’ll ask Spawn 1 why they do it – he worked there.
The kid tells me that all the age restricted products require a birthdate to be entered to proceed. Obviously, the cashier could just eneter one at random for us, but I’m sure they have been trained to ask for ID from everyone.
I don’t care as long as it’s not scanned.
The little girl asked for ID as opposed to a date of birth. I asked why but I guess no one had ever questioned the cashier nor had she been trained to answer with the right answer. Anyway, thanks.
I was not asked for ID for my last ammo purchase at Fleet Farm (duluth).
I have been previously though
I was asked for ID when I bought a camp hatchet at Gander Mountain, which I thought was ridiculous.
I even told the cashier I wasn’t an ax murderer!
I’m wondering if the new owners are concerned over some sort of insurance liability if an underage purchase is made and to avoid any discrimination lawsuits ask everyone. Doesn’t make sense. Fleet in Brainerd about 3 months ago, same time in Dick’s. .22 ammo.
I’d be a little suspicious of someone wearing a suit/briefcase wanting to buy the Lucy Borden model hatchet, too.
Carding everyone for everything makes it easy. No thought required.
I suspect REI is in the same boat. Ever since they announced they were dropping suppliers who had common ownership with some gun company I have been getting spam from them every single day for some sale or another. I usually only shopped there about once a year. Now it’s zero times a year.
“BREAKING: Three women accuse Neil deGrasse Tyson of sexual assault”
https://citizentruth.org/breaking-three-women-accuse-neil-degrasse-tyson-of-sexual-assault/
Fake news?
#believeher
Bro, do you even
sciencegrope chicks?He looked at her tattoos in public, on camera! The monster!
Yeah, it sounds like total bullshit, but I’ve been seduced by the dark side of “Oh, that guy? Yeah, fuck him”
I’ll even give that smarmy holier than thou fuck the benefit of the doubt. No conclusive proof and I’m not accepting it.
I didn’t read it all, but it sounds like a case of “he’s got money and I want it”
There’s only one thing Neil fucking loves more than science. I’ll give you one guess as to what it is.
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It’s white bitches. Neil loves him some white bitches.
I’m going with this quote:
Call it victim blaming, but 90% of this could be avoided by not getting into compromising situations. Don’t go to a man’s apartment at 10:30pm to drink wine. Don’t wear revealing clothing. Don’t get tattoo artwork leading into parts of your body that you don’t want to show off, at least don’t wear clothing that doesn’t cover it up. Don’t continue putting up with shit you’re not comfortable with, slap his MFing head or hand if the person gets too touchy. And for godsakes, if it’s real assault, dial 911 & file a police report, not some kangaroo shaming process of a organization that will try to protect themselves.
That’s just crazy talk.
Yeah, now your just blaming the “victim”.
I hate the term “victim blaming”. Advice on how to avoid crime is not “blaming” the victim; it’s useful information for how to avoid becoming a victim.
Nobody would call it “victim blaming” if I were to say that you should lock your car when you park it, don’t answer the door late at night, don’t flash large amounts of cash around, don’t visit certain neighborhoods, and destroy sensitive financial information instead of throwing it in the trash. In a perfect world, you wouldn’t have to do these things, but we don’t fucking live in that world, and to pretend that we do is just plain stupid.
I know that sexual mores in the past went too far in a lot of cases, but there’s a good reason that women were strongly discouraged from going out in a skimpy dress, getting drunk with some guy, and going home with him.
Wow, nice escalation there, story.
Case 1: he grabs a lady’s arm to look at her tattoo and makes a salacious (if we lived in 1860 London and were at an upper class party) comment about ‘looking for Pluto’.
Case 2: he invites a lady to his place, awkwardly semi-hits on her, gets shot down
Case 3: “he drugged and then raped me”
Yikes!
Matt Lauer is not doing well.
