Fuck politics. Here’s some better stuff:
They’re turning CO2 into CO and O on Mars. Hopefully, they’ll think up a way to turn into C and O2 instead.
Giant solar flare on Proxima Centauri.
Thankfully, this was not our beloved Animal.
“Nobody beats me in the kitchen.”
Do NOT click on this music link.
Turtles, actually, nature wants you dead.
Couldn’t even link the music to the ones dads (and some moms) would watch all day long?
I had never actually heard it until yesterday. Safety tip: wives have more creative ways to punish you than you can possibly imagine.
Fair enough. https://youtu.be/j8z7UjET1Is is better for those that must endure it.
I see comments are turned off for that video. I wonder if that was due to comments on the bouncy brunette.
Dear Jesus, probably. I was almost able to watch that.
I believe he’s referring to the “Bounce Factory” version, and yes they do.
You believe correct my bearish friend.
Seems the “Bounce Factory” version would be Q approved. Holy shit I am glad my kid is grown and ignores me.
Worst case of shell shock I’ve ever seen.
Winner!
*golf clap*
That lady had a bad case of turtlehead.
Maybe we should scale back on the puns.
Wouldn’t have happened if she’d used Turtle Wax on her car.
If only a rat also was tossed into the mix and the woman’s name was April. Then I would be able to die in peace.
Was it in the Italian section of Daytona?
You win one internet for today.
*narrows gaze*
I’m assuming Seagal needed those bulletproof windows after he turned informant for the Feds on the mafia way back when.
What? That really happened?
Witness more than informant, but yes…
http://www.fivefamiliesnyc.com/2013/04/movie-actor-steven-seagals-testimony.html
‘Steven Seagal Was Hysterically Crying, FBI Agents Had To Hug Him” | Sammy “The Bull” Gravano’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu3XeWvYAtM
It may or may not be true, but I leave it to others to argue it out with Sammy.
Meh, he’s 76, I bet I could take him.
Have you seen him recently? Just throw a hotdog at him.
Tee hee… SPY Magazine outed him in an article in the late 1980s; thereafter, they always referred to him as Raving Bull.
Jesus. Spy Magazine? They had shit against the Weinsteins 20 years before it got prosecuted.
I bet that media room has witnessed some horrors.
Do you have any idea how bad a Seagal movie made in this century is?
Who linked to this tastefully-named podcast talking about recent Seagal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzIHyF7UWY4
well worth a watch
LOLOL
Drugs fell out my ass.
Turtle survives flying through windshield on I-95 near Daytona, hitting woman in head
So I guess we know what is coming after the cicada hatch.
Here’s a couple of woke winners:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZlFtYXl4IY&t=111s
https://nypost.com/2021/04/20/woke-principal-of-manhattan-school-questions-progressive-curriculum/
That school costs $57K.
I will call your kids racist for only $570.
$550. I’ll undercut all of ya!
I’ll only charge $450 and I’ll thrown in a smack, too.
I can do it in seven notes.
I clicked on the music link. I regretted it.
So did I but luckily I have auto-play disabled. All I saw was the preview picture and tapped right out.
Ahh Florida, if the hurricanes, gators, falling iguanas, or bath salt zombies don’t get you, the turtles will.
The sidebar video of the monster gator strolling through a neighborhood is a good reminder of why I won’t be moving there.
As a native south floridian, I can tell you that it happens, but not with any sort of regularity.
And it really only happens to those who live on the water.
Constitutional mechanism that thwart direct democracy (ie. the point…) are racist.
Reps. Cori Bush, D-Mo.; Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.; Jason Crow, D-Colo., and others spoke in front of the Capitol. They discussed a letter circulated among House Democrats pushing Democrats in the Senate to end the filibuster.
“Everything we love is at stake,” Bush said. “Senate Republicans are using the filibuster to deny our people not just everything we love, but everything we need.”
Bush continued that Americans elected Democrats in Congress “with a mandate to transform this society.” Bush alleged that Republicans are blocking legislation on elections, police reform, “common-sense gun control,” “making D.C. the 51st state” and more.
“We demand an urgent end to the racial, racist Senate procedural — this procedural tool,” she said. “This tool that blocks us from what we need, what we have to have to survive and to thrive. Blocking us from getting on with the business of protecting the communities that we were elected to serve.” …
“We have sent bill after bill after bill to that side of the Capitol,” Crow said, referencing the Senate, only for the House legislation to be “jammed up by arcane Senate procedures.”
Jayapal made similar comments, specifically slamming Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the filibuster’s chief defender.
“There is only one thing that blocks us, and it is a procedure. Now no one across the country cares about procedure,” Jayapal said.
My reply to those reps: “Oh, go fuck yourself with a broken vodka bottle.”
“Everything we love is at stake,” Bush said. “Senate Republicans are using the filibuster to deny our people not just everything we love, but everything we need.”
Civil war seems closer with each passing day.
Yeah, but it won’t be as neat and orderly as the last one.
Given that one side thinks ‘knife fights’ are a common occurrence? I think you are right.
I’m loving my new home up in the Sustina Valley more and more all the time.
