I am living the definition of technical consultant – I learned yesterday what I need to implement for my client today. Next step is to take the certification practice tests until I can hit 7/10 reliably and go get a certification so I can bolster my resume and keep living a nice life by knowing how the Googles and Stack Overflow works. Search Engine Optimization as Programmer Exo-Brain, if I were writing an article on it. It beats being an actual subject matter expert.
It seems like once a day, I agree with DJT. h/t SugarFree
Well, its twice today. SLD, I’d prefer a more comprehensive and permanent solution to the problem of FDA processes, but its something
Business Insider thinks there are no winners in the Trump economy. Oookay. I have my own quibbles with the economic policies of this administration, but there is more winning going on than a Charlie Sheen cocaine orgy right now on that front. All the same bullshit “student loan debt, collapsing infrastructure, rising interest rates”. You know, things the government would do best to touch least.
Bare-knuckle boxing (state-sanctioned) making a comeback? Now what can I can do to get people to my orphan fights?
Stay classy, Florida Woman. (This is why I have my own damn pool)
Sometimes you just want to crank it up and rip the… touchscreen off? My kids also have no idea what I mean when I shout “THE VOLUME KNOB AIN’T A RATCHET, IT TURNS TO THE LEFT TOO!!” I guess I’ll have to translate that from my dad’s language to my kids’.
Too soon! You have the links up too soon!
That is a problem to have.
A bevy of big breasted busty beauties bursting with beatific boobage.
http://archive.is/4POLW
You might be tempted to stop at 1. That would be a grave mistake because you’d miss out on, well, all the rest of them. But you’d especially miss out on 94.
Or 95 for that matter.
95
And nobody even noticed the link I included just for you this morning.
/martyred sigh
At least they read SOME of your links!
Are we talking the Serena catsuit one? I didn’t know that was aimed at me, though I do enjoy Serena.
Unless I completely missed it, in which case…
I’m a heel.
EmRat making an appearance at 67
Having carefully considered the offerings, multiple times even, I’m still going to go with #1. A more-than-passing resemblance to an ex. *sighs wistfully*
I’m pretty sure the GSA would not be happy with #37
Totes cool. The BSA will welcome her with open arms.
This is…
…ummm…
…It’s like I…
I, uhhh…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtCs-kK2hQU
Oops, forgot to add:
PORN!!! NSFW!!! CLICK AT YOUR OWN PERIL!!!!!
I came.
/pounds table laughing.
The wildly corrupt and incompetent cant understand how the American people have had enough of their shit. It just doesnt compute for them. They are spoiled children who cant understand how any adult can tell them NO. They have never heard it before so it doesnt seem real to them. I found that enormously satisfying.
Tough shit pajama boy. Pack your stuff and pound sand.
Nothing makes a cinnamon bun taste better than videos like that.
Yeah, but Suthen, they were wonks! Libral wonks! Do you know what that means? Well, I don’t know, it’s some made up bullshit. But what does a libral wonk do in a Trump world? Signaling is hard these days, the unwoke are everywhere and we can’t make them shut up and vote the way we want them to! It’s the apocalypse man, it’s finally here.
Douchebag, who openly admitted and bragged about lying to reporters who ate up his bullshit and then asked for more, gets sad about a fucking election.
Fan tastic! Delicious Prog Tears………
I revisited some of those election night videos recently…
Never gets old.
That is a nice capture of someone who literally, “literally can’t even”.
The FDA is the problem. Excise that tumor!
Easier said than done.
/John McCain
My kids also have no idea what I mean when I shout “THE VOLUME KNOB AIN’T A RATCHET, IT TURNS TO THE LEFT TOO!!”
Do they ask you if it goes up to 11?
I had to explain that to a millennial just the other day.
Also, there is a kid I work with named James R. Ness. Nobody gets my Gunsmoke jokes and it gives me a sad.
William Conrad is the one true Marshall Dillon.
Your comment took me down a Gunsmoke rabbit hole and I found this on the Wiiperdia page:
I remember reading a lot of Hardy Boys books (the old school ones, I got them from my dad), and at least one of the boys or their dad was knocked unconscious at least once in every volume. Reading those, I thought getting knocked out cold was no big deal and a routine fact of life.
I watched enough westerns as a kid that i thought for sure I would be killed by quicksand one day.
And how many people did Lucas McCain kill?
I always like to think that Jessica Fletcher was actually a serial killer who used her prowess as a mystery writer to make up bogus solutions and get other people to confess.
There are at least three Columbo episodes that work that angle – one even features Shatner!
Don’t talk shit about The Rifleman! One of the best openings ever. The father & son portrayal was fantastic. As was Miss Milly.
Not sure why that made me laugh so hard.
More freedom isn’t something I’m used to seeing out of DC. I wonder now how they’ll make it impossible to actually exercise this new ‘right’.
I LOL’d a bunch. That has the makings of a meme. Or an H&H episode.
Somewhere, Alan Moore is spitting tea out from between a few disgusting, grey and black teeth, cursing the fates that he didn’t think to use that line to describe Alec Holland.
Wait, wait… I got it… hold on…
Little Miss Swamp THANG, the sassiest swamp person around.
“Little Miss Swamp THANG”
She could definitely appear in a Steve Smith episode, but we know how that ends.
Reminds me of an MST line – “It’s the Swamp Thing versus the Sweet Thang!”
Agree with Trump on Sessions – that was a terrible pick. Paul Mulshine called it six months ago – Chris Christie would have made a better attorney general than Jeff Sessions.
Christie is great at smashing bureaucrat assholes like Rosenstein, McCabe, and the rest of the Deep State cabal.
I’m amazed that there are progressives supporting Sessions to “own” Trump. I’ve seen conservatives do plenty of dumb shit to “own the libs”, but not that dumb.
My fear, of course, is that he’s going to hire Giuliani as AG, which is the one human on earth who would be worse than Sessions.
I’m not, at all, they’ll make a hero out of anyone they think can help take out the monster living rent free in their pea heads. Comey, McCain, Graham, all recent left hero figures. They’re idiots.
Not sure he’d really be worse. Wouldn’t be better, though, that’s true.
Christie would just have been a different type of overweening asshole.
Yes – he would have been Trump’s crazy asshole.
I can just see him following Trump around like a puppy, a fat sloppy puppy. It would be like a real life episode of Hat and Hair, starring Josiey the Hutt Puppy.
Or, you know, someone who isn’t a total leaky bag of infected ratshit.
Like who? I cant think of any one of them that I would put in charge of policing the dog shit in my back yard, much less the country.
I mean, Christie would be good for me personally, but someone boring would be fine too.
Meh – he was my Governor for 8 years and in the end I had a slightly positive opinion of him. Once he was a lame-duck, the press really went on a mission to destroy him.
As somebody who takes NJTransit – not a fan…
*looks around*
Nope, don’t see any.
I agreed with Trump on Sessions being a bad pick before Trump agreed with Trump on it being a bad pick. How the fuck does it go well when you nominate Elmer Fudd the drug warrior dinosaur?
My kid’s charter school just sent out an e-mail to a 5,051 recipient group in the to: line.
This is gonna be fun.
Why are you wasting time here when you could be hitting reply-all?
You have to wait for someone else to start the madness, then reply all with one of the following messages:
You get bonus points if you can restart it the next day, or if you turn on an auto-reply that replies all.
“This is an automated reply. Juvenile Bluster is on vacation in the Bahamas until Wednesday, June 6th. I’ll get back to you as soon as I can!”
This could be the most epic “Reply All” shit show EVER.
Maybe. I’m sending everything from the group to spam for the next few days.
Warn them about the “It takes guts to say ‘Jesus'” email virus.
You counted?
Just went with the school’s enrollment?
So, what style are you gonna go for with the Reply All? My vote is for the-overtly-racist-uncle-forwarding-questionable-meme approach.
Dick pic.
Better check with Warren’s mom first to make sure she is OK with you using her picture….
Mistaken mass emails are like a zombie outbreak- they engulf everyone at a frightening pace and the only sane thing to do is to hunker down and wait it out. If you try to fight it, you get turned into one of them.
Every time I start thinking I work with moderately intelligent people, one of those storms starts.
I once saw a person who managed a large mailing list send out a password reset request (with link) to the entire mailing list.
Followed by many more password reset requests as people followed the link, found that “their” password had already been reset, and tried to reset it again.
Good times.
I see Gilmore has arrived. I am curious Gilmore, how is your study of meaningless but emotionally arousing words going? I complained to my wife the other day about an ad for an electrically powered grinder for feet armed with a pumice stone. The ad said it makes your feet effortlessly smooth. There is that word again…effortlessly. Work is effort or effortless. Smooth is just a texture. It is gibberish yet it makes you think it is effortless to make your feet smooth.
Then it occurred to me yesterday that most, if not all, lefty arguments are this kind of language. What they say is meaningless yet the impressionable hear it and read into it what the speaker wants them to think they heard. I guess the word artist is part of the phrase ‘bullshit artist’ for a reason.
Anyway, interested to find out what you have so far.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clich%C3%A9#Thought-terminating_cliché
This is the bread and butter of the Left; most of their slogans and messages can be boiled down to this.
Cool story, bro.
“Military-grade”.
