RSV?
So tomorrow I am supposed to be in the office for all sorts of “Let’s do Veteran’s Day 3 days early” stuff. And I am heading to Texas for BGGCON Wednesday morning. This guaranteed catching some minor malady yesterday.
But the Links must go on! So, here are…uh, Links.
- That is some mighty fine police work there, NYPD.
- Oh goody! IP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Maybe the Euros will buy gas from Lebanon someday, so they won’t have to from the icky JOOOOOZ. Or PUTIN!11!1elventyoneoneone11!
- If there is money to be made, someone Swiss will be involved, somehow.
Music – Sometime this runs through my head when I am in a plane that makes a turbulence filled approach… While that was nerdish, this is a bit more normal. Oh, and the musicians are hotter.
BONUS!!!! Caption the SugarFreesque, Fetterlump picture.
Caption this!
Oh no, Swiss has the vid!
Caption: “You didn’t build that!”
“My… eyes… are up here.”
I’ve seen this movie, this is where they perform “Putting on the Ritz”
“Ladies and gentlemen, mesdames et messieurs, damen und herren, from what was once an inarticulate mass of lifeless tissues, may I now present a cultured, sophisticated man about town.”
Caption: “It’s alive!!!”
WH – We get that Americans are feeling a little bit of a squeeze and the president knows what it’s like cause of his upbringing.
Today’s briefing was a masterclass in gaslighting and lies.
Good God.
Must have been tough growing up upper middle class.
Um excuse me, he was a poor black and Puerto Rican.
Amd the first of his line to go to a HBCU while working in the coal mines and driving an 18 wheeler through the snow.
I would have guessed lupus.
“How much am I bid for this strapping giant! He’s not smart, but he’s very obedient.”
“Coal fire BAD!”
Caption: “Adrian! We did it Adrian!”
“Sir, this is a Wendy’s parking lot…”
“The extraction, transport and transformation of coal into electric power result in around 5.4 billion tonnes of CO2 emitted annually, the report said.”
That’s a lot of plant food.
“Now do lithium and rare earths for solar panels… We’ll wait…”
“Now do thorium and uranium, then factor in breeder reactors and waste reprocessing… Again, we’ll wait.”
BGGCON…Big Golden Gonads Convention?
BoardGameGeek Convention.
*strikes pugnacious pose*
Oh, so even nerdier than my guess… 😉
(Just ragging on ya… one of these days I’m going to get my son interested in breaking out my classic Axis & Allies, after all..)
Very cool. What do you play?
I am an “Omnigamer”…
The girlfriend brought up going to PAX Unplugged again. That ended once I mentioned that they were STILL requiring masks and proof of being “fully vaccinated”.
It may be a bit churlish, but I hope they’re losing money on the conventions while keeping those in place.
Sound policy Cotton, let’s see it play out. My guess is the demographics they get will comply and the old-school crowd says fuck it.
Battlestar Galactice Goobers Con.
So nerd we all.
Mining companies, which have either a headquarters or a trading arm in Switzerland, extract a total of 536 million tonnes of coal a year.
(Anthra)Cite needed.
*strongly narrows gaze*
Careful — he might re-peat himself now, Swiss.
Great mines think alike…
Two more coal puns and you’ll have a 3-peat.
If they swell up, would the two puns become bituminous?
Did you have to lignite another pun thread?
I wonder which one Swiss will pick as the worst? Hopefully not mine.
It would seam he’s prepping a gaze pic. Hoping for Lee Van Cleef — he may be an old fossil now, but the man knew how to narrow a gaze.
I hear that rubber band / mouth harp sound when Lee Van Cleef is posted.
“Beeooowww!”
Well at least it’s going to be in the same vein.
A lot of dinosaurs died to make this joke.
Hooray that you got this to work again.
Yeah, but not for the plebs
This is not ‘Nam, KK. There are rules.
OK I LOLed
This weekend, I saw one of the grad students from the Paleontology department at my local bar, chatting up a piece of coal.
