Hey guys, I hope everyone else’s weekend was excellent. We went to the zoo Saturday. My kids ran off at one point, and I thought I was finally rid of them, but they came back and found us within five minutes. I told my wife we needed to hustle if we wanted to get away, but she was going on and on about how the cops would never believe they just ran off if we didn’t stay for at least fifteen minutes. I’ll never understand people who freak out in situations like that. Kids run off in a crowded subway station, I’ll freak out. Kids run off in a giant park with people at every gate? We’ll just kind of hang out where we lost sight of them and they’ll be back. (They ran off to play at the splash-pad, but it is still off for the winter.) So yeah, moral of the story is, damn the cops, run for the car when your kids give you an opening.
Speaking of idiot children, Donald Trump, Jr. challenges Hunter Biden to a debate over who has blown more taxpayer money up his nose has profited more off his father’s public service.
Pentagon to fund shipping container nuclear power plants. I want one for my neighborhood. For hurricane safety.
“Would you walk away from a fool and his money?” The FDA suggests that certain people should.
Also, why are you not all here for Beer Week? I’ll be heading over to my local to celebrate… soon.
Links smell good
Oh Fuck Off!
GS isn’t a new tulpa, just an irregularly posting one.
Awfully skinny neck though
Are you saying he has neck that resembles a pencil?
“Also, why are you not all here for Beer Week? I’ll be heading over to my local to celebrate… soon.”
Be sure to bring a sock full of nickles…to bash the skull of the first person who makes a Corona Beer joke.
You certainly are a modelo citizen.
Eh, he’s no Sam Adams.
He’s your best bud if you let him be.
But he is living the high life.
Careful before Swiss narrows his gaze.
Don’t beat around the busch, how do you really feel?
Mad as Hell!
Also mad as hell
This comment just won the blue ribbon.
I feel like I should say something here.
Of coors you should.
These jokes are a little flat.
I Think we are tapping some decent material.
Something about Lyme Disease?
You start a beer thread, and suddenly it’s anything gose.
Swiss fosters this kind of reaction.
I love Tampa. Ybor City once had a beauty supply shop called the Baby, Don’t Be Bald! Wig Shop.
Mons Venus
I don’t think they wear wigs there.
Merkins are a thing
One of Florida’s counties, Broward maybe, once banned dancers from showing both labia and real pubic hair. All the girls wore merkins.
My experience with any of the high end establishments was there was no hair down there.
Although it has been years since I’ve been.
Merkins.
Also the correct answer to the question:
“How did Ed McMahon used to prounounce ‘Americans’?”
In early 1996, I was 19 and visiting friends in Gainesville. I had just broken up with my girlfriend and was pretty bummed. They had the bright idea to drive down to Tampa for the night and take me there to cheer me up.
I’ve only been to a couple other strip clubs in my life, but man … that place. It’s unique.
cripple fight?
My kids ran off at one point, and I thought I was finally rid of them, but they came back and found us within five minutes.
Reminds of a tweet by Ryan Reynolds:
About damn time the DOD looked at that instead of the recent insistent focus on “green” while in theater.
You are saying you don’t want a green energy powered tank that still shoots depleted uranium out of the pipe on the front?
Also, why are you not all here for Beer Week?
Why would I go to any Beer Week?
And why would I go to Tampon Bay?
Yeah, who needs sandy beaches and warm weather and amazing beer.
Who needs sweat, humidity, sunburn, and crowds
Everyone in Florida wears gloves to prevent sunburn.
I’d much rather die from windburn and frost bite while shoveling snow. Plus oppressive taxation and regulations.
Yes, the weather is nice up here. We just need a regime change.
Don’t forget insects bigger than Animals Volkswaggon
And Scientologists.
That’s Hollywood.
I thought they (Scientologists) were a big deal in Clearwater?
Yeah, they’ve pretty much destroyed that town. St. Pete, great bars, restaurants, and hangouts. Tampa, great bars, restaurants and hangouts. Dunedin, ditto. Clearwater, there’s a wine bar and a pizza place fighting for their lives on the high street.
https://www.cigarcitybrewing.com/beer/florida-man/
The world needs heroes, and in our home state of Florida only a very special hero will do. A hero with a shark tooth around his neck, a Grim Reaper tattoo on his arm, and a rap sheet longer than his mama’s mustache. A hero who’s forgotten more about amateur taxidermy and alligator rasslin’ than you’ll ever know. What better way to pay tribute to our beloved Florida Man than with a big ol’ Double India Pale Ale brewed with a nearly-criminal amount of hops and a moderate bitterness that just about matches Florida Man’s general disposition. This hopped-up whopper of a beer is big in character and guaranteed to sear itself into your memory, just like “the world’s worst superhero,” Florida Man.