And the reconciliation afterwards is likewise in doubt. The country dodged a bullet there when Lee surrendered and Grant didn’t string him up in the nearest tree. Actually its dodged several, starting with Washington voluntarily relinquishing power instead of crowning himself king. Dumbasses.
“mandates”
Fuck off, commie.
“Bush continued that Americans elected Democrats in Congress “with a mandate to transform this society.” Bush alleged that Republicans are blocking legislation on elections, police reform, “common-sense gun control,” “making D.C. the 51st state” and more.”
They have a majority by 1 seat. That’s not a fucking mandate. And I wonder if the GOP had the majority in the Senate and tried to get rid of the filibuster, if Bush would be singing a different tune.
Definitely. If the Republicans were in charge and tried to get rid of it, they could just recycle this quote: “Everything we love is at stake,” Bush said. “Senate Republicans are using the filibuster to deny our people not just everything we love, but everything we need.”
“They are trying to deny us the only thing that protects minority rights – the holy filibuster!”
They have a majority by 1 seat.
They don’t even have that. The House is split 218D-212R (with 5 vacancies), but the Senate is split 48D-50R-2I. There are more Republicans in the Senate than Democrats, but the two independents caucus with the Democrats and usually vote with them.
Is DC statehood popular with the average American? In other words, are they willing to pull out the stools for this or is it DOA in the senate like their gun bill?
*stops not stools. hilarious phone mash
They are not pulling out the stools, they are planning on pushing them in. DEEP AND HARD, LIKE STEVE.
538 answered my question. “Not really. “
I’d say the average american doesn’t give a shit one way or the other.
I can accept the argument about representation. The solution isn’t statehood, but retrocession.
Yep. Make everything except the area around the Capitol and White House part of Maryland.
Retrocession and abolishing the capital outright. In today’s modern world, with instantaneous communication, there is no need to have a single capital – split it all up and send each government agency to a separate part of the nation. Hold Congress meetings and votes over the internet, so that the Congresspeople will be compelled to actually live in and spend time in the districts they are supposed to represent.
Destroy all of your credibility and you have no credibility. What happens when people start ignoring anything the feds have to say?
I have worked with a lot of Indians. I can’t think of many if any that I dislike. But I have to say that the Indian politicians in the US are remarkably horrible.
Dot or Feather?
Call center, not casino.
I wonder if its a caste thing, as in, Indian politicians in the US come from upper-caste families and picked up some really bad ideas about entitlement, the “lower classes”, etc.
This is my understanding, yes.
Is there anything that isn’t racist?
Trees….nope. Ice Cream? Nope not that either. Owning a dog…nah racist.
No everything is racist. Even me typing this is, racist.
Only a racist would ask that question.
Sorry to burst your bubble Jayapal but I care about procedure. I strongly favor a procedure that stymies a majority from having their way regardless of who is in the majority.
Quack quack quack…
I could have obeyed, but I didn’t. Now it will take many drinks to get that out of my head.
The beauty of telling libertarians NOT to do something …
“You can’t tell me what to… shit, maybe I should have listened this time.”
Those windows would make it hard to kill Seagal.
Even when he’s under siege.
You just need the perfect weapon.
Some would say such a house is above the law.
He won’t have to worry about exit wounds.
If someone is driven to kill and is a dangerous man with maximum conviction, driven to kill, then Seagal has the duty to be a mercenary for justice, getting into the belly of the beast and be the patriot that pistol whipped a dangerous man; against the dark
damn it…had driven to kill twice…just as I hit submit.
Wasn’t there a sequel?
Seriously, his movie names are so cliche that you can write out bullshit sentences with them.
They’re all sequels.
Steven Sequal.
That’s because it stands on deadly ground.
Is he under siege too!?
They would undoubtedly have to fire down below.
There’s the glimmer, man, of hope if he opens one …
I come here just for threads like this.
At least no one was around to shoot the attacker.
A family is broken after a 13-year-old girl was stabbed to death in Winton Hills.
The teen’s father said the pain is immeasurable and described her as the glue that held them all together.
Investigators said the teen was taken to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital where she died after the stabbing Monday night. …
Police said the 13-year-old suspect is being held at the Hamilton County Juvenile Detention Center and is due in court on Wednesday by Zoom.
She faces a murder charge.
Joking aside, this is sad and fucked up.
Teenage high jinx.
Watch ya gonna do?
The media will find all the knife fights it needs to back up the narrative. And ya, shitty news. Also, what the fuck Ohio?
When I think of “knife fight” I usually picture both sides of the fight possessing a knife. When one person has one, I think “knife attack.”
So much this.
Those kind of squared-off knife on knife fights are mostly a movie thing.
Most knife fights start out as fistfights or wrestling matches, and one of the participants starts to lose and pulls out a knife to even things up.
Which sure looks like the situation we watched in that video.
It’s horrible. There are no winners in this story.
On the political front, I have no idea how a story like this supports the idea the cop who shot the other black teenager in Ohio did the wrong thing.
We arent going to colonize Mars. It has no ionosphere.
A red dwarf is not a suitable sun.
Do not drive close to leading vehicles. Shit flies up in the air.
Motorcycle = coffin on wheels
Bulletproof depends on the bullet.
