STEVE SMITH VOLUNTEER TAKE LINKS DUTY THIS MORNING. HIM HAVE GOOD MONTH ON QUOTA SO FAR. BY QUOTA, MEAN RAPE. SO HAVE TIME TO LINK FOR FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE. THEN STEVE SMITH GO WORK ON TREATISE ON CASCADIA INDEPENDENCE. LIKE HOW STEVE SMITH USE BIG WORD…”TREATISE”? HIM WRITE GOOD! BUT NEED MANY MORE LEAVES TO FINISH WRITING ON.
SO HERE LINKS FOR YOU!
- OOPS. THEM NO FIX CLOCK NOW! STEVE SMITH THINK THEM SHOULD STICK TO MAKING BOILERS.
- STEVE SMITH THINK IT LUCKY HE NOT “SAND SMITH”, READING THIS. SUSPECT MANY BEHEADINGS IN FUTURE.
- “It’s good for you and makes your body feel warm,” he said of the local drink.” STEVE SMITH ALSO MAKE BODY FEEL WARM…
- THIS SEEM LIKE NORMAL THING DO, WHEN AT WAR. WHY TAKE SO LONG?
FREE CASCADIA!
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How did they get Mister SMITH to wake up so early in the morning?
STEVE SMITH NO SLEEP LAST NIGHT, TOO BUSY WRITING, AND BY WRITING MEAN…
is there a STEPHANIE SMITH?
Not sure. STEVE SMITH did post a pic of his Mom before.
Trap
National Lampoon did it 1st:
https://shop.spreadshirt.com/1110813/mona+gorilla+t-A105413831
Definitely wood knot.
I’m waiting for the reports that WaPo reporters have staged a commando raid to kidnap MBS and bring him to justice. That Eugene Robinson guy is a badass.
I keep going back to “cui bono?” on this. Because this all benefits Iran, Turkey, and MBS’s opposition. Yet the morons in the American media can’t seem to look into such a question.
I remember when he solicited a hooker at the Super Bowl:
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/79716784
YES, DOES HAVE RACCOON IN POCKET!
So, STEVE SMITH is also happy?
He does generally seem to be a jolly fellow, yes?
Bum fight!
Far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer handcuffed herself to the front door of Twitter’s corporate offices in New York on Thursday.
“Twitter is upholding sharia when they ban me for tweeting facts about sharia law,” shouted Loomer, who is Jewish and donned a yellow Star of David on her jacket, which appears to suggest that losing your Twitter account is similar to the Nazi persecution of Jews.
She said she will not remove the handcuffs until Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey reinstates her account.
CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski reported Thursday afternoon that Loomer said she would stay handcuffed all night but was “getting cold and no longer has the key.”
Police have told Loomer that Twitter won’t be pressing charges and that she can stay chained to their door as long as she wants.
Well played.
Laura, Laura, Laura… You should have accosted Dorsey at a restaurant. That’s the in thing.
Only if she has a mob with her to really make it count.
Kookoo for Cocoa Puffs.
Be sure to bring her plenty of water and tea and coffee.
I googled Laura Loomer to see who she is, and read her Wikipedia page. Interestingly, Wikipedia claims “… has described immigration as a threat to American heritage” with a citation, but the article cited actually does not have any mention of her making such a statement. Wikipedia also says “Loomer has promoted a number of conspiracy theories, mostly related to mass shootings; falsely insinuating that school shootings in … Parkland, Florida were staged,”, but the citation for this statement likewise makes no mention of her claiming the shooting was staged, only that the Parkland anti-gun kids were being fed lines by the anti-gun organizations.
So as with anything political, Wikipedia is complete trash.
I’ve noticed in the last few years that Wikipedia seems to have been pretty well scrubbed of unapproved opinions in regard to anything political. Anything outside of that is presented derisively if it’s presented at all.
It’s just funny to me that they make ostensibly factual statements about a person, but the citations they use for those statements don’t support them in any way. I guess they assume most people won’t actually read the cited articles and documents.
The shrillest leftists have nothing else to do but squeal on social media, and Wikipedia is effectively social media.
The Catholic school that my kids attend bans them from using Wikipedia as a reference for anything.
I’ve followed some of those citations before. Yeah they usually don’t support what they are asserting or are just repeating the same speculation in the source. They are banking on people being intellectually lazy. I’d say their model is probably sound.
And to think I once donated to Wikipedia :/
#metoo, one time
I did a couple times, too. It’s still pretty good for anything generally noncontroversial or apolitical, or for a very light background on something.
Agreed, and I still do, too. But what I once considered its strength – being open to edits and challenges by anyone and everyone – is now also its weakness. It’s morphed into another forum for SJW BS.
Just stick to mathematics, engineering, and the non-political sciences and it’s OK.
Everything is political with some people.
Part of the reason why I never donate to anything ever.
I dont remember Not Adahn prophecizing a rapesquatch at this hour.
STEVE SMITH ALWAYS SHOW UP WHEN LEAST EXPECTED. HIM BEHIND YOU RIGHT NOW!
…just like the spanish inquisition
AMONGST STEVE WEAPONRY ARE SUCH DIVERSE ELEMENTS AS: FEAR, SURPRISE, RUTHLESS EFFICIENCY, AND AN ALMOST FANATICAL DEVOTION TO THE RAPE!
Why do I have the feeling that STEVE SMITH’s comfy chair would look more like Mac’s “exercise bike” from It’s Always Sunny…
The Assblaster 4000
“I see where you guys are getting off the rails. That’s NOT a penis. Its a fist.”
“I’m happy that we got to 4,000 cups of coffee — it’s a new local record,” declared Abdul Hakim, head of the local tourism office.
That’s a lot of Bailey’s.
My life in sex: ‘She was turned on by blind guys’
How do you know this?
Relevant
I mentioned yesterday that Ray Charles (at least according to the movie) would examine the wrists of suitresses to get a body-type mental picture. No idea about the face short of not having a goiter.
There was a pr0n from the 80s that had Jessie St. James and a blind (or at least pretending to be blind) dude. I’d post a link, but it may tarnish our Family-Friendly™ rating.
Maybe his standards of beauty aren’t dependent upon “looks.” Or maybe he was just being polite, since she did put out and all. Can’t fault him for that.
I bet she looked like Mira Sorveno in At First Sight.
At her best, Mira Sorvino was just gorgeous. But just like Ashley Judd, her looks and her political outspokenness seem to be inversely correlated.
She once played the wife of Col. Joshua Chamberlain, who was going off to fight in the Union Army.
I thought “Damn, if my wife looked like her, I’d be a complete fool to enlist.”
“Things eventually turned sexual between us…”
Sending unsexy pictures is now evidence of “turning sexual”?
Drunk Japan Airlines pilot jailed for 10 months
So he didn’t actually fly the plane? But he’s getting 10 months?
189mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood
Dude had 189% pure alcohol running thru his veins.
Someone showed me this yesterday…I don’t remember ever seeing it ANYWHERE. A lighting fixture on 60 Minutes almost killed Hillary. Fucking lamp was a Patriot, man.
Here
And Here.
She was so traumatized by the experience that she misremembered it as Bosnian sniper fire.
I’m amazed I never saw it until yesterday.
Another in the long list of failed setups from a desperate and desolate future to kill that hag via time travel plots.
The bullet that killed Vince Foster was meant for her.
*opera applause*
They have to make it look like an accident. The timelines where they made her a martyr have all–somehow–turned out worse.
Something something DOOMEDCOCK
Heeheehee it looked like a Ghostbusters special effect.
Would it not have been the height of irony that such a narcissist was killed by a device meant to illuminate those on TV appearances?
^This guy gets it.
So you’re saying you wanted her to have her moment in the spotlight?
In the second clip, it looks like Willy might be trying to smother her and she’s tapping out.
Why did I immediately think of Operation Valkyrie?
So you’re going by “Steve Smith” now nerd? Haha whats up douche bag, it’s Tanner from Highschool. Remember me? Me and the guys used to give you a hard time in school. Sorry you were just an easy target lol. I can see not much has changed. Remember Sarah the girl you had a crush on? Yeah we’re married now. I make over 200k a year and drive a mustang GT. I guess some things never change huh loser? Nice catching up lol. Pathetic..
This site never fails to deliver.
I always get a chuckle of that song by DaVinci’s notebook on Bob and Tom “I just look at my enormous penis” and think it would make a great movie. A freshman in high school getting bullied by seniors like the Tanner guy above and after an hour and a half of misery the kid gets pantsed in front of some senior cheerleaders. Then the last half hour is him banging the bully’s girlfriend, sister, mom, etc.
How long does sex last, on average?
Joey, have you ever been…in a Turkish Prison?
STEVE SMITH MAXIMIZE EFFICIENCY
NO THAT COUSIN SELIM SMITH.
HIM VERY BUSY WHY YOU THINK TURKS SO HAIRY?
44 minutes? That seems awfully quick…
They aren’t counting how long it takes to get it up.
Ah, so you’re the one driving up Jesse’s 55gal lube drum prices! (45 minutes of sex figuratively sucks without copious amounts of lube)
They sell lube in 55 gallon drums?
*waves credit card
Woman once told me that she had a hour-long fucking session with a new booty call. And how horrible it was towards the end. Guess the guy had performance issues – on the other side of the spectrum.
GIT R DONE
Wrap it up!
if they used a condom
They couldn’t feel anything.
+1 Wearing a raincoat in a shower
Wear a raincoat and do push-ups in a cave until I throw up.
/5th grade punchline
It’s good for you and makes your body feel warm
Strangely, this pick up line has never worked for me.
SAND SMITH find some hikers!
Because he wants to tap that Kim K. ass?
Why is Trump suddenly supporting criminal justice reform?
Melania > Kim K, IMHO.
Is it even a contest? I feel like Kim s hotness really fell off the last few years
Of course, that didn’t stop him from banging a slag like Stormy.
I try to avoid stuff like this like the plague, so please pardon my ignorance. Has there been any evidence to date that he actually did this? I’m not talking about photos or anything but more like mention of the illicit boot knockin’ in the NDA he allegedly forced her to sign while dunking her head in the toilet or something?
A: The man is known for having destroyed several marriages due to adultery.
B: No one has ever denied the affair took place.