What better way to pay tribute to our beloved Florida Man than with a big ol’ Double India Pale Ale brewed with a nearly-criminal amount of hops
I would have gone with a beer that tastes good, but, hey, Florida.
Hops are good,Criminal amounts should be Treason,,,
Its noy hops, its actually meth-flavored.
Yuck,
Meth smells better than it tastes.
I’ll’m working *stares at Rufus* all week and then fly to Costa Rica, so no beer week for me. ?
It’s hard to believe anyone would give Jim Bakker any money under any circumstances. Maybe there’s something to that colloidal silver shit though, the dude looks better now than he did in the 1980s somehow.
He visited Rochester, MN (my wife’s hometown) for a while
https://www.postbulletin.com/jim-bakker-arrives/article_4e4137d3-c54f-5323-a52a-a42e9cdac398.html
what’s the general consensus on roller/inline/blade hockey?
I could give a puck.
It’s not as cool as Ice Hockey
But it does take more balls
I brought the orange one and… the orange one
I love it. Fun to play and a great thing for warmer climes.
It’s really hard to do if you can’t skate?
Relevant
Also relevant
some good ol Roger Miller. i was stoked when Robin Williams riffed him in Good Morning, Vietnam.
Brian Williams To Host New Game Show ‘Are You Smarter Than A Journalist?’
Hillary Clinton Says Epstein Assassination Was To ‘Manage Anxiety’
So yeah, moral of the story is, damn the cops, run for the car when your kids give you an opening.
This is the sort of “Family Friendly” content that keeps me coming back to Glibertarians.
DOOM
“The damage that this administration has done to America — America is a great country, we can sustain — two terms, I don’t know,” Pelosi said at a CNN town hall event in December. “Civilization, as we know it today, is at stake in this election.”
Pelosi is no stranger to assigning over-the-top descriptions about President Trump or his agenda. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Pelosi branded the president “the most dangerous person” in American history as part of a plea to Democrat voters to vote him out in November.
In 2017, Pelosi stated that the Republicans’ tax reform bill would be “Armageddon,” with years-long ramifications for the working class. “The bill that the Republicans are putting forth to go to conference is probably one of the worst bills in the history of the United States of America,” she added at the time.
Oh Fuck Off!
Sounds like Yusef has a case of the Mondays
Oh Fu… nevermind…………
Nancy Pelosi is Tulpa?
Well I’ve died 3 times since that bill passed.
I thought Net Neutrality killed us all.
I thought we all died during the Tide Pod challenge
So what’s with the Links going off at… oh , you are on Real Time now……..
Pentagon to fund shipping container nuclear power plants. I want one for my neighborhood. For hurricane safety.
I can only imagine the environmentalist freak-out about this. Portable nuclear power plants? PANIC!
I for one, welcome this development, as it brings us one step closer to the pre-war world of Fallout. Nuclear-powered cars here we come!
2077
I probably won’t live that long anyway. I’ll take the nuke cars, power suits, and personal robots. But maybe not the 50s aesthetic.
I want a suitcase that powers my house. Then I can tell the local power monopoly to suck it.
I recall years ago 10+ reading about Hitachi? (I think) building small scale reactors that would power a small town, I thought some place out west was suppose to get one as a test but now I can’t find anything about it. Anyone else remember anything about that or am I going Biden.
I remember some publicity, maybe 4 to 6 years ago(?), for semi-trailer sized reactors capable of powering, IIRC, 20k homes. But it was an American company in the MIC.
Old news. In 1960 an outfit called Great River Energy built a small nuclear plant at Elk River, Minnesota. It was a demonstration project that ran for some years with no problems. It was no big deal when the plant was disassembled.
There’s supposed to be a Small Modular Reactor project starting in Idaho next year at Atomic City, ID. There’s a story on small-scale nuclear power in the current City Journal: https://www.city-journal.org/magazine?issue=323
The story’s currently behind a paywall but should be open access in the next couple of weeks.
Galena, Alaska, never came to fruition, of course
The coronavirus is obviously an early test of the New Plague:
Hi Brett,
My daughter wandered off when we were on the beach in Mexico.
That was scary as hell, though. No bueno.
Distributed nuke plants would be a huge improvement. And a game-changer for developing nations. Trouble is, I’m old and have been hearing about these for a long, long time.
Maybe they will deliver them in a flying car…
I got lost in the Museum of Natural History in New York when I was about 5. My parents were chaperoning one of my older sisters’ Girl Scout troops and since both parents were there, I couldn’t well stay home alone.