“Nobody beats me in the kitchen” just means you haven’t been to my house.
Motorcycle = coffin on wheels
I still wonder why the nanny state has not banned them yet.
I prefer to call them road pizza delivery vehicles. And yes, I want one.
ER personnel call them organ donor machines.
In nature a lot of things that are beautiful or fun are deadly as hell. Dont put your ass on one of those things.
I own a few. Most people who get killed on them are either doing something incredibly dumb, or someone makes a left turn right in front of them. The trick is to not do stupid shit, and assume everyone else on the road is trying to kill you.
That said, a convertible sports car is nearly as much fun and a lot less likely to get you hurt.
“…assume everyone else on the road is trying to kill you.”
This has made me not only a better motorcycle rider, but also, a better automobile driver.
Most of my bests adventures have been on a motorcycle.
Fortunately, it’s pretty far down on the list of things I want to piss money away on.
I had a dirt bike as a teenager. A lot of fun but I also crashed regularly. Never got seriously injured in woods and sand pits we rode in – but made me very afraid of street bikes.
Pizza or motorcyle, I have a dust covered Yamaha Virago I’ll sell cheap.
Of course we aren’t going to colonize Mars. It ain’t the kind of place to raise a kid.
And the spiders all look like they’re wearing goofy makeup.
“Nobody beats me in the kitchen”
Kelli LeBrock has a sad.
I ran across a reference recently to the American Hunter and Shooter Association. Apparently it was an astroturf stalking horse for gun control groups.
But, it got me thinking. I think someone should repay the compliment and create a similar stalking horse for the pro-Second Amendment side of things. I propose the Coalition of Concerned Americans for Common Sense Firearms Regulation. The organization would propose a stringent set of common sense gun laws:
1. No turning back of the regulation of fully automatic weapons. At least until sufficient research has shown they can be used common sensically.
2. Children under 12 should only be able to have guns under the supervision of a responsible adult.
3. In support of #2, FFAs should only sell firearms to people who can show they’re over 12 years of age.
4. Railguns should get no special exemption from firearms laws.
5. Anyone caught discharging their firearms randomly in public should face legal consequences.
6. Anyone caught murdering someone with a gun should go to jail.
I realize that these are some pretty stringent and maybe controversial standards. But, goshdarnit, it’s the common-sensical thing to do!
I’ll kick in a hundred bucks.
Me too. That’s a great idea.
Under 12? I taught my son to shoot when he was 4 years old. By the time he was 12 years old he could outshoot nearly any grown man. By that age he was breaking clays with a Smith and Wesson K-22. How many people can do that?
As long as they’re not moving, no problem.
I usually wait until the clay pigeons fall back to earth, then sneak up from behind and blast ’em. It has improved my accuracy greatly.
I still haven’t found a recipe that makes them taste any good though.
One of my kids discovered there were versions of that song in different languages. My nephew seemed to prefer the German version.
That is pronhub dude…
I’m just going to assume the flying turtle was the son/daughter/nongender binary offspring of Gamara.
Or, even more ominously, Squirtle.
Whoever threw that turtle missed the Italian plumber they were aiming for.
:golf clap:
Pictured
“It’s happened before.
The last time a turtle was reported crashing into a windshield in Volusia County was near Deltona in 2016 on Interstate 4, according to Florida Highway Patrol Lt. Kim Montes.
On Wednesday, the unidentified woman and her mother had just left Port Orange and were headed to Daytona Beach on northbound I-95. The woman said she didn‘t see the object until it was flying through the air and crashed through her windshield.
When the woman called 9-1-1, she initially didn’t know that the object that came through her windshield was a turtle. She also said she didn’t know how the object came to be airborne. It’s possible that another vehicle first hit the turtle and sent it airborne.”
That doesn’t sound possible.
This is much more likely.
Was the hiway scattered with elephant parts and a pieces of a large disc?
They have in-sewer-ants to protect from such things.
“THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.“
“Do NOT click on this music link.”
Ah, I refuse to be tricked by your reverse psychology, I won’t click that…well, I may as well click, it won’t hurt…
AAAH!
For Slumbrew from the dead thread who was asking about the model of my dash cam:
Dash cam is a Thinkware F800 Pro with dual cameras. I also have a Cellink Neo battery connected to it which is needed for parking mode. All hard wired to the fuse box – no dangling cords.
Neither camera is noticeable – inside or outside. Most people who have ridden in my car do not notice it. Even mechanics haven’t realized it’s there which is surprising. Excellent video quality and it’s been reliable -no problems with it. Not sure if Thinkware is still making the F800 – they have new 4K models out now.
Grazie. It looks like that camera is discontinued and reviews of the replacement are mixed-to-bad.
I haven’t read any dash cam reviews in awhile. At the time I bought the F800 it was highly rated, especially the parking mode which is why I choose this model. I park in a high volume lot at work infested with the parking deficient.
I haven’t figured out why these aren’t standard. There’s already
a backup camera, recording it wouldn’t be hard, and putting
one in the front seems easy enough. They’ve already
got a camera or sensor of some kind up front for collision
avoidance.
“Most people who have ridden in my car do not notice it. “
Do you forewarn your passengers? In some states, surreptitious recording is against the law.