Everything is for the children and everything is an investment.
Good video on this… from a sex cult!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z99hf7p2JAg
When a sex cult does journalisming better than the “professionals,” it says something about the health of that profession.
yeah, that’s a good vid. i remember when you (or someone) first linked to that. the “Refuse” example is something you see variations of in many proggy-arguments.
e.g. when you disagree, its not that you have a different opinion with an entire set of reasons for it; you’re “rejecting” or “refusing” or “denying” their claim, basically making your posture aggressive or bullheaded by default. Sensible people go, “yes, but”, not ‘no’ – the former is “accepting complexity” (see below), while the latter is “oversimplifying”
i think this thing where lefties cast ‘any form of disagreement is violence’ is a subtle shift in tone, but you find it everywhere. Its also embedded in the way millenial journalists write
see: Robby’s “to be sure” habit, where he basically concedes huge swaths of bad-ideas in the course of making a toothless criticism. It superficially similar to old-school ‘good argument’ where you note the best parts of an opponents case before delivering a crippling blow… but its actually pretending that the worst parts of their arguments have some merit when they don’t at all. which basically makes your criticism amount to nothing but a whine about ‘style’.
e.g. “to be sure, antifa has good intentions; no one likes Fascists” ; as though “nazis” are actually real, as opposed to a figment of the left’s imagination.
i don’t know if its a study so much as a life-long casual interest
i only notice certain words/phrases/rhetorical modes when i see them being repeated over and over again in similar contexts. e.g. the way “literally” has become a generic term of emphasis is maybe an example; it now means “very”, but ‘pretentious-very’
im more formally interested in rhetorical methods; types of arguments + appeals ; not so much ‘fallacies’ specifically (because language isnt formal logic), but ways in which people communicate in arguments.
but my interest only ever emerges when i encounter examples of things, and decide to point them out.
(e.g. the recent example was “how everyone is using the same stupid arguments to diss the “intellectual dark web” people)
if there’s anything lately i see a lot of in various places, its sort of an “appeal to complexity” whenever you point out flaws/errors. its sort of an inversion of “fallacy of the perfect” type thing: where the response to any criticism is, “its more complicated than that”… basically a handwave aside, making whatever their claim is basically ‘unfalsifiable’ because no matter how many errors you identify, its always too-complex a topic to be subject to any refutation.
e.g. “socialism works”, they say. example: Denmark. but Denmark has a more-liberal capitalist economy than even the us, you point out. They simply have a bigger welfare state. It is simply *not* socialism to begin with, much less ‘proof’ of its functionality. “its complicated” they insist. the *values* of socialism, is what they mean. Intentions! it reduces the claim to a vague feeling.
as for individual words for emotional appeal? i think there was a big fad with “organic, natural, sustainable, earthy, authentic” type terms for a decade or so, and that seems to be on the way out. lately i see people doing something where they use idiotically-exaggerated technical-sounding terms for very simple ideas: eg. “Data scientist” “machine learning” etc. Yes i know those terms can reference real technical things, but often they’re thrown around in contexts where they do nothing except exaggerate the sophistication of the people involved. Everyone wants to pretend they’ve involved in some PhD level shit. fetishism of expertise.
X industrial complex.
X Justice
Bon Scott was the perfect singer for that band. Nothing against Brian Johnson (he’s a race car driver, after all), but damn, Bon was so good.
And his mother is Italian and he loves Alfa-Romeo…./wink.
Totally agreed. Johnson is a great frontman (or rather sadly, was, what with his recent hearing loss), but the original incarnation of AC/DC is about as close to perfection as any band has ever gotten.
To be fair, in the original incarnation, Bon Scott was the chauffer. Dave Evans was the first singer.
Fuckin-a
Before Bon Scott, they sounded like the Beatles. As soon as Bon joined – they became AC/DC.
Bon Scott + bag pipes = bad ass.
I’m listening that on YouTube right now. I think they invented head-banging. My abs are sore just from watching Angus.
I claim Angus is the greatest guitar player ever. Whenever someone says Van Halen, Clapton (ha!), Hendrix, etc…I say, “Oh? Did they play what they did alternating between spinning on the floor on their back and running full tilt across a stage?”
Yes, yes…I know he wasn’t an innovator. And he wasn’t playing a lot of technically challenging music. But fuck, I’m serious, let’s see Eddie Van Halen spin around on his back while playing Eruption.
The only dude on the planet who could actually make bag pipes cool.
Bon is proof that its better to burn out than fade away.
Absolutely agreed. When it came out, a couple of tunes on Back in Black were good (I was in HS when it came out and it was blasted at keg paties).. but I always thought Johnson was just too “one note” screamy.
Bon could do the slow dirty stuff.
I don’t have any post-Bon AC/DC in my library.
*parties, too
Bon Scott WAS AC/DC, they were just not the same at all without him. Jailbreak, Sin City, Long Way to the Top, that is the shit.
I’ll add; What’s Next to the Moon, Can I Sit Next to You Girl, Gone Shootin’…that’s some seriously great music.
This dovetails nicely with the “white fragility” nonsense.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/cnn-cultural-critic-guest-people-voted-trump-racist/
When you’re calling literally 10s of millions of people racist, the word officially has no meaning anymore.
Please keep beating that drum pinkos. Beat it louder.
Yeah, about 65 million people to be more precise. Not a brilliant political strategy, but I encourage them to continue, hell no, double down.
*mutters something about being involved in a 7 year (and counting) process to get approval on a drug that’s already approved in the EU*
The FDA are an organized gang who eliminate competition for big drug companies. I think the avg is now 10 years and 5 billion dollars to get a single new drug to market. That pretty much eliminates start ups and stifles innovation.
There’s a ton of smaller drug companies that have various compounds in Phase 2/3 of the FDA’s testing. They pretty much exist on the prayer that they stay afloat long enough to get their drug approved so they can sell it to a larger company for $$$$ and then try again with a new compound.
The FDA’s process is also why drugs are so goddamn expensive. Especially for orphan indications. When you’re spending hundreds of millions of $$$ to get approval on a drug for a condition that only affects ~5,000 people and your exclusivity only lasts 5-7 years, how much are you going to have to charge for that drug so you can just break even, let alone make a profit?
“The FDA’s process is also why drugs are so goddamn expensive.”
Of course it is. Did I mention the 10 year 5 billion dollar thing? The FDA is a bureaucracy. As all of them, they’ve far surpassed their original mission of keeping Americans safe and are now only interested in expanding their fiefdom. Most of my clients are in medical research and everyone knows the deal. They might not talk about it in public, but trust me, they all know the deal, whether they will admit it or not. They just accept it, because what else can you do? There is an entire army of people who are basically on the public payroll who do nothing but sit around 24/7 dreaming up new regulations. With each new regulation, they’ve expanded their power and their kingdom.
All the same bullshit “student loan debt, collapsing infrastructure, rising interest rates”
You know, you’d really hope that the Senior Finance Correspondent for an outfit called “Business Insider” would actually kinda sorta know something about business or finance. Yes, long rates are rising. Because markets are perceiving the recovery as sustainable. Let me repeat that. Because its obviously so subtle a point that the Senior Finance Correspondent for Business Insider can’t pick up on it. When markets think the economy is going to grow longer-term, they bid up long rates. It’s a good thing. You want there to be a significant spread between long and short rates. The spread disappearing or going negative is actually what you want to be scared of (and we were coming close to that sort of situation earlier this year). Short rates have been rising since late in Obama’s term. That’s the thing the Fed controls. Markets weren’t buying into it. Now they’re starting to see some good longer-term news.
Okay. I’ll admit my web formatting is a little off. Sorry.
Thanks Edit Fairie!!!
Dick’s stock soars.
http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/dicks-sporting-goods-stock-price-strong-earnings-report-2018-5-1025847370
I guess they know what they’re doing or is it a trailing result?
I’ve pointed it out before, but they were losing money on their gun sales. They got to virtue signal and get rid of an unprofitable sector of their business. The majority of their business is soccer moms, so the virtue signaling was always going to work.
Who knows? I all I know is I ain’t shopping there no more.
Yup. I just bought the boy a new bat. His first round of gear, two years ago, bought at Dick’s. Not this time, or ever again for that matter.
… Lesbians Hardest Hit?
Mostly by their partners, it seems.
*applause*
And the judge lets them off.
Even in the USA, the highest percentage of domestic violence is in the lesbian community.
Amazing how it is kept so quiet.
Yeah, contrary to popular fantasy, most lesbians I have seen are not glamorous model types you want to see in pr0n. At least one of them is typically a burly angry butch dyke covered in tats. I guess that one is the dude.
Just wander around Berkeley for a while. Lipstick lesbians are the unicorns of the lesbian world.
Ouchie
It’s still a sporting goods store. What’s the point? You can buy all that shit for cheaper on the internet.
Those are first quarter results. I don’t think they lost the gun owner business until late that quarter, early second quarter. So the reporting that this proves that their new gun sales policies and gun owner backlash haven’t hurt their business is bullshit. But, it promotes Teh Narrative, so you see it as the lead on the news stories about this.
Good shorting opportunity, though you’d probably want to wait until early August or so.
Now what can I can do to get people to my orphan fights?