Anyhow, I had the brilliant idea of going to the entrance we came in and standing by the bathrooms there because I just knew a group of young girls would have to use the potty before leaving.
Thing is we’ve had working flying car prototypes for more than 20 years, the reasons why we do not have actual flying cars in production is purely regulatory. That same issue may prevent us from ever getting operational civilian micro-nukes but the Military has different rules and so they want them they will get them.
the reasons why we do not have actual flying cars in production is purely regulatory
After watching people be complete idiots on the road, I have reservations about cutting people loose in flying cars with just plain ol’ driver’s licenses.
Same here. There are fewer things that can go wrong with a car, and the cars are contained in the roadways. I don’t want a bunch of texting/drunk assholes crashing into my house with their flying cars at 2 in the morning.
I disagree that those prototypes are what people want as personal transport, or that they are close to taking over.
We have flying personal vertical take off vehicles today, they are called helicopters, and I notice that nobody wants their neighbor to have one.
Tell me the particular one you think is viable, and I’ll comment, but all of them are too slow, too limited in load and/or distance, and for the $$$ a poor investment.
You can own a 200+mph, 800 mile range ,four seat plane for about 250$K and keep a used car at each endpoint for the final connection. The engineering tradeoffs are not about to be overcome. Cars make bad planes, and vice versa.
PSA: LG is a garbage company and you should never buy their TVs. I bought the C9 77 inch on Black Friday and it died last week. They won’t honor the warranty because it was a Black Friday special. Repair cost is $1750. I guess I’m back to buying Samsung from now on.
I have two LG TVs that work flawlessly.
The nature of electronics is that if it doesn’t break right away, it’ll probably last for a very long time.
Yep
And most of the time it’s the capacitors
I’ve been happy with Sony TVs. Never had a problem with either the current one (7 years old) or the previous one (5 years as main TV, 5 more as backup). The one I have now has a screen that doesn’t reflect as much as most TVs, which I think is a big plus. Will likely replace next year, likely with another Sony.
Thing is, all I need is a just a plain monitor. I don’t need speakers or apps or wifi connectivity or any of that – just more to break/pay for that I will never use. Just a screen with an HDMI input. They seem hard to find, although I haven’t really looked all that much yet.
My only complaint with my Samsung is that it’s a ‘smart tv’. Which means it probably spends a lot of time spying on me.
Can’t you just leave it disconnected from the Internet?
I had a Samsung that lasted 10 years until lightning killed it. I can’t blame Samsung for that.
I have 2 Insignias. 1 lcd and 1 led. The lcd is 7 years old and still going. The led is only a couple years old.
All our TVs are over five years old and working just fine, although the 12-year-old JVC has one tiny line burned in to the screen if you know where to look.
My 8-year-old JVC takes about five minutes for the screen to warm up.
LG Appliances suck as well. Never ever again.
My big issue is the refusal to honor the warranty. For probably $100 LG could fix it and have a happy customer. Instead they’ve guaranteed I’ll never buy another LG product as long as I live. A TV should last more than 90 days.
Yeah my $1500 dollar fridge lasted maybe 3 years before it needed a $750 repair. My washer didn’t last that long. Screw LG.
Did you know when you bought it that it was ‘as is’ with no warranty?
Otherwise you might have a case against them, that sounds outside of most state regs (though I know nothing of Florida). MIght be worth checking your state’s warranty obligations online and for any helpful agencies online.
Do you have one of those “7 on your side” style local news segments, where the reporter goes out and helps people getting screwed by companies? That might be a good option too.
Fuck LG. Three months after buying a new 65” LG, the screen blew and cracked while I was watching it. LG wouldn’t honor the warranty because the rep said I must have hit it… nevermind that I was 10 feet away watching when it happened.
LG ended up repairing it after my lawyer sent a threatening letter (no cost). Too little, too late though. I’ll never buy another LG anything again.
Though, to be fair, I’ve come to the conclusion that appliances from any manufacturer are not built to the same standard as a couple decades ago. Hell, I’ve got 20 year old shirts from Old Navy that still almost look like new, and I can’t find anything of similar quality today. Maybe Duluth comes close.
We still have the Magnavox plasma we bought 13 years ago. Still love the picture – you can’t get true black without a plasma!
OLED
I have one of the last Samsung plasmas. Nothing else has that silky smooth picture.
“They won’t honor the warranty because it was a Black Friday special. ”
WTF?
Racist!!!
That really makes no sense. Who did you buy it from?
New Egg
I’ve had nothing but great success with LG TVs. Caveat emptor!
Worth bringing back?
2021 Ford Bronco: This Is Probably It
2021 Ford Bronco Sport: This Is It
Ford is asshole.
As it says in the article, Ford ain’t the only asshole.