I figured he was carbon dating.
If you crush them harder and hotter you might get a real gem some day.
Former president Obama congratulates Fetterlump for winning the evening wear portion of the pageant, while pointing at his smelly armpit.
Caption:
“Puttin’ on the RIIIIITZ!”
Dammit!
Nice.
Don’t you mean “PUUUIII UHHH RIIISS!!!”
Supah dupah lulz
“ARE YOU NOT UNIMPRESSED!”
Nice…
“Puttin’ on the Ritz!”
(Yes, I made this joke before. I’m going to keep making it until someone laughs.)
You and the Late P Brooks both, apparently.
And I sympathize… there was a joke I kept trotting out to y’all a week or so back that no one ever laughed at. Sigh. Don’t even remember just what it was anymore…
Caption:
“I can be a plane!”
“I believe I can fly….”
/R Kelly off
As long as the Asteroid Field doesn’t turn into this, anyway.
“Obama is… Wind! Beneath wind… of, of… Wings!”
I believe I can touch the sky!
“Ding Pa, now 50, was resentenced earlier this year to 27 years in prison after the Supreme Court ruled a robbery count he was convicted of did not constitute a “crime of violence.”
This makes no sense to me.
The whole article makes no sense to me.
He dropped a dime on the karaoke murder, but played no part in it. It’s like the NYP needed to stuff it in there to make the article more mobster like.
That poor hostess in the wrong place at the wrong time.
“REVEALED: ‘Rich’ and racist University of Kentucky student, 22, who called black student ‘n*****’ and ‘b****’ and bragged about her wealth actually grew up in modest $350,000 three-bed home – as students call for her to be EXPELLED”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11398761/University-Kentucky-student-violently-attacked-black-students-grew-350k-three-bed-home.html
“EXCLUSIVE: Parents of female University of Kentucky student, 22, are seen leaving court as she pleads NOT GUILTY to calling desk clerk ‘n*****’ over 200 times in drunken rage and demanding cops give her ‘special treatment’ because she’s ‘rich'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11399699/University-Kentucky-student-called-desk-clerk-n-200-times-drunken-rage.html
200 times?
In a row?
Did you mean for that to be heard as a line from Clerks? If so… well done.
Of course.
Why is calling somebody “n-star-star-star-star-star” illegal anyway?
Because there were over TWO HUNDRED stars.
It’s like the Oscars, except racist.
Only slightly more racist, you mean.
She did it violently, I guess. 🤷🏻♂️
It’s not. The headline is misleading. She’s being charged with public intoxication, assault, and disorderly conduct charges. Sounds like she took a swing at the desk clerk. That’s a check on the first two. The third seems an appropriate add-on.
Yeah, no kidding.
But that is the greater sin to the MSM, greater than assault for sure.
Since the dorm is her temporary home I’m not sure if they can get public intoxication to stick. Granted, she was in a common area of the dorm which makes it less cut and dried.
I don’t think dorms are considered private residences regardless. Cops are free to search away if the university consents.
I wonder though how that would apply to the shared areas of apartments or condos.
I thought “n-star-star-star-star-star” was the new “and I oop, sksksksk”
Modest?
Dunno about KY, but in NY hell to the yah.
Depends which part of NY.
In western NY that can be a mansion.
Can’t be KY — they’d be jelly.
Not anymore. Unless prices crashed already.
Caption: The Czechoslovakian couples figure skater team of Barak and Fett after their Bronze metal performance in the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics. They were rumors of rampant steroid and cocaine abuse during their careers.
Come on … Sq___ Valley Olympics.
Square? Squamous? Squick?
Squid
Squigger
It’s the sq-word. Only sq___ can say it.
“EXCLUSIVE: Rudy Giuliani says Trump should WAIT until after the midterms to say if he is running in 2024 – as insiders say he wants to announce as soon as tonight but being warned he ‘doesn’t want to be on the hook for surprise losses'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11399995/rudy-giuliani-trump-midterms.html
He shouldn’t run at all. There is no way he can win.