While not proven ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’, it is almost stipulated to have occured at some point.
I understand that, but I’d like to think it would have at least been highlighted in the agreement. You know, like stating specifically what was verboten from being discussed. Has that ever been made public?
If you’re going to file a nondisclosure agreement to keep something secret, it’s going to leave out the details and be something like “Party A agrees to never disclose the nature, scope or detail of dealings with Party B.”
Ah. I’ve (luckily?) never seen one in person, so I had no idea how they were structured.
And they both signed the settlement agreement under pseudonyms. Which is Daniels’ basis for having the settlement voided, releasing her from the NDA and presumably not having to pay the money back–and, even if she did have to, would have been covered by crowdfunding.
In the words of Sammy Haggar, “That which is understood need not be discussed.”
The text of the NDA has not been made public.
I’m still confused why Daniels is a household name. Trump’s infidelity is no secret—it’s such a clown show that he himself advertised it under a pseudonym when he called newspapers to brag about it. It’s like trying to hold Obama to account for smoking cigarettes, except Trump (to my knowledge) never swore off infidelity. So you have a porn actress who claims Trump paid her
for sexfor discretion after their affair. And… that’s it. That’d be awfully salacious for anyone whose name isn’t Donald Trump, but, wouldn’t you know it, this guy’s name is Donald Trump.Of course, that didn’t stop him from banging a slag like Stormy.
If I remember correctly, the Stormy affair occurred when Melania was knocked up, and therefor presumably “out of commission” temporarily. I got the impression Stormy was always more of a pinch hitter than a roster replacement.
Not that it excuses any of it, of course.
“The president received overwhelmingly positive feedback for this move…”
I must’ve missed this particular gush of praise for the president.
Well they haven’t been burning him in effigy over it, so… basically, yeah.
OMFG GAG ORDER! SUPPRESSION!
Federal employees are forbidden from using or displaying popular anti-Donald Trump terms while on duty, under an interpretation of the Hatch Act, a U.S. law passed in 1939.
A memo sent on Wednesday by the Office of Special Counsel (OSC)—no relation to Robert Mueller’s department—advised federal staff members against using “resistance,” “#resist” and “#resistTrump.” Advocating for the president’s impeachment is also forbidden.
The protest slogans are often used online to show opposition to the president’s activities and are popular on social media platforms and forums, including Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. Some federal staff may wear political badges or have discussions via email during work.
———–
Essentially, the office warned that such terms as “resistance,” “#resist” and “#resistTrump” were considered “political activity.” And the same went for calling for Donald Trump to be prematurely removed from office.
“Advocating for a candidate to be impeached, and thus potentially disqualified from holding federal office, is clearly directed at the failure of that candidate’s campaign for federal office,” it said. “Advocating against a candidate’s impeachment is…also considered political activity.”
As noted by The New York Times, the office rules remain strict, as Trump is potentially running for re-election in 2020. Federal employees, therefore, should not be allowed to comment.
Telling a bunch of whining malcontents to do their jobs is just like gassing fifty million babies.
I’m sure huge swaths of federal employees will now resign in protest and take up private sector jobs.
Hahahahahahaha
I dont see how government employees making overt political statements is not considered wrong
It is. In fact it’s illegal while on duty… for federal employees.
I can wish ill will upon Andy all I want, just so long as I don’t actively campaign for a candidate on state time or stuff like that.
Everyone knows that Trump got them to pass the hatch act.
In military units there’s usually one wall devoted to framed headshots of the chain of command VIPs, starting with the president alone at the top, then expanding down from there. After Clinton was elected, our company commander refused to put his pic up and left Bush I up for years. Only our buildings’s isolation allowed this. It was a source of defiant pride for the unit.
Heh, Camp Peary still puts pictures of naval commanders on the wall.
“So what did these people do to get banned from the premesis?”
Expecting federal employees to be non-partisan while on the job is literal fascism. //sarc
From the low-flow thread last night:
*Hands on hips and head cocked* Tsk tsk
So you’re there. Wasting valuable time. Being flustered on multiple fronts. You’ve got things to do–projects to finish! Damn sinks are confounding you!
And yet the solution to all of your lavatorial struggles is dangling right in front of you. Like the last drop of splooge over Sasha Gray’s face. It’s a shame that you won’t take it, or don’t recognize the opportunity as it spits on your shoes.
That’s a shame.
DJ Khaled and Floyd Mayweather fined for illegally promoting ICOs
“CNN has dropped Marc Lamont Hill from its roster of commentators but he still has a post at Temple University, at last report. “CNN said Thursday that it had severed ties with contributor Marc Lamont Hill following controversial comments the liberal pundit made about Israel,” the network announced yesterday.
Yet and still, “Temple University stood by Marc Lamont Hill on Thursday, the same day he was fired from CNN after he gave a speech at the United Nations in which he used language critics described as a dog whistle advocating the elimination of Israel,” Brian Flood reports on Fox News. “Hill, a now-former CNN commentator, is also a professor of media studies and urban education at Temple University in Philadelphia.”
“While the school doesn’t necessarily agree with Hill’s controversial rhetoric, it feels he has the right to speak freely.” Well, maybe now he’ll be on time for class and even have time to grab some lunch before it starts.”
Temple are full of shit. Let’s see what they would have done if he said something as terrible about Palestine.
https://www.academia.org/too-hot-for-cnn-but-not-temple/?utm_source=AIA%20Email%20List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=AIA%20Email%2030-Nov-2018
If that was a dog whistle, you could make the case that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion wasn’t really anti-Semitic. Fuck me.
“While the school doesn’t necessarily agree with Hill’s controversial rhetoric, it feels he has the right to speak freely.”
I am sure they would extend the same courtesy to, say, Ben Shapiro.
No way to tell. They’d charge him a six-figure security fee, then cancel his appearance a week out.
(No, I’m not looking up whether he’s ever spoken at Temple.)
I didn’t realize Equifax hired a Music major as a security officer.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/equifax-ceo-hired-a-music-major-as-the-companys-chief-security-officer-2017-09-15
There is a theory that upper management needs no technical knowhow
Which is a recipe for disaster. Upper management clueless about the core business cannot so their job.
Clueless about their core business? Yes. Needs to know how to engineer a car, build a skyscraper, program a computer, fly an airplane? No. Managing a large company is a very different skill set than producing things.
I’d rather have someone who worked their way up from a productive role into management than anyone who specialized as a manager.
Word.
So I’m actually in that situation–I’ve got my manager’s old job–and there are downsides. The tech has passed him by and he doesn’t have the time to invest in catching up, but he still thinks of himself as a developer. What winds up happening is that he bottlenecks our adoption of newer techniques or libraries or what-have-you at where he was last comfortable, circa 2004, and assumes that if he doesn’t understand something it’s too fringe or complex to be used. I had to fight for a solid year to get us to use git; previously, “version control” meant saving a file with “.old” at the end. Up until three years ago we were SFTP’ing stuff directly into a live production server because he was uncomfortable not having direct access to the files in case he needed to fix something that went wrong, i.e. bug fixes.
In short, the problem is that he has a bunch of experience and seniority, so he expects (and probably deserves) to be treated as such, but most of it isn’t in his current position, which requires different skills. He’s unconsciously ( I think ) conflating his experience in the industry with his experience in the role.
i honestly prefer svn to git
Gah too many hidden folders all over the place
true but I keep having trouble with git then again i am not a knowledgeable user of it
Git seems to make the simple stuff easy once you’ve written down the magic incantations for later use.
I could never figure out how to do the easiest stuff with Subversion – like delete all these goddamn folders you vomited all over the place.
you don’t delete the folders.
my big problem with git is I have a real hard time with conflict resolution sometimes, something i did easy with svn
Automatic merging is the #1 thing I don’t like about Git.
I want to see the code that is being added or removed by a merge, rather than hope I can find comments that indicate changed code.
IIRC, you can override the default conflict resolution behavior with an svn-like one. Don’t quote me on this though, the last time I was Git fluent, MH370 was still accounted for.
“Automatic code merge” makes me go “Noooooo!”.
The first thing that comes to mind is that two developers change that codeset in contradictory ways to deal with different problems and the version controller globs their changes together when a manual reconsiliation is called for.
I don’t remember if it does merging automatically by default but it’s certainly not the only option.
I do if I want to start over.
They do not need to be an expert in those things exactly no, but if you are actually going to be in charge of something, especially something like security you absolutely do need to know the basics of computer security
To be fair, the field of network security is so new and so fast-changing that academic credentials don’t necessarily mean that much. Work and certs within the field could easily provide more relevant experience. Clearly that wasn’t the case here either though.
She was hired because feminists and the usual chorus of faux-outraged buffoons cackled on about how there were no women in upper management. So Equifax pussied out and and went and hired an unqualified token candidate.
Result: DATA WAS BREACHED.
But of course, they will say it doesn’t matter! Keep going! It’s because women are never in position of power and need to learn! As if it doesn’t happen with men! We stand by our crazy way of thinking! If it means some data gets compromised so be it!
The ire should be directed at the idiot that hired her. She seemed smart enough to know she needed to hire IT-type people. But why the fuck would her boss not be looking to hire someone with an IT background for that position in the first place? There’s plenty of women with IT experience. They may not be the most aggressive personalities, and most of the time upper management positions go to the most aggressive people. But security is defense, not offense. And it’s not a revenue-creating department so aggression isn’t really all that helpful of a personality trait for the job.
So this black friday I bought two of your american whiskeys at a discount, which is unusual seeing i am a scotch man. Just arrived.
What kind?
I’m also curious. There are a lot of bad and good American whiskeys.
And?
And now he is using his smuggled phone from jail.
Eww, poopy fingers.
Which kind? This distillery is only 20 miles from me and they make a pretty nice drop.
I’ll have to check out a bottle of their bourbon next time I make it into Las Vegas.
What happens in Vegas …
Late followup but I got Buffalo Trace nurbon, Rittenhouse rye, something hudson manhatten rye and something elija craig
On the potentoal list was somethjng blanton … eagle rare 10 …
Gooddamnit phone posted before spell checking… also some variations of evam williams but these were not discounted and I am waiting for them to be, this store often has good discounts
Blanton’s is a favorite of mine. Eagle Rare is nice, it’s made by the Buffalo Trace guys, who also make the famous Pappy Van Winkle. Never had Buffalo Trace, but I like Elijah Craig, that’s good stuff.