But calling an electric SUV a mustang is probably worse.
looks like a Range Rover humped a Tacoma.
All that hype for that. Wompwomp
Meh.
Basically my reaction. It’s more interesting than all of the soulless crossovers polluting the roads but ultimately not that exciting.
More exciting.
Yes! Always wanted one of those after driving one for work for a Summer.
I was wondering what they were going to do with the flex assembly line
The Sport looks like an Explorer with fatty tumors.
Everyone knows (((who))) is responsible.
Over the last several days, Iran has pushed several reports claiming that “Zionists” were behind the coronavirus. Press TV also quoted the same website that was at the center of an antisemitic article from 2017 that claimed “America’s Jews are driving America’s wars.”
On March 5, Press TV claimed that “Zionist elements developed a deadlier strain of coronavirus against Iran.” Although the report claimed to reference a foreign “academic,” it fits the pattern of Iran using foreign experts to give the regime’s own views a patina of authority. The agenda of Tehran has been three-fold since the coronavirus outbreak began to affect Iran in mid-February. Iran initially denied that there was a virus outbreak so that it could increase voter turnout for the February 21 election.
Look, if (((we))) were going to bioengineer a virus, it would be to get rid of bigger targets than Iranian citizens.
Leave Melania alone!
Damn, she is smokin’.
My First Lady, Smokin’!
The irony of people calling her names and horrible insults while saying how stupid her anti-online-bullying project is. Of course, they can’t be bullies, they’re on the Left, which is all good people, and all people on the Right are bad.
Yeah, that’s pretty fine.
So it looks like China really doesn’t want to be associated with the Wuhan flu. The CCP is trying to distance itself from it and has declared that those who call it the Wuhan flu are racist. Predictably leftists on the Twitter machine and in media have been parroting the CCP line. So whatever you do don’t call it the Wuhan Flu or you will anger them both. And get called racist.
Wouldn’t want to be racist, so I guess “Kung Flu” it is.
Shitlord Tundra decided to combine his racism with his love for cars and is calling it the Slant Sicks.
*applause*
It’s not a Flu.
I’ts Wuhan Virus, or Wuhan Cornoravirus.
Just another manic Monday.
Why not?
If they wanted to make the official name COVID-19 / SARS-CoV2, that’s fine. But calling anyone who calls it Wuhan Coronavirus a racist is … yeah. It’s not surprising because it’s the same playbook they always use.
But calling anyone who calls it Wuhan Coronavirus a racist is … yeah. It’s not surprising because it’s the same playbook they always use.
Yup, but it will continue to drive the stake between normal people and the left. I thought about this today when Popehat was raging for the leftist machine, insinuating everyone who uses the phrase is a racist. When you make such sweeping statements, you are just turning normal people off.
That sucks that Popehat is that far gone that he is helping the CCP with their propaganda efforts. Fuck that clown.
When you make such sweeping statements, you are just turning normal people off.
Yep. This is why I would most accurately describe my political opinions as anti-Democrat, because they’re fucking horrible human beings who have been doing their goddamnedest to portray anyone who isn’t 100% with them on every single issue as the second coming of Hermann Goering.
Fuck them today, tomorrow, and always.
Well, naming a disease after the place it was first discovered is unprecedented.
“Never happens” – Ebola
Zika Forest. Guinea Worm. West Nile Virus. … German Measles. … Ross River Fever. … Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever. … Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever. … Marburg Virus Disease. … Lassa Fever.
I’m under the weather, so my memory’s sluggish.
But we need to add Hantavirus to that list.
You quick sonofabitch!
Yes, he Shanghai’d the thread.
Hantavirus, named for the Hantan River in South Korea
Spain would like a word.
The Irish Curse.
+1 Ebola River….
+1 Spanish Flu
Didn’t actually originate in Spain though! Nobody knows, but it’s suspected to either be the US, China or Austria.
They really narrowed down on the source didn’t they.
Umm…
Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, jungle fever.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102175/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 ?
Where is Dengue?
Huh, kind of fascinating:
“The origins of the Spanish word dengue are not certain, but it is possibly derived from dinga in the Swahili phrase Ka-dinga pepo, which describes the disease as being caused by an evil spirit. Slaves in the West Indies having contracted dengue were said to have the posture and gait of a dandy, and the disease was known as “dandy fever.”
My sister and bil are in Bradenton. I guarantee they’ll be doing their part for beer week.
Purim begins at sundown tonight. For you non-Jews, it revolves around the story of the Book of Esther, which is read at services.
For kids, it’s kind of like Halloween. You dress up in costume and get treats.
For adults, you’re supposed to get so drunk you can’t tell the difference between Haman and Mordecai.