Trump needed about 0.01% of the populace, scattered through a handful of swing states, to have switched their votes to him, and he’d have won.
DeSantis would make a much better candidate, but look at who either of them would likely be running against.
That would be even better. I wonder if he runs if I get to keep desantis and extra 2 years. Very tempting bargain for me… Until we deal with the Kamala presidency anyway.
I’m sorry you are feeling unwell, Swiss.
Looks like you have a cooty bug.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/trump-to-announce-2024-run-possibly-tonight/
He cannot read the room…
Yeah, he may fuck up the expected red wave tomorrow if he does this.
He wants to take credit for the red wave
NOT FAIR
Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, threw his weight behind Republicans ahead of Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections, saying they could use control of Congress to act as a balance against President Joe Biden’s Democrats.
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He directed his Twitter message to what he called “independent-minded voters,” writing: “Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the presidency is Democratic.”
Republicans are favored to win a majority in the House of Representatives in Tuesday’s elections, with the Senate rated a toss-up by nonpartisan election forecasters. They could use a majority in either chamber to bring Biden’s legislative to a halt and launch potentially politically damaging investigations into Biden’s administration and family.
Social media platforms aren’t allowed to endorse Republicans. That’s how DEMOCRACY! dies.
This was my favorite thing today, even though what he’s saying is actually an extremely moderate position and he wasn’t even ratio’d.
Caption this!
“”Yes, your Honor. This Lump has smelly pits.”
“Do the Truffle Shuffle!”
“He’s Lump, he’s Lump, he’s Lump, he might be dead!”
https://www.reuters.com/legal/federal-judge-suspends-many-new-yorks-new-gun-restrictions-2022-11-07/
Good news for ny glibs? Assuming it holds.
Nice. The part about not carrying in a church has already been enjoined at the behest of some preachers.
Musk, who frequently comments on U.S. politics, previously said he would vote for Republicans but that he backs moderates of both major political parties.
He has said he was leaning towards supporting Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis for president in 2024 and that former president Donald Trump, who sources said is likely to launch another White House run in coming days, was too old to serve as president again.
Seriously. Play golf and drink lemonade on the veranda, and, if you must, heckle from the sidelines. We’ll all be better off.
He is 100% incapable of that.
Welcome President Harris.
Caption: “ME MASTER! HE BLASTER!
^this gets my vote
“Who runs boarder town?”
“embargo”
The guy with all the pig-shit in the basement.
Exactly like DC.
Alternative Caption: Sloth Love Chunk!
Enjoy today’s best of idiots in cars. Not a Mustang, but not really a Toyota either.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/yo848b/supra_has_a_problem_with_road_signs/
And he wasn’t done when the video ended.
Do you think these idiots have such a problem because they grew up with FWD and anemic engines? Honestly, it’s not that hard to drive most modern cars.
Nah that is just a jackass that thought he will have the same control at high speed on the unpaved section of the shoulder
I crunched a few much slower RWD cars as a kid.
I have no issues leaving traction control on and treating high HP cars with respect on public roads.
The only thing I hate is ABS on snow. It’s better now than it used to be, but if you will stop shorter without it if you lock the wheels and plow.
But short of 1980s Audis I don’t know anything that will let you disable it.
TVR just skips it ll together!
The insurance and auto manufacturers think keeping the ability to steer outweighs stopping distance. To be fair, you can practice threshold braking and beat both ABS and plowing to a stop.
Somebody wasn’t paying attention and veered at the last second.
BGGCON
Big Girls Gonna Come Over Now?
Tres, is that you?
Apologies to the Presidents of the United States:
Is this lump out of my head?
I think so
Is this lump out of my head?
I think so (yeah, woo!)
Is this lump out of my head?
I think so
Is this lump out of my head?
Edit: The band, not the politicians, damitalltoheck.