I bought 4 not two i dunno why i said two. The hudson is just in some small half bottles so it does not count
Buffalo Trace is solid, and Ive heard good things about the other three. Eagle Rare is a great value for the price as well.
i like it for 20 of your American dollars at discount was a good price
I’m working through bottles of Buffalo Trace and Elijah Craig now. Both are very good. Also have had Eagle Rare 10 before and that was excellent. I like Buffalo Trace the best out of the 3.
Buffalo Trace is difficult to find here. 5 or so local ABC’s each got a case delivered on a Friday last month. Within 6 hours, there 7 bottles left in a 40 mile radius. I managed to grab 4 of them at a nearby store. The cashier told me they don’t even bother stocking them. They just set the case by the register and every bottle is always gone by the day’s end.
seems like a failure of the free market to me
Exactly right. We don’t have a free market for liquor in Virginia. ABC stores are government-owned and run monopolies. It’s our only option for liquor.
How is it New York is less unfree with booze than a lot of other states?
The late 90s Bardstown fire that destroyed like 1/3 of the world’s bourbon reserves didnt help anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAmozRuL0go
what a waste
Different priorities.
That Bardstown fire destroyed 2 percent of the world’s whiskey. I don’t know what that works out to for bourbon alone percentage-wise. The problem is, no one gave much of a shit about bourbon in the 1990s, and now everyone does.
Which Elijah Craig?
The 18 year used to be a regular with me, back when it was $35 per 750 instead of $100+.
Elijah Craig Small Batch 94 proof 40 bucks full price, 30 at discount
I like that stuff.
Drop the Hudson and you’re good to go.
Because this all benefits Iran, Turkey, and MBS’s opposition. Yet the morons in the American media can’t seem to look into such a question.
Yup. The weird thing I don’t hear brought up is that Salman’s reputation prior to Koshogi getting killed was that he was a pushing reform hard. In a sane world that would be a huge piece of context for the entire story. But, I’m not hearing a peep about it.
Everyone’s favorite neo-nazi
On Thursday, Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple attacked Fox News’ Tucker Carlson as a “neo-Nazi favorite.” To support this controversial contention, he cited research from BuzzFeed, which found that The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website run by Andrew Anglin, featured articles about Carlson some 265 times, as opposed to 27 about Sean Hannity, four about Laura Ingraham, and two about Lou Dobbs. Wemple explained:
Whereas a host like Hannity, for example, forever parrots Trump’s talking points — the Robert S. Mueller III investigation is a “witch hunt”; the “fake news” media is out to get the president — Carlson has consistently pursued storylines and polemical themes that please racists. Carlson hypes alleged crimes and dislocation caused by immigration; he demands that U.S. elites defend the cliche that diversity is our greatest strength; he circulates bogus material about South Africa’s alleged injustices against white farmers; and he cheers on Trump’s hard-line immigration policies…. Anglin, who runs the site, has issued a number of boosterish statements about Carlson, including describing him as a “machine of ultimate destruction” and “a one-man HOLOCAUST!”…
The reason the question needs to be posed to Carlson is that he has deflected the matter with his characteristic extemporaneous brilliance when it has been presented to him in the past… no one talks his way around a white-nationalist problem as effectively as Tucker Carlson.
Clearly a reasoned and accurate criticism by a thoughtful and well-adjusted person. Tucker might as well be Joseph Goebbels himself.
If you can’t trust an apologist for murder and expropriation of land from South African whites then who can you trust?
I hope Carlson bought his wife a shotgun and a box of deer slugs.
Buckshot, better for clearing mobs.
I was more thinking of getting through the door before they manage to break it down.
Maybe alternate in the tube for a best of both worlds.
Carlson has mentioned owning guns, including ar15s, before. That makes me wonder if his wife knows how to use one given that she ostensibly hid in a closet while violent leftists threatened them and attacked their house.
Of course if she ever used force to defend herself and her kids from the violent mob, she would be the one getting arrested and charged, being on the right and all.
Being a rather well to do sort, I’d expect his house has (or soon will have) a safe room.
That “closet” may have been a fortified redoubt. Something I would certainly have if I were as high profile as him and with as many unhinged loonies hating on me.
And while the thought of blasting the first intruder who comes in is attractive, you don’t know how many there are, or how motivated they’ll be. Maybe (probably) the first shot will cause most of them to scatter, but a fallen comrade might also rally them and they could start coming in from multiple points of entry. Best if they can’t find you.
Tonio has obviously thought about this for a while.
I’ve heard expert shooters who like to load them with slugs and #1 buckshot alternating.
That’s what I have in my home defense shotgun. Except I use 00 buckshot.
#00 buckshot is plenty for stopping just about anything less than bear size.
And will go thru most doors with little issue.
Basically 12 gauge #00 is ballistically equivalent to 9 rounds of 5.56 up to about 50 yards.
We are all stupider for having read that.
Yeah, that’s a cheap and lazy metric. Of course The Stormer isn’t going to say anything positive about people like Sanders or Ocasio-Cortez, ever. And they probably aren’t gushing with praise so much as “not bad for a mainstream person.” But all of that is damning in the eyes of the left.
Wonder what they’ll say if someone cures cancer* and The Stormer gives them a nod.
(*)I know that there is no such thing as “curing (all) cancer” but am using this as a stand-in for an apolitical act regarded as universally good.
You want to put the Oncologists and the Chemotherapists in the unemployment line with the buggy-whip makers!
It’s an incredibly stupid metric.
“Bernie Sanders is the preferred pol of Stalinist websites.”
Tucker Carlson? The guy with the bow-tie? This is a real thing? I thought the ‘Tucker Carlson is alt-right’ thing was just an internet joke.
I’m confused. This isn’t about Morris Dees.
First romaine lettuce, now pickles! Worst of all:
Because not being viewed and blessed by a government bureaucrat will cause the pickles to make people sick.
They have to bless it to drive the evil spirits away.
STEVE SMITH’S PICKLE CAN FILL THE GAP
I thought Steve Smiths Pickle caused the gap?
It’s kind of an alternating thing…
Cause- fill-cause-fill
When the FDA shows up to do their unannounced audits of food plants, they never actually test the finished product. Most of what they do is verify your own record keeping and challenge your own testing methods. Outside of a couple of high risk products, they only do their own food safety testing when a consumer reports a food safety issue.
IMHO, they’d do better to randomly lab test items pulled from retail shelves, rather than spend days in a plant looking for documentation errors. Or better yet, leave food safety to the private sector.
Do you even bureaucrat?
“That would never work!” — some liberal buying Kosher food
Wheeeeeee!
The bizarre election of George W. Bush by a 5-4 Supreme Court vote and his handling of the 9/11 attack further pushed us down the path of plutocracy. Imagine for a moment that the Florida vote was counted and Albert Gore became president. We would not have invaded Iraq—a policy choice that eventually led to the war in Syria and the refugee crisis that is already breaking up the EU and will threaten democracy and stability in Europe for at least a generation.
Gore would have handled 9/11 by attacking its root cause—our deadly addiction to oil. Instead of squandering $6 trillion on wars, he would have spent that money transitioning America to a clean energy economy. There would have been $5 trillion left to build America the world’s greatest schools, hospitals, health care for all Americans, roads and infrastructure, internet and more.
We have paid for these wars by hollowing out the middle class and creating the seething American economic refugees who elected Donald Trump.
Trump himself is the latest trauma and his presidency has not just discredited our nation, but the entire American experiment in self government.
Yeah, whatever, dude. Take your meds.
And by meds, I mean a quart of scotch.
…and a handful of barbiturates.
And some high grade chinese fentanyl?
Doubt.
Imagine for a moment that the Florida vote was counted and Albert Gore became president. We would not have invaded Iraq[…] Gore would have handled 9/11 by attacking its root cause—our deadly addiction to oil
Uh huh
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.
Oh it was written by one of the chromosome missing Kennedy’s, now I understand.
Missing, or extra?
Imagine for a moment that the Florida vote was counted and Albert Gore became president.
The votes were counted, Gore lost. And I don’t think America’s “addiction to oil” was the cause of the 9/11 attacks.
Sorry, “What is our freedoms”, Alex.
Imagine for a minute that Bill Clinton wasn’t getting blown by an intern when the CIA had OBL in their sights and were asking permission to take him out.
Have you ever heard Robert Kennedy Jr speak? He sounds like Torgo from Manos: The Hands of Fate.
Gore would have handled 9/11 by attacking its root cause—our deadly addiction to oil
They hate us for our
freedomoil.Instead of squandering $6 trillion on wars, he would have spent that money transitioning America to a clean energy economy. There would have been $5 trillion left to build America the world’s greatest schools, hospitals, health care for all Americans, roads and infrastructure, internet and more.
So you’d like to have the same debt but with even less positive results. And for some reason when I see this phrase I read it as “impoverish the masses”.
…health care for all Americans…
Yeah, if he had left that out his statement on what the $5T could buy would be rated “plausible”, but that one item alone shifts it to “false”. Health care costs like $2-3T per year, whereas that $5T was spent over the course of a decade and a half.
Southwest Airlines apologizes for employee laughing at 5-year-old passenger named Abcde
Southwest Airlines has apologized for a gate agent who reportedly laughed at a 5-year-old passenger’s name — Abcde — all within earshot of the girl and her outraged mother.
The incident unfolded at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, on Nov. 2 when the employee noticed the young passenger’s unique name, pronounced “Ab-city,” the girl’s mother, Traci Redford, told KABC-TV in Los Angeles.
“The gate agent started mocking my child’s name laughing, pointing at me and my daughter, and talking to other employees,” said Redford, who was flying with her daughter to El Paso, Texas.
Redford couldn’t believe her ears when other SWA workers joined in the laughter, all just feet away.
And when will the mom apologize to the daughter?
Between the child’s third and fourth stint in rehab.
Never, this is playing out exactly as the mother wanted. She has attention.
^This
Abcde or Griezmann Mbappe
A couple in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France, have named their new-born child Griezmann Mbappe but a civil code threatens their tribute to two of France’s World Cup winners — Antoine Griezmann and Kylian Mbappe — being allowed to stick.