Get a better class of orphans? I breed a better class of fighting orphans…If you let em fight for food, it is more entertaining.
Warning: don’t let em grow up, they start to think they can take over. “I’m Spartucus!”
This is Spartu?
Dueling corrections?
Spot the Not: Florida Man
1. Florida Man proposes to girlfriend, ties ring to alligator. Woman is thrilled because she always dreamed of being an alligator wrestler.
2. Florida Man sentenced to prison for attempting to start “race war” near Disney World.
3. Naked Florida Man captured after threatening passers-by with sword.
4. Florida Man escapes prison to buy beer, no one notices.
5. Florida Man caught with “active” meth lab in his pants.
6. Florida Man attempts to leave store with chainsaw stuffed down his pants.
7. Florida Man tattoos black widow spider on his face to combat arachnophobia.
8. Florida Man caught while attempting to smuggle cocaine while disguised as a manatee
9. Florida Man sets apartment complex on fire after manager told him to stop masturbating in front of windows.
10. Elderly Florida Man caught masturbating in McDonald’s parking lot, claims his privacy was invaded.
11. Florida Man bites off neighbor’s ear because he wouldn’t give him a cigarette.
12. Florida Man attempts to leave store with chainsaw stuffed down his pants.
reals taken from: https://mic.com/articles/107372/49-tremendous-things-florida-men-accomplished-this-year#.FdOEdTJsT
Is #12 being real contingent on it happening for #6 and once more? In any case, i’m going to guess 5.
oopsy- poor proofreading on my part
6 and 12 are a freebies. Now you must spot the not from the remaining 10.
5 meth labs in pants are bad things…….
Nobody needs that many meth labs.
Common sense meth lab control.
Glad you caught that, I messed up and then said, leave it…..
Number 8. I just cant even.
No way, that absolutely sounds like Florida Man. It fits him…
… to a ‘tee.
Imma say #8.
That was Florida woman, and she wasn’t “disguised”, she was just “mistaken for”.
#8 must be the not.
#1. That sounds even too crazy for Florida
You guys are on the ball. 8 is the not. Here’s your prize:
Florida Woman Arrested for Riding a Manatee
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/25/florida-woman-arrested-for-riding-a-manatee/
I was tempted to link to the “Why is it illegal to ride a manatee?”, but alas, I can only link so many things.
Another Florida woman was arrested for riding a sea turtle.
Manatees are the mustangs of the sea.
YES!!!*
*I’m one of those psychos that think gloves make boxing more dangerous.
I was going to ask about this. The little I’ve looked into it, the “bare-knuckle is better” argument sways me.
I’m convinced the concussion ‘epidemic’ is at least somewhat related to improved equipment. Rugby players should all have CTE, but they don’t.
How can you tell?
Because the All Blacks can still perform the haka.
New Zealand’s national basketball team calls themselves the Tall Blacks. That’s the greatest name ever, IMO.
RACIST!
Nope, the racists are the NZ soccer team who call themselves the All Whites.
Gloves protect your hands. In fact the gloves I purchased a year ago are designed specifically to stabilize the wrist and harden up upon impact. They were never intended for your opponent’s benefit.
Consider this: if people’s hands were harder than their heads, would humanity every survive?
^^This.
Note: big, heavy gloves do protect opponents some, because they slow down punches and are easier to block.
If they hide behind their gloves, go to town on their kidneys.
Gloves allow a fighter to deliver a knock-out blow without breaking his hand. That is their purpose.
I’m against this because I see it as the first step in a giant rush on black market orangutangs. “Wrong turn, Clyde!”
I think it’s awesome he signed ‘right to try’.
Why didn’t Mr. I care for people, I’m so classy they had to redefine classy not sign one?
If you doubt the government, it was like you were doubting Barry Himself. And you don’t doubt Barry.
And you don’t doubt Barry.
Unless you’re racist.
If your goal is government controlled health care, the last thing you want to do is give people options that go around the Top. Men.
Case in point: NHS would rather a kid die than allow the parents to seek an alternate treatment.
You have never kept livestock, have you? Sometimes you have to cull the herd. That’s just part of proper animal husbandry. The sow has no say in it.
Sow/cow/ewe…whatever.
Trump, still getting shit done.
Assholes.
“Public health” == “Government health”.
it could put patients in danger
What mendacious fucks! It telling terminally ill patients they can try medicines. They’re already fucking terminally ill You can’t PUT them in danger. They’re already in about as much fucking danger as you can possibly fucking get. How the fuck can you look at yourself in the mirror knowing you’re palming off that kind of sadistic shit?
Here’s what they think: evil corporations will use terminally ill patients as guinea pigs for unproven medications and WHEN the medications fail they’ll just say the patient was going to die anyway. Therefore, it’s better to just let patients die. With dignity!
“Why didn’t Mr. I care for people, I’m so classy they had to redefine classy not sign one?”
He was too busy rescheduling the devil weed.
Hot women’s boxing action!
I don’t think there’s enough mis-matched boxing these days, if you ask me.
That’s 194 lbs. At 5′ 4″. Yikes.
I’m at 5’7″ 180 and I’m a fatass (though down 10 lbs from my high). So … yeah
Hey, I’m 5’7″ and 180, too. I’m not a fatass however, I’m husky.
I’m 5’8″ and I really wish I could get down to 180. 175 is probably my perfect weight. I’m still a little fat, but I’m at just under 200. A lot better than the 230 I was at.
I’m 5’4″ and 160. At my heaviest, I was 207. I blame beer and TX bbq.
Christ, it’s like the lollipop guild around here.
(also 5’7″)
Impossible. I’m told that all libertarians are strong, tall, handsome, geniuses, which is why they fetishize rugged individualism.
It makes our dedication to individualism all the more impressive, no?
Well, OMWC, Swiss, Brett L, Sloopy, Mexican, SugarFree, HM, Mad Scientist, Playa, JW, Warty, and Los Doyers, all are.
Not Lord Humongous? I am disappoint.
Oh, and for the record, I am at least _some_ of those things. Just not tall.
Have I mentioned yet today that SP is the smartest, most beautiful young girl in the world?
Good try, Mad Scientist, but you know SugarFree is still my favorite.
Yes, yes, I forgot that we need to keep up appearances.
You know the score, though. Whatever you have in actual handwriting, must be true. ?
We’re still tall and strong enough to participate in the orphan and midget toss, what’s the problem?
“Well, OMWC, Swiss, Brett L, Sloopy, Mexican, SugarFree, HM, Mad Scientist, Playa, JW, Warty, and Los Doyers, all are.”
Yeah, sure, SP, we totally believe you. Please post pics so we may admire their mighty prowess.
Well, OMWC, Swiss, Brett L, Sloopy, Mexican, SugarFree, HM, Mad Scientist, Playa, JW, Warty, and Los Doyers, all are.
Speaking of which, do I start wearing neckties again? I brought one with me, but I’m all, “why did I bring this? See, nobody cares unless they need somebody to talk to the cops, but then I’M talking to the cops.”
I don’t want to make the Glibertariat weep like girly men because they are so inferior; I hate to see grown men cry.
Based on everything I’ve seen, MS, you clean up really well. Men in suits and ties look great. Especially tall, strong, handsome men like you and the others in my list.
I’m now picturing the rest of the Glibertariat in grey sweats and lifting belts.
Steer clear of the neck ties. They’re like capes for office workers.
@slumbrew, to be fair, she doesn’t know LH. I do and he’s a fine fellow. And he paid me $20 to say that.
I’ll bet I’m the only one on here who was once tall and now is average height.
6″4″ just seven years ago, 5’10” now.
Bone marrow cancer in the spine is not fun; at least I had some to give.
But I do feel a lot better about sitting in front of people at the movies and ballgames.
Holy smokes, I can’t imagine what that was like. Glad you’re still with us, though. *raises a glass towards the West, playing the odds*
Ditto. I recall mentions of it back at TOS.
Thanks guys. Wish it would stop, though! I’ve lost at least another half-inch since I was measured last.
I knew another guy (no longer with us, RIP) who lost 18 inches of height from the same cancer, multiple myeloma. He started out at 6’5″ and was 4’11” when he passed. Can you even imagine.
The weird thing about it is your legs and everything else stay the same, just your torso gets squished, kind of a reverse dwarf effect. It’s not so noticeable with me yet unless I tuck in my shirt. Then you can see I have impressively long legs and arms for someone with such a minimal shoulder-to-hips measurement!
I should do commercials for “Untuckit”.
They’re like capes for office workers
So I’m going to get sucked into a jet engine?
Or a paper shredder!
The invention of the Clip-On solves that problem!
Gilmore (and I) haz a sad.
Jesus, I guess that means I’m getting stuff off the top shelves for y’all.
6’3″, 230.
We can get by without you: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/bojackhorseman/images/f/f1/Vincent.png/revision/latest?cb=20150719055028
5-fucking-9 and 175.
On NPRavda today, Robby Soave gave his 2 cents on the Roseanne contretemps. The host pronounced his name as swah-VAY and Robby did not correct it. I always thought his name rhymed with cove.
You are correct. Froot Sushi is a man-child that cant change a tire. No matter how much you prod him you wont hear a full throated, naked endorsement of real liberty. You surely dont expect him to openly correct someone mispronouncing his name.