Seems we need a “Sugarfree did it!” gif around these parts.
https://www.glibertarians.com/2022/10/joemala-extended-universe-the-rise-of-fetterlump/
I forgot that he linked that.
I feel silly.
Nah I meant to put a another comment to say it was more about the SF did it and not your comment cause we all can’t possibly know what has been posted! I mean, drugs fall out of our asses daily
Why are you putting your drugs there in the first place, OBE?
So, I know most of you are aware that unfunny comedian Kathy Griffin was banned from Twitter for posting as Elon Musk. She has apparently resorted to using the account of her dead mother. But isn’t that also basically the same thing she got banned for in the first place?
Is the dead mother’s account blue checked?
I laughed
On reddit, ban evasion is a bannable offense. Dunno about twitter.
It is on twitter as well. But i think she was only suspended, so it might not apply.
Weekend at Kathy’s?
My thought (worth exactly nothing), about ’24:
Biden won’t be allowed/able to run. The string pullers behind the curtain will never accept Harris as the nominee. This will unleash a free for all of backbiting and recriminations on the Democrat side, not to mention making it painfully obvious just how shallow their talent pool is.
The Republicans still manage to fuck it up.
Old Man posited that Trump will be the reason Harris wins in 2024.
It actually doesn’t seem that farfetched.
That’s my thinking too…
I think even Trump can beat Harris. She is every bit as unlikable as Herself was.
In the real world, she’s not well enough known to the masses to be as universeally loathed as Hilderbeast was. Once you know her however…
There’s an old curmudgeon who is the head of our county’s Republican committee, Emeritus Professor of poli sci, and gets a talk radio interview every week to expound on politics and current events. Really nice fellow, lives around the corner. I was at the café today when he came in and gave him my predictions and analysis. He completely agreed and in his non-radio persona said, “Trump is going to do everything he can to fuck over the Republican Party just out of sheer egotism and stupidity. We could have had a massive landslide this election if he hadn’t pushed some of the worst goddam candidates imaginable.””
The more I read about and reflect on his term, I’m bored. He surrounded himself with incredible douchebags and nothing he’s done during this cycle suggests he’s earned shit.
I’ll miss the dunking on the media, but Kari is better at it and way better looking.
Learned, not earned. I tipe gud.
They will shuffle Biden out in late January as mentally incompetent; they need to wait until Jan 20th (21st?) so she’s eligible to serve out the rest of Biden’s term, plus two full terms of her own.
They may not like Harris, but the optics of failing to (re-)nominate the first woman president and second black president would be very, very bad for them.
Their best bet is to try to work on her likeability, and try to give away lots of “free” money.
First Indian President.
That, too. Good catch.
I think Indians are just whites in the American racial Olympics.
Jamaican American.
Elizabeth Warren hardest hit.
No violence this time. Just chicken I guess.
Tyson Foods CFO arrested after entering wrong home, falling asleep
Now we know why he crossed the road
Did you see the gauge on the top of the CNN page for this article?
Fear & Greed Index
61
Greed is driving the US market
Wow…
“What emotion is driving the market now?” Best damn mind readers ever to exist
The only options are fear and greed. Who comes up with this garbage?
This. Is. CNN.
Isn’t that what Robert Downey, Jr did when he was a drunk?
That’s the true sign right there. Wake up in someone’s house in a strange bed you just wandered into.
Only once in a lifetime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsSpAOD6K8
32 year old CFO of a multibillion dollar company. Wonder how that happened?
Guess that explains it.
CEO Wastes no time in getting indicted.
Anyone have an Android weather app that they like? I’ve paid for Weatherbug for a couple years but it seems to be getting shittier all the time.
My Radar
I paid for mine so I can get the fancy stuff like SIGMETs & other aviation stuff, but it’s a great basic app too
Very nice, thanks!
I use Weather Underground online. I rarely use a phone application.
I do use RadarScope for real time weather radar images.