However, Brive’s local registrar has deemed the name to be “against the child’s best interests or infringing on the rights of third parties to protect their family name.”
The mayor of Brive’s office has confirmed that “the case has been referred” to the public prosecutor, so a response should be made soon.
As I posted in afternoon links yesterday. The jokes are gems:
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
Re: ABCDE.
Pronounced ‘I-gor’.
Her brother DAFUQ isn’t laughing
But I am.
I’d have mocked mom for her ridiculous Grouchy Marx eyebrows.
An alternate pronunciation could be “Abesity”. Rhymes with obesity. What a dumb name. What a crummy mom.
there is no “T” in “ABCDE” dammit!
Yeah, she was wrong for laughing at the daughter. She should’ve just stuck to the mother, who richly, richly deserves as much scorn and derision as can possibly be heaped upon her. Also, the kid should have an “Instant Name Change” card issued by a judge, so that as soon as she realizes her mother is an idiot, a narcissistic cunt, or both, she can send that over to the Clerk of Court with her new, real name and have it all nice and legal by noon.
I thought the apology should have been:
“We apologize for our employee saying what everyone was thinking.”
There are worse names. somewhere out there. assuming he hasn’t killed himself or had it changed yet there is an 18 year old boy named Gaylic
He lived next door to us in Cincy about 16 years ago. The mom wanted him to have an “irish” name and the dad didn’t like any of the common ones so they settled on the name for the irish language only then the mom had to go and mess with the spelling. Somehow they did not seem to understand that there was a problem with his name.
At least it’s not Gay Lord.
Inconceivable
The chairman of the California state Democratic Party said on Thursday he would resign amid allegations that he engaged in unspecified sexual misconduct with party staffers.
Eric Bauman, a key player in Democrats’ recent electoral successes in the state, has said in recent days that he regretted pain his behavior had caused others. He did not specify the allegations against him but he also did not deny them.
State party officials are conducting an investigation but did not give details about the accusations.
“I have made the realization that in order for those to whom I may have caused pain and who need to heal, for my own health, and in the best interest of the Party that I love and to which I have dedicated myself for more than 25 years, it is in everyone’s best interest for me to resign my position as chair of the California Democratic Party,” said Bauman, 59, the first openly gay person to head the state party.
Just a minor setback for the #BELIVEHERS. We know who really hates teh womynz.
tupinh id hsrd
Um….yeaaaaaah.
I guess that clock repairman shouldn’t have said “God I could really use and extra pair of hands”
the young passenger’s unique name, pronounced “Ab-city,”
This is what happens when you show up in the delivery room drunk.
Dick’s Sporting Goods Looking to Exit Guns
That is one dumb CEO.
He fucked up and and now he’s grasping for straws. Any action he takes now is the board’s fault, as they should can him before he can do more damage.
I would not be surprised if the board were egging him on.
Most boards are rubber stamp social clubs with a salary.
The shareholders would be in the right to lynch a few of them.
And as we see with Papa John’s, boards will try and steal your company if you aren’t woke like them.
‘More brains!’
Papa John’s just used the wokeness as an excuse.
The man built that company out of his garage.
Their sales numbers are already down over this shit, so his answer is to double down on it? He really is a dumb motherfucker.
Stock is still up 20% this year though. It has traded sideways somewhat in the last six months.
While Nike shares, on the other hand, are also up (c. 17%) YTD, it’s down 10% since they went woke with Kap.
I suspect that in states where people aren’t buying most guns at gun shops they’re just going to Wal-Mart or Cabela’s or Bass Pro or Academy or wherever. There are lots of other options, generally, and better ones at that. Meanwhile, woke soccer moms might gravitate to Dick’s for cleats or field hockey sticks or whatever.
At the beginning of every sports season my family would head over to Dicks for cleats and gloves. At some point, I’d wander upstairs to the gun section and see what they have for ammo. My wife would just roll her eyes as I dropped a box of .40 and a brick of .22lr into our stuff at the register. I did also buy a .22 Savage there once.
W00t!
Tundra and I are part of the big time. No more flyover insults for us. (Osseo is the suburb that is right next to ours and was the “real” city when I first moved here)
So, “she” is really a male?
I’m sure that’s it. I think everyone will be happy when this particular fad is over.
I was going to tack on something about that, but left it off for brevity.
It is a sad day that a reporter can’t report the actual facts because they know the mob would howl for their blood if they had used the wrong pronoun or added a sentence to clarify that the kid was male pretending to be a female.
They sucked her dick?
No reach around is my guess.
When I was in high school they were talking about having monitors in the bathrooms after an incident where a girl was sexually assaulted in one of the bathrooms between classes. Doesn’t seem like that long ago…
“we can watch their every movement”
Says the German.
Carlson has mentioned owning guns, including ar15s, before. That makes me wonder if his wife knows how to use one given that she ostensibly hid in a closet while violent leftists threatened them and attacked their house.
“Oh, that? That’s just a closet. Yeah, I know most closets don’t have steel doors and reinforcements. We keep Grandma’s silver in there. No, no, it’s totally not a ‘safe room’. No guns in there. None at all.”
You know why Tundra and I won’t cross the river into St. Paul? Because they are crude, crass and don’t have any finesse when it comes to corruption.
The stadium in question is the one that they built for the new major league soccer team. The team that literally threatened to move if they didn’t get a new stadium built for them in the press conference announcing that Minneapolis had been awarded one of the new MLS teams.
Well, that and the various restraining orders…
If you think I’m being hyperbolic about the Minnesoda United threatening to move at their very first press conference.
Looks like the people of Mpls did benefit by moving the stadium to St Paul. Major League Soccer, St Paul. Hehehehehe
“Major League Soccer”
Does not compute.
To be fair… aren’t Minneapolis and St. Paul like, right next to each other? That isn’t much of a move.
Watch it Rhys. None of the St. Paul people are paying a dime for the Twins stadium. That is being paid for entirely by a sales tax on Hennepin county residents (mostly Mpls and suburbs).
So yeah, it may not be much of a physical move, but it is a huge financial move if you are a tax payer in Minneapolis.
Also the gall of a team to insist that they get their own new stadium instead of just using the brand new Vikings stadium is stunning. Even more stunning is that St. Paul fell for that shit.
Twins? Now I’m more confused. But taxing one county to put a stadium in another seems… um… baffling.
Anyway, the league doesn’t want teams without their own stadium*. The team in Columbus is looking to move over stadium issues.
*Unless they are financed by a combination of juggernaut baseball and English soccer teams. Then they can play a in fucking baseball stadium forever for all they care.
I don’t care if it’s all staged. I still found it funny
That reminds me of alcohol tasting. The ole ‘can you tell the difference between ‘cheap’ Vodka (or Gin) and artisanal Vodka (or Gin)?”
Went to a wedding over the summer where the groom, a chef and restaurant owner, had an “artisanal bourbon station”. No bottles had labels, but he said that one was just straight, high-dollar bourbon and the rest had been infused with various things, aged in whatever barrels, stuff like that. I was over there later during the reception when this one chick who was talking on and on about how she knew so much about liquor, being in liquor distro, blah blah blah. The groom was standing nearby, and when she left he came over to me and said, “I just poured Old Grandad into a bunch of mason jars because of motherfuckers like her.”
lol.
I did a taste test for water with my son who claims to be a water snob. We did filtered tap water, Arrowhead, and Fiji water. Tap water won and Fiji came in last. On the off chance that it was because the water was chilled, I did the test again on warm water, and the results were the same.
I can tell Fiji. The other brands? Not a chance. I don’t buy water because our city water is very drinkable and good here.
“Palessi”
That is fucking hilarious.
“Influencers”, “Public Intellectuals” = “Useless Sacks of Shit”
I am reminded of my rebuttal to a long movie rant claiming fashion shows influence consumers.
Mass market attire produces large volumes of easy to make pieces in a wide variety of colors and patterns, dropping those that do no sell. Fads are not triggered from high fashion, and people look at what’s on offer and pick up what they find appealing.
A subset exists for whom the label matters, but the market does not follow ‘influencers’.
My wife has this same allergy. In fact, I probably saved her life by applying some of my hydrocortisone hemorrhoid cream to her scalp when she decided to get rid of the gray one time. It was a defining moment in our relationship.
Would / Would not
I’m sure she can make bank as a cam girl while her head is still swollen. There will be enough crazy twisted fuckers out there who will be turned on by that moon face.
Don’t buy dye from Barry Bonds.
I like alien-head as a term instead of light bulb head.
Hemorrhoid cream can change your hair color?
Probably to brown…
/willfully obtuse
My wife has this too!
She can no longer have her hair dyed. She can only lighten, so she’s now a blonde for eternity or until she wants to go grey.
Freaky Friday: Tighten Your Sphincter
My balls are now inside my body.
When he is climbing the extra super high top orange part he is just tossing the clip onto a post, nothing is keeping the clip from sliding off!
Christ. No way in hell.
51 year old, but yeah.
“the fact that it’s not 2,000 feet annoys me”
It aint 2,000 feet, but this is generally where I conduct business:
https://postimg.cc/XZ0gHHGV
It’s interesting, I’ve been in open door helicopters many times at a few thousand feet and it doesn’t bother me at all. But that antenna tower makes my balls hide even though it’s ostensibly safer.
I’ve been as high as 1,000′ at a power plant, but I was on a working platform. Not sure how Id feel about what he’s doing, either.
I’ve been on some narrow trails near a monster drop and that’s enough for me. On occasion I have to be on rooftops and even the old ladders outside the buildings (no cage) make my hands sweat.
What’s weird is that heights never bothered me when I was young.
What’s weird is that heights never bothered me when I was young.
Well, now you’re cognizant of your own mortality.
This. I almost did airborne school and have no problem with aircraft or even the idea of jump out of one. Ridiculously high towers, cliffs, building… nope.
My ex-BIL used to work as a sailboat rigger and would send me pics from his cell phone of him at the top of a mast in a bosun’s chair. Just a pic of the tops of his boots with hangin’ out over the water when the harbor was choppy, from a 50′ mast. Sitting in a chair in an office (across the harbor and in sight of him, actually) I’d look at those damn pics and get chills.
how many degrees (?) did his spot sway on bad days? 30?