Why do you think we called him Rico?
I thought it was a hair/shampoo joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpK_Ext2AeI
“Starbucks may find soon that its customers don’t want to be served coffee in a politically correct corporate homeless shelter”
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2018/05/30/new-starbucks-training-manual-promotes-becoming-color-brave-speaking-to-customers-one-human-to-one-human.html
Starbucks officially repudiates the concept of “color blindness” in lieu of “color braveness” (whatever the fuck that means). I’d be hard pressed to find a more effective combination of words that are simultaneously a) Smug, b) Self-congratulatory, c) Corporate Newspeak, d) Kumbaya nonsense and above all e) Complete bullshit.
TW: autoplay
OMG
That’s insane. I’ll never, ever go into another Starbucks and buy their overpriced shit.
>“color blindness” in lieu of “color braveness”
Hard to tell the Nazi alt-right from the mainstream progressive. Same as it ever was. Go look up the correspondences between the American and German eugenicists some time…
I didn’t watch it because Trevor Noah, but apparently the Starbucks training video is so lame even Trevor Noah was making fun of it on the Daily Show. Or whatever piece of shit SJW “comedy show” he is on.
Color braveness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYz00UQfiPk
The stupid never ends, now I just need to figure out whether to liquidate the few shares I own of Starbucks.
Somewhere I heard there was a study that mandatory sensitive training often has the opposite effect of what it’s purveyors claim. They may be doing God’s work.
Not that the con artists peddling it would ever be bothered with an objective analysis of their scam.
Hey SF! check out the new Weezer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8jr-p0lQZo
very Relevent
That’s too funny
I didn’t know they were still making music.
He looks just like Buddy Holly.
They are, and they sound great. Saw them last year, and I’m seeing them again in July.
WTF Weezer, I feel dirty know for occasionally defending them over the years, the “Weezer sucks” people were right.
They also do Africa by Toto, so maybe a themed album? This all came out in the last week AFAIK
The only good Africa cover is by Leo with the adorable Hannah backing him up. There is no other.
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes could pull it off but sadly they haven’t. Speaking of covers and AC/DC this is funny.
^Truth. Everything Leo touches turns to gold, or back to gold…or to gold again, or something.
Self – What a Fool Believes
From the album, “Gizmodgery” played and recorded on the Sears Xmas catalog stuff-you-would-buy-for-your-kids instruments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4c7EE8_IX0
Consent laws bullshit, standard libertarian refrain etc. etc.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/30/teacher-32-gets-1-year-prison-term-for-having-classroom-sex-with-14-year-old-student.html?intcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork
HOWEVER, switch the genders and a male teacher gets the book thrown at him.
Nice.
A 32-year-old Ohio teacher found guilty of having sex with a 14-year-old student inside her…
That is how you do phrasing.
“HOWEVER, switch the genders and a male teacher gets the book thrown at him.”
Depends on who you are (not a teacher but still):
https://townhall.com/notebook/bethbaumann/2018/05/26/longtime-businessman-receives-90-days-of-house-arrest-for-raping-a-child-n2484710
Man, them’s some bunny-boiler eyes.
Her pupils look like they arrested her in the middle of an acid trip.
Remember, boys, this is your chance. You want justice? Nail you some milf, but do it when you’re 14, so she gets arrested while you walk around with a smile on your face. She can’t even call or text you now! Free pussy! Woohoo, that’s the way you do it! And you’re probably gonna want to do that a lot, so much you’re over pussy by the time you’re 18 and never go around women again, live your life happy and free. I should write a how to manual.
You are the wisest man alive.
Pretty OK with institutional sexual misconduct being a crime. Date on your own time, and not with people over whom you have authority.
This. Age of consent debate aside, you’re in an authority position over a minor. It’s akin to screwing your 14 year old foster child.
Sessions, as a good and honorable Southern gentleman, should do the right thing now and resign. He won’t, of course, but he should.
That’s not the honorable way out.
Doing a Budd Dwyer might be even more honorable.
I’d say, “Hey Jim, nice shot.”
*Dear NSA, I’m just kidding. Ted is too. Probably. *
Dammit. Jeff, not Jim.
I challenged him to a duel after he besmirched my honor but the coward declined.
Politics would be greatly improved if we brought dueling back.
Jackson was a lot of things but coward was not among them.
Sessions won’t resign because he still wants to get them mareejuaner addicts. Would make a good episode of Hat and Hair, ‘But, but, boss you promised me I could get them potheads when you nominated me!’ I’ve been a good boy, I can bark like a dog again, just like you like, please!!!???. Hey, Jeffey, get off your knees, I’m not in the mood today.’
You could redo the “No Way Out” scene with Trump playing Hackman and Sessions playing the toady.
What Trump tweeted was basically the equivalent of “I’d like to fire you but I can’t.” If my boss told me that I think I’d put in my notice unless I was trying to screw him over for some reason.
Am I misunderstanding something here, because if not, isn’t Trump Jeffey’s boss, meaning he can indeed fire him?
Absolutely he can but he’d take a major political hit that he’s deemed not worth it, at least for now.
Sessions doesn’t seem to be too popular from the comments I’ve seen online. Not sure it would be an unpopular move. Or maybe Trump is just trying to manipulate Sessions by saying that and hoping he’ll change his behavior. If that’s it, I don’t think Trump will get the desired outcome. Sessions is a real shit weasel who has only one single minded thing on his mind, which is a glorious drug war revival, which is not going to happen.
I was thinking more along the lines of the Russia nonsense. A fresh AG wouldn’t have to recuse himself and firing Sessions would be seen as an attack on the Mueller investigation regardless of who was appointed to fill his shoes. The Dems and sellout Reps would raise holy hell.
^^^This. If the Pubs keep control on Congress after the midterms, look for good ole’ Jeff being shown the exit.
I hope so, the man’s a disaster.
Blue wave is coming, surely. They are doubling down on the deplorables and every Trump voter is racist and gun owners have blood on their hands etc.
They cant lose.
“Blue wave is coming, surely.”
Which is why the media has nearly stopped reporting on it. Sure, you still see the occasional ‘Why dems are still historic favorites in the midterms’. Sure they are, as far as historic trends go, but they’re done blown it and if there’s any chance they haven’t quite blown it yet, they’re working hard on doing so. Then they will see it as a sure sign they should go further left and they will, and then they will get their asses handed to them in 2020. Which will make them do, guess what?
Here’s the thing. For the most part they don’t know anyone who isn’t another TEAM BLUE player or fan. They have no clue what the TEAM RED people actually believe or why, and they have no idea why constantly painting them as racist and/or sexist and/or dumb is foolish. They’ve painted themselves into a corner and then put up walls around it and shuttered all the windows. They were surprised when Hillary lost, and they’ll continue to be surprised when they lose again, and they’ll chalk it up to all those nasty things they said about TEAM RED must be even truer than they thought. The alternative is that they’re dead wrong and there’s just no way that can be true so….wash, rinse, repeat.
“Which will make them do, guess what?”
They let the lunatic fringe co-opt their party. I predict they will have their asses handed to them up to 2020. By then they will be forced to have double secret meetings in back alleys, i.e. crawl back under their rock. If they dont start putting moderates in their party the Democrat party will cease to exist as a major party except in a few blue bubbles.
Then what are going to do about the shitweasels in the republican party? It will be their turn then.
As long as the economy holds out the blue wave is dead. I imagine they’ll pick up some seats but it won’t be a catastrophic for the Republicans.
“Here’s the thing. For the most part they don’t know anyone who isn’t another TEAM BLUE player or fan. They have no clue what the TEAM RED people actually believe or why, and they have no idea why”
When I first moved to Maryland, I tried to explain exactly that to a team blue lifetime east coast city dweller. What I said was something like ‘Look, I came here from the midwest, where I’ve lived on an off half of my life. I know these people, they don’t think the way you do, they don’t see things from the same perspective you do, you have to understand them and it’s not what you think because you don’t know’. Deer in headlights, bemused look like ‘Oh, sure I know, dumb rednecks’. Completely useless attempt, so I didn’t even bother to continue.
Considering your drug is essentially a benzo, a class of drugs which is highly addictive and, if used improperly, extremely dangerous, you might want to STFU.
https://twitter.com/SanofiUS/status/1001824999496404992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Or at least stop fanning the flames of super rich multinationals getting involved in Kulturkampf.
Ambien doesn’t do shit for me. Doesn’t even put me to sleep.
Which is weird, because I don’t have that trouble with other benzos.
Ambien (in my experience) doesn’t put you to sleep, it just keeps you asleep for 8 hours once you fall asleep.
So you could, potentially, take it at like 10pm and sit on the couch and watch a bit more TV before bed, then trip balls until 4am when you finally pass out from exhaustion, and it’ll keep you knocked out until noon, when you’ll awake with no memory of wtf happened after about 10:30pm.
Ambien makes people drive fucking cars, shop, eat, etc with no recollection the next day, I’d suspect it can loosen the tongue too. This corporate virtue signaling has got to end.
ambien sex. supposedly, it’s a thing.
It’s not. Certain bodily functions become…either useless or pointless.