Thanks! I’ll check it out.
I paid 15 or 20 bucks one time fee for premium service. It has worked great for the last six or eight or 10 years that I have had it.
(it’s not just radar, either. If you center on a location & pull down from the top, you get the current conditions & 10 day forecast, etc.)
Sweet! And the temp is correct!
Thanks, KK! What does premium (not av charts) provide?
No ads but I can’t remember what else. I think if you click the layers icon (bottom left) you can see the premium options
I use quite a few of the layers – lighting, tropical systems, surface features, etc.
It also has widgets for your home screen…not sure if those are premium or not.
Nope. Already found them!
It’s time for a little test drive between a couple.
I use a direct feed of NEXRAD and TDWR weather radars and our local weather forecasters in ATC 🙂
I have a Pixel so I don’t know about other non Google phones. Can you add the native Google weather widget?
I have been pleasantly surprised just how good and full featured it its.
It’s a OnePlus. There is a native weather app but I like detailed radar.
*strongly narrows gaze*
That gaze could turn a lump of coal into a diamond.
Looks like we’re in the cone for a tropical storm this weekend. Dag nabbit. I have to do some plumbing upgrades in advance of colder temps forecast for next week
“Shitter’s full, Clark”
They may not like Harris, but the optics of failing to (re-)nominate the first woman president and second black president would be very, very bad for them.
It’s not likeability I’m thinking of. It’s her cartoonish incompetence.
And also her likeability truly is abysmally bad.
“I don’t have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun YOU.”
CAPTION:
HEFFALUMP CONFUSED
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CLnADKgurvc
This will be on the World’s Dumbest Criminals reboot.
https://nypost.com/2022/11/07/man-knocks-himself-out-trying-to-flee-store-with-luxury-stolen-goods/
Also in the NYP
https://nypost.com/2022/11/06/nycs-ruths-chris-stabber-joan-thompson-was-defending-herself-family-claims/
I feel like there’s something in the air that’s turning so many people into raging assholes over the last few years.
Lack of collective shaming
It’s the Covid.
Except it started before Covid.
They were already raging assholes; something just made people think it’s more acceptable to show it.
The increasing message from mainstream culture that it’s OK to vilify and ostracize certain wrongthinkers might have something to do with it.
This is what happens when we let people eat meat. Ban steaks!
*growls*
My cat looks forward to steak day. He’d kill me if I didn’t have one weekly.
“Hey everybody! How high does the Lone Ranger pull his collar?”
“To the lump, to the lump, to the lump-lump-lump!”
I’ll never Tell, William
Idiots, babbling
Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during Monday’s White House press briefing that President Biden’s vow to “shut down coal plants all over America” was “twisted” by the press.
Addressing the crowd at a rally in San Diego County on Friday, Biden suggested that coal plants should be shuttered because they are no longer economically viable.
“We’re going to be shutting these [coal] plants down all across America and having wind and solar power, also providing tax credits to help families buy energy efficient appliances, whether it’s your refrigerator or your coffee maker, for solar panels on your home, weatherize your home, things that save an average, experts say, a minimum of $500 a year for the average family,” Biden
Asked about the comment Monday, Jean-Pierre insisted that Biden was merely observing an economic reality and not vowing to ensure the destruction of America’s coal industry.
“As it has been from its earliest days as an energy superpower, America is once again in the midst of an energy transition and the president is determined to make sure this transition helps all Americans,” Jean-Pierre said.
Right.It all makes sense, now.
LOL
He’s acting in the customers’ own interest.
Most Americans are shockingly unaware that they want more expensive, less reliable energy.
“Dear lord!!! The Lump has an ass!!!”
“This is how deep the bullshit is here after the two of us get through preaching.”
“Look! The Lump moved! It’s under his arm now!”
“When I raise and lower this arm it makes a fart sound!”
Sad news for the Ladyglibs
Which one is that? Duran? Or Duran?
Ask Jane Fonda.