Do you think he really double clips like that when he’s not wearing the helmet?
Tempting, but I don’t think so
Nope. There’s about $80k a year down here and I don’t have to climb higher than three flights of steps.
kegger at the moon tower?
I was thinking about the stupid Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer “Problematic” thing that’s going around.
The song is older but the TV show was a mid-60s ham-fisted lesson against discrimination. There’s this crazy thing call “character development” that takes place. Santa, the elves, and the other reindeer are all discriminating assholes at first. Then they learn some shit and develop into non-assholes who don’t discriminate.
Now the Left is too stupid to recognize their own propaganda. They no longer believe in character development. They believe in witch hunts that end with a good bonfire.
Progreivism not making room for redemption? Color me shocked.
The very idea of reform or redemption is anathema to social justice. Once you are guilty, you are forever stained and to be shunned and catigated. Since such an act is not a mistake, but a revelation of the evil hiding within you. Their faith is not one for which forgiveness is possible. As such, the concept that someone might recognize a wrong and genuinely change is not compatable.
I think I knew this subconsciously, this little hissy-fit forced that realization into my conscious mind.
The love affair between SJW’s and Islamic Fundies is starting to make more sense….
And you automatically have evil hiding within you if you are of certain sex and ethnicity.
It does fit with their “caste system” way of looking at things.
shunned and catigated
Is that what the admins do when they cat-butt?
A religion more puritanical then the Puritans, with cis-hetero whiteness being an original sin.
We all know Blitzen is a thinly veiled tribute to the Blitzkrieg.
And Donner is an homage to cannibalism.
and Comet represents my wish for the SMOD
Comet contains bleach. Comet is a homage to suicide.
But, but, they are just exploiting Rudolph at the end!
Fight the Capitalist Exploiters!
I noticed that bit of stupidity at the end of Huffpo’s dumbass video. Merit is so problematic. People must only be embraced and celebrated if they are useless to the community.
That’s because they know capable people are less likely to appreciate their bullshit.
They are inverting “actions speak louder than words.” The only measure of a person is their intent and feelings, what you do doesn’t matter as long as you hold the right beliefs. They really do want a return to the dark age.
It’s weird, Rudolph is not shackled to the sleigh and whipped to make the sleigh fly. He accepts the apology and agrees to lead.
Volunteerism is Slavery.
Uncle Rudolf.
“On the next The Hat and the Hair……“
Rudolph should have told Santa to go fuck himself; elf slave overlord that he was.
You know who else employed someone named Rudolph…
The City of New York?
Rex Ingram Productions?
The Scorpions?
The Clash?
No, he failed.
Chad from Connecticut (nursing a martini in a plaid Vineyard Vines shirt ): “We did good, eh Professor?”
Professor (adjusting his stained ascot): “Absolutely, Chad.”
Random woman clapping hands prancing around: “Now that’s a fire!”
I’ll admit it makes me twitchy now, but it’s what happens in school and work anyway, and most folks never get an apology.
Conflict is the source of all drama. Without it, there’s no story. I posted this in a thread on FB about this Rudolph stupidity.
Wisconsin man is punished for showing initiative.
The whole story is pretty funny because it uses phrases like “his remorse for the sausage scheme”, but at the end it sort of sucks because the prosecutor had been asking for a 7 year stint in prison for the sausage scheme. Holy shit, how fucking horrible is that? I’m fine with making him pay the brat company for fucking up operations, but putting a guy in a cage for 7 years?
The Daredevil series on Netflix has been cancelled. IS NOTHING SACRED?
Yet they continue with the Iron fucking Fist?!
It has been canceled too. And Luke Cage.
Huh, I liked Luke Cage. At least we still have The Punisher.
Iron Fist and Luke Cage have also been cancelled. All that’s left is Punisher and Jessica Jones.
Really I thought it was popular? I hope they don’t get rid of the Punisher.
Side note has anyone watched the Ballad of Buster Scruggs? I found it to be pretty entertaining. They need to do a prequel based only on Buster.
Punisher Season 2 is already filmed and it will be out any time now. I’d expect that to be cancelled too.
I did not know that.
The first season was one of my favorite shows ever.
I’m sure some of it has to do with Disney pulling back their rights.
This. Disney is creating their own streaming service, Disney +. So there is a chance they will continue the series there. If that’s the case I expect them to treat it as well as they have done with the Star Wars franchise.
At least Daredevil will finally acknowledge that he’s gender-fluid.
“Wave of the future.”
So the price of Netflix is going to go down by that portion of the fee that represents the content that Disney and anyone else decides to remove. Right?
-1 need to pay Obama and Susan Rice
Not really because the only path forward for them is to use that money to make more original content. They already have all the content from shitty and low budget producers out there and all the big boys are going to be moving ever more towards putting their content onto their own proprietary services so for Netflix to survive they need to produce their own high quality content going forward.
Of course this entire trend is going to be temporary because there is no way in hell that the majority of people are going to be paying for more than 1 or two streaming services and Disney is the only outfit with enough high quality content to get into the top 2 or 3 services so after a brief period of increasing segmentation in the streaming entertainment market you will see a wave of mergers and partnerships that re-consolidates into 2 or 3 dominant players and a handful of smaller players catering to niche markets.
Where will I go to watch weepy vampire Jessica?
Is this just part of Disney getting ready to bring it all in house on their own streaming network?
Possibly. But in order to pry more $$$ from people’s pockets every month that service will have to offer a lot. I can see parents getting it for their kids but I can also see people getting tired of having more and more monthly bills. Most people are already paying for Internet, cable/dish, Amazon prime, Netflix, Hulu…
Part of it is picking and choosing what streaming services to go with. Internet is necessary, cable/dish isn’t (unless you watch live sports that don’t have their own package). I keep Netflix, and will pick up other services if there’s something I want to see (or a good deal). So right now I’ve got Netflix, and Hulu (at $1 a month). When Game of Thrones drops its final season, I’ll have HBO for a couple of months, etc.
What are you talking about? Game of Thrones ended years ago when they shot Charles Dance.
The girlfriend still likes it, even as its gone off the rails.
At least I get to watch Veep and Silicon Valley during those months. The only other service I’ve subscribed to was Starz for American Gods and Ash Vs. Evil Dead.
But are you going to go back for season 2 of American Gods?
I had so much hopes for that show but it was a horrible adaptation of the book and they completely lost me with the gun episode. I wanted to throw something through the TV after that.
No love for Counterpart?
I liked season 1 and am looking forward to season 2.
Freaky Friday: That fucker Bob always picks the worst camping spots
I DO NOT!!
Well there was the time you picked the fire ant nest.
Then there was the unstable boulder in the river.
Oh, then there was the glacier edge that turned into an iceberg with the tents on it.
I thought that was Yukon Cornelius?
Bob is quieter than Yukon.
I tried yelling “Whahoooo!!!” and tossing my pick up into the air at parties but it was not the hit I though it would be……
We have patched the ceiling damage.
Except those name one!
And I thought it was a bad time when we accidentally set up camp near a coil of rattlesnakes.
Holy shit.
Happy Friday Glibs! Get your weekend started right with some classy T&A. I love me some thigh highs.
http://archive.is/6vTMz
6, 30, 46, 58 and 86 as long as she’s making a sammich while she’s in the kitchen.
30 and 58
1/11/88 (same girl) looks most like a RealDoll TM.
Yet they continue with the Iron fucking Fist?!
That sounds… unpleasant.
Don’t judge.
This Iron Fist, however, sounds divine.
Y’know, when I live in SoFla, I never knew Broward was so much more dysfunctional than Miami-Dade, but apparently it is.
https://twitter.com/AndrewPollackFL/status/1068299555039576064
https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/things-that-are-racist-ranked-1830749965
Very Smart Brothers is parody…….it….has to…be. Please tell me I’m right? I’m starting to question everything I know about existence otherwise………
>>33. Most pornography involving black people.
::hides his Blacked browser history::
That website is basically Black Stormfront.
I’m guessing he’s trying to be self-effacing and funny with some of those and then mix in the “real” one’s (ie. America, White people, etc) but who can be sure anymore?
When your list is too dumb for buzzfeed…
Happy pre-weekend!
Thots ready for doggy (a few are borderline NSFW):
https://thesexier.com/hot-girls-bent-over-58-pics/
2, 10, 28 are my bootylicious picks
16 wins the girl next door consolation prize
Mammalian lordosis at its finest.
The top photo is *very* generous to her.
https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/19/meet-the-woman-aiming-to-break-a-world-record-by-having-1000-people-at-a-sex-party-8154891/
“Luckily, Pearl’s mum is non-judgemental about her daughter’s choice of career and is very close to her.” OK.
“She has been less open with her dad, who thinks she is an ordinary events planner.” Hmmmm… if she’s so empowered and it’s so great, why should she be ashamed like that?
“And while Pearl’s life revolves around the sex industry, she admits that she usually only makes love to her boyfriend and girlfriend once a week.” Ruh-roh!
scrolls…. scrolls….. GAH!
I would need some very thick beer goggles to tap that.
If she breaks the record will she get some sort of medal. And if so will Pearl keep it on a necklace?
Boyfriend must be a drywaller, cause that is a lot compound on her face.
Don’t you mean caulk?
You gotta get it way deep down in the crevice for it to work properly.
…phrasing…
Well it looks like it needed to be put on with a taping knife as there is so much of it.
‘My boyfriend is human and understands me and my needs. As long as I’m safe, sane and everything is consensual there’s no problem. ‘We both get immense satisfaction knowing each other’s sexual, physical and mental needs are being met.’
Um. Ok.
1000 men outta do the trick.
I think this goes beyond ‘needs’. But what do I know?
Related?
Amazing that FedGov employees actually have to be told this.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/federal-employees-are-warned-not-to-discuss-trump-‘resistance’-at-work/ar-BBQh3QR?li=BBnbcA1
I’m a little leery of people being prohibited from talking about it at all, but those using their positions to “Resist!” are pretty clearly violating the Hatch Act. On top of just being corrupt shitbags.
I can only imagine how selectively enforced this is in federal departments where the employees are a monolithic D block.