From the Babylonian Talmud:
Joan Collins as Esther
Rava said: It is one’s duty levasumei, to make oneself fragrant
“Tell the lady her rump’s as big as the Queen’s! And twice as fragrant!”
I thought Esther was a Christian Holiday.
Nope. It’s (((ours))).
It makes sense why the Media uses Esther Day Worshipers then. Why did all the Christians get upset?
That’s Easter, not Esther!
Is that the one where if a rabbit sees Jesus’s shadow, he’ll bring 6 weeks of eggs?
My wife’s cousin and son from Canada spent Easter weekends with us for a few tears. Our kids are grown so we didn’t have any colored eggs so I hid a bunch of bananas. I told him that in the States we have the Easter monkey, because the Easter bunny can’t do it all. Had him going for a couple years. Lol.
Mammary Monday will not be observing social distance.
http://archive.is/VR9Qw
Definitely some babes in that group.
I have to say this is an amazing time to be an introvert who sits in a private office all day and who is a germophobe who is constantly washing hands and has two bottles of hand sanitizer on his desk.
The Bee feels you: Church Introverts Praise Lord For Coronavirus As Greeting Times Canceled
Lol. I can relate:)
We just passed around tumbler of smoked bourbon. I don’t think that’s protocol.
Natural disinfectant
Today’s pointless Millennial/SJW self-flagellation.
https://www.insidehook.com/article/relationships/on-the-ethics-of-dating-app-filters
Banging dudes on Tinder is dating?
Some random chick texted me last night thinking I was some guy she knows from Tinder (got the number wrong, I guess). I tell her wrong number, that I’ve never been on Tinder. She then asks me, an utter and complete stranger, what I look like and sends me a pic.
I’m guessing she tends to make bad life decisions.
So…was she hot?
Actually, rather attractive, yes. This was my wife’s reaction – “Christ, why does this girl have to throw herself at strangers on Tinder?? There has to be something wrong with her.”
Better find out just to make sure
I’d check her vagina first.
Good a place to start as any?
You didn’t say something like, “Surely, as my wife, you are aware of my raw animal magnetism, towering intellect and emotional centeredness. You couldn’t resist it, why would this gal be any different?”
So was your wife into it?
A lot of scams start out that way. They “accidentally” send you a text or email or xbox message or whatever.
Probably “romance scammer”. I’m not exactly sure how it goes, but I imagine the “hottie” steals pics from the net, butters up their victim, then sets up a date but then [emergency] need to borrow money but will pay back right away.
Idk, when I was on the apps, I would see this but never let it get to that point.
More of the push to make normal people feel like they are hateful bigots. For an ideology that focuses on oppression, they sure like to make sure everyone knows that they are morally superior to everyone else.
Yet very few of them are willing to do what is necessary to have a successful life time relationship, which is subordinate your own desires to the relationship so that it may succeed even if you don’t always.
Details to come, but Italy just imposed a nationwide quarantine.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51810673
That’s crazy.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
But this doesn’t help anyone. It’s gonna cripple their (already crippled) economy.
Chef Boyardee hardest hit.
Clearly, he’s not Italian. I mean Boyar D? He’s a russkie.
Borschardee?
Boy oh Boyardee, you’ve done it now Beaver.
Psh, the Germans will pay for it.
Yeah, good point.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said that people would only be permitted to travel for work or family emergencies.
He said the measures, which come into effect on Tuesday, were to defend the most fragile members of society.
Italy’s coronavirus death toll jumped on Monday by 97 to 463. It is the worst-hit country after China
There are 27 Million people that live in Norther Italy alone. Call me heartless but this seems like overkill for something that has killed only 0.0017% of the population
I’m wondering how many people in Italy died from the flu this year.
When you see a mouse, panic. Herd mentality.
And if you work in a restaurant, but your patrons are not allowed to travel to dine?
Soon to be time to buy that villa in Tuscany….
And tell ten stories a day until the plague sneaks in?
There’s none available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPkmLWOqwwA
We have our first 3 cases in Ohio. Up in Neph’s neck of the woods. In their 50’s. One had just got back from CPAC. The other two, husband and wife, just got back from a Bike cruise. I suppose you should expect to get something on a Nile cruise.
Apparently Trump came into contact with someone who had been exposed to the infected CPAC visitor. The comments in that article showed just how unhinged many on the left are.
Nile not bike. Stupid phone.
I saw that the hardest hit group was the 75-80 years old. I had a sigh of relief.
Damn whippersnappers, am I right?
Oh fun. My fever is back up to 101 on the dot.
I guess I have to take more meds.
Speaking of, I had a really strange dream last night.