Camera face towards the front and rear of the vehicle. It does have a mic that will pick up any audio but it can be disabled. If my passengers are paying attention they will hear the camera announce it’s presence when the car is started. That “start up” announcement can be disabled too.
So quickly glanced at the last thread and got to wondering.
Minnesoda cops never ask for proof of registration. They only ask for proof of insurance. I think that if the car has current tags on the license they consider the car registered.
Question for the smart guys here: What about other states? If I got pulled over in some remote state would they expect me to have some fancy “registration” (I honestly have never had any certificate that I would consider registration)? Or would they accept that Minnesoda doesn’t issue registration cards?
In Michigan they always ask for license, registration and proof of insurance.
NJ would expect me to show license, proof of insurance, and registration. Not sure if they would care about the registration for an out of state vehicle.
I’ve been pulled over in Wisconsin, Tennessee, and Georgia. I’ve
never been asked for anything other than a driver’s license.
I think the purpose of asking for registration is more to see who the car belongs to, as you say the current tags tell them that the car is registered. Now why the cops need to know who the car is registered to is another question.
When I lived in PA, it was “license, registration, and proof of insurance.”
In NH and MA, “license and proof of registration.”
What is an “active threat”?
Hostin said, “My question is, you know, why is deadly force always the first order of business and especially the first order of business when it comes to Black and Brown people in this country? I mean, when is it OK, and why is it OK? We shouldn’t live in a country quite frankly where it’s acceptable for the police to shoot a 16-year old four times in the chest over a fight. It goes from zero to execution very, very quickly when there is a Black or Brown person involved.”
It ain’t an execution if you are stopping an attacker.
She continued, “She was 16-years old, in foster care. Yes, she was yielding a knife, but there were other girls also allegedly attacking her. Let’s compare apples to apples. Let’s compare this young girl, 16-years-old or 17-years-old, to other 17-year-olds. Let’s compare her to Kyle Rittenhouse. He was carrying an assault weapon. Do you know what officers did? The video shows the police shared water with him and thanked him for his presence. After the shooting, he was able to leave the scene, even though caught on video, he walked towards police with his hands up as protesters yelled he had shot people. Let’s also compare him to the Atlanta shooter Robert Aaron Long. He was taken into custody without incident. You know what the officer said who arrested him, that he was having a really bad day. How about comparing him to Dylan Roof? He killed nine churchgoers. He was treated so kindly by police that he was taken to a Burger King. Was de-escalation a possibility here in this case? Not with this black girl, not at all.”
He surrendered. He gets due process. The end.
I can probably guess, and to this person I would be wrong, but if officers rolled up on Rittenhouse while he was firing, they would have put holes in him.
No doubt
Oh OK, we get to summarily execute people after the crime is committed and they’re no longer presenting as a threat now?
So, wait until the girl is stabbed to death, *then* let the killer turn herself in?
Or, if the precedents they cite are appropriate, let the girl kill a few more people first?
So he agrees that the cop did the right thing?
How in the hell do you de-escalate when the attacker is in the process of trying to stick a knife in a victim?
The only reason that question occurred to you is that you’re racist.
And your response to his question clearly marks you as a racist.
For some definitions of “de-escalate”, removing the threat could be considered that.
And we are back to “shot them in the leg or arm” or better yet “fire a warning shot in the air!” They are winning this battle even with this shit.
*police officer shoots Stabby in leg, Stabby rapidly bleeds out from severed artery”
“why didn’t you shoot the knife out of her hand!?”
I laughed.
I suppose the hero in a corny western could do it.
Well, if this guy can do it…
They’re making a lot of noise but they aren’t winning the battle, not on this one at least. If anything they’re revealing themselves as fanatics and fools.
She really in the wind-up 100 mph chest stab.
This is really getting ridiculous.
I thought these people would realize what a giant mistake they had made when they assumed the cop shot some unarmed girl. I didn’t expect them to admit any fault, just to stop talking about it.
Nope.
They are hellbent on somehow turning this into a bad shoot. They are going to try to force the normal people to sigh and say “Sure. Knife fights are totes OK and the cop was wrong to shoot that girl. Now will you just shut up and stop screeching at me?”
Exactly my thoughts too. But i’m a perennial sucker.
Florasexual?
Some pun about an
nual sex goes here.They demand a nation where lord of the flies is the norm for everyone. I’m at the point of saying they can have it in their proggy hellscapes.
JFC. What a bunch of gibberish.
If there wasn’t footage of the incident, they’d be relying on the “witness statements” that knife girl was unarmed, and that any knife in the area had been planted/was unrelated.
Every one of these leftist critics lies about what the situation really was and what actually happened. It’s not because they perceive it differently, they know damn well they are lying and they’re doing it to promote a false narrative to advance their political agenda.
They are the lowest pieces of shit imaginable.
That is what makes it more infuriating.
The IFLS story for Glibs.
I thought penis strangulation caused blindness and hairy palms, but I’m no doctor.
You’re confusing “penis strangulation” with “chicken choking.” Not the same thing.
That’s more penis-chokesex and not strangulation per se
Is that more Carradine or Kotzwara
More Chambers
Junkie with a sex toy is either a band name or Ministry’s next hit.