“Ok guys, please remove the #RESIST from your signature blocks if they are going to an outside agency. And remember, pussy hats need to be removed when you are attending meeting outside the building. We’ve only got a couple more years BadOrangeMan so please don’t bring any scrutiny on us than we’ve already had.”
I’m a little leery of people being prohibited from talking about it at all
I don’t in the least. On the most basic level, talking politics at work is taboo for a reason. You have to keep a good working relationship with people with other politics. And, while you might know someone doesn’t agree with you, throwing it in their faces during business hours should be a no-no. And “Resist!” in the federal government even more so. Those people are there, ostensibly, to enforce the policies of the Trump administration. That is what is supposed to be their job. Somebody talking about how they believe it’s their duty to undermine the very policies you have them there to administer is making clear that they can’t be trusted to do their jobs.
The spoils system would be more honest than what we’ve got now.
I remain conflicted about this.
https://www.oregonlive.com/health/2018/11/california-assisted-suicide-law-clears-hurdle.html
This is a perfect case in which my personal morality may conflict with my libertarian principles. I personally think assisted suicide is (usually) not such a great idea given the possibility for abuse. HOWEVER, people ultimately have absolute sovereignty over their own existence, and that includes terminating it. Therefore, I typically support laws like this.
Shameless self-promotion:
https://glibertarians.com/2018/04/suicide-libertarian-style/
Bad ideas should not be illegal.
Back when I was dating a med student, she was super pro assisted suicide.
Me: I believe in self-ownership and I think someone has a natural right to end their own life even if I think it’s morally wrong. My problem with legislation “allowing” it is that it inevitably will creep into family members or, worse yet, doctors influencing that decision or making it outright for them. There are a lot of incentives for doctors who want to direct their efforts elsewhere and family members who want to collect life insurance to influence or make those decisions against the actual wishes of the individual in question. Not to mention government and insurance companies wanting to minimize healthcare costs.
Her: I’m a Doctor, that would NEVER happen.
Me: Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans.
Her: That’s different!!!!
“it inevitably will creep into family members or, worse yet, doctors influencing that decision or making it outright for them.”
It’s already there and has been for centuries. Doctors make decisions against the will of the patients thousands of times a day already. You might get a short-term blip of moving demand forward at first, but that will even out quickly.
Precisely why I’m leery. I alluded to this the other day but in a perfect world doctors would refuse assisted suicide on Hippocratic grounds.
In a perfect world I could go to the corner store and buy 12 Vicodin and keep the doctor out of the whole thing entirely.
Doctors love their roles as state gatekeepers – which they should be refusing on Hippocratic grounds.
^Yep^. See my ex. She was all in as a TOP. MAN.
The only problem I have with assisted suicide is that it becomes a slippery slope. Scandals from Europe where people are put down despite not giving informed consent are disturbing. Especially since the cost to the state of sustaining a terminally ill person continues to be a talking point in favor of the practice. Eugenics through other means.
If the patient isn’t giving consent, it’s murder not assisted suicide.
Feminists insist that consent can’t be given under any amount of duress. So sex work isn’t consensual, because the sex worker lives in a state of duress wrt her finances (and possible addictions). Women trading sex for advancement aren’t exploiting weak-willed, sex-hungry men, they’re being exploited by their superiors. Even a peer can’t approach a woman without worrying that he’s creating a “hostile work environment” for his coworker, despite holding nothing over her head: if she’s mildly uncomfortable, she’s in duress. Emotional manipulation is considered duress for the wives and girlfriends of so-called manipulators: does he threaten to leave you or self-harm because you withhold affection? Well, you’re a victim and he’s a rapist. And this logic is propagating out to realms of human affairs having nothing to do with sex or romance: workers are under duress simply for needing to make a living. They’re being exploited for essential needs like food and a roof and Netflix.
Given that logic, can people in enough pain or debility to consider self-termination ever give consent? These supposedly progressive nations are exploiting the weak and infirm to cut costs. They’re forcing debilitated patients to choose death, merely to save some money on proper care.
Suicide, libertarian style
Like LaVoy Finicum?
did you listen to yesterdays TW? I’m wondering if there has been any good journalism about the whole affair…..most of what I’ve found seems to be pretty far from objective.
Tom Woods? I haven’t actually listened in years, and I don’t know why. I met him at a talk he gave in Albuquerque five or six years ago. I mumbled something he probably couldn’t hear and shook his hand. Really affable guy.
Going to subscribe now.
I wondered if LaVoy Finicum was on your mind because he was the subject of a Tom Woods episode yesterday that I posted about. The “official” narrative and what LaVoy’s family say happened are wildly different naturally. I’d really like to do some reading on the suject that is a t least somewhat subjective if sympathetic to the Bundy crouwd.
erg…..*objective*
stupid work is keeping me from concentrating
And yes, Tom Woods is the bee’s knee’s. Nothing but respect for that guy.
Make sure you get that living will done.
A while back my father was paralyzed from the neck down with Guillain-Barre syndrome for about 4 months. For the first 1.5 months or so, no one knew what was going on. Those were hard times because Dad was plotting how to commit suicide if things weren’t going to get better. The lack of a living will made this a lot trickier than it should be.
Having a living will helps prevent a lot of those slippery slope questions.
Personally, I’m a lot more terrified of the prospect of spending my last time on earth in horrible pain because I can’t check out with dignity than I am worried about the govt killing me off for the $$.
Banning bump stocks through executive fiat, even after President “phone and pen” Obama’s own DOJ said it was outside the president’s authority, is some real 4-D chess of retardation.
Prediction: gun control compromise legislation is reached between the president and the Democratic House. Enough Republicans senators vote with a unified Democratic Senate caucus for it to become law.
Yeah, there’s enough squishes in the Senate for that to happen.
So when do the rights groups start suing? It seems like the SC is getting to the point where some of these unconstitutional laws could be slapped down,
the SC is getting to the point where some of these unconstitutional laws could be slapped down,
That’s exactly the correct question. Isn’t this a sleeping dog problem: that would be an all-or-nothing invitation to the USSC to review any executive oversight. Hard to say if that’s wise to kick this one.
Me: I’ve got everything I want . . . almost constitutional carry here and surrounding area. I’m not moving to Chicago, so that’s their problem (apologies, but Southerners are just raised to be selfish that way). So this is all risk and no reward (I don’t care about bump-stocks beyond theory).
Optics: the good guys without guns are going to point to AR15 massacres and, of course, LAS, and argue this is reasonable gun control and paint everyone else as wanting to have a bazooka under their beds (sure: guilty) and normal folks aren’t going to like that.
Based on the probable arc of USSC demographics, the better play might be to back up a tiny bit theoretically to a safe position for now and then attack later when the lay of the land favors us (apologies, another Bobby Lee thing there).
My own view is that freedom-loving Americans are at great risk because the only way of staving off statist Democrats is by supporting statist Republicans, and Individual 1 is a clown-child narcissist with only personal goals, zero principles, and no true understanding of freedom or the constitution. This matters because lots of reasonable but opposing people agree and will never vote for him, the GOP is not likely to change horses in 2020, and so it’s probably something of an all-or-nothing gambit just in hoping that the fossils on the Bench succumb before Democrats get a shot a replacing them.
“Individual 1 is a clown-child narcissist”
Are you talking about today or throughout history?
Funny how it’s always Republicans making a “compromise” with Dems on important issues and it never flows the other way.
I am sure democrats feel they compromise too much
To them, “compromising” means not liquidating the opposition.
“We have altered the deal, pray we do not alter it further.”
Yep. And on guns in in particular, it’s never a swap of A for B.
For example, I will happily give away bump stocks in exchange for moving NFA items to the NICS check, and lowering the tax from 200 dollars to 20 dollars. You can even spend the tax money on “gun violence research.”
I’ll close the gun show loophole (anyone who sells more than 5 guns a year needs an FFL) in exchange for a repeal of the Hughes Amendment.
But it never goes down that way.
https://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/2013/11/08/cake-and-compromise-illustrated-guide-to-gun-control/
Here’s my compromise position – national constitutional carry, abolition of the NFA, explicit preemption of any state or local weapons laws, and we will forgo criminal prosecution of the judges, prosecutors and cops who enforced the patently unconstitutional infringements of those laws.
*of those laws upon the rights of the citizens
I’ve actually taken to offering a “compromise” solution to some of my pro-gun-control acquaintances – the “For the Chillldrennnn” Amendment. The amendment would impose gun control nationally and ban abortion. I explain that I’d be opposed to either of the amendment’s provisions. But, since they see guns as an unalloyed evil, surely they’d be willing to purchase repealing others’ rights with their own.
It’s fun to watch people’s heads explode.
“Compromise” to them means they get their way. If Republicans win, they need to show good faith and give the Democrats what they want. If the Democrats win, the Republicans need to respect the will of the people and give the Democrats what they want. This has been going on for decades and somehow the Republicans still have not figured it out.
Most have but without the media letting the voters know, then the Dems spin will always be the most widely broadcast.
Here’s a slightly slanted interpretation of Marc Lamont Hill’s comments
Al Jazeera is definitely the place to go for nuanced and thoughtful discussion on Israel.
I understand that to really enjoy it you need to read it in the original Arabic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrabKK9Bhds
new documentary about WWI
powerful stuff
That’s a lot of bad teeth… But seriously I saw this preview a while back I’m hyped to see it.
the software they used recreated frames so it wasn’t choppy. frame rates of 10 per second were common film back then. and they brought in forensic lip readers and used regional actors to voice the soldiers. good result.
If you’re talking about real film, then that’s ten keyframes a second and they just have to interpolate the changes.
Alternatively, I could snark about how the world will never have more than tweleve frames a second.
Thirdly I might joke about how Bernie doesn’t think anyone needs ten whole frames a second.
I had too many ideas.
World War I may be the largest monument to human stupidity we ever created. It certainly is one of the greatest examples of governmental indifference to the suffering of the people it’s supposed to be representing. The low level infantry truces that were constantly breaking out were about the only redeeming thing about the sordid mess. And of course, the high command on both sides did everything they could to put a stop to that.
That’s cool. I hope a theater near me will show it.
Comic relief
“On social issues, most Californians are pretty libertarian,” says Darry Sragow, a longtime Democratic strategist, who publishes the California Target Book, which charts legislative and congressional races.