I was playing with kittens.
Seriously it was the most wholesome, family friendly imagery.
In my defense, I was dosed up on nyquil, so I blame the meds.
Speaking of, I had a really strange dream last night.
You sailed away to China in a little rowboat to find me?
And you said you had to get your laundry cleaned.
Pipes reamed?
A dream within a dream
It was a funny little dream
Crazy Dreams ?
I, too, had an interesting dream last night in which I was playing with a kitty of sorts.
GET THEE TO A
NUNNERYHOSPITALPOLITICAL RALLY / people with coronavirus.Look, it’s under control. The worst symptoms were saturday night. I’ve kept all my food down since then, and now that I’ve rehydrated, I’m feeling subjectively better, even if objectively still sick.
Well that’s good. Sounds like you still need to rest.
Bob: You’re not fooling anyone, you know– (Speaking to Swiss) Look, isn’t there something you can do…?
(they both look around)
UCS: I feel happy! I feel happy!
(Swiss deals the old man a swift blow to the head with his wooden spoon. The old man goes limp.)
Bob: (throws UCS onto the cart) Ah. thanks very much.
Swiss: Not at all. See you on Thursday!
Man: Right! All right….
UCS: I’m 37!
Bob: What?
UCS: I’m 37, i’m not old
Are you gonna live? Damn. I hope that shit goes away.
Asking that question directly disqualifies you from the betting pool.
/doubles down on March 13th
Well, it’s never gone above 102, so I’m not in danger from the fever. I figure if I manage the symptoms and leave time for the immune system to do its work, I’ll recover.
See that is what happens when you take off the gloves! What were you thinking?
So I know top hats and monocles are in, but what is the official libertarian position on Fanny Packs?
These guys look pretty libertarianish to me. And I bet that if you crashed the Reason corporate offices, a few people would be reppin’ the fanny packs.
Gay. Standard Disclaimer — NTTAWWT.
Definitely gay in the UK.
It depends entirely what is in the Fanny Pack. A gun and some drugs? Libertarian. Little Red Book? Marxist. Tissues, bandages, lip balm, and petty cash? Soccer mom.
Local market is a little thin in the TP aisle. But then house brand is steeply discounted as part o their weekly-flyer specials.
Whatever happened to good old price gouging?
That’s the “Your Anus Will Hate You” brand?
John Wayne Paper — Rough and Tough; Don’t take shit from no one.
Uffda. Don’t wuss out.
Proper Definition: “Rough, tough and don’t take shit off no Indian”
You gotta eat a bunch of ghost pepper wings and chase them with cheap beer with a few cups of coffee and creamer the next morning to get the full effect.
“house brand”
I will sacrifice other things to be able to afford good toilet paper.
http://lileks.com/bleats/archive/20/0320/030920.html
Interesting article about the hysterics during the Swine Flu (which was deadlier and infected far more people in the US at this point) versus the hysterics around the Huwan flu.
I’m no doctor, but it would seem that the world economy is being shutdown for the flu, essentially. The run-up on the Dow and now the run-down will forever stand as a testament to the notion that perception creates reality rather than reality creating perceptions.
Also, SPOILER: calling the coronavirus the “Wuhan flu” is in no way shape or form “racist”. Only Chicoms want you to believe that.
Wacist!
And Popehat.
Huwan flu.
Not only are you a Racist, you racistly can’t get the name of the place correct. That’s MK Ultra Racist!
Awfully close to Hoo Flung Poo
The market was looking for a reason to go down.
looking for a reason to go down
Slut shaming?
“Death by Deficit”
It’s definitely a curious turn of events.
It speaks to the fragility of the markets from central bank shenanigans
Seems to me that the economy is almost entirely perception. Fiat money has no intrinsic value. The government spends more than it takes in with no plans to stop. I’m at the point where I think the only reason we pay taxes is to prop up the facade.
Well that an not go to jail.
Meh, plenty of people never pay taxes and don’t go to jail. The trick is to be either very rich or very poor, it’s you suckers in the middle that have to play by the rules.
^^^ true dat
SAR-CoV-2 isn’t the flu (influenza), and there are a number of differences.
Influenza, even H1N1, is better understood, known to be seasonal (but if it reaches a threshold, it can spread out of season), there is a vaccine that’s varying degrees of effectiveness (the H1N1 vaccine was released in the middle and then incorporated into the following year’s cocktail), and there are drug treatments available to lessen the severity. There’s also some prior immunity in the general population due to previous influenza exposure. None of that for this one.
This.
Panicking is silly, but treating this as a nothingburger that’s less bad than the flu isn’t smart either, IMO.