I’ve been saying that about erections for awhile now.
I mis-read that as “elections.”
Wife has the same problem.
Me – “Nothing? It’s not working for you?”
Her – “No, just go ahead. If I fall asleep dont pay attention.”
Me – “How about we just try again tomorrow? Goodnight. Did you hear me? Hey….”
Her – “ZZZZZZZ”
I guess you are technically correct. Ambien sex is a thing.
Well ummmm she did pull her goalie, just sayin
I like to combine Adderall and Ambien, so I can focus on my dreams.
Try the waitress and tip the veal!
STEVE SMITH LIKE AMBIEN SEX. HIKERS DON’T REMEMBER STEVE SMITH AND STAY FOR SECONDS.
>drive fucking cars
“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I stand before you today to tell you that my client knows that if a car is a-rocking, she should not come a-knocking. It was because of, and only, because of this multinational’s shoddy drug that my client went a-knocking and then a-driving this car while two people were fucking in the back seat.”
I would watch that movie.
The one time I tried Ambien it did nothing to help me sleep. But it did give me a splitting headache that lasted two days.
The only thing it does for me is drop my IQ by about 15 points the next day. I’d rather deal with the insomnia.
Dumb fuckers can’t resist wading in. Nothing good will come of it.
Nothing good comes from using twitter.
Ambien isn’t a benzo. And benzos are not addictive.
I’d say alprazolam is pretty addictive — and causes some nasty seizures if you try to cold turkey.
“so I can bolster my resume”
Today, the Mayor met with my boss and others at our offices. I volunteered to escort outside folks to the room they were meeting in (we are a very secure campus), when it dawned on me that I could add Male Escort to my resume.
“I volunteered to escort outside folks”
Way to take one for the team, just make sure you use a condom.
When do you accuse your boss of human trafficking?
Escort comes from an Italian word that means to guide or conduct. It shares a root with the word correct.
Can I get a “the more you know” gif?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD6qtc2_AQA
https://youtu.be/pele5vptVgc
…(we are a very secure campus)…
Well, they let you in, so…
Did you hobnob with the little commie?
Suthen,
Any updates on your neighborhood felon at large?
I figured they would have him by now, but no. The helicopter just went over and is buzzing around the 40 acres of godawful jungle south of me. I am in the north 1/10th of the area they are sure he is in. I have to take the dogs out to pee one at a time with my damned rifle. I cant imagine he would be dumb enough to come here. Five dogs and a scary white boy on the back porch with a rifle. He’d watch the house before approaching and no doubt resort to plan B.
I hope they catch him without incident. If my wife weren’t home I would feel guilty hoping he chooses someone else. On the periphery of the area they are searching there are two elderly couples and a young woman home alone.
Do you have any night vision or infrared toys? If he’s hanging out in the woods looking for a car to steal, you might be able to spot him before he even approaches.
No, I dont. I am sure the Sheriff does. The trouble is that the woods here are hilly and thick as the amazon jungle. There are numerous wolf/coyote dens on steep hills, at least two abandoned houses, a couple of vacant ones up for sale, a bayou he could lay in with just a nose sticking out, a beaver’s den in a steep bank that is as big as a hobbit house etc. They have dogs out but the dogs dont know what they are looking for.
I am sure he will hole up until dark and then try to either slip their net or steal a car.
Just saw a report on the news. Serious bad dudes. There were three initially. Two caught. Multiple armed robberies from Monroe to Alexandria during the course of which shot two people. Made a run to this area out of desperation, car broke down.
So, serious bad dude in desperate circumstances with a gun. He is bound to be in panicked animal mode. Great. I dont see this ending well.
Sounds like your duty as a gentleman is to make sure your wife is bunkered down, armed and ready, then go check on that lonely young woman, and don’t forget to take pics.
I have a feeling Mrs. Suthen is just as tough as Suthen. (Not meant to imply Suthen has a lack of toughness.)
re: Bare knuckle boxing
it would be nice if more people realized this sort of thing about most purportedly “beneficial” regulation. most of the time it just gives padding /protection to the people doing the bad-shit
Same deal with football. There would probably be fewer injuries and deaths overall if there were no pads or helmets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_helmet
It’s better for a guy to quit after losing a tooth or 2 than to keep playing and turn his brain into mush.
Yes and yes – I would break my wrists and hands if I threw full-powered punches into another man’s face.
As a rugby player, we learned to tackle without our heads. I saw some cuts and lots of injured shoulders and ankles – but I cannot recall ever seeing a concussion in a game.
Probably because you weren’t playing with world class athletes like the NFL.
People actually did die in football before that equipment.
Knowing full well this is risky…
I’m going to be in Ottawa weekend after next. Any Canada-glibs have advice on good places to eat?
A ring at the front door bell during a thunderstorm just now. I look at my porch camera feed. Nothing threatening, in fact, classic soyboy with an iPad. I ignore the door.
He continues to stand there in spite of the 110 pound dog barking and snarling and slamming against the door like it’s Bacon Magic returned. I don’t answer.
So, he knocks. Even smiles at the dog’s increasingly frantic actions.
Hey, he’s either a dog lover, or really needs a sale. So, as a reward, I go answer the door; he gives me his pitch; I say I’m not interested. He pleasantly wishes me a great evening.
Then, picks up his dripping, unfurled black John Steed umbrella from the porch floor, tucks his iPad under his arm, gets on his mini Segway, and rides away into the storm.
And I don’t have my phone to snap a photo for all of you.
I am a loser.
Lawd. Oh lawd. No.
Regarding pictures… does your porch camera record or is it just a live stream? **waggly brows**
Indeed, it does record. No point to one that does not. Why do you ask?
(He didn’t get on the Segway in camera view.)
Damn! I was so hoping, too.
See, the problem with saying that on the internet, is you are going to get people dancing in front of your door–like that raunchy guy at the ATM.
OMWC doesn’t do this already?
Belt sanding, not dancing.
I was really hoping the next words were “and flew away like Mary Poppins”.
OMWC was hoping Mrs Emma Peel also stood waiting on the porch.
I can not fault him for that.
What in hell was he selling?
I always assume door to door salesmen are just casing my house.
Pest control services. He actually had the required permit (!) from my village hall and the names of several neighbors who are customers.
He next went to my Good Neighbor’s house (as opposed to my Bad Neighbor’s house) and was there a very long time. It was too bad, because I was lurking with my phone to try to get a photo for you all when he left, but I gave up after a while. My Good Neighbor is such a nice guy, he probably invited the kid in for dinner and a beer.
“the names of several neighbors who are customers”
Oh, sure, the Smiths have bed bugs. Lousy with ’em! Rather like the Browns’ house, but—well, you get the point.
Mixed Asian (mostly Sri Lankan) and Mexican neighborhood. Hard to pull Lal Edirisuriya* out of one’s tukus. 😉
*note to stalkers: not an actual neighbor’s name, just illustrative
So we DO have stalkers.
This story is the best thing I’ve heard in at least a week.
Son of a bitch if it’s not going to rain again for the next 5 days. I made an attempt to clean off my deck again today, it’s not possible, every fucking thing is wet and waterlogged, my poor plants are drowning, I’ve pulled all of them as far as I can back under the overhang. This shit is depressing as hell.
Send some my way. I’ll take it. No rain here for a week or more. 95 – 100 degrees, blazing sun and 80+ humidity. It isnt even june and we have summer hell. My grass is dying no matter how much I water.
You can have it all for a while. I give you the next 5 days worth for free.
I knew it!
Paging Sharpie! Mexican Sharpshooter to the courtesy phone, please…https://vinepair.com/articles/the-10-worst-beers-in-the-world/
I stopped here. I’m afraid I will need a drink before I read any further.
The Weekly Standard sticks up for George freaking Soros:
https://www.weeklystandard.com/holmes-lybrand/fact-check-george-soros-the-thieving-nazi-sympathizer
If he was just forced to participate in the confiscation of property that’d be one thing but he looks back on those times fondly and seems to feel no remorse.
The Weekly Standard hasn’t been conservative in a long time. It is the neo-con, globalist, never-trumpers home base.
I took this piece of paper to my father. He instantly recognized it, you see. This was a list of Hungarian Jewish lawyers. He said, “You deliver the slips of paper and tell the people that if they report they will be deported.” I’m not sure to what extent he knew they were going to be gassed. I did what my father said.
What exactly should he be remorseful for? Doing what his father told him at 13 years of age and warning people?
Do I have to read that? The claims about him are exaggerated. He was not a Nazi or a nazi sympathizer. He was not pressed into service either, at least not directly. He was playing a ruse to avoid being rounded up himself. He was just a boy, but yes, in the interviews where he was asked about it he did admit to playing a part and seemed to have no remorse.
It is easy to see those circumstances producing a sociopath. Sometimes I wonder if he isnt hell-bent on destroying western civilization in revenge. I dont care how he got that way, the world will be a better place when he kicks off.
My Grandfather – “You cant blame the wolf. He’s just being a wolf, but you still have to shoot him.”
Also, Florida Man nearly out-Florida’d by Florida Woman.
No mention of beer-holding.
TW: Time Magazine
The Bud Light Chelada definitely belongs on that list, that stuff makes Natural Light seem like Guinness in comparison.