“We’re not liberal. We’re libertarian — the view that government should leave us alone and we’ll figure out what we should do with our personal lives.”
California Democrats ran the table in the election. It’s time to give those “libertarian Californians” what they want, good and hard. More taxes, more regulations, more homelessness, und so weiter.
Reason gets a stiffie.
Team Blue could literally splooge in the eyes of its constituents in the greatest ejaculation of all time. A literal tsunami of jizz blasted into the face of every single democratic voter in some of these blue utopias, and they still wouldn’t even consider voting for a Republican. I’m still skeptical that the average Democratic voter in California could be classified as “libertarian” even on social issues at this point when the left has openly moved from tolerance to forced acceptance. You’ll bake that homo cake and like it!
Yeah, I’ve yet to meet a prog who wouldn’t ban shitlordery under penalty of death given half a chance.
LOL
I guess (?) he means Scary Orange Man isn’t telling them what to do. It’s perfectly OK for the state to control-freak all over everyone’s lives.
Sure they are. That must be why California’s most libertarianish congressman, Dana Rohrabacher, went from winning by 17% in 2016 to losing by 4% in 2018.
“the view that government should leave us alone and we’ll figure out what we should do with our personal lives”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *deep breath* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Take a look at Trudy in this picture. Now there’s a kid who doesn’t want to be there.
Hm. I don’t see it. I see a vapid empty suit who, as always, is very pleased with himself and his own importance. His smile is like, “Fuck yea, I’m doing important stuff!” Trump’s presence or what have you is irrelevant. He’s doing super cereal G20 stuff with other really super important leaders.
That’s not a smile, that looked like a very, very uncomfortable person.
Looks like he thinks he got away with letting one rip.
From what I’ve seen, JT has a hard time doing the fake smile thing normal people do when taking a picture. I wouldn’t read too much into his expression.
At least his eyebrow is attached
Somebody already took the Canadian copy so he wouldn’t lose it again.
Am I the only one who listened to the report of a Chinese scientist genetically engineering a pair twin girls to be HIV resistant and think “we are finally taking our first step into a bright future of genetically enhanced Asian superwhores?”
These are communists we’re talking about here. Any superwhores are going to be solely for the party apparatchiks. The proletariat will have to make due with ordinary Asian whores and their STD’s.
Trickle down effect still works. Immunizing apparatchik’s whores removes a very significant disease vector.
From that perspective, I’m surprised it wasn’t a Thai scientist who made the breakthrough.
“genetically enhanced Asian superwhores”
Rule 34 applies.
https://ew.com/tv/2018/11/29/murphy-brown-reporter-assault-trump-rally/
The infantilization of the left is perhaps best illustrated by their desire to be seen as rebellious, challenging entrenched and powerful institutions. Heroes and champions of the underdogs. All the while even the faintest whiff of repercussions for their actions results in them curling up into a fetal position or lashing out violently (in a mob, of course) themselves. Not revolutionaries, but people like to LARP as them.
I thought they canned that show because no one watched it.
No one would ever call Huntley or Brinkley enemies of the people.
To some extent that is because Huntley and Brinkley were not as openly partisan and contemptuous of wide swaths of America as modern journalists. But, mostly because the public didn’t know any better. Huntley and Brinkley were part of part of a very tiny news oligopoly that was able to keep a chokehold on the public narrative. That oligopoly is dead. It’s been dead for thirty years. First we had talk radio. Then the internet. And the opening up of the public dialog has revealed that the press corps has been guilty of profound journalistic malpractice.
Anyone who thinks Brinkley is an enemy of the people is either a dirty commie or a fool.
Let’s stipulate that all news organizations have bias.
That being said, Huntley and Brinkley (as well as uncle Walter) worked in news organizations that were considered cost centers. Broadcast networks maintained news organizations for prestige not for profit.
Ted Turner turned news into a profit center. Profits are driven by advertising. Advertising is driven by eyeballs — particularly well-sorted collections of eyeballs. And well-sorted collections of eyeballs are driven by controversy and bias.
I’m sure Murphy shot back “Trump called those who report fake news ‘the enemy of the people,’ not journalists who report the facts and quote supporters and critics fairly.”
“No one would ever call Huntley or Brinkley enemies of the people”
My dad and most of my uncles did.
Guys, I get that it’s a weird name and you want to express your displeasure, but let’s not burn the mother of Abcde in efghi.
^^ Quality snark right there.
BOOO!
I have a question about languages:
Do you speak any other than English? If so, which?
Do you have kids? Would you like them to speak other languages? If so, which?
If you don’t have kids, would you like to speak other languages? If so, which?
Thanks to all who reply.
Also, if you have kids but speak, (or wish to) other languages, feel free to mention it.
Yes to all
I only speak English; it’s a disappointment of mine I intend to correct.
I have 2 kids. I made one take Spanish. The other will take Spanish when he gets to high school.
I took six years of spanish from Elementary to high school.
I was completely unable to converse with the lonolingual spanish-speaking attendant at the Dallas laundromat I was looking for my phone at.
I suspect if you don’t get an immersion period, regular schooling doesn’t stick.
I’m not sure I speak English.
I took French for seven years in school. Almost 20 years later, my understanding of it is rather rudimentary. I could probably get by OK in a French speaking country, but in no way am I close to fluent.
I tried taking Mandarin Chinese in college. Very tough, and the grading curve was thrown off by many of the students being kids with Chinese parents who spoke Mandarin already but didn’t know any characters.
I think it would be fine if my kids learned other languages but don’t particularly care which ones.
A smattering of German words and very simple sentences. Which is embarrassing, since it’s so close to English, but I never followed up on it after taking three years in high school. I wish I’d studied French, it just seems like a much more interesting and impressive language.
No kids. I don’t think I’d mind. Probably whatever Asian country we’d have to bug out to when the left finally succeeds in suspending the Constitutional order and imposes their progressive nightmare. I doubt it will come to that, though. Kids, I mean.
I probably have more german vocabulary than spanish, despite never finishing a single formal course in German. Heck, I can still count further in german than spanish.
*contemplates joke of counting while deliberately mixing german, spanish and english numbers…*
Ah what the hell…
Ein zwei drei quatro cinco seis sieben dreizehn neun zehn eleven.
Eleven and twelve are the best! Elf, zwölf. I wonder if eleven and twelve are unique in other languages, and why. We don’t say Einzehn, zweizehn or oneteen, twoteen. Spanish doesn’t appear to be unique: once, doce. Why is that?
Romans couldn’t count.
The pertinent related question is why the germanic languages didn’t end up witha base twelve number system all the way up.
We didn’t have the extra fingers to count on like those gutter cultures.
I’ve been reading a book about Indo-European language, and it seems that a Base 10 system is a part of almost all indo-european languages.
Lots of languages do the equivalent of exactly this. None of them (that I’m aware of) are in the same family as the European languages most of us are familiar with and which share roots going back millennia.
Maybe that’s the cycle of the future. When the West goes full commie, we become the boat people heading to Asia which is only just finally overcoming its own commies. And then in like a hundred more years, we can repeat it again.
You’re making the mistake of applying western patterns to asia.
China has an unerring tendency towards centralized totalitarianism with hegemonic ambitions.
English is weird. A lot of Romance influence, a fair amount of Germanic, it’s the mutt of languages.
I speak English, Spanish, and a smattering of Chinese (mostly cuss words and female anatomy taught to me by itinerant brick layers ;^))
My wife speaks English and Swiss German.
All 3 kids have taken German in high school
I speak Spanish, Though not a fluently as i used to. I’d say i have a conversational ability to speak, and read it, and i’m able to write a little, though it would be full of orthographic errors.
I do have kids, and i would like them to speak Spanish, but it takes a lot of commitment to speak to them in only Spanish, and quite frankly i’d rather they learn to speak English better than Spanish.
Yep, a smattering of French, although I’m rusty. I can kind of figure out Spanish, and I’ve taken some German, Japanese, and Mandarin, but not enough to be really conversational, more just that I can kind of get the gist of simple things.
I’ve got a 3-year-old daughter and a son on the way, and I’d definitely like them both to learn Spanish. Anything else would be nice, too, as a bonus.
I’ve got a thing about learning languages, and when I have more time I’d like to get serious about regaining my fluency in French and developing fluency in Spanish, then learning a bunch of other languages. I don’t know why, but I really enjoy it.
I took French in high school for two reasons:
1) the twenty-something teacher, fresh out of college, was a cutey. And I spent most of the class watching her rear end wiggle as she wrote on the chalkboard.
2) I was one of three guys in class. The rest were women.
Needless to say, I can understand a little French and only remember the most rudimentary phrases. Lady Humungus, on the other hand, isn’t exactly proficient but much more versed than I am. She could get around in France while I would just offend them.
You’re not French, so you’d offend the French no matter what. But you’re not French so you wouldn’t be really offensive.
/shit I’ve heard about France (Paris, really)
I did take 1 year of French in high school. When we went to Paris, I tried. I really did. The French all thought I was cute for trying and spoke to us in English. All very polite.
I’m sorry, but that doesn’t help me learn your language when you use mine.
Mojeaux, when I moved back to New Hampshire in 2014, I decided to visit Quebec. I went to a town called La Patrie, and stopped in a Quickie Mart. The tatted up shopkeep (who, I gotta admit, didn’t look bad) put up with my bad French, and then said “have a great day” in English when I was leaving.
I told my (Quebecois) aunt about this and she said something to the effect of “La Patrie is terrible; it’s where poor people go to die.”
Okay, I have no real point, just thought that story was funny.
Also, Lord Humungus was right in his choices. As a man, I have to accept that fact.
Fairly fluent in German. Some Italian and Chinese. Smattering of various others.
I’m a language geek so I want to learn all of them.
I took two years of French in high school, and one semester of French semantics in college.
I do not consider myself able to speak French.
However, I can go to Quebec and communicate without using English, and in some specialized cases (like culinary French) I understand more than a French prof that usually accompanies me on my trips there. I also can understand “foreigners” with what I presume are heavily accented French better than she can.
I only speak a hillbilly dialect of English
but I’ve worked all over the world and for several international firms. I don’t transact business outside of English, but I will say that my picking up phrases quickly has led to a ton of understanding and nuance to say nothing of making travel so much easier.