“The electric saw is very useful”
Really, thanks for that. 🙁
The Great Lengths Taken to Make Abraham Lincoln Look Good in Portraits
Though the rumors of Lincoln’s ugliness stayed mostly within Democratic circles, Lincoln was not anxious to let the idea spread. So he turned to Mathew Brady, a well-known photographer with a studio on Pennsylvania Avenue. In many ways, Brady was perfect: though Brady himself had bad vision and did not take many of his own photos, he “conceptualized images, arranged the sitters, and oversaw the production of pictures.” Plus, according to the New York Times, Brady was “not averse to certain forms of retouching.”
In February 1860, just before Lincoln gave the Cooper Union Address that would help secure him the Republican presidential nomination, Brady had Lincoln pose for what would soon become one of the first widely disseminated photographs of the future president.
The background is bare: Lincoln places his hand on two books, his eyes on the viewer; behind him is a column and a neutrally colored wall. But to quash once and for all the rumors of Lincoln’s ugliness, Brady added some special effects. He focused excessive amounts of light on Lincoln’s face in order to distract from his “gangly” frame. He had the future president curl up his fingers so that their remarkable length would go unnoticed. Brady even “artificially enlarged” Lincoln’s collar so that his neck would look more proportional.
I mean, have you seen his wife?
Obviously his wife didn’t let his fingers go unnoticed.
He had his outlets
Are they still going with the story that Lincoln was really gay? If so, why was San Francisco going to rename the Abraham Lincoln High School?
I’m not sure it’s “really” but “also” – but I’m also not sure if that’s even allowed anymore.
AFAICR, that’s where the “Log Cabin Republicans” name came from.
Joshua Speed High School?
Lincoln’s skin color and his physical appearance mean nothing. He had a man hanged for reading the constitution in public. Nothing he did can make up for that.
^^This^^. Greatest president, my ass.
I’ve never heard of this, Trying to find a source, do you have a link?
Is there anyone who didn’t know Lincoln was not an attractive man?
I mean when Stephen Douglas accused him of being two-faced, he responded “I leave it to my audience: If I had two faces, would I be wearing this one?”
That’s good stuff.
The Daily Mail seems to be covering the beat on expensive, woke private schools.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9500117/More-woke-outrage-graduate-elite-NYC-private-school-attended-derides-appalling-letter.html
Mail is mostly an aggregator.
Why do you think I use it so much?
Masochism?
Nah, sorry. Bless their hearts, they have their place.
It keeps me updated on the news of the day… or at least on the clickbait of the day…too much Royal Family obsession for my taste, but they also have more of an interest in American news than many American outlets. At least they don’t suppress a clickbait-y story just because it contradicts the woke narrative.
I read it too. Didn’t mean to rib ya.
Hey glibs, I’m looking for a knife recommendation from you all. There was some discussion in the am links about knife fight technique and I have been thinking of getting a knife to carry on me daily. Does anyone have a recommendation for a quality folding pocketknife they like?
Ma’Khia Bryant is unavailable for a recommendation —- too soon?
Nope
All bets are off since the “knife fights are part of teenage black girl culture” assertion.
First, I recommend “never get in a knife fight”.
That aside, I like my Spyderco Native.
I suspect this is a topic we should add to the same list as “deep dish” & “pineapple on pizza”.
Kershaw Blur.
Concur, it’s an excellent knife.
I like that – it’s pretty much what I’m looking for. I’ve never been in a fight and don’t anticipate needing to use it for self-defense. But, better to have it and not need it than wishing I would have had something.
“Kershaw Blur”
I thought that was a hard slider from a Dodgers pitcher?
*…. looks offstage for a moment*
Judges… will allow!
(I’m a left-handed hitter and if Kershaw threw a hook at my head that broke over the plate, I believe calling it a Kershaw Blur would be perfectly accurate.)
I have one of these. Long story how I got it, and unfortunately its the kind of knife I’d like some training on, but have never gotten any. The little “hook” at the base of the blade opens it as you pull it out of your pocket, with a little practice.
I have a Pro-Tech Brend 3 knife that I like.
One caveat – folding knives are the next best thing to useless as defensive tools.
I usually have a Spyderco Para 3 in a pocket somewhere.
It is a last ditch tool.
A year ago I was in the most bloody, violent barehanded fight to the death you can imagine. I was stupid enough to leave my pistol on the counter in the kitchen and I didnt have a knife. That cost me 5 hours on a surgeon’s table. I would have given my left nut for a knife in the longest two minutes of my life.
Always have a knife, a pistol and a fire extinguisher.
I always have a (folding) knife on me. I just doubt I’ll be able to reach it and deploy it if I’m in a serious entangled fight. I’ve tried. It didn’t work out well.
If you’re desperate, use what you have and good luck. But if you expect to need a knife as a defensive tool, get a small fixed blade and carry it where you can reach it with either hand.
Try them out. Take the knife and smack it down hard on the counter along the spine several times. If the lock gives way then tell the salesman “Thank. you, may I see that other one?”.
Salesman – “Sure, just as soon as you pay me for the one you just broke.”