The mortality rate really misses the bigger problem, a significant portion of those infected need hospital care, which can quickly be overwhelmed if this is unchecked. Once there’s no more actual beds (or staff), that mortality number will go up, not just for the 85 year old smoker but also for the 16 year old in a car accident or the 30 year old with a gunshot.
Really don’t want to get to that point, and the earlier social distancing is used effectively, the lower the peak can be.
“Huwan flu”
Not as deadly as the Juan Flu.
Brett, is Beer Week at that dive bar you took me to? I would almost make a special trip back to your neck of the woods if I could spend a week at that place.
I think it was Mahuffer’s wasn’t it?
The reviews are pretty much spot on. When two Glibs are the class customers in a joint, you know it is a dive bar.
I just found OMWC’s new ride
https://jalopnik.com/chevy-is-putting-its-new-401-hp-v8-in-a-van-1842213938
“Free Candy” would look a lot better stenciled in, FYI.
Put a Duramax in that thing.
I thought regular vans were extinct, or is that just Dodge and Ford?
Today in blue privilege, part 1: Officer actually convicted of manslaughter (should’ve been murder, but what can you do), is sentenced to 14 years… and is then immediately granted bail pending his appeal. Prosecutor says it’s a first he’s seen for such a serious charge.
https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/crime/2020/03/06/da-daryl-bailey-reacts-appeal-bond-grants-ac-smith-convicted-killing-man/4979655002/
Today in Blue privilege, part 2: Michigan officers steal $40,000 from a motorist without charging him, and brag about it on Twitter.
There’s a solution though. They’ve invited anyone who wants to talk about it to call them! https://twitter.com/MSPFirstDist/status/1235307509449207813
Why do you hate my balls.
If we’re truly a group of Reason refugees, SOMEONE has to be on the nutkick beat. Between google alerts and twitter I see a lot of this, so y’all have to as well.
How are people not totally up in arms over this outrage?
It’s not even one of those “What’s the big deal if you have nothing to hide?” Things.
I mean, the ATF has been doing this to gun owners, specifically to Class 3 dealers for decades. Walk up to a machine gun dealer at a gun show, ask him to show you a select fire AR, ask him questions about the inner workings of it, and then charge him with conspiracy to violate federal firearms laws, claiming he was telling the informant how to convert a semiauto to full auto. Then you seize all his guns at the show, seize the truck he brought them in, seize any cash he has on him, and indict him.
Apparently JB is Andrew Golota and we are Riddick Bowe.
Stay tuned for a preview of next week’s episode of Why do you hate my balls, Sundays at 8/9pm, only on FX!
Today in police fuckery, bonus round:
Police seize $380k from man, and then arrest his wife, mother and father. They tell him that if he just gives up the $380k without a fight, they’ll drop the charges against his family.
Of the money, $323k goes to the police department and the remainder goes to the prosecution.
In what world (I know, this one) is this not felony extortion?
How….who…?
It’s worse than you’re thinking, by the way.
I only have two balls man.
I’ve got more.
I may ask if I can do one nutpunch links thread a week just to get them all out of the way.
“Lucky!”
/Hitler’s ghost
“Double lucky!”
/Goebbels
Saudi Arabia / Oil oligarchs: But a shitton of Put Options, then unleash the oil price war.
Profit!
(I’m assuming oil insiders did this)
My cable company is retarded. I’ve been trying to settle a bill since December. I asked several different people there, and they all claimed they don’t have an address where I could send a letter. Who ever heard of such a thing?
I reckon the BBB is of a different opinion.
BBB is a borderline scam imo.
From what I understand, businesses can pay for higher scores/grades.
When it came to my employment, I would respond to BBB complaints, but I took consumer complaints from the State Attorney General Office *much* more seriously.
I’ll beat that.
Verizon service suspended.
Goes to store. “Hey, you didn’t send me the bill and cut off service for non payment.”
“Sir, you’re on auto-pay.”
“So why didn’t you take the payment from the card on file?”
*blank stare*
“Just take me off auto pay and send me the bill.”
Or…
“Hey, I need you to take me off e-billing since I no longer have an account at that bank.”
“I can’t do that. You have to call your bank.”
“I no longer have an account at that bank so I can’t call them and have them change anything. You send the bill out, so it stands to reason that you can choose how to send the bill out.”
“I’m sorry sir, you have to call your bank…”
*face turns slightly red*
“You seem to be able to send me a late notice by mail but you can’t send me the bill?”
“I’m sorry sir, you have to call your bank.. ”
“#$_-+&$$!!”
That’s Kafkaesque.
I’d cancel the service and tell them I’m switching a competitor.
Can’t. It’s the sanitation district. They handle the sewer service.