Well that sucks.
It’s really his own damn fault for not masturbating enough.
Pretty sure that’s what causes it.
“Tickle the pickle” is your answer to everything.
It really is.
*Points to Urthona’s avatar
Damn…
Well that sucks. Pretty goddamn young.
Those dudes have aged pretty well.
Whoops
Some of New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s top donors are privately panicking about Republican challenger Rep. Lee Zeldin’s recent surge in the polls ahead of Tuesday’s midterms, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Republican, who’s been endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has closed in on Hochul’s double-digit lead in recent weeks — prompting Hochul’s corporate backers to push her to change tactics, according to these people.
Count your change before leaving the window.
She’s been pushing the “law ‘n’ order” message pretty hard the last few days. This after questioning the relevance of the issue at the debate with Zeldin. I guess we’ll see how gullible Dem voters really are.
The true blue Dems never doubted or wavered. I have a hard time imagining any that were seriously on the fence or leaning R that suddenly come back thanks to some late BS.
It occurs to me that these commercials are meant for independents, which are always around, what, 20 to 30 percent of voters?
Just looked… it’s 23% in NY.
Many of the people who discussed these conversations with Hochul did so on the condition of anonymity so they could speak freely about the private conversations. A spokesperson for Hochul’s campaign did not return a request for comment.
Business leaders have encouraged Hochul in private meetings, including one with top real estate executives in late October in New York City, to pivot away from focusing on the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and other social issues. They, instead, have advised her to show how she’s going to fight inflation and a recent rise in crime in the city, those familiar with the conversations explained.
“Why would I do that
That could really funny if that really happens.
“BREAKING: John Fetterman’s campaign is suing Pennsylvania election officials to have mail ballots with no date or the incorrect date counted”
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1589750295503917056
Didn’t the Pennsylvania Supreme Court just rule on this?
Get different judges, get a different answer.
He went to the trouble of completing 6,000 himself, he wants them counted.
I actually like this because people voting from the future and sending their ballots back in time obviously know already how much Fetterman sucks.
He knows which way the stupid voters lean.
Good discussion.
Jeff Deist on the Tom Woods show.
Most Americans are shockingly unaware that they want more expensive, less reliable energy.
Don’t forget ridiculously complex appliances which cost twice as much and last half as long.
Twice as complex and half as long is actually the tagline on my dating profile.
So, you must be the tricky pickle, no?
Horrible human that I am, I’d be perfectly okay with both of these cocktail parties happening in sealed rooms that are then filled with poisonous gas – no, not the gasbags themselves talking, something actually lethal.
In fairness, there are conservatives that fall under the same schism (we lie to get power / we are a revolutionary vanguard) that I would have equal regard for their demise. The fact is there is no person that obsesses like these assholes over politics that doesn’t deserve that same end (in my perfect universe). No, I don’t want to reform you to my vision, I just want to make you go away.
I read part of that. Now I must go brush my teeth.
I made it a couple paragraphs.
*plotz*
I’d settle for them being required to live under the actual conditions of their dream government – in another country, of course.
Honestly, I wouldn’t wish that on anyone else – that didn’t ASK for it anyway.
He is the kind of person who, midway into his first cocktail, says, “I don’t want to sound insufferable, but I wake up every morning thinking about how I can reduce poverty, how I can reduce suffering.”
“Hey, this ditch is full of dead people. Why did you bring me here?”
Yeah, that bit about lying to get power – I’d be willing to teach him the final lesson in that.
Way, way too late.
“I want you to take this personally”
“You represent the problem: journalists who think they are the only source of legitimate information. That’s the big lie.”
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589427115157778433
Even better was that the person was arguing that a blue check meant legitimate source….these people are afraid that their new aged gatekeeper has been slaughtered and the barbarians are through the gates
Mastodon off to a rough start.
That is epic.
It’s almost like they’re asking to be trolled. Welcome to the internet.
Sad, but still funny.