Stick with frame or spine locks or Benchmade’s AXIS lock, if you’re gonna stress your knife like that. Liner locks tend to fail if mistreated like that.
Or, if you can get away with it, a small fixed blade has no lock to fail…
Agreed. Fixed blade.
Then do the kill test and sharpness test.
Or go to Harbor Freight and get a $3.99 four inch folding knife. More than enough knife for everyday use.
Check state laws
Virginia has notoriously ill-defined prohibitions on concealed knives.
I would carry a fixed blade double edged knife for protection, but that would probably fall afoul of the prohibitions on dirks. Dirks aren’t specifically defined of course.
I suspect I’d get some grief for walking around with a Spartan Ares on my belt.
I have 3 good knives which I carry regularly, all flippers.
My favorite is a Zero Tolerance ZT560. Scary sharp, flips like butter and is visually intimidating. Discontinued but you can find them on the used market.
Second favorite is Spyderco Manix 2 XL. Big bladed multi-purpose knife.
Third place – Spyderco Southard Flipper. Another high quality flipper but much smaller than the other two.
Gerber.
Also I recently picked up one that is a combo folding knife, seatbelt cutter and glass breaker but I forgot the brand-name.
I also daily carry a Gerber. Mine is the Paraframe.
I have had a pocket knife on me since 4th grade.
Benchmade Stimulus is my edc. Before that I carried a mini-griptilian for years. I picked up an Opinel for cutting fruit and the like during the day and am really liking it. Dirt cheap too.
I’ve also picked up a number of magnetic mini NT Cutters in places where I regular open up boxes and don’t use a box cutter:
https://www.ntcutter.co.jp/en/products/detail/199
Saves the sharpness on my edc blade.
Oooooo…. neat
This is the one I carry mostly. It has a spring assisted open and locking blade which helps when you get in the inevitable knife fight with a 16 year old girl. The price to quality ratio is awesome.
http://www.steinbruckeknives.com/prod_view.aspx?TypeId=72&Id=332&FId=t3:72:3
I forgot to mention that a Lachowsky video came up first in my YT feed.
Hoo boy!
I realize that neither Italians not bureaucrats are generally known for their stellar work ethic, but this one takes the cake.
“In my defense, would you really want me to be around patients, lazy as I am?”
If that’s a pic of the place that’s one dilapidated looking hospital.
“Eating just one medium mushroom a day can reduce your risk of CANCER by 45%, study claims”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9499983/Eating-just-one-medium-mushroom-day-reduce-risk-CANCER-45.html
*gobbles handful of psilocybin*
Can’t be too careful.
See you next month–!
I’ve been neglecting my deadlifts – this hurts.
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘Where is the protection of innocence?’ More outrage as graduate of NYC’s Spence – attended by Gwyneth Paltrow and Kerry Washington – derides letter from school urging families to support wokeness and Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9500117/More-woke-outrage-graduate-elite-NYC-private-school-attended-derides-appalling-letter.html
“Biden’s Education Department proposes to use taxpayer funds to promote critical race theory in schools despite warnings ‘woke’ antiracist doctrines are infecting the US”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9500077/Biden-introduces-two-proposals-use-taxpayer-funds-promote-critical-race-theory-schools.html
“Murder rates soar dramatically in cities after BLM protests with up to 6,000 extra deaths nationwide – massively outweighing the decline in police shootings, researcher finds”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9500789/Murder-rates-dramatically-cities-BLM-protests-researcher-finds.html
I hate it when I’m standing in a kitchen full of perfectly good ingredients and can’t figure out what to make for dinner.
/first world problems.
What you got?
Probably can’t stay, but lay it on us.
Two cheap cuts of beef, sweet italian sausage, kielbasa, bacon, mozzerella, shallots (maybe), pickles, pasta, matzo, bread, english muffins, and that’s just what I remember without going out and taking an inventory.
And that’s not counting anything frozen or canned.
Olio? pesto? tomato sauce?
I have a partial jar of tomato sauce.
Sausage, mozz, sugo, and pasta, but I am not exceptionally creative.
Make a sweet Italian sausage, kielbasa, bacon, mozzarella, shallots, and pickles sammich.
With a side of pasta.
Put some mustard and cheese on it, squish it on the grill or griddle to make a fancy Cubano.
English muffin sausage pizzas maybe
I actually made that earlier this week.
That’s why I have a partial jar of sauce instead of a full one.
Italian sausage with a red sauce, caramelize those shallots (if you have them), shred in some mozzarella and then marry it with the pasta. Toast your bread for some vehicle delivery
I’m going to be lazy and just heat up the kielbasa and have it on bread with mustard.
When in doubt, frittata.
No eggs.
Here’s what The Other Kevin Home Alone dinner would look like.
Option 1: Sautee several of those things with olive oil and garlic, server over pasta. Bonus if you have peppers, onions, and olives.
Option 2: If the pasta is spaghetti or linguini, make an Asian version of option 1. Sautee the beef and whatever vegetables you have in garlic and ginger.
Option 3: Same as option 2, but add coconut milk and curry powder at the end and simmer.
Home alone I’d probably just eat the kielbasa like a Slim Jim while watching TV.
I’m trying to cut back on consumption.