Curious; why do you need to send a snail mail letter?
Because they don’t do email, and I’m getting no where on the phone.
That’s bizarre. How can they not do email? Usually you submit a question on their website, and they answer it via email.
They don’t do that.
I think Trump will do well if he keeps hitting stuff like low flow toilets that don’t work right. I’m not sure people will blame him for the economy, but the dems could make headway hitting the lack of sick pay for people during the pandemic. It’ll be interesting.
God can you imagine the amount of times Donny needs to flush? Dude lives off fast food and Diet Coke. He probably spends an hour on the toilet every day.
He probably spends an hour on the toilet
An Hour? is that a long time? Asking for a friend.
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, thats why I shit on company time.
Hence the poop knife.
Let’s just say he’s not tweeting when he’s up and walking around.
“Sex robots have (strangely!) been a hot topic in the news
But now, an expert is warning that developing the robots’ AI could actually lead to them raping humans”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9fI85-1P8c
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1237101663091077120
STEVE SMITH HARDEST HIT?
“Masturbation boosts your immune system and raises your white blood cell count, helping you fight off infection and illness”
https://twitter.com/bigthink/status/1235587280204595208
Between quarantines and this, I predict a record quarter for pornhub.
I’m going to live forever!
“Mexican pro abortion Feminists try to learn how to throw a bomb… without much success”
https://twitter.com/albermudezr/status/1236829639118434304
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Death cult
Mary Cohen!
Drop & roll, baby, drop & roll.
Always a chance to learn from the mistakes of others.
“BREAKING: A D.C. priest has Coronavirus. He offered communion and shook hands with more than 500 worshippers last week and on February 24th. All worshippers who visited the Christ Church in Georgetown must self-quarantine. Church is cancelled for the first time since the 1800’s”
https://twitter.com/SweeneyABC/status/1237018677360410624
yikes!
Nuke D.C. from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
from the sidebar of that, ol’ Preet is living up to his high standards of professionalism:
https://twitter.com/PreetBharara/status/1236821983951761410
Somewhere there’s a vat where the people in that thread were marinated in idiocy.
March Madness is done and so is baseball. At least with an audience.
But TV sales will be up
It’s the TV advertising and the merchandise. Online stores should do well, mall stores not so much.
DON’T PANIC
What’s with the “Trump Could Profit From Coronavirus Testing” tweets and the general accusations that Trump and his fatcat friends are getting rich on this?
Of course, someone probably accused Obama of the same.
Not going to see social security reform on the docket for yet another 10 years at least.
That’s OK, it was never going to happen anyway.
I saw it in relation to why we just didn’t pick up the tests that other countries developed. The implication being that he’s trying to steer testing business to his buddies. It’s possible, I suppose. I would like to know why Korea and other countries can ramp up testing so quickly, but we can’t.
Maybe the CDC, etc. is slowing things down?
https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1224042220665307137
FYI… these test kits are kind of complicated and regulated. I worked at the company that invented PCR and met the Kary Mullis RIP who came up with the concept. He claimed the idea came to him while he was driving up from SF to Medecino while high on acid. Some called him paranoid for being so protective of the patent since the company gave him a $10K bonus and no chance for royalities. He got was a Nobel Prize. Company sold tech to Roche for $300MM. Roche makes $10B/year on royalities, today.
FDA regulations?
Bureaucratic inertia and the unwillingness to give up control, disbelief that we’d have a widespread and spreading disease in a matter of weeks, and a fear that panic will take hold when the real numbers start to come out. My guesses.
ZARDOZ to the white courtesy phone please…
https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/03/open-relationship-coronavirus-advice.html
The MiL is the girlfriend, right?
@Florida Man – Did a little research on your TV, and it looks like Newegg isn’t an authorized re-seller for LG. Their LG TV’s are actually mostly from a company called Gameliquidations, and they aren’t an authorized re-seller, either. That’s apparently why LG won’t honor the warranty. Technically there’s nothing stopping them from doing that, but you might have some luck if you make a stink on with bad reviews on Newegg and any LG or other social media sites that they monitor. I went to Newegg, and there’s nothing obvious there about the LG TV’s not having a manufacturer warranty. That’s pretty shitty, IMO.
Since NewEgg went the route of acting as a marketplace for third party sellers, it’s been open season for shitty used or refurbed kit, and NewEgg apparently doesn’t care to or cannot police those vendors. 15K SAS drives “new” for $70, whatever. All the reviews say “these are used crap” but still the item remains listed.
Paranoid idiots need to stop buying all the dust masks- they won’t stop you from catching Corona, and some of us actually need them for work.
You’re a robot, just suck up those asbestos fibers.
It interferes with my breathing simulation