I’d say study Spanish because that’s so useful in the US (this from a guy who has spent a lot of time in construction, on the factory floor, and in Texas). The general gains in intellectual power from studying some language are there, and it might as well be in a useful language.
There’s this idea I benefited from that isn’t a curriculum that I know of, but what I learned in the sixth grade was to see words mechanically: as prefixes, roots, and suffixes each of which has meaning and obvious cognate in other languages. Reading etymologies gives huge insight into language and culture. Kids need to see etymology as fun, and I often offer my favorite examples; I recommend kids research the history of words like “curfew” and “sabotage” and “maverick” and “alcohol” and “kowtow” and “assassin.”
As an English speaker, to see the richness in where my words come from links me to the Celts, Vikings, Germans, Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians. I stop thinking of myself as in a box limited to one language but as a cousin to speakers from many other worlds.
They’re not cousins, english beats up other languages and takes their participles (and nouns, etc…)
I speak Japanese.
My wife is Japanese (Okinawan) and I lived there for 5 years working as a framing carpenter.
The oldest kid (30) is totally bilingual and the next two (22, and 16) understand when my wife talks Japanese, but never learned to speak it.
Took German and Russian in high school. I remembered enough Russian to be able to grab a cab and get back to my hotel after going out for food.
I remember enough of German to be able to use google translate to convert 16th century books on wine making into passable English.
Four years of hs Spanish. Terrible until I’m around it for a week or so. A smattering of Italian.
Kids have both taken some Spanish, but neither are fluent. If they want to pursue, that’s fine but I’m ambivalent.
Thanks, everyone. I probably should have asked SP for my own article.
Just for the record, my own ‘language skills’ are in French, Spanish & Russian, all of which I’m dreadful in.
I have no excuse for French, since I had 4 grandparents who spoke it almost exclusively. 3 years of middle school Spanish didn’t ingrain that language, and a couple years of Pimsluer Russian didn’t get me much farther than “How are doing today?” (Kak si dnes?)
Guten Morgen. Paperen Bitte.
Nein! Nein!
Rachel Riley speaking Russian 😉
I lived in Slovakia for several years and my wife is Slovak, so I speak the language. I can muddle my way through basic German. I can read menus and order in Spanish and French. With Slovak I can communicate at a basic level with Czechs, Poles and other Slavs especially when the booze is flowing.
My kids understand Slovak at a basic level, and often surprise me when they react to something my wife and I say. Both kids have learned or are learning German in school, but learning in school in the US is nothing compared to immersion, so really their German is not that great.
My HS doesn’t seem to even teach German anymore. Looks like they dumped their “Science Tech” program for some called “International Baccalaureate”. Dummkopfs.
I think it is hard to find German teachers these days. Most of my teachers left Germany after the war, but that generation is now dead or retired. My kids’ German teacher is an ethnic German from Transylvania who came after Communism fell, but she’s now retiring too.
I had two different German teachers over I think it was five years and both were Americans, though one had a German surname. Yeah, I can’t imagine many of those types around any more. Hell, the only reason my school offered German in the first place is because the stereotype at the time said sciency people learn German.
I speak a lil hillbilly.
2019 Chevrolet Silverado Trail Boss Breaks Down At Detroit Red Wings Game
GM reminding me why it will be a long time before I consider buying their products again.
Before I got the F-150 I drove a 2003 Tahoe that was one of the best vehicles I’ve ever owned (body integrity notwithstanding). I drove every manufacturer’s 1500 and rented a 2017 Suburban for a weekend in Oregon. The GM products were very disappointing to me. They just felt wrong (and the sunroof on the 10,000 mile Suburban fucking leaked) and were surprisingly noisy.
What I’ve read so far indicates that most reviewers hate the 2019 Silverado as well. The new Ram, on the other hand, looks like a winner.
My dream is a new Dodge Ram. I have a very old one already. I love driving that bad boy.
Old Rams rock.
Mine needs the transmission rebuilt, but it’s also got 370,000 miles on it. We bought it at 355,000 miles several years ago. It’s my going-to-Home-Depot and picking-up-big-items-off-Craigslist vehicle.
Auto or stick?
MIne’s a five speed and I recently changed the oil so it shifts smoothly again.
Sadly, auto.
I don’t even know if they make a Ram that is diesel and stick and non-dually.
They still do, but you have to special order it.
It was hard to find a manual when I bought mine, that’s why I have a white truck.
Can’t beat a Cummins with the 5 speed.
Co-worker has a 2003 Tahoe that he bought new. With 198k miles on the clock, he’s done some minor repairs but nothing has come up that made it junk worthy yet. Garage kept, he also gets bodywork done on it to stop the rust. He’s kind of shocked how much the new ones cost and he doesn’t want an Equinox, etc especially with the big trailer he hauls a few times a year.
Mine was bulletproof. It went anywhere, hauled anything I needed it to, 7 passenger when the kids were in activities, etc. etc.
They don’t make them like that one anymore.
I won’t buy another Dodge after what that Dakota did to my wallet.
I won’t own another Ford after owning this F150
I won’t own another GM because they took the bailout and are still having trouble.
My next vehicle will probably be Japanese
Why not spend $90K on a Rivian electric pickup truck?
Supposedly goes 400 miles on a charge. And you will get so much woke cred you will be able to bang all of Al Gore’s daughters.
11000 pound towing capacity, but probably 100 mile range
I can actually see pickups being more successful EVs than cars for range anxiety if someone comes up with an easy to slide in the bed generator in it to keep you going on a road trip. Especially if the generator can be sized up to keep you going while towing. 750 miles is my goal on driving days.
I measure driving days in hours, but then again I do road trips for leasure and not profit.
I live in the Midwest and we do our vacationing in the West.
Not much along 80, 90, 94 in Nebraska, Dakotas, Wyoming, or Montana that we haven’t already seen or stopped at several times, so getting through those areas quickly is a priority.
I’m good for 15 hours easy.
There’s a lot of stuff between me and the great wide open spaces. Plus my neck gets stiff if I’m driving too long.
That would be hilarious, gassing up the generator in the bed.
Had a 2003 ‘Hoe – best machine I’d had in a long time. Let it go @ 170K ’cause wife wanted to trade in an Outback she had and I’d been hinting that a new truck would be nice as the kids were bigger and I didn’t need 3 rows of seating.
Got a 2015 Sierra with all the bells and whistles – in the shop 4 times before getting a new tranny and then at 12K, the back seat caught on fire (dealer installed seat heater/AC unit). Can’t believe what a pile shit that truck was.
I’d jump on a Rivian if it was available at the time…
What year is your Ford?
2011 on its second 5.0 liter engine, 2nd exhaust system, and soon to be on its 2nd rear differential
The Ridgeline would fit my suburban dad needs very well. It’s also ungodly expensive for what it is.
My daughter’s current grades are interesting. Four As and a D. That’s something you don’t see every day.
In what subject did she get the low grade?
And/or, was the teacher incompetent? I failed a couple classes because of the teacher.
My favorite bad teacher story was from high school. A teacher there would give every kid X number of “bonus points”. Enough that even if you failed every test you would end up with a B. You lost bonus points for talking or asking questions or anything else that would make this teacher have to work.
When you showed up for class the guy would simply pass out work sheets and tell you “finish your worksheets and there will be a test on Friday”. One trimester my senior year, I would ask him after that if I could go to the bathroom and never come back.
At the end of the trimester, I had missed 4 questions on all the tests, but had lost almost all my bonus points. I ended up with a C+. I was so pissed.
Of course, the union covered for that asshole teacher when the school had to cut some positions. Since he had seniority, he got to stay and a few of the younger teachers who still gave a shit, got fired.
^Describes my HS Spanish teacher to a “T”.
I took one year of Spanish, in middle school. Literally the only thing about it I remember—not the teacher’s name or even gender, not a word s/he taught, nothing else—was an eighth-grader flashing her bra through the window, and laughing at us gawking sixth graders.
Math. She ususally does ok in math, Bs mostly, but hates the subject.
What subject is the D in? clearly the teacher is poor, or your daughter has no interest in the subject.
Or the teacher has it out for her in that class. I was an “A” student but wound up with a lousy grade in English one year because the teacher decided I was a shitlord during the second semester. After that I could not get above an 80% on an assignment no matter how well I wrote it.
Yep the only D I got in high school was in Mr. Hatlille’s Art class. I thought drawing 150 ovals on paper was a shit homework assignment and I let him know. Also the only time I was sent to the principals office.
I think this might remain one of those Great Glib Mysteries like [REDACTED] being a racist.
Was that D in either a first or last hour class?
My last class of the day was always a disaster (especially in spring) because I’d skip it so frequently. My sister was the opposite. She’d miss the first class of the day all the time.
In high school I almost failed algebra. I put it all down to the shitty teacher – because I ended up with a minor in math.
Amazing how much of a teacher’s enthusiasm can make a difference. My Calc II teacher in college, for example, would explain things, do some work on the board, and then go to each one of us, stare us in the eyes and say with a thick accent: “Do YOOOUUU Understand?”
I had a biology teacher who LUUUURRRRVED biology. His energy and enthusiasm were infectious. But…
Couldn’t teach it worth a damn.
I failed high school algebra because I was convinced counting with letters was pointless when I can read letters just fine. So I read novels through both years I failed it, and paid a friend to do with online catch-up class so I could graduate.
Turns out, I’m just dumb.
The instructor was great, too. Friendly and committed, passionate about the material, from what I could tell. Years later we named a silky terrier after his funky last name.
Lovable, coprophagic little bastards. I miss those two, but why do small dogs have to be so gross?
“why do small dogs have to be so gross?”
Genetic dead ends.
Big dogs aren’t gross?
/not a dog person
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https://womenintheworld.com/2018/11/30/dominatrix-specializes-in-turning-white-right-wing-men-into-socialists/
Sure you do, honey, sure you do. Because no man in history ever told a woman what she wanted to hear to get laid, no siree.
The only thing she could ever turn me into is gay.
Er, my guess is that if he’s paying her cash money to dominate him into becoming a socialist, he ultimately wants to be turned into a socialist.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6440489/Bizarre-new-reality-series-documents-lives-extreme-couples.html