“House PASSES bill to make DC the 51st state after Democrat Mondaire Jones sparked fury by calling Republican arguments against it ‘racist trash'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9500257/Mondaire-Jones-sparks-fury-calling-GOP-arguments-against-D-C-statehood-racist-trash.html
So just racism everywhere.
We all knew it’d pass the house but it’s DOA in the senate unless the Republicans are submorons.
Crummymoronic?
“…unless the Republicans are submorons.”
Check this guy out.
“it’s DOA in the senate unless the Republicans are submorons.”
Uh-oh.
They just need one.
On the plus side, even the dimmest Repub Senator has to realize that a “yes” vote means two guaranteed Dem Senators, and much more time in the minority. So even the most craven self-interest should prompt them to oppose.
Doesn’t meet reconciliation. They need 60 to stop a filibuster.
51 votes is all that’s needed to make an exception to the filibuster, as far as I know. Its a Senate rule, not a law, and can be changed on a majority vote. That’s how the exceptions for judges got done, I believe.
Note: I am not a Senate parliamentarian.
Manchin and Sinema have come out strongly against changing the filibuster. But, politicians.
Unless they amend the constitution, neither the House nor the Senate get a say in DC statehood.
As I read it, Congress can admit a new state. Changing existing state boundaries requires the consent of the states involved.
Not that it matters, but I don’t see any requirement that the President sign off on it.
It would appear, then, that a Red state that was really pissed at the creation of a 51st and 52nd Blue state, could then agree to split into, say, four states dependent, of course, on the House, Senate and WH being Red at the time. Then whenever Congress and WH controlled by just one party, we could end up with multiple new states!
“I see your Permian, and I’ll raise you Berkshire. Oh yeah, how would you like Pennsyltucky? Just try it and see how many new Blue states we can divide California into.”
DC is defined in Article I, Section 8, as being controlled by Congress.
Also in the clause you address, Maryland gave up the land for DC, it could be argued that you would need Maryland consent under that decree.
Lastly, the 23rd Amendment refers to DC as a permanent entity.
Not my original work
With Congress basically supporting Maxine’s words, the US-AG and State department piling on about the verdict, can that be used to seek political asylum? Cause if I were Chauvin, I would be looking to get my ass out of here.
Wouldn’t he have to bust out of prison first or do you mean Rittenhouse?
They revoked his bail after the verdict.
Will I still be alive when he gets out of prison? Will he?
Depends on the guts of Appellate Judges.
Rittenhouse killed white guys (which seems odd at a BLM “protest”, if you haven’t been paying attention). I don’t see the race hustlers getting involved.
Awhile back, the Kenosha Kid came up in conversation. Natch, the person I was talking to thought he was a multiple murderer. I told them I had watched the video of the last two shootings, and between the guy trying to bash his head while he was on the ground, and the guy actually pulling a gun, they looked like good shoots to me. The first one, I said I couldn’t say.
They hadn’t seen the video. Just to pile on, I told them I had read the Wisconsin statutes, and there was zero basis for charging him with unauthorized possession of a firearm. “But he was 17!” Yup, and in Wisconsin, on account of deer hunting, 16 and 17 year olds are allowed to carry rifles.
Rittenhouse’s first shooting was justifiable too from the video I saw. He was getting chased by someone who was intent to do him harm and someone else appeared to fire a shot first. I suppose there’s a possibility that he did something prior to the video that provoked the chase, but it seems unlikely.
In fact, I’d say his discipline was pretty remarkable for a kid that age.
The DA’s charging document actually had a lot of justification for self defense in it. It was nowhere near justification for a murder one charge.
True..Then that would be basis of my appeal, that is really close to political persecution
‘Ullo, guv’nor, would you like to see some environmentalist photos? Wink, wink, nudge nudge, say no more.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9501603/Elizabeth-Hurley-Demi-Rose-sizzle-lead-UK-stars-celebrating-Earth-Day.html
Eh. If you read these womens’ comments that accompany the photos, it’s clear that every damn one of them is in deep, deep “honey, don’t spoil it by talking” territory.
Yeah, but I’m with Hurley on single-use plastic bottles. I hate ’em, myself, outside of very limited circumstances.
Heh. I just read “Yeah, but I’m with Hurley on single-use” and stopped.
???
A man’s gotta know his excitations
Happy Earth Day. I feel at home when I’m close to Mother Earth. I feel calm and clear. To be honest when I’m outside in nature that is when I feel most like myself and Alive.
Replace ‘Mother Earth’ with ‘the great outdoors’ and that could have just as easily been said by some hunter, camper, outdoorsy type. I think Ted Nugent says pretty much that exact thing when he’s waxing philosophical about killing defenseless animals.
Hey, Ms Rose belongs to the Potato. Stop trying to move in on his turf.
Uplifting if true (tho’ it’s a Chinese news source – but what would they have to gain by making it up?)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9499187/The-real-life-Lassie-Husky-sees-woman-faint-stops-exercising-opens-dog-door-gets-help.html
Distressing *if* true…young people allegedly drink because of “bad online experiences.”