Color me shock that a vapid, empty narcissist isn’t doing well away being asked to occupy his own time now that he’s away from the cameras.
I love how he had the maintenance department install a button under his desk that locks the door FROM THE INSIDE and no one thought that was weird as fuck.
This whole hysteria over predatory men is because liberal women are surrounded by fucking rapist perverts and they think to themselves “Oh my god, if sensitive, woke bros like Matt Lauer have fucking rape buttons under their desks, then those conservative men must literally be characters from the Handmaids Tale.”
I thought that was fake news, or am I misremembering. I seem to recall it locked the door from the outside.
I think he just means that he was remotely locking the door to his office so he could stop people from leaving. Something that would seem to have little application other than trapping unwilling women in his office.
I mean it was in the Variety piece. They had two of the women who accused him saying the button existed.
Doesn’t mean it’s true of course, but it passes the journalistic test of “two independent sources”
Something I vaguely remember, too. Basically he can lock the room quickly so people can’t come in, but it opens from the inside.
I looked it up – apparently you have it correct. It would release the magnet that holds the door open and lock it, so the door would close and no one could come it. There were other stories floating around that it locked women IN the office, but apparently that wasn’t true. Or, at least, NBC said it wasn’t.
The poor dear. I can’t imagine being stuck in a 12-bedroom manse in the Hamptons with nothing to do.
I guess he’s never heard of volunteer work…
Sounds like he might not understand volunteerism in general.
Where can he volunteer that has a rape button?
STEVE SMITH HAVE GREAT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY FOR MATT LAUER! PLENTY OF RAPE. NOT SO MUCH BUTTON.
JUST BUTT
ONWhere in the world is he?
Bagged my first elk on my trip to Montana. 600 yard shot. Whoever wrote that article here about elk hunting wasn’t kidding. Brother-in-law and I hiked miles over a mountain in below-freezing temps and snow tracking a herd. Finally found a small group and dropped a young cow. Totally worth all the work of getting there and hauling it back out (which I did alone because BIL gutted it and used that as leverage to get me to drag it).
10/10, will do again.
Jesus…..sounds like elk hunting is actually a grueling form of endurance exercise.
It was, but exactly what I needed to get away from my horrible office job.
Congrats!
I’d add it to the bucket list, but it would probably have to be last.
Adding hunting to the list of expensive past times for me, next to cars and aquariums. Wife actually has three hunting rifles and a bow (it was her family we visited) so she’s very supportive.
I tried several times to get an AZ permit but somehow couldn’t accumulate the points necessary for consideration. At this point in my life what difference does it make? Good show, Mustang. I’ll stick with the local critters, elk hunting would be too rigorous. I probably wouldn’t like the meat anyway…I’ll tell myself.
We couldn’t bring any back to Japan with us. Going to have the BIL save us some summer sausage and meat sticks for later though.
Mmmm, elk snack sticks. Nice work!
Congrats
Congrats, and good kill. Glad you and the BIL had a good hunt.
Good bonding experience.
“Did we just become best friends?”
“YUP.”
Did you then attempt to kill each other?
His BIL is Dick Cheney?
If you need a vicarious hunting thrill, check out a TV show called “MeatEater”. It is on Netflix. Steven Rinella is the host.
I would like to go elk hunting, but I don’t think my knees could take all the hiking.
Nice!
Don’t be shy, post a photo.
I can email them to you if you’d like. mustang dot 314 at protonmail dot com.
Congratulations!
Any elk is a trophy. Congrats! You are going to have some good eating for the next year.
600 yards with what rifle? Caliber?
Four St. Louis cops arrested for beating up a protestor who turned out to be an undercover cop.
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2018/11/29/4-st-louis-cops-charged-over-beating-undercover-office-during-stockley-protest
Get out!
Make sure you have an old white dude as a witness
I just pictured you saying that Elaine style.
I should have added more exclamation points to make it even clearer.
Haven’t you done enough already?