Well damn…
Yeah, I’d say that’s a pretty good list over all. I would replace Mich Ultra with Corona Light. I would drink Mich Ultra.
Erm….suppose I meant THIS.
You mean that story from 2012 that was mentioned 90 minutes ago? Do you even comments, bro?
(did that come out too harsh? it might have been too harsh).
So Comcast just called me and I picked up the phone and hung it up. Wife is sleeping, she’s been working a lot, poor baby, I know she’s really tired, but at least she has tomorrow off. Phone rings again, I do same thing on first ring. 1 minute later rings again, I pick up.
Me: What the fuck is wrong with you, my wife is sleeping, stop calling me!
Comcast: Sir, we’d like to…
Me: Did you fucking hear me? I said what’s wrong with you, are you fucking crazy?
Comcast: Oh, I’m … I do apologize sir and…
Me: Fuck off *hangs up*
Is this idiot day or what? I almost got hit twice today in traffic just driving one mile and back to get my wife at the train station.
Sounds like your wife is the source of all your problems!
It’s more like I’m the source of all her problems, but somehow she manages to put up with me.
They always are.
Is this idiot day or what?
Might be, I witnessed a tweaker type dude race out of The Home Depot with a shopping cart full of Milwaukee Tools at a quarter of eight this morning. Broad daylight, half a dozen shoppers and three employees watching as he throws everything on his trunk and speeds off, Cameras everywhere, and if the thief isn’t a good example, I was the only person there who caught the license plate number.
How did you know he hadn’t purchased them, and was just in a hurry?
OT way too personal rant:
GF and I are in a huge fight over….politics. This one hasn’t shown too many Prog/Statist tendencies (although her mom and BF are total Progs) but the subject of Tommy Robinson came up (I was explaining the context of a podcast) and she immediately blew up.
Her: “What do you care about Britain? He should have followed the law! He knew the consequences of his actions. If he doesn’t like it he can move to another country. Why does this matter to you?!”
Me: *admittedly kind of shocked and judgmental* “What !?! It’s immoral. Jailing somebody for unapproved speech isn’t a just consequence, it’s an aberration of justice. It matters to me because I believe in human freedom and I believe freedom of thought and speech are a natural right. I don’t believe in following unjust laws. Martin Luther King broke the law, was it ‘right’ that he went to jail?”
Her: “Thats different. It’s not a moral issue and you are making it one. You obviously have no respect for my opinion. You are just arguing to make your own points”
And so it went until…….I’m sleeping alone tonight. There’s a lot more in play going on here but I’m kind of in shock…..
Is it possible to be with someone who refuses to acknowledge their own logical inconsistencies? Am I missing something or should I just give up and accept there are no libertarian women other than the few fine ladies here?
That’s not what she’s actually pissed about.
^^ this ^^
^^Agreed^^
^^ this ^^ ^^ this ^^
^^that^^
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9F5xcpjDMU
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Is… is this your first girlfriend?
Ball-busting aside, a dedication to logic and principles isn’t common, regardless of gender. I think it’s something you just need to deal with however you can.
Lol you’d think so…..the problem is it immediately becomes emotional, there’s no “lets look at this from another angle” that isn’t immediately perceived as a personal attack
Again, not uncommon. cf. Mrs. Slumbrew, in the beginning. Over the years it has made me more diplomatic (which is good) and her less sensitive (also good). Win-win.
Admittedly this is one of my biggest faults. I need to learn to be diplomatic. I am about most things but I get pretty passionate about liberty and it sometimes overrides my better judgement.
It’s completely different being like that and being like that with someone you want a long term intimate relationship with. There are things in that type relationship that can turn very toxic, quickly, highest among them, religion and politics. Trust me on this man, don’t back her into a corner on politics. If she insists on doing the same to you and you cannot deflect it, then it’s time to move on.
“GF and I are in a huge fight over….politics.”
Don’t go there lightly. This one needs patience and extreme strategy. When my wife first came to the US, she was a total socialist. Now she’s totally not. But this took years of subtle strategy. It still does and I still approach it just as carefully. For example, the recent truckers strike in Brazil. She was all happy about the strike and how they are sticking it to the corrupt government (easy for her, she lives in the USA). Unfortunately, they are sticking it harder to the poor consumers. I tried explaining it to her now this is not an effective strategy to solve Brazil’s problems and what they really need to do is stop voting for socialist shit. I tried to go deep into this, but I saw she was getting impatient and wanting to throw a Latina temper tantrum, so I changed the subject. Tread lightly on this stuff with someone you are sleeping with.
Good advice. I usually ‘steer to avoid’ but sometimes she brings things up and I can’t help myself. She has some Malthusian tendencies that are……unsettling.
I’m not saying don’t state your opinion, definitely do that. Just make it brief and to the point. Don’t keep going, you can come back to it later. I’ve been doing it for years and it works, long term. I think what it comes down to, at least with my wife, is that if I keep going to drill the point home, she thinks I’m lecturing because I think she’s dumb and that her idea was totally without merit. Even if it was totally without merit, you can’t make them feel that way, they’re more emotional than guys are, at least most of them.
I agree with this.
Agreed 100%. Diplomacy is not without merit. You don’t have to “win” the argument. You working the long con here 😉
That’s 100% correct and applicable to this situation. I definitely have made her feel that way, naively thinking that logical consistency will win the day……it’s turned out…… poorly.
Truly, you are one of us (well, like me – maybe the rest of you were quicker on the uptake about such things than I).
Yeah, the minute you see that you are making your female special other retreat into emotional defense state, do a tactical retreat and revisit the battle later. Took me about 40 years to to learn that lesson, but it’s a lesson most valuable. Not the woman’s fault or yours, it’s just the nature of the way evolution happened. Just take advantage of the situation and it will work out if it’s possible.
Sage advice. I appreciate it and, if the dust settles in a few days, will do more of that.
I feel your pain. My wife is a Progressive who swears up and down that she’s more of a libertarian than I am, comma, and there’s no reason for anyone to own a gun. That’s what I’m working with. She also loves to argue–not debate, not discuss, argue–about politics. In all other regards she is a delightful, kind, funny, charming woman, but if she starts talking about politics it’s all over.
My strategy lately has been to just rope-a-dope. Just don’t engage. If she presses me, I’ll give my opinion, but with the caveat that I’m really not interested in talking about politics. Really, it means I’m not interested in talking about Donald Trump’s social media activity, and that I already understand that she thinks Barack Obama was Jesus Christ and that Donald Trump is a stupid, evil rapist.
Then I donate another $25 to a 2A advocacy group in her name. 🙂
You may be my new hero.
“My wife is a Progressive who swears up and down that she’s more of a libertarian than I am, comma, and there’s no reason for anyone to own a gun.”
We have a very bad man on the loose near us. Near as in he is hiding out within a mile and they expect him to try and break in someones house for car keys to steal a car and make a getaway. He haas already shown a disregard for human life but no one sees him because he isnt just afraid of cops, he is scared of armed homeowners. He would probably stand a better chance with the cops.
Ask her how guys like this would behave if they had no fear of the law abiding citizen. I have been places where they aren’t. They prey on people with impunity. Crime is astronomical. Ask her that. Also tell her, no offense, she cant have my guns no matter how she feels or what she says.
I don’t know how you do it. My mother is a progressive who loves to watch CNN in the morning and regurgitate the BS that was fed to her. It’s tedious.
My wife rarely talks politics but I think she leans right. Her sister is a teacher who’s involved in the worship me protests in KY because teacher retirement pay was reduced from merely lavish to extravagant.
I just mention that whatever money her sister gets will come from our checks. Then let that stew.
@Suthen: It took the birth of our daughter for her to finally stop saying that if someone broke into the house she’d rather die than defend herself. I don’t know where she gets it, frankly. I tend to think that if she’d actually been in a position where she’d have to defend herself she might have a different opinion, but by that time it would probably be a little late to see the light, so to speak.
FFS, I cannot understand how people live like that. I do hope that she’s changed her mind, NB.
I have to say, after having been involved with men across the political spectrum, I would never go back to being with someone who had so little regard for the principles that matter most deeply to me. I don’t want the drama, or having to walk on eggshells and watch everything I say, or having my respect for them chipped away a little at a time.
True, you can’t help who you love, but you can help what you do about it.TM
Thanks, thats reassuring. Thats what this is really about for me; principles. The funny thing is she’s not even a Prog, it seems to be more about taking a position opposite me and turning it into it being an attack on her. I guess this is probably more about control than anything.
Oh, *that’s* not a giant, flashing, neon warning sign!
Almost as bright as the light bulb that just lit up over my head!
Been there Bob. Shall I tell you what I did about it or keep it to myself? How much do you have invested in her?
Tell. It’s only been a couple months and she’s moving soon.
Wish her a happy life.
I learned after only 100 times that those red flags are there for a reason. I waited. I was patient and finally found a flagless mate. I am ecstatic for 20 uh…22? years now. Believe it or not in all that time we have not had a single fight. My life is peace and happiness.
I’m leaning that way, and the impending move will probably take care of the problem anyway. Good for you, sounds like you found yourself a great woman. Makes me happy to know there are relationships out there that aren’t never ending power struggles.