What kind of lamewad excuse is that?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9497967/Social-media-link-binge-drinking-children.html
It’s hard to find a young person who doesn’t have their face buried in their phone. Their whole life is online experiences. That being the case, I can see why it would drive them to drink. What I don’t understand is why it doesn’t drive them to ditch the social media bullshit.
I drink beer to celebrate major events, like the fall of communism or the fact that my refrigerator is still working.
/Dave Barry
A convenient excuse. When I was young I had plenty of those and if it wasn’t online experiences it’d be something else but, yeah, lame.
I guess “it’s fun” and “it makes me less terrified of the objects of my romantic desire” were not on the questionnaire.
Marjorie Taylor Green claims that AOC has accepted her challenge to debate the Green New Deal.
Is it uncouth to cheer for a retard fight?
I hope it doesn’t happen, I don’t wanna die from an overdose of cringe.
You don’t have to watch. You can just read the SugarFree highlights.
You just want the review like the woke version of Charmed, right?
I just made Cajun Curry and it is delicious. SB Golden Curry (Japanese brand) but made with Holy Trinity mirepoix, shrimp, chicken, andouille sausage, okra, onions, and baby butter potatoes, served over Nishiki rice made with chicken/shrimp stock. I’m full as a tick.
That sounds phenomenal.
“Ma’Khia Bryant being fat matters. The violence that young fat Black girls experience contributed to her death and if you don’t understand why, y’all need to start cracking open some fucking books on fatphobia.”
https://twitter.com/melaninbarbie/status/1384914221390077952
It was a knife, not a spoon.
I’m just going to assume that’s satire and move along with my day.
This does smell of a Poe. But these days satire and reality are far too close to tell for sure.
Ignorance is bliss, I guess.
I don’t take advice on non-fiction reading from people who write things like “y’all need to start cracking open some fucking books”.
Someone who probably hasn’t read any history other than Zinn
Why is “disgusted by” lumped in with “afraid of”? I’m not afraid of fat people (unless they’re coming at me with a weapon!), but I sure ain’t fond of seein’ ’em.
Being between them and the buffet could be perilous as well.
Shouldn’t “Fat” be capitalized?
Phat.
Did you see the size of the chick she took out on the way to pink gal?
“It was a knife, not a spoon.”
It’s too soon right now, but after a decent interval I will giggle at that.
My black heart will laugh in your stead.
That derp mine is too deep. I checked out at “adultifying”.
Sometimes, Florida Man commits crimes that are comical in their ineptitude.
Other times, Florida Man needs a bullet in his head… ten years ago.
OK, so guy is 30 years old, has 19 felony convictions, and they say he served his full sentence each time. Unless his sentence was never more than a few months, I don’t see how that’s possible.
Done in two to three year spurts, each spurt for multiple charges. Pretty easy to see that happening.
“The Biden administration has been busy clearing the docket of federal cases levied against Portland rioters who threatened a federal courthouse last summer and provoked a federal response, both on the ground and from the Attorney General’s office.
The Wall Street Journal reported late last week that the federal government has dropped nearly half of all cases against suspected Portland rioters. Most of the remaining cases will not go to trial and many of the defendants will receive lenient penalties: probation and community service.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-clears-remaining-federal-charges-against-portland-rioters-most-get-probation-community-service
They’re itching for paramilitaries to start springing up.
To be expected. Actual rioters and insurrectionists get a pass while a mob that gets out of hand will be nailed to the wall, because of who they are not what they did.
It’s also clear for the past year that the establishment/deep state/bureaucracy is ok with the left wing rioters as long as they don’t cross certain lines. The feds could have been up in the ass of the various supportering organization including all of the social media and payment apps that have been bankrolling this but they haven’t and haven’t from the start. I think there’s a reason for that, unfortunately.
When they lose hold of the tiger’s tail, they’ll change their tune quickly.
Only briefly, as the tiger will rip their throats out pretty quick.
“Cincinnati girl, 13, accused of killing another 13-year-old girl
Cincinnati, Ohio — A 13-year-old girl, accused of killing another 13-year-old girl, appeared in court for the first time Wednesday. Officials say Janiah Pate fatally stabbed Nyaira Givens with a pocket knife on Monday.
Police responded to the scene on Topridge Place in the city’s Winton Hills neighborhood at 9:08 p.m.
Responding officers found Givens suffering from a stab wound to the right side of her neck. Fire personnel responded and rushed Givens to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center where she later died.”
https://breaking911.com/cincinnati-girl-13-accused-of-killing-another-13-year-old-girl/
Good thing the police didn’t arrive sooner?
SpaceX crew launch at 1:30am. Dammit. I’m too old for that shit.
Virginia is For Stoners, starting July 1.
Is it going to be state dispensaries or an actual free market? If it is the former, they might as well not even bother.
Upon further consideration, I realized that VA still has state liquor stores, so…
Give me Liberty or give me government-sanctioned beverages!!!
This is most white woman thing I have ever seen:
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1385295662435160066
I guess that carpentry apprenticeship never really took hold.
WTF
These women should be in cuck porn.
How did zey ever vin ze var?
That in that generation of Brittons even the women needed a wheelbarrow for their giant brass balls.
Have these people even seen a tool before? (other than when they look in the mirror huwhuwhuw)