How long before the union contract says you can’t go thru their old text messages?
That must’ve made for some nice water cooler talks back at the precinct.
I’d allow a mulligan in this case.
I’ve known a lot of cops. They tend to be very linear thinkers. My guess is that the thought someone might actually use those text messages against them never crossed their minds.
If they get nailed on this, there’s already more lawsuits coming up for this kind of behavior that’ll get a boost.
From a linked article:
Jesus fuck, the much-maligned Riot Act at least forced the soldiers to read it out loud, giving the crowd both warning and time to disperse.
I believe the Brits call this “kettling.”
I really wish I was even a little bit surprised.
Illegal sugar high.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46393600
Both will rot your teeth.
Her physique tracks much more closely with one than the other.
Candy floss. What the fuck is wrong with Europe?
I can see where she may see some ca$h from the manufacturer. But Im betting the gov’t is gonna scream sovereign/qualified immunity.
WTF? I am, admittedly, not familiar with the physicality/ shape/ look of meth (never done it, never seen it), but it’s pretty hard for me to imagine that cotton candy could approximate it.
This lack of imagination is why you’ll never site behind the desk at Vice, BP! Also, you are a loose cannon!
It *should* be impossible to confuse the two. I’m baffled by this story.
That comes from Breaking Bad’s signature blue meth although it looked more like blue rock candy or glassy melted sugar in the show. Those cops are watching too damn much TV.
PZ, I can live with that.
Sean – that’s where I’m at.
SW – it’d makes sense to me that they’re going off of a TV show.
Did everyone check out Yusef’s awesome hike?
No, because I was working (YES RUFUS I WORK!). I’ll check it out now.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UVZVsrR0P1I
Seems appropriate for this crowd. Click for the Scott Baio, stay for the anal.
That got much laughter from me. One of Scott Baio’s best roles.
So back in the ‘90s, a fellow firefighter related an experience he had one night. He and another coworker had been out looking for chicks and hooked up with a girl and her friend. They’re back at their apartment, he’s on the couch with the reluctant girlfriend and his buddy was in the bedroom with the other girl. They’re making out on the couch, she doesn’t really seem to be into it and all of a sudden the girl in the bedroom cries out “it’s, it’s in my ass!!!”. He loses it and starts laughing, reluctant girl says “that’s it, I’m outta here” , and leaves. Tears of laughter from around the dayroom table. Good times.
It worked out for him in the end.
Hmm.
I wonder whether the Pueblo Sin Fronteras folks are going to abandon their human props in Tijuana now that the show’s winding down.
Yeah, it’s been pretty quiet there this week. Almost makes me think that maybe they really did call for an “action” on 11/25 like those fringy sites were saying.
The media sure seem uninterested in who is behind that group.
Can I have bits that still fit together after I apply a single coat of mandatory paint to them? Can I have muslin wrapped all the way around all the bits I have to paint. The side is visible, fuckstick. You fucking techie spastics spackle over the CNC router labeling of the wrong side of a piece of plywood, but leave flappy bits of muslin dangling around like it’s no big deal. Glue, motherfuckers. Use it. That shit gets ripped up and fucked up if it ain’t glued. And where are the fucking attachments to attach things to other fucking things. This thing weighs half a ton. I expect bolts and bolt holes, and reinforcements of said bolt holes, otherwise somebody dies. Anyways, how y’all doing?
*passes joint to quincy*
The Trial of Cville cont. http://www.nbc29.com/story/39560068/fields-trial-day-4
Can’t say I find too much to complain about with this format of reporting on a daily basis – although I’m sure there’s plenty being lost – as a concise summary it’s not too bad.
Is there a way to fix a shower massage? I don’t think the restrictor is plastic. I had an old, pre-regulation one that was great. Then I got a new one after I moved, and it sucks compared to the old one, so much that I don’t use it.
Fuck, wrong post.
Are we not doing phrasing anymore?