That was the key. No power struggle. The worst red flags I saw out in the world were the ones where they tried to manipulate me for the sake of manipulation. Wanna see me do a Roadrunner disappearing act? Do that.
^^This.
My wife isn’t perfect about it, but she’s better than most. I can take her being particular about certain things as long as it doesn’t turn into some juvenile game of “find out how I pissed you off.”
I’ve never had a prostitute complain that I don’t respect her opinions. Just saying…
Says the guy with the axe. We believe you.
I still think it looks more like the Monkees’ Davy Jones fanning himself with a smoldering incense stick. Most avatars on this site are all so tiny on my screen that it’s conjecture on most of them anyway.
But now that I know it’s American Psycho with an axe in the Conservatory I’m starting to see it. It’s like that picture that intentionally looks both like a goblet or people kissing depending on your focus at the time.
Do you like Huey Lewis and The News?
No, you’re just blind.
“He should have followed the law!”
Most people never think beyond this.
Most of the time it is true. You have to pick your battles and method of fighting them. Banging your skull on the brick wall of the state over trivial matters isnt wise. In this case Robinson did the correct thing. GF is dead wrong, wrong, wrong.
Yeah, this occurred to me to. It’s not an uncommon sentiment in about 99% of the population.
I can’t imagine settling down with someone who does not share a majority of similar view points on the big picture – life, liberty, happiness, etc. The biggest discrepancies with my lovely girlfriend are things like I prefer to put hot sauce on stuff and she doesn’t like coconut. And it’s not like she’s a push over…she’s Irish & German descent raised in Jersey City.
Thats what I keep hoping for, good for you guys. I really hope to someday be in a relationship where we joke about the little ways we are different. Many times my dating misadventures seem to boil down on big ugly elephant in the room: Moral relativism. It’s ended about 75% of my relationships in one way or another.
As with anything else in the dating realm, you have to fish in ponds that are stocked with the types of fish you want. If you want to date people who dislike moral relativism, find a place where such people congregate.
And in this particular case, congregate might be literally the right word.
It wasn’t always so good. I was a bit of an asshole in my (much) younger days. Though, that’s what happens when you mark a mustang and try to cull him from the herd. (For lack of a better analogy)
Despite that, we still had similar view points and still agreed on stuff despite me trying to sabotage things.
Is it possible to be with someone who refuses to acknowledge their own logical inconsistencies?
Doesn’t that describe most women?
(This is why there are no female libertarians….)
And, doesn’t it worry you, just a little, that you came *here* asking for relationship advice?
Lol, I come here for politics, LOLZ, beer reviews, SF stories *shudders*,……why not relationship advice?
In reality I really appreciate it, it’s much more objective than all the people in my life who think it’s way past time I was married.
ROFL.
Cleans the girlfriend.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Yikes, that’s a good point. You might end up following the suggestions of, say, SugarFree and then…
Sounds like pms. Tread lightly for a few days or she may stab you if the face with a pair of scissors.
I had a very smart GF for years (~6) who occasionally would do very similar thing.
it sometimes appeared like we were debating some issue, but we weren’t; it was merely a context for venting
i found that the method was, “baby (puts on soul music) let me feed you these grapes and rub your feet, and you tell me how you feel. then, when i have you buttered up, will kindly whisper, “but you’re wrong”… and laugh my head off when she then tries to get mad, but can’t.
I would have trouble being with someone who didn’t share my principles. My wife is a libertarian of the “fuck off slaver” camp. We were both initially on the libertarian line when we met (I guess kind of conservative without the socon attachments) and evolved our views together. This culminated in use moving deep into the country where we could do whatever we want, homeschooling our kids, shooting on our own range, etc. I wouldn’t be able to do these things with someone who was actively against them. She lurks here sometimes and got a kick out of yesterday’s tramp stamp thread. She wants to know where all the woman are though?!
You need to break the bad news to her – she’s a unicorn.
She just doesn’t know which handles are chicks. Yeah, that’s it. There are dozens and dozens of us here.
And, she *could* increase the number by one.
Almost no one has a structure of principles that are consistent and that they live by; they don’t run for president, chair the neighborhood ARB, or hop into bed with you.
Relationships are about two things: what do I get out of this and what do I hafta put up with…..same for her ledger. You can disagree so long as she shuts up and minds her own business; otherwise, it’s doomed. It’s also doomed if she disagrees and is putting up with you: she can never respect someone she doesn’t agree with or find profoundly principled.
My lady is the modern left-center Slatist who probably votes Republican because the candidates remind her of her father. She doesn’t understand guns; we live in a tough town; she would rather be raped in the street than defend herself with a gun. But the first thing she sees in the morning is me strapping on and walking out the door; the first thing when I’m home is a peck on the cheek and the second is the pistol going back in the bedside lamp table. Deep down she believes in laws and police, not self defense; when seconds matter, the police are only minutes away, but she’ll never care until it’s too late. Her tolerance is based on my ability: she thinks I’m qualified and special; she does not think that I’m sane and endowed by my creator to do whatever I want. She also knows that I want to shoot someone less than anyone she knows.
We’re in a red state; she wasted her vote on Hillary; I wasted mine on Gary. I would take the day off, rent a cab, and hold an umbrella for her so that she could vote for someone I despise. I love this American experiment, but you all know I am less optimistic than most. She sees me as intelligent and principled, fair, hard-working; I didn’t think I’d find a never-married chick with no kids at my age that I would have me….especially a chick with a advanced who would live with a Glock in the house.
I wash the dishes and put up with her cats.
September Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGKd6m4Pksg
I can see all of that. You were good right up until…Glock. A Glock? Really?
Bob? Hopefully you aren’t dating Ohio Woman®.
WOULDN’T
“The report didn’t say if a weapon was used in the attack. ”
Yikes.
This Florida Man will make you root for LeBron James
The amount he’d have to pay to keep the promise should Cleveland win is approaching nine figures.
He said ‘a jersey’, as in one. 692,000 people have to share it.
So, Michael Avenatti is in the news again…
Hey, lawyer-Glibs, what’s your take on this? As a total layman it strikes me that this is something of a rebuke from the judge and indicative of Avenatti being a glorified ambulance-chaser trying to use his 15 minutes for all they’re worth. Like, if he actually had something that gave him some kind of leverage, he’d just shut his mouth, behave like a professional, and carry on with the case, wouldn’t he? It just strikes me that this is the way people talk and act when they’ve had their bluff called, not when they’re in a position of strength.
Does anyone know of a good way to repel squirrels?
Unfortunately, using my Model 60 isn’t an option.
Repel? Are you under assault by squirrels? Are they storming your castle?
Twice they chewed up the hoses to my gas grill. I think it might be the same loopy squirrel that acts like it has rabies or something.
New hoses, Tabasco sauce. It is worth a try.
Curse your nimble fingers.
Aren’t you watching out for felons?
Put hot sauce on your hoses.
http://blog.duncraft.com/2010/01/07/deter-squirrels-with-hot-pepper/
Or mace your squirrels…
Squirrels chewing gas hoses is a thing; you can wrap the hoses in tinfoil or get something like https://www.amazon.com/Brushtech-Propane-Hose-Safety-Guard/dp/B000RE7W28 or spring for a stainless hose.
Thanks 🙂
Cats
I don’t think I could train a cat to sit on my deck.
Put a cardboard box on the deck, and the cat will train itself.
You put food out there, they will stay near wherever it occasionally arrives.
^the point about ‘box’ is accurate as well. anywhere they can watch birds, cats will pick any spots that are comfy. in shade, in box
My dad used to have coyote issues until he shot one and hung it from a tree. Don’t know if that works with squirrels. Might not fly with the HOA, either.
Claymores
My dog would be happy to try.
How many squirrels are you talking about here? Because in some parts of the country, as the commentariat has already documented in the past, it’s impossible. You’re just fighting a losing battle. It doesn’t matter how many you kill. They keep coming and you just end up with a bunch of dead squirrel carcasses. You’d have more luck invading Russia in the middle of winter.
Repel from what? What are they damaging?
You can get those extra large rat traps, nail them to a tree and bait with peanut butter. If you get caught there will probably be legal hell to pay.
One summer I shot around 70 of them out o f my grandfather’s pear trees with my Beeman. At the end of the summer there were no pears left and I couldn’t tell that I had even made a dent in the squirrel population. In other words, it is probably a lost cause.
The hoses on my gas grill.
Anyway, I think you are right. Even if I manage to trap/poison some of them, more will just take their place.
Electrified chicken wire?
There is always this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5-d3rZZ-_M&t=145s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIbY_IWT3fk
Nice.
LOL
I’ll rent you Bella, problem solved…..
Sidle up next to them and attempt to make uncomfortable small talk, when they politely brush you off, double down and start asking personal questions about what they do for a living and where they live and if they have a boyfriend.
Relocate some hawks. I haven’t seen a squirrel in years and I have several acres of forest. As best I can tell, the hawks have killed them all off.
Don’t lock eyes with ’em, don’t do it. Puts ’em on edge. They might go into berzerker mode; come at you like a whirling dervish, all teeth and claws. You might be screaming “No, no, no” and all they hear is “Who wants nuts?” Let me tell you something: They all do. They all want nuts.
The NYP just created the single most defining headline of the Trump era. You aren’t going to top that one unless Trump and Kim Jung Un actually end up the in the same room together.
Is this how Ragnarok begins? I mean, there is nothing left for us humans to do. We’ve reached the peak. It’s time for another world cycle.
*goes to wake Jormungandr*
*thunderous applause*
That’s approaching “Headless Body in Topless Bar” territory.
I love the New York Post.
That’s not a parody?
WTF? Is that shit real? So, our own Kimmie is torturing people how, sitting on their face with her big ass, lol? Come on, that’s not a read headline, who faked that up?
Maybe it’s tomorrow’s cover?
https://nypost.com/covers/
Right now, it’s the head story on their website:
https://pagesix.com/2018/05/30/kim-kardashian-arrives-at-white-house-to-discuss-prison-reform/
Yes, it is, but not with that text.
“It was the commander and cheeks!”
Looks like Trump impersonator
HEY YUFUS!
Well, it’s actually real, but the wording is faked.
Speaking of the real event, can you imagine just how hard Sessions must be shitting his droors because Trump is saying he’ll sign prison reform legislation? We’re gonna turn them mareejuaner fiends loose on our playgrounds!
More. We want more.
I finally got around to finishing season 1 of Counterpart. I liked the overall premise and most of the episodes, but damn…the season finale was just not very satisfying.
What is that Netflix, Amazon, HBO I’m looking for a new show, what’s the skinny?
Starz according to Wiki. I think you can buy an add-on via Amazon.
That’s what I do.
If you pick up Starz, watch American Gods and Ash vs evil dead.
American Gods looks great, but the storyline is cringe-worthy. I think I’m out.
Hmmm…try Blunt Talk. Patrick Stewart is awesome.
First ep didn’t grab me, but I may take another pass.
I enjoyed Magic City back in the day – looked like a million bucks, even if the story wasn’t always the strongest.
I’ve got plenty of other things to watch right now – The Expanse, Archer, Colony. Just tore through Bosch season 4.
Really enjoyed Bosch4, especially since I found S3 pretty meh.
Yep, I felt like this season really moved along. I was looking forward to each episode.
I’m enjoying my morning coffee. Not really paying attention to the Muzak until I realize it’s a Japanese cover of a song from my cousin’s band. Weird.
It would be more weird if your cousin’s band was The Vapors. Just sayin….
Getting Nippy?
Japan to let in 500,000 foreign workers to help plug labor shortage
“They will be required to pass a test demonstrating proficiency in the relevant field and the Japanese language. Those who go through the country’s foreign trainee program will be exempt from the test and can stay for a total of 10 years.”
The reverse Hotel California.
Wow, they’ve been fighting that for awhile. Robotics not advancing as fast as hoped, apparently.
I’ve certainly noticed the uptick. The convenience stores downtown are mostly staffed by Chinese, Koreans and some kind of Asians with weird names. Big difference in the quality of customer service. Sad!
Worse or better?
Sarc?
Thought maybe the guest workers were busting ass because they were appreciative or something.
Many do bust their asses. Some are chip on the shoulder types. Same as everywhere.
Worse. Japanese customer service is great. China? Hit or miss.
Jared Taylor hardest hit.
Is that the guy who Subway paid to have sex with kids?
He’s the white nationalist who says “huwhite” who’s also a bit of a weaboo.
He went to Jared!
He was born in Japan and is fluent. What a waste.
That test isn’t especially simple. I looked at it for grins.
Meanwhile I’m on an evening train back from my new Japanese class. They consolidated a bunch of sections as the levels get higher.
It is me, the white dude, a large well tattooed black and a Korean woman along with my Japanese teacher. Who says NYC isn’t a melting pot?
I can tell you 2 hours of language class after a workday that starts on a 6:30am train makes for a long day. Plus is the class is now only once a week.
Seriously, study in the morning.
I do! Morning train ride is homework and reading practice.
Thumbs up!
Watashiki wa BakedPenguin desu. Dozu yiroshiku.
Almost. Finish waxing the cars and painting the fence.
Tawagoto.
Sorry it’s late. Meant black guy. Didn’t mean to use black as a noun.
I kinda know how you feel. Just back from my own Chinese class. Two hours also, and a couple of the students are gone this week so it was me & one other guy. No place to hide.
Right. Private lessons are a bitch!
It’s like physical therapy. Sucks at the time, but pays off afterwards.
A good teacher is worth more than gold. I’ve taken other language classes with a range of teaching competence. Worst are the unstructured time wasters.
I was busy this week and wasn’t prepared as I should have been. (On the plus side, passed ICND2, & CCNA by extension.) No recrimination or nagging, just worked through the weak spots and offered suggestions.
Sometimes it almost sounds like I’m speaking Mandarin.
And I’m back. Again on the train… congratulations on the pass!
So racist, making them learn the language.
Someone needs the Starbucks sensitivity training.
https://youtu.be/WuHmFkbuihc
The comments are a hopeless pit. One choice cut:
Hah! Hah! Hah! UK is descending to US levels…
If Britain were a U.S. state, it would be the second-poorest, behind Alabama and before Mississippi
Thanks to the CNNs et al, and media influencers who want to downplay our capitalism, people in other countries actually believe we have rampant poverty and horrible living conditions for tons of our people. Thanks press! Little do they know that what we call “poor” in our country is a family in the top 5% of incomes in the world. And they all have AC, indoor plumbing, indoor kitchens with all the trappings, computers, flat screen tvs, cars, on and on. Meanwhile, billions still defecate in public in much of the rest of the planet.
Yeah, you should be so lucky to ‘descend’ to our level dipshit.
Not to mention the phony “austerity’ claptrap.
‘I’m going on a diet– I only ate 5 gallons of rocky road today!’
I live about two blocks away from public housing. It’s a high-crime area, with the caveat that most people there are just trying to get by and are perfectly nice, respectful, law-abiding people. But, in this section 8 housing complex, you routinely see people driving new or newish cars, people have HD televisions, cable, Internet access, etc. Basically, apart from the fact that I “own” my house, my standard of living is only marginally higher than most people there at the “poverty” line. In many cities in the developed world, they’d be regular working class. In parts of the developing world, they’d be solidly middle class.
When we talk about poverty in the US, we’re talking about people with standards of living that wouldn’t give anyone pause maybe fifty years ago. Public health problems? Yeah, obesity. Heart disease. Crime? Sure, drug trafficking is a big one, and the associated violence that goes with any criminal enterprise, but that’s not a function of lack of income so much as the fact that they’re sequestered in a ghetto, on the dole, with lots of transients and young men with nothing to do and nowhere to do it. You’ve got a community of people living in generational poverty, kept there by government programs designed to help them…that help them stay there, mostly.
Sorry, the “austerity” of the UK didn’t create the grooming gangs, nor did it create the increasing divide between certain immigrant communities and the British culture at large. But maybe they’re just one jailed Twitter troll away from peace and prosperity.
Saw this at Instapundit. It is a very cool story about a kid and his friend, the rock star.
Thanks.
What a great article. Thanks so much for the link. Great story.
I have a funny steve miller story
Here it is
Was it when he was Steve Miller and his Band of Merrie Men?
it was 1989 and while everyone had his greatest-hits record (it was and is still ubiquitous in used record stores), i don’t think he’d done anything anyone cared about since “abracadabra” (1982). i was at the show for the above story, and i specifically remember him trying to play new material and everyone was like “BOO PLAY SPACE COWBOY” and he was like ‘thats not even the name of the fucking song you dumbasses’
Oof. Backstage and all. Man, that must have touched a nerve. If anyone deserves a safe space, it’s an artist when he’s back stage.
Ha! Ha! Great story. Also funny because Steve Miller does have a song called Space Cowboy, but it isn’t the one they were yelling for. His best songs were from the years before the songs from the ubiquitous greatest hits album. Your Saving Grace is one of my favs.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xGFTBNy3Hdk
“Gottlieb coaches the University of California at Berkeley’s women’s basketball team”
They should have started the story with that tidbit.
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/nation-world/southwest-asked-white-woman-for-proof-she-was-biracial-sons-mom-report
I’m sure they did it to try and combat child trafficking. Does she hate children? If it saves just one child, it is worth it!
Bullshit.
Why is all this trivial grievance shit news?
Alright you clowns.
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Yow.
That was meant for the first link.
Yes.
Dumbest thing I’ve heard all day. “Trump claimed there are good Nazis”. Guest on Tucker Carlson’s show. I’m ready to tap out.
Series finale of The Americans…..I’m underwhelmed. Pretty far-fetched.
SHHH, I’m watching tomorrow.
I’m going to be busy for the next few days, don’t know when I’ll get to the next cartoon, but I have submitted two other articles to keep the rabble from uprising.
I fucking hate “here’s” in headlines as in ‘. Here’s why’ or ‘Here’s why ‘. It’s the blogification of journalism personalized. Lazy ass no sense of what reporting and news should try to look like. The lowliest muckrakers of the yellow Journalism era were head and shoulders above the slime posing as journalists today. Utter and complete hacks.
*personified. Goddam autofingers, worse than autocorrect.
Sometimes, shit is created just for OzzyMan to comment on.